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corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. stewart: good evening and thanks for joining us. i m alison stewart. tonight as we absorb the horror of the attack in france, here in the united states we are still suffering after a period of incredible violence the killing of two african american men by police officers in minnesota and louisiana, and the shooting of police officers in dallas. americans are pained, frightened, and dismayed over the long-standing racial issues that threaten all our safety. we are here tonight to dig deeper. we re going to hear from african american parents about the talk they have with their ch ....
the governor is stepping in and two city leaders are off the job at least for now. paul this is not going away anytime soon. reporter: it certainly isn t. you have that right. yesterday the mayor ordered an independent investigation. rick scott took that one step further today and ordered the dep to conduct an investigation of its own. st. petersburg released estimated 150 million-gallons of waste water into the bay. steve levitt and tom gibson on unpaid administrative leave. a whistleblower warned this could happen. when asked about that and a consultant s report that said the same, he claimed he had been in the dark. you can say you had no knowledge of the consultant s report, e-mails. this is not a coverup. that is exactly what i m for this. we need to fix this problem so it doesn t happen again. governor rick scott ordered the dep to conduct their own investigation while david jolly is encouraging city employees with information to come forward. the mayo ....
no. reporter: when i spoke with 81-year-old robert walker, he told me the teen who attacked him had done it before. well, i was robbed once before by him. reporter: you were robbed by him before. he tried to kill me. reporter: the attacker may have succeeded this time. walker identifying him as 14- year-old alexander perez. shortly after i spoke with walker he was carted away ambulance. pasco animal services arrived to retrieve his dog. deputies put up crime scene tape and will now work with prosecutors to determine if walker died of natural causes or if injuries he received during the attack contributed to his death. perez is facing charges of home invasion and battery on a person over 65. depending on what detectives find, perez could face additional more serious charges. passed away. reporter: people who live in the neighborhood are beside themselves. nobody should die like that. nobody should actually get hurt like that and if it happens to him, it c ....
county and hernando county later today. partly cloudy skies along i-4 and south. looking at the water vapor loop we have a lot of this upper level dry air around our area. that s going to keep our rain chances limited. notice by noon not much out there. may get a couple road showers or thunderstorms later this afternoon and evening. over all most of us going to miss out on the rain today. otherwise hot for the first weekend of fall. 79 this morning. t way above average. we ll have the forecast for the college football games coming up. thank you very much. breaking news out of washington state. at this hour the fbi is joining the search for a man who opened fire inside a mall killing four people and injuring another. this is a picture of the shooter. police say he is armed and acted alone. the shooting happened friday night inside the cascade mall in burlington. that s an hour north of department of macy s. one man suffered life- threatening. paramedics rushed him to ....
he has no weapon. that video prompted protestors to turn up the volume in charlotte. they continue to demand justice and transparency in the shooting death of keith scott. the 43-year-old was shot and killed by officers on tuesday. police say he had a gun and came toward them but his family insists he was unarmed. video his wife shot does little to prove either side is right or wrong. because of the police shooting of 43-year-old keith scott as his wife revealed no cell phone video showing tuesday s scene. protestors taking to the streets for the fourth straight night in a row in charlotte after a police-involved shooting earlier in the week. demonstrations were peaceful in stark contrast to wednesday night s riots. show the video before and just after his death. scott s wife pleading for her husband to get out of his truck, and for police not to shoot him. you can hear police firing four shots. then you see scott lying motionless on the ground. police say scott ....