i wore a badge for 38 years knowing how much you trusted us to keep you safe. yet when a officer was killed in action florida was not doing enough to give their families the help they desperately needed. dana young understood. that was wrong, so we changed that law. to ensure these families get the as our back and she has yours. dana young for the florida senate. a return to common sense. >> right now, on newschannel8 at 7:00. >> good evening. let's begin with breaking news. a large sink hole is now opened

mulberry. we flew above it less than three hours ago, you can see a giant black hole with water flowing into it. millions of gallons of contaminated water went into the floridan aquifer. there is no way for the liner protecting it to hold with the sink hole. a weeki wachee man is debt after deputies shot him responding to a 911 call at his home. the and surrounded by guns. >> reporter: a tragic and trying experience. that is how the hernando sheriff described what took place in this quiet weeki wachee neighborhood when deputies responded to a 911 call of a mentally unstable man inside a home threatening to hurt himself. as they arrived to try to calm the man down, the team had to

hernando county to investigate. >> not only are you scared to death because you don't know what you are going into. if you are going into a person who wants to hurt themselves it is or going into a situation where the person may want to take somebody with them. >> reporter: neighbors were terrified earlier. they heard the gunshots. things are finally quiet once again in this weeki wachee neighborhood as detectives continue their investigation. i'm melanie michael in hernando county tonight. newschannel8. right now, pinellas county deputies are at the scene of an this is in saint pete beach. just west of the intersection of 78th avenue and cocino way where investigators found a man dead on a bench overlooking the waterway. they are talking to another man who we are told may be involved. and deputies also stress there is no threat to the public. there is frustration tonight with communications giant frontier. a bay area man says he was charged four times what he was quoted. then when he canceled his

billed. here is 8 on your side's paul mueller. >> reporter: the bills just keep piling up. >> how would you describe this whole experience? >> it is a nightmare. this has to be true. nobody could make this up. >> reporter: tom montgomery's nightmare with frontier began in may when he decided to upgrade his internet. he says the rep offered him a real deal. but when he got the bill, turns out it was too good to be true. >> i said are you telling me that you can promise month and then send me a bill for four times that amount? tell me you are sorry, you made a mistake, but i'll have to pay it anyway? >> reporter: two months and more than a dozen calls later, montgomery got nowhere, so he canceled his service. the trouble is he kept getting the bills for service he didn't even have. frontier issued a statement to us saying in part customer complaints made to frontier since april have dropped significantly since the first month. we recognize, however, that

bondi also issued a statement saying in part i will continue to hold frontier accountable until all complaints arising from the transition are appropriately resolved. and just hours after 8 on your side got involved, montgomery's bill is now resolved. in tampa, paul mueller, newschannel8. new numbers show saint petersburg released much more sewage into the bay than first reported. more than 128 gallons of partially treated waste water were dumped into the bay during hurricane hermine. newschannel8's jeff patterson shows us the blame game this mess has caused. >> reporter: as hurricane hermine pounded pinellas county, 15 inches of rain fell on saint petersburg in a four- day period. and the city of saint petersburg dumped partially treated waste water into tampa bay. >> climate change has arrived. >> reporter: in a new youtube video, the mayor explains the city faced a difficult choice. dump the waste water into the bay or let it back up into

contributed to the problem. because they leak and storm water floods into the waste water pipes. >> this mayor doesn't have a pipe problem. he has a capacity problem. that is the primary issue. >> reporter: state representative kathlene peters is calling for a meeting of local leader to find out why the waste water was released and what can be done about it. jeff patterson, newschannel8. the man accused of setting a florida mosque on fire on the evening of anniversary will remain behind bars without bond. joseph schriber is facing hate crime charges and arson after several hateful statements were found on his social media. there were seven pages of prior history and they called him a flight risk. the city of tampa is sticking with red light cameras two more years. in a very close 4-3 vote, tampa city council approved a new contract that operates the

city safer but several bay area communities have simply gotten rid of the cameras recently. good new to night in citrus county. several stranded manatees are finally headed back home to the gulf. the sea cows swam into a pond at a golf course when hurricane hermine caused some flooding a week ago. well, today, florida fish and wildlife officers and dozens of volunteers moved them home. we are told one of the rescued manatees is the largest fwc has seen. they believe one weighed more than 1400 pounds. >> that took quite a few volunteers to haul that guy out of there. >> it is cool toasty the effort they made. well played. >> who are you calling huge? >> the manatee. he was like what, yeah, no, you look lovely. >> just making sure. all right, steve jerve here with whatever he is going to say. >> i'll talk weather.

not much in the way of rainfall. fairly typical this time of night and the humidity extremely high today. mid and upper 70 dew points. there is your tropical storm julia spinning away off the east coast. specifically, the carolinas. good news is the wind shear has pushed a lot of the activity and thunderstorms to the eastern side of it. and, there is quite a bit of dry air here as well. just offshore of charleston, you can see the motion of the counterclock wise rotation. was a depression, upgraded back to a tropical storm because of a flight storms northwest of melbourne and well east of orlando at this point. all the activity has been moving along on a westerly flow. the rain chances, our chance for rain chances are dwindling. it is the only shower remaining in the newschannel8 viewing area. kind of between sebring, lake placid. southeast of 27. and we look at the forecast the next couple of days. we will peek ahead at your weekend, too, coming up. still ahead, a nationwide alert system is being created to warn the public about

and the program was all started in sarasota. i'll tell you about it. >> at the va, does the left hand have any idea what the right hand is up to? in this soldier's case, it

>> a nationwide alert system is being created to rn public about dangerous threats against police officers. it is called the national blue alert system and it was spearheaded by a sarasota man. john rogers has the story. >> reporter: in the past few months, the danger factor for police officers is rising. cops across the country feel like targets. >> it is the reality of what we are dealing with in law enforcement. >> and it is important to warn the public when credible threats are made. that's the idea behind the national blue alert system. it is is a program spreading

accused cop killer is on the use. it is in use in 27 states including florida and it was started by tom berry. >> if he is willing to kill a badge sworn often, he will kill a civilian. >> reporter: president obama signed a new law allow states to share the emergency alerts with others. think of this like the amber alert system. soon, we will be getting messages on our phones an seeing blinking billboards on tom berry says the program should roll out nationwide some time next year. reporting in sarasota, john rogers, newschannel8. >> berry is also working with the fcc to see if blue aler messages can be broadcast on television and on radio. well, a hidden danger on the roadways is putting you and your family at risk. what you need to know about an important recall. plus, you could soon win a virtual are all-starty headset. just by eating tacos. how that works coming up.

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>> on wall street, the dow jones was up, the nasdaq, and the s&p up. hyundai is recalling thousands of suvs because of a software glitch. the recall affects 2016 hyundai tucsons with seven speed dual clutch automatic transmissions. we are told the glitch can stop the vehicles from accelerating. they are about 41,000 suvs affected by the recall. dealers can reprogram the in florida, senator marco rubio had his way, if he had his way, all commercial flights to and from cuba would be stopped immediately. rubio believes they put our country at risk for terrorist attacks. and aviation agreement specifies flights between cuba and the u.s. will have an air marshal on board. but according to rubio, a tsa official revealed this week that cuba has not allowed air marshals on board scheduled flights. and rubio says that is putting

>> theoretically, some terrorists can travel from any country in the world into cuba and then try to come into the united states, commandeer an aircraft. i don't have to tell you what could happen next. this is an incredibly dangerous situation. >> rubio has filed a bill to stop all flights to and from cuba until an adequate security plan is in place. southwest airlines is approved for daily flights between tampa and havana. we checked. while the first flight still ha southwest anticipates booking flights before tend of the year. apple's newest line of iphones will be available in stores tomorrow, but not all of them. initial qualities of the iphone 7 plus have sold out worldwide. if you want the smaller iphone 7 in the new jet black, it has sold out as well. you can still order those online. they just won't be available for purchase in the store now. spotify has 40 million paying subscribers.

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station 4 and will hit stores on october 13. for $399. well, professional football is about to get more social. ten of the nfl's weeknight games will be live streamed on twitter. the nfl struck the deal in april and the new deal begins tonight when the buffalo bills take on the new york jets. fans can be on their mobile devices for free with the social media app. now to an 8 on your side investigation. a year af heart surgery on the veteran, the va cannot decide if he has heart disease or not. until 8 on your side investigative reporter steve andrews got involved this was a case of left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing. >> reporter: in 1970, rich kinkade was in the army. he was shipped to vietnam. rich was a medic assigned to an anti-aircraft unit providing

been exposed to the toxic herbicide agent orange. heart disease is linked to that exposure. >> a flunked a fire department physical in 2007 because i had heart disease. >> reporter: he filed a claim for service connected disability. the examiner said he had coronary artery disease. the va wanted more tests but never scheduled them. in august 2011, rich sent a letter asking when the tests could be scheduled. >> respond at all to that. >> so didn't get a yes, didn't get a no. >> just got no answer. >> reporter: a few months later the va rejected his claim saying you do not have a diagnosis of heart disease. >> it was by some bureaucrat based upon apparently an opinion of a doctor that i had never met. >> reporter: rich appealed the denial. last year, va doctors performed open heart surgery on rich. he had advanced heart disease.

heart disease, that seems to be wrong. >> reporter: more than a year later, the va still hadn't decided if rich had heart disease even though it operated on him for it. rich contacted 8 on your side. i reached out to his congressman and the va at bay pines and told them this is one of the craziest va stories i had ever heard. they both promised to look into it. within a week, the va determined rich does in fact have heart disease. steve andrews, newschannel8. the va is claiming the severe heart disease he suffered came on suddenly. in april of 2015. and that means his disability claim will only be retro active to last year. the va seems to be ignoring its own doctor who diagnosed rich's heart disease back in 2010. looking west down in venice here, 84 degrees getting close to sunset now. west winds at 3. days getting shorter.

partly cloudy skies. 85 degrees. plenty humid at this location at the moment. forecast for the evening, a slight chance of rain. most of the radar is shifting east at this point. basically isolated. 78 degrees for a low. 86 in tampa. dew point 73. we have a northwesterly wind. still watching our tropical system sitting off to the east of us. most of the precipitation and clouds really blown off to the east by the wind shear. also, very dry air on the western side. and you counterclock wise rotation. some of these little squalls will come ashore. most of the heavy precipitation is off to the east. and it will likely stay there several days. for us, showers continue to pop up here and there. but, most of it in the westerly flow is pushing off to the southeast. will is the tropical storm forecast. you can see there it doesn't really move around too much. this was briefly a tropical depression today. but after investigating the system with a hurricane hunter aircraft, dumb it is a tropical

storm. we will take an eye on tropical depression number 12. some computer models strengthen it. some don't. but it is moving west and for that reason, probably about 12 dais away from any kind of possibility of knowing how close it could come to the u.s. so, the westerly flow in place here for the evening. the forecast friday, 40% rain chance. 30% as we are get into the weekend. 20% sunday. largely because we are working some drier air down the western side of julia which is spinning away off the east coast. should help to drag some sl and limit the amount of showers we have here. and then, basically, stay with seasonal summer weather all the way into next week. >> all right, we need to tell mother nature we are just about done with this. >> we are just about done with this. this time of year you get tired with it. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. >> plus, here here is what you will see tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. >> never have time to physically make it to your doctor's office? i'm gayle guyardo and i will show you how to make the

i wore a badge for 38 years knowing how much you trusted us to keep you safe. yet when a officer was killed in action florida was not doing enough to give their families the help they desperately needed. dana young understood. that was wrong, so we changed that law. to ensure these families get the benefits they are entitled to and the honor they deserve. dana young has our back and she has yours. dana young for the florida senate.

>> you have probably heard the term cat burglar. one neighborhood in washington state. the suspect is dory also known as the bad kitty bandit. during the night, she steals toys, socks, gloves, towels, anything she finds and brings them home. she does it so often, the owner set up a bucket so people can come claim their stolen items. hey, speaking soft cute animals, some excited pups have the job of a lifetime in wisconsin. a golf course there has enlisted the dog's help to scare off unwanted geese. for the last several years, the birds come to the turf, damage it, steal golf balls.

friend to scare the geese away. todd there is the perfect dog because he doesn't hunt the birds. he just patrols the greens and then, you know, shoos them away. get out of here geese. or whatever dogs say to them. [ laughter ] to get rid of them. >> dogs love to chase things so that is a perfect arrangement. >> i didn't realize that those geese damage the turf. >> i suppose they eat bugs or something like that? worms? >> you don't actually know is off the top of your brain? >> what do geese eat? >> you could have said that right off the top and i would have been of course. he knows that too. what about the weather? >> weather is nice. temperature wise, of course, well, there is the marine forecast. 40% rain chance, including the weekend. the rain chances are just a little bit lower as i mentioned. slightly drier air. temperatures will be quite warm. and we will still see a few showers. just not widespread. >> steak and fish tacos sounds good. >> geese are smart. >> i could be a geese, a goose,

amazing grace. is she the next taylor swift. >> just hours after winning agt, 12-year-old grace van der wal is here with me. >> now on "extra." america's got talent's new million dollar >> grace van der wal. >> what did you think when you heard your name called. >> this is happen, i did it. >> and agt's ratings through the roof. >> i think i had a tiny bit to do it. >> and gives trump a taste of his own medicine. >> called women fat pigs. attacked rose o'donnell. meanwhile, okay you're fat too. >> and healthier than hillary.

jlo and calvin harris. are they or aren't they? >> and aarriana grande. and the stars pour into the beehive or beyonce's concert. >> a ashley graham debuts her new line. >> now on "extra." from universal studios hollywood, the entertainment capital of l.a. >> hey everybody. i'm mario lopez. >> coming up. baldwin's body after baby. a strip down selfie just 24 hours after giving birth. >> and jimmy kimmel's warm up

crowns a new winner and she's only 12 years old. this morning grace van der wal came straight to me to talk about her victory and where he goes from here from an emotional victory on america's biggest stage. >> tears of joy, right? >> yes, of course. >> right to ours. >> how are you, grace? congratulations. what did you think when you heard your name called. >> this is happening, i did it. >> the performing her original for me. i'm going sit here.por do you w? >> no. stay. do whatever you want, boo. you do you. >> i don't know my name. >> i don't know my name. i don't play by the rules of the game. >> hours after introducing stevie nicks's landsliding perfection. >> i'm getting older too.