is causing heartache in the bay area. >> plus one down, two to go, the first presidential debate in the record books and news channel 8 is there, a live report from new york coming up. good evening. i'm keith cate. >> i'm jennifer leigh. thank you for joining us this evening. police in haines city are investigating the shooting death of jonathan jordan, a local rap artist. they know who pulled the trigger, but that man has not been charged news channel 8 melissa moreno shows us the growing memorial where family held a vigil tonight. >> reporter: family and friends have been gathering here all evening grieving. right here behind me you can see this growing memorial. he coached his son's football team here and less than a block away is where he was shot. this video shows jonathan jordan smiling ear to ear. his son and teammates are celebrating in the background after a big victory. just hours later his life ended after an argument by the field.

devastated. it was too difficult for his brother to talk. instead of a party for his 32nd birthday, they held a candlelight vigil. >> you got to find some kind of positive way to grieve. people say he'd give the shirt off his back. he'd give you his life. >> reporter: jordan was an aspiring rapper known by everyone as jay green. the shooter was identified as derek denard. he is cooperating and not charged. news channel 8 went to his house. no one answered the claiming self-defense. >> the other person involved in the. >> thing, we interview -- involved in the shooting, we interviewed him the other night and recovered some evidence from him. he's been very cooperative. we consulted the state attorney's office. >> reporter: friends say it was a senseless shooting and a life taken too soon. >> it's hard on everybody. you know what i'm saying? green, he had an effect everybody's life. >> reporter: police are looking for more witnesses to

they're looking at all the facts and evidence in this case before deciding whether or not to charge the shooter. in haines city melissa moreno, news channel 8. >> melissa tells us jordan did have a troubled past. he was acquitted of second degree murder years ago. after this his family said he turned his life around. he had three young children and recently opened his own business. now to your vote and the 2016 presidential election, there was a lot of hype going into this first of three pres hillary clinton and donald trump and it lived up to the billing. it all began with a friendly handshake and smile but turned personal quickly with the candidates trading verbal jabs. abc news anchor lester holt doing his best as moderator trying to rein in the give and take, but he had his work cut out for him tonight. news channel 8's rod carter is the only tampa bay television reporter at the debate there evening joining us live from

these candidates were going after every last vote tonight. >> reporter: i think you said it exactly right. they were cordial at the beginning, but it didn't take long to see what would happen. donald trump and his family just came down here and they're going to the spin area now to have a conversation about the debate and kind of talk about what the debate was in terms of how they felt they did. a lot of other people have come into the area. within moments, as mentioned, clinton and trump sparred on a lot of topics starting with jobs and the economy and who would be best to handle it and a lot of that fight had to do with donald trump's taxes as well. >> i will release my tacks returns against my lawyer's wish -- tax returns against any lawyer's wishes when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. >> reporter: fireworks nearly from the moment the two candidates hit the stage, the lime of questioning beginning with jobs -- line of questioning beginning with jobs

questions about donald trump's taxes. >> it must be something really important, even terrible he's trying to hide. and the financial disclosure statement, they don't give you the tax rate or all the details that tax returns would. it just seems to me this is something the american people deserve to see. i have no reason to believe he's he going to release his tax returns because there's something he's hiding. >> you don't learn that much from tax returns. that i can tell you. you lear disclosure. you should look at that. >> reporter: the topic of racism discussed, trump saying the country needs law and order and saying new york's unconstitutional stop and frisk policy should perhaps be brought back. >> the african american community has been let down by our politicians. they talk good around election time like right now and after the election they said see you later. i'll see you in four years. >> reporter: and, of course, there was the birther issue.

lester holt asked about that and that got a lot of different comments as well. again all the folks are here in the room now. there are a lot of different politicians here giving their spin on what happened in this debate, who won, who lost. from the very beginning it was very tense as we all kind of expected. >> where you are right now is kind of the spin room area, behind you a lot of reporters. in the audience dignitaries, very important people, they were told to keep quiet, let them speak. was there any reaction in the room where your as reporterslistenned to this battle -- reporterslistenned to this battle back and forth between these two. >> reporter: you heard lester holt admonish the crowd in the auditorium to not have any remarks. there were moments here where

and zingers. there was some reaction in the room, too, from a lot of people. >> the real spin begins tomorrow at the water cooler. everybody will talk about what they saw and heard tonight. thank you, rod carter, live from hempstead, new york. democratic vice president nominee tim kaine spent some time in new york today speaking to a small but enthusiastic group of reporters. the virginia senator spelle out the differences between the clinton and trump campaigns and explaining why it's critical when we get this close to election day. >> remaining undecides now start trying to figure out where they're going -- undecideds now start trying to figure out where they're going to go. >> kaine traveling from lakeland to orlando, his fifth trip to florida since his

ticket. today governor rick scottish used an emergency rule requiring polluters to notify the public and government agencies if there is a polluting incident. this follows an expose by 8 on your side that revealed for 19 days most of sake and florida's department of environmental protection did not notify the public of this massive sinkhole. the sinkhole swallowed 215 million-gallon of contaminated water and dumped right into aquifer. hydrogeologist sandy nettles tells us until that hole is plugged contaminated material will continue flowing into the aquifer. >> you're coming into the peak of the wet season next month, so you can expect a lot more water to go down that hole. >> meanwhile today tampa bay water confirmed it is keeping two pumps shut down in a well field closest to that sinkhole. the well field provides water to senior and eastern hillsborough county. -- southern and eastern hillsborough county. right now tensions are

the shooting of keith scott. tonight is the second straight night without a curfew in the city. tonight many citizens in charlotte hope to get back to normal. many continue to call for change. jennifer holloway joins us now from our tampa bay news center with nor on the call for resignations among some charlotte city leaders. >> that's right. the situation is far from over as protesters demand resignation of both the city's mayor and police chief. >> if we really are going to get the ut reconciliation we deserve, one has to take a step forward and be willing to reconcile. >> while many charlotte citizens extend a hand towards peace, others are frustrated as new details continue to be released. saturday under public pressure the city released more video of the police confrontation with scott. police say scott had a gun and refused commands to drop it before an officer opened fire. >> based on the totality of what we see, he absolutely was in possession of a handgun.

>> we are left with far more questions than we have answers. >> reporter: as the state investigates the shooting, some protesters call for the mayor and police chief to resign at the council meeting tonight. >> we're making sure everybody is registered to vote and we're going to get these people out of off. >> reporter: criticizing them both how they handled the investigation and protests that followed. also an update on the charlotte man protester wednesday. he admitted to that shooting before a judge. his next court today is october 5th. >> jenn holloway, thank you. police are searching through the home of ail shooter who injured nine people in houston. the gunman fired randomly at cars of people on their way to work for 20 minutes. this is cell phone video from the screen. police say the shooter two a

his belongings. the neighborhood went on lockdown. one driver describes the terrifying scene. >> suddenly just felt like an explosion on the side of my car and glass everywhere. i heard a few pops, maybe two or three, could smell the powder and powder from the bullets just flying by. >> police found two guns and 2,600 rounds of live ammunition inside the shooter's car. investigators don't believe he has connections to terrorism. the department of is giving $20 million to more than 100 law enforcement agencies around the country for body camera programs. the attorney general loretta lynch made that announcement today. this money will help agencies enhance or create body camera programs. this comes after the shooting in both charlotte and tulsa. it started as a high speed chase spanning three counties and ended in a tense standoff on the edge of an overpass. police in southern california say the man was driving a

bernardino, walked to the overpass molding some kind of metal object. officers surrounded him then and snatched him off the ledge. still to come tonight the bay area remembering a star pitcher who died in a boating over the weekend. >> he beloved the game of baseball. >> an alonso high school baseball coach tells us about the day jose fernandez hit his first home run. >> floodwaters threaten parts of the midwest, just ahead we'll sh nerve wracking rescue. >> hot temperatures today, some strong thunderstorms even at severe levels around the region and the tropics are still there. we'll show you the potential path of invest out there coming

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the game of baseball and then jose fernandez's competitive drive, tonight coaches at alonso high school share their memories of the former student and player. jose fernandez died with two other men when their boat hit a jetty off miami beach. his former coaches knew fernandez was special and would be a star in the big league. news channel 8's peter bernard is at alonso high school where jose truly made his mark. peter, what a loss. >> reporter: keith, they loved him here. this is the school where play baseball, but sometimes his exuberance got the best of him. if these young alonso high ravens baseball players need any inspiration, they only need to look at jose fernandez, his baseball coach thinks back on the day of his first home run. >> he's running around the bases jumping up and down, got this big smile ear to ear. next thing he's taking off his helmet and i'm like whoa, what

coach, i'm excited. >> reporter: a special message offers words of encouragement, something jose did often. someone placed flowers nearby. under these lights for three years jose honed his skills to take him to the majors. >> the first day he showed up here i knew he was special and i remember telling one of my assistant coaches that guy will be a first round pick. >> reporter: in the crash investigators believe it was going very fast, perhaps full throttle. jose's former pitching coach sums up what ma >> to us he was like a comet we were able to harness three years and then we let go for the rest of the world to see. >> reporter: jose would sometimes work out with ravens players during the offseason. >> he's a hard working guy. he loved baseball and had a passion for it. he put his mind to wanting to be the best at when he does. >> reporter: after a final out when the ravens won a crucial game -- >> they threw a parade and remember him almost doing a

pile. >> reporter: jose's coach remembers a time he snuck back into his native cuba. he wanted to take his grandmother a t-shirt and hat from alonso high school. he was successful and his grandmother was partially responsible i'm hearing towards baseball. >> it sounds like jose fernandez really appreciated his roots, peter. >> reporter: he did and the coach told us today he came back and actually took the coach's son under his wing and helped him be a better baseball pl, >> peter bernard live in town and country tonight. thank you. officials in cedar rapids, iowa, say it could be the second worst flood in the city's history. residents are waiting anxiously for the steered river to crest. thousands of people -- the cedar river to crest. thousands of people have left their homes behind. over a quarter million sandbags have been filled. the river is expected to crest tomorrow. terrifying moments in

driver is standing on top of his submerged car. he tries to grab onto the ladder and slipped. fortunately he held on and climbed to safety. here you see that successful climb. he will be okay. it's a pretty evening. of course, we had some thunderstorms, some of those severe. so some leftover clouds certainly here as you can see, a very nice perspective on one of them around the dunedin area. our dew points fall possibly a especially for folks farther to the north, citrus, hernando county just a little bit. we think a possible cooldown and drier air may be on the way possibly about 10 days out or so. we'll keep you posted. otherwise we stay fairly high with the dew points. we're almost to october. that sun is getting lower in the sky. 76 degrees at 7 a.m., warm temps, a stray shower, at 4 p.m. temps 89 degrees, possibility

too. we could see the slight possibility with a westerly flow, a light flow of seeing a morning coastal shower. 70s, rain cooled numbers today brought temperatures down. even folks that did not see downpours at their homes saw the cool air off those thunderstorms help drop the temperatures but mostly 70s. the humidity is high. those temps won't change much overnight. upper level low kind of spinning across the southeast especially over the state of florida. dry air aloft and we to produce some small hail around the area today, a big reason why we saw those severe thunderstorm warnings issued. as for satellite and radar, still have some offshore shower activity that will continue to move onshore, very light stuff overall but generally partly cloudy skies. other tropics still very much active heading into the second part of the season, especially october see the second peak here. invest 97l a 90% chance of

tomorrow maybe evening a tropical depression could form, a bit more organized. as we look at the potential path for this, of course, computer models offer many different kinds of opinions here, some keep it mostly off to the east, some directly to the east. the majority take this right turn reacting to an upper level trough long term. of course, it's not even formed yet. something we'll need to continue to keep an eye on the next week or, so possible movement of have to report this especially for manatee and sarasota county coastlines medium to high concentrations there, fish kills, siesta key, lida key, venice beach. unfortunately that's going on, too. partly cloudy skies overnight, possibility of a morning shower slight, a little higher chance wednesday, 40% and slightly drier conditions the end of the week.

for showers, but we could see 1 before noon. 30% rain chance for tuesday, 40% chance for wednesday and 30% chance in the forecast for thursday. a little drier the end of the week and a small possibility some folks up north could feel slightly drier air, but that's not the cold front we're waiting for. some hints of that from the computer models about 10 days out october 9th, 10th, in that range maybe could see more significant possible cooler drier ai to deal with the pop-up showers and thunderstorms. >> just keep thinking summer. >> thank you. ism coming up next in sports an emotional -- coming up next in sports an emotional scene as the marlins and mets honor the memory of jose fernandez. >> and coach dirk koetter taking his share of the blame against the loss to the rams. hear what he has to say about how the players think about losing. >> and the 2016 tampa bay heart

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sports on news channel 8 is sponsored by your gulf coast honda dealers. >> now bucs head coach dirk koetter addressed attitude and culture with his culture is a word he used sunday night after the bucs lost to the rams 37-32. it was one of the topics tonight on koetter's corner. koetter accepted the blame for mismanaging timeouts when the bucs tried to stage a last minute winning drive, but there were opportunities to score regardless of timeouts or no timeouts. the mentality has to change and koetter said the team discussed that today. >> teams sometimes figure out

they do figure out ways to win a game and that's something that we got to get fixed. hey, i'm not putting any player higher up on the totem pole than that. i need to address it with the players. i talked to them a lot about it today and asked them to keep us between us. i don't think it's something that we can get a lot of help with on the outside. we got to solve it ourselves. >> and a reminder you can catch koetter's corner mo and check out the extended version on www.wfla.com. tonight's interview was a pretty good one. former bucs tight end austin seferian-jenkins claimed today by the new york jets placed on waivers friday following his arrest for dui. jets are 16th in the nfl now in passing offense. slowly but surely lightning players trickle in from the world couple of hockey, but

host the hurricane. fresh off a run with team russia nikita nesterov resigned a one year deal coming on the heels of a productive season for nesterov, 57 games, nine points registered as a defenseman. an incredible heart breaking scene in miami tonight, marlins and mets played their game in honor of jose fernandez who lost his life early sunday morning. this was supposed to be his turn in the rotation gh fernandez's no. 16. the two clubs embraced on the field. dee gordon led off by wearing fernandez's batting helmet for a pitch, then switched to his natural left-handed side and hit a home run. you can see the emotion as he rounded the bases. it was a heavy emotional night tonight in miami. jose fernandez remembered by the mets and the marlins. the rays also honored fernandez like many clubs hanging the no.

there in chicago tonight andy romaro allowed just five home runs this season tonight gives up a pair of two run shots. rays lose 7-1. that's 91 losses now and counting for them. i wish i had a chance to add after the game all the marlins players put all their hats on the pitchers mound tonight, quite a scene. that will probably be one of the lasting images from this night. >> this is a group of very young men. for a lot of them this is the fi lives, someone close to them in their age group. it's just heart breaking. >> any team, business, group of friends, when you lose a loved one like that, it's shocking and stunning. moving forward the marlins president said earlier we're having a hard time right now moving forward and that's human nature. >> that says a lot about this young man's character, too and so many people thought so much of him. thank you. >> we'll be back with your

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