for the third and final presidential debate what both candidates need to do tomorrow. plus a slithering surprise underneath the hood of a car. we will show how a bay area handled the sneaky visitor. thank you for joining us. will start tonight with a fight for your vote. hillary clinton is in las vegas for the third and final debate. she is still taking heat over her emails today they revealed a possible bargain between the state department and the fbi over whether to declassify some of those emails. tonight wikileaks founder is in the ecuadorian embassy in london. he has restricted access to the internet all because of those leaks. donald trump held a rally in colorado today. he continued his attack against clinton calling her craft. trump kept up his claims that the election is rigged and

poll and -- polling places. >> whenever things are going badly for you and you need to start blaming somebody else. then you don't have what it takes to be in this job. i would invite mr. time to stop whining. >> election rigging, emails, the fbi probe and trends alleged sexual assault all of it sure to be topics dominating the debate in >> with that begins the final times -- time the candidates will face one another. let's get now to keep live in las vegas. a lot is riding on what happens there tomorrow night.>> reporter: no question about it. it is a beautiful night. a very calm night here las vegas nevada. what a beautiful city but it is the calm before the storm

today it will all be over. a lot is riding on that debate tomorrow night. i talked to a republican consultant, a media consultant to the stars by the name of adam goodman. he was telling me that we both have -- there are two flawed candidates here. the polls seem to indicate that they are imperfect. it is donald trump who has his back up against the wall the odds are stacked against him that he needs to have a knockout punch tomorrow.>> this is him? >> to show depth of focus and clarity. bring home the message he started in the second debate which is it's a referendum on the system. basically let the chips fall where they may. i think if he does that he will have reinforced his base as well as there are a lot of people out there that are frankly quietly decided i think this race has a ways to go even

undecided voters and can you reach them at this point or is the race already predetermined? >> you hear the number 6 to 8% i think the number is closer to 15%. at the race track when you go to the window and you are going to bet on number 3 and you have an odd about it -- audit out of body experience -- i think people will have a betting window experience. i think this thing still up for grabs. surprising to hear him say that when you think about voters after everything we've seen. this debate tomorrow will be different. it will be more like the first debate. he did not do so much in that debate but he needs to have a good showing tonight. his advice for hillary clinton would be look presidential. try to stay out of donald trump sway. don't get into any scrums with donald trump and a voter mistakes when it comes right

boring. nobody really cares to watch because they're all trying to play it safe. no one is playing it safe tomorrow except for hillary clinton. >> out of las vegas you can bet the oddsmakers are busy tonight. what about they guess, what is security like surrounding this debate? >> as you can imagine it's very tight. many of the roads around here are going to be closing off or extended periods of time. there is a beautiful shot that we can put up and show you. it's very containers as barricades they are shutting down part of the strip. that's to be expected. no threats have been made this is all precautionary. this will be a highly watch debate and it's on a college campus. they're taking every precaution. we will be there to bring it to

three weeks from today it will all be in the history books. >> what a place to host it. would you have breaking news. deputies are trying to track down this man his name is michael putnam. he is accused of shooting the woman in the arm after an altercation. he was last seen in the area state road 52 and altoona area in hudson he is considered armed and dangerous. if urge to call 911. first came the snake attack at largo high school. a fellow student grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to the ground but it did not stop there. she threw more punches then came the facebook post peter bernard joins us live from largo.

the fight that was caught on cellphone camera here at largo high is now all over facebook. the victim and her mother are demanding answers.>> in the largo high school media center, a student pulls michaela layne to the ground in a violent take down. >> she grabbed me by the hair and pulled me to the ground. i did not hit her back i got up off the ground and called her names. i walked out. >> reporter: resisting the urge to fight back michaela walks away. >> i kept walking and e again.>> reporter: the fight quickly went to facebook. >> i find it's disruptive to the school. also to the children's lives. not only are they being victimized from whatever happened now they will be victimized online as well.>> reporter: a school staffer who appears to stand and watch the whole thing go down. and what about the students who posted the video and those who

michaela tells me she has argued with her attacker before. over a boy she promised her dad she would not fight back a tent.>> i tried to swing on her in missed because she ducked i kept walking and she hit me again. >> reporter: some of the facebook postings are nasty with racial insults. others support her decision not to fight and others encourage michaela to decker.>> her mother wants administrators to expel the child or a school. >> reporter: posting -- posting a video on facebook could cost those kids in some trouble. largo police are looking into the beating. we have more breaking news. police in newport richie investigating a deadly crash. this accident happened on u.s. 19 and green key road. right now northbound lanes of u.s. 19 are closed at ridge

an electrical problem in the ceiling. that's what's to blame for a grocery store going up in flames. we brought you that story is breaking news last night. eagle eight hd flew over the scene this is that the big and deals store and east hillsboro avenue. four employees were inside the store at the time. listen to the 911 ca>> not yet.>> get everyone out of the building i've got help on the way.>> everyone escaped the fire but now the convenience store it in a struggling neighborhood is gone. that may cause big problems for residents.

prison tomorrow. in 2010 stephanie ragusa was sentenced after pleading guilty. she was a teacher at davidson middle school in tampa. she will now be required to register as a sexual offender. a mother and her seven-year-old daughter are fighting for their lives right now after being hit by car on their walk to a dangerous bus stop. deputies tell us they were walking in the dundee area when two in the group were hit. the two were walking in the street. the driver told investigators he was cleaning off his windie family.>> they worked on night and had just got off work. they did not see them. >> the mother and her seven- year-old are in clinical -- critical condition. now saint pete police officer suspended accused of driving under the influence. deputies found officer anthony green sleeping behind the wheel

he was also arrested for dui back in 2009. deputies believe they have caught the driver who hit and killed a 74-year-old woman and left her to die on a polk county roadway. they believe jarvis kendrick a successful bank executive was behind the wheel when the woman was hit. police say he left the scene and try to cover up the damage by staging another accident. the sheriff tells us kendrick would not have c breaking news out of san francisco. four students are heard in a shooting near high school. at least one is in critical condition. lease are saying this was not a random shooting the students were shot in the parking lot and ran into the school for safety. as of now police are looking for four male suspects. a clearwater man got quite a scare a few weeks before

happened when he saw this six but snake slithering out from underneath the hood of his car. google trying to make travel planning less stressful. how you can save big bucs another day of warm temperatures. the weekend was very new warm and we will talk about the numbers but there are changes

tonight caught on camera this video. it's making us squirm tonight. a sneaky snake rears its head literally on a man's car in traffic.>> the reptile worked its way through the engine and popped his head through the roof and through the hood this video is getting a lot of

guys are squirming in the studio and we are squirming out here in the field. we were right there with the car thinking what if this little guy is still in there. you are in traffic in rush hour and a snake right in front of you on your windshield pops his head up and looks around. check it out. >> what would you do if this curious creature popped up on your hood to say hello slithering and sliding through the engine of your car? we are talking about a face-to- face stare down with >> we used to catch snakes on purpose >> for this native floridian sneaky snakes are not so shocking as a kid tim mokwa grew up catching these creatures. >> snakes come let -- natural florida.>> seeing a snake right in front of his eyes, that might be too close for

from here. >> for most of us a close encounter it of this kind could cause chaos of 14 he kept calm. he did take one extra step.>> i did close my ac then. >> it turns out this six but friend traveled all the way from weeki wachee over the weekend where tim went kayaking. in the end he got a good laugh that we were >> clearly the snake did not pop its head out and thank goodness. this is the parking lot right off the main street where the driver stopped to take that video and to hopefully see the snake sliver out of the car. we're wondering if it's in the bushes? we're hoping not. >> you always bring us these

the hood all weekend?>> they love warm spots like that. this is quite common i'm told. they think it's probably an indigo snake. i will walk away from the bushes because i don't want to snake encounter. >> i will be sure to stick a rubber snake on your desk tonight. alert tonight. some had a cars have a problem with the passenger side airbag. hand is recalling 84,000 genesis coupe because of a wiring problem that can cause the airbag to malfunction. cars for model years 2010 three 2016, those are the ones impacted the issue causes the airbags to inflate. when a child is in the sea or

the u.s. postal service is hiring an extra 400 workers here in the bay area. the seasonal position is cause -- called a casual male handle you can apply the postal services website. google wants to make sure that your search for the cheapest flight is a bit easier this holiday season. it's a new google flight service will allow you to track flights and compare prices. best of all, it will send you alert when the prices are likely to go up or down and when they do. you can test it out for yourself just go to wfla.com. earlier today on max defender 8 we were able to detect a few showers closer to the east coast but because we have dry hit -- air above the atmosphere

scattered light showers possible. in tarpon springs this was last night but it's an awesome picture. we've seen that makes it clear skies and sunshine and the clouds in afternoon. 89 degrees. that there high temperature today. the record 90 degrees set in 1989. we trended near 90 degrees this weekend so the temps have been hot keeping in mind the average high is 84. we will drop below the average high this weekend. the dew points will go with it. dewpoint temperatures and upper 60s near 70 degrees, that is high humidity. by saturday and sunday a big dip your 55, 50 degrees. that will help drop the forecast temps. @7:00 a.m. 70 degrees mostly sunny partly cloudy skies. 81 degrees at noon and at four

dewpoint 65. that's where it's been throughout the day. not a bad level overall. we start out at the cooler feel to the day and end up that way in evening a beautiful night with a light breeze. temps mostly in the 70s. lakeland 72, clearwater, st. petersburg upper 70s. 72 brooksville but the dry air high above an atmosphere is helping to limit the amount of shower activity. even a stronger easterly winds that drove across the strait -- state with few hours has been quiet most of the activity south florida lot of moisture at the high levels of the atmosphere. we will keep an eye on this area here for the next five days. 80% chance of -- tropical development. next name on the list is auto -- if we look at tropical wave in the computer model with you will see most of them offshore. hurricane season runs until the end of november. this is in the pacific nowhere

160 mile-per-hour winds. manila in the philippines, a clearly defined i a very active, this one headed towards the northern part of the philippines and eventually the southern part of china. our computer model, wednesday morning a few clouds lozier 70. we can thank the higher humidity for that. in afternoon about 10% southern areas and inland areas. for thursday morning lots of sunshine. but where's the cool air? back to the west. this is the real deal. this will help to drop air temperatures and you'll like this temperature change and humidity. 87 degrees on wednesday, 86 on thursday. note the rain chances are very low. changes for friday with approaching cold front and a few extra clouds. rain chances don't jump too

needs moisture to help create the showers. that will not happen this time. 79 degrees might not seem cool to some folks up north but it does make it because of lower humidity it will feel like alaska. >> coming up next in sports the bolt welcome home their captain before taking on the panthers.>> a shocking season ending injury. remember this heart walk is coming up in november but now is the time to join. had to wfla.com/heart walk for

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bishop saves it. perfect with the 4- three win. i don't think we are at our best consistently yet. which shown in spurts. we will come to work tomorrow and clean things up we can at least say we started the year 3- 0. >> with all the injuries we are days the news earlier this evening , wide receiver vincent jackson done for the season after suffering an acl injury. the entry took place at some point during the bucs game last monday at carolina. jackson made three catches in a game including back-to-back plays on the final drive. there's no visible moment that we observed. jackson did something during the game that cause discomfort. now the bucs have themselves another missing starter is

jays stay like tonight and the dodgers are whipping up on the cubs. if they hold on they will be 2- 1 in the series.>> they've trailed in all three games and have come back in 19. we will be right back.

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donald trump call women pigs, dogs, and bimbos...and i sure don't want my daughters hearing it. i want my girls to grow up proud and strong, in a nation where they're valued and respected. donald trump's america is not the country i fought for. so, i'm voting for hillary clinton. hillary clinton: i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. [ cheers and applause ] ? >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests --