tonight. >> reporter: that's right. he is here at lakeland regional with a long recovery ahead of him. tonight finally two families are getting some sort of closure. >> i don't know if i can go on. >> reporter: five days after the deadly crash it is still difficult for jessica's mother to talk about it. >> now his two kids she left behind have to grow up without her. >> reporter: early saturday morng state road 60 near lake wales. she went over to median and flagged down a deputy for help. a driver plowed into the median killing jessica and seriously injuring the deputy. a crimestoppers tip lead deputies to this truck and 71- year-old charlie lewis. today a judge set his bond. >> you may not possess or consume any alcohol.

four beers before driving. bar manager admits he was there drinking. >> when the detectives came in high d and showed me his picture i was shocked. i would have never guessed it. i never seen him drunk. >> reporter: lewis claim his didn't know what he hit. he later admitted to investigators he knew he was involved in the hit-and-run before he was arrested yet he didn't stop and he didn't turn himself in. >> even if it was just a trash can okay. it was human lives. >> reporter: the deputy is expected to be here in the hospital for quite some time. a viewing will be held tonight for jessica. her funeral will be tomorrow. >> i understand jessica's family had a message for the deputy. >> reporter: absolutely. they are praying for him and his recovery. they look forward to meeting him to thank him for helping her. >> melissa moreno live in polk

woman lied about being raped in broad daylight. now she is facing a criminal charge. last year tonya white claimed she was assaulted in the middle of a neighborhood. that started a massive investigation. detectives believe she was lying. police are frustrated because they wasted a lot of resources on this case. we caught up with white today. she is sticking to her story. >> no. i have no comments. i can't believe they are pressing charges against me because i was attacked. >> you didn't li they say they have evidence that you lied. >> i didn't lie. >> you stand by your story? >> i do. that's all i have to say. >> she may have to say more in court. white is charged with falsifying a report to law enforcement. new tonight while bucs defensive tackle yesterday mccoy was preparing for the matchup against atlanta a pasco teen was burglarize rising his home. police were called and were

during the burglary. people who live in the area are expressing their concerns. >> people are in a gated area where they should not be subject to that kind of thing. then you have somebody that comes and disrupts the whole neighborhood. itup sets all the women in the neighborhood. >> mccoy's father gerald senior was home at frazier. he suffered a fractured wrist. a sarasota county man seriously hurt in a house fire that killed his parents died. iian langford died at the hospital this morning. firefighters broke through the wall to rescue him. his parents both died in the fire. on the campaign trail this weekend donald trump is returning to tampa bay just days before the election.

tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. at the florida state fairgrounds. as for the democrats vice presidential nominee tim kaine will have a rally in sarasota tomorrow. and josh bon jovi is holding a get out the vote concert in st. petersburg for hillary clinton. this is the final weekend or early voting. voting locations in hillsborough county will be opened all weekend. 8 on your side rob carter is joining us live from one of you have voting advice for people. >> reporter: you know what? we are here at the library. this is one of 16 vote lowing cases. it ebbed and flowed here. the line is not taking long. there is an easy way for you to find out if the early voting location you intend to vote at is busy or not. it is as easy as red, yellow and green. on the hillsborough county supervisor of elections website there is a list of early voting

color. if it is green that means go. wait times are zero to 15 minutes. yellow 15 to 60 minutes. red more than an hour. >> what we are seeing the last couple days is it has been building starting before lunchtime and on through the afternoon. we have not had a lot of wait at all. >> reporter: hillsborough supervisor of elections tells me once you avoid those delays avoid others by bringing the right things with you to the polls like the gh that includes one with your signature and a photo like a florida driver's license or an i.d. card. early voting is a big hit among hillsborough voters. 180,000 people already voted. >> people are taking advantage of voting before election day. which is great. we want people spread out across all three method of voting. >> reporter: if you are mailing in a ballot and haven't done so the supervisor suggests maybe

at an office or early vote side through sunday. they can not drop it on election day. it has to be in my office by 7:00 p.m. >> reporter: again, important to point out sunday november 6th is the last day for early voting. the polls open 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. close 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. open again 7:00 a.m. sunday. and close 7:00 p.m. sunday. after 7:00 sunday night you can no longer early vote. you day to vote at your predict. you cannot vote at another location unless it is your precinct. you can go to vote hillsborough.org. the website is chalked full of information for you. >> all the signs are behind you. >> there are a lot of people back there. that's a great voting location. rod carter live in tampa. we have links to all of your early voting locations and

grow to the -- go to news tab and check politics. we have been tell you about it all week. a monte running wild in pinellas county. and it is on the move again. >> coming up, we'll show you where the rhesus monkey was spotted this time around. severely neglected dog turns up at the shelter. wh back to her owner? we investigate a vicious cycle coming up. temperatures have been warm through the day. we topped out at 87 degrees. the weekend should be a little bit bet we are a cold front pushing through the area later this evening. details of your weekend forecast ahead. coming up, tampa catholic high school is the place to be tonight as the crew sauders try to snap a long losing streak. i'll preview friday night blitz

bob buesing... on the record. he sues tax payers to cover the outrageous cost of a lavish buesing files forclosures on homes critical to seniors. his law firm is accused of running up costs on a school district at the expense of our kids. trailing in the polls, buesing attacks dana young. for things she never did. so we ask... mr. buesing, will you do anything to win?

we have new individual of the monkey roaming around pinellas county. a resident shot this individual grow of the rhesus monkey this week. it is most likely the same

tarpon springs. manatee county is on the list for fema help from hurricane hermine. the deadline to apply is november 28th. cross bay ferry is up and running. it made the first trip for the public st. petersburg to tampa at 5:15 headed from the tampa convention center to st. pete 6 sold out. tickets are ten dollars each way. you can buy them on the cross bay ferry website. alarming pattern uncovered by target aids. >> dogs given back to the same owners who neglected them. why the timing of this latest case is so disturbing. and unsafe solar installations. safe solar for the sunshine state.

out-of-state attacking amendment 1? because amendment 1... stops. their. subsidies. with amendment 1, you don't pay for someone else's solar. to stop unfair subsidies, vote yes on amendment 1. hillsborough county pet resource center does it again. it returns a know negligented dog to the owner. emli came in a week ago and suffered severe medical problems. >> they issued a plea to help from local rescues. one stepped up promising to deliver the care needed. what happened next prompted them to contact steve andrews.

nightmare. this is no dream. it is what hillsborough county peter sources center does over and over again. does she look well taken care of to you? emily came in the animal shelter last week with a myriad of health issues. >> that dog suffered neglect for that long time. >> reporter: the pet resource center issued a medical plea to local rescues for help. y >> reporter: amy expected to pay two thousand in vet bills for emily and had a foster home to take her. >> it is rewarding to see a dog like that with skin issues like that turn around and look beautiful and have a wonderful happy life. >> reporter: five days later prc informed amy emily's owner came back and claimed her. >> disgusting. >> reporter: disgusting and familiar. in february target aid showed

owner three yorkie's confiscated because of neglect. >> these dogs were sent back to that house. >> i can not speak to that case. >> reporter: the director? >> i think our operations are better than they were when i took over the place. >> reporter: tell that to this red chow with severe skin issues. look at those nails. records show the prc returned him to his owner and now emily. the timing is perfect. this week the county's new animal abuse registry took effect. the facebook page warns if you are transferring or exchanging animal of any kind it is your responsibilities to ensure these animals do not get in the hand of animal abusers. apparently the rules don't apply to hillsborough county. >> i don't think they care at all. >> hillsborough county has gone silent. i requested an interview.

county administrator. no county administrator meril. just because they decided not to talk to know does not mean i'm not going to talk about the story. >> how do we know the dog will be taken care of? >> the county sent me records late this afternoon. it states the dogs came in and claimed the dog the same afternoon that emily came into the shelter. the owner was dog to a vet and she apparently complied. i'm going to swing by and check on that dog next week. >> not a bad idea. thank you. if you have a problem you want steve to investigate call our target aid help line at 1-800- 338-0808. here's a view from hula bay. not a bad spot to be on a friday night. 78 degrees.

skies. in pasco county county lakeland and polk county 79 degrees. few clouds on the horizon. there are clear patches in there. in new port richey the western portions of pasco county 76 degrees. meteor shower peeking on saturday. you might see ten meteors per hour away from city lights the best. not a lot of month li saturday 81. sunday 82. maybe a few extra clouds. breezier on saturday. with a cold front passing through the area. we have given it an eight for the beach forecast. only a few morning sprinkles. maybe a few clouds. a bit of a breeze. temperatures reach near 80 degrees. moderate chop for boaters with the northeasterly breezes. 66 degrees at 7:00 a.m. 84 degrees at 4:00 p.m.

overnight and early part of the day we may see extra clouds. 80 in tampa. dew point 67. these a fairly high dew point. in other words humidity is noticeable. 78 in st. petersburg downtown. dew point 68 with a north westerly wind at 10. here comes the front evident high above in the atmosphere on the water vapor loop colored in red. tremendous sing -- it is sinking south. the cooler and drier air will stay further north of us. we'll pick little light shower across the northern part of polk county half an hour ago. kickoff for the football blitz. mostly dry. mild. partly cloudy at half-time. 71 at the end of the game. breezes might pick up toward the end of the game in northern spots. college football forecast. gators are playing in

with a few showers possible saturday at 12:30. fsu playing in raleigh, north carolina at north carolina state. 52 degrees. little bit chilly. the guys from tallahassee will hopefully come away with a win. here's the model moving north to south. associated with the the passage of the front. note the wind shift as the front sinks to the south. you don't see a lot in the way of showers. certainly no of showers. if you hear a shower outside don't be surprised. front will push that way to the south. we'll sample slightly cooler drier air. earlier in the week we hoped for more cooler air. for now breezy conditions on saturday. by sunday more of the same maybe a few clouds around. comfortable conditions. both saturday and sunday we'll see a mix of sun and clouds. fairly nice weather conditions. 82 degrees for both saturday

the poll or perhaps you are voting early. you have a couple days to do that. heart walk coming up next saturday. right now there is a front approaching the area we'll see the timing of that small rain chance at the moment. temperatures reasonable next week. low 80s. back to you. >> i love that music. >> it gets you in the college football spirit. >> it just feels right. thank you very much. tampa bay heart walk is next saturday. we are so close to reaching $100,000 goal. kia agreed to nap -- match the first $50,000 we raise. come to wfla.com/heart walk to join the team and donate. coming up next in sports incredible streak is on the line in our friday night blitz game of the week. lasting night's bucs loss was tough to endure for the

i alone can fix it! bomb the [bleep] out of 'em. i'd like to punch him in the face. i like people that weren't captured, okay? he's a mexican! she ate like a pig... i moved on her like a [bleep] i did not say that... i love war. yes, including with nukes. blood coming out of her... they're rapists... wrong. there has to be some form of punishment. such a nasty woman. i wanna be unpredictable. ...on 5th avenue and shoot somebody... she's a slob... i don't remember! and you can tell them to go [bleep] themselves!

beaten and literally battered the bucs have a few days to try to forget thursday night's 42-28 loss to point next week can i vance and alexander and winston as guys we need to watch. bucs are teetering close to another sub500 record. forget about the nfc south and wild cards. the bears, chiefs and seahawks on the horizon this team must finish 5-3 to have an 8-8 season. >> we feel like we are better

i have to own it. i think every guy in this locker room nows wither capable of being better than that. >> we have to take these three days off and evaluate ourselves. do some soul searching individually not by pointing fingers or saying it is this or it is that. everybody has to look at themselves and see what they can do better. we don't need to rest. we need to reload. >> we have half a season left. i have to figure out a way to make this potential. i don't feel like we are. that's 100% on me. >> odds are you know someone on the streets of chicago today. estimated five million people turned out for the cubs victory parade and celebration at grant park. kicks ended the 108 year world series drought against the cleveland indians.

streak on the line tonight in our friday night blitz came of the week. paul ryan is live in tampa where tampa catholic high school will try to finally knock off rival jesuit. can they do it, paul? >> reporter: it has been a long time. if they do it it will be huge for the seniors here at tampa catholic high school. festivities for senior night going on behind me. i heard a jesuit head coach say it is their senior night? that's a bad idea. that's because tampa catholic 16 straight times. two of the last three meetings have been close decided by four points or less. they have to do something no other team in hillsborough county has been able to do and that's stopping the running back two committed to the university of florida earlier this week. he scored 50 touchdowns in the

this year. keep your eye on 20 in blue and white tonight. highlights coming up at 11:00 on the friday night blitz. can't wait for it. >> see you later tonight. going to be a few rivalry games tonight. including osceola taking on arch rival seminole. osceola winless on the season. what would a win feel like tonight? >> do they have a chance? >> seminole has one win. they are everything. finally tonight christmas is a month away. pinellas county charity is looking like santa's workshop. east lake toy makers are hard at work getting ready for the open house and silent auction. volunteers spend countless hours making thousands of wooden toy business hand for sick and underprivileged children. kicks offer at 9:30 a.m. in palm harbor. all funds raised go toward supplies to build the toys.

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