>> stuck with a big hospital bill. for a visit he didn't make. he knew he better call ben ken and shannon gets results. >> i'm jennifer lee. >> i'm keith cate. donald trump and hillary clinton head into the final stretch. election day is tomorrow. both candidates barnstorming the battleground states. donald trump in sarasota earlier today. >> it was his first stop of the day that includes five states. john rogers joins us with a wrap up of what trump said. >>reporter: he mainly stayed on message as he made one final push to win over voters this very important battleground state. wrote bars arena was not big enough to hold the crowd of thousands who came to see donald trump. >> we are going to win the great state of florida and we are going to take back the white house. >>reporter: the republican

detailing his plans for the presidency. repeeling obamacare, highlighting his economic policies and cleaning washington of corruption. >> when we win tomorrow we are going to drain the swamp!. >>reporter: he briefly addressed the latest news that the fbi won't file charges against clinton. >> nobody in this room can believe what's going on with the fbi and what's going on with the department of justice, protected by a totally rigged system. >>reporter: in a brief moment of levity he pulled from the crowd a mask that looks like him. >> nice head of hair i'll say that. >>reporter: donald trump is encouraged by the close poll numbers in battleground states including florida. soda he worked to inspire the crowd and win over undecided voters. >> just imagine what our country could accomplish if we

one people under one god saluting one american flag. >>reporter: something interesting to point out while i was here i saw a number of foreign news crews and visitors from foreign countries. i spoke to a couple of guys from london that flew over to attend this rally. the whole worked is watching guys. >> did donald trump ever address tampa bay directly john. >>reporter: he did when he was talking about defense spend egg pointed out the he will increase spending and make sure new plains planes flying out of the air force base. hillary clinton's first rally of the day was in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. it does not have early voting. vice-president joe biden is talking in st. petersburg. having sort of a rally sort of a concert going on in st. petersburg. peter bernard is joining us

speaking peter. >>reporter: yeah indeed keith. we heard about a 15 to 20 minute speech from the vice- president. this crowd is pretty energized out here. the speech hit on a number of topics you would expect at a democratic rally. he said that the vote across the nation is basically in our hands here in florida because florida is such a battleground state he urged people to go to the polls tomorrow he says if we win here we will win it across the nation. that was his quote. he says break between fear and division. i'm going step out so you can see the crowd behind me it's better than looking at me e. says in the u.s. right now there is hope and optimism and the country is well position todd compete in this world. one wordy used that defines the democratic process and the democrats that are running and that is possibilities. months from now well you can see right now go to the right you can see jimmy buffett the king of margaritaville. and cheeseburger in paradise he's going to be entertaining

we knew about it on friday and it's now coming to fruition. jimmy buffet is about to entertain this crowd. i'll send it back to you guys. >> peter bernard live at albert whitted park in st. petersburg. tomorrow is election day in case you didn't know but many of you have already cast ballots by early voting mail. a breakdown of these preelection day numbers may give us a little insight into the outcome. >>reporter: people have been coming here all day to drop off their ballots and do some more voting. 49% of voters in hillsborough county have already made their selection. for some it's a matter of convenience. >> for us it's on day off and

we wanted to make sure we got our vote in. >>reporter: julian and voted before the traditional election day. >> i think that people are just taking advantage of it. our lives are so busy these days. it's much easier to taking the kids to soccer or something. let me drop by here and early vote while they are open this week. >>reporter: hillsborough county isn't the only county where people are voting early. 57% of voters ballot in pasco county compared to just 19% in 2012. where people are voting and who is voting early may show us just how the election is going. >> it looks as though particularly african americans and hispanics were encouraged to vote and voting in large numbers. >>reporter: usf political scientist told me both republicans and democrats are trying to get out the early vote. >> also the encouragement of all candidates particularly the

ticket in the presidential race they are encouraging to people get out and vote early. >>reporter: i did take a look at the statewide numbers just a short time ago and so far democrats actually have an edge over republicans across the state of florida in voting early. however, there is a big unknown out there and that is a growing number of people have listed no party affiliation and a lot of them are voting early as well jen. early are election supervisors expecting long lines tomorrow? >>reporter: one of the advantages of early voting. as long as you don't go first thing in the morning, at lunch or last minute when the rush will be on you shouldn't have a problem. if you do have a problem maybe you should have been one of the early voters and you should consider that next time jen.

tampa. thanks jeff. over the weekend john bon jovi performed in st. petersburg joined by clinton's running mate tim kaine. florida newsman brendan mclaughlin has covered florida politics for years he's going to be joining us tonight and tomorrow to give us his perspective as a long time political observer. glad you're here with us. >> good to be here. >> look at that concert we talked not only jimmy buffett beyonce' jay-z bruce springsteen. >> bara tonight. >> donald trump citizen sighes this saying do you really need to have all these concerts. he draws a crowd. >> the mystery he doesn't do this it's a calculated deliberate strategy by the clinton administration to have these or clinton campaign to have these concerts. what they do is they give the tickets away oftentimes in very key voting districts right across the street from an early voting location. so the implication is that come and see the concert however you feel about the artist or the

that's really the emphasis. the key again is in those ticket giveaways that happy at the voting sites they also get valuable voter information, names demographics addresses for database they can use down the road. >> i know some pep would say how do you even know those going are democrats. you're telling me you can see beyonce' jay-z or spring steen, no matter what your party affiliation you may want to go you got to believe a lot of people don't careut of there was a concert in fayetteville north carolina that they did the calculation afterwards they found that the county wide turn out as a result of that concert was up 16%. and they are betting that the majority of those voters are going their way. >> that's why the biggest concert of them all is going to be in pennsylvania:that's a state hillary clinton needs to hang on to donald trump is trying to any at her heels philadelphia going to be a big turn out.

coverage on election day we'll be with you all day long. stay with us for updates and that includes wfla.com and our news app. follow us on social media using #white female l a politics #wfla politics. >> he knew he better called ben ken. after shannon stepped in the hospital is helping to make things right. we'll explain when we come back. > engine. a lot of folks heading to the polls tomorrow we'll have that election day forecast for you look at any rain chances with fronts in the forecast cooler

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. gorgeous day 75 degrees had a nice weekend too weather wise. even was a little cool on sunday morning. few clouds continue to stream across the area. nothing the way of precip at the moment. east win as we mentioned in the tampa area other spots as well. there's old glory. 77 degrees east to northeasterly wind. lake include club lakewood ranch 75 degrees. little breeze in the southern part of manatee county. otherwise temps elsewhere conto stay in comfortable category. lows don cesar at the beach. 77 degrees with a north wind at 2 miles per hour. little clear sky mixed in there. there's your election day forecast. the polls open 65 degrees mild comfy conditions don't have to worry about getting drenched in terms of precipitation.

sunshine for the lunch hour. polls closing gorgeous evening breezy dry 74 degrees. very comfortable weather conditions we expect in florida this time of year. nice shot from danny temple terrace sunrise beautiful looks a lot like our gorgeous sunsets in the region. metro cast calling for the temperatures to stay mostly low 70s throughout this time period as we go throughout the evening hours and into the overnight. 65 degrees at 8:00 a.m. in the afternoon. our temperature about 5:00 p.m. with clouds throughout the day for tomorrow. not expecting precipitation. 7:00 a.m. 65 degrees 82 degrees at 4:00 p.m. again 74 degrees our current temp. temple terrace lutz 77 palm harbor 78 degrees at clearwater beach. 77 largo, pinellas park seminole. 76 degrees in apollo beach. elsewhere temps mostly in the 70s lakeland sebring crystal river up every 70s sarasota and venice very comfortable weather conditions down to north port

amount of comfort in the air. the humidity essentially. so dew points in the 50s are very, very comfortable. so it should be a nice cool feeling some of the inland areas. our temperatures and winds will stay up a little bit 14 miles per hour winds here as we head throughout the rest of this evening stronger winds obviously off shore. as we head throughout the overnight morning hours tomorrow much lighter wind conditions we still have a bet of a breeze australia saw from the some of the movement of our palm trees. high clouds in the sky. otherwise quiet across the there's a few clouds and we've seen those throughout the afternoon hours streaking across the area from west to east a lot of these are high clouds. clearer skies currently across the northern sections of the area. short term our high risk computer model shows that northeasterly flow definitely in place and a few clouds at the mid levels kind of cruising across the state into the overnight same kind of story mix of clear skies and few clouds around the area. few morning clouds for the commute and we're not expecting

hate to have a rainy election day. monday afternoon mix of sun and clouds above average temperatures for us as we get into tuesday into wednesday. a few showers off the east coast and approaching cold front may have a slight chance of rain a lot in the gulf of mexico. as you see the 7-day forecast probably highlier throughout this time period. 77 degrees for this evening. temps already in the 70 newscast some locations. so it should be a nice evening for us. tuesday the rain chances are very low. you saw the front on the map that's why we've added a slight chance of rain and thursday. but temps comfortable. little bit cooler behind that front too. 80 for a high on thursday little cooler 63 that morning. then very pleasant weather conditions all the way into the weekend you can see with heart walk coming up on saturday. temps there the upper 70s. get this a young man charged a huge hospital bill for carey insists he didn't

overdose in his name. it's a shocking twist on identity theft. and when he tried to clear his name authorities pretty much just turned him away at every level that's when he knew he better call behnken. investigators shannon behnken joins me you have results in this investigation. >> we do this young man won't have to pay anymore. it casts big doubts on the validity of the bill hospital decided today to forgive the $4,000 bill. >>reporter: a big weight lifted from miguel leon's shoulders. >> they believe you now. >> sounds great. i wish it would have been like sooner. >>reporter: leon insists he was never at st. joseph's hospital on august 27th when someone registered under his name was treated for an apparent overdose to the drug molly. hillsborough county sheriff records also list the patient as miguel leon. >> i'm not okay with that at all. especially since that's going

really not okay with that. i would have done anything to like get that off my name. >>reporter: when authorities wouldn't listen miguel turned to me last week to get answers. i found out the deputy got his name from the patient's roommate after responding to an overdose near the university of south florida. his name was confirmed by usf police who had his contact information in their computer because he's enrolled to start school there next year. i found this. >> that's him. >> that's who. >> leon meeting element. >>reporter: leon meeting mcgill. not miguel leon. the apartment manager had the same story. >> the name is switched. this guy is miguel leon. >>reporter: today i followed up with the hospital. >> so how did he get treated under this other person's name? >>reporter: leon is hopeful his name will soon also be cleared by law enforcement and

else's care. >> i'm just glad it's over now. i'm really glad. >>reporter: the next loose ends to tie up is miguel leon's record. he's worried that law enforcement paperwork shows he was treated for an overdose. the sheriff's office is looking into the situation to determine whether their records need to be amended. >> well $4,000 is a large amount of money glad he doesn't have to pate but what what about the hospital i'm sure they want their money. >>reporter: i asked the hospital. i'm sure they want to continue to investigate this. they can't bill someone if they can't prove it was them. so they are still investigating there's a chance they won't get paid for this. >> they should have looked for that i.d. in the beginning. >>reporter: got to have that i.d. >> thank you salon on. if you have a problem that needs solving this is your lady. call 1-855-behnken. as we count down to election day one number is more important than any other. 270. because that's how many

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realtime data of all the election results nationwide statewide. take a look at the electorate nationwide according to nbc's latest battleground look here clinton has a pretty significant lead. >> look over here see there change in realtime currently 274 to 170 electoral votes. if this stayed this way hillary clinton wins the election. we see in yellow these are battleground states could go donald trump's way. democrats dominate this area here. we also know in florida when it comes to republicans up here in the panhandle this is a strong republican. what's going to happen here if there were such a red and blue across i-4. you did so impressive. this is going to be fought out i-4 corridor to the space coast. >> it's not just florida we're keeping a close eye on head up to the midwest we're going to

georgia. this is an area trump has to try to win. >> we georgia typically a republican area if we go to republican we could do this. he should be able to pick up north carolina and ohio he's hoping he's going win there. but he also has to turn some of these blue states red. that's going to be difficult. >> the true midwest too with minnesota you're going to look there. >> in minnesota he's been campaigning here unlikely donald trump will take minnesota his internal polling perhaps saying he can but he's hoping maybe wisconsin, maybe michigan. he has a strong message he's pennsylvania big cities are not going to go for donald trump but the rural areas that's where he's focusing. >> it's all going to come down to tomorrow. we're finally here. >> not only that we're going to be able to look at the state races marco rubio patrick murray. and the amendments as well. >> zoom into the counties see how the counties are voting on the amendments. >> you'll want to stay right here on news channel 8 we've got the map. over to you jim.

right now jimmy buffett is performing at a get out the vote concert for hillary clinton in st. petersburg. vice-president joe biden finished speaking at 5:00. if you listen closely that's margaritaville. >> here's a look what's coming up tonight at 5:30. the i-4 corridor will no doubt play a huge role in deciding the presiden area delivers for him as well. plus caught on camera again. how one brazen campaign sign stealing thief may have struck the same bay area house more than once. but this time she may face some trouble with the police.

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. good evening i'm jennifer lee. >> i'm josh benson. >> all eyes on a tightening senate race in florida. marco rubio made stops in brandon and orlando. as congressman patrick murphy is making a op from the campaign trail. >>reporter: those congressman murphy and senator rubio spent the day along the i-4 corridor. >> we have one day to go we got to run through the tape. >>reporter: senator marco rubio working to fire up the crowd dozens to welcome him and rubio confident about tuesday. >> i can't wait for tomorrow night i can't wait for wednesday morning so we can get to work putting this country back on track. >>reporter: not much reason