around the location until i find somewhere to park. it's pretty much a hassle. >> reporter: a hassle the city of tampa, and downtown partnership are hoping to ease. in about a month, you will see electric cars like this one shuttling people to events >> the whole concept of having people provide this for others is training. >> reporter: you will use an app to order a space. it there are weekend hours for the internal events, also, free of charge. >> instead of figuring out where they will park. it will be figuring out what alternatives and different options they have. >> hart is talking about running the trolley every 10 minutes during event time and making map service from as well. a change people living downtown say could cut the gridlock.

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good afternoon, looking at very heavy thunderstorms. they are off shore. they will stay off shore. there have been a couple of lightning strikes, but i think a few more will develop over the next couple of hours, nothing widespread, consider mostly dry conditions across much of the area. certainly not a problem tomorrow morning as you wake up to clear skies, very wm changes around later on this week, and the tropics are all of a sudden heating up. not one, not two, but maybe three named storms by the end of august. we'll talk about it in a couple

administrators saw the same thing many people see, their kids playing mobile games, here is one, pokemon go. they thought, why do kids play this game? to get to the next level. why can't they take that process and move it into the classroom. the thing is you must include the latest technology, and smart phones, teachers say they want them to have in class and will help them with the learning process and to gi students they are leveling up with their education. just like in a video game. parents we spoke to are willing to give this a shot. >> i'm okay with it. i want to see what comes out of it. i have you some pretty smart kids. >> kids today are not like they used to be years ago.

i think this program is going to be really exciting, i'm excited. >> reporter: technology will be used to assist with developing skills used today. posters like this hanging in bay onett middle school to show us there are sll ruleshen it comes to cellphones in class. but . this might be the new way teach something being done. reportin abc action news. a new poll out showing hillary clinton is leading trump by five points in the sunshine state. i spent today talking to the trump campaign and they tell me they are about to launch a rapid expansion in florida in the next two weeks, opening 25 field offices before labor day

their operation here and they are going to start to air attack adds. trump is planning to go all in in florida to gain momentum down the final stretch when it counsels >> it's a gamble on trump he has gambled that it is okay to wait until the end of summer and really go full force. where as the hillary clinton campaign said they are not waiting an opened their offices a little earlier. two different phil different candidates. >> by comparison, hillary clinton has spent millions in advertising here in florida. she has 14 field offices and her campaign started to do voter research a year ago. >> >> trump is in ohio where he is expected to layout proposals for preventing attacks here in the youths, which includes banning people from countries with heavy terrorist foot

skeptical american israeli citizens to vote for donald trump. >> >> meantime, hillary clinton is in scranton, pennsylvania for a rally with vice president joe biden. this is the first campaign event they have done together clinton said if elected, she plans to ask joe biden to continue his efforts to end cancer by treatment and disease. he launch this after his son beau died of brain cancer in $1 billion in funding for e program. a request clinton has urged congress to approve. >> >> right now, investigators are trying to figure out what caused this small plane carrying three married couples to crash over the weekend. family and friends of the six victims said they were heading home to mississippi after attending a dental convention. the plane crashed into treesas it tried to land.

workers were hoping the plane would make it, but sadly, everyone onboard died in the crash. >> >> taking you live on the roads, a live look at 275 on veterans and it kind of looks like it is slow and go out there. lots of buildup for people trying to get home from work. >> reporter: hi, ev construction on the veteran's expressway, or i should say underneath the veteran's expressway.er lick road closed overnight all this week through thursday, hillsboro avenue will be closing in the overnight hours. this will be through friday it'srom 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 am. if you are heading out the door in the early morning hours, remember hillsboro avenue will be closed in both directions. >> we also have road work going

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many individual computer makers offer smaller laptops as well. >> >> thank you, right now, unsettling news from houston, a mom is behind bars after confessing to drowning her own children. 30-year-old shebora thomas was turned in by an after she calmly brought up killing her children. she said she drowned her seven and five-year-old, wrapped them in sheets and closed the crash tan. when she can't get the trash cans to close completely, she moved it under a neighbor's house. the children's father is in prison and doesn't even know what has happened, yet, houston police aring looking for a motive. thomas is charged with capital murder. >>

and deadly fire at a maryland apartment building, searchers looking for bodies five days after the massive explosion. as of this morning, eight people unaccounted for. identities have not yet been determined. the search and recovery process has been very slow because of the 100-degree heat and dangerouconditions. >> debris, itself, present as challenge. every time you move something, it damage the integrity of the struct we have to be careful. it's an ongoing evaluation process. >> more than 30 people injured in the e motion. people are unaccounted for range in age from three all the

all right, give us the low down. >> 1/100th of a percent we have to worry about and we have nothing to worry about. i think things will get far more active. we see nothing more than scattered storms, but the ones that did pop, to see serious rain in some of the areas off shore over the next hour or two. look at the lightning. a few strikes close to the beach, but otherwise, this evening, i think we'll see a few widely-scattered showers, less than we usually see for this time of the year because a lot of the energy moved through at 4:00 or 5:00. now, things are already winding down. i would not expect anything more than a mattering of an

to the low 90s, 95 in tampa. two degrees shy of the record high of 97, 96 in sarasota. there was alot of heat there up until the storms have arrived. 92 at the airport at tampa, humidity, 54%. winds out of the east at 10- miles an hour. we hi w 90, five degrees above normal. over the next couple of days, we'll see the highs top out at the airport, 91, 92, today likely be the hottest day of the week. sunny and 89 in sarasota after a high of 96 degrees. so, the pattern that we have been tracking over the last three or four days has not changed. the mornings are good no matter what you have planned this week and the weekend, if it's before lunchtime, you are good to go. you will not have a problem there is not as much moisture out or there wouldn't be right through friday than we have seen over the last two or three days.

mornings will be dry, afternoons, stormier, coverage will only be 30-40%. most of that between 3:00 and 6:00, a few lingering showers until 8:00. otherwise, we are good to go. i think the heavier storms will stretch along the coastline like they did today and will for the next couple of days. in terms of the tropics, we are on the way up, we usually peak in the atlantic season september 10th. we already have a wave out there. pretty good chance it would be a named storm, the name will be fiona. i think it will be running into a ton of dry weather before we get it. two additional storms by the end of august. hour by hour forecast, mostly dry across the area, tomorrow, hitting the lakes, tee time early on, the weather will be

but it will be hot later in the afternoon. as the seven day shows us, rain chances, about 40-50%. maybe 30-40% by the end of the week, definitely less rain this upcoming week lan taft week. >> >> still ahead, citrus farmers, how for the if he first time, farmers are able to grow hops

>> florida citrus farmer looking into growing hops for beer. florida has traditionally been considered too hot and humid to grow hops. ryan peerson is a horticulturist at university of florida. he started to grow hops three years ago. he said his hops are good

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a growing industry designed to save you hundreds in electric costs taking florida's job market by storm. the one thing about to happen in november that could impact our solar energy job market. good evening, everyone. >> i'm whitney ryan, thanks for joining us, solar is growing across the country, leading to higher paying positions in the sunshine state. >> walking you through how you can you >> reporter: chances are when you drive-thru your neighborhoods, you won't see many solar panels like this, but industry experts say soon in florida, that could be about to change. of >> reporter: in the last few years, they are working harder than ever.

people out there and could add more installers, definitely heading in the right direction. >> reporter: florida voters could soon pass amendment 4 which allows customers that install solar panels tax breaks. those against the amendment said the government should not providing these tax breaks, saying it infears with the free market. even so, solar companies are seeing more potential to hire. >> any time there is an opportunity for the costs to go down, >> >> reporter: if you are looking to become an installer, you don't need a college degree. as of last year, the average salary was $37,000 per year. >> every day, a new project. >> >> reporter: florida will vote on amendment 4 november 8th.