captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 comments@captioncolorado.com now at 9:00, extreme weather strikes again. hundreds this morning picking up the pieces after eight tornadoes touched down in indiana as the nationalities of some of those killed in italy. >> people have lost everything in the past week due to historic flooding. >> we're talking about the tropical setting, and we have brand new information coming in from the hurricane hunters. >> major changes coulding

what this could -- raymond james and what this could mean for possible events coming to florida. you are looking right now where cell phone video tore through louisiana. it is a miracle nobody was killed. police say at least a dozen people were hurt, including a 5-month-old baby. authorities say the injuries are not serious. largely because people to the warnings and they took shelter. >> indiana governor and republican candidate for vice president mike pence is now back home off the campaign trail. he will visit more operation centers and update how the state will respond to the tornadoes. >> as the death toll rises from italy's devastating earthquake, the people are pulling together with compassion and determine in addition.

left many under rubble. >> two romanians were killed, eight more are missing and one spaniard was killed. cnn has more. >> reporter: in central italy, amazing perseverance amid heart wrenching loss. emergency crews and bystanders battling rough terrain and limited access in the search for survivors. the clock tower in the devastated town of frozen at 3:36 a.m. overjoyed at the rescue of a little girl found alive in the rubble. first they saw a tiny foot, then a leg, then moments later both legs. in the video, a man seems to be talk together girl as someone repeatedly says the name julia. then rescuers hoist the little girl out of the rubble, her entire body covered in gray dust. one bystander crying out

am ma tres is one town among many where damaged, unstable buildings could collapse at any moment amid continuing threats electric after-shocks. cnn's barbie nudeau reporting from one hard-hit town. >> reporter: woo! geez! >> reporter: she and the crew escaping injury in the collapse as search efforts continue. condolences pour in from washington to the u.n. to the vatican. pope francis is mong many world leader healing. >> the lord jesus christ is always there to help. >> reporter: i'm reed binion reporting. new this morning, mobile homes fill front yards across southern louisiana as they did after hurricane katrina. the governor announced a housing program called the shelter at home program. the governor says it will help people recover from the disasterrous flooding. one major change is the houses

down not on wheels like the travel trailers a decade ago. they are providing $15,000 to the flood victims. i'm tracking the system that could affect our weekend. this is sunday heading into early next week with at least a tropic ale moisture and heavy rain. by the way, this is the hurricane that came in this morning. it's surveyed the storm and south tropical storm force winds. it did not find them wrapping arou we did not have a tropical depression. the models need to focus on a point to have a good forecast. we'll talk more about the impact coming up in a few minutes. titan doppler radar showing showers and storms continuing to develop through the afternoon. so between 1:00, 4:00, and

the showers and storms. i'll be back in a few minutes with an update on the way. >> not the way we want to end the morning commute. we still have major problems on dell mabry. southbound dell mabry still closed just north of waters backing up traffic all the way back to fletcher. you definitely want to avoid dell mabry if you can. anderson might be right now. anderson is running 20 miles per hour to the veterans. the other slow spots throughout the bay area are stuck with i- 4. the average speed is 75 to 275 but looking great on 75. this is 275 over in pinellas county. happening today, the future of popular events in tampa like the music festival

problems and deadly overdoses at this year's sunset music festival. rodney dunningan is live outside raymond james stadium. city leaders say they've had enough. >> reporter: in fact, they say the problems have to be addressed. two people died, more than 60 others taken to a local hospital. most of the cases involve drugs. now city council members say they are trying to come up with a few explanations and a few reasons and a few, i gues you can, ways to stop this from happening at other local eventspch ? [music] ? this year's sunset music-fest attracting thousands to raymond james stadium, also pulling in plenty of problems as well. a large number of the incidents were drug related. two attendees dying of apparent overdoses. >> that's a personal choice. >> reporter: a number of city leaders saying it's gotten out

stressing events like sunset attract drug use. that along with the heat add up to the perfect storm. >> this is not the type of event that tampa wants to be known for. >> reporter: nearly 60 others also sent to the hospital. a major strain on st. joseph's hospital hampering their emergency work. tampa's fire chief spoke to the issue. >> it hinders the emergency medical response. >> reporter: the meeti discuss concerns with the city council. finding ways these issues can be prevented going forward at other events across the city. the city council will also be looking at ways that other cities actually dealt with the problems as well. for now reporting live outside raymond james stadium, rodney dunningan, abc action news. major relief for the victims in the pulse nightclub shooting. the florida hospital and

received care after the june 12th attack that left 49 people dead. >> instead, they are writing off nearly $5.5 million in hospital care. the hospital says they are paying forward the kindness they received from people all over the country who reached out and supported them after the attack. they say it is a huge relief for the families. a few hundred people are anxious for a callback after a busy job fair. we told you about this st now we know 250 people turned out. the problem is, there are only 19 open positions. it was reported on issue yous the county faced over the last few years with 911 calls going unanswered. they are short 19 people. current operators are working around the clock. some for as many as 17 days straight. officials say the last job fair attracted 200 applicants, but only two were hired. we're expecting to get a

dollar renovation at raymond james stadium. >> the tampa bay buccaneers are inviting in the media to give the fans a much better view of the game. they upgraded the sound system and upgrade the hall of fame club and added new items to the menus. that's phase 1 of a $140 million project. you can see the upgrades in person coming up, a woman beaten for no reason and the injuries she suffered in the random attack and the warning from the public. >> this is awful. >> a california couple is stunned by what they found when they read their homeowner's agreement. the shocking rules they say

right now, police in san francisco are looking for a man caught on camera beating a woman, watch this for no apparent reason. take a look at the surveillance footage. >> the woman was walking by herself and she turns around and then he beats her repeatedly and calmly walks away. the woman in her 50s did not lose consciousness, but did he break her nose. she managed to call for help but the suspect was long gone. it is a relatively safe area, and people walk around alone all of the time. >> people walk by and know each other's dogs and names. >> police say the suspect did not take anything from the woman he attacked. they are working now to figure out a motive. they think he may have been on drugs. meantime, they are telling people in the area to be careful until an arrest is made. this morning, a california family is outraged that they

neighborhood. you heard that correctly. the fosters read their neighborhood agreement and saw clause number 13 that says "no person except those of the white caucasian raise shall use, of course pi pie, or reside upon any lot except when employed in the household of a white caucasian tenant or owner." >> i'm like, you've got to be kidding me. that's ridiculous. everybody knows that you can't enforce things like that. >> it's not want our kids to grow up in. >> the clause has been on the books since 1961. the man in charge of the agency that enforces these kinds of codes didn't even know that the whites-only neighborhood agreement existed. he says of course it's illegal and will be removed soon. we are learning about a little known casualty of war. a zoo in gaza is shut down because they can't afford to

nine-year blockade imposed by israel and egypt. three wars and seven years have devastated the zoo population. of the original 92 animals, only 16 remain. veterinarians are helping tranquilize and euthanize the animals. >> it is a horrible image. [unintelli >> there are just 16 animals that took a massive international effort of multiple countries to move them to greener pastures. all of the animals are expected to be moved out by the end of the week. if you have plans to visit washington d.c. soon, you may not be able to visit one of the city's most important and famous tourist attractions, the washington monument. it will be closed through mid- september after a cable broke on an elevator. we told you last week the

hundreds of stairs after that. park officials say it needs a full renovation and it may have to be closed for nine months to complete that work. a helicopter had to air lift a plane off a sand bar in massachusetts yesterday. the single-engine plane was carried for six miles after it had to make an emergency landing. luckily, the pilot was not hurt and amazingly, the plane wasn't damaged, either. an important consumer alert to tell you about. ford is recalling 113,000 vehicles for various defects including fuel pump problems that could cause cars to stall. nearly 90,000 ford tarrest and interceptor models were impacted. another 2017suvs are being recalled to recalibrate power window software. we're getting close to the release of the new iphone 7 and

could appear. we're just a few weeks away from the expected release of apple's new iphone. they no longer have the excitement level they did a few years ago, but many people are ready to upgrade. the iphone 6 had no major changes but "forbes" magazine says this september will bring a new iphone 7 with significant changes beginning with three diff you'll notice the larger camera that shows in the forbes photo. among the biggest rumored changes? well, no more head phone audio jack. a better camera, more water resistance, and possibly a smaller 4 1/2 inch model and a curved screen on the largest model. forbes tells us apple appears to have canceled plans for the iphone pro, the expensive

escalade. we'll know for sure on friday the 16th. i'm john matarese, abc action news. an update on the forecast. actually, the tropics are very close. >> it's interesting that the hurricane hunters are flying to mcdill. i know one of them so i messaged him. this is a mess. let's talk about and tell you why this is not continuing t matter in the long run. it likely will get some impacts from this organized wake which, by the way, they are finding 49 mile-per-hour winds. if i didn't know what was happening and you showed me this satellite, i would tell you thunderstorms have gone on in the island of hispaniola. this does not look like a tropic ale system. it's very disorganized.

you need them to be calm for the thunderstorms to continue to wrap around for the system to get organized. these are very unfavorable winds. so long as that's pushing away from the center, the system can't organize. but pay attention to what happens on the other side. if the system survives and heads to the bahamas, conditions are more favorable for development. we'll watch these closely as it continues to head off to north and west. computer model forecasts haven't changed as far as that track. this is about all we know right now. what happens over the bahamas will be key as far as the intensity. this is the window this has to become something stronger like a hurricane. category 1 or something like that heading into the southern end of the state. we know for us we'll get a plume of tropical rainfall. we though heavy rains will be

that way. the potential risk for downpours coming up sunday and monday. the intensity that is still to be determined is checking back with us once we get a center point there, the models will be able to do a much better job to let us know where this is going. the forecast will likely change. so that's why you have to keep in tune to this one. we don't have a storm yet to be able to completely forecast here accurately. very low confidence forecast at this point here. you are looking good there's dry air up above to the north. quiet conditions across the i- 10. farther down to the south, we have enough moisture. i think we'll have 40% chance of rainfall this afternoon that forms the thunderstorms as we check in on the feels-like temperatures with the hot day setting up for us here with the high temps in the 90s. it feels like 100 or 105. by the way, this pattern of a northeast wind will fire east

i don't think this will be the case with this one. i think we'll have enough moisture to crank on the storms between 4:00 and 7:00 before everything wipes out. again, all eyes on the tropics this sunday into monday. until then it's a typical pattern with afternoon storms and meanty of sunshine -- plenty of sun shine through the early part of the day. still ahead this morning, brand new access to prince fans. giving fans a behind the scenes look at the late singer's legacy. >> then an officer finds a student with a loaded gun at a bay area high school. the one question now the parents want answered this

9:24 and taking action for you. a backyard deck is not only a great way to enjoy outdoor living space bu your home. here's how to protect your deck in today's angie's list report. >> reporter: most wood decks are made of pressure treated pine or wood cedar. a beautiful addition to any home but after just a couple of years, it can start to look weathered if not taken care of properly. >> you should reseal your deck every two to three years with either a clear or semi transparent stain.

time to redo it. drop water and if it beads up, you can wait longer. if it sinks in, it's time. >> reporter: start with pressure wash. you can damage your deck if you are not careful. common mistakes include power washing with too much pressure or spraying too close to the wood. >> you'll want to keep the tip of your power washer 6 inches away from the wood at all times and keep it at constant elevation and always keeping in motion. if you stop tore dwell in the area -- stop or dwell this an area, you are likely to leave a mark you can't remove. >> reporter: a penetrating oil- based stain is best instead of water-based products that coat the surface. you can apply a nunes breach brightener. that should restore some of the wood's original color. >> you want to make sure you are using one that does not include bleach because the bleach can damage the wood.

1200psi. most washers come with different tips that can reduce the pressure. and now to the positively tampa bay. when i was a kid, i wanted to be an astronaut, dan wanted a career with snakes. could the future plan survey help us stray past journalism? more importantly, can it help

. >> police are very close to solving the usf flasher cases, built they need your help. -- but they need your help. >> i wish i had a bigger home.

now we're looking 'epidemic through the eyes of a foster mother caring for one of the tiniest victims. >> plus, tracking a tropical threat. we have the latest on the system and potential impacts on us in the bay area. thank you for joining us. i'm dan shaffer. >> good morning, i'm deiah riley. all eyes are on ivan and the storm and how it can affect us. >> we take you outside and show you what's going on as far as quiet weather right now. i'llha just missed it coming up. as we check in on conditions right now 81 degrees. 82 in clearwater. we're doing it with plenty of humidity making it feel like it's in the 90s already at this early hour. titan doppler looking good for now. you see the showers continuing to stream in. that will be the flow off the atlantic and into the gulf as the thunderstorms will develop east of us and continue pushing to the west.

happens, sometimes we get the stronger storm as long the coast as we have the last couple of days. we'll have more on the extended forecast and of course an update on that tropical wave down in the crimean. 9:31. take a look at your screen here. this man could be the key to solving several indecent exposure cases. >> the man was on the last week, a person of interest who may have information about a guy who's been flashing students on campus. >> lindsay, some of the cases go back a year. >> reporter: there are a number of unsolved flasher cases here at usf. we did some digging. four in 2015 and six complaints already this year. so police are wondering, are any of them connected? that's why she just released

this person is a person of interest, someone who may have seen something or may have information about these flasher cases. in one instance last week, students reported seeing a man running naked through a parking garage on campus. the man in question in the videos was seen around the same time, the same place as one of those incidents. that's why pole with him. if you can identify him and you know information about any of these indecent exposure cases at usf, call campus police. i'm lindsay logue, abc action news. a man accused of pointing his gun at a deputy is set to appear in court today. the deputy fired a shot during yesterday's confrontation in st. petersburg. they say he tried crawling out of his father's house. he'd been hiding there for several weeks.

robbery, kidnapping, domestic strangulation and now he's charged with aggravate add salt on an officer and having a gun as a felon. that weapon was apparently stolen during a burglary. deputy as rested his father, earl austin, for hiding a fugitive. in pinellas county, parents want answers after a student was found with a loaded gun on campus. >> including the fact that he had the gun on campus all day. a probation officer school with two warrants for the arrest. when the officers searched the student, he found the gun on his clothes. >> parents want to know how long the student had been bringing the gun to school before anybody noticed. they also want a harsh punishment for him. >> i think they should prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law because he has a gun. i have a daughter here. anything can make him fly off the handle and pull the gun.

third degree felony charges. we are getting a new perspective on the heroin addiction through the eyes of a foster mom caring for one of the tiniest victims. we're concealing the foster mom's identity and also the baby's identity because the baby she was caring for was born addicted to heroin. the baby had to be put on methadone and detox for 11 days. the foster care system is in dire need of help to addicted babies. it's putting a big strain on the system. >> because the state is so heavily induced with so many children, they don't have the means to really protect these kids like they should. >> manatee county is the hardest hit. statistics show children were removed from homes la of the december at a rate of nearly three times the state average. the foster mom we spoke with says the experience has been

things in her life. out here now, we want to help you learn more about fostering a child. you can hess to our web site, abcactionnews.com, and click on the story. in the story, we have a link to my fflfamily. com -- myflfamily.com and will give you everything you need to foster a child. wooing minority voters during his visit to tampa. his main promise is that he would create jobs. >> the african-american voter, great people, to the hispanic voter who have been absolutely treated unfairly, i say, what do you have to lose?

>> he says lax border controls cost minorities jobs. later he visited mississippi and launched into attacks on hillary clinton. trump also focusing attacks toward the clinton foundation. clinton's team oning back against a report saying more than half of the meetings she >> i made policy decisions based on what i thought was right. >> clinton is also blasting trump saying he took a hate movement and brought it mainstream. she apologized for using a private e-mail server saying she would do it differently if shoo he could. the clinton campaign is opening several offices in the bay area today. the democratic national committee members' office.

end of the day will have 34 offices in florida. the florida department of health reporting nine new travel-related cases of zika in the tampa bay area. of the hundreds infected with the virus across the state. 43 people, including one in pinellas county have contracted zika through some kind of in- state transmission. one woman didn't want to reveal her identity and didn't even realize she was at risk. >> i mean, i was si patio and had two bites on my arm. who's to think that the worst case scenario was going to happen to me? >> the woman says the health department calls her several times a day to find out more information about where she's been and when. she claims she's only been in palm beach county and believes she was infected around her lake beach home. it started out with a fever and rash and escalated to the point where she had to be hospitalized.

labor department shows fewer people are filing for federal remarks. the opening bell fell to 18,459. good. good. just like killing a police officer. you know, anybody that does the crime should do the time. >> still ahead, sentenced for killing a k- how many years will an ohio man spend in prison and why not everybody agrees with the judge's decision. >> when you bite into a twinkie, you expect it to be filled with a yummy vanilla cream. that's not what one oklahoma officer found inside of two

north korean leader kim jiang ruin was in a sell bra -- kim jiang un was in a celebratory mood after testing missile tests. they are trying to determine

if it could carry a nuclear warhead. after the test, pyongyang warned not to hurt its dignity if they want to avoid deadly strikes. the american university in kabul ends with 12 dead including seven students. more than 36 were wounded in the attack. witnesses say many students jumped from second story windows trying to escape, some breaking their legs in the process. it is the second attack in less two professors were kidnapped at gunpoint august 7th. the family of a teenager convicted of drunk driving is back in the spotlight. ethan couch's mom is defending what some might think is a strange job for her, a bartender. a woman says tanya couch was her bartender. town ya's son ethan was 16 years old and only sentenced to probation.

hide from authorities. in the meantime, she told that customer she had to find any work she could get. >> i asked her why a bar? being everything they have gone through, you know? >> what did she say? >> nobody else would hire her because of who she is. >> the man who owns the bar believes everybody deserves a second chance. her attorney says she's grateful she's been able to find lawful employment and not forced to seek government assistance. an ohio judg mixed reaction after sentencing a man for more than three decades in prison for killing a police dog. he pleaded guilty to the crime in court yesterday. he shot the k-9 officer three times during a burglary in january. people who attended the hearing had mixed feelings about the

i don't think the crime fit the punishment. >> i think he deserves what he got. >> he also got 11 years for aggravated robbery and will serve that consecutive to the 34-year sentence. his police partner posted on facebook thanking everyone for the support and hoping it will bring closure to a lot of his fellow officers. and tainted twinkies during a traffic stop in oklahoma city. officers pulled over a driver for texting and driving. one the officer ank- approached the dog, the dog gave the signal that he smelled drugs. after a quick search, the j9 fond a twinkie box that had been resealed. inside, methamphetamines. police say the men were headed to california. prince fans will soon be able to tour his massive mansion. tours start in october.

he created most of his biggest hits. we're still waiting to find out how much tickets will cost. his sister says this has always abouten a dream of his. the family is trying to get permission from the city to turn paisley park into a museum. incredible video out of central indiana where several tornadoes destroyed several businesses and homes. >> one destroyed the starbucks that you see right there. it happened in the kokomo 60 miles north of independence. of indianapolis. check it out again. you can look at the building there crumbling like a sack of dominoes. >> mike pence is during the damage today. hard to believe when you look at that damage. >> hard to believe it's august.

see, right? >> we had a low risk for severe thunderstorms. that was a bona fide outlook. we had 46 coming in and we'll show new a second here. the one that brought down the starbucks, talking about the structure coming down, immediately even before the national service crews go out there, you are talking about ferocious winds. looking at the tower cam, it looks fantastic. later on today, we could get wet this afternoon and not expectin look at this. this sun credible. -- this is incredible. 46 reported 165 mile-per-hour winds with the ef-3, a cat-5 hurricane. look at the storms that's fired multiple tornado warnings. if you are traveling, by the way, to this part of the united states, we're still looking at bumpy weather but not expecting what we had yesterday as the conditions are still unsettled

texas and own oak as well. we're looking good here. titan doppler radar scanning the titan doppler area. later on today, you can see the showers streaming in from the atlantic and turn nag thunderstorms as we head later on today. the pattern, by the way, will favor the movement for the next few days from east to west so the thunderstorms end up with us. the latest on the tropical wave, not much has changed. this is very disorganized. we have the strong winds up abov if it survives and heads to the bahamas, that's where we'll have the chance for additional development perhaps becoming more wind threat here for south florida and into the straits. i must tell you, this model taking us farther south and picking up on how disorganized it is. still to be determined, the track and the intensity. the impact for us will be a heavy rain event as i see it now sunday into monday. that may change. as this gets stronger, we may have to deal with wind as well.

next few days. it will be here at 5:00 taking you through the evening hours. 92 for the high today. it will feel like 100 degrees with the peak humidity out there. the thunderstorms will continue for us as we head through thursday and friday. rain chances are sippiccal for this time -- typical for this time of year 40%. sunday starts getting iffy money we may have to tweak the forecast to get the rain chances higher depending on what the wave does. that would, by the way, continue into the early part of next the temperatures below 95. then with things returning back to normal by the middle part of next week with more afternoon storms. still ahead, if you are under-employed, unemployed or you have student loans you can't afford to pay back, stay with us. >> we might have just what you

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all right. we'll have brand new computer models coming out in the next couple of hours. today showers and storms begin to fire up between 4:00 and 7:00. the extended forecast is much more of the same until sunday when we get right here with the system as it moves through. we've got continuing coverage on abcactionnews.com right now. >> you can check the forecast any "tampa bay's morning blend" is next.

good thursday morning. i am carley boyette. >> i am natalie taylor. thanyo morning right here with the morning blend. we are very excited about today show. we have got a great line out. we heard the musical guest i did kind of practicing in the green room. i got so excited. they play all sorts of instruments so it is going to be a good show and the musical guests -- and we are talking about slow cooker meals.