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>> medical terminology and strategy. >> reporter: she and nearly 40,000 other itt students nationwide got an e-mail from the school this morning, letting them know that all of the campuses would be closing for good. >> we have made the very difficult decision to discontinue our operations effective immediately. >> you're on your way to your goals and career and you wake up and you're like the school is closed down. now what do you do? >> reporter: the closure came after the u.s. department of education cut off aid for new requirements for the school, citing prlewith the school's accreditation. tampa attorney jessie hoyer has filed lawsuits against several for profit colleges. >> if they were operating a viable legitimate business, they would be able to get financial funding from other sources. >> actually it doesn't surprise me. mystenhere this campus in tampa. and we had numerous issues. >> reporter: >> reporter: the e-mail
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may get their loans forgiven or transfer credits to other schools. >> i have three years invested. i don't want the money back. i want the degree. >> there is nobody that you can reach out to itt at this point. >> very disappointed. >> yes. and very upsetting. >> reporter: now, about 400 local students are affected, we've been told. hillsborough community college is trying to help the students up. if you would like more information, you can at the number on your screen. now, we reached out the itt administrative office. and of course nobody answered there either. reporting live from the itt campus in tampa, i'm i-team investigator, adam walser, taking action for you. >> thank you, adam. breaking news out of brevard county. you can see there is much left of the helicopter except for
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we confirmed that the helicopter had just taken off from the melbourne airport when the crash happened. we're told that the chopper was not operating in any military capacity. the crash site is close to a high school. new information here at 5:00. a man shot and killed in polk county while his friend was trying to sell an item advertised online. deputies saying the suspect in this case met morrow and his friend dollar parking lot on south comey road late sundayight. morrow was shot while he ran away. >> you run a great risk when you meet a total stranger outside of a store at night trying to sell or buy items. it should not only be buyer
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seller beware. >> sheriff grady judd saying if you're planning to buy or sell something online, meet up with the other person in a public well-lit place during the day. we're continuing to track the fallout from what used to be hurricane hermine as people are recovering from flooding just like this. citrus county says it is ready to answer your questions about relief efforts. if the storm impacted you or your property, you can talk face-to-face with emergency officials tonight until 7:00 p.m. at the government complex. you can also go there from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. well, you may also be seeing a lot of this around town. we're talking about potholes opening not because of the latest storm. just last week, some appeared on i-4 eastbound following hurricane hermine. if you live in tampa, you can report a pothole by calling the number on your screen. you can call any time of day. i tweeted the number out as well in case you missed it. and let the city know about a
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now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> how are you doing, everybody? i allot of us are water logged after all of the rains over the last week. at least today did you begin to feel a little drier air coming in? the humidity a little lower. showers down across the southern counties. temperatures around 80 to 90 degrees. the dew points are lower. and i think tomorrow morning, you will be waking up comfortable temperatures. this evening, showers around desoto and highlands county. otherwise, we're partly cloudy and pleasant through the overnight hours. your forecast right on through tonight, clear skies. waking up in the low to mid-70s tomorrow morning. i'll let you know when that will change and what else is brewing out in the tropics coming up. >> thank you, denis. now to democracy 2016. long lines at the university of south florida as you see right there to see hillary clinton,
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unveiling her plan to create more manufacturing jobs and slamming donald trump saying he doesn't have a plan. our lauren rozyla is live at usf tonight where the rally just wrapped up. lauren. >> reporter: and this rally is really getting wrapped up right now. everybody is cleaning up everything from earlier. but clinton was using this campus today to push her message in pt ab. people lined up for hours just to see democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton in tampa. >> i really like her. i'm hoping that i like her more after this. >> reporter: her supporters say she is talking about priorities that matter to them. >> getting our, you know, fuel greener and creating jobs. and that should be the focus right now, not sparking up hate. ?[music]? >> reporter: clinton says she wants to build a stronger infrastructure and make the economy more stable. >> it is building an economy that works for everyone, not
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>> reporter: she also promised to make it easier for young people to get jobs, creating more vocational training programs and making community college free. >> i want young people especially to be part of this. to be in science, technology, engineering, manufacturing, creating this future. >> i want somebody like that to be my president. ?[music]? ? no river wide enough ? ? >> reporter: and as part of her stronger together plan, plan announced today, clinton also promised to create more and more modernized electrical grid and install solar panels throughout the country. she plans to put broadband internet in every american home. we're reporting live tonight from usf, lauren rozyla, abc action news. >> thank you, lauren. a scripps national investigation that exposes startling revelations involving hundreds of millions of dollars
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clinton charity. donald trump is getting support from dozens of military leaders. his campaign releasing a letter of endorsement that 88 officials signed. trump has not been involved with, quote, the hollowing out of our military. trump's poll numbers also up. a new cnn poll shows him leading hillary clinton by two points. within the last hour, we learned that health officials ve related zika cases in florida since friday. all in south florida. they're going door to door in pinellas county to see if there are more local cases here. lawmakers on capitol hill went back to work after the summer vacation. there are no signs that the senate has voted on a measure that would continue to fund research on a rried that moneout by the end o
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a good-bye for a former officer. arnold died in a scuba diving accident last month while vacationing in nevada with his family. he served as a tampa police officer for 27 years and volunteered as a mentor to young teens. right now, fire marshalls are looking into what sparked this huge fire that really destroyed a 100-year-old home in ybor city. firefighters had a tough time because the flames were so intense and the building so unstable. fortunately no firefighters were injured during that hour- long fight. new rules at the happiest h before they visit disney. and the alteatat parents can opt for instead. you may have hemay have har ingredients. flu at 5:00, the steps that hospitals took months ago to
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>> it's a common item. we're talking about antibacterial soap. some of the inagreedents may be ineffective or harmful. >> it comes after years of debate. >> reporter: it's like and grandparents much that's how gabrielle sees it. every time that she buys antibacteria glow it makes me feel safer. >> reporte so much so that she is ignoring findings from the fda. >> i will not stop use thanksgiving. >> reporter: but the product that gabrielle knows know will not exist in the next year. that's how long the fda is giving companies to rework formulas and get rid of 19 active ingredients, calling
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>> i think it's a major de nice peggy thompson, the director of prevention feels so strong about the research. >> it was a big deal. it was quite an undertaking. >> reporter: nearly a year ago, when the hospital decided to switch to touchless dispensers, she also decided to get rid of antibacteria soap. the company she worked with told her she wasn't alone. >> she said their als were split about 50/50. so i felt confident that we weren't real limb by getting rid of the bacterial soapent that we have not made any change that would put patients at risk. >> reporter: experts say it's how you wash your hands that is important and not the ingredients. plain soap and water is just as effective. >> my advice would be to stop using antibacterial soaps. >> reporter: while some choose not to heed the advice, others
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proactive and taking a stance. >> reporter: the good news, no need to give up your hand sanitizers. most are alcohol based. the cdc recommending using that over the antibacterial soap. >> we called all of the major hospitals in the areas. only john hopkins got back to us saying they the fda guidelines and the clinical team is reviewing the process righnow. how do you feel about this, preschool and elementary s finger scanned at disney world. they just launched this ne requirement to prevent ticket fraud. for years older kids and adults have had their fingers scanned. but now it is gettinextended to children between 3 and 9 years old. parents who t their owfinger scanned instead. we're checking to see if
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with two other women as well as carlson. carlson just agreed to a $20 million settlement weeks after accusing the owner of allegation. fox apologized saying it regrets carlson, quote, was not treated with the respect and diggity that everyone deserves. >> singer chribr was framed after last week's nine-hour standoff with police. he was arrested after a woman claimed he pointed a gun at her. bailey claims she was at his home looking at jewelry when brown suddenly lashed out. >> and that's when chris came in and said, i'm so sick of all of you people. took the gun out like this and put it in my face and said get the f out. >> now brown's defense team is
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text message allegedly sent by bailey to a friend that same night. saying brown was kicking her out because she called the jewelry fake and she was going to set him up. now the most accurate eath. >> where do you go from there? >> i'm glad that the weather is not as dramatic as that. >> yes. it seems to have been tapering down and not so dramatic since last week. >> yeah. a little drier. tomorrow morning you will notice it will feel a little more com >> yeah. >> it's september. we usually see that a couple of days. and then by we're usually in a beautiful fall pattern. down around the main sail, the beach is still thsouth, there actually is rain going on. not much. most of the been dry. the only exception, sarasota county. yesterday you had four, five inches of rain. so we're getting a little bit of a break as a northerly wind
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comfortable air. as i said tomorrow morning and thursday morning, i think you will notice the difference. temperatures right now not a big change. upper 80s to around 90. but the dew points are lower. when you see dew points in the 60, then all of a sudden we're ouof the 70-pluw ve. at least we will get of days where things are pleasant, especially in the morning. and then by friday and into the weekend, it's back to normal. of cou talk about any long-term cooldown. at least we're getting a taste of it that will hold us over until the fall weather arrives. satellite picture. we had heavier rains this afternoon. but most of the viewing area, the northern o-ve of days. outside of a few down
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anywhere north of i-4 both on wednesday and again on thursday. you go right afternoon hour the shower that's erwon't mastretch of weather. we will have an opportunity to dry out. some of the rivers will have a chance to go down a bit across pasco county and areas that continue to see a flooding issue. normally it can take ten days, sometimes two weeks for a river that crests at record levels to co d that's assuming there isn't any more rain. for the next couple of days there won't be. but thursday we see moisture returning. and i think by friday and the weekend, it's back to where we typically are in early september. check this out, right through thursday, there's the line. there's where your moisture is down south. north of it should not be a drop of rain. with the lower dew points we will be hot. upper 80s to low 90s which is
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so we're headed in the right direction for folks big into fall weather. all right. the tropics. we're a long ways away from the tropical season ending. very high chance of this developing over the next few days. 70%. latest computer tracks takes this more to the north. is some earlier on were taking it down to the south. we're not out of the woods but we're headed in the right direction away from us. last advisory issued on hermine at 2 a tropical system. gusty winds around long island. east winds for the boaters tomorrow. water temperature 84 degrees. uv index is climbing back up. closer to 10 or 11 by later on in the day. there are your upcoming tide. your hour by hour forecast, partly cloudy to clear this clear skies overnight. pretty comfortable. waking up to temperatures in the low to mid-70s.
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most accurate 7-day forecast. nothing but a shower south of i- 4 tomorrow. same thing for thursday. i think friday and the weekend, we start to see more of an east to west flow. that means morlate day to evening showers. rain chances back to 40 to 50%. and i think that continues right on into the early part of next week. new tonight, a dangerous drug so powerful a dose smaller than a snowflake can kill a person. cases cropping up right here in drug has sparked a crisis in other cities. the very nybut embarrassing reason that this car ended up off of the road and into the water there. hurricane hermine is gone. the rain has stopped. but evacuation orders remain in pasco county. at 6:00, why at least one baghy
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word coming into the news room. investigators are starting to look intothe company that makes epipens. new york attorney general saying that no one's life should be put in jeopardy because they can't afford the drug. the truck costs six times what it use today ten years ago. parents y have one less option when it comes to getting your child vaccinated this flu the american academy of pediatrics withdrew its recommendation of the flu mist. that's because the cdc dubbed the kid friendly option ineffective for protecting against the flu. doctors recommend children six months or older should get a regular flu shot. believe it or not, a mouse is responsible for this incident right here. you see it. that's a car actually in the corpus christi bay. that's in eastern texas. here is what happened. a woman was driving and felt something brush against her leg.
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yeah. so she panicked, jumped out of the car and in the process accidentally switched the car into gear and watched helplessly as it rolled into the water there. that woman was not hurt, just really, really embarrassed. coming up next at 5:30, bait and switch. a local couple felt they were scammed after getting a new cell phone provider. the one place to ki the switch. why the money two clinton charities has new disturbing and turns. plus, unlicensed contractors. their work could put you out thousands of dollars. and one sheriff says a flood of them could be headed this way. important information that you need to know so you don't waste
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the news comes after the department of education banned it from enrolling students who use federal financial aid. the company says the move will have an impact on thousands of students, teachers and staff. good edge other. i'm wendy ryan. >> and i'm paul lagrone. we have a warning to anyo who has storm damage. the pasco county sheriff's office is bracing for a flood of unlicensed contractors and scam artists. >> clifton french has important information so you won't be out
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>> reporter: this is just one home devastated by the effects of hurricane hermine. a reputable company is doing the work. but according to the sheriff, herds of unlicensed contractors are bound to show up. >> people out of state know that florida got hit by the hurricane so they will try to take the situation and get unlicensed contractors above and beyond what is already here. >> reporter: any reports yet but that doesn't mean that it's not already happening. team farrell, the company working on this home in new port richey says unlicensed contractors have already shown up at some of his customer's homes. you have to pay us cash upfront. >> reporter: that's the first
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