>> happening tonight, as we come on the air, brand-new detsin florida's fight against the zika virus. 80 pregnant women have now tested positive for the mosquito born illness in our state. >> now hospitals in the tampa bay area are making changes and coming up with new plans how to handle phonetial cases. adam weiner shows us how they are adapting to this threat. >> reporter: if you go to tampa general hospital, you won't just get >> what is your recent travel history. >> reporter: you will also get quizzed. >> make sure that you haven't been exposed. >> reporter: if you have been in central or south america and feel sick, you could find yourself talking to this doctor. >> we have been successful in the outbreak lorida. we nvirus as well. we are employing the same tactics. hopefully better since we have learned from our previous

infectious disease physician whose job is to teach medical professionals what to look for. >> especially our emergency room physicians. how to recognize signs and syf zika and how to obtain relevant travel histories. >> reporter: their biggest concern of course is pregnant women. about 1% of moms with zika are giving birth to babies with neurological defects. >> every mom's fear. >> reporter: with no vaccines or treatments best tool is education, walking the moms through what can be a frightening experience. >> especially during pregnancy when it should be an exciting and happy time. >> reporter: there have been hundreds of zika in florida so far. hospital physicians are hoping that a vaccine is created before it is spread more in the tampa bay area. adam weiner, abc action news. now the most accurate

weather. >> how are you doing, everyone. pretty quiet weather north of i- 4. south of i-4, especially sarasota and manatee county, just like yesterday, scattered showers out there. as they move off shore, they will turn into a couple of up isolated showers. closer to the tampa metro area over to st. pete and north, t hot. it's already hot with temperatures in 90s. you hit 93 today in tampa. 91 in lakeland. 95 in sarasota. summer has only got another week to go and we're talking about record-breaking heat across part of the area. this evening, partly cloudy skies. as i said, the showers are down south. to change as we see some of the rains getting closer to the off to the north as well. en partly cloudy overnight. not as cool or d tomorrow morning. i'll let you know if that is

coming up. >> thank you, denis. we move to democracy 2016 tonight. putting political ads to the truing test, to help you make informed decisions about your vote. the ad war is heating up between these two, marco rubio and patrick murphy. who is telling the truth? here is what i found out. >> marco. marco. >> it's not a game when our senator doesn't show up. >> attack on marco rubio. it claims marco rubio has the worst attendance of any senator in more than 50 years. stop tape. is that true? here is what i confirmed. i pulled his voting records from gov track, an independent organization and it says that rubio has missed only three votes since he dropped out of the presidential race. the context is key here. during the year he was running though these records show that rubio in fact had one of the

entire senate. and he's not ruling out that he may run again, which means he would likely miss a lot of votes. we rate this ad as mostly true. >> i'm patricmurphy and i approve this message. >> he approved it but didn't pay for it. who are the friends of patrick murphy? i pulled the records and i found george lucas. look at this. the creator of star wars financing the ad wars, giving murphy contribution. $2,700. murphy's top donors include coastal construction, his daddy's company and comcast. not exactly small business types. all right. now to the next ad that claims that patrick murphy lied about his resume. >> here is a news story. never worked as a cpa. in>>lsa small business owner. r a small business owner. what's up with this guy? >> stop tape. is that true?

application in colorado. here it is. even though he was working for miami at the time for a firm which according to month. he worked as a cpa for less than a year. we rate this as half true. who is reasonably behind the commercial? it's not marco rubio. >> nsrc is responsible for the content of the advertising. >> the committee paid for the n comes from outside groups. nearly $11 million this year. follow the money and you will find the truth. and democrats releasing an e-mail exchange between former secretary of state colin powell and then secretary of state hillary clinton. it shows powell advised clinton the use of a personal e-mail server two days after she was sworn in. powell saying he used a private phone line to communicate with employees and others without

he is acsed of had advising clip how to certificate the rules. fbi director said there wasn't enough evidence to charge clinton with any wrong doing. hillary clinton says it was inappropriate for donald trump to discuss his intelligence briefing. trump said that there were things in his presidential briefing that shocked and surprised him. he made those comments yesterday during a national security forum. she questioned and preparedness. >> let me be clear. last night was yet another test and donald trump failed yet again. we saw more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief. >> but as a candidate for president in 2008, she cited her briefing twice in her criticism of the bush administration. president obama is expressing concern that voters

trump's outlandish statements. the president believes the stakes are too high for americans to tune out the u.s. presidential contest and become immune to trump's unique campaign style. >> i don't think the guy is qualified to be president of the united states. and every time that he speaks, that opinion is confirmed. >> the president also thinks diplomacy is serious business and trump's ideas are, quote, contradictory and outright whacky. the vice presidential no, ma'am fee says he says reagan. he says that trump has the honesty and bluntness to face the challenges facing the country. trump wants to cut taxes and reduce regulation.

the george washington bridge lane closure causing a huge traffic nightmare in 2013. two former top aides of chris christie in new jersey are accused of orchestrating the traffic jam in order to punish the marry for not endorsing christie. christie has denied knowing anything about it. >> women interested in becoming legal marijuana growers or distributors with should head to a networking meeting tonight in st. petersburg. marijuana is florida with dispensaries opening across the state. if you're interested in learning about the business side of growing pot or opening a dispensary yourself, the event begins at 6:30 at 150 studio south. the fbi arresting the woman they say set blankets on fire while on a jetblue flight. lopez boarded the flight from

two blankets and a seat next to hers. thankfully no one was hurt in all of this. if convicted she faces up to 25 years in prison. air china is removing copies of this in-flight magazine that has been slammed for racism. a travel tip in the cover story warns london visitors about going to neighborhoods with large populations and i'm qu they blamed the media which publishes the magazine. the magazine has apologized and said the upsetting language was due to an editing error and it no way reflects the magazines views. nasa is launching a space probe to chase down a dangerous asteroid that could one day collide with earth. it is scheduled to blast off around 7:00 tonight from the

canaveral. it will arrive at the astroid in august of 2018. it will create a map of the asteroid, take pictures and samples to better understand its exact path. swimmer ryan lochte is accepting the 10-month ban from team usa. that suspension also pulls him out of next year's world championships. the committee and usa swimming handed down the pu yesterday for the gas station robbery that he admitted he will kick off the new season of "dancing with the stars" monday night right here on your abc action news station. sticking with sports, tim tebow is trading in the fo bue contract with the new york mets. the 29th-year-old outfielder went through drills last week in front of dozens of scouts.

waiting for, speaking of the nfl, the 2016 season kicking off tonight with a rematch of last year's super bowl. the broncos will be taking on the panthers without peyton manning. he retired. the roster looks the same with newte team. the rematch is tonight at 8:30. what better way to express your feelings this nfl season than with these new emojis. there's one for every single team. and there's a hashtag for thursday night football that shows the logo on a helmet. twitter will be life streaming a total of 10 thursday night games this season. the ac repairman said this unit needed 5 to $7,000 worth of work. but we found it was just a $100 problem. coming up, what the company had to say when we started asking questions. people putting their lives

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>> the same ons called the company that installed the unit. that test concluded that the duct work needed to be replaced. >> but the man said that the duct work was in fire working order. >> reporter: then they called on john, the owner of johnny cool for a second opinion. >> it is pristine. >> reporter: the first tech

the simons betwe $4,400 and $7,000. >> i said we can't afford that. >> reporter: but culprit turn to be a clogged drain line, typically a $100 service call. >> when this clogs, water will fill up inside the unit. >> 10 minutes. my air conditioner was working. >> reporter: the couple's son elliot complained to the first company with the initial diagnosis and the service call charge. >> it's just not right. >> reporter: the owner says he fired refunded the $271 to the simons. something that never would have happened had this couple not called for a second opinion. >> do not accept any first estimates. >> reporter: these homeowners shared their story so that others learn from their close call. jackie callaway, taking action for you. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather.

>> you should have seen the look she gave me. she looked at me like i had seven heads. i think denver is going to win. >> i picked cam newton as my quarterback. >> not good. >> plenty of tabe t the bucs game coming up in atlanta. but first we have to get to the weekend first. i think the weather will be nic there are definitely clouds building. but the drier air, that's a great shot. you notice the clouds are not billowing up because there's air keeping them from turning into rain clouds. down south, this is crazy, you literally have a line south of i-4. it is juicier. there is scattered showers and a couple of thunderstorms popping up. a few lightning strikes out

anything that develops over the southern counties will continue to move from east to west. in the last couple of minutes, we noticed a couple of lightning strikes in eastern sarasota county. otherwise most of tonight will be dry. most of the weekend will be dry. although better chance of scattered storms across our northern counties as well starting saturday and into sunday. but definitely not a big deal. and no need to worry about canceling in i weekend plans. but i think that the best time will be earlier in the day when you're guaranteed having dry conditions. low 90s across much of the area. after a high of 89 in st. pete. 91 in lakeland. 95 the high today in sarasota. tampa right now is sunny and it's at that afternoon high of 93 degrees. the humidity is still tolerable at 49%. the dew point back in the 70 range. yesterday we had the dew points in the 60s. that was a breath of fresh air.

what mother nature does with us. it gives us a day of dry air and then the humidity returns. it hit 93. 90 is about right. we almost hit a record today. sarasota tied one at 95 degrees. 89 right now in saint pete. humidity 61%. as i said, sarasota, sunny and 94 right now. the winds are calm. satellite, no changes. looks identical to this time yesterday. the mornings will be dry. most of the afternoon will after 4:00. i think tomorrow we see the dry air retreat a bit. and some of the moisture returns this way. it won't be a problem tonight or most of tomorrow. i think by late tomorrow, not so much in the morning, but in the afternoon hours, we begin to see a little bit better chance of showers. now, it's always an issue for high school football games on friday evening. still i think we look good. i think by 9:30, 10:00, anything that pops will be off

saturday and again on sunday. you can see it is stacking along the sea breeze. i think by the weekend we're back to normal meaning sunshine most of the day and the rain that develops will be later on in the afternoon or evening. overall, rainfall totals unimpressive. we look good. you can make the weekend plans now. high temperatures, you may want to be in air-conditioning. we will be back in the low to mid 90s. with the higher humidity, it will feel closer to 100. nowhere near fall though the calendar says we're ten days away. water temperature is 84 degrees. uv index will be an 11 on friday. there are your upcoming tides. hour by hour forecast, we cool down into the upper 70s. not nearly as pleasurable as it was earlier on in the week. rain chances 30 to 40% through

and then rain chances back up to 50% next week. still ahead at 5:30, a mother's love runs too deep for the law. she is now is jail accused of marrying her own daughter. this isn't the first time that

died. hawk was diagnosed in the womb with a rare medical condition that impaired his organ development. the family is thankful to know that their little boy brought joy so to many during his life. authorities learned this pair were married. patricia span married r misty e year. patricia lost custody of misty and two other children when they were younger.

here is wendy ryan with a look at what is coming up next at 6:00. thank you, paul. a man murdered on his honeymoon. the act of bravery that ended his life. a person based at macdill air force base gets zika while traveling abroad. the i-team has new information coming up. a community terrified they will be killed just walking down the stree with my kids. the two improvements coming to a dangerous area that could make things safer. we discover a vital water pump turned off. tonight we investigate why pasco county delayed turns this pump on while nearby neighborhoods remain

>> live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. >> zika ad base. exclusive details about the d e answer. >> first a water pump sitting unused in a flooded neighborhood. new at 6:00, pasco county leaders are asked why the pump was not turned on despite mandatory evacuations. i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. supervisors ordering pasco county workers not to turn on a water pump as water is

county leaders for answers. ryan. >> reporter: yeah. conditions, guys, so bad out here at bass lake that pasco county officials did not release it from the mandatory evacuation status until now. one week after hurricane hermine swept through. as the community has been waiting for some improvement, a tip let us to a vital water pump turd off. >> this water has been here since thursday. it started coming up. we've had very, very little recession. >> reporter: in pass lake, jamie and her flooded neighbors on brookwood drive say they have seen very little effort by the county to get this street dry. >> frustrating and almost hopeless. >> reporter: while bass lake has seen little recession, abc action news was tipped to a