good morning and thank you for joining us on abc. >> we'll start with weather and traffic. janelle and ivan. starting out nice but some rain later on. >> i haven't heard from janelle -- so it's always a good thing. >> a secret. >> we'll find out. >> it's nice when it's quiet. >> i was out there this weekend. it's hot. had to get shade. 95 saturday. 95 on sunday. both days in the weekend were record upper 70s to low 80s now. going to be in much better shape as far as the temperatures today and next few days. the problem is the temperatures are going down for a good reason, that is cloud cover and showers and storms that are going to come back at us here. they will come quick and hard. tropical moisture, we're talking through the middle part of the week. it's going to continue and that will keep our temperatures in the upper 80s. quiet on titan doppler radar. everything looking good right now. the morning commute in fact. but showers already along 95,

county as well. that is just a sign to come for us. through the early part of the day we'll be fine. by 11:00, 12:00, even a few scattered showers and storms and then getting more concentrated as we head through 2:00. then by 9:00 you can see it developing too. and then everything pushes and ends up along the coast. by then we'll have frequent lightning, even heavy rainfall. we'll watch for that. that is going to be the pattern the next few days. then we'll slowly begin to dry out but that won't happen until latter more on that coming up in a few minutes. so far so good. big crash on the courtney campbell causeway overnight is cleared. courtney campbell is open. 275 looking great through downtown tampa. we have construction in the overnight hours this week on 275 but no complete roadblock, just a lane taken away here or there. your drive on the howard frankland up to speed in both

8 minutes to get across the courtney campbell. 6 across the howard frankland. 7 to cross the gandy bridge. let's talk about the veterans expressway as well. still looking good there, all in the green, 18 minutes from 54 to 275. clean-up and damage assessment after hurricane hermine continues in pasco county this morning. today fema reps are continuing to evaluate the cost of the storm. jake peterson is live in new port richey. clean-up still going to take another >> reporter: it sure will. that is because nearly 3,000 homes in pasco county suffered some type of damage. when you walk around neighborhoods like this, you see scenes like this, debris near the roadway on the right of way. this came from this guy's mobile home that was destroyed in hermine by a tree. this is what you're supposed to

area. separate everything into piles. they can be separated into furniture, appliances, vegetation, hazardous waste and construction materials. crews won't separate it for you, if you don't separate it properly they may not pick up your items. fema crews went door-to-door assessing damage. that is important because federal funds could become available. and today represents looking at -- reps will be looking at public property. we are expected to continue to respond. >> reporter: back here live now, the estimated damage to property and homes is $111 million. if you need any more information about the dos and don'ts of debris clean-up it's on abcactionnews.com. reporting live in pasco county,

>> thank you. the man is accused of accidentally killing his cousin while the two were horsing around. police say 23-year-old joaquin mendez was trying on a bulletproof vest saturday night according to a witness mendez wondered if it worked. that is when alejandro garibaldi says let's see. he pulled out a gun and shot mendez killing him. police arrived and garibaldi initially said he found his cousin shot outside of the on gordon street. when witnesses came forward and detectives arrested garibaldi on manslaughter charges. mendez' family says they are too heartbroken to speak with the media but thanked people for all their support. garibaldi should be in court later this morning. ceo elon musk said new software would have prevented a

four month ago, an autopilot didn't identify a tractor- trailer and slammed into it. traditional cameras may not work well in some lighting conditions so they will be using radar instead. the owner of this yacht could have used auto pilot. the boat will be towed out of the waters off palm beach today. thomas henry baker admitted to authorities he had too many long island iced teas before running aground last week. he was charged with boating under the influence for the second time in weeks. there are more than 600 cases in florida now of zika. the money to fight the disease could be drying up in a few weeks. congress could vote again on additional funding. partisan wrangling derailed previous funding bills and despite an aggressive effort to contain mosquitos with zika in miami that disease has been

the director of the cdc warns scaling back the fight could possibly have long term consequences. >> in the coming weeks and months we'll see unfortunately and tragically many more babies born in puerto rico and in the continental u.s. with microcephaly and other birth dechghts. >> some health officials say florida is underreporting zika cases because the state totals don't include residents of other states, even if they caught zika in hillary clinton caned plans to travel to the west coast today -- cancelled plans to travel to the west coast today after feeling faint after a memorial in new york city. >> and later revealing she's being treated for pneumonia. the video shows her leaning against a pillar and losing balance here before aids and secret service caught her and helped her in her suv. clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia friday and told to rest. >> clearly this pneumonia

keep clinton off the campaign trail. >> i feel great! >> reporter: she's not spoken about the incident. donald trump has said in the past that clinton does not have the strength or stamina to be president. now at the very same ceremony where she fell faint. when asked about it he didn't reiterate criticisms about her health. >> can you talk about hillary clinton's health incident this morning if her health incident this morning? >> i don't know anything about it. >> neither trump nor clinton has released their full medical records. the question is will clinton's illness affect the presidential race? >> the latest numbers show that clinton holds a five-point lead over trump currently. according to a new "washington post" abc news poll. a jump from the cnn orc poll that showed a tighter race. libertarian nominee gary johnson 9%, green party jill stein 2%. debates are scheduled for the

chinese and russians are holding war games in the south china sea. it's a sign of growing cooperation between the two countries. the joint sea 2016 maneuvers include surface ships, submarines and other aircraft. the russian defense military didn't say exactly where the drills would be held in the south china sea. home to heated territorial disputes between china and its southeast asian neighbors. russia has been the only major country to behalf. in its demand that the u.s. and other countries stay out of such arguments. a teen who jumped into a pond to save a 71-year-old man will be honored later today. that 17-year-old was in a car with his mom heading to a family dinner in palm harbor when he heard a splash just a few weeks ago. when they saw that car in the pond he told his mom to stop, jumped out and dove into the water, and swam over to the driver and helped him out of

will honor that youngster tonight in a ceremony in pinellas county at fire station 65. st. pete fashion week is today. an official kickoff party tonight. you need a $99 fashion week wristband to get in. you can buy tickets to "wicked" today. >> the show includes the hit songs "for good" and "popular." ? popular? ? you're going to be popular? >> the show will be at the straz center from february 1st through the 26th of next year. ticket start at $52 and go on sale at 10:00. ? down, down? >> tickets for stevie nicks also going on sale today at 10:00 a.m. she's touring with the pretenders. the show will be at amalie

arena and all ticketmaster outlet's and the ticketmaster web site. you have to sell them early, they probably will sell out quickly. upper 80s to around 90 this afternoon. big changes in the pattern here. we've not rained a lot of last couple of days. we're going to make up for it big time heading into the week. we'll talk more about that and the extended forecast in a few minutes. still to come -- college football player caught on camera punching why his father says it's an accident. >> i'm more likely to get struck by lightning than get hit by a fish falling from the sky. >> she actually did get hit by a fish falling from the sky.

y23yey yy6y the fbi busted two north carolina men for hacking several u.s. government officials and u.s. computer systems. their targets? the directors of the cia and national intelligence and homeland security secretary. investigators say the two guys just in their 20s used social engineering to gain access to personal on-line accounts of the senior officials. their families and government computers. you've heard the expression raining cats and dogs but what about raining catfish? a woman in philadelphia said a catfish fell from the sky and

>> what? >> lisa lobery was walking the steps of the art museum on labor day, the ones made famous by the movie "rocky." when all of a sudden something hit her in the head. her friend saw it and said it was a catfish. she says she ended up with several cuts that will leave scars and she admits to freaking out. >> a few seconds i was slammed in the face with something. i think it might have been head, face and neck because i smelled so bad afterwards. >> oh. >> i think of all things to happen -- it was a -- traumatic at the time but it's funny and there are so many worse things and so many bad things happen. >> the next question where did it come from? it turns out a few friends spotted a bird flying away after the fish fell so probably just a bit upset that it lost its lunch. >> she got lunch hopefully. a nice catfish.

>> the catfishnado going to be on twitter now? we'll have plenty of tropical moisture. no catfish but plenty of raindrops. we're going to make up for last week's relatively dry period with temperatures around 90 today. not the 95s of both weekend days. that because of additional cloud cover coming in. in fact it's streaming in. this is an area of disturbed weather across the bahamas, 10% chance of development. we've been watching it but really not going to get organized. it's the moisture associated with it that that will be enough for showers and storms to develop into the afternoon, into the evening and rain chances pretty high the next few days. i think we're going to be doing just fine, wet season coming back at us as we talked about last week, not quite done yet. rain chances continuing high. by the end of the week we'll shift a little so we'll be lower and back to more typical, above average next few days. 2:00, 3:00 showers and thunderstorms firing across our central counties and then inding up at the coast with the

that will favor that. when you see that setup there, not much going on, that's an indication of a bit of a collision with the sea breeze and storms as they continue to move and propagate towards the west. that can favor sometimes frequent lightning, heavy rain and also the potential for even isolated strong wind gusts. we'll watch that closely. the radar, we'll be tracking plenty unlike the last few days later this afternoon. for the morning you're good, dry, bus stop morning commute will be fine. dry, a few clouds, then we'll begin to bring us eventually the rain chances. 60 through 70 through the afternoons and evens. that continues tore pretty much a good chunk of the week. wet week coming up and then back to more typical rain chances, 40% by next weekend. we are checking out the roads. just about 15 minutes after

frankland last time, we have a crash in the southbound lanes, on the shoulder so not affecting traffic too much. still less than 10 minutes to get across the howard frankland in both directions. drive on i-75, this is just south of fowler, traffic still pretty light. let's check drive times on 57 heading south -- -- 75. dramatic confrontation between a ref and college football player. the player is facing felony battery charges, his dad says it's an accident. >> the ref just got punched in the face by a player. >> what? >> wow. >> you can see here bernard

his back. he's a 270-pound lineman. so the hit took the ref out. the father says he was hitting himself in the head to calm himself down and the ref got in the way. >> if you go back and look for it you can clearly see he struck himself. >> the player's family wants the charges dropped. athletic policy states he could be suspended for five years. not the first time a ref has been roughed up in youth football. in 2011 the ref in sarasota was tackled by fans unhappy about a call. there are 23 states that make it a criminal action now to assault a referee. bucs start against the atlanta falcons on the road. >> and jameis winston dumps it to charles sims here. coming up shortly. a lot of patriotism yesterday with the 9/11 memorial. it was a great game though. jameis winston and sims did a

pretty good game, ended up with 281 passing yards to go along with four touchdowns and just one interception in this game. great one. the bucs win this 31-24 giving tampa bay's head coach his first win as the team's head man. >> good guys win man. don't ever apologize for winning games in this league. hard to come by. let's do it 15 more times. this year. all right? it's a team helped. >> nice to start the season off with a w. this is tailgating gone wrong. in new jersey. firefighters say an unattentive tailgater to blame for a fire that damaged six vehicles in the parking lot. hotel coals left burning while fans entered the stadium. >> ouch. coming up -- competition

this season. >> how disgraced olympian ryan lochte handles "dancing with the stars." and more straight ahead. >> this morning's students retreating into virtual reality. how one school in japan is

some of the models are coming earlier as far as the rainfall. we're going to fire until 2:00, 4:00. then from 4:00 to 7:00 just keep in mind we're going to have plenty of showers and storms. rain chance 60% but it will be a dry morning commute. see you in a few minutes with the extended forecast. in illinois a man is trying to break a world record. he wants to make the world's largest seesaw. it started the project in his backyard in 2014. you'll go 50 feet in thary, yet if he's broken the record. >> no thank you. >> you may want a helmet. the new season of "dancing with the stars" starts tonight. >> olympian ryan lochte one of the big names going for the mirror ball trophy. watch the premiere here on abc action news, starts at 8:00. other competitors include amber rose, calvin johnson jr., disney star jake austin and

several others are part of the cast as well. hundreds of thousands of teens and young adults avoiding social conduct and rarely leave home in japan. >> it's a social phenomenon where teens withdraw from school and society. they find digital fantasy worlds more appealing than the real thing. japanese officials are trying a new virtual high school to lure those students back to learning and reality. japanese tec trying to recruit some of the students. >> we have to make our course very enjoyable and very fun. very attractive. >> like video games. >> like a video game. >> this new virtual school is fully accredited, a new japanese government survey finds more than 500,000 teens and adults are withdrawn from society. 9/11 heroes run is today. the 5k will be at randall middle school on fishhawk boulevard. starts in two hours at 8:00.

benefit the travis midian foundation. a 2-year-old girl in critical condition this morning after a really bad car crash that happened here. why law enforcement says this could have been prevented altogether. >> and a florida mosque catches fire. crews getting that call just minutes after september 11th comes to a close.

two young children hospitalized after a crash on the courtney campbell causeway.

chain reaction straight ahead. a fire at the pulse where the pulse nightclub shooter attended and worshiped possibly set on pur. >> but first we start with -- set on purpose? >> but first weather and traffic with janelle. >> we have flashing lights on the howard frankland. we'll look at that. weather is going to be fine. though like this afternoon the radar, we'll be lit up, like the last couple of days, last ek inch in spots but we're going to get that in short order and then some as some tropical moisture is going to be involved in our forecast the next few days. upper 70s to around 80 now with clear skies. 77 in plant city. 77s in polk county, 78 port richey and 80 in st. pete. we're looking warm and humid this afternoon. those temperatures, warmer with the humidity. look at the rain already moving in. that is a southeast flow that will favor showers and storms.

after 1:00, 2:00 and we'll continue to see locally heavy downpours here with frequent lightning and some isolated strong wind gusts. we'll watch that and that pattern by the way sticks around the next few days. so that is something to look forward to if you do not like the 295s we hit saturday and sunday. very hot this weekend and dry. we see more flashing lights that have been added to the crash. this is southbound on the howard frankland bridge so if you're heading from tampa into pinellas you're going to pass the flashing lights. it initially came in and-run and then ambulances on scene, could be injuries involved with this. not really slowing things down. just slow down and move over when you pass that crash. a couple of other crashes to tell you about, in pasco, lewis avenue at u.s. 19 some reports of a roadblock on lewis so be aware of that. also pinellas, a crash reported at 124th street, at 75th, 74th avenue so again if your morning commute takes you through that