captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 e- mail: comments@captioncolorado.com a manatee rescue operation under way at this hour in crystal river. ahead in the live report, i'll detail how the animals got on the golf detectives stumped. how a thief is swiping expensive jewelry from local stores and why it's possible he could strike again. >> plus, a service to save lives in the bay area may have been careless with the people they are supposed to save. abc action news is finding out what happened and what the company is doing about it. i'm dan shaffer. >> i'm deiah riley. right now, a big rescue operation is happening in

a pond on a golf course money. >> rodney dunningan is there live with more on the rescue effort. >> reporter: at this point, they appear to be fine which is good news. they've been stuck in the pond since september 2nd. as you can see behind me, a number of volunteers came out to help. workers at the golf course have done everything in their power to ensure the animals are safe. this video provided by plantation on crystal river resort shows crews working to care for and monitor the manatees. they are out of their natural habitat thanks to hurricane hermine. >> they are moved by hand. no cranes are moved. we'll have plenty of hefty lifters around. >> reporter: the condition and food supply monitored daily

putting together a plan to remove them this morning. >> this is the best vegetation for them ever. it's like the creme de la creme for them. they have been feasting on that. the upon the is 200 yards long and 50 yards wide, 10 feet deep. so they've got plenty of room to move around and plenty of food. >> reporter: the official facebook page updating the progress of the operation. at least six sea cows spotted. >> it can it depends on how difficult it is to locate and how difficult it is to get into the water. >> simply wishing for the best for their unexpected visitors. >> knowing that they are going home, that's what i do this for. >> reporter: once these manatees are removed from the pond, they will be looked at by doctors to ensure they are okay. they will be placed back into the federal habitat.

last, i'm told by a number of volunteers this could be a number of hours or possibly even days. six of the animals in this pond, of course we'll be out here monitoring this. you can go to our action news facebook page. we'll be streaming this rescue operation live there as well. for now, we're reporting live in crystal river, rodney dunningan, abc action news. we're learning five new travel-related cases of zika in florida. yesterday protesters took their hall of miami. they are upset about chemicals being used to kill virus- carrying mosquitoes. they are worried the aerial spraying is more dangerous than zika itself. they are encouraged that the pressure in washington d.c. will help with the fight against zika. he is demanding the federal government come up with a plan and cash to fight the virus. several bills to fund the fight against zika has failed. the money could run out by the

the u.s. is about to see "a bunch of kids born with microcephaly." it causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads. a lot of the children will be born in florida, but this is not just a florida problem. >> we need the federal government to show up and come up with a vaccine. we need more research dollars and more support. this isn't just a florida issue. we're the tip of the spear. with local or nontravel-related zika. this is going to be a national issue. >> reporter: another key deadline is september 30th when a deal on federal spending must pass or all operations could be shut down. also today, governor scott will be in the bay area. he's coming here to talk about jobs. time now is 9:04. deputies are hunting for a bold

crown jewelers in port richie last month. hillsborough county deputies say the same man targeted a store in brandon last week. this that case, an employee cased after the suspect and was seriously injured. an employee showed the man a bracelet, and he bolted from the store. >> he was very quiet. he waited his turn and walked up to the counter. he asked to see high end items. then he said can i see the i said, absolutely. >> reporter: deputies say the suspect may be driving a newer model two-dorrdoor silver camaro. watch as these robbers begin smashing the glass cases. this happened in just 40 seconds. investigators say the thieves made away with millions of

good morning. coming up, we check in. julia, by the way,a tropical depression. if you were here this morning, it downgraded. it will continue to spin here. i'm showing you that because on what's left of julia here is a lot of tropical moisture on top of yesterday once again today. it's the reason you walk outside and all of a sudden you feel the 95-degree temperature that we have at and thunderstorms later this afternoon. it will start with coastal showers and by 4:00, 7:00, we'll be talking about inland thunderstorms. so 89 will feel closer to a hundred later on today. we'll be feeling that as well. janelle, we've been talking about that. the last few days, very tropical. so your first cold front. >> tropical is not good for the hair.

delay usually. >> too far away. if you are heading to the airport, be aware you might run into traffic on the veterans expressway heading southbound. we have a crash on memorial parkway. they moved that car off to the south. still seeing delays on the water. you might want to consider taking dell mabry instead. it's a little crowded out there but getting better. check your drive times 8 across the howard frankland and 9 across the gandy bridge. back to you. seven minutes after 9:00 right now. new information this morning. we're learning the man accused of setting fire to a mosque will face hate crime charges in addition to arson. police arrested joseph michael shriver yesterday. he allegedly set fire to fort pierce after midnight on sunday. nobody was in the building at the time.

he is the person who killed 49 people in the pulse nightclub. some unsettling allegations about by flight. action news crews found out that air ambulance company flew patients in a medical chopper that should have been grounded. michael paluska got his hands on faa documents explaining how lives were endangered dozens of times and what the company told us when we asked them about reckless, endangering lives and property is what air methods corporation is accused of doing that during 51 separate flights between november 4 and november 11 of 2014. the chopper in the report is featured on bay flight's home page. the faa says that chopper was not air worthy. the faa allegations that air

severely corroded. it is critical to the operation. if its commercial chopper corroded pi it. o tubes, he'd have been grounded immediately. since 2014, air message was fined $3 million for alleged violations. the biggest civil fine was more than $1.5 million in pensacola, florida, for reportedly making 83 flights over floatation devices on board. this read in part "air methods is investigating. we take safety seriously and the safe return of our crews. the patients we serve is and always will be our highest priority at air methods. ." >> we talked to bay care, who tells us they will be looking into the matter this morning. if you see ambulances on

international, don't worry, it is just a drill. the airport is minutes away from the start of a mass casualty exercise. they are testing local responses. almost 200 volunteers are helping out. >> a potential fire hazard lurking in your home's wiring. i'll show you what to look for and how to fix it next in my angie's list report. a wedding day one bride will never forget but for all of the wrong reasons. you have to see what happened

welcome back. a lot of you are still having a hard time finding a job, so we're taking action for you. several companies are looking to hire thousands of new employees ahead of the holiday season. u.p.s. just announced it will add about 95,000 seasonal workers to help handle the uptick in online shopping. toys r us are also looking for

applications. plus target will add about 70,000 employees for the holiday season. the tampa bay lightning is holding a job fair for part time jobs at amalie arena. it runs from 3:00 until 6:00. they are looking for people to fill positions for lightning hockey games and tampa bay storm football games. a samsung galaxy phone is now blamed for starting yet another fire and destroying this car in florida. on tuesday night, clifford samuels started driving to visit his sister in miami. he was charging his galaxy note 7 when it caught fire and destroyed his hundred dye sonata. >> i'm glad to be alive. it's a great day. >> money cannot buy life. >> no. >> reporter: samuels was not hurt and now he needs a new phone and new car. >> samsung says starting next week, note 7 users can get a

battery issue. there's no word when it will be available in the u.s. samsung published apologies in all daily newspapers. it promises a software update designed to fix the battery problem. if you own a note 7 and you want it replaced right away, samsung says take that phone to your carrier and exchange it for a different phone. we are taking action for you. a consumer warning in today's any's if you live in an older home that uses a federal pacific panel. they have defective circuit breakers that can spark a fire. millions of them are still in use. >> very, very loose. >> reporter: loose circuit breakers are one sign of a shoddy electric panel. master electrician mike inc.ker learned the trade as a teen in latvia. he replaced dozens of the federal pacific panels over the years.

if overloaded. >> it's like a ticking bomb in your house. so it might happen, it might not. >> enthusiasms occur every year. inc.ker gives every homeowner the same advice. >> i would replace the panels immediately so your panels would be safe and you would safe. >> know what kind of circuit breakers are in your electrical box. if you see a red or orange strip or it says federal pacific electric on it, it's a sign that you need that panel replaced. >> reporter: replacing the panel can cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars. homeowners put it off hoping nothing goes wrong. if you want to sell your home, you can't take that risk anymore. >> homeowners insurance is

they are making you change those out. >> reporter: many companies won't insure a home with these panels and some mortgage companies won't lend on them. most electricians won't even work on a house that hasn't replaced the panel. >> if the homeowner will decline, i would actually nicely decline to do work because i know the panel is bad, and i be on my conscience. >> federal pacific electric went out of business in the 1980s after a class action lawsuit that determined the company committed testing fraud. budget issues kept an issue from being completed so the national recall on the panels was never issued. almost every woman fantasizes about their dream wedding. for one rhode island woman, she

as her venue. >> sounds nice. turns out she and her guests all agreed that her wedding stunk, literally. julie sharon postponed her wedding for two years because she's been battling breast cancer. last friday, her wedding day came. one thing she did not expect, the owner of the property next door to her wedding venue had to dump a huge pile of manure not far from the wedding tent. she pleaded with the organizers to move the tent, but by then it was too late. >> for is a special place in hell. >> it would have been a lot more beautiful if he hadn't done that because people wouldn't be commenting and talking about it all evening. >> they're upset, obviously. the man who owns the property is now suing his neighbor hoping the mess will be cleaned up and soon. he has another wedding scheduled on that farm tomorrow. i hope it's not hot out there. >> all right. >> went from bad to worse.

that bad. >> what? >> no, it's not. as someone who grew up on the farm, maybe it's a different story because i grew up on a farm. our producer told us about the story, by the way. let's check conditions outside. it is hot. you don't want to be next to anything like that on a day like today. it is quite steamy out there. temperatures right now, 83 in tap you have to factor in the humidity. 92 is the current feels like in tampa. feels like 90 in st. pete. 91 in clear water. a little more tolerable. still in the mid and upper 08s. that is what's left of our tropical depression at 30 miles per hour. 35 below 40. we'll see showers continuing to

i think the heaviest will stay off offshore. plenty of action with an area that will watch. i don't think it will do much. it's going the other way away from florida. as far as moisture associated with it, still on top of us, so with the heating of the day, that's about all that we need for the thunderstorms. we'll get that going. showers are moving in across citrus. we'll markhor and do that. everything and marches to the east. not everyone will get rain. 50% is what we're talking about here. if you do get showers and thunderstorms, these will be the kinds to produce heavy rain in. that's tropical depression karl as it continues to move off towards the west. look at this.

we're still looking at 45 mile- per-hour winds at the end of the five days. it could get closer to the lesser antilles but nothing doing for us. i think we're just fine. we just have to deal with our local showers and storms with the temperatures climbing up to 89. the humidity is so high that it doesn't feel like 89. it feels like 99. that will be the case tomorrow. rain chances continuing into the weekend, to the bad at about 40%. saturday and sunday with highs both days into next week near 90. it is 9:21. fans are still talking about the kanye west concert in amalie arena. when he showed up late, when he finally did take the stage, he was angry two hours in. he started rapping about kid

using songwriters. students punished over the pledge of allegiance. we'll tell you how a teacher

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silent or sit out the pledge of allegiance. now one student says a teacher docked her grades while sitting during the breadch. she has been sitting since second grade. it's never been a problem until this year. >> she told me i was being disrespectful. i was pretty mad because i was being disrespectful towards me, also, and saying that i'm making bad choices and that i don't have the choice to sit down during the pledge. >> reporter: thomas is one of two students who sat during the pledge. the district's superintendent has switched them to a different class. it's unclear what happened to the teacher. a group of hackers released medical information on olympic athletes.

including those from the u.s. they call themselves fancy bear and cozy bear. both are linked to the russian secret service but the kremlin denies that. plenty of social evidence ties them to the russian government. both groups are linked to the hack of the democratic party e- mails and hacks on georgia and ukraine. viral infections more common to are now hitting students. a hit and run caught on camera. it's what the camera doesn't show that may be the key to solving the crime. i'm lindsay logue.

now at 9:30, caught on camera. a car slams into another vehicle but doesn't stick around for long. we'll tell you one thing cameras didn't catch that will make this case tougher to solve. >> what in the world is that? you might not want to know. it's baked inside of a cookie, and we'll tell you about it. it's not so appetizing. >> it looks like a little chocolate drizzle. >> it's not. >> crunch in your cookie? we did so during breakfast, didn't we? we'll check in on our weather cams here. a few cumulus clouds out there building. we'll get showers and thunderstorms you can see them offshore beginning to push in towards citrus. this will end by later today. this is about a 50% chance of showers and storms.

point. it was 1 to 10 -- if it was 1 to 10, today would be a 10. this air mass is so juicy that is didn't take much to get the showers and storms going. we'll be able to do that early as opposed to waiting all day. because of that, between noon and 4:00, it's pushing to the east. we'll talk more about that, less for rain chances coming up for the weekend and a check on the tropics. >> thanks, ivan. collides with someone else's car and as if nothing happened, backed up and takes off. cameras caught the crime but police need your help. lindsay logue is at police headquarters. >> reporter: surveillance camera is simply too far away to catch the license plate. just before sunrise, this surveillance video shows a driver crashing head on into

along the side of the road. the man who owns the suv says he heard the crash and woke up in a panic. outside, he found broken headlights and bumpers and side paneling. even worse, the engine of his car had completely shifted in the crash, leaving him stranded in more ways than one. >> for him it's everything. he doesn't have a car so he's relying on me or my stepdad to get to work. >> reporter: watch the video again. parked suv, the driver backs up and drives off leaving nothing behind but a trail of leaked fluids. surveillance cameras didn't catch a license plate on the driver's vehicle. it is safe to say this morning tampa police are looking for an suv with front end damage that the driver can't explain.

and mouth disease has struck college students. other students have been told to disinfect the dorms and use hand san it tieser. it takes about five days for it to run its course. pick nellis county -- pinellas county commissioners are initiating a county wide sewer and storm water task force. the county hopes to partner with cities in the county to work on solutions to this hu of recent severe weather that flooded the area. in democracy 2016, hillary clinton returns to the campaign trail after releasing additional medical information following her bout with pneumonia. >> meanwhile, donald trump says he will release health records this week and so far nothing has been made public. he has shared a summary of his recent physical with dr. oz. >> more is still to come. >> if elected at age 70, you

ever enter the oval office. why do you think you have the stamina for the job? >> reporter: the discussion about health continues with donald trump talking about his stamina on the dr. oz show. >> i feel as good today as i did when i was 30. >> why not share your medical records some. >> reporter: trump then shared two pages with dr. oz but hasn't made his medical records public. >> with all he shared that's not a lot of information. >> reporter: hillary clinton, who has about her medical history made public additional information. >> this is the detailed summary i would expect to get from another did are who is referring a patient. >> reporter: this after trump took aim with clinton's hill emergency ohio. >> do you think hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this? >> reporter: and was interrupted by a pastor in the middle of a political attack. >> now hillary clinton --

here to thank us not give a political speech. >> oh, okay. that's fine. >> is that for all of the thousands of employees of your father? >> it is, and also adoption leave. >> reporter: according to the huffington post, employees at trump hotels say they don't get additional leave, only the existing federal minimum. trump has been making gains in the critical swing states including ohio and florida where they are now statistical dead heat. lana zach, abc news, washington. >> you can watch donald trump's one-on-one with dr. oz this afternoon at 3:00 on your abc action news station. a teenager at the center of a stunning sex scandal involving san francisco police officers is heading back to the other bay area after being released from jail in florida. 19-year-old jasmine was released from jail after accepting a plea deal for

was in drug rehab. she's now heading back to san francisco. she is the key witness against seven former and current law enforcement officers. she says she had sex with 30 officers, four of them when she was under age. >> she is entitled to compensation to each one of the jurisdictions where officers violated the law and violated her civil rights. >> the attorney says jasmine not a drug addict and says they sent her to florida under false pretenses. one police chief says it distorts reality. a fair ride malfunctioned in indiana. the ride at the beech grove fall festival called the scrambler malfunctioned 30 seconds into it. a metal bar broke free and hit a teenager. a scary situation in a

would-be robber. that shooting happened yesterday at a store in sunrise near fort lauderdale. the armed man approached the employee who was sitting in his car and an argument started. the wal-mart employee, who does have a concealed weapons permit pulled out a gun and shot that man. the gunman's sister defends hill. >> i'm sorry for what happened to the victim but high brother works hard to take care of him and his child, at the end of the day. >> police are investigat was in defense. the florida teen accused of practicing medicine without a license just got arrested again. this time, he won't get out of jail any time soon. police arrested malachi love robinson on fraud charges. love robinson now has a public defender. his fourth attorney since he was first charged.

boy proving bravery beyond his years. police say the teen you see here, johnnie morris, picked up that 4-year-old. the kid wasn't having any of that. they bit him to get free. the team found him hiding in a clothes dryer but couldn't fit inside. officers arrested the teen suspect. a subway employee gives a man a free cookie only to be robbed by him claimed to have a gun last week and demanded money from the register. the employee says the same guy came into the store twice before the robbery. once to buy cook cookies -- cookies, which she gave him free, but he came back to complain about the cookies. a family discovered a spider baked into a vanilla wafer cookie at aldi.

a $5 coupon which the family says is laughable. aldi says they take safety seriously. california is the first state to ban breeding and holding killer whales in captivity. killer whales will stay but can only be used for educational presentations. seaw already announced it is ending its breeding programs and phasing out theatrical killer whale shows. a young boy in canada thought his soccer ball was gone forever after he kicked it in the street and it was run over by a police officer. the police officer stopped and promised to replace the ball and made good on the promise. he even brought stickers for the boy's stickers. >> just trying to be helpful.

>> the neighbor posted that sweet story online, and hundreds of people have already shared it. for about three seconds, i didn't know if we were going to be able to get him out. it was scary. >> dramatic moments between life and death caught on camera. what people did to keep the man inside of this burning truck alive until arrive. >> how on earth did this dog

tampa bay's "dancing with the stars" this year are at hand. online voting continues for your favorite celebrities. at the tampa bu seem of art it is the glamour of fashion week complete with a runway fashion show september 24th. june me at the heritage gala in october. >> this community calendar is brought to you by -- welcome back. 9:43. take a look at this new video showing officers trying to

the driver smashed head on into a school bus and was pinned inside. >> you can see the heavy smoke and flames coming from the hood of the car. they had to keep it from exploding until firefighters and ems got to the scene. once the flames were out, they kept talking to the man to make sure he didn't lose consciousness. >> i was trying to ask him if he had any spinal injuries if i could push him out that window, but he >> the officers' efforts may have saved that man's life. he is recovering this morning. the school bus driver is facing charges of failing to yield the right of way. caught on camera, a thief in nebraska most likely not getting what he wanted. take a look at the surveillance video. you see him pulling into the driveway after noticing a newly delivered package. he grabbed a box that looks

probably discovered something he didn't like. omaha police don't think the man was in the market for a new walnut countertop but that's exactly what he walked off with. a suspect running from police tries to get rid of nearly two dozen bags of heroin. he tries to eat five of those bags but he tossed 17 bags over a fence into a doggie day care. several dogs ate the drugs and got sick. one nearly died after eating an entire bag of hair rain. now for those responsible. >> if you want to do drugs, ruin your life. if you want to sell drugs to people who want to sell drugs, they chose it. my dog didn't choose it. >> reporter: denver police say the suspect is facing charges and will pay for the dog's medical bills. take a look over my shoulder right there.

an area where students walk every day. a teacher at homestead high school in miami-dade county says police officers surprised him with a snake during a lesson on invasive species. the police called florida fish and wildlife. they didn't wait for the officers to get there. they caught the snake themselves because they didn't want to risk the snake getting away. who hasn't been embarrassed by their parents showing off pictures of a babe. y. >> -- you as a baby. >> one child is suing her parents because of showing off baby pictures that are embarrassing. her father says he owns them because he took them. a court case is now set for november. listen to this. if the teenager wins, her parents may have to pay compensation to their daughter. >> i saw on "good morning

that's nuts! >> did you see the pictures? how bad are they? >> they don't have to be all that bad. >> the dad says he owns the pictures because he took them but sonny says she's got a good case. >> sometimes i take pictures of you without you knowing and i put them online. [ laughter ] >> no approval. >> i'm taking you to court. >> right. you should. i'm still working on week to get you over that fear. looking at clouds this morning. by the afternoon, we'll get back into a few showers and thunderstorms. scratch that. not a few, about 50% coverage. they will continue to push from west to east. look at the temperatures as far as the feels-like. the tropical air mass on top of us is still early. we've already been in 90s. as humid as it gets. average rain chances beginning

and 40% friday and heading into the weekend. of course we had julia and td12, which will likely at some point become karl with a k. locally here, some showers that were leftover of julia indirectly left us with all of this moisture to work with. we'll see the showers continuing to move to the east over the next several hours. our interior counties will see it last. there's julia hour winds. rather disorganized. i think the carolinas still over the next couple of days with rainfall. there's plenty of time to watch us. moving to the west but not organizing all that much. in five days, still 45 mile-per- hour winds. that would be a tropical storm but nowhere near a hurricane. if that changes, we'll let you know. if it gets closer to the

squally weather. feeling 10 degrees above that. the only issue will be the thunderstorm conditions just fine on the water. water temp in the mid-80s with our air temp in the upper 80s. as i mentioned, the lower rain chances are getting back to average. 30 to 40 into the weekend and early next week. emojis are everywhere these days. one teen says there's one emoji that seems to be missing. we'll show you what's available

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is leading the charge right now to create a new emoji. rate now, there aren't any available featuring the traditional muslim head scarf. so she pitched her idea to a nonprofit corporation. she got an immediate replay. now one of the co-founders of reddit is backing the idea. the federal reserve is announcing the u.s. market fell after two months of gains. the claims for unemployment rose slightly the dow struggling to get gains. a chinese couple is in the middle of one of the most expensive divorces ever. >> the husband is a tech tycoon and is being forced to give his ex stock worth $3 billion. the couple made headlines after he bought the gay dating app grinder. a beijing court just ordered him to give her stock worth $1.1 billion as part of their

by the way, they've been available since elementary school so anybody who says she didn't earn it -- >> yeah.

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good thursday morning. i am carley boyette. >> i am natalie >> this week is flying by we have had a lot of busy shows. >> we are starting out, a runway -- wait until you see the models that we have in the studio today. the bathing suits are fabulous. >> they really are. they are retro, taking us back -- we talk about fashion always cyclical.