figure out how to fill it. the situation is concerning for people who live around the mosaic facility in mulberry. paul lagrone finding out what areas need to be the most concerned. >> let me show you the before picture. here is the-shot at the mosaic mine in mulberry. that mine is where the sink hole it son. let me show you something else. this is video from action air the scene. you see how deep it is. it goes straight down to the aquifer. action air 1 showing how the pond is gone and it sucked down all of the radioactive water right into the water supply. you're looking at an open wound into the water supply. 250million gallons of h20 pouring straight into the floridian aquifer. >> everything out here is on

or let us know that. >> it's a pretty big sink hole. >> that's a big sink hole, yeah. >> reporter: as action air 1 flew over the sink hole, we watched the live stream of the abc action news app. >> my first impression is that this the simple size and the depth of that sink hole, it's obviously -- it must have been a large void. >> reporter: usf geologist phillip ben ennham reacting in real time. >> do with all of the rain that we have had, with hurricane hermine. >> it is possible. think of the sponge as the florida aquifer. it's porous because of the limestone. think of this as the stack, the storage facility where the sink hole is now. it's leaking. and you pour the water on top of the sponge. and what happens? it gets saturated and all of the dirty polluted water is leaking through and penetrating the aquifer on the other side. look at the stain.

>> reporter: the doctor believes that the contamination will be confined to the immediate area near the mosaic plant in mulberry giving people like james reason to ask questions. >> i noticed the guard shack going up and blocked off the dirt road. and i thought to myself, what is going on. >> let me put it in motion for you one more time. that sink hole is estimated to be 300 feet there tonight. we know this thing opened up three weeks ago. and tonight we protection why did it take so long, three weeks for the public to be notified. as of news time tonight, they don't have an answer. we reached out to the governor's office and waiting to hear back from them as well. i keep checking my phone. we will update you when we get the answer. it's not the first time that there's been trouble at that plant. adam walser has been looking at an agreement where they agreed

epa brought up concerns of a sink hole at that plant, putting the facility on notice that it needed to come up with a plan to protect the environment. in the original complaint, the. epa says they failed to dispose of hazardous waste at the facilities in the bay area and louisiana. that settlement involved how mosaic stored and disposed of 60 billion pounds of hazardous waste, about 250 of the world's largest cruise ship. in the 600-page decree, it refers to the new well's plant specifically saying, quote, mosaic shall investigate reasonable methods to reduce the volume upon water in the main cooling pond that would be lost in the event of a sink hole. the agreement gave mosaic two years to come up with the plan. that was in september 2015. i'm i-team investigator adam walser taking action for you. >> thank you, adam.

situation is fully cleaned up. many of you have asked questions about what is going to happen. we want to get you those answers that you really need. just go to abcactionnews.com or our free mobile app and click this story and look for the good question right there. it's a section on this specific story. and then what you want answered, ask the question, we'll try to get it to you. at the bottom of the story, if you just scroll down, there's an area to find the link to request exactly testing for your wells near your home. weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> all right. nothing unusual going on out there at the moment. we do have a hit or miss showers and storms across the area. some heavier downpours across lecanto, all into floral city, across citrus county. and also across the area, again, we have a lot of dry spots. so not everybody is getting wet. we will continue to have chances for showers and storms

and then it will be dry after that. so, again, quite a few showers and storms between now and just after sunset. even at 11:00 tonight you will find a shower or two if you're out and about. we at least start off on the dry side tomorrow. i will show you the timing of the rain cupping up in the 7- day forecast. >> thank you, shay. breaking news in tampa. police just charging this guy, a teenager with firing the stray bullet that killed a grandmother. officers say in june, tyrell warren fired shots at another man outside of court apartments. one of those rounds hit maria rivera in the head. the 57-year-old grandma had gone to the apartment complex to deliver food to a friend. new at 6:00, thousands of items from the pulse nightclub shooting memorial have a home. the history center collecting, documenting and moving the items today. some will stay outside of the club though. orlando is planning to install a new fence around the pulse building next week.

50 others. st. petersburg police arrested fourteen agers for breaking into another unlocked car. 18-year-old bryant sanders and three other teens broke into five vehicles early this morning on 12th way north. they managed to swipe two guns from one unlocked vehicle. police caught all four and returned the guns to their owner. also in saint peter d'oench officers are on the -- in st. petersburg, officers lookout for this man. he cashed a fraudulent check at chase banks. officers say he was driving an older model lincoln town car. if you know who this guy is, call the st. pete police department right away. and pasco county deputies asking you to be on the lookout for steven brown. he is responsible for the first hash oil explosion in pasco county. investigators say he and some

port richie earlier this month. two containinged dogs died -- two cages dogged died in the fire because he grabbed the drugs instead of saving the animals. a 1-year-old child was also in the home but did not get injured. the navy is blaming a crash on a pilot. jeff kuss died in the crash back in june. he lost control of the jet because it was traveling too fast. investigators say he failed to recover because it was too low for performing. the navy's report also cited pilot fatigue and cloudy weather for contributing factors. uber will continue operating in hillsborough county. the transportation commission is moving forward with a plan that would require uber drivers to undergo fingerprinting and background checks. uber is offering a temporary agreement that would make those fingerprinting checks voluntary. in exchange, uber would perform

that they have not been convicted of dui, fraud, or acts of violence. you will be able to get through the st. pete clearwater airport faster. the dot just awarding the airport $1 million in grants. the money will be used for a new check baggage system that will make the checking and screening process faster. airpora separate $4 million grantheir runways. well, the job market in the bay area just getting be tot. the employment ra falling around the area. hillsborough and pinellas counties seeing a drop between july and august. pasco and polk county seeing a bigger decline in rates. the unemployment rate dipped below 5% just last month, which is just under the national average. the first time today, republican president den nominee donald trump saying publicly that president obama is a u.s. citizen.

that had our team reaching for the truth ho-meter. take a listen. >> hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. i finished it. i finished it. you know what i mean. president barack obama was born in the united states. period. now, we making america strong and great again. >> reporter: hillary clinton and her campaign started the movement? some clinton supporters circulated the rumor in the last days of the 2008 democratic primary and after clinton conceded to then senator obama. but there is no record at all that clinton or anyone within

birther theory, let t alone started it. rating trump's claim as false. still to come, overwhelmed by overdoses. the bay area county seeing so many deaths. all of the bodies won't fit in the morgue. what they're forced to do now and what they are doing to stop the epidemic. two cars completely in fire. that is after and we have our typical round of showers and storms this afternoon. but the timing of the rain will be a little different over the weekend. i'll have it all for you coming

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>> the justice department is launching a new plan to tackle the heroin and opiate epidemic.

links between doctors and the problem. the drug problem is so bad that president obama declared next week prescription, hernia bruce week. you don't have to look outside of the bay area to see the impact. the manatee county morgue is actually over capacity and performing a record number of autopsies because of the overdoses. jake peterson shows us how much this epidemic is costing taxpayers. >> reporter: body of a young person comes into dr. russell's office, he wants to know what drug they're using: he has seen a huge spike of dead drug users using heroin or fentanyl. the increase started happening in the last three years. >> heroin deaths for the whole district were typically in the single digits. now we're seeing numbers higher than that just in one month.

summer, the office performed 250 autopsies in july and august. many were drug related and the problem is getting expensive. >> we hired an additional investigator and doctor due to increasing caseload. >> reporter: there is no room left at the county morgue. they are contracting with off- site body transport companies for storage. and if this trend continues -- >> we would have to bring in refrigerated trucks to store the bodies. >> reporter: four of relatives have ended up on the doctor's table. >> i have other kids still using into deputies have made big dealer busts over the past year but this epidemic won't stop until the demand is down. >> get help. don't put your family through what myself and other families have been through. it's horrible. >> reporter: in the meantime, funeral homes may have to potentially store bodies there. >> it scares me for all

we want this controlled. >> reporter: reporting in manatee county, jake peterson, abc action news. >> a new survey showing fear over the zika virus is hurting the happiest place on earth. 400 people either canceled trips to disney or decided not to go because of the zika virus. 50% of the people were currently planning trips answered the survey. there is positive news. doctors at a philadelphia lab are testing a vaccine approved for human trials. they are giving people. it's entirely synthetic, meaning that patients are not given the actual virus. they will determine when and if the zika vaccine can be used by the general public. we know when samsung will be replacing the note 7 phones. the company says it will have new phones in stores by next wednesday. exploding lithium a. >> dan: n batteries linked to 26 people burned and 56 pieces of property damaged.

samsung is offering gift cards, accessory credits and bill credits. an 8th manatee was just rescued from a golf course pond in crystal river. they have saved 7 from the spot yesterday. they went back today to see if they missed any and they found this male calf. the flooding from earlier this month caused the manatees to be stranded in the pond. all of the manatees were released back in the gulf today. >> what a great everybody who got them back to safety today. >> hermine. still teaing the effects from that. >> yeah. the good news is that the rain coverage over the next couple of days continues to be low. hopefully that will help things out there. main sail beach inn looking okay. we have a nice mix of sunshine and some fair weather clouds there. although we have had showers and storms across sarasota county. we are seeing lots of dry spots.

over central pinellas county. most of hillsborough county is pretty dry. and as we look around rye and into manatee county, we do have some heavier downpours. it's just hit or miss across the area. nothing that is too widespread. pretty much on target with what you would expect this year. temperatures are in the low 80s right now. you can see clearwater reporting a little bit of rain out at the airport. we will continue to see the hit and miss showers and bubbling up for the several hours in fact. we will have a chance for rain after sunset tonight, all the way through to midnight. take a look at futurecast. you can see this is a little overdone. we're not seeing as much rain. but the lighter green tones is where the rain isn't reaching the ground. the heavier downpours are on target with what we're seeing on radar at the moment. through 8:00, we continue to see the rain bubbling up. again, not terribly widespread but a decent amount of coverage. we will have isolated heavy

at night. so we're not completely dry until after midnight. even at midnight, we may still see a lingering heavy downpour. tomorrow morning, 7:30, looking dry from the coast all the way into polk county and highlands county. sebring, arcadia looking good to start the day. if you're planning on a bike ride or need to get yard work done, earlier in the day is getter temperature-wise and also on the dry side. by almost noon, we start to see a little bit starting to bubble up. and it bubbles up quickly. i would say anything that you really need dry weather for, try to get it done by about 11:00, 12:00 tomorrow. otherwise all bets are off at that point. by 6:00, with he see mainly inland showers and storms. so the beaches are looking decent at that point. although we will have some chances for some storms tomorrow afternoon at the beaches. it doesn't look le a washout at all. if you'rplanning a round of

to start out earlier if you can. and any time after noon we will see the showers and storming bubbling up, more widespread by 4:00. with a high of 90, definitely want to get the golf in a little bit early in the day. about 40% coverage at the peak for tomorrow. on sunday, down to 30%. and then those rain chances really go up at the beginning of the week. we've got more available moisture, some of it may end up turning out to be from remnants of julia, believe it or not. it will dry the week after the front pushes the moisture out. rain unlikely in the morning for tomorrow. we will have the heaviest rain east of tampa bay through the afternoon. on sunday, there is a chance for coastal showers and a few afternoon showers and storms. that's florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. jamison and wendto you. >> thank you, shay. take a look atthat re. pretty crazy out there. investigators say a pickup

slammed head on into another car. the woman in the vehicle died. but the pickup truck driver who caused this crash actually survived. right now investigators have not said why the truck driver was going the wrong way. still ahead, florida state might be without another top defensive player for tomorrow's showdown against louisville. john sabol hasas the latest nex

>> thanks for stopping by. first ole miss and now florida state will face the second ranked team this season with number ten louisville tomorrow at noon right here on abc.

state. ole miss defense is reeling. he is out. and now comes word starting defensive end josh sweat may not play either. he suffered a knee injury yesterday in practice. jim bow fisher hasn't cleared him to play but that could change tomorrow. fsu will need all of the help it can get to stop louisville led by quarterback lamar jackson. >> the guy is very dynamic. he can run and he can do it all. yeah. lamar jackson, the one we played last year. he has gotten better. >> he threw three touchdowns last year against fsu. the team that they played last week is hosting usf yesterday. syracuse got blown out by 34 points. when you see what usf has done this year so far and crushed syracuse last year, you should expect another lopsided usf

against tennessee last saturday hosts north texas tomorrow ght e swamp. finally buccaneers will have the second game the season against the cardinals on sunday. they will of course be playing later in the afternoon due to the time change. we will hear from dirk koetter about how he is tackling the time came for this for a first year nfl head coach. >> thank you. we have all of the continui >> and we will see you back

tonight, the breaking news. the fallout. donald trump's about face on whether president obama was born in the u.s. now, 53 days before the election, trump suddenly changes his mind. tonight, the angry reaction from members of congress. from hillary clinton. from first lady michelle obama, who late the officer tonight, indicted. opening fire on a car full of teenagers as the car pulls away. there is breaking news coming in now. the air scare. the smoke on the plane. the passenger's battery. and it comes amid the massive smartphone recall already. the meat cleaver attack here in new york city. tonight, new images. and what we've learned about the vicious attack. and the 3-year-old adopted, who left behind her best friend