everything mosaic doingve done out the hole, about the radioactive water, offering free water tests to people in the area and free bottled water. instead they're playing catch- up, trying to regain the public's trust. >> of prime concern to us is -- >> reporter: tonight the start of an apology tour for mosaic. >> i deeply regret and apologize for not providing the information sooner. >> reporter: two of the top executives stand ing before polk county executives saying they would have let the public know that it was dr water used in the cting process an estimated 215 million ganto the aquifer. leike james in the dark for weeks. >> yeah, i accept their apologies. i won't -- i definitely want to get my water checked.

believe my job right now is to henry build credibility with the community and neighborhood. that's what i'm going to focus on. >> you can understand why some people might have trust issues. >> i totally understand that. >> reporter: mosaic isn't the only one that could have sounded alarms to neighbors. polk county administrators knew of a concern as soon as august 29th, according in. >> what could we have told them three weeks ago? we had no idea what to tell them. >> reporter: commissioners say they didn't serious. others thought it was the dep's responsibility to alert people nearby. >> county commissioners should have done a press release. >> reporter: monitoring wells around the sink holes show their efforts to pump out contaminated water been successful so far. water tests to ease concern but they are fighting that looming trust issue. >> i will be doing it

pay wafo an outside source to check my water. ndguys, i just checked a few moments ago. they tested 20 wells yesterday and today. they will test another 20 tomorrow. we should see the initial in th something worth noting, i found from an mosaic executive, it moves a month. technically speaking if anyone sees contaminated well water, it could take months. ryan raic >> ank you, ryan. developmen surrounding the sink hole coming out all of the time. weinformation for you on abcactionnews.com or you can download our free mobile app. >> all new at 5:00, david jo will call for an epa

county. 151malns ow and partially wa released intoof flooding caused by hurricane hermine. a special meeting of lawmakers focusing on this sewage issue just wrapped up minutes ago. abc action news porter ashley yore sat in on the meeting and will have the latest on the plans to keep this from happening . now thmost aur action weather. >> hey are you everybody? we've been dodging showers since first thing this morning. we saw rain along the coast as we expected. now through the afternoon, most of the rains push inland. temperatures still right back in the upper 80s to low 90s. the humidity is high. it feels like a sauna out there with good reason, because we have the moisture sticking around. by 10:00 most of the rain will be off to the east. i think there's a chance of a few morning showers tomorrow. not as maase d today. in the tropics, we hae,

maybe what is behi potentially down the meon. workweek? night,skies waking up we will have that in a couple minutes. more information about ahmad khan rahami, the suspected new york and new jersey bomber. he caught federal authorities attention years ago. his own father telling the fbi back in 2014 his terrorist. he was interacting with bad people overseas he said. but the fbi's assessment produced no clear evidence or indications of radicalization. authorities never placed ahmad khan rahami on any terrorism wash list. investigators are now digging through his travel records for any possible clues. >> they're going to look at where he said he went. does it match? did he go off to some mosque or hook up with somebody who could

terrorist? >> investigators also digging through a journal they found on- ramp ram. it reportedly referenced an american al-qaeda cleric, the boston marathon bombings and the shooting at fort hood texas. a husband pishes device raising tensions in central florida. it was found near a high school this morning. auut downe road as they brought in the bomb squad and vestigated. it was just a box full of clothes. a man wanted for hash oil explosion in pasco countyis now in steven brown turning himself into deputies. investigators say he and some accomplices blew up a house in port richie earlier this month. two dogs died becaushe grabbed his drugs instead of saving them. a in the home but did not get hurt. a cold case is finally close the. schultz was arrested for allegedly beating his

again. the victim coreis walker died in 2004 from complications related to the injuries that elevated the charges. at that time schultz also used the alias allen sherwood. she traced him to north carolina but he died in 2003. new tonight, the state just confirming 11 new travel related cases of the zika virus. three of them in hillsborough county. health now non-travelelated cases. all of those in miami-dade county. this as the state deals with a back log of zika tests. we will she will you how much the state is spending to speed up the results. tonight the florida attorney general on the record for the first time pam bondy answering questions about trump's donation to her campaign and her investigation not to -- her decision noting

university. >>t'boy abswerout the implication thaten for business >> i am a career prosecutor. i am proud of pam bondi on the defensive. >>will neve ofny ae affect what i do. >> reporter: at issue, whethe na on to her campaign decision ump university. >> there was op about it. return it. >> reporter: her i am passioned after pay to play questions were first raised. and after the scandal blew up in the nationanever an by this office. >> reporter: bondi says her

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with a strait face that there was nothing prer l donation, en pulled these records on bondi's campaign contributions from 2013. we found that donald trump personally gave her campaign $500 two months before his foundation then wrote her re- election committee a $25,000 sked wh et has been shot, bondi responded, >> interesting. thank you, paul. we're ing our bestok at the future of downtown tampa. new rethe visi demolish the plaza and use that sint >> there are many, many, many miles of waterfront property in the tampa bay area. but this represents very

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that rain first thing this morning, along our coastal communities much tt's the way things played out. it is pushing inland. i think we see a little less moisture to work with tomorrow. while i think there might be an isolated shower, tomorrow, it won't be as widespread as today. let's get through this evening that should be nice. rougthg hours. but does the mugginess. at least you don't have to worry rst thing tomorrow morning, like you did this morning. 8:00 a.m., partly cl now, lunchtime, maybe a couple of isolated showers. but i think we will get drier air moving in tomorrow. while it won't completely eliminate the rain chances, it's florida, it never does, at least they will be few and far between through tomorrow afternoon come 4:00. and even the evening hours, coverage may be 20 to 30%. thursday morning, same thing. i think we start to see a little steering pattern change. the showers later this weekend

beach. i think there will be more of them by saturday and sunday as well. we will touch on that with the 7-day. here is a look at the tropics. we have carl and -- karl and lisa. both tropical storms. the next couple waback hind. but the models are pretty interested in that. something to keein t b gulf temperature is 86 degrees at clearwater. there are your tides and sunrise and sunet. hour bho forecast warm and humid through the overnight. maybe an overnight shower possible. won't be too many. most fol t7-o drday

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