the bay area and is dramatically changing how mosquito control notnly tests zika threa sponds to a local >> how many mosquitoes are out there? is there any virus present. >> reporter: targeting hot spots of zika virus is a lengthy process. a week passes before crews return to treat the area, leaving residents at risk. >> people in theco ared ve be sitting on, drinking their margaritas getting bit by mo has a fix. >> this will allow us to not only go track and see how many mosquitoes are available to transmit the disease but now we can test the mosquitoes within 24 hours. >> reporter: that rapid turn around time is reality thanks to this state of the art facility. >> the county pouring $65,000 in a top to bottom lab overhaul. built for today's zika threat.

playing field for the testing. we can test everything at the exact same speed and sensitivity. and that affects each and every person living in every part of the county. >> reporter: the lab's smallest edition, a machine about the size of a microwave will have the biggest impact. it analyzes mosquito dna to determine if a local outbreak exists. a process for most counties takes 36 hours. here they wait only three. >> that will put us ahead of the curve with any kind of local transmission that takes mr.is. the lab and on the front be line. ryan smith, abc action news. new at 6:00, we're getting a look at the sate contract showing that florida is paying a private company millions to process zika lab tests. as we first told you last week, there is a massive back log of tests waiting to be processed. some women telling us it takes up to five weeks to get results. now florida is paying lab corp. $5 million to fast track the

new tonight, bay area leaders are frustrated. a bill to fight the zika virus is stuck in congress. the zika dollars are wrapped up in legislation to keep the government running through early december. disagreements over planned parenthood, pesticides and internet freedom are delaying the vote. >> listen, the bottom line is that people don't want to finger point, they don't want the politics. we want a clean bill. we want funding to help us with the education prevention of the spread of this virus and the politicis to know that. >> the zika funding bill is the last measure that congress needs to vote on before they adjourn until election day. an update on a officer- involved shooting. officers used a nonlethal bean bag shotgun to try to subdue joseph. he pointed a gun at a deputy, forcing them to use deadly force. deputies rushed to the home after a health care worker said a man was armed and suicidal. now the most accurate

>> good evening, en. still looking at a couple of showers out there. they're few and far between. most of the area is dry and sticky and warm but dry. the only exception, south of wesably chapel and zephyr hills, these showers move quickly from the -- northwest to the southeast. that's about it. a few more about pop on later on this edge other. but that's it. coverage lesth the heat continues. mid-80s in the northern counties where you had rain first thing this morning. everything continues to push inland. that will continue through the evening as we have mostly dry conditions tomorrow morning. you will not have to worry about waking up to rain. i think there is more rain in the forecast though. and that extends right on into the weekend. so we will talk about that coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you, denis. florida department of environmental protection

the clean-up at mosaic. they will closely watch the wells recovering the tainted water. they will oversee mosaic's plan to repair and close the sink hole and see if the taunted water is moving off-site. the dep will oversee mosaic's contractor as it tests public and private water wells. the state's arson lab loses its accreditation again following an appeal. just lasmo accreditation was suspended after investigators found problems with how analysts were testing gasoline samples. investigator jarrod holbrook learned the accreditation agency found problems with 14 cases out of 26. they were just randomly sampled. local attorneys says the accreditation loss raises questions about the lab's credibility and puts arson cases across the state in jeopardy. the state-run lab is under

the division of state fire marshall on abcactionnews.com. a two-month-old baby is recovering from second and third degree burns. the mother is in jail on child abuse and battery charges. she threw the water on the child's father but the baby was lying next to him. the father is also recovering from burns on 20% of his body. just into the news room from highlands count underway after investigators find a 95-year-old man dead in his home. officers went to dominique's home to do a welfare check and found his body. he befriended some people who had done work around his home. right now officials are trying to find out who the people are. if you have any information, stpe right away. all crime a pasco coun man facing charges tonight, accused of hitting a school volunteer with his car. listen to this.

his kid off at the school this morning when police say he refused to go into the proper lane. that's when he took his foot off the brake, hitting william denaman who was standing in front of the vehicle. franklin said that he was threatened by the volunteer. he is expected to be okay. representative david jolly telling us that it is likely that he will ask the epa to investigat want to be sure that sewage is never dumped into the bay again. >> reporter: the county is stepping up to help with the sewer problem that has always been on st. pete's shoulders. not only is the city responsible for its own sewage but it takes place of gulf port, st. pete beach and treasure island. >> this is a community-wide problem. it's the whole bay. not one city's problem. >> reporter: for hours, leaders

them to dump millions of gallons of wastewater. >> that's a very big number. and nobody wants that to happen. >> reporter: parts of pinellas county got 20 inches of rain during hermine, double the average amount of rainfall in a month. the mayor of st. pete says he never saw a 2014 report that said if th overflows. >> i never saw that report. city council never saw that report. and we're asking the same questions. we want to know why we were be rorheity of st. t report. pete says they have been working on the southwest plant since july. they're hoping to finish improvements within two to three years that would prevent few fur issues. people who live here and make their living on the water are frustrated. >> that doesn't settle me as a businessman, that it is hanging

next two years to protect us. >> reporter: one idea, a barge off shore. legislators will meet within 60 days to talk solutions. in st. pete, i'm ashley yore, abc action news. a new poll shows that hillary clinton is leading the way here in florida. meanwhile much speculation tonight that former republican president george hw bush is calling the vote a private one. the focus on both candidates on the campaign trail tonight. immigration and national security. >> we have heard that from former cia director michael hayden who made ita very clear point when he said, donald trump is being used as a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists. >> donald trump in north carolina today. just moments ago a rally ending in a small town tside of raleigh.

candidates are tied in the tar heel state. trump says that the bombings in weekre the fault of open borders. >> these attacks were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system which fails to properly vet and screen the individuals and families coming into the country. >> trump's son also the center of controversy after comparing refugees and a bowl of skittles. he has issue. dan posting this sign at his restaurant that reads, quote, muslims, get out. you see it there. many in the area are upset over it. but he says that he is not backing down. although he is facing some opposition, he says he has no regrets. >> it's time that people started standing up, not worrying about the pc crowd, and do what is right. i feel what we're doing is

muslims in general, just the extremists. and that's all i can say. it's my right and i'm going to stand up and i wish more people would do it. >> he says he has no plans of removing that sign. ten people were stabbed during the attack at the mall on saturday. an off-duty police officer later shot and killed the suspect. california's big sur wildfire is the most expensive wildfire in history. it has cost $200 million that money doesn't even include the homes it has destroyed. at the peak, it cost $8 million a day. right now it's almost 70% contained. that figure doesn't include this fire at the vandenberg air force space. it has reached 10,000 acres. despite the progress, it is just 18% contained. hundreds of firefighters are on scene, hoping to contain that blaze. still to come, anger tonight after a dog is thrown

the reason why one woman says that man did nothing wrong. looking outside from river gate, that is a tropical picture. we have heat and humidity. rhytina now we don't have the rain -- right now we don't have

>> a texas municipal rale home apologizing after a director is caught taking casket. rose saw david jones take selfies with her cousin's casket behind him. then she found more of the very same type of selfies on his facebook page. when she approached jones, she claims he said he was just checking his tie. >> very insensitive. it's a lack of respect for, you know, that time. we trust, you know -- we trusted him to, you know, respect this day in our family's life.

to the family. the texas funeral commission says it could be considered unprofessional conduct, which carries a simple warning to a $5,000 fine. deputies say this woman right nearly a quarter of a million dollars from a pediatrician's office, nearly bankrupting the practice. >> you think about it, thousands of kids could be have been out of a doctor and hundreds out of a job. >> this woman got away with it for years and the advice that the doctor has for other business owners out there. >> i feel that we would have been out of business within three to six months if we had not caught this. >> pediatrics of tampa bay has 2,000 patients, 7 employees, and the doctor says it was nearly taken down by one woman. >> colleen was our office manager for a period of ten and a half years. >> reporter: the doctor says

$235,000. starting in 2011, going through 2015. she had complete access to the practice's books, debit card and checking account. his trust in her unwavering. the two were friends outside of work, spending holidays together, even going on vacations together. >> the practice is fine. only because we stopped the hemorrhage of cash. >> reporter: she was let go last year. the newman engineer found issues with the accounts almost immediately. >> we were behind on i was unaware of. we were behind on vaccination bills that i was unaware of. i had to take a personal loan against my home. >> reporter: gulka bonded out of jail yesterday. we went to her home in wesley chapel. nobody answered the door but a mercedes benz was sitting in the driveway. the doctor wants to warn others, don't have one person in charge of all of your finances. >> when one person is left

of money, it can be obviously disastrous. >> in tampa, clifton french, abc action news. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> behind there on the radar, it looks like a couple of storms out there. >> a couple showers. we had rain this morning. it has moved inland. the evening will be mostly dry. look at that boat out there enjoying the sunshine. tropical sunshine. all of the moisture and the humidity feels there. even though tomorrow is the last full day of summer. and fall arrives on thursday. an isolated shower, a couple of them across northeastern hillsborough county. most of them will be out of the picture in the next 60 to 90 hours. you've got the heat and the humidity. and we hit 91 today in tampa. two degrees above normal. 91 in sarasota. upper 80s in the northern counties because you had clouds and showers earlier on.

most of the afternoon. 87 both in tampa and clearwater, under a good deal of sunshine. st. pete a few more clouds. now you're at 83 degrees. the on-shore flow that we were talking about the past couple of days, there it is. you noticed it first thing in the morning. if you live anywhere from holiday north and the rains moved right in around sunrise and continued to cut across our viewing area, right through the afternoon hours. now, with this sort of a pattern, that means most of the rain in the evening is over on the east coast. we dry out. so it to get outside. not have too much to worry about in terms of rainfall. by 8:00, it's long gone. tomorrow morning, we start to see a little drier air rolling in. while we're getting more of the same of an on-shore flow, i think conditions will be drier. i don't think you will have to worry about rain like this morning. in fact if you look through most of the day, wednesday and again on thursday, rain coverage only about 20% to 30%. some drier air up to the north will limit our rain chances.

will be back to a summer pattern. go figure for the first couple days of fall with the late day and early morning storms. even through the weekend, coverage only 30% to 40%. that means more sunshine and warmer temperatures. back in the upper 80s to lower 90s. you factor in the humidity and it will still be humid out there. we're talking about feels like temperatures near 100 degrees. we're definitely in the heart of hurricane season right now. 34% of all named in september. and go figure, the tropics are active with karl that could be close to bermuda over the next couple of days. it will curve away from the u.s. lisa won't bother anybody. i'm going to throw something out herement way out here, mode he wills are picking up on a wave that will develop in the next five to seven days. that's one that we may have to watch closer next week. check us out on facebook. we will give you update as conditions develop. it is not set in stone but it

watch. lisa is curving out in the atlantic. and karl curving close to bermuda before doing so. seas a couple of feet. a lot chop on the bay. there are your tides and sunrise and sunset. here is a look at florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. 30% rain chances for the last day of summer. by the weekend, we have a little more moisture coming in. the timing of the different. the storms will come back to the beaches. they will come back. highs still near 90. rain chances at 30 percent to 40%. >> thank you, denis. outrage over these pictures posted on facebook. take a look. the pictures show a man throwing a dog over the sunset cliffs. this is in california. then you can see it actually falling into the ocean. animal services is still searching informer that dog and its owner. the woman who posted this says

it multiple times. but officials say that does not make it legal and charges are now pending. still ahead, fsu is ticked off after their loss to louisville. up next, usf. tk has more on the match-up

y246gy yy6y >> hello, folks. what concerns me a lot more than the buccaneers getting rolled by arizona over the weekend are injuries. two areas the bucs could not afford attrition, running back and defensive end. what happens on sunday, they get hurt. we will know more on their conditions tomorrow. maybe later tonight. ayres left. came out of it wearing a boot. that is never good.

suffering a hamstring injury. those type of injuries are tricky. they never really go away unless you give it rest. and this team really can't afford martin out for a prolonged period of time. charles sims, i don't really have an opinion on rogers. but he doesn't teem so -- seem to be as worried as i am. >> southbound -- resembles is chuck. i think i mentioned this last week. he was our number two guy in atlanta between michael turner and steven jackson. so, you know, if doug is out, we still have two good guys there behind him. we will be fine. i hope so. now how about usf head coach. despite fsu getting slaughtered by louisville over the weekend, the program has heightened credibility.

few things and keeping their emotions in check. >> yelling and ranting and raving now won't do anything. now you have to fix it and you have to figure out how to do it and you have to go back to work with passion and a purpose and a drive and get it done. and there's a lot of football left to play. at the same time, we've got a lot of work to do to make sure that we play good football. >> i wouldn't be happy. they got creamed. >> yeah, they did. >> continuing coverage of today's top stories abcactionnews.com. >> and we will see you back here at 11:00.

tonight, breaking news. new surveillance of the bombing suspect, pulling a suitcase, carrying a backpack. authorities say, about to place the bombs in new york city and new jersey. and tonight here, we have now learned, the fbi is questioning someone else. his wife. because was he acting and what his own father said about his own son before. also developing, the outrage tonight. the father of four, his suv breaks down, then shot dead by police. tonight, for the first time, the officer's defense. the deadly plane crash. the spy plane crashing down over america. flash point. the syrian refugees coming to the u.s. our year-long investigation. and tonight, donald trump's son comparing refugees to poisonous skittles, asking, would you take the chance?