through a tampa supermarket with four employees inside. in a live report, how the workers made it out. >> a ups driver making a gruesome discovery on someone's front lawn. a homicide victim's body. what we know about the crime coming up. >> this is felony corruption by any standard. >> donald trump claims criminal conspiracy in hillary clinton's

about the assault allegations against her husband. >> good morning. thanks for joining us for abc action news at 9:00. i'm dan shaffer. >> i'm lindsay logue in for deiah riley. a massive fire guts a supermarket and employees were inside. >> abc action news reporter rodney dunigan is live at the supermarket. >> you spoke to the owner this morning? the damage most of the morning. we are getting a better look with daylight. you can see the entire store gutted, destroyed from the inside. investigators will try to determine exactly where in the store this fire started. now, as you mentioned, i did speak to the owner. he was too upset to speak on camera. he told me he was thankful his employees made it out. a quick moving fire tore through the big and deal super

time. one of them explaining to investigators what they saw. >> they were finishing up for the night. he said he saw some smoke so he grabbed a fire extinguisher to fight the fire. >> nothing could be done. when tampa firefighters arrived they say smoke and flames were pouring from the building. due to safety concerns, firefighters were forced to stay outside and attack the flames of this three-alarm fire with two aerial units. the building totally gutted. >> i didn'kn >> store customers shocked to find all of this this morning. their thoughts with the store owners and those workers who made it out. >> as long as nobody is hurt, that's all that matters. you can rebuild and replace the store. >> reporter: the fire marshal will be out this morning to assess the damage and try to determine an exact cause. firefighters were here throughout the night and this morning knocking out hot spots.

out this morning taking pictures, trying to survey all of the damage here. the owner says, obviously, this place will be closed for the foreseeable future. reporting live in tampa, rodney dunigan, abc action news. >> thank you. a ups driver discovers a murder victim in palm beach county. the delivery driver was making rounds in jupiter. he saw the man lying in the grass. the victim, david middleton wa kind man with no criminal record at all. detectives haven't revealed a motive or any information on a possible suspect. a state representative is now calling for an investigation into hillsborough's public transportation commission saying there is a blurred line between them and the people they regulate. they are trying to keep ride sharing services like uber and

after e-mails showing staff talking about sting operations. taxi drivers posed as customers and then they are find. >> uber and lyft claimed for some time that ptc staff worked for special interests. despite this, they good morning. a lot of sunshine. comfortable temperatures for now. low to mid-70s. we will warm it up this afternoon, into the 80s. we picked up a couple of showers yesterday. it will be the same case today with the flow. watch the futurecast. spotty stuff. not amounting to much. we have to keep the 10% in the

minutes, we will talk about the tropical wave that could become otto. i will let you know where it's headed coming up. good morning. usually at this time the crashes and break downs have cleared. we have a few out there that i want you to know about. a couple in palm harbor. eastbound alderman at u.s. 19 and not far from there another crash northbound belcher just south of county road 39. expect delays there. a lot of red on my maps. we have 49th street closed. this is a fatal crash that we are learning in st. pete at 58th avenue north. you may want to take 58th street north instead. back to you. now to democracy 2016. recent polls show hillary clinton leading donald trump nationally. >> trump says new documents show criminal conspiracy

mail probe. >> we are live streaming. >> reporter: comedian billy crystal hosting a star-studded fundraiser for hillary clinton monday. >> our goal tonight is simple. we have to raise more money than donald trump lost in 1995. >> reporter: those celebrities cheering clinton on as her opponent -- >> this is felony corruption by any standard. >> appearing to show a top state department official sought to have the fbi back down on classifying an e-mail from clinton's server. trump calling on the official to resign. the suggestion is that the state department and fbi engaged in acquitted pro quo classification of the e-mail which would give the fbi more agents oversees. >> the fbi documents show under secretary of state patrick kennedy made the request for

in other words, a deal. under secretary kennedy needs to resign. >> reporter: the state department says patrick kennedy will not resign. the fbi did not declassify the e-mail in question and both departments denied any quid pro quo arrangement. >> amy trumps recent talk of a rigged election, experts say fraud is rare. in her first interview about the now husband bragging about groping women, melania trump says the only thing that surprises her is his language. as what trump was recorded saying in the tape, melania blames the tv host. >> i wonder if they even knew that the mic was on because they were kind of boy talk.

from the host to say dirty and bad stuff. >> melania defended her husband against what is clearly a planned attack by the clinton campaign, a sentiment echoed by trump calling the election rigged. nbc news fired today show cohost billy bush. he was suspended last week just days after the tape was revealed. on the tape bush could a reminder the third and presidential debate is tomorrow night. >> you can watch it live on abc action news station starting at 9:00. we will stream it live on our free mobile app and on our facebook page. tune in thursday morning. we will fact check some of trump's and clinton's statements. new developments this morning in the advance on

ahead. the troops achieved their objectives and are holding positions. this comes after a day of intense fighting involving air strikes, heavy artillery and car bombs. the battle for mosul started monday. it will last weeks or perhaps months. we are expected to learn how the u.s. department of health and human services plans to fund the response to the zika virus after an additional been approved. we will let you know how the money will be spent. almost 30,000 cases of zika have been reported in the u.s. and its territories including poor to rico and the u.s. virgin islands. still ahead this morning, an unmanned rocket is heading to space to deliver much needed supplies to the astronauts. what is on board. why the launch was so special. that is next. >> first, we will tell you how

saved two officers lives in california. what is being called an attempted assassination on

an attempted shooting on two officers goes awry after the suspect's assault rifle malfunctions. >> officers call it an attempted assassination of the two officers on break at starbucks. police say adam policy is the man behind the -- powell is man behind the attack. he walks up to the coffee shop and sprints away with an officer chasing him. he was trying to clear the weapon as he ran. officers shot him three times near the starbucks. he is in critical condition this morning. today loved ones and the community will honor two officers in california. they were shot to death earlier

domestic disturbance call. the deaths rocked the tight knit community. the warring parties in yemen have agreed to a 72 hour cease-fire in effect shortly before midnight wednesday. a u.s. special envoy says it on legs all parties -- obliges humanitarian supplies. the war began in 2014 when shiite rebels seized the capital. judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing the agency of negligence in south carolina's church massacre. lawyers for victims and survivors argue if the fbi had done its job, roof's prior drug arrest would have shown up in a background check and he would have been denied trying to buy

after police spent the night searching for a gunman. police told students to stay inside in a safe place after reports that shots were fired near a campus baseball field. two people told police they saw a man with a gun. police haven't found the man. the white house is responding to a firebombing attack that damaged a north carolina republican party office. the administration is saying there is no justification for the use of any agenda. some democrats are trying to raise money to rebuild the campaign office. the table is set for president obama's last state dinner tonight. look at this. the italian prime minister and his west are the guests. right there on the right, the

as the chef. get ready for changes at one of the most popular retail stores in the country. why target believes smaller stores mean bigger business so you don't waste your money. >> reporter: for decades stores got bigger adding more departments, more products, larger more sprawling suburban locations. target started a major change that could shake up the industry. it's getting smaller. this is what we think target, a giant box at the back of a huge parking lot, a lot that is almost empty unless it's holiday shopping season. target is starting to shrisk. they are fighting declining sales with smaller stores like these. "the wall street journal" says instead of building 150,000 square foot stores, the new stores will be 45,000 square

college towns across the country. but from the doesn't that stink file, why small big box stores don't work. walmart is closing 150 of its smaller walmart express stores because of poor sales. target is aiming for more urban locations and hip i didn't think millennials. it believes young people want small stores and not miles of ails for an embarrassing mine craft meme with snow shoppers. don't be surprised and don't waste your money. i'm john mat -- john matarese. you asked is it soup day? >> soup weather. >> in the morning.

chocolate, sleep in saturday and sunday. it will be cool enough for that. the temperatures for now, i think this is the deal. we will go from upper 80s. the we hit 90 yesterday to the cool air coming in. drastic change will be noticeable, no question about that. mid-70s. we are doing that with sunny skies. a few clouds later this afternoon. then a couple of spotty showers with temps climbing up to the mid- to upper-80s again. humidity moderate but it's not comfortable as more moisture. it will feel like 92 this afternoon. notice the showers are persistent as long as the wind taps into the atlantic. we will continue to get spotty showers. up above it's dry. not much in the way of thunderstorm activity or anything like that. quick moving showers is about it. coverage of 10% today. similar tomorrow then changes will be on the way. a couple of things to notice here.

this computer model forecast is doing that. drier in between this feature and the front coming in. we will be even below 10%. no rain for thursday. no rain for friday. notice the front itself, very little moisture associated with it. when it passes through friday night, we will be sleeping and set the stage for a fantastic looking weekend. keep an eye on this low. the same front will keep it away from the united states. the this could become otto in the next few it has a high chance. the computer model forecast brings it toward the u.s. but no worries. that front will push this out to see. so, that is just going to be another tick on the names and we don't have to worry about it. temps this afternoon, warm for this time of year, anywhere you are watching us from, mid- to upper-80s. boating looks good. for the weekend, keep in mind the winds will get fresh about 20 knots. for now it's 10. 2-foot seas, light chop to the

the beach, 80 degrees. beach weather continues. no question, right through the end of the week. there it is saturday and sunday, temps dropping into the 60s and 70s. in the next forecast, what your town will see as far as temperatures on early sunday morning. still ahead, we are learning new information about the texas 911 dispatcher accused of dropping the ball on her job.

dispatcher in houston who was hanging up on callers. >> prosecutors are certain she hung up on 825 people. >> she is charged with hanging up on one caller trying to report a robbery. a convenient store owner was shot and killed. prosecutors say that is not the only time she hung up on callers in need of help. >> there was one recording where the -- she hung up on a gentleman calling to report people racing on the freeways. after disconnected, you can hear her speaking. what she says is ain't nobody got time for this, for real. >> the dropped calls were discovered last spring after an in house audit. one of nasa's main delivery contractors launched the first space station shipment from virginia in two years. >> it launched last night. >> it's heading to the international space station. the rocket is topped with the

hardware and scientific experiments. peruvian environmentalists have a bizarre case. they are investigating the deaths of 10,000 giant frogs. they are endangered. the group that reported the deaths blame pollution in the river that feeds into the lake. the population has been declining rapidly few years. coming up, fishermen in bermuda reel in this massive lobster. how much this crustation weighed. >> plus, a reminder to lock your door when pumping gas.

last call. you need to be registered to vote by today. election officers are expected tobies see. we are giving you everything you need to know before you head out the door and pick up a pen. a warning about fake cash as we head into the holiday season. we will show you what to look for on your dollar bills so you don't get scammed. >> heart-breaking surveillance video shows a young girl alone in the middle of the night on a college campus. how she ended herself. good morning. thanks for joining us, i'm dan schaffer. >> i'm lindsay logue in for deiah. if you haven't felt the cooler temperatures this morning, ivan cabrera is in with florida's most accurate forecast. >> comfortable temperatures. the real cool air doesn't come until the weekend. it will make a huge difference. the coolest air mass even for daytime highs. we had mornings where it's nice and chilly if we can call it that but afternoon high

that's a big deal. a couple of spotty showers as we have been in the earl flow. that continues today -- easterly flow. that continues today. the rest of the state is in the 70s and 80s. the blue here, the 34 in denver will continue making forward progress to the south and east. not that cold but cool. down right chilly saturday and sunday. i will be back with the details on that in a few minutes. today is the final day if you want to register for the general election. >> this follows two extensions by a federal judge following the impact of hurricane matthew. james tully is live. if you want to cast a ballot, this is the last call. >> feels like i said this before. i have, two other times. but today these the question you need to ask yourself. get the voter registration

election offices, find a form, fill it out and hand it in by 5:00. if that is sitting in front of you at home, fill it out and postmark it by today. voter registration is up all over the area. extensions have helped but today is expected tobies see with the new applicants. election officials are preaching patience. >> we want to remind people, it will take us get the registrations processed. it won't be overnight. people may check online or something and say i'm not registered yet. they have to give us time to get it in the system. >> if you are registered voting by mail you have until november 2nd to request a mail in ballot. request by phone, in person. i did mine online in about 30 seconds and you can do that in person at the supervisor of

don't have to pay postage when you mail that back in. in all counties you can come by and drop off your vote by mail ballot in a box like this if you are more comfortable doing that. live in hillsborough county, james tully, abc action news. up to usf students, hillary clinton would win by a landslide. the school took a straw poll yesterday. more than half voted for hillary clinton. one in donald trump. 35% said the economy was the most important issue with education in second at 23%. and if the students are anything to go by, it will be a tight senate race. 43% of students picked patrick murphy and 40% want to reelect republican marco rubio. an update on the pennsylvania mayor we told you about who came under fire for making controversial posts against president obama on

wagonful of orangutans and referred to moving day and another referred to a lynching. it caused an uproar. yesterday council members accepted his resignation. governor scott is frustrated with president obama over his response to hurricane matthew. he said fema didn't get assistance to people fast enough st. johns county has billions in damage. scott wants more money from the federal government to rebuild the tourism industry. easy to get help recovering from hurricane hermine in the bay area. fema opened a disaster recovery seven in hudson -- center in hudson. it will be open from 9:00 to 6:00 and you can get help registering for federal aid until november 11th. teachers at a apopka high

a van caught fire outside of the school. take a look at it. investigators say a crew was power washing outside the building and the gear caught fire. the flames quickly spread to the van. none of the students were injured but one of the workers was taken to the hospital with burns. a trend picking up this holiday season. take a look at these $100 bills. do you notice anything off about them? they are tell used to train bank employees. if you look closely, they have special markings on them, pink chinese symbols. some say criminals are using the fake cash to rip off business owners. some in tennessee report people using the bills to get change in real money. >> you work hard for what you have. don't be a victim. don't let somebody take advantage of you bypassing this to you. >> officers urge you to slow

a good look at it. if something doesn't look right, call police. the ceo of visa is stepping down for family. he says it's too much to be so far away from his family. he runs the company based in san francisco while his family lives on the east coast. the former head of amex will take over the helm of visa later this year. the labor department announcing that u.s. consumer prices were up in september mostly due to an gas prices. global stocks are rising. a live look at the dow up 132 points. happening today, there is a status hearing scheduled for the man accused of killing his daughter throwing her off a bridge. the state mental hospital report on john jonchuck's current mental status will be unsealed. last april it was determined he was mentally incompetent to stand trial. in january of last year, authorities say he threw his

her. police in utah are looking for a father who left his 5- year-old daughter alone on a college campus with temperatures dipping below 39 degrees. you can see the man on camera here dropping her off, giving her a blanket. the girl's mother says he told the daughter to shut up, lay down and go to sleep. she did sleep there for up to two hours before a security guard found her. the girl's parents are divorced. she was staying with her father and his family that night. police are trying to questi the father. the girl's mother said she filed a protective order but the court's denied it. pinellas county leaders are asking for your help to make sure your kids succeed in school. they want your ideas on how to close the achievement gap. the school district is hosting the second of four meetings to gather ideas on how to improve student performance. to give your thoughts, the meeting begins at 6:00 at boca ciega high school.

for -- broward deputies are looking for purse snatchers. watch this as the woman gets gas. the guy on the left creeps out of his car, into hers and grabs her purse. he takes off before she realized what happened. she hasn't turned around yet. parts of south florida will be under a coastal flood advisory until wednesday king tide. the tide was above 4 feet over the weekend. the tide happens when the orbits of the earth, moon and sun combine to produce the greatest tidal effects of the year. safe to say this probably wins for best costume of the year. a boy and his tonton are getting a lot of attention. >> the boy's parents posted the video to youtube yesterday. it's already trending.

orders for more of the costumes the force is strong with this costume. >> this is based on "star wars"? >> not a fan, i guess. i haven't seen one. coming up, puppies worth thousands of dollars snatched from a pet store. how the thieves got way with the crime caught on surveillance video. >> three men charged in connection with the death of an

the stars" is october 4th we are tracking new information in the shooting death of an olympic sprinter's daughter. >> these three men pled not guilty in connection to the old's life. they are expected back in court later this month. >> trinity is tyson gay's daughter. she was caught in the crossfire, shot early sunday during an exchange of gunfire between two cars. she was declared dead at a nearby hospital. thousands joined tyson to honor trinity. he thanked people showing their support. many in the crowd wore pink and

massachusetts are under investigation accused of attacking a group of men outside of a bar. this happened in 2015. four men claim a group of off- duty officers beat them using batons and take sers -- take sers. one of the victims is when felled at the female bar teder letter injuries included a broken leg, concussion and loose teeth. criminal charges could be filed, too. a pet store in houston is trying to track down these thieves accused of stealing $25,000 worth of puppies. take a look at the surveillance video. the three men pull up to the store to get out, they pry the door, run inside and ransack the place. they used a sledgehammer to smash in enclosures to get at the puppies. they made off with four english

colorado forced thousands from their homes. firefighters are trying to get control of the flames. the high winds are fueling them. the jenkins fire started yesterday morning. it burned one home. three other structures and close to 12,000 acres. the cause has not been released. it may be fall but summer is making a come back. much of the eastern half of the country could see record high temperatures this week. more than 40 cities are looking at potent heat. meteorologists say much of the warmer temperatures will be in the south and southeastern u.s. but the heat wave extends north to chicago and east to new york city and boston. >> the opposite end, there is snow in the sierra mountains in california. it caught some drivers off guard. take a look at the fresh powder that prompted drivers to get out the tire chains. one family had to wait it out

didn't have chains. fall feel and a taste of winter. take a look at what hurricane nicole washed up -- dug up, i guess. this is a massive 14-pound lobster. >> fishermen in bermuda caught it over the weekend. the group was actually out looking for snapper. they released the lobster back into the ocean so it can live out >> ginormous. >> huge. >> huge. the bigger they are the less tasty, right. >> that is probably copyrighted. >> oh -- >> it is. >> thank you for the extensive weather report. >> are we getting a heat wave, ivan. >> i wanted to talk about that as well. that heat will be replaced by cool temperatures. so, the record highs that you

time we get into saturday, sunday morning, the beach shot you need a sweater. we will warm up through the afternoon but this is close to the daytime highs on sunday afternoon. something else. quite a dramatic change. titan doppler radar is quiet. rapid refresh not showing much. a couple of spotty showers. most of us dry for today and again the early bringing us the at lane -- easterly wind is bringing us the atlantic moisture. then we have otto to the east. the big front cooling off the southeast and us will push otto away. no worries about that. neighborhood by neighborhood here, this is going to be something. the temperatures, look at this, sunday morning, we wake up to upper 50s pinellas into pasco,

a windchill. then the rest of us in the upper 50s. and apollo beach at 61. at the airport around 61, 62. that's what you have to look forward to on sunday. until then, it's hot. temperatures not record territory. we have to be in the 0s. we hit 90 yesterday. mid-80s thursday and friday ahead of the front it will be normally the fronts come in with showers but not this one. it will pass through quietly but leave us with the first fall weekend. a good feel with temps in the 50s and 60s and highs in the mid- to upper-70s through the afternoon. >> that's great. still ahead, bay area residents have ten state certified domestic violence

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october is national domestic violence awareness month but it's a year long commitment at abc action news. we are focused on connecting volunteers with advocates at local domestic violence centers. there are a number of wayso there were 29,017 reported cases of domestic violence in our community alone last year. this morning we are visiting with the center serving manatee county in particular. take a look. >> hope family services always needs volunteers. we cannot do it alone. we are a 24-hour facility. we help people all the time. so, a staff of 30 get pretty tired. we love our volunteers, not

we have services in outreach office, the courthouse and what i love is going over to our thrift store, the hope chest. those women have a good time. they sort through clothes. they sing, dance, music is going on. it's an up lifting place to be and they are saving lives. >> and within the last 24 hours, we learned that our taking action against domestic action violence campaign from 2015 has been nominated for an emmy that campaign centered around the yellow dress stage play is a finalist in the category for community service competing with journalists from florida, louisiana, alabama, georgia and the island of puerto rico. we are excited and honored to be nominated. the emmy winners will be announced december the 3rd. we are keeping our finger's crossed. >> how has this impacted the community at large. >> the community -- it's a

are provided by the centers. but just as important, they are getting more volunteers than ever before because people realize there is so many things, thrift store, outreach center, not just the emergey shelters. >> congratulations again. >> thank you.

all right. it will be warm and humid out there. temperatures are in the upper 80s to near 90 with a spotty inland shower. >> a busy morning in lakeland. >> parks and recreation employees gathered up the iconic swans this morning for the annual wellness exam. getting the swans in the pen is

okay. >> this is the 36th year that lakeland has been giving the birds a health check up. the original swans were donated by queen elizabeth in 1956. >> they are beautiful. >> continuing coverage of the day's top stories on our web site at www.abcactionnews.com.

captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 e- mail: good tuesday morning. i'm carlie boyette. >> i'm natalie taylor. thank you so much for spending some time with us right here on "tampa bay's morning blend." carlie's got some reading material here. >> i know. this is so exciting. we are talking with kelly clarkson on the show today. i love her. how can you not love kelly clarkson? the very first original american idol who's gone on to do amazing things. i don't know how many albums