1 to 2 where we've been to 4 to 6 feet by saturday morning. there are the tides the next 12 hours, sunrise and sunset. we'll talk more about the extended forecast, which looks fantastic, on abc action news. >> she should not be allowed to run. if this is how donald things. it's funny but also really troubling. >> hillary clinton and donald trump face off in their final presidential debate. we've got the highlights, election day now less than three weeks away. >> presidential visit. today barack obama will visit florida. where he's expected to talk about progress on getting all americans access to affordable care act. good morning, thank you for joining us for abc action news at 4:30 on this wednesday, i'm dan shaffer. i'm deiah riley the campaign trail heads to the battleground

today just outside columbus, hillary clinton is set to get back on the campaign trail tomorrow in cleveland. >> both took part in the final presidential debate last night in las vegas. as maggie ruly shows from us washington that 90-minute debate quickly moved to personal attacks. >> reporter: yet another debate filled with more memorable moments a basic foundation of democracy steals the show. >> do you make the same commitment that you will absolutely, sir, that you will absolutely accept the this election? >> i will tell you at the time. i'll keep you in suspence. >> chris, let me respond to that, it's horrifying. >> reporter: the night quickly turning personal. >> such a nasty woman. >> unfit. >> reporter: but the two candidates started by talking policies. from abortion and imation >> we have bad ombres here and we have to get them out.

beginning. >> reporter: to foreign policy. talking about putin. >> he would rather have a puppet. >> no puppet. you're the puppet. >> reporter: and not letting him off the hook for his controversial statements and actions regarding women. >> he goes after their dignity. their self worth, i don't think there is a woman any where who doesn't know what that feels like. >> reporter: to which trump offered a blanket denial. >> no one has more respect for women than nobody. >> reporter: them accusing clinton of what he called criminal acts like the e-mails and questioning the value of her experience. >> it's bad experience because what you have done has turned out badly. >> reporter: clinton fires back with her own experience. >> reporter: on the day when i was in the situation room, monitoring the raid that broad bin laden to justice he was hosting the celebrity apprentice. so i am happy to compare my 30

trump's last chance to confront clinton and try to regain some momentum as the latest polls show clinton pulling away with the lead. maggie ruly, abc news, washington. our partners at politifact did fact checking on statements last night. one hot topic was immigration reform. >> hillary clinton wanted the wall. hillary clinton fought for the wall. in 2006. or there abouts. now she never gets anything done so naturally wasn't built. >> what trump is referencing is in 2006 clinton voted in favor of a bill that would put up a fence along 700 miles of the mexican border but because the fence that she backed is not as large or expensive as the wall trump is proposing, politifact rates that claim as half true. hillary clinton quickly countered it -- that trump used undocumented workers. >> to use undocumented labor to build the trump tower.

workers and when they complained he basically said whwhat a lot of employers do, y complain i get you deported. >> politifact rating that also half true. it was not trump who hired the undocumented workers, it was a contractor who worked for trump who hired 200 undocumented workers to demolish a building to make room for trump tower. politifact also finding trump paid the workers to settle a lawsuit they brought for what they called horrid work conditions. our political susan mcmaness also watched the debate and says despite the rhetoric nothing really changed. >> the frustration for many people will be after the three debates they are still divided, no signs of how they are going to bring the country together and no real details on how they are going to fix big problems in this country. >> she also says she doesn't believe the final debate swayed voters much and won't have much impact on the election. elections officials in florida are testing voting machines as concerns grow about

the tests are happening in miami-dade county. each voting unit is tested for logic and accuracy several times before it can be used in the elections. jon bon jovi will be in tampa too promote hillary clinton. ? dead or alive? >> he will host a get out the vote performance. so far the location hasn't been revealed but we know he'll perform the weekend before the election on 5th. more details expected to be released soon. happening today -- president obama is heading to south florida. he'll be at miami-dade college in miami to talk about the affordable care act and the progress of providing all americans access acaffordable health care. the florida department of health reporting two new travel related cases of zika virus. one in sarasota county, one involving a pregnant woman.

miami-dade county recently to get tested for zekea. this includes women who live in or have visited the area since august 1st. miami-dade county is the only area in the continental u.s. where mosquitos have been spreading the virus since this summer. zika is mainly spread by mosquitos and can cause severe brain related birth defects. good morning. looking at 60s and low 70s now. we're clear and we'll stay that way. it will be sunny today. warm, not so be even drier heading into the weekend behind the front we've been talking about all week. 72 clearwater and 74 st. pete. it will be mid to upper 80s once again by later this afternoon. we'll talk more about the cooldown coming up in a few minutes. quick check of traffic at 4:36. live look at i-275 near roosevelt, st. pete. no big issues there. looks like traffic is move wellle we'll look at the roads again in 15 minutes. the pinellas county

with n.o.p.e. to hold their candlelight vigil. the organization's vigil remembers those who died from drug and alcohol related overdose. it will be at largo central park at 7:00 tonight. new information about a state corrections officer taken hostage by a prisoner in bartow. investigators say before the inmate escaped he locked four other prisoners in a room. abc action news reporter michael paluska explains how the prisoners catch ross. >> those four guys, in fact the police department wouldn't have even known something was wrong. until 5:00 this afternoon. if those inmates had not taken action they did. >> reporter: the bartow police chief says after noon prisoner david ross on work detail near the park got the jump on corrections officer jeffrey rexroad using a shank. ross locked the other prisoners in this building and took rexroad hostage driving a stolen city truck they headed

for 30 minutes no law enforcement agency knew what happened until the other inmates escaped. >> they were able to break the rope that was tying the door and get out as they came out there was a young lady that was sitting there in her car a couple of hundred feet away having lunch. >> reporter: they told her to call 911, then deputies and police swarmed the area from polk county to pinellas. police didn't warn the public because investigators were tracking the cell phone and didn't want the two-hour escape ended near a grocery store in pinellas county with no injuries. >> whenever my grandkids are here and they are out here working i take them in the house. >> debbie lives across from the park and wants to know why the officer wasn't armed and what the department of corrections will do in the future to keep her family safe. >> all this time these prisoners working here and you see what happeneded now. i mean it might happen again. >> that was michael paluska reporting.

is responsible for the custody of prisoners, not the police department. corrections officials admit this is a rare incident and say there are also gaps that need to be fixed. florida highway patrol released dash cam video of a bald eagle rescue on the florida turnpike. troopers say the bird flew too close to traffic and hit a windshield of a passing car. this trooper gently cradles the stunned raptor, puts it in his patrol car. the a animal rescue facility near orlando. a tragic scene in south florida where scaffolding falls from the top floor of a downtown miami highrise. the man killed by the accident and an update on injuries up. >> a woodpecker in poland cared for at a wildlife center has been released but keeps coming back. why the bird was originally take thrn.

4:43. officials are trying to figure out how a scaffolding fell from a downtown highrise. it happened yesterday on a 64- floor condo building under construction. a man who died, a 50-year-old ran from the scene and had a

a woman hit by debris was in a car and taken to a hospital with non life-threatening injuries. you can see the car there. two construction workers were also taken to the hospital with minor injuries. two more treated at the scene. the property developer released a statement saying it's working with city officials now to find out exactly what went wrong. police in kissimmee are searching for a man that tried to grab an 11-year-old boy walking home from school. the child told investigators that a man in an older model car offered him candy and cash. the the man jumped out and grabbed his backpack. the child was able to break free, ran home and called 911. imagine mail tossed in the woods like garbage. that is what postal workers found, and they are checking to see which mail carrier was supposed to deliver them. people in the neighborhood

is undependable. subway is offering a autumn carved dirty sandwich. our abc action news i-team uncovering on october, tuesday 11th, tampa subway on east adamo drive had to temporarily close. inspectors saw 20 live and dead roaches in several places. the state also found evidence of rats in the kitchen with more than 35 rode on the shelves, behind the bread warmer and rodent chew marks under shelves. we reached to the public relations manager, who didn't return e-mail or phone calls. just last week we reported on another subway closed by state inspectors which also found live roaches in the subway on south dale mabry highway in tampa. today career source polk will hold a job fair at the heartland community church in winter hello, everyone.

this evening. organizers expect more than 50 employers to attend the fair. today hillary did hillsborough county fair in brandon starts. it starts 5:00 tonight and runs the next two weekends. tesla motors says all electric cars will be fitted with hardware to drive themselves. sensors will be included on the much anticipated model 3, the ceo says the self-driving features substantially safer than even having a human driver. the plans are overshadowed by a deadly connected connected to the autopilot feature, that failed to sense a tractor- trailer crossing in front of it last may near gainesville. the driver of that tesla was killed. engineers at the european space agency are trying to re- establish contact with the mars lander. it was supposed to touch down

heard nothing. it's to search for evidence of life on mars. sources close to apple believe apple will debut a mac book with touchscreen capabilities like an i-pad. an announcement will be made next thursday on the matter. clear skies now. upper 60s and 72 in clearwater now. st. pete 74. the forecast into the weekend looks good. same deal. the front comes through quietly will do so. last year we had a big el nino event so every time we have the fronts coming in, low pressure diving in, we had a lot of severe weather. this year doesn't look to be that way. as we do not have an el nino year. so good news there but of course any front that comes through sometimes brings squally weather. this will not. 60s now, nice and cool. even cooler. in fact we've dropped the dew points a little bit. the dry air on top of us sinking down and really taking over the scene. so it's going to be even hard

air will be bumping into that dry air up above. and we still have the easterly winds. so a few clouds, that is about it. temperatures in the upper 60s in south florida. low 60s to the north. the pocket of really cold air is still well to the north and west. obviously we have a couple of days to get through, even in the east today. eastern seaboard will be seeing temperatures above average for this time of year. so we have fall and then of course we have winter trying to take over and has done so, ju in the 30s, 20s of course in many areas there. for us it won't be that chilly but we'll be cooler than, certainly we've seen so far this season since last -- our cool season. so dropping back on friday night. and heading into saturday and sunday with temperatures in the 50s. widespread, even at the airport by sunday morning. before today and for tomorrow still another warm day with temperatures in the mid and upper 80s. our average high is about 84. we'll actually be above that today and below it throughout

with a front moving. in no rain for the next seven days. highs in the 70s this weekend and overnight lows in the 50s. 4:48. let's look at part of the morning commute. i-75 north of i-4, not a lot of traffic this early morning but what is out there, looks like it's moving smoothly. a full look at the morning commute in about 10 minutes with janelle martinez. bucs running back doug martin needs more time off recover from a hamstring injury. and more with tom korun in your sports sports report. >> reporter: good morning. as if the buccaneer injury situation couldn't get worse it indefinitely. no timetable set for his return. according to the head coach martin had a setback in his rehab for a hamstring injury.

fault when somebody gets hurt. injuries are the worst part of this game. on all teams. i mean just look around the league. a lot of teams have injuries. we don't like it but trust me, no one feels worse about it than the player. >> reporter: good news, defensive tackle gerald mccoy returned to practice on a limited basis after his injury defensive end robert airs and clinton mcdonald are still sidelined. the senator alex leads the team with three goals already as the team heads into their final game. homestand tonight fence colorado tonight. >> the way you want to prove to the team and to everyone they made the right decision and

it. whenever you can score goals or help howev you can, help the team win it's huge. >> game time tonight against the avs 7:30. that's your morning sports update. enjoy your day. 4:50. the nation's third largest cell phone provider must pay a $48 million fine. coming up, how the fcc says t- mobile cheated customers and the changes the company will now have to make. >> new research finds more reasons for a whole grain diet. how researchers now

good morning on a thursday. let's check that forecast, hour by hour for you here with te cool. a little change though. 20-degree temperature change by the time we get to 4:00 with highs back up in the upper 80s. our temperature range this weekend will be about 30 degrees. we'll talk more about the chilly overnight lows and the big air mass change on the way in the next hour. 4:54. anchors on turk turkey's

anchor desk stealing the show. one employee took the cat home. a laugh from a typo. >> check your panties, about 175,000 rice -- i think that was supposed to be pantries. [ laughter ] - >> the anchor caught himself, accidentally misreading "panties." he was supposed to have said "pantries." he was trying to warn viewers the partner spotted the error but it was too late to help him. 4:55. a prisoner in bartow locks several other prisoners in a room and takes a corrections officer hostage. >> on the run for two hours but police didn't warn the public. how the police officer he locked up helped police catch the suspect. live in bartow with where police caught up to the escaped

tears about how terrible it is. >> you talk but you don't get anything done. >> the third and final debate gets personal and ugly. how donald trump stoked fears he won't accept results of the election. >> thank you for joining us for abc action news this thursday, i'm dan shaffer. >> i'm deiah riley. those stories in a moment. first a look at the thursday forecast. here's ivan now, hoping for co scheduled for friday night and especially into the weekend but if you step outside now, unless you're right along the water, clearwater, st. pete, tampa doing ok, 69. a lot of us have dropped rather quickly this morning. we're looking at mid-60s. not only that but it's a little drier so the dew points respectable. in the lower 60s. feels a little cooler but this is nothing compared to what is coming. we're going to crash as far as the temperatures coming up this weekend.