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.

it by saturday and sunday. we are looking at upper 80s this afternoon. it will feel nice though. then the weekend comings in. that's coming up. we have a good drive so far. traffic looking great across the howard frankland bridge and the courtney campbell. this is the tampa side of the courtney campbell, not a lot of cars now. it's taking just eight minutes to get across the courtney campbell. all the bridges are clear, even the sunshine sk to cross there. 5:01. we now move to democracy 2016 -- elections officials across the country say the presidential election will be fair and that there is no evidence of voter fraud but donald trump continues to say the system is rigged.

8th? >> will you make the same commitment that you will absolutely, sir, absolutely accept the result of this election? >> i will look at it at the time. i'm not looking at any anything now. i'll look at it at the time. >> the loser concedes to the winner and the country comes together in part for the good of the country. are you saying you're not prepared? >> i will keep you in suspence, i'll tell you at the time. >> after the debate trump supporters reminding gore contested the results for two months all the way to the supreme court. he also claimed that the clinton campaign was responsible for sexual assault allegations against him. clinton had a strong reaction to his vote-rigging claims. >> he is denigrating, talking down our democracy and i, for one am appalled that somebody who is the nominee 6 one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.

the results of the vote if trump wins. the most recent polls continue to show her opening up her lead over donald trump. both candidates made a lot of chambers on the debate stage last night. how many were true? we start with clinton's talk about the national debt. >> i have said repeatedly throughout this campaign i will not raise taxes on anyone making $250,000 or less. i also will not add a penny to the debt. i have costed out at going to do. he will through his massive tax cuts add $20 trillion to the debt. >> abc news says the numbers are not accurate. the nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget estimates that clinton's economic plan will increase the debt by an additional $200 billion over a decade. they say the trump plan would increase the debt by more than $11 trillion. to trump's claim about obama

70%, 80%. next year they go up over 100%. >> abc news says it's mostly false. health care costs are rising, however the average obamacare premium rose about 9% last year. hurricane matthew dealing another blow to elections in florida. the rain and wind damaged more than 1,500 mail-in ballots in volusia county. many now soaked, torn, tattered. voters who sent in a damaged ballot may have to replace it. officials now sending out replacements to anybody who requests one. new insight into how a polk county prisoner was able to escape taking a corrections officer hostage in the process. investigators say david ross was working -- on a work detail at the time, even locked four other prisoners in a room in the process. abc action news reporter rodney dunigan live in bartow where this all happened.

happened. >> reporter: the police chief in bartow tells us that surveillance cameras here in the park may have captured the moments that all of this happened. that could be key in this investigation. meanwhile, people who live in this community say they simply can't understand why prisoners would be allowed to actually work here. >> all this time these prisoners working here and you see what happened now. i mean it might happen again. >> reporter: bartow police chief joe hall says it was around noon yesterday when prisoner david ross was on a work detail at the park. investigators say he pulled a shank on corrections officer jeffrey wexroad and locked four other prisoners in a room at the park and stole a city truck and drove to pinellas county with the officer as a hostage. it was those other four

>> those four guys, in fact the police department wouldn't not have known something was wrong until 5:00 this afternoon. if those inmates had not have taken the action they did. >> reporter: thankfully no one was hurt. this two-hour ordeal eventually ended near that grocery store in pinellas county. as for david ross he is set to be in court later this morning to face a host of new charges. for now reporting live in bartow, rodney action news. 5:o6. deputies in manatee county want to know who fired a gun that hit a woman's car. that 60-year-old woman says she was just driving on u.s. 301 last night around 6:00 when she heard a loud noise. detectives say it looks like a bullet struck her passenger door. thankfully it didn't pierce the vehicle and the woman wasn't hurt. deputies weren't able to find the bullet. a major crash at i-275 and

details on any injuries. we should have an update here within the hour. if you're upset about sewage discharges in st. pete you'll have a chance to let city officials know exactly how you feel. the city council is planning to set up two public hearings about the wastewater discharges. we're expecting to find the dates set for the hearings later today. they will also discuss reopening a wastewater treatment facility that had been shut down. it could cost $11 million to reopen the albert winick pl environmental protection would have to sign off on the plan. police in kissimmee are searching for a man who tried to grab an 11-year-old boy walking home from school. that child telling investigators a man in an older model car offered him candy and money. the boy says when he refused the man jumped out and grabbed his backpack. he was able to break free though, ran home and called 911. hillsborough deputies need your help to catch men that were caught on camera using

the men walking into that walmart here. they apparently snuck into a family's home while the family was sleeping. deputies say the thieves went into an unlocked car parked in the driveway of a home in dover. they used the garage door opener from the car an then went into the house through an unlocked garage door. four people were asleep at the time. they didn't realize until the next day that the thieves had stolen a wallet from inside their house. we're taking action for you if you're looking for a job or perhaps more fulfillin looking to hire are participating in a job fair happening in polk county. pepsi, lakewood regional health, pep ridge farm and psyches enterprises are among the 25 participating companies looking to hire. careersource polk is hosting the fair at the heartland community church in winter haven from 3:30 to 7:00. if you're a veteran you can get in early at 3:00. t-mobile will pay $48 million to be splint among consumers, schools and the

properly notifying customers that unlimited data plans were not really unlimited. now t-mobile says in very small print on its web site that slower speeds may result for customers using more than 26 gigabytes. $35 million for customers, $5 million for buying equipment agency are hoping and waiting to ewhat happened to the mars lander. we're expecting an update later this morning. it was supposed to have touched down on the red planet yesterday but scientists lost the signal from the orbiter and lander. they are worried it crashed or suffered a fatal glitch. it's part of an ambitious program to search for evidence of life on mars. looking good at the bus stop. clear skies and temperature in

priming us for the upcoming weekend. by the afternoon no changes, a warm-up once again with temperatures in the upper 80s. we'll talk more about that weekend cold front coming up in a few minutes. i saw the gate. i thought i was in the clear. >> coming up, man gets on the wrong flight. when he finally noticed the mix- up and the disturbing response he got from airline worke. stranger attacked her newborn

it's coming up on 5:14. a terrifying scene in missouri, where a mother says a complete stranger tried to choke her newborn baby. it happened in a walmart. the mom started to scream when that 54-year-old attacked her 4- month-old baby. the came over and wrestled the attacker to the ground. the baby -- excuse me, the attacker taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation and then to jail. it's believed he's the pastor of a ukrainian church in new jersey. they don't know why he was in missouri or why he attacked that baby. a flight from seattle to phoenix had to turn back when the windshield cracked. as you can see these are passengers on that plane. they finally made to it arizona. they originally left seattle on

cracked shortly after takeoff. it's not clear why it cracked but an airport spokesman says it was not a bird strike. meantime a california man trying to travel from sacramento to los angeles winds up in dallas, texas after accidentally boarding the wrong plane. that man says he noticed something was not right when the usually one-hour flight stretched to three hours. american airlines records show the sacramento gate to l.a.x. is next to the gate for dallas/fort worth and the flights were boarding at the same time. but the man says what concerns him switchup. >> it's a matter of national security because they don't know who is on the plane. >> he says they checked his boarding pass and let him go on anyway. a spokesman for american says they are aware of the incident and are investigating. good morning. on thursday in the weather center. nice and cool. mid-60s, a lot of areas.

this morning around the sunrise. then we'll warm up bigtime this afternoon once again. still well ahead of the cold front we've been talking about. titan doppler radar hasn't seen much the last couple of days. once again today i think we're going to stay dry. we'll go up 5,000 feet and this is what you find. a lot of orange depicting the color table, some very dry air, sinking in the atmosphere that is why we've had very little cloud cover. and no rainfall as that is going to be moving in. it's not here yet and despite that, because of the dry air seeing some cool readings, even up to the panhandle. in the 50s. and long i-10. and it's north and west that we have to look to. look at denver, 27 degrees. winter there. that is going to be coming in our direction. of course as the air mass moves in it will moderate thanksfully

change. already will be that. not much moisture by the friday evening hours. it will move through, we'll have a band of cloudiness roll through, maybe sprinkles, that is about it but i keep the rain chance out. then really gets going saturday morning. sunday morning as well with very chilly readings that we have not seen since last winter. temperatures in the upper 80s this afternoon. here's your peak at saturday morning, by the time you wake up. 63 at the airport but away from the quite cold with temperatures falling back into the mid and upper 50s. even a little bit chillier by sunday morning as well. so there's the 7-day forecast. no rain. nice and mild this weekend. temperature in the 70s and then we'll recover nicely heading into early next week. back to closer to normal, low 80s. i heard you say chilly

get to curly street, in pasco, a crash involving a patrol car, however no injuries involved. we hear of roadblock eastbound though traffic indicators are all in the green so i don't see a huge slowdown. you may want to give yourself extra time if you're head that way. i-275 through downtown tampa, it's just five minutes to get back and forth between here and the howard frankland to a whole grain diet may cut risk of dangerous high blood pressure for overweight people under age 50. participants in the study stuck to a strict eight-week whole grain diet and then switched to a refined grain diet. researchers say while they were on the whole grain diet the diastolic pressure fell by

increased cardiovascular disease risk. a giant pile of mail dumped in the woods in georgia. one woman caught the person responsible on camera. postal inspectors near atlanta picking up the huge pile of discarded envelopes and mailers and checking to see which mail carrier was supposed to be delivering them. residents in the neighborhood are worried their identities may be at risk. still ahead -- a swimmer is rescued after hours at find him and the one thing that probably saved his life. >> why didn't you tell us? he came out he me and i'm shocked. >> a woman went to the hospital with a stomach ache shocked to learn she was pregnant and going into labor. >> first the presidential debate dominated the chatter on

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5:24. welcome back. a massachusetts man now recovering after being stranded at sea for hours. he had gone swimming yesterday evening with his son and currents separated the two. the son made it back to shore but after one hour, no sign of his father he called the coast guard. rescuers found him with an infrared capra. officials say the wet suit he was wearing likely helped delay potentially hypothermia.

still in shock after her minor medical emergency turned into the surprise of her life. >> she went into the hospital for what she thought was really bad gas. severe cramping and stomach ache. five hours later she gave birth to a 5-pound 4-ounce baby boy. she said she never had any classic symptoms, and even a medical checkup with no hint she was >> why didn't you tell us? he came out of me and i'm shocked. >> yeah. the dad thought it was just a prank. he eventually was convinced it was real and he arrived in time to see his baby boy delivered. the nurse had to drag him into the room. doctors say despite no prenatal care both mom and baby are doing well. coming up -- how elite iraqi troops are preparing for

donald trump's bizarre claims about the military campaign. >> a prison inmate who stole a truck and kidnapped an officer is back behind bars thanks to

5:30 -- who won the final debate? more importantly, were candidates telling the truth? now at 5:30 -- we fact check their claims about border control. good morning, i'm dan shaffer. >> i'm deiah riley. first we want to look at the forecast. with ivan in the weather center. >> we'll check on what is ahead. cold front on the way but get here until friday night so until then we'll still be warm. not humid though. but we are going to usher in very cool temperatures so by the time you wake up saturday morning really going to be a shock to the system. something we have not experienced, well, since last season. 69 tampa now. 73 st. pete. a lot of us dropped back into the mid-60s. a nice cool start compared to where we're going to be.