slipped under the shallow water, and then resurfaced twice and then disappear, divers and searchers are out on the water trying to find the man, we will follow this developing story on- air and online at abcactionnews.com and our abc action news app. i'm laura harris. >> i'm sarina fazan, the city of saint pete identifying which neighborhoods have the oldest pipes and most frequent sewage overflows, y c the dark green. >> ashley yore is in the allendale terrace neighborhood to tell us when neighbors will see the improvements. >> reporter: crews are working to replace old pipes the work was already scheduled but the city will now do similar work to replace pipes like these. on a day like today the old southeast neighborhood this woman has called home for years

and things like that, it was almost impossible for us to use our park because of the smell being outside. >> some of the pipes predate world war ii and their some of the first the city plans to replace. on this map in dark green you see the areas with the worst pipes about 10 to 15% of the pipes in >> we noticed it was heavily sewage and you know, a lot of garbage not garbage but gross the water was dark. >> the city is studying the sewer system during dry conditions they plan to start improvements by the beginning of the new year spending

attention, and the message from the public has been clear, fixed the supers. tell us what it will cost. >> that is what jill has been waiting to hear. >> nobody wants to go to a park when it smells like poop. i am very happy they are finally doing something. >> out with the old, in with the new, the city will need to make a long-term commitment and probably spend tens of millions of dollars to fuy action news. now, abc action weather. >> another beautiful and warm day today you almost wouldn't notice a front has been trying to pass through, but the winds have shifted direction and have been picking up a little bit, that is the first sign that the

we continue with warmer temperatures for tonight and then as we get past sunset we will see temperatures falling into the 70s much like what we have seen lately, it is after midnight into early tomorrow morning the cooler air settles in and becomes more noticeable, i will show you what we are looking at for morning lows across tampa bay coming up in the seven-day forecast. we just found out a three men accused of hanging his puppy by its neck and then public -- punching it in the face is in jail, the dog has serious injuri old who beat the puppy because it chewed up one of his shoes. the dog and two others were taken. he is charged with aggravated animal abuse. deputies on the hunt for the person who invented a home leaving two docs for dead, these pictures are very hard to look at, you

water. deputies asked detectives, neighbors asked the deputies to check out the home after they hadn't seen the owner since the time of hurricane matthew. the good news, both dogs are being cared for by an animal care center and the vets think they will survive and they will adopt them out in the future. developments about the florida state face biting suspect facing two charges of a couple, they found him biting one of the victims, he faces life in prison if convicted. an update to a mystery weeks in the making more than a month after a tip led deputies to a decomposed body, we have learned the dead man's daughters were the ones that buried him, investigators found the body, the victim's daughters confessed to bury their 94-year-

panic, no charges have been filed. two people going through trouble to make sure students at the university of tampa can't read the newspaper front-page story. the story is an alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl at a frat house on the usf campus, this week student journalists discovered stacks of newspapers stolen and tossed in the crash -- trash. their surveillance they're asking the fraternity to look at the video and see if they can identify the men. >> when you try to silence a story, more people will be interested. people are coming to the website in droves. >> the student newspaper wants an apology and the $1300 it costs to print the newspapers, tampa police are looking into

physical. we are hearing from three family members that were arrested after getting caught on camera getting violent in front of students, this video shows a woman attacking another driver on wednesday afternoon, it started when some people thought a group of students was taking too long to get into their car. the woman claims she did not throw any punches at you can understand where the other driver wasn't arrested. >> she didn't go to jail or anything. she threw were also arrested. the cleanup underway in the caribbean, two weeks after hurricane matthew began its trek through the electric, crews from the bay area are getting involved in those recovery efforts. we were there as 20 tampa electric crews set off for the bahamas. they will work over the next two weeks to restore power on the grand bahamas island, three

>> we are trying to do the best we can. we know these people are devastated. we are trying to help them out. most of the time they are happy to see us there clapping so that makes you feel good inside.>> after the crews finished their work power may not be fully restored until december. you may notice more police officers out and about this weekend because the st. petersburg police department down on drunk and impaired drivers. more than one in four driving deaths in the state involved and impaired driver. one in four women will be victim of domestic violence in her lifetime and when it comes to males, experts say the numbers closer to one in eight men, a public health crisis that is not discriminate cutting across all levels.

crazy love, she travels the country shattered stereotypes, she shared her story of abuse and encouraged the audience to look out for the warning signs. and believe. >> the healing for a victim, any victim of any abuse this versatility -- facilitated and believed. i want to promise everybody listening, no one it is very rare to lie about it. if somebody is brave enough to break the silence even if they are doing it awkwardly or imperfectly or their something off about the way they are telling you, please believe them. >> if you or someone you know is in a situation like this we have resources that may help you.

statewide domestic abuse hotline 1-800-500-1199. operators are standing by. two men arrested for trying to dig up artifacts at a local state park what these guys were looking for. nothing short of a miracle, the rare surgery that saved a little girl and the reason her mother says she gave birth to her daughter twice. more than contracted zika in florida but the state refuses to tell families what county they live in. the i-team goes to the

caught in the act of a bizarre crime, two men accused of digging up arctic -- artifacts from a bay area park. adam winer says it is more than theft it is putting people in real danger. >> native american arrowheads are known to be found in this area which means flint is there , josh myers and were in this park after dark trying to exploit the preservation. >> being destroyed by large excavation holes large enough to swallow your truck. it is also an endangerment to the other users in the area. >> this investigator who asked to not show his face says he caught the men red-handed. >> they were stealing them they

dug soil. >> swc tracked down the two deep in the woods. >> people tell me this is pretty common, people traveling through the neighborhood at night to come to this state park to go digging for cultural artifacts. it was one of those residents who called fwc saying that she saw very suspicious activity. >> excavation equipment being offloaded out of a >> the tip led to this arrest. fwc says as long as people will pay for the artifacts there will be people trying to tear up the park. >> there is a market and a trade for indian artifacts. >> adam winer abc action news. an update to a remarkable story from yesterday, we are hearing from an oregon firefighter being hailed a hero,

outside the building and pulled the fire alarm getting everyone safely outside before a gas explosion and fire went off. he tried to the gas line but it was too late. >> next thing i knew there was an explosion, i saw the explosion from the basement to the third floor.>> he says the blast tossed him 20 feet in the air, he blacked out broke both of his legs, he and seven others were hurt but everyone is expected to live. you may notice having a tough time logging onto some of your favorite websites it may be due to a massive hack on the internet. here is a live map showing you outages on the website netflix. you can see the big red bull's- eye over new york and pennsylvania, the attacks are overwhelming online servers locking users out of the sites, authorities are not sure who is

trying to cut down on their kids exposure to screens pay attention. the american academy of pediatrics says children younger than two years old should avoid digital media altogether except for video chatting with family and friends. for children between two and five consider limiting screen time to one hour per day, when kids enter kindergarten it is a good idea to put together a family media plan. a baby has one tell, a bomb gave birth to a baby girl twice. during an ultrasound doctors found a tumor on the baby's tailbone so doctors perform fetal surgery, they removed 90% of the tumor and then placed the fetus back inside of her mother, she gave birth a second time 12 weeks later via c- section the new board had another surgery to remove the rest of the tumor before going

weather. that was pretty intense. that is remarkable. >> i don't think i have ever heard of that before taking the baby out to do the surgery and putting the baby back. interesting. >> the weather is changing all the time, all right, island, you can see how gorgeous it is, beautiful beach day, temperatures in the mid- 80s today, take a look in hillsborough county most of the temperatures in the low to mid 80s, 84 brandon, 83 apollo beach , 83 tampa, let's look across manatee county braided to beach to 78, 82 degrees palmetto, 82 parish. still warm out there, and we have a cold front rolling

tomorrow morning when you wake up, not so much early this evening, 83 degrees in tampa, 82 clearwater at saint pete a lot of sunshine out there, and the wind direction has changed, we are now behind the front, cooler dryer air starting to filter in, but it takes a while to settle in and become noticeable especially with the sunshine. here's where the frontal system is basically on top of tampa bay so the cooler areas to the north trying the state, it will happen give it a couple of hours and you will notice a difference. if you are out tonight, you will still be on the relatively warm side, it is after midnight we start to notice the changes. talking about changes, these are the dew points, right now 67 this is a measure of how much moisture is in the air and when we are in the upper 60s it feels pretty humid but take a look at how the dry air over

filter in and we're going to see dew points on the 40s. this is going way down, it will feel like fall with this dryer air in place, with the dryer air it allows temperatures to come down overnight, which we will see for sure overnight tonight. by 10:00 tomorrow morning if you plan on taking the kids to the little monsters pumpkin patch for fall fun, from 11:00 until 3:00 it is going gorgeous but it is off to a close start, by 11:00 70 degrees and by noon 77, 74 by 2:00. that is where we are coming out with high temperatures, morning lows across the area ranging from the low 50s in citrus county, maybe a locally cool temperature in the upper 40s,

in the mid to upper 50s along the coastline, it is going to be in the low 60s, quite a change from what we have seen lately quite a bit below the average for this time of year and the same deal for the afternoon high, 76 the high tomorrow, on sunday we start off even cooler with most of the lows in the low to mid 50s and then topping out around 79. the rest of the week, a gradual warm-up slight chances for rain as we see the pattern change a little bit and another weak front rolling through, again this gorgeous fall weekend had been waiting for, the boot weather, maybe an extra layer at night or in the morning a cooler start on saturday and then sunday a cooler morning but a warmer afternoon. all in all looking fantastic with very little chance for rain to interrupt what you have got going on through the weekend into the next week. back to you. nearly compacted in the back of a garbage truck, the

truck. and the one thing the driver

a kentucky woman counting your blessings after she climbed into a dumpster and wound up getting dumped in the

she climbed inside looking for a dry place to spend the night and instead she was rescued this morning after the driver heard someone yelling, fortunately he just started his route and didn't need to use the compactor. >> i heard her yelling, i got up there and she was hanging in the hopper. >> crews took the woman to the dumpster so she could find her purse and warned that dumpsters are only meant for trash. throughout the campaign season we told you about people having from their yards, now a michigan woman is making sure this doesn't happen to her again. she has booby-trapped her trump signs spreading use cat litter around the signs to board away thieves, given his recent locker room banter she says she is enjoying the irony. >> i do think it is rather ironic and humorous because now my little cats my pussycats are

the chum campaign. >> it seems the traps have worked, she has not had any more problems with her signs. here's wendy ryan with a look at what is coming up next. an investigation connected to josi fernandez death and the key item missing from some florida ballots leading to a lawsuit. plus these top stories. forced to ride to this spot with a man threatening to kill her, coming up the brave acts that most likely saved her life. an issue dividing the nation, the use of deadly force. for the first time we take you inside training and the split- second decisions officers need to make. pregnant women feeling left in the dark with zika information coming up we asked the governor why there is a lack of transparency with

breaking news in hillsborough county, crews just entering their third hour searching for a missing man in the water of the courtney campbell causeway, action air 1 over the scene, the unidentified victim getting stuck on a sandbar, he got out to push the boat free and then vanished in the water. where monitoring the story closely we will bring you the latest developments on-air and online at abcactionnews.com. good evening i'm wendy >> and i'm jamison uhler, tonight authorities say that he choked her tried to glue her mouth shut and tried to kill her. >> the discrete move that may have saved a woman's life. there are a handful of things the victim and a stranger did that may have completely changed the outcome of the story, one involves a flashlight and a willingness to risk his