for her family's health and safety. she came to the haines city's community center to look for answers meeting with a local lawmaker to help spark some change.>> i am pissed off at the world. >> this mother's frustration like many in mulberry left in the dark about the toxic sinkhole nearby. >> it is easy to sit back and blame them but i am not worried about the blame. i just want to know >> she noticed the water changing colors it was tested last weekend, preliminary results show it is clean but that is not providing this mother relief. >> i am terrified i may have given her cancer over this.>> several new holes in the pipelines it will have a huge impact on florida's wetlands. >> the sierra club urging the feds to step in and prevent phosphate mining in florida.

economic driver. >> phosphate supplies more than 6000 jobs between two companies, 75% of all phosphate in the us is shipped from florida. >> i am not calling personally for prohibition, i just think we need the army corps of engineers. >> ryan smith abc action news. mosaic released a statement saying shutting down one of florida's most important industries would also put of your neighbors out of work and jeopardize our work to help farmers throughout america grow the food we need. the mayor of st. peter laying out his plans to fix the sewage problems plaguing his city, his short- term goal is to spend $45 million by april his short-term goal is to spend $45 million by april 2019. he wants to spend another $259 million by 2021 going toward mining, feeling and reliability

more than $300 million. right now the city needs to raise half of the amount. a one-year-old child fell walking on a road alone wearing just a dirty diaper, two adults facing serious charges. pasco county deputies finding the boy on arcadia road in holiday. jonathan parker and kelly chris left him outside unsupervised in an area with hazards including exposed males. the boy managed fence and block 200 feet down a road unnoticed. three people behind bars after leading deputies on a pursuit on i-4 action air 1 capturing the end of the ordeal that put other drivers endanger. someone spotted the three suspects stealing lawn equipment from a home this morning. deputies pursued them onto i-4 where the thieves crashed into a ditch. all three try to render

the sheriff will update us on an accident that injured a deputy and killed a woman. >> we have charles lewis known as charlie lewis, 71 years of age in custody. here is how it happened. the crimestoppers tip came in, it gave us information to include a blue ford pickup truck, our homicide team from traffic investigations turned down the street looking for the house. they did not have a house number, they were prepared to go door to door when low and behold, who is driving down the road in a blue pickup truck but our suspect charlie lewis. we took him into custody, he confessed. he said he was drinking that night, he saw the deputy, he saw the deputies car, he did not see the deputy.

he said that he did not remember hitting anyone, so he went on home. he did not stop, he left them for dead. he admitted later that he knew that he hit something but he never sought any people. he has painted himself in the right light, in his opinion. in the proper light in his opinion. but, he did admit that he did exactly what we suspected him of. said please tell them i am sorry. it is a little too late. i can tell you right now, that our crime scene folks are in the process of doing some investigation, some crime scene investigation of the scene, then we will move the truck to

winter haven, florida. we have already done a presumptive test for human blood on the vehicle which came back positive. the investigation is ongoing. there is still a lot of work to do, we suspect that charles lewis, charlie lewis has talked to other people, we know that on the night of the event, he was at a party, he was at a party drinking. >> listening in to the sheriff as he is updating us on a crash a deadly hit and run from over the weekend in polk county that killed a mother as well as injured a deputy. listening to the arrest of 71- year-old charlie lewis driving a blue ford pickup truck at the time, he confessed to drinking. >> he said he does not remember hitting someone but he did admit some thing happen, he was

it was him and it was his blue pickup truck he said please tell them i am sorry. of course it is a little too late now. they did test the truck for human blood and it tested positive, the investigation is ongoing, christopher lewis excuse me charles lewis now the suspect arrested in the hit and run accident. we will now go to denis with a look at the weather. >> now, the most accurate weather team in florida, action weather. >> looking at a few showers, one popping up in sumter county, a few more in hardee county, an outside chance folks are heading over to raymond james doing some tailgating. there is the outside chance of a few showers, you can seem very close to raymond james stadium right this second. while this is very light stuff it will only last for a few minutes, it is something you may run into for the next couple of hours, other than that things clear up nicely, we

at futurecast show showers long gone by 9:30 or 10:00. the hour by hour forecast partly cloudy to clear overnight, a front arrives tomorrow, how it will impact your weekend in a few minutes. in the past year no candidate on the intro kept the fact checkers busier than donald trump. five days to go until the election. how trump fared this year when he was put through the truth meter.>> the examination of trump claims trail and debates found 15% received the highest rating of true or mostly true. they also found 34% of his statements to be false. 17% received the worst rating of all, pants on fire.>> nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records ordered deported from our country are roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

trump made that claim about illegal immigrants during his acceptance speech at the rnc. we went to the data finding nearly 1,000,000 immigrants in the us had been ordered removed but were still in the country as of july 2015. an estimated 20% had at least one criminal conviction. >> there is a lot of truth to the statement but there is a little bit more information you need to know. >> some of the im some are being monitored by law enforcement. politifact rating the claim is mostly true. no stringent controversy on twitter trump tweeted three weeks before election day claiming large-scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. offering no proof, but affect looked into it. >> the supervisor of elections would be on the watch for this but often they are the ones most critical of trump's

instances of the voter fraud are extremely rare rating the trump claim as pants on fire. >> trump made enough claims to provide nearly 300 fact checks, more than 100 more than rival the clinton. for more insight into the fact checks and a look at the nearly 500 claims find them all at and a look at the nearly 500 claims find them all@politifact.com. >> clear the building now. dramatic video and unexpected eyewitnesses that made this the

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a new incentive for your help finding a killer and unknown man gunning down christopher dexter at an apartment complex on 113th avenue east in tampa, please call crime stoppers if you know anything about the case. a 15-year-old boy the first in

new law cracking down on violent threats against schools. the pasco county sheriff's office says the teenager told police he was going to shoot up the high school today. the thread appears to have been a joke but students knew the tougher law was coming. >> we can compare it to not saying bomb on an airplane. you don't ever say bomb on an airplane as we all know. this is the >> the student has not been in serious trouble before the arrest, the attorney's office will decide where the case goes from here. police arrested a man who impregnated a 13-year-old girl. officers charging the 26-year- old. the victim is from guatemala. she has only been in the us for one year. she told them they were in love. >> democracy 2016. numbers showing marco rubio expanding his lead in the final

patrick murphy is behind by six points. rubio was ahead by two points two weeks ago. rubio now has a 16 point lead with independent voters. amc theater teaming up with cnn to bring you live coverage on election night dedicating its within square theater to democratic supporters and its regency 20 theater in brandon to republican supporters. doors open at 6:30 with the event beginning when the polls close at 7:00. bradenton police unraveling a deadly shooting. investigators say two men were arguing before the shooting. only the second homicide in the town this year. the future of a landmark in doubt, plans are in the work to replace janice live and surrounding businesses with a

has submitted a building application to the city, but the city says the application is not complete. the saint pete mayor is against the idea so it is not clear how far the project will go. we know you want answers about the issues facing all of us and we have a way for you to let us know what you are wondering about, click on the good question logo on abcactionnews.com tell us what we can get to the bottom of for you. shows dramatic moments out of seminole county, deputies in the middle of drive training yesterday when a small plane makes an emergency landing on their track. you can see it coming down the plane hits a fence just yards away from cars. the pilot walked out without a

>> we have the buccaneers game across the street. >> if you're looking at the beach it looks great. showers closer to home closer to downtown closer to polk county, looking from the mainsail another beautiful day. a little bit warm for some folks typically we should be 81 we haven't closer to 86 or 87. there are out there, so if you're going over to raymond james stadium for the game there could be a few sprinkles over the next couple of hours. they will only last three, four, five minutes but just to the east of the stadium there is a shower and everything is moving from east to west so this is something you may want to keep your eyes on. i don't think it will be a problem for the game but for

the field or the game itself. temperatures now in the upper 70s to the mid-80s and no lightning which is a big concern for the buccaneers especially after what happened earlier on this season. temperatures today topping out at 88 in sarasota, 86 tampa, low 80s from lakeland to bartow clearwater 82. crystal river and up north 86 degrees. temperature can be mostly cloudy but it is dry, 83 degrees. clearwater 79, saint pete at 80 degrees. there's the satellite. a little bit of everything today, spotty showers turn to pop up some sunny periods, some cloudy periods but the temperatures remain well above normal, that will be changing starting late tomorrow. i will stress this, this will not be a blast of cold air, you will not have a refreshing sunday or monday morning or need the sweater or sweatshirt or boots, but you will notice

tomorrow morning we will be the same. kind of muggy to start the day but then through the afternoon all of a sudden here comes the front. ahead of it a decent chance of an isolated shower, 10% to 20% the best chance of north because the further south that goes the weaker it gets. tomorrow afternoon or evening we can't write off a shower a 20% chance for the seven date. -- day forecast. a lot of clouds on saturday i think we will see more clouds than son, not overcast but kind of breezy, more clouds than son and temperatures in the upper 70s, you can see the cloud cover through the afternoon but it will stay mostly dry maybe an easterly shower on melbourne toward daytona. on sunday a little more sunshine and a little less car cover still temperatures averaging the upper 70s as a

80s. tomorrow we will see highs in the middle 80s because the front will not come in until 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon. the cooler air behind it will have had a chance to warm up to the daily hike in the mid-80s across most of the area. if you're taking the boat out starting tomorrow also saturday and sunday it will be gusty northeast winds at 10 to 15 knots, small craft exercise caution could be issued saturday morning into the afternoon. water temperature, 73 degrees in clearwater. you look at your upcoming tides, sunrise and sunset you will get the hour of sleep back on saturday night into sunday morning. here's a look at your forecast partly cloudy overnight maybe an isolated shower, no longer than five minutes, not a big deal, temperatures cooling off in the upper 60s, wake-up time so it will be a muggy start to

by saturday and sunday i have quite a few clouds saturday, it will be breezy but cooler. highs in the upper 70s around 80 degrees, a little more sunshine on sunday with morning lows in the low to mid 60s, but we will see some 50s in the northern counties, as i mentioned, saturday night, sunday morning, you get that one hour of sleep, with temperatures kind of cool, wake- up time sunday in the 50s to the do to the breaking news our special report on the fight against human trafficking will air tomorrow night on abc action news at 6:00. still ahead, the falcons and buccaneers are getting rained -- ready to tingle in

hello everybody, welcome to raymond james stadium last night we said this may not begin seven of the world series but it is important for the tampa bay buccaneers. a win tonight would keep them with the atlanta falcons in the nfc south, the falcons coming into this game with a five and three record tampa bay at 3-4 to add to the extravaganza tonight, it will be a big night for john lynch as he will be inducted into the buccaneers team ring of honor at halftime. the nine time pro bowler will lead the team carrying the buccaneer flag, if you did not have a chance to see him in action listen in to buccaneer defensive coordinator mike smith

play. >> a hitter. the scheme that he played in was perfect for him. you know, he is a guy that was very active both in the run and pass. but, when you came in his area, you knew you were going to get hit and it was going to be physical and clean. that is the one thing about watching john play. >> all right, down the road done lightning play host. andre will be in the net, congratulations to the chicago cubs, they arrived in chicago in the middle of the night world series champions. no more curse, guess what, all

hangover. >> i can only imagine that will be some parade.>> all right, abcactionnews.com is the place to go for all of today's top stories. >> we will see you back here

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