morning so by 7:00 a.m. sunrise by the way just before that. 6:47 at 65 and then we jump to 80. plenty of sunshine a few clouds rolling through the afternoon but dry throughout the entire day and by 7:00 temperatures in the middle 70s. we do have a front coming in tomorrow and our next shot of showers talk more about that and what happens behind it with cooler and dryer air moving in in just a few minutes. >> good morning everybody. if you are heading over to st. pete want to avoid the howard franklin. a serious crash blocking all but one lane to get by this crash. again this happened about 30 minutes ago so still pretty new crash. no word on how long those lanes are going to be blocked. and we are starting to see some delays. again this is heading southbound on the howard franklin. you can see the back up starts right up when you get to this crash. you might want to consider take one of the other bridges

right here and of course on twitter at tampa bay traffic. >> thanks. it is election day 2016 and the state of florida is still too close to call right now. the latest poll show hilary clinton with a razor thin lead over donald trump 46 to 45%. abc action news james is in hillsborough county which could be important in this election. good morning. >> good morning. this is a county that candidates and 19 of the last 20 elections the winner--[audio problems] >> we've also got a few reminders. we want to apologize for james live shot there but as you head to the polls the top three things you need to know. first know your polling place. second bring a valid id. poll workers will be checking

and lastly know the vote by mail deadline. vote by mail ballots have to be at the supervisor election office no later than 7:00 tonight. floridans are voting in record numbers. more now than in 2000. back in 2000 less than 6 million people voted in the it became an issue. and minorities voting in record numbers there's been a surge of latino voters in early voting. as of friday 200,000 more voted early than four years ago. ballots from asian americans doubled here in florida, arizona, virginia and north carolina. asian americans make up 1 to 2% of any state's total voters. >> both candidates worked into

voters last minute. lady gaga and john bon jovi came out in support of her. earlier president obama and first lady michelle obama in philadelphia. other guests including jay z and beyonce, james taylor and katy perry. >> what i saw before i came in and what i see now is a sense of potential, of joy. there is no reason my why america's best days are not ahead of us. if we reach for them together! . >> her running mate tim kaine stayed in his home state in virginia. clinton leads in the polls there but the race has tightened recently. donald trump says he doesn't need celebrities to win he just needs good ideas. he ended his last night on the campaign trail in grand rapids,

move of targeting democratic states near the great lakes. mike pence visited minnesota yesterday with a final message to the voters. >> if we don't win i will consider this the single greatest waste of time, energy, wow do you need energy for this. the single greatest waste of time, energy and money. i'll have over $100 million-- >> trump has taken a more restrained tone in elizabeth warren calling her pokohontas. >> download our app and live streaming election coverage on abc action news.com. a woman stole campaign signs from the same house twice in the last week all caught on surveillance cameras. late last week a man and woman pulled up to land of lakes home

out of the ground. the owner put up a new sign the next day and days later the very same woman came back and did it again. >> in a way it surprises me because these are my neighbors. clearly she didn't hop off the interstate in her golf cart to come steal clinton signs. >> if you have any idea who this person is contact the pasco county sheriff's office. >> take a look at this a young girl caught stealing a trump si appears an older person in a car is driving and helping her. you can see her run to a white vehicle as it exercise down the street. neighbors say the young girl also stole another trump sign from the neighbor's yard before being caught on camera. >> one of the big races the 13 13th congressional district in pinellas county facing former florida governor charlie crist.

after i was a republican nominee said we want to give you $1 million for your campaign and i told them i don't want it. i'm not going to take it. i refuse to do so. we ended up winning that campaign anyway but i can't be bought and sold and i never will be. >> the race between jolly and crist has included dirty ads one using a photo shopped picture of david jolly standing next to donald trump. the ads were won by a na campaign. >> they confront each other's records. what is not okay is the mud slinging. there's an ad that calls me dangerous. my six-year-old niece asked why are they calling uncle david dangerous. that's wrong. >> according to st. pete polls crist has a 5 point lead in this race. >> the other big local congressional race will be watching closely two women

kathy caster facing off against christine quinn in florida's congressional district. castor seeking her 6th term and quinn running for office for the first time. you can vote from almost anywhere even outer space. astronaut shane kimbrel filed his ballot for president obama board the international space station. >> if you are voting here on our planet this is what we have west coast looks just fine. no issues here as far as problems with weather. 64 in denver. moving through the ohio valley and states across the region getting rainfall through ohio into michigan as well. western pa, philly looks good. in fact the entire 95 corridor is not going to have an issue including us as we've been

tomorrow but for us locally here looking great. temperatures in the 60s getting back into the low 80s this afternoon ending the day closing polls with temperatures in the mid 70s and partly cloudy skies. we'll talk more about that front and what to expect there after in a few minutes. >> thanks ivan. 5:38. a little league field of dreams turns into a nightmare. how criminals kept kids from

at a local little league are unable to play and nothing to do with their skill levels. their field has been vandalized multiple times and they want it to stop. >> ashley, do league officials have any idea who might be responsible? >> well the president tells us he likes to think that it is kids because hard to believe that any self respecting adult would do something like this. take a look at this video. here's a closer look at the type of damage they are dealing with. on friday someone splattered this paint all over their new dug out dealing with vandalism since the end of july. their field construction is delayed and someone decided to do donuts in the out field. parents and officials don't know why someone would knowingly destroy property that they don't own.

i've been here too long, too many hours, games, volunteer and it does hurt. >> and the damage has cost the league about $10,000. that's after raising nearly $200,000 to build the field in the first place. now the plan is to open the field in time for the spring season. and the league says that they do plan to add security cameras but of course they are going to have to raise money for that because news. a california mom is furious with her kid's school right now. cafeteria workers gave her children juice with mold in it. one of the juice boxes was six days past the expiration date. she wants an answer but so far not commenting. the sell by date is reliable if the juice is stored properly.

there. temperatures in the 60s, good morning tampa bay. looking fine at 65 in the city right now. st. pete at 68. 60 in the hills and you work your way up and it's cooler up to the north in the upper 50s pretty typical for this time of year as we check in on our temperatures and how they were yesterday running two to five degrees cooler. maybe we'll see something interesting here. look at that charlotte at 39 right canada but it's bumping up against the appalachians mountains here so that allows for temperatures to stay chilly through an extended period of the morning. we are going to stay mild. eventually we'll get a front coming through here and drop our temperatures a little bit but our weather is coming from the north and west although i think this rainfall will be done by the time it gets here.

with limited moisture rain chances and still thinking only about 20% if that as the front moves through so again pretty much a dry frontal passage that will cool us off a little bit. the clouds once again like yesterday today rolling through making a pretty sky out there with a northeast wind. not as strong by the way so i don't think we are going to have the breeze we had yesterday. 82 with a high temperature a couple of degrees above average but we'll go a couple of degrees below average on wednesday mainly not because of the front. the cloud cover and then we do get into dryer air coming through the day on thursday setting us up for a nice kick off to your friday. a lot of sunshine on veterans day upper 70s overnight temperatures in the 50s. >> good morning everybody. we have an update on the crash on the howard franklin in the southbound lanes a crash with injuries. fhp sergeant gas con is telling me this crash should clear soon. apparently a teen driver was

injuries reported with this crash. one lane getting through but he does expect this to clear soon. let's go ahead and take a look on the map the back up building heading southbound towards st. pete. if you are closer to the courtney campbell or the gandee save yourself a few minutes. couple of other crashes in hillsborough fletcher west of nebraska road blocks there. a crash at mlk and high view road. for more on these twitter@tampa bay traffic. >> thank you. history is any indicator hillsborough county could be very telling in the presidential election. in 19 of the last 20 elections the winner of hillsborough county wins not only the state of florida but the election. hillsborough county has been shown to be a great reflector of the state's age and racial

predicter. they are out pacing by 28,000 ballots. however that does not tell us who those votes are for. that many more democrats voting early than republicans. the county reported last friday 71% of ballots issued had been returned. the car sharing service zip car is helping people vote tonight by giving you free rides with a car rental making 7,000 cars available to members and there is a flaw. promotion runs from 6 to 10 tonight. the polls close at 7 and on the mobile app. 5:47. now a washington state man is facing charges after he says he was trying to protect himself facing charges for accidentally shooting a grandmother next door. deputies say he opened fire on a thief who was stealing his car thursday night but a stray bullet went through the window

slept. he is now facing manslaughter charges. a jury awarded $300 million to the administrator who sued rolling stone magazine for defaming her in a story about campus rape. that story was later reattracted and filed a lawsuit claiming her as indifferent and callus to a woman who claimed she was raped on campus. rolling stone apologized after police found no evidence to back up woman in wyoming was trying to make a meal when her salad dressing exploded like a fire cracker. >> it's hard to explain i was attacked by a bottle of salad dressing. i think he probably thought i was into whiskey or something. >> she took pictures to prove her story. she later found out that dorothy lynch salad dressing had been recalled. bacteria in the dressing could make it bubble up, foam, spew

the dressing went everywhere damaging her computer carpet and walls estimating at $2,500 of damage. an oklahoma man takes a different approach to handling a home intruder, sevenned him- -served him coffee and prayed with him. he barged through brown's back door and told him he had just stolen two cars. >> i spent an hour with him trying to keep him calm. finally called a friend and in the conversation she asked me do i need to call the police and i said yes. >> brown is a former minister. he says the intruder asked him to pray for him. >> tampa bay lightning continued to give up goals in the first period and last night in south florida the bolts offense couldn't bail out the defense. the lightning did catch a break in the third period. andre jumps on the loose puck

game up one a piece. bad to this goal by reilly smith. the lightning go on to lose 3-1 as the bolts fifth loss in the past seven games. >> snakes on a plane. well one. >> that's one too many. united press international is reporting that that snake is a venomous green viper. it was posted to social media by a passenger on aero mexico. you can see right there the green snake there the plane was given priority to land and the snake was then caught. the airline is now investigating to find out how that snake got onto the plane. >> too much for me. >> on this election day you can take advantage of a lot of freebies. >> ahead we have one of the sweetest deals of the day. >> and also a little girl who uses her skill with a blow torch to help veterans.

morning 5:53. you have to have a really terrible phone to not capture spectacular images the last few days across tampa bay. any phone point and click and share it with folks. look at richard shot there yesterday unbelievable stuff and this is the time of year with beautiful sunrises and sunsets and no thunderstorms to speak of. sometimes you do get weather

move through quietly tomorrow. 63, generally upper 60s at the airport in tampa and it will be about 82 through this afternoon do that with partly cloudy skies and plenty of sunshine as well. doppler radar quiet. be able to see where our weather is coming from. north and west this front get us with a few showers tomorrow and talk about fantastic weather behind it and details on that coming up. of election day freebies, krispy kreme giving away donuts for everyone with an i voted sticker today. 7 eleven with the app free coffee. bob evans 30% off your order and finally work off your election day stress and that free donut at gold's gym by showing your sticker. >> and perhaps drink this election day the beer is

anyone mentioning the election day promotion but limited to one beer per person. >> we all have a case of election fatigue and it's manifesting in hallucinations for some people. >> one texas town a bird is a local celebrity because some say it looks like donald trump. decide for yourself. it's been nicknamed trump bird because of the tuft on the top of its head. i can kind of see he's for sale where he's bringing in a lot of foot traffic. someone actually calls the bird the fryer ka naturey because of the bowl cut. the california girl who is not old enough to vote yet is honoring america's war veterans by welding. >> 8-year-old kayla field makes american flags by welding together horse shoes welding after only 7 after watching her dad.

paving art is a way to give back to the men and women who serve our country. >> i would like to thank them for their service and dedication for serving our community, our country and our world. >> one of kayla's flags was put on display at the office of the local county board of supervisors. when she grows up she wants to weld for the u.s. navy. >> good for her. and a 6-year-old girl in the uk not only standing up for her younger brother with autism but also pushing for change wrote this letter to the school requesting that students learn about invisible disabilities inspired to write that letter after a girl in her class called her brother weird. now the family hopes it can be taught in schools country wide. one of the bay area's most popular sporting events the grand pre. >> and indy cars will be racing through st. pete. st. pete hosts march 10 through the 12. tickets for the race weekend go

prices start at $105. just about 5:57. coming up at 6 we are just hours away from polls opening on this election day. what you need to know before you head out to cast your ballot. and the things federal agents are watching out for. plus votes have already been cast in one small town. the poll was opened and closed all while you were sleeping. the reason behind this coming

6:00 and election day is here, the day when we pick the next leader of our nation. >> and both of the candidates not wasting a moment campaigning into early this morning to make one last push to sway voters around the country. >> early voting numbers hit

and the same expected today. what voters need to know before they head out to the polls. >> thanks for waking up with abc on election day tuesday. getting close here. dan schafer. >> good morning i'm dea reilly. we are ready for it to be over. breaking down what to expect and what to bring with you. >> but first will you need an umbrella with you. >> no. >> there's your simple answer from ivan. >> sun on you. looking good. by the time the polls open we'll have sun out there. how about that. 60 in brooksville, 50s in crystal river. at 7:00 about 65. there's the sunrise at 6:47. by noon time perhaps going out and boating for lunch temperatures low 80s, 82 by 4: 00 and at 7 at 76.