of their devastation are out helping people. >> lindsay and her family with leaving to drive the donations to louisiana that people need so badly. good for her. >> the community has to come together and help them out for sure. >> and that's what they are doing -- >> search is on for a violent car jacker. >> police say he attacked an 81-year-old man and left him to that would be very, very, very serious. >> and police don't think it was ram done. random. >> and never robbed in rio, these two olympic swimmers in the u.s. would be facing charges. >> and a deadly salt water bacteria strikes again but this time the person got it out of

81-year-old former marine and retired teacher was attacked, robbed and left for dead in his own backyard. it happened yesterday afternoon on 20th street in old seminole heights and police are still looking for o his attacker. evan, you talked to the victim's family this afternoon, how is this gentleman doing? >> chris, 81-year-old alfred watton is in critical condition in the icu according to his family. just in the past few hours police have given the name of a person of interest. >> a struggle or something happened and he was knocked out and he stole the van. >> 81-year-old alfred watton's son-in-law called alfred a fighter and he didn't wanted to be identified because he fears

could come back. >> his daughter and son are worried and just had watching and prayin'. >> watton family is desperate for positive news. wednesday, someone left the former marine and long time school teacher and guidance counselor for dead, after he was attacked in the backyard of his home where he lay for hours suffering from severe head injuries. >> we think about 1:30 in the afternoon, a family member noticed that the car was missing but it was several hours later when he was discovered critically injured in the backyard of his house. >> carlos cordero, 37 was named as a person of interest after he did some house work for watton and he was the last person had

hoping he can answer some questions. this is the van 2014 red kia sedona and this is the license plate number, z4swc. watton's family is hoping the man who fought in the korean war has one more battle left in him. >> there is no prognosis right now. >> anyone who knows cordero or has information or has seen that police. >> a violent guy, let's hope he is caught soon. >> well, this wrong-way driver call turned into a ch chase and then ended up with a carjacking and a man in cuffs. josh, just by the little bit of video i could tell it's a wild one. >> yeah, you know that chase looked like something you would see in l.a.

make no mistake there were living on the line. this was about 3:00 in the afternoon yesterday. deputies say this guy on a motorcycle was first seen going the wrong way on i-4. later on in the video he is seen taking off, hitting high speeds and just flying by other drivers. he is going go into this gas station and buys a shirt to try to such luck, sorry, guy, the chopper stays over him and then things really go off the rails. he is out in the middle of 60 trying to carjack vehicles and tries to carjack the driver, but the driver has had enough and boom, hits him in the face and sends him flying out of the truck.

>> i was just pushing on him trying to keep from him getting inside my truck, and like i said he was up on my lap and he had a good swing and caught me right on the eye, it was swelled up and stuff. >> and you see right here that bruise in his mugshot, this is 22-year-old corey johnson jr. -- they say he is not cooperating with the investigation. cynthia he has some legal troubles ahead and an eye that needs to heal. >> we can certainly see the black eye, that is a crazy story, thanks so much, josh cascio. >> and another twist in the case of the u.s. olympic swimmers who claim to have been robbed at gunpoint in rio. rio officials are now

owe rio an peeling. apology. >> this was become a headline for the troubles troubles olymd the cause of a diplomatic dispute between brazil and the u.s. >> the guy pulled out his gun anded it and put it to my forehead and and i said, whatever. he took my money and my wallet. >> but then the details changed, the gun was not held to his head but pointed in his direction and their taxi was not pulled over by gunman but now he says they were robbed while at a gas station, but brazilian authorities say it was a dispute between four drunk american who

bathroom and then tried to leave without paying for the damage. this is video surveillance and they are ordered possibly at gun point to sit on the curb after the americans tried to leave. >> at this exact moment what the police can confirm is there was no robbery in the way that it was reported by the athletes. they were not the victim of the criminal facts the aeady c this. >> steve harigan fox news. >> and we just got this video into the news room that shows two of the american swimmers at the airport in rio tonight waiting to board a flight for miami. they were pulled off of their flight yesterday to be questioned. police say they will not face charges because they never claimed they were robbed. lochte is already back in the u.s. having left before the judge ordered his passport

brazil. filing a false police report in brazil is punishable by a fine or six months in prison. >> and a deadly bacteria is to blame for a death in florida. this is vibrio vulnificus and living in warm, brackish seawater, and we know that the victim contracted the disease by eating raw case raw oysters. >> those individuals who have a compromised immune system are the most susceptible and say you go into the water with an open wound, you put yourself or you have a diabetic ulcer, that micro organism can penetrate into that wound and then get into the bloo blood stream and n take hold very, very quickly.

days. >> nothing to fool around with. when a person getting vibrio the area gets red and blisters and those blisters fill with fluid and shock can follow. as dr. jo mentioned this bacteria can take hold of you quickly and so you have to get medical attention right away. >> and five failing which receive ed a d. d grade m the state are working with parents and teachers on a plan. the plan includes adding academic coaches and the district had said aside more resources but the message to parents was the schools cannot do this alone.

have all of the information, what we are doing to help them improve but it's going to take us, the community and the parents to improve the school. >> if the state does not approve the plan closer is not the only option. a third party could come in or they were move into a district approved program. and this new school is now open. students have been more than a week but it's not official until you cut the giant ribbon. pinellas county spend $65 million to replace buildings constructed in 1957. >> that is right, it's not official until you have the giant sissens. scissors.>> okay, it's pretty sn louisiana. more than a dozen dead and thousands of homes destroyed by

not the only ones needing help. >> it's all about working together to save as many lives as possible. >> four-legged flood victims are finding sanctuary right here in tampa. >> and we showed you the flames yet, tonight we'll show you the extent of the damage to the home of a family driven out lightning-caused fire. >> and a shift in the wind

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open until just after 2:00 a.m., and one flo florida family is tg to figure wh out what they can l salvage after their very large home goes up in flames. crais fire crews say it was a tl a woman and minor were inside the home but managed to escape had safely. the dad was on his way back from orlando when he got the call. >> me and my mom just ran out of the house, didn't really grab anything, because we needed to get out of there as soon as possible. >> dad went back in and was able to safe a few photos and a few other items. their next step is dealing with the insurance company to see how

>> the raging floodwaters are finally starting to recede in louisiana but the suffering is far from over. the death toll is up to 13, 40,000 homes damaged and some are calling on president obama to break away from his family vacation to visit the state. we do hear from the president has been br briefed about the situation and has approved federal disaster the area, but the flooding is not just taking a toll on people, but on al m animals as . today a number of dogs arrived in florida from louisiana and they were not lost dogs but were moving from shelters there to shelters in florida so shelters in louisiana would take in the thousands of dogs that are

your neighbors whether they are across country lines or out of state. >> these are dogs waiting to be adopted in louisiana shelters hy puppies and small-breed dogs. and right now they are getting spayed and neuters and micro chips and louisiana has some really interesting dogs up there, they have a i think it's called a c breed dogs with spots. >> the same happens with katrina. >> and thank goodness there are shelters that can make room for them. >> still dealing with the left-over rain, there will be more showers in louisiana this weekend but of course nothing like they just witnessed. we are taking about looking ahead to a height at the end of

our average high drops to 89. it's not much and you remember most of october and november and some of december we were 85 to 90 every day, but it's something, and someone thing if you want cooler weather we are rapidly losing daytime in the evening. we lost about 24 minutes of daylight since back in june. the duration of the heat is not as bad, but plenty of at the beach this morning. a great place to be until about 3:30, 4:00 when the clouds began to thicken and the people on the beach go whoa, here come the clouds and rain. some of the rain was heavy. here is a look at skytower tonight, the big batch of rain lining up along the coasts has

couple of random showers developing in some of the bay area, and if usual watching in sarasotaor myers is and that extends up 75. electricthere is a up on the che sarasota line. this rain will probably get over north port and the rain in arcadia will slide to the west. so there's a couple more to deal with in our southern counties. beside that, if you've been outside, it's b been a great night. the and cooled off and then we went to the east as the full ster sturgeon moon is y single day we are a degree or two away from 92, except for a

the seabreeze today was pinned right along the coast, and the real activity got going along the beaches and the sea breeze collapses and the storms move away. right now 70's and low 80's and the future cast shows the beginning of a weather patterntt more in the way of a sea breeze. >> a din breeze tomorrow and that should continue over the weekend. we have not seen a lot of west wind this summer. we can get into a pattern -- the ridge axis is goes to slide to the south and that means especially over the weekend, here is tropical storm had fiona.

caribbean in about five to seven days. we are tracking that and that one could be interesting. slow-moving storms could drift inland during the day, and the forecast for saturday is partly cloudy with storms moving inland and we are back up near 90. your seven-day is 90's for a high and 70 to 80 for >> we a proud to bring you this story, an emotional reunion, two months in the making. >> look at that, these parents greeting their children after two years. years. >> we have some very interesting changes on the election math and

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government. >> and ever since then they've been trying to get their daughters out. the moment they had been waiting for came after help from congressman jolly. >> -- i come here to the -- (kissing sounds). >> congressman jolly presented them with two american that flew over the capitol building, a gift sign signifying their new freedoms. >> and we had our first fight of the joint practice, we'll have the details on that. and this takes us down mory road, a trip they took here 20

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to what matters most. bright house networks. >> two good days of joint practice are in the books here from jacksonville. the bucs and the jags are go their separate ways before reunited on the field on did you dirk koetter says his td ramped up but there was a fight tonight. with fowler swinging on marpet and fowler was kicked out of practice at that point. we were not able to catch video because it ended so quickly but overall it was more of a chippy outing.

intensity high but still stay within the rules. i noticed it ramped up among the lineman and when players are competing sometimes a little snacktalk is okay as long as everything else is okay. >> we don't partic talk, we hit. >> it got a little chippy out there. >> it looks like it for the o line, and the d line one-on- that fight, it was pretty good. >> are you a good smack talker. >> sli absolutely not, it's note of my positive- attributes. >> and kiffin is now an assistance here with the

kiffin's linebacker coach for a kfew years and he retired but then thought how many walks on the beach can a person take? and he came back. >> it reminded me 20 years ago we got on a bus at 4:00 in the morning with tony dungy, and drove you learned how tough it was to be a football player and tom koffee was the coach, and i thought oh my word. i'm a jaguar right now, i'm telling you that, i'm fired up. >> after two days of grueling work competing against the jaguars the bucs get tomorrow

field for preseason game two against the jags on saturday nieghtd. night. >> it's getting closer and closer. >> and before we go, this is a life which message turned viral. it reads if you are dropping off your son's forgotten lunch, books, et cetera. please turn around and exit the bu problem-solve in your had absence. this was posted on facebook and it's been shared thousands of times and it's been talked about whether it's too harsh and they do mention "sons" because this was an all-boy school, and when i was growing up man if you forgot your lunch, my mom and dad b both work and you were out

an extra cheese sandwich in his lunchbox. >> that's right. >> and if you would like to see more, log on to our website, fox13news.com and craig patrick's money, power, and politics is next. >> from all of us here at fox

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