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harmonic and it remeres this saturday in santa monica, california. and i will be looking forward to that. >> sounds amazing. >> time now for the fox 13 11:00 news. >> we are still following that news alert in charlotte. >> violence took over the city after a protestor was shot, and demonstrators attacked police, several officers are hurt, and the streets are filled with gas, we'll bring you the latest. >> sometimes you want to believe that people are going to tell you the truth. >> neighbors are still worried about their drinking water even as mosaic releases test results showing no outside contamination. >> the teachers are able to see me driving up in the caroline. >> speeding up the school dismydismissal process, the man behind the app that could help a
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parents. >> we begin at 11:00 with the chaos and the crowd that gathered around a protestor after he was shot in the head in charlotte. we are told that man is on life-support right now, contrary to what police said earlier this evening that the man had died. police are saying the man was shot by another civilian and not police but the damage was already done and people who gathered and bottles and even the tear gas canisters that police tossed into the crowds back at police. this all started as a peaceful protest in reaction to the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer. >> and while there are contradicting stories about what happened in that case yesterday, charlotte police are adamant that the shooting was justified. >> police and demonstrators have
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a long night of sometimes violent protests. police officers say they were serving a warrant at an apartment complex when they noticed a man unrelated to their case, 43-year-old lamont scott. >> he exited his vehicle with a handgun as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it. he stepped out posing a threat to the officer and the officer subsequently striking the suspect. >> the officers he says gave scott multiple clear instructions to drop the weapon, and a gun was found at the scene, but family members say scott was unarmed simply reading a book in his car while waiting for his son to come home from school. >> like we don't have lives out here, like our lives don't matter, yes, all lives matter
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targeted. >> p but the police took issue with a post on facebook said to be by the dead man's daughter. >> i can tell you the facts are a little bit different as to how it's been protrayed so far especially through social media. >> the officer named in the charlotte shooting is also black. >> it doesn't matter black or white, he was >> and let's get back to the latest on the protests still taking place right knew in charlotte, and also this shooting in tulsa, oklahoma. both of those have put the spotlight back on the use of force when it comes to policing. right here in tampa an officer says he was confrocted with a potentially deadly situation this morning but thanks to his training it ended without any major violence.
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headquarters. what happened in that situation, aaron? >> we are told this started out as a 9-1-1 call in the gandhi area, that there had been shots fired and so right away, officer eric book knew this was going to be a very volatile situation and so when officer book aived he saw denson walking in the middle of the street looki pounding his first in his hand, but when the officer says it looked like he wanted to fight, he used his taser and then tackled and arrested him and found a gun tucked in the man's waist band. he is says he is glad he didn't draw his gun because there is no telling how it could have end ppeedif he had. >> it is evidence that the
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into our training making sure that the officers have the necessary tools to create properly and that is a prime had example that the training worked. >> and chief ward says officers go through training like that every year. the most beneficial thing we are told is a visuoev virtual shootg simulator. now, denson is including carrying a concealed firearm and assaulting a police officer, and we are told he didn'ted to firing off several shots before police arrived. >> and back to the aerial views of the protests in charlotte. you see the canisters of kerry gas being thrown by police, but one protestor is on life sport
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police say he was shot by a civilian, and we'll continue to monitor the situation there in charlotte, it's certainly not resolved and we'll let you know of any significant developments. >> and mosaic is trying to reassure residents that their drinking water is safe after failing to tell them about a sinkhole that sent thousands of gallons of contaminated water into the aquifer, and they acknowledge it could take years for the contaminated water to move off of their property. in the meantime, nearby wells they say are tes testing normalt this homeowner hired her own tester. >> you have the fear of flint, michigan and you hear the erin brockovitch reports and you want
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>> this first set of wells is very close to the perimeter of the stack and there are other wells farther away, and it hasn't reached the ones closest and so certainly hasn't reached the ones further away. >> the company testing wells for mosaic says they will be testing other wells farther away and says that people will get reports within a week. >> and here is something you may want to consider, if you are going to commit a crime, don't challenge police to find you. he posted a photo from the film catch me if you can, with the caption "might as well have some fun with this, l-o-l" well, police are not thinking l-o-l
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>> he was being a little bitty cocky putting that out there and we accepted the challenge and put him from he belongs. >> the man was arrested and charged with several crimes. >> and this man, 34-year-old lawrence franklin deliberate by hit a carol the volunteer would not let him cut in line, but this man has come up with an app that could help. >> cynthia, the app is called pick my kid and it allows kids to track each parents's vehicle so students are ready and waiting when they pull up. the app was created out of frustration and a concern for safety, too. >> i was not paying attention, i was on the phone and they put
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back and saw a white kid sitting in the back of my car and it was like that is not my kid. where is my daughter? >> it was at that moment he realized that the school pick-up process has problems. >> i was sitting in the carlines car lilines 30, 40 minutes a d. >> it spe the process. >> there are about 20 to 50 teachers braving the sun and rain with walkie-talkies dodging traffic and they do this ever single day thanklessly. >> and it proves to be danger for this volunteer, ed din man.
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hit me, drove right into me. >> this app helps to avoid the vushal tussle with teachers. >> they can delegate littlejohn any to be picked up by the neighbor or the car pool. >> and with a swipe, teachers can notify parents when a child steps off of school grounds or on to a bus. >> we are where we can make a difference and change it using technology which doesn't cost much. >> schools would pay just $20 a day and it would be made free of charge to parents. they have launched in 15 states and it's being used as berkeley prep in tampa. the company has developed a free version for a call-in program that is available to schools right now. back over to you. >> wow!
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and it has to do with your phone most of the time, doesn't it? >> that's right, and it really solves most problems now days. >> that is interesting and thank you so much, crystal. >> if it can make the pick-up line less dramatic then that guy is going to get a nobel peace prize. >> and a development in the space race that could be another giant liam for mankind. >> we are going to wars in the decade of humans. >> how a decision on capitol hill would mean a manned mission to mars. >> and more fall-out over the
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will want to avoid the area in your route takes you that way. we'll have an update on the crash and the fatalities at 4:0 a.m. on good day. and after tampa bay pumped more than 200 million gallons of partially treated wastewater into the bay, senator rubio is asking the epa to get involved and the jobs of two city employees are on the >> >> city councilmember steve corridor necessarily says the two employees suspended ignored warnings that closing the albert whitted plant would cause disastrous overflows. this happened when askew revealed that the warnings exists and he describes the water as a public health risk
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kriseman announced two department directers are on unpaid leefl, steve leavitt and tom gibson. kornell says the top employees should know their jobs are on the line. >> when you put someone on unpaid administrative leave, there is usually a decision being made to keep or not keep that person. >> governor scott called for a state investigation into sewage problems and u.s. rep david jolly also asking for other whistleblowers to come forward. >> a key senate panel in washington unanimously approved a spending plan that is a big step to putting humans on mars. it's called the nasa reauthorization bill and commits nasa to put a man on cars in the
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some say that the decision was mainly political. the state is still feeling the fall-out from the closer of the space program several years ago, something that they do not want to repeat. >> with the mars mission, the 19.5 billion-dollar plan aims to create a new one that can send astronauts to the international space station without any help from russia. >> clouds building today, turned out to be a pretty active day around tampa bay. look at the rain shafts going by and then whoa, a big wall of water and more storms in the distance. zephyrhills definitely hit the jackpot, and look at this, if
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gold, it's on dis discount at te dollar tree. there it is. what do you think? 99 cents, right? that's where it is. anyway, a nice shot, lisa garett perkins. nice job, lisa. most areas are dry with pesky thunderstorms lasting a while down and just south of lake placid, but certainly enough that can he with hear the thun by skytower, it's going to be around a bit longer. they will be diminishing by around midnight and then we stay partly cloudy overnight. no big change coming up tomorrow. not enough instability to give us more than a 20 or 30% chance of rain and the best chance will be from tampa bay south and another day -- although it's the first day of autumn -- it will
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near 90. and speaks of that, we hit 91 today, the average, 89 and the morning low a sticky 79. we have a ways to go, and we'll still see additional days this year at 90 or above, but so far we have had 96 days hitting 90. the long-term average is 73. 52 days in st. pete, 90 or above, and they are obviously cooler because of the bay. their summer time a pretty good west wind at srq, the airport keeping them cooler, but not this year, folks. 105 days -- that's right, 105 days 90 or above, and the long-term average is 58 so it's nearly double and if you were wondering why your electric bill was so high this summer, there
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tough to keep your house cool with that kind of heat. and rain will become greatly between now and the end of the month, between now and october the rainy season is pretty much shut off. it doesn't mean it can't rain, but it's a big dif difference db between september and october. and you have two systems in the cochlear implantic. karl and lise. lise is simply no threat to land at all. and showers and thunderstorms will drift inland during the day, that trend continues into the weekend, small rain chances and still summer time heat,
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heat, a mix of sun and clouds tomorrow, and a couple of thunderstorms and awwwww! autumn, but we are back up near 90. hot for the usf and florida state game. 90 and we stay near 90 for at least the first half of the week. >> we'll see whose offense heats up, thank you, paul. and meet a local man who says that sometimes presidential candidate can be painful. >> it hurt especially towards the end a lot more but it was worth it. >> he put his political preference in ink, right there on his arm. after the break. >> tonight we continue our investigation of voting issues. can hackers really sw switch our votes? we'll put some of the voting machines used across the nation
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>> donald trump spent the day trying to win over more voters in ohio and according to the latest fox poll he leads hillary clinton by 5 points in the buckeye state and that is not the only state. >> he is points ahead in other states and during the event he addressed yesterday's shooting and the on-going protest in charlotte and little mentioned
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the death of an unarmed black man there a tragic mistake. >> now, did she get scared? was she choking? what happened, but maybe people that choke, maybe people that do that can't be doing what they are doing. >> referring to the female popolice officer who shot the mn in t now, clinton also called the events unbearable staying that people are safer when the police respect the community and the community community respects th. and ron morison from winter haven got clinton's face tattooed on his arm.
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so much that he is putting his money where his shirt sleeve is. >> wow! i couldn't ask for a better one, it is a good picture of her and no money would complain about having a nice picture drawn of them. >> we haven't gotten clinton's response but the tattoo took three hours of complete, not bad for three hours in the chair. >> remember, >> you have him? no regrets? >> nope, no regrets and how much hits for the rays? we'll see you ahead in sports
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we are one nation under god. that black and white, we are one nation indivisible. that republican and democrat, we are all americans. i'd like to punch him in the face. you know what they used to do to guys like that? e of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters. priorities usa action is responsible
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>> the bucs couldn't stop the snowball from rolling down the hill against the cardinals but sunday they have a chance to prevent it electri from rollingo another week. >> the expressions on their faces after a loss only tell you part of the story. on the inside, the buccaneers are already analyzing what >> i think i learned something from every game, you know? my main thing is after every game eliminating the negatives and building on the positives. >> last week's performance in arizona was humbling and nobody was harder on themselves than the coaches and players inside the buc's locker room. >> i didn't feel like we got beat down, it was more mistaked we made, but we definitely learned a lot from last week.
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