what police say his excuse was for doing it. >> we begin at 11:00 with a first for president obama. congress voting to override his veto. today's vote gives families and victims of 9/11 the right to siouxsuesaudi arabia in federal, and the vote was lopsided but it comes with a warning. >> families of victims are angry, american ally either didn't do enough to prevent the attacks or was complicit in them but the certain is lawsuits from our citizens could set a precedent for people in our countries to sue us. in other words, how can our soldiers do their jobs if they are worried about exposing america to a lawsuit. >> during a town hall aired on cnn president obama responded.

mistake. >> to offer a supersimple scenario imagine if 60 families of a way ward bomb in syria could sue the united states or the pentagon itself. >> it doesn't have to do with my sympathy for 9/11 families it has to do with me not wanting to see us exposed to liabilities for the around the world. >> only one center voted for the override, david jolly is the only florida republican to agree with the president. he says we should consider the number of will times our nation intervenes for the cause of freedom and security and now imagine our personnel were subject to civil liability in those nations. bob grahame recently won the

9/11 documents that tie the saudi arabia government to 9/11 hijackers and he says bringing this to court would help to get 80,000 more pages released and that could reveal what the saudis knew and when. >> it could also open the flood gates to information. i know some of what the attorneys representing the families have been developing and it is really convince people that the saudis were not our allies. >> and sarasota republican buchanan says the legislation restores a long-established principle of government that foreign pures are not immune.

sided with the president. >> it's going to be fascinating to see how this whole thing rolls out. and in another vote on capitol hill. a 1.1 billion emergency spending bill was approved in part to help fight zika w but it's a pat of a broader spending bill. >> it was a tearful fight at alonso high school in tampa as friends, faculty and staff remember the life of jose fernandez, an alonso alum. fox 13's josh cascio was there and josh, it has to be emotional. >> you know, we were on the baseball field earlier tonight, and you know the old saying

but i can tell you there were quite a few tears on the field and it was perfectly acceptable as folks were staring stories about former alonso high pitcher jose fernandez, the principal saying he loved life and was larger than life. he came from cuba with his mother when he was 15 years old. from there he would become a baseball sensation. as you know he tragically died in a boating accident -- at a young age, and the story alone is just like wow, if he can do it anybody can.

thousands saying good-bye as fernandez funeral procession rolls by. no one again with ever wear the number 16. we are live in tampa tonight. josh cascio, fox 13 news. >> new tonight, a local service says that tens of thousands of dollars meant to renovate a church was their own. the treasure of the columbian club, a catholic group affiliated with the knights of columbus. investigators say he drawned the group's bank account of about $90,000. >> you can only be betrayed by someone you trust. and it was not like we brought in a stranger saying there is a bag with 80,000.

had golfed with, and came to our place to clean up and brought in guest speakers to talk about raising money for vocations and young gentlemen studying to become priests. he was involved. >> he says he wrote checks to himself to jump start his custom wood furniture business >> he hoped to recoup the money to but put the money back and ne would know the difference. >> he confessed after a check for $50,000 bounced. that check was supposed to help with renovations at the church, and he has bonded out of jail.

about the arrest of tony conti conti jr., a 71-year-old licensed psychotherapist. two women said he had groabed gd them after saying it was a necessary part of their greament treatment but after news of his arrest, more women came forward likely. this 18-year-old was arrested for hitting a pedestrian with his car and not stopping. troopers say the teen hit annie marie skeens. she was taken to the hospital with serious injuries and pereta has been charged with leaving the scene and reckless driving.

could be getting closer to an agreement with ride sharing companies? background checks including a staid-wide criminal background search including sex offender and the fbi's most wanted list, but it's still not clear whether the transportation commission will approve that deal. we are told that representatives of the ptc and there. >> and we have this update on a local little league that is missing tens of thousands of dollars. tonight they are getting -- they are struggling to keep their season going. the on-line company is withholding about $40,000 from the league, and until that money is turned over, the league has started a gofundme account to keep their season alive, and

we had a feeling that the community would step up. >> 11 grand? that is really wonderful. well, coming up a largo police officer gets a little bit emotional knowing that her gesture went a long way. >> i was on cloud 9 and i still am. >> how she helped grieving parents turn something their son left behind into a lasting memory, you have to see this story. >> teacher shot outside a south carolina elementary school, and what police discovered two miles away. >> this is the time of year we can drop into the upper 60's and low 70's. that is good stuff, and the new update is in, we'll have the new

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i'll stay after class. i'll clean the chalkboard. i wish i was in school. man: school ends, but free lunches for your kids don't have to. >> a developing story in south carolina. detectives say a 14-year-old boy killed his father, and then drove two miles to a nearby elementary school where he shot two students and a teeper who were on the playground.

students a kindergartener is in critical condition today. investigators are trying to find out what prompted the violence. >> gunfire at an amount tear ely school. >> i received a call from my son's mother about an active shooter at the school and i tried to get here as fast as i could. >> a teen walked on to campus with a gun and shot elementary students and a female teacher. >> -- stating an armed male on the school grounds and a student had been shot. >> the te teacher and one studet were treated and released but the other was hospitalized reportedly in serious condition. before the shooting there the

father at home. this in townville, near greenville. >> the response by teachers and staff kept this horrific tragedy from being much worse. >> investigators are not identifying him calling him a minor but saying he had been homeschooled. a volunteer firefighters reportedly helped to take the teen in custody, and the fire, all of the students at the school were safe, bussed to a nearby church and reunited with their families. >> this is going to be a slow and t methodical investigation. >> the 5-year-old, a kindergarten is reportedly in critical condition, and his parents are asking for your

well, tonight fire officials in brevard county are saying that a fire along old state highway 70 is still burning although they are making progress. they say that the cause of the fire is being investigated lightning may be the cause. >> i think that is amazing is the past week has given june and july a run for its money. we went a week or two without much activity at all, and there is more to come. not such of a sunset tonight. on st. pete beach, check this out.

to take this picture and send it in. great colors late in the day, and we don't get a lot of daylight now and this was a great view on st. pete beach with showers coming into from ae gulf. and we have perhaps two more days of the east wind, and then we'll do a flip-flop. rain and early october, let's show you sky tower. this is he heavy rain that has n drifting in, and if you're watching in sebring and avon park, the storms are around you. lake wales with a steady rain, and wauchula has rain. storms near arcadia, and we zoom

17, moderate rain and lots of lightning. some light showers moving on shore in manatee and s sarasota. with a west wind and some energy i would assume there are showers near the coast very late tonight, and with showers where they should be -- now, this is not broken. it is not 89 -- 77 and dewpoints are high, and we may get a break from the humidity. >> not go going to allow -- >> on matthew, we'll show you the stats in a second. one thing we can show you this is a pretty impressive looking system just by the science of it, you look back on ow her

never looks like this east and soasoutheast of us. as far as size goes this is going to be a big hurricane, and it's gone from the atlantic east of the wester antilles, you are in the caribbean to the west, and this is radar from barbados and you see the center right here that wil to the west. here is the update. this is the 11:00 advisory, top winds 65 moving west at 15. it will stay generally west, maybe west-southwest for a bit. the position friday is in the central caribbean and all models show a sharp right hand turn, up towards jamaica and the easter

notice how big the cone is here. the hurricane center is mixed. the forecast is difficult, lots of upper level changes in the united states that will ultimately impact the future track and intensity of matthew. some models have it going well to the east of florida. i mean, the model here -- some of these models have it turns tg to the west but this is not a complicated setup, and eve monday it's here. this is wednesday, by the time it gets here, we'll certainly have a we are idea where ultimately it's going to go if you from the east coast of florida to m new england is here isly in play and oh, by the way, out to sea is in play as well. showers redeveloping near the

inland tomorrow, highs of 85 and still fairly wet for late september with at the same timen the mid 80's. the winds shift east and northeast over the weekend meaning storms heading back to the west coast and don't forget good day tampa bay tomorrow morning. >> we are voting for ots if you want iron on that, out to sea. well, they rushed to save those injured in the pulse night club shooting. >> and the governor paid tribute to the hero in the state's worst mass shooting.

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>> it was a night to honor some of the first responders in the pulse night club tragedy. the florida night club and restaurant association hosted this event to honor those who rushed to the scene in the first minutes after the shoots were fired. >> thank god there were those willing to rush into the scene and put their lives in danger. >> money from the one fund will be distributed to the victims and families. a to get of $29 million was collected and tonight another 800,000 was presented to the fund. and a family is praising a largo police officer. >> what a story here. she went out of her way to help his family remember their son who drowned in an accident in upstate new york. and so they drove all the way

he put his messy hands on a mirror on the day of his death as a joke for his mom, and so this officer came in to lift the handprint from the mirror. >> everyone in the room was crying. >> and you see the final product, and bachman the words your wings were ready but my heart was not. >> the rays and the white sox squaring off on a tight one in the windy city, and seferian-jenkins getting a warm

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new gogurt write-on tubes. this back to school, say it with gogurt. 5 games to go for >> five games to go for the rays. in righting a five-game losing streak, which happens to be their longest since the all-star break. an hour and 45 worth of delay, and runs hard to come by as well. shaishaeffer doubles down the l.

forsythe with another opportunity flies out to right, and that ends the inning and leaving the runner on base. he picks up his fourth strike-out, two and two-thirds inns for snell and it's 1-0 white sox currently in the seventh. and seferian-jenk teammates he can lean on, marshal saying he plans to take sj under his wing, he went through several off-season issues himself and said everyone needs a second chance. but there is a great tight end in brandon bryce. against the rams, he already caught two touch-down passes and

game. >> definitely not just for me but for all of us in the room. someone is going have to be there, whether it's me, brandon, alan or luke when he comes back, you just have to be ready to nfill that void. it's going to be pivotal for the guys on the outside to win those one-on-ones. >> winston is having to throw so often because the team is falling behind on the scoreboard. dirk koetter says he is not worried about his quarterback collapsing under the workload, he is just looking for more balance with the offense. >> as far as jameis handling volume, i'm sure he would throw

throwing in the 50's. we have to run it more, the more you run it, the better you get. >> winston with 142 attempts so attempts farthis year, that leal quarterbacks. >> and disney fans, the lion king is about to get a reboot. >> disney says it's going to produce a the original lion king in the dark ages of 1994 -- seems like yesterday -- grossed nearly 1 billion worldwide. >> it just doesn't seem like it needs a reboot, but i guess that is just me.

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