the deal that could keep uber and lyft in hillsborough county. >> and starting with this, you know we've seen these stories all across the country, stories of creepy clowns in at least one case trying to lure children. now a teen in largo says she was chased by one as she walked to her bus stop, there is a photo, and investigators are find out exactly who is behind that mask. that is pretty creepy. definitely qualified as creepy, all right, haley, live in largo, what gives. >> the girl said it happens in this area of trotter road and 134th avenue, and this is just one in a sp string of recent cry clown reports cropping up across the country, and the sheriff's

misdemeanor charge. >> this woman would not believe why her phone rang early wednesday morning. >> i received a call from my daughter saying that clown was chasing her. >> you heard that right, a clown. some friends were walking to their bus stop. >> she passed a bush and noticed something strange and when she saw it was a clown, they all ran away. but the clown chased them one more time before they could get on the bus. >> you never know who is behind the clown mask. could be a pedophile, well t wee tons of them in this area. >> it was a white mask with yellow eyes and red hair. >> you just one of a series of recent reports of creepy clown sightings across the country.

have on a clown mask, but when you start harassing others then it does become illegal. >> while we were shooting video a group of kids claim they had just been chased. >> the people that are doing that are not clowns. they are dressing up like clowns. >> joyce teaches caring clown college at largo medical center, and she fears that tarnish the reputations of those clowns who want to spread cheer, and not fear. >> we want to engage one-on-one and touch people's lives in a positive manner. >> so far the pinellas county sheriff's office says this is the only local case they are aware of. some of the cases across the country have ultimately been

you see anything suspicious, do not hesitate to give them a call. >> let's limit our clowns to the red-nosed goofy kind. >> that is the best kind. >> i agree with you there, and paul just got an update on hurricane matthew. >> there is no doubt that the storm continues to intensify. look at the satellite l white. we call this a central dense overcast. the pressure is dropping and the environment is favorable to development and intensification. in the next several days this should be a major hurricane as it gets up by jamaica, hearing d cuba. for now it's still classified as

measures the temperature of the clouds and the red and purple represent cold cloud tops and they are going and expanding around the center of matthew. the thinks is that the storm is probably going to parallel our state, stay enough to the east of us where the impacts here should be pretty except for a gusty northeast wind, however, but there is stale ways to go and any shift to the west of this track could play a role or impact our state but for now the thinks is the storm will bypass our state and drag dry air our way in about a week or so, around that would be a nice byproduct of matthew but until then there could be all

the pressure went from 987 to 983. a big right hand turn around an approaching trough in the gulf and high pressure up over the atlantic and then the storm will start accelerating through the bahamas. the margin or error is huge here, and so we'll pay attention to the sunday to tuesday time frame. i think it will be a major hurricane approaching cuba by monday. we'll talk about forecast at 11:20, i will see you then. >> thank you, paul. well, they claim to be dressed as ghosts but school officials say they are clearly klansmen and now these three wiregrass ranch high school students are facing discipline. >> the students posted video and pictures of themselves in costume on campus on snapchat, and soon after administrators

suspended. the three upper classmen showed up looking like members of the kkk. they said they were ghosts but the superintendent didn't buy that. and now they are facing up to a 10-day suspension. and a fourth boy came wrapped in a confederate flag but he was asking to take his flag off and did and so he was not punished. several shea they were saddens and shocked by the inappropriate costumes. >> you don't think you should experience this in 2016 but it seems like everything as far as racial relations is concerned is going backwards instead of forwards. >> and they are going to take a look at whether or not they need to clarify what is and what is not appropriate. evan lambert, fox 1 news.

districts are not taking changes. >> a bill will soon go into effect that strengthening the ppemenpenalties for anyone who s to carry out violation at a vioa school. >> the first thri time there isa a joke. it was very serious because what if someone did shoot up the school. i ended up staying home for two days because of it. >> with highly publicized school shootings as recently as yesterday in south carolina the times is appropriate but when someone makes a joke to shoot up a school, people panic. >> the law would make a threat a

applies to stadiums and public office buildings and public servants and elected officials as well as others. >> and police say this man lied during an intern investigation with lying about an officer assaulting a 15-year member of the explorer program. broom was sent him a letter saying he could no longer testify in court. court. >> and st. pete is phasing out junk food from its vending vendg machines. soon there will be low calorie in in in that cases at city hal, pools and rec centers. a study finding that adults and

average incident of diabetes, and obesity and bl blood pressue issues. >> so instead of candy bars you will see things like whole grain crackers, and granola bars and selseltser water. >> and a young florida businessman is paying for forward all while promoting his latest creation. >> the worst thing that could learnlglearlearned a huge amoune is a kid out there getting a free ride to college. >> simply be using his new app. >> but we continue to follow a developing story out of new jersey where a commuter train crash understood a station, killing one and injuring more than 100.

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developing tonight.. >> developing tonight investigators still trying to determine what caused that commuter train to crash today in hoboken, new jersey. a platform was killed by flying debuy. debris, and over 108 people were injured. it is too to to early to say whr safety devices could have

have reportedly agreed to tougher background check including a criminal background and interpol and fbi and a search of sex offender and other databases. what it does not include is fingerprinting and that is why uber pulled out of austin, texas. today we hear from board members who say they are really to embrac >> government regulation is good but sometimes too much government regulation stifles progress and holds us back. this is a good thing moving forward. as a millennial, i will say my generation embraces this. this is the way of the future. >> now, this is a different story from two weeks ago when the board passed regulations that would have required fingerprinting. but a vote on the new deal that

13. >> i'll tell you talk about a wild kay, you ought to check out the time lapse, on the johns hopkins hospital cam. watch in the distance, a rainbow goes by, and rain and clouds moving all different directions and then rain pouring down, a wild, wild scene and i you where it was really bad today, our friends in manatee and sarasota counties. from 4:00 to 7:00, it gave july a run for its money, with that much rain around. now there is a lull but we still have a west wind and a couple of showers and thundershowers i believe near the coasts tonight. this rain should stay offshore and beside that things are pretty quiet across the peninsula.

west wind, meaning one more day of showers near the coast in the day and early in the afternoon and by later in the day the storms start shifts to the east coast. over the weekend, a part of matthew approaching from the south, and we'll start to see showers and thunderstorms moving back to the west coast during the afternoon. right now 80's and 70's and look how close, this is the dry air is. 65, and 57, panama city, and 50's in pensacola. we are like a four or five-hour drive away from a nice touch of autumn. the problem is i don't think much of it gets into the viewing area. maybe for a time citrus and her unanhernando counties will be dr

weather. this is hurricane matthew churning in the c caribbean. i don't think there is a doubt that it will turn westward, and then this turn to the north is really going to be the key. how soon does it happen? would that ridge be a little bit stronger and push the track a little bit more to the west? or for that w matter would weaker and move the track to the east? i still feel pretty good that the hurricane will bypass us but you see the cone extending over our state, but i'm cautiously optimistic that this hurricane will stay primarily east of our state putting us on the better

the gps model had been also showing the right hand turn, a major hurricane approaching jamaica, and problems in the bahamas and then it could impact the carolyn in as and then moving northeast. the european model is showing it move between cuba and haiti, and then maybe over the turks and and northeast. so we'll be fine-tuning it. one side note, if the european verifies and we have a big storm off of the carolyn in a coast next weekend, that will drag down the first touch of autumn. sometimes hurricanes that bypass us can drag down much cooler and dryer air and so next weekend

especially from tampa bay north. tomorrow, showers and thunderstorms will be moving inland during the day and we are back up to 87. and the forecast for saturday, storms moving from east to west. in the upper 80's and no cool air to spoke of on this seven-day, and rain through tuesday and we could be dryer and less humid next weekend. more on matthew tomorrow morning on good day, tampa b >> sign us up. >> i know, and this is that the student behind the idea of download the app and win a college education. >> but how can he afford this? a look at his creation and his

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himself. >> i spend all of my free time coming up with plans and new designs for this app. >> it's all right pretty polished. it's a social app, you follow people and they follow you and you find out about social ea spents. events. >> you r literally pull out your phone and see what is going on in realtime. >> say you're at the university game today. >> and you are looking for a party or a group of people, you pull out your phone and go on promo and go on the sponsored events and it has all of these events located all over the map. >> but here is the really cool part, george is running a contest and you win if you create the biggest event this semester using the app.

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tradition of philanthropy,ine if the app fails. >> there is a kid out there getting a ride to college and i would will have learned a lot, t fails. paying it forwards. >> that is promo app, available for download, but the android version is still in the works. and no right now he has the whole sports cast for you. >> and the lightning have all but one under contract. what is the latest on kucherov.

>> no contract, no kucherov, that is the message from his agents to management. he says he is hopeful that the restrictive free agent will get a contract soon so he can rejoin the team, and meantime without him at amalie, hosting the panthers. a stand-outperformens tonight, with 21 saves in all.

lightning with a pair of unanswered goals and that would be all the lightning would need, their first win of the preseason, and world cup finals and o canada, sweeping it, 2-0 and the tournament, cross by the mvp and stamkos now with a world cup to add to his accomplishme and ricky reynolds, a lot of people would say i don't know if they give the bucs much of a chance, unless they catch them sleeping. >> oh, yeah, they can catch them sleeping. any team can be beaten, and if they come in overconfident and

buc nebuccaneers can beat them. >> it's like my favorite line from dumb and dumber. but what do they have to do coming up on sunday? >> number one thing is don't shoot yourself in the foot. this team has turned the ball over and created easy points for their opponent but just putting them in a position to have easy scores. giving up last plays down the field. you have to go out and play pretty much a clean game. >> how do you take the headache that is vaughn miller and add a couple of tylenol and make him a small headache? >> well, it's not going to be easy but you are definitely going to have to put two or three guys on him. you are going to need to block him, tackle or a tight end, or

miller, of course he is liable to give winston a lot of headaches. >> be here or be scare. for network coverage followed by the panthers and the follow cons. >> and before we go, it's official that l lady gaga is gog to do the half time show at the super bowl. >> and this won't be her first time either. you remember she san national anthem, and bruno mars and cold play headlines that half time show, but this time it's all about gaga. it will be here before you know it. >> and i love lady gaga. >> her new albums drops -- do they still say that? drops? >> i think they do. >> they do now.

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