adam weiner, abc action news. >>> now the most accurate weather. >> how are you doing, everyone. pretty quiet weather north of i- 4. south of i-4, especially sarasota and manatee county, just like yesterday, scattered showers out there. as they move off shore, they will turn into a couple of up isolated showers. closer to the tampa metro area over to st. pete and north, t hot. it's already hot with temperatures in 90s. you hit 93 today in tampa. 91 in lakeland. 95 in sarasota. summer has only got another week to go and we're talking about record-breaking heat across part of the area. this evening, partly cloudy skies. as i said, the showers are down south. to change as we see some of the rains getting closer to the off to the north as well. en partly cloudy overnight. not as cool or d tomorrow morning. i'll let you know if that is coming up. >> thank you, denis. >>> we move to democracy 2016 tonight. putting political ads to the truing test, to help you make informed decisions about your vote. the ad war is heating up between these two, marco rubio and patrick murphy. who is tell

abc action news reporter adam weiner explains why organizations endorse the plan. >> these are the vaccines she has had so far. >> reporter: if u're adopting an animal from the humane society, they're going to quiz you to make sure that your home is a good fi >> our adoption counselors are all trained to kind of ask the right questions to fare out any information that would raise alarms in their minds. abuse. >> it would be a searchable database. we can look if they have been convicted for animal cruelty. >> reporter: they will deny adoptions to people they fear might hurt an animal, like baby jack who along with her sister jill were recently found abandoned, unfed and uncared for. >> it would give us another tool to make sure that the animals are going to the most appropriate home. >> reporter: there could be registry. it could henry deuce the amount of violence against people, specific specifically domestic violence and child abuse. >> for instance, an animal abuser, the odds that you would commit a violent offense goes up from 100% to 1 100%. >> reporter: briana fox teaches criminallolog

adam weiner talked about the >> reporter: determined to drag gift. e opening of his birthday >> come on. stop. >> there's nothing there. >> reporter: david lane opens the bag slowly, even though his family is itching to see his reaction. >> i'm going to kill him. i really am. >> reporter: sometimes there's no stopping a dad with a sense of humor. but after the laughs come the tears. >> am i adopting you? >> you don't have to. you can say no, but i want you to adopt me. you've been my dad and the legal papers don't change anything. i appreciate you. >> once it clicked and he started crying, not that i wanted you to cry, you know, it made me feel better that he felt what i felt. >> reporter: david lane helped raise gabby. >> when there were tears, he was there. we had our happy times and rough time snooze but when it came to the topic of adopt, her stepchildren. >> he never called us that. >> reporter: gabby heard about something called adopt adoption. now that she is an adult, gabby doesn't need anyone else's approval. >> do you remember what i told y

nor now live in tampa, adam weiner, abc action news. >> adam, thank you. >>> a man wanted for attempted murder in pinellas county now in custody in north carolina. authorities there taking marcus frazier into custody today. st. pete police say that he shot two men back in august. frazier will be extradited to pinellas county to stand trial but it's not clear when that will happen. >>> tonight sarasota deputies are trying to figure out what caused the deaths of two people there. firefighters finding a man and womade this morning. detectiv n a saying much the investigation is ongoing tonight. >>> and abc action news is committed to taking action ou or someonyoknow is in a domestic violence situation, you can call the statewide hotline any time at the number on your screen. we also posted information on our website, facebook page and on twitter. >>> some good news tonight. belongs. the thief safely returning that uniform today. alonso high school says someone put in an envelope and left it next to the ticket booth. the words jose's jersey were written on the envelope. the school is gratefu

. >> adam weiner tells us what the cotyis doing diffto get hom the help they need >> reporter: touring floodhbhooc county emergency management. it counted over 1,000 homes and properties damaged by the storm so far. up. at least ye we didn't los vehicles in it. >> rs year gerald got his vehicles away from the water before the flooding came. >> you see where the ruffled water is. that's where the lake is supposed to be. >>or repter: but hisome is still in jeopardy. rain from the region continues to stream in, causing the water levels here and on nearby bass lake to continue to rise. >> it doesn't make things easy. we have three labrador out. >> reporter: he says this flooding is at least during the flood last year. but that time they didn't get any money from female a the new emergency manager says that's stugnoh or thorough enough da age assessing dama >> fema and the state of florida and one of our individuals will come back to every one of the homes and start talking to homeowners in a joint damage assessment team.

in tampa, adam weiner for the now tampa bay. positive spirits. getting his kids to help them out. there are still people dealing with this rain. >> yeah. right. and this is one of those harder hit areas too in pasco county. they don't really need any of this rain. nobody does at this point. but this is pretty isolated when you look at the big picture here. i'm going to zoom out. you can see we don't have a ton of rain out there at the moment. but we have heavy rain in spots main sail beach in looking dark out there. a little bit of light coming through the clouds. we are starting to see relief. but it's going to take time before we're really back to the summertime pattern. we have this west to southwesterly flow right now. we're tapping into some deeper moisture. so we're going to continue to see this pattern through the weekend, which allows us to see more showers and storms at times. but at least for tonight, the storms will be tapering off gradually. we have a batch of rain out here widespread at some point later on tonight. but it looks much lighter than what we have seen late

adam weiner has battle that saved this cat's life. >> reporter: you can barely tell what bart the cat went through looking at him today. >> this cat had a spirit like no other and determined to live. >> reporter: this was bart in 2015, hit by a car. he was presumed dead and buried. five days later, bart clawed out of his grave, earning the nickname zombie cat. >> he almost died. the first couple weeks the vets were giving us a 50/50 an of him making it. weeks. the humane society spent $11,000 to keep him alive. >> how many cats can crawl out of a grave. he deserves it. we got donations for his car. >> reporter: $9,000 donated from all over the world. but the fight to save the zombie cat didn't end there. the ceo decided that bart's original owners didn't make for a good home. >> technically i couldn't do that. >> reporter: so they kept him and the owner sued. the legabale cost the shelter about $5,000. >> you know, many, many depositions, cat battles back and forth.that battle went on for 20 monthuntil this thiwe and the two sides settled out of court. the shelter is giving the owner

adam weiner shows us how they are adapting to this threat. >> reporter: if you go to tampa general hospital, you won't just get >> what is your recent travel history. >> reporter: you will also get quizzed. >> make sure that you haven't been exposed. >> reporter: if you have been in central or south america and feel sick, you could find yourself talking to this doctor. >> we have been successful in the outbreak lorida. we nvirus as well. we are employing the same tactics. hopefully better since we have learned from our previous

in tampa, adam weiner, abc action news. >>> now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> how are you doing, everyone? over on the east coast today, they have been hammered. gusty winds, tornado warnings, rain. in our neck of the woods, quiet. you have the low level rc depreson in the next six hours. getting better organized and drawing the moisture in along with it. today that gave us more sunshine. there is plenty of rain out there. most of which in our central and northern counties from lake lindsey just north of brooksville and citrus county, another area just pretty much around wesley chapel. so these are small cell that's continue to slowly move off to mulberry, central polk county. if you watch, it expends all the way out to the gulf of mexico. interestingly enough. even though this looks ragged, not that impressive out here, had is a big issue. what is happening is this tropical low is trying to develop a moisture plume. as it moves north, it will have an opportunity to bring it into our area. if you look at futurecast this evening, partly cloudy skies

adam weiner on how the vacant homes affect all of us. >> reporter: imagine for a second that this is your home. a nice single-family house here in the tampa area. but if you look to your left, you have a foreclosed home, boarded up. if you look to the right, another foreclosed home also boarded up. this is still a problem here in the tampa bay area. one problem with abandoned homes,. >> there was renters there but it was not -- >> legal renters there. >> reporter: anita williams says a bank bought this 26th avenue house, just yards away from her mom's house. >> now there's nobody there. it has been vacant for months. >> reporter: they wanted to know why. well, this house was sold just before the housing crash for over $200,000. and after the crash, the house went into foreclosure. >> so rather than make the sale at fair market value, they hold on to the stagnant inventory at unrealistic price snooze a report shows that florida still among the national leaders in foreclosures. in florida, it's the tampa bay area and the sarasota bradenton area with the highest rates of foreclosed home

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adam weiner is an advisor. >> we have a strong leadership in the officer and n.c.o.e and we see the benefits that that has for our army. and so we've tried to instill that into their training as well to empower their non-er commissioned officers to take a bigger role leading soldiers alongside their officer counterparts in their units. >> reporter: some of these afghan soldiers fought alongside u.s. forces in eastern afghanistan. with only a few american speciaa forces still in the country, afghans must rely on u.s. airpower when things get tough. >> ( translated ): when the air support comes, every soldier, every fighter, has better morale. they are refreshed and fight with new energy against theew enemy. also in some districts there are high mountains and we can not go there. so we need the airplanes to target the enemy. >> reporter: but after 15 years of u.s. and coalition efforts on the ground, and least $65 billion, afghan security forces are still a development project. the task of building a militaryi here didn't start until 2009, with a commitment from presid

adam tuss, news4. >>> new trouble for former c congressman anthony weiner. >>> >>> hello, i'm storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer. tropical storm hermine became a hurricane at about 3:00. you can see this trail here. it's like a low-pressure area bringing in a cold front coming on through the region. that's going to come through florida and any time that happens, you get tornadoes and we have a tornado watch for most of the state of florida. this storm is going to have a big impact on part of our area for labor day. coming up in less than ten minutes, amelia draper will take a look at the impact you can see in your area if you're going to the beaches or mountains. >>> a teacher in loudoun county reached a new milestone after a devastating bicycling accident. schmidt was seriously injured in a bike accident and spent two weeks in the hospital with a broken pelvis and tailbone. today, his crutches sat next to his desk. >> i had the biggest grim on my face. everyone has been very appreciate tif that i'm able to be upright and walking on my own. >> his next goal, walking a mile and a half to two miles