. >> evan axelbank has more from the heritage academy on state road 54. >> the school says three of the cases have been confirmed while the health department pasco county health department says 1 additional cases being looked at. >> we spoke to a mother who says her son is not allowed back in school until he tests. the health department says august 26 and september 7th, three students confirmed to have the bacteria and 1 additional students are being examined. they are working with school administrators of cleaning the school of bacteria passed from fecal matter to children's mouths and person to person and three definite cases are in the preschool. the mother we spoke to says her son is 13. >> i want them to clean it up coming from and figure it out so no one gets sick. >> sing the happy birthday song and get under the fingernails and clean toys and anything shared between the younger preschool-type children in your home. >> dr. jo says not all infected are aware and kids are most likely to get it. the school released a brief statement saying they are following all the health departmen

fox 13's evan axelbank is live tonight at the sheriff's department to give us more of this story. this sounds pretty outrageous. >> reporter: well certainly. and fortunately for the victim in this case he was standing right outside riding his bike right outside of a sheriff's the stop sign. luckily for him, there were sheriff deputies who were outside in the parking lot just happened to be there. and they saw all of this go down. take a look. this here, daniel santiago. he admitted to shouting at the inattentive driver when he allegedly ran the stop sign. deputies say that the car stopped and backed up back towards the intersection. that's when santiago says he was suddenly staring down the barrel of a gun. he says the driver mocked him were coming. of course the police happened to be right there. he says the driver stashed the gun in the glove box but deputies got to the car, made the arrest, and then found the gun. >> i just lost a son seven months ago. not to gun violence or anything like that. but i was, like, to me i was, like, wow i guess i am going to go join my son. if it

fox 13's evan axelbank spoke to people who are anxiously awaiting those test results. evanwe have learned that 42 neighbors have taken up mosaic's offer to pay for testing of their wells.voone of those neighbors is melanea wood, who is only allowing her insisted that their tests have shown that the contaminated water has not moved beyond their property line.they are using pumps to get the water out.however, neighbors say it is hard to take them at their word because the company didn't even announce the spill until they learned there was going to be a news story... three weeks after it happened. the water at wood's home will be tested tomorrow morning.the company says they have also increased the number of monitoring wells, and that they've found nothing wrong. sot - jackie barron/mosaic 004941-51"we will capture it and turn around and use it in our own processing here, it will not go beyond our property line."sot - melanea wood/water tested tomorrow 001157-03"you would almost have to test our well every week for the next ten years and come back clean for us to believe

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fox 13's evan axelbank is live where the protesters were blocking the street. >> reporter: this was an emotional but nonviolent protest as protesters demanded that the deputy be punished. are outside of tampa bay. escorted down 78th street by deputies from the same agency they're protesting, those angry over the death of 22-year-old lavonia riggins stopped traffic. >> we all out here to make sure that the officer, um, get -- goes to jail and everything. and that -- it's a sad, sad tragedy. >> reporter: they reject claims made b which says that riggins, a suspected marijuana dealer, was reaching for his waistband during a s.w.a.t. team raid on his home last tuesday. riggins who was later found to be unarmed was shot once by deputy caleb johnson. >> our whole family we just want answers. we don't understand what happened. >> reporter: crystal brown drove two hours to march with these protesters. her ex-husband marlon brown died in 2013 after he fled a traffic stop and was run over by a police officer in de land, that incident but not charged. >> it's an epidemic that's happening without

all the friends that my dad has >> anjuli: that was fox 13's evan axelbank. he asked all six students whether they thought the u.s. has responded well to terrorism. only one of them raised their hands. >>> still to come on "good day," how a local faith-based school gives kids an early leg up. >>> it was widely thought the seahawks would sit and protest during the national anthem. that has changed. we'll show you why coming up. >> lindsay: at 6:, in the way the air feels this morning. it's a beautiful start to the day, but plan on a steamy start to the day. great visibility in lake mirror in lakeland this morning. but it sure is warm. most of us in the 80s along the coast. slim rain chances today that changes in a huge way this work week, though. i have the rain chances for you coming up. golden outside or fluffy inside. deep pockets or delicious ridges. experience dunkin's new belgian waffle breakfast sandwich. it's not this or that. it's all of it. america runs on dunkin'. (vo) we went to hollywood to ask if america's favorites - burgers, tacos and chili cou

. >> evan axelbank. emergencies that the scammers always come out of the wood work, and so beware of someone calling saying they are from your electric company and they need a credit card to pay a past-due bill. they are not from your electric company, and they used same toll-free number no matter what they say they help, and they have even used the same recorded gree number, it sounds legitimate. and lakeland customers, a number of them have fallen for this. >> we will never call custom by phone and ask them to give us a credit card number, we do not operate that way. >> those scammers have been impersonating several companies. >> and will standing wear can be a breeding ground for the little tiny things like the tray under your plant pots and people were reminded today to dump any water they find. >> remember to wear long sleeves and wear bug repellent when outdoors. everyone must do their part to protect our state. >> and researchers say funding to fight zika has all been run out, the senate is schedu

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and evan axelbank is general heh what happened. tell us, evan. >> reporter: what a scary and close call kind of a moment. deputies say the week in question, the car sped past this stop sign at 50 miles an hour. that's how fast it may have been going and there was a bike coming right down this street at t-boned each other. deputies saw what was going on right at the moment it was happening. why? look at this right here. the sheriff district 1 office tey were here on hand to see what was happening. they were outside we spoke with daniel santiago the victim who was riding his bike to work when the car ran the stop sign. he and hits friend, who was on the way to shouted at the driver. deputies who were outside here talking with other residents saw the car stop, back from up down the block and they started arguing. during that the driver pulled a gun on him out of the glove compartment. the deputy ran over and found the gun and made the arrest. >> i just lost a son seven months ago. wow i'll join my son. >> we cannot say all criminals ar

and evan axelbank is recreation center to tell us more. evan? >> reporter: well, kelly the people are so angry because 175 million-gallons of wastewater have been, as you said, spilled into tampa bay that is during hurricane hermine. and now a commissioner want as county wide taskforce, special taskforce to try and get a handle on this problem. take a look, this is the scene. the meeting protestors demanding into the water. they say that the county governments from pinellas to pasco have not been up front from the bacteria. they say that some areas smell of sewage and however they have respondented claiming it was at least partially treated before rushing into the bay when we got the water. and that 99.993% of the water was found to b and charlie justice is demanding a taskforce bringing all of the municipalities together to get a handle on prevention. >> we can come together and identify the problems. there needs to be a true regional study about the infiltration of the water it's not just in the pipes but the water attacking the pipes. is ther

fox 13's evan axelbank is live out there. >> this is the first time that a full-scale action, meaning an tire evacuation of bayonet point hospital has been done. it all started with a fire in a transformer room but now it does coming back on, i'm told it's low power, like 10 to 15%, so not enough to stop the ea cak evacuation, and what is incredit joining the paramedics, carrying the patients down from their third or second-floor rooms to the ambulances by hand. it's been very arduous and difficult work but a lot of the patients are in wheelchairs or hospital beds, some are on oxygen or i.v.'s. so this is a very difficult process and one that could take we understand at about 10:00 they were about 15% of the way through 230 patients and so could this take several hours and they have some buses here to take outpatients who have able to move under their own power, and they have buses equipped to handle stretchers and other heavy medical equipment, and this is a large-scale evacuation but here with doctors and nurses literally carrying them down from their third-floor rooms to the ambula

. >> evan axelbank reporting for us from all other the area and i think we are going to see this for the next couple of days and if we get more rain, it's going to be a while before the waters >> neig neighbors helping neigh. >> a free fell on me and i made toothpicks out of it. >> an elderly disabled veteran we'll hear from him next. >> and if the electric company calling you saying they need >> and still showers offshore, and i think the radar will stay pretty active into the weekend. you have bands of rain approaching from the west but nothing like last night. we'll have the labor day weekend forecast in detail and an update >> a man from seffner counting his blessings after a tree took down his power line and then fell on his house. >> a little been sunrise the tree split in half and came crashing down on dell home, and a part of the ceiling came down on his chest. poor guy, look at him. he was dazed for awhile. his ex-wife and others came over frantically to help. >> he was so lucky that with the power lines and everything that it didn't catch on fire, and dell you had no idea,

and evan axelbank said it affected. >> reporter: the spreadsheet provided by mosaic said they have been testing the quality at is 3 different locations around the property. the indicators they have gotten back show that the water quality at this point is normal. and now neighbors here are getting their own test results back. >> and it is a long road back with neighbors. >> and they will be sending out a representative well. they hope this helps. >> this is what we're monitoring. they showed data they have been sharing since august 29th. two days after the hole opened. >> all of the data shows that no contaminants have reached the wells. and sodium and sulfate 32 of 13 wells between august 29th and september 20th all met the >> and the first set is very close to the perimeter and we have others further away. they're all clean water. it would take a year to reach the outer wells without the pumps they are using to catch the contaminated water the key tests will not be for another 3 to 12 months to see if the contamination has escaped. >> w will get that car. the first round by the homes i

and evan axelbank is recreation center to tell us more. evan? >> reporter: well, kelly the people are so angry because 175 million-gallons of wastewater have been, as you said, spilled into tampa bay that is during hurricane hermine. and now a commissioner want as county wide taskforce, special taskforce to try and get a handle on this problem. take a look, this is the scene. the meeting protestors demanding

fox 13's evan axelbank is live with the very latest. evan? >> the good news here is that the rain has largely slowed down here in this part of pasco county. but you can see just how close the water is to these hopes here on this left side of iron bark street. this retention pond has spilled over. it's threatening five to six homes here on that side of the street and residents are tired of it. >> at jennifer latham's house the sandbags never really go away. this time it's -- we're expecting the worst. every time it rains hard the water l from the retention monday rises, over takes its boders and creeps to within a few pasco county saw several rounds of harsh rains. >> just as bad as debbie was. we completely lost the house that time. it's been remodeled since then. >> reporter: regular construction projects on sinkholes officials say have inadvertently plugged this pond's drainage. alan wilcox came by to help. >> if you have a truck and got a few extra minutes help your neighbor out. may come a time like last year when i needed the help. >> re

evan axelbank. >> a manatee s after being attacked at a bus stop. she is 16. she called deputies after it happened. a man approached her and pulled her in the woods and he sexually tried to assault her. we talked to the victim and she obviously didn't want her face to be shown but told her story. >> i tried to scream for help but he covered my mouth and he said if i didn't shut up he would choke me. a car came around the corner and cell phone and manatee officers will add more patrols at bus stops and keep an eye on students. >>> and growing concern with parents after a former rogers middle school teacher encouraged a student to send and receive sexually explicit photos of students. >> michael geist lives in brandon. >> josh, you found new details about the teacher. what have you soogies had been talked to by administrators in the past regarding his conduct with students. we learned that earlier today. nothing rose to a criminal level. you could call those things red flags considering new allegations that just surfaced. >> no parent in the student pick up line

. >> anchor: evan axelbank, thanks. >>> we've got a news alert out of police officers in el cajon have shot a man. and tensions are rising. here's what we know. this is not far from san diego. reports say the victim is an african-american man in critical condition. investigators say the man was acting erratically causing the officer to shoot. and the initial calls came in as an uncooperative man walking in traffic. a witness says the man is 30 years old and struggles with mental issues. >>> back here to the east coast. after more than a week of unrest in charlotte the police suspicious package was fwoind an employee. police say a k-9 picked up on what could be bomb make materials. nearly four hours after the evacuation the panel was removed, taken to a secure location to be tested. police have not released any other information about what may have been inside. >> reporter: a manatee county family has been dealing with a smell ji problem for years. a rotten odor coming from a recycling facility next door has at times woken them up in the middle of the night and forced them to leave and

evan axelbank joins us. what are mosaic's neighbors say about this? >> reporter: the bottom line is neighbors of mosaic don't believe that the water, the contaminated water has not moved beyond mosaic's property line. the testing begins tomorrow. the neighbors have additional can't study for. >> the company that's doing all the testing for mosaic is coming out to test the well. >> for now it's bottled water only. they have insisted that the radioactive water that got into the aquifer through a sinkhole at the fertilizer plant about a mile and a half from the home has not moved off their property. >> you have to test our well every week for the next ten years and come back clean for us to believe it. >> reporter: part of wood's that mow sgla zwick and dep and polk county didn't say a public word about the spill until they learned there was going to a news story. mosaic is offering to pay for the testing through a third-party and will deliver bottled water to nearby homes. their spokes woman insisted that pumps are enough to protected nearby homeowners.

evan axelbank is live at the thompson cigar company in tampa to explain. >> reporter: yeah. they have donated 2,000 cigars a no to other groups who then give those cigars to troops overseas. now they have made one last shipment, and they're hoping that a congresswoman can help to get the rules changed so they can make more of them. pictures from afghanistan show troops taking a load off. >> that was great. it's a wonderful smell. >> reporter: mark of support the troops in wesley chapel gets pictures from units thankful for his shipments of goodies. cookies, cigars. >> it's a reminder of home, okay? i'm half the world away and away from my family and friends. it's just a nice respite. a nice relief from the day you've had. >> reporter: 40 cigars go in each box, which sometimes come with a humidor, too. >> second most requested items from the troops is sticks, cigars. these are the rocky patels. >> his supply is dwindling after before the new fda regulations banning the provides of samples of all tobacco products. >> the fda has overreached here, and we have to send them a mes