it's a drug 10,000 stronger jake peterson shows us why local families are working extrsure that everyone knows the signs to look out for. >> reporter: it's supposed to be used to sedate elephants. but it is now being mixed with heroin to produce a strong lethal high. >> it came up a couple of months ago. we had one case where we saw it and now we're seeing more. >> reporter: dave bristol says the users here probably don't ingesting. >> they think they're taking heroin. and the next thing that you know, they're unconscious. >> reporter: and users can get their hands on the chemicals for less than a hundred bucks. so all a user has to do is hand a dealer a couple of 20s and they get their fix. the detectives say it only takes one time for the drugs to kill. >> there's really bad stuff out there. >> repter: and that's why jerry stan hope and her group no longer silent are hing an emergency awareness meeting this weekend. they need people to know how bad the drugs are. and i'm not sure that the people they use are aware of how bad this stuff is. >> reporter: stanhope who know. her son was a

jake peterson shows us how families are lying to stay off the -- trying street judges there's no wealthy people living here. >> reporter: they're not rich. >> it is a family community here. >> reporter: but these residents say they have a lot of heart. >> we help each other out as far as what things -- like common things that people need. >> reporter: carol moved into the mosley three years ago and never left. >> we only planned on staying for a three years. once you get in here, it's hard to get out. >> reporter: because it's affordable to say here. families get a room, small kitchen and a bathroom for we can handle it. >> reporter: ashley stall's family of 7 lives in one hotel room. she is using this weekend to pack and then head to another motel. >> really stressful. -- my kids, you know, they love all the other kids here. >> reporter: more than half of the residents already have plans. an easy way to tell about the housing status of the families is by looking at the unit. if it is boarded up, they moved on. if it's not, they are still looking. the city social services pack, find tran

jake peterson has the latest as they try to put a price tag on this store. >> reporter: this is just the initial assessment. crews like this one are doing everything from checking to see if debris is blocking drainage systems it see if water went into people's homes. >> i was surprised we didn't have a whole lot of damage. flooding, wind damage and debris. they document everything from knocked over mailboxes to street floods. >> most of the houses were not affected. minor damage from wind. >> reporter: brian brown is on the county's damage assessment team. they will compile the damage county-wise and give it to the state for possible relief funds. most people here dodged a bullet. >> as soon as the storm rolled in and we got th >> reporter: but for him and most of his neighbors, hermine's water stayed outside. a flooded yard or road they can deal with, he says. >> and certainly there is some water lying in low-lying areas that don't drain well. but, you know, for the move to strike part, we're very fortunate. >> reporter: there is still flooding in some areas. venice river park, snoo

jake peterson shows us how much this epidemic is costing taxpayers. >> reporter: body of a young person comes into dr. russell's office, he wants to know what drug they're using: he has seen a huge spike of dead drug users using heroin or fentanyl. the increase started happening in the last three years. >> heroin deaths for the whole district were typically in the single digits. now we're seeing numbers higher than that just in one month. summer, the office performed 250 autopsies in july and august. many were drug related and the problem is getting expensive. >> we hired an additional investigator and doctor due to increasing caseload. >> reporter: there is no room left at the county morgue. they are contracting with off- site body transport companies for storage. and if this trend continues -- >> we would have to bring in refrigerated trucks to store the bodies. >> reporter: four of relatives have ended up on the doctor's table. >> i have other kids still using into deputies have made big dealer busts over the past year but this epidemic won't stop until the demand is down. >> get hel

reporting live, jake peterson. >> caught on camera, take a look at this, two kids getting off of two different it's tough video but luckily neither student was seriously hurt. school back in session. authorities in austin are raising awareness. they have issued a thousand citations in the first week. both kids hit while the stop signs and their school puss lights flashing, you have to stay back. a driver of the truck, a 16-year-old girl, says she did not know about the law. both drivers stayed at the scene and cited by police. drivers killed 10 kids each year illegally passing school buses. >>> a deputy will not face charges for a confrontation. caught on this cell phone video flipping a 16-year-old out of of the classroom. >>> take a look at this, a driver here in maine lost control of the car and ended up in a river. the driver had a medical emergency and caused the accident. the man managed to free himself and walked away with just a few injuries his truck was destroyed. >>> a consumer alert, your antibacterial soap may not be banning 19 chemicals because they simply do not work.

. >> abc action news reporter jake peterson live in new port richey. there are several do's and don't's that folks need to know. >> reporter: good morning. true, there are different crews picking up different items. they are going to all the different places in the county. you can see the green and orange dots on the map. those are areas impacted by the storm. separating your debris into different piles. here's the breakdown what have you can do -- you can separate items into furniture, appliances, construction materials, vegetation and hazardous waste. keep everything separate. crews will not separate it for you so if you don't separate it they may not take your trash. fema crews are going door-to- door yesterday assessing damage from hermine. today the reps will evaluate damage to public property. their assessment is important declaration could be declared to make federal dollars available. >> the trailer is too old for the insurance company to cover it. so, it all falls on me. i have to demolish the trailer. >> reporter: the initial damage estimate

. >> jake peterson joins us live. >> reporter: he spoke to impacted residents along state road 54 and scenes like this one, the worthington court river, pouring about 4-5 feet of water in to this property. threatening ac units and getting in to cars right there, and people here just say they are hoping mother nature will give them a break. >> reporter: desiree and her husband are having to relocate to a family member's home. >> i look out my window, we have an ocean on our front porch. i had to get my kids out right away. i couldn't stay. >> reporter: residents in flood prone areas may have to stay away until midweek. the four ordered evacuations impact worthington court apartments, sun coast gateway mobile home park, efers and blue heron mobile home park. >> i'm more upset than i am mad. i can't be at home. >> this side is really bad. park and came back to get some medication, there is no water in her home for now. governor rick scott touring areas where that wasn't the case, plans to ask the army corps of engineers asking for draining solutions. >> this is life threatening. >> repor

and as jake peterson reports for us today, those working the front lines of the heroin epidemic are making a public plea for users to stop. >> a serious threat to the security of the city of sarasota. >> reporter: help and fete -- heroin and fentanyl use is most prominenin the red areas. the sarasota pd is assigning detectives to the epidemic. in the county, 113 people overdosed during the summer of 2015. that number is up to 232 during and the faces of users can be husbands. >> i overdosed three times in one week. >> reporter: mothers. >> my family, they could not believe that i was using. >> reporter: jessica got clean three months ago. it took the loss of her daughter to make her stop. she was a military wife but a diher to drugs. >> it made me completely numb. it gave me a false sense of motivatifalse sense of energy, a temporary fix. >> reporter: she is clean now and she will be getting her daughter ba but her ride with drugs almost cost her everything. >> i actually overdosed twice. >> reporter: john wayne thompson is also clean. his vicious never touch it. once you start, the cost i

reporting live in pasco county, jake peterson, abc action news. >>> the courtney campbell causeway is back open after a four-car crash closed it force hours last night. six people are still in the hospital from the crash, two just toddlers. a total of eight people were hurt in all. a 2-year-old girl is in critical condition this morning. police say it was a chain reaction started by a distracted driver. a 23-year-old woman told officers she took her eyes off the road for some reason and didn't see cars stopped at the red light. she slammed into the back of a mini van. >> when you're driving on any road, about whether a 30 mile- per-hour road or 50 mile-per- hour road like this one you need to pay attention to what is in front of you every moment of every time. for a second, that can spell disaster. >> no word on if the driver who started the crash will face charges. we expect to find out who the victims are and to get an update on how they are doing a bit later this morning. >>> 6:35. a man wanted to know if a bulletproof vest worked. now he's dead and cousin in jail. police say joaqu

jake peterson is live with more on that. >> reporter: yes, good evening to you. this location right here, lake vista recreation center serves a lot elderly black voters. but, you will not find out here and that worries them with how it is because of all of the pain. and i have breathing issues. >> reporter: so she is not sure how she will be feeling. but she would like to do her civic duty early. >> iwa ue morning and decide, i want to go early, i'm having a good day. >> but her polling place is not designated. so she would have to drive about 7 miles to vote early. >> we deserve the same opportunities the fact that our transportation is so much less. >> he is calling on supervisor of elections, deborah clark to open the polling place early. the mayor supports the effort that -- >> we have no plans to add early voting spots to the election. >> they say they are ready have the staff and equipment in place for those locations. -- they are ready have the staff and equipment in place

jake peterson shows us -- that's proven to be n to effective. >>> member gordon stays is he with her newborn son. this is grace and he was born -- grayson he was born here. >> this new mom is learning the joys of parenting, but she's doing it in someone -- some an ordinary circumstances. heroin is so strong that brought me to this pce that is so undescribable. >>> gordon was a user for five years . >> edi us half of ba boyfriend grayson's father brought me back, toe me cpr until the paramedics got there. >> she got sober last year when she found out she was pregnant, she found her way to the group home for former addicts and called particle daughters. >>> the goal is to reunite the family and get them healthy. >> denise opened her home to former users the summer -- the -- denise sympathizes because she once had an alcohol problem. so i am on both sides. >>> five mom's live here now and she has -- is room for five more. >>> unfortunately she won't have -- she won't have a problem reaching occupancy, the number of users keep growing up. last summer 113 over those -- 113 over those in s

jake peterson shows us why some redecal about >> reporter: these residents say they he en drinking bottled water for the past few days and plan so until this gets sorted out. >> they are few in numbers but these people believe they speak for dozens of others. >> how can we trust them to test our water? >> this group of mulberry area voices are noticed.>> people are tired of being walked over and tired of coverups. >> reporter: just broadband

jake peterson is live in new port richey. clean-up still going to take another >> reporter: it sure will. that is because nearly 3,000 homes in pasco county suffered some type of damage. when you walk around neighborhoods like this, you see scenes like this, debris near the roadway on the right of way. this came from this guy's mobile home that was destroyed in hermine by a tree. this is what you're supposed to area. separate everything into piles. they can be separated into furniture, appliances, vegetation, hazardous waste and construction materials. crews won't separate it for you, if you don't separate it properly they may not pick up your items. fema crews went door-to-door assessing damage. that is important because federal funds could become available. and today represents looking at -- reps will be looking at public property. we are expected to continue to respond. >> reporter: back here live now, the estimated damage to property and homes is $111 million. if you need any more information about the dos and don'ts of d

jake peterson with abcactionnews. >>> look at your screen. this is where you can go in citrus county to get rid of your debris. the landfill will be closed sunday and monday because of the holiday. >>> in hernando county you can take your your debris here and visit our website for more information and other locations. >>> the governor is out today checking out storm recovery in tallahassee. at one point hurricane nearly 1000 -- 100,000 people, rather, in the dark. with crews working around the park -- around-the-clock power is slowly coming back online.. the power is back on for most homes in the st. pete area. the storm caused 200,000 homes to lose power in dallas county. >>> tropical storm hermine hit the virginia coast with 50 mile an hour wind gusts, kicking up 50 foot waves on virginia watch the storm. >> a quick look outside showing a very different view from earlier in the week as hermine moved through. the big problem was -- which beaches will need re-nourishment work? >>> deputies are looking for a missing teen in polk county. there

. >> reporr:tingn plant city, i'm jake peterson for the now tampa bay. >> thank you, jake. >>> and uber eats is expanding in tampa bay. uber's food delivery service will be petersburg starting next month. the service runs on a separate uber app operated similar to the ride-sharing service. for a fee, you can order food from dozens of restaurants in a certn area and delivered to the door. uber eats launched earlier this month in tampa. >>> and we're getting an update on the flooding situation in north carolina. cumberland county in fayetteville, central north carolina, now deciding to close down schools toow. central north carolina dealing with heavy rain and flash flooding. water surrounding the homes as the roads shut down, power knocked out and a complete disaster. they're not going to dry out. the storm will stick around for another day. >>> and here's meteorologist shay ryan and many concerned about matthew right now. >> and at this point in me, you don't need to ncer d. unless you're heading into the carribean, that is the only concern. at this point, we're watching the storm to se

more work for him because someone owed her money and she reporting now in manatee county, i'm jake peterson, abc action news the now tampa bay. >>> almost 1400 properties have damage to the $31 million. the school district won't schedule make-up days for days students missed because of hermine. citrus fields staying open longer so people can dump their debris. >> meanwhile people in st. petersburg burg have to pay have to pay more to fix flood problems. >>> almost 3 million gallons ended up in the clearwater harbor. the good news here, 75% of that was mostly rain we also learned this afternoon that a sewage pumping station failed during the storm dumping sewage and rain water into stephenson creek. the city said they did everything in their power during the storm working around the clock and creating a temporary sewage pumping system. now they are looking at improvements they can make for future flooding events. >> in pasco county they're avoiding a public health crisis. some people still have more than of hermine. live in new port, rotting trash and debris is really a big concern where you

>>jake peterson is dealing with that as well. he is looking at some trouble spots. i know you have seen several spots of standing water right now. 1 all over different parts of the county especially west paso county. right here we are on foxwood drive, if you look down here, this street was flooded this morning when we got here about 2-3 feet of water, thi obviously residence here they are hearing the rain and seeing it it is not good news for them, that water is going to keep going up especially as cars drive by it pushes all of that water onto the property. they are definitely worried about more flooding especially as they try to pick up debris. there are plenty of tree limbs, branches, bushes that need to be cleaned up but they will not still raining. also they are without power in this neighborhood. they are trying to do all of this, they have not had power in today's -- in two days. >>no power. the general freight or -- the generator is running right now. a lot of people are seniors and they have no way out of here because they have ry >>reporter: about 1000 fo

jake peterson from our sister station in tampa bay is hearing from some of the people who are dealing with those floods now. >> hermine's long gone but it's almost hard to tell after the afternoon rains here in west was toe county. take a look at this mobile home park. the driveways are like a pond and there's debris all over the place. residents in this area are just now hoping mother nature will give them a break. >> people in pasco are hoping the wet weather starts to stay away. i've had more than enough honey. >> and wright made it hermine. but when several more inches of rain were dumped down on her already wet mobile home park saturday she was forced to leave by boat. >> it was going into my car, and it was getting ready to go into my house. >> 15 others did the same. they aren't sure how bad the destruction will be. >> i just felt real discouraged right now. >> it sucks, really. >> anna sitkowitz had water in the house and her fence is broken. she was hoping to use this >> i'm still waiting for the rest of it to move through. i know there's more coming. >> plus it's hard to cle

blake martinez, jake ryna, they're gonna have to play well in the middle because adrian peterson runs down the middle and runs hard. can they go 2-0 and ruin the party at us bank stadium?i think they can. it's gonna be a hard fought, physical win. it's gonna be about play action pass. you gotta get on those receivers. is it us bank stadium?us bank stadium. stadium. they can go into us the win 27-14. before sunday is saturday's game with the badgers against georgia state. sounds liek they won't have corey clement either. he'll likely not play after having a setback with his injured ankle this week. georgia state still shouldn't be a problem--the ninth ranked badgers 35-point favorites for tomorrow's 11:00 kickoff at camp randall. 3 guarantee themselves a losing seaosn for the second straight year.... they also lose keon br. broxton.the rebuilding brewers losing their outfielder to a broken wrist he got making this catch in the third inning of today's agme against chicago. broxton's rookie year ends after 74 games--but broxton batting .289 since being called up a fourth time from the mi

peterson is be live with us in studio with new reaction, jake, from witnesses. >> yeah, still very much a developing we've learned five people are dead from this shooting. four women and one man. catching you up this morning, this ail happening around 10:00 p.m. even in a mall near seattle. the fbi has joined this manhunt, along with the washington state police. witnesses say they heard what sounded like four balloons popping. investigators saying people ran >> the most chaotic i've seen in a while, and the most chaotic that to me it's ever been here. >> the suspect's motives are still be unknown. we are also awaiting the names of the victims. we'll bring you the latest on this story when it's available. >> continuing our coverage on the unrest in charlotte, north carolina. fake a look behind us. the video, this take bin keith scott's wife, showing some of what happened. >> it shows vantage point the moments before and after her husband was shot and killed by police, but still unclear from the video whether or not keith scott had a gun. that is still the biggest question this morning. h

. >>> chris peterson, number 14 washington, hosting rutgers. the huskies off and running. jakeing connecting twice. the 50 yarder. 24-0 after one quarter. plenty of big plays last year. this year, the same. taking the rutgers kickoff at his own 8 yard line. barely touched. the step final step -- 92-yard. a long way to run in shoulder pads. the huskies on a roll. 48-13 the final. >>> and stick around. alabama-usc. following that, yours truly after the game. we'll take you to around the nation in college football. couldn't ask for a bigger game to start this date than alabama and usc. >> that's right. 92 yards is a long way to run in shoulder pads. >> a lot. >>> that's it for this edition of abc7 news. >>> welcome to field and stream stores kickoff week. >> chris: an ambition so rarely attained. success so difficult to sustain. we call it a dynasty. >> the trojans of usc, your bcs national champions. >> alabama, back on top. another building block in this dynasty. >> chris: dynasties rule. reign. dominate. tonight, the last two teams to hold that distinction face off. the trojans

peterson is on his way to mulberry were a protest is happening at city hall. the community is asking mosaic to be held accountable. we will get information from jake within the hour. mosaic has provided is a link that we will post online for any residents who want their well water tested. >>> take a look here at a putnam county woman who deputies say stabbed her boyfriend. angela garrett stabbed him two business called [ indiscernible ]. she is charged with aggravated domestic battery. deputies say more serious charges could be coming. >>> students in pinellas county are speaking out about a policy that they feel takes away their rights to display american flags on their vehicles while at school. friday morning high school students protested the policy by flying the flag five. the controversy started earlier in the week when the school staff told us take them off of their cars were out of the truck. according to the district the school has a policy in the place must be empty. >>i want to be able to fly my american flag in honor of my family. i think taking that right away is not okay. >>the principal did offer a solution. next wednesday they will