. >> and i'm jamison uhler. these bats are forcing the us how long it will take to get them out. >> the school mascot is the hornet but lately the bats are taking over the classrooms by the hundreds. the music building is now infested with them and the dus gusting mess they believe mind. >> this mush owl over the carpets smells horrible. >> just how close are they getting to students? here's a picture provided to us that shows a dead bat lying next to a piece of sheet music. >> this year we found a bat pinned until the music stands. we brought in people to look around for more and we found a bunch of them. >> this is one of the chiropractor students forced out of the classroom. four rooms are temporarily shut down during the tedious task of sealing off the building and installing a one way door. >> when one comes out they can't go back in, they find another place to be. >> jason says it takes up to two weeks for the bats to find new cleaning up the fecal matter and replacing the floor and ceiteri. >> it's more a

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. supervisors ordering pasco county workers not to turn on a water pump as water is county leaders for answers. ryan. >> reporter: yeah. conditions, guys, so bad out here at bass lake that pasco county officials did not release it from the mandatory evacuation status until now. one week after hurricane hermine swept through. as the community has been waiting for some improvement, a tip let us to a vital water pump turd off. >> this water has been here since thursday. it started coming up. we've had very, very little recession. >> reporter: in pass lake, jamie and her flooded neighbors on brookwood drive say they have seen very little effort by the county to get this street dry. >> frustrating and almost hopeless. >> reporter: while bass lake has seen little recession, abc action news was tipped to a

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. a crucial vote will be happening tomorrow. a major sticking point, should >> cara is live in tampa. >> reporter: you're out here at the airport and hit the app and waiting for a ride to pick you up. you hope that the driver that pulls up will be safe and they're not a criminal. it turns out that getting a finger print check on the driver might not the gold standard of safety. living and working in downtown tampa means you knower and lyft are a way of life for morrison. >> it makes my line fundamentally easier. i have not owned a kay car in five years. i never want to have another one. >> reporter: when he takes a ride, morrison feels completely safe. >> i feel safer in an uber or lyft car than a taxi cab. >> reporter: but the transportation commission is worried that you knower and lyft are not doing enough to make sure that drivers are safe. they are insisting on background checks with finger printing, something that the ride shares don't want to do.

. >>> i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. a former middle school teacher, this guy right here facing serious charged. he wanted a young girl to send naked photos and videos of herself to other students. >> clifton french is live outside of the school where geist used to teach. this all started with a cell phone. >> reporter: yeah. a smart phone with apps installed and instructed her how to send naked pictures and videos of herself to other students. while he didn't have any pictures sent to himself, we are learning that he would take that phone to see those naked images of that child. out of jail but not answering his door, we attempted to talk to 321-year-old michael geist a former science teacher charged with lewd conduct with student. >> he was always nice and respectful to me. >> reporter: his neighbors shocked by the arrest, saying that he was always friendly, even offering to watch his neighbor's young child. >> i love it here. and i think this is a good place to live. and, you know, when you hear something like that, y

. >> i'm jamison uhler. tonight there are reports of millions of gallons of contamin into the florida aquifer. >> cameron poland is live with the latest. >> reporter: that's right, guys. we're at the entrance of this facility. the sinkhole is three miles south of where we are now. officials tell us at this point 215 million gallons of contaminated water have been released into the aquifer. tonight crews at the new whales radioactive water that is seeping into the florida aquifer. officials found the massive sinkhole in late august in a containment pond near one of the stacks. >> one of our field technicians whose job is to monitor water levels in the ponds, when they were making their rounds they identified that there was a water level drop. >> reporter: workers drained the pond and found a 45-foot hole so deep they couldn't see a bottom. the company 215 million gallons of contaminated water used to process fertilize hear drained into the hole. >> we activated a recovery well so that we can capture any water

. >>> and first responders in the water tonight leaving families to jamison uhler. >> first breaking news with an electrical fire forcing firefighters to evacuate an entire hospital. >> with ambulances coming from all over florida administrators just wrapping up a news conference. we have marisela burgos joining us from the hudson tonight. any updates on the power? >> reporter: well, i tell you 15% of the power has been restored and have already moved 40 patients but they are still doing those evacuations. i will show you what it looks like. there is still buses and ambulances ready to take people to other hospitals. the fire started in this generator room of the hospital. thanks to being credit 40 extra influences were currently engineers are trying to restore the power of the hospital. if they can restore it they will stop evacuating patients. so far they've already moved 10% of the 290 people here at the hospital and they are taking their time for a reason. >> the guts to actually carry the patients by hand. we do not want to call somebody -- get anybody trapped while the are tryi

i'm jamison uhler. >> i'm wendy ryan. first tonight new informatio wounded by that gunfire. both now home from the hospital and rescuers saying another young boy with more serious wounds has been airlifted to a trauma unit. right now detectives are still trying to learn why the 14-year- old gunman targeted children at the townville elementary school in south carolina, officer telling us the teen also killed his dad before opening fire on that school. >> people in a pasco county doorstep. they woke up to find some hateful messages sitting in their driveways. >> reporter: neighbors are stunned telling me every single home here on fillmore avenue had one of these small plastic bags tossed in their driveway. neighbors in this port richey neighborhood woke up to more than just their daily paper in their driveway. >> my stomach turned. >> it surprised the hell out of me. >> i think it's horrible. >> reporter: plastic bags with up inside. >> i thought they were dead and gone or at least turned carpet. >> reporter: but according to this ku klux klan flyer they're going strong and lo

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. the medical examiner ruling the death an accident. >> but as i-team investigator adam walser found out, one man says that answer is just not good enough. >> reporter: more than four died, a report says that it was caused by a heart attack and not by exposure to the heat as initially reported. the advote called out the police department and the medical examiner's office. >> what i would like to see is justice basically. we have an individual who could not defend himself. >> reporter: patient advocate fernando gutierrez says the nursing patient. >> i believe they have had time for months to conclude the report. >> reporter: but police wrapped up their investigation two weeks ago after the medical examiner says that he died from a 90% heart blockage, not sunburn. >> apparently he suffered skin burns. >> reporter: he had evidence of a sun burn but concluded that his poor health made him more susceptible to the sun.

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. we go behind the scenes a new state of the art lab fighting zika right here in tampa bay. >> ryan smith shows us why mosquito control experts believe this facility could help preve nta local outbreak. >> take a look at just how high tech this brand-new lab iounty what you're loing at is mosquito control virus testing the bay area and is dramatically changing how mosquito control notnly tests zika threa sponds to a local >> how many mosquitoes are out there? is there any virus present. >> reporter: targeting hot spots of zika virus is a lengthy process. a week passes before crews return to treat the area, leaving residents at risk. >> people in theco ared ve be sitting on, drinking their margaritas getting bit by mo has a fix. >> this will allow us to not only go track and see how many mosquitoes are available to transmit the disease but now we can test the mosquitoes within 24 hours. >> reporter: that rapid turn around time is reality thanks to this state of the art facility. >> the c

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. we're hearing from a man who shot and killed his roommate overnight in brandon. he did it to save a woman's life and his own. >> they taught me to respect people and respect -- and respect -- >> i did the right thing. because he when he had to do this morning to save a woman's life. >> i walked to his door and i opened the door and i had my gun behind -- hidden behind my right thigh. >> reporter: the fight between donald and his girlfriend was too much early this morning. >> this was like the first time that he was really hitting her. that drew the line for me. >> reporter: hillsborough county sheriffs deputies said spilled over into another part of the house. >> he backed me down from basically like one side of the house all the way to the other. and like i said, i wasn't trying to escalate the situation. >> reporter: detectives say they were in the kitchen when donald grabbed a knife. they're looking into what happened next because they're told that donald stepped forward and he pul

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. we're hearing from a man who shot and killed his roommate overnight in brandon. he did it to save a woman's life and his own. >> they taught me to respect people and respect -- and respect -- >> i did the right thing. because he when he had to do this morning to save a woman's life. >> i walked to his door and i opened the door and i had my gun behind -- hidden behind my right thigh. >> reporter: the fight between donald and his girlfriend was too much early this morning. >> this was like the first time that he was really hitting her. that drew the line for me. >> reporter: hillsborough county sheriffs deputies said

. >> i'm jamison uhler. abc action newre sarasota high school to explain what this means for other students or anyone who makes similar threats. michael. >> reporter: jamison and wendy, the student was expelled over the tweets that are outlined in this appeal, but according to this appeal, and the judge's ruling from yesterday, he didn't break the law because there is no law against a tweet that student sent. in 2014 this tweet with the was sent by a 16-year-old sarasota high school student. >> to talk stupid is not actually a violation of that statute. >> reporter: the teen's attorney says getting arrested ruined the student's life and that sarasota police overreacted. >> i would sure hope that if a student says something that is alarming but not criminal that they would go talk to him before they arrest him. before you come with this s.w.a.t. team. >> reporter: but it wasn't just the one twee. wait to shoot up my school soon. school getting shot up on a tuesday. ." >> it caused alarm, 59 tear vein with crim

good evening i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm thanks for joining us. finding affordable housing is hard but even worse when you have to sift through fake ads and con artists who take your hard earned money. >> i have been crying for a few days. >> reporter: that's the day that she found this notice on her front door, posted by city mortgage telling her she had until thursday to get out. the problem, her name wasn't on knows it came crashing down. >> i'm here now packing me stuff. don't know where to go. >> reporter: she is from tallahassee. she and her three children moved to tampa for a new start. >> i whole new start of life? they lived in a hotel for two months looking for an affordable place to rent. she found this home on craze list, called the number and toured the house. >> i loved it. gave me the money i gave him my money and i have been here since march the 1st. >> reporter: she paid $4,500 for a deposit and six months rent. the landlord known as james sampson acted like a landlord too, fixing leaks. >> he planted the flowers in front of the h

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. michael paluska is the only reporter at his lakeland police left there. michael? >> reporter: jamison, wendy, there's a note on the office door that says they are closed due to a family emergency, but that they will reopen. according to this arrest report it goes into graphic detail about what that family emergency is. lakeland police arrested 71- year-old anthony conti jr. late tuesday evening for two counts of felony sexual misconduct. detectives working late into office gathering evidence. police telling abc action news that conti a licensed mental health counselor claimed he was starting a, "level i treatment to rid a 29-year-old patient of toxins in her body that was causing her depression." that so-called treatment involved touching her on the neck, arms, and other parts according to police. only for that 39-year-old her treatment would consistent of an eastern medicine therapy. contpr thereports to ease depression by stimulating the victim's crotch. uncomfortable police say that both patients contacted them a few weeks ago, an undercover investigati

i'm jamison uhler. take a look at this video. the new york/new jersey bombing suspect running from police. >> the suspect is now charged with five counts of attempted murder of a police officer. shoot-out with police. >> meantime a houston man is in jail tonight for plotting to blow up a building. he is facing 10 years in prison. these incidents come as deputies investigate a suspicious device left on a busy intersection. marisela burgos joins us with what she has learned. >> reporter: while everything may look okay tonight at the intersection of collier parkway and roderick drive, it wasn't two weeks ago. >> they made me house, and they were out here for a few hours. >> several agencies, including tons of federal agents, responded to this area when someone found a suspicious device next to the road. >> we kept looking out the window to see if they were still here, and they were still working. >> reporter: they worked for about six hours and carefully removed it, not knowing what it was except it's home made and could go off. the

i'm jamison uhler. >> thanks for joining us. right now hillary clinton and donald trump are just four hours away from squaring off in the first presidential debate. one that could attract a super bowl sized audience. here is a look right now at the stage at new york's hostetter university. where the two will go toe to toe this evening. there's a ton at stake with 20% of voters could change their minds based on how the candidates do tonight. here's another gauge of just how the candidates promises tonight could tip the scales. quinnipiac university released these numbers hours ago. the race is still too close to call. clinton is only ahead by one point among all voters and has just a two-point lead among likely voters. the format for tonight's showdown, the debate divided into six segments for a total of 90 minutes. they'll cover three topics. prosperity. hillary clinton will go first with two minutes to respond. the audience is instructed not to boo or cheer for anyone. both trump and clinton's campaigns expressing different con

i'm jamison uhler. >> i'm laura harris. wendy ryan has the night off. >>> in pasco county three unsung heroes spent labor day pulling families >> abc action news is live tonight. cameron. >> reporter: we're in new port richey. the roads are still significantly flooded. as you move back into these neighborhoods it gets even worse. but that didn't stop three men this weekend from risking it all for people they didn't even know. hundreds of people have felt hermine. in its aftermath families are still being forced from their homes. >> we noticed a lot of people stuck in their homes. >> reporter: these three men were not affected by the flooding, but seeing the despair they decided to do what they could by boat. one family helped because they spotted a little girl asking to be rescued. >> i saw little elizabeth waving. she's adorable. >> reporter: the girl was stranded inside her home. her mom, dad, d sisters surrounded by water. >> you don't have to be scared. >> reporter: that was on saturday. and the group continues to help

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. several youth football league's claim a bay area football uniform company took abc action news reporter clifton french is live tonight in branded. a whole host of problems with this company. >> reporter: they didn't get what they had ordered. some of them didn't get anything at all. when they did get stuff, like the brandon broncos who play here, this is what their jerseys were supposed to look like. but they tell me those letters that were on the front fell off, after just one wash. >> the first week we started >> reporter: chris dolan is the treasurer of the brandon broncos. they bought jersey from a local company, sts athletics. >> it was a nightmare. >> reporter: they placed their order on may 9th. they didn't get the majority of jerseys until august. >> it was our third game, fourth game into the season before we got our jerseys. when i say all of them, it's all of what we were to get. >> reporter: that was 20 jerseys short and he claims close to well. after one wash this is what

. >> i'm jamison uhler. right now we're breaking down the presidential debate from tonight. lots of expected singers arguing, but also a lot of ground coverage. let's go to abc marcy gonzalez for the latest. >> democratic nominee for president of the united states, hillary clinton and republican united states donald j. trump. >> reporter: facing off for the first time. >> i will release my tax returns against my lawyers wishes when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. >> i made a mistake using a private e-mail. >> that's for sure. >> and if i had to do it again, i would obviously do it differently. >> reporter: hillary clinton and donald trump each on the attack dishing personal >> during the debate by saying more crazy things. >> it is nothing crazy about not letting our companies bring their money back into the countries. >> donald, i know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts. >> but you have no plan. >> oh i do. >> reporter: and hitting each other on the issues from taxes. >> my tax cut is the biggest since ronald reagan. >> your plan

. >> i'm jamison uhler. let's get right to chief meteorologist denis phillips with the latest on tropical storm julia. dennis? >> reporter: hi advisory literally just came out. what we were talking about earlier on today kind of figured this would become a depression, but jumped the depression status going straight to a tropical storm. now what does this mean for us? at this point in time we are still looking at the rain. there are tropical storm warnings in effect for northern florida, southeastern georgia. winds of 40 miles an hour. now in terms of the track, it is expected to go very slowly. so there is the issue. heavy rains might be up to 10 inches of rain across northern florida from say jacksonville towards macon. now how will it impact our weather? there is a moisture train if you will that extends from the the center all the way across the state into the gulf. you can see it, but let me be very clear about something. this is not going to be anything close to the rain that we had with hermine. up nor

jamison uhler. we'll see you next week for another fact check. >>> that computer had you screaming over there. >> we have rain coming in. right into downtown cleveland. this stuff is heavy. traveling west into bay village and rocky river, it's going to slowly saunter our way. downtown may be enveloped very quickly. here is downtown cleveland. it's rainy. look where the heavy rain is towards ohio city. that is heavy rainfall. it slides down in the twins brca the akron area, cuyahoga falls, rabinowitz heavy rain. we while and then another band will come in from southern ohio and will taper in. lower 60s everywhere you go except for youngstown in the mid-60s. your evening looks like this. notice there is thunder he weather on and off all the way through 9 pm with temperatures hovering in the lower 60s. akron, canton, same story, upper 50s, lower 60s with hit and miss showers and thunderstorms.>>> coming up at five, buildings leveled. the ground bear. makeover and we are getting all the details about wh

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. >>> lauren rozyla found out that those looking for a big pay out from fema might be in for a rude awakening. >> reporter: so many of these back here in the ba lake area. many homes are significantly damaged. fema is coming out to tour all of this but help may not provide immediate relief. 0. >> i would say by my barn there's at least a it smells awful. she and many other homeowners feel they have nowhere left to turn. >> people are to the point where we don't know what to do anymore. >> some people are hoping the federal emergency management or fema will help those without insurance rebuild. they will be touring the damage this week but pasco county says don't expect a big pay out. >> i want to set the expectation for everyone in this community that fema is not coming out handing out red cross debit cards and things.

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. thank you for joining us. polk county authorities wa man. he is accused of molesting small children and believe there are even more victims out there. >> let's to find out how he lured kids to his home. ryan. >> reporter: i think jim's ho it all. take a look athis front yard. a child's play house right there. i want to show you one other this small sign, the green sign driveway. it says caution, children at play. the sheriff says he used all of this to lure them over. >> it was a child magnet. >> reporter: children too young to know any bett l >> children wanted to go there topend time with papa jim. m ly had a dark et. y shortly after arresting balone this summer on charges of child pope, they discovered some of the kids are local. detectives ha boys but know there are more victims out there. nancy says her grandkids hung out with him on several occasions. e ecspted nothinapg pears that either. >> she cannot believe all of this happened rigunder her nose, you awow by everything. >> the allegations

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. one of the largest for profit colleges abruptly closing its doors nationtoday, leaving students empty handed. >> itt woulnot allow new students to get grants, loans and other aides. adam walser talked to students at the tampa campus who feel helpless. >> reporter: this is nt out to students at 7:30 ails this morning saying that itt would be closing for good. we have seen dozens of students coming to the campus throughout the day looking for answers. so far they aren't getting many. >> i printed it on the 15th of august. >> reporter: dominique jones was supposed to continue her nursing education at itt starting next week. >> medical terminology and strategy. >> reporter: she and nearly 40,000 other itt students nationwide got an e-mail from the school this morning, letting them know that all of the campuses would be closing for good. >> we have made the very difficult decision to discontinue our operations effective immediately. >> you're on your way to your goals and career and you wa

. >>> i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. a former middle school teacher, this guy right here facing serious charged. he wanted a young girl to send naked photos and videos of herself to other students. >> clifton french is live outside of the school where geist used to teach. this all started with a cell phone. >> reporter: yeah.

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. preliminary results show normal ease. >> action air 1 shows the sink hole today. and it appears to be growing. ryan raiche is on the ground in mulberry right now where neighbors still feel in the dark. ryan. >> reporter: yeah, they do, wendy. if you look at a calendar, we're closing in on a month since the radioactive water started seeping into that sink hole. of course people around here didn't know about it until last week. and now as the first wave of test results are coming in, no one knows who to believe. >> i don't believe it. i just really don't believe it. >> reporter: even after heather george gets the letter in the mail with the test results from her private well, she will have her doubts. >> is it hard to believe the results? >> yes, it is. i feel they are probably paying those people off. >> reporter: to her and many others who live within a few miles of this massive crater, mosaic shattered its credibility whether it kept this radioactive problem to itself. this week the

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. we're getting a look at this sink hole at the mosaic plant. >> radioactive water gushing into the aquifer below ground. you can see that pouring into the huge hole. the hole is at least 45 feet across and could be as deep as 300 feet down. >> we don't know the depth for sure until crews can build a rig to measure it sometime next week. one geronimo says i can's payroll says that the water is radioactive and he would still let his kids drink it. >> but as our ryan raiche found out, that's not the case for a lot of frustrated residents who live nearby. ryan, tell us about it. >> reporter: yeah. be safe than sorry. let me give you a lay of the land on the mosaic property. if you look past the smokestack, beyond the smokestack, a mile or two miles from where we're standing right now is where the sink hole opened up. far away but for many too close to home. for this mother, those days of grabbing a glass of water from the kitchen sink are on hold. >> the first thing that comes to your nd w

. >> and i'm jamison uhler. cara has been following this story and is live in tampa with what is on paper and why the fight will continue. cara. >> reporter: the guarantee news is if you open up your phone and go to the uber app, you can request a ride. the ptc says the rules they agreed on today will keep you doing that into the future and safely. but the problem is that the two companies are not ready to play by all of the rules that the ptc is pushing and that means that the future here could be up in the air. the hillsborough ptc is hoping it is finally a step closer to ending a drawn out dual with uber and lyft. >> by adopting these today, we are now recognizing a ride- share industry. >> out how the companies can work in tampa bay. there is requirement for the age of vehicles, inspections, insurance and price surging. they leave out mandatory fares and wait times. the problem, fingerprint background checks will stay, which uber and lyft both refuse to do. >> we think our process measures up well against th

. >> i'm jamison uhler. right now we're breaking down the presidential debate from tonight. lots of expected singers arguing, but also a lot of ground coverage. let's go to abc marcy gonzalez for the latest. >> democratic nominee for president of the united states, hillary clinton and republican