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i'm jarrod holbrook, taking action for you. >>> take a look at this little guy behind us, this baby otter was rescued from the river view area. because of his condition he cannot be released back into the wild. the good news, they have found him a permanent home. he will be headed to the denver aquarium in colorado. >> now the most accurate >> we're going to stick with the florida area. >> yes. >> because we have good weather going on. >> it's perfect. folks visiting us this week for spring training or spring break, it couldn't be nicer. mid-80s and sunny skies. there's been a lot to love lately as we have seen nothing but sunny skies. a little breezy which has felt great. but it has made the issues of fighting brush fires tricky. still heavy rains going on across texas, louisiana. and eventually some of this weather is going to be coming our way. it's probably going to be holding off now until sunday. so i think you get saturday okay. sunday, we probably have a decent chance of rain. valspar. at least the first three days look good. there are a couple of fires going on on the east coast.
i'm jarrod holbrook, taking action for you. >>> take a look at this little guy behind us, this baby otter was rescued from the river view area. because of his condition he cannot be released back into the wild. the good news, they have found him a permanent home. he will be headed to the denver aquarium in colorado. >> now the most accurate >> we're going to stick with the florida area. >> yes. >> because we have good weather going on. >> it's perfect....
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i-team investigator jarrod holbrook picks up the story with a look at what is going on in the local job market. jarrod. >> thank you. the types of jobs were ranked in terms of growth. what we found is the overall job market in tampa bay remains strong. the problem is finding the right people to fill them. >> people are hiring faster. there's more openings. we're seeing salaries go up a little bit in terms of pay. >> reporter: sean works for a job placement firm. he says it's an exciting time to be looking for a job in tampa bay. >> i would say this is the best years. >> reporter: to see what kind of jobs are growing in florida we dug into records from the u.s. department of labor. service industry jobs grew the most. comparing june of 2015 to june of 2014, more than 226,000 jobs were added in florida. utilities came in second. professional and business services ranked third. federal and local government jobs grew the least. >> it's difficult then to recruit. >> reporter: danielle scott is with the tampa bay forum, an advocacy group for tech jobs. for higher paying jobs in tech, talent i
i-team investigator jarrod holbrook picks up the story with a look at what is going on in the local job market. jarrod. >> thank you. the types of jobs were ranked in terms of growth. what we found is the overall job market in tampa bay remains strong. the problem is finding the right people to fill them. >> people are hiring faster. there's more openings. we're seeing salaries go up a little bit in terms of pay. >> reporter: sean works for a job placement firm. he says it's...
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jarrod holbrook takes a look at this growing alternative >> reporter: it's popping up in stores in tampa bay. cbd being used as alternative medicine. >> cbd coming from hemp is beefing people that is a fact. >> reporter: it comes in pills, oils, creams, even edible products. distributeddors claim it helps with everything from stress, knauss why, and headaches to anxiety and epilepsy. jennifer uses it op her 11-year- old son. anyway was born missing the center part of his brain, but it looks like autism. >> reporter: she's seeing is positive results. >> it allows rowdy to function in a much more calm way. >> reporter: cbd is found in hemp, a cannabis plant like marijuana, but unlike marijuana, hemp is high in cbd, not thc. wendy uses it for sleep anxiety. >> i'm always up in the night, and i am able to get a good night's sleep when i use it. >> reporter: more parents are moving to colorado because they want their children with >> there's still the risk, but there's also hope. >> you can bite it on line or in some stores here in tampa bay. just one problem. federal regulators claim it's st
jarrod holbrook takes a look at this growing alternative >> reporter: it's popping up in stores in tampa bay. cbd being used as alternative medicine. >> cbd coming from hemp is beefing people that is a fact. >> reporter: it comes in pills, oils, creams, even edible products. distributeddors claim it helps with everything from stress, knauss why, and headaches to anxiety and epilepsy. jennifer uses it op her 11-year- old son. anyway was born missing the center part of his...
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jarrod holbrook spoke with that >> it's really upsetting. >> reporter: she spent more than $1700 on her lumber liquidators forest in july 2014. well before issues with the company surfaced. shortly after, she said she started having heart palpitations, low energy and respiratory problems. >> my breathing is definitely worst -- worse. >> reporter: she contacted lumber liquidators and a center a free air-quality test kit. she said the results show high levels of formaldehyde. she says the company wanted to conduct a 25 minute phone interview and that is when she came -- became suspicious so she called an attorney who had her home independently tested. >> the levels are 6 1/2 times over what is said to live in. >> he said it is very high in he recommended me to move out. >> reporter: flooded with phone calls with similar complaints. contacted by someone who has some sort of an issue. >> reporter: in his complaint, lumber liquidators has knowingly concealed information regarding high levels of products including formaldehyde. >> they knew levels were extremely high and they chose to sell it
jarrod holbrook spoke with that >> it's really upsetting. >> reporter: she spent more than $1700 on her lumber liquidators forest in july 2014. well before issues with the company surfaced. shortly after, she said she started having heart palpitations, low energy and respiratory problems. >> my breathing is definitely worst -- worse. >> reporter: she contacted lumber liquidators and a center a free air-quality test kit. she said the results show high levels of...
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jarrod holbrook shows us how some are fighting this. >> it is discouraging at times. >> reporter: nikki johnson a junior and the president of her student government program at st. pete college. marijuana and writing bad checks. she never served prison time and completed probation in 2010. >> i understand my choices were choices and that those choices have made me the woman that i am today. >> reporter: she lost her right to vote. since then she has been fighting to get it back. >> i want my children to understand the importance of having a voice. the importance of being a part of the community. >> reporter: the i-team discovered that nikki is not alope. we found the rights have been restored to nonviolent criminals compared to the last two governors before him. >> scandalous, it shouldn't be happening. >> reporter: joyce hamilton henry with the aclu says it's a problem that affects two million floridians. take a look at when we found. under governor jeb bush from 2002 to 2006, more than 72,000 chris restored voting rights to 155,000 people. governor scott, only 1500 people had their vot
jarrod holbrook shows us how some are fighting this. >> it is discouraging at times. >> reporter: nikki johnson a junior and the president of her student government program at st. pete college. marijuana and writing bad checks. she never served prison time and completed probation in 2010. >> i understand my choices were choices and that those choices have made me the woman that i am today. >> reporter: she lost her right to vote. since then she has been fighting to get...
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jarrod holbrook and adam going on in our job market. >> reporter: governor scott regularly aims to have added more than 1 million jobs to the sunshine state and that number continues to grow. at the i-team has uncovered that some sectors of the economy have actually lost jobs. how much to you like your job? >> a lot. 100%! >> reporter: she has been looking for work for months. she and others are seeking jobs that pay slightly more than minimum wage. when the governor talks about 1 million jobs, he is talking in private industry. this is the number last june and has grown since then. at the number of government jobs that have been lost during that time, 140,000 in local, state and federal government bringing the statewide total much closer to that number.>> reporter: the state has budgeted nearly $400 million in incentives over the last five jobs -- to bring jobs to the state. less than 10% of that money has actually been spent. >> i don't think we ever actually got an answer to the question of how many jobs were created last year. >> we were not qualified to work for those jobs. just pe
jarrod holbrook and adam going on in our job market. >> reporter: governor scott regularly aims to have added more than 1 million jobs to the sunshine state and that number continues to grow. at the i-team has uncovered that some sectors of the economy have actually lost jobs. how much to you like your job? >> a lot. 100%! >> reporter: she has been looking for work for months. she and others are seeking jobs that pay slightly more than minimum wage. when the governor talks...