weaver got lloyd sowers out in the wide open spaces. this ranch is beautiful. i've up there few times doing stories. it is really nice up there. hey, good morning. >> good morning. you have these little rolling county. you have a beautiful bright crisp morning here. just great to be here. this is a working cattle ranch as well. at an event center. they are having savage race obstacle race this weekend. 10,000 people that we'll talking about in minute. it's working cattle ranch as well. ashley hughes with florida beef council is here with us today. thanks for being with us. thanks for having us. you have prepared this and tell us what this is. so this is a greek inspired bowl. focus of this really is to make sure you're awesome high quality protein out of that beef. but you're also getting some vegetables. so your balancing your carbs with quinoa. it's got zucchini grill roast theed few at that cheese. an incredible lemon inspired dressing on it. really is all that you need. all in one meal. it's perfect for lunch or dinner. really great on go too. what beautifu

lloyd sowers fox 13 news. the project cost around 14- between pasco county and the water management district. ((vanessa)) they've set a goal, to re-use at least ?75-percent of our reclaimed water... right now it's about ?42 percent. ((jen)) there's much more to come on good day. ((vanessa)) let's turn it over to russell and laura - to find out what's ahead in our 6 o'clock hour. thousands and thousands of people showed up in tampa to hear donald trump speak.. the ampitheatre was rocking.. coming up at six - his plans for the first 100 days of a trump presidency.. and when you can see hillary clinton in from the american academy of pediatrics to prevent sids. but they could mean your child spending a lot more time in your room. do you know what you're kids do after you turn off the lights? the big surprise one dad got when we looked at his security camera footage. hillary clinton: this is not an ordinary time, and this is not an ordinary election. every boy and girl and indeed to the entire world. that america

lloyd sowers is in for charley this morning. >> we're trying to spread cheer in dade city area. beautiful morning up here at little everglades ranch. it is 2,000 acres of paradise up here. it's the site of the big savage run this weekend. why do they open up this big ranch to events like the we'll talk to the owner of this when powerful people need someone to do their dirty work, they hire bob buesing. how far will he go? buesing fought to foreclose assisted-living retirement homes, threatening local seniors with homelessness. then, buesing defended wells fargo against charges of helping a ponzi-schemer swindle millions. buesing's firm was even accused of overbilling local schools , running fees up to seventy thousand dollars. now, buesing's running for senate. . hi. hola. let's see... you're back! they're back! ? so glad you've come back. we love to see you so. ? ? you've come for your favorite dish - enchiladas & tacos. ? welcome back! come back again and again for the epcot food & wine festival or even all four theme parks. become an annual passholder now and get it was doggi

lloyd sowers shows us why. >> reporter: the f brought the evictions. 400 people once lived in the run down hotel. i visited a family of five in a room here in 2011. >> the girls have one bed, mom has one. we sleep on the floor. >> you sleep on the floor? >> yes, they found an apartment but many people live at similar motels on the same trip of 34th street s it cheap? >> it was supposed to be 920 a almost 1300. >> that's a lot. >> it takes every nickel. >> they are trapped and can not find or don't want an alternative. >> it is because they have an eviction on the record and landlord does not want to rent to them. apartments require a deposit they don't have f they have a drug or drink problem, there is plenty of that to be found at motels like this. now the mosely will knob more. it will be that's good news, said the sheriff, the conditions here are deporable it is probably best they move on and get into better suited housing, especially for the kids. >> reporter: those who left will be offered housing. >> and it beets being homeless. >> in a motel somewhere between home and the stree

lloyd sowers has the night off. an accused hit and run driver's escape from troopers is caught on camera.and the the man gave officers the slip. fox 13's evan lambert talked to an employee at the location where the suspect was spotted and what stood out to her

. >> hello i'm lloyd sowers. thanks for being with us. hurricane caribbean and remains a strong atlantic storm, residents all over the caribbean are bracing for matthew. warning of widespread flooding. mike bennett has the latest. mike. >> hi lloyd. the most powerful since felix in 2007. it is an interesting storm, two back off here but there's a lot of convection on the east side, not your typical super-symmetric looking hurricane. the latest on it, winds are 150 miles per hour, so still a strong category 4 storm now moving to the north northwest at 7. for some time earlier today it was stationary, now making its move. you follow the track, that's tomorrow night through the midday on monday, it makes its way to haiti. jamaica, good news it's on the west side of the system which is typically the weaker side of the system. for haiti itself the southern peninsula they are going to take the brunt from monday, monday night, by tuesday, all to the north affecting portions of cuba and then later on tuesday night bahamas, but parallel, southeast

lloyd sowers, fox 13 news. >> they're now under 24-hour camera surveillance until they're set out for voting. >>> starting january 1st the state's minimum wage will go up a nickel. it's the since florida established the minimum wage 11 years ago. they calculate is based on changes in the federal consumer price index. looking at food, clothing, shelter and gas and medical expenses is how they rate it. low wage workers in florida say it's trivial and needs to go up more. >> it's not easy at all, because i still have to pay bill, light bill, rent, car insurance and even school events, sporting events and everything. it's not easy at all. it's really, really stressful. >> op flipside, some experts say a higher minimum wage could lead to layoffs. >>> there's more at sfak in the election. we look at amendment 1 and the solar future. >>> upper 80s to near 90. we're 85 degrees now. it's a beautiful evening, and a little breeze this november's ballot is promising to be one of the most hotly debated tickets... >>> this november is going to be one of the most hotly debated elections in history.

i'm lloyd sowers, fox 13 news. rock the vote indeed. john bon jovi will hold get out to vote performance right here in tampa. now we can tell you concert will be held saturday november 5th. pew we're still wait for other details like ticket information and venue when we get those we will be sure to bring them to you. >> so jim, this cold front is like all we really want to talk about, right? >> i mean it's like when and how cold are we talking about? i feel like like w i like that idea. wouldn't that be great? it looks like going to be coming here late friday. and as we get into the weekend, that's when you really will notice a change. although even today it's a beautiful day. temperatures running in the mid 80s for this afternoon. right now, our temperatures at 82 degrees. humidity, it's in that moderate level. not too bad. but compared to what we're going to see this weekend going to be so much nicer this weekend. as far as just how comfortable it's going to outside. you see just some scattered clouds overhead. that vertical developme

and fox 13 lloyd sowers is in for charley this morning in dade city. checking out what's in store for when powerful people need someone to do their dirty work, they hire bob buesing. ed-living retirement homes, threatening local seniors with homelessness. then, buesing defended wells fargo against charges of helping a ponzi-schemer swindle millions. buesing's firm was even accused of overbilling local schools , running fees up to seventy thousand dollars. now, buesing's running for senate. how far will bob buesing go? that's up to you. >>> good dy tampa bay i'm lloyd sowers in for charley belcher little everglades rambling dade city just to set the stage for this weekend's big savage race. there is a big quarter pipe into thing? >> twin peaks over there. and then over here, is the barn door, right? this obstacle is barn door. and this is ashley hughes. you've done this before, right? >> yes. this is going to moob my second savage race been a couple years some obstacles like twin peaks are getting pretty hard. you did one in claremont. >> yes. they move

. >> as lloyd sowers reports the characters could be sold to the highest bidder. >> like they are weathered some in disrepair. the pigs the born. and the art director calls them and the mountain and the rainbow bridge as a kid you knew what came next. >> it opened in the late 50s. you it was in a different age. , they are kind of sitting in the shade. they will not beer longer. the characters are surplus and auctioned off to the highest bidder so the three pigs are for sale, he believes they are a part of tampa history, they do not have value to anyone else but those of us who are from here. >> and they would like the city to call off the auction and apply for a grant to restore parks. >> if they leave the area we have lost them. lost in time and a future for the characters from a different age. >> and the heat of the purchasing department said it will happen in the next several weeks. it is his job to sell them to benefit taxpayers. >> they will want those. >> and i'm excited abo front let's bring on noon they would not work out. and take a look outside now. and this is not a good evening

good eveni, i'm lloyd sowers. >> and i'm haley hines, thanks for bees wh us. matthew is expected to go possiblyak landfalln cuba. meteorologist mik ben b bennitts looking at where the hurricane is headed. >> this hurricane hunter continues to find winds in excess of 100 miles per hour within this system, so we are still talking about a dangerous system the next update comes in in about an hour. 14.5 north, and 75 west, moving to the nthst a 5 miles per hour. 945 millirs c pressure and if there has been a bias with these models it is to move this system too quickly to the north. it's been crawling and that means very, very heavy rains jamaica and co cuba and hate ya. we are still talking about a dangerous category three system as it passes just east of cuba and over haiti. and this track that puts the worst of the weather right down through haiti. we are talking about isolated rainfall totals in inches. and that means flooding and mudslides and we are not done with it yet. this heads out towards the bahamas as another major hurricane, re-strengthening into wedn

. >> good evening, i'm aaron mesmer in for lloyd sowers. >> i'm haley hinds. contaminated water. according to a news rest, a pump that as well as waste water malfunctioned and pumped out tbiefer,000 gallons. well water is not affected. hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive water into the florida aquifer. the company has said no well water was impacted that time >> another news alert, this one a lot further away in the pacific. south korea and the u.s. said north korea attempt another missile launch, which failed. exploded after liftoff. south korea believes tear neighbors unsuccessfully attempted to fire a miferl. >> can a big name in the tonight. gop victory dinner, marco rubio was also there, and both spoke to the group of nearly 900. crystal, pretty big turnout. >> yes it is, haley. these tampa bay residents weren't just throwing their support behind these candidates but their money as well. the cost was $250 looming allegations against potato candidates. >> governor mike pence encouraging tampa bay trends to show their support at the polls. >> florida always plays an

and lloyd sowers is here. it tells how deep the hole is. >> a visible part it is 220 feet deep and it is the widest about 150 feet in diameter. they need to know that so they can sell up the drilling to put they put it down there in a cage that was suspended from a cable that was stretched across the sinkhole, using the technology in the sinkhole is a first. >> many times it is suspended from a aircraft and flown over the surface and give you the dimensions on the earth and contours, things like that. lowering it down into a space >> know mosaic and the dep said the water from the sinkhole has been contained on their property. more than 700 wells at nearby homes are being monitored. of them but officials say it's not from the sinkhole and naturally occurring in the area. mosaic said by middecember it will pump concrete to plug the hole. >> i cannot imagine how much concrete. >> a hole here opened up near the driveway of a mobile home in pasco. this is the holiday travel park in holiday. this they are had limit

weekend, why the family of one of the victims is struggled to hines, thanks for being w with , lloyd sowers has the night off. as fox 13's evan lambert tells us dozens of polling places are readying for voters early tomorrow morning. >> the supervisor of elections here is just one of early dozens of voting locations beginning taking ballots tomorrow. most locations are open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. >> when t weeks away, the push is on to get candidates in their corners. it's especially urgent here in florida where early voting starts in many counties on monday. the presidential candidates honed in on battleground states where early voting plays a huge role. donald trump spoke to potential early voters on sunday. >> my goal is to keep foreign money out of american politics. the oval office up for sale to whatever country offers the highest price, that's what she does. >> and hillary clinton campaigned in charlotte. >> this is not like anybody else else who has ever run for president who has demonstrated unquifcunequivocally, that he is unqualified and unfit to be president and commander i

and lloyd sowers has been on the story from the start. what are they saying about the video? >> and it backs up what they knew that the car was going fast. they say that some people use it as a game. >> it is chilling video from the final moments of five lives and reaching the speed of 115 miles an hour. it is shows the speed. they crashed into a mini van, killing a 39-year-old and her two young children, john and isabel. >> it hurt me to see the video. like i said i can not be upset and angry. there is no time for that. there is no room for that. >> but the video raises questions about how some people pablo cortez, the driver of the vehicle that caused it was not racing but was he playing to his passenger, 19-year-old julie bartloma. >> they were in the phone opened to snapchat. the point was how fast can we go. at an at&t distracted driver demo the speed filter and how they use it is well known. >> my friends and they will post it to see how fast they can go without getting caught. >> and the filter of speed is a game, people try to see as fast as they can go so they can dr

. >>> i'm lloyd sowers with matthew i'll tell you where heading. , i have been doing this 14 years. this is a first. >> a first for those driving by the bald eagle that brought traffic to a screeching halt. >>> good good evening, i'm linda hurtado for kelly ring. this is coastal town.@ they have never seen anything like this. even worse than the floyd and linda the town is destroyed. and this is a watch which means that the winds 39 or the storm goes by the bands coming in could produce winds for a time. we'll deal with that no one under a warning, that's limited along i-95. >>> and.

but as lloyd sowers will show us, it is alive. that's coming up tonight on the news. >>> on wall street stocks ended lower after a bit of an up and down day. the dow fell slipping 6 across the board. but we have the hollywood headlines. and heading for the screen. and mariah splits with a billionaire. she will soon not be walking down the aisle. according to "people" the diva and her boyfriend have split. they were on vacation when they got into a huge fight. since. taylor hicks had a terrifying ordeal. his plane blew an engine. season five american idol champ thought he would die. and more j.k. rowling's books will hit the small screen. this time harry potter is taking a back seat. hbo picked up rights to the drama series. and it is based on novels. all kinds of good stuff. >> everything is gold. >> it has been the. >> she is phenomenal. >> let's go to paul, i love the weather i didn't feel like it was hot. >> not bad, we had clouds kind of blocking the sun and the wind helps, it's not all that muggy. the chilly weather is kaput,

lloyd sowers is getting more information and everyone involved, this is sad the whole family almost decimated. >> reporter: it is a sad story the driver who hit them the 22-year-old pablo cortez caused that crash. he left a meet up with other car lovers. minutes later he was westbound on 574 at high speed, they say, he loses control, crosses the media and hit that head on. the driver and girlfriend are killed. in the other car a mother and two children were killed. and the 39-year-old a stay at home mom and two kids 10-year-old and 9-year-old, they were students in man go later. >> the children would light up their teacher will miss them, friends will miss them. we miss them already. >> two other family members are at tgh in critical condition a horrendous crash. we look a look at the facebook page of cortez that caused the crash. that's the car right there the blue 2012 vw golf. we'll tell you about the family that's been devastated by the >> so sad, lloyd, thank you. >>> now a discovery at a children's life life facility. three deer were beat ton death in their enclosure. and now officials

lloyd sowers shows us where can you change your vote and where you can't. >> there is no law against a good time at the polls. early voting some had a hangover not from booze but from news. that is earth shattering in the past has come up. that's something i need to fix i should change it. >> in seven states you can n hawaii, connecticut and minnesota, voters have until tomorrow a week before the election to file a new ballot. in new york and michigan the deadline is not until the day before the election. in pennsylvania, you have all the way up to ele can you vote in person to replace your previous ballot. if change is the thing, wisconsin lets you change the vote three times before the election. >> this is america, man, come on, we should have a right, you know look i didn't like the way that ice cream tasted can i have that one. >> in florida once you cast it, there is no changing your mind no matter what happened with donald trump or hillary clinton. if something big happens, we'll change the early votes they have cast but only in the a handful of states that allow. >> here. some

lloyd sowers has the night authorities in polk county are searching for the driver in a deadly hit-and-run crash. it happened just after midnight. a car veered off state road 60 in lake wales hitting a young woman in a polk county deputy. the woman was killed and a deputy remains in the hospital fox 13's kelly cowan has more. was safe and she had wrecked her car in this ditch. >> smashed, the windshield it landinged on its passenger side. she actually crawled out through the smashed wind scmeld came out into the median to flag somebody down for help. >> reporter: polk county deputy sheriff stopped to help. >> he immediately called for e.m.s. and the last transmission that he had was at 12:38. e.m.s. had not anticipated thought they were arriving to assist that woman who was injured in the crash. instead when they got here they found her, and the deputy in the grass severely injured it. >> was quite obvious from the very beginning that they had been struck by a vehicle. >> reporter: detectives say a vehicle swerved around the deputy's vehicle and sped through the median running right over d

lloyd sowers, fox 13 news. >> alcides: the head of the city's purchasing department says the auction will happen in the next couple of weeks. he said it's his job to sell them to benefit city taxpayers. >>> still to come, our couponing expert is standing by with a great deal of the week. >> anjuli: fall arrives at one buc place. i'm a republican, but this election is so much bigger than party. my son max can't live in trump world. so i'm crossing party lines and voting for hillary. i don't always agree with her, but she's reasonable. and she's smart. she can work with people to solve problems. i want to be able to tell my kids that i did the right thing when it really mattered. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. embrace the good. the comfort of being home. and the people who are there for you when you need them. this is what community is. this is lakewood ranch. experience it yourself this weekend during our tour of homes... ...happening now through november 20th. explore more than 50 model homes and 12 distinct villages throughout our award -winning community. good morn

and a big part of the water supply for the fox 13's lloyd sowers shows us, after a spot in pasco county will ((mark--live)) the project cost around $14 million dollars split between pasco county and the water managent district. they have a goal of re- using at least 75 percent of our reclaimed water, right now >> don't forget our atmosphere s like the ocean. oceans have current. the atmosphere has current and sometimes that atmosphere spins and it can kay a contrail and kind of spin it around. here's another view of the same cloud from a little further away from diane lynn. high clouds around today, and it should be a beautiful sunset tonight as our sunlight goes through some of the high cirrus clouds, and this is the time of year that we start having some wind above us. in the summertime, the jetstream is way up. in canada you start moving through october, november, you get some high clouds, you start getting some jetstream winds above us and some high cirrus blowing in from the gulf of mexico. can you believe it was 11 ago today that category 3 hurricane made landfall down by cape rom

school for the f r usually belcher....in for charley lloyd sowers, he's check in with its time now to its time now to >>russell: usually we go to charley but look. charley is not here. >>laura: there he is. hello, lloyd. charley, i understand, up north, went up to see the folks up around boone. >>laura: he loves going up there. >>russell: he went to school there. >> i know. but i get the pleasure of being in some wide open spaces, a dade city at the little everglades ranch and katie is here joining us today. katie is the general manager of little everglades ranch near dade city. how many acres are on this ranch? >> 2,050 acres here. 1750 of it are protected. we have wildlife, cattle. >> how many cattle? we raise calves until they're about eight months old and then they get sold. >> they're not here with us because they're on the other side of the ranch. it's that time of year, isn't it? >> it is for me to move the cows to the east, yes. we have them coming now. that's why we moved them out of the way so they can have a nice, katie, thanks very much. savage race is going to be 10,000 p

lloyd sowers, fox 13 news. >> and the exhibit is at the as a federal prosecutor, i've spent my career prosecuting criminals and fighting for the rights of victims. i want to make the state attorney's office a model for criminal justice. i'll prioritize violent crime and be tough on murderers, gangs, and anyone who commits domestic abuse or sexual assault. and i'll make the system fair by working with police to wear body cameras and using dna to put criminals behind bars, not innocent people. i'm andrew warren. after an obscene amount was spent building this controversial courthouse, the state learned the contractor had overspent on framed photos that were never used. when the state refused to pay, bob buesing sued... demanding taxpayers foot the bill, including his own legal fees. bob buesing profitted from government waste and abuse? now running for senate, buesing wants us to trust him with state spending. ((linda vo )) we've seen some of the damage in the caribbean.. caused by powerful hurricane matthew.. >> we've seen the damage in the caribbean caused by powerful hurricane matthe

. >> i'm lloyd sowers. how this pond in pasco county will affect our drinking water source. >> from tampa bay's number one news station, this is the fox 1:36 news. >> good evening. welcome on this monday, i'm mark wilson. >> i'm kellie ring, thank you fr joining us, everybody. critical mission for him as pols show him trailing in the must wn state of florida. he's holding a rally at the mid florida amphitheater which is where fox 13's evan axelbank is joining us live. evan? >> kellie, over just the last couple of days, between sunday, today and tomorrow, donald trump is going to be holding five rallies here in the state of florida. the rally he's holding at 7:00 here in the florida amphitheater tonight is the thid rally of the take a look behind me. you can see a tremendous crowd s greeting donald trump at the mid florida amphitheater. donald trump right now is in a critical phase in his campaign. florida is going to be essential to him and right now we can show you some video from him earlier today in st.