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A 35-year-old man was bitten by an alligator on Monday afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, authorities said.

The man was attacked by the 11-foot animal while playing disc golf, and trying to retrieve his flying disc from a pond in Cliff Stephens Park, according to ABC Affiliate WFTS.

"He had serious injuries but they were not life threatening at the time," Rob Shaw, a public safety officer with Clearwater Fire & Rescue, told ABC News.

"We received multiple calls immediately right after it happened because there were a number of people in the area at the time," said Shaw. He added that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission handled the case, and called licensed state alligator trappers who captured the animal and removed it from the pond.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment.

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"There are signs posted there that warn people not to swim out, not to get in the water. So he is very fortunate to still be alive," said Shaw. "We have alligator attacks down here from time to time, and many times it can be fatal or have very serious injuries."

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The victim was taken to Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Florida, with non-life threatening injuries, according to WFTS.

The 11 foot-alligator as well as a smaller one were removed from the pond and will be euthanized, WFTS reported.

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A 35-year-old man was bitten by an alligator on Monday afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, authorities said. The man was attacked by the 11-foot animal while playing disc golf, and trying to retrieve his flying disc from a pond in Cliff Stephens Park, according to ABC Affiliate WFTS.

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Randell Gene Owens,he coached football, taught physical education and was a dean at Palatka High School, was accused of head-butting a player and telling another to “commit suicide,”

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A Florida high school football coach was removed from the sideline and permanently banned from teaching after he was accused of abusive behavior.

Randell Gene Owens, who coached football, taught physical education and was a dean at Palatka High School, was accused of head-butting a player and telling another to "commit suicide," First Coast News reported Tuesday, citing a Florida Department of Education administrative complaint.

He was also accused of releasing mucus from a nostril onto a 15-year-old student and, in another instance of abuse, stood on a toilet seat and "peeped over the bathroom stall" while a 16-year-old male student used the bathroom, according to the complaint. The incidents reportedly took place during the 2017-18 school year, according to First Coast News.
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Owens didn't seek to contest the charges and waived his right to a public hearing, according to the complaint. He also surrendered his teaching certificate.

Owens resigned from the school in December 2017 and the Florida Department of Education permanently revoked his teaching license in June, according to First Coast News.

The former coach was involved in several incidents prior to joining Palatka High School. He was hired by the school in April 2015, according to the Palatka Daily News.

In September 2013, Owens was arrested for simple battery after an incident with a student at Valdosta High School in Georgia. He resigned from the high school days later. Valdosta City police obtained an arrest warrant for Owens, but the charges were later dropped, according to First Coast News.
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About a year after Owens joined Palatka High School, he was accused of keeping "coaches segregated" and "playing favorites." Additionally, he was accused of making players with medical issues to "go out and play."

Putnam County Superintendent Rick Surrency defended Owens' hire after he was let go from the Georgia high school.

"With any employee who reports an arrest such as he did on his application, as long as there was no conviction and as he reports it and checks it out, it is my understanding that the record had actually been expunged," Surrency told First Coast News.

Owens has not spoken publicly about the allegations and his attorney declined comment to First Coast News.

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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A Florida high school football coach was removed from the sideline and permanently banned from teaching after he was accused of abusive behavior. Randell Gene Owens, who coached football, taught physical education and was a dean at Palatka High School, was accused of head-butting a player and telling another to "commit suicide," First Coast News reported Tuesday, citing a Florida Department of Education administrative complaint.

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a man playing disc golf on Monday afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, was bitten by an 11 foot alligator

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A 35-year-old man was bitten by an alligator on Monday afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, authorities said. The man was attacked by the 11-foot animal while playing disc golf, and trying to retrieve his flying disc from a pond in Cliff Stephens Park, according to ABC Affiliate WFTS.

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Hurricane Florence's path: Track the storm here

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Hurricane Florence, a powerful Category 4 storm, overnight Tuesday showed it could stall upon reaching the Carolina coast and make a slight shift south toward South Carolina once it makes landfall , becoming "a major flooding event," according to Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean.

The storm, which is poised to affect millions this week in the southeastern U.S., is "expected to bring life-threatening storm surge and rainfall" to North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, and parts of the Mid-Atlantic states, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Here's what should you know about the powerful storm's path.

Where is the hurricane now?

Florence is approximately 385 miles southwest of Bermuda and around 575 miles southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina, as of 2 a.m. ET, according to the NHC.

The center says the storm is moving west-northwest at 17 mph, and has maximum sustained winds of about 130 mph.

"On the forecast track, the center of Florence will move over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Bahamas [Wednesday], and approach the coast of North Carolina or South Carolina in the hurricane warning area on Thursday and Friday," the NHC says.

The center also says the storm could become more powerful.

"Florence is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale," it noted. "Strengthening is forecast through [Wednesday]. While some weakening is expected on Thursday, Florence is forecast to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane as it approaches the U.S. coast."
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What else should I know?

States of emergency were declared by Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser for the nation's capital; requested by Virginia's governor; and approved by President Donald Trump for North and South Carolina on Monday.
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"Please be prepared, be careful and be SAFE!" the president tweeted Monday evening.

If you're getting ready for Florence, you can read about steps t o prepare for the storm here.
Fox News' Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Stephen Sorace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Hurricane Florence's path: Track the storm here

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Hurricane Florence, a powerful Category 4 storm, overnight Tuesday showed it could stall upon reaching the Carolina coast and make a slight shift south toward South Carolina once it makes landfall , becoming a major flooding event, according to Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean.

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35-year-old man bitten by 11-foot alligator while playing disc golf. The man was attacked by the 11-foot animal while playing disc golf, and trying to retrieve his flying disc from a pond in Cliff Stephens Park.

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A 35-year-old man was bitten by an alligator on Monday afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, authorities said.

The man was attacked by the 11-foot animal while playing disc golf, and trying to retrieve his flying disc from a pond in Cliff Stephens Park, according to ABC Affiliate WFTS.

"He had serious injuries but they were not life threatening at the time," Rob Shaw, a public safety officer with Clearwater Fire & Rescue, told ABC News.

"We received multiple calls immediately right after it happened because there were a number of people in the area at the time," said Shaw. He added that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission handled the case, and called licensed state alligator trappers who captured the animal and removed it from the pond.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment.

Trappers work to corral and secure the gator that attacked a man in a lake at Cliff Stephens Park. Victim taken to hospital for treatment of injuries. pic.twitter.com/Be7mKKy27G
- @clearwaterfire (@clearwaterfire) September 10, 2018

"There are signs posted there that warn people not to swim out, not to get in the water. So he is very fortunate to still be alive," said Shaw. "We have alligator attacks down here from time to time, and many times it can be fatal or have very serious injuries."

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The victim was taken to Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Florida, with non-life threatening injuries, according to WFTS.

The 11 foot-alligator as well as a smaller one were removed from the pond and will be euthanized, WFTS reported.

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A 35-year-old man was bitten by an alligator on Monday afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, authorities said. The man was attacked by the 11-foot animal while playing disc golf, and trying to retrieve his flying disc from a pond in Cliff Stephens Park, according to ABC Affiliate WFTS.

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Oscar De La Hoya said hes very serious about running for president and said "if kanye west can tease the world about it why cant I

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Boxing Joseph Zucker John Locher/Associated Press @@JosephZucker Featured Columnist "I am actually very, very serious, and I strongly feel that if a Kanye West can do it and announce and maybe tease the world that he would maybe one day wanna run for president, why not me? ... I've had literally, over the years, ever since I became a professional in boxing, I've had millions of people tell me, 'Look, why don't you represent? Why don't you stand up and have a bigger voice?' And obviously, the biggest voice you can have is being president."
Having already conquered the squared circle during his boxing career, Oscar De La Hoya is seriously setting his sights on the Oval Office.

De La Hoya revealed in an interview with TMZ Sports he would consider running for president of the United States:

Although De LaHoyadoesn't have any experience in elected office, that didn't stop Donald Trump from winning the 2016 presidential election.

Like Trump, De LaHoyahas turned himself into an entrepreneur following his retirement from boxing in 2009. The 45-year-old founded Golden Boy Promotions in 2002, and the company has since become an established brand in the sport. CaneloAlvarez, Francisco Vargas, JorgeLinaresand LucasMatthysseare among those who are signed to Golden Boy.

De LaHoyawould undoubtedly have long odds were he to enter the presidential fray, though there's still time for him to do so ahead of the 2020 elections.

He toldTMZSports he'll officially start campaigning "if his exploratory team comes back with good numbers."

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Live grenade found at a remodeling for a restaurant.

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The woman, Diana Bober, was reported missing in late August.

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A pregnant mother-of-three was killed over the weekend when a BMW crashed into her car.

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An Oregon woman who had been reported missing nearly two weeks ago was most likely killed by a cougar in an "unprecedented event," investigators revealed Tuesday.

The body of Diana Bober, 55, was found Monday off a trail in the Mt. Hood National Forest in Welches, about 40 miles southeast of Portland, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.
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The medical examiner's office determined that wounds found on Bober's body were "consistent with a suspected cougar attack," and ruled out the possibility that she was mauled after she died from a separate cause.

DNA samples will be flown by the Oregon State Police to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service laboratory for further analysis, officials said.

Bober's death by a cougar is the first recorded attack of its kind in Oregon state history, officials said.

Authorities previously said that Bober, an avid hiker from Gresham, was considered a missing person, and noted her car was found on Saturday.

"This is a terrible tragedy, and our sympathy goes out to Diana's family and friends," Brian Wolfer, of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said. "All of us at ODFW are thinking of you today."

The sheriff's office said Oregon has roughly 6,000 cougars - also commonly called mountain lions or pumas - throughout the state, and that ODFW "tracks conflicts" with the animals in situations where they kill non-wild animals or threaten humans.

"This is an unprecedented event in Oregon, we are asking people to avoid this area while we attempt to remove this cougar," Wolfer said. "We don't know what risk it poses to the public."

The area where Bober was killed has averaged 20 complaints about human safety per year, for the past 10 years, according to authorities.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Nicole Darrah covers breaking and trending news for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @nicoledarrah.

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Cougar apparently killed Oregon woman missing for nearly 2 weeks, investigators say

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An Oregon woman who had been reported missing nearly two weeks ago was most likely killed by a cougar in an "unprecedented event," investigators revealed Tuesday. The body of Diana Bober, 55, was found Monday off a trail in the Mt. Hood National Forest in Welches, about 40 miles southeast of Portland, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

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A ten year old boy from Kansas City, Missouri was hospitalized after falling onto a meat skewer. The boy, whose name is Xavier Cunningham, was climbing a tree when he fell and landed face first onto the skewer. The meat skewer luckily missed his brain and brain stem, so he should be recovering from this accident.

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10-year-old Xavier Cunningham from Kansas City, Missouri, was hospitalized after he fell from a tree he was climbing and landed face-first on a meat skewer sticking out of the ground.

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Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving headlines the newest group of athletes to enroll in "Crossover Into Business," a Harvard Business School course created to help stars from the world of sports maximize their earning potential during and after their playing careers.

On Tuesday, Nicole Yang of Boston.com reported Irving is joined in the class by Denver Nuggets power forward Paul Millsap and former NFL tight end Martellus Bennett, among others. Longtime NBA forwards Chris Bosh and Caron Butler previously completed the program.

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Kyrie Irving is enrolled in a program at Harvard Business School https://t.co/TV2ki33IfZ https://t.co/u7tA9DFv0U

Irving has already started to broaden his appeal by taking his Uncle Drew character, which was developed for Pepsi commercials, mainstream with a featured film by the same name released this summer.

In June, Boston.com's Kevin Slane asked the 26-year-old Duke product about his interests away from the basketball court.

"I feel like if I had the same amount of time that I was afforded [for basketball] to learn about business and investments, I think I'd probably be in a pretty different place," he said. "You just gotta learn as best you can on your own time."

Taking a course at Harvard is a significant step in that process.

At the same time, Irving is working back from knee surgery that forced him to miss the latter stages of the 2017-18 season, including the playoffs.

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Boston Celtics Tim Daniels Charles Krupa/Associated Press @TimDanielsBR Twitter Logo Featured Columnist Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving headlines the newest group of athletes to enroll in "Crossover Into Business," a Harvard Business School course created to help stars from the world of sports maximize their earning potential during and after their playing careers.

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Catastrophic flooding headed to Carolinas, 40 inches of rain possible

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Hurricane Florence, dubbed the "storm of a lifetime" by the National Weather Service, has slowed dramatically overnight Wednesday and may not officially make landfall until the weekend. While this may lessen wind speeds by landfall, it could increase rainfall totals to as much as 40 inches in North Carolina.

Interested in Hurricane Florence?

Add Hurricane Florence as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Hurricane Florence news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

Florence is a dangerous Category 4 hurricane Wednesday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph -- down from 140 mph overnight. Florence is located about 575 miles southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina.

The path, intensity and timing of the storm is likely to keep changing through the day Wednesday, but the latest 5 a.m. update shows Florence will no longer be close to Category 5 -- with winds of 145 mph -- through Thursday morning.

It begins to slow down during the day Thursday and that's when it will begin to encounter friction from land and weaken significantly.

Winds may lessen, but because of that slowdown, rainfall totals will be even higher than previously forecast. The southeast coast of North Carolina could see as much as 40 inches of rain -- in line with the catastrophic flooding caused last year in the Houston area by Hurricane Harvey.

"This will likely be the storm of a lifetime for portions of the Carolina coast, and that's saying a lot given the impacts we've seen from Hurricanes Diana, Hugo, Fran, Bonnie, Floyd, and Matthew," the National Weather Service said. "I can't emphasize enough the potential for unbelievable damage from wind, storm surge, and inland flooding with this storm."

As many as 1.7 million people have been ordered to evacuate across South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Many of those people were already on the road Tuesday.

"If they say leave, leave," said Jennifer Forte, who was in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Tuesday and headed toward Greenville. "And my job is closed. I work for the government, they've closed. The school's closed until Friday, so there's no reason to stay, really."

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper advised much the same in a press conference Tuesday, warning locations hit by high winds and floodwaters could be without power for "several days."

"We'll be asking people to prepare their emergency kit," he said. "Get food, water, if there are medications they may need. Pull together their important documents ... make a plan for your pets. Also, understand that a lot of people are going to be without power probably for several days if not longer."

The federal government has made similar warnings, with FEMA Administrator Brock Long saying Florence could knock out power for "weeks."

As millions head out of the area, resources like the Red Cross are preparing to deal with the disaster -- and possibly weeks of problems resulting from it.

"This is extremely serious," Major Ken Morris, with the Salvation Army's Disaster Response Team, told ABC News. "We've got a number of volunteers, actually we've got over 3 million volunteers across the nation that can help us. But we need our partners in mission. Folks have come through wonderfully in the past and again in non-affected areas. We've got canteens coming in. It's like an accordion. As this thing increases, we increase our resources."

ABC News' Steve Osunsami and Gio Benitez contributed to this report.

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Hurricane Florence slows dramatically on approach, 40 inches of rain possible

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Hurricane Florence, dubbed the "storm of a lifetime" by the National Weather Service, has slowed dramatically overnight Wednesday and may not officially make landfall until the weekend. While this may lessen wind speeds by landfall, it could increase rainfall totals to as much as 40 inches in North...

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The hiker that went missing was found dead most likely killed by a cougar.

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Video shows teens stealing after clerk collapses

Authorities are trying to identify three suspects caught on video stealing and not calling for help after the store clerk collapsed sick.

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Authorities are trying to identify three suspects caught on video stealing and not calling for help after the store clerk collapsed sick.

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19 year old Kiera Bergman went missing on August 4th. Police found her body in a rural area last week. Her 23 year old ex- boyfriend will now be charged with her murder. He was already in police custody for theft and forgery. His bond is set at $1 million.

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An Arizona man is facing murder charges over his teenage ex-girlfriend's death after police found her body in a rural desert area last week.

Investigators in Phoenix recommended on Tuesday that Jon Christopher Clark, 23, be charged in the death of his ex-girlfriend, 19-year-old Kiera Bergman, whose remains were recovered nearly a month after she was reported missing, police said. Bergman hadn't been seen since she left work with Clark on Aug. 4.

Police recommended charges of first-degree murder, improper removal of a body and evidence tampering against Clark on Tuesday evening, citing probable cause, according to the Phoenix Police Department.

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He was already in police custody for unrelated felony charges of aggravated identity theft and forgery when the charges were announced, police said.

A passerby discovered Bergman's remains in a desert area on Sept. 3 and called the police. Her family said it suspected Clark may have been involved in her disappearance.

"We believed from the beginning he was involved, but without any information we didn't want to put him out there as a bad person without knowing some facts," her father, Chris Bragg, told Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV on Tuesday.

Kiersten Bragg, the young woman's mother, told "Good Morning America" last month that she questioned reports that her daughter had left to "hang out" with a guy she'd just met.

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"To that text message that stated that she was going to hang out with a guy somewhere she met at a store, a couple days ago, that to me is not my daughter," Bragg told "GMA." "That is not something that she would just do. And then for her to leave, and leave her purse with her wallet and ID there at the apartment, that's not normal neither -- that's why I feel like there's something not right here."

Reacting to news of the pending murder charges against Clark, the family said it felt a sense of relief.

"I was relieved and in a way I'm happy," Kiersten Bragg told KNXV. "I pray that the situation opens up a lot of especially young women's eyes to the dangers that are out there and that you think twice before you get involved with certain people."

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Clark was arrested on unrelated charges on Aug. 31 when police executed a search warrant for his home and found "numerous items with personal identifying information of others, as well as items of forgery," according to a police statement.

A judge set Clark's bond at $1 million. His next scheduled court date is Sept. 18. It was unclear if he had obtained an attorney.

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An Arizona man is facing murder charges over his teenage ex-girlfriend's death after police found her body in a rural desert area last week. Investigators in Phoenix recommended on Tuesday that Jon Christopher Clark, 23, be charged in the death of his ex-girlfriend, 19-year-old Kiera Bergman, whose remains were recovered nearly a month after she was reported missing, police said.

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US officials call teen vaping an 'epidemic' . They're calling all e-cig companies to address the problem or risk being pulled off the market. They did not predict the amount of teen addiction, but because of how easily available and how much they appeal to teens it isn't hard to get addicted. The 5 largest e-cig companies have 60 days to immediately reverse underage use of their products.

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U.S. health officials say teenage use of e-cigarette has reached "epidemic" levels and are calling on the industry to address the problem or risk having their flavored products pulled off the market.

The warning from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday marks a stark shift in the agency's tone on e-cigarettes, which have become the most used tobacco product among teenagers.

Since 2017, FDA officials have discussed e-cigarettes as a potential tool to ween adult smokers off cigarettes.

But FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb says the agency did not predict an "epidemic of addiction" among youth, mainly driven by flavored products.

Gottlieb says the five largest e-cigarette manufacturers will have 60 days to produce plans to immediately reverse underage use of their products.

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The man, and girlfriend that started a GoFundMe page for a homeless veteran get accused of spending the 400 thousand dollars raised for the homeless man. they are arrested shortly after they got a traffic warrant for a 500 dollar bail.

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The man who-- along with his girlfriend-- stands accused of spending $400,000 they raised for a homeless veteran was arrested Monday in New Jersey on an unrelated outstanding warrant, authorities said.

Mark D'Amico, 39, was taken into custody at his home and brought to the Burlington County Jail, the Florence Township Police Department wrote on Facebook. D'Amico was released Tuesday after posting $500 bail, WPIX-TV in New York City reported.

Police confirmed the outstanding warrant was unrelated to the GoFundMe investigation.

The warrant originated from an October 2017 traffic stop, where police say he allegedly drove with a suspended license, failed to turn his license over while suspended and drove a vehicle with a broken taillight, Philadelphia news station WPVI-TV reported.

D'Amico failed to appear in court for the citation and was arrested in May 2018, the station reported. He posted bail, but again reportedly failed to go to court in July. Police said they reissued the warrant and arrested him Monday.

D'Amico and his girlfriend, Katelyn McClure, 28, are under investigation for allegedly mismanaging donations raised through GoFundMe for homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt, who used his last $20 to buy McClure gas when she was stranded on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia last year.

D'Amico and McClure have earlier denied wrongdoing or misusing the cash, saying they're wary of giving Bobbitt large sums because they feared he'd buy drugs.

Ernest Badway, the couple's lawyer, said earlier on Monday that they could be charged in the case.

"(Since) it is expected that one or both of the defendants will likely be indicted, my firm and I will no longer be able to continue our representation of them in this matter," Badway wrote.

Chris Fallon, Bobbitt's attorney, earlier said he had gotten about $75,000 of the cash. But Badway has said Bobbitt got about $200,000.

GoFundMe announced last week that it will ensure Bobbitt gets the full amount he is owed, whether or not the civil suit recovers any money, NJ.com reported.

No charges have been brought in the GoFundMe dispute.
Fox News' Amy Lieu contributed to this report.

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The man who-- along with his girlfriend-- stands accused of spending $400,000 they raised for a homeless veteran was arrested Monday in New Jersey on an unrelated outstanding warrant, authorities said. Mark D'Amico, 39, was taken into custody at his home and brought to the Burlington County Jail, the Florence Township Police Department wrote on Facebook.

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Hurricane Florence latest: Catastrophic flooding headed to Carolinas, 40 inches of rain possible.Hurricane Florence is expected to bring catastrophic flooding to the Southeast and may dump as much as 40 inches of rain in North Carolina alone.

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Hurricane Florence, dubbed the "storm of a lifetime" by the National Weather Service, has slowed dramatically overnight Wednesday and may not officially make landfall until the weekend. While this may lessen wind speeds by landfall, it could increase rainfall totals to as much as 40 inches in North Carolina.

Interested in Hurricane Florence?

Add Hurricane Florence as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Hurricane Florence news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

Florence is a dangerous Category 4 hurricane Wednesday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph -- down from 140 mph overnight. Florence is located about 575 miles southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina.

The path, intensity and timing of the storm is likely to keep changing through the day Wednesday, but the latest 5 a.m. update shows Florence will no longer be close to Category 5 -- with winds of 145 mph -- through Thursday morning.

It begins to slow down during the day Thursday and that's when it will begin to encounter friction from land and weaken significantly.

Winds may lessen, but because of that slowdown, rainfall totals will be even higher than previously forecast. The southeast coast of North Carolina could see as much as 40 inches of rain -- in line with the catastrophic flooding caused last year in the Houston area by Hurricane Harvey.

"This will likely be the storm of a lifetime for portions of the Carolina coast, and that's saying a lot given the impacts we've seen from Hurricanes Diana, Hugo, Fran, Bonnie, Floyd, and Matthew," the National Weather Service said. "I can't emphasize enough the potential for unbelievable damage from wind, storm surge, and inland flooding with this storm."

As many as 1.7 million people have been ordered to evacuate across South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Many of those people were already on the road Tuesday.

"If they say leave, leave," said Jennifer Forte, who was in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Tuesday and headed toward Greenville. "And my job is closed. I work for the government, they've closed. The school's closed until Friday, so there's no reason to stay, really."

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper advised much the same in a press conference Tuesday, warning locations hit by high winds and floodwaters could be without power for "several days."

"We'll be asking people to prepare their emergency kit," he said. "Get food, water, if there are medications they may need. Pull together their important documents ... make a plan for your pets. Also, understand that a lot of people are going to be without power probably for several days if not longer."

The federal government has made similar warnings, with FEMA Administrator Brock Long saying Florence could knock out power for "weeks."

As millions head out of the area, resources like the Red Cross are preparing to deal with the disaster -- and possibly weeks of problems resulting from it.

"This is extremely serious," Major Ken Morris, with the Salvation Army's Disaster Response Team, told ABC News. "We've got a number of volunteers, actually we've got over 3 million volunteers across the nation that can help us. But we need our partners in mission. Folks have come through wonderfully in the past and again in non-affected areas. We've got canteens coming in. It's like an accordion. As this thing increases, we increase our resources."

ABC News' Steve Osunsami and Gio Benitez contributed to this report.

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A video of a tense encounter between four black students and a white man in Florida has prompted a police investigation after it went viral on Twitter.

The video, posted by one of the students of Florida A&M University, Isiah Butterfield, shows the man holding a gun and using his body to prevent the students from entering the building of a student housing complex on Saturday. The video has been viewed more than 320,000 times on Twitter.

"...We are sick of the discrimination," said Butterfield in the tweet. "Never thought I'd have a personal experience with racism like this..."

The incident is under investigation under Florida's statute of aggravated assault with deadly weapon without intent to kill, the Tallahassee Police Department said.

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"Once we found out he had the gun, it turned into a whole different situation," Butterfield told ABC News. "We really think he was trying to provoke us to the point where it got violent so he could retaliate with the gun. I knew that if this dude even feels threatened, he's going to find any excuse to pull the trigger."

ABC News reached out to the man in the video, Don Crandall, for comment and will update the story if he responds.

Butterfield said the encounter with Crandall started when the four students were waiting outside the apartment complex for their friend to let them in to join a party.

Crandall told them they weren't getting into the building, went inside and locked the door.

"We were just sitting there confused, like why did he even say anything to us?" Butterfield said.

Then Crandall came out, again, to reiterate the point and that's when Butterfield started recording the events on his phone. That was also when another white student, a resident of the building, tried to intervene on their behalf and let them in, urging Crandall to "keep walking" and "just go about your day."

We really think he was trying to provoke us to the point where it got violent so he could retaliate with the gun

In the video, Crandall, who appears to be considerably older than the young students and was confirmed to not be a resident of the building, trades insults with the white student as the black students stand watching quietly. Afterward, they all enter the building but Crandall refused to let them enter the elevator with him.

"Find another elevator, you can't get in this one," he said, blocking their way as the four students tried to enter it.

"Why not? Do you own the building?" the students asked.

"Because you don't belong in this building," he replied, before adding, "You ain't got a key for the building, you don't belong in the elevator."

The man took out a key to show them, which was when the students noticed he had a gun in his hand.

"Sir, you bring out your gun. What's your purpose for that?" one of the students asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. Forgive me," he said, trying to hide it behind him.

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The white student sided with the black students throughout the ordeal. Butterfield acknowledged his support on Twitter for "standing by us ... that's a real dude right there."

The apartment complex, Stadium Centre, said the man did not live in the building.

"We are aware of the video posted on social media over the weekend and reported this incident immediately to the police," the apartment complex said in a statement.

"Firearms are strictly prohibited on our property and we take this matter very seriously. We are cooperating with the police during their investigation and it has been determined that the person in the elevator is not a resident. Moreover, we are firmly committed to fostering a diverse residential community that is inclusive and welcoming to all."

Though the police did not give any further information on the incident, the man was identified by Twitter users as Don Crandall, the general manager of a local hotel, Baymont by Wyndham.

When ABC News reached out to the hotel for comment, the hotel confirmed his identity and said he was no longer working there.

"The man you are talking about is no longer employed with us and does not represent the values of our company and how others should be treated," an employee with the hotel said, declining to say whether he had been fired.

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Later, the hotel posted on its Instagram account, apologizing on behalf of Crandall and saying it "did not stand behind the actions of our former General Manager."

"Our team has gone ahead and took the actions that were necessary to uphold our beliefs," the hotel added.

It does not appear that the man had any authority on who was to enter the student housing building. Stadium Centre told ABC News that it was in no way affiliated or associated with the hotel or its parent organization.

Part of the incident had been captured on camera, the university said in an email to ABC News.

"Florida A&M University (FAMU) learned that on Saturday, Sept. 8, at least one FAMU student was the alleged victim of an off-campus incident, which was captured on camera," the school told ABC News. "Our students' safety is our first priority. The Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) is investigating the matter; therefore, FAMU cannot disclose additional details. The University will provide assistance as it is requested by TPD. For more information, please contact TPD's Public Information Office at (850) 891-4255."

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A video of a tense encounter between four black students and a white man in Florida has prompted a police investigation after it went viral on Twitter. The video, posted by one of the students of Florida A&M University, Isiah Butterfield, shows the man holding a gun and using his body to prevent the students from entering the building of a student housing complex on Saturday.