vimarsana.com

Scheme has been going on for years and cost taxpayers 1. 5 million. Reporter this is the result of a 15 month undercover investigation. St. Petersburg police raided the king food mart on 22nd street south taking the entire inventory. They believe the owner, wale murray bought most of this stuff using ebt cards he bought from people that stopped by. He said this, if he liked you you got 50cents on a dollar, if not, you got 30 cents on the dollar. Reporter it didnt stop there. He used the cards at sams cards and sold other items on places on both sides of the bay in a scheme thats been going on for 13 years. King food mart is out of business. A handwritten sign says food stamp down. But the truth is murray didnt even have a swipe device to privilege in 1998. Police have arrested a total of 58 but they have a list of 50 more that may go down in this rip off scheme. And check out the video. The thief driving up to a truck and steals a gas trimmer. Tampa police are looking to solve a series of bold home breakins it happened in south tampa over the weekend. Jeff patterson shows us this time a thief hit an area thats not known for crime. Reporter on tree lined streets with some homes worth well over a million dollars, crime isnt normally a concern. On saturday, that peace shattered. They kicked in the front door that i thought was pretty secure. Reporter keith robert shows me where his door was kicked in the closets were in disarray. Reporter tampa police tell us four homes were broken into on saturday in the paul macia and estates neighborhood. In one case. The thief broke into the house and the homeowner was in the shower. Reporter police got one thief. This Surveillance Video with a white car that parked in front of one of the homes they burglarized. Tampa police want to stop this thief before someone is harmed during a burglary. Jeff patterson, newschannel 8. Traffic is flowing again on 66th street in Pinellas County hours after a gas leak caused evacuations. A contractor working for the county hit a gas line. Nearly a dozen businesses were evacuated for a while and the road was shut down until that gas line could be capped. A big change in the Construction Zone on interstate 275 caused headaches for thousands of commuters. Mark douglas shows us what it would take to get traffic moving again. Reporter new traffic pattern, caution, caution, caution. Reporter there was plenty of caution as dozens of morning commuters took a straighter but slower path to tampa. I was one of them. Bumper to bumper to bumper to bumper. Reporter so was carlos arroyo. To be honest with you its been a nightmare, ill tell you. Reporter by late morning, Downtown Bound traffic was still backed up all the way to the Howard Franklin bridge as thousands of drivers negotiated tighter temporary lanes along the just opened stretch near the dale mavery interchange. It will get better. Reporter for motorists who were troubled by the congestion, the d. O. T. Tells us the pain is only temporary. As soon as they open the fourth lane which is within the next will get better. In tampa, im mark douglas, news 8. Were seeing remarkable pictures taken inside a south Florida Party city store where row after row tipped over. Seven rows of shelves toppled like dominoes. Three people suffered minor injuries. Palm beach county firefighters looked under the shelves to find any more victims. Its unclear what caused that collapse. Inmates could have a reason to appeal their sentences thanks to the u. S. Supreme court. The High Court Ruled the way florida sentences people to death is not constitutional. In florida, a jury can recommend death but a judge makes the ultimate decision. The Venice Public Library has closed for good. County Officials Say its just too expensive to fix it. February 1st and a temporary kiosks will be opened up. The news was hard for some. I know the people at the youth desk, i know them by name. Reporter the library has been at this location for 50 years. In the midyear, county officials will begin having meetings to discuss plans for a new facility. A cool day was the perfect day for fire officials to learn what they would do if there was a huge fuel spill. Theres been a lot of good discussions after each new scenario. The guys discuss about what happened, what went wrong, what went right, what could they do better. I think theyve learned a lot. Reporter in the past, the officials had to travel to training but this time they got to do it on their own. Gorgeous weather, steve mosley, a friend from tampa say good job sir. And i was like, he doesnt get the credit. Yeah, i do. But only when its good though. Okay then, well done. Last night there was a freeze warning in place for these two areas. Largely because the humidity was up. This issued by the National Weather service in ruskin. The rain chances the next couple of days up to 30 later thursday into friday. Approach of an area of low pressure lifting our rain chances through this period. About a 30 chance of rain for next sunday as well. Temperatures also will warm friday and saturday into the 70s again thanks to an easterly breeze. But alas we will have cooler air up the road. Theyre going to be pretty chilly. Weve seen a pretty good stream of high and midlevel clouds moving in from the south moving across the central and southern portions of the the state of florida. A chilly start to the day. Hopefully well get sunshine to warm things up. We got to 67 degrees for a High Temperature today. Well have more on that weekend forecast coming up. Still ahead on 8 at 7 00. New guidelines saying women should wait longer to have mammograms. Coming up we talk to one survivor and other doctors on why they say you should get tested earlier. And a woman is dealing with rats living inside her walls but her landlord wants to evict a new Government Panel is now recommending women wait it says the risk isnt worth getting screened earlier. But as Candace Mccowan learned today, one local survivor disagrees. Reporter Rachel Murray didnt think she would be here. I was getting nauseous a lot so i took a pregnancy test and instantly plus signs. Reporter she has a toddler and another baby on the way. And says that she wouldnt be here if she didnt get a mammogram. As a breast radiologist i want to save the most lives so im going to recommend regular mammography at age 40. That false positives can be expensive both financially and emotionally. No matter the guidelines both women agree waiting until 50 is the biggest risk of all. It just doesnt work. Waiting and seeing you will lose your life with cancer. Reporter dr. Neils biggest advise she says talk to your doctor, let her know your concerns and go from there. Candace mccowan, channel 8. Insurance companies base their coverage off of these governmental guidelines but under current law, insurance must cover screening for those age 40 and up. Well theres a good chance your web browser is riskier to use today. Well tell you what you need to check coming up. Also ahead, it looks like a drone following you around taking selfies is a pretty good idea. Find out how many have already on wall street, the dow gained 117 points, the nasdaq hit 107 points. Oil dipped below 20 a barrel theres something showing up in jar of nice mandarin oranges. Shards of glass. If you have one you can take it back to the store for refund. The medicine is made by parigo but its sold under store brand including Dollar General and cvs, you should toss the dosage cup and use one that is correctly marked. A starbucks barista in arizona is getting a lot of attention for creating three unofficial valentines day gifts. Tony aguilar created three new frapuccinos. They include a valentine frapuccinos with strawberries and cream and raspberries at the bottom. You can take the recipe into the next time you need a ride to see a doctor you might get a lyft. Lyft is filling needs for nonemergency transport. The med transnetwork is booking about 10 of its medical transportation using lyft or 2,500 rides a week. The partnership with med trance is lyfts first jump into the medical world. Delta is the Second Largest Airline in the world. The new rankings was determined 2015. Countrys largest carrier. Selfdriving vehicles have faced a lot of obstacles but test in snow. Ford says it will be the first to test selfdriving cars on slick snowy frozen roads. The testing will take place in michigan including at m city seen here in warming weather. Facility designed for self driving car experimentation. Ford recalls ford calls the project snowtonomy. This is a very good time to update your web browser. Starting today the older browsers will not receive security updates so using them will leave you vulnerable to hackers. Try the new edge browser which comes with windows 10. It looks like a new selfie drone is going to be a big hit. Forbes reports the camera has already sold 60,000 units. The lilly is a squad copter that senses the location of the owners. You toss it up in the air and it shoots video of whatever the lily should start shipping this summer. Its awesome. Frustration over an infestation. A pregnant womans apartment is crawling with critters and no matter how many calls she makes she just cant seem to find a solution for this rat problem. Investigator Shannon Behnken has the story. Reporter you wont believe how much lee pays for this apartment, 640 a month and the walls are full of rats. At nighttime you can hear the rats in the walls scratching. Reporter her landlord at beach wood apartments wont let her out of her lease. Because theres a hole right here where they come out of. Reporter maintenance solution put rocks on the hole and hope that keeps the nasty poison inside. The rats are dying but now the smell is coming out of the vents because we have to let them die inside the wall. Reporter a leak forced maintenance to tear out this ceiling and they took out insulation are mold. And guess what came out. Rats. Thats where they put the rat trap in this little box. Reporter lee has come out home to find the rats chowing away on their counter tops. I didnt know that rats could jump from the floor to the counter top that high. Reporter fed up she turned to 8 on your side. We found the complex is owned by a Canadian Company with a local property manager. So i gave her a call. Reporter so what are you going to do to get rid of the rats and the rats that are dead in the walls. Reporter the manager assures me the rats will be gone soon. As for lee, as soon as she gone too. Shes never had a problem with my rent, ive been on time. Ive been letting her know this problem is here. Reporter Shannon Behnken, 8 on your side. The Property Owner has been unresponsive. Now they plan to bring the issue before the Code Enforcement board later this month. The complex could face fines or be shut down if it doesnt fix the problem. When you fight fires in sub zero temperatures sometimes you end up with ice sculptures. Take a look at this building in omaha over the weekend. The water they used froze. Now the building is in danger of collapse thanks to a coating of ice. 10 to 12inches thick. Thats fairly typical when you have extreme cold and pair that 52degrees at 9 00 p. M. Temps cool this evening were picking up a few clouds but generally chilly i think would describe it this evening. We topped out at 67 degrees. With the atmosphere a bit drier. Temperatures will fall with those clouds. 57degrees at 11 00 a. M. Right now its 52 degrees, thats the current temp at odessa and new richie. 56 river view. 52 in brooksville. Its 55 in lakeland. Few showers down around the florida straits. Freeze warnings tonight mainly to the north into south georgia and alabama. These clouds have been streaking throughout the area. A few midlevel clouds as well. Nothing serious at the moment. But they certainly are there. If they stick around and they may in some areas it could reflect some heat back in the atmosphere and hold those temps back a little bit. But its still going to be chilly tomorrow. Maybe a few clouds here. The level of High Pressure is still to our west. Were still getting a north and northwesterly flow. Its just a chilly one for us. So a cool start to the day it looks like for tomorrow. Getting into thursday, you can see as we head on into the latter half of the day overcast skies including rain chances that pop back in later thursday into friday. Thats the rain percentage you see here. In fact, a very mild day on friday with a high of 74 degrees and same for saturday. 74degrees. Another cold front up the road will give us cooler temperatures with highs in the 60s through the mar tin luther king holiday weekend. The rain chances are highest as you can see at 60 . That day is friday. So that includes the possibility of some morning rain. Potentially for the morning commute the way the timing looks out at the moment. But saturday looks pretty decent. It does look pretty decent. A slight chance of rain on sunday. Temperatures will get warm but theyre going to get cool again next week. But 74 is perfect warm. I think thats perfect warm. Just keep it there. Theres something unusual about these two feline sisters. Look closely can you spot it. One is a lion, the other is a tiger. The girls were born about a week apart last november. And heres the sad part. Both are rejected by their mothers. So the staff at six flags in new jersey decided not a problem. Theyre going to care for both of them together. And they hope that raising the cubs together will increase their chances of successfully joining the other big cats when they get older. I have so many questions. Are lions and tigers roughly the same size when theyre full grown. Are they competitive. Was this born from the same mother . No, no, no. Different mothers. But they were both rejected. Wow. Hopefully it wont turn into a cat fight. I think theyll get along just fine. You see what i did there. Sometimes you do that and its just weaved in there. Were back tonight at 11 00. Have a great night. David bowies secret active final days. Who knew the rock lemd was dying . And the moment his exwife got the shocking news of his death. Now, on extra. Extra extra david bowies very last public appearance. The pain he was hiding behind the smiles. Fans paying tribute. How he hid his illness in plain sight around new york city. And his first wifes breakdown as he learns of his passing. Take the time you need. Brie larsons fast food binge. Taylor kinney and lady gaga. New, beyonce baby rumors. The photos sparking the buzz bey is pregnant. Sean penn and kate del castillo under surveillance. Is she now in danger . Plus, having cocktails with khloe. Taking on every rumor. How is lamar doing . From lamar to her brother, robs health. And little sister kendalls media takeover. God, i wish i was this girl. Now, on extra. Universal studios hollywood. The entertainment capital of l. A. Hi, everyone. Welcome to extra

© 2024 Vimarsana

vimarsana.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.