That was very good. We have Team Coverage on all of this tonight. We are starting with newschannel8s melanie michael. She is in tampa. A lot of excitement. Someone is probably thrilled. You have the shades on. Good to go. Reporter guys, good evening to you both. Guess what is next for me . Canceling the trip to the bahamas. Wont be needing these. Or these, because, guess what . I didnt win. But you know what . These tickets can make you a little crazy. A little cooky. One guy dreamed big, buying thousands and thousands and thousands of tickets. Check it out. Can you hear it . Listen close. Closer. Recognize it now . The enticing intoxicating exhilarating billion dollars dream. A financial fantasy of sorts. Secretly wants to win the big enchilada ryan mcguinness. This is my new best friend. You heard the term go big or go home . Lets say ryan and his buddies chose the first option. Brace yourselves. They bought more than 72,000 tickets. Madness. Reporter but ryan claims there is a method here. So along with 292 of his closest friends, they created a private power ball pool where each person ponied up 500. You could buy thousands of dollars worth of tickets. You are talking 300 million to one. So if you bought 1 ticket, 300 million to 1. If you buy two, it is 300 million to two. Reporter then there is the pint sized power ballplayer. His lucky numbers, the day he was born three months ago. The toughest one. Are you going to share the winnings with newschannel8 . He is not too sure about it. Reporter okay, clearly, he was the strong silent type. I want to put into perspective how many tickets those guys bought. 72,000, that would equal the amount of the city of duneadoen giving each citizen not one, but two tickets with all that money and all that amount. It is a pretty big pot. It definitely is. But here is what im wondering. Does your expert weigh in on whether or not lady luck really loves a big spender more than the two dollars ticket guy . What about these guys . Guys . You can keep buying these tickets and buying these to increase your odds just a bit by bit. So joseph come here. Come here. Joseph. He put in a dollar. I put in a dollar. And this is what we came up with. So we may be going to the bahamas after all. We have to check the numbers. You probably should. Should have checked those before you started the report. You could have been out of here by now. Thank you both for outstanding work out there. Melanie michael and joseph live in tampa tonight. So tonight is the night perhaps. The night that someone might just win. Several people could win this record shattering jackpot. Our Team Coverage takes us to the online world. Josh benson is taking a look at reaction on social media. You know people are talking about hash tag if i won power ball trending all over the place. Some people have the historic approach. If they win, they are going to just buy themselves a private island. Others are a little more simple about it. If they want to win, they can get this thing toe work. Maybe not. They are going to get the chicken nuggets. This lady said i will probably adopt 68 dogs. Not 67, not 69, 68 dogs. I would buy a better class of friends than i am currently stuck with says chuck mason. I would buy adele a new phone. If you see her music video, i deponent know where she got this but she need as new phone. If i won the power ball, i would still use my friends netflix password. This is the gamut of what they would spend all that money on. Back to you guys. Youre right. Its fun to dream. We also posted the numbers from tonights 1. 5 billion jackpot drawing on our newschannel8 facebook page. You can share them right now with your friends and family. So good luck. Now to video you will only see on newschannel8. Cell phones caught the emotional moments soon after a in river view. Medics took two children to the hospital. Tonight we know the School Bus Driver is to blame. Highway patrol issued a citation. Jamel lanee has been keeping up with this all day. She joins us live from river john view with the update. Reporter good evening keith. I just got off the phone with a hospital representative and she tells me tonight the patients are out of the hospital. That bus driver left from right here and crashed about 10 minutes later just a few miles away. From above, eagle 8hd showed a School Bus Crash that caused a frantic scene. Fhp says the bus driver, Marilyn Kay Ray was making a left hand turn off u. S. 301 onto callie road when she collided with a blue suv. Students on the bus described the frightening scenario shortly after they left school. And our face got on the seat. There were people screaming and crying. I was wondering if we would get out safe. Reporter cell phone video shows the bus the moments after the crash. On the ground is amanda who was driving the s. Video shows the driver side of her car smashed in. She and the child were rushed to the er. In this video you can hear the 31 children screaming on the bus. Finally, they are escorted off the bus in a single file line. Parents reyesed to the scene in a panic. I got a call that my son was in an accident. Oh my god, i hope everybody is okay. Where is my kid . Reporter eagle 8 hd showed rescue crews putting some children on stretchers. One of them had an injury on their shoulder. Another had one on their head. Cited with failure to yield. Im concerned this driver was not driving safely. Reporter we have reached out to the School District the see if that bus driver will face any disciplinary action and if she has had any citations in the past. Jamel lanee live in river view. Thank you. Breaking news right now in australia. A Police Operation is underway at the sydney opera house. People are being told to leave that area. Ferries have also been canceled. Police have yet to say why. We will update you with new information on wfla. Com. Well, crack house crackdown. Our cameras were there. Saint Petersburg Police arrested 14 people getting high inside a small house near the corner of fifth avenue north and seventh street. The chief tells us the people neighbors claim this house has been a problem for a long time. They have cleaned up a lot of areas but they are just spots where a lot of stuff is going on. I hope to see it clear up. Neighbors applauded when the cops went in. New Surveillance Video out tonight that largo police hope will lead to a missing puppy dog. You see the guy in the navy blue sweater. Largo police want to speak with him. Surveillance cameras caught the man picking up a yorkie puppy. At this point, that man is not suspected of a crime, but he was the last person seen with the now missing pup. Ten u. S. Navy sailors are now free. One of them apologized for this embarrassing mistake. Nine men and one woman who were taken into custody during a Training Mission that veered into iranian waters. It comes just days after a meeting about Irans Nuclear deal. And the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane has turned up a ship wreck. This is actually the second old ship that search teams have found on the ocean floor. They believe this one is a steel or iron vessel dating from the turn of the 19th century. Still no sign of the missing flight however. Mh370 which disappears with 239 passengers and crew nearly two years ago now. Still coming up tonight, a disturbing arrest in pasco county. We will tell you what investigators say this day care worker did to an autistic child. Plus, new information about the big food stamp fraud case we told you about. See what will happen with all of those supplies purchased illegally at taxpayer expense. Cooler day today. Highs in the low 60s. Mostly we will get your weekend forecast and a subtropical storm active in the atlantic cell phone rings where are you . Well the squirrels are back in the attic. Mom . Your dad wont call an exterminator. Can i call you back, mom . He says its personal this time. If youre a mom, you call at the worst time. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. R its what you do. Where are you . R its very loud there. Are you taking at the target of child abuse charges, a threeyearold autistic boy. The owner of the Day Care Center says the teacher was overqualified. Parent reactions are mixed. Paul bring us up to date here. Reporter well, it all revolves around a water bottle. The water all over the childs head and then threw water right at his face. The big question why . Apparently the bottle belonged to a teacher. The kid was playing with it and she wasnt very pleased. Some people are meant to be teachers and some cant handle the job. Reporter and one of them could be 34yearold tiffany little page. The now former teacher working here at childrens nest day care for the last five months. Today, charged with child abuse. Sickened would be the right word. Reporter the owner disgusted. The threeyearold child cannot speak. He is autistic. But karen can. I think as a parent, you get the gut feeling like oh my godness. This could happen to my kid. The owner saying littlepage passed all the local and state background checks. She was a well qualified tetchier no indication in her background of Something Like this. Teacher witnessed it. When School Officials confronted littlepage, we went to her house. We are here to get your side of the story. A woman who lives right down the street says they have pulled their kids from the school. I wouldnt want my kids in that situation. Reporter other parents say they are leaving their kid ins good hands. Both my children have been coming here over five years an it has been good. Reporter back live here, a classroom aide says littlepage targeted kids with disabilities by putting them in timeouts or other punishments. The owner said he adamantly denies that ever happened. Paul live for us tonight in pasco county. We appreciate it. Thank you. Food and supplies purchased illegally for years may be helping people who really need it. The food confiscated in the we told you about last night could be going to charity. The owner of several Convenient Store is accused of using the food stamps to create a stockpile for himself. Police hope to donate what you see to a shelter like saint vincents. If something good could come from this long term, and perhaps give it to one of the agencies like ours that feeds thousands of people, it is incredible. It is an Incredible Opportunity for us. The owner of the Convenient Store is now behind bars. One tampa woman is sick over a 200 cleanup fee she got during an uber ride. That is until 8 on your side got involved. Cody dawson tells tells newschannel8 she and her boyfriend took an uber home. When she wok up, she found a 200 charge for a cleanup fee. They sent these pictures to her telling them they were her mess. I done think it was uber, i but i dont think uber went about the right way trying to ether. Well, after 8 on your side reached out to uber, they told money. Uber is claiming this was a miscommunication and they charged the wrong customer. I mentioned that high of 61 degrees. We will be cool here another day. Largely thanks to the clouds. Getting warmer by friday, saturday, note the umbrella is out here saturday and sunday. Temperatures will cool down again. Next week, looks like a chilly round of temperatures. Our rain chances are increasing too. Later tomorrow, but especially in the early part of friday including the possibility of seeing some stronger thunderstorms in the Morning Hours around anywhere from 5 00 a. M. To up until about noon. 10 rain chance for saturday. Another little round possible on sunday. A 30 that is still developing. 52 degrees at 1 00 a. M. Temperatures near 50 degrees. That tends to keep it just a little bit milder. 64 degrees at 1 00 p. M. 66 degrees at 2 00 p. M. With plenty of clouds around. 48 degrees now, temple terrace. 54. 50 in apollo beach. 49 in new port richie. Not as cold tonight. 55 degrees in venice, sebring and bartow. An area of High Pressure is sitting at the surface. Clear skies around other parts of the south, but on the eastern side of that area of High Pressure, we are seeing a northerly flow that will be northeasterly. The position of that high is still kept it kind of cool around here. Still a few showers have occurred throughout the day around the keys between cuba and florida and clouds too. You can see a good blanket of clouds here throughout the day and it continues to move from west to east. There will be some clear skies throughout the day with the rain chance much later. For the 2016 season in january, subtropical alex. 60 miles an hour winds with this system going off to north. No effect on the u. S. No effect on florida. But it is rather odd to have a storm this time of year. Not impossible. Last time that happened was 1978. That was alex the subtropical storm. They didnt use to name subtropical storms. It is spinning away. A hybrid. A little upper level feature there as well. So that formed this afternoon officially according to the National Hurricane center. Last time in january the subtropical storm one it was called before they assigned names to it. January 18, 1978 before keith cate was even born. High pressure continues to shift off to the east tomorrow morning. Again, we continue to see a back to the west to the east. A few showers could develop in the afternoon down to the south and later on in the evening into the early part of friday, you can see the timing on this around 7 45 or so passing with this area of low pressure. Then it should wrap up into the afternoon hours an push off to the east. That will allow them to set up a cooler temperature you will see in the seven day forecast. 50 degrees to started the day. 74 friday. Rain chance at 60 . The first half of the day for saturday. Still mild. Not a bad looking day. Then we start another round of cooler air sliding our way. You can see for monday, the holiday Martin Luther king day. 59 degrees. 60 tuesday, 64 degrees. Hey, do you know anybody in chino hills california by chance . Not off the top of my head. Got a winner apparently. Hills. The first one we found. The second is right here at the news center. That as a ticket. [ laughter ] these are the winning numbers. I dont think they will accept that. I guess we wrote them in ourselves. And they dont accept that as a ticket . Apparently not. But kimberly did a nice job writing in the numbers so you could see it live right here on newschannel8. Too bad we are not in chino hills. With the ticket. Coming up next in sports, by the way, i do remember 1978. The bucks on the verge of winning their next head coach. Parents, one of the tests our students take to help them get into college is about to drastically change. Im adrienne tatterson andly help you navigate the new sat. Plus, weather and traffic on well, dirk cutter news made it way into the football rumor mill. About a half hour or so, looked like he would be named the bucks head coachment the bucks announcement as we get ready for bed tonight. But no offer has been confirmed. For now. Here is happened. Cutter has spoken with potential assistant coaches assembling a coaching staff. If indeed the bucks are going to offer cutter the job tonight or tomorrow or when ever, all it would really have to do is put together a defensive stamp. He would want his stamp on the offense as well. This is one possibility. The browns hired hugh jackson. He was supposedly the top candidate for the sow San Francisco 49ers job right ahead of dirk cutter. Is he assembling a staff to head out west . That is not a farfetched scenario. Great stuff in the nfl world tonight. All right, far from the world of coaching drama, potential future stars for the rays are Development Program including workouts at tropicana field. With football being the theme of the day, it is only fitting that they are laid out for the east west shrine game. Among the football wannabe prospects, Garrett Whitley gearing up for his first spring training next month. I think it is to see where we are. 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