Try today remain afloat. The third time he came up, he went down, he never dame came up. People saw this from the shore, called 911. There is a search for the man out here at the Courtney Campbell causeway just east of the main boat ramp right near a sand bar. Here,ly zoom in for you. This is tampa fire rescue. They have divers in the water and the diver haves been in the water the past hour. Maybe a little bit more looking for this Fire Agencies as well as the Tampa Police Helicopter and coast guard on the scene. We have a man pushing a boat from a sand bar. Surfaced, the third time, he never came up. It is a very active scene. Back to you. Paul lamison live, thank you paul. We will stay on top of this breaking story and give you updates as soon as we get them. Well, many people wait until they get in the boating amendments they can vote on. There is one that Florida Electric companies are spending a million to support. They are saying the wording is deceiving. Candace mccowan breaks down amendment one. Reporter hi there, there is a war waging over a solar amendment that will appear on the ballot in the coming weeks. Some say if you wait until you get into the booth to read it that you might be confused about what you are voting for. Eric peterson is excited about the new solar panels on i installed it myself. Put it up. You can do it for the cost of a small hyundai. Reporter eric is bringing in energy, much of which he uses. The energy that he does not use is patched into the electric grid and he gets paid for it. He says the panels will pay for themselves in eight years but the question is will that change under amendment one . Solar equipment on their property. Reporter does that make you want to vote for this amendment . We obviously already have the right. Reporter the cone trover city is around the next seasons vowing those without solar power will not have to subsidize the use of backup for those who use it. Those in favor of the amendment says it protects consumers from scams and ripoffs but when we went to Research Center usf, they see it differently. That. Would allow the utilities to charge people if they were to have solar panels on their roofs. Reporter it is important to know those in favor of the amendment are Companies Like duke energy and teco who spent tens of millions to get voters to support the amendment. Sunshine state voters have to read between the lines and have we put more information object this amendment on our website. Polls show that the it will past. In dunedin, candace mccowan, newschannel8. In broward county, voters filed a lawsuit because the amendment to legalize medical marijuana may have been left off of their mailin ballot it is. Now one ballot was already discovered that did not include amenment 2. At this point, it is not known exactly how many incorrect ballots were sent. So, i think the first thing that the court needs to figure the problem. How broad or deep is it . Election officials will have to act fast to issue new ballots if the problem is widespread. Amendment 2 received 57. 6 of the vote when it was on the ballot in 2014. It is going to need 60 of voters to approve it to become law. In the area of slick big money campaigns, one florida congressional race is a real throw back. Meet curb shelton. Signs. He uses sign ifs old campaigns and just paints over them. Apparently, dartland had nothing to do with this. Shelton just noticed there were no signs around town while his republican opponent has spent millions of dollars and is expected to win. A gun store is turning heads with ha political display involving president obama and Hillary Clinton. Here is a look at it. It is a life sized cardboard cut out saying get he says it shows his Second Amendment rights in jeopardy but it is not helping his business. His sales have gone down significantly since he put up the sign. Now, to an 8 on your side warning about your childs social media use. While parents admit it. Sometimes you have given a smartphone or a tablet to a child to distract them while you get a moments peace. Im guilty. Or maybe you forbid them from having it all at once. All things in moderation. It is still up to parents to set limits on their kids screen time but the american of pediatrics is easing up encouraging moms an dads to join their kids online worlds. Play the games together. Look at social media together with your kids. Reporter the Influential Group of pediatricians says parents have an Important Role as media mentors. Teaching kids how to navigate the internet effect ily the key is to make sure they have plenty of offline time to develop social skills, Healthy Eating habit and proper sleep. Sleep could not be more important to child health. It is not enough sleep is associated with obesity. With attention problems, with behavior problems. Reporter there is evidence that toddlers as young as 18 months old could learn and benefit from some forms of technology as long as it is not overly stimulated. If you want to introduce as choose really good media. Reporter the aap finds no problems allowing even babies to video chat with Long Distance family members. It encourages a media limit of one hour a day for children under age six. For parents and teens, they should set limits that fit in the family rules. And no screen time an hour before bedtime. Designate device free times and continue to talk about online bullying and internet safety. Americas baseball fields and inspired an Award Winning film. Now the amazing athletes behind a league of their own are reuniting in sarasota and proving rivalries die hard. Plus. Our friday night blitz game of the week takes us to the home of the zephyr hills bulldogs. Ill break down their matchup between the wildcats. Coming up. Topped out at 86 degrees but right now, we have 83. Thats the indication of a cold front that is moving through right now. Occurring so a cooler evening and a cooler weekend. Great numbers coming up. Well have that and more coming up. Youre watching newschannel8, the station that is always on amendment 1 guarantees your right to generate your own solar energy. It also guarantees that those who dont choose solar dont have to subsidize those who do. Amendment 1 means commonsense Consumer Protections safeguarding seniorsand all floridians from scams, good for the environment. Good for florida. Vote yes on amendment 1for the sun. I moved on her like a [bleep]. You can do anything. Grab them by the [bleep] we have to make sure that donald wins this election. No we dont. Marco rubio stands by trump and failed to show up for florida. Heres what i believe in. Bringing people together and reaching across the aisle to get things done. Im Patrick Murphy and i approved this message because ill be a senator who always works for you. When you think of favorite quotes from famous sports movies, we bet this is one of the first that comes to mind. Are you crying . No. Are you cries . Are you crying . There is no crying theres no crying in baseball remember that one . That is from a league of their own. A movie about the womens first tom hanks character is a jerk at first but he learns to respect the women. The women who inspired that movie reunited here in the bay area. John rogers met with them and joins us live in sarasota. Reporter these women will say there was no crying in that league. It was grueling hard work. They sometimes played seven days a week. Now they are here in sarasota reminiscing but also purpose. Those people are jerks. Okay, some of them are going home. How did you do that . Reporter a league of their own is one of the most endeering sports films in recent memory. But for lois, it means so much more. When i saw the film for the first time, i cried through it. Reporter in the early 50s , she was a catcher for the fort wayne daisies. Are in sarasota for reunion recalling a time when female Baseball Players were seen as equals. The press covered us every night. We played seven nights a week. They covered us every night. We played in the Yankee Stadium before one of their games. We met joe dimaggio. Yogi berro. Reporter these athletes were paid 50 a week. They averaged in age from 16 to 18 and yes. They didnt mind the skirts. I mean, you had tights on underneath. So. I mean, you know. We wanted to play ball. I guess we didnt care what we wore. [ laughter ] reporter at the time, they didnt realize they were making history. Now, in hindsight, they want id preserved. Along with their reunion, they are raising awareness for proposed womens Sports Museum in sarasota. We want the young girls of thanked their dreams can come true. Reporter these big league rivals inspired countless women to achieve their goals. At their core, they are competitors and old habits die hard. We still hate the rockford peaches. [ laughter ] reporter those women were incredible. I want to be like them when i grow up. Now, this proposed Sports Museum that developers are working on, the plan is to have it built in sarasota within the next five years so this take part in this Fund Raising Gala at 7 00 saturday night. And people in the public want to meet them, there will be an autograph session sunday afternoon at 3 00 and all afternoons will be here at the hyatt in sarasota. I would like to be like them too. Do you know how much imput they provided for the movie if at all . Reporter yeah, they were heavily involved with the producers, the director. They were working alongside the actors. If you remember during the end credits when you see the weekend as well. That is special. Our favorite story of the day. John rogers, thank you. Well, it is almost time for the friday night blitz. And, eight weeks into the regular season, our game of the week takes us to the home of the zephyr hills bulldogs. The dogs and the wildcats. Anthony allred joins us live from Zephyr Hills High School with the latest. Hey there. Reporter you know, this guy, this game is so huge. Let me show you what is going on righ and people have already started coming out here to tailgate. What you are looking at, we have parents, we have students. We have a variety of just about everything. That is because these two schools are ten miles apart. But zephyr hills, they have beaten Wesley Chapel the last five years in a row. Earlier today, i caught up with zephyr hills head coach. And, he talked about how they are going to have to win this game to stay in the playoffs. Have a playoff birth, we have to win tonight and we have to win next friday. So, it is do or die for us. And go big or go home. And, you know, if you want to be the best, you have to beat the best. Reporter a little more information about tonights game. Both teams are averaging about 40 points a game. And, zephyr hills head coach told me that he is ready for a shootout if it comes down to that. But he is also doubling as defensive coordinator so he said that is not likely to happen with him calling the shots there on defense. Now, this sour game of the week. And we will have more on that tonight at 11 15. And, we have crews all around the tampa bay area covering games. And that will be on our friday night blitz starting tonight at 11 15. Stacie . All right, it is josh. Thanks. Appreciate it. Live at Zephyr Hills High School. And we do have a lot of football tonight. The friday night blitz starts at 11 15, dan lucas, paul ryan, action. Now, max defender 8. The worlds most powerful radar. And your storm team 8 forecast with chief meteorologist steve jerve. Well, sometimes when cold fronts come through the bay area, they leave a pretty good mark in the way of showers and thunderstorms. Easy to track as they move north to south with the wind shift. A big change in the atmosphere brings strong to severe thunderstorms. This cold front will bring light showers offshore. And certainly, that wind shift th cooler drier air. That we will definitely feel it this weekend. Gorgeous at palm harbor. 77 degrees with a north wind at 7 miles an hour. Out at beautiful innisbrook, watching the gofers headed up to i believe that is the 18th green there. The northwesterly wind at 9 miles an hour. You can see in lakeland, 82 degrees with the northwest wind. At veterans ford, we have the north wind at the moment. So those winds have already shifted from the northwest and north and temperatures are certainly much cooler. 77 degrees saturday. 79 degrees on sunday. And this comes with lower humidity. Maybe a little bit breezy saturday. A nice wind shift. Next five days temperatures coming back a little bit. That is a nice weekend saturday and sunday. And that is fairly typical when an area of High Pressure shifts to the east. Wind shifts back to the east bringing us a bit more humidity back into our atmosphere. At 7 00 77 degrees at 4 00 p. M. A lot of sunshine. 08 at tampa international. The dew points high at 66. It will come lower. In other words, lower humidity with the winds coming out of the northwest at 12 miles an hour. Kind of gusty in some spots. The bluer colors indicate where the higher gusts may be here. 20 miles an hour. In crystal river. 22 out in winter haven at the moment. This is our visible satellite image. There are a few clouds in the tropics we have this feature. 99l. We have been talking about it. This one is losing ground i think we could say. A 30 chance of possible development. Caught up in the front, it will move off to the northeast. Headed out for the friday night blitz. 75 degrees here at kickoff. But note with the wind shift from north to south depending on where you are in the bay area, that front will have an impact and could provide a cool drive home for some. Hopefully, a good weekend for the bucs on sunday. Playing the in california. Always have great weather for those folks. So, this evening, heres the big mickelsonture. Cold front just up the road. Sliding from northwest to southeast. Across the area. Havent had to draw this on the map in quite a while. Friday morning feeling chilly. Temperature ins the upper 50s. Cooler than that, perhaps 50 in some of the northern spots. Friday afternoon, sunny skies for us as you can see with High Pressure. That is our feature building in. Saturday morning, same thing, sunday morning as we get into sunday morning looks fantastic with plenty of sunshine around great weekend ahead. Enjoy this one. 77 for a high. Bit breezy at times. 79 degrees on sunday. And then, for monday, 81 degrees. As we head into next week, as i was talking about that natural warming takes place. But not to unpleasant levels. This is is a front that will have an impact on us and really help to change the overall profile. It has been hot this week. 90s at the early part of the week. Upper 80s. 86 degrees for a high today. But that is all going away tomorrow counterfeit cash in the classroom. We will tell you the unlikely place a phony bill was discovered and who is now in trouble with the secret service. And you can join jenn, julie, and me on great 38 tonight at 8 00. Ahead for us, what we have learned about the massive cyber attacks. Comedy barely conceals contempt as donald trump and Hillary Clinton appear at a charity you and a new take on how much time your children should be fending in front of a phone or now to whats making headlines across america. A Mattress Store fire sent smoke and flames high into the air in a neighborhood in detroit. The two alarm fire kept firefighters busy. Several homes near the fire were evacuated as a precaution. No one was hurt. And a major Chemical Spill at a Grain Factory in kansas caused evacuations. Two chemicals were accidentally mixed together in the wrong holding tank and that caused the reaction. 18 peo respiratory issues. Schools and businesses were evacuated. A suspect ed drug tunnel between the u. S. In san diego and mexico. The agency will not relets any more information. Agents were seen searching a nearby warehouse, but there is no confirmation it is connected to the tunnel. The secret service is investigating two students accused of passing counterfeit least one phony bill knowing it was fake. The victim noticed and turned it over to a School Resource officer. It is unclear if the teens made the bill or got it some other way. Newschannel8 at 6 00 is up next. Stacie is here with what we are working on. We are working on breaking news now. A search underway for a boater who has been missing for hours. We will have details on what happened and the latest on the search coming up. Plus, the truth about cold case victims. Also. Questions still remain about what this office did and didnt do when it was alerted to possible election fraud. The sale of jordan park is turning out to be a sweet deal for lawyers. They are earning as much as 600 an hour that you paid for. Those stories plus your storm team 8 forecast and sports with dan lucas coming up on newschannel8, the station elise we couldnt believe it. That poor girl was raped by two Football Players and their friends. We were sure they would go to jail. So, when i heard state attorney mark ober decided to go easy on them, i was scared scared for my daughter. None of those young men served a day behind bars. Ober said losing a baseball scholarship if mark ober cant protect our families, its not uncommon for autistic kids to flap their hands. And so when i saw that, that was completely disqualifying. Im a republican, but this election is so much bigger than party. My son max cant live in trump world. So im crossing party lines and voting for hillary. I dont always agree with her, but shes reasonable. And shes smart. When it really mattered. Right now on newschannel8 at 6 00. New information on the search for a missing boater. What he was doing before he went about election fraud. So who is going to take responsibility and know your vote is safe. And solving cold cases with art. Trying to bring an identity to these faces. Good evening, im stacie schaible. Im josh benson. Thanks for being with us. The search is underway for a missing boater and paul lamison has been on the story a while. He is live above the scene. Paul, can you hear us . All right. I apologize for that. We cannot connect with paul lamison live over the scene. But we will bring you an update at the Courtney Campbell causeway. The search is underway there for a missing boater. Im here. I can hear it. If i have feed. Sorry about that josh. Lets take a look. We are here campbell causeway. The boat is anchored right over here. The boat got stuck on a sand bar, so the man jumped overboard on the sand bar to push the boat. He pushed the boat off. He went free. He tried to float. Went urn twice. The third time he surfaced he went back under again. And he did not come up. The 911 call was made from the shore. People saw it