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Gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez. The weather now. Humidity sky high, fog and rain on max defender 8, not on land but a thin line of showers in the gulf. That is in association with a cold front that will bring a chance of rain today. Look at the fog there though. That is the view from lakeland auto mall. Portions of the area dealing with reduced visibility, its soupy. Upper 60s and lo the day. Theres the fog, visibility zero now in lakeland. Mostly cloudy and 79 today. The rain chances fairly sli...

Still missing. Good morning, welcome to newschannel 8 today, im gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez, thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. Lets check with Ed Bloodsworth for a look at the weather. A few spotty showers this morning mainly in the interior locations, also areas of patchy dense fog. Its raining in some areas, a little minor showers south of the avon park stretching back to portions of hardee county. Also a line of gulf. In association with our cold front. Its warm out there....

The fire. This is a building that has been in the news lately. In march the vinick Family Foundation announced they were donating 2. 5 million to renovate this rec center. The largest individual gift in the 90year history of the boys and girls club in tampa bay. And it were set to be renamed the jeff and penny vinick family winston park boys and girls club. This will be a blow to the people in the area that depend on rec centers like this for after school care. It was set to community. I grew up...

To hear from loved ones. If you need to report a missing person from gatlinburg, pigeon forge, call 1800tbifind, that will get Law Enforcement it tennessee on the case. People are praising dolly parton for her part in helping the victims of the fires. The Dollywood Foundation will donate 1,000 a month to each of the families who lost their homes in the fires for six months. I know time for my people, and this assistance will help. Beginning friday you can join our efforts to recover from these d...

Increase or 15 an hour minimum wage. Raise for Law Enforcement officers. Reporter why . Reasoning behind this, first of all, because these people risk their lives to keep us all safe, and its gonna be way more beneficial to society as a whole than a 15 minimum wage which will increase the price for everyone on the back end. For folks who work at mcdonalds or a minimum wage job, they can support their family better 8. 05 job. Thats still like 300. Thats not like enough to feed like if you have fa...

Know. There is nothing worse than idle hands, you know. Put something in their hands, a basketball, a motivational speaker to talk to these kids to see that there are people that care outside of the community. I pray that they come back in here and help rebuild. I hope it touches somebodys heart to where they feel like that they can come in here and do something to help the situation, you know . Its heartwrenching to see Something Like this. Its just sad. Sad. Reporter investigators were sttr sp...

In Manatee County a substitute teacher is off the job. After he was charged with molesting three girls. Detectives say brad bellingar knew the girls outside of school. And hes been abusing them for . Years. The Manatee School district says bellingar worked as a substitute teacher 2011. The district released a statement to the bradenton herald. Saying bellingar was immediately removed from his position wednesday. After they learned of his arrest. And st. Pete police will be out today. For a new o...

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Yet because we still have a lot of leftover tropical moisture that is streaming through the area. I think today is going to feel be a lot like it was yesterday afternoon where you just had a lot of cloud cover, occasional showers running through the area. This morning we had a little bit of rain in the Citrus County area up to leve. Not a big deal. We are not going to put too much more in the bucket. We cant have more rain, there is nowhere to it go. The rain . Southout east winds at 3 Miles Per...