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I dont believe in standing up for it since theres more than one religion. Reporter he may be only 12 years old, but mark dawson, a 6th grader at liberty middle school, sure knows what he believes in. Reporter why is this so important to you . Because i believe in more than one religion and one wait, more than one nation. Reporter he says a teacher yelled at him here at school last month for not standing classroom. Turns out it was the teacher who was in the wrong. A School Spokesperson told me t...

Max defender 8 scanning the skies for you and not finding any rainfall. You have the all clear this morning. Temperatures not bad, 64 in lakeland, down to 63 in inverness, bartow 66, 62 north port. Heres the big story, a cold front pushing through the southeast. Behind it really some chilly air. So during the day today we have all day to warm up. 84 degrees, breezy at times. Actually, mostly dry as this cold front gets closer to us. You will w because we trend much cooler behind this front. All ...

Gayle has the 340r7k ut has the morning off. Leigh has the forecast for us. Right. Max defender 8 can show you the clear skies and widen out and show you what is. Co what is comes. Coming. Only a 10 rain chance. The cold front isnt here yet 67 palm harbor. Im expecting 84 today. Boy, do those temperatures drop. A low tonight of 60. Thats well below the average of 67. So ill take you more hour by hour through the day at 6 08. First well check on the traffic situation this morning. Its a pretty go...

Were confirmed in south florida. Blood donations are being tested across the state and for good reason. A donors blood came back positive for zika in august. The testing lab that caught it in the bay area. New channel 8 chanel shows us how to keep it out of reach. All the blood makes its way to the testing lab in st. Pete. When it gets here, the blood is tested for zika. One blood official confirms the zika virus was found in a donation in florida. The blood was tested at their lab in st. Pete w...

Agencies responded. And here is tampa fire rescue. They had divers in the water the past two hours. The divers are now out of the water but they are continuing the search. A coast guard helicopter is here as well. It is still an active scene and they are still actively looking for this man who went under while pushing a boat off the sand bar right off the Courtney Campbell causeway. Thank you paul. A grim situation out there. We will stay with you and get side investigation, safeguarding your vo...

The person response searching for the person responsible for a coldhearted murder. Rodney dunigan is live at tpd headquarters this morning. Rodney, are Police Looking to making an arrest, any closer to making an arrest. Reporter deiah, police say they have a few promising leads in the case. They tell us that this crime does not appear to be random. Its weird. You would never expect body at 3 30 in the afternoon laying in the street. People like Dylan Gonzalez are shaken. It is very concerning ju...

Vanessa ruffes. Walter and jen have the morning off. Those stories in a minute, but now, a first look at your breaking news overnight. Overseas. A powerful earthquake has just hit the nation of japan. The magnitude six point six quake struck in tottori. About four hundred miles west of tokyo. And it was only about six miles deep. The quake knocked out power to more than 30 . Thousand homes. But so far, hasnt caused any serious damage. Just knocked over shelves and roof tiles. One woman was rushe...

Friday im Vanessa Ruffes in for Walter Allen Laura and im laura moody. Jen epstein has the day off as well. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. dave partly cloudy, breezy and warm with high temps making it back into the mid 80s. Tonight will be clear and lovely, turning much drier, with lows temps heading back into the upper 50s. The weekend looks beautiful with sunshine and cooler temps. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s, and lows temps in the 50s. Developing this mornin...

Where are you . Im outside again. You guys know im pulling like quadruple duty doing traffic and going outside. Im doing a report in just a koument minutes you will see why. So im im doing traffic outside and mr. Eric from our production staff will be running my clicker button number 3. We will start off with live look 275 southbound if youre just joining us a crash earlier a rollover crash near the dick meisner opinions to Manatee County good news is crash is clear. Still looking a bit slow in ...

Those clouds, those maybe sprinkles kind of make their way through here later on this evening into the first part of the overnight hours. Behind that front, thats when we get the clearing skies. And you can see those skies clearing out across portions of the southeast right now. Thats whats to come. As we head to second overnight period on into the day on saturday. Now current temperature, its 84 degrees. Dew point of 65. Both of these will be plummeting as we head towards barometer setting 29. ...