Im josh benson. Im stacie schaible. Lets get right to the weather forecast. Things are shaping up pretty nicely as we head into the weekend. Out in st. Pete beach up to 77 degrees so far. Gorgeous conditions there. Winds light coming in out of the northwest. You can see a few clouds around. But over all, plenty of sunshine to end the day. And things really nice. If youre already off work for the weekend enjoy this afternoon and this evening. Temperatures are going to stay pretty pleasant for us. 73 in odessa and luke. As you look across the entire tampa bay area you can see 70s across the board. Still 66 though in lake placid. So pretty warm. Also tracking those winds coming out of the east this afternoon. Around 10 to 15 miles per hour. So it has been a little bit breezy at times but not too bad. You can see that northeasterly breeze has brought a few clouds in from the east coast of any showers within these clouds. We actually have really dry air on top of us. That bright red color you see across the state of florida and much of the southeast is some very dry air in the upper levels of the atmosphere. This will prevent any showers from developing as we head through tonight and even the next couple of days. For this evening, temperatures just slowly falling back. If you have friday evening plans should be a good thing. If you have plans outside, a light sweater will do. Ill talk about if dry conditions that will continue through this evening coming up in the full forecast. Its a great weather for a jog. This sunday and will run get it, through. And the farmers hope that their crops will increase as the season rolls on. The. Reporter the weather had such an impact that there were fewer berrys to pick and fewer berrys to sell. Matt park is the operational manager for parks farm. Our average is half of what it was last year. Year for us. Reporter but the cooler weather has allowed the straw we strawberries strawberries to grow. In plant city, josh thomas, newschannel 8. A middle School Science teacher is locked up accused of sex criming involving one of stacy lin hooks bond was set at 25 million. The 38yearold had an ongoing relationship with a 14yearold boy from hill gustad middle school in seabring. Hooks is on administrative leave without pay. Over to manatee county. Heroin overdoses are steadily dropping all thanks to the result of an 18 month investigation. Now 15 people facing Drug Trafficking charges so far. More arrests are on the way. These Law Enforcement officers are not going to under estimate these drug dealers and so theyre the ones that need to be watching out now. In 2015, the county led the state in heroin overdoses and death. So far this year officials have not had any deaths and they are seeing a dramatic drop in overdose calls. Today the movie race opens in theaters nationwide. County in tampa got to see it. They walked from their campus on cypress street to the Movie Theater at west shore mall. The movie is about jesse owens. Its part of black History Month and an opportunity for teachers to teach history in a different way. It makes students really understand or connect with what theyre learning in the classroom. Outside of the classroom. This is the third year the students at jefferson have done this. Last year they went to see the movie selma. Were going to see a preview of the movie race in just a few minutes on first at 4 00. Now day visit has the preview. Brace yourself for a san andreas sequel. The region of fault lines and volcanos circling the pacific ocean. When dancing with the stars returns next month, julian huff wont be there. The dance champ turned judge tells People Magazine she wont be on the panel for season 22 saying she has a lot of exciting stuff coming that i look forward to sharing. But shes not saying goodbye forever, i promise its not the last you will see of me in the ballroom. A 100mile an hour fast ball reaches the plate faster than a blink of an eye. Reporter its not possible to make a movie without kevin costner. He narrates the movie fast ball between the show down of hitter and pitcher thats at the heart of the game. Im david daniel. Still ahead. A state senator from the bay area is blocking a move to make recess mandatory in florida schools. Eight on your side finds out next. Also coming up. You can get up close and personal if these guys zoom around the track trying to qualify for the olympics. There has to be a way. Carry the centimeter, divide by 3. 14 something something something. [ beeping, whirring ] great caesar salad and now the name your price tool shows people policy options to help fit their budget. People really do save an average of over 500 when they switch. I mean about you inventing it. I invented the story, and isnt that what really matters . So. Welcome back. A bill approved by members of the house would require floridas Elementary School to require 20 solid minutes of recess every day. As mike vaselinda explains, the bill is in limbo. Reporter nobody here is saying that recess is a bad thing. It blows off stress and creates social relationships but the question is what are you willing to give up. If its not a policy or mandate theres going to be people that dont follow it just like everything else. At this point thats why were come to the state level. Reporter the problem, john lag, lag is single handedly blocking the bill from being heard and he tells us he will not change his mind. Its too rigid of a solution that is best left up to our local districts to resolve. Reporter well there are no cost figures being talked about right now. What we do know is that it does cost the state about 66 million a year to add one hour a day at 300 low performing schools. Thats about a quarter Million Dollars a school. Reporting from the state capital. Im mike vaselinda. Lag did tell us if counties dont adopt recess locally the bill may be there next year. If it does, lag wont be there to block it, he says he is not running for reelection. Stace and i were just there a couple of hours ago, you still have time to get to the the event does not end until 8 00. Tomorrow we have newschannel 8 personalities maning the booth. Thats at the Tampa Convention east hall. It was a lot of fun. Its so close to where we work i just walked over there. Because its a gorgeous day. So lovely weather be u lovely weather but were getting a cooldown. Were still talking about last nights wild win by the bulls. A must win too. And we find out why the nhl is not going to dole out discipline for a huge hit. Lowes presents how to plan for the future. Happy valentines day. Happy birthday. Sorry i forgot our anniversary. Happy mothers day. P now get 3 shrubs for only 10 t at lowes. 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I like that. Let me write that down. Good note. And the good news is its going to continue into this weekend. I know people are looking forward to it. So many people out at the health expo getting ready for the gasparilla distance classic. Temperatures are going to quickly warm into the mid70s each day. Well start off in the Morning Hours fairly mild. Temperatures in the mid50s. So not too bad. But do know that those temperatures will warm up quickly once the sun comes up. And over all were just looking at a few clouds around each day. No rain expected for the entire weekend. Heres a look at the sunrise this morning. Taken from tony out in lakeland. Gorgeous colors there. Want to remind you if you have some weather photos we always love to see them so send them in. We always look for them and a few clouds have moveed in from the east coast of florida on our satellite and radar no rain around. Move in. Also High Pressure in place. Thats going to keep things quiet all the way through this coming weekend. So mostly clear and comfortable for this evening. Temperatures will stay in the upper 50s if you have some outdoor dinner plans. By tomorrow morning. Plenty of sunshine. A little bit o of patchy a little bit of patchy fog is deal. A few clouds return again. Similar to today. Partly cloudy skies by the afternoon hours and temperatures will be reaching into the mid70s as we head into sunday. Mild in the morning, mid to upper 50s. Patchy fog to begin with as well. Not a huge issue. Mainly just far inland low lying spots. By sunday afternoon, that warm southeasterly flow really helps to warm us up. I think a lot of areas in our inland county. Counties will make it close we will start to see some changes. Notice more cloud cover building in. Well have deeper moisture around. We bring in a 10 rain chance on sunday. And the rain chances go up as the next storm system rolls in tuesday into wednesday. Now it doesnt look too intense at this point. But showers are possible through the day on tuesday and on wednesday. Then behind the system. Temperatures drop back into the mid60s to end next week. Stacy. Well if youre still asking yourself what in the world am i going to do this weekend. Given the beautiful weather. Eight on your side gets the answers today thanks to the weekend buzz and carrie summers thanks for being here. I dont care what were doing this weekend, the weather really gets me in a good mood. Exactly. Were both from the north so lets talk about gasparilla we were just both there earlier. Today and tomorrow is the 8 on your side expo which you were at. Theres a ton of things to see out there. Even if youre not a runner theres just cool booths and a lot of great things. I went to it last year. And i was grabbing all this cool stuff. And i was just like give me, give me, give me. Freebies. If its free, give it to me. And theyre going to have a celtic, theres a kilt competition which were very intrigued by. If you dent get anything, you can go to the pasco county state fair. Its all the same thing. The rides, the animals, the foods. This one intrigues me it sounds really good. Especially on the weekend its called cirque to chill. Its like going to the theres like lounge areas, fireworks and then theres all the circus stuff and its 45. Magic cocktails. Yes, magic cocktails thats what i like about it. And youre doing a 90 free show, its free. Yes, thats for me. We have dnc, thats joe jonas band. Were going to be out there broadcasting live. Its going to be a banging party. Thats awesome. And its free. And its free. And now a preview of this weekends new movie, heres daniel with now showing. Skwrtz that same man alye again. Reporter risen is the first in a series of religion theme movies hitting theaters over joseph fines plays a roman sinturian charged with finding the body of jesus. I have people looking at me. I dont care about any of that. Youre right. You dont have to. Reporter race figures to debut in fourth place. Stephan james stars as jesse owens struggling with racism in nazi germany. Reporter it wont be a surprise if the witch debuts below the other releases. The supernatural horror flick is getting solid reviews so dont be shocked or scared if it sticks around a while. In hollywood, im david daniel. Also happening this weekend. You can watch potential future its the Gator National supercross series. And Adrienne Pederson shows us what its like to compete under this pressure. I cant even imagine what its like to try to qualify for the olympics. Talk about pressure. The vma riders we talked to say its all about focus. Youre going to see big crashes, big speeds, big jump, big everything out here. Its going to be something you havent seen before t unless you watched the olympics or Something Like that before, unless you watched the olympics or Something Like that. You have to be very skilled on your bike to make it around the track without hitting the ground. Reporter this summer, dozens of bmx riders are taking on the track representing 39 countries and 48 states. Some like tyler brown trying to qualify for the summer olympics in rio. Mentally when you walk up on this 8meter hill and youre fastest guys in the world. Its just about being confident in yourself and all that youve been training for and get ready for go out of the game and giver and give it all you have. Reporter she eventually competed with a 2012 olympic team but that didnt go so well. Shes determined not to let nerves get the best of her. It makes me nervous every time out there. Its because i care. Its a good nervous energy. Its more of a youre nervous about what the outcome will be. Reporter you can see all the action in person at the supercross track on tampa road. From the Tampa News Center im Adrienne Pederson. And adrienne is going to rio to cover the olympics. Well bring you more details as we get closer to the games, its a good time. With paul ryan. Paul ryan is here. Im still recovering, heart palpitations from that hockey game last night. And they needed the win. Sometimes you Say Something is bad and its really good. Like joshs shoes were bad, or that chipotle burrito was bad. Well last night, after a wild overtime and five rounds of a shoot out, stephen stamcose sends the fans home happy but pleased holding a players only meeting. At the end of the day we need to be better defensively again. We keep talking about it but we need to get better. Although you find a way to win. Its great getting the two points when youre on a slide like we are. You cant expect to continue having success with that play. Its going to change or else were going to be out of the play offs before you know it. Its things we have to fix thats been happening to us of late. Theres no question. But we were down a goal and got the win. So we have to take a positive out of it. This Anton Stroman hit, catches little. Little left the game and got the stroman in the lake. Sprang the officials with a few choice words. I dont play the game to try to hurt anybody. You know, i just try to play ahead and he lost his edge a little bit. Lost his balance and i was in his way. There was not much i could do to really pull out of that one. I think the ref described it pretty good when he said it was a hockey game going strong. Obviously, when it happens to a teammate of yours youre going to respond the way they did. Which was fine thats the game. But we all know that stroman is by any means a dirty player. It was a poor hit. The kid had his head down and got caught up in an awkward situation. There was no malicious intent on the hit or anything like that. He was throwing the body and, you know hopefully hes okay. Jets felt a little bit differently about the hits. Suggesting stroman took advantage of a guy in a vulnerable position. They wanted to see him punished by the league. Looks like stroman will walk away from this one. It happened so fast. Did you think it was dirty. I didnt think it was dirty when i was watching it. A pretty ugly hit. There was nothing stroman could have done at it. Little was at a 90 angle. And little seems to be okay. He traveled with the team. The jets off today. They pulled the game off. They almost didnt. They had a big lead, back to back on the road. male vo p across america, people like Basketball Hall of famer p Dominique Wilkins are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with noninsulin victoza. P for a while, i took a pillrto lower my blood sugar. T but it didntr get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza. 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