This is you first at 4 00. This is first at 4 00. And we are tracking the trommics for you. Heres storm team 8 meteorologist julie phillips. We are looking currently at tropical depression number 9. A lot of problems in the tropics. Current winds at 35 miles per hour, as of the 11 00 a. M. Advisory. Currently moving off toward the west, at 7 miles per hour. Can you see it on the satellite imagery, during the southern portion of the gulf. Hurricane hunters are actually inside this area, righ what they find. You can see theyve seen some peak wind gusts up to 41 miles per hour. So well see what the results of this are, probably within the next hour or so. Heres a look at the current track of tropical depression 9. Continuing to move towards the west northwest, over the next day or so. Picking up a little strength. It is forecast to become a Tropical Storm, within the next 24 hours. Still waiting on that. At this point, its still a depression. And then as we head into the quick curve back to florida. By thursday, were looking at the potential to see a Tropical Storm, moving off onto the coast of florida. This week, approaching us thursday morning. And then quickly rolling through, throughout the day on thursday. You can see by friday, long gone, moving back out into the atlantic and this weekend, quickly pushing off towards the north and east there. So as far as winds are concerned. Well, the rain. Thats just going to increase over the next couple of days. But as far as Tropical Storm forced winds, with the most likely path th this point, being north of the tampa bay area. The nature coast, Northern Counties likely to see Tropical Storm forced winds. And heavy rain. No doubt well be seeing some of that. Well have a full look at the tropics, and also a look at our rain chances through this coming week in the full forecast. Guys. Well, counties throughout the bay area are urging people to get ready for that heavy rain and possible flooding and right now, sandbags are being offered to protect peoples homes. Already a concern. Reporter this is scout lake in pasco county. I was here last year. And at that time, the water at this point would have been just about above my head. Homes here were flooded. And it took people in this neighborhood months to recover. This is what it should look like. Valerie schaefers home is back the way she likes it. But last year, when i met her, things werent looking so good. We are standing in a lot of floodwater. A lot of critters saw a few fish swimming in morning. 18 inches of water flooded her garage. Streets in her neighborhood were impassable. The whole area was completely flooded. Not only our homes, our streets, our pool area. Our land was pretty much in the water. Reporter with up to 7 inches of rain forecast this week, if schaefer and her neighbors are concerned. Schaefer and her husband are now part of a Neighborhood Action Group that meets regularly to talk about flooding concerns and what to do about them. And she believes they are much the impending rain. And if you are concerned about flooding, our web team put together a list of sandbag locations on our website. Wfla. Com. Its right there on the front page if you want to take a look. An emergency meeting will happen in just a few hours at plateo academy largo, over mold concerns. Upset parents claim mold is near the vents, tile floors are coming up, and certain areas have been painted to cover up mold. A former teacher claims she found mold in her classroom immediately when she arrived about two years ago. And it started like almost immediately when i started on campus there. Teachers were having a lot of really similar symptoms. There was a lot of moisture in the air. We figured wed send out a mold kit. We never saw the results of the kid, but we continued to have our hunches. The school ceo, steve ber stopolis stands by the claim school. He offered to pay for an independent inspection. The meeting tonight starts at 6 00. And right now, we just learn the of a polk city teenager struck by a car on his way to a School Bus Stop last week has died. Investigators tell us, 13year old jacob scott was walking along the edge of barfield road, just before 8 00 a. M. , when he was hit by a car. The driver told deputies, his vehicle went off the road because the sun was in his eyes and he couldnt. Deputies reviewed edmondsons bone and told news channel 8, he had not receive good calls or texts since the night before. An employee at a winter haven restaurant is fired after refusing to serve a Police Officer in uniform. A fellow officer posted that experience online. And it was shared by tens of thousands of people. Lake albert Police Officer, adam leather bury took to facebook to explain what happened sunday when he and another officer were not served. Instead of making an issue, the now, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court has orderedded a review ordered a review of 63 courthouses in the country and annexes across the state. Reporter most judges now have guns at the bench. And courthouses are secure. But not so 29 years ago, at port st. Joe, when a hateful divorce case, turned into murder. Two shots were fired over here. Reporter clyde chased down barricaded door, and killed the judge, after killing two other people. All one has to do is check out the courthouse, see what the weaknesses are and codo what they have to do. The chief justice says its better to be safe than sorry. In todays climate, anything can happen. And i want to make sure we evaluate each courthouse in the state. Reporter part of the security review will focus on creating a database of security incidents in courthouses around the state. Reportingreporting from the state capital, im mike vas linda. A yearlong construction project begins today, in and around downtown tampa. There are already lane closures. Its part of the project to improve the street grid, linking downtownschannel district with the Central Business district. Detour information. Head to our website, wfla. Com. And today, mourners are filing in to pay their respects to monsignor higgins. Died august 24th. He worked at the church. Years. Visitation is being held at st. Lawrence today and tomorrow from noon to 9 00. Funeral will be wednesday at 11 20. Are credit cards lowering their fees by choice . Find out how this change can benefit you. Easing the stress on mothers to be. See how local hospitals are getting expecting families through the door, faster than ever before. A smart idea, coming up on first at 4 00. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Theres a race going on right now. The worlds clean energy super powers either going to be germany, china, or us. And im going to make sure its us. From 500 million solar panels installed by the end of my first term, to precision manufacturing. Well beat the competition and create new high wage jobs. Now, save the date, apple ios fans. They have set wednesday september 7th as the date of the annual launch event. The rumored iphone 7 will launch. In addition, they will announce official release dates for ios10 and other apple operating systems. Something new. Delivery technology. Its delivery by drone. Theyre trying it out in new zealand. Heres how it works. A customer receives the alert about the incoming food. Via smart phone. And then you can see it. The drone lowers the pizza, using a tether. New zealand plans to deliver a drone next month. No word when those drones might come to america. Amazon making deals with major record labels, to launch a subscription streaming servic month. This is happening as pandora is closing licenses dealing. And both companies are reportedly planning to charge 9. 99 per month. Something is trending in the credit card industry. And it might be just the right time for you to make a move on another car, but only if you want to cash in. Chris clackam has more on the consumer watch. Reporter after being forced never think Credit Card Companies would voluntarily drop fees, but they are. The fees most often are foreign transaction fees. There is a recent survey of Credit Card Companies and some of the more expensive fees for consumers. They can add 2 to 3 on top of every transaction that you make. Reporter that are also the most profitable for the Credit Card Companies. But theyre being dropped. And other charges ke rates and late fees are being reduced. Because of competition in the credit card industry. And a lot of times, when some of one of the big boys of the credit card industry, makes a move to reduce the fee, if that works well for them, its only a matter of time before one of the other competitors does the same thing. Thats why he says now is the time to shop around for the credit card deals that are good right now but might even get chris clackum, nbc news. Filling out paperwork is the last thing any expectant mother wants to do between contractions. A Bay Area Hospital is helping avoid that additional stress with the help of a family admission nurse. How the nurse is getting families ready to welcome their new bundles of joy. Reporter many moms are very excited but also a little nervous before having a new baby. Now, one nurse at mo moms are prepared. Before little malachi was born, just five weeks ago, firsttime mom, Casey Nichols had a lot of questions. Every woman here is giving birth. But i was super excited and i found out we were expecting. Reporter thankfully, Caitlin Brennan was there to help. Morton in clearwater is offering all expectant families mortons services. Theres a lot more to go. And what to expect. To answer questions, complete paperwork and to make a birth plan before labor. First we do a lot of paperwork. Its a lot less exciting to do it in between contractions. So we get to do it ahead of time. In a calm, relaxed, private environment. This isnt just helpful for mothers but for the hospital, too. The simple task of completing medical work in advance. Saves delivery and nurses about an hour. Time that can be spent baby enters the world. Now in addition to a family admission nurse. Morton Plant Hospital offers a variety of classes every month for expectant parents. Reporting in clearwater, im mary mcguire, news channel 8. Morton Plant Hospital has been offering the service for about two years now. Brennan said she has helped deliver thousands of babies over the course of that period. Joining us now with a check of first at 4 weather. Watching the system churning in a lot going on right now as we speak. Its pouring outside the studio. Weve got a lot going on in the tropics as well. Lets take a live look outside. You can see, we did have heavy rain. Already a decent amount of rain to start off your monday. And this is just a taste of what we will be seeing as we head throughout the west of this rest of this week. Lets take a look at radar. You can see scattered showers and storms, pushing toward the coast. I think as we head into the fairly early evening hours. You can see heavy point. Very heavy rain. A lot of lightning. Up through gulf gate estates. All of this heavy rain and these storms pushing off towards the west. Tracking heavy rain across palm harbor. Rain moving into st. Pete as we say. More rain headed your way. If youre not already seeing it. Farther to the north. Scattered heavy downpours in the northern portions of Citrus County this. Is all drifting off towards the coast. Areas that were watching. Youve got tropical depression 8 in the atlantic. Hurricane gaston and also tropical depression nine. Now, tropical depression 9 is what were watching most close bee because its in the gulf. And also expected to affect the tampa bay area by middle next week. We are expecting this to strengthen into a Tropical Storm. Possibly tonight or early tomorrow. And then as we head through thursday, notice that quick curve off towards the north and east. And were expecting what that point, to move onshore. Although at this point, the intensity is still something well have to monitor and watch very closely. The gulf waters are warm. And we know how these forecasts can change very quickly. At this point, were expecting a stronger Tropical Storm to make its way up towards the nature of the coast or the big bend area of florida by thursday. This is going to move very quickly. So by friday and into the weekend, this is already out into the atlantic, away from us. But the middle portions of this week. Were expecting to see some bay area. As we head throughout the next couple of days, notice by friday, were looking anywhere from 6 to 7 inches of rain in spots. Can you see those ice in areas. Looks like the heaviest rain will be falling on thursday as well. Our rain chance is just increasing over the next few days for us. Tropical depression 8. Well, this is a nonfactor for us. You can see, it will affect the carolina coast as we head throughout the next 24 hours. Hurricane gaston. Still hurricane strength. Not hurricane strength. But moving away from the u. S. Also a nonfactor. But still something were watching. For us, for the rest of this evening, scattered storms will continue. Theyll push off closer towards the coast. By the late evening hours, all the rain comes to an end. I think well start off dry for the morning commute. Well keep the rain chances only 10 . Scattered showers and storms increase. A good 60 chance of rain tomorrow. Some heavy downpours possible. And by wednesday, this is when our pattern really starts to influence from the tropics and you can see heavy rain popping up all the way to start off wednesday morning. And then continuing into the afternoon and evening hours. And theres what could be a Tropical Storm by this point tomorrow. So for us, rain chances only going up as we head through thursday. That looks to be the peak of things as the system moves through. Were calling for about an 80 chance of rain. And then continues will improve as we head throughout this labor day weekend. Guys . Thank, julie. Well, if you missed the mtv you awards, we have you covered. David daniel has the highlights from a very long show. In todays hollywood minute. Please dont stop the music . There was no stopping rihan a. She opened the mtv videovideo music awards, performed four times during the show, and wrapped up the vmas by accepting the Michael Jackson video van guard award. I had so much fun this is fame, bro. Rambling introduction to the World Premiere of his video faith. My shield of faith . Reporter but the nights biggest buzz was about beyonce. Her videos won eight moon men trophies, bringing her lifetime total to a record 25. And she stopped the show with a nearly 15minute medley from our groundbreaking lemonade album. As she said she came to slay. In short, rihanna rocked, talked, and beyonce ruled the night. In hollywood, im david daniel. And now we have some breaking news. This just into the newsroom. Were hearing actor and comedian gene wilder has died. Wilder was in a lot of films including willy wonka and the chocolate factory, blazing saddles. He died in stanford, connecticut from complications from alzheimers disease. He was 83 years old. Campuses. Well show you apps that can help out. Thats coming up at 4 30. Also, an nfl quarterback, refusing to stand for the National Anthem . Do you agree with him or not . Well have his explanation and tipped off fans coming up. But next in first at 4, sports. The bucks bucs are preparing to finish the preseason in pretty soggy weather. And remember, you can get developments in all of todays stories. With me on tampa bays most convenient primetime newsc welcome back with first at 4 sports. Dan lucas. I feel lost in all of this. The potential here for a very wet game. Right now, its on. No changes. But the situation being monitored, of course. For thursday nights preseason finale. Still wide open. Thats according to head coach, dirk cutter, the day after the team parted ways with the safety, wide receiver and running back. Three position groups, the bucs must sort out by saturday. If you watched any newscast today, you know it could become an issue for thursday nights buc games. Buc his a couple of rainy days games. Right now, were keeping an eye on with that wet thursday in the forecast. I asked a couple of players in the morning, what they think about plating in wet conditions. It doesnt matter. You gotta practice in any movie. I mean, the best. I wish i could use the gloves. [ inaudible ] just gotta focus on this and concentrate. Gloves dont work. Maybe the ponchos do. Thursday night, rain or shine. For now, your official bucs channel 8 station will broadcast the redskins, the preseason finale, kicks off at 7 30. All right. The ugly and awkward standoff between the San Diego Chargers and the number 3 pick in this years nfl draft is over. The chargers announced they have signed defensive end, joey bosa to your fouryear deal. Now comes the mad scramble to get bosa healthy and ready to play an nfl game. Good luck. Sunday, rays pitcher chris arsastruck out 10 aft rows astros batters. He leads the American League in ks. But that was not the talk after his strong outing. The always demonstrative archer seemed to rub Astros George fielder the wrong way. Here he is. That is after his tenth and and then after the game, had a more reasonable conversation. Archer says there is no trouble between the two. I was looking down to my last couple of pitches. It was my last hitter. And he had a great at bat. I was fortunate enough to win that battle. And i think he got caught up in the heat of the moment. We squashed it. Weve already communicated. And its over wi well, archer needed a big day on sunday. And he cant stop now. One more loss would give him 18 for the season. Tying the rays franchise record for losses in the season. And thats what is so hard to believe. Heres a guy, over 200 strikeouts. I think hes fourth best in all of baseball. With 17 losses. Thats how his season went. Not supporting the stats very well. Right. Thats baffling. Thanks, dan. Well be right back. What are you doing over here. I was hanging out here, practices like at the drink. I love everybody here. Well send you next. I dance until 4 00 in the morning. My life is good. That sounds grea