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WFLA News Ch8 First 4 October 26, 2016

Polls to show donald trump taking the lead and Hillary Clinton just now wrapping up a rally in tampa. Were joined live from curtis hixon park. Reporter clinton just left the stage in the past 15 minutes or so. Today is her 69th birthday, but she knew this wasnt a day she could take off. She got on the stage about 45 minutes ago, few minutes start. There was a big crowd. Many of them got pretty hot out here. We saw a few people carried away by ems crews but she went in on attacking donald trump who took the day off to open his new hotel in washington dc. Clinton knowing she cant take any time off right now. The polls are getting closer than ever there is one poll showing her lead has been reduced to just 3 points and another one showing donald trump ahead by 2 points. She spent time attacking donald if you are casting doubts, you want to keep people in suspense as to whether you will respect the outcome of an election, that is contracting contrary to we are as americans. We have had our elections. We have had them from George Washington forward. We will keep having them and show what democracy looks like to the rest of the world. Until election day to go and vote. She said things can happen on election day. Should encourage them to get out early and vote and take others with them. She says this race is an over with yet. Any protesters out there today . Reporter there definitely were protesters outside of the rally. We didnt see any inside but there were some very vocal outside of the rally making their positions known get in the rally. While donald trump crisscross florida yesterday, today he is in washington dc with his family cutting the ribbon to open his new luxury hotel. This is a former post office on pennsylvania avenue that took 2 years to redevelop. We are very proud of our company. We have built one of the great Real Estate Companies of the world, but it seems very insignan pack donald trump said the project was ahead of schedule and under budget. He says this is what he wants to do for our country. Election day is november 8. If you have any questions we have compiled a list of things you need to know on wfla. Com after a brief shutdown, popular attraction at Busch Gardens is river rapids after 4 people were killed in an accident on a similar ride in australia. Now news channel 8 explains that the right is up and running following ride is up and running following a thorough checkup expect they tell me they tell me the congo river was not manufactured by the same company that the one in australia was manufactured from but they wanted to make sure it busch garden issued a statement saying, quote, out of an abortion abundance of caution we close congo river rapids to make sure we had the rope Safety Measures in place. The review has been completed and the ride will reopen today. The right has been open here at Busch Gardens for more than 3 decades in the park says there has never been an we have max defender 8 showing a nice and quiet afternoon for us with that lie radar sweep. You can see completely quiet. Were not tracking any showers or storms. Be expected to stay mostly dry through the rest of the evening. Dry conditions expected to continue into the start of next week. We shower but the rain chances are staying less than 10 percent for the best of the extended forecast. At land o lakes were at 82 degrees with the wind coming out of the northwest at 10 to 15 milesperhour. We topped out in the low 80s yesterday we are now in the mid80s this afternoon. Anyone currently in st. Crystal river. We have even seen gust over 25 milesper hour. It has been a breezy day i am sure you noticed that, but overnight the winds will use up. Temperatures will drop back into the upper 60s. It is a few degrees warmer than we saw last night. The next couple of days we will see mild temperatures continuing. 68 largo tonight. 64 la 65 what you love. 65 brooksville. 64 crystal river. We will have a full look at your forecast take coming up coming up in a few minutes. Apparent from Tampa Elementary School contacted 8 on your side about drivers speeding through school blown as children headed to class tranix school zone as children headed to class. Headed to class. It was a 50 mileperhour zone and we call people going well over the speed limit sometimes twice the limit. One guy was going so fast the Tampa Police Officer had to pull him over. It is the constant speeding. I dont know if people forget there is a school. The school zone is so long. I am not sure if that is the problem. Tampa police are not inside the school that they do often sit there and they tell us that does hel right now we are waiting for burkett verdict in the case of kevin dietz. He is facing kevin dietz. He is facing charges kevin gates. He is facing charges because of this video right here. He kicked the woman in the face claiming he did it because she was tugging on his pants. If convicted he could face up to a year behind bars. Or vehicle tags in the near future you might want to budget some extra time. It looks like aging computers at the state agency have become unpredictable. Mike has more on the story. Reporter the outage could last from a few minutes to a few hours but on one day the system was down for more than half the day. The problem has been ongoing but got worse back in april. That is when the state decided to move the Computer Center out of this Office Complex i thinat the pretty quick or consistent outages for a while. Reporter lawmakers have given agency 6. 5 million to upgrade its computers but replacement is taking time. We are constantly on it. The systems are working now and were just putting people on it here . Are confident we can keep everything going. The tax collectors are quickly to point out that this bears theirs. The largest vehicle recall ever is expanding. We will show you what you need to know to keep your family safe. And then if you have a sunpass you have helped to provide meaningful careers for adults with disabilities. I will tell you about the major milestones rolling off the line amendment 1 protects consumers from scams, promotes safe solar, and is endorsed by floridas firefighters. So, why are outofstate billionaires attacking it . Because amendment 1 stops their subsidies. Amendment 1 ensures that if you dont choose solar, you dont have to pay for those who do. s solar done right. First therefore, today toyota is recalling another 5 first therefore, today toyota is recalling another 5. 8 million vehicles because of exploding airbags. This is the largest auto recall of all time period the airbags were supposed were supplies to leading carmakers around the world they have been linked to 11 deaths in the us. The company will contact you if your car is included in the the cool must have a sensory after all. Worldwide sales plummeted 52 percent in the 3rd quarter compared with the same period last year period that is according to the report of the Market Analysis company idc. The watch so i 72 percent decline from last year. They just cut the price of their original watch. Donald trump masks are outselling clinton masks pier accord commissioned by the Spirit Holding company chain, the number one reason americans have chosen the donald trump mask is to be funny. Their bestselling hollowing mask has correctly forecasted the outcome of every president ial election since 1996. Mcdonnell Training Center in tampa provides job skills Training Opportunity for people with disabilities are today they are celebrating a major we show you how you probably have played a role in the success of this nonprofit. Have a sunpass, then you have helped make donald Training Center in Tampa Mc Donald Training Center in tampa. It is income in meaningful careers for adults with cognitive and visual disabilities. In 2007 they won a contract to package sunpass transponders, it was a game changer for the organization. A really disp that society may have with people concerning people with disability. The contract helps him tc continue to provide mtc continue to provide Services Even one funding from the government is cut. It gives men and women like opportunity to learn new job skills and a competitive wage. I like everything i have learned, the opportunity to work, and working with the people i work with. Reporter on the first day of the contract, 100 sunpass is were packaged. Now as many as 12,000 are boxed up in a single day. Today the 10 millionth sunpass will be completed. Barbara speaking through cindy as well hopes she is i am hoping to be right here and be the one that does the 10 to be right here and be the one that does the 10 millionth one. The most recent contract awarded to mtc is a retran9 an electronic recycling program. You can drop anything off to them and they will break you max defender 8 showing a nice clear sweep. You can see this afternoon it is quiet. What a stretch we have seen recently. The next couple of days youre going to be seeing more of the same. Lets take a look outside right now. We have nice video to show you. This is over from near daylewis davis islands. Gorgeous afternoon, blue skies, what an excellent start. You can see we are expecting more of the same in other out of the south at 5 todd helton milesperhour. No rain at this location 5 to 10 milesperhour. No rain at this location. We did see some earlier this month. We picked up about an inch and a half at Tampa International we currently have the 4 10 of an inch deficit. We are a little bit behind but as we head into november we it is the driest time of the year. Most of us this afternoon mated into the mid80s. When you wake up tomorrow morning we will start a few degrees warmer. We are in the upper 60s when you walk out the door. By the afternoon hours we top out in the mid80s. Start to get used to this pattern because it is what we will see for an entire week. We have some moisture to the south. Notice the green. There is deeper more sure south. Across the tampa bay area we have some pretty dry that is why were not seeing any showers and storms around. For the rest of the evening it will remain breezy and warm for us. Were staying in the 80s for a while, dropping back into the upper 60s for the overnight hours. When you wake up tomorrow morning you may have a couple of clouds around but it should be a quiet start to the day. By the afternoon hours we will see some more clouds. We are expecting this to stay south of the tampa bay area. We cant rule out a very small of our viewing area. At this point the more sure will see to the south. We are looking at another dry afternoon. We have partly cloudy sky to start the day friday morning. We will see some clouds on friday. Dont expect to see much in the way of rain to end of the week. Were still looking at dry conditions. Out in the tropics, all is quiet at this point. No Development Expected over the next 5 days. We can still see storms in october but especially as we head become a whole lot quieter. Quiet at this point for the rest of the evening. Breezy winds with temperature close to 80 degrees. We will keep things mostly dry through the end of the week. Notice the pattern continues through the weekend. Morning temperatures in the upper 60s. Afternoons are in the mid80s with mostly dry conditions. It will be a fantastic halloween this year no matter what your costume is. Our evenings have been so nice that the kids will be comfortable it will be great. Ella benson is ready i hear . She is a bumblebee. My daughter is princess also elsa. Breaking news eagle 8 is over the scene of what appears to be a house fire. 2 people were killed in this fire. It is a very serious situation. Eagle over the scene. Paul, what you know about the fire . Good afternoon, i know it went to alarm. That means when they have trouble fighting it they call an extra crews. Im going to zoom in and here is the most damage out in the back of the house near the screen porch area. You can see how fire has destroyed this area. If i pan appear you can see the roof is also in danger. You can see right here were flames actually went through people were inside. One was originally transported as a trauma alert. They have since passed away, and another person was dead in the house when firefighters got here to fight it. Were not sure how the fire started. Firefighters are still unseen. They are mopping up the hotspots. Will see if we can find out any meanwhile, floridians are turning out in droves for early voting. We will show you how many are coming out coming up at 4 30. Then, bucks injuries see who may be returning to the gridiron this weekend. Can get developments on all night at 8 00. We will be right back. Robert kearney i fought for my country in kosovo and iraq, and ive been a republican all my life. But im the father of three girls. I cant stand hearing donald trump call women pigs, dogs, and bimbos. And i sure dont want my daughters hearing it. I want my girls to grow up proud and strong, in a nation where theyre valued im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Tampa bay is amazing. I work here, i raise my kids here, i even take care of my mom here. But you know what . I could use a hand. Hey we hear you its why aarp is supporting family caregivers like you with free tools and resources. And were making our community an even better place to live, work and play for people of all ages. If you dont think this is right for me get to know us at aarp. Org tampabay y25egy y16fy now lets check in with sports. Fact that was a great lightning game for ben bishop losing one teeth. Bucks news today, they are coming off of a big wind practice week against the oakland raiders. For defense that has enjoyed 2 wonderful games in a row, todays site had to make everyone feel even better. The player going to through the track going and tackling drill that is robert. His knee does not appear to be an issue. Also back is mcdonald. He has. 2 more guys look like they will have the chance to play sunday, but there is one more step back to record. Louis murphy is not on the practice field today. The head coach talked about his situation after practice. There was a setback. Different injury that his knee. We said many times injuries are the worst part of this whole deal. There are a great part there are a lot of great part but injuries are the rs hate to see guys out there busting their tales and go down with injuries. Strike how about game one of the world series last night. Clover sat down kluber sat down club called after cup until he cub after cub until 4 and could potentially start a game 7. At this point in time it is about doing doing what we can before they do. When he is going good he has such good late movement both fastball and breaking ball. I thought he had both tonight. His balls had an extremely good move tonight. They are expecting shaky weather later tonight in cleveland. They will start that game at 7 08 which is great for those of us that you want to stay up all night. The cubs fans are a little bit worry. It was just one game. The pitching matchup tonight should favor the cubs. Jake taking on trevor. But jake who was very good in there regularseason rocked in his last game. Drone and was bleeding all over the place so we dont know what were going to get out of him. Maybe some blood. For those that dont have anything invested emotionally its great entertainment. Thank you very much dan. Now number one, less than 2 weeks until election day, businesses this time the opening of his hotel in washington. Hillary Clinton Tampa accusing donald trump of having stiff american workers. Temple will have to wait for google to bring the high Speed Internet to town. This field announced the news along planning to lay off 100 workers. A man is accused of killing his on an uncle after shooting at 2 police officers. Number 4, stolen super from demarcus wares denver apartment during monday nights football game. Tanks to hidden cameras it was all caught on tape and Police Release very clear pictures of the 2 suspects. With 2 weeks to go until the president ial election, donald trump spent the day to blocks from the white house. America the same way. Reporter off the campaign trail but on Tv Donald Trump opened his new hotel in washington. Under budget planned ahead of schedule. Reporter the hotel was a symbol he claims. A major revenue producer in job creator. This is what i want to do for taking shots from florida was Hillary Clinton. He denies on undocumented workers to make his project cheaper, and most of the products in the room were made overseas. Voted today she urged floridians. You can go early boat through sunday November Vote through sunday, november 6. Republican turnout is way up from where was in 2012. Clinton is down by daily wikileaks. The late batch revealed her campaign scrambling last year when president obama said he learned of her private server on the news. We need to clean this up set atop staffer. The president has emails from her back in his Hotel Donald Trump lingered before heading to North Carolina a battleground florida and is on pace for record early voter turnout. The numbers are good for both parties. Reporter more than 2 million floridians have already voted early and among the 2 major parties it is neck and neck. Republicans have about early voting has never been a strong went. Spat today in 2012 they were up by about 4 and half percent. Today we are tied. Based on where we should be i feel very good. Not all counties have started early voting but they must open their early voting polls today marks a 3 of early voting and Election Officials want to make sure every vote counts. Today the tabulation equipment was check tested and they invited the public to come watch. Unfortunately there are a lot of rumors that make people in a public forum so the voters can see for themselves. About one in 5 voters in Pinellas County have already cast their boat for this election. Election days november 8 if you have any questions we have compiled a list of things you might want to know on wfla. Com. A British Airways flight from <

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