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WFLA News Ch8 Mid-Day At 11AM October 4, 2016

Its a category 4 hurricane. And it should cross over the eastern portion of cuba before making it into the atlantic near the bahamas. Still a category 4 hurricane. And its still expected to make this turn toward the west. The only small difference now is that polk county and Highlands County no longer in this cone of uncertainty. This threat cone. This will wobble back and forth over the next couple days. This is thursday morning. This is friday morning with winds, 125 Miles Per Hour winds just off the shore line. The yellow shaded area. Thats where we expect Tropical Storm force winds. This red area. Thats hurricane force. As we head into thursday afternoon, we could see at least portions of polk and Highlands County with 40 Miles Per Hour. 30 Miles Per Hour winds continue into friday morning. Then the winds head farther as we go through the day tomorrow and thursday morning. Winds about 25 Miles Per Hour. They get stronger thursday night. 32, 34 Miles Per Hour winds. Obviously stronger over here on the east coast, 50 Miles Per Hour to 60 Miles Per Hour winds. Friday morning will be the breeziest day. 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour winds. After that things improve. All the computer models in agreement that its going to hang off floridas east coast. One change with this suite computer models is its pushing in closer along the South Carolina and North Carolina coast. But look at this. This could effect just about everybody on the east coast of the United States by the time this is said and done. And about two minutes ago, Tropical Storm nicole formed out in the atlantic. At this point, its not expected to bother anyone. Its going to be a Tropical Storm for a while and sit and spin out there. A lot going on in the tropics. Well talk about our local forecast, coming up. Right now florida son alert. Closely monitoring this storm. We heard from governor rick scott about whats being done to prepare for Hurricane Matthew here in florida. News channel 8s meredith joins us now from the tampa news center. The governor said we cannot rule out a direct hit on florida. We really need to take this storm seriously. The problem we have with this storm is the projected path is right along our coast. If it turns, were not going to have a lot of time to make a prepared and not take any chances. Governor scott saying hurricane watches and warnings may be issued today along with evacuation orders for the east coast. The florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of transportation are ready in case evacuations are required. The National Guard is also on standby just in case. The governor declared a state of emergency yesterday making those Resources Available for hot line has been activated. State law prohibits extreme price increases on essentials lib like food, water, ice, and hotels. If you expect price gouging, contact the attorney generals office, the number right there on your screen, 18669noscam. Or 1 866 96 website as well. Matthew made land fall around 7 00 this morning. Sustained winds near 145 Miles Per Hour. The storm pounded the southwestern coast of haiti. Threatening a largely rural corner of that impoverished country. Matthew expected to pass very close to or make a second land fall on the eastern tip of cuba this evening. Life threatening conditions are very likely. Including flooding rainfall, storm surge, and mud slides. Ready mobilized resources and personnel to assist with International Relief efforts in haiti. A link to a site where you can donate directly to the efforts is on the home page of wfla. Com. Lots of people effected by this. Thank you. Matthew may or may not make land fall in florida. But its winds could reach far inland. That would pose a problem for blood donations. One bloods big red buses. One blood is asking eligible blood donors to donate now. Hurricanes can disrupt blood collections for several days and the most critical time for donation is before the storm hits. Right now theres a need for platelets ab positive. As well as o and o blood. Happening today, National Night out against crime. In clear water the event will be held at the clear water mall in st. Petersburg, itll be held in the parking lot of the target store on Martin Luther king jr. Street north. Both events start at 5 00 p. M. We posted more information on wfla. Com. Meanwhile the city of tampa just received 1. 9 million in federal funds. Its part of 119,000,000. 000000000 dolled out for the hiring of new police officers. Tampa can now hire 1r5 new beats. Something mayor bob buckhorn and tpd police chief eric ward agree is a huge boost to keeping our city safe. Sarasota county is making a push against the fight against zika virus. A team of representatives from all faith food bank, the department of health, and sarasota Mosquito Management are working on the fight the bite campaign aimed to create awareness of mosquito bites and mosquito repellent to people who may need it. This campaign will distribute more than 28,000 can of insect repellent in Sarasota County over the next 30 days. Good news for commuters this morning. Transportation officials will not convert regular lanes on the Howard Franklin bridge to toll lanes. The d. O. T. Decided to nix the plan to replace one of four general use lanes with a toll lane. Tolls could be added to the bridge. But they wont take away lanes to make that public hearings originally scheduled for this week are now postponed. A new Center Opening doors in tampa aimed as easing the pain felt after losing a pet. The pet loss center has locations across texas and florida. The latest location offers cremation, an open door policy and a 24 hour phone line. They offer services to veterinarians and vet techs who deal with death on a daily clinics to provide cremation support. Whether its talking through a client through a euthanasia or whether its handling their own stress from dealing with that on a day to day basis. The center will officially open at the end of this month. Good news for music lovers. Early bird ticks for the Music Festival go on sale. Its march 11th and 1st. Twoge Tickets Available for 40. Vip tickets, 115. Both Available Online at gmftickets. Com. Keep in mind, youre doing this a little bit on faith. The concert lineup will not be announced until mid november. Its time to freshen up your resume, today employers are recruiting for more than 500 jobs at a Community Career fair. Its happening at the george drive. It kicked off at 10 00 this morning. Find out more at wfla. Com. Also coming up, the 2016 heart walk. And news channel 8 is committed again to raising 100,000. But we need your help. Kia is generously matching the first 50,000 that we raise. Every dollar you donate right now really counts as two. The walk is november 12th at Raymond James stadium. Gene will be there with me. Weha go to wfla. Com heartwalks to donate or join our team. Its a great cause and good fun too. Fans of gilmore girls, tomorrow is a day especially for you. Four bay area coffee shops are transforming into lukes diner. The iconic restaurant from the show. Its all in honor of the 16th anniversary of the series and a reminder of next months four episode revival on net flix. Coffee at the coffee and tea house in temple terrace, and both blind tiger locations in tampa and at the lab in tampa. Some official merchandise will be available for sale. Including tshirts and branded aprons. Lots of people looking forward to the return of gilmore girls. She waited month for medical records. She got nothing. When she got fed up. She knew she better call behnken. Shannon confronts the man who admits he has thousands of mammogram records sitting in a warehouse. Dinner made easy. Well tell you whats inside Martha Stewarts thanksgiving welcome back. Some of you may celebrate taco tuesday every week. Now today we can do it with the rest of the country. Now you know what most people are eating today. There are some special deals out there for you as well. Tijuana flats is offering 2 dollar tacos. Qdoba is offering a free drink. Try something local. According to yelp, the most popular taco spot is here tampa called lolees. Ive been wanting to check that out. Were known to go to lunch every once in a while. I asked her this morning. She still hasnt said yes. She must have better plans. Im a little busy with the hurricane. Let me tell you again, Hurricane Matthew has been keeping me busy all morning long. I just read where it was the strongest hurricane to hit were waiting to see images coming out of there. Theyre still dealing with effects from the earthquake. They had the deforestation. We have Better Weather here for today. Lake club and lakewood ranch. 82 degrees. East winds. Light. Freedom plaza, 87 degrees. But not bad. Partly cloudy skies, and a few showers will start around lunch time, 1 00. Rain chance goes up to 4 by 4 00 p. M. Similar set up to yesterday. Well see lingering storms through 7 00 p. M. Before things taper off. With this mix of sun and clouds temperatures are warming up. 81 degrees in lake land. A touch humid. 85 in sarasota. 81 clearwater. 81 in brooksville. But the general wind flow is light coming from the east. The storms will start during the afternoon and evening. And theyll generally migrate toward the coast. Thats where i expect to see heavier rain. Thats whats happening today. Tomorrow morning also starting out dry. But starting tomorrow afternoon, thats when well turn our attention to matthew in the bahamas as a hurricane at that point. With the general counterclockwise wind flow around it, our winds increase. Well see an east rain chance tomorrow at 30 . Lets focus on matthew. The latest advisory as of 11 00, north at 10 Miles Per Hour. Its going to thread this needle. Its not going to interact with a lot of land. It was just over this small penninsula. Its going to graze passed the eastern part of cuba. Its not allowing it to weaken. Its a category four hurricane through wednesday evening. Getting close to the east coast of florida. But again, at this point, not this point. With the winds around it, we could still see strong windy conditions as we head into thursday and friday morning. But were also on the dryer side of this storm. So the heaviest rain would be on the east side. Were going to be on the dryer side. Places like polk and Highlands County, you could see heavier rain thursday into friday. But closer to tampa and st. Petersburg, less rain. Then its going to head up the east coast, talk about the rainfall potential. Notice what happens here. This is a we dont get detailed with this forecast, were trying to go out for so long in time. Notice the east coast here, thats where the heaviest rain will be. Through 11 00 p. M. On thursday. Look at this, friday, 3 to 4 inches there. 1 inch to 2 inches in polk and highland county. A 30 rain chance for wednesday, thursday, and friday, strong winds, and less humid air, comfortable weather for the weekend. Side. Better call behnken. They are records that help doctors make life and death decisions and theyre locked away in a Storage Facility. This is a situation nearly a year after a mammogram facility shut down in the bay area. A woman who needed help knew she better call behnken. I walked in and the records arent there. She needs her mammogram records so her doctor can compare them test and decide what type of procedure she needs next. But the Brandon Center she visited for nearly 18 years is now closed. No response to my emails. No response to my numerous phone calls. It goes to voice mail on his phone. I would leave the same message and i would hear nothing. Shes not the only one, womens diagnostic center in brandon abruptly shut down a year ago. Yet its Facebook Page still has shes been trying to reach the owner since july. Minutes after she set up her appointment with me, that owner called her back. Perhaps sensing what was to come. They met in a starbucks parking lot and he handed over some of her records. We tagged along. Im shannon with channel 8. I want to talk to you about whats going on. Weve been hearing from a lot of women who say you have their successful business but closed because of financial problems after investing in new technology. We then did everything that we could do to transfer the records to another imaging facility in the market. We were told no. He claims to have a Storage Facility somewhere in Pinellas County filled with records. How many records do you have left . How many womens records are you holding . It just seems bizarre that all some secure facility somewhere. How do you make sure its secure . I answered your question. Is it in line a storage bin . I spoke with parker again this afternoon on the phone and he tells me hes all ready handed over more than 3,000 patient files. And he pledges that he will continue until everyone has their files back. Shannon behnken, 8 on your side. If you have a problem that needs solving, you better call behnken, behnken. The iphone 7 is no longer the latest must have mobile device. Today its all about the pixel. El it will likely replace the nexus line of phones. That places it at the high end of the market. Google is also expected to to compete with amazons echo and a Virtual Reality headset. Facebook is looking to make buying and selling items easier with the launch of facebook marketplace. The social media giant found 450 Million People use the site to buy and sell things through groups. The new marketplace section makes that easier for us users. All you have to do is tap on the shop icon at the bottom of the facebook app to explore whats for sale. The most popular and sold include furniture, cars and clothing. Thanksgiving dinner got a lot easier thanks to martha stewart. Her company is offering two thanksgiving boxes for next months holiday. The boxes have all the ingredients needed to make a holiday dibber for eight to ten people. One includes a 12 to 14pound free range turkey, three sides and a pie. Youll also get step by step recipes and preportioned ingredients for stewarts cherry, cream cheese mashed potatoes roasted brussels sprouts and brown butter apple pie. If we can ship martha to the house so she can cook and i can watch with a glass of wine. That would be a good thanksgiving. He asked her what day it was, the answer october 3rd, on october 4th. We get to tell you about a new show coming to broadway that promises to be so fetch. We have exciting news for harry potter fans, all eight movies are returning to theaters for one week only. Welcome back. The harry potter movies are coming back to theaters. Imax and Warner Brothers announced all eight potter films will be shown in imax theaters for one week only starting october 13th. Film version of fantastic beasts and where to find them. Each imax screening will include content from fantastic beasts and greetings from the new films cast. Mean girls the movie is a preteen. Its 12 years old now. Its still hugely popular. In fact, so much so that its now getting the broadway treatment. And thats fetch. In fact, even Regina George is excited about this one. Mean girls the musical debuts next fall in washington dc. Its a newly created twitter account made the announcement yesterday october 3rd which fans of the movie know is mean girls day, duh. Tina fay who created the movie is involved with the stage version and yes, people are still trying to make fetch happen. 12 years old. In the next half hour, the show down in virginia. Is the Vice President ial candidates faceoff in their first debate tonight. Whats at stake as they work to woo voters. Plus jen lees one on one interview with Vice President joe biden. Youre watching news channel 8 today at 11 00. Marco rubio has the worst attendance record of any florida senator in 50 years. But its even worse when he shows up. And has said Social Security is bankrupting our country and has weakened us as a people. He wants to eliminate the department of education. And has voted for billions in education cuts. Marco rubio. Its bad when he misses work. Its worse when he shows up. Right now on news channel 1 today at 11 00. All eyes matthew now. Its tracking to come dangerously close to florida and governor rick scott is not taking any chances. His latest comments coming up. Plus tonight is the one and only chance for the Vice President ial candidates to make their mark. A quick preview of tonights debate, coming up. And space x is still scratching its head over last months explosion on the launch pad. Theyre starting to suspect something a little more sinister. Well explain in more detail, check in with meteorologist lee span to get the latest on Hurricane Matthew. 145 Miles Per Hour winds. A very strong category 4 hurricane. And its passed over this small penninsula of haiti. Unfortunately, well be watching video coming out of haiti throughout the they today. Its expected t

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