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WFLA News Ch8 Mid-Day At 11AM October 25, 2016

Im stacy. We are now going to head to lee span for the latest on our beautiful weather. You know its hard to beat the stretch of weather weve seen since basically the weekend. Each day has been progressively warmer than the last. But max defender 8 doing a great job as it scans the skies this morning. Certainly giving you the all clear. Because nothing going on. We did have a thin layer of clouds this morning. That gave us a water color painting of a sky this morning. Now were getting plenty of sunshine out center freedom plaza. Where its 76 degrees. Were starting to warm up with that sunshine too, brooksville, 73. Bartow, 73. 74 in fish hawk. 72 in saint pete and clear water. It may feel warmer than this time yesterday. Plant city, brandon, 2 degrees warmer than yesterday. Crystal river is 4 degrees warmer. 3 degrees warmer in bradenton. This is close to average. Low to mid 80s. Mid 80s for the rest of the a 10 rain chance by the end of the week. Youll also notice milder mornings. Its not quite as cool in the morning due to higher humidity. Well let you know about our weekend forecast coming up. Right now we have more controversy over ride sharing in hillsborough county. We have told you about the battle between outbounder and Cab Companies. The question is are county leaders siding with the Cab Companies . Right now the ptc is holding an emergency meeting to discuss that emails uncovered by 8 on your side show a very close relationship between ptc director, kyle. And the companys he should be regulating. One email shows he encouraged cab drivers to fight ride sharing companies. Dana young called for the fdle to investigate. We have a crew inside that meeting. Once we hear anything well pass along the new information. Turning to your vote coverage. Out showing Hillary Clinton ahead of donald trump by 6 points. 50 to 44 . Theres not a lot of time for the republican to regain that ground. Election day, two weeks from today. And all ready early voting is under way in many states. Tracy pots now has the very latest from the nations capitol. Both candidates are in mustwin florida today where early voting is under way. And some are still undecided. I am at a cross roads. I dont vote for until i get to the booth. Democrats have registered 50,000 more voters. Im very concerned about the rhetoric coming out of his mouth. Trump in florida continues to blame the media and pollsters for his downward slide. The media isnt just against me. Theyre against all of you. Thats really what theyre against. Hillary clinton up by 5 points averaging national poles. Shes diverting money and magie hassen trying to help democrats retake the senate. Shes never been afraid to stand up to donald trump. Republicans trying to withstand the heat. Are going to suffer and they should suffer. They havent been standing up for the right people. On the trail with clinton, senator elizabeth warren. We nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives tracy pots, nbc news, washington. One thing were not hearing a lot about is obama care. His Administration Admits that premiums are expected to jump 25 next year. Trump barely mentioned that last night. That 25 increase is for the mid level benchmark plan. The number of insurers serving the federal market is going to drop from 232 to 167. Blow for customers and help with the sticker shock. Sign up season begins november 1st. And the giant sink hole that opened up in mosaics new whales plan in polk county is now the responsibility of mosaic. A deal reached with the state requires the company to fill it. The company will also have to recover all of the pollution that drained into the aquaphor. If mosaic does not live up to its end of the deal, the state could that hole opened up in august. Its about 50 feet wide and 220 feet deep. Well dont take guns to the airport seems like a silly warning but its one Transportation Safety administration really says it needs to hit home. Especially here in tampa. Tsa agents say so far this year they have stopped 64 handguns, four in one day. Guns, hand grenades and martial arts weapons. Tsa agents remind passengers, leave your guns at home. A jury has been seated in the battery trial of a rapper caught on camera kicking a female fan during a concert. Kevin gates claimed he kicks the fan, there you saw it in self defense after she touched his leg during a performance at a lake land night club. All seven jurors chosen in the case are women. That trial begins tomorrow and day. Pasco deputies are looking for a sex offender, christian tillison is wanted for failing to register as a sex offender after moving to hudson florida from new york. He was convicted of having sex with a 15yearold girl in new york. That was back in 2005. Investigators believe he could be driving a light blue pontiac. If you know where he is, youre asked to call the pasco sheriffs office. To break into a home while the owners were sleeping. Hillsborough deputies arrested richard spencen, kevin barker, and danielle. Danielle is expected to appear in court today on those charges. Investigators accused the three of stealing the homeowners credit cards and tell us they have this Surveillance Video from a walmart showing the suspects using those stolen credit cards. Well, trouble fo today. Sickles in Gather High School are both in trouble with the fshaa. They are losing any shot at the playoffs. Both schools received reports that they were players living at addresses other than the ones provided to the school. Its very disappointing for all the players that put a lot of work in for the coaches, for the administration at the school. Its very disappointing. But theyre still going to move season. Sickles high school had to forfeit six games. Gather forfeited three. And neither team will be eligible for the playoffs. Its getting closer. The 2016 heart walk is right around the corner. News channel 8 is committed once again to raising 100,000. But we still need your help. Kia is generously matching the first 50,000 that we raise. So every dollar you donate right now counts as two. And we are about 2 3 of the way er Raymond James stadium. Its easy to join my team and donate. Go to wfla. Com heart walk for details. And coming up, more Holiday Hiring to tell you about if youre looking for extra spending money. Plus a dangerous dilemma on the roads that we drive to and from work and school. The warning that experts are sounding about certain headlights. And women trying for months to get their mammogram records knew they better call behnken coming up, shannon asks the facilities former medical director who is responsible. If you cant get enough of Girl Scout Cookies, youll be able to have them for breakfast,. And lunch and dinner and snack. But this time its actual breakfast food General Mills is teaming up to make a cookie flavored cereal. Thin mints and caramel crunch which is supposed to take like the samoa cookies. Some of the proceeds will go to the girl scouts. I think those will be flying off the shelves. That way you dont have to wait until girl scout cookie season. You can tide yourself over and think that youre being healthy. Eating a very small portion, thin mint over the samoas. Me too. Im a thin mint girl myself. Its been so beautiful outside the last couple days. Its hard to beat. Even Girl Scout Cookies for breakfast cant beat our weather. Heres a look. Theres people walking on the beach there. Blue sky. We had thin cloud cover this morning that made for such a pretty sunrise. Just 77 degrees. North winds at 1 Miles Per Hour. Very, very light. Lake land auto mall, still got its 72 degrees. North winds at 3 Miles Per Hour. But obviously these clouds are not producing any rainfall. Heres a look at max defender 8 as it looks around trying to find some rain. But its been bone dry in the tampa bay area for the last five days or so. And i havent heard too many complaints about it. As we move forward through the rest of the day. Some clouds streaming across the sky, 78 degrees at 1 00 p. M. We make it to 83 degrees then a slow cooling trend with a couple clouds at 7 00 p. M. Down to 76. Its 71 in zephyr hills. 72 in clear water. 75 in arcadia. The breeze is light. Its coming in basically out of the north and east. Any where from 5 up to about 13 Miles Per Hour along the coastline. But its just a light breeze. And were warming up because of it. The wind because its coming out of the northeast, its going to keep us watch what happens through the rest of the week. High pressure will push off into the atlantic. And as it does that, it brings our winds more out of the dew east opposed to the northeast. And thats a little warmer wind. Also since its coming off the Atlantic Ocean and connellsvilles to do so. It does drive in a little more humidity. Which is why were seeing partly cloudy skies. Mid 80s expected. So thin clouds today, 83 today. Now notice again as we head temperatures go up slightly. 86, then 85 on thursday and friday. With that build up of moisture in the air i couldnt take the rain chance out for the entire week. But a 10 chance on thursday and friday. Im a betting woman, im putting it all in that youre not going to see rain. But theres enough moisture that i couldnt take it out completely. This is why we live here basically, this time of year. Cool in the morning. Warm in the when you need help, shes on your side, better call behnken. Thousands of mammogram records sitting somewhere in Pinellas County after a popular mammogram senor closed last year. Investigator Shannon Behnken worked for weeks to help women get those important files back. She tracked down the former medical director for his side of the story. Diagnostics center abruptly closed and a growing number of women are turning to me for help getting their records back. Im shannon with channel 8. Center owner john parker iii tells me he locked the records in a Storage Facility in Pinellas County. He admits hes overwhelmed. He meets some women with records. Others hear nothing. State officials tell me someone else is responsible for the files. The former medical director. Track him down. And finally found him at a new job. So yo dont feel youre responsible . Correct. He actually has a pretty good explanation. State Health Officials list dr. Henry as the last medical director of womens diagnostic. But he left the company in march 2015, thats seven months before the center shut its doors. A new medical director was never listed with the state. Time. Does that responsibility leave with your employment . Good question, i dont know the answer to that. He feels terrible about what happened to his former patients records but hes not happy his name is any where near this debacle. Did you know how he was handling this . That he had these records . At some point in time he did contact me and he stated that he had ownership of the records. And that they were kept in state officials have no record of a new medical director and ask that all impacted women file a complaint so they can look into it. I have listed all of the information you need to do that on my facebook page. Shannon behnken, 8 on your side. And if you have a problem that needs solving, you better call behnken, the number is on your screen. Insurance institute for Highway Safety rates most pickup trucks poor. Only one earned a good rating, the honda ridge line. Experts are worried about what the poor rating means for drivers. Almost half of traffic fatalities occur either at night or dawn or dusk. And so for the driver to be able to see obstacles, to see the environment and make changes or come to a stop, the headlights are really the only thing that will be the tests also revealed out of the 23 headlight combinations available on pickup trucks, 14 created excessive glare for oncoming drivers. And some good news for buick, the auto maker s broken through. The american brand ranks third in Consumer Reports annual Car Reliability survey. That released just today. For years foreign auto makers reliability surveys. Topping the list, toyota and the lexus luxury brand. This is the first time for buick to finish in the top three in more than 35 years. The same sentiment of reliability cannot be said for wells fargo. A new survey shows just how bad the recent scandal marred that banks reputation. The bank created as many as 2 million fake accounts and credit card accounts between 2011 and 2015. 1500 surveyed last week. Researchers found negative perceptions of wells fargo have soared from 15 to 52 . Experts predict wells fargo is at risk of losing 99 billion in deposits over the next year and a half because of that scandal. Nordstrom is planning to hire for man 11,000 temporary workers for the Holiday Shopping season. But thats about 3 fewer than chains is fighting a tough battle with online retailers which offer more convenience and products at lower prices. The majority of the positions will be on the sales floor or stock room. The rest will be support for stores and nordstroms website. And no Holiday Hiring for twitter. In fact, bloomburg is reporting the social site is planning to get rid of about 8 of its work force. Roughly 300 people. That number could change. But the cuts are almost inevitable. The Company Recently hired but it never got off the ground. Basketball hall of famer Shaquil Oneal is taking his love for donuts to the next level. He now owns a decades old krispy kreme donut shop in atlanta. The store has been at its Current Location for more than 60 years. The nba hall of famer had a 19 year basketball career and is one of the most recognizable athletes on the planet. And because of that, shaque is spokesperson for krispy kreme. He says hes happy to be part of that companys practice of supporting local communities. Coming up, the lightning are in action tonight. Baseball is taking center stage. Game one of the world series tonight. A historic show down between the cubs and the indians. Youre going to hear from both managers coming up. Robert kearney i fought for my country in kosovo and iraq, 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 and respected. Donald trumps america is not the country i fought for. So, im voting for Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton 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, its solar done right. Vote yes on amendment 1. Now in sports, tonight is game one of the world series in what is destined to be a historic one. The Cleveland Indians taking on the chicago cubs. The indians have been titleless since 1948. The cubs since 1908. And their last appearance in the world series was in 1945. Both Team Managers have world series experience. Joe mad within the Tampa Bay Rays in 2008. Indians. He did it with the red sox. Ending an 86 world series drought for them. I know thats a really cool thing for fans to talk about and stuff. It really doesnt enter into what were doing. Its so hard to win any way. You know. Well put all our energy into tomorrow. We all have a tremendous amount of respect for history. And whats happened before us or not happened before us. But you go in that room right now, theyre really not impacted by a lot of the lore i dont think. Other than the fact that were impacted by our city. It sure makes for a good story line. If youre wondering, the average price for a ticket to tonights game, game one in cleveland, 3,900. To get a ticket to Wrigley Field later in the series, fans will pay an average of 7,200 per ticket. The Cleveland Indians being in the world series is even effecting other sports. Champion cavaliers are changing up their schedule. The nba is moving the cavaliers ceremony from 8 00 p. M. To 7 30 so indians fans can watch the ceremony before tonights world series pitch. The cavaliers face the New York Knicks tonight. Reigning twotime mvp steph curry leading the warriors against the spurs in oakland. And if the world series isnt your thing, the lightning are in an away game. Tonights game is in toronto against the maple leaves. They tried to grab steven from us during the off season but the lightning captain decided to stay put in tampa. The United Soccer League has an announcement planned for next week regarding the addition of two teams. One is expected to be the tampa bay rowdies who will leave the struggling north American Major League soccer. And coming up, why former subway pitch man jared fogles exwife is suing his former employer. Plus outrage as veterans are being forced to pay for the governments mistake. Why they have to pay back money for serving their country. Youre watching news channel 8 right now on 11 00. The pentagon demanding bonuses handed out to National Guard members to be paid back. The exwife of disgraced subway pitch man jared fogle is taking action. Why shes suing the chain for the nightmare she claims it caused. Big changes could be coming to londons heathro airport. How are you this morning . Were doing good. The weather is perfect. We check in with lee span for the latest. Its been one of the best stretches of weather. You get those nice cool crisp fall mornings. But it does warm up very quickly. No rainfall out there. We did have some clouds earlier. You can still see a thin layer from the veterans ford camera in tampa. This is looking over the 74 degrees. 38 humidity. This is what im talking about. When you woke up this morning,

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