Transcripts For WFLA News Ch8 Mid-Day At 11AM 20161103 : vim

Transcripts For WFLA News Ch8 Mid-Day At 11AM 20161103

Good morning, thank you for joining us. Lets head over to leigh spann for a little bit of weather. It hasnt been too bad for this morning. We have patchy cloud cover but it is quite one. We have already made it to 76. There is a light breeze not quite as strong as the breezes of the last few days but you can notice patchy clouds, not the same amount of rain as i was watching yesterday. Yesterday we saw steady stream of small showers making their way into the east coast. Rain chance but most of us will stay dry. It is early 77 in tampa and brooks city. The afternoon high, 84 degrees above the average of 81. The cold front arrives late tomorrow with only a 10 percent chance of rain. We are cooler and breezy or cooler and breezy for saturday. We will have your exact numbers coming up. Cubs are World Series Champions in 2016. Can we stop and take this in. Incredible stuff. 108 years without a championship ended with an amazing game 7. We hope you watched it because it was one for the ages. It had everything, wild pitches and the game delay, gametying home runs and extra innings. [ video playback ] that is elation here for years they have been called the lovable losers in the team almost like this one get away. In the 8th a blue a 3 run lead when davis hit a gametying homerun. They came back after a 17 minute rain delay before the the cleveland in the end, 8 7. Joe maddon is already looking ahead. Tradition is worth being upheld, but curses and superstition is not. It is really great for our entire cubdom to get beyond that moment. Based on the players we have in this organization we have an opportunity to be good for a long time. Series mvp. He gets a trophy and a nice new chevy camaro. The coax break champagne all over the clubhouse. Lets take a live look outside at Wrigley Field were fans lingered for hours after the win. Already are crowd there this morning. The Wrigley Field signed proudly declaring the here in tampa bay. He managed the rays from 2006 until 2014. This morning a flag hung outside of his tampa home with congratulations written on it. Mary mcguire spoke with fans in tampa who have nothing but love for joe in the cubs. Reporter Wrigley Field in chicago is about 1100 miles away from joe maddon restaurant youre in tampa, but fans are still partying like it is 1908 in the bay area cubs win flag typically flies over weekly field in chicago but this morning it was seen across tampa bay Wrigley Field in chicago but this morning it was seen across tampa bay. It is great. Joe maddon has history here in tampa bay leaving the raise in 2015 but there were not any we absolutely love it. He deserves it. Is a great coach. At the end of the day you have to do what is best for you. He had an opportunity that presented itself and he took advantage of it. It was pretty cool to see him in the world series. Im sure they will give him a warm welcome. It is amazing for him. He brought us the world series in tampa. Im not a cubs fan but i was because of maddon. We were excited and it was an team you cheer for, baseball fans here celebrating a historic when for chicago along with her former tampa bay ray. Plans are already Going Forward with the championship parade. It could be as soon as friday. At joe maddons restaurant they host a special happy hour for fans all throughout the world shooting and killing another man. Police tell us they arrested this man here, derek fraser just before 6 30 this morning. Police responded to a shots fired call. When they arrive randolph was dead with the bullet wound to the neck. Police say fraser left the scene but was later arrested without incident. Charges are pending. On the campaign trail, the race for the white house is tightening up. The latest Electoral College map shows donald trump closing the 6 states remain a toss up including our state. They are working aggressively to win votes in florida. Today donald trump will complete a 2 day tour across florida with a rally in jacksonville that he heads up to pennsylvania and North Carolina. The president will also campaign in jacksonville today a couple of hours after donald trump. The president has been campaigning for Hillary Clinton holding rallies in North Carolina and ohio over the past several days clinton will campaign in North Carolina holding rallies in greenville. This is video from a rally she held last night. She is hoping to win that historically red state. Her latest message, imagining a donald trump presidency. Imagine having a president who demeans women, mocks the disabled, insults latinos, africanamericans, muslims, who put people against each other and set of pulling us together. Tim kaine will be in the bay area this weekend holding a concert rally with bon jovi in st. Petersburg saturday night. That event will be on the state theater which is on Central Avenue at 7 pm. Tickets all available are available today and tomorrow. The ballot. Opponents want for the Supreme Court to invalidate the measure arguing it was written to appear prosolar even though it could restrict solar growth by raising cost. Supporters of amendment one called the move political grandstanding say the amendment will protect consumers. Today a barbecue hopes to heal the political wounds of the political season. Kingsford charcoal is holding a bipartisan barbecue to it is from noon until 2. It is in response to the bay area being the focus of negative campaign ads. Research found on average more than 55 negative political ads run per day here. That is more than any other city in america. On sunday morning you will want to tune in for one hour political special right here in news channel 8. Who will break down all the major races final days of the president ial race. It is a special episode of your vote counts 2016 at 9 am. St. Pete mayor and Council Members will unveil the wastewater improvement plan. That big reveal is set to happen at 11 dec 30 this morning. This 11 30 this morning. This comes after millions of gallons of sewage poured out of the holding area into tampa y. Has been dumped into the bank since August August 2015. In Pinellas County if you have underinsured or uninsured damages or losses from hurricane coming, monday, november 28 is the deadline to register to get that assistance from fema. You want to visit disaster assistance. Gov. Nearly 38 million in federal assistance has already been provided. Open Enrollment Period for insurance under the Affordable Care act. Today the university of south florida wants to help. Usf Health Navigators are insisting people with the enrollment in the Health Insurance marketplace. This will continue until 3 00 this afternoon. There you can get Blood Pressure checks and blood sugar screenings. Tampa electric customers will save money next year. Tico is dropping its rate by one in may not be a lot, but every little bit helps. The average monthly bill for customers right now is 106 for customers right now is 106. 22. The decrease it will drop to 104. 68. That is 19 percent below the National Average of 129 a month. Coming up, an important recall this morning in some cases a fire. We will show you which brands and models were talking about. Plus school items keep getting stolen. How this not just how this is not just affecting schools and staff but also you. We sure got our fill of beautiful sunrises this morning. This was sent from debbie in winter haven. It is her birthday so pretty start to her y you know about our sunrise and how cool they will be over the next several days coming up. Te yes on amendment 1. Why are outofstate billionaires attacking amendment 1 . Because amendment 1. Stops. Their. Subsidies. With amendment 1, you dont pay for someone elses solar. Vote yes on amendment 1. Today is National Sandwich they. And yes, that does mean there are places giving out free sandwiches today. It has been a great todays. Free tacos yesterday and free purchase any suburb average will get a free sub and they will donate a meal to feeding americans. National sandwich day is a celebration of the sandwich which is believed to be the namesake of earl sandwich back in the 1700s. Pistol has namesake restaurants. Open in tampa. I love the sandwich because you can do whatever you want. You can go healthy. And it is easy to eat sometimes. Most of the time it is easy to eat. What is going on with the weather . It has been a warm couple of days but pretty. 77 degrees right now with northeast winds at 5 milesper hour. This is such a great you go a little bit above average or a little bit below average it keeps you in the comfortable range. We do have patchy clouds. They are high thin clouds spreading from west to east. At the surface, hour winds are coming off of the atlantic from east to west. Yesterday we were seeing a lot more clouds and rain on around the i 40 i4 corridor. It is not out the question that it would happen today but our rain chances at er 82 at 1 pm, we are a little bit humid around 4 pm but by no means is this july humidity. 80 degrees at 7 pm. A lot of you at that point will head out to Raymond James stadium as the buccaneers take on the falcons. You can watch it here on news channel 8. Were 78 degrees, comfortable and mostly drive. 80 in venice, 80 sarasota. With this patchy cloud cover. Like i said, a few very quick stray showers not out of the question but we are all watching this cold front as it slides to the south. It will not be here tomorrow morning so we will start out a link on a warm on your friday morning. It is not until friday Late Afternoon into the evening when the front passes. It will only bring a 10 percent rain chance with the, but it will bring not cold air but cooler, slightly below average on saturday. It feels cooler especially with that be still pleasant. Dont forget saturday night into sunday morning you get to fall back. That means before you go to bed on saturday night, remember to set your clocks back or your iphone will do it for you. You will get your extra hour of sleep. All next week the summer will rise in our earlier and it is beautiful each day. 8 on your side is looking into missing or stolen items from local schools. Hundreds of thousands of dollars increment is loss were taken and ultimately cost you the taxpayer. Ryan hughes has the story. Stolen and missing items range from Laptop Computers even a golf cart at one local school. We want to School District leaders to find out what they are doing right now to make sure this doesnt happen in the future. Reporter in schools all of the bay area items like Laptop Computers, Musical Instruments and even a lawn more vintage lawn mower vanished without a trace. Each year School Districts listings that disappear. Sometimes it shows up a year later, sometimes it never shows up. We checked with local School Districts and found missing items arent unique to one district over the other. And hillsborough county, dozens of items vanished over a three disappeared from april until june this year. I am surprised there is that much money and equipment being stolen. I think they should do a better job of calculating everything. Hillsborough county has more than 50,000 laptops for staff and students. Each is labeled or engraved with Contact Information just in case they are lost. Other safeguards are in place like a system to check out items, but things still disappear Pinellas County there was nearly 200,000 of missing items in over 2 years. And pasco county equipment price at 800 80,000 was lost or stolen from 2014 to 2015. We wanted to know what School Officials due to protect your tax dollars so we want to the property manager jeff robinson. He says the office prepares a list of missing items every quarter for the school board and must explain what is being again. They demand to know what is missing. Most local School Districts have guidelines in place so items are misplaced. In hillsboro county if an item is stolen, a Police Report must be filed. We reach out to other local districts to get statistics for our story but we have not yet heard back. Topping our consumer news, nearly 3 1 2 million dehumidifiers are being recalled because they can overheat, smoke an this involves dehumidifiers that are sold under more than 50 different brand names including ge, honeywell and sunbeam. The manufacture receive 38 reports of smoke and fire incidents. No injuries are reported. Celebrating the grand opening of their stores. All day tomorrow at all locations you can get a free copy of any size have the 100th location is on brandon boulevard. The grand opening is at 8. All of them over and shakers movers and shakers will be there. Before the official opening the team will build 1000 hoagies for local food banks. The southern part of the bay area, venice just made a great list. Trip advisor named it the best place to travel in november if you want to stay warm and raise money. The price listed is 800 the price listed is 830. If you live or have visited venice, this might not come as a surprise, the beaches, the parks, the shark tooth hunting, it has it all. We cant forget the international chalk festival. It always displays amazing 3d were not talking about venice italy . That would be venice florida. In sports, the buccaneers take on the atlanta falcons. Right now they are 2nd in the nfc south. The falcons our first. Even though the bucs the buccaneers beat the birds in the first they have lost since then. Kickoff happens at a dead 25. You can watch that game right here on news channel 8. Due to the game your favorite nbc catch those tonight. Chicago med will air at 9 pm. Blacklist at 10 00, superstore at 11 and a good place at 11 30. I will be at the buccaneers game. Go buccaneers. We need that win. The 7th game of the world series is really dominating conversations tonight but there music awards. Plus netflix is fanning the flames of a fan series of 2 of tvs most popular shows. Can you tell what they are . We will have that coming up. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, okay . And you can tell them to go f themselves you know, you could see there was you gotta see this guy. Ahh, i dont know what i said, ahh. I dont remember. It was a big night for Country Music. The Country Music association celebrated their 50th awards ceremony. Brad underwood opened the evening with political jokes. Will you accept tonight results tonights results . Yes, if i went. You are not even nominated. Then, no. You are nasty woman. It was a night to remember. The biggest award of the night, entertainer of the year went to stapleton; female vocalists carrie underwood; Lifetime Achievement award dolly parton. For more on the winners in a recap go to wfla. Com. Neck flicks netflix have revived 2 popular tv series. The video theorizes that walter rights blue sky and breaking in the walking dead in notes a distinctive red and black car and 2 characters that may have existed on both shows. Admittedly it is farfetched but still fun. I have not watched the zombie want. I have now watched either of them. The heart walk is in full force. Thousands will be out a week from this saturday. Everyday we are getting closer to our goal of raising 100,000 make more miracles come true. You meet this little guy where heart condition nearly cost him his life. Stories coming up. Try our new cinnamon pullaparts for just 6 bucks. About 25 million americans have already voted in this years election. With only 5 days until election day you are running out of time and the subconscious of the undecided voter. You heard about englands self the european union. This morning it suffered a major setback when the High Court Ruled just hours ago. And there they are, the World Series Champions, the chicago cubs back in the windy city. Ahead were hearing from ben, plus you will take a look at how social media blowup because of there win. Good morning. The game started yesterday but they wanted earlier this morning. It was at. The check on the weather before we get more on that. It was so exciting. I can say after watching a walking up a little early and see the end of it. Freedom plata Freedom Plaza have the fa up out of their hes. We have passing clouds. At this point we have not seen any rain. We did notice a couple of showers that may sneak their way into our area. These temperatures are running above average. 75 clearwater. 80 sarasota. 80 degrees right around dont see a lot of rain drops that is why there is just that 10 percent chance. At 4 pm it will be 84 degrees. We mayci mcleod or 2 right through the evening. By 9 pm were down to 76 degrees and we will be out watching the buccaneers game. 84 today which is above the average of 81. Tomorrow is 82. The cold front will come through tomorrow getting us back to average. New this morning, 2 Us Service Members died in a in the stands during an assault. The raid by us and Afghan Forces killed the 5 taliban fighters including 2 commanders for the insurgency. Both nato and the pentagon are being tightlipped about the operation and those civilian casualties. Across america this morning, opening arguments are underway for the murder trial of a former Police Officer in south carolina. 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