That youre looking at from the still active scene. All of this started with a domestic disturbance call into the Police Department. And we will have a live report for from you the scene on what minutes. A busy morning. Here. You can barely see. For the second time this week, the Sunshine Skyway bridge is closed. Again, the Sunshine Skyway bridge is closed. Your commute. This is a lilive look at the Traffic Camera that shows the big cloud of fog just hanging over bridge. And officials are telling us that visibility in the area is less than 100 feet. So lets get right to meteorologist leigh spann withth more on this fog again. Yes, and its interesting because the vast majority of you watching today will not have fog when you head out the door. In fact, this is the visibility map. Most of you can see for miles. And now theres some low hanging clouds just up off the surface. You may not be able to see the see the car in front of you. Just when you zoom right here to the Sunshine Skyway bridge, the clouds have lowered enough to obscure your visibility. And thats why they have closed the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Other another than that, the map is green, 72 in plant city. 70 in clearwater. 71 bradenton. For most of us, some fog is going to burn off by 8 00 a. M. Cant promise the same thing for the Sunshine Skyway bridgege where that marine fog could last longer. By 3 00 p. M. , warm and partly cloudy at 81. 75 at 8 00 p. M. , just a 10 rain chance. And in weather and traffic on the 8s, i have the rain chance forecast because the rain chances are going up. And leslee has the commute thats going to be a long one for a lot of folks. Where is st. Patrick . He is busy out in hillsborough county, maybe polk county. He hasnt sprinkled any dustst on the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Very unlucky drive, folks. Sunshine skywayay bridge closed down. In fact, we have meliek on the street and he is down where it is closed. And now he is on the pinenellas county side. And you can see its very foggy out there. Leigh said, this is basically the only area where youre seeing some intense fog. But it is closed. So what does that mean for you on the drive . It means you gogot to take i75 which is a long detour. So you want to leave the house early and i will keep you posted and let you know as soon as it reopens. Back to adrienne and gene. Thank you, leslee. Now lets go back to the showing you. So right now, tampa police are ininvestigating a Deadly Police shooting. We know this is happening on cherokee avenue so thats east of himes avenue just south of baballast point boulevard. Tampa area. And lets turn things over to news channel 8s ryan hughes who has been at the scene now digging for about two hours trying to get more information. And ryan, from what were hearing and youre sharing with us, this sounds like a scary, reporter exactly adrienne. An hour. We will zoom in to show you the home in question along cherokee avenue here in south tampa. At this hour, you can see a number of Police Officers still onscene. We are told the call for help came in around 1 10 a. M. A domeststic violence situation between a man and woman. The man began Walking Around armed with a hand gun. And he eventually went back inside. And Police Officers in the Tactical Unit tried to coax hihim outside for around 45 minutes and calling his name on a a pa system. And he walked out onone more time striking a protective shield held by a Police Officer. The officers returned fire, hitting and killing the man. This was obviously a very tense situation but were told these officers are lucky to be alive. Listen here. Sir, do you consider this a close call for the officers onscene this morning . Look at the shield, it is actually very scary. It is virtually in the center of the shield. You can see there was a clear testify shield. Shield. Reporter and imagine if the officers did not have that shield. This is another live look at the scene right now. Hurt. The woman involved in the uninjured. The officers involved at this point, we know at least one, likely more, they are on administrative leave while the shooting is being investigated but adrienne, again, a very morning. You know, ryan, im sure the officers are so thankful that they were prepared and had that shshield. Thank you. We will check back soon. In the meantime, to stay on top of breaking news like this, no matter where you are, any time of day, just download our news channel 8 app to your smart phone. New overnight, a car plows througugh a tampa home in the middle of the night as the driver of the car tried to get hires how it all went down. Investigators report the car mulberry street north and no one in the house was hurt. However, there were two people arrested. Its 6 06. The first case of the zika virus contracted inside the country is confirmed this morning in cuba. Again, zika in cuba. Hospital. Were just getting detatails on this. Thisis is coming just days before president barack obobamas trip to the island nanation. Now reports are telling us a 21 yearold havana woman is infected with the virus. And we are told she had not traveled outside of cuba. This makes cuba one of the last nations in the hemisphere with do mystically contracted cases of the virus known with the confirmed case contntracted in the country. Josh thomas joins us from the lake whales Police Department. Where do things stand right now . Reporter we know that all five of them are facing charges. Now the arrest of the suspects by lake whales police peaked the interest of other Police Departments following a rash of purse snatchings over the past week from manatee toto here in polk county. And momost of the incidents hahave happened in the parking lots of supermarkets. The mo for the suspecect, first they basically y go up to the victims as theyey load their vehicles or as they are sitting inside the vehicles. A woman named kathy who did not want her face shown on television explained the fear that she is now facing. I keep reliving it. Its like a daily occurrence. Im continuing to say, okay, i got robbed. Reporter now yesterday after the suspects struck for they had been using was spotted and then stopped here in lake whales. Police took five males in the jeep into custody including one adult and four minors. Ththose five people have been questioned all night here at the lake whales Police Department to find out if theres any connection between all of those purse snatchings throughout manatee and polk counties. We know that a 19yearold of eagle lake has been charged with grand theft auto. Those four minors all from lakeland are also facing other charges. Gene all right, a reminder to always be aware of our surroundings, josh. Thank you. In just a few hour, we will get a fresh look at the new st. Petersburg pier. This morning pier design team will show a mod toll the city council during a workshop. The new plan for the old pier is calleled pier park. The workshop starts at 8 00 at city hall. The weather. Today you may not want to be on much. Yeah, over the gulf of seeing sea fog is high. The rest of us just low clouds. No fog when you look at the the map there. But when you zoom down here once again to o the Sunshine Skyway bridge, those low clouds have become ththick fog and have bridge. Now the rest of us, not along the immediate coastline, will see the clouds this morning temperatures to climb. 76 degrees at noon. 79 at 2 00 p. M. 81 at 4 00. And still a warm 77 degrees at 7 00 p. M. On this st. Patricks day. Is it going to be a lucky day . For most of us, yes, warm with a 10 rain chance. If you have to travel the Sunshine Skyway bridge, an unlucky day. Best rain chance saturday and early sunday. And by the way, sunday is the first day of spring. We actually get cooler as we head into spring, believe it or not, because the rain chance goes up to 30 on friday and 50 saturday. We will chececk on the unlucky drive into work this morning for some of us. I know. St. Paddys day, i must have theres a little green. But its a mess. If you have to use the Sunshine Skyway bridge, i feel for you because depending on where you live and where you work, its going to take you a while to get there. Weve got meliek on the street out there. He is over here at the southern Pinellas County side. And he says that people are actually being turned around. So maybe not everyone is watching the news this morning. You head out the door and waste more time getting down there because you have to turn around. Stick with me all morning and i will let you know as soon as it reopens. And that means that 75 is your only viable alternate. Its a a long alternate. A long detour, i know. But thats it. Some unlucky st. Paddys day for you this morning. Thats a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to adrienne and gene. All right, leslee, we know you will keep us updated. Thank you. The government is fighting another major tech company. Yeah, coming up, who they could end up suing and why. And then meet the local house trained gator. He likes to cuddle. Ahead, the reason wildlife officials are now considering whether he must be forced out of his comfortable home. And an ironic and tragic vo making the most o out of impreza. Love. Its what makes a subaru, right now, the subway system in the nations capitol is finally back open. Certainly a sigh of relief for the people there. The shut down lasted about a day, if you can believe that. What a nightmare for commuters. And earlier, crews uncovered potential safety issues on the tracks affleckty cal fires. Tracks after electrical fires. Frank sinatra, jr. Died of daytona beach. We were expecting him to sing st. Petersburg. So our thoughts and prayers with his family. Yeah. Lets turn our attention over to louisiana where thousands of people are suffering ththrough record setting rain and lots of now Emergency Responders are joining forces with the soldiers are handing out bottled water and they delivered a thousand flood buckets filled with cleaning supplies. And louisiana Law Enforcement officers are busy protecting flood victims from looters. New this morning, one person is dead and 35 others are hurt after this, a construction site collapsed. You can n see rescuers here. Its happening in chinina. Lets take a clososer look at the video. Crews were work try to save the victims. Nobody was trapped in the accident but doctors believe that falling debris did hit a lot of people. Now were getting more details about why a fellow inmate attacked former subway pitch man and convicted pedestrian foal jared fogle. We know the attacker gave fogle a swollen face, scratched neck and bloody nose. According to document, it happened in january. And the other inmate explains he was angry because so many child sex predators are housed 10. A threealarm fire sparked at a plant that makes plastic. Accident. All eight employees working in the building in birmingham, alabama were able to get out safely. Officials report the fire stararted in the workshop area where fiberglas molds are made. And only one part of the building was damaged. And now an 8 on your side alert you need to know about. Billions of dollars in expensive medicines used to fight cancer thrown in the trash. Its all because of a onesize fitsall dosage. Researchers examined the top selling cancer drugs. Doses are determined by a patients weight. But right now, companies are selling the medications in one or two sizezes and thats it. Meaning theres usually left over medicication. We are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars for nearly every drug we looked at going in the trash. Thats a lot. U. S. Need to offer more sizes and that it shouldnt break the bank to make those different sized viles. The u. S. Government is taking on another battle with one of the Biggest Tech Companies in the world. Yeah. The app is designed so no one the company. And now the government claims its a problem. Everything you type cant be read until the person on the receiving end of the message opening it. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg believes securing communications is how the technology is evolving. I dont think requiring back doors into encryption is either going to be an effective way to increase security or is really the right thing to do. Well the department of justice has not decided whether it will sue the company. A lakeland woman is fighting to keep her pet alligator. You heard that right. Marathon has had rambo for 10 years mary thorn has had rambo for 10 years. Remote and likes to cuddle. Thats more than most human, come on. She got a license for him years ago when he was just a couple feet long. But the fwc recognized a problem during a recent routine visit. He said, how tall is he . And we measured him and thats where it started. Her face is right there. So she needs 2. 5 acres of property to keep a gator thats rambos size. An expert insists that the life style is not healthy and worries he could bite someone. She claims he has never snapped and she hopes she can keep him. And there she is just opening temperatures very mild. We have a layer of clouds. And a layer of clouds just up off the surface. So youre driving around and you can see the car in front of having said that, im going to zoom over the Sunshine Skyway bridge where the clouds have lowered enough that theres actually visibility issues which is why they have closed down the bridge due to the extremely thick fog. Basically a cloud thats lowered on top of it. Not very widespread. And once that low clouds and fog burn off though, we warm up to 76 at noon. 81 at 3 00 p. M. A warm day for your st. Patricks day. 7 in plant city. 70 in clearwater. 71 in bradenton. And i checked in with big monkey in Crystal Beach who says 70 degrees this morning. The long range forecast, its going to stall to the north today which is why i left in a 10 rain chance. But i dont think many of you will see rain. And for tomorrow, the front gets closer so i bumped the rain chance up to 20 to 30 . And im momore concerned with saturday with this area of low pressure coming off the gulf of mexico. Keeping our rain chance 50 saturday. Early sunday, there could be and we actually see a significant cool down. A high on monday just 6 8 degrees. And monday night into the 40s. Leslee, lets check on the Sunshine Skyway bridge. All right, its still closed and now another problem, folks. This is in the wimauma area, possible fatal crash. We have all lanes blocked d here on state road 674 right at carlton lake road. A collision. We have live wires that are down in lanes. And again, both directions here of 674 are blocked. Heres your alternate. Its your detour. Wimauma up to owens road. Allow for an extra 15 minutes here. And of course, the Sunshine Skyway bridge still closed. Lets go to meliek on the street. He is out there and you can see the fog. And you can see all the emergency vehicles. Youre not getting by, folks, not going to be able to cross it right now. What does that mean for you . You have to take 75 instead. So leave the house early. Updated throughout the morning, not a reregular vehicle. Thats a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to adrienne and gene. Maybe you haveve a bad back or youre always in a rush, maybe you just dont want to do it anymore, there are many reasons you might be tired of tying your shoes. Or maybe youre just lazy. But nike now has the answer. The new shoe people will be lining up for this yearar. Some news from nike this morning. Soon we wont have to tie our shoes anymore because thats hard. The company just debuted its first selflacing shoe. There it is. It even gross a little. You just slip your foot in and the heel hits the sensor and you can adjust the laces by pressing a button. The sneaker is coming our way for the Holiday Season this year. But only for members of the weather and traffic on the 8s in three minutes. Thats right. In the next half hour, you really need to see this dramatic video of a police chase. It ends in flames. We will show you more. And then it took 60tons of clay to make it happen but mlb officials now say its time to play ball. When the Tampa Bay Rays will play their historic game in cuba. On this st. Patricks day, even emoji man is wearing his green hat. Wear Something Green today. When you send the kids to the bus stop, theres fog possible but its not widespread. Its over the Sunshine Skyway bridge which has shut it down. 81 this afternoon. Only a a 10 rain chance. And look at the cooler days ahead, next week, highs in the a possible fatal crash out here. Serious injuries involved, state road 674 closed both road. You arare detoured around it. And we have a new crash, fouler and at nebraska and of course the Sunshine Skyway bridge closed down. Take 75 inststead. Its 6 30. Welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gene ramirez. And im Adrienne Pedersen in for gayle this morning. We start with breaking news. So tampa police fired at overnight. And now the man with the gun, gene s dead. Yeah, lets go straight to news channel 8s rye gene, hes dead. Yeaeah, lets go straight to news channel 8s ryan hughes. It began with a domestic disturbance call. Reporter gene, good morning to you. That is how this all started around 1 10 a. M. When a man or woman called 911 alter case. And Police Arrived that the home on cherokee avenue here in south tampa. That was roughly 15 minutes later. And thats when the man began Walking Around and he appeared to be armed with a hand gun. He went back into thehe home and Police Officers tried to coax him out for around 45 minutes. E eventually walked baback into the carport and thats when police told us he fire minutes. He eventually walked back into the carport and thats when when police told us he fired. Officers returned fire hitting and killing the