Clearwater and tampa. Starting off at 75 for apollo beach and lakeland. 76 in sebring. We are looking at patchy fog. Youll notice a couple spot where is the visibility dropped. Inverness down to a quarter mile of visibility in Citrus County. No rain in our area. There are showers back down across the keys. Make sure you have the umbrellas for this afternoon. As we are anticipating some showers and thunderstorms to start developing. Theyll develop in back towards the coast as we go into the afternoon and evening. It is also going to be a hot and steamy weekend. Well look at the temperatures and the very active tropics coming up in a few minutes. Thank you very much. New overnight the fat other of a young boy two died in a hot truck bonded out of jail early this morning. Troy whitaker is charged with aggravated manslaughter after leaving his 23monthold son in his truck for eight hours yesterday. News channel 8 reporter mary mcguire joins us live from the where the father just walked out of jail. Did he have anything to say . Reporter we asked if he had anything to say for himself. He simply responded are you kidding me . He was visibly distraught as he walked out of this jail. He came out once, went back inside, came out again, went back inside again and finally left the jail property after posting 50, 000 bond. We have video of his walk out of the jail that i do want to show you. He came out, went came out again twice before leaving. Authorities believe Hillsborough County firefighter Troy Whitaker had dropped his daughter off at addison Elementary School. His son was left in the car. Authorities believe the boy was left in the car 8 30 to 5 00 in the afternoon. Whitaker even made a run to publix before realizing he had forgotten his son. Act. You have to be responsible for your kids. You cannot leave them in the car for eight hours and let their body temperature get to 108 degrees and they die. Reporter when he finally discovered his son was in the car he began screaming. Neighbors stepped in to perform cpr but to no avail. Troy was arrested and charged with one count of aggravated manslaughter. Since he has posted bond he does not need to make an appearance ion this morning. That was scheduled for 8 00 a. M. Thank you very much. Happening today, Funeral Services will be held for a man shot and killed by a hillsborough deputy. His death sparked outrage across the state including another protest last night in ybor city. Police arrested two demonstrators there. Riggens was killed while deputies served a warrant for a drug investigation. Funeral services will be help today at the center for manifestation on east lake dozens gathered last night at United Methodist church to pray for riggens. The pastor urged questions that those in the Community Need to ask themselves. What are we going to do to have to have them stop coming in the community for the purposes and the reasons why they are coming . See, we have ourselves. Two Hillsborough County sheriffs deputies attend had the prayer service. Also, happening today, officials with fema will visit Citrus County to help assess the damage from hurricane hermine. This visit comes after the county submitted their damage estimates, a jawdropping 1. 8 million. Many roads were flooded and power lines knocked down a week ago. Fema workers will head to app tomorrow to assess the damage there. To separate their trash. The county is asking for storm damage belongings to be put in separate piles. Furniture in one. Building materials in another. Things such as i pipelines in one pile and yard waste in its own pile. Household trash should be disposed of normally. The county will collect tires at the dade city and spring hill facilities on september 25th. In a fight against the zica virus, miami beach authorities are spraying for mosquitoes. Not all residents are happy about it. Le call masks in response to the spraying. They are concerned they might get poisoned. Meanwhile florida senator marco rubio is trying to get congress to approve an antizica funding package. I worked for the better part of two weeks with my colleagues in the senate. I explained the gravity of the situation we face here in south florida and potentially throughout the state and the need to make funding available. Regards to the spraying im totally against it. Get pregnant is against it. We do not want to be poisoned in our own home. We think we should have a say. However, authorities tell us that attacking mosquitoes from the air is considered a very effective way to curb the population. Security firm that hired the pulse nightclub shooter omar mateen is being slapped with a fine by the state. The firm listed the wrong doctor on his psych screening paper work on his application. According to the tampa bay ti the company 150,000. A decade and a half has passed since the 9 11 terror attacks. Tampa fire rescue making sure those lives lost are not forgotten. The fire chief, mayor, Emergency Responders and city officials gathered at the Tampa Firefighters Museum on friday to honor those who died during the attack. Took place 15 years ago. We cant ever forget the 343 firefighters that ran into that building. Yesterdays ceremony was one of many planned nationwide this weekend. We have a complete list of memorials and events in the bay area on our website wfla. Com. Now there is a whole new generation of americans too young to fully understand the pain of september 11th. Survivors want to garrett was a new york city firefighter who rushed towards the burning towers that day. Now retired and living in Lakewood Ranch he believes education about 9 11 is lacking. I think it is very important for the students to know about their First Responders and to respect them. He wants students to learn how america pulled together in the wake of that horrible day. Flour, eggs, butter and metal. Ingredient. Which popular cake mix publix is recalling and why. Bad news for galaxy 7 a consumer alert now. A new warning for those with the samsung gallery note 7 phone. Consumer Products Safety Commission is urging all owners to stop using the phone immediately. After several reports that its lithium batteries are catching fire and even exploding. Now the feds are finalizing a government mandated recall of the phone. Samsung stopped selling the galaxy note 7 while it gets to the bottom of the front. Publix is recalling its apple coffee cakes because of a not so appetizing ingredient. The dessert may contain medal pi they shavings. They have been pulled from the shelves. If you purchased one take it back to the store for a full refund. Chipotle reached a settlement for hundreds of customers sickened by its food. Chipotle spokesperson said the company wanted to do right by its customers. Chipotle suffered problems with e. Coli and the norovirus over the past year. The 15th anniversary of 9 11 is tomorrow. One determined man is on a coming up, the symbolic item he found and the hunt for its owner. Plus your full forecast just a flag found neatly folded on the side of the road. Now the man who spotted it is on a meigs to find the owner. His efforts are grabbing national attention. It is that powerful symbol that news channel 8 reporter john rogers shows us the effort to fine the owner. Reporter on saturday afternoon ted was driving on u. S. 19 when he spotted something odd and pulled over. I saw white stars on the blue field. I thought that sure looked like a foaled flag. Reporter sure enough there it was. Old glory in a triangle form. Simply lying on the side of the road. Glove believes it has been there for a couple hours and probably belonged to a veteran who served our country. Iug somebody. There is a special connection with that flag for somebody. I thought i need to return it. Reporter he wrote a post on facebook. It has since been shared at least 13,000 times. Many people realize that this foaled foal folded flag means a great deal. These triangle folded flags serve an Important Role in symbolic representing principles and sacrifices on which our country is founded. When the flag is finally folded there should be no red showing. Showing that the bleeding is done. Reporter it is a power symbol for a family member. I hope it gets back to to the family. To some people it is a spiritual relationship. Too lose Something Like could be devastating. He heard from all sorts of people wanting to help, including officials at Clearwater Police department and Macdill Air Force base. When the owner is found well let you know. Good morning. We are watching folks taking their boats out near the hula bay restaurant. There is one of the boats heading over tampa bay waters. Looking from venice similar story. Skies and 76. Folks, you are starting your day at lake club it is a beautiful start looking from Lakewood Ranch. We have that slight uptick in the humidity around 92 this morning. Downtown tampa looking good, as well. Starting off at a muggy and mild 79 degrees. Little bit of an east northeast breeze this morning. Your forecast for today, a warm and muggy start at 80 degrees. Getting to 88 by noon today. Well have building clouds, perhaps a few showers far inland. Then storms are pushing back towards the coast later on this evening. Your temperatures red hot at 93 degrees. 80 now for st. Pete. 79 clearwater and tampa. 75 in inverness this morning. Our weather watcher wendy in brooksville reporting 75degree temperature. Right now we have a few clouds developing on the east coast of florida and a few clouds over the gulf. Other than that thats it in in the keys. It is a weak area bringing in showers and thunderstorms this morning. Heres our forecast. Higher humidity and rain chances overall similar to yesterday. Theyll start to form inland and push back towards the west coast of florida. Eventually they start moving out to sea. Watch out for heavy downpours and lightning. Tomorrow similar story. Almost a carbon copy day as the storms form inland and move back towards the coast. Moisture starts to increase as we go that is going to result in anup tick in the rain chances. Today is the peek of your hurricane season. We have three systems we are tracking. One system rolling through the florida traits as that area of low pressure has a 20 chance of development as it heads into the southern gulf over the next couple days. Another system north of puerto rico a 10 chance. This cluster of thunderstorms a depression. Long term it will stay out to sea. College football in full swing. Northern illinois taking on usf in tampa 83 degrees. 91 in gainesville as the wild cat face the gators. Down in miami fau owls taking on the hurricanes 84 degrees. Then ucf they are heading off to ann arbor, michigan. On playing host to charleston southern. Over the next couple days rain chance come back up 50 . Highs in the upper 80s. Today it will be a hot one. 93 degrees. You convinced me to go to the beach this morning. Then head inside and watch the football game. Once it starts to cool off get inside and watch some ball. Thats rights. Thank you very much. It is week three of high school football. Paul ryan have your highlights and scores. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. I know more about isis then the generals do. John mccain, a war hero. Hes not a war hero, hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured ok. How would you answer that father . What sacrifice have you made for your country . I think ive made a lot of sacrifices, built great structures. Ive had tremendous success, i think. Good morning. If you didnt stay up and watch week three of the friday night blitz you missed good stuff. The bay area represented in class 7a with four teams ranked ten, tampa bay tech which came in the night in full confidence. Senior receiver green your prediction. It will be more than two touchdowns. Well try to run up the score 50plus points. Ill take it. Bold move. Lets see if it pays off. Anthony allred has the highlights. Reporter tampa bay tech titans come in the game of week matchup sporting brand new jerseys for the first time this season. Will the new gray look help them avenge last years loss . I dont know. To the highlights we go. You know the friday night blitz is on and popping when the tampa bay tech titans cheerleaders are leading the way. Meanwhile down on the field titans quarterback michael penn completing more than 50 of his passes this season. From the gun, penn looking left his first touchdown of the season. Titans next possession. Penn rolls left and puts hall in stride and no one is going to catch him. And look here, look here, titans defense owens getting his first pick six of the season to put the tech titans up 270. Just like catches wild cats sleeping. Just like that it is 330. Just when the wild cats were in striking distance pig skin gone wild. This is a fumble the wild cats never recovered from. Just like a hat on graduation day, penn is going up in the air 60something yards to green. The tech titans shut out the wild cats and stay undefeated 2 ensealred news channel 8 sports. Red devils were shut out on opening day at lake gibson. They took on George Jenkins last night. This is a 4th and 8th play. Whitehead to zimmerman. This was a rough night for the eagles defense. White there is head was 4th and one. They push him back. That was an easy measurement. Didnt even have more to saley down the sideline he goes. 75yards for the touchdown. Capping a big win. 497. He has size 11s. If they were size 12s he is out of bounds. Exactly. A lot of kids on the sideline at burkeley prep. It is like lord of the flies out there. Where are the parents . Quarterback of burkeley and his expect them to be. They are a tampa bay power couple there. They got to witness the first touchdown of the game. Like Michael Jackson he wont stop until he gets enough. Later the cougars get a drive together. Tristin has 1st down. Cutter rolls to the right. Dont throw back across your body. Your dad is watching and he is impressed. Zach mathis makes the catch. Hold up. Offensive pass interference. Bring it back. No problem says cutter. End zone fake. Stetson hauls it in. Berkley prep wins 147. Good games coming up later thank you for watching. Have a great saturday thank you very much. Two million phony accounts created by wells forfargo. Just ahead what customers need to know to find out if you have been impacted. Mold found in bay area classrooms. Hear how the schools ceo isnt im really good at war. I love war in a certain way. Including with nukes, yes including with nukes. I know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. Nuclear, just the power the devastation, is very important to me. I want to be unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable. Good morning. Im melissa moreno. Thank you very much for joining us. We are following breaking news this morning. The mother of baby chance walsh who was found dead last year is dead this morning. She killed herself in her jail cell. Baby chance was found murdered in october last year. Ci her husband beat and killed their 9monthold son, chance, last september and she helped bury her baby in the woods. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison. She was back in sarasota for Court Proceedings last week not related to the murder. We are going to check on your forecast with ed. Good morning. Good morning. We are starting off very quiet this morning. Just a few high, thin clouds over Citrus County. Winds fairly calm generally east to northeast over the last couple of days. That will hole true for today. Another steamy day ahead. Temperatures hit 95 yesterday in tampa. That tied a record. I think well make it to 93 this afternoon. Again, well have a very quick rise in temperatures. Well be breaking quite a sweat later today. There is the model. As we go through time here things fairly quiet through noon or 1 00. Then well get into a few isolated showers and thunderstorms to start forming. Theyll all start this afternoon. Your headlines for today. Higher humidity, mugginess starts to increase as moisture gets back into tampa bay. Thats actually going to lead to increasing rain chances into next week. Then for the weekend, looks to stay fairly warm. Low to mid 90s. Those temperatures start to dial back as we go into next week. We get closer to average. Well talk all about your weekend forecast. Also a detailed check of the tropics coming up in a few minutes from now. Hot truck bonded out of jail early this morning. Troy whitaker is charged with aggravated manslaughter after leaving his 23monthold son in his truck for eight hours yesterday. News channel 8 reporter mary mcguire is joining us live from the Pinellas County justice center. The father just walked out a jail a bit ago. Did they have anything to say . Reporter we asked him if he had anything to say case or for himself, he simply replied are you kidding me . He came out of jail, saw the media was here, came out, went back in, came out and finally left the third time. The sheriff tells us his son had to be in the car for eights hours eight hours and died before 4 30 in the afternoon her Elementary School and was supposed to drop off the boy at daycare. Instead the young boy was left in the car from 8 30 in the morning until late in the afternoon. With lawson still trapped into his car seat behind the drivers seat whitaker made a run to publix before realizing he had forgotten his son. People who live in the palm harbor neighborhood are distraught. It reinforces you need to spend as much time as you can with your kids. Because you never tragedy will strike. As a dad and seeing a child who was just learning my name, who would wave to me daily, calls for me and runs over to me. Reporter when whitaker finally discovered his son was in the car he began screaming. Neighbors stepped in to perform cpr but to no avail. Troy was arrested and charged he was scheduled to make an appearance before the judge this morning in the dhows at 8 00 a. M. Since he posted bond he no longer has to appear in person. It is a tragic heart breaking story. When he bonded out and jail and walking out he was visibilitily very distraught and very upset. Thank you very much. Now an update to an 8 on your side investigation. Testing confirms there is mold at Plato Academy in largo. Parents and teachers got the answer they have been waiting for. The company, pure air, found moisture problems in the air ducts and floors. At first the founder tried to explain himself. Now he is backing down just a bit. I said all along that there is no mold. When you say there is no mold it means there is no mold of significant level to be harmful. No Immediate Health concerns were found. Many parents tell us their kids have gotten sick. We also found out that no one over this problem. St. Petersburg waterfront is taking a big hit right now because of sewar water being dumped into the bay. So far millions of gallons of sewage have been dumped. 8 on your side has been digging for answers to find out where this is happening. Right now people in gulf port and other areas are being advised to stay out of the water due to bacetria levels. The last Tropical Storm they dumped raw sewa the administration building. So you wont go in the water . No. Ill go fishing and eat the fish but i wont wade in the water. It is not safe. State representative peters wants to pull together local leaders to find out how to prevent this from happening again. We have new information on an 8 on your side consumer alert. We told you about thousands of wells fargo employees getting fired for setting up fake accounts and credit cards. Customers into paying millions in fees in services. 8 on your side josh benson shows us what customers need to know. Reporter credit card accounts opened, late fees charged. Customers never having a clue. Some of the findings into a massive investigation into wells fargo. At one time i had 15 accounts at once. It was very frustrating. I never opened them. Reporter wells fargo employees opening 1. 5 Million Bank Accounts and half a requested by customers. I would have a ten dollar fee, a 15dollar fee each month on each account. It adds up. Reporter a los angeles lawsuit alleging in some cases money was moved between accounts without customers knowledge. Every Consumer Needs to trust their bank. No bank should take advantage of their customers. Reporter wells fargo ordered to pay 185 million in fines. This week saying the bank has involvement in the scam. In a statement the bank saying. Wells fargo now ordered to pay customers back in full. The unauthorized opening of accounts in your name maybe using fraudulent email addresses or pins is shocking conduct. Reporter a case shaking trust in the worlds lat reporting. If you are wondering if you have been affected you have more information at wfla. Com. A texas Mattress Store is closed indefinitely after backlash for its ad promoting a 9 11 twin tower sale. The ad shows two stacks of mattresses piled and then collapsing to the ground. The store manager received death threats. She swears she didnt realize it would cause this kind of controversy. Sent out. And we apologize for our stupidity. We really hope you forgive us for what we have done. The store owner plans to announce how the company will handle this mistake next week. Happening today, in light of the recent death of actor gene wilder the tampa theater will host a special showing of willy wonka and the chocolate factory. The World Without wilder in it. Tampa boat show is happening this weekend at the Tampa Convention center. Visitors can view, board and enjoy oneofakind deals on hundreds of boats including fishing boats, sailing boats and yachts. It runs 10 00 to 8 00 today. And 10 00 to 6 00 tomorrow. A lot of folks will be looking forward to that. Yeah. I want a yacht. Big dreams here. Not worry about the fishing boat just go to the yacht . We have been seeing a lot of folks taking their boats out. Perhaps if you are out there enjoying tampa bay waters send us in a couple of photos. This is from yesterday at lake placid. This is mango lake. Make sure you send photos our way. Facebook and twitter we enjoy all of your weather photos. Marco. Polo. Marco. Polo. Marco. Marco . Marco . Or doesnt show up. Im Patrick Murphy. Solving problems means showing up. Showing independence. And working together. Its why i worked to protect Womens Health care and worked with both parties to stop cuts to medicare. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message because florida needs a fulltime senator. Marco . Appetites. Even a small one can throw you off your game. And they only get bigger as time goes on. Serve foster farms, a corn dog with 7 grams of protein makes a big appetite go away. Foster farms for monster appetites. Bay heart walk each week we are featuring the stories of local Heart Disease and stroke survivors. Today it is becky grime. She is a 30yearold stroke victim who described the moment her life changed forever. News channel 8 reporter Stacie Schaible has more. I hit the floor. You fell . Inexplainable. I didnt feel bad. I didnt feel anything. I just hit the floor. Reporter five years ago when becky was 30 years old suffer suffered a massive stroke saturday morning while waiting tables. A coworker caught her just before she hit the ground. He said becky what day is it . I kept answering him. There were no words. Reporter after being rushed to the hospital doctors went through an artery in beckys leg to break up a clot in her brain. The stroke affected beckys id have to speak like this. In order make myself understood. Reporter her recovery would take a long time. And her matter, carol, was there every step of the way. She was always thinking left foot, no right foot. Reporter three years later it happened again. This time at her parents house. Becky suffered a second stroke. Which is a stroke of no known ca another . Some days. Some days i do. But most days i dont. Reporter becky went on to earn her mba and works full time at tech data in st. Petersburg. I feel very bless had the i got two extra chanced in life. Because of people like becky news channel 8 is committed to raising 100,000 for this years heart walk. Generously matched. Every dollar you donate really counts as two. Please join stacie and the rest of the wfla team november 12th at Raymond James stadium. Go to wfla. Com heart walk for details. The weekend officially here. The sun is up. And so far it is looking good this morning. We are starting off with lots of sunshine out there. Looking from veterans ford in tampa. Veterans expressway starting to see a li overall not too bad this morning. 77 at that location. From palm harbor there will be a lot of folks out there this morning getting in 18 holes on the golf course. 76 degrees in palm harbor. Looking from lakeland, we had low clouds in some areas and patchy fog. Bear that in mind, you may run into reduced visibility if you are heading out early this morning. Overall it is not too bad this morning. 77 polk county. Supply of sunshine for the first half of the day. By noon clouds Start Building up. And a very steamy conditions. Well have a hot afternoon up to 93. Well have some of those isolated thunderstorms. Theyll form inland and then push back towards the west coast of florida as we progress into the Late Afternoon and the evening. Current temperatures 77 fishhawk. 74 if you are watching us inwymoma. 74 zephyrhills. 80 st. Been coming up. Earlier this week these were below average. It was resulting in pleasant feeling air out there. Now we are back to the humidity. Eventually that will lead to higher rain chances over the next couple of days. For today we have High Pressure overhead. Which has been limiting our rain chances a bit. An area of low pressure to the south well keep our eyes on. There is your forecast. As we go throughout the day today, overall very similar to thunderstorms form inland, push back towards our coastal communities. Generally west of i75 as we go into the Late Afternoon and evening. Similar story for your sunday. A dry start. A warm day. Again those storms starting to move back towards the coast. By monday, i think the pattern will continue. But i think well see a better coverage of showers and thunderstorms as more moisture comes our way. Today marks the peek of your hurricane season. Right on cue we have three systems. We have an invess florida straits. It has a a 20 of development. Another one in puerto rico has a 10 chance of development. This system in the atlantic will likely become a tropical depression in the next 24 hours. That will stay out in the atlantic. Highs will cool down in the 80s. Make sure you stay hydrate Fire Department you are heading to you are head hydrated out 15 years later and we are still reflecting, rebuilding and asking questions. Coming up, how our country has been reshaped by the 9 11 terror attacks and a glimpse back into that horrifying tomorrow will mark 15 years sense the 9 11 attacks. Nearly 3,000 people lester holt looks at how our country has been reshaped by the horrible events. Reporter it is a question we still ask where were you that day . Holly was 13 and at home in new york when america was attacked. I saw the smoke. It was surreal. It made me feel afraid to go army, specialist is about to deploy to afghanistan 15 years after the war on terror began. It is nerve racking. Im confident it is going to be a good experience for me. I can go there and help out with the mission. Reporter continuing u. S. Mix in afghanistan is one of the lingering reminders of september 11th. That day changed all of us. It changed america and it changed the world. Reporter andy card was chief of staff for president george w. Bush at the. Eleven words which would change the course of history. I leaned over and whispered in his ear, a second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack. Reporter president bush, after brief stops in louisiana and nebraska returned to washington that evening. That was its like when you got back to the white house that night . The fog of war was still real. There was a high degree of concern. Where there other attacks a president , to protect us. Reporter the white house fundamentally had to reimagine the nations security. Did you have any sense of what that would entail . There was no blueprint. There was no architecture or no design. Reporter agencies like the coast guard were realigned. Others were born like the tsa. The department of Homeland Security was formed with secretary ridge at the helm. Americans came to ar colorcoded terror alert system. Phrases like see something Say Something became part of our venacular. The job prior to 9 11 was to keep you safe. There was a new level of alert. And a new level of commitment in a post9 11 world. Reporter that world influided fighter jets Airport Security lines, patt pat downs to stadiums. Today Osama Bin Laden is dead. We speak of the isis threat not al queda. Americans like alton are still deploying to afghanistan. My the biggest motivation is my wife and my family. I do this for them. To protect them. And my predecessors who hurt so much for me to be here right now. Reporter yes, that september day, we also ask are we safer . You were there at the beginning. 15 years later you look around you. Do you feel like we are all still living lessons of 9 11 or moved past it . I would like to think that we have convinced ourselves that we are resell cent as advertised. We are not going to sacrifice our civil liberts or privacy understood and they never will understand, is america is not going to surrender their freedom. Because we just dont live in fear. My son has meningitis b. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were no vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can s a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about all the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing like. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. A new unique way Virginia Tech students can get their burrito fix. Thats by drone. How cool is that . Service starts next week for a the program is Experimental Service to evaluate the accuracy of drone navigation and peoples responses. They deliver everything by drone now. Naturally why not add burritos to the list . Looking good over at the beach. 80 degrees. Hot today at 93. Isolated afternoon storms. Thank you very much for good morning. On the attack. The war of words with Hillary Clinton and donald trump ramping up with some of the nasty jabs yet. She could walk into the an right now and shoot somebody right in the middle of the heart and she would not be prosecuted. You could put them in the basket of deplorable. Islamaphobic and xenophobic. You name it
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