light early sunday morning on park boulevard. he was arrested on dui charges. his attorney says he's remorseful but we learned that he has several traffic violations. jamel lanee' join us us live. they talked about their colleagues, these beloved teachers. >> good evening we learned today that caroline sine is on life support and her passenger sean hankins his back was broken in multiple places. the people who know them are praying for a speedy recovery and they want brice macleod off the streets. >> reporter: today is the first day we're seeing brice macleod in court after he was arrested sunday morning.

counts of serious bodily injury and dui. >> he smashed into two bay area music teachers. caroline sine and sean hankins remain many the hospital. she is on life support and his back is broken in multiple places. >> hankins teaches three days a week at miles elementary. >> we let the staff know what was going on. >> the principal sa to visit him soon. >> now is not the right time. everyone is worried and keeping them in our thoughts and trying to get as much information as we can. >> faculty held a prayer circle at sexton elementary this morning. >> i freaked out and headed directly to the hospital to see the family and talk to the family. >> she needs lots of prayers right now.

of traffic violations. his attorney says the client isn't taking the news well. >> he's remorseful and very sorry to hear about what happened. >> now as for those victims, they remain at bayfront medical center. no change in their condition at last check. more than $4 has been raised. and as for macleod he here on a $50,000 bond. 8 on your side's mark douglas is making sure your money isn't going down the drain because you paid for it. >> the st. petersburg police department believes its needs a -- it needs a new firing range and so does tampa. the combine cost? $12 million. as mark douglas explains tonight. one way or another you paid for it.

plans to borrow the money and tampa says seizures from criminals funded their range. but either way it's a lot of dough to spend on new gun ranges. >> they insist they need a new firing range. >> it is in very poor shape. >> the range is obsolete and duct tape holds it together. >> it's an injustice in the first place. >> but the sticker shock of a $6 million firing range pete's planned $75 million police headquarters. they could train at the pinellas sheriff's range. in fact some do. >> it's their rake and on their -- range and on their time. >> more than a dozen agencies share the range. >> why don't you have a range for the gulf port police department? >> because there's four or five many the county.

million gun range with a bang. tampa wanted its own gun range even though it had low cost access to eight ranges. >> we have anywhere between 24 to 38. >> the hillsborough sheriff's complex is the tage ma hall of training -- taj mahal of training. >> mocked up homes and businesses oeven a jet liner sh -- even a jet liner. agencies sarasota train here. but they say the 26-mile drive takes officers off the street. police officers insist just like tampa they need their own. >> what do you stay to -- say to taxpayers who believe it's a waste of their money? >> it's not. it provides the officers a safe area to come here. would you want to train in these conditions?

police force the question is whether they need to spend nearly $12 million for their own gun ranges when they have access to others. it could buy 16,000 police rifles or 14,000 bullet proof vests. >> they're saying criminal assets financed their gun range not taxpayer dollars. >> but argument could be made that if they're not spending money on that they it on another things. >> you said one way or the other $12 million on the combined ranges. and somebody paid for it. we want to know what you think about this. does every police department need its own gun range you can head to our facebook page and weigh in on our online poll. and new tonight a scary situation for a group of boulders -- boaters caught on camera. four people including a child

boat began to sink on sunday afternoon. when the coast guard arrived they found the boaters clinging to the hull. all four were wearing life jackets. they were pulled from the water and were take on the the station at fort myers beach. and if you've been to a hotel recently check your payment card into. you could have been hacked here's the specific hotels that have been mp the boca raton royal palm in south beach p the weston fort lauder dale. if you have vis itted any of those places -- visited any of those places within the last year keep an eye on your bank statement. here's the video from a circle k. you can see the man walk in and take out a small black handgun he points it at

and takes off running once he gets it. if you know who this guy is you're asked to call the sheriff's office. and polk county officers need help tracking down this guy. he's suspected of stealing deb it cards. -- debit cards. if you recognize him call the polk county sheriff's office. coming up p. taking you inside this multimillion dollar facility in polk county. growing veggies? outerspace the groundbreaking work some researchers are doing on the space station without leaving effort et. temperatures -- earth. temperatures were hot today. not a record but a very hot day. take away that west coast sea breeze and showers and storms offshore. we'll look at the rest of the

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during early voting ballots are printed on demand. more than 1,000 students in polk county are starting the new year in a new school. doors opened today at citrus ridge civics academy in dav enport. curriculum for the students in k through 8 includes community service and volunteering. >> give back to their community. and to understand what the world is all about and be able to connect with their world and connect with just life. and know and do the research ahead of time. >> the cost of the new school? about $43 million. and here's a big reminder for all of us. for the first time in a few months you'll be sharing the months with kids headed back to school so slow down n. polk county firefighters and law

force this morning holding signs to remind drivers to slow down around school zones, school stops, and bus stops. >> take plenty of pictures when your kids go back to school. >> he's a teenager now he doesn't want pictures. my daughter starts later. >> still ahead on news channel 8 feeding future astronauts in space. >> hundreds of miles above us lettuce is growing on the thanks to farmers and researchers.

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right now hundreds of miles above the earth astronauts are growing food made possible because of research in sarasota. >> a sarasota company and farm were picked to help them figure out how to grow food on mars. john rogers takes us closer to the work. >> good evening guys this story makes you think hollywood blockbuster the martianment i can gar -- martian. i can guarantee you they would have loved this. in zero glavty astronauts -- gravity astronauts grew this, lettuce. it never could have been done without the health of sweet grass farms.

worked with nasa to figure out which plants would grow best. he's tested a wide variety of plants including basil and tomatoes. >> this will be one of the same plant that is go to mars. >> they want plant that is pack a mighty punch in a small place. at full bloom this tiny bush can grow 50 cherry tomatoes. >> nasa said this is efficient. >> growing food is more than just planting seeds. >> this is a 70-day product. it's a sarasota based company that's developed a revolutionary type of fertilizer. >> typically you have to reapply every couple of weeks but with this it will continually fertilize the plant for around three months. nasa loves it because

full time farmers. >> it's less waste, and easier on labor for the farmer. >> their work will play a roll in keeping future astronauts alive on their mission to mars. >> for his work on this technology. he has been nominated for possible induction into the space technology hall of fame. reporting in sarasota john rogers news channel 8. we could use some tang on that flight. a pict bay area. this is a picture over tampa bay n. the background a few -- bay. in the background a few low lying clouds. a strong easterly breeze having a cooling effect. believe it or not this time of year it has an effect in keeping areas cooler. that's how we got the 95 degrees. 73 and overcast not a beautiful day in venice.

degrees. hula bay 84 degrees. a northeast wind at six miles per hour. in rio tomorrow 7:00 a.m. 68. 85 at noon. 80 degrees at 4:00. note the celsius temperatures here. maybe a few scattered thunderstorms could help the weather a bit. the international space station at 9:00 tonight a. fairly short trip. 9:35 northwest sky for a pass. san diego the padres in town a rare trip. lingering shower outside. 7:10 for that game if you want to tailgate for that one on a monday. a few showers on an easterly roll. the sea breeze is usually over a land breeze but because it's

there's a collision offshore and the thunderstorms blowing up. to the north a few thunderstorms. weakening at this point. hernando and pinellas fairly quiet. putting on a lightning show standing on the beaches and looking to the west. looking back to the west you see quite a few lightning strikes but offshore and moving away from you. le in manatee county like everything else moving along today in the easterly flow and moving towards sarasota. you might pick that up. potentially the southern part of bradenton. the rain ending mostly sunny skies at 7:00 a.m. but showers can develop around the noon hour as they roll along from east to west at 6:00 p.m. again clouds in the afternoon.

keeps it warm. 87 in brandon. temps to 90. tampa 88. arcadia. same numbers pretty much. partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. there's that flow east to west. the thunderstorms you saw on the local radar imagery. this tropical wave coming off africa. 50% chance of develop nment the next five days. -- chance next five days. a loft dry air in the atlantic. the last couple of year as lot of that. invest 98-l is we're calling this. we'll continue to watch for more thunderstorms across africa and emerge as potential tropical waves. you do see a few scours here

looks quiet overnight but the showers can start with the easterly flow in the late morning hours and trekking to the west. 40% rain chance for us. showers thunderstorms tuesday, wednesday. afternoon primarily but you saw the flow and that's a set up for the next couple of days moving east to west. temperatures hope to be dropped by a few showers and storms. that's the way you hope to cool off this time of year unless you're in your living room >> feels like forever now. >> louisiana just getting hit. better there today but historic rain there. >> and the loss of life there too. and property. coming up in sports the bucs sign a cornerstone player for the offense. and will he or won't he the future of alex rodriguez could he be on the way to the sunshine state?

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sports on news channel 8 is brought to you by your gulf coast honda dealers. the bucs take on the jaguars tonight in jacksonville and we'll see them in practice this week. the bucs had a little problem with contact in the first preseason game in philly starting with kenny bell fumbling on the kick off. dirk cutter told us he's looking forward to facing off against another team this week. >> we're looking forward to getting two days of practice

tuesday and thursday. we really enjoy working against another team. working against new competition. a great day for bucs offensive demar todayson he was signed to a three-year contract extension. gm jason light called him a cornerstone player all though this day may have seem add little doubtful after his knee injury last year. but todayson knows he earned it. >> i came in pair of cleats out here. i had to work myself up. that's what god made me. you got stay humble. maybe if i get things too easy i get unhumble. news channel 8 your official buc's station will bring you the bucs and the jags on saturday night 7:30 p.m. and like the last game we will broadcast the game on the great 38. cable and satellite channels

the tampa bay rays returned home tonight against the padres. drew smiley will be on the hill for rays facing a team he's never played before. could be good news for him though they've never seen him either. they're coming off two and four road swings. the rays home for ten straight games. and to boos and cheers alex rodriguez said good-bye to baseball in new york against espn is reporting that he will be a marlin after he clears waivers. a spokesperson for rodriguez said that he will not be playing for a team this season. saying he wanted to put the rue nors -- rumors to rest. he desperately wants to reach 700 home runs and he needs four more to do it.

in the seats in florida if he came down here. >> some people just want to boo him you know? >> if you're living in florida and look farg place to retire you -- looking for a place to retire you may want to look out the door. tampa and orlando are two of the best. and in fourth place is miami. that puts three florida city miss the top four. -- florida cities in the top four. they took into account many different things. you might want to steer clear of providence and wooser mass because they took the bottom four spots. >> right here. >> we love it. >> the weather. >> the weather, yeah. >> don't go anywhere nightly news is coming your way next followed by steve and jen at 7:00.

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