>> right now on newschannel8 at 5:30. >> the hunt is on for two brazen burglars caught on camera stealing from a business in a quiet bay area community. i'm jennifer leigh. >> i'm josh benson. thanks for being with us. surveillance cameras were rolling as two bold burglars broke into a mom and pop diner and the who men were in before highland deputies were able to stop them. john rogers breaks it down frame by frame. >> reporter: good evening. when you look at this surveillance video, you will see how confident and quick these crooks were. it didn't matter that a surveillance camera was right in front of the door. just before 4:00 thursday morning these two men simply breakthrough the glass and walk inside market 27 in avon park. >> we found a spark plug out

glass. >> reporter: john is sadden to see these guys steal from him and his hard working family. they tug and kick to get the cash drawers out. >> it pains me to see somebody destroying our property like this. >> reporter: the two men wandered through the store trying to take every cash drawer they could find. >> one of them turns the lights on. oddly enough. >> reporter: in less than three minutes, they successfully steal three cash drawers and run out into the darkness. >> of course, and sort of hurt. who wouldn't feel that way? >> reporter: avon park is a quiet community and the workers here could have never expected this to happen. >> we treat our customers with respect. why they would come in here and do something like that, we don't know. >> reporter: market 27 is is a popular local hangout run by a kind hard working family. >> they are real nice.

hopes these brazen bandits are caught. the store owner tells me he now playen to upgrade his surveillance system and add bars to the front door. he says it is unfortunate he has to do this. that is not the image he wants to portray but he has to do it to protect the business. reporting in avon park, john rogers, newschannel8. if you have any information on these two burglars, call the highlands county sheriff's office. market 27 is also offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest. we are continuing to whether it could make for a wet stormy weekend in the bay area. steve jerve joins us now with this latest track. steve? >> well, generally for the weekend, we will see enhanced rain chances. a little higher than normal. still not a blowout by any means. as a matter of fact, the system is not organized into a tropical depression yet and that's good news. the longer it takes to do that, the longer it will take to organize. so, you can find the center, go

try to look for the counterclock wise rotation. one thing we saw about it, there were thunderstorms toward the center. that is not saying much. because yesterday, we were very far apart from the center. mostly on the eastern side, you can see the general progression is to the west. that will help to increase the moisture at the very least. hurricane hunter aircraft flying out of the macdill air force base did determine winds of 28 miles an hour. flew around the very area you were just looking at. not seeing a lot. obviously, there's thunderstorms on the eastern then again, seeing land interaction. wind shear and dry air. the all-important spaghetti computer models, we try to get a conssus. they have been trending further to the west and gaining strength in the gulf of mexico. once it clears the florida straits, warmer waters, lower wind shear for the system itself. so, the weekend weather overall, 92 degrees on saturday. 91 on sunday. the rain chances do get progressively higher each day. and should this area of low

mexico and perhaps strengthen a little bit, the flow patted earn will help to increase the atmospheric moisture and enhance our rain chances but for the weekend, we are just fine. we will see the typical summer weather. >> thank you steve. you can track the weather any time using the storm team 8 weather max app. we have stunning details into the accidental shooting of a florida woman during a police gun demonstration. the bullet that killed old mary wnowleton stored in the same area as blank ammunition. now, live and blank ammunition will no longer be stored together and live am ammunition will be banned during training exercises. >> you will secure all weapons.

leave. the home sharing industry is a multimillion dollars operation and it is also one identify with allegations of racism. but, a new company with bay area ties is hopeing to change that. rod carter is live in tampa with a look at what this start- up is trying to do. rod? >> reporter: simply put, they are trying to curb the growing statistics we have seen. complaints from people of color tries to rent vacation homes. they say they are trying to route out racism. but this new company is trying things out from a different company. >> reporter: a global start-up company is working to change the experiences people have with vacation rentals. >> i don't think there was one moment. >> reporter: zakia myers is the cofounder of inclusive. >> i'm a world traveler and so

the same. and, i was constantly hearing complaints about what they were going through on other home- sharing sites. >> reporter: namely airbnb who has come under fire for discriminatory practices. >> because people were looking at profile pictures and taking actions because of them or looking at names and making assumptions, travelers were getting sophisticated. >> in a place a series of technical mechanisms that will stop that. >> the profile, further into the transaction process. so after you have done it. >> reporter: making sure a host homeowner understands the consequences of randomly rejecting a renter. >> i'm a homeowner. i have the right to decline your request. but no one can now book for you for the same dates that you requested initially. >> reporter: three days or three weeks, they want to make

a vacation home remains inclusive. and, you may ask yourself just how big of a business this is. well, i did some checking online. found some statistics. last year, 10.3 million people rented homes through these home sharing websites and networks and they are expecting that number to grow to 2019. they are expecting it to triple by then. >> my husband and i do it. my friends do it. it has become the new normal. >> when can people start using this new company? >> reporter: they are in town. everybody is in town for several workshops to get everything together and continue their processing. so next month, they hope to launch. >> rod carter live for us. thanks rod. now to an 8 on your side consumer alert. it may be soon be harder for a thief to steal your iphone and actually get away with it. apple filed a patent application to capture

fingerprints, video, selfies. thieves would be sent to a server and police could use the server to find the culprits. apple, target, facebook, 26 other u.s. companies announced they signed onto the white house's equal pay pledge. it include as promise by employers to analyze pay by gender on a yearly basis. according to u.s. census reports, women earn 79 cents for every dollar men in similar companies are analyzed. women earn 9 5 cents for every dollar their male colleagues earn. still ahead, fans will get their first look at the newly renovated raymond james stadium. >> we will show you some of the improvements and dan lucas will preview the bucs browns game. >> and we will introduce you to a player who is not from the bay area but is a member of the newschannel8 family. >> we'll have that and more

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>> we are counting down the preseason home game. the stadium has unveiled new renovations for fans enjoyment. >> to let's send it out to dan lucas. >> reporter: a lot of anticipation here. not because of the fancy new

the most important one, the starters pay the majority of the game. particularly on defense. which has had a great preseason. five quarterback sacs. five interceptions. what can this side of the ball do through an entire half? we will see. i talked to lavonte david on practice to get his thoughts. >> very curious. we have to come out and hit the we will be able to rebound. we have to stay consistent as much as we can. >> reporter: we expect the starter to go into the third quarter. dan lucas, newschannel8 sports. >> all right, thank you dan. while you are watching the pewter pirates tonight, you may want to keep an eye on a browns player. >> he has local roots and he happen to be a cousin of our traffic reporter leslee lacey.

hewett. okay, he may be wearing a cleveland uniform, but i promise he's a tampa boy. >> it is a huge honor. i grew up watching the super bowl. a group of die-hard bucs fans loving all those guys and really looking up to them. it is crazy to be on the field with them. >> reporter: charlie graduated as a stand-out tight-in and was awoken for the university of central florida. after their snapper quit, his life took a turn. >> reporter: did you expect it would lead you to the nfl? >> not at all. i never saw myself playing in the nfl. >> reporter: charlie credits his bay area conditions for influencing him and of course, his high school coach earl garcia. >> charlie has always kept in touch. he is one of those guys that didn't need football to be a success in life. he will be successful whatever he does. just so happens he can go out and make a pretty good living

the nfl was no easy feat. >> you spent years getting bounced around on practice teams. what was that like? >> that was tough. you know. it was three years, took me after i left college. i finally got on a regular season roster. there is a whole year. i wasn't on a team at all. i didn't really get many phone calls. training here in tampa, helping me, i had to pay bills. >> reporter: but perseverance pays off. meanwhile, the game. >> keep your head down. snap the ball. get down there as fast as you can. you are not going to make the tackle but do the best you can. let one of the fast guys make the tackle. >> let's bring a state championship to hillsborough high school. >> i love it. by the way, charlie recently got married here in tampa and he promised leslie if the browns are not playing then he

county as seen here in the south part of pinellas. saint pete beach. 82 degrees. overcast. a line of showers and storms has moved across the this area. strong ones. may have been small hail just offshore. here at freedom plaza. dark skies as well. 84 degrees with an east wind overall. we look at the weather camera image from hula bay and the development of the clouds today. we have seen a collision pretty close to where slightly offshore. you see the darker skies move in. 82 degrees at hula bay. a little bit of rainfall. six one-hundredths. that is always helpful when you have temperatures reaching into the 90s . friday night football, you might be at a football field that has cooled off. show you the radar in a second. generally the 80s it looks like. maybe a little cooler upper 70s . and of course, cleveland is in town as we told you playing

raymond james 84 degrees for that one. nice shot here from john and saint pete. despite the clouds. high temperatures average near 90 degrees. rain chances dropping just a little bit. maintain a little strength that would help to control the flow at the very least and ennc atmospheric moisture in place. to the north, not too much happening here. high pressure dominating across the northern part of florida. other parts of the south. you see the thunderstorms and that line. they have been quite strong. the thunderstorms moving into the gulf of mexico. few thunderstorms here looks like moving out just west of

as well out of manatee county further south. sarasota county. the beaches have really gotten good downpours in pinellas and points south today. even more showers east of downtown sarasota. so if you haven't seen some yet in bay shore gardens you may see showers move your way before too long. then further south of that, all the way down to southern parts of sarasota county. north port and the venice area. inland areas, haven't talked much about them. not too much going on. forecast, it will be warm. 92 degrees at 4:00 p.m. temperature in saint pete, 80 degrees. thank the thunderstorms for that. in the tropics, we talked about this the top of the newscast. 99, probably right around there. there is the bahamas. cuba. the general northwest track

developing, wind shear, dry air. it will help to bring stronger winds an better rain chances as for the computer models you can see the trend has been to the west. today anyway. they have been all over the place. looks like a category 2 hurricane. it is a fish storm. locally, increase in moisture helping to increase our rain chances. you can see monday into tuesday. that is why the rain chances you will day forecast will crawl up just a little bit as well. 40, 50, 60% chance of showers. just stay tuned on the tropical system and its potential development to the storm team all weekend long. we will continue to brf you on what could be going on with that system. into the latter half of next week, the influence will be gone. back into our typical pattern. temperatures very much like we expect them to be this time of year. maybe a few extra clouds on saturday guys. >> all right, thank you steve. well, a fire starts to rage

incredible video. in fact of an officer's heroic actions to save a man trapped inside that burning vehicle. >> remember, you can join jenn holloway, julie phillips, and me on newschannel8 on great 38 every night from 8:00 to 9:00. hope to see you there. >> ahead for us, an nbc news exclusive. we talk to the doctor who attested to donald trump's health who tells us how that letter came to be. what the government now wants to do to protect the nation's blood supply from zika and what's the best

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>> now to what's making headlines across america. a georgia police officer' in a burning suv. as this officer arrived to the scene, he grabbed his fire extinguisher and tried to put the fire out. but the impact bent the vehicle's frame and jammed the door shut so is officer bent it back and pulled the man through the window. as he did, an explosion under the hood knocked off his hat and body cam. the driver of that vehicle died. but without the officer's heroics, the passenger likely would have died as well.

performed on two nuns in their mississippi home. the women were found yesterday. their car was found abandoned a mile from the home and there were signs from a break in. a man was screaming that people were trying to kill him. when they tried to arrest him, he scaled a fence onto a runway, stole a pickup truck, and drove it into a southwest plane. no one in the plane was hurt, into custody. the judge known for giving a light sentence in a notorious sexual assault case will no longer handle criminal cases. aaron persky has been switched to civil. he became under intense criticism for a light judgment in a rape case. his new assignment begins september 6.

baltimore county closed today because they don't have air- conditioning. a new measure says nonair- conditioned public schools have to be closed when the heat index for the next day is forecast to reach 90 degrees by 11:00 a.m. it reached 91 there today. the county's other 173 schools had air-conditioning and were open. newschannel8 at 6:00 is coming up next. >> stacie and keith are here with what we are working on. >> a child dropped off 20 miles from her side for help with this bus stop blunder. what we learned about the bus driver who made this dangerous mistake. >> plus, it is the start of big changes in downtown tampa. we will show you a major construction project that could cause some traffic headaches for months to come. >> he left the service department here to join the service. the army. so, who stole his expensive tools? tarpon springs top building

so why is there a whopping legal bill you paid for? >> those stories plus your storm team 8 forecast and sports with dan lucas coming up on newschannel8. the station always on your

>> right now, on at 6:00. >> we are tracking the tropics looking at how one storm will affect your weekend plans. >> plus, a little girl alone and afraid. what happened to the bus driver who dropped her off 20 miles away from home? >> and you paid his hefty salary for the job he was not required to do. now you are stuck with his legal bills. mark is on it because you paid for it. i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm keith cate. thank you for joining us. we will begin with the area in

our chief meteorologist steve jerve joins us in the forecast center with the latest. steve, this will not be a major storm. we have been watching it for a while. still, it is something to keep an eye on. >> reporter: it is good news that it comes in every day and has not developed into anything. the longer it goes the better without developing. it would take a longer period of time. so, it is still there as invest 99-l. it will continue to drift to the west and we will continue to watch possible development. it does help to determine where the low level circulation might be. that would be just north of the eastern part of cuba. just southeast of nasa on the bahamas continuing to move to the west. as we see the hurricane hunter aircraft flying out of macdill air force base, did determine a 28 miles an hour wind gust in