advisory when it was upgraded to a hurricane. 70 miles an hour winds still undergoing wind shear, but likely, it will strengthen over the long haul. you can see the bright red color indicates the cooler cloud tops on the infrared satellite imagery. it is south of the dominican republic and will continue on a westerly track. the hurricane hunters were in there today and saw 91 miles an hour wind gusts. so clearly, this is much stronger than it was 24 ago. as we look at the advisory. 67.8 west. latitude, longitude. 75 miles an hour winds. pretty fast movement there at 17. it will go east of jamaica. keeping in mind the stronger side ever the storm is just to the east or the right of the center of it. haiti would probably feel the worstover this particular scenario. in this scenario passing over the eastern part of cuba, of course, we are watching the cone of air which may make contact with the florida east

the current track. the last position is about 400 to 450 miles southeast of the city of miami. again, you can see the forecast computer models, the spaghetti models showing it pasting east of florida at this point. the consensus nudged it back west of florida. it typically does that. that is today's thinking. it is still a long away way. something we will have to monitor, the track you saw l change. we have to continue to watch this very closely. ofstringenning over the long haul. >> i want to correct myself on something. this is the 13th named storm of the season. you have been very busy. so, we will talk with you a lit in a little bit. you can track the tropics on our weather max app free to download at the app store. help for hurricane hermine victims is now available.

hernando, hillsborough, pasco or pinellas county can get help with funds. you can call the number on the screen for more information. the long battle between uber, lyft, and hillsborough county could be coming to an end. a new deal on the table could allow them to operate legally in the county. but, there is a catch. the hillsborough county public transportation commission is demanding fingerprint background checks for uber and lyft drivers. this new agreement, well, it would put extensive background check elements instead. jeff patterson joins us now live. and jeff, i guess it sounds like a good plan. they worked really hard on it. what is this catch we are talking about here? >> reporter: yeah, good evening keith. well, the chairman of the tdc worked late into the night to hammer out this agreement between uber and lyft. but, the catch is, the agreement means little unless

board. download the app, a car is on the way. payment is on your credit card through the app. the driver odell allen told me the customers love the service. >> the residents embrace us. they love us. they would hate to see us go. >> reporter: but uber drivers currently are working illegally in hillsborough county and face heavy fines if they are caught. hillsborough county ptc chairman victor crisp wants to hammer out an agreement with uber and lyft. >> it could bring an end to the controversy that has plagued the ptc. >> reporter: the agreement would require extensive background checks but no fingerprints, also, vehicle inspections and insurance for drivers. similar deals have faced problems because taxicab companies have opposed them. >> the existing companies that are currently regulated have to approve of any changes that we want to make or they can slow

to fail so that nothing gets done. >> reporter: currently, three ptc members appear to be in favor of the deal. three are opposed. and one member, hillsborough county commissioner kent hagan, is the swing vote. but hagan declined our request for an interview today. yeah, so, we will wait to hear from him on that. also, today, chairman victor announced that he will be stepping down from the public transportation commission voluntarily keith? >> he has worked very hard there. but i mean, we have this deal and cab companies have to respond to it. and there is more to go. what are you hearing about the reality of this actually going through? the possibility of it happening? >> reporter: well, yellow cab sent out a statement today saying they are in favor of leveling the playing field. but, they still oppose anything that would not require a fingerprint background check. they think a fingerprint background check is essential for any agreement.

they will completely pull out of doing business in hillsborough county if that part of the proposal goes forward. keith? >> boy, standing firm on all sides trying to work a compromise here. thank you jeff. well, bidding a final farewell to florida marlins pitcher jose fernandez. eight of his teammates carried the coffin into saint brendan catholic church today. family, friends, and former teammates attended the private funeral mass. this evening, hillsborough deputies are investigating a crime. at a vigil for fernandez at a high school last night, someone stole one of his jerseys that belonged to his coach. chip osowski joins us now live. and chip, i mean, i know this coach has to be disappointed. but, who even does this? >> reporter: there are a range of emotions being experienced out here, anger, disappointment. disgust. this was more than a jersey

school history. alonzo's head baseball coach noticed the jersey was gone. >> i walked in and saw it. >> reporter: right after the vigil for fernandez had wrapped up. it felt like being hit below the belt. >> disgust. disgust. i just couldn't believe it. i thought maybe somebody moved it. but why would they leave the hanger and take the shirt? so we asked around. nobody had seen anything. >> reporter: the school posted everyone know what happened. the comments came in quickly. awful. awful. and unbelievable. were just a few. >> i mean, we are angry. we are upset. there was frustration. there was disgust. i mean, it ranged the gamut. and you know, normally, in our business, we try to figure out a way, why did this happen? you know, sometimes there's a reason that you can at least live with.

that. i just can't. >> reporter: alonzo principal ken hart believes hernandez was an example of what we would all like to become. >> jose lived the dream that we all think about. we dream of going to baseball games. he played in it. we dream of being able to see an all-star game. he played in it. we dreamed of doing things like rescuing our mother. he saved his mother's life. >> reporter: he reported the theft. interested in catching the thief. >> just bring it back. do the right thing. >> reporter: this was clearly a crime of opportunity. the jersey was hanging out in a dugout for everyone to enjoy. and, was taken when most eyes were out on the field. >> chip, i have to imagine this is a case where social media can really prove to be a powerful weapon. >> you are absolutely right jen. there are a lot of ideas floating out there in social

videoing, recording the vigil with their cell phones to review that video and to see if anything looked out of the ordinary. and obviously, report that to authorities. >> absolutely. all right, thank you very much, chip osowski live for us tonight. thanks. yesterday, newschannel8 discovered that governor rick scott's office was not made aware of the sink hole dumping toxic water into the aquifer for weeks. not until after our 8 on your side investigation in fact. state representative gwynn graham wants the governor's office and what is office is telling us so she is expanding a public records request to include all electronic communication concerning the sink hole to and from the governor's office. tampa police are investigating a shooting at a industry club. a man was shot in the leg at goody's gentleman club on east hillsborough avenue. he is expected to survive. tampa police and k-9 searched the site for evidence. no arrests have been made.

fight zika. >> but how will the money be spent? newschannel8 takes a closer look coming up. >> the saint pete housing authority is tweaking its deal to buy jordan park. tonight, we will show you what

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the bus tour for an antigun violence rally on the steps of city hall. the mission is to push for tougher gun law to make communities safer. the 14 state national tour was the americans with national solutions pack funded by gabby giffords and her husband. funds to fight zika may soon start flowing into florida. $397million to go vaccine and diagnostic development. some of it could make its way to the university of south florida where research is already underway. >> the money is opening up so we are optimistic that we will able to start in many studies. >> right now, there are more than 900 cases of zika in our state. 109 of them were contracted here in florida rather than overseas. well, giving the people of saint pete healthier snack options. the leadersover saint petersburg are working to make

owned property meet the american heart association's dietary guidelines. pinellas county is currently above national and state averages for the numbers of adults living with cardio vasular disease. they hope the new city initialtive will help to change that. speaking of, the 2016 heart walk is right around the corner. newschannel8 is committed to helping to raise $100,000. but we cannot do it alone. fuccillo kia is you donate a clark it counts as two. the walk is november 12 at raymond james stadium. you can go to wfla.com/heartbalk for details or to join stacie schaible's team. and the saint pete housing authority is tweaking its deal to buy jordan park. a look at what you are about to

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the first place. now, the developers are not charging any cash to hand over the deeds. isn't that something? mark, the question is being asked. why the generous change of heart for these developers? what's going on? >> we have been asking that question all day long keith. and the key player ins all of this say they don't know or they won't tell us. whatever the reason, the deal that you paid for, just got better for taxpayers. the housing authority has been developers behind closed doors all to regain ownership for the jordan park housing project. taxpayers who paid for the 15- year-old project in the fist place with millions in loans, grants, and tax credits given to the developers. >> i want to thank you publicly for negotiating that. >> reporter: housing authority ceo tony love was thanking the authority's real estate lawyer for her role in trimming a

jordan park deal. but, mclennon later told me she didn't know why they suddenly caved. >> you think i know everything? >> i think you know why $400,000 is no longer part of the deal. >> that is what richmond offered to do? >> why? >> you should ask them that. >> reporter: was it embarrassment? shame? something else? critics told us it made no developers anything to buy back what taxpayers basically gave those developers in the first place. >> whatever motivated them to do the right thing, that would be a question richmond should address. >> reporter: the richmond group and land x corporation developers which own jordan park won't respond. whatever their motive, everyone agrees the new deal is suddenly sweeter for taxpayers.

exchanged, i think the 400,000 that would have been paid is going back into jordan park. that sounds to me like it could be a great deal. especially for the residents. >> reporter: under that new deal, developers get to walk away from something like $18 million in taxpayer debts and it will be up to taxpayers to spend about $7 million to fix up jordan park. keith? >> so when does this deal close? >> reporter: it was supposed to close tomorrow, when we got involved, steve cornell called for a it will not be settled for a while. so maybe november. but, still up in the air. >> all right. thank you mark. >> sure. >> overcast, two tenths of an inch of rain. at least the temperatures are a lilt bit cooler. 84 degrees with a mix of clouds, a little bit of clear skies there. nice day in ennis brook and palm harbor. 35 one-hundredths. precipitation falling in that

76 degrees. the south wind at 3 miles an hour. got to love the showers. getting around all the cameras here. plantation, crystal river. almost two inches of rain. impressive amounts falling in some spots. the temperatures have been nice and warm. 8 degrees is the current temperature at this location. but as we see, let's change the source if we can here. sorry about that. okay, there we go. a few showers and thunderstorms continued to roll from west to east across the ar bloomingdale. thunderstorms have been active in portions of the area and all rolling along in the flow from west to east. monotee county covered with showers and storms. northern sections of sarasota county east of sarasota. and around miaca city. that is where most of the shower activity is located. most of the showers are offshore. we have a cold front to the north of us. slightly drier air. we will not sample much of that. 76 degrees. 87 degrees at 4:00 p.m. 86 in tampa.

dew points 74 with a west wind at 7. this is dry air. colored in red high above in the atmosphere, there is nothing going on in the southeast. atmospheric moisture deep to the south. we are seeing more shower and thunderstorm activity develop and move in this direction in the flow. look at atlanta, birmingham. mostly sunny skies. nice day. matthew, if you missed this the top of the newscast, category 1 hurricane. 75 miles an hour winds upgraded today. about 450 miles southeast of miami in position. and this is a forecast position. so, this will change along with the computer model opinion. so, continue to monitor this because it can fluctuate west back to florida or further east away from florida as time goes by. the effects being high pressure to the northeast. low pressure to the northwest. so, see that track of spaghetti models. base clay very similar to what they are forecasting at the moment. for the evening, mostly inland showers and thunderstorms. a few more generate. looks like in the overnight.

pinellas county, up into hernando county friday morning. maybe a few morning showers cruising off to the east. a front to the northover us, 40% rain chance for us. and you can see the drier conditions, maybe slightly drier air across some of the spots. but not a big change in humidity overall. for most in the bay area. 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms for friday. 30% chance on saturday. 40% chance on sunday, too. so, the rain chances remain very close to our average levels. high temperatures remaining in the upper 80s . time period. monday, tuesday, higher rain chances than normal. long term, depends if this area of low pressure, possible hurricane, on florida's east coast with the counterclock wise flow could help to pull in drier air long term. so we will have to see the forecast position of that. >> all right. >> thank you very much. >> well, coming up, a rookie quarterback has led the denver broncos to a 3-0 record. >> his former teammate, now a

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>> two years ago, the tampa bay buccaneers took jameis winston with the first overall pick in the nfl draft. 249 selections later, trevor siemian came off the seventh ground. the seventh of seven quarterbacks taken. they welcome the broncos to raymond james stadium. siemian is 3-0 as a starter. more impressive is the way he progressed from game manager to nfl caliber qb in a matter of weeks. he tossed four touchdown passes in a win over the bengals sunday.

coming is a liar. almost anyone. one person unsurprised. his former teammate, bucs tight end danny vitale. >> i'm good buddies with him. i have always seen it. always known. approach style so fence is a great fit for him. when you have coaches and a staff with elway and kubiak who can develop a guy who is just a raw talent. he ended up in a great situation as well. so, i'm not surprised at all to be ho getting set for a matchup with their alley rivals tonight. the bolts trimmed their training camp roster by 22 players yesterday. but this evening's lineup has a syracuse crunch to it. jason garrison, brian boyle. tyler johnson will sit this one out, but he is still pretty stoked for preseason pucks. >> we love playing these games.

practice. you can battle each other all you want. but in games, it is a whole different ball game. so, we are looking forward to the preseason. i think we have all been waiting for it. i just can't wait for tonight's game. >> if you stayed up to watch the rays game, you went to bed disappointed unless you love rain delays like steve. in which case, you do. todd frazier with the solo home run. that was the only offense. the white sox win it. they will go for a four-game sweep of chris archer is looking to avoid his 20th loss. if he lose to night, he will be the second pitch er in the last 35 years. >> he has had a very difficult year. >> he has. >> so much potential. >> don't want to stick it with number 20. >> all right. >> wow. >> thank you very much. >> and that's the news for now. don't go anywhere. nbc nightly news is next followed by newschannel8 at 7:00. >> i'll be there. steve jerve will be there. you can join josh benson and jenn holloway at 8:00 on great

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