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at 7:00: >> good evening. we begin with an alarming crime at a tampa housing complex. police are investigating the shooting of a 21-month-old girl. thankfully, her injuries are not life-threatening. chip osowski joins us from the area. the really a lemming fish alarming part us-the child's age is this happened in broad daylight. a very troubling case. the shooting happened around 12:30 pm this afternoon at the roadless park housing complex on central avenue south of whi diligently at this hour looking for the gunman. police believe eduardo avila was the target. he watched as police gathered evidence outside the apartment where his 21-month-old daughter aliyah was hit by a stray bullet. >> the father of the toddler was outside, was approached by some other men, who were behaving in a threatening manner. he went into the house, several shots were fired. we counted 15 or more shots fired. some were shot through the doubt

young girl. >> reporter: shortly after the shooting, you'll want to and don arrived, they are lee's relatives. >> children don't have anything to do with this. >> they really don't. now we have to rush hour child to the hospital because people don't know how to put guns down. >> reporter: the child's mother returned to the scene but detectives felt now was not the appropriate time was to address >> is your baby okay? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: police tell us it's too early to release a description of the gunman they are looking for. or even say how many gunman they are searching for at this hour. people who live in the area are expressing a major concern. they wonder if these guys are willing to open fire. what is to stop them from doing it again? live in tampa, chip osowski,

tonight, there are serious questions about the states response to a sinkhole that opened at a mosaic plant, dumping millions of gallons of contaminated water into the aquifer. records reviewed by senior investigator steve andrews show the state was in no hurry to share the information. >> reporter: while this massive sinkhole unnerved neighbors, documents provided by the state show little to no urgency about the radioactive water that poured into the aquifer. graham says the governor failed to provide records as required by law. >> it's appalling either way. >> reporter: on september 12, more than two weeks after water began escaping, the epa road to the state "we have received the mosaic document in which mosaic suggested a meeting between the governments and mosaic. has there been any discussion relating to having that

dep responded "mosaic suggested the meeting be held within the last week of september. records show on the 19th, when a neighbor asked dep's groundwater management division, how it would require mosaic to clean up the contamination" and the response was "i'm not familiar with the response you are referring to. councilmember didn't particularly care. >> the people of florida deserve better. >> reporter: steve andrews, news channel 8. the search is on for thieves targeting elderly victims at publix. surveillance photos show the trio. police believe they have stolen from three women shopping at stores in plant city. police tell us one of these people would distract the women way -- while another would grab their wallets. thieves headed to a nearby cvs, buying gift cards with the stolen cards. they will give you the

say. it's just really sad that somebody would take advantage of that for negative purposes. >> police believe the trio's getaway vehicle is a blue 15 passenger van, possibly a ford. crimestoppers is offering a $3000 reward for information that leads to their arrest. a pasco county woman found out she was renting a home from someone who didn't own it. patricia lamp is now facing a charge of scheming to defraud. investigators say lamp broke the lockbox took the keys, switch -- switching the for sale sign to a for rent sign. she found a tenant and then started collecting rent. if you purchased gas at the bp on lockridge road, you might want to check your credit card statements. detectives found a scammer on one of the that occurred -- skimmer on one of the gas pumps. data is used to make phony

police are searching for the man who robbed a female student on the south florida tampa campus at 9 pm last night. the woman told police two men followed her through a common area and then approached her and grabbed her back pack and nickless. >> people walk at night every day after class and you feel this is a safe campus so having a robbery at 9 pm is kind of scary.>> the university sent out a mass text message to parents and students ab they are searching through surveillance video to identify the men. a new study is linking an increase in the florida homicide rate to the stand your ground law. the study was published in the american journal of medical association. it found an increase in suicide since 2005. the trayvon martin case in 2012 brought national attention to the law even though george zimmerman never -- never used it as defense.

into a situation outside their home, they may use their gun because they now know they have the opportunity to not be prosecuted. >> critics believe the data is flawed and they have asked that the study be retracted saying it ignored legal principles. wide receiver mike evans talked today about his decision to sit during the national anthem at sunday's game and the apology that followed. many fans were not happy with his protest over of donald trump and he said looking back he would have done things differently but what's done is done. >> it won't happen again. i will be standing with my teammates. i know i hurt a lot of people by doing what i did. i want to apologize to the people that were affected by what i did and to the people that are disappointed in my decision to stand with my teammates from now on. don't worry. i will continue to use my voice

decision to end his protest without pressure from coaches or the bucs front office. for the first time ever, the college football playoff will be held right here in the bay area and now we know who will perform during a free three-day concert series at curtis park. headliners include eric paisley, flow ride and a sure. the championship will draw in 80,000 people. numerous other events including a 5k and a gourmet food tasting >> $80,000 for the game will draw a lot to the area. look forward to that. >> gourmet food tasting and flo rida. what else can you ask for? >> can you gourmet taste while listening to flo rida. >> with usher mixed in? >> time in. we have been talking about the dry weather of late.

for the year but november has been very dry. just .01 inches on 9 november. that's about all we had, just that one day of rain. that is our official total. how far below is our average? about 30 6/100. snowfall recorded once in the last four weeks. 60 degrees right now at tampa international. that's the view from the downtown airport. .things all lit up down there. e the air is a bit drier so temperatures have fallen pretty quickly. 79 degrees and a record of high at tampa international. a long way from that is temperatures cool down. a quicker sunsets and temps fall pretty quickly. we have our thanksgiving forecast at the end of hour a day forecast. before that, big changes for sunday coming up. still ahead, we found a pothole in tampa that has been around so long it's growing weeds. coming up, we will tell you

say about this and the 5000 other potholes in the city. visit tampa spends millions of dollars on tourism and has a

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tampa roads have thousands of potholes and today, jeff patterson showed mayor a quorum a pothole that has been around so long it's starting to grow weeds. >> this pothole has been here so long it's growing weeds. showed the mayor the problem and then asked, how can this happen? >> it's a reality. after the rains we had a year ago, we literally got 5000 new potholes that popped up as a result of that flooding. the same is true this summer. >> reporter: lisa knows about the pothole problem all too well.

a city crew painted a white circle around one. that was so long ago, the paint has now faded. >> have you called the city? >> the city, the manager, the mayor, everybody. nothing happens. >> reporter: tampa mayor bob buckhorn told me city crews are working to patch up the 5000 potholes but they are having trouble catching up.>> by the way, none of that was budgeted for so we're trying to get ahead -- ahead of it but i am same potholes. >> reporter: the mayor promises this pothole will be fixed. jeff patterson, news channel 8. >> report pothole problems online. mayor buckhorn told us road crews are working as fast as they can to catch up. if you are looking to get out of town, we will tell you when to find travel bargains coming up. plus, it's where tech geek crosses paths with hipster. why some new watch bands will

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recalled due to concerns it could be contaminated with salmonella. the cheese was sold under the central labels. the company has received no reports of illnesses at this point. it's never too soon to start dreaming about next year's vacations and travel zoo has identified six locations where you should find bargains and 2017. it says you should look at vacationing in washington dc, new zealand, paris, peru, the uk and right here on the florida gulf coast. it openings in florida and in dc, and a strong u.s. dollar to help make other countries cheaper. amazon wants to save you some money on streaming music if you have a big family. the music service is still fairly new, offering unlimited streaming music for eight dollars a month for prime numbers and $10 a month for everybody else. now it's adding a family plan. for $15 a month, add up to six

part, each person can use their own account which means mom and dad don't have to worry about their music preferences getting mixed up with their teenagers. do you need a hipster upgrade? the shoe company tom's is making watch bands for the apple watch. tom's became popular for providing shoes to people in need. some of the money raised will also do some good. with promising for every watchband sold one pair of shoes for someone in an underserved corner of the world will receive solar power. the watch bands $75. if you would like to put the e-reader under the tree, barnes and noble is getting back into the game. a price of just $50, the same price as the 7 inch fire amazon tablet. the new nook will go on sale on black friday. battling boondoggles and fighting frivolous spending, mark douglas is taking on the big shots, wasting taxpayer

visit tampa bay spends millions of bed tax dollars to spread tourism but won't share how a business pirate is spending it. we look into the mystery surrounding kevin t. greybeard. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome greybeard the business pirate. >> reporter: greybeard the business pirate joined the crew back in august. don't let the pirate talk fool you, greybeard is not a real buccaneer, just an actor hired to learn meeting planners to tampa. >> if you are looking for a place for your crew to think outside the box -- >> reporter: visit tampa bay gets 80% of its budget, about $10 million a year, in bed tax money to promote tourism.

the tax funded success, why won't visit tampa bay reveal his compensation that you paid for? we know carotid makes more than 285 -- karata makes more than $285 million but when it comes to bed tax dollars that they may spend on travel and entertainment, we might as well demand a map to greybeard's treasure. bed tax funded or not, and his crew insist those expenses and the credit card statements we've requested weeks ago, are not of our business and none of yours. 80% of your budget comes from bed tax. why not share your credit card expenses with us? >> we're here to talk about a year of celebration and you know why. there are trade secrets in there. it is funded through a bed tax that none of our locals paid for. there are trade secrets

ceo and the business pirate is none of the public's business. in tampa, i'm mark douglas for news channel 8. it's a great day to be a deer at john chestnut park. photojournalist todd davis provided us with this moment of peaceful relaxation. our traffic is pretty quiet, veterans highway with a northeast wind at 5 miles per hour. 56 degrees, temperatures already as you saw, falling into the 60s after that warm high of 79 degrees. we have the dry atmosphere and temperatures tend to fall. 58 degrees is actually below our average for this time of year. it will be a cool start to the day. not much in the way of clouds around the sunshine state

yesterday and the day before. it will certainly be sunny for the day tomorrow. traveling to the upper midwest, we have a snowstorm. a blizzard watch in minnesota and south dakota. a winter storm watch as an area of low pressure comes out of this part of the country to help snow at up to high levels. here you can see all the way back here into colorado and wyoming and also you can see sections of nebraska as well. decent snow accumulation. the first big storm of the season for the country. locally, nothing like that. our temperatures will cooldown sunday but until then, we have chillier mornings balance by a warm afternoon. nothing but sunshine for tomorrow with more dry weather expected for the area. as we get into friday, this area of high pressure will shift just a bit. we will see a pure easterly flow bringing a little more low-

we could develop a few fairweather clouds. generally very dry through this period in terms of the comfort of the air and also rain chances are low. but cold front comes through on saturday. maybe a few clouds in a very small chance of rain.-they, we see changes with cooler temperatures, breezy or conditions overall. a cooldown on monday and tuesday and a slow warm-up into thanksgiving. another cold front around that time but not a big effect from that weather.>> i'm disappointed we didn't have the gobble noise. but we will get there. it's still early. that's when we come back. plus, here is what you will see tomorrow. >> a tampa bay woman, tim -- cancer free. i will show you how she believes cannabis oils put her on a healthy track. >> and weather and traffic on the eights on news channel 8

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we have brought you a lot of stories about goats but they've all lacked something very important. obviously, monkeys. finally a farm in china has made goats even cuter. now, there is literally a monkey on their back. the monkeys showed up a few days ago and immediately took a liking to the goats, grabbing on and writing them around the farm. -- riding them around the farm. theypl monkeys to a local zoo to grow up a little bit. stop it, right? and then release them into the wild. >> if you could make a recipe of the perfect news story of the year for me, that would be it. >> you terrified me for a second when you said recipe. i was like where is this ending? >> no. >> a recipe for the perfect story.

we will be back here tonight at 11:00.>> goodnight. . >> her explosive first tv interview about battling sexual harassment. >> now on "extra." ? ? she brought down powerful fox news chief roger ailes. for the first time since she walked away with $20 million. >> do you feel like you won? then, what carlson's former colleague megyn kelly thinks about her emotional new confession. >> do you think she is brave for coming out. >> a.j. sitting down with megyn today taking on her critics, take on ailes. >> if you bumped into him on the street what would you say? >> and what she has planned for president-elect trump. carrie fisher's secret

princess leia's undercover flame. and other couples news, an engagement, a divorce, and a tv bachelor calling off his engage men. >> i don't know to rush it. president trump sneaking off for a new yorkic steak night. plus, bravo's andy cohen's now, from universal studios, hollywood, the entertainment capital of l.a. come up, if these walls could talk. the rolling stones opening the vault to personal pieces of rock history. also coming up, mario, the 30 richest stars under 30. who is higher on the list, taylor swift or adele.

news. gretchen carlson talks about blowing the whistle and why it wasn't her first rush with sexual harassment. >> she took down the titan. gretchen carlson waging a legal war and walking away with a rumored $20 million pay day. speaking out in her first tv >> before i knew it, he was on top of me. >> opening up with "20/20" about past harassment from men. >> his tongue was down my throat. >> that start whed she became miss maesh. >> do you think she is brave for doing that? >> i think anybody who has been sexually harassed needs to give thought to how much good they can do in coming forward. it's not easy. >> megyn kelly saying she too