news channel 5. >>> you may have noticed a new phase joining us here at news channel 5. i am pleased to welcome rob powers as my new coanchor here at 6:00 also for the now and news channel 5 at you. >> it's been great so far. my wife, my two sons and i are coming home now. in fact, if you look closely, you can tell i interned right here at channel 5. >> and now you are back. >> how about that. >> you have some interesting hair there. we have to talk about that in the commercial break. >> some other time. >>> coming up next for us, our exclusive investigation into a publisher and out how it destroys books instead of donating them to schools. >> just under two hours away from first kickoff for the first preseason home game. we are there on the field coming up >>> breaking news out of my dinah county where we've just confirmed part of the statehouse roof collapsed. it happened just before 5:00. the shares department telling us no one was hurt but as you can see from this picture, there's a lot of damage there. air tracker five is on the way. we will bring you details coming

news channel 5 tracy carloss is digging into the costly crime. tracy, you learned that police made an arrest? >> reporter: yeah, north royalton police made a discovery of these stolen catalytic converters that could be convicted to the ot >> it makes your car immobile. >> reporter: if your catalytic converter is gone, you'll know it. starting a car doesn't sound like this anymore. >> we went to use one of our delivery trucks and we heard a drag noise. >> reporter: victor fragapane says that their family bakery depends on their two vans to make daily deliveries. victor explained to me that it cost $8,000 for the repair. we had to use a smaller van. it was a big inconvenience. >> reporter: from north holmstead to shaker heights where four were stolen from this rta parking lot. the culprits are on the move. i discovered a family from new york had their catalytic converter stolen from their van at this west lake hotel parking lot. the crooks are taking the part for the precious metal and scrapping it for about $50. >> the state has set up if you come

>>> now new at 6:00, a news channel 5 investigation. after business after business was smashed and the atms inside grabbed, the thieves leaving a trail of shattered glass and mangled metal around northeast ohio. well today we learned there's a possible break in the case. >> but we also learned the businesses are not taking any chances and they are fighting back. megan hickey has been digging into the security changes. megan, they come in a pretty high cost? >> repte thousands of dollars in repairs skyrocketing insurance costs, and extra security. but the businesses tell me that they are relieved to hear that the suspects are in custody. at the beginning of the summer the dairy mart on west 117th, they would have a much different look. the suspects would cruise through the wall with the minivan and they stole the atm. since then that it has not been replaced. >> and any person that would do wasn't worth making him a target. >> thank you. >> the gas station manager, he feels his pain. >> making it hard on us right now. >> installing the c

stay tuned to news channel 8. all month we're looking at everything that parents and don't miss school getted every weekday morning. >>> let's check in with leigh. what a difference 28 hours makes. -- 24 hours makes. clear compared to yesterday. >> clear compared to yesterday. it's going going to cost last. the rain pushing towards whitney beach, holmes beach. you will get the shower near the coast. that's going the -- going to be the trend. 78 degrees a 8:00 a.m. and then the showers push from the coast further inland as the day progresses so therefore a better coverage of rain. 85 degrees at noon, 88 at 4:00. outside in inverness 72 inverness. there's a southwest wind that comes off the gulf of mexico and that's going to be the pattern through the weekend. so here it is rnd 9:30. pockets of rain near the coast. look by 11:45 they finally make it towards the east coast. the same thing again, a few showers in the morning, 88 today and tomorrow, 87 sunday and monday. >>> leslee is off today but meredith is going to

>>> right now on news channel 8 at 7:00. >>> good evening, a sumter county man tells news channel 8 he was protecting horses on his property when he shot and that alligator then attacked his stepson. news channel 8's jeff paterson shows us now he's facing criminal charges. >> i don't know if he came out of that pond, there's another one over there by the fence. >> reggie is 74 years old and has lived in florida all his life. he knew something was wrong when horses in this field started acting very strangely. >> i took my gun with me when i went out there. because i didn't know what the heck was out there. >> reporter: he saw an alligator just a few from the horses. >> i think he was after the mini horses. >> reporter: he took out a nine millimeter and shot him. >> i shot at him four times and they said i hit him three. >> his son and law arrived and walked over close to the alligator. >> it was just a surprise. >> reporter: the gator clamped down on his leg. the next surprise came later when a deputy arrived arresting them, a report from the florida sites blanton for unlawfully killing

news channel 5. >>> now at 5:00, a news channel 5 exclusive. these pictures taken on sunday drone over the scene giving investigators a new tool as they look for clues about what happened. we got a hold of the drum pictures and video and the sheriffs department talked about how often we can expect to see all of this. >> reporter: the erie county sheriff's department is using drones to investigate crashes, pile up, and that's not all. this is video recorded by a drone camera. the drone was used b 10 car pileup on the ohio turnpike. in the past, authorities have just taken pictures from the ground to investigate crashes but thanks to the new drone technology, the erie county can get a much different view of pileups like this one. the drones skyhigh view is one more tool that can help investigators determine how a crash like this one happened. >> when you are up, it's much easier to see a longer picture of skidmarks, the debris field. it's much easier for them to for the reconstruction of the action scene, we were able to allow them to tell us wha

>>> news channel 5 at six is brought to you by mr. hero. >>> live, always investigating, always on your side, news channel 5 starts now. >> i saw the fire coming out of the windows, on the porch. it was blazing. >> a duplex goes up in flames and one resident did not make it out alive. we are learning that that fire may have been set on purpose. >>> hello, everybody. thank you for joining us. i am tracy carloss environment -- officials are investigating it as an arson. kristin volk is digging into what happened. you have learned that the two dogs died in that plays. that is what the neighbors tell us and we did some digging to find out that a resident here was arrested yesterday. meanwhile this duplex remains unlivable. let's take a look. we have got charred remnants, on the porch, scorch marks up and down the building and burned-out furniture over on the curb. >> my reaction was i wonder you know? i could not figure out why would be 4:30 am in the morning. >> reporter: he woke up to the smell of smoke and the crackle of fire early yes

petersburg al al news channel 8. milwaukee still reeling from weekend violence where a small part of the city was left in ruin. the message they want all of america to hear. >>> and remember you can join us on news channel 8 at 8:00 on great 38 every night from 8:00 to 9:00 we hope to see you there. >>> let's take a look at the >>> ahead tonight two major disasters at home. the flood ravaged part of louisiana. and eight wildfires on the march in destroying homes in california. we go to the amazon and show why trying to save it has become a dangerous and deadly pursuit. >>> if you blinked you missed him. usain bolt's remarkable dash into history. that's when you see us live in florida, people are working hard, just to get by. but in washington - "republican senator marco rubio has the worst voting record in the u.s. senate." marco rubio stopped showing up for work. let us down. i'm patrick murphy and enough's enough. i'm proud to work with president obama. to protect social security and a woman's right to choose. i'm

in lakewood myrtle some marino news channel >>> that channel up to 13 in louisiana and now people are bracing for more rain on the way. the historic flooding left massive destruction and at least 40,000 homes damaged by water and 6000 people are in shelters now. more than 1400 pets were rescued from the floodwaters. shelters throughout louisiana the pets until their families can find them. ryan hughes shows us dozens of shelter dogs up for adoption before the flood were diverted to the bay area.>> reporter: they got here in a not so fancy way. the u-haul trucks were packed to the brim with dozen of dogs and final destination the humane society of tampa bay. animal shelters in and around baton rouge louisiana have been inundated with stray dogs found in floodwaters. parts of the state were socked with more than two feet of rain causings >> it's bad. coming from where the rain stopped and the water is back flowing from rivers and nowhere to go. >> reporter: this local firefighter and other volunteers filled the vans with crates and headed to the sunshine state. they pulled an all nighte

you can't make america great again, if you don't make things >>> right now on news channel 8 at 6:00. >>> an unpleasant surprise for two home invasion suspects, how the victim made sure those crooks won't be bothering anyone any time soon. good evening, everyone. i'm rod carter. thanks so much for joining us tonight. >>> we'll begin with the expected to drench pinellas county this week. residents aren't taking any chances. people traveled to the community park in st. petersburg with their shovels and filled sand backs for free. this started at noon and about an hour later 150 bags had already been given out. we spoke with a man that says it's better to be safe than sorry. >> i think it's important just for peace of mind. even if the weather doesn't hit, i still got a couple bags. a bit and i think it's important to allow communities to prepare themselves. >> sandbags will be available again tomorrow in st. petersburg from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. the sandbags are limited to 20 bags per person. >>> just how much rain are we talking about? let's go straight to storm team 8 meteorologist ian

news channel 8's mary mcguire is live from st. pete beach. and mary, the last time you were out there, the thunder and lightning we were both, wow, what is it like right now? >> reporter: since the last live shot, we have moved to get away from the lightning. that was a little bit scary if the last half hour. the rains have been heavy this morning. and we have seen a lot of lightning and a thunder. and i know a concern for a lot of people as they head out the doors this morning is going to be the road conditions. and while we were driving over here from tampa to pinellas, we did see a lot of roads covered in water. and as you can see across the street from here, you're seeing a lot of puddling, a lot of big puddles of water. so folks definitely need to stay safe as they're going out their doors maybing their morning commutes. by tropical storm colin. residents here were under a sewer system emergency because that system was so indated by those flood waters. and since then, they have made upgrades to that system. they have increased the capaci

live in lorain paul kiska news channel 5. >> all right paul. right now in canton no sign of the killers who murdered two men while children were inside the home. it happened this morning alongside midway avenue northeast. those men we with a woman and three children and all under the age -- all under the age of four. the children were not hurt. >>> now to democracy 2016 and an issue in cleveland that could hit you in the wallet. it will be calling for raising the income tax from 2% to 2.5% a. person making $50,000 will pay an extra $250 a year. john kosich, cleveland leaders >> they have been shaking the cushion since 2011 when they balance their own budget. and those hits in the five year stents have come to a total of $111 million. plus additional money that will be needed for union contracts and the police consent decree will have them looking at the deficit to require those layoffs and cuts to the city services. the $83 million and their income tax hike will generate and eliminate that and allow for things like improvements. more housing in

the pan arab alhurra channel and the alhurra iraq channel. we also have eight radio sawa programming streams. three websites. and numerous social media platforms. >> host: why a separate alhurra and alhurra iraq? >> guest: when alhurra was created, launched back in 2004, we were on the tail end of the iraq war and there was a bereave factor. we needed iraq focused information and there was a need to broadcast local news about iraq while the rest of the middle east was sort of by the pan arab channel. >> host: how big is mbn? budget? employees? >> guest: mbn is about 600 employees over here in the u.s. we have correspondent said -- correspondents all over middle east and a budget of $10 million to support all of the different activities. we have maintained the staffing level but done some internal reallocation to accommodate and adapt to some of the changes that have occurred in communications in the middle east particularly in the area of digital media. >> host: what kind of technology do you use? >> guest: well, we have an hd channel. we hav

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marcy gonzalez news channel 5, lee? >> real quick with all the politicizing of the visit, hillary clinton is going to say that they are making their trip. do people in louisiana think much of all the timelines are happening? >> reporter: you know, it depends on who you would talk people that would agree that maybe they could have come earlier to help bring some attention to what has been happening here, but some people that i spoke with that said they should have waited a little longer because their visit tied up traffic. people are still trying to get out and to pick up their supplies to continue their clean up process in their homes. frank and lee? >> that will take a long time live from baton rouge for us tonight, thank you. >>> we will be closer to home with a change in the air, right? >> the humidity will be back and the heat is coming back >> plus a cool morning today. >> a nice morning and a sweater almost, right? >> yes, almost. they took that dog out. >> yeah. >> they put on their coat. >> the dog neated a swea

news channel 8's ryan hughes is live at raymond james stadium. and the team is taking the forecast seriously. team officials worried about this storm, so much so that they moved the pre-season game between the buccaneers and the washington redskins scheduled for here at ray jay to wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. it was scheduled for thursday night but team officials feared it would be canceled as tropical depression nine bears down on the gulf coast of florida, likely bringing high wind and rain thursday and friday. team management spoke to county and city leaders as well as the national weather service before making the decision to move the game. season game. again, the game has been rescheduled tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. and you can catch it right here on news channel 8. gene, back to you. >> all right. we will be watching. thank you. >>> right now, pasco county deputies are searching for the suspect or suspects who shot a 1-year-old girl as she slept. and while the girl continues to recover, her mother, she's facing charges. investigators believ

>>> news channel 8 at 8:00. >>> good evening. we begin with the tropics. are several systems that you're watching. >> yes a couple of them. we lost one a couple of days ago, but we still have 99 l. and the other storm well off to our east, but we're mostly concerned with 99 l. which essentially is not anything in terms of a tropical depression, tropical storm, anything like, that but it is there, and gaston should stay out to see. it is mostly 99 l. that they did investigate with a hurricane hunter aircraft earlier today and did determine strong wind gu circulation at the lower levels. we're seeing the wide spread thunderstorms around this area which isn't uncommon when a system is trying to get going. this is a fairly large geographic area and that's what the hurricane hunter saw today. there you see it relative to the state of florida, basically east, the center east and north of puerto rico at this point. you do see the thunderstorms around the red color. it would indicate the cooler cloud top where is the stronger thunderstorms may have occurred. spagh

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>>> right now on news channel 8 at 7:00, good evening, u.s.f students be warned university police are on the hunt for a on campus. we've seen these cases in the past. >> reporter: you're absolutely right, there were four previous cases in 2015, three just this year, right now investigators are trying to figure out if those prior cases are related to the most recent ones. university police first got the call thursday around 6:00 p.m., a man exposing himself outside the juniper poplar dining hall, three hours later, another call, same scenario the fresh foods dining area at the argo center. 14 minutes later officers receive a report of a man running naked in the parking garage. most students are understandably concerned. >> it's weird. because it's like the first week of class. and that's not something you want to hear the first week that you're here. parents will be worried. they just moved in. it was the day of move-in. >> it was really weird. my mom would be freaking out campus and it's literally like the first day. >> many plan to heed the university's advice, watching for anything

. >>> and news channel 8 is your official olympic station. here's a live look at the olympic torch burning bright. team usa back in the pool tonight competing for more gold. gymnastics continues tonight. plus, we're keeping you connected to rio via social media. a lot of fun stuff happening there. >> it is. >>> good morning. welcome to news channel 8 today. i'm gene ramirez. >> and i'm gayle guyardo. an a-plus day. >> yeah, feeling much better than the start of the week. the area of low pressure that caused the cloudy, rainy weather has pushed up into the northern gulf of mexico. so now they're dealing with it. we have mostly clear skies this morning as more people are heading back to school. and keeping the rain chance out of the forecast for the first few hours of the day. just about a 10% rain chance around lunchtime. but just like yesterday, after 3:00 p.m., especially after 4:00 p.m., the rain chances going to go up and the storms coast. when it's not raining on you though, back to typical august weather and above average, hitting 91. av

>>> news channel 5 that 6:00 is brought to you by mr. zero. get a 7 inch chicken blt meal for only $5.99. >>> live, always investigated, always on your side, news channel 5 starts now. i am tracy carlow. more rain real to the area and now the skies are starting to clear in cleveland this break from the rain will be brief. tera blake is tracking more showers for the start of the work we. >> the same system that has led today's upon days of rain is not going far enough -- far enough south. we have additional days of rainfall to go. for right now, a little bit sunday evening. the clouds are hovering over the city. temperatures are much cooler than where they have been. 70s. we hit 80s for a high, and a lot less rainfall, but it stops at the loop and show you where the rain is currently. very light. if you are seeing anything close to home, a lot of cloud cover and clearing towards akron, and canton and focusing on the showers in place currently is a shift eastward on spur, battlefield, orwell, this is been consistent rain so you may have funding

>>> right now on news channel 8 at 7:00. >>> good evening two popular music teachers in critical condition tonight following a driver. mary join us live now in pinellas county. that driver appeared in court today. >> the judge raised the bond to each charge to $25,000 and if he posted bond he will have a gps bracelet and a scram bracelet that detects alcohol. he has been behind burglars -- bars before. >> he ran a red light under the influence early sunday morning. plowing into a rod carterrying two beloved bay area music teachers. >> our hearts are all broken. >> caroline sine who teaches in st. pete was driving the rod rodcarterrying sean hankins who teaches at miles elementary and shaw elementary. prayed for her recovery. >> she's energetic. she's get going. she's got a lot of love that pours out of her. >> you're charged with two charges. >> this afternoon the accused drunk driver went before a pinellas county jumg. we've learned he -- judge. we've learned he has numerous traffic violations but his lawyer says he's sorry. >> he's very remorseful and sorry to hear about what >> sine is

getting ready for the broadcast on news channel 8, can i stay in here? can i do it in here or do i have to go down there? >> don't touch the beer. >> reporter: perfect, done deal. the gm just hooked me up. send it back to you. >> he said no beer so keep that in mind. thank you very much. >>> tonight a sarasota woman is accused of stealing close to $85,000 from the girl scouts, if you can imagine. gulf coast florida. over the course of eight months she funneled the money into an unused account and used it to pay bills and buy lottery tickets. investigators say she confessed to the crime saying she was under financial hardship. >>> republican vice presidential candidate and indiana governor mike pence stopped in the bay area today. weather delayed governor pence's speech in front of a crowd of hundreds in sarasota. on stage pence gave supporters insight into what they may hear from trump's tonight promising he will still be talking about building a wall on the mexican border. >>> overcast in innisbrook, 2.68 inches falling in palm harbor, 74 degrees, that'

now her father is speaking exclusively to news channel 5 tracy carloss. he opened up about the way their lives have changed. >> reporter: yeah danita, their lives changed in an instant and forever. they have new alarms, lights, safety features to make them feel safe because this guy hasn't been caught yet. no matter how hard ray bondy tries to forget, he can't help,

channel. also, we have eight radio sawa streams, websites, and numerous social media platforms. ?> why alhurra >> well, alhurra was launched back in 2004. this was on the tail end of the iraq war. there was a believe that the focused, iraq-centric information -- there was a need to broadcast local news on iraq. with the middle east, there was the arab channel. budget andis the employees? >> mbn is about 600 employees, both here in the u.s. -- we have correspondents in the middle east and in europe, too, with a budget of about $110 million that has held relatively constant in recent years to support the different activities. we have retained the staffing with, but we have done so allocation to accommodate and adapt to some of the changes that have occurred in the communications in the middle area particularly in the of digital media. >> what kind of technology do you use? >> we have an hd channel. the standard definition channels. delivery,tellite which is a benefit to us, because we are among

news channel 8's mary mcguire is live from st. petersburg. and i'll tell you, it's really >> reporter: yeah, we have heard a lot of thunder rolling in and claps of lightning out here. and i want to show you something, when we got out here, none of this water was here but so far, in just the hour that we have been out here, the water levels have really risen. my boots almost completely covered by the water that is coming in. we have seen waves crashing up from the bay as the there you can see a lot of lightning out here. and this was an area that was very hard hit during tropical storm colin. we know there was a sewer system emergency. and residents could not use water for days because there was such -- you can hear the thunder and the claps of lightning. they could not use their water for days because of the sewer system emergency. but since then, the city has capacity by about 3 million- gallons. the goal is to make sure that none of the raw sewage water goes into people's homes out here. and another concern, when you're dealing with floodin

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>>> right now on news channel 8 today. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm paul mueller. it's the beginning of your weekend. thank you for joining us this saturday morning. >>> it's time for that all important weekend forecast. we turn things over to ed. >> we're off to a warm start. as soon as you step outside you will notice that it's warm and extremely muggy this morning. that's all thanks to a change in the weather pattern. there's a shot of the hillsborough river. 80 degrees this morning, calm winds. 79 in st. petersburg, 77 in plant city. even our inland communities a little bit more -- a little bit warmer this morning. right now not too much showers offshore of sarasota county this morning. we have this on shore flow and that's the big change in the pattern that's going to cause some showers potentially near the coast during the morning hours between now and 11:00 and then into the afternoon the rain chances will favor our inland communities but over all not quite as many showers and storms as yesterday. the storm chance around 30% today. there's the break down, 79

you're watching news channel 8 %f0 >>> it's already raining. setting the stage for the possibility of flooding later today. we have rain in pinellas and some spotty areas of rain in sarasota and manatee county. so when the kids go to the bus stop this morning, they'll need their rain slickers. scattered showers, not much sun and basically a rainy day all day. watch for puddles forming. 85degrees later today. >>> looking at the the bay area bridges here. howard frankland bridge, a wet drive but still a good one. south. i have an issue off to the shoulder but no delays. sunshine skyway bridge up to speed, just very wet. >>> tracking the tropics. a hurricane watch has been issued for part of our coastline. the latest on tropical depression number nine and how it could affect our area. >>> crossing the border, republican presidential candidate donald trump meet with mexico's president later on today. how this could impact his immigration speech later today. >>> final good-bye. one of tampa's most respected religious leaders will be laid to rest tod

reporting live in lorain, channel 3 news. >>> thank you very much. the hunt continues for two men who murdered another man in a home. al good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening. this street is back open after being closed for a majority of the day. clanton police left 40 minutes ago and took down the crime tape around this house and put up a do not enter sign on the door. we're told a woman left this house and ran to this house for help with her hands bound. >> her hands were tied up. she said somebody was shot in her house. door neighbor around 9:00 tuesday morning. when police showed up to 2413 midway avenue northeast, they found two men were shot and killed inside the house. police identified one of them as 35-year-old joshua witherspoon who lived here. >> we don't know why another male was in the house, why another female and kids were in the house. we don't know. >> david bush has no idea who could have done this cousin. >> they'll know the first 24 hours or won't. it is what it is. >> reporter: right now you could see two people on the d

news channel 8 east lindsey mastis was there -- news channel 8's lindsey mastis was there this morning. >> colleagues and friends and family coming together to show love and support. >> before school colleagues prayed. >> we're asking for caroline to have her health restored to her. she's a wonderful teacher and our hearts are broken. >> she and her friend hankins are in the hospital after an accident. the driver brice macleod faces to the hospital. >> we're singing to her. playing music in her ear. we know that's what she thrivers on. -- thrives on. >> she's a beloved music teacher. >> she always did great things with the kids. you can feel the passion for music. >> the children love her. she's energetic. she's get going. she's just -- she's got a lot of love. >> ja account. in pinellas county lindsey mastis news channel 8. >>> what we found after digging into the accused driver's history. >>> donald trump laid out his plans to fight radical islamic extrooemism. he said -- extremism. he said he would temporarily countries that are known to export terrorists. >> in the cold war we had

>>> right now on news channel 8 at 7:00. >> good evening. years on the run have come to deadly crash on inter275 back in 2012. christopher ponce is in custody in spain and will be brought back to the united states. chip, do we have any idea when he upon return to tampa? >> reporter: it could take months. it could be longer than that. we spoke with one legal expert who told us it could take longer than a year if he fights ex tradition back here on the united states. it's difficult to imagine wade angel's pain knowing the man accused of killing his son was a freeman. >> i see reports all the time about people who were on the lam for much longer. i was prepared for the longhaul. >> reporter: in a small city in spain, a suspicious christopher ponce was spotted in a bus station by officers. questioning. at that time they found a fake mexican passport on him. >> reporter: when will he return to the u.s.? brian is a legal expert and attorney not affiliated with this case. he explains it could be a while. >> due process -- the treaty with spain requ

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that channel lines up right there on your screen. and let's happy it's not as hot in jacksonville as it was in philadelphia the other night. >> a little warm for your taste, dan. >> us floridians were suffering. it was that hot. >> well you did a great job. never broke a sweat. >> oh, and there was a sweat. >> and on that note. >>> how's the forecast looking for tonight? >> it's looking fairly quiet but tomorrow similar story. rain chances all start sliding towards the coast as we go into the evening. watch out for heavy downpours. low 90s through next week. a typical mid august in tamp bay and some frequent cloud-to-ground lightning. >> thank you very much. and thank you so much for joining us tonight. 8:00 and 11:00. it's a sunday night around here. so have a good night and we'll see you in just a bit.

to have an fm channel. of course social media is on the worldwide web available to anyone, not just people in the middle east. >> so potentially how big ask your audience? >> our audience, as we have been able to measure it, we can't measure in all the countries we're located, can't measure in places like libya or syria, is about 27 million, people who consume our products on a weekly basis of the largest portion of the audience is tv which is about 17 million. the radio audience is about 11, 12 million, and the is our digital audience. >> brian conniff, what is the mission of mbn? >> the mission of mbn is to broadcast accurate and relative information to news audience in the middle east. we have a broader spectrum of opinions and perspectives normally available to the audience through indigenous media in the region. >> as an arm of the u.s. government, can be you critical of u.s. policy? >> certainly we can. and i would say we're not really an arm of the u.s. government. we're a private company. we receive

we will talk about your forecast coming up. >>> you're watching news channel 8, the channel that is i got shot down over vietnam and spent eleven months in a pow camp. what donald trump said about our members of the military being captured is a disgrace. he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. when you fly over enemy territory, the odds he's unfit to be president. >>> a huge dust storm moved to arizona tuesday. this is a time lapse video of the storm. the storm packed wind gusts above 35 miles per hour and also caused the temperature to drop nearly 20 degrees. it makes for interesting pictures. temperature when it is up above 100 degrees probably feels good. 77 degrees. we have a few showers pass around freedom plaza. northwest winds at 12 miles per hour . a quarter of an inch of rain at this location . the plantation at crystal river is 94 degrees. no rain there in terms of temperatures. in lakeland, 85 degrees. 57% could develop around this area for the rest of this evening. 22.11 inches from the first part of june until now. this is as much rai

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news channel 8's lindsey mastis joins us. lindsay, this can be a scary situation because we have seen some instances not long ago here locally. >> reporter: yeah, it's very scary and there's a lot we don't think about until it happens. i was able to work with tampa fire-rescue. they took a school bus and destroyed it so we could show kids what to do just in case. in this situation, the bus tips on to a car. the to survive the initial urges kids to buckle up. for buses without seat belts -- >> the most important thing that children can do is sit and don't stand up and walk around. >> reporter: after a crash, rescue crews race to the scene. [sirens. >> reporter: until then, kids should follow the bus driver's instructions or look to older, calmer kids. >> the most important thing is to remain calm, consider the others. >> command and control. >> reporter: as the bus balances on top of the car, it before rescuing the kids. kids are used to go down the center aisle to get on and off the bus when it's on the side, you have to be c

. >>> good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. i'm paul mueller in for gene. >> and i'm gayle guyardo. a lot of folks are waking up wondering what's going on. >> yes, again just a minute or so ago, we got the update from the hurricane cronetter. still tropical storm nine. when i look at the state lite imagery, looks like a well formed tropical storm. i am going to read their discussion as to why they didn't upgrade it because it looks well formed. mexico. and still has the potential to strengthen which is why parts of the tampa bay area including parts of the big bend of florida, under a hurricane watch. now that doesn't mean necessarily that the system is expected to strengthen to a hurricane but the red shaded area in citrus, hernando and pasco, you could philhorse force gusts within 48 hours. more than likely tomorrow. inland areas of citrus, hernando and pasco, that's a tropical storm watch meaning force winds within 48 hours. here's this forecast. it is still to expected to strengthen today to a tropical storm as it makes the

>>> right now on news channel 8 at 7:00. >> good evening. we begin with a deadly lightning strike in sarasota. it happened about 90 minutes shelter in a gazebo when the lightning hit. steve joins us live in the forecast center. this can happen in the summer storms that crop up almost every day. >> lightning is a danger we take for granted every day. i don't know the exact circumstances that happened here, but the line of thunderstorms did pass off shore in a pretty solid line from sarasota to pinellas county. as best we can tell according to reports we is likely when the strike would have occurred which is just north of the downtown area. and that lightning strike would actually have occurred after the main line of thunderstorms had moved off shore. this one almost occurred farther east of where the thunderstorm line was. so the lightning danger remains really anytime you're hearing thunder and especially near thunderstorms that have recently occurred. right now you can see there's a few lightning strikes on the map despite the fact that a l

news channel 8's lindsey mastis joins us. lindsay, we are getting a lot of comments about this on our wfla facebook page. >> reporter: yeah, a lot of people questioning how investigators are not revealing much but two women that witnessed part of the tragedy as it happened, they're now speaking out and calling for changes to the ride. >> i think they definitely need to fix the straps on the ride. because you would think for something that's supposed to be known for the tallest slide in the world they would have more secure straps than velcro. >> i think they need to fix the like really good. and you hit your head a lot. >> reporter: and now this video is showing riders going airborne on this test model of the ride in texas. that video is from 2014. and we're learning that early tests of the ride, sandbags flew off the rafts. and here is a picture of the victim, just 10 years old. and engineers had to reton configure the angles before it opened and were height and weight restrictions as well. the family is asking for privacy a

but news channel 8 on top of it. and you can keep up to date with everything zika virus related on news channel 8's website, wfla.com. >>> and new information now about a double shooting in st. petersburg. police tell us the two men shot are still alive. they're 25 and 29 years old. the shooting happened at bay vista park on pinellas point drive south. one man drove himself to the hospital. the other was found with a gunshot wound at the park. from new york to have sex with a 13-year-old bay area girl is now this morning in the land o'lakes detention center. the 21-year-old christian roke is being held on $25,000 bond. and investigators tell us the victim's parents came home from vacation to find him hiding in their daughter's closet. he admitted to detectives that he took a train to meet the girl for sex. investigators also found nude photos of her on his phone. >>> and across america leave, some people in the path of california's chimney fire are staying put as their homes burn to the ground. take a look. fire offi

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news channel 5. >> we wanted to give you more information about this. so we reach t out to the ohio out how many tickets have been handed out. they tell us in march they issued 38 citations. that spiked to 142 in april. the project started on april 4th. in may there were 158 citations and in june the barricades went up and 25 tickets were issued in that area. >>> a man accused. three men on the run. atm smash and grabs spanning five years. with a huge break in the case cuyahoga prosecutor says he's promising at least a century behind bars. you got ahold of the indictment. >> yes. here it is. eight people behind bars, three still wanted in connection to these atm thefts in avon, parma, cleveland, township and macedonia. swat teams hit four locations and arrested three people connected to the indictment. also a dive team surfaced a rifle and other evidence from a creek. that will be used in court. officials today say the suspects caused millions in damage and theft and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from small businesses and communities throughout

forecast and sports with dan lucas coming up on news channel >>> right now on news channel 8 at 6:00. >>> a man looking for love is lured to his death. see how charged in this crime of passion. >>> on the run and now captured again. how this guy took advantage of a deputy's mistake to make his great escape:. >>> and you paid for him to do his job. a fire inspector answers tough questions about why he's accused of blowing off inspections. i'm keith cate. and i'm stacie schaible. a warning tonight after an online dating connection turned deadly. hilarie fritd night. police -- friday night. police believe a woman he met online lured him in and then after going on a date took three men to his home who robbed and killed him. melissa marino joins us now at the victim's home in auburndale. what a terrible occurrence that's happened here. can you tell us more? >> the victim brought his date back here to his apartment and she came back several hours later with company. >> reporter: story from a hollywood movie but this nightmare is all too real for the family of 26-year- old adam hilarie. >> i

. >>> good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. i am gayle guyardo. >> and i am gene ramirez. thank you for joining us. the bay area is preparing for tropical depression number nine which is expected to bring this morning we have team coverage. meteorologist leigh spann is tracking the system for us. news channel 8's mary mcguire is at a sandbag filling location. and our ryan hughes is at ray jay with the buc's big decision to move thursday night's game. we start our team coverage with leigh. leigh, what's going on with the storm? >> right now, hurricane hunters from macdill air force base right here in tampa left about 12:30. they have been flying around the center of circulation. they found about a 33 miles per hour wind. again, not just a graphic. this is actually gps tracking where the plane is. it left out of macdill air force base. once we get the information from this flight, we will have more information and we will get a new forecast track from the hurricane center within the half hour. stay with us. this is the 11:00 p.m.

welcome to news channel 8 today eight on this monday. i'm-- welcome to news channel 8 today on this monday. i'm melanie michael in for gayle. >> and i'm gene ramirez. with us over the weekend. it has over a thousand shares and many more likes and it's one of top clicked stories on wfla.com. more on this video and the reasons why experts expect he was running like the wind. that's coming up in minutes. >>> but first, let's check with leigh spann tracking the tropics. >> that's right. of course, the national hurricane center is keeping an eye on things too. they sent hurricane hunters out this morning and they have been going through the center of so far finding about a 37 miles per hour wind speed. and finding it disorganized as well. but the latest information, still a tropical depression as of 5:00 this morning. and still expected to become a tropical storm by tomorrow morning as it heads into the central gulf of mexico. but after tomorrow afternoon, it makes a hard right turn through wednesday. this is early thursday morning at 2:00 a.

live in strongsville, paul, news channel 5. >>> still ahead on news channel 5 at 6, more than 4 dozen people arrested as part of an undercover investigation. police say it is all drug related. >>> plus, would -- plus donald how he would help boost the economy if he were president. more on the campaign trail >>> an update to a saw first on 5, more than 50 people arrested as a result of an undercover investigation. >> that operation focused on heroin related crimes. >>reporter: as the heroin problem continues to get worse, so does the crime associate welcome west division it. here in mentor, they saw a huge spike in theft, addicts stealing to support their habits and police worked quickly to nip that right in the bud. from jewelry to electronics to lightbulbs, crab legs, and baby formula. the spike in crime so bad, mentor police received a grant for undercover operation. >> it's one of the most did i have cull things we've faced as a society in a long time. >>reporter: so far, the state made 56 arrests and recovered around $8500 in stolen goods. they can't say exactly what they do but i

tracy, news channel. forecast with janessa webb. >> tracking sunshine and seeing the high cubing plus clouds starting -- cumulus clouds forming across nice ohio. -- northeast ohio. official high of 89 degrees. 90 readings for akron and canton this afternoon so still that warm air definitely in full effect. flood advisories cincinnati and dayton area right now and some of this moisture is starting to track into northeast ohio so ash land, seeing a few heavy downpours. moving north and east fairly quickly, medina county, seeing a few cells moving through and summitt county across 77 south dealing with moisture and a gust front that has formed for strongsville mixing in with moisture along with a south hudson so twins burg, seeing rain drops but not tracking any lightning thus far. hour by hour, things will rev up for the rest of the evening. show you here, as you hear thunder, be inside and i'll be with you all night long. track these storms and this will definitely be on the scattered side but we are gonna

news channel 5 at 6:00 starts >>> now new at 6:00, a news channel 5 investigation. after business after business was smashed and the atms inside grabbed, the thieves leaving a trail of shattered glass and mangled metal around northeast ohio. well today we learned there's a possible break in the case. >> but we also learned the businesses are not taking any chances and they are fighting back. megan hickey has been digging into the security changes. megan, they come in a pretty high cost? >> repte thousands of dollars in repairs skyrocketing insurance costs, and extra security. but the businesses tell me that they are relieved to hear that the suspects are in custody. at the beginning of the summer the dairy mart on west 117th, they would have a much different look. the suspects would cruise through the wall with the minivan and they stole the atm. since then that it has not been replaced. >> and any person that would do