i'm melissa moreno. thank you very much for joining us. last night lightning struck and killed a woman in a sarasota county park. she was at martin luther king park on coconut avenue when storms rolled. in we are homeless. her name has not been released. >>> last night a bad crash in st. petersburg. a car flipped and knocked down a power pole and caught a nearby palm tree on fire. a passenger had to be rescued. everyone is expected to be okay. here's ed with your forecast. >>> starting off nice along our area beaches. looking from clearwater beach just scattered clouds overhead. 80 degrees with east winds. latest on invess 99l will roll through the florida straits. moisture by the time we go into early next week. today a 40% chance of afternoon storms. 92. higher rain chances by monday will boost that up to 60% monday and tuesday. i think everyone's home becomes a part of them or takes on their character. and you lose so much of that stuff in the flood that you just cannot imagine how much damage a littl

i'm melissa moreno. thank you so much for joining us. we are going to get to our top stories in a moment. first we are going to check on the weekend forecast with ed bl moving right along at 7:00 a.m. make sure you have your umbrella handy for later this afternoon. first half of the day i think we are good. later this evening the thunderstorms will start forming. temperatures stay warm and steamy as we take you hour-by- hour, we'll see the numbers get to 88 by noon. on our way up to 92 for your high by 3:00 and 4:00. there is the latest on invess 99. the system we have been tracking. right now it is just an opened wave at this point. taking this through the florida strait then entering the gulf of mexico. the good news if you are us most of the models take this back to the west closer to the central gulf. it is maintained as a very weak system overall. a lot of good news we are seeing this morning in regards to the tropical disturbance. here's our forecast model as we go through the day. inland showers and thunderstorms developing. they'

i'm melissa moreno. thank you so much for joining us. in our top stories this morning a moldy mess at a bay area school. children are sick and parents are outraged. we'll show you what parents had to stay to the school's ceo last night. >>> you may remember him as the well this fsu student is now awake. we'll bring you the latest on his condition and what investigators are waiting on. >>> at the university of north carolina, the controversial bathroom bill has been blocked. we'll get to that and more in just a moment. first, less get -- let's get a check on your forecast with ed bloodsworth. >> it is the weekend. it is finally here. for the most part not too bad. although by tomorrow i think we'll start to need those umbrellas a little bit re we are starting off with a lot of scattered cloudiness. we'll have a few more clouds than we typically see this time of year. also this big area of red you see there, that's that tropical wave. invess 99 we have been watching all week long. lates run of the forecast models just came in a few the cha

tonight a killer remains on the run, and the victim's family is growing desperate for answers as melissa moreno shows us, clues are scarce but the family still hopes for justice. >> if you're a mother, you know it's not easy. >> a mother's desperate plea for help. >> i'm asking anybody who knows anything about the case, please come forward. >> reporter: these bullet homes at this home a reminder of that a witness that might claims a black male knocked on the door and pointed a gun at him. >> the suspect demanded that he call mr. pierre to the door. >> when he did, the man shot him in the chest and took off. the only clues police will release are these photos. take a good look. this woman is a person of interest and may know who pulled the trigger. there is an 8,000-dollar crime stoppers reward in this case. we have more information on our website, wfla.com. in lake land, news channel 8. >>> miami's art de co south beach is the latest zika hot spot. five new infections have occurred in the south beach area. that makes it the second infection zone on the u.s. mainland. the first was miami's art's

in davenport, melissa moreno, news channel 8. >>> tonight the hair care going bald. they all claim they used a popular shampoo and now as melanie michaels shows us, congress is trying to get tougher laws on the books that could give the fda more power to pull products. this brooksville mother of two has been heart broken for the last ten months after losing chunks of hair. she began going bald she tells us after using the popular shampoo, wen. >> when you brush your hair, you can literally hear the ha coming out from your scalp. >> 8 on your side has followed tina's case closely. she recently received a letter from the fda as the agency is now investigating 21,000 complaints across the country from women who have used wen. >> obviously there's a problem. if it's 21,000 claims, that's a lot. >> bobby russell is a certified women. she treats hair loss cases in women daily. delving right down to the scalp. she welcomes the proposed changes that would allow the fda to crack down. >> i do agree that we need to have regulations that let us know what's going on our bodies.

melissa moreno, news channel 8. >> hillary clinton is returning to florida this week. she will be in st. petersburg tomorrow where she will hold a jobs rally and then kissimmee >>> as the back to school sales tax holiday comes to an end, it wraps up today in fact, 100 needy children in pasco county got an even better deal than that. mary maguire shows us how police paired with other community partners to make this all possible for them. >> reporter: with the first day of school right around the corner, families are stocking up and shelling out big bucks to make sure that students are ready to put their best foot forward. yet, for hundreds of in pasco county, there just isn't enough room in the household budget for school supplies. >> we have so many families who are either in transition, homeless, families who have serious illness, issues in their family, and back to school shopping is a luxury they normally can't do. >> reporter: members of the fraternal order of police pasco lodge 29 recognized that need and paired with community partners to raise enough money county