people do that time to time. >> reporter: >> peter bernard live at indian shores. >>> of course, we have that tropical storm warning in e for coastal areas. this goes all the way through citrus county up into levy county where the effects will be felt a bit more closer to the center of the system. hurricane warning for areas north of us, but this includes the coastal regions and we're especially concerned about the high tide coming up in the early morning hours. that will push the water and seawall up a couple feet and add to that a southwesterly flow and you'll have a decent tide here. it's mostly about the downpours, fortunately appears to be weakening a little bit. the red colors indicate the new tornado watch that goes into effect until 8 a.m. and north to n see the banding features. they can come with some very violent weather, certainly some very strong wind gusts we w today as well as damage associated with wind gusts and tornadoes, too, moving south to north at 45 miles an hour. back to our west they continued to come onshore. inland quiet, eventually maybe a light shower, an occ

peter bernard is live on clearwater beach. how does it look there. >> surprisingly. the city workers today came out here and did a good job. but, the hurricane did take its toll on this little strand of paradise. hurricane hermine left behind flooding, debris, and a bit of damage. blustery breezes didn't keep people away from clearwater beach despite red flag warnings of dangerous surf, it is green light for these guys. >> how often do you get to use your board here? >> once or twice a year. a jetty and seawall. repair costs? $175,000. sand dunes, 100 grand to fix them. sea grass, add another, $35,000. tons of sand are gone. $25,000 to the bill. you are looking at $335,000 in this area alone. northeast of the stuff is >> >> reporter: city crews cleaned the famous beach walk. a few place haves pools of water. not the greatest for tourists. >> the wind and stuff was pretty strong. >> reporter: any sand found in parking lots had to be hauled off over contamination fears. never heard that beforings at the dimaggio complex, a scoreboard, a foul post, all damaged. the city

peter bernard joins us live at the school. a heart ache for so many people there. >> reporter: it is. one of today could hardly get the words out. this is where jose fernandez honed his baseball skills. his career took off like a home run into the upper deck. watching current members of the alonso high school baseball team wrap up a quick practice, you can't help but wonder if another jose fernandez is among them. the pitcher for the florida marlins were alongside them. the boat they were riding in this alonso coach knew josi had talent. >> the first day he showed up, i knew he was special. i told one of my assistant coaches, he is going to be a first-round pick. >> reporter: they believed someday he would be a hall of famer. his former pitching coach choked up talking about the young man who loved baseball and worked hard to fine-tune his skills. >> to us, he was like a comet we were able to harnes for the rest of the world to see. >> reporter: daring to escape cuba, jose fernandez made it to the top, respected and admired by

peter bernard, news channel 8. >>> happening today, remembering a baseball star with ties to the bay area. tonight the high school will had hold a memorial for miami marlins pitcher jose fernandez. he and two friends died over the weekend when the boat they were on crashed into rocks. fernz' hearts of the bay area when he made a harrowing escape from cuba and settled in tampa. tonight the's memorial is 5:79:30. and today, his fans will participate in a procession viewing in miami. a private funeral is tomorrow. >>> world leaders are remembering former israeli prime minister and nobel prize admired leaders and considered a warrior for peace. had he is credited with brokering a peace deal with the palestinians in the 1990s. he was praised for his commitment in pursuing peace. he was 93 years old. >>> hands down, the most talked about story on wfla.com and our news eight facebook page right now is a polk county man's protest to he is raising eyebrows. news channel 8's meredyth censullo has the details on the dirty decals. >> reporter: yeah, dirty and getting dirtier by the moment. here

news channel 8's peter bernard is at alonso high school where jose truly made his mark. peter, what a loss. >> reporter: keith, they loved him here. this is the school where play baseball, but sometimes his exuberance got the best of him. if these young alonso high ravens baseball players need any inspiration, they only need to look at jose fernandez, his baseball coach thinks back on the day of his first home run. >> he's running around the bases jumping up and down, got this big smile ear to ear. next thing he's taking off his helmet and i'm like whoa, what coach, i'm excited. >> reporter: a special message offers words of encouragement, something jose did often. someone placed flowers nearby. under these lights for three years jose honed his skills to take him to the majors. >> the first day he showed up here i knew he was special and i remember telling one of my assistant coaches that guy will be a first round pick. >> reporter: in the crash investigators believe it was going very fast, perhaps full throttle. jose's former pitching coach sums up what ma >> to us he wa

peter bernard is live for us now in polk county and this thing is gigantic. >> reporter: isn't that amazing video. this is a monster sinkhole out here. this is at the plant here called the new wales plant off county road 640 just south of mulberry. the sinkhole actually was discovered almost three weeks ago. since then about 250 million gallons of contaminated water have drained into the aquifer. the mosaic plant is in a really bad spot. it sits right in the middle of a massive gypsum stack. that's the stuff that comes out of the plant after the company produces phosphate fertilizers and animal feed ingredients. workers monitoring water levels discovered a drop. >> when it was first noticed, we installed pumping systems to move water out of that compartment on the gypsum stack to recover the water. >> reporter: the water is contaminanted with phosphoric acid, but so far it's not believed to be making it to wells. they are monitoring wells and further out there are more. >> we're confident the wells we started up are capturing that water pulling it back. >> reporter: the closest homeowners w

peter bernard is live on the causeway and you found out this type of crash is happening way too often. >> reporter: way too often, jen, and the wreck that happened here sent eight people to area hospitals including an 18-month-old girl and a 3-year- old. there's where it happened right there. many distracted driving crashes can be blamed on one thing, people looking at their phones. one moment of distraction and this is what you get, a mangled mess of metal, plastic and glass, several injuries including a baby, gabriella alvarez suffering critical injuries. tampa injury attorney derek capaz is frustrated with the ongoing problem of distracted drivers. he sees firsthand the carnage they leave behind. >> we've seen a dramatic increase in the number of crashes occurring every year. just last year alone it was reported over 45,000 crashes realize there was a red light from a moment of inattention. >> reporter: in the sunday night crash clearwater police tell us julie goff driving a honda crv west on the courtney campbell plowed into another car stopped at the light touching off a chain re

peter bernard is joining us live tonight. this appears to be some kind of religious ritual is what they're saying from what you've seen? >> reporter: that's what we're hearing. it could be part of the santa ria religion. this is the area where tampa police found some of the dead animals. i see coconut, apple and some flowers. that's all part of the religious practice. is this where they were? >> yes, they were all over here, all under here. a lot of them was under the brush. >> reporter: monday night bay area animal advocate lisa hayward stumbled on scenes of death along a 1/2 mile section of the north side of the courtney campbell causeway just east of the boat launch. she suspects the dead chickens, ducks, other birds and a goat are part of a religious be happening on the courtney campbell causeway and for all the right reasons for, you know, diseases and decomposing bodies and it seems like they're also using this as a dutch dump ground. >> reporter: hayward court documented at least 27 animals with their heads cut off and

peter bernard is live for us in polk county right now and amazingly none of >> reporter: absolutely amazing and the guy in this car just didn't care whom he killed. he is 32-year-old francis perry. i have a mugshot of him right there. he just got out of prison in march, but since then the sheriff tells me that he's already violated numerous laws. a bullet ridden dodge challenger sits in a driveway off golfview street. nearby evidence markers show where shell casings flew. down the dark tinted windows when four law enforcement officers surrounded him. instead -- >> we are met with gunfire. he shoots out of the passenger side of the vehicle toward the height of officers. >> reporter: hita is an acronym for a task force made up by several agencies who target wanted felons in polk county. >> we shot back because he shot at us and we have shot at him a lot. >> reporter: cops dragged perry from the car, performed cpr and called an ambulance. police chiefs from the three judd saying how glad they are every one of them avoided being shot. >> these officers have families to go home to and tonight th

peter bernard, news channel 8. >>> a bartow man is accused of trying to kill a man using the let go auction app. jeffrey morrow was killed in the family dollar store. it's believed the meeting was arranged through let go app and detectives crack the case. >>> a child suffered bite marks all over his body, and now jay's bright learner day care is being investigated. pictures show bite marks on his face, arms, and back. the mother says it apted when another child at the day care bit her son. detectives arrested a day care worker of neglect. 23-year-old casey burke has watching the children. >>> a dramatic rescue at sea. >> coast guard, i have a mayday here. i'm taking on water in all compartments. >> reporter: you can see the man frantically bailing water with a plastic cup. that's al >> rescuers lowered a pump, and they were able to keep it afloat until it made it to the shore. >>> after searching for more than 24 hours, crews were unable to find a new york woman that went overboard on a cruise ship. >>> in st. petersburg, millions it started during hermine, and it's still going on. business

peter bernard continues with team coverage, in sarasota. peter. >> chris: there are a number of people that are out of their homes, and long time residents in at least 25 years. whitaker bayou is behind me. take a look. it is a raging torrent. look at the water, and this with hermine, far, far away from the bay area. fire rescue crews deployed boats to make sure they could get to every house along 40th street, just east of coconut avenue, unsure of the water's depth. sarasota police told 7 neighbors it would be wise to get out. an officer carried a dog, and helped the owner slog through waist high water. >> i have water, it's coming in now. >> you're all right? >> yes, i'm fine. >> officers came to get you? that's nice? another owner, another pet. >> who is this? >> nemo, and he's very wet. and he doesn't under what's going on. >> is there water in your house? >> not yet. >> 9 timing is city leaders tide, and right now, what's unusual is it's low tide. i think just our storm water system is overloaded. overloaded. >> >> chris: the street tur

and now some worry that this morning peter bernard has details. >> reporter: this is a monster sinkhole. it opened up at the plant on highway 640 south of mulberry. it opened about six weeks ago. >> about 40 feet across and who knows how deep, this sing hole at the plant is in a really bad spot. it sits right in the middle of a stuff that comes out of the plant after the company produces phosphate fertilizers and animal feed ingredients. >> when it was first noticed, we installed pumping systems to move water out of the compartment on the stack to recover the water. >> reporter: the water is contaminated with acid and is slightly radio active and not all of it is being caught by the pumps. you wouldn't want to drink this stuff but so far engineers making it to private wells. near the stack, they have monitoring wells and further out there, are more. >> we're confident that the wells are capturing the water and pulling it back. >> reporter: the closest homeowners who are all several miles away can still use their water without worries but if they have concern, the company will test it. s

. >> and as news channel 8's peter bernard reports, the suspect has a rap sheet at least a hundred pages long. >> reporter: his name is francis perry, 32 years old. he just got out of prison march and cops say he has already violated numerous laws since then. a bullet-riddled dodge challenger. shell casings flew. polk county sheriff judd told us four law enforcement officers surrounded him. >> he shoots out of the passenger side of the vehicle up by several agencies who target wanted felons. >> we shot back because he shot at us. and we shot at him a lot. >> reporter: cops dragged him from the car, performed cpr and called an ambulance. police chiefs joined the sheriff saying how glad they are every one of them avoid being shot. >> these officers have families to go home to. and tonight they were with a dangerous situation. >> reporter: perry is facing a long list of charges to be the added to a rap sheet that's at least 100 pages long. trying to kill law enforcement will now be one of the most serious. >> the message is very clear, don't point your guns and shoot at law enforcement offi

peter bernard joins us live from palm harbor. and, what have you learned peter? >> reporter: stacie, we are in the piper's meadow subdivision. this is just a tragic scene out here. where a toddler was left, we see in the driveway behind me. a chevy silverado. it is roped off with crime scene tape. and we saw a very distraught man in the front yard we presume is the boy's father. i also spoke to a person who was out here who lives across the street. he is a retired pinellas county sheriffs deputy. he says he and the father performed cpr on the child some time. we learned that child was taken to a hospital and has since died. my sources say it is a boy, a and, right now, there's lots of sheriffs deputies here. you can see there's a large contingent of pinellas county deputies over there. and one of them is the public information officer for pinellas county. so moments from now, i'm going to get off the air and go talk to him and find out the particulars of this. just to reiterate. a boy was in the truck back there, taken to a hospital. but didn't make it after cpr.

nearly $35,000 is missing from the league's funds and as peter bernard report, a sports management company may be to blame. f0 >> reporter: that's right. parents are outraged over all of this. nearly 300 kids participate in the little league system and their season could be over before it's really started this year. now this all links back allen, texas that is holding back payments collected from fees. 8 on your side contacted the owner who said the credit card processor froze his account after after parents in utah began asking for refunds. >> we're trying to do some temporary short-the term things and we have discussed that with the northeast little league board and treasurer. we are caught in the mid and will we are at the mercy of don't buy the explanation and parents are now pitching in through a gofundme account to try to keep this thing going. st.petersburg police say they don't believe any criminal wrongdoing is happening here but they have forwarded a complaint to authorities in texas to look into this. the company says they are being held hostage by their own bank but they have n

peter bernard is live at one of the ball fields the little league uses and you found out there is an explanation for all of this. >> reporter: there is an explanation. the little leaguers, we are out watching the game. it appears this looks like this could be a huge ripoff or a giant fraud and you can't blame the lk together for thinking so. however, hang with me. here are some pictures we shot earlier. two weeks into the season, and two months of fee collection, and the northeast little league is finding its caught in a pickle. a texas company called jevin is not doling out money sent to pay bills. the league hired jevin to manage fee collection and payments. we are talking almost $35,000 that has somehow gone poof. it is putting the league in a bind right now and has parents in a tizzy. with the cash and someone need to be hold accountable. >> this is an american sport. this is what it is all about. these kids are learning about life out here and it is wrong. >> we have games to play. we have almost 300 kids playing baseball here in the fall. and we owe thousands of dollars to loca

peter bernard spoke with his coach at the high school today and will have more on this situation coming up on news channel 8 at 6:00. >>> we new know the name of the man who opened fire on a strip mall in houston. police senate injured nine people when he started firing inside a shopping center in southwest houston. houston's mayor says he was ally disgruntled with his law firm because either the firm was breaking up or he taken to the hospital where edied. the fbi is helping with this investigation. >>> tonight protesters are demanding change in the wake other deadly police shooting of keith scott in charlotte, nort carolina. as the state investigates the shooting some are calling for the city's mayor and police chief to resign. they're criticizing those two for how they handled the situation and the protests that followed. >> we're making sure everybody's registered to vote here. we need change and leadership. >> the charlotte city council meets tonight for the first time since tuesday's shooting. protesters are expected there, as well. >>> two former wells fargo workers who say they

. >>> a -- -- peter bernard, news channel 8. >>> the body of kenneth darling was found west of 78th avenue. witnesses telling detectives darling and the other man, bruce wilson, got into a fight after having a few drinks yesterday afternoon. darling was pronounced dead at the scene. and wilson will be in court >>> all right, new developments in the race for the white house this moisturing. donald trump's campaign now says he believes president barack obama was born -- this morning. donald trump's campaign now says he believes president barack obama was born in the united states. trump has not admitted that himself. just hours before the statement was released, he said he was not yet ready to say whether president barack obama was born in the u.s. president barack obama was born in hawaii. >>> hillary rodham clinton is back on the campaign trail claiming she feels gr event since her near collapse leaving the 9/11 ceremony on sunday. clinton was in north carolina where she talked about her bout with pneumonia and said the down time allowed her to reconnect with the goals of her campaign. >>>

peter bernard is live. you got an exclusive interview with the guy that tried to help the dad sa >> reporter: the driveway behind me is right there where this happened. it was a chaotic scene as people learned what happened and frantically tried to help. one of those is a retired pinellas sheriff's deputy. >> all the while he's crying. it was very emotional for me. >> reporter: retired sheriff's deputy joe lumpkin leaped from his couch when he heard about his neighbor, hillsborough county firefighter, troy whitaker screaming. >> i saw dad performing cpr compressions, compressions. he was frantic. stunned as he walked near the pickup truck where the sheriff tells me he'd left his 23-month- old son lawson. he had dropped his daughter addison off at her elementary school and was supposed to drop off lawson at daycare. >> troy parked his car and he left lawson in the car from somewhere around 8:30 this morning until around 4:30 this afternoon. >> reporter: with lawson still trapped in his car seat behind the dr

peter bernard joins us with more. >> reporter: he knew these fields well. the cuban born american played out here for three years from 2008-2011. his coaches remember him happens the guy who always had a smile and a sprang passion for the game watching current members wrap up a quick practice you can't help but wonder if another jose fernandez is among them. the 24-year-old pitcher died early sunday along with two other men when the boat they were riding in hit a talent. >> first day he showed up here, i knew he was special. i remember telling one of my assistant coaches he said he's going to be a first round pick. >> reporter: he would some day be a hall of famer. his former pitching coach choked up talk about the young man and worked hard to fine tune his skills. >> to us he was like a comet that we were able to harness for three years and then we let go for the rest the world to see. >> reporter: o most of these young players don't know him personally. some did because he would work out with them. >> he's a hard working guy. he loved the game. and he had

news channel 8's peter bernard attended one of those little league games in st. petersburg tonight and joins us live with a story on this real life cash crunch on the families. what happened to all this money? >> reporter: the sports management company is called jevin and they're having an economic crisis of their own. their banking company has frozen its accounts and it's affecting the little league two weeks into the fall baseball season and northeast little league is finding itself in a financial slump. a company called jevin is holding back payments collected from fees to the tune of almost $35,000. parents are outraged. >> i've spent many hours sweating in that concession stand, so it's upsetting to say the least. >> reporter: the lack of funds is league activity. >> we have almost 300 kids playing baseball in the fall and we owe thousands of dollars to local printers and t-shirt people and landscape people. we owe a lot of money. >> reporter: 8 on your side contacted the owner of jevin. dan patack tells me his credit card processor froze his account. >> we'

con artists often go after people who trust a little too much. 8 on your side's peter bernard is live in pinellas county tonight and this poor guy just kept sending money. i think i know the answer, but has he won anything? >> reporter: nothing, zero. it's just a really sad case. here at the pinellas county consumer protection office they've seen this many times. it is not news to them. that means it's up to family and friends to spot a fraud >> reporter: sweepstakes letters with promises of millions of dollars in prizes started arriving in 79-year-old ray smith's mailbox about two months ago. >> a prize of a car. one time it was two cars and some checks. >> reporter: to collect ray had to send in a small fee, then another small fee. >> and then there's a company that's supposed to be delivering the prize. everything they do they got to have some money. >> reporter: ray's good friend george fouling knew ray deep. >> -- fulk knew ray was in deep. >> i said raymond, it looks like a scam to me. any time you have to send money to get money, it's a scam of the. >> reporter: ray sold his '0

news channel 8's peter bernard is joining us in clearwater with new information about how much raw sawage was spilled. pete summer. sewage spewed from this station starting around 4:00 a.m. tuesday emergency and lasting until 1:00 this afternoon. that is small compared to the millions of gallons discharged by st. petersburg but it is enough to cause concern. 150,000 gallons? i hope they get it ficked very, very quickly. >> reporter: a pipe under this concrete slab ruptured letting loose a torrent of raw sewage into nearby alligator creek. it gushed for nine hours until >> what is different this time around is the governor has determined all spills, it appears, are going to be noticed the way this one was. in the past, a spill of this size, we would have noticed everyone anyway. >> reporter: responding to the mosaic sink hole and the sewage spill, governor spot issued an emergency rule requiring the pollution incidents be reported within 24 hours. near the clearwater spill, if the -- at the harbor arms town homes, this neighbor likes that really. otherwise the public will never -- you know

peter bernard with what you need to know. >> reporter: clean, fresh water. that's something we all expect as it flows for our happens, and michelle hooker says her backyard well is source. >> we brush our teeth, we bathe, feed our livestock. >> about 2 weeks ache we noticed a strong rotten egg like smell we have never had sulfur in our water or noticed a million like that before. >> the reason for the concern looms just beyond the drone line. we flew over to see how close the plant really is, and it was about 2 miles away as the drone happened with the sink hole and the possible contamination, my husband and i both, red flags went up. >> reporter: a sink hole of enormous proportions on top of the stack, and estimates are more than 215 million gallons of slightly radio active water has drained into the aquafir. they filter and purify their water, but their concern is still there. >> i called a contractor in to try to get the system to clean up the maine. >> we will be contact with anyone that if they have any concerns they can contact us, and we will sample t

feehan francis jude feely garth erin feeney sean bernard fegan lee s. fehling peterberg alan d. feinberg rosa maria feliciano >> and my brother, timothy riley. may our light and spirit continue to shine on us. >> and my brother-in-law, my brother, my buddy, dr. lee alan adler. we miss you and love you always, lee. [applause] >> edward p. felt edward thomas fergus, jr. george j. ferguson iii j. joseph ferguson henry fernandez judy hazel santillan fernandez julio fernandez elisa giselle ferraina anne marie sallerin ferreira robert john ferris david francis ferrugio louis v. fersini, jr. michael david ferugio bradley james fetchet jennifer louise fialko kristen nicole fiedel amelia v. fields samuel fields alexander milan filipov michael bradley finnegan timothy j. finnerty michael c. fiore stephen j. fiorelli paul m. fiori john b. fiorito john r. fischer andrew fisher bennett lawson fisher gerald p. fisher john roger fisher thomas j. fisher lucy a. fishman ryan d. fitzgerald thomas james fitzpatrick richard p. fitzsimons salvatore fiumefreddo darlene e. flagg wilson f.

feehan francis jude feely garth erin feeney sean bernard fegan lee s. fehling petererg rosa maria feliciano >> and my brother, timothy e. riley. may our light and spirit continue to shine on us. >> and my brother-in-law, my brother, my buddy, dr. lee alan adler. we miss you and love you always, lee. [applause] >> edward p. felt edward thomas fergus, jr. george j. ferguson iii j. joseph ferguson henry fernandez judy hazel santillan fernandez julio fernandez elisa giselle ferraina anne marie sallerin ferreira robert john ferris david francis ferrugio louis v. fersini, jr. michael david ferugio bradley james fetchet jennifer louise fialko kristen nicole fiedel amelia v. fields samuel fields alexander milan filipov michael bradley finnegan timothy j. finnerty michael c. fiore stephen j. fiorelli paul m. fiori john b. fiorito john r. fischer andrew fisher bennett lawson fisher gerald p. fisher john roger fisher thomas j. fisher lucy a. fishman ryan d. fitzgerald thomas james fitzpatrick richard p. fitzsimons salvatore fiumefreddo darlene e. flagg wilson f. flagg christina