i'm keith cate. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you for joining us. traffic is finally back open on fitzgerald road in lakeland. it was closed for hours today after a driver crashed his truck into a home, killing woman inside. tonight, the community is heartbroken over the death of janice folds. >> she was killed moments after she woke up in her own home. candace mccowan joins us live. this family was shattered within seconds. >> reporter: yeah keith, stacie, this is such a tragic story. they tell us when the driver came barreling through the front of the house that janice fold was killed instantly. >> we gave him field sobriety test which he miserablely failed. >> reporter: ryan talent told investigators he was going only 40 miles an hour when he crashed not only into, but through this home. >> you don't wipe out a house at 40 miles an hour. >> reporter: after the crash, investigators say he tried to leave, neighbors stopping him. >> if he had tried to leave, it would be problems for him. he would be skin up. >> reporter: but what happened here is ab

so go to wfla.com/heartwalk to donate or join stacie schaible's team. it is november 12. >>> the orlando magic honored victims and survivors of the pulse nightclub shooting at their season opener. they held a ceremony before their game against the miami heat. more than 100 survivors and family members who lost loves ones were in attendance. a banner was raised to the rafters remembering the 49 lives lost on june 12. >>> well, it is almost time for the friday step close tore making the playoffs and in front of the home crowd, they did it in thrilling fashion. newschannel8's anthony allred shows us how the zephyr hills bulldogs knocked off their undefeated cross county rival to become our team of the week. >> reporter: with the 5a district a title hanging in the balance, the zephyr hills bulldogs were all jacked up and ready to defend the dog pound. >> it was like a nervous day. we knew we lost the game. and letting our city down. so we just played our hearts out. >> reporter: the bulldogs down. then, a blocked punt falls into the praying hands of javar s

i'm rod carter. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you for joining us tonight. 8 on your side has obtained new e-mails that show the relationship between the ptc and the cab companies that they regulate is even cozier than we first reported. 8 on your side's jeff patterson joins us now live. he is in downtown tampa. are talking about here. >> reporter: yeah, good evening stacie. this is a story i have been reporting on for some time now, but there is breaking information about this tonight. because, ptc board chairman victor crist is calling for an emergency meeting with the ptc because of these e-mails i uncovered. we have been telling you about this for a week, now i have uncovered new e-mails an more evidence relationship between the head of the ptc and the cab companies he is regulating. it shows direct ties an sharing of inside information. the e-mails show ptc executive director kyle cockream is in constant contact with lou manardi. in october ever of last year,

good evening, i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm keith cate. thank you for joining us tonight. on the way to recovery, a bay area music teacher is speaking exclusively to newschannel8 tonight about losing his girlfriend and fellow teacher caroline sine. she was killed in a crash caused by a drunk driver that seriously injured sean hankins. he is now an advocate crashes. jamel lanee joins us live now. sean told you about plans to honor caroline. >> reporter: he did. good evening, you know, he wants to keep caroline sine's memory alive and he is hoping that his story will help keep others from gets behind the wheel drunk. >> it is is a process. i'm just doing the best i can. trying to take it one day at a time. and ... still have a ways to go. >> reporter: nearly two months teacher and girlfriend caroline

stacie schaible is still in the middle of the action. she joins joins right now live. >> reporter: we have heard a few phones ring. we want to hear a few more. we have volunteers from gte manning our phone bank. the number to call, 1-800-528- 0808. any donation you can give, any amount, is greatly appreciated. we do have some great incentives though in, we have five pairs of halloween horror night tickets for a $200 donation. five pairs of halloween horror night tickets, that, of course, runs through october 31. you can use it any time. and, you know that the lightning kick off their season tomorrow night. we have five pairs of upper level lightning ticket to the game on 1015. well. let's look at, if you have the ability to donate more, we also have for $1,000, four lower level seats to the bucs raiders game on october 30th. plus, this is something you can't buy, four sideline passes. those are priceless. if you want to donate $1,000, you will get four lower level seats to the bucs raiders game, and four sideline passes. the good lightni

. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you for joining us. >> fi police are on the hunt for a dangerous man now. he violently attacked a woman and tried to carjack a stranger in an effort to get away. let's go straight to newschannel8's john rogers two is live on the scene with the story. bring us up to date. >> reporter: it is a very scare story. it started here at this massage parlor. nearly 24 hours since the crime, police are despel venice police say this criminal is a very violent man. just before 8:00 wednesday night, he attacked a woman who worked at the 88 spa off tamiami trail in venice. then he popped into the back of a public driving toward publix. >> the driver noticed the person, was able to hit the brakes causing the person to call from the pickup. >> reporter: in the lot, the the injured masseuse made her way to a nearby shell station and was taken to sarasota general for treatment. schools were beliefly placed on lock down. >> the children were never on any danger. we thought this was the safest way t

good evening, i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm keith cate. thank you for joining us tonight. on the way to recovery, a bay area music teacher is speaking exclusively to newschannel8 tonight about losing his girlfriend and fellow teacher caroline sine. she was killed in a crash caused by a drunk driver that seriously injured sean hankins. he is now an advocate crashes. jamel lanee joins us live now. sean told you about plans to honor caroline. >> reporter: he did. good evening, you know, he wants to keep caroline sine's memory alive and he is hoping that his story will help keep others from gets behind the wheel drunk. >> it is is a process. i'm just doing the best i can. trying to take it one day at a time. and ... still have a ways to go. >> reporter: nearly two months

stacie schaible joins us live from the phone bank for the heart walk. i think stacie is trying to get ready there. can you hear us stacie? we have you live on tv right now. >> reporter: oh, are we up, keith? >> yeah, we are up. [ laughter ] i am down here in the heart walk phone bank. and we are still raising money and i love to hear the phones ring. please call 1-800-528-0808. i have to tell you, i started this 15 years ago. right after my son was born. and it was because my sister carrie had a heart attack. she texted me and said should i call or should i go to the it can you hear me carrie? carrie, are you there? she is on the line. oh, we are working on it. okay, we are going to give them a chance to pull her up. in the meantime,ly tell you about some incentives that are going on. for $250, not sure if you are interested in this, but if you want to come in and watch a live newscast of keith cate and i at 6:00, for $250, you can come in with two people and watch a live 6:00 p.m. newscast. we are in a spectacular place here on the water so we would lov

good evening, i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm keith cate. thank you for joining us. call it a baker's dozen. 13 days until election day. hillary clinton making another stop in tampa a couple of days after donald trump. both candidates pushing yard to it is like the final turn in a horse race down the stretch they come. candace? >> reporter: absolutely. you can definitely tell the heat is on. trump spent several days in florida this week as has clinton. today, she spent her 69th birthday on this stage behind me. she knows how essential it is at this point after seeing some of the poll numbers she really pushed hard on voters to get out to the polls. the crowd at treated to more than politicians. angela basset fired up the crowds. >> every time he says one of the outrageous things that he does have a wrong. he does have a way of saying i just keep remembering michelle obama's words when he goes low, we go high. >> reporter: every move matters here in florida. she is now only three points ahead of donald trump.

stacie schaible has been manning our phone bank. she started at 6:00 this morning and has details on how much you all have raised throughout the day. stacie, you look excited. i hope that means good news. >> reporter: it does mean good news jen, thank you so much. you have been helping to bring in donations today. greatly appreciate it. we have had many incentive prizes that have gone out to our very generous viewer who's have called in. we have bucs tickets, lightning our wfla newschannel8 lightning suite. all of those prizes went. there is one big one left. we are looking for a big generous donor looking to donate $10,000 for a round trip to la, hotel, air fare included and two tickets to ellen. two tickets to the ellen show. very popular show. comes on at 3:00 here on newschannel8. so if you would like to donate $10,000, that trip to the first bracelets. they are called bourbon and bow ties. the founder of this company, carly oaks, is from the bay area. aren't they beautiful? they run for about $50. they retail at little boutique

. >> and i'm stacie schaible. this is first at four. zika concerns especially for were confirmed in south florida. >> blood donations are being tested across the state and for good reason. a donor's blood came back positive for zika in august. the testing lab that caught it in the bay area. new channel 8 chanel shows us how to keep it out of reach. >> all the blood makes its way to the testing lab in st. pete. when it gets here, the blood is tested for zika. one blood official confirms the zika virus was found in a donation in florida. the blood was tested at their lab in st. pete where everybody one blood donor's blood is tested for zika virus. one rep could not give us specifics on where the donation came from. the doctors used highly sophisticated devices to test up to 3000 samples a day to provide results within hours to make sure that no zika positive supply. >> that's the reason that this strum and the test is in place. one blood wants to ensure that they provide screen or appropriately screened blood in light of the zika epidemic

. >> and i'm stacie schaible. we're going to head to lee span for a look at your workweek weather. >> it's not so spooky at all when you go outside. max defender 8 is confirming that of course. not only are we rain-free, we are basically cloud-free. when you look at the water vapor imagery, looking at the amount of water in the atmosphere, this bright yellow and orange, dry air, that's why i expect to see the clear skies like we're seeing at the lake land to continue. there's a light breeze out there. that will stay around through the rest of the afternoon as well. 79 in tampa. brooksville, 77. sarasota, 89 degrees. around 5:00, 84 degrees. a light breeze. nice and clear. for 8:00 p.m. a couple ghostly clouds. and eerily calm. friday. i'll have the details coming up next. >>> on the campaign trail, we could learn more about the new emails the fbi claims may be relevant to its investigation of hillary clinton's private server. >>> democrats are demanding answers and suggesting the fbi director may have broken the l

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i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm josh benson. thanks for being with us tonight. we have breaking news. a search is underway for a missing boater. paul lamison joins us live aboard eagle 8 hd. what's the latest? >> reporter: good evening josh. it is about the same as it was earlier. they are on the scene looking for the boater. here is what right here at the boat ramp, people saw a man pulling a boat. he went underwater. they never saw him resurface. they called 911, alerted hillsborough county sheriff. they alerted tampa fire rescue who respond today the scene and we are here at the boat ramp. i will show you, there's plenty of law enforcement boat ins the water and i will push into these two. these are tampa fire rescue boats. and, they do have divers in the have been doing a grade search. they have a little square area and they are going back and forth, back and forth, the divers in the water. also, other fire rescue boats here as well. and what they are doing, they are doing the same pattern. they are looking at the search of the shoreline and tampa police has a helicopter in the ai

. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you for joining us. tonight, a deal to fix the giant sink hole in polk county. the state is now requiring mosaic to fill it. the company must also make sure florida's water supply. 8 on your side easterliesless joins us live from the plant in new wales where this all happened. hi melissa. >> reporter: good evening stacie. if you take a look behind me, you can see the plant. just beyond that is where the massive sink hole opened up. now, the state is requiring the company to fix it or face fines. neighbors we spoke with welcoming this news but still skeptical. although recent well test mccormick doesn't know if it will always be. >> it is a concern for us. >> reporter: now the state is stepping in under a deal with the florida department of environmental protection, mosaic will be required to fill in the sink hole. the company will also have to recover all of the pollution that drained into the aquifer. if the contaminated water moves off site, they must clean the mess. residents like mccormick are

i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm keith cate and we begin with hurricane matthew. right now this major storm is bearing down on several caribbean nations and water already knee-deep in jamaica. haiti, columbia, and aruba feeling the effects in cuba is next. governor rick scott declared a state of emergency for all counties in florida and chief meteorologist steve jerve joins us with the latest on matthew. closer to us and more westward. >> following computer model trend tracking to the west and the official track of the national hurricane center and hurricane hunter aircraft and there today and picking up strong winds. 139 mile-per-hour winds and the folks in 80 have seen a foot of rain in some areas in the storm is not passed yet. stronger winds on the eastern side of the center of the store and the island of in espanol a cuba to the north of the storm itself. the stronger part of the storm is to the east of the eye and the eye is very tight which indicates high-intensity. moving north at 7 miles per hour and the hurricane warning's are the red color throughout ha

, keep in mind, this year's heart walk is coming up in november, but now is the time to join stacie schaible's team. fuccillo kia is again generously matching the first $50,000 we raise. go to wfla.com/heartwalk for amendment 1 guarantees your right - to generate your own solar energy. and placing that right in florida's constitution - keeps the politicians from messing with it. amendment 1 also allows for common sense consumer protections - because that's the right way to do solar. onment, good for florida. vote yes on amendment 1 - for the sun. i spent many years as a nuclear missile launch officer. if the president gave the order we had to launch the missiles, [ radio chatter ] self control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing. [ sirens blearing ] i would bomb the [ beep] out of them. i want to be unpredictable. i love war. the thought of donald trump with nuclear weapons scares me to death. it should scare everyone. >> on wall street today, the dow gained 75 points. the s&p was up 13. and the nasdaq climbed 44 points. >>> well, don't be surprised by the news from netflix today.

. >>> i'm stacie schaible and thanks for joining us. homeowners in a mobile home park are on edge. over the last few days a depression formed on the same street where a sinkhole swallowe today crews were brought in to fill the hole and bring life back to normal. >> many are uneasy about this and john rogers joins us live from holiday to update us on the situation and i don't blame them and i would be nervous too, john. >> good evening and shortly after we arrived we were quickly escorted off the property and told the issue was resolved. people came out and said they are still worried. >> reporter: over the past few and a few feet deep. if that is not troubling enough, look at this. two years ago a sinkhole formed on that same street swallowing an suv. soon after a second depression formed and now this third hole opened up all within feet of each other. >> i heard on channel 8 news. >> reporter: jack has relatives here and after he heard the latest news he went to see of life or death i suppose. >> reporter: today a construction company filled in the sinkhole and county officials di

i'm stacie schaible. and mike pence will make his case for donald trump in front of tampa bay voters tonight. is set to take the stage any minute now in clearwater. peter bernard is live from there in the hangar where he is scheduled to appear and any sign of the nominee yet? >> reporter: no but we did see a private jet landed a little while ago and you recall he had that incident with his jet last week so i suspect it we're in a aircraft anger at the saint pete clearwater international airport and you see the crowd. there are a couple of hundred that it came to see vice presidential candidate mike pence which comes after recent polls show donald trump and hillary clinton are neck and neck in the sunshine state. and a revelation of of potential new treasure trove of hillary clinton emails that gives the gop reasons to boast.

. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you for joining us. >> when you have been cheated, when you need help, she's on your side, better call behnken. >> radioactive material in drinking wells and these wells are less than one mile away from the gigantic ic even bathe in her water and she is not getting any straight answers from mosaic or state health officials. that is when she knew she better call behnken. investigative reporter shannon behnken joins us with more. >> reporter: this is scary guys. mosaic has tested 763 wells so far and ten of them show water that is not safe to drink, but they say their sink hole has nothing to do with it. >> all faucets and taps. worried about the water her children have been drinking. now, with pretty scary test results in her hands, she is worried to even touch the water. >> i'm not a chemistry student. but i think that is pretty bad. >> reporter: they have 52 radium levels. that is five times the standard. she is worried about the lack of information from the mosaic officials. t

and this year's heart walk is join stacie schaible's team. fuccillo kia is again generously matching the first $50,000 that we raise together. so go to wfla.com/heartwalk for this is mike's office. if he doesn't show up, he doesn't get paid. too often marco rubio didn't show up and failed us when he did. i am patrick murphy. to get things done, you've got to show up. you've got to work together. whether it's protecting social security and women's health care or growing the economy, we've got to start solving problems instead of pointing fingers. gained 40 points. the nasdaq gained two points. t-mobile will have to pay a steep fine for telling customers their data was unlimited when it was not. they reduced speeds for customers who used a lot of data, but didn't tell them how much usage would trigger the slower speeds. t-mobile has agreed to pay a $48 million fine. much of that will go future discounts for those affected customers. >>> if your flight arrives on time, but your luggage is seriously delayed, the airlines need to pay up according

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. >> i'm stacie schaible and thanks for joining us today. the eagle's nest sinkhole is a well-known but dangerous cave diving location in hernando county. two divers who traveled here died there over the weekend. some of their equipment and news channel 8 jeff patterson reports this as a location for only the most experienced divers. >> reporter: it's remote, beautiful, and deadly. not the first time the eagle's nest sinkhole has claimed lives. look at this beautiful video we found on youtube of experienced divers exploring the depths of the eagle's nest sinkhole and you see why some people want to travel here. certifications dive. >> depending what depth they are hitting, that takes a great deal of time with that unit and a very retail of training to do it properly. >> reporter: the sheriff's office tells us three divers entered the eagle's nest gave saturday but only one survived. >> a have predetermined a place under the water to meet after an hour. at that time the 3:00 time came an experienced diver went to the predetermined location an

i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm keith cate and we begin with hurricane matthew. right now this major storm is bearing down on several caribbean nations and water already knee-deep in jamaica. haiti, columbia, and aruba feeling the effects in cuba is next. governor rick scott declared a state of emergency for all counties in florida and chief meteorologist steve jerve joins us with the latest on matthew. closer to us and more westward. >> following computer model trend tracking to the west and the official track of the national hurricane center and hurricane hunter aircraft and there today and picking up strong winds. 139 mile-per-hour winds and the folks in 80 have seen a foot of rain in some areas in the storm is not passed yet. stronger winds on the eastern side of the center of the store and the island of in espanol a

good evening, i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm josh benson. thanks for being with us. the search is underway for a missing boater and paul lamison has been on the story a while. he is live above the scene. paul, can you hear us? all right ... i apologize for that. we cannot connect with paul lamison live over the scene. but we will bring you an update at the courtney campbell causeway. the search is underway there for a missing boater. i'm here. i can hear it. if i have feed. sorry about that josh. >> let's take a look. we are here campbell causeway. the boat is anchored right over here. the boat got stuck on a sand bar, so the man jumped overboard on the sand bar to push the boat. he pushed the boat off. he went free. he tried to float. went urn twice. the third time he surfaced he went back under again. and he did not come up. the 911 call was made from the shore. people saw it.

. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you very much for joining us. first, we have breaking news. an inmate is back in custody after holding a detention officer at knife point and escaping from a work crew today. this is eagle 8 hd video of the scene where the inmate was found in saint petersburg. the kidnapping itself happened in polk county very close to department of corrections crew was doing work. and that is where we find newschannel8's jeff patterson live right now to bring us up to speed on boy, what happened here. jeff. >> reporter: yeah, good evening stacie. it was a crazy scene here a women of hours ago as police flooded into this park to search for the abducted deputy. neighbors and witnesses described a chaotic scene, and a frightening sequence of events. work details with prison inmates are a fairly common but, sam and amira noticed something. >> we saw the prisoners out here. and we saw all the cops coming. >> reporter: bartow police say 32-year-old prison inmate david ross locked four other prison inmates into a room in the building and overpowered the guard jeffre

. >> and good evening, i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm rod carter. so glad you could join us tonight. we are beginning with a last ditch effort for the presidential candidates to get your vote. for the last time, before the november election, donald trump will debate hillary clinton on stage. this time, it will happen in this final debate. newschannel8's keith cate is joining us now live from the university of nevada in las vegas. keith, i have been where you are a cull of times before. just hours before the debate. the last two have been quite a story. what are we expecting tonight? >> reporter: who knows what is coming. there's a lot of hype. you go around, so many opinions on what need to be done here. but you can see already, just surrounded by members of the press, the media, for talking at 5:30, i showed you the number of people outside. everybody watching this debate that will take place tonight. we are still three weeks away from the election. but this is pivotal for donald trump. hillary clinton could go into prevent defense. she could play it safe. she could run out the cloc

i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm josh benson. thanks for being with us tonight. tonight, a saint pete police officer is off the force for now. officer anthony green was arrested for driving under the officer's first dui. jamel lanee joins us where chief anthony holloway spoke earlier. what is he saying about this second dui? >> reporter: well josh, he is definitely not happy. he says his officer was given a second chance and he blue it. >> he refused to blow. so automatically, his license is suspended for a year. >> reporter: saint pete police chief suspended anthony green after she was arrested for driving under the influence. they discovered green behind the wheel of his personal car on golf boulevard last night. >> he was stopped, his vehicle was stopped in the middle of the street. he was found passed out. >> reporter: green, now on leave with no pay. but this is not the officer's first dui arrest. he was also booked back in december of 2009. authorities say he was involved

. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you very much for joining us. the entire state of florida is under a state of emergency evacuations in barrier islands in brevard county. you are looking at a live picture. people are heeding the warning and they are making their way out of the islands. we are seeing volunteer evacuations in port saint lucy. >> polk and highland county schools are closed. and more closing information is at the bottom of your screen. jerve is joining us now, though, with the latest on matthew. steve? >> keith, this has winds of 125 miles an hour, so a category 3 hurricane. but it is scheduled to become a category 4 hurricane. we have threats in some of our inland areas primarily wind gusts. hurricane warnings are in place, obviously, for the bahamas. they are now under the effects of hurricane matthew as of 5:00. northwesterly movement at 12

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. >>> and remember, this year's hardware coming up in november, now is the time to join stacie schaible's team. robert kearney: i fought for my country in kosovo and iraq, and i've been a republican all my life. but i'm the father of three girls. i can't stand hearing donald trump call women pigs, dogs, and bimbos...and i sure , in a nation where they're valued and respected. donald trump's america is not the country i fought for. so, i'm voting for hillary clinton. hillary clinton: when powerful people need someone to do their dirty work, they hire bob buesing. how far will he go? buesing fought to foreclose assisted-living retirement homes, threatening local seniors with homelessness. then, buesing defended wells fargo buesing's firm was even accused of overbilling local schools , running fees up to seventy thousand dollars. now, buesing's running for senate. how far will bob buesing go? > and the nasdaq was up 52. >>> how would you like to own a samsung note 8? a new version of the phone is in the works and samsung wants to give note 7 owners a chance to stay loyal. samsung is offering

good evening, i'm stacie schaible. >> i'm keith cate. thanks for joining us tonight. brother and sister on their way to school. jorge and melanie laura were not far from school when they were hit and killed. this accident happened here at highway 27. >> reporter: it is really heartbreaking keith. the accident happened right over here in this intersection. and we have learned it doesn't appear that either driver was speeding or distracted. it is just >> mother heard the crash. she came out and saw the vehicle and went up the street. when she saw what had happened she passed out. >> reporter: two of their children's lives ended tragically. brother and sister. 18-year-old jorge and his sister 15-year-old melanie. >> it is horrible. it is just horrible.

. >> i'm stacie schaible and thanks for joining us. let's start with hurricane matthew. a massive storm at thousands of people in cuba, haiti and dominican republic leaving their homes ahead of the category 4 hurricane. governor rick scott state of emergency for all counties in florida along with the governor of north carolina as well. we just got an update on the storms track and let's go straight to storm team eight chief meteorologist steve jerve for the latest. >> the current forecast track is calling for a westward shift. we've seen a change with the the hurricane center and portions of the bay area are in the column of air at the moment. you see the satellite imagery clearly indicates where the hurricane is located. a category four storm than a well-formed system. when you look at the center at east of bia were the strongest winds and very high seas today with winds up to 140 miles an hour and also very high seas measuring over 20 feet. we have seen a foot of rain and portions of haiti so a devastating storm especially on the eastern side of the eye. 14le mentioned

. >> and i'm stacie schaible. thank you for joining us tonight. island nations are taking a beating from hurricane matthew right now. the storm is already being blamed for at least three through haiti. as much as 40 inches of rain is expected to fall in some areas making flooding and mud slides a major concern. >> and, here is a live look right now at cocoa in brevard county overlooking the indian river. certainly the calm before the storm. no effects from matthew just yet. steve jerve joins us live in the forecast center with the latest. >> that area in cocoa, they are conditions are possible within 48 hours, that is the east coast of florida. and no portion of the bay area is under any kind of hurricane or tropical storm advisory at this point. it is the east coast of the state of florida. let's take a look then and see what the numbers are as of 5:00 from the national hurricane center and the position of the storm which is about 65 miles east of guantanamo, cuba. the worst of the storm in this scenario would be on the eastern side of it to the

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. >>> i'm stacie schaible and thanks for joining us. homeowners in a mobile home park are on edge. over the last few days a depression formed on the same street where a sinkhole swallowe today crews were brought in to fill the hole and bring life back to normal. >> many are uneasy about this and john rogers joins us live from holiday to update us on the situation and i don't blame them and i would be nervous too, john. >> good evening and shortly after we arrived we were quickly escorted off the property and told the issue was resolved. people came out and said they are still worried. >> reporter: over the past few

. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you for joining us. >> fi police are on the hunt for a dangerous man now. he violently attacked a woman and tried to carjack a stranger in an effort to get away. let's go straight to newschannel8's john rogers two is live on the scene with the story. bring us up to date. >> reporter: it is a very scare story. it started here at this massage parlor. nearly 24 hours since the crime, police are despel venice police say this criminal is a very violent man. just before 8:00 wednesday night, he attacked a woman who worked at the 88 spa off tamiami trail in venice. then he popped into the back of a public driving toward publix. >> the driver noticed the person, was able to hit the brakes causing the person to call from the pickup. >> reporter: in the lot, the

. >>> good morning to you, stacie schaible. i did just step out. the meeting ended moments ago. we walked out of the building and came up to the camera. i have to tell you, this was one of the most controversial and spirited meetings i have ever attended. at the heart of it all, 8 on your side has been following this for quite sometime. the allegations against the director of the public transportation commission that he's getting a little too chummy with the cab companies. in emails it appears to show that kyle was actually telling those cab companies and cabbis to fight ride sharing in hillsborough county. today there was a push to try to get him on paid administrative leave to remove that failed. kyle cochrane will stay as the director of the ptc and we chased him down and got some answers. >> quite candidly, i think it was a witch hunt. when somebody tells you don't worry, it's not a witch hunt, it's a witch hunt. >> but some of those emails really include what looks like a very chummy relationship almost encouraging the cabbies to fight any ride you. i would say there are em

. >> and i'm stacie schaible. two polk county high school students killed this morning in a crash on u.s. >> eagle 8 hd is live over the scene. you can see that pickup truck pretty banged up. another two cars there on the roadway. and emergency responders there working that scene. this is on highway 27. it's shut down. it has been for several hours now. this did happen earlier this morning. the sheriff's office tells us the teens killed in the crash are 18-year-old jorge and his 15-year-old sister, melanie. they were in their jeep headed north on u.s. 27. the sheriff's office says they drifted into the southbound lane and were hit by a chevy silverado. the three men in the truck are expected to survive. >>> again, as you look at these live pictures from eagle 8 hd over the scene at u.s. 27. you can see how banged up that suv is as well as the truck. the school has a grief counselor on site this morning to talk to students and staff in need of someone to talk to about a terrible day for friends and loved ones of th

. >> i'm stacie schaible and thanks for joining us. let's start with hurricane matthew. a massive storm at thousands of people in cuba, haiti and dominican republic leaving their homes ahead of the category 4 hurricane. governor rick scott state of emergency for all counties in florida along with the governor of north carolina as well. we just got an update on the storms track and let's go straight to storm team eight chief meteorologist steve jerve for the latest. >> the current forecast track is calling for a westward shift. we've seen a change with the

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out what's lighting up the sky on this spooky day, happy halloween, i'm josh benson, and i'm stacie schaible. this is first at 4:00. now to breaking news at this winter haven. we want to go straight to eagle 8 reporter, paul, he has the latest. >>> let me get right to it. here's the plane. it's a cessna. and the pilot is okay. i want to point that out first. a couple things you can see from this. it's out in a field. you can see the front part of the wing has damage to it. we're not sure why. and the front wheels are down. and the plane did grind through the ground and the pilot was able to get out wide. take a look at this. here's the track of the plane. at some point, the plane had some kind of trouble, made it down on to the field. you can see the path that the wheels took and eventually hit the ground here spinning to the side. the pilot is okay, that's the good news, and now they're going to try to figure out what exactly happened to this plane to have him land in this field or crash in the feel. however you'd want to call it. but right now we know the pilot is okay. and we will have mo

. >> i'm stacie schaible. thank you very much for joining us. first, we have breaking news. an inmate is back in custody after holding a detention officer at knife point and escaping from a work crew today. this is eagle 8 hd video of the scene where the inmate was found in saint petersburg. the kidnapping itself happened in polk county very close to department of corrections crew was doing work. and that is where we find newschannel8's jeff patterson live right now to bring us up to speed on boy, what happened here. jeff. >> reporter: yeah, good evening stacie. it was a crazy scene here a women of hours ago as police flooded into this park to search for the abducted deputy. neighbors and witnesses described a chaotic scene, and a frightening sequence of events. work details with prison inmates are a fairly common

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