Car seat for the blink of an eye. I started screaming my baby is in there, my baby is in there reporter the young man only made it a few feet before crashing the car. He took off on foot. Thankfully his son chase was not hurt. The police chief Robert Vincent tells me these young men are trolling the streets of gulfport looking for opportunities. Just within the past few days weve had these cases wherun or two wherever they see a car unlocked or running with the keys in it. They run up real fast, take it when they can. Reporter but the group picked the wrong house when they spotted a workmans van at this jersey street residence. The vans owner spotted 18year old cedric chritton rummaging through the vehicle and held him at gun point till officers arrived early friday morning. Me this is one thanksgiving he wont soon forget. They got my wallet. But my kids the most important. Thats all i care about. Reporter police are telling us this is just another reminder for folks to lock their car doors and, of course, do not leave your car running with your child inside. Sean rodriguez as you just heard learned that the hard way. Chip osowski live in clearwater, thank you for that. Now to some breaking news, po murder in Highlands County where a man was found dead on Howard Street in sebring. No details yet on who killed him, how or why, but investigators are all over this scene and the search for a suspect is underway. Well update this story later on www. Wfla. Com. Meanwhile shoppers flock to malls around the country for black friday. Many are looking for the best deals on Holiday Gifts while others are simply there for the social aspect. Bay area shoppers were up late shopping into this evening to get the very best deals. Here at the supertarget in clearwater it was certainly no different. We talked to a lot of shoppers, some of whom love marathon shopping. Meanwhile others know exactly what theyre looking for and theyre going for it. 137million are expected to shop this holiday weekend. While you are shopping local Law Enforcement wants you to know theyre doing whatever they can to keep you safe. Extra officers are out patrolling area. A lot of officers will be on the ground going through parking lots. Some will have a sky tower. Theyll keep a birds eye view out for any trouble happening in the area. With an elevated platform it gives you a better opportunity to be able to see people behaving suspiciously operating in between cars, prying door handles. Law enforcement is reminding shoppers to be sure to lock those car doors before you go area. Things turn ugly and violent in a california Shopping Mall where a brawl broke out. Cell phone video captured the black friday fight at modesto mall, several people involved, no word on what started fight which was broken up by security. In georgia shoppers going on a towel frenzy. Dozens of people caught on security grabbing all the towels they could hold. They cleaned out the bins in no time flat. Towe w commodity . Some breaking news now just as the Holiday Travel season gets underway, french Officials Say they have thwarted a major and imminent isis terrorism plot. A couple targets included paris police hubs and disney land paris. France has remained under a state of emergency since the november 2015 paris attacks. Those attacks killed 130 people as breaking news last night, a Pinellas County boater is now facing criminal charges for what police call a drunk enjoy ride in boca ciega bay. Authorities say 44yearold robert hart was heavily intoxicated as he boated around the bay plowing into other vessels, even a couple of dogs. The one you see here is an example. He is charged now with boating urge the influence and leaving under the influence and leaving the scene of a crash. California woman who has been missing three weeks says shes thankful for the return of her sibling. Sherri papini went missing november 22nd while jogging in northern california. Thanksgiving she was freed by her captors and left on the side of the road in shackles about 140 miles from where she was last seen. Today her sister thanked everyone for their support and gave an update on her sisters condition. Ive seen her and it was a joyous reunion and we were very, very excited to see 1 another. Its been a range of emotions, sadness, anger. Right now its joy that shes here with us. A motive is still unknown. Police are searching for two women believed to be her abductors. We have lost one of americas favorite tv moms tonight, Florence Henderson. She passed away at age behind son82. Hendersons family said she wasnt hendersons family said she wasnt feeling well and they took her to the hospital. She laid down and reportedly never woke up. Flowers were placed on her hollywood walk of fame star. Henderson was best known for her role as carol brady in the brady bunch. She was also one of the original three hosts of the what was your favorite roam of hers . Share your favorite memory of Florence Henderson on our news channel 8 facebook page. A miracle onnight93rd street is what firefighters are calling a Daring Rescue in order to save an 81yearold man from the fifth floor of an apartment building. They had to perform a dangerous and rarely used rope rescue. One firefighter was through a window and they both slowly lowered to the ground. He was burning. At 1 point you could hear him yell im burning and i see him looking up at me with that hood up and i just said to him lets go. It was close, too. That rope snapped moments after they reached the ground. The fire was caused by an overloaded electrical cord. The building will have to be torn down. Apparently a thief in minnesota really wanted some whipped a worker mopping the floor. As you can see in the video, things got slippery very quickly for both men as they continued to struggle. The worker was able to grab a piece of the thiefs clothing before he got away and its now in the hands of dna investigators. Watch this close call. An out of control driver on the run nearly plows over a pedestrian. Australian police were led on this high speed melbourne earlier today by an erratic young driver. You can see him here driving through traffic, even stopping at a gas station. The chase became too dangerous and was called off. Tropical storm otto finally moved into the pacific, but it called plenty of problems as it swept across central america. In costa rica people were crossing a rushing river to get to safety. Thousands were ordered to the wind and driving rain. Otto dumped more than a months worth of rain in some areas. Massive plumes of ash spewing 16,000 feet into the air that could be seen for miles. This volcano was 43 miles south of mexico city. Its been fairly active in recent months. A young tampa boy is now on the road to recovery. Coming up next just weeks after being badly hurt in a surprise of a lifetime. Plus its more than just a Christmas Lights display, the annual christmas lanes spectacular comes alive tonight with the flip of a switch. Weve been on a warm dry streak as of late. Rain chances increase going into next week. Havertys furniture helps your home look perfect even when life isnt. [music playing] mmmmm. Oohhhh. Yeah. Skunks apparently have two glands on either side of the stop talking trying to make the best of a bad situation, today the Tampa Bay Buccaneers surprised the victim of a hit and run accident. 12yearold darryle ortega and his family were invited to buc one place and he was given tickets to sundays game with the seahawks and a sign with a mike evans jersey. Overwhelming his mother who came away filled with gratitude. Encouraging him to want to reach the next step even if its just two steps more today. The buccaneers have really played a huge part in his recovery and i will be eternally grateful. Darryle has a tough road ahead. He brock every bone in his leg from the average broke every bone in his leg from the ankle up. Hell be in a cast for a while before going through another surgery, then another cast. Tampa police are still looking the start of a very large bay area tradition, dozens of local christmas light shows. This year christmas lane is in plant city. It is celebrating the major milestones. Paul mueller is in Hillsborough County with what you and your family can expect if you go. Reporter everything may be sparkly and bright, but what you might not see is a childs fascination that head into a bay area tradition. Oh, it wouldnt be christmas without the tree, lights and oh, yeah, lane wetherington. You start out way few rows of lights. Reporter a few rows of lights three decades ago has turned into this, christmas lane, lane wetherington the brain child of this holiday spectacular as a child was fascinated by the lights. I was always getting shocked because i was messing with something i shouldnt have been messing with, but the fascination of lighting and the event from his familys farm in dover to the strawberry festival. Its about family and christmas and old tradition. Its not commercialized to us. Reporter every year this family comes from alabama to see their grand parents. Spending time with my grandma and papa and just seeing santa claus and all that. Reporter every year they all take the drive to christ you enjoy the whole theme, the scenery and everything, its great. Reporter what about that Big Christmas tree over there, what do you think . Its really cool. Reporter 35 feet tall. I 15 a Christmas Tree that big. Reporter for lane i never seen a Christmas Tree that big. Reporter for lane seeing a child in awe. Its every age, theyre amazed and intrigued by the reporter just how many lights does it take to illuminate this case. Lane said he really cant count. Whats the power bill . He said its about 10,000 and worth every penny. Paul mueller, news channel 8. Christmas lane runs through christmas night at Charles Grimes family Agricultural Center on the strawberry festival fairgrounds. Admission is 5 for adults and 3 for children. It is a special time of year for the rough riders. They kicked off their the rough riders will collect new teddy bears now through december 19th. They distribute the bears throughout the year to children who need their spirits lifted. Every year we give out thousands and thousands of teddy bears to children in hospitals, centers for abused women and children, the family court system, Special Olympics and veterans hospitals and we wouldnt be able to do it without the generosity of the public donating bears for the rough riders in order for us to bear dropoff locations, check out www. Wfla. Com and 7 for the teddy bear roundup. You can drop off the teddy bears any time at the news center and at this years kindness day december 9th this year. On kindness day well also accept toy donations for toys for tots, food donations for feeding tampa bay and blood donations for one blood. Storm team 8 forecast. Certainly warm by november standards, your average high for thanksgiving and today 77, but we topped off at 83 both days, a full 7 degrees above average here. You look at the temperature trend here. You can see the big dips in the jet stream, these troughs, where we generally have the cooler temperatures. Youll notice a lot of green and yellow on top of us above average temperatures. There will be a deeper trough that comes in by next week midweek, but overall the temperatures not cooling down significantly even over the next week or so. It looks like this la nina winter is starting to set up for us. We typically see warmer than average temperatures and drier than normal conditions. Max defender 8 showing bone dry conditions as we speak across our area. We dont expect any rain tonight, just a slight ch earlier from tony looking back from lakeland. Theres a nice start to the day in bradenton. 8 a. M. Were at 64 degrees, 74 at noon, 79 for saturday afternoon. Well have a general mix of clouds and sunshine. 66 for odessa and pinellas park, 67 in apollo beach, 62 in wednesdayly chapel and brooksville and 60 in crystal with those numbers coming together that gets us near 100 humidity, cant rule out some patchy fog to start the day tomorrow. Right now light easterly wind at the surface, above a lot of dry air. Tomorrow coast to coast travel conditions not too bad whether youre flying into the northeast or back towards the west coast. Conditions should be fairly decent. Of course, always check with your air carrier to see if you may experience delays. Heres our ca bit of patchy fog during the morning. A weak cold front will be on the way, not too much moisture ahead of this thing. About a 10 shot at getting a rain chance there. Sunday gorgeous as High Pressure moves back in, humidity drops and absolutely if you want to get outside. Now south winds return early next week. That will really allow our temperature to warm up. Looks to be a stronger cold front. Here it is. It enters the southeast. By wednesday and thursday our rain chances increase. Here in camp a usf has tampa usf has a noon kickoff and the gators take on the seminoles. Here is your forecast through the weekend, not to that bad. Out on that, but sunday looks gorgeous. So get outside and enjoy it. That is before that 20 chance of showers here. Weve only had. 001inch of rain for the month of november. Coming up next in shorts the lightning play perhaps at home. Dan lucas tells us how this many team doctors are moving on to next week. And my weekly ad is folded like this. Ready to go. Thats how i save a lot at publix. How bout you . I dont clip, i dont plan, but i still save a lot. I just shop for publix brand products, cuz theyre great. And thats it. No really, thats it. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . . Think of your fellow man. . . Lend him a helping hand. . . Put a little love in your heart. . . Take a good look around. . . And if youre lookin down, . . Put a little love in your heart. . . Put a little love in your heart. . . In your heart. . And will have given ninety Million Dollars when a coach begins a press conference with all right, a leash, you have they said both bishop and vasilevskiy could have played at the same time tonight, it wouldnt have mattered. The lightning were sloppy. Cooper was chomping on the gum. Blue jackets were chomping on lightning mistakes and turnovers. That was a power play goal 20. There were some good points tonight. Tyler johnson, nice give to nikita kucherov, his 11th goal are we in for a miracle . No. Another turnover. Its a killer and the bolts pay, 53 the final tonight. Nine bay area football teams have a chance for the state finals. One of them victory christian hosting University Christian from jacksonville. The storm dalton jenner, beautiful catch, slides in, 70 , victory christian, but here comes university. Clayton boyd on the keeper ties the game 77. Next possession otis anderson, not the famous otis anderson. Maybe he will be famous one day. Smooth sailing for the lineman, easy touch, then another strike. They call him down at the 1, class 7a play at panthers hosting vieira from melbourne on the east coast. This is a 3rd down plame just cluck it up there for Christian Watt play, just chuck it up there for christian watson. Self0 panthers. 2nd quarter 70 panthers. 2nd quarter watson again. Nice game. Panthers go right on down the line, 140. The final play of the half, the panthers have already blocked one field goal attempt tonight. How about another . Big Bryce Jenkins was right up the middle. 357, plant wins big. Hosting the clay blue devils from the jacksonville area. That faked out everybody. For the night mike webster adds three points to make it 10 high 100 100, looked good and then clay takes the lead, never looks back. Hawks want this one back, intercepted. Wonderful season in pasco county, but they lose 3917. Northside christian fell 143. Berkeley prep fails to trinity christian. Jesuit moving on in 5a. Lake gibson moving on to glass 6a and a bay area matchup venice, big win. Venice and plant are opposite sides of the bracket. Time. Congratulations to everybody who got this far well be right back with whoa, this is awful, try it. Oh no, that looks gross what is that . You gotta try it, its terrible. I dont wanna try it if its terrible. Its like mango chutney and burnt hair. No thank you, i have a very sensitive palate. Just try it guys, i think we should hurry up. If you taste something bad, you want someone else to try it. Its what you do. I cant get the taste out of my mouth if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. And in the morning, ed . A little patchy fog out there, but other than that well be expecting a pretty decent saturday, just a slim chance of a shower, 79, beautiful sunday. We start warming up ahead of our next big rain chance by midweek next cap, christmas coming early for some of the animals at tampas lowry park zoo, the orangutans enjoying a couple presents filled with their favorite treats. Merry christmas was also spelled out in carrots until the elephants snacked on those. This is to kick off christmas in the wild event at the zoo. Check it out. Good weather for it, too. Jimmy fallon is coming your way next. Our next newscast is at 4 30 a. M. Have a great night, everybody [ cheersnd applause ] . Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon