A topic thats been debated inth Florida Legislature in the Florida Legislature, and today bay area students joined forces to call attention to the issue. People are not able to bring their gun to defend themselves. Reporter florida sophomore want toss bring a gun to school for protection. Hes with students for concealed carry. But the Florida Senate recently struck down a bill allowed them to carry on State University campuses. Its not about arming the student population, its about safety and crime prevention, and most of all about our receive rights to be civil right toss defend ourselves. Reporter they use other campus shootings as an example, but the university thinks allowing students to be armed, even if permits, is a bad idea. Were committed to campus security, and believe that would threaten the safety of student, faculty and staff. Told me having students with guns on campus would pose a challenge in a crisis situation. Postcolumbine everything changed. We cant get in fast enough, and dont know who the good guys are or bad guys are. Reporter some question whether it makes to sense to bring a gun on campus for self protection. Ive never felt unsafe on my campus. Ive been her almost a full year now, and i worry that if they do bring guns on campus that would change. Reporter the organizers of todays event told me even though the concealed carry bill didnt make it to the legislature this session, hes confident that it will in the back to you. Why is he so confident the measure will eventually pass . Reporter well, one of the reasons hes confident it will pass in the next legislative session is because the senate will have a new president confident that particular through. Thank you josh. Thieves caught on camera stealing bottles of booze from a local liquor store. It shows five people walking into the store in largo. A woman hides a bottle of vodka in her purse, then the men put bottles in their pant. If you know who they are call the sheriffs office. And a miami woman is in a coma after being attacked by a craigslist. The 23yearold was attacked on valentines day, and has been in a coma ever since. Her roommate is being held on attempted murder charges for beating and cutting the woman. Defense after jones came after him with a knife. Selfdefense would be a black eye, a broken nose. Pounds, hes athletic. Not only did he admit in the original Police Report to banging her head against the floor and choking her, but the mutilation on her face, i think its the mo of a serial killer. Doctors believe she has serious brain damage, but the family is hoping for a full recovery. Orlando International Airport is taking steps to stop the spread of the zika virus. Theyre stepping up the mosquito spraying process, and encouraging travelsers to bring insectary travelers to bring insectary fell atlanta. A bill requiring sensors in all new home elevator installations in florida homes was approved today. The legislation is named for a 12yearold bradenton boy crushed to death search forking his pet hamster searching for his pet hamster. Point out the lack of sensors in home elevators. Church members were devastated from a statue of mother mary vanished almost a week ago, and many prayed for its return. Peter bernard has good news though tonight right pieter . Reporter good evening, indeed some good news. There is where the statue used to stand and greet people coming into the church. Now its just an empty pedestal, but the good news is that this morning someone found the statue on the side of the road and returned it. In the gardenlike setting of the Catholic Church in bradenton, 14 statues greet visitors, but one sits empty. Somebody made off with the five foot high mother mary statue. The church was upset. Was it a heart break to you . Oh my god its like what on reporter almost a week after the statue disappeared, a road crew saw it hidden here almost a mile away. One of them spotted it and said theres a saint in the bushes here. Reporter undamaged and in the same weather worn condition sat. They said mary cant be in a bush, so they retrieved her and when the authorities explained where it was from, they brought her to us this morning. Reporter Church Members are relieved the statue is back. Thank god we found her, oh my gosh. Reporter happy about that . Yeah, i love the blessed mother. She means a lot to me. I dont know why anybody would do Something Like that. Crazy world now days. Reporter your reaction now that its back . Really bad. Reporter they figure the thieves found out the bolts rusted after rocking the statue. Reporter shell undergo refurbishment and soon be back welcoming visitors to the place. And just to be clear, that was an effect we did. The father thinks the whole theft was a prank and doesnt plan to press charges if they catch the thieves. Thought you had some serious religious power, but did everyone know the statue was gone from the church . Reporter yes, announcement weekend, and said if you see anyone with it dont confront them. They didnt want a bad situation, but the good news is it was found. All right, happy ending. Thanks for the update. A lakeland boy on a mission to end bullying is being recognized for his good deeds. Jaylen is being featured in an he was bullied regularly due to tourettes, but he started a no bullying campaign and has reached a world wide audience. I think this is going to help spread the message by the masses, even bigger than before because a lot of kids watch teen nick, so i feel like its an amazing opportunity to have the message in the show and on the channel. Over the years hes gone around the country giving presentations and workshops and how people can stay stop it. Hes a great kid. He spent part of our saturday evening together at a charity event, and hes a young man doing a lot of great things. Coming up, many seniors dont want to be forced out of their homes. And there is a way to keep your older loved ones engaged during the day and keep them at home. The new trend in tampa bay. The dark side of the moon. Listen to new audio tapes from the apollo10 mission. Nice weather carrying over into monday. We are getting a little humidity, changes though, storms and cooler weather, thats coming up. Well have that and more coming up. Youre watching news channel 8, donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Welcome back, losing independence is one of the most difficult hurdles of aging. Many loved ones dont want to go into a nursing home. We did some digging and reporter theres a new trend called aging in place. So these fine folks come here during the day, but at night theyre in the comfort of their own home. Any given day youll find the lovely ladies playing a mean game of dominoes or see amaze art. The sewing queens are busy. I wasnt expecting to see so much action. Oh, yes, thats what we do, we got out and do what we got to do. Reporter this is a lot like a day care for our senior loved ones, sometimes called aging in place. This is a new trend spreading nationwide, but right now theres no other place like in tampa bay. Mother and her dementia situation. Before she just sat at home and stared at the tv. Reporter from activities to health care, pace is all encompassing, even covered by medicare and medicaid, but most importantly it keeps our family members happy. Isolation is a big risk for health problems. Isolation and loneliness for your seniors. Reporter gayle guyardo. You can pay for pace out of pocket if youre not eligible for medicaid and medicare, and many do that because youre not forced to fork over copays for doctor visits or prescriptions. And kesha has gained another supporter that her fight against her producer. Taylor swift gave 250,000 as a show of support to kesha. She claims her manager abused her physically and sexually for she wants to cut ties with him, but a new york judge is refusing to release her from her contract. And youve probably seen this by now, a 106yearold woman dancing with president obama. Less than one minute into the meeting she got so excited she began dancing with the president ial couple. And Donny Walberg is endorsing marco rubio for president. He says hes never voted for a republican before, but rubio changed his mind. Hes full of florida right now. He and his brothers just opened a restaurant in orlando last week. And now to a preview of our news at 11 00. Our investigation into shoddy construction resulted in millions of dollars in repair, and Shannon Behnken found another builder with similar problemmings. I almost cant believer it. Yes, it that has look of kb homes all over again, and we were there last week as engineers tore off stucco and found big problems, appearing to be code violation, and i couldnt help but remember the same thing happening in bradenton, and that was two years ago. And in that case the builder came in and ripped off part of the outside of every single building, and that was the only way to fix it, and now here we are, these years later, more residents turning to 8 on your side desperate for help. But again just to clarify its not kb home were talking agent, so is this a widespread it seems to be. There are a lot of people with on your side. This is not kw, ill hold back on the rest, tune in at 11 00 to find out, but if you bought a home in the past ten years pay attention. Thank you. You can see the results of Shannon Behnkens story, construction fail tonight at some new audio tapes on the apollo 10 Mission Reveal an eerie experience on the dark side of the mood [ inaudible ] you hear that . That whistle sound . Woooo. Yeah that, would be creepy. The conversation was between two astronauts. They believe it came from interference between radios on the spacecraft. Topped out at 78 today, a warm high temperature. Great view getting closer to sunset. Still 70 on clear water beach. Got a full moon, call it the snow moon, dont typically have a full moon, roughly happens every 19 years. February being the snowiest month. Florida has the most lightning casualties, were in Severe Weather awareness week, and lightning is what were focusing on today. Struck by fishing, in a parking lot, or picking berries outside, so keep that in mind. Florida the light thing capital of the United States states. And picking up more clouds, lower level tomorrow. 64 tomorrow morning. Clouds, little bit of sunshine, maybe a physios, slides in from the south. Warm temperatures again tomorrow, and a couple of showers possible inland with a lot of clouds about. Forecast for the midweek storm, talking wednesday, especially the first half of the at a. Right now the day. Right mow the timing about 6 00 morning. Right new the disturbance is moving rapiddedly from the southwest, so maybe download ore weather app, and will give you voice warnings, from me actually, even if its in the middle of the night, and theres a potential for high winds and the outside chance of tornadoes, so download the free app from the store, the apple store. 74 at noon, sun and clouds, probably quite a few clouds tomorrow, especially by the second half of the day. 77 in the afternoon. Like today, another warm one. A lot of humidity. Temperatures in the 70, even a few 80, 70 current temperature in crystal river. More cloudiness in that part of state. Miami 77. Good block of rain, our first area of low pressure across the south, mississippi, alabama, back here into lose lieu, a miserable louisiana, a miserable cloudy day. Tomorrow giving a decant chance of severe thunderstorms in the general region. The low pressure here, the clouds stream on ahead of that, and this little disturbance off the southwest coast of florida lifting north. Rather odd, but could still provide a lot of clouds, and the possibility of seeing a few light rain showers. Thats the doppler radar. North, so well leave the slight chance in the forecast, this evening. Partly cloudy sky, maybe a few light showers sliding from south to north as i mentioned. In the overnight much of the shower activity to the north. Partly cloudy with a light shower possible. For tomorrow amp, a mix of clouds and afternoon, a mix of clouds and sunshine, and mid 70s. Most of the showers east of i 75, thats for wednesday morning. The timing on this likely will change a little bit, but thats what the rpm is calling for, then it sweeps through for the morning hour, then by the afternoon its out of here with a cold front. Trend for the rest of the week. Highs in the 60s throughout the rest of the week, so it really changes the temperatures and brings the chance of Severe Weather wednesday morning. Thursday, 66 for a high. Chilly high of 62. About this time of year you start thinking ability spring, the base about spring, the baseball player windshield spring training players with spring training, but highs in the 60s is not exactly springtime for us. A man uses an app to track his stolen cell phone. Coming up next how his decision to on front the thief now to whats making headlines across america. Murder in alabama appears to be kicked to his stolen cell phone. When the man confronted the the police say if hed called them, hed still be alive. And the mayor of flint unveiled a new pipeline mapping and, but the governor and, but the governor cautions taking out pipes too quickly could have unintend consequences. And a series of crashes sent a moving truck over a guardrail in cal cam. It fell 30 california. It fell 30 feet and trapped the driver inside. Okay. Coming up next. On. Thanks, a gun fired in a popular park, and the shooter was a child. That weapon was found in a diaper bag of all places. Well tell you who the gun belonged to, and who they tried to do what he tried to do with it with the police shows up. And video shows the moments and big changes in a south tampa neighborhood. What transportation fishes want to do to officials want to do. And the Building Official is still playing hide and seek with us, a month after we discovered he doesnt have the credentials to do his job. Those stories plus your storm team 8 forecast and sorts coming up on sports coming up on news channel 8. The right now on news channel 8 at 6 00. Packing a pistol in a diaper bag, ail child got his hands on it and pulled the trigger. A deadly liquor store shoot out. The robbers firing, but the clerk was ready for him. Credentials, enabling inspector is playing building inspector is playing hide and seek with us. Im keith cate. Im stacie schaible. A gunshot in the middle of a crowded park, the trigger pulled by a 6yearold boy, and he got the gun out of his mothers diaper bag. Thankfully no one was hurt. The mothers boyfriend owned the gun and is now facing charges. Judd chapin, this is scary stuff for those visiting the park. Reporter yes, it is. Ive been to the park before with my family. Normally a peaceful place. It was a Beautiful Day saturday, and very crowded, so it was shocking when a shot rang out action and even more shocking to find out who fired it. We started talking agent how to be friends with people. Reporter 9yearold bella was in the park in an organized group of friends
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