Guantanamo bay. Tomorrow passing through the bahamas. Into thursday rather, those are hurricane warnings in place. A Tropical Storm watch in place for portions of the east coast all the way down through the florida keys. You can see thursday at 2 00 p. M. This timing and position can change as the computer model data changes as well. You can see a portion of the bay area in the cone of air making it very interesting to us. Especially, for the strong wind gusts, potential area. This is the weak side of the storm. Still strong wind gusts could be possible. If the storm shifts further to the west, we expect much greater weather than that. And it is moving up into the carolinas. South carolina around also north carolina. That is a look at the satellite imagery. You can see the storm at the southeast tip of cuba and you can look at the visible satellite image ray as well. You can see the clearly defined with land interaction. And 140 miles an hour winds gusting at this point. The forecast winds, the yellow being the Tropical Storm force wind gust primarily you can see coming around in the central portion of the area. The timing at the moment friday with the center of low pressure just off the east coast. Then, the european computer model which offers a different opinion, does move it over land. But, that doesnt mean that is what is going to happen. That is just the current opinion from the mp watch, especially inland areas. The western side of it would be the better side if you want to put it that way with the more violent weather on the eastern side of the storm. But it is something we need to watch until the end of the week guys. All right, thank you very much steve. We will check back where you in a few minutes for the full forecast. To get the latest updates on Hurricane Matthew in between newscasts download our storm team 8 weather max app. Dozens of flights from miami and haiti and cuba have if you are planning to travel to any areas that might be affected by the storm, checks conditions ahead of time. It is worth your while. As haiti reels in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a land o lakes church is concerned about the status of an orphanage there. North point church has a bond with dozens of children in port auprince. Ryan hughes is speaking to people homing they will lend a helping hand after the storm. Reporter a Bay Area Church is sending pr money to an orphanage it sponsors as it is being battered by Hurricane Matthew. Pictures show the children of the orphanage in portauprince during happy times. Hurricane matthew walloped haiti throughout the day. These kids are facing the fear of the storm head on. But a pasco County Church is there to help from hundreds of miles away. Our biggest thing we can do is support them financially. Reporter north point building. It also helps an orphanage in the dominican republic. Pastor steve wells has been in contact with the pastor in haiti as wind and rains sock the area. We have been praying like crazy for them. We saw the storm approaching. We were like oh my goodness. Reporter we got a call through and spoke to pastor lucien as the eye of Hurricane Matthew is directly over head. The children are okay. We are keeping them sheltered in the orphanage. Safe. We cannot get out because of the flooding. Through a devastating earthquake in 2010, now, this major hurricane, they have remained upbeat and resilient knowing that god sand those at the North Point Church are on their side. It is a beautiful thing when it mobilizes gods people to be the hands and feet of god. Reporter im ryan hughes, newschannel8. You can donate money that goes directly to the orphanage. Text the amount you wand to help to 813 5016154. A 12yearold student is charged as an adult in connection to the creepy clown threat at a school. Lets get right to newschannel8s paul mueller in pasco county. This has been a tough few days for the parents and students of pasco county. Get us up to speed. How did this happen . Reporter it has certainly been a tough few days. A 12yearold boy facing a felony charge of written threats to kill. What they are calling it, terroristic threatening. Now, he reportedly made the threat through an phone called musically. And i want to go ahead and now and show you his profile page from the account. If you look at it, it is called clowning around. It says going to kill the kids at Seven Springs middle School Friday october 7. Get ready sixth graders for your worst day and your last. It is directed at sixth graders at his school. Seven springs middle in new port richey. Our investigators say he admitted it, that he was just about it now. And all of it sent apartments and students into a frenzy calling 911. What is this app . If you are a apartment, you need to know about it. So we asked what musically is all about. If you google musically, it will explain how it works. How to block people. How to take people off the friends list. How to unfollow people. Important to know have access to your childrens phones with passwords and look at them at any given time. Tablets and smartphones. Reporter this app is used mostly by middle schoolers. Softly, if you are a parent, you need to know about it. We are told investigators are at the school talking to students and parents to let them know that this 12yearold boy tonight is in custody. Josh . In some serious trouble as well. Paul mueller, thank you very much. Live for us in pasco county new tonight, a plea deal in the murder of a Florida State university professor. One of three people charged in the case has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. State attorney willy mags announced luis rivera will give information about the 2014 murder of dan marquell. Tallahassee arrested a woman tied to his exwifes family. She allegedly received payments from the family e killing. Counting down the days to election day. And today, absentee ballots were mailed out to millions of floridians. If you requested one, you had to get it to the county supervisor of elections offices. This is file video of balance being prepared in Pinellas County. Rememberrings election day is tuesday, november 8. It is just over a month away. Testing mosquitoes for the zika virus used to take days. Now it just takes hour. We are going to go into a high safer. Also ahead, the pain of losing a beloved pet can be intense. Now there is a new way to seek help. Well have that and more coming up. Youre watching newschannel8, the station that is always on your side. What if one of the Biggest Challenges we face down here. Simply by looking up there . 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We partner with a number of veterinarian clinic to help their staff, whether it is talking a client through euthanasia and a difficult own stress from having to deal with that on a daytoday basis. The center had the soft opening in august and will officially open at the end of this month. Now, to the latest on zika in your backyard. Sarasota county is being proactive in the fight against zika. They are taking matters into their own hands to find the virus and stop it from spreading. John rogers joins us from sarasota to explain. Reporter good evening. Officers at Mosquito Management are le and test them for the zika virus. It only takes hours now instead of days. You will find hightech machines here that will save the public from harm. The Public Health benefit we are going to get is immeasurable. Reporter it is the molecular biology lab. Before it took days to detect zika in mosquitoes. Now, they can do it in two hours. Sarasota county is one of the we are waiting on a sample to be processed or get confirmation if there is disease is a day we waste that we could be carrying out patrol activities. Reporter here is how it works. If they learn a local resident has zika, they will notify Mosquito Management. The team here will catch mosquitoes, extract genetic material and the machine tells them if zika is present. Two days after we came back, i experienced a bunch Kimberly Fernandez caught zika overseas. It took some time before they were able to test her neighborhood for the virus. My biggest concern is was i infected and what did i need to do to not impact other people. Reporter she is happy the new system can do the job much quicker and officials hope the lab will help them stop the spread of zika before it starts. This lab can also be adapted to illnesses like the west nile virus. John rogers, newschannel8. Well, the good news is we are quickly headed toward the dry season, but we are still seeing showers. And we have the Tropical Weather to deal with. Beautiful weather at lake club ranch. Beautiful sunny skies here at freedom plaza, sun city center. An east wind. 6 miles an hour. Here at honda new port richey, the way of precipitation. Kind of a mixed sky here. A little rain, not a lot. A few showers. A little bit of rain showers continuing to drift off to the west from the east, north, and south. You can see a few showers continuing to develop and move to the west of i75 at this point. Not big showers and storms. There are a few lightning strikes across the southern sections of hillsborough county. The eastern parts of Pinellas County all moving off here to the west. Way. A few lightning strikes, very good downpours. Watch for reduced visibilities associated with the storms along 75 to 75 moving into downtown saint petersburg. Chances are you look to the east and see good thundershowers there. Across the interior portions of the area, pretty quiet. Polk county, a few showers north of bradenton, northeast, and north of north port. A few showers east of avon park, sebring, and lake placid. The main cities there in 83 this evening got down to 90 degrees. A chance of showers still there over the next 24 hours and the rest of the evening. Temperatures will be mild. Humidity high. Deep atmospheric moisture showers can occur. Dew point of 72 degrees. 83 degrees in saint petersburg. The dew point very high 76 degrees. We hope that will change by the weekend. As you can see coming up in the eight day forecast, quite a bit of dry air back to the west of us aloft. Way of clouds, showers, or anything. The moisture taco tuesday little less deep than it was yesterday. We are not seeing showers in the same quantity as 24 hours ago. Hurricane shower in effect that doesnt affect the east coast all the way south through the northern portions of the florida keys, hurricane conditions could be there within 48 hours. That is on the east coast. This does not include the bay area. Or, any of the interior portions of the bay area. Theres a look at matthew. In case you missed this at the top hurricane warnings in place. That is colored in red. That goes down along the east coast. Not for the bay area. But, the timing and position of this, always difficult to do. This is the current thinking from the Hurricane Center. Thursday there at 2 00 p. M. With 130 miles an hour winds. Keeping in mind, this is the weak side of the storm. The advancing side on the eastern side. The stronger winds, not much of a storm surge worry with this on the western side, but still, strong wind gusts especially in some of the inland areas. Carolinas. We will have to wait and see in the final position of that. But clearly, all of this area is within the cone of air. And we know there is still a lot of area. Some 170 miles an hour in four days out. There is a lot of historical air. The forecasting is not enough to nail this down every time. This is the best thinking at the time. And you can see the computer model forecast shifting back to the west the past couple of days which is why you see the official track from a big area of circulation. A large hurricane. The center right about there. As i mentioned the eastern side of the storm, that is what has seen the worst of it. Unfortunately, the country of haiti, the western portion of the island of hispanola, this is just east of guantanamo cuba. They are seeing wind gusts but they are on the weaker side. But they are seeing some storm surge there. This is new, nicole, going to stay out to sea. 50 miles an hour winds. 15 named storms here this season. There is a look for the rest of this evening. Storming wrapping up. Kind of a mixed sky it looks like. Shower chances are low in the morning. Probably a lot of sunshine around. Then, in the afternoon, about a 30 chance of showers and thunderstorms for us. And, you can see as we head on into wednesday afternoon, about that 30 chance with mostly cloudy sky. Muggy conditions for us into the early part of thursday the influence with the flow around the northern side of matthew as it moves to the north and northwest. And, theres a look thursday afternoon when our rpm forecast is forecasting offshore. As you can see on the computer models, the different opinions which the Hurricane Center uses and we use to forecast the path of the storm as best we can at the time. 30 rain chance for wednesday as we get on into thursday. A 30 windy conditions will Southern Side of the storm, it will pull in drier air and a cold front moves through the early part of sunday. That will drop our rain chances, drop our humidity. And, make it feel much more comfortable. 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She told jurors Justin Harris was on the phone refused to get intentionally left his 22 month old son to die. The defense told the court while he is responsible for his sons death, harris did not kill the child on purpose. More than a thousand people have been evacuated as a wild fire continues to row in colorado. The beulla hills fire in february low pueblo county, francisco pretended to be a mom pushing a stroller. It was all caught on surveillance. You can see her push a stroller down the street. She walks up to a stoop, grabs a package that is clearly not hers and stashes it right there in the stroller. It was actually a dog she pushed around in the stroller. And a student made a geneva. The rare scripture is the same one used by William Shakespeare and the mayflower pilgrims. Newschannel8 at 6 00 is up next. We have new concerns of sewage in Pinellas County. This time, it is a sewer main break causing the mess. Coming up, we will show you where raw sewage is spilling into a neighborhood. And we have live te matthew. We will show you how tampa bay is getting ready for the worst case scenario. Plus. Just ahead, we will tell you about the incredibly Important Mission of this aircraft as it tracks the path of Hurricane Matthew. Taxpayers spent millions on this highrise. So why is it full of leaks . Find out in tonights you paid for it. Those stories plus your storm team 8 forecast and sports with dan lucas coming up wife our electric bill just keeps going up and up. Were doing everything we can. But it looks like duke energys not doing theirs. Husband paying for a plant thats never going to be built is just ridiculous. Narrator the duke utility tax is costing florida families. Yet congressman david jolly does nothing. Hes taken thousands from duke but has not stopped them from collecting for a power plant that could never be built. Narrator House Majority pac is responsible for right now, on newschannel8 at 6 00. Bracing for a storm that is already devastating haiti and cuba. How Hurricane Matthew is expected to impact florida and what tampa bay is prepare for the worst. Plus, a new sewage nightmare in Pinellas County, this, the way that this major spill is affecting an entire neighborhood. And, a leaky Housing Project that you paid for. The reason it could end up costing taxpayers even more. Good evening, im keith cate. And im 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. Lets 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 right of the number four there is where the stronger winds would