But because there are close to 1,000 officers who worked here, that is going to cost a lot of money. Get me the ticket. Reporter nationwide attention of Police Officers and body cameras sparked some curiosity among usf researchers. What were your assumptions were the study was completed . That the officers were going to have less use of force with the cameras. Reporter those assumptions were right. The cara officers escalating behavior and use of force. It also affects the citizens behavior. They are probably less inclined to escalate on their end. Reporter steve hagarty with the Police Department was happy to participate in the study. Body cam can be your best friend. Reporter but researchers say that is the beauty behind the lens. It protects you if Police Officers are not doing the right thing. It will identify as kind of an Early Warning system, the so we can quickly get those officers off the force. Reporter right now, only 60 officers with tpd wear body cameras but the department wants to change that. We want to be current. We want to be transparent. And, we want to use all of the tools available. Reporter the only holdout for tpd . Having those cameras could cost the agency around 800,000 every year. The cost of one lawsuit is going to greatly outweigh the loss of maintenance and storage r reporter the department has a support of the mayor and city council to buy those body cameras but again, it is not the cost of getting the cameras. It is the cost of maintaining them and the cost for storage every single year. Josh . Well, is there is a way they can apply for any type of help . Reporter well, they have applied for a grant, but this is a nationwide problem right for that. Jana jones, thank you. Have you cast your vote . Early voting is underway across the bay area. Florida is on pace for record early voting turnout. So far, more than 2 million floridians have already cast ballots. All counties, most open early voting by october 29. Donald trumps comments about a rigged system have put a spotlight on our election process. 8 on your side is getting e mails an phone calls every day from people worried about problems at the polls. Mary mcguire has more from the ne accurate and fair. Reporter in order to make sure that their system is working, Election Officials here in Pinellas County are testing out their machines. Today marks day three of early voting in the sunshine state. And Election Officials want to make sure each and every vote counts. This is a state mandated process. We did one last week. This is our second testing of this mail ballot equipment. Then we will do the same test following the election to again verify these machines have out high speed mail ballot tab lieuuation equipment in largo today. It was open to the public to watch, especially for those who feel the system is rigged or that there is some sort of fraud going on. There are a lot of rumors circulating on the internet making people question the process. That is why we do everything we do in a public setting in a public forum so the voter cans see for themselves that this verification does happen and we are properly tabulating all the votes. Reporr voters are skeptical of the process here in florida. I have never been confident because of the issues we have had in the past. Reporter however, ballot concerns dont seem to be stopping folks from voting. We have gotten over 40 of our mail ballots we sent out. Have been returned. One in five voters in Pinellas County has already voted. Reporter any voter registered to vote in florida can vote early and in person before election day. Reporting in Pinellas County, im mary mcguire, newschannel8. With everything you need to know before election day. Our election guide includes early voting locations and poll hours in your county. Just go to wfla. Com. New tonight, terrifying moments at the Orange City Council chambers when a driver smashed through the wall. Take a look at that. This is video from volusia county. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. But the driver lost control, but did not say exactly how or why. That driver was taken he if plan to renew your carting in the near future, you may want to budget extra time. Ages computers and state agencies have become unpracticable. Reporter Mike Vasilinda has more on the story. Reporter taking a number at a Tax Collectors Office does not guarantee you Speedy Service when you renew your license or vehicle tag. A server has been crashing putting motorists and clerks into limbo. It can come back on. And five hours. Reporter when it works it works. Ten minutes maybe . Reporter Tax Collector doris malloy says the crashes are happening with more frequency. We have known for years they have an outdated system. They are very sorry of course that will is happening. Couldnt have happened at a worse time. Reporter and the Tax Collectors quick to point out this is the states problem and not their fault. Th but got worse back in april. That is when the state decided its comper center out of this bat infested office complex. That is wh initiated the pretty quick or consistent outages for a while. Reporter lawmakers have already given the agencies 6. 5 million to upgrade its computers but replacement is taking time. Im constantly on it. So, the systems are working on it. We are confident we can keep it running. Reporter Mike Vasilinda, newschannel8. And, new tonight, this woman was one of two people arrested for trying to bring a loaded gun into disney theme parks. Bailey turner had a loaded gun in her bag when she tried to get into animal kingdom. A louisiana man was also arrested and bans from all Disney Properties for trying to bring a a fire at a famous hotel is under investigation. It started in the restaurant of the opryland hotel. Firefighters evacuated the upstairs area as a precaution, but good news, nobody was hurt. Not allergies, but millions of children at risk. Especially around candy consuming holidays like halloween. Coming up, there is a promising new treatment that could stop severe allergic reactions topee nuts. Before the cannons fire. Raiders against the bucs. And we have nice weather for it. Plenty of sunshine. Temperature ins the 80s. Humidity higher than they are used to in San Francisco bay area. In terms of our forecast, certain sameness going on here. We will talk about that all the way into the weekend coming up. Well have that and more coming up youre watching newschannel8, the station Robert Kearney i fought for my country in kosovo and iraq, and ive been a republican all my life. But im the father of three girls. I cant stand hearing donald trump call women pigs, dogs, and bimbos. And i sure dont want my daughters hearing it. I want my girls to grow up proud and strong, in a nation where theyre valued im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. This year the voters of Pinellas County have an opportunity to elect a Public Servant who has always put the people first. Charlie crist. And i know you can trust charlie to do the same in congress. Hell fight to protect Social Security and medicare. Defend Womens Health care and planned parenthood. And take care of our veterans. Charlie needs your vote, please stand with him. I know hell always stand with you. Viruses, bacteria, allergens can cause sore throat. But sometimes it can be strep. We are here to let you know jay is treating patients with strep float. Strep throat is a common bacterial infection of the throat that affects all ages. It is most common in the age between 5 and 15 and it is rare under three years old. Reporter symptoms can come on quickly be the most common pain a raw sore throat. Fever, rapid onset sore float. Swollen glands. Red swollen tonsils with white patches and pus in the back of the throat. Reporter the doctor says you dont typically noses with strep throat. Those are more signs of a viral infection. A rapid strep test in the office gives a definitive diagnosis. And if that is negative and we still have a high index, sometimes we will send a throat culture. Reporter antibiotics are the best treatment for strep. After 24 hours, you are no longer contagious and the symptoms improve fairly rapidly. Reporter it is spread through saliva so the best makes your throat hurt just thinking about it. A person who suffering repeated cases of strep throat, five times a year two years in a row should consider having their tonsils removed. Im totally just checking my throat there. Good news for children with peanut allergies. A new patch could help stave off the severe reactions. It delivers tiny amounts of peanut protein through the skin and teaches the immune system peanuts. Nearly half of children and young adults were safely able to eat small amounts of peanuts. More studies are needed before the patch is approved for wider use. Just a quick reminder, the heart walk is coming ill. We are working to reach our goal of 100,000 but we need your help. Join stacie schaibles team on the buccaneers foes are encroaching. The raiders are spending the week here. John rogers joins us now live from img academy in bradenton. And john. Im wondering. How are they enjoying it there . Reporter well, they are having a blast over here, jen. Actually, for some of them, it is a homecoming of sorts. A number of athletes have trained here at trip. And all the while, though, they are enjoying the view. The Oakland Raiders are in the wrong bay area this week. But, with the perfect weather and florida sunshine, they are not complaining. We just are enjoying it. This is beautiful. Sarasota. This is nice, man. Reporter last week, they played in jacksonville. This sunday, they will be in tampa. So instead of crisscrossing the nation, they crisscrossed in bradenton. I love it man. The weather is nice. There is no state tax here. That is always a good thing for the people who live here. Reporter they are getting a taste of what we enjoy every day. And they are impressed with the facilities of this college prep program. I have never zone anything like this place. Thats pretty nice man. Reporter you could call this week summer Training Camp part two. Except this time, they are not fighting for their jobs but enjoying the scenery. It is a vacation. Reporter if you asked the coach, it is not exactly a vacation. I looked outside and realized there was actually water close by. So it only took me three days to realize that. Reporter leave it to the coach to bring things back to reality. This trip is not about beaches. Its about business. It happens to be a beautiful setting but. You know, the work is the same. Reporter so, the team is treating this as a normal workweek. Acting as if they are become in california and they are making or the scenery. Reporter and hopefully, they dont beat the bucs either. And, they are fitting in some time for fun while they are here. The teams punter turned 28 years ole today. I saw the team got him a lot of balloons including some Spongebob Squarepants balloons. It shows the Million Dollars athletes are normal guys. Later this weekend at sunday at 1 00, the raiders will be going up the road to Raymond James stadium to face the bucs at 1 00. Reporting in bradenton, john rogers, newschannel8. Now, max defender 8. The worlds most powerful radar and your storm team 8 forecast with chief meteorologist steve jerve. Well, max defender 8 shows all clear at the moment. It has been a quiet day. A lot of moisture in the atmosphere, low levels. A nice day to be outside for all kinds of life. Eagle 8 hd shot this great shot of a big fat old gator. Potentially in the bay area on a nice day like this. Maybe got spooked a little bit there by the helicopter flying overhead. No doubt, that would shake him up just a little bit. But nice view. Good timing on that. That was at Buffalo Creek golf course in palmetto. A monster gator. Nice place to cool off. Temperatures warm. They will probably be in the mid 80s the next couple of days. Here is the view. You can see the with the southeast wind at 11 miles an hour. 43 relative humidity. Wow. That big gator is still sunbathing there at the moment. [ laughter ] and, we will continue to watch for partly cloudy skies to mostly clear conditions. We have seen clouds develop in the afternoon. And, the temperatures likely will stay fairly flat the next couple of days. In the mid 80s throughout this period. And, you will see in our forecast in the eight day showing really not much change in terms of temperatures southeasterly winds at 14 miles an hour. Would have been nice to look at the gator that whole time. Famous tate in brandon, 81 degrees. Plenty of sunshine. We have seen a lot of sun at most locations. Clouds elsewhere. We will probably see a few more clouds tomorrow. Didnt have as many high clouds as yesterday. Thats a great view from Saint Pete Beach and the loews don cesar, 81 in connorton with the easterly breeze at 5 miles an hour. You can tell, it is a very nice warm day world series forecast. They are concerned about this line of showers and thunderstorms, even snow mixed up here in the up of michigan. Or the lower peninsula. They have moved the time for this game up to 7 00 eastern time. 6 00, central time. A little after 6 00 central time. 46 degrees more rain arriving. Had a few showers there. Today, but, really trying to avoid the heavy rain coming back to the west with the line of showers. Hey, the weather we are having tampa bay. The entire tampa bay area, to what you see in honolulu. The forecast high in honolulu and the dew points are very similar. Upper 50s , low 6 0z. So, if you dont have a chance to travel to hawaii, you can just step outside your door. And this is what it is like in hawaii this time of y year. Nice shot from jackie. That one in from facebook. 80 this evening. Mostly dry. Warmer conditions. 7 00 a. M. , 68 degrees. And a mild start to 85 degrees at 4 00 p. M. Above average. Temperatures staying dry. 85 in tampa. The dew point, 57. Thats a pretty nice dew point. A little bit higher in downtown saint pete. Bringing in a bit more moisture. Quite a few clouds across the southern section of the state. And you can see a few sprinkles moving in the easterly flow. We are not anticipating much in the way of rain. If there had been showers we might have seen them. Warmer temperatures in the upper 60s throughout this you will see in the forecast, we are continuing with temperatures in the mid 80s throughout this period. Thursday, friday, and saturday, the rain chances are very low. Low temperatures in the upper 60s. And all the way into halloween on monday. Very similar kind of weather conditions. So we are not expecting much in the way of rain. We are in the dry season. And we are really living up to that the next eight days. A 10 or less chance of showers throughout the entire area through this period. Guys . Hey, nice job overcoming the ghost and goblins that took they are everywhere. Ghosts and gators. Thank you. A controversial sheriff is in hot water with the feds. We will tell you why next. Coming up, why did this guy think it was a good idea to play with fire in his underwear . You never really know. Well, you can join jenn holloway, julie phillips, and me on newschannel8 on great 38 every night from 8 00 to 9 00. Ahead on nbc nightly news, a new poll offering fresh hope for donald trump in a place he must win. University. A student charged. Dozens of accusers stepped forward. And an allegedly drunk Airline Pilot stopped as he was about to take off with a plane load of passengers. We take a closer look tonight. I moved on her like a [bleep]. You can do anything. Grab them by the [bleep] we have to make sure that donald wins this election. No we dont. Marco rubio stands by trump and failed to show up for florida. Heres what i believe in. Bringing people together and reaching across and building an economy that works for all of us. Im Patrick Murphy and i approved this message now to whats making headlines across america. Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is officially facing criminal contempt charges of his treatment of suspected illegal aliens. A federal judge ordered arpaio to stop using a system that allowed officers to profile and pull over drivers they thought might be here illegally. He faces six months in jail if he is convicted. A boston mother got a shock when she put in a quarter in a gum ball bottle of pills. This machine caught the eye of her seven year daughter. She thought what would come out is candy. But they were pills. They were Blood Pressure medication. Now they are working to find out how the pills got into the candy machine. Yikes. Take a look at this Surveillance Video. Yes, that is a man in his underwear using a blow torch to burn down a donald trump sign fist bump the man. When they tracked the man down, he confessed. The District Attorney will decide if that man will be charged. Newschannel8 at 6 00 is coming up next. Stacie and keith are here with what we are working on. It is a crime spree that spanned several counties but it is at an end. What deputies saw in a Surveillance Video that hepped them catch an alleged crook. And a ride shut down over safety concerns is back open. The steps Busch Gardens took toa goers after a tragedy in australia. 13 days until election day. Hillary clinton is hoping to give her final sell to a crowd in curtis hickson park. They are at it again. Repaving. You paid for it. But will there be puddles that breed mosquitoes and tadpoles this time around . Those stories and your forecast and sports with dan lucas coming up on amendment 1 protects consumers from scams, promotes safe solar, and is endorsed by floridas firefighters. So, why are outofstate billionaires attacking it . Because amendment 1 stops their subsidies. Amendment 1 ensures that if you dont choose solar, you dont have to pay for those who do. Amendment 1 blocks special subsidies for special interests. Right now, on newschannel8 at 6 00. Battleground, florida, as Hillary Clinton returning to tampa, what new poll numbers show about the president ial race in the sunshine state. And ring stopped thanks to an alleged thiefs blunder. The clue that led investigators straight to him. A popular ride is open again. Good evening, im stacie schaible. Im keith cate. Thank you for joining us. Call it a bakers 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 Obamas 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
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