A local business that is fighting for some of the christmas cash. Reporter fighting through the crowds at a megamall to score deals might sound fun to some shoppers but many times it is hard to find something unique at the big box stores. It is not always about the almighty dollar. It is about keeping the culture alive. After you have had your black friday x, Small Business owner Elizabeth Graham hopes you will head out to forever beautiful, her salon and one spot we dont use a lot of product you will find that a Big Department store because it may be more reasonable but those issues are so important to me as an individual that i wanted to make a stand for it and that is what we do here at our salon. Or mac forever beautiful is a big part of the similar height celebration of holiday shop hop by day were shoppers are invited to visit local stores as a part of Small Business saturday. It includes 14 you can pick up everything to vintage close, to benches one. The reason why you want to come here is were going to offer you an opportunity to buy gifts, support your local community. Reporter according to the National Retail federation, Holiday Shoppers are expected to shell out more than 655 are expected to shell out more than 655 billion in stores and as much is 117 billion online. Store owners here hope to get a slice of that cash i and experience along with holiday gifts. Shoppers can get the shop hop passport stamped and they will be eligible to win a local shop and speak screen. If youre shopping for sports fan there is now a new floridas professional teams. Tampa bay sports is opening at International Plaza tomorrow at 7 am. It is open and owned by the tampa bay lightening. They will have lots of gear for fans of the box, the rays the bucs, the rays and seminal. It is a chance for us to grow our brand, strengthen the brand, it d us an opportunity to be in front of a lot of people who quite honestly might not be lightning fans. They also have a location at amway arena and an online store. This is the time of year where the entire country is jealous of every single one of us, all of us floridians. While people are bundling up we are basking in sunshine. Today many of them decided to have the best of both worlds deciding to take their turkey much more on this and what a tough assignment for you to have thanksgiving dinner in beauty. I cant complain but honestly this was a big lesson for me. I didnt realize how many people come to the beach on thanksgiving. The beaches have been packed all day. With scenery like this you cant blame them. Thanksgiving can evoke loving and mo the air is crisp and the fall leaves are at their peak of color as the family gathers inside a warm house nicely dressed to share the special day but who are we kidding this is florida. You want to be in the house locked up . Here you can enjoy the weather. Reporter danny flew down from indiana and traded in this white landscape for this white landscape. I have never had thanksgiving on the beach with a tshirt. This is great. This is the life. Beach. I love coming to siesta and i wanted to share with my family. They had not been here so i wanted to share it. Nearly 50 americans 50 million americans travel this Holiday Weekend with millions pouring into florida so these folks definitely wanted to get their money worth. This family is thankful to be together, away from the cold, and away from chores. If i didnt have to clean my house i didnt have to clean my house come over and we will not have any dishes to do when the guests finish eating. Where would you rather be . There or here . Here reporter ultimately it doesnt matter where you are on this day as long as it is shared with family. Being at the beach is certainly a nice perk. Aaa says thanks to a robust this Holiday Weekend compared to last year. With many people coming out here to florida you cannot blame them for wanting to eat outside in this beautiful weather. The family i spoke with, this is there first time their first time doing this and they plan to do it for many years to come. If you stand still you look like a postcard. Look at that. We had our turkey dinner in the Conference Room meantime, checking in now to the thanksgiving forecast. It has been perfect. You just saw those folks at the beach. They are out there for a reason, gorgeous lunch that with a few passing clouds. Max defender 8 confirming that out there sunset with a few passing clouds. Max defender 8 just confirmed that out there. We still have that beautiful coloring there on the horizon. Right now. 72 degrees this evening. Just like this morning there will likely be a little bit of patchy fog that develops especially after we start rolling after midnight and then early tomorrow. If youre headed out for the black friday shopping were if youre headed out early tomorrow you may run into some of that patchy fog. Weatherwise a little bit of history made early this morning. Remember hurricane otto every strengthen into a category 2 hurricane just before landfall in nicaragua working inland but as it came ashore a packed a punch. Lets take a look at this video coming in and out of nicaragua. The system made landfall early this morning as a strong category 2 hurricane. In fact, this is the southernmost land falling tropical hurricane in Central America every ordered. Folks are taking the necessary precautions. Hurricane season just a few more days to go and keep its name but longterm it will weaken as it starts to roll toward cooler water. Your complete forecast including a check of that weekend is coming up. It is beginning to look a lot like christmas and leave the at least at the vatican. The Christmas Tree was put up in st. Peters square. It is 82 foot spruce pine from a northern italian town. It is going to be officially unveiled on december 9 along with nativity. The tree will be decorated with 18,000 led lights and will stand at st. Peters square until january 8. The 2nd annual goodygoody turkey gobble 5k brought thousands of runners to downtown tampa early this morning. All proceeds go to local ymca chapters. It is all helping people diagnosed with cancer. Roughly 3000 people goodygoody turkey gobble 5k. You can see some of the people finishing right now. Many tell us they were happy to spend this thanksgiving with a lot of their lasers neighbors. They laced up and lined up bright and early ready to hit the pavement in a quiet downtown tampa. The 2nd race got underway just after 7 00. Thousands of people snaked through the streets of the city. Many ran, some walked. It took him around 60 minutes. He was thankful for that and for everything around him. Spectare spell good, beautiful weather, great security, everyone seems to be in a great mood. It was a lot more competitive than i thought it would be. Usually i am one of the first finishers and i was not this year. There was a lot of people. It was awesome. Proceeds go to ymca and their Live Strong Campaign which helps people that are diagnosed with cancer. Membership for cancer survivors and their immediate families. Thousand supporting a good cause on thanksgiving one step at a time. If you are decking the halls this weekend there are a few things you have to keep in mind. Coming up we will explain how you and your family can trim the tree without putting a local Community Radio station had a fundraiser live on the radio with 5 emcees and poets leading the way emcess and poets leading the way. For 2 hours they stepped up to the mic to perform some of there work expect it has the most diverse programming in radio diverse radio programming in the tampa bay area. Some you will never hear like it. This is indicative of what you would get on the Radio Station as far as the regular programming. If you are interested in hearing a local artist you can tune in to the poetry is session on saturdays from 11 until midnight and the saturday night shut down that is from midnight until 3 am. Were down to our finally for the blitz. Our team of the still alive in the playoffs and tonight Anthony Allred reports. After spotting the number 3 team, the undefeated braves with the season on the line realize this is just another football game. This team really responded well. We came out and had a good week and practice. We treated it like any other week because it was. There was no reason to get thingspe football game. We came out improved everyone we are a team that can handle our own. Through the 4th quarter the lead changed back and forth but the braves kicker knocking down for 2nd and a half field goals to keep them in the game. You have to have a 2 2nd rule. You can get mad but after 2 seconds you have to get rid of it. You cant dwell on the past because what is done is done and you just have to keep moving on say positive the way we would like to it to. Lake gibson braves, holler at me. I have to say this is the last team of the week trophy of the 2016 season. , but the way you guys on offense, defense and special teams put it on the hawks, i have to say, it took a total team effort and at are news channel 8s team of the week. Congratulations to the lake gibson braves. It is a blessing. It is great. It is a little a lot of families spend the thanksgiving weekend decking the halls. Before you pull out of those decorations out of the attic your some things you need to know. Use life Better Safety tested. Unplugged the lights before you go to bed. Be sure the artificial tree is fire resistant. If you have a live tree you need to one that often place ornaments that have small parts are metal hooks have a tree so th will stay away from small children. Transitioning into our thanksgiving evening, right now Crystal Clear skies over new port richey. We have been seeing some decent weather, pictureperfect conditions for today. That will translate through the evening as well. Folks driving right now on breeze coming in out of the north breast west. Very light winds for most of us. Humidity is starting to come up. That could lead to some fog developing. Also some pretty nice conditions. Looking at some clouds off in the distance. Rainfall, we havent had a lot of it this month as we are starting to close in on the end of the month we have only picked up one 100 of an inch of rain which puts us an inch lo surplus of just over 8 1 2 inches of rain for the year. We know it has been dry as of late but were not doing that at this point. We will have better rain chances that look to come our way. 80 right now is the view for downtown from downtown tampa. Some moisture getting back into the picture just enough to give a small rain chance is and even morning fog. The rain chance only 10 percent week is slightly slightly stronger front looks to come our way. Beautiful start to our thanksgiving this morning. Lauren clark, always beautiful pictures. Tomorrow we set off in the midst axes rising quickly back into the low 80s. Another very warm day. Temperatures are 5 degrees above average. Still sitting at 80 a tampa, 77 brooksville, 77 wimauma, 77 lake lynn. It is still fairly mild. Cooling as we go into the evening and overnight period. There are your winds speeds. The wind has been very light. With slightly higher moisture values the contract for what do you think the temperature will get close to the dewpoint and we will get near 100 percent humidity leading to the fog formation. It will favor our inland locations. If you are east of i 75 you stand a better chance of seeing reduced visibility tomorrow morning. Come to florida where we are 80. If you are doing more traveling for the rest of the day, right now not seeing any flight delays from coastto coast. At home light east flow continues. The model tries to pin down an isolated shower but were thinking with the dry air above it will be difficult to get any showers until we get into your saturday. That is when we frontal boundary slides and giving us a slim shot at a shower. 79 saturday 10 percent rain chance and then next week wa better chance of rain by wednesday and thursday. E cigarettes have sparked a lot of controversy but none quite like this. Coming up, the shocking moment and ecigarette sent to new york man to the hospital. Ahead Donald Trumps transition as he tweak he is working this holiday. New questions emerge about how often he is getting intelligence now there is an update to the School Bus Crash that happened on monday. We now know a 6 child has died. The driver of the bus, walker was not on his designated route when the crash happened. He faces 6 counts of vehicular homicide among other charges. Also pipeline protesters in north dakota cause quite bismarck. They marched and put cars around town disrupting traffic. Police pulled over cars headed into the city. Protesters say the police were not justified in stopping them. A new york city man is going to need surgery after and ecigarette exploded in his pocket. The whole thing was caught on surveillance video. You can see the sparks flying out of his pocket and then the ecigarette explodes several times. I thought it was fireworks, like the fourth of july. He was taken to the hospital. His Attorney Says his thigh is severely burned and he is going to have to have surgery. The hope he is going to be okay. News channel 8 at sixes coming your way next. Right now shoppers are already hitting the stores ready to shop until they drop. We will show you what is happening Bay Area Stores and what hot ticket item shoppers are after tonight. Thks restaurant gave more than 1000 local families a chance to enjoy some fine dining. Plus at the va people without medical backgrounds decide whether veterans medical issues qualified them for benefits. One person after the agencys top job says that has to change. On this thanksgiving there are so many reasons to be grateful and this is one of them. Tenmonth old marissa recovering from a heart transplant. Chemical are making this familys dreams come true on a day of getting think thanks. We will have the story coming up. Dose tories plus your forecast coming up on news channel 8, the station that is let the Holiday Shopping begin stores and malls are open. What items are hot and what shoppers are after. Giving back, former all star tackles a thanksgiving meal for dozens of families in need of a break on this thanksgiving day. Plus major changes at the va. We talked to one man that could shake things up if he is thanksgiving. Thank you for joining us tonight. And so it begins. Bargain hunters are in search of the best deals in town. Were joined live inside the best buy on gun highway in tampa. I know it is loud so that means a lot is going on in that store. There is here q can see hundreds of people waited all day long. Many since early this morning there is , and as you can see hundreds of people waited all day long. Many since early this morning. Shoppers are making a mad . To start their Holiday Shopping. The doors fly open and it is a sprint to get the best buys here at best buy. Shoppers want to grab the door busters and make sure they get what they came for. You have all of this stuff and it has been less than 5 minutes. Iran to write to it and found