Bathroom at john hopkins middle school. And her parents say this is just one example of bullying. They are upset about no reply to their emails. But finally a breakthrough after we got involved. Everybody has contacted me from the superintendent to the board of directors. They have called and said they are investigating. Reporter 8 on your side wanted to know why nobody from the district responded to the parents emails. Was there a breakdown of some kind today as far as communication goes somewhere . Unfortunately, we did discover a break down. Some of the emails that were sent were trapped in an email server because of some of the language used. Reporter a filter explains the missing el nio mails. That doesnt explain the voice mails. I went down there and i couldnt get anybody to talk to me. Reporter changes are on the works at the school district. We are reviewing our could better address her issues. We want to catch it early and move on. Reporter a bully prevention specialist says Quick Reaction to problem is key. Kids come the school ready to learn, but if they are afraid, they are not going to learn. Reporter lopez attributes the fast School Response to 8 on your side. When you guys got involved they started calling. Reporter and that bullying issue is being addressed. The School System out here says future bullying issues will be addressed as a top priority. What is the proper procedure for a student or a parent for that matter to report bullying . Reporter it is spelled out. For a student, tell someone. Tell an adult, your teacher, your mom. A parent needs to tell someone as well. But tell someone and dont let it fester. A dramatic boat fire in seminole sent one person to the hospital. The boat fire was at the Lighthouse Point marie no there. Massive flames, thick black smoke covered the vessel within minutes. Peel were on board the boat when it caught fire, but they were able to get off safely. One person is being treated for smokes inhalation. No word on what caused that giant fire. We will bring more details as they become available. A middle School Science teacher from Highlands County remains locked up charged with sex Crimes Involving one of her students. Stacy lynn hooks went before a judge this morning. She is a teacher at Hill Gustat Middle School in sebring. The 38yearold had sex with her student, a 14yearold boy. She is accused of sending him nude photos as well. She was put on administrative leave without pay. A lockdown at hillsborough high school. And the reason turns out to be some sort of projectile. We dont know what it is. Classroom window. But when they searched the scene, they couldnt find it. Something worse. They are not sure what it was. But glass broke. Fortunately, nobody was hurt and the school went into lockdown and let out at the normal dismissal time. In 2015, Manatee County ranked highest in the state for heroin deaths and overdoses but the numbers are dropping thanks to an 18month long drug investigation. Drugs, money, and weapons were seized and dealers put behind bars. John rogers joins us live in Manatee County. Good thing all of these things are off the streets there john. Reporter yeah, they are still working hard. For those who have seen the deadly consequences from heroin, they are happy this work is being done. Jerry understands the heroin it is terrible. It is terrible. Reporter her son brian was addicted to the narcotic. In december 2014, he came back to live with her and seek treatment. But he didnt make it. We did not realize he was using again and we found him on sunday, december 7, deceased in our bathroom. Reporter officials are working hard to prevent others from sharing her pain. For the past 18 months, local, state, and federal officials have conducted a massive operation to get these drugs off the streets. We are coming after you. And, we are going to put you out of business. Reporter detectives confiscated more than a quarter Million Dollars of heroin. Three kilos of cocaine. More than 320 grand in cash. People were busted in Drug Trafficking and more arrests are on the way. We are not going to underestimate the drug dealers. They need to watch out now. Reporter the hard work is paying off. Heroin calls. While 2015 had 77 heroin related deaths, so far this year, there have been none. There is more work to do. So jerry has made it her mission to Council Others whose loved ones battle addiction. Those 15 suspects each face up to 30 years in prison. They could face even more charges and again, more arrests are still oncoming. Back to you. John, do authorities know where the drugs are coming from . They are still looking into that. That is why the investigation is ongoing. As they work to knock down the network, they are trying to figure out where it is. All right, best of luck on that. Thanks. John rogers live in Manatee County. A road work headache in clear water on what is expected to be a very busy weekend. Coming up, we will bring you an update on an construction project that couldnt have come Hillsborough County neighborhood. The message though. 8 on your side investigates why. Well, the old saying if you liked today, you will probably like the weekend because similar weather ahead. We do have returning rain chances and eventual cool air. We will talk about that coming up. Well have that and more coming um. Youre watching newschannel8, it took nearly nine hours but a polk county roadway is finally clear after a tractor railer rolled over. A pickup truck crashed on dean still road. The semi driver tried to avoid the pickup but overcorrected at the time causing the semi to flip. The pickup driver had critical injuries. The driver of the semi was not hurt. That construction work we told you about happening during a very busy weekend in clear water is now underway. Here is a look at the roadwork being done. Csx railroad said they must do this work this weekend despite a number of events going on. There are some detours in place, so if you are headed to the brian adams concert or the festival, both very popular, well, an incredible gift for a real hero. A veteran injured in afghanistan now has a new set. He was presented with a new wheelchair van in tampa. He was paralyzed during a tour in afghanistan, and now needs to use a wheelchair. This will allow him to get around much, much easier. It is an amazing blessing. It is a blessing that we cannot repay. To go to his own therapies on his own. To take himself to rugby without worrying how late the practices run. This is a whole new life for us. Two nonprofits helped make it happen. Helped our military heros. They provided the wheelchair van. Thats a good looking van right there. It was. We hope that serving them well. Attacked by a rabid cat. Now the county is taking precautions. What they are going to do to now, an 8 on your side investigation. Neighborhood on alert. A rabid animal attacks and kills two cats and then goes after a citrus park man. Rabies in citrus park. Again. It is back. And the Health Department is warning neighbors but everyone who needs it, are they gets the message. Steve andrews tells us what he has found. Hi steve. Reporter lets talk about the incident first, we know the attack occurred on saturday. A male cat attacked and killed two others. Then attacked a neighbor. Now, if fluffy is missing, the county trapped and euthanized five strays in the area to learn if the rabies spread to other animals. Rabies notifications went out earlier this week to schools, businesses, and homes near the intersections of citrus park. A cat who tested positive for rabies bit someone. When animals do have ferocious rabies, they pretty well attack anything that moves. Reporter a preschool is close by. Sierra mayos handed the notifications out to parents. Her students are closely watched. Away from all animals including squirrels an cats. Reporter the Health Department confirmed the animal was rabid on tuesday. On wednesday morning, one of my inspectors went out to the area and dropped off a number of flyers around the vicinity. Reporter at least three people i spoke with including bob mullens received no notification. We havent received any notification on rabies. Reporter 8 on your side learned while staff at Citrus Park Elementary School were alerted, the principal did not send the notification home to parents. I went to the school to ask about that. The district told me the information is going today. Was there a suggestion to the principal he didnt need to send this home . No that im aware. Reporter this is the same area where a couple of years ago, they had problems with rabid raccoon. Pet resources trapped five cats results. And what about other animals like raccoons . We have had raccoon issues before. We dont routinely have them go out and do that type of testing. Reporter now test results on the cats that the county trapped and euthanize come back positive for rabies, they will expand the trapping and euthanizing efforts to control this. We saw this outbreak last time. Why wouldnt you be tracking the raccoons and testing them . Reporter thats a good q. While cats are high risk, raccoons are the leading carrier of rabies around here. The county said it did not trap any animals other than cats. All right. That raises a good question. Thanks steve. Well runner from all over the world came together for the 8 on your side health and fitness expo. Participants in the gasparilla classic are there to check in gear while picking up their race registration. One couple came from canada just to run in our races. The weather is great. My wife ran in minus 31 less than seven days ago. A great race. It is flat. So that is a benefit. So we like that. The expo continues until 8 00 tonight and tomorrow from 6 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. And a reminder the gasparilla distance classic is this weekend. So you can expect a lot of road closures. To see which streets will be shut down and the easiest way to get around, just go to our website. Wfla. Com. Skies began to clear here at freedom plaza. We will see clearer skies eventually. That is happening here at hula you can see the view from frenchys looking pretty good. 64 degrees the current temperature. For the gasparilla distance classic, saturday, 75 degrees. These are the highs. We will start out in the 50s. It will be coolish through the 50s and the 60s to reach the 75 in the afternoon. As for the rest of the day at 8 00 a. M. , 58 degrees. Mostly sunny. 71 degrees at noon. Sun and clouds and a few fair weather clouds as the day goes along. Saturday, sunday, mid 70s. Same for monday, tuesday. But, eventually, a round of showers, maybe some thunderstorms move through and cooler temperatures build in behind that. 72 degrees now at Tampa International airport. The dew point, 47 degrees with an east win at eight miles an hour. 67 degrees in saint petersburg. An east wind at 11 miles an hour. Overall winds from the east. Ridge of High Pressure keeping it warm across much of the south for us. But the changes start as we head into early next week. Starting to take a bit of a dip here. Shower chances will kick in early on tuesday. And into the latter half of tuesday, kind of on and off through the day. Eventually through wednesday as the trough moves in. It is not just bringing rain for florida, but Cool Temperatures too. That is the big red color there. The big reason why we will see mostly clear skies here in the over night as the winds become lighter for the east. Quite a few clouds off the east coast. We expect fewer clouds as i mentioned but hardly a cloud in the sky earlier today. So this evening looks pretty good with that light northeasterly wind. Tomorrow morning a sunny start to the day. Patchy fog possible. Patchy fog formed. Tomorrow afternoon, clouds warming into the mid 70s. Get into later sunday and eventually into monday, we will pick up a few new clouds and a slight rain chance. As the disturbance rolls through the area, it will kick up the rain chances higher tuesday into wednesday and cool air behind that. 75 degrees for saturday. 76 for sunday. And, also, for monday. The rain chances do climb back to 40 in the forecast for tuesday. And eventually as we get into wednesday as well. A scattered off and on chance. The Severe Weather chance looks lesser now which is good news for us. As we get into thursday, friday, behind the cold front, coming through on tuesday, or rather wednesday, we will see temperatures cool back down into the 60s so we will get back down with the cooler numbers. This weekend is great. Enjoy this one. Thank you steve. Today was nice. Indeed. Welcoming up, the bolts reflect on last nights wild win over winnipeg. Close. They almost lost that one. It was tight. And this also included a vicious hit as you see here which will not be disciplined hear what the lightning had to say about that coming up in it is good. Back. Or that chipotle burrito is bad. Tampa and winnipeg put on that clinic. They led 41 in the third. When the wheels came off. Take the lead. But just 24 seconds later, the game was tied at 55. After a wild overtime and five rounds of the shootout. Stephen stamkos sent the fans home happy. He and his mates were less than pleased. Show some character coming back. But, at the end of the day, we need to be better defensively once again. We keep talking about it. You do find a way to win. It is great getting the two points when you are in a slide like we are. But you cant expect to continue. It has to change or we will be out of the playoffs before you know it. There are things that we have to fix that have been happening to us of late. Theres no question. Um. But. We were down a goal with five to go an we found a way to win the game. So, got to take some positive lightning defense man anton strawman is not expected to receive discipline after this hit on winnipegs brian little. A big talking point last night. Little was helped off the ice. Good xrays on his neck. He was not penalized. They thought the collision was more unfortunate than malicious. I dont try to hurt anybody. You know. Ill just try to play ahead. I was in his way. There is not much i can do to really pull out of that one. I think the ref described it pretty good. He said it was a hockey play gone wrong which is a guy committed to the hit like he was, and little is reaching for the puck an lost his footing. Obviously. You know. When it happens to a teammate, you will respond the way they did which is fine. Thats the game. But, i think we all know that the poor kid had his head down. So everybody else hopes he was okay. But there was no malicious intent on the hit. Hopefully, he is okay. Winnipeg head coach paul maurice did not agree with john coopers sentiment. He got tossed outed of the game after dropping a few choice words to the referees there. Definitely sparked his team though. Getting tossed out. Yeah. Well, almost took it from the lightning. Finally, we go to arenas from hockey. Once everyone left the game. Workers started to prepare for the arena cross event. They covered the ice with plywood. When they unloaded they added 170truckloads of dirt. They build up all the hills and the jumps along the motorcycle course. The whole process takes about but it is crazy fun. For the guys and the gals on the bikes. Up and down. And the spectators. Dont go anywhere. Nightly new is coming your way next. Jenn and steve back in 30 developing news tonight. Mad dash. Hours before the vote in two critical states trump under fire for what he has said about the iraq war, and Hillary Clinton fighting to hold off bernie sanders. Slamming apple. The feds fire back in a fiery battle over cracking the San Bernardino killers iphone, and now trump calling for a boycott. Hoverboard crackdown after dozens of fires, some burning homes to the ground, the government says enough. A major new warning that could lead to an