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Ask your hep c specialist if harvoni is right for you. Welcome back. More problems for chipotle. A judge e ruled that the companys social media policy violates u. S. Labor laws and now they must offer to rehire him for lost wages. 38yearold James Kennedy was fired in february 2015 after he sent out a tweet state, nothing is free, only cheap labor, crew members make only 8. 50 an hour. The supervisor showed kennedy a social media policy babanning disparaging comments about chipotle. But the judge said, if you want to tweet about your personal experience at a job, you can do it. What would this mean for other companies . 8 on your side has the answers for you today. Sellers. Thank k you for being here. Always happy to be here. This is an interesting topic, if you go on social media and fire off a comment, where do we stand on this . You could have a Company Policy or this judge says youre in the clear. Right. Well it comes s down to those things. In this case, the policy basically has been ruled to violate Employment Rights so the policy is basically infringing on people expressing their own opinions and so theyre say, were not t going to allow that. You can have a policy that protects your company and makes sure that your brand isnt damaged but you cant just control what people say. Likeke you said, if people have a bad day and post something, its not grounds to fire someone unless they specifically violate a policy thats legal. Okay. Chipotle is dealing with this and there was another case in florida. Just happened. Actually a Home Health Agency in the area fired an employee. He was a supervisor of the department. He has to have surgery. He goes s on family and medical weeks. He exceeds the time limit and then posted himself swimming and doing some things that social media. Okay. So the company had a policy if you post things on social media that negatively affect your emplployees or subordinate, its grounds for termination and because all of the and saying, why isnt he here . It was causing a commotion and they could prove it. The court ruled with the compmpany that it was allowable. This the instance, if a company has a socicial media policy and they think you violate, its going to be spelled out, did it cause damage . It does. In the next few month, Companies Need to start looking at their policies and making sure that the policies are legal and that the things that they have in place, that theyre preventing things employees from posting are things that are going to hurt the company and not just trying saying. Interesting d debate. Expect. Stacie, back to you. Thank you. A shocker from the world of sports stirring up another debate. Adam laroche of the Chicago White sox says she is walking away from baseball. The team says its because amount of time his teenaged son spends in the clubhouse. We look at how much is too much when it comes to bringing your son to work. Reporter stunning the baseball world with his abrupt retirement, the 36yearold telling teammates in arizona tuesday he is ready to walk away from the game and the 13 million remaining on his contract. White sox officials confirm laroches decision came after they asked him to cut back the time his 14yearold soson drake spends in the clubhouse. Once his son was old enough to be safely around a baseball field, he brought him to work. Reporter many on the white sox called drake their 26th man. He is considered such a fixture with the team that he attends practice at home and on the road. He has his own uniform and was given his own locker in chicago. The white sox Vice President ken williams calls drake a fine young man but says it was time to draw the line. Sometimes you have to mamake some unpopular decisions. Guy who wanted to bring his son and have every day thing . Reporter williams saying its time the team concentrates on playing Better Baseball after suffering three straight losing seasons. Laroche has not appeared publiclyly since walking away, tweeting, thank you lord for the game of baseball and for giving me way more than i ever deserved. Familyfirst. National league mvp bryce harper, a former teammate of laroches voicing his support, tweeting, good for you, laroche, nothing like father and son in the clubhouse. Its a family game. But afterall, it is work. And when ththe fans demand a better output from the Chicago White sox, theyre tightening up the reigns there. Nbc did reach out to laroche and his agent for comment but did not hear back. An 8 on your side consumer alert now. A major recall for bubble bee tuna. Be s spoiled or have other p athogens. Its all produced in ththe month of february. You haveve something to sell on ebay but too lazy to ship it to the buyer . In certain city, ebay will now send someone to your door within 20 minutes to professionally pack your item and ship it for you. Boy, its getting easy, isnt it . Right now, its free but starting june 30th, it will cost an additional 5 per pick up. Wow. Like it. All right, well, easter is just around ththe corner and you can expect to see more commercials for holiday this year. Americans are expected to spend 17. 3 billion this easter. Roughly 146 a person. The highest t amount spent for easter since e the survey beganan 13 years ago. You can expect to find spring specific ads to encourage you to spend even more. Think back to the cad cber rush bunny. Yeah, cadbury bunny. Yeah. My wife talks about the minute eggs. Only come out during easter. She would bubuy them all from the store. And now i know where to find them. Yeah. I know. And not quite the easter forecast yet but not a bad st. Paddys day so far for us. And we are already looking ahead to the weekend. We have rain returning, ababout a 50 chance on saturday. Warm and muggy through the day, and temperatures reach into the low 80s but thats a high rain chance for saturday as we get closer, we will pin down exactly what portion of the day is most likely to see the rain. By sunday, looks like if we see rain, it will be during the Morning Hours. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through the day with temperatures close to 80 degrees. For the evening, temperatures around, staying warm, a little bit on the muggy side. And tomorrow morning, not dealing with as much fog asas weve had the past couple days. That is good news. Mostly cloudy alalready, temperatures in the upper 60s. So another warm start to the day. Lessss fog a good thing. And by tomorrow afternoon, we will keep the clouds around but temperatures will be able to make it into the low 80s and we will bring in a slight shower chance. We could see a few showers and maybe even an isolated thunderstorm popping up. At the moment, you can see the cloud cover across the tampa bay area. And we are looking at a front to the north. Tracking showers and storms near gainesville, this is just north of the tampa bay area. Over the nextxt couple areas wouldnt be surprise sod see is citrus and Hernando County surprised to see citrus and showers. Overnight, most of the showers fall apart, mostly dry. But t a good amount of cloud cover throughout the overnight hours. I mentioned but still clououdy and warm. Notice the stalled boundary to the north. With that around, we could see showers dedeveloping through the day but i think saturday and into sunday is when we will see the most rain. So saturday morning, we could start to see some showers. Dont have the exact timing of the rain on saturday just yet. Because we will track an area of low pressure to the north. And another front will move in. So as we head througugh saturday evening, looks like a good chance of rain then into sunday morning, maybe lingering even into around noon or so on sunday but moist of the models were looking at has the rain clearing out early. We will keep a close eye on sunday for you. And we would like to have at least one nice day for the coming weekend, especially with Macdill Airfest. At this point, abouout a 50 chance of rain on saturday. About a 30 chance for sunday morning and. Then clearing out and cooling off as we head into next week. Currently dealing with warm temperatures inland. 90 in bartow. Overall staying warm until the front passes. Notice on sunday, only the low 60s on monday withth lots of sunshine. But we will quickly warm up behind this next front. Guys thanks, julie. A pennsylvania man has agreed to plead guilty after Authorities Say he illegally accessed private phone and email accounts of several celebrity actresses. You remember it led to leaked nude pictures. 36yearold ryan collins faces up to five years in federal prison. Authorities say he accessed the pictures through apple icloud now your headlines from hollywood including a Screening Service that lets you watch movies at homeme the same day they are released in theaters. Heres todays hollywood minute. Reporter a pair of hollywood heavy weights are pulling no punches about a proposed new method of film delivery. James cameron and his partner parkerers Screening Room propososal which would have movies available to stream at home the same day they hit theaters. He said, we remain committed to the intheater experience. Its really fun. Reporter a member of the walking dead is jumping to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter says the actor is joining the cast of the action film mayhem. The Production Company behind the walking dead is producing the film. [ applause ] reporter the hollywood walk of fame is accepting nominations for the class of 2017. The organizers behind the famous walkway are taking suggestions for new recipients to be handed out next year. The application deadline is may 31st, and if you follow all the rule, anyone even a fan can submit a nomination. For week, we have been telling you about big problems at the irs office in tampa. Long lines meant a wait time the changes that started today after 8 on your side pushed for answers. Ahead, march madness officially tips offer. We will tell you and show you one of the first thrillers of welcome back. Lets check in on first at 4 00 sports on this st. Paddys day. I feel badly that i didnt wear the green. I had a fashion emergency and didnt w wear my green. Fashion emergency, josh . I have one green tie. Ill have to loan you the backup. March madness, an old adage, excuses are like ncaa tournament bracket, everybody has one and nobody wants to hear about yours. Whether you have drowned in your office pool already or youre still perfect, its the e most wonderful time of the year. The team you love to hate, duke. The seahawks hanging tough late in the 1st half. Fleming, who wants to lead when you can follow . Up by four. And right before recess, the blue devils get momentum. Ingram, pull up at the buzzer. Nothing but net. And duke still has some. They scored 23. Duke scrapes by unc 9358. Meanwhile, in raleigh, an 8 9 matchup between texas tech and butler. In the 2nd half, gray connects from nba range to put the red raiders up 3534. Thats a nice hair cut. For that. Its fun to do bad things. Looks like tech is going to win this thing, but hold up. Butlers martin becomes a man possessed, scoring all 11 of his points in the final 8. 5 minutes, leading butler to the second round. The other early game, uconn defeats colorado 7466. The huskies lead with 19. And iowa state is through to the second round. Tomorrow. South florida did you want play until saturday but its no consolation for the coach. He is calling bull on the bulls seating in the tournament. And for good reason, usf is in the same region as uconn and they have to play an underrated Colorado State squad in the first round. The rams are 311 this year. Yet they only earned an 11 seed in the big dance. You dont win 31 games just because, you know. They got some very, very good basketball players and they do things well. They are very, veryry efficient. They dont foul. So iim surprised. Theyre a lot better than an 11 seed. The florida wowomen take on albany at noon tomorrow. Florida state faces middle tennesessee state on saturday. And Florida State men tonight in the second round ofof the nit. If you love college hoop, this is it. Good stuff. Better than spring breaks if youre a hoops fan. Yeah, especially when you combine the two. The spring breakers have a there has to be a way. Divide by 3. 14 something something something. [ beeping, whirring ] great caesar salad and now the name your price tool shows people policy options to help fit their budget. Is that a true story . Yeah people really do save an average of over 500 when they switch. I mean about you inventing it. I invented the story, and isnt that what really matters . Now four headlines at 4 30. Number one, republicans are further stepping up their fight to stop donald trump. Today conservatives called for a convention fight to prevent trump from becoming the partys nominee. Eric ericson is leading the charge. He says if a unity ticket isnt able to get the required number deborah today sesenator Lindsay Graham announced he is endorsing fellow senator ted cruz for president. He previously said cruz was no better than donald trump and graham even joked about hurting cruz. Number three, lead contamination. Inside the water is a problem reaching far beyond the disaster in flint, michigan. Accocording to a usa today report, hundreds of schools across the country have lead tainted water exposing children to dangerous levels. It cites information from the Environmental Protection agency. And number four, wall street completed a stunning turnaround for the year. The dow erased a scary start for 2016 down nearly 2,000 points since january. The big rebound has been driven by a spike in oil prices and fading fears of a possible recession. Well, funning for Mental Health treatment has been falling in florida even though the economy is improving. And florida lawmakers s didnt stop that trend until l he threw his daughter over a bridge to her death. Now lawmakers are trying to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again. Reporter the Mental Health legislation is 175 pages long. It recognizezes that florida didnt get buy Mental Health problem overnight didnt get into a Mental Health problem overnight and it wont be solved quickly. As state lawmakers devil into the death of the daughter at the hands of her father and failure of the department of children and famililies to act on the foreboding call, lawmakers discovered a dysfunctional system that didnt always communicate. We realize that Mental Health and substance abususe were such key drives in child abuse. Reporter at the forefront is a new no wrong door policy. Something happened to someone on the street, a Police Officer picked up someone who is maybe drunk or having a problem, it wasnt really clear reporter governor rick scott has acknowledged in the past that his brother has experienced Mental Health issues and he has indicated he will not veto the incrcreased funding. Rereporting from the state capitol. The legislation calls for annual reports detailing what future funding is needed. The 175 page bill takes effect july 1st. Governrnor rick scott has indicated he will not veto the money going to Mental Health improvements. 8 on your side has been staying on top of issues at the irs office in tampa. Waiting in lines for hours has been the norm for people trying to get help there. 8 on your side pushed the irs to do something ababout those massive linenes and now we are seeing results. Today the agency began taking people by appointment only. While there were no lines in sight, there was still frustration. People were turned away because they didnt have an appointment. They came out and tell me i have to come back and make an you do have to now call to schedule an appointment. We have the number and more information on our website at wfla. Com. And now your first at 4 00 weather. Here is storm team 8 meteorologist Julie Phillip tell us. Good afternoon, stacie. A great afternoon fromom hula bay. 81 degrees right now. Peaks of sunshine but overall, we have seen more cloud cover around today. We saw the fog earlier this morning as well. We have been in the pattern. And now temperatures are quite a bit different across the tampa bay area. As you head inland, things start to heat up. 89 in sebring. 91 in bartow. But coolol area lolong the coast. 78 currently in st. Pete. 81 in bradenton. And 73 in clearwater. And more clouds and of course the fog earlier today helped slow things down as well. The current setup, a stalled frontal boundary to the north. You can see showers and storms in north florida ahead of this system. But the majority of the rain still north of the tampa bay area. Here and some showers and storms offshore may move into Citrus County throughout the evening hours. But as you head farther south, our rain chances really not tonight. This weekend, we start to see the rain chances going up. And the spring break is in session for a a lot of you and tomorrow, not going to be the best of beach days. Temperatures all right in the upper 70s but gulf temperatures going up into the hid70est but it will be cloudy through the entire day. About a 20 chance of rainin. And unfortunately the rain chances only going up from there. We will have the details on the weekend coming up in the full forecast. Thank you, julie. And 8 is on your side with what you need to know to plan your morning commute. Here is leslee lacey with a lolook at tomorrows traffic today. Hello there. Hope youre enjoying your afternoon. We want to remind you about railroadad repair work thats going on in the lutz area. Its about half way down. But we still have u. S. 41 closed, both directions here right at Crenshaw Lake known as so you are detoured around it. Dale mabry highway is the alternate. Keep that in mind. It should be reopened next friday or possibly saturday. Anand now you can connect with me at leslee lacey on facebook and follow me on twitter. You can catch leslee and leigh spann every weekday morning with weather and traffic on the 8s starting at 4 00 a. M. Still ahead on first at 4 00 a teacher r caught looking at women in lingerie isis his classroom. How the entire class could see those same photos. And you will want to stick around for these 8 on your side stories tonight. Reporter were getting our first look at what the new pier will look like through artist renderings but does it really have all the features we are promised. Reporter the o. J. Simpson trial continues to captivate many but his former manager lives s here. Welcome back. Now for a look at celebrity news, here are the hosts of hollywood today live. From hollywood today live, this is the htl daily wrap. Is olivia wild taking a page out of George Clooneys book . At the ripe old age of just 32, olivia wild is saying she is aging out of hollywood. Wild was told she was, quote, too sophisticated for the part in wolf of wall street but later found out that they thought she was too old. She was 28 when she auditioned. I should probably retire as well. You and me both, tanner. Sasad news, frank sinatra, jr. Passed away on wednesday avenue wednesday. He work closely wiwith his father but also made his own career as a singer. He saidly had a heart attack. Get excited, because she may be on boboard for princess and the diary 3. Thats the htl daily wrap. All right. And now time for todays send it to stacie. And we might have a green theme today, you think for st. Patricks day . I asked and you delivered. We will kickoff todays irish theme with this one from lisa bower. This is heher lovely pricilla. Cute. And this one comes all the way from minnesota. This is pepper finding himself a st. Paddys day friend. Thanks to chloe for sending that one long distance. And sophia says her lime is looking for a leprechaun with a pot of gold. Nice shades, i like those. And her precious lily looking for beer money this st. Patrtricks day. One way to get it. I think her mom might abuse it. Yeah, good stififf. You can send it to stacie by tweeting your pipictures with the send it to stacie and you can welcome back. Parents at ad is school are furious over what a High School Math teacher was dodoing in class. While the students were taking a test, the teacher was looking at lingerie. And students could see exactly what he was doing. You could tell he was bored being in the classroom. Reporter so bored, this math teacher turns to online shopping. He never even looked up. Reporter if he had, he computer was still connected to the class projector. The lingerieie he was looking at on ebay was up on the big screen for all the e kids to see. So therees more thanan one student fifilming this. Reporter students put it on social media and it quickly spread. One site captioning the video with the title algebra. Its been a running joke ever since. Rereporter but this mom isisnt laughing. She says the principapal sent out this email tuesday afternoon, even though it happened last week. They just said, its a persononnel issue. And we cant discususs it and d we wanted to let you u know before the nenews got ahold of it. Their butts. Reporter he is on administrative leave but she thinks he should be fired. If he cant control his web surfing for lingerie around impressionable teenager, even if he hadnt had the projector and saw it . Reporter a a former ststudent it shouldnt have been happening with minors or anything like that. He should know better. That being said, there was no nudity or anything. It was just lingerie. Nonow the principal from the high school refused to comment because it is an ongoing investigation. Well, a Convenience Store clerk is being hailed a hero after helping a young mother having a seizer. Surveillancece video shows the Woman Holding a baby when she begins to lose consciousness. Watch h this. The clerk says she had a glazed look on her face. She asked if everything was okay. The mother wasnt responding and started to sway. So i thought, i better take the baby. Something doesnt feel right. And then right then, she started to fall. And i wasnt sure still exactly what was going on. So i yelled at the customer that was in the store as she fellll. I came back, grabbed the phonone, called 911. Wow. Both the mom and child are doing fine now. Well, when it comes to kid, it can be hard to tell when theyre being resistant. Is it because kids will be kids . Or because they have an anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder . Well, today 8 on your side has some answers for you thanks to tampa bay Parents Magazine contributor. She is here to help us decode our kids. And this is important. As a parent, i can completely relate because sometimes you wonder if theyre just being bratty or if they might have an under lying issue. What is act serious complaints and ocd . Act serious complaints generalized is when theres a persistent seasons of worried. But it goes on for a period of time. It could be about anything. A test. Being left at home. It could be anything kind of broadly speaking. But whehen the worry takes and it can interfere with production and concentration. How about ocd . Its a different disorder. The o is for obobsession and the c is for compmpulsion. And obsession is a ththought that makes s you uncomfortable. Like who is going to pick me up at school . Or theres always going to be a monster r under my bed. Oror something bad is going g to happen to me if and then the compulsion is a behavior people do to make the act serious complaints that the obsession causes get lowered. Got it. And thats not healthy either. Not so much. How can you tell the difference between kids with a disorder and kids just being kids. Fear is normal and healthy and keeps us out of danger. However, when its really running the show, there are definite signs. For example, if kids are being see new irritatability, or if theyre checking, they packed their backpack and checking and checking and chchecking or the lights or the windows or windows, those are some hints. When do you know that you might need a doctors help . When its really interfering with life. When your child is uncoopoperative or anxious or doing behaviors that taken to on thes ofof time and its interfering with functioning or, its time to seek help. Thank you very much. Thank you for that. Chicagos st. Patricks Day Festivities wouldnt be complete without the Chicago River being dyed green. Take a look at that. This is time lapsed video of the two boats dyeing the water green this morning. And depending how the wind is, thats how it stays. It is cool. Dye thats a great shot. Yeah, good stuff. Well, kicks off the twoday fest. 7eleven is holding the two days. You can fill up your own cup for only 1. 50. How big can it be . A 10inch diameter. You cant you cant bring the stanley cup. Why cant you bring a cup and get theres always somebody pushing pushing the envelope. And no garbage cans either. Hi, julie, how is the weather . Looking okay for this st. Patricks s day. Overall, the conditions sort of deteriorate over the next couple days. Extra clouds are building. Not much sunshine over the next several days. Rain chances are going up as we head into the weekend. We are tracking the next storm system moving in. And behind this system, a lot we are going to see a cool down i know were thinkiking maybe it in forecast. Start next week. So if you have your weather max app forecast, it will show you tomorrow as we head throughout the overnight hours and we could see a stray shower to the north but generally just a warm start tomorrow morning and temperatures close to 7 0 degrees, cloudy start today. And we warm back up into the low 80s by the afternoon hours. And currently dealing with a good amount of cloud cover around. The showers still out of our viewing area but notice some of the rain just west of Citrus County. We could see some of these showers and heavy rain withinin this moving into Citrus County the nenext few hours or so but mainly the Northern Counties with the rain chances for tonight. In citrus, Hernando County, about a 30 chance of rain for the evening but as you head south, the rain chances fade away and likely a mostly dry night for you. Heres the setup. But as we head into the overninight hour, any showers around are going to dissipate. And it will be mostly dry overnight tonight. And tomorrow morning, less fog for the morning commute. I know that is a welcomed sight. So just clouds to start off today. And it will be warm already and we will heat back up into the low 80s for friday afternoon. And we will try a couple showers around but generally with the front to the north, most of the rain will probably stay in north florida and south georgia but with the extra moisture, you cant rule out showers and the increasing morning. Beginning the day on saturday, around. Extra clouds through the day. Temperatures stay warm near 80 but ahead of the front, pretty y much through the day, looking at a chance of rain. And as we get closer, hopefully it will pin point and people will see it earlier r or later in the day. And then the front moves in saturday night and early sunday so we could still see rain for first half of sunday. Looks like before the front clears out, its going to be but things will be drying out. And i know the Macdill Airfest is this weekekend so i wish we had Better Weather but we will see scattered showers on saturday. Hope the timing works out on that. And by sunday, mostly in the Morning Hours we will see some rain. So things could be okay on sunday. Temperatures, again, looking at a cool down. It will stay warm into the start of the weekend but once the front moves in, the winds will be out of north and breezy. So temperatures falling back into the upper 60s on monday. And thats a good cool down for the end of march. And rain chances fade away. And drier air and looks gorgeous for the start of next week with highs in up ther 60s, low 70s and sunshine. Guys thank you, julie. Well, coming up, if you thought your love affair with better pizza. You better deliver. Which is why im introduducing papas quality guarantee one, absolutely free. Pget any large pizza up to 5toppings pfor just 9. 99. Online only. Now time to take a lookok at whats trending beginning with a giggling pet fox. [ laughter ] , thats a vine video of a pet fox in michigan who laughs on command. It already has more than 35 million views in just three days. And in the competitive social media world of grumpy cats, scscreaming goats, and horses wearing suits, those numbers are nothing to laugh at. A viral video of a souped up vw tearing through the the driver millions of views on social media, but also a trip to jail. The video shows the hot rod ripping through neighborhoods and jumping through intersections. The man pleaded guilty and got 45 days in jail and three years of probation. Images of rapture creep into me slowly mariah carey has confirmed she is getting her own reality show. It will be eight episodes as she kicks off her sweet fantasy tour. And now time for newschannel8 at 5 00 with jenn and josh. Now on newschannel8 at 5 00. The end of an era at sea world. They will stop breeding their orcas. And the rays are headed to and tickets are proving tough to comome by. Tickets of the future of the eyebrows. Good evening everybody. Im jenn holloway. Im josh benson. Thanks for being with us. A stunning announcement from sea world. Their killer whale shows will be coming to an end anand so will the e whale breeding programs. The e news follows increasing controversy of keeping the whales in captivity. Candace mccowan joins us with the latest. Reporter lawmakers are praising this move this afternoon. It is no secret their earnings have suffered. The ceo is now ending the practice of keeping the whales in the parks and joining forces with an organization that has been their critic. They are t the hallmark of sea world, but in 2019, the killer whale shows of Sea World Orlando will come to a close