Look at this. Zip line adventures are fun for families, you know, soaring through the trees and all that. But one bay area neighborhood is not so convinced the high flying adventure is the right fit. More about that in a moment. Right now, a check on the weather with leigh. Good morning. We had high flying temperatures yesterday, actually tied a record in sarasota of 9 6 degrees. The old record set back in 1990. It was still hot, 95. Re what about today . Kids heading back to class, a forecast of about an a. This is what we expect, 80 for the first class. 89 at lunchtime. I left in the rain chance thats very, very slim. And a better rain chance heading home from school, at that point, 92. The rain will generally head from inland areas toward the coast and the rain chance will go up 30 at 3 00, 4 00. 40 at 5 00 and 6 00. Something coming off africa. First, the roadways this morning. Were looking good. Nothing coming through. Everything thats happened so far is already there. Thats good news for those traveling. Especially through the Tarpon Springs area, the vehicle fire is out. Meanwhile, this construction still lingering, should be wrapping up soon, southbound 75 at university parkway. The two right lanes taken away here. Lets take a live look at traffic. Thats not a all of that construction that we were showing you that was tying up the right lane on i4 eastbound at state road 559. It has cleared. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to gene and gayle. Righted now, a man accused of running a red light and slamming into a car driven by a popular Pinellas County teacher is facing more serious charges this morning because the teacher died. Caroline sign passed away hours after the crash. Live at Sexton Elementary School in Pinellas County this morning. And ryan, this is going to be a very difficult day for students and staff. Reporter a sad day on tap. Many people here at the Elementary School wanted the teacher to pull through. And now theres the terrible news that she didnt. She loved going in her classroom. She always did great things with her kid, positive energy. And for music. Reporter that was the principal when we talked to her yesterday before caroline sign passed away. And now the school has the task of explaining this to students. Pinellas park police tell us the other vehicle was driven by Bryce Mccloud and investigators believe he was drunk. The charges will likely be upgraded later today to dui hankins remains in the hospital at this hour. Back here live this morning, the suspect will likely appear in court again today. And im checking with School Officials to find out if grief counselors will be available here at the school to talk to students and Staff Members later today. Gayle, a sad situation all around. I can only imagine. Everybody is close knit at my kids school, it would be so hard to walk into that news. Thank you, ryan. Happening today, Funeral Services are scheduled for the during a policeled demonstration. Family and friends will say goodbye to 273yearold mary nolton. The officer pulled the trigger on what was supposed to be loaded with blanks. It was a live round instead. The officer is on administrative leave. There are two new cases of locally transmitted zika virus in miamidade county. One case is from the winwood virus hot spot but the second case was contracted outside of the area but still in miami dade. In the meantime, officials in texas report a resident there who recently visited miami tested positive for the virus. Now an 8 on your side alert. Hackers are targeting hotels, stealing credit card information and it just happened here in the bay area. News channel 8s Lindsey Mastis joins us live from one of the tampa hotels hacked. But lindsay, there are many hotels reporter yeah, the Intercontinental Hotel here along kennedy boulevard and west shore, just one of 20 hotels in 10 state affected. One expert tells us its no surprise. Its not whether they can get in, its what they choose to get into and how much damage they want to do. Reporter the hotels and it affects some hyatt and marriott hotels. Its not just from people who paid for a room. Its all kinds of transactions including customers that bought food. In response, hgi is changing what it does with the security, beefing it up and making sure that the malware is out. It appears that hackers used malware to get into the computer systems. The company does believe reportedly that there are 12,000 transactions affected here at this hotel in tampa. And what you will want to do is look at the credit card statements, look for anything unusual and make sure that all your cards have fraud protection. Gene yeah, and many of the hotels are popular with business travelers. So check the corporate cards too. Thank you. Donald trump layed out his plan for defeating isis in the battleground state of ohio. Hillary Rodham Clintons policies launched isis on to trump is revising his past proposal to ban all muslims from entering the country. Under the new plan, trump proposes what he calls extreme vetting modeled after the cold war which would screen out anyone with hostile attitudes toward the u. S. And admit only those who share our values and respect our people. We cannot let this evil continue. Ideology of radical islam, oppression of women, gay and nonbelievers be allowed to resign or spread within our own countries. Trump promised he would keep Guantanamo Bay open. Hillary Rodham Clinton will continue her bus tour across pennsylvania today with a stop in philadelphia. Together theyre cam inpaining to win over trumps core base, blue collar white men. In pennsylvania, clinton heads to ohio tomorrow. Early voting for the august 30th primary is underway across the state. In just the first day, some 1900 ballots were cast in hillsborough county. And Election Officials report receiving more than 47,000 ballots by mail so far. Early voting runs through august 28th in hillsborough county. And lets get a chon you can expect it to be another hot day. It is midaugust, remember. Lets take you hourbyhour. 7 00 a. M. At 79. Quickly up to 58 at 10 00 a. M. We hit 90 at 1 00. And an afternoon high of 93. So you will be wishing for some showers. And the farther east that you go, eastern polk county, highlands county, you will see the least amount of rain, about a 30 chance. From western polk county into eastern portions of the coast but also later in the afternoon. Talked about the tropics. Theres the wave that came off africa, 70 chance of developing in the next five days. The good news is though, almost all the models in good agreement that its going to stay in the central atlantic. No threat to the u. S. At this point. In the meantime, leslee lacey has an eye on the roadways. Yeah, overnight construction and its clearing up. Lets take a look here out in the polk county area. Remember, i told you one of the right lanes blocked right near state road 559. No construction out there anymore. They have that out of the way. Also, taking a look, still lingering but wrapping up soon, southbound 75 around university parkway. Two right lanes were taken away and that was due to overnight construction. Vehicle fire remnants going on here but no delays. Orange street at pinellas avenue, alternate 19. N the Tarpon Springs area. No delays on 19. Thats weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to gene and gayle. Thank you, leslee. Some moms and dads, you know how hard it is to get everybody out the door each morning. Leigh is going to share ways to improve her morning routines and gearing her kids up for a great day of learning. A tattoo to control your smart phones . Up next, the new technology we may soon oh, here comes nancy. Wow, shes sure making a splash in that designer dress and with a thicker, more fabulous formula, shes not splashing. Just dazzling. Clorox splashless bleach. Your morning alert, big developments in smart phone technology, future generations of the iphone might be able to take to it the beach. Becoming cyborgs, its happening. Were becoming robots for real. Meredyth censullo has the latest on that. Reporter yeah, under water selfies with the iphone could be a thing in the near future. Apple has been granted a patent for a technique that lets mobile devices take pictures under water. That suggests apple is working on letting the devices go under water safely in the first place. And other rumors suggest iphone is getting rid of the headphone jack and the Traditional Home button, both would stop water from getting in. The iphone 7 could come out in september. And you could control your smart phone with a temporary tattoo. These tattoos can send and receive information. They operate on the same Technology Used for mobile payments. The brains of the operation, a small computing chip. Some functions, pausing songs storing scannable information like movie or bus tickets. So what does this mean . Were carrying around less stuff. The prototypes cost about 175 to make. It would be really weird if you tried to get on the bus with the lower back dolphin tattoo. I know. Thank you. We want to know what you think about the advance. Use the 8alert. Concern is growing in largo over a zip line adventure. A company has a contract to build the zip line at the Highlands Park recreation complex. It already has one in bradenton which the Company Claims is a hit. However, neighbors are worried about noise, crowds and parking issues. There will be strangers everywhere. There will be litter. Not a done deal. The largo city commissioners will vote on the issue september 6th. And across america this morning, the iconic hotel and casino is now a pile of rubble. Oh, there it is goes. Yep, this happened about 15 minutes ago. The tower, it was the last one standing, it was imploded to make room for the expansion of the citys convention center. The 182 million expansion and expected to be cop plea right now, a tower, nope, night do i. Its gone. Like a vegas trick. It is relatively calm in milwaukee right now after two nights of violent protests there. Police report only a handful of arrests overnight. A Deadly Police shooting after a traffic stop led to a violent weekend in milwaukee. Businesses and threw rocks at officers. And now they are demanding to see Police Body Cam video of the shooting. 8 on your side continues our get schooled series this morning. Today were focusing on morning routines. Yeah, theyre important to get our kids out of the door and ready for a great day of learning. Leigh spann has ways to help. Reporter thats right. Its a crit car length cal time between the alarm clock and the first school bell. And it can set the tone for the day. Us morning. I usually get up between 4 00 and 5 00 a. M. Reporter after that brandy jackson and her family are on a fast track to get to school. I started a longtime ago making them set their own alarms. That was part of our rio teen, they have get up, they need to allow themselves enough time to make their beds and get dressed. Reporter her kids are older, 14 and 16 but good goal. For younger kid, make a chart. And have a place for everything and everything in its place. Label that place so theres less running around at the last minute. Time time. Reporter jackson uses weather and traffic on the 8s to keep everyone on time. Tv is definitely key once the kids are up. Its our time keeper. Because they know, if you come on for the weather or the traffic comes on, its this door. Reporter a good morning routine starts with a good evening routine. Make lunches the night before and make sure the kids get to bed on time. They have sports and homework and projects due. How are they going to get it done . Reporter and it can be a team effort. It helps to have them work on the routine and the schedule too. All right. And other suggestions, with multiple kids in the house, let morning leader. That wouldnt work in my house. Or use a reward for getting ahead of schedule. And practice what you preach. Dont be running around looking for your purse. Yeah, if youre frazzled, well, thats the norm. Exactly. And think about how much less stress it will be when you get to work and school if you have this organized. I practice, keep everything you need in the mornings in my coffee, sugar, all next to the pot ready to. And organizing the lunches for the week. Get them ready, teeing them up so all my husband has to do is grab them and run out the door. If you left him to make the lunch yuck, dad. We were talking about that before the newscast, get it done on sunday. So its not the night before. Exactly. Use us here at 5 48. Time for weather and traffic on the 8s. You know what time you need to be out the door. Mostly sunny and steamy at 8 00 a. M. Still most dry at noon at 89 before the 40 rain chance with a high of 93. A hot one. 78 in riverview right now. 77 in new port richey. Zephyrhills, youre at 77 degrees. 78 in frost proof. And 72347 north port. Now still watching this rain across the western gulf of mexico, including louisiana. But especially now heading into texas. Lets talk about wh not much. Not even a few clouds. Throughout the day, a general east to west wind means dry through the morning and the first few showers start around lunchtime. And notice how the coverage of rain gets better through the afternoon and pushes toward the coast. Todays high 93. 91 wednesday and thursday. Leslee, lets keep everybody on track this morning. Great news for you, i love good news. Overnight construction taking up two of the right lanes on southbound 75 at university roadway. Lets go ahead and look now at travel time, bay area bridge, wonderful drive here. Across the Howard Frankland bridge, either direction only taking six minutes. And actually either direction of the Courtney Campbell causeway from Pinellas County all the way over to memorial highway, thats roughly a 10 minute drive. All right, 275 and st. Pete, at the 175 to the Howard Frankland bridge, that stretch is about nine minutes. And nine coming in to downtown tampa on 275 bearss avenue to i 4. Ve bay area interstates and across the water. Thats weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to gene and gayle. Thank you. A bobble on the balance beam cost simone biles the gold medal. And the sacrifice one runner made to cross the finish line and get gold. You think thats fair . We will talk about that too. Foster farms presents appetites. Even a small one can throw you off your game. They can happen anywhere. And they only get bigger as time goes on. Serve foster farms corn dogs, makes a big appetite go away. Foster farms corn dogs. This morning, it is being dubbed the dive for gold but it had nothing to do with the pool. There wasnt even water nearby. This was a dive on the track. Take a look. Runners nearing the finish line in the 400meter dash. Again in slowmo for you. That gave her the extra oomph to cross ahead of the american. A lot of people talking about this. Robbed i say. American gymnast simone biles settles for bronze in the balance beam competition. Showabled and had to grab the beam. Her teammate claimed the silver medal behind the netherlands. Lets look at the medal co to win a medal in the floor routine. Teammate will also be competing. Team usa will take on japan in the quarter finals in womens hoops. The beach volley ball americans will take on the host country brazil in the womens beach volley ball semifinals. And in track and field, the american will try to soar to gold in the mens high jump now. Team usa in the lead, 75 medals in total, breaking it down for you, thats 26 gold, 23 silver 26 bronze. Were followed by china and then followed by great britain. Weather and traffic on the 8s coming your way in three my son has meningitis b. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis until 2014 there were no vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing like. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. 5 00. Clear skies right now. Beautiful look tampa from the wfla towercamera. Steamy at 80 degrees. Going to make it up to 93. Steamy all day with a 40 chance of the late day storms that will push toward the coast and then clear out overnight. So a low of 78. I will tell you when it gets cooler coming up. How about traffic on the 8s. Snow flurries. Looks good on 75 right now. Heading into hillsborough from pasco, you have an 1 minute to i4, thats heading south into downtown tampa. Thats only going to take nine minutes. Howard frankland bridge, six minutes. Thats it. . . Ba da ba ba ba . A sad day for students in Pinellas County. An Elementary Schoolteacher died after a horrible crash. The outpouring of support for her family plus the new charges the suspected drunk driver will now face. Rio where the sun is coming up on another day of competitions. A look at some of the olympic highlights going viral. And technology is a big part of your childs education. This morning, we are showing you apps that can help them excel this school year. Well good morning, im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. Thank you for joining us here on news channel 8 today on this tuesday morning. Lets get you started with a