Out there. 77 in lakeland and winter haven. In tampa 81 degrees, one of the warmer spots. 75 degrees in apollo beach. The afternoon is close to average. The average is 90 degrees. Well be at 89. The relief is understood one is under one of the showers that develop. A 40 rain chance at 5 00 or 6 00 as the storms push east of i75. Now, coming up at 5 08 i have a track the tropics for you. We have a couple of things you will need to know about them. Leslee has things you need to know about as welch l as welch as well. We have a couple of things. A crash somebody northbound on i75. Everything is off to the side of the roadways. Earlier it was reported as a vehicle fire. The truck is still out there. Hopefully it will be cleared up soon. Absolutely no delays. Heading over to Memorial Causeway right at island way. Not seeing any delays there in the Clearwater Beach area. Of course here over in largo indian rocks road at gulfview drive an injury accident thats tieing up at least one lane on indian rockings. A great drive 275 at fowler avenue. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to paul and gayle. All right, leslee. Breaking news this morning, new developments on the weekend bombings in new york city and new jersey. The fbi says a backpack devices was found in elizabeth, new jersey. This discovery comes after that huge explosion in manhattan that injured 29 people on saturday night and another device went off at a marine corps race in new jersey earlier that day. News channel 8s meredith is live in the Tampa News Center with the latest video this morning. Good morning, meredith. Reporter good morning. A pack pack with a backpack with five ieds was found near a train station in one of those devices detonated during the bomb squads attempt to disarm it. The fbi continues processing the scene this morning. The agency will not say the devices found in elizabeth are related to those found in seaside park, new jersey or in chelsea, manhattan where that explosion occurred on saturday night, 29 people were there hurt. An unede on saturday night. Over night as many as five people were taken into fbi custody in connection with saturdays explosion in chelsea. The fbi said no one has been charged with any crime and that investigation is on going. Just coming into the news room, more news, more information about both the situation in elizabeth as well as in chelsea. Well have that in coming up in our next half hour. Meredith, we will see you then. Thank you. Are well er nationwide amber alert after a mother violently snatched her two kids if their care giver. This happened in Citrus County. Authorities are are looking for rylan and Mason Williams after their mom, stacie took them without permission. News channel 8s ryan hughes is live in Hillsborough County this morning. Ryan, i understand Law Enforcement is just combing the area looking for these kids. Reporter yeah, good morning to you once again. This amber alert was issued ever since then Law Enforcement officers have been on roads like this one. This is kennedy boulevard here in tampa looking for these two little kids hoping they find them soon. Lets take a look at the two missing kids. 1yearold mason and 3yearold rylan were violently taken from their mom, stacie. She barged into their Citrus County care givers home over the weekend. Shes not supposed to have them. Expedition heading to ohio or west virginia. Those who know Stacie Williams said she let the kids run wild when she had custody of them. You knew there were two small kids there. Always. Always. They were running around in diapers, no shirt on, running around in the yard. Reporter now, deputies believe that stacie and Ryan Williams have a history of violence and drug use. Heres another look at the little kids. Their whereabouts you are asked to contact the Citrus CountySheriffs Office or 911. Over night the Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued this bulletin on their website that shows pictures of the two kids and also of stacie and Ryan Williams. Again, if you have any information somehow would you contact authorities, gayle. Back to you. Were trying to circulate there through social media here as well. Thank you, ryan. This morning we are trying to learn more about the tragic shooting death of a tampa Bay Apartments on south lewis avenue last night. This Morning Police are not saying whether it was accident al or intentional. Police are interviewing Family Members this morning. Of course well have more as soon as we get it. Happening today, we will learn more about the plans to turn around five filing schools in polk county. Superintendent jacquelyn bird is expected to reveal the plans for struggling schools. Some of the proposals include diverting money to the failing schools and giving teachers more planning times. The middle schoolser to make changes are boone, benson, kathleen, lake alford and west wood. A Manatee County woman is in jail accused of texting a bomb threat to her neighbor. She texted her neighbor claiming that a bomb would blow up in an hour. Deputies then evacuated the area but bomb dogs didnt find any evidence of any bomb anywhere. Police say she told them the text was quote an empty two separate crashes on i4 are blamed for two deaths. Crystal andrews died on sunday when her motorcycle crashed. An hour later a 31yearold man died after he crashed into another vehicle near mile marker 17. Police is not yet released his name. Coming up on 5 08 right now lets check in with leigh. Good morning, leigh. Good morning. We have several thing s in the tropics w not expected to bother us. Tourists julia has lost all tropical characteristics. Theres Tropical Storm karl not organized in the central atlantic and another wave coming off africa has a 80 chance of develops. Heres karl. The latest advisory just came in moments ago. Its expected to head northwest and turn towards bermuda. Its moving away from florida at that point. We have the wave coming off africa. Before looking like its going to make a turn. Lets focus in on our weather. 81 degrees at 9 00 a. M. , 88 at noon, afternoon high of 90. 30 rain chance in the early afternoon but 40 chance later in the day. Those storms push inland. This is typical summer weather, seasonably hot, the upper 80s to low 90s. Since im talking about the seasons, fall begins thursday at 10 21 in the morning when the sun isir the equator. Well check in now with traffic on the 8s as people head out the door this morning. They are heading out the door and a lot going on this morning. Its not going to slow you down. Heres a look at downtown tampa. Theres a new pro ject kicking auch. Ing kicking off. Ill let you know about it. Portions of channel side, the left lane in front of amalie arena is blocked at morgan street. Just a lot of construction. Sellman expressway looks great. Lets take a look here. Accident working i75 northbound its right at Martin Luther king. Looks like everything is pretty much off to the right, everything in that right lane. Traffic is getting by just fine. Thats a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to paul and gayle. Leslee, thank you. The 2016 heart walk right around the corner. News channel 8 committed to raising 100,000 but of course we need your help. Fucillo kia is generously matchi raise so every dollar counts as 2. Go to wfla. Com heartwalk for details. Remember, every dollar counts as 2. Its such a good time too. We have a blast. It is. New information this morning in the stabbing spree at a minnesota mall. Thats right. Still ahead, what investigate ors are revealing about the attackers. A tough day for the bucs. You can say that again. Why a win in arizona was not in the cards and what went wrong the race for the white house, Donald Trumps birther controversy and who Hillary Clinton is bringing on the campaign trail to help her win votes. Its 5 09 and youre watching news channel 8. Good morning. Im hillary in hes a racebaiting, xenophobic, apreligious bigot. E. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. Hes not a serious adult. I cant vote for donald trump given the things that he said. Trump should not be supported. I believe hes disqualified himself to be president. Vote this morning, theres only 8 weeks until election day. Today Republican Donald Trump is campaigning in fort myers. Democrat Hillary Clinton is in philadelphia and will cap off the day with an appearance here on news channel 8 on the jimmy fallon show. This morning im going to go ahead and take a closer look at some of the controversies the candidates are now facing. Birther back in the news. Donald trump admit ing ting for the First Time Ever president obama was born in the u. S. And the controversy he began 5 years ago falsely pinning the blame both democratic strategists barry and gordan say its old news. I think the issue was settled with all democratic voters and all independent voters. I dont think this is really an issue. Basically, you know, trump needs to stay on focus on the issues. Then theres trumps suggesting that clinton dearm her security detail, falsely saying clinton wants to take americans. The people that are concerned about this issue that trump is reaching out to is going to vote for trump regardless. He has to go one step too far like he did here. Thats why thats another example of why he cant control himself. What about the millennials . Many stood behind Bernie Sanders and now clinton has bought Bernie Sanders back on the campaign trail for her. Shes an establishment candidate. A supporting Bernie Sanders and now basically clinton has not been able to to ignite those people and get those people engaged in her campaign. This morning libertarian president ial nominee gary johnson is under fire. He made his second tv blunder. This time he was on cnn talking about the explosion in new york. First of all, just grateful that nobody got hurt. Well, 29 people were injured in the weekend explosion. 10 days ago johnson was ridiculed after he said he didnt know what alepo was in a live interview on ms nbc. Its major city caught in the civil war and refugee crisis in syria. Johnson later admitted that he should have know what it was. Across america this morning, investigators in minnesota are trying to figure out a motive in a stabbing st. Cloud. They are investigating the attack as a potential act of terrorism. It happened at the Shopping Mall an outside of minneapolis. A man with a knife went on a rampage injuring nine people. The good news, everyone is expected to recover. An offduty officer ended up shooting and killing the attacker. It was a 22yearold college student. Agency said he was part of them. Two people will be on trail for arranging closures on the Washington Bridge in 2014 on e revenge for a mayor who didnt endorse chris christie. A gas shortage is putting drivers on edge this morning in gas stations in the southeast are running out of fuel. The prices are just sky high if they find gas. The gas will start flowing again when the pipeline is repaired and tested. No word on when that will happen. The world is mourning the loss of an actress known for her role in the sound of music. . . [ music ] . . . Going on 17, innocent as a rose . . Brandies, what do i know of those . . She passed away at the age of 73. A spokesperson reports car died of complications related to a rare form of dementia. She was best known for lisa. After the movie she went onto write two books and became an interior decorate ore. Decorator. How can you forget that . One of the best movies of all times. T fits. Yeah. This northern some this morning some of hollywoods best are celebrating big wins at the emmies. Among the winners some old factors. Actor Jeffery Tambor won for transparent. Julia dryfus won for veep. The big winner was the people versus oj simpson that took home honors for the best limited series and four other awards. Thrones also won for best drama. In sports this morning this hurts, the bucs return to tampa with a lot of work to do after getting clobbered by arizona. In the 2nd quarter the cardinals had a commanding 240 lead. Things just kept getting worse. Bucs quarterback Jameis Winston had a horrible game throwing four interceptions and fumbling the ball once. The final score 407. The bucs will take on the Los Angeles Rams next week for the home opener stadium. That was a difficult game to watch. Its difficult to talk about it this morning. What is not difficult is the weather, leigh. We will get them at home this week. Well will get them at home. At 8 00 this morning its a little warm but it will be nice and sunny to start your day. 79 degrees. Now t clouds now the clouds begin to build. Only a slim chance at lunchtime. 88 degrees. 90 by 4 00 p. M. And thats when there will be the better rain chance at 40 . 76, lakeland at 75, winter haven at 77. Its most definitely still summer. Right now high humidity and the winds are light. Here it is, 12 45, the first few showers start to pop up near i75 and then push further inland through polk county and towards the east coast. The rain will taper off after 8 00 or 9 00. We do it all again tomorrow, the second version the same as the first. Morning and then a 40 chance in the afternoon. After that its a 30 chance for wednesday, thursday and friday. Leslee, how about traffic on the 8s . A look at the roadways here. We have this truck here on the right shoulder in that right lane northbound 75 at Martin Luther king. Ill tell you as soon as it wraps up. Meanwhile we have a little bit of construction that has been it kicked off a couple weeks ago now the big part of phase 1 where we have the lane taken away on channel side from florida down to jefferson due to construction at channel side and morgan. Its part of a renovation project. That left lane is taken away. Moving over know and flipping around with our maps, taking a look, this is where that accident was northbound i75, again, right before i4 at Martin Luther king. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Now back to paul and gayle. Ed a unique program a unique program for kids teaching them a lot more than just the three rs. Take a look. [screams] blasz yeah. There i am with yeah. There i am can with coffee in hand. Thats saint pauls independent clearwater school. I had the special speaker series. 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And you need enough bandwidth to share with a full house of hungry users. Lightning internet the speed you need. And now connect to. Standard tv, standard internet, dvr and phone. New york and new jersey on high alert. Investigators found devices in a backpack at a train station in elizabeth, new jersey. What saying. An amber alert issued after two children were taken from their guardian by their mother. And 8 on your side Traffic Alert this morning. Expect some delays in downtown tampa. Well show you which streets are closed and for how long. Good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. A good monday morning to you im paul mueller in for gene