We will show you how they almost like that game slip away just ahead. Finally we can party like it is 1908. Thank you for joining us. We will have all that and so much more in a few minutes. Lets get a check on your weather this morning. People are slowly waking up after that latenight game. It is warm out there. Brooksville 63. 70 bartel. There is a thin layer of clouds coming in mexico. I dont expect rain to be a big deal today. Notice the thin layer of clouds and at times a few more clouds. We will call it a mix of sun and clouds. 70 degrees as you head out for lunch. I left in a 10 percent chance as you head up i left in a 10 percent chance of rain as our bay area bridges look great but we do have one problem out there in bradenton. A fatal crash happened right around midnight and they are trying to clean things up. State road 70 at i 75 is getting by but we do see delays. Traffic is getting by with one lane being open. As we look at travel towns times, were looking great on i minute commute into downtown. A site many cubs fans have waited a lifetime to see, the cubs led by former rays manager, joe maddon, are world series champions, the First Time Since 1908. And you can believe the players, fans, and much of chicago for that matter sure thing. Take a look at this live picture coming to you from the wrigleyville area, home of the chicago cubs. You read those bright lights, world series champions. I guarantee that sign has never had those words up there before. It is pretty peaceful out there. It is mostly lease officers keeping the peace. It looks like everyone is partied out. I heard it was a scene i saw it was a scene. It was indians and a rain delay to add to that dispense. The manager said everything was going perfectly at the time , but the indians fought back bottom of the. Davis hits a home run bottom of the 8th. Davis hits a home run to tie things up but after 7 minute rain delay back came the cubs. The billy goat 8 7 and the curse of the billy goat is finally over. I love tradition. I think tradition is worth time mentally and tradition is worth being upheld but curses and superstitions are not. It is really great for our entire dubdom to get behind that moment. Based on the players cubdom to get behind that moment. Based on the players we have we have the ability to be good for a while. Race for the white house is continuing to tighten up. The latest Electoral College map shows donald trump closing in the gap on Hillary Clinton. 6 states remain a florida and that is why the candidates are working aggressively to win your vote right here in the sunshine state. Donald trump will complete a 2 day tour in jacksonville before heading to pennsylvania and North Carolina. President obama will also be campaigning in jacksonville just a couple of hours after donald trump. He has been campaigning hard for Hillary Clinton holding rallies in North Carolina and ohio for the last few days. Both are on the tossup states. Hillary clinton will campaign in North Carolina today. This is video from rally she held in tempe arizona last night. Both candidates are crisscrossing the country with just 5 days to go until election day. Tim kaine will be in the bay area this weekend holding a concert rally with bon jovi in st. Petersburg saturday night. The event will be at the state the information for you on wfla. Com. Roughly 4 1 2 million voters have already cast their ballots in florida. We have information for you on locations and hours for early voting sites posted to wfla. Com. There is a push this morning to throw out amendment one fight over solar on this years valid. Pp supporters want the judge to validate that amendment. It could restrict solar growth in florida by raising cost. Supporters call the move political grandstanding and said the amendment will protect consumers. In 12 cities across our state opponents will protest amendment one today. This is video from tuesday and st. Pete. Protest in our area are scheduled for st. Pete, tampa, and sarasota. Political special right here on news channel 8. Will break down all of the major races for you affecting us here in the bay area including the final days of the president ial race. This is a special episode of your vote counts 2016. It airs at 9 am on sunday. Right now investigators are trying to solve a murder mystery in hillsboro county Hillsborough County after a womans waddy ditch body was found in a ditch. Reporter investigators will not tell us her exact cause of death. The only said she had Blunt Force Trauma to her upper body. Heres a picture of the victim in this case, 26yearold evelyn of tampa. We flew high over the crime scene on tuesday afternoon. Her body was discovered in a ditch by a person writing on horseback horseback. Neighbor said her life did not have to end this way. Nobody deserves that. Just sympathy, and empathy. I have lost family members in the past but not to anything like this. Reporter we did reach out to the victims family but they were too distraught to speak with us on camera. Detectives are working on some leads but that is not comforting news this morning that means this killer is still on the now, lets get a check on weather and traffic on the 8s. Were not looking too bad out there this morning. It doesnt feel super fall like because we have higher humidity the let me take you hour by hour to show you how quickly things warmup. 71 degrees by 9 am, 80 by noon, 84 by 3 or 4 clock with a mix of sun and clouds in just a 10 percent percent and just a 10 percent rain chance. Where cool on sunday night with sunday skies. It is a cool monday morning on sunday morning. Today is high is 84, 82 tomorrow, 80 on saturday and back up to 81 on sunday. I wish i couldve stayed up and watched that congrats to joe maddon. Take a look at this, i 75 looks great throughout pasco county. I 75 looks great coming into downtown tampa. We still have a fatal crash in manistee county. I will have more on that coming up in my next report. Today the mayor and st. Pete councilmembers will unveil they will unveil this after millions of gallons of sewage poured out of a tank and flow right into tampa bay. St. Pete has been dumping sewage into the bank since august 2015. The sierra club and senator dan soto will hold a press conference to address concerns over mosaic sinkhole. Gallons of radioactive waste water in contaminate nearby drinking water. The conference starts at 2 30 this afternoon at the haines city medley centre. Millions of americans have diabetes and it takes a lot to manage the disease. Coming up the newest problems diabetics face how one drugs price hike is putting people in under state attorney mark obers watch, rape and Sexual Assault are on the rise. Ober is not just ineffective, he declined to prosecute a man who forced a girl into sexual slavery, even blamed the victim. Ober she was with him voluntarily. Our community deserves new leadership. Olent crime, including gun violence, rape, and domestic abuse. Andrew warren for state attorney. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, okay . And you can tell them to go f themselves you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. You gotta see this guy. Ahh, i dont know what i said, ahh. I dont remember. It on your site is looking into missing or stolen items from local schools. Hundreds of thousands of dollars from bay area districts each year. Ultimately it cost the taxpayers. Were joined live. Were talking about a writing longmore riding lawnmower from that school. Reporter at the school a riding lawnmower was swiped from find out what officials are doing. It doesnt matter if it is old or new, if we purchased it or if it was donated, we need to know where it is and we need to keep track of it. Each year School Districts listed things that are dolan or missing each year. Sometimes it shows up a year later and sometimes an reporter we found missing items are not unique to one district over the other to one district over another. Documents show nearly 50,000 of equipment disappeared from april on april through june this year. Im surprised that that is that there is that much money and equipment thing stolen. They should do a better job at calculating everything. Reporter hi has 50,000 laptops for staff and students. Things still disappear into Dallas County there was nearly 200,000 in missing items over 2 years. And pasco county equipment originally price of 850,000 was lost or stolen from 2014 to 2015. 8 on your side wanted to know what School Officials due manager jeff robinson. He tells us his office prepares a list of missing items every quarter of the school board and must explain what is being done to recover the items to make sure it doesnt happen again. They demand to know what is missing if we cant find it. Most districts we checked with have protocols in place to make sure items are not lost. Hillsborough district says if an item is stolen a Police Report must be filed. It is a lot we were talking about things like musical instruments, those arts programs are cashstrapped to begin with so its terrible that people are going in there and taking what is not theirs. Almost 30,000,000 americans have diabetes and 6 million of them use insulin. But the price of insulin is growing fast more than doubling in the past 5 years. This sounds very similar to that is true but there is one big difference were talking about. If you cant get an epipens. There is a chance you might die. If your body doesnt have insulin, you certainly will die. Only 3 Companies Make insulin drugs and there is no generic option to drive prices down. Each of those companies have steadily ratcheted up prices. Since 2004 the manufacturer list price for insulin is up blaming Insurance Companies saying more patients have higher deductible plans meaning they must pay more for drugs outofpocket. Rebates and discount cards are available, but patients dont always qualify for them. I am paying attention and a guarantee every single mom out there is. We all know what is happening. Reporter what you supposed to do . Consumer reports recommend checking prices at walmart and assistance programs like needy meds. Org. We will make sure that is on the website for everybody, so they can find that link and hopefully save some money. The wife of chris kyle known as american sniper is in the bay area to talk about a cause close to her heart. She is and activist on behalf of military veterans and a huge guide dog fan. About them and her life. The event starts at 1030 10 30 this morning. Hows the weather looking . It looks very comfortable out there this morning. Were seeing a couple of clouds streaming across the area. I left the rain chance at less than 10 percent this morning and going up to 10 percent this afternoon. Temperatures are where at least cooler than yesterday. If youre headed out to the buccaneers game against the falcons, comfortable temperatures and mostly dry. 78 degrees when the game starts around 8 25. It is warm out there now. Patchy clouds around especially high thin clouds. Again, just the small rain chance, quick shower possibility. Were tracking a cold front. We will be here tomorrow morning so we will start the day out dry d chance as this cold front comes through friday evening. Were mostly dry and slightly cooler behind it. 80 and breezy on saturday and 81 on sunday. Dont forget we fall back this weekend. A reminder for those of you that live or commute around Raymond James stadium, closures will start to take place in the heart of rushhour. It will be extra busy for rushhour word of an accident but were not seeing delays. Down to Hillsborough Bradenton only the left lane remains open eastbound i 70 at i 75. That is from a fatal crash that happened around midnight. That is a look at weather and traffic on the 8s back to you. A Polk County Police officer who writes himself a ticket. Still ahead while the officer came clean officer came clean and what he did to break the law. It is 5 20 on this thursday morning enjoy watching news hes gus hes gus hes gus hes gus gus is for us. For us. All of us. And he gets things done. And he gets things done. Gus stood up to his own party. To stop Flood Insurance hikes. Hes protecting our veterans. And our seniors. 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Female vocalists want to carry worker Kerry Washington and heres my favorite Carrie Underwood and heres my favorite, the Lifetime Achievement award, dolly parton. When she came to concert in tampa, that was a treat. She has another one coming up this saturday. Your tickets he writes tickets to everyone who runs a red light but this time the person this haines city Police Officer wrote ticket to was himself. When he was reviewing red light camera video he noticed a marked patrol car run a red light or keep that he was going to have to write a coworker a ticket but he looked a little closer. Take a listen to what happened next. I said that kind of looks like my 10 number tag number and my unit number. I walked seeing that, and it was. There is nothing left to do at that point, but to take responsibility for. I respect that. You did the right thing. He had to pay a 165 ticket that he paid himself. I wonder if you want to court to argue it know he cant do that no, he cant do this year the voters of Pinellas County have an opportunity to elect a Public Servant who has always put the people first. Charlie crist. As governor he worked with both parties to get things done and i know you can trust charlie to do the same in congress. Hell fight to protect Social Security and medicare. Defend Womens Health care and planned parenthood. And take care of our veterans. Charlie needs your vote, please stand with him. 5 28 at the bus stop this morning mild and 60 degrees we have a 10 percent rain chance later today with a high of 84 chance today and tomorrow expect lets take a look at the roadways are 54 looks pretty good right near the turn taylor road area we have a pretty nice drive throughout plant city also moving over we have a good time good driving downtown tampa. He declined to prosecute a man who forced a girl into sexual slavery, even blamed the victim. Ober she was with him voluntarily. Our community deserves new leadership. Andrew warren, an experienced prosecutor, including gun violence, rape, and domestic abuse. Andrew warren for state attorney. [ video playback ] the drought is over the cubs win after waiting 108 years pick the chicago cubs are world series champions. We have the highlights in the celebrations happening across the nation as a lot of folks were of late. Also the fight to win the white house the race is getting tighter as we get closer to election day. A look at the latest polls and