Theres the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Meredith was just showing you the picture. Whitney beach another batch of rain coming on. Its all because of this on shore wind flow. So 7 00, 8 00 , 9 00 theres a 30 chance of rain near the coast. The extra rain today keeping temperatures below arch. The average is 90. Im expecting 88 today. At 6 08 an hour by hour look at your friday. Meredith is going to help you through the morning commute. Yes. We want to talk about the rain. Its not causing any accidents right now. This is near the skyway bridge. Just a couple of sprinkles right there but it has not impacted oh, there we go meredith downtown st. Petersburg. Thats near the tropicana field area. 275 looking good. One accident in Pinellas County on u. S. 19 at mlk. Youre going to find an ambulance but traffic is no accidents so far in tampa. Gene and gayle. Thank you, more eredith. In breaking news this morning, tampa police need your help finding a missing 12yearold boy. Take a good look at maleek beard. Police tell us he ran away after an argument with his mom. He was last seen wearing a white shirt and basketball shorts with black slide on sandals and white socks. Beard is known to hang out in the Belmont Heights area usually with friends. If you know where he is please call police. Right serious charges this morning after police tell us he shot a motorcyclist in the back during a heated argument on the road. This is just the latest road rage incident in the bay area that weve covered this year. Ryan hughes is live. How is the victim doing this morning . Reporter gene, good morning to you. At last check he was doing just fine even though he was shot one time in the back. Locked up in jail. We have his mug shot that we got in the hin county Sheriffs Office from the last 30 minutes. This is video of oh the crime sceneful according to tampa police Carlo Rodriguez and Ezekiel Henson got in a crash on nebraska and 109th. Henson shot rodriguez in the back. Rodriguez was taken to Saint Josephs hospital where he was treated for nonlife threatening is the latest in a string of road rage incidents in the area. That may robert vance was arrested after he drove his car over a motorcycle in lutz as seen in this video that knocked two people off the bike. He faces attempted murder charges now. This was the scene the month before, a driver got into a dispute with some riders on the Courtney Campbell causeway, punches were thrown and a woman in the car drew a the suspect faces aggravated battery charges. Hes due in Court Tomorrow morning. A scary situation once again on bay area roads. Back to you. Sounds like it , ryan, thank you. This morning a polk county man is in jail accused of killing a Sumter County firefighter. The shoots happened at caleb mckinneys home in lakeland. Were told mckinneys exgirlfriend showed up with her new boyfriend and a 5yearold boy to drop off medicine for her baby. When mckinney shot clifford coffer five times. He was a lieutenant with the fire department. This morning people are remembering long time radio personality dave mckay. For more than two decades he entertained listeners. When he didnt show up for work a investigators are not revealing how mckay died. He was just 55 years old. A familiar voice for so many people. We used to do so many fun things together back in the day, raised stock cars. Im so deeply sorry for all of his family and friends. What a loss. He will be definitely missed by the community. Thieves getting away with two expensive bicycles. They belonged to project hero. They work with wounded vets. A construction worker is recovering after a heavy carport collapsed underneath hill. Him. This happened on south drexel avenue in tampa. Crews were preparing to demolish the they inflated air bags to lift some debris to get to the construction worker. Its like a genga game. Thats a good way to put it. We did thin gs to make sure we didnt aggravate or move the structure to cause more damage or pain to him. As for the construction worker, he was talking when they pulled him out from the collapsed carport and he should be okay. What a rescue though. Tonight is the big night, the night of the olympics Opening Ceremony. Excitement is definitely building as final preparations are under way. Crews practiced setting off fireworks at the Olympic Stadium for tonights big ceremony. Its expected to be a huge production but not as big as previous years. The executive producer. Ceremony that talks about important values and important ideals delivered with a big smile, beautiful music and a lot of good dancing. I love good dancing. Its estimated that 3 billion people will watch the opening ceremonies tonight and you can see it on news beginning at 7 30. They will be televised of course but sometimes its what happens behind the scenes. Thats the fun stuff. That action through social media. Meredith has been keeping a tab on the athletes. Hey. Reporter hey, guys. The athletes are all over social media and it doesnt matter the platform, senate snap chat, instagram, facebook. They is a lot of behind the scenes videos. I thought that was kind of neat. I love this picture, the rugby team dressed for dinner and theyre channelling the backstreet boys. That one was tweeted out by their coach mike friday. We had divers including sam doorman and Abbey Johnson having a blast at the flag raising ceremony. They took their own videos there. This is maddy rogers stretching. You can keep tabs on by following me on twitter. I have a list labeled rio 2016 and its constantly updated with the best social. Interesting night routine. Thank you. Paul ryan is in rio. He will be there through out the olympics. Dont miss at 6 40, we will talk to paul live to talk about how athletes are searching for mystical creatures. Pokemon, pokemon and more pokemon. Its 6 08. Im not tracking pokemon but some rain chances along the coast. Yesterday we had a lot more rain. Its the same general pattern. Showers in the gulf of mexico push on shore. Now heavy rainfall coming down around Whitney Beach and Long Boat Key along the coastf the 30 rain chance along the coast this morning. 85 at noon, 88 at 3 00 with a 50 rain chance. The rain chances will come down in the evening because of this wind flow throughout the gulf of mexico. Highs in turp 80s throughout in the upper 80s through lout the weekend. Average is 90s. The upper 80s in the next couple of days. Now meredith in for leslee. No major delays so far for traffic. We have an accident in the Tarpon Springs area at mlk at u. S. 18 no delays on the veteran yet. Same thing for tax free back to school shopping. Tax free. People wait for this weekend. Get schooled on which items are tax free and which arent. The moment a ceiling collapses in a tunnel. Scary moments. What investigators are blaming for this terrifying scene. The zika virus in florida. Vaccine. Its 6 10 on from marked for on this friday morning. We made it, everyone. Almost every time i go there i see something that reminds me of why i like to shop there. Ill see someone else smiling and walking away happy, and i know that they just got the same Great Service i always get. Ive been shopping at publix well over 20 years now. I always walk away happy. There is always someone ow the answer they will find someone who does. Its the Little Things like that, it makes such a huge difference. An 8 on your side Health Alerting promising new results in vak seebs vaccines being zika. Theres new two new travel related cases and 15 locally transmitted cases. News channel 8 Lindsey Mastis is live from the Hillsborough County Health Department. Lindsey, this is something that pregnant women are really concerned about. Reporter absolutely, gayle. It is a huge concern because it can cause microsephly and effect a babys brain and development. The want pregnant women who visited an area where zika is spreading to go to their local Health Department and get tested. You can get prevention kits. Right now 55 pregnant women in florida are being monitored for zika. Ive been wearing long sleeves and if pants and putting bug spray on my feet and arms. Defensive. I cant move because i have a buzz mere a business here and we have a life here. Reporter as for a vaccine, three new vaccines showed promises results after bb gun tested on moe monkeys. Theres another vaccine further along that human testing began just a few days ago but results are new orleans back but results are not due out to november. Theres free testing for pregnant women monday through thursday. As soon as we get more information on this virus whether there are any any cases well let you know. Gayle. Its positive to hear about this progress in fighting it. Thank you so much lindsey. Theres a state hotline that you can call to get your questions its 8556226735. You can also head to wfla. Com where we have all sorts of information for you. Time now 6 16 and new this morning, the black lives Matter Movement is crossing the pond. Take a look at what protesters did on a road to heathro inw in they will participating in a National Days of action to a raise awareness about racism. Look at this cargo plane landing. Two people were in the plane at the time. They were not further neither was anyone on the road, just surprised. No word on why it happened. This video of a roof collapse at a subway in china. Lucky no one was hurt. Officials report that damp conditions did it. 8 on your side is getting schooled on everything back to school. This morning were talking practice free school shopping. It starts today through sunday. As ryan hughes reporting this 3day event allows us to buy Certain School supplies without paying sales tax. Soon bells will ring in classes marking the start of another school year. Before the little minds are hard at work parents can get them to prosper. Its something people get excited about. The 2016 back to school tax runs through sunday night. School supplies up to 15 are tax free. This year its three days. Its an expensive time in a lot of peoples lives. I think its going to certainly help. We turned to the experts to find out if the state takes a big hit. They said dont worry. The payment consistent impact is very small. Walmart offers tax free savings on its website. Other stores like jc penney, best buy and office depo allow in store pick up options. We put a complete list of the supplies you can buy on our website, wfla. Com. Its 6 18 on this friday up, leigh . For most of us gorgeous. This is a look at the first glimpses of daylight from hyundai of new port richey. 76 degrees and mostly clear. I have some rain along the coast of Manatee County around Long Boat Key. We had some rain on the Sunshine Skyway, now just a drizzle left out there. The showers are near the coast in the morning and fred inland during the day. 78 degrees this afternoon. That rain keeping the temperatures in the 80s, which is cooler than all of july. Currently in tampa its 80 degrees, fish hawk 76, 73 bartow, 80 in st. Petersburg. I checked in with wendy in brooksville and shes at 78 degrees. This on shore wind know is going to set up and stick around for a while. Its just a breeze that comes on shore near the gulf. That pushing the showers near the rain that falls will be west of 75. You can see as the day goes along the rain moves further and further inland. Morning showers along the coast, 50 rain chance upper 80s. 50 rain chance sunday and monday too. Leslee is out today but meredith is here with traffic on the 8s a live view at Tampa International airport. Right now no delays. Same deal here, southbound 275 near mlk busier but delay free. I4 you have 8 minutes from 75 into downtown. Thank you. Well, listen to thshgs a creepy clown is wandering the streets of one town in the middle of the night. Creepy does not its not the right word. Its terrifying. What the clown is doing. This weekend the bay area may be seeing quite a few book characters. The big event happening today calling ing comic book under kiahs. Coke. Comic book junkies. Its comicon. A creepy sight in green bay, wisconsin. You have to see this. It will make your hair stand. This is gags. He was 2345i78ed by rebt named by residents in the area what see him with balloons during socalled be witching areas during the night. Police claim as long as hes not trespassing he can walk around dressed up as we wants. He didnt have clown phobia until now. Can you imagine. A florida man who made headlines for shooting and killing an unarmed black teen is making headlines again. The trouble that George Zimmerman got in at a up next weather and traffic on the 8s. In florida, people are working hard, just to get by. But in washington republican senator marco rubio has the worst voting record in the u. S. Senate. Im Patrick Murphy and enoughs enough. Im proud to work with president obama. To protect Social Security and a womans right to choose. And grow this economy so it works for all of us. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message . Ba ba ba . It is 6 28 and while it is drier than yesterday due to the southwest wind flow still a few showers along the coast of manatee pushing on shore soon in pinellas as welch a smile buzz its because its not going to be as hot. A 30 chance this morning, 40 this afternoon and then up to 50 . A positive new development in the fight against the zika virus this morning. A possible vaccine. The ground fight is still going grong with crews spraying in the miami area. More withow up their efforts to fight zika just ahead. Another case of roadway only bay area roads once again that involves a motorcyclist. Coming up, what led to a man being shot in the latest incident. George zimmerman back in the headlines again this morning after being punched in the face. Coming up, well show you what happened and let you listen in to the 911 call when zimmerman called for help. Good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im thank you for join ing us on from midmorning. We made it to the joining us this morning. We made it to the end of the work. You look at the radar and the vast majority is dry. Theres some showers offshore heading towards bradenton. Theres some lightning Crystal River but not moving closer to shore. 80 degrees tampa and st. Petersburg, 77 in sarasota right now. As downpours develop its going to keep temperatures down to 88 degrees. At 6 38 an 8day temperatures trend for you. Meredith has the report on the roads. Florida Highway Patrol just on 275 near state road 60. I dont see anything. Another update in a couple of minutes. Thank you. Another road rage understand didnt db understand incident leaves a man in the hospital and another in jail. A motorcyclist was shot with another driver. Ryan hughes is live this morning. The shooter took off but wu caught. Reporter good morning. Ezekiel henson left the scene on nebraska avenue and found a short distance later. This is where this is this morning, at the jail. He was booked here just a few hours ago. This is what he looked like at the time. We have video of the scene of the crime. With a crash on nebraska and 109th. Carlo road rodriguez and the suspect got in an argument. As rodriguez was walking back to hi to his car he was shot in the back. Back in may robert vance was arrested after state troopers tell us he drove his car over a motorcycle in lutz as seen in this video it knocked two people off the bike on to the ground. He faces attempted murder charges. A driver got into a dispute with riders on the Courtney Campbell causeway and punches were thrown and a gun was draw. Right now henson is facing aggravated charges. Thank you. George zimmerman is wake ing after he was punched in the face. That happened at a restaurant in sanford not far from us. George zimmerman claims he was talking to a group of people about shooting Trayvon Martin in selfdefense. A large white male approached him and said youre bragging about that and punched him in the face. A man just p face. Is he still is there . Yeah and he said hes going to kill me. Whau your name whats your name, sir . Ill give it to the you haves when to the officers when they get here. What started the argument . He recognized me. He shot and killed Trayvon Martin if 2012 and was not guilty. The American Woman killed in the stabbing away in london has Florida Governor rick scoot scott identified her as daralene horton. Another american citizen was among the injured. Remember that unarmed black ed therapist shot by police shot by the officers with his arms up is shoeing. Is suing. Officers claim they were re responding to reports of a person with a gun. Kinsey is the officer and accuses him of excessive force. We are finding out how money is in the account for victims of the massacre. Theres 23 million in the account. 49 died and 53 others were injured. Alert this morning as zika spreads in florida. Theres final live good news about possible vaccines. One is headed to Clinical Trials now. Lindsey mastis is live from the Hillsborough County Health Department this morning. So lindsey, how long will it be before the vaccine is available . Everything goes according to plan. These vaccines are going to get human trials by october. There are other vaccines that are further along but the bottom line is were not going to be seeing a vaccine ani Health Department is monitoring seek ka so zika so closely. Just to be clear, zika is unprecedented. We never before had a mosquitoborn decide to cause a birth defect. The key is to protect pregnant women. Reporter in miami planes are dumping insecticide. They will continue to do that. Spreading is smaller than original thought, just 500 square feet. Pregnant women are being urged to stay away from the area. They are such they are urge inging pregnant women to stay away from the area. Get more information on possible vaccines and whether theres any cases well let you know. Its great to hear they are making some progress on this vaccine. Thank you so much, lindsay. A north florida town is cleaning up after a tornado tore right through. Take a look at what this was like. This was the momentum it the moment it hit. You can see the rain and you can see a truck container flip over in the upper left lorner of the scene. Inside the house left corner of the scene. Inside the house you can see the destruction there. Over to leigh. Things are lot the quieter this morning versus yesterday morning. However, its not doing to stay that way. Its 6 38 and im couple of showers that have pushed on shore. Look out in the gulf of mexico. All that is starting to fire up. With winds off the gulf thats going to push those on shore. Just off indian rocks beach, Belleair Shores a couple of shower. We are seeing rain and some lightning off the Long Boat Key coastline pushing further inland into the man and the of man key town. Between now and 1 00 in the afternoon notice how the as the day progresses well get pockets of downpours. 88 at 3 00 p. M. , below average due to the extra rain. The next several days a below average. 88od tomorrow and 87 on sunday. Now lets check in with meredith on the traffic. Its Getting Better out there. Lets give you a live view of tampa right now. This is 275 at ashley. Everything looks okay. No major delays to show you. Thats a bit of good news. I mentioned an accident reported on i75, a bit of Additional Information now. It is reported near the sellman expressway at the bottom everything is moving along just fine. We have a Traffic Alert out of pasco county. This is going to be the shad did hills area the shady hills area. The Sheriffs Office is asking everyone to avoi the area of 41 and bowman road. They are investigating what they are calling an incident and it sounds like its like tostitos going to be closed for some and it sounds like its going to be closed for a long time. Tonight is the big night for rio. Theres Something Else they are thinking about, poke month go. Paul ryan is in rio, brazil this morning. Good morning, paul. Pokemon go . Reporter the sun is up so ceremony. The happen launched in rio just in time for the summer games. I played but didnt know it was in brazil. Pokeman go mraufrmg launched late saturday night and u. S. Teammates are literally stomaching over themselves to pay. Mrap i didnt see anything. I heard there were there were no pokeman here but now i know there are. Fang and wang are in hero to show off their table tennis talent but hope to play on the app as well. It will be fun to play with other olympians. However, its not all fun and roses. I dont think its very safe to go around and walk around and wrong with this . Where are all the poke stops. Theres just one. Its a vie tal element for the games. There may not be a more interesting place than the olympic park, home to 16 events. Even if the isnt perfect they will go for gold. If i see them on the gym i will take them out. Reporter sorry, guys, there was a gold bat near by. Fang and wang completing under the same tag. When it comes to focus goal they are there for each other. No love lost for those two. Pine raul, you know, paul, my instinct tells me that youre on team yellow playing too. Yes, of course i app. Im team instinct. Theres not a big players. I have to come them. Free and i are valor. Just real quick, exciting night tonight . Is everybody Opening Ceremony. Reporter they are. The problem is its such a big protection its tough to get anywhere its the last time we will see it empty. Thats the place to be tonight. Paul ryan reporting life from rihanna yeah. A great to see you. I above all the social media stuff. A neighborhood grieving after twin girls die after being left in a hot suv. A scary shark encounter. The man who tried a assassinate a president is xoopded to begin another chapter in his life. John hinkley, junior may soon be a free man. Youre watch ing ing news channel there is a grocery store, it is right down the street like 2 miles, and i will drive past it. Every time i go grocery shopping, because right past it there is a publix. I wouldnt shop anywhere else. They always go out of their way for me so i dont mind going a little out of my way for them. The people are always friendly, always helpful, they dont just point to aisle 7, and say good luck. They literally, they will walk you there. They treat you like a friend there. You dont get that everywhere. Publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. How do we make the economy work for everyone . Hillary clintons plan starts here. By making big corporations and those at the top finally pay their fair share in taxes. And those companies that move overseas . Shed charge them an exit tax. Then shed use that money to make the largest investment you can read the plan here. Were back at 6 47. Assassinate Ronald Reagan is getting out of a psychiatric hospital. John hinkley, junior will be reduced today. Released today. He was declared insign after the assassination aattempt. 150monthold attempt. 15monthold girls were left inside a hot suv and dead this morning. There were individuals holding the infants in a pool and holding ice packs what they said attempting to school the kids off. Cool the kids off. The girls were rushed to the hospital and thats where they died. Investigators are questioning the dad. The mom was out of town. A dentist is scary encounter under water. He was attacked by a shark and didnt see it comes. Something just hit me in the side of the face and i didnt realize what it was because i was in the middle of the ocean. It ripped my mask off. This is where it got me. Wow. His family was with him and they were using a go pro at the time. He had to get 30 how is the weather looking leigh . I wanted to show you a live look from frenchys. Its 80 degrees. You can see the rain coming down. Ill show you on the radar what im talking about. Just about all of you are waking up to clear skies. Once you get to the roast thats where things change. Watch out indian seminole, largo. Just like Manatee County, heavy rain that was offshore that moved on shore. Even sewing some rain even seeing some rain push on shore. 85 at noon, 88 degrees at 4 00 p. M. Plant city youre starting your day at 77, clearwater 79 degrees. 850 in sarasota. With us all day between now and 10 00 any shurs will be along the coast. By lunchtime some showers will finally make it to 75. After 3 00 p. M. Moving through eastern Hillsborough County and into polk county that 50 rain chance. The exact same pattern all weekend longs in the upper 80s. Developing story now out of pasco county. The spring hill area. 41 and you are asked to avoid the area for the next couple of hours. Well have more information on wfla. Com as it develops. Bay area bridge bridges i should say are looking good. I4 business into but no accidents. What you need to know before you walk out the door next including the reason that George Zimmerman was punched in the face. A suspected road rage shooter is behind bars this morning. His new mug shot and a motorcyclist iho road rage incident. Now the suspect gunman is behind bars. Police arrested Ezekiel Henson. They accuse him of getting into an argument with a motorcyclist at the intersection of 109th avenue and nebraska. As the motorcyclist walked back to his Motorcycle Police say henson shot him in thing back. Dave mckay passed away. He entertained listeners on 99. 5. A coworker checked on him when he didnt show up for work. They arent revealing how he died. He was 55 years old. George zimmerman is make ing up sore this morning after he was punched square in the fate. In the face. It happened at a restaurant . Sanford. It happened at a restaurant in sanford. He was explaining how he killed Trayvon Martin in selfdefense. The man asked zimmerman if he was bragging and he came back and punched zimmerman in the face. Tampa police need your help find ago 12yearold boy. He ran away after an argument with his mom. He was wearing a white black slide on sandals. If you know where he is call police. Today is the start of tax free school shopping, the huge back to school sale e lent runs through sunday. The tax free holiday applies to anyone shopping. We put a complete list of the supplies website, wfla. Com. All month we are helping you get schooled on going back to school. We are taking a look at what teachers, parents and teachers need to know as they head back into the classroom. Thats every weekday morning on news channel 8 today. A big night tonight. The olympics opening ceremonies is happening. An estimated 3 billion people will watch tonight. You can see it here on news channel 8 at 7 30 tonight. Ill be one of those watching. Couple of showers right along the coastline. Heres a look off clearwater beach. Heavy downpours along the coast of manatee and sarasota counties. A couple of lightning strikes here. Throughout the rest of the morning the showers will be along or near the coast. Scattered rain going up to a 40 chance at 85. The storms will push east of 75 by 4 00 p. M. When its 88 degrees. All in all a 50 rain chance. Coast in the morning and then inland in the afternoons. A developing story out of pasco county. The Sheriffs Office asked that everyone avoid the area at 41 and bowman. We have an investigation underway. More information on that as they are released. We have a crew on the way to the scene right now. Just a little bit. The suncoast for now. 275 busch willed boulevard and the veterans expressway southbound near waters. Those typical Early Morning slow spots. Thank you. Coming up on today , savannah has an exclusive interview with mike pence, Donald Trumps running mate. Ill be back at 11 00 with lee news. Stick around throughout the day today for updates. Have a great friday. . . Ba da ba ba ba . . Good morning. Let the games begin. All eyes on rio with the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games now just hours away. The American Flag raised over the athletes village as crews put the final touches on maracana stadium. Nearly 5,000 performers, 11,000 athletes, all getting ready, and over 1 billion people set to watch around the globe. We have your exclusive sneak peek today, friday, august 5th, 2016. Team usa has won backtoback gold medals another strong finish by phelps