Look at the damage this storm caused. Good sunday morning. I hope your day is getting off to a great start. Im candace mccowan. Thank you for joining us. Our top stories in just a moment. First well check on the forecast with meteorologist Bryan Bennett. Good morning, candace. The good news is the storps are storms are well to our south so we dont have to worry about the Severe Weather threat. Heres a live view from new port richey. The sun will rise at 7 23. Temperatures pretty warm right now and probably the High Temperature for the day right around 70 degrees in lakeland and tampa and st. Petersburg, sarasota. Areas north looking at cooler temperatures as we have a cool front moving from the north to the south. Thats why were seeing cooler temperatures to our north. We have a few little showers right now drifting through parts of manatee and polk county. That drift off to the southeast during the Morning Hours and give hardee, desoto, sarasota and southern polk and highlands counties a couple of showers this morning. Spotty showers to our south, other wise mostly cloudy. Temperatures will be in the 60s this afternoon. Steady temperatures in the upper 60s to right around 70 degrees. A breezy day. Winds out of the northwest at 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Its going to be even colder tomorrow. A High Temperature around 63 degrees. Candace. Thank you very much. You can track the weather any time using our storm team 8 weather max app. Its free from the app store. Right now if you have 2 and big dreams you still have a chance at becoming a billionaire. How often do you have that chance . No one matched all six numbers in the historic jackpot drawing. That means the on wednesday to an expected 1. 3 billion. Mary mcguire is live from our tampa news center. This was already a historic drawing and its just getting larger and larger. Reporter how much big will it get . The Florida Lottery reported that tickets were selling at a rate of 42,000 a minute. Since the jackpot rolled over on wednesday thousands of people lined up across the bay area to snatch up what they hoped would be their lucky ticket. Those ticket sales pushed the prize to a National Record of 949. 8 million. Last night people had a strategy of picking out those lucky numbers. Others not so much. Not even close. You said youre just pray praying. Quick picks, praying and just kind of pick boxes. The ticket you need to take a look at. Reporter if you got five numbers and no powerball you win a million dollars. Here are those winning powerball numbers. I feel like the announcer last night. 32, 16, 19, 57, 34 and the powerball of 13. Now, if you are Still Holding onto those champagne dreams and caviar wishes the odds are stacked up against you at 1 in 292. 2 million. Its only when the Powerball Jack pot gets into the hundreds of millions that we have this frenzy. Every week its usually at like 20 to 30 million but that just doesnt seem like its enough to some people. Those other weeks are the time to play because youre more likely to win. Exactly. I can dream of all the things i can do. Reporter you just need a million. Thats all i ask. Thats a reason to check your ticket this morning. Mary mcguire, thank you. Cant buy you happiness it can definitely help. Roy caplin studied the impact taking home the big prize can have on people. The lottery can actually save lives. For most people it helps calm their lives down. In some people it would save their lives because they were in dangerous jobs or their health was deteriorating and it helped them remove themselves from that situation. Caplin does have some cautious advice, dont go on a bing and dont quit your job. Would you quit your job . Leave us a comment on our Facebook Page and search for us under wfla news channel 8. New this morning, deputies in Manatee County are searching for suspects in an Armed Robbery in bradenton. They suspected pistols at five people sitting in a carport on 161st avenue east. They purposed two victims to the ground and took what they a pilot continues to recover after his ultra light plane crashed in lake county. He was the only person on board. He was practicing touch and goes in an airfield when suddenly smoke started coming out of the engine and the plane crashed falling about 500 feet. The pilot was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. A man is being extradited to polk county to face charges for lewd conduct with a 15yearold girl. 24yearold Joshua Austin was arrested in taylor county. He met a teen on a website chat room and began mailing her sex the girls father found out ordered him to stop. When he continued to contact his daughter he contacted deputies. Police are hoping this Surveillance Video will help them solve a triple murder. Deputies believe three suspects may have fled the area in this white commercial van. If you in Hillsborough County the driver of an suv continues to recover after crashing saturday morning. A honda accord crossed over the median and hit his vehicle head on. The driver of the honda died. Crash investigators are trying to determine what caused the driver to lose control of his car. Police in vancouver, canada are searching for the man who doused syrian refugees. A man on a bike road past and pepper sprayed the group. Paramedics treated as many as 30 men, women and children for exposure to pepper spray. No one was seriously hurt. In italy an unexpected act of kindness and a last goodbye. The founder of a Plastics Company gave a generous gift to his employees. He died at age 87 and left a will giving more split among his staff. The employees made the act public. Still ahead this morning a look at microsofts smart car and how it can help save many lives. Also an 8 on your side health alert for parents with small children. Colder temperatures can mean more ear infections. What experts recommend to keep our little ones healthy. The time now is 7 07 and youre watching news channel 8 today. Okay. So right now, everyone is saying, hurry you gotta get fios. But why . Well, because theres never been a better time to get a great deal from fios, the Fastest Internet and wifi available. Only fios has speeds from 50 to 500 megs. Because your devices run better on a better internet. And for just 79. 99 a month online, you can get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Fios gives you 400 back, and all of the premium movie channels for a year. This is your last chance. Offer ends january 16th. Cold season is here and the contagious virus is spreading among children. Brittany glasser talks to a pediatrician about a painful illness connected to the common cold thats keeping kids sick longer. Viral infections are as common as the changing weather. Pediatrician albert richard, junior said hes treated lots of Young Children and said most colds resolve on their own but sometimes you can develop an ear infection as a complication. When you have a cold you get some swelling of the tissues of your sinuses and that swelling can basically block up the drain, block up the middle ear space and fluid can accumulate. That causing some pressure and some bulging of the eardrum that can lead to pain. Doctor richard said if its ear infection. Understanding what a cold is is a little low grade fever in the first day or so and after that runny nose and congestion for a week. When it doesnt follow that progression, when theyve been sick or two or three days and running fever, a lot more fussy, that can be a sign of something has changed. Tylenol and motrin can help ease the effort. Antibiotics are given after a professional makes a diagnosis. If its more worrisome tubes are considered for a longterm solution. The number of ear infections isnt as important as the duration of the fluid. Your eardrum cant move and it muffles the sound. Kids who have fluid in their middle ear space dont hear clearly so they dont learn to speak. Thats why its important to look for a fever above 102 degrees, increased irritability and crying while laying down. Coming up Bryan Bennett has the full forecast. How technology can save thousands of pedestrian lives. We take a look inside microsofts new smart car. The time now is 7 12 and this morning were getting a look at the damage caused by a tornado in cape coral. Winds up to 70 Miles Per Hour, pulled out trees and damaged several homes. The storm caused significant damage, many streets turned into today up. Some say it sounded like a big plane was coming down. Sitting on the patio and we started seeing like lightning and then a big flash in the back and the next thing you know we hear like a Freight Train or boeing. Like a 747 coming over head. Like a what . Like a 747 coming over head. It was a tornado. We ran and hid. There were no serious injuries reported. Emergency crews are working to restore power to as many homes as possible. At our last check only 1,500 homes had no power. Fortunately kudos to the getting a Tornado Warning out for that tornado yesterday hopefully saving some folks from being injured or saving some lives as well. Kudos to the Weather Service for watching these storms closely. This afternoon a good deal of cloud cover. Most of the rain is heading south. We have over cast clouds expected for the afternoon. Temperature wise remaining steady in upper 60s throughout the morning and the afternoon. A good deal of cloud cover and a few showers on the radar picture mainly in our southern areas. So heres a look at the satellite and radar picture. We actually had two weather events yesterday, one was this water spout that occurred near Bradenton Beach. Yesterday afternoon a couple of viewers called in and said they seen that water spout. Then we have that tornado in cape coral that flipped over a couple of cars and brought some boats airborne as well. Fortunately no injuries. And storms to our south still which we will watch closely this afternoon for any potential of Severe Weather. Right now we have a cold front and thats why the temperatures are not going anywhere today. That in addition to the cloudy skies. This cool front bringing cooler weather our direction. So looking further south we have a couple of showers and maybe even a little storm developing in parts of polk county through sarasota county. This will drift southeast and exit the bay area by about 10 00 a. M. This morning. To our north disruptive weather and then we have snow in parts of indiana and ohio. Its messy weather in the northeast. This afternoon remaining cloudy, steady temperatures in the upper 60s and it will be actually down in the middle 70s to our southern areas. Thats today, kind of a gloomy day. Tomorrow lots of sunshine and chilly high of 63. Thank you so much. Theres one car that could help prevent michael berg has the story. Weve been in a lot of selfdriving cars but the point of this technology is what it can do with you in the drivers seat now that the car is driving for you. What do i do . We just drive off normally and then as youre confident when you are between the lines resume the system putting the resume button. Okay. Push resume. I felt it take over the Steering Wheel right away. My feet are off the pedals. Hands up. I see that a person is here on the dash board. Whats happening . We reduce the speed from 30 to 20. Do you really think that smart bands all the time so the cars around them will be careful. Is that fast fetched . Your smart phone has the same capability as a band. How does the car know that the stoplight is red . Does it have a camera . No, the traffic light is communicating via wifi with the car. A smart car embedded with microsoft technology. In the future what will happen if the driver is not necessarily needed for the driving task anymore they can be productive, they can use the display here and talk to people. Whats the weather in las vegas . Its currently 49 and cloudy in las vegas. This car will only work in a highly connected environment. Now we have to wait for the rest of the world to catch up. Very cool. Fans believe will be their next head coach talks to another team this weekend. Coming up the other nfl team that wanted to talk to a bucs assistant coach. Sport Social Security next. Sports is next. Wow. The internet is crazy fast here. I know, right . Its so nice to have everyone over. Hi hey. Mmm. I just laid an egg. Does anybody want it . Joey, you want some gasoline . Yes, please. Mom, guess what . I married a clown and were having tiny little clown babies. Mhm. I just bought a hammer. With internet fast enough for everyone, your guests might get a bit carried away. Good morning. The bucs no longer have to worry about the on offensive coordinator kirk cutter. They hired adam gates to be their head coach. If we needed a reminder that cutter is not a done deal we got one on saturday. Cutter interviewed with the San Francisco 49ers for their head coach opening. Now that might make bucs fans squirm a little bit but this is Due Diligence for cutter and the 9ers who are setting their sights on hugh jackson. Now also saturday joe collin, the bucs defensive line coach, the bucs denied the San Diego Chargers to interview collin for a roll on their coaching staff. The raiders also inquired and were met with a no. The bucs want collin to stay but what role would he have . Nfl teams battle all season to claim home advantage in the if playoff games, even if its a wild card game. Chiefs, the away team at houston opening kick off nile davis 106 yards untouched for the touchdown. They were just getting started. In the 3rd quarter now still a shut out here. Alex smith to chris conley. The chiefs shut out the texans 300. The steelers blow a 150 lead, come back to kick a field goal to beat the bengals 1816. College basketball standard, Florida State trying to knock off miami. Look at takari go. He only had eight points but what a highlight. How about sheldon mcclellen, 21 points. Cains accuse to a 7259 win. The gators hosting lsu. A freshman ben simmons makes a nice move for the lay up. 29 points for him. Cold much of the year from three point land but justin leon hits there. They win it 6862. Big double header today at the sun dome. Usf men get it going at noon and then at 5 00 the usf women against number 1 uconn. The results on super sports sunday. Last night it was a nail biter for lightning fans as they took on vancouver. They won 32 in over time. The winning goal on the sixman rush. Its the First Time Since middecember that tampa bay has won consecutive games. This morning were learning more about the arrest of mexicos drug lord el chappo guzman. How he was captured. Plus, there was no win ner in last nights powerball. The new jackpot is over a billion dont throw away your tickets, theres still small winners here in florida. This and much more coming up in our good morning. Im candace mccowan. Thank you for joining the Powerball Jackpot now stands at 1. 3 billion. The largest amount in lottery history. The odds to win are 1 in 292. 2 million. A live report in just minutes. Investigators in polk county hope this Surveillance Video will help solve a triple murder. If you recognize this van call the Sheriffs Office. The national Weather Service confirmed a tornado did touchdown in cape coral saturday night. It caused Severe Damage to many homes. No injuries have been reported. Time now to get a check in with bryan. Can we expect anything today or are we smooth sailing . Looking south of town we have a few showers. One of the showers could turn into a thunderstorm but the majority of the rain has passed off well to our south. Mainly today well have basically what you see right now from our live camera it will be breezy as well with a northwest wind at 13 Miles Per Hour at the beach. You can see a little white cap activity going on as well. We could see a rip current risk as well. Current temperatures around 70 degrees in tampa. Head north and were in the middle 60s and head south and were in the lower 70s. The temperature we have right now will remain steady or drop during the afternoon hours as this cold front starts to move through the bay area. Dropping down temperatures especially tonight into the 40s and then tomorrow only topping off in the lower 60s. As far as rain goes we do have some showers right now from ft. Meade in polk county down through southern Manatee County. No lightning, no thunder, nothing severe. This line is passing off to the southeast and it will exit Highlands County right around 10 00 this morning. Could one of these little showers develop a possibility but the majority is off to our south. Throughout the morning mostly cloudy, spotty showers south, temperatures in the 60s. This afternoon remaining cloudy. Kind of a gloomy day for the most part. Those showers will exit, temperatures not really going anywhere, remaining in the candace. Bryan, thank you very much. Right now if youre waking up and checking your Lottery Ticket we have some bad news for you, no one matched all six numbers in the Powerball Jackpot which means the prize rolls over once again for the 19th time since november. Mary mcguire is live from our tampa news center. Theres a Silver Lining for those thousands of lotto players at home with their tickets this morning. Reporter look on the bright side. You have another chance at becoming a billionaire on wednesday night. The powerball will roll once again to an expected 1. 3 billion prize. Thats a world record. Since it thousands of people lined up across the bay area to snatch up what they hoped would be their lucky ticket. Those ticket sales pushed the prize to a National Record of 949. 8 million. Some people had a strategy of picking out the lucky numbers. Im going to you a few numbers that mean something to me and then im going to write down a bunch of numbers and hope i get lucky. Reporter dont throw away the ticket just yet. You need to take a look at the powerball numbers to see if you won a smaller prize. If you got five numbers and no powerball you win a 1 million. Here are the winning numbers, 32, 16, 19, 57, 34 and the powerball of 13. If amount on wednesday you would be richer than taylor swift, katy perry and garth brooks. I think i would buy a concert for all of them to come to my house in my new mansion. Who needs to be on the forbes list. A million would work for me. Reporter exactly. Thank you. A substitute teacher in Volusia County told students she would have them shot if they didnt stop misbehaving. She did pass a background check. The 61yearold threatened 3rd graders. Students claim the woman told them that she would let a gunman into the classroom to shoot them. One father said it scared his child. He was very shaken. He had difficulty at first going to sleep. Well, Volusia CountySchool District spokesperson said that the teacher went through all the background checks and training are they are assuring parents she will not be back in the classroom. The world who faces charges in florida may eventually be headed to the united states. His extradition could be 6 months. Gabe gutierrez reports from mexico that el chappos desire for fame on the big screen may have led to his recapture. The most wanted drug lord in the world paraded in front of el chappo accuseman is guz guzman is in the maximum security prison he escaped from. It was the desire for the spotlight that may have led to he has recapture. The mexican attorney general revealing that the drug kingpin was trying to make a movie about himself and had his people their movements were tracked. There was a failed amount to arrest him in october. During an Early Morning friday morning a bloody shoot out. Five suspects killed, six arrested, a mexican marine injured. Authorities seized an arsenal of guns, Armored Vehicles and grenade launches. He escaped through the drainage system coming out of the sewer and into waiting vehicles before fulltimely being arrested. Guzman facing drug charges in six american states. Today a source within the Mexican Attorney Generals Office said it plans to fulfill a request from the u. S. To extradite el chappo. The last time guzman was captured in 2014 the Mexican Government refused to sing him across the border. This time gabe gutierrez, nbc news mexico. Mexican lawmaker officials claim his secret interview with sean penn helped find him. In a Rolling Stones article he describes the complicated measures he took to meet guzman. Blue bell is testing every batch of ice cream after the Company Discovered listeria in one of its production plants. Blue bell claims that in listeria has been found in any products. They recalled their entire product line last year after listeria was found on containers. Blue bell is under federal investigation. Frontier airlines is adding dozens of new routes to its service. There will be 42 new nonstop routes. Fares will be as low as 39 one way. Most of the flights will launch in april. Made new marine friends. 38 wounded military personnel visited the Dolphin Research center. Take a look at that. Of course the dolphins were entertain ing ing show offs doing flips, providing flipper shakes the bay. One soldier who lost her leg explained how the dolphins can help. I think the sensitivity is a big thing. They are so perspective of the injuries. The event was organized by the Wounded Warrior project. The soldier ride through the florida keys ends today in key west. They were on the road for quite a bit there. Great story there. Here at home we have wipt er er winter the dolphin. Shes a big attraction too. Have you been . No. I definitely recommend it. Its pretty cool. You can add boat ride in there too. Very cool. If youre looking for something to do this sunday. There you go, it will be kind of cloudy today. I want to show you a cool picture here. This is sent in by Andrea Walker of a sunset over the gulf of mexico and the bay. If youd like to send in a picture or view the pictures sent in wfla bryan on facebook or twitter. Your forecast in just a minute. Plus, heres what youll see monday morning on news channel 8 today. Manatee county leaders are headed to tallahassee to speak to lawmakers about padis law after the black lab padi bit a little boy. What they hope to establish. Plus, weather and traffic on okay. So right now, everyone is saying, hurry you gotta get fios. But why . Well, because theres never been a better time to get a great deal from fios, the Fastest Internet and wifi available. Only fios has speeds from 50 to 500 megs. Because your devices run better on a better internet. And for just 79. 99 a month online, you can get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all of the premium movie channels for a year. This is your last chance. Offer ends january 16th. This morning we have a little ballerina who is beating the odds. Most every little girl dreams of growing up to be a ballerina. For ana mott that dream was becoming a reality. When she was given the roll of clara in the nutcracker her friends and family knew she was destined for greatness. She started having a lot of back pain. Ana was diagnosed with a we needed ana feeling positive, fighting this and not feeling afraid. Fight she did through two brain surgery, an infection in her brain, 33 radiation treatments and 6 months of in patient chemotherapy and she survived. She was left partially paralyzed, blind and suffers from memory loss. Through her fighter spirit she regained the feeling on the left side of her body and is dancing again. Ana said she wants to dance to inspire others to know they can do anything. Im going to help all these other people and be able to lift them up too because ive been through it and i know what it feels like. Im glad im going to be able to heal people who have to go through it too just like me. The satellite and radar picture is showing the showers yesterday and actually dropped a water spout near Bradenton Beach yesterday afternoon and even had a tornado in cape coral yesterday evening. Fortunately no injury with that tornado. Heres the picture taken in cape coral yesterday evening by mark helen. It was a Strong Enough tornado where cars and boats went airborne. This car ended up upside down trying to park itself in the garage. Fortunately no injuries out of that tornado in cape coral yesterday evening. Satellite and radar picture, we have a couple of showers to our south drifting southeast courtesy of a front to our north. Thats going to bring us cooler weather today topping off in the upper 60s. Citrus, hernando, pasco pretty quiet a good deal of cloud cover and maybe a cup. Limit sprinkles couple little sprinkles. We have a decent downpour with that shower there that extends down through sarasota and Manatee County and moves into hardee as well. This line will exit Highlands County by 9 00 or 10 00 and then the rain will be history for the day. We have to get this line through first. Right now no thunderstorms but the possibility of seeing a little lightning with that storm. I want to look to our north just in case you have any travel plans to the northeast today. On the northern end of this cold front messy weather right now in northern jersey and most of new york up through connecticut and massachusetts. Heavy rain, big stormy weather. On the backside of this low were dragging down some cool weather. Where you see the white color this is snow from cincinnati and areas north through michigan. That area of snow will track off to the northeast and not give new york of snow cover. This morning mostly cloudy, spotty showers south. Those showers will exit by about 10 00 a. M. And then this afternoon remaining kind of cloudy. Its going to be kind of a gloomy day. Steady temperatures and the middle upper 60s. Tomorrow lots of sunshine, kind of cool heading off to work in the morning. It will be 48 in the morning, by the afternoon 63 degrees. This cold front is having an impact in our weather and will drop us down below the average temperatures. About time for winter to show up. Just a little late. Just for a dup l couple of days. Thank you very much. A shortage of deputies is what one Law Enforcement agency is facing this morning. Coming up after the break, 8 on your side finds out why theres a Sheriffs Office is facing a dilemma, a shortage of deputies. As it stands the agency needs to add hundreds of deputies to its ranks. Ryan hughes shows us whats behind the lack of qualified candidates. The Hillsborough CountySheriffs Office needs to fill more than 300 vacant deputy positions but officials here tell us not to worry because safety isnt in jeopardy. The Hillsborough CountySheriffs Office wants to builds its ranks but its having a tough time doing that. Finding people has become a challenge. The root of that problem is surprising. Larry mckinnon said they have strict guidelines. Applicants who used Tobacco Products within the last 6 months are disqualified. They took for stellar references. The topnotch guidelines are meant to weed out any problematic candidates. Ton tens of dirt to get to one golden nugget. We talked to taxpayers who like the stringent hiring guidelines. If you want a good person you want someone topnotch. They should have strict goodlines with guidelines with all the Police Problems right now. Its difficult to find people who want to get into this profession anymore. The Sheriffs Office has a long way to go to get up to speed. It needs to hire 200 deputies for its Patrol Division and around 130 to work in county jails. Sheriffs officials tell us they will continue their recruiting practices throughout the county, specifically at sporting events and colleges. Reporting in Hillsborough County, im ryan hughes, news channel 8. Even though theres a shortage sheriffs officials tell 8 on your side theyre fully staffed in areas if patrol that need it most so public its going to be a huge night in hollywood as award season kicks off. Coming up, a preview of the 73rd annual time now 7 54. Hollywood is gearing up for one of the Golden Globes are happening today in california. Mark barger has the biggest categories. Theres more suspension about whats said thats whats won at the Golden Globes but not this year. All the main races are really tight this year at the Golden Globes. Best drama nominee carol has the most nominations but dave carter said its no sure win. I think spotlight could win but the revenant could win. Eddie retnane would win but others are also there. The edge has to go the leonardo dicaprio. He went performance on screen. Kate blanchett is chasing two other contestants. This is two young actresses that have fantastic years. Carter excepts the martian and the short to battle for best comedy. Steve carell for best actor. If you won 18 years ago for writing Goodwill Hunting but never won an acting globe that could happen this weekend. Jennifer lawrence already has two globe. Getting a third county mean beating out her pal amy schumer. If amy wins its going to be the best speech of the night. It could have plenty of competition. Mark barger, nbc news. Categories to catch tonight is best supporting actor where Sylvester Stalone could win his first golden globe for playing a role he played 39 years ago as rocky balboa. I have not seen creed yet but heard it was great. I saw the martian and it was great. Today is weather is gloomy so it will be a good day. A good day for the movies. The rain will come to an end in our southern communities by about 10 00 a. M. Cooler today too with High Temperatures in the 60s. Tomorrow morning as you head off to work chilly and 48 degrees. Tomorrow afternoon lots of sunshine but a high of only 63 degrees. All right. Bryan, thank you for the weather. Thank you for joining us. Our next newscast is at 9 00. Okay. So right now, everyone is hurry you gotta get fios. But why . Well, because theres never been a better time to get a great deal from fios, the Fastest Internet and wifi available. Only fios has speeds from 50 to 500 megs. Because your devices run better on a better internet. And for just 79. 99 a month online, you can get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all of the premium movie channels for a year. This is your last chance. Offer ends january 16th