All looking good this morning but it is warm and already quite steamy, 80 degrees with the dewpoint of 75 and calm winds. Not much to mix the air around. Starting your day at 78 in saint petersburg. 80 showing up at our inland locations. There is your radar picture. Not much is happening. We do have a few passing clouds rolling through the area. Going to be very similar to what we had yesterday. We have an onshore flow with a slight chance of a shower the first half of the day. The rain chances are going to be very slim for today. 79 this morning with some sunshine, a coastal shower. 91 for your high. Storms are pushing inland but the coverage is less than what we had yesterday. As we go into the week, the better rain chances arrive and also the tropics are heating up were following breaking news out of hillsboro county. Deputies are investigating a shooting an apartment complex. A man walked into a residence and then said he was shot. The man has been taken to an area hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. At this hour it is still not clear where the shooting happened. Were making calls and will bring you up days as soon as we get them. The Sarasota Sheriffs Office is investigating a body found in the woods. It was found in a england street. Deputies tell us it is a white man in his late 20s or early 30s. Investigators have not set of foul play is involved. We are also making calls on this. As soon as we get more information we will bring it to you right here a new channel 8. This morning, new information about the fire at a mosque in tampa earlier this month. It has now been rolled and arson. Investigators thought the fire started because of a small gasoline was used as an accelerant. The damage is estimated at 25,000. This morning the search continues for the mayor chiefland. He did not return from an afternoon drive saturday afternoon dive saturday afternoon. Were told the dive team may be called in to assist in a search. Donald trump continues to members of his own party after saying he is not ready to release his taxes. Mark meredith is in washington with the story. Reporter donald trump prides himself as the business candidate. There so much wealth out there that can make our country so rich again. Reporter but when it comes to how much money he has made, his tax returns. Hillary clinton once again called on donald trump to release his taxes after she had released hers. She told a crowd she had serious doubts of donald trump has check Financial Claims s Financial Claims. He would be paying a rate as low as middleclass families assuming if he pays any taxes at all. Reporter congresses trying us carolina is urging donald trump to release the data. Donald trump says he will release his taxes after an audit is completed but will not give a specific date. With only 90 days to go before the general election, voters patients may taxes but in a radio interview said he is getting close to doing it in hopes to do it well before election day. There is no law requiring president ial candidates to release the numbers, but for some voters it could be a requirement. At least 30 people died in southeastern turkey when a bomb went off at an outdoor wedding ceremony. They say it appears to be a suicide bombing carried out by kurdish rebels or isis. It is right near the syrian border. Video shows the chaotic aftermath. Ambulances to the injured to hospitals. Across america residents of western michigan are cleaning up after storms and tornadoes caused major damage. Take a look at the mess left behind. Storms knocked down trees and is possible one or multiple tornadoes travel to 90 miles more than 90 miles. No injuries have been reported. In california winds continue to fuel this fire. This chimney fire has grown to almost 20,000 acres. This morning, communities were ordered to evacuate. The fire is only about 2 miles away from this castle. This morning a 4 week old kitten found on the side road continues to recover from a delicate surgery. A large infected tumor in her i was successfully removed saturday. This morning it is so not known how she ended up on the side of the road. This comes after multiple cats have been found dead on the bridge. Ryan lochte is breaking his silence. I over exaggerated the story. If i have never done that had never done that , we. Hear his apology to other teammates coming up. Time now is 6 06. Youre looking at a live look over the his hillsboro river. We are glad you are joining us this morning a new shauna lake. 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 vaccine he had received. N 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 all the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Itis 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. Today is the last day of competition of the summer olympics in rio. The main events, team usa men going for 3rd straight gold and basketball against serbia which proved to be the usas biggest test of all tournaments. Also, shields looks to retain her supremacy in the womens middleweight finals. She will fight the netherlands. Heres a look at the final medal count in final day of competitio leading these games with a total of 116 metals. 43 and gold, 37 silver, 36 bronze. China and 2nd with 70 total. Great britain in 3rd with 66. After an exhilarating couple of weeks of competition, it remains the biggest blemish on these games, the embarrassing episode involving ryan lochte in several teammates. This morning ryan lochte is opening up about the controversy in an exclusive calls his behavior that night immature and childish. You told me on the phone, you said we are victims here. We are victims and we are happy that we are safe. In the Police Press Conference they said not victims , they are vandals. How do you feel about that . It is how you want to make it look. Whether you call it a rolla very robbery, whether you call it extortion just paying for the damages we dont know. All we know is there is a gun pointed in our direction and we were demanded to give money. Gunner said at some point, someone who spoke english walked over and offered to help translate this altercation. He made it clear that the Security Guard was telling the 4 of you, you need to pay for that damage before you can leave here or im going you understood that at that time. Yes, so we had to give the money. At that point you are striking a deal, you are striking a deal to pay for damage you have caused so that he doesnt call the police and this doesnt become a bigger incident. Isnt that fair . We just wanted to get out of there. There was a gun pointed in our direction. We were all frightened and we wanted to get out of there as quic the only way we knew was this guy saying you have to give him money. We gave him money and we got out. What im trying to get at is the first version you told was much more about the mean streets of rio. Diversion were hearing now is much more about a negotiated settlement to cover up some dumb behavior. And that is why i am taking full responsibility for because wouldnt be in this mess. Those guys were in rio and none of this wouldve happened. It was my immature behavior ryan lochte is the 2nd most decorated swimmer in olympic history here key has 12 metals, 6 gold, 3 silver and 3 take a look, veterans who can travel were treated to an honor flight this honor flight was successful 220 veterans at the heroes got to experience the sights and sounds of visiting such sites as a world war ii memorial, Korean War Memorial and Vietnam Memorial without having to step foot on an airplane. Were bringing the honor flight to them. Instead of seeing them in person we will show them on the television screen. We have posters in there, guest speakers for them. It is a way to show appreciation for all the work they have done in the military and give them thanks for th according to organizers, this was the first on a flight at home program to be held at an all veteran sisyphus facility in the country. A new homeowner in texas uncovered priceless treasures. As a begin cleaning out there backyard shed they spotted something. What was inside took there breath way. Reporter inside this old faded bag someone left these and i dont think they know what she would find. There was probably about 30 or 40 if not more. Yellow and aged, but perfectly intact there are hand written letters. These are stories from a young world war ii soldier. Carefully flipping through his pages of history she finds his fate 1941, 1942 and then all of a sudden there is an obituary from the person writing and receiving these letters. Reporter it reads, killed in action. It is amazing to me that somebody the shown had to go through that much in his life at such an early age. I am thankful for him. Reporter but samantha knows treasure is not hers to keep. He was definitely loved by his family. They saved all of these levers letters and they meant something. Reporter her wish is that these lost letters will find there home with the Family Member who can continue telling the stories of sims. He is a hero. He fought a remain a hero. Reporter samantha has connected with his niece and nephew were now in the 50s to return the duffel bag full of the memorabilia. Weatherwise we are looking at a fairly quiet day ahead. We will keep with that onshore flow and that means a shower chance during the first half of the day primarily along our Coastal Community similar to yesterday. With some dry air around, fewer thunderstorms. There was a big area of high things have gotten active as we are going to for the latter portions of august. We have 3 areas of interest in the atlantic. 80 degrees at 8 00. The shower chance along the coastal communities. 80 to 7 try and 87 degrees by noon. Overall rain chances staying fairly slim for today only around 20 percent. 80 tampa. 77 clearwater. It is already quite warm this morning. 75 lakeland. 75 sebring happening. We have clouds off to the north and a few clouds right along the coastline. With this area of High Pressure building and it is giving us that light onshore flow. In the showers that develop will stay right along the coast and then they will slowly start to drift inland through the day. It is the latest on Tropical Storm fiona expected to stay Tropical Storm through monday and then weaken as it approaches the bermuda. Us. This is the one we have to pay close attention to. All forecast models take it through the caribbean is and then in the general direction toward the bahamas. We have plenty of time to keep our eyes on this but again there is a 60 percent chance this will become a named system. The system off of africa has a higher chance of becoming a tropical named storms storm. All of the models take this into the central atlantic. Things are heating up in tropical atlantic. At home there is that onshore floor. Abuse few showers by mid day but the rain chance is slim only right around 20 percent. As we go through tomorrow morning we have warm start. The onshore flow continues but with drier air. Storms are hit and miss. By tuesday the moisture will search back into the area and that means our rain chances get back up to normal by tuesday. Were up to 40 percent by the the middle of the week, our rain chances typical for this time of year averaging around 30 to 40 percent range with highs in the low 90s. That trend will continue into next week. Things will quieted down today but 3 systems all of a sudden we are watching out in the tropics. The bucs have the first win of the preseason. Highlights from last nights game and postgame reaction its one of the oceans fastest, fiercest predators. It knows no equal. Until now. The tallest, fastest, longest coaster in orlando. Now open. For a limited time, get a single day ticket for 69. Only at seaworld. This. Is. Everything. Honey bunches of oats. Its this, this, this, and this. It is the mother of all cereals. Its that, and that, and all of that. Its the most cerealriffic cereal in all the history and will be for eternity. Honey bunches of oats. Hello from Everbank Field in jacksonville were saturday night the bucs beat the jaguars 27 . 21 for the first preseason win. This was not winstons last night. Just 3 of 10 for 28 yards. He also threw an that really wasnt his fault. Roberto missing for 32 yards. That is another miss. The coach said you are not worried but you have to start making these kicks, it is the nfl. Winston completes to evan. Jamison hits evidence. They tie the game at 7. Once again we are tied 14 all. In the 2nd corner, vernon drops tonight against the jaguars. And inception sets up a field goal an interception sets up a field goal. The books are in charge. The books win it 27 . 21. Last week he didnt hang onto the lawn tonight you get to. It has to feel wonderful. Of course. It is a blessing to be able to play this game. Tonight. I was having fun playing football and luckily i got my hands on to tonight. He such a great competitor. He didnt come out lightning. He shouldve hit vince to start the game. The interception cam has to make that catch. I just missed throws. They were right open wide open. I just have to make the through. When you do stuff like win. The books come home. They will practice with another nfl team again this week the cleveland browns. Then theyre going to play the browns in the 3rd preseason game friday night at the stadium. Rays are the winners over the texas rangers. One . Zero is a score. That is quick look at sports. A shooting investigation in hillsboro county. Plus, what the college caught biting a mans face told Police Officers minutes after good morning, thank you for joining us here a new channel 8. Deputies are investigating a shooting at an apen hills ct. A man walked into a resident and said that he was shot. That man has been taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. At this hour it is still not clear with the shooting happened. Were making calls and will bring you updates. The Sarasota Sheriffs Office is investigating a body found in the woods. It was found near the intersection of Colonial Drive and new england street. Deputies tell us it is a white man in his late 20s or ill play is involved. The search continues for the mayor of chiefland. He did not return home from an afternoon dive friday afternoon. The florida fish and Wildlife Commission is now in charge of the search. We are being told that the county Sheriffs Offices dive team may be called in to assist. Were here with a look at the steamy weather. Were starting off very warm. One of our cooler in the interior lakeland. We are getting closer to sunrise on the bad on a bad shot this morning near lakeland automall. It is 76 degrees with calm winds. It is quite steamy and some spots. 79 sarasota and cooler for Crystal River and in various. Our weather watcher in burkesville is reporting 70 the 3 73 degrees. Temperatures back in the low around 90 degrees. Now much happening over the Sunshine State with a few passing clouds. Check out your rain chances for today and also monday. Only around 20 percent here, not nearly as many thunderstorms but that changes by tuesday as more more sure slides into the area. Coming up we will talk more about what you can expect for your sunday ahead and also we will preview the entire next work and school week ahead as well. Metals in the mix today before the summer games comes to a close in rio. As the competition winds down so is the controversy surrounding 4 us swimmers who claimed they were robbed at gunpoint. Ryan lochte admitting it was all in life. We have details this morning from olympic park. It was my immature behavior back in an interview with matt lauer, the summer at the lochte, admits there was no robbery in rio. I over exaggerated that story. If i had never done that we wouldnt be in this mess. Reporter now to the games as they come to an end, team usa continues there run their run for old. Matthew gold. Matthew is the first one mayor First American to win gold in the last 100 years. 400 relay teams finished first earning Allyson Felix and historic 6 gold medals, the most by any female athletes in olympic track and field history. As expected, the american women grab golden basketball. The men will try to do the same this afternoon against serbia. But gold medals might not mean as much as this one, brazil soccer the sport that borders on religion in the country. A lot of exciting times. Heres a look at the metal count on this final day medal count on this final day. Team usa leading with 160 metals. 116 metals. China in 2nd in Great Britain in 3rd. Team usa also has a shot at gold in wrestling and boxing before the closing ceremony. Off there sports and social media skills. Were joined now with the breakdown of some of the most notable social media moments of the 2016 olympic games. Mary, what was your favorite moment . Reporter there are so many to choose from but one of my favorite one had to be one simone biles tweeted after she met zac efron. We know she had a very public crush on him. She tweet us out, just call me mrs. Efron. She may be getting another topic of conversation that has dominated the games this year was ryan lochtes controversy with the robbery. He said that him and a few other us swimmers had been robbed at gunpoint in brazil, but that turned out to not be the case. He tweeted out this apology. And then i love this picture, 10 years ago Katie Ledecky met michael phelps. 10 years later at the olympics they sort of switch the roles had a role reversal when they were asking for each others autographs. Certainly a lot of fun on social media. I dont take that tweeting that the workout that you can get a gold medal in that. A lot of them picking up a lot of followers though. Now to the latest on the zika virus there is now a new area under a travel warning and it includes south beach. 5 new cases have come from 1. 5 square travel warning from the cdc, miami beach officials and Business Owners are worried. The presence of the zika virus is an ideal for tourism but doesnt expect to see any long term impact. There is not a panic going on here by any means. There are people going by. Theres a lot happening. People of miami beach but we cannot downplay this. We must focus on this and eradicate this. If we Work Together and get our governor to work with us, we can get this done mentioning the governor. He is accusing rick scott of playing politics by withholding information from city and county county leaders about the new cases. The total numbers of local transmissions in florida is 36. The man behind some of the biggest boy band has died. Lou pearlman passed away in prison friday. He was serving a 25 year sentence for a massive ponzi scheme. The cause of his death is not known. He created the music label signed big boys band, backstreet boys, big town, lfl and nsync. The man that bit a victim in his face did the Sheriffs Office to test him. He will be charged with 2 counts of firstdegree murder. A big weekend for the city of clearwater. The ice arena opened its doors rink. The owner, doctor Emmanuel Rose tells us this is the first ice rink built in the state of florida in the last 16 years. It to be taken down and up in todays and it is very efficient. Dozens of people skated in toward the new facility giving it a big thumbs up toward the new facility giving it a big thumbs up. The thing about having 2 sheets is being close to the beach you can now hold turn midtier. We can hold bigger skating tournaments, bigger hockey tournaments. That is the only place anyone in florida will be wearing a longsleeved top this time of year. It is open 7 days a week and with his heat wave happening it is a great place to cool off. Is amazing hockeytown so why not see our rink. Quick check of some beautiful photos sent in by our regulars viewers. How about that from saint petes. This is another one coming to us from danny and software. Beautiful images. Keep sending them our way on facebook or sometimes a 2016 election divulges into both the slides lies. Reporter 2016 got ugly early and in the past few weeks we have heard more than a few fibs. Lets start with donald trump claiming he saw a tape of reporter after getting called out, he admitted, quote, the plane i saw in television was a hostage point not the plane carrying 400 million in cash going iran. Donald trump also that a president ial snack down for saying 2016s final outcome will be rigged. Then there is clintons false claim that the fbi direct said her statements about the controversy were truthful. Not long after this republican ad rowboat clinton. Who told the most lies . In july the Washington Post scored all lies on the scare of one to 4 pinocchio is. 63 percent of donald trump claims got the were score. 21 percent got 3 pinocchio. On the other side 14 percent of clintons claims got pinocchio ratio of Donald Trumps 4 pinocchio ratings are sky high. Nearly 85 percent of his claims were false or mostly false. By contrast clinton has a bell curve of a typical politician. Voters have been asked if they find the 2 trustworthy or honest clinton wins by a small portion. The man suspected of killing 5 people in alabama includina in police custody. The Mobile CountySheriffs Office says that Derek Dearman turned himself in across the state line the mississippi. Police found the victim saturday afternoon. A baby was found the live at the scene. Investigators say dearman new at least one of the victims. Cleanup continues in louisiana after last weeks historic flooding. Teams of volunteers are helping homeowners to clean the houses and at the same time theyre going doortodoor looking for at least 13 people have died in the flooding. 60,000 homes have been damaged in 102,000 people have debt registered for federal assistance so far. The razor going to try to get another win from the rangers today. 86 that game gets underway just after 1 00. You cant rule out a stray storm passing by the trough right around gametime but again it will be nice and dry under the dont. Take a look at the current reporting 80 degrees this morning. It is warm, muggy and the winds are calm. Theres not much to mix the air around. 80 at 8 00. We will say right around the same temperature with mostly sunny skies but a stray shower could develop along the coastline. The rain chances for today are slim, only around 20 percent. At s chance will come for our inland best chance will come for our inland locations. Bartow 73. 72 for seffner hills. Not much happening on satellite and radar pictures. We have high clouds streaming in from time to time, but our weather will be dominated by this large area of High Pressure sitting over the gulf. In the atlantic it is very busy. We have fiona, in best 99, in best 90. Fiona will fizzle out over the next few days at the forecast model on this one. All of our spaghetti pods take this toward the island, in the general direction of the bahamas that has a 60 percent chance of development in the next 5 days. And even higher chance for the 2nd storm merging off the coolest coast of africa. Certainly those systems bear watching. Highpressure will be our dominant feature limiting our rain chances. Popup showers. They will start to push inland as we have that onshore flow. The rain chances are slim at best as we go through this evening. Tomorrow morning starting off a brandnew work and school week. It is looking quiet. We have more of a northeasterly flow. It will push the rain chances inland and will maintain a 20 percent. We will get a surgeon washer by tuesday. Rain chances for today are only 20 percent along and west of 75. The inland locations is generally fewer thunderstorms expected for today and monday. We will see more sunshine not a bad couple of beach days just dont forget your sunscreen. Better chances come our way tuesday with highs around 92. That warm and steamy weather will continue. Even though it is morning were barely dropping below 80. Many Companies Offer big rewards talk to customers but whether its Airline Miles or advantage of the reward programs. We will explain why in this mornings consumer watch. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. 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But were really only active to signing up. But then you forget you have them. Reporter unlike saving money, it doesnt pay to let those points stand idle. Programs can change terms to make points less valuable or expire. That is a good point to go back through and reassert ss your value. Reporter take stock of all of your loyalty programs. Assess which rewards take your light pick your lifestyle and choose which ones to focus on. Frequent flyers might benefit more from Airline Miles while Credit Card Rewards might be a better focus for those traveling less often. And then, clean house. You might have enough in there to get yourself a small set to forget where a magazine subscription. Reporter create goals for those programs you want to your rewards take off. American airlines and chase announced some changes that will increase the number of points needed to redeem rewards. A squirrel takes off with the go pro camera in the video he took was priceless. Finally this morning, more than 1500 people attended the st. Petersburg cupcake contest it was held saturday p why wasnt i invited . More than 80 contestants competed to win bragging rights for the best cupcakes. There were winners in 3 favorite was the chai latte cupcake with brown marse capone buttercream frosting. Take a look a hot handed squirrel santas up a go pro and gives us an exciting glimpse snatches up a go pro and gives us an exciting glimpse. We now know what it is like to jump from branch to branch. The squirrel dropped the camera the squirrel just snatched it up and went. Im guessing it thought it was some food but then it realize there was no food. It was cool to see that. Quick check of what is happening for today. Lets take you to the forecast model it will be a slightly drier day for us. Highpressure will build in the gulf. We will see showers along the coast during the Morning Hours to of that rose east of 75. Were not rolled east of 75. Were not going to see that throughout the day. We will have a light chop on the bay and the inland waters. Your low tide is coming up at 10 37 this morning. It will stay warm and steamy. We will see 91 degrees with your storms drifting east as we go through the day. Overnight, partly cloudy skies clearing and slow cooling. It will be a pretty warm night, 80s. Very warm mornings and steamy afternoons. It is a great day to be at the beach or go to the ice skating rink. Good things come to an end. Today is the last day of competitions in the rio olympics. We will take you live to rio coming up next taking a look at the olympic flame learning there burning there. This is news channel deputies in hillsboro county are investigating a shooting what we are learning about the victim just ahead it is the last day of competitions in the what you can expect today plus this mornings medal count. Thank you for joining us here on news channel 8 today. Time now is 7 clock. Ed his here is here with the look at the weather. It is steamy but the sunrise is another story. 75 degrees, just a gentle north