Weather. Reporter our official sun rise at 7 20 but we are getting our first glimpses of the sun this morning. Overall, a fairly quiet start to the day. 77 for clearwater, tampa, 74 bradenton and bartow. Now down to 69 in zephyrhills. Here we go, not too much happening. We do have one lone shower continuing to fall apart offshore. You a couple of drops over the sunshine sky way this morning. 78 this morning, its going to be warm with a slight chance of a shower. Temperatures emptily get back to eventually get back to normal. Also were tracking the tropics, karl looks to strengthen and we have invest 97l. Well look at that in a few minutes. Ed, thank you so much. Deputies are investigating before 3 00 this morning on gandy boulevard north. The map right there. Deputies telling us at least one person was shot and at this hour, no word on the victims condition. Of course were making calls and will bring you any updates as soon as we get them. Some good news for drivers in Sarasota County this morning. After more than 24 hours, all lanes of i75 between sumter boulevard and the blade exits are open in northpor night after a deadly crash involving a fuel tanker. The driver of the semi, george irvin died. A Bay Area Community in mourning. This morning, neighbors of 81 year old Robert Walker want answers and want to if the brutal attack allegedly at the hands of a teenager is what led to his death. With candles and flowers just feet away from where he died. Neighbors telling news channel 8 enough is enough. We dont need to have a tragedy to be together. We could take our streets back. We could do our own thing again. Live like human beings. Not be afraid to walk out your front door and worry about somebody stealing, killing you or Something Like that. Reporter now a second vigil in ho a scary night for shopper inside a store in tampa. The ross store evacuated saturday when a man armed with a handgun walked in. Employees say they heard gunshots and soon after that, deputies found the man dead in the back of the store. They say he took his own life. This was not an active shooter situation. People in the city of charlotte are waking up this morning after another tense heart of the city for a fourth night in a row. This follows the release of a new video and more details in the shooting death of keith lamont scott. There are still a lot of questions to be answered. Reporter hundreds of protesters back in the streets of uptown charlotte just hours after Police Released new images and information. In the spirit of transparently, youre go everything we can deliver. Reporter including dash and body cam video. The sheaf says its not the entire video but contains all of the images relevant to the shooting and adds the new footage will not aanswer all of the questions in the case. There is no definitive visual evidence that he had a gun in his hand. You can see something in the hand and that he pointed it at an officer . Their investigation, pictures of marijuana, an ankle holster and loaded gun, evidence collected at the scene and say lab reports indicate scotts dna and fingerprints were on the weapon. Putney says all officers acted appropriately and no charges will be filed. If laws were violated, i would be taking a different action. Reporter a separate Investigation Continues scotts family. We are left with far more questions than we have answers. Reporter they say theyre thankful that Police Released the video but are still curious why police used didly force. How does the combination of marijuana and a gun constitute aggravated active aggression that put these officers lives in dane senator Unanswered Questions that continue to fuel the ongoing unrest. This weekend, both president ial can dates taking a break from the campaign to prepare for the debate. New polls show the race is tightening and that donald trump is pulling ahead in some key battleground states. Reporter this weekend, donald trump has a reason to celebrate going into the first debate. Campaign is surging not only in battleground states but states that were leaning clinton now appear to be solid red. Donald trump back on the campaign trail this weekend with a rally in virginia. He also will have a chance to follow up on comments he made thursday after he praised law enforcements response the last couple of days after we saw the chaos in charlotte. Heres a brief clip of what he had to say. The men and women in blue and they need your gratitude. They are the line separating civilians and civilization from total chaos. Reporter this weekend, clinton is set to stay away from the campaign trail instead focusing on debate prep. However shes going have plenty of surrogates on her behalf. We know clinton will get fund raisers from one state were watching is ohio and clinton is counting on famous friends from the west wing going to the state to campaign. Polls show trump leading clinton by threepoints. Thats within the margin of error but clinton had been leading trump. Keep it here on news channel 8 all morning long. Meet theless and that is after your vote 2016 local coverage at 9 30. And our own rod carter will be covering the debate. Hell have live reports starting tonight from Hofstra University in new york here on news channel 8. In just a few hours, your tampa bay bucs will take the field against the los angeles rams. Mary mcguire is live at the ray j where the burkes ar one for the season but at the same time, thousands of fans will pack the seats there. Mary are, this is the first time mary, this is the first time fans will see the multimillion dollar renovations. Reporter you are right. Fans are in for a treat this afternoon. One of the biggest changes they will notice when they step inside is brand new end zone boards. L. E. D. Screens, these things are so massive that they are news channel 8 was there when these new boards were installed. We got to see all of the construction that makes up this new score board. Its one of the many upgrades to improve the game day experience for bucs fans. After losing multiple super bowl bids, the renovations are part of a Bigger Picture for the tampa bay sports authority. Im quite confident that as these improvements take place over this year as well as phase two next year, its goin to attract larger events including super bowls. Reporter now some other upgrades include more replay cameras, a new surround sound system and some suite renovations. Kickoff is here at 4 05 this afternoon against the la rams. If you are going to head out to Raymond James, it is going to be a scorcher this afternoon. I was listening to eds forecast, highs in the 90s. Paul, i was born and raised in minnesota so going to a me, that meant wearing a parka and possibly getting frostbite even in october so this will be a different experience. Im headed to the game today. Definitely going to be wearing some flip flops and shorts to stay cool. And youre going be able to watch the touchdowns we make on those new big l. E. D. Screens, mary. Exactly. And they actually have two 12 new replay cameras so fans are going to get a very up close and personal thats happening on the field. A lot of exciting new upgrades here. Were glad you packed your flip flops, mary mcguire, live at rayj. Thank you so much. While you were sleeping an arrest in the mall shooting in washington state. Another shooting in baltimore where police are searching for a handful of suspects. 7 10, youre watching news channel 8 we are one nation under god. That black and white, we are one nation indivisible. That republican and democrat, we are all americans. Id like to punch him in the face. You know what they used to do to guys like that . Theyd be carried out in a stretcher, folks. Somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters. Priorities usa action is responsible this. Is. Everything. Honey bunches of oats. Its all of this, this, this, and this. Its the mother of all cereals. Its that, and that, and all of that. Its the most cerealriffic cereal. In all of history. Yeah, its that good. Honey bunches of oats. Across america, police in baltimore, maryland looking for three suspects in a shooting spree happening there. At least eight people shot. Investigators say a father and his 3 year old child among those injured. All injuries appear to be non life threatening. Witnesses say one suspect had a gun, the others also had handguns. A fight between two men leads to one happened while the victim and his sister were walking near michigan avenue. Turning now to the tragic mall shooting in washington. Authorities this morning identifying the suspect who allegedly killed five people. Troopers spotted arcan cetin and immediately recognized him as the man they were looking for. They say they received information that he was in the oak harbor area and that he was kind of zombie like is the best i can describe. He did not have a weapon with him. He had a leather satchel with a computer in it this morning, police in Miamidade County newsing new Program Gives them help in combating gun violence. Reporter technology and policing are now hand in hand. The Miamidade PoliceDepartment Just announced their use of a new hightech Crime Prevention tool. The acoustic gunshot detection solution or shot spotter. An acoustic device that picks up sound, specifically bullets, that go off in particular neighborhoods where these are deployed. Reporter the devices can narrow in on exactly where the sounds of gunshots are heard in real time with the goal of allowing officers to respond faster. If a round goes off within 25 to 50 feet, well be able to tell where that gunshot went off in the areas where theyre deployed. Not only that, it picks up sound that we can go back and listen to so that if theres a name thats called the shootings going on, we can listen to those also. Reporter the commissioner proved a 5 million, five year contract. This will be incorporating into the existing system of cameras. Were going do deploy these to deploy these tools to be able to quickly get th reporter now that shot Spotter Technology already used in about 90 other citys cross the u. S. Including here in tampa. Most kids turn their heads away from Cafeteria Food, but this morning, a lunch lady is proving its healthy. How the school menu helped her lose 100 pounds. You know what, ed, if you go out this morning, you could lose pounds in the heat. Im watching, theres folks our bay area beaches. Ill tell you if rain. A calf cafeteria diet could be if next big thing. A lunch lady in texas is 100 pounds lighter after she ate her own schools Cafeteria Food every day for a year. Samantha thank you. Reporter every day with the warmest smile. Thank you, you have a great day. Reporter and words of encouragement. Hey girl, hows your day going. Reporter tammy welcomes a waiting line of curious and hungry kids. It smells good. Reporter at carver elementary. Thank you, you have a wonderful day, okay. Reporter today shes serving up grilled cheese, bananas, broccoli and chicken pot pie. Yum, its so delicious. Reporter believe those words because this cafeteria manager has spent the past year eating every bit of it. Our food is amazing. Reporter this is what tammy used to look like at 260 pounds. Weight she carried with her for 17 years after the birth of her second child. I was going to die if i was not, if i didnt do something about the issue. Reporter so in september, 2015, as the i would go to wendys and get super sized everything or mcdonalds super sized everything. Reporter tammy started taking queues from her own cafeteria menu eating the breakfast and lunch every day. And then at night, i would go home and have a little fruit or yogurt. Reporter by christmas, she was well on her way to shedding the weight and with smarter decisions, she started feeling better about herself. And not because but because im healthier. Reporter the lunch lady now 100 pounds lighter serving pot pie with positivity. Im so proud of you girl. Reporter her recipe for success. Thank you. All right, the sun officially up. We just had our sun rise here. Looking at palm harbor, weve got a few clouds over head and 74 degrees. Not looking bad there. I know a their 18 holes today. Polk county, lots of sunshine. We do have high clouds off in the distance. A comfortable 73 degrees. Always cooler in our inland locations this morning. We have calm winds across the area and it looks like that wind will stay fairly light f. Youre headed if youre headed to the beaches, ill give it an eight out of ten. Currently, international airport. Those numbers climb quickly. By noon, were at 86degrees and by the afternoon, 90. Well call for the rain chance at 30 . Right now, one little cluster of showers. Its been hanging right offshore here last coupling of hours or so. Couple of hours or so. May get clouds to come out of this, maybe even a few sprinkles but it shouldnt last long. More rain off the east coast of florida in but were increasing in the coming days. About a 30 chance of rain today. By your monday morning, heading back to work and school, youll have a dry commute. By monday afternoon, were expecting a slight up tick in the moisture in the upper atmosphere, that should help support more showers and thunderstorms. If you dont get wet and you havent gotten wet the last couple of days, your rain chances start coming up. Somewhere Tropical Storm karl on the verge of becoming a hurricane and this system has an 80 chance of becoming our next tropical system. Karl will become a post tropical system in the next 24 hours. This is invest 97l. Early forecast modelings take this to models take this toward the caribbean. Once it gets in this area, conditions are favorable for to the north. 40 chance of rain for the southern half of the area. These will likely be slow moving showers and storms that develop and we cant rule out a shower or tomorrow around game time at ray j. So keep an eye to the sky. High temperatures will cool down a bit. Is it going be a good beach day today . Eight out of ten but could see a thunderstorm in the afternoon. You it could rain out. Thats tampa bay for you. It is. Before todays bucs big home opener, the seminoles ran with the. I dont know fitness tracker but i do know he always seems to get his steps in against usf. In last years meeting, he rush for a career high 266 yards. Cook and company paying a visit to Raymond James stadium yesterday afternoon facing a south florida Football Team 30 for the First Time Since 2011. The first play, a dream come true for the home squad. A deep ball to adams adams is gone. An 84yard touchdown right out of the gate but the noles were just getting cooking. Cook found the end zone on the next drive too. 267 yard Florida State dealt the bulls their first loss of the year. Didnt play very well fundamentally. Did a piss pour job tackling once again and again, its all back on me. Ive got to do a better job coaching the coaches and players. I said earlier in the week r our best is good enough and we didnt play our best. They did a good job. You have to commend usf for coming out with jumping on us early. We did a good job of responding. Reporter gators corner back Quincy Wilson guaranteed a 12th straight win over tennessee. Pass to jordan. 21nothing florida out of the gate but back come the vols. Jennings tiptoe through the tulips to the end zone. A 67yard strike puts tennessee on top and dobs accounts for five total touchdowns. Tennessee scores 38 straight vols win 3828. A bunch of weather delays couldnt stop ball state from winning and florida a m loses at home to South Carolina state 4814. Miller gives Team Tampa Bay a lead. Bases full for pedroia. Boston holds on to win 64. World hockey semifinals. Hey lookings its kucherov tieing the game at one a piece but soviets could not contend with canadas fire power. The host country is moving on to the final. Stamkos and canada will play sweden or team europe. The rowdies win on the road. Thats it for sports. All right, all lanes of i75 in Sarasota County open this morning after a deadly crash. To two bay area women in jail this death of a toddler. 7 31, youre watching news channel 8 today. Theres nothing like trying something new. S no end to what you can discover. Bs. Dobb. Dobbs good sunday morning to you. Thanks for waking investigating a shooting this morning. This is the map of where it happened just before 3 00. Deputies tell us one person was shot and at this hour, no word on the victims condition. Of course were making phone calls and will bring you updates as soon as we get them good news this morning for drivers in Sarasota County after this. More than 24 hours of all lanes on i75 blocked. Theyre the interstate closed friday night after a deadly crash involving a fuel tanker. The driver of that semi, george irvin died. And the two candidates for president gearing up for their first debate. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and republican nominee donald trump off the campaign trail. For the debate tomorrow 7 34. Lets get a quick check of your weather with ed. Hey ed, its fall reporter it is fall but its going to feel like summer today. A big change as the rain chances start to come up. Youre going to need to hang on to the umbrella just in case you get caught under one of those later today. Temperature wise, were above average at 77 for clearwater and tampa, and 74 another steamy afternoon as the numbers hit 90 degrees this afternoon. Temperatures about two to 3 degrees above average here and those numbers quickly warm up through the day. Not much happening before noon today but we will see building cloudiness around midday. By the afternoon, we could see a few pop up thunderstorms as the sea breeze [technical difficulties] just 30 today, up to 40 in the next couple of days thanks to chances in greater detail. Also, weve got another look at the bucs forecast coming up. Ed, thanks. Zephyrhills Police Investigating the death of a toddler. Police investigating two women who were in the home where Sebastien Lieb was found dead. The two are in jail on drug charges and police say theyre persons of interest in sebastiens death. This neighbor said he saved the child once before. I found him on the back and she said the baby had choked [inaudible] but i didnt believe that because the baby was bleeding through his ear, nose, and mouth. Reporter no word on how that child died. Both women are behind bars. Florida fish and wildlife investigating a boating accident. So tragic here. The 800 block of island way. [inaudible] one person was killed in a hemisphere in Sarasota County. Had morning, the miamidade Fire Department is mourning the death of one of their own. A firefighter shot and killed after attending a wake in his own neighborhood. Detectives say 23 year old Chadwick Davis was killed in a drive by shooting. Davis one of two people killed. The coast guard discovered three bodies floatingoff the florida keys and right now theyre searching the area bodies or survivors. Theres no word this morning on how they died or what they were doing in the water in the first place. In south florida, Police Searching for the person who stole a car with a baby inside. Officials say a Fort Lauderdale mother left the car running with her 10 year old daughter and infant son inside. Thats when a guy walked past the mom who was talking with someone jumped in the car. Moments before tried to grab her infant brother but the suspect took off. Officers later found the car and the infant. That baby is doing okay. In the race 2016, immigration is shaping up to be one of the big issues of the race. With all of the heated talk its easy to get lost in what those words mean. Chance is going break down the buzz words. Reporter trump wants say they support major citizenship, both say they support major changes. The time has come for common sense comprehensive reform. Reporter a reform package would include Border Security plus a way to deal with the people already in the country illegally. It also would need congressional aproven. Reporter next up, whats the difference between Illegal Immigrants and in a word, nothing. Democrats prefer the word undocumented because its politically correct. Refugees though, thats a different group. Theyre legally allowed to enter the United States while fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries. There will be no amnesty. Reporter think of amnesty for blanket legal forgiveness for being in illegally. The far right today considers anything away from mass deportations amnesty light why [inaudible] but they would have to register with the government, pay back taxes. Citizenship is a different story. Trump doesnt support it, clinton does. Citizenship would be anal to vote one dayment able to vote one day. Most of those votes would go to democrats. The first president ial debate happening tomorrow night. News channel 8 has you covered. Ron carter will be there with rod carter will be there with live reports again here on news channel 8. All right, ed is back with us. Its interesting, i was driving to ybor city last night and all of a sudden, the skies opened up. A picture of a funnel cloud, did you see that too. I did see that. It was offshore and did not last too long. We had some heavy rain and some beautiful sunsets. Thats from sarasota from linda. And a beautiful end to the day from lucerne park. Robert always sending us great photos. We want to see your photos at facebook or twitter, a touching story about two little boysment one of their stories opened the worlds eyes to the desperate situation in syria. The other wrote is going viral. This morning, harry has the connection between the two. It was this photo of 5 year old Omran Daqneesh sitting in an ambulance in aleppo that made the world stop last month and think again about the war in syria. In suburban new york, another little boy saw that picture and was moved. Dear president obama, remember the blow can you please go get him. Reporter alex is six. This is his letter. The video was produced by the white house. And well be waiting for you guys, with flags, flowers and balloons. My little sister will be collecting butterflies and fire flies for him. Reporter alex goes on to say he wants omran to go to school with him and meet his friends. And since he wont bring toys and doesnt have toys, cathryn will share her blue bunny, and i will share my bike. And i will teach him how to ride it. Reporter the president read the letter to World Leaders at the u. N. This week. Omran and his family remain in aleppo waiting for peace, and alex is waiting too. We can all play together and he will harry smith, abc news, new york. The tropics still very active. So far, weve had a good number of storms. Weve had 12 named storms in the tropical atlantic. At last check, weve had four become hurricanes. Remember, alex, earl, gaston, hermine, all became hurricanes. We typically get a peak in the tropical activity as we right on queue, weve got two systems were watching. We have Tropical Storm karl. Could become a hurricane before it becomes a post tropical system. The next system, this one, were going to have to keep a closer eye on here. Over the next five days, Hurricane Center giving this an 80 chance of becoming our next system. This is invest 97l. You look at the forecast and eventually through the southern caribbean. Once it gets through this area, the environment could become more favorable for development. Again, this one bears watching long term. Here at home, another fairy quiet start. By noon, were at 86. Its going to be a quick warm up with building clouds. Cant rule out thunderstorms by 4 00 p. M. Thats about the time the gail will get started game will get started at ray j. We do couple of showers offshore. Even a few Lightning Strikes. If youre at st. Pete beach, you may see a Lightning Strike or two. This will likely hover offshore. A lot more activity back over the east coast of florida. Weve got this big upper level low and thats been giving us upper level dry air and thats whats been change. By this afternoon, well get sea breezes to develop. Storms will form and then by the evening, anything that develops will slide back to the west coast of florida in. Monday morning, a florida. Monday morning, a dry commute. Monday afternoon, i think well see a better coverage of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening as well. It looks like the rain chance of 40 will hold true by tuesday as we the bucs home opener taking on the la rams. We cannot rule out a few storms around the stadium. Keep an eye to the sky. Theres your marine forecast, winds north, turning northwest, light around 5 knots. Smooth waters out there. Your next tide will be a high tide before 10 00 this morning. More like 98 by the afternoon. Gosh. I know, you hate that heat. Thats the first time you mentioned this morning its going feel like 98. Did you save that because were almost through with the newscast. Yeah, just to save that. Im going to the beach so thats fine with me. Dont forget the sun vein. The good news, the temperature is eight sun screen. The good ws is 88 during the week. Gift cards, a consumer alert, the gift card in your wallet could be empty before you walk in the store. Were going to show you how thieves are doing that. Its 7 49 and youre waking up with news channel 8 this. Is. Everything. Honey bunches of oats. Its all of this, this, this, and this. Its the mother of all cereals. Its that, and that, and all of that. In all of history. Yeah, its that good. Honey bunches of oats. An 8 on your side consumer alert. A lot of us love to give and receive gift crashes. Americans will spend 100 billion on them this year alone but be ware. Joline kent shows us the new way thieves are stealing from your gift card while theyre still in your pocket. Reporter its supposed to be the gift that keeps on giving. Like a bonus right, what can we do next. House. Reporter jay got an unpleasant surprise when he tried to redeem a gift card from home depot. He had been using the 500 card throughout the year and thought he had 261 left but the balance was zero. I was very confused like i just used this a week before. Reporter stanton is a victim of a new was. Reporter security about list say gift analyst say gift card draining is becoming common. They scratch off the bar code, they get the number, they take these which are zebra stickers, take it did place it over the gift card, they bring it back to the store, its back on the rack, they have the number, theyre now waiting activated. Reporter experts say the best place to buy a gift card is from the retailer and ideally with the card behind the counter. We reached out to home depot. Enclosed find a 261 gift card to replace what was taken from you. Buffaloes are now roaming the streets of one North Carolina town and everyone seems there they are. Why they were released from the zoo next. 7 55 right now. This is news channel 8 sunday morning. Time to wake up. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Id look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . I cant say that either. If youre using this toothpaste, youre probably expecting to get visibly whiter teeth, but it only removes surface stains, and clinical tests show that it only provides about a halfshade of whitening. Colgate optic white high impact white is different. Whitening ingredient. It goes beyond surface stains to deeply whiten. It whitens four shades, and that is a visible difference in whitening. Was doing this . No. Both sides agree the marriage was in good morning and welcome to sunday today. Im willie geist. We are about 36 hours away from the first president ial debate. No one is sure what to expect. We will talk to rick tyler who played donald trump for ted cruz during the press debate. In our next half hour we will