Even more arrests connected. A Health Emergency right here in florida, he cause of the mosquito borne zika virus. Florida governor rick scott cleared a public Health Emergency two hours ago in the four counties with zika cases including hillsborough county. The World Health Organization has declared a global Health Emergency to get answers. The new concern is that the virus can be spread by sexual contact. Doctors will take a closer look at the virus they put a plan in motion to try to stop the spread. Guerin flowers is talking about whats being done to protect you. Its just something to be aware of. Zika virus has been confirmed in hillsborough, so i asked commissioner Al Higginbotham with the town is doing to prevent the mosquito borne illness from spreading. The staff currently has testing traps in the field. They are also keeping track of citizens calling in. There is also a psa to get the word out. The first line of defense is people in hillsborough county,. Nine people have tested positive for the virus in florida. They were all travel related with people getting the disease from mosquitoes in countries where it is prevalent. How serious is this disease . Its hard to speculate at this time, its similar to other infectious diseases. This doctor says right now there is no medicine or vaccine flu unless you are pregnant. We are being vigilant and our best defense is prevention. The includes getting rid of any standing water around your home, wearing longsleeved clothing and evening and covering herself with mosquito repellent. The county has a budget of 2. 4 million to combat mosquitoes and commissioner higginbotham says they are willing to put in more if necessary. We are breaking down one of the most important things about the zika virus, the symptoms you need to watch out for. For most of us, the virus will seem like the flu. He will have a fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes also known as conjunctivitis. 80 of people dont even know that they have zika or know that they have been infected. There are other things you should know about the zika virus. Symptoms, go to our website. A french group says they can make the vaccine faster than any other group because they have extremes with mosquito borne viruses. Vaccine usually takes ten years to develop but the company says they have the right start with expert and technology. And in the uk, the company is using mosquitoes to fight mosquitoes. They are genetically modifying male mosquitoes to have a gene that will kill them before they can spread zika. When they breed, he killed the population. I substitute teacher is no longer allowed in the classroom after being arrested for having sex with eight teenager. The pascoe county click Sheriffs Office says branch or money first had sex with the girl and she was just 14 years old. Germany was arrested after the victim gave investigators 50 say did not meet at the school. He had been with pascoe county schools since february last year. Happening now, the eastern half of the country is doing with another winter storm system. Its hitting the water tower the same system is responsible for these tornadoes in mississippi and alabama. They leveled houses but no one was hurt. And and nebraska is sticking out from the foot and half of snow while they are trying to clear the roads as fast as they can. And in lincoln, drivers are banned from parking in neighborhood so crews can get the job done faster. News overnight about a midair explosion that tore it hole in a plane. They havent found any proof but the whole shows all the signs of terrorism. That hole is caused by a bomb. They will be able to tell that. The terror group all should bob controls that part of somalia and isis is active there as well. One person was killed as he was sucked out of the plane through the hole. The plane was at a low altitude when it happened but the aircraft held together until the pilot was able to land. Another first for president obama. Today he stopped by a mosque at ace school in baltimore. Neighbors waves hello as president obama arrived at the Islamic Society of baltimore. Some protesters lined the motorcade route as well. Inside, Muslim Americans told president obama about the increased by us that they face. They talked about how be forced out of the country, will they be rounded up . Conversations that you shouldnt have to have with children. Not in this country. This is president s obamas first visit to a mosque since taking office. We have asked him to make such a visit for an number of years now. Ibrahim hooper is with american muslim relations. He says it Muslim Americans are now more afraid than any other time in history. The mac thanks to donald trump and in carson, and that makes it all the more dangerous. President obama says christians and need to speak out when they see anti muslim rhetoric. And he called on muslims not to become cynical, thing they mark albert, cbs news, baltimore. Brian murphy was caught by police in prostitution sting in san francisco. Police released murphy and so did his team. He was listed on the teams practice squad. Federal security says the number one goal at the super bowl is to prevent terrorism. It will it have ended differently if it werent for jason more. Clearwater police are looking for a murder suspect. Officer more noticed everyone police, except one man. That man was moving up behind another officer who was looking other way. So more moved in. He surprised the suspect and dropped it loaded gun. I believe he did have ill intentions that night. Im glad i was at the right place at the right time. Today the Clearwater Police honored him. The Joseph Cornelius foundation honored the officer of the year award. This is only his fourth year but he did serve in the army. Huber is taking heat for making a big change. The change you will want to look for when you download the Ridesharing Companies latest update on your cell phone. Im at this years Florida State fair with it look at everything that is new. Whether it is a good value for and you can see a line of storms along the interstate ten quarter around tallahassee. You like being picture perfect. You should want your banking to be too. Stop into td bank and well help set you up with picture perfect banking. New customers, open a its that time of year again, the Florida State fair is back in town. The fun starts tomorrow with new rides, new fair food and of course, new attractions. Be mac i got us wondering, will your wallet take a beating if you decide to take your entire family to the fair . Speemack for you spend your hard earned dollars, we sent Aaron Glasser to crunch some numbers. State fair organizers shortage of themepark competition new attractions like the stampede and super cyclone and coasters. An armband for unlimited rides is 25 on weekdays and 35 on weekend. It essentially a fast pass. And, thats better than the day at disney world. Also less expensive than bush gardens. But this month a 99 fun card at bush gardens is good for the rest of the year. We compete in tampa and orlando, we have all the major attractions and people are coming down here in the winter. So we have to make the spectacular. There is a new president s livestock maternityward. Baby sheep and goats arriving daily. There are also less extensive fruit options, free musical acts, art displays and parking. And one thing new at the fair this years enhanced security. In addition, to the 200 cameras they have in place last year there will be another 90 around the perimeter and around the fairgrounds. In addition, to that, much like the major theme parks there will be magnetometers as well, metal detectors to make sure that you not only have a fun time but they save time as well. Tomorrow on 10news, starting at 5 00 a. M. , we are Digging Deeper into what safety inspectors do to make sure that your kids are safe on all of those rides. Its time for the state fair again. Yes. When the weekend coincides with some nice weather it is perfect. We are looking at showers for tomorrow. Now the heaviest rain will likely be, as kids are still in school and you will likely still be working, and the Opening Nights events, wet roads and traffic getting out there, and mainly cloudy skies and a lot of our rain will be winding down. And of course, we will get it right there on 10news. The feeder looking lovely out there and of course, hot again. If you have lived here a while, we are talking about a virtual cold front. It is as hot as it has been, and you may get nervous about how strong these storms will be. Everything weve been looking at past couple the past couple days is the kind of system we want to see. Some of the really Strong Energy passes to the north and it will be slamming into hot and humid air tomorrow, no doubt about that. Not a lot of really strong lift in the atmosphere. Where sharper drop in temperatures, many of those things tell us that that is going to be a rapid descent from warm and muggy air to Stormy Weather and cold air. But you can follow that cold air from nashville to st. Louis, and it is moving east, not so much the house. All the ingredients are telling us, most of this looks like rain. Of course we will always be on guard and ready to go should it get stronger than that. For the rest of the day, marginal risk for the panhandle, and as we head into tomorrow, we are in the general risk. For tonight, it looks basically rain free. Clouds will be increasing, although and an isolated shower could happen this evening. Most of you will remain dry and temperatures will be pretty warm and sticky. Tomorrow should be cloudy right out of the gate and we will showers and storms. We could have ago push showers for the morning commute, or midmorning. Future casts, Early Morning and patchy fog that would likely put us to the midday hours, and we will see what its talking about and six or seven in the evening and if you were showers may remain the Opening Night of the state fair. Southeast winds at five to 15 knots, that will turn northwest late in the day and will look for look for the chop to build as the rain gets closer to it. A little bit of rain will wash that stuff out of the air that has been affecting a lot of us lately. Report one, maple and oak starting to show up and we will see more of that in february. Scattered thunderstorms and severe weather, and a few showers linger before the sun comes up. And both the days, it will be the spot before we see any rain at all and that will be the most likely basement. The could have a few passing showers possible. That will a make it feel more like state fair weather. Dont forget to download the 10news app. You can get it look at Storm Tracker ten, and thats exactly where that rain is located, we even interact with google earth so you can figure out where you are and where you are headed. It was a Beautiful Day outside. And, we learned about the important part of a ecosystem. A saltmarsh on campus. Its an unique opportunity for them to come in and restore a constructed habitat. And they are part of this restoration effort. Saltmarsh populations have declined more than 80 in the last century because of things like dredging and construction. Your chance to win is coming up in the next 20 minutes. 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