Millions of shoppers all over the country out in full force hoping to score the black friday december. Emerald morrow is live. Shoppers have been out all night to get these good deals . Reporter yeah. Hundreds and hundreds of shoppers have made their way to the tampa Premium Outlet mall in loop 2. Get a good score on the deals out here. People are pretty festive coming right this way in some holiday gear over of their bags trying to make sure that they get the best deals. We found some shoppers who have been out here pretty much all night. We will melinda and brianna. You guys got a lot of bags. How long have you been out here . Since eight. We have been at the strip mall since two. Reporter and tell me what you have going on here. I want to know. We have some bear bradley, a little bit of everything. Reporter definitely sounds like it. My goodness. Did you get everything you came out for . Did you cross everybody off your list . Almost. We are almost done. Reporter almost finished. Ha
Law requires you to put one lane between yourself and stopped emergency vehicles. That also goes for Utility Service vehicles and tow trucks. If its not safe enough to move over, you must slow down at least 20 Miles Per Hour below the speed limit. Covering pinellas county. Theres been an arrest in the murder of a man found dead behind a busy Shopping Center in pinellas park. Police have found his fingerpints behind the shoppes at park place where 38 yearold will hodges was found dead in a dumpster last weekend. Both men were homeless. Palmer admitted to investigastors that hed stayed there before, but denied killing hodges. We have new video tonight of the chaos erupting in the French Quarter after a mass shooting overnight. One person was killed, nine others were hurt. Surveillance video obtained by the advocate bourbon street in a panic. Police arrested two people there for illegally carrying a gun. One of those arrested was one of the people who was shot. Neither are suspected of be
Ian filling in. Its mild and muggy. Temperatures to start the day about 10 above average. We are at 68 in tampa. 65 in apollo beach. 66 in plant city. That is thanks to a wind direction out of the south and east, 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. We have seen gusts higher than that. It will be breezy into the afternoon. The forecast High Temperature, 83 degrees. More than half a dozen above average for this time of the year. Max defender8, this morning. That may not be the case later on this week when we track much needed rain chances, more towards thursday. We will talk about those coming up. Looking forward to that. Thank you have each. We ant to get you on he roads. Its quiet with an exception here in st. Pete, an accident with roadblock 28th street north and 41st avenue. This has been here for a while. It should be out of the way soon. We will keep you updated on that. Bay area bridges in the green. Are up to speed. Another update in a couple of minutes. Gayle, gene, over to you. Police are
Gatlingburg, tennessee. Take a look. This is gatlingburg where thousands of evacuees are staying in shelters and more than 250 buildings so far burned. Reporter out of control wildfires force thousands to flee. Go, go, go. Reporter some have to drive through the flames to get to safety. Its crazy. Reporter more than a dozen fires threaten the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern tennessee. But instead of mountainside, people feel hot flames and smoke being pushed by strong winds. The power went out. So it was very dark. The smoke was so thick, we couldnt breathe. Our eyes were stinging. So we just grabbed a blanket and took off running. We just watched a building go down in flames to the right of us. And we pulled in front of another building but the firefighter got us. I thank him so much. Reporter the fires damaging or destroying homes and businesses. House. But, you know, thing cans be rebuilt. Its difficult to go out into a community and try to protect and serve others when your own pr
Gun heist in Hillsborough County and you have to see it to believe it. There is a 10,000 reward up for grabs. For information on who is behind the burglary, Candace Mccowan has more on the nearly 3 dozen guns stolen. Reporter the bars were no match for the truck or suv that slammed into the front of this store. It was a planned operation, the smash followed by the grab. 8 to 12 people running insi covered, grabbing guns off the walls and out of cases. In less than two minutes, they were gone. From what i know, a couple cars were waiting outside. Reporter the fta regulates the sale of guns but its up to shop owners to protect their stores. We did have stateoftheart security and bars on the window reporter but not enough to stop this from happening. The guns are now in the hands of criminals. In Hillsborough County, Candace Mccowan news channel 8. A 14yearold polk county boy is dead after an accidental shooting. Kyler daughtry was shot by his 16yearold friend at the lakmar resort hotel.