Right now on news channel 8 at 6 00. An unpleasant surprise for two Home Invasion suspects, how the victim made sure those crooks wont be bothering anyone any time soon. Good evening, everyone. Im rod carter. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. Well begin with the expected to drench Pinellas County this week. Residents arent taking any chances. People traveled to the Community Park in st. Petersburg with their shovels and filled sand backs for free. This started at noon and about an hour later 150 bags had already been given out. We spoke with a man that says its better to be safe than sorry. I think its important just for peace of mind. Even if the weather doesnt hit, i still got a couple bags. A bit and i think its important to allow communities to prepare themselves. Sandbags will be available again tomorrow in st. Petersburg from 9 a. M. Until 5 p. M. The sandbags are limited to 20 bags per person. Just how much rain are we talking about . Lets go straight to storm team 8 meteor
About rain all summer. We could use any rain we could get. Kevin we have a couple of chances. The second front will knock down the humidity that weve been pilling up. Looks like warmer temperatures on the docket for today and tomorrow before that next front gets here. The first of those fronts will arrive later on this evening and with that a couple of passing showers or thunderstorm ahead of that. Upper 70s to mid 80 eats. The fog burns off early this morning. The clouds may hold tough. Much more on your weekend forecast coming up in just a bit. Lets look at your morning ride here in the Granite State. Were joined live by deb davidson. Good morning, deb. Deb good morning. We have some road work slowing things down right now. The right lane is closed up in the canterbury area. Keep that in mind as you are heading out in that direction. On the southbound side, it is a good ride through the state. No problems from concord salem. Were seeing building volume. 101 busy in bedford. If you ar
Live from the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 eyewitness news. The Wilmington Community mourns the loss of two firefighters, 41yearold Christopher Leach and 51yearold gary fickes. They were killed today in the line of duty while fighting a house fire. Good evening everyone, im Natasha Brown. Thanks so much for joining us. Four other firefighters were also injured, two of them are still in Critical Condition. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do he has the latest. They gave everything like to rescue people in the house. Reporter including their lives. Wilmington firefighters lieutenant Christopher Leach, a 14 year veteran and senior firefighter jerry fickes a 13 year veteran died while fighting a fire on the 1900 block of lake view road just before 3 00 saturday morning. Missy napier and six children were inside the house when the fire started. Couldnt get through the kitchen because it was so smoky. It wasnt fire bee but like it was so smoky and we ran out back and we r
They were there to evict. A caring individual. That went above and beyond. The fact that this incident happened. Is just beyond comp comprehension. Investigators were back at worths home thursday. Collecting further evidence. And will consider his radical antigovernment activities and other possible motives. His men knew the risk. Interactions with his deputies before. Including a similar eviction visit. In 2014. He will not be giving anymore updates on the investigation. Theyll post information about the deputies funeral. On their web site. A bit of good news, master patrol Deputy Martin who last night we heard was in grave condition. Wondered if he would survive. He was actually now in serious condition. Involved in this tragic event. With our tight nit community. Helps to strengthen their resolve. To defend their community. And the thin blue line. In lieu of flowers our families request funds be donated to the scholarship fund. At bank of the west. In his name. The Community Mourns
If you are making plans to be out and p about, no weather issues whatsoever are expected. Sunshine to begin then somethingt clouds getting in here. Lets start the morning off with doppler radar. There are a few returns up and around a been around detroit and ann arbor. Mostly sunny skies, the rule 42 degrees at noontime and an temperatures are way above average. High clouds that five then partly cloudy going through the eveningtly cl hours. We should be precipitation free though. We temperatures in the thirties. Neither the lakefront 33 and Lorraine Akron Canton Worcester 25 dover c new philly 22 medina 26 and and elyria and brunswick. The click clear skies aroundd toledo fort wayne is alreadye looking at overcast skies. Wind chills a little bit thisi morning and teams down at akron canton. Next weather system approaching us as expected from the dakotas and southern canada heading our way. Sou on the maps you can see it twisting our way and iton went ad i wintry mix as we get into mond