On gun violence is getting a lot of attention online. The president defended his recent executive actions. A new cnn poll found a majority of people support president obamas new plan but less than half of americans believe it will actually work. Right now the hashtag guns in america is trending in tampa on twitter. Drivers will have a rainy commute this morning and 8 on your side wants you to be prepared. The radar is showing a lot of light rain right now. Lets go to meteorologist leigh spann to find out how long its going to last. This consistent light dreary weather is going to last for a few hours. Any time you see the light blue its very light rain. Were not seeing a lot of heavy rain. Citrus, hernando and pasco county more consistent rain. Polk, highlands, Hardee Desoto very light drizzle. Now, we are seeing a little bit heavier rain coming off the gulf of mexico right now in pinellas county, western hillsborough and actually quite warm compared to yesterday. Were about 10 degrees
A new deal in the works st. Petersburg. The deal allows rays to look at other stadium sites and to give st. Petersburg 6 months to make a case for the team to stay in the city. The deal is not final. Now the City Council Must approve it. Powerball fever is growing this morning. Excitement over the biggest Lottery Jackpot ever is translating into high ticket sales. That pushed it to 700 million. You better get those last minute tickets. Leigh has lucky numbers in the forecast. Unfortunately this morning you need the jacket or umbrella. Its light rain. Citrus, hernando, pasco counties. Any time you see the lighter blue color it means light rain. Its still annoying as you head off to work and school. St. Thats that yellow you see. Hillsborough, polk, highlands, Sarasota County everybody getting in on this light rain. On the flip side its warmer this morning. Were in the low to mid 60s. Heres the forecast this area of low pressure will continue to push to the north and east. Actually durin
High school says a drug, a was found. Principal claims there was no threat to the safety of students. Wesh 2 has accrued headed to the school. Information. Meredith angela from Osceola County Konrad Schafer, the teen charged in two murders, has confessed to the crimes. Schafer was 15 years old when he was arrested, following the executionstyle murder of a 22yearold man, and a driveby killing of another teen. Jim wesh 2 s greg fox was in court for his plea. And greg, this clears a lot of crimes off the books without a trial. Greg it sure does. When he talked about the number of cases one after another, dragging on for years. Instead, family members got to see and hear schafer admit to his brutal crimes. Jon morgan i find that your decision to enter these pleas has been freely and voluntarily greg Konrad Schafer said in open court, he did it, he was behind a string of shootings and robberies, including two that ended the lives of 22yearold Eric Roopnarine at his home, and 17yearold david
He was read the charges against him and then released on bond. He burfoot was in front of a judge. He was read the charges against him and then released on bond. He had turned himself in the us marshals earlier in the day. Here is some video of burfoot coming out court. He is facing charges of that he was involved in a scheme to defraud the citizens of norfolk of their right to honest services. The charges stem from when burfoot was vice mayor on city council and spilled over to the treasurers office. One indictment alleges that over a period of years, burfoot solicited things of value including money, car payments, and Home Appliances for votes cast. The indictment provides detailed allegations of burfoots illicit relationships with the managers of tivest development. My colleague andy fox has that more on that coming up. Burfoot is also facing perjury charges claiming under oath he never accepted or allocated things of value in exchange for performing i did ask burfoot is he in plans
He told me the robber was so quiet and so polite, he had no idea his coworker was being held up at gunpoint. Watch as the hooded man casually walked into the pizzaria and holds up a handgun. He throws his bag on the counter and asks for cash. Police say his words were anything but violent. For his part, he was extremely apologetic. He was very polite. Please, thank you. Im so sorry about what im doing. Reporter while an elderly customer watched, the wellmannered robber askedthe worker to open the safe. She empties the registers, all three of them, into his backpack. All of his apologies and politeness are one thing but doesnt change the fact that he put these people in a terrifying situation. Reporter before walking out the door, before workers could call 911, he exchanged a few more words with the people he robbed at gunpoint. Was sorry for having to do this but his kids needed christmas. It happened on december 9th. Weeks later and long after christmas, detetetives still dont know wh