Was not shared with Hillsborough County. The sinkhole opened at the mosaic plant in august. It sits close to hillsborough. They kept the lid on this for 19 days. According to hillsborough Environmental Protection Water Division protection, mosaic never reached we were not notified by them. We reached out to them when we had heard of the news. Mosaic insists that its not traveled beyond its traveled. They told 8 on your side that hillsborough epc tested several bodies of water near the mosaic plant and found no contamination. Meanwhile, some we will test results from around t today. The sinkhole. Jeff patterson shows us many more people are anxiously awaiting results. They hired an outside company to individually test wells. So far the outside company is saying their test results show nothing out of the ordinary. The asterisk or the star is the the mosaic plant and the circle is where we took samples. Gary is with the were looking for a fingerprint that would be indicative of mosaics wa
Area beaches. Got a few clouding billing up. 87 degrees at st. Pete. Already hitting 90 in tampa, 91 in apollo beach. These numbers as mentioned, warming up quickly. Weve still got mid level dry air thats really not giving us much in a way of cloudiness. With all of that sun, were baking. Heat index values already feels like its in the upper 90s for most of central florida. The radar, not showing much in the east coast although we are getting a few showers and storms starting to fire on the east coast sea breeze. Eventually that will start working back across the state. Youll see through the afternoon, as that works inland, well see our west coast sea breeze fire up. Could see a couple of isolated showers, thunderstorms there around 5 00. Theyll be hit and miss but could be lingering around the get a little warmer than that. Well take a complete check of the afternoon forecast and the work week forecast coming up. Were tracking breaking news. One of the top pitchers in baseball has die
A lot of people are heading that beach its a far cry on the look i was giving you on friday when it was stormy and the waves were crashing way up here. Now you see people Walking Around. Theres plenty of beach to enjoy. The sunshine has come out, 84 degrees. We had low clouds around the area this morning. Theyve scoured out. Were warming up. 85 lakeland and brooksville, 82 in sebring. 86 in sarasota. At lunchtime, a stray shower possible, 86 degrees, rain chance going up to 40 at 4 00. The storming pushing toward the coast by the evening, high around 90. Basically, today is pretty close to what we expect for labor day, seasonally hot and humid with an average rain chance. The rain chance lowers type tomorrow and wednesday. Right now, hermine is water the category 1 hurricane brought to us, especially in pasco county. Thats where we find newschannel 8s mark douglas this morning. When can we expect the flood water to reseed . Reporter i understand its already receding, but its hard to sa
The weather. It is still a tropical depression. Still relatively disorganized. The center of circulation is north of cuba. This is as of 11 00 a. M. , a minute ago. 35 mileperhour winds still and moving west at about 7 Miles Per Hour. It is expected sometime later this evening to become a Tropical Storm and stay at Tropical Storm strength through tuesday. Tuy, make that turn to the north, and eventually, it should make a pretty hard right hand turn, right back toward florida. Even as we head through wednesday, its still a Tropical Storm. When it gets close to the state of florida, somewhere from the panhandle, or right here in the tampa bay area. A lot of area to cover. At 6 a mileperhour winds, early thursday morning through the day on thursday. I believe, even if its far effects, the possibility of flooding, and the surf that could be stirred up as well. In the short term between today and tomorrow, its steamy. There will be afternoon storms around. For wednesday, once that storm tur
Time she has stopped here in the past few weeks. National polls show clinton and trump are running neck in neck. Nbc has clinton on top, while cnn has trump winning each by a couple of percentage points. Newschannel8s Candace Mccowan joins us now from the usf campus following todays rally. Reporter good evening stacie and josh. Clinton wrapping up her speech at the she is still inside the building before she takes off this evening. Clinton calling trumps entire campaign, she says it was one long insult. Also calling the crowd letting them know they only have 62 days left until election day. While on stage toed, clinton attacked trumps knowledge of the international affairs. His talk of using nuclear weapons. Clinton also making a direct appeal for the crowd here talking about her plans for helping college students. Businesses. Clinton in particular went after Donald Trumps trip to mexico last week. Just last week, in a few hours, he managed to turn his trip to mexico into an embarrassi