Two people suffered smoke inhalation. We are making calls to find out how serious their injuries are. And lets get a check on the weather. A nice cool down for the weekend. Yeah, in fact, returning to winter, even though its still february. Back to temperatures and we would expect sort of our coldest part of the year in january. 39 in zephyrhills right now. Cool in clearwater, 52. But 49 in fish hawk. And 46 in plant city. And milder in sarasota at 54. But we are warmer or excuse me, cooler in most places than this time yesterday. Lakeland, nine degrees colder than 6 00 yesterday morning. Clearwater about four degrees cooler. Brandon, seven degrees cool. And cooler. And i expect another batch from the north so highs today only 62. Thats well below the average of 74. And colder night tonight with a low of 42. At 6 08 in weather and traffic on the 8s, i walk you hourby hour through friday and then tell you about the weekend because really thats all a cool one too. Yes. Well, right now, w
We have the latest in the search for a killer possibly caught on camera shooting up a tampa nightclub. And its super bowl sunday. Fans are making food and were all watching the clock as game time approaches. Who president ial candidates believe will take home the win. Well have that story. Good sunday morning, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and starting your day here at news channel 8. Well get to the top story in a minute but let us check on your sunday forecast with meteorologist mark collins. I have my long sleeves on today. You listened to the forecast, the cool weather. It makes it great to cook indoors. The house doesnt get too hot. There is wind out there, so it might be lard to get the barbecue going. You see sunshine here. It will get sunnier and sunnier you can see the pam that trees swaying over lakewood ranch. The rain is moving out. We had light drips south of the bay area that will continue to move away from the area. As we look ahead temperatures 50s. But we
A fire broke out on fowler avenue at a hotel in tampa. No one was hurt. Investigators are trying to figure out what started the fire in the first place. On this friday morning, an emotional plea from the parents of a man murdered at a tampa nightclub. For this to happen, a tragic event, how he died, you know, our baby shouldnt have been taken away from me so brutally. Thats nina lancaster, she is the mother of 21yearold Marvin Lancaster. She wants someone to step up and help police find whoever opened fire at club rayne killing two. We have a beautiful weekend ahead. Leigh, i am happy to hear this. Yes, i am excited to bring the news to you. High pressure is in control of the southeastern United States conditions and around the high, notice how you get the clockwise motion of wind and you might feel that breeze again out of the east to northeast. A few clouds possibly through the day but generally, sunny and comfortable. A little chill this morning, 52 in clearwater. 52 in plant city.
Now were told one of the schools officials will reach out to the family today. And a teenager is fighting for his life after a Helicopter Crash landed into the water there in pearl harbor. This is intense video youre looking at. Right after this, witnesses jumped right into the water and rescued the five people onboard. The navy says the chopper was owned by a company that gives tours of hawaii and now the faa is investigating. Pope francis is relaxing the the churchs rule against artificial Birth Control to stop the spread of the zika virus. The pope said avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. The time right now, boy, the core cast is boy, the forecast is fantastic. Really. A wonderful experience to be outside. You are hanging around with the windows down, High Pressure is in control and really out of the southeast. When the High Pressure is in weather. Around the high, you get the clockwise wind flow. So during the day, we may pull a couple clouds off the Atlantic Ocean and a ni
Watermain break over the weekend. That. The right southbound turn lane blocked now. Of course this time of morning were not seeing any delays but as the morning drive pushes on and more people pack through downtown we could start to see some delays. Here it is on the map, if you want to work your way around it take tampa road to get to ashley. Again that is if it starts to get backed up. Im going to keep watching that and let you know if it does. tampabaytraffic. Opening up the cameras, we have reports of a vehicle fire, car fire on i4 in dover macintosh road in the eastbound lanes. Scene. Didnt see any flames. Ive been watching this for a few minutes now. Not causing any delays. You can see cars are getting by. But just remember, move over laws and slow down and move over when you pass that fire truck there on the road. Lets look through downtown speed, just taking six minutes to get from here to the Howard Frankland bridge. Back to you. 6 02. Breaking overnight a fight at a tampa Sup