Back up, just in time for the weekend the triple digits thatll make you want to take a dip in the pool. Michelle Mortensen 8 news now good day, the valleys news leader, starts right now. now, live. This is 8 news now good day. brian loftus thanks for waking up with us on 8 news now good day, the valleys news leader. Im brian loftus. Michelle Mortensen and im Michelle Mortensen in for kirsten. Sadly this mornig we are staring your morning with sad news. Three people are dead. In a span of 24hours. The victims were all killed while crossing the street. 8 news now reporter Michael Stevens is live from eastern and sahara. The scene of the latest auto versus pedestrian collision. With a word from police. Michael Stevens brian, michelle. It really has been a deadly stretch. And police are fed up with the pedestrian crash happened here near eastern and sahara. Police say a woman was walking in a marked crosswalk last night. And was hit. The woman was taken to Sunrise Hospital where she later
Hill road at 4 00 p. M. Yesterday and foup the body of its resident, 63yearold Elizabeth Cullen outside. The Suffolk County Homicide Department was called in to investigate and less than two Hours Later Police arrest elizabeths son, dennis. When we were processing the scene, again, we arrived approximately 4 15 p. M. While we were processing the scene, thats when he returned to the scene and we placed him unarrest meal and approximately 5 50 p. M. It was his own indication that he resisted arrest. Reporter Dennis Cullen spent the night in the precinct and is expected to be arraigned later today. Were live in loi harbor, new york, ali bauman, cbs 2 news ali, thank you. Police on the hunt for a man who tried to rob an off duty cop in the bronx. It happened just before 7 00 last night on clinton avenue near crotona park. Police say the man tried to grab some necklaces from the officers neck. There was a struggle, and the officer fired one shot. Police say the robber was not all right. Tim
We are up against a fire that is burning to really strugglingp up with it. A wildfire rages out of control in california. It hit farce and with an intensity we havent seen before. I can tell you that this fire came out screaming. Trees collapsed and trees fallen. The trees actually explode from the heat. Two u. S. Olympian swimmers have been blocked from leaving rio. The swimmers along with champion ryan lochte are under made that that allege they were robbed at gun ps point. If the whole thing is made up, why . The death toll is rising in southern louisiana as floodwaters start to recede. Flood water hit the midatlantic region. I think the last days have been great for donald trump. Donald Trumps Campaign took a much different look after a big shakeup. He can hire and fire anybody this is it. A rescue seeing 500 Passengers Evacuated from a burning ship off the coast of puerto rico. A wild seen at a press conference. Conor, conor, dont throw that you guys are down and so true. Says who
That direction with my clouds. Filtered sun. Looking east from st. Petersburg. A lot of sunshine and good b boating this morning. Questionable boating by later this afternoon and temperature update features more upper 70s, st. Pete, 81. Lakeland at 81. We are at 79 in brandon. 76 in brooksville. Humidity creeping in. Now time at 8 a. M. To show you the heat index. Feels like the upper 80s for a few spots in Pinellas County. Now offshore in pinellas co have some rain that is moving the opposite rain as we have the east wind. As we look toward the eastern part of the state and especially southeast, that is where some moisture is gathering the wake of our tropical disturbance that we have been watching. And still watching it closely, but even though you see this looks a little more impressive in terms of convection or showers and storms, they are being south and east of the center because of some strong wind shears. Because much it the odds of development remain very low this weekend over
Accident, three lanes of traffic being squeezed into one. You can see one and lives with its doors opened. This is not as serious as the rest yesterday which happened in almost the identical spots and blocked traffic completely for the better part of an hour and a half. This eastbound traffic on i4, starting to back up way past the wesh 2 studios. That is about a three hour three mile backup. We will let you know when we get this to clear out. Angela latebreaking at 5 00, Orlando Police say they ve charged a man in connection with a deadly nightclub shooting. It happened last weekend. 10 people were shot, two were killed. Police say it started when two rival groups started arguing. Jim this all happened at glitz nightclub just off universal boulevard. The police chief just wrapped up a News Conference a press a News Conference on the investigation. Wesh 2 s bob kealing was there. And bob chief john mina says the bob this also contributed to one glenn being allowed inside gun being allo