I dont believe in standing up for it since theres more than one religion. Reporter he may be only 12 years old, but mark dawson, a 6th grader at liberty middle school, sure knows what he believes in. Reporter why is this so important to you . Because i believe in more than one religion and one wait, more than one nation. Reporter he says a teacher yelled at him here at school last month for not standing classroom. Turns out it was the teacher who was in the wrong. A School Spokesperson told me that teacher was unfamiliar with the school policy, but now theyre aware of it thanks to a talk with the principal. So when he does this, do you consider him courageous . Yes, i do. Reporter his aunt said he did the right thing by standing up for what he believes in. Oh, yes. I will stand behind him if hes right and if hes wrong, i will tell him hes wrong. Reporter he continues not to take part even though other kids he claims give him a hard time. Why not just do what everyone else is doing . Be
Max defender 8 scanning the skies for you and not finding any rainfall. You have the all clear this morning. Temperatures not bad, 64 in lakeland, down to 63 in inverness, bartow 66, 62 north port. Heres the big story, a cold front pushing through the southeast. Behind it really some chilly air. So during the day today we have all day to warm up. 84 degrees, breezy at times. Actually, mostly dry as this cold front gets closer to us. You will w because we trend much cooler behind this front. All those details. Leslee has the details on the morning commute. A couple of issues but theyre not going to slow you down. We have a crash here by Martin Luther king at 275. Also we have one right at the heart of the junction. I can actually show you what that looks like. There already at 275 at the ramp to i4. A little bit of slowing traffic is light so not too much of an issue. All right. Lets move over now and take a look at our skyway bridge. I would think it was st. Patricks day with that gree
Gayle has the 340r7k ut has the morning off. Leigh has the forecast for us. Right. Max defender 8 can show you the clear skies and widen out and show you what is. Co what is comes. Coming. Only a 10 rain chance. The cold front isnt here yet 67 palm harbor. Im expecting 84 today. Boy, do those temperatures drop. A low tonight of 60. Thats well below the average of 67. So ill take you more hour by hour through the day at 6 08. First well check on the traffic situation this morning. Its a pretty good drive. Things are getting busier, we are seeing more vehicles out there. For the most part it looks good. The biggest problem get around that crash. All right. I75 looks good in and out of pasco county through wesley chapel. Heres a live look at the Howard Frankland bridge. Its only going to take you 6 minutes to cross it. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to candace and gene. Leslee, thank you. Now an 8 on your side alert, an Identity Theft warning. The search is on for a woman right
Were confirmed in south florida. Blood donations are being tested across the state and for good reason. A donors blood came back positive for zika in august. The testing lab that caught it in the bay area. New channel 8 chanel shows us how to keep it out of reach. All the blood makes its way to the testing lab in st. Pete. When it gets here, the blood is tested for zika. One blood official confirms the zika virus was found in a donation in florida. The blood was tested at their lab in st. Pete where everybody one blood donors blood is tested for zika virus. One rep could not give us specifics on where the donation came from. The doctors used highly sophisticated devices to test up to 3000 samples a day to provide results within hours to make sure that no zika positive supply. Thats the reason that this strum and the test is in place. One blood wants to ensure that they provide screen or appropriately screened blood in light of the zika epidemic. The fda has confirmed the one positive z
Agencies responded. And here is tampa fire rescue. They had divers in the water the past two hours. The divers are now out of the water but they are continuing the search. A coast guard helicopter is here as well. It is still an active scene and they are still actively looking for this man who went under while pushing a boat off the sand bar right off the Courtney Campbell causeway. Thank you paul. A grim situation out there. We will stay with you and get side investigation, safeguarding your vote. Are elections safe and secure or ripe for the picking . A Hillsborough County woman believes someone tried to commit Election Fraud using her personal information. When we did some digging we found there is not much being disown to stop it. Steve andrews joins us now. So, whose job is it to prevent Election Fraud in the first place . Reporter apparently, it is now, the Hillsborough County supervisor of elections relies ton state to weed out phony applications. When i pressed them, i realized