Than an eye opener. The message tonight, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. You can always repair property. You cannot restore a life if it is lost. Good evening. Newschannel8 is tracking Hurricane Matthew. We have coverage throughout the state. We begin with chief meteorologist steve jerve. He joins us now from the forecast center. This thing continues to be just a menace to floridas coast. Absolutely jen. Thats a category 3 hurricane forecast to become a 4. Especially on friday, affect floridas east coast. Some are estimating a landfall. Some say just offshore. It is still a concern. We will start with max defender 8. A few showers continue to pass across the area. Thats a live sweep picking up on showers in Hillsborough County at the moment. They are drifting rapidly to the southwest. You can see a few lightning strikes involved with that. But these are really not at as well. We expect that to get much more active the next 24 and 48 hours. 120 miles an hour winds. Hurricane w
Early. One, two. Reporter hours ahead of time to hear Donald Trumps message. What a great state. Reporter trump is looking to garner support in florida after dropping poll numbers. He has been under fire for what he said on the socalled trump tape. Video released friday revealed him speaking a number of years ago in vulgar terms about women. His supporters say trump isnt perfect, but neither his opponents. If they recorded all the other politicians ey most of his comments to Hillary Clinton. She would be the most dishonest and the most corrupt person ever elected to high office. Reporter trump also bashing the news media. The crowd turning and booing the cameras. Around 7,000 people packed into parties but no incideith. Nts ke that is good news. Melissa marino live in lakeland. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is dding herself against more hacked emails. After another round of hacked e mails from john pedesto were released on wikileaks. Reporter Hillary Clinton tells New York Times magazine
Teacher and girlfriend caroline sine, sean hankins is smiling. He is thanks the community after spending weeks in the hospital. The support of everyone. My family, friends, and even people that i have never met. Reporter the couple was driving home august 14th when Pinellas Park police say an impaired Bryce Mccloud slammed into them. You would never think that just driving from the movie, like this. And now, im. Im trying to get back on the road. Its nerveracking. Reporter still many pain, hankins and his family says that wont stop them from advocating against drunk driving. Just think about what you are doing. Not only are you taking a life, and ruining the lives of the reporter hankins will go back to teaching music soon. The inspiration that brought them together. Really a sweet gentle soul. The best way i can describe her. It is going back to work i just hope i can be near as good of a teacher as she was. Reporter now, on november 19th, hankins will participate in mothers against d
Speak this morning. It went through to perhaps 3 rooms is the barrel through the home this morning. Lets go to a photo of the suspect. This all happened at around 4 or 8 this morning. 24year old ryan talent of plant city barreled down its gerald road in a pickup truck. He lost control and slammed into the home. 76yearold janice folds have walked i the front of the home and was killed instantly. Her husband explains he was 10 seconds behind her when he heard an explosion. The sheriff tells us what happened next. The suspect who was climbing out of the vehicle, if you can imagine, while mister fold is trying to find his wife and he is saying, what you doing here . What have . He is going to leave, but neighbors have poured out into the community and they said no, you are not going anyplace. She said i have to go to my families house was close by. It looks like we have lost audio from ryan hughes out in polk county but we heard the sheriff speaking to us live a little earlier this morning
Of people leaving around noon today. Park general manager adrian jones says they believe the threat to be a hoax, but out of an abundance of caution, the park closed down the rest of the day. Park goers told us how it all went down. Everyone was very calm. Nobody ran. It was. You could see that people from the park were a little. More scar. Daughter, she starts crying. But, we. We controlled that. People were allowed to go back to their hotels around 5 00 today. Newschannel8 was there when authorities brought west wild hogs to polk county. He is the one accused of tennessee. A deputy is accused of pawning his Service Weapon and stealing drugs. 32yearold steve smith is off the job and facing charges. Pinellas sheriff tells us the former deputy sold oxycodone pills that had been brought to the station to be destroyed. He is also accused of pawning his issued handgun. A lakeland woman was killed this through her house. Ryan talent lost control and slammed his truck into the home of revere