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 reverend wyatt and janice folds. 76yearold janice was in a front bedroom and was killed instantly. Talent tried to leave during the crash, but neighbors stopped him. He failed a feed sobriety test. They did the right thing. What did you say . I said they did the right he did. Did. Talents is facing dui manslaughter and vehicular homicide. We have details from a High School Senior hit and killed by a driver. We got this video in of 56year old Nicholas Constantino being booked into the Pinellas County jail. He was arrested at his clearwater home. They believe he hit and ashley padomo. Ashleys mother sobbed as she opened up about the death of her little girl. Why didnt the person stop and call 911 . You know . She wasnt an animal. She was a human being. If that person had compassion, he would have tried to at least do that. Call 911. And maybe she would have been alive today. Ashley was a senior at Hillsborough High School and an Educational Center for Hillsborough County students. Buckie and rosie lived at the wildlife center. Investigators are not relegalling a whole lot now. A spokesman for the agent says this case is appalling. You say that is a senseless act . I have been with the agency 39 years. This is one of the more senseless acts i ha revealing how the animals animals were killed but they were in a secure pen at the facility. However, they were used to being approached by people. Meteorologist Julie Phillips is pinchhitting tonight for steve jerve who is taking the day off. And, the weather continues to be great. We are cruising towards that real fall. I know. And, you know, especially early to start this week. Still looking pretty good for us. Lets look outside at hyundai of New Port Richey. 80 degrees. No rain. It has been pretty dry. Temperatures in the low 80s. Upper 70s across the area for us. Winds out of the northeast between 10 to 15 miles an hour. A little bit breezy at times. But, not too bad. You can see a little gusty out at bartow with the winds at 20 miles an hour. So at 9 00 p. M. , still warm. Clouds lingering and then by midnight, a pleasant night, a fe temperatures in the mid 70s. Rain chances going up just a smudge. We will have a full look at the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Still ahead. The trail went cold seven years ago, but now pasco county detectives get a big break in a tough murder case. And voter fraud. Is it happening in the bay area . 8 on your side investigates a you know me, i grew up here. And while politics and the Political Parties may have. Changed, i havent. Ive always stood up to the special interests and for. Medicare. For womens healthcare, and our veterans. In congress i wont let them privatize the va, cut Social Security and medicare, take away a womens right to choose, or defund planned parenthood. Im Charlie Crist and i approve this message, because ill put you, the people first. After seven years, pasco county detectives make a crack in a cold case in the death of a homeless man. They identified the remains of george levine. Jamel lanee tells us the sheriff now needs your help to find the killer. Reporter russ remembers the time the in 2009. After seven years, the detectives were finally able to identify this digital composite of him. We identified the victim as george levine. Reporter levine was a homicide victim found in the woods at pasco county. Usf anthropologist Aaron Kimberly came up with this sketch. We put together a profile, that tells you everything you could learn about a persons trauma. But it would be the fingerprint that would be the key. They ran it one more time through a new identification system. Now, sheriff nako wants to find levines killer. Because we have identified who it is, we are able to ask for the publics assistance. Reporter reporting in pasco county, jamel lanee, newschannel8. Detectives say levine was front bedroom from New Port Richey and 76 ye coming up next on 8 at 7 00, two registrations, two Political Parties, one voter. Somehow, it just doesnt add up. Is there voter fraud behind it . 8 on your side investigates. And remember, this years heart walk coming up in november, but now is the time to join stacie schaibles team. Fuccillo kia, again, matching the first 50,000 we raise. What if one of the Biggest Challenges we face down here. Could be solved. Simply by looking up there . Was at your fingertips . What if it was good for consumers, good the economy and good for florida . Its not a what if. Its whats next. Solar power for the sunshine state. Vote yes on amendment 1. A down day on wall street today. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued its second recall of the Samsung Galaxy note 7 smartphone. Replacement phones. The cpsc says the lithium ion battery in the galaxy note 7 smartphones can overheat and catch fire. Samsung has received 96 reports of note 7 batteries overheating in the u. S. Alone. A day after the ceo announced its retirement, Wells Fargo Bank has been fined 24 million for illegally repossessing cars of four active duty members of the military. Banks are not allowed to do a court order. The company apologized in a statement. Recently, 5300 Bank Employees were let go for cross selling customers and charging customers fees without telling them. Sony started selling its play station Virtual Reality headset today. It is a launch that may be the biggest test yet for mass market appeal of the Vr Experience in homes. The 399 headset operates gaming console. Some california engineering students have put a new spin on eco friendly housing. Check this out. The students have created a prototype tiny house powered by rooftop solar panels that are always in the sun because the house spins to follow it. The whiz kids claim the design offers at least a 30 boost in efficiency on sunny days. Starbucks has a new hand crafted k stores that mixes espresso and craft beer. It is called the espresso cloud ipa. Here is the recipe. Shake an espresso over ice with orange pieces and vanilla. The espresso creates a cloud of foam layered on topover an india pale ale. Here is something to consider if you are a woman you may be more susceptible to depression. That is after a study of 1 Million People in the university of copen hagueen. They say more Research Need to be done. It is a medical breakthrough. A brain implant has restored a mans lost sense of touch. Researchers at the university of pittsburgh have worked with a man who lost function of his ms court injury. He was able to feel warmth, pressure, and sense touch using a mind controlled robotic arm. Well, a Halloween Costume based on the recent robbery involving Kim Kardashianwest has been pulled by the online retailer selling it. It drew criticism for them making light of a serious kardashian west look alike wearing a robe and gag and wearing a huge ring. A British Production Company called foodles production is being fined 2 million for the accident that broke actor harrison fords leg. He was hurt during the production of star wars the force awakens. Of course, he is doing okay now. Princes records vault is looking for several labels are interested in releasing princes music including some unreleased recordings. It could fetch as much as 35 million, that catalog. Singer son writer bob dylan has been awarded the 2016 nobel prize in literature. He created new poetics expressions within the Great American son expression to the ancient greek poets homer and sappho. Donald trump flatly denied new charges that he groped, fondled, and kissed women without their permission. He says the new sex allegations are a Media Campaign of lies started by the New York Times. The accusers include a People Magazine reporter and a former miss utah. I remember him coming out and the first thing he did was just smile and give me a i remember immediately thinking what does he think this is . Hillary clinton is working through her own crisis which includes wikileaks of her e mails. One of those revealed her campaign saw latinos as needy. She brushed off trumps charge that her team concocted these new allegations. Now, an 8 on your side investigation. A lifelong republican discovered she is now a verifying that change is not hers. Tonight, a Hillsborough County woman is outraged that someone would use her name to commit Voter Registration fraud here in a swing state where every vote is so important. She is bothered they the supervisor of Elections Office was not taking her seriously until Steve Andrews started asking her questions. Reporter voting. Choosing those who will represent us to govern our country. A right Many Americans hold something is going on. Reporter so when lifelong republican marina agasto received a new voter id card saying she was now a registered democrat, she and her daughter headed to the Elections Office to find out why. They insisted that she had done it. And that you must have forgotten. You must have forgotten and she was irate. Reporter they discovered a group submitted a new voter application for her. I sign differently. Completely differently. Reporter marina provided us with her signature. You be the judge. Supervisor of election spokesperson jerry cramer. You tell me. They look a little bit different. They dont look a lot different to me. Reporter the birth year on the application also doesnt match marinas voter idea. This doesnt rise to maybe informing law signature . All i have is this form. I dont know that. I dont have anything that tells me that this is illegal. There is Identity Theft to an extent. You know, the forged signature. And, the Voter Registration. I mean, theres three things going on here. Reporter the supervisor of Elections Office only contacted mi familia after we started asking questions. I went to them in tampa. Problems before. Reporter the executive director ben montaroso spoke with me from skype. He says they are investigating the 200 other applications submitted by the person who filled out marinas. We are going to make sure we contact every single one of the applications she submitted. Reporter Steve Andrews, newschannel8. My familia apologized to marina. The person who filled it out in the organization. Now, max defender 8, the worlds most powerful radar and your storm team 8 forecast with meteorologist Julie Phillips. And here is a satellite look at nicole as it closed in on bermuda earlier today. It arrived this afternoon as a category 3 storm making it a major hurricane. And, here is the view on the ground from todays cell phone video taken by nick warren on the island. Shows the violence of this storm. Nicole is the strongest storm to hit bermuda since 2003. So thankfully, the storm is not impacting the u. S. But, it is moving away from bermuda now at this point. So things will definitely begin to improve for them over the next 24 hours. Now, a category 2 storm with winds at 110 miles an hour moving to the northeast. Fairly rapidly at 24 miles an hour. It is staying away from the coast. The u. S. Coastline. So, that is some good news. Noor radar, you see, it quiet this afternoon. We are not tracking any showers or storms as we take a closer look in. All is looking pretty good at this point. And, we are expecting it to stay quiet through the overnight hours. The clouds, though, they will linger with us just expect that. You can see the view from sun city center. Extra clouds around at 79 degrees. For the rest of this evening we will keep that very slim rain chance in the forecast. Most of us stay dry. When you wake up tomorrow topping out in the upper 80s tomorrow afternoon. We hit 89 in tampa. We will be fairly close to that again tomorrow. The rest of this evening, clouds lingering for us. When you wake up in the morning pretty comfortable. Warmer than we saw earlier this week. Then we will bring in a small 10 rain chance into the afternoon and the evening hours so that chance you could see a quick passing shower, by saturday, though, some deeper moisture starts to creep in from the south. And that will increase our rain chances a bit. We are just going to bring it up it will be isolated in activity when you can see into the afternoon and evening hours. A little bit of a better chance we could see rain. We are dealing with red tide still. We have decent concentrations located from southern Pinellas County through parts of manatee county, sarasota county, so, fish kills in some spots. If you do have, if you are sensitive to that, you could have some breathing issues as well near the beach. Soto, and siesta key all dealing with red tide. Tomorrow it will be a nice day. 87 degrees. 10 chance of rain. A little bit higher of a rain chance through the weekend. Then next week, everything stays the same. No major changes until potentially friday when the next front could roll in. We will have to see hen that comes into fruition. We may have to raise the rain chance a bitment it could be a nice cooldown. I will take it. Thank you very much. I think you about right now. Do we have an image from eagle 8 hd . No . Then we will be right back. Plus, here is what you will see tomorrow at 6 00 a. M. Human trafficking is very real here in tampa bay. Im gayle guyardo. I will show you what the state is doing to stop it. Plus, weather and trafficker on the 8s on newschannel8 after an obscene amount was spent building this controversial courthouse, the state learned the contractor had overspent on when the state refused to pay, bob buesing sued. Demanding taxpayers foot the bill, including his own legal fees. Bob buesing profitted from government waste and abuse . Now running for senate, buesing wants us to trust him with state spending. Now to breaking news in polk county. Eagle 8 hd is over the scene of a deadly crash involving a child. This is in the rock ridge road area of north lakeland. The Polk County Sheriffs Office tells us a fiveyearold boy and a sixyearold sister were riding bikes in the driveway then the boy turned into the road. He was truck and he died later at the hospital. The investigation into this case is ongoing. We dont have any word on any charges. We are also waiting for the Sheriffs Office to release the identity of the little boy. But a very sad scene unfolding there in polk county as we speak. We will have much more on that story coming up on newschannel8 at 8 00 on great 38. And then as well on newschannel8 tonight at 11 00. That will do it for us. We will see you back here tonight at 11 00. The trump breaks her silence. His new accusers come forward now on extra. . Extra, extra days of our lives actress speaks out about that leaked trump video. Do you accept his apology. As an avalanche of women make new stunning accusations. He was like an octopus. Trump fires back. Theyre pure fiction and outright lies. And the nypd giving us terrifying truth today. Kim kardashian back on social twitter. Kevin harts coasttocoast take over. Im doing new york, philadelphia, im doing d. C. A look at his laughoutloud stand up film and. The new star wars trailer everyones talking about. Plus how to get away with murder zbler we do murder. We dont know how to get in the ambu youre on fire. Now from the entertainment capitol of l. A. Hey everyone im mario lopez. Coming up breaking bad talks about why he was almost a suspect in a murder case. First, today, donald trump takes on explosive new it feels surreal to be in it. Ari zucker breaking her silence today. Do you find those offensive silence. They are offensive comments, yes they are. Eleven years later almost that was an interesting apology. The interview as donald trump threatens a legal war firing back at new claims of abuse. Theyre pure fiction and outright lies. Jessica lien is telling New York Times he was groped by trump. He was like an octopus with six arms, all over the place, if
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