Supermarket. From my calculation it is a total loss. You can see behind me that the firefighters are still working, but our best view comes from eagle 8 hd. You got a taste of it a moment ago. Big and deal supercenter, a Check Cashing center and a pharmacy here. The fire call came in around 9 15. They had to call out a second unit five minutes later. That is a two alarm fire at that time. It has since been upgraded to a three alarm fire. We have extra units called rescue. Right now there are aerial units putting water on the roof and in talking to the fire and rescue personnel just moments ago they were telling me it looks like that roof may have caved in. Inside that obviously things that youd find in a supermarket like charcoal and other things that could explode and burn. It was quite a cooker when we first got here. There are some propane tanks they were able to isolate those, out of the way. The good news is no injuries. Thats been injured, either firefighters or people inside the building. The Building Owner or store manager has told us all of his folks are accounted for. Reporter all right. Theyre all accounted for is the good news. When we first got here, flames were visible through the windows. You can see some of the pictures that we took, some of the video quite spectacular. In the last half hour or so firefighters took some of their axes and busted those windows out presumably to vent it so they can quite some time, most likely a total loss, no word yet how it started. The fire marshal will be going in if we come back out here live. The problem is they cant get in until it cools down and they cant be safe. They had some people inside and had to pull them out because it was just too dangerous. Live for us in tampa, peter bernard, thank you. Now to a diving disaster, two friends boast experienced divers died this weekend both experienced divers died cave diving location in Hernando County. That location is remote, beautiful, but dangerous to say the least. Three years ago about the same thing happened in the same place. A father lost his son as well as his grandson at eagles nest. Tonight in a story youll only see on news channel 8 that father tells our Melanie Michael why he is begging for this cave to be closed for good. Reporter hey there, good evening to you from Hernando County. We are just outside eagles nest and ive got to tell y from a father whose heart is aching after losing his own son and grandson three years ago and tonight he is also grieving for the divers families who lost their loved ones over the weekend. It was my favorite time of the year before that. Now i just like to see it go and pass. Reporter for this father christmas day, 2013 is a moment too painful to remember but impossible to forget. That day he lost his beloved like a piece of me just was taken away. Its like ive aged 15 years that day. Reporter Darrin Spivey and Dillon Sanchez were so excited for their adventure during the holidays, cave diving at eagles nest. Sadly the father and son would never resurface after they ran out of air. Their lives lost amidst the delicate dangerous caverns beneath the surface. If someone saw you going into a spider web and youre falling and the black widow is coming, thats about the way i look at it. Reporter this spring hill dad is begging for the state to either close the cave or require cave diving certification for those who choose to explore. He is heartbroken to see other lives lost over the weekend and sends his condolences to those parents. To lose a child is the worst thing. Its awful. Their folks have to face that. Reporter by the way, eagles nest was actually closed from 1999 until 2003 when cave divers demanded that it be reopened calling it the Mount Everest of dive locations. For the families who have lost loved ones here it is now considered hallowed ground. In Hernando County tonight im Melanie Michael, news channel 8. Right now the search is pasco county, a man behind the wheel of this blue van. He stopped to talk to a 15year old girl and asked if she wanted to get inside. That request has residents along Bartlett Road wondering what that driver had in mind. Reporter still frame pictures from a neighbors Security Camera taken friday evening are grainy, blurry and hard to make out, but some important details are apparent like its blue color, a missing front left hub cab and front reporter knowing some creep stopped to ask a 15year old if she wanted a ride in a van is enough to put parents on guard. Blanco brown tells me the neighborhood is not like what it was years ago when she moved in. I hope they catch that guy. He needs to be put away because thats dangerous for these young people, young girls. Reporter well known funeral homeowner thomas dobis tells me incidents like this are bringing the area down. Things have changed in over what it used to be, still a Nice Community all, but Something Like that shakes everybody up. Reporter theres a sense of heightened awareness as news of the van incident spreads. You going to keep your eyes out for this blue van . Absolutely, sir. I mean im suspicious of almost everything. See Something Like that, ill be calling 911. Reporter the man in the van is making it all the more important for parents to keep watch on their kids. I hope the sheriff can investigate his past and turn and find something that can put the guy where he belongs. Reporter peter bernard, news channel 8. The description of that driver is not very good, but we do understand he is a bald man between 30 and 50 years old. So far they do not think hes committed a crime, but deputies definitely want to talk to him. Tonight we have an idea just how big that mosaic sinkhole really is and what it will take to fix it, too. This is eagle 8 hd video of crew measure inside the sinkhole. We know that sinkhole is about 220 feet deep from the top of the gyp stick stack. The widest spot measures about 152 feet across. The company is still trying to figure out the overall depth so they can begin to fix this thing. They hope to start pouring concrete into the sinkhole sometime in december and have it plugged by next may or june. A depression in a holiday neighborhood may be filled tonight, but the people who live there are still worried foot wide depression opened up on torch street in the Holiday Travel park. Two years ago a very large sinkhole swallowed a car just feet away from that location. Officials say theres no cause for alarm. However, locals are still concerned about their future. Kind of scary really, you know. Especially when they stay right here in that one place, its just suspicious. Thats all. The repairs were handled by the proper owners insurance company. New tonight a pedestrian ic cars crashed in st. Pete on Fourth Street south just north of 21st avenue south. Investigators say that one of the cars slammed into a nearby bus pavilion when the man was hit. They do not know if he was inside the pavilion or simply near it. We will bring you more information as soon as it comes in. A pasco county man thought he had a good place to hide from deputies, but it was not good enough. Body camera video released by the pasco county sheriffs for violating his probation on robbery charges with a deadly weapon. Deputies found him hiding in a hollow dresser. Billy bush is officially out at nbcs today show. The 44yearold morning show host was caught on audiotape in a lewd conversation about women with president ial hopeful donald trump in 2005. That tape just went public, as you know. Bush had hosted the third hour of the today show for the past two months. Trumps wife la republican president ial candidates controversial comments made to billy bush. Today she told Anderson Cooper she found her husbands remarks inappropriate and unacceptable, but Melania Trump did not blame her husband for what he said. I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on because they were kind of a boy talk from the host to say dirty and bad stuff. This was the first on camera defense Melania Trump has given for her husband since the tape of published more than a week ago. On the democratic side Hillary Clinton was off the campaign trail preparing for wednesdays debate, but she was not out of the headlines. Wikileaks continued to release more hacked emails from her campaign along with transcripts of paid speeches that she gave. The fbi also documents from its investigation into her private email server. The final president ial debate will take place on the university of las vegas campus wednesday night. I will head there tomorrow. Be sure to tune in for live coverage of this big event as well as some post debate reaction right here on news channel 8. Some breaking news right now, police in sarasota are looking for a missing and endangered teen with a medical condition. Here is a picture of 17year around 5 00 in the 1500 block of north Lockwood Ridge road. Officials ask anyone who sees him to please call 911 or call the Sarasota Police department. Still to come tonight the creepy clown phenomenon has prompted target to make a change. Coming up next what to expect if you were planning on buying a clown costume from the popular retailer. And trump fans in tampa are not happy with comedian amy schumer, a closer look at her standup that made many think twic and temperatures expected to heat up very quickly again by tomorrow afternoon, but change is coming in the form of a cold front. Well have the details on that after an obscene amount was spent building this controversial courthouse, the state learned the contractor had overspent on 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. Youve got to be kidding. Now another check on the breaking news weve been following for you, eagle 8 hd Shopping Center in tampa. This is the b and d supercenter store on hillsborough av. Firefighters are having a heard time avenue. Firefighters are having a hard time containing all the flames. Hotspots flare up after one is put out. Well give you more information as soon as we get it on air and online. Right now residents in South Carolina are battling more rising waters 10 days after Hurricane Matthew hit state. The Waccamaw River has broken an 88 year flood record. The unprecedented flooding is caused by water flowing downstream from flood ravaged north carolina. As the floodwaters start to go down in north carolina, volunteers are helping displaced residents get by. Stagnant waters are preventing people from returning home in flood damaged areas. Some are still in shelters at local high schools while volunteers prepare meals daily. Leave their own clothes behind. An 8 on your side consumer alert tonight, target has quietly pulled some clown masks from its stores and online. The company says its pulling those masks because of so many creepy clown threats across the country. While most of the recent incidents were hoaxes, others have led to arrest. Some stores are pledging to stay closed on thanksgiving day, but macys since one of them. It is heading in the opposite directio the website bestblackfriday. Com confirmed with several Shopping Centers that macys plans to open at 5 p. M. Thanksgiving day. Macys says it plans to make an official announcement about its special store hours later this month. Once again amy schumer, shes taken some heat from some people here in the bay area. Yeah. During a show last night in tampa some people bad and walked out when she started bashing donald trump in the Youtube Video uploaded by the see she pulled a man on stage and then grilled him about the republican candidate. Tell me why trump has your vote. Because i cant trust hillary. Its hard to hear, but he said because i cant trust hillary. After dave left the stage schumer called trump an orange sexually assaulting fake college starting monster. Today she tweeted a link to a review of saying all love, tampa. Now max defender 8, the worlds most powerful radar and your first storm team 8 forecast with your meteorologist julie phillips. The rocket blasted off from virginia earlier this evening loaded with more than 5,000 pounds of equipment, food and research all going to the International Space station. The capsule is expected to got to love rocket launch videos. For us here in the tampa bay area it looks fairly quiet the rest of this evening. We did have some showers on max defender 8 radar earlier today, but now all is clear, not expecting any more showers or storms for the rest of this evening either. Great photo sent in from robert from lucerne park. Remember if you have some weather photos, wed love to see them. Send them to us on facebook or twitter. Well look for them there. Today was a it was, made it up to 90 in tampa, old record 93 set in 1990. So tomorrow is another hot day, nearly as warm as today, but changes are on the way. Friday a cold front is set to roll through and notice temperatures dropping off after that fairly significantly. Waking up tomorrow morning still on the warm side, mostly sunny, near average temperatures. By the afternoon hours well top out back in the upper 80s and well just bring in that with the past few days. You can expect that again tomorrow. Great beach day. Unfortunately still dealing with red tide, though, need upto high concentrations in parts of manatee and sarasota county, also low concentrations found along some of the beaches in pinellas county. In particular we focused in on siesta key and coquina beach when we checked on the red tide statuses today. Keep that in mind if you are heading out to the coast. For us tomorrow morning mostly continue. It brings some extra clouds into our area by the afternoon and evening hours, also brings those quick moving small showers that roll through. So you may see a quick shower at your house. Its gone before you know it in about 10 or 15 minutes or so. Wednesday that pattern will continue. Dry to start the day, near 70 degrees in the morning hours. Then by the afternoon youll see a few clouds build in. High pressure, though, is still in place for us. Theres the cold front will be here and well start to really feel the cooler air by this coming weekend. Not only are we going to see cooler air, also a huge humidity drop as well. So its been a little on the muggy side the last few days. Notice, that emoji man giving it a big thumbs up for the weekend shaping up to be excellent. In the tropics we are still watching nicole currently. We also are watching an area in the bahamas over the next five days with about a 60 chance of development, but we are florida, again expected to remain off the coast actually thanks to that front that will keep it off the coast. Even if it does develop, at this point it looks like we are safe from seeing any effects from that tropical system. Hurricane system does go until november 30th. Keep that in mind. Skies clear overnight tonight. We drop back to around 70 degrees, tomorrow back up to about 88, staying fairly warm, fairly dry through the rest of dont have huge rain chances because we have dry air in place. Our rain chances are near 20 . We head into the weekend about, perfect for a fall weekend forecast, mostly dry, near 80, mornings nice and crisp, fall feeling. I like it. Hasnt felt like it so much yet. So well take it. Coming up next in sports usfs dream of joining the big 12 conference gets a no vote. The buccaneers dodge one running quarterback in their st another one this week . Remember this years heart week is coming up in november, but now is the time to join stacie schaibles team. Fewyou you can go to this is mikes office. If he doesnt show up, he doesnt get paid. Too often marco rubio didnt show up and failed us when he did. O work together. Whether its protecting Social Security and Womens Health care or growing the economy, weve got to start solving problems instead of pointing fingers. I am Patrick Murphy and i approve this message sfx [birds] to sample the worlds most delicious fresh seafood dishes. You can take a boat sfx [boat bell] or a plane sfx [jet taking off] ] or you can just let us pack you a bag publix seafood cookinbag dinners choose your favorite seafood then choose the internationally inspired flavors to pair it with. Pack a bag for adventure tonight at publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. Honda dealers. No sign of doug martin, gerald mccoy, Clinton Mcdonald or robert ayers at this mornings bucs practice, but it was an extra day of practice, so well hang onto the injury talk until wednesday when the official report comes out. With all the respect for the guys who fought for that win at carolina, it sure would be nice for the bucs to have that entire defensive line intact for a long day trying quarterback colin kaepernick. He will get a second start this sunday according to his head coach chip kelly. The bucs feel they are ready to contain the fleet footed kaepernick. Head coach kirk koetter told me today during our exclusive koetters korner interview the bucs defense was preparing for a similar threat last weekend. When we didnt know if cam type plays going into carolina. We didnt find out till day before the game that he wasnt going to play and it was going to be derek anderson. So got a little carryover there and got a little extra work on it. You can catch my full conversation with kirk koetter right now. I mentioned the injury no shows earlier. How about this receiver louis murphy allowed to practice. One year after injuring his knee he can be activated off the reserve physically unable to perform list at any time during the next 21 days. This is definitely a mental hurdle. I think that was today getting in there again banging around making some blocks going against the defense, making some plays, you know, felt great, man. Felt like riding a bike. They dream big, but tonight the Athletic Department at usf will not expand from its current 10 school format. Usf was one of the candidates to join the big 12 along with ucf and five other schools from the american athletic conference. The bulls took the high road tonight releasing statements from the president and the Athletic Director that emphasized gratitude towards the big 12 for considering the bulls as well as the positive attention it feels the School Received during the expansion interview process. So usfs thinking big. They arent alone in the american conference, seven teams and that would have just obliterated it would have blown it up. Why did they decide not to expand . I think ultimately well, we didnt get an official statement i think the Longhorn Network has prevented the big 12 from creating its own Television Network just from its enormous, you know, size and revenue. Why would you give up the Longhorn Network to become part you dont have the answer, follow the money. Well be right back with your winning lottery numbers. And the morning, julie . Things look great tomorrow morning, near 70. So a fairly warm start. Well top out near 88 tomorrow afternoon and it stays mostly dry. Time now for the night cap. Man on a flight from charlotte to asheville encountered an unusual passenger. Ca the passengers name is daniel. Daniel is a certified emotional support duck. There he is, better shot of him. Hes allowed on flights to support his owner who is worried about flying and daniel seemed to relax pretty much everybody on the flight because he wears those red booties and a captain american diaper. Kind of lets everybody relax. Thats a better shot of the duck. I heard he quacks softly, how about that . There you go. Thats your news. Thanks for joining us. Jimmy fallon is coming up next. Our next newscast is at 4 30. Have a great night and well see you at the debate on [ cheers and applause ] . Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his
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