These new tests make sure they are not hit with a onetwo punch. You are sitting in a chair. You can watch tv. Reporter rod millington has donated blood countless times over the past couple of years once every three months to be exact. You feel good about donating and helping your community and helping people out. Reporter today was a bit different. After one point of his blood was collected this afternoon, it will go through a set of new Screening Tests for a variety of pathogens including the zika virus. We are always concerned about the latest pathogens. For us, we do have pathogen inactivation of our platelets which has been proven effective to render the zika virus in the virus. Reporter these tests reduce the risk of tainted blood making its way into patients suncoast was the first blood center in the United States to adopt pathogen reduction. We want to provide the highest quality blood products to our community. Reporter bad products could have terrible effects on those who get it especially pregnant women people with cancer. As fears over the zika virus continue to spread, suncoast is banking on these safeguards to keep their blood supply immune from it all. The new zika Screening Test was just implement it here a suncoast on monday. Reporting in sarasota, mary mcguire, newschannel eight. That drug is being used to try to save the life of someone in south carolina. Pro funded Center Career on the drive with the drug last night. The centers for Disease Control and prevention believes the drug was critical in the recovery of one of only two people in the us known to all of the recent rains are bringing increased concerns about mosquitoes and other problems to pascoe county. Reporter standing water along ditches and roadsides like this and other areas are still a problem here because of all of our recent rain. That is creating some mosquito concerns. In other areas, it is just the water that is the problem. In fort ritchie, vacuum trucks are sucking up the water from an overin which has helped tremendously today. It is receded back to the point where it is out of our half circle driveway. Reer her car is flooded. Water lapped at her door, stopping just before it flooded her home. It is terrifying to know that at any time it could happen again and get worse. Reporter the street because he has seen this before. How long has this been going on . For a lot of years. Reporter pasco county told us today they are looking into a permanent solution that may involve buying homes here and expanding the retention pond. It is not in the budget right now. Ed pasco county mosquito control, there is another concern about the standing water. It is perfect breeding territory for mosquitoes. They are stepping up their efforts to kill mosquito larvae before they can hatch into you are going to see some of mosquitoes. We are doing our best to get out there and prevent the larvae from developing and emerging. You are going to see we cant reduce the population. There will be some mosquitoes about. Hopefully we can keep that threshold. Reporter pasco county sent out an advisory to stay out of floodwater like this because it has bacteria that can have viruses and other pollutants that can harm you. Even though we have all seen it, they really telling people to stay out of the floodwater. That is an important tip. New information surrounding the deadly double shooting at Miami International airport. The shooting was a murder suicide. The shooting happed early this morning in the employee parking lot. Both men worked at the airport. The shooting did not cause any flight delays possible motive. New evidence in a cold case help investigators tracked down a man who murdered a florida nurse 40 years ago. Debbie clark was beaten and shot in coral gables in 1977. Alan bregman, her former lover was arrested in North Carolina this week. Fingerprints and hair consistent with eichmann found on her body. It is remarkable with something that you will see more common than not. Reporter the dna was at the crime scene because he owned the apartment. He is awaiting extradition back to florida. Summer is over for thousands of kids across the state starting today. This year, labor day is no longer dictating when the school is back in session. We sent our Capital Bureau reporter down to see how that is impacting the entire school year. Reporter students in Hillsborough County said headed off to school. It is rough getting up in the morning. Other than that, it is exciting. Reporter kids in st. Johns county could relate. They grabbed their book bags and pencils and headed to class wednesday. A change in state law meant that School Start Dates were not tethered to the labor day holiday. Schools previously had to wait until two weeks before labor day to start classes. Not every kid is in class today. 40 School Districts opted for until monday. Ruth melton said that august tourism had been a concern when they pitched an earlier school start date. They wanted students to be able to finish the first semester before winter break. With a Leader School start date, that became impossible. Over the course of several years , most of the education related community pushed hard to try and give us a little bit more flexibility so the school co so that students can complete their school year but early enough to allow them to have a nice summer break before having to begin the grand. Reporter had the old bob been in place, schools wouldnt have been able to start until august 22. Labor day falls on september 5. In tallahassee, news channel 8. Earlier and. All School District are scheduled to wrap up classes by the end of the first week of june with many ending in may. Still ahead, going for gold in real. Team usa is racking up their metals. Across america, the zika virus is taking over the headlines. Doctors want to make sure everyone is ready for flu season. The vaccine changes you need to know about. Showers and thunderstorms are developing in the afternoon heat. We will talk about your forecast coming up. Youre watching news channel 8, the channel that is i got shot down over vietnam and spent eleven months in a pow camp. What donald trump said about our members of the military being captured is a disgrace. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. When you fly over enemy territory, the odds hes unfit to be president. A huge dust storm moved to arizona tuesday. This is a time lapse video of the storm. The storm packed wind gusts above 35 Miles Per Hour and also caused the temperature to drop nearly 20 degrees. It makes for interesting pictures. Temperature when it is up above 100 degrees probably feels good. 77 degrees. We have a few showers pass around freedom plaza. Northwest winds at 12 Miles Per Hour. A quarter of an inch of rain at this location. The plantation at Crystal River is 94 degrees. No rain there in terms of temperatures. In lakeland, 85 degrees. 57 could develop around this area for the rest of this evening. 22. 11 inches from the first part of june until now. This is as much rain that we racked up at Tampa International airport. 6. 42 inches above normal. When we compare that to last year, we had 28. 4 inches of rain. We are above normal for the rainy season this year but we are more so last year after the heavy rains that here possible. Some clouds left around. We may still see some developing showers and storms. 79 degrees at noon. Still on the warm side. Radar is more active than it was a couple of hours ago. We see the activity roughly associated with that area of low pressure. It is losing its influence on the bay area. It gave us flooding at heavy rain. Showers are reaching out from that area of low pressure. These will move toward the west coast of florida and we can a if you may hold together to cause consistent rain. We are just seeing the sea breeze light up here from north to south into citrus county. It is edging into the southern parts of Hernando County and the western parts of pasco county. There was a little shower north of safety harbor. You can see that thunderstorm has developed north of carrollwood. There are some lightning strikes in and around that area. Further south, to interior mae, extends into sun city center. That is looking to the north. Nonetheless, a few showers continue to develop. Th is outflow that is raising racing across polk county. 87 degrees at the airport in tampa. It is currently 85 degrees at the airport in downtown st. Petersburg with a high dew pressure that gave us the heavy rain. It is their across the northern part of the gulf of mexico. It is helping to kick off the line of showers. It will drift to the northwest and has less of a group on our weather pattern. On the model for the short term, showers continue to build eastward and a few showers and thunderstorms can develop ear for the late evening as well. Tomorrow looks pretty quiet in the overnight with partly cloudy skies and lots of early sunshine. That will lead to a of thunderstorms developing in the afternoon hours. Is focused along the sea breeze back in the easterly flow. 50 range transfer thursday. 40 by friday. We are expecting more sunshine over the weekend. We have hot temperatures and a very classic Florida Weather into the foreca throughout next week. Max defender special to show you how the newest and fastest radar in the world will work. That is coming up saturday at 7 pm. Now, special coverage of the rio olympics. The Rainy Weather is causing a few problems for athletes. The rowing competition had to be called off due to stormy conditions. This is the second time the regatta has been postponed due to strong winds. A new schedule is expected to be ance after huge night in swimming and womens gymnastics, americans are continuing to pile up their metals today. Team usas omentum is powered by some olympic newcomers in the gym and some veterans in the pool. Reporter i am not sure tonight can top what happened last night but the americans have already added to their the gold. Today in cycling, Kristin Armstrong won the womans time trial. She was the last writer on the course and had to battle difficult conditions on a rainy day. This was her third consecutive olympic gold in this event. Rychel phelps was back in the pool competing in the 200 m qualifier. He won his seat. This swim it came about 13 hours after he 12 more medals winning the 200 butterfly and anchoring the us 200 team to gold . I know it was one of my most challenging doubles. To be able to win it in my fifth olympics is pretty special. Reporter you will see ryan lochte and Michael Phelps tonight. In the diving pool. Officials still dont know why the water turned green but they have tested it and they insist it is safe. We are not sure why but it was funny. It is entertaining. Why not have a green pool . Rt why not dive into green water . It does not feel very olympic like. I guess they are taking it in stride. I dont know if i would feel the same way. Is that the universal opinion. Opinion . Reporter it is one of those things where you cant do anything about it. You came all that way and you might as will compete. Somebody has to win. Paul ryan is also covering the olympic games. You can catch is reports every morning here on news channel 8. You can watch the special extras he is putting together under the olympics section on www. Wfla. Com while the recently, doctors are preparing for another virus, the flu. The first shipment of vaccine are well underwayf many children getting the shots may be inevitable. That is because according to the cdc, the flu mist nasal spray does not do a good job protecting people. The flumist is not as potent as the injectable immunization. It is the first i have heard of that. I would feel comfortable with whatever my sons pediatrician recommends. Experts recommend everyone over the age of six months gets vaccinated. How is this for a fishtail . A day on the ocean and you come back with a do we will show you how it unfolded. You are watching news channel 8. You can join jen holloway . . The ford freedom sales event is on our biggest event of the year just got better . . Announcing zero for seventytwo across the entire lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. Plus, tagged vehicles now get a thousand smart bonus. Thats freedom from interest. And freedom to choose with ford. Americas best selling brand. . . Now get 0 financing for 72 months across the entire ford lineup, in florida, people are working hard, just to get by. But in washington republican senator marco rubio has the worst voting record in the u. S. Senate. Marco rubio stopped showing up for work. Let us down. Im Patrick Murphy and enoughs enough. Im proud to work with president obama. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message because ill never stop working for you. And arkansas deputy shot in the line of duty was taken off of life support and is not expected to survive. The deputy in the police chief or responding to a safety call when they were both shot. They were taken to a nearby hospital. The police chief was treated and released. The shooter was taken into custody after a tense standoff. 126,000 is the amount the highestranking officer cleared in freddie grays case is expected to get in back pay. Baltimore Police Lieutenant brian rice and three other officers charged with felonies in connection with great step were suspended without pay under department policy. Having been acquitted, rice is now entitled to back pay that policy. The kansas city waterpark where a 10yearold boy died from severe neck trauma is back open today. The accident is raising serious questions about safety. Apparently the last inspection of the waterpark was in 2012. Since then, they have been testing their rights by watching them. The department of labor recently requested all documentation to ensure safety requirements are still being met. A los angeles woman is recovering after being pulled from her home. The enti dang rescueas Police Officers spotted smoke coming out of the home and heard the woman inside screwing for help. The window was covered by metal bars. That was her only way out. Firefighters fought through the flames to cut the bars and help her out. No one was hurt. In massachusetts, people came across a dog paddling away in the middle of the ocean. The passengers tried to rescue the dog but the boat on was two high. They then managed to fly down a nearby fishing boat and the fisherman picked up the dog. The ferry passengers erupted in cheers. A massive mess in kentucky. A freetrade went off the tracks scattering the boxcars and cargo everywhere. One of the derailed cars was carrying sulfuric acid. Residents nearby have been order to shelter until that can be completely cleaned up. Details about the past of a man shot during a road rage incident. He is no stranger to road rage. We will show you what he just got out of prison for coming up. A chase through Sarasota County caught on a helicopter camera. You wont believe what led to this pursuit. After three years on the run, authorities caught up with this man in spain the victims father and why he wants this man prosecuted. He is 12,396 on the list for va benefits. When he gets to the top of that one, he goes on another list. Those stories plus your storm team eight forecast and sports with dan lucas coming up on news channel 8. The station today, we can connect more. Do more. And all that more takes energy. At duke energy, were doing more too. More innovative technology, like ways to fix outages before they happen. For more Reliable Energy every day. So no matter how much you do, were always here. Right now on news channel 8 at 6 00 a convicted road rage killer gunned down. We will tell you how it happened during another fight in the road. Fugitive justice finally in custody. Where he was found after years on the run. He gave up his good health in service to his country. We will tell you the reason why his wait for benefits is i am Stacie Schaible i am keith cate a wild story of road rage that some say was bound to happen. An excon who killed a man years ago after a fight in traffic died today ironically over road rage. It was no secret. He had anger issues driving and rap sheet a milelong. This morning, history repeated itself. This time, durable skill. Killed. Reporter this did start off as a story of road rage. As we peel back those layers, we found out this story began 15 years ago. Drivers who faced rush hour on wednesday morning knew they would be in a battle. It was the first day of school and Hillsborough County and the roads were packed. It would be a test of patience. Anger with a deadly views in one case. Reporter i know that being five minutes late for something is not worth losing your life. As the story unfolded, the details revealed a sinister troubled past. And x on with a history of anger issues behind the wheel. 40yearold gary durum was no stranger to life behind bars. He did time in prison for grand theft home aggravated assault and road rage