Commitment to the community and admired his honesty. He met with the pope, even president s. Took these pictures detail a lifetime of memories, a lifetime of making a difference in the tampa bay community. While he founded st. Lawrence catholic church, he was an influential member of the community as a whole. He had a commitment to all people. He loved children. He loved th those were the people that he connected with. One of our anchors has known him. In adulthood, i got to know him as an adult hood adult. We were on a lot of boards together and different events together. I would emcee everything and he would always to the invitation. The judeochristian health clinic, an organization aimed at helping the less fortunate with medical needs. Kelly bell is the executive director. Helping us with fundraisers, helping to introduce us to Different Community groups and leaders who care about the underserved of our community. Reporter we featured him in a story in 2008 about a story of authority housing. Reporter higgins is described as a man of the people, someone who lived his life helping others. No doubt hundreds will visit the church next week to pay their final respects. That funeral mass is scheduled to take place here next wednesday at at 11 30 am. Visitation will be on monday and tuesday also here at the church from noon until 9 pm. Is the church saying how he reporter the official cause of death is Heart Failure but his friends and colleagues say that his health had been failing. He had been in pretty bad shape for the last couple of months. A man who will be missed for sure. More complaints in polk county about bad bus stops. It is an issue 8 on your side has been falling for months. In may, 17yearold caitlin park was hit and killed while crossing clubhouse road to get to his bus. Three people have died on the years. So far, the county has installed one streetlight and that is why concerned parents contacted 8 on your side. They want more light and safer bus stops. Melissa marino went out at 5 30 am to see what kids are dealing with. Reporter some neighbors called is a twolane highway because of people flying down this road. Imagine your kid walking alongside of it, no sidewalk, in the dark. 8 on your side was there this that light is his cell phone. We saw a car after car fly past. One parent we spoke with drives his kids to the bus stop every morning so they dont have to walk along the busy road in the dark. We have tried to call the office and they just wont do it. The rate of speed is pretty fast. It is very dark on clubhouse road. Reporter melissa drives her fiveyearold daughter to a different bus stop. Otherwise, she would have to cross clubhouse road to get to it. The walk would be dangerous and it is about a 10 minutes walk. 8 on your side find out the next week, the county and department of transportation will go over the results of a traffic study. No one would go on camera but in an email they said a consultant will present planned. We will keep you updated on the very latest. We are watching the tropics. There is a disturbance that could affect florida. Storm team 8 chief meteorologist steve jerve joins us. The tropical wave has some low pressure. We are looking for some Service Organization with this system in order to upgrade it to a tropical depression. Puerto rico. You can see from the distance where it is relative to the bay area. A closer look at the blob basically. Local radar shows most of the activity east of puerto rico at this point. The forecast over the next couple of days is moving it to the northwest. That forecast will move it in that general direction. For that reason, we need to watch it very closely. What kind of shape it will be watch. It will emerge into a better environment. We are strengthening with warmer sea service temperatures. Computer models change every day. When you see these models, they sure to know that they will change as they have drastically in the last 12 hours. We just have to stay tuned. They the sea service temperatures are record. It is more than enough to sustain Tropical Storm strength. This is a windshear forecast meaning the red areas are more favorable for strengthening and less favorable in the green and blue areas. Over the next several days, it will move into a more favorable area and then longterm, less favorable. Windshear tends to take a lot of strength out of the storm. There is a lot going on. It is not officially a storm. We will continue to watch it. Stay tuned. You can check the weather any time by using our weather can find in your app store. New information, a father of a Florida College student accused of murdering a Martin County couple believes his son had a psychotic break. The night of the attack, austin harrouffs father says his son made suicidal threats during a family dinner and stormed out. Less than an hour later, deputies found austin fighting a victims face after stabbing and beating a man and his wife to death. Austin is still in the hospital. The teens organs are failing, possibly from chemical poisg. Center a Police Shooting is in a State Facility in orlando. This is the video that started it all. A man holding a toy truck. His therapist put his hands in the air when he was shot by a Police Officer who thought the toy was a gun. Emotionally scared after the shooting, the man spent 34 days at a hospital in a psychiatric ward but they could no longer care for him. He was transferred hundreds of miles from his home to a new law shows a decline in the Death Penalty in america since the 1970s. In some counties, they dont fit into the trend. We sent matt galka to see what is going on. Reporter only 16 counties in the country imposed five or more death sentences he tween 2010 and 2015. Four of them were here in florida. That is according to harvard law schools fair punishment project. Hillsboro, miamidade, pinellas and duval co named. Report slammed county prosecutors and state prosecutors. Ingrid delgado with the florida conference of catholic bishops is disappointed lord is not following National Trends expect the bishops of florida have already been calling for an end to the use of the Death Penalty. This Study Confirms that the Death Penalty disproportionally affects minorities, the mentally ill and the poor. Reporter several Death Penalty cases remain in limbo waiting on a state supreme capital punishment. Florida lawmakers raised the requirement this year so that 10 out of 12 jurors are needed to recommend a death sentence. That is a change that is being disputed. We would prefer that we and using the Death Penalty at all. As long as florida doesnt use it, we should have it be recommended by a unanimous jury. Reporter the report found that in 2015, 49 death sentences were recommended. The fewest amount since 1976. In tallahassee, matt galka, news channel 8 this report is the first of two with the second report focusing on other florida counties named as outliers. Cracking down on Cyber Bullying. See how one Bay Area School system is turning the tables using the internet to stop them in their tracks. Cash or credit . How swiping your card to pay for college cost you more in the long run. We will have that and more, coming up. Youre watching news channel 8, the channel that is always on im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Hillary clintons plan starts here. By making big corporations and those at the top finally pay their fair share in taxes. And those companies that move overseas . Shed charge them an exit tax. Then shed use that money to make the largest investment in creating good paying jobs since world war ii. Millions of jobs. s the schools Cyber Bullying Research Center found 27 of middle and gh claimed they have been bullied. Cyber bullying has been reported in elementary schools. News channel 8s Meredith Consuelo shows us how one Bay Area School system is using online tools to combat this problem. Reporter Cyber Bullying is the use of any technology, social media or Text Messages intended to cause harm. There is a lot more Cyber Bullying as technology is getting better. Our students are engaging in it there are endless ways Cyber Bullying can be transmitted. Reporter there is snapchat, facebook, all of these different apps and social networking sites that our kids are engaging in. Pinellas county schools now use a program called anonymous alerts, complaints may be made by students or parents and the school where the bullying immediately. Last school year, 1300 reports of bullying came in and a third were substantiated as bullying or harassment. That is nearly 400 cases in one year alone. The suited student receives a discipne referral and then the school takes action based on that. Reporter in every case, a parent is notified but parents should be proactive before you have to know where your kids are when they are online. It is okay and you should be looking into what they are saying and what they are doing. Reporter parents are really good resources. Cyber bullying. Org is up to date with the latest social media apps that your kids are into and the dangers of each one. Our High School Seniors new data suggests they are not. According to the folks behind the ac ttest, 38 of graduating seniors hit the college prepared benchmark. A spokesman with a ct believes more people are taking the test so they were expecting a decline in scores. Paying for College Tuition on a credit card can come at a high cost. A study by credit cards. Com finds the students who pay with plastic end up paying an additional Convenience Fee of 2. 62 . That is 262 for every 10,000 of tuition. To be the most be friendly. Americas got talent returns tonight for life results with a special guest. Michael phelps will appear as a cohost. Be decorated olympian will partner with nick cannon to reveal which acts move on to the semifinals of the reality talent show competition here you can catch Michael Phelps on tonights episode at 9 pm right here on nbc. Who love a. We have an east wind at seven ditch Miles Per Hour. Some areas saw some earlier showers come through. The north easterly flow has been dominating today. That is a view from branches. You can see it is 89 degrees with an east wind at 6 Miles Per Hour with 50 humidity. The clouds and occasional showers have rolled out into the gulf of mexico. Things are much quieter around the area. Hopefully after the lighting disappears, the volleyball players can get back on the court. Little bit of precipitation. That is a location but overcast conditions hemphill county. The summer pattern definitely has a north easterly flow. Last week, we were in a westerly flow pattern and in the tropics keep an eye on the invest. 92 degrees is the high the next several days. There is our average line. 90 on thursday and friday. That is where we expect to be this time if you look at the averages, this is the hottest time of the year. Getting into september, we are picking out in terms of heat and humidity. Our rain chances are 40 . That is seasonal. We will watch this weekend as we talk about the top of the newscast a potential movement of any kind of tropical influence. It may be nothing. It may be something. We will continue to monitor it and watch the trend. It has now developed into anything officially. Mostly Clear Conditions in terms of rain right now across the area. Maybe a little bit in sarasota. That looks like it has dried up farther to the south. 7 am, 77 degrees. Close to the average low of 76. 92 for a high tomorrow afternoon. Tampa international is 87 degrees. 84 in saint petersburg. The dew point running a high 76. It is very humid. As we look at the flow from east to west across the area, that has been the story. More action further down to the south. Much clearer to the north. We saw the camera out of the an conditions. In the tropics, that is our invest area. We will continue to watch east of puerto rico. We will see if this thing will continue to move to the northwest and gain more organization. It could do that over the warmer waters. There is quite a bit of dry air to the west but it is creating its own larger environment to get some kind of organization. A large geographic systems take the stone is still out there. Our forecast computer model shows most of the activity for the to the south. For tomorrow morning, such a mixed with clouds and the activity like we saw rolling in. Every time around noon, pushing to east an coast seabreeze is not doing a great job of making any in row further to the east. That would be a nice collision point. Divorcees the northeast flow has overwhelmed everything. Rain chances at 40 all the way into the weekend. Sunday, monday, 50 . We will continue to watch any effect from that tropical system further to the south. We will be on the air talking about it should that actually outside the tv station. Temperatures will be warm when you go out for dinner. You have the best of you out there. A Daring Rescue caught on camera. See what a state trooper did to save a man involved in a fiery crash. Hundreds of paratroopers take over the skies of alaska. A closer look at what they were doing in the final frontier. You can join jen holloway and i now at havertys furniture, its our labor day sale. Where you can create the perfect home. From now until september 5th, youll find huge savings on stylish pieces. Get free delivery, plus an extra hundreddollars off every thousanddollars you spend. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. Mom . Have you see my iguana . The labor day sale is on now, at havertys. Life looks good. A batch of bad heroine is being blamed or two dozen overdoses in cincinnati overnight. Police say everyone who indeed survived and that is thanks to first responders. Some of those heroin users were in court this morning facing numerous charges still wearing their hospital bracelets. A connecticut state troopers dashcam captured a Daring Rescue as he jumped into action when a car burst into flames with the driver still inside. That driver lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a bridge causing his car to catch fire. The trooper smashed a window and pulled that driver out. The man was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to be okay. A the fold a sledgehammer out of his pants and went to swinging inside his michigan jewelry store. He smashed several glass cases and scooped up multiple watches, bracelets, necklaces but he did not get a way. Police showed up and arrested him. His friends were seen helping them in this security video. Students and teachers protested a controversial carry on campus while in austin, texas. The rally to resist coincided with the first day of classes. The protesting they are protesting a law that allows students to carry concealed the military pulled off a unique Training Exercise in alaska this week. Fighter jets dropped more than 4075 paratroopers over joint base richardson. The training is meant to prepare soldiers and airmen to seize an airfield in enemy territory. Tonight, an interview with you not see anywhere else. What donald trump had to say about his immigration stance and if it is going to change. Terminal or Creative Genius . The baffling excuse this man gave investigators for trashing a historic courthouse. Concerns over mold at one Charter School in largo have many parents scared. Find out what the school ceo has to say about it. Those stories coming up next right now on news channel 8 at you will not see this interview on any other station. Our exclusive oneonone with donald trump. A mold mystery at the Bay Area School. What 8 on your side discovered that the ceo is disk denying. Who would want to be next to this . A couples business dreams the republican candidate for president is doing his best to appeal to black and hispanic voters asking them what do you have to lose . That is what trump said to the crowd of supporters. 8 on your side is the only station in the bay area to interview the republican candidate before he took the stage. Our reporter Candace Mccowan is joining us with her exclusive interview. Trump has taken heat for many things that he said and have even admitted that he said some wrong things. That is one of the about this afternoon. Reporter trump made it clear to supporters he is still tough on immigration. It is going to be a big wall. It is going to be a real wall. It will be as beautiful as a wall can be. Reporter with donald trump, i asked if he has softened his stance. Visit your plan to deport 11
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