Reporter the Florida High School Athletic Association says no religion is allowed on government property. The school claims it is protected speech and filed a lawsuit in federal court. It is teaching the students that the First Amendment doesnt apply when you go to a championship football game. Thats wrong. It just flatly wrong under the constitution. Reporter the team was told players could have their pregame prayer on the field, but could not broadcast it. The school maintains that is a violation of civil rights. To thanksgiving prior to an athletic event should not be any different than Congress Opening up their meetings in prayer. Reporter and once again, as we mentioned, that lawsuit was filed in federal court today. But when we reached out to the Florida High School Athletic Association in gainsville, they said they never received any paperwork. So what happens next mel . Reporter obviously, the judge will set a court date soon and ultimately, this will be overturned and the team can pray on the loud speaker before each and every game. We will keep you posted. Melanie michael, thank you. Live in tame that tonight. Now, breaking news, cnbc is reporting that the fbi is now investigating a hacking attack on Democratic Party officials cell phones. It is believed this could be connected to the russian government. We will bring you the latest updates as we get them. Meantime, th between Hillary Clinton and donald trump is in the history books. From trade deals, tax returns, stamina, accusations of sexism. So much to process. Both candidates believe they won the night. But Hillary Clinton seems to have the bigger smile on her face, steve handlesman joins us tonight from washington dc tonight for the day after reaction. Both candidates really had their moments last night. But they were trading some verbal jabs back and forth. Reporter they did. They did. Course. And it wont stop today. Trumps campaign claiming he won and they are pointing to the proof in the 16 million plus they say he has gotten in Campaign Contributions since the debate. But a lot of republican activists especially in this town worry that trump hurt himself last night with women voters and middle class voters that he needs and that they fear his opponent got a fresh chance to win over. Today, Hillary Clinton went did anybody see that debate last night . Reporter she liked the way it went. About not letting our companies. Reporter combative, but clinton put donald trump on the defensive or not releasing tax returns. Must be something really important, even terrible, that he is trying to hide. Reporter slamming what trump did reveal a few years ago. He didnt pay any federal income tax. That makes me smart. Reporter clinton today. Now, if not paying taxes reporter he made his main point of the debate. She is an ineffective long time dc insider. You have been doing this for 30 years. Why are you just thinking about these solutions now . Reporter kudos today from his running mate. This was a status quo versus change. Donald trump showed the energy, the leadership. Reporter clinton looked energetic but not trump. I dont believe she does have the sexist. This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs, an dogs. Reporter trump warned he might escalate. When she hit me at the end with the women. I was going to hit her with her husbands women. Reporter in florida with cuban american supporters, trump claimed he won last night. It is 12 dais as you know, keith, until the next president ial debate. York mayor Rudy Giuliani will do in his words a much better job next time. How do you do that steve . How does trump do that . To do much better . What are these savvy republicans saying trump needs to do . Reporter see, i think what you have got here is a failure to communicate. Okay . It is not that donald trump is dumb. He is brilliant but not and disciplined. Hillary clinton is vulnerable okay . She and the clinton foundation, the whole business with the e mails and the contributions, focus on it. She has been in washington 30 years. Life is tough for a lot of middle class families in florida, in texas, a lot of places. Most places in america. Focus on it. Dont do dumb things like reminding people that you have women. The trouble is, keith, in the view of a lot of republicans, donald trump wont listen. Because, probably, they fear, he doesnt believe they are right. Steve handlesman live in wwdc. Thank you steve. So what do you think . Who won . There is a lot of discussion going on now on our newschannel8 facebook page. You can like us and join the conversation if you want to. Now, we have breaking news to tell you about. The senate failed to pass a measure to fund the government past friday. Demos continuing resolution unless it includes funding to help flint, michigan recover from the lead tainted water crisis. Funding from the government ends when the fiscal year ends on september 30. Governor rick scott showed up at the mosaic sink hole site today and once again found himself fending off questions about the states failure to notify neighbors about a potential threat to their wells. This sink hole opened up in the department of Environmental Protection began investigating within 24 hours but people were kept in the dark until 8 on your side exposed the threat september 18. I asked the department of Environmental Protection to the an emergency rule where we will have prompt notification 24 hours when there is pollution. The government will know. The media will know when there is pollution. Tonight at 6 00, Senior Investigative reporter stev about whether he was kept in the dark too and if so, he what is going to do about it. An explosion has killed a new york fire battalion chief. Firefighters were called to a home in the bronx to investigate the smell of gas. Inside, they found a marijuana grow house which blew up while they were there. And you see the aftermath. And, this man right here, michael fahe was killed by the falling debris. At least 12 other people were also hurt. Tonight and it is getting closer to homes. Hundreds of people in the Santa Cruz Mountains have been ordered to leave. This fire broke out yesterday during a heat wave and the flames spread overnight. A young africanamerican girl is getting attention for her tearful plea in the week of the Police Shootings. Ziala olifant talked about how her family color of her skin. She says she grew up in charlotte and has not felt this way until now. It is a shame that our fathers and mothers are filled and we cant evensee them anymore. It is a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them. And we have tears and we shouldnt have tears. We need our fathers and there were days of unrest and violence in charlotte after the Police Shooting of keith scott. Police claim scott had a gun in his hand but body cam video of the scene does not show that conclusively. Still to come tonight, she lost more than 50,000 when her Real Estate Agents email was hacked. And when nobody at the big corporations wanted to help, a heartbroken home buyer knew she better call behnken. Coming up, what we have learned about this case that links it to a Security Breach affecting millions. Also the flood waters. The near historic levels of the cedar river. We do have showers and thunderstorms not as active as yesterday. A lot of them have breezed inland. So, we have hot temperatures, we will look on the horizon for slightly cooler and drier air coming up. He stole jewelry from a local charity. That story is coming up at 5 30. That and more coming up. Youre watching newschannel8, the station always on your im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. A person whos flat chested is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . A system of flood walls is successfully protecting thousands of homes and businesses in cedar rapids, iowa, the cedar river crested today in its second highest more than 10,000 residents fled in the face of that flooding. Leanup is already underway. Crews are pumping out water and clearing the streets of mud and debris. Flood warnings are extended through sunday for the cedar river. Hate to see that for those folks there. They have bad floods there in 2008. It made big changes, taking neighborhoods, turning them flue flood planes. Hopefully, that helped to avert some of the disaster they saw in 2008. How is our weather looking hour. We are watching the tropics. You will probably hear us talking about this particular air in in the tropic it is next several days depending how it gets into the caribbean. New port richey, a nice day. A nice fall day now. Feels like summer most locations. Thats the loews don cesar. , 86 degrees. Here, 8188 degrees in the lakewood ranch. A few fair weather cloud bases there, not much in the way of shower activity. Most folks have not experienced precipitation today. That is some max radar. There is plenty of precipitation going on in the inland areas but northern spots are quiet pushing east now, across citrus, hernando, lake county. Legalsburg. Clermont, zephyr hills saw a brief little shower that is clear of the area. Pinellas, hillsborough, rainless at this point. A few showers across the southeast sections but from a westerly direction. We did see a few morning showers on coastal areas but when we have this pattern, it just moves everything inland as the day goes along. A lot of it enhanced by the heating of the day which we have plenty of. Thunderstorms eastern sections of de soto county. You can see plenty of thunderstorm activity still. A little dip in the dew point here. It looks like by friday, saturday, especially for Northern Areas, some of the emoji guys of time, this is not the big cool down you are waiting for but some folks in the Northern Areas may feel slightly drier air. 88 degrees at 4 00 p. M. Again, you can see the temperature 82 degrees currently in temple terrace. 92 macdill. 88 pinellas park. 84 right now in clearwater beach. Upper 80s out in river view. You can see apollo beach in the low 80s. Rain cooled numbers thunderstorms. There is the clear flow from west to east pushing inland. The fair weather clouds. Drier air aloft. That is indicating the help to stabilize the atmosphere. That plays a part when you get thunderstorms to develop and helping to create hail. Not so much today though. We are not seeing thunderstorms at severe levels like we saw yesterday. But most of the activity is off to the east. The Hurricane Hunters were in this area just east ever the islands and determined there was a pretty good wind gu circulation. The wind gust registered from the Hurricane Hunters. They will continue to watch it the next several days. Moving at a good clip, 25 miles an hour. Still, a 90 chance of possible development is invest 97l. You can see still a varying opinion. Most computer models want to take it north at some point here, whether it would be further east or further west, continue be watched. We learned without good solid data, dont do the great test. Wrap model for the short term, moving thunderstorms inland. Fizzling them out. We will leave the slight chance of a shower or storm in the forecast. But mostly isolated it looks like. Rpm forecast computer model overnight says slight possibility with that westerly flow of seeing a morning coastal shower. We mentioned that and saw some in the area. Afternoon, same story. Isolated storms mostly east i75. For wednesday, the rain chance, 30 . A little higher for thursday with an approaching front to the north. Then for friday, talking about slightly drier air potentially for friday, saturday. Especially for north and central folks. Still dont want to play that up too much. The warm temperatures will carry all the way into next week. If you have been cheated, when you need help, shes on your side, better call behnken. By now, you have probably breach involving the yahoo accounts. You didnt have to have an account to be impacted by the breach. Ask the victim in a high profile bitter call behnken investigation. This woman lost her 51,000 down payment for a home because her realtors email was hacked and hijacked. Shannon behnken joins us now for a followup to the story. I makes me ill. I dont know how you live with that. Just the pain of losing that much money. We savings here. She is looking everywhere for answers. Now, looks like a big company could also bear some blame here. He is the Vice President of bank of america. Reporter cheryl johnsons home buying dreams came to a screeching halt when she received an email from her realtor with wiring instructions for her down payment. The email sent from her realtors yahoo account really it redirected her 51,000 down payment straight to a crooks bank account. Even though johnson figured it out, Bank Officials refuse to stop the thief from withdrawing her money. Then came news last week from yahoo warning of one of the largest email hacks in history. It didnt take long before johnson made the connection. Now that you know about this yahoo hack, you have been let down by yet another giant yes. Yes. No one is looking out for little people. You know. 51,000 was my life savings. Reporter johnson just wants her money back. And has struck out with banks and real estate professionals. Now, she has questions for yahoo. I think these companies are letting consumers down. Reporter so i went to work trying to find someone at yahoo to address this. I called. I emailed. And finally, a spokesman called yahoo accounts for these types of transactions . Reporter he had no direct answer and insists yahoo is a victim here, too. Well, that sure doesnt make johnson feel any better. I would like to believe that yeah, i will get my money back. Reporter johnson ended up borrowing her down payment from family and friends but she needs to bet this money back so she can pay everyone back. What about Law Enforcement . Can they do anything . I know you have been reaching ou t cheryl says she has heard from state and federal agencies. There is an Ongoing Investigation now. There is also a Consumer Protection investigation. But like she said at the end there, she is hopeful she is going to get some money back, but it is still not looking good. Wow. It is troubles. Troubling indeed. And that yahoo hacking. Everybody is getting hacked. If you have a problem you think needs solving you better call behnken because she can help you out. 1855behnken is the telephone payment. Ahead, how to know if your moldy washing machine makes you eligible for a payout. Plus, an explosive cell phone problem. The Silver Lining samsung is putting on the recall. Vo we asked women in Pinellas County to describe congressman david jolly in one word woman 1 dangerous. Woman 2 backwards. Woman 3 outoftouch. Woman 4 thats 3 words. Vo david jolly shares Donald Trumps backwards agenda for women. Jolly opposes a womans right to choose and voted to defund planned parenthood and deny women access to basic Health Care Like mammograms and cancer screenings. Woman 5 i have 3 words for david jolly. Not for women. Vo House Majority pac is responsible the 2016 heart walk is around the corner. Newschannel8 is commit today your help. Fuccillo kia is raising the first 50,000 we raise. This walk is november 12 at Raymond James stadium. Go to wfla. Com heartwalk for details or to join stacies consumer alert. Front loading washing machines are facing class auction lawsuits over slimy black mold. If you bought a washer like that between 2001 and 2010, you could be entitled up to to a 50 cash payment, a rebate on your next machine or reimbursement for repairs. We have a list of the products on wfla. Com. Samsung is trying to negative news about the galaxy note 7. The company had to recall their new phone after reports of the batters catching fire. They claim 90 of the people affected by the recall are sticking with the note 7. That is, a new version of the phone that is not prone to catching fire. Most people have already turned in their faulty phones. Now to another 8 on your side consumer alert. Check your kitchen because tyson is recalling Chicken Nuggets because they could have this recall includes five and 20pound packages. Throw away the product or return it to the place where you bought it. And, new car mileage estimates will be dropping. Gas mileage estimates for about a third of all new vehicles sold in the u. S. Will fall by one mile per gallon. The government is changing the way it calculates in numbers. Largely because of vehicles being loaded up with more options. They use electricity and create drag on enne cars. Smart vehicles. Everything is in the car now. So many things. It takes you five years to figure it out. Josh benson here with what is up at 5 30. A 7,000 ticket prompted an uber driver to call 8 on your side. Many are arguing the tickets rules are confusing and unfair. And a wacky new color trend is making the rounds among kids. Ahead, 8 on your side looks as hair raising topic with your right now, on newschannel8 at 5 30. A heartless heist, burglars steal hundreds of dollars in jewelry from a charity that helps teenage fathers get ready for the school events. Im jennifer leigh. Im josh benson. Thank you very much for being with us tonight. That Charity Group called belle of the ball needs your help. Jamel lanee is live from clearwater where organizers are work working to get the jewelry replaced. It is an important time of the the year for that to happen. It is. Organizers say the jewelry complements the dresses and
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