Im josh benson. And im Stacie Schaible. This is first at 4 00. Right now it is still warm and really muggy outside. But this rain is making way for a huge drop in temperatures overnight. So for the latest on that, lets go to meteorologist julie phillips. Good afternoon, stacie. The rain is slow to move in this afternoon. It is bringing with it decent showers across the area. Here is a look at the plantation on crystal river. We have picked up 1. 6 inches of rain. Areas to the south not so much. Right here we have seen decent rainfall totals today. Here is the cold front were tracking, moving into the tampa bay area. We have been dealing with the clouds all day long. The rain was slow to move in. The cold front easing along. But the showers and storms have finally arrived. Not a ton of lightning with this. We are dealing with downpours in tampa bay. In the northern spots, we have Lightning Strikes in Citrus County. Tracking very heavy wayne through Wesley Chapel and pasco. But theres more rain behind it. And the showers extend from pebble creek to Temple Terrace and rain moving into south tampa right now. So if youre in eastern Hillsborough County, the rain is headed your way and should be there in the next 30 minutes. The southern areas, youre wondering where is the rain. Its coming your way and you will likely see scattered showers through the evening hours as it pushes in. The other big change is the temperatures. Were still in the upper 70s in the inland areas. Check out the northern spots. We have dropped back to the mid 60s. As we take a step farther back, were in the 50s in the northern spots and looking at a prolonged cold smell ahead spell ahead. We will look at the Governor Scott wants action before the zika virus starts to spread. Right now there is a Public Health emergency in place in five counties. That includes Hillsborough County because a dozen cases have been reported in the state. He wants test kits for the virus. Until now and right now the state only has enough to test 475 people. 4,000 more kits are being ordered by the department of health. We will continue to be in constant communication with local hospitals, county Health Offices and the cdc to ensure that were prepared to prevent the spread of the zika virus in florida. Anyone can get the zika virus from a mosquito bite. Most people will never know it. They wont even feel sick. Birth defects have been reported by women who contracted the virus outside of the united states. So far it has not shown up in a mosquito here. To be safe the governor is asking for training to hospital workers in the next several weeks. Parenthood want their state funding and they dont mind protesting to get it. This is the Group Standing outside of a Senators Office in lakeland today. They went there to oppose pending legislation in tallahassee that would strip the group of funding. They claim it would only hurt womens access to health care. A bill sponsored by kelly star clinics. Get ready for the no drone zones in the skies this weekend. All quad copters are banned from the skies this weekend. John roberts tells us why. Reporter good afternoon. Its a sign of the times. It needed to be done because these drones are becoming so increasingly popular. So this weekend, this whole river walk will be filled with tens of thousands of people for the boat races out here in the water. Along with that, there will be a helicopter flying above looking for manatees. Since the helicopter is up drones getting in the way of the helicopters. Thats one reason why they dont want them out here. Also obviously, they dont want them crashing into the participants out in the water. This weekend there be local Law Enforcement and the fbi patrolling and looking for drones. If a drone is spotted, the races will be stopped until the drone is removed from the area. If youre coming down for the races, leave the drones at home. John rogers, news channel 8. Today rain or shine, the show will go on. Today is opening day for the Florida State fair. Thats where we found rod carter live at the state fairgrounds in Hillsborough County. Great assignment today, rod. Reporter you know what, when you say rain or shine, you mean it. Its been sprinkling off and on. Theres so much to do here. So much food. Oh, look. Somebody left me pizza. Wasnt that nice . Lets go for a walk. See and do out here at the fair. Namely you can just eat, which is what i plan to do. These guys just got pizza. Pizza is good, right . Whats up . You can get quesadillas. You can get lemonade. You can go on rides. I feel im taking people on a tour of the fair. Honestly its a great place to come out and have a great time with your friends and family. Theres so much to see and do, not just eat. Theres a white house display. Get your picture taken in the oval office, if you will. Theres another display that we will tell you about at 5 00. Africanamerican history. Im really having a hard time with this whole story, trying to talk and eat and that guy is running behind me. You got the assignment for the day. Beverages. Just kidding. Bring us some back, please. If youre looking for performance schedules, ticket prices or operating hours, we have all of that on our website. Find it at wfla. Com. Still ahead on first at 4 00. Subways 5foot long, not anymore. Why the sub shop is changing its tune. Terrifying video of a Lightning Strike. Look at this video. Wow. We will show you that coming up on first at 4 00. I dont know what im doing. I cant find anything just when i think its just comes over and asks can i help you . And he was so happy, to do it amazing right . I never would have expected would have thought that anyone would find that do that. Make that go out of their way for me. Right then, right there i couldnt believe it he was so helpful i know its such a small thing little thing. Simple thing but it made me smile made me happy made my day share your story. Publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. Now more first at 4 00. Starting today, subways foot long sandwiches are no longer 5 as the catchy slogan says because of the cost of rise in ingredients, its now 6. It launched the 5foot long it has traditionally taken place this month and other times as well. If you have a dirt devil vacuum, watch out. 47,000 are being recalled because they can shock you. These are the dirt devil total cyclonic vacuums look like that. There is aproning that can come off outside of the electrical outlet. Replace dirt devil for a free replacement vacuum. Brace for more fast and furious and a broadway tune on grammy night. David daniel has that and more in todays hollywood minute. Reporter make that three last rides. Fast and furious producer and star vin diesel has confirmed release dates for three more films in the franchise. He completed a series of instagram posts by declaring the trilogy will hit theaters 2021 respectively. The first 7 films in the franchise have grossed 4 billion worldwide. [music] reporter hamilton is giving the grammys a shot. The l. A. Awards tell cast begins with a Live Performance from the shows new york theater. The opening number might not be the only grammy moment. It is up for best musical theater album. Once upon a time there was a Little Prince who lived on a planet that was bigger than himself. I thought i would never find anyone that wanted to hear my story. Reporter the Little Prince has made history. The first animated movie to open the Santa BarbaraFilm Festival in the 30year history. The movies subject and International Flavor are perfect for the fest and star jeff bridges is a Santa Barbara native. Hie im david daniel. Overnight. We will have the forecast coming up next. Then do you remember these . Well, while phones may change, one social media site seems to be hanging on. We will tell you how this site actually changes or changed day today life coming up. We are hoping for another big win from the bolts. We will take you along before they hit the ice against the penguins. This is first at 4 00 on news channel 8 and we will be right joining us now for another look at our crazy weather. Wet today and then it will be cold. It cant make up its mind, julie. It cant. We had temperatures in the 80s to start the week. A different story this weekend. The winter clothes. If you like enjoy it. If you like bad weather, enjoy that. If you like sunny weather, you get that too. And thought where is the rain. It is here. We actually have cool video. Not from the tampa bay area but nasty weather in australia. A Lightning Strike that scares a couple of weather wanters there. Nick and danielle had decided yes. They told the television station they felt the static from the lightning. Whoa. Not a good situation there. Thankfully they did not take the boat out. Always Pay Attention to the Weather Forecast before you head out in the water. Tomorrow probably not a great day either. After the rain clears out, tomorrow morning will be sunny but much cooler. Temperatures down into the 40s. Check out those winds, coming in out of the north between 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour. So its going to be chilly throughout the day. We only make it up to 60 in the afternoon hours. Beautiful blue sky. With the cooler temperatures and the stronger winds, its definitely going to be a brisk day. Currently out ahead of the cold front were tracking. You can see the showers and storms have moved on shore pushing east across the tampa bay area and portions of Citrus County and also the eastern portions of Citrus County. Tracking heavy rain moving through dade city, heading for zephyrhills and some outs in the gulf pushing in. If you like the rain, you will see a couple bit more in the next couple of hours. Just starting to see rain move into manatee, sarasota county. Its just taking longer to get to you. Theres the front moving south to us. After midnight tonight, the rain chances are over with. When you wake up tomorrow, it will be dry. The north winds bringing in the cooler air. Were in the 40s for pretty much all of us. And breezy throughout the day which makes it feel even cooler. Lots of sunshine. As we head into saturday, notice the cloud cover returns. It will be partly sunny. Saturday afternoon and saturday evening as well. But the rain chances looking lower than what we first thought. And then this area of low pressure really starts to develop east of us. Thats why the rain chances are not so great. It develops in the atlantic. North winds behind the system and its chilly again for super bowl sunday. Just stay inside is probably what you will want to do. Low 60s and notice temperatures in the 50s and 60s for all of next week as well. Thanks, julie. Today is facebooks 12th birthday. Its celebrating by declaring it friends day and giving users a personalized video with videos of their friends. I liked mine. How has facebook changed the way that we communicate . Today 8 on your side has answers. Jonathan sellers from illuminate local is here. Thank you for being other thank you for being here. When i woke up this morning, what was it like back then . I went back and i thought what were the smart phones like back then . It was really surprising because it was it was the color blackberries and the color palms. So the color screens had just become a screen. 3g was available for the first time. Look at that. I remember those. And 1. 3 megapixel cameras is what we were clamoring for. And now how many megapixels are we at. 12, 14, 18, 20, depending on the phone. Thats why our pictures are so good. Definitely. And now were talking about 4g internet. Were actually talking about in the not so distant few fur 5g. We have wireless Internet Access everywhere. And throughout this through this this all happened over the 12 years. Like the whole infrastructure changed. I dont go a day without checking facebook personally. There are a lot of people that they really have changed how we communicate, interact with each other. In fact, we have three things that you think that facebook has changed our lives daytoday. The three are connectivity, communication, and access. Those are the three. Absolutely. So connectivity. Think about it. If you were 30 years old in 2004, you didnt have a way of connecting with all of the people that you went to college and high school with. If youre 30 years old today, you probably are connected to every one of them. Interaction, you know, if you wanted to go out and set up a meeting, lets meet up somewhere with a group of friends. You had to call everybody, accepted a text message. Now one person makes a post on facebook and youre there. You post an event, Everybody Knows it. You can remind them automatically. And access to information right at your fingertips. That is the biggest thing. It has changed the way that we find out information. Information and entertainment. Really it taylors it to what we interesting stuff. Thank you. Appreciate t. Also today facebooks popular messaging service whats app claims it has topped the 1 billion user mark worldwide. Thats up from 900 million in september. Facebook paid 19 billion for whats app in 2014 but the service has yet to figure out how to make money. Lets head over now i miss the nokia ring tone. Do you remember that one. Lets talk about the super bowl. When the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers on sunday most of us will be hitting the buffet line. Erica edwards shows us how to have a lot of fun while watching what we eat. Super bowl, baby. Reporter the only thing that gets football fans fired up more than their favorite teams playing in the super bowl is the food that goes with it. Couples, beers chips, beers, yeah. Bowl menu is so filling that some estimate a person can consume as many as 2,000 calories on game day. I start my diet the following morning. Reporter one of the biggest culprits is the chicken wing. Three to five can have as many as 300 calories and no one only eats three to five. Chicken wings are calorie and fat grenades. Reporter lisa suggests replacing wings with chicken tenders. Also swap out sour cream and dips for greek yogurt and stick with light beer. The higher alcohol content of the beer, the higher calorie content of the beer. Reporter and the best defense against an entire bowl of chips and dip ending up on your end zone is a plate. Experts say fill it up once and then turn your back on the buffet table and get back into the game. Super bowl sunday is considered the second largest day of Food Consumption in the country. It really is just one day. Indulge a little and get back on track on monday. Reporting in charlotte, North Carolina clearly without any bias whatever, im erica edwards. You can add peas to guacamole. Think of that. But it adds nutrients and proteins and helps it stay the green color as well. If youre curious who the manatees choose to win on sundays game, they like the broncos this year. They live at the mote aquarium. He has picked 7 out of 8 in pastaers. I think its buffet like jimmy buffet. Ive got buffet on my mind. Super bowl. Speaking of buffets, hey, this guy. How many Football Games have those manatees watched. I did not know that. Welcome. My super bowl pick is my producer says buffet. Were talking about hockey now. Okay. The Tampa Bay Lightning plays 14 games in february. The shortest month of the year. Fortunately that comes on the heels of the allstar breaks so the bolts are fresh. Which is convenient because break time is over. The bolts already back at practice this afternoon, just 12 hours after beating the red wings 31. Tampa bay hosts pittsburgh tomorrow. For now they can savior the critical win against their division rival. The first 20 minutes after a break like that its a feel out process. And i think we came out and kind of felt it out and that second we picked it up. It was a big game. One of the bigger ones of the year, if not the biggest. You have to take care of the home ice when you have a chance like we did tonight. And theyre a good team. Any time that you can beat them in regulation and take the two points, its good. Enjoy it for a couple seconds and get ready for pittsburgh. Its crunch time. To get a win against detroit is huge. Tampa bay took advantage of the power play chances against three opportunities. The bolts are middle of the road with the extra man this season, converting at a 19 clip. Last night that unit looked especially dangerous. In this kind of game, its kind of a playoff game and you need to score on the power play and give you some momentum. For us to score on the power play like we did, get the big opportunities, thats human. We need a lead against that team. You can play a little more defense and kind of rely on that. I thought we did a great job of that. Ultimately our special teams won us the game. You know, i know they only had two power plays but we kept them off the board and the pp came out with two and that was the difference. The usf Womens Basketball but discussing the victory is kind of burying the lead. Courtney williams was the reallied. The senior guard pulled down 15 rebounds and scored 28 points, including three she will never forget. Williams goes into the corner fires a 3 from the right wing and it swishes. 2,000 career points for williams. Williams entered 28 points shy of a milestone. She left it with exactly 2,000 career points. Courtney is one of only 11 active players to score that many and just the second bull to do so. I was hyped that i made the shop because coach drew the playup. He was like my teammate wished whispered in my ear, if you make this shot, its 2,000. Thats hype. Im feeling hype right now. The bulls take on temple this sunday. I think the numbers speak for themselves. T