Forecast. Thank you, jen. And this afternoon, much like we have been seeing the past few daysno rain on, not tracking any showers or storms. We have entered into the dry season now. Here is the view from newport ritchie. No rain at this location and pretty much expect mostly dry conditions for us for the rest of this warm. Were in the mid to upper 80s. It is 89 in bradenton. 86 in tampa. Sitting at 86 currently in inveerness. So a warm afternoon a nice breeze coming in out of the northeast to help cool you off a little bit. Notice the winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. We have seen gusts up to 20 at times, close to 30. In brandon as of the last check. Well expect that to continue football for the friday night blitz. At kickoff, just a stray shower is possible. Talking about rain chances less than 10 . Most of these games should go on just fine. Nice quiet conditions, and a nice night overall. By the time were leaving the game, well be in the mid 70s. For the rest of the evening, expect things to look nairly quiet. When you wake up tomorrow morning, youll be in the low 70s, topping out in the upper 80s by weekend forecast coming up in a couple of minutes. Jo a memorial sits where ashley was hit on wednesday night while trying to cross hillsboro avenue. The driver who hit her never stopped. The florida Highway Patrol blamed her for the accident. She ran into the president of my vehicle, you know what i mean . There was nothing i could do. Nothing you could have done or anyone else. It was just she made the decision to apparently run across a busy highway in the dark, no cross section. And that was the unfortunate tragic consequences, her dying. Reporter Highway Patrol confirming she was crossing walk so had he stopped, he probably wouldnt have even got an ticket. In hillsboro county, news channel 8. Well, a plant city driver accused of slam ing into a lakeland home is facing a judge today. Bond for ryan tall season now set at more than 150,000. Were now told that talent was wasted behind the wheel when his truck flew off of fitzgerald road yesterday bedroom. The 76yearold janice folds died instantly. The 24yearold suspect has a long criminal record, including a dui back in 2009. Also in court today, wild west hogs. A man accused of kidnapping a 4 yearold polk county girl. The judge set bond for the man. If he posts that bond, he will also have to wear a gps monitor. He was transported back to florida from tennessee just yesterday. He along with little earlier this week. Legoland is back open today after a bomb scare shut down the park. The threatening note also forced the evacuation of the legland hotel. By late afternoon, the Winter Haven Police gave an all clear that means that the hotel guests were allowed to return. The officials will work with the park to either reschedule their tickets or get a refund. Winter haven police are still investigating where that note floridas mailin ballots are in the hands of voters right now, but here is the question. Are they legal . We explore this controversy from our capital bureau. Reporter should your mail in ballot vote get thrown out because your handwriting has changed . The state and national and democratic parties dont think so and they took their case t that people with mismatching signatures are given the same chance to correct it that people with missing signatures on mailin ballots. There is no reason to treat those two categories of voters differently. Reporter the same judge in this case ruled earlier this week to extend floridas voting registration deadline. Todays upcoming tuesday, because of hurricane matthew. Reporting in tallahassee. Well, the trail along the pedestrians and bicyclist whose want to cross over at bay shore boulevard. The d. O. T. Just awarded the city of clearwater 1. 4 million in grant money. It is planning on building an overpass as well as bay shore. That section, if you travel down the Courtney Campbell causeway, you know how busy that section is. Rites now what the pedestrians and bicyclists have to do is push a button, d seconds to get across. Reporter and this new overpass is part of a major project to connect the trails. The engineers are working to come up with a new design. And all of this is very interesting. Beginning november 1, you can no longer wear glasses in your u. S. Passport photo. The state Department Just announced that it is now banning pass worths and visa applicants from wearing eye photos. The change will help eliminate glares and shadows that can lead to delays in processing. Last year more than 200,000 people the submitted poor quality photos. You may soon find mickey mouse on your bag of apples or ironman on your bunches of fresh broccoli. Guess who is going into the produce business . All of that and more, next. Plus, it is the friday night blitz. Were hosting a spirit rally say the least. Find out why this Football Game is supporting and sporting sibley rivalry that is next on now for your consumer watch at 4 00, if youre somebody you know what has a honda, theyre civic coups and sedans. Aparently the problem is all because of parking brake issues. If the parking brake is not working properly and the driver does not put the car in park, the vehicle can reportedly roll away. Honda says it will repair the vehicles for free. And as if it couldnt get any worse for samsung, the south koreaian Electronics Giant is now predicting as much as 3 billion in operating profits simply going up in smoke over the this all after it ditched the exploding galaxy note 7. It is one of the biggest and most expensive in history. And your local produce aisle could soon look like youre at the movies, dole and disney have teamed up to launch new cobranded fresh produce. It will be featuring iconic characters from disney, pix ar, star wars, even marvel. It is all an effort to support parents as they encourage kids that new produce will be available this fall. And coming up, well get a closer look at your first at 4 00 weather and several new movies are in theatres this weekend, including a new ben affleck movie. Were going to have a Box Office Preview right after weather. And coming up in first at 4 00 sports, a big Opening Night win for the lightning. Find out what they say is the secret to their success. You can also get developments on all of todays biggest stories with bays most convenient prime time newscast. It is every weeknight over on great 38 at 8 00 p. M. Come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes. Better yet, come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes at half price. During halfprice happier hour, weekdays, now two to five. Afternoon for the bay area. You can see that as you take a look on max defender 8. Not much to talk about in the bay of rain. It is going to be a quiet evening. You currently see nice and quiet conditions across the entire tampa bay area. Here is the view from venice. 86 degrees with fair weather clouds around. Our winds fairly light coming in out of the eastnortheast at five to 10 miles per just a few couple l. S. U. Clouds around as well. For the rest of this evening it is going to stay petty warm. The temperatures are still in the 80s for most of us. Well be left with partly cloudy skies. A slim chance at 10 or less. Lots of sunshine to begin the day, but already were a little bit on the warm side, starting off in the low 70s like we did this morning. By the afternoon hours, well top out in the upper 80s. Overall looking great. There is a slightly higher chance that you could see a few afternoon showers and storms popping up. Still looking at pretty dry air around. That bright red color you see is the dry air in the atmosphere. That has been what is preventing the showers. Thats why it has been nice and quiet. Heading into this weekend, it does change a little bit. Not much rain. The northeastly flow continues. When you wake up tomorrow morning, it should be a pretty quiet start to the day and then as we hours, notice isolated showers and storms moving across the bay area. Calling for just about a 20 chance of rain a lot of us are not going to see any. Dont be surprised if you do see a passing shower with the rain chances being higherment sunday morning, there will be a dry start again a little warm to begin the day and by the afternoon hours, well bring back up our rain chances to around 20 or so. Heading into next week, they drop back down to 10 so pretty you will be lucky if you do see some rain. Hurricane nicole, the only thing in the tropics. Max winds at 80 miles per hour, still making it a category one storm. 18 measure. Again, not going to be impacting the u. S. Besides maybe slightly higher surf along the coast. This Hurricane Season has been a busy one. Check out the numbers. 14 named storms so far this season. We have seen six hurricanes and three major hurricanes. It has been not over just yet. For rest of this weekend, again, those rain chances near 20 . Dropping back a bit into the start of next week and then by the end of next week, well raise our rain chance as bit and were watching for the potential to see our next cold front roll through. So by the following weekend we could actually be seeing some cooler, even more fall like temperature which is, hey, will be a nice change. By cold front, you mean lows in the 60 . No probably, yes a is possible. Thank you. We appreciate that. Looking for movie this weekend . We have a preview of what is now showing. This guy risks his life. Im cooking the books for some of the scariest people ton planet. A cpas ocd could make him k. O. Doa in the accountant. His Beautiful Mind makes him employee of the more to the most dangerous criminals and it. It is rated r. Kevin hart is a high roller in who now. The comedian follows up his 2013 concert film with this offering which was filled in a 50,000seat stadium in philadelphia. It is rated r. The wife works for you. No, she is the boss. Who running the world . Girls and certain women. Four women at odds with a male dominated society and it is patience and determination for them to define themselves with the expectations. You can use your energy in many different ways. Max feel. A teenager discovers his body can generate energy resulting from experiments done by his missing father, so when he teams up with a space robot baby sitter, they become a powerful force ready to take on inevitable evil. It is rited pg1. That is the Box Office Preview. To the movies, there are a whole lot of other things going on in the bay area this weekend. If you are looking for something to do, 8 on your side, guess what . We have answers for you. Joining me now with the weekend buzz is katie summers from 99. 3 w. F. L. Z. You look awesome. You look awesome. You are always sexy dressed. Why thank you i like it. Tell us what is coming up . What can we expect for the coming off the win, we have another lightning game. The new jersey devils. You can still get tickets. They start at 20. Sunday, a transition. We have amy schumer. An the tickets are still available. Those are like 25. What about if youre looking for something scary for october, halloween . Im all about that. I want like leggings, Pumpkin Spice lattes and creatures of the night is at the zoo. And this is a not so scary the animals into the Radio Station it was so cute . Really. A screech owl and a take ranch la. I said keep it there. And it is not so scary. All right. And ill take that. Keep them away. This is the farm in bradenton. This is the 25th annual. This is like what you think of fall. Pumpkin patch. Vendors. It is like 10 do get in. Saturday and sunday from oh, they start at, i have this time, 9 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. . Oo. Very family fiendly. And thank you so much. Thank you. That is your weekend preview. In the meantime were teaming with the station, 99. 3, during High School Football season. And lets go local High School Football absolutely. Were bringing you the friday night blitz spirit rally. As of right now prepping for an epic bat well their own cross town rivals plant city. And we explain why these students are not just playing for more than just school pride. We are out here at Plant City High School and, as you can see, the kids are so excited, it is a sea of orange. This is a crosstown rivalry game between Plant City High School pride. They are playing for the redman cup which has a pretty interesting story. The two principals at the rival high schools have a whole lot more in common than just their job title. And the principals are sisters. Friday night well be on opposite sides of the field. But well walk over and talk to the other one. I spent time ton grant side an side. It is a good rivalry. We always tend to play harder, step up our game. Reporter tonight it is a battle between two teams ton gridiron and two sister force the james l. Redman cup, named after their late father, a die hard football fan. As for who will take home the cup tonight . If history repeats itself, plant city has won it six times and grant has won it three so tonight at 7 30 and well see who gets to take home the redman cup for another year. News channel 8. Now lets check on your first at 4 00 sports with mr. Dan lucas. Im guessing youre going to talk about lightning. First of all, those students at plant city this morning, that is a huge rivalry, by the way. Plant city, durant. We have a few massive games tonight on the fridays night blitz, nt rant and plant city. By the hockey team, how about those bolts, huh . One win in the books and it was fun one for any lightning fan who made it out to the arena or watched on television. For all of the good things that came out of that 64 win, there is one aspect of the lightnings performance that is off to a roaring start, and thats the power play. They converted barely 15 of their opportunities all season. Last night the bolts scored three power play goals on six attempts. 50 on six power plays that is through the roof. And for one night a onetime problem looks like it has found a solution. Well, i think we have been working on a lot in the preseason. We talked about it. We had to have better execution. It wasnt acceptable what we did last season. And i thought we did a pretty can roll out there and theyre both dangerous, it is pretty potent because regardless of who we throw out there, a pretty dangerous group. We have three goals ton power play. And it is huge for our confidence and were all getting traffic and shots. The tampa bay storm find themselves in a very awkward position today. They are one of just four case of the orlando predators shutting down. This morning the a. F. L. Released a statement saying the league will press on and seek expansion in cities with established pro sports franchises. But right now it does not look good for the Arena Football League in 2017. Now, the storm operate under the umbrella of the amly arena and the tampa bay lightning. The expansion has the backing of the nhls washington capitals. So thats helping i wouldnt them stay afloat cutting their costs. Is there any chance they can survive . The Arena Football League has a history of Financial Issues and problems. They shut down in 2009. There was no season. They came back strong, had expansion. Now this Business Model has failed. I dont know how the league survives this. There is a competing league. The indoor Football League which has taken many of the teams from arena football, they are getting ready for a massive 2017 so this is not good right thats what i want to know. Four teams right now. Yeah, it is not good. Were going the lean on you for the answers, danny. Right now for headlines at 4 30. The Florida Supreme Court just ruled a death sentence require as unanimous jury. Today the court struck down a newly enacted law allowi death as long as 10 out of 12 jurors recommended it. That decision, it immediately puts floridas Death Penalty sentencing law in limbo. Starting today you can bring home all of the cuban cigars and rum you want. They are lifting the decades old 100 limit on cuban rum and cuban cigars brought into the United States from cuba and other countries. However, you cannot order cuban them shipped to your home. Number three today, a close encount were a great white shark off the coast of mexico is now going viral a man who manage as Youtube Channel caused gabe and garrett posted this video yesterday. Yikes it shows this shark breaking an underwater diving cage. The diver inside the cage at the time, well, thank godness, he managed to escape. Were told hurt. Four today, floodwater from hurricane matthew. It continues to rise in parts of North Carolina. This is the town of princeville that sits on the tar river that river crested earlier today. Noaa officials believe that small creeks and straps surrounding the nearby rivers are now backed up and there is nowhere for the extra water to go. Well, cold and flu season, it is officially here leaving a lot of us trying to spot those sick. Today nbcs jeff rossen and his team set up a little challenge for us hitting three big cities, also testing Public Transportation in every city. What spots were the cleanest and what spots were the dirtiest . Jeff tells us he has never seen results quite like this. Reporter were hitting the road in chicago. Taxi reporter in los angeles, and new york city. Swabbing for ges buses and trains. Where will we find the most germs and the least . Armed with our official bacteria meter, were about to find out. First up, new york city. Im swabbing this bus poll. You think of all of the people who grab on this this every single day. Health experts say any reading oh, no. 195, nearly double the bacteria limit you want to see. All of those people all day and theyre not wearing gloves. Lets see if we have better luck in this new york city taxi. It is grimy. All right. Lets test this seat, shall we . 62 on the seat, which is below that magic 100 number. Within acceptable bacteria limits here. Go, new york city and im nervous because were about to test the place with th and just a guy swabbing for germs w