Lets begin with your thanksgiving eve travel forecast. It is shipping a very nice for us this afternoon and this evening. It has been a gorgeous day. Max defender 8 confirming what we are seeing, just picture perfect weather. That is great news for anyone flying out of tampa international. Other parts of the country not so lucky. We are looking at a storm system causing fright flight delays at last check. Will be the main trouble issues for the rest of this wednesday. If you look at what were seeing, some flight delays in minneapolis, 20, 23 minutes, 22 minutes in chicago. Right now the northeast not too bad but that will be different tomorrow as the system continues to flight off slide off to these. This front has a trailing cold front that fronts trails all the once it gets to the south were not seeing too much rain. Here at home we are noting more cloudiness across our skies. Smda right now pretty comfortable in lakeland. 80 for bartow, 70 for tampa, 73 weeki wachee. Temperatures are pretty comfortable with a little bit more of an easterly flow. Partly cloudy skies tonight and fog developing. It looks like a bit of a foggy start for some of us afternoon more sunshine coming our way looking like a geek great thanksgiving , warm at 81 degrees. This is one of the busiest if not the busiest travel day of the year that means roadways and airports packed with people trying to get to their friends and families before the holiday. Within 48 million americans are expected to travel. Heres a we saw things running pretty smoothly. Flight board not showing any major delays or cancellations. Heres a look at the Chicago Ohare Airport which is expected to be one of the busiest travel hubs. Traveler started arriving early this morning. So far the lines are long but they are moving fairly quick. In the giant Hartsfield Jackson air in atlanta, lines are long but also moving. Last year this rp passengers on thanksgiving. They suggest carrying an empty water bottle through security than filling it on the other side to avoid extra cost. A Denver International they are expecting hundreds of thousands to pass the airport. If you are lucky, the way that security could be the shortest you could have ever encountered. Bad weather could snarl up the and restaurants all over the country will be packed. Thanksgiving eve is known as the busiest barhopping met of the year. Because this night is so crazy it also has a rather unique nickname, drunks giving. It is also called blackout wednesday. This is what it looked like last year on howard avenue. Lots of people partying and lots of police officers. Hotspots are expecting hundreds of people tonight. Storm. It is a really busy night for us, one of the busiest nights in the industry if not the busiest night in the industry for bars and restaurants. We are ready to have this place jamming. Police patrols will have a heavy resins running a dui check all over the bay area. The Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office track tracks the heaviest dui spots every year. There is a new number one in 2016. Aaa is helping out through sunday. If you need a ride aaa will tell your car for free within a 10 mile radius tell john tow your car for free within a 10 mile radius. You can see the number to call on the bottom of your screen. It is 8552869246. They stress they want yo resort. Wellman your finalizing the dinner planes, some argue bracing for black friday shopping. Shopping starts tomorrow in some places. Deal seekers are decamped out and waiting on the sales to start. Candace spoke with one of those campers. Reporter good afternoon. We are outside of the buspar on north dell maybury. The first person who set up here set up more than a week ago waiting to get inside on those door buster deals. We caught up with some of the people. The perfect the first person also they were here a week ago the 2nd person arrived here last night. We did stop by the 10th earlier today and it didnt appear anyone was inside. Id only leave when i have to give food. It is not like im leaving for 24 hours or something. Managers here at best buy say people can leave, going use the bathroom, going by food, but they are expected to stay on si better deals than usual this year and that is why people started lining out here earlier. They say it is all about the tvs. Right now we have breaking news, crashes blocking or major role way time roadway and palm harbor. Reporter we are in the 3300 block of us 19 and palm harbor. It looks like 2 vehicle a along care service on the left hand side of the screaming there is suv in the middle of the screen. I dont want to get closer because it has been listed as of the tallied in a not sure what the scene looks like fatality and i am not sure what the scene looks like. It looks like it is going be an okay evening as farce traffic is concerned that this is what we are seeing live in eagle 8 hd. Hundreds are still amazed across the sky late monday night. Dozens of videos popped up on social media catching the meteor passed by. He American Meteor Society received at least 105th the roof orts from all over florida the American Meteor Society received at least 150 reports from all over florida. That one took me by believe i caught that. It was a lucky perfect shot. It couldnt have been in a better setting. Witnesses say was also visible in georgia and alabama. A st. Petersburg family brought a newborn baby home from the hospital over the weekend only to be dealt a huge setback days later. A fire ripped through their home just after midnight. A neighbor let them know that their porch was on i believe we would have been smoked out. My newborn kid all that smoke probably would have killed my kids. Everyone is okay that is the good news things to the quick action of that neighbor that knocked on there will back door it is believed and electrical issue is what started the fire. Now, how do you avoid a kitchen fire . With the holidays they always increase. Thanksgiving. Rising drug prices we found out there are a lot of prescriptions that have gone up in price. What can you do about it . Do you know the number of kitchen fires triple on thanksgiving day period there is an average of 1300 kitc of the year. To cook your dinner safely try to avoid wearing clothing with long loose sleeves. Turn all panhandle stored the back of the stove. If youre cooking your birth in a turkey fryer, do it outside and away from your home. Amazon is giving customers the power of xray vision. The Smartphone App for iphone now lets customers scan the box means you can keep your gifts secured in their box you dont have to worry about your spouse or kids running christmas surprises. It only works on your own orders so thieves cannot see inside the box. Facebook is building a censorship tool in an attempt to gain a foothold in china. The software would lock certain posts from news feeds in some parts of the world. Facebook is curly the Company Claims the china strategy is silly working progress. Epipen recent price hike of 400 percent 2nd a lot of people who needed those epipens and a made headlines everywhere. But we did some digging and found other drugs have sarah did in prices as well. Heres tom meyer with some examples. Reporter this clevelander is worried sick about her cancer returning. Afford to drive. Reporter she said the drug jumped dramatically in price and is now costing her 650 out ofpocket for a 90 day supply. People like myself are unable to get the medication that they actually need to stay well. Reporter mark is in need of medication to treat crohns disease. He has had 8 surgeries including the removal of a 3rd of his small bowel. A cost of 5000 and the copay a 460 i simply cant afford it reporter he was forced to not use it. So what do you do . I suffer. Reporter his quality of life when down when the drug went up. It is one of the prescriptions that rose 2 billion last year. You are putting a price tag on peoples lives here hospital to stop using the drug and to evaluate others. We have seen longstanding critical medications go up thousand percent. It is no secret that joke drug prices have soared in the past few years. Figures are all over the map. This is not fair. This is a disgrace. Reporter we did our own review. 356 generic and brand name medications, half of drugs jumped in price by more than 50 percent, only 53 or 15 percent went down in price. The highest price in case, this acne treatment medicine went from . 10 a pill to 10 a pill expect the pharmaceutical manufacturing agency is not regulated. They can run amok and charge in the amount of money. Reporter Drug Companies are old drug and call it new. This allows them to extend patent, protect them from competition, and keep prices high. The ceo of touring pharmaceuticals became the poster boy of wall street greed. You raise the price of der prim from 13 from 13 750. Drugmakers are raking in huge profits do a lack of government oversight and influence peddling. It is really hard to have faith in washington when the Drug Companies have them in their back pocket. Drug companies are just spending the price hikes defending the price hikes saying that drugs are increasingly more expensive and i have to pass along that price. Spell for the last month or so. Max defender 8 still scanning the skies with the million watts of power and panning out a crystalclear seeing rain wise. We are noting a little bit more cloudiness but overall it has been absolutely gorgeous stretch of whether. Want to show you some video that was taken here for our photojournalists. Some people outside enjoying the iceskating. The ice rink is out there to remember you beautiful blue sky overhead. Looking good here at lakeland normal in polk county, 79 degrees. We are noting a little more cloudiness across our skies. Similar in story in conyers and conyerton. As we, through the rest of the evening we will also deal with a little bit of patchy fog by tomorrow morning. It will be mild or at 63. 81, a bit of a warm thanksgiving. 78 tampa with a westerly breeze breeze. Again, winds fairly light but with a little bit of an easterly flow we are adding just enough moisture into the atmosphere. That will lead to fall development. I tomorrow morning visibility could drop below a mile. A bit thanksgiving but no rain coming our way. Not the same story for the north. They are dealing with the nasty system. Our forecast is looking good aside from that foggy start. We will call it partly cloudy roughening. Temperatures are above average for this time of year. Will hit 81 for your high. A week frontal boundary will bring we have better rain chances by midweek next week. You dont want it over the holidays but the moms, everything needs it lawns, everything needs it. Corey and his girlfriend tie the knot in las vegas just 6 days after announcing their engagement. He wrote in a tweet happy to 2 today everybody everybody. Movie news from tinseltown and the starstudded manikin challenge at the white house mannequin challenge at the white house. Plenty of people are looking at 824. 2 a24 2 of it has shaq movies receiving awards. It will be held in february a day before the oscars from the beach in santa monica. Reese witherspoon is saying hello sunshine that is the name of a new company which she says would be female driven stories. Fans can sign up for updates. This may be the most high profile mannequin Ellen Degeneres tweeted out this photo. Seems no one can resist a good internet trend. If youre in the mood to plan out your black friday shopping we have some tools you can use to get the best deals out there. We will share those coming up at 4 30. Gathering. I am Gayle Guyardo. I will show you how to make the special slaw. First, the bucs have a plan. See how they are moving on without a suspended player. You can always get developments on the big stories of the most convenient primetime newscast every night on great 38 at 8. . . . Never drop to your knees, . . Look into the sky for a momentary high, . . You never even tried till its time to say goodbye, bye . . Everybody fights for a little bit of light, i believe. . Geico motorcycle, knowledge 2nd on your sports. Bucs getting excited for thanksgiving day. I asked some of the favorite thanksgiving day football memories and they said lines. He was a big lines kid growing up if they had fun with that one. There is some football to take care of. The next man up, that is the to replacing a player on the fly. Most of the time it means an injury. In case of the quarterback, it is a suspension. The 4 game suspension of june force a roster move on tuesday. Might did not tip his hand. They have spent a lot of with run and play him look at him to play a couple of spots against the seahawks. Have crossed trained to do. This option. We also made a roster room. I think we have. The lightning are playing at home. It is the opponent playing back toback on this one. The flyers were shut out last saturday. They got some muchneeded rest on tuesday following their 5 road trip. That 3 one of nashville still stings of it asap within a lot so you expect is a bit. We have to move all 32 shots worth stopped were stopped. The flyers won last night 3 one. There were 2 for 2 on the power play. Keep the flyers out of the net tonight. Shedding some light on his world and president elect donald trump administration. He is forthcoming about his role , quote, helping to make America Great again. Trump suggested he will lead the department of Public Public housing and urban development. Number 2 security is tight ahead of the macys thanksgiving day parade. Thousand of offices will line the street and there will be snipers on rooftops. There are no pacificare threats recently laid out how to for conducting a truck attack on this picture of the things can day parade, a caption excellent target. Number 3, published sheriffs deputies are searching for system tried to rob a boca raton Beauty Supply store. It all started when a masked man Charter School demanding a safe. The school didnt have one so the man robbed a nearby Beauty Supply store number 4, federal court blocked resident obamas plan to extend overtime pay. Critics say it is wrong that businesses can pay lowlevel managers as little as 25,000 a year without having to pay overtime. A coalition sued to block the rural which was scheduled to take effect now lets go straight to your storm team 8 meteorologist. A lot of people are on the road either heading out of the area, headed into the area for making a lastminute trip to the grocery store. I know how you feel. This is good news. Max defender 8 confirming that we have dry skies all over the area. It is a gorgeous scene for this afternoon and evening. Lakewood ranch, 75 degrees. We have a few more clouds then we have seen in nt. Flights getting out of the area in pretty good shape here, but there are delays. There is one in minneapolis and chicago ohare all thanks to rain snow shower at to be and gusty winds. Upper 70s is where we are sitting most of the area. Low 70s for weeki wachee. 77 inverness. Later on tonight we will have some scattered some scattered cloudiness. As across the area. It will be warm by the afternoon, 81 degrees with passing fairweather clouds. We will tell you what can you expect for the rest of your thing is getting in greater detail in a few minutes. A consumer watch after many stores were criticized for being open on thanksgiving day, most are going to stay close to this year leaving thanksgiving for feast and family. Mary isles for thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a tradition that is more about family and friends and gifts but retailers have been cutting into that precious time by opening up early on turkey day to entice shoppers. This year could be different. Dozens of National Retailers are deciding to stay closed on turkey day including popular stops like costco, and important than family. Publix has stayed close on thanksgiving. It does cut into business but at the end of the day our associates are more important to us at that point and it is important for them to have time to spend with their families. The changes used to forgo those lastminute morning sales by giving their employees the day off. Pet co. Will so we believe in putting our partners and associates first. Brett insist deals will still be there a day later and encourages people to spend time with their family and not in store isles. When you are ready for black friday shopping is time to make a game plan. Meredyth censullo put together 4 resources that you will need to maximize your savings. Black friday shopping. The first one is the black friday. Com. This was useful because it actually has specific deals that you may be interested in, camera deals, maybe one a while make want a waffle maker for free with the mailin rebate. This one also has all of the deals at Popular Stores like Bass Pro Shops for big lots. You can look first first if it for specific stores gh called nerd wallet. Com. This is a financial website but if you search black friday there are all sorts of resources including scans of popular ads like target as well as lowes and you can shop for a specific stores so maybe you have a teenager in your life who likes american eagle. You can see what type of deals they have. Tons of Stores Available on a site that has ads is black friday. Com. We also have a full list of tips. The top 10 toys. Maybe you are interested in that. Also, if you dont want to go out and shop you can stay in. See the stores with black friday sales on sale right now and then also stores with pre black friday sales. May be one screwed up this evening and take advantage of some deals. That is a good way to find out finally, if you are interested in knowing what stores are open on thanksgiving out what times as well as on black friday, we have whole story dedicated to just that right here on our website. Thanksgiving at black friday store hours. Check it out and everything you need to know is right there. Long before tv talent shows created a song that no one has forgotten about. When he retired he moved to tampa years ago and the other day he called keith cate and struck up a friendship. You cant help liking murder. He moved here merv. He moved here back in the 80s. He called me because a friend of his is visiting this weekend and he had a humble request hearing his story. . . Stephen your songwriter Mervyn Scheiner stevens singersongwriter Mervyn Scheiner began making hits back in the 1970s. A producer at decca records had to convince him to sing his biggest hit. I said i dont sing the stuff im a country singer. He said i dont care. He only made 50 off that now classic song but it made that said i got my friends at the grand old opry and i said oh my god incredible. He has recorded 124 songs and recorded with Country Music royalty. Look at all these records. Yes. Even same with the nashville new, dolly. To do know who she was . I had no idea who she was until i walked in the studio one day and there he became one of dollys biggest fans. You bought tickets for her tampa concert weeks ago. I would sure like to see her. It would be nice just to say hello. I shared his request with her people and guess what she autographed a picture and invited him to reunite backstage. He doesnt look or sound like a manned about to turn 96 result but then again why should he. Like peter cottontail he has been living life to the fullest with the bunny like spring in his step. . . I 1 00 every time i hear him sing. Thank you to dolly so kind to him. I plan to be with him on saturday when they reunite backstage and i will show you how that went next. It will be something else. He is almost 96 96 in february. He sounds great. So hes not at the same octave; right . He said he can sing that high. So we started talking on the phone and he starts throwing out names and i said i said i have to meet you. I actually had him sing 4 songs for us including that song. On tail. You can watch those clips and see this story get if you want. Casino my facebook page, go there, like and share with your friends. You can also see it on my homepage. You can also see it on my homepage wfla. Com. It is locked in my head now. Now it is time for weather and traffic on the 8s. Hello. Hope you are enjoying your afternoon. Activities that are taking place tomorrow that could affect your drive. We have turkey trot on thanksgiving. The first one is actually going to be in the south tampa area. This year will be closed down. How do you get around a . Were in a rush up to howard in the and you can take cleveland or plat to get to buy. This will be 6 30 a. M. To about 9 30 a. M. Trot. This is a 10k. This is the largest one. There are a lot of races here in clearwater but this is the main one. You will see portions of druid road, lake and keen blocked. This one is going to be from 6 30 until about 10 30 a. M. Until about 10 30 a. M. Have you ever been to the annual turkey trot . Back i havent . I am always i havent. I am a little warm for you runners. Temperatures will start in the low 60s on things getting. You can catch Leeann Leslie every week a morning with weather and traffic on the 8s starting at 4 30 a. M. With weather and traffic on the 8s starting at 4 30 a. M. Avoiding the food, on thanksgiving. We have registered dietitian here in the studio. I promise she is here. We will have helpful advice for you coming up and then you will want to stick around for these you probably see an impending food, on the horizon. A lot of people do but it doesnt have to be the case. Today we have some answers. Joining me now with best tips on how to avoid over stuffing ourselves because isnt that what you do on thanksgiving is registered dietitian abigail. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much. In this meal almost more than any other day of the year. The food is just outlook forward to it all day as well. Im with you. Lets start with our first big reminder which is this is one day of the year. Dont feel guilty just enjoy. This is a day to splurge. It is not like it is one awesome day where you will suddenly sit down to a diet meal. To stick, full but the best thing you can do is not over stuff yourself i have is to eat reckless. This is not the day to stuff yourself. Anytime you let your stomach thing for your eyes and when you are just absolutely starving, it is not a good idea. Have reckless. Get protein, healthy fats, maybe some avocado on your breakfast and some good clean carbohydrates and what about dessert . You portion yourself out. Wait for a little while before you go for seconds. If you can wait for 2 or 3 hours before going for dessert so you actually know helpful you are because it takes about 20 minutes for your stomach to register. If you just eat the big meal you wo drinkwater. Have some snacks during the meal. It will help feel your stomach up so that it is not all food but it will help you patient self. Fabulous. Happy thanksgiving. So much , you too. We have been on a nice trick the weather. This is a view from plantation crystal river. Some people out and about enjoying the day hanging by the pool. This is how you enjoy the holiday in central florida. Gorgeous weather, 77 degrees right now. Max defender 8 is scanning the skies right now in a clean sweep all over our region. That is great news for people flying out of travel hotspots right here in the great lakes, the midwest. That is where we have storm system sliding through. We will get a few spotty delays told toward the gulf coast. If youre waiting until tomorrow to do your traveling we will look at some threat areas. In the northeast they will deal with rain and snow shower activity and gusty winds. There is a new storm system moving into the pacific northwest. This will bring some wind driven rain. Portland and seattle. We will keep our eye on that and letting you know. Here at home passing clouds at 9 am or we will be a 71 degrees. 63, a milder morning ahead. We could see some patchy fog when you step outside the door tomorrow. 81 for the afternoon. We start to lose the daylight with visible satellite the you can note increase in cloud cover, a little bit more of an easterly flow driving and moisture from the atlantic. Warm temperatures out there. We have upper 70s still quite cota here is our forecast, the easterly flow will continue to bring in the moisture. Again we will have patchy dense fog. If youre traveling on area interstates you may run into that. Its a similar story as we go into friday morning as well. By the time we get into the afternoon we have weak frontal boundary approaching the area. Quick track check of Tropical Storm auto now temperatures back down to normal for the weekend. If you dont want to show up to your is giving gathering emptyhanded, Gayle Guyardo has a recipe you can whip up in no time. Reporter maybe you have been asked to bring a side dish to your thanksgiving celebration. We have an easy one for you today. It is a special slot the secret ingredient, brussels sprouts but it really comes down to the dressing. This is trending on Pinterest Justin time for thanksgiving, brussels sprouts slaw with vinaigrette. You can add ingredients to taste. You can add Different Things to it. I add drying dried cranberries or pomegranate. You can also put diced apples of mixing everything up, adding whatever you want to a mixture of radicchio, lettuce and sprouts. You can by the shredded if you dont want to go through the trouble of doing it yourself . She says you simply miss mix in your fruits , your walnuts and her secret is the dressing. For vinaigrette you can buy your own or whatever your brand is. For me i made my own with apple cider vinaigrette, oil and a little bit of mustard. Now it is time for thanksgiving. Until next week, happy pinning. I think that would count as healthy on thanksgiving. If you want to grab this recipe go to her pinterest page. You will find it pinned under her gaels guide to pinterest hey is this enough . A little more. Grandma there you go. Theres no more room. Oh look whos here hows it looking . 20 more minutes. 8, 9. We need 1 more yes. Lets enjoy. We need more rolls there was a little girl, and she became friends with every animal she met. Its getting late, grandma should go. One more . In the end, all we really need more of, is each other. Giving from publix. Lets take a look at whats trending online today just in time for thanksgiving. A trending turkey, why not . Thomas gobbles is a wild celebrity turkey in casper, wyoming. He is in a butterball and can often be found around casper college. He likes to chase cars and has an appetite for mischief. He rules the roost, strutting page with over 1500 followers. The vienna zoo unveiled the names of twin baby pandas and the story is trending today. The mail is called fuban meaning lucky companion and the female was named fufang which means lucky phoenix. The official nameplates were unveiled in vienna. This little guy is a newborn pygmy hippo in england. You can choose his name. Zookeepers have narrowed it down to derek, george, walter, or norbert. If you want to help name the baby hippo, find the story on our channel late facebook page. Now its time for news channel 8 at 5 00. Right now on news channel 8 at 5 00 thanksgiving day. Which stores are open and which ones will be closed tomorrow. And a certain kind of crime on the rise near the holidays. What landed two people so far in handcuffs. And a boy with a big heart does Something Special with birthday presents. The reason he is now getting love from lakeland pd. I am stacie schaible. Thank you for joining us today. The Holiday Shopping rush is on. Grocery stores are packed with people picking up lastminute food items and tomorrow many bay area retailers will be open for business. Je idea of what will be open and what will not be open. Reporter you are right about that. Publics and other Grocery Stores were packed today. This parking lot is jammed right now. There was a waiting line to get into the parking lot but since the 1930s, publix has never been open on thanksgiving and they will not be open tomorrow to allow employees to stay with families. But a lot of stars are open on thanksgiving and some with big
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