And mr. Riggins was transported to the hospital with life threatening injuries. The investigation was for the sale of illegal drugs. A big story to keep on eye on now is the tropics as the tropical depression nine continues to churn out there. Its still a tropical depression as of the 11 00 update. A memt information from the Hurricane Center still 35 Miles Per Hour winds and a lot of more convection and thunderstorm activity. The Hurricane Hunters flew in and said the organization isnt any better than it was yesterday. Still keeping it at a tropical depression and another Hurricane Hunter is scheduled to go in this afternoon and see if it actually has strengthened to a Tropical Storm. The latest forecast coming in as of 11 00 this morning. Its now pushing to the west hour really starting to make that turn to the north. So sometime today or tomorrow it becomes a Tropical Storm and makes the turn back to the north or east. It has 50 Miles Per Hour winds by the time you head into thursday morning just off the big bend coastline from the panhandle towards tampa, it crosses over the northern portion of florida back into the Atlantic Ocean by 8 00 in the morning on friday. Tht coastline. Watch what happens as far as the wind speeds are concerned. This is from the Hurricane Center just coming in as of 11 00. This yellow shaded area is where they expect Tropical Storm force winds. They should be in Citrus County and further to the north we get an on shore wind in places like the metro area of tampa and st. Pete and during the high tide on for coastal communities on top of extremely heavy rainfall throughout the day tomorrow and thursday. Flooding is our biggest concern. 68 inches of rain through friday. Flooding, high surf and strong winds are the biggest threats for this starting tomorrow. Thank you very much. Continuing to track the tropics our Team Coverage continues with how many people are preparing for that who knows inches of rain coming. Sandbags are available for pick up throughout the bay area but before you head out, there are a few things you need to know. Bring proof you live in the area where youre picking up the sandbags. That means a bring a drivers license or utility bill. We have posted the location on wfla. Com and all people are because of the stormy conditions in the bay area, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers moved up their game against the red skins. It will be played 24 hours earlier so its not interrupted by the storm. Hello from tampa where changes are in place for this weeks final preseason game of the year. The impending storm forced Team Management to move it to wednesday night. Team officials feared t would be cancelled as tropical depression nine bears down on the gulf coast of florida bearing heavy rain and storms on friday. A fan player and stadium staff safety they moved the game up a day to wednesday at 8 00 p. M. Team officials spoke to leaders as well as the National Weather service before making the decision to change the date. Kick off against the red skins is now tomorrow night and the tomorrow. Back to you. Programming on news channel eight tomorrow night can be seen on me tv thats bright house channel 607. More breaking news this morning in tampa, a shooting investigation on the 1700block of north b street in the south tampa area. This is happening right now. In fact a live picture from the scene at 11 05 on this tuesday. A homeowner shot an intruder around 10 00 a. M. So about an hour ago that intruder was shot hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. You can see how active this investigation is happening now. In south tampa police are on the scene continuing their investigation and well keep you posted and let you know as soon as we learn more. Today is floridas primary and polls open at 7 00 this morning and close at 7 00 tonight. Some of the candidates you le see on the ballot including the tenders for the house and senate. Marco rubio has dominated beruf in the polls. The winners move on to the november ballot. Voters will also decide on a solar energy amendment. Heres a few things to keep in mind for voting today. You have to cast your ballot at your assigned polling place and have a current id with you. If you need help, sarasota and pinellas counties are providing free bus rides tha tampa mayor bob buckhorn smoke about an issue you may see on the ballot. Theres a solar issue on the bat local. If you think about the state of florida you have ask yourself to question why dont we have more solar power and industries here floridians . This is an important issue and i hope people support this amendment. Also this morning the mayor expressed his disappointment about transportation funding not being up for vote this time around. The county commission chose not to put it on the ballot but the city will move on and look for a strategy on its own. Today remember higgins. A visitation is noon from 9 00 p. M. And the prayer starts at 7 30. Thousands of people are expected to attend his funeral tomorrow. Higgins passed away last week at the age of 87. New concern over zika in your backyard growing this morning. A new nontravel related case is confirmed this time in miami that brings a total number of people who contracted the virus in florida to 43. Come biened with the travel related case the state reports 545 zika cases and 75 of those involve pregnant women. Some good news here. Grad students at Florida State teamed up with Johns Hopkins university and made a break through in treatment for zika. The team found already existing drug compounds that can stop body and damaging crucial fetal brain cells that leads to birth defects in newborns. One of the drugs is already on the market in treatment for tapeworm. We would not have to spend a lot of time going through Clinical Trials and again to make them available for human use because of thor general si zika from killing cells. Its being evaluated in phase two trials. Angry parents at a Charter School in largo are hopeful they will find out once and for all if theres mold at the plato academy. The board voted to hire people to test the school for mold. Parents complained about mold on vents, the c eo of the academy insists mold is not a problem pointing to five reports that didnt find mold. Theres no report on when the new testing will be done. Which Bay Area School ranks high for marijuana use and which one serves up not such advertising food according to students . Flop i think is what some call it. The result of the Princeton Review is out. Schoolers consult when picking for college. Some of these might surprise you. The Princeton Review is the preview that covers everything from Party Schools to political activism to lgbt friendly education. It lists the top and bottom colleges in 60 categories based on surveys of 143,000 students. Reporter the university of according to the Princeton Review. Ut ranks number five on the list of most politically active students. I think its a really politically minded campus because of business majors who are trying to change the world and make it a better place. Prevailing attitude at most schools across the country is everybody has to think the same but here they value more opinions. Reporter ut ranks top ten for best collegeibrary. Sarasota makes the top 20 list for politically active students and again is a top 20 for return on investment. But the school ranks in the bottom 20 when it comes to the food and and collegiate sports. Ek hurt College Ranks highest. Florida southern in lakeland is a top ten winner for most beautiful campus and a top 20 when it comes to intramural sports. The university of south florida and Saint Leo University dont make the top 20 best or worst ranks the top Party Schools each year. Be honest, thats what you really want to know. The university of wisconsin at madison ranks number one. The university of florida and Florida State make the list. Uf is 18th and Florida State squeaks by in 20th place. I have to be careful what i say about this. I can attest that the university of wisconsin at madison is a party school there. Im thinking about the kids in sarasota. Theyre eating at the all the great restaurants. And who needs intracollegiate sports when you can go suffering . A tax break apple got is illegal. Its a hefty tab to pay. Well tell you how much coming up. A new flavor is coming to ice cream shelves. Blue bell is teasing ice cream see if you can guess what the new flavor will be. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. He wears it like a crown. Make America Great again. But trump made his shirts in bangladesh. His ties in china. And his suits in mexico. In fact, the real donald trump outsourced his products and you cant make America Great again, if you dont make things in america. Introducing carrabbas new family bundles. Ng at 34. 99. Its carryout without the compromise. Its difficult to doubt the power of social media. If you do, this story will change your mind. This is a restaurant in canada struggling for a very ng owner could barely afford to pay the bills. That changed when a 31 year old colin ross ate there and fell in love with it. He wrote a rave review and sent out a call for people to support the local. Within days hundreds of people flowed into whit byes and lines out the door there. 400 days that ross posted that on his social media. Chips. One of my favorite dishes. I know. Its surprising that sometimes the reach you can get with social media. People are finding their adopted parents. We help the police out with things and when it comes to tropical systems we can get that out more so than ever. You have been doing that. Yes, been on Facebook Live and got twitter and instagram going and my Facebook Page so please, please the Government Agencies are keeping you in touch. I was just listening to a in ta. Hula bay restaurant, this is a live picture. Its steamy at 86 degrees. Showers have started before the lunchtime hour pushing up towards bartowe and lake done look what happens around 30 03 30 when the kids come home from school. Not even a brief break in the rain this even but by tomorrow morning already seeing showers coming on shore as this then what should be a Tropical Storm makes a turn to the north and east and its keeping us with heavy rain all day tomorrow flooding on thursday when we have even more rain as this tropical system heads towards the big bend of florida. As it drifts to the north its going to get caught up in upper level winds and thats basically putting it in the northeast direction there so that by thursday afternoon at almost 5 00, almost all the computer models have it coming onre the same upper level winds picking it up to draw it this way may keep it from strengthening too much. That is just fine and obviously will pass through the northern portion of the state back into the Atlantic Ocean. For today heavy rain is possible right around 90 degrees as it stays steamy. Notice how the rain chances go up. 70 tomorrow and cloudy and cooler. Thursday at this point looks to with the possibility of coastal flooding and rainfall conditions as well. We are warned and watching. Thank you lee. In our consumer watch this morning the European Union says ireland has given illegal tax benefits up to 4. 9 billion and must recover the back paid taxes with interest. This decision sends message. Member states cant give unfair tax benefits to selected companies no matter if they are european or foreign, large or small, part of a group or not. She went on to explain a three year investigation tax cuts. It dropped down to. 0005 in 2014. Despite the huge set back, apple is charging ahead with its next big event. Next wednesday apple expected to unveil the iphone 7. This will be a small update as apple is holding Game Changing features for the 10th anniversary next year. The iphone 7 is expected to be more water resistant a lens camera and may come in a new limited edition color, blue. Facebook allows communities to trigger the safety check feature instead of the company having control over that in a disaster. They are accused of favoring some countries over there oo ands accused of when to apply the safety measure. The feature lets user in the saz safe on their profiles. Blue bell ice cream is debuting a new flavor. It posted this video on facebook, twitter and instagram. Our new flavor wont be hard to spot, or will it . Well uncover our newest creation this thursday. Thats when this mystery flavor will appear in stores. I think theres camouflage something. Chocolate . Head to the store on thursday to find out for yourselves. Have they ever put out a bad flavor . I like them all. The guys at the Youtube Channel dude perfect shows just how skilled they are. This is dropping it in. . [ music ] . . Ev lasts forever . [ music ] . . So im hanging on tight trying to keep it all together . [ music ] . . Thats impressive. This entire video lasts five minutes. They are racking up major fans online. They are 100 subscribers shy of 12 million. In colorado a Soccer Player looks like a gymnast there. Wait, does he make it . He does. I saw it earlier. A player and the goalie get to the ball and the keeper slides down but the player goes up and over. He does that front flip with a half twist, stuck the landing and all capped off by scoring a goal but it didnt count. The rev called it off side. Boo. Needs extra points for creativity and sticking the landing. Coming up at 11 30 its primary day inri states but how are president ial candidates spending today . A new poll out this morning showing donald trump gaining ground. The city of tampa preparing for the upcoming tropical depression on its way. The major just wrapped up a press conference and Jeff Patterson is there live with an Bright House Networks keeps you connected with standard tv and lightning 50 internet enjoy your favorite broadcast networks, along withespn, amc, and more plus,free tv everywhere apps let you watch tv in more places lightning 50 is perfect for streaming movies with access to over 450,000 free wifi hotspots nationwide. Call 8553191319 today to get standard tv and lightning 50 internet back to breaking news out of tampa. More about a shooting investigation happening now on north bee street in tampa. Investigators look through the scene and were told the homeowners father shot an intruder around ten this morning. It was surveillance cameras that tipped her off. Heres what the Police Spokes american had to say moments ago. She was not home at but she has surveillance cameras in her home that she can see on her phone. She looked at her phone and saw someone in her house. She called her dad and he came by and confronted the inintruder and hes been shot and taken to the hospital at this point. That intruder was shot in the shoulder and as the officer mentioned he was shot and taken to the hospital with nonlife you know. The big news were looking at is the storm where tropical depression officially right now. Thats right. Early this morning the Hurricane Hunters left out of the air force base and flew multiple times and found a 39 Miles Per Hour wind and while there has been more thunderstorm activity its not any better organized than it was. Its still a tropical depression. Now the Hurricane Hunters are back home and expected to go if its anymore organized and whether it can be upgraded to a Tropical Storm. 35 Miles Per Hour winds moving north west at 7 00 and starting to make that turn the the north now. You see it sometime today or tomorrow becoming a Tropical Storm as it moves north and gets caught up in upper levels winds that will draw back to the east. This is wednesday tomorrow anywhere in this shaded area along the big bend of florida. Thursday looks for us to be the worst weather. You can see strong wind gusts and the marine concerns where higher than average tides and rip currents and high surf. Also a lot of rainfall is going to fall between now and friday when this system exits into the Atlantic Ocean. We go from 60 to 70 tomorrow and 80 percent on thursday. I its going to be a rainy day on thursday. The cumulative affect of a week of rain is what is concerning. Today and tomorrows rain which is just thunderstorms, we see a widespread and some areas less and more. Anywhere from 13 inches in the next 48 hours. Then just on thursday several more inches could fall. You add that together and looking at 56 inches of rain even 8 inches of rain possible especially near the coast and smaller rain totals further inland. This could be a flooding event for us. Were stocking up on sandbags. Tracking the con tropics now. What did the mayor have to say . Good morning, we have just come out conference. Basically he was here with the chief of police and head of tampa fire rescue urging residents to take precautions for this upcoming storm. The mayor talking about what precautions the city is taking now to get rid of this. He says this is an event where you have a p