Video taken minutes before eight people were shot and club rayne. Marvin lancaster the third died. No doubt denver fans are waking up with big smiles on their faces this morning. The Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers to win super bowl 50. It is no surprise everything from the game to the halftime show to the crazy commercials are trending all over twitter and facebook. Were taking a deep dive into all of this later this morning. Lets check the weather with meteorologist leigh spann. Especially if you stayed up late, it will be hard to get out of bed this morning with how cold it is 32. Were at freezing in Crystal River in inverness. Close in brooksville. Youre at 33. 33 zephyr hills. Polk county youre in the mid30s. 36 lakeland. Warmer in sarasota at 39 but this is significantly colder even to yesterday morning. Skies are clear. Were behind this cold front bringing in blustery conditions and then there is another one not far on the heels coming through tonight. Enjoy the pretty quick warm up. We go to the 30s and 40s to around 65 in the afternoon. At weather and traffic on the 8s ill take you hour by hour through this day and tell you how warm it will be tomorrow. Leslee is here to get you through the commute. With the heater on. Here is what is happening on the bridges. Courtney campbell causeway will take you nine minutes from pinellas to where it connects on memorial highway and the gandy bridge. Pinellas to manhattan seven minutes. Cortez road to states road. 44 minutes on your drive. We have a trash eastbound i4 near 50 other street but i dont see any delays. It looks like it is off to the shoulder. That is good news. That is a look at weather and traffic. Back to gene and gayle. Police are looking for a man who attacked a 6yearold girl in a bay area mall bathroom at macys in clear water. Chip osowski shows us pictures of a man from a mall surveillance camera take a good look and well show you how you can help catch him. During normal Business Hours this mall is packed and one would think with the amount of traffic, one would be safe. There are people all around and there are also cameras all over the place. It was one of those cameras that captured a picture of the perp. Take a close look at this guy. Clear water police tell us he entered a womans room at the macys friday night. What happened next to the 6yearold victim is troubling. Barges into the stall, puts his hand over her mouth. Pushes her to the floor and she starts screaming which startled him and prompted him to flee the restroom. Father. Shoppers i approached didnt want to talk about the case loose. One mall worker tells me what happened is a concern. It is horrible. I mean, we dont even know what his intentions were. I dont think any guy should into a womens stall or put his mouth. If he didnt scream, what would he have done . A second photo shows two women the man was interacting with. Investigators have been in contact with the little girl and her father and she is doing pretty well all things considered. He said physically she was fine, that she was traumatized emotionally by it and they were spending the day yesterday just trying to play games at the house and just try to be a family and to try to insulate her from what had gone on the reporter cops are hoping to put the cuffs on this clown sooner rather than later before he tries Something Like this again. Im chip osowski. News channel 8. Thanks, chip. Here is another look at the man Clear Water Police want to find. You can see him wearing a mrad shirt and blue jeans. As chip mentioned, police think he was at mall with two women. Were sharing this picture on social media. Help us do the same to catch the guy. Chipotle is trending on social media. The popular restaurants will close all their stores today, including about twodozen stores in the bay area. This is interesting. The company is having a food safety meeting with employees after hundreds of customers got sick. News channel 8s Lindsey Mastis is joining us live from the morning alert center. What will employees learn today . Gene and gayle, i reached out to chipotle to find out what theyre planning to tell their employees today. They will be broadcasting this their employees will get the same information. Here are some of the changes employees will look about today. Chipotle is using what they call High Resolution dna based testing of many of the ingredients before theyre shipped to restaurants and changing the way they prep foods. They will be wushing and cutting of washing and cutting many of the items in central kitchens and sendings them to restaurants. They have new protocols for marinades chicken and steak. They will also have paid sick leave. This is something they did last year. They will talk about what caused all of the customers to be sick. That is important because it is 500 people got sick last year. Chipotle profits fell 44 . The u. S. Justice department is discussing chipotle to find out if the company did anything criminal and some customers are suing. The big question now, will the nationwide food safety meeting help restore Customer Confidence and by the way, the stores will open today. It will just be after 3 00 in the afternoon. We want to know whether youre planning to eat there again. You can join the conversation on our wfla facebook page. Gayle . Thanks so much, lindsey. You can follow our morning alerts each day on facebook and twitter. Search 8alert. Right now it saul over twitter and your news a it is all over twitter and your news alerts. The Denver Broncos are your super bowl champions. People have been coming from every direction in downtown to this intersection just to jump and cheer on the Denver Broncos for being the super bowl champs. Fans celebrating through the night for the broncos and their star quarterback peyton manning. The broncos defense wins this game, just dominating the cline pantherses. Not one single passing touchdown thrown in the game. It did disappoint those watching at home. The broncos started the game with the field goal and scored in the first quarter. Then the panthers come back in the second quarter, but halftime, score 137 for the panthers and the most tweeted moment, talked about moment, that halftime show. Uptown funk you up. Uptown funk you. . It was a halftime trifecta. Cold play, beyonce, bruno mars, dominating social media this morning. Great show. Dominating. Broncos 24panthers 10. That means manning has two super bowl rings making history to national championship. Congratulations to him. Retire. Even his mom says that. Gee out on top. It is cold this morning i know it was blustery all day yesterday, it will not be as windy but it is colder this morning. Temperatures are in the 30s and 40s. We see a pretty quick warm up through the day and we get into the 50s by 10 a. M. 3 00 p. M. But notice clouds increase and during the evening there is a 10 rain chance. Youre training for the gasparilla classic. It is getting close now. Best time for a run would be around lunch time. Cool and comfortable. Right now. It will stay cool all week with highs in the 50s and 60s. That is below the average of 72. Another cold front comes through there is a slim chance through tomorrow evening and keep the heat on. Overnight lows will be in the low to mid40s. Lets talk about traffic on the 8s. Im from the dan Marino School of football. You play until youre done. You play until youre crawling off of the field. We have a good drive. Lets look at what is going on. U. S. 19, palm harbor. 13 minutes on your drive time. 11 minutes here. Youre hopping on 41 through state road 52 to state road 54. Lets take a look. We have an accident here eastbound i4 near 50th street. It looks like it is off to the shoulder. I dont see any delays. That is good news. We have a pretty good drive in the distance here. This is i4 around Martin Luther king and it might be an accident off to the shoulder i was talking byte but no delay thaechltz is a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. It is crunch time for the candidates as they try winning over New Hampshire. And theyre utilizing every tool they have. What bay area leaders are there to help. What happens when festival goers couldnt find anywhere to park. Yikes . In your vote. Today is the final push before the New Hampshire primaries. Theyre crisscrossing the state hoping to win over voters. Candace mccowan is in New Hampshire showing us how the candidates from florida are trying to prove why they deserve to be president. If youre not watching what is happening in New Hampshire, you should be the. The story is changing by the hour. Our florida candidates are trying to draw the voters in. Governor bush has been touting his record as governor and bringing in support from the bay area including former st. Pete mayor rick baker. The polls arent showing he is doing well. Are you hopeful events like this he has been getting packed crowds like this. They worked with marco, they like marco but they know im a proven leader. Senator rubio didnt have a spectacular debate progress with other candidates pointing out his canned answers. Lets dispel that barack obama doesnt know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. It has the potential to be damaging. The next had two hours is critical for candidates to capture their attention because if they dont do well here, some of them might not go to south carolina. Back to you. Thank you. After the New Hampshire primaries, republican frontrunner donald trump is headed to florida. He is hosting a Campaign Rally at usf sun dream friday. The rally starts at seven but the doors will open at five. Tickets are free but on site we have information on how to register for the tickets on our website, wfla. Com. Hillary clinton is back in New Hampshire for a final Campaign Push before tomorrows primary. This, after a visit to flint, michigan, to address the water crisis. Clinton called on congress to approve 200 million in emergency aid to help the city deal with lead contaminated water. Clintons challenger, senator Bernie Sanders is getting attention for his break from the campaign trail to appear on late night tv. Good stuff. He was on saturday night live. Check this out. Enough is enough. We need to you knowite and Work Together if unit and Work Together if were going to get through it. Sounds like socialism. Democratic socialism. What is the difference . Huge difference. Here is the thing. Who is who . I cant tell. Larry david. They plays passengerers a board a sinking cruise ship. Not laughing. Primary coverage. Our own Candace Mccowan is in the Granite State following the candidates. She will be there through tomorrow night when the votes are counted. In an 8 on your side consumer alert this morning. Energy drinks under attack. Today, the morgan and Morgan Law Firm based in orlando will reveal new information against lawsuits filed against energy drink comp. A North Carolina man dies during the krispy kreme challenge. It is a 5k where we have to eat a dozen doughnuts within an hour. It is a charity run that supports the North Carolina childrens hospital. Investigating the shooting of four teenagers. This happened on the citys south side. Investigate years report the teens were sath on a front porch when sitting on a front porch when the two men walked up and started shooting. An mardi gras celebration in mississippi turns deadly. Police report someone fired shots at the parade. Two people died and four others were hurt. There have been no arrests. Here is a good rule of thumb. If you cant find a parking spot, dont park on a frozen lake. It is not a problem we have around this neck of the woods but more than a dozen cars took a swim because of the bad decisions. Take a look at these cars submerged in the ice at lake genevas winterfest in wisconsin. Fortunately, no one was in the cars when they broke through the ice. Oh can you even recover those . I dont think so. So bad. Thankfully, we dont have frozen lakes. There are places close to freezing. It is a chilly start. The upper 30s to low to mid40s. That is where most of us are. 45 degrees by 8 00 a. M. As we already start to warm up a lit. Not as wipdy today. It was a big thing yesterday but wind kind of sfked you down. 65, still cool at 3 00 p. M. But pleasant. Much warmer than yesterday afternoon. We are at freezing. 32, 3in lakeland. 39 in wimauma. It is cold out. There i checked in with bob in venice. He says 43. We had a cold front come through. That is why it is so windy and cool this morning. Things change a bit. It will be mostly sunny with highs in the mid60s. Again, the quick warm up. But already this evening, a few showers as a cold front sweeps through. Well see lingering showers tomorrow morning, tomorrow, back to highs only at 57 and windy. And in fact, we stay cool all the way through valentines day. How about traffic on the 8s . A cold drive out there but decent one despite this accident. Eastbound i4 near 50th street. Traffic moving by just fine. A parentally it is tying up 1 of the lanes but no delays. It looks very good in the area lets look at the bay area bridges, a sevenminute commute across the Courtney Campbell causeway. Youre looking at six minutes on the Howard Frankland bridge and four minutes across the gandy bridge. If youll be traying through travelling through polk county into gandy, a good drive. 22 minutes. Lets talk about the grand prix. Track instruction gets under way tomorrow and mayor Rick Kriseman and last years winner will attend the first block. Grand prix weekend wil back to gene and gayle. It comes fast. Valentines day or grand prix. And valentines day if you havent made any plans. In a couple minutes when we come back from break, were talking about how much people are day. It a lot. The average amount people are dishing out and you may be surprised which member of the family is getting the benefits. You can contact with story ideas. Check out my facebook page. Tell me what you thought about last nights game. So here is the deal. 150. That is how much americans will spend on valentines day on the significant other or pet, maybe . Petwallet. Com surveyed people and found many will buy flowers and candy. A third are headed out to dinner but a survey found one in five people, get ready, will buy a their pet. Fancy. Gas prices taking a nose dive. Theyre down a dime over the last two weeks. Average now, 1. 82 nationwide. Right now, gas is 0. 37 cheaper than this time last year. Analysts predict prices will oil prices. La has the highest average price per gallon. 2. Of 62 and tulsa, oklahoma is the lowest. Weather and traffic on the 8s is three minutes away. Plus an 8 on your side alert this morning. The reason a local Police Department is keeping a close eye out for a man caught on. 4 28. Time for weather and traffic on the 8s. Emoji man is reminding you grab out the coat a or scarf. It is a chilly morning it is not as windy as yesterday but it is chilly in the 30s and 40s. We see a nice warm up today all the way to 65 degrees but another cold front comes through tonight. Look at this. Highs in the 50s tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. Leslee. How about traffic on the ls. We have an accident eastbound i4 near 50th street. Be on the look out for this. You can see the left lane is taken away as well the left shoulder. Traffic is getting by just fine. Keep this in mind in the area as we move back over to the maps. Great drive across the water ways. How long will it take you to cross the Howard Frankland bridge . Six minutes and youre looking at seven across the Courtney Campbell causeway between tampa
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