Bernie sanders will come face to face at a debate tonight in New Hampshire. It will be a gloomy day for the bay area keep the umbrellas handy. The rain is just to the north but it is coming this way. Despite the rain, the Florida State fair will open the doors in just about five hours. We are live with all you need to know about this years event. The time is 5 01. Good morning, welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez. We have a lot for you in this hour. Lets start with leigh spann and all of the rain in the forecast. Unfortunately it will be a rainy day. A lot of us will be able to get off to work and school dry. You can see how slow this system is zooming to the south. Clouds moved north of i4 but the rain is to our north. It has moved into a forecast mode. Watch where you live to see when the rain comes in. I believe most of us will stay dry through 7 30, 8 00. Roadways. That is good news for you. Between 8, 9, 10, well see pockets of rain in hernando county. Obviously this system is sinking to the south. By the lunch time hour, were starting to see more rain making it further south into pinellas, Hillsborough County and it takes it to the afternoon and evening for the heaviest downpours to make it into polk county and sarasota. Tuesday was 82. Yesterday tied a record of 84. This cold front arrives today and then we start to cool down. In weather and traffic on the 8s at 5 08. Well let you know how much rain were expecting today and leslee is here to let you know about the morning commute which is dry. I was liking the warm we. All right, all right. But we have traffic, actually traffic is not heating up. We have a couple of issues but it is a great drive if youre travelling through from lakeland heading out the door, no delays. Howard frankland bridge,minutes to cross it. On u. S. 19 through palm harbor, state road 54 to tampa road. Roughly a 15minute commute. Most their traffic heads south. Same thing for u. S. 41. Either direction at this point because traffic is so light. 12 minutes between state 52 to state road 54. That is a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to gene and gayle. Thanks liz lee. Right leslee. Right Health Emergency at home. The governor is getting ready to address us and the impact. It includes right here in hillsborough. Ryan hughes is live at Hillsborough County Health Department and ryan, the governor is taking a big step this afternoon. He is and he will be joined by the state Surgeon General. They will be here later today to discuss the actions the state plans to take in light of this virus. We know the virus is most pregnant women because it causes birth defects. 8 on your side talked to a tampa woman whos son was born with microcephaly. She remembers being bitten by mosquitos. Her son was born with a condition that impacts her and her family to this day. I was devastated. Absolutely devastated. I cried and cried for weeks. Especially the past six years, we just got really, really close and, i mean, i would do anything for him. It is at the point where i look at him, like, you know, i would do anything. He is basically become my. As you can imagine, the family is happy at this point that there is that much more attention at this point. The governor and the state Surgeon General will be here at the Health Department at 1 30 in the afternoon. You can count on 8 on your side to bring you the latest at four tonight. Gayle, back to you. This is really alarming. Thank you, ryan. Now, brazil is declaring war on mosquitos caused with carrying the zika virus. The country is also working with the United States to develop a zika vaccine. This move comes as brazil counts down to the 2016 summer olympics. As zika concerns increase there, are things you can do to protect yourself. Get rid of all standing water. Empty potted plants that have a Water Reservoir underneath. Dont forget about rain barrels and clean out your gutters. Very important. For more prevention tips head over to wfla. Com where youll find detailed information about the zika virus. New this morning, wikileaks founder could accept arrest by British Police under one condition. If a un Panel Investigating the case rules against him. He tweeted that if the un finds he lost his case against the United Kingdom then he will turn himself in to police at noon. He had been holed up inside an embassy in london for the past three years. He took refuge to avoid extradition to sweden where two women accused him a sexual assault. Council are going to get an update on the bike citations. It stems from an investigation that revealed 79 of the agencys bike tickets are given to africanamericans. The Tampa City Council will also get an update on how the Red Light Camera Program is working. The Police Department will share new statistics on the number of tickets issued and the fines collected. The tampa man arrested for is expected in court today. Michael ramos has a detention hearing set for 4 30 p. M. Federal investigators found the explosives, a pistol and ammunition. New this morning, a Hillsborough County deputy is recovering after a crash. This all happened at gun highway and anderson road. Look at damage there. Investigators arent releasing many details but it appears the deputys cruiser suffered damage to the rear bumper. You can see the other car damaged. There paramedics transported one person to the hospital. We dont know that persons condition at this point. As for the deputy, investigators believe he will be okay. Pinellas county deputies are investigating a deadly pedestrian crash. This happened in gulfport near beach boulevards. And killed. Deputies report lewis was crossing the street at the time but was not in a crosswalk. They do not believe that speed or impairment is to blame. Investigation. While florida fights to get a there, is a new threat to worry byte crooks are staying one step ahead of authorities and now theyre cloning credit cards. The kicker . This happens in florida more than any other state. Investigators do everything they can to stay on top of these crimes but some believe crooks will always have the upper. It is very, very difficult for them to solve the crimes. What is more likely is they will catch the criminal in some other violation. 8 on your side reached out to the Cyber Security experts from threat identity. Com. They claim to be tracking 20,000 credit card thieves every month throughout the world. The time right now is 5 08. It is fair day and like always ive noticed. That every time the fair comes around, we end up having rain. The first day this year well day. Here it is. The rain chances go up and temperatures stay steady. 40 chances for rain. 8, 9, 10 00. 60 through midday. 70 rain chance and heavier downpours at 2, 3, 4 00 today. After that, the cold front starts sinking to the south. The rain chances start going down and so do the temperatures. How much rain could you see . Thankfully im not expecting a whole lot between nine and 10 a. M. Maybe a quarter inch. That is the green area and in the northern spots. Well see first, you may get heavier downpours. The further south you go, the lighter the rain will be from a quarter inch to a half inch. That will come later in the day for you. Go ahead and get the training run for the gasparilla classic out of the way this morning when it will be mostly dry. Only areas of heavier rain and few strong storms thank goodness but the clouds clear out tonight and that is when it gets colder. At least things are dry for now. Cant promise that for the evening commute. It is a pretty good one. Lets look at tampa. We have a collision here, heads up. Be careful here. This is right on sliefd avenue near sligh avenue near 22nd street. Nice drive from lakeland into downtown tampa that is a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to gene and gayle. Thank you. After surprisily humble remarks in iowa, trump is back at a it. Senator ted cruz and donald trump are going back at it again. How cruz is trying to defend the serious accusations. The flint water crisis isnt over yet. Ahead, what you can do to make an impact from right here in the bay area. Plus, cuddles galore. The way uber is stepping up its game for the super bowl to help the community. Youre watching news channel 8 today. It is 5 10. I dont know what im doing. I cant find anything just when i think its just not going to work. This woman that works there comes over and asks can i help you . 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. This morning, did senator ted cruz commit voter fraud in iowa . Donald trump insists cruz cheated and he wants a do over. News channel 8s Lindsey Mastis joins us live with the morning alert. Pretty serious allegations here. After trump found out he congratulated cruz and tweeted his experience in iowa is great but now is changing his tune completely accusing senator cruz of stealing the election. He has been on twitter nonstop and insists what he did was criminal. Senator cruzs campaign apologized to dr. Ben carson for telling voters in iowa carson planned to quit the race. They claim they got the frort cnn. The new network claimed it reported that carson would not go to New Hampshire or South Carolina but he would remain in the race. Here is dr. Ben carsons tweet about all of this. He calls it shameless tactics. Dirty political plays and links to an article that makes it clear he is not happy with senator cruz and trump is bringing this back up and in addition, accusing the senator of more dirty politics. Look at this. This is his latest tweet showing what he insists is a voter voters so they will vote for senator cruz. He calls this fraud. Now, he also tweets that he cruzs results nullified. Senator cruz isnt as aggressive on social media this time around but he does accuse trump of having, quote, a trumpertantrum. I wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing donald has tweeted because he is losing it. We need a commanderinchief. Not a twitterer in chief. Senator cruz may be brushing it off, but trump is not backing down and coming up on the today show, a closer look at the allegations of voter fraud. Did the senator and his Campaign Staff do anything illegal . That is the big question this morning. I look forward to seeing that lindsey. Thank you. You can follow the alerts on facebook and twitter. Search eight alert. It is 5 15. People in tampa are reaching out to help the residents of flint a fraternity at the university of tampa is organizing a water drive called tampa to flint. They hope to gather bottled water and other supplies to send to flint. They will collect the supplies 9 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. Outside the university of the business school. It is a blame game when it comes to who is responsible for the water crisis in flint. At a congression yam hearing, emotions ran high. An environmental official blames michigan officials for ignoring advice to treat water. They accuse the epa of not taking this problem seriously and getting involved way too late. Time is 5 16. Happening today, a tasty and entertaining annual florida tradition kicks off. But especially tasty. In a few hours, the Florida State fair will open for businesses in Hillsborough County. Sneak peek for us this morning, good morning adrienne reporter good morning gene and gayle. Dont tell elvis but the food is always my favorite part. I think a lot of people will agree with me. Here is cheryl reese with carousel foods. Times. Your food is always great. And im excited about something new. Tell bus it. A deep fried birthday cake pop, and that is at my nephews stand. He has orems deep fried treats and it is a mini cup cake, dipped in funnel cake batter and they put the icing and sprinkles all over the top. And you know what i heard, that capitalies are don calories dont count at fair. You do it here and go back to the good eating habits. That is so good. It is like funfetti in here. Lets see if you can see the you have a lot of foods too. The dough nut burger, the Southern Belt burger, the Double Barrel which is a double dough nut burger with mac and cheese on top. We had a contest to keep or bring back and we brought the red neck burger. We were going to drop it. You cant drop the red neck burger at the fair. I love the fried bologna and baked beans on it. Another thing i need to show you this is a funnel cake pizza, by a group called the best around. We have pepperoni, cheese here, funnel cake, oh, my goodness. It tastes like pizza. It is not sweet at august so this is something you have to try if you come out to the fair and i dont know if this will stay warm otherwise i would put it in the truck and bring it back for your guys. You know what else they have . Plenty of bathrooms. Im glad you stood up for the red neck burger, t. Oh, wow, adrienne, thanks, we expect you to bring back one of each of those and that lady is totally right. It is just like christmas. Just do it. Just eat. Thanks adrienne. You have a little more than a week to get your fill at the fair. It opens today at 10 a. M. It runs through the 15th. Lots of time to eat the goodies. And unfortunately today, the first day will on the wet side but i dont expect much rain for the next several days. You can see thunderstorms in the gulf of mexico right now heading south. What ive done is gone to the weather wheel which goes hour by hour. Well see changing in each hour. It goes up to a 30 chance at seven. Temperatures will stay in the 70s all day, a steady range of temperatures. The rain chances, that is what changed. 40 at 8, 9 00. 60 chance at noon, 70 at 3 00 p. M. Said, upper 60s to near 70 and well be there most of the day. Big monkey in Crystal Beach even says 70. Cloudy skies by 9 00. Most of the rain still to the north. As this front slowly pushes south, well get rain north of i4, during the early afternoon, heading south during the evening, finally ending at midnight before the drier, colder air comes in. When all of the kids go to the fair tomorrow, they need to bundle up. It will be cool and breezy. How about traffic on the 8s . I got word of a new crash in pinellas county. 54th avenue and 34th. Ill have more on that coming up in the next report. I want to remind you about this collision here. Heads up at 22nd street. That is a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. Back to gene and gayle. All right. Thank you so much. Puppies on demand. Every year Animal Planet holds its own version of the super bowl by broadcasting the puppy bowl. This year, uber is offering a puppy bowl to go. Cities taking part in uber puppy bowl. Here is how it works. Between 11 00 a. M. And 2 00 p. M. , uber customers can request a puppy visit on the app. A driver and a cute puppy show up and you get to cuddle for 15 minutes. Data behind uber puppy bowl is to get the idea out about puppy adoption. More than 70 dogs found forever homes. Very nice. Isnt that sweet . The largest competition since the u. S. And cuba restored relations. 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The area came in 3rd behind phoenix and atlanta the new data from january 2016 shows people moving to warmer climates for the First Time Since the it is the larmgest regatta to the la regatta to the island. Harry hogan brought his boat, to the islands. It is the first to be navigated by someone in the wheelchair. He wants the disabled to know anything is possible. Very cool. Weather and traffic on the 8s is just three minutes away. It is time to start filing taxes but there is a problem. New in the next half hour, the reason why early filers may have to navigate their way through computer issues. L 8 on your side will show you 8 on your side will show you how just ahead. At 5 28 youre sending the kids off to the bus stop. Most of them will be dry. A few showers in the northern areas. Much heavier rain when they come were cooler through the weekend and into next week. How about traffic on the ls . If you live up in hernando county. Things look great and if youre headed from hernando into pass core, things look great on i75. We have a collision in st. Pete. This is at 34th street which is u. S. 19 right at 54th avenue north. Injuries involved. Your heart loves omega3s. But theres a difference between the omega3s in fish oil and those unlike fish oil,
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