Debbie pool gets emotional thinking about how officer james gaddes helped them. They stopped for gas. Having a hard time at the pump, they called a stranger over. But the man had other plans. Asking me questions. He is like is it a debit card . A credit card . Whats the pin number . And i know as soon as he said whats the pin number he took off. Reporter the officer arrived and did more than take a report. He sees they have no money and filled up their tank. Theres not many people like him. When i got there, they were very upset. You are getting emotional too. Reporter on the job for 15 years, he has never seen cruelty like this. I see my own grandparents. Recovering from a stroke, and debbie is healing from a kidney transplant. The thief took from people who have little. For him to prey on them, it is just disgusting. You have to be careful who you put your trust in. Reporter fortunately, the couple was able to cancel their credit card, but this is not the first time the officer has helped someone. He says he does not do this for the recognition. He says he just wanted to help people. Keith . Certainly looks good for the Saint PetersburgPolice Officer to know there are guys like officer gaddes out there. Thank you jamel lanee. A strong storm produced a tornado this morning in broward county, you can see a truck on its side. A car on top of another. Trees down, the wind was so strong according to emergency management, it picked up a car and tossed it from the southbound lanes of the florida turnpike into the northbound lanes. Some unbelievable footage to show you of a skiing champion falling more than a thousand feet down a mountain. The amazing part is she not only lived to tell about it, she had pretty minor injuries. Angel colinson was filming for a movie when she hit an icy patch and she fell. She keeps tumbling at a high rate of speed. Incredibly, she only suffered my goodness. And now, an 8 on your side warning for parents. Teens taking part in a dangerous new trend known as the duct tape challenge. A quick search on youtube and you will see videos like these popping up. Kids tieing themselves and seeing how quickly they can break free. A 14yearold boy almost died when he fell to the door and split his head open. Now he is blind in one eye. Is serious business, Melanie Michael has this cautionary tale for apartments and their kids. Reporter good evening. The reason we did this story is to help moms and dads who may not know how dangerous the duct tape challenge really is. A dangerous trend. On the count of three, you have three minutes to get out of here. Reporter that kids cant seem to get enough of. The duct tape challenge is causing catastrophic consequences. Im just actually really lucky to be alive. Reporter just ask skylar fish. His friends taped him so tightly, he fell and hit his head on the concrete, it shattered his eye socket and triggered a brain aneurysm. When i think about it, i become sad. But really happy. Im happy because i survived it. I was thinking what are children doing . Reporter Karen Buckenheimer has been a registered nurse more than three decades. She is worried kids dont understand that this can kill them. What happens if they fall or have an asthma attack or some type of emergency and you cant enough . Reporter karen helps moms and dads will talk with their children and take the warning seriously. Kids always think they are invincible. They never think anything is going to happen to them. Reporter but as we can see from the videos, it certainly does. And once again tonight, karen is advising apartments watching parents watching this to have a conversation with their kids. A fiveminute chat could save their life from something as silly as duct tape. It does seem silly. That 14yearold boys case is cases here you are aware of . Reporter thank goodness no. And the Emergency Rooms are hoping to keep it that way. Melanie michael live in tampa. Thank you. A county in the cross hairs of a standoff that has turned violent. Armed protesters still hold a wildlife refuge in oregon. Ammon bundy is urging the protesters to go home now that one of them has been killed. Dave ward called for them to leave. This has been tearing our community apart. This cant happen anymore. It cant happen in america or in harney county. Leave any time soon. They are calling for the release of two oregon ranchers convicted of lighting fires on government land. The exboyfriend of an inside the Hernando County jail tonight. Joseph panarisi is accused in a violent Home Invasion in spring hill. He attacked kathlene perkins. He ran off but kathlenes him. The attack rattled the neighbors in the quiet gated im surprised. We move here to be safe. And now this happens. So you never know. You just never know. Tonight, panarisi is charged with Home Invasion robbery with a weapon and two counts of aggravated battery with a weapon. A belt buckle and a cell phone. Thats all the detectives in sarasota had to work with solving a death investigation. Tonight, they are one step close tore do it. Skeletal remains were found. After months of detective work, man as fernando valasquez. If you have any information amazed by the dinosaurs the case, you should call the sheriffs office. It is hard to know what to expect when it comes to donald trump. He announced he will not participate in tomorrow nights Republican Debate in iowa. Political analysts tell newschannel8 that trump has gone against all of the Traditional Campaign rules from making comments about certain groups to pulling out of a debate where every other major contender is participating. Also, not being able to go on tomorrow night at the debate and say i am up by umpteen points in iowa because he isnt. His Campaign Director says trump will have no problem winning iowas caucuses without participating in thursdays debate. We will see if he changes his mind. You never know. Newschannel8 will be covering the caucuses live from iowa. Ill be reporting from des moines starting tomorrow night. We will focus on how the tight republican and the democratic fields. Find out what all this means forward. Legislation borne from a bradenton dog bite has overcome another obstacle. Pattys law would allow the owners of a dog who bites death sentence. A second bill that protects Good Samaritans that break into a hot vehicle to rescue a person or animal in distress has passed unanimously. Voters will be able to vote to legalize medical marijuana this november. They exceeded the number of signatures needed to put the vote before voters. It needs 60 approval. Last summer we identified you to a man named go dan page. He is a korean veteran and his New Port Richey home was renovated now. Dozens of people donated time, money, and labor. The outpouring of support as brought he and his wife some newfound faith. I have always been religious. But now im stronger knowing that christ takes care of things. I didnt have the strong feeling before. Every time we had a need. Some place and some way, that need was taken care of. One of those who helped, you may recognize. Billy fucillo of fucillo kia wrote a 30,000 check to help out. Coming up next, a cow rescued from death. What it took to bring this cow to safety. And need cash, but dont have your card . No worries. What atm will let you soon get cash using your phone. A lot of clouds around the bay area. Still a chance of rain. A cooler weekend. It is one of those calls deputies dont get often if at all. A pregnant cow stuck in a pond fighting for her life. The rescue is incredible and pall mueller joins us live. How much water are we talking here . Reporter only a foot of water. That is about what im standing like a lot to you. We have a cow down. Reporter definitely not something you see all the time. A threeyearold pregnant cow on deaths door. He knew something was wrong. It is a good thing you saw. She would have drowned. Reporter the cow not out of the woods by a long shot. Could we get a log under her leg . Reporter one deputy looking for a log to prop under her head with the Good Samaritan keeping her as calm as he could. But how in the world did she end up like this . Her unborn calf put too much pressure on her spine causing reporter her legs as stiff as a board. Absolutely helpless. Then deputies devise a plan. A risky rescue in less than an hour. Animals dont have the ability to call and say can you im in distress. Reporter even this call all in a days work. It is always what we do. You go onto the next one. You will be saving a cow one day. Chasing a cow right after. Reporter and once she got off her feet, the pressure was off her spine. Tonight, we are happy to report that she is doing just fine and she is expected to have a healthy baby calf. You dont come across this often as we have said. Reporter yeah. Thats right. Well, you know the deputy we spoke with, he has real world experience. So he is used to large animals like this. And they try to train the Sheriffs Department for anything. Even Something Like this. All right paul mueller reporting live. Thank you paul. An 8 on your side consumer alert. If you went to wendys recently, you may want to keep an eye on your bank account. They are investigating reports of unusual activity on debit and credit cards used at their restaurants. They have launched an investigation and are cooperating with law enforcement. If you dont have your credit card, Jp Morgan Chase says you can use your phone. They are updating all their atms. One new function allows them to take money out by tapping their phone to the atm. The same Technology Used as apple pay. If you are planning on donning the beads and heading great. 11 30 a. M. T invasion going on. Partly cloudy skies. A little cool to start the day. Thats not that unusual this time of the year. We are not expecting rain. 62 degrees 2 00 p. M. Nice. Showers continue to roll in off the gulf of mexico. Everything moving so quickly as it has all winter. Pinellas, hillsborough relatively quiet. Western sections of manatee, sarasota. On and off showers are possible overnight and throughout the day for tomorrow. About a 50 chance overall favoring southern areas. Bradenton, sarasota. Downpours here. Estimates from doppler radar, northern spots not as much. Citrus, hernando. Maybe up to two inches of rain. One inch was fairly common. Highlands county there today. Great shot. This is from yesterday. Not too many weather photos rolling in on a day like this. Not much beauty going on. But robert found some yesterday. 65 degrees at 2 00 a. M. Humidity is high. Temperatures will not change too much from where they are now. There is the possibility you can see each one of these, our time periods. Seeing a shower pass by your home. Overnight low temperatures dropping into the low 60s. Temperatures into the upper 60s with a chance of showers through Late Afternoon hours. Potentially into the early evening. You can see the temps are mostly in the 60s across treasure island. 65 wesley chapel. 65 bradenton. Area of low pressure will help to pull it on through, but nor now, the boundary itself is where showers can develop. This and this flow we have from the southwest carrying the showers our way. Cant rule out the possibility of severe weather. Small chance for the southern sections of our area. But from the storm prediction center, just a marginal risk higher than the general risk favoring the southern areas that i mentioned. This is the computer model. You can see like the radar, on and off showers rolling through morning. Again, same movement from west a little break around noontime. More back to the west. On the rpm forecast computer model. A few showers left as the front moves south. Then we see clearing later in the day from north to south. Breezy northwest winds. Cooler temperatures building in. That will set up our cooler weekend we are expecting. Sunshine mixed with clouds. By saturday, the winds will be a lot lighter. They will be up a little bit. They will come down on saturday so we will enjoy fairly nice wealther there. 63 degrees friday. Chilly, 68 degrees saturday. Overnight lows too. If you are headed out to the parade, know that it will be cool. Are getting rid of your pirate outfit. Just know that you may have to delayer some of that stuff there in the afternoon because the temperatures will get a little bit warmer. Still kind of cool. 68 for a high overall. Why are you laughing about pirated outfits . You chuckled. I never put them on. You have boots, the patch. The par et on the shoulder. You are missing out. If you dont dress like a pay rat. You have done it . Many times. Steering clear of this one . I got nothing because i am dressed up. He has been a pirate. I have. Coming umpteen, the usf Womens Basketball team takes care of business against a conference opponent. And the lightning head into an allstar break. Could the bolts close out the first half of the season with a win . Highlights with paul ryan next in sports. Plus, tomorrow at 6 00 a. M. . I will shoyu where you can find the best deals for spring break. Having lots of devices in your home can really slow your internet down. Way down. So keep things moving with 100 fiber optic fios by verizon. With fios, you get the big capacity all your devices thrive on. Its the Fastest Internet and wifi available, nwith speeds from 50 to 500 megs. No wonder were ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power. And now, theres no better time to get fios by verizon. For 79. 99 a month online, get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year, with no annual contract. Or with a 2 year agreement, get 300 back. And, starz and showtime for 6 months. Go to getfios. Com or call its been a rough year for canadian fans of the National Hockey league. Six or seven teams north of the border are outside the playoff picture. Cheese. He one times a shot, jonathan bernier. Thats all the lightning would need. Backup goal tender andre was outstanding. He earned his second career shutout and won his sixth straight start. The lightning blanked the maple leafs 10 and headed to the all star break on an up note. We came to the rink with a goal in mind to get the two points and break on a positive note. We accomplish that. But i dont think we can sit here and say we necessarily deserve the two points. In the end does this turn out to be even . It sure does. We got the lead and he held on. A lot of times you have to out defend a team. And lead the way we did. We are finding ways to close out games now. Lets hit the heart wood, the 20th ranked usf women hosting houston. The only team seeking its First American conference win. The cougars not going to find it at the sun dome. The freshman hits six trays good for a game high 24 points. Courtney williams handled the rest of the workload shipping in 16 and 14 boards showing off her pullups. South florida wins handily 73 49. The bulls 145 this year. First conference win saturday against tulane. Demarcus cousins on hand checking out his little brother for the first time. Boogie. Bulls up eight at halftime. Enter jamam mcmurray. Scored a game high 23 including a few triples. Usf wins 7360 claiming back to back conference victories for the First Time Since march 2013. Things looking up for the bulls for the first time in a long time. What . You going to do that in your pirate costume . Go bulls. You mock me if you want. Nobody is mocking. Ill be there saturday. Try two eye patches. Cheering for the bulls. Well be right back with winning lot toe lotto numbers. In the morning . Morning part. A lot of people think of the morning when they actually get up. It is anything after midnight. Showers are moving threw at through at a rapid rate. The cold front will pull on through the area. We will get sunnier conditions. It happened last night. Oh yeah. Im just laughing because anything with an a. M. Is in the morning. My morning starts at like noon. [ laughter ] a cute video to show you. We want to introduce you to mack. He is the newest member of the budweiser clydesdale family. He was born tuesday in missouri. Mom and baby are both happy and healthy. Anheiserbusch says mack will live there and learn the in and outs of becoming a budweiser clydesdale. It includes kicking a lot of field goals. The clydesdales love people gasparilla on saturday. Again . They are. Dont act all interested now. [ laughter ] tell us more about that. It is really good stuff. That will do it for us. Jimmy fallon coming up next. Have a great weekend