Right now on news channel 8 at 6. Good evening im ron carter. Thanks so much for joining us. An Emergency Landing in st. Petersburg happened this afternoon. That plane is damaged but the pilot and passenger did walk away. Live there for us and chip, this pilot is actually a young man flying a very old plane . You are exactly right and first let me show you whats happening right now. Crews are here working to remove the wings from that plane to get it on a tow truck and get it out here. St. Petersburg police tell us the teenage pilot, 18 years old, was flying from lakeland to Manatee County and started having a mechanical issue. He was trying to make it to the airport but he knew he couldnt. The plane a 1939 taylor craft clipped an oak tree on a golf the pilot and passenger walked away and told the residents what happened. A number of years people have said its happened again. So when you heard what happened what was your reaction . I dont know my neighbor called and told me about it and i said again. At least four years ago the same thing happened. On Christmas Eve of 2009 William Gibson was headed from albert witted airport to st. Petersburg beach when his plane had engine problem and he took it down for an Emergency Landing on the course. A palm tree tore off a wing on the way down but he survived. Once golfers learned they could play through they did just that. Other residents making light of the situation since no one got hurt. Brian hamilton took an opportunity to take a selfie with the plane. I teased my friends up north who are freezing how beautiful its a chamber of commerce day for planes to land on our private golf course. Once again no one in that plane injured. No one on the ground injured. The pilot and passenger were not happy to see the media here and declined to comment. Right now the f. A. A. And ntsb are investigating the cause. Chip thank you. Another problem for a legion airlines to tell you about. A flight set to fly from fort wayne to st. Petersburg had to abort its take off because of a mechanical problem. Passengers had to be moved to another plane. That plane is expected to arrive sometime before 8 00 tonight. In Clearwater Beach firefighters had to evacuate hulk hogans beach shop declaring it unsafe. People felt a shift in the building. The fire marshall closed it down until a Structural Engineer can deem it is safe. In the florida keys the coast guard is searching for a man who fell from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. He fell over board about 3 00 a. M. This morning. The ship is off the coast of key largo. The coast guard plans to search for him throughout the night. A person tried to burn down an Apartment Building in North Hyde Park early this morning. Someone entered that two Story Building and poured flammable liquid in several locations and tried to set the place on fire. The building is empty and estimated to be about 5,000. We turn our attention to the race for the white house. Todays known as supersaturday. Primaries and caucuses being held in several states across the country. Results are just beginning to come in. Ted cruz is going to win the kansas Republican Caucus by a wide margin, 51 to Donald Trumps 24 . You can see the numbers on your trump was in florida speaking florida. He fired up the crowd, threw out protestors and promised to make another appearance since into todays rally. This is beautiful. This is beautiful. The republican president ial hopeful made the rounds on supersaturday. In orlando today he stuck to familiar themes talking wins in recent caucuses. New hampshire we won. South carolina we won. Slide. Kansas criticizing the nomination process saying it nasty. It doesnt need to be filled with personal insults and attacks. We can focus on substance. We can focus on issues. Also in kansas a runner at marco rubio who warned nominating him would have if hes our nominee it will split the Republican Party and be the end of the modern government movement. John kasich as well knows he could grab the spotlight if he would hurl insults at trump but kasich says he wont do that. I have never tried to get into the scrums that we are seeing here on the stage. I love you all. Thank you very much. Meanwhile trump in orlando staying the course speaking out firing up his supporters and looking to secure more wins in todays supersaturday. Buck horn. Voters in all counties can participate in early voting. 15. We posted everything we need to know on wfla. Com. While weve been watching the Political Drama play out in the republican president ial race theres a political soap opera happening in the Sunshine State between the democrats we have more on the race to watch. This is extremely similar to the g. O. P. President ial race. You have one candidate with the support and hes behind the man who says what he wants and is surrounded in controversy. For many getting an endorsement from president obama would be a good week. Having that endorsement is about as big as it gets and we are very excited. But he still has work to do. One poll showing murphy 13 points before Allen Grayson the kind of man who doesnt hold back. All these people who are bearing false witness against me, from me they get the one finger salute. Hes been under controversy the New York Times printing an article on a hedge fund he runs and his family making money off of a company in africa that promotes slave labor. Theres a Smear Campaign going on right now against me because im ahead in the polls. What do you have to say to that. Thats the difference between alan and myself. His demeanor. He is going to continue to say a lot of very controversial things. Hes made a record and reputation of doing that. This week grayson and david jolly leading the polls on the republican side have planned their own debate assuming theyll be the last two men standing. Qualifying is not until june so we have a long way to go. In tampa news channel 8. Pam keith and Theresa Jones are hoping to be the democratic nominee in that race as well. A car jacker picks on the wrong women. Coming up how the two women not only fought off the armed men but led the chase to catch them. Incredible story. And later how protestors hope to drive home a message. Leave interstate 275 alone. Its going to be a cool but on the seven day temperatures are going up and up and up. A grandmother and another woman turned the tables on a gun wielding car jacker and tonight those car jackers are behind bars after those two women they targeted decided they are going to fight back. They were in the suv in a Grocery Store parking lot when a man jumped in the vehicle. They advantage into action when the man pointed a gun at them and the toddler. I grabbed the gun from his hand. He still had the gun and i managed to turn it on him and put it straight at his forehead and i was pulling the trigger. Both of us kind of elbowed and fought him. Good for them. That man by the way ran to a two men were waiting but when they took off the women followed them and rammed their vehicle. Those men ran off but they were eventually caught. There could be new guidelines for those who use body cameras to develop standards for the use and how the audio and video files would actually be kept. Most Law Enforcement agencies currently do not use them. There is a bill in the senate right now. A proposed is not sitting well. They hit the streets to drive want it. And one city offering a cut rate on uber rides. Why. Coming up. You are watching news channel 8, the station thats always on protest the proposed widening and expansion of interstate 75 express toll lanes. Our protestors very upset over the loss of Historic Homes churches businesses and parks all caused by this project. The stop tampa bay express Coalition Picked up a new partner in the fight. The reason we are down here is so people can be aware of what we are going to lose. The Historic Homes along this entire walk today between us and the highway will all be gone forever, never can be replaced. Tampa heights, all among the project. Central florida city wants to pay for your uber ride offering to pay 25 of the cost of an uber ride within city limits up to 25 if those rides rail station hoping to alleviate traffic congestion. Pinellas offers a similar ride to bus stops. And the Tampa Bay Rays later this month. Restoration work under way at latin America Stadium where the president will watch the race and face cubas national team. President obama will become the first sitting u. S. President to visit the island nation in nearly seven decades. And keith is going to be right there traveling for the visit. He will bring us reports for several days right here on news channel 8. Bike week day way in daytona beach. 500,000 visitors are expected this year for the ten day motorcycle festival. An event celebrating all things dealing with motorcycles and their riders. The news channel 8 out doors expo and boat show is back. Show has been a spring tradition for more than two decades now. It offers seminars on fresh Water Fishing fly fishing boating hunting and a lot more from all of the experts and they are not just for the adults either. I had a kid earlier today that said he couldnt throw one so i said why dont you try and his face was ear to ear the smile. It was awesome. I like seeing the reaction. Its amazing. Admission is 8 for adults and free for kids 12 and under. The out door expo and boat show runs through tomorrow at the Florida State fair grounds opens at 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow and closes at 5 00 p. M. And its open until 7 tonight. And we are looking at nice weather tomorrow to actually be out doors with more sunshine and comfortable temperatures. Right now live view from st. Pete beach. We have the setting sun. A beautiful evening. A little on the cool side right now 63 degrees. Throughout your evening in the lower 60s throughout much of the bay area. Mostly clear skies and again you might need a jacket as you head out to dinner this evening. Cool temperatures. Cooler as you head to the coast. Lower to middle 60s again in the immediate coastline and lower 60s inland nearly 80 degrees in see bring obviously farther from the some what cool gulf of mexico. Satellite and radar picture dry conditions. A few high thin clouds across the area. A beautiful sunset coming up here in about 13 or 14 members. Minutes. Those high thin clouds making for a beautiful sunset. The bigger view High Pressure is in control of much of the eastern part of the country so nice sunny weather is going to continue for us for the next couple of days. Our next chance of rain looks like next saturday or sunday. Of weather on the eastern side of that high which means pulling down cooler air and tips into the atlantic its going to give us some warmer air from the south and we are looking at temperatures in the lower if not middle 80s inland as we head through much of the week. Overnight tonight clear skies Cool Temperatures dropping down to about 52 degrees so in the morning head off to church. Do everything early in the morning youll probably need a jacket by the afternoon. Sun is going to warm us up quickly. Be right around 70 close to our average high. Deep blue sunny skies. A great day to take pictures. The skies will be a deep shade of blue, comfortable temperatures. Breezy tomorrow with the wind out of the north at 10 to 15 miles per hour. That breeze and the packed that plants are starting to bloom is having an impact on the pollen so tomorrow high pollen again bit each and every day as we go without rape. Raperain. So for the allergy sufferers its looking a tad warmer in part of plants city. A great day to head out to the strawberry festival tomorrow. Also spring training everybody for the marlins tigers pirates yankees and phillies for the nice spring weather obviously the reason we are having spring training in florida is because of our lovely weather this time of year technically still winter. So tomorrow a beautiful day. Sunny skies, 74 degrees. Its going to be a little cool in the morning but by the afternoon really nice. Monday 78. The warm up continues. 83 degrees by friday but all week long we remain dry until we get to next weekend. Warming up beach day. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Coming up an old hero returns to the rays but in a brand new role. And the lightning look to break the franchise record with a 9 9th straight win tonight. Paul ryan breaks it all down in sports next. phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, 22 again. Johnson hits it down to right field. That ball is going to be fair. Its gone dave johnson does it again . What azole o shot on a saturday evening. Remember this guy, the Great Pumpkin dan johnson, the 36 yearold best known for that back with the rays organization. Johnson spent last year with the cardinals and signed a Minor League Contract with tampa bay to try to become a knuckle league pitcher. They play in sarasota tonight. In tampa the lightning will look to make history against the hurricanes. They have won eight straight games tied by the stanley cup team. The elusive number nine could come tonight against the canes. They beat two weeks ago in raleigh near the beginning of the National Hockey league. After everything the lightning have been through this season they are two points off last years pace. Going through that year you remember what a great year it was. But i dont know it like we had that same feeling about this year. Everybody has talked about how weve been up and down and inconsistent and here we are two points off last years pace. Any time you are tied for first place with 18 games left thats a pretty good spot to be. Lets see whats in tallahassee Florida State against syracuse before next weeks acc tournament. Closing seconds of the first half its xavier mays. Thats steph curry range at the buzzer. Down 3 at recess. Then with nine minutes to play off the miss hes a man baby. Terrence mann with the put back slam and they clean up trash to seal the deal. Beasley scored 20. Florida state wins 7873. They win a couple games in the acc tournament they could make a case for an at large bid. The bulls lead tulsa 3633 at half time and the ladies are playing in the quarter finals against smu tipping off just a few minutes ago. And multiple reports indicating lovey smith the buccaneers head coach might be taking the head coaching position at the university of illinois so looking for that at 11. No more pros, eh . Do you want to hire him for your Football Team . I dont know i dont hire. No idea. Just saying. Pretty nice night for us. Looking good. Going to be cool this evening so might want to wear a light jacket. Temperatures dropping down to 52 degrees. Tomorrow morning a little cool but by the afternoon 74 degrees lots of sunshine and if you like cooler temperatures embrace it because you saw the seven day. We are back into the middle 80s by the end of the week. It will be warm. Thank you. March is dolphin Awareness Month and where did you get that from . And sea world is celebrating. Im a thing of knowledge, budd a thing of knowledge. I couldnt get that out. The park welcomed a brand new baby dolphin named skye. They have a pretty good time and shes in good health. You are an encyclopedia of dolphin knowledge. Which ended right then. Well see you right back here tonight at 11. March further toward the nomination, despite a bruising back dlt back backlash. Rubio and cruz try to stay relevant. Sanders fights for a comeback. Unlocking idence. A struggle over releasing iphone data police say could be critical in dozens of unsolved criminal cases. In a world of high tech security, a return to old fashion horsepower to track down smugglers. Step by step. A father finds a way to bond with his