Bay area road. A wrong way driver just missing slamming into a Tampa Police Officer just a week after a Hillsborough County sheriffs deputy died in a wrongway crash. Now this epidemic as drivers and Law Enforcement on edge. These calls are coming in. You know, you want to say every weekend youre getting an alert, wrongway driver crash. The woman arrested a ja cancela is out on bond this morning. Another one of donald trump trumps relatives is being threatened. The gop front runners sister received a letter like the one received by trumps son. She is a judge on the u. S. Circuit court of appeals. Right now the fbi is investigating but so far no other details were released. An exciting day for apple junkies. Apple users are looking forward to seeing the 4 inch iphone sc. This morning we have a preview of other products set to be released. Its been quite windy this morning. It certainly has. We had a cold front come through yesterday and now the colder air is rushing down the peninsula. Thats the strong winds that youre feeling. Look at this, inverness just dropped to 50, lakeland 54, tampa 57. I expect temperatures to continue to drop over the next couple of hours. Bigger story though right now is the wind. 18 mile per hour winds in tampa, 14 in winter haven. Then you look at the wind gusts and youre at 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour in most places. Skies are clearing out from north to south. Despite the sunshine today, a high of only 66 degrees, well below the average of 77. Tonight were even colder with a low of 46. In weather and traffic on the 8s at 5 08 i have your rain chance forecast. Leslee is here with the update on the triple fatal in sarasota. Its so sad to wake up to Something Like this, folks. Deceased, one taken to the hospital. Heres the situation, University Parkway is closed between old bradenton to desoto road. So if youre traveling on university see how it goes caddy corner there, this is just southeast of the Sarasota International airport. Thats where that is located. Desoto road has remained open. You dont need to go down to myrtle. You can just go right under desoto road and get you by. Thats your alternate. Weve got a great drive on the bay area bridges. No delays and its only going to take you 6 minute to cross the Howard Frankland bridge. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to candace and gayle. Developing right now, another wrong way driving incident in the bay area and this time a Police Officer was almost struck head on by the out of control driver. Its a story we first told you sunday morning. The woman arrested is out of jail this morning and we were there to talk to her as she walked out. This is a mug shot southbound in the northbound lanes of i275 near fowler avenue and almost slammed head onto a dui officer. The officer had to swerve to avoid her. Shortly after that another tpd officer stopped her and arrested her on the spot for drunk driving. This comes a week after Hillsborough County sheriffs Deputy John Kotfila was killed when a driver slammed into his cruiser on the selmon expressway. We tried to talk to cancela when she left jail over the weekend. Can you say anything . No, shes not going to say anything. Get the camera out of my face. She tried to hide her face there. This incident happening a week after a wrong way driver took the life of hillsborough Deputy John Kotfila. His hurst was escorted to Tampa International airport. Was flown back to massachusetts. The honor guard five Deputy Kotfila one final salute. Happening today, senator bill nelson will be in tampa to discuss the fleet for the hangar space. It needs to move by next year from macdill. Other airports include st. Petersburg clearwater and lakeland airport. Two 13yearolds are expected to face charges for stealing a car and crashing it. This morning the girls are recovering from their injuries. They slammed into a traffic light pole at u. S. 19 and darlington road. They believe the girls may be run away. They found the car unlocked with the key in it. A hit and run crash leaves a homeless woman in pasco county now investigators are searching for the Highway Patrol said the woman was hit by a u. S. 301. The truck is described a white four door ford f150 or f250. Anyone with information please call the florida Highway Patrol. Today is a big day for apple fans. The Company Unveiling new products. And as always theyre being very secretive. Lindsey mastis has your morning alert. Any ideas about what well see today . Reporter absolutely. Apple loves to keep to detail the details under wraps but were sure well see a new iphone with a 4 inch screen. They havent come out with a regular sized screen since 2013. We believe they will be unveiling another ipad but its hard to tell what will maybe it special. We expect to see apple updates. A lot of people want to see an update to the mac books but so far i have not heard of anything solid. We may that one. Event of 2016. They usually have a rock band perform thats always fun to see. It begins at 1 00 this afternoon our time and im going to be following the announcements very closely and show you whats new. Thank you. You can follow our morning a lert alerts on facebook and twitter. Just search 8alert. The average price of gas in the u. S. Jumped almost 20 cents over the past two weeks. The average price at the pump across the country is 2. 02. The price here in the bay area is 2. 01. Analysts say its due to growing demand for gas and Higher Crude Oil prices. The time right now is sneaking up on 5 08 on this monday morning. I know a lot of kids have school off, its spring break in many counties. Yeah. Theyre thinking spring break, it feel s more like winter break out there because we have a significant cool down right now. Temperatures between now and 8 00 a. M. It will be very windy this morning. In fact, if youre just waking up you might be able to hear the wind howling outside your window. With that strong winds its a struggle to warm up today. 58 at noon, an average high of 66. More than 10 degrees below average despite lots of sunshine. Of course cool this evening as well. So, yes, this is not spring weather, this is january weather. It just doesnt last long. Back in the low 70s tomorrow, near 80 on wednesday and for all the spring breakers and the rest of us as well, we keep it dry through thursday and the rain chances increase through friday and the weekend. 66 degrees and spring breakers will probably be more excited about the 79 on wednesday and the 82 on thursday. Keep in mind with those strong winds dangerous conditions with rip currents out on the water so spring breakers may need to hold off going to the beach until tomorrow. Maybe hold off on the kite surfing and all that too. Its windy on the skyway bridge. Lets take a areas. Breaking traffic. Bradenton sarasota. No collisions or problems on the interstate. We have a may interstate. We have a major desoto road. Its due to a triple fatal accident. Also one extra person transported to the hospital. We will keep you morning. Desoto road is your alternate here. It runs before they intersect. Thats what you want to use instead. Ill continue to follow that breaking traffic with that thats a back to candace and gayle. A tragic death on the job. Ing ing e is grieving the loss. Its a problem that happens every time it rains, debris and trash flowing into storm drains. How one neighborhood figured out a way to solve this problem. News channel 8 is covering the president s historic visit to cuba. Up next whats on the agenda today for president obama. We have special coverage of president obamas visit to cuba. For the First Time Since 1928 a president is in the communist nation. President obama is working to extinguish the tensions routed between the two countries. In an effort to restore relations with cuba many business deals between the two countries are in place or are in the works including direct flights and soon cruise ships docking in havana. Today president obama will meet with president raul castro. Good morning from outside the Latino Americano stadium where the rays will take on the Cuban National team on tuesday. Its been a rainy start to this historic visit of president obama. The president was here and everyone was trying to catch a glimpse either on the street or where they could, in their homes. A lot of optimism here for the president s visit. Of course tourism in cuba has increased about 77 over the past year. More needs to be done. The president has a congressional delegation here with him, Business Leaders here with him and all of this comes the president will attend a wreath laying ceremony and has a dinner with raul castro. A lot of optimism here in cuba. Reporting from havana waiting for the sun to shine, im keith cate back to you. Stay dry, keith. Right now preparations are underway for the rolling stones. The band will hold a free concert in havana this friday. Planned for this week but rescheduled for friday due to president obamas president. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to watch the concert. News channel 8s keith cate will bring you special coverage of president obamas historic visit to cuba all week long. Keith will be there when the rays take on the Cuban National team thats right here on news channel 8. The South CarolinaFire Department is mourning the los angeles of one of their own. The firefighter was hit and killed by a truck. Officials in now the story is all over social media. A number of people are reaching out to send messages of condolences to the firefighters family. A three alarm fire at an 2 million in damage. Take a look at that. More than 100 firefighters battled the flames at the flying j truck stop. Destroyed the building. A grease. Fire sparked the inferno. Everyone was able to get out safely. Happening today, police at the university of south florida are cracking down on drivers in order to keep bicyclists and pedestrians safe. Starting today officers can Issue Citations using money from the Florida Department of transportation. Fdot awarded the Usf Police Department a more than 14,000 grant. This goes towards a bicycle pedestrian initiative. They can Issue Citations and warnings. This morning an 8 on your side alert. Every time it rains water flows into the storm drains along the streets. That water and all of the stuff in it goes directly into tampa bay. Meteorologist leigh spann has one way a neighborhood is stopping this problem. They are installing catch the curb. A florida rainstorm, boy, can it pour. All the storm water run off goes into the bay. Theres not a catch base. Neighbors in tampa shore, a selfproclaimed boating community wanted to keep it clear of all the trash and muck caught in the rain water. You see people throw trash out all the time. You can stop it here. And like cigarette butts we can catch those. These custom made baskets still in a storm catch they have a special lining to absorb oil but it can make it to the bay. Thats what got us the golden mangrove award from the Tampa Bay Program which were very proud of showing that were doing positive Environmental Impact for our community and our area. Many groups have worked to improve the Water Quality of the bay in the last three decades and these neighbors are proud of 11 catch baskets installed now and will have another nine soon. This is the only way that i know of that you can keep this from going into the bay. Each of those baskets costs about 1,000. The tampa bay Shores Community received a 5,000 grant to help them buy more. Pretty cool. Very cool. Sea lions are taking over one port in oregon but now residents there believe they found a way to fix the issue. Look at all the sea lions on the boat docks. In an effort to keep them away they installed inflatable dancers. When they are turned on they go away frantically but as soon as they are turned off the sea lions pop back to their sunning spot. It seems almost cruel. Those dancers sway ing ing in the wind. Youll be swaying in the wind this morning too. Winds from the north, 50 degrees at 8 00 a. M. Significantly colder than weve been recently and we dont warm up much. Inching up to 58 at noon, 66 well below average around 3 00 p. M. Temperatures are still falling now. Lakeland you just dropped to 52 degrees. 51 brooksville, 61 in north portelli. Certainly colder than yesterday by about 15 degrees. The bigger story this morning, you probably hear it, the strong wind coming from the north at 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour and gusting close to 30 in some places. For the spring breakers theres a rip current risk. Please, please, please stay out of the water. Theres a small craft advisory. Those north winds coming in at 20 to 25 knots. Even though we had the rain, the wind is picking that pollen back up so its in the high category today. It goes down to moderate for tuesday and wednesday and temperatures start warming back up into the low 80s with rain chances increasing by the weekend. How about traffic on the 8s . Keeping track with the suncoast area because thats where the big issue is. We traffic news in sarasota, folks. If youre used to taking University Parkway step away from the fridge, put the eggs down and check out whats going on. University parkway is completed blocked between old bradenton to desoto. Youre not going to be able to get by either direction here. That is at that southeast lower corner of the Sarasota International airport. This is where this is located. If youre used to taking university, what you can do if youre coming away from u. S. 41 is just take desoto road, hop up on 301 and get back to university. The same thing goes for the other direction. Desoto road is a good detour. This is due to a triple fatal accident. A single car crash. One other person is at the hospital. Keep in this mind. Theyre out there investigatingful right now investigating. Ill let you know when it reopens. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to gayle and candace. Which foods have gmos in it. The law prompting general across the country. Hi, guys spring is almost here and you know what that means easter is hopping along. So, if youre looking to stretch your dollar this easter holiday, at your local walmart. Tampa, in headtohead shopping, the total amount saved at walmart vs. Winndixie was 14. 07. Thats 10 on this weeks easter basket. Why shop anywhere else . Fill your basket with walmarts every day low prices and get big savings. Start shopping with walmarts every day low prices today. In an effort to comply with a new law in vermont General Mills will begin labeling products with gmos. They said it will be nationwide because its impractical to make the the labeling will begin appearing on products over the next several weeks. Meet these two 100yearold identical twins. This is your cuteness alert. They are adorable. Albert and elmer celebrated their 100th birthday. They were born in michigan in 1916. Albert lives in lafayette and elmer in tucson. Just a few memories as twins, tricking teachers by swapping out and sharing a car when they were old enough to dive. So whats their secret . Well, who knows. We just follow ib guess i guess follow the path that the lord gaves lord gave us and wake up every morning. Albert and elmer said they lived active when they were younger with a life full of they also swore by waking up early every morning. They look pretty good. Dont they . They are so cute. I uploaded the video on facebook if you need to feel good throughout the day you can watch it. For sure. Insfir ration for all of us inspiration for all of us. Weather and traffic on the 8s 3 minutes away. A cement truck trying to out run police. You wont believe its 5 28 and emoji man said hold onto your hat, its windy. So for the kids not on spring break its going to be a cold start at the bus stop today. 50 degrees plus that wind. When they come home from school still cool and gusty at 66. Leslee. Now, a couple of issues that are new to talk about. In the east lake area, an injury accident at east lake road at keystone road but its off to the shoulder. Debris on the roadway northbound 75 before gibsonton. Coming up, good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im Candace Mccowan in for gene. Im gayle guyardo. Three people are dead after a car crashes in sarasota. Right now a fourth victim is in the hospital. These are live pictures from the scene at the intersection of old bradenton road and desoto road. Actually, this is a still picture that youre looking at right now. So far police do not know what caused the six l car crash but they do believe speed was a factor. We have a crew on the way to the scene right now. Well have lots of updates on this breaking story throughout