50 degree readings. No rain to talk about for the morning or afternoon. Temperatures by 10 am will be about 65 degrees. We will tackle on tack on 10 degrees as we head up toward 75 but will be in the comfortable range over the next few days, mainly in the 70s. Its time to start thinking about the air conditioner because as we see in the extended forecast, we will get much harder during the course of the much hotter during the course of the upcoming week. As we head towards the end of the week were watching a system that could give us a few rain showers. In nice Weather Forecast shaping up here today. I will have more on that to get you through the week coming up. Caught on camera violently pulling a victim out of the the ground. Officer Jeff Williams was suspended for a day but now the victim kevin mccue wants them off the streets. Wants him off the streets. Accuse Attorney Says this is the whole video. They said the paramedics simply stood by and watched. They were standing right there. They saw what happened. They knew what happened. Why are they lying . The officer admitted to using excessive force. Officials say mccue was intoxicated and not cooperating. Traffic is back to normal in st. Petersburg after a crash that caused this back up here. On i275 near 54th avenue south. So far we know that at least two cars were involved, one person was rushed to pay for it with injuries. They tell us theres also construction going on in the area which definitely see there. Right now Sarasota County detectives need your help finding a man accused of taking pictures of a woman up a womans skirt. This man went out to up to a 46yearold man at an antique store, started a conversation and then started following her around the store. The video the victim discovered him taking video or pictures up her skirt when her back was turned. When she confronted him he ran away. Police have confirmed they are examining a knife that was turned into a retired officer years ago. A construction worker claims he found the knife buried in the ground when simpsons former estate was torn down. Special prosecutor todd Foster Police there are many problems with this find. First thing is they have to blood is on the knife or on goldmans. If they find that then you are off to the races. They need to find out whether it is or is not connected to the case. Hes currently in prison for a second crime and cannot be retried. Janay five states will choose which president ial candidates they want to check represent their they want to represent their political parties. They will compete in maine, kansas, kentucky and louisiana. Clinton and sanders are trying to get support in nebraska, kansas and louisiana. Donald trump isnt resting. Today he is in florida to hold a Campaign Rally at the university of central florida, where about 20,000 people are expected to gather to hear him speak. He will hold a press conference evening. Many protesters from the black lives matter pro group interrupted a speech at a hangar. We are down to four republican candidates in the race for the white house. Ben carsons campaign is officially over. He pulled out of the debate in detroit, michigan which is his hometown. The focus now is to catch up to frontrunner donald trump. However during the debate marco rubio, john kasich and ted cruz pledged that they would support the billionaire if he is the nominee. They dont want a contested convention. If the washington dealmakers try to steal the nomination from the people, i think it would be a disaster. Its going to be a busy for both parties, six states today and tomorrow followed by another four states on tuesday. A frightening scuba experience at a nuclear driver. He was diving with his family and friends and they spotted a yellow buoy marking three massive submerged structures. They decided to dive in and thats when he was sucked through a series of pipes and water. All i could think about was these four movies, theres a big turbine and i am coming for it. Its going to chop me up and kill me. I contemplated, do i pull the regulator out of my mouth inches die . That does sound like a nightmare. He surfaced in a reservoir at the plant and is suing Florida Power light, claiming there was no warning on the bowie. Some people just dont have the skills needed for the positions coming up we show you how students in tampa bay are snatching up a highly coveted jobs. Its 6 06 saturday morning, the first weekend in march. News channel it today, new fresh step with the power of febreze. Odor control worth celebrating. Happening today, floridas show is back with great bargains and new adventures. Its been a spring tradition for many and mary mcguire joins us live from the Florida State fairgrounds on with more on what enthusiasts can enjoy. What have you found . Reporter hey, good morning to you, can this. There are of course lots of boats here. Theres also a lot of fishing gear, a lot of goodies that i am seeing around. The expo doesnt start until 10 am so it is pretty quiet around here but there are going to be a lot of lectures comments you can stay on top of your game while you are out and about fishing and hunting. With nearly 50 seminars today on fresh and saltwater fishing, boating, kayaking and more from outdoor experts. Some of the lectures today include smoke and more snuck, Turkey Hunting on the beach, and not tying in the corner for it runs from 10 am to 7 pm tomorrow. Admission is eight dollars tomorrow 8. 00 for adults and 5. 00 for kids. You can even try her hand at being a scuba diver, they have a pool here in the area and i dont know if you saw they actually today live shot while he was scuba diving yesterday. That maybe something that i try but definitely come out here. The weather is supposed to be great for boating this weekend and i cant give a better way to get prepared for spring break season and boating season than to come out and check out all of the really cool bolts they have here. Mary mcguire we expect to see you drenching wet after you try the scuba diving later on this morning. Thank you very much. [laughter] there are millions of Jobs Available because people simply dont have the skills to fill the positions. Found thousands are figuring out how to nabbed the jobs without the cost of a college education. Reporter the name of the game for many of these students is to get their knowledge now, and they get paid for it and down the road is opportunity. They well, study architectural design, all classes at tampa bay tech. Theres a lot of fields out there that ive always wanted to do like welding and mixing concrete. Reporter thousands of students applied to this apply to this Magnet High School every year. They dont even realize probably when they get here that having this knowledge is great earning potential. They have an idea, they dont realize how big it is when they leave us and they are employable right out of high school. Reporter this makes students of eligible for a fouryear Apprentice Program offered by contractors for abc. There are so many jobs out there that employers are willing to take a chance on free. All of our purchases go to school for free. The contractors pay for them to go to school and its a for your training program. They are getting paid, earning while they are learning. They then connect them with Companies Like cox electric. The goal is to become a contractor, own my own business and run it. Reporter he has three years left at his apprenticeship at cox. Gill quired oh, news channel 8. There are also a lot of events you can attend this weekend and detours you can most weekends only last a couple of days. Some last a lifetime. Hampton. We go together. Book at hampton. Com with all the events going on, there could be a few traffic tie ups. Leslee lacey has the report. Boy do we have a lot in store going on in downtown tampa. Arch fans head up to the gasparilla festival of art going on today and tomorrow, thousands of people out there checking out the artwork. If you are a fan i would highly suggest going every year. Its quite fun. Puck drops after 7 pm. It will be congested an hour before and an hour after the game especially on morgan and around this area. Before the game, you want to go a little bitterly if you are heading out there to see the bolts so you can check out the correct. Festival. It is beer week in tampa and here at the okeechobee park it will be crowded here is hundreds of different types of beers between 2 00 and 5 00 p. M. Today. And lets talk about baseball. Spring training is here. Watch people watch baseball outside. It will be a big game and the gets underway just and just after 1 00. Again, that area will be busy about an hour before and an hour after. The phillies are taking on the blue jays and that gets underway just after 1 00 at the Auto Exchange stadium. Sarasota the razorbacks taking on the orioles, a night game just after the at smith some stadium. Lets talk about the strawberry festival. Its the first weekend so expect a lot of traffic as they get out there. Watch the different acts they have going on. If you are headed to the movies, sue tobias opening zootopias opening along with whiskey tango foxtrot. I think you covered all, and the weather is definitely cooperating both today and tomorrow for all of those outdoor events. Tomorrow you might have a little bit more of a priest to the north with the try front passes by but as you see, it doesnt have much reflection on the temperatures with mid70s here. Right now cool in Tampa Airport the east coast with the weather. A little cooler at lakeland at 50 degrees in skies are mostly clear. Weve got high clouds streaming in, i will back out the view and you can see where they are coming from, down across the yucatan an upperlevel disturbance moving through cuba later this afternoon, and later rain showers over south florida but they wont work their way into our area. Here is what im talking about polo if you are leading up to the east here is what i am talking about hopefully this storm has moved far enough off the coastline that there will be no problems but this is the cold front that will come through tomorrow, leaving moisture behind. We wont see much the way of a big cooldown behind it. It will bring us the drier weather and that will allow for temperatures to warm up a bit as we head into next week. This is how it really plays out. Showers over south florida, and then this will drop down in the georgia overnight and push through here tomorrow afternoon. That will just turn the winds around towards the north, speeds around 10 to 15 and we will see those mid70s but as this high builds out into the atlantic and the rich stacks over us we are talking about very warm temperatures as we head into the upcoming work week. Easily getting to the 80s around tampa and stay that way pretty much all week long with above normal readings. Typically we see about 75 this time of year. Thats right where we should be. We might actually crack the 80 degree mark towards Highlands County into polk county, down around 53 in winter haven, 54 here in tampa and those lower to mid50s along the beaches. Great weather to be out voting. If you are picking up your new boat at the boat show, sees less than 2. Extended forecast calls for comfortable weekend weather will start turning up the heat. We might have to turn on the air conditioner as we head towards the middle of the week. Before we see us clouding back up we will see temperatures here in the mid80s , some 10 degrees above normal for this time of year. It will not feel like spring. More like the start of summer here later on. Hey, why not . Lets just skip right over this. I will take it. The ace of the rays pitching staff makes his spring debut, and could the buccaneers be closing in on their first round pick . I do everything on the my friends said i should get in 60 seconds. Thats man were out of 2 . I wonder what else could be better around here . man i heard that. Now get our best offer ever. Super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good . Fios can do that. Cable just cant. Switch to better. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on the clock well, not literally yet. The nfl draft is seven weeks away but it appears they are narrowing in on possible first round selections. Early mocks had been taking a defensive end with the number nine pick. Now nfl. Com is predicting joey meanwhile they are looking at noah spence. No gms, head coaches or position coaches attended his pro day except the defensive line coach, jay hayes. He may be available in the second round. His combine refuse were called shaky. Slowly but steadily chris archer has earned the right to be called the ace of the rays pitching staff since making his debut in 2012, every year he has increased his number of strikeouts, winds at winds at war, thats wins above replacement. Two innings, no strikeouts the bullpen was not a song. He gave up a solo home run in the first pitch he threw and things got hairier in the later innings. This time of year losses dont matter and he was pleased with his effort. I accomplished everything i wanted to accomplish, and that was to be over the plate as much as i could with everything. The goal is 34 starts of being as consistent as you possibly can, and we know as human beings that thats not necessarily going to the case but i am striving for perfection. Its conference tournament time already. The 25th ranked florida women were seeking their first win in the secretary quarterfinals in 18 years , but they will have to wait at least one more. Despite opening the game with a barrage of threepointers florida will learn its postseason fleet fate on monday. They were taken down 7456. The seminoles are now done with their season that they are a tournament. Paul, thank you. In a few months you will be able to ride a giant slide through downtown tampa. Just ahead we show you when you can do that, just in time for summer. vo combine the right things. Sprinkle in the details. And something amazing happens for everyone. Thats our inspiration for fancy feast medleys. Entr\es like white meat chicken florentine and wild salmon primavera with garden veggies and greens. A perfect combination. Looks and tastes amazing. Available in gravy and now pate. Fancy feast medleys. Channel late today. Rise and shine, its officially the weekend. You are taking a live look at downtown 10 tampa. Thank you for joining us this saturday. Its time to check in with mark collins for the latest on the forecast. Expecting a pretty remarkable day. Looking nice out there, shaping up to be a great day folks. As we look at the sun you can see the glow on the horizon as the sun gets higher, seeing that 52, the current temperature, turning out to be around 75 or 77 degrees in that location. They are setting up for a very nice day here both today and tomorrow. High clouds streaming in. No rain will fall. On the shore, 72 degrees. As the wind turns from the northeast to the northwest you will see the temperature drop a few degrees late in the afternoon. Water temperature 66 degrees until we have the puppy warm up. 65 at 10 am, 3 00 75 and towards the mid evening, 64 degrees. As we go through the work week we might have changes looking for the switch on the air conditioner. I will be back with more. A carjacking caught on camera the man is now behind they caught 18yearold William Bradley sutherland at a hotel saying he and two teams are accused of attacking a woman outside of a new walgreens. We are learning more about the associate superintendent of operations who resigned after harassment. Quite a past. He was the subject of an internal investigation back in 2006 while working at the university of florida. Polk County School staff said they did a background and reference check on rivers but some say that wasnt enough. While working at the university of florida rivers admitted to having sexual relationships with three of his employees. The civil trial between houck hogan and the website gawker will begin on monday. They will decide whether houck hogan will get the 100 million that hes suing for, publishing suing them for showing it a video showing him having sex with this woman. Weve been telling you about the long lines outside they promised help is on the way but when we stopped by nothing was changed. We saw the lines stretched around the front front of the building. Many came at 8 00 a. M. Just for the chance to get into the office before it closed at 4 30 p. M. They said they are sending more workers over to help reduce the lines. Workers are targeting neighborhoods with high numbers of children, senior citizens, and people with weak immune systems. They are also focusing on neighborhoods found with high levels of lead. Lead seeped into the water after the water source was changed in 2014. News channel 8 outdoor expo and boat show has featured the latest fishing gear and apparel, but its also a great chance for people to stay on top of their outdoor game. Were joined live dixon the Florida State fairgrounds with more on the great seminars happening there today that you can get in on. Good morning mary. Hey, good morning to candace. I enjoy new live from one of the boats they have here at the expo. There will be more than 57 hours here throughout the weekend 50 seminars here throughout the weekend. Theres a lot that you can learn in addition to checking out these amazing boats that they have here. Some of the lectures today include snook and more snook, and the kids corner where kids can learn to tie knots, cast nets and you can even try snit scuba diving in a heated pool. Its a great way to test out some of the latest and greatest scuba gear. Anyone 10 years of age and older can participate. Am 10 am to 7 pm today, 10 am to 5 pm tomorrow. Admission is 8. 00 for adults and 5. 00 four kids. They are also putting on a fishing derby for kids. They have a little pond and there will be a prize for the child who catches the biggest fish over the weekend. That should be fun and just sitting here makes me want to sing that i am on a boat i am on a boat from saturday night live. Ive seen the capacity, nine people can fit on this. We could have ourselves a pretty fun boat party. Thats a great party, thats our whole morning crew. We will be there, just wait on us. Packer flipflops. [laughter] pack your flipflops. Thank you very much married. Investigators say these adults still ache stole a since the robbery happened the Radio Station helped raise more than 1000 for the troop. Changes could be coming to participate in high school athletics. They will allow them to join the a Athletics Association on a per sport basis. Right now they have to join all sports on the same level. The house is expected to vote on the measure next week. Spaghetti warehouse announced it is shutting down. The restaurant says closing was a difficult decision and thinks its customers for all the memories over the past 25 years. Spaghetti warehouse officially closes next wednesday. School is out for several colleges and universities. A few students are already enjoying time away from the classroom and hitting the beach. Limited but there is an inexpensive alternative. The clearwater ferry. Clearwater police plan to have extra officers on duty to keep an eye on the crowds to make sure they dont get out of control. Take a look at this, a giant wired waterslide coming to tampa. This is video from the slide city event in west palm beach. On may 14, the boulevard will transform into one big giant waterslide. The familyfriendly party may 14. You can find a slideshow of previous events and more information on wfla. Com. I saw the video on facebook and i was like is that coming here . It looks like a lot of fun. Going to be. [laughter] i can just see coming back the next day with a black eye at least its warming up for that. Absolutely. Did you see the spacex launch last night . You can see this all the way here from the tampa bay area and now hdtv it will see be seen across southeastern asia, carrying a satellite. Its going up to about 22. 5 thousand miles in space. Send your pictures, we will get them on here soon enough. Wont always protect your head as a football player. It can be dangerous for a common activity can be dangerous for pets. Research for more than 4000 concussion cases show players that used inflated air instead of foam or gel liners have symptoms for a longer period of time. An alarming report shows a number of people who going to the hospital for treatment come out sick with a superbug. The cdc says one out of 25 patients leave the hospital with an infection they didnt have before the visit. Many of those illnesses are caused by superbugs and are hard to treat with antibiotics. However the cdc claims that hospitals are doing better at and an alert for your pets, sugary sugarfree gum can be dangerous to them. It contains a sweetener that is toxic to dogs. A chemical in the gum can cause blood sugar to drop dangerously low. Theres also a risk of liver failure. Thats your saturday checkup. A Community Garden stay she Stacie Schaible went to plan city to see how it works. Tomatoes, broccoli, who doesnt love berkeley, right . Fennel, celery reporter Karen Elizabeth is passionate about gardening. Papers parsley, eggplant reporter and so excited to spread the word about this the new home of the plan city Community Garden. On the campus of hccs plan i was looking for a way to maintain the space and keep it beautiful without letting it just be totally overcome by florida vegetation. Reporter this is what you call a winwin. Dr. Martin clay is the president of hccs plan city campus. Teaching garden run by the university of floridas altacorp our Culture Program but when that ended they needed new partners and it just so Community Garden needed new space. Now we are working like crazy to get it going. We are so excited that the opportunities here are the on what we even imagined could be available for us. Reporter you can adopt one of the garden beds which are 6 x 12 and grow your own vegetables. Its a space if a family wants to have a bed, there is not much encouragement you need with your small children to help with the plan from the seeds in the soil. Them. Always wanted a garden but arent much of a green thumb, no problem. We have a lot of experienced folks here, so if youre not quite sure what to do or when to grow it, we have that mentoring available. Reporter and the public is welcome. Please come out and take a look at it, and sit on the park benches that are spread around the area, find a shady spot, bring a book and enjoy yourself. There is a small fee if you would like to adopt a garden, just 35 per year. A new species of octopus never seen before discovered just off the hawaiian coastline. Take a look at this little guy. So cute. Scientists found him more than 14,000 below the surface. What makes it different from others is its ghostlike appearance. He looks like casper the ghost there. So cute. So deep, too. Thats more than 3 miles down below the water. Are concerned about the warm weather melting the snow. From fairbanks, alaska. Cars were full. Thats a lot of snow. Encourage was hit with snow is still on. That is good news there. The Iditarod Race will embark on a nearly 1000 mile race all the way across the state. Nothing better than those alaskan huskies, right . Maybe you have some of those dogs yourself, you are taking them out for a walk today. It will be warmer than that. Much warmer than that, in fact we are going to be seeing temperatures warm into the 80s near some spots later this afternoon and during the course of the week, sunspots might actually get into the upper 80s. What time is it . Is it march . Around the bay area. Right now 53 degrees, cool and comfortable. You cant improve much on the weather we are seeing much. High clouds streaming to the area, but new rain coming out of that no rain coming out of that, dry all weekend long. Temperatures in the 70s today and tomorrow. By the upcoming work week, we will see hotter temperatures and ending the week we might have a few spotty showers, but it looks like a weak front rain now hard to say just how much rain we will get, if at all, friday into saturday. Temperatures in the northern areas, typically seen the coolest whether there. 43 in inverness, 42 in brooksville. These high clouds continue to stream into south florida, trying to get into the bay area but they will just really thin theres an upper level disturbance rolling through. Cuba will be dealing with work into south florida as well. I have to back out the big picture because really we are not seeing any weather in our area. The storm out in the atlantic will move away. This cold front comes in tomorrow. That front just reinforces the dry weather for us here, and we really wont get much in the way of colder temperatures behind it. So showers stayaway, as the front sweeps by we will be a little bit more northerly tomorrow and then High Pressure builds in, giving us an easterly flow and that once a step over the next couple of days. This afternoon 75 degrees with mostly sunny and comfortable temperatures here as we head into the early evening hours, temperatures will start to drop around 8 00, 62 here in tampa 63 in plant city and then tomorrow morning kind of like we are tomorrow right now in the mid to lower 50s. The extended forecast calls for a dry weekend ahead and above normal temperatures, soaring into the mid80s. Some 10 to 12 degrees above and then we might see a few scattered showers with the system in the gulf flight friday into saturday. Like you said, get the ac ready. Thank you very much. An exciting discovery in space. What astronauts found can happen to your body if you spend enough Time Floating in space. Your tech review is right after take a look in your medicine cabinet, chances are there are medicines that need to be disposed of, but how do you do it safely . Dr. Jason fields joins us and why not just throw these out in the garbage . When you take unnecessary, unwanted or expired medicines and put them in the toilet or trash can they go into the environment and that is not safe. Also, children and pets can get to them. And not something that also what are our options . You can take them to a local dropoff site or you can contact the Hillsborough County antidrug alliance. They have a new product that when combined with these, in neutralizes them for safe biodegradable disposal. For more information, call 8132384034. The new pedi perfect wet dry. Now get effortless hard skin removal on dry or wet skin. Plus, it has 2 speeds and its rechargeable. The easy way for touchably soft feet. Suits me and my new shoes. Pedi perfect wet dry. Amop\. Love every step. There are more options for cordcutters and what a year in space can do to your body. Theres a lot going on in the university of tech and social media and our tech guru lindsey to know. Its what us social for. Apple support is now on twitter. Now you can tweak them your problems and avoid going into apple stores only to find out you need an appointment first. Tweet apple support and they might answer your questions. Have you noticed more businesses on facebook lately . You are not imagining it. Not only are there 50 million Small Business pages on fit facebook but now they just revealed it has 3 million of them that are actively advertising, so thats 50 more than the year before and 70 are from outside the united states. At t and directv are targeting cordcutters planning to launch three new options this fall and you wont need a satellite dish to use them. Streaming for any on device any online device and another service that will let people free. And trending this week, this is one of my favorite stories. Year in space. Astronaut scott kelly landed back on earth after spending space station, and one of the coolest facts so far he grew 2 while there. Hes expected to shrink back to his original size though now that hes back on earth. Lindsay, thank you. There are lots of movies in theaters this weekend. Heres rafael seth with the box office preview. Tina fey treats her comfort zone for a war zone in whiskey tango foxtrot. Its a real time reallife memoir of a journalist whose career is in a rut so she takes an assignment in afghanistan and the experience changes her life. In london has fallen, the followup to 2013s olympus has fallen fights him in the crosshairs again with the president when insurgents its rated are. R. Christian bale drinks keep in night of cosplaying a writer searching for love and identity through flings with six different women. Its in limited release. A plucky bunny gets the jump on crime in zootopia. Jennifer goodwin is the voice of a rascally rabbit who wants to be a cop but being the smallest mammal on the fours comes with challenges in the beasts. Its pg13. Thats the box office preview, rafael seth nbc news. Stay with us, we will be in a time when email has taken over snail mail, we saw this week that snail mail was the reason one man was saved. A mail carrier was on his route when he spotted an 84yearold who fell and hit his head while trimming trees. He needed help so brown jumped into action, getting help for the man. He recovered and this week he was able to thank brown, who is recognized for his actions. A very sweet story there. A terrifying scuba trip we think could only happen in the movies. What happened when a diver got sucked into a pipe at a nuclear new fresh step with the power of febreze. Youre watching news channel 8 today. Good morning, i am candace mccowan. Thank you for joining us. Lets start by checking out the forecast, mark collins, what can we expect this weekend . It looks really good, in fact sunshine both days but if you are headed out the door you probably feel a little bit of a chill in the air, colder this morning compared to yesterday by some 11 degrees here in tampa. Brooksville