Could be anybody elses car. Thank you. I am sarina fazan. This is near brandon. He died overnight stunning the sheriff ls office and other Law Enforcement agencies as a whole. We have Team Coverage of the tragedy, we are standing by with the alarming trend this year of wrong way crashes. We begin with jake peterson. Certainly our hearts go out to everyone who knew and loved this deputy. It has been a rough day for the deputies. Flags are flying at half staff. Thats the call. There was a high speed crash. It appears he was trying to get out of the way. Trying to avoid mcbeths suv, mcbeghtd was speeding and going west in the eastbound lane on the summit expressway. He died on the scene. He was a short while later. And that was a familiar place to this deputy. Just left Tampa General Hospital and traffic crashed. And was enroute back to his district when the vehicle struck. Procession of cars. From the hospital to the medical Examiners Office saturday morning after he passed. Colonel greg brown said this is the departments worst night mayor. It is like losing a family member. Drives it is home to all the deputies. Could have within anyone elses car. He went the wrong way is ongoing. It is a process fila wouldnt have known. They hoped to become a traffic investigator at some point in his career. A career cut too short. When something happens. It draws very close to together and this is for the sheriff os and all the Law Enforcement men and women are trying to do their job and get home alive. He released a statement. The tragic loss of one of my deputies has our hearts heavy. This is the honor and respect for the one who dedicated his life to protect and serve. This deputy comes from a long line of Law Enforcement in his family. We are waiting to hear more word on when funeral arrangementses will take place. We are learning more about the men driving the wrong vehicle. He worked as a banker in the hudson area. He never caused any trouble and always willing to len a helping hand. He helped me out when i was struggling financially. Any way he could. What ever amount. My heart goes out to him. I am going to miss it. Mcbeth was only 31 yearsold. We are going in depth to look at how crashes have been a problem in the bay area for years now. Bringing the death toll to five. This year alone. Abc action News Reporter has more to stop the deadly trend. Look at where we are. And off the i2 five ramp. It has big flashing light that i will lum nate if someone is there are a series of the signs that go out to the interstate with arrows as well. This is a series of these in hopes of presenting the wrong way crashes and after this mornings death of the deputy anal other driver, many are wondering if it is enough. Looking at the wreckage makes your heart singh being. Driving the wrong way and killing a deputy. All of us in the Law Enforcement community we know ultimate sacrifice. He previously worked as a dui investigator at the sheriffs office. And deputy john was working. He was one of those guys that loved the job. He would do anything for anybody. He is and saddened by a friend. He was the victim of yesterday they are happening way too frequently. We need to figure out to get to the root problem. Is it roadway signs and overconsumption at the bars and take care of the resources we have. It is something that has to happen. After 17 wrongway crashes d. O. T. Started installing these hoping to prevent crashes. They have not been in place a year yet. Interest is not enough data to know if they are working. It has helped in south florida and the majority of accidents involved impaired drivers. They believe they could be helped with more officers on the roads. Weent dont have enough resources as it is. Let alone to react in the split second. And you know, if a wrongway driver is reported. To look at how well these things work and if they are proven effective. More could be put up along the area roads to help with the wrong way crashes. Abc action news. Thank you. Your prayers are pouring in. And you can offer your condolences to the family by searching on facebook for action news. Com and you can find these posts. Governor rick scott also in part. Ann and i are hard broken hostage i can death will not only be felt by family members in Law Enforcement but floar ridians across the state. They are looking for a driver who left a young bicyclist dead. A pickup truck hit the victim at east 30th avenue and then drove away. This happened at 3 30 this he was rushed to a hospital. He is now fating for his ehis life. They have not released his name. The truck is described as an older blue pick up with a full bed topper and damaged wind child and roof. Anyone who describes the this anyone who sees this should report it. This is 6 08 in the evening and we are caught between the low pressure to the west High Pressure to the east and big system out to the west and a few spits of rain as well. And warm temperatures and it is warm throughout the afternoon. 77 in tampa and 81 in plant city out at the strawberry festival. Little bit cooler for palm harbor and 71 right now in long boat key. Not quite as warm as today. 81 for tampa and value rico and mid70s along the coast. We have a better rain chance. I will tell you more about that. And with the forecast coming up straight ahead. It is still ahead at six. Aggressive protestless. And pointing fingers at trump and said he encouraged it. More anger at the latest spot. And getting a quick reaction. A rally in largo. He spent the entire week in his support. And he spent the rest of the day making rounds in hudson, tap and lakeland, he shut down a trump rally in chicago saying donald is to blame. They are coming along in some instances, it appears race and other elements and it is disturbing. And i am sad. I am sad for the cre. This is supposed to be the example to the world how it functions. Instead people are watching third world images coming out of chicago. Meanwhile trump has met with more resistance and he looks startled when a man tries to rush on staining during the rally much they quickly swarmed in and he said he was readily easier if the cop it is do it. Still to come. Setting the scene for the green. They are already ringing in st. Patricks day and when this will happen in tampa. They climb the leaderboard will never forget. Pack. The grand prix kicks off in the area. It is happening tomorrow afternoon. It gets the grown flag before 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow and before that, the second race and they race in the morning in an autographed session at 11 30. It is set for 4 30. Heads up. Security is bumped up this year and expect metal detector screenings. And more police on patrol. With st. Patricks day less than a week ago. It is getting the green on and it as tradition that dates back to 1962. Here the Hillsborough River will turn emerald. That will happen on saturday at 10 30 in the morning. Abc action weather. Little cloudy day today and possible rain coming in. Folks were concerned, it stayed out of the picture. We might have a better chance of getting a scwairt skirt of showers. Stsh squir. Of showers. And squirt, and yet another glorious view to the end of a day. This is what we love around here as we take a look at the weather headlines right now. Dolphins are out jumping in the water and seeing more clouds around. Through this morning and afternoon. Good deck around. Midand high level clouds. It will ramp up and still stays warm. We have got that to look forward to. It is 77 in tampa and st. Petersburg and clearwater with 79 degrees. Winds out of the south and southwest along the coast with the sea breeze kicking in a little bit and you can see the skies are cloudy to partly cloudy. We will be optimistic and say partly cloudy. It is 76 for tallahassee and 76 in west palm and key west and miami with 77 degrees. It is warm. All across the country right now. It is 66. 59 in st. Louis and 56 in new york. And 65 degrees in denver. Looks like spring has sprung in time for the clocks to go forward and we are seeing showers and those are moving up the tennessee valley. That is the last place they needed and those storms are going to begin to dissipate. We take a look at the current sin none particular map, it will go up and over it. And it will swing through cloud cover into the overnight hours. We could see a few showers along the east coast as we wake up tomorrow morning. This is about 2 30. 3 00. We will start to see the showers making it on shore. Here is where we are running the road races out to the st. Petersburg grand prix and this will continue. Broke on line of showers and it is not really a big deluge and it is there for a spit or two of rain. Down into the 0s 70s and as we take a look out on the water. Good looking day at 15. This is the nine category and still with the clouds around. You need this. And it is 6 35 in morning. Sun will rise at 7 41 and set at 7 38. Why is that. It is daylights savings time. Hour. And turn them to 3 00. Tonight kids. Here is look at the forecast. It stays warm and we have a chance of rain tomorrow and maybe a little bit of a chance of sprinkle on monday. It is good for spring breakers right through the week. It is not often the golf course. The kid grows up playing on. He plays the same course in a tour event. That is the case for tampa native. Lee mccoy and made the cut on friday ran just shot a third round of golf he will never forget. Right here on the copper head course. He shot a three over thursday. Even on friday. And today, they surged up the leaderboard and par four. This is georgia senior and then bird did this hole and birdied this hole and it is good for a spot in the top 10. And jordan speeght won it over and putting for eagle and makes it look easy. He is two understand. Tied for 10. Clubhouse leader, however, it is all the way to the bottom of the cup for birdie and it is eight understand for the tournament so far and shooting six under today. An amateur native. We saw it tied with jordan speeght at continue under, at 10 points. Two understand. And six shots off the lead. Spring training is flying by. They just completed the game the pitcher appears to be back to his 2013. And remember, this is his first spring for more. Thanks to tommy john surgery. He gets jonathan diazto chase the ball and three and two clsh thirds and no walks and three ks and that is the game of the spring. No score. Bottom of five. Base resist loaded. Johnnie fielding. And he sciedz to go shopping. Two run score and fields doubled. Action. If you could use one word to sum up the lightening, it would be streaking. Bolts have straight wins and followed that up with three losses including last night against the flyers. Lightning seems to be stricken the wrong way and john cooper said yesterday after the game. His teams attitude. You will hear from him tonights at 11. He is back in action tomorrow afternoon in columbus. Keep it here. Hey, everybody, it is the night you look forward to all night long. One hour less of sleep. Turn the clocks forward and get ready for a 80degree high with a 40 chance of rain on sunday. Who know who is pumped up like that. All the kid out there. Yes, it is going to be dark. Always have a positive attitude. I am sorry. It is an hour later. Thank you so much for choosing abc action news. Welcome to world news tonight. Breaking news. Violence on the campaign trail. A protester rushing donald trump on stage, the secret service jumping into action. 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