I posted one of those throwback pictures on thursday. I think it was an easter picture that i had taken when i was four or five years old. A beautiful site this morning as we are looking out from our tampa location. Its already a brightening sky. The sun came up just a few moments ago. But last night, it was a beautiful start for the weekend at the florida strawberry festival. Nbc action news on the social media platform, tweeting us out. A beautiful shot from the midway and it is of course, strawberry festival time. Take a look at the radar and satellite composite your its going to be a great day. A few clouds streaming in from the west. We have had a cold front so its going to be very pleasant out on the midway today. Temperatures are starting off in the crisp. It will feel cooler than this time yesterday. 48 in spring hill. And auburndale. 51 and ruskin. 52 in ellington. 53 in tampa and sarasota. The warm spot, siesta key at 55. Platte city, free kids day today. 10 00, the midway activities start. Cheap trick is going to round out the evening with a performance at 7 30. Heres the way your day is going to look. A nice one. Temperatures pushing up into the mid70s. Even warmer tomorrow. We will take a look at that with your action Weather Forecast 7day version in about 12 minutes or so. Hunt is on in sarasota for a man who deputies say is looking up womens skirts. See it here in this video. We are told its all happening inside a local store. Take a look at this surveillance video. This is the man deputies are looking for. This is inside a store called bonbon vintage. The act. She confronts him. So if you recognize this man, you are asked to call the Sarasota County Sheriffs Office. Deputies need your help to find a suspected bank robber. These pictures are from the bbt bank on indian rocks road in belleair bluffs. Deputies say this guy walked in friday morning and gave the weapon. If you recognize him, give the panellas county Sheriffs Office a call. Possible drug abuse and its all caught on video. We do want to warn you that the footage is hard to watch. A tip led officers to question one man who tells them he was doing something called a protection sport. Focusing on obedience, agility and fight work. Detectives believe what they saw on this video is extreme. Although they add the dog is extremely helping. Attorneys will decide on possible animal cruelty charges we are erring on the side of caution to make sure we are looking at all aspects. Detectives say the man in that state. Avenue. Business owner said she allowed him to use her guard. Staff did not want us what happened or the owner wouldve been stopped a student who claims he was trying to break up a fight ends up being are sprayed and in handcuffs thursday at richard al sanders school. Two of the pictures of the kids arrested there. A female student was getting assaulted during lunch so he and his friend jumped into tried to stop it. He admits he threw punches but he believes it was necessary for the School Resource officer to he believes it was not necessary to break up the fight with pepper spray. I dont think its right. Me off but not missed but not sprayed. District officials confirmed the fight happened but are refusing to comment at this time. The race to the white house. Donald trump will make a Campaign Stop in Central Florida today. Organizers at the University Say they initially planned for the event to start at noon that are now pushing it back to 2 oclock. That is because of an overlapping event on ucf campus. People say they expect the crowd of about 20,000 people. Seven primary contests are scattered across five states this weekend. For the republicans kentucky in maine caucus today along the democratic side of things, its all about the caucus in nebraska. Louisiana, voters from both sides head to the polls in a closed primary. The action all ends tomorrow with the Democratic Caucus in maine and a primary vote in puerto rico for the republicans. Your time now a traffic alert. If youre traveling from tampa to make you do not want to get off at the [ indiscernible ] exit. Roadwork there. Get off at Branch Forbes road and take that to 574 mlk and follow it up to the strawberry festival. You should also know that bill mentioned earlier, kids are getting in free today at the strawberry festival. Go there and check it out and get in for free. Heads up if youre traveling on the veterans expressway. The southbound exit is closed at gun highway for construction until midnight tonight. Covering pascoe county, several undocumented immigrants are being forced out of Government Housing in dade city. Some are accused of using fraudulent Social Security cards to pass for us citizens. Officials say they have discovered more than 20 cases. Friday to leave the cypress farms apartments. Were talking 60 kids that have to find a different way to go to school. So its not and these are all american kids. We cannot have people participating in programs that are not qualified to participate in them. We cant. The Sheriffs Office says they are investigating but have not affected anyone yet. Spacex successfully put a satellite into orbit but failed to land the rocket at sea. It was the fifth launch attempt. Delays due to problems. Unfortunately, they attempted to land the booster rocket on a drone ship and it failed, once again. The booster is said to have come back to earth too fast but the next light has a good chance of success. Ahead this morning, a florida diver sucked into a cooling system of a nuclear he got sucked in like a wet noodle. Just gone. The divers friends and family are witness to everything. Up next, here how the man survived in the measure Florida Power and light says it takes to keep this from ever happening here. It took about five minutes to revive me. A man with Cerebral Palsy is not letting his disability get in the way of his career. Why driving for uber is not his only incredible undertaking. If you have any incredible undertakings on for today, get outside and enjoy it. The sun is up. I have your complete action weather details coming up right your time right now is 7 07. A lawsuit by a man claiming he was sucked into the intake pipe and a st. Lucie power plant. We have more from this victim contemplating taking his own life, not knowing if he would survive. Reporter he started with one passion. My whole life, scuba diving. Reporter for the years, he has added four more on july 12, he was enjoying all of them. Boating and scuba diving with family and friends off the coast of hutchinson island. The buoy marks three massive constructions. So large that their silhouettes can be seen from high above. Robert blake and richardson tied their boat to the buoy and dove in to check it out while their families stay behind. Florida power and light says since the plant was billed, the buoy has always read stay back 100 feet but no indication of danger until it was too late. I swam right up to this big structure. It looks like a building on water. All of a sudden, i felt a little bit of current and i thought, this aint right. This aint right. Reporter what were you feeling at that time when you saw him get pulled then. I thought i saw my friend i. Reporter he thought he was joking. I remember holding him and crying and praying out loud. Did you think he was gone . Yes. Its out it felt like i got sucked into a waterfall. Tumbling around and around. And im trying to get a hold of my lights and look around. Reporter the pipe is 16 feet across and about a quarter of a mile long. It sucks 500,000 gallons of water a minute to grow the plants to go the plant and the reactors. I knew something was drawing all of this water and what to think about were these four movies. This big turbine coming and i am coming for it. Its going to chopping up and kill me. And i contemplated, should i pulled the regulator out of my mouth and i . Die . Start thinking about my family. Without me. Of above, brittany is thinking as well. The power plant and then the turbine. Journey is about to end one way or the other. All of a sudden, a light. Daylight. Fish everywhere. Crystalclear water and the sun is shining. And i thought, is this heaven . Reporter he was still on earth as he pulled himself out of the reservoir. And i said help and he came over and said how did you get in here . And i said, i came through the pipe. And he said, what reporter chris called his wife and that this message. I got sucked through a pot. I am okay. Okay. Something tell me to pick up him here and it was him. She picks up the phone and i just said, im alive. I couldnt believe it. I got chills about three or four times watching that. That is an amazing story and well told. Congratulations for him. Three and half to a fourminute ride. I cannot imagine going through Something Like that. Speaking of divers. Some noaa divers have discovered something pretty cool. Off the coast of hawaii. How about this little guy. He looks like casper the friendly ghost. Just sitting on a rock. More than 14,000 feet below the earths surface. This is an octopus. And that is realtime pictures. Just one row of suckers when there are usually two of them so they are trying to figure out exactly what this is all about but my goodness, the stuff you discover when you are away down in the water it looks fake almost. Actually by the water in downtown tampa, the riverwalk. The scene of what is going to be a really neat art festival for today. This is going to be the gasparilla festival of the arts and you can already see beautiful conditions with palms. The university of tampa back in the background. I just got chills looking at that. We live in a beautiful place. The sun rose today just after 7 oclock and it was a brisk start. We will be warming up nicely by later on today and i dont see any rain to speak of over the next seven days. Conditions in tampa, 53 degrees. Winds from the north, northeast at about three. 50 in clearwater. Calm winds there and we are looking at 58 degrees in st. Petersburg with wins coming out of the northeast at 12 miles an hour around the state, definitely quarter off to the north. This is where that cold front has moved through. Some of the cooler air has definitely settled in around gainesville. 40 in tallahassee. 44 in pensacola. 43 in jacksonville and chilly across the southeast. 37 in kansas city. 47 in the panhandle. Into the 30s for the color line as for the carolinas. Arming him at 35 degrees as High Pressure clears the skies out. Its going to warm into the upper 60s to low 70s in many areas across the south but today. As a matter of fact, take a look at the futurecast. Green blobs. Hardly a cloud around. On the golf course, things are looking good. We will take those mid50s temperatures and pushed them up to about 71 by noontime. And top out at 74 degrees. Those of sunshine for st. Petersburg. 70 degrees. Winds out of the northwest. A high of 74 with a few clouds around. Will take a look at your boating weather. 66 degrees is the temperatures off of clearwater beach. Is the temperature of clearwater beach. Your low tide just before 5 oclock. The sun will set just after 6 30. Heres a look at floridas most accurate seven day forecast and that is a thing of duty. Temperatures warming into the 80s. A lot of folks heading here on spring break. All of the details, all of the time on your abc action news app. A san diego uber drivers is inspiring his passengers with his motivation and work ethic despite having a disability. He admits writers are caught off guard when they come into the backseat of his car. He was born with Cerebral Palsy and drives in part to provide for his family. He and his wife just adopted three girls but he also is a motivational speaker. It takes about five minutes to revive them. His wife says he loves people so this job is a perfect fit. I can see that. Good story. The governor has promised more jobs for florida but the hype is not living up to its promise. The iteam goes beyond numbers and find out where we gained, where we are losing and welcome back. 7 23. Since Governor Scott took office, he has made bringing more jobs to the said his top priority. In the recent months, job growth has been higher here than any other larger state. By the numbers he is giving me not tell the whole story. Jarrod holbrook and adam going on in our job market. Reporter Governor Scott regularly aims to have added more than 1 million jobs to the Sunshine State and that number continues to grow. At the iteam has uncovered that some sectors of the economy have actually lost jobs. How much to you like your job . A lot. 100 reporter she has been looking for work for months. She and others are seeking jobs that pay slightly more than minimum wage. When the governor talks about 1 million jobs, he is talking in private industry. This is the number last june and has grown since then. At the number of government jobs that have been lost during that time, 140,000 in local, state and federal government bringing the statewide total much closer to that number. Reporter the state has budgeted nearly 400 million in incentives over the last five jobs to bring jobs to the state. Less than 10 of that money has actually been spent. I dont think we ever actually got an answer to the question of how many jobs were created last year. We were not qualified to work for those jobs. Just people qualified have come into florida instead of jobs that people really need. Reporter what kinds of jobs are being added . Holbrook fix up our story. Reporter the iteam ranked growth. What we have found is the strong. A problem is finding the right people to fill them. People are hiring faster. Reporter he works for high arching. He says its an exciting time tampa. To see what kinds of jobs are growing in florida, we ducked into the records of the Us Department of labor. Service industry jobs grew the most. Growing from 2015, more than 26,000 jobs were added to florida. Trade and Utility Commission came in second. Business ranked third. Federal and government grew the least. Daniel james scott is with the Tampa Bay Technology forum, and have a sink group to protect jobs. He says for a higherpaying skilled job, hiring is a challenge. We are not seeing as much challenge for open jobs right now. Reporter some of the higher level jobs are going to people outside of the temple market. We are putting a full list of what types of jobs are available in florida as well as how much they are paying on our website and we will break down all of the gains and losses on abcactionnews. Com. Coming up, the four biggest differences setting this years live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. Welcome back to abc action news this morning. Your time right now is just about 7 30. Heres what we are watching pennell as part police are investigating possible dog abuse. Take a look at this video. And all caught on camera. This man tells officers he was training the dog for a special training to protect the dog. Its a protected dog sport at the doghouse llc. Detectives think this looks extreme so the state attorney is also investigating in the owner has said that she let the man borrow her yard and she says that she and her staff would never have allowed this the republican front runner, donald trump, will be in orlando today but so will protesters. His Campaign Says some 20,000 supporters are expected at the university of Central Florida. He will be speaking there at 2 pm just across the street. Demonstrators are also expected. Police tell us they are working with all sides to make sure spacex put a satellite in order good in orbit. The fifth launch attempt. The attempt to land that rocket on a drone ship sailed again. Tweeting out that the booster just came back to earth to best at the next light has a good chance of success. Now, if they could just landed, we would be set. I posted the pictures years ago and the positive comments encouraged me to figure out how i could try this again. Were having nice weather here. Especially when you do the comparison contrast to what is going on up north. They are dealing with more winter weather. Another blast triggering a 10 people in the hospital and drone video capturing stranded motorists after authorities shut down the interstate. Also causing thin ice around the region. Firefighters had to race out to the lake to rescue a dog who wondered out and fell in. Thankfully, theyve got them okay and folks are not okay with that nasty stuff. We have a great event on the way today here in tampa. This is a live look at curtis in part. The tents are buttoned up but it 9 00, everything is a go for the gasparilla festival of the arts. You can see folks down there with a little bit of a chill on. By later on this afternoon, you can track those layers and be in shorts and tshirts. And its going to be a fantastic day. We did have a cold front that moved through yesterday. It has dropped down to the south now. We have a few clouds but Just Sunshine later on. Its starting to warm up right now. 52 degrees in tampa and sarasota. 50 in hudson. Still 40s and spring hill. We are looking at 52 for clearwater. 51 in valrico. Heres a look at floridas most accurate day planner plenty of sunshine today and warming up quickly. Up to 74 by noontime. It will get one tomorrow and really warm into the work week. I will show you that with the seven day forecast coming up in about 12 minutes or so. New information about a nice found at the site of o. J. Simpsons former home. Investigators telling abc news that the blade is not the murder weapon used in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman took was allegedly covered by a construction worker at the property. Possibly, around the same time a retired police officer, george mccauls Attorney Says he immediately called police and was told there was nothing he could do because of double jeopardy. So he has held onto it ever since. His attorney adds there were no obvious signs of blood on that night. Focusing on the bay area monday. Hulk hogan versus gawker trial. The jury seated friday. His real name is terry belay a and he is suing for invasion of privacy. A videotape of hogan having sex with his now exwife was posted. Most jurors are women from Pinellas County. Hogan is suing for 100 million. New developments surrounding that doomed ship lost. Families have reached a settlement. It left florida in october. And it sank during the the hurricane. Its main propulsion failed. All 33 people on board died. That settlement is reportedly for 500,000 each. For pain and suffering and for an undisclosed amount of economic losses. And emotionally charged bill revising alimony payments is a step closer to becoming law. The state senate approving ending lifetime alimony and replaces it with formulas for amount and duration. Depending on the length of the marriage and spouses income. Also equal time share with children between two divorcing parents. New this morning, take a look at this story. Harvard law might remove its official seal. This after months of scrutiny. Because of its ties to an 18 the shield depicts three bundles of weight borrowed from the family crest of isaac royal junior. His family his father made the family fortune with sugar plantations. A committee has voted 10 to 2 to remove it. A decision siding with the college dean, the University Governing Board will make the final call. Happening today for College Bound high school students, the new sat debuts testing sites across the bay area. The improvements after 30 years in response to ageold complaints about standardized tests. For example, the Old Testament off a quarter of a point for wrong answers. Students wont get penalized, now. The new sat will also give time for each section. And the essay is optional. Not counting toward your writing score. The benefit to students allows them to be aggressive. Now, you know you have to give theres an approval to power through and figure out the question. We expect to learn more sometime in may. The snapchat may not be as secure as users think. One of the most popular apps right now but do the pictures you sent really disappear after a few seconds estimate that depends on when you post the picture. Double usually alert you if someone takes a screenshot that a simple youtube search will bring up videos that teach you to work around that showing you just how easy it is to spy on snapchat without alerting the user. Rain and random people can search your name. The doctor researches media and says he and says vulnerable and there is no technology that can promise 100 security. Also, a bay area landmark closing its doors. The restaurant has been a part of the community for 25 years. The owner thanked the community and guests for their business and friendship. The last business day will be this coming wednesday the community and guests for their business and friendship. The last business day will be this coming wednesday, march 9. Hopefully, they will pick up the business in the next couple of days. Coming up, a couple ready to tie the knot. They get jolted by their photographer. Still to come this morning, what happened when a local company made a call for action just weeks before their special day. What company is saying toward a is not a great place to retire and why . Its the first weekend of the florida strawberry festival including cheap trick on saturday. Donny and marie on sunday. The valspar championship starting at noon and discounts for the military. Check out championship. Com and its a free movie day at the Largo Public Library march 8. Community calendar is brought to you by mosaic. Your time right now is 7 42. Big changes are coming to popular parks. Overhauls will require closings of the bay bridge as well as construction at a third part. And enclosed toddler playground will come up and was part village and at wayne clough, the Basketball Court will move to the soccer field. About a month. Fees from sjs residents are paying for those upgrades. Some good news for duke energy customers. Rates dropping once again. The rate cut goes into effect on april dropping the average bill by five dollars. This comes after a more than 6 drop in january. Duke energy says customers will play about pay about 30 less per month. And right now, tampa is one of two areas in florida leading the country in the number of homes. Home flipping is when someone buys a home, fixes and route fixes it up and sells it within a year. This is according to realty trac. This makes up about 9 of the purchase homes last year. Local buyer. It makes it more difficult because you have someone with large amounts of cash competing with you. Realtors also say there used to be a lot of tampa bay homes on the market because there were so many local foreclosures but the housing surplus is beginning to dry up. We are taking a live look at the tower camera. Its just a picture of the perfect day. Its shaping up to be a great day. It will be sunny. The reason why so many retirees are refusing to call area home. A new study gives florida a pretty poor raking when it comes to the best places to retire. Adam explains. I have been pretty much everywhere else in the country. I have never found any place that i thought was better as a total package. Reflects on why he chose tampa. In the wintertime, you cannot find a better date day than today. Reporter placing florida the best place to retire. But the folks at bank rate but the folks bankrate. Com disagreed claiming florida is only the 28th best state to retire. And those that did the report actually live in florida. He admits he did not factor in these palm trees or this perfect winter weather. Reporter being driven down by Poor Health Care quality. Its very congested. Very quiet. Reporter and bird transfer to tampa with her husband several years ago. They originally thought they would stay here but now, she is in the summer and might even be cheaper to live somewhere else. I see it as being harder for the senior citizens. People down here living on a fixed income have a hard time paying for the taxes and the insurance. Also, florida has too much crime. All of the hit and runs are ridiculous. Evil walking, riding bikes and getting hit and nobody stops. Berg says she is leanin toward north carolina. Adam winer, abc action news. I dont know. I would retire here your this is the area where a lot of people, and say they will stay a couple of years and end up just sticking it out here and i have moved away twice and moved right back. And this is the best time of year to be here. Art festivals next weekend. Speaking of which, they are kind of pulling back the covers on the chance. And ready to exhibit some of that art at the park. A great shot for you this morning from our man on the streets. In his a nice shot of people getting ready for baseball. It should be a great day for baseball as we are well into the spring training season. Play ball, florida. Terrific for spring training games. Nice warm days. Pleasant nights. Really nice conditions and it looks like for the next week, no real chance of a rainout. Right now, we are looking at sunny skies in venice. Inverness, 45 degrees. 42 in gainesville. 42 in tallahassee. And while its cold across portions of the north and northeast, the real weather story will be out west where they have rain all the way from california. And its going to continue pretty much all weekend. The storms continued to pound into the west coast. They are seeing High Pressure building to the west. This winter session system will be pushing in by later into the week but our week looks fantastic. High pressure off to the north. Cold front has already pushed through here so the only thing we are worried about is maybe sing some clouds move in from the gulf of mexico. Nothing that will get into the way of your plans or outside activities for today. Including baseball. Phillies over indenting. Traveling just a little ways on the local streets of Pinellas County to visit the Auto Exchange stadium. Tonight, a raise. I occasionally like to break down break out my Old Baltimore accent. This should be about 65, 66 degrees. The warmth continues into the work week. By tuesday and wednesday and thursday, into the 80s. Friday, we may have a slim 20 chance of showers but who cares. That is seven days away. Heres what we are looking at for this weekend. Today. 74 degrees. 76 tomorrow and even warmer. Beautiful weekend. We hope you can get out and enjoy. Floridas most accurate seven day forecast available 24 7 on the abc action news app. And where else. Thank you, bill. Spring means wedding bells. What happened to one bride and groom weeks before their big day. Jackie callaway for help. Reporter they started dating in high school. Two years ago, Chase Buchanan and chris got engaged. We had of nothing booked pretty early. We have paid at least 1000 already. I called them every day. Multiple times. And i never got through to anyone. Reporter the business disappeared and so did her 1200. But the couples march 12 wedding just weeks away. A month in advance, theres no way to both photographers. I dont know if i will be reporter Shanna Livingston of livingston galleries spent the last 20 years photographing weddings at some of the most Beautiful Spots in tampa bay. I just cannot get enough of the sunset images. Reporter a wedding photographer stood her up and her husband. I was jolted. Reporter which is why she agreed to help. I wanted to reach out to her that day and say, youre okay. You are in good hands. I promise you that i will take good care of you. Reporter we surprised the young couple with the news. That was quick oh my gosh thank you. Reporter and a week later, we introduced shannon to christie. Jackie callaway, abc action news. I am glad they got that worked out. That is it. The most important day. Are in play. Nasa is weighing in on images this morning. They say the frost is made up of. A big baseball rivalry today. The yankees take on the red sox and the other 2 spring training time to take a check of what is happening in the bay area today. In the next gasparella event set to kick off took several hundred people are expected at Curtis Hixson park. Were showing you pictures all morning long. Is the annual gasparilla festival of the arts. Looking nice out there. One of americas highest rated outdoor fine art shows. Its also going to be live entertainment, gates open at 9 oclock. And its free. Moshe by something. And grab your best buddies for bruce. Tampa bay beer week is brewing your there is a bike ride in saint pete. A craft beer fast in tampa and a free concert tonight at three daughter brewing. A full list on tampa bay beer week. Com. Skateboarders are covering up for the 22nd annual tampa pro this weekend. Its all at the skate park in tampa. Doors open for practice at 9 oclock this morning. Qualifying rounds start at noon. Final rounds are tomorrow. Dont mess with us. We are prose. Right . No. Get 75,000 for the top prize. Hopefully so. Dont miss all of the action. We will be streaming it online. Its looking like a great day for spring training. Here is your bay area run down. New york yankees take on the Boston Red Sox at 1 05 this afternoon. The Philadelphia Phillies visit the Toronto Blue Jays at florida Auto Exchange stadium in eden and at 7 oclock tonight, Tampa Bay Rays take on the Baltimore Orioles in sarasota here in sarasota. And grab a shortcake the first weekend of the strawberry festival officially here. The deals your family can sink their teeth into day and who is on tap to perform coming up in our 9 00 area news on it news on abc action news. Coming up on gma. Voters will cast their votes for both parties as donald Trump Doubles down, the gop is in disarray. Bernie sanders looking to regain footing after consecutive losses. New details about that nice about the nice about that weapon found on the o. J. Simpson property. Today, we will have the latest details on what it could mean for the 22yearold case. Finally, a manhunt is underway for the accomplices in the straight out of hollywood gold heist last year. How did they still 5 million in gold bars . Authorities have one thief in custody but he was he working with . Its all coming up on gma and we hope to see you soon. It was goldfinger. On this morning, one of platos most recognizable features they be covered in snow. Verizon horizons team. These snowcovered peaks stand out against the deep red color of the dwarf planets playing planes. The tower cam showing blue skies and a pretty day ahead. Lets take a look at that forecast as we look out from clearwater beach. About 74 by later on and as the temperatures top out in the 70s, enjoy your day. It gets even warmer tomorrow. Good morning, america. Happening right now, the saturday showdown. Theyre voting in five states today. Will it be another trump triumph . Did you get him out . Overnight his rally turned ugly. The biggest conservative gathering. Someone told him megyn kelly was going to be here. And Hillary Clinton tries to extend her lead over bernie sanders. Shocking find. The new twist in the infamous o. J. Simpson murder case. That knife allegedly found the facts of the case remains case here. How it suddenly turned up and the new crucial details. It now
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