First time offender you will be fined 75. And they want cannabis. At this hearing no one was too shy to express the opinion with vigour. As a parent i suggest this is giving our youth and our community a second chance. I agree a first offender to be arrested is not the answer. The Police Department agrees that a change is in order. Right now first offenders can lose their license. Get slapped with a 1000dollar fine. Spend a year behind bars and walk away with a criminal record. Under the ordinance they would get a fine. Many groups like normal say thats a step in the right direction. You have the opportunity not to make change and change the way things happen. But can you chip away a little bit. This what tampa is considering. First offender as 75dollar fine. You get caught again 150. A third time, 300. 450 each time are you caught after that. The fact that no one would get a penalty than a fine rankles the commissioner. I would do it again and again. Nothing happens. You cannot control society that way, along with going lighter on the people who use it, the change is aimed at lightning the load on the system which is inundated with those charged with serious drug crimes. Now the council is going to vote the next month. There is an interesting twist to all this. Lets say tampa decriminalizes it. They are say nothing way. So what you may be able to get away with in the city limits dont try it if you are outside of them. Kelly and mark. Ken, thank you. The Death Penalty will be back. That makes changes to the procedures. Gloria gomez explaining what is up. Edas you know they have been wrestling over the procedures but they struck a compromise. This law will give the jury, not the judge, the final say on whether a defendant lives or dies. The old law gave that to the judge but the Supreme Court in january called that a violation unconstitutional. Now the house and the senate have been wrestling over whether the jurys vote should be unanimous. In every state in the country with the exception of florida and oklahoma, the vote is unanimous. Here in florida, not so. The senate wanted it unanimous, the house did not. They compromised. They would require at least ten of those 12 jurors to recommend death before it could be imposed. But not everyone in thsenate voted for agrees it is the right we dont pass a bill. Willing to let it go. Why dont we spend them the product. It goes for approval and a defendant. And possibly and the Supreme Court it is unanimous and have to see how that plays out. Courts said they want it to be unanimous, right. They did not spell it out. And go back to the Supreme Court and struck down again. It is like it, there is some progress. There you go. It would add more workers to the office. Look at that line. People are still waiting up to 7 hours to meet with the worker. And evan lambert is outside of the tech center. Why did the wait seem as long as yesterday. Nothing changed. Thats a question i am trying to get answered by the irs officials. The lines cleared an hour ago from in front of the office. The Office Closed at 4 30. The people that were here today they tell me they waited almost a work day just to get the cases resolved. Take a look at video shot earlier today. The lines did seem a bit shorter compared to yesterday but that may be because people were deterred by the wait times. And we talked about the waits yesterday that they were terrible. Bill nelson wrote a letter asking them to come up with a now officials said more workers would come to the center to reduce the lines the irs said they had additional workers and taxpayers say it did not help they inter would counted for the workers and a work day. I have been here since 9 30 i walked out of here at 4 00. It is ridiculous to have only four workers inside. And they actually take their time. The irs said they should have an appointment only system in place in a few weeks here thats expee expedited by the end of 2017 since we have been reporting. They would not have to come here to the office and wait all day in the teen time though before that appointment system happens. Can you try that officials they should be up and running with the appointments by march 7th. Live in tampa. I cannot believe they have thank you so mux. Across the bay the authorities are hoping that the commuters can help them solve cold cases by paying attention to billboards. And we have more for the leads t is. The shaves office with the Police Departments from clearwater and st. Pete held a us in conference to unveil the boards that you will see soon. They go up at various locations around pinellas county. The ads showing the murdered people. Someone murdered. And investigatorss still have not said how they were killed other than to say it was a and come forward. The purpose. You better be careful out there, they have into the released a motive the billboard is scheduled to go up at 28th street and 47th avenue. Now Clear Channel outdoor designed that and provided the space for free and this could last a while. The Police Department alone has 900 unsolved cases. Kelly. Hope it helps. Two of st. Petes oldest buildings are in a path to demolition and they dont know they exist. They have been hiding behind a screen for decades. One was built in 1912 and one of the earliest mayors. And Steve Nichols tells us they people overlooked them. Michael stallings took pictures of the arcade but overlooked the buildings right across Central Avenue because theyre hidden behind a second skin of grading. I had a project here for school. I never knew that was below the skip of that across the street. They of who knows who walked by and the faller file building named for early saint Business Leader in 1912s mayor with a special seat in the museum of history. And paid 400 for the plane ride on back in the 1914. He is the first passenger ever in the first commercial airliner this are making the move. The skin. The whole thing. Thats a shame. And the redevelopment has been brokered by todays mayor who convinced beneficiaries of the trust to take 10 million which is on the book for a lease paying 700,000 for 40 years. The ability to destroy has to be there. They object and the powers that be are winning every step of the way because one fact survives the century, all in that area, thats where the heart of the Business District was being built. Are you talking Central Avenue and 4th. Thats in the heart of downtown. If you tear that off. Ky see it now. Take a look while you can. In st. Pete. Plans have to be in place for buildings can be destroyed. But exceptions can be made, like in this case. Throw your diet out the window. Take your ap tide to plant city the strawberry festival opened they could not have a better way to open today. Sunshine dimmed by high clouds. Overall temperatures were good. Humidity was down. Look now. This is live. Strawberry festival camera is cranked up. And the weather for them. Well have it. music playing i feel pretty west side story not every cake can be handcrafted in store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake itll be remembered for all the right reasons. Where shopping is a pleasure. Its opening day of the strawberry festival today in it is opening day for the strawberry festival in plant city. A celebration of the berry and harvested so many of them for so many years. There is more to try. And mike bennett tried a couple more of the options. , they have opinion harvested out there. 80 different rides out here. 400 vendors. 150 of those, though. It is the food, lets see what is making it unique. And it has to be this. This is a funnel cake cookie, it has to be a sandwich. A sandwich cookie. Lets make one. This is a mixment. Can you smell the chocolate this tst like strawberries. And. Get a scoop. Choco berry. That is good. The cream is good. One of the other creations looking for something savory the burger tent here. Cheryl reese. This is the latest. What is in this. This is the hawaiian nut a bacon cheese burger but White American cheese. Bacon and ham and the pine apple is soaked in brown sugar and the between two doughnuts. Thats good. Dont mind the juices around my face. If you want this type of burger and other types of food and the 150 vendors try something new. Come out to the strawberry festival. From plant city, mike bennett. Now your sky to tower radar forecast with paul dellegatto. It will look good. Here is a look, we talked last night. Watch for the high clouds they may produce a halo and it did. Off and on we had the high clouds made of ice crystals and of note. Contrails they go hand in hand with the clouds. Because the mechanism that produced the clouds the moisture aloft helps to produce the contrails. Thats the beautiful halo today. It will continue. There are the high clouds and expect whipping from the west. Tis is a signature of the el nino weather the jet stream. It should be a decent sun set. Once in a while the clouds thicken and turns cloudy. Thats the view from the beach camera. Thats the view the other way the marine camera. On the Hilton Clearwater beach camera. Cloudy brook dale bay shore camera. The mercury topped off in the 70s. There is a front that were tracking that front. It is producing rain which is now entering the panhandle of the state, as we talked about it looks like almost all of the energy with the front. The rain is significant. It has been awful in atlanta and macon and approach panhandle of impressive and collapse and moves our way. The best chance will be as you head north. Up in tallahassee, there will be showers developing some heavy f you are watching us in citrus county, you have a better county of rain than you will in sarasota county. The front dives it will weaken. Some of the rain and behind the front. The skies will clear the stage is set the time something perfect for a good weekend. Sunshine and the mercury topping off in the 70s. 68 and 69. Mostly loudy. And 67. Mid70s. 74 on sunday. Night time lows in the 50s. A southwest wind. A mess. Winter is hanging tough in chicago and cleveland and West Virginia getting light snow. 47 raleigh. Tonight were mild because tonight winds come in from the southwest out of the front tomorrow. And clouds will break up and by the afternoon it is good, low 80s to the southeast. Temperatures around the bay area. Watch the future cast and watch the front move our way and the showers run out of gas. Behind it. High pressure builds in. This is friday and that saturday and thats sunday the days are great. Tonight clouding up. A shower or thunder shower north late tonight. Were down to 63. Any rain ends. Sunshine increase. We do a 72. A nice day. Mostly sunny and very nice a high up to 72. After that there is no sign of rain. In fact. The mercury heads up i think we have 80s on the way by the middle of the week. Scott . Looking good. A mon ser homerun for cory dickerson. 569 feet is what they measured it a monster homerun for cory dickerson. 469 feet is what they measured. Spring break. A, woulding vacation. A former High School Standout thats coming up in 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. A steakburger. 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. From a steakburger. Steak n shake, 3 the wins and losses dont matter. But its and it is nice to get the bets bats going for the rays who struggled with run production against the os. They saw plenty of it. Hits and the first two homeruns of the spring. Damage was done in the first two innings. And he comes into to score a mighty hack. The final resting place even the staff. And a 103 victory. Michigan football coach jim harbaugh wanted to take the players away for break thats img academy. There are some who see this as a violation its not. It is a quiet period they can only meet with recruits on their own campus. Now. That is not the piece well get that for you later on. This is some of the fallout from them being there. And this was tweeted out in response to butch davis, tennessees coach joked around on twitter today saying we should send our folks down there maybe have lunch, my suggestion to my rocky top colleague rather than lunch spend time and focus attending to your present team. He is kind of eluding to the fact that tennessee is kind of going through some murky waters surrounding that program a bit. Quick to fire back. Off defending yourselves. Thank you. 6 30 wait until you see what scott kelly did at home. It was caught on video. And the establishment goes after donald trump. He is a phoney a fraud. His programs are worthless like a tree from trump university. How he fired back. Thats ahead. Inary salad, this is a florida berry and citrus salad. Mix arugula, fresh strawberries, blueberries and oranges. Smile and serve. Look for fresh from florida products when you shop. Remember, delicious is always donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Served with sirloin steak. Saut\ fresh zucchini, squash and tomatoes. Its sure to be a family favorite. Visit freshfromflorida. Com for great recipes. Delicious is always served think of his personal greed. The showing off, the absurd third grade thee at tricks. The former president ial candidate mitt romney it trying to get republicans to rally around anyone other than trump. The verbal assault came just hours after the four remaining candidates prepared to debate again tonight. And we have more from washington. And, joel, this could be the foistest debate. The debate. And mitt romney putting donald trump on blast as the front runner and inches closer to the partys nomination. And he is spare nothing insult with a strong message to voters. He is a phoney, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. He is playing pot as suckers. He gets to the white house we get a lousy hand. And trump responded with stinging criticism of the former massachusetts governor. Mitt is a failed candidate. He failed. He failed terribly. He ran a horrible campaign. It was a campaign that should never have been lost. It may be too little, too late for the gop establishment worrying about his momentum enough to propel him into the oval office. The truth is that in this year the republican activist the listen to advice coming from those at the top. Expect another avalanche of criticism tonight at the 11th debate. One familiar face not on stage is ben carson hinting that he is preparing to drop out of the race. Now obviously florida is a important state for marco rubio who is battling to win against donald trump. Ic abouting up an important endorsement the miami herald. It will be an interesting night for sure. Thank you. Lets bring in craig patrick. This debate is probably just going to be unreal. Crazy. Throw out the words. What should we expect text is a fox news debate. He did because of his disagreement with Meg Megyn Kelly and she will be there. Trump will be there. He will be tested in a way we have never seen. He will be under fire fro all before. I dont think with the level that were going to see tonight. Because marco rubio has been throwing the kitchen sink. Trying insult comedy at donald trump. He will try to ramp it up. You would ted cruz in the fight and not fighting at each other they are aiming very specifically at donald trump and it will be very interesting to see how he respondents. Does he fight fire with fire or rise above the fray and project leadership. Well see, he is trailing now in florida. He can pull out a win here and for that matter can he stay in the race if he doesnt win and he loses his home state. He can stay in the race and hitch hitch hike but effectively the race would be over for marco rubio if he loses. The challenge is in an average ed 1 points to donald trump. And mail in voting has started. Many have been cast he does not have to close the gap but overtake him. We have seen they can turn on a that. It will be difficult if donald trump wins next week in michigan because he will and he is our special guest this weekend. Well ask him about the instilts he has been territorialing before he goes from here beyond marco rubio. We have Charlie Leduff spending time in florida and michigan previewing the battles the dont miss money. 5 30 p. M. And sunday at 11 30 at night. Thank you. Congress is going to the dogs. Literally. The Senate HomelandSecurity Committee talked about the dogs of dhs and as we report, theyre looking at ways that the programs can help Homeland Security the tsa and other does their jobs better. Theyre called the dogs of dhs and theyre in the spotlight on captiol hill, the Senate HomelandSecurity Committee holding a hearing, dogs included, on the use of canine officers. A number of highranking officials testifying on behalf of their fourlegged friends. Describing how they protect americans every day. The Government Accountability office dhs and other tester haves proven the teams to be one of the profit effective of detecting explosives. Boarder security. They are wowing the senators out mock explosives and ug drugs leak they do at border crossings. It can be acreditted with training the best teams that work at any of our border crossings. I have been impressed by the use of many multipliers that help the officers maximize their effectiveness. There are now more than 1500 teams helping customs and Border Patrol and others assigned to the tsa. But Homeland Securityselfs say they would like to see more in the field. It is finding support along the lawmakers. It can be one of those layers. Effective in keeping the nation and the air traffic safe. The tsa is scheduled to cut the ribbon on a 25,000 square foot facility to train new teams. And we have a news alert this is a picture a car has run into a daycare. And skyfox is over the scene. This is the Little People christian daycare on north avenue. Were told nobody was hurt. The car has been removed parents are arriving to pick up their kids. The front door there. If you look to the left again, thats where it may have gone in. And nobody is hurt. Police are at the scene and investigating they have not said if anyone will be ticketed. We will have much more for you as it gets to the left. It looks like thats probably there you go thats where it went up. Well have a update for you. The michigan uber driver who is accused a shooting spree a mental competencesy examination will only determine if he understands the charges against him. The prosecutor said the examination will not determine the shootings. Months. He allegedly killed six people and injured two others. Motive. A judge in atlanta has afreed to unseal the autopsy report for Bobbi Kristina brown. Keeping it sealed violated laws because there was no public notification or opportunity for a hearing. The 22yearold daughter of Whitney Houston was found face down and unresponse enough a tub more than a year ago. She died in hospice care last july. And the u. S. Is happying gordon boost its capability as down. As kitty logan tells us, it is due to a u. S. Brokered ceasefire, and the u. S. Is giving jordan the refurbished choppers to help the country jordan is part of the u. S. Led Coalition Fighting the group and known and in neighboring syria and iraq, also known as dash. It officials met with the king, the president noted. Jordan punches above its weight when it comes to the fight against dash. Ed the blackhawks are a part of the military support for amman. Year. They have expedited the rivals and guns, more than ammo. Hundreds of bombs and 5000 night vision devices. This as violence wanes. Despite the reports of some violations, the truce between and it is there are and summarized as fragile. Success is not guaranteed but progress is visible. And the ceasefire is lay lowing more delivery of supplies. The goal is to end the brutal civil war t is hoped all parties involved will help fight isis. Peace talks will resume next week n london. Kitty logan. After a year in space, scott kelly came back home, made it home in houston this morning. And the first order of business well watch what he did. Jumping into his pool. The he was pulled into the hangar and his girlfriend and daughters rushed into his arms. His twin remember is mark kelly. Their father were next in line. He talked about how happy he is it was a long trip when i left here in february, i dont know what day it was in february i was 50, now im 52. But it feels great. Great to be back in texas in on the u. S. Soil. It is unbelievable to be back here. Back in our great country and whack with my family and friends. As for that pool jump. He tweeted out this jump. Watch. Man. That feels good. He said during his days in spates one of the things he missed was his pool. Came back to earth 2 inches taller. And according to einsteins theory he is younger than he was if he would have stayed on earth. With the party at war, we wonder wad historians may say to children. Bless your heart, mickey haley, war is hell. So well bring you a some people dont like to share their wifi, but at bright house networks, we do. Login to one of our hotspots and get your code for free wifi at over 50,000 bright house wifi hotspots. markbw tonights patrick on politics the patrick on politics is going to be different here. Turning it into a documentary. With mitt romney tearing into trump and the Republican Party at war, we wander wad historians may say about the crazy year. In the spirit of ken burns we bring you the presentation of the great republican war of 2016 on the cornfields, a soft spoken surgeon tried to heal his sleepy words. What kind of adjustments have they made judgments have they made. The salad of their life i will look at. Lieutenant carson. Would someone attack me. He was too late for the wounds had fasterred and the plunging back into the furnace. My party is going bleep crazy. And little marco rubio he is going around, he is going crazy. The great republican war of 2016 opened us up to what we became. It was a cross roads ever our being and a hell of a cross roads. The cold insults have chilled me to the bone. How i long for the comfort of mitt. The brash general from new york cleared through a dozen states with ruthless abandon and show nod mercy he tore through the south. I would like to punch him in the face. Out in the cold. No coats. [music] mr. Trump, the cheek of every american must tingewell shame of a come back is bless your heard. Nikki haley. The Party Establishment bucks swaggering front runner and embraced a young man from florida who promised to focus the war and general marco rubio accused him of peeing his pants. His pore as clogged from the spray dan, he will make energy orange. 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If it is caught early it does not have to be a killer. The 10 00 news. And the nasdaq is up and s p up almost 7. It is so beautiful i did not want to come in. The perfect temperature its not hot or cold. It is just right. Well it is like Room Temperature is what it is. We didnt start dog the news cast at the straw strawberry festival. That was a hit. A good day to check that out. Earlier today the sky and today was kind of changeable all day. We had high clouds come in and high clouds come out and a halo for a time. Here is a look and put that in motion. The high clouds, we have seen a lot of this, this winter, you get sunshine today and the fast jet stream blows. Clouds. Lots of contrails, they are hand produced clouds helping to produce contrails from the planes. There is the sun setting late in the day today. The high is on target. We hit 75 degrees and the morning low 56. Today was about as normal as can you get for a march 3rd, no rain fall. In and out and then we turn our attention to what is happening northwest of us. This is a significant line of rain. It extends from the northwest panhandle of the state. Solid rain up by tuscaloosa. A band around atlanta. I have a buddy there that said the rush hour tonight as bad as it can get. It is bad any afternoon but you throw in the rain. And it is going to weeken and im not expecting a lot from the front at all. If it did rain. And the weekend is nice. And maybe not wall to wall and and indeed. Now we have 60s. And in the 40s and 50s. Well get the following sunday. Winds are west southwest out of the front. Were 69. And the low that will move northeast. Winter is hanging tough. Blue. Blue is snow. Ohio. Western pa. The commonwealth of virginia. That snow will overspread the northeast and be happy out on cape cod tomorrow. 35 new york. 17 up by lake chamblain. Tonight we cloud up and cloudy now. And especially north of tampa bay. Were down to 63. It will end but increasing sunshine and nice. You have to love the weekend. And overall good and i think a building in the southeast next week mid80s. And thank you, paul. Strawberries they are thinking about today at the in 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, 3 tonight at eleven. Coming up tonight at 11, trying to solve a cold case a man shot and killed in broad daylight 11 years ago. Scaling back the back to School Tax Holiday what you will be able to get with tax free and what can cant any more. Thats tonight on the 11 00 news. Well see you then. As you saw earlier the strawberry festival is underway for some today they were thinking about pigs not berries. Its what is right with tampa bay. He is around 9 or 10 months. It is fun it do. You get the savings and trade them. I get kind of like a special and the grand champion. The slide show the exhibitors year. And sometimes there are 250 to 300 youth that enter and 08 are selected to show at the festival. Old. You raise them to nine months old and see how you do. I have done good in the past. Second place in the class. When we started there were 150 kids entered. Now we will have probably anywhere from 250 to 300 enter the lottery, i hope he gets it. The Age Group Starts at 8. And goes to seniors of high school. And kids in hillsborough, i hope to do good in my class. They have worked hard for that day and were hoping for the best. We are. The news keeps on going. A big debate all kinds of fun. We have idol, too. Introducing longhorn s big, bold, steaks. The only way to make em better was to make em bigger. Our new center cut 10 ounce filet. Our perfectly seasoned 16 ounce tbone. And our fire grilled 18 ounce outlaw ribeye. Big, bold, steaks. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You can t fake steak. 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