And the gop debate is trending on twitter in tampa. Candidates came to verbal blows during the final debate before super tuesday. And they have a lot on the line. Senators marco rubio and ted cruz must both win their home states if they have any shot of beating trump for their partys nomination. And this story is going viral this morning. Seaworld now confessing to spying on Animal Rights activists. This all comes after peta accused a seaworld worker of infiltrating the group to get intel. Seaworlds ceos claims the move was meant to keep customers and animals safe. We have a nice cool down for the weekend, leigh. Yeah, a cool snap. We had the cold front that came through two days ago. You felt the winds yesterday. Well the winds are lighter but its getting chilly. 40 in brooksville. 38 in zephyrhills. Polk county, 43 in auburndale. And farther south, 47 in arcadia but warmer near the the winds, theyre light but because theyre light, were actually colder than this time yesterday. Plant
This house looks at like now. Were going to have meliek zoom in a little bit. You can see one of the tampa firerescue trucks is leaving the scene. Thats because the investigators are getting ready to go inside. The fire was put out shortly after it was called in. It was called in around 3 50 in the morning. They got the fire out at 4 17. Im told there were four People Living there at the time, all of them adults. A 73yearold female and the rest were all males in their 30s. One person is in the hospital, a 35yearold male. I am told that he has nonlife threatening injuries. A neighbor tells me that he was out here with the garden hose trying to put the fire out himself. And i want you to hear what she says happened. Yeah, he had no shoes. Hes a spanish so hes pretty light skinned but he was dark. Like, you see the blackness all over him. Nose, i seen the blood coming. And instead he had grabbed a lot of hot stuff so, yeah, im hoping hes okay. But yeah, he went through a little storm. Rep
Candidates hope to win some support today. The five candidates will face off at a debate in texas. It will be the last one before super tuesday. Then sitting in the middle of the house when it came through and it just demolished everything. This morning we are hearing stories from tornado survivor, residents across the south cleaning up after the devastating storm that killed at least seven people,er to off roofs from homes and uprooted trees. People, tore off roofs from homes and uprooted trees. Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. We have a lot in the next hour but fist a check on the weather. Leigh is standing by. Good morning. We are glad the cold front has passed through the area. We did have strong storms yesterday and now it has pushed up to the new england area, bringing a threat for strong storms there and then the it. Clouds now. The bigger story, the colder, 55 right now in lakeland and tampa. 58 in sarasota. But heres the bigger story, the strong wind, 12 Miles Per Hour i
Promising to put down their weapons and surrender. They took control of the refuge nearly six weeks ago. They are protesting federal land use policies. In our other top stories this morning, the road to the white house is moving down south. Today the Democratic Candidates will go head to head in South Carolina for a debate. It comes days after senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Rodham clinton in the New Hampshire primary. The debate starts at 9 00 tonight. And grab those jackets this them. Its a chilly morning. The bay area right now seeing freeze warnings as well as frost advisories. So lets go straight to leigh spann with what you need to know to plan your wardrobe. Im saying dress in layers today because you will need the layers to help keep you warm. Especially like kids waiting on the bus stop, the freeze warning is for citrus, hernando and sumpter. And the purple includes pasco, inland portions of Hillsborough County, basically east of i75, manatee county, and then all of our in
About a half hour ago. Yeah, meteorologist leigh spann was here early at midnight covering this through the morning. Thats right, steve jerve and i were on Facebook Live from about 2 00 a. M. To 3 30 as the storms rumbled through the heart of the tampa bay area. Look how quickly its pushing to the east now along the east coast of florida getting worst of it. Dry from Lakeland North all the way up to Crystal River at this point. And even dry now in manatee county. So i talked about the tornado watch being canceled early for everyone except in Highlands County where you still have the tornado watch which just means that conditions are still there that might be a tornado. But not happening in polk county because the rain is coming to an end. North port, youre finally ending your rain in Sarasota County, pushing quickly over into Highlands County. Until the rain exit, you will i doubt you will see any tornadoes and im almost positive that theyll expire that tornado watch for Highlands Coun