bondi saying that she and trump had been friends for a long time, but trump had to stop his program several times. >> get him out of here. >> protestors yelling from the crowd as law enforcement quickly rushed to escort them out. trump spoke many times and -- home state tuesday. >> i don't know how he got elected. how did he get elected. can someone tell me? >> trump is coming off a week of controversy after one campaign had to get cancelled. trump's campaign making an announcement to the crowd to not touch the protestors. earlier today, rubio speaking out on the trump rally violence to news channel 8. >> this is not going to end well for america. it's not going to end well for the republican party. we have -- donald trump has turned the most important show. >> and governor chris christi was here introducing trump. i spoke to one parent who brought her children with her while they were on spring break and she said it was important for her for them to see who she thinks president. >> people say they're not there -- they're there for the show that is trump. it drew a big crowd. and you mentioned the polls. this situation with rubio is not looking good for rubio. double digits and climbing it seems. talk a little bit about that. that gap between the two of them seems to be growing. a new polling rubio 21 points behind trump. he's trump hoping to walk away with a big win and we talked to rubio. we'll have his response to the tonight at 6:00. >> a candidate in your home state going from obvious winner to maybe fighting for second place and that's where rubio is working himself tonight. candace mccowan live in tampa. sarah palin making an appearance. cancelling another trump event after his husband was hospitalized. todd palin is in intensive care in alaska. the trump campaign issued a statement saying he was hurt in a snow mobile accident. trump supporters were greeted by protestors. at one point, things get heated. janel continues our team coverage. she's live where the atmosphere has since calmed down. janel. >>reporter: good evening. thing things have cleared out over at the tampa convention center. but like we said, earlier, tempers flared up and people on supporters had heated words for each other. >> team -- that's how you spell big tree. >> words went between protestors and trump supporters. >> keep these guys out. >> usa. >> protestor walked to macdill park before the campaign started. kevin o'hare was one of them. >> owe-- he says he won't cast his ballot -- >> someone who wants to spend their entire life in politics, it's sad to see this is the route that trump takes his rallies. >> build a house, let's put donald trump inside. >> in a line wrapped around the building, velvet waits to go in. gave us a choice on making our own decisions and to hate and to cause chaos for no reason, protest, as long as it doesn't come in here. >> so i can tell you overall, that that rally remains pretty peaceful. but you know, i will tell you, pretty impressive after this rally. people were outside, protestors and supporters talking about their differences. we saw a couple of people shaking hands afterwards. >> emotions got high at one time. how long did the protestors stay out there? >> they had been coming and going all day, so again, they are just staying in the forefront of these rallies, these trump events because they're saying again, they want to have their voices heard. jenn. >> thanks. former clinton hit the behalf of hillary. he praised his wife's plan for equal pay and gun control and affordable college. florida primary is tomorrow. the early voting is over. if you haven't voted, you need to know. you got to do it tomorrow. everything you need to know is posted on wfla.com and our primary cover will begin at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. a primary night, we're going to have a special 11:00 p.m. newscast. we'll bring in depth analysis from 11:00 until midnight tonight. members of the hillsboro sheriff's office took time to remember deputy kotfila. he was killed by a wrong-way driver early saturday morning. he was a member of the sheriff's office safety net team. that's a team that helps finds adults and children with special needs who have wandered away from home. sarah called 911 seconds before and they believes that kotfila intentionally crashed into the wrong-way driver saving her life. >> this man put himself in front of us as a human shield. absolutely. he definitely -- he definitely saw what was going on. when i take a step back and look at how everything occurred, he was a human shield for us. >> kotfila was a 6-year veteran of the sheriff's office. at 6:00, we're going to hear more from his colleagues and how they're remembering him. hulk hogan trial's ends its second week. news channel 8 jeff paterson is joining us live from the courthouse. jeff, we understand things got nasty today. >>reporter: yes, good evening, keith. as if things weren't bad enough having to listen to testimony about hulk hogan private parts, we listened from attorney terry -- hammer the child pornography. >> what did you know about hulk hogan? >> that he was one of the best time. >> aj was the former editor at gawker who wrote the article that featured the hulk hogan sex tape. >> i was amused by it. >> he maintains he has a first amendment right to publish the tape. >> i was going to write what i seen on the tape and i was going to do a commentary to celebrity text tapes in general in he thought it was important to show the sex act. >> public figures with a different life. >> but during his deposition, attorneys asked delorio when will it not be appropriate to show a sex tape and he said when it's a child. he asked what is the age. he said as long as the now he said he was joking. >> were you laughing? >> yeah. >> were you laughing? >> yes. >> do you think that's a funny topic, child pornography. >> not at all. >> his reason to publish the tape was profit. >> one of the reasons you were excited because sex sells. >> that's true. >> yeah, the judge in the case ruled today that a central figure in this trial will not have to appear in front of the injury. lawyers for clem said their -- he will not incriminate himself. so the judge ruled if he takes the fifth, he won't answer questions in front of the jewelry. keith. >> bubba doesn't take the stand. will heather testify? >> another central figure in all this. she has appeared in video understand she won't be appearing in person in court. >> jeff paterson, thank you jeff. still to come, they're legally married but only one of them is legally a parent to their child. >> coming up, how a polk county lesbian couple is fighting for equality when it comes to their son. even though the rain has passed, it could get worse later "better ingredients. better pizza." you better deliver. which is why i'm introducing our new papa's quality guarantee: love your pizza, or get another one, absolutely free. pget any large pizza up to 5-toppings pfor just $9.99. online only. eagle 8 hd coverage is brought to you by your sun coast hyundai dealer. visit your local dealership today. the national guard has rescued more than 3,000 people since flooding started across the south last week. officials in mississippi and louisiana are keeping their eye on the pearl river. this river is expected to crest early wednesday. that means that despite the fact that of homes are still at-risk for flooding. emergency officials warn there could be up to 7 feet of flood water. at least four deaths are blamed on this bad weather. we're learning more about a train derailment in kansas that sent dozens to the hospital. an engineer noticed a bin ahead and hit the emergency brake. the train was going 75 miles-an-hour when that happened. 32 people taken to the hospitals. most had been released. that's the good news. the train was traveled from la to chicago. and the late mother teresa, the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor across india saint tomorrow. pope francis signed off on the miracle needed for saint hood last december. that miracle involves the cure of a brazilian man suffering 2008. a winter haven couple is although same-sex marriage is legal, the getting ready to have a baby. >>reporter: that's right. good evening, jen. the couple will have their baby some time in april, and that's the problem. that's where the problems come in, and they pretty much feel that they're equal rights stopped when they got this marriage certificate. victoria stevenson and her wife rebecca waited for more than a year to hear the words. >> before we got married, we found out we were expecting. >> victoria decided to carry the baby, a boy. >> we didn't know it was going to be top guns. we joke around and say i'm mamma goose. >> the news came with a catch. >> when it come to maverick i have no rights over him until the adoption process goes through. i have to adopt my own child. >> the couple has to do through a step parent adoption. otherwise, rebecca's name will not be on the birth certificate. >> which again, there's 2500 or we've spent money on the fertility cost. >> their minds on what if something happened to victoria. >> he would taken away from me. >> far different from a straight couple. >> even if the mother was actually carrying a different man's child, the husband in the marriage by law is considered the father in the state of florida. >> attorney christopher roy works with same-sex couples. >> there's insurance issues. many government issues that are out there that things still haven't been cleaned up in the state of florida. >> until then, couples like victoria and rebecca will keep fighting. >> i want it to be recognized as this is the child's parents. it shouldn't matter what body parts you have. >> as most other states have legalized same-sex marriage, they've changed their policies to allow both spouses to be on the birth certificate. >> is this something lawmakers know about? are they getting involved? >> that's right, jenn. state lawmakers came up with proposals to allow both spouses on the birth certificate. unfortunately their plan did not get much traction. haven. let's talk about weather. it's an interesting day. it looked like maybe it was going to rain and then it would get sunny and look like rain. we have rain. check this out. check out this graphic. you know it was kind of dry for a time period, right. yesterday and this morning, we picked up a quarter inch of rain. it was the first rain we had seen in 17 days. we had 17 dry days, making it the driest stretch we have seen in tampa bay in two years. so not much rain last night and yesterday. but we needed the rain. it helped and tomorrow, the pollen will be in moderate range. if it doesn't rain, it goes up, so the sniffles and sneezes tomorrow. temperatures right now, right around 80 degrees in tampa. a tad cooler toward the coast. upper 70s. inland, we're in the middle, if not upper 80s. seabring is 87 degrees right now. and we have a bit of humidity as well. we're starting to gradually head back into that type of season. we have a dew point right now of 70 which is a little sticky. a little uncomfortable. not summer heat and humidity, but a little sticky today. satellite and radar picture has quiet town. so the mix of clouds and sunshine we saw earlier and the spotty rain drops. that's over. that's cleared out a bit . this evening, we could see inland showers possible. looking at the big picture, we have to go all the way to the pacific northwest to find the next impact us. in fact, here we go throughout the rest of the week. that front is going to slide all the way across the country. it's going to make it all the way down to the florida georgia border. put on its brakes and say, nope, not going further south. it's going to stall there. and low pressure system will develop along it. that will move eastward and that low pressure will be our next rain chance, which will move in it looks like on late friday, saturday. possibly lingering into sunday. here's a closer view this evening. a very, very isolated inland shower. otherwise, a pretty nice looking evening. temperatures kind of warm. right around 73 degrees by 9:00 p.m. and remember that later sunset means temperatures will be warmer later. by tomorrow morning, a bit of sea fog is going to move in. and we'll have a few sprinkles, maybe a little drizzle to go with the fog in the morning hours with a low temperature near 68 degrees. by tomorrow afternoon, we're looking good. sunshine. beautiful looking day. warm, high temperatures of 80 degrees and a nice dry day tomorrow. overnight tomorrow, sea fog developing. warm. a low temperature around 6 8 degrees -- 68 degrees. tomorrow afternoon, becoming mostly sunny. it's going to be a good looking day. warm temperatures topping out right around 80 degrees. of course, the madel air fest is weekend. we have a descent chance of rain during the air fest. hopefully not, but it looks like on saturday that could be an issue and a lesser chance on sunday. hopefully conditions will improve though because we want great weather for the air fest in town. tomorrow, again, some morning fog. same thing goes on wednesday. saint patty's day is looking good. and then friday at 20% chance for a shower. saturday looks like the best chance for rain with a cool front moving through. a few scattered showers and storms and ironically when spring begins temperatures drop. we're going to be in the upper 60s for high temperatures on monday. so -- >> that's a big swing there, isn't it? >> yeah. back to swing and back to cooler temperatures. go figure. back to mother nature, kind of going up and down not knowing what's going on. >> thank you brian. >> thank you so much. you may notice prices at the pumps are creeping up. >> what's going on. i think they have the answers. we'll see. also ahead, chick-fil-a day is day -- chick-fil-a is debuting a new drink. we'll tell you what's in their coffee. their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, will continue to disappear unless we level the playing field. with your help, as president, number that might surprise you. facebook says it receives a million reports everyday of users violating its policy. the company said a policy management says the report numbers includes allegations of hate speech and says it can be tricky to separate free speech from a speech of hate. any post with physical violence are usually reviewed first. 78% of americans are willing to wait longer to receive their tax refund due to fears of identity theft. that's according to -- 22% will be to wait up to 6 weeks. some say they wouldn't be willing to wait to safeguard tax refunds. getting rid of apps does not apple, ios chief craig dispeled that myth customer. quick your ios apps frequently battery life. he replied no and no. >> then he replied you need to download as many apps as you can keep them all. prices at the pull mped -- prices at the pump creeping up. they're pro producing a summer blend which is extensive. the national average is down 52 cents a gallon from last march. that's good news. chick-fil-a is serving a new drink. it's soft served vanilla ice cream with its coffee. it's called frosted coffee and available in 14 and 20 ounce servings. the smaller serving has just 240 calories. the drink will be available through just 250. you get that and you get more apps. it's just 250 calories. get more. >> josh benson joins us with what's coming up. >> coming up at 5:30, governor rick scott stops in -- find out about that awkward interview on msnbc. a new spin on a clothing store that's getting attention. we're going to talk to the owner right now on news channel 8 at 5:30. good evening, i'm jenn holloway. >> i'm john. >> scott is good at dodging questions. his interview went viral and scott ask wrapping up

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