It is officially the weekend and youre taking a look at a beautiful downtown tampa on this warmer sunday. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Im candace mccowan. Well get to our top story in a moment but lets by checking on the forecast with meteorologist mark collins. Hi, candace, weve seen a quick rebound to the temperatures this morning and us out. Very comfortable out there now. You can see how sunny it is. High, thin concludeds out. There 60 thin clouds 60 degrees in sun city center. Lakeland holding behind at five it degrees and as we look at tampa international, 54. To plan out your day today, plan on dry conditions lasting right on through the afternoon. By 3 00, well be at 7and as we head into the early evening hours, temperatures pull back to close to where they are right now. Well have changes this week. How much rain is in the forecast . Stay with us. Weather app. App store. Mark, thank you very much. The life of a tow truck driver hit and killed on the Howard Frankland bridge earlier this week will be remembered today. Fellow tow truck and Service Drivers have organized a ride for roger to remember 43yearold roger perez borroto. He stopped to help motorist on february 15th and was outside of his tow truck when he was killed by a hitandrun driver. Now to a developing story, this morning, members of the Prince William county Police Department in virginia are mourning the loss of one of their own. A rookie officer shot and killed on her first day on the job. Ashley guidon was fatally shot while responding to a shooting saturday night. The investigation is on going. Officer guidon graduated with a bachelors agree and served in the marine corps before joining the police course. She was sworn in on friday. Are being treated at this hour. Look at this video overnight. Members of the Prince William county Police Department and firefighters lined the streets to honor that fallen officer. Like we said, two other officers were shot at the scene. Theyre being treated. Guidon has family serving in law enforcement. The suspected shooter is in custody but has not been identified. A week after six people were shot and killed in kalamazoo, michigan. Family and Friends Family and friends gathered outside of the kia dealership for a vigil hours after celebrating the life of Richard Smith and his son, tyler, people returned to the car dealership where they were gunned down. Fireworks lit up the sky. The crowd honored the four other people and two others injured. The search continues for the leaders of a cock fighting ring when deputies arrived at the into the roads. Chickens. A man is behind bars trying to rob a combras station. Hillsborough deputies tell us 27yearold Joshua Thomas stormed into the quick pick chevron wearing a mask an armed with a gun. Investigators tell that you say without getting any. Not long after deputies found thomas and arrested him. Disney world and disneyland rolled out the seasonable prices for single day tickets saturday. The changes will let visitors plan in advance to see what days are value, regular or peak. Value days for Walt Disney World will cost you 105. Regular days will increase by five bucks and peak days will run 124. Happening today, after five months of renovations and construction to clear water new improvements will be completed today just in tim spring break. Mary mcguire joins us live from Clear Water Beach with more on what visitors will be able to see. Hi there, mary. Reporter good morning to you, candace. Clear water beach was just named the top beach in the United States by trip advisor. Com and it is easy to see why and that is one of the reasons behind all of the changes happening at pier 60 park. They wanted to make it a better experience for visitors now, by redesigning an expanding the park, pedestrians will be able to move and flow freely. The project also included regrading the park to make an amphitheater like setting for movies and events and will allow the city of clear water to bring back the popular sunset cinema movie screenings on friday and saturday nights. Other improvements include an expanded beach walk and more open green space. The changes arent done just yet. The city plans on adding a few more bathroom stalls at parks to make sure that there is enough space for people to enjoy the park and i have to say, i feel a little bit silly this morning wearing a coat and boots out by the beach but it really has been chilly out this morning. I actually had hand warmers al well. It is more of a sweatshirt and long pants day out here on Clear Water Beach but it is just as beautiful. Absolutely a Beautiful Day and just in time. Get out and see the changes before it gets crazy busy during spring break season. Thank you so much. Yankees, the phillies, the tigers, the pirates and blue during spring. Today is the opening game for the Philadelphia Phillies who have for years been calling clear water home. Ceremonial game. The phillies are playing the spartans at 1 05 00 p. M. At bright house field. Then the First Official spring training game is on tuesday afternoon against the blue jays. It leaves millions of dollars in you can find a team by team look at the American League east on our web page, wfla. Com. Many chain restaurants are changing the menu, serving you healthier foods. Big change youll see this week at some subway shops next in this mornings consumer alert. Internet. But its kind of slow. My friends said i should get fios because its the fastest. But i thought it would be too expensive. Whos that, jenny . No kate. Turns out they have a deal that cost me even less than my slow service. And its 100 megs. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. Were out of 2 then i thought, maybe other things could be better. I heard that. 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Subway will start selling the new antibiotic free roe disrestyle chicken rotisserie style chechen nationwide. Chicken strips will be available. Turkey is up after that as well as beef and park by 2025. Wifi on flights could get easier. Southwest airlines is partnering with amazon payments to let passengers buy access to inflight wifi. You can send emails, watch movies or surf the web by logging in with your amazon credentials. Im sure youre seeing this on social media this week. Parmesan cheese made from wood . Walmart has been hit with a lawsuit over the great value brand grated parmesan cheese. According to the complaint. Is se which is a filler and anticlumping agent derived from wood pulp. Walmart is reviewing the allegations. That is your sunday consumer alert. It will be a pretty chilly day out on this sunday. Get a Busch Gardens fun card now and let the fun begin. Pay for a day, dive all year, splash all year, thrill, get your fill, and celebrate all year. Climb, launch, roar, and soar all year. Pay for a day, play all year. And if you get the Busch Gardens fun card now, Adventure Island fun card for free. Limited time offer. I was as close as any scientists could be. A lot hadnt worked on this before. Now we have many, many more p. This was my opportunity to serve of the best interests of the country. The deep water bp gulf spill poured millions of barrels of crude oil into the gulf of mexico, killing 11 people and destroying eco systems. Usf is playing a Critical Role in documenting the spills impact on the gulf of mexico. Joining me this morning is doctor steven morowski from the usf college of marine science and patrick schwang. Theyre starring in the film. They played a bill role i documentary playing at the mojave theater. Is the gulf recovering from the spill . Indeed it is, mark, my group is specifically monitoring the fish and we see the levels of contamination with oil have gone down dramatically over the five years since weve been there. And recently, youve compared the spill in northern gulf from a spill that happened more than 30 years ago in the southern gulf. Thats right. Back in 1979 and 1980, the previous biggatastrophe was off of mexico and weve been doing cruises. We did two exhibitions to see we could find the remnants and make a prescription of how long we will see oil in the gulf. And what are the estimates . Are you able to calculate that . Were still seeing oil from that spill 37 years later. It is clear that this is not going aia way at any time soon. We have video coming up here. Some of the folks that have been here, youre using red snapper is that a baromet refk. It certainly is. It is an iconic species and so we made the decision early on that we would monitor this species and the recovery. Patrick, youve your focus is down at bottom of the sea floor, right . I primarily work with the mud. It is not quite as charismatic but it records history very, very well. You brought a sample here. This is a mud core. This is a sample taken a mile deep. This is south west of the deepwater horizon and were able to compare some of the history with this top half inch or so is the record of the deepwater horizon event. Will they show how you collected that mud core . Off of the weather bird, too, the Research Vessel we used from there it is right there. Sweet. So we work during the day to comes on at night. We use that device right there called the multi core and it pushes eight of these short, plastic cubes into the mud and recovers a very good sample from the bottom, preserving the surface record very well so we can see any lasting records of Oil Contamination at the surface of the mud. And then following the movie, there will be a Panel Discussion afterwards and youll be involved in that. Will you be around to answer questions . Yes, indeed. This is our first public showing of this hour long movie. Very high production value and they spent a lot of time with us. The public will have the chance to ask all sorts of question s. Lets give folks where to see it. It is at the mojave theater. Monday night at 7 00 p. M. Now, tickets are required, but if you cant get to a computer, you can show up and that is in st. Petersburg at the mojave theater at 7 00 p. M. The Panel Discussion follows thats right. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, mark. Weather outside, the weather outside is just perfect and when we take a look at the view over st. Pete beach or actually, this is Clear Water Beach, you can see why it is so important to protect the gulf because the gulf is a big driver for our local economy so weve got nice sunshine out there and a lot of folks will be headed towards the beach today to soak it all in and with temperatures around 57 degrees. It will turn out to be a nice day over the bay area were warmer than yesterday. Yesterday, we were dealing with temperatures down in the low 30s in the northern communities. Were about three degrees warmer than this time yesterday. The winds will be fairly light today, not expecting much rain because of this ridge of High Pressure parked over us. So if you are going out to do some fishing, you can probably get a little further off shore than yesterday and certainly the days before where we had the much higher waves there. There is a front well to our north. Weather is. Notice how most of the southeast is very dry, very tranquil weather and over the next couple of days, i dont anticipate really any complications. Later in the week, well start to cloud up a bit. But for now, the high is pretty much anchored over us and well watch this front bump up into the high and then it is just going to dissipate across georgia as we head into monday, then on tuesday, another storm system will start to develop across the central plains, that moves into kentucky and that front will have a little bit more traction and should get into the bay area on wednesday. That is why i think rain chances will go up to 20 for the middle part of the week but today, bone dry conditions, well probably see some mid70s over the arcadia. 77, a touch cooler near the coast with those low 70s, and then for tonight, just where we should be for this time of the year. Expect mid 50degree readings, and probably not those 30s like morning in crystal river. So the marine forecast is calling for wind shifting to the west. It will be a weak on shore sea breeze. Speeds around 10 knots or so and the high tide this afternoon at 4 53. So lets break it down for you. Perfect weather here, both today and tomorrow, a few more clouds around tuesday. Notice temperatures stay warm in the mid70s, and then a front comes through wednesday. Well keep these clouds around until another front comes through on friday and that sweeps the weather clean and next weekend looks great. A lot of sunshine, candace. All right. Mafk you very much. The rowdies wrap up the invitations against one of soccers biggest stars and the bulls send the seniors off with a big one. Highlights are next in sports. Here is what youll see tomorrow at 6 00 a. M. It is a leap year and we get an extra day this month. Im leigh spann and ill explain what it did has to do with earths trip around the sun. I do everything on the internet. But, its kind of slow. My friends say i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. husband were out of 2 i wonder what else could be better around here . husband i heard that. Switching to Better Internet is now easier than ever. Only fios has the Fastest Internet available, with uploads up to 5x faster get 100 meg upload and download speeds. 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. Switch to better. Ladies and gentlemen, Courtney Williams take a good look at perhaps the most productive class in the history of south florida Womens Basketball as Courtney Williams, spreld field and canado and kroll run off into the sunset on senior day. Yesterdays game against temple was the curtain call in front of the home fans who watched wilkinsf and the bulls lead them to a win. Theyre looking to take on a temple team that beat the bulls by a bucket three weeks ago. The departing ladies make an immediate impact. Alicia packed. Twine. She scores a game high 20. Williams shows why she is a dynamic jumper. She goes coast to coast with two. Courtney almost messed arn and got a triple double. 13 points. Seven rebounds, eight dimes she closes out the First Quarter in style with a buzzer beating pull up. 7662 improving to 143 in league play. Only mondays match up remains on the regular season schedule. In the mens game. It is probably too little too late for Florida State in terms of an at large bid to the big dance. Fsu was unchristian against notre dame. The seminoles blew out the 23rd ranked irish, 7756. Dwayne bacon pigging out to the tune of 21 points. Benji bell tripped in 14. They wrap up their regular season next saturday against syracuse. Florida is on the bubble looking for a quality win against ben simmonds and lsu. Simmonds has other plans and one. Tigers led by as many as 18 but back come the gators. John igbudu. This will be a poster hanging over some kids bed some day. 22 points for the big fellow. Florida out scored lsu 6256 in the wild second half. Got within three, but lsu holds 9691 thanks to this guy. Quarterbacks Wide Receivers and tight ends took the spotlight at the combine. They look like the top two signal callers. Several of the most promising white outs didnt run the 40yard dash of those that did, only will full broke 44. Two gators participated. Particularly impressive. Lets bring it home in beautiful st. Petersburg. The final match of the sun coast invitationals the row des hosting the impact. Justin chavez puts the header on net but the tender stands tall. Check out the ups. It is the home teams goalie putting in the work. Matt pi laying out. That is it for sports. Im paul ryan. Stepping up to try to keep the rays in town. Rick cries man doesnt seem worried kriseman doesnt seem worried. In front of fergs sports bar. He kicked off the baseball forever campaign. Mayor kriseman tells us the team brings a lot to the community and the citys economy as a whole. Black voters in South Carolina overwhelmingly favored Hillary Clinton. How this positions her for super tuesday. Plus, republican candidates take their gloves off and have been all week. Marco rubio and ted cruz attack frontrunner donald trump. What this means for the Republican Party and much more coming up in the next half hour. Time now is 9 27. Well be right back. donkey sound elephant sound between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security