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Higher humidity makes it feel nice. Warm breezy later today and temperatures once again go into the 70s. By 9 00 we should be hitting that mark and well into the 70s. Look at that, 80 by 1 00. Then low 80s as we head into the afternoon and evening commute which once again like yesterday dry. And the wind wont be too much of an issue. A little breezy but no real problems on the skyway. Pretty good on the roads unless youre on i4 where we have a crash that weve been following for a little while now. Its blocking the outside lane around 50th street. You can see the flashing lights. We have a car that looks like it ran off the road near this wall over there. So cars are slowing down to take a look. Lets check drive times to see if its causing any significant delays. Were still in the green on i4 heading westbound, 23 minutes from county line road to downtown. 15 minutes from county line road to 75. And just eight minutes from 75 to 275. I have been checking that southbound 275 around kennedy. Its cleared. So no trouble there. We also know that the construction in manatee at University Parkway and 275 is cleared as well. Breaking overnight before you got up this morning 911 calls fraud flooded in as a man went the wrong way down 301 and river view. Then a dramatic chase. Corey dierdorff has more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Drivers scrambling to call 911. Deputies rushing to stop traffic. All ending here behind me on u. S. 301 after that wrong way driver led Hillsborough County deputies on a wild chase. This started with three 911 calls at the same time saying a black dodge dakota was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of u. S. 301 just south of county road 672. The deputies trying to stop trying to get dakota to stop. Deputies called for air support, deployed stop sticks and were able to flatten one of the front tires of the suv. That kept going. Deputies forced to use a pit technique. The subject still ran into a patrol car before stopping. This is a past mug shot of derek hyde who has a long list of charges including fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and possession of drugs. That possession charge after deputies found a large one pound bag of a powdery substance. They are going to send it for testing and will try to confirm if it was drugs or not. The good news, no one was hurt neither deputies or other motorists. Corey dierdorff, abc action news. Breaking news in democracy 2016 Bernie Sanders pulls off a surprise upset in michigan beating Hillary Clinton in what experts say is one of the Biggest Surprise upsets in primary history. This is a look at where things Bernie Sanders won michigan after trailing by more than 20 points in the polls a few weeks ago. Nobody has ever gained that much ground before. Meanwhile clinton pledged an primary. This is where the republicans stand so far heres a look, trump won in michigan, mississippi and hawaii. Republican primary. The name you did not hear on that list of winners, marco rubio. It was another disappointing night for the florida senator but rubio does insist he will press on to his home states republican primary in florida on tuesday. I believe with all my heart that the winner of the florida primary next tuesday will be the nominee of the republican party. Even if rubio does win florida right now texas senator ted cruz has more delegates than he does and with seven states in cruz win column he says hes the only candidate standing between donald trump and the gop nomination. But trump has plans of his own for the florida primary. Really well in florida. Its my second home. I love florida. I love florida. [ cheering and applause ] i love florida. Special place. I think were going to do really well. Bernie sanders disagrees, predicting florida wont be as easy as trump thinks. American people do not want a president who insults mexicans and Latin Americans [ cheering and applause ] at a rally tuesday in Miami Sanders said he can beat trump in a general election. Sanders and clinton will both be in the bay area tomorrow, find their Campaign Information on our web site now, just go to abcactionnews. Com, its on the home page. Lets look at a brand new poll overnight from Quinnipiac University naming who voters are going to who voters will pick in the sunshine state. Breaking results when our coverage continues at 6 00. U. S. Military officials are now trying to confirm an Islamic State commander in syria. The airstrike in northeastern syria last week targeted omar alshashani. Hes from the nation of georgia and is sometimes called omar the chechen. U. S. Officials who released the information about the airstrike remain aanonymous at this time. The new developments from north korea, that country now claiming its made Nuclear Warheads small enough to fit on a ballistic missile. The state run newspaper pub blished photos that Shows Published photos that shows kim jong un visiting the facility where the warheads were made. Testimony gets underway again this morning in hulk hogans 100 million lawsuit against the web site gawker, a day after attorneys grilled hulk hogan about his sex life. The former wwe star claimed on the stand that gawker sex tape but his attorneys say hogan publicly embarrassed himself. They played interviews of hulk hogan on Howard Sterns radio show where he discussed intimate details about his sex life. We understood and knew he was going to talk about sex and stuff. That is part of the deal. You have to say that is part of the public consumptions that comes along with doing the media tour. Hogan claims he did the interviews as his wrestling persona, not his real life personality. Terry bollea. Were Live Streaming from court again today and you can watch it on our free mobile . A south florida womans interview on 20 20 could cost her, her freedom. A motion was asked for dahlia d politos bond to be revoked or decreased. Shes currently under house arrest and is only allowed to leave to help prepare for her trial. Interview with abc news was a violation because it had nothing to do with the trial preparations. This morning new testimony from camille cosby, she says she never read a deposition where her husband, Comedian Bill Cosby acknowledged he gave sedatives to women he was planning to have sex with. Testimony she gave just last month was just released as part of a request from bill cosbys lawyers. They are trying to suspend a civil lawsuit against him in massachusetts while a criminal case is pending in pennsylvania. Hes charged with sexually assaulting a former university employee. Alimony and child custody laws could be changing soon in florida. The state house passed the bill yesterday which ends permanent alimony. It replaces it with a formula based on the length of the marriage and spouses incomes. Governor scott vetoed a similar bill in 2013 because it was retroactive. The governor hasnt said whether hell sign this new version headed to his desk. Known Manatee County dog. Weve learned the owner of patty the dog wont face any criminal charges most likely. The Manatee County sheriff says they dont believe a crime occurred when patty bit a 4 monthold service dog in training at hits owners bradenton pet clinic. Service dogs are protected under the law but detectives say it just appears to be an unfortunate accident. The case is now being forwarded to the state Attorneys Office for review. Patty was saved from being put down last year after biting a young boy who provoked him. A bay area mother pleading for your help. Michael geraldo is laying in a california hospital. The victim of a vicious beating. Michaels family wants to bring him home but it requires Medical Transport costing 30,000. Its a bill their insurance wont cover and money they dont have. Its hard to sit beside my son everyday and watch him and i know hes fighting. Is, it hurts worse. Whatever it takes, whatever i got to do ill get him back here so i can take care of my child. If you would like to help we have a link to the familys gofundme page on the story posted now on our abc action news app. Downpours across parts of texas and louisiana. It will eventually get here ill let you know when it arrives coming up. Still to come, a man ends up crashing his car on to a roof. How it ended up there as people nearby explain this terrifying experience. One feature you dont want on your oven. What is going on with ovens causing them to explode . And they could be in your im Janelle Martinez in the traffic center. Youre looking live at i4 around 50th street. A crash blocking, looks like two lanes there in the outside. I am starting to see delays building. Ill tell you how bad they are coming up in a few minutes. 5 44. A Northern California commuter train will be back in Service Today after a derailment late monday night. Just hours after we brought you this story as breaking news yesterday we learned a mudslide sweeping across the tracks most likely caused that accident. Sent the trains lead car into a swollen creek. Large cranes worked to pull the creek and move others down the tracks. Railroad Officials Say the train wasnt speeding at the time of the derailment. Another story is going viral stemming from the derailment. It was on facebook. A close call for a San Francisco reporter, really close call. Alex savadge was covering that yesterday when look what happens, the car careens right to him and his photographer. He said his photographer started to yell get out of the way i just would like to thank tim for thanks buddy. Youre all right. Scary. I dont know my wife is not watching. I havent been able to call, tell my wife im ok. Yes. We will do that. In case she hears it on line. Neither of them was injured , the cause of the crash still under investigation. A driver in philadelphia now has a traffic ticket for losing control of his car and crashing on the roof of a grocery store. In the road and plod through a brick wall plowed through a brick wall, tore a hole in the grocery store. The car leaked gas and prompted the store to evacuate and close for a while. People who live near the store say they heard a loud bang and looked outside. I was sitting on the couch watching tv, heard a bang. I went to the bedroom, opened the window and see a car on the roof. The guy is standing there, i asked him if hes all right. He said yeah, im all right. Crane lifted it off, the store reopened later in the afternoon. There are no reports of serious injuries. Lets check in and look at the temperatures now, in the 60s, fantastic stuff. Higher humidity makes it feel very comfortable but rainfall has been impacting texas, weve had tornado watch boxes, severe thunderstorm watch boxes, what you see here is the result of what has been quite the number of days of accumulating rainfall there with upwards of a foot of rainfall. Eventually this system will move east. Because of this strong high pressure, the one that brought us the fantastic weather, the warm temperatures and the southeast flow. Eventually that will break down and i think it will rain, it arrives in the form after few showers but it will hold off until sunday so we have time to get ready for that. That is really the nice stretch here, the entire week dry. Weve been climbing everyday as far as the temperatures today will hit the low 80s. 81 yesterday. 80 monday. I think today were going for 83 and again were going to do that with full sunshine again. A little breezy at times but doing pretty good. Then again on saturday and heading into sunday rain chances on saturday, a couple of showers, cant rule it out. In fact the next couple days, may be able to drop that, feeling good about saturday. Sunday that will be the day were talking about, a few showers, something a little more widespread here and mostly cloudy skies. By the way, look what happens on sunday as well. The clocks forward, janelle. Its here. We basically turned the corner. Summers coming. You know what else happens on sunday . My birthday. Gosh. Big changes. Well tweet that. As far as traffic goes, were following this crash on i 4 westbound around 50th street. We now have the outside lane blocked and inside lane blocked the further down cant see it on camera. Were starting to see backups happening here on i4. Lets look, just a little further back around mlk and you can see it looks like a parking lot here. I did check the camera just a little further back at hillsborough, not that bad so the backup seems to really start here at mlk. You might even consider getting off the interstate there and avoiding some of this mess there. I just checked drive times, still just 10 minutes to get from 75 to 275. So just a few minutes slow there. The average speed on i4 westbound, 52, so not terrible right now. But looking great on i75 southbound from the apex to i looking great over in pinellas county, 275 from the Sunshine Skyway to the howard frankland, 68 miles per hour. Back to you. This morning a push is on for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to take action about a rash of glass oven doors shattering. Hundreds of people are sharing pictures of their shattered glass oven doors on social media. So far most of the injuries though have been minor but this is happening to brands like whirl pool, ge and kenmore. The Sears Kenmore 790 model generates the most complaints so far. One customer says her door broke three times. A whirl pool customer says hers broke twice and karen baker in south florida says the glass door on her oven shattered during a cleaning cycle. Very loud solid boom, like a little gunshot went off in the kitchen. The entire thing shattered, half of it shot shot out the bottom and they are in small pieces. Whirlpool gave her a she had to pay to have it installed. Oven manufacturers say dont use the door to push the oven rack back inside, that hitting the glass just a little bit can increase the chance of breakage later. 5 50. Coming up just after chipotle tries to overcome major Health Concerns new troubles temporarily closing one of its restaurants. A raid overnight in the fifa bribery scandal. What investigators seized as they uncover new details. Looking for a job . Todays the last day of a job fair hosted by ashley home furniture. They are looking to fill positions for its newest location on dale mabry highway. At the Hilton Garden Inn by Tampa International airport and avian park drive, its 10 00 to 4 00 today. And today get a free breakfast items at all bay area chickfil a restaurants. Breakfast until 10 30. If you miss today you have another chance. The same thing again will be 5 53. Swiss authorities are zeroing in on former fifa president sepp blatter. Days ago they seized documents, the swiss are trying to file a criminal case against blatter, its believed he bribed another he was banned last year from soccer over ethics violation but could face prison time if found guilty of bribery. For trouble for chipotle. A massachusetts chipotle is now temporarily closed after one of its employees was diagnosed with the norovirus. Two other employees at that restaurant are also suspected of having this virus. So far there have been no reports of any customers getting sick. The closure comes after a nearby chipotle closed after 150 of its customers were diagnosed with the norovirus in december. Chipotle is still reeling from an e. Coli outbreak at several of its locations. As we like to say another day in paradise and temperatures in the upper 70s to around 80. The course the problem is the water temperature. A little cool for a lot of us. A lot cool in fact. Mid60s. But full sunshine. Can you imagine being on the beach and the sun completely vanishing . In micronesia where sky watchers saw a spectacular show this morning. The only total Solar Eclipse, darkened skies across irish asia, western pacific. Moon blocking the sun. Spectacular for them but we missed out at least this year. At least this year. Next year is the big year. We get a big treat. The first total Solar Eclipse visible in the u. S. Since 1979 will cross the lower 48. August 21, 2017. Next summer. Theres probably a lot of hotels and resorts that are planning big events around this. Well all see it except the good spot i guess up towards the central part of the country. That is going to be spectacular. 1979. I was still in kindergarten, goodness. This is the most visible eclipse in human history. More people will see that eclipse next summer than all of human history. And of course if you cant make it it will be on the news. Breaking news in the next half hour. Next hour rather including a deputy involved shooting in north tampa we just learned turned deadly. What the suspect was doing that caused four deputies to open fire. Plus, stop sticks, a pit maneuver and intense chase. Drastic actions it took to stop results still pouring in from several crucial votes in the race for the white house including what experts call one of the biggest upsets of all time. Plus what prompted hillsborough deputies to shoot a man to death overnight and the way other deputies pulled out all the stops to slow down a wrongway driver. First dale mabry highway back open at cypress after a pickup truck hit and killed a motorcyclist shutting down that lets check with janelle but things are moving smoothly in west tampa now . No trouble in west tampa but trouble on i4, a crash blocking some lanes around 50th street westbound. You can see a lot of the flashing lights here. We have one outside lane blocked and one inside lane blocked so cars are getting through in the middle. Let me show you at mlk you can see some of the backup here, just looks like a bunch of lights just sitting there, though i did just check the drive time and were just a few minutes slow, i think traffic is still light so right now its taking 10 minutes to get from 75 to 275. Lets show you the area on a map. This is where the crash is on i 4, if youre heading on i4 you may want to get off at mlk and take mlk right into tampa. That will save you a lot of time this morning. If this crash doesnt move soon we will start to see congestion build even more. On i4. I will keep an eye on it and will keep you posted. As far as the weather goes. You know what else you can do . Its just so mild out there, the humidity back up. So were turning the corner as we if youre stuck on i4 just open the windows . Absolutely. Then you have the car exhaust. Well, lets check on conditions now as i walk backward here and show what you is happening with temperatures in the mid 60s. East southeast wind. Continuing with fantastic weather for today. With temperatures in the mid 60s in tampa, clearwater and now 64, all of us getting into the low 80s, do i think by the afternoon. Were going to do that with full sunshine. Just a few scattered fair weather clouds, nothing to certainly block the sun or give us any rainfall. But there is rainfall in the 7 day forecast. Ill show that you in a few minutes. Lets catch up on more breaking news from overnight. First this morning we just learned a man shot by deputies in a north tampa complex has died. Deputies say someone called him out to the winwood oaks apartments after spotting Jeffrey Cassell waving a gun outside his unit

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