monkey was doing right before he grabbed a butcher knife and started chasing people. the weather is looking perfect and i will show you the best time to be outside over the weekend. the now tampa bay starts now. we start with breaking news. it is a beautiful day and it looks beautiful. but two hours ago we were seeing some haze and some smoke. people asking us what is going on? you can see there is dennis phillips tweeting about it. what is going on? let's go to the desk to find out. >> this is a a controlled burn out of the new tampa area there is no threat. >> take a look, it is not looking so bad. i think it just peaked a lot the peoples interest. so go ahead and take a look if he can, you can see we do have a north easterly flow so if the controlled burn is in the new tampa area and the wind is means anywhere sw. is way you will see the smoke or at least to be smelling the smoke. we are talking about temple terrace, all the way to south tampa is where we have been hearing reports of the smoke. again, we are starting to notice a bit of clearing. hopefully you won't see quite as much of it going forward. back to you. we want to update you on breaking news. police spending a lot of time at the high school threat earlier today. also a developing story, guns and dragged out of the hands of the bad guys. it took months of investigation but this is the police work that really makes a difference in preventing future crime. for more on that we have clifton french joining us. this is a really big win for law enforcement today. what else did they find? >> reporter: they issued a total of 65 warrants, arrested 51 people but 13th of these folks are still on the streets. several of these people career criminals. one woman has been in jail 50 times in the past. let's get to the video of what they got off of the streets. crack, ecstasy and pills. the sheriff focused on the most heavily hit here area which is in district one. that is of at the north tampa area. they went undercover, they made dozens of arrests with 183 total charges. of the guns, only five of them were reported stolen. so the atf is asking gun owners to also help out. they say simply get a piece of paper and right on your serial number so they can know if a gun has been stolen. it can also help with the investigation. reporting live in hillsborough county, clifton french. right now a man in jail accused of trying to set a deputies home on fire. it happened early this morning. daniel thomas was on a mission he left his home after getting into a fight with his sister. he saw a patrol car in the driveway, walked to the front door and knocked. the deputy answered with his gun, and his personal dog, he called for backup and the man was arrested after that. >> i know hei know he has a lot of mental disabilities. i don't understand why he did what he did but i hope he gets help. >> he is now facing two felony charges. catching up on headlines. remember the mother from bradington sitting in jail accused of torturing her daughter to death? today, the state saying they are not going to seek the death penalty in that case. you make have seen the article about the new roller coaster at busch gardens. apparently there is a rumor it is not true. it is pretty cool because of the line you will go through has a 45 minute a 45 minute experience that you can go through. it will open this summer. the air force kicking the hunter planes up of their hangers. they say they need to space. the space. those plays are critical during storms, telling us how strong it is, where it is going and what we need to do. they have until july to get the planes out. let's take a live look outside and look at that, which one is this? >> this is the camera right over the station at rivergate. >> it is beautiful out there. >> every spot in tampa is they all look great. overall, looking fantastic here tonight. check out the temperatures, 73 in tampa right now. 69 in saint pete. so, the warm-up has kicked in and if you are thinking about having dinner outside tonight it is a beautiful night for it. do you know what national day today is? it is crab stuffed flounder day, wine day and maybe want to use a battery operated candle because it is also bad every day. i don't make these things up. so, take a look. temperatures will be perfect for that evening dinner outside. at 9:00 tonight we are still at 63. by 11:00 the temperature will tomorrow is friday and i have got the forecast coming up. thank you. the fight between apple and the fbi getting heated. tim cook refusing to help open the cell phone of one of the san bernardino shooters. what it is a matter of a person who killed 14 americans, what is the right thing to do? >> reporter: everyone we talked to saying given the option they would pick safety over privacy. >> i feel like if we always protect everybody we cannot protect their lives. >> it is not just about me. it is about everybody. >> reporter: they think apple should help. but tech giants i siting with apple today. google ceo saying companies give necessary. what the fbi is asking could set a dangerous precedent. edward snowden tweeting out a lot about the case talking about the irony of all of it. here is some facts about this iphone thing. too many incorrect passcodes entries could result in the phone wiping his of clean. the fbi wants apple to help them make sure that does not happen. that is what the court order is the fbi can't crack the code without the help of apple. the company is the only one that can make the program needed to get in. the fbi has contacted the cell phone company and gotten limited inland information so they now need detailed information headed in the phone. reports are apple will be filing a appeal any day now. still to come, donald trump might need to say a prayer after targeting the pope. the massive decline in the depopulation is creating the ripples in the society. so, what can we do about it? monopoly money, as you know it may be replaced with debit cards. is anything safe these days? paper money, that is what is stripped from the latest board game. the banker has also been removed and replaced with a small atm. in place of the currency players will use debit cards to make purchases. removing the paper money may mean less parts but what about the money making lesson? was it supposed to be about capitalism? way the game has been played. this new ultimate banking addition could make more players go bankrupt a lot faster but that might also make the game into sooner, which, i think we can all agree could be rereally nice. the addition to -- the new edition will be in ores this welcome back. no one has ever been safe when it comes to donald trump but today's target had a lot of was shocked. now he is on to the pope. this started with the pope saying donald trump was not christian. the pope made comments on his flight back to rome from mexico today. while, donald trump is now responding. >> for a religious leader to disgraceful. i am proud to be a christian and as president i will not allow christianity to be attacked and weekend, unlike what is happening now. >> he goes on to say, if and when the vatican is attacked by isis the pope would wish donald trump had been president. donald trump is losing steam with some of the voters. >> ted cruz leading donald trump in a major poll, the nbc poll shows ted cruz at 28% of the vote, donald trump with 26% of the vote. i want to give you a live look, ted cruz is speaking right now in south carolina. they say this is an indication just showed you. this poll also could be a outlier, possibly it could be the beginning of the donald trump all or wearing off. that is something voters, and the campaigns will be watching for in the upcoming south carolina primary. the pres. getting ready to do something no president in office has done in nearly 90 years. he is going to cuba. he is planning to meet with the president, this is video you are seeing right they there from their first face-to-face meeting last year. the administration says a goal of the visit is to open up more opportunities for business and travel with cuba. calvin coolidge was the last president to visit cuba. what does this mean for the people in cuba? i went to cuba in september and making there way there. we saw people huddled around certain spots around town, it is because of those places have hot spots, the internet, they can use the internet cheaper for making a phone call. the locals tell us that was a reality. at what a park that we visited there could be at least 500 people at a time using that wi- fi. one man accused in california taking beehives and renting them back to desperate beekeepers. why this problem is reaching a critical point. >> you can hear the paul's. >> reporter: the curiosity started more than 40 years ago for him but it does not take a beekeeper to know if you mess stung. >> there are a lot worse things than getting stung. >> reporter: the painful realization is with each passing year these pollinating civilizations are closer to the brink of collapse. >> it is hard. >> reporter: his company has already lost $50,000 in business. >> it is hard on me financially but, it is indicative of what is coming. we have incredible systems going on, we have much less land, there is new generations of pesticides that are contaminating and poisoning. these are all diseased, there is a lot of chaos. so people are trying to maintain the old paradigm. there is more theft going on a beekeepers. >> reporter: it now ripples through are own infrastructure. beekeepers still believe knowledge can turn the tide. >> we can start planning for it. >> reporter: if this mentality feels like a lost cause he will tell you the hive he hopes to save is a lot bigger than you think. in boulder, in detroit for the now tampa bay. >> beekeepers in california say the high theft have come just before the states all meant population the season. california produces 80% of the worlds almonds. now in florida we are seeing a surge of out of state beekeepers. in florida we have nearly one you have a story a story about a monkey gone wild i understand? >> we will get to it in just a little bit. right now let's take a look outside. this is what we were talking about early during the show. some people seeing some smoke. this is it. it is a controlled burn and it is getting better. a couple of hours ago it was a mess. >> you could smell it all the way to south tampa. the good news is it does not look like much now. what do you think of today, was it a decent weather day? >> hopefully i don't mess this up. look how beautiful that is. temperatures in the upper 60s to low 70s still right now. not a cloud in sight. this is the satellite and radar composite, there is nothing headed our way. clear and dry tonight. temperatures will be on the cool side but the low humidity. temperatures will fall to 57 in st. pete, downtown tampa will be in the low 50s across hillsborough county. we are a little a little below average but pretty much on target. the average high should be right around 73. tomorrow afternoon if you want to work in the yard, maybe take a dip, 73 and sunny and dry. we are looking at a beautiful forecast. out to the game tonight i will have the forecast coming up in just a bit. coming up next how the fcc wants to change how you get your cable tv. the fcc voted today to move forward with a proposal that would create a standard box giving you access to cable, premium and streaming television channels. that means you could by a box from any number of makers. it will hopefully save you money. right now people spend about $230 a year to rent a box. picture right here. lots of you love it why? do you know when your mother used to tell you to read the fine print? this time read the bold print. people thinking there was free admission in disney. make sure you share this with your friends to see if you can find them later today. a school bus driver is adding grammy winner to his resume. joe thompson is part of a gospel group out of nashville. during monday's that show the 80-year-old and his group hurting the award for the best gospel album. when he is not singing he has even giving the kids a shout out up on stage. >> i would like to send a shout out to the transportation department in tennessee. >> that is so awesome. they say even with the win, singing want to pay the bills but thompson helps to inspire the kids. >> he is inspiring me too. he claimed to be a doctor even though he is simply a teenager from south florida. could you please pray for us that we get the truth. >> we will tell you how in elderly woman fell for his right now we are talking about the 18-year old who called himself dr. love, now facing seven charges. not only did he get busted he went on a media tour, he even being released from jail. >> i just want to say that i am deeply saddened and a little disrespected by some of the things. i am not a thief. >> big question is a lot of you are asking, why do people fall for this? how in elderly patient got duped and what we can all learn from his mistakes. >> reporter: making sure the doctor you is going to is legit happens before you enter the doctor's office. before visiting the doctor i looked up his credentials. it says his license is active and he is on staff at the hospital. credentials were also posted in the office. >> this is the license that we have with the laboratory. >> reporter: it is all required by law. >> someone that is 18 years old something is wrong. >> reporter: something was wrong this week, abc news asked some tough questions. >> are you a fraud? >> i don't appreciate your tone. i don't appreciate the way you are portraying this interview. >> reporter: dr. love's victim said she found him online. his patients say they know better. >> i looked them up, i looked up his license. i wanted to make sure he was all right. there are so many different websites that you can look up a doctor's last name, where they went to school. >> reporter: doing that extra homework is not a waste of time. back to you. getting busted with small amounts of marijuana in tampa may not be a big deal soon. draft of an ordinance on that issue. jake peters is live downtown right now. >> reporter: good afternoon, what we are talking about is 20 grams or less of marijuana. imagine a sandwich back about half full of marijuana. under current law if you get busted with pot you go to a patrol car and taken to jail. under the proposal you pay some cash you go on your way. both sides are fired up. >> marijuana is a dangerous drug. >> reporter: he spoke thursday because he has been arrested for possession. >> it cost me so much money. i am not a criminal. >> reporter: he does not believe getting caught once it should ruin someone's life. currently a marijuana charge my possible jail time. the proposal would allow first- time offenders to pay $75 to the city. the second offense is $150. >> that equates to 36 joints. that means someone could be trafficking. >> reporter: she understands of the program is for adults only but she is still worried about the use. >> the concern is that children and young adults will get the wrong message. >> reporter: but the police chief supports the measure. >> the ultimate goal is to give people an opportunity not to be in concert rated. >> reporter: desk city council could vote as soon as march 3rd. some of those councilmembers telling us where they stand on the issue. three out of the seven say they one says he will not support it and the other three have not told us yet i am jake peterson for the now tampa bay. i could go for a sunset cruise tonight. do you have a a boat? >> no. i have at canoe. it is a beautiful night out there. take a look at these temperatures. 75 in sarasota. winter haven is at 73. cooksville is 71 so we are all enjoying these nice warm temperatures. as we take a look at the forecast for tonight, if you happen to be heading out to the hockey game we have temperature getting started before the game get started at 7:30. after the game 58 so, still pretty comfortable as you are headed home. overall, we will be on the dry side and i know you are wondering about the weekend. i will have that forecast coming up in just a few minutes. yesterday it was about your promise on cheese, today, weed killer, the food it is found in this is scary to think about, there may be weedkiller in the food we eat. the fda will start testing for a weedkiller that is commonly used. the fda may start testing soybeans, coin, milk and eggs but it has not outlined a a i like this one, how does a month of sick time sound? or getting paid for two years if you were to lose your job? it is a reality for some people, just not here in the states. sadly america is last when it comes to benefits at work. the u.s. compared to 14 different countries, that denmark did the best on this one. right now in france they are considering a a will letting workers ignore there e-mails when they go home so they can actually disconnect and be with their families. what a novel idea. if you lose your job in denmark you can get 90% of what you were making for the next two years. in the u.s. we get half of what we were making for 26 weeks. weeks of paid vacation in denmark. those benefits come with a cost, workers in denmark have to turn over more than 38% of their pay for income taxes and social security. hackers got ran some money from a california hospital. today we ask what can other hospitals do to protect your personal information? why in the world were these people have those baby dolphins and how those animals are doing right now. plus, we have got your word of the day for your chance to win dave matthews band tickets. take a look at your screen. this is a controlled burn happening in tampa bay. this is probably contributing to that haze a hazel we have seen throughout the afternoon. we have got breaking news to show you right now, multiple gas fires in oklahoma right now. check out the video of the smoke blowing. this is in west tulsa, apparently several fire departments are out there trying to work this one. no cause of the fire just yet. we are being told there are evacuations happening right now. crews are working to put the flames out but there are -- but there is know telling how long it could take. we will continue to follow the story. a hospital in california desperate to get it stolen data back pays it hackers ran some. what happens next? this one? in mcnamara is asking an expert. >> hospitals are full of computers. everything has hardware and software. >> reporter: every time you go to the hospital computers are protecting your information and if one machine gets hacked to the hospital network could be at risk. >> typically it encrypts all of the files on your machine then you have to pay the money for the password to reverse it. there truly is -- it is difficult to go backwards from that. >> reporter: so what can hospitals do? this computer science professor especially because corporations are slow to approve changes from the top down. >> the defense is to keep machines up to date. keep an off-line backup because they know how people typically back up things and will encrypt the backup. >> reporter: and there is no guarantee that ran some money will stop them from doing it again. >> when your machine is infected it can do anything to it. so, encryption is certainly one of those things and stealing all the information is another of those things. >> we have learned to the hospital pay the hacker $17,000 in bit coin. lawmakers pushing the ntsb to force a recall of all cars with takada airbags. as it stands right now they have until 2018 to fix the problem. the animation you are seeing shows how the airbags can shoot out pieces of shrapnel when despite ten people dying the ntsb says it does not have enough data right now to justify taking action. so far more than 25 million vehicles have been recalled. an estimated 50 million additional cars have the airbags that have not been recalled. toyota is part of the mess but ashley has a different a different problem they are dealing with right now. >> we tell you all the time about because but they can be tough to know what the problem is. this one is detecting a toyota, this is a seatbelt that may not work in an accident. the problem is the frame of the seat is metal and in a crash it could cut the seatbelt, leaving you unrestrained. toyota is fixing the problem for free. just take your car to the dealership. take a look at your screen, this happened in a bar in brazil. the monkey drank some rum then chased patrons out. firefighters actually caught him, set him free, apparently they caught him a couple of hours later being bad again. they are trying to figure out if they will keep him in captivity this time. it is beautiful out there. >> we could not resist bringing you outside with us on such a day like today. take a look, blue skies and sunshine. you can auction -- you can actually see the moon. that is kind of cool. take a look outside and you will see what i am talking about. there is a little bit of a weekend weather. we are talking highs in the mid- 70s at clearwater beach. we are looking at water temperature in the low 60s. it is beautiful beach weather for this time of the year. we are still looking at dry weather right into early next week. the temperatures are on the rise. we will be in the upper 70s by monday with no rain in sight. i know dennis is looking at the models right now with an update on the rain chances as we head into next week. he will have the update at 5:00. most of us have credit cards but you may not realize you could be missing out on some extra benefits. 25 million people have not changed their credit card in ten years. changed it. it has found that loyalty does not pay. more credit card companies are now offering rewards is a compete for new customers. right now it pays to switch. the report found one of the big reasons people aren't getting the cards is a are worried about canceling the old credit card. you should not close your card because that will cause your credit history to appear shorter. it could also hurt your credit score. you can still get a new card, just put the old card it a secure place. it is not just what to do with the old cards that could impact your credit score, women may have lower scores than men, even though they have less that. that is according to a new a new report that analyzes credit information. the reason may surprise you, becausethe women make less on average with impacts their debt to income ratio. a war serial memorialized looks a lot different right now. the marine was beaten at a talking about it. his account sure to make any patriot's blood boil. his heroic acts captured in 2004. this photo shows him carrying an injured marine. on friday he says he was eating in washington dc when a group of strangers approached and attacked. >> i felt threatened, i figured they would just leave me alone. because i was not responding racist. >> he said he took a blow to the head, he said the group stole his wallet, they have used his credit cards, they are still out there right now. he says he wants this this -- he says he wants them to get caught so this does not >> also, ptsd, it is extremely stressful and can kill people but in a study released suggesting the military is not doing its part to treat ptsd. they reviewed 50,000 new cases and found in many soldiers are not getting therapy sessions that they need. only four sessions within eight weeks of diagnosis. leaders playing a lack of mental health professionals. they are now reviewing the study to find ways to improve. a kansas city women takes matters into her own hands when it comes to crying. >> it took so long to find him. i knew i could do better than the computer so i volunteered. >> not long after the sketch was released the man was arrested. he is now serving 15 years in prison. that was 14 years ago. she has been sketching ever since for police in kansas city. she says some of the sketches are heart wrenching to draw. >> we can compare the picture with his composite and realized it was the drawing that cut him off of the streets. there is nothing better. >> she is moving to south florida so we could see her sketches here in the tampa bay area eventually helping to solve crime. breaking news, a helicopter just crashed in honolulu. take a look at that. we are being told five people are hurt, maybe some of them critically. that is just incredible. i have watched a lot of sports but never have i i seen a score like this one. 108-1, high school girls basketball. >> that is incredible. this was a semi final game, they just did not let up. these girls were up by 71 at the half. here is what the winnings team director of athletics had to say. >> there is not a mercy rule like there is in football or baseball or any other sport. so, there is no way to stop the game early or advanced the time. >> the athletic director of the losing team put out a statement saying in part, he is proud of his girls for how hard they you will not believe these photos. this is one of two dolphins being passed around at a beach in argentina. you can see people taking pictures. now one of them has died. the wildlife foundation saying dehydration was to blame but they are still trying to find out if the dolphin was dead before they took it out of the water. right now we want to take you to the las vegas strip. people all day stop in front of that sign and take pictures but could the las vegas soon put the brakes on its legendary strip? todd walker traveled to find out. >> reporter a proposal in las vegas is turning heads. a trip down las vegas blvd. can take you to other countries and other times but it is so crowded we won't get there quickly. to help us. the twins have been performing on the strip in unison for a wild now. in that time they have seen how crowded it can get on the street. >> a lot of people get hit. >> reporter: others have noticed too. which brought back a proposal to close the strip to vehicle traffic and make it one big pedestrian mall. it came before the commission again. he is the chair of the commission which approves money to build pedestrian villages. he says it opens up more issues than it solves, the hotel spent billions on their properties, which have main entrances on the strip. congested, that is part of the las vegas experience. >> reporter: the support for the idea needs to be a lot more in unison. the brothers know a thing or two about that. [singing] two more bridges have been approved by the commission and more could be on the way to try to keep the people and the cars separate. back to you. >> the cost of those bridges in estimated $15 million. right now it is to try to give away tickets to the data -- to the dave matthews band in july. all you have to do is go to the keyword of the day which we get every day and said she are watching i will give it to you, it is "melody" -- it is "melody." put the keyword in and good luck. we will be back tomorrow at for. -- we will be back tomorrow at 4:00. abc action news at 5:00 starts now. it is donald trump versus the vatican. >> if and when the vatican is attacked by isis -- >> what the pope said about donald trump that prompted this reaction. for joining us. a driver just 13 years old and we know now that she lives in holiday but she crashed her car 13 miles away. take a closer look because the deputy spotted her and then she actually crashed over there on the other side of the street. latest. >> reporter: in amazingly close call for this pinellas park homeowner. the crash last night, this video from after the impact showing the scene. police arresting the 13-year old girl driving the car, stolen out of pascoe county.

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