Pmorning like we always do with a plook at the sunday forecast. Pgood morning, lindsay. P lindsay its a cool start pto the day, but nice and bright. Pskies are clear this morning, pand weve dropped 1 degree from plast hour. Pso its 52 degrees in tampa this pmorning. Pgo to the trau berry festival to pstart out the day where were at p5 degrees and skies are clear as pwell. Pwe have 43 in crystal river, 52 pin tampa, 57 in st. Pete and 51 pin wauchula. Pthe changes, we dont have high pclouds and we have a very weak pfront knocking on the doorstep pthat will basically reinforce pthat low humidity and that drier pair in place so a fantastic day pto really do anything, but a lot pof people are headed to the pstrawberry festival. Pwe go to the opening gate time, p10 00 a. M. And 64 degrees palready and pushing the mid 70s pthis afternoon under pwalltowall sun. Pby late week more clouds and plots of 80s. Pand how long it lasts coming up. P anjuli a crash crashing pinto a building in tampa. Pthe car came off there on pcauseway boulevard. Pthe driver was cut out of the pvehicle and rushed to the phospital. Ptheyre on scene now monitoring pstructure. Pwe have a crew on the way and phave a live report at 7 30. P can i have a pledge, a pswearing, raise your right hand. Pi do solemnly swear that i no pmatter how i feel, no matter pwhat i the conditions are. P alcides goodness, love him por hate him, thousands come out pto see donald trump in orlando. Pthe republican president ial pcandidate held a rally at the puniversity of central florida. Psupporters packed in the arena pto hear his more than one hour plong speech. Phe talked about policy and pshowed a softer side stopping pfloor actually fainted telling pfainters. Phe also tore into ted cruz and pmarco rubio and joked about his plarge hand size. P is voter turnout during the rimaries 50 up, 60 up, in psome cases 100 turnout. Pthere it is, cameras. Plook up there, camera. Pcamera. P alcides trump stopped his pspeech ten times to deal with phecklers. Phe reacted in a similar way each pand every time, but he added in pthe end when he wins florida, pthis race will be over. P anjuli senator marco rubio pwas in florida yesterday, too. Phe held a big rami in pjacksonville. Phell be in tampa tomorrow. Phell hold a rally at the tampa pconvention Center Monday pevening. Pits a free event, but you must prsvp for tickets. Pto 5 45 and doors open at 4 00. Pthe republican primary is ptuesday the 15th with less than p100 delegates up for grabs. P five states casted primary pvotes on Super Saturday. Pamong republicans ted cruz pscored victory in tampa and pmaine. P on the democratic side bernie psanders won nebraska while phillary clinton took louisiana. Pwe have more from new orleans. P reporter five states pholding president ial contests on psaturday, republicans go to the olls and ted cruz won in pkansas. P if donald wins in all plikelihood hillary wins. P reporter donald trump plooking to extend his lead in pthe gop races and taking shots pat rivals including marco rubio. P i watched it the other day pwhere little marco is going, pwell, donald will not win. Pthis guy has so many problems, i pdont think hell come close to p conservatism is not how loud pand ovenlgsive can you be and phow many bad words can you say pon television, thats not pconserve tichl. P reporter democrats in pnebraska, kansas and louisiana pare choosing between hillary pclinton and bernie sanders. P we know the stakes keep pgetting higher, and the rhetoric pwere hearing from the other pside keeps sinking lower. P in poll after poll including pa recent cnn poll we are pdefeating trump by pretty big pnumbers and bigger numbers than phillary clinton is. P reporter democrats in maine pand republican in puerto rico phead to the polls on sunday. Plooming beyond this weekends pcontest are the crucial rimaries on march 15th in ohio pand florida, which could pmakeorbreak some of the pcampaigns. Pin new orleans, louisiana, fox pnews. P anjuli new this morning the pcoast guard is searching for a pman who fell overboard a royal pcare bien cruise ship in key plargo around 3 00 a. M. On psaturday morning. Pguests say they saw the pbalcony on the tenth deck of the pnavigator of the sea. Pthe coast guard is using phelicopters and a plane to psearch over 946 square miles. P alcides a small plane is pforced to make an emergency planding on a golf course in pst. Petersburg. Pamazingly no one was hurt. Pthe plane was piloted by an p18yearold. Phe and his dad safely landed pafter they experienced engine ptrouble heading from lakeland to pmanatee county. Pthey were able to get the plane pright into the middle of the pgreen. Pfaa investigators inspected the lane along with the pilot and eople along. Pinvestigators say there were no pobvious cause of engine ptroubles. P he did a good job landing pthat plane, man. Pi mean, wow. Pi seen it going down. Pim like, whoa pwere having a crash. Pmy homeboy came out of the papartment, and he seen the plane pright here and showed me. Pim like, whoa p the faa is investigating the p anjuli a hulk hogan pautograph signing came to an punexpected early end for safety preasons. Pthe former wrestling star was psigning autograph and a large pnumber of people were on the psecond floor balcony and felt a pshift in the building. Pfirefighters evacuated the pbuilding, declared it unsafe. Pthe fire marshal says the store pwill remain closed until the powner has a Structural Engineer pdetermine whether its safe to poccupy. P alcides Allegiant Airlines psaid a flight headed to st. Pete paborted takeoff because of pmechanical issue. Pthere was smoke in the cabin. Pall 159 people on board are pokay, and the plane was taken pout of the service. Aej assengers were put on another pflight and given a 200 voucher. P anjuli a litter of puppies pdufrned on the side of the road pwill be up for adoption. Pthis is video of one of the uppies. Pnatalie was severely pmalnourisheded and has a vitamin Pd Deficiency and ricketts that pexplain her walk but her wagging ptail shows shes a happy puppy pand will find a new home. P alcides how cute. P anjuli a big win for the plightning as they take on the phurricanes at amalie arena. P alcides a big er ger win for a plocal wrestling team. P how sciences are working to pgrow a new florida strawberry to pbeat the competition come pupping. P lindsay that reminds us of pspring and so do the ptemperatures as of late. Pits a cool start to the pmorning, though. Pwere down 52 in tampa, 45 in pbrooksville, 57 in st. Pete. Pskies this morning are not quite penough and theyre clear skies. Pits 55 in clearwater and turns pto 72 this afternoon under pfeeling cool by the water at the pbeach. Phowever, late week spring pbreakers, a lot mother of them pare out there because its so pwe talk donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. Hey candidates. Enough talk. In sports this morning the lightning p alcides the lightning win pin dramatic fashion, and the prays take on the orioles. Pheres fox 13s kevin odonnell. P theres not a team in the plightning right now. Pmaybe it wasnt the best erformance, but the bolts know phow to finish and have the pconfidence to come back no pthe Carolina Hurricanes are in ptown and they finished up the ower play in the lightning pround, a breakout. Pandre plot, watch his do his pwork. P10 bolts. Pcarolina ties the game in the psecond, and later its that guy pget palat, who holds the puck pand rips it off carolinas pgoalie. Pbad break for the lightning. Pcarolina on the power play and pbounces off his mouth and goes ast ben bishop for the tieing pgoal. Pit was good. Pthat hurt a little bit, too. Phe gets the rebound over to iler pjohnson, and he slams it in. P33. Psix minutes to play. Pthis goes to o. T. Pits a wild one. Pboth teams have plenty of pchances, but finally he muscles pthe puck away and up the length pof the ice. Pthey have a new mark with the pninth consecutive win. Pthey take over first place. Pfuture game last night. Pdrew smiley gets his first start pthis spring and it was a good pstart. Psmiley making this one count. Phe strikes out the orioles most pdavis. Pthrough 30 pitches, 18 for pstrikes and struck out three pbatters so pretty good. Pgreat starting pitching and pthe third. Pnew ray is slicing that single pto left, and thats going to get pkurt and Richie Shafer in for a p20 lead. Peveryones favorite making the ptrip to sarasota, and it was pworth it. Phe has a triple in the fifth. Pthat scores miller, 41 rays. Ptwo rbis and the rays club the porioles 106. P remember dan johnson . Pjohnson hit two of the most prevered homers in rays history. Pboth were gametieing shots as a inch hitter. Pfirst one came in boston pseptember 2008. Pthat tied the game in the ninth. Pthe rays won it in extra innings prays get into the playoffs. Pthen again, in 2011, in game 162 pjohnson homered again bottom of pthe ninth. Pthis goes into extras again pagainst the yankees, and we premember what happened after pthat, Evan Longoria has the win. Pjohnson is back with the rays pand putting his bat away. Pjohn is son is trying to presurrect his career not as a phitter but knuckle ball pitcher. Pthey sign them to a minor league pcontract. Phow incredible is that if pjohnson pulls this off . P kyle busch off to a great pstart this season. Pbusch looking for his first win pat Las Vegas Motor Speedway in phis hometown. P63 laps to go. Pcody ware gets loose and darrell pwallace cant get out of the pway. Pjustin marks is tangled up in pit, too. Pall three drivers were okay, but ptheyre day is over. Pits busch that dominates this pone, though. Phe leads all but one of the 200 plaps. Phe cruises to his second xfinity pwin of the season, its his phe also will start on the pole ptoday in the sprint cup race pright here on fox 13 at 3 00. P well, a shoutout to the pbranded eagles wrestling team. Pthey win the 16th straight state pchampionship, an amazing feat pgiven the fact they lost pdistricts and regional but sent pseven to state and they pumed poff the win. Pnordstrom won a rare fifth state ptitle joining only a few others pto accomplish that. Phe won his first as awn eighth pgrader. Pthats a look at sports. Phave a great day. P alcides thats impressive, pas an eighth grader. P anjuli thats incredible. P alcides lindsay, bring out pthe sweaters and jackets this pmorning . P lindsay just this morning. Pwe know the afternoon well go pahead and get rid of those. Pits a cool note to start out pthe day, and skies are clear pwhich is one of the reasons pwere a few degrees cooler in a pfew spots. Pthe only thing weve done is premoved some of the high clouds pin place so skies are clear and pi think all day its going to plook a lot like this. Pnicely. Pa little warmer this afternoon. Pfor now its a chilly but 52 pdegrees in tampa. Pwinds are out of the north at 5 pmiles per hour, and a very weak pfront working through the state pright now believe it or not. Pvery dry and comfortable and a plot of people were at the beach pyesterday. Pbut i was told by some friends pout there that even though we phad the sunshine we cant forget pthat our water temperatures are pin the mid60s, so even when our pwinds arent directly off of the pwater with it nearby, it will pfeel a little cooler out there. Pone of the warm spots right now pis sirata beach with a north pwind at 8 miles per hour. P40s and 50s rule the bay area pthis morning. Pwe go from 54 in apollo beach to p48 in new tampa. Pat clearwater were at 55 pdegrees this morning and 47 in pdade city and 43 in crystal priver and 48 in inverness. Pneed that warmer jacket until p10 00 a. M. P52 in bartow and also 52 in phaines city and winds today pgenerally coming out of the pnorth. Pyou can see a slight northwest pshift. Pthat has signs an extremely weak pfront in the state. Pit wont bring clouds or rain pbut reinforce the drier pattern pwere in. Pthat will keep us nice and quiet pthroughout the day. Pa slight breeze at the bay and pbeach. Pwere cracking 75 which is the paverage high today. Pthe further inland you are the pwarmer youll be. Pby wednesday or thursday these plocations will flirt with the pupper 80s to near 90 degrees. Ptheres warmer weather on the phorizon. P74 in bradenton and 75 in pbrooksville as well. Pin the southeast we have the 30s pand 40s north so the northerly pflow equals the cooler air, but pa surge shifts east throughout pthe work week, so thats in presponse to an upper level attern called the ridge that pwill be building in and warming pus up. Paround the country if youre pcurious this morning seenably pchilly in the northeast. Pwere mild with the zonal flow pin place. Pwatch the High Pressure pbuilding, so obviously warmer. Ptoday were in the mid70s and pby tuesday were near 80 and by pwednesday, thursday, friday and psaturday locations in our area pwill be well into the 80s. Pthat warmer surge of air extends pfrom the midwest to the pmidatlantic and northeast. Pon the backside dealing with psevere weather by friday and pinto the weekend. Pour high temperatures though by pfar a big headline average today pat 75. Pby tuesday, wednesday and pthursday, look at that. Plow 80s, and if youre visiting pon spring break, this is the erfect week for you. Pif youre suffering from pallergies, its so perfect pbecause we could use temporary prelief. Pno rain in site until the pweekend. Pits 54 overnight and clear p40s tomorrow morning. Pduring the day on monday, a pcouple high clouds and thats it pand 77. Pturning warmer with easily low p80s inland. Ptheres a north breeze today for pthe boaters, seas at 3 to 5 feet pand thats especially offshore pat the beach mainly with waves ptoday. Artly sunny midweek and warmer pmidweek. Plooking ahead to next weekend, pkind of tricky. Pthe rain chance is on saturday pand not sunday at 30 . P anjuli plant city is pcelebrating strawberries this pweekend, of course, but the pfestival isnt the only big pnews. Pin the markets florida berries pare under attack from huge pshipments from mexico. P alcides the future of pfloridas strawberries may pdepend on the sefrj arch for a pbetter berry. P this is our tissue culture pgrowth room. P reporter plant scientists pvance whitaker has Green Sprouts pin tubes that grow into pits literally a breeding pground. P this is where we choose arents and we take the pollen pfrom one and put it on the pflower. P reporter theyre not pgenetically modified or gmos. Pthis is traditional breeding pthey hope will produce a new pvariety of strawberry just in ptime. P its really critical right pnow. Pthe last four or five years have pseen an explosion of imported pfruit coming from central pmexico. P reporter florida growers plook to whitaker and scientists phere at Gulf Coast Research pcenter. Ptheyre experimenting with pthousands of plants. P this plant right here is a pvariety calmed sweet sensation. P reporter trying to breed pthe very best performer. P it has to perform well when pits hot, when its cold, when pits raining. P now in a field of many pvarieties, whitaker believes phes closing in on the best pberry yet. Pflavor. Pwould you like to try one . P sure. P reporter its a new p very good. P reporter taste alone wont pwin. Pthe newberry needs to ripen psooner, and that means plant pearlier. Pit has to survive hot and rainy pweather in late september to hit pthe sweet spot on the calendar. P they need earlier fruit. Pby the time thanksgiving rolls paround, they really want to have pvolume. P reporter for years pstrawberry varieties named pfestival, radiance and sweet psensation carried the crop, but pwhitaker says theyre narrowing pdown the field in the search for pthe new berry. P they just have numbers now pand no names. P reporter the research never pstops but the competition from pmexico makes it more critical. P theres no such thing as the erfect strawberry, because we pcan always make progress. P reporter perfection may be pout of reach but to get as close pas they can to the perfect pstrawberry is what florida pgrowers are depending on. P anjuli its fascinating. Psweet sensation three years ago. Pthe target date for the new pstrawberry of 2017, and well pkeep you posted. P still ahead, before he went pon to be the number one player pin the world and win the pmasters, Jordan Spieth won the pvalspar championship. P the tournament is back and so pis jordan. Pwere talking with the porganizers about it coming up pnext. P pulitzer prizewinning pjournalist breaks stories and pthis weekend hes hanging out pwith it. P dude, what was that . P we break down the races in pmichigan and florida. Pwatch money, power and olitics sunday night before contemplating the many choices on steak n shakes 4 dollar menu, one must calm the mind in our zen garden. Focus. Reflect. The taco salad meal. Zen the original double n cheese steakburger meal. Oh the 4 menu. Where all meals are under 4. At steak n shake. Turns out lemon juice doesn t cure pink eye. Hi. How are you doing today . That s how i am. Red head fred. Ultra rare. I collect these too. Nah, these are for my dog because he can never decide which one he wants until he gets home, so. American express presents the blue cash everyday card with no annual fee. Cash back on purchases. My only concern is that this is where we put food. A dog s foot is cleaner than a human s mouth. That s what they say. Is it . Cleaner than my mouth. Backed by the service and 3 before he won the masters. P alcides before he won the pmasters and before he was the pnumber one golfer in the world, plast year Jordan Spieth won the pvalspar championship right in pour backyard. Phes back this year to defend phis title. Ptracy west tournament director pas well as lee mccoy is in the ptournament as well. Pthanks for being with us. Pwhats it like to have jordan pback this year . P were absolutely thrilled. Plast year when he won, coming pinto the tournament he had won a pcouple of tournaments and he was pa great amateur golfer. Phe wasnt a household name and pnow he is. Pwere excited to have everyone pin tampa bay have a chance to psee him. P alcides any changes from plast year . P yeah. Pwe did some renovations to the pgolf course itself fshgs which pis terrific. Pso some new grasses and the pcourses in tremendous condition pfor the players. Pthen weve added some things for pthe tournament. Pa par 4 miler that actually is phappening this afternoon, so eople can come out and run and pcopperhead course before they lay on it tomorrow. Pthats terrific. Pthen our concert. Pwe have rascal flatts on pthursday night. P alcides be quiet, thursday pnight rascal flatts. Pis that free or how much is it . P its free if you have a p that is fantastic. Pall right, lee. Pyoure playing this year. Pwhat are your expectations, my pfr