and violence on the streets of chicago. protesters crash at a donald trump rally. forcing it to shut down. what trump himself blames the anger on. from tampa bays number one news station, this is good day tampa bay. anjuli good morning and welcome to good day tampa bay welcome to good day tampa bay. this saturday morning, i am anjuli davis. walter i am walter allen in for alcides segui. lindsay milbourne. anjuli how long has it been. great to have you back. lindsay i am doing okay. weather has been great. heat and humidity. spring breakers are loving it and we will bring you rain. not so much this morning. 63 degrees brookdale, bayshore. and more high clouds. by this time tomorrow we spring forward, so it is still dark out here. 63 in lakeland. we have 73 in lake placid. 65 in tampa. 68 in st. Pete. a little fog around too. it is muggy and our winds are light. please slow it down from eastern pasco county down along of that. riverview, even into desoto light rain. batches of showers heading north from sebring south of wauchula and really today that rain chance is 10 to 20 . mainly inland. if you were heading to the strawberry festival. high clouds will thicken a bit and will be warm and we will see a better rain chance not only at the strawberry festival but at valspar and grand prix in the afternoon and future cast. up. altar altar lindsay, thank you. that developing story out of Hillsborough County. a sheriff deputy is dead following a wrongway crash on the selmon expressway. dead. kelly cowan is following this. new development this hour, off picture of the crash. have a photo of the deputys vehicle. it is barely recognizable. we will get to that in just a second. look at what is behind me where deputies believe this wrongway driver would have enter the selmon expressway going the wrong way on that raised elevated portion. you can see there are do not enter barrier flashing lights on the right portion of the roadway. however, if you see this left side of the road that the sheriffs car is blocking off right now. well, that is where they believe the wrong way driver enter the selmon expressway right before the fatal crash. now as i mentioned and hopeful now as i mentioned and hopefully we are showing it to you this picture provided by the Hillsborough County sheriffs department. this was taken at the scene this morning. that was the patrol officers car. leaves tampa general on an unrelated accident that he was investigating just before this crash occurred. shortly we are told around 2 or of the wrongway vehicle died at the keen. and the deputy had to be extricated from his patrol car and he was taken to Tampa General Hospital where he later died as well. a crushing loss for deputies responding this morning. like a large family sometimes doesnt get along, but when something happens, it draws you very close together, and, you know, this is this is a loss to the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office, but to all the Law Enforcement men and women who are trying to do their job and get home alive. reporter just a tragic scene and hard for the officers to take in. now they are still investigating. they are very early on in the investigation. but no word just yet whether they believe alcohol may have been a factor this morning. you can never rule it out in crashes. reporting live, kelly cowan, fox 13 news. back to you, guys. walter kelly wow. we will talk to you throughout the morning. time is 7 04. ahead of tuesdays all ahead of tuesdays allimportant primary in florida, senator marco rubio will be making multiple stops this morning in the bay area. his route will all start this morning at 9 a. M. With a stop at beckwith aelectric in largo. then at 11 30, at rons barbecue in hudson. rubio will make two more appearances in tampa and lakeland before heading up to pensacola. thursday night debate in miami, senator rubio said that the winner of the florida primary will be the republican nominee, and that he intends to win his home state. a recent fox news poll show he has ground to make up. donald trump leads rubio by 23 among likely gop voters. and the latino vote could play a key role for rubio in walter foxs Steve Harrigan shows how puerto rico immigrants may play a big outcome. reporter the numbers could reshape elections in florida and the nations. each week 1,000 Puerto Ricans flee an island in economic collapse and move to florida. unlike other latinos from outside america, Puerto Ricans are u. S. Citizens eligible to vote. in central florida, a swing region of the swing state,er that a growing force to be reckoned with. we are a deep influence in the election this year. and just depends on what candidates we choose. that is the one that is going to win. reporter florida how has 1 million Puerto Ricans. double the number in 2000. almost equal to the number of cubans. a quarter million Puerto Ricans have moved to the mainland since 2008. onethird of them settling in florida. many are professionals, suburban homeowners who often registers a independents. so many of the Puerto Ricans that moved here Puerto Ricans who moved here recently they dont have strong feeling for Political Party and go more for personalities. reporter Puerto Ricans here are being courted by all sides like firsttime voter diana cordo va who is shopping around for candidates. a lot of Puerto Ricans may be influenced on what that person is offering to us. reporter just how high are the stakes . the vote in florida is latino vote. the community here will decide who will be the next president. walter if you want to beat the primary rush. time is running out. early voting. for six of our local counties, today is the last day, pope, hernando, pasco, citrus, manatee and sarasota counties. early voting ends tomorrow. a few delegates are up for grabs in the shadow of the white house. voters in washington d. C. Will vote this afternoon. 19 delegates are at stake there. republicans will also caucus in of guam. democrats in northern Mariana Islands do the same. trouble on the campaign trail for donald trump. violence broke out last night at a rally in chicago. the tensions started to build friday afternoon as people gathered for the rally. protesters ended up with tickets and many said they were going to crash the party. frustration flared an punches began flying. an unbelievable scene inside and outside of that arena where the event with as to take place. trump commented himself on the protest and says this all stems from people being angry about a lack of work. it is an economic problem. it all starts. people want to be able to get increases. they want to be able to work. they want to be able to have good jobs and at least want to be able to have a job. we dont have that in this country. reporter vetters in illinois head to the polls on tuesday which is why trump is holding a rally there. trump will be in dayton ohio today where he is expected to make further comment. man is facing some disturbing charges. 28yearold jafar smith had sex with a 15yearold girl and got her pregnant. smith has been a registered sex offender since 2009 and on probation for attacking a pregnant woman when he reportedly had sex with the teenager. smith has since admitted to the crime. in Pinellas County, st. pete Police Believe they found the car that was used in drive the car that was used in driveby shooting that sent a child to the hospital. this the is Dodge Challenger that pulled up to the home. the car was found you a been a doneed 11 00 thursday night at del holmes park. for ren victims looking over the car for forensics. someone inside hit 3yearold jayla mack in the stomach. she was sitting on her grandmothers short. holloman was also shot and has been released from the hospital. no arrests have been made in the shooting. the start of the gasparilla music festival. 50 bands are expected over the weekend on five stages. everything takes place at curtis hixon park. tickets for the festival are 30 tickets for the festival are 30. ybor city tonight at the rough rider st. Patricks day parade. crews from south florida will take over with beads, floats and plenty of fun. everything starts at 7 00 tonight. the best part, you dont have to pay dime. the roar of the engines in st. Petersburg will also continue today. thousands of people are expect thousands of people are expected to turn out this weekend for all of the events of the grand prix. Officials Say you should budget more time this year for new security screenings write similar to the ones at major sporting stadium. the engines fired up in about half an hour for qualifying races for the pro mazda series and tomorrow racing starts at 9 a. M. Leading up to the afternoon indy car grand prix. if you are headed down there. want to avoid everything all together, Vanessa Rufus has you events and road closures that come with them. the firestone grand prix that is happening in the st. Pete area. we not only have roads closed but roads with limited act is he is. we will get to that in just a second. the roads that will be closed completely. most of them will be northbound most of them will be northbound, southbound thorough fares, all of them except for the first avenue south eastbound and westbound. first street affected. for a certain stretch. as well as beach drive and bayshore drive. completely avoid those areas. certainly expect heightened traffic in the area. and as i mentioned, we do have limited act is he is road. full list on that and information on parking and pedestrian impacts on my facebook page, fox 13s Vanessa Rufus. over to ybor city where we have the st. Patricks parade later today. we have road closures starting in the afternoon. 3 00 in the afternoon we will start to see 7th avenue between nuncio and 20th. 7 and 8 00, palm avenue will are shut down. vehicles parked on 7th after 2 00 this afternoon will be time. the. all right, 7 11 is the time all right, 7 11 is the time. get ready to spring forward anjuli no walter tomorrow. why some lawmakers want to see an end to Daylight Saving time. do you want to be an Airline Pilot . jetblue may be looking for you. the best part, no experience necessary. and if you are coming to tampa bay for spring break and great weatherwise. a little warm and humid this morning. and in the distance. we have more opaque high clouds clouds. what we will do is bring in a few more of them. still a mostly sunny sky this morning and sea breeze this afternoon. so the warmth of the day will be mid afternoon here about 8. about late in the day we cool with are few degrees. and some of it, not all of big, bold, steaks. 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You cant fake steak. we are following a news alert after of Hillsborough County this morning. crosstown expressway right near the Brandon Town Center entrance ramp. this involved a Hillsborough County deputy. both the deputy as well as that wrongway driver have both died wrongway driver have both died. the deputy at the hospital. the wrongway driver at the scene there. walter the information we got from Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office is that this deputy whose name is not being released right now, they are working to notify the family, but this deputy was on the force for about five and a half years. he was trying to become a homicide detective, a traffic homicide detective, and if you look at these pictures here, these are very telling. just how serious, how violent this crash was. larry mckin then with the Sheriffs Office describe this scene as something from war, like an ied explosion. and when we look at these pictures, it certainly looks exactly like that. so, again, to reiterate, a deputy has been killed. kelly cowan is on scene and is working to bring us more information. anjuli the eastbound lanes shut down at this hour and are expected to be closed down for at least another four hours. do you want to avoid that area. all right, 7 16 the time. commuters in new jersey wont have an excuse to miss work on monday anymore. the Union Representing the new Jersey Transit agency has reached a tentative agreement with the rail workers. the agreement means a strike that threatened to throw monday that threatened to throw mondays commute into chaos for more than 1,000, 100,000 people have been avoided. police are still looking this morning to identify the two men who ambushed a back yard cookoff in pennsylvania and killed six people. the gunmen appeared to target one of two of those victims in the wednesday night attacks. drugs have not been ruled out as the motive yet. in the meantime, a makeshift memorial has been set up outside of that home. as much as we dont want to forward. clocks are moving ahead at 2 00 year. lindsay and i hate it every year. believe should be phased out i would be one of them they say they do significant say they do significant damage to our health. traffic accidents, heart attacks and strokes increase when we change time, and that contrary to popular belief, it does not save electricity. there are a handful of states that want to get rid of day that want to get rid of Daylight Savings all together and a proposal that would move eastern time to atlantic time permanently. extra coffee for us tomorrow, right, lindsay . lindsay i hope you dont show that video of people lay show that video of people laying in their beds. anjuli just making up for it some way. lindsay if you were up at 6 a. M. Tomorrow, we thank you for that. because feels like 5 a. M. the change, though, is in the afternoon hours. the sun is going to set an hour later. i will show you the trade off on our handy dandy day. we spring forward late continue to continue toant. before you head to bed, a good reminder to change the Smoke Detector batteries. things like that. tomorrow morning 7 41. so the change off is, as the day goes on, the sun will set at 7 38. that a change that has been an hour earlier. so some of us enjoying the sunset maybe tomorrow night. in the morning hours, it will be a struggle for some of us. this morning, we are planning our day, right. maybe you are headed out to the grand prix in st. Petersburg. hazy from this view. 68 degrees. winds out of the east. it is humid this morning and we have some high clouds. i think today will be a dry day in st. Petersburg. tomorrow, at times, we will start to see some showers moving in from the gulf, possibly a thunderstorm. i though the thunder dont want for the big race. 12 55. sneak peek shows that dat erred rain developing. 78 degrees. some of it will move inland late in the day but then at the same time. more rain to move in. not raining whole time but the possibility of slick tracks. 63 degrees this morning here over brookdale bayshore. festival, make sure you dress for very warm temps. 65 here. 57 in bartow. 73 in lake placid, and 72 in pwrooid. what is happening is we have all kinds of winds all over the place mainly out of the southeast veering sthout afternoon. with the beach, that will bring in a sea breeze. this morning winds are light, so guess what, we have some fog so guess what, we have some fog. dade city, Sumter County this morning up toward i would say brandon where we have twomile irsability. even further north toward plant city by the strawberry festival in fog will be lifting by 9 a. M. active weather to the west and the lowpressure system is starting to move out. good for the flooding and means our rain chances are going up and this morning where we have some rain, somewhat steady in nature east of avon park. the band of showers is lifting north and west and a few of those showers west of wauchula this morning, but that rain chance today is at 10 . show you what happens tomorrow. into the morning today. winds out of the south that pulls in inland rain this that coverage very low, 10 . tomorrow, into the afternoon hours, and hop into the other clouds. then we have the gulf rain. into the afternoon while some of the rain shifts inland, more will develop from the west. and that could trigger some issues with the delays at the Golf Tournament at innisbrook and the grand prix, we will be watching that for you. 83 with a slim rain chance. overnight they city of up and tomorrow more clouds. keep our temperatures down in the afternoon, 81 degrees. a 40 chance of rain chance on sunday especially second half of the day. on monday we hang on to the rain, but midweek we dry it out and stay warm and muggy. next weekend does include warming, fy i. walter 7 21, lindsay, thank you. jetblue is offering a Pilot Training program where no previous Training Experience required. anjuli the Training Classes takes place here in florida. jeff twoy explains how this works. reporter gateway elect. jetblue and Pilot Training. a fouryear intensive program with the goal of turning inexperienced new bees into frequent flyers. a former Airline Pilot with over 43 years flying experience over 43 years flying experience. for any of these programs that jetblue, for instance, is starting up, starting from the beginning. the initial selection is going to be very, very important otherwise you are wasting your money and the individual paying for it. reporter what makes it difference there is no previous flying experience required. the airline side it was designed specifically that way to make the profession accessible and the people with the qualities most wanted in a pilot. what is the best quality for a pilot to have. a sense of humor. when things start to go bad, you go to your checklist. a rigorous job. there is humor in the situation that can really be life and death because no eraser. an air Traffic Controller goes pilots are buried with theirs. reporter jetblue u as it has been dub, classroom learning and flight simulators racking up 1500 flight hours. wins when it is all said and done, bite lots will become new hires and begin standard orientation. anjuli thaingz program is not cheap and costs 125,000 that jetblue says has to be paid back in the first 15 months. and there is no guarantee that you will get hired as a jetblue pilot at the of that program. coming up after the break, the lightning take another loss last night against the flyers. we will show you the highlights from amalie arena. and we will continue that serious situation we will monitor the information come out of brandon that happened at 3 00 this morning. look at the entrance ramp of the selmon expressway is where sheriff deputy was killed in a wrong way crash. eastbound lanes of that road for the next fe . a couple of lighter headlines on this saturday morning at 7 25 in sports. the Tampa Bay Lightning lost another tough one at home at amalie arena against the flyers amalie arena against the flyers. a week. the flyers are just a couple of points out of playoff position and they are hungry to get back to the post season. sam gagner and matt reid scored power play goals with a 31 win over the bolts. it wasnt exactly a stellar night for the lightning. a shot in the first nine and a half minutes of the third. lightning head to ohio. very beatable blue jackets team and they will play them tomorrow afternoon. on the green, it is round three today of the valspar championship in ennis book. stricker is the coleader. sharing the title spot is will speith made the cut with one shot to spare. this weekend is exciting, eight shots separate the top and bottom of the leaderboard. Tampa Bay Rays are in Port Charlotte getting ready for a game against the yankees, tampa bay yankees. and stopping by tomorrow will be the boston red sox. and to the racetrack now where nascar returns to the desert of phoenix. for tomorrows race after post for tomorrows race after qualifying. pushs first pole win of the season and third in the track of arizona. racing locked up the top three of carl edwards qualifying send and denny hamlin in third. you can catch that race right here. coverage starts at 3 00 tomorrow afternoon and the green flag for all 312 laps of the 500 should be the 500 should be waved around 3 30. still to come here on good day a free ride to downtown a trolley and bikes and new form of transportation. a more serious note, kelly cowan has the latest on the deadly wrongway crash in Hillsborough County. kelly, good morning. reporter good morning. two dead including a sheriff deputy and a wrongway soft, calm music hi, youve reached emma. 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Three easy ways to save at the same place you love to shop. time now is 7 30. this mornings top story will likely be for the next couple of days. another deadly wrongway accident on the crosstown expressway. anjuli a Hillsborough County deputy is dead along with that wrongway driver. kelly cowan is joining us live from the scene. a tragedy for this family. reporter absolutely, heartbreaking for everyone and all of the Emergency Responders this morning. they worked hard to save that deputys life. the wrongway driver we are told was dead on the scene, but the driver of the sheriff vehicle, his name has not been release just yet, but that deputy did have to be extricated from the vehicle. we have a photo of it that we can show you here. the roof had to be cut off of his patrol car. now he had been returning from Tampa General Hospital just before this crash after a different traffic investigation before this crash occurred. he was rushed to Tampa General Hospital, but he unfortunately passed away there at the scene. now crash happened a little before 3 a. M. This morning, and as i mentioned just so emotional for everyone respond emotional for everyone responding this morning especially to see the sheriff vehicle that was almost unrecognizable. Hillsborough County fire rescue did an amazing job of trying get him out quickly and you will release the pictures later and you can see that the majority of the damage that you will see in the reek was from the crash. the the crash vehicle is missing the roof. the deputys vehicle is missing the roof, but other than that, it literally looks like one these vehicles that we see from an ied where it was completely blown up. reporter so just a very tragic scene this morning. now we are standing just outside the entrance to the on ramp where Sheriff Deputies believe that this mornings wrongway driver may have enter wrongway driver may have entered the selmon expressway. this is a raised center lane portion that actually reverses depending on the time of day. so at the time this driver would have gotten on very early this morning. you can see just behind me, there are arms with lights on them that come down to warn drivers not to enter the road drivers not to enter the roadway because traffic only flows in one direction at certain portions of the time they believe the driver would around the barriers where the sheriffs car is just before the crash occurred and they are still investigating obviously very early on in the investigation. no word yet whether or not alcohol may have been involved in this crash. reporting live in brandon, kelly cowan, fox 13 news. anjuli thank you so much, kelly. st. Petersburg Police Arrested a man who they say showed up at a gas station with ingredients to make meth. 10 30, officers were called out to the wawa about a trespasser to the wawa about a trespasser. when they got there they found Gregory Lawrence with a bottle with chemicals to make meth. area behind the store was closed down until the narcotics unit could dispose of that bottle. i was there yesterday and i can confirm that these dogs are looking for a forever home. the Humane Society has open its doors to 14 dogs. among the hundreds rescued from an arkansas puppy mill. 300 dogs were found living in deplorable conditions and suffering from untreated arkansas owners surrendered the dogs. Humane Society will provide them with the medical care and have them spayed, microchipped before they can find their forever home. hulk hogan has rested his case against gawker. the wrestler whose real name is terry boll ea was suing gawker for posting a sex tape of him and his best friends wife. gawker said they have a right to publish it under the first amendment. witnesses for gawker will take the stand on monday. a service similar to uber and lyft will be ittodowntown and lyft will be the downtowner. using an app on the phone you can get a sixseater openair vehicle. anjuli how cool that. walter take you and your friends around. this could make up for areas transportation is lacking. we really feel that people want that on demand at point to point service. er in not as interested in a specific route when it comes every ten minutes or ten minutes at best. walter the app 7 until 11 00 night and 11 to 11 00 on weekends and they hope to launch it at june. our weather has not been feeling marchlike. running above average and humidities are up as well. this morning in the 60s if not near 70 in some spots. the high clouds we are noticing overhead which will thicken think about time tomorrow morning. today is the beach day, the best die get out and about. 68 on our net cam with an east wind at 10. that veers on shore this afternoon so you wont be quite as toasty at the beach compared to, say, plant city for the strawberry festival with it is 56 in brooksville and 7 in sebring. 66 in wauchula. 65 in sarasota. some fog is still around. it is already showing signs of lifting, but right now i am seeing some trouble spots, interyear polk county, frost proof, bartow seeing that. please keep it slow. a little rain this morning. nothing major but out there. a band of broken showers lifting north toward bowling green, avon park. frost proof. if this holds together it is headed your way but well, well to the west with more steady run and some of that makes it our way during the day tomorrow our way during the day tomorrow. for today a 10 rain chance, 83 for today a 10 rain chance, 83. that 40 rain chance on sunday starts by midday. generally shifts inland through the afternoon and check out Pinellas County for the grand prix for any rumbles of thunder prix for any rumbles of thunder. by monday, hanging on to some rain, by tuesday, we are drying out and stay warm all week. walter all right, lindsey, thank you. the tennis world is react the tennis world is announcement she failed a drug test at the australian open. anjuli we will discuss what the drug is and how this could affect her play. the i4 corridor should the results on tuesday night. journalist charlie la duff takes us on a swing trip through the swing zone. edition 7 40 is the time. if you are just now joining us, we want to get to this developing story here in the bay area. a Hillsborough County deputy has been hit and killed by a wrongway driver on the entrance ramp from i75 on the selmon expressway. this a picture of what is left of the cruiser. Larry Mackinnon with the Sheriffs Office described the scene as what kind of looks like a battle field after an ied explosion. there is really nothing left to this cruiser. the wrongway driver was killed instantly. the deputy had just left tampa general following a traffic crash investigation when he was hit head on in the eastbound lanes. the traffic homicide unit is currently investigating. they have the be elanes that are shut down. they will be for the next few hours. they are telling us, the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office is telling us that the working at that time, and alcohol has not been ruled out a factor of this crash. anjuli . anjuli thank you, walter. time is 7 41. earlier this week tennis car Maria Sharapova admitted of using a banned substance and could face prolonged suspension from the sport. the director of Sports Medicine at all childrens hospital. thank you for coming in. we appreciate it. thank you. anjuli first and for most, what was it that she was taking what was it that she was taking. big news in the tennis world big news in the tennis world. Maria Sharapova is the highest paid female sports figure. she won multiple grand slams and meldonin and made for people in congestive heart and made for people with heart pain associated with activity and can increase blood flow to the heart. anjuli what exactly is it. not fda approved even though she lived in this country for a number of years, she has been getting it from outside the country and something that has been widely used in other countries and not used in the United States and a question whether it is being used for performance enhancement. anjuli she was prescribed this drug by her doctor and why was she on it. she came out in a press release and said the reason she is on it low magnesium, a abnormal ekg and a history of diabetes in the family. i dont know why her doctor had her on this medication but sag that antidoping regulations. 9 of athletes competing were on this drug and it wasnt banned at the time. now that it is banned in the beginning of 2016 and illegal. when they found it in her urine specimen, it is an illegal substance. anjuli again what are the reasons to be on it . the company in latvia that drug that increases blood flow to the heart. patient with chest pain when do you athletics. something called angina or heart failure, some of the reasons in europe why it has been used. other effects that the world antidoping foundation has found, that it increases the blood flow to all muscles in the body. requires them to recover quickly and make for stress activities to not have as much damage to the body and lead to better performance. since they felt it was a performance enhancing drug and so many more people were using that werent high level athletes, they banned it and now you are not allowed to use it. if you are caught with it in your body, it is illegal and she was caught with it in her body and faces a fouryear suspension. she is 28. if they do a fouryear suspension she will be 32 by the time that is done and that will definitely effect the rest of her career. anjuli big implications for her career. dr. Maroney, thank you for coming in. a check of weather with lindsay. lindsay we spring forward something to remember. this morning high clouds are noticeable. it is very soupy with an east wind and 63 degrees and no raindrops or high clouds in tampa. the clouds will thicken a bit today. throw mid80s. by the coast a little cooler and definitely cooler at the coast. inland cant rule out a freak shower like frost proof and wauchula, but really it is well offshore, well to the north and west where we have the steady rain right now. phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, right now at 7 48. we are take we are taking a live look at the entranceway to the selmon expressway in the brandon area. this is where a deputy for the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office has been hit and killed by a wrongway driver early this morning. it happened around 3 00 this morning. the driver of that car is also dead. kelly cowan is on the story for us. we will talk to her and get a live report coming up. and in other headlines, cvs said last september it lost 2 billion in sales. this comes after the Drug Store Products all together. cvs recently announced it will spend 50 million to end what it calls an epidemic of tobacco use. the aim is to cut Youth Smoking by 3 and new smokers about i 10 . cherry blossoming will be blooming and expected to be in full bloom a week from today. look how beautiful. the warm conditions will make them open up a couple of days ahead of schedule. they are looking along washingtons tidal basin and a gift from japan in 1912. anjuli i feel that is a bucket list thing to go see that. walter i want to see that as well. so many people go to see that. International Travelers go to see that. anjuli here not bad weather. gorgeous the last few days. walter 65 degrees, lindsay milbourne. lindsay some of us suffering from sfaes. we like. start by showing you spring start by showing you springlike. that ridge in is in control. 60 in memphis. not raining in houston and 63 degrees. they had a lot of flooding along the northern gulf coast. our storm system in that area is breaking down. and some of it is headed our way tomorrow. not here today. strawberry festival showing high cloud cover. 64 degrees and east wind at 3 miles per hour. great day to enjoy some time in plant city, because by tomorrow plant city, because by tomorrow, we will up the rain chance across our inland zones. today and tomorrow in st. Pete, we will be busy. looking east over the bay at 68 degrees. and an east wind at 10 miles per hour. for the grand prix event, i believe they are okay if it is raining. the thunder and lightning that will cause some issues and chance office few rumble of tomorrow afternoon. today will stay dry. high clouds, they are gorgeous. Bradenton Beach by the afternoon warm until midday and get a little cooler as our winds veer on shore. the spring breakers may be out there enjoying the start of the day. 70 in sebring. 63 in lakeland. 65 in sarasota and tampa. brooksville at 56. the past few days you combine the heat with the humidity, it does not feel very march like. some dew points near 70 in sebring where we already saw showers move through not to mention a little bit of fog that starting to lift into polk county and visibility is above 1 in all spots. look at the heat today. warmest east of i75. there is the sea breeze. still 81 in st. Pete this afternoon. 81 in clearwater. 85 in lakeland. 88 degrees in arcadia. so very warm today. i got a couple of showers to show you this morning. after a few days of a southeast wind, we can not rule out a few showers and here are a few this morning near bowling green, frost proof and still there near myacca. 1 or 2 south of 64 in manatee county. but it is really well off to the west and the gulf. we have a lot of thunder and lightning. not all of this is headed our way but some of it is, the big complex of storms this low that has been stuck. it is on the move. as it lifts north and east, again, that energy has to go somewhere, so it shifts while it wont be raining as heavily in some locations, look at all these greens. those are river Flooding Issues with the ground so inundated by nearly 2 feet of rain in some spots this week. today future cast showing a few showers lifting north. that coverage, 10 . not a big deal. now overnight clouds move in. we could see fog tomorrow morning, but we wake up dry, and what happens is, through the complex of rain. some shifts inland and what is left of it is worth watching into the afternoon and evening hours. we have several events going on in innisbrook and st. Pete. any thunder and lightning could be delays. good day tomorrow to download our sky tower radar app. free for android. 83 for today. stray shower for sun and clouds. 67. we spring forward tonight. mild and muggy. tomorrow that rain chance is 40 . not in the morning. it is afternoon and evening. shifting inland through the afternoon. we have a chance to do boating today. today is your day. here is my sevenday forecast, spring breakers enjoying the week rain sunday and monday. next weekend a different story. i am expecting those rain chances to go up. 7 52. when we come back, i will take you out to lakeland Regional Airport as pilots get check out the fresh new look on Mcdonalds Mcpick 2 menu try a flaky filetofish made with sustainably sourced fish, a big mac made with 100 beef, chicken mcnuggets made with white meat, or a quarter pounder with cheese seared on the grill. Pick any 2 for 5 bucks. Bada ba ba ba is the economy rigged . 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