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there could be a key break in the case of a triple murder in lakeland. as josh thomas shows us, the sheriff's office is still pleading with the public to help solve e the case. >> reporter: the murders of three people in a lakeland home earlier this week shocked the
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it's also left investigators looking for the suspects who committed the violent crime. now grady judd is asking for the public's help in identifying this white van that the suspects may have fled in. >> the language is somewhat blurred. you can see that there's clearly -- clear indications and marks. someone can look and say oh, i recognize that as a member of xyz business. >> reporter: the sheriff also admitted they know more information than they're sharing right now. >> if the suspects or their family or friends are watching and going whew! anything. that would be a bad assumption. a deputy's body camera captured a wild chase that ended with a woman being cuffed
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it started when someone caught her dozing at the wheel. she sped off. a police officer got out and tried to stop her but she hit the gas. investigators say the officer. jumped out of the way and myers nearly hit a cruiser. the chase ended on the police department's front lawn where she was placed in handcuffs. a former u.s. army ranger set off on a 3-day run today to honor the memory of phoebe johnchuck. she was killed by her father one year ago today when he threw her off a bridge on the approach to the sunshine skyway. alex never knew her but heard her story and wanted to raise money to help others. her grandmother told us it's remarkable. >> i know that she's look down right now, that she's happy about what he's doing for her. >> alex estrella is hoping to raise at least $5,000 with this
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who will be the bucks' next head coach? that is the big question tonight. speculation is swirling and as rod carter shows us, it's not a sure thing that the replacement is in-house. >> reporter: bucks' general manager says the search is underway. of the number of coaches, dirk cutter already rising to the top. >> i haven't talked to any outside candidates yet. we have a plan. >> reporter: former head coach tony dungy talked to me about the search process and about smith's firing. >> i thought they were on the right track. >> reporter: dungy now a sports analyst coached the bucks from 1996 to 2001. he told me the process boils down to speed versus quality.
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let the games begin. the rays looking to hillsboro county for a possible new stadium site. whether the team leaves or stase, st. pete is living on a gold mine named tropicana field. >> reporter: where will the rays end up? a proposal put forward by st. petersburg's mayor allows them to look for sites around tampa bay. the team must inform the city of how it will evaluate potential sites. that evaluation must be a minimum of six months to allow the city to make its case that the rays should stay put. >> the site they're on provides the best opportunities of any other site in our two counties. >> reporter: developing the trop will provide the city with a boatload of cash. that could finance a new stadium. according to commissioner ken hagen, hillsboro county is prepared to begin meaningful discussions with the race. >> the day that agreement is
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place a call to rays president and it'll be my hope that we can sit down within a matter of weeks. >> reporter: he believes west shore, downtown, channel side offer relocation opportunities. >> if you are traveling this weekend or next, you might experience a few slight delays. it's part of a $953 million plan to make the airport even better. due to ongoing construction, parking in the long and is short-term garages will be limited so it's recommended you use the economy parking garage instead. we're building brand-new outdoor dining terraces. it'll be the first time we're gonna have outdoor dining at the main terminal. this in a few months is going to be a p. f. chang's. on the other hard will be the
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>> they're adding about 50,000 square feet to the main terminal and 10,000 on the outdoor dining facility on the east and west side of tia. a ramp on the florida turnpike in miami garden was shut down today because of a whole lot of shoes! thousands of them all spilled from an overturned rental truck. some people aboard the truck injuries. there were 32,000 pounds of shoes, and it took bulldozers to scoop them up and clear the ramp. he rose through the ranks of competitors on america's got talent with his soulful songs. right now johnny shelton is singing the blues. he had a string of unfortunate events including having his fiancee's car repossessed. and now his prized guitar has disappeared. this is a shot of him playing it before it vanished.
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back but the guitar was gone. >> it's the nicest one i've ever owned. that's the reason it's so sentimental to me. >> it's not all bad news. over christmas he got engaged and has several sijing jobs lined -- singing jobs lined up. singer and guitar are one. >> exactly! steve, you promised a little rain today. we saw it. and the polar plunge is coming. >> wells are -- [ laughter ] >> really! sounds like a drink from 7/11 or something. >> i should trademark that. >> we'll get a little cooler next week. i'm not sure how polar it might be. >> for us it might feel like it! [ laughter ] >> here's your forecast. saturday again still expecting a warmer day. 71 degrees for sunday. 63 on monday.
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highs in the 60s, which compared to where we've been this season is quite cool. 67 degrees now in clearwater beach. same in palm harbor. 70 in largo. 70 in brandon. 69 in temple terrace. apollo beach 70. that's pretty much the story at this hour. there are some clear skies in northern spots, a few more clouds this hour. and temperatures will stay fairly mild in the forecast area tomorrow. you see the clear patches i was referencing there. a good chunk of the area. . southern spots, sarasota, manatee, and citrus seeing those clouds. much of the precipitation is well clear of us to the east. there are changes coming up. $800 million! the powerball jackpot is the most in u.s. history. coming up, i'll show you some of the things i would buy right
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>> a local couple's health insurance has been one nightmare after another. first they were denied then they were told they didn't have coverage at all!
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in florida machines are spitting out tickets of around 25,000 a minute. it was enough to cause anthony to do a little dreaming. >> reporter: keeping it real. the first thing i would do would be to break off my mamma at least $5 million! she deserves at least that for putting up with me and my brother and sister over the years. once i made my mamma and some of my closest friends millionaires, one of my first
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spree would be right here to the clearwater yacht club to check out some of their most expensive yachts. if i hit the jackpot, i'd have me a home built similar to what ryan howard built here in bel air. and if i hit the jackpot for $7 hundred million, i'd have to take a vacation to some of the island towns. some of the beach doers said they would vacation a little longer right here! >> it's nice. for $7 hundred million, i could buy a nice condo. >> reporter: others have a more global plan. >> i will visit australia. the guys there have really nice accents. >> reporter: what! >> the way they talk. accents. >> reporter: with the money, you can buy just about anything you want. >> that just goes to show you how fast those tickets are selling.
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when he was shooting that to $800 million. a new lawsuit claims that fitness trackers don't do a good job at monitoring your heart rate. and forget about your new rear's resolutions to avoid chocolate. m&ms just added three tempting
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the dow was down 167. the sz&p dropped 500. the feds have fined united airlines with nearly $3 million for disability related complaints and delays. the transportation department says at times united did not give customers with disabilities adequate help getting on and off planes. there are also penalizing united for several occasions when customers were left in planes that sat on the tarmac for long periods of time. it should be easier to get from point a to point b. airlines around the world added 3,100 new routes in 2015. half of those provided nenew
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two cities. european carriers added the most. a couple of u.s. airlines were near the top of the list. unhappy customers claim fit bit isn't accurately monitoring heart rates. they say the charge hr and the surge don't actually count every beat. >> it said my heart rate was only 114 and that did not make sense. that's what i would be if i was walking on the tred mill. but not really working hard. >> it doesn't count every beat. it can't. it's wildly inaccurate. >> however the company is stressing that trackers are designed to provide meaningful data to help users reach their health and fitness goals but are not intended to be
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if milk chocolate m&ms aren't tempting enough, how about strawberry? or white straw berro short cake! mars is introducing the new flavors to be sold exclusively at target just in time for valentine's day. and there's a third flavor that will be sold everywhere called easter sundae. they signed up for health insurance through the affordable care act but getting care has been a frustrating process. it looks like the system just isn't working the way it's supposed to. so they turned to shannon for some answers. >> reporter: barry and jane are stuck in an insurance nightmare. >> it feels helpless. you don't know what to do. >> reporter: the couple thought an obamacare insurance plan was their ticket to affordable health insurance.
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only to have no insurance at all. >> we started to get rejections on all of our bills. the doctors weren't being paid. and the pharmacy said they could no longer fill prescriptions. >> reporter: first they fought a florida blue plan in september. their doctor claims were denied because of computer errors. now they owe thousands and face threats from collectors. >> no. 1, they listed my husband's gender as female. and they had my date of birth incorrect. >> reporter: no one at florida blue or the insurance marketplace would help. >> the marketplace told us to call florida blue. we went back and forth. neither one would call each other. >> reporter: a real headache. but it gets worse. still fighting with florida blue, the couple decided to go with a different carrier for the new year. they paid nearly $500 for a plan with united healthcare. they received insurance cards. and this week an e-mail states they have no medical coverage.
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record of us signing up. >> reporter: they turned to 8 on your side for answers. i went straight to state regulators, the watchdogs for insurance companies. their case is now under review by the state to find out what went wrong and make it right. >> this has turned into a huge problem. and we're just hoping that it finally gets resolved. >> regulators say this should have never happened. a spokeswoman says a state insurance expert will follow up with them next week to clear up the problem. a ferifiying situation on a california highway. a driver noticed the road was wet.
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he threw the car in reverse and tried to outrun them. the water slowed down long enough for him to turn around and get away. quite a problem because they had some very heavy rain and flooding out in california. rare but typical for an el nio phase, one of the strongest on record. 76 degrees on saturday. a mild morning but shower chances pick up later afternoon and into the evening hours. 71 degrees, cooler on sunday and dry. slight chance of rain early morning on sunday. the temperature on sunday, 63 on monday. temperatures in the 60s much of the week. if you've been wanting a cooler week, we'll settle in income week with that. even by next -- next week with that. by saturday temperatures in the low 70s. 66 this evening. mild, not a bad evening to be outdoors. just a slight chance
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the afternoon hours. 69 in temple terrace, sun city center and all over the place. north port at 67. area of low pressure caused the showers today. still welcomed rain during the dry season. and this evening we'll watch the area of low pressure move off to the northeast away from the state with a mick of clouds and is clear skies. then we'll watch this cold front approach the area. saturday afternoon, you can see the time stamp. the computer model has sped things up. generally late saturday afternoon into the evening hours and overnight on sunday. that's why we only have a slight chance of rain sunday morning. next week, there's your 60s. friday by 70 degrees. overall a fairly dry forecast next week. cooler forecast next week.
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like january after december felt like july. [ laughter ] >> we'll take this. it's a reasonable amount of nothing crazy. >> doesn't look like we'll have freed warnings or anything
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how do you ensure equal pieces of the pie? math students in liverpool took on the challenge of finding the best way to cut equal slices of a pizza. the first cuts in six curved slices, then cut those in half again. you see what's going on. 36 perfect slices. they also proposed some complicated solutions. exhibit a. i'm just saying. might be too complicated. >> by the time you cut and is eat the thing, it's gonna be 30 degrees below zero. >> right isn't it's gonna be cold. although cold pizza, delicious too. just saying. [ laughter ] >> that's like big bang theory meets the italian pie. >> right.
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there's no math in it. [ laughter ] temperatures in the upper 60s. forecast is very nice. we're not gonna take a look. >> we do what we want here. [ laughter ] >> northwest winds at 5 miles an hour. >> see? that's what you get. [ laughter ] the "american sniper" widow takes on the president. >> i have the right to protect myself. >> we've got taya kyle on why her husband's murder forced her to take a stand. "extra" "extra" she famously lost her husband to a madman's bullet. now why taya kyle is facing off with president obama over his down control plan. >> it gets very personal for me. >> plus trump's showdown with a heckler. >> get him out. get him out.
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weigh-in. >> oprah's diet milestone. what she just did for the first time ever. >> i did -- >> then -- >> we're on countdown to sunday's golden globes. never mind the weather forecast, the stars are bracing for hurricane ricky. >> if they gasp -- >> hysterical. >> unless he says something about you. >> i'm looking forward to seeing lady gaga and her fiancee taylor kinney. today interview about scary new movie and -- >> would you consider eloepg. >> channing tatum channels beyonce. before she rocks super bowl, beyonce's lip-synch battle surprise. now on "extra," universal studio's hollywood capital of l.a. hey, everyone, welcome to "extra." i'm mario lopez. coming up, kardashian couples news.
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