and a rock can and -- raccoon and duck shot with arrows. i'm keith cate. >> i'm jennifer leigh. first two breaking stories to tell you about. at least two students taken to the hospital after a school bus crash in venice. this is eagle 8hd video of the scene. the students injuries are not described as serious. we're working to find out what caused the crash and will bring you more information in a bit. also in venice, an suv crashed into a retention pond over the interstate. we also flew over that scene under mile marker 189. no bond for an uber driver accused offed going on a deadly shooting rampage in michigan. jason dalton made his first appearance today, and prosecutors are still trying to figure out why this happened.

dalton, a husband and father of two and an uber driver now charged with six could wants of murder and two counts of assault with intent to murder. he remained in jail as a judge arraigned over over close circuit video. the killing spree was conducted over circumstances hours saturday night while giving rides to unsuspecting passenger, but they still don't know where it happened, and what if anything ties the victims today. >> this was not just a momentary lapse, not just a crime, there was nothing that provoked this. there is video tapes of incidents, he walked up on them and shot them. >> reporter: a woman was shot at an apartment complex, a

dealership, and several at a restaurant parking lot. >> i don't know how i'm going to explain it to my son, he'll never see his grandmother again. >> reporter: people in the community still stunned over the seemingly random killings, but have come together to pray for the victims. >> six people, people of all ages, all walks of life, innocent, they were taken from us. >> reporter: uber says dalton passed a background check, and has no prior criminal record. nbc news, new york. two shooting victims are still in the hospital, a mother of three and a 14-year-old girl. a six-year-old found a gun and fired a shot in a crowded tampa park this weekend. police arrested a man and charged him with negligence for putting the gun in his girlfriend's diaper bag. fortunately no one was hit. tonight at 6:00 we'll hear from

was just feet aaway when the gun went off. the company that makes the ar15 rival wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by victims of sandy hook -- families of sandy hook shooting victims. they say they're part of a law not held accountable if people use their weapons to kill crimes. the lawsuit says it's a military weapon that shouldn't have been sold to civilians. similar lawsuits have been dismiss. a major month on the campaign trail -- move on the campaign trail today. ted cruz fired his communications director. cruz asked for rick tyler's resignation after he put out a video showing marco rubio falsely bashing the bible. meanwhile they're focusing on the caucuses in nevada where donald trump has a big lead in the polls. and many considered jeb bush as the favorite for the

saturday as we know he bowed out of the race. >> bush backers are pride of the former governor, but -- proud of the former governor, but they're likely to be campaign now. >> tonight i am suspended my campaign. >> reporter: and just like that former governor jeb bush called it quits. bush's bid for the white house start. a democrat and bush supporter year. >> it's the oddest, weirdest presidential year in our lifetime, and no one could have factored in a donald trump starting a campaign and taking the route it's taken with a bunch of angry people in the country. >> reporter: bush's name recognition didn't resonate >> i'm just sad we couldn't show the rest of the country what he did in florida. >> reporter: they hope the former governor's message isn't

>> one of the things he did and did well was proposed some very substantial policies through the campaign, and my hope is once the craziness of some of this settles that some of the remaining republican candidates will take a look at those and adopt them. >> now many of the jeb bush camp are recruited by marco rubio. >> reporter: this man supported jeb bush, but now is all in with marco rubio. >> it's time to go all in with marco. >> reporter: he needs it to wrestle the nomination away from leading candidate donald trump. >> bush raised more than $100 million for his campaign, something that's not lost on rubio's campaign as they try to swing some of that money towards the senator. and a scammer targeting the elderly, comes to the door and

driveway, instead -- fix your driveway, instead leaves a mess and takes your money. the police believer there are more victims out there and believe there are more victims out -- believe there are more victims out there. >> reporter: good evening i'm standing in front of one of the victim's home, one of the victim that is he targeted, and take a look at her driveway. looks like he took a roller and coated it with something, but it did not stick. he made off with at least $900 of this woman's money before moving on to his next victim. jan link is upset. >> right now i want to call him an unmentionable name, but he came and offered to fix my driveway, which had a lot of rust on it. >> reporter: but instead of fixes it, deputies say dennis made off with jan's money.

rid of the rust and cracks for a small fee, but instead of using cement he used a coating sub tans. >> >. the next morn -- substance. >> the next morning i get up it was all spots like that. >> reporter: >> >. he would use basically a very -- >> he would use basically a tiny amount of cement mixed with water. >> reporter: by the time he promised the fix the driveway, the walkway and pool, the senior citizen forked over $900, and she wasn't the only one. >> right now we have 13 known victims. we anticipate based on the investigation 20 to 50 more victims. >> reporter: deputies say he made around $8,000 on victims in the spring hill area, and they believe he's ripped off others in the tampa bay area. >> if any other victims come forward, we want to get a positive identification of him. >> reporter: jan using her story to inspire others to come

>> i i can't, i don't doubt it -- yeah, i don't doubt it. he's a very smooth operator. >> reporter: so his wife, dennis' wife, she was also arrested as part of scam, and both are facing grand theft charges did it. >> mr. smooth operator. and he's wanted in several too. tell us about that. >> reporter: we did some digging and found that he has a pretty long rap sheet. he's in jail right now, but as soon as he gets out he'll be extradited to missouri on similar charge, they have a wash out for his -- warrant out for his arrest there, and also fraud crimes in the state of illinois, so they wanted to get him behind bars, and if there's forward.

and bill cosby's wife is being deposed in the investigation. she's being questioned under oath as a hotel. this is part of the defamation case involving seven women that claim cosby sexually abused him. and jury selection began today in a sought stemming from a case in 2008 from erin andrews. she's suing marriott hotels, seeking $75 million after a man rigged peepholes to watch her undress. still ahead, something disturbing keeps happen not guilty a manatee county neighborhood. >> we're trying to get to the bottom of this. someone is target, animals with

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now to some breaking news for us. police have made two arrests in a weekend shooting at a holiday inn, charging a 16-year-old charles jones with attempted murder, and sean turner mcge, with aggravated assault. both are students at armwood high school, and that's where they were arrested today. investigators believe a fight

showed up at a birthday party. and another breaking story, a small plane made a crash landing on a busy highway in california. the plane's passenger's side wing was ripped off no. injuries reported, but fuel spilled on the road, and two parked cars near the scene had shattered windshields. wild life experts are concerned someone is trying to kill animals in a bradenton neighborhood. a raccoon was spotted with an arrow in its back, and a duck was shot weeks earlier. here's more from manatee county. sounds like someone could be facing criminal charges for this if it turns out it's animal cruelty and all that. >> reporter: they certainly could. they could be torturing animals or even putting people in danger. earlier this month an expert recovered this raccoon in a

the poor thing had a cross bow arrow lodged in its back and appeared to be in extreme pain. >> it went into the vital organ, enough to cause internal bleeding. >> reporter: it was immediately brought in for surgery, but sadly died in the operating room. a few weeks earlier they got a similar call about a duck shot in the neck by an arrow. >> >. no matter how much of a pest wild life can be or anything, they're still protected, and you can be cruel to them. >> reporter: florida statutes strictly forbid intentional cruelty to any animal, even raccoons. >> obviously an arrow could go astray and hit a pet or person. >> reporter: he says this neighborhood is teeming with wild life, and there's absolutely no reason to hunt

>> do not hurt animals period. >> reporter: wild life inc. wants the public to understand this is wrong, cruel, and could be very dangerous. a fish and wild life official told me there's the possibility this raccoon could have been legally hunted nearby and crawled into the area, but even so they push for ethical hunting practices. make sure you have a clean dill, an -- kill, an animal shouldn't be left to slowly die like that. >> so what's the penalty for doing something like this? >> reporter: for animal cruelty the penalty is a steep fine, and possibly jail time. >> john rogers, thank you. new tonight, a high speed car chase came to a crashing end in oklahoma. check out this video. the driver of a gray car led police on a -- lead police on a

suddenly veered off the road and into a ditch. officers arrest the driver and vehicle. dramatic moments caught on camera as a car bursts into flames after a crash. this is video from memphis, tennessee. with the help of several good samaritans they were able to pull the driver free. the car was destroyed, but get this, a bible sitting on the car's front seat survived the flames. stunned silence. >> oh, yeah. >> trying to think how they would happen. >> divine intervention maybe. well, steve we're in kind of a sweet spot for weather right now. >> i think so. the weather has been fantastic this weekend, the temperatures in the 70s this time of year is warm to recall, but some changes are -- tomorrow, but changes are headed our way, including the possibility of strong. our sensors aren't working in terms of temperatures, but the

looking to the north, a few clouds there today, but generally comfortable. other spots tell us temperatures have been nice today, right at 70 southerly flow is going to help in bring in a little more moisture for the area, south and southwest winds, this is freedom plaza, no rain expected for the moment, but rain chances do increase for tomorrow and eventually as i mentioned into the early part of wednesday, the possibility of showers and squall line. showers and thunderstorms headed our way. tuesday. 66 on thursday, you get the idea here, the temperatures falling off after the rain chance, and that storm chance moves on through cooler air pressure. temperatures continue to be mild throughout the evening hours, nice, though. rain chances do slowly enter

little weak disturbance off the coast, slides up the west coast with a small chance of rain, but temperatures mild for this time of year in the 60s. 66 at tampa internal airport. the dewpoint 59. south wind at 10 miles per hour, 77 temple terrace, 75 new port richey, 74 largo. some areas, sebring, mid-70s, 72 in crystal river. lath of dry air aloft farther to the south, but the high clouds streaming across the northern part of the state. i think that's what you saw on the cameras was the cloud coming from from the -- clouds coming in from the north, and developing in the southwest rights now, but the area of low pressure is just to the north. rain right now, quite a few clouds stream, and this is the

to north off the coast, could at a few clouds and slight chance of rain tomorrow. this evening, partly cloudy, with stray shower inland. for tuesday morning most of the rain, the heaviest activity so he shalled with the -- associated with the low stays to the north, partly cloudy with a light shower possible tuesday, and then in the afternoon possibly showers dopping inland, but -- developing inched larry thomas, but timing is really -- inland, but timing is really set for the wednesday morning, arriving after 8:00 p.m. the front comes in with the boundary pushing through, but by the afternoon it moves through, then we start the cool trend with high temperatures in the 60s. 77 tuesday, 76 wednesday, 66 thursday, and then it says cool through the weekend. temperatures in the 60s. 63, 68, you can see, so we start the cool trend to stick around for awhile, and a reminder we're still in winter and can get the cool air

like this in the 70s with humidity in the atmosphere, doesn't feel liar winter. >> -- like winter. >> yeah, it's been amazing. >> thank you steve. change is coming to starbucks rewards program. >> we're gobbing to break down

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this has me a little upset. the goal is to speed up service. you used to get one star per visit leading to some customers asking them to ring up items separately. now here's the deal. you get two stars per dollar spent, sounds pretty good, but listen to this. under the new change, you need to spend more to get more star rewards. you used to get like 12 stars for a free item, now you need 125 stars to get a free item. i don't know how that works out. still upset. all right, toys r us is pulling all hover boards from their website. they stopped selling one after an abundance of caution after it was said they pose an unreasonable risk of fire. a class action lawsuit says

job when it come toss blind movie goers. they supposedly offer audio description devices to blind customers, but rarely provide working ones. samsung unveiled a camera capable of taking 360 degree videos and pictures, and it can trank for them to a -- transfer them to a phone for editing. the gear 360 is set to go on sale this year, and there are no detail ons pricing which means it's going to be expensive. >> starting to see that on facebook now. the 360 images. the nascar race and stuff like that. big time. >> what was a good one. great race. daytona. >> big fan. >> closest finish in nascar history.

>> and i downloaded the dunkin doughnuts app. >> all right, josh what's coming up? >> we have a protest, students at this school want to right to carry guns on campus, and explain why it's so important to them, and why it's a different kind of elder care that means your loved one doesn't have to go into a nursing home.

right now on news channel 8 at 5:30. good evening, i'm jennifer leigh. >> i'm josh benson. thanks for being with us tonight. >> recent mass shootings have renewed the discussion over whether students should be allowed to carry guns on campus for protection. it's even being discussed here in florida. josh thomas is live in lakeland with more on the story. >> reporter: good evening, well