now lovie smith is paying the price. what we learned overnight after the bucs fired their head coach. >> to those who think drugs are harmless, drugs are minor, drugs are not that serious, try telling that to the families of these four people. >> three dead, another shot in the head, what authorities know this morning as they search for whoever killed those three and left another for dead. >> the winning powerball ticket belongs to -- no one this morning. now that means the next drawing saturday night is now the largest jackpot in u.s. history. it's ok to keep dreaming. the jackpot is growing by the second. first that big shake-up with the bucs. adam winer has a live report. >> we start off though with traffic and weather together. janay and shell -- shell?

>> anyway, shay, you have a chance of rain in the forecast? today. it's not really likely all entirely impossible. the good news as you head out now we're rain-free. we have quite a bit of cloud does overnight? it acts like a blanket keeping our temperatures mild. tampa bay. county, yesterday morning you this morning low 50s. as we move through the day we'll start to see the clouds thinning out around noon. that will allow us to start warming up a bit. so i think we'll make it to the low 70s today as long as those clouds do thin out around noon or so. as far as the roads go this morning i'm not seeing any weather issues. what are you seeing, janelle? no crashes or breakdowns now but we have construction, just wrapped up here on waters at the veterans. that is where corey dierdorff

he's saying that all is clear, no crashes or breakdowns where he is there. we have some more construction going on at hillsborough avenue underneath the veterans. the eastbound lanes are closed now. until 6:00 a.m. also, you can't enter the veterans heading to go southbound from hillsborough. so you're going to have to go to eisenhower, we also have construction going on over at gunn, again that area closed. again, all of this expected to wrap up by 6:00 a.m. corey will let us know. we have a permanent closure in pinellas county in st. pete. frontage road access to gandy boulevard closed permanently. your alternate and trust me there are plenty of signs, mlk to 94th to get right on to gandy boulevard. back to you. no 5:02. tampa bay buccaneers looking for a new head coach after firing lovie smith last night. >> a lot of folks are talking about this. that decision was made after the team won only eight games

abc action news reporter adam winer is live now at 1 buck place where we're expecting to hear more from the bucs management today. >> what are you hearing and seeing from the league about this decision? >> reporter: actually, despite the record a lot of people are very surprised by the decision to fire lovie smith. in part because whoever is going to hire next makes it three head coaches in five years. there was a lot of disappointment with the team this year especially after the team pulled themselves into position to compete and lost their four games of the season. the general manager expected to oversee the process for finding a new head coach and this afternoon he's set to hold a news conference about why the team made the decision. the buzz on-line this morning is that the team's own

cutter may be lead candidate. if anything it was on the offensive side of the ball. what really held them back in part was the defense which was supposed to be lovie smith's specialty. a lot of questions this morning i'm sure about how the players are reacting to this news. i'm going to share that with you in the next half-hour. for now live in tampa, adam winer, abc action news. in lakeland, at this hour, still no suspects caught after three people were killed, a fourth recovering after being shot in the face. it happened at a home along east magnolia drive shortly before 7:00 a.m. yesterday. polk county sheriff says david washington and ida branch and angelica castro were killed in the house. 18-year-old felix campos was taken to the hospital shot in the face. sheriff grady judd says the house is known as a one stop shop for drugs like marijuana, heroin and cocaine. coming up at 6:00 -- lindsay logue will join us live monitoring new information from deputies overnight.

know anything contact the polk county sheriff's office or their anonymous tip line. right now the united states is teeming up with south korea and japan to launch a united international response to north korea is a parent nuclear -- north korea's apparent nuclear test. north korea says it will retaliate its neighbor to the north. experts say early analysis shows the communist country's claim it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, it's not true. seismographs reported a 5.1 magnitude earthquake near a nuclear test site but experts say it's not strong enough for a high they again bomb. north korea's claim has some candidates pointing fingers at president obama. >> some republican candidates place the blame on the president and his foreign policy for what happened. >> china has total control over them and we have total control over china. if we had people that knew what they are doing which we don't.

leadership gets you. americans should be very concerned. >> it's an example of a withdrawn america in the world. >> ohio governor kasich saw things differently. while he agreed with opponents that mr. obama has a "horrible foreign policy" he also pointed out that tensions with north korea had been brewing for multiple presidencies and says he cannot blame it solely on president obama. president obama is also getting heat for his executive vice president biden and other white house officials are now trying to garner support communities directly affected by gun violence. they are trying to make the case that the president acted because congress wouldn't. the white house hopes to gain backing before the president gun issues. in sarasota county, a shocking case of child abuse. a doctor and his lawyer wife are accused of zip tying their

and feet and locking her in a playhouse. licensed radiologist dr. eugenia aquaya and his wife locked her in -- in the playhouse and were in court yesterday. the children are now out of the home and in dcf custody. >> what i saw made me feel very uncomfortable and not something that i would allow. >> that's a neighbor scott, who called 911 after the child managed to get to his house. the father also called 911 saying his emotionally disturbed daughter had run away. hundreds of people are expected to attend a motorcycle memorial ride for the former marine from seminole who died tragedy on new year's eve. we told you matthew derimer's facebook post he published hours before his death. that message went viral after

alleged drunk driver. the post read in part "i don't know where i'll end up tonight but i know where i wind up is where i'm meant to be." his motorcycle group nicknamed his jiff because he loved peanut butter. they want as many motorcyclists to come out as possible to honor the fallen veteran january 16th. >> everything that man did was from the heart. he lived from his heart literally. like with everything that he did. and seeing that post you can read into that post and see exactly what he was about. >> troopers arrested steven clark, charged him with dui manslaughter. investigators say failed to yield while making a left turn and matthew died instantly. if you played last night's powerball, maybe it's not so bad you didn't win. >> you have another chance at winning so you can keep on dreaming. the best part? saturday's $675 million jackpot is now the largest in any lotto

>> lottery officials announced overnight there's no jackpot winner for the powerball prize that was worth an estimated $500 million at the time. the winning numbers as follows in case you want to see if you won a smaller prize. >> last night's prize by the way the sixth largest offered in north america. the next prize topping u.s. records. >> again that jackpot worth $675 million, your chance to win happens this saturday night and remember the cutoff to buy your ticket is saturday by 10:00. >> i'm sure that jackpot is going to go up as well. you can check on your app for the winning numbers on sunday morning. >> the odds of winning might be one in $292.2 million. we're formulating a new office pool. >> i'm definitely involved. even if the chances are really

if you don't play there's no chance, right? let's look at our chances for rain today. mostly dry, 10% chance you'll get rain. again it's not impossible we'll see the rain but a lot of us will be nice and dry with a mix of sun and clouds today. starting murky with the low clouds but we'll see more sunshine through the day. that is how we get up to 72 degrees. our rain chances will be going way up in the days ahead. i'll time that out and when the cooler air arrives coming up in the 7-day forecast. 5:10. also coming up -- game over for one high school basketball team. their season cancelled by shocking allegations off the court. >> then your favorite way to spend a lazy saturday is now becoming a global trend. the big announcement from

5:14. in new york, 17 miners are currently trapped in a mine. emergency response crews are attempting to reach them. they are stuck in an elevator that stopped working in a salt mine in lansing. authorities say there are no injuries, and they are in contact with the miners. at this moment rescuers are bringing in a crane to get the 17 miners out. we'll bring you updates throughout the morning. 5:14. new updates in the sand bra bland death investigation. >> the texas department of investigation says it's firing a trooper in the case. the department says it's

proceedings against brian ensinia. aarrested for lying about the traffic stop. you can see the traffic stop here quickly becoming confrontation with him holding a stun gun and saying "i will light you up" after bland refused to get out of her car. she died three days later in jail. the first baltimore police officer tried in the death of freddie gray has been ordered to testify in two other trials. a judge ordered officer william porter to testify in the trials of officer caesar goodson and sergeant alicia white. porter's attorneys say their client will invoke his right not to testify in both trials if asked. the defense also plans to file an appeal on the judge's ruling today. 5:15. shay ryan, we might as well just wave goodbye to the cooler temperatures. >> we've got a couple of days left but boy, it's certainly going to come in next week and stick around for a couple of days. if you like that cooler air, yeah, it's on its way again.

seeing this morning. it's still a pretty cool start to the day. temperatures are in the mid-50s across tampa, clearwater and st. pete. we've got a lot of cloud cover. wind speeds are between 5 to 10 miles per hour. if they go below 5 miles per hour these low clouds may start to settle as fog. i'm keeping a close eye on that, at this point visibility looks great all across the area. so it's just a possibility, not a guarantee that we'll see fog this morning. what we are going to see is higher rain chances tomorrow, due to the low pressure system i've been telling you about that is going to quickly move across the state. it will be hit or miss. it's saturday that we're going to see the more widespread rain. i do think saturday we'll start off with low chances for rain but once that front gets closer to us, around sunset if not a little before we'll see a pretty good line of showers rolling through that will give us widespread rain for a period of time. some heavy downpours, even an isolated storm in the mix. but we will dry out early on sunday and check out what

temperatures remaining near steady around noon. we reach that temperatures of 72. after that we sit there for a bit. we may even start to see the temperatures fall closer to sunset. it may be a little breezy as well. so overall with clearing skies though i think the better outdoor day will be sunday. saturday won't be a complete washout until we get to the latter portion of the afternoon. we'll continue to fine tune the timing for weekend rain chances as it gets closer to us. you can see the cooldown into next week. that is florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. let's look at the traffic with janelle martinez. >> we have some great news. construction on hillsborough avenue at the veterans is clear. corey dierdorff is out there checking it out. the eastbound lanes were closed overnight but as you can see everything back open. they wrapped up a little early. that was supposed to open up back at 6:00 but looks like things are great there. you are good to go. also we had construction at waters.

you might run into construction still at gunn under the veterans. live look at i-275 and bush. traffic up to speed in both directions. i just checked, it's five minutes to get from here down into downtown tampa. one crash to tell you about, this is going to be in zephyrhills, pasco county. county road 54 at forbes road. this is a crash with injuries. traffic indicators still in the green so i'm not seeing any slowdowns but i'll keep my eye on it and let you know if we start to see any backups. the popular streaming company netflix makes waves at the consumer electronics show in las vegas with a major announcement. andy choi is there with details. >> reporter: one of the biggest exhibits belongs to netflix. join us is todd young, what do you do? >> i'm the vice president of product innovation. >> reporter: and the company has certainly been innovative so far. you guys are booming. what is going on now? >> i've had a chill up my spine

building towards announcing fully global netflix for a long time. it's been a hush hush secret. finally we get to tell the world we're global. >> reporter: you go from 60 some countries? to? >> 190 countries now. >> reporter: where do you go from here? >> we're the marriage of hollywood and silicon valley. it's about watching what you want, when you want, any device you want. episodes are moot now. they are just chapters. they can be any length. we're trying to innovate around great shows you'll see in 2016. around how internet tv and filmmaking, combine into something that really involves >> reporter: thank you so much that is just one of the many stories we'll be covering at ces. back to you. 5:19. coming up, the rumor mill

tour. some say she has cancer with you janet is now sharing the real reason. >> all eyes on wall street after china shuts down trading overnight once again. can here's your business headlines. topping "america's money" -- new concerns overnight about the global economy. >> the main chinese stock exchange shut down today. the second time this week because china's central bank again devalued the currency. >> china's economic problems overnight dragged down u.s. stock futures. santa wasn't good to macy's so the country's largest department store chain is closing three dozen stores and cutting 4,500 jobs. >> macy's blames warm weather and strong dollar for its disappointing holiday sales. and plunging oil prices may be good news for you. with crude oil at its lowest point since the recession, gas prices are expected to drop another 10 cents. >> the national average is

5:24. this morning the basketball season is cancelled for a tennessee high school team. now that three of its players are accused of raping a teammate.

stemming from an apparent hazing incident. the victim underwent surgery after the alleged assault while at a basketball tournament. this morning no names are being released because they are all minors. the school says the season is cancelled because of concern of public speculation about the case could threaten the integrity of the investigation. janet jackson is setting the record straight after rumors started to swirl when she postponed her unbreakable tour. >> she says she's recovering from a medical procedure, also says she doesn't have cancer. yesterday she posted that two- minute clip from her song "the great forever" on twitter. followed by a personal message in which she said she's recovering but didn't offer any further details. >> she said her doctors approved her concerts as scheduled in europe. jackson had been scheduled to perform saturday in denver, again she says she will perform in europe in march. coming up -- lovie smith is out. who is in? who may be next in line as the

new head coach. >> i'm janelle martinez in the traffic center. you're looking live at i-275 and jefferson through downtown tampa. traffic looking great. no problems. coming up we'll check the cameras all along i-4. and give