>> rosario joins us live in just a minute. first, as you heard a few minutes ago, today is the start of the spring break season, and thousands of college students, including my son, are on their way to florida right now. his plane takes off in about a half hour. no pressure, ivan. >> how's the forecast? >> when i was in school and spring break, they won't care about whether there is a shower, am i right? yeah, it will clear up for the weekend is your answer. just a quick round of showers and falling apart as we speak. in the next half hour, we'll be done with these as they continue to roll in money polk city getting wet, lakeland and a couplele of showers about to move through. these are light and fast moving so what that means is we're not going to have enough time to really get the roads too wet. then this line of showers and that's about it.

couple of showers right along the coast south of sarasota. all in all, all of this, again, just weakening and breaking apart. the front is right here and back behind it we'll see clearing. i think we'll be in good shape and talk about how that will impact your weekend. let's check on the roads on this friday. it's usually less foggy on fridays. hopefully the few wet roads won't be a big deal. corey dierdorff is behind the live drive cam. traffic's flowing nicely right there. just a heads-up tomorrow, the southbound exit will be completely closed. that will be all day tomorrow from 7:00 a.m. to midnight. keep that in mind. you'll have to use ehrlich instead. this is right around the polk parkway.

and maybe if you under the lakeland area heading to i-4. it will take you 22 minutes to make that drive. 15 minutes from county line road to 75 and just eight minutes down to 275. authorities are redoubling their efforts to find an accused killer on the run for nearly three months. we first showed you robert brewer's mug shot after manatee deputies shot mccan't. he's spill believed to be in the bay area and marshals are offering a $2,000 reward on top of a $3,000 crimestoppers reward. it's been 11 years since a pasco county man has been shot and killed on i-75. still all of these years later, there's no sign of who did it. we have a new push from his

>> reporter: good morning, deiah. i'm outside of the strawberry festival which may remind people of a good time. for one family it is a reminder cold. david neel was on his way to meet his family when he was shot and killed and now new detectives. that video was put together by crimestoppers of tampa bay and the hillsborough county sheriff's department with the hopes of someone coming forward with new leads. pictures showing his family, time. he was driving south with detectives say he was hit by a bullet but from someone in a that bullet going through the door hitting him in the left side of his chest, leaving his with many questions. she says he was on his way back to the festival to pick up cows when it happened. >> he had gone and taken the

was coming back for the cows, and we didn't hear from him. >> reporter: that day was march 6, 2015. this sunday will mark 11 years just that day, and his family plans to honor him here at the strawberry festival. they are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. sarah rosario, abc action news. in democracy 2016, it is up to the presidential candidates to make a name for themselves when it comes to winning over florida. >> the governor says he won't make any endorsements before the primary. he writes that he trusts voters to pick the candidate they want. donald trump is reportedly buying tv ad time hoping to take the final blow at marco rubio's campaign to take him down. as you probably noticed, attack ads targeting trump are also

trump does not seem worried about it. >> trump entrusted convicts to help him run his company. >> we're doing really well in florida. >> reporter: the an tie trump movement is spending monstrous amounts of money. trump's business partners say all of his business connections in florida maim him just as much a florida guy as he is a new york guy. of course, it was heated when trump joined his rivals on stage at last night's debate in michigan. >> we teamed one politi-fact. he talked about 9/11 hijackers and families. >> the wife knew exactly what was happening. they left two days early with respect to the world trade center and went back to where they went and watched their husband on television.

it was put to the truth fact and found it false. they found that not a single hijacker had a wife or girlfriend leading that up to that day. most hijackers broke off contact with their families with the exception of one who had a girlfriend in germany, and she knew nothing about it. >> in-- insults and others trying to rise buff it. kasich called himself the adult on the stage. >> i beat hillary clinton by more than anybody, by 11 points. >> his claim was found to be mostly true. the polls average out to a seven-point lead. only once did he beat clinton by 11 points. more fallout after an investigation surrounding the polk county school district. we've learned a second top education leader is now leaving his job.

operations greg rivers has turned in his resignation. rivers was part of an internal investigation about inappropriate behavior involving former superintendent catherine arory. rivers' resignation is effective on may 6. the district says he'll use his accrued paid leave and won't handle any official business during his paid leave. meanwhile, we're learning why a bradenton police officer is off the job this morning. his bosses say when he responded to a domestic abuse call instead of filing paperwork to help the woman in the case, he ended up asking her out on a case. the officer resigned after learning internal affairs was investigating him. he responded to the victim's home in late december and started texting the victim asking her to dinner. investigators say he didn't file the paperwork about the woman's boyfriend's alleged harassment until 23 days later.

abused by two people. >> i don't know that women are going to trust law enforcement if these kinds of things happen. that's my greatest fear. >> pruitt, we've learned, won't face any charges stemming from the investigation. governor scott has the lives of hundreds of death row inmates awaiting trial in his hands this morning. lawmakers just approved a fix to the state's death penalty system and now only needs the governor's signature to make the change. it would require 10 of 12 signature in order to be handed down. lawmakers were forced to rewrite the law after the u.s. supreme court declared it unconstitutional in january. executions in florida have been on hold since then. this morning, the u.s. military is making plans to

the marine corps estimates just 200 women a year will move into ground combat jobs. u.s. special operations here in florida anticipates only a small number of women will volunteer for its commando jobs. 75 women in tampa will become american citizens. the women take the oath of allegiance at 10:00 this morning. the special naturalization ceremony is in honor of national women's history month. they or rage nature from 26 different countries. 5:39. so far, everything is a go for this morning for space ex as the company attempts to launch a rocket from cape canaveral for the fifth time. strong winds, trouble loading fuel forced the company to scrub four previous launch attempts. the rock will try to land on a barge about 400 miles off the

barge attempts like this one have failed when the rocket tipped over and exploded. we're going to sure try again today. i don't think it will be much of a deal here. temperatures will be in the low 70s and behind the front just like us. skies will be clear and we'll be watching. hopefully today will be the day. for us with the front, a few showers. i'll let you know if that will impact your morning commute and of course the weekend forecast ahead. still to come this morning, letover evidence of last summer's horrible flooding can still be spotted in places around pasco county. now one group is working to clean up communities and bring back hope. >> a basketball team gets way too rough. what the school is doing to make sure this incident of alleged hazing on a school bus

5:44 now. a group of community activists are taking it upon themselves to start getting the thousands of lead pipes out of the ground in flint michigan. this as a mother files a lawsuit against government officials and businesses. lee ann walters filed suit yesterday and claims the firms hired to evaluate the water services were negligent and responsible for the high lead levels her children have been exposed to. so far, no representatives responded to the suit. attorneys representing walters

complaints on behalf of other parents. bringing hope to families who lost everything during last summer's horrific flooding. pasco rebuilds together is using donated materials and professional expertise to rebuild homes destroyed there. they are working with 48 homeowners and completed work on eight homes so far. the organization says they still need more money and volunteers to complete the work so people like deborah can start rebuilding their lives. >> all of these beautiful, wonderful volunteers. i nearly lost hope. if you want to donate, just go to abcactionnews.com and click on story links. >> we are constantly staying up to date. i'll tell you what, the event that happened last august is

its what a stall -- tropical system. it was a stalled front. so you don't necessarily need a named storm. we'll keep you posted on that. right now, what we have is a weakening cold front and soon we won't be talking about the cold front stalled to our north. this one is falling apart as it does so. as you fly closer, we've had a few pockets of light showers. not enough to make a mess of the morning commute as far as significant ponding. at this point, sarasota is getting clipped with a couple of showers and then we're done. we are done behind the system. clear air begins to move in it will end up being nice despite

you the there. we have temperatures in the 07s before later on today. of course the cloud cover is helping us out. we have a nice kickoff to the weekend. we have lots of sunshine. the only issue you may have is the cool temperatures. on both weekend days, we have 20 degree days. as spring breakers are coming in, just in time with perfect timing with temps getting into the low 80s. we'll watch that and all in all, fantastic looking weekend. we talked yesterday. did you decide what you are doing this weekend? >> you want to know what i'm doing this weekend? i'll be stuck inside at a dance competition for my kids. they are excited about it.

>> but i want to get outside. >> i'll eat lunch outside. over in pinellas county traffic up to speed. puckle up. we're going to take a virtual drive heading to southbound through hillsboro avenue. you can see both directions are flowing pretty good right now. we are right through the entire drive. a quick check on your drive times looking great 17 minutes from 54 down to 275. back to you. a terrifying dispute plays out on the streets of chicago between a bicyclist and driver. the bicyclist calling out a driver because as you can see

the 19-year-old rider wearing a go pro camera during the whole or deal. while riding by, he says "you're in the bike lane bro." seconds later, you can see the suv chasing him down and punching him and kicking him in the face. >> i didn't know if he was going to stop. my face is still numb like in my upper lip but has gotten better. >> the driver got away. it was a man but the car is registered to a woman. so that may complicate the investigation. a traffic stop turning into a close call for deputies discovering he's wanted. look what happens there. authorities asked him to step out, but instead, he tries to drive away. you can see the deputy jumps into the driver's side door.

about 500 feet before being taken into custody. the varsity basketball team this morning the team from santa fe got out of a state tournament and the coach is now on leave. they show players punching and kicking freshmen on the bus. this sort of initiation ritual may have been going on for a while now. they decided to pull the kids from the state playoff tournament and put their coach on leave. >> we are concerned over the situation. >> the district's next step is talking to the families of the students involved to bring them up to date on the latest action. a school bus company in philadelphia is investigating after two wheels on the bus fell off with students on board. this happened yesterday morning. luckily none of the students on board were hurt. they are supposed to be

now they want to make sure the bus didn't skip any inspections. it's tough to be a toddler. at least for one little girl getting dressed for the day. coming up, the 911 call she made when she decided she maded emergency fashion advice. >> and it's fun as they kicked off the first strawberry

our fingers are crossed for anyone heading out to the florida festival. you can meet former tampa bay buc and champion derrick brooks. >> there's also a fried corn on the could be contest. the country music duo big and rich. we checked, tickets are still available for the 7:30 show. >> look who's behind us. that is cody. >> there he is enjoying the strawberries. let's look at the forecast and show you the rest of the day. look at that, looks good. a lot of sunshine and temperatures warming up into the 70s. don't forget midway opens up at

sunshine here. i'll be back with the weekend forecast in just a few minutes. you can call it a fashion emergency. a south carolina toddler dialed 911 when she needed help getting dressed. >> the responding deputies surprised the girl's family when they showed up at the doorstep. the family didn't realize the 2-year-old made a phone call, let alone 911. >> her grandfather answers the door and she comes running up to the front with half a pant leg on and wanted help with the shoes and wanted me to hug her and hold her. i just kept saying it made my day. welcoming. >> the deputy took some time to pants on. the deputy feels like now she's made a new friend for life with that little girl. it is 5:55 now. still ahead a super bowl-

what he was doing has a lot of people questioning if the 911 caller might have overreacted. >> plus, the changes that could be on the way that may make it a lot less convenient for to you get your kids ready to head

captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 e-mail: comments@captioncolorado.com this little guy has lied so much about my record. >> there he goes. [crowd boos ] >> teening up against trump. the personal attacks fly as the other candidates work to take down the gop front-runner. we'll show you the surprising moment you might have missed about what trump's opponents would do if he wins.

see could be different come this fall. the changes that could make back to school shopping a little less convenient for enthusiasm year. good friday morning. thanks for starting your day with abc. >> great weekend for spring breakers, right? >> fantastic, and for us, too. >> yeah. >> fab taftic. >> had a few showers this morning, built at this point -- but at this point, they are falling apart and running off to the south and east. then the rest of us are looking good for the rest of this morning. this is a cold front that has been weakening. we talked about this yesterday. tail end of the front falling apart. look what's behind the front. we begin to not just lose the showers which are just not happening now. temperatures in the mid-60s with the front coming through and for the remainder of your

upper 60s and the low to mid- 70s will be the high temperature. we'll hanging on for the weekend. let's check the roads. >> i've been checking the maps to see if we still can find wet roads. i found some mainly in the lakeland area. if you are heading to i-4, u.s. 92, use some caution. we expect those roads to dry out shortly. we are looking great through the brandon area. up to speed in both directions here. i just checks your drive time from apollo beach through brandon, and it's taking about 15 minutes to make that drive. back to you. at 6:00, we begin with democracy 2016. donald trump and florida senator marco rubio are both taking their campaigns on the road today to louisiana. >> they are trying to drum up support one day before people