no good with the timing on saturday. abc action news starts now. the questions being raised by mechanics today about low cost airline allegiant following saturday's aborted takeoff. >> and bernie sanders and hillary clinton go head-to-head as the focus of the presidential campaign turns to florida. good morning. thank you for joining us on i'm deiah riley. >> i'm dan shaffer. we begin with hulk hogan's $100 million lawsuit. opening statements in the trial petersburg. hogan, real name terry bollea claims the web site invaded his privacy by showing a video of him having sex with the ex-wife of shock jock bubba the love sponge.

via our mobile app. meanwhile hulk hogan's souvenir shop is open today after a scare over the weekend. hundreds gathered on a balcony to get autographs from the former wrestling star saturday when it started to shift. everybody was cleared until crews put up new support beams. it's believed construction may have caused the weakness. ivan has our forecast. good morning. >> good morning. temperatures in the 50s, low 60s but i showed you just 30 seconds ago we were in the 40s across the north. that will continue. it will take a while to warm up across the north. citrus, hernando county, in the lower 40s. rest of us, low 50s. typical for this time of year. in the afternoon a nice recovery, 20, 25-degree jump. mid-70s by lunchtime and we'll have a quiet evening, dry

temperatures in the upper 70s. extended forecast, we'll see when the next chance of rain is headed our way and big warm-up through the middle part of the week. let's update traffic. live look at i-275 near ashley in downtown tampa. no issues to report there. we'll check the roads again in 15 minutes. breaking overnight -- flames severely damage one half of a duplex on lantana avenue in tampa. it broke out 2:30 this afternoon in tampa. everyone got out safely. crews pulled power from both units meaning two families are displaced. the cause is under investigation. 4:32. more trouble for embattled allegiant air. the mechanics union is releasing a report today. >> allegiant is firing back. cara breaks down the issues and how the company is responding. >> reporter: a new scathing report on the safety of

from the teamsters aviation mechanics. comes right after an allegiant plane's takeoff was aborted in fort wayne, indiana saturday because of smoke in the cabin. that plane was headed here to st. pete/clearwater airport. >> i was towards the back on the right-hand side, heard a big pop. i thought it sounded like tire popping. they immediately slowed down, turned and let us know it was something that was outside -- or in the engine that we can see actually outside our window. something had fallen off one of the right engines. >> reporter: less than a month ago a flight that took off from st. pete clearwater made an emergency landing in alabama because of an electrical odor in the cabin. in january the chief operating officer stepped down. all that on the heels of a year's worth of safety concerns. one former mechanic telling abc action news in december that all the issues are why he resigned. >> typically i was observing they just didn't know what they were doing but still moving on to dispatch the plane.

complaints and the report expected monday allegiant insists the pilots' union is making false accusations in the middle of contract negotiations and that its planes are safe saying in a statement "it's irresponsible and reckless for the teamsters to make unfounded claims regarding safety to the public in order to circumvent media associations " >> we point out the union issuing the report has been battling with allegiant for months over a new contract and threatened to strike at one point theune gun responds saying -- union responds saying the numbers are clear there have been 100 delayed flights, emergency landings or other safety issues in the past five months. story. we are learning about it because of a lawsuit filed.

last summer and suddenly sucked into a massive intake pipe from the st. lucie nuclear power plant. christopher lacoon said he tumbled through the pipe for five minutes and quarter mile. a friend diving with him watched in horror thinking christopher had died. christopher also said he thought he was not going to make it out alive. >> it could have killed me. i just contemplated -- i pulled the regulator out of my mouth, should i -- i said should i do that and die? started to think about my family. >> he said he wound up in a holding pond at the power plant. now suing florida power and light because he says the pipe wasn't properly marked. company officials say he bypassed a warning buoy. and it gets more bizarre, this happened before. another diver describes the same five minutes of terror in 1989. a florida woman was so drunk police say she didn't

truck into four people at daytona international speedway. officers say 43-year-old abby kinney of cocoa beach crashed into the group after 2:00 yesterday morning. her truck also hit five campers parked at the truck infield. police say she failed several sobriety test and allegedly told officers "i shouldn't have been driving." >> she came out of the truck and was stumbling. she didn't know where she was. >> police arrested her with dui, careless driving, injuring four. no word on the victims' conditions yet. sphowr burglars ram their car -- four burglars ram their car into a san francisco gun store yesterday. they say the security system was disabled and the men grabbed 18 handguns worth $12,000. investigators identified the

to catch the thieves. democracy 2016 -- last night hillary clinton and bernie sanders were face-to- face clashing again on stage. meeting a day after sanders won two state caucuses. >> the fiery debate happened two days before the all important michigan primary. abc's richard cantu explains the special significance of the city where the two confronted each other. >> reporter: sunday's debate was held in the whrieghted city of -- blighted city of flint where lead pollution polluted the tap water. >> dereliction of duty, resign. >> i want us to have an absolute commitment to getting rid of lead. >> reporter: the candidates clashed over economic policy. sanders citing clinton's support for free trade policies. >> secretary clinton supported virtually every one of these disastrous trade agreements written by corporate america. [ cheering and applause ]

the money that ended up saving the auto industry. >> if you are talking about the wall street bailout where some of your friends destroyed this economy -- you know. >> excuse me. i'm talking. >> let him -- >> he charged clinton is too cozy with business. >> i don't give speeches to wall street for hundreds of thousands. >> i have said repeatedly no bank is too big to bank. no executive too powerful to jail. >> reporter: tempers flared with the stakes high. >> can i finish please? >> reporter: on super saturday bernie sanders won two out of three democratic contests but hillary clinton has a large lead in pledged delegates. a new poll gives her a double gigit lead over sanders in tuesday's michigan primary, 57% to 40%. sanders pledged to keep the campaign going to the democratic convention this summer even if clinton has enough delegates to clinch the nomination.

spending time in florida this week including the bay area. the former secretary of state announcing she will hold a rally in tampa thursday, a day after she participates in a debate against bernie sanders again at miami-dade college. it will be 11:30 in the morning, still don't know exactly where. friday chelsea clinton will be in tampa fundraising for her mother. on the republican side republican senator marco rubio is also visiting the bay area this week ahead of next week's florida primary. rubio has a rally at 5:00 center. rubio's rally tomorrow at 5:00 is at the dolphin aviation hangar hangar in sarasota. a victory large enough that rubio won all 23 delegates from the u.s. territory. the other victory in minnesota. overshadowed of course by donald trump and ted cruz.

next tuesday. yesterday donald trump called on rubio to drop out after winning no states on saturday. >> marco rubio had a very bad night, and personally i would race. i want ted one-on-one. >> we will win florida. we will beat donald trump there the way we beat crist. >> and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger announces he's backing the ohio governor. a bay area congressman is expected to announce today he's running for re-election this fall. dennis ross comprised a new district, it includes a number of cities. ross says he's making his re- election announcement in all three cities this afternoon. ivan so with the forecast >> you'll need the jacket.

temperatures by the afternoon, upper 70s, we're going to keep warming up. the forecast for the next several days coming up. 4:41. deadly fiery crash. coming up at 5:00, the search under way for the driver that killed three people in jacksonville. >> the nfl free agency begins on wednesday but teams can start talking to players today.

4:44. the flag at the u.s. capitol is at half-staff in honor of former first lady nancy reagan. >> speak of the house paul ryan ordered the flag lowered last night. the former first lady passed away from heart failure at her los angeles home yesterday morning at age 94. >> abc's lauren lister explains a decades long love affair. >> nancy reagan seen smiling at her 94th birthday party last summer. is today being celebrated and mourned for all her years of life. well wishers dropping off flowers. loved ones pulling into the l.a. family estate to pay respects. the hearse escorted through town. the former actress, married ronald reagan in 1952. and as first lady of california and then the nation, is remembered for bringing some hollywood glamour to the white house and for her crusade against youth substance abuse.

someone offers you drugs? >> say no! >> reporter: president obama and michelle obama tweeting this photo releasing a statement saying "our former first lady redefined the role in her time here." she was also known for being protective of her husband accused at times of controlling him. >> doing everything we can. >> reporter: when president reagan revealed he was suffering from alzheimer's disease nancy became his caretaker and advocate for alzheimer's research. nancy was known for the great love she and ronald reagan shared over more than five decades of marriage. that love persisting in life and death. president reagan died in 2004. at his grave site this iconic image was taken of mrs. reagan kissing the coffin. her son tweeting his mother is where she always wanted to be,

she will be buried alongside her beloved late husband. it's going to be a great day today. looking at upper 70s by later this afternoon. hope you enjoyed your weekend. we were mostly in the 70s, a bit of a cool start if you were up early you felt. that that is the case again today with temperatures in the 50s and even 40s. up to the north. that is cold stuff. now that we're getting closer to mid-march the numbers will eventually go away but for now we'll start at least the beginning part of the week with cooler temperatures. area of high pressure, by the way, very strong for this time of year is going to set up and already has, in fact it's going to strengthen. what that will co, provide with us a southeasterly flow, warm weather flow and also block, an atmospheric block. nothing its going to get by this thing at least for a time. it's going to take a while for things to begin to break down.

but looks like it's going to approach and arrive for the weekend. we have time to watch it. things can change but i'll keep timing. it was friday, now it's pushed to saturday. is. temperature later today in the mid and upper 70. not as cool tomorrow morning. us out. even up to mid-80s by middle part of the week across the interior. on the 7-day forecast, let's show you tuesday, with temperatures approaching 80. it's going took dry week as that high is in charge. 81 by wednesday afternoon. and look at the temperatures through the overnight. not as cool with lower 60s. by the way the humidity still in check. we're not quite in that time of wind. a little higher but certainly not as high as we could go this time of year. basically comfortable through the weekend. rain chances coming back for saturday. want to look live at the morning commute.

pretty quiet now. janelle is checking the traffic cameras and will have a full look at the morning commute coming up in just a moment. one of tampa bay's largest annual sports events gets underway today in palm harbor. the field of pga pros playing this week is impressive. 16 of the top 30 players in the world will play including jordan spieth, defending champion and number one ranked player in the world. admission is free to today's pro am and to tomorrow's practice round. peyton manning is set to say goodbye. the two-time super bowl champion will announce his retirement this afternoon. manning leaves as one of the the game. he won super bowl 50 with denver earlier this month and super bowl -- or last month rather and super bowl 41 in 2007 with indianapolis. the five-time mvp is one of only two quarterbacks to beat

he holds the nfl record for most career touchdowns, most passing yards and most wins. john sable has more football news. >> reporter: good morning. thank you for joining us. the nfl draft is the most important offseason task for any general manager. before a team even gets on the clock at the draft comes the beginning of free agency, about six weeks before. for teams with or without cap room free agency can let you keep one of your own players at the higher price, or they can leave for even higher price. for the bucs they hope doug martin stays in the bay. contract talks however have already stalled. this he can begin to talk to -- means he can begin to talk to other players in the nfl. one guy they will talk to, this guy, former panthers defensive end charles johnson, he met with the giants yesterday and will mete with the bucs this

the average, about 10 sacks from 2010 through 2014 in carolina. limited last year with a hamstring injury. the buccaneers know too well what he can do after facing them twice, a season, for the last nine years in the nfc south. to the diamond, rays offense banged out 17 hits on saturday night in the win against the orioles in sarasota. yesterday bats pretty much silent the rest of the game against sarasota, mustering to seven hits. didn't get better, jake had a rough outing. thanks to a dreadful first inning. after walking two batters, eddie rosario to tim beckham or did he? bobbles the ball, keeping the inning alive. three errors yesterday, 12 total through five games. next batter, young ho park hits it out of the park. grand slam to left center.

4. odorizzi says mechanics are to blame. the lightning will look to extend its record win streak to 10 tonight against the philadelphia flyers. more pain at the pump. at 5:00 -- the increase you'll see in bay area gas stations if you need to get gas this morning. >> just ahead -- the new fitness trend that gets even better after you're done with

look at temperatures in the 50s. by the afternoon we'll climb up into the upper 70s. big warm-up this week. we'll be talking about that next hour. it's 4:55. how does this sound? exercising and then getting a cold one? >> sounds great. can i skip the exercise? >> no. >> turns out yoga and beer is a unique new fitness trend. a bay area business is letting you enjoy it. more than two dozen people grabbed yoga mats and beer mugs yesterday. at hidden springs ale works in tampa. after the class they got to enjoy craft beer. >> the sessions are held every first sunday of the month. tickets are $10 for the yoga and beer class. up next, the little known presidential candidate who is seeking your vote in florida. >> good news for former president jimmy carter.

at 5:00 -- a group is ready to unveil major concerns about allegiant air. we're looking into the latest

previously plagued with problems. >> florida senator marco rubio fighting to stay relevant in the presidential election. what he's got planned here in the bay area today to try to revive his campaign. >> good morning, thank you for joining us on this monday for abc action news. >> janelle and ivan are here to start with traffic and weather together. the weekend was fantastic. a little cool in the morning. i wake up early enough but we'll take it certainly this time of year. it won be long before we get rid of the 50s. not for a while. i think we're in pretty good shape as far as the cooler temperatures. if you like to start with those to get your day going, we have that certainly today and then some. i'll show you the temperatures a little further north. right now checking in at 55 in tampa/clearwater and 61 st. pete. as we look at the rest of the area with temperatures, well, right now in the 40s. that is cold. brooksville, inverness low 40s now. 55 in tampa as i mentioned but