driving off in new port richey. the cell phone video from a driver who pulled over. conte was on cocaine as he drove around west pasco. >> you have a person who is drugged out of his mind driving a 5,000 pound vehicle. you know, that's like someone running through a mall with a gun waiving it. >> reporter: he was driving with a blown-out tire. the deputies used stop sticks. >> got him. >> reporter: as the chase turned down trinity boulevard, conte's truck side swipes a patrol car spinning him out. >> i visually saw him rip on to the wheel and turn into my vehicle. >> reporter: moments later with the truck disabled, deputies rush in and make the arrest. conte admits to them that he is under the influence. >> i'm drugged out of my mind. >> reporter: even though the chase went on in the early evening with hundreds of drivers on the road, no one was injured. >> there could have been a family coming home from practice, from picking up kids from day care and this

absolutely with that vehicle destroyed them. >> reporter: today in front of a judge, conte says that he needs a public defender and behavior. mind. >> reporter: conte did not have a driver's license. that was already revoked. according to the sheriff's office, they found a crack pipe in the truck. the sheriff's office says his rap sheet was 30 pages long. and that was before today. eric waxler, abc action news. >> thank you, eric. breaking news out of washington, d.c. matt gutman just tweeted this out, that a suspicious white powder was found at marco rubio's headquarters in washington. the staff has been evacuated to the roof of the building. we will continue to check out the situation and update you when we get more information. also happening right now, flooding still a major concern in the south tonight.

that's a major travel artery between texas and louisiana. this is new drone video coming out of the flooding happening in that area. it's the french settlement area in louisiana. the photographer who took the video says he hasn't seen water like this since the early 1980s. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> good afternoon, everybody. and while we had all of that fog this morning and still do along the immediate coastline, most folks, especially east of i-75, you're closer to 90 today than you were 80. so even though you started out with fog and for that matter you will again tonight and into tomorrow morning, waking up with visibilities limited, less than a mile in some areas, near zero closer to the beach, i would not be surprised if they're forced to close the sky way again or serious delays as the fog will be dense overnight. partly cloudy skies this evening. and then a foggy start to your day. and then i think it lingers

but what is headed this weekend is going to bring a lot of change to the weather. not just weekend. we will talk about that in a couple minutes. denis mentioned it there. this is 275 and the sky way northbound. it has been a problem all day long with fog concerns. janelle martinez gives us a look at what to expect tomorrow morning on the roadways. >> hi. we're starting off with an extended closure in downtown tampa. east tyler street. that intersection is closed for the next eight weeks. detour signs will be posted. also we have an extended detour in lutz. it is closed at crystal lake road for railroad crossing repairs. this will be happening for the next two weeks. detour signs posted as well. but they will take you to mavery to get around that. van dyke is closed starting at 8:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.

detour signs will be posted. leave extra time there. and an overnight closure here at hutchinson and waters right at the veterans expressway. thursday. for more on these and other closures, make sure that you action traffic. a manatee county man is behind bars tonight for murder. he was arrested this morning for the 2015 murder of kevin mccats. he was shot outside of a home back in december. deputies say a group of men pulled up for a car and called for him. then he was shot and killed. brewer was one of several men inside the car. a sebring man is in jail charged with neglecting his 90- year-old grandmother. james lewis collier left her emace ated wearing soiled clothing. she only weighed 86 pounds and completely dehydrated.

out of bed because of her back pain. collier was the primary caregiver. another supreme court justice is forced to step down. michael eagan is the second one to quit over offensive and explicit e-mails. kathleen kane began releasing the e-mails to the media. charges. now to hulk hogan and his sex tape lawsuit against gawker. testimony from the founder answering questions about the news worthiness of a celebrity sex tape. elizabeth herr reports. >> reporter: round two underway with the website founder on the stand and on the defense about his journalistic philosophy.

and check with legal. hammering denton. >> yep. >> reporter: first taking hits for sarcastically answering questions in his taped deposition. the testimony at times even contradicting parts of gawker's defense about hogan's sex tape was considered news worthy so his decision to publish is covered by the first amendment. >> the fact that he was videotaped was be the news hook for your piece, was it. >> no, not necessarily. >> it didn't really matter whether or not it was a sensational crime. that didn't matter to you, did it. >> no. >> reporter: the judge has already ruled that the man behind the tape, shock jock bubba the love sponge does not have to testify in front of a jury but will have to somewhere questions in front of her.

plans on pleading the fifth. of it. and i'm tired of it. >> as for hulk hogan he was on the stand last week and testified he had no idea that he was being taped and that permission. a bill designed to improve boating safety honors the memory of two palm beach county boys lost at sea last year. patrick murphy and tom rooney are pushing the safe boating incentive act. austin and perry cohen never returned from a boating trip. the bill would offer a tax credit to small boat users that use safety beacons. the credit would cover half of the cost of the devices. breaking news from washington, d.c. the suspicious white powder was found at marco rubio's headquarters in washington. we know that the fbi is headed

the fire department is also there. the tweet says that rubio's staff has been evacuated to the roof of that building. next at 5:30, the nfl is finally acknowledging a link between football and brain disease. straight ahead, why parents say it's worth a second look. and later, lord & taylor reaches a settlement over instagram posts. the one thing that the government says the company did

>> tonight more news surrounding the nfl and the injuries. the top health officials acknowledge a link between the

>> as serena found out while some of the top physicians say this is not ground breaking news, many parents are paying close attention. >> i think it's worth a second look. >> reporter: jerome king and nelson have two boys a 10 and 14-year-old who love sports, especially football. news coming out of washington monday at this hearing convened by a house committee has troubled the parents. for the first time one of the league's top doctors conceded head trauma could lead to cte, a degenerative brain disease. >> taking a step back and assessing the situation. king says while his kids likely won't ever go pro, news like this has him worried whether his boys should play. dr. patrick urges parents not to panic over this latest news. >> the cte exists won't change what we're doing today. we're following the closest science today. and the way we treat concussion today is very different than we did 30 years ago. >> reporter: the doctor is also the director of sports medicine

says there are many questions surrounding cte. currently doctors have only been able to make the diagnosis after a player dies. >> more science needs to be done. what we really need to do is find a way to diagnose cte before the player dies. >> reporter: he urnings parents to be more aware. in this er alone, they had more than 800 concussions last year. he has operated on 50,000-plus kids. the best thing a parent can do, be alert. >> if they're complaining of headache or dizziness or not acting right, they should be pulled out of the game. >> this dad is going one step further. >> i would go out and find the real equipment or whatever was necessary for the kids to be able to live a normal life. action news. diego campus. positive.

experts say by college, the immunization starts to wear off. >> do have a certain number who are under or unvaccinated. that is often why the virus gets introduced to a community. once it's in a close knit community, it will often drive us to offer this third vaccination to help prevent further spread. >> doctors aren't sure how the first student become exposed but they believe it spread to contact. story. lord & taylor is agreeing to settle charges that it deceived posts. rebecca jahvaris shows us why the federal trade commission is going after the company. campaign. 50 of the hottest fashion bloggers in the same dress all

paid as much as $4,000 each to post these pics on the same day. rachel and rachel lynch got the dress for free and were among taylor. >> they reached out to us and said we have this dress and we want to send it to 50 influencers and see how they style it and promote it. same between 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. taylor. >> reporter: the campaign, a huge success. lord & taylor selling out of the dress almost immediately. the photo bomb reaching more than 11 million instagram users in just two days. this morning, regulators are calling into question the retail giant's tactics. >> consumers are looking at posts on instagram and they have no idea and they think this person whose fashion sense i value likes this dress and they don't know it's there because lord & taylor paid the influencer.

charges saying that lord & taylor violated federal law by failing to disclose that it paid foreign coursements. >> do you think your followers know that you get paid for these posts? >> yeah. i think blogging is an understood thing as a career. not every single person knows but the majority knows. >> reporter: in a statement lord & taylor says when it came to our attention that there were issues, we took immediate action to make sure that clear disclosures were made. there is no indication of wrong doing whatsoever. >> well, each violation of such an order may result in a civil penalty of up to $16,000. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> the reason we're talking about fog tonight, because so many parts inland didn't have any today and have been dealing with it all day long.

one first of all as beautiful as it is inland. you go to the main sail. all of a sudden, look at that. the beach. >> of course. >> i'm spending my money. >> you're on vacation. beach. >> what? >> you go to the f-dot cam and it is socked in. if you live -- it -- you know they're cursing the weather people. it's supposed to be sunny florida. they have been bragging for two months. the beach will be just as foggy tomorrow morning. it will be just as foggy thursday morning. i know some folks have spring break this week. the afternoons have been okay. but i hate to tell you, it is least a few days. and then you have rain that comes in friday, saturday and into sunday. i'm sorry. it's under the don't shoot the messenger category here. if you want to take a road trip

the sun you can imagine. 75. if you have your heart set on the beach, you won't need too much sunscreen for the next few days because the coastal areas will stay socked in as we have the warm air over the cooler waters of the gulf. really hard to say cool now that it's 71. but still you get the warm moist air over the gulf waters and it turns into thick fog. and when you get winds that come in out of the southwest to west, it pushes that fog inland. now, we saw fog a couple weeks ago but it didn't move in because the winds were not pushing it in. they are today. they will tomorrow. and they will again on thursday. we hit 82 today. normal is 76. even with the foggy start, once it lifted, burned off, you still were several degrees above normal. anywhere from hillsborough county and then polk county and desoto and highland, you were on the high side of normal. 10 degrees above normal.

sunshine. fog in sarasota though. 74 with the dew point of 71. so it is muggy. it is warm. all those ingredients come together this time of year to give us serious fog concerns. and i'm telling you it will be the exact same thing tomorrow. you're probably going to want to set the alarm early. tune it in. ivan will be here and letting you know what spots have the thickest fog. for that matter, janelle will let you know if the sky way is closed. lunchtime. this evening, we see it come back in. around midnight, there it is. it burns off much quicker anterior. it takes longer to burn off along the coast. then the rest of the day looks good. thursday, same thing. no changes to our pattern right through thursday. but by friday, we have a series of lows coming this way. that bumps up our rain chances friday, saturday and into sunday. even a slight chance of a few showers anterior on thursday. i think the best chances will

a little cooler by early next week. probably the last bit of refreshing air in our forecast for quite a while. forecast highs, check it out. low 70s along the beach. mid 80s to upper 80s inland. wow. huge disparity in temperatures. huge contrast thanks to all of the fog. it will take longer to burn off along the coast than inland. here is a look at the 7-day. 81 on wednesday. 83 on thursday. rain chances return, maybe a shower thursday. but the best chances are this weekend. it won't be a washout but more clouds than sun. occasional rain. and cooler and drier by early next week. >> thank you, denis. next at 5:30, new revelations about oj's life behind bars. his reaction to the discovery of a knife found buried at his former home. download the new abc action news app for your smart phone or tablet. just search abc action news in

>> we're following that break news out of washington, d.c. tonight. matt gutman just tweeted out a suspicious white powder was found at marco rubio's headquarters in washington, d.c. the fbi is headed to the scene. the fire department is already there. the tweet says that rubio's staff has been evacuated to the roof of the building. we're going to bring you updates as soon as they're available. tonight a former is opening up about oj's time behind bars. >> he doesn't think that simpson is innocent. he says he was his closest friend at the jail for seven years. oj is infamous for being exonerated in the deaths of

he says that oj is making light of developing news about a knife found at his former estate. >> he wants to know why it was held for 18 years before it was turned in. he jokingly says if the knife is rusted, i can't be busted. >> felix says he believes oj is guilty of the 199 had murders. simpson is serving a 33-year sentence force kidnapping and armed robbery. he is up for parole next we're. a heart breaking case leaving a child orphaned and a woman wounded by her own son. what triggered this tragedy and the help to pro vent more victim -- prevent more victims. hillary clinton ending her super tuesday in west palm beach. her offer to bring more jobs to florida and her promise to help college students. i'm carson chambers in palm beach at donald trump's private

we will bring you live updates as primary results roll in. i'm adam weiner. coming up at 6:00, why the people who live here could be key deciders in the election if

>> live from the station taking action for you. this is abc action news. >> it's decision day in florida. right now at 6:00, votes pouring in across the bay area pick. >> what is at stake and how the fastest growing voting group in the state could shakings thumb. i'm wendy ryan. >> and i'm jamison uhler. two hours away from the final polls closing in florida. >> all eyes are on our state. the primary results here tonight could reshape the race. >> we have team coverage tonight tracking the candidates all across the state. >> furthers we begin with adam weiner live in tampa with the turnout and the impact of the

>> reporter: that group of course is puerto ricans many who voted in west tampa today. right now there's about 10 or 15 people in line to vote. but i talked to the volunteer manning the front door. he said that's how long it has been. he says it's been slow and that's good news that we haven't seen long lines in the tampa bay area because some native puerto ricans say they think there is already too many barriers for people in their community to vote. >> the sample ballot that they send you in spanish and in english, when you get over there, there's no one to help. >> doug: janet has been living in tampa for decades and speaks great english. she worries about those that doesn't. >> if a hispanic needs help, they would rather say i'll leave and not do anything.