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. now in action news, drunk dangerous, making it more accessible than ever. plus things returning to normal after two people died in a plane crash. first we begin with florida's most accurate forecast with storms coming through the bay area. >> bill you have been tracking rain all day and night. >> lets look they rain that came down today. rain. other areas only got a third of an inch of rain.
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we started out with a sunny day that turned into a soggy day. we have soggy skies out there right now. we have the dual doppler scan going. right now we are seeing showers along indian rocks and across the bayou and into westchase. even over to sasa and dover. all of thes moving from the west to the east, about 15 miles per hour and all of it associated with a huge batch of moisture that has rolled in ahead of a cold front that is sitting just about here. so that cold front is going to push through tomorrow, it's going to lower our temperatures. when the front is through it
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we have not moved much mercury wise. clear skies through pinellas county. winds out of the west at 14. 69 degrees. mild morning tomorrow. we are going to see winds coming out of the north and we will see the chilly air making it's way in. how cold will it get? we will take a look at our forecast coming up. police are on the hunt for a hit and run driver that struck and killed a bicyclist. the crash happened around 9:30. authorities said the victim was a man in his 40s. stay with us for new updates.
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after a 14 year old biker was hit and killed along us 41, but in that case the drive stopped. authorities in pinellas county are worried about drug overdose. they are saying that there is a bad batch of spice and the police are concerned about who is being targeted. >> the spice is being sold in small cigarettes, dealers are hitting up the homeless in parks like this and the police are hoping to get the drugs off the streets before someone dies. >> reporter: the eupty park -- unity park police said spice is making the rounds giving people a dangerous high. >> it's rat poison and it maybe be crack.
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>> reporter: since thursday 20 people in this area have gotten sick from spice, 12 of those on saturday with half of them being hospitalized. symptoms range from vomiting to seizures. >> you do not know what you are putting in your body and you do not know how you are going to react. >> reporter: this man's partner nearly died from using spice and he worries that the homeless population is being targeted with a cheap dangerous fix. >> it's like they are trying to clear out the homeless population. >> reporter: police have made four arrests and they are trying to go into as many neighborhoods as they can
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of spice -- everyone about the dangers of surprise. new information tonight. peter o'knight airport is now back open after this deadly plane crash closed it for more than 24 hours. so many questions remain, investigators are still working out what caused the plane to crash and butter into flames. the ntsb was on the scene combing through the wreckage they are looking at the possibility that another plane was also involved in the crash. >> there is evidence that there are two airplanes taking off approximately at the same time. >> investigators are not releasing the names of the victims. we know that the pilot is from the bay area. it should take them 10 days to finish the preliminary report on the plane crash.
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the scene of a deadly plane crash in russia. investigators believe that bad weather may have played a role in the crash. the plane could not land because of high winds, it appears that the pilot circled several times before the crash. a break in in pasco county, look at this home. detectives said a man broke in through a kitchen window. he started to fight with someone inside of the house. the violence continued after deputies got there to treat the man who as bleeding. detectives said the man would not calm down and even threw a
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deputies then tased him. >> there was a man standing there trying to reach into her cat door. he was banging onon her door trying to get in. >> he was agitated. we were trying to keep him in a place where he can get the most help. new video showing the mess left behind at an apartment in saint peter saint st. petersburg. a woman showed the video of a man trying to get into the home.
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it got me so scared and crying. i was so scared. what if it happened in the middle of the night. >> thankfully everyone is okay. the family will have to stay in some place else until their home can be cleaned up. she wonders what happened. deputies have a man accused of killing another man after he was on the run for two weeks. deputies said he killed a man in palmetto. the murder appears to be connected to drugs. in hernando county firefighters helped put out a fire in a cement plant. it was burning through mulch meant as fuel. the fired was kept from
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>> people are gland to be on dry land after their boat -- glad to be on dry land after their both flipped over in pin el as county. -- pinenllas county. chaos on a plane, the one thing you should to to prevent this from happening to you coming up. >> imagine a hotel in cuba. it may be a reality thanks to a new deal for tourism
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new tonight an i phone bust into flames on a flight while a girl was using it. the girl got the shock of her life while using the phone to
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160 people were onboard. some of them started to panic. >> all of a sudden there was tblaims coming off my phone. -- flames coming off my 15. >> alaska air head its crews are trained for this type of situation and the fewer was put out. another reason to always use airplane mode because searching for a signal can hurt your battery. cuba is getting ready for a historic visit from president obama this weekend. it's the first time that a us president has visited the
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they are also pushing for more internet access on the island. this family is hoping to visit the country. president obama is set to arrive in cuba tomorrow and wfts action news tampa bay will be there to capture history in the making. laura will be covering the trip. also the tampa bay rays will be in cuba for a historic game. a united states based hotel company is also heading to the island nation. star wood hotels is signing a contract to take each and every three hotels there. they will renovate havana's oldest hotel property.
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by the end of the year. rain put a put a damper on air fest today. a crowd beat the rain this morning coming out to see the air shows. a lot of families got up close with the military jets. they said it's a good way to learn about the equipment and the planes. >> it takes a while to make these. a long time and it's complicated to buy one. >> they have been running around going, look at that plane, it's awesome. so they get to see up close and personal all of the planes. >> air fest has been going on for 75 years. the final day is sunday from
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to 5:00 p.m. the hills hillsborough river is -- hillsborough river is showing off it's green. it's for saint patrick's page. we posted this video to our facebook page and hundreds of people have liked it so far. >> now the most accurate weather team in florida. a lot of bright green in the hillsborough river and a lot of shades of dark green on our radar. check out some of the rape fall that we had earlier today. this is around tampa. not far from our world broadcast headquarters.
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coming down in sheets. it was heavy. rain. other areas around the state picked up maybe an inch. here you can see lingering rain on the kennedy street bridge and at river walk. we are going to have the action news van out tomorrow. it looks like we are going to have some gray skies and a cold front moving through. it will be helping us to chill out just a bit on monday. there is the river green. a little rain today did not stop the dye. it got up to 76 degrees today. our low this morning was 69.
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this warmth is going away by monday. satellite shows this big swath of rain coming through. i will show you the future cast in a minute. temperatures have not moved a lot since 6:00. 68 in clearwater. 73 in ellington, 88 this lakeland. -- in lakeland. when you widen out the view you see the colder temperatures. this is the last gasp of winter. spring starts at 12:30 eastern daylight time. see the line here, it's bringing in some colder air. here's where it's lining up right now.
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the early morning hours it will clear things up. we have some rain ahead of it. lets put the future cast into motion. we are seeing some of that moving through by noontime. then we clear things out and bring in the cooler air. it will definitely cool off for monday morning. sunday morning, mid 60s. 65 in areas of polk county. 68 in venice. we will be able to see some flying with the thunder birds but we will also see some thunder and lightning. the shoirs will be ending by noon and we will see cloudy
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north winds 10 to 15 knots. moderate chop and the showers and thunderstorms giving way to clearing later on. sunset at 7:42 tomorrow. 65 for a high monday. then we get back into the 80s by the end of the work week. usf trying to make it to the second round. we have a live update from la,
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in the nhl playoffs the lightning played the panthers. not too long ago the lightnings had the second spot. the bolts have struggled since that streak. that made tonight's matchup so important. so detroit is two games back of
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first period, hedmon getting sloppy with the puck and he plays for it. then reader turns the puck over. he tries to shoot but loses control of the puk. but do not fare, the lightning -- the puck. but do not fear, the lightning struck back and won the game. now basketball. texas got knocked off last night thanks to this shot at the bucket.
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filled out, guess how many zero. the shookers shocked the hurricanes in the second half. 57. miami moves out of the 16 for the second time in four years. >> also kansas knocked off yukon, maryland will play tomorrow. on the lady's side, the bulls in los angeles defeating the rams. williams dropped 31 points. next up for the bulls, ucla on monday. it's the sebd straight year
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>> -- second straight year that the bulls have advanced. >> kevin predicted that today's game would be rained out before it was rained out. so the clouds opened up and the game was called six pitches in. so in the afternoon, it was over. only a few days before the rays play in an exception game in cuba. major league baseball is sending 60 tons of clay, equipment and baseballs for this one game. >> i think it's cool to be part of it and get to pitch. adds a pitcher you are not sure
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but to get to work in this one is cool. for me to compete and do that, i think it is something i will appreciate from here on out.
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action news tampa bay. thank you for watching, have a great night, we will see you

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