breaking news overseas. what appears to be another deadly terror attack in europe. two explosions ripped through the departure area of brussels airport this morning, during rush hour as hundreds of passengers were trying to check in. we can confirm at least one person dead, dozens more injured. those numbers may rise. in response belgium raised its terror alert to the maximum level. all flights into brussels are cancelled, explosions occurring just days after the prime suspect in the paris attacks, saleh abdelslam, was arrested in brussels. expecting official -- we're going to have a conference at 5:00 this morning. and they will tell us more. i'm dan shaffer on this tuesday. >> i'm sarah rosario.

>> and breaking news from ruskin. three people shot overnight. sale. detectives say it was not drug related but at some point things turned bad, gunshots hospital. it's unclear how many people anyone in custody. a crew is on the scene now and we'll bring you new information as we get updates from them. here's ivan cabrera with florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. another cold start. >> it's cold out there. temperatures now, in tampa at least, 52, clearwater and st. pete, 57. that is the warm spot as we wind the view, we can see we have indeed much colder conditions. cold enough the national weather service issued the frost advisory last night. mid-30s with patchy frost through 9:00 a.m. incredible, on this first week

pattern we're in. we'll break it quickly the next several days. upper 30s now. we'll drop a few more degrees, 40s across the interior and there's the milder spot along the coast as we plan the day with the forecast, temperatures climbing into the mid-60s. then mid-70s, not as cold tonight. talking about 80-degree weather coming back and letting you know when rain chances begin 4:32. live look at i-275 near hillsborough avenue. no issues to report. we'll get another check of the roads in 15 minutes. president obama's historic trip to cuba concludes today with a baseball game. yesterday mr. obama met with raul castro, urging the lifting of the longstanding u.s. trade embargo. >> laura harris is following the president in cuba, gives us a sneak peek at the tampa bay rays who will make history of

today. >> reporter: symbolism and storyline continues, national anthem played on cuban soil as president obama makes history. 90 years since a sitting president has been here. more than 50 since the embargo put a halt to the relations between the two countries. >> after 50 some years that there's been broken relationship that at least let's start talking. let's start uniting the families. >> juan lopez from tampa was born in cuba, says the news is more than great, it's revolutionary. >> forget the politics for a while, let's just connect with the people. >> reporter: perhaps the way baseball is uniting the island nation and the u.s. the rays will be the first mlb team to play in cuba since 1999. diego lives in cuba, is a huge rays fan. just like president obama

himself. for change. if the weather cooperates and things go as planned first pitch is scheduled for just before 2:00. president obama scheduled to be there as well as cuban president raul castro. to you. while the president is in cuba pressing castro governments to improve living conditions for all citizens. a rescue while on a crews. >> cameron polom has that story. >> looks like he has a broken leg. >> dramatic images show the rescue of 18 cuban refugees in the gulf of mexico. behind the camera steven smith and his family on vacation aboard a royal caribbean cruise

>> they were so weak, emaciated. >> had been at sea 22 days. >> reporter: reports of the rescue came in over loud speakers, coast guard officials say the 30-foot boat was 130 miles from the florida coastline. those aboard telling rescuers nine others didn't make it at all. >> till screaming even though they are in a rescue boat and they can at least relax a little, they couldn't because hallucinating and not knowing what is going on. >> reporter: survivors face the sad reality now they have to go back to cuba since they never made to it u.s. soil. >> they come here to have a better life. for that journey and to watch their family members die on that journey, must be terrible for them. >> reporter: cameron polom, abc action news. soon you could cruise to cuba.

last night it won approval from the cuban government to start sailing to the island nation biweekly beginning in may. fares start at 1,800. ports of call include havana and santiago de cuba. tamp police are releasing a dash cam officer swoichg in time to avoid a wrong way driver. this happened near fowler. 34-year-old aja cancella was arrested for dui. officers say they caught her trying to exit the wrong way on busch boulevard but she's telling us tampa police got the wrong driver and is now hiring an attorney to help her fight. this morning a 12-year-old seminole county girl is charged with battery for pinching another student. brianna ebens said she thought it was a joke to pimpling the

boy on the behind. the mother wanted to press charges even though the boy didn't want her to. she was signed up for a pretrial diversion program to get the charge removed from her permnent record. hulk hogan winning the suit against gawker. awarded $115 million in damages. decision. michael paluska spoke to one juror about how they reached their multimillion-dollar verdict. >> when we viewed the video it changed the game. >> reporter: she says gawker media violated hulk hogan's right to privacy and user protections under the first protections for journalists to do it. >> we're not naive. we're talking about a lot of money and a lot of people that

>> reporter: gawker media argued the sex tape they received from an anonymous source was "newsworthy" so they published it. gawker's attorneys argued that hulk hogan knew the entire time that he was being recorded so it would not have been a violation of his privacy but a juror we spoke to say she didn't see it that way. >> just the conversation that was going on between him and the woman in the video, it was just -- it was very human and if you're going to be on video you would not be talking like that. if you knew. >> mr. departmenton, any commencement. >> reporter: the gawker founder nick denton didn't comment after punitive damages were read. he was on the hook for $10. hulk hogan says it's a major victory against tabloid publications. >> i feel great. i think we made history today because i think we protected a lot of people from maybe going through what i went through. so we're very happy.

michael paluska, abc action news. in democracy 2016, presidential primary day for more u.s. states. republicans have a primary in arizona and a caucus in utah. instead of campaigning or debating all three gop candidates spoke to a critical pro-israel lobbying group yesterday in washington. the republican candidates all stating their unwavering support for the jewish state. >> when i become president the days of treating israel like a second class citizen will end on day one! [ cheering and applause ] >> i remain unwavering in my support for the jewish state and the unique partnership between the united states and israel. [ cheering and applause ] >> israel is a liberal democracy that shares our values, israel is a sted fast and loyal ally and our military aid to israel is not charity. it is rather --

criticized donald trump over comments he would be neutral in the israeli/palestinian conflict. there are primaries in arizona and idaho, a caucus in utah. hillary clinton spoke yesterday before the israeli lobbying group but bernie sanders chose not to. instead the vermont senator held rallies in multiple areas, sanders calling clinton the candidate of the establishment and big money interests. despite trailing in delegates sanders is promising to continue campaigning until the democratic convention. >> i am not a quitter. we're going to fight this to the last vote, we're going to give every american the chance to decide which candidate they want, for the democratic nominee in november. >> with the polls in three states not closing until late tonight, you can count on abc action news to bring the latest results starting tomorrow morning at 4:30. cold start, temperatures in the 30s. what month is it? 39 brooksville.

40s for the rest of us. milder along the coast. warm-up on the way and rain chances increasing, details coming up. skyway surprise. coming up at 5:00 -- the good samaritans who protected a child who made his way to i-275 in st. pete. >> another usf sweet 16 appearance tonight. what happened against ucla

the planned court hearing over apple's refusal to unlock an i-phone will not happen today. federal prosecutors in los angeles cancelling the hearing after a third party came forward to show the fbi a possible method for unlocking the phone. agents wanted to learn the data stored on the i-phone used by one of the san bernardino attackers. if the method works it would assistance. the company has fought a court order saying the government's demand to create a back door to retrieve the data on the locked phone would make other i-phones vulnerable to hackers. >> if you own a kindle purchased between 2017 and 2012 as of today you may not be able to access e-books without a software update. the problem is the update can be difficult to install. the new one allows old kindles to continue to download books and access through the kindle store but the automatic update is available in the sync and check for items section of the menus, can be installed with wi- fi.

manually install the update. amazon says its customer service reps can help you process. nasa is hoping to light up the florida sky tonight. a rocket with supplies for the i.s.s. set launch from cape canaveral this evening. it's for the cargo ship to the space station at 11:05. the ss rick husband is named for the fallen commander of space shuttle columbia. among the supplies, supplies to study bone marrow and heart function in space. i think right now we're green for launch as far as weather conditions at launch time. a late one. clear skies, i mean we don't get to 100% as far as what we think is going to happen here. my goodness, this is pretty

61, winds will be light. don't see an issue at all was we head through -- as we head through tonight. you may have to deal with a little patchy frost in citrus and hernando counties. away from the coast which mod raid by the -- moderated by the water temperature now but that's what we have going. temperatures in the mid-30s. that means the frost advisory continues through the 9:00 a.m. hour. cold stuff. this is a lot of blue for this time of year. low to mid-40s, upper 30s to the north as we talked about. then along the coast, looking at temperatures in the 50s, 24- hour temperature, anywhere from 15 to 20 degrees below where we were this time yesterday. as high pressure continues to bring us clear skies for today. 3-day forecast looks like this, low 70s. then with an easterly to southeasterly flow moderating temperatures, not as cold tonight. 80 tomorrow and rain chances increase through thursday. as we expand out the seven

holding on as the front stalls to our north. closer to us, that gives us rain chances about 40% to 50%. time is 4:47. as you prepare for the morning commute we're looking live outside at i-275 at cypress, a couple of cars, it's not congested. janelle martinez will join us live with traffic reports starting at 5:00. dramatic video of a stolen cement mixer barreling through a small southern minnesota town at speeds topping 70 miles per hour. police say the thief took the mixer from a construction site and refused to pull over. that mixer even smashing into two police cruisers at one point. that chase only ending when the truck runs out of gas after an hour. officers shocked when the driver jumps out of the cab, get this, that is because that driver is an 11-year-old boy who is behind the wheel. that boy attempting to run away, officers catch him,

damaged the brand new mixer but caused extensive damage to the roads. usf women's basketball season is over. the bulls falling to ucla in the ncaa tournament. tom korun has your morning sports. >> reporter: good morning. once again a trip to the sweet 16 eluding jose fernandez and his usf bulls. last year it was louisville in the way, last night it was ucla. bruins taking command early in this one, way too many easy shots. drummer driving the lane for two right there. then coming up, monique billings takes the ball in the post. and it will hit the turnaround jumper off the glass. before you knew it the bruins had a 16-point lead. that with another lay-up plus the foul. the bulls pulled within one in the second half but ucla moving on, usf headed home. final 72-67.

women are looking for a repeat elite 8 appearance, headed to the sweet 16 after taking care of texas am last night from the three-pointer by leticia romero early on. by halftime the knowles were up by 21, this three by brittany brown. fsu winning easily, headed to dallas to take on top seeded baylor. final over the aggies 74-56. yesterday all of baseball will have their eyes on havana, cuba, rather today. the game of baseball bringing two countries' passions together. it will be the rays representing the united states in major league baseball. all the big guns are going to play and it will be dyron verona leading in the line-up. he's the lone cuban player, defected three years ago and will report to the rays minor leagues when the team returns to florida. it will be interesting to see

the people there. on hand some 55,000. finally, congratulations to the mitchell high school hockey team, they won the u.s. high school national championship 8- 7 in overtime. that's your morning sports.

hour by hour forecast

no question, temperatures in the 40s. upper 30s but by the afternoon, temperatures climb in the upper 60s, eventually mid-70. we'll have that with full sunshine through today. time now 4:54. a new orleans teen is being hailed a hero for stopping a robbery at a fast food restaurant. >> the 18-year-old was actually at that popeye's for a job interview. devon washington is his name. he was in the middle of the interview, a thief burst in, grabbed cash from the register, was trying to get away. that is when the teen jumped in and helped the manager block the robber's getaway. >> washington's old football coach says this is not the first time he jumped into protect somebody. >> they thought he was the one actually involved in the fight just because he is so massive, so big, he's 6'4". >> i could be hurt, anything. i am happy nothing happened to me. >> well, washington held the

police arrived and yes the gentle giant got the job. 4:55. we're following breaking news from brussels, belgium. two explosions rip through the city's airport there. and we just learned of another attack on the brussels subway system. the latest just ahead on abc

deadly explosions at the brussels international airport and now the subway shut down after an explosion at a metro station. in the last few minutes new reports coming in, of at least another two explosions at other metro stations in brussels. at least one death reported. dozens more injured in the blasts at the airport. reports of several injured in the explosion at the metro. right now the terror alert in belgium raised to its highest level this morning. news conference getting underway in a few minutes as authorities try to find out who or what may have caused these incidents. we'll be monitoring that for new information but at this time it looks like coordinated attacks in the city of brussels. this all comes on the heels of an arrest from the lone surviving terrorist of the paris attacks just this weekend. officials say saleh abdelslam