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saw in that piece were. george is wipeed out from selling so many tickets, right? thumb's up? he's wiped out. if nobody pick this winning ticket tonight, the jackpot 0 would raise to almost $700 million, and that would be a world record. we'll keep you posted. >> we should know within the next few hours. turn us awning at 5:00 a.m. to find out. >> breaking news, the tampa bay buccaneers have dismissed coach lovie smith. does it the come as a surprise? >> it comes as a shocker. one of the big next buccaneers history. the bucs were only 8-24 in lovie smith's two years as head coach, but it was agreed that the team was making progress. there was improvement.

out with three years left on his contract. the bucs co chairman, joe elglazer released this -- joe glazer released a statement, saying this in part: now, there had been some criticism of lovie, specifically the defense, but honestly, it was generally thought that another change this quickly would noted a anything to the continuity of the franchise, which is my problem. with a franchise quarterback in place in winston, the coaching staff seemed to be status quo. lovie would get at least another year to straighten out the defense. that wars the consensus, but now everything is up in the air. the general manager will head up the search for another coach. tom coughlin and chip kelly are available for coaching, but there is talk of promoting dirk

some continuety for winston. we'll talk more about this in sports to figure out how this happened. >> right now, chinese stock trading has been halted aftary major market plunge. this is the second time this week that circuit breakers kicked in after a deep plunge, shares stumbled more than 7%. the dow closed down more than 250 points today. texas officials say they will fire the trooper cited for perjury in the sandra bland case. he was charged with lying in an of dave it about the july traffic stop where he arrested bland. he yelled and threatened bland with a stun gun. she keyed in jail three days --

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are joining the battle to help out this hometown hero. >> my vehicle ran over a roadside bomb, detonated under my feet. reporter: a 2014 explosion in afghanistan rocked the life of levi ows. >> i woke up here at -- eades. >> i woke up here at walter reed. >> eventually his right leg had to be amputated. a determined levi pressed on, not knowing his biggest challenge would be getting his benefits from veterans affairs. >> there was an agreement when i joined that if you go over there and do what you have to do, we'll take care of you when you get back. that's been, for the most part, stripped of me. reporter: he received this assessment from the v.a. saying he's eligible for just 60% of disability benefits, saying all of these injuries are not service related, although two specifically say they're blast injury.

whoever was supposed to, that they just pushed it through. reporter: now levi is pushing back with help from a congressman. >> he lost a limb, and is that not covered? you know, very disappointing. reporter: the congressman talked directly with the v.a. secretary who vowed to review it. >> these are our true american heros, and they deserve this, they've earned this, and in my. he should get the hundred percent disability. >> reporter: levi set to appeal the decision to doctors in february. >> i truly feel disgraced by this. >> now, we've tried calling, and e-mailing the v.a., but we haven't heard back from them yet. you can follow levi's progress and fight with the v.a. go to wtsp.com for a link to his facebook page. >> he's had a life, no matter

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we had some sunshine today, and then the clouds rolled in. a lot of those light sprinkles and showers in the mix, too. still tracking a couple of those tonight. let's look at the details. not a big deal, but a few pockets of some light sprinkles. we're seeing them in eastern hillsborough, and western polk county. i expect those to get fewer and farther in between. what we have in the close to home setup is this stationary boundary winding up as a cold front. so is the low over the bahamas, and as it pulls away, tomorrow will be the sweet spot before two systems are being tracked to move in later in your forecast. now, as this, again, winds up and moves off to the northeast, we will actually see surface

will be our first nonwindy day in a while. there's the first system you can see blowing up over the i- 35 corridor in texas. here is the second one over california. both of these will be coming across the gulf and be an impact and a player in the days ahead, as kind of a 1-2 punch. let's talk about it and time it out for you as to when you can expect them. first off tonight, those suspects are still far enough west it will be in between what's off in the atlantic and what's coming over texas and the gulf. so cool in the morning, but not cold. 54 in crystal river. 57 at bradenton. i do expect some patchy fog. we're starting to see a little of it show up around clairmont and lake county, but so far none of our station areas picking up on that. patchy fog in the morning, temperatures two to three degrees from where they are right now. tampa temperature about 57 degrees. so look for partly cloudy to

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all right, bucs fans, here they go again. the search for another head coach. lovie smith has been released of his duties. that makes three head coach firings in five years, four the last 8 years. they are beginning to sound like the cleveland browns. lovie was 8-24 in his two years. but many thought he would get more time to straighten things out. j.p. is on the phone.

but apparently you knew this was coming, huh? >> well, on fun monday, we kind of predicted this could happen. lovie took over the defense. was doing the calls. they looked like poorly coached defense, and it never got much better, especially toward the end of the season, and we speculated that maybe he needed to make changes on the defensive side, but that would mean firing a lot of friends and family, and the speculation is that maybe glazer asked him to do it, and he wouldn't, and so he got fired. there is talk that dirk koetter might be elevated, and that

keep consistency on the offense. >> so you think he'll be promoted? >> well, we taked about this on monday. he did a great job working with a rookie quarterback jameis loves him. loves working with him and the best way to stump a young quarterback is a give him a lot of different coaches. but i think koetter could do and it would be an excellent choice. >> and you're on with ron diaz tomorrow, right? >> right. and not chip kelly. does not work for what jameis does. >> okay. a couple of tweets i wanted to mention. one tweeted out 0: >> and another another tweet

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