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[ horn ] it is a tampa bay tradition now in the books. hundreds of thousands of people take part in tampa's signature event, the gasparilla pirate event. tampa survived its 101st invasion of the pirates. many people took in the sights and drinking the booze. not only the sights and sounds from this year's parade but also some of the problems. >> reporter: a flotilla of fun. gasparilla's pirates once

we are coming here, tampa bay. >> taking the keys to tampa bay and filling thousands of reveler's pockets. a blast but too much for some there were 23 arrest, including this man, allegedly striking a police horse. >> not nearly as raunchy as i thought. >> reporter: but not what you would call clean fun. >> city will clean up >> reporter: volunteers were needed to clean the bay. it's worth thousands. >> it's great. they don't look as great wrapped around wild life. >> reporter: at gasparilla, it does not take long for treasure. >> tampa police don't release estimates of crowd sizes but the thousands that pile here makes this the third largest

we have a really neat photo gallery showing today's festivities on our website. go to wtsp.com. a moment ago, police released the number of arrests made in gasparilla. two people were charged for felony, 21 miss demean mores. there were pot related arrests, others for drink. one for hitting a police horse. and some for underage drinking. a police officer hurt trying to catch up to two armed robbery suspects. the officer was following the suspects in a shooting and car jagging when the officer pole. this happened tonight in the area of east lake avenue and central avenue. hospital. he is expected to be okay. the people he was chasing ended

police believe that the cars were used in three crimes. and saying good-bye to one of the with a walendez high wire act. he was paralyzed 54 years ago today he died last april. today, his family buried his remains in manatee county on the anniversary of the accident. >> he was an inspiration to me when i fell from the high wire. two times, it , i fecialtion and i was broken up very bad. and i looked at uncle mario. he was in a wheelchair h . he did not get better, but he was determined. >> he rode his wheelchair, if you can imagine, that across a

river in 2006 and called it his sky trek. and a new show is showing donald trump in the lead on the gop side and democrat hillary clinton and bernie sanders neck and neck. craig boswell was on the campaign trail today and shows you the candidates' final push to win over america's middle voters. >> reporter: donald trump is on top in the des moines register before the final poll. he has a five-point lead over ted cruz and a 13-point lead over marco rubio. >> it all does not matter if you don't caucus on monday. >> reporter: cruz led this poll in early january but he has been under constant attack from trump and rubio. >> cruz was my friend. he has decided to run a

people see through that. >> reporter: hillary clinton and bernie sanders are within the margin of error. >> when we started, we were down. now, we are virtually tied. >> reporter: clinton is under control after the state department said it would not release 37 pages of e-mail from her personal server that are now classified i want all these e-mails out. i take classification very seriously. >> reporter: supporters and undecided voters say that this is a big issue. the up decide numbers will make close. >> iowa official lbs hoping that there will be no repeat of the debacle in 2012. on that night, mitt romney was

eight votes over rick santorum but a certified recount found that santorum woman day 2 of the colorado motorcycle expo has been canceled following a shooting and stabbing near the denver colyseum today. one person was killed and seven others hurt h the violence broke out after two motorcycle clubs got into some type of argument. no arrest has been made yet. more water problems in flint, michigan this weekend to tell you about. residents have been using water for the last few months since dangerous levels of lead were discovered. now, some of those filters have not been filtering enough. lead readings in some homes were ten times too high for the federal limits. music legend david bowie has left his estate with his wife and 0 chirp and nanny --

and his children and nanny. the documents show that he is worth roughly $1,100,000,000 in his will, he requested to have his ashes spread across bali in a buddhist ritual. in pasco county, there was an event, not pirate related. the event draws 10,000 people every year. and a great event in downtown st. pete today. the first young eagle flight rally of the year was held in haverford park. it is an opportunity for children to get a free ride. nearly 2 million children have been able to take park since the program started in 1982

and question for the gators and could this be the next teaching aid in golf? find out in sport. but, first, cracking down on private gun sales. the changes coming to facebook of all places, next. it is a quiet evening across the bay area with partly cloudy skies and not as cool as last night. sunday? will we see warmer temps and more sunshine in we'll talk all

hot on the web tonight. facebook taking a stand on gun violence. facebook says that it does not want its site being used for private gun sales from people who are not licensed gun dealers. right now, if you look for guns for sales, what comes up is a

many are private sales between individuals. that's what will be banned. that's a policy change sought by groups like moms demands action for guns in america for at least two years. >> in this cakes clearly, by saying that they will not sanction the sale of guns without any kind of back ground check through private transactions on their social media platforms, they are truly setting a precedent that we hope that other business also follow as well. >> but some gun sales group members were not happy. one posting, there is nothing wrong with what our group does as long as we use good common sense to sell firearms. we as legal firearms owners should be allow to partser as is our constitution right a move by the military to become more family friendly by covering the cost of fertility services as part of the department of defense's force of the future initiative since

personnel are in their child bearing or fathering year. secretary ash cartser says that we can preserve the military's ability to have families even if they suffer combat injury. he says that's also a way to give them flexibility to decide when and where they will start a family. the policy affects troops here as well as those awaiting deployment. taking a look at the screen right now. really cool time lapse here. picture perfect day as a flotilla arrives to take over tampa bay. that's the scene that woo never tire of eagle. there is a wonderful day, hundreds of thousands of people, many from the tampa bay

really seeing our weather. yeah, i know i had some friends in town from california just for gasparilla. worked out nicely today. was not too hot or too cold. that's certainly not a guarantee. glad that turned out to be a nice one. this is what it looked like this morning from clearwater beach. let's put this into motion for you. at times, we saw mostly sunny skies and at times, turned to mostly cloudy skies. we did see a lot of folks out there out and about, enjoying our beautiful golf. let's go ahead and take a look at current temperatures now. it's cool in crystal river. 49 in brookville, 52 in harrowwood. let's go ahead and put this forecast, about 12 hours. you can see low tells will be about 52 degrees. not quite as chilly as where we started this morning.

see high pressure to our north and to our northeast. clockwise flow around that area of high pressure giving us surface winds out of the east and southeast on sunday, just like we saw today, but out of the south and -- the north and northwest for the upper levels. that's why these high level clouds have been streaming across the area and will continue that throughout the day tomorrow. so not purely sunny conditions but still a pretty nice day. look at the difference between temperatures right now. it is very might. oklahoma city sitting at 61 degrees. 62 degrees right now in little rock, arkansas. but just to the north, we have 20s and 30s across portions of nebraska, colorado. so here is the surface set up across the united states. that little area of low pressure bringing some snow to colorado and to nebraska. now as we put this into motion, what's going to happen is that this area of low pressure sitting off the coast of southern california, that is going to move to the east and

will work into our region but not until later on in the workweek. in the mean time, it will bring lots of rain to southern california and snow to nevada, utah and colorado. this low, we'll be watching over the next few days. that will bring a cool front through our area. chilly on the coast. 45 degrees in brooksfelt. more mild temperatures across the bay area. 52 sarasota and bradenton checking in at 522. 49 degrees in lakeland and in bar tow. if you are heading out the door to play golf, grab a jacket or sweater. as we head into the 11:00 hour, warming up nicely to a temperature of 67 degrees. bit afternoon, warmer, yes, 71. winds out of the south, southeast at 6:00. more moisture working in,

mild for the sunday evening. future cast keeping us nice and dry, so you can leave the umbrellas at home. we will see our share of cirrus clouds streaming in from the gulf of mexico and winds variable by the afternoon and into the evening. taking the boat out, seas two feet, not too bad. bay waters, a light chop, surf water 58 degrees, low tide at 12:12 in the afternoon. tomorrow looking pretty good. 73 degrees. watch for patchy areas of fog sunday morning. monday, a 20% chance of showers and groundhog day looking nice, too. here is what happens as we head into monday. area of low pressure scoots off to our south. as we move from monday into tuesday, there is that front that will bring us some wet weather. the best time frame to see the wettest weather will be thursday through early friday

for the weekend. so one more look at your seven- day forecast, staying pretty much dry the next three days. groundhog day on tuesday. gorgeous for us, 79 degrees. but then we pick up the rain chances, wednesday night through thursday into friday, dry for next weekend. and keep in mind, if you are headed out and about tomorrow, you want access to our weather data 24-7, all you have to do is download the app. it's new and improved and free in the app store. tammy? >> thanks, kate. the week of super bowl 50 begins to. the teams arrive in california. and steven stamkos of the

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football fans, ready? if it has not started already, let the super bowl hype begin. the broncos and panthers arrive in california for a week for not so much football things. >> did peyton manning really say what he said to belichick. >> you know, no more private conversation on the 50-yard line. no confirmation whatsoever. we are on to carolina. >> i'm going to ask that question, anyway. started. stamkos showing extreme talent and show they belong on the ice. ben bishop, one category for

he got a couple of them in the net from the other end of the rink. not bad. steven stamkos in the hartest shot competition, oh, man, he went 102.9. the first shot over 1 is 200 but lost to defending champ steven shea of nashville. and p.k. subban won this skills competition. pga merchandise show wrapped up, featuring hundreds of products about to hit the market. as you can imagine, not all will be successful but a lot of interested golfers were happening around the booth of hackersrx. a teaching tool that focuses on alignment, follow through.

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just lay it up, right he has the good shot here, section sent that it keeps going. >> oh, yeah. an eagle. scott brown and k j choi are tied. and west virginia virginia tech -- west virginia came with an attitude. they came and danced on the logo. coaches had to break them up. dorian finney-smith let the gators with 24 points, quick passing here. he got his 3 to go down. gators shot 50%. they only had 14 turnovers. that is key. smith takes it to the baseline. gators rip mountaineers 88-71. first win over a top ten team

>> and now to tallahassee where they had bacon. everyone likes bacon. this is the fresh man. the no lews beat clemson. they are 14-7. finally, at the iowa state texas a&m game, star nieng fouls out. look at the star behind the bench. he is screaming at the top of his lungs to sit down. and his father next to him is doing absolutely nothing. i can't hear him. i can hear. >> he might be saying, hey, my bad paid good money for these seats. >> i don't like a heckler but a ten-year-old heckler. >> no, no, no.

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