imaginative environment. their images governed our emotions. >> the exhibit includes a virtual reality experience that lets the viewer go inside and move around a dali painting. it opening this saturday and running through midjune. time now for the fox 13 11:00 news. here is chris. >> anchor: a battle briewg brewing in south tampa over a new neighbor. >> this belongs at 275, that is how big it is. >> this billboard is getting attention but not the right kind. the case neighbors are making to take it down. >> it gives you a sick stomach to know you just spent $300 but have nothing but plastic cards to show for it. >> how a crook made this family think they were buying real tickets to universal. and an excited mom and brother

hero to come home. see how he will go from serving his country to serving hillsborough county. >> anchor: all right, but we begin tonight with something that will affect most of you tomorrow morning, another round of storms heading our way. we expect to see rain and heavy wind, and some of it could be severe, and mike, the timing is everything with this one. >> the timing with this round as opposed to last weekend's round is we are not looking at overnight hours. this will be during the daylight. here is the area of low pressure in question and this one out other northern louisiana right now. that tracks eastward over the overnight hours. not moving as fast as last weekend's storms and so it's going to take a bit for it to get here. another 12 to 15 hours before that line of storms makes its way into the bay.

line of storms and you don't see radar spending far enough how south but you see lightning strikes and a lot of them. this denotes severe weather, strong storms not too far off, and this all shifts eastward. because of that a slight risk of severe weather acknowledge this includes tampa, and pinellas and areas to the north, into the big bend and the panhandle, that is for mainly straight-line wind damage. the potential a couple of isolated tornado can't be rule #-d out edout but the damage passenger is potential is highest for straight-line winds. by saturday afternoon things turn cryer and windy and we have

chilly weekend forecast coming up. >> all right, mike, lit of everything. new at 11:00, a new billboard is getting the attention of neighbors in a south tampa neighborhood, and not because of his message. they say that the big advertisement is an eyesore. our evan lambert is live there, and evan what is the problem with this billboard? >> reporter: well, chris, this is the billboard that neighbors are concerned about, on south howard evan, and look at this here. this is what most of the other billboards in the area look like, a lot smaller and that is why neighbors are fighting this. >> it's an eyesore. >> south howard neighbor can't stand the sight of this new billboard. >> i think it brings the value of our homes down. it's trashy. i mean, it's not the quaint

>> crews put the finishing touches on the shell thursday but as soon as the pole went up neighbors started to worry and they started to talk to each other on line. their main complaint? the size, the other billboards on howard look like this, at least half the size, and neighbors are worried that others thisone will invite others. >> it's going to be unsightly. >> this owner is pleasing the left-hand to the billboard and he says it's a commercial area and so why not have a commerce ad, and he says he got all of the permits but that is news to city council. >> this is the first i'm hearing about this. we did not approve this billboard. >> kathy says one place it doesn't belong is just feet from homes that were there long

popular night time destination. >> that longs on 275, that is how big it is. >> the question is will the city of tampa alloy allow this billboard to stay up and that we'll have to wait and see. >> anchor: yeah, they couldn't camouflage their surprise. some local airmen received a warm welcome home. among them a hillsborough county firefighter and paramedic who just finished his sixth and he says he hope final deployment overseas, he has served for 24 hours, much of that as a paramedic, and he just finished toured in after gap stan andqata home and planning to stay at

>> it's good to be home, good to be home. the weather, the beach? come on, it's florida. >> but before he does that he will get back to work as a firefighter for hillsborough county. four our airmen came home withm as well and one of them says he is going disney world because to do. and these two brothers were busted for shining laser beams at the sherrif's office helicopter. as our josh cascio tells us, deputies found something else when they arrested the two. >> reporter: the fact of the matter is those lasers can blind pilots and that can create a very dangerous situation. deputies were patrolling near i-75 and porter road when they were repeatedly hit by laser beams shined from the ground.

benington were behind it. they've been arrested and charged with misuse of laser devices. a felony. doing that is considered both a state and federal crime. the pilots say getting hid with the lasers is like having a bright light shined in your eyes while driving and it makes it hard to stay in control. >> just like if a camera flash goes off in your eyes and for a moment you are disoriented and can't see, that is what happens to you. >> if it hits the aircraft, the windshield will diffuse the light and you can't see your instruments. >> the brothers were also charged with having marijuana, and in a report one of them admitted that shining the laser light was a very stiewpt thing stupid thing to do.

spring hill neighborhood are keeping an eye on a 15 by 20 foot depression in the ground. it opened up on kenway street, and also at this hour, a new port richey woman is facing charges after be lying about being robbed at gunpoint. the 21-year-old told police an armed robber stole $5700 from a store why she works but her stories were inconsistent and soon they confessed to stealing the money herself. she was arrested for filing a false police report and for grand theft. and then we brought you a story about a family's search for a loved one's lost ashes. well, they've been found. as of yesterday, the ashes had

arrived and the funeral was supposed to be today, but tonight we have learned that the `ashing finally made it to puerto rico. they traveled from familiar to new jersey and then to pennsylvania. the postal service says they are regularly entrusted with people's remains but they recommend they are sent express and we are told that the rozry rodriguez family sent them priority mail. and today the florida cabinet heard a final report from researchers from boys who may have died from abuse at the dozier school for boys. but the report starts short of saying anything criminal happens.

1950 says the school should become a memorial for those who died there. >> the property should never even be in consideration for sale or anything other than finding the remaining grave yards and any bodies that are still buried there. >> researchers found the remains of 51 people, 21 have been identified. tomorrow, senator bill nelson will meet with the usf team in tampa to get the latest on the report. and governor scott is signing off on the first major billed from the legislature, one of them on waterways but environmentalists say they are not strong enough. bills designed to prevent pollution and close loopholes actually would delay those things from happening. the governor also signed a

increase will career aid for the intellectually disabled. >> 9-1-1, what is your emergency. >> my nephew is playing with a clock. >> a group of temple terrace 20-somethings is taking on islamphobia, and you remember the story of the boy arrested for bringing a clock to school, his teacher thought it was a bomb. well, we are here to introduce you to a group. >> the videos they have made have been seen by more than 10 million people and they are making americans re-examine their attitudes towards muslim, in an age where more than half of americans told a pollster that they would not vote for a muslim for president. and they have shed lights on

preschool fire at a local mosque where the preschool burned down. their goal is to show that bigotry against muslims is really just bigotry against americans. thy are parodies and attempt to use humor to cut to the core of the issue. >> we are making things that are funny but ultimately the goal it to help you understand an issue from a different point of view. >> you don't want to respond to violence and hate with violence and hate. love can concur pain. >> the group is not maybe maybe making any money yet, but they are looking at that. and they come from different religions but all are americans, feedback. some people who see the videos

minds but their creators also say they have received death threats. >> i am going to turn this into a smoldering wreck in less than a day. >> all new at 11:23 we are going behind the scenes to see how these voice actors bring video game characters to life, but first a ticket scam that nearly

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>> you are get sick to your stomach knowing you just spent $300 and have just empty plastic cards to show for it. >> this is how she felt after being denied entry to universal studios after buying tickets on an ad on craigslist. the man who sold them said he got the tickets as a gift and was not going to use them. >> once we arrived we found out that they were not valid and they were conif confiscated. >> universal studios immediately responded priding the pride responded providing the group free and discounted tickets but the family didn't want it to happen to everyone else. >> bower the man who told them the tickets -- although he gave

court this morning. >> meegen megan admits she should not have purchased them on craigslist, she says bower went out of his way to make them seem legitimate. >> i asked if they were good tickets and he said well, gosh, i hope so, i don't think my mom would buy bad tickets. >> the victim is hoping that the judge will make his pay restitution, and then look at this. volunteers are trying to nurse back to health this little otter pup. he was separated from his mother during last weekend's violent storms and the mother was actually killed. staff from the wildlife rehabilitation and rescue center

but sadly one of them died from yiew moan i pneumonia, and although the mom died rescuers think it was thanks to her that these pups were saved. >> she knew that it was not a safe place to be. >> well, even if it was warm enough to go for a swim, i doubt you would want to jump into this pool. that is a crocodile, about an 8-footer caught taking a dip in a swimming pool in the florida keys. wildlife officials had to come and take the croc away, and the family who lives there just arrived from pennsylvania. do you think they are questioning their decision at this point? quite the introduction to florida and as someone who did

gators. >> that is the biggest thing. you go to play golf and in the north you don't see too many gators and i think my first day i saw eight or nine gators on the course, one of them sitting just off the green. >> and he made a great chip shot? >> yeah, but moving off of the green quickly. >> and not a great weekend for golf. >> once we get through the storms we are not out of the woods in terms of hazards, we'll have gale-force winds just offshore all weekend. >> and gasparilla on saturday? >> it's going to be cold, and there will be showers in the morning and i think they will dry out in time, but chilly and certainly i you will want to bundle up. here is the serrata beach cam view.

another spectacular sunset, and we've been getting just amazing sunsets out here day after day. friday morning, a arriving somewhere around mid to late morning or so, strong to potentially severe. a best chance for severe storms about the bay area northward and realistically even farther north than that. we are looking at straight-line wind damage, but we can't rule out an ice isolated tornado or two, and the new data coming in reinforcing dc just getting hammering with likely a record-breaking snowfall for them and a cold and windy weekend for us, temperatures not getting out of the mid 50's. 499 low the low this morning.

brooksville, 57 in winter haven -- only dropping off another few degrees or two. don't expect the temperatures to get close to what they were the last couple of nights. winds out of the southeast as you wake up and out ahead of the front you see it in the west there. here is the front, in the panhandle and that extends to just northeast of new orleans, and the low progressing east, it takes most of the energy along with it but there may be just enough extra dynamics in the atmosphere to bring severe weather down to us. meantime, hppedz in high pressure in the north, filtering in that dry air, situated just perfectly for a nor'easter and record snowfall for them. in the yellow shading that is a risk for severe weather. this one is essentially tampa

chance of severe weather would be across the across the panhandle and just north of that. watch this line approach, 7:00, 8:00, should still be dry, with maybe a few showers out of ahead of this popping up but by 10:00, 11:00 there is the line with the gusty winds and that pushes through noon, and maybe just east of the bay and then really getting into the area, 2:00, 3:00, but then on the backside you get the cold showers filtering in over the bay, and meantime a big winter storm. look at these snowfall to gets. generally more than 2 feet. dc24 d.c. 24 to 30 inches and i would not be surprised to see some areas end up with closer to 3

here is a look at your seven-day. temperatures in the upper 60's for friday and saturday, windy and cold, 50% chance of showers and by the way, a gale warning in effect. seas 14 to 18 feet on saturday, and so not the best boating weekend. if you're heading out to the children's parade, butle up. >> bundle up. >> it will be a good time, though, i will see you out there. and coming up the boycott against the oscars just the new caramel macchiato from dunkin' donuts. let hand-crafted layers of espresso, milk, and a caramel-flavored swirl uplift your mood. indulge in a hot or iced macchiato today.

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and hollywood looking more like game shows than ever. all new at 11:00, fox's simon boyce spent the day with voice actors. >> i am at nyad postand this is a day in the life of a video game actor. >> it is time to cut the power! >> what? three, four months? i am going to reduce it to a smolders wreck in less than a day. >> as an actor it's grey because great because you can be anything and anything, you are not limited by the way you look. i'm playing a guy who is taller than i am, an action hero. >> how did you develop the dialect for rico? >> it was sort of spanish and sort of italian but neither.

so i listened to a couple of different spanish and italian actors to get a feel for that mediterranean male sound. >> you have a way with them. i came as soon as i could. >> i appreciate your urgency. this! is a transfer of power from one to many! >> you get more fans coming up to you recognizing you from your work in grand theft auto or black. >> well, now it's this orange, which is a world-wide cultural phenomenon. i try to hone in as best i know how to the overarching themes that i hear in the specific dialect that is requested of me. >> -- your hearts can courage.

>> black or white? that depends, if you're going to do a south african dialect, again, your aim as an actor is specificity. >> show me how a line would be different if you were to change your movement. >> rico is talking to mario about making a plan. >> i am going to turn it into a smolders wreck in less than a day! there is more distance between them, and the mic, you are further away from the mic. intimate. >> i am going to turn this into a smoldering smolder wreck in less than a day. >> are you treating the mic like an actor partner. >> definitely. >> that is fascinating. and those actors also go through a motion capture session which

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