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the jury has returned a verdict this this this is not only his victory but everyone else who has been victimized by tabloid journalism. >> a big victory for hulk hogan because of a sex tape posted on line. >> it sounded like a sonic boom. >> but it was a plane crashing and bursting into flames. investigators still don't know what caused it. >> i'm honored to call john a hero today. he earned it and he deserves it.
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their own killed in the line of duty. >> good evening, i'm cynthia smoot in for kelly ring. >> and first up at 10:00 the jury has delivered a bit of a body slam to gawker ruling in favor of hulk hoaken hogan acarding awarding him an astonishing $115 million in his lawsuit. christen, i know you've been looking into this. we'll start with a bit of a tough blow for gawker, though. >> definitely, mark, and gawkers attorneys have argued from the beginning that this case could have an impact on freedom of speech and that people may start to use our courts to punish people. the jury took six lowrs to deliberate and gawker says she will be appealing the process.
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appeal we've already been preparing and we expect to win this case -- >> but as of friday, gawker has lost. a six-person injury, four women and two men decided that gawker must pay hogan quhooz whose real name is terry boleaa, after posting the tape on line. >> i'm sure we would have won had we been allowed to present the full case to the jury. >> jurors never heard from radio d.j. bubba the love sponge, hogan's friend who reported him having sex with his wife. >> this is not only his victory today but also anyone else who has been victimized by tabloid journalism. we are coming back monday for the rest of it. >> hogan dressed in all black cried when the verdict was
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he left the courthouse. he said the videos released caused him lasting humiliation. gawker's argument was that hogan is a public figure who often discussed his sex life. >> the video gawker posted is not like a real celebrity sex tape, not like kim car kardashian, and it's not in color with graphic body parts. this is nine seconds. >> hogan was unaware he was being recorded. >> why did they not show you that video, the video that is the reason we are all here? >> although the jury was never
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were allowed to view it during deliberations if they wanted to. and it's unclear how many of them took that opportunity. hogan will also be awarded punitive damages and that will be awarded here in court, and we'll be here to give you the details. >> it's interesting to see why the jury decided to go over what hogan was asking but i'm sure that the details will come later. >> a small plane made a nosedive and right away witnesses knew there was nothing that anybody do could do. the crash killed two people, the pilot and his passenger. and evan what is the latest? i know you've been rying trying to piece this together for us. >> so far, cynthia, the faa is not saying why this happened. they have left the scene for the night but neighbors don't need an explanation to know that this
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>> this neighborhood was so shaken she couldn't bear to show her face. >> it shook my windows and doors and i could feel the earth shaking. >> across the street a few hundred feet inside the fence at peter o. knight was this. >> i came flying out the door because my next thought was oh my god t's a plane. >> indeed it was and there was nothing to do but call 9-1-1 and wait. >> it's pretty obvious there was nobody in there, no movement, you kept hearing these pop, pop, pop, pop. >> the fire was so intention to the pilot and passenger could not be identified right away. >> i'm just thinking it's sad and how easy it could happen. >> but how? all investigators said was it happened during take-off and
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second plane involved but would not say why or how. investigation. as all of you folks have heard stories, that's all we've heard at this time. >> the scene stunned passers by, and brought back memories of a plane crashing into a home in the area. they happen infrequently but when they do, no one forgets. >> i feel utterly sick. two people died. >> and that flashing x shows that this airport and runway remains closed. the plaij is plane is prejudiced to is registered for a nonprofit, but they did not want to say anything.
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and killed outside a bar at the shipwreck bar. it happens around 3:00 a.m., and officers say the other man insolved is involved is a 25-year-old man. >> and deputies have the man they've been looking for, a 44-year-old from mulberry. working on a number of tips, polk detectives found him at the rodeway inn and say he is the one who stole a car with a 2-year-old inside. the car was found abandoned a short time later in the parking lot of an autozone, the child was inside and was not hurt. >> a pasco deputy is accused or abusing little girl. brian ferguson is stoad have choked a 7-year-old and poured soap into her mouth and
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a sibling is said to have witnessed everything. he was fired. >> it's horrible what this criminal did to this little girl and no one in the sherrif's office has any mercy. we don't consider him a law enforcement officer or a former law enforcement officer, we consider him a criminal because that's what he is. >> president obama's trip to cuba is just now a couple of days away. a congressional delegation that includes kathy pastor will go along, and the race and a group of rays fans are also traveling to cuba, and it will be the first time in 90 years that a sitting president has been to cuba. >> -- at the forefront of fretting for greater change in cuba and president obama has respond and now the business community is engaged.
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and there will be a team in cuba. our political editor will be covering the rays game and president obama's visit, be sure to look at for reports next week. >> a hillsborough county deputy was laid to rest today in an emotional funeral attended by thousands of law enforcement officers. >> bagpipers played "amazing grace" as the cas set casket was carried in. he died last week in a crash with a wrong-way driver and we learned today he may have saved another driver from being hit. today he was remembered as a
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>> let us pray. hear our prayers on behalf of your servant john robert -- >> john was one of those guys that was always there when you needed him. it didn't matter what it was or where or when. you see, john was born to serve others. it was in his dna. that's why he became a cop. amazing grace, how sweet the sound '0d >> to his wife and the rest of the family you raise ad good and honorable son. he will be missed. >> to find out he gave up his life to save someone else's i i thought he could not be more proud, but i'm more proud of him for what he did, the amazing person he was.
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since i was a baby and so believe me when i say avenues he was a protector long before he ever wore a badge. >> he he is a hero, he earned and it he deserved it by like others in this room, he was not defined by one moment in time. >> he will be buried in his home state of massachusetts. >> i saw that picture of him with the little kitten he rescued last year. he was that kind of guy everybody said who wanted to help the most helpless. >> so sad and frustrating. >> well, macdill's airfest is this weekend. you are going to see what you don't want to miss, coming up. >> and how would you like to have in this your back yard. a 250-foot yacht, but where to future? flow is a
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>> and this teenager with a brain tumor the size of a softball, but he is beating the odds. >> and we have showers now, that start working toward the nature coast, here you see them just off shore, but more on saturday. ugh. i really shouldn't. no, you know what? i should. and i will. i deserve this. i'm a bogo findin', weekly ad flippin', couponing mastermind. this girl! indeed. this queen of savings deserves a reward. a cannoli, please. the weekly ad, bogos and coupons. three easy ways to save at the same place you love to shop.
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macdill this weekend to watch the display, but not all of the action happens in the airplanes. they offer a glimpse into the world of special ops. >> they are the unseen warriors and do amazing things and their story is never told. this is a small way we can show appreciation for all they do day in and day out across the globe. >> there is free admission and so is parking but you better get there early because it fills up past fern. >> fast. >> and a ribbon cutting was held for the harbor ridge marie in a, marina, the only large yacht marina on the whole coast of florida. >> say you have a $15 boat and
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boat like that are typically 10% of the asking price of the boat and so that is a lot of money going into the local committee. >> the docks are designed for boats up to 250 feet long and they are built to withstand a 10-foot storm surge. >> and when you get one some day, mark, you will have some place to park it. >> i don't think i will ever get one. hopefully -- but let's toss it over to mike. >> rocky stuff this weekend? >> we'll have rain moving into the picture. best chance for showers and thunderstorms is going to be to the north but heading into the day tomorrow, that threat spreads elsewhere across the area. you see the storms just off to the north here. here is the time-lapse view from today.
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with high clouds moving into the picture and ended up on the cloudier sign of things, kind of a sign of what's to come heading into the day tomorrow and really through much of the weekend, at least through much of saturday and sunday. here is a look again, zoomed in, the sky tower radar view and you see where the rain is spreading into portions of hernando and citrus county, and not seeing a whole lot. still well off shore, but plenty more to come at least beyond this initial batch. here is the wider view and you see all of this rain off to the west but notice the movement. everything moving due east. and what i think is going to start to happen overnight or at least what some of the computer models are showing is a bit more of a southward trend, spreading farther south and east and we are watching a couple of batches of rain, one late tomorrow
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later saturday afternoon, saturday and into sunday morning. this is part of a much larger system but several pulses pulse impulses riding through and you have one back to the west and another to the west of that, and you have to take all of that to get through here before we can start to dry things out. here is how the future cast plays out, it has the first impulse riding through tomorrow morning and could be some storms with this some even on the stronger side of things. we will still have storms around late tomorrow afternoon and into the evening. it does pick up on the third and final impulse moving through saturday night into sunday morning and that picks up with the storms moving through on sunday evening and winds turn northwesterly and cooler and dryer.
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upper 70's to near 80 at the coast and current temperatures into the mid 70's close to tampa. 72? sarasota, 69 wauchula, and 73 in winter haven. across the state, 77 right now in miami, 723 in st. pete, around 66 in tal harks and here you go. here is that cooler air. we are waiting for that to drain in, and again we get a piece of that coming through later sunday into monday and so 67 for tonight, showers and thunderstorms especially off to the north and then tomorrow, i don't see it raining all day. i think there will be dry stretches out there, tough to say exactly when they will be but download the sky tower radar app, 67 with sun and then back up to into the 80's by the middle of mex next week. >> and now the last suspect in
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they've caught the last >> police in belgium say they have caught the final suspect in the pa ris paris attacks. >> the largest man hunt in european history is now over. he is wounded but he is alive. >> he was tracked down to an apartment in his home district in brussels. on breaching the door, police shouted at him to come ut with his hands up, and when he didn't, she shot him in they shot him in the knee. he was portrayed at the terrorist that got away. he was stopped twice by police after the attacks but let go, and despite a massive hunt, the
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some suspected he had gone back to the near east because he was under the noses of the police in brussels seemingly hidden by accomplices. >> this shows that the community is providing safe haven for him. they were helping and moving him from location to location. and so a lot of miami had people had to know about his whereabouts and that is going to be where the intelligence should focus. >> a joint raid was carried out in a suburb of brussels and met with resissens. resistance. several police officers were injured and one accomplice killed. there were a number of rounds of ammunition left behind and an isis flag. it's still unclear why he didn't
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a suicide belt was found in a suburb of paris because it's unclearif he chose clear why he didn't blow himself up or in it just didn't work. >> hundreds of athletes gathered for a race to the top of the eiffel power. this was the second annual vertical eiffel tower race. competitors race against each other to get to the top and the same two winners from last year and so atop the winners policeman. the winners platform, in 7:48. >> i feel great, i improved by two seconds, and i am defending
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for the finish. >> independent vermont senator bernie sanders who is running against hinter to be the nominee says he is committed to the fight up to the convention in july. >> we have received 849 delegates and we have a path toward victory that goes right through idaho! >> that can-do spirit in the face of overwhelming odds is faced by his republican counterparts in their races. cruz and kasich who both trail trump in state-wide and national polls. >> the reason i'm running for president of the united states and the reason i continue to run is i'm the only candidate that can beat
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hillary clinton in the fall. >> both front runners come with their own baggage and leaders in both parties are worried this could split the vote and lead to contested conventions. >> trump was not defollowished demolishes the opposition, there is still intention opposition to his nomination in his own party. >> hillary clinton and donald trump lead by wide margins. in washington, doug mcelway for fox news. >> and these birds are ambassadors in the battle against climate change. the game is calling on young people to do what they can to address the issue of climate
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>> doctors discovered a massive tumor in this teen's brain, but today he is working alongside them and we have the story of his remarkable recovery. >> he is perfect for his job, transporting patients into surgery at children's hospital, because he had been the kid in the bed. >> i have had over 100mri's and cat cat scans. >> his battle began at 16 with migraines. >> i just remember throwing up every day, constant headaches. >> and one day in may 2006 his legs grew week and started to turn inward. >> i looked on the internet and it says if it effects their leg, shg something is wrong. >> at the closest e.r. doctors ordered a c.t. and saw this. >> it was like my life stopped.
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care by ambulance, terrell had a huge tumor right into the center of his brain. >> i was like please, just have the right person there that can save my child's life. >> dr. rice ner ner was the neurosurgeon on call. >> no matter how long you do this it's always dramatic to see something like this. >> he was fighting and he told me he was about to die. >> he was rushed into surgely where a surgerywhere a shunt was placed to relieve the pressure on his brain. >> there is never any medical diagram drama with him, he accepted his fate. >> but he pulled through earning his high school diploma and becoming fixated on his dream, to work at the hospital that saved him, and finally after
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job and then he was here prepping in the o.r. when dr. ricener walked in. >> i hugged him so hard. >> the surgeon and the kid that he saved, now coworkers. >> he said i'm very handsome. >> and dr. ricener says he is not surprised that terrell is living his dream. >> frankly he is very nice. >> and his wife is mariela and they recently realized she is pregnant with their first child and he says he feels like the lucky his man alive. >> and the art world is buzzing about a new artist.
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performance at a high school pep rally. the video is terrifying. what he says went wrong with the student and why he is apologizing. and jill kelley and the issue that might impact her lawsuit against the federal government, that coming up on the fox 13 11:00 news. >> and this artist is being compared to the lated jackson pollack. we introduce you to this surprising participatorrer. >> surprising painter. >> this equestrian center is known for producing thorough breds. and 15 years ago a wheaten horse won't run for the roses. >> if you look down, there is a
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>> some say he reminds them of jackson pollock. >> nick is a retired carriage horse from mackinaw island, and it's a story that you have to see. nick paints! >> kind of a diva. >> in just three minutes, he can create a masterpiece. >> i think when people start cheering he gets a little more excited and animated. >> at 23, the trainer says the participating keeps his mind active and he was trained to paint in the same way that you train a dog. >> i work with the clinter to clicker to touch and then hold the paint brush and with every click he gets a treat. >> the walls are filled with his paintings and he has sold close to 200. >> it keeps his young.
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from $5 to $50 and the profits are given to the forrest forest service of dupaige county which owns the preserve. >> and this is a two-hour musical based on the crucifixion. it will be presented live and will move through the streets of new orleans. we take a look. >> fox's sunday live broadcast of the passion will be an epic two-hour events taking place live on the streets of new orleans. and mixes modern pop with the story of jesus' last hours, the cast and narrator leaving this is just what the country needs. >> we need hope, we need faith, and god and something to lift us, and i was surprised to see
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millennials don't even know the story of the crucifixion. this opens it up to everyone. >> i think the songs chosen take on a completely new mean whg you meaning when you sue the see the visuals and how they work in the context. >> with thousands expected to watch a 20-foot illuminated cross carries across the city, tyler is proud that it's going to be broadcast from his hometown. >> i said yes when i found out it was being performed here, because new orleans is my hometown, one. >> in hollywood, trace gag gallager for knox if fox news. >> it's live right here sunday night at 8:00.
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if they she had gone down with the baby, it could have been bad, and she is so thankful. she has come back and thanked the clerk for helping her and -- >> you know it's paying attention, and thank goodness she had the thoughts to move quickly, hold on, are you okay? >> and you remember wilily coyote and the roadrunner? he would paint a tunnel on the wall and the roadrunner would run right through it and this now becomes reality. someone painted a tunnel on the wall and the roadrunner is standing right next to this but it had consequences, someone tried to drive through it -- >> oh, my. >> are you sure this wasn't in florida? >> where was that?
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>> i'm not sure. >> oh, my. >> so anyway, the traffic employees are going to paint over it so no one else does the same, but i can imagine at night that might be a problem. >> yeah, if it has shadow and if you're not used to the area -- >> hey, when did they put the punl tunnel here, sweet? >> and look, roadrunner is here, too. >> i was allegation loved roadrunner. and you remember the blue dress, the gold dress. and this one is going crazy, how many girls -- >> i know the answer but i'm not going to say. >> two? >> my bet is two. >> that's right. >> it looks like a mirror on the far side and a mirror on the near side, but some people are convinced there are more than two. >> this morning i heard russell roads say 30, and i was laughing
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>> this is certainly an optical illusion, and a great photo. it was posted on instagram, and some people think it's five, but the photographer confirmed, winner win, chicken dinner, there are only two. >> this is going to turn into a mirrors. >> you are probably right about that. >> let's just jump into sports. a lot of winners and losers but no bigger winner than las vegas hauling in the mother lode tonight, a vegas favorite to win the national title but its worst loss in program history, the blue raiders of middle tennessee and we were thinking that michigan was going to heat up at some point but it never happened. harris again, with a huge three-pointer right here, and they just laid it on 'em.
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raymond takes this one inside and middle tennessee state beats michigan state, 90-81. the sparters are spartans are in a state of shock. >> i feel bad for my guys. they have given me this university and this program and the city -- a lot of stuff. but the better team won today,-they really did and they have to take that like men and be class about it like i think they are, so that's it. >> and 13th seed hawaii and 4th seed cal. up half a dozen at the break and second half, bobbet.
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and hawaii pulls the upset, the schools first ever tourney win. 77-66 your final. and the rays are looking for a new closure but may already exist on the roster. a major below as boxberger will miss eight weeks with a tear from from an abdominal muscle. and he leave as big hole to fill. now the rays will look to the pen and see who can handle the ninth inning and that could include alex or steve or danny. and meantime the rays are back in port charlotte. no long gore are longoria today, but the bats
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and meantime danny farquar auditioning for the closure closure role, and after that he talked about the chance to be the ray's closer. >> i just want to make the team more than anything and then if things fall into place, and somebody would be lying if they said they don't want to close out games because that is the number one job in the bull pen. >> and they are making the trip to cuba, and we are going to cover everything, our coverage begins on monday. and family, friends and teammates of tray walker are grieving the death of the 23-year-old, he died at 5:00 p.m. this evening from injuries sustained in a dirt bike incident. at the time of the crash he was not hearing a helmet.
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a heart attack and he dedicated his rookie season to his dad. and appendix a teammate wrote, a mother lost her son today, and a family their will -- and the team a teammate. some of the reports early on saying he was riding his bike, wearing dark clothes and didn't have a headlight and they don't want to assign blame but are saying what it looks like at this point and the investigation continues. >> it can be dangerous throughout no for anybody. scott, thanks.
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up in the atmosphere. this is what happens when you get high sissus rus clouds, and you look in the eye of the gator and you see the sunrise, that is a really, really cool looking photo there. and showing the showers up to the north right now. this batch of showers working in towards citrus country, the heaviest of the rain for now at least looks like it stays to the north. but we'll have to watch the trends to see if it moves farther south and east. more showers offshore, some may work through tonight but the latest thinking is we are going to wait until we get to the back of these showers off to the west and those will tart as start to work in and these near new orleans will work in later on tomorrow, some time toward midday, and maybe into the afternoon hours. no risk tonight but heading into
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marginal risk for severe weather. we'll have to watch out for gusty winds with some of these storms. here is how your future cs cast plays out, a couple of isolated showered and storm but the main batch coming in around noon or so, maybe slightly thereafter and then pushing back into the afternoon hours. so pointing toward the afternoon as the potential for seeing the heaviest of the rain and the potential for storms. some lingers hours on sunday and much cooler heading into monday. monday, into the mid to upper 60's. >> still have your car, the average price for unleaded is creeping up, up about 30 cents in the most but keep in mind that prices are down
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last year, but nothing keeping stocks down for now. now up for the past five weeks. meantime some shocking shocking news from ikea. they are recalling more than 30,000 of its gottham floor and table lamps. there are problems with the cords causing a shock hazard and now you can have your pretzels and cinnamon roles and ice cream. this chain is planning a major expansion to the west. auntie em's and cinnabon, all three of the companies endoby the chains owned by thesame company. how about this we got a really
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new artwork at the perry -- let me start this over again. the art is the cornerstone of perry harvey senior park and tells the story of tampa's rich african-american mystery and it's awesome. these were created by james simon and they depict musicians with their dogs. the jukebox will dancers are nearby, and there are eight optical mirrors and this walkway is called leader's row, featuring leaders who have made their mark all over the city of tampa, and a part of the park also houses the bro bowl. the old skatepark was demolishes and an exact replica was built in the new area. it's between east scott just east of downtown. it officially opened to the
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they've done a great job. time now for the fox 13 11:00 news. >> a major win for hulk hogan and a big loss for gawker. >> we would have been prevailed at trial had we been allowed to present the full case to the jury. >> how the jury reached a multi-million-dollar verdict and why it's not over yet. >> you wonder when someone is going to have a heart attack and die from some of these substances. >> why clearwater police are using this image to warn about the dangers of spice. >> and this man got fired. how social media played a part. >> topping 11:00 tonight, the jury sided with hulk hogan in
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