oh lord, i want to be in that number president obama takes in the sights and sounds of havana on his hist

sounds and sights >> this is an historic visit and an historic opportunity to engage directly with the cuban people. >> history is made in cuba as president obama becomes the first u.s. president in nearly 90 years to gift the island nation. >> a river view woman is aused or accusedor driving drunk going the wrong way and nearly hitting a police officer >> >> good evening, i'm aaron

>> and i'm haley hines, thank you for being with us. on the even of the president's historic trip to cuba he and his family tour the nation's capitol and learn about its history. >> a new type of globallal warming is now taking place in what may be one of the last melting points in the cold war, the president landed in havana, in cuba. this has been a flash point between the u.s. and what was then the soaf soviet union during the cold war. the president says reopening the door to cuba has been official to both nations. >> this is an historic visit and

engage directly with the cuban people and to forge new ties between our two peoples and for me to lay out my vision for a future that is brighter than our past. >> president obama is the firstment to visit cuba since that calvin coolidge nearly 90 years ago. the island nation turned into a torn in the u.s. of many u.s. presidents until this one. now everyone is thrilled with the president's trip to cuba. >> every dollar spent in cuba doesn't go to the average cuban. it ends up going to the reseem because regimebecause you can only go to dollar stores to use your dollars and purchase things that are worthwhile.

to meet with cuban leader raul cast castro during his trip to the islands. traveling with the president in havana. >> president obama has something in common with the tampa bay stones. they are all making historic trips to cuba this weekend. fox 13's kelley cowan spoke the visitors. >> there is no better time than to go right now. >> we want to go before things started to change. many years ago we went to east berlin and wanted to have that experience of seeing things while they are still relatively authentic. >> with normalized relations

see the island nation that for years has been offlimits and this rays game was more than enough motivation for this die-hard rays fan to book his trip. >> we are able to say we were there when the rays were there, and the ultimate baseball game of all perng. >> all. >> many of the people in line are making their very first trip to the island nation, and because of travel restrictions this is a trip that required months of planning. >> there is a lot of paperwork and visa information. difficult to do by yourself, because there is a lot of paperwork to fill out. >> there is still a formal ban on tourism and so americans making the trip must declare a preapproved reason for their travel, like a cultural exchange

says he is excited to tour areas he has so far only been able to read about in history books. >> a day at the beach and tour a tobacco factory and see the state department run dance program, will. >> program. >> kelley cowan fox 13 news. >> and fox 13 has a team in cuba as well. our sports director scott smith will be covering the rays game and you can look for their reports starting tomorrow. >> a riverview woman is under arrest accused or going the wrong way on 275 and almost liting a police cruiser. a dam pa police officer was on his way home when i saw a car driven by aja cancela caming at him southbound in the northbound lane. he managed to get out of the

and another officer saw her exit the exercise state on an on ramp, and he was able to stop her, she was later arrested. and early today a procession of deputies led the hearse for deputy john kotfila to the airport, he will be buried in his home state of massachusetts. >> and police are looking for a driver that hit a bicyclist and the bicyclist, a man in his 40's was killed. police are looking for surveillance video that could help them to find that car, and fire rescue responded to a propane leak, they are trying to figure out how it got there. eight homes were evacuated until the leak would be fixed and everyone is home tonight.

10:00, police are cracking down after a series of spice overdoses. spice has caused a number of emergencies around the tampa bay area recently. nearly a dozen homeless people were found at unity park suffering from seizures all believed to have been caused by this illegal drug. >> and around 4:00 this morning, the u.s. 19 and darlington road, a deputy thought a driver might be drunk, but the driver refused to stop and eventually hit a light pull. deputy says both people in the car were 13-year-olds and may have been run aways. >> and the death of 5-year-old phoebe jonchuck continues to hit

about a dozen motorcycle riders gathered to remember phoebe, they stopped to place flowers in the water. her father dropped her off of the best of my knowledge best of my dick meisner bridge.he has still not been declared competent to stand trial. >> we feel bad and we have to heal, we have to do something when things are wrong to make it better, and that is what everybody gets out of being here and doing this. >> last year's event brought in $4,000, and proceeds go towards a scholarship in phoebe's name. >> and a app that prevents people from leaving a child in a car. that is up next.

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that alerts parents or caretakers if they have left a child in a vehicle. works. >> it's the first day of spring and we know that means it's only going to get hotter. two local dads have invented a way to help save lives. the device was co-founded by the two of carrollwood. it has two parts. sensors. one fits under the pad in the child's car seat, if there's least two pounds in the seat, there is a voice alert reminding you to take your child out of the car and if that is ignored you get a text send to your phone via an app and another alert to another care taker if a certain time passes and the

>> once the door opens it alerts the device and once that goes off it mentioned to the parent or caregiver, please remove your child from the seat. >> a child has been detected in the seat. >> and they say they have already gotten interest in investors. ultimately they would like to market the idea to carseat or car prferrers manufacturers to get theme into as many vehicles as possible. >> and open says sesame, it opens the smart phone market to millions of people who have not been able to use touch screens. it's specifically designed for people with disabled. they can control the phone with

of small head movements. >> you can download text and e-mails and we have had children able to play angry girdz for birds for the first anytime their lives. >> these are really cool pieces useful. what about the disabilities and you know with it gets hot, you know that that app that the two fathers created, that is going to be really helpful. >> and we are getting into that time of the year. we saw it this week and before you know it it's summer time and that car temperature can heat up well love 100 degrees like that. we want to show you this forecast as we head throughout the next couple of days. start you off with the time lapse from today. start off with the clouds and we

this tee tees it up just a little bit warmer. clouds moving back in and we are gradually seeing some clears clearing out there. we did get up to average. 77 the high in fracture in fact in tampa, and when you are looking at calendar we throw back the yellow and you have had two days average and the rest of the month has all been above average, but i think as we round out at least into the weekend, maybe into next week, we are right back into the red and maybe well above average by the end of this week. 65, a dewpoint of 56, the dewpoint will be crashes over the next 24 hours or so. winds out of the west, 9 miles per hour, other temperatures across the area, 64 in bartow, 66 in wauchula, 67 in sarasota

crystal river. what you see right now is already below what many areas dropped into over the next five, six mieghts and temperatures are going to continue to drop off. it's six degrees cooler than 24 hours ago, and seven degrees up in brooksville and a few as you head inland, temperatures are going to continue to drop off and plummet through the overnight, and so here is a look at your forecasted lows. when you take up monday, i know we thought they were done but you have to probably bring a light coat out there. 51 in familiar for an overnight low, and 43 up in brooksville, and low 50's heading off to the south and east and the amazing thing this is not even going to be the coldest night. tomorrow night we brought that. certainly things are not quite done in terms of the winter

the end of this week i promise it will feel more like spring. here is the cold front dropping through the area, south and east. but you notice the clouds off to the west. there is not a lot of southward push, and heading into the day on wednesday, i'm not expecting the line to drop too much farther south, that meaning the more north you get the farther sunshine you get. heading into the southern part of our viewing area, you may be dealing with more in the way of clouds. this is turning into a snowstorm in the east, first day of spring spring? how about 4 to 6 inches of snow? temperature-wise not quite cold enough but you will see the temping drop overnight, and in fact, here is the forecast model for them, snow continuing into

some folks near boston and into eastern maine may end up with close to a foot of snow by the time all is said and done. mother nature is just quite done with old man winter just yet. temperatures topping out in the mid 60's, tuesday morning, temperatures may be in the upper 30's and we may be dealing with frost potential. high temperatures off to the east and this turns our winds to more of a southernly direction, and wednesday will be your one gradual day where we flip to near normal but thursday, friday, saturday and sunday we are back well above average. and so clearing overnight, breezy and chilly, and for tomorrow, more sun the further north you go.

still into the upper 60's, wall to wall sunshine, and a small-craft advisory, and seas 10 to 14 feet. here is a look at your seven-day. temperatures warming up, and low to mid 80's, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday, but unsettled as well, and at this point, saturday and sunday we may be dealing with some scattered afternoon storms but still several days to fine fiewn the fine-tune the forecast. >> one of the worst things about traveling are the long lines at screening points but. >> points. >> better than but that could be a thing of the past, with a screener that is faster.

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((haley vo )) new at ten: >> new at 10:00, tired of the long lines at the airport? this new machine could make the process faster and safer. the company that make it is says it will improve airport security for passengers around the world. >> the system is fully automated and it produces 30% more bags. >> airport security lines have gotten dramatically longer due to reduced tsa staffing and more travelers and slower check-points.

its ability to detect explosives in a number of ways is very, very important. this will take us from the present and put us in a much, much better place overall. >> it's called the detect 1,000, developing by a private company outside of bosser and it boston and it uses a cat scan with sensors designed to sniff out explosives including things like laptop bottoms bombs and doesn't require patterns to up pack lap to bees to laptops or liquids. >> and tsa agents don't have a stare at a screen all day. >> at best case they might catch it 50% of the time but what we have here is a decision that is going to catch it all the time, we take the decision out of the operator's hand and give it to

is a much, much more reliable way to do bag screens. >> the machine can screen 30% more bags and researchers say it aced its tests with 30% fewer false alarms. it's already deploying it overseas starting in ankara, turkey. >> we know they look at our operations and looking for vulnerabilities. >> and this has fewer of those? >> absolute sli, absolutely, without a doubt because it's a way to identify the that ret threat vectors. >> and it could be coming to an airport in the u.s. by

today, taking jabs ((aaron 2sh)) the presidential candidates have >> the presidential candidates have wrapped up another weekend of campaigning and are looking toward tuesday. >> primaries in several western states could swing the momentum for any of them. >> a slightly more subdued sunday after a raucous day on the campaign trail. this was tame after saturday's crowd coming to blows. >> i get a kick out of ted. he's a nice guy and john is a nice guy, and really it's so important that we come together as a party. >> meantime senator ted cruz is making its way through arizona and turning his sites on trump. >> -- 40 years -- i have no

>> and ohio governor kasich getting a few jobs in. >> i have pointed out a few times that i think his language is inappropriate, like if i don't get nominate thrd is nominated there is going to be a riot, i mean, what kind of talk is that. >> we are in position if the first time since i left office to create the more inclusive society we have ever had -- >> and bernie making three stops. >> we say to the billionaire and corporate america and to wall street, no, this country is not going to become an oligarchy, we are a democracy. >> and so the focus turns to western states, in tucson, dan springer, fox 13 news.

suspect are dead after a shoot-out in indianapolis. a person inside a mobile home opened fire when the two were trying to serve a sw. the search warrant. and the suspect was killed by police. and a school bus carrying a boy's basketball team overturned on the interstate. car. the team was headed for a state tournament and amazingly no one was seriously hurt. >> and 13 people with dead after a bus carrying college student hit the bare barriers, cartwheeled and slammed on to its side. police are trying to find out what happens. the driver passed alcohol and drug tests and road conditions

crash. investigators have begun examining the black boxes from an airplane that crashed in russia. the boeing 737 northwest nosedived and exploded during high windows, and although the boxes are damages, officials are saying that the materials are still of high quality. flowers and toys have being left in memory of those killed. thousands in jerusalem gathered to commemorate jesus christ's entry into the city a week before his death and resurrection. clear clergy and pilgrims begin the

>> and mitch mcconnell says the senate will not take any action on merrick garland's nomination during the lame dug duck session. >> from the beginning mcconnell has said there will be no meeting and no up and down vote, but support for some a hard line seems to be breaking. despite mounting pressure, mcconnell is standing firm, and said this seat should stay faict vacant until after 2017. >> we think that the most important point is the american people need to weigh in and decide who is going to make this decision. not this lame duck president on the way out the door but the

>> mcconnell also shut down the idea that senate republicans ought to be able -- at the same time, the white house is ruling out its own lame duck scenario, including the that premiss that the president would nominate someone more liberal if a democrat is elected. >> through the end of the president's temple? >> term? >> that is correct. >> the senate republicans plan to meet after they return from easter recess. >> a house was built in chicago just to be burned down. >> we'll show you how firefighters are getting hands-on learning that will help them to save lives in the field. that is coming up next. >> with the florida primary behind us, it's important to remember those we have left

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satire, and roll out videos that ((aaron vo )) >> new at 10:00, a 1700 foot home in chicago was built swrus to be burned. researchers are turning up the heat and learning valuable information for firefighters. >> as we explain, what they are learning and how the lab will be used to save lives in the field. >> we are about an hour away from our first burn here this morning. >> under way in this massive laboratory, sits a 1700 square foot ranch home that was built to be burned. >> all of this is preplanned and preprogrammed so we have data that is repeatable and scientific. >> science meets smoke at u.l. where for the last three weeks researchers have been setting fires in this home and replicas just like it to measure air currents and gas concentrations

>> we are able to tell what is going on in every room and then we have data points that allow us to identify victim survivability inside a fire. >> today scores of firefighters are on hand for this final burn test. >> ultimately you want to know what is survivallable and what is not, and where are people able to be saved. a tray of pig flesh is placed in the home to simulate bodies. at first it's just a trickle of smoke, but then it's flamed in the flames inthe hallway. >> traditional methods of attacking fires needs to be re-examined. >> we all like bigger houses and open floor planes and all of the

incorporate a lot of synthetic fiepers fibers and so fires are burning hotter and faster today. >> the information that ultimately comes out, hopefully it will be useful as your bag of tricks on how to go about fighting a fire. >> something like that is so expensive, but so crucial. >> absolutely. >> well, spring training is coming to an end, but there is not a whole lot going on and that is not the case for the rays last week. >> not at all, they have history and they should be arriving in

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players and team employs to employees to visit. hot corner, a bar and restaurant is one of those destinations. the orioles loaded the bases and pedro unloads them. cash went with an all bullpen staff, 4-0 o's in the seconds, and morrison answered with a two-run blast, i mean a shot over the scoreboard. he came over from seattle to bring some pop. and next batter gets one and drives it into the gap. his first homer and the rays trail 7-3, and bases are loaded for steven sousa center, and it's

hopefully the bats stay hot in could cuba. the rays headed straight to the airport for cuba, a trip that longoria knows will be historic. >> i think being welcomed into a place where americans haven't really been in quite a few years. and knowing that baseball plays a special part in their culture as well as ours and so kind of blending those two cultures and seeing how excites it is to be over there in front of their fans. >> and here is our all-star line-up. sports director scott smith, and fox 13 political reporter craig patrick leaving for the airport, and the trip of a lifetime. safe travels my friend, we are all looking forward to the great stories.

will begin reporting from cuba tomorrow, with scott covering t lead-up to the games with the cuban nationals. stay tuned for fox 13 for this historic event. jim any jimmy jonesser is starting off the sprint cup season where he left off last year, fast, really fast. the series is in fan ta in fontana, california. and larson gets loose and heads straight across the track and into the wall, and fortunately it's a safe wall because that was quite a lick. and later on, casey gets into

out of her car, she looked for kasey kahne and gives him that universal "what on earth" sign. it's hard to believe it has been nearly ten years since the florida gators won back to back champ championships in men's ball, and they hired smith to get the gators going again, no berth this year but they are making noise in the nit. casey hill puts the up and under lay-up in, and florida has the early lead. what is remarkable is that casey casey puts so much english on this ball to get it to kiss off the glass. take a look from the other end. remarkable. he nails the three-pointer. florida wins 74-66 and advanced

courtney williams has the usf ball, and williams came off the bench, the first time all season she has started and scores a school record 31 points and they move on to face ucla in la on monday. >> i was so -- but like my uncle mentored and said when you're in the zone, it's such a fragile place to be, anything can take you out of that zone that you have to stay focused and that is what i try to do. >> and -- first half, walk-off collecting the rebound and lumberjacks down one, and 10 seconds later, we are moving to the second half here. lumberjacks take t lead and at the very end of the game here, noter game gets the put-in to

they advance, 76-75. haley and aaron? >> all right, jeff, thanks. mike is back with another looking lookat your seven-day, next. >> and meet the latest addition to the cincinnati zoo. they are not just cute, they are

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>> all righty, welcome back. started off with clouds and saw a little afternoon sun and then back to the clouds as we rounded out the day. but overall ended up being a pretty nice start to spring. a few showers early on but take a look at the highs. got up to 77 with the added sunshine. 81 from frost proof down through lake placid. tomorrow, take off about 10 to 15 dress and that's where our highs are going to be, here we go. certainly one of the coolest days we have had this month.

had since the end of february. a spring snowstorm in the northeast, coastal new england picking up 6 to 1 12 inches of show, and blustery for the beginning of the work week, winds up to about 20 miles per hour, and factor that in with the cool air and it's going to feeline chillier, and then becoming cooler and chilly, and stormy. winds out of the west-northeastnorthwest at 9. 64 in planned plant city, 65 in clear water, and 63 in when he wesley chapel. , 68 in he is bring, and 73 in lakeland.

this is winder's last gasp. you have a lot of cool air across much of the country slowly filtering down south. the thing is this time of the year even after the cold fronts move through, you cool down for a day and a half and that is exactly what is going to be happening with us. there is your cool front and more showers and thunderstorms for the keys and you will notice the back edge of the clouds not really moving and the moving. cooler weather for the next 36 hours and then warming up. by wednesday we are either near or above average and then above arrange by thursday, friday, saturday, and on into more unsettled weather patterns. for tonight, temperatures are dropping off to near 50, clearing over night, tomorrow,

go and more sun the further south, but cool and blustery. temperatures back into the low 70's by tuesday and upper 70's by wednesday, and mid 80's rounding out the workweek. aaron? >> mike, thanks. look at these adorable little cheetah cubs. they almost didn't make it into the world. they were born at a rare c-section procedure. this is a first look at the cubs. although they were born on march 8. they were in critical care in the zoo nursery, and they will stay there at least eight weeks until they are healthy enough to be back with their mom. >> they are so cute, can't they stay that way? >> and this happens every year. >> we are talking about dozens of kids dying from being left in

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