adam weiner explains that time is running out to get in on this easy way to vote. >> it comes directly to your home. the weather or the kids going to school or something coming up at work. the ballot is mailed to your home and you get to vote at your convenience on your time. >> reporter: over 200,000 primary election ballots were mailed out tuesday. it is the what i that most of the county has voted over the last couple of election cycles. >> we have a motorhome. we travel all over the united states. we're never really sure when we're going to be in town. having the mail-in ballot gives us the opportunity to travel and make sure that we're able to vote. >> reporter: anyone can vote absentee in florida. >> there is a primary election coming up. we're not really sure where we're going to be, whether we will be in town or not. and so the mail-in ballot makes it nice for us. >> reporter: the deputy supervise for elections thinks that many people are unaware of the absentee rules in florida advantage of them if new knew about them. we need to educate our voters on options. letting voters k

i'm adam weiner for the new tampa bay. >> i'm laura harris. that's it for the new tampa bay. >> we're back tomorrow at 4:00. abc action news at 5:00 starts >> i'm absolutely committed to closing the detention facility at guantanamo. >> right now, president obama trying to make good on the original campaign promise. tonight the controversy erupting over the plan to close guantanamo bay. >>> plus this -- >> it's really bad. >> this surveillance video stops a teen in his tracks tonight. the overnight crime spree that landed a 13-year-old in big trouble with the law. good evening. i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. thanks for joining us. that 13-year-old stole a van from a day care. >> take a look. he then stole that van and tried to rob this store. but he was interrupted by the store's owner. he then crashed the van in the progress village area. he then stole a bicycle from a home there and was arrested at that time. ashley yore has the lessons learned. >> reporter: the day care now a scene of a crime. >> we have to fall in sight of the yo

adam weiner is joining us from largo with this. why is it so important? >> reporter: up until this point, everything we have heard about the election has been polling and speculation. the first time we get to hear from the voters about what they think act these issues. and oftentimes the campaigns come to an end after iowa and in a lot of case, the full array of candidates we have seen may not be there by the time florida gets to vote. >> we have jeb bush and marco rubio from florida but not really leading in the pack. might they drop out before florida can get a chance to vote? >> reporter: certainly possible, but unlikely. one, they are still getting pretty well in the polls and they have a lot of money and have the big incentive of here like pinellas county, they know they will get a lot of votes here in florida. they also know this is a winner take all state. if they win florida and other states in the south, that gives them a lot of momentum moving forward. i bet voters can still pick them when they come around. things differently, florida has a clos

. >> with that, adam weiner is explaining the extra precautions you should take now before letting someone move in. >> reporter: 23-year-old danielle jones needed a blood just to put her face back together. police say byron mitchell tried to kill her on valentine's day after being roommates for about a week. the story was especially frightening to joseph, since he has an ad for a roommate on craigslist right now. >> you have no idea what these people have done in the past, what they're capable of doing, what's going on upstairs. >> reporter: he is in an entry level position at work and looking to split the cost of living. >> when i see the e-mails that people respond with, they all start with, i love the post, it was funny. that's how i know, like, this is a person who's reading the entire thing. >> reporter: that is a first step, and he'll then meet candidates in person and look them up online. the complex is also doing background and credit checks. if you're doing those yourself, experian.com is a great tool. and florida's department of law enforcement offers criminal website and it's no

as the now's adam weiner found out, it doesn't look like it going away any time since. >> it makes no sense to have people being treated for diabetes on one floor and see the most recognized brand of junk food on another floor. >> reporter: a nonprofit consumer advocacy group demanded an end to a perceived contradiction. >> it seems wrong to me that a >> reporter: tampa general is a hospital on an island. >> you have minimal resources. so we do what we can to survive, i guess. that unfortunately is mcdonalds at times. >> reporter: that's a big part of the problem says janet, a registered nurse who works overnight at tgh when the cafeteria is closed. >> a lot of people are buzzy and don't have a chance to grab food from the cafeteria. >> reporter: this mcdonalds has been here since 1988, back when it was a public hospital. and a hospital spokesperson says tgh has a legally binding lease agreement with mcdonalds and it doesn't end until 2023. >> i assume that we know a lot more now about food than we did back then. i think if the decision was to made again, we would have a different out

adam weiner is finding out how your information will be protected. >> it worries me that this is the kind of cyber security we're seeing in 2016. >> reporter: he hacked into a server at the lee county supervisor of elections office youtube he explains how he did it. >> i fooled it into giving me the columns and the rows. and in that database we found the user names and passwords. right to the admin log-in page. and the first attempt with these supervisor's log-in credentials was successful. >> reporter: he didn't take any information, hacking the site proving that more security is needed. on monday, their agents searched his home near fort myers and say they're, quote, actively investigating. the question now is is your voting information safe? we asked local supervisor of elections offices what they're doing to make sure that their websites are safe. hillsborough does frequent password encryption. that is key to making sure and preventing what david levin did in lee county won't happen here. >> this is very important. you don't need to live here in lee county. you could be halfway a

the now's adam weiner went with rangers to see the mistakes that people make when the weather gets dicey. >> this vehicle comprises district 7. winds like this causes a lot of crashes. people think they can go right through it. that's when they make the overcorrections and spinning out. >> reporter: that's how it was on and off all three the day today. the worst spots when it rains he says are the highway ramps. it's the turns that drivers often lose control on, especially the merges around tampa's airport getting on to i- 275. >> you see all of the scuffs and the ground was all chewed up. over there in the ditch. >> reporter: it gets really bad on the howard franklin. debris caused more damage later in the day. >> i was on this road and there was a big piece of debris in the highway. hit the debris or hit a car. i ended up hitting a taillight or a heed light and it shredded my tire. >> reporter: she got help from a road ranger in replacing her tire. >> i called and they were here in like a minute. >> reporter: star 347 will you get you a road ranger. their reminder for today, don't unde

adam shapiro, thank you. we'll see you when the bell rings. oil erased gains for the entire week. inflation data shows fed may have a firm path raising rates. we have ron weinereo of rdm. gentlemen, good to have you here. fed got the minutes, a-month-old but still got the fed minutes. raising rates, yes or no? >> i think it is kind of touch and go. i would hope the fed continues on course it set because they painted themselves into a corner. there is a lot of talk about negative rate lately. because yellen said that is a possibility, certainly doesn't mean likely. as we all know, even fed says something likely, doesn't mean any action is imminent. fed is making sure they telegraph there are extra tools in the tool box. i'm hopeful we stay on the rate path forward. let's be honest we can't hang with 50 basis points in interest rates. there is systemic problems we'll have to deal with. you're kind of darned if you do, darned if you don't. i would prefer fed stay on course as they said they will. cheryl: they likely will. ron, i want to ask about one of your picks today, apple. we found out today looks like the doj is pushing ahead on apple to comply. the pressu