reporting live, kera mashek. >>> five people are grateful to boat flipped over in pinellas county. strong surf and wins overturned the boat. you can see people were forced to sit on top of before crews showed up. the coast guard came to the rescue about 7 miles off the beach. one motor -- one butter had a diabetic condition but everyone is expected be okay. >>> in hillsborough county a boy was hit while riding his bike. the driver did not see dylan herman on route 41 and crashed into him around 2:30 am. unfortunately the boy was not wearing a helmet. >>> ahead, protesters caught off traffic. the huge demonstration and the threats that finally cleared the road. >>> everything was destroyed. everything. all my life. >> ceiling collapse. the reason her mother -- the reason a mother said her children were traumatized by >>> look at this video. these are dozens of demonstrators and they are blocking a main artery in fountain hills. this is northeast of a phoenix. trump is holding a rally there. demonstrators packed cars sideways to block the road. traffic was backed up for miles. the sh

reporting on the pasco- hillsborough county line, kera mashek, abc action news. >>> a man is dead and four deputies on leave following a shooting at the apartments in north tampa. as rodney dunigan tells us, 27- year-old jeffrey kassal left them with no choice but to use deadly force. >> reporter: i spoke with jeffrey kassal's roommate. he says he was upset about something last night but he's not sure what it was. he says it was a dangerous situation and deputies had no choice but to shoot. john martin visibly disturbed when we spoke with him wednesday morning. shaken by the sudden loss of his roommate, 27-year-old jeffrey kassal. >> he was mad at something and his way. >> reporter: the problems started tuesday night when he became agitated for some reason. kassal grabbed his gun and began walking around the parking lot here at the apartments screaming and waving it around. >> i called 911. as i turned around, all of the police were coming in. >> reporter: when deputies arrived, they tried to get him to put the weapon down. instead, investigators say he approached them aggressively an

. >> reporter: in tampa, kera mashek, abc action news. >>> now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> if you had a chance to go out for lunch today, it was great outside. >> it's supposed to be march 1st. that's why we have spring training here and why everybody is going to the beach, spring break. all of the above this month. coast, this is down around the palm beach area. those are not guppies. >> oh, my gosh. >> shark. >> we have been seeing this a lot the last few weeks. a lot of reports of thousands of sharks off shore. and apparently it's really not all that unusual. it's why a lot of folks are not swimming this time of the year. but still we are seeing that. i would rather see this, a beautiful shot from apollo beach. just a beautiful day today. right around the 80 degree mark. that was the afternoon high. conditions. we have a front on the way and it arrives by tomorrow. and when it does, it does bring showers. humidity at 53%. dew point 56. west/southwest winds coming in at 8 miles per hour. so officially in tampa at the airport we hit 77. -- and we we

kera mashek talked with authorities. epidemic. from st. vincent de paul police say spike is making rapid rounds giving people a dangerous high. >> it is rat poison in their and >> 20 people in this area have gotten sick from spice and 12 of those saturday with half of them being hospitalized. symptoms range from vomiting to seizures and blackouts. chemicals. don't know what you are putting how you will react. is heartbreaking. his partner nearly died four times from using spice and is trying to recover. he worries the homeless population is being targeted with a cheap dangerous fix. >> it is really sad. clear out the homeless. >> police fear it may take tragedy for people to stop. >> they learn nothing. >> so far police have made three arrests involving spice. >>> a new round in a lawsuit tomorrow. the jury who awarded hogan $115 million will decide punitive damages against the website. gawker's lawyers gearing up for a fight. they tell us previously sealed documents now out show there are grounds for appeal. hogan whose real name is terry