all the way to the outskirts of the sleepy town of lakeland. and the doorway of this barber shop. it's here where owner greg smith first met a 42 year old man with the colorful name of abraham shakespeare. >> he used to come round the shop, i'd let him work, get paid or buy him something to eatyou know, that's how i first met him. >> reporter: his name, abraham shakespeare, conjures up both the old testament and elizabethan plays. but our modern day tragic hero would have read neither. he was illiterate, and down on his luck. >> you know, he was a less fortunate person. >> reporter: you couldn't make it up. shakespeare was a like a living breathing lotto commercial. the kind of guy you'd love to see moving from the poor house to the penthouse overnight. >> action news. >> breaking lottery news, you're not going to believe this -- >> reporter: and one fateful day, the fairy tale came true! of all people, abraham shakespeare won a jackpot worth 30 million bucks! >> one day he came to the barber shop and he was like, "greg, um, listen. i'm fixing to buy me a new car. i hit the lotter

. >> those specific bottles of propofol were shipped by mckesson distributors out of lakeland, florida. >> from there, they were shipped to the shands hospital at the university of florida. >> they were shipped during the time period of when oliver o'quinn was employed there. >> specifically, they were placed in an automated dispensing machine in the hospital icu. >> i traced it to a machine that operates kind of look a soda machine. you punch in the patient number, and it drops a bottle of a pharmaceutical in your hand. >> to get the propofol from the dispensing machine, a hospital employee had to enter his employee number. and whose code was entered to get these two vials? registered nurse oliver o'quinn. >> so i actually had that propofol all the way from the manufacturer in massachusetts to oliver o'quinn's hand in the surgical intensive care unit at the hospital. >> all investigators needed now was a sample of o'quinn's dna to compare to the dna on the needle caps found in michelle's trash. when police went to question him, they learned he had fled the country and was in ireland w

just a couple of feet off the ground near lakeland on saturday when it flies through his parachute, flinging him to the ground. the plane just takes a nose dive. surprisingly, the sky diver says he's willing to sky dive again. >> you know, i will keep sky diving. it's one of the safest sports you can do. there's really no more risk than going out playing football. >> remember, it's not the fall, it's the sudden stop. both the sky diver and the pile on -- pilot only suffered minor injuries. let's check in with christina. >> we've got some much-needed rainfall today. just adding every single drop in the bucket that we possibly can, because now after this front continues to clear out of here, we're talking about a dry stretch of weather that's really going to ramp up our temperatures as we head through the next couple days. a warming trend heading our way. just wanted to make sure you're aware of that, but we are not done with the rain. tracking little bit bit more as we head through the end of the month. could get active. right now really focusing on that warming trend. that's going to kick in

ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko has threatened to enable russia to the ground in lakeland conversation with another former official of a muslim teaching. what's which she admits the conversation it did take place the device she suggested using nuclear weapons against the russians ukrainians us that it indicates. she teaches alanna the entities. the movie the divisional court. with her. you did. he will need to worry. fall is already plenty of speculation over the recording with some expat saying it to the plains in recent times in a bid to secure the right wing site ahead of the presidential election. the pizza tasted she has a political contest in general and local station not anything that may lead you to have it. it looks like a creepy. for true because it's acceptable to him and he was also the problem is that the nationalist tapestry of them stood a good move. i was there. does it in the mail is a bargain buy. so we may be seeing me. he agreed amongst people who do will determine specifically to be more work or can't. reagan didn't go because it holds us back the solu

land when just feet from the ground, a small plane tears right through his parachute at the south lakeland airport near tampa. >> i definitely thought that i was not going to make it. >>er the veteran sky driver john frost who goes by steve is limping, and nursing several bruises, but he thinks that the pilot is at fault. >> our pilot had seen him and contacted h him directly to ensure that he knew that we would be parachuting in the area. >> reporter: and the experienced pilot, 87-year-old sharon trembly is out of the hospital and his wife says that he is alert and is when he flies, and he knew that jumpers were there, but the jumpers were in the wrong place. frost strongly disagrees. >> when you fly into the area with parachutists all over, you have the hypoten shall of killing somebody. >> reporter: and federal authorities are now investigating the collision captured by the photographer jim tellfair. >> i staired through the lenses and i could not believe it. >> reporter: it is a series of accidents. a 16-year-old in oklahoma survived a fall when her parachute malfunctioned in january.

ready to land and a single engine plane practicing touch and go landings outside of an airport in lakeland, florida when its wing cut the strings of the sky diver parachute. >> amazing pictures. >>> public safety officials will release more details about enhanced security for this year's boston marathon. employees have been waiting for months. it follows last year's deadly terror attack. three people were killed and more than 260 injured after two bombs exploded near the finish line. 36,000 runners enup a to a million spectators are expected to attend this year's event. attorneys for three friends of the accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar will be in court. they went to his dorm room three days after the attack and removed a laptop computer and empty fire works casings. all three have pleaded not guilty. >>> if you have a house in the bay area and looking to sell, now could be the time. the bay area has been named the best place in the country to sell a home. zip reality based the top ten list on median sales price and total housing inventory. last year it went up 35%. haves the nation

ohio four returning home for an overnight vigil on saturday outside a publix store in the town of lakeland. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united states and the european union are warning russia not to annex crimea after voters they're overwhelmingly backed a referendum to leave ukraine and join russia. crimean authorities said 96.8% of voters in the black sea peninsula supported the referendum, but many members of the ethnic ukrainian and muslim tatar minorities boycotted the poll. we're today the crimean parliament voted in favor of region joining russia. the situation in crimea has sparked the gravest crisis in east-west relations since the cold war. u.s. secretary of state john kerry said the vote in crimea will not be recognized by the international community. >> the united states position on that referendum, i must say, is clear. we believe the referendum is contrary to the constitution of ukraine, contrary to international law, is in violation of that law, and we believe it is illegitimate

the 87 year old pilot was practicing take offs and landings near lakeland, florida when his small cessna became wrapped up in the lines of the skydiver's parachute. both the plane and the skydiver hurtled to the ground, but amazingly, neither was seriously hurt. the f-a-a and the polk county >> he was in the air going 60 mi. an hour. it flipped him around and it stuck the nose of the plane into the ground. >> the faa and the polk county sheriffs are investigating the accident. that's amazing. >> good morning to you. what a day we have coming up. spring fever is running rampant it's not too bad out there. temperatures have been above freezing. 43 downtown. 42 at o'hare. 40 degrees in michigan city. the meltdown will continue. some rain is showing up. most of what you see is not reaching the ground but a few sprinkles have been reported. i don't think this will last we should be dry but you may want some boots because of the melting happening. a lot of puddles overnight. it's quiet. the warmest day of 2014. a storm will develop out to the west tomorrow bringing rain and perhaps some snow i

at the south lakeland airport near tampa. >> i definitely thought i wasn't going to make it. >> the veteranear-old john frost, who goes by steve, is limping and nursing several bruises. he thinks the pilot is at fault. >> our pilot had seen him and contacted him directly to ensure that he knew that we were going to be parachuting in the area. >> reporter: the experienced pilot, 87-year-old sharon trembley is out of the hospital and telling his side. his wife tells nbc news, he was very alert, as he is when he flies. he was paying attention to what was going on and knew jumpers were there, but the jumpers were in the wrong place. frost strongly disagrees. >> when you fly into an area with parachutists all over, you have that high potential of killing somebody. >> federal authorities are now investigating the collision, captured by photographer tim telford. >> i just stared through the lens, is this really happening? i just couldn't believe it. >> reporter: ironically, the incident happened on national parachuting safety day. >> i will keep sky diving. it's one of the safest sports you can do

veteran was coming in for what he thought would be easy landing in beautiful landing at the south lakelandly there is skydiver in your sights. the he pulled back on the stick, bringing the plain's nose up probably killing the skydiver. >> i saved his life. the right-wing of the airplane would have killed him below the neck. sure i'm thankful to be here. how it wound up, i really don't know how i did get here after the what happened. >> reporter: his plane ended up landing nose first into the ground leaving the pilot with cuts and bruises and stitches on his throat. otherwise as you can see he is doing all right. martha: that is incredible. imagine being the skydiver just as this plane is coming straight at you. >> reporter: yeah, a terrifying to say the least. he had gone skydiving that day with eight other skydivers and the skydiver, steve frost, 49 years old, probably made upwards of 90, 100 skydives in the past. of course nothing ever happened like this. he was diving down and as the plane roared at him, he tucked into a ball at the last second to try to speed his fall to avoid a direct

authorities say a single engine plane was practicing touch and go landings outside of an airplane in lakelanden the wings clipped a diver. nobody was hurt. the ntsb and faa are investigating this incident. >>> today public safety officials will release more details about enhanced security for this year's boston marathon. authorities have been meeting for months to come up with a plan to increase security for the run on april 21st. this follows last year's deadly terror attack. three people were killed more than 260 were injured after two bombs exploded near the finish line. 36,000 runners and up to a million spectators are expected to attend this year's event. in the meantime, attorneys for three friends of dzhokhar tsarnaev are due in court today. the lawyers will brief a judge on their readiness for a june trial. prosecutors say the friends went to dzhokhar tsarnaev's massachusetts dorm room three days after the attack and removed a laptop and empty fireworks casings. they face charges of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. all three have pleaded not guilty. >>> 8:25. and a y

we talked to several customers outside the restaurant in lakeland, florida.thers say that it's just part of the cost of doing business, and they don't understand why there's a sign on the front of the door as well as basically something they hand customers inside the restaurant, notifying them of this 1% surcharge. here's what some of the customers we talked to had to say. >> business just needs to operate, turn a profit, and maintain their employees. unfortunately, the consumers are paying for it. >> i don't agree with it. just because, you know, those type of charges are already given to us from the government. and the various laws and actions we mustel follow. but at the same time, i'm hungry. >> now, i should also note, we did do an internal poll here at wfla-it tv here in tampa and found out roughly 65% of the people polled say they do not support this additional fee, and some of them said they wouldn't even support the business if, indeed, they continued to charge that fee. >> you know, okay, it's one thing to not support them. but i'm curious, josh, is

at the south lakeland airport near tampa. >> i definitely thought i wasn't going to make it. >> the veteran sky diver 49-year-old john frost who goes by steve is limping and nursing several bruises. he thinks the pilot is at fault. >> our pilot had seen him and contacted him directly to ensure that he knew that we were going to be parachuting in the area. >> the experienced pilot 87-year-old sharon trembly is out of the hospital and telling his side. his wife tells nbc news, he was very alert as he is when he flies. he was paying attention to what was going on and knew jumpers were there. but the jumpers were in the wrong place. frost strongly disagrees. >> and when you fly into an area with parachutists all over, you have that high potential of killing somebody. >> federal authorities are now investigating the collision, captured by the photographer, tim telford. >> i stared through the lens, is this really happening? i couldn't believe it. >> ironically, the collision happened on national parachuting safety day. >> i will keep sky diving. it's one of the safest sports you can do. >> repor