pcraig patrick will be speaking pcraig why is the tampa bay area pin particular so crucial for phim? p>> well let's start with pobvious. pit's in florida. pand this race is all about pflorida. pit may be the key state in pdetermining whether or not marco prubio can stay in this race. pif you look at florida we expect pmarco rubio to get an out in pnorthern panhandle but donald ptrump and perhaps by ted cruz pcutting into him as well in pnorth. pif you head south that's rubio's pstrong hold maybe dade county pwhere he's hoping for very pstrong turn out in his favor to pwash out losses to the north. pwhat does that leave? pit leaves the central part of pthe state. pclearly that leaves tampa bay to plikely swing the race in pflorida. pthis is the state's largest pmedia market and a key part of

pcraig patrick, fox 13 news. p>>russell: and then a trump prally in north carolina getting pa lot of attention this morning. pit shows a trump supporter as he psucker punches a protestor. pat first trump's campaign prefused to address it but the pissue came up during the debate. phere is what he had to say. p>> people come with tremendous assion and love for the country pand when they see protests in psome cases, you're mentioning pone case which i haven't seen, i pheard about it, which i don't plike. pthey see what's going on in the pcountry and they have anger pthat's unbelievable. pthey have anger. p>>russell: 78-year-old mcgraw pwas charged with assault and was ptold that the protestor, quote, p>>jennifer: trump is expected to ick up a high profile pendorsement with ben carson who pofficially dropped out of the prace last week. phe plans to announce his psupport. pearlier this week, carly fiorina pendorsed ted cruz. pjeb bush dropped out and met pwith all three rivals but it's pnot clear who he plans to psupp

pcraig patrick and our fox 13 ollster will talk about the rimaries pmight keep (singing) i just can't wait to meet you, sweet child you're on the way, i'm filled with expectation, and you're growing everyday... 3 p>>> he's the only republican pcandidate to beat donald trump pso far tonight. pgovernor of ohio, john kasich, pwon his home state tonight. pcrucial win for him if he wanted pto stay in the race. p>> and he will stay in the race. phe's confident of his campaign pand is prepared to take on the presponsibilities of the residency. p>>man: forget the politics, pforget the pollsters, forget all pthe focus groups. pyou see, i represent you. pit's my job to look at these psituations and these problems pand to listen to you and then pif that means at times i have to ptake some heat, then that's just pthe price of leadership in pamerica. p>> governor kasich gave a shout pout to senator rubio. psenator ted cruz spoke just a pshort time ago in houston. phe hasn't won a state tonight, pat least not yet and we're pwaiting on final results. pit's too close to call there. pcruz is hoping to

pcraig patrick and our fox 13 ollster will talk about the rimaries in 1934, the world didn't need another hamburger. it needed a steakburger. so they used 100 percent beef. quick seared to seal in the flavor ... ... you'll only get from a steakburger. steak 'n shake, home of the original some people don't like to share their wifi, but at bright house networks, we do. login to one of our hotspots and get your code for free wifi at over 50,000 bright house wifi hotspots. 3 p>>> he's the only republican pcandidate to beat donald trump pso far tonight. pgovernor of ohio, john kasich, pwon his home state tonight. pcrucial win for him if he wanted pto stay in the race. p>> and he will stay in the race. phe's confident of his campaign pand is prepared to take on the presponsibilities of the residency. pforget the pollsters, forget all pthe focus groups. pyou see, i represent you. pit's my job to look at these psituations and these problems pand to listen to you and then pit's my job to go and fix them. pif that means at times i have to ptake some heat, then that's just pthe price of leadership i

psports director scott smith, pcraig patrick, and photo pjournalist joe vasquez all pthere, we expect to hear from pthem at 5:00 and 6:00. p>> it is important to remember pcuba is still ruled by a pcommunist regime. p>> critics argue that the resident gives legitmacy -- pthese are the ladies in white, pwives of political prisoners. pgroups founder hopes president pobama will discuss the human prights violations. p>> some are still trying to prescued 18 cuban migrants near pmarco island. pnine migrants severely pdehydrated and taken to mexico. plast month 20 migrants attended pto reach the u.s. p>>> a driver arrested before panyone could be hurt only after phitting a tampa police officer p5:00 yesterday morning. pofficer saw head lights got out pof the way and called for back pup. panother officer saw the car pexit. pafter a field sobriety test, a p>>> hillsborough county deputy pfuneral service friday. pdeputies led the hearse to tampa pinternational airport and buried pin his hometown massachusetts. p>>> inner bay and mack macdill pman in his 40s killed. pinvestigators looking for ps

pcraig patrick and sports pdirector scott smith are both pthere and they'll have reports pat 5:00 and 6:00. pyou can follow developments ponline at fox13news.com. p>>laura: it is 7:06 now and a pdeveloping story in st. etersburg. pthe death of a 91-year-old man pone week after an incident on a sta bus. pshayla reaves is at the police pdepartment where they are plooking for anyone who can precall what happened, right? p>>reporter: you're right. pinvestigators want to speak with pany passengers who may have been pon the bus, if they've seen panything and just did not report pit. pthey're trying to piece together pthe events that unfolded on pmarch 4 and understand exactly pwhat led up to the death of p91-year-old henry gussea of plargo. pi want to take you back to this pscene. pthis was march 4 just after p10:00 in the morning. pinvestigators tell us that the pbus was approaching the pintersection of 62nd street and p72nd street and 22nd avenue pnorth in st. pete and pinvestigators say a pinellas psuncoast transit authority bus papproached that intersection as pthe light turned yellow.

pcraig patrick will be speaking pto sanders later this evening. pit's busy on the campaign trail pfor all the candidates. phere is the very latest p>> with only a few wins under phis belt so far and a slew of precent polls showing donald ptrump way ahead in florida, pmarco rubio is denying a report pthat he's spoken to staff about otentially ending his residential campaign. p>> that is 100% categorically pfalse. pi've never discussed dropping pout with anyone on my team or panyone on the planet earth. por anyone on any planet for that pmatter. p>> florida and ohio are seen as pmust-wins for trump to wrap up pthe nomination. pohio shows john kasich with a pslight lead. p>> it's about what we do after pthat and all the places we have p>> sanders pulled off a surprise pupset win in michigan tuesday, ressed clinton on her record, pstreet. p>> i would think that a speech pso great that you got paid so pmuch money for it, you would pamerican people. p>> for her part, clinton was pasked point blank about dropping poff the race if the f.b.i. pinvestigatio

pfox 13 will be there too, scott psmith and our political editor pcraig patrick will be there pcovering game and president's pvisit. pweek. p>> st. pete police chief spent art of the morning on top of a pkrispy kreme. pno kidding. pwhy is he there? pe's looking for donation. pchief anthony holloway and other pofficers will be donut shop this pmorning, and this have a noon. phopefully to collect donations pfor special olympics. pin exchange for your generosity, pyou get donuts. pif you donate a dollar you get pone free glazed for 20 bucks it pwill gets you dozen. pfor $200, you get free donuts pfor a year. pthat could be dangerous. pand $1,000 gets awe donut party. pthat could be fun. pif you're planning ongoing out ptonight the bay area law enforce pthe agencies around our area say pthey will on look out for drunk pdrivers this st. patrick's day. paccording to federal statistics pmost deadly on roads. pduring st. patty's day 2010 to p2014266 people were killed pnationwide. pand duchlt u u i related crashes pappear party go isser to find pother transportation palternatives. phillsborough

pcraig patrick and scott smith pwill take you beyond the pballpark to give you a front row pseat to history. pcoverage begins tomorrow. p>> alcides: developing right pnow, tampa police have arrested panother wrong-way driver on pi-275 this morning. pwe're told an officer was on his pway home, almost crashed into pthe driver traveling south in pnorthbound lanes. pexit. pthen another officer managed to ull over 34-year-old aja conela pat busch boulevard. pshe failed a field sobriety test pand was arrested for dui. p>>> this morning tampa police pcontinue their investigation pinto a deadly hit-and-run crash pinvolving a bicyclist that took lace around 8:45 last night at pthe intersection of sixth street psouth and inner bay boulevard. pthe deceased man is in his 40s. phe was hit by a car and the pdriver left the scene. proads in the area were shout pre-opened. p>>> family and friends pidentified the victims of a pislands. pwe know their name are louis pcaporicci and kevin kor pcarreno. rofiles they graduated from air pforce academy in 1983 and they pwere good friends. pinvestigators say theshl

pcraig patrick is back on phone pwith us right now to talk a plittle. pyou can feel it in the air, you pknow, you can feel it on the pair. pads are coming from everywhere, paren't they? pwe're going to bombarded for the pnext six days through tuesday. pyou have all of the candidates, pall four republicans and both pdemocratic candidates in the pstate of florida because we have ptwo debates heading into ptuesday. pboth on wednesday, this day for pdemocrats on thursday for the prepublicans. pthe democrats bernie sanders and phillary clinton will be in tampa pbay on thursday. pand expect to have all the prepublican candidates with the ossible exception of kae sich pwho bearing down on ohio to pcrisscross state throughout pweek. ptalk to you a little bit about pmarco rubio for a minute if i pi found this piece 5:38. pits headline is marco rubio pnever had a base. pa lot of the national media is palready written him off. p>> well i think that rubio is pgoing write himself off if he pdoes not win florida he says pwhoever wins florida primary pwill be nominee.

pcraig patrick is breaking down pthe numbers with our pollster ptonight. pdid everything go as the polls redicted? p>>reporter: one poll at least. pmail this. pif you look at the results in pflorida, they match exactly what pour last fox 13 poll showed with pdonald trump running away with pit with 46 percent of the vote. pif you go county by county, he pwins there by 40 percent of the pvote. phe runs the table among young pand old, all across the state. pwhich matched your poll, there pis really nothing that rubio pcould've done. phe could've stayed away from the pinsults. pbut when you have this kind of pmargin, he was cooked from the pstart. p>>man: we don't normally think pof florida as being part of the psouth per se. pbut it extended from south pcarolina, to florida to georgia. pdonald trump was just on fire phere. pthis is the center piece of the prepublican party. pthis area of the country. pso donald trump had to do well pand the republicans had to be pable to do well with the voters pin november. pthat's the problem that prepublicans who don't wan

pcraig patrick will be in at 8:00 pthis morning with his take on pthings. p>>laura: and florida is the next pbig state on the campaign pcalendar. p>>russell: there are 99 pdelegates at stake for prepublicans, 214 for the pdemocrats. rimary march 15. pearly voting has already begun. pthe polls are open in phillsborough and polk. pin hillsborough, more than 8,000 eople voted. panother 44,000 by mail. pearly voting begins in all other pcounties on saturday. p>>laura: according to the real pclear politics average, donald ptrump is still leading among pflorida republicans. phe has a 19 1/2% advantage over pmarco rubio. pted cruz is behind him. phillary clinton still has an pedge among florida democrats. pshe has a 29% lead over bernie pspike in the last week. p>> scott kelly back on mother pearth after 340 days in space. p>> we have a great view of him pnow. pthe folks here at mission pcontrol in houston letting out a pvery big cheer. p>>russell: the mission is pcomplete. pthis is our first look at pastronaut scott kelly breathing pfresh air for the first time i

pcraig patrick back with us our olitical editor talk about pthat. pgood morning, good to see you pagain. pwhat do you make of that? phow does that sound to you? pwell i think he's making the pcase that this is david versus pgoliath. pand rubio is comfortable playing prole david because america does prepublican voters really seem to prelish this year an outsider pdisrupter showing up in exit olls and not just returns, prepublicans are sick and tired pof broken promise from leaders pof their own party, dating back pyears. pa run away debt and they are plooking for someone to shake pthings up. pso when you are a member of the pu.s. senate, it works against pyou. pif you're last name is bush it pwonder against jeb bush that's art challenge rubio is facing paup and comer and under dog. p>> but not an outsider per se? pthat's his challenge. pyeah. pnow he made the case and he will pit to make the case that he was pcertainly an outsider when he pran in between 10. phe won with a good deal of tea arty support in the state of pflorida. pa lot of support that

pfox 13 will be in cuba to cover pcraig patrick and scott smith go pbeyond the ballpark to give you pa front row seat to history. pcoverage begins tomorrow. p>> alcides: back at home tampa olice continue the pinvestigation this morning into pa deadly hit-and-run crash pinvolving a bicyclist. pit took place around 8:45 last pnight at the intersection of psixth street south and inner bay pboulevard. pthe deceased man is said to be pin his 40s. pinvestigators say he was hit by pa car, and the driver left the pscene. punfortunately, there's no pdescription of the vehicle. proads in that area were shut pdown for some time, but they're pnow re-opened. p>> anjuli: family and friends pidentitied the victims of a dead preply plane crash on dafs i davis pisland. pthey were both in their 50s and pboat were on board a twin engine pcessna when it crashed just pafter take-off on friday on the prun way. paccording to social media rofiles they graduated from the pair force academy in 1983. pworked together on business pventures. pinvestigators say they should phave a preliminary report out pabout the

pcraig patrick will be in at 8:00 pfor his take on last night's presults. p>>laura: and at 6:30, a woman pwill not let go of her best pfriend who just happens to be an palligator. phow far she's planning to go to p>>dave: because it is still dark pout, it's tough to show you some pweather cameras. phere is one at bradenton beach. pyou can see the low cloud cover. pthat's what they're dealing with palong the coast, along the pbeaches with the marine dense pfog advisories that continue pthrough about 11:00 this pmorning. pwe also have inland fog. pnow, that will lift first so pbrandon, lakeland, you're first pto see the sunshine versus the psandy coastline. poverall, highs today around 82 pdegrees, variable clouds and 20% pwe have p>>dave: there's a shot, just panother foggy morning on the pskyway. pi'll tell you, it is open. pwe do want to point that out. pvanessa will talk more about pthat in a little bit. pbut fog is still an issue around pmuch of our viewing area. palso inland locations are pmorning so we've got land fog pwe're dealing with. pthe land fog

p>>> fox 13 political editor pcraig patrick will be following psuper tuesday results and he'll pjoin us tonight starting a the p5. pcraig will also be posting pupdates on twitter at fox 13 olitics. p>> st. pete police want to find pgunman involved in shooting on pjames avenue south. pthey are looking for daryl patkins. olice say he shot ricky simmons pafter a fight, simmons is precovering at bayfront hospital. p>>> a deadly accident in under pinvestigation in a gibsonton. ptroopers say a car collided with pat motorcycle on i-75 papproaching gibsonton drive. pthe motorcyclist oh jose sanchez pan adult and few children are precovering after car hit a day pcare in venice. pinvestigators are looking into pwhat led up to that crash. pone aduty was taken to hospital pand some kids suffered minor pinjuries. pthere is a new way to get around pdowntown tampa's water front. pas fox 13 shayla reeves shows pus, the pirate water taxis are pnow in service with stops along pthe river walk, channel pdistrict, and davis islands. p>> i'm sure at although of us pknow what it's like to be stuck pin traff

pcraig patrick joins us what is pnext for the race. pgood morning how are you? pwe know it was late night for pyou and early morning we thank pyou for being here. pstart democrats clinton has palmost all delegates she needs pto clench ticket. psanders for his part says he's pnot giving up. pin fact his top strategist says pit's only half way point. pthey still have time. ptrue? p>> well, there's not much time. pdoor's closing. pi think bernie sanders stands pvery, very little chance at this oint. pbut i think he's staying in this prace for couple of reasons. pfirst off, he has money. pand since he's getting his money pfrom small donors, they can puntil that well runs dry. pso you keep going until you run pout of money. phe's not out of money yet on top pof that he still has ability to paccumulate delegates he got pwiped out in florida by hillary pclinton but he still walks away p60 delegates and not winner take pall states in democratic races pas there are in many of the prepublican races at this point. pthis gives bernie sanders a pchance to keep going and i do

pcraig patrick, fox 13 news. p>>> rubio go by way will spend ptonight in miami results come in pand fox 13 will be there with phim. p>> we will primary results pbeginning after polls close a p7:00 p.m. pwe're airing an election special pweb cast at 8 on pwww.fox13news.com. pand we'll have complete wrap up pat 10 and 11. pit's a hot new cocktail. pwe'll take look if your family outing is magical for all the wrong reasons. you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec is different than claritin . because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. try zyrtec . muddle no more . the st. pete city council is working on an ordinance that would allow people to walk through parts of downt pcity city oublg a walk that you pthwarts of a downtown carrying pcups of alcohol. pthey are calling a sip and pstroll. pnow it will be a limited to an parea just the edge district pwhich is along central venue pbetween dr. king and 16th street pdrinkers would by special cup pdistri

pwe have sports director scott psmith covers rays' game and pcraig patrick covering resident's visit and impact of pthe historic trip. pwe will bring you full coverage pstarting at 5 and remember when pwe are not on air, we are always ponline at www.fox13news.com. p>>> developing now family says pformer toronto mayor rob ford phe was 46 years old. pford gained international pnotoriety in 2013 when he padmitted he smoked crack cocaine pin one of his drunken stupor and prefused to resign a mayor. phe was diagnosed with cancer pback in 2014. p>>> a 91-year-old man is dead pbus. phe was on a psta bus when his pscooter toppled over. pnow as fox 13 shayla reeves preports, police want to track pdown anyone on that bus. p>> well this all started with a pyellow light, a turn, a tipped pover scooter, and a man hurt on phis way to the hospital. pst. pete police say that's what phappened on march the fourth pjust after 10 o'clock in the pmorning. pand i want to take you to this pmap of the area that we're ptalking about. pright now you are looking at the pintersection of 72nd street and p22nd av

preporting from the newsroom pcraig patrick. pif there anything you'd like us pto investigate be sure to shoot pus an email investigates pwww.fox13news.com. pa reward is being offered a psearch for murder suspect in pmanatee county. pdetectives want to find robert pbrewer he's wanted in connection pwith a december shoot kenny. phe is believed to still be in pis asked to call manatee county psheriff's office. pthere is $200,000 reward for parrest. pformer wrestling star hulk hogan pcourtroom today for his case pagainst the website gawker. ptoday. phogan is suing gawker after osted a clip from a sex tape pinvolving hogan and ex wife pshock jock bubba the love sponge pwe expect to hear opening parguments next week. pnew video from syria shows prussian war planes firing prockets over a town in southern psyria. pthat is a violation of pcease-fire agreement brokered by prussia and united states last pweek. prussian insist halted strikes in pareas where rebels are prespecting the cease-fire. psyria 5 year civil war has pkilled 250,000

pcraig, craig patrick. pthank you. psee you later. pall right. pstill ahead, we continue to talk pabout at fight to save rambo. pthis woman in polk county with pthis gator, named rambo. palled there is with us. pthen did you forget your pen? ptake a selfie. pwe're going to explain some pchanges that could coming for pcharley, you driving? pnice. pyeah. pi'm just rolling with tom pdupont, we're just going to you pknow cruise gulf boulevard pmaybe. phit a couple drive throughs. pthis is a 2012 mustang wide body pconvertible. pit's for sale by way ladies and pgentlemen. plow mileage, been completely poverhauled. pand they put a sound system phere. pboulevard custom which falls punder dupont registry umbrella. pit's a pretty good sound system. pand we could probably get at pticket in pinellas county psomewhere for this. pyeah. pwooem take you to right now, so you can continue streaming your favorite show in the great outdoors. and you don't need a dead zone further interrupting your otherwise- perfect afternoon. echo from bright house networks. elimi

p>> anchor: let's bring in olitical editor craig patrick. pcraig, could anyone really pbenefit from that debate moving pforward? p>> yeah i think a couple people pcould you start skwlon kasich he pbenefitted because you stayed pout fray and tried to refocus pdebate to issues. pi wouldn't been surprise needle pmoves just a little bit in pkasich's favor i think you could pgive a couple points as well to pted cruz he too did not join in pbickering as much a what we saw pbetween donald trump and marco prubio. pwhen both of them rolled in mud pthe way they did with at for tat pback and forth, big don versus plittle marco. pi don't think that's articularly becoming. pi don't think it's going going pto rally new voters to their pcause. pand with this, it shakes things pup a little bit. pflorida, which is the big one on pmarch the 15th but ohio and pcouple other states as well. p>> so craig was do you have pcoming up this weekend on money, ower & politics, we'll talk pabout this obviously with rimaries this weekend. pyeah we certainly will. pstart with mar

campaigning in sarasota plater today. olitical editor craig patrick phad chance to catch up with prepublican presidential pcandidate last night. pcraig there's a report that prubios advisors are telling him pto quit race before florida pvotes on march 15th. pwhat rubio cam sane that's pgarbage nonsense bad journalism. pthis something coming from cnn. pcnn had reported that campaign padvisors were pressing rubio to pget out before florida on remise he would lose badly in phis own home state. pbut, after saying that is pabsolutely not true false cnn psaid check back with its psources. ptell us cnn only citing one psource in this report. pan advisor. pconceivably donald trump in ptelling marco rubio you need to pget out race could be a consider pdefinitions an advisor to marco prubio. pso we don't know if there's panything to this. pin fact the rubio camp is ushing back hard stressing pthere isables nothing to it and prubio is absolutely focused on pflorida and on his point, pwinning in 7 days even though he ptrails in the polls. pall right. pand on that note, donald trump pcontinues to dominate right now pcorrect? pwell if you look at