pall-in-all, a huge night for ptrump here. pwinning three states so far, it uts him in a very great spot pmoving forward tonight. p>> regarding marco rubio, pdistinctly different tomorrow. pbeen talking about rubio but pmarco rubio was talking about ptrump during his speech. prubio watched tonight's numbers pcome in from his head quarters pin miami and that's when he ptossed in the towel. pjosh, how are supporters phandling the news that rubio is pnow out of the race? p>>reporter: well, chris, the pfirst words we heard out of psupporters' mouths today were p"boos" very loud boos. pit was a tough night for rubio pand supporters. phe was trumped by trump in every pcounty except miami. pa lot of folks here thought if panyone could beat donald trump phere in florida it would be pnative son marco rubio. pas we saw, it was not his night ptonight. phe did suspend his campaign to a pfolks chanting to keep on going. pthey did not want to see this pride end. phe did say he was proud of how phe ran this campaign and kept an poptimistic t

pon the republican side, donald ptrump rather a big win here for ptrump. pted cruz a distant second. pit's a big win for trump pconsidering the controversy pabout the violence out in pisrael. ptrump takes illinois as well. pin missouri on the democratic pside, this is bernie sanders pbest shot at winning a state ptonight. pif this margin holds, he will pwin missouri but it won't help phim too much in the delegate pcount. phe has that margin of a four ercent lead there. pfor the republicans in missouri, ptrump with a narrow lead -- pactually, no, that just changed. pted cruz lead over donald trump. phe won iowa in the north and pkansas and oklahoma to the west. pted cruz winning missouri at pthis point but that state has pnot had a winner declared. pin north carolina on the pdemocratic side, another big win pfor hillary clinton. pstates and has added to her pmassive lead to the overall pdelegate count. pfor the republicans in north pcarolina. pit was tied but donald trump was pdeclared the winner. pit means that ted cruz will get pa share of the 72 gop dele

ptrump hosted his supporters here pin palm beach and the donald j. ptrump ballroom. pit was a spirited crowd. peven after his wins were pdeclared, a pastor led a prayer ptrump mentioned his usual point pof the country, he will make the pcountry rich again and the pcountry will start winning and phe also thanked the voters in pflorida calling this state pamazing and he pointed out how pthis particular election has pencouraged so many to get out pand vote. p>> one woman was in there for 40 pyears. pthe line looked like it was plong, really long. pfive deep and long. pand it's just a different thing. pwe have a great opportunity and pthe people that are voting are pdemocrats, independents and pvery, very importantly, people pthat never voted before. pit's an incredible thing. p>>reporter: as you heard, marco prubio announced that he's psuspending his campaign. pwe all know trump and rubio have pshared their exchange of harsh pwords and jabs. pin palm beach, though trump took ptime to congratulate marco on prunning a tough campaign and he psaid that marco rubio does have

phillary clinton and donald ptrump. p>> clinton gets 122 of the pfactors in tonight's results, ptrump in first, cruz in second, pand kasich with 136 now. p>> here's how it stacks up for pthe democrats. pclinton as 1488 to sanders' 704. pmatt was right on the money. p>>reporter: absolutely nailed pflorida to the tee here and with pthis, you have a run away with pdonald trump just with our poll pnumbers, how does marco rubio, a psitting senator, win only one pcounty out of 67 in the state of pflorida? p>>man: to put it succinctly, he pdecided to attack, become the paggressor and lost everything. punfortunately for him, he took pthat attack route and it just pfell flat with the voters. p>>reporter: so goes florida and pas the ultra battle ground pstate, not much of a battle pground tonight. prubio said whoever wins florida pwill win the nomination. palthough he probably regrets pthat, is he right? p>>man: he might be. pright now it looks like a two pman race. pted cruz and donald trump. pthey're going to be battling it pou

p>> what may be a window as far pas what may be a window into ptrump's mind, into donald ptrump's mind right now is that ptrump originally was scheduled pto hold a rally in florida on rimary day. pbut with the poll numbers being pwhat they are and his lead pappearing to be close to 20 oints in some cases, donald ptrump has rescheduled that rally pfor -- that was supposed to be pin florida to ohio. phe's in a very tight battle with pjohn kasich there and his hope pis that if he can win florida pand ohio, it would give him pfurther rationale to say, you pknow what? erson who republicans coalesce paround the country. p>> florida primary tomorrow. pwe'll be here. pthanks so much. p>> inside the convention center, rotestors and supporters pclashing over donald trump. pjosh is there. psome tense moments. pset the scene for us today. p>> yeah. pthings did get a little heated pout here and at times, it felt plike things could boil over and perupt into violence if the wrong pthing slipped out of someone's pmouth or if there was a push or pshove but we didn't see any of pthat and at the end of t

pi think quite frankly that if ptrump were to carry florida the prepublican party is now the ptrump party. pcarry the florida beginning of pdemise. pi think p>> matt towery as always thank pyou for your time. p>> thank you. p>> well florida's jackpot on pmarch 15th. pand a lot of people have already pcast ballots. pso even capital 11 axelbank shows how. pto find out how donald trump and phillary clinton did so well you ponly had to visit early voting psites. pfirst hillary clinton swecht pfive super tuesday states in psouth winning 80 percent of pblack voters. pwe spoke to tampa air force vet pannette jenkins, she said in pnostalgia she has for clinton residency hasn't worn off one pbit. p>> when he left office, we had pso much money. pand then when the bushes came in pwe lost all of that money. pi don't even know what happened pto it. pwe also spoke to pastor rick prawlings who also felt the pclinton no signal ja. phe consider voting for bernie pbut in the end he just couldn't. pbecause to him she seemed like a psafer choice. plong. pso i think i'm going to go with pmy gut. pif hillary c

ptrump eventually having to call pit off. pdo you think this is going to phave any impact on his numbers? p>> well i think it certainly pwill. plet's start with impact ptomorrow. pi think it will ultimately erhaps help him just a little pbit in returns. psomething that may fire up his psupporters his base to point pthat he can't, that infringes pupon his right to free speech. phis supporters may pick up on pthat those that might not have pbeen motivated may go out to pvote. pthis ultimately can help donald ptrump a little bit tomorrow. pthe challenge that he faces pobviously is looking beyond pthis. pand if he does not find a way to pkeep calm and peace in his event pnot only is it very dangerous pand troubling but something that pcan cost him dearly in long run. articularly given the fact that pthose disturbances started or pblew up in chicago and friday pright after he was endorsed by pben carson and all this talk he pdid of a bringing the party ptogether around donald trump. p>> craig let's switch sides now pwhat about dem

phe also seemed to take shot ptrump's overtop style but he pnever directly attacked donald ptrump. phe did not endorse any other pcandidates. pand he did not say what his pfuture plans will be. phis supporters now, they have a pdecision to make. pdo they get on the trump band pwagon or will they follow psomeone else? psome folks told us there is just pno way they will support donald ptrump. pand you know know rubio and ptrump, they've going back and pforth at the debates on campaign ptrail. pi think that left a bad taste in pthe mouths of some rubio psupporters. pand for marco rubio himself. pbut again, that's politics. pit was a big night for trump pacross the state a tough night pfor marco rubio. retty much the entire state pwent to donald trump again pone the places he did take west alm beach. pthat is where our haley heinz pis. phaley, again a tough night for pmarco rubio. pbut a big night for donald ptrump. p>> good morning, josh. pdespite a somewhat contentious prelationship between donald ptrump and marco rubio, we've pheard it we've hear jabs last pnight there were none. pi

pmany voters are going for donald ptrump. pthat will show you we've come a plong way since the recession and pi want to make jaws drop so plet's show you some porsches in pthe jerry seinfeld collection pover the weekend. phe was live on stage. pechls live on stage in florida pwith the auctioneer, auctioning poff 15 koors from his porsche pcollection. pthe whole thing went for $22 pmillion. pit's a disappointment. pthey were expecting $28 million pand up. pstar of the show, 1955 porsche p550 spider that went right in pmillion. pthat's what the expected range pwas and she got it. pcollecting porsches is just a phobby for mr. seinfeld. p>> i can't believe he would give pany of them up. robably to pay for new one. p>>reporter: make room in the pgarage for others, right? p>>russell: probably. pwe'll talk later, okay? p>>reporter: okay. p>> don't miss lauren simonetti pon our sister network f. you're pnot sure where to find them in pbusiness.com/channel finder. p>>russell: space agency in prussia launched a new mission to phunt for

ptrump is hoping for much quieter prally here in tampa. phe's invited a large group to an pevent at the convention center. pthere are still some tickets pavailable for that event. pfox 13 elly is live at the pconvention center where look pwhat you can expect to see if pyou plan to attend. peven if you don't kelly, there pare some closures people need to pknow about, right? p>> that's right. pwell just outside of the pconvention center, we were told pit would start at 8:00 a.m. the proad is still open but franklin pstreet right in front of pconvention center should be pclosing shortly to traffic. pso that could make things a plittle interesting if you are pcommuting through here. articular toll harbor island. pwe're told that you should look pup some ways to divert around pthis traffic. pone of the ways take an palternate bridge. pme right now i am new to this parea to please forgive. pheavy police presence building palready in this area. pseveral police cars arriving a plot of flashing lights around phere. pi'm told by my colleague here pt

pthat certainly can hurt donald ptrump in the long run. pbut if you're not talking about pvulgarities you're talking about pa brash talk. pyou're talking about colorful planguage. pi think that is helping him in pthe republican race. pbecause you hear time and time pagain voters who support trump psaying they like the fact that phe tells it how it is. pthat he is not politically pcorrect. pand that is a big part of what's pfueling the he peel of donald ptrump. pthat said, he also now needs to pwork on perhaps softening his ptone to a certain extent to try pto unite the party and those who pare supporting other candidates. psound more presidential. p>> yes. aul ryan was asked about prunning for 20 nomination. pnow he didn't say yes he didn't psay no necessarily. pwill we hear from him this psummer i think? ptoday. phe's going to have to address pthis again. pwhen you're asked if you're pswoop in at the last minute and ptry to take the nomination in a pcontested convention though you pwent even running, and he says phe's not evening thinking

start to focus on hillary pclinton but here is donald ptrump. p>> look. pup. pwe can really change things and, pyou know, marco is not going to pdo it. plying ted -- thank you. pi will. pand lying ted, lying ted, lying pted pted. p>> our country and our world pneeds someone who is going to rotect our security like never pbefore. pand that's why i support donald. p>> during this rally there were pfour protestors who made their pway inside and who were pimmediately escorted by trump pand trump staff members once pthey began to protest loudly pinside. ptrump said that he loved tampa pand he said that he was psurprised that there were rotestors here. peither way, trump said that he pdid not want to see the lives of pthe protestors ruined by pcriminal charges but he did pallude to the fact that he would pcriminally charged or at least pcharged by police for disrupting pthe event. pnow, it is interesting that he pwas originally supposed to have pan event in florida on primary pday but that event has now been pmoved to ohio because he wants pto shore u

p>>> it as bigot night for donald ptrump and bernie sanders. ptrump swept three of 4 states on pmini super tuesday. pted cruz didn't have bad night peither. pthis morning fox 13's political peditor craig patrick on the hone talking about some of the psurprises, upsets and what's pnext. phey craig. pgood morning. phow are you? p>> good. pthank you. pall right. plet's talk about donald trump. pthere was all that talk going pinto this, that maybe his pmomentum had been stopped. pnot really has it? p>> not one bit. pmaybe it was a slowed over psaturday eerie gained any ground pthat he had lost and beat pexpectations. pthis expectations and momentum pgame and not only is this a voe pbig night for donald trump in pterms of the returns delegate pcount it's all about a mo pmomentum. pwith his strong showing bet that pthat will spring him forward pwe're not only florida, biggest pbut also have ohio you have pillinois and north carolina as pwell. p>> seems like ted cruz managed pto stay afloat. p>> he did. p>> he did. pand if you look at the delegate pco

ptrump walked away with seven psuper tuesday wins. phe didn't sweep the south as psome had predicted he would. pted cruz added texas, oklahoma pand alaska to his victory in piowa. pmarco rubio beat trump in pminnesota. p>>russell: and hillary clinton pwon seven states. pbernie sanders won four states. p>>laura: voters in five more pstates head to the polls on psaturday. pthen four more states hold pcontests next tuesday. p>>russell: and then there's the pflorida primary. pit is march 15. pand here's the current delegate pcount. ptrump leads the race 285. phe needs 1,237 to secure the pnomination. pted cruz is next with 161 pfollowed by marco rubio with 87. p>>laura: then on the democratic psanders trailing with 371. p>>russell: and this is a look at psome of the top trending searchs pon google of super tuesday. pgun control was the number punissue followed by education pand i mean gags. eople are also interested in pted cruz and marco rubio, asking pwhere ted cruz was born and why pshould i vote for marco rubio pand what does marco ru

ptrump still leads in arizona. pleads cruz by 13 points. ptwo democrats hilary clinton has pa lead in utah and in arizona pthere are no major polls. p>>> sparring over gender pequality. pcontroversial comments about pwomen. p>>> coming up, more cities pcracking down on alcohol, some psay it is hurting business. p>> drop down to 54 , north wind pbringing in drier, cooler air. pit is not going to last long, p30-36 hours. p48 crystal river. pstill hanging on to 60 down in pvenice. ptonight listen the coldest night p48 eventually tomorrow, 73. pfrom there it gets warm again. pcouple of days of c hand-dipped milkshakes. better yet, come into steak 'n shake for hand-dipped milkshakes r r at half-price during r half-price happier hour, p weekdays, now two to five at steak 'n shake. the four dollar menu at steak 'n shake. featuring handcrafted steakburgers, all-beef footlongs and fresh guacamole made from scratch. the four dollar menu, where all meals are under four dollars, at busch gardens, our appetite for fun never ends. festival feeds your app

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

panother big night for donald ptrump on the republican side. pas he takes michigan and pmississippi. pand for the democrats, hillary pclinton won mississippi but pbernie sanders is getting close pto an impressive upset in pmichigan. pchris, could be quite a win for psanders. p>>reporter: yeah, still a little ptoo close to call at this point. pi'm following it right now. ponly 5 percent separating the ptwo. psanders is leading. pif he wins, it may not help him pmuch in the overall delegates prace. pwe'll get more on that in a pmoment. plet's start with trump with 40 ercent of the ballots counted, pall of the networks calling this pfor trump. pwho campaigned furiously in pmichigan over the past few days pand this may be a good sign for pkasich. pnext weekend, in his home state pin ohio. ptexas senator ted cruz with 23.3 ercent finishing third. pa rough night for mar co- marco prubio only 9 percent of the pvotes. ptrump saved most of his insults pfor cruz tonight. p>>man: i call him lying ted. phe holds the bible high and then pgoes down and puts

p>>laura: a big night for donald ptrump and bernie sanders. pthey defied expectations. lus -- p>>russell: that is a close call. pescaped a dangerous situation pand it was live on tv. p>>dave: we're in the mid 60s pright now. pwe've got a southeast wind and pcloud cover so i don't think pwe're going to cool off all that pmuch before the sun comes up. p63 in brooksville, 61 in sebring pand 60s tampa, clearwater, st. etersburg and yeah, it's about pfive to 11 degrees warmer than pyesterday here in the 6:00 hour. pi do expect a similar setup ptoday. pclouds, sunshine, southeast pwinds and high temperatures. pthis is the third day in a row, pgetting back to the lower 80s. p>>vanessa: good to be back. pand for those waking up with us, pa crash near 50th street. pdelays are building and we're palready in the red zone so this pis the westbound direction near p50th street as i mentioned pbefore. pright lane is blocked. pwe also had fdot show a lane pblocked further down the road so pthis is causing some traffic to pstack up in that direction. lan for a

pfox news calling it for donald ptrump around 8:00 last night. pat that point, we heard boos pfrom the crowd who did not want pto see donald trump taking 99 pdelegates from marco rubio. punfortunately for rubio, it was pnot even close. p46-27 trump in the lead. pwhere did it go wrong? psome point to rubio getting off pmessage and going after trump, pagain, maybe it wasn't marco prubio's time. pfor what it's worth, the crowd pand marco rubio stayed positive pright up until the very end. pthey were hoping for a comeback pbut in the end, it wasn't meant pto be. p>> the bottom line is that marco phasn't lost. psouth florida has lost. pthe united states of america has plost a brilliant, educated, a pgreat candidate. pthat's what is lost and we move pon. p>> disappointed that america pdoesn't see that. pi think that one day we'll have pthe opportunity to see one pdecent man with the amount of pintegrity they lost by not pvoting for him. p>>reporter: tough night for the pguy thought to be the future of pthe g.o.p. prubio thanked his support he pweres la

ptrump has been criticized by his pcham engs for lacking foreign olicy experience. pin washington, doug mcelway, fox pnews. pbig truck crackdown in pclearwater after series poverdoses. pclearwater police say they parrested 7 people sunday morning pcrest lake park on a variety of pcharges. pincluding drug offenses related pto synthetic marijuana. palso known as spice. pdrug is caused a number of pmedical emergencies in overdoses pat the park recently. pand around the tampa bay area. pfound about a dozen homeless eople in unity park over pweekend. psuffering from seizures. pall believed to be caused by pspice. p>>> st. petersburg police tell pus since thursday night they presponded to nearly 30 calls for psuspected spice overdose and psome of those cases the calls pincluded multiple victims. pthey believe a particular batch pof spice is cause something to phave severe reaction. pand today downtown officers are pdistributing fliers about the pdangers of spice. pa fight involving the easter pbunny. pthe video and police believe led pup to the scuffle with father. pwith

ptrump is warning of riots. priots if he is denied party pnomination this summer's pconvention in cleveland. phe's half way toward the imagine pequilibrium number of delegates pto clench republican residential nomination. ptuesday too. pwinning three of the five states pup for grabs out right. phe appeared on fox news last pnight where he discussed his pvictories along with the pviolence at these rallies. p>> we've had very little roblem. pi've had biggest as you know pbetter than anybody. pmost people by far not even pclose. pwe have 20,000, 25,000 people proutinely. pand you know, we have one person pstand up and it's usually pknow who sends them in. p>> well, later today, some pleading conservatives will meet pto lay the ground work for a ossible third party run. pnow, this is not necessarily to pwin the white house. pbut to help protect what they pcall the down ballot races. pconservatives fear could be pdecimated by a trump candidacy. p>> it is 9:10 now. pin north carolina, there has pbeen more fall out fro

ptrump and cruz now say it's time pfor a two-man race. ptrump said on sunday that he pthinks it's time for rubio and pkasich to drop out. p>> either way, it will be pinteresting. p>>reporter: and it should get pmore interesting tomorrow with rimaries or caucuses. phawaii, idaho, michigan and pmississippi. p>>russell: and here at home, the prace for the white house comes pto the bay area with two pcandidates scheduled to make pstops in tampa this week. pso far, we should say. pyou know, there will probably be pmore. p>>jennifer: shayla reaves is plive at the tampa convention pcenter where marco rubio is pscheduled to hold a rally later ptoday. pwhat should people expect? p>>reporter: good morning to you. pwith days to go until the residential primary, the focus pis on florida. pof course, candidates want to pmake sure their message presonates with voters here in pflorida and among those pcandidates, hoping to put a dent pinto this mark is marco rubio. phe's going to be appearing here pin florida later this afternoon pfor a rally at the tam

ptrump took primary win on ptuesday. phe may oob tracting voters pestablishment party leaders are pless than enthusiastic about a otential trump presidency. pfox news correspondent rich et pson has more now from pwashington. pbillionaire real estate mogul pdonald trump has more than half p1237 delegates needed to secure prepublican nomination. phis closest rival has less than p80 percent of the delegates pgoing forward to beat trump. pdon trump is in driver's seat to pnomination. pi think if pee continues to pbuild on momentum and add people pto gandy bag on he will get to pthat 1237 before convention. psome establishment republican pgroups are trying to stop trump pfrom securing nomination this pdelegate math is causing some pwithin the gop to admit it may pbe too late. p>> florida governor rick scott pdeclined endorsing his home pstate senator before tuesday's prubio lost there. phe's left the race and now scott pannounced he's backing donald ptrump. pand urged his party to coalesce paround the popular candidate. pwe c

p>> reporter: senator ted cruz plays the blame at the fee of ptrump. p>> whether we campaign, we have rotesters, but unlike donald ptrump, i don't ask people in the pface. p>> reporter: florida senator pmarco rubio is asked about his ledge to support the eventual prepublican nominee for president peven if it's trump. p>> the fact that you're asking pme that question, i still at pthis moment continue to intend pto support the republican pnominee, but it's getting harder pevery day. p>> reporter: meanwhile pdemocratic front-runner hillary pclinton started one of her pcampaign rallies by taking aim pdirectly at trump. p>> and the encouragement of pviolence and aggression is not ponly wrong bull dangerous. pif you play with matches, you pcould start a fire you can't pcontrol. pthat is not leadership. pthat is political arson. p>> reporter: the next big pcontest for both parties is on ptuesday, including ohio, where plinton is trying to fight off a ptough challenge from bernie psanders. phe's looking to build on moment pnumb in the midwest after the pbig vi

ptrump's campaign also says some phillary clinton signs have been pspotted as well. p>> anjuli: a california highway atrol officer is hospitalized pthis morning with major injuries pafter he was hit by a car pdirecting traffic in the snow. pforecasters expect up to 4 feet pof the white stuff in parts of pthe sierra mavz nevada pmountains today. p>> alcides: at least three eople have died in louisiana pand more than 2,000 have been prescued after heavy rains doused pthe area. pofficials have urged people that plive in flood prone areas to pmove safely. pthe storm has started to move pslowly to the northeast, but peven more showers are expected ptoday. pthat is scary. p>> anjuli: those folks can't pcatch a break with the forecast. p>> alcides: 2,000 people prescued. p>> anjuli: to see the water pmark on the cars is incredible. p>> alcides: does this appear poften? pi feel like it does, lindsay. p>> lindsay: this week we're in pa pattern where the storms are pkind of stuck, so the rain came pdown so frequently that some pareas saw a foot to foot and a phalf of rain. pno

ptrump wants it. ptrumps says kasich -- cruz can pwin in a bunch of these closed pcaucuses, but you start to get pto big states like new york and ennsylvania, you know, states pin the northeast, big industrial pstates with a lot of delegates, pand he feels very confident he pwill beat ted cruz one on one. pi have to say at this point pdonald trump is the clear pfront-runner for the nomination, pand it's getting harder and pharder to see a way anyone in pthe republican party will stop phim. p>> anjuli: we'll see how it all pshakes out. pthank you very much, chris. pyou can see "fox news sunday" at p9:00 a.m. right here on fox 13. p>> alcides: in local news a phulk hogan autograph signing in pclearwater beach had to come to pan unexpected end for safety preasons. pthe former wrestling star was psigning autographs on saturday pand a large number of people pwhen they felt a shift in the pbuilding. pfirefighters evacuated the pbuilding and declared it unsafe. pthe fire marshal says the store pwill remain c

as pthe inevitable nominee and on pthe republican side it may be pthe last chance for somebody to ptrump. p>> fox 13 to show us what's at pstake. p>>reporter: so much at stake poutside of election day itself ptomorrow is a single biggest pdemocracy. psuper tuesday the maker or pkiller of contenders. pit will go a long way towards pnomination. plet's take a look at what's on pthe table now. pon the republican side 11 pstates of voting. pmust have the amount needed to pwin the nomination. pdonald trump leads the polls pmost of the state's you see pthere if those polls are paccurate you could amass a lead pit would be difficult not ossible difficult to overcome. pohio florida pennsylvania still pup for grabs. ptrump campaigns ought to doubt ptoday ending with a rally in pgeorgia where he vowed to prestore wished and power texas psenators ted cruz baking and pwinning his home state. phere's a small lead over trump pin the polls in texas. pmarco rubio tomorrow is the pfirst election since a sizzling pdebate performance last week at pa rally tonight in oklahoma he psent a message that this is

ptrump's campaign says some phillary clinton signs have also pbeen spotted at his campaigns. p>> anjuli: a california phighway patrol officer is phospitalized with major injuries pafter he was hit by a car pdirecting traffic in snow. pthey expect 4 feet of the white pstuff in parts of the sierra pnevada mountains today. pthe rest of the week looks sunny pand dry throughout the state. p>> alcides: at least three eople have died in louisiana pand more than 2,000 have been prescued after heavy rains doused pthe area. pofficials have urged people that plive in flood-prone areas to pmove to safety. pthe storm has started to move pslowly to the northeast, but peven more showers are expected ptoday. p>> anjuli: what a mess. p>> alcides: that is a mess. p>> lindsay: what a week for pthem. pi mean, it was days and days pof -- remember the high that pseptember us warm and quiet? pcontinued to pile up across arts of the areas. pnow the rain is exiting, but pit's the rivers. pyou've seen it here. pthe water has to go somewhere, pso it's the river flooding. pwe have rain of our own headed

pare there any cracks in donald ptrump's road to victory? p>>laura: this morning, hulk phogan gets in the rain with pwebsite gawker. pwhat's at stake as this much panticipated trial gets underway? p>>russell: nasa working on a pquieter supersonic jet. pit will have all the speed pwithout the boom. p>>dave: northeast winds at six pmiles an hour. pwe're expecting a wind shift ptoday to more of a southwesterly pdirection. pi think that will help us out. p61 in st. petersburg. pa couple of spots in the 40s to pthe north. pwe're looking at a day similar pto yesterday in temperatures as pwe get back up to the mid 70s pwith that mixture of clouds and psunsetup for today. pa weak front comes through ptomorrow. pwe'll discuss what impact, if pany, it will have on the area in pa few minutes. p>>vanessa: good morning. pwe want to touch on an earlier pcrash that is still working with plane blockage. pthis is some earlier video, pbasically showing the same lane pblockage now from 75 and pgibsonton drive in the river pview area. pa crash that we were seei

pdon't vote for anybody but ptrump. pif i were one of these pcandidates i might say yeah, you pknow let's not talk any more pabout this, okay. p>> this is a year of disrupter. pa year nonpoliticians the year pof outsider and romney may not prealize his era of influence may phave passed him by even robo pcalls could backfire. pbecause, what's driving trump pinto lesser extent ted cruz, preally both of them is an poutsider wave. pyou have base republicans who pfed up with establishment wing pof their party nobody represents pestablishment perhaps more than pmitt romney himself. pmore he punches the more in peffect it could helping donald ptrump. pand i want to ask you about pbernie and hillary for a second. pi mean i know bernie sanders is pnot an outsider but he talks plike an outsider. pyes? p>> we're not winning. pthat's the common thread between pdump and bernie sanders. pbernie sanders's case is that we phave money has a choke hold on pthe lekive process and you can ptrace action and inaction in pwashington even stat

ptrump dismissed rubio's chances pin florida where the billionaire pmaintains a double digit lead in pthe polls. p>> essay light weight as i've psaid many times before. p>> reporter: trump's victories pon super tuesday have split the prepublican party. p>> he's beyond the nightmare pstage. pacceptance stage. p>> reporter: there's talk that psome leaders will try to block ptrump's path but they warn pagainst it. p>> if donald trump wins fair and psquare or comes close enough, it pwould be a disaster not to give pit to him. p>> reporter: trump's momentum phas not only stunned the gop pestablishment, ben carson preleased a statement saying he pno longer sees a path forward. p>> what a super tuesday! p. p [ cheers and applause ]. p>> reporter: in the democratic prace, hillary clinton is pstarting to pull away from pbernie sanders. pshe won seven states on super ptuesday. psanders won four. pbut sanders is optimistic. p>> we can win here if there is a plarge voter turnout. lease vote. p [ cheers and applause ] p>> reporter: the vermont psenator raised $12 million more pthan clinton in the

ptrump camp took it down quickly. phe was apparently upset about an pad that features his wife during pago. pdonald, you try to attack hide pheidi, you're more of a coward pthan i thought. ptwo sky divers are in the phospital after a mid air pcollision. p>>laura: they were sky diving in pzephyrhills. pthe men somehow ran into each pother after leaving the plane pand one of them was able to pdeploy his parachute and land in pthe drop zone. p but the other man came down pfour miles away on county road p54 after a reserve chute pautomatically deployed. phe's in critical condition at p>>russell: sarasota, a man is paccused of shoving an p83-year-old woman aside to steal pher money at a bank of america patm. phe reportedly withdrew $800. pdetectives think he's done this pkind of thing before. pif you know who he is, call pcrime stoppers. p941-366-tips. p>>laura: also from sarasota, the pcity commission boasts to bill a pnew parking lot for saint armon pcircle. pit will have more than 500 arking spaces, it will be built pon

pbut it was clear with every win, ptrump and his supporter will be pcoming more and more confident phe will in fact become gop pnominee. pwe will have to wait and how pthat turns out trump was not ponly big winner. phillary clinton won several praces on the democratic side. pher cam pane also in a west alm. plet's send it over to him. pgood morning. phillary clinton had to do two pthings last night. pshe had to continue to expand pher delegate lead over bernie psanders. pand she had to reclaim the pnarrative by winning several pstates. pnow we understand from some pnational reporter that is pclinton campaign was hoping to pwin two or three states. pit turns out they won 5 states. pthat means that it the narrative pin momentum is now back on phillary clinton's side. peven after last week's loss in pmichigan. pwhich set her back briefly. premember she led in polls there. pand then surprisingly lost on pelection night on primary night. pthat is not what happened here pin florida. pshe led in the polls and won in pthe voting booths. phillary clinton during her pspeech last night to her psu

ptrump leading republicans, 285. pted cruz 161. pmarco rubio has 87. pit takes 1,237 to win the pnomination. p>>laura: senator rubio is pdesperate for a win in florida pon march 15 and that looks like pa very tall task. pright now donald trump has a pnearly 2-1 lead in the latest olitics poll. ptrump gets 47% of the vote from pflorida republicans. prubio gets 21%. pcruz in third with 16%. pstakes are high right now for prubio. pthey've never been higher. pu.s. senate for this. phere's this. pthere's a chance that ben carson pmay run for that seat. poperatives want him to drop out pof the presidential race in porder to republican for the psenate here in florida. pit's too early to tell if he pwill do that. phe has not gotten any delegates pyet in the presidential race. pthree other republicans are in pthat senate race. pdavid joly, lieutenant governor pand the u.s. representative psantos. p>>russell: and new this morning pthere's been a deadly fire in plakeland. pfast moving flames killed two eople and a dog. pshayla reaves is on the scene. p>>reporter:

ptrump announced wins in plouisiana and kentucky. pcruz won kansas and maine. pon the democratic side bernie psanders scored victories in phillary clinton took louisiana. pno luck for either john kasich pand florida senator marco rubio. pdonald trump is now calling for prubio to drop out of the race pafter unsuccessful showings in pmultiple states. p>> anjuli: with early voting pnow underway in florida, bob pbuckhorn got out to lead by pexample. phe was seen saturday at the olls to cast his ballot. pthe mayor urged everyone to come pout early sxr irthis voices pheard. pof course, mayor bob buckhorn is pvocal about his support of the pdemocratic candidate hillary pclinton. phe traveled to new hampshire pearlier in month to help her pcampaign there. p>> alcides: traffic is likely pto be an issue for anyone ptraveling to the florida pstrawberry festival this pmorning. pgetting to the event which pbringing in more than 500,000 pvisitors every single year will ptake a little longer due to pconstruction on i-4. pif you're planning on heads out pto plant city this mor

pthey have one goal, to stop ptrump's momentum after super ptuesday. p>>russell: and they're not pholding back. pthere's another 155 delegates at pstake in four states this pweekend. phere is more on last night's pdebate. p>>reporter: before the debate, plast night donald trump knew his privals were going to attack. phe said bring it on. pboy, they sure did. p>> don't worry about it, little pmarco. p>> let's hear it, big donald. p>> don't worry about it, little pmarco. p>>reporter: it was trump versus prubio versus cruz last night. p>> donald trump has written pchecks to hillary clinton not ponce, not twice, not three ptimes, 10 times. p>>reporter: ted cruz and marco prubio jumped on trump throughout pthe two-hour debate, including pnot releasing audio of an phe said he was more flexible on phis immigration plan than he psaid in public. p>> there always has to be some ptug and pull and deal. p>>reporter: john kasich refused pto get drawn into the fight. pbut warned voters about pcontinuing to elect politicians pwith no experience. p>> we're putting peo

pwhat do you make of this ptrump movement? pi know there's was big meeting pin washington yesterday among psome gop power players to try to pi mean, to me it seems very pstrange and almost, i don't pknow, how to stop someone who is pgetting all of these votes and pgetting all of these delegates. phow do you do that? panti democratic i think is word pyou were looking for. p>> look people are going to pdecide, and first of all, i pdon't pay much attention to stop ptrump movements we've haefring pabout this for a couple months pnow people go get a free meal pbut they don't seem to paccomplish anything. plook i can understand the vote pfor establishment and also sort pof more conventional pconservatives being upset with pdonald trump. phe's different going to shake pthings up not saying good or pbad. pit is different but you can't pstop him without somebody. pyou need a candidate. pi don't think that there's going pto be a third party that doesn't pseem to be any candidate that's pwilling or ready to do that. pthis thing will get

ptrump being accused of inciting pthis violence. pdo you think this could have any pbearing on the way things turn pout tomorrow? p>> it could. pit's possible. pi think he's kind of gotten a pbounce from looking into some of pthose protests, move on.org, the pleft wing organization has pclaimed credit for one of them. pthere was some bernie sanders' psupporters there. pblack lives matter that were porganized in a couple of these pevents. pthat said, there are other pevents and other incidents at prallies around the country and pwhat marco rubio and others have pbeen talking about are the past pstatements that donald trump has pmade about getting fired up, purging his crowd to not take it panymore and kind of riding that panger. pi think there are two sides to pthat story. phow it plays out, i don't think pit affects the polls that much, pespecially in places like pflorida where boy, it seems like pthings are upsight downed as far pas the numbers for marco rubio. p>>russell: let's stay this with pa second. pthat's what i was going to

ptrump heads into tonight debate priding high in polls but reparing for low blows. psenator ted cruz and marco rubio phave been attacking him all pweek. phead to head with hillary pclinton donald trump in all plikelihood loses and it's a pdisaster for republicans. phe's never voted in a republican rimary in his life. pnumber 2, to the extent he know pwhere he stands on issues they psound a lot like hillary pclinton. promney is going further. psaying trump is getting a free pride to the white house and on pthe public gets is lousy hat. p>> statements are part of larger pmovement by the gop pestablishment to block trump. pthink outrageous you know every pone of those candidates took a pthe nominee and people are pspeaking and they have spoken. pand now they need to all rally pbehind our republican nominee. pwhom ever that. pdr. ben carson will not be on pstage tonight after a poor pshowing on super tuesday. psaying he does not see a path pforward for his campaign. p>> despite his low delegate pcounty governor john kasich will pbe there without the insults. pyou know w

pi i think it works for donald ptrump. pbecause you know, he's ahead. pthere have been questions about phis presidential demeanor and ptemperament he got show show pthat to some degree last night. pi think it worked for him. prubio clearly the personal pinsults that done rick els back pfired he admits it backfired he phe had telegraphed he wasn't pghost to engage in that i was a plittle surprised that cruz and prubio didn't go after trump pharder not on personal insults pon policy. pbecause certainly are areas pthere where sometimes trump pwould, you know make a grand pback it up. pi was surprised they didn't go pafter him harder on that. plook if you're behind, i mean a pfootball team, you're behind by p10 points you don't keep running pball into the line. pand making two yard gains you phave to change the dynamic. pi'm not sure they did enough to pchange did i nam equilibrium. pguess what we'll find out on ptuesday whether they did. pyeah, we will. pi want to ask you about psomething i've reading in last pcouple days relating to a ted pcruz and marco

pwalter allen is here now with pmore on why christians and pevangelicals voting for donald ptrump. pgood morning to you. pconventional wisdom christians pwould vote for texas senator ted pcruz not what polling is showing pright now. pthe polls say christian haves pfavorable view of the business pman donald trump. pbut that isn't until you dig a plittle sdeerp. pgroup which does evangelical olling found there are pdifferences among christians eople that identify themselves pchristian like donald trump. pand would vote for him. pwhen polsters ask people who had pbeen to church in the last week pthose numbers dropped pdramaticscally and ted cruz ptakes the lead. plike the pope saying donald ptrump with all his rhetoric he's pnot a good christian? pthe pope isn't alone and condemn pnation of pastor and priests phave said, we should hold people pespecially presidential pcandidates a high standard and pthat donald trump is not that pstandard. pso the question becomes if pchurch going christians nor for pthe donald trump, why do the olls say christians are. psimple answer is, there are a

ptrump still leading but pdwindling rubio hoping to close pgap before next tuesday. pflorida republicans can expect a pcall from rubios campaign it pwon't his voice on other other probo calls former republican pnominee romney recently came out pagainst donald trump. probo call already reaching hones in michigan. promney does not mention rubio in pit he does ask voters to choose pa candidate that can defeat phillary clinton. pall right walter, thank you. p>> you bet. phey dave. phow you doing? pi'm good. pit's nice. pi can't wait to go outside for p9 o'clock. preally is. pwe're all getting to time of pcontrary that point where pollen pis really starting to kick in. pi think i can feel it too in my psinuses. p8:36. retty start in tampa area. pwe have a little bit of cloud pcover. pmixing in with the gorgeous psunrise that we have this pmorning. pit had turned around and it's pbeautiful out bradenton beach pthis hour few clouds but mild in olk county high pressure how's pthat? pfor a start to the day over in plakeland, and looking weston pbe right down here in just a fe

pi'm sure all of the coverage pabout the protestors at the ptrump rallies doesn't help. p>> denise: so what would lure pclevelanders downtown during the prnc? pdiscount the admissions to pmuseums and knowing what would pbe open or closed. erhaps the saddest statistics, p69% of clevelanders were psurprised they chose cleveland pto host their event to begin pwith. p>> the city's attitude is a lot pbrowns. plike why us? pwhy pick us? pwe're never going to win. p>> denise: and the other part pof that we should say is that a plot of the people taking the psurvey said that they thought pthey were up against some stiff pcompetition with the other pcities that could have also been pchosen for the republican pnational convention. panother thing of notes is that pnot everybody said they wouldn't pbe coming downtown for the pconvention. pin fact, younger people who were olled said that they would come pdowntown and check out the paction. preporting live from downtown pcleveland, denise zarrella, pcleveland 19. p>> mark: i could tell denise pwas downtown there because she's pright b

pwe're expecting to see donald ptrump and dr. ben carson ptogether at any moment now. pformer rivals presidential pcandidate dr. carson is expected pto throw his support for donald ptrump as we said we're waiting pfor that to happen. pwhen it does we hope we can show psome of it to you. premember earlier this week pcarlie fiorina endorsed texas psenator ted cruz. pand governor jeb bush he met pwith all three of trumping privals. pcruz, rubio, kasich. pbut has not yet announced if phe's going to put his support pbehind any of the three. p>> the final preps are being pmade for nancy reaganing funeral pshe will laid to rest today pother two children among pspeakers four of the 5 living prelatives of every president pdating back to john kennedy are pexpected to attend. p>> time 9:07 major shake up one pcountry's most high profile pveterans charities. ptwo top executives of wound wad pwarrior project have been fired. pit comes after cbs news pinvestigation into accusations pof lavish spending on parties photel and travel. paccording to the investigation pspending when from

ptrump has 47%. pdemocrats, hillary clinton has a psingle digit lead over vermont pit's more than that. pshe has 51%. phe has 44%. pthat saint poll has hillary pclinton beating two of three prepublican if the general pelection were held today. pthe one exception is not donald ptrump. pshe's beating him by 12 ercentage points and even with pjohn kasich is the only prepublican. phe has a six% advantage over pher. pin case you're wondering, bernie psanders beats trump by 20, cruz pby 13, kasich by six. p>> again, trust me. pi will not stop fighting. p>>laura: one of the hardest pthing he has ever had to do, pletting go of his daughter. phe had no choice in the matter, pthough. pa judge in california made him pand his wife say goodbye. psocial workers came to get the p6-year-old girl. phere is kelly wright. p>> i'm scared. pdon't let me go. p>>reporter: a family in pcalifornia torn apart as social pworkers take a foster child away pfrom the family whom she has pbeen living with since she was plexie blood

phe said that it's time for prepublicans to coalesce behind ptrump. p>>laura: president obama told pcourt. pmerrick garland. p>> the constitution and the law phas been the corner stone of my rofessional life. pit's the hallmark of the kind of pjudge i have tried to be for the ast 18 years. p>>laura: garland is widely prespected. pgenerally considered to be pmoderate, first in his class at pharvard. phe has an impressive resume, pincluding private practice, pyears as a federal prosecutor pand nearly two decades on the pfederal bench. prepublican lawmakers have vowed pto fight the nomination. p>>russell: the young son of plegendary entertainer frank sin psinatra has died. p>>laura: he was scheduled to erform tonight. p>>russell: the annual traffic pscore card is out. pfind out how many hours pcommuters waste sitting in ptraffic every year. pthe big story on the roadways is pthe sunshine skyway bridge being pclosed down. psecond time this week that phappened. pit is due to fog. ptop of the bridge basically pdisappears here so of course, ptake 75 instead

p>> i think he feels like most prepublicans, we don't want ptrump. ptrump is not one of us. p>> reporter: team trump isn't pbacking down. p>> his supporters know him and pthey're 100% behind him and phe'll probably pick up more pindependent and democrat votes pbecause a lot of people cannot pdeal with mitt romney. p>> reporter: donald trump holds pa 20% lead in the sunshine lead olitics. pfor rubio supporters decision por won't they join team trump pshould he become the nominee? p>> there's a large block firmly pagainst trump. pwe will not go along with trump. p>> reporter: earlier today and pdonald trump calling marco rubio p"little marco", a lightweight. pi can tell you folks here don't psee rubio as a lightweight. pthey say he's the guy, the pnow. pkelly, back to you. p>> anchor: josh, reporting for pus tonight. pthank you, josh. p>> anchor: new at 10:00, the arents of a first grader in ptampa say their son is ptraumatized. pthey say his teacher slammed his pfingers in a classroom door and pmay lose part of them. pthe little boy, how is he? p>> reporter: well, his fingers

pcarson, it appears, is dropping pout of the race. ptrump, marco rubio and john pkasich. p>>reporter: ben carson appears pto be out. pas we approach tonight's debate, pa couple of big questions, where pwill his support go and also, pwhat's mitt romney going to say ptoday? pthe transformation is well punderway in the opulent fox ptheater in detroit. p but the stage will have to pundergo last minute changes. pthe debate lineup has shrunk pwith ben carson bowing out pyesterday. pi do not see a political path pforward. pwhile he's not technically ended phis campaign, he won fewer than p10 delegates on super tuesday pwith more than 600 at play. p>> ben's campaign touched pmillions, touched millions, gave pinspiration. p>>russell: p>>reporter: ted cruz tried to pkick up supporters and the premaining candidates to get pready for the debate. pdebate. p>>reporter: smaller field will pwill face more fire tonight from pall sides. pand it may start even earlier ptoday with 2012 republican pnominee mitt romney speaking in putah. phe's already made his opposition pto trump clear and he

reporter pmichelle fields accused plewandowski grabbing her by the parm as she tried to question ptrump earlier in month. plewandowski denies he touched pher. pfields pressed charges against phim. p>> alcides: republican residential candidate john pkasich says under no pcruz's running mate. pearlier this week he ruled out pjoining a ticket with pfront-runner donald trump. pthe ohio governor made it very pclear he's solely running for resident. pkasich is currently in third for pthe race for the white house pwith 143 delegates. p>> anjuli: and to the pdemocratic side, hillary clinton phas a huge delegate lead, but psenator bernie sanders refusing pto concede. phe believes his campaign can erform well in upcoming races pand focuses efforts out west. pclinton has been campaigning pmostly on the east coast. p>>> this week there's six pcontests on two separate days. pon tuesday in arizona they vote pmany primaries and caucuses in putah for both parties. pdemocrats in idaho will also add ptheir voice, and then 172 pdelegates will be up for grabs pthere in the democratic race on psaturday as a

pover weekend we learned donald ptrump did make an appearance in pmiami as well. pand he also made an appearance pin orlando. p24er hoping their message will presonate with voters and phopefully influence turn out at pthe polls. prussell back to you. pgoing to busy week. pall right shayla talk later. pwe should point out marco rubio pdid win puerto rico. phis rivals did much better over pweekend. p2eksz senator ted cruz won rimary in maine and kansas. pdonald trump won in the bigger pand much more diverse states of plouisiana and kentucky. pohio governor john kasich is in pdistant fourth place his pdelegate count is just 37. pyou're seeing other delegates pwho what candidates have pdelegates right now. pthe republican candidates need pmore than 1200 by the way to psecure the nomination. pthere you go. pall right. pwe're almost there. pjust stick with me here for a psecond. pon other side of political aisle pthings got heated between phillary clinton and vermont psenator bernie sanders in debate plast night. ptake a listen. pwe just have at best year that pthe auto