st. petersburg florida, when all of a sudden her car shook. >> i kept hitting the locks but it wouldn't workcar was smoky from the air bags i guess. makes me not want to drive in the rain ever again. >> reporter: a lightning bolt struck in front of the car. you can see the jarring force the lightning strike can have on a moving vehicle. look as this pickup is jolted after taking a direct hit. cars are designed to divert lightning around the shell of the car and down to the ground. while many think that rubber car tires protect against lightning strikes, experts say it is a myth. lightning can melt electrical systems and in some cases cause the car to burst in to flames and they say it is one of many. lightning is unpredictable and can strike a bolt through conventional wisdom. i saw the power of lightning firsthand. covering storms in alabama. >> this is the same storm in tuscaloosa. >> lightning does not strike only when it is raining. it can strike quite far from the storm. lightning can travel through clear skies and actually strike with blue sky overhead. >> reporter: dow how do you prot

st. petersburg, florida, the nationals offense exploded for 23 hits and 16 runs. tonight they continue their inner league series with the rays, but unfortunately things didn't go so well in the confines of home. we start with the flashback, september 28th, 2014, final game last season. jordan zimmermann one out away from a no hitter. steven souza, jr. makes an incredible leaping catch to preserve it. tonight sousa returns to nats park now as a member of the tampa bay rays and what does he do? in the 5th inning facing his old pal he sends one out of the ballpark. good to see you again, mr. zimmerman. he got the rays on the board first and despite their 23 hit effort last night the nats only able to muster up two tonight and get blanked 5 -0. >>> good news regarding the almighty righty. stephen strasburg pitched his first rehab signment in harrisburg tonight. strasburg came -- assignment in harrisburg tonight. strasburg came up afterwards pretty pleased with his performance. >> today was a good day. i felt like i was back to where i was mechanically before and once

st. petersburg, florida. we've got good injury news. nats begin a four-game interleague series today with the tampa bay rays. they're getting one of the well, sir. after some serious consideration i'd like to put in my 15-year notice. you're quitting!? technically retiring, sir. with a little help from my state farm agent i plan to retire in 15 years. wow! you're totally blindsiding me here. who's gonna manage your accounts? this is a devastating blow i was not prepared for. well, i'm gonna finish packing my things. 15 years will really sneak up on you. jennifer with do your exit interview and adam made you a cake. red velvet. oh, thank you. i made this. take charge of your retirement. talk to a state farm agent today. >>> its counterparts max scherzer and jordan zimmermann have been solid this season, strasburg has had a troubling start. after battling injuries he says threw off his mechanics strasburg may soon be back on the mound. mighty righty hasn't pitched since may 29th and spent the last two weeks on the disabled list with a str

st. petersburg florida, are looking for a dangerous crook driving this silver suv. accused of robbing two different realtors wednesday who were selling homes about six miles apart. one of them is afraid to show her face on camera. worried he might come back. >> he put his briefcase on the floor, grabbed the gun and pointed to me and said lady get on the floor. >> reporter: he's a white male in his mid 60s 58'8". he had a briefcase and was pretending he wanted to buy this house. she was lucky. another real estate agent knocked on the door and the gunman ran away. about an hour earlier, at this home police believe a man with the same description tied a realtor's hands and feet with zip ties and called her husband, demanding a ransom. she managed to set herself free. >> she was running out the driveway i've been robbed i've been robbed. >> reporter: selling homes is dangerous work. the government says more than 20 realtors have been murdered on the job in the last decade. in arkansas last spooept, real estate agent beverly carter was found in a shallow grave, killed wh

st. petersburg, florida. you there? >> yes. first, thank you for taking my call.njoyed the entire series and i have followed it with margaret truman's biography of the first ladies. devotes quite a bit of time to mary todd lincoln and remarks that she ranks at the very bottom of the list. i don't agree with that, and i wonder how your commentators would also rank her in terms of first ladies. >> oh, boy. put it this way. i certainly would disagree with those that would rank occur at or near the bottom. it is a less than compassionate thing. i also think her years and her story is really unique in the annals of white house history. i think she is a unique figure. hundreds of years later, we are having this discussion and still debating her motives, it tells you that she is an important first lady. i will leave it at that. >> important because of the man to whom she was married? >> important because of the man, important because of the part she plays in the story that is still being debated after all of these years. we still feel as if we do not know who she was and

st. petersburg, florida. democrat dr. ezekiel emanuel. caller: you just had a gentleman, and he stuck about the war between the races. this is the same attitude that drove that young man to go into that church. this young man 21 years old, i wish you had spent a little more time with him. that same spirit is still out there amongst people. what kind of race? the only war we should have is a war against evil. guest: absolutely. there is no black humanity there is no white humanity. there is humanity. and a part of all of us dies and suffers, watching the unnecessary death of those nine families. i think people are beginning to realize that people do not kill because they are black and white. they killed because of behavior and ideals. we've got to change that. we've got to communicate and uplift each other. i was so moved in charleston on friday how strangers just walked up to people coming out of the church and they were teary-eyed , and hugged them and said i am , here are you. something has awakened in them and maybe there is a real awa

st. petersburg, florida, san diego, california and annapolis, maryland. we'll be in marble head in june. >> reporter: what boat is this? >> this is the j-109. they are down on the leg which is why you see the colorful sails, they carry the boats away from the wind. it is beautiful. >> reporter: beautiful. the conditions are lovely out here, liz. wish you were here sailing. it's so fun. liz: honey, i have stock in dramamine, i don't do boats, two seconds before i'm hanging over the side. props to you and the crew, jeff, giving us the real feel what's going on. thank you. that would not be me. >>> the very latest on the failed trade vote. we've got a live report for you coming back. and the drought of course devastating the state of california, but could the ceo of one company save the state? and isn't it the sun and no rain that's causing the drought? solarcity ceo may have the answer when "countdown" continues. stay tuned. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empo

st. petersburg, florida, arrested paul pinkston after he was recognized on surveillance video.june 3rd police say pinkston arranged to meet with a realtor and then bound her up with zip ties on her hands and feet and called her husband for ransom. he's facing armed robbery and kidnapping charges. >>> in australia a man is behind bars accused of going on a rampage with a bulldozer. the guy tore through a house, vehicles and a tree. take a look, basically nothing left of that home. a detective says a man sleeping in the out house was the first target, but he heard the bulldozer coming and took off running. >>> dangerous does not begin to describe riding your bicycle at night, especially in our area, but now a car company in britain is testing a new kind of paint that could keep bike riders safe after dark. that paint could soon be available in the u.s. >> reporter: drivers and cyclists have long been roadside rivals. >> some drivers don't pay any attention to bikers. >> i give them as much room as i, can but they still cut me off and call me names. >> reporter: a new product aims

st. petersburg florida. >> that is so scary. >> you don't think about it. it's part of their job.meeting a stranger with unon one in a home somewhere. there are some dangerous involved. >> that's been the practice for forever for agents. my dad did real estate on the side. he said after they started happening they made sweeping changes at their office to make sure that everybody is safe. >> many coulding up here we're chasing the perfect wave. he's already got the record for riding the biggest wave but he wants more. >> the amazing images of had his quest like t.j. said for more. we have that when we come back. >> tt2wút3n@/d bt@q4<$ tt2wút3n@/d "a@q$0@ tt2wút3n@/d bm@q/;l tt4wút3n@/d " dztq rch tt4wút3n@/d " entq "g( tt4wút3n@/d " gzt& ;@p tt4wút3n@/d " hnt& +n< tt4wút3n@/d " iztq a'd tt4wút3n@/d " jntq sw$ tt4wút3n@/d " lzt& k:x ♪ >> okay. this guy you're about to meet is one of the world's most celebrated big wave surfers. it's a sport in which 20-foot waves, just the minimum price of entry. >> yeah he was an unknown till his photos of these extraordinary photos really started

st. petersburg, florida, good morning.r: yes, i have a 2011 toyota tacoma pickup truck that had a recall in the middle part of october. every time i check with the internet about the recall, i called the toyota dealer and they say they don't have a fixed. how long does the government give them to do this? guest: they typically have 60 days to notify the consumer and a reasonable. of time afterwards. this was last year and we're talking about eight months, i would check again and call your toyota dealer. it has been seven months. by this point, the parts should be available and they should start their recall. that is an unusual campaign of they have not started it. if you are concerned, you can ask your real or for a loaner car until they have the replacement parts. host: this is a story from the front page of "the detroit free press." it's your competitor. even as we hear about these airbag concerns, folks are still buying vehicles? guest: it's a boom time. the consumer confidence with low unemployment rate and low gas pri

st. petersburg florida and at night, he and debbie are at the ballpark. >> coming up, it is called hit andty. this time it was in the city of alameda. i will show you more in this edition of people behaving badly. stanley roberts pound people behaving badly. >> reporter: me show you how difficult it is to cross the street and alameda. watch what happens. more than 20 drivers field to yield to the ladies in a fully marked crosswalk. this is one of those moments you wish you had someone with a ticket book around. a ctually, on this day, we did. t hey where out having chats with other drivers during the exact same thing. not yielding to pedestrians in a crosswalk. these are alameda county sheriff explorers. high impact and traffic team. they target problem areas around alameda county using officers from multiple departments ,-guessed including the patrol from the castle valley area office. watch of this car. not only did the driver failed to yield, but the speed limit is 25. t hat looked faster than 25. the driver said the pedestrians appeared out of nowhere. soon make you did not them in the

st. petersburg florida, in broad daylight. >> anything to say?r has no prior record. paul j. pinkston is now a computer analyst in the bay area. police say he was armed when they arrested him. >> it's a good day. we got our man. >> i'm a realtor. i was showing homes and someone just robbed me. >> reporter: police have been searching for the past week. their suspect, captured on several surveillance cameras. >> hi this is robert evans i am calling about a property you just listed. >> reporter: pinkston allegedly set up an appointment with one and called her husband demanding $50,000. her husband said no and went on to a second one, anna divine robbing her at gunpoint. >> this is the guy that put the gun in my face and said if i called the police he would kill me. >> reporter: at the time of his arrest he was wearing the same shirt when he allegedly held up ana. now likely exchanging that shirt for a prison uniform. >> he's now paying the price. >> reporter: he now faces charges of armed robbery and kidnapping with a deadly weapon and could be addi

st. petersburg in florida had to make a nearly immediate u-turn after smoke began filling the cabin. the emergency landing caused panic on board but the latest incident under lines concerns from pilots. some of whom threatened to go on strike. >>> the nba finals resume tonight. everything shifting to cleveland. the warriors try to bounce back from a disappointing loss in game two preponderate series tied at one game a piece heading into tonight's game three. the warriors agree sunday's loss it was due to poor shooting and they plan to pick up the pace tonight. joe fonzi was in cleveland today. >>> despite sunday's loss, warriors fans are gearing up to cheer on their team tonight. lots of bay area businesses are showing their pride. look at this. fen ton's ice cream shop offering this treat. this is a golden state sundae. >>> warriors pride on display at this car dealership. look at the windows here. decked out in warriors colors and the pride continues inside with a yellow car. way to go. >>> as steve has been saying we're getting slight weather break today after record breaking hit

st. petersburg, florida cynthia. good morning. go ahead. caller: good morning.hank you for taking my call. i would just like to say that i am supporting the supreme court's ruling. it i wonderful. i'm very happy about it. 19 countries have approved the freedom to marry. netherlands, belgium spain canada, south africa norway, sweden portugal, iceland, argentina, denmark france, brazil you're gay, britain, ireland and now, united states. i would also like to address both callers who claim to know god and jesus christ's position in this issue. the god i believe in supports this ruling. i am extremely proud of our court system. and i am extremely happy for what is happening in this country. thank you. host: last call on this topic for tomorrow's program. lots of things being discussed. probably more about yesterday's decision as well. we will be joined by a former health care advisor under the obama administration talking about the supreme court's decision to uphold subsidies in the affordable care act. we will also hear from armstrong williams radio tv, and talk sh

st. petersburg, florida. democrat dr. ezekiel emanuel.ler: you just had a gentleman, and he stuck about the war between the races. this is the same attitude that drove the in man to go into that church. this in my net 21-year-old, i wish you would have spent more time with him because that same spirit is still out there amongst people. what kind of grace -- the only one we should have is over against evil. guest: absolutely. there is no black humanity there is no white humanity. there is humanity. and a part of all of us dies and suppers watching the unnecessary death of those nine families. i think people are beginning to realize that people do not kill because they are black and white. they killed because of behavior and ideals. we've got to change that. we've got to communicate and uplift each other. i was so moved in charleston on friday how strangers just walked up to people coming out of the church and they were teary-eyed and hug them and said, i am here are you. something has awakened in them and maybe there is a real beginning in

st. petersburg, florida. caller: good morning. i am a first-time caller and i want to say thank you. i support the president and the effort by the republican house leadership to support this agreement. i think we should give the president a chance to work his agenda. he has carried us for seven years in a positive direction. i think we need to have faith in the president. if it does not work out, we can adjust the policy. i think he should get the initial support to work the agenda. i believe in bipartisanship. here we have bipartisanship between a fraction lysed congress. -- fraction lalised congress. host: do you support this because you support the president? caller: i believe in free trade. i am surprised the congress is supporting the president. i think we need to come together and work together. host: curtis is in maryland. you are on "the washington journal." caller: good morning. i am completely against both measures. every time we have done free trade agreements of this kind, we have lost a lot of american jobs. that will probably happen again. i don't think there is any dou

st. petersburg, florida. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. you so much for taking my call and thank you so much for enlightening more of the public as to all of the corruption, the revolving door, the stories of the presidents and all the money they collect afterwards. well, it is a degrees. -- a disgrace. how about the congressional people who have become lobbyists? are they still collecting huge amounts of money while they lobby? thank you. guest: members of congress have a prorated pension that is related to the number of years that they have spent on the hill. on average, it is about $40,000 a year. but many members of congress stay here and be in the advocacy business. that means they are lobbying sometimes when they are not federally registered lobbyists. and they can make quite a bit of money. there are those who have left and headed the pharma, for example,. billy tauzin did this and left and made millions of dollars. americans are concerned if there is a conflict of interest in this revolving door because they are thinking about a jo

st. petersburg, florida, republican. hi, jim, go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. i want to respond to something the congressman said. the first thing is the trade agreement with china. he implied that once we get this trade agreement through, china's going to behave and not steal our secrets. i think that position is absolutely delusional. host: why jim? caller: why would they? it implies that there are no laws against them stealing it now. host: well, i think what the senator was saying is that they would see these trade agreements that we would have with these other asia-pacific countries and they would see what it means to go and get along, i guess, with the united states, and china would then have greater access to the consumers here in the united states, if they were to cooperate and enter into a similar trade deal. caller: well, i think they are winning in the trade right now. they don't need a trade deal. host: because? caller: because they are winning in the trade deal now. they have all their jobs over there. all the pharmaceutical companies are over ther

st. petersburg, florida. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. thank you so much for taking my call and thank you so much for enlightening more of the public as to all of the corruption, the revolving door, the stories of the presidents and all the money they collect afterwards. well, it is a degrees. -- a disgrace. how about the congressional people who have become lobbyists? are they still collecting huge amounts of money while they lobby? thank you. guest: members of congress have a prorated pension that is related to the number of years that they have spent on the hill. on average, it is about $40,000 a year. but many members of congress stay here and be in the advocacy business. that means they are lobbying sometimes when they are not federally registered lobbyists. and they can make quite a bit of money. there are those who have left and headed the pharma, for example,. billy tauzin did this and left and made millions of dollars. americans are concerned if there is a conflict of interest in this revolving door because they are thinking abou

reporter: tonight, new surveillance footage of a man south florida police say is a person of interest in the robberies of two realtors in st. petersburg a look as he walks through a local walmart store just days before the attacks. police aren't saying whether it's the same person driving this suv or the man in this composite sketch, both released in connection to the case. but they are now releasing this voicemail they says is the suspect calling a victim. >> i'm calling about a property you have listed. >> in the first attack the police say the assailant bound the victim's hands and feet and called her husband demanding a ran some. she managed to escape. and holding a second realtor at another home. that realtor told us what happened but didn't want to show her face. >> he put his briefcase on the floor. grabbed the gun and pointed to me and said lady, get on the floor. >>reporter: another relevant to knocked on the door and the gunman got away. realtors and homeowners selling their own homes need to take precautions. >> one of the things we try to do is maintain two agents at all times. if we can have a single agent we want to make

st. petersburg, but trying to get back on the winning track and they just can't seem to get over that edge. they were in florida tonight. bryce harper played in his first game in from can afield since he was a teen -- tropicana field since he was a teenager. >> the knottest days so far this year -- hottest days so far this year. >> we have more showers and thunderstorms >>> now wusa9 game on sports with kristen berset brought to you by xfinity. >> the inner league series began tonight in major league baseball. the nats trying to get back on track face a team in the opposite direction. the nats won just five of their last 15 games. the tampa bay rays have won 11. tonight they begin on the road in st. petersburg looking for the w, a rather rough night for gio gonzalez. this singly logan scores and chases gio from the game. five hundreds, eight hits in just -- runs, eight hits in just 3 1/3 innings. harper lines into the game ending double play. nats fall tonight 6-1. >>> stephen strasburg hasn't pitched since may 2090 because of a strained -- 29th because of a strained muscle. stras has gotten plenty of rest. now

. >> passengers on a flight from florida to hagarstown are describing a chaotic landing. had to go back to the airport in st. petersburgn after take-off last night after the crew reported smoke in the cabin. as soon as they landed the pilot activated the emergency slide. some passengers say the flight attendants were screaming at people to get off. >> they were scaring people. >> evacuate evacuate, evacuate. then the slides went down. >> it's a little bit of a drop and that's tough. a few people did fall and a couple children were crying and such. >> airline officials say three passengers and the flight atten attendant were hurt during the evacuation. >> a lot of people like to shoot photos of their favorite food on instagram and soon you will be able to see how many calories will come with that juicy burger. google is developing an app that could be helpful whether you're at the grocery store or dining out. not everyone is sure they want to be that informed. >> do you want to see that? >> i personally wouldn't but i'm sure there are a lot of people who would. >> it doesn't bother me at all. i think calorie counting is

. >> reporter: new surveillance footage of a man south florida police say is a person of interest in the robberies of two realtors in st. petersburggh a local walmart store just days before the attacks. police aren't saying whether it's the same person driving this suv, or the man in this composite sketch, both released in connection to the case but they are now releasing this voice mail they say is the assailant calling a victim. >> i'm calling about a property you just listed. >> reporter: in the first attack, police say the assailant bound the victim's hands and feet and called her husband, demanding a ransom. she managed to escape. >> someone just robbed me. >> reporter: an hour later, the assailant held a second realtor at gunpoint at another home. still scared, the realtor said what happened but didn't want to show her face. >> he put his briefcase on the floor, grabbed the gun, and pointed to me and said, "get on the floor." >> reporter: another realtor knocked on the door and the gunman got away. more than 20 realtors have been murdered on the job in the last decade. david delaney says realtors and homeowners selling their

florida? >> i guess so. i can't for member. but he was worried. at that point, i was like, look, we have been arrested -- in a cup your consulate was from st. petersburgussia. it was u.s. counselor. >> the council it is in st. petersburg. the embassy is in moscow. as far as we were concerned, was all business as usual. we are been arrested in russia before. my first campaign there was a 1983. it is all going to plan. things did not start to get exciting until we got into the investigator's office that evening. and they said, well, you're not going back to the boat. you're being arrested and sent to detention for two months. and we are charging with piracy, which is 10tle disconcerting. amy: so you are watching this, ben. you are not in this action of your the communications director. what are you thinking at this point? where were you? >> the same as what pete said, without this was a standard -- it'd been pretty good. there is in some footage and media attention. the presumption was those guys would get kicked out of the country and be telling their stories in a bar in norway by evening. we got the news when dennis, who is just on a film, went to cou

. >>> realtors are on high alert in the state of florida after two women are attacked while they're showing homes in the st. petersburgwing there. she was bound with zip ties. before the man took off in her car. she managed to escape and then get help from a neighbor. hours later, a few blocks away from there, police say the very same man attacked another realtor. >> he walked in i knew he was not -- something was wrong. he put his brief case on the floor. grabbed the gun and pointed it to me and said -- get on the floor. >> that man demanded money but left with nothing. in a gray suv when someone knocked on the door and frightened him. >>> forget stealing the booty. captain jack sparrow is stealing kisses. >> a lovely lady it's so cold out here. my goodness. you have made my day. thank you so much. >> well dressed in character actor johnny depp planting a kiss on the cheek of that flustered reporter. that's in australia. he is filming the pirates of the caribbean movie down there and gave her a nice little smooch. >> he brought his dog to the country. now he's trying to kiss up to them. >> it's 11 minutes at the top