That hadnt occurred when the officer rushed around me and one or two seconds after he passed me, he ended up hitting the car instead of me. Making the ultimate sacrifice, she is sure that Deputy John Kotfila intentionally crashed into that car saving her life. This man put himself in front of us as a human shield. Absolutely. He definitely he definitely saw what was going on when i take a step back and look at the way everything occurred, he absolutely was a human shield for us. Garren will always remember Deputy Kotfila as her hero. As his colleagues at the Sheriffs Office remember him as a friend with an infectious friend. Hes a well rounded person you wanted to be around. His legacy will live on with the safety team. John made us better. He made this program better. He makes this Sheriffs Office better and tonight, the agency continues its work with one less deputy on duty. As the fallen heros memorial prepares to bear one more name. The Sheriffs Office says that all signs and signals to alert wrongway drivers were in working order at the time of that crash. The deputy will be laid to rest this friday. Stacie. Mary, do we know if the wrongway driver was drinking or on drugs or what caused this . We dont know that information just yet, but im told that toxicology reports are but those can take up to six weeks to process. Okay. Mary mcguire live in thank you. Turning to your vote. Donald trump campaigning in tampa today. And the republican front runner faced a few interruptions. Were hours away from floridas president ial primary. Trump decided to spend and hundreds of supporters packed into the Convention Center today. News channel 8 political reporter, Candace Mccowan joins us from the Convention Center with more. Hi, candace. Reporter good evening, keith and stacie. Theyre cleaning up from the event that wrapped up several hours ago. As for trump this was his last effort to win over florida voters ahead of the primary tomorrow. Trump had quite the ban of supporters with him today from sarah palin to Chris Christie and pam bondi endorsing the businessman. All signs are pointing to a big one for trump. A wall street journal poll shows that trump is expanding over rubio and trump has a 20 point lead over rubio and another poll showing rubio in third. Did you think florida would be a hard battle for you . Well, yeah, i did. I always its a youll see tomorrow, but im not worried about that. Thats ridiculous. Trump is not letting up on rubio. I refuse to say it, right. I refuse to say little marco. Trump even telling the crowd his wife and daughter asked him to rise above the attacks from other candidates. They said, be president ial. I said wait a minute, if they come at me i have to come back at them. When i hear little marco say bad stuff, ive got to hit him back. Trump was adamant with his supporters to not just show up to this event, but to make sure they go out and vote tomorrow so that he is hoping to claim victory. Keith. I dont know, can dace, its like watching stand up comedy when youre watching trump. He says im not going to say little marco and he says it over and over again. You saw some of the endorse him and he brought up another endorsement today. Boxer mike tyson. Yeah, he was doubting that endorsement bringing up that mike tyson quote saying everyone has a plan until theyre punched in the face which is ironic after some of the complaints of violence at his rallies over the weekend. Keith. For the record, we saw none of that here in tampa. We saw some protestors doing who protestors do, but no punches, no none of that, so that was a good sign. Candace mccowan reporting live at the tampa Convention Center. We mentioned sarah palin. She took to the stage with trump despite her husband husband husband despite her husband hurt in a they came facetoface with protestors marched to the Convention Center. Protestors and supporters clashed and talking why they do not support or one protestor was thrown out said he was glad to see people talking and not fighting. I mean, i think its dialogue thats needed. But overall, this isnt like i think tampa is a very diverse place. I havent seen much racial protest ended peacefully. Former president bill clinton was in tallahassee campaigning for his wife hillary. He was at a and m university. He campaigned himself at florida a and m he praised his wifes plan for equal pay, and gun control and college affordability. If you need your tuition paid, you can get if you need more, you can get that. Everybody should be able to work 10 hours a week in work study. It wont kill you. That will keep tuition cost and college cost down if we do that. Clinton will be back in the Sunshine State tomorrow stomping for clinton as well. We have Team Coverage of this florida primary season. You can watch a special onehour edition tomorrow night at 11 00. Well be at all the candidates watch parties and well have the results for you. You dont want to miss that tomorrow night at 11 00 right here on news channel 8. A School Crossing guard has been fired for firing a gun with his step daughter. He was arguing with the 44yearold he got his gun and fired a shot. No one was injured. He did appear intoxicated says police. A push for change state wide. Coming up, what they believe needs to be changed when it comes to birth certificates. Plus a disease thats impacting the Bee Population. How it can cause your grocery bill to go up. We have that and more on news channel 8. The news always in polk county, two men have been arrested for stealing at least ten five extinct wishers. Theres a bunch of extinguishers. Theyre accused of stealing 2,000 worth extinguishers. Her wife rebecca will have a baby, a boy. The florida does not recognize samesex parents on birth certificates. They must go through an adoption. I have no right over him so i have to adopt my own child. For a husband and wife, if a woman carries another mans child, the husband is considering the father. Two lawmakers tried to change the law, but they didnt get enough support. Edwards is the first female fire marshal. There was a swearing in ceremony. Shes the first woman to take on any leadership role in the department. Its exciting to make history. Theres a lot of women who are fire marshal, but for lakeland, this is historical. She has worked for the Lakeland Fire Department since 1994. When we come back, a virus that effects insect that could impact your grocery bills. Coming up, well show you whats happening to bees arnldz the world and why researchers believe around the world and why researchers believe this is news channel 8 on a deadly disease is wiping out Bee Populations across the globe and its making its way through no, florida. If its notor its making its way through florida. Bees cant pollinate. It could spell trouble for farmers. Joins us in Menifee County to explain more. These bees are important to our ecosystem. Reporter the us da says bees pollinate 75 of the fruits, vegetables and nuts we eat in this country. If they die off, thats a big problem. Most folks would run away at the sight of just one of these. But not kevin losman, hes a master beekeeper. When hes among them, he feels at home. There could be 40,000 in a good hive. Theres some bees he doesnt enjoy seeing. Bees like this. This guy doesnt have wings left. They can crawl but he cant fly. They have been struck by the wind virus. Is it sad to see Something Like this . Very much so. In recent years, the disease wiped out millions of bees throughout the world and more cases are florida. Through a parasite making the bees unable to pollinate crops. If we dont find out whats causing this die off, our food prices are going to get very high. This is a the bees serve as a vital purpose. They get the size of a water melon. He says the critters pollinate the plants and unique fruits found here. Without the bees, the plant life wouldnt thrive. Theyre important here in florida for many of our crops. And theyre just part of the outdoors, and thats what this park is about. And theyre important to every food grower in this nation. Researchers are working hard to stop them from disappearing. If you like food, you need to Pay Attention to why the bees are dying off. You can help in the fight too but supporting your local beekeepers and buying local honor if youre braver than me, you can contribute to the Bee Population and raise your own bee colonies as well. Back to you. Bees. The bees arent going to hurt you, buddy. You better make sure you know what youre doing. Thanks, live in Menifee County, john. I dont know about you, but im glued to the window of an airplane when landing and taking off seeing a cool aerial view. This was taken by our channel 8 viewers. Excuse me. Pollen is bad. You can see Pinellas County here from the air. This airplane was landing at Tampa International airport. Clouds are its good to be in florida where you can see the green grass and trees after being further north where things havent turned green because of it being winter to our north. Heres a live look from the st. Pete beach. 74 degrees. Humidity is high. We have quite a bit of moisture in the air despite the clear skies that sunset this evening, its going to be an hour later. If youre getting home from work, youre used to driving home in the dark. Youre looking at sunsetting at 7 39 p. M. Tomorrow morning, you might be driving to work in the dark with the sun rising at 7 30 a. M. We have 70s along our coastal ranges. Cooler in the bay and gulf areas. 85 degrees right now in highlands county. Heres your 8day forecast. Were going to be pretty warm. Above average. Until a cool front passes through. Were going to see temperatures drop into the upper 60s which is cool compared to the temperatures we have been experiencing in the 80s. The showers and the clouds are history. Were looking at nice weather right now. The bigger view, its pretty quiet through the southeast and southern states. Front up in the pacific northwest. That is slowly going to drift our direction. Its going to take almost all week for the by the time it gets here, its going to put on its brakes on the Florida Border and georgia. No rain from this front, but a low pressure that develops along the front will bring us a few showers and storms as we head into friday, saturday and possibly lingering into sunday. Over the next 24 hours, a very isolated inland shower. In fact, i think the chance is 5 , dry throughout your evening. Sea fog to start the day tomorrow. Maybe a little drizzle and sprinkle as well. By 10 00 a. M. , all that fog will be history. A lovely afternoon. Lots of sunshine and a High Temperature of 80 degrees. Overnight tonight, a little sea fog developing. Kind of a warm night with a low of 68. Tomorrow, lots of sunshine. Nice day, High Temperature of 80 degrees. Good day for spring tomorrow at 1 00 p. M. Temperatures in the upper 70s and dry. Looking ahead to the weekend. The macdill air fest. Sunday looks like the bet ter day. We could have scattered showers and storms for the air fest on saturday. Its something well watch closely. So the next three days, well have morning sea fog. 10 chance for a little shower on saint pattys day. On friday, a 20 chance on saturday. Scattered showers and storms. Saturday is the day theyll be dying the Hillsboro River green. Thats not on saint pattys day, thats on march 19th on saturday. A few showers lingering and cooler for the first day of spring, upper 60s by monday. I like it. Thank you, brian. Sure. Coming up, the bucs have been keeping busy. Were going to show you who they signed. A punch to the head sent a who could happen to the player rin the middle of a time when senior povertyt is increasing. Republicans and some democratsp came up with a brilliant idea for cutting costofliving adjustments for Social Security. We said, it will be over our dead bodies if you cut Social Security. As president , i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of Social Security and expand benefits for people im bernie sanders, the buccaneers continue to be busy during free agency. They resigned safety chris added former viking cornerback robinson this afternoon. Robinson is the second cornerback the bucs pick up. They signed brent grimes to a twoyear contract with up to 16. 5 million with incentives. He made 4 interceptions last season. Twice as many as the bucs corners combined. He signed the deal. He said knowing the system here helped with his decision to come to tampa. Head coach dirk says the when he was with him in atlanta with the atlanta falcons. Im not too tied up on guys age especially when i have personal knowledge of them. This guy sitting next to me, the age says one thing, but like jason said, hell have a hard time getting into the applebees having a gold one with having a beer. Turn on the film i looked at the roster and we have a Great Quarterback here. We have two great receivers and a defense and the linebackers are great. And everywhere. The rays announces that chris archer will take as the opening day starter when they hope archer was the starter this afternoon in lake winner vista. He allowed thirds innings. He had three strikeouts, but the rays lost 50 against the braves. Theyre back in Port Charlotte tomorrow hosting the phillies. The lightning snap their threegame losing streak against the blue jackets, but it came at a cost. Bolts beat columbus 40 despite playing the last period with 9 forwards. The lightning lost and naciat to injuries. Stamkos scored two goals. Bishop got his 14 shut out and the Team Continues its fourgame swing game tomorrow against. No update from the bolts on how ann are doing. The hit that presumably caused you are thats when a blue jay took out he suckered punched him in the head. He didnt see it coming. Prout has a hear with the players safety and he could be facing a suspense for that sucker punch. The term for ncaa Womens Basketball is being selected. Usf is a strong contender. Well have an update at 11 00 tonight. This evening, thrill seekers, this is for you. Six flags unveiled the First Virtual reality roller coaster. You wear it while wearing a headset. Its opened at six flags. They zoom your body through the drops and twist while your headset provides the Digital World with lasers, explosions and aliens. Six flags, teaming up with samsung in the vr for that new thrill ride. Can you kidding me. Its like being blindfolding while going over a cliff. Youve got the aliens too. That looks fun. Im going to do that. Dont go anywhere. Nbc nightly news is going to be up next. And well be back tonight at 11 00. Breaking news tonight. Under investigation. Police weighing charges against donald trump and his campaign and whether they incited a riot at a rally. Dramatic developments hours from the polls opening in critical states. Race against time. Catastrophic flooding destroys thousands of homes. Tonight a major emergency effort to save entire towns. American isis surrender. A shocking moment caught on camera in iraq as a virginia man turns himself in. His parents thought he was on vacation. Miracle survivor. The 14yearold girl who squeezed her mothers hand right as they were preparing to
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