The breezes are picking up and gusts are over 10 miles per hour. At times it may feel cool in the shadows, be you if you are going outside and will be in the direct sunshine, it will be warming up. There you can see the clouds have moved on out. This afternoon we are shooting for a high around 74 degrees. Tonight will be another cool evening. As we look ahead we will see a significant warm up to take us through the workweek. I want to remind you you can download off weather app any time. Get our storm team 8 weather max app. It is free and you can download it from the app store. A law office in brandon is deemed unsafe after a driver crashed into the building. Deputies say the car veered off of 301 south and crashed into brandon. So far we are learning the driver is a young man that suffered injuries to his legs. Now to your vote. Ted cruz picking up kansas and maine on Super Saturday. It was a strong saturday to add to his super tuesday victories in texas, oklahoma and alaska. It was also a win for front runner donald trump who picked up louisiana and kentucky. He is asking for the Republican Party to now come together. We have a Dynamic Party and as a party we should come together and stop this foolishness. The Democratic Party sandusky scored two party victories. Hillary only won louisiana. She changed her focus to michigan where she is hoping for a big showing this tuesday. There is no barrier we cant break down. If we stand together and work together, that is my pledge to you. I am asking for and hoping to rereceive your vote on tuesday. Grabs today in the race for the white house. Democrats will caucus in maine while republicans vote in port week, as three gop hopefuls are doing all they can to blunt the momentum of frontrunner donald trump. We have more now on the race for the white house from abc. Reporter on Super Saturday texas senator ted cruz visited the Winners Circle first, picking up at least 17 delegates winning the kansas winning may understand be. I think the combination of the by winning maine. I think the combination of the debates has been unifying republicans behind our campaign and that is a encouraging sign. And cruz picking up a cpac gathering of conservatives in washington, a key stop for republicans hoping to win the nomination but donald trump is playing by his own rule, fresh off his win louisiana. He skipped the conference to bounty of delegates are up for grabs in ten days. From reporters than any human reporter trump said it is to thin. Marco rubio had a very, very bad night. Performly i would call for him to personally i would call race. I think it is tame now. Bernie sanders was hoping to pick up momentum on Super Saturday, entering the day with half the delegates of clinton, but clinton pounded with a resounding win louisiana and has her sights already set on michigan. We have to win this election, and we all know we you will know the steaks keep getting higher stakes keep getting higher, and the rhetoric we are hear from the other side keeps sinking lower. Reporter sunday more delegates are on the line with republicans in a primary in puerto rico and delegates mississippi and michigan following on tuesday. Here in florida early voting started in all counties. Tampa mayor bob buckhorn took advantage of voting early saturday to closet his ballot for hillary clinton. 20,000 voters have taken advantage of early voting and 52,000 have voted by mail. Floridas primaries are coming up on march 15th and we posted everything you need to know on with ebb web. Now to a on wfla. Com. The coast guard continues its search for a man that fell from a Royal Caribbean cruise hip off the coast of key west. The 46yearold texas man was on the tenth deck of the ship morning. The ship is currently off the coast of key largo. In march police will be increasing their presence, checking for drunk drivers. In march than any other month of the year. More than 32,000 crashes were reported last march in florida and more than half involved drivers with alcohol levels above the legal limits. Well, a crash at the raceway but this time it wasnt because of the race drivers. Many fans and families camp out and a witness said he watched as a woman drove into the crowds. I mean, at first, she didnt know where she was at. She came out of the truck stumbling, whatever, didnt even know where she was at. Kenny had a blood alcohol level content of twice the legal limit. Well, a pilot and his passenger were able to walk away unharmed after an Emergency Landing on a golf course in st. Petersburg. The teenaged pilot was flying a to Manatee County and started having mechanical issues. He was trying to get to the albert wittet airport. People came out to see what all the commotion was about. I like to do a little selfie and tease my friends up north how beautiful florida is. It is a chamber or commerce day for planes to land on our golf course. A two seater plane made an Emergency Landing on the same the faa is investigating the cause of the accident. Happening today floridas largest outdoors expo and boat show is back with great bargains and new adventures. For more than two decades this many. Mary mcguire joins us live with more on what boaters, hunters and outdoor enthusiasts can enjoy out there. Hi there, mary. Outdoor expo where there are a ton of folks checking out what the expo has to offer. It is not just a great place to shop, but a great place to learn something. All kinds of boats. Reporter boats, fishing rods and even kayaks of every shape and size, just in time for spring. News channel 8 outdoors expo and boat show has everything you need to take on the great outdoors. For those of you that want to get in the water, maybe do a little scuba diving, we have a little scuba diving pool for you. Reporter dozens of seminars were held on fresh and salt water fishing, fly fishes, boating, hunting and more from experts across the state. Those seminars werent just for adults, though. Kids could learn thousand tie knots and catch with renowned 16yearold angler jason whitfield. He went over there. I swear he was like ear to ear smiling. I liked seeing the reaction. It was amazing. Reporter the expo bringing a bit of the outdoors indoors for folks of all ages to enjoy. Now, the expo runs until 5 00 p. M. Tonight so you still have time to come out to the state fairgrounds and enjoy all it has to offer. Candace . Mary mcguire live in tampa. Thank you. A remarkable discovery from outer space. When astronaut scott kelly spent almost a year on the International Space station. We are hearing from the astronaut who said it wasnt well, astronaut scott kelly is admitting his reentry to planet earth has been a little more difficult than expected. Reporter back on the ground for less than 48 hour, scott kelly says he is still readjusting to life in 1g. Coming back to grayty is harder than leaving gravity. Reporter after a year in space he is far more fatigues and his muscles much more sore skin. Because it hadnt touched anything for so long, any significant contact, it is very incentive, almost a burning feeling, wherever sensitive, almost a burning quack. Reporter his muscles may have weakened in space, bones have become more brittle and he grew 1. 5 inches in space because his spinal column wasnt compressed by gravity but he already shrank back to his normal size. Side. Reporter studying the health affects of a Long DurationSpace Mission to mars. With mark kelly, his brother, back on earth, undergoing exhaustive medical exams in space and on the ground. His tweets with stunning his first meal was a banana and after a year without a shower, he dreamed of jumping back in his pool in houston. Meanwhile the whole gravity thing is taking time. I tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday. I didnt get any of them in the net. Reporter settling back in after a year up there. Tom costello, nbc news, houston. Coming up we have the full sunday forecast. Also ahead, california has dealt with a terrible drought for years but now residents are celebrating. How long strong storms are expected to last there. phone ringing you cant deal with something, but thats how some seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, el nino is bringing strong storms to parts of california. This is video from a neighborhood near sacramento. Fortunately heavy rain is needed in the northern part of the state because of the the drought. The rain will last today and into tomorrow morning. We are high and dry here across the tampa bay area. Gasparilla festival of the arts a look. You can certainly go out there and see all the fantastic species. Artists are really thinking outside the box, creating things not on 2d canvas only, but mixed media, shul upture and food and beverages fabric art there. The ceiling center of st. There. If you are a sailor you go out and make the most of todays breeze. Downtown tampa is 72 degrees right now. As we head to the afternoon we will add a few more degrees to that. We will be hovering in the mid 70degree mark over the next few hours with abundant sunshine and dry weather. Early this morning a front moved through. That is why the air is so dry. Not much humidity in the air. No clouds. The front is over south florida with the showers moving out past the gulf streak. The other side of the state is where the rain is. L. A. Getting a lot of rain through the sierras with heavy snowfall there. That rain will be focusing across the Lower Mississippi valley and Severe Weather is outbreaking there as we start the week. For us, though, as the front clears the state. We will be keeping the sunshine around for the next several days. Changes in the forecast for us mean as little more humidity as we head into monday and tuesday for the next couple of days. Then we will see the southeasterly breezes come in, feeding moisture up into the storms there, but not here. We are just going to be a very dry setup here over the next couple of days. Notice how the warmth will be pushing up to the Canadian Border where temperatures get close to 70 degrees in portions of montana. We actually get hotter as a southeast. Such a strong cutoff low develops here over texas. We could be seeing record heights there and temperatures which will push the upper 80 degrees in some of the interior areas. Tonight we will get cool, down to the low 50s. So, one more cool evening before you see this. The extended forecast is calling for a warm up. The temperatures will come back into the lower to mid 60s this workweek with day time highs in the low to mid 80s right here in town. Inland areas could be pushing the upper side of 80 degrees. We are still just two weeks away from spring. This is not winterlike weather. Not at all, not that we you convinced me i may have to today. Take your wallet and make with cash. There is a lot to buy. At least you can look and yes. It is awesome. Thank you, mark. The rays bring their bats to sarasota. Wait until you hear how many hits they racked up. And could tampa bay break a straight win . British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill once quipped history will be fine to me because i intend to write it. Well, the tampa bay along, one that sputtered through the first half of the season, then winning nine straight game, breaking a club record with nine last night. The host team is doing plenty of pilates. Andre pilate is here, bringing the overtime a final minute of bonus hockey, taking it away here. Alex colurn coast to coast game winner, the streak lives. Tampa bay wins for 3. The bolts break their franchise record victory. We didnt really know the record until people really started talking about it. It is cool to beat that. When you are in the record books it is special. It is just a start for this club and squad. Maybe they want more. Tonight is a great night but we have to look forward. All you need is love. Love is all you need. That is what the new illinois Athletic Director josh whitman is saying. Fired football coach bill cuban saturday and lovie smith has surfaced as the frontrunner outlets report the deal is basically done after smith was january. How about a solo shot of nostalgia on a sunday. Dan johnsons solo home run in the bottom of the 9th in the final game of the 2011 season helped to get to playoffs that year. Now he is back with tampa bay signing a moderate deal to become a knuckleball pitcher. He took on the orioles, and night. Left. That plate as pair giving tampa bay a 20 lead in the 3rd. And the next inning, a single to center. That scores seven pierce. 3 hits and 3 rbi. Also a big night for k. K. Kevin kiermir with 3 hits, including this one that rolled beat the os 106. Drew smiler all smiles. I think every pitcher goes into the spring a little anxious, nervous, how will my arm feel, how will my stuff be. Going out here reassures you that you are good. Another year to go out and have fun. It was a great first game. I was excited about it. Reporter and the south florida women taking on Southern Methodist in the quarter finals of the american conference tournament. You are witnesses Courtney Williams in her finest hour. The bulls senior was rougher onymous tax than a buy that rougher on the mustangs than a buy that puts diesel in the tank. Finished with 29 and 8 rebounds and usf wins 7360. Tonight at 6 30. That is it for sports. I will palm ryan. The search continues for a person that tried to burn down an Apartment Building in tampa. What we know about the suspect plus, night watch is coming to tampa. We will take you behind the dramas scenes in the next half hour. Good afternoon. Breaking news. Former first Lady Nancy Reagan has passed away at her home in belair, california. She died of congestive heart failure. She was married to president Ronald Reagan for 52 years. In recent years she backed Stem Cell Research to find a cure for alzheimers disease. She was 94 years old. And in our other top story, get ready to vote. Polls today. Twothirds of floridas counties opened early voting sites today. Hillsborough, miamidade and broward counties will keep them hope until two days for the florida primary. The primary in florida is march 15th. The think the combination of super tuesday election results, the last two debates together, has been more and more unifying republicans behind our campaign and that is a very, very encouraging sign. Words from senator ted cruz after winning the super oklahoma and ax. Whatever you do, dont drive drunk, that is the message from the florida Highway Patrol this spring break. Fhp is ramping up its enforcement this month and there are more dwi citations given out in march than any other month. Last march there were 3 2,000 crashs in the state and the crashes ended in 35 deaths. Now to mark douglas for the latest Jason Collins for the mark collins for the latest on the forecast. Yes, maybe you are heading out to the boat show for a kayak . Well, if you are kayaking you can see the waves breaking on the sand bar. Winds have picked up behind the front. The winds will be staying a little stiff here through the afternoon. Temperatures along the beach were about as warm as it will get there right now with that low 70degree reading. Watch for rips if you are taking a trip to the beach. Air temperature this is afternoon 74. As we head into the evening there are numbers pulling back to 64 degrees. One more cool evening, but then we are talking about almost summer like heat. I will tell you more about that in the forecast coming up. Investigators are searching for the person that tried to burn a building in tampa. Someone came into the building on North Hyde Park and poured policemannable liquid in several locations and set fire to the place investigators say. No one was living there and no one was hurt. Deputies and u. S. Marshal services arrested this man in Hillsborough County. He is wanted in Hernando County for Sexual Battery on a minor. Well, detectives locked up this guy. And wanted for robbie a bb t bank in belair bluffs. Pitcher. In 2009 he signed with the baltimore orioles. Investigators tacked him down at the westin hotel at rocky point where he was staying as a guest. One woman drowns as the car she was in drives right into floodwaters in the california highway. She drove around the block aids on the road blockades on the road. Suddenly the car was submerged in six feet of water. The passenger did not. Two people continue to recover after being shot over a new pair of air jordan shoes. According to witnesses two people were arguing inside the Brooklyn Center footlocker over the shoes and the fight spilled out into the parking lot where someone fired a gun. Both victims have non life threatening injuries and are recovery. The suspected shooter ran away. Problems for Allegiant Airlines seem to be melting this afternoon. A flight set 20 fly from fort wayne, indiana to the st. Petersburg airport had to delay takeoff due to a mechanical problem. Passengers could actually see the problem looking out the window. I was toward the back on the right hand side and heard a big pop. I thought it sounded like a tire popping. They immediately slowed down, turned and let us know it was something in the engine we could see, actually, right outside our window. Something had fallen off of one of the right engines. Passengers had to be moved to another plane causing a long delay. It finally arrived at st. Pete clearwater airport at 8 00 saturday. Scary moments for fans in Clearwater Beach at hulk hogans beach shop. A large number of people were on the second floor balcony when they felt a shift in the the building will remain closed until a Structural Engineer deems it safe, no one was hurt. Night watch is coming to tampa and news channel 8 got a behindthescenes look. The show will give viewers an insight into what Police Officer, firefighters and paramedics do each night to keep us safe. The First Responders in the bay area will be featured. Many dont know what happens behind the rescues, officials say. A lot of times what people see when it comes to fire and police is what is reported on television and the news. That is very important, but you as a reporter dont have time to go and find the back story of what was happening that day with that individual Police Officer or firefighter. We dont know the stresses they have or the joys they have. Filming is expected to start in june and bay area crews will be seen in ten episode this is season. Well, happening today and boat show is back with great bargains and new adventures. For more than two decades this has been a spring tradition for many. Mary mcguire joins us live from the Florida State fairgrounds with more on what boaters, hunters and outdoor enthusiast cans enjoy. Reporter the Florida State fairgrounds are packed here. It is not just the best place to shop for outdoor gear, but a great place to learn more about the craft. More than a dozen seminars are being offer from the fly fish, boating and hunting and exports. Adolts. All day long adults. All day long kids can learn how to us contrast and use a net angler, the youth expert. You can put on scuba gear and test that out, as well. It is free for kids under the age of 14. A lot of fun to be the here at the fairgrounds. There is still time to come out and enjoy your sunday. Candace . Thank you, mary. It is a beautiful day. You even got out and took a walk a little bit ago. I did. The expo looks like so much fun. Some of the fishing boards are so colorful and vibrant. Works of art. Absolutely. The things you love. Yes. Well, the skies should be lit up with a beautiful sunset this evening if you are out near the water. A great day to do some fishing here. Over the next couple of days we will be warming up. A big warm up in store. Send us your pictures. Welcome back to news channel 8 at noon. We have more now on the dangers to pets. Dancer spent two days in icu after swallowing gum from her owners gym bag. We thought she would get over it and pass it, but it got worse we waited for the 72 hour mark to happen after getting her to the vet. She made it. Reporter now she is still on medication to support her liver. They learned a big lesson. Zylatol is extremely toxic to dogs. Reporter she wants to make danger by posting the this video on facebook. It is like a toddler. You keep medicines, bleaches and poisons locked and away from your kids. You need too to take the same you need to take on the have a dog. Good reminders. And here is our weekend traffic report. Hello there. I hope you are enjoying your sunday. There could be extra traffic around, especially in downtown tampa. It is time for the gasparilla festival of the arts. You will see thousands of different types of art work out there. You may want to check that out. And tampa craft beer week and waterworks parks that brewers ball where there is food and craft beer there. Also, the strawberry festival is under way and it will be weekend kirks often with the strawberry festival in plant city. Lets talk about spring training. Baseball is back. You can see it outside which is a great venue here at brighthouse field where the yankees are taking on the phillies at 1 00 this arson. Keep that in mind. It will be extra packed, especially around drew street, coachman and u. S. 19 as you exit off that area. It gets busy about an hour before the game. A bradenton after 1 00, and the astros taking on the pirates. And moving over to lakeland, the marlins and tigers slug it out after 1 00 at the joker stadium. Zootopia is opening in the movies if you are looking for laughs. And the action packed film london has fallen and tina fey is back in whiskey tango foxtrot. Safe me some popcorn great weather for the first coming up in the next hour many of the stadiums and definitely you will need that sweater. Once the sun sets temperatures will drop quickly. Right now 78 degrees in sun city center. Not bad. There, that humidity at 25 is a really low number for us. We are dealing with dry air here. It feels very, very comfortable out there. Up across the northern half o state 67 degrees in tallahassee. Most of us around the peninsula are dealing with 70degree readings. Over the days to come we will see many of us in the 80s. This morning we were down to 52 degrees. It was 10 degrees cooler in brooksville. One more chilly night with readings like this evening. As you plan out your evening, 7 00 it will be 66 degrees. This is certainly sweater weather for the early evening hours, then tomorrow morning a bit on the cooler side with those lower 50s and some spots 40s. This is the map that shows the clear skies in place. No clouds upstream over us. The temperatures will stay here afternoon. Then we will watch those numbers cool down into the mid 60s. Tomorrow morning take a look at some of our northern zones. You will probably be right around the upper 40 to low 50 degree mark in the northern area, but then what we will see is an extended warm up trend that will take us through the end of the week. Your average temperature here as with he start the early part of march is about 75 degrees. About 78. We will be up in the low 80s week. Really unusual weather patterns setting up where we will be dealing with warmth. For boaters today seas will be 3 to 5 feet and the north northeast wind is 15 knots and if you are a fisherman, good luck on your catch. The next couple of days you will see the winds will back off monday and tuesday. I this think they will start to i think they will start to pick up. Wednesday looks like a breezy day with the southeasterly flow. The no rain in the forecast toward the end of the week. Looking at the weekend, candace, we were talking maybe a few isolated shower, but the ridge giving us all this warmth could be too strong to let any of this rain in here. We could have a nice weekend next weekend, too. Excellent. Mark. Thank you very much. One clearwater man is being awarded for the way he takes care of baseball fields. After the break, why his lawn caring skills are being noticed i do everything on the internet, but its kinda slow. My friends said i should get fios because its the fastest, but i thought it would be too expensive. Whos that, jenny . No kate. Turns out they have a deal that cost me even less than my slow service. And its 100 megs. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. Were out of 2 then i thought, maybe other things could be better. I heard that. Nows the best time to switch to better internet. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. So you can send files up to 5x faster than cable. 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You were babying it i was like a nervous wreck, but they but cant speak it back. Reporter but it turns out love of the game is the universal language when caring for a ball field. We will miss you guys. Help. Reporter and everything there is to know about taking care of a Major League Baseball field, the goal is to go back home and give their respective team as Competitive Edge they world. There is supposed to be more coming. They will try to do this every year now. Next year it is supposed to be taiwan and japan. Reporter for that, opie, the selfproclaimed red in he can from tennessee, will always be grateful to his south korea friends. It is humbling. It feels good. Reporter in clearwater [ Singing National anthem ] anthony alred, news channel 8. Last year Terrell Brown helped an 84yearold man that as news channel 8 ryan houston found out, is the hues ryan hues found out ryan hughes found out, this is new to action. Reporter Terrell Brown had been with the United StatesPostal Service for six months, in you to the job and territory. I remember hearing like a faint noise, actually. I was thinking it was my knees. But he knew it was more than that. He got to this home in the court in Hillsborough County where he delivered mail time and time again. Behind a potted plant i saw this man lying on the ground. He was trying to hold on to me. Reporter 84yearold wa hoe was trimming trees and fell and hurt his head. He was in need of immediate attention. I said we will get an ambulance out here. I stayed with him. This post office in town country and felt much better. They praised brown for his life saving actions. The 84yearold was reserved but appreciative and so are those at the Postal Service. He exemplifies what the carriers all do here all the time. We are proud of what he did. Reporter brown took the recognition the stride. He got praise and a plaque and then went on sorting mail he delivers to the community, a community he is happy to help when needed. I am glad he is fine and i helped. Reporter the post matter general sent Terrell Brown a letter that said in part we are fortunate to have employees of your caliber representing our organization. I am ryan hughes, news channel 8. Still ahead this morning, a good reason for you to break your diet today. Plus, a puppy and a vet melting hearts all over the internet. Well, video of a crying pet being soothed by a vet is going viral. Comforted for the puppy. The pup was recovering from ante that after surgery. Now anesthesia after summery. Now the puppy is happy and back home with her family. Well, we have the anniversary of the oreo cookie. I love them. I like breaking them apart and eating the filling, especially the double stuff. I hear you. 25 different flavors how, a cookie a day. Absolutely, if i could only eat one cookie, you are right have a couple cookies on me and a tall glass of milk there. With he are trying to find rain for you folks. It will be a long time before we see a drop in the bay area. I looked and it is 1,400miles away, the closest rain over new mexico and it is o not here any time soon. For us dry weather and temperatures in the 70s. Mark, thank you. Have a great sunday. Thank you for joining us. Nbc sports, home of the 2016 winter olympics, nhl, premier league and primetimes n number one show, friy night football, only on nbc. Welcome to the honda nbc sports desk. Hi everyone. Coming up in just a moment, the usa rugby sevens las vegas, part of the road to rio. But we start with the news that Peyton Manning is calling it a career. The legendary quarterback has