Good afternoon, im josh benson. And im stacie schaible. This is first at 4 00. Cooler temperatures are getting a lot of peoples attention. We went back into the winter section of the closet. Its true. Heres storm 8 meteorologist jewel ulie phillips. Good afternoon, guys. Were dealing with cooler weather now. The Winter Clothes in the back of your closet getting use out of. 63 degrees in the auto mall. You can see beautiful blue skies. It feels cooler is the breeze. In the east winds at this location coming in at 18 milesanhour. Temperatures in the low to mid60s. 61 in st. Pete. 66 in zephryhills. 6 in weeky washy. They need a light jacket. Heres the winds at 10 milesperhour. Were seeing gust over 20 milesperhour at time. Does feel chilly outside. High pressure in place, so besides the stronger winds, we actually have quiet conditions across much of the eastern half of the its looking dry. As we look closer at the tampa bay area, a few high dealing with plenty of sunshine. For the rest of this evening, temperatures staying close to 60 the thin clouds staying with us. Well be breezy, but as we head into tonight, were actually looking at temperatures that arent too far off our record lows. Well talking about the temperatures in the 30s and 40s as you wake up tomorrow morning coming up in your full forecast. Guys. Now, 8 on your side special coverage of president obamas historic visit to cuba. For the first time in 88 years, a sitting us president is visit that island nation. President obama is sitting down with raul castro. Castro held a news into the country. The president believes the trade embargo is going to end, but he cant predict when that will happen. We sent a news channel 8 to bring coverage and more with an 8 on your side flair. Lets go to havana where keith cate is spending the next few days following the president and the Tampa Bay Rays. Reporter good evening, from havana cuba. President obama stepped into history today. The Tampa Bay Rays do the same thing. One day before the big game, media from around the world are here to cover the News Conference regarding the rays and the Cuba National team. Its a big deal because you have to go back to 1999 when the last game was played in cuba between the Baltimore Orioles against the cuban the orioles innings 32. But the score in the game, a side story. What was important before that, you had to go back to game stopped and baseball pulling out after the embargo was put into place that president obama now wants to lift. So its no coincidence that president obama is here to watch the game and the players and the owners feel the importance of this game. People say ping pong diplomacy. This is next to china and everything. It can only help, right. You know, for us to be able to come over here with hundreds of people, thousands of people with the president and the it all is positive. If you close your eyes and you think, 3, 10, 5 years out, this is going to look like a spark to something thats going to be dramatically different. Theres no question, baseball is apart of america and cuba. Thats why theyre anxious to implement a new rule to stars to play for a Major League Team without having to die affect as 150 did last year. Its a sign of the Sweeping Change taking place in cuba. On assignment in havana, im keith cate. Keith will report from cuba until wednesday. Stick with wfla dot. Com for the president s historic visit. The rays and what it means for the bay area. Three 21yearold men are dead and one hurt following a terrible car crash in sarasota. Police tells us it looks like the driver was speeding down University Parkway down sarasota road when the car jumped the road and slammed into a tree. The car was split in half killing the driver and the passengers. The survivor whose 21st birthday is recovering at the hospital. Family members killed in fiery plane crash friday. There are lou and pilot and his good friend kevin of noterny who worked at we caught up with a long time friend. He was extremely compassionate guy. He would help his friends and he was extremely intelligent, and he was a very loving husband, and a very generous father and grandfather. The ntsb tells news channel 8, another plane was taking off at the time of the crash and its not clear if that had anything to do with the accident that killed the men. A Teacher Bonus Program known as best and brightest is almost universally frowned upon by the States Education system. Its being continued next year vasilinda with more from our capital building. Reporter the Brightest Program allows teachers to submit their sat scores when they were in high skl and earn up to a 10,000 bonus. 5200 teachers qualified. Superintendent says they endorse accountability, but not bonuses based on two tests back in high school. Theres a significant correlation between one sat and performance in the classroom. The general dislike of the plan didnt stop lawmakers from renewing it for at least one more year. At a third of the award funds from this past year went to attract new teachers. Those not in the teaching profession before. Educator hate the program, lawmakers like it and theyve increased the funding from 45 to 49 million next year. Reporting from the state time to look at your headlines from hollywood including release dates. An oscar winner hits a milestone. We have todays hollywood minute. Reporter Paramount Pictures changed the Hollywood Reporter says the same different as me has been pushed back to february 23, 2017. The limited release of everybody wants some is moving to march 30th. Ben after flick says 4yearold is too young to see his role as batman. He was speaking about his 4yearold son in an interview with the Associated Press saying he may quote, have to con one of the editors into giving me a version of the movie without the scarer stuff. The revenant is near a milestone. The film made 33 million in china in three days. Its less than 17 million from 500 million at the worldwide box office. In hollywood, im rick damajela. Still ahead. A giant bee hive neighborhood. More of the incredible video up next. Look at that. And then theres this. All this debris would have gone directly into tampa bay. Im lisa bay and im showing you how this bucket is keeping that 4 00. More than 80,000 honey bees evicted from a gated community in lakeland. Now the grass lands neighborhood is a bit safer. Melissa mow Melissa Moreno shows us the bee take down. Reporter because of the sides of the hive, they believe it has been here for over a year. They believe its well over 80,000 bees in it. These honey bees must know how to pick their realestate making this tree in the grass Lands Community in lakeland their home. Hooper with all creatures wild life control wanted to make sure the bees were safe. We need a pretty environment. We have to have bees. They pollinate all things. Without bees, we have trouble. We called in local beekeepers to do the job, vacuuming the bees into a box and piece by piece, taking apart of the hive. They dont get killed. We carry them to an area what theyre supposed to do. In lakeland, Melissa Moreno, news channel 8. When it rains, water goes into the storm drain and that goes into tampa bay. Today, storm 8 meteorologist leigh spann find a way to curve the crash at the curb. Reporter this is installs in hillsboro county and its keeping all of this from going into tampa bay. Oh, a florida rain storm. Boy, can it pour. All the storm water goes into the bay, and theres not a catch base. They self proclaim boating community, they wanted to keep the bay clean of all the trash caught in the rain water. You see people throw trash out all the time, so we stop it here, and like the cigarette buds, we can stop that from going in. These custom made baskets catch yard debris, but even have a special lining to absorb oil before it can make it to the bay. That got us the golden [indiscernible] award from the tampa bay which were proud of. So were showing them that were doing positive Environmental Impact for our area. Many groups worked to improve the Water Quality of the bay in the last three decades and three neighbors are proud. They have 11 catch baskets and another 9 soon. This is the only way to keep the reference from going into the bay. The catch basket is designed so during a storm, the leigh spann, news channel 8. Each basket cost 1,000. They received a grant to buy them. Great idea. Catch that stuff, thats great. A check of the forecast. We had rain this weekend. We sure did. We had macdill air fest happening, but they took a pause on saturday. All saturday and sunday, you can hear them going . Sunday was a nice day. Awesome there. Enjoy the next couple of days. Much cooler and a change. You can feel it today, thats for sure. The other ones is brave enough to get in the water. This is a deer. An officer was flagged down after these deer ran from the beach into the water like you see there. The officer claims he spotted the deer about 1,000 feet off the beach fighting two to four foot waves. He gently guided them back to shore. This is at Saint Andrews saint park near panama beach. It has been a chilly day, and its going to get colder tonight. Heres a look at the low temperatures were its going to be like tomorrow morning. 46 in carrollwood. 40 in land olakes. 30s at the end of this is unusual for us. Down. So when you wake up tomorrow morning, your weather map forecast will show a chilly start, but today. Bad. We warmup quickly during the day. By the time youre grabbing lunch, low 60s and sunny and beautiful sunshine tomorrow afternoon and well make it back into the low 70s. After a cool start, looking at a nice day tomorrow. You can see in our satellite and radar imagery, nothing going on. No rain expected over the next several days and thats due to the dry air and High Pressure that has sitting over the gulf of mexico. This will allow our temperatures to drop back. A lot of us in the mid50s. And 30s and 40s tomorrow. Bundle up and make sure the kids are prepared if theyre not on spring break. Heading into tuesday afternoon, nothing but sunshine. By wednesday, we start to warmup. Well be waking up with temperatures in the 50s. Not as bad. That warmer south eastern flow kicks in on wednesday, and that allows us to warm. Were back up close to 80 degrees by wednesday afternoon. Thats the great beach day if youre on spring break this week. And then by thursday, we increasing. Cloud cover will increase and were tracking late day rain and notice the system to our west. This rain is going to move in as we head into the end of this week into this weekend and were you can see dry the next couple of days, but the rain chances goes up and theyre sticking around as the for the rest of this evening, near 60 degrees and breezy and chilly waking up tomorrow morning, near 46, but beautiful long. And warmup quickly through the end of this week, and you notice the unsettled rain chances as we head on easter sunday. All right, julie you thank you very much. Apple users are excited. The company unveiled new products at in california. Youll be able to order the newest iphone starting this thursday, march 24th. Its small, yet powerful. Apple claims this iphone will be 4 inches long and have the same features as the much larger iphone 6. It will be Available Online and its called the iphone se. And in stores on march 1st. The company is releasing a new operating system upgrade today. Ois 9. 4 has it changes your scheme from cooler it will help you sleep better at night. Thats a good idea. The apple watch turned a year. Apple has slashed 150 bucks. Tim cook introduced the new price with new bands today. Some expect the company to release a new model of the watch some time in the fall. A uk Research Council is asking the public to help them with names. Jeremy roth has todays take a look at this. Reporter is why we cant have nice things. The uk National EnvironmentResearch Council or nerk is asking the public for name suggestions for their Newest Research vessel. A 288 million ship years in the making. And if the internet gets its way, it will be called boaty m boat face. The council is learning for something serious, youll get something snarky. The rrc and you sane boat. Nerk has smartly says theyre its a chance it will be named something boring, which will earn a internet. Boaty mcface has my vote. Five new cheetah cubs are settling in at the cincinnati zoo after a csection. Once the births were high risk, veterans had to step in to protect the cubs and the mom. The two boy cubs and the girl cub is getting around the clock bottle feeding and everyone is doing well. For take a look at this, im jeremy roth. Heres boaty mcboth face. Whats a budget turkey going to find out after the break. But first more about the rays in cuba. Youre watching news channel 8. We stop arthritis pain, so you dont have to stop. Because you believe in go. Onward. Todays the day. Carpe diem. Tylenol 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We g ive you your day back. What you do with it is up to you. Tylenol time now for first before starts. Dan lucas back in the house after a nice spring break. A little time off. How is your bracket looking like . The bracket is called kindling for the fire. So many upsets last week, by the way in the tournament. I think everybody is still in it. Thats what happens exactly. How about this historic trip here for the rays, down in cuba. Rays manager kevin has his life up card ready to go. Leading for the rays against the Cuban National team is 28yearold out fielder darron. Who is darron. Year for charlotte and montgomery in the minor his family was at the hotel for an emotional homecoming that kevin inspired his entire club in the lobby. Imagine how vernon will feel when he steps up to home plate for the first speech. Debatable history or not, the rays will take place in a world event tuesday. All they want to do is play good baseball. Win or news, the rays will set the stage for the future of the sport celebrated in both countries. In recent years we have seen quite an influx of players coming over which is exciting for both of us, both the United States and cuba especially because i think the one common denominator between the two countries is baseball. Im honored to come to a many great stars that have impacted major league baseball. Just to interact with the people that have produced such great talent at the Major League Level is a great experience. All right. The women have the brackets as well. And theyre in pattern as well. Theyre going to try a against the number two seed, ucla. In two of their last trip against the big dance, the bulls tournament came to an end in round two. Tonights game might turn into a track meet. The two teams who love to run and play transition basketball, but it could come down to which team can keep that pace under control. At times i feel like too much temple is not the best, but at times we have to slow it down to make sure we get a chance to the fast tempo. Usf beat Colorado State with a bazaar scenario of Courtney Williams beginning the game on the bench. The buts fell behind early, williams came to score 31 points. Lets player. How about the pull how about the bulls, can they advance . This is the level they struggled at this year when they started playing against ranked opponents. They didnt have a ranked opponent. They get passed ucla, possibly in the elite 8, they can play yukon again. Not easy. Thank you much. 4 30. Number one, the president is in cuba meeting with raul castro. Some cubans are hoping this meeting means the end of it lies within the us we have a news crew in cuba. Were going and 6 00. Number two, apple ceo gets to the core of his fbi. Cook kicked off with a pledge to customers. Apple will continue to fight for their privacy. Cook is refusing to help federal investigators unlock an encrypted iphone shooters. Both sides due back in court tomorrow. Number three, come wednesday, some of you may notice your kindle cannot access the internet because you didnt get the update in time. Amazon says if you dont update your ereader before march 22nd, you will not be able to download books from the kindle store or connect to the internet. It effects kindle models made in the year 2012 and earlier. For four, the fda has a ban on powdery gloves used in doctors offices. It makes it easier for doctors can be released in the air causing respiratory irritation. Were told theres a lot of powder free options available. And it looks like a bad batch of fake pot also known as spice is sending users to the hospital. Since thursday, police in st. Petersburg answered 28 calls about suspected spice overdoses. And today, while officers were downtown passing out flyers warning people about the dangers, someone smoking it nearby passed out and had to be treated by paramedics and the bad batch is giving those seizures. The hulk hogan sex trial entered a new phase. Hogan was awarded 115 million in his case against gawker media. They were asked for a punitive judgment for publishing a sex tape. The jury went out just before 1 30 and their verdict expected. Well let you know what they decide when it the governor did not waste time signing the state budget and making vetoes this year. That didnt give policy seekers time to make their case for why projects should be left in or scratched out. Mike galka has that story from our Capitol Bureau today. Reporter its tax time in turkey. The Group Releases their list of projects that probably shouldnt have made the state budget. Tax launch releases an annual list of projects that didnt get vetted by the legislature and they say arent the best uses of tax payer money, but their list came out a day after the governor signed the budget this year. The group thinks the governor did sign a good budget. Theres areas where we can improve in the Water Project and particularly on those economic areas and we can ensure that taxpayers get value. Million worth of turkeys this year. The governor scratched out 256 million from the budget. In tallahassee, im matt galka. The budget turkeys was lowest since 2010. Lets gets a check on this abnormally cool weather. Heres julie phillips. Heres the view from the lake club. You can see beautiful blue skies. Just a few high thin clouds around, but temperatures well below average for this time of the year. After the front moves through this weekend and the rain cleared out, the breezy north winds kicked off not too bad at this location, at 5 milesperhour. The winds are light over night, but temperatures will drop quickly. Right now, were still at 64 in apollo beach, 64 in brea do not ton. And the winds winds blowing around 5 to 10 milesperhour, but the gusts have been stronger at times, over 20 milesperhour which definitely puts the chill in the area. Dew points, also very low. Much dryer air has moved in with this system. For the rest of this evening, near 60 degrees. Bundle up, waking up tomorrow morning, a lot of us in the mid40s, even 30s on the map. Well talk about how quickly well warmup coming up in your full forecast in a few minutes. Still ahead on first at 4 00. Thousands took advantage of a rare opportunity to get on base and check out the air show. Coming up, some of the amazing moments from an amazing weekend. And youll want to stick around for these 8 on your side stories. Historic changes taking place in havana cuba. Im keith cate and we have a perfect seat waiting for you. The state spent 1 million to help drivers but is it welcome back. Now for a look at celebrity news. The host of hollywood today live. Im kristin and im tanner from hollywood live. This is the daily wrap. The movie zootopia stampede it way to number one in the box office for the third week in a row. Raking in 38 million and it earned 200 million. A legion settled with 29. 1 million sells. We know mariah carey has a flare for the dramatic. Businessman energy and publicist quit. We have if you work as a bar to stop by. They had a drink at the theater. Amy this, 1,000. Amy who was a server before hitting it big has done this before telling one bartender, quote, ive been there, i get it. It almost is enough to miss my bartendering days. Really . No. I knew it. Im tanner. And its time for saint this one from nicole peterson. This is blue berry cupcake. Cat. Margie in baker in tampa wanted us to see how her handsome boy celebrates. He. And then theres sweet beatrice who gets decked out for the day. Thanks ruth bird for sending this great photo. She looks like a great sport. Everyone celebrates differently in their own way. Carol ringer showed me that this is how they do it in downtown bartow. These tricked oust golf carts from the florida retirement center. A parade. Golf cart parade. Why not. Keep the pictures i like it. Send it to stacie by tweeting with the sendittostacie facebook page. And well hi, guys spring is almost here and you know what that means easter is hopping along. 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Com ideas many of you probably are about to get in the car and head home from work or pick your kid up from daycare, but on the way, chances are youre going to cross a bridge or overpass. A new report says tens across the country are falling apart. How bad are they . Jeff rossen went to find out. Reporter across the country, bridges collapsing. Concrete, raining down onto passing cars. From pennsylvania. A bolder fell and smashed his glass. To iowa. Its crumbling away. To utah. What happened . Where huge krufrng where huge krufrngs of a bridge smashed according to government data, 558 bridges have been deemed structurally deficient. Im standing on the arlington Memorial Bridge here in dc. Were getting rare access down inside the bridge. This one is so bad, its in critical condition, theyre making me wear these gloves because the led paint is going to make me wear this hard hat because believe it or not, concrete charles border is in charge of this bridge for the National Park center. This is metal peeling off. Over here, look at this beam. This is holding up the roadway. We have all this concrete gone. Its decayed away. Look at this right here. Paper thin. This is all thats left. Roadway . This is where the cars are going. You can feel the cars above us and the up. What we see is more disturbing. This is the support for the bridge rusting away. Look at this, jeff. Bracing. Look at this gone. You can put your hand through that. Out. Terrible. Its getting we went straight to the secretary of transportation anthony fox. According to your data, the government data, theres 58,000 bridge structurally deficient, is that its embarrassing. Its not just money, but its emphasis and we we and thats what we need to work on. You need to fix this now and get no one has argued for fixing these issues than i have. Congress has to pass a package with enough resources to handle the problem. He says the entire system is broken. States get federal money and spend it as they wish with little federal oversight. Bureaucracy as bridges continue to crumble. It continues to decay and its not going to get better until we do and that was jeff rossen reporting. The government is spending billions of dollars to fix these bridges. That may sound like a lot, but analyst say the problem is so bad and wide spread that at that pace, it will take 21 years to fix all the bridges on the list. Youll be thinking about that every time you drive over one or under one. Its not a good feeling at all. No. Julie joins us now. Outside, its feeling chilly outside today compared to what we have been seeing. Boots weather. It hit me by surprise. I forgot about it over the weekend. Chilly out there. Weve gotten used to the 80s and now were in the 60s this afternoon. A change and tonight its going to get colder. A low of 46 tonight in tampa. The record 40 degrees setback in 1906. Were not going to be too far off that. This is fairly unusual to see the cooler air moving in so late in the season. But the chilly temps tonight will be about 15 degrees below average. Going to stay chilly for too long. Temperatures jumping into the 80s as we head into wednesday. Higher rain chance in the forecast friday through but tomorrow, an absolutely and enjoy spring training. While the temperatures on the cool side, the winds will be lighter which will the lakeland. 64 degrees at at the moment we have high clouds around, but generally looking at plenty of sunshine today. Dryer air has moved in. The front is off to the south of us. Enough with the dry conditions. Thats all well see for the next couple of days. The dry air will stay in place. North winds will allow the temperatures drop back into the 30s and 40s as we head when you wake up, bunked bundle up. Nothing by sunshine with High Pressure in control. You can see nice around spring break this week, its going to be the best beach day because its going to be sunny through the day and by the afternoon hours, degrees. The southeast winds kick in and that by thursday, thats when we see moisture returning already. You can see that on our forecast model. Well track late Day Rain Chances on thursday and a this one moves in towards the end of this week and this weekend and leaves us with rain chances all the way into the start of next week. Temperatures in the low to mid60s across the board. Much cooler than we have been seeing and you can see the cool air moved in the country. Chicago. 51 in new york city this afternoon. For the rest of the evening, a few clouds around. Winds the 70s and back into the 80s for the rest of this week. Easter weekend, not looking good for easter egg hunts. On friday, a descent rain chance into next week. Guys. It is a rare chance for civilians to get on Macdill Air Force base and see amazing aerial performance. The weekends air fest was popular. People were asked to park off base because the parking lots were so full. [singing] reporter falling from the sky to the planes screaming across the clouds. Here comes [indiscernible]. These military war planes captivated the crowd. I felt like a [indiscernible] because theyre big and they go fast. Its great. The kids love it. I love it. We look forward to it every meanwhile, on the ground down below, folks stood in long lines to be wowed by historians like jones and his knowledge about the killer bbomber. Mostly what the b25 is remembered for, the first retag tori raid against the japanese homeland back in april 18, 1942. Not long after the pearl harbor attack. But for the most part, spectators couldnt keep their eyes out of the skies for fear of missing daring stunts like this. And this. And this. We really appreciate and we think about the people overseas that are fighting for us, and doing what they do for us, protecting our country and its important for me to let me kids see what theyre doing for us as well. I love how they kind of sneak around the jets and around and they sneak around and go ahead and blow just have that little bit of a smoke built. Its freaking fantastic. I love this. Even though the weather wasnt that perfect, it didnt matter to the thousands of fans who got to see these amazing aerial acrobats. The whole show is fantastic. I recommend everybody come see it at least once in their lifetime. In tampa, anthony allred, news channel 8. You dont need to be on base to see it. I caught pieces on bay shore. In traffic just sitting there, it flew over the cars. Its cool to watch right here. Fun stuff. Coming up, the first lady prepares for her chicks in washington dc. This first lady isnt more when first at 4 returns. 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How do we know if we see a vein doctor and theyll conduct a vein screening to allow you and your physician to know if you have vein disease. Thank you doctor. Go to unitedveincenter. Com or call 1800veindoc and the doctor will give you a free vein trending. Lets whats trending online. Comets passing closer to earth. Astronomers are watching a fly by. Nasa says the smaller one on your right may have broken off from a fragment one on your right. It will pass by earth with a small comet following suit. Both comets will be a safe 2 million mile as way. The first lady is keeping an eagle eye on her offspring. Were talking about this first lady. She mr. President are nurturing mr. Two eagles which hatched friday at the national arbor. You can follow the first feather family at eagle. Org fans are crushed to see their team defeated by the university of wisconsin by a buzzer beater. None so more than murray whose son luke is an assisted coach. Look at his sad face. That look is prompting names over the internet today. Several incorporate Michael Jordan crying during his 2009 Basketball Hall of fame induction speech. One place both bill and michael sad faces on their face jam characters. And you can see, it just took off from there. Theres a droopyeyed puppy one too. Pretty darn cute. And news channel 8 at 5 00 with josh and jenn its a historic visit, president obama is in cuba today and 8 on your side is as well. A crash kills three people and leaves a car in shreds and it happened after a birthday celebration. We know who is inside of a plane that crashed friday. Tonight, friends remember the two air force academy grads. Im josh benson. And im jenn holloway. Thank you for joining us. For the first time, since the 1920s, an american president is visiting cuba. President obama sat down with cuban president raul castro. Keith cate is in havana right now. We sent keith to find out how the improved relationships with cuba is impacting the bay area and the cuban people. Well have keiths report in a few minutes, but first lets go to jenn holloway