Allison huffman hit and killed a towtruck driver on the Howard Franklin bridge. Even worse, abandoned her car to go to a casino. Reporter Highway Patrol found that car ditched by a plaza hotel and swiped a towtruck driver and kept going. 36yearold Allison Huffman was traveling northbound on the Howard Franklin rink bridge this morning as she hit 37yearold on the shoulder. Perez was driving home from a different call when he saw the couple stranded and stopped to help and told the boyfriend to wait inside of the truck. The image of him getting hit i feel very depressed because i never see Something Like that. And if you see the memory, they are going to forget it. Reporter investigators say that Huffman Huffman kept on driving and got off the 60 exit and then called a cab to take her to the hard rock casino and has not been seen since. She is not a stranger to the law. She has charges for other traffic crimes. Perez leaves behind a wife and a daughter. His boss says he was a compassionate caring employee and friend. My guy, he is dead. He was a guy that was near and dear to all of us here, you know, and he is no longer with us because somebody likes to do what they want to do and its fhp is still searching for Allison Huffman at this hour and if you have any information, call fhp. Did she have a suspended license . Do we know anything about her license . Whether it was legal for her to drive . Reporter we do know she did have a suspended license in the past and had many citations including careless driving and numerous speeding tickets. There were 22 thousand hit and runs last year in florida. A man who survived a hit and run crash spoke out. And the drivers in both of those accidents were eventually found and troopers tell us today there are many more that are still unsolved. Everyone must understand that driving is not a right. Its a privilege. With that privilege comes a lot we want to make sure that you take it seriously and know you must do the right thing if a bad thing happens. If you leave the scene of the accident, it will turn into felony charges. A little bit of weather moving our way tonight that we need to tell you about. Yes, there could be big storms later on this evening. What is going on, paul . You dont like to see it, between about 2 00 a. M. And 6 00 a. M. , there will be a squall line and moisture has been increasing and the cold front is along louisiana. It has already advanced of that line. Light rain breaking out over the state and none of this obviously is severe. Just some moisture coming back from the south and a couple of individual cells. Here is a couple out of the loop feeding over warm water. They should go into the weekend as they move northeast and the squall line will be holding together. Not moving into the pan handle it will be on the coast line from 2 00 a. M. To 6 00 a. M. , one thing that will help us tonight as far as the threat goes, its the water temps in the eastern gulf are very cool because of a recent cold snap. That will help and limit the instability a little bit. I think there will be a potent line of rain and storms moving on shore. Fairly quiet tonight and by thunderstorms around. Any one of these would be heavy and by 6 00 a. M. , the storms raise to the southeast and were done. This could be a quick hitting system. Not going to last long. We will talk more about that in the sevenday forecast with a forecast you will really like coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. There was another wrong way driver last night and thankfully Tampa Bay Police stopped her in her tracks. Police say at about 3 in the morning, angela was here heading south. Made a right turn right there heading the wrong way up the i4 off ramp right there and police say she pulled up to the wrong way sign and passed it and kept on going. Thankfully an officer was right there on dui patrol. Investigators tell us she failed a field sobriety test and taken to jail and refused to give a breath simple. Near the River Hills Park this morning, police tell us nobody was in it. There was a chevy trail blazer and reported from the home this morning. They have toed the suv out of the water. We report about way too many people on bikes and walking and being hit by cars. There is a new campaign focused on the busiest intersections. Kevin lambert explains why you may see deputies handing out tickets. Than having to go to someones house and explain that their loved ones are not coming home because they were struck by a vehicle across the road. Its a conversation that nick lazzerus has had way too often as the leader of the deputies that investigate the crashes. Led to a grant from the state to better patrol them. For the last three months or so, deputies have been writing warnings and drivers or bicyclists can be issued a warning. They have the discretion on will they want to issue a warning or citation and the offense and things of that nature. The patrol is focused on 18 locations known to have a high rate of crashes. Two areas getting extra crash is belter road and u. S. 19 between the same points. Also essentially all of the gulf youre going to see the deputies pulling people over and making contact with pedestrians and making contact with bicyclists. Tickets could be written to drivers and bicyclists for failing to yield or pedestrians jumping out in front of traffic. Its not illegal to j walk but deputy ies will be encouraging those to use crosswalks and significant l sign signals the hope is to cut it down to 0. The grant is being paid for transportation. New at 6 00, what happened to this bay area man could happen to you. And one defense Attorney Says it can happen more than you think. Stops. Gloria is here to explain what happens in the courtroom. Reporter mark, let me say there were a lot of accusations and one deputy in the hot seat. Accusations of lies and evidence were flying in a tampabay courtroom. I was referring to your client. Is that the proper way to refer to a motor suspect . Reporter in the hot seat there is an under cover detective. We are revealing his face but not his testimony. It involves joel kinones who had a small amount of pot and his attorney used cat nip to demonstrate. We weighed this. This is. 5 grams. This is why he is after coming back from iraq . Thats not the reason. Reporter he says the initial stop was illegal and the deputy had no probable cause to pull him over. He was not speeding or breaking something you dont often hear. I have nothing to hide to you, sir. Sometimes we watch places that are San Antonio Associated with criminal activity and we have active guards watching those places and your client was observed coming from one of those places. Well you had the protectal stop that is how it came about. Reporter the deposition iut uty admits that he pulled him over because he was seen leaving a smoke shop. You are modifying the statements spontaneously made and valid. You said it was a protectional stop. Find a pretext to stop somebody. Reporter now that deputy that there were no Text Messages found in this case and the deputy later said i misunderstood what the defense was actually asking for. The judge believed him and that deputy will not be facing any sanctions and as far as the defense is concerned, still evaluating to see what the next move will be. Mark, we will continue to follow this. Thanks. All right, if you have been out to the airport lately, you cant help but notice the bulldozers and the cranes and bulldozers and the cranes and construction workers. Today a small but important part of phase one was complete. Got a look inside. Hi. Some big improvements at the Tampa International airport on the horizon today. Unveiled the new facility that will make the passengers different. Passengers at Tampa International will probably facility in person but they are bound to feel its impact. This is one of the most support elements for the food and beverage and retail component of the project. All of this is being sort of managed by a system driven approach. The Distribution Center will be the Central Nervous system fort restaurants and businesses. For travellers, it means a smoother trip to the airport. You enter the airport and you are no longer going to be combing your transit to the airport with vehicles, commercial vehicles. They have all been rerouted to this facility. And more choices for dining and shopping. You will see awesome new restaurants. You will see a pf changs in the main terminal and lots of restaurants. We are introducing people to the flavor of tampa. This building will supply all of the products they need to do that. 65 new restaurants and stores two years giving travellers a true taste of tampa. There has been a whole evolution of the Passenger Experience ever since 911 and passengers like to get there earlier and when they get in there, they are looking for an experience to relate to. We have opened up high end restaurants and people coming out early. The Distribution Center is one piece of the expansion which includes a 1. 3 mile long people mover to a new Passenger Center and a economy parking garage. The project is still on schedule to be complete in october of 2017. Kellie . All right. Thank you so much. A big installation today started in Hillsborough County. Definitely use we had real people make their own pizzas. They chose the ingredients they wanted. I like the fresh dough. Whats bha . Pim gonna go with the one thatpdoesnt have the acronyms. Pget that one without fillers. What are fillers . You guys just made your pizza the way i make my pizza. Hey no ingredients that you cant pronounce and no artificial flavors. And were proud to announce pour new quality guarantee plove your pizza, or get anotherpone, absolutely free. Pget any large pizza up to 5toppings pfor just 9. 99. Online only. Hart bus riders will soon be able to enjoy free wifi. You know, hart bus riders wifi. They will enjoy it on all done. April 4th. Should be a welcome addition to bus riders. All of our patrons will be able to get email, do social media, stream netflix while they are coming and going to work, going to school, whatever they are using the service for. Ultimately the Wifi Technology will allow hart to role out a program where passengers will be able to use their smart phones or cards to be able to travel on buses throughout the tampa area. I think that will it make it easier for a lot of people. A little bit of sunshine earlier today but all pretty much locked in with cloudy skies. By this time tomorrow, skies weather systems again are moving fast from west to east today. 1 degree above the average at 74 and the morning low 58 degrees and lots of cloud cover and increasing all in advance of a complicated frontal system which is producing some rain with multiple reports of tornados today in mississippi. But i think that a lot of this energy is going to slide northeast and way from us. Its kind of a marginal Severe Weather event. We will be watching sky tower all night long. If there is any threat, we will certainly let you know. Dont forget to download the sky tower app. We will give you warnings and alerts. The situation in the gulf of mexico. We have seen this a number of times this winter. Throw in a fast jet stream and along the jet, energy ripples along along. South of the pan handle, instead of moving right over this, i think a lot of this energy, you and this is going to be a big storm which i think will produce flooding rains in the northeast and going to go from 35 below 0 to 55 degrees above 0 in a couple of days. The ground is frozen and could be a big flood event in the northeast and certainly by wednesday. For us, we will get some rain and in fact even some rain now. This is with warm air returning from the south. Area light rain in sections of eastern Hillsborough County not adding up to much and a couple of thunderstorms developing now. And most of these should weaken as they move close to the waters. A lot of this should slide northeast. Thats the initial surge. Cold front will be back here and i think its going to be a line of Thunder Showers approaching could become heavy. Its a marginal event and i think a lot of the action will stay north or east of us. Again stay alert and have the sky tower app on your night stand with the volume up so you will be alerted for any watches and warnings. 71 in orlando. Dew points are not that high. In the 50s and 60s. That is a limiting factor as well. High winds with storms and not a big threat of hail. Fairly low tornado risk and brief heavy rain and lightning and this will be a quick hitting event. Its not going to last long and it will be in and out there and there you go, get the sky tower app on the iphone app store and google play store. Search sky tower. 71 and the dew point is 60. Southeast wind and there is the action in the deep south and of stuck east of the appaclacians and by the ice storm, this has been a mess, 31, 32 degrees and snow and ice. Severe weather risk tonight will be heaviest up in the pan handle and away from us. You can see the wedge of cold air. Drains down east of the mountains and gets very cold. Lower elevates producing snow and ice. Nashville is 43. Atlanta is 51. Chicago 27. We stay in the 60s tonight and then highs tomorrow. Once things clear up, top up in the 70s southeast of us. Cold front moves right down the state and here it comes. Squall says bye and tomorrow we have developing sunshine and a great week coming up. Tonight showers and thunderstorms developing. Some will be strong after midnight. Down to 62. The rain does not last long. Pleasant tomorrow and back up to 70. Going to love wednesday. Nice high near 70 and in fact all of the outlook in the weekend looks good. Daytona weather fantastic. Steve yzerman comes out with what i think is the right move as we close in on the nhl trade we have a look at the inside i dont know what im doing. I cant find anything just when i think its just not going to work. This woman that works there comes over and asks can i help you . And he was so happy, to do it amazing right . I never would have expected would have thought that anyone would find that do that. Make that go out of their way for me. Right then, right there i couldnt believe it he was so helpful i know its such a small thing little thing. Simple thing but it made me smile made me happy made my day share your story. Steve yzerman makes the right move today, releasing a well the lightning Steve Yzerman makes the right move today saying that the team will not trade Steven Stamkos. Its a deadline because its going to be a huge distraction even that Steven Stamkos has a no trade clause. There are 27 games left in the season and the playoff board is jammed. Teams move up and down. Yzerman is determined to keep the game contained. Chase selly is on the poll. Bill elliotts son and they are combination to do it. You have to think about it. How about this, Chase Elliott never felt like he got the run he needed when he hit the track. Nothing that those guys have had lots of success over in the course of 2015 and you know, this is the same call, he had a lot of success with last year and says in the race too, really fast. Its pretty straightforward i think from the driving side. And i found a way to mess up there, that first go and installed it and get going like i needed too. Second round, unfortunately it was enough. All right, if the legendary bill france could see daytona speed way now, could be smile. Turned them from seats into a stadium. And track president joey chitwik talking about a project called daytona riding 6 thousand construction jobs and we operated the inventory venue. The 500 champion, they are going to get a beautiful trophy. I dont want to wear a hard hat anymore. I want to run the racetrack. The fans are going to be blown away when they arrive nine tenths a mile long. Its incredible. 1,400 tv screens and double the restrooms and triple the concession points. Its amazing how huge it is. Were excited because fans are going to be blown away. Its big and bold. Wife we have lived up to the legacy. End and the guy goes no, your seats are in the section, its going to be a long walk. May be a long walk but a lot of ameant nttities along the way. Elevators and escalators, hundreds of brand new seats and truly change the experience our fans are going to enjoy. Transformational and i cant wait. After two and a half years, it better be. We put a lot of effort into it. That is well said. Isnt it . Ill be there tomorrow. I havent seen it yet. Im pumped it get over there. Ill be on periscope to see. Ahead at 6 30 the death of Justice Justice scalia, having a tense atmosphere in washington, d. C. We will talk about how its affecting congress and dc and one of am Supreme Court justice antonin scalias death has set off a political firestorm. Who will fill his seat . Republican amenities president obama says he will pick a nominee before the end of his term. Foxs joel waldman has more on the politcal tug of war. Supreme Court Justice scalias death had a fire storm. Who is going to fill the seat . Ted cruz says he will filibuster any nominee chosen by president obama and should be up to the next president. He will pick a nominee before in due time, the word that president obama used for Supreme Court justice. The president may have tried to push through a recess appointment this week. Still democrats and republicans alike remain unsettled at when a new nominee will be announced. There is a right to, you know, submit a name and to pick a person. On the other hand its the senates right to confirm or not confirm at this particular time. The speculation beginning about who might be president obamas third appointee. Trevosin tops the list along with tricia an millet. Perhaps a moderate. Perhaps a former Senate Colleague on the republican side. Somebody who the media would being constructionists with the approach to the president. Even above Justice Scalia died of Natural Causes saturday, on the steps of the Supreme Court, candles, cards and flowers honored the 79yearold and the Longest Service member on the current bench. Scalias friends say he was his usually personable self and wanted to get a long nights sleep. With Justice Scalia not in the Supreme Court, it leaves the possibility of a four to four tie for the ruling and if that happens, the ruling of the lower court would stand. Donald trump did something we never saw before. Ripped republican george w. Bush bourbon stage and jeb bush snaps back. All plays out. Donald trump . Why do you lie . Adults learn not to interrupt. Yeah yeah i know. The Republican Debate got ugly. The headline could have been rubio verse cruz. He lied about ben carson in iowa and lies about marriage and lies about all sorts of things. They fought about who speaks better spanish. I dont know how he knows what i said because he does not speak spanish. In espanol. Once again the spin focused on donald trump who kept hammering the same guy even when he attacked someone else. That same manner, you are probably worse than jeb bush. You are the single biggest liar trump repeatedly hammered jeb bush and calling george w. Bush a liar about the weapons of mass destruction in iraq and blamed we are not safe under him. His brother got us into the war of a iraq which is one of the most ca tasphropes ever. He is not a serious guy. While they tangled, the audience tried to help bush by cheering for him and booing trump over and over again. Jeb. That may have played right in trumps hands because he named it as the gop class out to get him. Let me tell you this jeb is so wrong. [crowd booing]. You know who that is . That is jebs special interest and lobbyists. He turned it into a show. Two days ago he said [inaudible] trump has a big lead in North Carolina two weeks after the primary. If you want to vote in floridas primary, tomorrow is the deadline. Florida is known as a closed primary state so people must register as a democrat or republican. The preference primary is march 15th and early voting begins two weeks before that. The Colorado Springs planned parenthood location targeted by the gun man is now dead. Today the reopening ceremony talked about the people in the building that day. This group of folks were strong or shooting or resilient and hard working since and fundamentally they are caretakers and they want to be here for our community. Planned parenthood says they have added security measures in place and only part of the clinic was reopened today. They plan to open the rest in a few months. Murdered tonight in connection with a clinic attack. He has been siting his stance against abortion and judge has forced him to under go a mental competency exam. For the first time in years, a u. S. Factory is going to be built on cuba started by two men company from alabama. Pope francis in the meantime visiting in india today. Had a mass and featured music and dancing. Its time now to act to protect our international resources. Air strikes in the meantime in syria destroy at least five hospitals this weekend and clinics and two schools. 50 civilians were killed and russia is being to blame for the air strikes. Medical facilities coming under fire in syria. Said to show smoke rising from inland providence and another shows workers looking for survival in the rubble and blaming russia for the deadly attack being a doctor or nurse in the area controlled by the opposition its equal. Unfortunately if you are a doctor and working in a hospital, clearly you are under attack by the city. A Childrens Hospital neighboring a profit also attacked kids and a pregnant woman among those killed by the missile strike. Turkeys Prime Minister blaming russia for the incident near the border where the military shows all ypg forces have been expelled from the area. If they approach us again, they will see the harshest reaction. The Obama Administration is calling for turkey and russia to fight isis. Since turkey considers the ypg an extension of a group that has carried out attacks in turkey. Last week had a seize fire in syria and that agreement will not go into effect until the end of this week and it was not signed onto by the a ssad ragime. One u. S. President is about to get a make over. The Lincoln Memorial is getting a fix up. There is going be to 18 million for the renovation that will be marble and improve accessible. They plan to create 15 thousand square foot of visitor space fr the ma emorial memorial. The Lincoln Memorial pulls in police bring know you can keep your financial big picture under control. Know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. Know you can easily keep track of what youre putting away. And know youre budgeted for the great escape. 3 kelly an enormous amount of Illegal Drugs have just been seiz an enormous amount of illegal reports that an usual way. [inaudible]. Of the illegal stimulants, it was hidden in the bra inserts and more liquid method is also being with the conversion rate, worth approximately 890 million u. S. Dollars. These have resulted in extreme measures. This liquid methamphetamine to date is as a result of organized criminals targeting. Currently under arrest in australia and chinas National Narcotics control commission. Each suspects protently faces life in prison. Australia has one of the highest methamphetamine rates in the world. Still to come tonight, introducing longhorn s big, bold, steaks. The only way to make em better was to make em bigger. Our new center cut 10 ounce filet. Our perfectly seasoned 16 ounce tbone. And our fire grilled 18 ounce outlaw ribeye. Big, bold, steaks. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You can t fake steak. For lunch, try our steakhouse burger with flag drops to the daytona 500, im lloyd sawyers. How many 500 has he attended . 40 or 41 and i cant stop now. Meet the fan of the daytona 500. Spring training about to get into full training here. The team is arrive city officials getting a tour of the new renovations on the way. Able to see new indoor Training Facilities as well. The fan experience, in fact, we would have more covered area. Were going to have more areas for things to eat, food, beverage and that sort of thing and a much improved period. Construction is expected to be complete by next year. Pitchers and catchers return to game later this week as we are talking about spring training, the rest of the country dealing with winter. Sleet and snow falling. Snowfalls reaching about 3 inches. This is all part of a snow fall from tonight to tomorrow. Overnight could be interesting, huh, paul . Yeah, especially late tonight. Severe weather between 2 00 and 6 00 a. M. Just a reminder. A lot of you that have the radios at home, the transmitter is down and removing the transmitter to a new facility and youre not going to get Severe Weather alerts on the radio. Make sure you download our sky tower app that is un affect affected by the outage. We give you a warning through the radio alert. In the meantime, lets take a look outside where its getting dark and hints of breaks in the overcast and way out in the distance, 66 degrees and just kind of a cloudy mid winter day and not too cold and not too warm, temperatures are in the low 70s this afternoon and weather systems on the move and changes are on the way. Today we top off at 74 degrees and will stay right around 70 or low 70 to most of the week and once the mess is out late tonight and tomorrow, the forecast for the seven day is into the first half of next week and right now looks good in daytona 500. Got moisture into the south already with the light rain on Hillsborough County. Cold front moves to southeast and there is some rain now developing along i4 and fairly impressive rain in the eastern portion of the county and will be moving north. This is all due to just kind of an influx of tropical moisture from the south and overrunning some cooler air in the ground and developing areas of rain. This is not going to be severe. Any Severe Weather would come in with the squall line out. Were going to watch the cells this evening. I think a lot of them will weaken east and northeast towards cooler waters off the west coast and water temps off the coast is 56 or 57 degrees and that limits the instability. We will watch them and then another band of rain by penscucola. This is the line that will be over near us and that line at the very at least has thunderstorms and one or two of those cells could be locally heavy in the sense there is strong wind gusts and a tornado as the sign goes by. I think most of the energy from this is going to be slotting north and northeast away from us. In the low 70s now and under mostly cloudy skies and the dew points are not that high. That is good. There is moisture which is increasing from the south. And cold front apparent low moves away and the squall line is overus by 4 00 a. M. Or maybe 2 00 a. M. Along the immediate coast line. It all whips by. Than a half hour to an hour. Thats it. The line will continue on its merry way and late in the day tomorrow or midday, were back to sunshine and the forecast beyond this point is good as High Pressure sits over us for many many days. Showers and thunderstorms develop and a squall line and down to 62. Sunshine develops tomorrow and all in all, day will be a pretty good day and the rain ends very early in the day near 70. Wednesday is good. Mostly sunny and nice and that trend will continue through the weekend and into the first couple of days of next week. This is really picture perfect winter weather. Yes, it is. Next the story of a we had real people make their own pizzas. They chose the ingredients they wanted. I like the fresh dough. Whats bha . Pim gonna go with the one thatpdoesnt have the acronyms. Pget that one without fillers. What are fillers . You guys just made your pizza the way i make my pizza. Hey no ingredients that you cant pronounce and no artificial flavors. And were proud to announce pour new quality guarantee plove your pizza, or get anotherpone, absolutely free. Pget any large pizza up to 5toppings pfor just 9. 99. Online only. 11. A Crime FightingSuccess Story. Why a new gun we have a Crime FightingSuccess Story for you tonight at 1 00. Why a new Gun Bounty Program is being credited for this rival and his gun being brought to justice. Next time you fly, how your boarding pass may be a ticket to your identity. Back to you guys. As we honor black heritage money, a story of a trail blazer who opened the store. Broke the barrier for Airline Executives. James princeton junior was fascinated with aviation. Passing on july 4th, life was spent breaking barriers and fighting for freedoms. He was a great man. He left behind the legacy of aviation. He went through a lot of struggles to overcome prejudice. And he did. Broke the color barrier in the Aviation Industry and climbed the ranks and in 57 became the first black executive corporate at an airline and in 71 he was hired as Vice President of Eastern Airlines and was the highest ranking black Airline Executive in the nation. There were many times people slammed the door in my fathers face. That did not stop him. Clintons love for aviation began at the university of new enrolled with a Pilot Training program. The 99th squalrant of black pilots were heros of world war ii. And following the war, faced a challenge of finding equal footing in a segregated society. There were times in life when he wanted to buy a house and they didnt want to sell to to him because he was black. Supported the civil rights movement. My father was dear friends with Martin Luther king junior. It was a struggle. He went overseas to work at a Foreign Airlines and then came home when twa discovered his talent. My dad always used to say, age is but a number and race does not matter. He overcame prejudice by achieving. He opened a haitian american dry cleaners and also elected he died in 1991 as 81 years old. He was a trail blazer indeed. All right. The news keeps on going on facebook, twitter and instagram when were not on tv. See you tonight at 10 00 i dont know what im doing. I cant find anything just when i think its just not going to work. This woman that works there comes over and asks can i help you . And he was so happy, to do it amazing right . I never would have expected would have thought that anyone would find that do that. Make that go out of their way for me. Right then, right there i couldnt believe it he was so helpful i know its such a small thing little thing. Simple thing but it made me smile made me happy made my day share your story. Today on tmz harvey Blake Shelton and luke bryan went to mastros steak house separately but they had beef with each other. Ho do you want to sit next to at the grammys . Luke bryant but he never gets nominated. Theyre like the nickelback of country. Harvey lukes songs are legitimately good. Theyre not respected by the grammys. Harvey Like Star Wars gets nominated for best picture the first one did. Harvey it didnt win. John mayer was there with his new girlfriend