Good monday afternoon, everyone, im josh benson. Im stacie schaible. This is first at four. Thanks for joining us. We have a developing story about a gun going off in a crowded park. It is a frightening situation for dozens of people in south tampa a 6yearold found the gun in the mothers diaper bag, took it out and fired a shot. It happened while the park was packed with people yesterday. It is a miracle no one was struck by that bullet becky rhiners friend was in the park when the shot rang out. They were very scared. You dont know where that shot was going to go. It could go into you or me or any other child here. Especially in a crowded park. And it was a sunny afternoon, very loaded with kids and parents. Tampa Police ArrestedRicardo Mendez for storing the gun in tampering for trying to throw the gun in the bay when he found out the police were on the way. A clerk turned the tables on two armed men when they pointed guns at them inside a store. He pulled his own gun killing one of the men. As Candace Mccowan shows us, theyre searching for a second would be robber. Josh, stacie, i spoke with the store clerk. He didnt want to get on camera but is thankful for his life after one of those men waved a gun in his face. He went in the wrong store, thats for sure. Poem who shop at this liquor store know not mess with the men behind the corner. His life or the other guys life and he needs to go home to his family as well. He had to do what he had to do. The crooks fired and so did a store clerk. Surveillance video showing the suspects running from the store, one of them eventually falling from the clerks gun. Police tell us the dead suspect is cody ballesta. His partner didnt stop and remains on the run. Investigators continue to comb through the Surveillance Video as they try to identify whoever that second man is. In east tampa Candace Mccowan, news chan. Wildlife experts are concerned about what is going on in a bay area neighborhood after finding a raccoon shot with an arrow. Someone found that raccoon in South Bradenton and weeks earlier, in the same area, officials found a duck shot in the neck with an arrow. Officials tell us not only is this uneither call but the suspect could be charged with animal cruelty. If you know who is doing this, they ask that you call florida fish and wildlife. Take a look at this man, do you know him . Hernando county sheriffs deputies say he scammed more than a dozen people out of thousands of dollars to pave the driveways. Detectives started receiving complaints about dennis prairie according to investigators, he would knock on the door of elderly victims and ask to fix the cracks or holes in the driveways for a low price. Deputies tell us he did fix the cracks but the cement wouldnt. He would use basically a very tiny amount of cement mixed in with a whole lot of water and would spread it, basically paint it on the driveways and in very short period of time it was obvious that the cement would turn into powder or basically run off even before it dries. Deputies tell us so far they know of 13 victims in spring hill and they believe there could be more. Right now prairie is waiting to be extradited to missouri on similar charges. The Hillsborough River turned green today but dont worry it was just a test in preparation for the citys st. Patricks day celebration. The Water Department mixed liquid with a dye powder, that there wont be pfrp under floating in the water. Mayor buckhorn plans to host the river ogreen. Here is meteorologist julie phillips. Good afternoon, josh. A wonderful beach day if you happen to have the day off or in town visiting. Here is the view from st. Pete deech out at the loews don cesar. Temperatures at this location sitting in the low 70s. Another day in the 70s absolutely gorgeous outside again. Some spots even up to 80. Check it out in temple terrace. 80 in lutz. Were up to 81 in brandon. Milder along the coats with the breeze coming in. 74 in weeki wachee. 75 in venice. 81 in sebring. Warm afternoon, weve got partly cloudy skies, no rain just yet although we cant rule out an isolated stray shower in inland spots. If youre wondering what we see on the radar, it is likely a fires there. As you step back. A small disturbance to our south. This could actually bring us a few sprinkles overnight into tomorrow morning as it moves north. Not expecting much in the way of heavy rain fall but we could see a few sprinkles or light showers, also watching this system in the southeast, the bulk of this moisture will stay to the north of us but the rain chances will be increasing as we head into wednesday. So through this evening. Slight rain chances in the forecast for us, about 10 or so into the overnight hours. Asso wake up tomorrow morning. Temperatures will be in the mid60s. May have an isolated shower, but it is really wednesday when were looking at the stronger storms moving through. There is a threat to see severe storms coming through. Strong winds look to be the biggest threat. Well talk about the rain chances coming up in your full forecast in a few minutes. Guys . And right now we have breaking news. The Venice Fire Department is at scene of a crash involving a school bus. It happened at pine brook road were told at least three people minor injuries. Apparently some of the injured are children. Eagle eight hd is on the way to the scene and well brick you a live update as soon as we bring you a live update as soon as we get there. Lets look at hollywood including emma watsons year old and ferris bueller. An award youve probably never heard of may have cinched an oscar for the big short. It won the university of Southern California scripter award for the best sin mattic adapt cinematic adaptation of the written word. Emma watsons year off. The british actress and un women good will Ambassador Says she is in an interview with belle hooks, she says she will spend that time working on the he for she campaign for gender equality and what she calls personal Development Including reading one book a week. [ music ]. And it has been 30 years since Ferris Buellers day off, so get ready for ferris fest, a celebration in chicago where the film takes place. Events planned include a screening, a tour of filming locations and recreation of the famous parade scene. With the hollywood minute, im david danielle. David daniel. Well see how state republicans are reacting to a president ial race without former Florida Governor jeb bush. Some of the people we talked to donated thousands to his campaign. And then there is this a largo mother of four uses with Heart Failure, danger is always on the rise. Symptoms worsen because your heart isnt pumping well. About 50 percent within 5 years of getting diagnosed. But theres something you can do. Talk to your doctor about Heart Failure treatment options. Because the more you know, the more likely you are. V dog whimpering tial arts to unwind. Ill have her story coming up. Right now an update on the breaking news we were telling you about. A school bussed involved in a crash in venice. Well go to paul lamison. Were down here in pine brook road in venice. The school bus and car collided and there were injuries. 2 to 3 students were injured and taken away and 1 to 2 people in the car. The good news is the injuries are minor, the bad news is this road, pine brook, is still closed by water road in venice. So in this area it is not a populated area. Bullet it is a through street and it is affecting traffic. If youre down here in the venice area avoid this area once again, an accident with the school bus, 2 to 3 students all of the injuries are reported to be minor. In eagle eight hd, paul lamison, news channel 8. One quick question, do we know which school the school bus is from . No, we dont. I havent been able to figure that out. It is from the Sarasota County schools. But there are a number of schools down in this area and were not sure where the bus originaled from. Paul lamison reporting. If you asked almost Anyone Around floridas capitol last year who would be the 2016 republican nominee for president they probably would have said jeb bush. Supporters are still proud of Capitol Bureau matt galka explains. It is a sad day for many at the capitol after one of the most beloved governors in florida history decided to end his bid for the white house. Former Florida Governor jeb bush officially called it quits saturday. Lobbiest Slater Bayless hopes his message isnt lost on the remaining candidates. One of the things governor bush did and i thought did well was proposed substantial policies as he went through the president ial campaign and my hope is once the craziness of some of this settles a little bit that some of the remaining republican candidates will look at the proposals and adopt them. Now marco rubio supporters are hoping jebs loss becomes reporting in tallahassee. Im matt galka. Bush raised 100 million for his president ial run. Something that is not lost on rubio supporters. They will try to swing some campaign. We have an eight on year side consumer watch. Toys r is pulling all hover boards from the website the move comes after the Consumer Protection says no hover board meets the safety standards. The toy retailer is working with today, starbucks is overhauling the rewards program to benefit you. That goal is to speed up service at the check out. Under the old program, members got one star per visit and it didnt matter how much was spent. The new program is based on how much a customer spends, not on the number of transactions. Starbucks has more than 1 million active reward members. Just when you thought you could take that tax refund and it. Critic clakam shares 8 on your side ideas about what else. If tempted to use your 2015 tax refund to indulge yourself, youre not alone. Maybe a day at the spa. I know that sounds crazy but because the irs is on pace to match or exceed last years 77 million refund checks, that averaged about 2,800 an apiece. Many of the lucky ones have already spent it. An imaginary world i would get season tickets to the panthers. It doesnt take much imagination to figure out what you should do with your refund. Number one, paying off high Interest Rate debt and that is typically consumer debt. Credit cards. Chris hobart says get rid of it grows daily. Put money into an Emergency Fund that reduces the potential for more debt and depositing much if retirement account. That means either making sure your 401 k or ira is maxed out but more importantly, maybe starting a roth ira. Withholdings so you arent providing the government with an interest free loan for next year. Nbc. Dont forget. The date to submit your tax rush has been moved back tax return has been moved back four days, on april 18th. Nice to know. A lot of people get behind this time of the year. Especially on taxes. Couple extra days helps. It is not something you anxiously await doing sorting through papers and files. I dont think a lot of you will do it this weekend. It was too sglies they shouldnt be doing it this weekend. They shouldnt be doing it next weekend. We see changes we have rain moving back into the forecast. A few showers will can back tomorrow and wednesday will be the day were watching for the chance to see more storms roll through the tampa bay area as far as Severe Weather goes. We see strong to severe storms possible on wednesday. Keep that in mind. Behind the system, were actually looking at cooler it has been a little bit that weve been enjoying the 70s but that is about to change. Were looking at a significant drop in those temperatures. For the rest of this evening. Things looking quiet. Mid60s. Cant rule out a couple of light showers tomorrow and really through the day. We could see sprinkles, isolated showers inland into the afternoon but tomorrow is not really the day well see a ton of rain rain across the area. Temperatures across the area upper 70s. At the moment, a few clouds around. Notice light moisture to the south slowly working to the north. This is what could bring us a few sprinkles overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning. There is the system off to our north now. So we could see an isolated shower inland this evening. Most of us looking at dry conditions, rain chances only at 10 or so. Tomorrow morning, again, the small chance for light shower. Notice by tomorrow afternoon, we could actually see showers roll in to the inland spots and then arrives, showers and thunderstorms generally at this after 8 00 a. M. Continuing into the early afternoon hours but this front will push through quickly, could see strong storms, maybe even some isolated severe storms with damaging winds. Tornado. By wednesday afternoon, late in the day into the evening hours, this front is cleared out and were looking at clearing skies and then the breezy winds will kick in as we head into thursday as well. The northwest winds bringing in the cooler air. So the storms move in, mostly on wednesday, and then the temperatures start to drop. So friday morning, saturday morning, were waking back up with temperatures in the 40s. Guys . All right. Thank you, julie. To become a successful mixed martial arts fighter you have to devote a lot of time to practicing the craft. News channel 8s doub anthony allred. Caught up with a fighter who juggling to be a single parent and running her own co. If youre looking for one of the biggest, hardest hitting entertaining sport in the tampa bay area, youre in luck because World Class Fight League is here to stay. This is our 14th show. Wcfl 14. 18 fights on this card. We have five title f. This is ledia, hollywoods third fight and so far she has never been beaten. I get this feeling. I dont have it anywhere else. It is a sense of empowe. She would go on to punch, record. I do it for free. You have to have five to go pro. As she waits to turn pro she runs chauffer company. Im a single mom. It keeps me sane. I have four kids. They can drive you crazy sometimes. I go train and i feel better. Makes me a better friend, person, and a better mother. This is the 5th time in a row World Class Fight League has put on a show before a sold out crowd of more than 1,000 people. And people i talked to say they cant get enough of this kind of mma fighting. Boxers got a little bit for us. We want to see them get down and the action. This is about all of the action. I never saw women fighting. It was only men boxing. Now you have pretty much everything. I think it is good to see male and female fighting. By everyone right down to the youngest fan. In Tampa Anthony allred, news channel 8. Better not talk back to mom. No. Coming up, well take a look at your president ial race as we get closer to super tuesday. Rays players already reporting to spring training. Well get a preview of this years team with first at 4sports coming up. Youre watching news channel life as spokesbox is great. People love me for saving them over half a grand when they switch to progressive. So im dabbling in new ventures. It was boardgame night with the dalai lama. Great guy. Terrible player. Go paperless dont stress, girl i got the discounts that you need its a balancing act, but i got to give the people what they want more box. Any words for the critics . What can i say . Critties gonna neg. The what . . Welcome back. Lets check in on the first at hadsports with dan lucas. Out at rays camp it was absolutely stunning. The weather. Appeared the talent. The talent is good too. Out there. Not much shade. Reported over the weektd and as talented as blake snell is on the mound, he rubbed chris archer the wrong way. Snell who finished last season in aaa durham showed up late in archers opinion and herd all about it. Archer learned how to be a pro from david price and shields. Now they can learn from him even in pra. The air horn signalled it was time to move onto the next station. Chris archer was not finished. Beneath the gusts in poor charlotte, you can h foundation being built. Do it again, and again, archers pitching group waited and watched until finally. There you go. This is why pitchers and catchers report to spring training early. Archer worked with veteran catcher hank conger on this day and you Better Believe the conversation went both ways. And you also living up to what you just said t . Well, every different. Some people like the catchers glove to be where they want the ball to finish. Some people want the catchers glove where they want to start the ball. Ha is what makes the conversations so important. A little chat out here in the practice bullpen can mean a huge out later in the season. Just so when we do get into games it there is no questioning there, is no doubt. He already knows, kind of the game plan and we work within that. Im sure if youre a catcher like hank is, you have a good memory and track record of remembering those things. I could tell 20 and 30 pitches, he was anticipating where the ball was going to go. No detail ignored, no fundamentals skipped at practice. Archer has assumed a leadership role as a pitcher and if he is not satisfied, well, everyone and by the way, blake snell is the real deal. He is a name well hear plenty. He is likely to begin the season back in durham but could be pitching sometime this center and chris archer said show up on time which means before the media gets in the clubhouse. Correct. And we run around the field together as a group. Doopdz go on your own dont go on your own. He is on top of blake snell. Exactly. Four headlines at 4 30. The man police say killed six people in a series of random shootings in michigan faced a judge today. Investigators are trying to make sense of the weekend rampage kalamazoo county in which brian dalton picked up passengers for uber in between attacks. Number two, security guards a Conference Room at a Massachusetts Hotel where bill cosbys wife is answering questions under oath. Camille cosby is being deposed in a defamation lawsuit by seven women who claim the comedian sexually assaulted them. Big codby filed a counter suit against the women. Apples ceo emailed his staff thanking them for the sup