The other student is in the icu. Police arrested walker last week. A viewer senlt these pictures to 8 on your side. The student had to be wheeled away on a stretcher. Our cameras were rolling as sheriffs deputies arrived. Students tells us it seems like the fights are happening more frequently. It has been seven day in a row just straight up fighting. There were four or five fights last week. Usually when im walk to go the cafeteria. A spokes woman says the principal reported one fight last week. On friday, when the student was badly beaten, but rumors swirled on social media, there would be pay back today. A lot of People Living in venice are upset about the closure of their library. It was closed because of mold. They feel the closure was rushed. Hundreds are signing a petition asking for reconsideration. Plans to hold Public Meetings on march 21st. And the books will stay put. If the books are moldy, county officials will have them cleaned. Governor rick scott is using just about every speaking opportunity to push lawmakers for a billion dollar tax cut. Hes getting a resounded no. Mike explains. Reporter governor rick scott has talked about nothing but a billion dollar tax cut and 250 million for economic incentives. Heeds going to get half of the tax cuts he wanted and hes going to get half of the tax cuts he wanted and none for economic development. The enterprise fund. Lawmakers are pushing back by refusing the governors request to use local property taxes to fund an increase in school funding. Theres over 11 million property taxpayers, im told, in the state of florida. When we million people, thats better than giving it to a handful of big corporations. The legislation doesnt end until march 11. It gives the governor time to negotiate. His priorities are dead. Reporting from the state capitol, im mike vasilinda. The Detroit Tigers played spring training generates millions where the teams are based. Tigers are a 45 million boost to the local economy. Even more than that, its a sense of identity for lake land. If you go travel anywhere, especially up in the midwest, michigan, in that area, theyre familiar with lakeland because of the Detroit Tigers. Most teams including the tigers will Start Playing other pro teams that starts tomorrow. All right. A Beautiful Day phillips. It was a beautiful look out temperatures in the mid70s. 77. Winds calm and temperatures for all of us have made it back up into the 70s. First thing at 71 in newport richie. 727 in as you head inland, temperatures warmer in the upper 70s and 80s 72 in frost proof this afternoon. Warm afternoon. A dry afternoon as well. No rain on the radar. You can see just a few cloud z s hanging around. But generally, weve seen plenty of sunshine that has helped warm us up during the day and as you step back, a quiet forecast across the southeast. High pressure in control in that dominate factor, but were tracking our next system. Low pressure off to our west will bring a cold front through as we head into the middle of this week. It will impact on our weather. Currently, tracking dry air. That color you see in the water imagery, dryer air working its way in. With dryer air, yes, you can expect quiet conditions overnight tonight. No rain expected. Dropping down to 57 in west chase. 55 in temple terrace. As you wake up tomorrow, 51 in brooksville and 50 in invernes. Lets look at your headlines from hollywood including a quick look at the oscars which well talk more about later in the newscast. Heres david daniel with todays hollywood minute. Reporter chris rock kicked off his gig for the 88th Academy Awards by tackling diversity. If you want black actors every year, have black categories like best black friend. Thats right. A row is wanda sikes. A long awaited win as fivetime oscar loser leonardo yo dicaprio took home an oscar. Bire larson rie larson brie larson won for the winner goes to spotlight. Its a match made in dancing with the stars hes engaged to his dancing with the stars johnson tweeted sunday saying shes the luckiest girl in the world. They met in 2015. The camden members of the 90s hit show, 7th heaven they reunited. Tv siblings, mom catherine hick im david danielle. 4 00. Inside the oscars, were going to catch up with jaime its leap day. So why exactly do we get extra day on the calendar this year. Were going to find out next on first at 4 00. If youre going to say better ingredients. Better pizza. You better deliver. Which is why im introducing our new papas quality guarantee love your pizza, or get another one, absolutely free. Pget any large pizza up to 5toppings pfor just 9. 99. Online only. Welcome back. Today is pretty special. We only get a february 29th every four years. A leap year course. Do you know why that is . There we are. Welcome back. Meteorologist lee span igh spann is here to explain. February 29th on the calendar and it has to did with earths trip around the sun. Did you know it was a leap year . I did. You have anything special planned for february 29th. I cant say ive celebrated the leap year before. You may not celebrate it, but its important. Do you know why we have leap year every four years . I heard about it, but i forgot, leigh. We have leap year because our calendar does not match the orbital period around the sun. Hes at the university of tampa. It takes the earth 365days plus nearly a quarter of another day to orbit the sun. To be exact, 365days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds. To account for that extra time, we add a full day every four year. The main purpose is to help without a leap day, the calendar will be off by 24 days. We had a leap day since julia caesar. Todays version of leap year was started in 1582. Heres where it gets even more corky. Because its not quite extra quarter of a day, leap year is skipped three times every 400 years. The next one skipped will be in 20100. The next time we get this leigh spann, news channel 8 too long. A lot of math involved here. Day. Not so bad. Most of us dont have to worry about that. Crazy. A check of the forecast. You work with numbers everyday. Leigh was probably fit to do that story because meteorologist have to be good at math and numbers. Does it mess up the weather . Actually the day is perfect. The day is perfect. Anytime. We sure will. Were getting into march, beach season, spring break season heading our way, and we actually had some rip current warning signs that were you saw that video from sand key. We dont have any rip current warnings in effect for today. But thats just a warning for any beach goers of a water rip current especially as we head into march and april. People are on the beach that arent familiar with rip currents as we are in florida. They could be dangerous. Look at the folks enjoying the day at sand key. Just a gorgeous day to be at the waters and temperatures are conducive to heading out to the beach for the next several days. Midto upper 70s over the next weather. Waking up tomorrow 50s. As we head through the day, temperatures make it up a few clouds building in, but generally its going to be quiet throughout the day. Temperatures now in the midto upper 70s. Really a comfortable afternoon. Its 57 in plant city. 75 in brooksville. 73 currently in in inverdict next. No shower around. Just a few clouds left for your afternoon hours. Were seeing that clearing out. So well see clearing skies through the rest of this evening. Temperatures will stay comfortable. Youll be out into the late evening hours and as you wake up tomorrow morning, mid50s. Blue skies, sunshine to start off the day and as we head into the afternoon, just a few clouds build in. Were going to see a rapid warmup. Temperatures reaching into the upper 70s by the afternoon hours and then as we head into notice off to our north, our next cold front. So this will be approach wednesday morning. Well move out by noon or so. With it, well see a few light showers, which well thankful for because the last couple of cold fronts have brought storms. At this point, were looking at small rain chances. As it moves through, it holds temperatures steady. Were not going to see a major cool down. Mostly sunny skies and march temperatures. Well reach back into the low to mid70s across the area and were back to seeing dry conditions. You can see that slim 10 chance of a front on wednesday. Another front on friday with another chance of rain. We head into next weekend. Doesnt that look nice. Mid70s and sunshine. We love it. Thank you jewel julie. Dicaprio finally has that oscar. List crock chris rock has the orscar ghos to the oscar goes to Leonardo Dicaprio. Hes final an oscar winner. I have to thank jones forecasting me in my first film. Brie larson won best actress for her role in room. Host chris rock kicked off a dig at white movement. If they nominated host, i wouldnt get this job. You all would be watching neil patrick harris. He won last year and spotlight took home best picture. Voice which we hope will be a choir that will resonate to the vatican. Mark beat out Sylvester Stallone to take on Alicia Vikander won for her role in the danish girl. Alajandro won for the best although she didnt win an oscar, lady gaga stole the show we had an inside guy at the 2016 Academy Awards and he got up right and early to talk to me. Heres my interview with extra corespondent and daytime host jerry penacoli. Jerry, what a big night in hollywood. Lets start with chris rock. What did you think right out of the gate . The general reaction was that he killed the monolog. It was just great. Right on point. We really thought it would have been funny if he elephant to obviously address the elephant in the room, but with that not happening, i thought he did a fantastic job. Really nailed it. But i think it then went over and over and over and it just it was too much. And i think a lot of people felt way. A taste of it would have gone absolutely. Do less. You know, a lot of the actors ended up thinking maybe the spotlight wasnt on them necessarily. But on that issue. It just became too big for the show. Lets talk about i think he made some valid points at the beginning in his monolog, and funny ones. Lets talk about what do you think was the big surprise of the night . Far as i was concerned. The fact that mark rilands who won over bridges of spy over Sylvester Stallone. I think he was getting ready to get out of his seat and when his name wasnt called, he had a visible look on his face that he was shock that he didnt win because winning. Everyone thought this was his big carrot at the end of the stick playing rocky. I think also similar, kate was in the minds of people. They thought because she won a couple of the big awards prior, she was going and she didnt. Alicia vikander won, but she was deserving and won a couple of big awards ahead of this. The fact she picked it up for the danish girl and i had a chance to speak with her after she won, tickled and like a getty school girl and enjoying every moment. Jerry, i know its always awesome to cover these award shows. Did you have a moment of the night that stands out for you personally . Well, i have to say that it had nothing to do with actors. But in one of the very last moments of the night, i saw joe biden at the governors ball, and he was surrounded by secret service, and i walked over to the large crowd around him and i just kept looking at him until we made eye contact. And my producer who was next to me basically almost passed out because theres joe biden saying, jerry, hi. Because we knew each other a long time ago when he was a senator in delaware and i was a news anchor in philadelphia, and i used to interview him all the time, and so even all these years late, hes gracious and we took a selfie. Senior corespondent for extra and daytime host, thank you for well see you back here in tampa. All right. Thank you so much, stacie. I cant imagine he didnt he probably didnt get much sleep. He probably got three minutes. An exmilitary being located to take down bad guys. You dont want to miss this story. Then whats the recipe for menu pricing. We find out why your dinner cost more at some places than others. Theres more than the obvious reasons. Thats right. Plus deadline find out why one lightning player isnt playing or getting paid. This is first at 4 00 on news channel 8. Well be right phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, welcome doctor. Lets talk about the problems caused by unintended veins. Welcome back. Lets check in why first at 4 sports, dan got any words of advice for Jonathan Durant today. You got to lay this out. Hes got free time on his hands and he cannot be a happy camper because this did not work in his favor. We didnt think it would. The nhl trade deadline has come and gone, and jonathan remains apart of the lightning. Duran sits and his life sit in the hands of general manager eisman. Thats what really put this mess on the hockey front page. Eisman said from day one, he would be open to trades duran if there was equal value. No team is going to appease a player because hes unhappy. Hes a number one three draft pick with potential now he must honor his contract through this season before any type of negotiations can take place to move him. Incredible story. Tonight is night number two of back toback for the bolts. And right there, look at that circle. Weve isolated johnson. Watch johnson at the bottom of your screen. The puck right to the face. This was a scary site and members of stamkos having the same thing happen to him five years ago. Believe it or not, johnson felt okay after the game other than the obvious stitches for a nasty cut and yes i tried to cut that out. The visor on his helmet was the difference. Hes not ruled out that would be something to see him on the ice tonight. Today was the day buck fans had their eyes on the nfl scouting columbine. Thats ramsey of a 4. 4640. Just land in the lap of the bucks with that nice pick, florida vernon. Here he is. He looked terrific. The question now be comes, which direction do the bucks go with that first pick in the first round. The 9th pick of the first round. They have options and on sunday, we got to see some of the dominant pass rushing defensive ends. Another area of need for the bucks. We can sit here and say they dont have a top pick and its not a sexy draft pick like last year, but its going to be fun to watch. Free agency march 9th if they can sign a defensive end to tip their hand on which direction theyre going. Either way, its so much fun to build up. Its coming up. And duran just sits. Hes doing what were doing. Hes watching the lightning. Okay. Well be right back. music playing i feel pretty west side story not every cake can be layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake itll be remembered for all the right reasons. Now four headlines at 4 30. Keep your eyes on a silver car to the right. The red dump truck absolutely destroys that silver car, pushing it through the intersection in austin texas. That collides with another car and collides through a concrete barrier. Four people taken to the hospital. Number two, a foot long sub. A judge granted approval of a settlement after a teenager posted a picture of his 11 inch subway in 2016. The company will measure its bread. Snap chat. Hackers got information to payroll information. The social Media Company claims the servers were not breached. The fbi is investigating. Today republican president ial candidate marco rubio is blasting trump for refusing by a kkk grand the businessman claims he was unable to hear and thats why he did not reject the facebook endorsement. Aaron andrews is expected to testify against the man who took nude videos of her in the hotel where she was filmed. Andrews is the daughter of news channel 8 reporter steve andrews. This is week two of her trial. Michael barrette who spent 30 months in president on for the crime testified today about video. Aaron anders left the courtroom while that barrette testified he was having financial troubles when he began following andrews. Eventually explaining how he found her at a nashville hotel. I picked up the house phone, and i called the operator and i said can i have aarons room. They connected me. [indiscernible]. I didnt know what barrette testify ied that he was hoping to sell the video, and andrews is suing barrette and the hotel for 75 million and the hotel maintains its not their fault. In florida, there was a major speed bump. Matt is in our Capital Bureau with more on this story today. Reporter the Florida Senate was ready to vote on a bill last week to allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana, but with so many amendments being filed, it was kicked back to committees. One issue is who gets to dispense the marijuana. They have designated dispensaries the president made the wise decision to move that bill so we amendments that had been filed. And then take a have the committee take a look at it. And get in proper posture. Marijuana supporters hopes that legislative in action adds up to voters passing a constitutional amendment this november that would allow some patients to use medicinal cannabis. At the capital, im matt. Now a check of your first at 4 weather. Heres meteorologist julie phillips. Gorgeous outside in newport richie. 70 degrees with our winds coming out of the west at 5 milesperhour. A nice afternoon. Were ending february today. So well recap it for you. Weve seen 2. 53 inches of rain. Shy of what we would see in a typical february and for many of you it felt cold, but were close to average this year. Average high temperatures, 71 degrees and thats two degree cooler than the average for february. Were right on track there for this evening. Its looking quiet, mostly clear skies and it stays comfortable. Temperatures will be in the upper 60s. If you have some late evening dinner plans, it shouldnt be too bad. Waking up tomorrow morning, a mild start to day. Similar to what today was like. Temperatures in the midto upper 50s. Mostly sunny start. In the afternoon hours, a few cloud clouds build and a quick warmup. Highs reaching back into the upper 70s. Well have more on the rest of your work week forecast and talk about cold fronts coming your way coming up. 8 is your side with what you need to know to plan your morning commute. Heres leslee leslee with a look at tomorrows i want to remind you about construction that gets underway over in south tampa. A heads up here. It looks like from today until tuesday, were going to have the intersection of bay to bay and isabella completely blocked. Theyre doing water main work here. So that but you can access the selma express way at bay to bay and connect with me at leslee lacey on facebook and on twitter.