Degrees so a tad cooler today. Thats about it. Right now, were 61 degrees in tampa. 62 in st. Petersburg, and inland, 44 in zee hills. Low visibility in central keep that in mind if youre going out and about over the next hour or so. You can see the low clouds on the satellite and radar picture. Those low clouds will burn off and move off to the south. And make way for a descent looking day, so some clouds this morning. This afternoon, lots of sunshine. Breezy and temperatures not too shabby for february. 67 degrees this afternoon. Adrienne. Thanks, brian. Well check back with you. A deadly wrong way crash kill s s two people and sadly this seems to be a trend here in the bay area. Now, the families of the victims are demanding a change. Lets go ahead and take two cars mangled on ashleys exit ramp. Larry thompson was going north on i275 south and hit Eugene Fisher nearly headon. Theyre both unconscious. Yes, i have a pulse on one of them. Unfortunately in the end, both men died. Fishers family wants a change now. More signs instead, and lights and fdot say theyre working on it with lines painted and warning drivers where not to go. It has destroyed so many families. Theres got to be something to do. Fdot has has sensors at some exits to alert drivers theyre going the right way. Well stay on top of that story for you. Saintburg police are searching for these st. Petersburg police are searching for these people. They believe theyre involved in car burglaries. Police tells us the you want to be on the look out for a 2009 toyota camry with the tag number u333ty and please call police right away if you see that car. A couple of bold thieves caught on camera stealing a truck right off a car lot. We have to show you this video. Lets pull it up. It happened at this sarasota ford dealership on us 301. You can see in the surveillance video, two crooks load up the 75,000 white ford pickup on a flat bed, then just drive off casually. If you have any information, you should Call Sarasota Police right away. Its your vote this saturday morning, and local donald Trump Supporters are waking up on a high. About 11,000 supporters gathered to hear him speak at the university of south florida. Many came just to hear what he had to say. Jed bush is a total stiff by a total stiff. So trump also stirred up pro protestors protestors and some shouted dump trump and others got escorted back outside. Its a meeting almost a thousand years in the making. Raul castro greeted pope francis in cuba. A delegation is set to arrive to discuss the possibility of lifting the embargo. News channel 8 Jeff Paterson is the only local reporter in havana this week, jeff. Reporter its an incredible time to be here in cuba, the pope just arrived in havana to meet the head of the orthodox church. Its its the first time the leaders of the two churches sat down. Im talking about since 1054 ad. Raul castro was on the tarmac to greet the pope as he arrived here in havana. Has been instrumental in helping to restore us and cuban diplomatic relations and were here to cover congresswoman kathy. Shes leading a delegation to cuba this week and im the only bay area reporter to cover it. Castro wants to see what impacts the diplomatic changes are having on the average cuban. We want to see whats happening with the businesses in the business sector and were going to talk about travel and trade and internet expansion, and human rights. Were going to be meeting for, example, with an entrepreneur that has a Small Business that helps restore those historic cars that you see from the 1940s and 50s. Those beautiful cars and the people who drive them are just one of the interesting businesses that congresswoman castro and the u. S. Delegation will see when they arrive here paterson, news channel 8. Thank you for your insight. Jeff paterson from cuba. Were the only one brings jeff will continue his report next week. Be sure to tune in for that. The pope begins his trip in mexico today. Security is ramped up in mexico city for the pontiff will greet thousands. City employees worked for hours sweeping the streets and clears areas. A tarmac square for those heading to tampa. A run away van crashed into their plane. This morning, everybody is okay. It happened at Logan International airport in boston. The plane was parked at the gate and all of the passengers were onboard when suddenly the plane started shaking. We talked to travelers when they got back to tampa. There was this big bang, and the plane went up and came down. The pilot said i think we collapsed a landing gear, and somebody from the back said someone hit us. That will wake up. The driver of the van forgot to put it in park. He did hurt himself chasing after it trying to stop the van. Nobody else was injured though. Trouble in the skies for a legion passengers flying from the bay area to nebraska. An electrical smell filled the cabin shortly after taking off from st. Pete Clearwater International airport. The pilot made an Emergency Landing in alabama. Passengers made to to omaha six hours later after boarding a new plane. Ladies and gentlemen, valentines day is tomorrow. This is your official reminder and warning. If youre a procrastinator, you can get gifts for your loved ones. Today is going to certainly be a busy day for flower shops as well as candy Stores Across the country and in the bay area. People are scrambling to pick up and mary mcguire is joining us live from jennys flowers of tampa bay. Mary, i was at target yesterday. A lot of people in the card department, but they didnt have much left. I see theres a lot there. Reporter theres a lot here, and the average person is actually expected to spend close to 146 on the valentines day holiday and its easy to see why. Its not just about the flowers like they have at jennys. Its about the stuffed animals, the chocolates and the jewelry and the balloons and the list goes on and on. My favorite out of that is the chocolates. On average, 50 of consumer plan on buying chocolate this valentines day spending a total of 1. 7 billion. Chocolate tier in channel side is expected to get busy today. There, you can get everything from chocolate dipped pretzels to Chocolate Covered Strawberries and the owner has dont wait until the last minute. I know thats hard, but dont wait until the last minute. Come sunday when the strawberries are gone, theyre gone. Now, in addition to candy, 19 of valentines day lovers will head to a flower shop like jennys and for all those last minute shoppers, jennys will be open until 6 00 tonight or until they run out of flowers and the most popular item is a dozen long stemmed red roses. Come out and get flowers. Celebrate the holiday. Any excuse to celebrate love is fine by me, adrienne. Any excuse to celebrate is good. Mary, you brought up a good point. Even if the ladies say i dont want anything, we dont mean it, right. No, we definitely dont mean in. One time in college, i have date, im not kidding, got me printers ink on valentines day. It was a thoughtful gift because i was talking about how my printer was out of ink for weeks. But thats definitely is not what a gal is expecting on valentines day, so get flowers. Were giving love advice this morning on news channel 8. Thank you, mary mcguire live for us. Technology can help. And you might need help if your like marys friend. We have smartphones that can make you look smart and romantic. Thats the key. It is 7 10 on this saturday morning. Youre getting a look over downtown tampa. Its looking foggy this morning. 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, i do everything on the internet. But, its kind of slow. My friends say i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. husband were out of 2 i wonder what else could be better around here . husband i heard that. Now easier than ever. Only fios has the fastest with uploads up to 5x faster get 100 meg upload and download speeds. Plus tv and phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. Switch to better. Welcome back. Love is in the air this week, and news channel 8 wants to help you have a great valentines day. Lindsay mastis shows us Smartphone App that can help spark your love life, but lindsay, it doesnt sound romantic, does it. Reporter when it comes to relationship, cell phones are anything but romantic, but there are apps designed to help you and the love of your life keep from ideas for dates to playful games like truth or dare, theres all kinds together. Kelly schafer and this apple comes in handy. I can send him a dare and then get home and completely forget about it, and then he remembers at home and all of a sudden i walk in the door and bam. Come this summer when schafer goes on tour with his extreme metal band, they plan to use it to keep the spark going. Its a great opportunity to let her know im thinking about her in a creative 21st century way. She encourages couples to disconnect, but admits some love apps can help relationships. Its like a hey, im thinking about you through the day. Its important for you to be able to communicate that or somehow get that message across. And we dont do that enough. We assume they should know. Some apps are very clever. The couple app feature its a virtual thumb kiss. It works when lovers touch the same part of their screens at the same time. It was nice. Feature challenges. Has points for it. The points add up. If he fails a challenge, he doesnt get the points. Who has the most points . You do. I do because i won last night. Other apps can help you and the love of your life theres skype and facebook video. Its the facetoface connection that help you feel close. In tampa, lindsay mastis, news channel 8. Theres an app for everything. You still have time to run the gasparilla distance classic. Up next, how the racers organizers are focusing 8 is on your side as we get ready for gasparilla distance classic. The race is one week away, and many are focused on their running, josh benson found out organizers are focused on giving back to the community. Reporter soon youll be crossing the finish line in the gasparilla classic races, but suzanne says as the 30,000 runners finish, three support the boys and girls clubs of tampa bay, friends of tampa recreation and big brothers and big sisters of tampa bay. We want to impact the youth across tampa bay. Million since the races began back in 1978 with the tampa girls club and the races raised 17,500s and last year it was harmeling says its a onewin. Because we keep the fee man age manageable, the families can afford it. We provide great futures for our kids so we use for a daily opportunities. Harmeling says they have this system down. We know what Everybody Knows they might pass out the day after, but we know what it takes to make this the event that its going to be a nice looking weekend. Two thumbs up from my emoji man. Were starting off with cloud cover. You know what, lets switch over. Theres a live view from lakewood ranch. We have a few clouds this morning, but theyre going to clear out later today, and well have a fair amount of afternoon sunshine. Any rain, nope. Its going to be a dry day. Temperaturewise, were in the lower 60s and topping out if the upper 60s. Not much of an increase, but well see 60s. We were warmer yesterday around 70 degrees. This afternoon, 67. Same thing goes tomorrow. Valentines day, warm er on monday. And then we take a dip as a cool front passes through, about temperatures remain around average. Were going to flirt with 80 degrees. A hint that maybe the change in seasons isnt that far off. Right now, its 62 in tampa. Petersburg, same temperature. Most of our coastal locations, kind of mild this morning. Head inland, its chilly. Zephryhills is 44 degrees. Satellite and radar picture, heres the front that has passed through and its bringing us a few clouds this morning. Its going to continue to pass off to the south, and its going to remain clearing conditions. Lets drag this map down. Were looking at sunshine right now in ocala and gainesville and thats filtering down our direction. The bigger view shows lots of sunshine behind that. Kind of chilly temperatures to our north. The coldest weather of the season for the midatlantic and northeast. A lot of places not getting out of the 20s today. This afternoon, a lot of sunshine. Upper 60s. A fairly nice afternoon across the bay area. Overnight, no weather problems, but kind of cool by sunday morning. Well be in the middle 40s tomorrow. Some in the upper 30s, so kind of a chilly night. Tomorrow, afternoon, partly cloudy and High Temperatures in the upper 60s once again and monday night into tuesday morning, well have another front coming through and thats going to bring us our next chance for rain. So this morning, a few clouds, temperatures right around 54 degrees. This afternoon, lots of sunshine. Once we get rid of the clouds, a little breezy. A few degrees below average, but a nice day in the upper 60s. This is the last weekend for the state fair. Hopefully you can get out and enjoy it. It will be nice with temperatures in the upper 60s and again dry. Tomorrow, dry as well. Kind of a similar day except for a few more clouds and monday night, the rain moves in. So all in all, a good looking weekend. Again, two thumbs up. Perfect. I appreciate the warmup, thanks brian. I did it for you. I know. Coming up. The lightning working over time against the predators. Highlights, next in whats with him . Hes happy. Your familys finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds eye voila skillet meals. And they only take 15 minutes to make. Ahh birds eye voila were playing some teams here that are right in the mix in the wild card and in the west. Were in the same position. Were closer to being in the playoffs than in the playoffs. About precarious positioning as the nhl deadline approaches with no contract in sight. Theyre wondering the lightning are jocking for a position in the clustered eastern conference. The bolts entered yesterday evening 7th in the east. The visiting president 8th in the west. Every point pivotal. Tampa bay conceives the first goal. Over the blocker of ben bishop. Back comes the bolts in the second. Brown swats a rebound and that mess of humanity, his fourth goal in the last 7 games ties it. Less than two minutes, nakeda he tries to find the puck but puts it through his own legs. 21 tampa bay and kuch is fired up. The predators retake the lead. Forestburg does the damage. And bolts down 23. And Stephen Stamkos says ill have one more shop. Stamer ties it up with 20 seconds left. Were going into overtime. Johnny comes through with the game winner. Tampa bay takes it 43. Climbing back into second place in the atlantic division. Courtney williams has a soft spot for cincinnati. Even if shes too young to have ever washed wkrp before it hits last night her bulls visited ohio. Jose fernandez wearing pink. Splashing in a three to give the bulls an early edge. In the second, maria gets in on the fun. Do you lift . Yeah, brother. I do. Hooping the harm, usf up double digits. Shes in the state of ohio 17 first half points. 22 in all. Bulls up 3827 at the half and they cruise from there. How about an locksa. Threetime American Freshman of the week. She likes number three. South florida goes onto beat cincinnati, 7851. The bulls have a big one coming up on monday taking on 12th ranked louisville. Thats it for sports. Im paul ryan. Okay, thank you paul. The United States is working to normalize ties with cuba. Coming up in our next half hour, when us officials plan to when u. S. Officials plan to restart a deal that allows you to fly to cuba. Thats coming good morning, tampa bay. Youre getting a live look at downtown tampa right now. The sun just peeking out and its set to be a gorgeous weekend. Thank you so much for joining us. Im adrienne pedersen. Well get to the news in a second. But lets check with your forecast with storm meteorologist brian bennett. Good morning, brian. Good morning, adrienne. Good morning, everyone. We have a few clouds as you can see in lakewood ranch, but take a look further north right now in parts of citrus county, we are clear in crystal river. It shows we have the clouds moving out and bottom line is, its going to be a good looking day with High Temperatures today in the upper 60s. Right now, were 62 in tampa and st. Petersburg and inland to bartow and zephryhills, youre in the 40s right now. A little low visibility earlier this morning, but that fog is going away. And theres 2. 5 mile visibility. Satellite and radar picture shows clouds. The clouds are moving south, and out of our area. So its going to be a good looking day. Yeah, a few clouds early this morning. Temperatures in the middle 50s this afternoon. Pew blue sunny skies pure blue sunny skies and breezy and a comfortable High Temperature in the upper 60s. Adrienne. Thank you, brian. New this morning, st. Petersburg fire rescue is trying to figure out what caused a fire at a home on north Martin Luther king avenue. Right now, we do know that nobody was hurt thankfully. And the red cross get more details, well let you know. In the meantime, we know a Pinellas County man is facing 20 years in prison for pleading guilty to hate crime charges after he threatened two mosque. 43yearold martin threatened to fire bomb the mosques and shoot worshipers. He told investigators he called in the threats in november because he was angry about the terror attacks happening in paris. Now to a scandal involving the polk county superintendent. She pushes her resignation and the school board voted to accept. Superintendent catherine laroy will get 20 weeks of paid severance and Attorney Fees covered by us. The board she made inappropriate advances to an association. She was cleared on that, but still resigned in the end. Flights with the destination for the first time in five decades. U. S. Officials say the United States and cuba will sign airlines can bid on routes to cuba each day. There hasnt been commercial air traffic to cuba since 1959. Now to an 8 on your side health alert this morning. Were staying on top of the zika we know theres two new cases in florida, the state wide total is up to 20. None, however, involve pregnant women. Three of those 20 cases are in the tampa bay area. All of them in hillsboro county. Governor rick scott