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WFTS Action News At 6AM March 1, 2016

Donald trump expected to win colorado, along with oklahoma and arkansas. We also have alabama and georgia here. Along with tennessee, minnesota, up here. And the small state of vermont along with massachusetts. Senator ted cruz is expected to win his home state only of texas. At this point as it stands donald trump has 82 delegates, ted cruz has 17, florida senator Mubarak Mubarak has 16. 595 delegates are up for grabs today. Republicans are almost half the delegates needed to win the republican nomination. For the two democrats in the race, they are fighting for 865 total delegates today including the super delegates, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is expected to take at least nine of the states. We have oklahoma, we also have arkansas here, along with we have georgia along with state of virginia and were going to go up here to massachusetts. Now bern bern of course is expected to win Bernie Sanders is expected to win his home state of vermont. The only one up for grabs at this point is the state of colorado here. At this point, at one point during the polling senator clinton was expected to win that state but new polls have sanders closing that gap. Download our application and tune in to abc action news at results. The president ial candidates florida. Hillary clinton, donald trump and marco rubio are holding rallies here. Something that could affect voter turnout on super tuesday, Severe Weather. Ivan with more. Votes across the southeastern u. S. We dont have to worry about Severe Weather though. So lets focus on the super tuesday states. Across the north no problem, just light snow across portions of the rockies. This is the area were going to focus in on. In fact im thinking, well, nasty thunderstorms. They are going to start in the morning across portions of arkansas. So voting there will be impacted early. As that front continues to push into the southeast, 5 00 to 7 00 well have a line of nasty thunderstorms into portions of alabama and into georgia as well. So it will be impacked here later on in the day. That is how i see it now across the north. Again massachusetts, vermont, looking ok. All the action will be across the southeast. We checked here at home, and Election Officials tell us that thousands of people are taking advantage of early voting ahead of the march 15th primary here. The board of elections says already. Theres an article up now on our free mobile app telling you when and where you can go to cast your vote. In sarasota county, a registered sex offender accused of attacking a mother and daughter in their own home. 35yearold Daniel Esposito will go before a judge this afternoon. Deputies say he pulled a gun on a woman who drove into her garage and tried to sexually assault her. And also attacked the victims mother when she tried to help. Were staying on top of breaking news from yesterday. Pinellas park are confirming speed played a role in a fiery and deadly crash that shut down bryan dairy road for hours. The driver is identified as 60 yearold michael hester. Slamming into one of the support pillars on the u. S. 19 overpass causing the truck to burst into flames. 6 04. Weve monitored the enormousout Hernando County teachers sudden and tragic death. Sadly lara delise died a day before her 28th birthday from injuries she suffered during a rodeo accident. Her horse fell throwing her to the ground. She was also a cancer survivor, mother of a 2yearold and had just gotten engaged less than two weeks ago. She was a middle and High School Social studies teacher. You can see here more than 13,000 has already raced on a raised on her gofundme page to help pay for her medical bills. I posted more on my facebook page. And more on the free mobile app. Were watching for more protests like these in North Carolina today after a Deadly Police shooting leaves a drug suspect dead. Hundreds of people taking to no justice no peace asking why akil denkins had to die. Raleigh officers say they were chasing him when an officer shot him. Witnesses say the officer fired six shots. His mother found out from the onlookers it was her son who died. Just 24 birthday this month. Got two kids. A 2yearold and 3yearold. Guess what . Raleigh, North Carolina is not going to get away with this one. His mother says sherr son wasnt armed but Officials Say a gun was found near his body. This morning wildlife experts are asking you to think twice about taking flash pictures of sea turtles at night now that nesting season is underway. The flash could actually stop a turtle from laying her eggs. Lights can scare baby turtles trying to find the ocean or the beach. And now the fwc says flashes from phones and cameras can do the same thing. So keep your phones in your pocket especially at night. Nesting season is today through october. Police and deputies are teeming up for a mission that could save your life or the life of someone you love. The yearly click it or Ticket Campaign kicks off where more local officers will be hitting the streets to look for drivers not wearing seat belts. National statistics show more than half of young adults involved in deadly car crashes were not buckled up. That campaign lasts two weeks. New games could be coming soon to the hard rock casino in tampa. The gambling bill could let the seminole tribe casinos add roulette. At tampa bay downs there is a restriction. All the time about more and more exploding airbags under recall. You may wonder were not get rid of all of them at once . The experts say that wouldnt fix the problem. And can you go without were expecting the man killing two Virginia College students to take a plea deal. Prosecutors wanted to seek the Death Penalty against Jesse Matthew junior but a guilty plea may keep him off death row. Hes accused of killing a sophomore in 2013 and charged of killing a Virginia Tech student in 2010. Authorities are looking for two suspects involved in this police chase in south florida. Police cameras spotted a stolen car during the evening commute yesterday. But police tried pulling that driver over, he took off leading police on a chase through several cities in broward county. Authorities eventually caught two of the suspects after a brief chase but two more got away. Bailing out of their stolen car and jumping into another suv. Still ahead a teen and his pregnant girlfriend beaten and robbed. Key clues the victims may have about the people who did this. Live look outside through camera. Most places in the 50s, but temperatures will climb. Im Janelle Martinez, weve got breaking news were covering southbound i75 at still blocked. I75 southbound still blocked following a fatal crash. You can see the backups starting to build, past river view drive on gibsonton drive. Lets widen this out. 50 miles an hour, just as you head to gibsonton drive. They are moving cars off at gibsonton drive and getting off ought i75 but its causing delays. A lot of drivers are getting off at 301 and taking that down. Were starting to see that slow down as well to 30 miles an hour there. So its just depends where youre coming from and where youre going. If you want to wait out the traffic or make a detour, either way expect delays. Ill let you know here and of course on twitter what its doing throughout the morning. Elsewhere in the bay area looking pretty good. No crashes or breakdowns. Heading to downtown. Once you get to downtown, its five minutes to the Howard Frankland and five minutes from the Howard Frankland to downtown. Ivan, hows the weather . Felt pretty nice. It looks great. In fact starting cool, some areas jumping 30 degrees. Wow. This afternoon. That will bring us into wont bring us into the 80s but it will be closer. 61 st. Pete. Look at this, temperatures across north into the 40s and well be into the mid to upper 70s later on. So, do the math. 30 degrees indeed. Titan Doppler Radar looks quiet now. It will stay quiet today. Tomorrow, while the boundary is moving through its the one that is going to bring the Severe Weather across the southeastern u. S. By the time it gets to us were in pretty good shape, because it will be weaker, 10 coverage as far as the rainfall. There it comes, there it goes, its not going to be much. That is excellent news. More, thursday were good. By friday, another weak boundary moves through. Were going to have a couple this week and nothing much except for clouds, a couple of showers at best. Today low 70s across the coast with the sea breeze there, otherwise mid and upper 70s as weve been talking about. 7day forecast, a bit of a cooldown thursday morning as we wake up behind that front. So 50s. Low 70s in the afternoon. Then heading into friday again another shot of a couple of showers, setting us up perfect for this weekend. Saturday, sunday, a lot of sun, humidity. 6 17. Scott kelly and the russian cosmonautare hours away from ending their historic stay on station. They are on the i. S. S. For 340 days, one of the longest Space Missions in human history. Long term space travel on the human body. Scientists will see how space changed his body compared to his twin brother mark also an astronaut. Hes been on earth the past year. Compare their mission, muscle mass and blood work, what nasa learns could help the agency plan a manned mission to mars. If you checked facebook you notice friends sharing this from chickfila urging you to put away your cell phones at dinnertime. The restaurant has boxes called cell phone coops like chicken coops. The idea, put your phone in the coop and heres the best part, if you let your server know did you that everybody in your house gets a free ice cream cone. I could do that. I like that. Me too. Take it outside. Still ahead they are creepy, crawley and becoming harder to kill. Parents if youre a parent if youre a parent, two things you need to do to keep your kids from getting lice. Scientists are saying they are finding a connection to the zika virus. Heres our business headlines. In todays tech bytes, battle over online videos heating up. Snapchat. The ceo says users now watch 8 billion videos on its app everyday. Thats the same number of views as facebook and five times larger than it was just a year ago. Hightech and super fast. Going from zero to 62 in two andahalf seconds. Its at the geneva motor show, a retail price of 2. 6 million. You lost me there. Finally, the umbrella that not only keeps you dry, it will tell you when its going to rain. It knows when its going to sensor that measures humidity and other factors. It can also send a reminder of your location its location even if you lose it. Thank you for joining us on this early tuesday morning. Its super tuesday, 6 23. Live at i275 excuse me, in st. Petersburg as we look live at i275 through there. 58 tampa. Ivan has a check of the forecast. If youre just joining us were also updating you on a fatal crash in i75 in gibsonton. More on that in a moment. As more of those notorious exploding airbags coming into recall we hear arguments that taking them all off the market could put drivers in danger. Bill nelson got a letter arguing that recalling all takata airbags could make it tough for the highest risk cars to get replacements. Last month nelson demanded a full takata recall after at least 10 deaths linked to the airbags including one in central florida. The airbag problem has been linked to older cars exposed to high humidity. Were learning a pill called female viagra may be a fail. The little pink pill is shown it doesnt raise womens thought, and it has been known to cause dizziness and nausea among people who used it. You remember the fda approved the drug last june making it the first pill to treat low sex drive in women. Could a state flag spark violence . Its part of an argument to do away with Mississippi State flag now which features a confederate emblem. Lawsuit claims it violates the protection clause of the 14th amendment and could incite a violent act similar to last year, a race motivated shooting that happened at a black South Carolina church. Temperatures in the 50s out there. By the afternoon, upper 70s. Front comes in tomorrow, well have details on what happens behind it and how cool it will get coming up in a few minutes. I dont know where hes taking me. Dude, can you stop . A woman says she was trapped in the back of a ridesharing car. The way she eventually escaped from a nightmare on four wheels. What he did for love. A sons extreme act for his father that got him arrested and the new rule. Were seeing major delays on i75 at southbound, after a fatal crash has southbound 75 blocked at beginson gibsonton were keeping you updated on this Traffic Alert at 6 30. I75 still shut down southbound at gibsonton drive after a deadly collision between a motorcycle and car. Lets get to Janelle Martinez with the alternate routes you need to know about. Gibsonton drive southbound at gibsonton drive. They are taking cars off southbound and letting them get back on but its causing major delays if i zoom out you can see it starts just when you pass progress boulevard. You might want to get off at 301 and take that down. 301 pretty much in the green, i would was checking, 45 Miles Per Hour is your average speed on 301. Then you can take that back up to gibsonton drive or even head all the way down to big bend and just avoid this altogether. Either way just expect some delays as long as those southbound lanes on i75 are blocked. Elsewhere in the bay area, no major crashes or breakdowns to slow you down. On the veterans expressway, all in the green, 18 minutes from 54 to 275. Captain al is flying to that crash in gibsonton drive. And i think he may have just arrived. What are you seeing . Reporter good morning. I see cones being picked up. Could be they are reopening this roadway southbound i75. Any moment. Were looking for those vehicles to move out of the way but as you said this stream of cars may be a mile andahalf long back to almost progress boulevard. I guess the detour to 301 on the east side would be a better option for now but i suspect this will be open and everything will be back to normal in the next, i dont know, 20 or 30 minutes. Heres ivan with the forecast. Looking pretty good, upper 50s to low 60s. Clear skies now. Later today were going to warm up. Its upper 60s by 0 00. Then we get into the 70s and stay there from 11 00 through the evening commute with temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. But were going to look upstream here and High Pressure in control now. Tracking this front, ill let you know when that arrives and what we can expect weatherwise, in a few minutes. Democracy 2016 voting business to begin in a dozen states on this super tuesday. More delegates are at stake today than any other day of the primary season. President ial fields with frontrunner donald trump and Hillary Clinton hoping to tighten their grips on their partys nominations today. We just got a cnn poll finding trump would lose to either sanders or clinton but clinton would lose to rubio and is tied with cruz. Ahead in the morning sprint the one candidate who could still spoil trumps chances with a win today. Rights now a manhunt is on for the four people suspected of beating a teen and his pregnant girlfriend at a winter haven park. Abc action News Reporter Corey Dierdorff joins us now outside the Winter Haven Police department with the latest on this attack. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Some very tense moments for that couple in winter haven and Police Department still investigating this. And searching for a couple of the attackers. They say the attackers had no mercy, not even for a pregnant woman. Brahim Jean Baptiste and his girlfriend headed to the winter haven park to meet friends. They said they pulled into a they were tanged attacked. He said he went to high school with one of them and admits he got into an altercation last week with one of them. His 8 months pregnant girlfriend was in the car and jumped out to help. I fell on my knees, the other one pushed me. They hit me in my back, i got up. I was like im pregnant. They were like i dont give a bleep . Reporter she also remembers having a gun pointed at her and one of the attackers raising brass knuckles. She said she doesnt know why but the attack suddenly stopped and the suspects took off. If you have any information about the attack or whereabouts. Additional tackers youre asked to call Winter Haven Police. Corey dierdorff, abc action news. 6 32. Take a second and take a look at this mans photo. Hernando county deputies say this extremely violent criminal has been on the run for a week and they are getting more david dien senior is wanted on two counts of Sexual Battery and strangulation. Last seen driving a 2007 suzuki forensa, could be to new york, miami or california where he has family and friends. Take a second and share his photo when it shows up on facebook. We have it on our page. New concerns over the zika virus, a dangerous neurological disorder that is now being linked to the mosquitoborne illness. Zika might be to blame for an outbreak of a syndrome in french pollnesia pollnesia. It can trigger temporary prince charlesies and in paralysis and in some cases could put people on life support. Total in florida up to 42, among those are four pregnant women. That is especially troubling because zika is linked to a dangerous and devastating birth defect. One of the biggest 100 million. Hulk hogans attorneys will start to question potential jurors today in the former wwe stars battle against gawker. The wrestler claims gawk r violated his privacy by releasing a part of a sex tape slurs. A decision could impact families across tampa that rely on medical marijuana to put sick loved ones at ease. One is the canos. They support an ordinance that

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