Good friday morning. Welcome to 10 news this morning. Im allison kropff. Im ian reitz. If you missed the Republican Debate on thursday night we have everything you need to know this morning. 10 News Reporter emerald morrow is in studio. Despite all the attacks all the canidates say they would support trump if he gets the nomination. This comes as some canidates are facing legal troubles of their own. Thats right. This morning in Broward County a judge will hear a case on whether or not ted cruz or marco rubio can even run for president. The question on the table is whether or not they are natural born citizens. The case comes one day after the canidates duked it out on the stage in detroit at the 11th Republican Debate. A few days after front runner donald trump snagged a big victory on super tuesday. Answers on policy and shortcomings on business. Trump responded to former president ial canidate mitt romney saying trumps views and tactics could lead the gop to disaster. Well explain how the last debates affect our state. There is only one debate left between thousand and the florida primary. We have tonight and the one next week in miami. Those two debates will be the last impression that will be left with the citizens of florida other than the commercials that will be seen over the next two weeks. The florida primary election is more than a week away on march 15th. We just got word on where Governor Scott stands when it comes to the canidates. We have that answer for you coming up at 6 30. Back to you. Wall street is reacting to the polls. Some investors say even though the election is eight months away the uncertainty of what the canidate could bring to the on the economy. 2016 race for the white house has a lot of potential it has. Some on wall street say they dont know where trump stands on Economic Policy on what changes he could make to Impact Global trade. Big changes are coming to the downtown st. Pete skyline. A few hours construction crews will break ground on a 41 story tower. It will be the tallest building in all of Pinellas County. 10 News ReporterSarah Hollenbeck is live on 42 avenue downtown. With so many people moving into downtown there has to be concerns about parking and traffic. Reporter yeah, there is. This is where it will be behind us. Up here you can see where the street is. It is close to several streets downtown. Youll see construction barricades. The big concern is is there enough parking . I learned there will be two from there it is difficult how to will totally impact the traffic down here. If you have been to downtown st. Pete you know how difficult and crazy parking can be. It is nearly impossible to find a spot. When you do you better have quarters for a meter. City leaders are not sure how traffic and parking will be impacted once the condo is down in 2018 along with a handful of others in the works. They definitely need to find a solution to parking and traffic since the hundreds of residents are said to move in here in the coming years. You can expect to see more high rises coming. I was shocked to find out how high demand is. You might be surprised about that, too. Ill tell you about it coming up in 30 minutes. Live in st. Pete Sarah Hollenbeck 10 news wtsp. Tampa is one of the most popular places in the country to flip homes. Florida was second in the more than 9 of all house flips were in tampa and daytona beach. Only nevada had more. Jury deliberations could begin in a few hours in the erin andrews trial. It has been an emotional week in court. The sports caster is suing the owner of marriott for 75 million. A man secretly recorded her video in the nude and posted it online. Michael barrett manipulated the reservation system to get a room next to hers in 2008. The jury will have to decide if the company is liable. Today the jury selection continues in the hulk hogan gawker sex trial. The pool stands at 55. They have to cut it down to nine by monday morning so the trial can start. Against the fight to zica virus. The grant will go to reducing mosquito population and developing vaccines to protect against it. Google assigned a team of engineers and scientists to work with a unicef and analyze where the next outbreak might be. [ no audio ] could the fifth time be the charm . Spacex will try again to launch the falconine rocket from Cape Canaveral tonight. The window for this is 6 35 untell 8 06. Last few missions were scrubbed due to issues with liquid, oxygen temperatures and a coming to Yellow Stone National park. U. S. Fish and Wild Life Service wants to remove grizzly bears from the park. The protection act to protect them has been working. Grizzlies in yellow stone land. Thats larger than massachusetts, New Hampshire and rhode island combined. If you want to take your family on a Disney Cruise youll soon have more options. The company is adding to more ships to the fleet. That brings the total to six. Designs are still in development. The ships are expected to debut in 2021 and 2023. So you want to know the fish you are eating is the kind you pay for, right . Usf scientists are headed to boston this weekend. When they get there theyll show off a tool they created to it is called the grouper check. The sensor is making sure the fish is grouper and not less pricily tilapia or cat fish. 30 of the fish coming in the country is mislabeled and it is costing us 25 million a year. Once the grouper check is unvailed scientists plan to add tests for red napper, tuna and halibut. 100 dog rest moved from one home in minnesota. Why it took more than a year to rescue those animals. Thats coming up at 6 35. Snakes on a beach. This is not what you want. People at one beach are having good morning. Welcome back. Time is 6 12 on your friday morning. Sunshine skyway bridge taking 17 minutes from Pinellas Park drive to i75 in manatee county. Looking live at our other bridges. This is the Howard Frankland bridge. Coming into tampa live from sky 10. These are the northbound lanes before you are getting off the bridge. So quiet so far. Six minutes to cross. Gandy bridge also looking great this morning live from sky 10 on the pinellas side. Your drive time is just five minutes. Bobby . Most roads are dry as a front comes through and the wind is not up. It is picking up north northwest 10 to 15. That will be it for your bridges. It should be good. There is the rain falling apart we are drying out for you. It is a good looking forecast. The clouds from the front this here. Mostly sunny skies this afternoon mid 70s. Clouds. Days. In ten minutes. This is a look at your days top stories at 6 00. I think im talking. People say everywhere i go you seem to be the adult on the stage. Bad blood among the republican canidates during lasting nights president ial debate. In the end all of the canidates said they would support donald trump if he wins the gop nomination. The jury could get the erin andrews case today. Andrews is suing a National Hotel owner for 75 million since it is a small area you have to build up because of the limited land space available. St. Petes skyline is about to change. Today the tallest building in all of Pinellas County is about to break ground. It will be 41 stories tall. Heres a look at headlines around the nation and heres a look at headlines around the nation and the world in your 60 second scan. Canadas new Prime Minister thinks americans need to pay more attention to whats happening around the rest of the world. His interview airs days before he makes a visit to the white house. Families and 12 passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 sued the government and carrier. This comes ahead of a filing deadline next week that marks two years since the planes disappearance. The families says her clients sued because nothing reasonable was forthcoming from the carrier. The flight disappeared with 239 on board. It is the only missing 777. Liquidation for Sports Authority comes later today. Sports authority admitted they lost market shares and became swamped with billion of dollars in debt and failed to keep up with Consumer Trend use when you go to the beach you expect to see birds and shells. Beach . Some visitors in galveston, this guy carries a pellet gun with him. For every snake you do see there are ten to twenty you dont see. There have been no reports of attacks or injuries. It is 6 16 on your friday. Lets get back over to road warrior hilary zalla. Taking a look at your traffic right now. We have an accident im on top of that was just reported in spring hill. Avenue. Police are on scene. Slow down own u. S. 41. In Pinellas County im on top of a crash on i275. Youll see it on the northbound exit ramp to gandy bridge. This is not blocking any lanes either. Injuries are reported. Again, watch out for police on scene there. Pinellas county you are looking great with all of your majors. No significant delays. We are in green everywhere. Veterans expressway, i275, i 75. Look at i275 now. We are definitely seeing heavier traffic. This is a live look at fowler avenue. All of the head lights coming south. North is much quieter. Your drive time is 15 minutes from the apex to i4. No delays yet. Looking live of i4 west of kathleen road in polk county. You can see it is quiet. Traffic is picking up a little bit. So far if you are traveling from lakeland into a tampa for work, from polk parkway to i75 along i4 it is taking you 15 minutes. Looking at our majors in sarasota and manatee county. You can see a delay on u. S. 301. It is 32 Miles Per Hour heading south past state road 70. I75 is looking great. No delays there just yet. Bobby . Thank you very much. Tracking showers at 6 17. We have a couple left on the radar. That is just about it. Over towards the lake wales area, southern Desoto County into highlands county. Now clearing sarasota. Venice the clouds are getting out of here. Heading out to get sharks teeth on the beach it is looking good. This frontal boundary is across the bay it will continue to drop southward. Skies are clearing behind it. Hooters at Clearwater Beach is showing sunshine coming up. There is a breeze. The flags are blowing away. Thats a north to northwest wind. Thats a sign the front has come through. Temperatures 66 in tampa. Carrollwood 59. This is the cool air mass. The front sitting there. 68 river view. 67 in sarasota. 60 in land olakes. Well drop the temperatures here. It is 6 19. By 7 00 well be five degrees cooler. We are looking at a nice bus stop forecast. Mid 60s most locations with 50s along the nature coast. Rain is almost out of here. Thats not an issue for the kids. Frontal boundary comes through and cools us initially but with clears skies behind it well end up with sunshine. That will warm us up. You can see well be in the mid 70s by the time we get towards early this afternoon. That will be our daytime high. We are going to be looking at temperatures that basically go into the mid 70s for this time of year which is almost average. We can look at overnight lows cooling off. This morning mid to upper 60s. Well end up in the low to mid 50s for tomorrow morning. Southwest winds north to northwest. 15 knots today with two to four foot seas. Moderate chop on the bay. Thats bumpy for the boaters. Things will get better late this afternoon and closer to sunset. Overnight tonight falling through the 60s. Friday night plans look great. Nice and dry. Well be in the 50s after midnight. Beautiful 77 on saturday. 80 degrees on sunday. Next week warm and humid. Low to mid 80s away from the beaches. The water is cooler. That will start to come up. This is a small case of mid spring, late spring weather almost. It will stick around through friday. There is a new stick ride and we dont mean a good kind of sick. Why employees cant stomach the Harry Potter Themed ride. How does a germfree airplane bathroom sound . The changes boeing is making to keep you clean the next time you have to fly. Hopefully you are having a great start to your friday good friday morning. Lets check traffic for you as you head out. It is picking up a little bit. Traffic is getting busier out there. No big delays on the selmon expressway. Here are the drive times if you are traveling between i75 and going west towards gandy boulevard. That stretch is 17 minutes. Your planner for your ride lots of sunshine. Out of the mid 70s into the lighter winds. 10 Miles Per Hour on the bridges. Should be a nice ride them. If you fly a lot listen to this. Boeing created a new bathroom. The touchless system includes a garbage can. When the bathroom is empty ultraviolet light is used to kill the germs. It will kill 99. 9 of the germs. That is awesome. It is hard not to touch something in one of those bathrooms. Have put a spell on a ride in california. The ride combines motion and video to make riders think they are soaring. The park is supposed to open up in spring. If you have been to the one in Universal Studios the one in california is a near replica for that one. You dont want everybody coming to ride the ride getting sick. Especially if you just had a butter beer. Before you make breakfast researchers say two Early Morning staples could lower Certain Health risks. Good friday morning. Your out the door planner includes a cold front coming through. Rain is exiting. We end up with temperatures in well talk about the pollen forecast and look at the weekend in ten minutes. Hot spots at 6 30 on your friday morning. Im road warrior hilary zalla. Im on top of an accident in Pinellas County on i275 at roosevelt boulevard. It is the entrance ramp to the northbound lanes. Live from sky 10 lets look at morning rush hour. This is i4 at 50th street. Definitely getting heavy heading west into tampa. Your drive times ten minutes between i75 and i275. Captain al is flying down to i 75 at big bend road for an accident there. Well have a live look at that coming up in less than ten minutes. Good morning. It is 6 30. Im allison kropff. Im ian reitz. Thank you for joining us. In a few hours construction workers will break ground on the tallest building in Pinellas County. A huge new highrise condo and hotel is coming to downtown st. Pete. It will tower over 41 stories 10 News ReporterSarah Hollenbeck is joining us live on first avenue north. You found out that st. Pete and tampa there is is a huge demand now for downtown condos. Reporter absolutely. The demand is so high that they are starting this project early. Take a look. This would be what your view is. Isnt that gorgeous . Look below where they started construction. They moved in the equipment schedule. Before the tower opens they sold. With the height of one and a half football fields it has a stunning view of the gulf. It will cost you. 3 million for a penthouse. For a condo without a gulf view you are looking at 500,000. Residential Construction Projects in st. Pete. In tampa theyll double the number of People Living in downtown. The reason being is that People Living in towers in downtown st. Pete want to stay there. When people come in new to the area the opportunity has to be new construction. Reporter this building is going to be so tall that they have to ask the federal Aviation Administration to raise the allowed sky rise height to 500 feet and get all of the traffic out of the airport to be diverted to another area. This morning theyll break ground at 10 00 a. M. Officially. They hope to open these condos by 2018 and the hotels a year earlier. You can imagine how stunning the gulf views will be. It will be incredible. It does look beautiful this morning. Hours before the republican off in their 11th debate in detroit we finally hear from Governor Scott on where he stands. 10 News Reporter emerald morrow is live in the satellite center. The governor isnt endorsing anyone. Reporter not right now. Many people thought he was going to endorse trump. That could mean trouble down the road for Governor Scott if he wants to run for u. S. Senate. Most of the Republican Party in florida is standing behind marco rubio. Governor scott made his announcement yesterday on facebook. He said it is his practice to not get involved in primaries. He said thats a job for the voters. I trust the voters so i will not try to tell the Republican Voters in florida how to vote by endorsing a canidate on march 15th. Governor scott went an to stand on his business background job creation will be the most important issues facing whoever chief. Back to you. If you dont want to face the crowds to vote on floridas president ial primary early voting in pinellas, pasco, sarasota and manatee counties will begin tomorrow. Hillsborough and polk began early voting this week. That primary is tuesday march 15th. Only voters who are already registered democrat or republican can vote. Today the Florida Senate is expected to debate medical marijuana. This comes one day after the Florida House passed a bill to expand the use of medical marijuana for people with terminal conditions. It would expect the right to try act which allows people with alternative illness to use marijuana. Jury selection continues today in the hulk hogan gawker sex tape trial. The pool of jurors stands at 55. Hulk hogan is suing t