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WTVT FOX 13 News At Noon March 2, 2016

At all these people. Probably about a hundred people or so in line. Many say this is day two or three for them here waiting to see someone inside about their taxes. The irs say long waits can be common during tax time but they say this is because of recent cuts to the agency. Adding to the problem, the irs suffered a major cyber hack last year. Official says hackers accessed personal Tax Information for more than 724 thousand taxpayers. So this year, many people are asked to verify their identities in person before they can file. Thats why a lot of these people are in line. Some began lining up at 2 00 this morning when the office opens at 8 30. Many tell us they were turned away just when they got to the front of the line because the office was closing. This man explains why he and his 16yearold brother have been in line for days. Somebody filed his taxes or their taxes under his name to resolve this problem by standing in this long line for multiple hours. Multiple days, trying to get an answer. Reporter back live. Ive made repeated requested from the irs about information for the long wait times. Theyve declined requests so far saying things can be busy and ask people to go online to irs dwov to get questions answered. Those are not going to help the people who got letters. Live in tampa, fox 13 news. That does not look like a good time. Developing story. Detectives are trying to figure out what sparked a fire that killed two people and a dog. Fox 13 Sheila Reeves is following the investigation. According to polk driving by spotted a fire at a mobile home. That witness called 911 and within ten minutes ffrs arrived to this. Right now you are looking at the scene that unfolded in the 4300 block of old polk city road. Its here where firefightes arrived to three quarters of a mobile home on fire. Were told a short time later they entered that home and inside. Right now we are still working to learn the identities of the man and woman found inside that home. But authorities tell us at this point, they not only found those victims but also found one dead dog. Another dog that suffered a broken leg and two other dogs tied up outside of that mobile home. The fire marshal spent time out here in the Morning Hours and Daylight Hours trying to piece together how this fire may have started. We did see technicians working pictures of the scene, as well as, crews work to determine how this fire began. Happening. The Fire Investigation to determine the cause of the fire and a second investigation, a death investigation, that the Polk County Sheriffs Office is handing on that end. Earlier we did see a dog on the scene. Possibly a dog used to sniff for any axel ranlts to see if theres anything suspicious or the blaze overnight. Were going to continue to follow this and keep you posted as we learn anything further. Reporting here in lakeland, sha la reeves. An Elementary School student is recovering after getting hit by a car. Troopers say the girl was hit as she was boarding the bus for east side elementary. She was talken to the hospital with minor injuries. Troopers ticketed the cars a story out of winter haven. An armed carjacking and robbery ended with two arrests and warrant for anotherment a car crash connected to the case augustine. John chris was arrested and charged with Armed Robbery and grand theft auto. They found a 16 yeared reported as a run away. Sandra stopped at a walgreens and was carjacked bay suspect that pointed a gun at her. She was told to get on the ground and stay on the ground. She had to leave purse and phone inside the car. Super tuesday was a super day for donald trump and hirnlt. They solidify their front runner status. Now the attention is on the rivals who campaigns may be running out of steam. Fox is in washington with the latest break down. Reporter a huge night for donald trump won more delegates than the next two combined and Hillary Clinton tripled her lead over Bernie Sanders. Clin top and trump are working to lock in their partys nominations but turn their attention to the general election and each other. America never stopped being great. We have to make america whole. Make America Great again. Its going to be better than making america whole again. Last night trump won seven state and ted cruz scored texas, oklahoma and alaska. Marco rubio won minnesota and spoke in florida this morning. Its going to be close. We know how to win in florida and we will. The rubio and cruz campaigns know unlikely they will be unable to catch up but push a scenario where they take him down at the convention. If trump comes in the leader but doesnt have the delegates they can use Party Clinton won seven of eleven states. She has close to half of the delegates needed to secure the nomination. Sanders won vermont, oklahoma, minnesota and colorado. I know secretary clinton and many of the establishment thinking, too big. I dont think so. The next big event for republicans is tomorrow night in detroit. In washington, fox news. Lets go to Political Editor craig patrick. You spoke to senator rubio. Even after the returns last night marco rubio still refuses to except the possibility donald trump may become the nominee of the party. I asked him back in august, he and all the others pledged that they would support that republican nominee. I asked him since rubio is con man, does that still hold true . Here now is rubios response. Yeah. Hes not going to win the nomination. It would be a catastrophe for the republican party. Thats why i fight so hard. Were going to win in florida. Country. If donald trump is our nominee were going to lose badly and the conservative movement. A guy who supports planned parenthood. He wont take sides whn it comes to israel. Im going to support the republican nominee because its not going to be donald trump. Its going to be me. He is laser focused on the state of florida. Its a winner take all state on march 15. It is rubios home state. If he does not pull off a win in florida its hard to see how he can have a case for keeping on in the race. Given the fact you are other candidates pledging ahead including ted cruz and john kasich. One of the predictions for front runner trump . This past week its good news for donald trump and bad news for rue rub. You have a double digit lead in the polls for donald trump. Keep in mind, a lot of people in the state have already voted. That is in the process. If rubio closes the gap he has to do it quickly and overtake donald trump in order to win the state if those polls are correct. Thats the challenge hes facing and donald trump said, he is going to bear down on florida for the next 13 days. How is it taking up for the rest of the gop pack, cruz, carson and kasich. They are all staying in the race. Ted cruz had a pretty good night. He won texas and won a couple of other states, as well. This keeps him going. He can say look at the leader board. Im in second place. I have the best shot at overtaking donald trump. You have john kasich. He came close in vermont he can say and hes very close to donald trump in his home state and with that it leaves questions for ben carson where does he go. Carson says hes not going anywhere. Hes going to stay in the race because he knows its a crazy year and anything can happen. Hes hoping he can catch up. We have a situation where all of the are e maining candidates are not getting out of the race, regardless of the fact that donald trump nearly ran the table. Good news for trump. Lets go to the democrats. As expected, a big night for Hillary Clinton. Say Bernie Sanders has a chance to stay in this a while because he has a lot of money. Some 40 million and a lot small donors. For Hillary Clinton she won big in particular in the deep south. With this it gives her a huge boost. Not just momentum but delegates, as well. Hundreds of delegates she picked up. If you combine that with the super delegates who dont have to go by their states results it gives Hillary Clinton, right shes well on her way. 47 of what is needed to clench the nomination. It puts ie Bernie Sanders in a difficult position. I think clinton would be on pace to clench the nomination prps by may. Sanders has shown he can come out of nowhere. Thank you countrying patrick. Local supporters and volunteers open a hillary for office. Donald trump will be back in florida on saturday. Hes going to hold a rally at the university of Central Florida cfe arena. The event is free but those interested have to register for tickets. Doors open at 9 00 a. M. And trump is scheduled to and peer at noon. It was once used to scare enemies. Now the super fortress bombers jim is which heinging your forecast. We have a cold front working its way down the state. That is giving more clouds. A couple of showers earlier on radar. Those are pretty much done with. As we go through the afternoon, might see one or two little sprinkles. It. Well start to clear out the skies for tonight. Weve got another cold front well talk about that. 3 jury selection continues in the onehundred million in the 100 million lawsuit between hulk hogan and the website gawker. The judge told jurors to be prepared for x rated details. They are interviewing 35 members hoping to sue gawker after it posted a clip from a sex tape involving hogan. We expected to hear the Opening Statements next week. A sky diver who got tangled in his parashoot died. Man and his instructor jumped separately at four thousand feet. He was uninstructed to pull his cord. But he rolled and got tangled up in it. His reserve shoot did not work properly and he hit the ground. He was from floridas east coast. In lake land. A nine foot alligator found in someones pool. They live on a golf course and pond jen jumped in the water. A trapper came and got the gator out of the water. The homeowners getting their screen replaced today. A plane once used to strike fear is of display in rasota sarasota. The worlds only flying bomber landed in the airport and is open to visitors starting today. Its a piece of history in our backyard. We are inside a b29 bomber. They use these planes during world war ii and they have one here this afternoon for all of our area to see. Its still operational. This thing still flies. We have the main guy in charge of getting these engines running, rick jarvis is here with us. Good morning. Good morning. Tell me about this piece of history. This is a special piece of history. We try to bring the history to everybody and educate them on what it took to get freedom that people take for granted daytoday. And so this played a huge role in world war ii. How many years later its still playing a huge role in history and teaching people about it. Exactly. Thats our purpose. Were here and our main purpose is to spread the news about history of these aircraft and the people who operated them. They still say is the greatest generation. It was. They sacrificed a lot and gave a lot for our freedom. Youre sitting in your spot where you sit when this thing is up in the air. Tell me about what you do. Im the flight engineer. Basically, everybody says this is the heart of the aircraft. Ill start the engines, operate the engines, monitor the pressures, temperatures, run the throttles and things like that. The pilots are busy flying the aircraft. Set power settings they need requirement for operating the aircraft. How old is the plane and how much work and money . Fifi was born in 1945. About 70 something years old. I know its 10,000 an hour to have this flying . Basically, yes. Its worth it, right . Its worth it. We need people to come out. We have rides saturday and sunday and you can go to the air power history tour. Com and you can pull up and book you a ride. Wonderful. Its pretty spectacular to be inside the b29. Like rick said, you come here starting today at 9 00 a. M. The gates open this morning. People can come all afternoon until 5 00. You can get a ride in the b29 later on this weekend. We are inside a piece of history fox 13 news. Get a ride in a b29. That would be cool. That is cool. Dont be put off by the clouds outside, right, jim . Yeah. We saw a couple of showers on radar. They are way offshore. Rain pretty much came to an end. If you see anything its going to be a sprinkle. Thats at it. Ive been looking around on the cameras trying to find some sun. Finally there you see it looking over bayshore boulevard. Some breaks in the clouds and we see some sun. Thats basically what were going to see as we go through the day, whichever way you want to say it. Mix of sun and clouds, clouds and sun. Its all the same thing and thats what you see. From time to time, well get some very cloudy conditions and then other times some peaks of the sun. Basically, we have the cold front which is slowly working its way down the state. Ahead of it we get the clouds that pass through the area. Little bit higher over the past 24 hours. It feels more humid outside. As the cold front swings through its going to drop the humid again. Were at 75, dew point at 64, humidity 69 . The winds out of the west at 9 miles per hour. The warmest temperatures again will generally be away from the coastline. Places like sebring. Brandon at 81. Along the coastline still seeing mid 70s. St. Petersburg at 74. New port richey 73. A bit cooler across the panhandle. The cold front is lined up about there. Behind that slightly cooler temperatures and drier air. Ahead of the front, winds are generally out of the weatherly direction. Breezy in some cases then you see that wind starting to turn more towards that northwesterly direction on the backside of the dew points just a measure of the amount of moisture in the air. Much lower. Thats that very dry comfortable air sitting up across the panhandle. Thats going to swing back down across the state later today and into tonight. Across the southeast High Pressure building in. You can see plenty of clear skies. As the front pushes to the south, it clears out the skies and i think were going to deal with high, thin, serous clouds through the day tomorrow. Across the northern part of the country, still like winter time where you see snow. Maine back to new york state, pennsylvania, West Virginia back into ohio and portions of michigan still dealing with the snowy conditions. Watch that front. That will work its way to the south, clearing out the sky some. Then weve got another front, which will be pushing down across the southeast. You can see some showers along this front. This front is ever so slightly stronger. Basically, that means well see we get into friday. Same story. A touch cooler but the big push of the cold air is going to stay to the north as we head into the weekend. The weekend actually looks pretty nice with plenty of sun and daytime highs in the mid 70s. Today variably cloudy skies. Maybe a sprinkle in there. Daytime high of 75. Then tonight clearing skies, overnight low down to 54. Tomorrow a nice looking day although we have high clouds. Light chop on the bay. A high tide at 7 24 this evening. Heres the seven day forecast. It looks fantastic into the weekend except the slight chance of a couple of showers on friday. Notice as we get into the first part of next week the daytime highs are pushing into the upper 70s. Would not be surprised if we see 80s in the first part of next week. 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Whats next for astronaut kelly mission to mars some day. A 30 inch waist and today i have a 24 inch waist. They cinch your belly in and give you that hourglass look. But how safe are waist im chris bosh. When i was sidelined with blood clots in my lung, it was serious. Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan. Treatment with xarelto. Hey guys hey, finally, somebody i can look up to. Besides arnie. Xarelto is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. Xarelto is also proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. For people with afib theres limited information on how xarelto and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. You know, i tried warfarin, but the blood testing and dietary restrictions. Dont get me started on that. I didnt have to. We started on xarelto. Nice pass. Safety first. 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