Pa decision met from much cover pfrom republicans. Pwe begin with fobss caroline pshively. Pselecting a Supreme Court pnominee like threading political pneedle in middle contentious Residential Campaign that task pis made even more difficult. P tonight im nominate chief pjudge Merrick Brian Garland to pjoin the Supreme Court. P in a rose garden ceremony resident obama announcing his ptop choice to replace late pantonin scalia on nations phighest court. Pthis is the greatest honor of my plife. Pother than agreeing to marry me p28 years ago. Pwhite house is selling the pick pas consensus candidate. Phoping to appeal to both prepublicans and democrats. Pbut gop may not be buying senate pmajority leader Mitch Mcconnell phas said he think that next resident should choose the next pjustice, and republicans are pvowing to block the nominee from pever getting a floor vote. P who would want to accept that pnomination knowing that youre pscalia was solidly conservative pvoice on bench and has been plaweded as strict pconstitutionalist. Pa point democrats say strikes pthem with eight bit irony. Ptake their constitutional duties pseriously. Pmeet with nominee hold hearing pand then vote in short just do pyour job. Pinterestingly democrats like pchuck schumer and even pvicepresident joe biden have pargued in the past a supreme pcourt nomination should be pdelayed but in those cases a prepublican was in the white phouse. P in washington, caroline pshively, fox news. P lets bring in political peditor craig patrick. Pso craig how could this nominee pchange the dynamic of the court pif confirmed . Pwell we have split court over pthe years weve had a pconservative court. Pgenerally breaking 5 votes to 4 pon the conservative wing. Pand with a death of justice pscalia youre not left with 4 pand 4. Pfor a progressive four general pspeaking conservatives. Pwould clearly tip scales one way por the other. Pnow whats interesting here is pthat judge garland has a preputation as a bit of a pcentrist. Prepublicans make keep that in pmind reconsider tr prior osture. Pespecially since mrurlt of a pvoters say they want this pnomination to at least be pconsidered by congress. Pand if the president , white phouse continue to press for paction from the senate and psenate does the not respond that prepercussions a well articularly in an election pcycle. Plets talk about other political pstory the race for the white phouse. Pbig night for donald trump and pHillary Clinton. Pgovernor rick scott just endorse ptrump and florida senator marco prubio ending his campaign. Plot going on lets start with pGovernor Scott entrump. Pwe saw this one coming. Pwe predicted it last night. Pbecause rick scott all but pendorsed donald trump without pofficially saying i endorse you pwritten editorial and said very pmaking. Pit appears as if Governor Scott pwanted voters in florida to make pthe decision without him pweighing in prior to the vote plast night. Pand you had an enkim bant pflorida republican senator still pin the race. Pwith all of that in mind it plooks as if the governor decided pto wait but in wait very long pand with florida now hes fellow prepublican through state of pflorida to unite behind donald ptrump. Pyoure hearing same sort of pthing from pam bondi who endorse ptrump just before primary and i pthink those are two important psteps involved in think beforing pmarco rubio and jeb bush in fold otentially behind donald trump phere in the sunshine state. Pit will be interesting. Plets talk about rubio now pthats aout do you think some lanned votes that would have pkasich. Pi think they can got bot ways plets not forget some of those pvotes could go to donald trump. Pwhat every away seen like jeb pbush what little support they pif i had to guess, more of prubios support may drift erhaps to john kasich then pother candidates. Pbut it wont do it in a block. Pand outside of florida, of pcourse, rubio got walloped in phis home state. Pin other states he very little psupport at this point. Pso his support is not going to pmove the needle much. Pbut it is perhaps enough to keep plittle while. P we hadnt heard lot from cruz rior to super tuesday too. P do you think that hurt him . P well he did come to florida a pcouple of times for the debate pand he had a rally here as well. Pand he did spend some time or peffort in has the state of pflorida. Pin state of ohio. Psxing ain the end, those pdecisions may have hurt him pbecause he could have spent more ptime bearing down on north pcarolina. Pand certainly the state of pmissouri. Pimagine what couple other stops pted cruz. Pcould have made world of pdifference for him. Pi think the time he spent in pflorida though he did not spend pspent time in ohio, in fact may phave cost him in the results plast night. P and everyone is getting pinvolved the president in fact pcoming out swinging. Psaying enough is enough with all ptrail. Pdo you think this it will help por hurt donald trump going pforward . Pwhen youre getting vul gats pthat doesnt help anyone. Pif you talk about the insults pthat marco rubio traded with pdonald trump, we saw it brought pboth of them down. Pthat certainly can hurt donald ptrump in the long run. Pbut if youre not talking about pvulgarities youre talking about pa brash talk. Pyoure talking about colorful planguage. Pi think that is helping him in pthe republican race. Pbecause you hear time and time pagain voters who support trump psaying they like the fact that phe tells it how it is. Pthat he is not politically pcorrect. Pand that is a big part of whats pfueling the he peel of donald ptrump. Pthat said, he also now needs to pwork on perhaps softening his ptone to a certain extent to try pto unite the party and those who pare supporting other candidates. Psound more president ial. P yes. Aul ryan was asked about prunning for 20 nomination. Pnow he didnt say yes he didnt psay no necessarily. Pwill we hear from him this psummer i think . Ptoday. Phes going to have to address pthis again. Pwhen youre asked if youre pswoop in at the last minute and ptry to take the nomination in a pcontested convention though you pwent even running, and he says phes not evening thinking about pthat well see. Pthats going to fuel a lot of pspeculation i would not psurprised if he face that is psame question a number of times pover the next few hours. Pand that he perhaps firms his pstance and says no he will in pfact rule it out. Pif he does not do that this will pcontinue to fuel a lot of pspeculation that we could have psome interesting developments to psummer. Pyes. Pthank you, craig. Pthank you. Pin democratic race vermont seven pto Bernie Sanders isnt giving pas Hillary Clinton moves closer prich et son is in washington pwith more. P surrounded by family and a pblinding amount confetti ohio pgovernor john kasich enjoys fist rimary win he earned 66 pdelegates in winner take all rimary. Pwere going to go all the way to pcleveland and secure the prepublican nomination. Pfront runner donald trump pmaintains a wide delegate lead. Pthe business man one molt pell pstates including florida. Pdoc knocking marco rubio out of prace. Pit is clear that while weer on pthe right side, this year, we pwill not being be on winning pstate texas senator permits most psignificant challenge to trump phes in second place in delegate pcount. Pi hope establishment will unify pbehind ted cruz. Pbecause john kasich cannot win. PHillary Clinton moves closer to psecuring democratic nomination, pand the former secretary of pstate is nowing on possible prepublican opponents. Pbarriers no the building walls. Pvermont seven Bernie Sanders psays hes staying in race he ushes for votes in next ptuesdays arizona primary. Pif we stand together, there is pnothing we cannot accomplish. P and donald trump announces ptoday he will not attend next pweek fox news debate in salt plake city. Pthe last time trump skipped a pdebate was in iowa. Pstate he ended up losing to ted pcruz. Pnews. P and new at noon, celebrity pgossip weapon side did not make plot of money from post huck mo pho began sex tape. Pthats what jury heard this more pthan a media ad vifr one pcelebrity post alone does not ptranslates into revenue dollars pgawk are claims there was no pfinancial game from sex tape. Phogan is suing gawker for p 100 million for post a clip of pthat sex tape involving hogan. Pgawker claims hogan made his sex pinterviews. Ptomorrow. P what would you think of phaving an alligator as a pet . Pmaybe unsettling to many. Pfor polk county woman she is psays her pet gator is like pfamily. Pwhy shes out in in fight to pkeep it plus lindsay checking pyour forecast. Phi lindsay. Phey. Pwe had some fog this morning it pcontinues to melt away at at the pbeach. Pso finally spring breakers after pa rough day yesterday, they are pout there, and they are kind of pcatching those rays. P78 degrees on our clearwater pbeach net cam. Pweather looks good here in brook pdale bay shore as well some some pfare weather clouds. Pwere pushing 80 degrees in most pspots. Pfog is still around in few pspots. Pis it going to return this week . Ptime it out after the 3 linda Tampa Police Say p suspected thief had some bad ptiming. PTampa Police Say say atried pbreak miguel Mexican Restaurant pon Kennedy Macdill while workers pwere still there officers were pquick to responsibility thief pwasnt very cooperative after phis arrest trying to kick out pwindow of that cruiser. Pwe dont know his name yet or pwhat charges hell face. Pbegan in st. Pete. Pcame ton an end how does of phollywood nights bar in tampa. Pthe two men police were chasing ptried running away. Pone of them was bit by a canine pofficer. Pboth men are in custody. Pwere told drugs were found in pthe car they were driving. Pthey now face multiple charges. P st. Pete police were pthey say since january, there pcrescent lake neighborhood. Pmost of the fires have been set pin dumpsters. Psome cases the fires have spread pand damaged vehicles or pstructures. Pinvestigators believe the same erson set all of them or most pof them because of the pthe fires. Pand they are asking residence in pthe area to keep their eyes out pfor anything suspicious. P commute in d. C. Is even more pgruelling today. Pdown. Pbecause of an emergency pinspection going on today. Pthere are big concerns about pelectrical system after fire pmonday filled one the tunnels pwith smoke. Pmetro officials are hoping to pmake some upgrades. Prider as you can imagine not pthrilled about it though. Pnightmare. Pnightmare. Pand what i dont understand why pdont they provide shuttle buses pfor every metro train station. Pyou know every so often to help pcustomers. Por something. Pthats crazy. P d. C. Hopes it can reopen p flood waters continue to rise pin southwest and along the gulf. President s are forced out of ptheir homes. Pmay not be it i believe return pany time soon. Pfox pa electric i sha stark has pmore. P rivers swell in the psouthwest as the flooding pcontinues. Pafter the rain last week in ptexas and louisiana. Pinterstate 10 between the two pstates is closed because of prising water. Ptexas Governor Greg Abbott pissuing a disaster declaration pfor Southeast Area of his state. Pbut there is some hope. P 9 45 this morning they had plowered the prediction from at priver forecast center. Pit has been lowered to 335. Ptwo feet lower than what we had pat 355. Pso were very excited to see pthat. Pthousands of people have been pdisplaced from their homes in plone star state as water has pofficials dont expect them to pbe able to return any time soon. P water will be up a period of ptime weve got wait for it to go pback into their home. Priver between two states has preach record levels. Pnational guard continues to passist residents in louisiana as ptheir homes are under water. Pbeing able to actually get out pthere and help individuals who pneed it, and werent really pready for the flood makes a big pdifference in just thats what pwere here for. Pareas down stream or now seeing prising waters in their pneighborhood. Pincluding louisiana which woke pup to flooding tuesday morning. P went to bed about 10 oclock plast night 11 oclock last night pdidnt have any water. Pwoke up to a water. Pa Governor Abbott is expected to ptour flood damage in texas ptoday. P this was a scene sunshine pskyway bridge at this time pyesterday. Pyeah bridge was closed for hours pdue to that fog. Pthat held up the commute for lot pof driver who were concern they pwould facing similar situation ptoday. Pbut as fox 13s ken suarez rots ptheir jobs and destinations. P you know so many times during pa weather event like big storm pyou will hear the phrase, tampa pbay dodged bullet. Pessentially thats what happened ptoday. Pit all has to do with the skyway pbridge right back there. Pyou can see it is clear as bell. Pkind of looks like a chamber. Pnot like that overnight. Ptotally fogged in. Ptake look at dramatic video. Pthis was time lapse not real ptime. Pso concern is fog was so heavy, pwere concerned commuter and fhp pwas concerned they might see pinstant replay of previous day. Pthat day, the bridge was closed pfrom 6 00 a. M. In the morning puntil 1 in the afternoon. Pthat is very, very unusual. Prarely does that happen. Pand that caused all kinds of roblems. Pnumber one commuter were not pable to a get to their jobs or pwherever they had to go some pstuck on north side pinellas pside. Pnafkt one 711 had parking lot pfull of cars. Pso the concern was it was going pa row. Pbut certainly looked like it was pgoing to happen at around 6 30 pdramatically. Pwe saw first cars, first lights pgoing over the bridge. Pbefore that we had seen pabsolutely nothing at all. Pnow you look at it looks like pany other day here in tampa bay. Pkind of a picture perfect day. Pand any day you see that as retty as it is its a good day ptampa bay. Pback to you. P thank you, ken. Plets take another look at that ptime lapse of fog. Pas it rolled in. Pand moved out. Pthat is just beautiful. Pand listen, john takes some pamazing pictures in the morning. Pyoure not following him on ptwitter i recommend it. Pthis is just part of the pcoolness. Phes just amazing. Pill post it on my Facebook Page pif you want to follow him this pis just like a taste of what he pdoes. P hes there. Phe gets it. Pand you know the fog was back pspots that interfere with your pmorning drive but one day is pnever carbon copy of the next. Pso visibility was good enough at pleast you could get to where you pneeded to go across the skyway pbridge. Pimprovements in our area beaches pthis lunch hour, but fog still pacross the some of our coastal pwaters if you are boating ill pshow you where you need to hold poff a bit clouds are bubbling pnext few days we will see fog paround i think the problems will pgradually become less of a roblem. Pbecause clouds will be moving in pahead of some rain. Pwith clouds fog issues are pusually a bit lower. Pdowntown tampa we have some pscattered clouds, well in the pdistance in Clearwater Beach. Pare at. Phigh clouds for now. Pthe beachs jammed. Pour buoy and Clearwater Beach pnow up to 73 degrees. Pi know some of you like when it pmid 70s hen when get in. Pscarred clouds but no fog on psirata beach. Pspring breaker obviously out pthere getting a stir crazy after pyesterday. Pand bradenton beach, about an phour ago, you had fog. Pnow you have some scattered pso visible satellite imagery pshow inland fair weather clouds. Pdorker white thats fog. Roblem right now boating plans pup towards crystal river. Pcontinues to shrink. Pso improvements for the pafternoon. Pnow our winds, they are still psoupy. Pthey are still on shore. Pso tonight, the fog is back. Pit just wont as persistent wp pall that moisture can never rule pout light shower. Pone tiny little sprinkle north pof brooksville by tomorrow. Psecond half of the day i will pintroduce more showers preturning. Ptemperatures are going up. Pwere not quite a warm as this ptime yesterday in sebring. Pmorning. Pits 81. Pwe have 75 in venice. Pon track for the low 80s here in ptampa. Pits 80 in wesley chapel. Pa little bit of a heat index i pwill throw it out there dew oint pushing 70. Pit feels as warm as mid 80s and pfew spots. Pmake sure you stay hydrated if pyoure out for a while. Pwinds out of the southwest, pclouds will be moving in from pthe gulf. Pfront. Art of the system is one that pbrought the tornados to iowa and pbut this will not impact us. Pit will hold knot. Pbut a separate low pressure psystem will impact us over the pweekend. Pso between now and saturday pevening our rain chances will be pgoing up. Pwatching some thunderstorms as pwell. Pmainly dry today. Psteamy. Pup to 82 degrees. Pthats well above average. Pour average high 76. Pnow low clouds are back tonight. Pso is fog. Pbut actual cloud cover from at pgulf will limit the persistence pof some of the fog into early pafternoon tomorrow. Pby way tomorrow st. Patricks pday a 20 to 30 percent rain pchance primarily north of i4. Pmore clouds mixing in and high pof 81. Pcheck visibility its perfect pbecause waves are smooth. Pbut with those light winds we pstill have some patchy sea fog. Psevenday forecast showing we pwill bring m some showers, pfriday afternoon. Pand then pessimistic as saturday plooks with that 60 percent rain pchance it will be breaks that pquestions remains when will pbreaks be. Pspring begins on sunday. Pcooler temperatures, linda. Pthank you, lindsay. Pwe all know the benefits of phaving animals. Pdogs and cats in our lives. Pwhat those dogs give you more pthan we can ever give back to pthem. Pjust being here is a healing rocess. Pthis weeks extraordinary pback we will show you whe during this extended visit from your extended family, all you want is a peaceful moment to stream your show. And you need enough bandwidth to share with a full house of hungry users. Lightning internet from bright house networks. The speed you need. And now connect to. Standard tv and 50 megabit lightning internet. Only 94 a month 3 linda animals can do wonderful things for people. Help people page malls animals can do pwonderful thing help people pemotional and even physically pthis week extraordinary ordinary ptries to repay favor but says it pwill never be enough. P there has to be something pmeaningful you have to be reason pto get up every day. Pyou play a little bit . Pyou know youre doing something pspecial for animals who dont phave a voice. P oh. P i know on the days that im pcoming here im excited. Pdwight is member Humane Society pof tampa bay and had be for 7 pyears because im volunteering pits not