tv WESH 2 News Sunrise NBC March 3, 2016 6:00am-7:00am EST
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announcer: local, live, late-breaking. this is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. michelle: right now, a little girl is dead after playing with a loaded gun. the man accused of leaving it out goes to court. jason: the charges he is facing. amy: back to the 80' s later today, your warm force alert
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jason: north korea reportedly launches weapons. some countries have the military on high alert. michelle: thanks for joining us on a cool thursday morning. jason: back into the 80' s by the afternoon. good morning. happy thursday to you. let' s get over to amy for that forecast. amy: it will be dry , but we are going to be in the lower 80' s in a lot of the area. a few degrees warmer than yesterday. we got a lot of clouds streaming in. the sunshine is filtered. high thin ones making it hazy. sunrise happen at 6:48. that will help with the temperatures and the wind shifting out of the south. look how much colder it is this morning.
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56 in orlando, 51 daytona beach and in ocala we have dropped to 45. there is the clouds streaming through and we will recover and make it back to 80 degrees in ocala and salt springs today. 82 orlando and longwood, 82 hour high in oviedo. along the coast expect highs in the upper 70' s and lower 70' s -- lower 80' s. ted: construction on 417 part of overnight roadwork. it hasn' t wrapped up at the 408. one lane taken out, but for the most part things are quiet on our major roadways. 195 has a lane taken out, a mile in each direction northbound and southbound. a live look at the 408, look at
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westbound is at the left and that is where we have most of the congestion. jason: a seminole county man sits behind bars after a kindergartner shot herself with a gun he was not supposed to have. michelle: alex villareal is live with the new developments. alex: this afternoon, eric williams will make his first appearance before a judge. he is here at the seminole county jail and he is charged with several charges, child neglect, unsafe storage of a gun as well as possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. that is a charge he has faced before. he has a lengthy a arrest record. cocaine trafficking, grand theft, fleeing arrest. this comes after six-year-old a' letha amanii marie burke: shot
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the 35-year-old was supposed to be watching her. the gun was in any -- easy for a six-year-old to find and he did not keep a trigger lock engaged. grief counselors were on hand at -- where the little girl was in kindergarten. sanford police chief has called the incident should -- careless, senseless, and entirely preventable. we will be watching as williams makes his first appearance before the judge. live in seminole county, alex villareal. michelle: the next republican debate is tonight minus one. ben carson will be missing from the lineup. tracie potts reports how remaining candidates are turning their focus to states like florida and stopping donald trump. >> ben carson, the first post
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he will not be at tonight' s debate and his public schedule ends after his speech. ted cruz tells carson supporters "we welcome you on our team." >> marco rubio is already in michigan. >> keep this front runner from winning and destroying the party. >> efforts to stop him may be futile. >> john kasich is predicting a brokered convention. >> we would have one of the most interesting times in cleveland that we have seen in modern political history. >> mitt romney is expected to criticize trump. >> trump calls it from -- another desperate move from the man who should have beaten barack obama. >> the democrats are raising money.
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>> ready to take on whoever emerges from the other side. >> 30 big-name republicans have come out publicly against trump. tracy potts, nbc news, washington. >> the today show will have in depth about what mitt romney might say today. they will last donald trump what he has to say about it. cats that starting at 7:00. a former staffer for hillary clinton who helped set up her private e-mail server has accepted immunity in this case. he will provide an interview to federal investigators. the fbi finished their review on monday. they will investigate whether the sheet -- she committed a crime. jason: north korea has fired six short range projectiles into the sea off of the coast.
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they are trying to determine if those projectiles were missiles or artillery fire. this comes just hours after the un security council approved the toughest sanctions on that country in years. south korea' s government released a statement saying these projectiles flew between 62 and 93 miles off the peninsula. tensions have been extremely high in this part of the world. in january, the north conducted a nuclear test and just last month had a long-range rocket launch. those sanctions handed down by the u.n. designed to cripple the economic factors that fund north korea' s nuclear and missile programs. jason: orange county deputies are trying to track down this woman. she is seen in the footage breaking into a home. it is surveillance video capturing the crime inside a house in summer lake subdivision tuesday.
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through the back window, pries open a sliding door and walks through the living room area. if you think you know who this woman is, call the sheriff' s department. michelle: a south florida man charged with a multimillion dollar gold heist. alberto carruthers -- alberto perez' s home is on lockdown. 275 pounds of gold bars were stolen from an armored truck last year in north carolina by armed men. that truck was based out of miami. jason: a brevard county man has died after a skydiving accident. james mann made the jump in zephyrhills. mann got tangled in his parachute. the backup chute did not work and he hit the ground. the skydiver was taken to a
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michelle: the orlando tourism boom continues. numbers are up from last year. the county took in 19.4 million bucks, three point 7% more than 26 -- 2013. jason: the purple pride 5k starts at 6:30 tonight. the route those two east central boulevard before ending back at the park. each runner will get a ticket to orlando city' s opening match at the citrus bowl. the event features tailgating games, food trucks, and beer. michelle: it is going to be warm today for a run. jason: no rain. it is going to be a great one. this nice weather continues through the weekend. amy: in fact, it is going to get cooler by saturday and sunday
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the race doesn' t start until just after sunset so those temperatures will begin to drop. by 6:45 we will be in the mid-70' s. by 7:40 five, temperatures will be in the lower 70' s. if you are heading out there tonight, weather looks fantastic. we have got clouds streaming through this morning. most of these are high, thin clouds. you will get filtered sunshine once the sun does come up in about an hour. our temperatures will be able to climb quickly. some son this afternoon -- some sun this afternoon. then we will be in the lower 80' s. a few spots will be in the upper 70' s and a couple of us will get rain early tomorrow morning. futurecast coming up in a few minutes.
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ted: we have a chopper flying west on i-4, through the turnpike area, westbound on the right side of the screen. they came from the orlando executive and flew along for a weight, things were looking quiet. this is eastbound , no delays right now. john young to colonial still averaging, lake mary to le e at 11 minutes. not a huge impact on the 417. michelle: help for the victims of ucf.
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michelle: four of the republican presidential candidates will face off for the first time since super tuesday. donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio, and john kasich will debate tonight in detroit. ben carson will not take part. jason: learning more about a motorcycle wreck explosion. the victim suffered burns on a third of his body. ucf is taking new steps to help those students and staffers impacted by a massive data breach last month. michelle: a preview of the campus conversation. jazmin: today' s discussion will focus on what' s ucf is doing right now. it will give them a chance to talk one-on-one with identity theft experts. ucf found out about the breach in early january after hackers stole the names and social
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current and former students and staff. police were notified as soon as the hack was discovered and a national forensics firm was called in. some victims don' t think ucf did enough. two lawsuits have been filed against the university. victims claimed ucf failed to take action. today' s conversation is from 11:00 this morning until 1:00 in the afternoon. ucf has another forum for staff members. michelle: police in oklahoma are trying to find out what led a car owner to crashed his car into a bridge pillar. he died tuesday just one day after he was indicted on spirits he charges -- conspiracy charges. detectives say it is too early to tell whether the crash was intentional. today starts the second week of
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trial against her stalker. one of the witnesses admitted he was at a restaurant with two men watching the video this week. the witness who represents the company that owns the hotel says he asked the man to stop but the waitress said the man kept watching that video and making fun of andrews' s body. jason: deflategate returns to a courtroom today. the nfl is appealing a judge' s ruling. it allowed a vacate for tom brady' s suspension. the decision allowed for brady to play the entire season. the ruling is not expected until early summer. michelle: university of florida fans will be able to buy alcohol at the halloween touchdown terrace and the evans
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food -- whose will be sold until the start of the third quarter. jason: panama city beach is no longer on the list of trashiest spring break destinations in the country. the website removed the status from the list because of the ban on tricking alcohol on the beach and earlier closing times for bars on the sand. >> we are marketing towards families because we want to let people know this is the place for them. the word is getting out there that panama city beach is a great place to be. jason: city leaders saying the area is going to be much safer for spring break has of the new laws. daytona beach did make the list at number 14. michelle: as kids had out the door, they are going to want a jacket but they won' t need it for long. amy: it is actually colder than
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you got used to that mild start, you may be surprised to head out early today. cloud streaming in from the gulf but despite that temperatures have dropped. we are in the mid-40' s and if you are sending the kids to school to the south, mid-upper 50' s there. there are the clouds that are streaming through right now. most are high, thin ones. hazy sunshine and here is the numbers. 45 in ocala, 48 in palm coast, 51 in leesburg and daytona beach , and we have dropped to 55 in melbourne and in winter haven. the winds are fairly light if not call him but they will shift around and come out of the south so that and a little sunshine is all we need for those temperatures to return to the lower 80' s. a few
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or two warmer than we were yesterday. 82 in claremont . 82 longwood and oviedo, 83 in st. cloud. along the coast, upper 70' s, lower 80' s, cooler north, warmer south. a breeze coming off the water will keep cocoa beach at 79 and wind will shift to the south and climb to our inland spots this afternoon. this is the rain on the way. we have a cold front that is going to approach late night tonight. during the day, we are dry, we are good. clouds start to increase after midnight and then rain starts to show up about 3:00 in the morning or so. showers will push to the south during the morning commute tomorrow. it will not be widespread that notice there will be several spots that get rain.
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commute, most of the rain is gone and drier air filters in behind that front. you will have a nice friday afternoon and evening. any rain we get will be a early in the day and after that -- as that air settles in tomorrow, sets us up for a fantastic weekend. we will still be in the upper 70' s that it won' t be lower 80' s. we are going to see temperatures climbed by the middle of next week. we could be talking about middle 80' s. ted: a live d.o.t. on seminole county in altamonte springs. not a major impact just yet. 12 minutes from lake mary to lee on i-4 westbound. no delays into downtown orlando. the travel is still looking nice and quiet. i-4, choppers making their way west, no delays.
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a virtual chopper here getting into downtown orlando starting between turnpike and john young, things looking good. 55 at kaylee and if you' re going to take the big trek between the turnpike and colonial, eight minutes. jason: 18 accused of kit -- playing doctor is back in jail. plus, fast and furious . this unbelievable video as a 10 a apparently, people think i'm too perky. so now i'm not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of $548! whoo!
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> the south florida teen who was busted for pretending to be a doctor is out of jail after being arrested again. jason: malachi love-robinson was taken into custody on tuesday on charges of using another persons id. the teen was arrested last month for practicing medicine without a license. he is also believed to be behind a series of thefts at the home of an 86-year-old woman. michelle: a convenience store clerk fought back against an armed robber. the man goes to the counter to make a purchase, he pulled his gun on the clerk and demand cash but instead she slaps that gun in his hand and starts hitting
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drawer. the man runs away, right as the woman pulled out a hammer. so far -- look at her. jason: he is lucky. the next robber is more daring. 10 people use a pickup truck to tear off the doors of this gun store in houston, texas. they just hit the gas, pull those bars right off. it gets them inside afterwards. they grabbed more than 50 weapons, then run off. just three of the men have been caught. michelle: hundreds of men will strap on high heels to raise awareness about domestic violence. walk a mile in her shoes event kicks off tonight. the guys will walk a mile in those heels.
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jason: good to see those guys going through what you do every single day. michelle: an american homecoming. jason: scott kelly touched down in houston. alex: a man arrested after a six-year-old accidentally shot and killed herself. a long list of run-ins with the law. amy: much colder in florida when you leave the house this morning. s across much of the metro area. how warm it will be when we return. new customers can save an average of $500 just by switching to progressive. so you'll be bringing home the bacon in no time. sorry.
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michelle: we watched as scott kelly took his first steps in the united states after a year. jason: this guy is walking tall. he grew in orbit. let' s get to the forecast. another warm day in store. we have got a beautiful sunrise. a lot of cloud cover on this spot. amy: we are in the 40' s and 50' s in central florida and that is colder than yesterday when most of us were in the 60' s. we have those clouds, those clouds have been streaming in all morning kind of like yesterday. we got sunshine later in the day and hour wind started to shift -- our wind started to shift. that is going to bring our temperatures into the lower 80' s in most of the area. only a couple of us will remain
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51 in daytona beach and leesburg, orlando in kissimmee have dropped to 56 and in melbourne it is 55. there is a couple of places where the clouds are thicker. we will continue to see that this morning and break them apart in just a bit. 81 in bellevue and astatula and 82 will be our high in apopka. 83 in celebration, 82 maitland in sanford, and 81 in deltona. along the coast, a little bit cooler. melbourne will top out at 81. let' s get traffic update. ted: the trapper is flying east on i-4 past obt. slowly making their way into downtown orlando. not seeing any major delays on
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the 408 westbound, you can see brake lights. that is getting onto i-4. if you' re going to take the drive to the conway toll plaza to just past i-4, you' re going to slow their. -- slow there. more travel time scrolling at the bottom of your screen. jason: the man being held responsible for the tragic death of a little girl will be facing a judge. michelle: eric williams allegedly owned the gun the child shot herself with. alex: williams is a convicted felon, which means he is not supposed to have possession of a firearm. he has been charged with that before, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. he has a long history of arrests in seminole county. other charges include cocaine trafficking, grand theft with a firearm, and fleeing law
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he is charged once again with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. williams is charged with child the gleick and unsafe storage of a gun. that is after six-year-old a' letha amanii marie burke accidentally shot herself in the shoulder after finding a gun under a sofa. williams drove her to the hospital. she was in his care at the time. the wound was to hear -- to severe -- too severe for her to survive. >> there is a responsibility there. as an owner of a firearm you need to stored securely and away from juveniles. we oh them that. alex: williams' s arrest report says the weapon was easy to find.
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grief counselors were on hand yesterday where a lisa was in kindergarten. -- where a' letha amanii marie burke was in kindergarten. live in seminole county, alex villarreal. jason: new video this morning showing a charred motorcycle at a racing facility. first responders were on the scene at speed world. this is the first time emergency crews called in there in the last year. jazmin: an explosion and crash. a man in his 30' s was left with burns on the third of his body. there was a weekly racing event going on last night. still unclear what caused the explosion. this is the second time we have seen an accident at speed world this year.
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of his car, bounced between two walls, and flipped over. workers told us he was going an estimated 140 miles per hour. we are still working to find the cause of the explosion that happened and what condition the victim is in right now. we will let you know as soon as we get more. michelle: a person was hit and killed well watching -- crossing an orlando road. the person was cut -- hit at 2nd street. the car involved state at the scene . investigators closed off all lanes as they investigated. no word if any charges will be filed. jason: a man is accused of causing a three car crash and speeding away while drunk. stanley jones rear-ended a car on oh gallie boulevard last night.
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arrested. he is charged with dui. michelle: donald is expected to only in a debate. mitt romney is holding a speech about the race. nikole killion has details. >> romney is not expected to endorse a particular candidate but rather focus on the state of the 2016 race after earning trumps endorsement four years ago. the two have gone tit-for-tat on twitter. trump blasted romney' s speech today as another desperate move. it comes as the establishment tries to band together to stop trump. a rift could be on display when republicans debate in michigan. one candidate will not be at the debate. ben carson will not be attending. he will address the future of
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i am nikole killion reporting. michelle: don' t forget to make wesh.com -- wesh 2 your goto source. jason: brett connolly is with us and he has got some cool video. michelle: scott kelly is back in the united states. brett: 300 and 40 days in space. -- 340 days in space. two repressed he wanted -- requests he wanted. beer and apple pie. he is two inches taller than he was when he left. his mission is the longest for any asked her not in history. kelly' s brother, mark, took part in an experiment. it is the first of its type we have ever seen and a major
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which hopes to put boots on mars. >> it would have been great to get here quicker. i am used to going 1700 thousand -- 1700 miles an hour. >> some side effects, weaker muscles, brittle bones, weaker heart, and a potential for increase in cancer because of under -- radiation. he is two meters taller -- two inches taller. jason: it is fascinating. it is scary the impact it can have but the guy grew well he was there. apple pie and beer is what he wanted when he got off. let' s talk about investigators working on that malaysian air
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they found what could be a clue to help them solve the mystery. a piece of wreckage washed ashore near madagascar are. the newest information on today. >> the piece of debris had washed ashore on mozambique in east africa. it is possible based on the evidence that this is coming from a boeing triple seven. it was only one missing anywhere in the world. that is malaysia airlines flight 370. no marine life on this piece of debris. if it had been in the water for a year or two. the american who found this is someone who describes himself as a and venture traveler, tourist, and somebody who has been focused on the disappearance of flight 370. how did he happen upon this
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we will have the whole story coming up. jason: another check of your weather and traffic to help you out the door right after a quick break. michelle: then wesh 2 days into a dead dog mystery. we talked to the dogs former owners. the disturbing photo they received days before the pet was found dead. jason: a massive gator there. the unexpected guest making a
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significantly colder in some spots compared to where we were 24 hours ago. the sky just looks gray and fill me. -- filmy. that is going to help our temperatures climb today. we will be on the lower 70' s by late morning and upper 70' s by noon, topping out in the lower 80' s. many of us will be warmer than we were yesterday. a little bit of sun, we will get later today. rain on the way overnight tonight with a cold front. futurecast coming up in just a few minutes. let' s send it back inside. ted: the chopper is flying eased, making their way into seminole county from orange. they are pretty close to the area of maitland boulevard and things are looking good here. westbound out of seminole, we
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this is before a westbound on the left side of the screen. some congestion here. two right lanes just after i-4, all this backup. the drive is not bad but the dean road toll plaza to i-4, one minute slower. jason: only on wesh two news, a local family is looking for answers after receiving a gruesome photo of a dog. michelle: a neighbor sent this picture of a puppy after it appeared to have been shot several times. jazmin: the family says kia did not get along with their other dogs so they gave her to their neighbor. jack and jodie lemast er say this picture was sent to a family friend.
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found on the side of the road next to a shrine of sugar packets and a statue of st. francis of assisi, saint of animals. >> the deal was if you ever needed to get rid of her, he was to bring her back to us. >> he wouldn' t answer me. jazmin: the sheriff' s office is still trying to figure out the dogs cause of death and if it was a crime. detectives have interviewed a man in this case but they would not confirm if this man was the neighbor. michelle: and polk county, a lakeland bancorp home to find an unwanted guest. jason: that is a 300 pound alligator. he didn' t notice the beast until he saw bubbles coming up to the service. florida fish and wildlife sent in this trapper. the gator was pulled from the pool and taken away from the home.
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michelle: we are continuing our coverage and a recap up next on sunrise. jason: the today show takes over at 7:00. >> coming up new drama in the presidential race. mitt romney expected to blast donald trump during a speech today. we will preview the speech and get trumps take. erin andrews' s civil trial putting security in the spotlight. can anyone walk in and request the room right next to yours? those stories plus some big stars from the world of hollywood and music. john stamos and pharrell williams pay visits to studio
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you can save over 500 bucks when you switch to progressive. that's a fact. but this whole "blondes have more fun" thing... standing by for fun. >> it is 6:51. we have warm air that is going to continue to move through central florida despite the fact that a cold front is going to come through. a second one into early tomorrow. it will coolest down a few degrees -- cool us down a few degrees. we are starting off cooler than yesterday morning.
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56 in orlando and kissimmee and 55 in melbourne. we have got a lot of cloud streaming in from the gulf of mexico. it is hazy and milky. that is giving our temperatures from dropping too much. the north wind has helped bring in cool air behind that front. you will notice that our temperatures this morning are colder. you can see clouds. those will be with us through much of the morning and we will start to see a few breaks here and there this afternoon. when we started off with a lot of clouds, we ended up with the sun in the afternoon. that will happen today. wind coming out of the south today too. with the south wind and sun, that will help our temperatures climb.
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warmer than we were yesterday. eustis, 82 in clermont. 83 in kissimmee, 81 deland and deltona, 82 altamonte springs and winter park. 78 will be our high in flagler beach. 81 titusville, and 82 in palm bay. the purple pride 5k going on at lake eola. 80 degrees by 4:00. once the race begins, it will be after sunset. we will stay in the 70' s through the evening and at 7:45 we will be in the lower 70' s. a little bit of rain is on the way. a cold front will push through here between 3:00 and 5:00 tomorrow morning. morning commute is when we will be dealing with this rain.
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friday night, looks great. saturday and sunday will have sunshine and afternoon highs will be cooler in the mid-upper 70' s. ted: we are looking at the chopper flying through seminole county on i-4. westbound is on the left. some congestion on and off until you get around maitland. the most congestion is going to be between altamonte springs and maitland. downtown orlando westbound, you can see the cars, the two right lanes getting onto i-4 are backing it up. the sensor right by i-4. westbound lake mary to lead is going to cost you five minutes. jason: a court date has been set for convicted felons charged with -- a convicted felon charged with child neglect.
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killed herself with a gun he owned. williams is a convicted felon. we are working to learn more about what led to a motorcycle crash an explosion at orlando speed world. michelle: a brevard county manatees died after a skydiving accident. james mann of malabar made the jump tuesday. he got tangled in his belt -- parachute and his backup failed. jason: a person was hit and killed while crossing an orlando road. the victim was struck on edgewater drive. the car involved stayed at the scene. michelle: a man accused of causing a three car crash in melbourne and then speeding away while drunk. that car then hit another vehicle. jones was arrested at a nearby apartment. jason: thousands of soccer fans
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>> clouds through central florida this morning. they are high and thin but it is milky and gray when you step out this morning. temperatures range anywhere from 45 in ocala to 55 in orlando and melbourne. this afternoon, we are again headed into the lower 80' s. much of us even warmer than yesterday. a little bit of rain early tomorrow. it will be during the morning commute but then we will clean out the rain and end up with drier air. ted: crashes popped up in east orange county on university boulevard. it is causing a stir westbound. a chopper is going to check it out for us. we have the report on that in the cw18. some congestion getting onto i-4. jason: the today show team is
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michelle: local news continues with brett and jazmin. brett: a new list out this morning. the nation' s trashiest spring break destination. jazmin: a local city is on the list, another is happy to be off of it. brett: new security warnings out. that is next on cw18. a phony, a fraud. just out what amitt romney is claiming to say about donald trump today as republican leaders openly consider finding a third party candidate to take on trump. with another big debate tonight donald trump will join us live to respond.
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