to prepare for a light freeze, temperatures near 32, for a few hours. the western zones, 36 in mount dora, a lot of these temperatures is the coldest of the season. a light freeze nearby bush, probably to the northwest of there, the villages should stay out of the freeze zone. ocala, 29 tonight. u ho long lit be below -- how long it will be below freezing. we are following some breaking news right now, from jacksonville, sources are telling jax, that remains were found in the same area where investigators have been searching for a missing toddler. >> at any moment, we expect the investigators to talk r start talking about the potential connection to lonzie barton. >> ruben ebron has been the prime suspect in lonzie's disappearance last summer. those sources say he just led officers to this location, where there has been an active search, since last night, again, reports

remains have been found. we're awaiting the news conference from jacksonville, it should start at any moment and we'll bring it to you live, right here on wftv eyewitness news at 4:00 a volusia man take a plea deal, including murder. >> john kidnapped and raped a pregnant woman last year, today, that charge was reduced to aggravated battery. blaine tolleson was in court when he pleaded guilty to murdering another woman. blaine, the deal means he'll spend the next 24 years in prison. >>reporter: john would get out prison when he is in his 90s. the victim today felt as though that was a life sentence. prosecutors say a plea agreement spared his surviving victims to go through a trial. he is 52, sentenced to spend the next 45 years in prison. jennifer, prosecutors say he

>> he's not going to ever hurt anybody again. and i'm pretty sure at 90 something years old, he won't hurt anybody else. >>reporter: last september, he hog tied her with zip ties in an rv, and said to do what he asked. she was six months preg nabt at the time -- pregnant at the time. >> i kept praying the whole time, and i don't know why what happened, but he let me go, and i'm grateful for it, i have a healthy baby, it changed my life. >>reporter: hes is also accused of raping a second woman in daytona beach but was not charged in that case. >> finally -- he's going to prison for the rest of his life for doing that and he deserves it. >>reporter: he did plead ggs to lor ra, she was found dead along central parkway in deland last september.

not only for myself, and sheri, but for my friend laura. >>reporter: he was only a person of interest in that murder case, up until today. today, prosecutors say they had dna evidence linking him to that crime. we're live here in daytona beach. an orlando teenager is waiting to find out if he'll be able to bond out of jail, he's accused of trying to kill a police officer. his attorney demanded he be allowed to wait at home. today, the officers wife, cried as the video was played in court. then she testified about the possibility of getting bond. >> we fear for our safety if someone obviously is to go out and hurt a law enforcement officer, who fear who else that individual would hurt as well rrm judge wanted to review the

a court spokesperson says that decision should come down tomorrow. a man who has been unconscious at orlando medical center for two weeks. >> he was hit by a car when he walked into the traffic this sunday, the sunday after christmas. channel 9's carla rea is live at the hospital. >>reporter: yeah, hospital officials even had law enforcement come here to his bedside, in the hospital, to get his fingerprints to see if they could find a match, and nothing. just west of kirkman road along busy colonial trooif, a man stepped off of this median and right into the path of a nissan night of 2015. and no one knows who he is. >> at ormc, we have a young man, 20s.

hispanic decent who is unidentified. >>reporter: according to the troopers, the mavens in critical condition when he was taken to the hospital. we're told his clothes had to be cut off, but he no license or phone inside. back near the crash site, today, no one we spoke with saw the incident. >> we obviously checked him for identification, we have had him -- law enforcement has come and fingerprinted him, and nothing has come up. >>reporter: during the initial crash report, when the man was pug president pulled from the center lane on colonial, investigators wrote that he was a regular drinker in the area. but in the two weeks since that crash, no one has called to check on him or report him missing. >> there's just nothing else we can do at this point. so we're asking for the public's help. >> the man appears to be asian or hispanic. 144 pounds and has short, spike ki hair, and a goatee. >> if you have a loved one who was -- who fits this description and you haven't heard from him

us, and see if this might be him. >>reporter: and that is the message that they want to get out this afternoon, if you have any information, you're asked to call orlando health with any information on who this person is, you probably noticed we don't have a picture of this man, i'll tell you how federal privacy laws are even making this more difficult, coming up on eyewitness news at 5:00. reporting live, channel 9, eyewitness news. a volunteer firefighter is sitting in jail. 27-year-old travis pierce, started both fires, at what used to be the old links golf club. during the first week of january, and he was on parole for arson when he was arrested. police say pierce was a volunteer firefighter in pennsylvania. one of the two men accused in a double fatal shooting is in jail on no bond. accused of first-degree murder chashlgs. investigators say anthony dawson and mayo exchanged gunfire with

street the morning of new year's eve, two people were killed and a third was wounded. police are still looking for owe. a passenger involved in a hit-and-run crash that september five people to the hospital last night t. two men ran from the scene of a six-car pile up at obt and ocoee road. according to an arrest report, the car they crashed was full of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. troopers arrested the 26-year-old passenger on drug charges. he said he did not know who was driving the car. there is also no sign of the driver who deputies say hit a volusia county mother at her daughter's bus stop and can took off. in a parked van when a white car hit her in deltona that morning. rojas told the neighbor the car jumped a curb and crashed into her. >> he got out of the car and ran. she didn't get to see him. >> investigators confirmed the driver fled on foot and deputies

helicopter could not track him or her down. the local healthcare options are about to expand signaturely for women. a new -- significantly for women. opens in two weeks. how this new place will better care for women across central florida. >> women need continued access to fwraet care. >>reporter: at today's ribbon cutting, hospital administrators listed off the vast number of services that will be available. >> on stek rit --. >>. >>reporter: it offers the first clinic for women battling post part m depression. to meet the changing needs of women in central florida, hospital administrators serving -- we're going to leave the story and take you to jacksonville, where a big news conference is l foing now, l foing breaking -- following

>> many, many areas of our community, we had at times, 425 people searching on a daily basis during this time. we were looking for lonzie. 38 agencies represented from all over the southeast, really. that came to help us. to do that. we scaled back that large scale search, on august 2nd. of last year. but i want to make the point today that our investigative team continued to work this case. and have worked it for the last 142 days, nonstop. we are here today to tell you that we strongly believe that we have found the remains of lonzie barton in a wooded area nearby here. with that, i'm going to turn it over for additional details to chief tom hackney. tom. >> thanks. you know, sheriff williams outlined our investigative efforts have been ongoing since day one that i stood up and

and asked for the public's help. many a sleepless nights have gone on from the investigators in the case to the state attorneys involved with this. to members of the public, and our goal from the beginning, was to find lonzie. unfortunately, it turned pretty obvious pretty quickly that that wasn't going to happen with him being alived. but that didn't stop our efforts. and didn't stop the interest of the public. it is a very sad day that we find these remains that we believe to be lonzie's. but it's the first step in justice, i mentioned several times, that that little boy didn't need to be discarded like a piece of trash, and today, we are able to take what we believe to be him, from being disposed just like that, in the hopes

in somewhere that's peaceful, and not somewhere that is basically a garbage heap and that's just wrong. it is -- this case isn't over. you know, we've got a lot of steps, there's a lot of legalities, le gal tis about how we got -- legalities about how we got out here. we have worked with ruben ebron and his attorneys every step of the way and again, specifics, as we discussed this, many times, i've not been able to give you specifics. and the lack of my specificity is because i don't want to jeopardize the judicial process of this case. justice is sometimes slow. and sometimes piece by piece. and today is just another piece of the justice that we have. finding the bodies of very, very large piece of that, this community, i can tell you, from comments that i have received,

this family, this family of this community, is really lonzie's family. and they love him. the investigative team, i can tell you, they take it with them to bed every night. to days -- today's action rs today's recoverys and what led us here is a piece of that justice. i can certainly let you know that our erts -- efforts aren't through, today is not the end, today is another step. it's most important that this community is aware that the efforts, the investigative efforts, the decisions that were made in this case, by the sheriff's office and working with the state attorney's office, were the goal of taking that child from places unknown today to a specific place, and from that specific place, to a location of peace.

that our efforts will still thank you. you know, we have a great, really, working relationship here in northeast with the state, local and federal partners and we have a great day-to-day working relationship with our state attorney, who hooz been a big -- has been a >> thank you, sheriff. >> good afternoon, and can thank you for being here. -- and thank you for being here. and the justice coalition thank you for being around to help us represent our victims. working with law enforcement is critical and that's why this case illustrates it better than possibly any other case that we've dealt with lately. if you cannot work with the law enforcement, you cannot attempt to seek justice as it should be on a case by case basis, so that's been the parameters of this case. working with law enforcement from the beginning, working to

paramount importance to us, and as tom just said, this is one piece in an ongoing quest for justice -- >> you've been listening to a live thuz conference from -- news conference of the remains believed to be lonzie barton who disappeared last summer. >> ruben ebron is the key suspect in this disappearance, there were reports earlier that he had taken a plea deal in this case. and that led to the finding of the remain, but now it appears that that plea deal is off the table. we'll stay on top of this. lonzie barton's remains have been found. a sad piece of the story, but at least as one person said today, the family and the entire community now, knows that he can rest in peace, as they continue to piece

you're watching channel 9 eyewitness news at 4:00 with greg warmoth, vanessa echols and chief meteorologist tom terry ft new this hour, an expensive weekend for more than a dozen orlando business owners who say their shops were vandalized. police don't know who did it and why. roy ramos spoke with several of the business owners today, and roy, you saw the damage firsthand throughout the weekend, and decided to look into it today. >>reporter: greg, it started when i woke up saturday and saw the businesses boarded up just like this.

businesses that had gone through the same type of incidents, and it's business owners that now want those vandal ls caught. business after business, along colonial drive and throughout downtown orlando are now covered in plywood. orlando police say vandals drove throughout town over the weekend, shooting out windows. the owner of the gym downtown, rocky, showed me these pictures of three of his windows shot out early saturday morning. >> probably about $3,000. yeah, easily. >>reporter: according to reports, i obtained from the police, more than a dozen businesses along colonial drive were damaged. this pile of glass is what one business owner walked into early this morning and it didn't stop there. when he looked across the street, he saw that business had its windows broken out, right next door t the same thing, and orlando police say this is a part of a dozen businesses to be vandalized this past weekend. >> looked like a glass grenade. grass probably 20 feet in and 20 feet out. >>reporter: business owners i spoke with told me the repairs cost thousands of dollars and

owners to close their doors, while the repairs were being made. >> so we had the loss of business on our busiest day of the week, and on top of that, the extend tur of the $5-6,000 to replace the windows. >>reporter: they are fortunate nothing was take frn the stores. right now, i am working to find out what clues the police have to tracking down the vandals. in orlando, roy ramos, channel 9, eyewitness news. and you can share this story to help the police with their investigation. go to facebook.com/wftv. now, for weeks, we've been woorning you about the -- warning you about the dangerous tornadoes that el nino could bring you this winter. fort meyers, saturday night, tornadoes damaged hundreds of homes, thousands of residents in cape coral, still do not have power. from the 132 mile an hour tornado that struck saturday night. more than 150 homes damaged,

damage, quote, unbelievable. >> see these things impaled in the -- pretty scary. and it broke all of the windows. if somebody had been inside, it would have had to have killed them. >> so surprising, maybe everyone survived the storm and three people suffered minor injuries, look at the def administration from this done -- devastation from this done. >> that's right, you noticed, those are regular homes, block homes, everything is up to building code down there. survived much better in a high end ef-2. 30 mile an hour lower wind speeds than the one that nit 07. they -- that hit in 07. it killed 21 people that lived in mobile homes thchlt is why we talk so much about el nino, it is set ups like this, we'll be watching later this week as well. 53 in daytona. but the skies

60 in orlando, that's our high so far today. and downtown. and with the coldest air of the season, we're still going to be in the lower 40ss in downtown tonight, no risk of a freeze for metro orlando, we don't have to scramble out and bring in the plants and cover them p up. but if you are up in marion county, make sure that the pets have a warm place tonight. 35 at midnight. 29 at 6:00 a.m. that's why that freeze warning is in effect. probably 4-5 hours around marion county today. freeze warning along the western zones and also towards the palm coast area. the freeze area will be just inland from palm coast. back through extreme northern parts of volusia and marion county, lake county, and sweep all the way down north of the villages and back in toward the western zones, so that's where the freeze area will be tonight. but the dew points are high enough, there's enough moisture in the air, and you don't have

to have frost to forms, leesburg back to apopka, mount plymouth, back towards the northern sections of volusia county, we'll get areas of frost, including from leesburg, aster, you'll wake up in the morning, see it on the roof trops. 44 this morning, 38 in sanford. 35, really have to get to about the mid 30 point to get that frost formation to develop. 40 for winter haven tonight. 40 for st. cloud. frost free toward the coast. in the 60s, where we were today, add 3-4 degrees. still a nice day. and starting to warm back up. as far as future track shows us, mostly clear sky, giving us the cold weather for tonight and a nice day for tomorrow. sunshine, lust like that, we are -- just like that, we are in this el nino pattern, another storm system on the way. wednesday dry. late thursday and friday morning, we're going to watching

storm gets in the gulf of mexico. at least a 50-60% rain chance with thunderstorms. could be late thursday night, early friday time frame, as we start to warm back up, before yet another front rolls in late this weekend. so coming up in the next half hour, r more on the next system and how long it will be below freezing in the northern zones tonight. a red light camera opponent is warning that drivers could be shortchanged. coming up, we ask if drivers who got tickets could be getting a refubd. then, one of the holiday seasons hottest gifts isn't allowed. next, why you can't use hoverboards on parts of campus. and all new at 5:00, drones are helping wildlife trappers track coyotes in brevard county. . . >> we're looking for any type of den, that they could be living in.

the ucf campus is open to plenty of ideas, but one thing that the officials are not accepts is hoverboards.

a closer look at where these hoverboards can't go and why. >>reporter: among the bikes and walkers. >> it's all in our ankle ls, really. >> i can see how people use this as an every day walking tool because it's really fast and you can control it really well. >>reporter: but soon, where he can use it will be restricted. ucf is banning hoverboards from on campus housing. >> i was a little upset about boards, it's the same concept. >>reporter: it's not, because skate boards don't do this. in a notes to students, the university cited recent hoverboard fires and an ongoing investigation into their safety, commission. >> it's important to note that so far the ban applies campus housing, so remmington and people with hoverboards here at ucf will still be able to zip around campus with them. >> explosions don't happen with

maintenance, he's sure he can prevent scenes like this. but he plans on following the rules. >> i can completely understand, it's a danger to someone else, i can see why they would want it to not be in the dorm. >>reporter: channel 9, eyewitness news. mexican authorities say one of the most wanted men in the world was caught because of an interview with a hollywood actor. >> why el chapo was forced into a life of crime. >> and the powerball jackpot is up to 1.4 billion dollars and people are rushing out to get their tickets. . the problem some store owners now are running into with the increased demand. >> this man skipped the

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say this man, helped himself to almost $90,000 from an orange county atm. it cost him a trip to jail. how they say that all of that cash in the first place. orange county deputies say it started new year's day. he failed to lock it up. >> that would be the first thing. hours later, a customer saw it was open and investigators believe he returned to clean it out. jeff deal has been looking into this heist and detectives believe he tried to disguise himself here. >>reporter: yeah, this is the bank of america, on east colonial, near the uconn trail. his fairs was uncovered and he was using his own atm card. but investigators believe after he realized that the atm was wide open, someone drove him back here, he covered his head with a hoodie, and started taking the money. driving up to the atm on new year's day, 28-year-old eric

there to withdraw a little cash. but deputies say surveillance video shows that it was open. he drove off with just the cash he withdrew using his atm card. >> think about a good citizen, first thing to do is call the police. >>reporter: but that's not what he did. investigators say about 25 minutes later, a car pulled up with no license plate, a man with a hoodie, jumped out and opened the atm and started grabbing containers of cash. 40 minutes later, another car came in, someone with a similar look, got more cash. >> someone got greedy. >> trying to be sneaky. >>reporter: but not sneaky enough. the hoodie looked like the one he was wearing earlier. and the first car was later found parked inside of his apartment complex. no one answered the door when we

appears that a car loaded it with $90,000 in cash, then left it unlocked. at this point, it doesn't appear that the armored car guy was involved in the heists, but detectives are still investigating. >> unless he was new on the job, i think it's very un-- careless. >>reporter: and that armored car company dunbar, had no comment on the story, in all, investigators say the suspect got away with more than $88,000 in cash. they haven't said how much, if any, they've recovered. reporting live in east orange county, jeff deal, channel 9, eyewitness news. breaking news in jacksonville, where investigators announced they found the remains believed lonzie barton. kwho disappeared last -- who disappeared last summer. angela jacobs, it was the prime searchers to this area. >>reporter: and we know that this was not an area that was searched in july when the child first disappeared, 400 searchers not touched on.

searching this new wooded area in the city's south side, since sunday night. and investigators say they have been working with the prime suspect, ruben ebron, who had been charged, has been charged, in lonzie's disappearance. and his attorneys, to pinpoint the new location. lonzie is was reported missing in july, when ebron, who told the police his car had been stolen with the 21-month-old inside. the police found that to be untrue and released video of him ditching the car before calling 911. >> that little boy, didn't need to be discarded like a piece of trash, and today, we are able to take what we believe to be him, from being disposed, just like that, in the hopes that he can spend his eternity, in somewhere that's peaceful, and not somewhere that is basically a garbage heap. >>reporter: authorities say their investigative efforts are

answers in this case in the coming weeks, now, after lonzie's mother testified against ebron in a hearing on friday, he waived his right to a speedy trial. investigators say that has allowed a continue wans in this case. we are reviewing what else the investigators had to say and we'll have that at 5:00. back to you. >>. florida lawmakers head back to the office tomorrow, and this legislative session is expected to include heated balances over open carry for gun, gapabling and tax cuts. the public can say this session can go smeether than the last. -- smoother than the last. until after multiple special sessions and the threat of a government shut down. governor rick scott stated the state address is set for tomorrow, he expects to push the massive tax proposal. heard a presentation on it today. the governor wants 1 billion dollars in tax cuts, but some state lawmakers are already said

this afternoon, the mexican attorney general's office says the process to extradite joaquin el chapo guzman to the u.s. is underway. >> the drug lord is being kept in solitary confinement in mexico's highest security prison, the same one he escaped from six months ago. bob opsahl has been following this case. his own vanity led to his capture. >>reporter: apparently so, he wanted his story on the ill is ver screen, but tonight, the drug lord is back behind bars. now, we showed you this these images of him moments after he was captured on friday. as investigators sat in a hotel waiting behind him. we got the first look at that bloody shoot out with the mexican marines before guzman was taken into custody. 16 minutes of gunshots and

the raid. to capture joaquin el chapo guzman. five of his men were killed, but he got away terp rarely. the -- temporarily. the latest episode in el chapo's life. with a narcotics empire at his command and two prison breaks, drug lord joaquin el chapo guzman's story reads like a screen play. and it appears that's exactly what he wanted. a movie about his life. but officials say that's what led to his capture. sean penn with the drug kingpin three months ago, for rolling stone magazine. penn's article was printed on saturday, el chapo speak, a secret visit with the most wanted man in the world. in it, the men discussed various topics and guzman defended his drug business, saying the poor mexican economy gave him no choice. penn said that the 7-hour

kate del castillo a mex cal american actress. now, they want to talk to him and del castillo. many wonder if they broke any laws. >> you'd need evidence that he actually helped him. aided him. gave him money. sheltered him. not just to say, he met with him. >>reporter: agents want a shot at guzman. but guzman is expected to fight extradition to the sxus that process could take -- to the u.s. and that process could take months. the world will be watching if they can keep him behind bars that long. >> you can read more what sean penn said. >> that movie gets more interesting all the time. the mom of the so-called affluenza teen is in court asking a texas judge to reduce her bond amounts. helping her son, ethan, flee to mexico to avoid probation. you'll reh recall he was

a drunk driving accident, but he got probation instead of jail time with the defense suggesting he was too rich and spoiled to understand the consequences of his actions, that's why they called him affluenza. new this hour, imagine your grandmother having her cell phone number swiped by thieves who then call other people to try to rip them off. an 82-year-old woman says she's forced to answer victims time and again on the phone. how the phone scheme works. >> i looked on my phone, i had 43 calls. >>reporter: this 82-year-old asked not to be shown on camera, but says her phone didn't stop ringing until she changed her number. and none of those calls were for her. >> i said, gee, i'm sorry that you're bothered, but i haven't used my phone. and i didn't call you. >>reporter: it's called spoofing, an investigator say it's a popular technique for thieves.

to steal a phone number, in this case, choosing a woman's naim number to target other oviedo residents. >> they bounce their identity around the world, so it's almost virtually impossible to track them. >>reporter: tougher for the unfortunate victim with her number showing up on strangers caller id's. >> pretty awful, really. >>reporter: she says, some of the would-be victims called back from ohio. but others are her neighbors. we looked up dozens of their addresss and found some of the people getting calls live in this oviedo neighborhood six miles away. debbie woods neighborhood, she says that the thieves got her on her cell phone, this weekend. >> we think that you're eligible to get your roof repaired. >>reporter: when she checked out a facebook page, the call was from a fake business. but the caller is still a mystery.

got my number. >>reporter: in oviedo, channel 9, eyewitness news. interesting story there. now, there were some smaller prize winners, but no one hit the big billion dollar powerball jackpot. >> so now, you have more time to try to win. powerball prize was already the world's largest before lottery officials, increased it, now to 1.4 billion dollars. nobody matched all six numbers, however, 25 people matched five numbers winning 1 million dollars each. we spoke with players today about what they do if they win the big money. >> help the family and help everyone out and have a nice life. whatever i've got left. and enjoy it. >>reporter: have a lot left. the next drawing is wednesday night. i play occasionally. >> uh-huh. >> but i have never had success. maybe this time. >> this might be it. >> uh-huh. >> that you would share with your best friend. >> that's right, people say they're going to share, they are trying to improve their karma. >> but you would really share, though. >> sure.

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new this hour, drivers could be getting shortchanged at an intersection monitored by red light cameras, since 2014, we looked at the length of red lights at red light camera intersections and found that some were too short, unfairly delivering tickets to dozens of drivers. today, channel 9's deneige broom looked into it. >>reporter: a few months ago, the county changed the yellow times with a red light camera, that change could be shortchanging drivers. these cameras went up in march of last career, orange county expanded the red light program. for a while, traffic coming through this intersection had 4.9 seconds worth of yellow light time. but the yellow light time was cut to 4-4 seconds, which is the state's required minimum, if people are driving at 40 miles per hour on a flat road. >> it seems like, you know, over

>>reporter: red light camera opponent david shaw, who brought this latest issue to our attention. southbound turkey lake slopes downward at the intersection and drivers should have more yellow light time. we did the time and shaw's concerns seemed to check out. based on the calculations, it seeps drivers should be getting 0.02 more. >> it is a lot when you're dealing with a red light camera, tickets down to the 0.10 of the second. >>reporter: maitland and orange county, adding up to thousands of dollars in refunds. no word yet on how many tickets could be impacted. reporting in orange county, deneige broom, channel 9, eyewitness news. >> shaw became a local opponent of red light cameras after getting his own ticket.

last week, we told you manatees are off the endangered species list but frek officials still want to keep -- brevard county officials still want to keep them safe. include new scientific data and rules that would improve the health of the manatees in the indian river lagoon. hoping that they stay safe. the ringling brother and barnum bailey circus will stop using elephants a year and a half earlier than anticipated. >> and the animals will retire here in central florida, now, initially, the parent company of the travelling circus said it would stop using the animals by 2018. but they just announced that the change will begin in may. the circus has faced criticism for using the aernls, but they're -- animals, but they will use, lions and tigers and horses.

if you want to catch them, there are shows. our forecast going to get colder, before it gets warmer. >> will, it is january, after all. >> it is. >> it feels good, though. >> got the fire pit goings last night, yes, indeed, not as cold as it will be tonight. >> extra log. >> double up on the fire logs. lucern, that's the high so far today, in the 50s elsewhere, and with clear skies, not a lot of wind, the dew points, also critical, which areas will get frost. relatively amount of moisture in the air. we will get frost more fags on rooftops and grassy areas but also on some of the ender plants, talking about marion and flagler county. they get freezes every year, more frequently than the rest of us, that the tender plants have

marion, flagler, that's the official freeze warning ear. but having been here 20 years, i know there are lots of other areas that tend to get cold as well. so we've kind of drawn in the freeze area to just north of deland, northern parts of lake county and back here just to the north of kulmann wildwood area, but also patchy frost. we'll get some areas of frost developing here, but no risk of that in orlando, just too warm for us. here's the freeze duration tonight. about 4-6 hours from 3:00 in the morning on. until after daybreak, up in o ocala, and less than two hours in deland, you're not in the freeze warning area. 29 in ocala, 37 the villages, watch out for frost anywhere here in the mid to upper 30ss. 41 orlando. our coldest of the season. tomorrow, just a bit warmer than today. with highs back in the middle 60s. and we'll stay dry all the way through wednesday.

another el nino-type storm that will develop in the gulf of mexico, focussing a lot more on this as we get a little better timing of this system. but this is the gfs, the new upgraded american model, added a bunch of super computing horsepower to this. by 6:00 o'clock in the morning, watching a surface low moving north. the area there sliding across sometime late thursday night through friday morning, we'll be watching out for the potential of severe weather, we also know based on this -- last night, cape coral on saturday, we had a high-end ef-2 hit fort meyers. early on friday ft i'll have a lot more on this. we all will r as we get closer to tefrnt. five-day forecast with your weekend always in view. 60s in the meantime, then we start our warming trend by thursday night and friday. chance for storms. we'll be monitoring that closely, of course. the cooldown late this weekend. in the next half hour, more on what you need to be doing for

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>> and the u.s. house of representatives passed a bill that would require child proof packages, more than 3,000 people reported that e get and liquid nicotine poisons in 2015. according to the american association of poison control centers, more than half of the reported calls in 2014 were for children under the age of 13. many of them got very sick and had to go to the er. a group of u.s. senators urged the fda to speed up limits on the electronic cigarettes when usage by the high schoolers tripped in the year. they wanted to ban e-cigarette companies from flavors. >> it is not surprising because e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine are being sold in colorful packaging and sweet flavors, like gummy bear, and skittles. >> now, experts say anyone can

because it can be absorbed in the skin. that bill heads to the president's desk. >> martha, we are on top of breaking news at 5:00, we heard the remains of a missing 21-month-old jacksonville have been found. far from over. freeze warnings are out with the coldest night of the season, coming up. i'll show you what you can expect. and all new, what wildlife

this is channel 9 eyewitness news at 5:00, coverage you can count on. it's been a chilly day. and the temperatures will tumble further throughout the night. parts of the area are already under a freeze warning, and we're tracking who could see frost. >> certified chief meteorologist tom terry is in severe weather center 9 now, and marion and flagler counties will dip in the low 30s.

season, we've had this kind of a freeze potential. we're actually about a month or so behind schedule for this. 60 for orlando right now, still at our daytime high, 55 in deland, look at 53 over in daytona. it is getting cool fast. the palm coast area to marion county, but we know fl past experience -- from past experience, we will have areas that will also get a light freeze here, including extreme northern parts of volusia county, northern parts of lake county and even extreme northwestern sumter county. also, an area of frost tonight, leesburg, north of claire possibility, apopka, and all the way up to say north of deland and deltona. upper 20s for marion county. make sure that the pets are inside tonight, and the plants are covered up. the rest of the area, it's going to be the coddest night of the -- coldest night of the season.

system, later this week, bob.