17-year-old boy, and an 11-year-old girl, with assault rifles. >> she said that there was a knock on her door, and she answered the door. >>reporter: this isn't the first time we've met the young victim's grandmother, daisy fisher. >> you need to turn yourself in. because i'm praying. and i'm praying that you will be caught. >>reporter: she was the family's spokesperson during an emotional press conference in july of 2015, after her other grandson, adam williams was shot during another attempted home invasion at the eagle reserve apartments. his killer z hadn't been caught, leaving the people here to had the same fate. >> that's what they wanted to do to my other granddaughter, they wanted to do a home invasion, but my grandson, was in their way. >>reporter: we tried to ask orlando police if the two crimes were possibly connected but because of today's mlk holiday, the public information office is

we did find out it may be difficult for police to identify the men in the home, there were several people who saw them, news at 6:00. reporting live in orlando,caia ray, channel 9 yns news. you can hear more of this grandmother's story online, we posted the raw interview at wftv.com/videos. right now, 5:01 an hour away from sunset. but the temperatures are already starting to fall. certified chief meteorologist tom ter i have tracking this drop for us and tonight, will be the first time orlando will feel the 30s. >> that's right, and not just a wind chill. 39 in orlando. first time this season below 40. orlando right now, 58. the cloud cover you see overhead, though, is the only thing that's going to keep us from getting even colder than that. down to 57 deland, 57 new smyrna and titusville as well. winds kind of all over the map. the fact that we do have wind tonight means we'll have a wind chill, but its also means temperatures will also will not

kissimmee, st. cloud, temperatures falling with high clouds, 45 degrees at midnight. 40 as you start your day at 6:00 a.m. well in the mid 30s for the villages, us tis and mount dora. 32, a light freeze near ocala. 38 daytona and for the first time this season, 39 orlando. and i'm also updated when our next storm system arrives later this week. as you know, thunderstorms brought lightning and more than an inch of rain to orlando. but in the heart of that danger zone, around 3:00 a.m., the national weather service said noaa's weather radio was off the air because phone lines went out t. outage left residents in six local kouvens without a weather radio to warn them. nothing. keep going down? >> the national weather service

phone lines went out or if the problem could happen again. at&t blamed a hardware problem caused by another provider, now, we had our team of meteorologists take a closer look at the damage across the strait and why the storms is so is strong right now. make sure you stick around at 5:30 for that. we're learning more about a missing man who has not been seen for more than a week. remains were found buried in the man's backyard, on pennsylvania street in paisley. ia neen, it's been a while since they've seen this missing guy. >>reporter: yeah, at least a month, none of them were particularly close with dennis jones. but some even describe having a strained relationship with that man. who is now missing. of course, the medical examiner is working now to determine if remains discovered right here in

belong to him. >> that doesn't -- >> jim gordon confirms he has not seen his neighbor, dennis jones for a while rs he's not the neighbor to call to report him missing. >> you didn't think to call the police when you haven't seen him for a month. >> we weren't that tight. >>reporter: neighbors did get a call from someone to check on his well being. they brought in aca kavr dog to track down -- cadaver dog to track down the remains. >> they are working closely with the detectives to identify the remains. >>reporter: neighbors did not know much about jones. >> i ran into him a couple of times. >>reporter: he had a dui conviction in 2012 and a domestic violence charge that was dropped in 2014. the victim in that case is not known tonight. neighbors tell us a woman and her children had been staying in jones home without dennis for weeks. >> they also say she has been driving his truck which deputies found parked up the road.

where the truck was parked said the woman could not park it at jones home last night because it was surrounded by deputies. >>reporter: and deputies are still out here, right now, but it seems they are done gathering evidence. we saw them doing that earlier this afternoon. the medical examiner should have an identification on that body. in the next coming days. we're live in lake county tonight, channel 9 eyewitness news. a small town in ohio is grieving today after a police officer was found shot to death in front of the police station. they live in a small tight knit community of 6 police officers and it really hit home when the body of officer thomas was found in front of the police station last night. his police gun and cruiser had been stolen. >> this is a close community and everybody knew everybody, and helped look out. and he was trying to keep us safe and we're safe and he's not.

office arrested this man, hershel jones as the primary suspect, his exgirlfriend called 911 warning that jones was quote, looking to kill an officer. well, in the final show down before the iowa caucus, the democratic candidates did not hold back. hillary clinton and bernie sanders were neck-and-neck in polls, feuded on almost every topic, during last night's debate, clinton accused sanders of flip flopping on gun control. his d-minus voting record with the nra. health care, clinton claims sanders want to dismand l the affordable care act and replace it with his own healthcare plan that he unveiled hours before the debate. >> that is nonsense. we're not going to tear off the affordable healthcare act, i helped write it. >> i'm not sure whether we're talking about the plan you just introduced tonight or the plan you introduced nine timess in the congress. >> so when the topic of bill

says he's going to debate hillary clinton on the american people, not her husband's personal behavior. on the republican side, let's talk about that for a minute, donald trump's remarks about muslims could stop him from stepping food in the united kingdom. more than 500,000 people signed an online petition calling for trump to be blocked from the u.k. after he called for a temporary ban on muslims into the u.s.. lawmakers are discussing the possibility of banning trump. >> you stay up to date on the latest news in this presidential election, head over to wftv.com the city of ocoee paid tribute to martin luther king, jr.. hundreds of people turned out to remember the life of doctor king. the parade started at citrus elementary school at clark road and ended at the west oaks mall. reverend gave a speech. the road closure on clark road to colonial drive is over. and m.l.k. events took place

the director of the fbi placed a wreath at the martin luther king, jr. memorial. this is the 30th anniversary of the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader, doctor king would have turned 87 on friday. brand new this hour, 1700 people don't have safe drinking water tonight, because someone drained 400,000 gallons of water from flagler county's water system. county officials say someone for no apparent reason, open oed about 21 water lines in the largely undeveloped plantation reserve estate off old dixie highway, plantation bay have to boil their water until further notice. well, tonight, state troopers are investigating a crash in daytona beach that left a pedestrian dead on clyde morris boulevard near mayberry avenue. 21-year-old max was driving northbound when he hit

for approximately 200 feet. the driver was not injured. an old leesburg citrus packing plant burned to the ground saturday night and state investigators are working to figure out how it started. at the scene now and cathy, the property also houses a fuel company, which made for a very tense situation over the weekend. >>. >>reporter: that's right, this is where the fire broke out, obviously, look at how close to it this fuel tanker is, and then, not too far away, on the property, these fixed fuel tanks. building was dangerous and was to be torn down if the owner did not make extensive repairs. the old lake county citrus sales packing plant fell dmoun a pile of charred rubble. leesburg firefighters got here fast and were able to prevent the fire from moving towards the fuel tanks on the property because it also houses lake sumter fuel. city leaders say there were code violations over the building's

property owner william floyd told us today, he's taken care of the building's code issues as they've come up and in the process of tearing it down. >> what was happening was this was being taken down, a piece at there was being reused. >>reporter: joan jordan lives across the street, she says the building f was certainly an eye sore, but never thought there was a danger of a fire. >> never concerned me, i was hoping maybe some day they'd do something with it. but that's okay. until now. >>reporter: mayor jay hurley told me the repairs would have demolition of the building. investigators will be back out here tomorrow morning, to try to figure out how the fire started. reporting live in leesburg, in lake county, cathy bell lich, channel 9, eyewitness news more and more spanish speaking people are moving to florida. >> a lot of folks have family

destination from puerto rico to come to. >> coming up, how a new 30 million dollar plan will help them learn the english language. plus, commercial space flight is closer to becoming reality, but still a gamble for those with high paying jobs. next at 5:00, how the upcoming presidential election could play jobs. . >> we're up against back-to-back cold nights, i'm updating the temperature dropping into the 30s and when our next storm system moves through. thousands of people misout on tax credits because they don't know they qualify. how one group is making sure your family find your sweet spot today with dunkin's chicken apple sausage sandwich.

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budget and safety concerns for some of nasa's biggest programs. the concerns are already having an impact on plans for manned space missions. >>reporter: the heavy lift rocket, in the orion space capsule, for nasa, these are the immediate future. key programs that are set to ultimately help bring space flight to mars. >> i think everybody agrees that the long-term goal is to get human presence, colonies on mars. >>reporter: but dale with space florida says new reports highlight what people in the space industry have been worried about, concern about the safety and sustainability of these programs. the nasa aerospace advisory panel pointed out budget and time pressure are increasing the safety risks. it says that the test program for components of the rocket system have eroded gradually over the past five years. and that could increase the risk for man aed space missions that are planned in the next five to

>> skej scombrul budget is approximate -- schedule and budgets is putting at risk a program. >>reporter: growth of private commercial space flight programs will provide a buffer if something should happen to the nasa programs. but people on the space coast will be watching the next presidential election to see who gets into the white house and how well they'll work with congress to fund the space programs. >> they're going to set the tone for what happens to the remainder of my career, and a lot of careers here at the space coast. >>reporter: in brevard county, jeff deal, channel 9, eyewitness news. the first a orion space flight was set for 2021 and that. for 2023. two teams of ucf engineering students are working on the future of transportation. transportation system that

the system was proposed by the founder of space x, at tesla motors, they plan to show off the designs later this month. don't tell their parents they're going 700 miles per hour. investigators searching for marines have found life rafts today. two marine helicopters crashed off the coast of hawaii, the three rafts today, somehow were inflated. the officials say the choppers were also carrying found. one of the missing marines is a fort meyers man, 22-year-old corporal thomas jardis. >> they don't just drop out of the air. the pilots are trained to land even if they lose power. they're well trained. but you can't train, i don't think, for what happened. >> there's still no word on what crash. you might find a flier on your door that could mean big money at tax time, volunteers from the heart f of florida, united way, spent the day hanging the fliers, residents

an option on your tax return that means thousands of dollars extra for many family and you preparation services. >> yoould be surprised -- you'd be surprised how many people don't know about the earned income tax credit based on the wage levels. >> if you don't find a flier on your door, you can find about the tax credit and get some other advice by dialing 211 on your telephone. and speaking of advice, it's a good thing we have this guy here. >> it was early in the morning, had the weather radio transmitter problem, but the apps worked. we did not get the storms this far north, that they had down south. five tornadoes in nine days down south. el nino still in effect. daytona beach a pretty good

i have a friend in town from texas, 59, talking cold, this is nothing. 58 in cocoa beach, and nel burn, 59 the village, leesburg. so we're all pretty uniform on our temperatures, the north wind giving us a wind chill tonight. temperatures, this is the actual temperature, without wind chills factored in will be in the low 40s by 4:00 o'clock in the morning. mid 40s but a wind chill factor taken 5-8 degrees off of that. feeling like the 30s, for most of the late night, early morning hours, the actual low, 39. wind chills 34. in orlando in the morning, 37 leesburg. a light freeze possible for marion county, right now, the cloud deck is really moving through, so i think we'll keep it out of the freeze zone for most of us, there's no freeze advisory tonight, but tomorrow night, we're going to be even colder, and with lez cloud cover, i do expect a freeze in parts of the area tomorrow night. for orlando, mid 50s, only mid 50s at 4:00 o'clock.

again tomorrow. relatively speaking, of course. 56 in sanford. 56 in titusville t. storm that quickly moved by sunday morning, yanked down a bunch of cold air for our part of the u.s., that's why we're seeing these temperatures the way they are. 51 in palm coast. for tomorrow night, 30, the actual temperature, for marion county, that why we have the freeze watch for that area. 38 orlando. and that will be the coldest temperatures so far this season. let's check out our next storm system, future track did a great job timing out the rain and storms as they moved in, very early sunday morning. we told you it was coming. tuesday, in the afternoon, we start to clear things out, wednesday, looks good, too, thursday, mostly dry until friday morning, here comes the next storm. it doesn't look like it's going to come together the same way the last couple did, we'll watch it, though. this storm system a little bit farther to the north, we will move some weather in during the morning and afternoon hours on friday, certainly a good chance for some rain. the severe threat is going to be more marginal, but make sure

the warning because the weather radio, if it goes out, you can get the free weather app and it etcetera. five-day forecast with your tomorrow. we're down to 38 in wednesday, a nice pretty much average day on thursday temperature-wise. the next el nino system will get closer on friday. the recent tornadoes and why so many strong ef-2 tornadoes have impacted the state. a lawsuit over tires, and why some pilots say they're risking their lives every single time they use this volusia county fly in. >> i definitely think that is an overreach. >> new at 6:00, what some orlando police officers are doing that has some asking if the cops are breaking the law. and next, at 5:00, after sean penn denies any involvement in

sean penn, the actor that interviewed el chapo before his recapture, spoke out about their encould wanter. >> got a lot of traction.

to do with the el chapo capture. >>reporter: sean penn says, jorjs the mexican government is tying him to the arrest because they are em bar rased. >> i thought this is something who upon whose interview, could i begin a conversation. >>reporter: sean penn, speaking out about his controversial interview with drug kingpin, joaquin el chapo guzman. >> the entire discussion about this article ignores its purpose, which was to cry to contribute to this -- try to contribute to this discussion about the policy and the war on drugs. >>reporter: the actor secretly meeting with the drug lord back in october for an interview arranged by el chapo, to discuss a possible buy opic about his life, but penn insisting during an interview last night, he

opportunity to shed light on the war on drugs. the drug trafficer was on the run at the time of the meeting after he escaped from a maximum security mexican prison in the july. now, penn says he believes the mexican government is lying about his connection, to the kingpin's capture. authorities apprehending guzman on january 9th. catching him in the streets after he tried escaping a raid by slipping into the city's sewer tunnels. >> they were clearly very humiliated by the motion that someone found him before they did. well, nobody found him before they did. >>reporter: penn says he does not believe the cartel wants to harm him because the mexican government is trying to tie him to el chapo's capture. jorge. >> all right, greg. maitland police are searching for a missing man with asperger's syndrome. >> the clues they're following that may help find him. >> plus, all this damage, take a look, caused by a deadly ef-2

ef-2 tornado. >> state lawmakers want 30 million dollars to teach english to spanish speakers.

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