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volusia, lake county, it will be the colder pockets of lake county, low 30s near the villages, ocala very cold, 27. much more county by county coming up. orlando police chief says his officer did everything right to know well-being check turned shooting, the victim's father called please concern about his son to get they say the man would not drop his weapon and refused to cooperate in the chief says they were forced to open fire only to find out later the weapon was an air soft gun. the shooting was one of seven involving orlando police officers in the last year, three of those are deadly shooting, fdle was called in to investigate. chief nina was confident that in today's case, the officers did everything right. restrain and composer goes a lot to our training and i am glad we train their way we do -- the way we do.
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officer involved shooting will be in best investigated no matter what, jeff deal is part of the team of reporters working on the story, he said he's working hard to make sure the department -- that department is transparent. >> that's something the chief sat down and spoke with us about last month, he thinks it's important for people full to know that it's okay that they are okay with having an outside agency come and take a look at how they handle situation like this. it was a scary scene. >> neighbors at the courtney landing condo say they heard yelling and gunshot you orlando police officers t no crews and -- know crews and sonja sanders opened higher, 28-year-old eric provost was shot and killed. >> everyone there. >> the officers was there for a well-being check, they said provost refused to put down his weapon, so they shot him.
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shooting video leicester, chief john me -- mina told his officer -- officers are going through more training do because of past incidents and last month announced changes on how they are investigated and in the past if the suspect was not injured, orlando police good investigate the case them selves, but now the department refers all officer involved shooting cold cases for two l they were just surprised to see the situation and the way it did. he looked dead. and then the checked him. i heard them say something like he's not the thing. the officer -- officers are both on unpaid leave right now which is standard and if thine they are involved in a officer involved shooting, the man who died was already out on a bond in a case he was accused of stealing more than 80's and dollars from an atm. we are on top of breaking news and orange county -- in orange county, up gunfight outside of the high school and
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saw the man as he was shot to get we spoke to some of the eyewitnesses and kathy, they were troubled by what they saw? >> there were only one that would go on camera, investigators are here on the scene area and eyewitness and investigators say the victim was an innocent bystander caught in the middle of a gun battle at the gas station possibly involving students from evans high across the street. it happened after school, we are told of it them in this truck called 911 himself. the shell casing 14 of them were found in the sickle parking lot. and eyewitness food drove up, he heard two different types of guns firing, he's thankful he did not get shot. >> i did not seem get shop at ice have seen it -- them with -- it with a gunshot wound.
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taken off in a dark colored card and sheriff's investigators say the innocent heist in the caught in the crossfire shot ones, he is at the hospital and he is in stable condition. one person approached the group of young people in the gas station parking lot and opened fire and someone in the group fired back to . they are not sure whether the pete will in the group were of school age. >> there is a security video from the gas station here. we have seen it. we are turning it around for you so you can see it. they will not be able to identify much of that, it showed fellow -- silhouette of people running from the gas station, you can see a gun and a video. you can see it's a very active -- active investigation and
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tomorrow, at 11, we have more information on breaking news at seminole county where police say to women into juveniles were attacked by five dogs inside their apartment. sky witness line was over the scene in sanford when this happened today. one woman is in critical condition tonight. sanford police say they had to shoot and kill four of the dogs, fifth always injured and with animal control. we are reaching out to animal control to find out with adults belong to and how this happened. >> a man was bond more than $25,000 prosecutors called him a danger to the community. twenty-two-year-old jay brown was accused of opening fire earlier this month. they say one of the bullets hit a delivery drivers shattering slight. a suspect had been involved in several other shooting since new year eve, they don't know why and citrus packing plant burned down. the facility a long center street in leesburg caught fire
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out of service for months, the marshal's office was back on the scene. they had not been able to figure out what happened. the ad claims the team of -- are giant is exploding immigration loophole and laying off local employees in the process. christopher keith looked into the ad and chris, you've discovered the group attacking disney is raising eyebrows for different reasons. >> the ad that started airing monday accuses disney of replacing employees in orlando woodworkers using a visa program that we discovered the group that's paying for the ad against disney has its own issues. did you or someone you know get fired from a job so the boss could ring in chief for foreign workers? >> this is to -- the ad targeting disney paid for by the federation for american migration reform or fair, the ad is based on the move by disney in 2014 to lay off almost 250 central florida workers replacing them with
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we have 90 days to train our foreign replacement. >> in the act, foreign work -- former worker this dust describes -- best describes the process. there has its own past, since 2007, fear had been listed by the southern poverty center as a hate group which has ties to white supremacist groups, the centers think the fierce motivation is rooted in race not economic. political analyst doctor vogelsong said the group spec rankles and question the motivation for the ads. i think it's important in this case to look at where the ad came from. >> the issue is more than a year old and in fact a visa program used by disney to bring in foreign workers prefer technology jobs is also used by dozens of other companies across the united states and they'll -- the law was amended in late 2015 to make it more expensive to bring in foreign workers. we reached out to disney as well as fair and disney responded saying : we are
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adding more jobs for us it workers, we are complying with all applicable employment laws " fair did not respond. developing within the last hour, investigators with the police department releasing a sketch of -- of a mendes a hit a 71-year-old woman in the heads a -- head as she walked her dog. here's the sketch, he has a scar on the left side of his face, we told you that tuesday a woman was law walking her dog when a man ran up to her, hit her in the head and kickoff. you posted -- posted this catch on the facebook page and you can share it with your friends and they -- it could help please make an arrest. the trial of them on -- the man accused of murdering his gear for -- girlfriend teen daughter is those bone because the -- meteorologist because the us supreme court ruled for his death penalty process is unconstitutional. saint simone's trial his delayed until late july, the death penalty still on the table, they asked for the child to be pushed back so lawmakers
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the death penalty law. police are investigating dozens of car break-ins over the weekend i hotels near the airport, officers responded to a call it at ramada suites, saying -- singing their guests cars -- saying that guess cars were broken into, 56 cars were hit in one night. there are no suspect. the trial of a former petty cabdriver accused of raping his passenger is underway in volusia county, back in 2014 police said that george brainard rate the woman in the was across the street from the daytona international speedway during speedy, rainer told her he would not charge her if she gave him . so the opening arguments began in the trial expected to wrap up this -- is expected to wrap up this week. 72-year-old ocala man in jail accused of having a relationship with a teenager, he's been held on a $120,000 and bonn, he used to be the the thames neighbor, the mother became suspicious when she was
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she found a package from the suspect containing -- related items, he was charged with battery, the next court date is on -- . >> they will need a detour this week. shutting down all southbound traffic from lake avenue from thursday until monday, drivers can take maitland boulevard to i4 two -- i four to the road back to 792. you can get more details on the website, wftv.com. drivers can expect weekly road closures in downtown orlando is right of the i've for widening project, there will be intermittent closures during the day in night, central boulevard in washington street, closures will allow crews to make progress on the bridge that straight stretches from church street to washington, it will impact the acting lot under i four, construction crews work on the eiffel bridge. you can get up dates from the i
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to the special i've for ultimate section on wftv.com. local school officials admit a measurement to keep students safe has failed. why it took more than a year to bring background checks on employees working in white residents are fighting up plan to turn a development. it's a freeze advisory, a large area of frost potential
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changing the vendor it uses to help process the background checks. in response to the audit tonight, they are reassuring parents that no one dangerous was working around their children. he has a daughter in the lane high school and they love the teachers but he was concerned that required background checks in the district employees were not being done when they were supposed to. i think the process should be made better and more strict. but i wouldn't say that goes against school. it's a process and we have two implement ways to make it better. i read through the audit of the school district operation and showed 540 current employees were required to get a background check he had something each district employees must do every five years. the audit showed 131 of the background checks lapsed by five-392 days from when they
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all, if it takes that long. they shouldn't be working until it's done. in the audit, and that its stated the delay -- it's stated the delay was caused by a fingerprint website that was not working properly. the district switched vendors. >> was there somebody in the school that was not supposed to be there. >> all the employees had their background and fingerprints. >> officials say fdle will crime. there was no one in the schools that was a danger to the student. i did check with fdle officials and they told me the agency alerts the school district -- district because the school employee is arrested. that same audit from the state found issues with the school district checks and balances when it comes to custodians and other contracted
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not have a way to confirm that's that the custodians are doing the work. officials say it's a to the company hired to oversee its employees. they have raise more than $8 million in private donations for downtown campus, they say the 60 million-dollar project needs at total of $20 million in donations and another 20 million come from -- will come from ucf and they hope the rest will come from the state, they have two weeks to come up with the rest of the money to meet the deadline. should the state pay off thousands of dollars in student loans for teachers? that's one of the two incentives up for discussion. it will forgive up to $16,000 in loans for science, technology, engineering and math teachers, they will consider extending a bonus tied to teachers a ct scores. they believe the money could be better spent. they do on these piecemeal thanks, throws money at the new
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scores, they are not help in educations. both measures need approval from lawmakers. in orange county, -- county, the planning board is letting a developer build thousands of homes on the land along the vista road, this is the same area where the pine castle jeep bombing range operated during world war ii and four years it was not allowed to develop until the bombs were cleaned up. residents don't think the project is a good idea. we are not in the belief we want a development that is the scope -- school's and -- we unmanageable. there's no date for the start of the project and the orlando city council has to to the development at the meeting. the fire chief laid out a plan to improve first service, he called for two new stations at a cost of $5 million. he told -- told leaders that stations need upgrades to better stand hurricanes and
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new stations, they don't have the money to cover manning the station. a new hotel could be coming to the -- they are in talks with a company interested in billy -- building. a say it's too early to discuss the details but hoping to have more information at the board meeting. the beautiful sunset tonight. it's cold. that's -- it's relative. no windchill minus 50, here's what's going on, no space, the ice was the worst, the worst to drive in, everyone seems to go twice as fast, downtown orlando, down to 49, 50 but falling. fortys across the board, factor in the win -- wind, windchill right now 43 in the coastal areas, 44 deland, 45 orlando. it will be nipping tonight. temperatures 48 degrees by 8:00
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forties and falling quickly to 38 in orlando, we have a lot of when -- wind that keeps temperatures warmer if we had clear skies and no wind, over all still a set up for a light fees tonight across the colder pockets of lake county, not everywhere in lake county and interior -- interior volusia, the colder area and the wind sheltered areas, you are the cold pocket and that's where the freeze will be tonight and more widespread the further north you go and in marion county, 33 palm coast, 33 in -- -- apopka. light fees. twenty-seven marion county, coldest so far this year. downtown, although very to -- all the way to the north, stay above freezing but a light fees for an hour or two west of palm county. a slightly wider periphery of
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down to polk county and the area will see frost in the rooftops from apopka and mount friendless, mount dora and sanford in the land. northern half, tomorrow, sunshine returns again 10 degrees warmer the low average, a nice day overall, thursday looks very nice out the plants emma it we'll be back in the 70s, your comes a next storm system, bypassing us to the north, rain increasing late in the day. scattered thunderstorm can be ruled out. right now it doesn't look like a big severe weather center like the couple -- we will see where the storm develops. that will be a big nor'easter in a huge headache for travelers, where you can take the severe weather nine app, it will work anywhere around the country, the video and alerts and send you alerts if you're
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daytona international speedway has risen, it took 2.5 years mission touches are being put on the project this week. a final seats were installed in the nearly mile- long motors or's -- stadium. jim france the sound son of not friends and -- had be the season -- been the season's ticket holder for more than 20 years, the finished product features 100 thousand seats, some of which have use of the tracks some views of the tracks in the atlantic ocean. anybody coming to daytona beach for a motorsports experience will have this as probably the finest experience
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and the college's about -- book, ucf working hard area they will travel to usf tomorrow to complete the season sweep of the rivals, the first meeting by a 11 this month, second in the american athletic conference, writing some momentum following the 20-point route of the carolina. how far we can go with this too early to tell but i know they come with the right attitude and we want to continue them playing the right way. are we playing in sharing the right way. >> finally the magic -- they will miss the game, it will be this -- that he will miss. we are's being on top of breaking news, a pack of dogs attacked to women and two -- two women and two young boys critically injuring one woman today, an officer shot four of the five dogs. we will have that 10 on tv 27 and 11 right here on channel nine.
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