leading up anytime soon. >> heavy rain in downtown orlando. we have been watching the dot cameras tracking up along i-4. if you don't have to get a run for the next couple of hours but the heavy rain move on through. it has been steady really since about the lunch hour today. benjamin entry heavier batches. just about all of you getting at least some rainfall or will soon. st. cloud, heavy downpour just moved past toward blank -- even have good rainfall left over from the oak ridge area through downtown all the way through almonte springs, the mall, all the way to the beach, all the way up to flagler beach as well. toward titusville. you get heavy rains vieira in about 25 minutes. and then we start seeing some hope for some sunshine tomorrow. but still a big storm moving to now, lots of rain yet to come. coming up. they are commissions no one would want to live in, mold and mildew overrunning apartments. furniture.

it is all in the air. >> reporter: knew this hour, we are trying to get answers from the landlord about why these residents were told to treat the problem themselves. and people who live in the apartment tell us they have been dealing with problems for years. >> now the ceiling as collapsed in one of the units at the seeley apartments and almonte springs. channel 9's roy ramos spend the day and residents told him they have had enough. >> this isn't just your apartment? >> it's all of them. >> reporter: residents an eight unit seeley apartment building in almonte springs told me they are concerned for their health and safety with living conditions some have been dealing with for close to two years, in at least three units, we spotted it appeared to be mold and furniture and clothes covered in mildew. >> it has caused water damage, it is causing it to be in the living room, on the floor. >> reporter: residents have been complaining to the landlord about a mold problem

right here on this drywall. they say it was about 4:00 a.m. they woke up to the sound of loud boom and this is what they walked out in the living room to see. you can see the drywall has collapsed right down to the floor and they put these containers right here to collect the water that continues to trip out. >> the ceiling is filled with mildew and mold and it is -- the wood is very, very soft. >> reporter: i called the landlord who told me he has given residents sealer and spray to treat the mold issue. as for the ceiling collapse, we were there as crews arrived to make repairs today, but some clearing the most from the building, it is only a matter collapse. >> it has taken over my furniture. it took over my clothes. it is all in the air. done. >> reporter: roy ramos, channel 9 eyewitness news. >> we also contacted the city of altamonte springs and professional regulations but we did not find any violations in the past year. >> reporter: with just hours until the next debate and only

nasty and i were. and now for florida republican very personal. live. the big story continues to be the name of the top. >> reporter: donald trump continues to say he will not be debate. meanwhile, ted cruz is attack. other candidates are not just sitting by the sidelines, marco rubio just released this ad targeting jeb bush and hillary clinton. of course, bush five back releasing this ad targeting marco rubio. >> clinton and bush. two names from the past. >> reporter: there was a time not that long ago when marco rubio consider jeb bush his mentor. this new ad from rubio's pack seems to suggest those days, like jeb and hillary, are in the past. >> it's time for a new generation of leadership. >> it is the bush pack attacking rubio. and less so jeb bush himself. >> reporter: our political

says bush and rubio are establishment voters and therefore they are fighting each other. with bush pushing back in this ad, hitting rubio for flip- flopping on immigration and a pathway to citizenship. >> then he broke his promise during with liberal democrats. bush fight -- >> donald trump, new york values, not ours. >> reporter: ted cruz has a pair of ads going right after donald trump. >> we can't afford trump care. >> reporter: they seek to proclaim trump is a closet healthcare and access to abortion. the assertion he is not in touch with iowa or the gop base, a move by cruz to retake the lead in iowa. >> if you look at past elections there are candidates who have moved the needle late in the race and i will, but something really important has to happen. >> reporter: his campaign continues to say he will not be at tonight's debate. he does however lead in iowa,

meanwhile good news for the bush camp, two new polls show jeb moving up in new hampshire although he still trails trump and cruz. bob and martha? >> chris, we have you covered on social media, you can join greg life on his facebook page for analysis on the debate and donald trump's event as well. you can also live tweet with chris who will be on twitter as well. governor rick scott is in the nation's capital today pushing for big changes in how you pay for a visit to the er. because he says hospitals are ripping you off. he says patients are paying thousands. sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars more than they were expecting for procedures or treatments in the er. scott says hospitals are price gouging when people are at their most vulnerable. >> the hospital can set whatever price they want but if you are in an er setting, you significantly above your average price. >> governor scott is a former hospital executive and was

medicare and medicaid. but, scott denied knowing inflation. happening in orange county, a ghastly got in orlando complex has put dozens of people's health at risk. we told you how firefighters had to evacuate the apartment building on walls and circle after 10 people became sick. since then, julie, you have learned firefighters are using a device to check several people's carbon monoxide levels and their blood? >> reporter: martha, those 10 people like you mentioned are all expected to be okay despite carbon monoxide poisoning. if you take a look behind me, that yellow building that you see is the building that was evacuated early this morning. residents needed to stay out for at least 12 hours, and just in the last few minutes, we saw the hazmat team with orlando fire department just arrived, they told me they are once again checking for carbon monoxide levels inside the building. >> reporter: a family of 4 who lives at walden homes condominiums went to the hospital after feeling sick. doctor phillips hospital staff

monoxide poisoning. and call the orlando fire department. >> there's no odor. there is no color. so you're being exposed to it whether you know it or not. >> reporter: when orlando firefighters arrived they heard a loud noise upstairs, forced their way into unit and found somewhat collapsed from carbon monoxide poisoning. another five also felt sick and were taken to the hospital were treated at the complex. firefighters said maintenance moved a generator inside a under renovation. >> there is allowed carbon monoxide buildup endorse. >> reporter: one resident who did not want to show his face of the building was affected by firefighters. >> i'm glad that they woke me up depending on the doors and yelling, fire department. i would rather have that than wake up in hospital. >> reporter: lieutenant derek shaman with orlando fire showed me a device they used to detect carbon monoxide in the blood. this morning. >> right now you are at 1%

well within that range or lower end of the range. >> reporter: he said people at the complex read as high as 22%. >> our system will alarm at 10%. they were twice our alarm point. >> reporter: once again, you can see the hazmat team out here. i am told that they were checking for carbon monoxide levels, just as a safety measure. i reached out to the condo complex several times today, but they refused to comment on this story. reporting live in orlando, julie salamone, channel 9 eyewitness news. president obama took the first step today toward his ambitious plan to cure cancer. which he likened to landing on the moon. vice president joe biden will be in charge of the white house cancer moon shock -- moonshot cancer task force. the nonpartisan campaign involves several dozen departments and agencies. goals improved funding for research, nutriment and better access to come up house while in bureaucratic red tape. a second house hearing on the pastor protection act was postponed but the bill is still

>> we are not aware of any charges or pastors or members of clergy who have ever been sued because they made the wedding. >> the bill would prevent clergy members from being forced to perform marriage beliefs. opponents say those protections already exist in the first amendment which guarantees freedom of religion. a woman was supposed to be taking care of people in need but was caught allegedly stealing from them. >> a nurse at coastal health and rehabilitation in daytona beach is accused of stealing pain pills from 10 different elderly or disabled patients. channel 9's jeff deal found that more. >> reporter: police say she got caught because of discrepancies in reports. in some cases she was marking down that she was giving medication to patients here on days when the patients were given here. when it comes to helping

>> like i said, my mother said do what's right when no one is looking. >> reporter: but daytona beach police say one nurse at coastal health and rehabilitation center did something wrong. they believe ty mason, a 33- year-old licensed practical nurse was stealing pain pills like oxycodone from the elderly and other patients needing care. >> i'm jeff with channel 9. i understand that you were still in prescription medication from elderly patients at the assisted living home? >> no. >> you did not do that? >> no. >> reporter: mason denied that to us when we stopped at her condo but police say she confessed to taking the pills to treat her own headaches. able visiting patients they were surprised. >> some people have to think beyond what they want. you know? me, me, me. >> reporter: when we checked the health department's website, it shows she has a clear and active license with no complaints on file that under florida law, the health department is in the light to say if the medical worker is even under investigation until 10 days after they go through a

that means someone awaiting, no trial could get another job working with patients somewhere else. police say seven of the 10 patients affected have diminished mental capacities and they feel like she exploited that. her attorney is trying to get her confession tossed out. reporting in daytona beach in volusia county, jeff deal, channel 9 eyewitness news. the state is making major changes for anyone on food stamps. >> the move to help grocery stores keep shelves stocked that could make it tougher for families to keep food on the table. the aclu says local deputies target black drivers. information the group collected that they say shows how deputy street drivers differently based on the color of their skin. and, neighbors say trees along i-4 used to act as a sound barrier but not anymore. >> i can hear it inside the house. >> next, 9 investigates why the state refuses to put in sound

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we are not getting a break from the screen. in the i-4 corridor, our meteorologist tom terry monitors who gets the worst of it and will have an update in less than five minutes. the i-4 ultimate project is intruding on neighborhoods up and down the highway. >> construction crews ripped up hundreds of trees as they moved to the highway closer to some neighborhoods. our investigative reporter, darlene jones, asked why the state is now refusing to do anything about potential for traffic noise. >> reporter: this is what the traffic noise sounds like along i-4 between want blossom trail into michigan avenue. and it's just a stones throw

neighborhood. >> the intersection is right on top of it. you never could see i-4 from here. >> reporter: the florida department of transportation ripped out trees and other vegetation. this man told us it has not only kept the busy highway out of sight but also helped block out from the noise. >> i can hear it inside the house. >> reporter: fdot refuses to add a sound barrier and we learned only about 10 miles on both sides along the 20 one- mile stretch of the i-4 expansion actually qualifies for that noise barrier. we took of dell's concern to the state agency for answers. why can't fdot just put in a sound while? >> it's a little more, located than just going in there and saying let's put up a sound wall. studies are done and look at the environment. >> reporter: fdot told us that noise has to reach 66 db, then the state must determine how many homes would benefit for may well. the cost is a factor. that's because there has to be enough homes that a sound while would benefit to keep the cost of the wall to about $42,000 per home.

but officials say conservatively speaking, even a 14 foot while would cost nearly $1 million. >> i-4 is going to be up really high there and the sound is going to cover on top of it. >> reporter: you can see her the state is prepared to add what is called a dry retention pond which will include some trees. likely not nearly enough to replace what was here and not nearly enough to satisfy of dell. who moved into what is now a historic neighborhood, 28 years ago. >> but i want a solid barrier like what they are doing in other areas. >> reporter: the state will upgrade a 2 1/2 safety wall to about 3 1/2 which they say should reduce noise. we learned there is a mobile home park in the same neighborhood. a spokesperson for fdot told us they actually do qualify for a sound wall, however fdot may not include it in the construction because removing underground utilities may make it too expensive.

fight. >> you can always he would 9 investigates has been looking into by logging onto www.wftv.com. tomorrow begins the 100 day countdown to an international sporting event for injured servicemembers. right here in central florida. the i-this games will be at orlando's espn wide world of sports complex in may. last year, prince harry announced the games would be healthier and more than 400 wounded veterans and active- duty servicemembers from 14 nations are expected to compete. the blizzard of 2016 has officially been ranked as the fourth worst snowstorm in the northeast history. >> this snowstorm beat a 13 year record out of the last huge blizzard in 2003. they say the impact was crippling, but not extreme. it affected over 100 million people. across 26 states. it's nice to look at. >> yeah, get those dump trucks

>> #loveflorida. come down here. it has been kind of an indoor game, downtown very, very slow. 64, temperatures will be in the 60s tomorrow only it's going to be a hold of the landscape as we move the rainout but it's still very slow. there is our fdot at fairbanks, that treacherous fairbanks curve. downtown orlando still a lot of rainfall stretching all the way across . the mysteries the heaviest along the east coast, a couple of lightning strikes are here, that means we are starting to get a taller storm. getting some heavier rainfall. high rain rates along the coast snow from cocoa beach to rockledge all the way to downtown titusville, just past the causeway and the yacht club where we do our brevard duck race with the indian river festival every year, to the

dance now pushing through. it is going to be more of a steady light to moderate rain as opposed to the heavy, heavy rain that is along the coast. kissimmee, poinciana, downtown orlando, light screen stretching all the way back to apopka. you get the idea. all of the wealth -- yellows, reds and oranges are the heavy rainfall, but we are starting to see the back edge of this, which of course you can track with our live interactive doppler 9 radar with our free wftv weather app. you can also upload photos of the rain and what his student. rain so far, closing in on 3 inches in celebration, lake mary, over 2, hunters creek, 2, lake butler, an agent have, apopka an inch and half. over an inch downtown orlando. the back edge of the rain is still about five or six hours out. once we get past 11:00 nine, we will see the storm rocking offshore. it's going to be breezy and future track. this is a forecast model updated every hour in gives us a good idea of kind of a short- term guidance if you will on exactly how long the heavy rain will be over the area. through 7:00 all the way

on tv 27, i will see you back here on channel 9 at 11:00. that's when we start to say fare the well. ucf campus at 11:00 starting to clear out. uproarious afternoon, we get some time back, orlando 67, melbourne 67. 66 in daytona and very consistent temperature pattern tomorrow. going to be windy but it looks like a fantastic weekend. here's your 5-day forecast weekend always in view from the upper 60s on saturday, in the 70s on sunday and look at that, 80 degrees on tuesday of next week. lots of events going on, great weather for the rolex in daytona, that goes on starting saturday and it's going to be perfect weather for that but not perfect now. martha, i'm back tracking rain in 10 minutes. new for eyewitness news at 6:00, change is coming to

in florida. >> i think it's a very big shock.

a group that says it always to defend equality says they believe local deputies are targeting black drivers. channel 9's shannon butler went to a newly released study by the aclu showing sheriff to white drivers and suggest officers need more training. >> reporter: they say there needs to be a change in cultural police department all study by the american civil liberties union -- liberty still racially profile. the aclu shows that the florida law enforcement stuff into a black drivers more than white.

were stopped and cited more times than whites by escambia county, three times more by deputies in palm beach county, and 2.8 times as much hereby orange county deputies. >> is that surprising to you? >> no. >> reporter: the seatbelt law has been in place since the 1980s but it wasn't until 2009 when the officers a provision to pull over driver for not wearing a seatbelt. the aclu was concerned officers would use the law as a way to pull over black drivers they would not otherwise have been able to. the organization says it shows that happening, saying quote, suggesting law enforcement agencies across florida for seatbelt enforcement. the aclu is asking not only the training to law enforcement, but that the attorney general investigate the agencies with the highest numbers of blacks and ticketed.

butler, invictus -- channel 9 eyewitness news. the orange county sheriff's office and is a statement saying in part the orange county sheriff's office continually reevaluate policies, procedures and operation to ensure they are consistent with best practices. it also told us shift evans will meet soon with the aclu to further discuss the issue. a lake county woman is in the running for principle of the year. rhonda hot, principal at an elementary school is up against two other principles, that wasn't enough of an honor for the school, the assistant principal, chad fraser, is also a force is in principle of the year. winners will be announced next month, good luck. next for eyewitness news at

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right now no matter where you live in central florida, you are getting rain. on the left of your screen you can see radar showed much more rain on the way. on the right is a look at downtown orlando where rain is making for a slow commute tonight. central florida is soaked right now after two days of study rain with some areas getting really 3 inches. >> certify chief meteorologist tom terry is tracking the weather in severe weather center 9. is going to be a wet evening as well.