you have shops and there's across state and barbershop and other things and on the other side you have the 408 a few feet away from orlando police s situation and his officers fear for their lives. a car originally carjacked from a cvs pharmacy ended up here going nowhere after nopd patrol cars audit the suspected carjackers at a traffic stop turning into a chase. >> he was using the car against window and shots were fired. >> all creatures pet grooming and the owner says she did not know what to do. >> i hit the ground after that. >> i some point the officers felt threatened and discharge to their firearms at the driver. >> reporter: opd chief john mina says details our investigation. we watched at least one man taken into custody and to the hospital and minas as a woman was driving and the only one shot. >> is concerning that people are carjacking and elderly male for his belongings. are very concerned about that.

are all right but they are on edge. >> very. having a that close with sirens going in the dogs were going gunshots. >> reporter: i asked what she thinks about carjackers putting her in her room employees in danger in the heart orlando. think. >> i might tomorrow but i guess we are still in shock. going on. you can see south street is still closed down entirely. i just talked to a mother who was waiting for hours outside to find out if her son was all right and i will have her story at 5. field sutton, channel 9 eyewitness news. it's been a cool, clear day across central florida and certified chief meteorologist tom terry in severe weather

where you live. >> we don't have frauds or freeze expectations for tonight, bobby it will be children that we have had recently. temperatures mid-60s and we have some high clouds but it has been a nice change of pace to get the sunshine going after 2 wet, soggy, jury days. make 60s across the board, 64 titusville downtown orlando will have high clouds and temperatures from the 50s all the way down to the upper 40s. you will start your warming along the i-4 corridor and chillier back to the west but we should have an of cloud cover, temperatures were enough to preclude any frost. eustis, the berries and 44 degrees. what about the weekend, i have warm temperatures to talk about updating future track coming up your vanessa osceola county deputy say a family was held hostage during a violent home invasion. deputy say a group of men broke into a home at 4:00 yesterday afternoon and tied up the family, attacked them, and even took off with their valuables. steve barrett spoke with investigators and hear how they say the entire all you deal lasted 12 -- porteous -- lasted

homeless crisis turned violent the blaine tomlinson told you 7 people have been arrested. blame, you witnessed a fight. >> reporter: words cannot describe how dangerous it is at times. dangerous for those trying to work in the area and for the homeless. we found out daytona beach has come up with a comprehensive -- concrete plan and what we heard they came over the plan we have seen people packing up and we have also seen salvation army workers here as well. >> with each passing day, the homeless camp at 250 north beach st. comes more chaotic. >> i want problems fixed. >> walk off. >> reporter: a heated are humans with threats of violence the front of the camera nearly turned into a fist fight. the least showed up later. we have been reporting on the cam for well over a month questioning county and city leaders and up to this point they have what it head on legally resolving the homeless crisis. we found out city officials

salvation army to discuss a solution, but we were shot out of the meeting. >> we know this is a public meeting, okay? >> it is not a public meeting. it is for us to work strategy to place people. >> reporter: commissioner penn was tells me she has been working on a solution to the homeless crisis behind the scene but did not want us and the means to hear it discussed. sprint don't the people deserve to hear that? >> i need for agencies and individuals to be able to speak freely about what we are trying to do. the barriers we may face, and bring everybody to the table. it is not a public meeting. >> reporter: after the meeting, with took my call is that it was successful and a plan is in place. she also says the business community donated $100,000 to provide beds for the homeless. when i asked woods when the city would act on this she said that they are working as quickly as they can and

to the city manager about this as well and i'm putting his reaction together for my story coming up at 5. live in daytona beach, blaine tomlinson channel 9 eyewitness news. not an easy situation. as we mentioned the tension among the homeless is growing and daytona beach. you can see for yourself, just how bad it is, see the fight for yourself download our wftv mobile news app go a go to the video section. it has been nearly one month since the start of the new automated trash pickup and orange county. and some people tell us they still cannot get service. residents along powers which court sent us pictures of uncollected yard waste that has they say they have made numerous calls to the solid waste apartment before calling us today. one hour after reached out to cleaned up. >> the men convicted of murdering and orlando teenager sentence thrown out. jimmy midori 16 years old when investigators say he stabbed 17- year-old shawn a car to death at her mother's home off orange blossom trail in 1995.

sentences of all juveniles serving life are entitled to a review. her mother says she would not feel safe if he got out. >> know, if you brutally murder somebody like that, and left her for dead, i don't care if it was shawna or somebody else, i would be afraid for them to be out. >> the hearing to possibly reduce his sentence was continue to a later date. a grandparent of a missing 3-year-old last seen with his mother and an escaped prisoner will hold a vigil tonight. volusia county deputies say gary bullock junior escaped from his job at a prison work release program on saturday and they say his girlfriend, natasha quigley is on the run with him and their 3-year-old son xander. the little boys other family members want him back home. tonight vigil is at 7:00 at the flagler beach peer. a worker on an airboat found a body floating on lake jessamine and detectives are try to figure out whether it is the same young man reported

kathi belich reports the men disappeared from the same area. >> investigators say the body was found on lake jessamine around 100 yards behind this house and it was found by a man working weed control on the lake. from skywitness 9 you can see the orange county sheriff's marine unit on the scene to recover the body. a worker on an airboat found the body just before 10:30 this morning. investigators are looking for a possible connection between the body and this man, robert pearson emma who was reported missing by his family on tuesday. the sheriff's office says he was last seen at his sister's is close by. a man who lives down the street is wondering whether gunfire he heard overnight has anything to do with the man's death. 2:00 a.m. i heard about 5 shots in a row. and about 5 minutes later i heard 3 more and he said it might not have anything to do

he said he could have been on drugs and fell in the water and drowned and that was it. >> we asked the sheriff's office whether there was a sign of gun wounds but we were told that is unclear at this point. investigators say it is too early to say whether it is a missing man who has been found or someone else. in orange county, kathi belich, channel 9 eyewitness news. teachers and seminole county still do not know if they will get raises and the school district does not want to negotiate anymore. both sides have been meeting for months now to try to come to an agreement. the district walked away from the negotiations saying they were just too far apart. channel 9's deneige broom asked the cheese church union present what it means for their salaries. >> reporter: teachers throughout the area have been singing the same tune for months. they say they are overworked and underpaid the negotiations or raises and seminole county have just hit a sour note. >> when they came back and they said they are done parts of the

he raises, to sue carson negotiating team for teachers countered with 6 percent. spirit realistically i do not think we expected 6 percent but going down to 4 percent would have been reasonable. >> reporter: after the last meeting the district declared an impasse which means they do not think they are getting anywhere with negotiations so they will leave it up to a third-party to decide. >> it wasn't just surprised i was very disappointed. >> reporter: several teachers were willing to switch was on camera today but they are working so instead they made these posters to express their frustrations. one evening, i feed my students mind, body and soul yet i cannot afford to feed my family. the starting salary for teachers and seminole county is $38,500. they did get a 3 percent raise last year. garza says that was the first race in almost 5 years and their health insurance deductibles have gone up by $700. she says some teachers was drivers and support staff are having to work 2nd, 3rd jobs to make ends meet. and seminole county, tran 14, channel 9 eyewitness news. we ask school districts

said statement that read in part "as cps will continue to engage in the required process with the for unions with the hope of reaching an agreement on the unresolved issues. end quote. deputies are looking for a group of men who held a family hostage inside their own home for nearly 12 hours. >> scary we have kids. >> how the family was finally able to escape coming up and then guess at this hotel say some of their things were missing from their rooms when they came back from a day at the theme parks. still ahead the surprising suspect investigators believe is to blame. a family taking disney to court over a snake bite the >> a snake, and animal kingdom fell onto an 8-year-old boy. and wrapped around. >> how they say that led to the boys great-grandmothers death. we have sunshine today and tracking cloud cover and a big

we are asking tough questions about a lawsuit said to be filed against disney over a snake bite at animal kingdom. >> attorney matt morgan says a little boys great-grandmother died of a heart attack after watching be 8-year-old boy get bitten by this snake while visiting their part in 2014. karla ray joins us now live and how are they correlating her death with a snake bite? 4:00 a family's attorney says she started having symptoms of a heart attack right away not knowing that is what was happening but does he says those claims are a misrepresentation of facts. we asked if this was just a frivolous lawsuit. >> reporter: at disneys animal kingdom in october 2014, a family of alabama was one of thousands visiting apart when a

an 8-year-old boy that is when family members say his elderly great-grandmother who was in a wheelchair started having breathing problems. >> thee event of this snake falling onto this young boy and their grandmother witnessing this event was a proximate cause of her death. >> reporter: but that woman who was around 90 years old died of a heart attack number 2 days after leaving that part. still, matt morgan says he's planning to sue disney on behalf of a family. >> how can you correlate than 2? >> you can correlate it by saying but for this snake dropping on her grandson, biting him and her then having breathing difficulties and symptoms associated with heart attack, she never would have died. >> reporter: disney told us they immediately counted this makes is that apart and concluded it was a wild snake . morgan says there is no way to prove that or whether disney

its property without filing a suit and subpoenas. >> there are snakes this about everywhere in florida would you be interested in filing a lawsuit if this had happened anywhere other than disney? >> absolutely not forced to say disney has a responsibility of keeping people safe at its parts from known dangers or dangers they should know about, but this student -- suit itself is not filed yet so we asked if today's press conference it was just for publicity and we're going over morgan's answers for you at 5. bob? you can hear them rest of matt morgan as a news conference as well is a families plan to file a lawsuit against disney at wftv.com /videos. orlando city soccer club is moving to teams training facility to lake nona. this is video from skywitness 9 of that 23 acre land where $20 million facilities will be billed. that place is expected to open in 2017 including 6 practice fields, and rehab center. we spoke with our central city coach and you will hear why he

investments since a new stadium because residents in delray beach are cleaning up after tornado damage this afternoon picked and e f0 tornado with winds of 85 miles an hour knocked over trees and for shingles off approved yesterday that but damage was not widespread and there were no reports of injuries. 2 people who escaped injury were inside his church and surveillance cameras were rolling as a storm moved right over it. you can see furniture being tossed around and there it goes. this is at st. mary's anglican church and there is a man standing outside a church door who barely made it inside to avoid getting sucked up in that tornado. >> i'm very fortunate i was in a driveway with a big palm trees fell andy other snapped very fortunate i wasn't in a courtyard when it did. >> "the chew" says about streets were destroyed. tiles are missing from their churches roof but they are thankful nobody was hurt. looks like a hurricane. >> could be a major tornado outbreak in a midwest next week

series of storms but we have a nice weekend here. >> pleasant sunshine this morning >> what is that? >> 65 degrees, west breeze at 10 miles an hour. we should stay on be southerly side of that next big storm we will talk more about next week and it is not here it will be in a midsection of that country but certainly a sign el nio is still in full force. right now, 60s across-the-board and it is a very nice afternoon picked one of their biggest changes today, huge is be like of humidity down to 27 percent of palm coast and we have lost about a full two thirds of our moisture that we had in the area yesterday. winds of the now -- out of a west and breezy and will make for a little of a wind chill for us overnight but beltran was will start to slack off after sunset. 48 winter haven, high clouds late -- lake one of us to disney kissimmee 46, mid 40 start orange cardy nash county except for that cool part --

station 4246 oviedo koji nava sanford fort mill and park and to parts of deland, 43. stetson. a cool night indy lake county area that arlington ridge area late temperatures leesburg 46 degrees, 3rd -- 43 deland and 42 in ocala. so, good-looking night tonight we will be a little below our normal which is in a low 50s for this point in they january we are starting off with a slow warming trend toward spring and summer. high clouds to this south generally be northwesterly flow is giving all of that to our south and we will keep mostly clear tonight future track is showing a high clouds billing through by 7:00 a.m. but no rainfall for thee upcoming weekend. we will get a break from that sunshine increasing during a letter have a big day tomorrow orlando, just an example will be very close to 70 during a middle part of me afternoon for pretty much an average late january day in eustis, debary's, lake harris, harris chain of lakes mark delora --

and generally on a warmer side thomas 70, 71 degrees just beginning of a warmer cycle taking us all away through at least be middle part of next week and that means we will keep temperatures steadily warming back up and it is going to be nice long beach is been a far cry from a rain of yesterday, daytona 65 degrees right now. because of storm system that blew through yesterday is moving offshore giving us some wave activities it moderate chop and a moderate to rip current risk water temperatures are cool. we don't have nearly as many people in this serve as we did one month ago. five-day forecast, where the weekend is always in view, temperatures right around 70 tomorrow a nice rebound on sunday and we will be closing in on 80 by monday next week. yes, back in a low 80s. could be as warm is 83 and a few spots and rain chances increasing a big storm system and a midwest them a more coming up over the next our. we will be other southerly side of it which is a good thing but it will bring a better chance

couple of days a potential rain like we just went through. vanessa, see you at 4:30 pickles orlando police say they have taken hundreds of guns off a streets and out of a wrong hands. coming up, crimes those guns were connected to. plus, thousands of fake hoverboards have been seized by authorities and next a new push to keep a popular but potentially dangerous gift out of your help it all new, driving has gotten so dangerous that villages put out a new video. >> we recommend putting -- using large eating -- large

hoverboard one of the hottest gives this past christmas but ever since then she made deliveries we have done stories on hoverboard hazards including pfizer, injuries for writers. burnout there is a fight to keep fake hoverboard out of your home. we're the only ones to get an inside look in the investigation. george collie live in washington. there have been 18 operations in the atlanta area that confiscated thousands of the state boards. >> reporter: yes, atlanta is the latest major u.s. city were criminals war caught trying to import these counterfeit hoverboard. u.s. customs and border

seized. officials explain why they want the hoverboard off the streets. they say some of them are powered by batteries that are not up to your standards and can catch fire. counterfeit ranting and locals. government's top consumer safety watchdog told me if you see a ul safety approval, you probably have a counterfeit hoverboard. >> there is no reason why any company should be putting a ul mark on the outside the product. that should tell consumers is something is wrong, whether counterfeit or just misleading i they should stay away from the product. >> reporter: tens of thousands of of these counterfeit hoverboard have been confiscated a major u.s. cities in recent weeks, including here in washington dc. live in washington, george collie, channel 9 eyewitness news. and we reported on the problems surrounding hoverboards earlier this month investigators say a hoverboard was charging when it exploded and caused house fire in port saint john. the homeowner tells us he received it as a christmas gift and that was first time he

the fire caused minimal damage. teenager known for avoiding jail because of his affluenza defense is back in u.s. jail following an escaped to mexico yes ahead, what's next for the teenager who investigators say has not shown any remorse. >> hired to protect guests at this hotel, what investigators say they found him doing. >> deputy say and osceola county family man was found -- tied up and held hostage for 12 hours. >> it's shocking.

developing at 4, a family terrorized for nearly 12 hours. >> brazen. very brazen. to do that in the middle of the day. and deputies say the suspects who tied them up and even

>> i hope to catch these guys. >> investigators say the suspect tied up the mother and daughter. >> and the mothers for them was kidnapped and beaten. investigators found him tied in the back of the family's car. the frightening ordeal began about this time yesterday at the family's home in the east lake reserve subdivision in saint cloud. steve barrett is there now picked it wasn't until early this morning that deputies were called to help. >> reporter: bob, it started at this time maybe after yesterday and look at this neighborhood behind me, you can see to get in they would have to get through that gate or over the wall that goes around this community. keep in mind, it would have been pouring rain at this time yesterday.>> the daughter indicated she was home watching television, her mother's boyfriend had just gotten home from running errands when 4 unknown suspects forced their way into the residence. >> deputies are now searching for those 4 gunman who terrorized a family for nearly 10 hours yesterday, crime the

makes me worried about my family and this is a good neighborhood that we get outside is coming in and you do not know. >> reporter: the victim say they were all tied up but at one point, 2 of the men took the man away and the mother's car. another 5 hours would pass before the men left the females behind. the man was found inside the car on a road nearby. >> the boyfriend was found in the backseat of the the mother's car, a short distance away at the -- on rumble road. he sustained non-life- threatening injuries but indicated to deputies that he had been matter -- battered by the suspects. >> reporter: neighbors say they did not see or hear a thing yet it's shocking. i'm still processing it because you go about your business raising your kid and all of a sudden your neighbor whose house you look at everyday is getting their house abated.

investigators about what the motive would have been for the crime and whether or not this family could have been targeted and putting together those answers from investigators coming up at 6:00. live in osceola county, steve barrett, channel 9 eyewitness news. and you can warn other families in the area about this violent crime, share this post from the wftv facebook page. number 2 tenures accused of carjacking a retired volusia county deputy and crashing his new car. 67-year-old richard conway says he was at a dumpster on wednesday behind the restaurant on s. atlantic avenue. in ormonde beach to dump greece. that is when the teams jumped into his new car, drove off the when he tried to stop them they dragged him a few feet. the 16-year-old boys were arrested yesterday after crushing the car into a volusia county investigator who was in an unmarked car. orlando man who was sued by the department of justice vortex ride is now barred from doing taxes. action 9 team was there back in

services as part of a fraud investigation. last year, jason stinson, a man who operated one of the businesses was sued for allegedly preparing fraudulent tax returns. today, federal court preliminarily barred him from doing any more taxes. he is also not allowed to operate a tax return visits. >> to central florida men are behind bars for allegedly defrauding medicaid out of more than half $1 million. investigators in orange county arrested keep daily and seminole county deputies arrested kenneth durden. daily has faced a judge who set bond at $200,000. authorities say the man along with 3 other people build medicaid for services not provided and then fraudulently used a doctors information to pull off the scheme. so-called affluenza teen is back in texas right now after dropping his fight to remain new mexico yes investigators say ethan couch who is serving probation for killing 4 people in a drunk driving crash tried to hide them is the with his mother.

he is being held at a juvenile detention center in the lone star state. >> reporter: so-called affluenza teen ethan couch back in the us. briefly facing a judge in texas today after being deported from mexico yesterday. >> he is believed to be home i can tell you that but certainly, he is like anybody else he is concerned about what the future holds for him. >> reporter: authorities say the 18-year-old went into hiding with his mother in mexico 2 months ago after this video surfaced, appearing to show couch at a boozy party. a possible violation of his tenure probation sentence for 2013 drunk driving crash that killed 4 people. couch who avoided a jail sentence with the controversial defense claims he was to spoil to know right from wrong and could now spend time behind bars if his case is transferred to the adult system. until that decision is made, he's being held in a juvenile detention center. >> the important thing is that

anywhere or mexico. >> reporter: while couch attorney claims he sorry, family victims -- victim's family say they are waiting for apology and justice. >> no hesitation or remorse or care. that is why i am here, man. i am not leaving until i can see something and i can get an understanding. >> reporter: marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. now cut his mother tanya is back in the us and out on bond. she is charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon. >> lawyers for the addicted boston marathon bomber have filed a notice of appeal. last year, 22-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 bombing spirit 3 people died, more than 260 people were injured. that appeal is believed to have something to do with the defenses argument that the trial should not have been held in boston. the woman who accused in janus weston of sexual assault

nfl's and tampa bay bucs investigations. we told you florida state university reached a $950,000 settlement with erika kinsmann. her attorney is now subpoenaed the nfl and tampa bay bucs investigations. they believed they could reveal more than what winston told them before the draft. orange county investigators say a security officer at it is the area hotel ripped off several guests he was hired to protect. >> and deputy say it went on for nearly one year before they caught the man in the act. mike manzoni found out there could be even more victims. >> reporter: we stopped by edward house and davenport this afternoon and no one answered the door but his wife called the cops on a spit orange county deputies say suspect days worked as a security guard at wyndham lake when avista resort near disney world when

rooms and stole $8000 in cash from guests according to this incident report we got a copy of, one of the guess here at this hotel says she walked in a room and found the security officer inside. she says when he left, she noticed her cash was gone. and investigators say that woman was not the only victim picked arrest papers say one guest left her purse outside the room while moving her luggage inside the deputies say he was in the home with the purse and when the woman came back and picked it up, $1500 was not inside. investigators say the theft started in march and continued until christmas day. deputies say a caught him when they put hidden cameras and a wallet filled with cash inside a hotel room. >> you get a little comfortable if you are there for a long time and so, but it is good to be cautious, you know. >> reporter: he faces a charge of grand theft by a hotel employee. and in lake when avista, orange

eyewitness news. we asked for a copy of the surveillance video that deputy say shows the man stealing the wallet and they tell us they are not releasing it yet. deputies say they get he could face more charges if they find more victims. more than 30 the cases of the zika virus in the us. all brought back here from traveling abroad. researchers are trying to better understand how the virus is linked to a birth defect which causes newborn babies to have abnormally small heads. the virus is spread by mosquitoes. federal health regulators are now turning away blood donations from travelers who have visited any of the regions where zika is prevalent. the food and drug administration says the goal is to protect the us blood supply. the virus has had an explosive spread in brazil with more than 4000 babies affected. >> we do not have a good sanitation system here in brazil. the climate, we have high levels of infestation of the

the disease faster. >> health officials say 20 people have contracted zika in puerto rico and the virgin islands. many pregnant women in the us who were scheduled to travel to the caribbean and latin america are now getting refunds from airlines and cruise operators. if you drive a nissan altima, listen to this, your car to be part of a massive recall. automaker is recalling about 850,000 altima's from the model years 2013-2015. due to a hood latch issue. the senses the hoods of some of those card can fly open while you're driving. so far no crashes or injuries have been reported and he senses a will contact car owners and fix the issue for free. next month. a bill that would make changes to adoption laws in florida is moving along both chambers and tallahassee. the proposal will allow judges to place the best interest of the children in adopting cases above the biological parents wishes. right now adoption agencies can at the courts to place children in homes of the birth parents

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the dow jones industrial average jumping more than 396 nasdaq of 407 and s&p 500 up nearly 47. orlando police a fear guns are on local streets this afternoon and out of the hands of violent criminals. on eyewitness news at noon, we tell you police got nearly 600 guns off orlando street in 2015 and that was a 10 percent increase from the year before. janai norman asked opd how they did it and found out who is recovering -- who they are recurring the guns from. >> reporter: equaling a gun and have every single day of 2015. >> we are working as hard as we can to get these guns off the streets. we got video of some of the 598 recovered guns. they include guns used in crimes, stolen guns, and guns people had illegally.

people with guns, coming in contact with people with more guns. it is alarming for us yes i read through police reports detailing when some of those guns were recovered. in one case, i read an officer saw a suspect it out of a car armed with a short rifle and "lean over the vehicles a rooftop pointing it toward the park. end quote picks back anytime we encounter somebody with a short barrel shotgun, rifle, those are rounds that are penetrating our body armor which is honestly a big concern for us. >> police a a lot of those guns were recovered from juveniles and many from convicted felons them including one who was out on bond for felony murder. despite efforts to get guns and criminals off streets, lieut. chad says sometimes the offenders are right back out there and sometimes quickly armed with egg new gun. >> they know where to go. they know who to talk to. it easy for them to procure

norman, channel 9 eyewitness news. the 598 guns recovered in 2015 was a 10 percent increase over 2014. police say handguns were by far the majority of the firearms the recovered. state officials hope a $10 million global advertising campaign will bring big business to florida in the coming years. lawmakers gave a $.5 million to enterprise florida to push the campaign that uses florida the future is here as a slogan. enterprise florida contributed with another $1.5 million. the organizations is the campaign will be the best among all states across the country. >> every single day and the trade magazines that without a boring ads from pennsylvania, new york, they are boring. texas, it is boring. we will be fresh and show that we are multicultural, multilingual. >> and not boring. the new brand will appear soon business journals and an online ads and will go out on radio and television. >> the future is here. this afternoon several organizations across florida

research and tobacco-related diseases. the florida department of health announced more than $16 million in research funding was awarded to 17 different projects. the money will be used to provide the venting, diagnosis, and treatment to develop cures for cancer and those tobacco- related diseases. hunters participating in this year's python challenge at turned and 66 burmese time -- python so far the latest come from the florida wildlife commission. experts say cooler temperatures may have been helping hunters. the challenge still has more than 2 weeks to go before it ends on february 14. it is estimated there are now thousands of pythons in the everglades. thank you for that tidbit, bob. >> anytime i can help. >> how -- they were eating all the rabbits. how will you do that? >> and other critters. el nio all kinds of wacky impacts. >> what a weekend. >> we will not spend it

how about that? high clouds downtown and fantastic 65 degrees we are the daytime high, temperatures elsewhere 64 new smyrna and 66 in cocoa beach. getting ready for the images art festival at new smyrna beach. i will be there tomorrow. say hello. temperatures will be cooling down gradually tonight. still a westerly breeze and the cold front we just got did not have a lot of cold air with it just 8 pacific hermas cooling is down close to average. high clouds streaming in and that is a sign of a very active subtropical jet stream. when we have clouds like that, usually it is an el nio cycle in january. but the temperatures will stay on the cool side tonight. future track is still keeping the clouds spinning through tonight and they will help to mitigate our cold temperatures tonight. keep it in the mid to upper 40s for most of us. not expecting any frost or freeze. getting more sunshine back by tomorrow all the way through sunday morning.

will keep it dry all the way through early next week as we get toward the middle part of next week, we will be watching a very powerful el nio storm system across the midsection of the country and it will also bring us a chance for some rain toward wednesday, possibly into thursday and if the front is lazy enough we may have rain is friday. we will be flashing that out as we get closer. temperatures tonight, mid 50s and upper 50s by 7 pm just a hint of a early wind chill but the wind will die down late tonight when i see you at 11:00, we will be in the upper 40s the lower 50s and eventually back into the upper 40s to mid 40s across downtown orlando. low 40s to the north and certainly no frost or freeze widespread potential if anything it will be well to the north. in the afternoon tomorrow back into the upper 60s daytime highs along the beaches 70 melbourne and palm bay cocoa beach 68 merritt island 69 titusville also the same. there is the art festival and

day for you. rolex 24 is going to be starting. starts at noon going all night and is noon sunday, breezy and sunshine. 69 degrees and temperatures for saturday night in the lower 50s. we have had some really lousy weekends as i recall, january into february is a tough period of time forgetting nice weather for 2-day thin rope this weekend we will be okay. tonight orlando, a cooler evening, 45 degrees pleasantly dry and lots of sunshine and we will hit 70. user 5 state forecast, tran 10, from 70 to 74 to 78 and there we go, there is a degrees again by tuesday before we increase our rain chances by the middle part of the week. icflorida.com if you want to head out to the festival of the arts. there details a we will have more on the website and of course a great we can for outdoor event. of for the first time orlando commissioner opens up about how hurt daughter died 5 months ago.

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