it is video that infuriated thousands of you. this day care director caught on camera slamming a child to the ground. >> i didn't think she was --. >>reporter: new tonight, her old boss told us why he department think that woman would ever work with children again. we spent the day digging deeper into that suspect's background. >> with we told you yesterday that the director of the children's palace learning center in clermont, was arrested after this cell phone video surfaced.

been accused of a crime at a district attorney care. jeff deal spoke with her former boss today. >>reporter: for about five years, and then the court records indicate what she was doing, she was stealing payments made by parents, you can see some of the totals here, totals tens of thousands of dlafrs, he was surprised to learn she was work here at another day care and more surprised by what he saw in the video. this was the video that sparked outrage, police say the woman seen striking and throwing the 4-year-old boy down is kimberly reid. she's the director of children's palace learning center in clermont, police arrested her on child abuse charges. >> i didn't think she was capable of handling that. >>reporter: her former boss was stund when he saw the video and surprise she was working in a day care. back in 2007 and 2012, she was

to grand theft and scheme to defraud charges. he believes she got away with $50,000 by stealing cash payments from parents. >> we have a credit card machine, and she would say, the credit card machine is not working, we just need cash here. >>reporter: child care centers are required to background check care takers, most violent crimes, sex crimes and crimes against children, automatically disqualify an applicant. in this case, dcf says reid's qualifying paperwork was in the children's palace file, but now the agency is questioning if the paperwork is valid. the owner of children's palace moved to chicago to open a day care there, and with reid's arrest, agreed to give up her license here. he hopes this time, reid will be kept away from kids. >> i don't believe that she should ever, ever be able to work in a day care center. >>reporter: and we left messages for the owner in chicago to see

but have not heard back. she is expected to go before a judge in orange county on friday. jeff deal, channel 9, eyewitness news. and we are following breaking news right now, out of orange county, where a grand jury has just indicted a former security guard accused of raping and killing a woman at the apartment where he worked. channel 9's cathy belich was there. you got the autopsy report on the victim. >>reporter: very disturbing, bob, it says that she had trauma to her neck and chest, she had injuries basically all over her body, including to one of her hands, scratches on her hands. it also appears to show that her blood alcohol level was 0.229 and the legal limit for driving 0.08. orange county county judge made the official against security guard for the october murder of sasha. after hearing from state

>> at this time, i'd ask the court to accept the indictment to order thaer the defendant be held on no bond, pending further order of the trial court. >>reporter: video of the 27-year-old stumbling through the streets of downtown orlando alone after 1:00 o'clock this morning last october. she made it back to uptown place where she lived. video there shows her getting assistance from him, minutes or hours later, orlando detectives say he strangled her with his bare hands in her apartment. he had torn and cut her clothes and used her bathroom cleaning products to try to destroy his dna evidence on her body and disposed of her clothes. now, he was charged with second-degree murder, he's now facing a first-degree murder indictment and orlando police had said that he had raped her, he is at this point charged with

teachers in orange county are upset about how the state just evaluated their work, evaluations from last january say they were effective, this year, only 2% got that high mark. the teachers union says it's because the district changed how certain work would factor into those state evaluations. >> teachers in orange county have some of the most difficult work assignments in the stay of florida, they do an excellent job and they deserve to be treated with respect and fairness. >> 97% of the district's teachers were considered effective. charter schools could get double the amount of construction money, as traditional schools next year or charters may get nothing at all. the two sides are preparing to fight over millions of tax dollars. the fight is renewing questions about how the money is best spent. >>reporter: elementary in orlando was built in the 1950s, but recently got a new look, the

>> most of them require either a complete demolition, and rebuild, which is what we're doing in many cases. >>reporter: that's why schools are ready to fight for millions in construction money. some lawmakers want more for charters, the governor wants the same for both. we asked the carter school ceo why -- thousands of fewer students and schools. >> in general, charter schools do receive significantly less funding from state and federal sources than a traditional school. >>reporter: i lean wilkins says charter schools want an equal share, but traditional schools say they face years of cuts and forced to raise money on their own. the district points out that many charters lease their facilities instead of bidding them. >> if they go out of business, then that third party continues to retain ownership of that property. so the state really has nothing that comes back to them, should they close. >>reporter: numbers from the state show 21 charter schools

it's unclear how much tax money they received. >> there's been some unfortunate cases, but again, when you look amount. >>reporter: the two sides say they want to work together, but with limited funding, there's likely to be a fight. channel 9, eyewitness news. we won't know exactly how much each side gets until a budget is passed later in the year. comedian bill cosbys was back in a pennsylvania courthouse today, fighting sexual assault charge. thrown out. claiming he had a deal with the former district attorney there, more than ten years ago, that in exchange for his testimony, in a civil suit, no criminal charges would be filed. the current da says there is no record of any agreement and a judge will have to decide. the friends and family of a former fsu football player who died during practice are now urging lawmakers to make sure that his family gets the nearly 2 million dollars owed to them from a wrongful death settle. devon darling died in 2001,

several people gathered at the state capitol to show their support for a bill which would allow the legislature to approve that settlement. >> nothing can bring him back, no amount of money, 1.8 million isn't worth the life. but like everyone said, just the close shur that we're looking for. we have to relive this every year. >> right now, the florida legislature must sign off on any amount higher than $200,000, so far, the bill has not been heard by any legislative committee. daytona beach police say this homeless camp was really a center for crime. at 4:00, under cover offices -- the police chief told you there wasn't much his officers could do to stop it. >>reporter: in some cases, there were, they were able to make some arrests n other cases, as two officers, under cover,

mobs, one, either they couldn't blow their cover and make an arrest, or two, they just got no help from anyone, including when a 62-year-old man was punched out cold, for trying to help a teenager. >> if you refuse to go, then i have no other alternative than to make an arrest. >>reporter: despite making 25 arrests at vagrants occupied the sidewalks for six weeks, police say there were plenty of arrests they could not make. two undercover officers told their story today off camera, explaining how a sort of under ground government was established in the encampment, run by thugs. >> look at the people, certified gang members, 20 felony arrests, young people pulling up in a girlfriend. >>reporter: police chief spoke on behalf of his embedded officers, who witnessed that woman pimp out from the back of a car. drugs being sold and homeless people being victimized by gang members who demand money from them. a 62-year-old man was knocked

protect a homeless teen. by the time cops arrived, thugs had threatened those who might finger them to the cops. >> the camp goons wondered around and said, the cops with r comes. have? fell. >>reporter: and that's the way that one ended, in fact, they're still considering prosecution. but the chief did say today, told me that the delay in getting the folks out here was that the county just didn't have any beds to put them in. now, that they have plenty of beds, the people start to congress re -- reporting live in daytona beach, steve barrett, channel 9, witness news. president barack obama sat down with republican leetders in the house and senate today in hopes of finalizing an agenda for the final year. he met with paul ryan and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell,

make progress despite republicans having their own agenda. 9 investigates whether the city of st. cloud is breaking the law by using millions of dollars you pay in water fees, to prop up the general fund. >> there's no questions. >> new at 6:00; why the city manager told us his team will continue moving money around. >> a federal agency wants to lower the blood alcohol limit, ahead, how they say they can prove this move will save lives. and the seminole tribe is spending thousands of dollars to lobby the state for a new gambling deal. >> i'm investigating the renewed push for expanded gambling in florida, and asking what it means for dog parks like this one in melbourne. : well, not one, this will be here thursday, but two storm systems, on the way, that we're tracking all the way through the

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billions of dollars, thousands of jobs. that's the promise of expanded gambling in florida. >> but 9 investigates discovered a special side deal for one part of the state, and investigative reporter christopher heath shows us, one provision could keep dogs running. >>reporter: a freshly repaved, parking lot. at the card tables, the dogs still run, but they're not the draw. this is gambling in florida. >>reporter: the seminole tribe and the push for a new compact to replace the current one which is set to expire. the tribe has been on ad blitz, releasing three difrn spots.

billion dollar over 7 years by allowing it to expand its operations. >> they remain critical to our future. >>reporter: but the deal with the tribe also includes a special carve out for operations, outside of the tribe. dog tracks, in south florida slot machines. the dogs would keep running, inside. melbourne and other tracks wouldn't be eligible at first but could easily make the slots. kerry teal is the head of the greyhound advocacy group. continuing to have the dogs run is cruel. >> and dogs are suffering, because of this antiquated mandate. >> there is a push to allow wording to allow dog tracks to continue with the poker and the option of slots in the future, but right now, it has not been passed, as the state is trying to sdried what it wants do -- to decide what it wants to do. bob and martha.

housing and urban development may soon have to verify the income of people living in public housing to. today, an amendment passed forcing public housing residents to reveal how much their make and their assets. 25,000 florida families living in housing paid for by taxpayers, were making 6 figure salaries. the obama administration is pushing for more funding now, to fight the nation's heroin epidemic. it wants 1 billion dollars to expanded access to treatment for the next fiscal year. the obama administration wants another 90 million dollars for additional programs to help state and local governments create drug prevention strategies. the cdc says more than 28,000 people died in 2014 o fr opiates like heroin. today, nasa gave a look at theca goe that will go on the first test flight of the rocket

13 cube satellites will deployed. the sls will be carrying orion, the first mission will be in 2018. boy, it will be exciting around here. >> it is. >> lots of launches to crank up. >> you can see it at the kennedy space complex. the space shuttle is fantastic. it's a great day to do whatever you want to do. today. the day slowly getting longer. we're past the winter solstice. 80 in clermont and 82 in ocala, ground hog's day today. winds out of the east at 10-12 miles per hour. winds will subside later tonight, giving us a blanket of patchy fog developing.

all the recipes for low clouds or fog. 66 deland, patchy fog for palm coast. temperatures in orlando, we'll start out with the clouds until late morning can then warming back up, back close up to 84 which was our high earlier today. could get to 85. fends on how soon the sun breaks through the clouds tomorrow. 79 in daytona beach. the rain to the north, that is this storm system, which is bringing a threat for severe weather, these are all tornado watches, all the way from the gulf cost northward towards the great lakes. the front will be here by the end of the day tomorrow. which means as we get closer to thursday, going to be our turn for heavy rainfall. inteez here in february,sea breeze here in february. 10:00 o'clock in the morning. this is faster than the others. we take a lot of different solutions, and come up with what

later towards the lunch hour, towards the drive time thursday. we're going to have some heavy thunderstorms, possibly a severe weather threat. it won't be as high as the others. thursday late did n the day watching that. late saturday, through early sunday, another storm system, this low will not be a front, it will be a storm in the gulf of mexico. saturday, hopefully moving it out for sunday kickoff. warm, humid tomorrow and then a spring like day turns into thunderstorms on thursday. late in the day, friday, looks good. saturday, especially late in the day through sunday modern, rain moves right back in. wre still fast and furious, still tracking more on how much heavy rain we could get, martha in the next half hour.

news at 6:00, the city of orlando is set to give ucf 75 million dollars in incentives towards the proposed downtown campus. we are asking if the it will help the get the project off the ground. we found out that an employee was handing out fraudulent driver's licenses. what they told us when we asked what the licenses are being used for. >> this man has been fighting for his share of what he says is his ex's lottery winnings for a decade. why the legal analyst says it's unlikely he will ever seen one

new at 5:00, there's i a new push to lower the lower blood alcohol level. the national transportation safety board wants it down to 0-05. channel 9 spoke with the ntsb chairman, and mike, apparently there's proof that this change would save lives here in central florida. >>reporter: yeah, bob, exactly research shows that lowering it to 0.05 will prevent deadly highway crashes. a lot of people say that they'd be in favor of that, the ntsb says that alcohol is to blame for about a third of all highway crashes nationwide. highway deaths, i should say. they say it's time to stop that so stop so many people from dying on the roads. the feds started pushing to lower the

but that decision is up to state legislatures and only hawaii has considered a bill and that hadn't made it out of committee. we talked with a handful of people who say they would be in favor of it and say it's a good move. >> kind of hard to tell, had a few drink, how drunk you are, really. so yeah. >> actually, i think it might not be that bad of an idea. because i think there are already a lot of fatalities across the country. >>reporter: something that's important to note here, the ntsb says this is not just a highway problem, or a road problem, they say that they're noticing impairment in a lot of airplane crashes, in pilots, they say that problem has even gotten worse over the years, too. i should also mention that i reached out to orlando police, and the florida highway patrol, both of them tell me that they will continue to enforce dui laws, but they don't want to comment on any proposed changes,

orlando, mike -- channel 9, yns news. he needs help with his own v.a. care. >> he told us he has struggled to get adequate treatment. george taylor, the founder of the group is dealing with skin cancer, breathing and foot problems along with ptsd. he was getting great keer in viera until the past year. >> so much pain, last night, that i literally had to go home and get in the bed at 5:00 o'clock in the evening, i'm used to working in the evening. >> we contacted the orlando v.a. medical center about taylor's case, but for privacy reasons, they said they couldn't comment. we were told someone would be contacting him directly. we are on top of breaking news for eyewitness news at 6:00 tfrmths multimillion dollar incentive package the city of orlando is offering to help make ucf downtown campus a reality. >> plus, we're asking the police in maitland how they plan to

school threats on social media. >> a warning that the city's general fund is being propped up by money from your utility bills, why they're transferring the in 1934, steak 'n shake decided the world didn't need another hamburger. it needed a steakburger. so they used

quick seared to seal in the flavor ... ... you'll only get from a steakburger. steak 'n shake, home of the original steakburger. channel 9, eyewitness news continues right now at 6:00. >> plans to expand the university of central florida into downtown orlando, just got a major boost. breaking tonight at 6:00. the multimillion dollar donation from the city that could help get this campus built. a 75 million dollar