the longest serving justice of the u.s. supreme court has died. the debate in washington over who will take his place. antonin scalia has died at the age of 79. he has been a supreme court justice since ronald regan appointed him in 1986. his death leaves the high court without its conservative majority, setting up a confrontation for his replacement. >> reporter: associate justice

apparent natural causes at a resort in west texas. he reportedly died in his sleep on the trip, found dead this morning when he didn't show up for breakfast. president obama said this about the justice. >> justice scalia dedicated his life to the corner stone of our democracy, the rule of law. tonight we honor his extraordinary service to our nation and remember one of the towering legal figures of our time. >> reporter: scalia's death leaves president obama weighing when to nominate a successor, a decision that sparked a political struggle drawing in congress and the presidential candidates. >> getting nominated to the supreme court is the culmination of a dream, of course. and i'm greatly honored that the president would have such confidence in me. >> reporter: the immediate impact of his death for the current term means the justices will now be divided 4-4. if

lower court opinion remains in place. cases where the current court was expected to split 5-4 include disputes over abortion and immigration policy. tonight mitch mcconnell and the republican presidential candidates ted cruz and marco rubio say the nomination should fall to the next president. it would be unprecedented in recent history for the court to have a vacancy for the entire year. justice scalia leaves behind a wife and nine children. we have much more on his life's work. click his story on the home page. here in central florida, the man suspected in a triple shooting that left a local college student dead is now in place. we first brought you this story as it was breaking on eyewitness news this morning. we

you starting with mike man01i who spent out police spent several hours interviewing the suspect after he turned himself in. >> reporter: the search for lamont postel ended around 5:00. >> the suspect had a friend contact one of the detectives and said that he wanted to turn himself in. >> reporter: police met postel in a park lot and arrest the him on the spot. he's arrest came less than 24 hours after he shot and killed 23-year-old student johnson here at the indigo lakes golf club. [ screaming ] eyewitness it. k. connor shot this video as the bullets shot into a crowd of party goers. it started when a fight broke out inside the clubhouse and spilled out into the parking lot.

postel also shot bcu students justine cunningham and tray williams. police say both of them will be okay. >> it's denver stating. >> reporter: eric hood played football with johnson at bcu. he went to a private vigil at the school earlier tonight. he last saw johnson just a couple days ago. >> he was always smiling, cracking joke, good guy. and it's just sad that happened like that. police say postel faces one count of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. and a message from johnson's mom earlier today she was begging him to and tonight she wants him to know the damage he's left behind. social media leaked the news of of her son's death before police had a chance to tell her.

south florida today, she's trying to understand what happened. >> found out through instagram. >> reporter: johnson had a history of avoiding fights, she said. she told us how badly she wanted the accused shooter brought to justice. >> i'm not mad, i'm not holding no grudges. i just want him to turn himself in. >> oh! [ yelling ] >> reporter: underneath the yelling and the fear caught on this camera, connor could hear six gunshots back-to-back. >> oh, hell no! oh, my god! oh, my god! [ screaming ] >> reporter: he was trying to pick up a friend but he ended up in the middle of a situation he calls ridiculous and senseless. >> shots started breaking out, kids were diving into the ditch, people were getting in anonymous cars. just trying to get away from what was going on. >> reporter: johnson's mom says

5-month-old daughter, now without a father. >> ggest concern is johnson's 5-month-old daughter, now without a father. >> temperatures have been up and down once again tomorrow. tonight things are feeling cooler. certified meteorologist george waldenberger is tracking the dropping temperatures right now! and some parts of central florida are gonna be back in the 30s! >> that's by morning. a few neighborhoods. all in the 40s at this point. in orlando, 50 degrees, cocoa beach 57. this is downtown orlando, into the 40s after midnight. and we still have about seven more hours to cool even further. i'll have a

valentine's day's morning temperature. the six republican presidential candidates who remain standing finished squaring off in their first debate since the new hampshire primaries. it was held in greenville, south carolina, making it their is the ninth and the 91st a southern state. bush tied with cruz. he and the frontrunner donald trump were exchanging jabs over how they would defeat isis. >> i don't know how he knows what i said because he doesn't speak spanish. [ laughter ] >> and the other point i would make -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> he is so weak on illegal and everybody knows it. >> this is the standard operating procedure to disparage me. >> spend more money on

>> good times on the debate stage. this was the last presidential debate ahead of the south carolina primaries which take place in one week. and on the democrats' side, hillary clinton and bernie sanders spent the day campaigning in nevada. the next competition will be next saturday's nevada caucus. saernlds is capitalizing -- sanders is capitalizing on his momentum. clinton is rallying for a comeback. bill clinton will be soon in south florida for the former secretary of state. he is taking hillary clinton's place at a campaign stop monday in palm beach county. clinton will be at the port of palm beach starting at 2:00 pm. if you can't make it, we can, and we'll have a crew let you know what happens. >> get all the latest on the 2016 presidential candidates. just download our free wftv news app. police are now collecting

deadly nightclub shooting near orlando's international drive. there have been reports the attack could be tied to drug operations in puert row rico. two people were ricked, several others injured. >> the idea of somebody being sent here to retaliate is not too far fetched. >> police have arrested one man, jose lopez, charged with carrying a concealed weapon and tampering with evidence. the manhunt for a triple murder suspect has ended tonight. law enforcement agencies across the state have been searching for 25-year-old jamal smith since last month. he was caught in miami thursday night. he was the third suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of four people in lakeland.

survived. a daytona beach man will be able to sleep peacefully now that he knows his grandson is safe and sound. that child was with his mother and is her boyfriend, an inmate who escaped, when marshals caught them yesterday in kentucky. >> bullock and quigley are both facing charges. almost 150 firearms. sheriffs deputies in orange county collected those weapons yesterday during a buyback event in orlando. they gave out gift cards in exchange for those guns. the goal is promote responsible gun ownership. >> we're seeing a lot of people that have no more use for the firearm, they just don't want it in their house anymore.

chance to turn over weapons no questions asked. deputies say of the 145 guns recently collected, four have been reported stolen. investigators now continuing to search for a man they say has been on the run for 20 years. these are pictures of douglas adams, accused of sexually abusing a child. picture on the left what he looks like now. he was supposed to turn himself into police in the late '90s. investigators say he has now assumed the identity of a dead man. we have shared more information about him on our wftv facebook page to help police in their search. for days we've been telling you about the dangers of the zika virus. now officials have another warning tonight. the new concern from the mosquito-borne illness that's been spotted in and hundreds of coast. we found out why they were there.

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>> reporter: the world health organization says cases are appearing in conjunction with the spread of the zika virus to 34 countries. the condition affects infants, some born with abnormally small heads. >> our goal is to protect pregnant women. >> reporter: researchers say they're seeing a strong link between zika and birth defects of the brain. now the cdc is looking at weather zika causes miscarriage. samantha was pregnant when she visited her husband's family in honduras before the warning. >> the biggest thing was knowing that i was pregnant and is hearing all the different studies come out. >> reporter: when samantha came home, she tested positive. she miscarried at nine weeks. the placenta always tested positive. >> his sister is pregnant right now. so we're very concerned for her and her baby. >> mosquito control plans to

in the next couple weeks to exchange ideas how to fight zika. we've got a section on our website to answer your questions about the virus. covering bravard county, a woman won't be able to sleep in her home tonight because there's a car in her kitchen. around 1:00 am a driver lost control then slammed through the walls of her home. sophia says the same thing happened in december and there have been two other close calls. >> this is the second time that they've actually gotten into the house. there's been two incidents where they have also come through the hedgerow. and they made it up to my concrete slab. >> troopers say the driver claims another car cut her off, causing her to veer off the road.

the burmese python challenge comes to an end tomorrow. 102 have been caught since the hunt started last month. tens of thousands of pythons have been decimating native mammal populations in the everglades. this challenge has set a new record. the final tal segoing to be announced later this month. a man with diminished mental health is missing tonight, and deputies need your help finding him. robert williams was last seen yesterday morning when he left his home on laura street. he was riding a bmx style bike and detectives say he does not have his medication. tens of millions of americans are facing bone-chilling temperatures this weekend. in some places the weather is causing deadly

a massive p on a pennsylvania interstate -- pileup on a pennsylvania interstate. and in buffalo, facing temperatures that feel like 30-below. lake erie is freezing over. and tens of thousands of sharks have migrated to the southeast coast of florida. each speck is a shark. and they're just a stone's throw away from the coast of palm beach county, riviera beach. a professor says in this frame alone, there are 157 sharks. >> so interesting because there were hardly any south from miami, then from palm beach, it was loaded. tens of thousands of sharks. >> experts say every winter, thousands of black tips migrate along the atlanta coast searching for warmer waters and it coincides with their mating

>> love is in the air this valentine's day! we're almost there. and it's getting cooler overnight. we were at 70 today by the way. >> very nice! >> and now we have 40s all over the place. palm coast, clairemont. and orlando, we're just about there at 50. widespread 40s early morning. if you're in marion county, a little colder. cocoa beach, palm bay, a little more mild. the low 50s. all in all, cooler than normal. in orlando this'll be the temperature just after 7:00 am when the sun is coming up. downtown around 45 degrees. orlando, lake buena vista, 44. ache cooler . this is the temperature after 7:00 am. if you're starting your day at

from 5:00 to 10:00 am. look at these cold temperatures. in the upper 30s. lake orange, macintosh, we could have some patchy frost but limited in the far northern tier of marion county. low 40s pierce, mid-40s from daytona beach. a l gusty along the coast. changes for tomorrow, we'll be clear early on, 6:00 am. but watch what happens. you can see the clouds, and a few isolated showers along our coast for the late morning. and once they push inland, they fall apart, the clouds will move inland. so plan on more cloud cover tomorrow. and the highest chance for a brief shower will be limited to the coastline. with the increase in crowds, not quite as warm today.

leesburg. at the speedway at daytona beach, the 500 qualifying at 1:15. a slight chance for isolated rain. with a stray shower tomorrow afternoon, we have a higher chance for rain as the next front approaches. that will be monday night into early tuesday morning. we don't have a severe weather risk. maybe a few bumps of thunder. your 5-day, tomorrow rain chance 10% near the coast. more clouds and 69 degrees for the old florida if he felt. we'll have details. tuesday we're back to 80 degrees. wednesday, thursday, friday, even saturday, all

is it truly a friendly if it's not friendly? orlando city travelled to jacksonville tonight to continue their preseason with a match against the nasl's armada. the first meeting between the two. that didn't keep the team supporters

pregame not so pleasantries. about 6,000 on hand at community first park, including a large contingent clad in purple. gallardo used to wear purple. the goalkeeper for the armada. kaka shows the folks he's pretty good. buries the free kick! nothing gallardo can do about that one. the 2nd half, here come the armada! crushes it into the upper 90. game tied at 1. rips it from 25 out. earl edwards, nothing he can do. armada would hold on from there. >> thought there was a lot of positives. considering we're only two weeks in. i was really pleased with some of the stuff. could have been conceivably more

was a lot of good pleasing performances. the long cold winter is over for nascar fans. the sprint cup cars were at daytona beach for an actual race tonight. >> reporter: all these drivers have done since november is test, practice, and drive the speed limit like the rest of us. tonight they had a chance to to meet for nearly $200,000. meet for nearly $200,000. vickers replaced tony stewart, only raced twice last year because of blood clots. 24 laps in, he slips in a turn, slams the wall. he would be okay but six other cars take damage. a little bumping on the backstretch, jimmie johnson through the glass. fifth straight year he wrecks out of the unlimited. final laps, 15

edwards started it, busch also involved. that means overtime! nascar's new rules making their debut. and on the first green/white checkered, another wreck on the backstretch ends it! hamlin takes advantage, recommending his no. -- rolling his no. 11 car to victory lane. >> we have had a great success in this event. and for whatever reason, i've just always been given great cars by joe gibbs racing. but this victory couldn't be possible without my teammates. they push me at the right team. matt was committed to me on the bottom line and carl at the end as well. we win as one because we work together so well. >> the sprint cup cars will be back on the track tomorrow for qualifying. only 40 cars will make it into the field for the 500. and ken griffy jr. was nameds official starter for the

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