counselor has been able to work at two other clinics since the allegations surface. the department of health has been on this case since someone told them about the at -- allegations in 2013. >> tim barber joins us live now. the counselor was hired after being accused. >> reporter: he worked for this company for a few months and then another clinic. despite the allegations in brevard county listed in this report, he still has his license and he has not been charged with a crime. adrienne lincoln has worked at this clinic since 2004. he has been accused of molesting a patient. i called him and asked at his house but no one answered. according to the report, the female accuser started seeing him for depression and anxiety in 2011 when secure a work that

it said -- he said the sessions usually ended with a hug which escalated to massages at his home. things really spiraled out of control when the counselor drove the patient to a park, got naked, and tried to have sex with her. the department found out in a written complaint in 2013. deputies were notified in 2014. he was able to get two more jobs is counselor after that. the counselors fighting the allegations in court. they cannot stop him from practicing until the case is over. brevard county deputies told me they could not find this case. the state officials say the woman at the center of this complaint is cooperating. tim barber, channel 9 eyewitness news. orange county voters will decide whether to change how tax money gets spent. last night, the review commission voted to move forward with a proposal to open up money to private applicants. field sutton found out opponents are worried the

-- quickly and be too difficult to fix is something goes wrong.>> -- >> reporter: taxes bring in $200 million a year on terrorism. there are 23 projects funded by that money, things like the citrus bowl, the orange county convention center, and the dr. philip center.>> let's give the people a voice in this process. >> reporter: fred brummer voted to put the issue on the november ballot. your vote would be whether to force county commissioners to open that money to others. local leaders decided on their own to poorer mac -- pour millions into the center, but the argument is pretty simple. what if you wanted to redevelop the land next-door and try to draw in more tourists? supporters say you should have the opportunity to apply for some of that money yourself.>> the proposal requires that in that decision process that they be open and transparent.>> reporter: orange county's comptroller argues she is open

process is not been transparent and there hasn't been very significant and serious oversight is not correct. >> reporter: teresa jacobs -- jacobs recently spoke against this plan during a meeting of the tourism community -- committee they serve on. in orange county, neil stratton, channel 9 eyewitness news. we asked mayor dyer and maynard -- major -- mayor jacobs to stay their opulent -- state their opposition. we're still waiting. taxpayers are kicking and $10 million for a daytona international speedway project in 2014, volusia county and daytona beach approved $40 million in tax incentives -- incentives for the one daytona project for shopping and entertainment development. doug daniels says the project is not merit another $10 million in incentives.>> what about this project makes in the

for us to pit and $50 million? >> daniels was the only councilman to vote no. speedway officials say the incentives were tax credits already factored into the property. a 19-year-old is in custody after being accused of shooting up a home yesterday. witnesses told police they saw van lewis got junior -- junior opened fire. scott said he was not in the area at the time of the incident. now the race for the white house. despite his third straight victory in the republican presidential race, donald trump isn't going any easier on his challengers. they are fighting back. greg warmoth has been following the race. trump is bashing sen. ted cruz again.>> reporter: yes, trump has a 22 point lead in nevada.

>> i grab and grab and grab. i get greedy. now we are going to get greedy for the united states. we're going to grab and grab.>> reporter: donald trump is not holding back his mounting attacks on sen. ted cruz.>> senators cruise and rubio, who tied for the second contest in a row, are lobbying criticism.>> if donald became president, he doesn't know what he would do.>> he has an outline what we he would -- what he would do on any issue. on the democratic side, hillary clinton gained the endorsement of harry reid.>> i won an election about real change that will make a difference in people's lives. >> reporter: clinton is heading into this primary with a dominant lead. bernie sanders is already looking ahead to the next

clinton was the inevitable candidate. i think we have a real shot. >> reporter: south carolina primary is on saturday. while clinton is expected to win, sanders hopes to slow her momentum in states like colorado, minnesota, massachusetts, and his home state, vermont. abc news will have more on the race and what trumps rivals need to be -- need to do to catch up. that was george estevez. gov. rick scott deflected speculation about the coming up possible running mate with donald trump.>> what i'm focusing on is my job here. i have three years left. i want to add more jobs.>> gov. scott has praised but not

scott was listed as one him of five potential candidates for trump, who one the nevada caucus. the sheriff's office in marion has created a new safe haven for domestic violence survivors. it is located at the marion county jail. bar price spoke with the county about the new program. victims could fill out injunctions against their abusers under the protection of deputies. >> that was one of the points of the whole thing so that those victims can go inside those stores and file those injunctions while they are in privacy.>> it is giving us the opportunity to keep a lot more victim safe.>> reporter: cindy turner was a domestic violence victim should -- victim. she wants to protect them. she was grateful that the sheriff's office was able to create this room to help victims of domestic violence.>>

weekends, there is nowhere for these victims to go to obtain an injunction. marion county is one of the few counties in the state that actually have after our injunctions that you can apply for.>> reporter: victims used to have to apply paperwork and sit at this desk in the same area where jail visitation is done, very overwhelming for them. >> after of victim is traumatized, it's a lot to go in a room where there's already 50 people in their talking on video visitation.>> reporter: the majority are victims -- women with kids. there will be toys and books to entertain the kids. the doors in the new room have locks and an emergency exit which victims can use to escape the person they are trying to get away from shows up. officials say it opened earlier this month and it is already making a difference.>> two weeks ago, i had a victims

>> reporter: officials told us last year there were more than 2000, close to 2000, rather, injunctions in marion county. this room has paid off in other ways, to back. this the other day, a woman was inside filling out an injunction on her husband. he showed up while he was being detained by deputies, she was able to build the paperwork out and get out of there. myrt price, channel 9. a coast guard capt. has admitted they found a body during their search for the cargo ship el faro but they did not collected. the ship got caught in hurricane joaquin's path. hearings are underway to figure out what went wrong. de croisset they put a tracker on the body so they could locate it later after they look for survivors but it didn't work. 33 crew members died aboard the ship including a man from orlando. aviation officials want your help tonight for the expansion plans now underway at orlando international airport. tomorrow, the greater orlando aviation authority will seek community input on the $1.3

program at oi a. the meetings at the us extension center exhibit hall from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. -- 8:30 p.m. claremont will have to boil its water to the next few days. and alert is for folks living north of why 92 -- 192 to 474. a loss in water pressure at a water treatment plant -- plant forced the alert. it is expected to last at least two more days. breaking within the past 20 minutes, skywitness 9 is over lake county where searches underway for a boater in lake bo claire. the orange county sheriff's office is leading the effort. these are live pictures from skywitness 9. lake county deputies are also helping out. we are trying to get more details for you and we will have and up a coming up on eyewitness news at six. at this hour we are monitoring the

of a falcon nine rocket from cape canaveral. orr the rocket is set to carry a communications satellite into orbit. why tonight's launch may be another step toward an era of reusable rockets. a battle between apple and the fbi over unlocking the san bernardino killers iphone is heating up. the newest government official pleading with the tech giant to stop the legal showdown. they are called sovereign citizens. they claim united states law doesn't apply to them. next, nine investigates discovered how they are the -- their overwhelming local

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the fbi says their domestic numbers are growing. sovereign citizens who separate themselves from the government. christopher heath discovered their actions and up costing taxpayers millions each year.>> reporter: this was not the first time marion county deputies had met with joseph rosa. after his daughter quit attending school, they came to his house. rosa, a self-described sovereign citizen, eventually ended up before a judge. in general, the sovereign citizen movement advocates that people can divorce themselves from the us government.>> have a plan when it comes to dealing with them. >> reporter: law enforcement has training on how to deal with the citizens, but it's not just police confronted by sovereign citizen.>> you cannot record all these documents.>> reporter: scott ellis keeps a box of documents submitted to his clerks. one of the main problems in countenance -- encounters are bogus leaks.

legal but can do damage. they could possibly take the home but -- owned by somebody else.>> these guys are trying to record something fraudulently.>> reporter: hud estimates these fraudulent documents have cost $17 million.>> has the internet made this worse? orr there is no doubt. one of the real problems for a county like brevard's people will come to titusville to recorded document they are declined, they had down the street to try their luck at another clerks office in the same county. orange county has the entire set of guidelines for how to deal with sovereign citizens, and effort to keep paperwork out of the court. this couple was arrested in 2014 and filed enough paperwork to obtain half a dozen ids, leans on homes, and government title ii a car under the guise

the fbi in the southern law center say it's hard to know how many citizens are active in florida. the irs estimates there are as many as 500,000 sovereign citizens nationwide based on tax information. many eventually end up before a federal judge.>> you can share this story with your friends. go to the wftv ace book page and post it on your wall. it is a plan that one lawmaker says will relieve the legislature of negotiating on the bodies of our first responders. pension reform directs new state employees way from the pension pan -- plan and into a 401(k). it also changes death benefits. a senate version would have surviving spouses these -- spouses and children killed in the lie -- of first responders killed in the line of duty would increase payouts. changes were suggested after

the line of duty in 2014. state lawmakers are also set the vote on placing the statue of confederate leader from florida which now stands in washington dc. last year, state representative from miami proposed a bill that would remove the statue of edmund kirby smith. under the bill, committee would recommend three prominent floridians as potential replacements for smith. the legislature would then pick one. the statue would be placed in the hall. virginia police say three confirmed dead from this -- storms, bringing the death toll to six.>> we have had two in louisiana, one and mississippi, three tornadoes in florida. let me show you the positive side of this storm. we are behind the main thrust of the storms, giving us a pretty nice 77 and daytona. storms are still wreaking havoc to the north. more on that coming up. we're in the 60s behind the front.

behind the front in orlando. we're dropping steadily tonight. wind gusts over 47, spruce creek had very gusty winds, not associated with the storms, just a windy day. a lot of energy. that windblown around is just mother nature's pressure difference. that wind energy being released. it was quite prolific today. you can see the showers have moved out. still in you sprinkles to the south. our cold front is moving past the fort myers area. three tornadoes earlier today and southwest florida starting around one:00. three reported fatalities near waverley, virginia. south of raleigh, a tornado emergency where they have some widespread debris. i was looking at the doppler radar out of raleigh. it's a bad night in the northeast. that storm continues to lift out. we are on the colder side for tonight. you can see in sanford temperatures falling into the low 50s.

start your day tomorrow. times dig the jacket out. with the order -- upper 40s, gusty and cooler tonight. breezy but dry and sunshine from melbourne to pompeii. getting ready for seafood festival this weekend. i see florida.com has great events coming up for the weekend. we will see cool weather tomorrow, mid to upper 60s. our version of winter is back, as much as 10 degrees below average for daytime highs friday, only 65, 66 on saturday. we're climbing back up gradually close to the normal by monday. here's your five day forecast. the weekend always in view. lows in the lower 40s. i expect for friday night and saturday, maybe sunday, three nights of potential 30s. we will watch out for patchy frost again here. a late-season cross possibly early saturday. dry weather will kick in all the way through early next week. we got some video in out of port charlotte.

one of three tornadoes moved by 4 1/2 hours ago. we will have that 40 coming up the next half hour. a crash long the interstate children construction work. now construction is being shut down. we are asking the company in charge of that work how long the shutdown will ask. we found out one of the gunman suspected in a shooting spree that injured innocent people is the prime suspect in another shooting. at six, why police say he is still on the streets. are you tired of seeing traffic? what orange county's doing to make it easier for drivers to

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terrorist cell phone. apple has been fighting court orders. greg warmoth has been following stores -- story. judges have the authority to tell third parties to tell the -- help the government in cases. >> that is not stopping tim cook from defending his opposition to the court order. it is an intense battle between the fbi director and the company. komi did get some support on capitol hill from us atty. gen. loretta lynch.>> going dark problem is very real threat to law enforcement's. >> reporter: in the name of public safety... >> if the government needs the assistance of third parties -- parties... >> reporter: loretta lynch is urging apple to comply.>> judges all of the country and on the supreme court have said those parties must assist if it is within their power to do

apple to unlock san bernardino>> reporter: a judge ordered apple to unlock san bernardino ter., syed farook's iphone and apple has stood firm that that's not happening. the fight has thousands across the country rallying in support of apple. a new poll found 51% of americans believe that apple should unlock the phone. apple has until friday to respond to the judge's order. legal experts have called this a landmark case that could reach the supreme court. world news anchor david mueller talked exclusively with apple ceo tim cook who said customer safety and the protection of their data is a top priority.>> the trade-off here is we know doing this could expose people to incredible vulnerabilities. >> reporter: cook also said that breaking into for nukes phone would be bad for america and was set a precedent that he thinks would offend many people.

exclusive interview with cook on world news tonight with david mueller right here on channel 9 right after eyewitness news at six. traffic is up at the daytona beach airport compared with 2015. the airport saw 10% more passengers going through last month. the number of seats offered on flights during january 2016 is up at the daytona beach airport compared with 2015. the airport saw 10% more passengers going through last month. the number of seats offered on flights during january 20 16 x 13%. airports director says they are optimistic about seeing the view -- jetblue's first few months of operation. state legislators under fire for the way they have been putting amendment one into effect. it dedicates state revenue to preserving florida's land and water. one lawmaker says the state has not been spending enough on land acquisition. >> we are paying a lot of overhead, paying salaries, paying for programs, construction projects.>> reporter: -- >> environmental groups sued the state on grounds that it failed to meet the constitutional requirements of amendment one. presidents -- senate president

money for land. breaking news at six, how this deadly construction accident is impacting work on the i-4 widening project. we are monitoring the search for a missing motor in lake county. why daytona beach

channel 9 eyewitness news continues right now at six. this accident in the heart of the i-4 construction killed a worker. it wasn't on the interstate, but breaking at six, it will still have an impact on the work to widen i-4. within the past hour, we've

entire 21 mile job site has shut down.>> this is because of today's deadly construction crash. we spoke with the company in charge of the work on i-4. julie, have this and how long construction will be shut down? >> reporter: i just spoke with the project director at their maitland office here. he tells me they have nearly 400 employees, 200 supervisors working this project. they have stopped construction. they are not sure when it will start up again, maybe friday morning, maybe monday morning. as we told you earlier, around noon, 49-year-old rio morales was operating a dump truck and killed the 34-year-old construction worker. fhp has just released the victim's name as marvin franklin who died earlier today after fhp said he walked behind a dump truck while working on the i-4 ultimate project near the maitland exit. the contractor for the project, sgl constructors, said franken had worked for them for more