>> it is very scary. i got the call from the deputies saying something happened with my son. i didn't know what to do. so i called my neighbor and they said no, he's okay, he's wet but he's the one that pulled the little boy out of the water. >> reporter: advisory are working to -- investigators are working to find out how the children made it to the other side of that fence. the family is with the victim by his bedside. investigating this crash which has shut down part of colonial drive and christmas. the white pickup truck took out the back half of a mini-van. at least one person was killed. so far state

names or the ages of the victims. today the university of central frathat received a $3 million donation for its downtown campus. >> the president says the campus won't move forward without state funding. the plan calls for ucf to kick in $20 million, another $20 million from donations, all eyes are on lawmakers to see if they'll >> reporter: and the president made it clear that that state money is critical to developing a campus downtown just behind us here. he also said if the state money doesn't come through this year, the whole project will likely have to wait until next year. this latest donation from dr. phillips charities gives ucf momentum. what they don't have is a definite answer from lawmaker about state funding. >> barring a total meltdown, if the board of governors gives

million would be in the budget. >> reporter: the board will meet tomorrow to consider the school's plan. last year the project hit a roadblock when governor rick scott veode funding -- vetoed funding. >> we have every indication that the governor is knowledgeable and supportive of the project. >> reporter: ucf is asking the state to cover about a third of the funding. so what happens if lawmakers or the governor don't come through? >> there are a lot of ways we can propose to fund the project. but i don't foresee us going forward without significant state funding. >> reporter: the school is hoping to open the campus by 2018. the president says that will depend on money. we asked how he feels about the status of the project. >> guardedly optimistic. >> reporter: the city of orlando signed a $75 million incidentive for the project but that won't be enough without some help from tala hasy --

we should get some answers about the future of this project soon because lawmakers are set to wrap up their session next friday. a police officer shot man to death. according to neighbors this was upset because the man was upset about construction noise and he threatened to shoot the workers. when police arrived, they say he pulled a gun on officers and one officer opened fire. a neighbor told us police shot him in the head with one shot. >> apparently he was doing something that the cops didn't feel was right. but he was threatening to kill everybody in my sister's house. >> police say the gunman was 39 years old and had a criminal history. his girlfriend told us he is former law enforcement and military and suffered from paranoia, schizophrenia, and ptsd. more central florida women have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted by the

state put an emergency restriction on cesar guerrero's lines, but that only prevented him from working with female clients. >> when a client comes to me, i encourage them if they haven't already to report these matters to law enforcement and also to the department of health. >> reporter: adam now represents three women who all claim the same massage therapist sexually assaulted them during a massage. this woman who did not want to show her face just filed suit against the business that employed him. she only had the strength to come forward after hearing about others on the news. >> a a licensed psychotherapist of 28 years, working with sexually abused children and teens.

assaulted by guerrero. and left that session confused as to what to do. >> reporter: police charged him with sexual battery in december after a client reported an attack at a massage envy location there. that case is set for trial in march. that victim filed a complaint with the state in june but because it's complicated and a multistep process, it had to go through five different departments before the state coulderd an emergency restriction on on could order an emergency restriction on his license. that took eight months. guerrero also worked in winter park where he came into contact with today's latest victim. >> when i report him to massage luck, the owner michelle said "they're not responsible for what goes on behind closed doors." even after that complaint, guerrero still had a license so he got a job here. but advocates worry with this

there could be many more. >> forker one victim that comes forward -- for every one victim that comes forward, there's ten behind them. >> clairemont police say they have a total of four cases allegedly involving guerrero and four different women. recommendations for charges in three kays have been forwarded to the state attorney's office. a winter garden woman came face-to-face with a flasher performing lewd acts outside her bedroom three times. she made the first report in december. investigators finally caught the suspect sunday night. >> the main concern for me is that there's a playground here. this is a family place. and i can't stop but wondering if he has any children around or if he's abusing someone else. >> in 2010, he pleaded no

in deltona. he was labeled a sex offender and received five years probation. his probation ended in december. his family told us he is innocent. learning more about breaking news. a 3-year-old was injured after falling out of a moving suv. police say his mother left him in the vehicle when she went inside and the car got into reverse. the crash is under investigation. some downtown orlando parents are not giving up in their fight against magnet schools. hillcrest elementary and howard middle are set to become magnet schools. parents with students currently zoned for those schools want to be given preference. a mother who says bullying drove her daughter to attempt suicide now plans to transfer the girl to another school. the

anonymous says her 13 -- remain anonymous says her daughter tried to overdose on pills last week. she had been telling the school district about the bullying for months but says the district did nothing. the district told us it won't comment on the allegations. donald trump is getting ready to meet with supporters in south florida. tonight's rally will start around 9:00. >> reporter: we're several hours away from the news conference set up where struchl going to come here to his resort to address the media. this is gonna be completely different from other rallies he's held where thousands of people attend. that's in a room where

inside. eye this was set up byes establishment. they wanted their frontrunner to be ahead and beat the democratic frontrunner. that's what they got. the only problem is, they didn't expect the frontrunner to be donald trump. >> we're getting democrats coming in, independents coming in, a lot of people coming in. and i know the democrats very well also. they are very worried about it. >> reporter: and a big move today. politico reporting that rick scott is ready to endorse donald trump, giving the billionaire a clearer path to the white house and the florida primary march 15th. we're in palm beach county, ge estevez. hishg will also be watching the -- hillary clinton will also

from south florida tonight. abc news will pick up the super tuesday coverage at 10:00 on channel 9. if you miss any of that, you can get caught up on super tuesday and the major local news when you tune in at 11:00. dozens of homes in an orange county community rotting from the inside out. >> now the county is getting involved. what is being done to mike sure homeowners are protected. >> and there's already a state reg city for sex offenders. one group wants a database for animal abuse too. >> sunset approaching on this beautiful day. tracking our next

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orange county commissioners say they want to help homeowners in one neighborhood find a fix for potentially millions of

on a single home builder. cracked stucco, rolling walls and -- rotting walls and mold. those homeowners went to county leaders today. the county thinks this could be a wake-up call for the way builders are inspected. >> reporter: mayor jacob said she wants to do something to help. this is just one of 140 homes in this neighborhood. this plastic is hiding where an expert now says there's black mold in the walls. dark there, and very dangerous. and all of this was paid for by the homeowners and the team they put together. they say the company has not chipped in. the residents of burkshire place packed the commission meeting as their lawyer tore into representatives. >> they haven't sent out a single workman, they voluntary done a single thing.

stucco falling apart, beams improperly installed, and mold. one expert says is three different strains of mold. >> i'm still committed to doing everything we can as quickly as we can. >> reporter: we asked this representative how much blame pulte homes is willing to accept. nonone at this point until we do our own testing. >> reporter: residents say they told the company a year ago and asked officials to do the testing last august. >> i can't wait for you to figure out what your contract says and what your lawyers tell you you can or cannot do. i need a resolution. >> you talked about kids, they talk about contracts. >> i have a 15-month-old. he's always sick. >> reporter: the county told commissioners it's trying to dot right thing. homeowners don't believe him.

>> reporter: homeowners told commissioners they hope what has happened here can be used to change the inspection process so all of this does not happen to anyone else. tomorrow all high school juniors in seminole county are scheduled to take the s. sat. seminole county has not been approved to drop the fcircumstance a just yet. investigators are making public the results of a series of investigations into wrongdoing at v.a. hospitals across the country. the investigations were done in 2014 but are just now being released. florida v.a. employees manipulated data showing how long veterans were waiting for appointments in daytona beach.

will consider a proposal to revamp florida's death penalty system. that would give more power to juries over judge ises in death penalty cases. a court ruling called the current state's system unconstitutional because it gives judges too much power. in the coming month of may, the state will attempt to move 81,000 more homeowners off its insurance and into the private market. the policy hoermsd can either accept -- holders can either accept or deny the private insurer's offer. animal advocates told commissioners about their idea to keep animals safe. they're pushing for molly's law. molly the dog was nearly beaten to

advocates want to make a registry. they believe it will keep abusers from owning pets again. >> the creation of molly's law will send a strong message that this florida county truly believes that all god's creatures deserve protection from torture and abuse. >> reporter: commissioners decided to get the sheriff's office, animal services, and county attorneys to work on an ordinance. on friday spaksex will make -- spacex will make its fifth attempt to launch into spacex has been trying to launch that since november 24th. conditions are currently 65% favorable for friday's l attempt. nasa is making its own launch preparations for a test flight that will clear the way

today we got a look at the boosters that will lift the state's launch system and will orion space craft into orbed for the 2018 exploration mission. the unmanned flight will take orion thousands of miles beyond the moon as nasa prepares for a journey to mars. >> another beautiful sunset tonight. >> ah, yes. 6:00, time for the beauty shot. [ laughter ] >> there's the live view. you can see the sunset. and a beautiful night here. 76 degrees. 81 the official 79 in kissimmee, and 70s along the coast as well . orlando partly cloudy. we'll be in the

certainly lots of warm air across florida. high clouds spilling through. our next storm system does not have anywhere near the amount of storm energy. it's just not built the same way way. not very wet or cold either. we'll keep the moderate temperatures around. here's futuretrack, 10:00 in the morning, scattered showers from gainesville to ocala to leesburg. a fast-moving batch of showers breaking up throughout the afternoon. the chance you get measurable rainfall, 10% chance, the odds are low. but we'll see some scattered showers throughout the day as that front continues to push down to the south. and we came off a very wet month of january, over 2.5 times the amount of rainfall we should have. pretty dry last month. march we should start upping the rain chances but at

be relatively dry as well. temperatures tonight in the upper 50s. tomorrow back to 82 in clairemont. 80 in mt. downa. here's your 5-day, isolated showers tomorrow. i don't see a lot of rain this week, including for the upcoming weekend. orlando city debut. you can watch the whole match live on tv 27 starting at 1:30. orange county is trying to keep young boys out of trouble and out of jail. so it's partnering with the federal government to target at-risk kids. >> the unearby program the --

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orlando city's season opener still five days away. but the tailgate started tonight at the cheyenne saloon, launching a week of activities leading up to the game. coaches and players

the club is holding a 5k on thursday night at lake eola and the pub crawl on saturday. anyone who bought a ticket for those events also gets into the season opener. orlando city expecting thousands of purple-clad revellers all week. >> to get the fans to come out and support us at the beginning of our second season season is just amazing to me. we have the best fans in mls. >> reporter: and central florida's tv 27 is is your home for orlando city games. and we'll get you ready for the season opener with our preseason special friday night at 6:30. then on sunday, pregame coverage starts at 1:30. the magic are in dallas tonight facing a mavericks team that they beat in overtime just two weeks ago. evan foreignier is not expected to play.

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breaking news tonight. the first major clues coming in right now. the super tuesday showdown. as we come on the air, the first exit polls are in. what the voters are saying. what's driving them at the polls. can donald trump be stopped? the high stakes battle across a dozen states. trump and his 11th hour pitch. >> i can do practically anything. >> marco rubio and ted cruz, battling to take trump cown. >> donald trump will be an