evidence. and that's something he says is tough to do especially when the case is involving children. >> no one wants to be deemed a snitch, if you will, and sometimes there is a threat of violence. >>reporter: he also told me his investigators are looking into why the boy hadn't gone to school for sometime. he says the victim hung out with a group of teenagers who had a negative influence on the boy. >> this is a young man that got >>reporter: now, investigators say that that victim had what they call on going disputes, their words, with some other teenagers in this neighborhood. tonight at 6:00, i ask the sheriff if this means if this was gang related. hear his response in less than an hour. channel 9 eyewitness news. orlando police officers say

suspects -- they're encounting more suspects flashing guns. steve, they also told you it's actually rare for an officer to use a gun, even when going up against someone with a weapon. >>reporter: the police chief says that this happens a lot more than you'd expect. two incidents over the weekend, the first one was here at a crowded greyhound bus station right there, the other one at an apartment complex, in both cases, the police were able to disarm these men without any further gunshots being fired. matthew sullivan is the second man this weekend to be accuseded o trying to pull a gun on orlando police officers. and today, the police chief wanted to use the incidents to make a point. >> we want to point out these two instances, where they did use great restraint, and you know, luckily, everyone is okay. and two very bad guys are behind bars. >>reporter: the latest incident happened yesterday at the venetian place apartments.

sullivan, he reached for his gun. they also got marijuana off of him. >> thank goodness we have officers out there willing to risk their lives for our community. >>reporter: two other officers had to wrestle with an armed man who fled a greyhound station after firing in the air because someone afkd them for a cigarette. but the chief says these incidents are too common. >> last year, we had five officer-involved shootings, and we took almost 700 guns off the street. and in of those cases, you know, people resisted arrest. or you know, the situations were peacefully resolved. >>reporter: orlando police deal with armed suspects on average two times a day. and it means only one in 140 arrests of armed suspects involves shots actually being fired. >> more often than no, that's not use deadly force. >>reporter: and in both of these cases, both of these suspects

they're each charged with resisting arrest. as well as drug and gun charges, in one case. reporting live in orlando, steve barrett, channel 9 eyewitness news. a special task force has come up with some new plans to fight back against a growing heroin problem. >> it studying the problem for 7 months and come up with 37 recommendations now. we told you at 4:00, law enforcement agencies will continue joint drug operations. to get dealers off the streets. that task force also wants to imp mrement training and education -- implement training and education on heroin abuse. >> we work on the supply side, but it's the demand side that drives everything else for us. and so, that's why i say, i believe that that is the most significant challenge that we have as a community. >> the county will now work on how to fund some of those ideas. there have been 285 heroin related deaths over the past four years in central florida. and right now, we're working to get more details on a cop

woman told the police a man dressed in a tactical vest pulled her over last night along highway 50 at u.s. 27. he afkd her questions, then drove away, when he noticed other people watching. for eyewitness news at 6:00, getting a detailed description of the man and the car he was driving. all eyes on florida, as voters head to the polls for tomorrow's primary. people from five states are voting, but florida and ohio are among the most crucial primaries where the winner will walk away with all of the delegates. jorge estevez watched the rally in tampa, and the front-runner florida. >>reporter: by double digits, a win here in florida could slid fie a smoother path for donald trump to the nomination. with support from florida voters, and party leaders, trump is pulling ahead. after a greeting from attorney tomorrow's florida primary. >> what's happening is millions and millions of people are going

>>reporter: trump had help in tampa. from former vice presidential candidate, sarah palin. >> florida, are you ready to make america great again? >>reporter: a different sounding trump, unlike when hecklers interrupting the speeches this weekend, this time, he asked people to back off from the protester off camera. >> that's okay. don't hurt her. don't hurt her. >>reporter: he talked up his accomplishments. >> boy, do i employ a lot of people in florida. >>reporter: his plan for healthcare. >> obamacare is a disaster, it will be repealed. and replaced as sure as you are sitting there. >>reporter: and a final jab at marco rubio. >> who is trailing in the polls by double digits in florida, despite several last-minute campaign events, including this one in the villages sunday and another in melbourne today. >> i'm not going to say little marco. i refuse to say it. >>reporter: this afternoon, we found out as the votes come in tomorrow night, for our primary,

his resort in palm beach and ted cruz will be in miami. >> thanks. earlier today, at a rally in melbourne, marco rubio expressed to voters the importance of this election. but he also took a shot at donald trump concerning the violence at his rallies. >> look, a bernie sanders sign, don't worry, you're not going to get beat up at my rally. >> during his bus tour, through florida, rubio stopped in melbourne hoping to pick up support ahead of tomorrow's primary vote. and at 6:00, we'll tell you what rubio says he's looking forward tomorrow's primaries. you can count on eyewitness news to bring you live team coverage as central florida decides. after you vote, tune us in, we'll bring you the latest results as the polls close, our coverage starts at 7:00 on then, our in-depth analysis will continue to 8:00 to 10:00 on central florida's tv 27. tonight, newly released unemployment rate is almost on

dropped to 5.1% in january. seminole and is orange county are below that at 4.5 and 4.6. well. 5.3%. to check your county, head to wftv.com/web links. governor rick scott is not saying yet whether he's going to sign the bill authorizing 20 downtown campus. last summer, he vetoed a similar bill, but met with university officials in concerns. today, scott was in orlando, to tout 53,000 new jobs in central florida in just the last year. he also spoke about the importance of tax cuts. but he would not verbally commit to the funding of ucf's downtown campus. >> we have funded the universities, the highest funding of the history of the state. we have performance funding. heading in the right direction. but i'm going to go through the budget once i receive it.

funding and another 20 million dollars in donations, and ucff's own contribution of 20 million dollars. kidnapping and kissing a disanaled rider against her will -- disabled ride against her will. the judge's decision steps from multiple evaluations finding the driver incompetent. >> his lawyer argued charges against him should be dropped t. 54-year-old was charged back in 2010, with kidnapping, with intent to commit a felony, elder abuse with great harm, and battery. a judge found him incompetent in january of 2011. in all, five mental evaluations have found him incompetent and unlikely to refwan competency. -- to regain competency. but he's never been found incompetent enough to be in a mental hospital. he can no longer even drive himself and lives with his daughter.

period of five year, a judge decided to dismiss the charges. >> it was dismissed without prejudice to the state, meaning we can come back in the future, should he be determined competent. and still face those charges. >>reporter: channel 9 eyewitness news. right now, a boil water notice is in effect for people living in the villages, due to a water main break on canal street. the effected a homes are all located within the village of sable chase. hooits not clear how long the -- it's not clear how long the notice will be in place. a new audit shows the community park does not always collect rent payments, the park is run by the orange county parks and recreation district. they found park leaders failed to collect around $1200 for rentals and lighting payments. when they couldn't afford to pay, they set up payment plans and didn't follow you will. the parks division has implemented new rules to keep track of the rent payments

downtown is getting an overhaul, spending 1.5 million dollars to redo the old building along central. the fourth floor lobby and bath rooms will be done. safety improvements lake gate and fencing will be moved to the next fiscal year. we will see the updates by the end of the year. somebody sent them hate mail laced with racial slurs. >> you know, when i saw it, i was like, i didn't know what to say or what to do. >> all new for 5, the reason the sheriff's office says it can't do anything about it. plus, why getting 50 million dollars in state funding might not be enough. to provide raises for thousands of orange county teachers. and this woman is accused of leaving a fake bomb in a local movie theatre. all new for 5:00, what the suspect's wife told the investigators about why she might have done it. well, temperatures still cliemg right now, now up to 88, i just checked down in downtown,

this is a letter from someone who's here. she has to take a brand name drug. been taking it since the early 1980's. at that time it cost approximately $180 for 10 shots. the latest refill was $14.700 for the same 10 vials and the company is called valeant pharmaceuticals. i'm going after them. this is predatory pricing and we're going to make sure it is stopped. i'm hillary clinton and i

downtown, the hottest of f the year. how close we'll be to record highs again tomorrow. you're watching channel 9 eyewitness news at 5:00. coverage you can count on. in brevard county, a woman is auz accused of planting a hoax bomb turned herself in today. the suspect covered her face as she walked out of jail today. and at 4:00, channel 9 told you why the woman's discarded bag in the bathroom caused a scare. she had watched a woman alone before leaving the bag and it was her significant other who turned her in. >>reporter: yeah, they believe she watched the movie, risen here at this theatre all by herself, but after police released surveillance video of their suspect, they say her own wife called in to report her.

loflin and another woman left the brevard county jail today after she turned herself in for charges of planting a hoax bomb. the woman who has no criminal history is facing a criminal charge and it's her wife who helped the authoritiess narrow in on her. according to this affidavit, after police released surveillance pictures of the suspect, two caused the theatre to be cleared, loflin's wife called them, saying she knew who they were looking for. police had to call in the bomb squad to check the bag that ultimately had no explosives. the police report shed an employee who saw her in the bathroom described hearing the winding of a disposable camera and seeing the flash go off inside of the stall before making the disturbing discovery. urged her to call homeland security. loflin and the woman who picked her up from jail would not comment. loflin's wife told the authorities dawn felt as if the church of sign tolg had been hacking into people's personal

the baker act delayed her arrest two weeks. authorities believe she and her wife are still together. and loflin was in and out of jail quite quickly this morning, she turned herself in with her bond paid. live in melbourne tonight, channel 9 eyewitness news. you could end up footing the bill for a billion dollar terminal expansion at orlando international airport. this wednesday, the greater orlando aviation authority is scheduled to vote on construction for a 1.8 billion dollar terminal expansion. officials say it would partly be paid for by a passenger facility charge, which you already pay when you book a flight there. the airport's two biggest carrier, delta and southwest, say the expansion is unnecessary, and could drive up ticket prices. some familys in windermere are not letting up on their fight against letting a mosque their homes, a land owner wants to build the windermere religious on this property, and asking county leaders to rezone it for a mosque.

about extra traffic and noise, a community meet willing be held wednesday at 6:00 at sunset park elementary. if you filled up in the past week or so, you noticed gas prices are up a little. but officials say that's normal for this time of the year. in orlando, drivers are currently paying $1.82 per gallon, that's 2 cents more per gallon that's last week. drivers in daytona saw a bigger jump, $1.89 a gallon, up 7 cents a gallon over last week. officials say with more people hitting the roads for spring break, the demand for gas is up and so is the price. >> weather temps taking a jump fast. summertime temps. >> let me show you this, you would think it would be a cool spot to go to, negative, 89 and a record high as the spring breakers are in town. and will get more numerous over the next few weeks and the weather has been perfect so far. 87, down from 89, the record tying high back to 1989.

marine layer is staying offshore. right now, live current condition, we still have 87.8 degrees or so here in downtown. the hottest so far today. 84 waterford lakes. 87 up in apopka. seminole county also warm for you, where we hit 88 degrees up in sanford today. and 87 in long wood, lake marion, all the way up into volusia county, still warm in daytona, deland and pierson still at a very toasty 86 degrees. so the main benefit today has been of course the sunshine, the warmer weather for folks in from out of town, perhaps if a point up north, where it'sed cold, the southwest wind, that means everyone is toasty, including melbourne, palm bay, look at cocoa beach at 87. your hottest temperatures today, pretty much of the entire year, and we finally did it. knock on wood. 90 in sanford. that's our heat index this hour. one of many, many, many, many 90 heat index and otherwise to come this year. the southwest wind with a few sprinkles along the east coast

yesterday, nothing heavy. had a trace of rain officially in orlando, we're still way behind for the year. the winds coming in out of the southwest and south, hot temperatures, the southwest flow will mean a mild evening. mostly fair skies. winter garden for tonight, temperatures back this the upper 60s. starting out your tuesday morning. sanford tomorrow, just like today, another 88-maybe as hot 88 in titusville. southwest wind keeps you warm in melbourne and palm bay. 86 in leesburg, 89 to perhaps near 90 down in kissimmee. here are the records for tomorrow. we're going to go 89 for orlando. 91, very close to the record, going back to 1971. we may make it a two-for, two for tuesday. 89 degrees, could tie the record again for daytona and melbourne also be close to your record high. what about some rain? let's try to wash the pollen out of the air, if nothing else.

we'll keep it dry through wednesday. by the end of the week, we'll be watching an approaching storm system, which will bring us the better chance for some rain, this system will slow down and with the high enough moisture levels in the atmosphere, plus the temperatures still above average, we'll get some rain starting on friday. saturday, and even on sunday. not a washout weekend, but saturday, especially, the higher rain chance, at least 50%. here's your five-day forecast with your weekend always in view. 89, average for the 15th of may as opposed to the 15th of march tomorrow. 87 on wednesday. slight chance for showers on thursday afternoon. and evening, but better rain coverage rolls in for friday. and for saturday. and i'm updating how much rain we need to get caught back up. i'll see you again coming up at 5:30. an action 9 investigation is still ahead at 5:00. >> a local couple won a sweepstakes but had to pay fees first. here's the trail of receipts and promises, that cost them $13,000. we'll track down

plus, four students were found with weapons, at lake county schools in just the past two weeks, new for 6:00, what the sheriff's office and school board plan to do to keep your kids safe. and school districts across the state will get millions in extra funding, but next, we will

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15 l million dollars, sounds a like a lot, but it might not be enough. the money is part of a state budget, that increased funding for education, and tonight, most of it is already set aside for other things. >>reporter: orange county is expecting an additional 15 million dollars with the t new budget. but we learned most of that money is already reserved for an increase in the number of students and retirement costs. >> feel like i was just hit by a freight train. >>reporter: giving every teacher will raise will cost -- the budget has little wiggle room. >> i understand legislature's dilemma, but this is not recessionary times and florida is doing well now. >>reporter: the teachers contract expires in june, and negotiations are underway. the governor needs to sign the bill. >> 1% is disappointing and i

thinks of education. >>reporter: we did the math and found out for a starting teacher, 1% more could mean $7 extra a week. union administrator dennis kelly wants to make sure teachers get their fair share. >> this isn't much money. not going to go around very far. but they've got to make sure that it goes to the teachers. >> we gave our teachers at least a 6.5% pay raise over two years a year and a half ago, so by no means is that enough, but it that was a good healthy raise after not getting substantial raises for years. >>reporter: the plan sides look to pull funding for fr other sources. channel 9 eyewitness news. osceola county school district will receive the millions of dollars they asked state lawmakers for. we told you back in january, when the school district said they needed more money for school construction to handle the influx of students from puerto rico, who have enrolled in their schools, they plan to build four new hools. a 6-year-old lawsuit to determine whether state

shortchanging public schools on funding finally went to trial today. the education groups and parents who filed the lawsuit claim the florida legislature has not provided the required amount of money to the state schools. the lawsuit is also challenging florida's testing system, the trial could last as long as five weeks. historic flooding in the south, has taken lives. and forced thousands of to be evacuated. how much longer the water is expected to rise. >> this dog is more than a family pet, he actually helpss a little boy communicate. the search tonight for r the yard. a local family says somebody sent them this hate mail because they're interracial. >> i was -- [ inaudible ]. >> next, we're asking the

channel 9 eyewitness news continues right now at 5:30. brand new at 5:00, it's a letter so disturbing, we can't even show you the whole thing. a local family says someone sent them this hate mail because they're interracial. >> they have the balls to do this, what else are they going to do? >> we're asking what's being done to find whoever sent it. the brevard county sheriff's

be able to do anything, because while the let efrs raced with racial slurs, there's not an actual threat. >> that letter was stoent the family's home in port st. john. they've lived there for years and never had about pros before. channel 9's jeff deal spoke with the father today. he's most worried about his kids. >>reporter: he has three daughters, they love to play out in the neighborhood every day. and he says for him to get a letter that's filled with racial slurs, and calling the children ugly, has him concerned about their safety. it was a plain envelope addressed to tenant, sent through the u.s. mail to david fuller's port st. john home. what was inside has him outraged. >> i was floored. you know, when i saw it, i was like, i didn't though what to say, what to do. >>reporter: david is married to a white woman. they have three children. this is the letter. says the most ugly n-words and n-word lovers live in the house