breaking news, three girls arrested for spiking their teacher's drink. i'm matt austin. and i'm lisa bell. and sashell saunders, is this just a prank? >> reporter: far from it. deputies say this was an act of revenge. and tonight's those girls face felony charges. this happened at dell token nah middle school. one was angry after getting in trouble for dumping glue into

she grabbed her teacher's soda and dumped soda in her drink. the teacher's throat got hot. and she started to choke. she says she's fine, she told us on the phone, she want ed to press charges to teach these girls the lesson. saying the line was clearly crossed. all three girls now facing felony charges. all right. sashell saunders reporting live tonight. crazy story, you can read more at clickorlando.com. we'll have more throughout the weekend on news 6. a wild scene out of orange county. video from she'ller avenue and obt. you can see that guy in there, he has his handcuffs on. he ended up being taken away in an balance. but at this point, deputies have not said what happened here. we'll have an update for you on the morning news at 5:00. also developing, a cold weather alert. temperatures pushing into the 30s. chief meteorologist tom

plunge for us right now. tom? >> let's be honest. most of us will stay in the 40s with that much wind. it's going to feel like the 30s. take a look at what's going on right now. look how clear it is in central florida. things are good. really good. temperatures 49 in orlando. melbourne 49. and leesburg also at 49. light breeze at 5-10 miles per hour. but this 49, that's 2 colder than it was this morning in orlando. right now 45 in the villages. ocala is missing for the moment. and 40 in palm coast. overnight low tonight, 34 in ocala, 37 in the villages, and a lot of frost in this zone. i'll be right back to break out the weekend in minutes. thank you. new at 11:00, police were held. a local woman badly hurt. troopers say a semi hit that woman and drove off. her family demanding the

just west of the john young. jennifer ortega is live there tonight. first off, how is that woman doing? >> reporter: well she's still recovering in the hospital. her family tells me she had multiple surgeries on her legs after she was ran over right here on this crosswalk. he needs to come and face what he did. >> reporter: she's been in the hospital recovering since tuesday morning. after she was crossing the intersection and heading to the bus stop an 18-wheeler knocked her over pulling her under the trailer's tires. >> as she makes the right turn, the trailer portion comes up onto where she's standing off the road and actually, the trailer portion, she gets knocked down and runs over her. raymond has known her for 25 years. and the family is devastated with what happened.

fractured her pelvis, and has bruises all over her head. >> she's always involved with people, church, helping people. the last thing you could imagine, somebody that gives so much of herself to others, that this would happen to her. fhp says after she was hit, the driver stopped and got out and looked. and at some point got back in the truck and drove off. >> that gives you a lot of rage to some degree over the fact that somebody doesn't have a heart to even care about a human life. >> i hope he has a guilty conscious. he left that woman there. she's an elderly woman. and that's a bad injury for an elderly woman. >> reporter: when we got to the intersection, we found these tire marks on the corner. and several memorials for others that lost their lives. tonight, her family pleads for someone to come forward with information that can help. >> somebody that knows information, please get with us, tell the police, tell them what

hopefully that'll help find this person. >> reporter: now they are actively searching for that driver. if you saw or heard anything that could help this case, you can call fhp at star fhp and you believe also remain anonymous. if you have any information, call police. in orlando jennifer ortega news 6. thank you. tonight a major drug bust to protect your family. >> we told you about this at 6:00. now details about the fortress to protect those drugs and the money trail left behind. erik sandoval is live tonight. more disturbing where this is all taking place. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. all this pot steps away from a community church. police arrested one man and orlando police investigators tell me tonight they're looking for that man's boss.

describe as a drug dealing robin hood. this is what 24 pounds of marijuana looks like. orlando police say it has a street value of $30,000. tonight, it's off the streets after opd seized it. after raiding this home off of eye vi lane. >> it look a while for them to preach the door, they heavily reenforced the door frame. >> reporter: not only does this home sit far over the roadway and behind an iron gate, bars installed on the windows of the inside. he says the home was a fortress, guarding the drugs inside. >> we're glad to get it off the streets. more so, we're always happy to get the guns off the street. that's the big thing for us. >> reporter: they found automatics and handguns in this house that backs up to this community church. that arrested 56-year-old roberto alfonso.

guard the drugs and the money. he says his boss is the king pen who claims he take s the money he earns selling drugs here and sends it to the the poor in the virgin islands. tonight they are looking for him. >> we want the drug dealers to know we are always watching and we're going to try to slow things down for them and make it difficult for them. now we checked the jail tonight. southern know was already out. he was booked tonight and released. they're urging anybody that may see activity like this happening in their neighborhood to give them a call immediately. we're live in downtown orlando tonight, erik sandoval news 6. thank you. well tonight, we're getting results for a local woman that says she paid a contractor for thousands to to remodel her bathroom but he never did any work. >> and now many others say the same guy did the same thing to them. that's when investigator mike

>> this house is 25-year-old. this is the original cabinetry. >> reporter: her master bathroom doesn't look bad, but could use an update. >> toilets, cabinetry, tile, all gone. >> reporter: so she hired jay as teev. >> the tiling is excellent. >> reporter: he remodelled a different bathroom in her home a year earlier so she had no concerns handing him in check as a deposit. >> we gave him the $7,000 and haven't seen anything since. >> reporter: five months later, the bathroom remained untouched. despite a series of letters, phone calls and text messages. the contractor would not refund her money (sounds like you've given him plenty of opportunity to make it right. >> we've tried everything possible. he's made no attempt to give us back one dime. >> reporter: little did he know, he's been sued by at least seven other customers. most of them also complaining he

would not refund their deposits. >> this is a pattern. this person does this all the time. >> reporter: when one of those customers, a 68-year-old man, try ed to collect his money, police say he grabbed the man in a semihead lock and placed a hand on the customer's neck and squeezed. after his arrest, the contractor pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery. >> i believe in doing the right thing. >> reporter: in 2012, the state of florida determined he had been working as an unlicensed contractor and ordered him to cease any further unlicensed activity. i'm with channel six just want to let you know that -- >> reporter: he would not speak to me in person, but later left me this voice mail. >> i've got no other comment. we have to go through the court system. >> that seems to be the classic sign. >> reporter: she was hoping to avoid getting court orders as other customers have done. >> we're not a financial

we're not a loan. you can't borrow money from tuss. >> reporter: so she contacted news 6, just weeks after we began investigating him, he gave her this $7,000 reimburse ment check. >> he is allowed to do tile work, he is not a licensed contractor. we made it easy for you to search license contractors. we posted a link on our news 6 facebook page mike deforest news 6. she's soot customer sue ed the contractor claiming he took more than $6,000. but did minimal work. he has not yet respond today that lawsuit. caught on camera, now, a deputy blind sided. see that hit from behind while just doing his job. how this happened and how the deputy managed to save himself. and a florida woman's warning about e cigarettes. what she said happened to her

>> okay, we're on the way down. the coldest air of the season, but it's our coldest night of the weekend. we're already at 45 in the villages and gainsvill and 40 in palm coast. coming up, i'll pinpoint the overnight lows where you live and break out your weekend hour by hour all the way through until we're warmer. but first, we take action to save a woman from losing her home. it seems it was sold right out from under her to a third party. and the same thing could happen to you.

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owe co 0 know, after possibly suffering a stroke. she was removed from her home unconscious late tonight. we'll have an update on the morning news at 5:00. tonight news 6 takes action to help a woman losing her home. her bank sold the house without warning giving her just 10-15 days to leave. she asks us if we could save her home. and investigators mike holfeld got help. >> i've lived here for -- >> reporter: she was just days away from being vanquished from her own home. >> i haven't looked for a place to live in over 30 years. >> reporter: sandra said the bank agree ed to restruckture her mortgage to avoid forclosure. yet, instead of a second chance, the bank sold her home without warning.

>> so in desperation, i contacted you and you responded immediately. and with passion. >> reporter: in this case a lot of what was going was over the phone. so it was difficult to prove what the bank actually said. >> reporter: news 6 contacted the attorney to see if there was any way we could get her home back. it wouldn't be easy. >> now the tough thing is, it was sold to a third party bidder. it wasn't sold to the bank. so we had to undo the sale based on legal technicalities. >> he. >> reporter: he agreed to handle the case pro bono. >> this is a woman trying to do the right thing and got caught up in a bad situation. >> reporter: and that situation was reversed. she was able to h excel the judge to resend the sale. >> many times the banks are disorganized to a certain extent. so one arm doesn't know what the other arm is doing. >> reporter: does that make you feel good when you're able to help like this.

to be able to help people and get a good result. >> i had contacted three attorneys prior to him and they all told me i didn't stand a chance. >> reporter: now the sale had been resended, she's working night and day to modify that mortgage. the good news is, the home she's known for 40 years is in her hands again. getting results in castle bury, mike holfeld news 6. really frightening. something like that can hap. he says anyone negotiating with a bank or lender must get everything in writing. verbal agreements leave too much room for mistakes and lost homes. we have more information and links for you at clickorlando.com powered by news 6. now to a shark photo bomb along a florida beach. take a look. a surfer share ing a wave with a shark. this is in west palm. jordan posted this pick to instagram. that's her boyfriend just a few feet from that shark. they believe it was a spinner shark, which usually don't pose too much of a threat.

>> do you believe that picture, though, that's the question. i don't know. it looks good enough. >> so you think it's photoshoped? >> i don't know. you never know. i've seen fish in the waves, i've not seen a shark that close. i've seen dolphins come through. it's cool to look at either way. made the news. chief meteorologist tom sorrells. the temperatures certainly drop. >> they are. i've got pictures that are not photo shopped. let's start with with one. why am i a sucker? because it says. wkmg six. if you're going to pander, pander to me. because i will flat out. we'll put you on every diamond. i sure will. what about that one? that's a great picture. don says this owl has just hatched its second egg. awe. he still look happy those first days of parenting are tough. >> you would know. >> and gary, the big cheater.

i love that. over the lake tonight. radar clear it's going to stay clear throughout the entire weekend, as we march forward, i say we march forward from here. we have to drop down tonight before we start to march forward. as you go through the weekend, it's going to stay clear. and eventually, we're going to right this ship. 44 right now dmaint beach. winds from the west at six. it is 49 in melbourne. let's check out other temperatures. ocala. still missing. but it's 42 in gainsvill and 45 in the villages. i would interpolate ocala at 43 right now. 49 in leesburg. and 49 in orlando, everyone else, a little bit warmer than that. you go to the 50s and kissimmee and cocoa beach. and 49 in melbourne right now. where we are now where's yesterday at the same time, we're already 3 colder in orlando, 4 colder in the villages, and 5 colder in gainsvill.

and cape, 9 colder than we were last night at the same time. so -- eventual overnight lows nine. it has gone calm. you would think that'll be okay. hopefully the winds calm down so it doesn't feel as cold when you step outside. but when wind goeses calm, all the heat rises and goes away request i cannily. if we keep the wind stirring things around, we don't drop as dickly. as the wind calms down the things get colder quicker. satellite together. there'll be a touch of clouds, but not much this weekend. watch it grow. cloud streaks develop but they go that way. down to the south and east. so you wake up tomorrow, it's sunny but frosty in the northern parts of the viewing areas. we'll get to overnight lows in a moment. here we go, 40 in daytona beach. 39 in sanford.

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now she says, she'll never use it again. >> be very careful, because you're playing a game of russian roulette, obviously. it's your choice if you choose to continue videotaping, -- vaping. continue vaping. i used it to help me quit smoking. and that was fantastic. and now i've had my savior blow up in my face pretty much. she plans to sue the makers of e cigarettes. caught on camera, sheriff deputy hit by a van. he was walking back to his patrol car when it crossed the center line. he was able to get back into his car and call for help. he's now recovery. this happened in michigan. the nasty conditions out there were a factor. as for the driver of the van, he was all right. new video tonight show ing a cargo jet making a spectacular emergency landing.

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95 in the nick's window. >> you know, it's kind of a go through the motions kind of game. i've got nothing to show you. next game is sunday 6 o'clock vs. the sixers. what game were you watching again? >> golden state. >> oh. >> you're all right. looking for something great to do tomorrow afternoon with the magic out of town tonight and the next game is sunday. the globe trotters will call center home 12-30 tomorrow. this is jimmy hanging out with these guys last year. remember this? i'm doing a little promotion here for them. remember the half court shot? tom? that was pretty good. i can hit that one. i've hit many in my day. >> really. i have. we'll move along. okay, this was last night. you were talking about. steph curry, his fourth 39 footer or beyond this year out of 11 attempts in the game.