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washington, d.c., and affecting thousands of flights. what we can expect as the winter weather heads our way as well. >> john: we just got new information on the overnight crash involving a state trooper. why this man is now under arrest this morning. plus this ... >> what's going on, man? nothing? you know where you are at right now? where you are at? you're at the hospital. okay. >> luanne: police say that surveillance video shows a man high on heroin. but this is part of a much bigger epidemic, a drug expert is here this morning to explain why so many people are overdosing on hard drugs. the big story of the morning is the weather. >> john: yeah, it's not going to be good out there today. not up north and not around here at noon time. >> jayme: a classic situation developing.

developing over the coastals carolinas. there's a slew of things going on. towards the panhandle we've seen some rotation in some of the storms. our area is outlined as the slight risk of seeing possibility of strong weather. when we talk of severe, wind gusts in excess of 58 miles per hour, could be three quarter inch hail production, extreme rain, and a lot of deadly cloud to ground lightning. and north of the area, a mushroom shaped area of snowfall. and south of that, the temperature profile is to warm to support any snowfall at this time. this may change as the back end towards st. louis, and southwest of st. louis, missouri, moves through. we could see a sleety mix near

and we are going to show you live guardian radar. clusters of moderate to heavy rainfall coming into line. the main area i am watching is the squall line a, elongated linear area of showers and storms moving through the panhandle. moving up towards atlanta now. the precursor. we'll likely see them gel up and moving through at lunch time. ocala and ad before that. and moving to the brevard area at 3:00 p.m. i'll be adjusting arrival times and refining the forecast as we go through the morning hours. it's a changing situation that certainly bears watching, especially as we go through the morning hours today. by tomorrow morning, much, much colder. lots of wind. and low mid-50s.

a live look at i-4. you see emergency vehicles on either side of the road. the traffic is moving very slowly. that crash just happened. sky fox over another accident at bennett near colonial. starting to finally clear up now. all lanes were blocked up, but everything is looking okay. and not too much back up in the area. drive time, i-4 westbound from lake mary to colonial, 17 minutes. downtown. and the 408 is up to speed >> luanne: back to the big story, a major snowstorm is heading for the east coast. >> john: parts of the mid-atlantic could get up to two feet of snow by the time it's done on sunday. states of emergency in five states and the district of columbia. schools and government offices are closing early, thousands of flights canceled, including some

fox 35's dana jay is at the airport with the latest. >> reporter: things are not looking too bad here yet. on the big board, lots of ontime flights. the raleigh durham area, that's a delay, they're right in the heart. and flights to and from charlotte. that shouldn't come as a huge surprise. american airlines announced they're canceling ought flights in and out of charlotte today because of the incoming weather. they are expected to pick up flights again as usual on saturday. united announcing around 4. they'll begin to suspend flights a dulles. that's a hub for them in washington, d.c. all of the major airlines have issued waivers for the weekend. you can rebook without a penalty to try and make your way around that storm.

you should know that the flights are canceled ahead of time. that way you don't have to come to the airport and wait around. that's the goal of the airlines as they see the big storm coming. i checked it out at flight aware.com, a flight checking website. 4,000 canceled today and 3,000 more tomorrow. >> john: keep is here for continuing coverage of the big storm. closer to noon it could get rocky around here. you can get instant updates at fox35orlando.com >> luanne: a driver has been arrested after investigators said that he crashed into a trooper's vehicle overnight-ryan elijah has the latest. >> reporter: the crash happened around 2:30 this morning on sandlake road near i-4 in orange county.

29-year-old juan torres of ocoee facing dui charges. the prooper was exiting i-4 and aer to resident ran a --er torres ran a red light. a shooting at the marquee apartments on starling lane across from ucf's campus. a 19-year-old was hurt. they believe he will survive. no arrests have been announced. a maitland man has disappeared during a hiking trip in colorado. they are searching for 58-year-old ronald weber. he went hiking in the rocky mountain national park. it's unclear where he was headed but he was not prepared to spend the night. the area has been experiencing high winds and very cold temperatures since then >> luanne: hopefully, they find him soon. thank you.

update on the search for jennifer jennifer kesse. she is the orlando women woman -- orldz woman who has been missed for a decade. they believe she was kidnapped. they found her car but no sign of her. 1,000 tips have come in but no strong leads. there will be a news conference today. >> john: a jury in brmpleghts county found the woman guilty in december. she faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. she ran over thomas gregory as he was playing outside of his home on new year's eve. she left and he had go two broken legs.

for trump and -- sanders. the lead for sanders is partially built on his economic policies. voters say they trust him more than clinton when it comes to the economy. on the g.o.p. side, voters were more divided when it comes to who would handle foreign policy the best. in that category, trump led, and marco rubio is behind him at 26%. >> luanne: topping local business headlines, more staff members will get raises. a 5.1% raise, that's the same jump in pay that teachers got earlier in the year. what is old is new again on the space coast. florida today reports that the space coast tourism office is

campaign focusing on the no nostalgic beach. >> luanne: mark wall berg and his brother paul will come to florida when their restaurant opens. it's rumored to open on february 18. but a spokesperson said that that date is not correct. we'll have to wait and see. >> luanne: we head live to washington, d.c. where they are expected to get hit with two feet of snow. >> john: it'll be interesting to see. and jayme king is tracking our weather here. it'll be rocky in central florida. >> jayme: storms are moving through. we'll give the timing. and we have all of the snow in the midatlantic.

feet in >> john: 7:13 hereby on "good day orlando." and nasa posting video from one of their satellites showing the nasty winter storms. look at all of the clouds moving

the dc area could see as much as 2 feet of snow by the time this is all done on sunday >> luanne: let's head out to washington, d.c. this morning. >> john: she's smart. she's in the grocery store. >> luanne: good morning. is there any food left on the shelves there? >> reporter: yes, yes. i think that over the years we've just gotten better at this. we know the drill. snow crews are gearing up. thousands of snow nows -- plowed rfd to go. and states of emergency issued. we have the national guard standing by. as far as the grocery store goes, shelves are fully stocked, at least the wegmans in alexandria. the doors opened and we have had a steady stream of people buying up necessities and guilty buys and things like that.

toilet paper, water, and i am told rock salt is a number one item, as well as bread. if you have kids, you want to make it out today. the storm is expected around 1:00 p.m. and 20 to 30 inches with high winds, up to 30 miles per hour, we have to prepare for something that's pretty scary, which is power outages. because it's freezing outside. >> john: annie, we saw what happened, what was it yesterday, when you got 1 inch of snow. it slowed the presidential motorcade. is everyone going to stay home tomorrow? what will happen? >> reporter: well, you know, yesterday no one wants a repeat of what happened on wednesday evening. i think everybody, the lel agencies, they are all looking ahead to friday's big storm and we missed the point of the dusting or the icy conditions that could have happened. it paralyzed the city. i was sitting in traffic

we were hearing these horrible stories of people leaving work at 7:00 on a wednesday. getting home at 1k-6 in the morning the next day. people running out of gas. local police agencies were responding to hundred, i mean, over 200 calls of stranded vehicles, abandoned vehicles, accidents, people just couldn't get traction. they were slipping and sliding everywhere. it was a complete mess. we don't want a repeat of that. >> john: no. >> luanne: thank you so much. live for us this morning in washington, d.c. jayme, 30 inches of snow, that's going to be a nightmare up there. >> jayme: it is. and she mentioned the power outages are likely to effect everyone. the northern canopy is probably 75 miles out. noon into 1:00 p.m. we anticipate the conditions to deteriorate. the heavy band of snow through

it's stacking. and it's just crazy look across the carolinas now. cincinnati, south, southwestern suburbs of the st. louis area picking up snow now. as you go further to the east, the amount of snow gets exponentially high. 20 to 30 inches when all said and done. it's enhancing the overall canopy. you can see what's happening across south florida. storms are moving in. and west of tampa, i've been tracking a slug that's been in place for the last couple of hours. we'll see the intensity and the overall forward speed on this quickly gather some steam. we could be out of the woods before 3. and the intensity and the forward speed, two of the things that come into play here, have been seas increasing. a slight risk of severe weather.

winds at this moves in. and the main squall line. it looks like this line here, the chunk, may merge or phase or sync up with that, and that's what we have to watch out for. we have showers and storms along the florida turnpike, sumter, lake county, and ocala lighter rains establishing on the south end of town. and the forecast models show us about 11:00 a.m., gainesville, your weather will deteriorate rapidly. areas south of that, we'll see the enhanced risk for shower and thunderstorm activity during the mentioned time. 1:50 this friday afternoon, moving through orlando metro, and through the theme parks. if you are visiting from

ed theme parks should be in the clear by mid-afternoon. this kicks off in coastal brevard 2:30 or 3:00 p.m. very windy weather. low pressure and high pressure. what happens is we sync up the atmosphere and allow for very gusty winds, especially by tomorrow. we have temps tomorrow, low to mid-50s with 20 to 30 miles per hour winds on top of that. it's going to be a cold, blustery day. it loose like periods of cloud cover before the noon hour, adding to the chill effect. and 71 by tuesday. no chance of rain. the overnights begin to adjust upwards. but close to the freezing mark, if not under that, for orlando metro by sunday morning. all eyes on that and the rest of the eastern seaboard. >> gina: sky fox is over the

we have one left lane blocked and it's causing quite a bit of backup. this is i-4 at 434. the traffic is backed up past 434. the 436. we have one crash here near the theme parks on universal boulevard at major. causing minor delays. use caution out there. taking a look at drive times. as you can imagine, everything is starting to slow. i-4 westbound from lake mary, 24 minutes. and the attractions to downtown, only about 13 minutes and the 408 is up up to speed. 1 $1.65 for regular gas. we can always check out gas saving tips at fox35orlando.com, and click on traffic. >> john: up coming up, an overdose epidemic.

why so many people are turning to heroin. >> luanne: we want to say a special good morning to angela mcdermott from lfntle. are you -- from leesburg. are you our fox 35 friend of the day. you can find us by going to

fox 35 >> luanne: a live look at charlotte, north carolina this morning. it looks pretty, but, by, it's going to be a mess. they are getting hit with snow. you can see some of it is on the ground there. they are expecting to get more today. as is pretty much every state up and down the east coast. welcome back. a man crashes into a ucf campus building. police say he was high on heroin and the aftermath was caught on camera. >> are you okay, are you all right? what's going on, man? >> nothing. >> do you know where you are at, man? >> i'm at the hospital.

>> they said that william lopez was high when he crashed into a campus building with a woman in the passenger see the. january 11 it happened. a student had to jump out of the way to avoid getting hit. lopez didn't have a driver's license, and they found a gun car. >> john: that video is part of a bigger epidemic. the number of overdoses from 2003 to this year. pretty dramatic. and you can see there in 2003, few regions but jumped dramatically. we have florida cut off a little bit there but florida is mostly red. a lot of people overdosing on heroin here in the united states. the dope doctor, louis delgado is joining us this morning to discuss it. always good to have you. you saw that map, did that

of overdose deaths between 20303 and now, sky rocket? >> i would like to say yes. not really. but when you see it in visually, it puts it into perspective. >> john: why are people turning to heroin. you used to think of heroin as the junkie downtown, and no one saw. now it's the housewife next door. why are people going to heroin? >> you saw what happened to the pills. oxycodone, and as soon as the pharmaceutical problem happened, we closedded pill mills, and we should have known where do they go now that the pill mills are not open, they can't get the oxycontin, and the now the heroin is out there, and cheaper, easy, you don't have to go through the script and have an mri.

the mri, you just give them the money. >> john: and the same kind of high? >> same opiate receptor sites. a little different. basically, you have legal heroin in a pill, and then the street heroin. everyone has opiate receptors. if they have an accident, and go to get surgery or anything like that, the same receptors are tapped into. the brain isette up for the drug. that's why it's so easy to get addicted to. >> john: maybe your back was out. you got on oxycodone back in the day. and now that's gone. maybe a lot of people are saying, just stop. you can't, can you? >> no. >> john: what's it like when your body comes off? >> it feels like you are going to die. if you don't have what you have,

the biggest urge you could ever have, the biggest urge that you have to move from the situation that you are in or impending doom will happen. your brain says, go, go, go. and you have to go. no listening, no hearing, your grandmother could be in front of you, crying, saying, don't go, you will push her out of the way. >> john: most people say you wouldn't know where to find heroin >> but you say i would never try heroin, or stick that in my arm, but if you have not craved that, you don't know the type of intensity of the craving in your brain. >> john: you can get help. where can they find you if somebody has questions. maybe their kid is on this. >> you just hit 211. in orlando, hit 211. start saying i have a heroin problem. i need help.

we have fantastic services here locally. original -- orange county is so set up. the heroin task force that the mayor set up recently. we've been on top of that. law enforcement, treatment centers, the fire departments, universities, and local people. and so these overdoses don't happen. >> john: what is the website. >> the dope doctor.com. >> john: always appreciate you being here. we'll talk to you soon. >> luanne: gentlemen, thank you. coming up, some of the presidential candidates sporting a different look, and some even a different tone. a political analyst is here with us to discuss jeb bush's new look and senator marco rubio's new sound. right now 60 degrees but a major

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>> john: good point. i'm john brown >> luanne: i'm luanne sorrell. we've made it. the weekend is here. a winter storm is slamming the eastern half of the united states. this is a shot from charlotte. this guy is braving the cold to walk his dog. but i think the doggy, look at him, he starts to drag his master, he is ready to go back inside where it's warm. he said, i'm done. >> john: he said, i did my business, take me inside, jayme king. charlotte first, and northeast getting it later today, and noon, we need to watch you. >> jayme: right now through noon, in the early afternoon. a window of rain and storm opportunity opening big and broad. classic situation. canopy. dense, white snow. rain mix in between.

portions of the east. rainfall now moving into the central peninsula. i want to navigate here for the weather center and bring you up-to-date. toward orlando, and the theme parks. heaviest over the eastern gulf of mexico. we have a couple of bowing segments. west and northwest of newport ritchie. getting a crescent shape. we have a threat of strong winds within the line. this area to the east and the southeast of tallahassee is the main squall line component, just before the cold front races through here. the front is definitely going to be a cold front. i know we talk about the fronts and it's cool, and the lows bottom out in the 40s, guys. we go into the solid mid-30s by saturday or sunday morning for orlando metro behind this thing. in regard to the actual thing coming through, the squall line,

pushing through east of ocala and gainesville. making a run towards coastal brevard. some wind damaging lines may begin to develop. we saw that with the last technology is, -- we saw that with the last system. the possibility of strengthened winds as they exit the eastern side of the state. the end result is windy, very cold weather. tomorrow, highs in the low it mid-50s, and winds at 20 to 35 miles per hour on the gusts. it'll be a chiller indeed. full weather coming up in about 10e minutes. >> gina: i-4 eastbound, ee william vonn. there's quite a bit of backup. past 434. if you want to avoid, i would suggest getting off at the altamonte springs area.

lot of rubberneckers. use caution. take an alternate route. taking a look at drive times. lake mary to colonial, 23 minutes. i-4 eastbound from the attractions downtown, 15 minutes. and on the 408, 417 to downtown, 3 minutes. that's it for live drive traffic. >> luanne: developing right now, a major snowstorm is heading for the east coast. >> john: parts of the mid-atlantic could get as much as two feet of snow, like we said. thousands of flights being canceled, and fox 35's dana jay is at the airport with more. >> reporter: things are not looking foo bad here yet. if you look at the big board, lots of on time, and just a few canceled or delayed. the incoming flights from the raleigh durham area, and that's right in the heart of the storm area. and other cancelations on board

nap shouldn't come as a huge surprise. american airlines announced they're canceling all flights in and out of charlotte today because of the incoming weather. they are expected to pick up flights again, as usual, on saturday. and on the social media, united announcing that around 4:00 p.m. they'll begin to suspend flights at dulles airport, a hub for them in washington, d.c. really all of the major airlines have issued waivers for the weekend. meaning that you can rebook without a penalty, to try to make your way around the storm. the good news here, folks, you should know that your flights are canceled ahead of time. that way you don't have to come to the airport and wait around. that's the goal of the airlines as they seed big storm coming. according to flight aware.com, a flight tracking website, 2,000 flights canceled for today, and

reporting at oia, dana jay, fox 35 news. >> luanne: thank you. be sure to keep it right here on fox 35 for coverage on the big winter storm all weekend long, plus we'll have the very latest on the rain headed our way. remember, you can get instant updates any time on fox35orlando.com. >> luanne: in orange county, deputies are investigating what led to the drowning of a 3-year-old boy. >> john: that story kicks off the morning rush on this friday. just before 2:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon at a home on elderwood court in pine hills. the little boy wandered into the back yard and fell into the pool. when deputies arrived, the boy's mother was performing cpr. he was rushed to the hospital and he later died. a medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death >> luanne: brevard county deputies need your help. watch and see this man grab a fire extinguisher and tried to

store. december 27, along ohio 46 in the city of mims. and that man gave up and left. >> john: a follow up to a shoot out at a gas station that left a youth coach injuried. 18-year-old laquon sessions made his first appearance in court. the coach asked why the kids were not in school. >> some type of altercation involving the evans high school students but they were not involved in the gun play. it was relatives who carried it outside. they were not students that did this. >> another was arrested for pulling his own gun and returning fire. the coach who was shot is still recovering. >> luanne: joe owe orion is closer.

the pressure valve that keeps astronauts in a sealed environment. with that task complete, it can be shipped to kennedy space center for more tests, which is expected to happen on february 1. >> luanne: 7:39. coming up, notice anything different about the presidential candidates? >> john: some are changing their looks. but will changing their looks change their tune? will it get them more votes? our fox 35 political analysts join us to discuss political

7:40 as luanne said. 7:43. "good day orlando." it's your friday weather update. i want to bring you upto date

our radar showing active weather sliding in to the western edge of the state, breeched over into i-75. some of the cells now exhibiting a bit of twisting and turning. we have been outlined with a slight risk of severe weather. we will take a look. this is the radio velocity scan. giving a good indicator when the red and green colors are close together, sometimes that shows a bit of rotation. that one cell, north and west of the actual center of tampa bay has been showing that, looking aggressive over the eastern gulf. at times they have a chance to weaken as they reach the shore line. i'm watching that for you now. that's filing into the west side of the state. heavy rains setting up to the north and the east. outside of leesburg, northern sumter, the villages, and heavy rain making an approach at the villages. that will mess up the tee times

and through ocala, lighter rains and then out through den ellen. and clouds thickening and the rain chances are rising sploangsly now for the orlando metro. that's the case through the noon hour. as we head towards through the lunch time hour, gainesville will see this, ocala, leesburg, the area lakes, eustis, mount dora. and everything begins a big shift. it ends up in coastal brevard county. what happened last weekend. we were in the weather center. the squall line came through. very thin and narrow corridor of damaging winds. we saw the activity exiting stage right, over the east side of the state, and encountering the atlantic ocean, and propping up the damaging wind threat. i'm watching that. modeling locking on the

much of the entire county may be under the gun as we wrap up the early to mid-afternoon time frame. behind that, as it departs, the winds will get very whippy. temperature also be down to the 40s. and highs tomorrow in the 50s. a lot of wind on our saturday. and i expect a freeze watch or a full on freeze warning for orlando. it'll be that chilly. nearly 07 along the southern edge of the space coast. bottom line, increasing rain chances. if you don't have rain now, odds are you will see that. stronger to possible isolated strong storms. 70 by 2:00 p.m. and 60s for us by 5:00 p.m. this evening. the storm racing off towards the east to the atlantic ocean. a big area of super duper chunky

in excess of one foot likely. and a blast of very chilly air that will be the big effect we find here over the weekend for both saturday and sunday in the central peninsula. tomorrow, wind whipped and chilly. i tell you, it looks like mid-50s. and lows in the mid-and 30s if sunday. and brrr will be the word. and here's our weather baby. visit our website for more weather baby pics. we love to feature your beauties on the show. hop to it. upload the picture to our website, and we'll take it from there, fox35orlando.com. >> gina: happy friday, everybody. we're dealing with the crash at ee williamson. one left lane is blocked quiting quite a bit of backup.

i suggested getting off at the 436 to avoid the mess this morning. really, really congested in both directions. a new crash at curry ford and goldenrod. use caution in the area. taking a look at drive times. everything is starting to slow. i-4 eastbound to downtown. on the 408, us are road to downtown, 4 minutes right now. 14 minutes. as the candidates make their final sprint to iowa, some are making some big changes. marco rubio changing his tune. >> stop the anger, stop the anxiety that you hear in people's voices that are manifesting itself in the campaign. >> john: becoming grittier, and

ditches the frames and darkening the hair. >> the one least likely to become president. hoping the makeover scores some points with voters. >> it confirmed to me that the system itself needed to change. >> john: but will it work? political analyst frank torres is here to talk about the changes. start with marco rubio. his tone has changed in speeches recent. >> that's why people are so frustrated andq)amqq9 that's the anger. that's the anxiety that you hear in people's voices that are manifesting itself in this campaign. >> john: a couple months ago he was kind of a happy go lucky guy, now it's negative. do you think that's a new tactic? >> it's a familiar tactic. he likes to display to the voter what's going on behind the layers. he is right. you is seeing the angry

ted cruz excelling in the polls they're trying to channel and translate and convert it to points in the polls. >> john: to me it shows what people say they want and what resonates is opposite. we want our politicians -- anger may not be the right word, but the more outspoken they get the higher in the polls? >> right. a couple years ago, the frustration with washington and the low approval numbers with congress. people are upset of hearing the same things from the same lawmakers. they want something different and a new script and a new message. that's why you see the changes and the anger succeeding right now. >> john: political experts telling them how to dress, do their hair, and take a look at jeb bush. he has gotten rid of the glasses. >> right. >> john: the hair darker. i will never criticize anyone

but it's strategic, right? >> right. >> john: what do you think of the new look? >> jeb has had his image trashed. being called low energy comedy shows calling him jebra. he thought it was a time to change and darken up the hair, looking younger and more energetic. he is trailing in the polls in iowa. new hampshire is really his last stance. anything to look more energetic and aggressive to try to gain some ground. >> john: before i let you go, i want to talk about the whole insider thing. yesterday, hillary clinton called brars bernie sanders a washington insider. and that's like the new curse word in political. >> a political curse word. >> what are your thoughts on that. >> it's with whatever lens you look through. insider is bad terms most of the time.

we're talking about where anger is succeeding, anger is a bad thing. it's more of the same. more candidates will try to paint their opponents as judders. ed a as outsiders. >> luanne: facebook has something new for fans. how you can cheer on your favorite team with your friends and even some of the players. that and more coming up. a live look inside the "good day

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new app for sports fans. >> john: ryan elijah is joining us to talk about it. >> reporter: it's all about the experience. had is called facebook sports stadium. facebook describes it as a dedicated place to describe sports in realtime with your friends around the world. that's the key. you can see that you can watch the game in denver and talk about it. it's all content from one place in the game. and it is realtime, and chronological. you can comment on plays and view game commentary. you can view live scores and play-by-plays. facebook sports stadium is available on the i phone in the u.s. it'll expand to other platforms in scupping weeks. in coming weeks. right now it's only available for football games. one more way to be distracted. you can't just watch the game on the couch >> luanne: checking other things and eating chips at the same

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