>> and good morning, i'm tom johnson. it is saturday, january 23rd. thanks for being here. here's the top stories we're working on for you this morning. we start with "fox 35" jackie orozco. >> >> reporter: good morning, tom, the big winter storm slamming the northeast is affecting dozens of flights here at oia. i'll explain what you need to know before catching your flight. >> plus, a man as do the after a shooting near an orlando club.

and new details on a prisoner cops say took off with a release program why police are looking for a a woman and a baby as well. and brooks, welcome back. everybody is talking about the weather today. it is chilly here. >> yeah. >> it is snowing up north. >> meteorologist: the best thing living in florida you can view the situation up north but you don't have all the snow that they're doing up there. good morning, tom, nice to see you again. blizzard of 2016. here we are looking live right now. we do have freeze warnings in effect not for right now but for tonight and this is everywhere predominantly right now north and west of interstate 4, volusia county, flagler county lake county marion and alachua counties and it wouldn't surprise me if seminole counties

afternoon because it looks very cold in central florida. it's chilly. temperatures 47 in orlando, 38 in gainesville, but that doesn't tell the whole story because, folks, it is windy outside. wind chills right now feels like 39 in orlando. good news is we'll see clearing skies today we won't warm up a whole lot. high pressure only in the low maybe the mid-50s as west winds continue to pour in. we'll keep an eye overnight on some of that cold air here and also, tom, i want to set the stage for you because that's a live look at guardian radar big storm for a lot of people. >> 87 million people in at least 20 states are being affected by what forecasters call a potentially historic snowstorm all up and down the east coast as brooks already told you. the storm is being blamed for at least 9 deaths. let's take you to new york city. snow has been falling there for hours.

conditions in front of that camera there. now, let's take you down to dc for a live look at the white house. we've been watching this shot at one point we've been unable to make out the white house from the is in our. there were actually snowplows right at the president's front steps. fox news correspondent joel waldman has more from the storm from washington. >> reporter: the most feared winter storm so far has officially arrived. blizzard warnings now stretching from washington to new york. the forecast from meteorologist was dead on. the snowfall accumulations expected to reach 30 inches or more in some areas but emergency officials say they're prepared and ready for the impact left behind by the storm. >> well, everyone is already in ready mode. personnel will be coming here. we'll have plenty of vehicles and plenty of people to handle this. >> reporter: as the blizzard makes its way across the east coast, residents are urge eddy

>> this is a dangerous storm. there are way too many people out on the roads now. if you're not where you need to be, please get there. um, it's just going to get worse and it's going to get worse fast. >> reporter: according to the national weather service, the storm's also expected to kick up winds between 35 to 50 miles an hour in some areas but those winds are expected to die down sometime after saturday afternoon. in washington, joel waldman, fox news. >> so all that severe weather is causing lots of headaches for travelers as you might imagine that includes a bunch of cancellations and delays at the orlando international airport dozens of them as a matter of fact. "fox 35" jackie orozco is live at oia with a closer look at the storm's impact. hi, jackie. >> good morning, tom, more than or delayed and `8\ it's looking about the same 2r as well today. now, we counted right here in the terminal a part at least 49

several others have either been rescheduled or delayed. now, we're talking about cancellations to philly, all the flights t o @dx philly, baltimore, several delays to charlotte are cancelled all the 00@(5 flights to new york, @pp j%h %h $ nashville. now, the travel @ nightmare is, of course, what you just saw the winter storm slamming the east coast. nearly 4,000 flights have been delayed or cancelled nationwide that's according to flightaware.com. airport officials say there have been again 75 cancellations and 1 delays since yesterday, of course, that number could change depending on how severe weather the weather gets. today, again, we are seeing nearly 50 flights cancelled and several others rescheduled or delayed. now, airport officials urge passengers to check with your airlines about your flight status before leaving the house or hotel. now, if you're right here at the airport and your flight cancelled, call or go online to rebook your flight. now, many passengers have to hear the bad news about their flights being cancelled here at

passenger told us. >> the flight was still on until we get up to security and it was cancelled right after that. we'll have to return on sunday and we'll get a flight back to charlotte. >> and back out x here live , several again cancellations, nearly 50 of them. all the flights going t o @ northeast and i was just told in the b terminal that there are nearly 65 cancellations that they have so again, before you head out the door, check with your airlines to find out the status of your flight. for now reporting live at oia, jackie orozco, fox news. >> flights not the only thing delayed by the weather. amtrak modifying its schedule because of the winter storms. the trains will have modified times throughout the weekend until monday several national trips headed to the northeast there will be limited trips throughout the state of florida. amtrak says all passengers who

and accumulated -- accommodated. stay up-to-date what's going on in the weather on air and online we will have live hits throughout the morning you can also download our weather app, just go to the app store for your phone. and new this morning in winter garden is dead after someone shot him severaltimes. policed responded to a call on bethune avenue.

where he died at the hospital. police want you to call in if you know anything about this one. volusia county deputies are searching for an inmate who took off with a work release program and his girlfriend who helped him get away as well as a 3-year-old child we told you yesterday gary bullock, jr. failed to return to the tomocha correctional institution and now deputies tell us it was his girlfriend natasha quigley who picked him up for work. they say the two took off with a 3-year-old boy and that quigley stole money, blank checks and a gun from her parents before they all left. bullock was sentenced in 2010 for robbery, attempted robbery and grand theft. if you see either one of them call 911. new jersey accused of impersonating -- a man accused of impercent ating a cop. he was arrested yesterday. he's accused of going to a point sienna house january 13th and telling a man there that he was with the orlando police

he's accused of flashing a fake badge and telling the man the car was reported stolen and he had to hand over the keys or go to jail. safety concerns in volusia county, the property appraiser there is shutting down their office in daytona beach after complaints a homeless man got aggressive with a worker. morgan gillrey says a man was aggressive with a woman in that office. she was scrambling to find her key card to get inside as a hopeless man came up to her. another employee saw what was happening and shouted out. >> he was so close at the time he heard her screaming that he turned around and when he turned around he bumped her there so there was contact and that's not a circumstance that people nee d to have at @{@{ @{ @{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{ work. >> @{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@{@k@{@{@{ volusia @k@k@{@{@{@{@{ county and the @{@c@{@{ city of daytona beach have been at odds how to deal with the homeless. the city shut down a park where the homeless like to hang out

out with the government building. it was opened up but the city closed it back down a short time later. fliers are handed out looking for a missing ban who had automatic. the man was at home in mainland. he had a life is good t-shirt with black shorts and new balance tennis shoes. his parents say he has the mental capacity of a 12 to 16-year-old. they say they're concerned because he needs medication and does not have it with him. family friends say he means the world to them. if you think you know where he is call maitland police. and we have a consumer alert this morning the centers for disease control reporting a listeria outbreak that's killed one and made dozens of others sick. they found it in dole salads. the salads were made in ohio. so far the outbreak sickened people in 6 different states. florida is not on that list at this point, though. the bacteria showed up in

the manufacturing code on the package starts with the letter a. the cdc says you should not eat lettuce from any of those bags. dole stopped production at that ohio facility thursday. almost 11 minutes ar-8:00. still to come we're learning more about the deadly school shooting in canada. what officials say the gunman did before opening fire at that school is next. plus we're now just a little more than a week before the iowa caucus and donald trump taking hits from his own party. local political analyst takes a look at the race as we inch closer to the vote. >> and snow up north. here it is cloudy and 48 degrees but with the wind outside, it is going to feel a lot cooler than that. meteorologist brooks tomlin will

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>> tom: i it is 8:14 on this chilly saturday morning. the temperatures says 48 degrees but if you go outside you'll notice that it feels a lot lower than that. something more akin to the upper 30s. that's because of the cool wind that's out there. brooks tomlin will be back to explain more. at this mower 4 people are dead and two critically hurt after a man opened fire at a canadian

some reports say the man shotic in the leg. he was able to call for backup and they caught the man a short while later. the officer is expected to survive. >> tom: just over a week until the iowa caution and when it comes to the republicans it appears it's a two-man race. a brand-new fox poll reveals two years on the republican side donald trump leads with 34%, ted cruz is second with 20% and then a pretty drop-off. marco rubio at 11%, dr. ` ben cars carson carson. the national review ver y p influential magazine published a dozen essays by noted ` conservatives all outlining while voters should reject donald trump's bid for the gop nomination.

editors in which they explain the billionaire real estate mogul as a free-floating populist and an overall and this is a quote here menace to american conservatism. trump dismissed the publication as a dying paper. meanwhile, a new cbs/orc poll shows vermont senator bernie sanders surging in iowa with 51%. that puts him 8 points ahead of hillary clinton who is also trailing sanders in the first of the nation primary state of new hampshire. political analyst frank torres joins us now to talk more about all of this. okay, so let's start with the national review. this is a very influential magazine. >> guest: that's correct. >> tom: what does this issue coming out so strongly against donald trump do to trump's campaign. >> guest: listening to read those description that's a very powerful words that the national review is reviewing. if you're in politics and you're a social media feed you're seeing all these republicans on

national review article. it's very damaging to trump but it seems to be at this point a clear battle between the establishments and the outsiders. how that'll affect trump with a week to go towards iowa remains to be seen. his not affected his poll numbers so far. >> tom: what precipitated this and was there any indication that this was coming? >> you know, there's a little bit of indication that this was coming. the establishment has never been big fans of donald trump. they look at the big general election numbers and they pp see how he @ does against hillary clinton and it scares them because he's the only mainstream republican that doesn't beat hillary clinton in the polls. they want a republican in the white house. donald trump to them is not that republican. and they're going to start bucking them trying to do everything they can trying to make sure they see not get the nomination. >> tom: bernie sanders 8-point lead on hillary clinton right now surging there in iowa. how important to that to the overall picture or is this just an iowa thing? >> guest: it's just an iowa

bernie has these terrific leads in iowa and new hampshire but national polling he's down 13 to 20 points according to what you look at. hillary clinton's concern will be will this snowball and should we take this momentum and start affecting those big national numbers in order to be a real threat to her nomination, obviously, it's a concern. she might want to tweak her message a little bit to make sure she does better. she needs to take bernie sanders very seriously. >> tom: what's your best guess if bernie sanders does come out of iowa and new hampshire with wins what do you think happens? >> guest: i think he might have a very similar situation on the republican side. you might see the democrat establishment throw all their support and barack obama voicing his opinion who will be better. it will definitely be a game-changer for both parties should donald trump and bernie sanders continue this momentum. >> tom: because there are always big changes in these races i think a lot of people forget when hillary's husband bill first won he was way behind everybody and he surged

a bigger role in the campaign. >> tom: good analysis. >> guest: anytime. >> tom: let's talk about the weather because it's on everybody's mind today, brooks. >> meteorologist: good morning tom, good morning everybody. we're starting off this morning with a lot of blue on the map. i want to tell you what that means. we have freeze warnings in effect for tonight not today but tonight. north and west of i-4. volusia county flagler county lake marion alachua county more than likely we could see it even encroach in orange and seminole counties where we don't have the freeze warnings we'll have wind chill advisories. look at the strength. the cold air pulls in everywhere 15 to 20 plus colder degrees this time yesterday. official temperatures range from the mid to upper 30s to around 50 degrees but you factor in the wind. we've got very strong winds outside and they'll stay with us all day. wind chills right now in the 20s and 30s through much of the day. wind chills will be in the 30s and 40s. freezes and frosts overnight not

as well that's when we could see a bigger frost risk. gradual warming until seuss that's good. probably wednesday, thursday, maybe friday time frame we could see another soggy system. outside right now, our visit orlando towercam on top of the hyatt regency orlando, the cold and the whipped. west at 24 miles per hour. look at the wind speeds, northwest at 19 and leesburg so we have cold temperatures and then you factor in the wind, wind chills this morning predominantly in the 30s, maybe even some upper 20s. it's going to be chilly all day today by central florida standards but by central florida standards it's really cold up north where they're having blizzard-like conditions, washington, dc, snow. and 11 degrees. around here, we're going to stay chilly today. highs in the low 50s, wind chills again in the 30s and 40s. so stay warm today, central florida. overnight tonight, temperatures right near freezing, below

with the freeze warnings in effect. tomorrow, much less wind. high temperatures upper 50s close to 60. we do return to the 70s by monday and tuesday and then all eyes on another super soaker coming out of the gulf of mexico wednesday into thursday. tom? >> tom: all right. 8:21, almost 822 now. still to come, buy a piece of kennedy family history here in florida. how you can get your hands on a

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neal cavuto has your business headlines. >> for most of the country that is not snowed in drivers will be enjoying those go gas prices the national average falling for 16th straight day. we are now at 1.85 a gallon. meanwhile it was a december to remember for the highland park. sales rising in the final month of 2015 capping off the best year we've seen for the industry in nearly a decade. median home prices also rising over $220,000. stocks rallying again this time boosted by rising home prices and almost more stimulus in europe. and now you can own a piece of camelot called the winter white house -- well, they're all up for auction this weekend. items including the family's dining room set and jfk's massage table. that's business. i'm neil cavuto.

still to come a local teacher in hot water for a diversity exercise gone wrong. what officials say she did in

some >> tom: it is 8:30 on a cool saturday morning. i guess cold by central florida standards. temperatures, 48 but it feels a lot colder out there. there's a live shot of the citrus bowl and a little more than a month, i guess, it is, orlando city soccer taking that field again for their second season in the mls. that'll be fun. and tonight -- oh, that's right, tonight is monster jam. more on that a little later.

thanks for waking up with us. here's the top stories we're working on with you right now. " hh jackie orozco. >> reporter: good morning, tom. i'm here live at the orlando international airport where it's the second day in a row where dozens of flights have been cancelled or delayed. i'll have the very latest coming up in a live report. >> tom: and this weekend marks 10 years since jennifer kessi disappeared. the heartfelt plea is straight ahead and controversial lesson on diversity has one local teacher in hot water. we'll tell you what officials say she did that left some first graders in tears. and let's talk about what's happening outside. it is cold, brooks. >> meteorologist: yeah, and windy as well and you know in central florida you know it's cold when we see blue on the map. national weather service has issued freeze warnings for tonight north and west of i-4, volusia, flagler, lake mary and

more than likely that could be extended into seminole and orange county and then where we don't have freeze warnings, wind chill advisories tonight. temperatures right now predominantly in the 30s and 230er9s but the wind chills in the 20s and 30s. it feels like 39 in orlando. 43 in tampa and so here's the forecat least half a foot of snow tomorrow. experts say the greatest problem is going to be the wind which is likely to create power outages and coastal flooding all of this

8 pinch as airlines continue canceling and delaying flights. "fox 35" jackie orozco is live at orlando international airport look at th e ``` impact. `` jackie? you know what? i've been talking to some passengers and they have been a bit worried if their 0` flights 0 have been cancelled but luckily they haven't but x you can see on the board here we've been seeing ^|! off and on on and off, baltimore, p@ philly, @ 0p0p4t new pdph york, phtb ($x (((),)l(()( nashville, washington, dc, either have ` some or all the flights going to these places have been cancelled. now, more than 120 @ flights here at oia have been cancelled. this travel nightmares is because the winter storm slamming the east coast. officials say there's been many delays and cancellations. the number has gone up today so

to see if your flight has been cancelled or delayed now. if you're already here at the airport and your || x go online to because a lot of passengers are going to be doing that and sossengers had to hear again the bad news about their flights here at the airport and this is what one passenger told us. >> the flight was still on until we got through security and then it was cancelled right after that. we'll have to return on sunday evening and we'll get a flight back to charlotte. >> reporter: again, we counted about 123 flights cancelled since yesterday and again, yesterday morning. passengers keep coming up to see the latest of their flight status so again check with your airline before leaving out the door or your hotel. they could get on time to wherever you're going. for now reporting live at oia, jackie orozco, fox news. >> and you can stay up-to-date with what's going on in the

you can also download our weather app. just go to the app store for your phone. a man and woman are accused of stealing and the homeowner caught them @p red-handed. the homeowner ddddnud came home to find a couple loading up a u-haul in front of their leesburg home. they watched jack haze and amanda roberts take tools from their storage unit at the house but as the thieves tried to drive away they backed right into the hursts' truck, oops they took off and the hursts were right behind them. >> so i thought i'm not going to get up close. i'm just going to -- she was calling the @ sheriff. i'm just going to stay close and tell them right where they are. >> tom: cops say the truck eventually ran into a tree you can see it are trying to the couple ditched it and ran and the deputies caught up and arrested them. detectives trying to figure out where the rest of the stuff in the u haul came from.

years since an orlando woman disappeared. you have probably seen the missing fliers around central florida for years now. take a look at the age progressed photo the police just released. jennifer they say would look like this now. her parents are still desperately searching for answers. she disappeared in 2006. cops think she was on her way to work when something happened. they found her car at huntington on the green apartments. they have. they have never identified the man you see walking by in this video. after all these years jennifer's family says they're just looking for closure. >> if someone knows what happened to jennifer and it's not for the good, it's okay. >> tell us. >> we just need to know. >> tom: if you think you know anything about what happened to call the orlando police department. 8:36 now. a "fox 35" follow-up.

our news partner at the "orlando sentinel" report a seminole county judge signed a divorce order tuesday. it ends zimmerman's ex-wife shelly she filed for divorce in 2013. that was 2 months after zimmerman cancelled. lake mary police responded to their home when shelly called 911. on the call she said george had threatened her and her father with a gun. no charges were ever filed, though. the divorce reportedly took so long because the former couple fought over how to split millions expected from a defamation lawsuit against nbc universal but a judge eventually tossed out that suit. zimmerman keeps his pickup truck and the family dog. at least one parent is upset with a first grade teacher at a mineola charter school. the 0 years old about racism.

her students are martin luther king, jr., and discrimination. principal said she did it by separating the kids by eye color, blue-eyed children got hugs and contained, brown eyed children didn't get anything. the school's princess the lesson was a bad idea and the teacher faces disciplinary action. >> it was not appropriate -- it was not an appropriate activity to do with first grade. out of respect for the teacher i'm not going into the disciplinary action but we are in that process. @ appropriate lesson for first grade at all. >> tom: we tried to reach out to the parent who complained but they did not want to talk about it publicly. norths show florida's unemployment rate is down compared to last year. the state's unemployment rate stands at 5% right now. there's an estimated 487,000 people unemployed. this time last year 67,000 more

the unemployment rate was 5.7% then. the state's lowest rate is in monroe county right now. the highest is in hendry county just east of okeechobee. the orlando magic blew a big lead at home last night. fox's sports has your highlights. >> reporter: tough one on friday night inside the amway center the orlando magic had the charlotte hornets up on the ropes by 19 but a huge comeback for charlotte and they prevail in overtime 120-116. the guy leading the charge like nn we thought he might walker. he goes for 40 minutes always plays well against the orlando magic and he took over this basketball game in the second >> reporter: yeah, they didn't have an answer for which. it didn't mark it if it was a pick 0t and roll situations or

drib very good memphis grizzlies team or a team that's playing much better. that will come your way monday. we hit the air at 7:30 on fox sports florida. you have the crafty players -- this is a veteran-leading team that's playing much better right now. >> reporter: yeah, they're starting to put it together. they still kind of play the old school type of game, a little slower paced than everybody else but those two are low inside you mentioned connelly who's an all-star caliber point guard and they know how to win that's the biggest team. >> reporter: no question. some tough pieces in guys like

tony orlando. monday night we visit the memphis grizzlies and we hit the air on fox sports florida. and we'll talk to you then. >> tom: 20 minutes before 9:00, still to come, it's easy to spend big on date night but going out doesn't have to leave you broke. we're checking out some ways to save on your next night out, next. >> tom: a lot of next there, right there is tiffany brown working hard there. she can hardly look up. take a couple few seconds breaks

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nice view of orlando's tourist district there at international drive. you can see the orlando eye right there on the right side of the screen. i believe we're looking east i-4 over there at a left side of your screen. so if you go down there to one of the restaurants or other places to go on a date night you know that date could easily end up costing `?5?0@fl you a 8 bundl e of cash xt@ but you do not have to break the bank to have a good time. kirstin from orlando date night guide is here to tell you how. >> guest: hello. >> tom: i'll have that interested in this and i know a lot of people are interested. in let's dive in. first you say start early make it a day date. >> guest: yeah, you can make it a lunch date. i know you got some favorite lunch spots. >> tom: yep. |rx< >> guest: get away from that expensive dinner at night that's the first creative thing you can do. >> tom: i'm off two days during the week. >> guest: yeah. >> tom: and we'll go `@ out and have our date da

a @p lot. >> guest: you could get away with less than 30 bucks. >> tom: next up hit happy hour. >> guest: there's so many great happy hours in this town. i do a series called happy hour test-drive write do different happy hours around town and i love ats on prix tavern and reduce technique -- rustic. you could get enough food that constitutes a dinner and cocktails. >> tom: i like that. >? start a date night jar. we've talked about this before. |x >> guest: you , dump your change o in and it adds /7`@$d u p | maybe rx< after @ a couple of months you go in publix the converter -- >> tom: the magic change machine. >> guest: they keep a little bit of it. we did it one time with 85 bucks. >> tom: that's excellent. swap kid care. what do you mean by that. >> guest: if you've got another couple in your life who've got kids probably around the same age you say you take my kids next friday and i'll take your kids friday night after that and you save 40 pucks in the future. >> tom: we've gone with double

>> guest: yes, that's a good one. >> tom: get the one babysitter. [inaudible] >> tom: good luck have fun with this. find freebies. there's lots of freebies out there. >> guest: i got a whole category called cheap and free. one of the ones i found recently is sea art orlando. you notice all the great art around lake eola. they each one have a free. you can go to each one and read about the artist, how it got there and totally free. it doesn't cost you a pooengs. >> tom: jazz your at home date night. >> guest: i suggest switching your wife take on one friday and -- and you take the other -- you play arlington dray bocelli. [laughter] >> guest: you could have a cheese themed night and game night. i think if you take turns and take ownership of the theme and get really creative that's the best way to do that. >> tom: then it brings you trying to outdoor each other and it's more and more fun.

if you're a guy don't let your gal know she will call you cheap. >> guest: you can get great restaurants and attractions those escape games they usually do like great discounts on those yeah -- just subscribe and keep track and get those deals. >> tom: get outside. >> guest: it's free. go for a | hike, go x for ,o a ^ walk /7`@$d|r around your ow n neighborhood go @ for a picnic. not today. [laughter] >> tom: all right. >> guest: but most of the time in central florida especially this time of the year the weather is fantastic. >> tom: i think people up north would say get outside today in central florida, what, are you kidding me. >> guest: we'll see them at the theme parks in their shorts and they go oh, my gosh. >> tom: where can peep find you. >> guest: go to orlando date night.com. >> tom: that's of great stuff, thank, kirstin. let's talk about the weather, blizzards up north but it is just simply central florida cold here. >> meteorologist: yeah just a chilly day on tap today. good morning, everybody. tom and kirstin, you had me at happy hour. that's what i'm talking about.

tonight we have freeze warnings in effect north and west of i-4. talking about volusia, lake, flagler, marion, alachua counties even into putnam county it would not surprise me if even the freeze warnings crept a little bit in seminole and orange county as we go through the day the national weather service will let us know. also where we don't have freeze warnings tonight more than likely we will have wind chill advisories. what does that mean? yeah, it's cold, cold by central florida standards and it will stay that way today, tonight, through tomorrow and tomorrow night. but wait until you see the monday forecast. temperatures, 15, 18, 20 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. temperatures -- look at that. 47 orlando, 389 in gainesville but you factor in the wind. this is what it wasn't like. it feels like we're in the 30s through much of central florida. also just fyi, reports of a couple of flurries up in the jacksonville, florida, area so sometimes, yeah, it does snow in florida. freezes overnight tonight, frost overnight tomorrow night with some freezes.

much in the way of frost because the winds are going to stay steady. gradual warming through tuesday today. tomorrow, and then monday we start to warm up tuesday, wednesday, thursday. it looks good although we have a soggy system wednesday into thursday. take you outside this morning. 47 degrees but, folks, the big story not only the cloudy and the cold but look at the winds outside. the winds gusting on top of the citrus bowl. the flags just flying. west winds at 24 miles an hour. if you're headed to monster jam tonight if you're headed outside today just bundle up because it is going to be chilly. very windy outside through all of south florida. with wind chills 39 orlando. 38 seminole county. 33 in the villages. it feels like 29 right now in gainesville. thankfully, we're not dealing with the frigid -- i mean, yeah, we could say it's frigid by central florida standards but

northeast and mid-atlanta it feels like atlanta in dc. here's the live view with the garland radar you can see a lot of snow in the mid-atlantic to the northeast. they're dealing with that we're dealing with central florida cold. high temperatures about 18 to 20 degrees below normal. low 50s for the most part. wind chills stay in the 30s and 40s today. overnight tonight, very cold, low temperatures right near freezing and then again where we don't have freezing conditions, wind chill advisories in effect. 58 tomorrow. tomorrow much less wind as we go through the day. high temperatures upper 50s and then tomorrow night more freezes and frosts and then we lose the cold for a few days with highs returning to the 70s as we go through the work and school week weather baby time. who do we have this morning. we've got michael. michael is in when they those little toys, man, we had a couple of those little things,

inner tube things. baby einstein that's not it. we had a couple of toys like >> >> tom: we had one similar to that but i cannot think what they're called. thanks for joining us this morning. tom and i appreciate it. if you want your child on weather baby log onto our website and follow the links. >> tom: something called creative like the bouncy seat. >> meteorologist: bingo. >> tom: still to come big changes coming for the oscars we'll tell yours plan to make things more diverse, next. >> tom: and here's a live look outside. those cloudy skies, the chilly air that brooks has been telling you about, stay with us. lots more "fox 35 news good day orlando" coming your way. don't forget to follow us on twitter@"fox 35" news. if you would like to follow me personally and i would really

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greats open at 5:00 pm and let me tell you if you've never been, don't hate. try it out. it's a lot of fun. i promise if you go you'll have a blast. trending this morning, the people who vote on the oscars are making changes in hopes of making future nominations lists more diverse. for the second year in a row this year's acting nominees all white. board of governors for the academy of motion picture arts and sciences voted in favor of a series of reforms aimed at diversifying membership. the reforms include limiting members voting status to a period of 10 years to be extended only if the individual remains active in film during that decade. lifetime voting rights will be granted only to academy award nominees and members and members after three 10-year voting terms. the film academy is also pledging to double the number of female and minority members by the year 2020. they will immediately diverse

seats to the board of governors. right now there are 51 members on that board. actress and academy award nominee charlotte rampling weighing in on the oscar situation. she's also a member of the academy and can vote. called for a boycott -- or called the boycott against the oscars, quote, racist against whites. she said we will never know how the academy picks the nominees and people who did not get nominated probably did not deserve to be. a new dad in the boy band one direction. lewis tomlinson welcomed a son they briefly dated last may and are not together now. he's been seen out and about with another actress in london. but louis, and he remains friends with his mother through all of that. mariah carey engaged to a massive.

that's a 35 carat ring are trying to. mariah carey has been dating james packer since june. he's the 4th richest man thanks to family must be, real estate connections and casinos. this will be carey's third marriage. coming up on 8:58 and coming up on "good day orlando" at 9:00, severe weather causing havoc across the country. right here in central florida the latest on flight delays and cancellations because of this happening up north. it's all next. and we have champions in the house. we're going to introduce you to ucf team that just took home

title >> tom: and good morning i'm tom johnson. it's saturday, january 23rd. thanks for joining us. working with this morning starting with jackie orozco. >> reporter: good morning, tom. because of the winter storm blasting the northeast, that's affecting a lot of flights here at orlando international airport. i'll let you know what cities are most affected. that's coming up. >> tom: and a man is dead after

we have the latest on the investigation with that. plus new details on a prisoner cops say took off from his work release program, why officials are now looking for a woman and a toddler as well. and everybody -- i believe every single person is talking about the weather this morning because it's not just the blizzard up north. it's cold here, brooks. >> meteorologist: and it's because of that blizzard that we're cold here good morning, tom, good morning, everybody. there's a deepening storm system off the mid-atlantic off cape hatteras that's bringing the cold dry air. through late yesterday. it came through with a big passion freeze warnings in effect areas in blue we're talking volusia, lake counties onto the north and west including flagler marion alachua counties for tonight and i think those freeze warnings might be extended into portions into seminole and orange county warnings. all that blue on the map means it's cold. temperatures in the 30s and 40s for the most part.

feels like 40 degrees right now in orlando. here the forecast for today. it's going to stay chilly all day long. clearing skies but look at the gusty winds coming out of it is west and the northwest at a fair clip. wind chills stay in the 30s and 40s all day long. one quick look at garland radar weather nothing here but plenty of snow to the north, tom? >> tom: thanks, brooks it is 9:03. more than 85 million people and at least -- in at least 20 states are in the bull's-eye for that potentially historic snowstorm all up and down the east coast. the storms already being blamed for at least 9 deaths. take a live look at new york city. snow has been falling for hours. we've been watching this shot of times square all morning long. at times it looks pretty good. and other times it's like this, nearly whiteout conditions. let's take you a little bit south of there to the white house, about 5 hours drive south of new york and you can see the white house also snowed

the lawn covered with snow early this morning there were actually tractors out in front of the north portico plowing the snow away trying to clear everything up. fox joel walledman has more from the snow. washington. >> reporter: the most feared winter storm so far has officially arrived. blizzard warnings stretching from washington for new york. the meteorologists were dead on with snowfall accumulations expected to reach 30 inches or more in some areas. but emergency officials say they're prepared and ready for the impact left behind by the storm. >> everyone is already in ready mode. personnel are coming in. they know they're going to be doing long shifts we'll have plenty of vehicles and plenty of people to handle this. >> reporter: as the blizzard makes its way across the east coast, state officials are urging residents to stay off the roads and hunker down. >> this is a dangerous storm. there are way too many people out on the roads now. if you're not where you need to be, please get there. um, it's just going to get worse.

>> reporter: according to the national weather service, the storm's also expected to kick up winds between 35 to 50 miles an hour in some areas. those winds are expected to die down sometime saturday afternoon. in washington, joel walledman, fox news. >> tom: all 8 that severe weather as you might imagine causing a big headache for a lot of travelers and that includes a bunch of cancellations and delays at orlando international airport. "fox 35" jackie orozco is there live giving you a look at the storm's impact, hi. >> reporter: well, good morning, tom, you know, all these people behind us -- they're actually the lucky ones. they're traveling just straight north to minneapolis. parts of wisconsin, all (@x` those flights are on time but these are the cities that are mostly affected you can see on the rr board here, several cancellations if you're heading to dc and then just a little bit above there. and you can see raleigh cancelled. we've seen a lot of red and philadelphia and the flights on the very top you can see all the

we just saw now one that ha s been # on time i n new york and several were cancelled as well as chicago and, um, but now things have been improving so this is constantly changing. so far it's been 123 cancellations since yesterday so again, it's been looking good here on th e board but the mostly affected you saw all that snow in dc . all of those flights are the ones affecte d and the passengers are coming up here -- they were just crossing their fingers and hoping that their flights were not cancelled and again, they are the lucky ones but it's been relatively slow so you can get back over here to the lines. they're happy their flights are on time if you're here and your flight has been cancelled, th e airport officials here at oia say to give your airline a call immediately to rebook and go online or give them a call because that's what several other passengers are doing. again, this is day 2 of a lot of

so again, give your airline a call and rebook. for now reporting live here at oia, jackie orozco, "fox 35 news." >> tom: flights not the only thing being delayed by the weather, amtrak modifying its schedule because of the storms. the trains will have modified times throughout the weekend until monday. several national trips headed to the northeast are cancelled right now. also going to be limited trips throughout the state of florida. amtrak says all passengers who are affected should be contacted and accommodated. you can stay up-to-date with what's going on in the weather, on air and online. you can also download our weather app. just go to the app store for your phone. new this morning, orange county deputies trying to figure out who shot and killed a man overnight. investigators say a man pulled into the hookah lounge on east colonial drive about 2:15 this morning. he said he had been shot in his stomach. he told deputies he was shot somewhere near the diamond club. that is about a mile and a half away on north cimarron

the woman -- the man, rather, was rushed to orlando remains. he died there about 3:30. deputies went to the diamond club but they say so far they haven't been able to figure out exactly where the shooting happened. also new this morning, a man in winter garden is dead after someone shot him several times. police responded to a call on bethune avenue. they say they found marvin wyndam laying on the ground there. he died later at help central hospital. winter garden police want to hear from you if you have anything that can help that one. and volusia county deputies are searching for an inmate they say took off from an work release program and also now his girlfriend who they think helped him get away. gary bullock, jr. failed to return to the tomisspoke ia ia correctional institution, but police think his girlfriend picked him up from work. the 2 took off from a 3-year-old

from stealing blank checks and a gun from her parents before they left. bullock was sentenced in 2010 for robbery, attempted robbery and grand theft. if you see any of them call 911. a man accused of impersonating an orlando cop is in jail this morning. osceola county deputies arrested a man yesterday. he's accused of going to a point sienna house january 13th and telling a man there that he was with the orlando police department. he's accused of flashing a fake badge and telling the man that his car was reported stolen and he had to hand over the keys or go to jail. safety concerns in volusia county. the property appraiser there is shutting down their office in daytona beach after complaints that a homeless man got aggressive with a worker. volusia county property appraiser morgan gill recess a homeless man was aggressive toward a woman who works in his office friday morning. that woman was scrambling to find her key card to get inside

get to her. another worker saw what was happened and shouted out. >> he was so close at the time he heard her screaming that he turned around and when he turned around he bumped her here so there was contact. and that's not a circumstance that people need to have @{ at gg@{ @{@{ work. @{@{@{@{@s@{@{@{gg@{@{@{ >> tom: volusia @{@{@{@{@{@{@{ county @{@{@{ @{@c and the @s@s@{@c@{@{ city of daytona beach have been at odds on how to deal with the homeless. the city shut down a park where the homeless like to hang out. that's why they've been hanging around the government building, they say. re-open that park but the city closed it back up a short time later. we'll let you know what happens with that. happening now, neighbors getting ready to hand out f in their search for a missing man who has autism. the last time anyone saw 23-year-old john noss was last saturday. he was at home in maitland. they say he had on a life is good t-shirt with black shorts and new balance tennis shoes. his parents say he has a mental

they say they're concerned because he needs medication and does not have it one of them. family friends say noss means the world to them. if you think you know where he is call maitland police. and we have a consumer alert to tell you about. the centers for disease control reporting a listeria outbreak that has killed 1 and made dozens of others sick. they found it in dole salads. the salads were all made in ohio. so far the outbreak has sickened people in 6 different states but florida is not on that list at this point. the bacteria showed up in multiple kinds of salads. the manufacturing code on the code images starts with the letter a. the cdc says you should not eat lettuce of any of those bags. production was stopped on thursday. still to come we're learning more about that deadly school shooting in canada. we're going to let you know officials say who the die did the shooting before opening fire at that school, next.

than a week until the with details caucus. while republicans are taking issue with him, next. >> tom: and here's a live look outside at the citrus bowl tonight monster jam. if you've never been, honestly, i'll tell you will not regret it if you go. it really is a fun time. that's again tonight i believe gates open at 5:00 pm. it's a beautiful but cold day here in central florida.

coming you >> tom: it is 47 degrees at 9:15 in the city beautiful and you can see the skies not so beautiful but it could be a lot worse, right? we could be up in the northeast. we have clouds are trying to. -- right there but the winds will make it look a lot lower you'll want to bundle up.

minutes and tell you more about the weather. at this hour 4 people are dead, 2 critically hurt after a man opened fire at a canadian high school. it happened canada. he shot his two siblings, killed his daughter at home and then went to school. it happened in a remote part of canada. a lot of questions still unanswered. it's still not clear who the targets were and why it happened. police caught the man right outside the school. officer is recovering after somebody shot him in an ambush. completing a routine police department right next to an intersection in miami gardens. a man pulled up to the police cruiser in an suv and fired 8 times. one of the shots hit the officer in the leg. he was able to call for backup they say did it. the officer is expected to survive. just over a week until the iowa caucus and when it comes to

two-man race. a brand-new fox poll reveals two years on the republican side, donald trump leads with 34%. ted cruz is second at 20%, then marco rubio at 11%. dr. ben carson at 8, ` everyone else 4% or less. this all comes as a conservative political magazine the national {@ review, a very, very p influential magazine published more than a dozen essays by noted ` conservatives all outlining why voters should reject donald trump's bid for the gop nomination. the issue entitled against trump contains a note from the editors in which they describe the billionaire real estate mogul as a free floating populist, a political on that tunist and an overall menace to american conservatism. trump dismissed the publication as a dying paper. meanwhile, a new cnn/orc poll shows independent vermont senator bernie sanders surging

that puts him 8 points ahead of hillary clinton on the democratic side. she's also trailing sanders in the first in the nation primary state of new hampshire. political analyst frank torres says sanders' lead is something hillary clinton should take seriously. >> guest: what hillary clinton's concern needs to be will this snowball. will bernie take this momentum and start affecting those big national numbers in order to be a real threat to her nomination. >> tom: sanders' new numbers are not enough to bump hillary out of the national polls completely but it could become a game-changer later on. all right. so game-changer for us is this front that came through yesterday. >> meteorologist: yeah. >> tom: temperature doesn't look all that bad but it feels cold outside. >> meteorologist: yeah it's cold by central florida standards and then you factor in the winds and the winds are going to blow all day long. dry, crisp air, wind chills in the 30s and 40s most of the day. and then tonight, on the mat

lot of blue on the map. it means freeze warnings in effect. for volusia, lake counties up to the north but then also i think this is go through the day we'll get a better glimpse how low temperatures could maybe go in portions of orlando and seminole county it would not surprise me to have freeze warnings extended a little bit just to the south and where we should have freeze warnings. we are 17, 18, even 21 degrees colder than this time yesterday. temperatures right now in the 30s to 40s for the most part but the wind chills -- what it feels like when you walk outside, has like 27 in gainesville. feels like 40 in orlando. jacksonville a little while ago reported some flurries flying around the sky. so, yeah, sometimes it does snow in florida. thankfully, yeah, this time not here in central florida. so let's get the weather headlines for you because here's what you can expect. it's going to be cold today and then cold tonight. we do have the freeze warnings

night, more freeze warnings and then frost because tomorrow night the winds will be very light. we'll start to warm up by the end of the week. the cold snap will be a i think this of the past and another soggy system comes out of the gulf late next week. with me keep an eye on that it looks like it's going to have another super soaker potential. outside right now, downtown look at the citrus bowl. last year it was frigid for monster jam, last year, same story. look at those just flags blowing in the gusty winds. winds north-northwest winds. 21 miles an hour in seminole county. 22 miles an hour down in brevard county. wind chills -- when you step outside this morning, and through the day we're not going to warm up a whole lot. i mean, wind chills will stay in the 30s and 40s all day long. the good news is, tomorrow the winds will be much less but it's nothing like what they're seeing

the is get single digits and teens. big blizzard on the east coast in full force and thankfully we live here where we say brrr r we'll have the high temperature in the mid to lower 40s. tonight freeze warnings in effect low temperatures down near 32. lower in some spots, tomorrow, less wind, more sun, high temperatures getting close to 60 and then through the week temperatures back to normal. snap the sun time, we got jose in orlando. i don't know if that's the sun or if that's the full moon that we've been having. glorious stargazing -- >> tom: i like how it's framed between the two branches too. >> meteorologist: that is absolutely beautiful. >> tom: the roofline, that's really cool. >> meteorologist: absolutely. jose, thank you for snapping the moon. >> tom: beautiful shot there, jose. still to come, mixing fitness and love. after the break we'll tell you how your fitbit can help you find a date.

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traffi >> tom: 92, almost 9:25 . what do you think of love at first heartbeat. there's a new app that lets users use their fitbit to make a love connection. fox's matt king explains. >> i'm in love and i don't care who knows it. >> reporter: since the beginning of language humans have struggling to describe how love makes you feel. >> you're walking on air. >> you know your world has just been swept up away from you. >> yeah, and that's good. >> love is like every dream comes true instantaneously all over your body, `` inside your body and anywhere else your aura seems to want to go. >> you are confident and comfortable. >> reporter: well, the mind and heart sort through all those feelings the body experiences love more physically. >> such as an increased heart

makes us kind of nervous or can make us happy. also increased respirations. we tend to breathe more when our heart is beating more. >> reporter: dr. amber brody x specializes in family and geriatric medicine she characters that flutter and p incensibility of one's mind to release chemicals. >> it's evolutionarily necessary for us to stay alive. that automatic nervous system. >> reporter: the first dating app to incorporate the body's physical reaction to a potential mate syncs with one fitbit or android ware and tells users how their heart reacts when they see a potential mate for the first time. in the future to allow its users to send that snapshot of love at first heartbeat to their potential match but fitness trackers might also record the body's reaction to the opposite sensation, a love lost. looking back at one's fitbit readings following a breakup one might @

sleep and a decline of physical activity which together could prevent a less poetic way of describing a broken heart. >> a big hole you've fallen and there's mud and you eat and drink of the mud you don't get the hole you just get the buzz i don't like that feeling. >> reporter: on the upper east side i'm matt king, fox news. >> tom: you don't want to be in the mud. still to come, a local teacher in hot water for diversity exercise gone wrong.

her first grade class >> tom: it is 9:30. 47 degrees. there's a live look at the

there today for monster jam when gates open at 5:00. you'll probably want to dress warmly because it's going to be cold. bricks will tell you more about that in just a second. good morning, welcome back. i'm tom johnson. thanks for waking up with us. here the top stories we're following for you this morning. we start with jackie orozco. >> reporter: good morning, tom, dozens of flights have been cancelled here a t oia because of the storm. the winter storm in the northeast but there may be some good news for passengers. i'll explain coming up. >> tom: this weekend marks 10 years since jennifer kesse and the heartfelt plea from her father coming up. a controversial lesson on diversity leaving one local teacher in hot water. we'll let you -- what officials left some first graders in tears. 47 degrees but feels a lot colder outside.

>> meteorologist: the winds have been gusting since the front came through. expect winds gusting at times at 25 miles an hour bringing in that cold arctic air to central florida. anytime we see a lot of blue on the map like we do right now, you know it's chilly in central florida. freeze warnings north and west of i-4. overnight tonight. and i think maybe there could be extended a little further south. we'll have to see i wouldn't let my guard down in seminole and orange county just yet. we will have wind chill advisories temperatures yeah, it's all right chilly and you factor in the winds, 40 right now at most of the orlando area. we'll top out today with temperatures only in the low to mid-50s. we will see clearing skies. wind chills stay in the 30s and 40s through the day. one final check that's with guardian live weather radar the winter storm, just massive amounts of snow for the mid-atlantic and northeast, tom?

blizzard pounding the east being blamed so far for at least 9 deaths. the blizzard very widespread affecting people in at least 20 states with 1 in 7 americans expecting to get at least half a foot of snow by sunday. experts say the greatest problem the wind which is likely to create power outages and coastal flooding in addition to whiteout conditions with blowing snows in some conditions. all of this leaving travelers in a real pinch as airlines continue canceling and delays flights left and right. jackie orozco is live at orlando international with a closer look at the storm's impact here in central florida. hi, jackie. >> reporter: good morning, tom, yeah, all morning long we've been seeing the board here filled with red words cancelled all these cities here in dc, philly, new york. we had seen some positive changes now that some afternoon flights like the one in dc

off at 1:35 now scheduled to be on time so there's maybe some light at the end of the tunnel for some passengers but just depending again on how bad this winter storm is going to be in the northeast perhaps more cancellations and delays. but just speakin g to one passenger she said she had quite an adventure the past few weeks here in orlando. let's take a liste n to what she just told me. >> we arrived two weeks ago and we went on a crews and we had tornado warnings and hurricane winds in the bahamas. we had two sunny days. [laughter] >> then we get back here and the flight's cancelled so, yeah, hopefully tomorrow we're on our way back home. >> reporter: where's home. >> halifax, nova scotia. >> reporter: what are you going to do now? >> i'm going to wait and see if i can get on a flight. >> reporter: that woman h ad quite an adventure already and she says her best

passengers where cancelled o r delayed flights to pack your patience and arrangement officials are also folks to call your airlines to make sure to check their flights status to see in they are on time. reporting live at oia, jackie orozco, "fox 35 news." >> tom: you can stay up to on everything that happened on air and online you can little download our weather app and take it with you just go to the app store for your phone. this just in two people under arrest after investigators say they tried to drive off with a florida highway patrol trooper hanging onto their car. marcus ryan dallas and his passenger crystal cash now face multiple charges. the highway patrol says it all started around 11:30 last night when a trooper pulled over a vehicle on state road 436. during the storm investigators say the driver got out of the car and the trooper tried to

that's when troopers say the man drove in while the trooper's hand was in the car. he was checked out and released so he's okay. the suspects ditched the vehicle but officials were eventually able to catch up with them. a man and woman are in jail accused of stealing and the homeowners say they caught them red-handed. don and jennifer hearst say they came home from lunch a nd found a couple loading up that u haul are trying to in front of their leesburg home. they watched jack haze and amanda roberts take tools from a storage unit at the house but as the thieves tried to drive away they backed right into the hearst's truck. they took off but the hearsts were right behind them. >> so i thought i'm not going to get up close. i'm just going to -- she was calling the sheriff. i'm just going to -- >> and writing down the license number. >> tom: cops say the truck eventually ran into a tree as you can see are trying to. the couple ditched it and ran but deputies were able to catch

figure out where the rest of the stuff in that u haul might have come from. this weekend marks 10 years since orlando woman jennifer kesse disappeared. you probably seen the missing fliers around central florida over the years. this is an age-progressed photo orlando police just released. it showed what she would look like now. her parents still desperately searching for answers. she vanished january 24th 2006. cops think she was on her way to work when something happened. they found her car at the apartmentsed. they never identified the man you see walking by. after all these years her family just asking for closure. >> if someone knows what happened to jennifer and it's not for the good, it's okay. >> tell us. >> we are just need to know. >> if you think you know

jennifer kesse, the orlando police department wants you to give them a call. now, a "fox 35" follow-up. george zimmerman is officially divorced. our news partners at the "orlando sentinel" report a seminole county judge signed the divorce order tuesday. it ends zimmerman's wife to his ex-wife shelly she filed for divorce in september 2013. that was 2 months after a jury acquitted zimmerman in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old time frame. trayvon martin. police responded to their home when shelly called 911. on the call she said george had threatened her and her father with a gun. no charges were ever filed, though. the divorce reportedly took so long because the former couple fought over how to split millions expected from a defamation lawsuit against nbc universal. a judge eventually tossed out that suit, though. zimmerman keeps his pickup truck and the family dog. at least one parent is upset with a first grade teacher at a mineola charter school.

for the way she tried to teach 6 years old about racism. it happened at lake mineola charter school. the teacher was trying to teach her students about martin luther king, jr., and discrimination. the principal says she did it by separating the kids by eye color. the blue-eyed children got contained and the brown eyed children did not get anything. the principal said it was a bad idea and the teacher faces disciplinary action. >> it was not appropriate action to do for the first grade out of the respect for the teacher i'm not going to into the disciplinary action but we are in that process, um, she's been spoken to about -- it's not an appropriate lesson for first grade at all. >> we tried to reach out to the parent who complained but they did not want to talk about all of this publicly. new reports shows florida unemployment rate is down compared to last year. the state's unemployment rate

there are an estimated 487,000 people unemployed. this time year 67,000 people more people were jobless. the unemployment rate was 5.7% then. the state's lowest rate in monroe county the highest in hendry county which is just east of okeechobee. still to come at 9:40, tax season 1467. i hope you haven't forgotten. experts say it's important to get started early. why they say putting it off

at risk. >> tom: happy birthday to you at 9:43 here's are some celebs you are celebrating with today. >> meteorologist: actress --

>> meteorologist: she's famous for her role on law and order svu. >> tom: no idea. >> meteorologist: i never watch that show i'm still in the leave it to beaver age. >> tom: 48. >> meteorologist: 46. >> tom: 52. next up tiffany theissen saved by the bell, right. >> meteorologist: she was on 90210 and saved by the bell. she was on saved by the bell and in 9021 on her and bay watch and -- >> tom: anyway. what's her age. >> don't make me feel old but i will, 45. >> tom: i'll go 44. 42. >> meteorologist: she's -- the tomlins enjoyed 90210. the northeast aren't you glad you're not there. >> tom: i grew up in the dc.

loved it. >> tom: i loved it. and when i was a kid we were out of school for a week. >> meteorologist: i guarantee the schools will be closed because at least on monday until here. let's take you outside, folks, we have a layer of stratus cumulous clouds just a little overcast out there. the clouds will clear as we go through midday and that's going to set the stage for a very chilly overnight. freeze warnings for everything south of i-4. thanks for joining us this morning. volusia county lake county onto the north freeze warnings for tonight. those freeze warnings may be extended a little further south just looking at some of the latest data coming into the "fox 35" weather center. would not surprise me if portions of seminole and orange county are included in the freeze warnings tonight. where there are not freeze warnings tonight there will be wind chill advisories because, folks, it's cold. the cold front -- where everybody 18, 19, 20 something degrees colder than this time

continue to pour in. temperatures for the most part right now in the 30s and 40s. wind chills, 20s, 30s to right near 40 so it's a chilly day outside. it will stay cold and windy all day today. tonight, freezes likely. tomorrow night, freezes and frosts likely so a couple of nights where we get very cold by central florida standards. we'll start to see gradual warmings all the way to tuesday and a soggy system once again comes out of the gulf late next week. let's detail the here and the now, 47 degrees looking live from our visit orlando towercam. looking live right now at i-4. hey, 16 degrees the time to go on i-4. west-northwest winds blowing that cold air. look at these wind speeds 17 miles an hour in leesburg. 16 orlando, 17 kissimmee. 22 miles an hour in we will be and 21 right now none of sanford seminole koinths so very strong

with the temperatures and we get the wind chills right now a lot of folks wind chills in the low to mid-30s, leesburg, ocala,esville feels liek ke 27. nothing like what they're seeing to the north. look at those wind chills not just where they're seeing all the snow, 12 in dc but omaha, 11, 19 in st. louis, thankfully, the sun will come out here today pretty much no sun for much of the mid-atlantic in the northeast. here's our forecast then today. high of 53 degrees. wind chills stay in the 30s and 40s, folks, windy and cold today. tomorrow, another chilly start and a chilly day but less wind tomorrow. we warm up through the week and we get wet wednesday, thursday, maybe into friday. tom? >> tom: all right. it's 9:47 on the money watch. tax season is here this week marked the first week you could file -- or rather you have until april to complete everything but experts say it's important you

keith simpson from lake advisory group is here with the benefits of getting started early. hey, keith how are you doing? >> tom: i'm doing well. doing early you catch mistakes. >> guest: absolutely if you wait until the last minute you get into a rush. as you get in a rush you tend to make mistakes and things by filing early it gives you an opportunity to kind of review what you got and make sure you got all the numbers correct your social security number your address and that kind of stuff before you send it in. >> tom: even the smallest mistakes if you make them will cause the irs to send you a letter saying, fix it, right? >> guest: could be, yes. >> tom: next lower the risk of id theft by doing this early. >> guest: this is a perfect time of scams during this time of the year you got to remember that the irs is never going to call you up on the phone or send you a text message or contact you for facebook and ask for your personal information so the first thing you want to do is make sure you know who you're talking to and like you said they usually send you a letter in the mail. they don't call you.

know who you're talking about information. >> tom: what do you do if you think someone stole your id 4>> meteorologist:>> guest: last year the irs helped over 900,000 americans with tax fraud so they're there to help you. the second thing you want to do is you might want to file a complaint with the ftc, the federal trade commission and then obviously you want to sheriff's department because they usually have a team that deals with identity theft. >> tom: this happened to my mom and my wife and it's not fun, trust me. so you also say getting done early means you can cushion the blow if you owe. >> guest: listen like you know if you have money coming back everybody's happy. >> tom: right. >> guest: if you don't and you didn't pay enough and you know in february you owe x amount of the dollars it gives you two months to plan how to pay for it so you don't make a mistake you put it on a credit card to make you pay interest.

you're owed do you get it back quicker? >> guest: as americans we like to procrastinate -- >> guest: especially on our taxes if there's less tax returns to do you get your money faster and, you know, it's your money so the quicker the better. >> tom: yeah, all right. if people want to find you and get some more on this how do they do it? >> caller: they can look on the website at lake advisory.com or look at our -- >> tom: busy time for you guys. >> caller: it sure is. >> tom: thanks, it is 9:50. still to come we have champions in the house. after the break, we're introducing you to the ucf team

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>> tom: cold in central florida -- [audio cutting out] >> tom: had them on last year. >> meteorologist: we'll get you outside in just a couple of minutes.

one of the major stories this morning the snowstorm on the northeast but on the backside of it the coldest air of the season is coming down to central florida. freeze warnings in effect tonight all the way into lake and volusia counties. where we do not have freeze warnings tonight we will have wind chill advisories so once again stay bundled up, not just tomorrow. temperatures much colder than this time yesterday on the order of 20 degrees. temperatures this morning when you head out the doors, temperatures 30s, 40s, to right around 50 but, folks, it's chilly outside. wind chill, 40 degrees right now you in orlando. it feels like 27 at the swamp in gainesville. this is go through the days the temperatures only rise a few degrees because we have arctic air flying into central florida look for the temperatures in the low to mid-50s we will see clearing skies but those winds stay gusty out of the west

a chilly night tonight. now, let's see how chilly it is outside. good morning, tom. >> tom: ucf flag football team just back from winning their third straight national championship. wow! brandon breeny is the coach and we have members of the team, congratulations, guys. was it this cold when you won the national championship. >> guest: yeah. >> tom: i'm going to lace up 'cause we're going to play here in a minute. what's the secret to winning a third straight national title in flag football? >> guest: you got to have really talented guys and girls who are dedicated and want to put their time in and there has to be great chemistry and they did a good job putting it all together. >> tom: how do you deal with turnover every year you got new players, right? or at least some of them? >> guest: well, luckily we have a really big school and we're the biggest school in the nation and there's a really big program at ucf where a lot of people are playing.

play with them last time. >> guest: get your flag on. >> tom: last time i got one, all right. i told him again let's -- >> tom: who's the quarterback. what am i doing. wait it's you and me against all 4 of them? okay. let's run -- >> tom: how many yards. >> guest: 5 yards. ready? >> guest: tom, go! >> tom: all in my spot. >> guest: ready, hike! laf [laughter] >> tom: i got -- oh, look at this. you take my flag, not my -- >> guest: they called you a flag for --

the flag garden you slap it in my hands. that's a big difference. guys, thank you so much, congratulations. i really appreciate it and while we're talking about football, you guys know what's tomorrow on fox. the nfc championship game. we'll find out who goes to the super bowl, coverage on fox starts at 6:00 tomorrow and, brooks, what's the weather going to be like the rest of the day? going to get any warmer? >> meteorologist: here at least it's going to be cold but nothing like they're seeing up north. take a look at guardian live weather radar and just frigid conditions up north. around here, we do have freeze