tuesday january 26. "good day orlando." i'm john brown. >> amy: i'm amy kaufeldt. so glad you're with us this morning. a statewide alert has been issued as authorities search for two missing children. we'll have details on their disappearance and including a possible link to a deadly shooting. >> john: developing this morning, i-4 is back open after a deadly crash in volusia county. we have details from the fhp

>> amy: one last shot. democratic hopefuls getting together before the iowa caucuses. we'll have an update for you. but right now, let's find out what's happening outside. jayme king has double duty again today. >> jayme: dominant temp ranges. what a world of difference a couple two or three days have made. the shifting of winds and an atmosphere featuring a lot in the way of transition. late today through tomorrow. clouds are cranking up and amassing. looks like a coastal rain chance confined to the beach front, 10% at best. from mosquito lagoon and northern brevard through the space coast. real slim rain chance today. better tomorrow. low pressure out here. cold front here. low pressure over the great lakes. everything shuffles our way. clouds first and then rain chances on the rise.

and then dawn wednesday morning. after that, we open up the skies. 90%. thursday, 70%. no chance, yes, for the weekend. bright sun and looking good. if you don't have outdoor plans for saturday and sunday, i vaiz you to make them. let's talk a little live drive traffic time. it's been a busy morning. let's take you to easy avenue. nothing easy about this one, this is carter street. we have slow and go. especially this particular stretch of sandlake road. you can see the roadway showing a super duper slow traffic. a staff snarl here at 7:02. westbound 408, 417 to downtown,

more on our website at fox35orlando.com. police need your help finding two missing children. >> amy: they could be with a man who is involved in a deadly shooting. >> reporter: take a good look at the two pictures. 4-year-old edward, and 10 month old lizeht were last seen south of brevard county. they believe that they are with edward gamez. he is wanted for a fatal shooting that happened on january 21. if you see any of them, call police immediately. >> amy: recall lanes of interstate i-4 are back open after a deadly crash shut down the highway overnight. >> john: troopers said that two people were killed. the crash happened just after

fownchts eastbound in debary. near mile marker 106. according to the florida highway patrol, the crash started on the eastbound lanes after a mustang rear ended a pickup truck. the truck smashed into a guardrail and ended up in the westbound lanes. two people died. a third passenger was airlifted to ormc in critical condition. the driver of the other car was not hurt. troopers do not expect alcohol is a factor in the crash. s do dozens of people refusing to leave a building in daytona beach. >> reporter: the numbers may be a bit fewer this morning, but there are still dozens of people sleeping on the sidewalk at the administration building this morning. not everyone could go to the shelter yesterday, and most didn't want to. the salvation army brought

bed temporary shelter here in daytona beach. only a few people went ahead and got on. most decided to stay. the homeless have been camped here for nearly two months. they say it's the only place they can go after the city of daytona beach closed local parks to them. it's the only place that the homeless can sleep without arrested. >> what's happening with the salvation army is basically a band aid effect. it's basically temporary. >> they would have to be woken up and leave the salvation army at 6:00 a.m. they'd be back on the street anyway. so they chose to just stay here. >> reporter: the city of daytona beach is working on building a regional shelter, but that will take years. >> john: it is 7:05 here on "good day orlando." also in orange county, a man accused of killing his girlfriend's daughter and dunk

body, is heading to court today. prosecutors say that he had been living with the 16-year-old and her mother when he killed her last july. a week after she disappeared, her body was found in a wooded area near the osceola and polk county line. he is now in the orange county jail with no bond. >> john: an orlando firefighter accused of crashing into 18 cars while driving under the influence will be formally charged. prosecutors say he was off duty while he was hitting cars at the parking garage at the lofts. they couldn't prove that he was driving drunk so he was not given a sobriety test. >> amy: casting a vote on proposed policy. new uniforms, matching polo shirt, khaki pants and closed

supporters argue that it would cut down on peer pressure because all students would be dressed the same way. and sthai it would make the campus safeer. >> probably not a big deal for the kids but the security deal is most important to me. >> amy: they said they should be concentrating on improving education and cracking down on excessive testing. tonight's meeting tonight in deland at 5:30. several cars and garages have been broken into. in the es states at the trails neighborhood in molecule chew chulota. the cars of at least seven different homes were broken into.

taken from each house. deputies say at least one pricey mountain bike was stolen. if you have any information, you are asked to contact the sheriff's office. >> john: the democratic presidential candidates get together for the final time before the iowa caucuses. >> reporter: the three did not appear on stage together. they took questions from the crowd and moderators. clinton coming in and leading sanders by 14 points in a new cnn poll. but that's half the lead than two weeks ago. she said it's a big job, there should be competition. in terms of the dwindling numbers. and clinton was pressed on her support for fix, income equality which is a big issue in terms of bernie sanders >> today in knoxville, in my town hall, i called on a man who said we never had it so good except when your husband was president, because we tackled income in-equality.

questioner said he felt she was just dishonest. she saids this just the campaign and you take some shots. and criticized on the slow e-mail. and bernie sanders was asked about his leanings. >> democratic socialism. the right for economic security should exist in the united states of america. >> reporter: sanders had a pretty good exchange with the moderators as well. defended tax increases for social programs. the democrats do not have any more debates scheduled before the iowa caucuses which takes place next monday. fox news channel holding on thursday night for the final republican debate. marco rubio slammed cruz.

judgment that was charging them with stealing international property. >> ted cruz talks about how tough he will be on china but china is stealing america's secrets. >> it's a false attack. a bogus attack. it consistent work then -- it didn't work then. i would suggest that if other candidates are going that direction, that they're very frustrated by the dynamic that's playing out on the graph. >> reporter: donald trump setting his sights on cruz. saying it's time to settle whether he's a citizen of canada. we have dramatic new voof an orlando police officer shooting at a stolen car. the officer said that the

what happened after the officer fired his gun. we have an update on the cleanup after the massive snowstorm in the northeast. the areas still feeling the impact even days later. we'll bring you upto dated, coming up. the pollen count is up. down in the coming days as the rain chance starts to rise. maybe a little purge effect with the heavier rain moving in. pinpointing locations and the exact arrival times and much,

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>> john: how about that for an epic selfie last night. >> amy: look at that. >> john: the orange county public schools support person of the year awards last night. we had the superintendent with us. we handed out tons of awards. gina was with me until late last night. i told everyone, you will all be on the news. how will i pull that off? that's half of them there. the other half i will show later. le it show the other half of the room. it's honoring those who make our schools run. >> amy: there's the superintendent behind you. >> amy: we are seeing dramatic

fire on a stolen car. [gunfire]. >> it happened on january 16. during a traffic stop in orlando. opd said that the 17-year-old suspect was behind the wheel of the car. when i refused to stop, officer jonathon mills shot and wounded him. and then the man crashed into a rakant house -- vaik yont vacant and as arrested. >> amy: activists behind the under cover planned parenthood videos from last year have been charged. >> john: they are accused of tampering with government records. the case began with videos. they appear to show planned parenthood contractors discussing illegal practices. planned parenthood claims that select ives editing was used to deceive. they cleared planned parenthood

activists involved in making the videos. >> amy: euro poll is claiming that isis extremists are focusing on using special forces still groups of militants. saying they are more capable of carrying out global attacks. and they said that they will focus the majority of their attacks on france. >> john: a massive storm dumped a record amount of snow on some places along the east coast. federal and local government offices remain closed as people continue to dig out from the storm. crews continue to clear the roads in several parts of the country but a lot of people say they're still trapped in their homes. >> i shoveled all of this stuff. >> his yard is clear.

credit for shoveling out. nearly all federal employees have been out since friday. public transportation getting back up and running in dc as well as the region airports. 7:16. here's jayme king. >> jayme: let's talk. 61 now. pensacola. and widespread 40s and 50s. and then far south florida, 70 at palm beaches and 67 at miami dade. temperatures now are 50s. have been gradually taking over the temperature spread with a few of us in the upper to 40s. the bottom line, this shows the 24-hour temperature change. check out the colors. showing the warmer. this is showing the warmth since 24 hours ago. it's booming. going away from the 20s, 30s

and isolated coastal rain chances. 10%. and low pressure developing back through here. a lot of energy and the amped up area of cloud cover is streaking our way. it's called a jet streak. the southern tip of the southern extension of the jet stream. serving as a conveyor belt of sorts. bringing in variable amounts of energy. and you can clearly see for wednesday and thursday. tomorrow into thursday, real soup where and soppy wet conditions out there. a few stronger storms moving into the viewing area. i have the modeling showing the approach of the low. you can see the band of very, very heavy rainfall just south of orlando. a lot of the modeling has been trending farther and farther south with the very heaviest of the rainfall. not to say that you in ocala and

by friday we say bye-bye to the rain. the cold front kicks in from the south. we'll trend cooler but not really colder, so to speak. we'll see warmer temperatures after the last cold front. we had a wind chill on this last saturday which was a rarity. and our seven-day forecast, 72 tomorrow, 67 on thursday. marginal cooling. tons of sunshine through saturday, sunday, and monday. outdoor plan, it's a no-brainer. get out and make plans. no rain chance over the weekend. but it looks like a lot of rain for florida, especially through central florida, tomorrow into thursday. that's your forecast. now a little live drive traffic time.

everything is off to the shoulders of the corresponding roadways. westbound and eastbound i-4 chugging along. and from seminole to orange county, 20 minutes. and you with can see we're in the yellow. westbound 408, 10 minutes. $1.65. the trend continues. visit our website for more information. your traffic, pump patrol pricing. at fox35orlando.com. >> john: we have a lot of news coming up, including this. the mosquito born virus called zika is spreading. >> amy: the cdc is extending a travel warning for pregnant

today. i want to wish a big good morning to our fox 35 friend of the day.

every day. you can find us by simply going to facebook and searching out fox 35. >> john: new video this morning. we have a picture of facebook founder mark zuckerberg and his newborn baby, it's going viral. the picture of max taking her first swim. more than 2 million people have liked the picture on facebook. >> john: the)r[ mosquito borne virus called zika. ttion now the cdc has extending a travel warning for pregnant women. joining us is doctor jo. >> reporter: this is spreading so quickly. health officials are very, very concerned. it's made its america, central america, puerto rico. >> what is the virus. what happens if you are pregnant

>> reporter: the virus is a virus related to things we have here. like west nile. it's related to yellow fief, which we don't have here. yellow fever. they they've seen a huge increase of babies born in brazil with micro-cephaly. the children have very severe and serious problems after birth. they say that they are pretty sure that the link exists. they have found in a couple of babies miscarried they found the virus. they found the virus in a couple of babies that died within 24 hours of birth. they found the virus in the amniotic fluid of two women carrying babies with the birth defect. they believe it probably strikes and affects the baby within the

taking -- i mean, they're taking all precautions. they're saying that women traveling to these countries, should not travel to these countries in any trimester or if this re-tempting to -- or if they are attempting to get pregnant. >> amy: what about snen do others have risks -- what about men? >> reporter: it's relatively mild. similar to dengy. so 1 in 5 get the symptom. fever, headache, muscle ache. and a risk for gee-on baray syndrome which can cause practical paralysis in adults. the huge concern is to the unborne babies.

anything you should do precaution before you head out? >> reporter: absolutely. if you are going to one of the area, you have to protect yourself from those mosquito. i don't care if you getting pregnant or not pregnant. you neefd to ooze repellant and -- use repellant and watch for mosquitoes. it's a mosquito that can bite during the day. they have traced the mosquitoes all the way up to new jersey and new york. they're all over the united states. you can understand why there's concern. if someone comes here. it's happened in the state of florida. three cases that were imported from south america. two from. one in miami dade. they are here, and a mosquito bites them and someone else in the household. so they are telling people that come from the areas to protect

they don't spread to somebody else. >> amy: great advice. >> amy: the democrats take the stage for the final time before the iowa caucuses. >> john: we're asking the political analysts how the candidates did in the town hall forum.

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7:30 here on "good day orlando." there's a live look in downtown. before i went to break, i said join us live to go to facebook to see amy's boots. >> amy: thank you. enunciate. >> john: just for clarification. i said boots. as to what she is wearing on her feet. >> amy: thank you. >> john: it's not that kind of show. welcome to good day on a tuesday morning. i'm john brown. >> amy: i'm amy kaufeldt. we have a lot to talk about. parents in one local county expect to find out if their kids will be required to wear scoo

we'll have details. >> john: investigators now think a fire set at a former ymca building in volusia county was intentionally set. the building was set to become a mosque. how officials think that the fire really started 2-g9s all new at 7:00, a challenging rescue off the florida coast. the coast guard responded ara yacht started to take on water with 13 people on board. you talk about a scary situation there. nothing scary but about how the morning is looking. >> john: jayme king said to make plans for the weekend. he's looking ahead already. >> jayme: i am already talking about the weekend. we're seeing warmer times ahead. not only early this morning but day time highs today. the 24-hour temperature change, many, many, many degrees of additional warming on top of this time yesterday. a solid 25 degrees warmer in

looking good in the temp department. sky-wise, a little cloudy. and isolated shower risk at the coast. and low pressure is loading up through texas. a big glob of energy. knocking on the door by tomorrow morning. rain chances will rise because of that to a good solid 90%, and 70% towards thursday. better weather for the weekend. we show highs near 70 by saturday. ample sunshine. we indulge on a particularly dry stretch of weather through the seven-day forecast. that's your forecast. talking a little live drive traffic. and we are in the yellow westbound and eastbound i-4. 30 minutes from lake mary to colonial. as the minutes and moments go

chunkier out there. overall volume increasing and drive times are slowing. visit our website for more at fox35orlando.com. >> john: back to breaking news. police need your help finding two missing children. >> amy: they may be with a man who police say is wanted for a deadly shooting. 4-year-old, and a 10 month old were last seen in indian river county south of brevard. they believe that he is with edward gameez, and his girlfriend, maria lopez. he is wanted for a fatal shooting that happened in vero beach. if you see him, contact police immediately. >> amy: recall lanes of i-4 are back open after a deadly crash. >> john: two people were killed. the crash happened just after 10:30 at fawrchlts eastbound -- i-4 eastbound if debary. the crash started on the

rear ended a pickup truck. that truck smackh smashed through a guardrail. two people in the pickup truck died. and the third person was airlifted to ormc. troopers do not suspect that alcohol played a factor in the crash. >> amy: the school board will determine if kids will be wearing uniforms to school next year. >> john: they are casting their final vote tonight on the school policy. dana jay is joining us live from tomoka elementary with the latest details. >> reporter: as you said, they've been talking about adding school uniforms at volusia county schools. for months there have been protests. in fact, there was a protest here just a few moments ago. and each has gone into school at this point. the folks gathered here because they don't think that the

should be focusing on school uniforms. they thunk there are bet -- they think there are better things to pay attention to. they are frustrated about a number of issues. they are doing what they call walk-ins this week to bring attention to the issues that they think need attention from the volusia county school board. they are urging them to focus on less test, cleaner classrooms and more resources. the protests will continue here through volusia county. the vote on the school uniforms is set for this evening. reporting live in ormond beach, dana jay, fox 35 news. >> john: you decide 2016. the three democratic candidates taking the stage one final time before the iowa caucuses which take place on monday. they took part in a town hall in des moines. sanders called for free tuition at public universities and spoke about a single payer healthcare

clinton pushed back at suggestions that she's new at economic issues that have been at the center of the campaign. and o'malley said that climate change has been the important subject. >> some numbers show that better bernie may be a point ahead. here's what is interesting in hillary clinton's dialogue or rhetoric. she referred to him as her esteemed candidate or contender. bernie sanders continued to double down on what made him resonate throughout the country, and especially places like iowa. painted hillary clinton as an insider. someone friendly to blanks and what he calls of mal-garky of

and mal-aligned. the middle class. and he said that insurance premium also go down but said he will raise taxes. it'll be a battle. it's becoming more terse between the to of them. sanders without out a -- clinton said that it it is helping gun manufacturers avoid liability. it'll be interesting to the final stretch to iowa. >> john: which -- it may be what you are looking to do here, bernie sanders is look to do. in january -- he is trying to motivate the base perhaps. >> the numbers seemed to indicate that sanders has a slight lead in iowa. look at the numbers and

numbers less than 30, he is polling ahead of clinton. persons older than 65, clinton polled 30 points higher than sanders. if you look at the number, he has to look at the young people. unfortunately, inie, and nationally. another young junior senator, outsider, with pop list ideals. and he won the presidency twice. that's the game plan that bernie sanders is trying to follow. >> john: always great to see you. have a great tuesday. >> you as well. thank you. >> amy: all new at 7:00. people radioing on a yacht. after it

>> john: what made the rescue effort tougher. straight ahead here on "good day orlando." a reminder to check out our facebook page. that's our social media wall. we're having fun with the live feature we have on facebook. you can see what's going on behind the scenes all morning

>> amy: welcome back. 7:43. all new at 7:00. the coast guard rescued 13 people from a sinking yacht off the south florida coast. the vessel started to take on water about 13 miles off shore, about 6:30 last night. the coast guard had to battle choppy seas and high winds but managed to get all 13 people off the yacht.

can you imagine? 25 minutes. the yacht going from fort lauderdale to freeport, bahamas. investigators are trying to figure out why it sank. but think about the time frame. 25 minutes. they really got lucky. >> john: if you look at pictures of the serena three. wow. >> amy: it's a beautiful boat. >> john: the wife of a deadly helicopter crash speaking out. >> amy: last march it happened in college park. we have more on her story with luanne. >> reporter: harry anderson was one of flee people who died in the crash. his wife angela was supposed to be with him and ended up backing out because she said she had a bad feeling. she works through the constant heartache of losing her husband, she said that her husband is still with her.

months, the airport, and snapped this picture. >> i asked my daughter, do you see something in the picture, and she said, it's daddy. this is the head up here. you can see the eyes and the nose. and then like his arm goes down here. you can see his ear. up here you can kind of see his hair. that was over orlando executive airport. and that was weighing heavily on my mind. it's like he wanted me to see that. >> reporter: that's just beautiful. the cause of the crash is under investigation. let's send things over to jayme king on this tuesday. let's see how our weather is shaping up. >> jayme: good morning, sweet lu. good to see you, bud. downtown now featuring ap x mix of some sunshine and high cloud cover streaming in off the gulf of mexico. get used to it.

to wetter times towards wednesday and into thursday. what you see now is fairly tranquil continues and temperatures up and up through the 50s. we've done away with the 20s, 30s, and low-end 40s of yesterday. warmer times lie ahead. a decent day. and cloudy at times. we would love to see more sunshine. mostly cloudy with isolated coastal rain drops at 10%. that is all. a wind shift. increase in moisture leaving the chance of rain at the lower end of the spectrum. by tomorrow we have got some tremendous weather changes. still get the golfing in today, while you can. 70s by 3:00 p.m. we'll have times of clouds and sunshine poking through on occasion. ramped up southern edge of the jet stream is screaming and racing high overhead.

potential for rainfall in the next 24 hours. you can see how it's backed up through mainland mexico, central america. the conveyor belt will deliver a shot of energy beginning to solidify and gel up real nice over the gulf of mexico. wednesday rain, and thursday a continuation. oval we peel back from 90% on wednesday to 70% on thursday. part of thursday we begin to see rapid clearing on the back end of thursday. getting into friday, saturday, and sunday, it'll be delightful, gorgeous out there. we have to get through this mess first. tuesday late in the evening. rain chances slowly beginning to rise. overspreading the area by tomorrow morning. the heaviest, the potential for stronger storms, even a marginal risk of severe weather south of orlando. that's one hot spot. across brevard county.

the theme parks come to mind. quite a bit of strong storm activity. seas 3 to 5. fresh. we have a big shot of northeast swell in the water. our sea heights comprised of mainly open ocean swell. a little bit of chop on top. the surf i wouldn't call it going off, but punchy. waist high range. and a plus high set at cape canaveral. at solid 70s. and tonight, warmer temperatures, near 60 orlando. 56 gainesville and ocala around 5 #. the forecast for the next seven, real rainy skies and stormy times wednesday and thursday. but as i mentioned to you, and i was just talking to john about it, looking good. bright sun.

john said 4. i see 60s and 70s for highs. this is a neat shot here. the grass poking up and the causeway in the background. nice shooting there. we would like you to play along, #snapthesun. >> here's our weather baby of the moment. you can visit our website for more weather baby pictures. fox35orlando.com. that's all for new. live drive traffic time. it's been a busy morning. busy, busy, busy out there. i-4 westbound, an accident at sandlake road. isn't there always something going on? and orange blossom. u.s. 17. at the merger we continue with an accident in progress. hopefully, off to the shoulder and everyone is safe and sound. eastbound and westbound i-4 it

we are in the red both directions with the drive times and jyp to downtown at 12 minutes. visit our website for more at fox35orlando.com. >> john: new this morning. we're learning that a fire at a ymca may have been intentionally set. >> amy: the building was going to become a mosque. but it's not exactly as it seems. >> reporter: the fire happened at the daytona beach y on the sunday. they believe that the fire was set on purpose but not as a hate crime. they found that books were set on fire. they believe that homeless people were living inside and trying to stay warm and set the books on fire. the building sustained about $35,000 worth -- $5,000 worth of damage. a woman who was severely injured in a pit bull attack last yeek. yeek -- last week. she is still in critical condition. farley and four other people were hurt after pit bulls

home. all of the pit bulls were shot and killed. a homicide yesterday at highway 225a in ocala. they found the woman dead in the house. the cause of death has not been released. >> john: a florida sheriff said he seven people training to be

queel tell >> john: time to take a look at the stories make headlines around the state of florida. >> amy: in miami beach construction crews made a discovery at the former site of pablo escobar's mansion. they found a safe bury in the

demolition started on the pink water front mansion owned by the could lop could lop bean drug lord. they said that now the safe will be kept in a bank vault, inside of a vault basically. the property is being demolished to make way for new owners. >> john: in pinellas county. seven deputies are out of a job after they were accused of sharing answers on a test. one of the trainees turned to a current deputy and asked him for study materials. soon after that, the deputy gave actual exam. the sheriff said that that deputy has also been fired. >> amy: new technology that could save florida's citrus industry. 130,000 acres have been wiped out because of the citrus

it's caused over $30 billion in revenue. researchers at florida state are developing a machine that lasers could treat the infected trees. >> it'll kill our citrus industry unless successful. we're going to be successful. >> researchers could not give an estimate of how long it'll take to treat the infected trees with the laser. senator nelson said he is petitioning the president with more funding to improve the technology. >> john: helping people who are trying to lose weight. >> amy: health officials thought that fasting was not away. but we speak to a nutritionist on what it could mean for you. it's definitely a warmer start