>> please, everyone get together so we can keep the front-runner from winning. >> amy: i can't talk now. the republican party in crisis mode, as support for donald trump is growing this morning. we'll detail what the g.o.p. is doing to try to not -- knock the front-runner down a little bit. now, though, let's check in with david martin. >> reporter: amy, if you are a fan of art, it is a good time to be living in orange county. we parked our truck at the gorgeous maitland art center to tell you about art 31. with these fine folks on the 8 o'clock hour of... >> "good day orlando"! [cheers] . >> john: interesting. >> amy: this will be an interesting hour. >> john: yes, it will. >> amy: guarantee it. >> jayme: the scott kelly story intrigues me. >> john: stick around.

anywhere. high based cloud cover, it is hindering the sun potential a little bit this morning but made for an awesome sunrise. come back live, i want to update you now on our temperatures, 40s to the north and i have your 50s down south and overall a decent, tolerable morning out there. told cold front on the way and it will shuffle to the east, staying well out of the area of our state and of course, a lot of you watching and waiting to see what will happen with the rain chance, with this. looks like we'll find a slight chance, very late tonight through early tomorrow morning, and it will be a window of rain opportunity, opening big and broad for about 2 to 3 hours and that will be that. no rain expected today. on this thursday, warm temps and passing clouds, 82, will be by 2:00 if you like it warm and over the next 7, we're looking again for some warmth and additional warming on the back end of the forecast, by wednesday, we are pressing up toward the mid 80s, by that time, full sunshine, and no rain chance. that's your forecast, here's

drive traffic. good morning. >> kristin: live now on i-4, heading towards the 408. looking at downtown orlando, in the distance, congested in this spot, typical spot we see the congestion in the early morning hours and again, this is i-4, looking east. everywhere else, we are looking good, 408 up to speed right now and i want you to look at the drive times, on i-4 from lake mary boulevard to colonial, that will take you 23 minutes, i-4 eastbound from the attractions to downtown will take you 22 minutes, and, if you are hopping on the 408, from the 417 to downtown, will take you 16 minutes, just updated there. john, amy, back to you. >> thank you, kristen, all new the orange county sheriffs office investigating after reports of an explosion at a local speedway. >> john: it happened at the orlando speed world late last night, off east colonial drive. video from the scene, wittesses reported seeing a motorcycle explode. right now we're told one person was taken to the hospital. with significant injuries.

office tells us the victim was working on the motorcycle. when he was injured. in seminole county a man is going to be in court today after police say his six-year-old niece shot and killed herself with his gun, eric williams was taking care of aleatha burke and she got ahold of the gun and shot herself. williams is a convicted felon and is not supposed to have a gun. he's now facing several charges including child neglect. in orlando, we're hearing from the young boy who rescued his 8-year-old friend from a canal. it happened on tuesday, close to riverside elementary. investigators say that she was walking on a pipe across the canal, and he fell 10 feet into the water. 8-year-old malachi jenkins jumped in to save him. >> i twisted him around. i grabbed his hand and brought him to shore. i asked his brother to help me, help me pull him up.

him there, to be a help. >> now franklin remains in critical condition. >> amy: ucf downtown orlando campus is a step closer to reality. the florida board over governors approves $20 million now towards the project. that woulds huge, the university is also chipping in its own 20 million and will raise another 20 million privately. but, it is still not a done deal. joining us this morning to tell us more is frank kit injury jer, the senior vice president for community relations, a . we have a ways to go, right? >> it is a big, exciting day for ucf and students and the city of orlando and the community. we have two steps yet. we have the approval by the board of governors but we have to get the $20 million in the legislative budget and now the ball bounces over to the legislative court and then, assuming all goes well, the legislature, with the funding and the appropriations bill goes to the governor for review by him and his executive staff. we have two more stops to go.

points, last year, right? and it didn't get approved last year. what do you think is different this time around? >> the last year proved to be important for us. allowed us to refine or plan and make sure we have the right programs lining up for downtown and programs that will be made better because they are downtown and a lot of students with the careers they choose, allows us to focus on academics and our building to maximize the first building and a different funding plan, a $60 million building and 20 million from the state and 20 million from philanthropy in orlando and 20 million from ucf resources. >> amy: what can we expect from the campus? what type of students and what types of -- will it be graduate program. >> it will be undergraduate, freshman to graduate students and between us and our partners we'll have 7700 students coming to downtown orlando. one example: if you are in legal studies, you are probably based in downtown orlando. but the beauty is, three blocks

the other way, the county and circuit court house and if you are in administration, one step to the south, orlando health and the north, florida hospital, two of the biggest and best hypotheticals in the u.s. and the students have the -- hospitals in the u.s. and, they go to school in the proximity of where they want to pursue their careers. >> amy: will they do all their housing downtown? will there be housing. >> yes, and yes. all the programs based downtown, they'll be able to take the entire classes there and, if they pick up another major or minor we'll have a shuttle from point a to point b, between the campuses for our students and housing. the private sector, will be providing housing for the students. we'll run the housing but it will be provided and paid for by the private sector. >> amy: how long before the project is complete. and when can we see kids on campus. >> if if all goes well, august

that is ambitious but our target date. >> amy: not long at all. >> it could come quickly. >> amy: good stuff. we enjoy having you and good luck, and keep us posted. >> appreciate it. >> amy: 8:06. >> john: this morning the g.o.p. appears to be in crisis mode after donald trump's big win on tuesday. 2012 presidential candidate mitt romney plans to hold a news conference today. in what he is calling the state of the 2016 presidential race. he's expected to call trump a phony, a fraud, and make the case that he lacks the temperament to be president. meanwhile the republican candidates will participate in tonight's fox news debate in detroit. all except dr. ben carson, the retired neurosurgeon says there is, quote, no path forward in his bid for the white house. following a poor finish on super tuesday. in central florida, hundreds of students at ucf plan to protest donald trump's rally this weekend. trump is expected to speak and saturday and organizers of the protest say it will be a peaceful demonstration.

ahead, scott kelly makes the rig return from space and is a different man! we'll tell you about changes in scott kelly's physical appearance. here's a hint: he's going to need new pants, we'll talk about that, coming up, plus, david martin. >> reporter: every morning, amy, ten artists, 31 days, all throughout orange county. starts tomorrow night, here at the maitland art center, jason, one of those -- how are you, jason? >> fine. >> reporter: what is this. >> wearable sculptures, the pink one and the blush colored one, is the mega mandible and they are sculptures designed to be worn and performed and engage public as a surprise. >> reporter: and dancing here. >> playing around and dancing and interacting, the sculptures and you can show case the work and see how they move. >> reporter: they are made of.

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the bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. dunkin's new grandde burrito -- a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. go grande with veggie or sausage today. america runs on dunkin'. >> john: okay. here's the story we talked about off the top of the show, all right? new this morning, astronaut scott kelly back on american soil, after spending a year in space. >> amy: he returns though, a different man, and luanne will tell us why. >> luanne: a plane carrying scott kelly touched down in houston, texas early this morning.

take a look at this: [applause] serving greeting him was his family, top nasa officials, his twin brother and the wife of vice president joe biden. he was the subject of dozens of experiments while at the international space station and those experiments will help nasa develop plans for eventual human missions to mars. here is what kelly said when he finally made it home to texas this morning. >> it is great to be back in texas. in the u.s. -- on u.s. soil. it is just an unbelievable feeling to be back here, on planet earth, back in our great country and with all of my family and my friends. >> luanne: he and his twin brother mark are participating in a study to figure out if genetic changes happen during long space flights and it turns out they do. nasa officials say kelly grew two inches while living on the space station.

and i guess it is because there is no gravity, to keep him down, right? your but once you get back you think it will go back to normal. >> amy: i don't know. >> luanne: because, you know, you reach your normal height you stay that way. >> amy: maybe. we'll find out. >> and, the twin is like, can i go now? >> john: can finally make the league! summer softball. >> amy: stop. >> john: remember when, bobby brady hung from the -- >> that's right from the swing set. >> john: brady bunch machine. >> jayme: good morning, buddy, let's look now, still seeing 40s and 50s. look here, we have 60s now from orlando, northern brevard county and here's the cloud maker and eventually the rain maker, as we go deeper into the evening and overnight hours. the rain chance begins to come up and the cool frontal is coming in.

more southerly through the course of the day today. overnight tonight and we keep those temperatures up today. thanks to the southerly flow, if you like it warm today, for you, by 2:00, 82, a general theme of passing clouds, no rain yet, it will come as we go through the overnight and outlining you and taking you through the overnight and tomorrow morning and essentially, between, we'll say the midnight hour, toward 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 a.m., tomorrow, the shower chance is light and slight and there at about 20%, after that, we see the front kick down to our south, and we are looking good. the model forecast, nearly a computer simulation as to what will play out weather-wise and, yeah, this thing is pretty spot on and showing those showers coming down south. heaviest stuff, well south of metro orlando and south of the theme parks, and i'm not overly concerned about heavy rain, but a chance of beneficial showers moving in. and probably ends up barely measurable when all is said and done. you can see the weekend will feature more of a northeasterly flow. and a few pockets of clouds

atlantic, nothing too crazy, a great looking weekend for us, and, perfect temperatures, let's outline a chance of rain, for today, friday, saturday, you see here, again, late tonight, very early a.m. friday, 20%, and then for your saturday, not happening, sunday, don't see it and all of next week, again, remaining dry and looking good overall. temperatures now, we're in the 20s and 30s over the northern tier and the gulf south, 70 and 62 new orleans and the phoenix desert floor reporting 63, 61 at the orlando international airport. so, here's your forecast for today. 78 at gainesville, 81 polk county and winter haven the four corners area and temps closer to 80s, across brevard county and down south toward indian river, tonight, we're seeing temperatures down through the 50s, to right around 60. and, overall again, a good looking evening but the rain chance rematerializes again, late tonight through early tomorrow morning, after that we write it off and sail nicely into the weekend featuring sunshine and flat rain chances

enjoy it all, guys. that's your forecast. live, drive traffic. >> kristin: i-4 and the 408. the i-4 eastbound lane, we're seeing significant delays there. it is just now starting to pick up. doesn't appear there is an accident there but from the ground view here, how far traffic is backed up. it is really stop and go right now. on i-4, eastbound. right before the 408. this is at kaley avenue and i-4. again we're looking towards the east and the 408 entrance ramp is very, very slow there. time now for our fox 35 pump patrol. saving you money. regular gas right now is just $1.61 at the marathon on university boulevard and north goldenrod road in winter park. remember you can always check out gas saving tips at www.fox35orlando.com. john, amy, back to you. >> 8:16 on "good day orlando." i crime alert, clermont police find a murder victim's car torched. >> amy: all most a month later,

joins us with more. >> ryan: what we want to focus more on today. andrew jones found dead in a shopping center parking lot off of state road 50 back on february 5th. last weekend detectives found his abandoned burned-out car in oakland and you can see the video. 15 minutes down the road from where he was killed. his dad spoke to us earlier this week. >> there has to be someone -- it has got to be someone close, you know, and right up the road is this community, has to look at, someone shot somebody. there is a murderer out there and it could be your kid. >> ryan: the executive director of crime line, good to see you and, the sergeant with the clermont police. we see this car and know it has been there, between -- when it was found and when it went missing? what we are really interested in to help the police department, is he was shot and killed on the 5th of february. looking at almost the full month, the car has been in or community, different places.

out in certain areas, any information you can give us about where the car might have been, prior to finally getting fortunate enough to finding it in oakland, that would help a lot. and, maybe descriptions of people who might have been in the car, so we can help clermont. >> ryan: what else can you tell us about the case. >> looking for the community to tell us, someone out there knows what happened. we're looking for them to do the right thing to. we'd love for the individuals or, you know, people who did this to come forward. and to put it behind them. but we're looking for any community support to help us, you know, put the bad guys, bring them to justice. >> ryan: you know, any -- in law enforcement any piece of evidence you have is a big deal, to have the car, how does it change the investigation? >> it gives us a lot of new things to investigate as far as where the car has been and who has been in the car and things like that.

we have good images, the car -- it looks different and we see the images, different cars. >> i ask people to focus on the car when the -- the photo of a car similar to that and, again, this car is a car that someone doesn't always have, they had it for a period of three weeks. from the time the murder happened to the time it was torched here in oakland. that is what we're looking for, for the time period where you who know people driving a car like that volkswagen and shouldn't have had it. we need information on those people specifically. >> ryan: what is the best way, if they have a small clue they can pass along -- >> call 1-800-432-tips, or visit crime line.org. >> ryan: and we spoke to the dad and they want closure on this. now, back to the studio. >> amy: a sad story. thanks, this is the e month for art lovers in central florida. >> john: there are things to see all 31 days, david martin has a preview of art 31.

>> reporter: and tomorrow kicks off at the maitland art center. ten artists, 31 dates, that is our 31. the factor maker space in orlando where artists... >> use tools hard to get access to, laser cutters like marla is using. >> reporter: how are you? >> how are you? >> reporter: what are you working on? >> a giant cube that will light up. >> reporter: beautiful and, the maker space, says fox 35 loves art 31 and we lemme get a mcpick 2 check out the brand new mix on

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>> john: 8:22, march is going to be a great month for art lovers here in central florida. >> amy: art 31 is show casing different works of art for all 31 days of the month of march. in orange county, david martin joins us live with a preview. hi, david. >> reporter: amy, good morning to you, if you are slightly confused about what we have shown you this morning, don't worry, you are not alone. i'm learning as well, about art 31. andrea bailey cox runs the art center. the ceo. good morning, how are you? >> i'm wonderful, thank for being here. >> reporter: we're honored to show case the arts in central florida and are great supporters of it. art 31 is late really 31 days of art exhibitions throughout the

>> yes. we have installations all over our beautiful maitland art center campus here and will pop up around orange county, downtown, south orlando, all of the cities, main streets like thornton park, it will be exciting. >> reporter: and the point behind this is. >> it actually -- harkens back to the maitland art center, about experimentation and collaboration and brought down the most famous american artists from the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s and, we're doing it again today. >> reporter: there is another artist, paige smith, from los angeles, california, good morning to you. how are you? >> well. >> reporter: you're a street artist, which means what, exactly? >> i use the street as my canvas. >> reporter: and as you have done this morning, i see a bunch of blue try iangle triangles. >> those are urban geode. >> reporter: what is that.

that i have been doing all around the world, where i fill cracks an crevices and forgotten spaces with these jewels. >> reporter: and the stone pathways and i saw them and i thought, someone spilled something and that was intentional. >> it is meant to be sort of a piece of magic you stumble upon, a treasure hunt. >> reporter: i bet the kids love it, too. >> they love it. >> reporter: what is your web site? >> www.a commonname.com. >> reporter: speaking of web sites, art 31.org has all the information, location and by the way, a big party tomorrow night, open to the public. >> yes. culture pop will happen all over the maitland art center campus, interactive art happenings, installations, wearables, we'll be visiting and music, literary readings, a fantastic evening starting at 6:30. >> reporter: $5 to get in. a great thing for kids, family friendly. have fun with it.

orlando," john and amy, what we did, tea on monday and music on tuesday, shakespeare yesterday and, art today. >> john: what is behind you? >> reporter: yes, sir? >> john: what is going on behind you. >> reporter: we talked about that. >> john: i know but that is just weird! >> reporter: it is art! >> john: okay. good. i'll send it back to you guys in the studio. >> john: still to come, a local orlando police officer recognized for going above and beyond. >> i did my job. >> amy: we'll tell you the story here, how he helped a local couple in need after he found a disoriented person driving the

>> announcer: you're watching "good day orlando" on fox 35. >> amy: welcome back. 8:30 right now and you are looking live on international drive, the orlando eye, to the right of your screen, great day to visit the attractions, if you are in the attractions area, a beautiful day to be at the park. low 80s, glad you are with us, i'm amy kaufeldt. >> john: i'm john brown, let's check in with jayme and see what is going on today. a great day to do anything. >> jayme: we have our times and moments and passing cloud cover but that is fine, temperatures looking good right now.

60s and a cool start and warmer times lie ahead as told by the accu-weather times an temps, your hour-by-hour forecast and the early afternoon with ease today, going into the low end 80s, passing clouds and clouds quite frankly late, late tonight, will yield a little rainfall, slight, shower chance and nothing higher than 20%, as we go through the wee early morning hours of our friday. you can see more vigorous and longer lasting rains and more substantial stuff setting up across the southeast, but, low pressure here, is driving the front across a -- the tendency of separating even more as far as the mileage far away from central florida and has it happens we begin to see a diminished rain threat and certainly, the overall intensity will be waning as well. so, again a quick burst of showers early, early tomorrow morning, talking like when you are sleeping and then as we get into saturday and sunday, gorgeous. we ride it into the mid-week peak of next week with highs by that time again approaching the

of rain, that is your forecast. >> kristin: thank you, jayme, outside west of downtown orlando, we are seeing significant delays on i-4, eastbound, this is before the 408. we have an earlier incident that put traffic at a stand still, but now starting to move but still slow and also on the 408, you see emergency crews here, they are working an incident from earlier, appears it was an sden accident. i-4 an alafaya trail. keep an eye out for troopers out there. >> john: a man will be in court in seminole county after police say his 6-year-old niece shot and killed herself with his gun. >> amy: police saying the guy should have never had the gun in the first place and fox 35's andrea jackson is following the story and is live outside with that. good morning. >> reporter: police say the man was a convicted felon and the family member faces several charges in connection with his niece's death.

eric williams was taking care of aleatha burke and she got ahold of a gun and shot herself in the shoulder by accident. the six-year-old later died at central florida regional hospital. williamsy williams is a convicted felon and faces charges including child neglect. >> there is a responsibility there and as an owner of a firearm you need to store it securely and away from juveniles. we owe them that to protect them and keep them safe. >> grief counselors have been on hand all week long at her school and williams is scheduled to face a judge in court today, at 1:30. live in seminole county, andrea jackson, fox 35 news. >> john: thanks, and a man from brevard county facing charges accused of driving drunk and leaving the scene of a crash. >> amy: melbourne police arrested stanley jones after the crash and officers say he rear-ended a driver forcing them to rear end another car.

drove to his apartment complex, right along trinidad circle. when officers arrested him he had a blood alcohol level of .211, more than twice the legal limit. jones was taken to the brevard county jail and has since bonded out. >> john: kissimmee police need your help identifying this man who robbed a 7-eleven at gunpoint. on february 28th, police say the man walked into the store there on south john young parkway. and pulled out a gun and demanded money. police say the clerk, though, ran into a back room and locked the door. the guy took off. nobody was hurt, if you rec him you are asked to call crime line. >> observational skills and compassion, the corporal is awarded the orlando police department's community service award. [applause]. >> amy: orlando police officer being recognized for going above and beyond the call of duty. corporal greg barber was honored yesterday for how he handled the pretty unique traffic stop involving an elderly couple, both in that your 80s, happened -- in their 80s, in september. they were driving the wrong way

when barber realized they were disoriented and hadn't eaten for hours, he took them to a local restaurant as they waited for someone to come pick them up. the honor comes as barber retires from force after more than 20 years, is a newly retired fellow. >> john: and this morning he joins us on good day to talk about the award and the moment. appreciate you coming in today. >> thank you. >> john: out of retirement! take us back to the day. you pulled a couple over. what happened. >> i was coming off of state road 528, the exit ramp and there is a toll plaza there and i saw a car coming the wrong way through the toll plaza and near the airport and you have -- you can get lost and i stopped the car and came upon the couple. and i could see they were elderly and i said where are you heading to and they said apopka, and going in the opposite direction and where are you coming from and they mentioned a place down south florida and trying go to a government office in apopka at 6:00 p.m., and the

and as i started talking to them, do you know where you are now? and the gentleman points to the bridge for the 528 and said that is the bridge from new york to new jersey and i was in a situation, they don't know what is happening and it is a matter of trying to find family members and determine -- i knew who they were but didn't know, do they have relatives locally and trying to get the information out was the hard part and finding they had a son in south florida and i got in touch with him. >> amy: a lot of it is detective work that went into the traffic stop and you took hem, i understand to a cracker barrel, is that right? what happened from there? >> i knew it would be several hours. again, south florida, trying to get family members up there, 3, 4 hours and i was like, let's get something to eat and another officer assisted, a team effort. i got the award but it was a team effort and they were hesitant, no, we are fine and we talked them into going to

and wait there and they -- we don't need to eat and as you talked to help you realized they hadn't eaten all day and were disoriented, where they were and what was going on. i mean, it is part of job and luckily, the family got somebody there to take care of them. and turn them over there and, i talked to their son a week later and found out they were okay but he had to take the car away from them. >> amy: thank goodness. it could have caused a serious someone else. >> we see it all the time. silver alerts go out and sometimes people are found hundred of miles per hour from their house. it is unfortunate that it happens in our society but it turned out good. >> john: you said it is another day on the job, and your crew also helped you. and when you got the award, did you think you deserved an award? was it just another day on the job. >> for me, another day on the job and what i got an award for is not something that officers

whether the orlando police department or central florida, across the country. this is community service and it is a job where they go out and do these things and don't get recognized because they know at a part of the job. i didn't think it was anything special and appreciate the station wanted to put positive stories out there about law enforcement and i'm recently retired. >> john: the best in the world. >> i'm glad to see you were bringing us on and police do this and put something out there positive. >> and i imagine, especially someone who is retired from the police force, having spent your whole life, it is hard to watch some stories coming out now and what appears to be a battle in this country over law enforcement? >> absolutely and it is -- we see the narrative that is currently out there, and how, heavy handed law enforcement brutality and everything else and that is why you hear these stories but there are officers every day that do stuff like this.

community service award. there were 3 or 4 other officers, helped the hopingless and everything else. so it is difficult to see that and you see the gun violence against law enforcement officers. and the number of officers killed by gunfire this year and, good for society to know other things are going on besides just officers and brutality. >> john: and when you retire, what is on the tap the rest of the day? golfing? >> my wife wants the house cleaned, i think and, dinner when she gets home! >> amy: we can always use extra help around here! >> john: i saw a mop back there! all right. >> amy: a pleasure to meet you. thank for being with us. thanks. >> john: still to come we're getting a look at new plans for daytona lagoon, who develop,want to bring to datona beach coming up next. >> amy: and on this day in history, march 3rd, 1985, moon lighting starring bruce willis and cybill shepherd aired on

willis also starred in his film career while he was doing moon lighting. which movie propelled him to movie star status while he was still doing primetime television? was it pulp fiction? armageddon? or put more fun in your day with ice-cream-flavored coffees at dunkin' donuts. go for delicious flavors like butter pecan, cookie dough, or new pistachio. enjoy one today.

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go grande with veggie or sausage today. america runs on dunkin'. >> amy: a used to love this show. back in the olden days, on this day in history, march 3rd, 1985:moon lighting starring bruce willis and cybill shepherd aired on television. willis started his film career while doing moon lighting. which movie propelled him to movie star status while he was still on the show? pulp fiction? armageddon? or diehard? which one of these movies

status? actually, it made cybill shepherd angry. they had a lot of friction on the set and it really upset her. he was the big, big star. david martin is joining us live from mate lan, this morning. hi, david. >> reporter: amy, i love the question. it was one of my favorite shows, growing up. >> amy: me, too. >> reporter: i loved the song, by al jarreau. of. >> amy: that's right. good. >> john: give him a moment. >> reporter: diehard. >> amy: david says diehard. luanne and ryan. >> ryan: we talked during the break about this. >> david is on the right track. diehard one. >> amy: diehard-1. luanne and ryan, agreeing with david. what do you think, jayme and

>> amy: everyone is sure of themselves today. >> john: our retired cop, as he left, said it is the best christmas movie of all time, diehard-1. >> amy: do you agree? i don't remember it being a christmas music, was it? >> john: there was a christmas theme. >> amy: let's see who got it right. here's your answer. >> he doesn't have a choice... >> amy: it is diehard! bruce willis, diehard. so funny, looking at clips of the movie, yesterday, i'm like, it seemed like a million years ago! right? >> -- >> i used to love moon lighting and i loved the characters, awesome, on that show. good stuff, thank for playing, everybody. good job! [applause]. >> amy: jayme king.

the latest cam, downtown, high clouds streaming through and will be the case all day long and it may thin and come back. as we head through sdwloefrn hours, at that time we begin to inherit a rain chance, i think through the early, early morning hours on friday like when we're all sleeping or supposed to be, anyway. looks like the chance at about 20%. so, how low do they go? gainesville 40 this morning and reported out at the airport there and 51 leesburg and, 55 orlando international, and melbourne, along our space coast. right now, we have warmed up considerably, across the region. especially down here, the pocket here. featuring 60s, phasing in across northern brevard and southern end of the county now, number 50 and the day ahead, you may ask, we look for passing clouds and warm temps, back to the low 80s again today. by 2:00, 82, 78 by around 5:00ish and 71 by 8:00 tonight. a generally theme of increasing clouds again with the front closing in on the area. you will notice the robust

our north and moving away from the area. eventually, again, moving to the coastal carolinas and the southern tail end of the thing, clouds and overnight shower chance because of that, at about 20%, but by 8:00 or 9:00 tomorrow morning we start to thin the clouds out, in terms of sunshine, 66 expected then, the timeline now, in regard to the arrival of the rain, watch the time stamp here and you see, midnight looking okay. and by 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 we get the quick burst of light shower activity and the heaviest stuff falling toward tampa and far south florida, as the front continues pressing south through the commute tomorrow morning and you can see in the wake, ocean blown clouds beginning to impede on the shoreline by saturday afternoon. looks likes a blockbuster of a weekend. good looking temperatures and great sky conditions and flat rain chances as we show you again, an early threat tomorrow at 20% and saturday, sunday and beyond, through next week, the

get out and enjoy it. all right, today, we're 80 ocala an 82 orlando, and 80 melbourne and same across northern brevard county, titusville and scottsmore looking good. a nice place to be along the beachfront in volusia county. 60 clermont, 62 winter haven an leesburg 59, lake county and 68 clare mon and bushnell, sumpter county at 58 tonight, and, delightful weather looking good. no rain chance for the weekend and beyond. and warmer temps anticipated by mid-week of next week. a weather baby for you now, a good looker. charlotte, everybody. what a cutey. cute! she's a doll face and. one of the weather babies we feature each and every morning, visit our web site, www.fox35orlando.com. for more information on the weather baby segment. >> so cute! i love happy babies, now we're live flying over i-4 and the 436.

no issues but we are seeing significant back-ups on the 408. right before the 408. i-4 eastbound looking towards the 408. still moving slow. john, amy, back to you. >> john: new this morning, we'll get a first look at the makeover, daytona lagoon. >> amy: developers are getting ready to spend $2 million to revitalize the water park. it will get a total facelift, attractions, rides and amendts. it was taken over my united parks and today developers are expected to present the new images of what the park will look like and they'll present the plans at today's county commission meeting. >> john: still to come the top ten of "american idol" battle it out for your votes. >> amy: after the break we'll check in with the contestants to see what it takes to make it

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i love you >> amy: welcome back, polk county, makes a shock discovery when they find, look at that -- a huge gator, inside their swimming pool! the 9 footer broke through their screened in porch in lakeland. and they had to call the trappers to get it out of the pool. it wasn't hurt in the process. >> john: you want to -- swim at night. you don't jump in the pool! you don't know what is in there. >> amy: you never know! always look first.

fox's hit show "american idol" rolls on and tonight the top ten battle for your votes. >> amy: michelle pelino talked to the finalists about making it this far? >> >> saving the best for last. >> reporter: off the first hollywood carpet idol t party, the finalists will hit the stage again, hoping to win america's vote. >> it is about performing and seeing how america reacts, you know? and so far, so good. i hope it continues. >> i think about, like, the next step. i realize when i think about the next, next, next step, i just lose my mind, so for me it is like, okay. all you have to do next is go out and sing the song and once you are done doing that there will be the next step. >> every time one of us progresses it is like a miniature celebration in our heads and then it is like, oh, crap, what do we do next!

double elimination this week, but are all trying to stay focused. happy to have made it this far >> i was like, i was thinking about it... before no one cared and now they do. isn't it weird. >> i'm embracing it and i'm grateful for the moment and everybody who put me through and i'm just doing my thing right now, >> reporter: lots of preparation going into each song in front and behind the camera. >> it is really hectic, you are being pulled from wardrobe to makeup to picking your next song to all of these things, that are coming together, for one live show. that is pretty, like, incredible and scary at the same time. >> it did feel very arranged. >> and trying to keep the judges' critiques in mind adds pressure. >> we can all get too caught up

with everything. >> i'm sure the average sentiment is pick and choose what resonates with you, because just having the three of us tell them things is a lot and not to mention scott and ricky and everybody behind the scenes. yoech >> reporter: find out who will stay and who will be sent home as well as special performances by harry connick, jr. and demi lovado, michelle pelino, fox news. >> john: watch "american idol" on fox 35 from 8:00 to 10:00 tonight. still to come on "good day orlando," at 9:00, water doesn't keep you hydrated, it can help you cut out the calories. >> amy: how many calories, experts say, will help you skip in a single day is coming up. plus, david martin... >> reporter: a reminder, amy kaufeldt, we have been live at the maitland art center featuring art 31's culture pop which starts tomorrow night and a big party open to the public, $5, what time does it start? and what is this web site for

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