traffic alert, two major changes, that could slow down your commute. a big change for the social media feed, why it has some fighting mad. storms winding down, but back in force for the weekend, the latest forecast. changes on one of central florida's main interstate, driving will get more complicated on i-4. the ramp in downtown, is closing per three years, yeah, do we have your attention? >> drivers will see rolling road blocks at nighttime. this map shows the onramp, that's shutting down the westbound onramp to state road

city hall. live tonight with the upcoming changes, and a lot of people are inconvenienced. >> absolutely, many of you take this onramp to get out of downtown orlando and on to state road 408 westbound. it's near city hall, near the ocu building and it's closed tonight and it'll be closed for the next three years. because construction crews need this space in the area -- they try to complete the rebuild of the i-4, 408 interchange. >> it's a big change for drivers to get out of downtown, to head to pine hill. and the florida turnpike. the onramp, and 408 was shut

those drivers, it's an impact of change. >> they'll use an onramp, and they'll go down south street to get to division. they should add an extra three minutes to the commute. while the drivers adjust. the closing of this stretch, shows work is ramping up on the i-4, 408 interchange that carries 200,000 cars every day. it's part of the make over. >> we know this is the most complex area of construction, the most confined, and it'll take the longest to complete this part. >> late night drivers, get the ready to ride your brakes on 408 westbound. they'll have rolling road blocks sunday night through thursday night. the serious slow down, happens

and 5 a.m. while they work to install heavy steel beams. >> we'll rolling traffic at 20 miles per hour, and once the traffic gets to the 408, they'll drop slower to 10 miles per road. >> and there's one more change on the way for this weekend, this one is in mateland, the westbound i-4 entrance ramp eastbound, will be closed from friday night until monday morning, while the crews do some drainage rocker work in that -- drainage work in that area. there's detours to get you on i-4. a lot of changes. >> thank you for the information. we also have sky fox over a bad crash in orlando. a car partially submerged in a retention pond. the two got out safely, and appeared not injured.

mourning the death of a 17-year-old student at lake minneola high school. we report. >> almost 24 hours after an awful fire erupted at a home, behind me, you can't see it, but there's not much left to see, according to the firefighters, the investigation is complete but the fire was so intense, they can't determine what caused it. the home over a century old. and the awful part, a 17-year-old boy trapped inside, died on the scene. we're learning his name at some time, trevor ross. he -- name tonight, trevor recognizance ross. the family rents the home, and they have nothing at this point. they lost their son, and they lost pretty much everything they own. i spoke to a counsel woman, who

leading the effort to collect [inaudible]. >> the community has been wonderful to far, and -- so far, and pouring out the donations of clothing, food, monetary gift cards, the businesses are stepping up, and asking what they can do as well to help. trying to keep that going. >> the firefighters shed more light of how this went down yesterday. trevor inside the home alone, had gone to bed, and his mom, and two other siblings were out. dad, walking his dog on this property somewhere. and when he showed up here at the end of the driveway, saw flames. and any way you can help out, drop it by the city hall, all day tomorrow and saturday too. fox 35 news. the followup now, the orange county billionaire, ward, denied bond today.

2001, he was convicted of second-degree murder of his wife. the conviction was overturned and today the lawyers were asking for him to be let out of prison on bond. this is a long step by step process. >> obviously pleased with the court's ruling that the conviction has been vacated. today the issue on bond, that will be appealed, and appealed expeditiously, it's a step by >> the appeals -- trial. and the jurors in st. pete are expected to hear the closing trial. he's suing the gawker media for $100 million. for posting a sex video of him and his best friend's wife. they didn't know they were

was violated. and sea world is making big changes, and hopes bringing people back to the struggling parks. the killer whales will remain in the tanks, but the fancy shows, they're going away, and sea world will no longer breed orcas, that they have in captivity. we report. >> monumental announcement from sea world, and they're confident in their decision, folks we spoke to are all over the spectrum. it's a mixed bag of emotion, coming from the sea world park. >> it's good to know, [inaudible]. humans and animals and for that, educational, you get to see them, not in the natural habitat, you still get to see them, but it's sad. >> it's sad the next generation won't be able to see the orcas,

>> it can't be a good thing to keep an animal that size in captivity. >> no more breeding of the orcas, and the phasing out of the shows, and a new partnership with the humane society of the united states. >> sea world is listening and changing. these were not easy decisions. this is about doing the best thing for our whales, our guests our employees and sea world. >> peta also commenting on the move they released a statement, in part, for decades, orcas, whales, and many other animals have suffered in sea world confinement, to do right by them now, sea world must open tanks to the ocean, so they have a semblance of a life outside the prison tanks. sea world has taken a step forward, but more must come. and meanwhile, new additional to

customers entertained, even without the show. >> we're theming with an animal theme, but also, having a great message to go with it. and the families of the future wont both, fun and meaningful experiences, and i think we're at the epicenter of that. >> currently, there's 29 orr cass that live in captivity, in sea world's care. one is pregnant, and she'll live in captivity with its family. to prevent the future procreation, they were put on birth control. fox 35 news. sea world's decision to stop breethd whales is -- breeding whales is getting a lot of attention on social media. peta, sending out this tweet, thanks to all the protesters who wrote a letter, commented or did anything to make this victory happen. let's celebrate today, but

we urge everyone to campaign, until all sea world animals are free. they need to open the tanks, so they have a semblance of a life outside the prison tappings. -- tanks, sea world wants to keep the tanks, and they're taking steps to make them larger. the best place for them is at sea world, no whale born under human care has been released successfully. they'll not be released to the ocean, they could not survive in oceans to compete with food or deal with environmental concerns, including pollution, and other manmade threats. he beat the odds, and now the local comedian is bringing smiles and laughter to others. >> it takes a lot to get on the stage, you're up there by yourself. but i know i have a bigger cause. >> after the break, you'll meet

an instagram changing things up. some using the photo sharing site is not happy. tell you what's changing, and a sanford woman, left her two bulldogs at home, and when she came back, they were gone. now the police are investigating, we'll hear from the heart broken owner, coming

`` right now there's more than 120,000 people, waiting for the gift of life, we're talking about organ donation. >> and a man's important444444444444message, as well as a few smiles. >> it's just after 7 on a tuesday night in winter park. everyone inside sleeping moon cafe is getting ready for open mic night. musicians, comics, open mic night, takes a bit of guts, that

perhaps no one here has heart. and when he hits the stage, he makes it clear why. >> i'm exactly 16 weeks, post me. >> this is miracle, real name, norris miller, just after the doctors gave him his new ticker. >> the heart is about that size, and close to that size, my heart is this big. my heart was the mass in my chest. >> the doctors said the transplant was the only option. surgery. >> after he recovering, norris, decided he needed change. >> he became miracle. stand up comedian. >> it takes a lot to get on the

by yourself. i have a bigger cause. >> that's not happening tonight. >> which brings us back to sleeping moon cafe, where miracle tries to keep them laughing. and always ends his set with a mission statement. >> god bless my donor, i am miracle, love you guys, thank you. >> creating awareness that organ donation, saves lives. lives like his. >> i have a second chance on life, why not? why not touch lives? >> fox 35 news. new at 10, instagram change it go way they do things. >> and some fans of the photo sharing site, upset. we report. >> with millions of photos and videos uploaded each day,

the posts in our feed. now they're trying to fix that. and instagram is following if facebook's footsteps, elevating posts that are paid for, or of your interest at the top of the heap. the move is decided to revolt, with people signing a petition, to keep the posts chronological. and on the street, they're showing their disapproval too. >> it's things what i want to see and what i want. >> it's a business, everything is a business. that's what people wanted to see, and control everything too. it's weird. >> now it's more of a thing, you can tell it's more sponsorship based, you don't see more of your friends and social group is doing and more of the corporations.

sign of social media's broader evolution. >> there's no more organic social. period, you pay in order to get your stuff seen. and anybody who doesn't understand that, doesn't understand the nature of modern social media. you used to do something great, and it would go viral. viral is now, how much money you got, that's how viral it gets. >> and it'll take time to get this right, and time will tell how the comment and is unlikes add up. by the way, we're both on intoo gram. check it out, this is a picture i uploaded earlier tonight. i saw the emcee for the seminole county teacher of the year, and i'm there at the bottom. that's chris, from crystal lake elementary school. he was teacher of the year tonight.

check it out, are we good or what? wearing green, in honor of st. patrick's day today. we want to wish you a happy st. patrick's day, hope you had a good day. the white house got in on the celebrating as well, by going green themselves. the white house fountain, bubbling up green, first day of st. patrick's day, this is the north lawn. the house is dyed green every year since 2009. and the group of public service workers, dying their beards and mustaches green to raise money. to send the veterans on a trip to the nation's capital. >> the world war two, vietnam war, to take a one day trip to washington, dc. >> that trip is called the never forgotten honor flight, and taking veterans on trips to

still ahead, two dogs, worth $4,000, stolen from a central florida home. hear the plea for their safe return. and how one local country is marketing its business to the world.

day to the good evening a blow up of showers and thunderstorms, right now, we have sprinkles and showers north of ocala, and

here's a replay of what was going on earlier this evening. a big swath of showers and storms, winding down, they were heavier in the afternoon. and late this evening, left over showers. but look at the new batch of severe weather right now, hitting the panhandle. now moving into pensacola, and this whole zone, will get hit hard overnight. and it's traverse the i-10 corridor, and at times, light showers. nothing bad, will be affecting ocala, and gainesville, and areas to the north. even areas overnight, this is the the boundary of the stalled out front, sitting to the north, that's the reason they're not coming down to the metro orlando. 69 degrees right now downtown. 70 in melbourne, and the temperatures are cooler tonight, compared to last night, and due to the showers and storms from earlier this afternoon and evening. right now, 69 degrees, northeasterly wind, and

patrick's day, a lot of spring breakers down here, enjoying the sunshine, most of the day. but overnight storms far north. panhandle, i-10 corridor, moving and weakening as they approach jacksonville. and sea breeze action, starts tomorrow, on the coastline and more clouds and rain showers in the day on saturday. here's the stalled out front, the wave of storms earlier, and here's tonight's action right now. it's not going on all night tonight, but a good chance of showers from the gainesville area up to the north. the computer model is showing, tomorrow, partly cloudy, and afternoon, 2 or 3 p.m. scattered storms pop up on the i-90 car dor, and the evening hours, looks good, and watch the action

in the overnight hours tomorrow night, into early saturday, we will get a volley of showers, moving in, a rumble of two of thunder, not expecting anything bad. at 6:00 in the morning on saturday, still showers around and then in the day on saturday, during the afternoon, another wave of action, begins to blow in and that's the main batch, doesn't show up until late afternoon and evening. on and off on the day saturday, late afternoon and evening, we will get rain and thunderstorms. here's the seven day forecast, it's unsettled one, as we go into the next seven days, the chance of showers and thunderstorms on the high side as we get to friday and saturday, decreasing clouds on sunday, beautiful weather next week. two dogs missing in seminole county. >> after the break, we hear from the woman who says someone took

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vineland, you'll pay@ who stole her dogs? a sanford woman, wants to know who went inside her home and took the two english bulldogs. >> the theft happened a week ago, now the police are investigator. >> i'm offering a reward for the dogs. >> she says someone stole her glesh bulldogs. -- english bulldogs. according to to sanford police, an accurator was working in the back yard, and asked her to go to the store and when she returned, it happened on monday, between the hours of 12:30, and 3:30 p.m. the dogs were inside the bedroom inside the cage. >> someone took the dogs out of the cage. >> she says the front door was locked and she says the thief came to the back door. >> it's possible he locked it up. >> she's not sure who took her pets, she's been contacting

>> why do you think they took them? >> they're worth a lot of money. purebred english bulldogs. i think someone stole them for the wrong intentions, and that's why i want them home. >> anyone with informing on the dogs -- information on the dogs, call the police. >> what do they mean to you? >> a lot, a lot. >> fox 35 news. you decide 2016, the new poll shows the democratic candidate, hilary clinton has the edge moving into the next primary. arizona votes next tuesday. now on the republican side, the same poll shows donald trump is in the lead with 31% support, ted cruz is 19, and john kasich is 10. and florida senator, marco rubio dropped out of the race on tuesday night, after losing the

returned to washington, and reporters were there waiting. >> will you be a vice president? >> i'm not going to be anyone's vice president. i don't mean that in a disrespectful way, i'm not running for governor of florida, i'll finish my term out in the senate, work hard here, and i'll be a private citizen in january. >> let's talk with former republican congressman, and political analyst, rick. he says he wants to go back to private life, do you buy that? >> yeah, i think he needs to recharge, when you lose an election, it takes a few years to get over that. he said he wouldn't run for the senate or governor, if hilary were to win, i can see him

>> in a stronger position? the stars weren't aligned for him. >> he could get a stronger position, but be a better candidate. as someone who's lost an election, there's a positive side to it, it cures you of the insanity of conceit, and makes you more humble. every president or person he lekked, has lost an election at some point in their life. and he comes back as a presidential candidate better than he was. >> and if they've exp444444444444tter taste of defeat, what do you think he'll do with his time, while he's out of office? >> i think he'll have options, and chances to be on corporate boards. look at martinez, the president of chase bank, and he's doing great and happy.

he may have tv options, maybe a new book. expect him to make seven figures, and see his kids every batteries. >> you can't put a price on that. one final question, any advice you would give to him or anyone in that position? you bring up a good point, it has to be scarring to have that fall from grace in a grand scale. what would you tell him? >> my best advice is not to take it personally. you do take it personally, and you see ten people on the street, and you think, eight of them think i'm a loser, and don't take it to heart. he didn't have the right wave, and get your mojo back, get your self-confidence back, don't take it personally. >> you don't think this is the last time to see him on the public stage?

>> thanks for coming in. >> thanks. to secure the republican nomination for donald trump, that forces a contested convention. and that's when they vote themselves to pick the nominee. if that happens, people who don't like trump or ted cruz, and john kasich, they're trying to find a fourth alternative. they're throwing support behind paul ryan, but he's not having it. >> it's not me. look, i didn't think i made news. i thought i was clear, i saw boehner last night, and i told him to knock it off. i used different words, his own words he used to use against us. it's not going to be me, it should be someone running for president. look, i made a decision over a year ago, not to run for president. i believe, if you want to be president, you should run.

canvassing, and campaigning, there's caucuses and primaries that's who we should select. let's put this thing to rest and move on. >> he went on to say, he hopes to be switzerland, and serve in a neutral role. meantime, nature got too close to brevard zoo, we'll tell you how a wild animal, attacked another animal in an exhibit. and florida high school, invites a fire breather to the pep rally, and this happens. yeah. oh dear. we'll talk to the man who got injured, and he'll tell us

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years old was missing, and they highly expect this bobcat is the one that got it. they've set traps in the area to try to catch the bobcat, and one of the things they have to accept here, they are surrounded by a wild land area, and often times, animals from that area, mix with the animals here, and sometimes can be prey. there's a push to get fresh blood in leadership position ins orlando. it's called eight is enough. >> the push is to put term limits on the city commissioner and the mayor, there's no time limit, because they're doing a petition drive, something that's not been done in decades here in the city of orlando. it would go on the ballot, possibly in 2017, or 2019, but say the commissioners and the mayor, can serve no more than eight years, wherever the term limits are put on the ballots, is passed easily.

approval to buy 225 body cameras, and the cost is $2.5 million, and financed by money seized by the criminal cases. >> one of the things we look at, what do the people want? we're seeing they want more accountable, and also it helps us in the credibility towards the people. once we use them, we can document what we've done, and it takes the guess work out of it. >> the cameras are used in the field starting next month. if you like more on these stories and more local news, check out our website, fox35orlando.com. home grown businesses, getting the word out, we are open for business. coming up after the break, details on a new effort to promote local businesses. our forecast, we're quite here, but look to the north, big

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hundreds of spring breakers are flocking to daytona beech this year, and that's forcing the volusia county sheriff's office to step up the patrol.

shoulder broken with a fight with a spring breaker. >> there's so many more people here this year than expected. ten more is called in to patrol here. >> this is a large amount of crowds, we didn't expect to have this many, but the other beaches, they didn't have them there. and they're here instead. >> they've made 150 arrests in the last ten days, compared to 90 in two missouri last year. >> this group is expected to leave sometime tomorrow or the next day, and another batch is expected to take their place. in detainee beach. fox 35 news. fox 35, home grown now, lake county, using tax dollars to market the products made in lake county. >> we show you one product.

switches all this makes the corporation tick. >> they want to recycle the chemicals, and recover the energy from the organic material, they couldn't turn into paper, and make electricity off of it. >> the owners, explain what the business sells. the machines that can measure liquids inside pipes. it indicators to big clients, like -- lake county, born and bred, yearn for more state and local interaction. for this, to encourage to do business with our companies that alley. >> and the way i envisioned it, is with suppliers. to make sure that other manufacturers, and people in this area, know what we do, so that maybe we can use our

importantly, to supply us with a local source of high quality parts that people stand behind. >> the county launched the website a week and a half ago, and already, dozens of businesses have registered. a county spokesperson says that lake has more than 300 manufacturing companies, making up 7 % of the work force. so opportunity for made in lake is big. >> a lot of people who live in lake county, go outside of lake county for work. that in itself, there's a lot of driving involved, if we can bring the jobs back not area where people are living, and want to live, that's better for all of us. >> the website, by the way, produced in-house, by the workers, in lake. rain back in the forecast. >> yeah, not the weekend yet, but getting there. >> we're getting there, as we get to saturday, is the best chance of rain.

plan accordingly. right now, light rain showers up to the north. picked up a few sprinkles, that's it when it comes to the rain, at least for now. here's a replay of what we had earlier this evening. gusty storms in northern florida, and already, a new blach, taking shape. this one, real nasty, numerous thunderstorm warnings for them. lightning with this system, and now into the gulf of mexico. overnight, we'll get slammed, no, not going to happen. it'll stay on the i-10 corridor, over night, a few showers, maybe in gainesville ocala area, but that's it. the computer models are doing an eh type of job. if these were baseball players, they would be batting 150, so

the rainfall forecast from the model, indicating anywhere from half an inch of rain, to heavier amounts. this is through saturday evening, shows little from orlando to the east. that's the reason i'm not whole saling biting into that thing. if you amounts are pretty good. -- but the amounts are pretty good. it should be more widespread. 68 in sanford, 70 in melbourne, the winds are light to calm. a comfortable night tonight after a beautiful day today. from southern volusia county, seminole county south. and north of town, stormy. the dew points are high, mainly low to mid 60s, due to the recent rainfall and the developing storm system in front. that's jacking up the moisture content. 69 downtown, here's the planner for tomorrow.

and -- 60s up to 84 or 85 in the afternoon. a few storms, and late afternoon and evening, similar to today. two areas, on the east coast with the sea breeze, that's forming, and the other batch is farther up to the north around the gainesville area. here's the front stalled out, energy traveling along it, and it'll drag, a chance for few showers. well to the north later on tonight. then as we get into the area the next couple of days, the front is hanging around. this is tomorrow in the afternoon and evening. there's the action to the north, a chance of showers around the metro area and then the day on saturday, watch what happens, the cold front to us, and ramps up the chance, 2:00 in the afternoon, thing break out. i do believe saturday is an active day when it comes to

sunday, a slight chance of early day showers, but look at next week, lots of sunshine, cooler weather, there it is.

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tonight's o town countdown. the bears signed rookie forward. number two, chick-fil-a customers in orlando, contest the smoke house barbecue salad, it's only sold in orlando and houston, if it's popular, it could roll out nationwide. number one, the airport is getting new automated people mover trains. the the old ones are replaced

and that's tonight's on countdown. a man really did strike gold. after purchasing a scratch off ticket. he won the prize earlier today after buying the ticket from a convenience store. he took the lump sum, that was more than $1.5 million. there's still prizes in the gold rush scratch off, but only eight are the $2 million jackpot. some children got a visit from a pint sized companion.

friend from the farm, certainly you've heard of therapy dogs, but what about therapy horses? mini horses, he spans 31 inches tall. but he's the perfect size to visit the children at a hospital in new york. and takeaway their worries for a while. >> children immediately feel something very special is happening now. and we like to create the experiences in the hospital environment, often times, the fear is something scary or painful will happen. >> the tiny horse heros, have

trauma victims for years. most recently after the sandy hook shooting. and which american cities, could have a zika out break this summer, and orlando is at the top of the list. >> right now we're learning new information of a local high school teenager, killed in a fire. how the community is remembering him tonight. and also new, a stunt at a pep rally went horribly wrong, what the performer is saying from the hospital. and major changes from i-4, what's shut down in the heart of orlando, that'll affect everyone's commute for years. start there, two major projects, soon underway on i-4, and sate road 408. a ramp in the heart of downtown orlando, that's closed, and drivers will see rolling road blocks at night. we're live in orange county,

>> hey, a lot of changes on the way here. this onramp, to state road 408 westbound, it is closed tonight. and it'll be closed for the next three years as workers strive to rebuild the i-4/408 interchange. it's a big change for drivers to get out of downtown to head to pine hills. and the florida turnpike. this onramp, 408 is shut down and a brand new ramp will open in three years from now. >> we know that between 1,500, and 5,000 vehicles use the ramp every day. for those, it'll be a change. >> starting friday morning drivers leaving downtown, they'll use the division street, and go bast past -- past the am