and daytona beach, blaine tomlinson, channel 9 eyewitness news. an escaped inmate from volusia county. his girlfriend and her 3-year- old son. investigators say it with the help of natasha quigley, gary bullock was able to cut off his gps monitor and escape from his work release program at a hotel in daytona beach shores last week it deputy say quickly from her parents before aiding the escape. her 3-year-old son is in a national alert system and this is the 2010 chevy cobalt plate eu j eu jl31. >>> car break in turning into a shooting when a man confronted thieves and lake nona. the deputy saw men breaking into his car and chased them down the street and that's where neighbors cameras captured the sounds of gunshot victim victim is in the hospital today and his friend and neighbor did not want to be identified the tells eyewitness news victim is a family man. >> it is scary. this is a big family community and everybody is close. >> deputies have not released a description of the crooks or getaway car. >>> police emily lynn contacted the f.b.i. as they investigate a bomb threat at the

channel 9 blaine tomlinson live in daytona beach. we mentioned about 100 people are camped out this afternoon. >> reporter: i was told by the city that a plan for some temporary shelter is in the works, but there has been no specific physical progress toward something like that or specific details about that plan. so things have not changed out here. 108 people we counted last night huddled under the overhang at the county services building number 250 n. beach street. from the city, county, really more planning a meeting behind the scenes with nothing concrete on the table. it would be a tall order to move these more than 100 homeless to some kind of temporary shelter by the end of the week as the city said it wanted to do. you can see they are here with blankets and pillows and planned process by homeless advocate of the speed 8 -- speedway for the rolex 24 race he canceled because he said he was promised by the city 100 beds for the homeless and if can see daytona beach police officers spending time keeping an eye on things. well.

it's spread out or do you want to resolve it. >> volusia county blaine tomlinson, 9 investigates. >>> as of 1 am, wagner says he spoke with 2 other daytona beach commissioners affordable working with the county on a temper a solution. he plans to meet with all of them individually before the deadline in 60 days. >>> net 300,000 jobs were added to the u.s. economy in december and that number is helping to keep florida's unemployment rate on par with the rest of the country. >> some of the biggest job growth seen in professional services followed by construction and healthcare. total, then national average employment since at 5 percent, the same as florida's. >>> if you want to get your tax refund from the irs [ null ] you better file it before the end of january. the agency says it is adding more protective measures to prevent criminals from filing false tax returns. the new rules could delay the process. the irs says it could take 21 nasal more from the day you violated you finally get your tax refund. >>> this afternoon officials are saying a mosquito-borne illness could spread to th

blaine tomlinson is light at the camp and police are there now deal with the situation. >> reporter: jamie, you really cannot put into words how dangerous the situation is in the middle of the street, daytona. they did not rate -- respond to almost and ugly fight to 50 norge beach street. they were here last night arresting 7 people for fighting, open container of alcohol and drugs and despite, this one was getting very ugly before our eyes and police responded here in addition to this kind of thing going on, you have people doing business downtown who are getting harassed on the sidewalks and this is the stuff they daytona county council members are not seeing on a day-to-day basis. they are not seeing how ugly it is an are taking a very long time to come up with a solution to this. the latest is the city of daytona beach is still working to get beds for the homeless so they can do something about the situation on beach street. but none of them have come to me with the specific plan as to what they are going to do to bring an end to what is almost chaos here. when we get answers fro

blaine tomlinson is live in volusia county. have you been able to talk to investigators today about the search? u.s. marshals are still looking for natasha quigley and gary bullock junior, still on the run with that 3-year-old boy on friday reported quickly picked up bullock from this hotel where he was working as part of a prison work release program. the u.s. marshals are involved casting a wider net in the search we could lead us to believe the couple is outside of volusia county maybe outside of florida officials with the sheriff's office will not say that the 3-year-old is in danger there has not been an amber alert because the 3-year- old is with his mother quigley who has legal custody of the child. investigators say bullock was working at the present work release program and he got out of prison but he left and said quigley helped him . authorities were notified when bullock cut off his gps monitor. the couple's dole a gun, gash and blank checks from quigley , her parents home. grandmother's concern. we will have more o

more and live in daytona beach, blaine tomlinson, channel 9 eyewitness news. push mims man charged with attempted murder of number 2 deputies faced a judge. yesterday, melanie holt was in the suspects neighborhood as the deputies were transported to the hospital and today she was there as the suspect was ordered to be held without bond. prosecutors say he is a danger to the community. >> reporter: and the assistant state attorney said the community include law enforcement. 22-year-old skyler francis the men accused of striking to brevard county sheriffs deputies with a metal baton was shackled and in a padded vest when he saw the judge asked state request no bond because we do not believe there are conditions a bond which will be protect -- protecting the probably or law enforcement officers. >> reporter: deputies mike hriciso was hit -- sent to mims because of a 911 call about allow distributed they found a couple in a heated argument that they -- as they attempted to separate them,'s francis struck the deputy with a baton and as he fell the suspect allegedly

channel 9 blaine tomlinson yet again asking leaders as they finally have come up with a plan to fix the problem. the police department says there is nothing solid. >> reporter: city leaders have not talked about a specific plan as the rain continues you can see behind me some of the homeless are getting soup from some residents dropping that off. city leaders have a strategic scheduled over the next 30 minutes and then he would hope the meeting. did not hesitate to get involved in a scuffle between a homeless man and woman at 250 north beach st. >> now, i'm not. >> yes you are. >> you are. >> reporter: deputies and the homeless camp overnight and throughout the day. we were there all day long and growing pile of sopping blankets and trash. >> we have to do it we want to get an apartment i would love to get an apartment. >> reporter: daytona beach officials have set up a plan -- said a plan is in the works to get temporary shelter by the end of the week. >> are there any plans at all for the homeless? i called the mayor and 3 city commissioners and only one took my call commissioner patr

live in daytona beach, blaine tomlinson channel 9 eyewitness news. >>> not an easy situation. as we mentioned the tension among the homeless is growing and daytona beach. you can see for yourself, just how bad it is, see the fight for yourself download our wftv mobile news app go a go to the video section. >>> it has been nearly one month since the start of the new automated trash pickup and orange county. and some people tell us they still cannot get service. residents along powers which court sent us pictures of uncollected yard waste that has they say they have made numerous calls to the solid waste apartment before calling us today. one hour after reached out to cleaned up. >> the men convicted of murdering and orlando teenager sentence thrown out. jimmy midori 16 years old when investigators say he stabbed 17- year-old shawn a car to death at her mother's home off orange blossom trail in 1995. sentences of all juveniles serving life are entitled to a review. her mother says she would not feel safe if he got out. >> know, if you brutally murder somebody like that, and left

into land, blaine tomlinson, channel 9 eyewitness news. >>> meanwhile in orange county, the man who was sentenced to death for killing a 19-year-old to keep him from testifying in a home invasion case will be back in court this afternoon. in november, okafor was given the death penalty for murdering zaldivar in 2012. his face can be changed because of the supreme court ruling. we will be in court and let you know what happens on eyewitness news at 4. >>> in a few hours orange county school leaders will times for students. district officials are holding a work session today to go over all of the options. last september several proposals were discussed including starter -- starting high school times one hour later. the meeting will be at the ronald blocker educational leadership center on w. amelia st. at 4:30 feet we will be there and we will let you know what options they are discussing later today on eyewitness news at 4 highway patrol is investigating a crash that killed a 14-year-old boy. we will -- you can see straight -- state troopers blocked off young one parkway because of this

and daytona beach shores, blaine tomlinson channel 9 eyewitness news. >>> more than one week after an autistic man vanished in the middle of the night his family is still trying to bring them home. police say that no new leads on he left his test -- neighborhood on gender 16. his family thought he may be headed to philadelphia with a used to live. they were his autism could put him in danger. >>> developing this afternoon, navy officials say there is no sign of a shooter despite a shooting scare and one of the medical centers in california. >> officials say they received a tip from a witness claiming to have heard 3 gunshots at the naval medical center in san diego. this before noon. after a search and finding nothing, the navy now says it may have been a false alarm. >> since that time, we have done a number of clearing sweeps of the building and as of this time nothing would substantiate those reports. >> officials would not release the name of the person who made the report but we are told they will continue to interview the person. >>> marion county detectives are investigating a

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blaine tomlinson and volusia county checking for damage. we did have a torn attic indicator on radar. the system is now moved offshore. so everything is quite now but on the back edge good rain along 44, will khiva -- wekiva , silver lake subdivision 46 deltona 1520 minutes wait hit several, 90 minutes. heavy rain a long i-4 as we say if you don't have to get around stay where you are pick everything is moving quickly to the east. nothing severe. we have a sedated -- specific weather advisory -- below severe warning but rain, brian toward pine hills and downtown orlando. >> we will need to watch this for the next couple of hours as it moves to the coast we will severe thunderstorm watch for most of us until 5:00 but our severe weather threat will be over the next 1-2 hours and an update on that individual coming up this weekend. see you ahead. >>> get severe weather alerts right to your phone or tablet by downloading our free mobile weather app. >>> federal government shut down at the top of the hour for a winter weather monster. jamie dupr

blaine tomlinson is live at the salvation army shelter these are emergency beds at this >> reporter: and these beds are only usually used for cold weather but the city of daytona beach is working to make them available for the next 90 days to bring some relief on beech street. as cold weather rolls in this weekend, preparations are underway to keep the men and women camping on to street warm this weekend. we have been reporting on the crowd of homeless here now stretched around the block. >> anytime it drops below 40 we open up the shelter at the salvation of army. >> reporter: i also reported on the outrage from local businesses over the situation went to daytona's mayor about it and heard frustration from falluja county leaders and trying to come up with a solution. liam sweeney has been tending to the nearly 100 homeless at 250 north beech st. ( indiscernible ) so far he has been able to get shelter and assistance for one dozen homeless. >> trying to link them with some type of social service whether it be stuart march main supportive audi -- housing for the daytona beach is worki