candidate makes a stop in central florida. his push to win over florida voters. and 22 bullet homes left in a central florida home. [real-time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company.] shows marco rubio inching closer to donald trump. it comes as rubio rallies in central florida. first, though, more than 20 bullet h oles in one house. tonight deputies are searching for the guys who opened fire. so far, no arrests in the shooting. this is news 6 at 6:00. i'm matt austin. >> ginger: i'm ginger gadsden. lisa bell is off tonight. now, the family is concerned becaus they say the two men know someone who lives in that house. that home is located along moss park ridge drive. it's in the lake nona area of south orange county. news 6 reporter troy campbell went to the neighborhood today. what have you been able to find out? >> reporter: well, for starters, the road behind me is the only way in and out of the entire neighborhood. neighbors tell us that since the shooting, the homeowners association is looking into the possibility of adding surveillance camera

jason: 6:00 a.m., and marco rubio' s mad -- across central florida. you will be after a rally last night. michelle: what he said after rumors last night that he would drop out. where live as firefighters try to save the house. amy: i will tell you who will be the warmest in your first alert forecast. jason: overnight, a car pulled the search for the driver. tuesday morning, another day when you have to grant that jacket early, and ditch it in a few hours. i am jason guy. michelle: i am michelle imperato. amy, perfect weather out there. amy: anywhere from the 40' s to 70' s this morning, a huge temperature difference. some of us are quite cool, some of us are really warm. we all make it to about average today. we are headed to the 70' s, even 80' s, today in central florida. the wind having a big impact on our temperature. we are up to 10 degrees warmer this morning than 24 hours ago. that puts us in the upper 40' s for the coolest parts of the area. dunnellon is 48. we have actually come up a bit in the metro area, lower 60' s in some spots. cloud sev

thousands of bikers are rolling into central florida right now. meredith: that means plenty of business for local bars, restaurants, and retailers. wesh 2' s claire metz joins us live with more. claire, it looks a good time. claire: big time. just like nascars origins, motorcyclists raced on the beach just down the street decades ago , and there are races out on the speedway. this event has really turned into a spectator' s port on main street see and be seen. ,>> you just want to come down here and people watch and look at motorcycles. >> we enjoy coming down look at the bikes. claire: the iron horses and their riders have come in strong on day one of the event leather and chrome as far as the eye can , ride themselves but want to be part of the parade. and it' s a real shot in the arm for local businesses. bikers will put $75 million into this economy during the next day 10 days. >> $1200 on the room, we' ve got $1000 spending cash. will probably use the card on $500 other stuff. claire: local hotelier dev bhakta thinks the 75th anniversary has

where it was discovered here in central florida. and we' ll tell you about a big vote in tallahassee that is good news for the families of florida officers and deputies killed in the line of duty. plus this is a live look outside. a view of lake eola. amy is back with central florida' s most accurate forecast (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates, i' m amy sweezey. we are going to be warmer today than yesterday. climbing temperatures continue and where headed to 86 in orlando good most of our inland spots will hit the mid 80' s. the coast will stay cooler around 80 degrees, just because we will have that breeze coming in off the ocean. a little more sunshine today. right now we are similar to yesterday. a few degrees warmer in some spots. 60 in palm coast. 71 in melbourne. 64, orlando

trump still reigns in the north and here in central florida. this is a make-or-break moment for rubio. the winner takes all 99 delegates in the state. home, it all but dashes his dreams at winning the presidency. however, win or lose, he says he's taking it all the way to the republican convention. now, there's still time for you to get out here and hear what rubio has to say in person. the event out here doesn't start until 8:00. doors open at 7:00. you do have to sign up for tickets online. reporting live in sanford, sachelle saunders. >> ginger: thank you. with just a week until the florida primary, most of the candidates have their eye on the sunshine state and each side is facing a debate right here in florida this week. but first, voters on both sides will head to the polls in michigan and mississippi tomorrow with republican primaries in hawaii and idaho. on the democratic side all eyes are on michigan where hillary clinton and bernie sanders faced off in a heated debate in flint. right now, clinton holds an 11-point lead in michigan. ac

. >> reporter: in 2008, $50 million was brought to central florida for wrestle mania. this year around, it's expected to double. >> it will generate nearly $100 million on economic impact for >> matt: to our newsroom now, a car crashes into a canal with three teens inside. police arrest two of them. this pic from the viewer shows night. car. he stopped chasing them shortly before the crash. according to police, the 16 and 17-year-old both ran off. they were later caught. a 13-year-old was found trapped inside but not badly hurt. >> ginger: a bad crash involving a lynx bus in orlando. the impact left a car mangled and the driver trapped inside. sky 6 flew over the scene on south cimarron boulevard and curry ford road this afternoon. you can see the badly damaged car on a tow truck there. the driver was taken to ormc. we're told the injuries are not life-threatening. no word yet on what caused it. we will bring you any updates as they come in. >> matt: another warm, beautiful day here in central florida. a live look outside at daytona beach. it is jumping. of course, bik

this is the way it looks around the rest of central florida. mid 60s in most locations. 62 in daytona beach and 61 in 85 degrees and mostly cloudy skies. even a light sprinkle is in the forecast for the day today. i'll talk about showers and thunderstorms in your seven-day forecast coming up >>> all right. imagine meeting all the presidential candidates before leaving middle school. ahead on sunrise, you'll see how a local boy landed some of the most coveted interviews of the year. then. >> the disease has changed his body. but he's still clay inside. >> from hiking mountains to struggling with everyday tasks, what this als patient wants you to know and how h rotisserie-style chicken raised without antibiotics? it's what we do. that same chicken pulled by hand? it's what we do. freshly-baked bread and crisp veggies? it's what we've always done. the new rotisserie-style chicken sandwich from subway. you wouldn't waste money buying a snow blower in miami. so why waste your money on overpriced lunches? instead, for just three dollars at subway, yo

in central florida, it's just rain. marion, sumter and oceans of lake and polk county that is heading into downtown as we speak. the heaviest is to the west but moving in quickly. downtown orlando, we have light to moderate rainfall. we move this further to the north and there is that heavy rain pushing out of marion county into portions of lake, volusia and flagler counties. you head down to the south and this is where we have seen the heaviest rain and the best dynamics for the potential of strong thunderstorms to push in. so if you are traveling along start for all went to kissimmee kissimmee. we will be on-air giving you the very latest for the next 30 that information in the palm of your hands for the rest of the afternoon because it looks like that will last with us until about 4 o'clock. a lot of rain out there, in the upper 70s, lower 80s. i will update hour by hour as we head into the rest of the day. you can make your plans when the rain does finally looked up. >>> breaking in orlando, police are searching for

be in central florida on her behalf. rubio insists trump is not the candidate to beat her. >> we will have a chance here in florida to reshape this primary, coreclaim our party, to reclaim the conservative movement. so we can lead in november. >>reporter: in a matter of hours, senator rubio will be in the next campaign stop in miami. >>> marco rubio didn't get the endorsement of florida's attorney general pam bopd di, appeared in a donald trump rally in tampa this afternoon, and through her support, behind the fwront runner, former vice presidential nominee was there in the villages this morning. >>> allen grayson was part of a ucf. grayson joined the knights for bernie sanders group to help tomorrow's primary. sanders in the white house because he shares many of his same ideas. which he believes would make america a better country. >> senator sanders, a champion, for refinancing student loans, for free public college, for a $15 minimum wage. for medicare for all. many, many things that we need. >> last month, the grayso

central florida fair 11:00 to 11:00 today. thunderstorms a possibility but that clears out by the late afternoon and early evening hours. we are talking about active weather today. clearing middle of the week, so if you think about heading to the beach, tuesday wednesday thursday are your days. beaches, we are concerned about a high rip current threat the next couple of days. >> 5:51. spring training is wrapping up in central florida. >> spring training is in full swing across the sunshine state. espn' s wide world of sports shows us how the atlanta braves are preparing for the season. baseball is back in florida. it is spring training and while most people come out to see the players, there is an entire team of people that has to be here just to get these stadiums ready . i came out here to champion stadium at disney to see what it is like to host a spring training game. >> we have dozens of cast members that are working hard to make sure we are ready for game day. the ticket takers, and the musicians. >> it is a broad team e

the story is next. central florida. we'll be right back. >> and join us on facebook during the break. just search for lisa bell at >> sachelle: an orange county community is coming together, trying to get results for a local teacher. >> lisa: yeah, a teacher whose home was recently destroyed by a fire. >> julie: today we've learned they've gotten results. >> matt: they've raised $5400 for the teacher and it's not stopping there. this is all that's left after a nasty fire torched their home. the accidental fire started on the back porch and the roof is gone and her daughter's car is a the teacher lost just about everything but her high school students are helping her in this time of need. they started an online fundraiser asking the warrior family to help one of their favorite teachers. we've seen a number of donations rise every hour. while they've met the $5,000 goal, the organizer of the fundraiser says they're going to keep it and try to help the teacher as much as they possibly can. we already know we don't pay teac

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for most of central florida, not as tough. we have decent weather. eric: it is nice, warm, and drive. that is about to change, the drive part. -- dry part. the skycam is showing a nice effort. we have clouds overhead, 79 degrees overhead, feeling like 80. dusting off the old heat index. the good news, no rainfall right now. are looking nice and dry. this is where the dry changes, because we have got all of this moisture out here from louisiana back to mississippi, alabama, even the florida panhandle, that is your storm system, a lot of moisture associated with it. once it moves in, these rough movements, that is dry air. this will move across central florida, but we just need to get through the moisture. it will not be here tonight. 9:00, 72. 11:00. overnight lows, wow, these are mild. 65 degrees in the villages, 63 ocala. 66 in outdoor a. 65 in kissimmee, 66 davenport. 65 flagler beach, 67 cocoa. if you are going to the central florida fair, it will be nice and comfy, but it will be warm. by 11:00, room temperature. tomorrow we are watching the mois

dave: i do not know if you are watching that life shot there. today. flying. central florida. central florida. to start out, but mostly we will be in the 50' s to start. very nice. we have bike week, a big soccer game, plenty going on. it is 50 to -- it is 53 degrees right now in orlando. temperatures again, north and west of i-4, you are in the mid 40' s. just about everyone else is in the mid-80' s. we are all headed into about the mid-70' s today. eventually, the wind will pick up to about the 20 mile per hour range. that will keep things a little bit cooler along the coast line. there is some swell on the water. some chopped on the water. for swimmers, there is a significant red turned threat. -- rip current threat. are off -- pollen count is up. cara: dave, thank you. a frightening x-rays underwater (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, but that's how some seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates, cara: in about 24 hours, we lega

we'll keep it mostly fair for over night conditions for central florida. here's temperatures for us at 6:30 tonight falling from the 70s back down into the 60s. a little bit of a drier air wedge coming through. we will see temperatures get back into the mid 50s where they were earlier this morning. orlando 57 and then back at 1:00 to 80 degrees tomorrow. it's going to push 82, maybe 83 in a few spots tomorrow. so much more a cold front. we will see a second one come by with a little bit better chance for showers. there's no cold air behind these fronts this time of the year generally speaking. without the jet stream no chance of a big cool down. we will see a nice day there's 3:00 in the afternoon. a mix of clouds and sun. showers on early friday morning but you're still going to need to keep your sprinklers on because it's not going to be much. showers move by very early on friday and then scoot out of the way giving us a nice week. daytona just about as flat as surf will get here. it looks more like the gulf of mexico. if you've been there it's like a bi

if you know anything, investigators want to hear from you. >>> on tuesday voters in central florida will head to the polls for the florida primary. the latest poll shows democrat hillary clinton and republican donald trump are on top in florida. meanwhile florida u.s. senator marco rubio says he isn't going down without a fight. he's campaigning across the state ahead of tuesday's vote. yesterday former u.s. senator mel martinez sat down with eyewitness news anchor greg warmoth for "central florida spotlight." martinez says the primary could seal donald trump's bid for the republican nomination, ending an outcome he's not thrilled about. >> as a republican, i fear that a donald trump nominee would take us to a historic defeat, and i worry about that. >> political analysts say rubio likely will not play a part in trump's cabinet if he is elected because of comments he made on the campaign trail. >>> you can watch more of what mel martinez and our political analyst raying foglesong had to say on "central florida spotlight." they also talk about the so- called trump factor. that airs today

it recent poll shows you trail the most behind in central florida, how important is central florida to your campaign? >> it is not just to my campaign, it is every campaign. you hear this talked about all the time, the i-4 corridor. it is important whether you are running for governor, attorney general or president of the united states. meredith: here' s a look at the upcoming stops the candidates are making. senator marco rubio and donald trump are in florida tonight, cruz has plans in miami tomorrow, but no campaign stops are scheduled for kasich in florida. on the democrat side, bernie sanders is in miami tonight, and will be in kissimmee and tampa hillary clinton will be in tampa on thursday. today some states are making their voices heard in primaries and caucuses. hawaii holds its republican caucus, while idaho has its republican primary. and both michigan and mississippi are holding their primaries. we' ll have an update on the voting in the next half hour. a bill that would tighten restrictions on abortion is moving through the florida senate. it would lead abortion clinics to

out ahead of it, it is pushing the moist air right towards central florida. that will be what444444444444ses this more instability in our atmosphere. as we go through the afternoon hours. look at the green on the screen. north central and even south once we hit the evening hours, everything passes off-shore. that's good news. tomorrow afternoon, warm and dry and breezy. tuesday, election day, warm. wednesday warm, and then everything looks towards the next weekend for our next shot of rain. so today, the one day out of d -- when is the last time we had a good soaker. the morning you should be okay. overnight tonight lows in the 60s. tomorrow a 20% chance of an early morning shower. no storms tomorrow. high through the day 86 tomorrow. st. patrick's day. we got a dale jr. on the screen. 88 degrees for a high. thursday, friday, saturday. it is time for snap the sun. wow. aundrea. >> oh, my goodness gracious, look at that. >> that's spectacular. >> john. >> once again, you know what, i have a feeling, can we drop the caption just for a minute if we can. see if we

a very pleasant afternoon all across central florida. if your outdoor activities are more toward the agricultural side, have you ever been to the plant city strawberry festival? enjoy that. beach and boating forecast, not a lot of swell on the water. boaters, pretty quiet conditions seven day forecast, sunny, sunny, sunny, and warming up as week. cara: coming up now on 5:22. we are just one day out from game day. how orlando city is kicking it into high gear with a new season. before we had to break we wanted , to remind you about a kids' race taking place today. track shack smile one race takes off from orlando fashion square mall. kids ages five -- kids ages between five and eleven can s 15 bucks to regist t looking great and stepping out with confidence includes having beautiful feet. my newest beauty routine secret starts in the shower. discover the latest wet & dry. now get effortless hard skin removal on dry or wet skin. plus, it has 2 speeds and it's rechargeable. the easy way for touchably soft feet. suits me and my new shoes. ne

we put the results including the central florida races up for grabs on clickorlando.com. look for the special results 2016 coverage on the home page. >> check out the scene behind me, flames could be seen for miles as a fire destroyed an iconic mansion. the estate known as the pumpkin center is located on the water. it has been a landmark for decades. kirsten joins us live. any idea at this point what caused this? >> david, that's going to be the focus for the state fire marshal as he gets a good look at the property with the daylight hours. right now, crews are spraying water on the property. they are also checking for hot spots. we want to show you what they were dealing with last night. as you said, that video is impressive when this 10,000 just consumed in flames. this fiber was seen for miles away. the smoke was picked up on weather radar. the estate was once owned by usa owner al newheart who recently passed away. the pumpkin center sold as the most expensive home in brevard county and is now considered at least a $5 million loss. people were all gathered here on th

this happened on central florida parkway around 10:30 last night. we have calls in to the florida highway patrol for details on what happened. we'll bring you new developments on air and online at clickorlando.com. >> turning to volusia county is behind bars after police say he stole from a daytona beach beach bank over the weekend. he didn't get very far with that money. the 44-year-old was arrested yesterday, one day after police say he walked into a wells fargo bank and handed the teller a note demanding money and implying he had a gun. here's surveillance pictures taken during the robbery. police say he was given the money in a brown paper bag found outside by a custer kus customer who followed him. >> in brevard county, troopers are working to figure out what led to this bad crash in meritt island. the driver slammed into a light pole and parked car on courtney parkway and lucas road. one person was thrown from the car. their condition is not known. as you can see, the impact from over the road. >> council members will have an emergency meeting

saying after trying to rescue him. >>> right now on fox 35 news at 11:00. >> and tonight that central florida boy remains in the hospital. he is pulled from a canal near an orlando elementary school, but now we're hearing from one of his friend who rescued him. tiffany teasley is live at florida hospital. she's got more on how that boy's doing tonight. tiffany? >> reporter: well, the eight-year-old remains in critical condition here at florida hospital, and tonight we spoke with the brave, little boy who pulled him from the water before paramedics arrived. this eight-year-old plays basketball with his friends this putting his life on the line for his schoolmate. >> i took off my shirt, my shoes and my socks. i jumped in the water. by the time i got in the water he was under the water. >> reporter: investigators say his friend, eight-year-old shamore franklin, got through a fence and was walking over a pine when he fell into this canal yesterday evening. he knew he had to do something to help and ran to the rescue, pulling his friend from the water. >> i twisted him around, grabbed his hand an

it is rather wet, and it is central florida. radar -- gray day for central florida. you can see on first alert doppler radar, it looks to be a fairly active couple of hours right now in central florida. light rain, bringing in accumulations as much as 1/10 of an inch. once the shower activity pushes off the peninsula, we will see cooler conditions overnight. i will talk about that more when we returned with your seven-day forecast. jason: meet the press moderator chuck todd will join us live after this week break. he will talk about the stop trump movement, and white bernie plus, we will take a look at jason: donald trump beginning another week as the republican runner. that means growing calls from the establishment for things to be done. chuck todd is joining us live now from washington, d.c.. good morning, chuck. chuck: good morning. jason: the gop seems to be putting together this strategy to unify against all trump. can they do it? chuck: the question is how. i believe they plan to rally around ted cruz. the me put it another way, marco rubio was -- if marco rub

customizable sandwiches, other favorites. >>> we are staying on top of the latest developments a central florida decides who will be the next president. >> ahead of 4:00, white winning florida could change clinton's campaign for the rest of the race to the white house. >>> investigators at a man pistol whipped and kidnapped from a home in this neighborhood had to be rescued following a wild police chase. >> this is a new neighborhood so i'm shocked anything would happen. >> how the chase came to an end. >>> in addition to heat and fires, we have fog off the west coast which could move inland. updating more changes on the way. >>> double check your bags of your traveling through orlando international airport in the coming weeks. some people don't like to share their wifi, but at bright house networks, we do. login to one of our hotspots and get your code for free wifi at over 50,000 bright house wifi hotspots. polling location at the clermont city line -- center. folks wondering in. we told you about issues in orange county but so far it has been smooth sailing in lake center. we will keep an eye

it's contained now. central florida all week long. will we see any relief as we spring forward this weekend? >> lisa: meteorologist candace campos is in for tom tonight. some rain is on the way. >> it's been about two weeks since we've seen anything measurable with the rain. in brevard county we're dealing with the fire concerns. on the radar, there's nothing to talk about. we're still tracking the smoke plume from the fire that amanda is out there at along 95. the smoke plume is more noticeable about 2, 3:00 in the afternoon. again, not much in the way of rain. the heat is also not helping things out there. temperatures in the mid-80's. we topped off at 84 today in orlando. 79 in cape canaveral. 78 in cocoa beach. the humidity, we need high humidity to start helping with the fire. we're not seeing much and the dry air is in place because of a ridge of high pressure. another factor that's not helping, the wind speeds. you can see it moving in pretty breezy between 10 and 15 miles per hour. it's about 17 at new smyrna beach from the so

that's why we've warmed so much across central florida. right now, we're in the 70's in most spots. 74 in orlando. 72 in ocala. it's 70 at cocoa beach. yesterday this time, the 50's and 60's across central florida. heading out tonight, it will be fairly cool at times, but nothing like last night, cooling by 9:00 to 65 degrees with clear skies. with the clear skies and calm winds, things are looking good for launch. coming up, we'll talk more about as tomorrow. we'll let you know about rain chances that increase in time for the weekend, which does mean easter. back to you for now. >> julie: thank you, troy. we'll see you in a few minutes. the 408 is open after it was shut down for ours at i-4 eastbound. a semi truck overturned causing back-ups there. you can see a tow truck working to get the semi off the busy roads. still no word on what caused the semi to overturn but fire officials say they were working to plug a fuel tank leak. there are no reports of injuries. >> ginger: right now, crews are keeping an eye out for any hot spots or flar

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here's what's happening in central florida. an overnight lane of rain has moved on. now we're in for a beautiful weekend. amy has your first alert forecast in a couple minutes. michelle: republican candidates focus on florida this weekend after a heated debate last night. donald trump is at u.c.f. tomorrow. marco rubio is in jacksonville this morning. >> we expect to learn more this morning about a late night homicide in orlando. a 22-year-old man was found dead at the cypress point apartment last night. the victim has not been identified and no suspect has been named. michelle: that is the sound of bike week riding into daytona beach this the leather clad cloud revving up for the big annual event. jazmin: when we say hundreds of thousands, we really mean it. last year half a million motorcycle enthusiasts were in town for bike week. several local counties are hosting event, main street daytona beach is the heart of the event. if you're heading out to daytona you can expect to see more women holding on to the handle bars. women are the highest market. law enforcement

once again, another hot day in central florida. we see the showers across the northern part of the peninsula. it is really beautiful out-of-doors in central florida, we' ve a lot of sunshine in just a few clouds. as work into the afternoon hours, we heat things up. 78 in orlando. same thing in daytona beach, 78 feeling like it is 81 degrees. the heat and the humidity and all bubbles up in the afternoon showers. again, city by city, to the north, daytona beach has a much cities. jason: thank you. the detectives in cocoa are to find a robbery suspect. take a look, he was caught on camera breaking into a viennese cafe on cocoa boulevard. he' s caught in this surveillance footage. he stole cash from the register and a pair of shoes according to investigators. if you have information, call crime line. some new details this noon, we learned a suspected carjacker is still in the hospital today after a wild scene volusia county. >> i pull the dashboard often he was laying right there in the back behind the seats. so i reached down and grab

most of central florida, starting off very comfortably in the 60s warming up into the 80s. looking back to the west, major storm system, not a lot of severe weather but a lot of rainfall. some folks have seen 15 to 20 i inches of rain since this event began. the good news for us, that system should mostly head north of us. that's good news. seeing improving visibilities this morning, that's good news. won't see much more fog. here's your forecast, a delightful day, if you like the warm conditions, who doesn't. 87 degrees the afternoon high, breezes little bit less than recent days. let's check on your morning drive. hey kirstin >> good morning. they're flying over the area where we saw the bad crash this morning. it blocked all eastbound lane right here at fairbanks. they're all open. this is new development, all lanes are back open. we did have all lanes blocked about an hour ago. i do want to take you to earlier video of the crash. we do know that two vehicles were involved. again, it was a fatal crash just after 1:00 this morning and all lanes were blocked on i-4. now ev

unless the polls in some precincts get extended by an hour here in central florida, you can expect the polls to close at 7:00 tonight in the florida panhandle and the other states that are voting right now, will all be closed by 8:00. shortly after that, we'll be getting the results pouring into the news 6 newsroom and we'll be standing by waiting for them. >> lisa: mike deforest, thank you. and now to the democratic frontrunner hillary clinton hoping to win big in the sunshine state. the vermont senator bernie sanders is making a run for missouri, ohio and illinois where he gave a lot of attention to chicago but still trailing behind in the delegate count louis bolden is joining us now with more. >> reporter: here at the palm beach county convention center, the set-up has already begun for hillary clinton. doors open to the public for members of the media are set up well in advance. you can see the podium in place. the democratic frontrunner was in north carolina earlier today, greeting voters and talking about her economic plan. most polls show her with a substantial lead over bernie

north, across central florida, pretty cool. most of us are in the mid-50' s. >> coming up on 5:12, a frightening experience underwater results in a lawsuit. the scuba diver that was you can save over 500 bucks when you switch to progressive. that's a fact. but this whole "blondes have more fun" thing... >> in 24 hours we could find out the fate of the aaron andrews legal battle. the jury will begin deliberating tomorrow and andriese claims she was illegally recorded naked in all to determine if the hotel should pay for andrews' s emotional distress. the attorney for 12 -- former wants to meet with donald trump. s comments fair trial. trump has repeatedly called bergdahl a traitor. he is facing desertion charges. a man who fell off a royal caribbean clues -- crews. -- cruise. he fell 100 feet to the water below. the coast guard is searching nearly 1000 square miles. and unbelievable story. power company after he nearly died from being sucked into their intake tight -- pipe. the pipe eventually spit him out plant. to make it. >>

julie: a new report shows the 50 safest cities in florida. >> winter springs, the safest city in central florida. coming in at no. 13. followed by cape coral and maitland. no. 1 in florida goes to key biscayne. melbourne. to look at the full list, go to background checks.org. interesting. >> julie: forget the honeymoon. this man's getaway involves police. dash-cam video in tennessee shows officers trying to pull over the driver in a vehicle with "just married" written all police say the 27-year-old michael smith was driving recklessly. they caught up with him and booked him into jail. no word on whether his wife was with him or where she was at the time of the arrest? >> matt: can you spell annulment? >> julie: i don't know what to think about that. >> matt: that's a rough wedding night. >> what's coming up on the news 6 at 5:00? >> matt: we have a lot coming up. several developing stories right now, including a substitute teacher accused of being drunk on the job. we were there as she walked out of jail. new at 5:00, what we've uncovered about this woman's past. and breaking right now, a brushf

parts of central florida saw 2 inches of rain. george, you are still tracking a few isolated showers. >> yes, after a very wet afternoon, this large shield of rain hit just about everybody in central florida. now the showers county. very light. and this is the vicinity where we had the most rain today. we are still tracking a front. everything will pass between now and tomorrow, which means i'm gonna time out a few more showers for your sunday, just ahead. >>> a developing story in apopka where investigators got calls that somebody was shot. mike manzoni is live outside that house where it all happened. and investigators have escorted several people out of this house in the past couple of hours. >> reporter: right. and investigators came out here just before 1:00 this afternoon. right now, all they'll say is that the joint homicide investigations unit is working this case. if anyone is in fact dead. we were there when they brought out several adults and children around 4:00. some were wearing pajamas, but police didn't have they o

the low 40' s to mid-50' s now across central florida. the temperature will climb with eventually hitting the mid-70' s. that is along the i-4 corridor. because of cloud cover on the coast, you probably maxed out in the low 70' s. i enhance the satellite imagery, show it shows up with high clouds coming off the gulf of mexico. there you have your hour-by-hour. i will be back with your seven-day forecast in a couple of minutes. cara: thanks. next, orlando city getting in its last few practices before tomorrow' s season opener. should-win game slip away. >> the lowly phoenix suns visiting the amway center friday, bringing with them the third worst record in the nba. so the magic should have been well on their way to a second straight win, right? suns lost 9 of their last 10, just 15 wins on the season. let' suns' tyson chandler beats the defense and scores two points in close. magic looking to get something orlando' s elfrid payton out of the left corner for a 3-pointer. orlando pulls within one. payton had a solid half, dropping-in 13 befo

to record levels across parts of central florida earlier today, i'm updating tomorrow's run towards 90 degrees, how close we'll get to that and more on the next chance for rain and (donkey sound) (elephant sound) there's a big difference between making noise, (tapping sound) and making sense. when it comes to we need more than our next president needs a real plan to keep social security strong. (elephant noise) hey candidates. enough talk. >>> a kissimmee woman fell victim to a $14,000 sweepstakes scam. >> instead of winning 2.5 million dollars, she spent thousands in fees to collect a jackpot that just didn't exist. action 9 tracked down the bad guys and shows us how they target their victims. >>reporter: the call came after kathleen tiffany entered a mail sweepstakes. kathleen heard she won 2.5 i thought, oh, answer to my prayers. >>reporter: first, she had to pay insurance fees. kathleen wired $1,000 to the kost to ta rica headquarters, she -- costa rica headquarters. the money was on its way. >> this is richard -- calling to schedule our delivery. >>reporter: she was told that t

brett: despite that confidence, polls have donald trump as the favorite in central florida right now. he held an event at ucf, where thousands packed into the arena. on the democratic side, hillary clinton has the lead over bernie sanders. she is favored in the polls run michigan. florida voters will head to the on march 18 -- 15th. have complete coverage from marco rubio' s rally tonight on wesh 2 news. plus, the latest poll results on air and inside our wesh 2 mobile app. michelle: this morning, a portion of i-4 will be closed down in garland. alex villarreal is live. alex, what can drivers expect today? alex: if you take a look behind me right now, you can see the road closure sign. there are some barriers and cones out here. that is shown you that garland avenue is closed, north of colonial drive. from colonial to mark street. it is going to be like this for over a year. it is all part of the i-4 ultimate project. f-do that includes the construction of a new entrance ramp. your d tour recommendations are either orange avenue or magnolia avenue. hundreds of informational mailers we

temperatures near 70 through most of central florida. the warmth will linger all the way through the work and school week. next weekend looks unsettled, saturday and sunday. it could be that the chilly air is not done yet. we might get down a little cool as we head through the next 10 days. and beautiful scene in the tourist district. temperature-wise, getting you out the door, other than that the light showers, i think it'll be an a-ok spectacular day. it was will be warm. near 70. and then ending up in the 80s. plains, no cold air on the doorstep. we continue the run of warmer than normal air. you can see a lot of dry air moving in. once the showers end, expect a couple more days of very warm, and very sunny air. the winds coming in at 5 to 15 miles per hour. and maybe a little bit more than that in some spots. mostly clear. mild breezes and lows are pleasant. and highs in the mid-to-upper 80s all the way through the work and school week. election day tomorrow looks good. st. patrick's day on thursday looks good. next weekend, increasi

that is in volusia county and in central florida. you can see that it is calm out here now, no sign that there was a large-scale wildfire yesterday, but the smell of burned brush is strong. that' s after yesterday' s wildfire, which tore through up to 10 acres here in the oak hill area. heavy smoke could be seen rising from the burning brush. and look at those bright orange flames. the fire spread dangerously close to some structures here off highlander road. it was moving fast, even jumping a canal. fortunately, crews were able to stop the blaze before it could reach the buildings. so none were damaged, and no one was hurt. but it' s still not clear what started the fire. a forestry crew was planning to watch for flare ups. today' s moderate risk is a level two out of five, where one is low risk and five being extreme danger. and that extends into marion, brevard counties. so we will be watching this thread for you today. if we see anything dangerous crop up, we will bring you the information here on air and on our website. jason: t

want to see some video from i was out and about in central florida. these are the fourth graders at international community school, and they have been studying about weather. i was invited to talk to them about tornadoes and hurricanes and a big hello to all of my very special friends at international community school. we also talked about warm temperatures too and what causes them, and that is what is going on here in central florida over the we'll be in the middle 80's through early next week, even though we have rain on the way, even though we have a cold front that is is not going to cool us down at all. we're going to keep these temperatures well above we had a lot of high clouds screaming in all morning. this looks really thick and gray, but the actual thing going on is that a lot of these clouds are very thin, so the sun is still breaking through here and we're waking up to a little bit of hazy sunshine. 63 in ocala, 61 in sanford. cloud cover is keeping temperatures a little warmer. 64 in daytona beach and 71 right now in melbourne. winds comi

him. >> he' he' ll get things done. >> donald trump is awesome and country. >> reporter: and central florida wasn' t the only stop in the sunshine state for trump. last night he spoke to a crowd at his golf course in west palm beach after a weekend in florida. trump' s campaign now heads to north carolina. meanwhile trump' s republican rival florida senator marco rubio brought his campaign to the sunshine state and jacksonville. >> we have to win but it' s not just about winning. first we can' t win if we don' t run as a conservative party that embraces the principles of conservative. i said this at cpac. conservatism is not an attitude. conservatism is not how loud can you be, how many bad words you be. >> justin: rubio must win florida if he has any chance to be the gop nominee. florida. rubio plans to make two more tampa and one on sanford on monday night. and ahead this week another sunshine hopeful making the rounds. hillary clinton will be in miami ahead of the debate on & then thursday campaigning in tampa. don' t forget for the latest breakdowns election 2016 coverage continues onlin

we'd like to see what you're seeing in central florida. radar is as dry as it can be right now in central florida. the radar in the nation's interior, storming from houston to dallas, all kind of pushed to the east of dallas. here's tyler, texas, on over to shreveport, texarkana getting walloped right now. all kinds of big problems. tornado watches are going on. severe thunderstorm warnings are going on right now. from springfield to kansas city, it's still storming there and all that is surging from the southwest and up to the north and barely marching east. it's slowly making its way to the east. eventually we'll get a cold front in here and storminess eventually. right now, things are pretty good. daytime highs so far, we touched 79. the next couple of hours. leesburg, 79. ocala, 79. 77 did it today in daytona beach. brevard county, 75 from the cape to 76 in cocoa beach. right now, in daytona beach is standing by with a reading of 74 degrees. 79 from leesburg to ocala to gainesville. still 77 in orlando and 75 in melbourne. i want you t

let's take a look at central florida. because while donald trump did very good statewide, he did particularly good here in florida in. brevard county, he had 46% of the vote. in lake county, touch screen is a little glitched there. marion county, he had about 54% of the votes. a very strong, a little bit less in orange and seminal county. doing very well, not just in the state of florida, but very strong in central florida. >>> so it's best for some of the most conservative counties too. if you want results, you can check out clickorlando.com, it'll have all the latest for you there. our election head quarters are up and running and a complete wrap up on the morning news starting bright and early at 5:00 a.m. >> right now to breaking news in fire fight. this shows you just how big it is. the owned by the founder of florida today and usa today. it's in cocoa beach. sashell saunders is live tonight. was anyone hurt in this? >> reporter: you know what, they think that home was vacant. it's under renovations. so so far they th

there are two stores in central florida closing. just today, we learned the stores in altamonte springs and the company announced on wednesday it was filing bankruptcy, citing it was more than $1 billion in debt. there are 12 other stores across florida that are also closing. the rest of the stores could be sold to other retailers. >> ginger: well, all eyes are on the cape at this hour. >> lisa: yes. spacex is trying again to launch in just minutes from now. >> julie: tonight at 7:00, we hope to bring you an update on the successful launch. we may even learn if spacex successfully landed on a barge for the first time. and speaking of space -- >> i think the only big surprise was how long a year is. it seems like i'd lived there forever. >> julie: year in space astronaut scott kelly reveals how he kept sane aboard the space station for nearly a year and the side effects of his body that he wasn't expecting. >>> plus they're a brother and sister accused of stealing hundreds of dollars from girl scouts. a chance to get out of jail, at

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l- -- central florida. we got 2 things going on we got a pretty impressive line across the gulf of mexico so there's plenty of moisture to work with and lots of moisture and lightning out there as well. we think this will not be severe weather there's certainly some stronger storms we haven't seen severe weather yet with this system in florida so we're hoping we won't get that today. we had sunshine already and that actually helps trigger the ripe for stronger storms so we'll keep an eye throughout the day and we'll let you know and again, another system is moving over central florida tomorrow and that keeps the rain chances at about 60%. so here's our towercam over at visit orlando. we've got again some overcast skies there as well. we're going to continue to see those clouds develop and i don't think the sunshine once it's the rest of the day. the winds are out of the southwest and that's what we'll through today. so here eye other storm system cold front actually moves through the forecast tomorrow. this

it's going to wash out across central florida. friday, saturday, sunday it will serve as the focus mechanism for rain. here we go. accuweather seven-day forecast. 81 degrees on wednesday. as we go through thursday, friday, saturday, sunday high upper 80s. but right now solid chance of rain friday, saturday, and sunday. not a washout. just quite unsettled. let's get a check on the morning drive. hey, kristin. >> reporter: hello, good morning. we are taking you out right now to i-4 eastbound, right at 1792. cars are not moving. this has been going on for quite a while. i'll step out of the way so you can see here. it appears a crash on the other side of the trees is blocking that exit ramp to get on to 1792. again this is i-4 eastbound and some troubles there. we do have an alternate route for you. we'll get to that in just a second. so taking a look here, if i were you, i would take i-4 eastbound to state road 46 as an alternate. again to avoid that backup there on 1792. taking you down to kissimmee. still seeing some major delays

we are still seeing some dust across central florida. -- gusts across central florida. it will be a partly cloudy day, throughout the day today. us some onshore flow. it is bringing more moisture in. as we look ahead to tonight, the more moisture -- the increased moisture means have your readings. we will be watching a few clouds working away on in tonight. it is a mainly clear sky. that is the way we will stay past sunset. here are our daytime highs. 10 or 15 mile per hour winds. that will feel very comfortable. 77 degrees in ocala. 78 in orlando. 78 at daytona beach. a beautiful, beautiful day for us. at dinnertime, it will be partly , to mainly clear skies overhead. 62 degrees by 11:00 tonight. we will follow a bit more from there. notice, no more 40' s in marion county. 55 degrees in sanford. 57 in titusville. that is right about where we should be, for this time of year. your bike week forecast, could you ask for anything better? we will be a bit warmer tomorrow. we will get even warmer on wednesday. for bikers, the only concern will come on saturday, when we fall.

those passengers did not even find out about the bombings until they landed in central florida. it had to be shocking for them. >> reporter: yeah, it was. they didn't have wi-fi on board. it wasn't until they landed here in sanford and started turning on the phones and got messages and phone calls from loved ones when think found out about the attacks. they're saying they're thankful they landed here safely and are reunited with their family. lisa jackson didn't know if her son was on the plane from brussels airport until he texted her hours after the attacks. >> he told me when he got here, they just landed. there was a bombing at the airport and that they had just missed it by eight minutes. >> reporter: eight minutes from terror. the plane was one of the last to leave just before the bombs went off. >> even if it was an hour, it's still too close to know that somebody you love is that close to such a devastating situation. >> reporter: 279 passengers and crew were on board. people on the plane, saying they didn't know about the bombings until they landed at orlando/sanford in

jason: an alarming new case of the zika virus in central florida. michelle: what is different concerns.co jason: a look at the big stories we' re working on. a georgia mother is locked up this morning in marion county after triggering in amber alert. three of her children were found safe in ocala. another toddler was found dead in her home in georgia. michelle: extra police will be at one volusia county schools this morning. a nine-year-old said a man tried to lure him into a home on wednesday morning near atwater elementary. no one has been arrested in the case. jason: fresh off last night' s debate, bernie sanders heads to our area. he is rallying into semi at 3:00. hillary clinton is in tampa. marco rubio and ted cruz have upcoming campaign stops in our area over the next few days. the state health officials have sexually-transmitted' s bread of the zika virus in florida. michelle: jazmin walker is joining us with what you need to know to protect yourself. jazmin: this one is close to home in polk county. local doctor say they' re getting a lot o