gainsvill dropped to 32. in orlando, holding at 46, which is so much better than 32 in gainsvill. but really, we're ahead of the game from where we were last night. remember how cold it was. we're night colder than we were last night. 13 colder in gainsvill valley. and even along the beach. 10 colder, seven in new smyrna. it's colder already than it's been in this season at this hour. satellite radar. through. all the cloud cover and moisture scoured away and pushed down today. so we had the blue sky. but if you were with us earlier tonight, i explained it, the second night after the cold front goes through, when really get the core of cold air. the core of cold air rolls in. as it does, we turn the entire region blue. but we all get really cold. tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m., there's not any real cloud cover it's another one of those really pretty suns. a bright blue ski because they're so dry. by wednesday, we start to warm back up to get some more humidity in here. lows tonight, 35 in the land. 38 in new smyrna beach. and 30 in el veto. and titusville 40. here is tomorrow. >>>

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and starting to drop in gainsvill as well. eventually more dense fog developing by sunrise in the morning. i'll be back and pinpoint the arrival of the cold front and the rain. we'll talk about the fog for tomorrow morning. and a few hours, it's going to be stormy. i'll show you in moments. >> thank you. tonight we are waiting to hear how a belusha krount toddler is doing after it was bitten by a dog. it happened today on commerce avenue. the 19 month old was air lifted to arnold palmer hospital with a bite wound to the head. florida boy, the mom of lonzi barten took the stand. her boyfriend, just days before his trial set to begin. scott takes us inside the courtroom. >> reporter: she talks about most, is drugs. in fact, it took quite a while to get the slang down they lose for drugs. everything from loud meaning marijuana. n for morphine. and dubs $20 worth of cocaine. and more. >> during that time were you aware of the defendant still continuing to be what you refer ed to as the source of narcotics. >>yes. >> and can you te

windy it's one of the biggest cities just to the northeast of gainsville. there's that light flurry activity. it tried to drag down towards palm coast. one reason we're getting any of this is because this storm system continues to bomb, i mean it's going to be a huge maker up the east coast. as we talked about, more than a foot of snow already in dc. we get the very cold winds behind it and this is what it will feel like outside 30s and the lower 40s. if you're headed to the monster truck jam at the citrus bowl bundle up. it's going to be cold. temperatures will feel like the 30s to 40s. for today these are arbitrary numbers and by that i mean these are kind of snapshot this leads to the biggest widespread freeze that anywhere along north and west of i-4 could hit the freezing mark. this is going to be a hard freeze because the miles per hour. freezing weather for flagler, marion, volusia and lake counties. portions of seminole, orange and osceola could get down to freezing for a brief time, especially up in the apopka area where i have 32. even the downtow

temperatures are on the way down, 56 down in gainsvill. and 62 in orlando but we are chilly. i'll be right back to pinpoint the overnight lows. how much heat we don't get tomorrow and what your weekend looks like from here. >>> tom, thanks. now to a controversy surrounding disney's animal kingdom. the family visiting the park says a snake fell out of the tree and bit a little boy. now they've hired one of central florida's high profile attorneys to get involved here's shaun chaiyabhat. >> reporter: not only is this family planning to sue because of that snakebite, the family also claims their grandmother died as a result of the or deal. >>> beyond the well manicured danger one alabama family they said ruined their trip and led to their grandmother's death. his client plans to sue after their experience in the park of 2014. a large snake escaped and entered an area reserved from the general public. the snake fell onto a tree and onto biting a an eight-year-old boy. his grandmother saw what happened went into cardiac arrest and died. in an e-mail. the grandmother began having s

someone from gainsville called in to report a group of kids playing basketball. the officer approached the kids - told them about the complaint - then said he has no problem with them. then the officer joined in on the game. the video ends with the gainsville about kids being kids, this is how we are going to handle it." that )ll do it for newschannel three at 11 -- but hold on, this weekend determines who )s going to the superbowl, seen right here on newschannel 3. the locker room hello and welcome to the locker room sponsored by your hampton roads chevy dealers, i )m kurt williams--- and i m beverly kidd -- we have made it to championship weekend in the n-f-l. in the n- f-c we )ve got two teams having great seasons. in the a-f-c- it )s two legendary quarterbacks peyton manning and tom brady -- going at it - for possibly the final time. brady and the pats made it to the a-f-c championship for the 10th time in the last 15 seasons. by beating the the kansas city chiefs. brady -- will have his best weapons--- julian edleman is heathly -- and rob gronkowski is heale

other temperatures, 40 already in gainsvill. so in the last county, if your kids are up there in school, they're going into the 30s. i don't think they're going to freeze up. 48 in leesburg. check out the cape. nice and toesty to 55. last 24 hours, look at that. we're exactly where we were 24 hours ago. no difference. 2 warmer in the villages. starting to see the rain show up on radar. right between tampa and jacksonville. what does ma mean for us? big changes going into the weekend. cold front comes through, we get storming on friday. once the thunderstorms clear out, we'll be warm enough on saturday, but by sunday, that next slap of cold air really chills us out. it will actually end up being colder by the end of the weekend than we've been anytime in the forecast this season. >>> tiernths clouds, hang on strong, which helps us hold onto but here we are with the rain. by midnight tomorrow night, there comes the rain from the south ment by friday morning . by friday morning at 8:00 a.m. midday here comes the front. some of the

they have stopped right now at 41 in gainsvill to ocala. within the next hour, these guys we at 50 to orlando. and 55 in cocoa beach. before it's over, 33 in the low in ocala. the villages at 34 and 40 will do it in orlando. and as erin just said, this is not the coldest night. tomorrow looks to be every one colder. i'll be back to pinpoint what little warm up we get tomorrow and how cold things will be for your tuesday night as well. >>> tom, thank you, now, to a deadly mystery on earth in a small lake county town a. body buried outside a home. >> and at this hour, deputies want to know two things. is it a missing man, and what happened? the body found earlier today at a home on pennsylvania street in paysly, just to the west of lake katherine. shaun chaiyabhat is there tonight, what is the latest. >> reporter: you can see the deputies are still here guarding this crime scene throughout the night. although, they have not released any new information tonight. neighbors have their own ideas >> what happened beyond the yellow tape at this hom

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[laughter] >>> a gainsville police officer is getting a lot of praise this morning after he turned a bad situation into a great moment. a neighbor complained about kids playing too loudly in the streets. >> instead the officer jumped in for a game of b ball. are you guys ready? >> officer bobby wright nba all-star is a we'll shaquel o neil. >>> coming up on denver seven the search is on for a robbery suspect who is accused of tying the owner up. how you can help catch him. >>> made with real egg whites, lean cut meats, and whole grains. an excellent source of protein, it fuels her up with energy to help power through her morning. with jimmy dean delights, good

white of the gainsville police department hotels -- rolls up on a loud gym of basketball. >> i don't have anynyroblem witness ix after questioning the two people he finds at the scene officer white does something unusual. he begins to play basketball with them. >> i ain't real good. >>reporter: and as what always happens when some one is shooting hoops, others soon join in. soon the shoot around turns in a dunking cononst. before long enough kids turned out for a full court game but by then it was time for officer white to go. >> all right guys i'm going to go. do me a favor obviously i have no problem playing basketball in the street but if you can try try not to be too loud. >>reporter: well before he left the officer asked the kid if ty played there every day. he said would he come back with some of his friends to play a pick up game. >>> rainy day here across south florida. especially in fort lauderdale. setting a record there over two inches of rain the previous record for this date was over an inch, miami just under an inch of rain bent 3 quarters of an inch in key west. right

no big cold fronts expected for in owe call and gainsville -- ocala and gainsville and 70% chance for rain, temperatures, 53 -- yikes, how high the temperature will be on saturday and 58 on sunday. and, then, warming again as we get into monday and tuesday of next week. so, here's the computer model. indicating the arrival of that next cold front and the big question is will it be a bad front? like we had last week, friday? and also on sunday morning? with a line of nasty storms and winds and tornadoes? no. that is the answer. here comes the front and there is the friday early afternoon, about 1:00 to 1:30, scattered showers and a thunderstorm, sitting offshore of naples, and also off of sarasota and when the front gets here, late afternoon on friday the showers will really start to thin out and break up. so that front will not have nearly as -- not have as nearly as much energy as the other two fronts and the baby ck end, clouds and the chilly air will move in during the day on saturday. tonight, we'll call it down to about 35 to 38, at least in the temperature for tomorrow, and a mu

. >>> former miami heat star shaq went out of his way to shoot hoops with kids in gainsville. tonight's gesture came after shaq heard about a police officer who played basketball with kids instead of reprimanding to them. he decided to end up playing with the kids. the video made the rounds on social media. it has million times on facebook alone. >>> cool story and cool % weather. >> very cool weather, especially for our standards. we've been waiting for this big cooldown. this is not going to last. another day or so. here's a live look across the magic city. boy, it is cool. we are at 511 degrees in miami. most locations have already fallen in to the 40s around town. part of theeason is we have relatively clear skies. a few clouds in the bahamas. they're faint. they are out there. that means miami-dade and broward are clear. so are most of the florida keys. lows this morning, we woke up to4 in ft. lauderdale. 46 in miami. 46 homestead. in the 50s down in the florida keys. tonight the difference will be the winds are lighter. they're less than ten miles an hour. seven in key w

you can see snow flakes falling just north of gainsville. there was a chance of snow flurries in jacksonville this morning. so, that is florida. we normally don't see the little white flakes falling from the sky. and kind of a cool sight. but yeah. snow is not in the forecast for us. we are looking at a clear and cold night though. right now, you can see the clouds, whatever is left of them are moving out. 51 degrees the current temperature in south tampa. adding through the evening if doing anything, you definitely want to dress with plenty of layers or dress warm. we have temperature ins the 40s and winds still blowing throughout the evening. as we head through the overnight hours, temperatures will remain around 39 or 40. tomorrow morning, 37 at 7:00 a.m. that is where we bottom off in tampa. areas north will be a little bit cooler. possibly in the upper 20s and temperatures sliding throughout the day with a whole lot of sunshine. it is 50 in tampa. clear water, we collect four, that makes sense to anyone born around the time i was or soo

. >>> former miami heat star shaq went out of his way to shoot hoops with kids in gainsville. tonight's gestsre came after shaq heard about a police officer who played basketball with kids instead of reprimanding to them. he decided to end up playing with the kids. the video made the rounds on social media. it has been watched more than 13 million times on facebook alone. weather. >> very cool weather, especially for our standards. we've been waiting for this big cooldown. this is not going to last. another day or so. here's a live look across the magic city. boy, it is cool. we are at 51 degrees in miami. st locations have already fafaen in to the 40s around town. part of the reason is we few clouds in the bahamas. they're faint. they are out there. that means miami-dade and broward are clear. so are most of the florida keys. lows this morning, we woke up to 44 in ft. lauderdale. 46 in miami. 46 homestead. in the 50s down in the florida keys. tonight theifference will be the winds are lighter. they're less than ten miles an hour seven in key west. seven in rathon. three miles

gainsville police are still look looking into the death of 20-year-old chance. he fe six stories from an apartment cplex. police tried to save him but he passed away at the hospital. cops catch sueillance video. he walked out of sixth floor elevator down the hallway and no foul play is suspected. two virginia tech college students out of class and in il in connection to the death of a 14-year-old girl. cops found her body yesterday. the discovery devastating the family. friends and family mourn the death of her at a vigil. crews were searching for the teen since the middle of last week. police charged an 18-year-old freshman athlete with her murder and abductio they also arrested a 19-year-old sophomore for improper disposal of a body. the community is responding to the news with prayer and reflection. >> this investigation is far from over. >> police confirm the teen and the man suspected did know each other before his disappearance. the medicaca examiner will determine how she died. cancelled by ordede of denver officials. this after violence erupted yesterday

coach mike white is the new guy looking more like the right guy after a big win in gainsville. motivation, the two teams had to be separated, coming out on fire. smith, drives strong, 2 of his 24. up double digits in the first. wide open three. the gators put on the finishing touch, 88-71. that will look very good on the tournament resume. >> congratulations, you guys were incredible. but in the sense, you exposed yourself, that's what you are >> johnny mans el's resume took another hit, police called to investigate a possible saul. he hasn't been arrested. a police investigation is ongoing. the nfl says it is looking into the incident. in october, he was questioned by police about a domestic incident with his girlfriend at the time. they were seen arguing in a vehicle. he was not charged with anything then either. one week from tomorrow, you will be watching super bowl 50. panthers versus broncos, kickoff 6:30 on cbs. manning has rarely been the underdog through his long career. he will be in the super bowl. panthers, 6 point favorite after dominatinging regular season and pla

the temperatures in gainsville low enough this morning for tiny snow flurries to fall here. >> florida and it is snowing! >>> i posted it on facebook this morning and no one believed me. >> i was on the boardwalk and it is -- there is sand that high, you know, and then i look at my sweatshirt. oh, no. it is snow. >> snow flurries can form when there is a mix of cold weather and sprinkles. while they are not that uncommon in other states, they are a very rare sight here in florida. >>> a travel alert now. stranded travelers still stuck in places because of the massive snow storm along the east coast. it is impacting many of the flights here in the bay area. the airlines flights that have been delayed or canceled. there are at least 99 cancellations today at tampa international airport. that is according to airport officials. the storm impacted massachusetts and one traveler heading to new york had three staying at the airport marriott. >> and i'm trying to keep myself from pulling my hair out. i just want to grab a couple of drinks, shut it down. >> it is frustrating. air and road trave

tied. 2 warmer in ocala. 9 warmer in gainsvill. i want to address alex, just one more time. it's gone post tropical. you see the way it's cranked up yesterday. near the last 24 hours, and now a big old open winter type storm in the north atlantic. so bye-bye it's weird. when we start the hurricane season in june, we'll be -- patchy fog is pity anded. the clouds give way to sunshine on and off. i think this is thin cloud cover. we have a good day coming for saturday. the high tomorrow is 77. it's what starts to happen tomorrow night into sunday morning that's not so good. so if you have something to do sunday. let me show you why. here's the overnight. look at that rain. widening out and spreading out by 4:00 a.m., heavy stuff starting to show up on the western side of the viewing area by five. it races through dount orlando and about 6 o'clock sunday morning. and then by 7:30-8:00 it's pushed to melbourne. that means this is a very fast moving fall line just like the one we had today. variables like the rebounding atmosphere, a jet stream and all of a sudden, we have the ing

her body still in a lab in gainsvill waiting to be identified. she's never received a proper burial. her family and friends wherever they are, they have no closure. >> reporter: investigators say all it takes is one person to recognize who that sketch is to closure in the case. in the meantime, they have sent out new evidence to labs for further dna testing. >>> all right, shaun chaiyabhat. reporting live. thank you. >>> two big development tis in election 2016. the first is in florida. voters will get another shot to decide whether medical marijuana should be legalized. they tell news 6, it has collected enough signatures to put that issue back on the november ballot. the measure known as amendment two is 60% approval. it fell short in 2014 with 58% of the vote. >>> meantime, donald trump is sticking to his word tonight. he says he is out of tomorrow night's debate. in fact he says he's made other plans in iowa. has the latest. >> to host a benefit for veterans across time. >> reporter: trump earlier demanded fox replace megan kelly who he claim

i also heard gainsville saw snow flurries as well. rumors swirling over the weekend about who saw snowflakes. it's exciting. >> yeah, right? >> people in the north east are just laughing at us. >> i know. >> that's okay. we'll take it and we have a frosty start, our version of snow. i don't know. cocoa beach beautiful look at the sun as it is coming up we'll see a lot of it and today we'll start to warm up some, 48 degrees now though in cocoa beach, sunrise 7:13 sunset at 5:57 and with that freeze going on, marion sumter counties been watching over toward lake pan wildwood, right up through ocala, anthony rainbow springs, lots of 20s around not quite a freeze we'll watch out for that 32 at the freezing point in the villages and fruitland park and 39 in orlando, so again, that chill with us seminole, volusia counties in the 30s, mid 30s in flagler county and again 30s and 40s osceola and brevard. now the winds are calm so the cold temps, clear skies, calm conditions, a good recipe for all that frost to form and we've been seeing it for

temperature readings right now, 50s and 60s everywhere. 61 in orlando. 57 in the villages and 49 in gainsvill. winds from the east about seven miles per hour in orlando. the winds will pick up the tempo during the day tomorrow too. real quick, here's hurricane alex. been a hurricane now for more than 24 hours. it's crazy. got a hurricane here in january. how's it doing tonight? well check this out. these wind speeds are still 80 miles per hour. it's over 68 watter and still super duper strong. pushing to the north at 22 miles per hour. that fast of a rate will take it all the way up north. but the faster it moves like that, it stays compact and maintains what we call angular momentum. it tightens up and speeds right along. by saturday, it should be right up here. all the way up towards green land. with wind speeds at 70 miles per hour. water mass, good thing it's nowhere near us. storms on the way though. our cloud shield is indicative of what's going on. the warm air down here, lofting our way. this big pocket of lp. this thing is going to truck this way and come in here on top of us. it wou

right now, we're 51 in gainsvill. and 56 in leesburg. we tumble from a daytime high of 70 down to 56. how much cooler? 3 colder than ocala. 7 colder already. and the blue stuff is on the way. cold air is moving in. wind speed is ten miles per hour in orlando. 14 in cocoa beach. they're only going to get stronger from there. the overnight lows tonight are in the 40s. coming up, i'll be right back. i'll pinpoint the break out for tomorrow. we're not warming up much. and then we'll talk about how told we get tomorrow night. that's when you're really going to feel it. >> our weather is nothing compared to this. washington, d. c. is the bull's eye of the blizzard of 2016, which is paralyzing lives of 10s of millions of americans. we'll have the latest on the trouble it is causing in and about five minutes. inmate on the run for about nine hours now. he did not return to his work release center. he was staying at the to moe co release center just west of i 95. sahh shell sawners is live in the shores where he was last scene. sahh shell, how di

right now we're 52 for ocala. 46 in gainsvill. still 50 nix in orlando. i've got us going down to the low in orlando. it's 60 right now in pensacola. and 45 right there at atlanta. jacksonville at 46 . wind speed tonight is when we see a bunch of calm out there. three miles per hour wind right that's vs. what we went through this weekend. making all the difference in the world. satellite and radar together. we have a little bit of thing clouds showing up. but the big story across the nation's criteria is the low here and the frontal boundary there. tomorrow's beautiful. but wednesday, the cold front shows up. there'll be cooler air on the backside of it. yes it's a cold front with the rain showers coming through but only cool this time. no more that act -- arctic cold. tuesday night into wednesday, the system has sped up a bit based on what we're seeing on the latest model run. showers early, wednesday 7:00 a.m., washing away southern brevard county. and there goes our frontal boundary. land across the area weapons, and lingering into thursday as well. ov

speaking of hoops, neighbors in gainsville florida complained a pick up game was too loud. officer bob white showed up to break up the game. decides to play with the kids instead. shack heard about it. yeah, that shack, the the big december ill. he heard bit. he decided you know what i will play with the officer and kid. he shows up and started doing shack-like things. do you want to cover him. >> oh, my. >> he is 7-foot two, 340-pound. >> i think i can keep jumping and not quite make to it where his arms are. >> yes. >> can you imagine, i want that guy. >> look at that. >> play defense like that. >> great. >> yes. >> that is great. >> those kid will be talking about that forever. >> yes. >> for sure. >> remember the time shack showed up. >> yes, shack daddy in the house. >> we will be having lots of devices in your home can really slow your internet down. way down. so keep things moving with 100% fiber optic fios by verizon. with fios, you get the big capacity all your devices thrive on. it's the fastest internet and wi-fi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. no won

we're at 41 in gainsvill. 43 from ocala to the villages. look at how far ahead of the game we are compared to lan. last night last night at this time, it's 9 warmer than they were last night at the same time. every single reporting station in central florida is ahead of the curve from where we were last night. for that reason, there's no freeze warning. there's only this one frost advisory from marion county. if we could get enough cloud cover and buffer that temperature up to 36-37 for your overnight low, that wouldn't be any frost. we have the frost problem possible here in western belusha. right along to the ocala and marijuana county borders. otherwise, i think we're going to be a frost free zone in orlando tomorrow morning. you see the moisture building in. cloud cover beginning to show up from the gulf of mexico. see these clouds, that's what we're tracking. those are the one s that make a big difference for you right farther out to the gulf, there's moisture. making a difference on the gulf coast. by friday, we will have enough moist

some neighbors in gainsville, in order, complained that a pick up game was too loud.he officer bobby white to went to break it and skyed to may ball with them and then shaquille o'neal heard about these little games and decided, you know what, i'm going to go and show up, too i'm going to play with the kids i'm going to play the with the cop and see what i got. the big aristotle the big shamrock. the big shack shooting jump shots want not. >> i want to that guy. >> he's with us. >> we'll be right b >>> santa clara california gearing up so host the super bowl. >> tick prices are soaring. the average resale price of a ticket to see the carolina panthers take on the denver broncos is 5,001 hun $78. that is according to ticket price tracker seek geek. that's one. a pair of club seats near mid field have sold for $12,100 each my friends. that's $24,000. >> you'll be watching it. >> here. with you all. >> my friends. >> which leads me to this. reminder you can watch super bowl fief tow right here on cbs3. it's sunday february 7th you don't want to miss it. it's sunday febru

some neighbors in gainsville, in order, complained that a pick up game was too loud. the officer bobby white to went to break it and skyed to may ball with them and then shaquille o'neal heard about these little games and decided, you know what, i'm going to go and show up, too i'm going to play with the kids i'm going to play the with the cop and see what i got. the big aristotle the big shamrock. the big shack shooting jump shots want not. >> i want to that guy. >> he's with us. >> we'll be r wow. the internet is crazy fast here. i know, right? it's so nice to have everyone over. hi hey. mmm. i just laid an egg. does anybody want it? joey, you want some gasoline? yes, please. mom, guess what? i married a clown and we're having tiny little clown babies. mhm. i just bought a hammer. with internet fast enough for everyone, your guests might get a bit carried away. get out of the past. get fios. >>> santa clara california gearing up so host the super bowl. >> tick prices are soaring. the average resale price of a ticket to see the carolina panthers take on the denver br

. >>> well a group of kids in gainsville got quite a surprise visit from a basketball star after a viral video spread across the internet. >> earlier this week a neighbor called police complaining kids were playing too loudly in the street. they were just playing ball. now officer bobby white decided to go out there and shoot hoops with the boys and white returned to the neighborhood with former orlando magic player shaquille o'neal. this happened saturday an they went head-to-head in a game on the street and o'neill stuck around and posed for pictures and signed basketballs. >> story of the weekend. that's so awesome. >> harder to tell whose the bigger man there. >> that's great. >>> volusia county teachers are fighting for changes in the district. >> the top of the hour the planned protest for this morning to push for cleaner classrooms, less testing and more resources. people camped outside an office in this county building is shutdown, coming up why some people are claiming it's not safe to report to work. >>> something you may need if you have it, an ice scraper this morning take a

it happened earlier this month in gainsville florida. officer bobby white responded to a complaint of kids playing basketball too loudly ( in the street -- but instead of disciplining them, he joined the game. before he left, he promised to return with some back-up for a rematch.. he kept his word -- in a big officer white brought the one-and-only shaquille o )neal. the 7-foot-1 n-b-a star saw the video online and wanted to surprise officer white and the-p&kids .. after a friendly game, shaq posed for pictures -- and told the kids to work hard to achieve their dreams. coming up next at 4 -- why police say two fugitives were more than happy to go back a chase turned into a rescue mission in california over the weekend. two fugitives-- trying to escape --nearly died in freezing conditions. the two men were hiding in a wooded area -- when they had no choice but to call 9-1-1. mike luery reports. nats in the high sierra near kyburz along highway 50... it started with a traffic stop for swerving..but then... lt. chris stoots, ca dept. of fish

. >> this gainsville florida o'neal. after receiving a now complaint -- noise complaint last week about kids playing basketball, white joined in the game, with shaq onboard he went back to play the same group of kids on same street, they had a good time, shaq giving the kid a strong piece of advice. >> i will become whatever i want to be, i will be a leader and not a follower. >> i will respect my peers, my elders, and especially my parents. i love you guys. russ: great advice from shaq, a good response from kids well done, on ice. rid wins beat islanders 4-2. steve: thank you, earth is flat trending on twitter over week for some reason. dari: starting with a series of tweets from rapper b.o.b., insisting that world is flat, this is one of his first pikes pics posted yesterday, ask why there was no curve in the horizon in the earth is round. steve: a good question. a lot of people are turned off by phrase flat earth, there is no way you can see all evidence and not know, grow up. and he got astro physicist, who tried to

f i think the highest i've seene s so far is in gainsville nowe w pushing 17-inches.inch so, you knowwe're about -- abt we're in the midst of thisin system. t we'll continue to see very, v very strong snow bands moving m through overt next coupleov hours. i'm seeing a car struggle up the street that really should not be strugglt ing up thehe street. stre that does not sound good. all right. i mean, that is not how you want to do it.do all right, gary i'm going to gog toss it inside to you. that was poorly planned. planne. poorly planned.poly plann i think that's why we're on tvat to tel'sl people not to do thata >> you forgot your shtick. sic >> that person is going the need a push.need a push. i'm going to try to help thisp t person a little bit before itl come in and do the weather.do te >> when you go back out takeut your stick. you forgot your stick andrti we'll get a snow total. total >> that was crazy.>> if that was four wheel driver wr then the roads are even worseor than we had thought. there's some sleet mixed in soed it's making for a little bit ltl of ice out there.of i out

outside right now temperature-wise, 66 orlando, 69 melbourne, 63 gainsville. this is about as cool as we'll get tonight. a few more showers could develop overnight, then there's vr some broken showers around the cold front itself entering the pan handle at this hour. right now no rain anywhere in central florida, southern osceola county you have to throw a shower in there. we'll stay mainly dry all the way through mid-week, wednesday, cool weather beginning tomorrow with the cold front as in lasting through at least could end off this upcoming week wet and windy with another system coming through. it's 66-degrees with the south winds coming in not just here in orlando but throughout most of central florida we'll continue to see temperatures hover, maybe even go up one or two degrees before we hit sun rise. waves off of canaveral still 8 and a half feet. once again tomorrow looking more than likely rip current advisories. temperature-wise, mid to upper 60s right now here behind the cold front, the cold air is not directly behind the front. look just a little bi

a gainsville police officer got a news complaint about kids playing a ball. instead of getting in trouble, the officer grabbed a ball and came in. he promised to return with backup and the backup arrived. shaquille o'neal. he heard the story and decided to surprise the cops and the kids. pickup with the kid who is were thrilled to meet him. he is an nba legend, of course. shaq did give the kids a few tips for the court and for life. >> i will respect... my peers: my elders: and especially my parents. all right. love you guys. >> how about that? that's gainesville police officer, bobby white, shooting hoops with the kids, instead of breaking up the game that's the original video. he's being called the basketball cop. he's been inspired to hashtag hoops not crime. >> give a shoutout to shaq. >> that's something that they will never forget. ever. >> a long way. >> time for the 11:00 news. >> chris, take it away. >> and the kids' parents are glad to have shaq as the enforcer. the local man looking for love in all the wrong and dangerous >> got me on the ground by

it came in the form of the sizeable shaquille o'neil, making a surprise stop in gainsville, after watching a video in which one of the officers joined a street game instead of closing it down. shot a few hoops. more later >>> that's cool. thank you very much. high coastal waves flooding the cuban capital. waves several meters high have been pounding the seafront. low-lying streets are under water of the rescue workers are trying to help stranded people reach higher ground. >> the sundance film festival is often associated with the quirky side of cinema. there's a darker scary side. from park sit in utah, rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: this is when the horror begins at sundance, horror movies, it could be a cult classic. >> we want to be here first. >> these people lined up to see "the greasy strong ler." >> it's a mixture of sweetness, tenderness and depraved weird innocence. >> reporter: rob zombie is back with a feature called "31", about carnival workers kidnapped. >> five from taken hostage to a remote location. for 12 hours it's a fight to the death against homicidal maniacs. >> r

readings down to 26 or 27 and to surprise, a full on hard freeze warning in alatch ka county and gainsville and south of that point, and, everybody around that 30 degree mark either direction, north or south of that and orlando 38 out 32, ouch, at deland and it was this time in 1977, january 19th and 20th, those of you around this know the major blizzard of 1977 set up over the northern tier of the country and a little dusting there. we had our moments of snow in central florida and usually, it is never measurable but this stretch we had a nice dusting. young lady there, the orlando sentinel back in the day doing her due diligence and writing fla on the windshield, courtesy of the orlando sentinel. thank you for the photograph. okay. 37 in ocala and 38 gainesville and 48 sanford and 46 orlando and same space coast and let's talk about the day ahead. on the minds of any, enjoy it if you can. sun and clouds and cool today and back to the mid 60s for highs and moon lit sky and gorgeous full moon again and looks like we'll be in the 50s by 8:00. look out here, my friend, go west a tremendous ar

gainsville officer bobby white was responding to noise complaint some kids playing basketball.f jumping on the kids he join their game. shack heard about the officer giving the kids his time so he wanted to show his appreciation and surprise not just the officer but the kids, too. he went to their neighborhood and joined them in another game of hoops hoops. how cool is that. >> the hilton hotel chain trying to tract younger crowd with new brand of hotels. it's named true and focuses on budget travelers looking to spend between 75 and $90 a nig night. the new brand aims to compete with economy chains like the comfort inn, fairfield inn. hotels will be in mix of markets including urban, airport and suburban. hilton worldwide currently owns and operates more than 4500 hotels. >>> pulled over for something you did. you get a ticket. why drivers are getting cited even though what they did didn't violate any laws much the surprise putting a smile on faces of drivers. >>> toxic water that may not be safe enough to bathe in. devastating effects flint water crisis is having on its resid

. >> a little over a week ago gainsville police officer bobby white answered a call about a basketball game that was too loud. his response, was to join him. >> he got game. >> yes. >> so he promised a rematch, but neither he or the kids, nor the kids would be, correct. so neither he nor the kid knew former nba star shaquille o'neal had heard about this game too and he showed up. shack surprised the department on saturday and joined in this game. the the initial video of the kids playing the officer made it around social media and they had this rematch and shack showed up. >> look at him covering him. >> that is pretty cool. >> original game was a video. they were going to have a rematch. shack showed up. >> so, lauren was what is shack doing in florida. does he live in florida? >> the original game that went on social media? that was impromptu. >> then they said lets have have a rematch. they told everybody where they will have a game again, shack saw it and he showed up. >> shack lives in florida. >> he always has been in florida. >> he has a big home. he lives next door to ryan howa

snow showers and here we are around 5:30 and frederick, leesburg, gaithersburg around toward the gainsville area and northern fauquier county and inside the d.c. metro area between 6:00 and 7:00, switching over from rain to snow and that's what we'll be seeing and the only area of accumulating snow is back here toward the mountains and garrett county and maybe frostburg and they could see an inch or two of snow and maybe three inches and for us this is not going to be a big deal. by 9:00 it is out of here and where do you think you will see problems on the roads? not around us, but maybe frederick to fredericks town and most likely on the secondary roads because roads to watch because we may get a quick dusting into the areas and that's going to be about it. 45 in d.c. and 38 in martinsburg and as that moves on through, the cold air really moves in and look at the high temperature on wednesday and a high of only 30 degrees and it's not the temperature and it's the wind and the windchill, 5 to 10 degrees by 7:00 a.m., and around 4:00, 15 to 20 and a cold day on wednesday and veronica has the

and then also just south of theo beltway as you get south of 666 towards gainsville down 95 inn virginiaards dale city all seeing heavier pockets of somee snow. snow. all right. along with the snow, we have s very reduced visibility justityj about all across the board.o you know, the snow is fallingali the wind will be picking picki blizzard warning in effect.nffe. so i suspect this is about as a high as that visibility will gew all weekend half mile at reagana national.nation three quarter mile out at dull dulles. this is why we are so concernedc about anyone being out on the te roads.ads. tonight and this weekend. wnd it has been very cold.y col the snow has stuck very quicklyi to the ground. gro it's made it very uncomfortableb for anyone to be outside becausc it's only 23 here had in washington.shon 19 in gaithersburg.hersbur all right. al the winds are going to become aa major factor as we go into thiss evening.enin projected wind gusts by 11:00 o'clock already along the coast 41 miles an hour in oceanr city. city and look at this guy tomorroww morning.rn 71 miles per hour wind gust

down towards gainsville, woolsy along i 66, 28" of snow and fairfax country we go. we have fairfax station 24 1/2" of snow. these reports are quite extrem extreme. we head to the winchester area and hit blockbuster numbers out that way. berryville, 35" of snow. just south of there, 28.5" and heading up north we get to baltimore region looking at bwi airport there again their hig highest snow total ever from a storm like this 29.2" and here locally in the city adams morgan 21" of snow and then just cross the river there bailey's crossroads 21". so, some extreme rates coming in. we'll keep tracking totals all day long. accepted us snow rates and snowfall amounts and use #the winter awake ebbs. >> let's finish up the forecast quick and let you know, this afternoon, 32. you can either be digging in the snow or getting sledding in. tomorrow the shoveling continues daytime high upper 30s. today, tonight, tomorrow in good shape. we'll refreeze tonight and have refreezing issues tomorrow morning. that's the latest i'll toss it back to you. 270 is mazeing. >> i'll point out

you can see the dense fog headed into the gainsville. a few delays, outer loop in prince georges county near 95. >> thank you. to some top stories. police are investigating a new threat at wood ridge high school, in a facebook message posted late last night the school system said the threatening message written on a wall at the school threatened violence on a specific date next week. police are working to see if this is credible. fans are getting ready for the playoffs and fed exfield this week, the redskins will take on the packers. metro will be taking some changes stopping work on the metro lines. trains will run every 15 minutes during daytime hours on sunday. and you can get more news traffic and weather updates on good morning on news channel 8. ♪ who will run the world girls ♪ ♪ who will run the world girls ♪ >>> welcome back everyone to "gma" on this friday morning. big headline about beyonce. i'll allow lara to tell you more in "pop news." >> thank you, robin. >> there's not a lot to tell. but the little bit, everyone will be ha