Around. Suspect s manager told police cespedes was given a wallet that had been found. When it was retuned to the hotel guest the cash inside was , missing. In another incident, the suspect allegedly went against policy by going inside a room after checking on a door that appeared to be open. In fact, the report states that several guests didn their doors weren t closing all the way. When this guests came back to the room, money was again, missing. Donna french unless you doesn t close fully. Chris cespedes was arrested just this week, after undercover Authorities Say they set up cameras inside a room and watched him steal 500 left by investigators on a night stand. We asked for this video, but we re told it is not yet being released. As of tonight, we know the Security Guard has so far only been officially charged with one of these cases where he was one of the rooms. He has since bonded out of jail. Both disney and Wydham Hotels told us if we wanted more answers, contact the Orange CountySheriff S Office. We are still waiting on several requests tonight. Live in Orange County, chris hush, wesh 2. Meredith new tonight, disney is facing a lawsuit after a snake bit an eightyearold child at the animal kingdom. According to the family s lawsuit, the snake fell from a tree, wrapped itself around the boy, and bit him in october 2014. The family says the boy s grandmother witnessed the event, went into cardiac arrest then died. We contacted disney earlier tonight. They say the snake was a nonvenomous wild snake. The park says it also helped clean and bandage the bite, and offered more help, but the family declined. Stewart new tonight neighbors say a pair of pit bulls have been terrorizing their street. Six separate violations are now pending against those dogs o wner in edgewood in Volusia County. Wesh 2 s matt lupoli talked with one homeowner, who blames the dogs for her pet s not let it happen again. Matt donna tried her best to stop two dogs from attacking her cat on her front porch. Donna i followed them all across the yard. They would not give up. They would not stop. I had to go to the emergency clinic in daytona last night and , we had to put him down because he had a broken sternum and internal injuries from the two pulling him in opposite directions. Matt the dogs, which Officials Say are pitbulls, are being kept at a shelter. Police tell wesh the dogs owner was cited for the mauling. Six separate violations are now pending. Many in this area of edgewater say this is far from the first incident. Some in the neighborhood are on edge, and they re saying so online. A neighborhood Facebook Page shows hundreds of posts about the dogs, recanting other violent runins. But they say, still the dogs have been allowed to roam free. They ve just run the they have i understand they ve done damage and gone after a lot of animals, they have even gone after adults. It s time that it stops. Matt i tried to speak with the dogs owner, but no one answered the door. Police say the owner does face several hundred dollars worth in fines for animal violations. Animal control will decide whether the dogs are deemed a danger to this neighborhood. Reporting from edgewater, matt lupoli, wesh 2 news. Meredith now to your first alert forecast another rainy day across Central Florida. Which made for a soggy commute home. Let s get right to first alert chief meteorologist tony mainolfi. Tony, when will the rain clear out . Tony the energy will move offshore, the winds will pick up. January. 5. 64, typically 2. 35. 2. 74. Daytona beach is still a few little bit on before it is said and done. I watch her travels on i4 and the 408. Everything will be east of the downtown stretch in another hour, and headed to melbourne. Rainfall is coming to an end. We will dry out at 5 00 in the morning, 52. 7 00, 9 00 at 50 degrees. I will show you some more impressive rainfall totals. We will talk about the drier weather on the way, and we have a lot of weekend events. A lot of folks are looking at the rolex 24 forecast. I will give you other events ongoing. Stewart thank you. New details tonight in how a st. Pete mother and her two children were found after a statewide amber alert was issued. 5yearold dorian and 4yearold frederick sandhu, along with their mother gigi, were found in madison, florida. That s about an hour east of tallahassee. Two out of state utility workers saw the amber alert on their phone and thought the car police were looking for sounded familiar. Kids, a male acquaintance, and a pet monkey were staying at the same motel as the workers. Detectives say the kids are safe. They were taken from their grandparents house this morning by their mother who does not have custody. Meredith tonight we are seeing the video and hearing the 911 calls made after a sunrail train hit a car on the tracks in seminole county. [train horn] meredith take a look, you can see the headlights of the car on the tracks ahead of the train at monroe street in sanford last night. It appears that the train tries to slow down, but before it can stop, it runs into the car. That s when witnesses started calling 911. 911, do you need police, fire, or medical . Not sure, maybe all three. I m sitting here at orange boulevard by the tracks, by the sanford exit at the railroad crossing, and there s a car in the railroad tracks, and a train just hit it. The time, and no one in the car, was hurt. New information tonight in a murder at a dry cleaners in lake mary. Police have released new evidence in the case. These are the zip ties police say Andre Luciano used to tie up the victim back in september at lake mary dry cleaning. We re also getting a look at inside of the building. Police say luciano killed jenny dang after being told he couldn t use the bathroom. Luciano has pleaded not guilty. Stewart a retired Volusia County sheriff s deputy is carjacked and dragged several feet down the road. Deputies say Richard Conway was parked behind restaurants along south atlantic avenue last night. He says his car was running and the door was open, when a group of teens drove up and jumped into the car. Conway says he was dragged several feet while trying to fight them off. He suffered a gash to his forehead when he fell to the ground. Two teens were later arrested after they crashed the stolen car nearby. All new tonight, the Orange CountySheriff S Office is responding to a story we brought to you last night at 11 00. The aclu issued a report claiming black drivers in for seatbelt violations nearly twice as often as white drivers. The Sheriff S Office says they have received that report and are currently analyzing it. Officials released this statement the Orange CountySheriff S Office continually reevaluates its policies, procedures and operations to ensure that they are consistent with best practices. Sheriff demings will be meeting soon with the aclu to further discuss the issues. Meredith new video is surfacing tonight, that deputies says shows Zenaida Gonzalez shopping with a credit card, allegedly stolen from a cancer patient. You ll remember gonzalez is the same woman who filed a defamation lawsuit against casey anthony. She was arrested yesterday. Police say the patient was a guest at a motel where gonzalez worked, and says she and her boyfriend stole the card from the rented room. Deputies say the pair then spent 850 at surrounding stores. Worked at the Hotel Cleaning carpets. The victim was staying there while he was getting treatments at the hospital. They did take that credit and the entire time he was in the hospital, they were out spending money on the credit card. Meredith wesh 2 s bob kealing tracked gonzalez down today. She would not comment on the charges she now faces. Stewart the port orange man convicted of attacking a 12yearold girl on the campus of Silver Sands Middle School will spend the next 25 years behind bars. Jayzel hendrieth, seen here after his arrest in august, pled no contest to charges of kidnapping, attempted sexual battery, and child abuse this week. After he gets out of prison, he ll have to spend the next 20 years on sex offender probation. Police say hendrieth followed the girl onto campus, grabbed her, threw her to the ground, and sexually battered her. A custodian stopped him. His family says he has mental issues. Meredith tonight some orlando Business Owners say they re tired of being a prime target for graffiti artists. Shops and stores in the mills and state road 50 area have been hit repeatedly by the so called taggers, up to 40 in the last few months. The owners say they are tagged out. And we wish these taggers loved art the way we love art, because we don t like what they are doing. Meredith the cost to remove the graffiti is running into the thousands of dollars. Last november, Orlando Police work in the area. They now believe they are dealing with two new taggers. Stewart new tonight, we re getting a fresh new look at what the new incredible hulk ride will look like at universal orlando. Take a look the first tracks are , in place for the totally redone ride at islands of adventure. The ride closed back in september so that universal s storyline, its vehicles, and the overall experience. Chopper 2 got a better view a couple of months ago. You can see portions of the track are gone. It s expected to reopen this summer. Orlando s holy land experience has announced its annual free admission day for this year. The biblethemed attraction is waiving admission and parking fees on february 24th. Admission to the park is on a first come, first serve basis, and it s only available until the park hits capacity. The doors open at 10 00 a. M. Regular admission to the park is 50. A big night for the gop president ial candidates. The last debate before the iowa caucus. But one candidate was missing. I m a maniac. And everyone on this stage is you [laughter] now that we got the donald trump [laughter] meredith just ahead on wesh 2 ll take a look at the highs and lows of tonights debate. Stewart and a local judge delivers a stern warning to a paralyzed burglar who begged to stay out of prison. Find out what happened next. Meredith plus a Florida College student is worried a lamp could ll explain coming up. Meredith in iowa tonight, just days before the vote, there were dueling republican events. Stewart a debate with all the top candidates except the front runner, donald trump, who boycotted and held a rally. Meredith Steve Handelsman has the story from des moines. Reporter he is an entertaining guy. Reporter donald trump was missing but still mocked. I am a maniac and everyone on surgeon. Now we have gotten the donald trump portion out of the way [laughter] reporter trump fired back at his own event. Trump this is like the academy awards. Reporter trump raise 5 million fought loophole rivals on stage. Ve been greedy, i toy up all the money i can get. United states. I went to grab all that money. Reporter ted cruz was center stage at the other debate. Ted rebuilding the air force, the army. Reporter but second to him he was a target. Ted marco, please attack ted, jeff please attacked ted. Let me just say this. Reporter trump with a lead in the polls over ted cruz with marco rubio with third in iowa. More than just winning over voters, trump and all of the debaters were trying something tougher, to motivate iowans to show up and caucus for them on sunday night monday night. Meredith wesh 2 will be headed to the iowa caucus. Adrian whitsett will be reporting from des moines. Look for his reports starting sunday. Stewart a paralyzed burglar, shot by a homeowner in a gun battle, was sternly warned by a today. 19yearold joshua lamb was shot by a homeowner as he tried to burglarize the man s palm bay home. An innocent woman was permanently disfigured by one of the bullets. When it came time to sentence lamb, instead judge Charles Crawford suggested it would go easier for him if he named his accomplice. Charles crawford if you have any hope whatsoever of staying out of prison for the rest of your natural life, now s the time to talk. Stewart lamb named the accomplice and told the whole story. The judge will decide in march if he ll have to go to prison, or if he can go home on has volunteered to give him roundtheclock care. Meredith today marks 30 years since the entire crew of the Space Shuttle challenger was killed, when it exploded just moments after liftoff at cape canaveral. Today a memorial was held at the Kennedy Space center to honor the seven people who died, including school teacher, christa mcauliffe, and the mission s commanding officer, dick scobee, a veteran of the u. S. Air force. Also today, there was a moment of silence on board the International Space station. Members of the space crew paused to remember all victims from past space disasters and to memorialize their contributions. Stewart a Florida College student is worried about what could happen to his educational future because of a lamp in his dorm room. Florida Atlantic University student chris valdez says a resident advisor wrote him up for the lamp, made out of an old gin bottle. He says the ra was doing a room check on the jupiter campus and considered it a violation as a form of alcohol paraphernalia. Shocked and taken back. Because you know, i don t do anything. Like i follow the rules, i know , what the codes are, you know. Stewart valdez says he bought the lamp at an arts festival. He says he s now worried what will happen when he tries to apply to pharmacy school. Meredith new video tonight of a tornado touched down in delray beach. This Surveillance Video shows Patio Furniture being lifted in the air and the winds nearly blowing a delivery man away. The National Weather service confirmed an ef0 tornado. They say winds reached up to 85 trees, fences, and power lines. No one was hurt. Not supposed to do. He stood outside to watch the storm. Tony that is happening too often. We have had a lot of rain but severe weather. Three tornadoes in the last two days south of the viewing aria. We have been lucky here. Everyone will dry out. Check this out. Isle, you get the saturated grounds and trees that topple over. That pine tree looks like it snapped, so maybe a combination of those two entities with this case. Satellite radar shows low pressure developing, pulling to the north and east. You can see drier air moving in across the far northwestern portions of the state of florida. Today rainfall totals, stanford 3. 59 inches of rain. Rain. Orlando and melbourne doing very well as we take a look at the last 48 hours. As you look at the wettest january, Daytona Beach at number three 47. 04 inches of rain. Inches of rain. Melbourne has 8. 3 inches of rain. Maybe one or two 1 100s to add to that. Sanford, orlando, kissimmee this is the back edge of it. Once it moves through we are winds will pick out of the northwest and temperatures will s to around 50 s as you head out tomorrow morning. Youngsters will need a jacket. There will be a breeze and the roads will dry out. If you are traveling for the next few hours, be mindful of the water. 51, 49, and 49 at 8 00. Crisp and cool, you will need sunglasses tomorrow. Especially by midmorning and the afternoon. 50 in orlando, 46 Daytona Beach, 50 and melbourne. Here is a friday set up. He does not get much better than this. We have the northwesterly winds flow. We are dry and comfortable. But tomorrow we are at 65 in ocala, 65 the villages, at mount dora 66. The attractions around 66. Altamonte springs around 66. Palm coast, Flagler Beach around 63. At brevard county, mid 60 s. In the weekend, highpressure continues to pull away. We had the southeasterly flow on the backside of this, and we moderate the temperatures. By sunday afternoon, we will have temperatures in the interior in the middle upper 70 s. Rolex 24 kicking off saturday at 2 40, look for mid 60 s. 43, a little chill in the morning. Sunday coming at 72 degrees. Zora festival, not much better than this. 9 00 a. M. , 53. Afternoon highs around 65 to 67. 7276, and then 80 s monday through wednesday. Meredith looking forward to that. Immortalized in gold. Stewart a wrestler losing his first match on purpose. E stewart it s been a while since the magic have had a player on the allstar team, but they re being well represented on allstar weekend this year. Point guard Elfrid Payton and swingman super mario have been selected to play in the rising stars challenge. It s an exhibition game featuring rookies and secondyear players. The format is the same as last year. Players from the u. S. Will face off against the allworld team. The game is friday, february 12 in toronto. The actual allstar game is two days later. Meanwhile the magic look to get back on track tomorrow. They are going to visit boston to take on the redhot celtics. Sunday will be a rematch. Magic come back to the amway to get the celtics at home. Orlando magic fans would like to remember Shaquille O Neal for his days in the blue and what white this jersey, 32 in blue ,. But on the west coast, he the lakers are building a statue outside the Staples Center for shaq. Magic johnson, jerry west, and Kareem Abduljabbar all have statues outside the arena. The solar bears skating at home tonight against the manchester monarchs. Bears on thin ice in the playoff picture, losing three of their last four. To the amway center we go. Hard checks came early and often in this one. Lots of hard hits and shots but , no goal in the first period. That would change. Monarchs get hot and find the net three times. Solar bears would only manage one goal. The 31 loss is their third in a row. They monarchs tomorrow. Big race weekend at daytona. Then saturday, it won t be tires runners will lace em up for the daytona 5k and fun walk. Later that day, the big one, the rolex 24. A grueling 24hour marathon around the speedway. Finally tonight, a story that wrestles with the heart strings. A Massachusetts High School wrestler with an undefeated record just suffered a loss on purpose. 270 deven schuko allowed andy howland, a student with down schuko heard that the 21yearold wrestler with special needs wanted a match, and the team cocaptain volunteered for the challenge. Deven schuko yeah he was strong. He was a tough kid did. Did it feel pretty good . It feels pretty good, yeah. Stewart he traded his perfect record for a perfect moment, taking one for the team and s it for sports. Stewart the 27th zora festival is officially underway. Meredith it s one of Central Florida s most iconic festivals. Tonight, alternative roots hosted the opening reception at the winter park civic center. American folklorist and author Zora Neale Hurston called eatonville home. Zora Neale Hurston is one of the premier artists, anthropologists, Cultural Workers of the 20th century. And her legacy needs to continue. Meredith vendors and street performers will be on hand for the outdoor festival, which begins saturday and ends sunday, at hungerford field. You can find a link to all the festivities on wesh. Com. Forecast. For the past couple of days, if maybe a rain jacket, you got out . Tony we will be better, but tomorrow we will be windy. Breezier, cooler. We will need jackets. Afternoon highs in the mid 60 s. Over the course of the next couple of days, if that is too cool for you, maybe you have been in florida for a couple of years, we are Room Temperature on saturday, mid 70 s on sunday. Monday through wednesday you can work on your tan or get regarding going get the gardening going. Stewart you do have the next few days off. Good time. And remember you can wake up with wesh. Our sunrise crew starts at 4 30 a. M. With overnight news, first alert weather, and traffic. Meredith wesh 2 news is always on at wesh. Com or the wesh 2 mobile app. Thanks for watching. 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