Jason good thursday morning, i m jason guy. It is february 18. Let s make sure that is the right date and we are looking at what we can expect for this day. Gorgeous right now is busy downtown orlando. Look at that. We can see all the buildings and the bus station. 57, doesn t feel as cool as yesterday morning. Let s go to amy reporter afternoon holds for us. Will we see more sunshine . Amy we have mainly clear skies. We don t have the fog had yesterday. Temperatures are a few degrees warmer. We will continue to climb. The wind will kick up a little bit. It is going to be breezy or today than it was yesterday. Temperatures will be in the lower 70 s. A degree or two shy of where we were yesterday. Otherwise, pretty similar to yesterday. This morning, visibility looks good. 10 miles below the place. We notice our 24 hour temperature change. Most of us are a few degrees warmer than yesterday, anywhere from up to seven degrees warmer. Cooler. 45 in ocala and 47 and palm coast. Most of us are in the low to mid 60 s. 53 daytona beach. 54 orlando. I do expect these temperatures to head down a little bit more this morning. Just because we have the clear skies and we don t have the fog to deal with early on. Temperatures that can and will climb. Upper 60 s lower 70 s. A little shy from where we were yesterday. 73 in orlando. Yesterday we had 75. Let s see what s happening on the roads. Dark and early on this thursday, good morning jazmin walker. Jazmin starting off with construction i4 westbound at princeton. An overnight project blocking the right lane, not slowing down traffic is a downtown. Heading eastbound on i4, another project at south street. Right now, it does not look like anything is stopping you are slowing you down the toll roads are i95. Here s a look at some travel speed in the area. On the 408, 59 Miles Per Hour heading west towards downtown. I4 up to speed as well. Jason latebreaking in winter park, two people were shot dead and now we are pushing for answers. Last night, we were the first station to arrive on west comstock avenue. That s just blocks away from park avenue and winter park village. Only got there, we saw two men dead. Winter park police are not saying much. They tell us it is a double shooting and they are not looking for any suspects. They also told us this is not a murder suicide. With a crew there right now and we will have a live report details coming up at 5 00. This morning, troopers are investigating a deadly crash in Orange County that killed a pedestrian. It happened at 8 00 last night on orange avenue at lancaster road. From orlando was getting off a bus and try to cross the street. A car slammed right into him. It is not clear the driver will face any charges. We are waiting to hear from the troopers about where and exactly the found a car believed to be involved in a hitandrun. Trooper say they found the 1998 Jeep Cherokee and it does have left front damage that is consistent with the crash and it will be checked for evidence. 39yearold Jason Rodeghier was killed while jogging on satellite boulevard in cocoa monday morning. We are also pushing for answers about this incident on the ucf campus. A building had to be evacuated because of a chemical smell last night. Students had to be cleared out of the college of optics and photonics building. Firefighters checked and deemed it safe last night. No word on any injuries. Altamonte springs police need your help identifying these two man. Authorities believe they robbed a Verizon Store right in the middle of the day. About 15 15,000 worth of cell phones while customers were inside. Police say they walked into the store during normal business hours, smashed the glass displays, grabbed the phones and took off. This is the store right across the street from the altamonte mall. Police believe there could be more than take a good look at could ve been three suspects involved. These two and if you recognize them, call police immediately. Today, investigators in orlando will once again reexamine the evidence, hoping to find baby willow. They will take a second look at dumpsters from an apartment complex. Police also say the mother told them she left the baby on a doorstep at the willow bend apartments monday. Wesh 2 s chris hush reports, complete strangers are now looking for the newborn. Where his baby willow . After more than 24 hours of searching. Two separate searches of the willow bend apartment complexes on wednesday night, doctors dr. Youngsters, some wrapped in dumpsters were searched. Volunteers from different parts of Central Florida set up a memorial and joined the search. Hope that the committee will all get together on this. At the same time, the mother of the missing newborn, susan richardson, seemed uninterested in front of a judge who said her bond at 50,000 for child neglect and unlawful desertion of a child. Her boyfriend did not answer the door for us. He told us on tuesday he at no idea where richardson may have discarded the baby. Orlando police have not been able to get her to talk. After we looked into her past, we founded 2009 arrest for battery against a lawenforcement officer. According to that report, she claims she did not take her medication for mental disorders back in the willow bend apartments, crews ended their search in the early evening. One woman is trying to explain her what he found in the parking lot, the placenta. This should never ever happen. Jason happening today, another building is going down in deltona as part of the city s beautification campaign. Crews will demolish the house on north covington drive at 10 00 this morning. That house was damaged during a fire in 2012 and has been abandoned for years. Commissioner Mitch Honaker will be on hand for today s demolition. Caught on camera, Police Chopper shows a chase. Suspected robbers here on the run in Orange County. Deputies say the footage you are looking at shows nathanial woods and john powel leading police and deputies on a chase after the two allegedly pistol whipped and robbed a tourist. It happened at a hotel along International Drive last week. The suspects pole and the two try to make a run for it with an officer following them. Eventually, they surrender and are arrested. Police say the pair could be responsible for as many as 5 other robberies. Now to commitment 2016, 3 republican candidates will answer tough questions in a town hall. Last night, the other three candidates tackle the topics on the minds of voters days before a crucial primary. Karin caifa is in greenville, South Carolina with a recap. Ben carson, marco rubio and ted cruz took questions from audience members as well as moderator anderson cooper. Some of the audience members undecided voters. Others were not entirely committed to one candidate in saturday s South Carolina primary. Handling National Security and Foreign Policy and readiness to be commanderinchief where topics that kept coming up among the South Carolina voters. One that is important to them was the question posed to the the freshman senator marco rubio. I can guarantee you that i ve had more than 2 00 a. M. Phone calls than all of the rest of them put together have had to make lifeanddeath decisions. I been involved in Foreign Policy and National Security, i ve proven time and again that i have the judgment and the experience to make the right decisions and the right call on these issues. Another question posed to rubio hinted at how voters feel about this raucous raise. What is the plaintiff heal the gop after this is over. Ted cruz has been engaged in a ugly political battle with tom trump. It is less about donald trump donald trump. It is less about his personality and more about his policy. I ve yet to see on a republican stage a candidate who says we should impeach george w. Bush. I think it calls into question the judgment of that candidate donald trump, jeb bush and Donald John Kasich will take the stage for the town hall. Reporting in greenville, South Carolina, i m karen kfed. Jason Adrian Whitsett will be heading to suck a lot of for this weekend s primary. Look for his live reports throughout the day tomorrow and saturday. You can always get the latest updates on the wesh 2 app. Happening today, the white house will officially announce president obama s historic trip to cuba. The trip is set for next month. You may remember, in 2014, president obama and cuban leader raul castro restored their diplomatic relations. And this week, the two countries signed a deal restoring commercial air travel. More details on the trip coming up on wesh 2 news sunrise at 5 00. A local teacher is making history. We ll explain why, next. But first, a big change to the way we handle the pledge of allegiance in Public Schools. What a new bill is aiming to do. And we will take you live living well your immune system works hard to keep you you can support it by eating healthy, drinking fluids, and you can combine these simple remedies with airborne. No other leading immunity brand gives you more vitamin c. Plus it has a specially crafted blend of 13 vitamins, minerals and herbs. So when you want to support your immune system, take airborne, amy good morning and welcome back it is thursday. I m amy sweezey. We have a Beautiful Day today. Plenty of sunshine expected and we will stay dry. Our wind will be breezy this temperatures are cooler than yesterday. Upper 60 s lower 70 s, very close to where we are supposed to be for this time of year. Yesterday we had 75 in orlando and today we will climb to 73. I don t know if you ll notice the difference, it will still be a really nice day. We are starting up a bit warmer, we are in the mid40 s and most of our northern spot and upper 40 s and lower 50 s across lake county and much of sumter. We are at 49 in lynn. 49 and reddit. 52 and bushnell. Some of the numbers across Osceola County showing a lot of 50 s. 54 in winter park. Apopka is a little cooler at 49 degrees. 44 48 and the land. 54 port orange and 55 degrees in port st. John. Plenty of sun today, we will climb. By noon, we will be in the upper 60 s and with that wind kicking up later this afternoon, we will top out in the upper 60 s and lower 70 let s see what is happening out on the roads and it over to jazmin walker. Jazmin we have a crash on alafaya trail at avalon park boulevard. There is a warning because fhp is off the scene on the scene. Not shutting down all the lanes. We also have some construction on the 408 westbound at i4. Also eastbound approaching the orange avenue exit. A single lane blocked in either direction as you re traveling on the 408 and approaching i4 here s a look at i4 eastbound heading towards u. S. 92. No delays between the st. Johns river bridge and i95. Jason thank you, jazmin. New on sunrise, a bill would change how Public Schools handle the pledge of allegiance. It is now moving forward in tallahassee. A house panel approved the bill yesterday. Right now, students are required to recite the pledge unless a the bill would allow students to skip the pledge with a notice in a handbook. This Orange County teacher is now making history. Orange county Public School named Johanna Lopez a teacher of the year. Lopez teaches spanish at colonial high school. She is now the first hispanic teacher to ever win the award. Congratulations. New this morning, National Parks are seeing recordbreaking attendance. That s according to a new poll by the National Park services. Last year, parks across the nation had 307 million visits. The most popular spot was the great smoky mountains. The grand canyon hosted 5 million visitors. Yellowstone in the Rocky Mountains each saw more than 4 million tourists. Here in florida we have a very popular spot of our own. Clearwater beach is ranked the best in the country. That s according to trip advisor s annual ranking. The beach is listed as a great vacation spot because of its mix of beach scenes, water sports, restaurants and hotels. Made the list, including siesta beach, st. Pete beach, pensacola , saint augustine, and panama city beach. And out of this world eyeopening view from the International Space station. Check out these incredible images from scott kelly. The photos show a snowcovered region, green and blue seas, even orange sans, and a yellow desert. , kelly is returning home from his yearlong mission. Happening today, a Brevard County hospital is releasing seven rehabilitated pelicans back into the wild. Those brown pelicans will be released today at pineda beach in satellite beach. Most of the birds had been injured in fishing accidents. The ceremony is happening this morning at 8 00. It is free to attend. The brand new daytona speedway swells with fans as the doors open. And the nba trade deadline is today. The word is that the magic can shake some things up. Next, who may be out of the jason today for the Orlando Magic to decide if they want to trade veteran espn reports they want to swap with the Cleveland Cavaliers and their Anderson Varejao the magic just dealt forward Tobias Harris to the pistons. Gone. Coming in. It doesn t happen that often that i have relationships with them already. Ilyasova. Both played for skiles milwaukee. Of the season tomorrow night at home against the mavericks. Think of this as as the ultimate free fan experience. Nascar enthusiasts getting a chance to check out the new digs at daytona. And all they have to do is show up. Daytona International Speedway held an open house that continued well after sunset yesterday. Race fans are getting a new first hand look at the stadium. The brandnew seats and concessions. The daytona rising project added an allnew front stretch with new entrances into fan zones and more than 101,000 spaces spacious seats in the grandstand. For the first time in nearly a decade, the daytona 500 is a sellout. The green flag drops on sunday. With the daytona 500 water days look at the speedway construction project. From the air, the track, and those brand new seats, we ll give you views of the daytona International Speedway that you ve never seen before. Join us for our halfhour special, daytona rising, tonight at 7 00 right here on wesh two. Wesh 2. Let s take you back outside live to our cameras at the winter park studios. Jason we are working on new stories for our 5 00 hour. Michelle imperato is here and has a preview. Michelle a big announcement today from governor rick scott. We will learn it Central Florida set any tourism records in 2015. Then, what not backing down. Apple gets a new ally in its fight against the government over a terrorist who is now siding with tech giant over privacy concerns. Plus,why starbucks is now coming under fire for how much sugar it puts in drinks. All of that much more on wesh 2 new sunrise. Jason let s talk about the sunshine for a day ahead. Amy is here with the forecast i think you will like. Amy it was so nice yesterday. We made it into the mid70 s just as anticipated. A little cooler up to the north, but we have that nice breeze and plenty of sun and low humidity as well. Today will be similar, except that it will be a few degrees cooler today. Once we get to the afternoon and that is because we have our wind coming out of the northeast. That will draw in some slightly cooler air. It will be breezy or this afternoon as well. This morning, so far, we are back to normal. We will most likely keep dropping here a few more degrees because we have clear skies and fairly light wind. We are average down we will be a few degrees shy of average want to get through sunrise which we are at 49 and leesburg, 52 and the villages. 53 in sanford and kissimmee. 52 winter haven and palm coast is at 47 degrees. Visibility is nothing like yesterday. We don t have those big areas of fog that we had that we had to the west. All is quiet to start the start the day. Our winds will be coming out of the north northeast and picking up a little bit. We will get lots of sunshine, maybe a brief clouds your there. It is still pretty dry, i don t expect a lot of cloud cover for today. 70 in ocala and the villages, 71 eustis and 72 will be a high and clermont. 72 along with dan devito, 73 orlando in winter park. You can see how these numbers stack up to yesterday when we hit of 85 in orlando. I don t know he will really note 75 in orlando. I don t know if you are really notice the difference. Upper 60 s off to the north along coast and to the south we will be anywhere from 70 to 73 degrees. If you re headed to the beach, it will be windier than yesterday and we have that moderate threat for recurrence as well. The swell has been strong coming in yesterday and today. There is a Small Craft Advisory in effect through tonight. The tight heads out this evening. It will head out at about 4 00 this afternoon. Tomorrow, we will be partly sunny and breezy again. The wind comes off the ocean which will kick up our cloud cover, but still plenty of sun. As we get to the weekend, mostly sunny skies. We will be in the mid70 s and our temperatures will keep climbing as we head into sunday, we will be in the upper 70 s with just a few scattered clouds. No rain in our forecast until next week. There s a storm system that will approach in the gulf of mexico on tuesday and that will bring us our next best chance for showers and storms tuesday into early wednesday. Let s get a traffic update to test. I4 westbound in princeton. State your left. We have a few right now of i4, looks a traffic is pretty light on the westbound side as you approach the fairbanks curb. Here are your travel times heading out the door, nine minutes from 436 to colonial. 408 is up to speed, seven minutes from 417 to i4. Jason boxing star Manny Pacquiao no longer has a contract with nike. Next at 5 00 what he said about gay people that made the company drop the deal. Now let s go out live to Alex Villareal on a scene of a double shooting in winter park. Alex police are still investigating after two people were shot here in winter park. I will cut you a family members has happened before the bullets flew. Jason wesh 2 new sunrise continues and 30 seconds with those top stories and your forecast. You can take the forecast on the you can download it from the apple store or google play. It is a free download. You can look at the radar and track conditions in your neighborhood, plus look ahead of our futurecast of what you can expect later in the day and the days to come. Plus we have our sevenday forecast inside the app area. Announcer local, live, late breaking. This is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. Michelle , searching for answers after park. Investigators. Jason a major shakeup could be coming to the republican side of the president ial race. New poll numbers ahead of the president ial primary. A thursday morning. We will help you rise and shine i m jason guy. Imperato. This is if you are waking up in downtown orlando. Amy sweezey is here now with what you need to know for the day ahead. Amy we are going to have lots of sunshine again today, much like yesterday. The two big things like that will be different, number one it will be slightly cooler. It will only be two degrees cooler than yesterday. It will be breezy today. The wind coming out of the north northeast will help us keep cooler. I think you will notice the breeze a little bit more. Yesterday, the wind was fairly light. Our temperatures will climb as we see plenty of sun today. No fog to deal with this morning, and little bit of hayes news villages, but nothing like yesterday where visibility was way low. We are a few degrees warmer in most spots now than we were yesterday. 52 in daytona beach, 49 ocala and 47 and palm coast. As you plan your afternoon, look at these numbers. A few upper 60