Jason good friday morning to you. Forecast for the weekend. Let s begin with a look at downtown orlando. Dave is in framing. Out the door . Activities. Baseball, art festivals, things going on around the disney and universal complex. It is feeling kind of sticky. Fairly clear over melbourne. Humidity at 97 . We could see reduced visibility s for an hour or two. The villages in ocala, 45 degrees cooler than they were one of the things we are seeing is still quite a bit of high cloud cover. We have enhanced satellite imagery. We do see some spotty showers. As we work into the midday, something where going to watch closely. Warm and humid day. Quiet weather. We have a crash on state road 50, right before similar on boulevard semoran boulevard. Lots of construction on i4 near the 528. On the 417, construction on a we will have a lane taken out going through that area. Jason thousands of drivers will notice a change as part of our i4 ultimate construction. The westbound ramp from orange avenue has been closed. The new temporary ramp is about four blocks west. Workers are doing it to make room for the new i4, 408 interchange in downtown orlando. The construction is expected to take 3 years. Officials say if you are heading north on orange avenue you ll now take gore street to get to the new ramp. If you are heading south on orange avenue you ll take south street to division street. We ll have a live update coming up at 5 00. Happening today, a driver involved in a crash that killed a father and son, is headed to traffic court. 75yearold Cynthia Guthrie was not criminally charged after rearending the back of the family s car at the intersection of state roads 436 and 434 last october. Jose vargas rosario and his oneyearold son brayden died in witnesses to the crash told wesh 2 news, they disagreed with the the case. Today, she ll answer to that citation of careless driving. Breaking overnight news. An nfl player is in Critical Condition after a motorcycle crash in miami. Polices say Baltimore Ravens cornerback tray walker was riding a dirt bike when he collided with a car around 8 00 last night. He was rushed to the hospital. Walker was selected in the fourth round of the 2015 nfl draft. In a statement, ravens coach John Harbaugh said this is devastating news. Our prayers and hopes are with tray and his family tonight. An entire neighborhood in mourning after a house fire that killed a lake county teenager. 17yearold trevor ross died after being pulled from the burning home in minneola. Wesh 2 s matt lupoli shows us how the community is remembering him. It s horrible. It to see. It won t soon forget. Pictures and flowers now stand where flames and smoke took a 17yearold boys life after his s historic home caught fire. There equate it to, it to think of someone who was there five minutes ago is not completely gone. Trevor ross could not escape re told no one else was inside when it broke out. Trevor went to minneola high trevor went to late high school. Was goodhearted, quiet, but always kind. Along with the unimaginable loss of a son and brother, officials tell us trevor s mother, father and teen brothers lost everything they owned to the flames. That s why the high school and the city are working to collect clothes and donations for that s the great thing about living in a small town, everyone knows each other eventually word travels and, everyone jumps behind it. The city of minneola is collecting donations for the ross family here at city hall the family has a place to stay for now, but temporary housing the fire is under investigation. Reporting from minneola, matt lupoli. Jason we re now hearing the 911 calls made by the victims of a Home Invasion in ocoee. I know that they busted my teeth out and they hit us all in the face with a gun. There was like 6 people. When we walked in we came home from the club. As soon as they opened the door, they ran up on us. They were already inside of the house. Jason police say the group kidnapped one of the 3 people inside, and then while making their getaway, caused a crash that hurt another driver. They then kept driving, and eventually crashed into a Police Officer s car. Guns and cash were stolen and the suspects are still on the run. The deland man will learn his fate today after running over a horse and its rider. Christopher todd plead no contest to aggravated battery charges last month. He got into an argument with four horseback riders in orange city back in february of 2015. He then intentionally drove at the group, hitting and killing a suffered a broken collar bone. Todd faces up to 35 years in prison. Florida senator marco rubio returns to the nation s capitol just days after ending his bid for president. He lost the florida primary on tuesday. Yesterday he talked about his future political plans. Sen. Rubio i m not interested in being vice president. I don t mean that in a disrespectful way. I m what to finish out my term in the senate. Then, i will be a private citizen in january. Jason he also said he believes t help the Republican Party if Donald Trumps wins the nomination. Narrowed conservative Movement Even further. The party. S primary, rubio lost in every county but miamidade. He did not endorse any candidates. Conservative leaders say they have met privately in washington to develop a plan to stop republican president ial frontrunner donald trump from getting the gop nomination. Leaders will not rule out a contested convention. Governor rick scott has kept his promise to veto millions of dollars in spending from the new state budget. He signed the 82 billion dollar budget last night. Before that, he vetoed 256 million in spending for roads, health care and lawenforcement programs. However, the budget does include a slight boost in funding for schools. Next on sunrise, a bizarre scene at a local hospital leaves thousands of dollars in medicine possibly contaminated. Plus cheers turn to screams at a florida pep rally. Cameras are rolling as a performer catches fire. And back outside, here is a view looking beautiful this morning in Daytona Beach. The waters warm and so is our dave humidity levels are high. We will see patchy fog develop around central florida. Another day like yesterday in we may see showers moving in early today. Yesterday morning, the low cloud deck was in place at this hour. The fog had begun to form. We were also warmer yesterday morning. If you are stepping out here in the next hour or two, it will feel nice. Orlando, 65 degrees. Getting close to high humidity levels and probably see patchy fog develop in a couple of locations. Ocala, bottomed out around 70 yesterday morning. Cooler off to the north and west. 65, melbourne. Back into the middle 80 s today. A lot of cloud cover out there, nothing but filtered sunshine. Showers are pushing from west to east. We are watching for a little bit of active weather as we work into the day today. Perhaps a couple of afternoon showers or a thunderstorm like we saw yesterday area into the weekend, more rain heading into the forecast. Ted state road 40, westbound colonial roads are closed right now. Use Lake Underhill or the 408. Eastbound. Left lane taken out. We are seeing traffic backing up into this area. Jason this morning a lake county man is accused of possibly contaminating thousands of dollars in medication after allegedly urinating on a hospital refrigerator. Police say 53yearold clyde brooks is homeless and came to Florida Hospital waterman in tavares early wednesday morning. He then allegedly began to urinate on the walls and floor, some of it getting on the refrigerator. The pricy medicine inside had to be thrown way due to possible contamination. Out of jail. This morning several students are in the hospital after a performer caught on fire at a pep rally. This happened at Delray Beach High School was caught on camera. Students say the fire breathing performer was in the middle of his routine when he accidentally set himself ablaze. In the video students at Atlantic Community high school can be seen running to help. But then after i saw everyone running to him and everyone s trying to put out the fire, taking off their jacket to like put it out. So then we realized the actual situation. So i tried to remain calm, and people are freaking out a couple people passed out, one girl went into a seizure. Seven students were taken to the hospital and 12 more were traded on the campus. The performer suffered serious burns, but is expected to recover. There s still no word on what exactly went wrong. A car slams through the front doors of a south florida pizzeria and it was all caught on camera. Surveillance video shows the suv a downtown pizza place wednesday night. Instead of parking, the driver keeps going, and crashes through the restaurant. A car struck two people, a man they were rushed to the hospital but they re expected to be ok. Officials say the driver just lost control. Happening today, a new crew will be launching to the International Space station. A new picture from nasa shows the soyuz rocket on the launch pad in kazakhstan. It will carry nasa Flight Engineer jeff williams, and two russian cosmonauts to the iss. The launch is set from 526 tonight our time. It won t dock at the International Space station until tomorrow at 11 12 p. M. When williams is finished with his 170 day mission he will replace scott kelly as the nasa in space overall at 534 days. Today the Volusia County beach patrol will be out in large force to deal with spring break crowds. A dozen or so sheriff s deputies met with beach officers yesterday to learn about the problems encountered so far. There have been upwards of 120 arrests in the last two weeks and wednesday an officer had a dislocated shoulder during a confrontation with a college student. Officers say students are trashing the beach with cups, cans and empty bottles. Artists from around the world will line the streets of winter park. The 57th annual sidewalk art festival starts at 9 00 this morning along park avenue. The festival features more than 220 artists. The artwork includes everything from sculptures to paintings. The festival runs until 6 00 tonight. It will also be open from 9 00 until 5 00 saturday and sunday. Happening today. Some familiar faces to wesh 2 viewers will be taking the mound at spring training. Wesh 2 anchors Stewart Moore and Angela Taylor along with chief meteorologist Tony Mainolfi will the Miami Marlins take on the atlanta braves. The game starts at 1 05 this afternoon at espn s wide world of Sports Complex at disney. You don t want to miss that. The Arnold Palmer invitational is about to start it s second day. We have a look at the leader action so far at bay hill. Jason the Arnold Palmer hill. And march madness gets underway. Wesh 2 s pat clarke has your morning sports. Pat it is too bad phil, ricky, and bubby anna and bubba are not playing at arnold s place. No disrespect of them. Some great play on thursday and great to see the king out enjoying it. Early thursday morning, justin rose playing the tough third as well as anyone can. Second shot from the fairway. Into the whole for eagle Henrik Stenson with a near miss last year, positioning him self well. Eagle at 16. He shoots 67. They are chasing jason day, six under 66. Buoyed by an eagle at 16. He is your leader after round one. I m just trying to win. I can t think about it now. There is three more days. I have to be patient. Today is a good day. I am happy with it, but i have to focus on tomorrow. It is no pushover if you get out of position. Will be difficult here over the week with the firm greens. That is the kind of start i am happy with. Hats here s a look at the leaderboard. All of the players at five under will play in the afternoon wave on friday. You see the dismal day for rory mcilroy. A double bogey that he never recovered from. If golf was in a good enough reason, st. Patrick s day was. Many of the professionals wearing green. Some on this day luckier than others. Fans celebrating as they watch their team s win firstround games in the ncaa tournament. Some lamenting the loss. At devastating blow to jim payne and this upset and providence. Gail playing in the ncaa for the First Time Since 19 six two. Stunning number five. A career high of 31 points. The bulldogs win for the First Time Ever in this tournament. Next up, a date with duke. On thursday night, miami holding ieces, plus youll save an extra one hundred dollars, on every thousand you spend. And, were offering twentyfour month, no interest financing. Come in today for storewide savings. With havertys, your home can be perfect. Even when life isnt. [thwack] the spring home event. From classic to contemporary, jason right now we re working on new stories for our 5 00 hour. Michelle imperato joins us from the newsroom with a preview, good morning. Michelle some of the biggest stars of Country Music are coming to town. We ll preview the runaway Country Music festival. Then, a new effort by Republican Leaders to defeat donald trump. The closed door meeting that was held. Plus a construction worker dies after a terrifying fall from a skyscraper. What we re learning about the 53story fall. That is coming up next. Jason we will see in a few minutes. Let s turn back to the forecast. It is another pleasant start temperaturewise. Dave this is the weekend we head into spring. A lot of things happening because of spring training. Epcot has the flower and garden show. We only drop so far, the 71 degrees. There is cloud cover around central florida. Something we will watch. It will be interesting because as opposed to yesterday, the storms hit midafternoon to late afternoon. I think more activity will play out into the evening. There are your current temperatures. As we look at the first alert radar with satellite imagery, showers are moving in from the west falling apart. The expectation is to keep dry. Is going to become active again. Early evening hours, we may get a couple of thunderstorms that will pop up hours. The best chance for rain is more like a 20 to 30 chance. First alert futurecast shows light rain and the potential through midday. As we work, it breaks up. When the models play out, we think perhaps a lot of that is going to come with cloud cover. A call for mostly cloudy skies today. Lower to middle 80 s, a couple of spots touching on the mid to s. Art festival, it will be sticky. Beach, moderate rip current threat has been jacked up to high. Definitely more surf out there. A good day for surfers today. A longer. That. Chance of rain again on saturday. Jason looking at a crash that just moved off to the side. No longer a big concern. Construction, lots of it this morning. This is at the 528. Directions. Approaching five 535. Jason the fight over the flint toxic water crisis is heading to capitol hill. Let s go outside to alex villareal. Alex you are going to see a big jason we will have all of that for you, plus we get to the forecast. Announcer local, live, latebreaking. This is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. Michelle a major on ramp is shut down as part of a project. We are live with what this means for your commute. Plus, the new push to get donald trump removed from the republican nomination. This is Daytona Beach over by the coast, we are waking up in the 60 s. Dave, what is the weather . Dave i really appreciate it. Humidity levels on the high side. 71 is the way it is looking along the coastline. 63 in the melbourne area. Watching showers pushing in from the west. You can see them falling apart. Mainly a high cloud deck. Once the sun gets up, i would expect mostly cloudy skies. Enough energy as you look into the afternoon
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