Sandra cook was a math teacher at rockledge, and a district teacher of the year finalist. Superintendent Desmond Blackburn said, our hearts are truly saddened by the news of the Public Schools brightest. The principal called cook one of the finest people ever to teach there. Her neighbors say they didn t notice anything amiss between the two, although one said the husband had left in november, taking his truck and airboat. No fight going on or anything, just one day, all the toys were gone. Dan police have spent the day after having just remove the bodies a couple of minutes ago, have gone back in with metal detectors as they continue on this crime scene. They are saying, very pointedly, there is no suspect on the loose. We are live in melbourne, dan billow, wesh 2 news. Jim Kissimmee Police need your help tried to find a man who police say this man offered a ride to a woman walking on east vine street in the areas of bible baptist church. The Woman Told Police that when she got into the car, the man exposed himself and tried to stab her with a screwdriver and she did not comply with his sexual demands. She was able to get out of the car and run away, if you recognize this man called the crimeline. Meredith new at 6 00, a verdict overturned or a man convicted of killing an orlando bouncer. He was found guilty of stabbing a man to Death Outside of a large bar. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. The Fifth District court of appeals reversed the secondary mortar connection. Now, he will be sentenced for landslide or with a weapon. L. A. County woman also director of a local day care is now accused of child abuse. The incident was caught in camera. According to clermont police, this video shows kimberly read hitting a fouryearold boy with her hands and stuffed animals. About three feet in the air and drops him on his cot. The video was shot by a concerned employee. She said that she was just rough play with him, but it does not appear that way in the video. I watch the video this morning and it made me sick to my stomach watching. It is very sad. Meredith she was denied bond because she was on probation for food stamp fraud. Dcf says they are investigating. Jim tonight the Orange CountySheriff S Office says an investigation into an Excessive Force complaint is now finished. The report finds none of the deputies in violation. This stems from a july incident at the clubhouse of the retreat apartments in july involving Valencia College students. Deputies say deidra reid yelled at an offduty deputy s son, who refused to let her inside. When she did get inside, the deputy asked her to leave because she s not a resident. There was a confrontation that eventually spilled outside. Reid was arrested along with complaint a week later. Meredith a bystanders hit at a shootout with police on a local highway. It started friday night in sanford. Police say that 27yearold roshad smith is accused of first pointing a gun at travelers on 1792 in sanford friday evening, then witnesses say when a sanford officer arrived they say smith shot at the officer. The officer returned fire and smith ran off. A neighbor of smith s didn t want to speak with us on camera, but said this behavior is not something she d expect. Because he has children and he seems like a good father. I ve seen him with his kids and he s a good guy. Meredith smith is is jail without bond, accused of attempted murder. Jim a deland man is facing 35 years in prison after pleading no contest to running over a horse and its rider. One year ago, todd got into an argument with four horse back riders and then intentionally drove at the group, hitting and killing a horse and injuring a the 22yearold was arrested 30 miles from the scene with horse hair stuck in the grill of his full size pickup. Meredith i rest out of the day for some Elementary School students in Orange County. Their school had to be evacuate because to a gas leak. This happened at wetherbee Elementary School this morning. The leak was coming from the school s kitchen area. The staff was able to shut off the gas and no one was hurt. Jim ocala police are investigating a couple of drivebys in the city. The latest incident happening sunday when somebody and a white minivan with tinted windows fired shots from the sunroof. It happened in the 19 hundred block of southwest 7th place in ocala. A bullet chipped a concrete window sill. Police recovered a bullet from a television. Detectives are looking for three people. I seen the the white van with tinted windowns one red guy with a high top fade that was shooting, he had a gun in his hand. Jim drive by shooting happened saturday in the 1600block of northwest 16th street. A man was shot in the chest. Witnesses told police two suspects fled in a white van. Police don drivebys are connected. Meredith a 14yearold Deland High School student was hospitalized for Mental Health issues after he allegedly made threats to shoot up the school. Investigators say the 9th grader talked to friends last week about possible violence today and though as a precaution, extra police were on campus, the teen was not at school. Police contacted him at home where he allegedly told them the threats were just a joke and he didn t mean it. And in Orange County the principal of Maitland Middle School has now sent two automated calls to parents about recent threats on campus. The principal says they have been monitoring social media, regarding possible threats of violence circulating. Today class release times were staggered to limit the number of students out on campus at any given time. Staff and Law Enforcement will be on hand at tomorrow night s pta meeting starting at 7 00. To commitment 16 coverage, the time for talk is almost done, we are less than two hours from caucus time. Jim we are live in iowa and following all of the lastminute campaigning. S glad to Adrian Whitsett was live in des moines. We hear florida senator marco rubio is making a few guest appearances tonight . Adrian he is going to go to three specific caucus sites, wide and clive, which is about 50 miles west of where we are right now. Then he will pop over about four miles east of that to urbandale, where he will speak at two different caucus sites. Really, just trying to get people to come to his side tonight to see if he can possibly win to stay. He is third right now in the latest polls behind a surging donald trump and behind ted cruz. Who is leading here in the polls just about a month ago. And, these candidates are just some, a few, of the candidates that a group from Destin Florida wanted to me. As he made his way through his Campaign Office on monday, marco rubio seems can t, collected, and ready. I feel great. Discovered that. What you see on tv,a lot of them are very personable i never rubio, i never got the whole charisma that he had. Adrian they flew in to meet up with all the candidates in iowa. Sanders. I know some people think it s our economy does better when we have a democrat in the white house who will roll up the sleeves and get to work for us. Adrian donald trump with sarah palin. This is where we start. This is day one. Were going to take back our country. If everyohne one of you bring 9 people with you we re going to win the iowa caucuses. Adrian all the candidates still making their final push before this first vote. More than 200,000 people will caucus in iowa this evening. But there are two guys in the for the ride. I feel like we pretty much know. We wanted to get pictures with everyone so whoever wins we can have a pic with the president. Adrian here in just under two hours, the caucuses begin, there are 900 or so sites for the gop and about 1100 sites for the democrats. There will be just a few sites where they are intermixed, the republicans though, just filed secret ballots, they will file doubt who the winner is for the state s later in the night. The democrats could know immediately, at least within their precinct, who has won, because they go to separate corners of the room and try to pull other candidate possible orders over to them. We are in for a wild night, a lot of fun here in iowa and we will bring you the very latest on wesh. Com. Live and in line with commitment 2015 coverage, Adrian Whitsett, wesh 2 news. Meredith tonight wesh 2 is the place to turn for all the latest commitment 2016 coverage. Adrian whitsett will continue his coverage from des moines on wesh 2, the news hour at 10 and wesh 2 news at 11. Floridians have to wait until in march 15 order to cast the first ballots for president. In order to vote, you must s two weeks february 16. From tomorrow. While walking along a busy hasn t been identified was struck by a driver on u. S. 192 near hickory tree road just after midnight. Troopers say the man was walking in the left lane when the truck hit him. The driver did stop. No charges have been filed. New video tonight from Casselberry Police of a Convenience Store robbery. In this Surveillance Footage you can the man walk into the store on state road 436 late tuesday. He pulls out a gun, and forces the clerk away from counter at gunpoint. Police say he took money, and several cartons of cigarettes. No one was hurt. Big changes are coming to your route to orlando international. Jim a told us been demolished on the beach line. Nasty crash along a local highway. We re learning more about the mother of three who died trying to help a motorcyclist. Are they going to have trouble putting food on the table . Absolutely. Absolutely. Jim all new at 6 why tens of thousands of people could soon be losing their food stamp benefits. Eric also track in a warm evening across Central Florida, what to expect when you wake up and a warmer tuesday forecast, straight ahead. Work instruction on the 408 eastbound as part of i4 ultimate. If you are driving this week, you can encounter a lane taken out on the eastbound, right side between obesity to just past i4. The window is from 10 00 p. M. Until 6 00 a. M. , it could be sometime within those hours and that project is happening sunday through friday through february 5. App and you can get traffige jim a good samaritan, killed along with the motorcyclist she was trying to help near port orange early sunday, was a single mother of three young over on us 1 near harbor road after a motorcyclist who had veered into the median, was thrown off, landing in the southbound lanes of traffic. Martin was just kneeling over the motorcylist when both were hit by an oncoming minivan, then the motorcyclist was hit again by another vehicle. Martin and the biker, 23yearold santiago alverez died at the scene. That s one thing that gives me a little bit of peace, that she was doing something nice, but i still miss her and its too soon, kids are still young. Jim martin worked as a waitress at houligans and was headed home to new smyrna beach. Her colleagues are working on a fundraiser for martin s children. No has been charged in connection to the fatal chain of events. New at 6 00 thousands of people , struggling to put food on their tables, are facing an even bigger crisis tonight. Meredith beginning today, some people will be tossed from the food stamp program. Jim wesh 2 s greg fox reports, florida is among the states that forfeit their welfare benefits. Do i need Income Verification . Greg Frances Thompson goes to school, and job counseling, with the goal of one day shredding her food stamp card. So when there is a deadline, i make sure that we meet it. Greg thompson and other 18 to 49yearolds on welfare were mailed state letters saying their snap benefits would be dropped, if you are an ablebodied adult without a dependent, mentally disabled or pregnant unless you work. Frances has a baby, but she knows far too many friends who will lose benefits. Are they going to have trouble are they going to have trouble putting food on the table . Absolutely. Absolutely. Especially people who don t understand so they re not prepared. Greg so far, 67,000 of 300,000 targeted adults have not yet reported to Career Centers like this and could lose food benefits. You would think that warehouses like this one, Second Harvest food bank, with its 550 Partner Organizations providing 40 taking away snap benefits from some people in Central Florida would have little or no effect but the organizers of Second Harvest say that s not the case. Are the jobs really going to be there for all of these folks . Greg dave krepcho of Second Harvest, says despite lower unemployment, people can t find jobs. Those people have been working some, or looking for jobs and just really finding it challenging to find that fit. Greg the likely result, pantries and soup kitchens flooded with people who are ineligible for government paid food, for the First Time Since the recession. Greg fox, wesh 2 news. Woman snatching a purse from a 79yearold woman, and the frantic attempt to keep the thief from getting away. You can see the suspect identified as Antonette Florido approach the woman saturday in the parking lot of a walmart in ocala. She then grabs the purse and runs. Several people follow the suspect to her car and try to but she doesn hitting two people with her car. Florido has been arrested. Crews are demolishing one of the oldest toll plazas in Central Florida. This means you will no longer have to stop at the airport toll booth on the beachline. Transportation Officials Say it will ease congestion. The cash will now be collected at four new toll plazas that have been built on nearby beachline ramps. Meredith eric, pretty warm on a monday evening . Eric it s early goes more like march or april. With his guy like this, from our studios, you really cannot complain. Just a couple of clouds as the sun set another absolutely beautiful day. Right . Fall. As the sun comes out, it still feels like 79. Index value. Kissimmee. Same in leesburg. 70, daytona beach. Above average, not just in the well. Today. The record set back in 1985 was 87. Thankfully, we did not get back in 1936 is 28. Also, thankfully we did not get there. A couple of clouds overhead, but we have been nice and dry. Much. Ocala, by 11 00, down to 63. Daytona, really not moving much either, continuing through the 60 s. Eventually into the 50 s. For, we are not moving a ton. Actual temperatures, we ll make it down to 62 in orlando. 56, ocala. 59, the villages. Along the east coast communities, 6062. Tomorrow, this High Pressure will stick around and with a southerly winds, we get a nice, warm day and as a matter of fact, we are talking about even warmer temperatures across this is the forecast, 82, ocala. 81, daytona beach. 82, sanford 384, orlando. 85, kissimmee. Clouds around tonight, watch as we get this great shape popping up early tomorrow morning. That is futurecast indicating for developing, so we will be on the lookout for that. By lunchtime, a few sprinkles according to our model data. It will certainly be on the lookout for that. If you re heading to the beach tomorrow, with high temperatures in the low to middle 80 s, cannot complain about this, this serve running 12. Not great for servers. Water temperature, 5863. For boaters, 34 moderate chop. Wednesday, we begin to cloud things up as our system begins to move into town. Here is thursday at lunchtime, heavy rains beginning to a encroach on her northern areas. Earth day, what would showers friday, friday plenty of clouds around. Sunday, we start to watch a little area of low pressure off of the gulf of mexico try to move back in, bring in a showers and storms. Sevenday forecast is literally all over the place. Temperatures nice and warm for wednesday, storms thursday, clearing out and cooling down on friday and saturday, the next chance for storms, into sunday. Pat i m frightened. A win over the celtics to snap a nasty losing skid and now a date tonight in san antonio. Why winning there will be tough, coming next. And bonding time for the city soccer lads, who are leaving their Training Facility for a weeklong road trip. What that s all about, when we announcer its game night the only question that needs answering is what meal to make that everyone will love . How about an easy to make pasta with a medley of delicious florida vegetables . Pick up some fresh florida zucchini, beautiful golden squash, plump tomatoes, mushrooms, and garlic. Dice, saut\, combine with the pasta, and serve. Everyones a winner with this flavor packed meal. For more recipes visit freshfromflorida. Com. Look for the fresh from florida label when you shop because, delicious is always snapped an 8 game magic losing skid. Smiles all around for a team that in january was mostly and there s a good chance those smiles will be long gone come late this evening, cause the magic are in san antonio tonight, where even one game winning streaks go to die. As the magic were coming from behind to beat boston by 5 last. 250 outscoring opponents ther points. Still scott skiles happy with orlando will need every in ch of inch of it this evening. Really, we do not have just one guy who compel is out of situations when we get in them. We have to be flying around all the time. And we have a long stretch therefrom midthirdquarter to the end of the game where we played really hard and fall for it. Pat bonding time ahead this week for the city soccer lads, who have packed up and headeed to melbourne for six days of training on the coast. Adrian and his charges will kick it around at eastern flolrida State College on the spsacecoast, which is the temporary home orlando city b the lions new entry in the old , usl. The lads even set to scrimmage against eastern florida come sunday. And early report card from the coach. We have at the intensity this we went a little bit longer and a bit more intense. And the end of the week, we get to the game, i am hoping that the lads have gone from where i consider maybe 6570 to 8590. As leaking into get to that percent, they will be happy. Pat and Brandt Snedeker won a Golf Tournament without hitting a single shot today. Finished his final round at the toreey pines pga event sunday before weather pushed the finsh to this afternoon. Tied fo rthe lead at 6 under, but howling winds today saw everyone back up. And snedeker s score held up when k. J. Choi missed a long force a playoff. You like being picture perfect. You should want your banking to be too. Stop into td bank and well help set you up with picture perfect banking. New customers, open a checking and savings account and you can get a polaroid cube meredith an update to a story we brought you first on wesh 2. A local Boy Scout Troop is raising money to replace equipment thieves stole. Jim the crooks got away with their trailer last week from the parking lot of the all Saints Lutheran Church in south Orange County. It was used to store more than 10,000 dollars worth of items. We ve gotten several phone calls since this story aired. The information on how you can help is posted on wesh. Com. Scrabbling for lastminute