Jason the power struggle over the Supreme Court replacement. Some reaction today from republicans. Thanks for waking up with the sunrise team. It is going to be quite nice outside. We are dealing with clouds and low temperatures right now but the sun will come out. Amy sweezey is here to tell us. Amy we will have full sunshine once we get rid of these morning clouds. Humidity will be low, plenty of sun, and temperatures today will try to climb from the sun but we will only be in the midupper 60 s. 10 degrees cooler than average. Look how much cooler it is now than yesterday morning. Yesterday, we were waiting for Severe Weather to roll in. Today, we are 1520 degrees colder and that puts us in the degrees in melbourne. Now. Cover here and there. The clouds are going to keep working their way out over the next couple of hours because all of this really dry air, that is going to lead to lots of sun and also lower humidity as well. Look at the numbers. We will make it to 68 in orlando , and 67 in melbourne. Let s get a traffic update. Ted the 408, keeping track on the westbound delays, not re just late. Not there just yet. Would only cost you four minutes on the eastbound side of the turnpike, just past the turnpike , no delays there. John young, obt 50 miles an hour, and the whole stretch from the turnpike to colonial will only cost you eight minutes. Jason you are looking live at the i4 ultimate construction site in maintenance maitland. A worker was killed by a dump truck. Michelle Alex Villareal is live. What are officials telling you . Alex they are calling this a tragic event and they will not resume work on the project until everyone feels ready. What that means for you today is that you will not be seeing any of these machines moving along i4. The shutdown comes after a 34yearold construction worker, marvin franklin, was killed a dump truck backed over him. Franklin had walked behind the truck when it was stopped and franklin was an employee for sgl constructors, the lead contractor on the project. Officials released a statement saying they did not immediately know what caused the accident. Their focus now is to support individuals and families. We need to stop for the moment, take a look at our safety protocols. Our primary focus is our people. Alex officials will not be working at all today. Tomorrow, inspections will be done at the worksite and they will return to work where everybody is ready. We will bring those straight to michelle there is Little Information about a double shooting in orlando. Shots were fired on king cole boulevard not far from the First Baptist church. Both victims were taken to the hospital and are expected to recover. Two robbers are in hiding after a white a wild chase on i4. Jazmin walker is here with the latest. Jazmin this started when the crux took a man s while it when the crooks took a man s wallet. Drivers saw the car and the cops speeding past before it eventually ended with a crash. One person in the car was taken into custody, two others got away. The most likely person scared, a no one in that truck was hurt. The victim at the steak and shake was fine. If you can catch the 2 help catch the two on the run, call the Sheriff S Office. Jason investigators say two carjackers stole a Dodge Charger in east Orange County around 3 00 this morning. The suspect was riding with the victims before the attack. One woman was hit but not seriously hurt. We are hearing from in Orange County store clerk who was hit by a bullet at a robbery of his store. You see the clerk walking out with buckets of mop water. Four men barge in, one demanding money. The man sees the chaos when he returns. The clerk is shot twice in the leg. He shoots down there. Jason if you know who these men are, call crime line. Michelle the senate is expected to vote on a resolution on the antonin scalia. Tracy potts has the latest developments from washington. Taken. The white house and the Senate Confirmed that chuck grassley, that holds Supreme Court confirmation hearings, will meet with president obama next week. The white house is vetting a republican. Brian sandoval, to replace justice scalia. It will be very difficult for mr. Mcconnell to explain how, if the public concludes this person senate should stand in the way simply for political reasons. This is a way for democrats to extract maximum pain on republicans. Democrats have a petition. 1. 3 Million People who say the senate should not lock the president s nominee. The senate needs to do its job. Republican leaders insist they won t consider and obama appointee during an election year. Still no word how soon president obama will name a nominee. Michelle republican candidates will face off in houston tonight. Donald trump is hoping to build on his momentum following his win in nevada. Marco rubio and ted cruz are fighting for second place. John kasich and ben carson will jason the deadly Severe Weather system sweeping across our nation will be a big snow maker in the northeast. Seven people have died from the storm after a tornado killed four in virginia wednesday. The today show s latest weather reports. That Winter Weather packing a powerful punch, spawning tornadoes and heavy rain, was not done overnight. It caused more damage, rising the death toll even higher. Jason 6 09, in about 12 hours spacex is going to make a second try to send up a rocket from the cake. Yesterday s launch was scrubbed due to weather conditions. We are going to be watching the wind. Jason there is a little bit of cloud cover right now. Amy we have the clouds now, but clear sky and sunshine. The problem is the wind. The breezy wind will be Even Stronger and even gusty or through the afternoon and evening. When the window opens at 6 45 tonight, the big concern will be those breezy winds. Right now, 80 chance the rocket will be able to launch this evening. Temperatures are on the cool side. It is 54 in orlando, 48 palm coast, ocala at 49 and the villages at 50 degrees. We have breezy wind coming in. 1015 Miles Per Hour makes it feel colder. The breeze. On the strong side today. The breeze will stay on the strong side today. Let s see what is happening on the roads. No delays getting into downtown orlando. Right there all the way to the left, you have those on ramps, and they are not backing up. Still a green light to go westbound at i4 at just about four minutes. Eastbound on the right side of the screen, michigan street getting into downtown orlando, john young to colonial only 56 minutes right now. Westbound on the right side of the camera, the longwood rest area, things looking good. Lake mary to lee only five minutes. Jason a warning going out to College Professors to avoid trigger topics. Michelle new gun laws. How certain criminals could catch a break in court. Jason the new video you will spokesbox go paperless, dont stress, girl i got the discounts that you need safe driver accidentfree everybody put your flaps michelle all construction on the i4 ultimate project is on hold after a worker was killed. Marvin franklin was killed after he ran was run over by a dump truck. P grief counselors will be on hand. Jason a shooting wounded to victims on king cole boulevard. Michelle one robbery suspect has been caught and two others are on the run. They robbed the man outside of a Altamonte Springs steak and shake at gunpoint. They crashed in lake mary. Florida has some new gun laws on the books. Jason Brett Connolly with a look at the measures. Brett the governor signed two gun bills into law including the ones in the backyard rains bill. The new law bans Recreational Use of guns when there are one or more homes per acre of land. To the second change we will see in the courts, judges have more flexibility sentencing criminals that have used guns. A judge was forced to give 10 years if someone showed a gun and 20 if they fired it. This new law gives judges options when sentencing those convicted of aggravated assault. Some criminals could see less time under these guidelines. The changes go into effect guidelines will be adjusted this summer. Jason in texas, a new gun large classrooms. In response, university of houston professors are being drop certain sensitive topics and change the suspect subject if the student is getting angry. A similar bill is stalled in florida s senate. Michelle a fraternity at fsu is suspended over hazing allegations. Pledges were forced to take part in a tricking drinking game called old south which involves acting as slaves. To a story you will only see on wesh 2, police are looking for a group of thieves. This guy in the white shirt uses his jacket to reach into that older lady s purse well she is eating lunch. The group walks out, but some cash and coins falls on the floor. Local Community Leaders are still working to send aid to the sunshine 4 flint drive collecting financial contributions. Donations can be dropped near south john young parkway. Michelle it is going to be a nice day but jackets required. Amy in the shade or in the sun, it is going to be windy today. Jason and that is through the whole day. Amy downright gusty this afternoon. We need sun to make though winds go away. Colder than we were yesterday. S for the most part. We still have cloud cover. That will be different tomorrow. The wind will be lighter and our temperatures are going to be even cooler than this. Beach, 54 orlando and kissimmee and 55 in melbourne. Close to our normal temperatures but when you factor in the wind, it feels chillier. Sustained wind in most spots, lighter breeze to the north along the coast that palm coast still reporting a nine mileperhour wind. We have a feelslike temperature at 44. We have wind chill s this morning. Cold front that brought us strong and severe storms is to the south of us. We have got cooler, drier air but we still have a few lingering clouds we are dealing with this morning. We will end up with plenty of sunshine and the clouds are going to go away because look at all this dry air. The orange color on the map, that is the dry air. It means low humidity. It will still be windy this we get to past noon. 202530 miles an hour gusts. Not inside thunderstorms but on a sunny, beautiful day. 66 in the villages and 67 in claremont, it will be cooler today than yesterday. 67 longwood, 68 st. Cloud, 68 in palm bay, 66 in Daytona Beach and 64 in flagler beach. This cold air will stick around for a couple of days. Tomorrow is going to be colder. Tomorrow, highs only in the mid60 s and saturday morning we will have some frost across the metro area with lows in the 30 s. Time for traffic now. Ted from the chopper, they are flying on i4 westbound. They are flying west now, starting to approach the lake mary area. No major delays there. This is the dot camera facing east into downtown orlando. At michigan street, no delays. John young to colonial still 56 minutes. On the bridge, that would be the little virtual 408. Dean wrote toll plaza to i4, short drive at only nine minutes. Michelle a former disney worker speaking out. Jason outsourcing allegations against the mouse house are under screwed the. Lowes presents how to put your foot in your mouth. Man, wish my yard looked like yours. Hey, the grass is always greener on the other side of the. Sorry. Now get 20 off stagreen fertilizer, jason a fed ex driver causes a scare for drivers in tampa. Michelle you can see the box truck swerving all over the road. Come on, pull over. Michelle after that driver yells, you can see the truck swerve over the median and the i think i slave saved lives that day. Michelle deputies and fed ex are trying to figure out what caused the erratic driving. Jason a majority of drivers admit to being distracted behind the wheel. Aaa said 80 of people admitted to engaging in at least one risky behavior in the past month. More than two in three drivers talking on the cell phone, and one in three guilty of sending a text message. Jason a fire disney worker will testify about losing his job to a foreign worker. 250 engineers relate laid off after they were forced to retrain trained their replacements in india. Today, a Senate Subcommittee will hear from one of those 250 people, a man who lived in michelle in our next half hour, apple is making new moves in the privacy battle. Jason nothing close to what the fbi wants to hear. Michelle you won t see crews working on the i4 ultimate project today. A worker was killed on the job. Amy we are colder when we start a step out this morning. 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Jason Central Florida cools down, you are going to need a jacket when you step outside. Michelle beautiful sunrise in downtown orlando, we are going to get a check of your roadways in just a minute. Amy what a different 24 hours makes. We had a lot of clouds. We were in the 70 s and today we are waking up to almost clear skies with only a couple of clouds out there. We have sunrise within the half hour but we are brightening up already and we are going to have plenty of sunshine today. We will top out in the midupper 60 s this afternoon. A cool day as that cold air keeps coming in behind that front. 48 degrees, palm coast and ocala. Daytona beach is at 50. There is our cold front that rolled through your yesterday. Now, we have a little bit of cloud cover that is still scattered about. It is going to keep working its way out here. We have dry air in the middle part of the atmosphere and we will have sunshine and low humidity today. Temperatures in the midupper 60 s. 65 in dunnellon, 67 in sanford, 68 in maitland, midupper 60 s along the coast, sunny and breezy winds. Ted the chopper is continuing to fly west here into downtown orlando, tracking traffic. This is westbound at the fairbanks curve where we see no delays. I4, eastbound on the right side , into downtown orlando looking pretty good. Westbound on the left side, still moving along pretty good. Current travel times at key congestion spots, none of them are over at this point in time. Michelle the normal construction will not be happening. Jason the project is on hold after a accident killed the worker. Alice villareal is live there this morning. We still don t know when the work will start back up. Alex we don t know yet, all we do know is that it will not be happening today. They have suspended the project all day today and say that tomorrow they will be doing inspections of the worksite before deciding to resume when they feel that everyone is ready. The shutdown comes after a 34yearold construction worker, Marlon Franklin marvin franklin, was killed yesterday just north of kennedy boulevard. Truck when it was stopped. Franklin was an employee for sgl construct errors. Statement saying they do not immediately know what caused the accident. Their focus is to support deal with this tragic event. Need to stop for the safety protocols are. Refocus on our work plans, our accents access. See if we have any other issues. They sure we have got training reemphasized and generally have a stand down to emphasize safety on a project. Alex you won t be seeing any of this construction work happening along the i4 ultimate project s corridor, but Officials Say they will return to work once they deem that everyone is ready. Villareal. Michelle two people are in the hospital after a shooting in orlando. Brett Authorities Say this is an active and Ongoing Investigation and right now they have do not have information on the shooter. This was on king cole boulevard. Police responded to the scene just before 11 30 last night. Investigators taped off the space greg found two victims with gunshot wounds. With nonlife threatening injuries. Jason Orlando Police working to find the gunman behind a carjacking at in apartment complex. Apartments. A man in a in his face and amanda keys. Whether it is loaded, i don t know. So i did what he said. Jason the stolen car is a 10 2007 lexus es 350. The man who stole his car is still out there. A mother accused of killing her own son. 59yearold virginia are take a thought her son, blake howard, wasn t happy. She had reportedly been out of work and was depressed. Howard was shot while he showered in his apartment. Our take a than 24 hours working up the courage to take her own life. Michelle the republican president ial candidates will try to win over voters in the Lone Star State tonight. Ted cruz moves to his home turf for the debate. Nikole killion reports it is one of the most important states up texas awards most delegates of any of the super tuesday states. The race is now down to five candidates who will appear on stage. Donald trump front and center with three wins, but his rivals are looking to blunt his momentum. Ted cruz taking on trump and marco rubio calling out the front runner by name. We are not impressed by a lot of blustery rhetoric that is not backed up by truth. Donald thinks parts of obama care are pretty good. We are getting rid of the rest of obamacare. Rubio s attacks mark a shift in strategy as the florida senator has tried to stay positive and avoid trump. Michelle the u. S. And china have agreed to impose tougher sanctions against north korea. The u. N. Resolution was done in the Un Security Council is expected to hold a meeting to discuss those sanctions. Apple has two more days to file a former legal response formal legal response. Tim cook says it would be bad for america for apple to imply comply with the fbi. The feds want apple to let them into the locked cell phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. They have until tomorrow to tell the court why they are going to defy this order. Apple says it would open everybody s phone to hackers. Isis supporters are threatening to take down facebook and twitter. The Group Released a video occasionally showing both men engulf in flames. The video is a response to both companies trying to stop terrorist activity on their platforms. Michelle the zika virus in our state and all are pregnant women who traveled from outside the united states. A cases have been confirmed. Governor scott is asking for zika test kits. Jason Law Enforcement officials will announce arrests in a multistate Drug Trafficking observation operation. Charges at 1 00 this afternoon. Wesh 2 will be there. Overnight, a firsthand look at the new king kong ride at universal orlando. Michelle but first, a small little boat, spinning around, no one in it. Michelle it is chilly out there this morning. Jason we want to get to our outside weather studio where amy sweezey is standing by. Amy it is in the 50 s, which if there wasn t a breeze it wouldn t be too bad. It is definitely breezy out here. Clear skies and that is adding to these temperatures falling. 48 ocala, 48 in the villages. 20 degrees colder than we were yesterday morning at this time. The wind makes it feel chillier. Those winds are coming out of the northwest at 1015 Miles Per Hour. Those clouds will go away and we will end up with plenty of sun today as the winds increase and our temperatures topped out in the midupper 60 s. More about how this cold air is ted the thursday morning drive is looking pretty good along i4. One trouble spot. This is the chopper, westbound on the right side and they are flying on the approach to the 528 where they have been seeing things looking pretty good. We are hitting the brakes on i4 westbound through Altamonte Springs. From lake mary to lee, it is going to start bunching up. That is about 13 minutes. Where you hit the brakes most will be ultimate altam onte to maitland. Michelle cruise looking for the 76yearold man. His boat was found empty. Jason we spoke to the man who made the discovery. Jazmin gus costello says he spotted the small boat spinning water out there, gray skies and wind, he knew something wasn t right. Orange county dive teams and the lake county Sheriff S Office closed down tremble park and started searching. It was spinning for 45 minutes. About 100 feet from shore , i said obviously something is wrong. Michelle conditions can quickly deteriorate. The lake is more than 1100 acres wide but an average of 10 feet deep. It is considered shallow. It is unclear why the voter went out when storms were expected. The park is going to remain closed as the search continues. We expect crews to continue the search. Michelle two teens have been arrested for the murder of a with seconddegree murder. But it goes the two subjects at each other. Up guns. Your life will be ruined forever as these two individuals will be as well. Think of the loss of a sixyearold. Michelle police still looking for other people involved. Jason only on wesh 2 news, a know you can deposit checks right from your phone. Transfer money to someone quickly and easily. Speak to a financial professional when its convenient. And pay for things using android pay. Know that with pncs convenient solutions, at least your finances will vo making the most out of every mile. Thats why i got a subaru impreza. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. In 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, good morning. Breaking overnight, fierce storms move up the east coast after slamming the south. Took my truck up in the air and glass is coming in. A new round of tornadoes killing at least four people in virginia. Heavy rain and high winds knock out pow across the northeast and in the midwest a crippling