Today, we will remain dry and mild afternoon with a daytime high of 74 degrees fit starting tomorrow morning, you will want to be weather aware updating the latest timing of the storms moving back into Central Florida. Back in less than 10 minutes. 5 30 am deneige. Semite road is blocking a lane. Sam lake road. Keep that in mind. Roadwork on i95 northbound that does have it blocked off northbound i 4 so you will be redirected to williamson boulevard to get back on i95 northbound and we have a crash ham brown road at woodford dr. , kissimmee partially blocked jamie . Orange county moms will face down state lawmakers today break. And 9 am, they will gather to speak with representatives about making recess mandatory. Listen in on the discussion. Reporter lawmakers have said before in extra 20 minutes out here on the playground could make the day longer in the classroom and that could in turn come at a financial cost to school districts. Moms across the state say kids are counting on them. At 9 am, that statewide fight for students will meet in tallahassee. Theres a lot of weight on our shoulders. Reporter heather and other moms will speak to state representatives about making recess mandatory at elementary schools. The bill will require to make a part of the daily schedule a group of moms says it is supported by educators and research. We have binders of Peer Reviewed research from the cdc, American Academy of pediatrics, big, powerful organizations who are experts in the field of child development. Playground could be expensive for schools. Lawmakers have expressed concern that mandatory recess might cost districts money. If it makes the school day longer. Parents say the greater cost would be for students if lawmakers do not get behind the movement. You cannot expect the small 6, 7, 8yearold children to 6 for sick hour 6 hours a day without a break. Our own jobs. Bring concerns in a few hours to lawmakers. We will follow the discussion news at noon. For the next 30 minutes looking into the recommendations that are already in place white moms say it is not enough. Live in Orange County, Kimberly Eiten, Eyewitness News this morning. Fdle says the only 2 arrest in florida under the new revenge porn law have been in seminole county. Stephen ward was arrested of the weekend after deputy say he posted a naked photo of a woman on facebook that charles guy was arrested last month accused of doing the same thing. Convicted, the maximum time and they will spend in prison will be one year. The potential political careers of a fatherson and Osceola County are now on hold. I feel bad for my son because he had a shot and now because of the name i think it is best we both walk away. On friday Anthony Ferentinos who owns tj auto sales was arrested on grand theft, scheming to defraud and forging documents that he was running for a seat in the county commission. Investigators say he falsified pay stubs and credit applications to help car buyers qualify for credit. Is innocent he says and because of allegations he and his son john who was running for a seat in the state has decided to drop out of the races. Was less than one week away from the iowa caucus in the Democratic Candidates each got to take some time to sit with voters during a twohour town hall meeting. Each candidate had the stage to themselves. First up was u. S. Senator from vermont Bernie Sanders the poll numbers were rising in the last few weeks catching up to have questioned his views on what Socialism Means to him and how it would play a role in his plans for the country. It means there is something wrong when the rich get richer and almost everybody else get poorer. It means something is wrong and government should play a role in making sure that all of our kids regardless of their income are able to get a higher education. Before clinton hit the stage Martin Omalley answered questions of and clinton told voters she still is standing despite negative azan accusations against her. People have thrown all kinds of things at me and i cannot keep up with it. I just keep Going Forward, they fall by the wayside, they come up with these outlandish things, they make these charges, i just keep Going Forward because there is nothing to it. There are 2 more of a credit debate. Republican debate is this thursday in iowa. Right now Security Experts are saying 3 inmates who escaped a maximumsecurity prison in california may have had inside help from staff. Investigators believe those inmates got out friday just after the 5 am inmate count. They say the trio cut through the metal grate in a holding cell and then went through plumbing tunnels to the roof and used bedsheets to climb down. They are on the run this morning those inmates are serving time for crimes including kidnapping, torture, and murder. American airlines is working on installing new technology on jets to avoid running into turbulence for this comes after 2 planes in florida ran into trouble in the air just weeks apart. On sunday, flight headed for miami to milan was forced to land in canada passengers are the turbulence was so bad the plane dropped and then rolled. 7 people had to be taken to the hospital. A similar thing happened earlier this month on a flight from new york to miami. County say into problems called plane to land in the middle of a busy rd. , sunday. Into law from Palm Beach County headed to key west but the engine problems 4th the pilot to land on u. S. 27 near i75. No one was hurt. A search for an escaped inmate has now entered its 4th day. We have been telling you u. S. Marshals have taken the lead searching for gary bullock, his girlfriend and her 3yearold son. Eyewitness news this morning deneige live in the studio. He could face many years in prison was caught. He was 5 years into an 8 Year Prison Sentence for once cause, legal analysts say bullock will lose the time hes already earned. Enforcement. We have been following the search for him since friday when Volusia County deputies girlfriend natasha quickly helped him cut off his ankle before the escape, she allegedly stole money and a gun 3yearold son. At the top of the hour you heard our legal analyst former melvin perry explain how quickly quickly could be facing prison time was captured and bullock may lose the time he served in prison after serving and having to sat serve that back to back with news part charges will face and that will impact his chance of ever earning the privilege of a Work Release Program again. Judges generally treat escape cases very seriously, particularly who are on work release who just walk away because they gained a certain level of independence and they basically violated the public trust. By just walking away. Bullock had been working among tourists at a hotel and daytona beach. Investigators say he was only a few months away from completing that Work Release Program when he escaped. Nancy . Planned parenthood did not do anything wrong in the videos that appear to show the Group Selling fetal tissue for profit. The grand jury indicted antiabortion activists who went on to the upper and the videos. David dale than an centromere and accused now of tampering with governmental records. Dale then indicted on the law banning the purchase and sale of human organ is the video show people pretending from a Research Company touring texas. He used the same he says techniques used by investigative journalist the a bill making its way through tallahassee that would make nearly all abortions illegal the final defining laugh at beginning at conception and banning abortion less 2 doctors state in writing it is necessary to prevent death or sears injury to the mother bear the committee passable yesterday but anti abortion lawmakers, some say it violates the state constitution and you a Supreme Court decisions and unlikely to make it to the state senate. Orlando city commissioners have saved a wellknown park in orlando that is home to a centuryold oak tree. Preserve constitution green in there is a tree. They bought the park from the 5 39 am. We check weather and traffic every 10 minutes. Rusty mccranie here. In cold weather is not. You may not need the oak tree for shea because fair amount of clouds are working in but a milder start to the morning. Cool but not cold. 53 all i know apopka 49 winter park 50, Brewster County daytona 52, 15 degrees above 24 hours ago. Debary sitting in at 51. We will be dry today but we will see winds swinging out of east and southeast and that will start to pull in more moisture. It will not be humid afternoon but milder. The clouds will begin to building and it is after midnight that the next el nio storm system moves in. Look at the slug of moisture was showers and storms that will be here by daybreak tomorrow. So for today, in the metro, get temperatures were actually climb above average today. Areawide with the east to southeast breeze coming up i will show you the timing of the storms on wednesday and we will look at the impact you need to know. Stay weather aware. 5 40 am. I4 westbound sam lake road lane. Blocked off for a crash that has been out there. Deer park rd. Crash at u. S. 192, alain of blocked off. Ham brown road and Kissimmee Woodford drive one lane blocked off and once again that lane i 4 westbound at sam lake road have been moving everyone over in the got someone injured off in an ambulance but at this point they are try to clear it out and i will let you know when lanes reopened the hispanic groups going to the capital to push for different bills affecting hispanic residents. The classes they want offer to on the residents in the legislation they want stopped. Add, by killed and Osceola County couple in their home in what neighbors say they heard just before the case went i did not think about the gun. 5 44 am. Miles from across the state are meeting in tallahassee this way to send a message to lawmakers that they will ask state reps to back a bill making recess students. Eyewitness news this morning Kimberly Eiten is following the discussions. Template, this has become a movement locally. Reporter nancy, Orange County moms will be part of the Group Pushing the mandatory recess bill at the capital today. They want students to have an extra 20 minutes here on the playground every day. That is what there was be to state representatives about today and as they help make recess part of the daily schedules and elementary schools. Moms claim teacher and research is on their side show the benefits of giving kids a break but lawmakers say it could come at a cost at a financial cost to schools if the end result is a longer school day. Orange county Public Schools past a recess resolution last year in at the top of the hour out will explain why that is different from what moms want now of why they say that was only a start. Live in Orange County, Kimberly Eiten, Eyewitness News this covering Osceola County, 2 men who held up a cab driver outside of a local walmart are still on the run. This happen sunday in the parking lot of a store in vineland road. The victim did not want to be identified but he spoke to Eyewitness News telling us the man asked him for a ride. He says he told them to go to the cabin the front of the line that they returned later with a gun. He said give me your phone. I showed him my phone and it was not a good phone and they said give me money. I had just a few dollars and they said give me what you have yet gfeller county Sheriffs Office released this surveillance photo of the suspects yesterday. It is hard to make out but if you recognize them call crime line. Push by investigators in lakeland say smoking his what caused the deadly fire that started at an independent living facility of the weekend. Firefighters st. That facility known as bella vista manner did not have fire sprinklers because the building was built before the new rules were approved in 1971. Eldercare advocate say it is up to the families to check on Safety Measures before moving and loved one into a senior facility. We now know the names of the Osceola County couple who fire over the weekend it by the time firefighters got into the burning home at the siesta lago Mobile Home Park and kissimmee on saturday, 47yearold Darrell Rogers was dead hit his 72yearold wife jean, later died from her injuries. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined but neighbors say they heard gunfire before the home caught fire. And president president obama is pitching proposal as standing access to retired save them counterproposals giving 30,000,000 people access to Retirement Savings accounts. The increase would come from new legislation requiring employees without retirement plans to automatically enroll workers in individual retirement accounts. We are now getting to hear from the florida mom who fended off to armed carjackers from her car that was full of kids. I yell dont get my kids are in the car. You dont mess with moms. It happens at a miami gas station. Cameras got the struggle on force their way inside angies car. Her 1yearold daughter and 7 yearold son was still inside and the kids watched as their mom pulled one of the men right out of the driver seat. My mom was yelling at him saying get out of the car, get out of the car, get out of the car right now. The suspect got away but did not make it far. It was spotted by police less than 1 mile away from the gas station. Everyone is lucky it started turned out the way it did. Mom, talk about mothers day gift. Parental instincts kick in. Milder weather, good stuff and then again we have been talking about it for a couple of months, el nio will be impacting our weather starting early tomorrow morning. We start up this morning with temperatures in the low 50s outside. Clermont winter haven both at 51 cocoa beach as it usually is warmer than everyone else, 56. Winds are like this morning picked whatever we have outside is going to be light out of the north but they will start to swing out of the east later in the morning and eventually out of the southeast into the afternoon hours, a fair amount of clouds but the clouds will the thickening up as we go through the day in advance of the storm system and you can see the string of showers and storms from the northern gulf coast states up to the Tennessee Valley but we will watch for an area of low pressure or a wave form along the front of that will start to drive in moisture into Central Florida as we go through the day with showers breaking out after midnight. Still dry today so if you have plans no problem. Outside workers get a break probably get away with short sleeves in the afternoon. And we with the rain move in after midnight. For a daytime high today, above average, back into the low 70s. A few upper 60s but very pleasant for our daytona beach, early tomorrow morning, we will track showers and storms especially in the southern zones. Brevard, osceola polk county from melbourne to kissimmee st. Cloud back toward winter haven as a plume of moisture comes in. We will have widespread showers and rumbles of thunder and the moisture will lift to the north as we go through the morning and into the afternoon. The cow heavy and widespread the rain is going to be embedded with that we will have the possibility for strong severe storms winds over 50 miles an hour and along the southern flank of the line possibility of storms rotating. Theres an isolated tornado risk for tomorrow and it is going to stay wet maybe not as wet but wednesday into early thursday it will be. Showers. Darker green from New Smyrna Beach to orlando south low risk for severe storms winds over 50 an isolated tornado but the main threat will be the wind in heavy rain as well by the time it is said and done, thursday afternoon a lot of central totals over 1 inch. A great day ahead of the storm to download our wftv weather app. Fiveday forecast, live radar, alerts tab. You can customize it. Things will not go off and sound if you dont want the warnings in your area. Fiveday forecast, where the weekend is always in view. 60 percent chance of showers thursday and it turns cooler but sunshine of the weekend ahead. 5 50 am here she entered deneige. A crash i4 westbound same lake working to get it cleared out where you have one right hand lane blocked so you may have slowdowns as we get more people on the roads in the next 30 minutes. We have an issue i95 northbound is closed at i4 Volusia County because of bridgework they are working on so you will need to take williamson boulevard as you do tore through the area. We have a crash that popped up at Colonial Drive and chickasaw trail. I will let you know if you need an alternate at this point get yourself 5 more minutes. During officerinvolved shooting in orlando. Coming up the body camera video showing the moments before the officer opened fire on a 17 yearold. 5 54 am Osceola County, accused gang member who once broke out Michael Ranes the escaped back in 2010 but was arrested in new jersey a few months later. A prosecutor branded him a habitual felon after the escape and he was sentenced to 22 years in prison. A judge will sentenced illegal this past october because rigby only had one prior conviction. He has now been granted a new hearing. Orange county man accused of child abuse has been arrested for the 2nd time in one month and we now know what brought the police to his door again. Arrested december for allegedly abusing his stepdaughter but the charges were dropped. Last week we were there as he left jail yet again accused of beating his 3 biological sons this time. New Court Documents reveal he allegedly used a rubber hose to hit the boys and made one of them push a car as a form of yesterday several democratic lawmakers got together in the state capital with the hispanic groups to discuss the bills impacting lorna hispanic population. The democratic hispanic caucus would raise the state minimum wage to 15 per hour and would also provide free english passes for new florida residents but the group is against a recent bill which would define and then century city spirit that bill has a ready past 3 committees and will be taken up by the full chamber later this week. A new career fair kicking off exclusively for people looking for jobs and state law enforcement. That fair will have representatives from florida highway patrol, florida corrections department, more state agencies but if youre interested that will be held at the for Great Army National Guard from 10to. Cocoa beach will also have a job. Today in catered for those seeking a career the restaurant visage that will be held at keiths oyster bar at the west a cocoa beach. Headhunters will look for fresh faces interested in restaurant management, server positions, bartending and other opportunities. That once from 10 until 2. Push a close look at the massive renovations me to the Daytona International speedway ready to seek more than 100,000 fans. This was shot since the beginning of construction back in 2013. The final seat in the 400 million project was installed last week. Universals hope roller coaster is getting a new face for every bottle for the coaster began in september last year and it is taking shape you can see these pictures of the crews pc together the revamped model. We are told if fans know where to look coaster is visible from certain parts of island of adventure. Is expected to be running this summer. Also. Maybe if you look over quickly. Push dozens of Homeless People are still sleeping outside of the Volusia County government building this morning. At the top of the other reason some Homeless People say they are staying put even though temporary shelter was offered to them. Reporter the search for an escaped inmate enters day 4. Issued believed to be with them. More storms on the way we are having issues with the schools. We are still having parents come to us pleading. On Eyewitness News this tallahassee between lawmakers