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Heres what it looks like outside in downtown orlando right now. Beautiful, right . Looks can be deceiving. Its been cold all day. News 6 is pinpointing more plummeting temperatures over the next few hours. This is news 6 at 5 00 getting results. Im matt austin. Im lisa bell. Lets get right over to chief meteorologist tom sorrells. How cold is it going to get tonight . Down to freezing in a large part of the area, especially to the north of downtown orlando. Orlando proper will not be freezing up but there will be frost issues to deal with. Were holding at 56 degrees in orlando, 60 in melbourne. Ocala, 52. You see my camera is shaking again tonight because the wind is still whipping from the west at about 23 miles per hour. Gainesville, ocala, the villages, leesburg, all 52 degrees. 55 in sanford. 56 in orlando. 60 in melbourne. Freeze warning. Thats to the north. All of these areas youre seeing from palm coast to ocala, the sumpter county, even Northern Lake county, from there to the south, the pretty blue you see here, its not purple but if we colored it in right here from sanford to orlando, frost advisory in effect until 9 00 tomorrow morning. Heres why. Look at my temperatures. Low tonight, 28 in ocala. 31 in the villages. And 38 in orlando. Ill be right back to pinpoint a little bit of a warmup tomorrow and then much better by the weekend. Ill explain in minutes. Thank you, tom. You can see a list of cold weather shelters that are open in Central Florida tonight on our website. Just head to clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6. And dont forget to download our free pinpoint weather app. Search wkmg in your app store. Were staying on top of breaking news in orlando now. Crews are on the scene of a car that crashed into a house. Orlando police tell us the same driver was involved in a hitandrun just minutes earlier. Shaun chaiyabhat is at rio grande avenue and 19th street. What is the latest . I just spoke with the family who was home at the time of this crash. Theyre still here surveying the damage to their home. They say none of them were hurt, but children had just left this room before the crash. So lets get some sky 6 video we shot earlier. The crash was really bad. The car went fully into that house. The 27yearold driver of that car, he is in custody right now. This started as a hitandrun crash on Colonial Drive near i4. Orlando police say nobody was hurt in that crash. But for whatever reason, the car took off and police tried to stop that car. That is when the car ended up crashing into the house on south rio grande near michigan. Troopers say nobody in the house was hurt. But fire rescue told us that one person was rushed to the hospital as a trauma alert patient. Were still sorting out exactly where that person was injured and just how bad. Are just thankful they are okay. We thank god they got up in time. Thats mainly what im thankful for. It could have been a tragedy. You can see the house is just not livable right now. The family is trying to salvage what they can from inside their home. Police are handling this investigation into exactly what happened and, of course, theyre trying to sort out why that person drove off in the first place. Back to you. Shaun chaiyabhat reporting live in orlando tonight. Thank you. More breaking news now, this time in sanford. Weve learned no charges will be filed in a dog attack that left a woman badly hurt. This comes after, according to sanford police, a group of pit bulls attacked virginia farley at an apartment complex last month. Farley is still in critical but stable condition at a hospital. Well stay on top of this and bring you more as we get it in. And more breaking news in brevard county. We just learned minutes ago a the Sheriffs Office tells news 6 deputy barry taylor had a sexual relationship with a female inmate. And new developments on the attack of a 74yearold man in Orange County. Weve learned two women have been arrested. Deputies tell us they beat the victim to steal his pain meds. News 6 was there as deputies arrested the women earlier this afternoon. News 6 reporter Justin Warmoth has been getting answers about this all day. He joins us now live. You spoke with the victims son. What did he have to say . Well, hes simply disgusted by what happened. He said his dad is a nice, caring guy and befriended the two women who allegedly beat him. Tonight theyre on their way to the Orange County jail. My heart is broken that somebody would do Something Like this, not that its just my father. He says his dad was beaten bloody last night with a cutting board by these two women, apparently after his prescription pain medicines. The pair was taken into custody just hours after the alleged attack, selling what appeared to be the same drugs they stole from the 74yearold. Hes elderly, four stage Kidney Disease and fixing to go on dialysis. He needs his medication. For someone to do that because they needed to get a drug fix, its ridiculous. It happened at the mobile home in south apopka. He says the two women basically tricked him, saying they were locked out of their home and didnt want to wait in the cold. Instead, they began hitting him in the face and head but hollingsworth fought back. My dad was sitting on the couch in the relaxed position and the other female ran in with the cutting board in hand and attacked him, brutally attacked him. A downward position, elderly man in his condition, 74 years old, he cant fight back too much. Its a good thing he did. If not, the family believes the women would have killed him. They were there as the suspects were put in handcuffs and taken to the Orange County jail. They called it sweet justice. I didnt think it was going to happen this quick. Im very pleased with social media and the way the word got out and the people banded together in apopka and the surrounding areas to help us find these people. Mr. Hollingsworth is going to injuries. In light of this, hes actually considering moving out of this neighborhood, a neighborhood hes lived in for the last 20 years or so. As for the women who were arrested arrested, theyre now in the process of being booked into the Orange County jail. For now, reporting live in south apopka. Thank you, justin. County. Federal investigators say they led by a 74yearold woman. Ruth perez lopez was one of 10 people arrested in this. Agents tell us shes in a wheelchair and they seized guns and ammunition. Were told the suspects made up to 300,000 a month selling heroin in east orlando. Agents describe it as a heroin war going on in the middle of a neighbor. Its scary. It was scary to the neighbors. I mean, because you just dont you just dont know whats going on next door. I mean, i think they had their suspicions. News 6 reporter Eric Sandoval has been getting answers about this all day. He will have much more on Orange Countys ongoing heroin problem coming up on news 6 at 6 00. All is clear now after a brushfire blocked traffic along the 408 this afternoon. Crews are working to learn what caused this. We will bring you updates as we learn more. Were learning more tonight about a Police Officer fighting for his life. Clermont police are calling it a terrible accident. News 6 reporter Troy Campbell talked with the officers father about the long recovery his son faces. Officer chris cruzs family says he joined the Police Academy at 18 years old, finally becoming an officer at 21, his life taking a drastic turn on super bowl sunday while sitting next to a bond fire. The 21yearold clermont Police Officer chris cruz fighting for his life after being burned over more than half of his body. His father, jack cruz, also a clermont Police Officer, says the son noticed a gas tank too close to the fire. Just as the son grabbed the container to move it, the fuel exploded from overheating. Hand. Well take what we can get at this point. This picture taken just months ago the first time father and son stood next to each other in uniform on a call. We had a couple of shifts together. It was something we looked forward to as a father and son for a long time. Cruzs family says hes heavily sedated. The chance of survival, 50 . The post on facebook about the accident is going viral with 60,000 likes and comments in a couple of days from across the country and world. A testament of the people in life hes impacted. He has so many friends and touched so many people in a short period of time, it struck a cord. Hes proud he got thousands of people just around clermont that hes influenced. The officers family says even if he takes a turn for the better, hes expected to be in new details now on the death of an accused shoplifter in polk county. Lakeland police tell news 6 theyre investigating his death as a homicide. Were told employees at walmart on u. S. 98 detained 64yearold kenneth wishham back on sunday. Police say he ran off after trying to take a shopping cart filled with dvds. He then fell and thats when employees detained him. The medical Examiners Office says wishham did not die from a heart attack at first thought. Well update you as we get them. News 6 has learned the names of the two men who died at an orlando nightclub. The medical Examiners Office tells us the men died at the glitz nightclub on universal boulevard late saturday night. 10 others hurt in this. Police say theyre still talking with witnesses. No arrests have been made. Big new developments now in some big winners and losers are reacting to last nights a big freeze warning up north, big problems with frost down south. Ill be back to pinpoint the overnight lows where you live and look down the road to when we finally turn this thing around. And liftoff, what this rocket took into space after a good evening, everyone. Im news 6 meteorologist candace campos. Were pinpointing some very chilly spots coming in later on tonight. Our first stop is in eustis. Youre going to be under a freeze warning until 9 a. M. Work and school for tomorrow. Temperatures are dropping down to 40 degrees by midnight. It gets colder as the sun starts to rise. 39 degrees and finally topping off at about 63. This is what the front page of the New York Daily News this morning. This cover drew a huge response online, including from trump himself. He tweeted, quote, dont be he has a major inferior complex. The future of jeb bush and marco rubios campaigns, bush took 4th place while rubio finished 5th. Earlier today, bush had harsh words for trump after his big win. Theres twothirds of Republican Voters who didnt support it. A lot of people will support him before he insults people. Two other candidates say theyre dropping out of the race. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Carly Fiorinas campaigns appear to be over tonight. They finished in 6th and 7th place respectively among g. O. P. Candidates. On the democratic side, it was a big night for vermont senator bernie sanders. He had 60 support over hillary clinton. Today he spent time with the reverend al sharpton in new york city. They spent 20 minutes discussing serious issues. So far, sharpton has not endorsed any candidate. Some candidates have wasted no time hitting the ground running the state will hold its primary in 2. 5 weeks on february 27th. We have you covered on everything you need to know about this years election on our website, clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6 thank you. It was a beautiful morning for a launch out west. The predawn launch took a satellite into orbit. 3, 2, 1, and liftoff of the United Launch Alliance delta 4 rocket. I personally think theyre prettier from the cape. Im just throwing that out there, even in the dark. The United Launch Alliance sent the Spy Satellite into space from california early this morning. It was their second launch in five days. An atlas 5 rocket lifted off from the cape last friday and carried a g. P. S. Satellite up there for the u. S. Air force. Its nice theyre putting a string of good solid launches together. Oh, yeah. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells if you thought it was cold last night, its going to be colder tonight. Volusia county, de land, deltona, places that didnt freeze last night will be cold. Itll kill your plants. The plants will hang in there at 35, 36, but 32, they give up. Look at the areas were concerned about tonight. A big freeze warning to the north. Everyone north of, say, north of lake county, Northern Lake county is included in the freeze warning from about right here, north of leesburg through the villages, ocala all the way to gainesville to the state line. New smyrna beach, daytona beach, palm coast, all of volusia, all of flagler counties, all that area under the freeze warning, including sumpter county. Everyone else from leesburg to sanford to orlando down to the south, painted in a different color for the frost advisory. So even if we dont have a solid freeze for a while tonight, were going to get so close, the winds are finally going to calm down. Expected. Take precautions. Its not cold enough to kill your palm trees, of course, but your tender plants could get in trouble. Daytime highs made it back to 60. Normals would be a low of 52 and a high of 73. We got crushed in those departments today. Nowhere near the record of 31. Right now, its 38 in atlanta, 54 in pensacola, 50 in jacksonville, and 53 in tampa. A bunch of 52s here from leesburg, ocala, the villages, gainesville. 55 in Seminole County and sanford and 56 in orlando. The winds will not stop. Hasnt slowed down at all in most spots. You do notice ocala is down to 10mileanhour winds there. 14 in the villages. 23 in orlando, 21 in New Smyrna Beach and 20 in cocoa beach. Later tonight, as a High Pressure center comes closer to us, we slow the winds down to 5 the real feel is okay right now. Once we drop into the 40s, thats when the windchill really kicks in. The water vapor loop shows the dry air aloft. Thats the orange and the black you see there. It has gobbled up the cloud cover, which is great for the sunshine. Not great for the overnight. What little heat we were able to gather during the day today goes right back out through the atmosphere tonight as we cool down. Low tonight, 28 in ocala. 31 in the villages. Leesburg is right at the freezing mark. A frost advisory in effect until 9 a. M. Heres tomorrow. Tomorrows a big turn around kind of day. Daytime high is 64. Not perfect but better than today. Tomorrow nights low is 46. On friday, we hit 73. Saturday, 72. Another light cold front comes sundays high is 65. Its valentines day. And im in love with that weekend forecast. Good stuff. Thank you, tom. A big fight over a deal that could bring billions of dollars to florida. Next at 5 00, why some say the proposed gambling expansion would do more harm than good. First, though, a flight disrupted by a passenger. What police say he told the crew that caused the pilot to land. Coming up at 5 30, new info youll want to know about the 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. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, home of the original steakburger. Dollar gambling deal in florida is still up in the air. The dividing house panel approved the deal allowing the seminole tribe to expand gambling in parts of the state. In exchange, the state would get a guaranteed 3 billion over the next seven years. Supporters say it will give an economic boost but opponents say it could hurt the states tourism industry. Its an important day for christians around the world. You may have seen ashes on someones face today. It is Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of lent which is a 40day period which lasts until midnight on easter sunday. During that time, believers will give up their favorite food or activity, to honor jesus in the wilderness. The observation of lent dates back to the 4th century. What would you do if you were just inches away from a suspect as he was running from police . One guy decided he would lend this case a helping leg to officers trying to catch him. The video is now going viral. Check it out. Police in england posted this to facebook. You can see the suspect running and a bystander sticks his leg out. The suspect trips and falls right on his face and allowed the cops to get their guy. The man who took off with a 17yearold and selling drugs. The video has been viewed nearly a million times already. Officers say they want to meet the guy who helped them out so they could thank him. So do i. I want to meet that guy. That is awesome. He didnt even take his hands out of his pocket. Hes like i got this. The only thing worse is like your shoe is untied. Oh, my gosh. Thats great, though. Coming up, is it illegal to pass a bus with its stop sign out . We all know its a big nono, drivers are doing in a Central Florida neighborhood. Selling mattresses the traditional way isnt the best way. 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