Matt im matt austin. Sanford police say theyre trying to figure out how a gun got into the girls hands in the first place. It happened last night inside a home near county road 46a. Weve learned the girl was a student at wick Lowe Elementary School where we find news 6 reporter troy campbell. I know you spoke with School Leaders today. How are they handling this . A lot going on at the school. When students left for the day, they were given a letter to give to their parents, explaining what happened. Several parents said it was very difficult to explain to their children what happened to the young girl because of how young the students are. He just told me a friend of his died. Reporter parents, reacting to the death of the 6yearold girl. This picture posted to social media. The family remembering the young girl. She was killed tuesday night uncle. Eric williams is being held without bond, charged with child neglect, not securing his weapon and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Seminole county Public Schools calling in grief counselors to speak with the kindergarten classmates. Theyll stay for days, weeks, however long the students need to grieve and deal with the grieving process. So thats what weve done today. Reporter this letter, sent home with students giving advice on how to talk with a young child about death saying, quote, reassure the child that death is not contagious and not all loved ones will die soon. Its harder when youre dealing with young students, grasping and understanding what occurred and what took place and a fellow student is no longer with them. Again, thats why we bring grief counselors to the schools. Its sad, its really sad. I feel bad for the parents, for the family. She was such a young little girl. Being held without bond. He is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. Coming up later at 6 00, were speaking to a student who is is a classmate of the young girl. Hear how he says the class is handling this tragedy. Live in sanford, troy campbell, news 6. Matt thank you, troy. Now to new developments on the effort to fix Serious Problems near an Orange County school, the day after a boy fell into a canal and nearly drowned. Lisa the 8yearold is now in a medically induced coma after people pulled him from the water east of riverside elementary near state road 434 and south of maitland boulevard. News 6 reporter Kirstin Oconnor has been getting answers about this all day. She joins us live. Parents tell you there are multiple problems in that area. Reporter along with the hole still left in the fence, you can school. Parents tell us there have been several close calls on this street right across the street where several close calls with drivers speeding down the school. Parents taking their kids to and from riverside Elementary School says something has to be done after a student nearly fell to his death in this canal. The children are not walking on the sidewalk. Crossing. Sometimes its chaotic. Reporter neighbors share their concerns. This is one of the dangers going on here on this road. Reporter we first met him after the accident last night behind his home. Today he watched as county workers came out to patch up the fence but showed us more areas to secure. One right down here and theres another onehalf way down and then on the other side of the street by that other bridge down there. Theres ways to get in. Reporter the father of the 8yearold boy tells us he knows his son was not the first to crawl under the gate. All of them could have died, you know, and this is something that every parent should be school area. I just think we all, as a community, should come together. I live in this community. Im worried. My child lives here and theres three other children that go to this school. Im worried and concerned. I see it every day. Reporter its a conversation a lot of parents are having with their kids tonight. The mother you just heard from tells us the pta discussed adding another crossing guard to the street but theyre not sure the school has the budget for it. The county public works director tells us if you see problems like the hole in the fence, call 311 and theyll have someone out here within 24 hours to fix the problem, definitely something were doing tonight. Live in Orange County, Kirstin Oconnor, news 6. Lisa thank you. Developing right now, a huge step in the long fight over a proposed downtown campus for ucf. Matt the states board of governors approved the project this afternoon. Ucf officials met with the board in orlando. After orlando mayor buddy dyer and john hitt said they have received 16 million. They hope to open the campus in the fall of 2018. Mayor dyer reacted to the boards decision this afternoon. He called the approval, quote, a win for our state, city, downtown paramour and our hometown university. Lisa an update on a president ial candidates struggling campaign. Dr. Ben carson told supporters he will not take part in tomorrows republican debate. He plans to stay in the race for now. We first told you about this a couple of hours ago through a news 6 mobile app. He finished at the bottom among the g. O. P. Hopefuls in the states that voted on super tuesday. He says he says no path forward for his campaign. Hes not giving up just yet because he remains committed to saving america for future we have full coverage on the race for the white house. Just head to clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6. Well, another warm, dry and gorgeous day in central florida. Heres a live look outside at daytona beach. You can see a few clouds out there. Could we see a drop in temperatures anytime soon . Matt it felt pretty nice out there. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells pinpointing a new front for us. How much change are we talking here . Tom little bitty. So much you cant tell. I dont think youll be able to notice at all. Heres the cold front. Now, it doesnt look massive, but you see the clouds coming in on the visible satellite. You can see it extends into the gulf of mexico. So naturally theres rain, right . Well, no, not this time. Not even a sprinkle. Not a spritz, not a single green echo anywhere on my radar. So lets move on. A lot of cloud cover moved in during the day. We had more clouds and sun for a while. Its 78 in orlando and 75 in leesburg. 80 in cocoa beach. Onthetown forecast, a very mild evening tonight. We slide into the 60s. By 10 00, were down to 66 and 64 at 11 00. Ill be right back to pinpoint overnight lows that are much cooler than last night and how warm well be tomorrow. Matt tom, thank you. Dont forget, you can get breaking weather alerts and live radar anytime on our free news 6 pinpoint weather app. Just search wkmg in your app store. Now to a Crime Tracker alert in kissimmee. A quick clerk stops a robbery. Police released this surveillance picture. Were told this happened around 9 00 sunday night at the 7eleven on south john young parkway. The crook demanded money and the clerk took off, ran to the back of the store and locked the door. The wouldbe thief took off with nothing. If you know who this guy is, call police. Lisa a big theft ring busted in Orange County. More than 30 bikes and a lot of other stuff stolen and traded. Orlando police sent us this it shows just some of what they found. Were told a twomonthlong investigation led officers to a home on 20th street. Police arrested this man, edward washington. Were told he traded cocaine for the stolen stuff and then tried to sell the goods. Hes charged with several counts of dealing in stolen property and selling cocaine. Matt an Orange County deputy is recovering tonight after a crash. It left his cruiser, right there, upside down in a ditch. Another person was hurt in this, too. Take a closer look at the scene late last night on kelly park road near plymouth sorrento road in apopka. Troopers tell us the vehicles collided when they both drove into the intersection at the same time. Both drivers said they had the green light. They both suffered minor injuries. No charges have been filed. Powerball fever is spreading yet again. You still have a little time to get in on tonights big drawing. Lisa im feeling it. Its up to 292 million. If you go with the lump sum option, youll still take home 192 million before taxes. Be sure to get yourself the Winning Ticket and see tonights drawing only on news 6 at 10 59, right before news 6 at 11 00. Matt at least say goodbye before you leave. Lisa ill say goodbye. News 6 helps a local girl scout troop get results. Matt their money was stolen when they were selling cookies. Next at 5 00, what an outpouring of support theyve received since that happened. And tempers flair as a major Abortion CaseTakes Center Stage in the nations capitol. What the Supreme Court is trying to decide and how it could affect florida lawmakers, too. Youre watching news 6 at 5 00, getting results for central florida. Its busy, traffic heavy on this the girls are resilient and brave and this young lady is a perfect example of that. Shes bounced back. Reporter though the money has been recovered, the thief is still out there and theres one hey, stop it. Dont do these things. Figure out whats going on and address it in your life rather than traumatizing these kids. Reporter if you want information about how to donate, go to our website at clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6 and all that information will be there. Getting results here in maitland, johnny fernandez, news 6. Lisa it really has turned into a great lesson for the girl scouts. If you do the right thing, people will come and support you. Matt cherry on top if they catch this guy. Its being called the most important Abortion Case in two decades. Lisa the u. S. Supreme court is hearing arguments over a controversial law. Its the high courts first major case since scalia death. Advocates on both sides of the issue held rallies today in front of the Supreme Court building. It centers on a texas law that requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting and mandates that abortion clinics upgrade their facilities to hospital standards. Opponents say this is an attempt to end abortions. Lawmakers of florida are also giving a close eye on this. A bill with some of the same measures is moving through the Florida Senate right now. It is not clear if it will pass before the legislative session ends on march 11th. Lisa news 6 is giving you and your family a chance to get up close and personal with legos. Matt were giving away four tickets to legoland. If you want to win, its easy to enter by going to facebook. Com news 6 youll find the contest right there. It ends tonight. You really only have a few hours left. Speaking of legoland, how would you like to have this . Some call it a dream job. There are Master Builders out there who make some pretty incredible stuff. How did they get the job, how much do they make and how do they put this stuff together . Im going to give you an inside they even let me make some stuff out there. It is incredible. People get paid a pretty good wage to go out there and build legos out there. Lisa people who work at the attractions love what they do. Matt its their passion tom i know a lot of people who hate it, too. Matt there are those out there. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells is always honest, always shoots us straight. Lisa you love working on days like today. Tom its so easy. I could go home and have dinner, we dont have to go to continuous coverage. People smile at me in the mall. Its all good. Everything is good to go tonight, no matter what youve got going on. Pinpoint weather starting with radar this evening. No radar echoes out there. Its all good, pretty, my camera shot died. Its not black yet. Its not dark. Its beautiful. I had a beautiful camera shot behind that, its gone. 78 in orlando. 80 in melbourne. 75 in leesburg. 77 in the villages. 72 in New Smyrna Beach and all over brevard county, merritt island, the cape, cocoa beach, all the way down to melbourne, 80 degrees here at news time, which is awesome. Satellite and radar together weve got a frontal boundary but it doesnt look like much of a front, does it . It has basically dissolved as its rolled in. We picked up some cloud cover. We didnt get a lot of rain. We talked about this last night. It would be coming through with maybe a sprinkle. On the visible satellite image, you can see it fading out but the clouds are there. Its not super quick and theres not backup moisture either. Its going to be a good run into the weekend. Tonight at midnight, thats what satellite should look like. Theres nothing to worry about. A smooth run into the night. On friday, a reinforcing shot of cooler air does come in. Futurecast likes to throw scattered showers out there. I dont think so. I think the next model run may fix that. Well see what happens. I really believe were dry now i think were dry for as far as i can see on the extended forecast. Temperatures will be the big story as we head toward the weekend. Right now, were looking at overnight lows in the 50s and 40s. Im going to call it 45 in ocala and 49 in the villages and 56 in leesburg and 54 in kissimmee. Along the coast, you dont really get out of the 60s in brevard county. Melbourne, 61. Daytona beach, the overnight low is 53. For tonight, the overnight low officially in orlando, 56. Two or three degrees cooler than weve been in the last 24 hours. Heres tomorrow. A cooler start to tomorrow by a few degrees. But its not a big deal. By lunchtime, were back to 77. Our daytime high tomorrow is back to where we were today. Was there a front or not . It did virtually nothing to us. Heading into the weekend, Orlando City Soccer game coming up on sunday, that forecast looks great, too. Reading of 77 degrees. Here we go. 82 tomorrow. Friday, 78. Come saturday, 76. We do cool down just a smidge. Its not bad. Keep in mind that normal daytime high is 76. So were there or beyond on every day for as far as we can see. Matt thats ideal. Tom i know its bike week starting on friday. So lets go. Matt beautiful. Thank you, sir. Sounds good. If youre on the road and cant check your news 6 weather app, you can now get updates through one of our three Radio Partners all day long. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells and meteorologist troy bridges are pinpointing your weather on 105. 9 sunny fm, 101. 9 amp radio, and mix 105. 1. Matt well, it is an all new wednesday night at news 6. It starts at 8 00 with the following lineup. It all leads up to news 6 at 11 00. We hope youll keep it right here. A deal to bring in billions of lisa next at 5 00, why state lawmakers put a vote to expand gambling on hold. But first, jawdropping video. A bad accident in the middle of a rodeo. How the man hurt in this is doing tonight. Matt and ahead at 5 30, one beach is on shark alert. You see this. Find out why dozens of little sharks have been spotted in some very shallow water. Well be right back. Remember, news 6 is always on clickorlando. Com, your smartphone and your tablet. Take us with you. In 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, home of the original reporter the new rules for yard waste in one county is youre supposed to put it in an old trash can or new trash bag. The problem is were finding some of the bags are blowing around, ending up on the street or, in some cases like this, blowing into storm drains. Im erik von ancken, getting results for when i see you again, coming up at 6 00. Lisa a terrifying moment at a rodeo caught on camera in houston. The performer fell off a wagon in front of a stunned audience. When the driver lost balance and fell to the ground and lost consciousness. The medical team quickly rushed to his aid. Were told the man was awake and alert when paramedics took him to the hospital. He is still hospitalized tonight. Matt nasty spill. Lisa oh, yeah. Time is running out for florida lawmakers to pass a major gambling bill. Now its run into a serious roadblock. Matt state senators postponed a bill on the multi billiondollar deal. Another measure added to the bill would allow dog and horse tracks to allow slot machines, if voters approve it. Lawmakers says it takes the expansion of gambling too far. It ends march 11th. A special bond between a mom and her newborn son. This is apparently incredibly rare. The mom was born on leap day, so was her son. The new mom was born on leap day 28 years ago, so really shes just 7. Doctors say the chances of being born on february 29th are about 1 in 1400. But the odds of having a parent or child also born on leap day, 1 in 2 million. The mom says at least she knows what its like to have a birthday every four years so she can share the experience with her son. You can save money if you only have a birthday every four years. Matt but if you have to share it with someone once every four years, maybe hold a double party. Ginger gadsden is joining us with whats coming up at 5 30. Ginger coming up, an airplane at a local airport is forced to make an emergency landing. This is not the first or the second time this has happened in the last six months with the same company. Plus, check out this video. Suspect after police have to chase him over fences, through yards and across several ginger an Allegiant Airlines flight makes an emergency landing. Is your safety at risk