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Floridas oldest mysteries. Haley cummings was just five years old when she vanished from her bed in satsuma. Now seven years later, see whats being released nationwide in hopes of turning up new leads, coming up in a few minutes. A top story happening right now, a standoff and shootout that disrupted a condo complex for hours. The suspect was posting updates to facebook during this whole ordeal. The tense situation left dozens of families on alert in the Coral Gardens condominiums off wickham road in melbourne. News 6 reporter Justin Warmoth has now learned the suspect is a veteran. He talked to one of the men who brought his situation safely to a close. Within the last few hours, weve learned the suspect is an army veteran who suffers from ptsd. That condition, according to officials, likely playing a role in his actions here early this morning. Bullets damaged several units of the Coral Gardens condominiums after an hourslong standoff between melbourne suspect identified as Michael Thomas taylor. This is what it sounded like earlier this morning as taylor and officers exchanged rounds and rounds of gunfire. That prompted police to evacuate neighbors like john to a nearby bowling alley. She was very worried about ricochet of bullets. We have apartments on either side of you. So the exchanged rate of that. Melbourne police say the standoff started around 11 00 wednesday night after what theyre calling a domestic disturbance. For nearly 12 hours, they negotiated with taylor, a veteran, but couldnt get him to come out. That is, until george taylor, a Homeless Veterans advocate who knows the suspect stepped in. From one combat veteran to another combat veteran, theres a rapport there. I knew if i had an opportunity or prayed that i had the opportunity that we could resolve it peacefully. It appears taylor was posting dire standoff. In fact, you can see he even from the bullets. Were looking into that. Thats a possibility of social media being used to communicate the situation that was going on and maybe even try to solicit information from others. Now, despite this gunbattle, know one was seriously hurt in the standoff situation. Taylor is in the process of being booked into the Brevard County jail. There he is likely to be facing attempted murder charges. For now, reporting in melbourne, Justin Warmoth, news 6. Breaking news from death row. Were waiting for a confirmation that a serial killer has been put to death nearly 30 years after his victims were murdered. Governor rick scott signed oscar boleyns death warrant in october. Hes being put to death for kidnapping Terry Matthews from a post office near tampa in 1986 and beating her to death. Stephanie collins, and 25yearold natalie holly. Despite several appeals, 10 juries have convicted him over the years. Still developing at 7 00, police hope you can help them find three people, people who may lead them to who murdered a beloved Convenience Store owner. These surveillance photos were just released. They were recorded december 23rd inside kims food store on poplar avenue in sanford. Police are not calling them suspects, just persons of interest. Joshua hur was shot as he was closing up the store he owned since the early 90s. Hur was also a leader in his church and customers say he was extraordinarily generous to people in need. Heres one more look at the surveillance photos. If you recognize the people in them, please call crime line at 1800423tips. Well, after a gloomy start to the day, the weather seemed to change by this evening. Yeah. The clouds are moving in. So chief meteorologist tom sorrells is pinpointing whats coming next. All that sunshine we had late, its all lying to you. Oh, no. Dont get comfortable . Just lying. Thats not what lies ahead. Look at the radar tonight. Weve cleaned it up nicely. Earlier. From central florida. Heres whats going on. We cleaned it up nicely. The big low that haunted us yesterday has zoomed out to the atlantic and is trying to be a big low out there. The moisture that were going to deal with is all coming in from the gulf of mexico. You see the way the clouds, the bright whites and the blues are rolling into the south . Thats the big moisture thats going to arrive for you tomorrow. Temperature readings right now have dropped into the 60s. Were at 67 right now in o. I. A. Melbourne, youre at 64. Leesburg, 61. Ill be right back. Well track overnight lows for tonight and ill pinpoint the rain for tomorrow, for saturday and for sunday. See you in a few. Thank you, tom. Heartbreaking news today for the family of a father and baby killed in a car crash in altamonte springs. The state Attorneys Office announced it will not be pursuing criminal charges they say it was negligent but not criminal. News 6 reporter Eric Sandoval is getting answers from the victims family tonight about whats next. The crash that killed the father and his son happened right behind me on state road 434 last october. The family tells me theyre heart broken over todays decision not to charge the driver and are now considering a wrongful death lawsuit to get more answers. I cannot believe this. Its been three months since she lost her brother and her 1yearold nephew. She says the holidays were especially tough to get through. I had already gone into some of their christmas presents. What do you do with that . Today another blow. The state attorney decided not to charge the driver who caused this multicar crash that killed the man and his son. They say the evidence was not Cynthia Guthrie with any crime, just negligence. They say guthrie could be cited with a traffic violation. She says that is frustrating. Its not about going to jail or not. I feel somehow a little bit of compassion for this person. Shes 75. She was a retired school teacher. I feel somehow a little bit of compassion. But when i was told nothing was going to happen, just a traffic fine, that blows my mind. We could not track down guthrie for a comment today. The woman says she would like to hear from her, at the very least she would like to ask her if she apologizes for anything that happened. Thank you. Tonight family and classmates are mourning the tragic death of a 16yearold soccer player. She collapsed in the middle of the game last night and died a short time later. Deputies say the 16yearold girl had just raised her hand to get out of the game and used her today students at Taylor Middle High School in pierson released white balloons in her memory. The school also sent out this call to alert parents. She was a tenth Grade Student here and greatly missed by her taylor wild cat friends and staff. Grief counselors are on hand for the students and staff. In Orange County, news 6 is Digging Deeper into trash troubles. We have reports from all over of garbage being picked up days late. 25,000 people have called the county to complain. I think what was most frustrating is we werent getting any answers. Trash in her neighborhood was finally picked up four days late. On january 1st, Orange County switched to automated trash and recycling pickup. We first told you yesterday about glitches in that system in part because not everyone is putting the new cans on the street properly. The countys waste manager says crews are working overtime to catch up. People got picked up on time on the right day and are moving forward and 10 didnt. He says crews will even be working on saturday, their normal day off, if necessary. Orange county leaders say they hope to have all the glitches worked out in the next month or so. In the meantime, if homeowners do not have enough room for second can. We just checked and the man police say repeatedly stabbed a couple during a Home Invasion is still behind bars. When 19yearold Michael Phillips went before a Volusia County judge today, bond was set at a half Million Dollars. Ormand beach Police Arrested him last night for beating and stabbing a husband and wife december 27th to steal their car keys. Phillips lived just a few doors down. When Police Released a composite sketch, calls came flooding in, including from phillips own father. When the detectives showed the woman the photos, they burst into tears. Phillips is charged with attempted murder. Well, he is charged with murdering a woman at a downtown orlando nightclub, though he never fired a single shot. Tonight we know when cody roach will go on trial. At a hearing today, a judge set jury selection for march 28th. Surveillance video captured the confrontation. Police say roach got into a fight with police after being thrown out of the vixen nightclub. When they say roach reached for his gun, an officer opened fire nine times. Seven hit roach, but one went through the bars door, killing a 22yearold woman. Roach could face life in prison if convicted. A Volusia County judge must decide if statements luis toledo made to a Lake Mary Police can be used in his upcoming murder trial. Toledo reportedly confessed to accidentally killing his estranged wife during a fight back in 2013. But he claims someone else murdered her son and daughter. Prosecutors say d. N. A. Evidence linked toledo to the murder of two of the murders. Toledos trial is set to begin january 19th in st. Augustine. If half a billion dollars wasnt enough, theres 700 million reasons to play powerball this week. In minutes, just how high experts say this record shattering jackpot could go and speaking of records, seaworld says it will break them here in orlando with its new roller coaster. A new look at just how high the thrill seekers will fall in minutes. But first, what happened to haley cummings. She vanished at age 5. Now seven years later what detectives are showing to generate new leads. You can hear from her grandmother, next. Youre watching news 6 at 7 00, getting results for ocala, rockledge and all of central florida. And join us on facebook during the break. Just search for me at facebook. Com Julie Broughton news. Well, it has been a mystery now for nearly seven years, what happened to then 5yearold Haleigh Cummings . Tonight, investigators are releasing a new tool they hope will lead to some answers. Haleigh disappeared from her home in satsuma on february 10th, 2009. This year, she would be 12 years old. In hopes haleigh is alive, the National Center for missing and exploited children came up with what she might look like today. The center and the Putnam County Sheriffs Office sent it out nationwide. At the time she vanished, a 17yearold was supposed to be babysitting the 5yearold. They later got married and sentenced to prison on drug charges. Despite chasing down thousands of leads as far as wyoming, investigators say they still have no real clue what happened to haleigh. Today the grandmother told reporters the family has never given up. We always have hope until they bring us a body or some definite proof, undisputable proof that shes deceased, shell always be alive in our hearts and in our minds. Heres one more look at the ageprogressed photo of Haleigh Cummings. The case is still open and they plan to follow any new leads from this pick. Ucfs president says he has once again pushed back a meeting sign off on plans on a new downtown orlando campus. President john hitt says the decision gives the university more time to raise donations showing the downtown campus is private support has private support. 8 million has been raised so far. Ucf wants 20 million in donations and 20 million from the state and 20 million from its own reserves. It will be a joint campus with Valencia College built on the site of the former amway center. Despite todays delay, ucf says 2018. Daytona International Airport is getting a lift in business. Today jetblue launched new service there today. While you often hear how flights are late, the first flight from j. F. K. In new york arrived 20 minutes early. But firefighters were still ready to salute the flight with water cannons. Jetblues Vice President Scott Lawrence is an embryriddle grad daily nonstop service. We saw the level of enthusiasm with Jetblue Service that we dont see in a lot of communities that helped us make a decision to help take some of the risks that come in with a new market. If the trips are popular, jetblue may add more flights in and out of Daytona Beach. Seaworld promises there will be nothing faster and nothing taller than its newest ride. Today were seeing just how high the new sharkthemed mako hyper coaster will go. The park sent us this video showing the view from 200 feet in the air as construction workers lifted the tallest track piece into place yesterday, 50 feet taller than seaworlds nearby coaster. It will also be the faster coaster in orlando, reaching speeds of 73 miles per hour. Its expected to open this summer. When you put it into perspective, ive been on crack cracken several times. Has ever gone as high as the powerball is right now. You may have heard by now, no one matched all six numbers last night. So forget half a billion dollars. 700 million is now up for grabs saturday night. The previous record jackpot was 656 million. Megamillions prize won in 2012. Powerball has never topped 590 million, in may of 2013. With states reporting more than a Million Dollars in ticket sales each hour, experts predict the pot could grow to 1 billion by saturday night. I feel like i should do my austin powers rendition. That was terrible. No, but it wont be terrible if you win this thing. The only place to watch the powerball drawing is this saturday night and we will make sure that you know what those winning numbers are. Yes. And, you know, we keep hoping were going to win. Wouldnt it be a great story, a talk about riding off into the sunset. Youd leave me . Oh, thats right. Here we go. We would both still come to work but we might not be as wellbehaved. Right, right. Its safe, wtom, right there. To my station. A billion . Yeah. Were tracking scattered showers, most of them way offshore. Lets go, radar. There we go. See the rain activity along the cape, down to melbourne, not much left to it. Weve got a dry night, right . Everythings going our way, right . Well, for the moment anyway. Heres the fly in the ointment. A little bit of visibility trouble already in palm coast where visibility is down to 7. 2 mile visibility in Daytona Beach and 1 mile visibility for new smyrna beach. Everywhere else were fine, nor now. But a lot of sea fog is still out there and lowlevel clouds still out there. Tomorrow morning, patchy fog im afraid dense fog might be a problem along the coast. Well keep track of it tonight and tonight at 11 00 ill be on and well talk about it then again. Wind speeds have calmed significantly today. Were down to a 6mileanhour wind in orlando. 6 in ocala. 6 in gainesville and still a 12mileanhour wind over there in Daytona Beach. Walt disney world 10k is run tomorrow morning. Can you imagine getting up at 5 00 to run at 5 30, a 10k . No. No. Me either. God bless you. Im happy for you. Patchy fog is the only real Weather Threat out there. The sun doesnt rise until 7 19. Run fast and have fun. We hit a high of 75 degrees today in orlando. In sanford, weve dropped to 67. Palm coast is down to 57 with the fog whoa already settling in. Last 24 hours, were 7 degrees warmer than we were yesterday at this same time. The big low is pulling away from us tonight. Its a monstrous looking thing on satellite, isnt it . The Hurricane Center issued an advisory on it saying its weekend. Theyll watch it next week. 10, with 10 being awesome, tomorrows about a 6. Not a great day for us. Weve got fog in the morning, rain chances throughout the day. Although we will be warmer than normal. Heres the overnight. Not much happening. Spots. Here comes the rain. By 2 00, were tracking it. By 7 p. M. , the heaviest rain is down south. Saturday, 10 a. M. Looks good. Saturday, oh, my. By 3 00 in the afternoon, heavy rain showers moving in, frontal zone comes on through by 5 00 saturday and sunday looks cooler. Lows tonight in the 50s with the fog. The official low in orlando is 59. Heres friday. Its friday, so does it matter . Not a lot. Clouds and showers. The daytime high tomorrow, warm, up to 79 degrees. Crime line chili cookoff is saturday at 11 a. M. , at the ill be there. Come see me. If youre a contestant, do not make your chili smokey flavored. Im telling you, its not just me. All the judges dislike it. Youre just not going to win. Youre getting Insider Information right here. See you at 11 00 with a brandnew model run on the rain for the weekend. Dont miss it. Thank you, tom. The pressures of being president can change any man. And Stephen Colbert says president obama is no exception. Here he is in 2008. And here he is today. Our computer models predict when he steps down next year, hell look like this. That is awful. Some say the president should not have, you know, shed some tears when he was talking about gun control. Why colbert says theyre all wrong. Thats coming up in minutes. Remember, news 6 is always on clickorlando. Com, your and after 11 00 comes the late show with Stephen Colbert. Were discussing victims of gun violence, he was brought to tears. It was a deeply moving sight but some people are criticizing it because it is unusual to see a president cry. Remember, f. D. R. Was roundly criticized for this fireside chat. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself but then again, fear is so scary scary, oh, whats the use . Hitlers going to kill us all were doomed people generally only remember the first part of that quote. I think on the issue of guns, someone should show some emotion. Because every time theres a mass shooting, opponents of gun control say we shouldnt take action while were emotional. We have to wait until weve had the proper time to grieve. Now grieving means going through the five stages. Denial. Anger. Depression and acceptance. Were really good at the denial part. You know how much we eat. But then we skip straight to the acceptance. A week later its like, hey, have you seen the new bachelor . How hes going to do with the twins . Dont miss the late show with Stephen Colbert at 11 35 on news 6. Last night was pretty good. I saw seinfeld on last night. You cant ever go wrong with jerry seinfeld. 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