Dan jim, right now the smoke is getting heavier and rolling across the road. In a wendover farms neighborhood from right to left in big clouds. This is where firefighters have been today. Behind that row of houses a couple hundred yards, that is where the fire is located. Firefighters are winning the battle. They were what they were losing at 1 00, and what was a small fire enlarged and was driven by the wind and could not be contained areas they called in air support for water drops. They had bulldozers and fire yards. State road 407, that inbetween the fire and the neighborhood. I have anxious because it is dry, very dry out here. Stand at it right now. We have units on bobcat trail monitoring the fight over the wendover farms area. 35 acres and is 90 contained. State road 407 is still close from i95 to 405. There is a big airshow going on, pyrotechnics at that show tonight. Angela remember, the fire danger is high right now, and it is possible other areas could see brush fires spark
But he didnt have that break out performance he need ed to solidify himself as the candidate. Now the one thing s that surprising to a lot of people about tonight is the civil token this debate took. As the candidates took the stage, it was clear, Miami Florida is marco rubio country. The audience gave him a resounding round of applause. The candidates covered a variety of topics from immigration, to islam to jobs. It is marco rubio that said including disney workers. It is illegal now, it is a violation of the law now to use that program to replace americans and if a company is caught doing that, whether it be disney or anyone else, they should be barred from using the program in the future. The disney workers endorse me as you probably read. I got a full endorse ment because theyre the ones that said and they had a News Conference and said hes the fix it. Reporter the two disagreed on. He said he would raise the retirement age for those younger than 50 now. But trump said he would ag
Figure out exactly what happened including what may have prompted the shooting. We will update you on that later but as you might imagine, this is a fluid situation. Live in unincorporated cocoa, melanie holt, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We will check back in with melanie throughout the afternoon. Meantime, break in within the last hour, governor rick scott declared a Health Emergency and 4 florida counties rated to the zika virus transmitter by mosquitoes its important to note all of the florida patients will likely infected countries. Reading through the governors declaration and we will have more on that and the latest on zika and 30 minutes on channel 9. The fight over the winning Lottery Ticket is stretched to its 3rd day in court and Seminole County. Howard browning claims he and lynn porier were in a halfmillion dollar Winning Ticket together. Porier says she bought the ticket alone and should not have to split any of that money with anyone. Roy raymos was in court today. Not onl
Two heavy limbs struck five park visitors. Some got pins underneath. We come every day play chess over here. The tree fell right where you play chess. Yeah. You worried it will happen again . I do believe so. And two had to be rushed to hospital. Several had back and neck injuries. As i heard the crash, i turned and the tree literally like went to the side. Lindsey ran over to help telling victims to stay calm and still as they waited for paramedics, you can see her beside this 23yearold woman. The girl was on the floor, i needed to be there and help her. They say she was the most seriously injured with a broken arm. She did what she could to comfort her. Parks workers carved up the sections of the tree cleared the debris and removed the trunk now it is a matter of figuring out how this happened. We spoke with a tree expert that says it is possible decay developed deep if the trunk. That may have happened because of a past wound from storm damage, possibly a wound or some kind of wound
Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere and where its been coming from is money for agents and prosecutors and also critically importantly money for state and Law Enforcement assistance for the cop on the street. Those are the things that i believe keep our country safe. Now, let me say there are some defendants who need those long sentences. There are some who need to be this prison for a very long time. Because they are dangerous and our Society Needs to be protected from them but i think we need to use those lengthy sentences in a sm