Claire the parachutist came down a little short of the drop some should take a look at some of these pictures. They were shot by a witness, who saw the parachutist dangling. We know the parachutist is in the army. 33yearold carlos esparza. Esparza was following behind his squad, when he took it into a power pole. At florida Highway Patrol troopers spotted the victim, and initially called for help. Power was shut down, and firefighters from the city of deland and Volusia County, safely rescued esparza. He was lucky. He missed the things right there. His parachute was hung up where those trees are going across. He was all wrapped up there. He was hanging up there. Very dangerous. Claire of this high wire rescue. The parachutist dangling from the power lines. Firefighters had to use a ladder truck to get to esperanza and move him down safely. Others in his army unit watch from down below. We understand, the army man was not injured or did not eat any kind of hospitalization. Folks with du
M Justin Warmoth with meteorologist Danny Treanor. Thanks for waking up with us this saturday morning. It is the big question. The valentine s day forecast. Take a stroll with your babe or honey and just get outdoors it s going to warm up quickly. But we re going to warm things up and tonight is nice, too, in case you want to take a nice romantic walk. On the coast there is always a chance winds will shift out of the north for most of the morning and then this afternoon vist in the easterly direction and when they do that we ll have the chance for see showers. A small chance but be aware of it. Temperatures right now are ranging from about 55 beach but look at gainesville and ocala and it is really chilly out there by florida standards so if you go outside but tonight these temperatures are probably going to be in the 60s and 50s so a big warm up. Right now looking at a lot of dry air trying to push down into the area. That s okay but as we push into tomorrow moisture is going to start
54 claremont and mineola 55 degrees, orlando, Hunters Creek and back through the hiawatha sea area toward oak hill elementary, 56 in melbourne, 60 in cocoa beach. A couple of extra clouds around it will be a gorgeous sunrise. We will see a few more clouds today but we will still be on the dry side. If you are working outdoors, not a big issue. Daytona beach 72 at noon, then this afternoon along the coast we will have submit 70s around him and we are going to be a little bit warmer, a few of us will approach 80 degrees for today. Coming up we are going to track that city by city and get into that bigger warmup moving in. Lets check in with deneige on the 408 coming into downtown orlando looking pretty good in both the directions. You are looking pretty good, if you are about to leave the house and get onto the 408. Ridge road right at kingsgate drive you to have at least one lane locked there in Orange County Orange County rescue is on scene. If you like to avoid that area take conroy a
So use caution on the roads the next hour or two and a couple sprinkles possible in Orange County. But you see everything moving by, the northern zones moving by and we will see it clear as we go through the rest of the day. Temperatures in the 50s and the 60s. Clermont 62 and the villages 59 and 61 in deland in Volusia County. So apopka through the day, and more clouds this morning and quickly clearing and 75 at 2 00 and a little cooler this evening and well drop off into the upper 60s. And well track more changes behind this front head. And flashing lights this morning. And theyve been able to get this crash off to the side here. You can see the flow of traffic is moving through. Keep in mind, you want to move to the lefthand side. Theyve been on the scene for the last 30 minutes or so and blocking the i4 onramp and 535. Youll need to get on eastbound at world center drive. Im getting word of a crash on Central Florida parkway. And ill break that down in 7 minutes. Orlando police are
First a look outside with the let s get straight to she s in the Weather Center with the latest. Good morning, candace. Reporter pockets of rain falling over northern portions it the viewing area. We ll see the bulk of showers by the time we head to 2, 3 00 this afternoon. Look at weather and the moderate rain moving into portions of Volusia County, Daytona Beach and 95. The relatively soggy start with light showers and moderate rain continues to spread inland through Deleon Springs and land as well. More showers reported out there in the villages and wildwood on the turnpike as well as 75. Most of this will continue to track towards the south southeast throughout the next couple of hours, but you can see here with the future radar not showing much. Most of the heavy rain still to ll continue to see all that rain start making its way into the area by 2 3 00 this afternoon. If you re heading out to runaway country later on today, make sure to have the cowboy boots for the Early Morning