Less than 10 minutes. Ginger but first were following breaking news right now. Tavares police is investigating a woman involving an 88yearold woman. This is on doris avenue. Rosemary Rosemary Rosemary gets was shot by her boyfriend of 20 years. Lange admitted to killing her. He threatened to kill himself but police took his gun and arrested him. The investigation is still going on right now. We will let you know as soon as we learn more about the situation. Lisa breaking right now, a brushfire is causing some traffic problems in Brevard County and it keeps growing. State road 407 in titusville is closed in both directions near i95. Thats where news 6 reporter Amanda Castro joins us live. You got to the fire a short time ago. What is going on out there right now . Reporter well, lisa, state road 407 is completely blocked off. Weve got troopers over here coming off interstate 95. Theyre not allowing anyone to drive down this road state road 407 because theres an active scene down there.
First time one of those officers has been suspended on the job. Theres a lot of questions about exactly what happened and how. Reporter state attorney jeff ashton saying his investigators put a stop to the criminal prosecution of a suspect once this Surveillance Video came to light. It was recorded at the Tropicana Motel back on november 24th. Kissimmee officer tiffany hall is seen in the video entering a hotel room where a drug suspect was staying. The only problem, in the charging affidavit, she wrote that the two other officers werent with her and that she was alone. We realized we could not go forward. There was a serious contradiction between the tape and what was testified to, and so the case was dropped at that point. Reporter the suspect is now free and clear of the incident. The state Attorneys Office says the officers involved could also face jail time, even cases that have already been closed with convictions will be reviewed while the three kissimmee its very sad for anyone
Tony harris, president obama got some good news a short time ago. Have gathered enough support to block republicans from voting to reject the agreement. Today three undecided senators announce their support. Libby casey is live for us. This appears to be a major victory. It is. 41 is the magic number they hope to reach. An attempt to get a vote through. Now republicans of course, want to vote on a disapproval resolution to reject the deal over Irans Nuclear weapon. And this filibuster would prevent the vote from getting to the floor. It also prevents a bill of disapproval getting to the president s desk. And they are hoping to avoided a messy veto process. Just because they have this magic number 41, doesnt mean will it be entirely smooth sailing. We dont know if every one of those democrats will indeed vote to filibuster. Some of them may want to see a vote get to the floor, so they can stand up and say they will try to block this so the senator begins to meet today. Where do they sta
Of iowas next president. Stacey dr. Subhash sahai, a regent from webster city, says he and the board made a mistake in how they selected bruce harreld. Kccis vanessa peng is live in our ames bureau to show us why he says hes angry and sad. Its new at 6 00. Vanessa doctor sahai says the whole hiring process was a sham. And he wants the board of regents to be more transparent. Bruce harreld will become the university of iowas president on november 2, despite an uproar from students and faculty about his appointment and lack of Higher Education experience. The iowa board of regents unanimously voted for harreld, a former ibm executive. Dr. Sahai we may have dropped the ball. Vanessa webster city doctor sabhash sahai is an iowa regent. Hes speaking out about how the search for harreld was conducted. Dr. Sahai i was angry, and i was sad. Vanessa sahai is calling for changes. Dr. Sahai i only had 20 minutes with each candidate, which is not enough for such a big job. So i told the board peop
The kwwl viewing area. You had the picture from the des moines airport of the tornado ere. Tracking activity all afternoon. We have been ready for this. Ee we talked about this yesterday. The timing has been right on. Weve saw this yesterday coming, and the timing was between 2 00 and 7 00, and we are right on thehe nose here, across eastern iowa as the showers and thunderstorms push on through the region. We knew it was going to come through as a line, and the southern portion was going to be the best chance of any Severe Weather. Damaging straightline wind was going to be the primary threat, isolated tornado, yes, a possibility with the best chance farther to the south and west, and thats whats panning out with the rain across our northern counties, storm track 7 live Doppler Radar showing rain moving into the area. Theres t lightning associated with some of the storms running from waterloo to cedar rapids, down towards iowa city. Area highway 20 southward, thats going to be your cha