Unresponsive in a canal. 5yearold child was found near Riverside Elementary School. We have tracy out there live at the scene. She has the latest. Reporter yes, just an awful, awful situation really. According to the Orange County Sheriffs Office they say the first report says he was five, hes 8yearsold. Investigators are still out here. Theyre telling us this little boy was walking home from Riverside Elementary School and somehow they got on the other side of the fenced in canal. It is fenced in. Its county owned. It. But they ended up on the other side, and this one particular boy ended up in the canal. Now, theyre not sure how deep it is. Theyre still measuring but its more than three feet. Were not sure how tall he was, if he could swim, if hednt. All of these details theyre trying to ascertain right now. What i can tell you for sure is that according to forge county Sheriffs Office one of the other little boys acted very out of the water, onto the embanksment and the other boy ra
As he normally is. He wasnt really as combative having nice things to say about people like paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell saying he was going to work with congress and saying he was willing to compromise in certain areas. One place he didnt do that though was with marco rubio. He took rubio to task. Heres what he had to say shortly after coming out. He had a tough night but he worked hard he spent a lot of money, he is a lightweight as ive said many times before, but you know what were going to go to florida, were going to spend so much time in florida. We have about a 20point lead. I know that a lot of groups a lot of the special interests and a lot of the lobbyists the people who want to have their little senator they will put 20 million or 25 million over the next two weeks and i think thats fine as far as im concerned its fine. Reporter rumors of governor rick scott being donald trump set to speak at u. C. F. Saturday at noon. Live in west palm beach, mike synan fox 35 news. A trou
Out and bring you back sun and fun. And the weekend extra special. Ill talk about that in your extended full forecast, in 1 more minutes. Good morning. Kristin good morning, ill taking you out to longwood where we are looking at i4, westbound. The cars going away from you are heading west towards Altamonte Springs and were seeing a lot of congestion but no accidents to report. And i want to take you now to datona beach or sky fox, lets look at sky fox. It is flying over i4, where things are looking good. No accidents on i4 right now. Back to you john and amy. John developing this morning an 8yearold boy in the hospital after falling into a canal as he was walking home from school. Amy and, it happened yesterday, at the intersection of pembroke drive and forest city road done the street from the school down the street from riverside elementary, where he attends. Jackie orozco joins us live this morning and, it is one of those sad stories. Something tragic happens. Reporter reporter the
Also has a court date in seminole on a probation violation. He has not been charged in connection with the homicide. He does have a significant arrest history, but nothing approaching the level of violence that this homicide shows on saturday. Meredith thank you. A nasty crash in ovideo put one person in the hospital. It happened on lockwood boulevard, between county road 419 and evans street. Police say a sedan and a large fuel truck collided. The person in the car was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. So far no word on what caused the crash. A local man and his sister appeared in court today, on charges of robbing a 12yearold girl scout. Detectives say last sunday, Nicholas Delbrugge and ashley winters spotted the scout selling cookies outside a deltona walmart. They say delbrugge swiped the girl s cashbox, and then jumped into a car, driven by winters. Deputies say the two made a brief trip to north carolina, but turned themselves in when they got back. I understand why i
Hitting her in the shoulder. Nextdoor neighbors tell me they heard a gunshot but did not think much of it until police swarmed the street. We have confirmed Sanford Police arrested 35yearold Erik Williams for child neglect and unsafe storage of a firearm. We are talking with family and police trying to confirm how he is related to sixyearold aletha burke. As livermore reported, about 8 25 tuesday night, they got a call from Central Florida Regional Hospital that a juvenile showed up with a gunshot wound and she later died. This morning we reached out to School Leaders who confirm the little girl was a student at wicklow elementary school. The district has grief counselors on hand for students today. We have another crew at the Seminole County jail where we are hearing williams is in the process of posting bond more than 15,000. Records looking into his criminal past and for Eyewitness News at four, we are talking with family members working to learn more about williams and finding out