Jim also breaking right now, a local child is airlifted to the hospital after being struck by a car. This happened on west granada lazard. How did this happen . Reporter we are right at the corner of lewis and it happened at the west end of this parking lot. According to police, there are conflicting reports about how this crash occurred, but they confirm a threeyearold boy was hit by a vehicle and airlifted as a trauma alert. As because of his age, they want to make sure he gets the Critical Care he needed. We saw a chevy suv involved in the crash. What is unclear is whether the child is connected. Some witnesses were told the child may have fallen out of the way, shape or form, the child was connected to the suv and that is part of the conflict as investigators put it all together. We expect to get new information from police any moment. They tell us the vehicle and driver were both on the scene, but how they were connected to the child, we are not sure. Angela we are following late
Where firefighters tell us a pedestrian was hit. This is impacting traffic along west grenada boulevard in ormand beach. There you see. Were still waiting to learn more. Well keep you updated on air and on clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6. Again, a pedestrian hit in ormand beach, affecting traffic on west grenada boulevard. Ginger were also following breaking news from the space coast where moments ago a fourth launch attempt by spacex has just been scrubbed. Spacex c. E. O. Elon musk just confirmed the launch has been pushed back to friday because of extreme upperlevel winds. Erik von ancken will have more from the space coast within the next halfhour. Lisa also breaking right now, a deadly officerinvolved shooting triggered by alleged threats towards construction worker. Thats according to palm bay detectives at the scene along twohour standoff today. News 6s Troy Campbell joins us with the breaking new details. How did this escalate into shots being fired . Reporter yeah, the sc
Wesh 2 new sunrise starts right now. Announcer local, live, late breaking. This is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. Jason it is march 2, good wednesday morning to you. We are glad you are waking up with us. I m jason guy. Let s get you outside and show you a view of downtown orlando. 65 is the current temperature in the spot. If you like the one afternoon, we are talking to amy sweezey to find out if we will do it again today. Amy good morning. A cold front concert today but it is not going to make us cold in Central Florida. We are still headed to the upper 70 s to read 80 degrees for highs. A few of us will make it to the lower 80 s. There is a slight chance of sprinkles is that cold front comes through during the midday hours. I really don t expect a lot of rain. It would be pretty sprinkles. Otherwise we will have clouds and sun. Especially north and west of i4 compared to yesterday. We dropped to the 40 s and the spots. Ocala is 8 orlando is only two degrees warmer than yes
Latest from investigators. Tom. Reporter it happened right down there, about a block from where a 39yearold man with a gun put their officer in a position where he had no choice but to fire. Palm bay Police Say Officers came here after a 911 call around 9 30 a. M. Someone had a gun. An individual threatening to shoot three other individuals doing construction at the home next door. Reporter when Police Arrived the 39yearold man with the gun was holed up in a house. Officers tried to talk him out for about an hour and a half. He came in and out but when he finally came out the final time he was holding a handgun and at that time we had one officer that fired his weapon and did kill the suspect. Police officer shot someone, which is always tragic. Reporter the people who live in the neighborhood tell the things like this happen. Its very nice neighborhood. I wouldnt expect it. Like a so were used to it. We come to florida to escape things like this. Reporter the man in the middle of an o
As we had through the day, even though we will have cloud cover and a few sprinkles, wind will come out of the west southwest. That will bring us up to 78 in ocala. 81 in clermont. After the front clears we will have sunshine. 80 as the eye and longwood and oviedo and 81 is where we are headed in orlando. Upper 70 s is where we re headed for the coast. Get a traffic update, let s get over to ted noah. Ted heading out dark an early, some roadwork. 408 westbound, you can see the barricades. Left lane from just about i4 to obt. Flashing lights right there, an indication on i4 from princeton to maitland, construction didn t have a left lane. Just beyond maitland to 436, a leftwing taken out there. Construction and before the 417 as well. Michelle this morning, a local student is fighting for his life after nearly drowning. Jason investigators tell us he fell from a pipe wesh 2 s alex and into a canal. Wesh 2 s Alex Villarreal is live there this morning. The district says crisis counselors