site, so a lot of stuff is dumped here regularly, and they burn materials. they burned far away from the piles with scrap metal and tires. look at the volusia county services video, you can see just how difficult this will be to put out. you ve got fire burning that metal, that robert. ubber. this will take a while to get out. this broke out and it spread, and because of that strong wind out of the south and east, it is really blowing a lot of smoke around for 15. folks in new smyrna beach and sanfilippo will notice this samsula will notice this. this will be very difficult to battle and because of the materials that are burdening, they could have some toxicity to them, they have to alert the life in volusia county, claire metz, wesh 2 news. jim: right now police in edgewater are stepping up patrols around elementary schools after a 9-year-old boy says a man tried to abduct him this morning. police say the 9-year-old was riding his bike to edgewater elementary school just
are, where the spots that he did get to around the houses. they are saying this fire is about 95% contained. multiple agencies have worked this fire, including palm bay fire and rescue, and other surrounding towns have sent equipment to help. a lot of power crews and cable crews try to get the power shut off to get not have spot overs or elliptical strikes and start new fires. they are saying about 95% of the fire is contained. whorehouses has sustained some damage from the fire four houses has sustained some damage from the fire. we will let you know if that changes. back to you. jim: this fire contained in about 45 acres. you can see a lot of smoke, not as much flames. we will continue to monitor this rush fire battle in palm bay. we you can also look out for updates online and on the wesh 2 mobile app. right now at 5:00, searching for a gunman. police say a man in his was shot 20 s twice last night on west pine street in downtown orlando, just outside of a bar. he s
the wind should be running 10 miles per hour this evening and should make for a nice, chilly but not freezing evening. we are going to throw in clouds for the forecast. we will talk about that in a few minutes. 53 degrees at 10:00 for orlando. we continue to drop from there. we will go over a county by county breakdown and talk about when rain returns. meredith: a judge has denied bond for 18 accused of running over in orlando officer. he was asking the judge to set bond for him. he ran over offer search anderson and the officer fired two shots in return. he has been cleared of any wrongdoing. his wife says he has ptsd. scene of an american hotel near the orange county convention center. chopper 2 is live above the scene. investigators are investigating a suspicious advice. we will let you know new details as we get them. meredith: late breaking. a local man turned himself in this afternoon, telling winter garden police he s the one who hit a three year old boy last night an
A judge heard testimony and allowed evidence to be submitted ahead of sentencing for Bessman Okafor, the man who was convicted in the 2012 murder of Alex Zaldivar.