Reporter first, he and many neighbors discovered mold and rotten wood inside of their berkshire place units, built by homes, an Engineering Company blaped defective stucco. When they opened up outside walls. They just taken the strength out of this joist. Reporter they found this. Wood joists that support the second story, cut wide open near the walls. Their attorneys engineer called that critical Code Violations that jeopardized the structure. Defective construction. Its outrageous. Reporter they took pictures inside three other homes to document risky floor joists. And bad stucco in at least half of the 140 homes. Owners here claim the repairs to make their homes safe again will cost at least 6. 6 million dollars. They told me its aware and working to resolve this issue asks honoring the warranties. Cannot file lawsuits. Both sides begin mediation tomorrow. Just praying to god that this gets settled before a disaster happens. Reporter now, theyre disa pointed that the homeowners atto
Heavy rain offshore. Palm bay, melbourne, cocoa beach seeing rain coming down. Gusty winds earlier. Rockledge, vera, palm shores. We got damage reports out of rockledge. An update on that ahead. Southern volusia finishing in county. That will be done and will have a lot of sun in the forecast. Looking at rain and storms from last night moving away and its going to be pictureperfect. We will have sunshine a warming temperatures. 61 in orlando, through the day mid to upper 70s for highs. The planner, 10 00, mostly sunny. 68 and lunch down lunchtime, 72. In the afternoon, mid to upper 70s with mostly sunny skies. Its not raining now you do not need your umbrella. We will have the sun working quickly. Brevard and Osceola County and we will get into how much chillier it will be tonight. 6 01 am. Checking the drive along i 4 here is deneige. No issues a Brevard County or brevard Osceola County. I 4 at conroy in both directions we have issues, crash on one side and emergency vehicles locking
Just looked look a war zone. Back here in the u. S. , security has been beefedup at airports and train stations across the country. Homeland security insists there is no imminent threat. However, the fbi is currently monitored 100 people who they believe could be inspired by what happened in europe. The terrorists attacks in brussels brought swift reaction are the president ial candidates today. This is the third major terrorist attack since the campaign begin. Christopher heath continues the story. Politicizing a tragedy. Reporter martha, reactions in the wake of the violence have been across the board, you can see some of it here behind me, senator ted cruz who this afternoon said we need to empower Law Enforcement to patrol and secure neighborhoods, muslim neighborhoods. Hillary clinton who cautioned against abandoned our values. Trying to fight this threat. Brussels, republican leader donald trump was on twitter, writing i have proven to be far more correct about terrorism than any
Front coming in tomorrow. Big changes coming in this weekend. 65 in date nah daytona. Lake mary 65, 67 in clermont. And mid60s across osceola county. And we have a lot of extra clouds this morning. We may get a sprinkle popping up in flagler in marion counties this morning. And through the day, have the umbrella in case just like yesterday. A few showers and storms will pop up this afternoon. 81 at noon and mostly cloudy and mid80s this afternoon and a 30 chance of a shower or storm in the evening hours. The rain chances are different depending on where you are and well get into saturdays front and a big cooldown on the way. Drive with friday morning. We have a couple spots of construction. You have some lanes blocked off. Make sure that you give the construction crews a little bit of extra room. And i4 westbound, you have one lefthand lane blocked off. And we were talking about the ramp closure, well break that down coming down in the next five minutes. If you normally take the 408 we
And melbourne and 40s through sumter county, patchy frost and clouds are helping a bit this morning. A few more clouds today. Still staying relatively cool. Average high is about 70 in this is typically on average the coolest time of the year. We will have more of the tabs today in the temperatures in the low to mid 60s. Comfortably cool, outlook your planner on your screen. At noon, 58, 2 00, near 60. That is what will have low to mid 60s and then another chilly evening temperatures around 56 bit although we see clouds every now and again it will be dry but that is about to change. Coming up i put together a map tracking the storm system and when storms return to Central Florida. 6 01 am. Checking traffic with deneige. I 4, we had issues this morning. Nothing really bad. No issues a matlen. Downtown orlando. No issues. A crash in Orange County westwood boulevard at Central Florida a crash in Orange County westwood boulevard at Central Florida pkwy. Number 2 lanes blocked westwood boul