Here is orlando health, the main hospital, the pulse nightclub is just five blocks up the street. Orange avenue. Perhaps the busiest thoroughfare through orlando. A good five to sick blocks of the main corridor are closed as the media has taken over the center of the road in front of the nightclub and as the Investigation Continues to be under way. We understand from one of the local stations here in town that a 48 victim has been identified. That leaves one outstanding and sadly bruce, families and at least one that does not know that they have lost their loved ones. The investigation still a very active scene up the street at the nightclub and investigators at this hour tried to find out more about who this suspect is, this american born moslem name omar mateen. A show of saladdity as the family members mourned. Awlunteers keeping the media dont know the status. 49 club goers died and 53 wounded with five hospitalized in grave condition. Investigators trying to determine why oma mate
Office and blood was everywhere. She didn t tell me nothing. She had a baby or nothing. I didn t know nothing about it, until the detective told me she had the baby. Gail he said detectives followed the blood trail to their address. Detectives tell me she told them that she had the baby in the house and she took the baby and dropped it off in willow bend. Gail police have searched every dumpster. We don t know where baby willow is. There is a time frame we can t account for and we need the public assistance. Gail police are not releasing mother s identity, only to say she s a black female, about 31, 54 and slim build. They want to know if you saw the mother at the apartment complex between 10 00 am and 12 15 pm in hopes of finding baby willow. I m going to tell you like the detectives told me, nobody knows but her. Concerned about this situation. He doesn t know if he s the father of baby willow, but says they do have three other children together. I checked and there s been no update
Time to grade and managers time to investigate. The incident only only happen in a staging area near maintenance a week reached out to bosses that fdot to find out why all 21 miles at a stop work. Wise the entire project shutdown . That was the determination that the joint venture made. As far as the Florida Department stamford, safety is important to us and if the joint venture feels this is what they need to do to make sure the corridor is safe for the public and workers, then we support them. Reporter we took kept pressing about the notion and asked when the project could start up again. I got safety statistics for the company here. We are putting that together now for Eyewitness News at 5 at the live in Orange County, and tim barber, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We turn to breaking news and winter park where police are investigating why an suv crashed into a Boston Market and caused a gas leak from sky suv sticking out of the restaurant. Police say neither the female driver nor resta
Its presence felt in the tri state overnight. This is video from suffolk county. Sparks were flying in selden before a power line came down. Downed trees knocked out power. More than 800 customers are without power in nassau and suffolk county. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. The wind will be the tough thing today. No doubt about it. Take a look outside, clear skies and 24 degrees. That would feel nice if you didnt have the wind. 18 hopatcong. 25 poughkeepsie. You see we are looking at 23 Miles Per Hour winds at newark, 26 j. F. K. That is Mother Nature getting midevil this morning. Its quite cold. A wind advisory in effect for the urban areas of new jersey, passaic and long island. Wind gust around 45 Miles Per Hour today. It will feel like the Single Digits and teens. Heather is looking at the commute. We will take a look at our mass transit chart. New jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north are doing fine. S
Figure out exactly what happened including what may have prompted the shooting. We will update you on that later but as you might imagine, this is a fluid situation. Live in unincorporated cocoa, melanie holt, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We will check back in with melanie throughout the afternoon. Meantime, break in within the last hour, governor rick scott declared a Health Emergency and 4 florida counties rated to the zika virus transmitter by mosquitoes its important to note all of the florida patients will likely infected countries. Reading through the governors declaration and we will have more on that and the latest on zika and 30 minutes on channel 9. The fight over the winning Lottery Ticket is stretched to its 3rd day in court and Seminole County. Howard browning claims he and lynn porier were in a halfmillion dollar Winning Ticket together. Porier says she bought the ticket alone and should not have to split any of that money with anyone. Roy raymos was in court today. Not onl