Central florida. S throughout the afternoon. We will make things feeling the 20 s as we look at tonight. Then we get into the freeze warnings in effect for also just about all of Central Florida. Night. Bring in the pats, cover the plants, the whole nine yards. At this hour, as the sun is setting, we are 45 in ocala, 46 orlando, 44 in Daytona Beach. Factor in the wind speeds, and this is what it feels like, 38 orlando, 38 the villages, 42 in melbourne. It is that cold air coming in from the north, so as the sun sets, temperatures falling to 46 by 7 00. 9 00, and then we continue down to 40 by 11 00. Minutes. Adrian you can get the first alert forecast anytime before our mobile app for your smart phone or tablet. Just search for wesh in the app store or on google play. We have new information tonight in the search for a prison escapee. Deputies now believe the suspect may be armed and on the run with his girlfriend a threeyearold child. Wesh 2 S Dave Mcdaniel is live in Volusia County.
Work this morning at this hotel and resort. He just disappeared in the afternoon. I talked to deputies tonight and theyre not sure what direction he had. Reporter gary bullock was nine months away from being released from prison in Daytona Beach. After today it appears that sentence will be longer. This afternoon the Volusia County sheriff told me he was out on workrelease and cut off his gps monitor. At the hotel where he worked for maintenance. And then walked away. He was supposed to return by 5 pm to the workrelease center but never showed up. Officials told me that he arrived at the hotel for work vanished just after 3 pm. According to records bullet was serving time for property, attempted robbery with a weapon, grand theft and other charges. We did a story back in 2009 on him when he was arrested for a home invasion. I asked the authorities if they thought that bullock was armed and dangerous. They could not tell me but they did say that they did not consider him a flight risk.
Up. There is no tonight in northwest florida. The wind is cranking up the colder air is pouring in, and we have enough moisture that we are seeing the white. Those are snow flurries west of tallahassee by about 40 to five 50 miles. That air is cold over the relatively warm gulf of mexico waters, there is no stuff for us. Plenty of cold air on the way. We have freeze watches for marion and flagler counties. These will become freeze warnings, likely expanded southward. I will show you why and show you some wind chills both saturday and sunday straight ahead. Jim thank you. Our Team Coverage continues now with wesh 2 s matt lupoli live at Orlando International with the latest on how the storm is affecting travel there, matt. Matt with several major hubs orlando today. That is why airlines and airport representatives say the best travel plans should check on them. Absolutely, our daughter was concerned, she was like are we going to be ok today . We were like, we are not going to be cancele
More possible cyberattacks are being reported. The latest target, Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox gaming networks. Thousands of gamers reported trouble signing in on christmas and hacker group called lizard squad is claiming responsibility. The latest possible hack came the same day that theaters across the country screened sonys controversial comedy the interview. Haley jackson has more on the movies much talked about opening. Reporter this Christmas Day opening did not involve traditional presents. Its a gift, you know what i mean . To get to see what all the hoopla was about. It wasnt the most christmas thing we did but it was the most american thing we did. Reporter from l. A. To new york audiences lined up at more than 200 independent theaters for the interview. More free speech. At one sold out screening, a midnight surprise. The movies codirector and costar seth rogen with an adult beverage and some adult language. If it wasnt for theaters like this and people like you guys,