They re santa rosa, lee, miamidade, hillsborough, broward, and st. John s counties. Governor rick scott has already declared Health Emergencies in certain areas, which makes state money and resources more readily available to fight the spread. Jim confirmation of zika virus cases in florida prompted local counties to start taking action to prevent the spread. This work was going on, even before the news broke that a case had been diagnosed in Osceola County. Wesh 2 S Dave Mcdaniel joins us live from Seminole County. Dave, you looked into some of the preventative measures being taken. Dave that is right. Mosquito control agencies are doing extra this time of year to make sure the mosquito population is controlled and zika is just part of it. Part of this is el nio, warmer weather. It has been cooler today, but wetter and warmer weather creates more areas for mosquitoes to breed. Osceola county where this was announced, they told me they are trapping more, monitoring the populations of m
We could get a taste of what a real winter day in florida is supposed to feel like. Let s get to meteorologist Danny Treanor with the latest. Remember last weekend we were all bundled up . We are really settling into what is a pretty nice pattern. For the next 2 days, 2 weeks ago dealing with storms and last week dealing with chill. Now a little chill. Gainesville with 38 and we ll warm things up rapidly but a little bit of cloud cover out there and people thinking about going to the races but by race time today, 68 flirting with 70 and even night is not all that bad. Doing the light jacket with fog today and limited visibility but really for the most part it s not a big problem. Right now temperatures across Central Florida 48 in orlando. 47 in melbourne and 47 in ll warm those up real nice. Headed out on the boat and things are looking very nice. No advisories. Good and favorable voting conditions. Today temperatures out hour by. That is normal. Tonight in the 40s and some area in th
It was cloudy. Justin today much of the same it looks like. Dan unfortunately. We ll show you the shots. I think temperaturewise you ll be happy. Outdoor to the races it s a g. However it just won t be a picture perfect chamber of commerce day. Let s go outside boy, when you see a day like today, you think about boats and boating and by the way, we have good boating editions and they should continue for another day or 2. We start to talk about the advent of rain coming back into the forecast and possibly wednesdayish. Wednesday thursday. Maybe on friday, too, where those launch people will be interested in. And in New Smyrna Beach send story for todayment cloudy and mild. I think that capitalizes on everything and ffms are not going to get chilly chilly. And then in the morning moisture continues to pump in and that s one of the reasons with the clouds and everything and that s going to result in the possibility of big fog. That might be 2 mornings in a row. Not only monday morning but
To go on. This all happened right here during the day on this street, but they need someone to come forward with information to catch that teens killer. He didnt deserve to be killed the way he was killed. Jeanine washing washington is still finding it hard to believer she will never see her 15yearold son, tamar harris again, washington said one moment harris was listening listening to music in her car, and the next he was found shot dead. According to Seminole County sheriff deputies, harris was gunned down just after 3 00 in the afternoon friday near central and merit street where the car he was in crashed. It has been two days and you can still see crime tape on the ground at this intersection where investigators say this all happened. That is the pole they say that teen crashed into just before he was found shot. Someone had seen pray and hope that someone has the heart to come and tell with us what happened. Reporter decent residents believer you someone must have seen the shooter
We will track that and what to expect in the rain bucket over 5 31. A look at some construction now. We have a couple of spots of construction on i4. This does have one lane blocked off in the area. Keep that in mind. And then construction i4 eastbound on state route 536 we have two lanes blocked off we did just get word that in Osceola County us 192 is back open following a fatal crash there. We can also pull up our fdot the airport that is because right now some big changes are happening at one of the busiest toll plazas in central florida. Eyewitness news this morning janai norman is life out there were demolition will start on some of those big changes involve where drivers will be paying tolls. Pass you are waking up to an e mail about the changes there. As of last night, this toll plaza is no longer in service. You can see drivers are still passing through, but overhead tolls do not stop. You will save a little time, this morning, driving along state road 528. That is because dri