April 7th good morning im jim donovan. Im brook thomas. What is going on with the wet they are week. The it is snowing, sunny, cold, warm. It is all over the place. It is a affecting what is going on the road. It always do, weather and traffic we go hand and hand. We are looking dry. It will stay that way, right katie. At least for now. Eventually rain will be here and when it does get here it will impact your commute. I would say especially midday when most of us will see the most widespread coverage of wet weather. For now not a lot going on at local zoom of storm scan. A storm is on the the way. And, there it is, leading edge of the precipitation. It will start off as a scattered variety of showers but then bulk of the front leading edge does come in. We will talk about that one thing radar does not show and that is wind. Right now as of 7 00 a. M. We have a wind advisory that will kick in for central, southern new jersey, entire first state of delaware and into eastern maryland for
Schedule. 8 at 7 begins now. Good evening. Winter haven police are on the hunt for a violent carjacker. Investigators say the man held a shotgun to a womans head. Chip osowski joins us live. In custody, right . Right, jen. This went down early yesterday morning in this winter haven walgreens parking lot of the told me she stopped here a number of times in the past and had no reason to believe she wasnt safe. Its a well lit parking lot at a 24hour walgreens. A surveillance camera captured hunter pulling into a space. She is texting her son she will be home soon. You can see a man walking back and forth on the video. Then the unthinkable happens. And i went to put my phone back into my pictures to get and thats when my door was jacked open. It was pulled open and he says, get in so many words, get out of the car. I couldnt believe it was happening. And he was waving the gun around. He says get out now. Reporter hunter didnt want her face shown because the gunman is still out there. Polic
And she thought that was the end. She was wrong. Rochelle says the driver got behind her and got in front of her and get out. I thought he had a cell phone in his han and i was like gun. Reporter terrified she trigger. I screamed he had a gun and he turned it side ways. Reporter the other driver is dean confortty, an employee of dunbar armored trucks. I stopped by the employees office to see if he works there. We have no comment. Can you tell me what dean con forty does for you guys . No comment, sir. Next, we stopped by dean con fortys house in st. Pete. We are from new channel 8 rage incident. A corporate spokesperson says employment is based on a clean criminal record meaning if convicted con for thetys days are done. Did you fear for your life . I did because he had my car blocked in. Rochelle is taking a different route at home and gets her husband on the phone and promising she will never honk at another driver and he is denying he got in front of her and got out of the car and e
Promise you it is there. It s getting warmer, but that will not be for long. In orlando, it didn t even get as high as 60. We expect to see the temperatures bottom out in the 20 s in some areas tonight. A freeze warning has been issued for some local counties. Angela outside the studios, it is a little bit chilly and we have more. It is chilly out. That s why we have the jackets. We have a warning in effect. We have High Pressure building with clear skies and relatively light wind. These temperatures are going to drop from the mid to upper 50 s now into the upper 20 s as you guys just mentioned in marion county. Right around 40 now. A little patchy frost just west of orlando. We will have a frosted visor he graphic coming up for you later on. Coming up for you later on. Angela thank you. Big news from a Volusia County courtroom today. The man who kidnapped and raped one woman, and murdered another has been sentenced. , today, 52yearold john lytus negotiated a plea deal. Jim for both cr