Remains have been found. Were awaiting the News Conference from jacksonville, it should start at any moment and well bring it to you live, right here on wftv Eyewitness News at 4 00 a volusia man take a plea deal, including murder. John kidnapped and raped a pregnant woman last year, today, that charge was reduced to aggravated battery. Blaine tolleson was in court when he pleaded guilty to murdering another woman. Blaine, the deal means hell spend the next 24 years in prison. Reporter john would get out prison when he is in his 90s. The victim today felt as though that was a life sentence. Prosecutors say a plea agreement spared his surviving victims to go through a trial. He is 52, sentenced to spend the next 45 years in prison. Jennifer, prosecutors say he hes not going to ever hurt anybody again. And im pretty sure at 90 something years old, he wont hurt anybody else. Reporter last september, he hog tied her with zip ties in an rv, and said to do what he asked. She was six months p
Today is thursday, january 7th. Cranking along. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. I hit the lottery a long time ago. I get to work with all of you guys. Thats true. All right, here we go. Happy thursday. Temperature of 33 degrees, warmer than the normal overnight low of 28. 19 around kingston and poughkeepsie and 15 in carmel and 18 armonk. These numbers are close to normal. That means we will be a few degrees warmer later on this afternoon when we get to 44, 45 degrees, sunshine, a bit milder. Heather is looking at the commute. Not bad if you want to use mass transit. I can tell you long island railroad, new jersey transit, metro north doing fine. Lines but should be cleared by 5 00 a. M. Van wyck to the kew gardens interchange on the southbound side two lanes closed down. We hope that is not the same situation this morning. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect t
Moments ago here in miami. The good news in all this, preliminary were hearing from the woman in that white car that that man did not appear to be in life threatening condition. That his condition was shaken up. He was hurt but she seems to think he was alert and wear. Though thahas not from officials thasmseses from the person on the scene. She immediately got out of car. Her relatives have showed up here there. Out here trying to help them out. Miami police on the scene as well there. Dealininwith the driver of that blue van and white van and her family right behind that car and the bus bench sort of crumbled up and overturned in r entirely here at 36th and 14th. Stay with with 7 news for the latest thon one ass it vesm were live in miami. Shell dpon fox. 7 news. Danielle and we also have an update on a developing story weve been following out of davie. A roll over accident creating quite the traffic nightmare there. Craig stevens at the ns desk with the latest. Craig well, danielle,
In lunch rooms, when reporters have watched, when they go in their lunch bags, they end up in the trash can because you cant force kids to eat them. Yes and no. Yes and no. Thats another thing. School nutrition standards i changed those, too, thats the school lunch program. But the fruit and Vegetable Program for kids is fantastic. Now over 100 million a year. Low income kids across america are getting free fresh fruits and vegetables with a lot of spillover effect. Kids in lunch room, they throw stuff away. They want hamburgers and french fries. Thats right. So people have accused me of trying to tell parents what their kids should eat and tell the kids what they should eat. I said, yeah, im guilty. I plead guilty. Should we let kids eat what they want to eat . If they want candy bars in the morning, would any parent want their kid to eat candy bars all day long . Or to stuff themselves with hamburgers or french fries every day . No parent wants that. Parents want their kids to have h
I pick up on colins comment about the person behind the window. When i travel abroad and have the opportunity like my pretty predecessors did to have meetandgreet with our personnel, i tell them theyre all ambassadors, every single one of them, particularly the people behind that window because they may be the only american somebody walking into that consulate ever meets and the impression of our country will come from that young Foreign Service officer. I think this center will remind us, all of us here, as it should and as each of these former secretaries do with their presence here today, that were an exceptional nation, not because we say we are but because we do exceptional things. And today we celebrate a tradition of american diplomacy that has done those exceptional things, that has brought us to this important moment and today we will all commit to keep that tradition strong. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the secretaries will now proceed to the construction site