elections decided to cut the checks directly calling in staff , to print up, organize, and distribute new checks as quickly as possible, even creating a drive-through at their headquarters on west kaley avenue for workers who needed the money asap. workers like luis ramos, who actually rode his bike across town to get his check. luis ramos: now i have to find out if i have an overdraft on my account. >> that' s the check. >> i mean, the money is there. it should' ve been worked out. summer: vicky bell is running for supervisor of elections and says not having enough ballots at polling places and issuing bad checks to poll workers is something that could' ve and should' ve been avoided. vicky bell: i would' ve definitely know that things were working ahead of time. summer: but despite the check snafu, at least two workers say they won' t be giving up their poll worker status anytime soon. >> oh, you better believe it, its gonna be i' m gonna be doing , this until i die. >> i am very, very impressed. because i have never seen any state agency act that fast to sit there and give money to anybody. summer: summer knowles, wesh 2 news. meredith: this is not the only problem for the supervisor of elections office. over the past couple of days, during voting about a dozen hours, polling places ran out of ballots. more were later delivered. elections supervisor bill cowles is promising to fix the glitches. jim: the son of a music legend, frank sinatra junior has died in central florida. wesh 2' s angela taylor is at the breaking news center with the details. angela: sinatra became sick about 4:00 today at his hotel in in daytona beach. he was rushed to the hospital and officials say he died there. sinatra was traveling with his ' sinatra sings sinatra tour' and had been rehearsing in daytona beach for several days, set to perform at the peabody auditorium tonight. kidnapped and held for ransom when he was 19, he had already followed his father into the music business. he eventually worked for his father as his musical director and conductor. frank jr. performed the national game just last year. anyone who bought tickets to the event for tonight will get a full refund. frank sinatra junior was a 72 years old. jim: and now to breaking news out of lake county. we just arrived on the scene of a fire at a home. this is on ridgecrest a loop in mineola. there is no one -- it is not known if anyone was inside. and in orange county, these are live pictures from a shooting. two people were shot and taken to ormc in critical condition. this is a long rio grande avenue. we are working to get more information on both of these breaking news stories and we will bring it to you as and as we can. you can also get updates anytime at wesh.com. meredith: a marion county woman is arrested after police say she used her position with a local church to steal thousands of dollars from a charity that funds breast cancer screenings for women in need. wesh 2' s chris hush has the details all new tonight. wiped out a breast cancer charity' s bank account belonging to first united methodist church of dunnellon. at least $100,000, all gone. mike mcquaig: she has given confession. chris: dunnellon police chief mike mcquaig says 69-year-old sharon gane confessed to transferring funds from the church' s bank into her personal account multiple times and even forging checks to make the transfers. but the chief says the church volunteer has yet to explain what she used the funds for. when we went to gane' s home to ask her in person, we could hear people inside, but no one answered the door. mike mcquaig: the whole community becomes a victim just about, because you' re affecting the ladies who need this type of money to have their exams and the people who donated it. chris: police say the money was used by the michelle-o-gram charity to assist many local women with breast cancer screenings and referrals to doctors. according to the charity' website, first united methodist church of dunnellon writes checks and does bookkeeping for the charity. gane, who police say was in charge of this bank account, was arrested for grand theft and forgery but has already bailed out of jail. as of wednesday night, the church declined to comment. mike mcquaig: this is going to be corrected at the church and will not happen again. chris: the chief tells me the church now requires two signatures on the checks and has also implemented a checkout system for the check book. we are also told that private donors have helped to replenish the account. however, investigators are still going over bank account information, and more charges could be on the way. jim: new tonight, sanford police joined members of the community, working to make the streets safer. this is all in response to several recent killings which have not been solved. members of the police department joined local pastors at second shiloh missionary baptist church. the police chief says he' s looking at this summer and cecil smith: we have a couple of different initiatives that we are working with through the church and also the city. it is important for young people to understand and we are looking to bring to keep them occupied for the summer. jim: other topics discussed included neighborhood watch and gun safety. sanford police are organizing a gun buyback scheduled for april 17. meredith: a school scare in marion county after a teen nearly made it to school with a gun. deputies say the 13-year-old tried to leave his home with an ar-15 and ammo, with the intention of taking it to howard middle school in ocala. a family member noticed the teen and stopped him before leaving. he was taken to a hospital for an observation. deputies say the gun was never brought on campus and students were never in danger. new tonight, a major drug bust made at orlando international airport. investigators say a man arriving on a flight from mexico city was arrested during inspection for what he was carrying. six pounds of heroin was discovered in his backpack. that' about $170,000. now to new information. the 15-year-old accused of hitting and injuring an orange county sheriff' s deputy has been charged as an adult. jancarlos ortiz is facing several charges including attempted second-degree murder of a law enforcement officer. sergeant marcy pearce says ortiz hopped into a car and rammed into a car and rammed into her when she tried to arrest him on burglary charges last month. jim: a wild story out of volusia county, and new tonight, we' re talking to the hero who helped save a man' s life. deputies tell us an 18-year-old carjacked a woman in traffic with her dog still inside her suv. he then crashed and the suv went up in flames. >> i pulled the dashboard off and he was laying right there in the back behind the seats, so i reached out and grabbed him by his arms and pulled him away from the car. as soon as his feet cleared the car, the fire went white through it. jim: scott archey walked us through his life-saving efforts. say andre pomerleau got into a woman' s car while she was stopped at a light near deland early this morning. she hopped out, and he drove off. they say pomerleau crashed into a power pole several miles away. >> the car burst into flames. probably 20 foot flames coming out of that car. jim: the dog, a golden retriever named kenzie, was able to run to a nearby home. he was reunited with his owner hours later. meredith: right now, two local religious leaders are facing charges in a child sex-abuse scandal in pennsylvania . investigators said giles schinelli, robert d' aversa, and anthony criscitelli allowed a friar to molest more than 100 kids over several years. schinelli is pastoral administrator of the san pedro center in winter park. d' aversa is a pastor of st. patrick catholic community church in mount dora. and cristicelli is the head of a catholic parish in minnesota. they' re accused of reassigning a priest with a history of sex abuse complaints to another parish with access to children. himself in 2013, officials suspect reverend stephen baker of abusing 90 or more victims. >> allowing the voice of the victims to finally be heard, to let them know that we are on their side, that they are safe. meredith: the church has paid millions of dollars to settle suits filed by baker' s accusers. jim: one day after a firestorm that destroyed a central florida landmark, firefighters are still putting out hot spots and a major highway is just reopening. the fire at the al neuharth home in cocoa beach has disappeared in an unforgettable ball of flames. it almost seems there' s not enough water in all of cocoa beach to put out what' s left of the 10,000 square-foot pumpkin center. chopper 2 shows the landmark estate mostly a wasteland of blackened ground, with literally nothing but ashes in place of its 11 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. frank vega: the thing was an old, wooden, kind of a hunting lodge. and so there was, you know wood the house, huge decks. that obviously contributed to what happened. fire chief: it means a lot to me personally, to all of us in cocoa beach especially the , residents. we' re just hoping to get some really adequate information that helps answer some hard questions. jim: investigators are looking into new renovations going on at the estate and whether anyone who wasn' t supposed to be there was on the property. meredith: the search is on for a woman in brevard county making purchases while using some bogus bills. rockledge police are trying to find the person on your screen. they say the woman gave a worker $100 bill at a cvs along fiske boulevard. when the worker questioned her about the bill, the woman ran away. she' s then accused of using a bogus $100 bill to buy some things at a nearby supercuts. in both cases, she was seen carrying a large gray purse with tassels and wearing sunglasses. clermont police say they' re no longer looking for the person accused of posing as a police officer because he was a trooper. we reported this story earlier in the week of a woman who had concerns about the legitimacy of speeding sunday in lake county. she was given a warning, but she questioned whether the man was legit. police first said the stop was never called in so they questioned it as well, but now it appears an fhp trooper made the stop but never called it in. still ahead, crime connection. jim: two businesses robbed in orlando, and the crimes are being committed by the same dangerous a duo. meredith: parent takes matters into his own hands to catch drivers speeding by school buses and robbing kids. jim: it may look like a joke, but there -- this woman says there is nothing funny about her not being able to keep her pet alligator. why she is being told no. tony: and today, in sanford we hit 90 for the first time. over the next few days, rain and ll talk about meredith: the search is on for two men, accused of robbing back-to-back businesses in orange county in just a matter of hours. jim: the first happened on mercy drive, the second near the mall away. wesh 2' s dave mcdaniel looks at why detectives believe the crimes are connected. dave: the security camera shows the man with the gun, demanding cash at the mercy market around noon monday. the owner grabs her own smith and wesson 38, telling him, "i have a gun, get out of here." then police say she "fired a single shot at the suspect. the shot missed, but it made him take off, jumping into a blue minivan heading south." more than three hours later, at this subway on millenia boulevard, a guy in a green shirt is the first in the door. a very similar looking guy to the suspect in the mercy market robbery is there as well. a worker there says they "pulled a gun on him and ordered him to open the cash register, eventually grabbing the drawer and pulling out all the bills." brian ferarra: that second gentleman on the subway you see come in wearing all black and with the black hat he appears to , be the same gentlemen from the mercy mart. dave: and in both robberies, the getaway car was a blue minivan. brian ferrara: the chances of having two armed robberies to commercial establishments in descriptions, to us it just tells us that there pretty much going to be linked. dave: they want everybody to look carefully at both videos, the facial features, the way the men walk and carry themselves. police say video security can play such an important role. in solving cases like this. it is important that anyone that has a system to make sure it works and know how to use it. and police suggest you need to be a good witness get a good , look at faces getaway cars, which way the suspects took off. and don' t challenge armed suspects. battle them by being able to identify them. in orlando, orange county, dave mcdaniel, wesh 2 news. meredith: more than 70 people are taken to the hospital after an accident between two school buses and a tractor-trailer in the panhandle this morning. it happened when the tractor-trailer rear ended a schoolbus which then slammed , into another bus. you can see just how bad the damage was to all the vehicles involved. no one was seriously hurt. the crash is still under investigation, but police don' t believe alcohol or drugs played a role in the accident. it' s video that may upset some a local father has been taking cell-phone videos of cars, racing past school buses as they drop off kids. chad cartledge says he became angry after seeing so many cars violate the law and put kids' lives in danger. in some of the videos, you can clearly see cars grow impatient, that' s illegal according to state law. >> if those lights are blinking you stop, and don' t honk at me these children' s lives are important, and i am not going to risk being late for work at the expense of the possible life of a child. meredith: chad' s video was posted on the facebook page for the orange county sheriff' s office and got thousands of hits. and today, deputies were in the area giving tickets to anyone trying to do the same thing. jim: this didn' t cause any major problems but it was sure fun to , watch for a few minutes. this water main broke late this morning near cincinnati. utility officials aren' t quite sure what caused the pipe to break. but it was repaired fairly quickly. behind it. meredith: quite a sight. and there we go. we are talking about weather. but as the story right now. now. tony: temperatures are coming down, ray chances going up.: level going down. we are going to put a dent into the forest fire situation. back outside, you can see the i-4 construction well underway. things are quiet and the workers, wind out of the west at nine. hottest temperature of the year in ocala, 86 degrees. we look at the number there in daytona beach, 89. also the hottest day of the year. in sanford, first time this year, we hit 90 also the hottest day of the year. there is an area of low pressure going through the great lakes. it will stall out, and the this will develop over the next few days and come through saturday into sunday. that is why i like ray chances going up. i had of that, on the south line of the front, because we are on the warm side, 73 in melbourne, 75 in sanford. in palm coast, 73. leslie the commuter forecast. you can see patchy fog, but with possible clouds, we are not as cold. temperatures in the mid 60' s. ocala 62, orlando 66, daytona beach and melbourne 66. look at futurecast. you can see the gray, usually that is a sign of clouds and fog. you can see that through 7:00 on i-4 west. as a little more updated that we were showing a couple of hours ago. best chances of rain going to be up north and east of the 408 on most of the day will be dry, and a bigger line of rain will try to advance southeast by tip-in we get tonight :00. -- by time we get to 9:00. we can get rain on friday night plans. 81 palm coast tomorrow, 82 ocala. with the clouds and radar, a few degrees cooler. here is the bay hill planner for tomorrow. 7:00 a.m., noon 81, mostly dry, light breeze with temperatures around 82 degrees. if you are not doing the golfing thing and taking in some ball, the real the astros and the blue jays. look for the temperature at 81 degrees at 1:05. we have a kink of low-pressure organizing in the gulf of mexico late in the day saturday. that would give us a better chance for organized showers and on sunday we get a front heading quickly to the south. we begin to dry out during the afternoon hours sunday. and behind that, check out temperatures as we get to the start of next week. waking up to upper 40' s to around 50. after high 70 to 75. jim: thanks. you can definitely file this next story under the only in florida file. a lakeland woman is fighting to keep her pet alligator inside her home. the 125-pound gator named rambo wears clothes, rides on the back of a motorcycle and has a bedroom in mary thorn' s home. he apparently rides in a tv as well. thorn has had a license for the alligator for 11 years, but it recently grew to six feet. wildlife officials say that size alligator must have 2.5 acres of land. but thorn says that even if she had land available, rambo can' t be left outdoors because he' s sensitive to sunlight. he is a sensitive alligator. florida wildlife officials say the case is under investigation. meredith: i think i would be jim: i guess he doesn' t have a lot of people drop on by. meredith: he would chase them away. it' s time to tee it up at arnie' s place. jim: and the magic hope to tee off on the hornets tonight, pat. pat: nice win for the good guys last night, but they' ll need many more of those down the stretch if they still yearn for the playoffs. in charlotte tonight, where the buzz is that city' s nba team is pretty good. magic try to stop the streaking (vo) you can check on them. you can worry about them. you can even choose a car for them. 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