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Transcripts For WESH WESH 2 News At 400pm 20160125

Point, standard procedure. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating this shooting. They are still reviewing this particular case. Some chaotic video from this parking lot after midnight. Summer thank you. Late breaking this afternoon, two vehicles crash into a lynx bus and nine people are taken to the hospital for minor injuries. This may have happened while the bus was at a bus stop. Again no serious injuries have been reported. Osceola simpson road by new beginnings road in kissimmee remains closed. We re working on getting new details and will bring them to you when we get them. Meredith right now dozens of Homeless People in Daytona Beach are being loaded on a bus to be taken to a temporary shelter. Wesh 2 s gail paschallbrown joins us live. Gail the property appraiser sited safety concerns about some of the group . Reporter there were some safety concerns and because of that for right now, half a dozen of these homeless folks are on the bus. Those in wheelchairs and Mental Health are being taken first. The bottom line, they want to do this. They want to do this like they do with better ends. Veterans. They say this is a start. I was staying on the wall here for about two or three weeks, but it wasn t this crowded. Reporter the wall, that Shannon Williams and others refer to, is Volusia County S Administration building in Daytona Beach. The numbers grew after the city closed off a nearby park, and restrooms where the homeless used to gather. When we were scattered around everywhere, there was no telling how many homeless there are. When we re all camped out here, people can see there s a big homeless problem. Reporter to combat the problem, the city asked the Salvation Army to help by opening a 46 bed overflow bridge shelter tonight. Those who are homeless will be bussed to the Salvations Army s gymnasium on ballough road. Right how, the city has i believe it is for 90 days. They will re accessing it every 30 days. Reporter for people with pets, for anyone willing to foster a situated. However, kitty s owners say they re not going to be separated. If you had to go a shelter that didn t allow kids, would you . I would not think so and i am not going to do that with my dog. I am going to stay right here and stay warm. Reporter right now, the Salvation Army says this is the first step shelter. There are medical and Mental Health needs, jobs to get them place they can call home. S very much just a first step to what i think is an ultimate solution. Gail just so you know, the county is closing this county adminstration building on friday. That s about 100 employees who will be integrated into other offices throughout the county. This comes after an allegation that an employee was accosted by a homeless person. Paschallbrown, wesh 2 news. Meredith first alert weather after a cold and chilly weekend, it is nice to be warm on the monday. Summer we are actually outside in it during the outdoor weather studio forecast. Eric i am doing it for style purposes. The weather outside is 68 degrees. A light breeze out of the southwest. Wind has been variable. Around town, we have made it into the upper 60 s and lower 70 s. 69, sanford. 66, ocala. Gorgeous out there. Mainly clear skies sitting right overhead. As we look at the forecast , 5 00 temperature, 68 area we are under mainly clear skies. Slowly cooling temperatures , 71 by 7 00. We have a lot to talk about in the world of weather. We will talk about lower temperatures moving into Central Florida and the next storm system bringing in a lot of rain. Summer thank you. A Winter Springs man remains behind bars, charged with night club. Authorities say the victim was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Wesh 2 s matt grant was in court when the suspect went before a judge. Matt wearing a Blue Jumpsuit and handcuffs, 30yearold James Pritchard junior appeared before a judge. You support anyone besides yourself . Me, my wife, and kid. Matt pritchard is charged with killing 36yearold Oceanette Hampton at the cool breeze nightclub in sanford saturday night. According to Seminole County sheriff deputies, a fight broke out during a private party between two women. When that fight escalated, a few men tried breaking it up. That s when investigators say pritchard fired a shot, in a room full of about 60 people. Hampton was struck and killed, but investigators do not believe she was the intended target. In court, pritchard s public through a door, but had no idea anyone was behind it and didn t intend for anyone to be killed. There is certainly probable cause for manslaughter that he acted recklessly and did something pretty stupid, and not called for but intentional murder, i don t see that. Matt the state agreed with lowering the charge from murder to manslaughter. Pritchard asked for a 15,000 bond, but the judge refused to budge. Just for the record, you re not finding probable cause for murder, but you re going to set the same bond . I m setting his bond at no bond. With the victim s mother over the weekend about her loss. We will always love her and i will always cherish her memory. She will always live in my heart until the day i die. Matt in Seminole County, matt grant, wesh 2 news. Summer the judge called the alleged shooting depraved. His next court date is set for march 1. Meredith Florida State will be paying out to avoid going to trial in the rape case of tampa bay bucs quarterback Jameis Winston at a time when he was a student. Wesh 2 s jim payne joins us now. Jim this settlement will cost the University Just under 1 million . Jim that s right. Florida State University will pay the alleged victim 250,000 and her lawyers will receive 700,000. The university s president says they agreed to settle to avoid spending millions on the lawsuit. The woman claims the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback raped her when they were both students at Florida State. Winston was cleared of any wrongdoing when prosecutors declined to bring any charges. The woman claims the school didn t respond to the allegations that Jameis Winston sexually assaulted her. About this settlement, the alleged victim says in part, i am happy that fsu has committed to continue making changes in order to ensure a safer environment for all students. My hope is that the federal investigation of my complaint by the office of civil rights will produce even more positive change, not just at fsu, but the woman has a separate lawsuit pending against winston. Summer. Summer thank you. Deputies have identified the victims found dead in a suspicious deadly fire over the weekend. 47yearold Darrell Rogers and 72yearold jean marhefkarogers were found inside the home on primero drive in kissimmee on saturday. Investigators say evidence found inside the home makes the deaths seem suspicious, and the deaths were not caused by the fire. They are not looking for any suspects. Meredith fire investigators in lakeland say it was a cigarette that caused a deadly fire at an independent living facility over the weekend. A 59yearold man was killed and three others hurt at bella vista manor yesterday. Many of the people who live there are disabled. Wesh 2 has learned the building does not have any sprinklers, but sprinklers were not required since the building dates to the early 1970 s. Summer it began as an argument and ended with a shooting inside a Marion County home. Morning in ocala when a man ran nextdoor for help. We talk to the man who says he was defending the woman and himself. I think i need to talk to some kind of therapist. This is not an emotion i ever thought i would experience. Reporter he says he does not feel like a hero, just lucky to be a live. His nextdoor neighbor came to his house and said her boyfriend was attacking her. He went next door, armed with a gun and you can see a bullet hole in the front door. Another shot ended the life of her boyfriend, known as casey to family and friends. He declined to tell us exactly what happened, other than to say he was beaten up before the gun was fired. I am a big Second Amendment supporter, but it was not something that i ever wanted to reporter you were just trying to help your neighbor. Of course. It was a crazy instance. Reporter he felt compelled to go nextdoor, not just to help his neighbor but take a look at this sign, alerting traffic there is a hearing impaired person in the neighborhood. That is his child, so he went next door to make sure she and the child were ok. The boyfriend has been arrested multiple times, and 2002 for burglary, 2003 for battery, Domestic Violence but avoided jail. In 2008 he was booked on two counts of battery, Domestic Violence and handed a sixmonth jail sentence. The judge turned over the case to the state attorney. Summer meredith Daytona Beach fire crews think a fire at a house was sparked by a space heater. The fire started around 10 45 this morning. Crews got control of the fire on magnolia avenue just before noon. The house belongs to the father of Daytona Beach mayor derek henry and his brother, councilman patrick henry. No one was injured. No word on just how much damage was done. Summer a construction project that does not involve the i4 project. Meredith how some people are trying to act before historic changes kick in. Summer fugitives run to police only to call to 911 for help. Meredith the northeast trying the effectth you re watching wesh 2. Summer the historic capen house was split in half and moved across lake osceola in december 2013, where it was restored and preserved from demolition. And it s now back in one piece,and it s just one example of a historic home being spared. Meredith now the city is looking to make it more difficult to demolish historic live in winter park. Michelle, some people are trying to take action before change kicks in . Reporter applications to demolish a home, they have gone up in winter park area something get is because the economy has improved, but others think it could be another factor. In the past 30 years in winter park, 60 homes have been considered historic. There have been too close calls. One came with a home built in 1933, the historic home was spared the wrecking ball and moved across the street where it is used for funerals to weddings. It almost was demolished. Jester reaction. It is sad because i might get married here. Was saved and moved into pieces across lake osceola to its new home museum. To prevent more homes from being destroyed, the City Commission revised and ordinance that makes it easier for winter park neighborhoods to have their area declared historic. It used to take a two thirds vote, now it takes 50 plus one. It is 50 plus one, the majority of those submitting for their neighborhood to be designated historic. Reporter as a result, there has been a spike in applications to demolish homes in winter park, in anticipation of more homes being declared historic. In the past four months of 2015 compared to 2014, the applications has nearly doubled from 17 to 32. And one of these districts, but there will be an extra step. You have to go before the preservation board. Meredith drivers who want to use u. S. 1792 in winter park during the evening this week, will have to find another route. The northbound lanes will be closed every night this week between lee road and lake avenue. The road is being closed for pavement reconstruction betweem, 8 00 in the evening to 7 00 in the morning. Signs will be posted, directing a detour around the construction area. Summer teachers in Volusia County have begun a weeklong series of protests they are staging walkins, and say they are trying to raise attention to the worsening working conditions in their schools. They are pushing for cleaner classrooms, less testing, more resources and more support in the schools. Meredith Florida State senators are getting ready to debate a bill that would regulate the Fantasy Sports industry. While some states are banning the internet games as illegal gambling, the florida bill says Fantasy Sports do not come under the state s gambling laws. The debate by the regulated Industries Committee begins wednesday. The committee is also set to continue discussion of a proposed gambling deal the seminole tribe of florida. The socalled compact could bring 3 billion to the state. It goes up for debate starting wednesday. Summer things are warming up. Meredith some people have been under the weather, including myself and it is nice to feel the warm weather. Eric it is the up and down that causes that. We were in the 20 s, and now we are in the 70 s. There is downtown orlando. He could not ask for a prettier setup or your monday afternoon. Nearly clear skies overhead. There is the lake allele a leica leola forecast. It feels nice. 67 in deltona. 69 in winter park. 68, a pop got. 71, clermont. Visible satellite imagery. You can see the puffy humorless clouds developing an east coast puffy cumulus clouds developing an east coast seabreeze. 57 by 9 00, and as we continue to 11 00, temperatures setting into the middle range of the 50 s. We are not dropping much more than that. No 20 s in ocala, you were only making it down to 46 degrees this evening. 50 s for lake county. Paisley and rural like a county, is the exception. 51 in the city, beautiful. 50, stanford. 50, longhorn. Longwood. Bay. We will say tay dry through 11 00. Tomorrow, it will be a mostly cloudy start to the day. There will be a front welloff to the north and south east. They are both coming together to add atmosphere and moisture. That means tuesday, more moisture bringing warmer temperatures. We make it a shower of art, less than 10 chances. That is it. 73 in titusville. Room temperature in ocala, 72 degrees. We look ahead to wednesday, it is an overcast sky. By lunchtime, future cast showing storms developing working through. One of these could get strong, so we will keep a close eye. This is the start of a wet there is an 80 chance of having down pours later in the week. 75 for your tuesday and then wednesday and thursday, showers and thunderstorms and cooling down a little bit. Much more on the rain coming in just a couple of minutes. Summer passengers percent to a hospital after a flight they soon will not forget. Summer how three inmates meredith seven people are hurt after severe turbulence on a plane that left from miami. The American Airlines flight was en route to italy yesterday afternoon, when it hit rough weather over the atlantic. It was forced to make an Emergency Landing in eastern canada. Three flight attendants and four passengers were taken to the hospital. Thai and malaysian officials are looking at debris found to see if it s that of missing malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Summer a piece of curved metal was found on the southern thai coast by a fisherman. Flight m. H. 370 disappeared from radar back in march of 2014 while flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. Investigators say the debris was covered in algae and matched Panel Numbers and hinges on the metal. Meredith another driver killed last month, is the 10th person air bag worldwide. The ntsb is recalling 5 million more cars now. This is on top of 19 million vehicles that have already been recalled. The airbags can explode with too much force, sending shrapnel into the driver. In 2014, a Central Florida woman was killed by a defective bag. Summer right now, a desperate search and no sign of three dangerous inmates who broke out of a california jail. All of them were in jail charged with violent crimes. They were last seen friday morning. The sheriff says they cut through the bars in their cells and even the plumbing pipes, before rappelling down the side of the jail using bed sheets. The fbi is offering a 50,000 reward. But it s a different story for a pair of fugitives in california, whose escape from the law actually put them in freezing conditions. Meredith things got so bad that the two called 911 to be rescued. I have never seen two people happier to go to jail, because they knew they were going to be dry and warm. Merdith one of the men had four active warrants, and the other was a parolee. Woods after a traffic stop for swerving. It was freezing, so when the sun went donw, they called 911, begging to be arrested. They were rescued and taken to the hospital for treatment. A woman arrested moments after robbing a motel. Summer how a guest made sure the getaway did not last long. Meredith the report of the p before finally selling and delivering them p we take a straightforward approach. R we have eliminated the extra steps and created a direct line from our factory to you. Local. Live. Latebreaking. This is wesh 2 news first at 4 00 in high definition. Meredith deputies are crediting an alert guest for helping them track down a woman who robbed a kissimmee area motel and threatened to hurt the clerk. Summer once caught, deputies say the suspect told them why she did it. The robbery happened friday night at the country hearth inn along 192 on kissimmee s west side. That s where wesh 2 s bob kealing joins us live. Bob deputies say the witness made a split decision. Bob he was checking in moments after the robbery, got back in his car, followed the suspect at a distance, then flagged down a Kissimmee Police offi

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