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Something like that, you know exactly what it is. I heard the kid screaming. Dan police say they are very confident they will make an arrest soon in this case. At 5 00, i will tell you about one more surprising thing the driver did in the intersection right after the collision. We are live in a titusville, dan billow, wesh 2 news. Summer dayshaun hill was not wearing a helmet when he was hit. Meredith the tragic loss of a life at an i4 construction site, has meant revisiting all the safety rules and regulations surrounding each and every job site. Work was shut down wednesday on the i4 ultimate project, after a dump truck backed over the worker, killing him. Wesh 2 S Dave Mcdaniel joins us live to see when work on the project is expected to start up again. Dave that roadwork is still suspended, even though we saw a lot of activity with workers and equipment up and down i4 today. Safety review to make sure the safety rules in place are sufficient and are being followed. At the actual site where 34yearold Marvin Franklin was backed over and killed wednesday, along wymore road near maitland boulevard, workers were reassessing every aspect of the risk they face daily, if we can we will prevent this from happening again. Dave that promise wednesday from the man in charge, after all work was stopped. A spokesman for the road builder told us by phone today, they re performing an extensive inspection of their respective work sites. And that, once the crews feel they work, they ll request approval from a senior sgl manager. The manager will then review the work plans and the site with the crew, and they will decide if they can commence work. Osha is investigating along with the florida highway patrol, work sites like this with so much moving equipment require backup alarms that are audible above surrounding noises, or a spotter is needed. The fhp says the dump truck had a working backup alarm. The spokesman for the road procedures are all under review, as well as a reminding and revisiting the Site Specific safety guidelines. He adds, we do look forward to returning to work. Osha was not on scene today we re told, but can return at any time as it puts together its review of workplace safety. A decision has not been made about when construction will begin, it they want to make sure they have this complete review done, and everyone signs off on how they should receive them here. We asked how this would impact the timetable, and they said for such a lengthy project, it could be completed sometime in 2021. Live in Orange County, dave mcdaniel, wesh 2 news. Summer a man has been arrested for a frightening Home Invasion in Orange County late last month. Police say alfred felix was one pushed their way into a home on harwood street, pointed guns at the people inside, and searched the house. They didn t take anything, and soon ran off. Police believe they targeted the wrong house. Felix is now being held on no bond, his two suspected accomplices have not been caught. Meredith a woman is dead after a driver pulled in front of the moped she was riding and the two vehicles collided. The accident happened at around 10 00 outside the entrance to the rosen Shingle Creek resort on universal boulevard. Wesh 2 s bob kealing reports on why it s so important for drivers pulling on to that roadway to be especially careful. Sometimes people look past bicycles mopeds and motorcycles. Bob fhp troopers say that s what appears to have happened here when this Jeep Cherokee driven by 29yearold choppy hodes collided with this moped outside the entrance to the rosen Shingle Creek resort. The 30yearold woman was driving northbound on universal boulevard when area to the resort crossing all six lanes of traffic. She has a legal right to that lane vehicle travelling north bound would have the right of way. The vehicle traveling northbound, she would have had the rightofway. Bob the driver remained at the scene, but a man standing with him said he had no comment. Only drivers coming out of the Publix Shopping Center on breakview drive and the rosen resort directly across from it, have stop signs. Drivers going north and south on universal boulevard do not. That s why troopers say it s so important for those trying to get from one side to the other, to stop in the median and look for oncoming traffic before they try to cross all six lanes. To try and get across six lanes with so much traffic in that area is awfully ambitious. We discourage people from trying to get across all of them bob we just checked with troopers, and they have not identified in this 30yearold woman. But they confirmed that she was wearing a helmet. We dug into the history of this particular intersection. At 5 00, we will tell you how many accidents have been there. Summer a massachusetts teenager who raped and killed his High School Math teacher will serve at least 40 years in state prison. 17yearold philip chism was convicted in the 2013 death of colleen ritzer. Today in boston a judge imposed the maximum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving 40 years. Friends of ritzer described a great friend and teacher. I was so looking forward to all the big moments that were ahead of her, finishing her master s degree, getting married, becoming a mom, and these moments now they ll never happen, and they ll never happen because of what he chose to do to her on october summer prosecutors had asked that chism spend at least 50 years in prison, saying he poses a danger to the public. Meredith president barack obama is in jacksonville promoting a recovery act. The manufacturer was awarded 95 million through the american recovery and reinvestment act. The manufacturer s site created 300 jobs, going above the goal of creating 280 jobs. Anybody who says we are not absolutely better off today than what we were just seven years ago they re not telling the truth. Meredith it s reported more than a third of the company s workforce are military veterans. Summer today we re learning more about a horrible workplace shooting in a small kansas town, a gunman randomly shot people along a highway before murdering at least three people, and injuring 14 others at a lawn mower factory he worked at. Nbc investigation from hesston, kansas. Chris as investigators try to figure out why does worker at the lawn manufacturing factory went on a shooting rampage, they say it is the Rapid Response of police that saved lives. The Hesston Police chief went in immediately. To address the situation, rather than waiting on backup. He went right in and did heroic duty and service. Chris an officer confronted him and shot and killed them. They served him with an order to stay away from his girlfriend just hours before the rampage. He was a little upset that he was getting this order. Chris ford, armed with a handgun and a rifle, shot he stole a car and came to excel industries. Within moments, the shooting was over and ford was dead. Of this man was not going to stop shooting. That s why we had to stop the shooter. Chris as a Small Community mourns the loss, we learn more about those lost in the shooting. One was a man named josh take be the other families are feeling the pain. President obama called the mayor of hesston to offer condolences. First responders put their lives on the line to save others. Summer we ll have continuing coverage as we learn more about the shooter and the victims. Updates as they become available on wesh 2 news and look for live coverage on nbc nightly news with lester holt. Meredith all women must now wait 24 hours before they can get an abortion in florida. A state law was previously blocked by a circuit S Appeals Court upheld the enforcement of it. They say the Circuit Court did not have enough evidence to block it. The waiting period law was passed last year by florida lawmakers and Governor Scott signed it into law. Summer people fighting red light violations want orlando to unplug the cameras until courts have made a final ruling on the city s camera program. The cameras are posted at roughly two dozen intersections now and the city plans on doubling that number to more than 50 cameras over the next few years. Today, people showed up to appeal their notices of violation, one week after the Circuit Court ruled that orlando s enforcement methods used to violate state law. The city says it has corrected the problems but drivers told wesh 2 news the orlando stops Red Light Program should be shutdown until a range of pending court cases challenging red light cameras play out. I think it s completely negligent what they are doing right now. And i think they are stalling. This should all be halted until a decision is made. The court ruling that happened last week affected ticket. It does not affect anybody else. Meredith orlando has yet to decide if it will appeal last week s court ruling. A crash led to an absolute mess in the tourist district. Take a look at this geyser shooting up from the road on idrive after a car hit a water meter. The meter serves the nearby double tree hotel. The hotel s water was not disrupted since they had backup from another water source we re told a 29yearold driver from orlando, is being cited for careless driving and driving on a suspended license. Summer a mystery of the man under the mask. Meredith the robber dressed as a superhero has gone viral. Deputies tracked down the socalled batman robber. Meredith an important recall on car seats up ahead. Summer we will tell you who got the nod, up next. Tony frosted just north of ocala. We w know you can deposit checks right from your phone. Transfer money to someone quickly and easily. Speak to a financial professional when its convenient. And pay for things using android pay. Know that with pncs meredith it was a video seen across the country showing a robber wearing a batman costume to rob several convenience stores. We have more information. Summer today deputies released sketches of the suspect. Wesh 2 s Michelle Meredith has the story. Michelle investigators say the batman robber is no more. Yes he s still robbing stores but not dressed as batman. Why . Investigators have a theory maybe because he got so much attention from batman, i believe people saw that. My understanding was it went national. With all that Media Attention he decided it was time to change up. Michelle but the change has not served him well. During one recent robbery the suspect s conventional mask slipped and a clerk got a glimpse of his face, making possible these hoodie and one without. It s the break investigators have they say in the late january he hit this kwik mart on south january. It really irritates me, angers me that anybody can , come into a local store like this, this is my neighborhood. Michelle detectives want to catch this guy because he s armed. And he s very busy, has robbed eight stores in east Orange County in about a month, and has a preference for businesses that have the word Dollar Family Dollar Dollar general. Investigators say he made his debut as the caped crusader at the 123 dollar store in early february how do they know the same guy is responsible for all 8 robberies . We believe because of the mannerisms, his actions once he s in the store. Michelle sticking a gun in the demanding jewelry. Investigators hope that someone, a family member, a friend, will be able to connect the dots the batman outfit with this composite picture, and give them the information to take him out of the national spotlight, for good. In Orange County Michelle Meredith wesh two news. Summer if you have information that can help call crimeline at 1800423tips meredith right now the search for a missing boater near mount dora continues. 76yearold william robl disappeared while boating on Lake Beauclair yesterday. His fishing boat was spotted from shore, empty and spinning in circles. It was spotted after a line of Severe Weather rolled through. Summer the number of zika cases in florida continues to grow, the Surgeon General is reporting two new confirmed cases today, one in broward, the other in miamidade county. That brings the total number of zika cases in the state to 37. Six of those cases have been confirmed in central florida. So far, all are travel related. The Health Department says only four of those cases are still exhibiting zika symptoms. Meredith a big recall today for child safety seats made by evenflo. The company is recalling more seats with the model numbers on your screen because children have been able to loosen the internal harness, increasing the risk of injury in a crash. The recall covers transitions threeinone combination booster seats made from december 18, 2014 through january 29th of this year. Evenflo will send owners a kit with a new seat pad and front adjuster assembly. Summer if you re looking for a family vehicle with cheap insurance, honda s minivan just might be it. The Honda Odyssey lx tops insure. Com s 2016 list of the cheapest vehicles to ensure. It says insuring that model will cost drivers an average of 1100 to 1300 a year. This is the odyssey s first time in the top spot. Rounding out the top three on least expensive is honda s crv l. X. 2 wheel drive and the dodge grand caravan avp. The most expensive is dodge s g. T. Viper meredith today would be a day for the convertible. Tony boy, it is gorgeous out there. A little smoky, with a brush fire up near a zellwood. Let me take you with outside to this view. Doesn t get much better than this. You know what is going on out there . Meredith the wine festival. Tony you re judging right . Can you tell it is friday around her . We have got 64 degrees, humidity at 23 . We take a look at that satellite, northerly flow, just a spectacular day. Ocala, 63, 64 orlando. Not as windy as yesterday, but a decent breeze out there. Around 20, now around 1520. To 9 00, dropping about 12 degrees. Sunset around 6 30, a nice little drop. Look at that fall off from 6 00 to 8 00. Temperatures a little bit cool by the 10 00 hour, upper 40 s by 11 00. Believe it or not, here we are almost march, and talking about the potential for frost on saturday and sunday morning. The advisory is just north of Marion County. It could drop to about 33 degrees. So make sure you have those plants covered. Across polk county, and with the sun coming up earlier, the potential overbite 8 00. Ocala remember, this graphic, some patchy frost, so be careful with those tropical plants. Back toward palm coast, midtoupper 30 s. Even titusville, that portion of the cape in the upper 30 s. And the forecast to for tomorrow, warmer by the afternoon, mid and upper 60 s. Sunday, high pressures overhead. Back into the 70 s, about room temperature. Saturday forecast, still running about 10 degrees below the norm. Normal high should be 76, we will be running about 65, 67. Look at that lunchtime temperature toward north shore, 61, 6667. All right meredith, here is your food and festival forecast, 61, by 7 00 we are cooling down. Sevenday forecast, saturday and sunday, 60 s and 70 s. Monday and tuesday, we go from the 70 s to the 80 s. Gets us back into the mid70 s for thursday. No big storm systems coming up. More about the frost on sunday, straight ahead. Meredith i think we can handle the sunshine. Summer a deadline for apple to respond to fbi about unlocking the terrorist phone. Meredith an officer jumped into action, helping to save a man summer an amazing rescue caught on camera in texas as a Police Officer pulled a driver from a burning car. This is how it looked monday after an suv slammed into a guardrail on a bridger ramp in corpus christi. The officer smashed the passenger side window with his baton opened the door and, with the help of another person, pulled the 29yearold driver out. The driver suffered minor injuries. Meredith apple is fighting back in it s battle against having to unlock a phone belonging to one of the san s Attorney Says the fbi s demands are unconstitutional. The federal government is demanding the tech giant unlock syed farook s phone. They re hoping information on the phone will clarify the motive, and whether anyone else was involved. Apple attorney ted olson says the company is completely on board with the fbis goal, but that the ends do not justify the means. We have to do Everything Possible to defeat terrorism, to defeat and capture and punish people like Osama Bin Laden and so forth, but we can t do it by breaking our constitution. We have got to stop at some place. Meredith olson declined to say how far apple plans to go in its court battle, but said that this is the kind of precedentsetting case that could go to the u. S. Supreme court. Summer bill cosby has dropped his defamation lawsuit against supermodel Beverly Johnson who accused cosby of drugging her in the 1980s. His lawyers say cosby made the move to focus on his defense in a criminal case in pennsylvania where he is charged with sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee at his home cosby s lawyers say they do plan to refile the civil case against johnson before the statute of limitations expire. Meredith a local city says it has enough of crime and the biggest entertainment district. Meredith why daytona leaders say the need to crack down. Summer as the president ial Campaign Heats up, we continue how jobs right now, all youre thinking about is finding quick cover, so you can continue streaming your favorite show in the great outdoors. And you dont need a dead zone further interrupting your otherwise perfect afternoon. Bright house networks. Eliminates dead zones, so you can stream confidently all around your home. Standard tv and 50 megabit lightning internet. Only 94 a month local, live, latebreaking. This is wesh 2 news, first at 4 00, in high definition. Meredith city leaders in Daytona Beach are considering ways to crack down on crime and rowdiness in its busy entertainment district. Summer in recent years, People Living near seabreeze boulevard have complained that bar patrons are spilling into their neighborhoods and causing problems. As wesh 2 s claire metz reports one possible solution would be requiring the clubs to pay for more security. Claire police say they don t have money in the budget to pay the overtime needed to put officers here on special detail during the most troubling hours, from 10 00 p. M. To 4 00 a. M. So, city officials may require each of the dozen clubs security, 12,000 each. If somebody is improper, i m the first one to tell them to leave. Claire rick kitt owns daytona taproom and the joint, next door, invested his life savings to buy and operate the properties. He thinks the problems are exaggerated and more on the streets than in the bars so to charge just Seabreeze Club owners a special security fee, he says, would be punitive. A better solution says kitt would be to raise the cost of after hour licenses from 300 to 400 dollars. Everyone city wide who stays open until 3 am would pay. That s going to bring in more money more police than being punitive against 12 bars thats probably going to bring you a Class Action Lawsuit against them. Increased crime, several murders, a lot of robberies. Claire but seabreeze closing time anyway, and thinks the clubs just aren t policing themselves that night. Citing Crime Statistics on the rise. Roundabouts adjacent to the strip have helped neighbors some, but libby says problem partiers still bleed over and residents no longer feel safe. Colleagues of mine who walk in colleagues of mine who walk in the evening or who used to use restaurants on seabreeze no longer go there and that s a bad situation. Claire there s nothing on the current city agenda addressing the seabreeze concerns but, per officials it will come up sooner than later. Summer city officials are also considering requiring restaurants on seabreeze to prove that 51 of their sales actually comes from food. Their concern, that some purporting to be restaurants actually do more business in booze. Meredith Stewart Moore has details on the i4 project. Stewart they will resume work on the i4 project this weekend, possibly starting tonight. They should be back to a full work schedule by monday. They halted work wednesday afternoon employee was killed by a dump truck backing up the road. Doing a safety review. No word on what those reviews found, but work will resume soon. Meredith we are still working to learn if any charges will be filed after a man was hit in killed in brevard county. It happened just before 8 00 last night where state road 50 , meets i95. Police say the man was walking in the middle of the road, when he was hit. The driver remained on the scene. The victim s name has not been released. Summer there is still no sign of baby willow. Monday will mark two weeks since Orlando Police say the baby was at the willow bend apartments. After an extensive search of that area, officers are now looking for clues to other possible search locations. The baby s mother, Susan Richardson told police she , dropped it off on a doorstep, but can t remember which one. They believe she knows more than she s telling them. Her boyfriend says she has Mental Health issues. Richardson is now in jail on child neglect charges. Summer a convicted rapist hoping to one day walk free will have to wait for his a hearing to resentence leighdon henry, set for this morning, but was postponed postponed. Henry was granted that hearing after the Florida Supreme Court ruled sentencing juveniles to life in prison was unconstitutional, he was 17 when a judge handed down his life sentence for raping a woman at her metro west apartment, the new hearing date has not been set. Summer five vehicles suffered extensive damage after a fire at a Marion County body shop. This is a picture showing the flames as they raced through the shop on northwest 21st street in ocala overnight. Investigators say the fire spread quickly from one vehicle to the next before it could be contained. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from damaging the building, the cause is under investigation. Meredith a controversial new gun range opened its doors today in volusia county. Volusia top gun will have alcohol being served just feet from target practice. It s located on bellevue avenue in Daytona Beach. Volusia top gun was approved by city leaders last summer in a 5 to 1 vote. The owner says he has a system in place scanning id s to prevent a customer who opts to drink from then firing a gun. Normal at ucf after a suspicious package prompted an alert. It was discovered on the sidewalk near the biological chemistry building. The campus issued the alert just before 11 00 last night urging , everyone to stay away from the area. The school gave the all clear about a half hour later. It s still unclear what was in the package. Meredith hundreds gathered around the 9 11 memorial in new york city today to remember the victims of the first terrorist attack on the world trade center. 23 years ago today, six people died, another thousand were hurt, when a truck bomb exploded under the center s north tower. Family members and servicemen laid roses on a panel at the memorial as they honored the victims of the attack. Summer in commitment 2016, 8 issues in 8 weeks we re looking at jobs and the economy. The Unemployment Rate stands at 4. 9 , down from 10 in 2009 at the height of the great recession. It s good news but just scratches the surface of the big economic picture. Wesh 2 s aixa diaz is in washington with more. Aixa polls consistently show americans are split on how they feel president obama is handling the economy. Not surprising, given the mixed bag of economic news. The Unemployment Rate is going down. Jobs have been created, but the amount of growth, the trajectory of growth, has been slower than in past decades during past administrations. Aixa economists, like josh bivens from the Economic Policy institute, say the slow recovery creates uncertainty for many americans. My worry is that they think this is a new normal we have to live with. When in fact, i think most of the problem we have is just we haven t achieved full recovery from the recession yet. Aixa bivens says there s one major area economists are watching. Everyone agrees we have a wage problem in the united states. Everyone agrees we should be doing better for sort of the bottom 80 of workers who are not seeing wage increases and then where the rubber hits the road is sort of what do policy makers do about it . Aixa on the campaign trail, candidates make the case. Democrats are going to try to paint a more optimistic picture. The Unemployment Rate going down. Jobs are being created. Republicans are going to say not enough jobs are being created and people still don t feel comfortable and they economic situation. Aixa but experts say Economic Growth will take more than just a president ial plan. If we continue to have divided government, the president is going to have a tough time doing a whole lot about jobs. Aixa last year, employers added more than 2. 6 million positions, making 2015 the second best year for job gains since 1999. In washington, i m aixa diaz. Summer democratic president ial candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are working overtime ahead of tomorrow night s democratic president ial primary in South Carolina. Hillary has recruited her husband former president bill clinton to spread out and gain more ground over the past few days. Meanwhile sanders has been campaigning in the midwest and great lakes regions. He ll be in South Carolina tomorrow for the state s primary. On the republican side donald trump picked up an endorsement from former president ial candidate new Jersey Governor Chris Christie today in texas. Meanwhile, the only debate ahead of super tuesday was very heated. S a liar. So that s the only part of the plan . The nice part of the plan, you ll have so many different plans. Now he s repeating himself. Summer the slugfest with the five remaining candidates really centered on three, trump, florida senator marco rubio and senator ted cruz, trump is winning in all super tuesday states except cruz s home state of texas. Today that s where trump and rubio spent time trying to win over votes. We have a con artist as the front runner of has made a career out of telling people lies. They come in, they buy his product for whatever he does. You ever heard of trump vodka . You have . Well it s not around anymore. He s desperate. Look, i watched a part of his little act and he s a desperate guy. I ve been watching him over the last number he is not president ial material. That i can tell you. Doesn t have the demeanor. He s a nervous nellie. Summer another hot issue t release his because of an audit, but both rubio and cruz pledged to do so in the coming days. Meredith it s the last year the Houston Astros will be doing their spring training in central florida, next season, the team is moving to West Palm Beach. Wesh 2 s matt grant is live in kissimmee, matt what s the view from fans and area businesses . Matt officials tell me this is a big blow to the community. Many fans say they are sad that their team is leaving. Kissimmee resident chuck became an astros fan when he moved here 15 years ago. He has been coming to a training every year since. It will be tough next year. Matt after more than three decades playing in osceola county, they will go to the washington nationals. It is the end of a tradition. I do not like it at all. I became an astro fan. Matt as players warmed up, dozens of fans lined up for autographs. We just love the astros so much. Matt county officials estimate they will lose between 25 million and 40 million per year. The stadium, underwent an 80 million renovation in 2003, can still be used for high school and college tournaments. It is great for kids to grow up and play here and become majorleague stars. Matt he has seen hall of famer s come and go, and remembers opening day. Great fans here supporting us, time to go to West Palm Beach and keep working. We are just glad to be here, wherever they go, we will go with them. Matt the move will keep them astros closer in proximity to other teams. Their first game will be against the st. Louis cardinals a week meredith a big reveal for shoppers on idrive, at the final meeting of the idrive review group the Orange County planner announced a new development at universal boulevard and destination parkway. Destination shoppes is proposed to be a mix of residential space, retail and restaurants, tonight at 5 00 what they say is the , ultimate goal for the area and how they re going to alleviate traffic. Meredith oscar excitement from hollywood to central florida. Summer the most coveted award. Meredith do you have trouble remembering where you left things . Ahh. Yeah ahh. Ahh. A million times a day. Ahh ahh but at cigna, we want to help everyone say it once a year. Say ahh. Ahh. Cigna medical plans cover one hundred percent of your innetwork annual checkup. So america, lets go. Know. Ahh and take control of your health. Summer the 500 foot red carpet has been rolled out and countdowns are in full swing at hollywood s biggest night. We re talking about the 88th annual Academy Awards. Meredith they ll be held sunday night, wesh 2 s Brett Connolly looks at the local ties to some of the oscar movies. Brett tom hanks is the star in bridge of spies, but it takes hollywood a huge crew to pull off a movie nominated for best picture. And for that they often rely on full Sail University in winter park. The school had 4 alums credited on the film about the cold war all worked behind the scenes for director steven spielberg. It s part of the continued success from the university offering wide ranging degrees from film and tv to music and recording. In the past three years they ve had at least 27 alums credited on oscar winning films. In 2011 one of those alums won an Academy Award for sound mixing in inception, starring leonardo s dicaprio hoping he knocks off bridge of spies for best picture with the revenant. In a stacked category that includes spotlight, the martian, and the big short. Considering how many alums are involved in the oscars. The school host an Academy Awards watching event on campus for both students and staff sunday night. Summer a lawsuit over its grated Parmesan Cheese against walmart. The man claims he bought the cheese, thinking it was 100 Parmesan Cheese. But he says the product contains as much as 10 cellulose which is a filler and anti clumping agent derived from wood pulp. The lawsuit accuses walmart of deceptive business practices. Summer the number of people sickened by a listeria outbreak in salad has increased, the centers for Disease Control updated the investigation into the outbreak in the northeast and midwest. And say three more people got sick by eating the total to 18 people across nine states. One person in michigan died. The salads were produced in ohio and florida is not included in the recalls. Meredith this is news no parent wants to hear, Research Shows an outbreak of super lice more resistant to treatment and one of the states to see it is florida. Scientists say these super lice are resistant to the main chemical in those over the counter treatments. While not a Health Hazard they are a pain for kids and parents. So here s how to get rid of them, ask your doctor for a prescription treatment and wash clothing and linens in hot water. Summer as we age our brains become less sharp, but there are some things you can do to help boost researchers say blueberries could help in delaying short term memory loss, broccoli is also known to enhance cognitive function, fish is good for both s recommended you eat two servings a week. And some good news for those of you with a sweet tooth, dark chocolate contains stimulants like caffeine which helps with your ability to focus. We are shaping up to see a nice weekend in store for us. But it will get chilly tonight, right tony . Tony some risk of fog, see that cloud . We have got a brush fire in northwestern Orange County, and a second brush fire up in Marion County. A beautiful, comfortable 64 degrees. Look at the west flow. Moving on in, i will pinpoint both of these brushfires. The first one is just southeast of ocala, it is throwing the smoke toward houston and paisley. The second one is a smaller one. You can see the smoke plume at the north side of lake the tonka. That is what you are smelling. Those are not clouds, those are smoke plumes from the brushfires. Orange, and osceola county, 65. A little cooler near sanford, 63 degrees. Back for the coast, a comfortable 66 toward fort st. John. Hourbyhour in downtown orlando, lower 50 s. By the 9 00 hour, in melbourne around 53. Look at ocala from 61 to lower. Marion, sumter, and lake counties, and right here near pierson, we have to watch for frost altidore tomorrow morning. This time of year you have to be out. The typical freeze up and down sumter and lake and northwestern volusia county, around the 20th of february, and after the 20th. Wait another couple of weeks before you start using those green thumbs. Wildwood, some of frost, 36. Heading south toward a celebration and poinciana, upper 30 s here. Upper 30 s, right around the 30 degree mark. 38 the era. A little warmer toward the s. Northwesterly flow, a little frosty in the morning. All day. Afternoon highs, mid60 s. Lunchtime. For the wine festival, looking great for saturday, and even better on sunday. We will climb into the lower 70 s. Here is the frost for sunday. Basically , it goes from ocala and southward. A one or two day potential frost in Marion County, so please be careful, especially with those tropical plants. You like warmer weather, let me point your eyes to monday, tuesday, wednesday around 80 degrees area meredith a day surfers have been waiting for four years. Summer lowes presents how to put your foot in your mouth. Man, wish my yard looked like yours. Hey, the grass is always greener on the other side of the. Sorry. Now get 20 off stagreen fertilizer, donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Summer surf fans had to wait six years to hear the eddie will go. The world s best surfers were able to hit the waves yesterday in hawaii for the contest in memory of surfing legend eddie aikau. Competitors took on waves of up to 60 feet high. Surfers say from the ground it was intense, but out in the water it took things to a whole different level. It s radical out there. I couldn t figure it out. I ve surfed waimea a million times and i was kinda lost out there cause there were just sets that i don t know. I don s massive on the big ones. It s exciting. Summer very massive. In the end, it was 23yearold John John Florence who won 75,000, and became the youngest champ in the history of the event. Saving the human race, beating the odds, and uncovering a secret plot. Meredith those are what characters are up against this weekend at theaters, in gods of egypt, a mere mortal is trying to save the world by helping a banished god see the light. It s rated pg13. A rookie cop is caught in the middle of a secret dirty plots. His goal is to foil the whole operation. It s rated r. Eddie the eagle is a reallife story inspired by a young man with a dream to become an olympian. His country doesn t have any ski jumpers, so he goes after gold against all odds. It s rated pg13. Summer good stuff. Music by the clock is straight ahead. Angela coming up next at 5 00, a local child hit by a car, and when it happens, where, and how Police Caught the driver. Plus, 24 pounds of pot. Orlando police making a huge bust, and that was not the only thing they found. Not every cake can be handcrafted in store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake itll be remembered for publix. Where shopping right now 5 00, the war of words between donald trump and marco rubio. This is following a testy texas debate. What we are dealing with here. I ve watched people choke over the years. Jim also tonight, red night range red light rage in orlando. I don t think it s fair to have to pay for that. It even come here today to fight it . Jim we begin with breaking news in Orange County. Good evening, i angela work was caused this week after a crew member was killed. He was run over by a dump truck. Reporter we do have breaking developments from stl construction. They did suspend the work on wednesday after this dump truck incident where a man was killed. Just minutes ago, worked well restart on the project as early as this weekend. We saw activity at some sites today but it was part of a focus review, not actual road work. After 30 34yearold Marvin Franklin was killed. The suspension will be lifted probably sometime tonight