weather on the way and the rolex 24 forecast moments away. meredith: if you are like me and stuck in some traffic on i-4 just after 2:00 this afternoon. it was because of a nasty wreck at the fairbanks curve. it happened just before 2:00 in the westbound lanes. traffic quickly backed up to state road 414, as the left two lanes were blocked. right now there' s no word on any injuries or how it happened. the road has since re-opened. >> it' s an unfortunate incident and we all know it was wrong. ,stewart: marion county sheriff chris blair speaking out today, after seeing a video of his own deputies, beating and kicking a man. just yesterday, the news broke that federal civil rights charges had been filed against some of those involved. meredith: wesh 2' s dave mcdaniel was at the press conference where the sheriff defended his agency, and his own actions. dave? dave: the sheriff stressed that every use of force is automatically reviewed. and if policy' s not followed, it' s addressed. and in this case, in the eyes of the federal government, laws we have nothing. saw this video, a man being hit, ground, a man who appeared to be giving up. >> stop resisting. the deputy' s body camera telling derrick price to stop resisting. blair suspended all five and called in the state to investigate. chris blair: i was saddened by it. also i was upset by it. i can just tell you i did not leave that desk from where i viewed that video. i immediately made a contact with the florida department of law enforcement, that' s how strong i felt that they were way outside the line. dave: four deputies quit, jesse terell was fired. cody hoppel, adam crawford, james amidei, and travor fitzgerald have already pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of derrick price, either by striking him, not stopping others from hitting him, or for not telling the truth about it. blair says this is not what his department' s about. chris blair: we' re not going to let the actions of these individuals destroy the reputation of the marion county sheriff' s added more civil rights training, even though he feels his men and women know right from wrong. chris blair: there' s no institutional problem here at the marion county sheriff' s office, this is an isolated incident. dave: we reached out to derrick price and his attorney said in a statement, mr. price is satisfied with the efforts of the federal government to address the law enforcement conduct depicted on the video footage, and that mr. price and members of his legal team urge everyone to use restraint and peacefully await the outcome of the federal proceedings involving the law enforcement officers. now, four of the former deputies are awaiting sentencing in federal court for excessive force. as for tyrell, he was indicted yesterday to his case is just beginning. live in marion county, dave mcdaniel, wesh 2 news. stewart: investigators have released new surveillance footage, showing zenaida gonzalez shopping with a credit card, allegedly stolen from a you' ll remember gonzalez is the same woman who filed a defamation lawsuit against casey anthony. she was arrested yesterday. guest a at motel where gonzalez worked, and say gonzalez and her boyfriend stole the card from the rented room. deputies say the pair then spent $850 at surrounding stores. wesh 2 has learned gonzalez worked at the hotel cleaning carpets. the victim was staying there while he was getting treatments at the hospital. >> they did take that credit card during the time he had been hospitalized, and the entire time he was in the hospital, they were out spending money on the credit card. stewart: wesh 2' s bob kealing tracked gonzalez down today. she would not comment on the charges that she is now facing. meredith: a proposal to make medical marijuana legal in florida will once again be on the ballot. just a short while ago, the central florida attorney, leading the charge spoke out about the issue, and his hope to change the state' s amendment. wesh 2' s michelle meredith was there, she joins us live with more. michelle: the opportunity for marijuana legal is back. the amendment is back on the november ballot. in a crowded news conference, attorney and advocate john morgan announced he' s got the signatures needed, 693,000. john morgan: we are really talking about, for the most part, illnesses and injuries where people are fighting for their lives. michelle: morgan says he knows why a similar amendment narrowly failed in 2014. says this amendment is more specific. he' s closed the loop holes. john morgan: we' re talking about cancer, paraplegic, we are talking about -- i said lou gehrig' s disease, we are talking about the std, which veterans benefit in a huge way. -- ptsd, which a benefits veterans in a huge way. medical marijuana got opposition from law enforcement. morgan says he thinks he will get less push. morgan says another mistake he young people. he says he wants floridians to make the decision, because he feels the florida legislature can' t. once again, the amendment will be 60% of the votes pass by john morgan, less time he spent $7 million of his own money to make it happen. if it does not happen this time, he has no plan b. michelle meredith, wesh 2 news. meredith: information and a murder at a dry cleaners. please have released evidence. these are the zip ties the victims were tied up with in september at the lake mary dry-cleaning. we also saw the inside of the building from the crime scene. they say the suspect killed the person after he could not use the bathroom. the suspect has pleaded not guilty. stewart: a scary situation for some residents of an orange county apartment complex this morning. monoxide at the walden palms condos in orlando. the city' s fire department responded. crews tell wesh 2 it all started when a family of four woke up feeling sick, and went to the hospital on their own. it was discovered that a construction crew left a generator in an empty unit running when they left for the day. the rooms were ventilated and eventually everyone was allowed to return. code enforcement will now investigate. a seminole county deputy, who used to work in the county jail, could lose his state certification. after he was arrested. michael ryan was charged. investigators say he recorded phone conversations between his co-workers. he was allegedly trying to catch them complaining about their jobs. he has been fired from the department. the case has been forwarded on to the state board responsible for investigating officer misconduct. no word when a decision will be made. meredith: the port orange man convicted of attacking a 12-year-old girl on the campus of silver sands middle school, will spend the next 25 years behind bars. jayzel hendrieth, seen here after his arrest in august, pleaded no contest to charges of kidnapping, attempted sexual after he gets out of prison, he' ll have to spend the next 20 years on sex offender probation. police say hendrieth followed the girl onto campus, grabbed her, threw her to the ground, and sexually battered her. a custodian stopped him. hendrieth' s family says he has mental issues. a security guard at a disney hotel has been arrested and charged, after orange county deputies say they caught him during a theft sting. edward cespedes was arrested yesterday. the undercover operation was held at the wyndham lake buena vista. deputies say they caught cespedes taking $500 they had left in a wallet on a nightstand in a room. the sting was prompted by a recent wave of similar thefts at the hotel. cespedes has not been charged in those crimes. stewart: we are following a developing story from paris. two people are being held by police after a man allegedly tried to bring two handguns into disneyland paris. so far the names of those arrested have not been released, but wesh 2 has learned the man with the guns is a 28-year-old. nbc' s ali arouzi reports. arrested a man carrying two guns paris. on the watchlist. carrying some ammunition and the koran. his bag set off the metal detector at the hotel new york outside the paris resort. a female companion is also reported to have been arrested, but she is not believed to have been armed. this is sure very nervous here. they are not treating it as a terrorist-related incident, but it is still in the early seduce -- stages of the investigation. paris is on a high state of alert after the attacks in november. you regularly see patrols in the streets. that will make them especially nervous after the attacks. stewart: coming up, a teen burglar, paralyzed when a homeowner shot him in his house, asks a judge to let him out of prison. meredith: wesh 2 was in court, as the judge gave him an offer he couldn' t refuse. >> if you have any hope natural life, now' s the time to talk. meredith: plus, storm clean up continues in south florida, after a tornado touches down. stewart: and as we head to break, a look at the challenger tragedy. today marks 30 years since the entire crew of the shuttle was killed when it exploded just moments after lift-off at cape canaveral. on board was a school teacher, christa mcauliffe, who was asked to join the mission to help the space program. coming up, wesh 2 talks to the widower of the challenger' s stay with us. announcer: you are watching wesh 2. stewart: let' s take a live look at the first alert doppler radar. you probably seeing the results of the greens and yellows on your screen. a lot of rain in central florida tonight. tony mainolfi is putting the finishing touches on the full forecast. we will see him in three minutes. today, a memorial was held at the kennedy space center to honor the lives of the space shuttle challenger. as we told you just before the since the shuttle exploded moments after lift-off, killing the entire crew. that includes the mission' s commanding officer, dick scobee, a veteran of the u.s. air force. today, scobee' s widow spoke to wesh 2 about him and the challenger mission. meredith: dr. june scobee told wesh 2 her husband gave christa mcauliffe, a teacher who had been asked to join the mission, a chance to back out. she said her husband stressed the danger of space travel to his entire crew. he apparently wanted them to know that the possibility of never returning to earth was real. >> he felt responsible for all the ten finalists in the teacher selection, and chose himself to fly to washington dc to meet with them. to tell them that it wasn' t just a commercial flight, that it was a real experience of a test vehicle that they were going to fly, and that any of them could back out now if they wanted to. meredith: mcauliffe' s backup, barbara morgan, eventually became a full time astronaut, and completed christa' s mission tonight, wesh 2 is following a bombshell announcement from the world health organzation. it says, over the next few years, it anticipates millions of cases of the zika virus. stewart: it' s being spread by mosquitoes in south america. but wesh 2' s amanda ober looks at the impact here in central florida. amanda: with the world health organization sounding the alarm about the rapid spread of the zika virus, health officials here in central florida are preparing for it' s possible arrival. of the 20 confirmed cases so far in the u.s., three have been in florida, but all involved international visitors who did not aquire the virus here. dr. frederico laham is the medical director for infectious diseases at arnold palmer hospital. he says at this point, the only real concern is for pregnant woman who travel to any of the more than 20 countries where there have been significant outbreaks. zika virus has been associated with a number of newborns being born with small heads. it' s called microcephaly. women who are pregnant or might be wishing to become pregnant should avoid as much as possible travel to these areas where there' s an high incidence . amanda: dr. laham says it' s important to know that zeka is spread only by a specific species of mosquito and not human to human contact. potential symptoms include fever, body aches, rashes. doctors say only about 20% of those infected actually develop symptoms. amanda ober, wesh 2 news. stewart: wesh 2' s coverage of the zika virus outbreak continues in about 30 minutes. a bit later in 5:30, we' re looking at how scientists say they can fight the disease - carrying mosquitoes with more mosquitoes. we' ll tell you how they say it' ll work. it' s been another day of rough weather for florida. rain hit the central parts of another round of storms hit the south. it was not a welcome sight for an area that' s still cleaning up from a tornado. this hit broward county yesterday. the ef-1 twister was about 100 feet wide and hit multiple places. it tossed cars, damaged roofs, and even knocked down trees. meredith: tony mainolfi joining us now. we escaped the weather yesterday , but it has been relentless with the rain. tony: is still coming down until 9:00 and then it will begin to wind down. we' ve a nice stretch of calm and comfortable weather next week. if you think about spring will be in the 80' s. we have lots of liquid coming out of the clouds today. to the coast, 20 of rain at daytona beach. moderate rain from the time being. look at the parking lot we call i-4, slowed go with traffic . heavy rain coming down at this moment. degrees, we have been stuck there for the good chunk of the afternoon with clouds and rain overhead. here is low pressure. you can get beginning to accelerate to the east -northeast. this will take a good for to five hours to traverse the peninsula. first 70 five and then i-4 and then i-95. we have moderate to heavy rain , bellevue, the villages, rain about half an inch to three-quarter inches per hour. daytona beach, new smyrna beach, look to the west. we have a steady rain coming up i-4, and the rain is adding up quickly. look at this wedge a very heavy rain through zellwood right on top of downtown, i-4, expanding needs to waterford lakes, this low, lake nona, and lake hart. you can see meadows meadows wood. port st. john, rockeledge, the the hour we are talking about this coming with wesh 2 news at watch travels on the turnpike and kissimmee to kenansville. steady rain pulling on it. mineola about an inch of rain. s creek approaching an inch. he' s in orange county, the slug pushing through. the actual old friend -- cold front will begin, -- that at that juncture i think there is a good bet daytona beach will have passed the all-time january record for rainfall. we are only an inch away. melbourne .75 inch away . ocala 63, mildred presently 70 degrees. s in ocala. finally we get sunshine, remember sunglasses? we will need them tomorrow. it will be less human, afternoon highs in the five to seven degrees below normal. we' ll be in the mid 60' s. saturday low humidity, sunny skies, little more humidity, a few clouds. what should you the rolex 24, just let me show you the rolex 24. updated seven-day forecast, great stretch of weather coming with isolated showers west on monday. big storm going from -- story going from 60' s to 80' s next week. stewart: the ak-47 is the popular assault rifle in the world. now its manufacturer, will start assembling them in florida. meredith: coming up, we' ll tell you where. plus, a rare look at the arrest s most infamous cartel leader. the oscar diversity issue. you' 5:00. stewart: the ak-47 assault rifle will soon be manufactured in florida. kalashnikov usa, a russian gun maker, will assemble the guns in ll be sold to retailers elsewhere because of license agreements. the company began producing them in pennsylvania last year when president obama imposed sanctions against russia after its annexation of crimea in 2014. no word when production will begin. a group of drivers formed a human chain to save a trucker from falling off the edge of a turnpike. the driver lost control of his semi in a snowstorm in pennsylvania. he and the semi ended up being on the edge of a 200-foot drop. another semi driver, arlyn satanek, saw this happen, and scaled down the hill. arlyn satanek: to me, it looked like this spontaneous instinctive thing that everyone just started hooking their arms together. stewart: the driver was hurt, and it' s not clear what his health status is. the road where this accident happened had to be shut down today so workers could remove that semi. meredith: a white house task force has been formed to find the cure for cancer. the president signed a letter today. the president promised to start a government wide push in finding a cure in his last state of the union address. the panel is expected to meet on monday. president obama also weighed in today on the oscar diversity issue. the academy is under scrutiny because all of this year' s acting nominees are white. president obama: as a whole, the industry should do what every other industry should do, which is to look for talent and provide opportunity to everybody. and i think the oscar debate is really just an expression of this broader issue of are we making sure that everybody is getting a fair shot. meredith: the academy only nominated white actors, actresses, and directors in major categories. stewart: we have new video from the mexican government, showing cartel leader el chapo being booked into prison. you can see joaquin "el chapo" guzman doing a variety of things like getting fingerprinted. the video also narrates how different el chapo looks now versus his arrest in 1993. mexican officials say el chapo' s workers had motorcycles outfitted to run on train tracks. showing how 15 people worked to build his escape tunnel. meredith: it was a blast from the past when a world war ii japanese zero fighter took to the skies today. a former u.s. air force pilot got to fly because there aren' t any japanese pilots who have a license for the plane. it was originally found decaying 1970' s. it was purchased by an american, until a japanese businessman bought it for y 350 million. he said he wanted the japanese people to see how far their technology has come. wesh 2 news at 5:30 is next. stewart: we are continuing our coverage of today' s bombshell announcement from the world health organization. it says in the next few years, the zika virus could spread to millions of people in the americas. meredith: plus, police say vandals are covering an orlando neighborhood with graffiti. we had to break with a live look how long will this hang aroun announcer: you are watching wesh 2. meredith: welcome back to wesh 2 news at 5:30. a live look at orlando international airport where is dreary and gray. good evening, i' m meredith mcdonough, in for angela taylor. stewart: i' we are looking at the airport. a lot of rain has been falling throughout the day. tony mainolfi is outside the studios. tony: it is coming down, motorists beware. it will stick around to mid-evening, 8:00, 9:00 and then even later on i 95 volusia county to brevard county. look at the rain over there up and down i-4 east of downtown orlando. that slug of rain coming through more to the west at bushnell, lady lake. steady rain at ocala, bellevue, the villages. this will rotate to the east, palm coast, getting ready for moderate to heavy rain moving into that territory. oak hill, titusville, port st. john, very heavy rain moving in. cocoa beach, melbourne that will come in and headed your way over the course of the next hour. 4.1 inches of rain in kissimmee, an inch around sanford. upper 50' melbourne. there can be a quick rumble of thunder, but in town, i-4 rain winding down. coming up and a couple minutes, i updated the rainfall totals. drier and warmer weather finally on the way, and a lot of weekend events. we have the zora festival, rolex , we will highlight those in just a couple minutes. back to the studio. meredith: today, a local teen shot and paralyzed by the man whose house he had broken into, appeared in court to ask a judge to let him out of prison. stewart: joshua lamb will need round-the-clock care for the rest of his life. a judge said he' d grant his request only if he flipped on the people he allegedly broke into the house with. as wesh 2' s dan billow explains, that' s exactly what the teen did. dan: joshua lamb seems a sympathetic figure. looking younger than his 19 years, his wheelchair is his world. he gets round-the-clock care and needs help doing everything from brushing his teeth to using the bathroom. but joshua lamb gets little charles crawford: you may no longer be a danger to the community, but that' s because the second amendment is alive and well in brevard county. dan: lamb was shot by a homeowner as he tried to burglarize the man' s home. now it' s time for him to be sentenced. but what sentence do you give a young man who can' t even move? tough-talking judge charles crawford suggested it would go easier for lamb if he named his accomplice. charles crawford: if you have any hope whatsoever of staying out of prison for the rest of your natural life, now' s the time to talk. dan: lamb sang like a canary. >> i drove by, there was nobody there. dan: he said he and his accomplice broke into a palm bay house looking for money. he testified he went to the back of the house and climbed in through a bedroom window and then let his -- bathroom window and let his friend in the front. joshua lamb: when i came around the corner, mr. thomas started shooting at me. and that was the whole situation, to be honest. i was laying on the ground. i was screaming for help. dan: and here' s why sympathy for also in the courtroom was the permanently disfigured young woman innocently wounded in the gunfight. joshua lamb: she got shot in the mouth, which has affected one whole side of her face. not only that, she was pregnant. dan: judge crawford is still thinking about a sentence. ll decide in march. in viera, brevard county, dan billow, wesh 2 news. stewart: tonight some orlando a prime target for graffiti artists. shops and stores in the mills 50 area have been hit repeatedly by the so called taggers 40 to 50 times in the last few months. the owners say they are "tagged" out. >> we love our murals. and we wish these taggers love d art the way we love art, because we don' t like what they are doing. stewart: the cost to remove the graffiti is running into the thousands of dollars. last november, orlando police arrested two men for earlier work in the area. they now believe they are dealing with two new taggers. meredith: right now sheriff' s deputies are still looking for a a missing child alert for xander quigley was issued on tuesday afternoon. investigators believe he' s in the custody of his mother, who they say helped her boyfriend escape from prison. all three are believed to be on the run together. quigley' s mother is natasha. deputies say her boyfriend, gary bullock, was on a work release assignment last friday in daytona beach shores and never returned. a big night for commitment 2016. it' s the final republican debate before monday' s iowa caucus. stewart: arguably the most colorful candidate, donald trump, will not be in attendance. the real estate mogul, who has been leading the polls, says he will not participate. meredith: wesh 2' s sally kidd tells us why, and what the debate could now look like. sally: trump is feuding with fox news and said he will sit this one out. donald trump will be a no-show. trump: i was not treated fairly, you know that? sally: but the show will go on. >> we' ve an opportunity to debate treated unfairly by fox news. and moderator megyn kelly. at a competing events, a rally for veterans. trump: i will raise a lot of money for vets. >> is also counting on the notion that a lot of people tune out when they see he has not far less interested in the show when the master of the media, the apprentice guy is not going to be on stage. sally: his rivals pounced. >> he has been a progressive democrats. i thought he might show up at the democratic primary debate next time. sally: ted cruz will be center stage. >> the other candidates will go rubio. sally: this is days before the critical iowa caucuses. it gives sway voters who have not made up their minds. >> they are so educating themselves. in. as a sideshow. who are these candidates. s group says they don' t wallow any money raising his rally -- raised at his rally. they call this a political stunt. stewart: we have new information last night at 5:30. check out this surveillance video taken of sasha samsudean and stephen duxbury, the man accused of killing her. her body was found in her apartment at the uptown lofts in orlando. detectives say duxbury raped and killed samsudean inside her apartment. duxbury is due back in court on march 3. prosecutors say this video helped them figure out he was lying to them during his interrogation. meredith: a man tried to rob a mcdonald' s on south obt this morning. sheriff' s deputies say he walked into the restaurant around 4:00, and the employees ran out and called 911. the robber left, empty handed. right now investigators believe he had a gun, but so far they don' now deputies are asking anyone with information to come forward. if you think you can help call crimeline, at 1-800-423-tips. meanwhile we are getting a better look at the damage done at a brevard county church, after it caught fire yesterday. this is the first baptist church in indialantic. firefighters say an electrical panel caught fire, and the building filled with smoke. the fire itself was contained to the panel and luckily, no one was hurt. it took crews from three different fire departments to get it all under control though. stewart: right now city leaders , in daytona beach are frantically working to find additional shelter for the homeless camping in front of a they' ve promised to find 100 beds to house the homeless who started congregating in december after nearby parks and bathrooms wesh 2' s claire metz reports now, 100 may not be enough. claire: this is certainly what anyone would call a sight for sore eyes dozens of people downtown daytona beach. local business owners say the very public problem is really just don' t seem to dwindle despite some relief in place. >> like any group, there are some bad apples who will probably stay on the street. claire: greg hancock was on the street, until today. now, hancock, along with 46 others from the beach street camp, are sheltered at the salvation army, and the organization is working to find another 18 emergency beds. but hancock says some of the folks he was with while camping out aren' t homeless at all. >> the phrase coined down there homeless. they come by to get the meals, the blankets, the clothes, try to exploit the homeless. >> so there are people there who are not legitimately homeless? >> that is what is suspected. claire: salvation army official mike cornell says the agency has met with some resistance from people living outside on beach street. he says there are those who don' t think a cot in the salvation army' s gymnasium is a real improvement, but the ultimate goal says cornell is to identify the truly needy and get them disability, employment, education, and he says it' s working. folks that we moved in here, tuesday will be in some sort of permanent housing situation. claire: that would open more beds to reduce the street population. mike pastore, a homeless advocate who has been credited and criticized for his efforts bringing attention to the plight of the homeless, insists he has only one agenda. >> help the homeless, give them a place to eat, sleep, use the that is my agenda. s unclear how soon the city will have 100 dedicated beds in place. not soon enough, because the on-going efforts are costing taxpayers up to $6000 a week. in daytona beach, volusia county, claire metz, wesh 2 news. meredith: the passive protection act did not get the hearing hopes for in the senate judiciary committee, but it is still getting debate. the measure by the republican was to prevent clergy members from being forced before marriage ceremonies -- to contrary to their belief. stewart: a frightening situation in south florida this morning. a tri-rail commuter train, derailed. right now the exact cause is undetermined, but investigators say it appears the train hit some debris on the tracks. this all went down in pompano beach near fort lauderdale. 40 people were on board at the time, only one person was injured. so far there' s no word on the extent of that injury. meredith: it' s tax time and tonight, wesh 2 is helping you avoid common tax scams. each year, criminals take advantage of thousands of people as they file their returns. wesh 2' s brett connolly looks at the most common form of this crime, and how to prevent it from happening to you. brett: this time of year, many criminals realize it' s easier to rob you with a computer instead of a gun. and when your identity is stolen, it could take years to clear your name. from getting a credit card to buying a home, all at risk when your taxes are filed by a criminal. it' s so simple, here' s all they need. your name, a birth date, social security number, and an employer' s information they' ll file a tax return with that info, then they' re gone. brett: they leave with your tax refund, and you' financial chaos. big ticket items like buying a home become problematic. s with the irs and tax forms, it can be very lengthy because they have to file a police report, and they have to go through certain steps to have it taken off . >> they' re devastated especially because they' ve heard the horror stories bc its devastating and -- because it is devastating and they know it is going to take a long time. brett: so what can you do? tax accountants recommend filing as soon as possible and protect your identity. but admit it' s very easy for crooks to pull this off. meredith: -- releasing more mosquitoes into the wild to fight the zika virus. meredith: you can see a lot of rain heading to central florida right now. tony mainolfi is putting the finishing touches on the full forecast, ahead in three minutes. there are new recommendations for diagnosing depression includes screening women during pregnancy and after giving birth. this is the first time the u.s. preventative services task force has recommended screening for maternal mental illness. the task force says there is growing evidence that many cases of postpartum depression actually start during pregnancy. doctors say there are multiple appointments when the screening can take place. >> we could screen during doing the prenatal care. a family medicine, ob/gyn, and then the postpartum, a variety there is right after the baby and the six-week mark. the result of pediatricians. meredith: it' s estimated 1/7 new moms experiences some form of sadness or other symptoms of depression. tonight wesh 2 is looking into what the world health organization is calling an explosive situation, the zika virus. stewart: the group says it' s spreading fast, and estimate that in the next several years, millions of cases will be diagnosed in the americas. wesh 2' s jason guy looks into the type of mosquito that spread the illness, and the second type of mosquito scientists hope will help. jason: small flying parasites, mosquitoes, are transmitting the zika virus. now scientists are going right to source to stop the disease with mutant mosquitoes that can' t reproduce. the type of mosquito that carries zika also transmits dengue fever and chikungunya, those diseases have popped up in florida. health officials say the zika virus has already infected tens of thousands of people in latin america, and three cases have been confirmed in florida, two in miami-dade county, another in hillsborough county. virus while visiting south america. scientists with a biotech company are deploying a genetically-modified strain of male mosquitoes to mate with unmodified female mosquitoes of the same species. hadyn parry: when they mate with a wild female, all the offspring will die. now a female mosquito can produce up to 500 eggs in her lifetime, so that' s 500 mo re mosquitoes coming into the world. but if she mates with one of ours, she will produce no viable offspring. jason: the biotech company claims the genetically modified mosquitos reduced wild larvae of the zika-spreading mosquito by 82% in an area of brazil where 25 million of the modified insects were released in trials between april and november. the zika virus may cause a fever, rash, and joint pain, and has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in brazil. right now there' s no vaccine, but scientists are hopeful the use of modified mosquitos will help control this disease. jason guy, wesh 2 news. we have the perfect amount of pottle for a mosquitoes. -- puddles for mosquitoes. tony: the next couple of hours will be west. let' s take it to work -- let' s take a tour. daytona beach .75 inches of rain. at brevard county, let me show you the airport. the heavier rain is off to the west. it is moving on into the city of melbourne, back to the airport. last look at i-4, you can see the slow traffic movement, whether it be eastbound or westbound, in town or out of town to seminole county. we' ve a slow go for the steady rain ongoing. there right now, wins out of the northwest, but west. next couple of hours. you can see the green line this will take four to five hours. this will lift out all round. the big story is the heavy rain at ocala, palm coast. steady rain up and down i-95, all this approaching the beverly beach, flagler beach. all here in the next 10 to 20 minutes. further to the south, daytona mother nature. steady to moderate rain for i-4, i-95. south and west a sanford, oviedo, the rainfall gauges are today alone. kenansville, the turnpike very wet. as we go to port st. john home and titusville, moderate rain will be headed your way. one inch to 1.5 inches of rain is likely. look to the west. translate eastward and be right on top of you by the time we get to 6:30, 7:00. sanford nearly an inch of rain. melbourne and cocoa beach, for the most part fairly light. that will change over the course of the next half hour. biggest slug to 6:30, seven -- 7:00. by 10:00, 11:00, it is moving offshore. we will get the slow clearing. january rainfall, usually 2.35 inches in orlando. not the case this year with el inches of rain. daytona beach holding steady at the upper 50' s. look at melbourne, also steady in the low to mid 60' s. overnight lows, 42 ocala, 49 orlando as dry air will move in. wednesday is a gorgeous day. enjoy it. high pressure builds in we have the flow. below normal in the mid-60' s with very low humidity. in the weekend, gorgeous weather for all the outdoor event. by monday through wednesday, feeling like spring as we eclipse the 80' s. stewart: talk about the rain everywhere, here' s a live look from 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wesh 2' s first alert chief meteorologist tony mainolfi is here with what' s happening right now and when the skies are going to clear up. tony: it could take a couple more hours for the moderate to heavy rain to get past i-4. it will not be until 11:00 on i-95 that the rain will begin to wind down. eastern marion county headed back to palm coast, we been wanting this very carefully. beverly beach, steady rain. there is daytona beach, new smyrna beach, a big slug of moderate to heavy rain over i-95 and moving offshore. wave after wave for downtown orlando, another wave approaching, sake. -- steady rains ongoing to kissimmee, port st. john, southward. look at this big line of showers . even a couple of rumbles of thunder it kenansville.