And take a look at this. In north carolina, a restaurant worker used a blow torch to melt ice from the sidewalks. The governor there has declared a state of emergency as more snow is expected this weekend. Angela Even Orlando International Airport is feeling the impact of the snow. Because of the problems right now in the midatlantic and northeast, 77 flights were cancelled and 100 more flights were delayed. The best advice for travelers is to check ahead, and if your flight is cancelled, don t bother coming to the airport, just rebook on line, and if need be, stay put. We spoke with a guy who said his coworkers are doing exactly that. Michael stocks a lot of people going to charlotte, new york, so they re staying an extra day. Greg and had no problems keeping the hotel rooms . Michael stocks no, we had extra rooms already. Angela the length of the air travel issues will depend on the strength of the storm. And remember, you can track the Severe Weather from the palm of your hand. Check the radar in your area using the wesh 2 mobile app and jim it takes a jury less than 30 minutes to acquit a former pedi cab driver in daytona beach, who had been accused of rape. 29yearold George Brainard got hugs from his attorneys following the non guilty verdict announcement after a week long trial. He was accused of raping a woman who took a ride with him following a race at daytona speedway in 2014, dragging her from the pedi cab into a wooded area. But the defense presented evidence that the woman was drunk, mad at her boyfriend, and had consensual sex with brainard. He is relieved with the verdict, but says the accusation really hurt. George brainard it s been hell, it s been terrible. I ve lost three jobs because of it. Just like, people bashing me left and right, people that really don t know me. Jim the alleged victim, who along with the defendant testified at trial, was at the courthouse earlier but left without comment before the verdict came in. Angela the local woman who hit a 12yearold boy with her car in cocoa, and kept going, will spend 10 years in prison. Michelle simkins was convicted of leaving the scene of a crash she left 12yearold Thomas Gregory with two broken legs and serious internal injuries. Thomas had been playing with his friends in front of his home when he was hit and thrown more than 100 feet. Police found the car a day later, and traced it to simkins. Thomas was in court to watch the sentencing. Judge you sped up, you shook him off the hood of your car, and you ran over his legs, causing permanent scars. Angela thomas said after the hearing he still can t run and jump like he used to, but is hoping to one day recover fully. Jim new tonight, wesh 2 was there as a man walked out of jail, hours after being arrested for crashing into a state trooper. The man who crashed, was suspected of being under the influence. Wesh 2 s bob kealing tell us, that trooper actually specializes in dui enforcement, and has nearly lost her life while on the job. Bob did you hit that patrol car . Anything you wants us to know . Said nothing after posting bond and getting out of jail this afternoon. Troopers charged him with dui after he allegedly ran a red light and slammed in to the back of this suv driven by fhp trooper deborah hawkins, who specializes in dui enforcement. Didn trooper. Stop. Bob just last month, the fhp released this video of hawkins trying to stop a texas man, accused of driving five miles in the wrong direction on the 408 why didn t you stop while i came at you . I didn t know. I yelled stop. I had my emergency lights on. Bob today s crash is a reminder of the danger troopers face while trying to keep drivers safe and impaired people off the road. In 1997, hawkins was struck and critically injured by a distracted driver while for a time, doctors questioned if she would ever walk again. It took hawkins four long years to get back on the road and in to the kind of enforcement she was doing at the time of the crash. An fhp spokeswoman says hawkins routinely makes more than 100 dui arrests every year. Bob kealing, wesh 2 news. Jim new at 6 00, an Orange County is arrested on several charges including voyeurism, after he admits peering at a teenage girl through her bedroom window. This morning. Deputies say a woman called them after her husband thought he saw someone in her backyard. When deputies arrived to find brace staring through the window, apparently recording someone inside with his cell when they confronted him, brace admitted to peeking in the window, saying the window was in his line of sight, and he d lived in the neighborhood for so long, it was ok. Deputies didn t agree and he was arrested. Angela detectives are tracking down three gunmen who shot a the shooting happened around. 11 30 last night at the marquee apartments on alafaya trail at Central Florida boulevard. The victim is identified as 19yearold joshua howey of jacksonville who currently resides here at the marquee and is believed to be a ucf student. He says he was shot by three men but did not get a good look at them. The marquee has been the site of several shootings since last spring, prompting steppedup patrols. Are you in any way concerned about your safety here . Dominic james i am not, but obviously there are 60,000 people here, so bad things are going to happen here and in the world like that. Angela so far, there is no clear motive in thursday night s shooting. Jim the murder of Sasha Samsudean shocked Central Florida, but even more shocking was the october arrest of Stephen Duxbury the Security Guard for the apartment building. The very person in charge of her safety. In just released documents, we learn that duxbury failed a polygraph test when asked if he caused sasha s death and asked if he had been in her apartment. Fingerprints were found in her bathroom. We also learn more about his personal life. While in the air force duxbury , had been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. And that he was involved in a stabbing attack in which he was stabbed multiple times. Duxbury is jail with no bond and is due to have a Court Appearance in march. Angela their daughter vanished nearly 10 years ago, today the parents of Jennifer Kesse say they want your help finding her. Orlando Police Detectives say they still get tips often and they say they work the kesse disappearance at least once a week. Kesse didn t show up for work, late january 2006. Her car was found a mile away from where she vanished, but there s never been any sign of her. Both her parents want and need information that will bring their daughter home. We can t quit, we have unconditional love for jennifer. We re not going to go anywhere. We can t go anywhere. It is just impossible. Angela they realize there have been cases where people are found alive years later, but they are prepared themselves for the worst reality. Find jennifer, regardless of what may have happened to her. Jim video out of brevard county, this video showing a man trying to break into a chevron gas station in mims. He tries to force his way in, he hits the glass door with a fire extinguisher over and over, but still cannot break in. He gives up and walks away. Two people are under arrest after they crashed through the gates of the brevard zoo. They suspected a Home Invasion in rockeledge. A chase began. It ended when the suspects crashed into the zoo and took off running. One was caught inside the zoo, the other not too far away. Deputies recovered several guns and ammunition inside their car. Angela and also via and Osceola County family has been charged with three years and 10 months for stealing identities cards for fake disney tickets. Her children as well as her niece were sentenced to three years and will pay more than 107,000 in restitution. This weekend as the last Time High School students will take the current version of the sat entrance exam. A revamped version appears in march. This will focus on what students are learning in the classroom and analyzing tuitions. There is no longer a penalty for guessing on the redesigned exam, and the essay will be optional. College camp College Counselors say they are focusing on the saturday exam because it is more familiar to them. Jim two brothers are arrested after an eye on the sky catches them signing lot lasers shining lasers at a helicopter. Angela these people try to make off with stolen stuff from a jim a doctor on a tirade after a driver refused to take her home. Our team is in place with coverage for what is predicted to be a paralyzing snowstorm with travel in packs well beyond the east coast. A telling split in the Republican Party as Hillary Clinton positioned herself as announcer you are watching wesh 2. Angela a lake county couple comes home and surprises two burglars with a uhaul backed up to their garage. Jim the bandits made away with some expensive tools and broad daylight, and a chase was on. Angela wesh 2 s gail paschallbrown explains and it s story you ll see only on wesh. Gail take a look out here this is lake griffin a nature preserve, but for one lake county family that peacefulness i am still shaking. Came to their leesburg home yesterday to find a uhaul backed up to their garage, which was broken into. Donald hearst when they came out, started to run and back i m going to be right behind you. Gail the hearsts were in hot pursuit of the uhaul, which broke through this white fence in their back yard. T completly closed. Jennifer hearst what, what am i he s doing the turn, so we race down here, and we run a school bus off the road. Gail the uphaul went straight down Treasure Island road, a short distance away and hit a tree. So they jumped out and she said please don t call the police, i m already on the phone. Gail deputies say the driver, Amanda Roberts and her passenger, jack hayes ran into the woods. Next thing i know i see a helicopter the Sheriff S Office gail just before nightfall, the pair had been caught. Fred jones this is not their first rodeo. The mail had some prior issues. We believe he was on probation for the same thing. Gail the first the hearsts are still waiting to get all their valuables back and they hope insurance will cover damages to their truck. They worried most about their dogs both home alone during the entire ordeal. But if they had. We would again, you just get mad and just say no it isn t happening here. Angela now to a video gone viral, showing a south florida doctor attacking an uber driver in miami. Take a look. That s 4th year medical resident Anjali Ramkisson kneeing the driver when he told her he had come to pick up someone else instead of her. She was crazy. The Youtube Video then shows her getting into the car, and tossing out all of his stuff, including scissors and an iphone. Police say the driver accepted a settlement with the woman and did not press charges. Her residency. Who does that . Unbelievable video. Jim whatever you do, do not be her. Two sarasota brothers are accused of pointing a laser device at a sheriff helicopter, and it doesn t take long for them to be found and arrested. They are the males that i have on video on that back porch, although i can t identify who is lasing, one of those two were lasing. No doubt in my mind. Jim they were lasing. 22yearold Matthew Bennington and his 25yearold brother gary have each been charged with misuse of a laser device. That is a felony. Around 11 30 wednesday night, two deputies noticed a green light hitting their chopper. It didn t take long for deputies to track down the two using thermal Imaging Technology to find them. The pair admitted to the crime after learning it was all caught on camera. Angela an elderly couple is carjacked in their own driveway in fort myers, but they didn t go down without a fight. Carol and george nicol had just returned from Grocery Shopping when they noticed two men in a car had followed them. One of those men then jumped out of the car and ran up to the but she was in no mood to be robbed, and pushed the man down. Some people would call it foolish. [laughter] i thought maybe i could bless him. Sometimes these people think they can do anything they want, and once you stand up to them, maybe they will go away. Angela she was not taking it. The suspects took carol s purse and their car full of groceries. Carol and her husband weren t seriously hurt. Jim the rainy, Stormy Weather has moved off the coast. Guys are clearing. Here is a look at lake eola. 64 degrees, we will see another cool down this weekend. Tony mainolfi has already had a long day and now we are focusing on the chill. Tony these temperatures will be colder than what we experienced earlier this week. Jim pretty cold. Tony let me take you back outside. Jim wonderful. Viewers and folks that work here. Chris hush at downtown orlando as the storm system was moving in, nice little clouds. Trevor in apopka, a little modest, hard to tell from that picture. In some live pictures from sunset, 63 degrees. There is the big storm system. This is going to be and all weekend newsmaker for us. Low windshield, even freeze watches. The rain is working offshore him a but speaking of the rain, you can see several swats going into marion county, the other through lake and volusia county. Some folks did well, others not as well. Most of us got rain. Temperatures outside 60 to 65 degrees. Hourbyhour through 11 00 temperatures will fall into the upper 50 s. How about those saturday temperatures . 47 ocala, 46 titusville , and when you factor in the wind, we are talking about wind chill tomorrow morning, 28 in ocala, between 8 00 and 9 00. 37 in sanford, 49 in melbourne. If you thought that was cold, wait a second. Look at sunday, 20 four in ocala. Every reporting station where the windchill the low the 30 degrees mark. That is not often in florida. We have got cold highpressure building in, setting the stage for a frosty sunday morning as we get the highpressure toward early next week, that is when temperatures will moderate. The track shack seasons 52 race, runners dress accordingly. Readings in the upper 40 s. Saturday, after a high in the 70 that will sting when you go to tee time. 57 in the city of melbourne. Monster jam saturday night, in the citrus bowl dress warm. 44, 42 down to 40 at 11 00. Wind chills in the lowtomid 30 s. Stepping out the door on saturday night, sunday morning, i want to give you a snapshot. 29 ocala, 31 leesburg, above the freezing mark in orlando. That would make it the coldest morning so far this weekend winter season. Let s look at the updated sevenday forecast. The weekend s jail will give way to moderating temperatures on monday, gorgeous on tuesday. The next weather maker on the books is wednesday, maybe a breeze by thursday thursday afternoon. Really got to get the elbows. Back . Are you wearing spanks . Angela it s almost that time. Bud light released this preview commercial, expected to air during the big game. And actor seth rogan suiting up in what appears be the first of several commercials. According to a study, 78 of americans look forward to the super bowl commercials more than they do the actual game. Jim that is a high percentage. Angela the magic on their home court tonight desperately seeking a win. S have been hard to come by these days no doubt. And a surprise move in the nba coaching ranks. Who s out, who sports is straight ahead. He stewart the Orlando Magic are trying to stop the bleeding, winning just two of 10 games. Tonight they are playing one of those teams. We will give you a preview, but look at how we got to this point. They started rolling in december with a 105 record for the month, all the way to winning record. It did not bring more winning ways in the new year, just one w. Victor oladipo will be suiting up, improving the chances for a win. Big shakeup at the top of the eastern conference today. In a surprise move, the first place Cleveland Cavs have fired head coach david blatt. Enter tyronn lue, a journeyman point guard who had a stint with the magic as a player back in the 20032004 season. Lue, who was the cavs associate head coach, has been promoted to take over for blatt. As for blatt, he was in his Second Season as the coach of the cavaliers, and his team leads the eastern conference with a 3011 record. Last year the cavs lost in the nba finals to the golden state warriors. Team sources say lebron james had no role in blatt s dismissal. About 12 people in the world believe that. Today marks ten years since since kobe bryant pulled off one of the most amazing feats in the history of modern sports. He poured in 81 points in a game to set the Los Angeles Lakers franchise record and recorded the secondhighest tally in nba history. Back on january 22nd, 2006, bryant torched the toronto raptors, even after sitting out the first six minutes of the second quarter. Another member to the franchise hard hitting safety john lynch is the latest addition selective club of players. He helped transform a laughable s. On a game next season. Conference championships this weekend. Superbowl. Break. Jim on the late newscast, a county building is closed because of a homeless problem. Angela what happened today that caused one official to shut down the operation and how it is part of a bigger problem. Jim this man is accused of watching a teenager take a shower. Wait until you hear his bizarre excuse to police. Angela we have the latest on the news hour at 10 00 on cw18 and on wesh 2 news at 11 00. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy
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