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Carrying an illegal firearm and tampering with evidence. Police say heat through his handgun on the rooftop of the glitz nightclub. They save the gun had an extended magazine with extra ammunition and saying he had pocket. It was chaos inside and out after the shooting. Chief mina says five of the 10 innocent bystanders. Three others participated in the fight. One of them is still in the hospital in stable condition and to others have been released from the hospital. Have your rest of the people you said were released from the hospital who you say participated in the shooting . Have they been arrested . Theres only been one arrest in the case. Why is that . The investigation continues. Micah said more charges are forthcoming. Reporter opd wanted to brull lopez to stay in jail on no bond but he is already out. We talked to our legal analyst about why that happened and we are sorting out the details and we will report back to you at 5 00. Live in opd headquarters, kathi belich, channel 9 Eyewitness News. A Central Florida congressman to step down. Eyewitness news broke the story at 1 00 when Us Senate Minority leader harry reid call for representative alan grayson to end his bid for the u. S. Senate. Christopher heath was the first to report the story joining us live. Senator. Reid said grayson had no moral compass. Reporter he delivered the announcement this afternoon in a statement. The Senate Minority leader raise questions about grayson and his connections to an offshore hedge funds. In october, i sat down with grayson and asked him about that very same offshore fund. The most powerful democrat in the u. S. Senate wants the Central Florida congressman alan grayson to end his bid for the u. S. Senate as hes running to fill the seat left vacant by rubio. Amid questions offshore investment, grayson is being asked to step aside. When i spoke to grayson in october, they will already questions about his management is sent up under legal advice and done properly the way it has to be done. Reporter grayson dismissed the ethics question as nothing more than political attacks saying the fund was legal and no federal laws were ethics rules were broken. Were in a situation where people are being paid to smear me. Reporter this week the New York Times ran its own investigation into the fund which just so happens to have been named after the congressman. Normally can call funds after yourself im a wee word marketing it to anybody. Reporter the times says he was marketing it. Now nevada senator. Harry reid is calling on grayson to drop out saying graysons actions are disgraceful to the democratic party. And disgraced the halls of congress. In a Statement Released this afternoon congressman grayson said quote im running against him rigged system and the washington establishment was no surprise that it is departing figurehead who failed so badly in the 2014 senate races relies on a false and misleading hyped story to try and pressure me out of this race. Coming up at 5 00, why grayson reids motives behind this. Gray, Vanessa Scioscia the number of concerned faces of the zika virus has written to 20 but still none of them have been affected here. That means the zika virus still has not shown in mosquitoes here. Today the World Health Organization said possible zika vaccines are least 18 months away from clinical trials. They said they have identified six teen poplin possible companies that can develop one a new zika hotline at the bottom of the screen. State Health Officials to answer questions about the virus and what the state is doing to preventive. We have a special section on wftv. Com dedicate to the zika virus. Find the hotline number under the news tab. A 5000 reward for tips leading to the arrest of a murder suspect. Devon little was shot and killed inside the unit at the carmel oaks condominiums on lighthouse circle last august. Robert jackson and contrary philpott have been arrested by Police Believe the Mario Robinson is also involved. Live in the area. Orlando police are still trying to piece together what led to the murders of two brothers. The double shooting at home on Robert Trent Jones and the metrowest area sunday. Earlier this week the office identified 34yearold Antonio Jones as one of the victims. Today they tell us his brother, 61 Christian Jones was the other victim. Know the details have been released. Central florida is about president ial primary and the candidates are starting to ramp up the campaign tear. Republican from runoff donald trump will appear in tampa. University south florida. They are expecting protesters to gather. Reporter yes, that group is expected to plan a counter rally outside and about one that regardless to how many show, odds are that will be more trump supporters. It can see 10,000 people and things have started lining up early before noon. Right now. The key to the speech listening doesnt say, who we vegans and does not and how this is all delivered. Trump expecting to take the status of the mac. Hes leaving the republican pollster florida and one of the republican primary in new hampshire. Theres a live a security presence which is typical for these type of events and also a lot of people and big lines as well get we will here the speech and let you know what happens. Live from tampa, like michael lopardi. Seven tran07s go to facebook. Com wftv to see pictures. The democratic president ial hopefuls are back on the campaign trail. Going headtohead last night in milwaukee. They faced off of the First Time Since Bernie Sanders huge win in new hampshire. Hillary clinton pushed sanders for more details on his healthcare plan. They also had a test Test Exchange over their relationships with president. Obama. Is weak and a disappointment. Madam secretary, that is a low blow. One of them ran against barack i was not the candidate. Clinton spent the day campaigning in South Carolina the side the next primary in West Palm Beach monday. A man confessed to a restaurant that will take his chances with the jury instead of a plea deal. He snatched bag while the officer was trying to load the found out more than 50,000 are still missing poor standing in front of a judge charles jukes was offered a plea deal by state prosecutors in the case that involves the heist of a 160,000 from her brakes officer loading an idea. Investigators say jokes is a magazine and a Surveillance Video with a redshirt covering his face grabbing a bag of money and running as the drinks Security Officer opens fire. Deputies knocked him walking car deputies believe he was and car deputies believe he was and crashed. Since then, is alleged to getaway driver has been captured and three women believed to have helped hide the money including his own grandmother have also been arrested. Are you accepting or rejecting first rejecting. He pay back 52,000 but thats the amount of money that is still missing from the heist. If convicted on three felony charges, he faces 50 years in prison and investigators say the consent he saw the bag of money on the ground and took it. Either this defendant thinks he has an ace up his sleeve or he is going to go against the advice of counsel and reject the deal. Reporter after the hearing, he and his attorney would not say why he is a virgin why he rejected and did want to talk about the missing money. Wears a must rest of the money . Jeff deal, channel 9 Eyewitness News. His trial is set for may. His codefendants are scheduled to go to trial later this month. Your help tracking a man they say rob the woman and in her driveway. Look at the sketch. They say a man who looks like this and an accomplice approached the woman as she was pulling into a driver on north an accomplice approached the woman as she was pulling into a driver on n. Grandview avenue. Last week. Investigators say both men had guns and demanded money. After she gave him 50 in cash, they ran away. If you recognize him, call Daytona Beach police. 2 percent a dump truck driver who was trying to help to stranded motorist ended up killing them. Superstate kevin walch got his truck stuck on force growth drive last night. He asked the construction worker to use the dump truck to pull it free. That did not work. When the driver went to leave, he accidentally backed over wash and his friend jessica darby. Troopers say the accident is under investigation Volusia County, and a close look at what firefighters have to battle every day. The Volusia County professional Firefighters Association says this helmet cam video is a glimpse of what firefighters go that is intense. The fire broke out last week on colbert house dr. , holly hill speakeasy the fire spreading quickly to the driveway and the car catching fire along with plants. Firefighters and police entire Volusia County fire rescue put the fire out and the owner was able to get out of the home. No word on what caused it. A Marion County couple busted with more than 100,000 worth of heroin, cash and even guns. Why they are concerned this is a sign of a dangerous trend in the community. School grades came out and Central Florida did well especially seminole county. First time in the history we have been why the grades are pointless. Some say. Time to near 50 for turning in a firearm. Ahead, why how one stolen hundreds of guns off the street. Bragging rights, instagram, pictureperfect february. Changes for the phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise you still have a few hours to get 50 for simply getting rid of one of your guns. Orange county deputies have been collecting firearms with the gun buyback event since only this one. Janai norman found out how one stolen firearm led deputies to launch the effort to get hundreds of guns off local streets. Reporter whether it is a rifle, long gone, handgun or revolver, these deputies do not care. The great thing about the program is no questions asked. Collected 50 guns do we talked with captain. Torres this afternoon about the Sheriffs Office responsible Gun Ownership Campaign in the second year. Deputies are looking to beat last years gun buyback total of 225 firearms. We found out it started with a single stolen gun. We developed campaign on the heels of the death of deputy scott pine who was killed by a stolen firearm. Reporter the message to gun owners is if you cannot be responsible for your firearm they will gladly take it off of your hand they give you a 50 gift card. What were seeing is people that have no more use of firearms and they dont want it in their house anymore. Reporter people we spoke with had no more use for their firearms. John says he figured he would get 100 for his gun that was resting in a shed then take the tech chance on them getting stolen. I have a concern with it probably be better to get rid of them. Channel 9 Eyewitness News. The gun buyback runs until 7 00 tonight and deputies are on south Orange Blossom trail at the Orange Blossom Trail Development district. We put together pictures of the guns turned into deputies today for 50 each. You can see the self at wftv. Com slideshows. People can turn them in no questions asked. Nearly one year after florida students took their standardized test, the great have been released yet Central Florida fared very well. Over nine counties, 338, Brevard Seminole insentec and the other six flagler, lake, marion, orange, osceola, and overall grade of b. Individual grades were released and every Sonoma County High School Received an a. Officials say the praise to go to teachers and students. Our students who demonstrated their knowledge and their skill level, teachers taught it and they had to learn it. The validity of the standards assessment has been questioned because of the technical issues earlier this week the Orange County School District sent out a tweet that said the grade hold little value. If you want to see how your School District court specific School Grades are, we have posted the information on wftv. Com and click on the web links button. No burdett debate, today was a plus. Can we hold that . We have to change it up. Here is what is going on. Temperatures have been nice, smoke in the air from controlled burns around the air it has warmed back up. You can see it and feel it this morning. 75 downtown and the deltona, above the seasonal average and the west wind blowing offshore. The marine air over the water is staying offshore because of that we are 14 degrees warmer than yesterday, melbourne, new smyrna beach, its been fantastic. Temperatures 75 and Daytona International inland from the coast, 75 also sanford international, the villages put up their sensor recording 72. Downtown orlando, comfortable. Life jacket later on in downtown where the winds whistling through the buildings, it will be cooler downtown. 56 and overall very nice. Fort lawn park, firstrate, french avenue,. Fort lawn park, firstrate, french avenue, Central Florida zoo, temperatures in the mid 50s and cold front the forecast moving by just before you start most of your morning plans tomorrow. Otherwise, partly cloudy tonight, upper 40s in the north, 52 orlando, and we will call for about 54 kissimmee, think about. Here comes the next cold front making steady progress. A lot line of clouds tomorrow clouds moving by. 3 am, cold front will pass by instead of mid70s looking admit upper 60s. I mentioned yesterday of a five a degree temperature drop. Sunday we get an onshore breeze and future track putting scattered showers mainly along the coast, cannot rule out a sprinkle making its way past i 4 but the air is dry so is going to be very low coverage of anything measurable. A few passing sprinkles the daytona tomorrow instead of mid 70s, it is going to be cooling down, back in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees and we will county, act ii northern part of the four corners area, davenport, winter haven, 60 acre tonight 52 and clouds in the warmer than the 40s we had this morning. Fiveday forecast, where the weekend is always in view 68 tomorrow and outside chance along the coast on sunday and we get another storm system early next week mainly just a rainmaker on tuesday the first part of the day and you see 70s, the big polar vortex and i will talk and showed you video. That is going to bypass us and a great weekend for icflorida. Com weekend events and qualifying for the daytona 500. It will be cool sunday but overall para pretty good weather. A lake county woman fully insured was slammed with a 25,000 medical emergency bill anyway. Its ridiculous how much they charge. How a law could save you from outrageous out of work surprises. From sky witness 9 you can see all is up on lines of us 17 92 construction for the entire next we were showing the routes to help you avoid the major traffic tire. Hawks are making it dangerous if you have plans check your route. Crews are replacing concrete along 1792 with asphalt from park avenue in winter park to moron crews are replacing concrete along 1792 with asphalt from park avenue in winter park to moron avenue, macon. We showed you the back ups on Eyewitness News this morning and we expect more during the afternoon commute. Steve barrett has been out there all day. Less than 1 mile stretch that a busy one. Reporter but a busy one. Reporter this is a busy stretch and we were on i 4 and it is already backed up westbound normally this area would be the relief for i 4 if you needed it but obviously it is completely closed on the other side of the bridge you can see where the cars are being d toward off. A detoured off. Sky witness 9, you can see how far blocks and blocks of traffic as they try to get through the detour end drivers frustration between mainland in winter park as a road crews try to make quick work with three blocks, drivers who knew about the project were irritated by the amount of traffic backed up as they try to get to their day favor businesses. I was dreading coming here but this is a my favorite store. I have to go here for you a 17 92 will be closed on monday and again next weekend. Slabs of concrete are being replaced by asphalt under a railroad bridge. It is closing the road from monroe avenue to clinton parkway. The detour for traffic is much longer than the 3 block rd. Project at drivers who braved the route once will not be back. Im not coming back for three weekends. Reporter you can see its been going on all day. They want it done quickly. The goal right now is to have traffic starting at 6 am monday. That will give relief to the rushhour on monday morning. Reporting live in Orange County, steve barrett, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We have posted more information on the closure as well as the detours on wftv. Com. Sumner county investigators say they received tips but still need help tracking down the killer. It happened in daylight with a passenger in a