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Transcripts For WKMG News 6 At 6 Pm 20160107

Behind me here, when police say this driver was traveling full speed, 45 Miles Per Hour, plowing into a group of cars here at the intersection of 434 and 436. Now, Family Members want to know how this driver can just walk away, especially without any charges being filed. Its like a slap in the face. It feels like a slap in the face. She says shes not even able to feel anger over todays decision by state Attorney Phil archer. His prosecutors say theres not enough evidence to convict the driver who caused this crash that killed her brother in october in altamonte springs. Two people died. The mans wife was seriously injured. I hate this. And someone gets a traffic fine for it. Its so painful. Prosecutors say the driver admitted she had taken a fall before the crash happened but claims they couldnt get a search warrant for her medical records. Without it, they say, they didnt have a case. They wrote here theres no evidence that the driver operated her vehicle with willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others. There is no evidence that she operated her vehicle with a gross and flagrant character, life. We asked if she had anything to say to that driver. I dont know. I dont know. I dont know what to say to her. Id like to know if shes truly sorry about what happened. Now, she says shes also considering filing a wrongful death lawsuit to get more information, especially about guthries medical condition. She also tells me she feels a little bit of compassion for her. Find out why in the story were putting together right now for 7 00. For now, were live in altamonte thank you. Tonight a community is grieving the loss of a 16yearold girl. She collapsed and died last night on a soccer field in Volusia County. News 6 reporter loren korn joins us at Taylor Middle High School where the girl went to school. You were able to talk to the girls parents today. Its got to be so tragic here. What did they tell you . Very much so, matt. They were on their way to make funeral arrangements and didnt want to talk, obviously too upset. But they tell me they miss her so much and they just want her back after she suddenly collapsed here on the soccer field behind me and later died. Students and staff grieving today at Taylor Middle High School after losing one of their own. We have an imagine at Taylor Middle High School. We need an ambulance. We had a girl pass out. It happened during a Junior Varsity soccer game wednesday night. The 16yearold raised her hand to get out of the game, sat on suddenly collapsed. Is she conscious yet . No, shes still out. An ambulance rushed her to the Florida Hospital de land but she died hours later of asthma complications. The school released this Statement Today describing the 10th grader saying in part, she was a very good student and wellliked, always smiling, bouncing around campus and allamerican students that principals love to have on campus. The principal also sent this message home to parents. Today our school counselors, School Social workers, School Psychologists and other School District staff are on campus and available to help our students who were impacted. Some students ended the day by releasing white balloons to remember the girl, their classmate and beloved friend. Now, were told the boys soccer team, they were supposed to have a game here at home tonight, but its been postponed until tomorrow. Loren korn, thank you. Developing tonight, Police Need Help finding three people they believe know something of a store owner. Sanford police sent us these surveillance photos. They want to talk to these three people about the death of joshua hur who was shot and killed at kims food store on poplar avenue in sanford on december 23rd. Police say these three are not considered suspects. But if you know who they are, call crime line. A florida man found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago is set to die tonight. Oscar boleyns execution is set to start a few minutes ago. The warrant is for the 1986 murder of Terry Matthews near tampa. He was found guilty 10 times by 10 juries for three murders. He also got the Death Penalty in the other two cases. He killed 25yearold Natalie Holly and 17yearold stephanie collins, both in 1986 in tampa. When weve learned hes been executed, well let you know. Bullet holes now riddle units a scary reminder of the hourslong standoff between Melbourne Police and a heavily armed man. Police identified him as michael taylor, who is a veteran. The standoff started around 11 00 last night after a Family Member called for help, saying taylor attacked her and threatened her life. For 12 hours, authorities negotiated with taylor, but they couldnt get him to come out. A veterans Victim Advocate who knows taylor stepped in and helped end that situation peacefully. Were told taylor suffers from ptsd. We dont know which branch he served in. Police say taylor is now facing several charges, including 23 counts of attempted murder on a Law Enforcement officer. The Volusia County man accused of killing his wife and her two kids will go on trial in less than two weeks. We learned today luis toledos trial will start on january 19th in st. Augustine. Also today, attorneys on both sides argued about several pieces of evidence, including his interview with police. The defense argued toledos police about the disappearance of his wife, Yessenia Suarez and her children, should be kept out of trial. They say he was arrested illegally because police did not read him his rights. But prosecutors say toledo speculated about what happened to the kids and their bodies during the interview. They say his arrest is relevant to the entire case and should be allowed. The judge did not make a final decision today. Also tonight, we know when the man at the center of a Deadly Police shooting in orlando will go on trial. That shooting killed an innocent woman at a downtown club. It was previously set for this week. We know now the trial for cody roach is scheduled for march 28ros w with seconddegree murder in the shooting death of the 22yearold woman. It is a charge he faces despite never firing a bullet. After being thrown out of a nightclub, an Orlando Police officer shot him when Police Say One of the bullets went through a door, killing the woman. The officer was cleared because prosecutors say roach is ultimately responsible. If a jury agrees, he could face life in prison. Breaking news. Were just getting in now on a deadly investigation. Leesburg officers say a car driven by 81yearold howard whit was involved in a road rage incident near leesburg high school. Shortly after that, the same car was spotted traveling on u. S. 27 near Yellow Jacket way when witnesses saw it veer into traffic, cross several lanes and crash into a tree. Whit was taken to the hospital and later died. Right now, investigators are asking anyone with information about this to come forward. Well, there is no powerball bad thing. Us, right . Since no one won last nights drawing worth 500 million, the next jackpot will be worth at least a whopping 700 million. That means saturdays powerball drawing will be the biggest in this video shows people lining up to buy tickets before yesterdays drawing. It could be the same scene before the weekends drawing. Each ticket costs 2. The only place to watch that jackpot drawing live, right here on news 6, on saturday, right before news 6 at 11 00. A lot of people will be watching that. Oh, yeah. Well, usually we do stories about h. O. A. Complaints, but tonight a story about an h. O. A. Member and a Community Coming together. Ahead, ill show you how one treasurer got results for his local neighborhood and why that led me to give him our special getting results award. Youll want to stick around for that. We had big rain falling yesterday in brevard county. Tonight, were watching it way offshore. Ill be back to track that stuff, talk about a return to the rain, patchy fog and what lies ahead for your weekend. Plus new information tonight about the medical student who was shot while trying to save a woman. What weve learned about the new information tonight about a student shot while trying to stop a guy from kidnapping a woman. Weve learned the Lake Brantley high alum, peter gold, is now back in orlando recovering. Right now, we dont know his condition. We just know hes back here with his family. News 6 first showed you this video in november. It shows a suspect trying to kidnap a woman in the Lower Garden District in the new orleans. Before the guy can get the woman into his suv, gold stops his car and runs over to help. The suspect gets out of his suv, points his gun at gold, shoots him in the stomach. The gun jammed when the suspect pointed the gun at golds head. The gunman eventually gave up and left. Days later, Police Arrested 21yearold yushg cane saying he was the man in the video and confessed to shooting gold. Over the years, we have results when theyve had problems with their homeowners association. In fact, its a pretty common complaint. But todays getting results award comes from a neighborhood that saved thousands thanks to a selfproclaimed numbers guy on the board. Sanford is a great place. This area right here next to you, the sanford train station, i think its a great community. It was built perfectly. When john wanted to begin the easy life as a single guy who is retired, it couldnt be a better place to live. He chose Riverview Townhomes in sanford. Here everything is taken care of. All you have to do is nothing around the house. You dont have to worry about painting it or roofing it. The h. O. A. Pools resources and pays many of the bills together as a community. But when john became treasurer of the h. O. A. , he noticed something was off. The numbers were wrong. They just didnt add up. You see, for 40 years, john was an executive for a Financial Services company. Im a numbers guy. And these particular numbers were bothering john. Than it was taking in. So he broke down the numbers into a spreadsheet. Dug deeper and then kept digging. I went further and further and started to research it and go back and thats when it became evident there was an error. John figured out the community of 191 townhomes was being build for 320 units. His find got results to the tune of 70,000. He was like a dog turned loose in a butcher shop. He went after it. The fellow board member joe godsey nominated john for the news 6 getting results award. Results for us. He deserves some recognition. You got results for this community by saving them more than 70,000. So, john, you are our getting results award winner. Well, thank you very much. I am shocked, surprised and wondered what was going on here. Thanks to john, riverview can but for him, its on to the next job. You look at it and say, hey, good job and move on to the next thing and try to make that a good job. He has an eye for detail. I asked him if he will do my taxes. He said he wouldnt. No kidding. Thats exactly the person you need as a neighbor, yeah, looking over all your personal finances. He should be working forget retiring. I asked him. Do you know what retirement is . Youre supposed to relax. He said you just caught me. I just got off the golf course. Hes living well. New clues into one of central floridas oldest mysteries. Its a mystery investigators are still trying to solve tonight. Police hope a new image will help them solve what happened to little Haley Cummings who was 5 years old when she vanished from her Putnam County bed in 2009. Seven years later, see whats being released nationwide in hopes of turning up new leads at 7 00. Werent getting any answers. So news 6 is getting results. Why trash in her neighborhood was finally picked up days late. And theyre not alone. The reason and how crews are working overtime to catch up. No fun when its piling up on the curb there. I live in orange county. Ive got to tell you, they killed it in my neighborhood today. We got the new buckets. Im tomorrow. Watch them do it. Because its so much fun. The arm comes out and stuff . Ill tell you off the air. Its a little bitty thing. Its a small little thing and its like bam, bam. Can you imagine if this were summer and the trash was piling up . Wed smell like new york city. Pretty nasty. Look at whats going on on the radar. Weve cleaned it up nicely over the last 24 hours. Tonight were all good. The overnight lows this morning, in the 50s in most spots. Widespread patchy fog. No one got fogged out. There were no big problems or travel woes. 50s. The daytime highs today shot spots. Look at the cape. It hit 75 today. The reason being its warmer at the cape than across the interior which hardly ever happens because the sunshine got there first. The clouds cleared this way, from east to west. It took all day long for us to orlando. We did hit 73. Whole nation. I hardly ever do that. It doesnt affect us much. The cold air really is way up north. Weve got temperature readings as far as memphis, 50. 42 in kansas city. Weve got cooler air coming our way, but its days away. Were talking monday before we really cool down again. Temperature reading right now in orlando, 69. Melbourne, right now 67. Right now in leesburg, 64 degrees with wind from the northnortheast. Other temperatures, gainesville is at 58. 64 does it from the cape to degrees. 72 in kissimmee. We just talked about the fog woes that we had this morning. Were going to have patchy fog taking over again in spots tomorrow morning. Hazy with low visibility along the coast from Daytona Beach to new smyrna beach. And a little bit of haze trying to build in here west of the cape along the river. Well wait and see how much fog we coming up with. But just know first thing in the morning meteorologist troy bridges will be tracking that fog. Be back with him at 5 a. M. Tomorrow morning. This big low is a troublemaker yesterday. It brought all that rain to brevard county. Recordsetting rain on the date. We got the sunshine back. A couple of things here. Low. Its not tropical or anything but its being watched because the wind speeds are up to 60 Miles Per Hour with the system. From the gulf of mexico comes the next round of moisturewe mostly cloudy with more some of you will see them tonight. Most of you will wait until tomorrow. Heres tomorrow afternoon by 6 p. M. , scattered showers take over. And then on saturday, stand over here. By 2 p. M. , more widespread rain beginning to develop as the cold front comes in for sunday, and we cool out on monday. Lows tonight, still in the 50s all over. Im calling the low in orlando, 59. Heres friday. By noon tomorrow, were back to 70. Warm. Upper 70s. Saturday is chili cookoff day. We should be dry at 11 00. Sundays daytime high, 76. Theres the cooler air im talking about on monday. Mondays daytime high is 69. All right, thank you, tom. Jayme is in for ping this evening, talking more lovie. It was obviously the hot topic last night and today. So lovie smith is out in tampa bay. The bucs next head coach. The general manager dropped a hint today. And scott frost has been on the job for a month. Hes made impressive progress. Knight nation, youll find out the frost era has begun. Is he making big moves . Hes making progress. Hes come in and has to catch up on recruiting and hiring coaches. After 2015, theres no place to go up for ucf football. Head coach scott frost has been on the job for a month. Hes brought in a positive vibe for the program. He has hit the ground running and met with all the knights returning players and made headway with regard to getting commitments from high school seniors. His Coaching Staff almost done. Today frost met with the media for the First Time Since december 1st. Looking forward to getting the players back here and getting started. But we made a lot of ground up in a very short amount of time. When you talk to potential recruits about ucf, what are their responses and what are you seeing from these guys . I think kids were looking for a reason to come here. Now they know the brand of ball were going to play, a fun, fast, brand of ball at a Great University and great town. Theres a lot of excitement and we need to capitalize on that. Well have more with frost tonight at 11 00. In the nfl, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers created a few shockwaves last night with their prime time announcement they hired head coach lovie smith. They told smith the news over the phone, which is better than a text or postit note left on your desk. A phone call, really . Today bucs g. M. Jason light only 3 home wins in two years, youve been patient enough. It was time. Once the shock wore away, last night the prevailing thought was the bucs may have zeroed in on smiths replacement. Light confirmed that dirk cutter is a strong candidate for the job. Jameis winston has often credited this man with his success this season. Other nfl teams with head coaching vacancies like the eagles and 9ers have expressed interest in him. Light said cutter had no bearing on his firing. Tackle Donovan Smith tweeted, shocked. Wright and Brandon Meyers was not a shock tweeting dirk has been the man since he walked in david tweeting, quote, this is stupid. We cant even have a consistent coach. Three coaches in five years. David has taken the tweets down. But hes right. Hes not wrong. Right. Thats for sure. Thank you, jayme. Well be right back. Actually, we want

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