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victim as 42-year-old walter devon mckinnon. he was reported missing on monday. his family last saw him sunday night. we're working to gather more information. as soon as question get it, we'll bring it to you. >> also right now, a live look over downtown orlando. it is gorgeous out there. the exact opposite from how it looked around noon today. those storms rolled through central florida quickly. chief meteorologist tom sorrells is pinpointing our forecast for us. would happen today. well. we saw it coming with days in advance in the modeling. it timed out just about perfectly. we knew it would be raging about noon in orlando and it did. this is a huge fast-moving low that clocked out, leaving us just a trace of cloud cover right there. on through. cold. the overnight low tonight will be only in the 50's. we're left to see the damage now that it's moved on. tree limbs came down, power outages. rain. 1 inch today in the rain gauge in orlando. wash-out. 2 and almost another quarter inch of rain today, breaking the record of 1.5 back in 1970. in daytona beach today we only picked up .94 of an inch. the on-the-town forecast tonight, clearing, 67. clearing at 9:00. by 10 p.m. tonight, max is 64. i'll be back to pinpoint the overnight lows and the return of the rain for part of your weekend. >> thank you, tom. severe weather hits part of south florida. this driver got stuck in floodwaters in an apartment complex. the person seen running toward the car, they thought someone was inside the car and they were driver had already gotten out safely. >> don't forget, you can get breaking weather alerts and live radar anytime on our free news 6 pinpoint weather app. just search wkmg in your app store. >> a suspected burglar is dead tonight. orange county deputies say he tried to break into an apartment and died when he was confronted by the people living there. it happened around 6:00 this morning at the oak reserve apartments on aloma avenue in winter park. eric sandoval has been digging deeper into this and you just learned new details about this. >> we actually got an e-mail from a viewer after our 4:00 report on this, detailing some of the possible events that led up to this incident. we walked that information in to investigators into the orange county sheriff's office. right now, the investigators say this appears to be a homicide case but right now at least it looks like this homicide was justifiable. ever happened here the four years i've been here. >> he can't believe what happened just a few doors down from where he lives. >> early this morning, orange county deputies responded to a 911 call reporting a break-in in the second story apartment. they say they arrived to find a hispanic man in his 20s, dead on the ground outside. the residents say they stabbed him, killing him as he made his way inside. >> i would defend because i do live with somebody else, i would defend her and me to make sure we're safe. >> the neighbor says he thought the complex was safe. he says two members of law enforcement live here. there. people are crazy and people need to defend themselves. >> news 6 found out the man who deputies say was trying to get inside knew the people inside the apartment. they say he's done this before. that case was turned over to the state attorney's office for them to decide whether to prosecute the case or not. >> there was a relationship between the occupants of the apartment and the man trying to break in. >> but you can't tell us what holding back on some of that. >> so what were the details of that first case back on december 5th? we're working to find out right now. but first, we need investigators to release the identity of that suspect. right now, they say they're still trying to track down his family to deliver the news. we're live at the orange county sheriff's office tonight. >> thank you. now to a crime tracker alert in brevard county. an urgent manhunt tonight for a suspect who police say robbed a bank in rockledge. police are searching for shane cooper, the getaway driver after he and the gunman robbed the space coast credit union last friday. we have some surveillance pictures from the robbery. detectives identified the man in the pictures. they say he walked into the bank with a handgun, went up to the teller and demanded cash. after getting the money, he jumped into a white car and drove off. >> right now, authorities say hyman is in the hospital recovering from gunshot wounds convenience store robbery in cocoa that happened on tuesday. here's another look at the suspect still on the loose, though. if you have any information on where this guy is, call crime line at 1-800-423-tips. >> powerball fever continues tonight. still no word on who bought the winning ticket in melbourne beach. >> however, there is plenty of buzz on who it could be and the rumors and speculation are spreading all across brevard county. news 6's amanda castro is live at the melbourne beach publix tonight where the winning ticket was sold. any luck in finding that lucky winner? >> no. still looking for that winner. everyone is so excited, though, to find out who that new multi-millionaire could be. rumors are spreading all across melbourne beach and it will most likely stay the talk of this tiny beach town until that winner comes forward. >> inside amy's beach side salon, everyone is talking about one thing. >> everybody's wanting to know who it is, and wondering if it's somebody you know, your neighbor. >> it's the talk of the town, the person or persons who picked all six numbers correctly, one of three winning tickets across the country. >> to be here in a little town, knowing that somebody won here is kind of neat. it's kind of exciting. >> melbourne beach is a small community. and folks here say it won't take long to figure out who the winner is. there's only about 3,000 people who call this city home. >> it's only, what did we say, five places to buy lottery tickets here. >> including the publix on a1a where the winning ticket was sold. >> we heard it was somebody that worked at publix, a woman who lived at harbor east and somebody said maybe it was somebody down in poinciana. we don't know. >> the winner is laying low beach town. everyone is anxious to know who the new multi-millionaire is. >> have you heard who it is? >> i have not heard any rumors. i hope it's someone who lives locally. >> we may not find out who the winner is at least for a while. the winner has 180 days to claim the $528 million or if they want to take the $326 million lump cash prize, they have 60 days to claim that money. back to you. >> thank you. we're just hoping it's someone who loves everyone here at news 6 and wants to share in the wealth. >> we're hoping they're a news 6 fan. >> and one tennessee family is ready to step into the spotlight. take a look at these people. have you ever met them before? are you related? >> it's my aunt lisa. >> there you go! they delivered the winning tickets to lottery officials today. immediate family knew. the other winning ticket was sold in chino hills california. we're waiting for the winner of that ticket to come forward as well. >> they're going to live on their own island soon. the spacewalk was cut short this afternoon after an american astronaut found a water bubble in his helmet. the astronauts had already accomplished quite a bit on this walk. they were replacing a voltage regulator that failed a couple of months ago. when there was a reported water bubble, the planned six-hour walk was stopped right away. nasa was quick to react. >> we know it's a small amount of water. i can read you the steps right now, tim. we already got the location and the quantity. if there's any way to get a temperature of the water, i don't know if you can move it around to get to that or to try to drink it and note the taste. >> a scarier scene happened during a spacewalk in 2013. you see the water in there. an astronaut nearly drowned when water got into his helmet. were never in any danger. >> they need to find a fix to that. happening this weekend, spacex is planning to land another rocket on one of its robot barges this sunday. it's a drone ship at sea and not a ground-based space port like last month. it's slated to take off from an air force in california. we'll let you know how the launch going. >> and local engineering students are offering a new idea to the space center. >> it's called a hyper loop. how the system will transport passengers between two major cities in less than an hour. >> here's radar tonight. totally different than what we were dealing with this morning. it won't stay this clear the expire weekend. i'll be back to pinpoint the good stuff and when the rain rolls back in. yeah, that's right. deal diva coming through. you see all my bogos, my weekly ad. just wait till you see my savings. and brace yourself. the digital coupons are coming next. look at her, so proud of her momma. you saved quite a bit today go ahead. say it. cha-ching! thank you the weekly ad, bogos and coupons. three easy ways to save at the same place you love to shop. >> it was some wild weather today. heavy rains and wind pounded our area. >> we saw a lot of wrecks on i-4. all the construction is certainly not helping matters. news 6 anchor julie broughton joins us with the big drive update. >> certainly was a rough morning. all that rain combined with construction did mean for a slow go for a lot of drivers this morning. that means project managers are looking for ways to make sure some of this doesn't happen with the next round of storms. >> heavy rain this morning meant big slowdowns on i-4 near parr. a jackknifed semi blocked eastbound lanes shortly before noon. then road rangers closed two lanes because of standing water. >> we had flooding in the eastbound lanes of i-4 near parr street that was caused by a combination of heavy rains and the construction activities we had going on in the area. thankfully no one was hurt in the incident. there was, i believe, only one water. along this stretch of the big drive. bridgework continues at princeton as crews continue to unload support beams. you can see where the roads will be expanded as the interstate is widened. expect to see a lot more workers and workers over the next few months. >> we'll have 400 and 600 new workers coming on this job. this is a design-built job. crews are working on the design plans which are coming to the point they can be released for construction which means more work can be done. >> and with pile driving comes big noise. project managers tell us most of the pile driving will be continuing through the day because of this. we found workers this week installing sound barriers through the college park area, one of the eight areas along the 21-mile stretch where the barriers are going up. the workers are moving the old watch out for more construction vehicles on the roads. >> we're making it easy for you to keep up with all the construction alerts. website. just head to clickorlando.com/the big drive, powered by news 6. >> thank you. students from ucf are proposing a new transportation system to spacex. it would make traveling between two major cities a whole lot faster. take a look. these are some images of the designs of the project called hyper loop. two teens are planning to show off their designs later this month. the founder of spacex and tesla motors first proposed it in 2013. the hyper loop would go 760 miles per hour taking passengers from l.a. to san francisco in, get this, 30 minutes. you can't even get out of l.a. in 30 minutes. >> you can't go a block in 30 minutes. >> that's really cool. >> i'm curious the technology they're going to try to use. interesting stuff. >> a teen is in trouble for an unusual joyride. >> he sure is. coming up all new at 7:00, we're getting in the details about how bus. it's a story you have to see to demolition at disney. the mouse revealed time is attractions at hollywood studios and they're tearing down the park's first icon. details and what will rise up in their place, at 7:00. >> i can't believe they're stuff. >> something's been there since the very beginning. later. >> i'm sure they have really cool stuff coming. >> don't they always? >> if you slept in today an didn't wake up until about 1:00 this afternoon, you would have had no idea -- >> you would have to be like a college student to sleep in until 1:00. >> it was pounding. >> it was rocking like crazy. >> i was so busy at the time i didn't get your message until later. lisa wrote in, what was it, park" i was trying to help you out. >> that was a big help. look at these shots. how pretty it is now? >> gorgeous. >> stay with me. you're going to love it. >> i'm with you. >> they're all nice. >> they're all nice. isn't that beautiful? >> uh-huh. >> beautiful shot from rockledge. isn't that nice? >> more peaceful. >> the rain runs people away. you have the beach to yourself. one more shot here. here's the last shot. >> wow! >> good stuff, isn't it? >> it doesn't look real. >> i think it's got a filter on it but i don't care. after what we went through today, i don't care. it's beautiful after a long thunderstorm-filled day. it's nice to see. thank you very in your app store. we'd like to see what you're seeing in central florida. >> my clicker is jammed up. i'm going to step out and hit the button over here and make this thing fly. here we go. >> you wore it out today, that >> i must have. maybe the battery is running down on me. go, man, go. still not going. there we go. now we're playing. here's the radar. you see the way it's peeling out. all the rain has left us, down to the islands tonight, we've gotten rid of all the big heavy scattered showers. everything is groovy in central florida but pouring in bimini. overnight lows this morning, even with the rain we did okay. we dropped to an overnight low of 62. 57 in the villages and 50 in gainesville. we rebounded nicely to a daytime high in orlando of 75 after the overnight low of 62. normals are 71 and 49. records on the day, 86 and 72. so those are fine. daytime highs, temperatures made it back to 74 in sanford and 75 in orlando and 77 in kissimmee. right now, we're holding at 66 in gainesville and 69 all over brevard county. >> clouds and rain forecast, this is where the big changes are going to be very evident for you. come take a look. tonight we're doing okay. but patchy fog sets up by most of it burns off by 9 or 10:00. by 11:00, enough sunshine that i think we're going to warm rapidly into the 70-degree range. we have a daytime high of 77. saturday night looks good. futurecast keeps trying to throw in a shower. i'm not buying that. i think we stay beautifully dry tomorrow. sunday, that's a big difference. next cold front is 6 a.m., pushing in the big zone and producing big scattered showers. look at 8 a.m. there's a whole lot of rain from the coast. by 10:30 the rain is gone and the cold air settles in. lows tonight in the 50's, so no worries there. the official overnight low in orlando is 56. here's the weekend. >> fog early on tomorrow. 70 degrees by noon. the daytime high goes to 77. the big rain chances are in. early sunday morning, meteorologist danny treanor will be in sunday morning filling in. good. if it starts to threaten severe, >> bundle up. thank you, tom. >> we got pruned up earlier from all the water. ping is in. what's going on, man? >> we've got good news on the buccaneers. we have picking with ping as well, going into the weekend of football right here on news 6. i put everybody to the test and >> there's some things i'm going to tell you, it's all about me. not this. >> really? >> after a couple of days of speculation. the buccaneers have hired dirk >> fans, i hope you're with me when we tell you the franchise is heading in the right direction. easier to say but harder today because competition in this league is the best of the best. >> it's easier to say that than doing it. he actually admitted it. good hire for the bucs. jameis winston has a really good relationship with this guy. if winston didn't like this guy, he's not the next head coach. he's never been a head coach before. speaking of the national football league. i know there's nfc games out there tomorrow. broncos? remember. >> count it, steelers win. chiefs? >> yeah. >> no. >> no >> i'm doing 2-0, stone cold loss. in the house agreeing with me? look at stanley. he's got a house on lake mary, >> it brings the juices back to when you played the team game you played. now it's just yourself and you're out there on an island. but more importantly, this is a beautiful setting. we hope the weather holds throughout the week and get good crowds out here and raise money for a good cause for florida hospital for children. >> super bowl 26 mvp beating the buffalo bills. badly. >> a lot of people -- >> good stuff. in this line of work only the freshest ingredients make the 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