To good day orlando, im john brown. Amy if you only knew im amy kaufeldt. Glad you are here. Heres the stories were working on right now. We start with batman, Orange County deputies caught the guy, who dresses up like batman and has been robbing local stores, how they were able to track the guy down. John we have a new study that links riding the school bus to attendance. How do you think it tunnel out . Well chair the findings, straight ahead. Amy you know where they dropped the kids off. A good sign. All new at 8 00, why not getting enough sleep causes you to make poor food choices. Plus, david martin, what are you up to today . Reporter good morning to you, we are live at the Atlantic Center for the arts in beautiful New Smyrna Beach. What happens when you take 6 pakistanis, two indians and two u. S. Musician and put them all together and make them make beautiful music . Youll find out on the 8 oclock hour of. John New Smyrna Beach and gina is on the beach. Everybody is on the beach. Jayme were on a european style couch right now. Would you be at the beach, john, the golf course . Anywhere, so nice, outdoor shopping, even, wow, john upping the ante 40s and 50s and a 39 in ocala and everybody up and out of the chill, slowly but surely, let the sunshine massage the atmosphere a little longer and we should be, again, seeing good looking weather on the horizon. About 80ish by 2 00, you like that . And the day looks fantastic. We have ample sunshine throughout. Around that general theme, closer to 80, toward 5 00, upper 70s, a nice day ahead and you see the front and, whoa, wait, is it coming to town . High pressure is so stinkin strong east of our state over the atlantic it is pushing everything away and the clockwise flow, two areas of High Pressure, clockwise flow make up for good looking weather and great times ahead, rejoice, celebrate, do what you do and get out and bottom line, enjoy it. It looks nice in central florida. Thats your forecast. Heres live drive traffic. Kristin the 408, things moving pretty slow from the turnpike, even up to hiawassee road. The average speed 16 Miles Per Hour, slow moving traffic and brevard county, good news to report. One southbound lane is open, where they shut down i95 south. At the cause way, traffic was converted for hours as investigators work to clear up the mess, it was a fatal car accident, one of the cars a big mess out there lake county, southbound us23, a southbound lane is shut down, and things are moving slow. Drive times, if you are on i4, heading westbound, from lake mary boulevard to colonial, it will take you 18 minutes and eastbound, i4 from the attractionsdowntown, 28 minutes and from the 417 to downtown, 14 minutes, john and amy, back to you. Amy thank, breaking news out of brevard county, police in West Melbourne are investigating a shooting. John it and at a neighborhood on east haven drive, south of 192. Right now, police are not saying a whole lot about exactly what happened there. They do tell us there is no threat to anyone, though in the enabled. And they are still neighborhood, and are on the scene, investigating. Also developing a suspected serial robber is behind bars preparing to make his first appearance in court. Amy Authorities Say he disguised himself as batman, Jackie Orozco has more on that, from Orange County. Reporter investigators say batman after he would wear a hoody or a mask in several places he was hit, and deputies say he would rob Family Dollar stores and Grocery Stores and other places to support his expensive drug hadnt. And this morning faces a judge. Deputies say the 26yearold is a suspect, in nine armed robberies over the last month. And investigators say that he dropped his cell phone after trying to rob a pizza place friday night. How deputies were able to track him down through his phone and we are told a man was working behind the counter and he walked in with the handgun and demanded cash. He saw him hesitate an chased him down and he got away. Deputies say he has a heroin addiction and used the money stolen in those robberies to buy more drugs. He appears to be a heroin addict. With probably a thousand dollar a day addictions habit. We still have a significant and this is just one way, even though we are working on the prevention and the intervention side, enforcement has to be part of the the overall strategy for reducing the prevalence of heroin in the community. His arrest comes in light after Orange County sheriffs deputies said the Task Force Made big strides because with the latest bust they were able to arrest 220 people and, pulled 18 pounds of hair one off the streets. Morales faces the judge at 9 00 a. M. , reporting outside the jail, Jackie Orozco, fox 35 news. Also, fox 35 crime alert today. From Volusia County, deputies say they are looking for a man who stole money from a 12yearold girl, who was selling Girl Scout Cookies. Amy it happened sunday afternoon at the walmart in deltona. Investigators say the man walked out of the store with a woman and a child. And walked back up to the cookie was selling Girl Scout Cookies and grabbed the cash box. Deputies say he then jumped into the passenger side of a newer model, gray, Hyundai Santa fe. If you know anything about this you are asked to call crime line right away. John you decide 2016. We were in oklahoma, arkansas, georgia, alabama. John today is this biggest day for the president ial primary season. Over 800 delegates are going to be elected to the Democratic Convention and we anticipate winning many of them and the majority of them. John the president ial hopefuls playing all of their cards. Now ill be greedy for the United States and ill take and take and take. [cheers and applause]. John 12 contests. If you are not doing a good job at the va you will be fired from your job at the va. John more than a thousand delegates on the line. The republicans, ive got to give them credit, they are persistent. Persistently wrong, but they are persistent. On the campaign trail today. Welcome to super tuesday. Super tuesday is here now and all the candidates have their eyes on the big prize. Theyll be fighting really from coasttocoast for delegates an ryan is here now off to the races on super tuesday. Good morning, it looks like a political analyst, frank torres, you woke up with a spring in your step, right . Super tuesday. Absolutely, one of the biggest days of the year and we get things going off in a big fashion. And, well break it down and show you the republican map. Look at texas here, talking georgia, massachusetts, virginia, those are the ones they focus on and it seems like cruz an marco rubio have a lot to prove, especially ted cruz in the state of texas. Big test for him to win in his own state. A lot of pressure there. And looking right now, should something happen and a slipup and cant deliver texas, there will be serious questions about his effectiveness, campaigning in that area and super tuesday. Ryan the polls, it looks like a big night for donald how important is the delegate mass, this year . Donald trump could establish himself as the frontrunner, not only in the polls we see every day, but, in the delegate count. I think after tonight, youll see a lot of candidates monitoring the delegate count and doing the map between the states and map out a path for victory to the nomination. John marco rubio leads zero of the polls, does he have to finish second or win one. A few second place finishes would be nice. I dont think there will be a lot of pressure on him if he doesnt win any tonight. A lot of his potential will be with john kasich. March 15, florida and ohio and all the face the same challenge ted cruz is facing, if they cant win their home state can they bring home the general election in november. Ryan the other side of the aisle. The democratic map. A different race, talking the same key states and texas jumps out with 222. But Hillary Clinton is dominating texas. Dominated a lot and Bernie Sanders said, i can win in minnesota and colorado. Unlike the republican candidates, where they probably see someone dominating, if Bernie Sanders has a bad night you will see calls for him to get out. He needs to win vermont and minnesota and colorado. And potential other ones and if he doesnt win at least a couple, he needs to be a close second, in play of them, because Hillary Clinton will make a big jump in the delegate count tonight. Ryan she has surged this last week. I love seeing the smile on your face, super tuesday, looking forward to the results tonight. John . John all right, 8 09 here on good day orlando. Also, several candidates are spending some time here in florida on super tuesday. Donald trump is going to be in palm beach and marco rubio hosting an event in miami and Hillary Clinton is going to be in miami. And, keep it right here on fox 35 for all of your super tuesday action. 5 00, this evening well take you live to the trump and marco rubio rallies and then our online coverage begins at 7 00 p. M. On facebook. And at 10 00, a team of will be here to look at the super tuesday results and what it means for floridas primary. The next study may change the way you feel about driving your kids to school. Why researchers say it pays for kids to ride the bus starting in kindergarten. Plus, david martin . Reporter good morning to you, from inside the Atlantic Center for the arts. In New Smyrna Beach. Behind me, is a u. S. Embassy and pakistan initiative. Theyve taken 6 musician from pakistan, and 2 from india and. And 2 from the u. S. , and sent them here to the center to spend three weeks together to make music. Theyve never met each other, dont know each other but, together, right now, you are witnessing live music in its creation. In town and on welcome back, 8 14 on this super tuesday. Time to get your kids on the big yellow bus. John luanne has a study that shows how riding a school bus can affect your childs attendance. Luanne good morning to you as well. Researchers found that kids who take the School Bus Missed school less than the kids whose parents dropped them off at school. Earlier you put them on the bus the better. The study found that Uc Santa Barbara looked at 14,000 kindergartners and found riding the bus to school increases a childs attendance rate by 20 . Now, Previous Research already shows missing school can cause kids to have lower grades. Researchers say the bus helps get kids to school because it is on a set minutebyminute schedule. And your kids cant go, mom, i have a stomachache i need to stay home john they coax mom or dad out of taking them to school in the 10 minutes it takes to get there. Amy my kids have never ridden the school bus to school. Luanne never . Amy i worry about the stuff on the school bus, bad language and bullying. Maybe im being overprotective. Luanne you worry boughs my son gets on the bus and it is a great ride. He reads and does stuff like that and cant complain to me. John lu, you have been there, it doesnt matter if it is the school bus or what, by the time your kid gets to middle school theyll have a whole new vocabulary. John bunch of language theyve learned. All around. Doesnt matter. Amy and they are smarter by the tomb they get to middle time they get to middle school, too. John a funny story. Jayme king, take it away. Jayme accuweather forecast. Your day ahead. Look at that. By 2 00 were adding 80 degreesplus, most locales and though exception is right where the waves are lapping up on the sand of the beach. 40s and 50s, low grade 60s and good morning, heck of a morning, cool start, perfecto, a few clouds, and by 2 00 a. M. And tomorrow, wednesday morning, you can see we are squarely through the low 60s and i dont think we fall much lower. Cool or cold as we have seen since last weekend and next front marches toward us and the guy gets in here and well mix the rain chances from the forecast because High Pressure is a dominant force right now. And, you can see it building in over the eastern shoreline, back out toward the state, and absorbing a lot of the Energy Associated with the front. Actually the clockwise flow around the high, kind of keeping it a little more to the north there and allowing all of the energy to stream toward d. C. And the midatlantic states, and that is where that will wind up. For us launch time at the Cape Canaveral air force station, here we go, try number 3 or 4 and the falcon 9 heading into the heavens with the Communication Satellite, we hope spacex gets it off the ground, launch time 6 35. 70s at launch time in the vicinity of the cape and rain chance is zero. Like today, leesburg, 80 titusville and vero beach and indian river county, 80 and melbourne and palm bay the upper 70s. 60 on average and cooler over North Central florida from gainesville up to the floridageorgia border. Temperatures running just a handful of degrees cooler. Everyone seeing great weather across the entire peninsula, looking really good. With around 80 each and every day, and, back down into the 60s, a few mornings mid and upper 50s, chance of rain, zero now, dry skies all the way into the weekend and well feature saturday and sunday highs with ample sun mid and upper 70s. Enjoy it all. Heres kristen with live drive traffic. Good morning, jayme. Live right outside on i4, fairbanks avenue, cars going away from you and heading east, cars coming towards you are heading west. No delays there. We like to see that tuesday. I want to take you out and update you on the big traffic story. We have talked about it all morning. The i95 south road. Reopened, one lane reopened, in melbourne, a fatal car accident there, it was a mess. A car rolled over several times. Several hours. Again, one southbound lane is back open, but is still moving very slowly, you can see by all of those reds there, hopping over to lake county, we do have an incident of u. S. 27, a crash here, being called a serious accident that shut down one southbound lane there. Time now, for your pump patrol, saving you money, regular gas is just 1. 57 at the speedway on east cimarron boulevard and wilshire boulevard, in casselberry. You can always find gas saving tips on our web site, at www. Fox35orlando. Com. John and amy, back to you. John we know a lack of sleep causes you to make bad food choices, now we know the cause and effect of that, coming up the Fox Medical Team explains how your poor nighttime habits, sleeping habits can lead to poor 8 19. Welcome back, 8 22, a lack of sleep is Long Associated with overeating and poor food choices and of course weight gain. John a study is looking at how sleep loss actually initiates the entire process. Lets bring in the Fox Medical Team, dr. Joe, to discuss this. Weve all known this but now there are numbers to prove it . Good morning, the subject that is near and dear to our hearts, i know. It turns out the lack of sleep, it increases the hunger hormone and decreases another hormone and also activates something, called the endocavanoid syndrome, it sounds like marijuana, right . The reward and munchies center and they found in this study is individuals who only got fourandahalf hours of sleep, compared them later on and let them get 8andahalf hours of sleep, turned out that the hormone peaked later when they got less sleep and peaked at 2 00 and lasted until 9 00. Normally, when you get enough sleep, it peaks around 12 30 and you are less hungry in the evening and so when they gave the people the ability to eat anything they wanted in the less sleep and ate about 300 more calories. Two times the amount of fat and if you do the math and dont get as much sleep, you will burn a little more calories and 70 calories an hour im sorry, 17 calories an hour and maybe 70 calories and they consumed more than 300. And definitely overcompensated for that core deficit. We talked about this, people who worked shift work, we put us in that shift work. When your body starts shutting down because you are so tired, it seems the first thing you want is sugar and, we all know that adds up and i mean, really, like a drug, you are take anything to keep your body going, arent you . Absolutely. I know exactly what you are talking about. We talked about the m and ms, the craving in the afternoon. I think by knowing this, and understanding what your body is doing and how it is really tricking you a bit, it may help us kind of overcome that and is it really going to make me, you know, more wakeful and it is not. All it will do is increase your risk of obesity, because we know that that lack of sleep correlates with increasing weight. So, it is one way to stop it but, what is so interesting, drug being developed that blocked the reward center in the brain, and it never got to market because it caused an increase of suicidal thoughts and suicide and depression. So you cant block it. So we have to live with it and we have to know it is there and what it is doing to us. John being aware and doesnt help the video we are showing. You cant see it. Man the food we are showing. No, i cant. John put us over the edge, thanks, much. My gosh john talk to you soon. Thank you. John did you see those doughnuts . Gosh. Amy i know. A problem. John still to come, no cell phones on the beach. Amy one group is asking you to keep them in your pocket if you are walking on the shore right at sunset. Or at night. Reporter you have to check out, amy and john the music project here at the Atlantic Center for the arts in New Smyrna Beach. 6 pakistanis and two in