Jason is february 25. Could thursday morning, i am jason guy. Let s get you out the door. And is very conga. What we were dealing with 24 hours ago. A few clouds hanging out of the downtown orlando where you are looking live. Amy sweezey has the preview for a day ahead. What can we expect . Amy we have some cloud cover on today. It won t last too long. We will end up with lots of sunshine later today. And i temperatures, a whole lot cooler. We are starting off cooler. Cooley or keeps coming in. Our highs today will be midtoupper 60 s which is cooler than i lows from yesterday. But four hours ago, we were a whole lot warmer. Anywhere to 10 to 20 degrees cooler cooler than yesterday morning. That puts us in the 50 s 52 in Daytona Beach and villages. 56 in orlando and kissimmee. 55 degrees right now in melbourne. There is the cold front that rolled through yesterday and brought the storm and now just a few leftover clouds across the area. But those clouds will be clearing out as we have a
S department has worked 75 heroin over dose cases that resulted in eight deaths. One official told us the alleged drug dealers clearly have the skills to operate a legitimate business. Michelle meredith, wesh 2 news. Angela an ohio pharrell board has decided to separate a man who is captured 62 years escaping from prison. He had run off from the shawshank prison in ohio 1959. He had been held for running over and killing a man. He was reimprisoned last may. Jim we are learning more information about an i4 worker who was killed while on the job yesterday. Angela it happened just before noon in a construction area near i4 and the maitland boulevard exit. Wesh 2 s amanda ober is live. Amanda, this man had a dump truck back over him . Amanda that is what happened who was killed was a father of three children and that he was only on this job about a month, a job he was very excited to have. Meantime you may have noticed there has been no activity at any of the i4 construction site today. Th
Reviewing access and how we control dump trucks coming in and out of the area, but certainly we don t want to look at just that. Amanda sgl says it will do a thorough review of all of its safety procedures, and i4 work may resume friday, or not until next week. The florida Highway Patrol is investigating the accident and says the backup warning beeper on the truck was sounding when it backed over franklin, but other details of what lead to the tragedy are being investigated by both fhp and osha. As for the work stoppage, the Florida Department of transportation tells wesh two news, ensuring safety is its top priority and it claims meantime, the sgl safety standdown will not impact the project S Construction schedule, which concludes in 2021. Franklin, had three children ages 10, 13 and 15 who live with their mother in southwest florida. A relative told me over the phone, franklin was excited to have this new construction job, a job he d been on for only about a month. As for the dump t
Up the interstate. That car crash and is on the side of the road with the suspects gun still in the backseat. And then they went east on lake mary boulevard, still Law Enforcement going after them, and they crashed into this blas up. There were a couple of crashes along the way on lake mary boulevard as well. One person in custody, three still on the run. We don t think anyone was hurt. We don t we know that no one was hurt in the incident at the steak and shake parking lot. They want to figure out exactly what was going on. Jim five miles of mayhem. Breaking at 6 00, a deadly accident in Orange County. Meredith and i for worker is dead after being struck by a dump truck. Adrian whitsett is live at the scene. Jim we now know the name of the victim. About 30 minutes ago he is 34yearold marvin franklin. He has been on the job for only about a month. As you mentioned, the i4 construction project, all 21 miles, including this stretch near kennedy boulevard, isn t shut down and will be for
By a co worker in a dump truck. He was pronounced dead shortly after the incident right there in the i4 ultimate Construction Zone just north of kennedy blvd in maitland. Residents who live nearby and saw the aftermath were horrified. In my mind i was thinking that could be my loved one and i m praying for the family members. Unfortunately i never got to personally know marvin. He s been with us just a little over a month. So i m sad to say i never got to shake hands with marvin. But even so we are still all very saddened by the loss today. Summer a loss now prompting i4 ultimate project director Brooke Brookshire to suspend and shutdown all activity along the 21 mile corridor of construction on i4. In light of the incident we need to stop for a moment and take a look at what our safety procedures are our primary focus people. Summer as for when i4 ultimate construction will resume. We are going to go back to work when we feel we are ready. I cant give you a definitive time. Tomorrow w