Another night of scary storms in the south. The system has already produced . Several tornadoes. At least . Three of them were confirmed by radar wednesday afternoon. Just outside of atlanta. As you can see, the storm downed trees and power lines in the cobb county area. The National Weather damage. Later today. Thankfully no serious injuries have been reported. And now lets go to dave for more on this wild weather. And our local forecast. Some fog early, with variable clouds and a quick shower possible today. High temps in the upper turning much drier. Lows near 60. Mostly sunny skies return for friday, with drier air and and that storm system that hit georgia. Helped put out most of the raging wildfires in tennessee. But the danger is far from over. Officials say all mudslides and rockslides. The death toll from the fires in the gatlinburg area has also been raised. Its now up to seven people. And officials now believe more than seven . Hundred structures were damaged or destroyed. A
39yearold Virgina Arteaga was taken in for questioning and then arrested. She is accused of murdering her son and planning it. The shooting arose as a Domestic Violence situation. They are not sure when he was shot. The police have no history with his family. And never satyr was a neighbor was devastated to hear the news. He was a wonderful young man. Reporter another neighbor was equally in shock to hear and mother accused of murdering her son. It is a travesty and i pray for that family. Jim police have been waiting for a search warrant all day. Once they get inside, they hope to clear up more of the unanswered questions. Meredith the 15yearold accused of running down a sheriff reporter Orange County sheriff ce courtroom. That is what Jancarlos Ortiz accused of, trying to kill the deputy. She tried to arrest him on burglary charges iron a morning. The formal charge she is facing is attempt did murder on an Law Enforcement officer. I got the stitches out a little bit ago. Reporter als
Reporter 59yearold Virgina Arteaga was taken to the seminal county jail. She is being booked in right now on accusations of premeditated murder. Her son blake coward was found dead in the apartment and we do not know exactly when he was shot. That is a job for the medical examiner. The Police Department is waiting for a search warrant to get inside and continue the investigation. Angela david, thank you. We are following some latebreaking news. Two teenagers are facing charges. They were at Umatilla High School later today. A 17yearold was found in possession of the firearm told him a 16yearold gave it to him. Both were arrested. Jim right now, a brush fire in smoke continues to fill the skies. The bird got out of control. The burn got out of control. This was a scheduled 135 acre burn that jumped the fire line. Firefighters managed to stop it spread and no one was hurt. A few miles away in deltona, fire rescuers are pushing out the flames that sparked inside a home and appeared to bur
About the search for the gunmen. Good morning. We will get to the breaking news for you in a moment but first the weather is the story today. Lets get started. Certified meteorologist Brian Shields over in Severe Weather center 9 or tornado watch was issued for Sumter County one hour ago. Of the remaining counties. Western tier under a tornado watch all of us have the risk of seeing Severe Weather as we go throughout the day. The tornado watch may be expanded to include the rest of us so we will watch for that and heres a line of rain and storms bringing Severe Weather back to the panhandle of florida. It is stretching all the way back to the gulf of mexico. As soon as this morning through the early afternoon we will see it move from west to east. Still we have been watching for severe thunderstorm warnings near north florida even a Tornado Warning toward georgia. These are some of the radars, we wont watch for the threat 60s, 70s and warm ahead of this but what we get the rain and sto
Certified meteorologist Brian Shields. I dont know why i point . Makes it dramatic. Chillier this morning, 40s, 49 palm coast, 50 deland, 51 sanford, 54 orlando. Have a jacket. It is going to be cooler. 24hour temperature change tells the story. 20 degrees cooler in spots this morning. Theres a satellite radar picture. Scattered clouds quickly leaving and a lot of sun today, dry, sunny and windy. The plan on the screen now, Altamonte Springs, 56 at 10 00, by noon, still very cool, low 60s this afternoon getting into the mid60s and we drop off quickly hitting the evening hours per county by county with temperatures but also i want to show you a computer model. To show you how windy it is i will have that coming up. 6 01 am. Looking at i 4 here is deneige. I 4, lee road, we dont have any issues in each traffic into downtown orlando starting to see volume building but nothing out of the ordinary. We have a crash and winter park, a loma avenue at oak reserve lane still looks like were seei