Shes happy her son acted so quickly to pull his friend out of the canal right here. Detectives are still working the scene at the moment. Now, heres some video of the area from sky 6. Detectives tell us the 8yearold boy goes to riverside elementary and cutting behind houses and through the canal to get home. This all happened around 3 30. The deputies say the boy and his friends were playing on a pipe that stretches across the canal when the boy fell off into 3footdeep water and his friend helped pull him out. Someone called me and said my son, they thought he was the one that was drowning. But they said, no, he was the one that saved him because he was one of the ones that jumped in. Hes the only one who knew how to swim. Reporter now when we got here, we saw deputies interviewing two young boys who were there when it happened. One neighbor tells us he heard children screaming from behind out. Deputies are still unsure how the boys got back there. And is county property. At last check
Majority of the races. This includes arkansas and on the gop side donald trump claiming victories in the states including virginia. Despite some competition from marco rubio. Rubio hoping to have one win tonight as you can see the florida senator. Is doing well. When you look at the entire map you can see that it is covered in red and it is covered in terms of blue and in terms of donald trump, as you can imagine down in south florida tonight he was very optimistic about his chances and congratulated one candidate but said the other was just nothing more than an loser. George estevezs life where a crowd of people watched these results come in. George trumping very frank with the statement and he spoke for of media outlet. As we have seen he has to run the country and from marching out protesters they asked about taking to the podium to tear down republican challengers and democratic opponents. After two nights when he says hes setting aside from the sunshine state. Were going to florid
Wesh 2 new sunrise starts right now. Announcer local, live, late breaking. This is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. Jason it is march 2, good wednesday morning to you. We are glad you are waking up with us. I m jason guy. Let s get you outside and show you a view of downtown orlando. 65 is the current temperature in the spot. If you like the one afternoon, we are talking to amy sweezey to find out if we will do it again today. Amy good morning. A cold front concert today but it is not going to make us cold in Central Florida. We are still headed to the upper 70 s to read 80 degrees for highs. A few of us will make it to the lower 80 s. There is a slight chance of sprinkles is that cold front comes through during the midday hours. I really don t expect a lot of rain. It would be pretty sprinkles. Otherwise we will have clouds and sun. Especially north and west of i4 compared to yesterday. We dropped to the 40 s and the spots. Ocala is 8 orlando is only two degrees warmer than yes
Last minute in ocala, 66 cocoa beach. A lot of 50s, low to mid 50s across i 4, 51 Daytona Beach, 56 orlando, 51 in clermont. Chillier this morning. 24hour temperature changes. The northern tier, 15 degrees cooler but it is going to be a warm day. Some of the extra clouds from yesterday you can see how they are still around. Will have extra cloud cover at times today but it will be on the dry side. Either way, a good day. Orange county, macquarie elementary, lunchtime, well into the 70s when i join you today at noon on tv and then as we hit 2 00, 3 00, format, low 80s in spots plus this evening it is going to be nice pics 6 00, temperatures running in the mid to upper 70s by that point. Gradually dropping off this evening. Tonight we will see a front moving in and we will track that and go county by county with temperatures and bragging rights across Central Florida. I will show you that ahead. I 4 into downtown orlando, colonial. This is your traffic coming into downtown and this will
Calls, nearly half of all the calls recorded for all 3 haulers. It looks like they have the biggest problem. I havent looked to see thats thats true. Reporter other haulers protested the contracting, saying the company underbid for the job. It makes you wonder how these contracts are given out. Reporter a representative for fcc says they have the most customers and the most improvements since service started. I guess if they had the most calls, work order, you would assume they provided the Worst Service but maybe they just needed some help in Getting Started and their customers might have needed that help as well. Reporter haulers will now be fined for missing pickups, throwing waste back into peoples yards, and other problems. Reporter i did try to go right to the top and talk to the mayor about these trash troubles. She did not have time in her schedule today. I also reached out to fcc who could not they were the first to use automated trucks and that contributed to the complaints.