Fixed holes in the fences, and is also getting a response from parents walking their kids home from riverside elementary. The walk home from Riverside Elementary School was one of more education for some families. Brandy moore you just have to tell them and make sure they understand that they have gates and stuff up for safety reasons. Adrian the extra lesson stems from a tragic accident, where 8yearold Shamore Franklin fell from this pipe tuesday, 10 feet into the water below. His dad says doctors are still assessing the damage to his brain. Milton williams he s not moving. They re keeping him asleep because he can t breathe on his own. Adrian Milton Williams questions why holes in the fencing the same hole the kids , crawled through before shamore fell into the canal, weren t fixed. Milton williams if you have property like this and you re not taking care of it, then you need to be held accountable. Adrian Orange County public checks at this Conservation Area but signs and gates don t keep , everyone away. Jeff charles it s used as a cut through as i mentioned and a lot of times it s not just a hole in the fence. They ll climb over the fence they ll cut a hole in the fence, they ll cut our locks to get into the area. Adrian the county s hopeful new fencing and patching holes will be more of a deterrent. Diane miranda hopes the same thing. Her granddaughter fell into the canal just a few months ago after climbing through a hole in the fence. Diane miranda since this happened yesterday, now i m coming to pick them up they re not going to be walking they re going to be a car writer. Because that is scary. Adrian Milton Williams wants parents to be more aware. Milton williams this is something that every parent should be concerned about. Especially in a school area. Adrian public works says they respond within 24 hours if there is damage or someone calls in at one of their properties. If you see anything unsafe at one of their properties, called the county 311 line so they can have a crew assess immediately. Live in Orange County, adrian whitsett, wesh 2 news. 6yearold he was babysitting shot and killed herself with a gun she found under the couch. Last night a letha Amanii Marie Burke shot herself in the shoulder, but the bullet went through her torso and she died at the hospital. 35yearold Erik Williams faces charges of child neglect and improper storage of a loaded gun. Police say gun owners must do all they can to make sure loaded guns can not be reached by kids. Bianca gillett firearm ownership, there s a responsibility there, and as the owner of a firearm, you need to store it securely and away from juveniles. We owe them that. Jim in a separate case, a sanford toddler found a gun last week and was accidentally shot in the hand. Sanford is holding gun safety classes for parents and kids next week. Details can be found on wesh. Com meredith it s one for the history books on the ucf campus today. The florida board of governors which oversees the state , University System, gave the green light for a downtown campus. Wesh 2 news gail paschallbrown for our entire communit this project is going to be life changing. Gail community support, and a revamped approach from ucf finally won over the board of governors, who this afternoon approved a new campus for ucf in downtown orlando. The motion passes. Gail it was a standing ovation crowd when the 142 vote came through. While we didn t have a unanmious vote in favor it was clear we had an overwhelming positive response. Gail dean colson was one of two board of governor s members who voted against the 60 million project concerned with the , amount of money the state is being asked to supply, 20 million. My reasons for voting no is because i do not believe this is a priority for the University System nor for ucf. First i m not convinced there is an academic demand for a downtown campus. Gail the new campus will serve 7700 students, coming from both ucf and valencia college. That partnership is designed to give access to higher education, to those who didn t have it board of governors member norm tripp said his concerns was for parramore. The new campus building would be built in creative village, on the site of the old amway center, in parramore. That s welcomed news for two parramore supporters. Asha davis lives there, graduated from valencia and will attend ucf in the fall. Asha davis i think it s a Good Environment because it s closer to us to go. We don t have to travel all the way to the east side. Gail parramore is part of orlando city commissioner regina hill s district. It s a great day for the people in parramore also for the city. I m quite esactic. Gail the next step is approval from state lawmakers and governor rick scott. Meredith ucf has a new funding method for the 60 million project. They re asking the state for 20 million. Another 20 million will come from ucf resources. And 20 million from community contributions, in which 16 has already been raised. Millionjim we ve learned more about a Deadly Police involved shooting in brevard county. Palm bay police say they had to officers gathered outside the home in large numbers, after a 911 call was made, alerting authorities that a man was lashing out. Police arrived about 90 minutes later and officer jason mccoy , says he was forced to shoot when the man appeared to be pointing a gun at other officers. Meredith i4 is back open tonight after a fiery crash that claimed one man s life. Wesh 2 news obtained cell phone video of the burning suv just moments after it slammed into the east bound side of the Enterprise Road overpass. The man driving could not escape. It happened at 9 30 this morning leaving all lanes closed at , first and several lanes closed until the afternoon. Traffic engineers had to inspect and make sure the bridge was safe, despite the heat from this vehicle fire. Steve olson you know you ve got tens of thousands of people using i4 going under that bridge every day. And the expectation is, that structure is going to be safe. Nothing is going to fall down on them. And so those precautions are taken and we re all for that. ,meredith the cause of the crash is so far unknown. The identity of the man who was released. Jim investigators are still trying to find out how a construction worker was killed a week ago when a dump truck backed over him. Wesh 2 investigates found one of the companies involved, lane construction, was already under investigation by osha after a worker was killed in tampa last september when a dump truck backed over him. In that case, Highway Patrol found the victim was on his cell phone. Local Construction Companies tell us workers being distracted by phones or music is an industrywide problem. One company is trying to combat that by using rear view cameras so drivers aren t backing up blind. So if there is someone standing behind here, you can see them . I can see 16 be behind me. Reporter does this eliminate all blind spots . Yes. Jim the company in charge of i4 ultimate, sgl constructors, would not say if they use rear facing cameras but say they do not allow workers to use cell phones on job sites. Kissimmee police are asking for the public s help in tracking down the man who tried to rob a local 7eleven. This is a surveillance photo that shows the suspect walking into a store on south john young parkway around 9 00 sunday night. They say he approached the counter, pulled a gun and demanded money. That s when the clerk ran to a back room and locked the door. The suspect took off with nothing. Jim a crash that affected in Orange County deputy. A deputy collided with another driver at plymouth sorrento road. Did she say what it sounded like . Like a big boom. She heard the squealing of the tires or Something Like that. Jim troopers said that they have the green light, and since there were no witnesses, they may never know. Meredith a burglar with olympic breaks into a family s home, and now they are feeling violated. This security video was taken yesterday morning inside a home in the summer lake subdivision. The woman peeks through the back window, pries open a sliding door, then walks through the the living area. Moments later something spooks her. She limps back out apparently taking nothing. The homeowner says the damage to the back door entryway is what made him check security video. Johnny lai we re all freaked out. My wife can t sleep. She keeps coming down to check the door to make sure no one is still in the house. Meredith if you think you know who this woman is, contact the Orange County sheriff s department. Tonight, an orlando man is charged with buying and selling stolen property. Police say sometimes he would even make trades for crack cocaine. Investigators say they found 20,000 worth of stolen merchandise like bicycles and Lawn Equipment at the parramore neighborhood home of edward washington. The investigation started back in december. Washington is facing multiple jim the state is investigating a local funeral home after indigent people that should have been buried have been found in a cooler. Meredith 16 bodies were removed from altmanlong funeral home in debary early last month, several of the dates of death dating back to september. Bill long owns the business was under contract with Volusia County and had been paid to bury them. Long admits he likely held on to the bodies for too long but says , in september he learned of new software that might lead him to families of the unclaimed dead. Bill long i felt it was necessary to make an attempt that no other agency was willing to do, to locate next of kin. Meredith county Officials Say long did not follow proper burial procedures and did not renew its contract with him, the the issues started out small and then spread. Quickly. Jim tonight wesh 2 investigates stucco cracking on homes only 5yearsold. It s a nightmare. You know your dream house is now jim mold growing deep and thick inside. What happened when the builder went in front of local commissioners. What residents of these new homes want done, and what our own experts say they found inside. Wesh 2 investigates next at 6 00. Tony it was a warm afternoon today. We will be even warmer come tomorrow before we get a little rain. In that story straight ahead. Meredith chopper two is flying over a controlled burn in Volusia County. This is an hosting at a wins harbor owens harbor road and will go into the night. It is contained. Meredith right now, make sure you are looking at this video over my shoulder. Local homeowners say their homes are rotting from the inside out. Jim complaints are piling up of cracked stucco and mold buildup in their homes. Wesh 2 investigates went to this windermere neighborhood with our own experts to look at their Meredith Stewart moore found out, it s an issue that has been sent all the way up to the attorney general. Cancer is inside you, you can t see it, it s working on you. The same thing with this. Stewart this house has become a cancer . It is a cancer. Stewart Jeffrey Tepper is a retiree who moved from long island, new york for the beautiful sunshine of central florida. This was his dream to live here. It s a nightmare. You know, your dream house is now a nightmare. You don t expect that. I m an accountant. I did not know, there s no way you can see anything. Everything is hidden. Stewart jeffrey started noticing cracks in the side of his stucco and also started seeing cracks on many homes in the 140 town home neighborhood. He called in painters, and they told him this was a bigger problem, and that water was getting inside. We looked behind the stucco exterior with construction attorney mike sasso, who was retained by the homeowners association. As you can see, the house is literally rotting. This is the structure of the home, it s just rotting. This house, right now it is five years old, completed january 2011. Stewart so what s wrong . Engineers hired by sasso say of the approximately 80 homes they tested in the neighborhood, they all had stucco problems. At the Orange County Commission Meeting concerning this issue, the stucco was not done with accordance at the time. Stewart county building inspector tim boldig told the room full of upset homeowners that inspectors saw stucco cracking and water intrusion, damage to the structural wood members, and damage to the floor system. And behind the stucco, rotted wood and damp walls. Wesh 2 experts air Quality Assessors, who also testified at the Commission Hearing and talked about these black spots, visited the site with us and peeled back to identify what those black splotches could possibly be. Richie kidwell we aren t sure exactly what type of mold it is. We know it s mold. We know it s bad, depending on somebody s immune system is how to direct mold swabs, one from the top, one from the bottom. Stewart at today s hearing, air Quality Assessors identified it as black mold, or by its scientific name, stachybotrys that was found. Pulte homes is the developer who constructed all 140 of the town homes in this neighborhood. We spoke to the president of pulte florida about these concerns. What type of fault are you guys admitting . Peter keane nothing at this point. Until we have opportunity to do our own testing, which we have not been afforded the opportunity to do that as of yet. Stewart what will pulte do to make this right . We will do everything we can to make it right. Stewart for Jeffrey Tepper and the homeowners who attended the meeting today living in this stucco community, words are not enough he wants action. Say hey, we take responsibility for our actions. We are going to step up to the plate and have this taken care of. And we are going to have this fixed. That s all we want, that s the bottom line. We want our homes to be fixed and problem taken care of. Jim Stewart Moore with our report. Wesh 2 investigates uncovered attorney jeff ashton s son owns one of these homes and while ashton says he won t prosecute the builder, he wants attorney general pam bondi to look into the matter. Ashton wrote a letter to bondi, which reads in part, they pay lip service, but have done nothing. As a father, fatherinlaw, and grandfather to those unlucky enough to have purchased one of these potentially unsafe homes, i would ask that you look into this matter. A just released study says Orange County could do a better job of with the money it spends to fight homelessness. Meredith mayor Teresa Jacobs hired a consultant to look at the 23 programs the county gives a total of 7. 7 million each year to address homelessness. The Research Found that almost 44 of that money is not going to those in the most imminent danger of ending up without shelter. Jacobs says the county will likely rework its contracts with those agencies with a new emphasis on housing first. Mayor jacobs having this report and shedding the light on how we re doing is extremely beneficial in us changing the meredith the report suggests that transitional housing programs often end up with people being homeless again so they may not be an effective use of government dollars. Jim mostly sunny and warm across central florida, and we are setting ourselves up for a nice night tonight. Tony 70 s for the next couple of hours, then we drop into the 60 s. We do have a brush fire in Volusia County we need to watch. Downtown, no smoke here, looking at lake eola. A few clouds, but an absolutely degrees, wind out of the westnorthwest, gusting at 25 miles per hour. Biggest concern on the radar is the large brush fire, the smoke plume just north of hosting osteen, mayfield road. That is covenant of the to current temperatures , 72 ocala, 76 downtown, 78 cocoa beach. Every look at the garden festival at epcot, not bad, 72, 67. Maybe a light jacket, but you will be in good shape. Cooler north, in the far northern counties, marion and lake, sumter, middle to upper 40 s. 50 s in town, 49 and 50 palm coast, 55 titusville, 55 melbourne. A few clouds tomorrow morning, a disturbance offshore. A pretty benign and quiet afternoon. Everything lifting to the north and east. Ahead of the next approaching cold front, we get the southwesterly winds, and that will bring in warmer temperatures, especially orlando on south. A quick shot of rain as we get the easterly morning commute. Most of the rain will be in and out by lunchtime on friday. Let s look at the rainfall here. Very nice in january with the active el nio pattern. Quiet in february. Typically in march we get 3. 77 inches of rain, and we could use that right now with the brush fire s popping up. 83 in orlando, 83 in kissimmee. We have spring training underway tomorrow at disney as the braves take on the tigers, 82, 1 05 in the afternoon. Gorgeous weather day on saturday, onshore flow, a few clouds. Nice and comfortable. And northeasterly flow on sunday, great bike week and weekend. Afternoon sunshine, temperatures in the 70 s. But what s cumulus clouds for and for the falcon match on sunday, no rain, highs in the upper 70 s. 80 s through wednesday. Meredith some of the greatest swimmers in the world are converging on orlando. Pat we mean great. It is an olympic year, so preparing for rio. Front and center, america s swimming sweetheart four years ago, four gold medals. Hi get a Busch Gardens fun card now and let the fun begin. Pay for a day, dive all year, splash all year, thrill, get your fill, and celebrate all year. Climb, launch, roar, and soar all year. Pay for a day, play all year. And if you get the Busch Gardens fun card now, youll also get an Adventure Island fun card for free. Limited time offer. In 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, pat well don t look now, but we , are a scant five months from the 2016 summer olympics in rio. You ll see most all of it unfold in real time right here on wesh in august, and some great olympic Gold Medalists will be hitting the pool in real time right here in orlando this week. The arena pro swim series has made its way to the ymca Aquatic Center down on idrive, and missy franklin, a fourtime Gold Medalist in 2012, is among the starstudded field in this event. Missy in the pool training this afternoon. She ll compete in five events in the meet, which begins tomorrow, all leading up to youknowwhat. Matter our trials and the olympics. These pros swims are great, just a little tuneup to see where you are at. In the middle of hard training for the entire year, so you are going to come in tired, but you will come in ready to race against great competition and see where you are at pat . Pat ok arriving late this , afternoon at the Aquatic Center, most certainly the figure who will receive the most attention. Michael phelps, owner of 22 olympic medals, 18 of them gold, in the pool late this afternoon and set to compete in four events this weekend, the 1seed in the 100 butterfly, and freestyle. Rio would be michael s fifth olympic games. This weekend s event, by the way, is totally sold out. Magic get the bulls tonight at the amway in a game that features two teams headed in the same direction, and it s not a good one. Magic lost last night to the mavericks, surrendering 55 shooting to dirk and company. Dallas scored 69 points in the first half. Meantime, the bulls haver lost at least 100 points in each of their last 14 games. Two teams on the outside loking we will have highlights at jim a dog is dead, and now its former owners are looking for answers. Meredith they give this person the doctor take care of, and he showed them a picture th the dog riddled with bullets. Jim we will have the latest on cw 18 and wesh 2 news at 11 00. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] developing news tonight. Party panic as donald trump wins big on super tuesday. Republican leaders revolt. Mitt romney set to lead the charge against trump, but is it too late. Also tonight, Hillary Clinton surges ahead, but Bernie Sanders says hes not going anywhere. Mystery debris found. Nbc news baks the story. A piece of a boeing 777 that could be from that missing malaysian
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