Hours. As it does, thunderstorms and showers will get closer to us. Where you see the reds and yellows, the heaviest rain off the coast of tampa is about two and a half hours away from the orlando area. From between now and 2 00 this afternoon, this whole big batch of rain will continue moving in. Right now, it is a few light showers we are seeing along i75 and i4. We are getting more rain developing in pulp and osceola counties. Brevard is seeing some light rain. For the rest of us, some light showers going on now. The heavier rain and thunderstorms in here especially to the south will be rolling through the afternoon and evening. Once we get into the late night, we will wind down the rain. Temperatures are Holding Steady in the midtoupper 60 s. I will show you futurecast and talk about the sunshine making a come back in a few minutes. The space coast. Jason it was 30 years ago just lifted off from Kennedy Space center carrying the First Teacher to space. Exploded. Tragedy. The widow with of the challenger commander said he was offered a chance to back out. All the they faced the possibility of never returning from a flight. He felt responsible for the 10 finalists in the teacher selection and chose himself to fly to washington dc to meet with them to tell them that it wasn t just a commercial flight. That it was a real experience that they were going to fly. Any of them could back out now if they want it. Jason none of them did. Mccullough barbara morning morgan became a fulltime astronaut. Cold weather contributed to the accident. Years in prison for attacking a 12yearold girl on the campus of silver sands middle school. He is seen here at his arrest in august pleading no contest to his charges of kidnapping, child abuse. He will spend 20 years on sex offender probation. His family says he has mental issues, he followed the child onto campus and third to the ground. Hendrix tried to sexually batter the victim. The socalled affluenza teen is about to land in the united states. The Mexican Immigration Institute said it placed even count on a flight to dallas this morning. Couch agreed to drop the appeal for deportation yesterday. Apprehended in december. A trirail commuter train morning. Debris on the tracks. In fort lauderdale. There was only one injury reported. Where we are working to find out how serious it was. Michelle we will be hearing from the man leading the effort to legalize medical marijuana. A news talk about the ballot initiative. State officials announced chance to approve the measure that failed in 2014. It would allow anyone over age 21 to be a licensed caregiver for up to five patients. With just hours to go until tonight s republican debate, it stay away. Jason donald trump has decided to skip the debate over a dispute with fox news. From join the other candidates tracie potts is the big question is whether a noshow will help him or her to him in that state. Just released this morning, our nbc poll shows donald trump flipping the script in iowa, now up by seven. Trump is a by 19 in New Hampshire and 16 in South Carolina our polls show. His feud with fox news anchor megyn kelly has led to one less candidate on stage tonight. I don t like being taken advantage of. Fox confirms there will be no empty podium. Says to South Carolina voters, that is what we should ve of done with the iran nuclear deal. Ted cruz challenge come to a he has reserved a spot. Trump has a competing event. He doesn t want to answer of iowa about how his doesn selling. Crews was born, trump tweets, can we do it in canada . Move on. Interesting shied show, greater show unearthed. This is serious. Chris christie recalls being bumped from the main stage. Did i whine and moan . Did i hold my breath and stamp my feet . No. Me a podium and microphone, you do not walk away. You stand up and fight. It is not clear if iowa impressed. Washington. Suing the Florida Department of corrections. He says he was raped, stabbed with barb wire and beaten at the bush now in 2013. He is alleging stood by and did nothing during the attack. Year. Mcdonald s. The man walked into the restaurant on south obt around 4 00. Two employees ran out and called 911. He fled without taking anything. Officers believe the man had a gun. Michelle a woman who sued Casey Anthony will face a judge on charges of her own today. Zenaida gonzalez was arrested yesterday. She is accused of stealing from a cancer patient. Many people remember her for filing a defamation lawsuit against Casey Anthony. Investigators say gonzales and Jonathan Acevedo worked at a star motel and stole credit card cancer patient staying there. They made 850 worth of kissimmee. Stores. They were able to obtain surveillance video. They showed the video to the friend of the victim who was able to possibly identify michelle a friend of the cancer patient notified authorities after seeing suspicious credit card activity. Gonzales and acevedo are both facing credit card and grand theft charges. We are getting a look at the county church. Firefighters say a fire at an electrical plan of panel at the First Baptist church in with smoke. No one was hurt. Crews from three different fire control. Jason authorities are hoping new surveillance images will help them find an escape in may on the run with a child. This is the white chevy cobalt officials are looking for. The license is eujl31. This was taken at a toll booth sometime before. Natasha quigley is accused of helping gary bullock escape from his work release assignment last friday in Daytona Beach shores. Xander quigley on the far right, is natasha s 3yearold son. A missing child or was issued with more storms hitting south florida, residents in Broward County continue to pick up the pieces after in ef1 tornado touched down in the area yesterday. Michelle meteorologist say a touchdown multiple times, tossing cars, damaging roofs, and knocking down several trees in its path. Only one injury has been reported. A Tornado Warning was issued for palm beach county. It has now been lifted. Russian jason russian guns made in the sunshine state. Michelle why ak47s may soon be coming to south florida. Central florida. Jason how scientists plan on wiping out zika mosquitoes. Ted talking about i4 ultimate construction. Driving through downtown orlando, you could see a link taken out in both directions left lanes between 408 and colonial drive. It is slated between 10 00 p. M. And six clock a. M. It could be before and after that. This project will be going through february 8. Download the west to mobile app. Jason people woke up to a dangerous situation at an orlando complex. Michelle six people got poisoned by Carbon Monoxide at the walden ponds condos. Alex villareal talked with the complex. Sure, it could mimic flulike symptoms, especially right now and this time. Everyone is getting sick. You might think you have the flu , but it is very important to have Carbon Monoxide detectors. Even if you don appliances. All the engine crews the respond from the hazmat crews. Each would enter the structure with a monitor and equipment. They were aware of the Dangerous Levels that they would encounter. They tell me the reading in s condo and another where they hurt a person fall from poisoning were over eight times deadly levels. Person to the hospital. The good news, no one fire crews determined construction workers left a generator on and that it was there because the apartment was damaged. Code enforcement will now investigate. This should never happen. You should always run a generator in a well ventilated area. Preferably outside. If you re running inside because there is no other means, you should have adequate ventilation to get rid of the air. In orlando, alex villareal. Jason firefighters ventilated all the affected condos. The evacuated residents were told not to go back for 12 hours. New at noon, ak47 assault rifles will soon be made right here in florida. Manufactured in moscow and imported to the united states. Now, the company says it plans Pompano Beach factory. Gun Maker Coalition of cough usa kalashnikov usa cut ties with country for its annexation of crimea. An xmen are in county sheriff s a beat down caught on camera. Jesse terrel was indicted on civil Rights Violations for being arrested. Surveillance video shows price has his hands up and lays on the appearing to surrender. That is when the deputies pile on top of him, pounding on his head and body while he is down. Marion county sheriff chris blair says the video shook into the core. As soon as i saw this video , all five individuals were suspended without pay. I personally felt that their actions were egregious and they should never receive another dime from the Marion County pat taxpayers. Michelle the body camera footage from one of the deputies from another angle tells a misleading story. They scream at price to stop behind your back and even cut the body camera off at one point. Terrel was fired following the incident. The other four deputies resigned. Jason a former deputy at the seminal county jail could lose his states are for certification after arrest. Michael ryan conversations of his coworkers, complaining. He was fired by the department. Prosecutors have released chilling new video, showing a murder victim with the man accused of killing her. This Surveillance Footage on the uptown lofts in orlando. Investigators say that s Stephen Duxbury escorting 27yearold Sasha Samsudean into the building. Duxbury is due back in court march 3. Texas team is facing charges for intentionally running over two of his classmates. Police in Harris County say the they suffered minor injuries. As far as a motive, police will he was tired of all the talk at school. Florida legislators will make to keep the state s Death Penalty in place. The Supreme Court found the Death Penalty on cost usual juries to decide death sentences. State have been delayed due to the situation. Jason a warning to parents about a deadly drink. Health Officials Say teens are making a mixture of mountain dew shine. Teenagers and tennessee have died from tricking it. Officers say teens are hoping to achieve the same effect as alcohol by combine the soda with fuel commonly used in drag racing. Mountain dew makes a drink called dew shine. It has nothing to do with this michelle this year, the zora 27th Neale Hurston festival celebrates the 125th birthday of the american folklorist and author. The niece, nephew and former friend of the late author will talk about the zora they remember at Rollins College friday. Festival organizers were with us this morning telling us about her legacy. Those human stories are based out of the culture of eatonville. That may sound counterintuitive t know that eatonville is a small town of about 2500 people. It is called probably low socioeconomic, but the riches of the stories. Everybody like stories, it is a part of the human condition. Michelle the outdoor festival sunday at hungerford field. Check out our link inside wesh. Com. Will soon clear up. Amy there is some evening stuff going on for the fast tonight. It is a little iffy for outside. Hopefully, there is a rain plan. Here is the deal, it has been a foggy january and yes we have had all these rain events, but yesterday we had record rain. When you add in yesterday s rain, that brings us way up to almost five inches of rain this month in orlando. Six and a half inches in Daytona Beach. Compare that to normal, we are in orlando. A little more than Daytona Beach. We are well above average. We have not broken records yet. We still could, we have more rain on the way today. Counties. All of the big brain will mainly happen to the south. We will see some showers across Central Florida. This area of low pressure and this low has been hanging out here in the gulf. It is expected to get pushed across Central Florida through the afternoon. That will bring all of the showers that are right now off the coast of tampa our way. Still a couple of hours away. Two hours or so. These heavier showers will be over into the metro area. Before that, we will see the rain spread in. In fact, you can see right now, we are getting some light rain across all polk county. Up north, it is more drizzly as opposed to the big rain coming down. We have more moderate showers over the attractions right now heading closer to downtown orlando. This heavier rain in the next 10 or 15 minutes will roll through doctor phillips, pine. Downtown or later shortly after 1 00. Little heavy pocket rolling through this afternoon. Have a lot of gloomy. Half mile, three quarters of a can see out ahead of you. It gives you an idea, there s a lot of moisture in the air. Temperatures have been climbing a little bit this morning, not much. 70 in melbourne, we will only had a few more degrees as the rain continues to filtering. Farther south, especially southern brevard county, will have the heavier rain and a few storms are possible as well. The rest of Central Florida will see scattered showers continuing into the evening and then late will and. Overnight and that will bring a sunshine tomorrow. 60 temperatures. We will climb in the spots the cooler for longer with the rain. Looking at that sevenday forecast, 40 s on sunday. Michelle the World Health Organization says the zika virus is spreading explosively. China. A meeting will be held on monday should be declared as an International Health emergency. The World Health Organization says there could be as many as 4 the next year. The mosquito virus has been linked to causing birth defects. Scientist from oxitec are creating their own mosquitoes to fight off the virus. Female, all the offspring will die. A female mosquito can produce up to 500 eggs in her lifetime. So that is 500 more mosquitoes coming into the world. If she makes with one of hours, she will produce no viable offspring. Jason the Scientists Say they have in killing off 82 of the Michelle Party has a new look for the First Time Since the iconic doll debuted in 1959, mattel is operating offering barbie in three new shapes. Pettitte, kirby, and tall. This morning. You can buy barbie with her original body if you want. Mattel says the changes about more closely reflecting young the company has not said when the noodles will hit stores. Coming up next, we will show you a milliondollar potato. Michelle we are following paris. Police have arrested a man near the paris theme park. Also detained. Michelle the World Health Organization is estimating there could be three to 4 million year. We will explain who is at risk at 4 00. What is the most you ll pay for a potato . Jason one you can t eat, not much. A european businessman forked over 1 million for this print the picture was taken by celebrity photographer kevin abosch. He s best known for his portraits of people like yoko own no ono and malala. This picture of an organic irish potato was worth way more to the buyer. Amy moral roll through. If you thunderstruck as well