She asked joel to step outside, and when joel stood up, she fell over, hitting the window. The School Resource officer was called. He reported finding prescription drugs in joel s purse. The deputy also said joel was drinking a pink liquid from a water bottle that smelled like alcohol. Joel was arrested on charges of child neglect and disorderly intoxication. Parents arriving at school were shaken at the news. If you re drunk in a classroom, you definitely shouldn t be around kids. Amanda School Officials say joel was hired in 2014, and since then had only substitute taught a total of about 10 times. Joel was arrested for dui in maitland in 2012 and had her license suspended for a year. The School District says a misdemeanor dui arrest alone is not grounds to deny employment and joel did pass a background check. The School District does tell me arrest she has been permanently removed as a substitute teacher and is no longer eligible for employment. The parents did receive a letter from the principal last night, assuring them at no time were their children s safety in any question. Meredith the lockdown of a high school in palm coast has been lifted after no gun was found on campus. School district personnel searched the school this afternoon. They received a report from a student who allegedly saw another student with a gun. Florida s first case of zika virus transmitted sexually has been confirmed in polk county. Two new cases have been confirmed in polk county. One case was travel related and the other was sexually transmitted. Health officials urge men who have into outbreak areas to summer Orlando Police are trying to find the person who shot a man downtown early this morning. One man was injured but is expected to be ok. You will hear from a witness and get an update coming up in the next half hour. Some disturbing crime stats innovative showing murders increasing 113 . We are joined live outside the police department. Matt, what else does the report show . Matt Orlando Police releasing its annual crime stat report showing that while burglaries and robberies are down, Violent Crimes are up. Stop the violence. Every fifth sunday, pastor stovall leads a march, pushing back against increased violence. I m just crying out to let people know we ve all got to come together. We matt according to new orlando crime stats, the city s murder rate shot up 113 last year compared to 2014. Sex offenses also went up 13 . Aggravated assaults rose more than 17 . It s not going to get better unless we all come together. Matt we asked opd about the increase in the city s homicides. Chief john mina tells us off camera, overall crime is down 21 since 2007, and while the murder rate last year was high, mina says it s only marginally higher than recent years, calling 2014 s murder rate extraordinarily low. Mina says there were no clear patterns or trends with the data. In a statement he said, reducing Violent Crime in all of its forms and ensuring that our city is safe for its residents is a top priority for this department. We are always working vigilantly to combat Violent Crime. Every night it s a different young man that lost his life. Matt pastor stovall says he ll continue marching in communities help save the next life. We ve got to march into these areas and pass out flyers, hug them, and let them know that they are loved and that s what it s all about. Matt opd says so far this year there have been nine homicides, including a double murder. Meredith an undercover detective is in the hospital after he was shot while taking his 14yearold son to school. The jacksonville narcotics officer was doing a traffic stop. Police say he was shot at least three times, in the head, upper body and hand. He managed to call for help before collapsing outside his car. His son was not hurt. The suspect was shot four times by other officers who chased him. Both the suspect and officer are expected to survive. Summer four people are behind bars charged in connection with a violent home invasion. Deputies arrested four men and woman, who are charged with kidnapping, battery and carjacking. Thats after deputies say they forced their way into a home in the eagle lake reserve of st. Cloud back in january. They re accused of pointing guns at the three people who lived there and tying them up. Meredith three former Orange County day care workers were supposed be in court today after the state filed misdemeanor charges against them in early february. The case involves a fiveyearold boy who was left in a hot day care van or nearly five hours last october. Wesh two s gail paschallbrown is live at the Orange County courthouse. Gail what happened today . Gail the good news is that the boy did survive. Today, only one of the former workers showed up. The other two weren t served because the state lacked the most current addresses on them. Come forward maam and state your name. Shannon johnson. Gail 43yearold Shannon Johnson is charged with leaving a child unattened unsupervised and culpibable negiligence, both misdeameanors. How so do you wish to enter your plea. No contest. Gail the state needed more time to talk to witnesses before making a recommendation to the court. The case goes back to october 9 johnson was an employee with winners preschool on powers drive in orlando. A fiveyearold child strapped into his car seat had been left in the center s van for nearly five hours when it was 86 degrees outside. A passerby noticed the child and contacted the preschool. Employees brought the little boy inside and cared for him. Johnson says she was not the bus driver, nor the aide who checked the bus, but she did sign off on who was supposed to be on the bus. So your idea was that there was nobody left on the bus . The child was not there. I approached the driver, saying, i did not see the child. He said he must have come in. You missed him. There was nobody left. Him and the other girl was suppose to check for the child. At that point, i went to class and thank god the child was ok. Gail investigators say the child was hot, sweaty, dehydrated but fine. Dcf slapped the school with a 1000 fine for workers losing sight of the child. Some people say that was a slap on the wrist. Thats just what the violation is, a 1000. There were no previous violations in the past. And opened at a new location on West Colonial drive in the old target building as Winners Primary School when we went here, we were told to leave. We re just trying to talk to management. Ok, here s what s going to happen. Leave now or i ll call the police for trespassing. Gail Shannon Johnson no longer works for winners. The bus driver, 50yearold Victor Manuel delapaz, was fired by the Day Care Center right after this happened. Delapaz and 27yearold jessenia rosado mercano also face the similar misdeamors. They were not in court today because they have been served. Summer thank you. Authorities say a body found in the Ocala National forest was that of a missing man. Back in january, a missing adult report was filed for thomas lombardo. Lombardo s mother says her son hadn t been returning her text messages. Police say fingerprints taken from the body found in the forest match lombardo s, but they haven t yet determined how he died. The investigation is still ongoing. News, former republican president ial candidate Carly Fiorina endorsed senator ted cruz. She made the announcement today in miami, saying she voted for cruz in virginia s primary last week. Fiorina said trump and Hillary Clinton are on two sides of the same coin, saying they re not going to reform the system. And all of the president ial candidates will be here in florida at some point over the next two days. Tonight, democrats are set to debate in miami, then the republicans are up tomorrow. Wesh 2 s Adrian Whitsett takes a look at what a new poll is saying about the race for florida. Adrian as marco rubio barnstorms across the state of florida, his supporters still believe he can still prevail in the sunshine state. I do think he has a chance in florida. Adrian is it because of people i think it really interesting in florida because only republicans can vote in the republican primary. Adrian a new quinnipiac poll shows rubio behind trump two to one, an even bigger margin than the same poll two weeks ago. He started in florida too late. He employed an early state strategy and it right now. He might lose his own state. Adrian wesh 2 republican analyst Eddie Fernandez says he might be behind, but rubio s been there before. The reality of it is that marco rubio is the florida comeback kid. We ve seen him do this with charlie krist. We ve seen him do it with others. If anyone can overcome a deficit in a matter of days, it s marco rubio. Adrian on the democrat side, Hillary Clinton leads two to one versus Bernie Sanders in florida, but she had a lead in a recent upset state, too. She was ahead going into michigan yesterday anywhere from five points to 20 points ahead of Bernie Sanders, and bernie won 5048. That was a huge surprise. Adrian wesh 2 s democrat analyst carol cox thinks here in florida, with a closed primary, we won t see a similar surprise on march 15. I would expect to see that the Election Results match the polls more closely, but we re still almost a week away. Adrian with commitment 2016 coverage, Adrian Whitsett, wesh 2 news. Meredith chopper 2 flying over summer Stewart Moore is live. Some homes have been damaged . Reporter palm bay fire rescue is telling us right now the fire is around 10 acres and being fueled by the woods around the residential homes. Some evacuations have taken place. Two homes have been damaged, spreading flames and crews are doing all they can to protect the other homes in this area. These are live pictures from chopper 2 and you can see just how many homes are in this neighborhood and you can see exactly where the fires are. You can see the fire right there, the grass in the front yard. This is all happening while on waters are asked to let fire crews do their work. This stretches for up to 10 acres, still active flames we homes are surrounding this zone. We will give you the very latest throughout the evening. Meredith thank you. Summer straight ahead, and then says he was booted from a business because of his service dog. Meredith what he hopes his case will teach the public. Summer a law passed in the 1800s can truly be a thing of the past. You may be surprised this was still on the books. Meredith what troopers think the two biggest problems on i4 bar. Eric we are following a a look at the sevenday you re watching wesh 2. Meredith a disabled veteran says he was outraged when he was ordered out of a store in edgewater because he had his dog summer turns out the dog is a s claire metz reports, though the store owner has apologized, the veteran wants to raise public awareness. Claire Clayton Davis, with his service dog, regularly stops at this Citgo Convenience store on india palm drive, typically yesterday however, it was the store owner at the counter and he told davis the dog was not allowed. These dogs are the difference between life and death. Claire 35yearold Clayton Davis suffers with ptsd after two tours of duty in iraq and his service dog nashaoba helps him cope with the scars you can t see. A lot of us carry emotional mental scars, and these dogs do great work to help, and that s what i want people to understand. Claire so when he went in the store with nashaoba, clearly marked as a service animal, he was stunned when owner, al patel, ordered the dog out despite davis explanation. He basically told me i was wrong and to get out of his store and to never come back. Claire davis took his outrage to facebook and got thousands of sympathetic responses since service dogs can legally be in public places. I don t know what he called a service dog. Claire you didn t understand it was a service dog . Yeah. To the country and unfamiliar with service dogs. He didn t get a good look at the dogs vest. I m sorry. Claire to say again, you re sorry . Im sorry to say this happened. Claire patel posted a web apology as well, and davis accepts it but is on an Awareness Mission now, particularly for disabled veterans. I want store owners everywhere to know that we have these animals. They are there for a reason. Please, don t discriminate against us. Claire despite the apology, davis says he won t do anymore business here, but hopes the owner now understands service dogs must accompany their masters. In edgewater, volusia county, claire metz, wesh 2 news. Summer davis did file a complaint with police who investigated the incident. It is a misdemeanor to refuse service to someone because they have a service dog, but in this case, rather than cite or fine the store owner, police used it as an educational moment. Meredith a 19th century law that bans unmarried men and women from living together is about to be eliminated. Lawmakers are giving their final the law was passed back in 1868. Representative Richard Stark says the law was an invasion of privacy. I represent communities of seniors, where a lot of them are technically not married. They are living together, but it makes more sense financially or for whatever reason like Social Security to not be married. I don t think that they want to be considered to be violating the law. Meredith the legislation is now heading to governor rick scott for final approval. Summer turning to your first alert forecast, warm and greasy. Breezy. Eric the land is dry and we have gusty winds. Here s what we have for the old weather stations. Gusts are upwards of 20 Miles Per Hour. Of 26 miles brouwer. When it comes to dealing with wildfires. We would continue monitoring the situation with of the afternoon. Let me step out of the way and beautiful perspective from our downtown sky camera. It is a mostly cloudy day, the sky. When to and southeast, gusting higher, so the gas are all the gust are all across centrals florida. 82, orlando. 82, the villages and ocala. Visible satellite imagery showing the clouds pushing off into town, but they are not rainmaking clouds. That is the good news. The evening forecast continues to be quite pleasant. Tony will be talking about this at 6 00. The readings really a sluggish to fall though they are doing 67 degrees at 11 00 and just a couple clouds overhead. The actual overnight lows, just a couple of evenings ago, we were reading 40 s in marion county. Upper 50 s tonight. 58, ocala. 61, villages. 62, clermont. 62, kissimmee and orlando. 63, deltona. Lower 60 s, palm coast. It is wednesday, which means we kick back off the fair this week ended a 76 degree temperature at 6 00, beautiful sunset and comfortable conditions throughout the evening, dropping off into the upper 60 s. This is where becomes uncomfortable. Looking ahead toward tomorrow, we have bright sunshine, gusty wind so we will have to watch the brush fire concerns but the temperatures, pushing into the middle 80 s across many locations. S and the villages. Right along the beach, that is where you get the comfortable breeze coming in off the ocean, keeping us more comfortable, to say the very least. If you are headed to the strawberry festival tomorrow, it will be beautiful but warmer, 85 degrees. This highpressure area is killing us with the temperatures. The onshore wind is providing for rip current concerns. We will have to watch that continually friday, saturday and even into sunday. Sunday, that is when we will watch this next weather maker , the frontal boundary with the potential for showers and a thunderstorm. Until we get to that, the forecast is great. Temperatures in the lower 80 s, the onshore wind certainly your saving grace. Here is your sevenday forecast. 50 chance of rain on sunday, 40 chance on monday. We will talk about the changes when i see you in the next hour. Summer meredith he was found thousands of miles away at the white house. What he is accused of throwing over the fence. Summer a protest in ferguson, missouri attracted National Attention and of the city and the government are working on a solution. Meredith starting to see some flames on the ground in palm bay as crews are working to get this thing under control. If youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder while our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income my plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. I approve this message we can make a Political Revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all meredith chopper 2 s line over breaking news of a brush fire spreading their homes of palm bay. Reporter this is an sanfilippo in palm bay and fire crews are on the same as well as our crews dealing with Power Outages that may come with this. One of the big issues you are saying is the wind is blowing pastries which makes it hard for firefighters to get these under control. Right to the bottom of your screen, you can see the flames that are encroaching on those this area is heavily populated and fire crews have evacuated a number of residents that h lived in this area. Firefighters are trying to stop this line from spreading. The wind is blowing in the opposite direction of where these homes are. Fire crews are battling against 10 acres. We did see a line of power crews on the scene as well. Some of accurate and took taken place in this area. Dan billow will give a live report as we continue to fight the fire. Meredith the man suspected of shooting a pastor has been arrested in washington dc. Summer he was arrested yesterday for reportedly throwing items over a fence. He gunned down a pastor in idaho on sunday. 10 remington is expected to survive