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Transcripts For WESH WESH 2 News At Noon 20160226

Through lane, the moped driver, a 30yearold woman from orlando, was taken to the hospital where she died. The driver of the jeep was a 29yearold man from deerfield beach. Charges against him are pending, he wasn t hurt. Thanks for joining us i m jason , guy. Michelle and i m michelle imperato. In Brevard County this noon, charges are pending against a driver who hit and seriuosly injured a local child on a bicycle and kept on going. This happened about 6 00 last night at the intersection of delspine avenue and alpine lane in titusville. The car that hit the child has been found. Wesh 2 s dan billow is live at the scene with more on the investigation, and dan, how close are police to making an arrest . Dan there are some signs that police may know who hit the child and drove off. I just talked to a witness who claims to have seen this person arrested last night. Police are not confirming that. It happened a writer on 6 00 at we have a photo of the bicycle after the damage. The boy had to drag himself off the road while he was hit while riding his bike. The collision knocked the front tire off the bike. Firefighters say he was in stable condition with a head injury when he was flown to the hospital. Last night, the Fire Department reported that police had located but not arrested a driver with a possible driver with the car. That is horrible. It is completely horrible. I think if i hate someone, i would stop. For a dog, a cat, i would always stop. It is terrible he decided to keep on going. Dan police today are saying charges are pending. A statement that is a little cryptic, but can interpreted to mean they be about to charge someone. They expected to have more information for us this afternoon in time for wesh two live in titusville. Also in titusville charges , could be coming after a man was hit and killed. Police say the crash happened where state road 50 meets i95 just before 8 00 last night. Police say the unidentified man was in the middle of the road when the car ran him over, killing him. The driver remain on the scene. Jason right now, we have new information in the search for a serial robber in Orange County. You ve seen this video before, of a suspect wearing a batman costume and robbing several local convenience stores. This morning, deputies released sketches of the suspect. Michelle meredith is live in the this with those new pictures. Michelle this suspect made National News by robbing stores dressed in his batman getup. And this morning sheriff s deputies just released this new composite sketch of the suspect, investigators say these valuable sketches, one with a hearty, one without were made possible for , two reasons. Number one, like batman, and number two, during one robbery where he was wearing a not so dynamic mask, the mask slipped and investigators say one clark briefly saw his face. All batman jokes aside, investigators tell us he is very accomplished, has robbed eight just like batman. The other six, wearing a hoodie and mask. Why the switch . Maybe because he got so much attention from batman. I believe people saw that. It was something that even when national. With all that media attention, change up. The suspect s arms, comes into the store with the gun and he is dangerous. Call crime line at 18004232 tips. Jason some construction workers are back on scene today, at i4 construction sites. All work was shut down on the i4 ultimate project wednesday, after the death of 34yearold marvin franklin. He was run over by a dump truck at a job site near the maitland boulevard exit. The company in charge of the project, sgl constructors, says it is performing a thorough review of all it s safety procedures, before work fully continues. Those safety reviews include on site meetings and a discussion with senior managers about safety protocols in place at each site. Michelle it was quite a scene on International Drive overnight, a car hit a water meter on idrive and water was spewing everywhere. The meter serves the nearby the hotel s water was not disrupted. A trooper tells wesh 2, a 29yearold orlando driver, is being cited for careless driving and driving on a suspended license. It is a comfortably cool get ready for a chilly night. Michelle meteorologist amy sweezey is outside with your lunchtime forecast. Amy it is on the cool side in the lower 60 s. Looking at the villages, still in the middle to upper 50 s. 55 58 in daytona beach, 59 in the villages of leesburg. We are supposed to be warmer than this this time of year. Instead, we are still cool because the cold air continues to pour into her check out our winds. 1015 mile per hour sustained wind. It is breezy but it is not as gusty as yesterday. The breeze will keep bringing in cool air for today. We won t have those gusts up to 30, 35 Miles Per Hour which we were dealing with at a couple of times yesterday. Temperatures make it into the low to mid 60 s. We are about 10 degrees cooler than the average of 76 with northwest wind. 62 is heading to the beach, 65 for the high in orlando. Some of us will have some frost. 70 s will return before the weekend is through. I will have those details of your saturday and sunday in just a few minutes. Michelle we are going to take it in the breaking news center. Jazmin i m Jazmin Walker in the breaking news center. A florida S Appeals Court has upheld the enforcement of a state law, requiring that all women wait 24hours before getting an abortion. That law was previously blocked by a circuit judge in tallahassee. But in a ruling earlier today, the appeals court, made of up a panel of 3judges, said the Circuit Court did not have enough evidence to block it. The waiting period law was passed last year by the florida legislature. And signed into law by governor rick scott. Under the law, women must see a doctor in person 24 hours prior to receiving an abortion. Michelle late breaking this noon, we are learning new details about the country s latest mass shooting. Jason at least four people were killed, 14 others wounded, when a gunman went on a shooting rampage at his kansas workplace. But as sarah plake reports, police say the death toll would be much higher if it weren t for their officers. Workers inside of a rural kansas plant described a chaotic scene. Everyone is running, people were screaming. People were crying. We didn t know what to do. All people running and i am going, i start running, too. When it was over, four people were killed including the gunman. 14 others wounded, five, critically. Witnesses say the suspect who was an employee of the excel industry plant was armed with an assultstyle weapon and a handgun. Police say he shot and wounded three people he encountered on the way to the plant before he went inside and opened fire. He was randomly shooting people. The first officer to arrive immediately engaged the gunman and single handily took him down. The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter. Police say ford was served hours before the shooting. 3 30, we get served, 5 00, we have the first shooting. Officials say this investigation will continue for quite some time. As of now, the community is morning for the tragic loss of life in rural kansas. Jason new at noon, a convicted rapist. Hoping to one day walk free will have to wait for his second chance. Leighdon henry was set to get a new sentence today, but the hearing was rescheduled. Henry was granted that hearing when the Florida Supreme Court ruled sentencing juveniles to life in prison was unconstitutional last year. He was 17 when a judge handed down his life sentence for raping a woman at her metro west apartment. It s unclear why today s sentencing was rescheduled. A new date has not been set. Michelle the man charged with vandalizing a Brevard County mosque is now also charged with committing a hate crime. Police say Michael Wolfe broke into the building on u. S. 1, smashed lights and windows, and even threw bacon on the front steps in december. The state Attorney Says crime tolerated. An Orange County man, charged with stalking members of a family in taft, is out on bond this morning. 48yearold Richard Davison junior is charged with aggravated stalking and criminal mischief. Witnesses say he drove his truck into the victim s chain link fence, then came back tuesday evening and took out part of their carport. Deputies say he also sent the victims threatening text messages. Davison has been ordered to stay away from the victims and their home. Jason idrive s massive makeover is moving forward, this morning, county leaders heard another development proposal, and talked about how to make the tourist district easier to wesh 2 us what s on the horizon. Alex at the 13th and final group, a big announcement from the Orange County planner, a s set to go right here at universal boulevard and destination parkway. Destination shoppes is proposed space, retail and restaurants. Thriving urban environment, plazas, retail, cafe seating in an area where right now it s dominated by the automobiles. Alex the goal, make the idrive tourist district a world destination walkable and livable. One of the premises of making the whole district a live, work, play environment, a complete community is the residential component and it s happening exactly where it needs to happen also in the plans, major road changes, including creating bus lanes and wider sidewalks and removing medians to ease traffic. A circulator shuttle is also set to be tested soon connecting the Convention Center to the rosen, hyatt and hilton hotels. Establishing a Development Code is going to help push along projects that haven t met expectations says the county planner and help take idrive from suburban to urban. Wesh 2 news. Jason this morning, the review group voted to move forward with the vision for idrive the next step, a working session with planning and zoning in april. The county planning manager says he expects to get approval from the board of commissioners in august or september. Michelle republican again. Jason just ahead, see how marco rubio and ted cruz went after donald trump and last night debate. Make sure they knoe we had real people make their own pizzas. They chose the ingredients they wanted. I like the fresh dough. Whats bha . Pim gonna go with the one thatpdoesnt have the acronyms. Pget that one without fillers. What are fillers . You guys just made your pizza the way i make my pizza. Hey no ingredients that you cant pronounce and no artificial flavors. And were proud to announce pour new quality guarantee plove your pizza, or get anotherpone, absolutely free. Pget any large pizza up to 5toppings pfor just 9. 99. Online only. Courts you are watching wesh 2. Michelle democrat and republican candidates for president have their sights set on super tuesday states. Jason 12 states will decide who they want to represent them at the nominee phase of the election year. Edward lawrence reports that last night in texas, the republican candidates all tried to shine in a debate in houston. Edward the debate, contentious. Donald trump was attacked from the right and the left by senators ted cruz and marco rubio. They joined in a tag team to knock trump out of favor with voters. Anyone who really cared about illegal immigration wouldn t be hiring illegal immigrants. Rubio went on an allout attacking not only his immigration ideas but his Health Care Plan among other issues. That is the only part of the collects i thought about the plan. Many different plans good competition. So many different plans. Clerics now he is repeating himself. Edward rubio up his attack telling the today show he would expose the real trump. We are not going to a con artist telling one person spending 40 years sticking it to americans claiming to be the champion. The fighting led to this moment by ben who felt he could not get airtime. Could somebody attack me . Edward let s knights debate set the stage for voters to decide on super tuesday. Donald trump is winning or slightly winning all the polls for texas. Ted cruz is winning in texas. U. S. Congress. Reporting in washington, edward Jason Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders don t have to wait until tuesday to get primary results, voters in South Carolina go to the polls tomorrow to choose their democratic choice for president. Michelle Comedian Bill Cosby has dropped his defamation lawsuit against supermodel beverly johnson. She accused cosby of drugging her in the 1980s. His lawyers say cosby made the move to focus on his defense in a criminal case in pennsylvania. That s where he s charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee at his home in 2004. Cosby s lawyers say they do plan to refile the civil case against johnson before the statute of limitations expire. Johnson hasn t commented on cosby s decision. Jason a controversial new gun range will open its doors today in volusia county. Volusia top gun will have alcohol being served just feet it s located on bellevue avenue volusia top gun was approved by city leaders last summer in a 5 to 1 vote. In place scanning id s to prevent a customer who opts to michelle spacex is now working to figure out a new launch date for its falcon 9 rocket. The second attempt at liftoff was scrubbed last night with just one minute and 40 seconds remaining in the countdown. Flight controllers made the decision after discovering liquid oxygen was flowing into the unmanned rocket. The launch had already been pushed back because of high winds wednesday. Michelle jason that wind is gone, but it is still cool. Better than when we were getting blown down yesterday. Amy yesterday, it was so gusty. We had gusts at 35 Miles Per Hour. Michelle my car was all over the road. It is scary. Amy i4, with all of the construction you can t tell where your lane is, anyway. Glad to get that out of here. It is still breezy today, but it won t be as tough to keep the car on the road. Your hair is not going to blow around quite as much. Temperatures are still cool, like yesterday. Sunshine. Average. Morning than yesterday. We dropped to 39. It was 42 in ocala area 46 was our low in orlando. 44 in melbourne, 43 is where we were at sanford. Now, we have climbed, but not that much. We are in the upper 50 s. It is known in february. We are supposed to be in the mid70 s where highs. Instead, we are sitting in the 50 s and lower 60 s. 61 in orlando. We have a breeze. 5, 10, 15 Miles Per Hour. That is better than the 20, 25 mile per hour sustained wind we were dealing with yesterday. Definitely breezy. Not as gusty as what we had on thursday. Wind is coming out of the northwest. That is ringing in cool air. Despite all the sunshine, temperatures will stay cooler than average. We will top out today, a few degrees warmer than where we are now. Lowtomid 60 s. S will climb a few more degrees into the lower 60 s. 65 this afternoon in orlando and sanford. 64 in titusville. 66 is where we are heading in melbourne. The Central Florida fair is underway starting yesterday. The gates open yesterday this afternoon at 4 00. If you re heading out, it will be nice, breezy at four. Once we get past sunset and six on 22, those temperatures are going to drop off quickly this evening and after dark, we will be down in the 50 s. With a little bit of a breeze lasting up until about midnight is one it is going to be chilly tonight after dark. Tomorrow morning, check it out. Even though our winds will come down, but how much colder it is going to be saturday morning. We will drop to close to freezing in marion county. Coast. 39, daytona beach. I anticipate frost in these colder areas, 40 in orlando even colder than this morning. During the day tomorrow, and temperatures will climb. We will get lots of sunshine and be a little warmer tomorrow afternoon then we are today. Check out sunday. Lower 70 afternoon. S, near 80 four early next week. Jason, michelle. Jason an amazing rescue in texas was caught on camera. Michelle a Police Officer pulled a driver from a burning car. Monday, the driver of this suv crashed into a guardrail in Corpus Christi and the car burst into flames. The officer smashed the passenger side window with his baton opened the door and, with , the help of another person, pulled the 29yearold driver out. The driver suffered minor injuries. Orange county fire rescue is now a little more prepared after practicing their lifesaving skills on a very tall observation wheel. Several team leaders are in las vegas practicing on the 550foot tall high roller observation wheel. This is all thanks to a partnership the Fire Rescue Team kicked off with the orlando eye but if something catastrophic worked and all the backups in if they all felt, this is how we would bring people down to the ground in an extreme emergency. Michelle members of the department S Special Operations team specialize in rope rescues and confined space rescues. The Orlando Magic were not able to beat the nba s best, the Golden State Warriors last night. Jason but they did come away with one highlight that has everyone talking. Check this out, aaron gordon brought back his slam dunk contest magic, all the way from the free throw line. That was cool. This was in the 3rd quarter, and it tied up the game. But the warriors were just too much. Steph curry hit a 3 for the 128th straight game, that s an nba record. Golden state won big. Tonight, the magic are in new york to face the struggling knicks they ve lost 9 of 10. Michelle hollywood s biggest night is just two days away, the oscars will be awarded this sunday, and Vice President biden will be part of the festivities, he will introduce lady gaga S Performance of her oscar to you. The song is from the documentary, the hunting ground, which is about rape on a college campus. The Vice President will use his time on stage to call americans to recognize the epidemic of

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