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WFTV Eyewitness News 4 January 22, 2016

Family once again asked whoever holds the clue to her disappearance to please come forward. They say thousands of tips have come in in the past 10 years. Reporter will we spoke to jennifers parents here in orlando, police headquarters, her father said at most he believe there must be more than one person who knows exactly what happened to jennifer and even after all of this time, no matter what happened, he wants them to come forward. 10 years and still no answers. We are still waiting for that one person to come through with the one. Of information that could bring jennifer home. Reporter drew and joyce kesse joined Orlando Police investigators today to talk about their daughter jennifer. 10 years ago this sunday Jennifer Kesse vanished. She got ready at her condo near the mall of millennia and left for work a couple of days later, car was found in a nearby condo complex. Family on tuesday, january 24, 2006 versus the more than 100 investigators have looked at this case. Orlando police, the f. B. I. And an fdle panel of experts and homicide and missing persons cases. The family says more than 1000 tips have poured in over the past decade and none of them has panned out. Searches have been done as recently as last month it digital billboards with her photo went up again yesterday and now investigators say they are resubmitting evidence taken from jennifers car to have it reexamined by the fdle lab. Investigators and the family are hoping new technology and advances in dna examination will hold the clue that could one day solve the case. We cannot quit. We have unconditional love for jennifer. We will not go anywhere. We cannot go anywhere. Reporter and you can see the flyer, missing since 2006 they hope flyers like this and someones memory or even prompt someone who knows something about this to come forward and help them find out what happened to Jennifer Kesse. Live outside Orlando Police headquarters downtown, jeff deal, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We all feel for the family. Parents have been through a lot. If you would like to hear what else was said in the News Conference today we have posted all of that for you find it on wftv. Com slash videos. Today is jury acquitted of former pedicab driver accused of raping a woman riding in his pedicab daytona bush arrested George Brainard 2014 during speed week at the time investigators say he took advantage of a woman who they say was very intoxicated at the time. Brainard denied allegations in today a jury found him not guilty. This afternoon were looking into a case where an orlando teenagers that she was terrified to see a man looking at her through her bedroom window. It happened last night in audubon park. Police say that peeping tom was dominic race, 22yearold who appeared before a judge today. Now he apparently told police to prowl around other peoples property. We are looking into that part of the story for Eyewitness News at 5. This afternoon new records from sanford show the pitbull connected to that brutal apartment attack were not properly taken care of. On tuesday, 2 women were badly injuried went a pack a pitbull attack them inside their own apartment. One woman remains in Critical Condition today. The new paperwork shows there was another attack in december involving some of the same people. At that time, Animal Services says a Police Officer but the owner of those dogs, sean pitts in handcuffs and told pits he needed to get of the dogs are be arrested for animal cruelty. The dogs were eventually returned to him and ultimately see what happened. A hitandrun driver who left a young boy lying in the road in cocoa beach will not spend the next decade behind bars. We told you Michelle Simkins was accused and convicted of leaving the scene of that 2014 new years eve crash. Channel nines melanie holt talked with the family today to reporter today, Michelle Simkins offered an apology for this. I want to say im sorry that everybody that was affected through all this. Reporter she told police she was high when she struck and injured event 12yearold Thomas Gregory as he played in front of his mama boulevard cocoa each home on new years eve 2014. Witnesses watched as she sped off, leaving the boy behind. Now she will serve a 10 year sentence plus, leaving the boy behind. Now she will serve a 10 year sentence 5 years probation. There are lots of times when i think about her and she must be feeling. Now i think the reality of all of this finally hit her. Reporter Thomas Gregory who suffered 2 broken like, a bruised lung and kidney damage is now recovering still recovering from his injuries. Im not full strength yet but i am running faster and jumping higher and getting better. Reporter gregory tells me hes pleased with simkins sentence. The defendants mother called it fair. It hurts me to know that she is going to be gone and that her daughter is not going to but on the other hand, this is going to be the best thing for her. Because the next option i knew i would be putting her in a morgue and i did not want to reach that point works melanie holt, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Simkins still has 2 open cases related to fleeing and eluding. Those arrest happened when simkins was out on bond for the hitandrun. People in one titusville mens neighborhood are wondering who is behind a drive by shooting that left their homes and cars riddled with bullet holes. It happened at 5 am park avenue. No word on whether anyone was hurt but we spotted several bullet holes on the neighborhood. Like that one there. Neighbors say they heard several shots fired. It is a scary feeling to know that there are people deciding to randomly shoot guns and houses and cars karst. We reached out for more but no word on any leads or possible suspects. Farther south and rockledge, Police Arrested a couple of men they say let officers on a case following a home invasion. Suspects to guns and cash from people at a home on bridal lane and jumped into a car, driving like it when an officer tried to pull them over, they took off and ended up crashing near the brevard zoo. Both of the suspect tried to run away but they were caught. Right now final touches are being made on the deal that could get raises to many who schools. A new contract has been in the works with the district and the local 1010 union. If approved, support staff in the schools will get the same percentage of pay increase as teachers the contract will not be finalized until employees february 23. We will let you know what job market grows and orlando gained more than 35,000 new jobs. New numbers saw in december claim the state gained more than 230,000 jobs in 2015. Also Seminole County december Unemployment Rate dropped to 4. 1 percent from under 5 percent the year before. Lake countys dipped to 4. 6 percent from 5. 5. A bizarre uber uber attack recorded is being say things got early early sunday morning when on julie ramkissoon commended the driver drive her instead of another customer that he was picking up and the 4th year neurology medical resident was so belligerent the driver called for help. Can you call 911 please . Yes, call 911. When he refused him a he she needed him and he pushed her. The video shows are getting into the car and throwing things at the driver and screaming for him to get him. When he didnt she tossed papers out of the window. A much different image than this picture of her in her doctors lab coat. Jackson health has since taken it off of its website when they heard what she said on that same video. Im a 5 foot girl, i weigh 100 pounds. Im getting really, like, belligerent right now. For a the attack by her job put on administrative leave while they investigate. We now have Surveillance Video of the people polk county deputy say were getting Food Assistance that if its and using other peoples identities to do it. This video shows some of the suspects checking out the purchases investigate a sake 11 people in total are now facing fraud charges. Deputies say 7 of them were already receiving food stamps under their own names. We are told one of the suspects even dolby identity of davenports police chief and rack up 550,000 a fraudulent ebt purposes this afternoon searching for the person who shot a man at an apartment complex next to the ucf campus. Investigators say the man was shot at the marquis apartment complex oesterle university lane late last night that the victim is expected to recover. This afternoon the man accused of a double shooting in sanford is at the Seminole County jail on no bond. Investigators say tonney mccants turned himself in yesterday for the shooting and killing of marquise group. Mellonville avenue wednesday night. Police they mccance also shot a woman in the hand and investigators have not released any details about a motive. A u. S. Navy seals death at the sky live skydive the facility is probably take us or Service Members who joined effort a year ago, William Marston was killed during what the navy refers to as a freefall training and deland. 45 page report released to channel 9 through a freedom of information act requests explained marston likely passed out and never open the main shoot. The navy is reviewing its training policies and procedures to try to make the training safer. State troopers now say it dump truck driver failed to lower the bed of his truck so he hidden overpass along i95 in Volusia County. This was the scene near the exit for the Daytona Beach International Airport last night. That driver was hospitalized but will be okay because it was a lesson on racism that something county pairs they went too far in a first grade class. She divided the students by what happened with students that did not have blue eyes that upset some parents. This mess but the night in jail accused of running a red light and slamming into a trooper. Why this was not this troopers first close call. We are grateful we are not up to the north dealing with this winter storm but it will bring down the coldest air so far this winter. Lots to talk about as you plan your weekend. Did based on the storms on the tail end of the system. Look at this live picture, blizzard like conditions parts of the northeast this weekend. That is the white house which you like being picture perfect. You should want your banking to be too. Stop into td bank and well help set you up with picture perfect banking. 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Blanketing North Carolina where the panthers are practicing for the nfc championship game, still scheduled for sunday. And in louisville, kentucky, a rare treat. 5 sledding hills in our parks are up and running if you want to get out and burn off some energy. Reporter the 4 of the wintry fun concern with 70 million americans in the path of extreme weather. The storm making his way north 95 at least 2 more deaths from road accidents in North Carolina. And the Nations Capital is in a lockdown. We have a forecast that i do not think we have had in 90 years. Drivers asked to stay off of the roads. The dc Metro Transportation system will be closed. By 3 00 today you need to be where you are going to be throughout the storm. Reporter of 2 throughout the storm. Reporter of 230 inches of snow predicted here, 50 mile an shelves reflect concern. In new york, 1800 snowplows at the ready. Stay off the roads. They will not only be snow filled and slippery, there could be whiteout conditions literally meaning the driver cannot see what is happening in front of them. Reporter extreme conditions facing coastal communities. Delaware jersey beaches, passes hurricane sandy. Reporter set nasa satellite the hour. In washington lana zak abc news and philadelphia will be under a blizzard warning within the next few hours big new york city goes under its own morning starting tomorrow morning. Severe weather across the country is forcing airlines to cancel more than 4000 flights for today. And tomorrow. We checked at oia and more than 70 flights have already being canceled and dozens more have been delayed. Most of them were headed or arriving from washington, baltimore and the new york area this is important to check the status of us flight for yourself or family log onto wftv. Com slash flight tracker. Wftv will be contacting about slight flights next week could be aware during Winter Weather. Was in Central Florida investment of stormy david i95 looked like this and Daytona Beach before new time. I drove through this for drivers in Volusia County were facing slick roadways and this very soggy afternoon. Drivers will want to be careful in lake county weather has been more heavy rain fall. You can see gray skies along the area. Keep on your headlights when youd dry through pick this wet weather is blown through but at times it was rough. In my vehicle today it showed me Tornado Warning that was issued. I was driving home from the hospital. It came up on the navigation system. It scared me. And your weather a lot alert went off. It did. Whether you are in the northeast or the blizzard warning is talking to on your phone, your wftv weather and go. It worked perfectly today. Im sure we have blizzard warning apps going on up in snow will get heavier and heavier right now downtown orlando, we had the rain move by and the sunshine has moved through as well. The cold front is now moving right through Central Florida. We will start to move toward the coast shortly. Daytona has good rain earlier today. A tornado indicated by Doppler Radar no damage around New Smyrna Beach before noon today. Temperatures 69 degrees. This is as warm as we will get for a couple of days, folks. If you like it warmer, now is your time time. Cold front moving through. Tracking rain fall along the southeastern coast. Hit or miss shower tonight but more organized rainfall, this is the last grasp. Squally weather, gusty winds over 30 miles an hour moving along with it down toward there for bay and sebastian. And you better believe, if we get storm of this caliber to the north it is going to yank down cool air down toward south florida. The bahamas will also be cooling down this weekend. The north, heavy snow norfolk, washington dc, thats what we have the picture. New york is next on the list. Know what all of the flights are canceled and will be have more cancellations this weekend. Tonight getting colder. Not the coldest night. That will be tomorrow night. 45 orlando, that will be around 7 30 am. 43 deadline, 46 sanford but it is not just the temperature that the wind chill and look at tomorrow, folks. This is not an overnight low. These are the highs tomorrow. Fortier palm coast, 49 the villages. We will manage 5254 near orlando. That will be the high and we will spend most of the day in the 40s and that means it will get really cold here heading toward saturday night. This is the only freeze watch we have saturday night. Northern zones i think we will add more counties to this because by sunday morning, the coldest night of the season so far, light freeze possible outside Metro Orlando including lake mary, Daytona Beach, palm coast, deland you can see most of the area in fact all of the area even cocoa beach could get down into the 30s. That is called. Fiveday forecast, where the weekend is always in view. Temperatures hold in the middle to lower 50s for tomorrow. We have a cold start on sunday. Then we have a nice warm up and guess what . Another el nio storm system, greg come on the map for the middle part of next week. A lot more to talk about sea level 30. Investigators in lake county are now try to determine whether some accused of these stole belongings for more than just one person. Police say a leesburg man says he came home to find the man and woman you see on your screen loading his belongings into a uhaul van. Police say he then chase the couple who fled until lake county deputies got involved and eventually corralled them. Investigators are working to determine if any of the stuff in the uhaul belonged to anybody else out there we gone the owner of a dilapidated lake county plant dangerous fire was still to fix the place up. Months ago. What took so long to get something done about it . 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