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WFTV Eyewitness News 4 February 26, 2016

If other people with their lives and in their heads, im thankful hes okay. Im sure it hurts. Reporter we do know that police got an opportunity to talk to the driver of that van and it appears he was adamant he did not strike the child but thought he may have hit something in the area. This is not the first time we have talked to today shaun hill. This is the first traumatic experiences have. Ive been getting digging through archives for more on that but i can tell you this kid is a survivor. More on that on Eyewitness News at 5. Life and titusville, melonie holt, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Following breaking news this afternoon, 2p two more cases of zika reported in florida. One case of Broward County and another miamidade. The total number of cases in florida stands at 37. Officials say only for people are experiencing symptoms and all patients became infected outside the country meaning local population yet. We told you this week three of the people affected with zika in florida were pregnant. Now six other pregnant women nationwide are also infected with the virus that one of the biggest dangers of zika is a severe birth defects it can cause. Of the nine confirmed cases in pregnant women, three babies have been born, one had a birth defect. Two and in miscarriages, two in abortions and two continuing without publications. Remember, find everything you need to know on our website had to wftv. Com and click on the news tab and then zika virus. You probably want to grab it jacket before venturing out since temperatures are going to drop into the 40s and even 30s and some spots. Certified chief meteorologist tom terry in Severe Weather center 9 with who will feel the cool down. We will have the usual North Western zones the coldest but the one show will make us feel chilly tonight and if you step out the door you may area. This is mainly smoke particles and we will see some rather breezy, smoky conditions tonight. The north north west wind at 9 miles an hour in deltona. Temperatures in the low 60s and 57 in new smyrna. With the winds factoring in tonight, its going to be colder. Windsor park tonight, evening, friday evening, 42 degrees early in the morning, marion county, well into the 30s including 38 in ocala, 38 in such a but a windchill of 32 and if you will be out late, 2 am, for night owls, 39 the windchill and ocala, 41 in stamford. I will update the actual overnight temperatures and defrost could be a problem late tonight straight ahead. In the final debate before super tuesday, candidates are supposed to tackle key issues. The three leading republicans spent the night arguing and yelling at each other. Christopher heath dead alive Facebook Chat during the debate is this an indication of what we can expect over the next three days . Reporter its hard to see how it comes down after trumpeted rubio of being a joke artist and accused him of being a liar. The finding moment taking down marco rubio back in New Hampshire jumped back into the freight. Everything is bigger in texas. This guy is a choke artist and the skies alive. Reporter fighting for the nomination no different on the university of of the houston captain. Campus. Anytime anybody. Reporter odonnell records record, donald yells liar. Reporter knowledge of taking shots from ted cruz and marco rubio. After the debate, downplaying the barrage of attacks. Politicians wanted to get elected by doing badly. Reporter immigration dominated the night with candidates discussing walls and deportations. A new poll shows marco rubio trailing trump by 20 points in florida which votes in just two weeks. Came out swinging at trump but was also forced to explain why he voted against helping puerto rico. As he was territory faces crippling debt. I think the leadership on the island has to show their willingness to get their house in order and put in place measures that allow the economy there to grogan. Reporter rubio, trump, crews dominating the night ohio governor. John kasich and doctor ben carson were given few opportunities with carson at one point lamenting that he wished somebody would attack them just so he could talk. As i mentioned, the other Big Development today was the endorsement by new jersey governor. Chris christie. He is backing donald trump. You may remember Chris Christie campaigned for governor rick scott in 2014. Scott has been suggested as a possible Vice President pick for trump. Gray, vanessa. Two weeks appearing wrapping up in jacksonville regarding a cargo ship that sank during hurricane joaquin. The Us Coast Guard Investigative Panel her testimony before the two dozen witnesses to discuss the condition of the aging el faro ship. Calling an emergency as the ship approached the hurt and. The second round of hearings with the National Transportation safety board is planned for the summer. Workers for the i 4 ultimate project are receiving training on safety procedures following the death of construction workers this week. Sky witness 9 flew over the construction site earlier today, it was quiet. We told you construction on the multimillion dollar project stopped when a dump truck seeing her backed over a worker wednesday. We are still waiting to find out when construction will resume on the 21 mile project. Women will have to wait 24 hours before having an abortion in florida. Appeals court lifted a temporary hold on the waiting period. Michael lopardi reviewed the courts decision. What convinced the judge is to do this today . Reporter project court was not satisfied with the reason for the delay. Lawmakers approved a waiting period the last summer but aclu almost immediate as the judge to put a hold on it and the Appeals Court removed the hold. Judge did not have enough evidence to put a hold on the waiting period. Supporters of the controversial measure say gives woman time to reflect on the procedure. It is unique that in one appointment, woman will have a pregnancy test done, find out shes pregnant, and be able to terminate the pregnancy. Reporter opponents say the law creates an unnecessary burden on women by forcing them to go to the clinic twice. It is a law that will harm more than it will harm the rich but it will harm everybody. Reporter aclu taking the state to court in july and attained a temporary injunction which the Appeals Court listed today. In a statement from the aclu called the courts decision disappointing is that is evaluating its next steps. Atty. Gen. Pam bondi says she is pleased the court agreed with the state and allow the law to take effect. Attorney and wftv legal analyst bill schafer. The status of the law right now means a woman has to wait can get that abortion gets roughly half of the states require some sort of waiting period before an abortion. Florida already required doctors to explain the risks of the procedure before taking part. The courts decision today surrounds the delay of the law but does not rule on the law itself. Meaning the legal fight is far from over and we are looking at the next steps coming up of the story at 5 00. Michael lopardi, channel 9 Eyewitness News. The controversial pastor protection act has made it through both subcommittees and the house and senate. That means the proposal which will allow pastors to refuse marriage ceremonies without threat of legal action is ready to be heard by the full legislature. The house is scheduled to hear the bell tuesday, advocacy groups are pushing lawmakers to vote against it. This bill is a dangerous and divisive vehicle for even worse antilgbt determination and we hope while the bill is temporarily postponed, we are able to continue meeting with concerns about how this bill could move for that and in the wrong direction. There are two weeks left in the 2016 legislative session. A little more than one week away from the Season Opener for Orlando City Soccer. The team says it is getting close to filling though citrus bowl. Yesterday we flew over the site of what will be the new Orlando City Soccer stadium. You can see some of the wall starting to take shape. Money, but he will actually hold a ceremony to commemorate the start of the installation of the steel infrastructure. We will be there. Right now it is the citrus bowl that orlando city hopes to be able to fill march 6. So far, more than 43,000 tickets have been sold. The team also had the big media day today. It will be before the home opener. Christian bruey tweeted photos of kaka at the podium and team founder and president phil rawlins talking about ticket sales. Nancy alvarez was also there talking with some players. Remember, several of orlando citys awakens will be airing on our sister station Central Floridas tv 27. Fitting it. Orange county deputies with the same man is behind a dozen Armed Robbers. Deputies that he was wearing a batman mask. Coming up, what investigators are doing to stop this serial burglar for good. One veteran got caught in an endless loop of automated phone menus try to make an appointment with the ba. And it was so bad the video he made of it went viral. If you need assistance at any time during the call. What one lawmaker is now pushing to make sure this does not happen again. Several titusville kindergartners were sent home because of lice you want your child to go to school and are not worry about getting kicked out because you got something in your hair. Next, why something the bug is even harder to deal with now than when we were kids. Season. Taking control of your health isnt easy. But cigna is there for you. Literally. Just download our free coach by cigna app. For personalized programs from a team of Health Coaches to help you achieve your wellness goals. Cigna. This next story might make your head itch just a little bit when you talk about or think about it. When you send your children to school, one of the last things you want to get a phone call or note about is that they are being sent home because of lice. Last summer we heard about a bug called super lice hitting schools across country including florida. The bug is seemingly immune to treatments and we learned it is now been found its way into some titusville elementary schools. Angela jacobs as officials about the problem but they tell you they think they havent on the control. Reporter they do. In just a few days, School Officials contacted parents of kids who were found with live lice at the school and others in the county to try to keep it from coming back to which is dog can do. Bob can do. Head lice, schools are buckling down to handle the latest model. Lice mutated specifically to those chemicals basically they have been used so much that it does not work anymore. Jennifer berman with lice doctors, nation wide Removal Service that says the breed is so strong it is immune to over thecounter remedies. We heard from parents on facebook this week, worried about cases of life at imperial states elementary and other routt county suspect officials show us this letter sent monday from the assistant superintendent to parents reiterating policy regarding kids with lice. Via email, this will confirm the existence of recent cases at imperial which did not surprise them. It stressed whole family treatment. Its all or nothing. If you do it half way, they will come back. Reporter for paris, getting challenge but the necessity in school. Brevard county elementary and secondary campuses have known that houses. Parents, guardians must submit a form and have a child clear rechecked before coming back. I heard back from the cdc today that confirmed having lice is not a Health Hazard because the bugs do not carry a disease but they are of course a nuisance and coming up at 5 00 we will tell you why they are so hard and continue to get harder to knock them out. Live in titusville, angela jacobs, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Word your child will come home from will with lice, we posted this infographics at wftv. Com on our facebook page, share it with other parents to help keep everyones family lice free. To manatees back in their natural habitats. We were there to witness them being returned back to the wild. Officials say the waters are warmer even with a qualified but they will put trackers on the manatees to make sure they do not wander into the freezing waters. It allows us to do medical assessments, check on animals and track where they will go. Make sure they are going where they should be at this time. Rescue teams say they are hoping it will be easier for the manatees to find while manatees to swim but since they will be looking for warmer waters. If you want to see more of them released into Brevard County or return to Brevard County, return to wftv. Com slideshows. Always cool to see them do that. Im trying to warm things up. Not getting too hot to fast. Winds get you. Very dry now. A good day for hairstyles. Smoke in the distance from a 1600 acre plus or minus controlled burn yourself what apopka. 64 degrees downtown, winds dying down temporarily take a look at radar, smoke originating here and that is all smoke particles headed out for 41, 429. If you are there and see or smell smoke, thats where its coming from. Dry air makes for high fire danger is across the area. Thats why we have controlled burns. We learned from the wildfires in 1998 which were all over the place. We had an entire county evacuation in flagler county. It was a crazy year. Right now low humidity and the breeze is up a bit tonight. Temperatures pleasant. 1012 degrees below seasonal average for example, first rate, french avenue, nice temperatures falling into the lower 40s. A pleasant evening on the brisk side up around the estates in a good time for a trip there. Winter garden, lower 40s by 6 00 in the morning. Elsewhere Winter Springs 30, Altamonte Springs 43. And in the Sweetwater Club area, longwood over lower 40s and getting to 30s from clermont to the villages, ocala, 34, 38 deland, again the breeze will factor in and this is what the windchill, cold, was a sinner, 3738 was aired mid30s leesburg, upper 20s briefly if you get a wind gust in ocala. Almost march and we are starting to run out of these cold, by our standards, winter mornings. You have cool, dry air filtering through its not just dry air we have a trough of low pressure swimming sweeping by the base of the trough and you can see this dry air moving east to west and that is a secondary search of cool, dry air and it will continue to keep us cool and to stop the upcoming weekend, but good luck getting rainfall. Anywhere near the state this weekend. Walltowall sunshine from outdoor, temperatures in the mid60s for you tomorrow. 59 degrees at 6 00, rip currents. A long time without rip current inches issues. Cool, nice beach we can in a while. 67 for orlando, for tomorrow, 67 leesburg, how about 62 and palm coast. We have another storm system where we talk more about coming up in the next half hour and it will prompt us to bring more rain to the middle part of next week. A prolonged period of dry weather taking us through early next week as well. Fiveday forecast, where the weekend is always in view. 67 for tomorrow, back into the mid70s on sunday. How about 80 again. Just like that on tuesday. Great weekend, lots of events icflorida. Com. Port canaveral music fest now to sunday and a lot. Chance of rain and maybe frost a Major Airline refused a ticket refund request after a womans suddendeath. I was frustrated. It was suggested for me to go to action 9 shows you when the challenge denials from airlines. Another mass shooting of the us, this time in kansas. What investigators think set off the suspect and the crimes he was once accused of here in florida. Although at five, along a busy there has to be a way. Carry the centimeter, divide by 3. 14 something something something. [ beeping, whirring ] great caesar salad and now the name your price tool shows people policy options to help fit their budget. Is that a true story . Yeah people really do save an average of over 500 when they switch. I mean about you inventing it. I invented the story, and isnt that what really matters . So. The nation is reeling from another moment mass shooting. This time in kansas where a man opened fire on innocent drivers and coworkers at a plant. Martie salt has been following the story. Records show cedric ford was no stranger to Law Enforcement in south florida. Over the last decade, cedric for it was arrested for burglary, grand theft, and fleeing from an officer in different parts of south water. This time it appears industry protection order may have been what set him off mystery protection order. Investigators getting closer to what understand yet this time, in kansas. The gun was strapped to him and he was ready to go next the gunmen identified as 38year old said larry ford was served with a protection order at work less than two hours before his rampage yesterday. Officials say he opened fire from his car on other drivers, wounding two in separate locations. Then he drove to his workplace, excel industries and has been, kansas, armed with an Assault Rifle and handgun. Shooter then takes that victims car, travels on up here to where excel is. Investigators say he shot one person in the parking lot of the industrial plant before going inside. Everyone is trying to get out of the shooting. Rico three people killed, 14 of his interest before a deputy took 4. The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter. Nearly 150 employees escaped the building, surrounded by ambulances and s. W. A. T. Friends anxiously waiting outside. Oh, my god. I finally got to see him. I was just i did not want to let him go. Forge coworkers say he was a mellow guy and easy to talk to but others say he was a hard guy to get to know. I am really quite a did not say much. Reporter investigators say the protection order came from somebody who did not work with ford that they did not elaborate further. Of the 10 injured, only one is in critical condition. Everyone else is expected to reco

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