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Instead the child was left alone unharmed. Police got in contact with her by cell phone. And she told them where she was. Police dont have much to go on in this case but we will give you what they do have. They are looking for a black male with gold teeth, a mohawk and he was last seen wearing a black tshirt and capri jeans. We will let you know when they track him down. Blaine tolison, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Right now i4 east in Volusia County is experiencing some huge delays after motorcyclist was hit by a semi. He was riding with three other bikers when one of them dropped something and that person stopped and crossed into traffic to pick it up and thats when he was hit. It happened before 2 00 in the lake helen area. Are concerns about skimming devices and why criminals are targeting gas stations now. When you go to the gas station you will find a machine with this kind of reader that you swipe your car and eventually the gas stations will have to get more secure readers that read an embedded chip. Until then the these are trying to steal as many as credit card numbers as they can. With the swipe of a car your credit card can hand up into the wrong hands. It shut my bank account for two months. He believes it was stolen, the information last year at the shell station. The same where a skimmer was discovered. The numbers are stolen and sold to someone else. Gas station in orlando. Zack says the port sane john neighborhood facebook blew up with people warning about a possible skimming device. Deputies believe they are hitting the gas stations hard because they will be the last to get the upgraded readers and the crooks want to cash in now. We dont know how many victims had their information captured on the skimming device on this pump but this is a fairly gas station with cars in and out the day. Brevard county jeff deal, Eyewitness News. Gas stations are supposed to upgrade by 2017. In Brevard County that is not the only county that has a seen a spike in this. There were several in osceola county. We saw a kissimmee officer owner gas pump in the city in an effort to keep customers safe and they told us they plan as of today florida has a new law that changes the way convicted felons are sentenced to death. It gives juries more power and makes them the ultimate dives. Jorge estevez has been following the story since lawmakers pass the law. This ultimately changes a judges role during Death Penalty cases. Reporter before a judge only recommended wetted the person should be put to death and the judge made the final decision. Now it is up to a jury and only ten need to agree, not the full 12 leaving them with a lot of power. The new law requires at least ten of the 12 jurors to recommend a death sentence and scratch the current language saying that judges notwithstanding the recommendation of a majority of the jury can determine the final sentence. The Death Penalty is a solemn duty of the governor. Governor scott signed the law after Supreme Court struck down the current statute as state allows judges rather than juries to make that call. I think about the families. A lot of families have reached out to me. They want closure. Prior to today, a jury had less power. The only thing you got from the jury was a vote that recommended death or life imprisonment. But now the former chief judge perry that is the legal analyst says the new law changes that and diminishes the judges role in deciding life or death. So this law applies to cases forward, right . But there is uncertainty, will this apply to the 400 florida death cases pending decided prior. We will have more on that story at 5 00. This afternoon state Health Officials say there are two new cases of the zika virus here in florida. The cases were reported in miamidade. That includes four pregnant the location of those women have not been announced. Today the governor announced Fidelity Information Services is expanding and creating 250 new jobs in jacksonville. Its one of the world leading financial firms. Governor scott says the tax cuts create the right climate for job growth. With the florida primary 8 days away senator marco rubio is making his way across the Sunshine State hoping to win over the undecided voters. He is in tampa right now and marco rubio will make his way to Central Florida for a rally in Central Florida. He was urged to drop out of the race following a poor showing in primaries and caucuses but ty russell spoke with marco rubio and he says that he is not going anywhere. Reporter and greg he still has plans to come to Central Florida and speak. This airport hangar in sanford. Now two hours ago marco rubio tweeted supporters will hear solutions but one of his opponents unleashed a war of wars. And donald trump worth marco rubio is scalping florida and he is a light weight and dishonest. This past saturday marco rubio failed to win any states during primary voting. Marco rubio has 151 delegates. He needs nearly 1100 more to clench the nomination. But after a poor showing for marco rubio saturday. Trump called him to jump up but marco rubio won puerto rico and he hopes that will boost him in florida. He says he is not leaving the race. It is part of the game that people play. The bottom line is i have as good of a chance as anybody else in this race. Rubio about allegations that he is a no show in senate. Now coming up at five. Why marco rubio says that is not true. Live in sanford, ty russell. If you are not able to watch marco rubios speech we will post it on wftv. Com. Republicans fighting defendants are trying everything to derail the front runtedder including airing ads targeting trump university. Ads have started to pop up. We are asking analysts what type of effect it could have. Federal lawmakers are turning their attention to the heroin epidemic. Attackalling opiates and heroin misuse. Here in Orange County we have been telling you about the efforts from the Sheriffs Office. They are equipped with an anecdote to confront the judge. Last year 82 people died from overdoses. Heroin doses are supposed to increase next year. Police are waiting to the extradition of a who took off with her child forcing officials to issue an amber alert. Logan hernandez was located. She took off despite not having custody. Charges against her are pending. Thousands of drivers had to find a new way to get to work now that garland avenue is closed. Here is a live look. We told you garland avenue would be shut down between colonial andom avenue part of it will be closed for year. Bridges will be built to the improved i4. Investigators say a convicted felon opened fire on a car with children inside. That sounds like a mad man out on our streets. Why investigators believe the family wasnt the real target. New for four. Drivers were caught off guard by bills from the Central Florida Expressway Authority. The changes could increase the tolls if your account is not updated. The one signature that could be a difference between breaking ground and heading back to the drawing board. I am looking into some of the forecast. Eyewitness news at four. Coverage you can count on. The future of the new ucf campus in downtown orlando understand the hands of Governor Scott. Lawmakers approved a plan to set aside 20 million but the governor has denied the request once before. We spoke to the governor and Angela Jacobs reports he didnt give hints as to what he plans to do this time. On paper it looks like everything could be falling in line for the proposed downtown campus here but the man that has the final say, the governor that vetoed the plan is not showing his cards. It will still be a wait to find out whether this Million Dollar plan becomes reality for a downtown ucf campus. Lawmakers must sign off on a proposed state budget setting aside 20 milliondollars to the project jet. We caught up with Governor Scott in jacksonville and he will have i know it has gone through the board of governors meeting. Scott vetoed a plan last year but when there was a less expensive version and relying on more on private money and after lawmakers suggested that budget, University Leaders showed their gratitude when they said we are thankful for the legislative support for u c f downtown where Governor Scott stands on the issue is still anybodys guess. If and when ucf downtown campus gets that final stamp of approval from the governor, the university hopes to Start Construction here in 2018. Reporting in orlando, Angela Jacobs. Channel the news. We reached out to mayor dires office for anything but have not heard back yet. Storms fueled once again by el nio have brought deadly weather to parts of california two drivers died in sacramento after being caught in rising floodwaters. Heavy rain and strong winds downed power lines that blocked the records and damaged homes. The el nio storms have led to landslides that left some homes, look at this and condos and apartments on the edge of a cliff, wow. Dont look down. So far the 50th annual bike week is no fatal crashes. Florida Highway Patrol says it has been safe this year. Troopers say there were no fatal crashes. We are monitoring one crash that happened along i4 in Volusia County. But that appears to be a motorcyclist that got off the bike. They remain cautiously optimistic. There are thousands of bikers in and around Daytona Beach. Be careful, they are everywhere. It is start of the spring break season and here is a live look at Daytona Beach and you can see from the flags it is pretty breezy out there right now. The National Weather service says there was an extreme rip water temperatures are cold so you may not want to go in. Rescue urges anyone to venture out in the water to be cautious and swim near a life guard tower. But abundant sunshine. We have a lot of the visitors from out of state and they may go in the water. So thats an alert for them. Its our version of the polar plunge. Breezy but check it out. Down orlando high serous clouds and temperatures are in the low to mid70s depending on your location. 75 in orlando, kissimmee, st. Cloud and sanford and 71 in Daytona Beach. If you are in ocala. 79 degrees. Some of the warmest weather is in the inland here. Sumpter, lake and marion counties. All near 80s. Now if you are wondering the warmest we have been in orlando is 84 but by thursday im going for 86. Air this year be by the end of the week. Mid 60s by ten p. M. In the 60s for most of the night. But in ocala things will be cooler. Notice we will drop in the 50s after ten p. M. And in palm bay and melbourne will be more mild. Temperatures will bottom out in the low to mid 60s by morning. Pick out your location on the map. This is what the temperature will be right before sunrise. 56 in Daytona Beach and palm coast. And deltona around 57. Tomorrow a little warmer. Many of us will hit 80s. You are most likely to hit that if you are west or south of orlando. But many neighborhoods within the metro will hit that. Daytona beach and New Smyrna Beach 74 and at cocoa beach, 75 will be the high temperatures. And it only gets warmer from we are at 86 and friday 86 and saturday we will stay warm through next weekend as we wait for our next front. Here is the setup. You see the high, that high is sinking air. Has air sinks it warms and dry and difficult to get rain in that pattern so we are stuck without rain through friday. The southeast wind will warm us up. The next front behind me and it will approach on saturday and sunday. The timing of the front is up on the air. So it looks like saturday or for a quick round of showers and thunder. I dont think we will get rain on both days. A reminder on saturday night you lose an hour of weekend. This will be the shortest weekend of the year you can say clocks ahead saturday night. All right. This week if you are going to the beaches, dangerous rip and they are headed towards the beaches, give them the heads up if they plunge in the cool water. It will be choppy as well. Here is the fiveday forecast. There it is, the warmup and dry weather all the way through friday. And we will get a little windier and the 30 chance for rain on saturday and sunday and temperatures will stay warm. The icon on fridays forecast. The next orlando city again. Osceola county commissioners are expected to review tougher rules for which organizations receive county grants. Coming up, why one commissioners says the rules are not strict enough. A measure to increase security could end up costing you on at the tolls. Coming up, the information you need to update to make sure you wont be over charged. The man winterpark police knew he had hiv and had sex you will want to make sure your e pass is uptodate. Expressway authority would let you know when your account is low. Drivers. So when i went through sun refilling like i expected. In early january kevin hall mark got a new chip card. He didnt realize it was not paying tolls as expected because the red and green indicators lights were gone. I have four unpaid tolls for 375 and if there had been indicators on there i would have noticed the issue and filled up my sun pass immediately. It wasnt until he got this bill in the mail from the Central Florida Expressway Authority that he realized what happened. They put 3. 40 fee and when i saw the lights were missing and the chip cards coming out i saw a potential for a lot of customers to get burned. Account balance is low but that means you could still go through tolls with a negative balance. What you were charged was almost doubled. It was only 35 cents left for the fees and then the actual tolls. Its going to cost you ten cents per toll and three dollars per mailed invoice. The fees are small but when multid by thousands of drivers they add up. There are a lot of customers that will pay a lot more because cfpolk county chose to remove the lights. Officials say to make sure you dont get charged make sure your account is uptodate with credit card and license plate information. Reporting in orlando, ja nay norman. We found out the Expressway Authority is working on a way to minimize the fees that do still ahead. Donald trumps Real Estate School is under fire in a series of new ads. At trump university, we teach success. What we found when we looked into the claims of whether donald trump was a fraud lent company. And Orange County Officials Say duke energy installed the wrong lights. How the mistake cost taxpayers big time. A family of four was some people dont like to share their wifi, but at bright house networks, login to one of our hotspots and get your code for free wifi at over 50,000 bright house wifi hotspots. First place. This is channel 9 Eyewitness News at four. Coverage you can count on. This man has been arrested more than two dozen times. And investigators say his most recent arrest was after he opened fire on a car with children inside. That is sad because you never know who you could have we are asking if there is anything can be done to keep him behind bars. The gunman thought somebody else was in the car. And since the suspect is a convicted felon he should have never had a gun at all. The shooting happened on pearl street near 436 in altamonte springs. Tim barber is there right now. It is amazing that no one was hurt. Four people were in that car. The car was driving right up pearl street here and when they got to this intersection the bullet starting flies. 11 shots were fired. Five of which hit the car. Looking at mario halls mug shot it is easy to understand why his nickname is scar face. Eyewitness news dug through his history and this scar face has been labeled a dangerous drug dealer time and time again. Investigators say that on february 28th hall opened fire just a block from state road detectives believe that hall was targeting a man in a white nissan that he had a beef with. Instead a family of four was driving the sedan. 11 shots were fired sending all of them ducking for cover. Its amazing that no one was hurt. The victims were not home but the neighbors say that gunfire is not unique in this neighborhood. Come home one morning and i saw about ten cop car. It is a dangerous area here. Reporter we also found out the suspect was in a Court Ordered gp s monitor for another previous case. Im digging into that case for Eyewitness News at 5 00. Reporting live in altamonte springs, in seminole county. Tim barber, channel 9 Eyewitness News. A florida teens escape from a kidnapper caught on cam. The suspect drove up to the 13 suv and asked if she was walking home from school when she ignored him he got out to grab her and she pushed back and screamed as we see on the video she ran for her lifeway she did was exactly the right thing. The kicking and screaming and yelling, anything that she can do to draw attention, get away from her would be kidnapping. She saved her own life. The victim was able to help police with this sketch that investigators believe is detailed enough to help them track down that attempted kidnapper. This afternoon the Butler County Sheriffs Office needs your hope locating a man that is a sex pred ter. Billy sill cres ter byrd has failed to maintain his court residency requirements. Out on bond for failing to follow his Registration Requirements as a sexual predator. He could be in the cocoa area. Covering