Im sure the additional work going on inside exposed wood. You take drywall and other materials as burnable wood. Reporter fire officials are going to look for aggravating or contributing factors that may have helped the flames spread. Whatever the final discernment determination cocoa beach area residents say they will not see the likes of the Pumpkin Center again. It stood out then and stood out until it burned down. Deplorable thing that happened. Reporter as we walked along the beach to get a better look at the damage today, i ran into two men who used to work at this property when it was owned by newhart. Have a lot of memories to share on Eyewitness News at 5 mac. Live in cocoa beach, melonie holt, channel 9 Eyewitness News. It is still winter but Central Florida has checking in with chief certified meteorologist tom terry in Severe Weather center 9. Too soon. Yesterday we hit 90 yesterday we hit 91st 90 of the season and very close in seminole county. Deltona in sanford, 89 degrees and up to 87 downtown. More clouds today from the fog this morning slowing the inside but warm today including another 88 daytona and close to records. We will go over that and spring starts early sunday morning and more hot days ahead. A big change in the weather pattern which means we are slipping back into almost late winter as we start spring. I will explain. After winning floridas public and private and 99 delegates, donald trump as a formal endorsement from governor. Rick scott. On his Facebook Page today scott asked all republicans to accept the vote and back the family opposed to trump and his message even though last night trumps success convinced another moment, floridas own marco rubio to give up his campaign. Rubio suspended his campaign shortly after florida was called for trump. You saw him speak live if you were watching our special primary coverage on wrdq tv 27 last night. Opponent and ohio governor. John kasich managed to hold onto his home state but donald trump had major gains overall while Hillary Clinton dominated the democratic primaries. Last night both she and rubio had something to say about Donald Trumps success. When he embraces torture, that does not make him strong, it makes him wrong. America is in the middle of a real political storm, a tsunami and we should have seen this coming. Ted cruz picked up delegates last night but no vermont senator. Bernie sanders did not mention last nights losses focusing in arizona. Florida secretary of state is saying yesterdays election may have broken records. Ken dotzler says tuesdays turnout may have been the highest after in a president ial climber primary in florida. Number show 2. 3 million republicans and 1. 7 million democrats voted. In 2008, total 4. 2 Million People cast ballots. Despite this account secretaries sunny report there were more challenging problems in Orange County, multiple precincts came up short on ballots and some voters told us that they gave up waiting. We went to the supervisor of Elections Office today to try to understand what happened yesterday and we will review his explanation and the interview now and have that part of the story for you at 5 00 and hear what he has to say about this. We dedicated a section of our website to make sure you have everything you need to know about the race to the white house. Had to wftv. Com Central Florida decides. There are new questions primary went yesterday. Voters in Osceola County did not get to vote. Hundreds, weve reached out to some of them. They filed provisional ballots being reviewed by election officials. Reporter some voters filled out provisional ballots and other voters were told walked away without filling out ballots. The election supervisor in Osceola County and the staff plans to go through all provisional ballots, a number they are calling very high, 560. It is not eligible by state law. Reporter Osceola County supervisor of election and her staff are going through hundreds of provisional ballots filled out by voters who could not cast their ballots in yesterdays election. For Osceola County this is youth sports huge because they have 560 of them typically in a general election her staff checked 200 provisional ballots. Its important that these the ability to count. Reporter she has some who are not eligible including no Party Affiliate or mpa, Osceola County happens to have the largest percentage of mpa voters in the state and according to florida law, those voters are not allowed to select a president ial candidate that is republican or delegate. By law cannot give you a democratic ballot if you are registered republican or vice versa. Some say they were not given the ballot they register for. My envelope. Reporter she voted democrat rather than provisional even though it should be republican. Arrington eric and found errors made by poll workers. When they registered and 2008, his information was entered into the record incorrectly and we have documentation to show that. They are working to find out how many there are. Reporter i just spoke with a woman who tells me she never affiliation but what she got to the polls, that is how she was registered so she was not able to vote. Im going through the interview now and i will have that coming up at 5 25 along with reaction from the election supervisor here in Osceola County. Live in Osceola County, janine reyes, channel 9 Eyewitness News. An inmate who made headlines in 2010 when escaping from the county jail must wait longer to find out his sentence. The Court Delayed its decision for michael whitby. He was sentenced to 22 years but because he only had one other conviction in october, and appellate judge to ruled it was not a fair punishment. Same guidelines as other sentences need to be followed. M. A. I. N. Event activities. It is very vindictive. The family of an Orange County murder victim says the latest appeal from one of his denied. Courts decision against gottfried. In 2214 was sentenced to life in prison and prosecutors say godfrey, okafor and wallace shot three including Alex Zaldivar who died. The suspect did not want the victims testifying in a Home Invasion case. Following a Major National story today, president obama said his nomination for the Supreme Court to the u. S. Senate for approval. The commander in chief picked Appellate Court judge merrick garland. Bob opsahl has been following the high court nomination. It is not a surprise that the president chose judge garland. Reporter judge garland was on the short list for consideration. He faced scrutiny from the senate before. Republicans say this time voters should have a say in who replaces the late justice scalia. 2 00 today i am nominating to judge merritt the harlot married brian garland. Supreme court pick. It was emotional for federal appellate judge merrick garland. Is also the greatest gift ive ever received except and thats another caveat, the birth of our daughters jesse mbeki. President obama pointed out theres a long history of bipartisan support calling on the senate to vote instead of tying the nomination. To go down the path would be wrong. It would be a betrayal of our best traditions. Reporter Republican Leaders are Standing Firm in opposition. They insist voters should decide the ideological battles of the court when they elect the next president. Is the president s constitutional right to nominate up a Supreme Court justice and the senates constitutional right to act as a check on the president and withhold its consent. Democrats are pushing back hoping the choice of what they call a moderate judge will position. Reporter copresident s nomination qualified to change course. Reporter Republican Party has already formed a task force to block the nomination which will scrutinize the record. Democrats are read responding with an effort to get public support on their side. Police officers in port orange are getting body cameras city Council Voted last night to spend 500,000 on 70 cameras and 70 new tasers. Funds will cover all portion of the cost. Officers will use the same type of cameras already used by officers in Daytona Beach. Time and time again parents call Eyewitness News when they record drivers speeding by Childrens School buses. We to concerns and the video to Law Enforcement and asked what they are doing to keep kids safe. A story you cannot afford to miss. Watch this. Polk county woman says she spent years training her alligator who hangs out on he has tricks. Sharp teeth. The reason shes in the fight with state wildlife officers to keep them. Two years as renovations began in fashion sq. , mall but we notice the property still looks like this. We asked why construction work is at a standstill. Temperatures are climbing this hour but im updating the two years after major renovation project announced for orlando fashion sq. , mall the property still looks like this. Today channel 9 anchor nancy developer and found out why the project was delayed and what would happen next. Reporter standing along the most visible part of the mall because it faces Colonial Drive and right now this is what shoppers and people the drive ic. It is still the construction site but there is no work happening. Developer tells me the work has stopped for now but the plans are still moving forward. Regulars and orlando fashion sq. , mall has seen a lot of changes here. It used to be the premier mall in the neighborhood. Reporter now they are met by this, a construction site in limbo and the plains announced two years ago on hold. We do not know why it is taking so long. Reporter we do questions to you p development, the Company Behind the plans to transform the 44yearold mall and bring a sevenstory hotel to this space. What may appear like abandoned construction is not. Could be another six months to one year. Developer says there is uncertainty over the future of macys and sears and he cannot proceed without a clear picture of what is next for those stores on either side of the hotel site. A mall is interconnected and organic and the pieces have to Work Together to make the development invested 20 million in improvements, star relocations and the addition of this Sporting Goods among other things. The company insists it is still committed to the mall but for shoppers the wait for the finished product is far from over. Orlando, nancy alvarez, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We put a call to see of macys or sears has any plans to move from the Fashion Square property and we are hitting waiting to hear back. Jeff williams and two cosmonauts getting ready for their lunch to the International Space station at the end of the week. The rocket from cousins gone friday kazakhstan and its catchy carrying signs exhibits and supplies. A disaster declaration declaration in the wake of storms and flooding and east texas. Severe weather and heavy rains may force evacuating homes and boats in southeast texas. The rivers continue to rise. Texas is not the only place, people and illinois are full left to clean up damage when strong winds slammed into their homes. It was upside down practically on the road and power lines were coming down sparking and blaring and scary. She said really scary and you can understand why. Authorities are warning of record flooding not seen since 84, louisiana has been hit hard and that we have another system starting to roll in up as well. Whack hit 90 degrees in march, something is not right. And that is why they had the flooding day after the day and we have the opposite, hot and dry but we will flipflopping things a bit and we will get some weather in the middle of all that. The byproduct of changing things around and downtown orlando, 87 the high so far today officially the airport we are 89 at the station. 89 deltona, sanford, so it is getting warm and continuing to slowly warm up today. High clouds and still a few mid level clouds left over from the fog we had earlier this morning yesterday. Ada titusville now, palm coast, the land, daytona very warm. A couple of 90s for celebration, holopaw, 87 kissimmee and st cloud. It is plenty, plenty warm for you. We will be calling things down, though, i have to get rain through first but i think by sunday early next week, were going to be back to cooler, again. Not colder the cooler. Winds on the west and northwest at 1050 miles an hour and yes, we are still watching fires burning so some of these are prescribed burns, this is the of these and there are several, that is a great big one on the north side of Merritt Island and another one here in the wekiva area. They are usually prescribed. Right now you see the high clouds streaming in from the gulf of mexico. Just the beginning of some changes. We will get some sort of energy nearby and get us a better chance for rain starting as early as tomorrow but more likely it is going to be friday saturday and even a little bit on sunday, threeday weekend here perhaps is going to be a little challenging for outdoor activities. Orlando, star 80 degrees at 8 00 tonight, as a patchy fog early on in the morning. A pleasant start to the morning, fog issues again, 63 for deland, deltona. We will once again have some fog developing early in the morning, mainly in the northern zones, future track one daytona in new smyrna back door cala thats where the fall starts early on and we get scattered daytime showers in the afternoon and i do not expect that will be tracking a whole lot tomorrow but at this time the pump if you will but most we try, simply adding more moisture to the atmosphere to turn clouds and rain. You cannot have that without moisture. Right now, friday morning, some isolated showers and as we head toward the afternoon, we would like getting a sea breeze going so i expect the close we get to format, 5 00, 6 00, 7 00, 8 00 we will still gaps with scattered sea breeze storms. Mid to upper 80s again, not quite as hot as we have been recently and of course with a 57 sidewalk art festival in winter park. Some late day rain on friday, the first part of friday looks okay. Saturday, its going to be our dicey day especially by the afternoon i would expect maybe some couple rumbles of thunder and and sunday, we start calling things down, scattered showers, less thunder so all in all we have had some great stretches the weather for the weekend. This is going to be the weekend we will have to kind of watch it hour by hour make sure you download our free weather app. Keep tabs on the Light Interactive radar and sending out any alerts that may,. Fiveday forecast where the slight chance for rain tomorrow. But we kind of focus on more friday and saturday as the next best chance for some rain and look at monday, some shine and only 71 degrees. Almost a 20 degree swing. Vanessa. Sounds nice. A Volusia County woman tells her she was carjacked and then spent hours looking for her beloved golden retriever. He was in the backseat of a car. Coming up, here how we just found out they were reunited. Next polk county one friday to keep a pet alligator she had that for years. And she even claims he is trained. Giving him the royal treatment. He is. The reason she may be forced to give up her baby. New from five, two local priests are now in trouble in he writes atvs and watches television and lives inside a house and polk county. The problem, some say is that he is a gator. He even kisses. Heres a look at rambo, a liquid woman spat and there is the kiss on the lips and you can see she does everything with him even carries them around and a baby carrier. Julie salomone spoke with her give him up. I know youre tired we are fixing to take you in. Reporter she says her gator rambo may be a coldblooded reptile but he is really gentle and very attached. Hes my baby. I know what he does. Reporter she rescued rimando rambo a decade ago when someone had it illegally keeping it in a closet for years she says the 15yearold gator has never been in the wild and is now part of the family. He has my here because he does not want to go off my shoulder. He was to be baby. Reporter she shared pictures with me, she says he goes on the motorcycle with her and spends time in the family room. He does not like outside noises. If he hears prisons crickets that night he freaks out. He lived in my house. Officials have confirmed she has a class to wildlife permit to own rambo but wildlife officials are reviewing ownership of the alligator and they will decide if she can keep it because he length and 125 pounds. Thorne says she needs him just as much as the gator needs her. He is like my kid. He is one of my kids. Reporter julie salomone, channel 9 Eyewitness News. State of florida. Yeah, you dont hear that every day. Story. I do not care what it eats as long as it is not me. Exactly and afraid of crickets. We know you want to tell your friends about this only in florida story. Go to wftv. Com Facebook Page and share this post. Still ahead at 4 00, employees are to Central Florida airports have a flag in the federal database for potential ties to terrorism. We will explain the changes lawmakers want and me to improve safety. Two days after young woman wa