He was arrested on sunday facing a judge monday at the jail and wanted out bonded out tuesday. Records show he admitted to being near the mens room at the glitz nightclub the night of the shooting with a gun. One man was shot in or near the mens room but lopez denies he fired his gun. He says his friend was shot and ran to him for help outside the club. Orlando police say he was standing next to Joseph Villalobos on the ground bleeding and later died. They say he had blood on his clothing which he says came from hugging villalobos and helping him to the ground. Police say lopez through his handgun handgun outed onto a roof and they say they found the firearm. Lopez is charged with tampering with evidence and caring a concealed firearm. There was discussion in court about opd asking to keep him behind bars on no bond and the judge asked the state special detention hearing that the state said no. Lopez has filed a not guilty plea and has waived his appearance in court. More on the breaking story vanessa, martie. Construction shut down the between maitland avenue a windsor park. Crews are removing slabs replacing them with asphalt and traffic is moving slowly so an area you should avoid. Steve barrett is along 1792. Major backups today. Reporter hard to year, a lot of trucks and cars here and it is a mess with the cars and trucks you can see how far the backup goes, very far. If you turn around you can see the reason. The road closes here. The work is happening quickly. This is a busy stretch of road, cars being the tour through is being the place where it goes under a bridge you can see in the distance, the work is weekend. A three block stretch of road but right now the southbound traffic is not getting through. All lanes are closed. The work started early this morning actually, last night. And if its going to be wrapped up enough to open lanes by rush the target. It will close again next friday and the entire weekend, same thing happens next week and so the until the work is completed. It will be a problem if one rushhour comes in the afternoon there are problems on westbound i 4 because this is the release for problems on westbound i 4. We will monitor this. I will try to figure out what is happening and giving your updates. This is going to be a problem this afternoon for rushhour and it will be all weekend long. Live in Orange County, steve barrett, channel 9 Eyewitness News. After a chilly week, we are warming up this afternoon and tracking another front for the weekend. Certified meteorologist Brian Shields has the latest from Severe Weather center 9. Of gorgeous, it was chilly. Temperatures making a klein, temperatures are climbing. Pictureperfect day. You can see blue skies. Temperatures 70 degrees in orlando, warmest day this week thanks to the winds out of the southwest at 11 miles an hour. Breezy and warm throughout the day. 60s, 70s, and len 71 daytona beach, 71 sanford, clermont, extreme nine melbourne and palm bay. 69 in melbourne. Temperature change 515 degrees milder thanks to the southwesterly winds with a things have switched. Staying gorgeous through the evening. Satellite radar picture, patchy fog this morning. Overall partly cloudy. It will stay that way the next several hours. Taking you through the planner, the afternoon and evening, clermont, lake county, 2 00, temperatures 71, low to mid 70s around 4 00. Evening plans, a drop off but if you have a light jacket you will be okay. 6 00, 65, 8 00, temperatures 60. City by city, there are the winds today 1020 miles an hour. That warms us up to 73 and titusville, indian river city. St cloud, 73, 74 downtown orlando. Low 70s from sumter, lake, marion county. We are want to track the next chance of rain. Martie . You can track the front right now at noon you can get a 50 gift card for turning in a firearm to Orange County deputies. The gun buyback as part of the Sheriffs Office response for gun ownership con pain getting 200 guns off the streets last year. Janai norman choices some firearms they have collected. They have collected more than 50 done so far. This is not all of them but it includes long guns, rifles, handguns, revolvers, deputies say any type of firearm that can shoot projectiles they will take no questions asked. I was talking with a captive with the Orange CountySheriffs Office who says that is one of the best parts of the gun buyback. They are not asking to see id or where they came from, they just want to firearm from and check it in. They have not had long lines yet but deputies say it is picking up. Most of the people stopping by take the firearms off of their hands. What we are seeing his people that have no more use of firearm, they dont want them in the house anymore and thats why they are dropping them in. They set up shop at the Orange BlossomTrail Development district that they will be here until 7 00 tonight and for Eyewitness News at 4, we are asking about crime guns. How many turned it today have been used in crimes or reported stolen and finding out the significance of the campaign. Orange county, janai norman, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Florida department of education has released its annual grading of all Public Schools. The 2015 grades are based mostly on student performance on the new fsa. The validity of the test has been called into question because of technical issues. Lastly Orange CountyPublic Schools released a tweet saying grades have little value if you want to see how your school click on web links on the home page. Toopers investigating an accident that killed two people and they say the driver was trying to help the victims. You can see emergency crews construction area and palm coast last night. The best hitter say one of the victims got his truck stuck at the site and asked the worker to use the dump truck to get him free. When the attempted not work, the driver when to leave and accidentally backed over cameron walsh, jessica darby. Charges pending. , the police need your help and murder suspect on the run. Littles was found shot and killed inside the unit and condominiums. Two men have been arrested and Police Believe the mario is involved. There is a 5000 reward for tips leading to the arrest. Orlando police are also searching for a shooter responsible for the murders of happened at a home on Robert Trent Jones near the metrowest area sunday earlier this week officers identified 34yearold Antonio Jones as one of the victims. Today they tell us his brother, christian jones, 16, with the other victim. No other details released. A rally for donald trump in tampa led to allegations of threats. A Florida College student say they are being threatened by trump supporters. Why the mother of a columbine gutman is speaking out nearly 17 years after the Tragic School shootings. A food fight on capitol hill. The law lawmakers want to block before it takes effect. Temperatures in the 70s now. Tracking another front on the way, a mini front comes in donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Candidate Hillary Clinton and last night. Things got heated. Spent time trying to poke holes proposal. Lets not insult the people. But looking to keep the momentum in the race bernie against bigmoney influence. Mine got the name does wall street make Huge Campaign contributions. I guess just for the fun of it. Reporter trying to regain footing after a defeat in New Hampshire clinton hammers home details in a response and pushes sanders for more about healthcare plans. The American People deserve to know specifically how this would work. The numbers do not add up. Many people will actually be worse off than they are now. I think that is inaccurate. A Testy Exchange with the candidates relationship to present obama. His call them week. One of them ran against barack obama and i was not a candidate for the republican frontrunner showing confidence at a rally in louisiana already projected a run for reelection. I will do a great job hopefully maybe i get an extra four years. Reporter donald trump is changing tactics ahead of the next primary, pulling all attack ads from the air in South Carolina but his calendar down. Donald trump has zero Foreign Policy experience. If you want an entertainer in chief. Reporter democrats meeting again when they attend a dinner in minnesota and the republicans face off again and their next debate tomorrow night in South Carolina. By the canoni, abc news, washington. The faa is working to find out what caused the plane to crash in the panhandle killing 2 people. The Small Plane Crash last night off the coast intestine. They were able to recover the we know it was a man and woman but their names are not being released that they were not the only people on board. Federal investigators are planning a new search and able faro shipwreck. The National Transportation safety board wants to find the cargo ships voice data recorder. It sank in october after getting caught in the path of a hurricane. 33 crew members were on board including a man from orlando. Recovered. Pope francis on his way to cuba for a stop ahead of the trip to mexico. The pope will meet for a couple of hours in heaven or the head of the Russian Orthodox church. The meeting will be the first in history between the leaders and the orthodox and catholic churches. Heading to the trip to mexico afterwards. A requirement to display calorie counts, Nutrition Information on menus of restaurants. It came the law of one land in 2010 but not taking effect until december this year. Republicans in Congress Want to roll it back. Jacqueline fell with the reporter sandwich, pizza shops surviving a madetoorder dishes will have to post calorie counts soon. Republicans say its too complicated and burdensome on business owners. Common sense nutrition disclosure act easing a federal will on menu labeling, exempting most grocery and convenience stores, gas stations, and movie theaters for having to post calories. The bill will also allow pizza and other takeout and delivery restaurant chains to post calorie counts online instead of in the store and menus. Lawmakers say with menus changing and dozens of options to order, it is impossible for certain food vendors to comply with the new rules. Today, one lawmaker used dominoes as an example. They had literally hundreds and hundreds of different potential order combinations, large pizza, small, medium, fake, reporter americans need one their homes. Labeling helps them makes healthier choices. In washington, jacqueline fell, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We will keep in contact with eatonville officials about throughout the day and let them know let you know if they open the main road. Kennedy boulevard close because of the main break on tuesday. The entire town is under precautionary boil water alert. Every year around this time florida manatees huddled in the waters to stay warm. Officials say this is the perfect time to see how many are swimming in the waters. 300 manatees clustered together at Three Sisters springs, crystal rivers. Looks like rocks. Underwater potato. While officials will continue the statewide count to survey the vanity population. Manatee population. I knew it would be cold because i do the weather. A lot of people went. Where are you going this weekend . The couch. Downtown orlando, lake eola, blue skies, 72, wind out of the southwest. Seven of weeks a. M. Sunset 6 13 pm. 60s and 70s, numbers responding to southerly flow, 70 clermont, 71 palm coast, 66 new smyrna beach, ponce inlet. Temperature changes, five temperature changes, 515 degrees warmer this afternoon. Wind speed coming out of the southwest. Upwards of 1020 miles an hour a southerly flow southwesterly flow with sunshine that we have. Seventies, mount dora, 71 at 2 00. Low 70s to format, pick up time and dropping off in the 60s. Four. 2 00, through the evening, mainly cloudfree but midnight of the next front. That will arrive tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, lots of sun but front. Not a lot of cold air but cooler as we head into saturday. Water temperatures, 50s, 60s air temperatures in the 70s, strong risk of rip currents continuing through the weekend. Warmer, low to mid 70s today, when 1020. 10 to 20. Southwest winds. A few 40s in the Northern Tier, low to mid 50s elsewhere and gorgeous for saturday. Things will be cool, 60s and northern coastline we could be cooler. Flagler county, northern falluja, pocket the 50s. Elsewhere, in the 60s northern volusia. Pockets of the 50s. Breezy. Fiveday forecast, where the weekend is always in view, valentines day sunday, saturday night, sunday morning, it will be chilly. 40s will be around sunday. 66. Nothing to warm or chilly for the weekend. Next week, bouncing up because we have a front approaching. Monday, southwesterly flow, 76 late day shower or storm spoke and showers again monday night into tuesday as the next right arrives we will talk about weekend events coming up in the next half hour. Vanessa . More than 4000 sex offenders and predators in central florida. Many have nowhere to go once they are released from prison. A man who lived with a mother daughter duo as they work as prostitutes refusing to bail them out to. Tracy mount and her daughter posted and backpage. Com promising sexual services. Damico hold the home where it happened and he claims he did not know what they were doing that supported the rest. The right thing was done. And the three children in question that i am sure is why this has blown up are now in good hands. The sheriff Joseph Damico was not under investigation. The children linked to the case are staying with relatives. A local coyote problem, about the animals trying to reassure them they can coexist with a coyote living near the park. People should feel safe walking pets or have children out. The city tried to trap the coyotes but wildlife asians say that was not allowed. The city will resume trapping efforts once it finds a place to relocate coyotes meeting state requirements. Learning more about connections to Orange County before investigators say killed 2 deputies asked david evans had to want one including assaulting an officer. He shot and killed the maryland deputy who try to talk to him inside of Baltimore Panera bread wednesday morning. Investigators say killed the second deputy in another encounter and he was shot and killed. The Baltimore Sun reported family members say evans had been violent toward his ex wife. The line of duty remembered in a vigil in Orange County last night. Two years ago deputy scott pine killed in ambush ambush by wanted man who then took his own life wednesday that the state Senate Passed a bill increasing benefits paid to the families of fallen Law Enforcement officers which was championed by deputy pines widow. Its taken over 70 years but family members of the groveland 4 will have to wait five more days for public apology. The Groveland City Council will make the proclamation tuesday. In 1949, 4 young black men were arrested for raping a 17year old white girl. Pillage of prizewinning book explains how the pulitzer for book explains. Standbys workathome the kissimmee Officials Say they do not know how much how it fell into disrepair. Habitats president. Talks about the home and home owner said it had leaky pipes, broken cabinets. Used an unlicensed and licensed contractors to do work on the home. We promised a habitable home, we promised to have the elements of what a home should be. Is it going to have all the bells and whistles . Of course not. The president tells us she will talk to the homeowner about concerns but added the nonprofit cannot fix it all. Today is the last time a Cocoa Company will pick up water bottle donations in their facility to ask help those in flint michigan. The Company Makes pollution control system and is sending bottles of water to michigan. Residents were exposed to dangerously high levels of lead for months. The city switch to the water source from a local river to save money. Orange county owner of a now wellknown been a mistake prepare a defense prepare a defense to keep his animals. Mike kennedy filed a motion to delay a hearing to april stay while at agents want to take his licenses after his king cobra escape for a second time in september. He is also facing misdemeanor charges for allowing the snake to escape. Donald trumps rally at usf dealing to threats. Leading to threats. 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