Have your umbrella, not a washout by any means but a slight chance of a shower or storm this afternoon. I want you to be prepared. Shorts, short sleeves and well into the 80s and another one start. Patchy fog around, 60s, 70s this morning. 60 degrees azalea park, orlando, 68 degrees of azalea park. Bushnell, sank after harmony holopaw, kissimmee st. Cloud in the 60s, 65 in melbourne. Clouds around this morning, clouds increasing throughout the day and here is the planet, by noon we will be here near 80. Clouds popping up in this afternoon and evening rain chances not too high. 20 percent chance of a popup shower or storm and look how warm we are again. Near 87 by the time we hit 4 00. Who has the better chance of storms in the forecast and we will get into the front moving through this weekend. We had a hit and run crash reported i 4 westbound and deland before state road 44 here is a shot in the area does not look to be causing issues and they have been able to get to the side and shoulder. No worries. Move over if you pass the crash. Another crash in lake county, turnpike northbound, exit ramp u. S. 27 and howeyinthe hills, keep in mind i think there is one lane blocked. We will get an update from troopers to make sure you will not end up needing to take a different exit ramp. We will have that update in seven minutes. On the breaking story in lake county, one person is dead this morning after fire destroyed a home in mineola. The fire happened mineola street in a rural part of the county. Eyewitnesses this morning Angela Jacobs is live outside the house. Firefighters say they burst into the burning home but could not save the person inside. Reporter jamie, this morning we heard from the local fire chief who is calling the we have been able to get closer to the scene. You can see firefighters on scene of this home off mineola street. A twoalarm fire they were alerted to and they have been here since 9 00 last night. Were told by the parmesan medical units from at least 4 area agencies responded to fight this fire officials just told is also what crews arrived they found the home completely engulfed in flames responders russian and found one person is i brought them out and we were able to work on them for some time but were not able to provide the person and they died on scene and others in the injuries. It is not known if the gnome home had working smoke detectors and the Fire Marshalls Office conference the investigation into the cause of the blaze continues. Im just speaking to a resident who saw flames above the trees are going to the interview now and we will have that for you coming up in the next half hour is now doing for the devastated family grieving and homeless. Live in mineola, Angela Jacobs, Eyewitness News is morning. Overnight one person dead following a shooting at an apartment complex in Orange County. He is alive look at the chowder bay apartment complex rio grande avenue. Just west of obt. That is where deputies went around 10 00 may have a person in custody but they have not said a visa suspect. We will be in touch with the investigators of the morning to find out what led to this. We went to the Orange County supervisor of elections for answers after poll workers received bad checks, 1400 checks bounced after tuesdays primary supervisor of election bill crowel says the problem is tied to the company who handled the election day payroll. The company put money into an account to pay poll workers but he says the Company Never asked access the funds and hes scrambling to fix the problem. Each one is telling us what they want done with a check. Will be owing me money to pay for the overtime on the staff, the cost of checks and all of that. Poll workers can to pick up checks at the Elections Office or have them mailed. More than 3 million registered voters did not vote in tuesdays president ial primary because they are not affiliated with a major party. Some people say that is not fair since tax dollars are used to fund elections. Florida is one of 20 states along with the district of columbia that has a close primary. It has been a close primary century. President obama has nominated federal Appeals Court judge Merrick Garland to fill the spot of Late Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. Capitol hill today. Tennis ball to reports send republicans are still bowing to block his confirmation. Reporter this morning Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland will meet facetoface with democratic senators. Its the republicans who control his fate. Are so polarized, this is precisely the time when we should play it straight. Reporter the showdown over intensified the second president obama introduced pick. The moment is emotional for the 63yearold husband and father. This is the greatest honor of my life. Other than on when linda agreed to marry me 20 years ago. Harvard educated native to chicago dedicating his life to the law. Top prosecutor in Oklahoma City bombing. Two decades spent serving the court of appeals known as a moderate, a compromise in the heat of the partisan election year. The senates constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. The Senate Top Republican holding grounds the next president ial pick the next justice. Mitch mcconnell took a call from garland reiterating his feelings before wishing him well. His fellow republicans falling any chance of changing your mind . None. Reporter we found six republican senators who are open to meeting with garland. That includes senator. Orrin hatch who was praised the island. I did not say he belongs of the Supreme Court has said he belongs on the dc circuit court. Reporter kenneth moulton. Senate judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley and i will republican says hes open to meeting with garland but there are no signs any of the meetings will lead to actual confirmation hearings. The former millionaire convicted of killing his wife emma set to appear in court room late this afternoon. His lawyers are working to get them on after granted a new trial last month. This follows claims his lawyers made mistakes in 2011. His new trial is not expected to happen for a few more years. Orange county teenager accused of trying to kill a deputy has been charged now as an adult. State Attorneys Office about the charges including attempted murder against john carlin is on the ortiz been arrested as a hit march sergeant. Tried to take him into custody on burglary charges. She is recovering from a fractured foot and head injury. Fans across the country mourning the death of Frank Sinatra junior this morning. The son of the legendary singer who also had a musical career of his own died at a hospital last night. Is the actually in Daytona Beach for a concert at the peabody auditorium. Officials say sinatra became sick and died of cardiac arrest and was 72 years old. Some neighbors in cocoa are fed up with the noise coming from the Brevard CountySheriffs Office gun range that is near their homes. Skywitness 9 flew over the gun range that has been sitting on county owned property east of 95 since 1985. Homeowners have filed lawsuits claiming the gun range is too noisy for the quiet neighborhood and they want it shut down. We had tried everything and try to work with them but they are a bad neighbor with no respect for people or the community and its time for us to check them to checkout. Sheriffs office for their side that we have not heard back. Lawyers for the county said the gun range does not violate any noise ordinances. A judge still has not made a decision. 6 10 am. We check weather and traffic every 10 minutes. Certified meteorologist Brian Shields in Severe Weather center 9. Somebodys playing golf today. Golf in action. Arnold palmer into an invitational this morning and as you go all the uptodate clouds increase and by the afternoon, a slight chance of a shower and popup storm but again 20 percent chance where we run in the 80s but its going to stay warm. Northern tier, slightly better chance of the afternoon shower or storm. Volusia county, included through Flagler County 85 today Daytona Beach and south daytona, longwood, sable point, wekiva casselberry, temperatures in the mid to upper 80s pop of showers or storm and a little warmer and we will make a run at upper 80s in southern tier. Champions gate, kissimmee, green meadows, all in the 80s today with isolated storm a possibility becoming of the front starts to nudge him track the big changes ahead this weekend. 6 09 am deneige. Crashes starting off in lake county pick this one is at turnpike northbound, exit ramp to u. S. 27 howeyinthehills looks like you can still get through no need to bypass the exit ramp. They will have a portion of that block i 4 westbound before state route 44 in to land a hit andrun crash. This is off to the side so it will not slow you down. Get extra room and a cocoa, joy road, coral lane also crash reported it does not look to be blocking the road. Polk county woman fighting to keep her beloved pet of 15 years, sixfoot alligator. He is my baby i know where he is. Why he may be forced he may be forced to give them a. What investigate as they were happening inside of a mansion in cocoa beach before it burned to the ground. Jamie holmes 6 14 am. Video of sea world and breaking news coming out of the theme park this morning. The company has announced they will and all work of breathing as of today. The other big news is there will be no more theatrical shows instead there will be more natural orca encounters. Affecting orlando beginning 2019. The other parks in san diego and san antonio also affected by this decision. We will follow the big change coming out of the theme park throughout the rest of the morning. Huge changes as we know it to sea world. Much more on air and online. Orlando mom facing serious jail time after being accused of a hitting of a teacher at a bradwell reached out to us after we first reported the story on tuesday. Police say she refused to wait 30 seconds or so for staff at princeton elementary to verify her idea what she wanted to pick up her son from school. School staff says she did not have a parent pickup decal so that is why they asked for the idea. Police say bradwell admitted to only grabbing the teachers arm. How do you feel about police saying you were in the wrong . I was not in the wrong. Only way i say that i was in the wrong was for st. Giving back my id. She has been banned from the school until after spring break. Shes also been charged with battery on a school employee. Listen to the rest of the interview go to wftv. Com and click on the video tab. Marion county deputies say a teenager is in the Mental Health facility after he tried to take a rifle to school. Deputies say the 13yearold tried to take an ar 15 rifle and ammunition to Howard Middle School yesterday. Him and stopped him before he left the house. The schools principal said out an automated phone call to parents to let them know what happened. Two Central Florida priests are facing charges after investigators say they did nothing to stop more than 80 children from been sexually abuse. John chanel he worked at san pedro ctr. In Orange County and robert d a versa work at st. Patricks and mount dora. Prosecutors say they both knew another priest was a sexual predator but did not keep them from having access to children. Both men are facing charges of in pennsylvania but stepped down from positions with the orlando diocese. Daytona beach city leaders considering an abandoned school to help solve the citys homeless problem and we ever tell you about the homeless issue in Volusia County says january. Leaders are try to decide whether to buy Hurst Elementary School on the right street they want to transform it into housing for 300 people. The school will cost the county about 200,000. We found out a median of six months to one year before any more work on orlandos fashion sq. , mall can be done. Old mall and bring a seven story hotel to the space are now on hold. We spoke to the developer up development and they say plans are still moving forward but they are waiting to see what will happen to sears and macys before they can continue with the project. Obviously when the big neighbors on both sides are making plans for their property infrastructure, access, coronation and we still will have a hotel on the frontage it may move around but this hotel coming to fashion square. We reached out to macys and sears to ask if they plan to move from the mall and we are waiting to hear back. Orange county employees were able to get a free ride to work on sunday mail yesterdays free ride is a result of a partnership between the office of Community EnvironmentalDevelopment Services and sunrail. Both hoped the free ride encourages workers to use the service more often. Drivers will have to use another ramp to get on the 408 downtown orlando starting to bother the ramp from or damage if you use the ramp you will be up to use a temporary ramp on division avenue south of anderson street. The closure is part of the ongoing i 4 ultimate project. Can you call it temporary when it is until 2019 . And a monumental sense of time, sure. Yes. Happy st. Patricks day. Looking good. Leave it to the cuban girl to get the irish going. Do you know what my middle name is . Patrick i didnt know that. Day. And you still did not wear green. I have a green screen and thats as green as i can get. Watch me this afternoon. Downtown orlando, looking to the north 60 degrees downtown deltona, 69 and it is warm and you see temperatures running in the 60s and 70s around 70 degrees in clermont, 70 and titusville warm start, 80s even with extra clouds. Winds are coming out of the west and that will keep us warm. With a watching out for patchy fog we had some in the last hour toward the airport oia. We have several airports around here. We had improvements. Low clouds and we watch for that otherwise a dry start to the day. Action clouds will be filtering in for today. Baldwin park we go, 80 by noon and then this afternoon, rain chances are not high but 20 percent chance of a popup shower or storm. 9 am, still cloud cover in spots looking great by midday and then this afternoon, there is the timeframe and by 3 00 schoolbus time, one or two showers are developing tom will track a couple of rundle rumble possible for today tonight and tonight i said it just for show. The weekend, it is more active, much of saturday is okay but saturday afternoon, saturday evening a better chance of rain sunday and then the system kicks away and we will get some cooler weather sunday into early next week. 80s today at the beaches, water temperatures still 60s and 70s and looking good, seas and one to 2 feet low risk of rip currents. The numbers in the 80s, rain chance 20 percent and in the way clouds will be on the increase and we will be around 87 by the afternoon. Tonight, isolated shower mostly cloudy and temperatures about 65 and tomorrow, a mix of sun and clouds and spotty showers and storm again rain chances slightly higher tomorrow as the front nudges and get everything on track about 40 percent chance of that on friday the fiveday forecast where the weekend is always in view. Saturday, 50 percent chance of showers and storms. Favoring the second half of the day. Things wrap up on sunday, sunday turning cooler, 75 and low 70s on the way by monday. 6 20 am. Lets get an update on crash with deneige. Howeyinthehills, turnpike northbound, and exit ramp at u. S. 27, you have one crash here blocking one lane. Keep in mind to give them extra space to work cocoa, joy road, coral lane does not look to be blocking any portion of the comedic same story, give them space. I 4 deland westbound before state road for four, you cannot see it from the, but theres a hitandrun crash reported and they have been able to get it to the shoulder. Keep that in mind. Ucf is ready to will the new campus in downtown orlando. What people who live nearby think the construction will force them out of their own neighborhood. Fatal house fire in lake county under investigation but what firefighters discovered when they first arrived on scene. There needs to be police patrol, maybe, i dont know. Make an example out of someone. A parent says a car drives investigators trying to figure out what sparked a massive fire destroying a home in cocoa beach and it could take them a few more weeks. Flames were huge and this happened tuesday night at the iconic punk and center. Fire crews say the flames rose as high as 75 feet and there is not much left of that 10,000 ft. 2 mansion. Time of the fire and the fire caused some 5 million in damages. Neighbors we spoke with say that mansion drop them many memories over the years. I have lived in cocoa beach 30 years. Ive been hanging right here on the speech for 25, 27 years. It has just been a part of my life. New owner bought the mansion last year and workers were renovating the house at the time of the fire. Orange county a parent is set up for drivers who speed past stopped school buses and shes showing us some driver she caught on camera. For the past three months, the mom has been recording videos of her daughters were stopped on 436, near loma. Almost everyday cars pass up the stop sign and flashing red lights and she contacted us after we showed video from another bus stop of drivers doing the very same thing. I been saying this since january, like, we have a real problem here. You do not know what kid will you dont know what it may be getting dropped off on the other side because i dont know if a parent is running late and they have to run across the you do not know yet this Sheriffs Department says they do not regular patrols around but stops but believe it is a countywide problem is a more awareness will help. 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