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WKMG News 6 At 4p March 1, 2016

Where firefighters tell us a pedestrian was hit. This is impacting traffic along west grenada boulevard in ormand beach. There you see. Were still waiting to learn more. Well keep you updated on air and on clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6. Again, a pedestrian hit in ormand beach, affecting traffic on west grenada boulevard. Ginger were also following breaking news from the space coast where moments ago a fourth launch attempt by spacex has just been scrubbed. Spacex c. E. O. Elon musk just confirmed the launch has been pushed back to friday because of extreme upperlevel winds. Erik von ancken will have more from the space coast within the next halfhour. Lisa also breaking right now, a deadly officerinvolved shooting triggered by alleged threats towards construction worker. Thats according to palm bay detectives at the scene along twohour standoff today. News 6s Troy Campbell joins us with the breaking new details. How did this escalate into shots being fired . Reporter yeah, the scene is still very active. Were as close up as we possibly can go up to the crime tape. You can also see crime scene investigators still out here collecting evidence. Palm bay police say this all started about 9 30 this morning when a 39yearold man who allegedly threatened three construction workers doing work on his neighbors house. The workers called police saying the man threatened to shoot him. The police used an intercom system to get the man out of the house. He exited the home for the final time and police say he was holding a handgun. Officers then fired one fatal shot at the man. Police have not released the name of the man who was killed here this afternoon. Weve spoken to neighbors who live in the neighborhood who witnessed the police activity. News at 5 00. Right now, Troy Campbell, news 6. Lisa also happening right now, super tuesday is in full swing across a dozen states. Julie matt austin joins us with a lastminute push which seems to end later tonight in florida. Matt the polls dont open in the Sunshine State until the 15th but its the place to Party Tonight for donald trump, marco rubio, as well as hillary clinton. The three holding celebrations and rallies in south florida today. But earlier today they were scattered across several states, finishing up last Minute Campaign stops. Republican frontrunner business billionaire donald trump taking jabs at the democratic leader, hillary clinton. Hillary clinton does not have the strength or the stamina to become president. Im telling you. They seem to have forgotten completely about issues and now matt according to national polls, it looks like trump and clinton are running away with their respective races right now. The first polls start to close at 7 00, when well really start to see how election 2016 is taking shape. Julie thank you, matt. Our crews will be live at the trump and rubio events tonight in south florida. Well also have updates on the results as they come in, on air clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6. Ginger well, the driver who police say ran from the scene after hitting an 8yearold boy on his bike has been caught and is facing charges tonight. News 6 reporter Kirstin Oconnor is live in the titusville neighborhood where it happened, where that boy was hit. And you were in court today. Tell us what happened. Reporter well, it was definitely unsettling to watch. The 73yearold has been in the hospital since the crash that happened at this intersection behind us last week. He was arrested yesterday by jail. The 73 yeer yearold limped into his first appearance this afternoon, five days after hes accused of driving into an 8yearold boy and leaving the scene. In court, he did not respond to the judge, saying he couldnt hear. Can you hear me . Reporter his attorney was called to the front for clarification. Judge, the state agrees he has no prior record. The bond schedule is 15,000. That seems appropriate. Okay. I find probable cause and ill go ahead and set the bond at 15,000. Will you explain that to him, please. Reporter we talked with the assistant state attorney gary beaty outside the courtroom who tell us police were not far off the trail from the start of their investigation. They actually found him that night. They took him to the hospital before he was brought to the jail. Reporter Titusville Police say he was cleared from the hospital yesterday and thats the man could face a maximum punishment of 15 years in prison. The assistant state attorney tells us the hearing problem was not the only confusion. Theres also inconsistencies with the suspects story, what were putting together for you at 5 00. Ginger thank you. Lisa a local community is getting results this afternoon. Ginger donations are pouring in after a girl scout was robbed outside a deltona walmart. Julie the 12yearolds cash box was stolen while selling cookies at the store. Crews decided to pitch in after hearing our story last night. News 6 reporter loren korn shows us how they are getting results for this troop. Reporter after our story aired last night, were getting results. Deltona residents stepped up and donated hundreds of dollars tolerate girl scout troop after the thief stole all their money while selling cookies here at walmart. Reporter a busy day outside of walmart, people giving money to the girl scout troop after deputies say this man stole their cash box sunday afternoon. Weve had so many people donating and angry about this and opening their purses and helping out. Reporter Adam Alexander says it was a nobrainer to pitch in and help the girls. We heard about it and said this is ridiculous. Reporter alexander taped up this homemade sign and it didnt take long for people to donate. I heard about it this morning when i was taking my grandchildren to school. I thought how can a person do Something Like that. I thought im going to give them something. Reporter between donations and the gofundme page the community raised more than a thousand dollars. Reporter meanwhile, deputies say theyre still looking for the crook, along with this woman and child in tow. The group was seen leaving in a gray Hyundai Sonata fe with georgia tags. Julie news 6 will also be donating to the girl scout troop tomorrow from the mix 105. 1 show. A representative from the Girl Scout Organization will be there to accept the donation. Ginger that guy is the worst cookie monster ever. Why would you do that to a girl scout troop . Lisa were just hours away from the return of astronaut scott kelly. He is coming back to earth after a year on the International Space station. Right now, crews are preparing to close the hatch and say their goodbyes to kelly. Home to his home planet until 11 30 tonight. Were so excited about this. Kelly and a russian cosmonaut served as test subjects on the International Space station so scientists can study the effects of space travel on the human body. Its all part of nasas goal to make sure astronauts can handle a trip to mars. Kelly has been very active on social media while in orbit as we all know. We love showing his pictures. He posted some 713 photos from space. Worked on 400 experiments, traveled more than 143 million miles and ran about 648 miles on the i. S. S. Treadmill, named after stephen colbert, by the way. Thats longer hes spent longer than any other american in history in space at 340 days. Unbelievable. Lisa a lot of accomplishments there. Im surprised hes run so many miles. Julie on top of everything lisa a lot of people are sharing our support with scott kelly on our Facebook Page. [reading postings] ginger if you want to join the conversation, leave a meant on our Facebook Page by going to facebook. Com news 6. Lisa ahead at 4 00, the fastest car in the world, put to the test. Julie then the local bank that turns into a fire battle. Tom were dry as we can be in Central Florida. Take a look at the radar. Nothing to track this evening. You know whats on the way, the heat. The heat is on. Ill be back to show you the pinpoint of how hot things are going to be tomorrow. Ginger but first, the New Discovery about a socalled dog trainer who is really a career criminal. The news 6 investigation, next at 4 00. Getting results on news 6 at 4 00 and the news 6 app. Keep it right here, well be right back. Just search for lisa bell at facebook. Com lisa bell news. Wed love to chat with you. Hi, guys we all know about bogos from other stores, right . Pbut did you know theyre not pwalmart has every day low prices on everything they sell, not just on select items. Orlando the total amount saved at walmart vs winndixie was 20. 54 on this weeks basket thats 17 including bogos. Why shop anywhere else . Pstart maximizing your savings on your entire pbasket of groceries by shopping at walmart. Start shopping with walmarts every day low prices today lisa tonight growing concerns there may be more victims involved in a news 6 investigation. Julie last night at 11 00, we told you the story of a local man claiming to be a dog trainer who works with special needs kids. Ginger but investigator Mike Deforest uncovered hes actually a career criminal. Reporter we had already heard from a few people. Today i heard from two more who think their dogs may have been abused by someone who was supposed to be training the dogs. Abbey walton adores her doberman, which she named cat for short. The 9yearold who has down syndrome and remission for leukemia needed a Trained Service animal. So her family purchased the to kids canine, a Dog Training School run by Ryan Thompson, seen here on his companys website. Cat was a happy, healthy puppy. Reporter this is what she looked when he sent her to his 3,000 training program. This is what she looked like. She can no longer wag her tail. Her tail has to be amputated. The dogs paws have bloody sores. They had to carry her in my house. Reporter the family is convinced he was abused while in her car. When we checked with the organizations, they have no record of thompson. Then we drove to the address listed on the kids canine Facebook Page. It turns out to be the home of the Lake Brantley rowing club, Ryan Thompson is actually robert ryan freedler, a convicted felony with more than a dozen arrests. Hes never been charged with animal abuse, he has served prison time for abusing a child and his girlfriend. Ginger thats just an awful, awful story. We understand this guy is in jail, hes locked up . Reporter he is right now. Its an interesting story. Freedler just got out of prison about three months ago for the Domestic Violence crime and then about two weeks ago he was arrested again on a probation violation for allegedly trying to contact the victim. So police are now investigating allegations that he may have been abusing those animals as well. Ginger we have to hope theres a way to stop this from happening to any animals out there again. Great work. Thank you, mike. We have put other resources on our website to help you choose a reputable dog trainer. Just head to facebook. Com news 6 to find the link. Its at the top of the page. Sorrells is joining us now. Once again, another 10 outside. Julie it was beautiful. I drove to monte verde today. Tom did you really . Julie a beautiful drive out there. Tom when you get out there and hit the big rise, its like wait a minute. Whats this hill here . Its good stuff. The radar is as clear as it can be in Central Florida. The only thing ive had to track in the last several hours is a couple of brushfires. The smoke plume showed up over here, on the county line, sprayed the county line along Brevard County and Volusia County. Other than that, ive got nothing to show you. But i do have a bunch of heat. Here are the temperatures right now. In melbourne, were holding at 75 degrees with winds from the southeast at 15. Its 81 in the villages. 71 degrees at news time. 75 from the cape to cocoa beach, all over, down to melbourne, all over Brevard County. Youre at 75 degrees along the coast. Wind direction and speeds, weve got a wind of about 6 Miles Per Hour from the southwest in orlando. My highest winds are in brevard from the south at about 15. Otherwise, were doing great. Heres satellite and radar together. Not much in the way of cloud cover. The much heralded and talked about cold front, thats still coming, but look at this. Have you seen the cold front ever that was less impressive than this thing. The lows are cranking here. We have snow showers up north from chicago to detroit and big rain through the ohio valley. All the energy is way up north. This extended part down here is barely going to make it in. You see light sprinkles of rain down through louisiana. Thats what were going to deal with. The front will roll in here. Its nothing like the front that came through last week. The front may drop us 4 or 5 degrees but no big explosions. Heres 1 in the afternoon tomorrow. A little bit of cloud cover and im thinking not much happens with this front at all. It comes through with very little fanfare. By thursday, were back to the good stuff with sunshine and a good weekend ahead. Overnight lows for tonight. Here we go. 56 in palm coast. 60 in sanford. 62 in orlando. The same in kissimmee. 58 in leesburg and as far as ocala, the low is 54. In orlando, warm, partly cloudy, 62 is the low. Heres tomorrow. Tom first thing in the morning, the temperature hops to 62. By noon, 77. The daytime high tomorrow is 82 degrees. Heres the extended forecast. We hit 82 tomorrow, low tomorrow night, 55. Then on thursday, a little bit cooler. So im going to say a fourdegree drop between wednesday and thursday because of the cold front. Then on friday, the high is 78. Reinforcing shot of cooler air for saturday. When i say cooler, i mean back to normal air. Thats good stuff. 75 on saturday. Sunday, 77. So really this is good stuff. Ginger not an impressive front but we like it. Tom thats the way i like them. Its all good. Ginger thank you, tom. Tom see you in a few. Dont forget, you can get breaking weather alerts and live radar anytime on our free news 6 pinpoint weather app. Just search wkmg in your app store. Lisa well, it was also a Beautiful Day to hit the ballpark today. Julie meteorologist Candace Campos just got back from spring training near the attractions. Sounds like another tough assignment for you today. Reporter ladies, you guys always give me a hard time. But, yeah, it was a great, great afternoon. The sun was shining and the temperatures were warming up. Folks came out in droves. Thousands of people came out to wide world of sports in lake buena vista. Weather. Yes, you had to lather on the sunscreen and the grass was looking nice and green but no rain to speak of, barely a cloud in sight. Of course, we went around and handed out news 6 gear. What else would we do out there . We spoke with one guy who said right now, its a snowstorm up in baltimore where hes at and hes happy to enjoy it watching baseball and a tshirt and shorts. We aim to please in Central Florida. There. If youre heading out to watch a home game, ive got the perfect forecast heading into thursday. Thats our next home games, the braves versus the tigers. Temperatures by 3 p. M. , 82 degrees today. First pitch at 1 00. Same story for thursday. Temperatures in the upper 70s. A pictureperfect outlook as well for thursday. Overall, it looks like perfect weather for everyone who enjoys baseball games. Ginger is it just me or do you smell the scent of hot dogs out there . Reporter its me, its me, its me. Julie candace, thank you. Ginger ahead at 4 00, new traffic trouble for googles selfdriving car. Julie plus hear from the woman captured on surveillance cameras during a powerful tornado. Lisa but first, a fireball outside a local bank. What firefighters say about this wild call. Youre watching news 6 at 4 00, getting results for before contemplating the many choices on Steak N Shakes 4 dollar menu, one must calm the mind in our zen garden. Focus. The garlic double steakburger meal. Reflect. The taco salad meal. Zen oh the 4 menu. Where all meals are under 4. Lisa flames growing wildly out of control today at a leesburg bank. Ginger leesburg fire rescue says it started out as a car fire. You can see the flames quickly spreading around the vehicle and lots of smoke. Fire crews quickly jumped in and put out the flames. Julie for the first time, one of googles selfdriving cars caused a crash. No one was injured. But a car hit a bus near googles headquarters in california. According to an accident report, the employee of the car did not the bus would stop. Still, overall, they have a pretty good record. 17 accidents over the past six years. This is the first one where the car is actually at fault. Ginger ill take those odds all day. Lisa i was reading about the accident. Its hard to blame the car because it was one of those wide lanes and it was going to make a right. But there were sandbags in the road and it got back over to the left and there was an oncoming bus which is why they sideswiped each other. Ginger it thought the bus would yield. Lisa french automaker says their car model can go 260 Miles Per Hour, faster than the bay run model, the worlds fastest car in 2013. It plans to make just 500 of the vehicles and theyve already sold a third of them. Heres the problem. The price tag, from the fast ginger not a problem if you can afford it. Lisa right, but for you ginger. Ginger right. I can only afford the poster of the car. Ahead at 5 30, well check in at the space coast where the fourth attempt of the launch was scrubbed. Julie and a womans feat rotisseriestyle chicken raised without antibiotics . Its what we do. That same chicken pulled by hand . Its what we do. Freshlybaked bread and crisp veggies . Its what weve always done. The new rotisseriestyle chicken sandwich from subway. music playing i feel pretty west side story not every cake can be handcrafted in store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted

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