Bad reviews, giving a whole area a bad name with tourists. Now Osceola County is launching a turnaround plan. How it will help hotels clean up crime and give homeless families a better life. Also new allegations about a former apopka teacher accused of lewd acts with a third grader. In minutes, news 6 uncovers reports of two other possible incidents. Why they were never investigated. Good evening, this is news 6 at 7 00, getting results. Im julie broughton. And im lisa bell. Ginger gadsden is off tonight. After being yanked from store shelves for one year, blue bell is coming back. A little later, when youll be able to buy the first carton. A lot of people are excited to hear that news. People are very passionate about their ice cream. They are. Our top story right now, for years theyve been hotels for the homeless. Even 60 minutes brought to light motels on 192 with nowhere else to turn. But now, Osceola County has new results for cleaning up the area. Amanda castro explains how all this will work. County leaders want to improve this stretch of west highway 192. It used to be homes to travel resorts. Now its literally homes to families living out of rundown motels. Their goal is to find permanent housing for the families and return those hotels to travel destinations. This stretch on west highway 192 has fallen on tough times. Weve seen a lot of negative reviews for some of the hotels and youll see some where it says, wow, there seems to be People Living here longterm. Youll see some words, the conditions seems to be run down. It goes all the way to theres criminal activity here. Not the perception Osceola County wants for the tourist area. Thats why county leaders are revitalize the corridor. The idea is to go into hotels and clean up the criminal activity, give them a report of the building issues that they have to deal with and just continue to monitor them to make sure theyre improving. The county is also offering grants to upgrade hotel exteriors. Its a project hotel owner is supportive of, saying his business has improved since he renovated the facility and transitioned into a tourist only hotel. Thats why we dont have any more long terms. We try to build a good tourist business. It includes moving people who call the 70 hotels along the highway their homes. While at the same time trying to set up programs that helps find alternative housing for the people who live there. A first time coordinated effort between the county and hotel owners, to make this stretch of 192 tourist friendly again. Everybody wants to improve their business and bring good county leaders are also considering creating a nuisance abatement board if theres an ongoing criminal problem, they can shut down a hotel. Thank you. Osceola county will be sending hotel owners more information next week. The county plans to start inspections within the next couple of months. We continue to follow breaking news in orange county. A hitandrun crash sent a 12yearold to the hospital. It happened between silver star and colonial, but troopers now tell news 6 theyre not sure thats where the 12yearold was actually hit. The victim was rushed to Arnold Palmer hospital. Well continue to stay on top of this for you and bring you more information as it comes in. Tonight, new allegations involving a former apopka teacher who is accused of sexually touching a third grade student. News 6 uncovered the department of children and families were notified about two other 6yearold donald sharp and students that they did not investigate. News 6 reporter Eric Sandoval is getting answers. I got a copy of don sharps personnel records today. Orange county schools alerted department of children and families about the allegations from students at Apopka Elementary School. I asked d. C. F. Today why they didnt investigate them. 66yearold don sharp is accused of inappropriately touching a student in his third grade class. He was arrested tuesday after that student, whos now in ninth grade, said she was touched by sharp in 2009. News 6 learned today the department of children and families was alerted to at least two other cases involving sharp around the same time. D. C. F. Tells us they got a call into their hotline in 2009. It involved two of his third grade students. The calls were screened out or declared not suitable for investigation. Why . They say there were no claims of physical abuse or no claim of neglect. Orange county Public Schools tells us the complaints were about kids sitting on sharps lap, which is where this high schooler claims her sexual abuse started. Good evening Apopka Elementary School parents. This is your principal, laquisha miller. News of sharps arrest is still the talk of many parents and grandparents here at apopka elementary. We have our grandson here that we pick up every day. They say its hard to know who to trust with your children. Its not a good thing because you never know whats going on with the kids when theyre not in your care. I talked with Apopka Police this afternoon. They tell me no more parents are come forward with allegations against sharp, but theyre asking any other parents who may have similar accusations to give them a call immediately. Were in apopka tonight, Eric Sandoval, news 6. New questions tonight surrounding the arrest of a he forced a teenage girl at knifepoint to commit sex acts. Officers say the girl called 911 yesterday and the 40yearold Walter Ambrose went before a judge today. News 6 reporter Troy Campbell was there. Standing before the Seminole County judge, 40yearold Walter Ambrose charged with Sexual Battery on a minor and with a weapon. He was visiting a friend at a home. Its an acquaintance. No family ties at all with the case. Its just an acquaintance and he happened to be over at the house hanging out and thats when it all took place. Police say an Early Morning hours wednesday, an underaged girl called 911 saying ambrose threatened her with a knife, forcing her to commit sex acts. Who knows what he was thinking at the time, it happened and its our job to do the investigation to make sure it never happens to anybody else and our job is to provide the Seminole CountySheriffs Office says ambrose is currently county. Arrest reports going back to brevard counties. Leading to convictions. Troy, thank you. Ambrose remains locked up without bond. Investigators tell us a woman attack. It is not known if she knew that a crime was taking place. You could hardly have asked for a better day today weatherwise. Tom predicted today would be a 10 on the sorrells scale and, once again, he delivered. But changes are on the way in just hours. Lets get over to chief meteorologist tom sorrells. You nailed it today. Thank you very much. I dont want to let the cat out of the bag too early but tomorrow will not be a 10. Boo. Boo hiss, boo, hiss. Were fine now, but look to the north and the west. Heres the cold front strong over here. Its close to the low right now, a lot of lifts and torque and upperlevel support and exploding over here. The tornado watch box for a large part of louisiana and mississippi tonight. By the time it gets to us, its not going to have that kind of energy because the low is going north. Tonight, nothing wrong. We got it great tonight. Temperature reading is 62 in orlando. 63 in the villages. 61 in ocala. The onthetown forecast down to about 60 within the next hour or so, at 9 00. Come the 10 00 hour, 59. 58 at 11 00. Ill be back in a few minutes to talk about just how cool it will be during the overnight tonight and pinpoint the arrival of the big storms for you tomorrow. Tom, thank you. A jury could weigh the fate of a pedicab driver accused of rape as soon as tomorrow. Today they heard his side of the story. He claims the woman attacked him. George branard said he didnt want to have sex with the woman he picked up after a race at the speedway in 2014. Branard was aggressive and persistent and she unbuckled his belt and performed sex acts on him and then threatened him. She said i have your d. N. A. Now and im a daytona shores cop and she sexually assaulted me. Jury branard threatened to leave her in the woods if she didnt have sex. If convicted, branard could face up to 15 years in prison. As the survivor of a double shooting recovers tonight, Sanford Police say the suspect has now turned himself in. The shootings happened late last night at the Kensington Oaks apartments in sanford. Officers found a 24yearold woman shot in the hand and a 24yearold man dead from several gunshots. We were there as police launched a large search overnight. Neighbors say as many as six kids lived in the home. Kids were crying. There was a big commotion. It was a house full of kids, too, at that. Horrible. The 23yearold man turned himself in nearly eight hours later. Police are not saying what his victims. We have new information in this weeks devastating dog mauling. Police just released the 911 theres four dogs attacking her. Please, they wont let go the victim is still hospitalized tonight. She was unconscious when paramedics rushed her there tuesday from the stonebrook apartments off Airport Boulevard in sanford. A pack of pit bulls attacked a woman and four others. Police shot and killed five dogs and took a 6th away. The apartment complex called them, quote, unauthorized pets. A crime alert about fake Theme Park Tickets. A man was taking advantage of people online say deputies. Also a picture worth a thousand words. See the coldblooded guest who helped himself to a florida familys pool. And nearly after a year of being yanked from store shelves, blue bell is coming back. When the first cartons go on sale in central florida. But first, a sickness scare at one of our areas biggest hospitals. What was found in the water at Florida Hospital and what is being done to protect patients and staff. Coast, lady lake and all of central florida. And join us on facebook during the break. An uninvited guest crashed a mans pool in the keys. The Monroe CountySheriffs Office posted this picture of an 8foot crocodile splashing in chlorinated water instead of the salt water it prefers. Wildlife officers put him back in the ocean. Florida hospital in orlando is doing a deep clean tonight after its water tested positive for the respiratory germ that causes legionnaires disease. The disease is a type of pneumonia. A critically ill patient test positive late last year for the germ. Positive but its not the same strain that legionella that the patient had. Crews are now flushing their water system out. That prompted us to take a real good look at that water supply to really make sure that the water supply is safe and to deal with any issues that may need to be dealt with. The doctor says legionella occurs naturally in water and is dangerous for patients with suppressed immune systems. The bacteria is passed by breathing in water vapor or in some cases drinking water. Flushing the system, though, will take several days. To be safe, some vulnerable patients will not be allowed to shower. You can learn more about the bacteria on clickorlando. Com, powered by news 6 buyer beware. A man has been busted for pedalling fake universal Theme Park Tickets over craigslist. A woman told deputies she paid 300 for park tickets and when she got to the park gates, she learned the hard way they were fake. The same craigslist ad and this man sold four more fake Universal Studios tickets to the deputy. He was arrested for forgery and grand theft. A heads up for fans of blue bell ice cream. Nearly a year after it was pulled from shelves, the ice cream maker says it will be back in stores on monday in central florida. Plans were shut down last april after the ice cream people ate made them sick with listeria. Its slowly returning to stores in the south. It will start back with nine flavors in our area, including butter crunch, coffee, cookies and cream, pistachio almond and the grade divide. I dont know what that is. People who like blue bell, they really only like blue bell. They used to come in every february. For national weathermans day. They call it weather persons day. They used to call it weathermans day. This is going back to the 6 00 news. Lets move forward. May i finish . Last year, for some reason, they didnt show up. I never got the ice cream. By the time i got to work, it was already gone. You werent celebrating weather persons day. They blew me off. Suddenly they had listeria. Just saying. Oh, my goodness. Karma check out storm pins tonight. The folks up north, wild weather winter. Daytona beach tonight, look at that. Some of the best pictures in a long time are from today. The sky has a lot going for it in central florida, namely, its not snowing. When you see the National News tomorrow morning and theyre all crying the blues, just know you live in florida. Its beautiful. Radar tonight is clear as a bell. Weve had no echoes to speak of. Our overnight lows this morning, we dropped to 36 in ocala and 41 in the villages and 42 from sanford to orlando to 45 in kissimmee. We rebounded nicely. To 71 in sanford, 72 in the villages. Ocala. 71 in gainesville and 71 in Daytona Beach and 70 in melbourne. Right now in pensacola, its 62. Compare that to atlanta at 45. Myrtle beach i mean, something, even South Carolina is cold. Its 43 right now in charlotte. Its going to drop. All this area is going to end up with the big winter troubles while we sit here. We dont do perfect but compared to them, were going to do great. Temperature reading at news time is down to 62. 61 in ocala and satellite and radar together, theres the Storm Brewing out there. Prefrontal stuff here with the stationary front, warm front right there, my cold front is getting ready to ramble on in here during the next 24 hours. All that moisture from the gulf is cruising in here as the low lifts up to the north. So today was a 10 on the sorrells scale. It was almost perfect. Tomorrow, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being awesome, tomorrows about a 6. Tomorrow by midday. Stormy by midday with a cold front rolling through. By the evening, big blustery windy conditions coming on in. Saturday will be super windy all day long, but not stormy. Heres the hourbyhour look so i can pinpoint the arrival of the rain. 11 a. M. Tomorrow morning, its rocking from Marion County to the villages down to tampa. It pushes into orlando by noon. By 2, its past orlando. Pushing towards you in brevard county. Ill be here along with meteorologist troy bridges to track it through the midday hours to make sure youre safe. On saturday, its just windy. Turning so much colder. Lows tonight are in the 50s across the area. The overnight low in orlando is 57. Heres tomorrow. Temperature reading is 59 degrees at 8 a. M. By noon, 70. Then the storms blow up washing away all the heat. The overnight low tomorrow night, 48, saturdays high, 57. The low saturday night drops right back down to 38 degrees. So big frost and freeze warnings night into sunday. Thank you, tom. See you at 11 00. Thank you. Meteorologist Candace Campos has been out all day pinpointing the weather. She started her afternoon in titusville and then headed to the alafaya trail area. At 5 30, candace took us to Altamonte Springs before winding up back in orange countys gotha community. What a thursday its been. Weve been pinpointing your forecast down to street level throughout today. We started off in titusville at 4 00. We hit alafaya, altamonte and now into gotha. Its been a beautiful afternoon. Weve seen a mix of sun and clouds, not too hot, not too cold, just right. Folks we spoke to say theyre really loving this weather compared to what folks across the country are dealing with. As we were walking around, especially in titusville, we were passing out the news 6 gear to folks who had the pinpoint weather app or at least downloaded it. We gave them mouse pads and really cool news 6 cups. Have weather right down to your fingertips on our wkmg weather app. It is free. You can download it from your app store. For now, in gotha, im news 6 meteorologist, Candace Campos. And pinpoint weather with the news 6 mobile app by searching wkmg in your app store and you can pinpoint your forecast zones on clickorlando. Com weather. A familiar face is back in the political spotlight. Sarah palin is throwing her support to donald trump and Stephen Colbert is glad. God, i have missed you. Its like a magical eagle made a wish on a flag pin and it came to life. Sarah palin just guaranteed trump the evangelical vote because i think she was speaking in tongues. Join us tonight for news 6 at 11 00. After the news, the late show with Stephen Colbert colbert says sarah palin a recent endorsement of donald trump has him partying like its he doesnt get his power, his high off of opium. Other peoples money. I just wish she could endorse every candidate. Because i think it would sound Something Like this. First, let me just tase the part of my brain that understands sentence structure. Greetings and welcome to all across americans. You gogetters and to tappers, you motor city madmen, im here to support the president for the United States, the tortoise jeb you say to yourself the media, and you know they do. And dont get me started on old barry obama, secretary of hiding emails. Im here to support the next president of the United States hillary clinton. Shes been the first lady and the last time i checked the constitution first is no. 1 or did they change that in the textbooks . He was great last night. That was awesome. Tonight, colbert welcomes Ch