Transcripts For WOFL FOX 35 News At 10PM 20160223 : vimarsan

Transcripts For WOFL FOX 35 News At 10PM 20160223

Right now, on fox 35 news at 10 00. I have four stitches in my eye over here. She may be bruised and battered, but that wont stop an Orange County deputy from confronting the teen accused of running her over. Well be there in the morning. On the run for days. Thats 15 yearold surrendered today at his moms house. Hell go before a judge tomorrow and sergeant pierce will be there. Were live at the juvenile Detention Center tonight. You spoke with sergeant peersons husband earlier. Yeah, good evening. After three days on the run, ortiz has a lot of questions to answer tonight, where hes been and why he ran over sergeant pierce and left her. At about 1 15 this afternoon, he was at his mothers residence there in the 800 block of high street. John carlos ortiz, wanted since friday after investigators say he ran down sergeant marce pierce while she was trying to take him into custody. He will be charged with attempted murder of a Law Enforcement officer. Add battery of a Law Enforcement officer. Use of a weapon in the commission of a felony crime and potentially, he will be charged with grand theft auto. On saturday, Sheriffs Office located the vehicle they say ortiz used to run over the deputy. The 2011 nissan versa now being processed. The sergeant continues to recover from her injuries. Im gonna be okay. And anyone that knows me, knows that im gonna get through this. The pierce family plans to be in Court Tomorrow as ortiz is scheduled to face a judge for the first time in this case. Well be there in the morning for his 9 45. And of course, that was sergeant pierces husband. He told me off camera that he does want ortiz charged as an adult. Reporting live, kirsten, fox 35 news. Tomorrow, the state sentt will consider a bill that would expand the use of medical marijuana in florida. The only form of legal medical pot in florida is called charlottes web. Youve heard of it. Well, its a low thc form of marijuana that doesnt get you high, but it is still not available to patients who may need it because of court challenges. A republican rob bradleys bill is called the right to try act. It would let terminally ill patients try cannabis or other experimental medical treatments and several bills that would legalize medical marijuana that are right now working their way through the state legislature and that constitutional amendment will be back on the ballot in november. And only on fox tonight, the one Central Florida family isnt going to wait any longer for access to charlottes web. Theyre leaving the state and is more readily available. Williams has more on their desperate move snooped youre about to meet a family that has made the painful decision to pack up everything and move from this ocala neighborhood across the comorbidity to colorado for their young son. They tell me, colorados medical marijuana laws play a big part in the reason why. Hes only 5 years old, but for a moment, put yourself in seans shoes. From the time he was a month old, all we know is hospitals. Doctors. Specialists, surgery. Its hard. Its hard, seans mother says because he lives are chronic lung disease. Dozens of medications, epilepsy, a hole in his heart, autism, and a traik in his throat. The list goes on. Theyre making a desperate decision for seans sake. Boxes all over the house, a sign ive tried really hard to find specialists that will help him. And i just cant. Theres no medical marijuana here. So the family is moving more than 1,000 miles away, to colorado. What im really hoping for is that it will help with his seizures. It will be down. Im not thinking, were going to go and its going to be a miracle. My heart breaks for the florida families who need medical cannabis. State repmatt gates is one of the lawmakers who drafted and sponsored the charlottes web medical Marijuana Bill which lawmakers passed in 2014. It gives certain families access to low thc cannabis, but the role out is slow. Gates tells me as of last week, there are now florida businesses who are allowed to legally grow medical marijuana. But theres no excuse for a few years away. Everyone on staff, myself included, and now weve got to do everything we can to green so that people dont have to make the decision to leave our state in order to keep a Family Member alive. Gates says he believes patients will have access to medical cannabis by the end of this fall. I dont have time like that. Im going to bury my son. Thats my biggest fear. Suesio says shes doing whatever it takes for her family. As a parent, you have to do what you have to do. David williams, fox 35 news. The florida Highway Patrol says that a hit and run suspect in Orange County should have never been behind the wheel in the first place. Troopers say valuen teen has never had a drivers license. The guatemalan has been in orlando for seven years. This morning, troopers say he was driving drunk on ontario and failed to stop at a red light and causeed a Chain Reaction crash involving four cars. 42 yearold brett adams was killed. Troopers say the suspect was found passed out in the drivers in brevard county, a medical anymorer is looking into the deaths of a father and his daughter inside their Merritt Island home. Theyve been identified as 42 yearold sid chi boon keen and his 13 yearold daughter, anonia. Investigators believe the fathers death was a suicide, but they didnt give any further information. The 13 yearold girl was a student at tropical elementary school. Investigators say right now theyre not looking for any suspects. The the search for answers continue tonight where the search for baby willow turns umempty again. Orlando Police Found Nothing after draining a pond near the willow bend apartments. They believe a woman delivered and immediately abandoned hr baby girl last week. Weckers found the placenta in the parking lot. Richardson remains in jail, but isnt giving any information to investigators. On a health alert tonight, the number of those infected with the zika virus in our state now rices to 28. Case in Orange County. That bring to tote in Orange County to two. So far, all travel related. Employees at the International Airport are now passing out flyers about the mosquito born illness and workers have started mosquitos. Developing tonight, an uber Driver Police say is mind a shooting rampage appeared in court. Michigan prosecutors say jason dalton admitted to being involved in those shooting in the kalamazoo area. Dalton has no prior criminal record. Six people died, several more of injured in those ngs. Police say the victims were randomly targeted, all while dalton continued to pick up uber passengers. I half heartedly joked at him and said youre not the shooter are you and he said no and i said are you sure and he said, no, im just really tired. Uber Officials Say dalton did pass their backed checks. Investigators found weapons while executing a search warrant. In just hours, Republican Voters in nevada will be making their choice in the gop caucuses. Ted cruzs campaign is dealing with accusations of underhanded political tactics yet again. Cruz says he has his Campaign Spokesperson to resign for tweeting a story that falsely claimed that rubio had insulted the bible, speaking at a Campaign Stop in elko, nevada, today, rubio said he accepted an apology from a cruz Campaign Spokesperson. This morning, i asked for rick tylers resignation. I had made clear in this campaign that we will conduct this campaign with the very highest standards of integrity. Rick tylers a good man. This was a aggressive error of judgment. Whos going to be held accountable for making up this video . Who was held accountable about lying for ben carson and who was held accountable for the robo television they had to pull down . I think its a very disturbing pattern of deceptive campaigns and flat out just lying to voters. Well, donald trump of course leads the polls in nevada ahead of tomorrows caucuses where there are 30 republican delegates up for grabs in our political panel. Well be here tomorrow night at 10 00 as the results are coming in from the nevada caucus. The democrats, meantime, are campaigning in South Carolina ahead of their saturday primary. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton spent her day in hollywood raising Campaign Cash at private fund raisers. In the meantime, Bernie Sanders campaigned in South Carolina with actor danny glover, looking to atract African American support. Clinton has now pulled ahead of sanders in a race for delegates awarded in primaries and caucuses. A florida teen fighting for her life tonight after a freak tonight, how her family and Community Came together to get her back into the United States for medical treatment. Also, a florida lawmakers, theyre getting ready to vote on the controversial proposal. How it could affect samesex marriages all across our state. And orlando businessman turning a crime against him into a unique convention. How this Fashion Designer created a suit case that can catch thieves in the act. Good monday evening, everyone. Gina here with a look at your i forecast. The good news, theres not a whole a lot of work going on this week, but there are a couple projects i do want to make you aware of. The first is on i4 westbound from lee down to fair banks. 1 right lane closed all week long, every night from 8 30 p. M. And should wrap up at 6 00 a. M. Each day. Here on fair banks, well also slay left lane closed happening underneath i4. Its on the eastbound and westbound sides. Youre traveling through this area during the overnight hours. And remember, you can check out traffic and construction updates on your own smartphone. Download the fox 35 weather and traffic app, text the key word `. New at 10 00, a College Student from florida critically injured during a freak accident while on a trip to columbia. A medical flight from dialer back to in order tonight. Her grandfather is optimistic. He says skylars a fighter. Aungelique davis has the story from tampa. She has a deep drive to explore. When you try to change the world, getting everyone in the world involved is the only way to do it, i feel. And friday, one of kylers excursions nearly cost her her life. South america on a yale internship program. Kyle skylar and a friend were swimming in a river when a boulder fell from 30 feet above, crushing skylars skull. We spoke to her friend by phone. I had absolutely no hope at that point that she was alive and that shes alive right now is only by the grace of god and the strength of this incredible woman. The skylar was pulled from hospital. She suffered critical injuries to her skull, brain and eyes. Her grandfather says the accident has been devastatingly surreal. What are the chances of some freak thing like this, a boulder coming off the side of a mountain right where she was . As skylar fights for her life, family and friends, including the Berkeley Prep community are coming together, raising money online to cover out of pocket expenses and an air ambulance to get mer back home. In just two days, more than 10,030,000 has been raised. This says a lot about who impacted us as a community, but also her friends. Because theyre really reaching out, trying to spread the word quickly. Program members say those positive thoughts and prayers are working. Skylars stable enough to be flown back to the u. S. While she is in a medically induced coma, loved ones say theyre confident their fighter is going to pull through. Theres no limit to the power of prayer. Having gone this far, i know shes gonna be okay. Aungelique davis, fox 35 news. Tonight, were starting with a new series, calling it home grown where we show you the latest and greatest in technology thats been created right here in orlando. A local fashion stylist to the stars got ripped off while traveling. So he decided to turn his anger into a new invention. That turns the camera back on the bad guys. Heres fox 35s keith landrydria. When it comes to fashion, feel, mar coddee is definitely part of the in crowd, the stylist, has worked with nicki minaj, the vander pumps from the real house wives, journalist joan london and megan cell empty but it was his own fashion faux pas that led him to create his latest masterpiece. Someone busted into his designer suit cases, stole his laptop. He got the bag back, but the computer stuck with celebrity client info was gone. That inspired him to create acis, the first web connected smart luggage tracker. The thing that really sets acis apart is the technology, the worlds first and only gps luggage tracker with hidden cameras inside. The bad guys dont even realized theyre being photographed and recorded. Acis is physically right there, looking right up at you and literally this will help them identify in clear visual luggage. This device looks like a luggage lock, but its really a censor. When you touch the tag to open the suit case, it tells hidden cameras inside the suit case to person who opens the luggage. The images are streamed to a server so police and Airline Investigators can access the evidence, all caught on camera. That first image of that person opening your luggage is what is probably the gold for us because we can track it back to every individual that accessed your lug sxj hopefully catch the thief, the actual thief red handed. This can help airlines, remove bad seeds who might steel items from your luggage after youve checked it. Stolen items from luggage from around the country and here in orlando, the tsa released data showing Orlando International passengers filed over 2000 claims of stolen, damaged, or lost items from 2010 to 2014. Its pretty frightening, actually, to know that my stuff isnt safe. Acis doesnt just answered who took the bag, but where they put it. You can punch in a code to request the gps location of your luggage. Map that basically shows you its exact location and gives you an opportunity to walk or drive to it if its out of the perimeter. A fashion easta turnser, who hopes the turn the bright lights on the bad guys trying to ruin your next trip. This way, you can enjoy your trip and know when you get to the other side, your stuff is there. Now, mucotta says hes beta testing this at operate all across the United States and in International Cities this year. Hes working to make the system available later on this year. Clouds continue to thicken and our chance for storms, building. Ill have your latest forecast. Folks here in leesburg, near the intersection ofpo and regular roads, pretty upset tant because a local auto dealer wants to rezone this land. Well tell you why, coming up. And later, were on the consumer corner to tell you how pp. Do not need the sun screen advice my wife gave me yesterday, and thats what happens. It was sunny over the weekend. It sure was. Clouded up today. Showers around the way, and if your cars outside, rideoids fast. Free car wash. Few showers right now popping up across the area, mainly out across western Orange County, Northern Lake county and also more additional rain showers. No storms currently out across osceola county. Notice the showers building. We expect to see scattered showers late this evening and during the overnight. Here they are. Theyre moving up to the north right now. Lake apopka getting some showers. Pushing north and northeast. Additional showers also a little farther out towards just to the west of casselberry in altmot springs, those showers also on the way towards heath row. A little farther south, light showers, dissipating. Some stylings showers to the south of st. Cloud. Theyre moving up in your direction. Theyll be there in 15 more minutes. 69 degrees right now in sanford. 71 in melbourne. Dew points are up so temperatures, theyre up, too. Look at the winds right now. Mainly coming up from the south. Well keep the humidity high. Were going to take our chance of rain, drop it off a little later on tonight. Then start to ramp it up again. During the day tomorrow, dew points again. Upper 50s now to low 60s. It was just about 3 or 4 days ago, dew points in the 30s and 40s. The air was oh, so nice and dry. But the humidity is back. 70 degrees, live picture so we get a few showers possible for this evening. More rain showers tomorrow. And then a line of nast estorms possible as we go through the day on wednesday. Skies will be clearing on thursday e then that much cooler weather moves in as we head into the end of the week. Thursday, and then through the weekend. 73 in miami right now. Balmy there. 64 in jacksonville. Sockton with the clouds and scattered a little shower. So again, these showers this evening, way out ahead the this first wave of rain. Now, this first wave of showers will be affecting us, this next one here, as we go through the day tomorrow. Again, this moisture, this area of clouds out to our west and southwest. So again, thats tomorrow afternoon. Then we get a little break and then its this one right here. Still in new mexico. Just moved through albuquerque, now moving out towards dallas. That drops down to the northern gulf, picks up energy, spits up a cold front and that will throw the chance of Severe Weather our way wednesday. Heres whats going to happen based on our computer model. This is 4 00 later tonight, tomorrow morning, showers lifting north. Tomorrow, starting out dry and scattered showers form about 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Notice, theyre widely scattered across the area. However, a rumble or two of thunder is possible tomorrow evening. But nothing bad, nothing severe. And then we get a little break. Then we get to wednesday. This is about 11 00 in the morning. Showers,

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