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WOFL FOX 35 News At 5 February 23, 2016

The home, they discovered the womans son, 29yearold blake howard, dead. Miss ortega planned the murder of her son blake howard, and again shot him multiple times while he was in the shower. Reporter officers are still trying to determine a motive but call this a Domestic Violence case. For neighbors its disturbing. And he said it was very hard living with his mother because she was a hoarder and spend money and hoard. And he said he was trying to help her change. Reporter ortega is charged with premeditated murder. Fox 35 news. Thank you. Got a news alert right now. A teenage boy is accused of running down an Orange County deputy. Hes going to be locked up for at least the next month. That deputy showed up in court today on crutches. Holly has the very latest. Reporter well, the emotion as he walked into court today. He had a goofy look on his face. The deputy came in very emotional and left with her heart on her sleeve. Walking into the Juvenile Justice Center with the help of her husband and a crutch, Sergeant Marcy Pearce tried to be upbeat. I got the stitches out a little bit ago. Reporter her face is still black and blue. Its obvious shes still in a lot of pain. Shes wearing a brace on her right wrist and walking with a cast on her left foot. The scene that left her in this condition still weighing heavily on her mind. Im scared for my life. Going fast. Too fast. Reporter as she walked in to face the teen accused of trying to run her over and kill her with what deputies say is a stolen car. Jan Jancarlos Ortiz had a goofy look on his face when he faced the judge. Jancarlos ortiz. Reporter the judge ruled 30 days. The first 21 days are four the four burglary charges he was going to be arrested on last night when deputies say ortiz slammed on the gas and aimed right for the officer. The decision to charge a juvenile as as as an adult is serious and we want to go through and everything that we have what we need to make sure hes charged as an adult if that amize. Reporter deputies in uniform philadelphia more than half the courtroom, sitting filled more than half the courtroom, sitting behind parnlg sergeant pearce, showing her support. She wipes tears from her eyes. He tried to kill me. To have all these people around mere. Were waiting to see when the Attorneys Office will decide whether or not theyre going to charge ortiz as a juvenile or adult. That could change when his next court date is. As things stand now, hell go before a judge again on march 17th. Just in right now, two students at uma tella high school arrested. Theyre accused of bringing a gun on campus. The Lake County Sheriffs Office tipped off the boy had that gun. Deputies confronted the teen who admitted he had gotten the gun from another student. The gun didnt work. There was no ammunition. During the investigation the teens told deputies that they had planned to give it to another student to fix. Another case of the zika virus to report. This time in seminole county. The first case there. That makes 29 cases statewide and all of them are travelrelated. We can tell you that cdc officials have arrived in brazil, which is the source of the outbreak, and theyre testing blood from women and children to learn more about the virus link to birds effects. U. S. Herbal Health Officials say theyre investigating 14 possible infection that is may have been spread through sexual contact, all involving men who visited areas with vicea outbreaks zika outbreaks and possibly infected their partners two of those 14 cases include pregnant women whose infections are confirmed. More breaking news, this is out of Orange County. A woman is in serious condition. She was hit by a semi. It happened at sand lake road and kings point parkway this afternoon. Troopers say the driver was trying to make a right turn when the trailer portion of the truck hit 68yearold teresa vasquez. Were told the driver initially stopped and then took off when police arrived. Call if youve got any clues. Weve got some scattered showers out there today, but thunderstorms are on the way for tomorrow. And some of them could be strong. Lets check in with chief meteorologist glen richards. Everything going as planned. Live radar picking up scattered showers for us. Heavier downpours to the west and the threat of Severe Weather toward new braunfels. Looks like thats new orleans. Thats the approaching tomorrow. We had some showers go through the metro area. Around the Ocala Gainesville area. A replay since about 1 00 from this afternoon. Showing the showers drifting to the north and to the northeast. We expected to see rain for this evening and that has been the case. These showers will be moving offshore later this evening. Some scattered showers in gainesville back towards fort mccoy lifting north and northeast. Tomorrow. This is 10 00 a. M. Here comes the line of thunderstorms moving towards us. And through the afternoon, the storms will be hitting the downtown area. Well talk more about the intensity of those storms and have your forecast through the upcoming weekend. Thats coming up. Thanks. Three more Marion County deputies in hot water after talk of drugs and Excessive Force. All three resigned over the past few weeks. Kelly joyce is live to explain. Reporter hi, there. Were now looking at eight Marion County sheriffs deputies in the last two months that have been indicted on charges or they have resigned because of at them. This is a picture from march 2014. Deputy eduardo boozete monte was awarded. Nearly two years later, bus temante is under investigation accused of abusing his power. He rezipped on friday after resigned on friday. The States Office is also looking into allegations. Investigators looked at Police Reports and videos like this one of the deputy responding to a call. And in many cases they say the two didnt match up. The report says we identified two cases her there was both an allegation of exisive Excessive Force and supporting evidence. It says he illegally searched peoples cars and wrote fault statements in Police Reports. And someone was arrested on misdemeanor marijuana charges. Because of this, the sheriffs deputies actions. Were going to continue to increase our checks and balances in our audit system. Were going to begin pulling videotapes from officers randomly throughout the month. To make sure that our videos matching up with our statements. And were being proactive. Reporter two other deputies resigned last month after internal affairs say they had evidence one of the deputies was using drugs. Another deputy who investigators knew her coworker was doing drugs also resigned for not reporting it. Add to this, five deputies criminally charged last month for beating a drug sect in august suspect in august 2014. Four pleaded guilty a. Trial is pending guilty. A trial is pending for the fifth. We have to protect the citizens and a great majority of our employees here come to work fight the good fight, and do the right things for the citizens of Marion County. Reporter now, the state for a closer look. Kelly joyce, fox 35 news. Breaking news, near smyrna beach. This is skyfox live over an area near lake ashley cove. Highway 46 near the 415a controlled burn that got out of control. Approaching homes near lake ashley cove. No injuries reported, but we are keeping an eye to make sure that controlled burn stays within boundaries. Well keep you posted. A Second Chance for a millionaire developer whos convicted of killing his wife. Perhaps the judge ruling now that bob ward deserves a new trial because of some things that his original attorney did not do. Lets talk with alisa cherny. I think we all remember the bob ward case allegedly now shot his wife pretty much point blank range. Thats the accusation. Information they should not have, basically violating bob wards right to remain silent . Reporter right. So basically what happened is a judge on monday granted him a new trial on the basis of what his original trial attorneys didnt do. So bob ward said that his trial attorneys failed to object to every time when the state made reference to something he didnt say or didnt do while in custody. And that violated his right to remain silent. Is this technicality obviously, its substantially enough that theyre substantial enough that theyre going to give him another trial. But this doesnt really it shouldnt change the outcome of the case. I think they had enough evidence against him, including i think there was residue on his hands showing he was the one who fired the weapon. Reporter sure. So well have to see how this proceeds to trial. Debate as to, you know, how she died. She died from a closerange gunshot wound. This is diane ward, bob wards wife. Right. Reporter but during the trial, his attorneys maintained that the state did not prove that he was the one who, you know, shot her after an argument, which is their theory. The defense attorney said that a number of things could have happened in the bedroom. It could have been an interrupted suicide, a struggle offer the gun. So over the gun. So their case was basically the state didnt prove what they needed to do. Reporter thank you so much. Thank you. Coming up, space explorers of the future trying to save money. Just like you and me. Ligbach at the coast tomorrow. Big launch at the coast tomorrow. Scientists bank ogreuseable rockets. Banking on reuseable rockets. Another major hit to trumps campaigns credibility. Im joel walton in washington. Story straight ahead. Just about 24 hours from now, another big launch in brevard county. The spacex team determined to perfect reuseable rockets. Reporter at the moment, the launch of a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket from here in Cape Canaveral is timed at about the same time as the forecast for a very large storm system thats going to be passing over the area. Around 6 46 in the evening tomorrow. Still, spacex feels they have a pretty good chance to get the launch off, because they have an hour and 37minute window so they can hope that the storm passes over and still get that rocket off. Spacex is planning to launch a satellite for a lucksen borg company, providing Television Asian pacific. The rocket has been revised and is more powerful and will propel the satellite into a geo stationary orbit, 22 miles above the surface of the earth. Thats the primary mission, but spacex continues to experiment with landing the first stage booster to reuse rockets so they can reduce the cost of space flight. You may recall, back in december, spacex pulled off an historic landing of their first stage booster here at the Cape Canaveral air force station. But the Young Company is continuing to attempt barge landings out in the ocean. The most recent in january off the coast of california, where the booster came down softly enough and as you can see, really stuck the landing, but then one of the landing legs gave out, causing the 200foot tall booster to topple over and explode. Spacex is going to try that charge landing again here getting it right after numerous failures. The c. E. O. Elon musk through tweets has said its still important for spacex to master the barge landing because not every booster has enough fuel to make it back to land. Now, the air force weather officer puts the chances for launch at 6 46 tomorrow evening at 60 . Thats because of that long 1 hour 37minute launch window. The next opportunity is on thursday. The chances go up to 80 chance for launch. At the Cape Canaveral air force station, fox 35 news. You dide side 2016. Decide 2016. Nevada republicans caucus for their favorite candidates. Frontrunner donald trump seeking a third win. Joe has the latest from the campaign trail. Reporter its a snippet of video that caused ted cruzs Communications Director job, make it appear marco rubio believes the bible is void of answers. But theres one problem. This is what rubio really said on tape. Reporter ted cruz calling the edited video a grave error of judgment, continuing his damage control, getting back onmental. For me its real simple. Ive got two guidebooks. The bible and the constitution. Reporter never missing an opportunity to go on the attack, donald trump pouncing on cruz using his weapon of choice. Marco rubio has apologized to ben carson and cruz for dirty tricks. Trump also battling it out with john kasich, the becomeaire beating the governor in a few in the billionaire beating the governor. I will beat donald trump in ohio. Well be fine in ohio. Respectable finish and be able to accumulate delegates. Reporter four days ahead of the South Carolina democratic primary, Bernie Sanders picking up a celebrity endorsement, with spike lee saying sanders will do the right thing. In washington, joe walledson, fox 35 waldman, fox 35 news. The ballots already pouring in. More than a quarter million cast in florida so far. We have the latest here. Thats five times the number of voters expected to caucus in nevada today. And thousands of absentee ballots are flowing through the elections office. Not a big surprise to Orange County supervisor of elections. Open president ial year, and then on top of that, we have we had two favorite sons from the state of florida on the ballot. So from that standpoint i think all the things were lining up active voter participation. Hundreds of those ballots likely to say, jobs, because they were jeb bush, because they were made before he dropped out of the race. Bill has some advice. He says you may want to wait until after super on march 1st to see if anyone else drops out of the race before you send in that ballot. Early voting starts next monday. Thank you. You can checking in with glenn richards. I think its tomorrow we get the wave of rain. Cooler air behind it. Yes, from the 80s today and tomorrow to the 60s. Well get some upper 50s. Big changes on the way. Live radar right now, currently picking out schowrts. We expected scattered showers. We expected to see activity for this afternoon and this evening and that has been the case. Heres a replay. Rain showers moving through, but notice as they go to the in order, they break up. One cell over the cape moving offshore and one thunderstorm. Just one bolt of lightning over the last 15 minutes. That rain is offshore now. Gainesville, youve seen some on and off showers. Its this one right here putting out, right there, a little bit of lightning. About ready to pass over i75 as its moving north and northeast. So if you have some evening plans, chance for a shower for the next one to two hours. But for the most part, its going to be rainfree. Temperatures right now, very warm. Still mid to upper 70s. Winds right now mainly out of the south and east. Eastsoutheast in mel biewrch, about melbourne. 10 to 15mileanhour wind. Skies. 75 degrees. So overall, it is going to be a very comfortable evening and overall a nice night. Clouds will begin to thicken late and into the hours right after dawn, so up to about 8 00, 9 00 in the morning, showers begin to build out to the west. And they will be advancing on metro orlando. Evening showers again, moving offshore. Rounds of showers and best bet for that is going to be basically between about 11 00 in the morning, 5 00 in the afternoon. Thats your best chance of rain tomorrow. 75 in tampa. 77 in miami. 70 in pensacola. The rain is from this storm system which yesterday was located in texas, now moving through louisiana. Look at the tornado warnings. Mississippi moving towards alabama. This energy and rotation is going to go to the north so its going to take Severe Weather well away from us. Tomorrow at about 9 00 to 9 30, rain and a few thunderstorms, moving into the metro area. Noon to 1 00 p. M. Thats 3 00 p. M. Notice again how it really falls apart. This is 5 00 tomorrow evening. Some lingering showers along the coast, and then by 7 00, showers will begin to move off shore. The skies will begin to clear. Our sevenday forecast, 81 for tomorrow. 60 chance for the showers and thunderstorms. Again a slight risk of Severe Weather. End of the week, lots of sunshine. But it will be cool. Always like when he puts in awesome in the forecast. Just to drive the point home. Thank you. The president fights to close a controversial prison. But republican critics say he is crossing the line. When i first ran for president , it was widely recognized that this facility needed to close. This is the president of the re to respect the law of the0 constitution. The odds0 of Guantanamo Bay detainees being moved to the you know, straight ahead. A tech icon and the u. S. Attorney general, now weigh if on the apple case versus the f. B. I. Well tell you what theyre fox alert, plea bargain laying out his plans to shut down the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, asking congress to allow the pentagon to move gitmos remaining detained to the United States. There are currently 91 prisoners, but its expected to shrink to below 60 by the summer. Well continue to securely and responsibly transfer to other countries the 35 detainees out of the 91 that have been approved for transfer. Two Big Questions with our plittal editor craig patrick. What what are the chances through this through congress . Better than ever being born. The Republican Senate are not interested in confirming a nominee to the supreme court. He will not be interested in moving forward on this or much of anything the president plans to do. The goal of the Republican Congress appears to be to wait this president out on what remains to be in this case an Unfulfilled Campaign promise going back to 2007. And with this it effectively puts the president behind the 8 ball. Could he go around congress and make it happen through executive order . We

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