Environmental consultant did a site assessment. They did not find any significant environmental concerns. The city wrote the check and closed the deal. In 2015 just after this groundbreaking in september and the chiefs promise to the community our level of service will increase and it will be better for the citizens as a whole. The contractor while digging to pour the foundation found all sorts of car parts in the soil and said its contaminated. Its not surprising it was home to a salvage and junk yard. You can see the holes. The cost we have learned could be between 500,000 and 1 million to dig it up. Its a good lesson in buyer beaware because the fire station will likely cost you twice as much. To the fire chief today but the city said he was out of town. The city said theres an investigation into this soil that includes some tests that arent back yet. Once the tests come back they will know what kind of scope theyre dealing with here to clean up and then and only then will they know
Company leaders tell me that will be no more Artificial Insemination and female whales will be put on a version of residual as part of a strategy to make sure that natural breeding does not take place. The company has 29 orcas across the park with one baby on way. Seven killer whales are in orlando. All of them will be held in captivity for the rest of their lives according to the company and those whales live for decades meaning sea world will continue to have them for decades. The other big surprises the Humane Society of the United States announced they are after years of protesting sea whales. We came together because the public had really moved on in a lot of ways from some of the conventional practices at sea world. I think this is a monumental announcement that sea world saying it is going to and the breeding of orcas. There are questions here, the orcas are sticking around the clearly they cannot be the focus in the way they had been for decades. Im asking what sea world will l
The break a make or back vote in ohio. Where is Richard Simmons . The famous fitness guru gone from the spotlight for more than two years. New concerns this morning hes being held against his will. Now the superstar is speaking out. Im on the edge of floir from march madness to mayhem. After the tournament bracket leaks early the heartbreak over whos in and whos not. America. Us. We dont have to wait to back. Oh, my goodness im so happy to be sitting here and not just watching here. I was watching every morning with adrian. The ultimate multitask. Dancing, Good Morning America like other mothers. Happy to be back. We have a ton of weather to get to on the day i come back. We have flash flooding if the south. More than 3,000 rescued. The flooding carrying a flaming propane tank through water in louisiana. More on where that storm is coming. We begin with that breaking news overnight, an amtrak train with 142 people onboard derailed in kansas. 20 injured. Now passengers speaking about wh
Im sure the additional work going on inside exposed wood. You take drywall and other materials as burnable wood. Reporter fire officials are going to look for aggravating or contributing factors that may have helped the flames spread. Whatever the final discernment determination cocoa beach area residents say they will not see the likes of the Pumpkin Center again. It stood out then and stood out until it burned down. Deplorable thing that happened. Reporter as we walked along the beach to get a better look at the damage today, i ran into two men who used to work at this property when it was owned by newhart. Have a lot of memories to share on Eyewitness News at 5 mac. Live in cocoa beach, melonie holt, channel 9 Eyewitness News. It is still winter but Central Florida has checking in with chief certified meteorologist tom terry in Severe Weather center 9. Too soon. Yesterday we hit 90 yesterday we hit 91st 90 of the season and very close in seminole county. Deltona in sanford, 89 degre
Stay and answer additional questions or whatever you want to talk about. The life in the whit war of 18t for two and a half years. We dont call world war ii the war of 1941 to we dont call the civil war the world 1861 but we call it the war of 1812. Folks that support it and feel it was a positive thing called americas second war for independence. I think it was that. Its detractors call it an unnecessary war come and they think it was unnecessary. Thankfully we havent had an unnecessary war since then, right . [laughter] i call it the unknown war because no one does anything about it. My favorite president harry truman was characteristically blunt on the war of 1812 treaty, he called it the silliest damn war we ever fought. And they think it was that, too. It was a war that had we won, candidate would have been a state. And possibly we would have had a huge slave colony in mexico, maybe even cuba. Had we lost the war of 1812, we wouldve become once again a colony of britain. But after