After joining him for an interview Humane Society says his 2 million members setting a message committing 15 million to Animal Rescue and rehabilitation. A real history with the issue and excited about sea world redoubling the commitment to rescue in rehabilitation. On the no matter how long the whale survive at the park, changes are on the way in a few years and ive been asking park leaders what we can expect and i will let you know about the timeline for this park on Eyewitness News at 5 mac. Live in Orange County field sutton channel 9 Eyewitness News we contacted sea world officials to get an update on tolikum selfie we told you the order was sent from an infection in today sea world tells us tilikum is a guarded condition and they say hes been eating well and showing improvements in blood work. Decision will help or hurt the theme park . Join the conversation now at facebook. Com wftv. Breaking news out of Brevard County where another case of zika has been reported. There are 66 c
Were getting answers on how this happened. Its a little bit shocking. Ginger shocked and confused. An unusual traffic stop left that driver in tears. She feared he might have been a fake cop. But his true identity makes the story much stranger. Good evening, everyone. This is news 6 at 7 00 getting results. Im ginger gadsden. Lisa im lisa bell. Thanks for joining us. Julie and im julie broughton. A local business teams up with ucf students to get results for a 10yearold girl. Shes so independent. This is something that will help her maintain that independence. Julie independence with the help of a special gift, a new robotic arm. Her heartwarming gift, a little later. That organization is so amazing. Ginger well talk about that in a moment. But first, our top story right now, a woman says she was scared and confused and left sobbing, pulled over by a man in an investigators thought he might have been a fake cop, but news 6 has learned he was really an offduty trooper. Our reporter is a
Im just baffled. Ive never heard of someone not being able to identify a Police Officer by their uniform. What is her issue reporter shes referring to jessica jones, the 23yearold pulled over for speeding on the way to her groveland home saturday night. He had a flashlight above his left shoulder. I couldnt really see anything, just kind of a brown uniform. Reporter but jones says she still wasnt suspicious until the officer said he knew who she was. He said, oh, i think ive seen you around the neighborhood. Youre probably a few houses down from where i am. Thats when i thought, okay, anybody could say that. Reporter the officer let her go but she started crying and thats when witnesses called Clermont Police to tried to find the person who pulled her over but couldnt. Thats because police say the trooper in the unmarked car never called it in. So no one knew he was making the traffic stop on his own . Reporter but she says the trooper of 27 years did not violate any policy. Theyre not
All the way to lawnwood did not after that you can see whos blocking two lanes because of water was pulling on the interstate near par street causing a danger to drivers. People farther south felt the strong winds. Look at this wind damage in venice. Sarasota Sheriffs Office says no one was injured by this. And look at this video from one of our crews in orlando as they headed out for the story this morning. You can see the windshield wipers could not go back enough to keep up with the rain as they drove along mcguire boulevard neocolonial drive in orlando. And the rain may be over for now but as commented more is coming. Make sure youre prepared by downloading our free weather app to all of your mobile devices. Were following breaking news right now out of Volusia County where a body has been found in the st. Johns river. Skywitness 9 is live over the scene and investigators sent out both in divers to retrieve the body. We are told a man at a nearby fishing dock spotted a contacting d
For a while. Heres a live look over downtown orlando. Much improved. Its about to feel a lot colder for your weekend. This is news 6 at 5 00, getting results. Im matt austin. Im lisa bell. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells is pinpointing your weekend forecast for us. How cold is it going to get . Its going to drop into the 40s tonight and 30s tomorrow night. Right now, we have not budged a bit. Were holding in the 60s in most spots. Our rain is checking out, better and better all the time. Big severe thunderstorms long since gone, light lingering showers have been the problem since those cleared on out. You can see the frontal zone pushing through and dragging away much of that moisture. Weve got pockets of rain from Osceola County going to brevard but going to tampa a right now, theres not much going on, everything is good. Theres the blizzard for the folks in virginia and the d. C. Area. Were here on the bottom side where the cold front all the way down there right now. Your onthetown