And weighs 140 pounds. He has a teardrop shaped tattoo below his right eye. Establishing mark. No doubt. At 6 00, we will look at the prisoner transport protocol to see if this incident could have been avoided. Live in jessup, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Larry thanks. We are looking at the Wicomico County. The guards were transporting him when he escaped. Scott has more from the live desk on what the team found out. Scott they call this a Detention Center. This is a county jail with issues. I have the issues right here. In 2000, the u. S. Department of justice found the facility in rough shape. The d. O. J. Found the police understaffed, in need of repairs and the medical program needed an overhaul. It opened in 1988. Handles 6,000 offenders a year. Capacity is david watson arrived at the Detention Center thursday from a delaware prison. Usually the facility only hold inmates serving up to a maximum sentence of 18 months. Webster was here to face more charges. This type of the transport
I 4 after a worker was killed on the job. We will open when were ready. Asking how long it could take to get the project back on track. Split 5 am thursday, february 25. We check weather and traffic every 10 minutes. Deneige broom following compute the commute. Lets get started with certified meteorologist Brian Shields and Severe Weather center 9. We got rid of the wet stuff. It will be cooler but a lot of sun and windier weather today. Chilly this morning and temperatures are dropping. We will have 40s shortly. Have a jacket this one. 51 Daytona Beach, 53 separate, 53 clermont, 55 in orlando. Scattered clouds in spots. They will quickly clear out the picture and we will have plenty of sun. Winds out of the west and northwest at 10 to 15 miles an hour it will because you today. Winds gusting over 30 miles an hour. Outdoor, windy day. Altamonte springs, sunshine and staying dry. Midsixties this afternoon. We will track city by city how strong winds will be. 5 01 am. Checking the drive
They have stopped work on the jobsite and have not said yet when construction will start again. In light of the incident, we felt it was best to shut down. Were going to take the time to take a look at all of our protocols, make sure that we are ready to start back, and we will start back when they are ready. The project director you just heard from said federal investigators are now investigating this incident. They are with osha and we will continue to keep you posted and let you know when construction starts back up. Julie spellman, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Raking within the last hour, search underway for a boater. A man was reported missing. The boat was found this morning with no one on board. The Orange County Sheriffs Office is leading the search effort. Were trying to get more Eyewitness News at 10 and 11. A rather Weather Radio system is back up and running after an outage. The system went down again today right the middle of Severe Weather. We reached out to the National We
I called the National Weather Service Headquarters in silver springs, maryland, and im waiting to hear back with answers to questions about reliability. Hopefully i will have questions answered in the next few hours. A good example of why you need a backup to Something Like this and you can get that on your cell phone with the wftv weather app. Something chief certified meteorologist tom terry knows about. And you know about how dangerous the system was before it got here to central florida. You are right. You need to code two forms of communication. A weather app is a good new tool. So in you right now, you can see the time lapse, showers heavy thunderstorms moving through the east coast Early Warning doppler nine radar showing the last bit of heavy downpours of the mims area coming up shortly but the beach, the south and new smyrna with heavy downpours on rainfall in south florida. Some of this energy out leaving behind a lot of winds. Wftv. Com gus over 40 miles an hour along the co
Other side of that dirt mound. If we can go to video we want to show you the bread dump truck that backed over Marvin Franklin. He was with sgl constructors for about one month. Riomar morales was driving the dump truck. The crash is being investigated it may construction been stopped. Officials say everyone is grieving. Sgl constructors usually have 400 employees in 200 supervisors working on i 4 ultimate. Even though this is a horrible tragedy, we wondered why the entire 21 mile worksite is being shut down for an incident isolated to one area. I will keep pressing fdot and contractors for the information for Eyewitness News at 4 00. Live in Orange County, tim barber, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Within the hour we are expected to learn more about multiple arrest in Central Florida as part of the Drug Trafficking bust. Sheriff Jerry Cummings announced the results of the investigation at a news to do with heroin which has been a growing problem in recent years throughout Central Florida.