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Orlando City, Orlando Pride to announce new stadium naming rights

Orlando City, Orlando Pride to announce new stadium naming rights
STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS AND THAT BREAKING NEWS. MULTIPLE INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED AFTER A VEHICLE WAS HIT BY A BRIGHTLINE TRAIN IN MELBOURNE. WESH TO SCOTT HEIDLER SPOKE WITH THE OFFICIALS JUST MOMENTS AGO AND JOINS US NOW FROM THAT SCENE. SCOTT. YES, THEY TOLD US THIS IS THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER OF THE MELBOURNE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY ARE LEADING THE INVESTIGATION HERE. THEY SAY THEY GOT THE CALL JUST AFTER 2:00 FOR A CAR AND A BRIGHTLINE TRAIN COLLISION. NOW THIS IS JUST OFF W.H.H. JACKSON STREET. NOW, THE BRIGHTLINE TRAIN WAS HEADED NORTHBOUND, AND THE VEHICLE THAT WAS DAMAGED IN THIS IS BEING DESCRIBED AS A CROSSOVER SUV. IT. IS STILL ON THE SCENE HERE, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT CSI WHITE VAN THERE. INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL HERE. OBVIOUSLY. SO ARE BRIGHTLINE OFFICIALS. THEY ARE HERE INVESTIGATING. NOW THE TRAIN IS STILL ON THE TRACKS. IT’S JUST UP THE TRACKS. PROBABLY. I’D SAY MAYBE A COUPLE OF HUNDRED YARDS BY A PROSPECT AVENUE THAT IS STILL THERE. WHAT WE KNOW TO COMING FROM THE POLICE IS THERE WERE MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE CAR, FOUR PEOPLE IN THE CAR, AND THERE ARE MULTIPLE INJURIES. WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THOSE INJURIES JUST YET, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT THEY THAT THEY HAD TO SOME OF THEM HAD TO BE EXTRACTED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HERE. NOW AGAIN, THE BRIGHTLINE TRAIN WAS TRAVELING NORTHBOUND JUST AFTER 2:00. WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THESE INJURIES, BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN A CONCERN HERE BECAUSE BRIGHTLINE COMING THROUGH THIS PART OF BREVARD COUNTY IN THE SOUTH, WHICH IS PRETTY POPULATED HERE, PARTICULARLY AROUND THE MELBOURNE AREA, WAS A CONCERN. UM, THIS IS AN INCIDENT, YOU KNOW, THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BRACING FOR. BUT AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE BRIGHTLINE OFFICIALS LEADING UP TO THE LAUNCH OF THE SERVICE, THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, HAD A PUBLIC AWARENESS PROGRAM AND THEN UNDERLINE IN THE PAST THAT A LOT OF THESE INCIDENTS ARE PEOPLE GOING AROUND THE GATES. NO DETAILS OF THAT. NOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE’RE WAY TOO EARLY IN THE INVESTIGATION TO MAKE ANY KIND OF STATEMENT ABOUT THAT. THE POLICE ARE HERE STILL OBVIOUSLY, WITH THE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION AND ALL THE OTHER DETECTIVES FROM THE MELBOURNE POLICE DEPARTMENT. REPORTING LIVE IN MELBOURNE, SCOTT HEIDLER WESH TWO NEWS. GALAXY MIDDLE SCHOOL IN DELTONA WAS ON A HOLD AFTER A REPORT OF A STUDENT WITH A GUN ON CAMPUS. WESH 2’S VOLUSIA COUNTY REPORTER PAMELA COMB JOINS US LIVE NOW FROM THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND, PAMELA, YOU SPOKE WITH PARENTS WAITING IN LINE TO PICK UP THEIR KIDS. YEAH, I DID, AND ABOUT THREE HOURS AGO, THIS SCHOOL, I MEAN, THE CARS WERE WRAPPED AROUND THE SCHOOL. A LOT OF PARENTS ANXIOUS AFTER THEY GOT CALLS FROM STUDENTS, FROM THEIR KIDS CRYING AND ASKING TO BE PICKED UP. NOW, WE DID CATCH UP WITH THE VOLUSIA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, AND THEY SAID THAT THEY GOT AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT THAT THERE WAS A GUN ON CAMPUS AND A STUDENT WAS DETAINED, AND NO GUN WAS FOUND. BUT THE SCHOOL REMAINED ON A HOLD AS DEPUTIES INVESTIGATED. THIS MEANS STUDENTS HAD TO CLEAR THE HALLWAYS AND STAY IN THE CLASSROOMS. WHILE THIS HOLD WAS IN PLACE. IT WAS THEN LIFTED AT AROUND 1 P.M. NOW AT AROUND ONE. THAT’S WHEN MORE PARENTS STARTED ROLLING IN, SOME LEAVING THEIR CARS PARKED ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD SO THEY COULD GO IN AND PULL THEIR KIDS OUT EARLY. ONE GRAND MOM SAYS THAT SHE WOULD FEEL MORE AT EASE IF SCHOOLS ADDED METAL DETECTORS. THEY HAD TO PUT MORE SECURITY IN THE SCHOOL BECAUSE WE DON’T GO TO HER NO FUTURE, YOU KNOW, THE CHILDREN ARE SO SCARED TO GO TO SCHOOL NOW. RECENTLY, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DECIDED TO ADD SEVEN SCHOOL RESOURCE DEPUTIES ACROSS VOLUSIA COUNTY GALAXY MIDDLE WAS ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT AS OF THIS YEAR, NOW HAS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER ON CAMPUS. THIS IS TO HELP DECREASE THE NUMBER OF SERIOUS INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS. NOW, I JUST GOT A MESSAGE FROM THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE REGARDING THE KID THAT MADE A STATEMENT THAT HE HAD A GUN ON HIM, AND THEY ARE SAYING THAT HE IS BEING CHARGED WITH CAMPUS DISRUPTION AND FALSE REPORT OF
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Orlando City, Orlando Pride to announce new stadium naming rights
ABOVE: A look at the top storiesExploria Stadium located along Church Street and Parramore Avenue will be getting a new name. Orlando City and Orlando Pride announced Wednesday they will reveal a new naming rights partner for their downtown Orlando stadium on Jan. 18. The stadium first opened in 2017 as Orlando City Stadium and currently seats 25,500. The amount paid for the construction of the stadium was $155 million, privately funded by previous team owner Flavio Augusto da Silva. In 2019, Exploria Resorts partnered with Orlando City Soccer Club for the naming rights of the stadium. Since opening, the stadium has hosted Orlando City and Orlando Pride as well as high school and college football. Top headlines: Frightening pictures, videos show severe storm damage in Florida Panhandle Student in custody as Volusia deputies investigate report of person with gun at middle school Tilted house turns heads after Florida Panhandle town hit by suspected tornado

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Exploria Stadium located along Church Street and Parramore Avenue will be getting a new name.

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Orlando City and Orlando Pride announced Wednesday they will reveal a new naming rights partner for their downtown Orlando stadium on Jan. 18.

The stadium first opened in 2017 as Orlando City Stadium and currently seats 25,500.

The amount paid for the construction of the stadium was $155 million, privately funded by previous team owner Flavio Augusto da Silva.

In 2019, Exploria Resorts partnered with Orlando City Soccer Club for the naming rights of the stadium.

Since opening, the stadium has hosted Orlando City and Orlando Pride as well as high school and college football.

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