Back up and chase the suspect. He maintained his composure. Reporter the suspect kept shooting at the officers who were on his tail. Leaned out the window and fired at the officers. Reporter he crashed in to a pickup truck on northwest 183rd street and 32nd avenue, he bailed and tried to make a run for it, Police Caught up to him in a neighbors backyard and took him in to custody. The day and age we are policing our communities and policing our country, the violence must stop. Reporter the chief tells me that no other officers were injured and that none of them fired their weapons during this ordeal, now, that suspect is being questioned at the Miami Gardens police department. Police are not releasing his identity and trying to figure out his motive behind the shooting. Gaby fleischman, cbs 4 news. With peter doench live at the hospital. You saw a Family Member arrive a short time ago . Reporter thats right. The officers wife was brought to the hospital in the past hour. Also here was genreererra, the president of the Police Benevolent association, he called this a total ambush and said in light of everything that happened, the officer was fortunate. The officer is doing okay. We are thankful he is alive. Reporter pba president has one thought about david starling. He is very, very lucky to be alive. He definitely had a Guardian Angel watching over him today. Ambush. He was sit there, finishing a report, as most Police Officers do on a regular basis and an individual decided he truck him once. Reporter starling was starling has been in Law Enforcement for more than 3 decades, with Jacksonville Police before joining Miami Gardens in 2007. He is married, starlings wife was brought to the hospital. He is doing okay. Years. The officer is doing good, non life threatening injuries. Every Police Officer we communicate with and that takes this job, knows the risk. We know the risk, we take the good and the bad. We are second guessed in every situation. When you take this job, you have an understanding that knows that you may not come home at the end of the day. Yet and still these officers for the city of Miami Gardens, they come to work everyday, focused. Reporter the chief and there are bad people on the streets instead of in prison trying to hurt Law Enforcement and doing anything to hurt society. Reporter now Law Enforcement source tells cbs 4 that officer starling is in good spirits, he will remain in the hospital overnight. Peter doench, jo cbs 4 news. Stay with cbs 4 news and cbsmiami. Com for continuing coverage on this story. Live look outside it is a wet and rainy day across south for thunderstorms today. Michael smith is in for forecast. But guess not. We got to get through the messy weather first. We are on the southern tail of the storm system impacting the southeast and the northeast with a ton of snow. Doppler radar. Heaviest rain, falling in homestead, cuttler bay, lifting north, northeast, at 30 miles an hour. Across metro broward, moderate to light rain, the heaviest rain is back off to the west, yes, it is moving in from the west moving off to east at 30 miles per hour. The storm chance will increase as we head through the afternoon. However, because we have seen the widespread rain and clouds this morning, the storm chance could be held back a bit. Now, key west, catching a break before the next round comes in, more on the forecast in a few minutes. Remember, you can track weather where ever you are, any time, download the miami weather app to your iphone or android. Find it in the i tunes store or in the google play store. We are keeping our eye on what the National Weather service could be a potentially historic snowstorm to hit the east coast. 77 Million People are in its path. John champion is in washington direct hit. Reporter the National Weather service says the snow and sleet that disrupted the commute in arkansas and north carolina, could turn in to one of the ten worst storms the east coast has ever seen. We see this as a major storm it has life and death implications. Reporter washington dcs mayor says her town is expected to get the brunt of the weather. Conditions not experienced in 90 years. Could be up to 3 feet of snow by sunday, schools and government offices are closed , the regions Mass Transit System will close later today. After getting caught off guard on wednesday, they are prepared with a fleet of 500 salt and plow trucksment blizzard watches and warnings exend to philadelphia where all flights are canceled tomorrow. The new york city area is expecting up to a foot, the new jersey coastline is preparing in sea aisle, the owner of mikes seafood moved his equipment higher than 34inch flood line left behind by super storm sandy. Tough watch things closer than we do. Its better that be prepared. Reporter the storm is expected to linger through several high tides. As the winter snowstorm approaches the east coast, Airlines Announced cancellations through the weekend. Some cancellations are impacting flights at Miami International airport. Gary nelson is live there with more details. Reporter here at Miami International airport, 15,000 American Airlines passengers alone will not be catching their flights anywhere up the saturday. At Fort Lauderdale departing flights scrubbed today and tomorrow as well. Filling with people going nowhere. On the departure and arrival boards, scores of Flights Canceled up and down the eastern sea board. American, mias biggest carrier scrubbed 50 flights today and tomorrow. From South Carolina to beyond new york. Maria copel wont get home to charlotte. We are stranded here, first time in my life Something Like this happened. Reporter Crissy Anderson is trying to make it to pennsylvania, it wont happen before sunday. The storm, we got canceled due to the storm. What are you going to do . Where . I dont know yet. Reporter she wont be staying at the Miami International airport hotel. No rooms for tonight. Reporter sold out until further notice as the storm jonas, interestingly enough, comes from the greek meaning god. You got to wonder who came up with that one. American airlines is offering a gift to passengers, those whose flights have been canceled because of the storm, they dont have to do this, will be given a full refund if they want one. Live at mia, gary nelson, cbs 4 news. Thank you. Police have take an man in to custody after a hit and run crash in miami that left a pedestrian in the hospital. The impact of the crash sent the victim flying in to a car lot. Police say they found the damaged car ditched a few blocks away rom the scene and able to track down the driver. The victim suffered a broken leg. Investigation is underway after a house fire in northwest miamidade. Through the roof of the home, this happened after 3 30 this morning, 3616 northeast 101st street. There is no word on injuries or what sparked the fire. Caught on camera, more than a temper tantrum, a woman attacks an uber driver. The woman is a doctor in the Residency Program at Jackson Memorial hospital. Video shows her hitting and cursing at an uber driver who came to pick up another passenger in brickel. The resident got in to the car and threw the drivers belongings onto the street. Police were called but did not arrest the resident. Her long time neighbor said the woman is a good person. You can be a beautiful person but one day you have a problem. Jackson put her on leave uber canceled her account and are looking in to what happened. Two men possibly drugged and robbed this morning. Police released video of the women who are responsible. Hollywood police want to catch the women accused of stealing rolex watches from the men. They met them in sunny aisles beach. All four went back to the home of one of the men and both men were drugged. If you have information, you are urged to call police. The man accused of being a serial peeping tom could find out whether he will be released on bond. He was asking for bond so he could get out of jail. These are images of him in action, if we can show those, looking in to a womans apartment window. Several of his alleged victims were also in court. Plantation Police Need Help finding a 16yearold boy. George san was seen at American Heritage high before breakment he saw his son was a couple of days after christmas when he kicked him out of the car for being rude. He refuses to file a missing persons report on his son. A developing story, north korea, the the cry country says they arrested a student from university of virginia. The student entered as a tourist and plotted to under mine north koreas system and links to the us government. The Washington Post reporter freed from iran is on his way to the united states. He left a Military Hospital in germany headed for the u. S. , freed from a prison in iran last week, along with 3 other americans, he said he felt well despite spending 49 days in solitaire confinement, infections and losing a lot of what the Washington Post uncovered about marco rubios past. Video of a snow border caught in an avalanche goes viral. He is facing charges. Armed robber is no match for a store clerk and the whole the video when cbs 4 n a Traffic Alert for you, road closures scheduled for the palmetto expressway. Northbound 826 shutdown tonight at 11, this is happening so more northbound lanes can be opened up as part of the on going expansion project. With the northbound lane closures, some ramps will be closed as well, flagler street to north bound palmetto will be closed. All roads expected to open by campaign 2016. New poll shows president ial candidate Bernie Sanders is iowa. Sanders has opened up an 8 point lead over Hilary Clinton according to a new cnn orc poll and tops clinton among likely caucus goers in iowa 51 to 43 . Marco rubios past was making news. He was once arrested. It happened in miami when he was 18 years old. Their investigation uncovered rubio and friends were stopped by police, for being there after hours and drinking under age. The post says no charges were ever filed , the whole thing was dropped a couple of months later. We asked the Rubio Campaign for comment but have not heard back. Cbsmiami. Com for continuing coverage of campaign 2016. We got another 12 hours or less or less of the wet weather and then the roller coaster ride continues. We will take a dip in the temperatures. We got a mix d bag for you. Pretty busy here as i scoot in to the shot. The darker shades of orange and red indicate the moderate to heavy rain. Cuttler bay, key biscayne, to the north, northeast, 30 miles per hour, otherwise, its a good downpour, a good steady rain, north miami k miami lakes, sun life stadium, getting in to broward county, good afternoon, possession pompano beach, light to broward, moving off from the west to the east, ps to the north we go, just to our north, palm beach county, points northward and this yellow shade underneath a severe watch until 5 00 this afternoon. The wind jammer resort camera, lauderdale by the sea, surf is up, thats a concern, winds whipping and the surf increasing as we head through the weekend. Temperatures lower 70s, miami, Fort Lauderdale, 75 key west. The wind is whipping, you are want to show you what it looked like over the last 12 hours, the clouds overnight, a few breaks, few and far between, see we are left with a lot of cloud cover, and rain. Check out the wind gusting up and over 24 miles an hour, at Miami International airport. The wind now, sustained from the south, southwest, at 20 homestead, once the front comes area of low pressure, there, cutting across northern georgia this, is the blizzard maker for the northeast on the northern fringe, thats where the heavy snowfall is on the southern side, thats where we are now, where the heavy rainfall is. A look at the future clouds and radar, the whitest cloud cover , the darker shades of yellow, orange and green indicate the rain, the front comes through, 11 00 tonight, midnight or so, if you have plans tomorrow morning in to tomorrow afternoon, looking okay. Here is a look at the forecast for you, on this friday, downpours, some gusty, 75 should do it. Tonight, clearing out, windy and cooler, 62, the forecast through the weekend, check it out, overnight temperatures take a dip in oh the 40s. The 60s. Sea world is getting rid of lifting floors if the killer whale pools. Rid of the safety feature because Officials Say they are no longer needed. The lifting floors were installed after trainer dawn brancho was killed by an orca in 2010. Designed to lift trainers and orcas out of deep water in an emergency. Training and medical care are conducted in the shallow waters of their pools. Armed robber was no match for this clerk in massachusetts. He was at the register and took out a knife and demanded money. The clerk grabbed wooden club and began swinging it. The robber took off after the clerk hit him a couple of times. The clerk always had the club there for protection. Cameras were rolling as a snow border is covered in snow after an avalanche. Pro skiers wild ride was caught on his helmet camera as he came down a mountain in california. He survived but is facing prosecutors say he caused the avalanche. He trespassed on to ab an active avalanche zone. Next on cbs 4 news at noon, importance warning if you have little ones at home , the recall you need to know about. We will show you the cutting edge surgery using a flexible robot, as changing patients. New cutting edge technique is helping doctors perform head and neck surgery, changing Recovery Time for patients. Surgeon as at the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center are the first to use a flexible robot to perform head and neck surgery , the robot is used for smaller areas like the head and neck where the structures are smaller and curvier, flexibility is a distinct advantage. Its the next revolution in science. This new less invasive technique helps cut down on a news consumer alert, brie tax is recalling infant car seats because the handle can crack and break causing the seat to fall. Involves the b635 and 35 elite and travel systems. If you have one of the seats, kit. Until its fixed. Publix confirmed the stores will carry the ice cream companys products, blue bell will take time to restock. 9 flavors will be made available in several sizes. The product was recalled concerns. 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