He has lived in Miamidade County shine was seven. Hatzel heres jase op meyer in bond court said a 75,000. The 40yearold up to this point wasnt english teacher at palmetto. Popular at school because hes considered one of the best teachers. I think its just a shock. Personally who cares about your writing. Hatzel in court miers defense attorney told the judge hes been a teacher 15 years, married to another teacher at palmetto. The couple has triplets with a fourth child on the way. The parents found out about the allegations. He had an inappropriate relalaonship withp a female student. After investigating police say there was probable cause and meyers was arrested. A School Spokesperson s sd the alleged actions by the teacher are unacceptable and rep rehence finnell teacher will be terminated. Myerers was told that even if he theictim week he cannot come back to campus. For now reporting live in pinecrest, ah hats, local10 news. Laurie and we do have breaking news right now that affects anyone with a hoverboard. Yes, the it product has become one of the biggest Consumer Product safety concerns this year afters so many began to catch fire. Investigative reporter Christina Vazquez is in the videoort now with new details. And make no mistake, this is a big development. Federal regulators are now putting manufacturers, importers and retailers on notice,e, also today they released new video of the some of the hoverboards, both new and damaged, that scientists and engineers have been testing. Theres that video just released this morning. As they try to figure out why they are catching fire. W, the Consumer ProductSafety Commission basically told companies in a letter, any company that makes them, ships them and sells them, they must meet Safety Standards or face a poteteial recall. We also have new numbers in, and its going blow your mind. Since december cpfc has received reports from consumers in 24 states of 52 fires resulting in over 2 million in property damage, to include the destruction of two gnomes a car. Right now what were work two homes and a car. Right now on the call christina page were going to post that letter to you in full. It shoul be in the next five minutes. For now in the video port, eye Christina Vazquez. Calvin also developing this afternoon pup nis peril. They were in need of help after an Apartment Fire. Laurie sky 10 was over the scene this afternoon in miami. Some of those puppiesesere transported to an Animal Clinic. Calvin local10 news rererter Liane Morejon live noun you now at the scene with the develop details for us. Liane at this point, four puppies were taken to knowles Animal Clinic as well as their mother but there are still four puppies unaccounted for and unfortunately it doesnt look good. You can see some smoke damage right there on that second floor apartment. A lot of the units downstairs, fire but, of course, a lot of water damage left behind after fire crews were done with this firefight. Lets take you high up above from sky 10. The call came in just after 1 30 this afternoon of a fire at an apartment off of northeast 24th street and 7th avenue right on the water here. E. Flames and smoke coming from the front door of the second story unit. Now, from the ground you can see the smoke damage left behind as we showed you live. Cephal neighbors and theirets forced to evacuate as miami fire crews battled the blaze. Were told the female homeowner was here but chatting outside with a friend at the time, and thats when the fire started and she called for help and, of course, sheas especially frantic because of the precious lives trapped inside. Were told their pet poodle named mariepoos a and eight of her puppies were trapped in there, three of the pips made on it just fine but marie pasta and having trouble breathing. Y were taken tonowles Animal Clinic for evaluation and treatment but 11 to how fire kept ignacius carroll described how they were treated on scene. During the search we were able to find the mother and another puppy scouring in this area trying to get away from the flames and brought them out. Seeing they were in severe respiratory does tress the crew used the pet mas and started administration administering accident and treated these pup us trying to save them. Liane and we just received this new cell phone video just in. It shows that act of firefight at this Apartment Building. You can see thick black smoke billowing from the front door. As you can imagine the owner of these dogs was very concerned. Four puppies unaccounted fhr and it does not look good. Fire rescue believes these pips did not make. It well bring you more on this story as soon as we get it but Liane Morejon, local10 news. Calvin liane, thanks a lot. Laurie right now remembering Justice Antonin Scalia these are live pictures were this casket of the Supreme Court justice ask paying in repose for the public to pay their respect. The private 911 was held earlier today. And heres video of president obama and his 1st lady michelle. They paid their respects to the late justiceut just a short time ago. The todays public viewing is going to last until 8 00onight and tomorrow justice ya will be laid to rest. Calvin fellow justices and law clerics also paid honor to Justice Scalia today. Michael Antonin Scalia was perhaps the most influential member of the high court for three decades, a larger than life presence whose legacy today is being honored. Supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia was honored today and mourn at the court he loved and served so well. Court police served as pallbearers, and his former law pallbearers. The casket carrying scalias body was slowly brought up the Supreme Court stairs to lie in repose at the great hall on the same pedestal that held the cat ket of president abraham lincoln. Inside justices standing in the order in which they sit on Supreme Court bench. Let us pray for the coming of th kingdom. Michael scalias son Paula Catholic priest offered the prayer. In your wisdom you have called your servant antonon out of this world. Michael scalia was the first italianamerican to serve on the high court and he was the longest serving justice. He was a conservative icon with a tart wit and a brilliant mind. His sudden death was marked by republicans and democrats alike. He influenced a generation of judges, lawyers and students and profoundly shaped the legal landscape. Justice scalia was an american hero. Michael today adjust scalias family, including his nine children and 36 grandchildren, were present along with the president and first lady, all paying their respects. A funeral mass for Justice Scalia will be held tomorrow in washington. Michae putney, local10 news. Laurie michael, thank you. Calvin and we have more sad news this afternoon. Beloved author harper lee has died at the age of 89. Laurie s is best known of course for her novel to kill a mockingbird. Lee passed away in her sleep early this morning in her hometown of monroeville, alabama. She remained in g gd basic health until her passing. She push luck to kill a mockingbird in 1960 a to have gone moving story about a little girl growing up in a time of racial segregation. Her father is a lawyer presenting a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Her secondly thoughtful go say the watchman portrays the same a later point in their lives. Calvin how toy zikafathers. The mosquitoborne will be way down in brazil by the time the olympics in brazil the cdc predicting they believe control of the mosquito will help. Heres an update on the number of cases in florida. There is one new case of the zika virus in Miamidade County. The total number of florida cases now stands at 26, miamidade with ten cases of the zika virus and Broward County has four. Zika is said to have a connection with deformities in newborns. Florida department of health has set up a hotline to answer your questions or concerns about the seek. The phone number is on your scscen. It is 855 6226735. Laurie and now with a developing story. The department of justice is urging a federal why you can to force tech giant h lm to help the fbi crack the phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. A judge issued an order tuesday demanding that apple comply, but access data on the phone of syed far okaloosa could i would you please falling users information at risk. Apple has decide stowed fight the order oh appeal but now the d. O. J. Has said the court to force apple to comply. A fired Fort Lauderdale cop who is fighting to get his job back taking the stand just this afternoon. An arbitration hearing held today for james wells. Calvin he lost his job over accusations of racism force. Local10 News ReporterShyann Malone is live in Fort Lauderdale witthe details for us now. Yann state of emergency day three of arbitration as james wells fights to get his job back. This him he talks and explains why he thinks its okay inin some cases do use offensively racial words. Give me a a context where you think its okay to call one of the citizens in Fort Lauderdale the nword. If youre referring to a person well call this person a bad guy and even call help as that word, i dont think theres a problem with it. Shyann james wells in the hot seat taking on tough badge. We dont have any white guy in this particular case that you referred to as the nword, do we . In this particularase, no. Lauderdale Police Officer was fired after racial Text Messages in his cell phone surfaced. Wells said they were sustain out of context. What are you referring to . T worst of the criminals. T a specific race, not a specific gender, but just the worst of the worst. Shyann well, today in that hearing there were pecos and pages of Text Messages. Police say wells and three of his fellow officers engaged in these types of Text Messages force. Coming up, they say it was all reciting a movie. Local10 news at 6 00. Reporting in Fort Lauderdale, Shyann Malone, local10 news. Laurie shyann, you this u. This. Coming up at 4 30 a mother under arrest after a fire sparked while her child was home alone. We have a live report on this ahead. Calvin a car flipping off prank and landing into the water below. How two women inside got to fety. Now and tonight at 11 00, could it be the key to stopping hiv . It. Can recrease the risk of infection by 90plus percent. Announcer local10s Kristi Krueger takes a closer look at the drug that some people not enough people know about. This an hiv blocker . Tonight at 11 00. I need new carpet. Ok. I have two dogs. And a husband. House trained . 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Victor l lrie and calvin, these two women just happy that they survived this wreck and now theyre talking about how its that they managed on get to their car, itt flipped over a bridge and right into the water in demalb county last night. That car landed upside down. The women say this they felt the impact and thats had when they saw water, it started to rush into their car. They both quickly unfastened their seatbelts, they busted a safety. I felt the water coming in, and i said, all right, were going under the water. I said im going to get under my seatbelt. Wev got on get out of here. Dont give can up. Were not going to die. Victor and the cause of that crash still under investigation but the driver did say she saw her tire go over the edge of the bridge as she was driving. What a scare, laurie and calvin. Calvin frightening moments. Victor oquendo. Laurie and a much calmer note, look at that shot. It is friday afternoon, bearing down on friday evening. You just wan to start your weekend be with dont you . Calvin absolutely. Lets check in with betty davis and find out how the weekend is shaping up, betty. Betty hi, everyone. South florida has it going on other than a few clouds the rain chance is low, its looking eat from key west. As we look at Mallory Square peopleathering there king off the weekend. Another view from the lens of our miami tower cam we have had just enough sunshine to help push our temperatures into the 70s this afternoon. A lot of lower 70s right now between Pompano Beach and pembroke pines. Hialeah, kendall and homestead out74 degrees and marathon our warm spot at this moment at 76. So everything looks fine for the evening other than the fact that it will tends to be on the breezy side, winds from the east right now in miami sustained at 18 miles an hour. That breeze is going to stay up through the evening, aboutt will be mainly dry, so even though we do have some clouds out there and some of you may be seeing a few more clouds than others, were expecting dry weather. Those winds blowing in from the eastnortheast harn an area of High Pressure right along the midatlant coast. Well stay in that flow for the weekend for tomorrow so we will expect to have breezy conditions even on saturday. That means morning lows in the 60s, afternoon highs the getting into the upper 70s so not bad. Winds eastnortheast tomorrow 10 to 15 miles an hour, rain chance at just 10 not only on saturday but also on sunday. So this means if you have outdoor plans, maybe t kids have a baseball game or maybe youre going to have a yard sale, the weathers going to cooperate just fine. Our xt best chance for rain, a few storms come tuesday and wednesday. Lets get a check now on traffic. Heres janine. Jenise thanks, betty. It looks like your friday commute is off to a rough start. Heres the view of i95 northbound. This is the view from northwest 75th street. We are getting reports o an accident at northwest 79th street, and because of that while they lear it p the express lanes are closed. Lets take a look at. There are two left lanes blocked in express lanes a northwest 79th street and speeds right now amiles per hour. While they the work to clear up that accident right now the express lanes on 95 northbound are closed from downtown miami checking out the palmetto expressway because we have quite aackup due to a brokendown car heading weise the west on the palmetto at northwest 670 avenue theres a left lane blocked and speeds hardly moving at allll at 6 miles per hour. As we cruise onto Broward County we do have a few accidents to talk about this i95 northbound. This is right ags youre trying to ramp onto 595 northbound. There is a left lane blocked with speeds clocking in at 14 miles per hour. Calvin now to the historic change in cubau. S. Relations. Cuba is preparing for president obamas arrival. The historic visit made the front page of the cuban government run newspaper granma. The paper detailing the plan for march 221st and 22 opinioned the president meet with president raul castro but not with castros brother fidel National Security adviser said the president will talk about human rights issues and speaks with castro. And local10 news will have live coverage from cuba for the team of reporters will join me in late march. Lrie now to vote 2016. We have the results of another poll from South Carolina as republicans get set to vote in tomorrows pry player. The poll from the wall street journal and marries College Shows trump with a smaller levered teded cruz. Trump leading over cruz 28 to 25 percent with marco rubio in third place you see with 15 . This poll is an outlier so far, though, trump has held a double digit lead in nearly every other recently poll. Marries college was jeb bush in fourth place with 13 followed by john kasich and ben carson both with 9 . Do look for live reports from local10 News Reporter glenna milberg. Shes right there in South Carolina. Shell beeoining us today at 5 00 and throughout the weekend. Calvin back here hat home a crook with a eye for fancy jewelry . Surveillance video out of oakland park shows a man driving up in a dark suv to the flea maet. Police say once inside, he made a beeline for if rambo jewelry stand. He walks in and out of the place snatching a 14 cater goldman and then running out. The price tag was more than 6,000. Laurie now to a one and only exclusive, a small plane making an engineer landing in to a crowded ighborhood in the florida keys. Look at this. The pilot was trying to land at a small airport in tavernier when he crashed into someones front yard. Neighbors and First Responders came out and helped free that pilot who was hang