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WPLG Local 10 News 4PM February 26, 2016

Seconds ago folks on the highway were removing some of those cones, and now hopefully traffic will start to move. This is a headache that started around 7 00 this morning and it took hours to fix. We were there as crews finally got it out. Its called a bridge joint, a long piece of metal which this morning came loose, causing quite a mess on 395 eastbound near the downtown exit. We got a call that vehicles were running over something. Hatzel at least four cars got flat tires, others had damage to the undercarriage and rims. Highway patrol had to immediately close the highway, causing backups at one point that reached all the way to 87th avenue past the palmetto. Crews spent all afternoon clearing the damage and filling it with what they call flexible concrete. The binge bridge, built in 1970, gets inspected every two years. State officials staih this rarely happens say this at this point they say they dont know what cause this had joint to come loose. If youre on 836 get off. Use flagler, eighth street, coral way noir other way that takes you east. Laurie and it is likely that you should still follow hatzel and it is likely that you still should follow that advice because even though this is what we wanted to see, relief for a lot of commuters cars now finally able to travel on 395, especially fhp telling folks to take it easy because its going to be quite the commute this afternoon, and remember we have wine and Food Festival happening on south beach, so a lot of the concern was over that, how folks would be able to get to the beach to get access to this festival. But now, as you see it, traffic is back flowing. For now reporting live in downtown miami, hatzel vela, local10 news. Laurie good to see, hatzel. Calvin this highway hazard moves to traffic reporter Jenise Fernandez. Laurie she was a different a sense of roads right now. Jenise the good news to hear that just at the start of rush hour that it has since repopped we are talking with the dolphin xray expressway between 95 and 395 but it looks like things are starting to run smoothly like hatzel mentioned, were still going see a backup, speeds clocking in at at 31 miles per hour. The big concern was the south beach wine and Food Festival, people worried they would not be able to get there but the other letter alternate is the julia tuttle causeway. A lot of people are probably taking the julia tuttle. Speeds on the julia tuttle are at 29 miles per hour. Laurie thank you. A new stopt road to recovery fore a little boy who was hit by a cop car. Hes now home from the hospital. Local10 News Reporter erica rakow is live with the very latest for us. Reporter antowain lawson wheeled out of the hospital a few hours ago, still nursing a broken femur and a broken pelvic one step closer to his recovery. More than a dozen balloons tied to his wheelchair, this loved little boy is sixyearold antowain lawson. Hes leaving the hospital. Flashes a s,ight grin. He is excited about it. What are you going to do when you get home . Whats the first thing youre going to do . Play. Reporter antowain has been in the hospital since february 3rd when he was hit by Miami Police Officer while riding his scooter on northwest 5th avenue just west of northwest 58th street. Its been a long road to recovery. And were still taking it one day at a time. Reporter police say the boy appeared between two parked trucks making it impossible forster to see the boy before the hitting him. Family and friends crowded the street. They recorded all of the aftermath. We told me that he looked both ways, he didnt see a car. As he proceeded to cross the street, he just heard a loud enginene that was it. Reporte its beenen long three weeks at holtz childrens what was it like staying here . Boring. Reporter hes still in a body cast with a broken pelvis so even fights not back to riding his scooter, antowain is looking for forward to back to his video games. Hes been wanting to go home since the first day we got here. Reporter his stay not all that bad. Made the best by the nurses. He, of course, made some friends. His cast filled with autographs from his nursing staff here at the hospital. Coming up right here on local10 at 6 00 let you in on the investigation were this crash involving a Miami Police Officer p in live from holtz Childrens Hospital. Laurie great to see. Thank you. We want to tell about youu another arrest in the case of a little boy who was shot and killed over the weekend. Now three suspects in all are behind bars in the death of sixyearoldld king carter. Local10 News Reporter Liane Morejon is live with the latest. Liane. Liane laurie, three suspects behind bars, all of them teenagers. Tamar teems. He was not present in court today. He is now behind bars. Meanwhile, we are in front off the church, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church here onorthwest 58th street off of 7th avenue where friends and family are preparing to say goodbye to the victim of this murder. Sixyearold king carter, in fact, we just took some video moments ago of kings tiny casket being wheeled out of the hearse and into the church. Right now a line of folks greatto enter the church to say goodbye. 16yearold tamar teems is now the latest teen charged in the shooting death of sixyearold king carter. Teems appearance was waived in Juvenile Court this afternoon by his courtappointed lawyer. His mother and two family members present in the courtroom. Teems was taken into custody early this morning from his miami home. Police say teems provided a detailed confession to the crime. Teems now faces charges along arrested earlier this week, 17yearold Irwen Pressley and 18yearold leonard adams. Cops stay a facebook fight with someone named ju ju prompted the trio to drive tie northwest miamidade apartment complex to look for him. King carter was caught in a shootout between the group at died at ryder trauma center. Offcamera teems mother said that her son had no involvement in the shooting and was visiting a friend when king was killed. In fact, she says police beather son to force a confession, a claim that Miamidade Police strongly deny. And back out live outside of the friendship missionar Baptist Church where friends and family, loved ones, members of the community are lined up outside getting ready to enter the church to say their fin farewells to sixyearold king carter. The family has requested their privacy today though theyve been very vocal throughout the investigation, but todod they grieve. Reporting live in miami, Liane Morejon, local10 news. Calvin and new details about the mystery of a missing teenager, a father arrrrted in connection with the boys disappearance talks with local10. Our Shyann Malone spoke with him today and, shyann, the father appears to be out on bond . Shyann calvin, as you can imagine, the father very emotional today when i speakak with him. Spent the last four weeks behind bars for something see hesays he did not do, and at the end of the day he wants his son augusto return home. Certainly i want him home, and theres been a groundswell of support from the community, from people we deaton know dont even know, and hes got a lot of friends out there, so please come home soon. Youll be safe. Liane this all started when aage jgensen and dad bruce got in an argument. The two were in the car and aage got out. Bruce admits they had gotten into fights before and he figured he would wal it off, cool off and return home, but he never did. Knowing that his son had run away several times in the past, bruce continued to search for him but was arrested for deserting his child of boarding a flight to new zealand for cork. Another live look out hor, this is the latest flyer they have made. This is a picture of tague jorgensen. They are now offering a 5,000 reward for anyone about information on where Aage Jorgensen exxonoming up on mcconnell local10 news at 6 00 well hear from dad a some of the reasons why he thinks his son is still out there. Reporting live in rt lauderdale, Shyann Malone, local10 news. Laurie lets move to vote 2016 now. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie showing his support for donald trump in frumps christie endorsed trump at a press conference in texas today. He says there is no one better prepared to lead the country than republican 2016 race. Christie also said, donald trump is someone who when he makes a promise, he keeps it. But trumps credibility was under assault last night at a Republican Debate hosted by cnn. Both marco rubio and ted cruz hammered trump on his positions such as trumps call for governmentfunded health ce and his support have planned parenthood. One of the sharpest exchanges came when discuss be trumps past use of unimmigrants to work on his building projects. Youre the only person on this stage thats ever been fine forward hiring people to work on your projects illegaly. No, im the only one on the stage thats hired people. You havent hired anybody. Marco iss exactly right, that a federal court found donald guilty of being part of a conspiracy to hire people illegally and entered a 1 million judgment against him. Now a dozen different states vote in republican primaries on tuesday. Its super tuesday. Those states will go a long way in determining whether trumu can maintain his lead in delegates. Calvin and for democrats both candidates are campaigning and counting down to the final hours before saturdays South Carolina primary. Hillary clinton stopped by a soul Food Restaurant in charleston earlier today. Clinton maintains a large lead in South Carolina polls thanks in part to strong support among africanamerican voters despite controversy this week stemming from clintons past use of the term super predators. Bernie sanders meanwhile held a rally in chicago, illinois last night. Sanders spoke at Chicago State University and front of several thousand people, and the vermont senanar ramped up his criticism have clinton on issues of free trade and the iraq war. Illinois, along with the state of florida, will hold its primary march 15th. Laurie e big bust after a federal raid. Coming up, what the feds found after a major crackdown. That story at 4 30. We have a preview of hollywoods bibiest night and what could be in store for sunday. Announcer and today starting at 5 00. Were looki for narcotics. Were looking for anything thats terrorist related. Announcer keeping unsafe products from getting in your hands. You guys are also ming sure that dangerous or unsafe product dont make it onto our store shelves. Announcer Christina Vazquez today starting at 5 00. Laurie to the music week the oscars are just two days away, the biggest stars in last years movies are all hoping to walk away with hololwood east true golden boy. The red carpet is out and it is ready for s sday night. Calvin lets get right to hollywood now at left coast and brandi hitt with a look ahead at the big awards show thats coming up this sunday. Brandi, nice to see you. Reporter nice to see you. Hi calvin, hi, laurie. This is the oscar red carpet. You can see its covered in plastic but you can see going up. In 48 hours this is going to look completely finish youre questioning going to s s celebrities on the red carpet. Its going to be backed with international media, everyone anticipating who is going to take home oscar gold. The red carpet is out. And final preparations underway for hollywoods biggest night. The 88th annual academy awards. Yeah, i feel so lucky. Reporte this year eight films are nominated for best picture. The rev nent leads the pack with 12 oscar nods including Leonardo Dicaprio with his fifth acting nomination. Im just a fan of film. Reporter fororest actress cate blanchette against bree larson, and two others. Many anticipating what wheels leading ladies will be wearing. Its a great with a for me to express whats happening on the inside. Reporter inside the governors ball celebrity chef preparing 50 dishes for 1500 guests including a doughnut recipe. A little bit of raspberry liquor and then we flame then. Reporter black stage final rehearsals are underway fortwotime host chris rock. Its nig anybodys guess what he will say. Reporter for a second year in the row all 20 of acting nominees are white. The spotlight this year shining bright on who will be and wont be walking the oscar red carpet. And when it comes to oscars fashion you can expect some wow moments from several presenters including char lease they areon, Kerry Washington will be here, also lady gaga and Sofia Vergara walkg the red carpet. Reporting live in hollywo, brandi hitt. Calvin and laurie. Calvin dont forget the oscars this susuay at 6 00 hosted by that guy right there toss going to be super fun web chris rock. You can only watch it right here Laurie Calvin and betty and i laul be here with you for the late news. We want to talk about all the winners and have some fun. Alvin absolutely, have some fun. You never know what might happen. Laurie you never know. Tty, we want to know whats going to happen with the weather thiseekend. Betty the weather is going to be great for hollywood, and its going to be great for hollywood right here in south florida. This weather is really giving us life tonight. We look out through the lens of our mount sinai tower camera, our Mallory Square camera, everywhere, nothing but blue sky and sunshine all around. Check that out. W would you look to be out in those conditions . Maybe you have been out in that. Probably wanting to take a sweater, though, because temperatures are a touch on the cool side. 70 now in miami, Fort Lauderdale at 72, hialeah managing to sneak up to 74 degrees. There will be some reinforcing cool air on the way for later tonight. But if you are stepping out for the evening, dry, chilly, by 8 00 some mid60s out there, not a drop of rainfall in the forecast for the evening westnorthwest, and with that more delicious air moving in. The air mass just so fantastic right now. High pressure has a good handle on the weather in the south. Were caught in the clockwise flow around that high. As i said, more reinforcing cool airheads in for tonight, and thats going to help cool our temperatures down even more through the overnight hou and were expecting to start tomorrow morning in the upper 40s in some of your neighborhoods inland, and then closer to the coast around 50. So 50 the forecast low for miami or Fort Lauderdale. If youre up early, heading to the gym, you may want a light jacket as youre walking across the parking lot. The mornings going to be chilil. The afternoon will even stay cool with our breezee blowing in from the north. Temperatures start to moderate by sunday. But the bottom line on this week forecast is that gh pressure in in control, temperatures will tend to run a bit below average. But overall we dont care because its going to be a beautiful weekend, good for anything you have going on outdoors. Tomorrow morning around 50, and then the high climbs to around 70 degrees. Thats about 10 degrees below normal for this time of the year. Then check s sday. Still cool sunday morning with lows in the 50s, highs in the mid70s. By monday more comfortable weather as were rounding out the month of february, and then starting the month of march, a well introduce the chance for a few showers, especially on wednesday as another cold front approaches, and that one could bring a little rain our way, and then we dry out again. More laurie were learning more but south florida ties to a shooting rampage in kansas. Three people were killed, more than a dozen hurt and there is a connection to broward county. Local10 ne reporter todd tongen has been working this story. Hes live in the newsroom. Todd we now know just two hours before said rick ford went on that deadly mass shooting deputies served a protection order to him at work, and he left the plant extremely upset. We also know he was from south to police. Police say it all began when 38 cedric ford oped fire from his car in two different locations wounding two drivers. They say he then drove to his workplace, expel industries north of wichita, kansas, driving one of the victims cars police say he was harmed w wh a Assault Rifle and a handgun. The gun was strapped tow him help he was ready to go. Todd he shot one person in theock parking lot and thenned. The business. He kille three people and injured 14 others. The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter. Todd hundreds of employees ran from the building escaping the rampage, their family and friends anxiously waiting outside. Oh, my god. I finally got to see him. I was just i didnt want to let him go. Todd months ago ford if posted a picture and video on facebook firing an akstyle rifle. He is from south florida and he has anxtensive criminal history here in broward county, theft. Ford area mother and sister live in this apartment complex in homestead. Do you have anything youd like to say . No, not at this time. Todd her neighbors w we shocked to hear of a south florida tight killings. Its really surprising to see that its so close to home. You know, you hear everywhere else, but whenn its rig here at the door, it is really surprising. Todd n n, ford also has an older brother that lives in plantation, but its in a gated apartment complex and we could not reach him for c cment. At the breaking news desk, todd tongen, local10 new calvin a aad at 4 30 now, an officer ambushed. What happened when a traffic stop erupted into gunfire. Will imill manso. Coming up in sports, how the miami heat may be adding a big piece to the playoff run, coming up. We had real people make their own pizzas. They chose the ingredients they wanted. I like the fresh dough. Whats bha . What are fillers . Hey no ingredients that you cant pronounce and no artificial flavors. 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