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WPLG Local 10 News 5AM January 22, 2016

You can see them moving our camera around. You can s s the wind speeds 8 to 13 miles an hour out of the south southeast. Were already waking up to temperature i i the low to mid 70s. Were expecting the leading edge off a front moves in and brings us some shower and ththderstorm activity all associated with a front. Temperatures will be inthe low to mid 70s and then well get into the upper 70s by this afternoon. The storms will be widespread atne point once the leading edge of the front moves in. Some showers m me through homestead and diminish. Right now over the keys marathon getting hit with moderate rain. Very impressive storm system and strong, dangerous system right now bringing a tornado watch box for parts of the panhandle. We have snow falling over parts of the south. Hows it going to effect us . Its going to brings stormy conditions throughout the afternoon and a very cold, brisksk breeze providing for temperatures to tumble ill have a lot more on this coming up. The roadways are looking great. We do have construction crews on i95 northbound. Heres a live look at 195th street it. You can seeeeome of thecongestion as traffic is getting through. They should be picking up the cones right now. They are supposed to be out of there around 5 00 this morning. For now our roadways are looking good. Starting in broward county, deerfield beach, i95, everything looking ntastic leading up to the glades. The only area where we are seeing a little bit of a slowdown is off the dolphin expressway. That exit ramp right at northwest 27th avenue. You can see its partially blocked there. Were seeing a little bit of that orange inincating that slowdown this morning. Construction crews should be out of there around 5 15, 5 30 this morninin at this point those speeds at about 22 miles per hour. Were following breaking news this morning out of northwest miamiide. Firefighters are on are calling suspicious. Ben kennedy is at the scene. Reporter right now that fire is under controlol no one got hurt. You can see behind me severallire trucks out there in the distance as crews continue to put out hot spots. Weid get cell phone video moments ago. Witnesses say flames shot 20 feet in the air. The guy who shot the video sawaw smoke from a couple smiles away and pulled over to help. Its there that around 25 firefighters were called out to put this one out. They first tackled it from the front door, then had a challenge when the roof collapsed so went around the back to flight flames there. Investigators are still talking with witnesses to see what they saw. The roof collapsed. We want to get inside and do an aggressive attack on the fire. With the roof collapsed, we had to fight the fire from the inside. Off, they plan to go inside, take a look, sift through all the debris to find out what the cause could be. A spoke with a witness, the person who shot the video who tried to put the flames out himself. Reporting live in northwest miamidade, ben kennedy, local 10 news. Ben, thanks so much. Now to a story you first sawawn 10 00. Were hearing from the family of an 82yearold woman who was targeted and ripped off by a carjacker. That crime caught on camera. Erica rakow live outside the North Miami Beach Police Department with the very latest on the efforts to track down this nasty thief. Erica . Reporter investigators here at the North Miami Beach Police Department have tracked down this womans car. They say it was abandoned but theyve also gotten ahold of some Surveillance Video of the crooks and this morning they are already out there. Reporter he quickly sets his sights on an 82yearold woman look, you can see, she has no idea shes being followed until its too late. The guy confronts her at her car, grabs her keys, gets in her car and takes off. Day after day peopleare getting shot and hurt because they are fighting back. She didnt fighgh back. She did exactly what she was told. Reporter she walksks away calmly, only looks back once. Her name is edith and her grandson said she didnt deserve this. Shes very cool, calm and collected. Reporter her grandson says editit was on her way to pick him up from school for lunch. She wawa early so she stopped for a foot massage. When she left, thats when the guy took her car and everything in it. Not long after the man started using her credit card around town. Police tracked down the and so detectives certainly making progress withhis case having found the womans car and those surveillance photos o o these guys already. You can look at those pictures again on our website local10. Com. And if you recognize them, giviv crimestoppers a call. 305471tips. Were live in North Miami Beach this morning, erica rakow, local 10 news. More breaking news this morning. This is coming to us out of north korea. Government officials there say they have arrested a College Student for alleged acts against the state. Authorities say that studentered the country as a tourist with plans to under mine the government and if the student has links to the u. S. Government. Earlier this month you may remember seeing a report thaha north korea had detained another u. S. Citiziz on suspicion of spying. A doctor caught on mera attacking an uber driver, it happened in miami and brickle last sunday. Resident, in this video you hear the uber driver asking people nearby to call 911. The uber driver was there to pick up someone else but she demanded he take her instead. When he refused she attacked him. Im a five foot girl that will weighgh 100 pounds, im getting really belligerent. I have bruises all over. Holy [bleep] you lost your mind. When she was done, she got out of the car, wawaed away. Shes since been suspended and now could lose her job. Ft. Lauderdale police are investigating a shooting that sentt one woman to the hospital. This happened yesterday afternoon. Temperaturesesay they responded to that scene after getting reports of a woman getting shot. The woman was taken on to broward health. A suspected shooter has right now a winter wollup. Government buildings in the Nations Capital preparing right now to shut down at noon. Local 10s larry livingston. Reportrt a stormy has already been declared by washington, d. C. Officials. The same thing in states like virginia, maryland and North Carolina and similar declarations in more places could be coming as this storms rolls through. All of it creating a run on everything from snow shovels to bottleded water. A trader joes in d. C. Was forced to do crowd control. The National Weather service is calling this storm potentiallyparalyzing. In North Carolina parents were outraged after a bus filled with kids nearly slid into a river. Thankfully no one was injured there and federal officials in d. C. Not taking any chances. Close at noon today ahead of the storm. Rail and bus service slated to stop later on today. There were about 120 calls to d. C. Police just last night for car crashes after the snow just started falling, and so its a situation well keepp monitoring. More than 4500 flights have already been canceled just ahead of this big storm. T of Miami International airport so far six arriviv flights have been canceled. In ft. Lauderdale at the ft. Lauderdalehollywood International Airport are in and around North Carolina. Breaking tonight, a a deadly siege in front of a beachfront restaurant is now over claiming the lives of morehan 20 people. Several gunmantormed the restaurant. The Islamic Militant group claimed responsibility. Includes any of those militants. Student pilot feared dead after an f16 fighter jet crashed in a remote area of arizona, yesterday. Cnn reporting human remains have been found nearby. That student pilot a member of the Taiwanese Air force. Now to the very latest on the flint water crisis. A regional director with the Environmental Protection agency is stepping down all in connection with that recent water woe there. Epa administrator who was in charge of that region including michigan will resign on february first. Calls for rick snyder to resign are growing louder and louder todayay president obama says the federal government will invest more money this year to help local governments improve their water systems. Still to come this morning, ritzy robberies. Its happened again, menured in by women who take their rolexs the latest case caught on camera still to come gl finding closure. Were going to tell you how state leaders are trying to close a dark chapter in flaxp history. A little inspiration from rapper drake. 4 plus south floridians, you know the massive storm that is headed towards the midatlantic and northeast has a front attached to it. Its going to provide for very gusty winds, wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour. Small craft advisory for you boaters. Not a good day to bet on the water. It will just be cold by the weekend. We a staying on top of breaking news this morning. A house fire being called suspicious. This is in northwest miamidade. Were getting updates for you. Coming upn local 10 at h hlthcare. Gov i found affordable, quality coverage. Man checkups, emergency services, prescriptions. My insurance covers everything for my family. Qualify for financial help and avoid paying a fee of 695 or more. This is your last chchce to enroll. Someone helped me find a high quality plan and financial help to pay for i i narrator sign up at healthcare. Gov. The digging may be over at the school for boys as the governor got a final report yesterday on unmarked graves found at the reform school. Researchers submitted their report to the governor and to the cabinet. They have found the remains of 51 boys, only seven of whom were actually identified. The poor kids, they werent even honored in death, let alone honored living. I dont think i takes an act of legislature to say what needs saying which is im very sorry. Several questions still remain of course including what to do with the recovered remains. Some are recommending a memorial and a mausoleum on site but the state has not made any decisions just yesterday. Using a parody of drakes hit song to make a point. The video shows a rapper with traffic cones and the hashtag no savesies. You need to call us on your cell phone late night when you see that cone call us from your cell phone a big winter storm is phililelphia, several other states in the northeast this weekend. They went through these big storms last year. People were putting out cones. No savesies. My florida boy has has very first s sw day in North Carolina today. Indeed he does. He will be able to enjoy some snow. Did you get him sweaters, jackets, scarfs, everything . Good, good. So hes ready for it, especially because hes a florida boy. Hes not used to that temperatures for us not bad but warm and humid because we are ahead of the front. The south southeast wind moving in between 15, 18 and 13 miles per hour. Thats going to set the stage to help fuel for some afternoon thundedetorms. 72 in pembroke pines. 70 inendall. 72 in pompano beach. Wind gusts already reported. You saw as i reported during the tease we are expecting Gale Force Winds so there is a gale warning in effect. Winds gust right now in the 20s in meanwhile, the teens down by marathon. This is all ahead of thefront itself which has already brought some isolated showers over portions of homestead down by the keys. A line of storms headed towards naples as we speak. More like a 10 to 20 for the morning commute until about 7. From there on our rain chances bump up to 90 . We are going to see a good chance of showers and storms once the leading edge of the front does move into south florida. You can see the snow parts of the carolinas kristi. Youll have to call him after the show. Snow in tennessee and in kentucky. All dealing with this nasty winter storm. We are expecting the actual area of loww pressure to head towards the midatlantic and thats the big concern is its going to tap into some warm, humid air from the western atlantic and bng it on shore. Not only Severe Weather but blizzard conditions for them. For us the Severe Weather threat is marginal. We are expecting the possility of strong thunderstorms it, damaging gusty winds at time and we cant rule out an isolated tornado. Look at the temperatures behind this front. The teens, 2 and 30s. Its a very impressive system and thats why ou friends across the midatlantic are getting prepared for the worst. For us well see brisk breeze at time and well see the showers and storms moving in as the leading edge of the storm moves through the the timing is from about 11 00 to 3 00 and it should clear by about 8 00. Once the front clears through by tonight it, we are going to notice a northeast breeze. Dropping our temperatures by sunday morning. It will be the coldest morning of our winter so far into the 40s. Youre going to need the sweaters, jackets for us here in south florida. Well stay cool going into monday, then another front moves in by the middle part of the workweek. Thank you, julie. Express lanes are back open on the eye. They were closed due to construction. There are the express lanes and really no major issues at all. Looking good on our roadways. I95 that construction has cleared out. However, traveling on the dolphin weve got two accidents to get to. We do have a crash there. Doesnt look like its affecting traffic though at thiss point. Those speeds at about 59 miles per hour. Its right next to lhe airport. If youre traveling eastbound into miami, we do have reports of an accident scene there and, yeah, were seeing a difference of speeds between 60 and 0 miles per hour. Likely that 30 is right off to the exit ramp. Cruising on down south we have reports of a hit and run crash here off of quail roost drive. This time affecting our eastbound lanes. Youre going to see a little bit of stop and go traffic there e ectly at southwest 117th avenue. As you see those speeds not looking that great at 45 miles per hour. Constance, thank you. Moving from drake and parking cones to adele saying hello to a brand new record. Were so h h. The new heights her hit single is reaching. I think by saying hip were not cool at all. Good morning, south florida. As you can see the rain blowing a little bit. Rain is comg. Miss julie, she will be back in a couple minutes. We have you set for your right here on local 10. Good morning. 5 22 right now. I have a car seat unmy car, do you . We need to check the model after reports of cracking. The company also recalling his be safe elite model and be safe traffic system. Those were all manufactured between october of 2014 and july of 25. Reporter hi there. In todays tech bytes, google is stepping up its weather tracking. The company has upgraded the google app for android it. Vrings up lots of information including colorcoded sky conditions, detailed the hermes apple watch collection now available on apple website as well. Previously it was only available at certain stores. Prices start at 1,000. Adele breaking records with her song hello. It reached one billion views on youtube in just 87 days. Gangngn style took 158 day to see hit one billion views. I still cant do that trot. Ls not try. Those are your tech bytes. When we come back a super act of kindness. Were going to tell you how a College Student is helping Sick Children find courage during their hospital stays. A sevenyearold boy who was killed in a driveby. Find out why his you bars. At healthcare. Gov i found affordable, quality coverage. Ma checkups, emergency services, prescriptions. My insurance covers everything for my family. Narrator most people who enroll through healthcare. Gov qualify for financial help and avoid ying a fee of 695 or more. This is your last chance to enroll. Someone helped me find a high quality plan and financial help to pay for it. Narrator sign up at healthcare. Gov. Right now this morning hospitals can be really scary especially children. This is all the doing of a junior at Molly College named bobby. He calls his college ivy heroes. They are iv bags with super hero markings to help kids with devastating diseases on their treatatnt to take that on with courage. Hospital officials at a Childrens Cancer center, the first to test the super iv bags saying they have had tremendous results saying every single one of their patients was in a much better move after it was installed. So sma. To give them a little distraction, make them feel like they are super heroes too, thats a good idea. This morning North Miami Beach police are looking for the man who carjacked him yesterday. Officers say that thief did get awayith a womans credit cards. Take a good loooo good police a call if recognize and identify the man in the video. A doctors job is on the line after video surfaced. She was drunk and upset the driver arred to pick up someone else. She began throwing just a huge fit, even hitting that driver. More than 20 people dead after gunman stormed a somali hotel restaurant. The Islamic Militant grouplshabab has claimed responsibility for that attack. Local 108 news at 5 3030 is coming your way next. We have another the rain is behind bars. Find out why the uncle of the sevenyearold killed in a drive is now facing charges connected to this case. And targeted and men falling for clever women in bars looking to rip off their watches. A star endorsement from donald trump. Well tell you who is backing the republican candidate now. And right now a strong storm moving north, dumping rare snowfall to Southern State like mississippi. Hey, good if i morning, south florida. Im eric yutzy. Hi. Im kristi krueger. Im in for jacey. Ts get right over to our Weather Authority meteorologist julie durda. Shes checking out that forecast for you. A little rain coming. Indeed there wilbe a lot of rain by the afternoon. Not going to be a beautiful friday. Once we get through today, the weekend should cooperate. I have to tell you with the weekend comes some colder weather. So lets pay attention. Right now we have temperatures in the low 70s. That south southeast even later half of the morning storms. Temperatures in the low to mid 70s throughout the morning and then we are increing the rain chances. Check it out. Hour for hour depose if 40 chance of showers to 60 chance of showers by lunchtime. We a

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