Kristi i am kristi live, the one and only local 10 news starts right now. Kristi new at noon. The woman accused of kidnapping her cousins 2monthold baby in ft. Lauderdale is in judge today. And sparking a amber alert. Constance ben kennedy is live outside the courthouse first appearance and Layron Livingston is outside the home of the mother whose child was taken. Start with ben. Reporter Amanda Augustin got no bond. She cried several times during her bond hearing. Her family incredibly concerned for her and asked the judge to order a Mental Health evaluation which he did grant. Reporter 23yearold Amanda Augustin faced a judge for allegedly kidnapping her cousinallegedly kidnapping her cousins bear. Your sister is here with your sister is here with her mom, uncle, cuss sunshine and friend. Reporter stephanies family packed a Broward Court room asking a judge to give her a Mental Health evaluation after deputies say she took 2 deputies say she took 2monthdeputies say she took 2monthold tar aji kemp from her home setting up a an amber alert. She fled her 14yearold cousin to help take e baby that. Abuse, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed burk larry of a dwelling, contributing to the delinquency and dependency of a child and kidnapping. Everybody is in shock. Everybody is in shock because. They are just in shock. Reporter that was stephanie reporter that was stephanies cousin. She said the entire family is very, very close. If convicted she could face life in prison. Constance, kristi . Kristi thank you, ben, so much. As we mentioned earlier this 2monthold is back with her mother this afternoon. Constance local 10s lay constance local 10s Layron Livingston pick up Team Coverage outside of the moms home in ft. Lauderdale. Layron . Reporter that is right. The cliche back to normal does not fit here. A huge orange arrow on the pavement. Another one on the walk leading up to the front door where this little girl this 2 little girl this 2monthold live. Neighbors are still on edge and just this mother and child and helping them but helping the other relatives accused of snatching the child at gunpoint and the knife. Shes safe. Shes healthy. Reporter that confirmation will not come number hours after 2 after 2monthold taraj i temp. Relative spoke with local 10 before mother and daughter were finally reunited. This is tragic. She could have went stand Something Else to her. She left her in an abandoned home. That was crazy. It was on edge. Reporter thats how Ronnie Jackson describes the neighborhood following a weekend of worry. Our mainn concern was the baby. When it came back, thank god. Reporter jackson tells me he was outside the night of 46 stephanie augustins dark blue car pulled on the street. Just like any other car, and left with no lights and burned rubber and nobody knew anything was going on. Reporter as deputitis knocked on his door, and that something was wrong. No one scream, yell. Because if they were, the would have had a beat down on their hands. Talking about a baby. He would have been neighbors would have come running. Would have come a running. I mean that got to save the village, you know. Hurt us very much. Reporter said family will forgive. Could you have talked to someone. You have another family. You can tell us what yor issues are and maybe this would have never gone this far. Reporter thing is the biggest question that most of us have right now including this family, what was the motive behind tis. Something that we are continue to bring to youon local 10 and local10. Com. Reporting live, layron thank you so much. The teen accused of accidentally shooting and killing his 14yearold friend in miami g gardens is out on bond this afternoon. Meantime the victims famimi might understand. Local 10 News Reporter hatzel vela is live in Miami Gardens so sad for both of these familyso sad for both of these families. Reporter yeah, you can imagine what we are going through, kristi. Have no qualms of saying that was unintentiona, and police agree with us saying this was an accident and this boy nevertheless is being charged with seous charges. [yelling] my grandson reporter you can understand why this grandmother is sobbing telling us she lost her baby, junior, as they called him. This is the memorial set up outswrid it happened where 14yearold Tavaris Rhodes lost his life to gunfire. Rhodes killed yesterday afternoon. In Miami Gardens, he was at his grandmothers use playing with two friends when one of the boys pulled out a loaded gun, accidently firing off a shot hitting rhodes. Our micel seiden spoke exclusively to the shooters mother and her attorney. Do you have any reason to believe that this 14yearold was trying to hurt his friend . Absolutely not. Reporter we are not identifying the 14yearold accused shooter because he is a minor. They say he is willing to, you k kw, to do whatever, you know to show that he is hurtingknow to show that he is hurting. My heart goes out to them, you know. I am praying. I want to come by and pay my respects, but i ont know how to. Reporter just a touugh situation all around. The teen is now being charged wi manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a minin. We are told he is out on bond. For now reporting live in mimii gardens, hatzel vela, local 10 news. Constance thank you so much. Breaking news out of coral springs. Pictures live pictures of a wreck off of sample road. A car slamming into a tree forcing cews to actually use the jaws of life. We have a picture of that car as well. Take a look at this. Wow, we are told the victims are actually awake and talking to rescuers. He was taken to the hoospital in expected to survive thanksfullyexpected to survive thanksfully. More breaking news at noon. An arrest has been made following a bomb scare at a plant in rivera beach. Officials say a former employee Douglas Ellington allegedly told a current employee thieves going to bomb the facility. And a bomb threat was also called to a water plant in west palm beach. The two threats appear to be connected. Early voting is now under that by Miamidade County with the primary about two weeks away. Video of people casting their ballots at the c c Clark Building in downtown miami. Early voting will last for the next two weeks in miamidade and just under two weeks in Monroe County as well. If you live in broward or palm beach counties, you can vote starting on seattle. Before the primary the florida primary will be held march 15. For more information on where to go and what you need to bring, head to our web site at local10. Com. Wewehave you covered. All that information. And also new at noon, his widest National Lead in the president ial race thus far. We are talking about 49 of Republican Voters say they back nomination. In a new cnn poll released today. Florida senator marco rubio earned 16 followed by senator ted cruz at 15 . Meanwhile, we are just a day away from super tuesdsd, of course. The biggest day of competition in the race except for election by a of course. We have the latest for the campaign trail. Reporter super tuesday is tomorrow, and this could be it. 595 delegates are up for grabs for the republicans and 1015 for mocrats in 12 states including right here in virginia. When all is said and done, boxes checked, ballots clos, the front runners could be on their way to being the nominee ininoth parties or not. It will provide a strong argument for those whoho pick the most sell gates that they party and the rhetoric has intensified especially because of republicans. Multiple media reports of donaldss business dealings with the mafia. You know what they say about you know what they say about men with small hands [ laughter ] you cant trust them. Reporter after losing iowa, Donald Trumphas seen his numbers in the polls keep growing as he appears unbeatable, but a day before super tuesday, trump went on nbc rushing to clear up his views about the kkk and its former grand wizard donald dukeformer grand wizard donald duke. I dont mind disavowing everybody and i disavow david duke and i disavowed him the day before at a major news conference. Reporter trumps poll numbers still unphased. In a new c tin a new c nn poll, he banks a new high w with the widest lead, 49 of Republican Voters back him up. The candidates are now states as they can. The top candidates making stops in virginia. Trump, rubio and Hillary Clinton. I need your hope it go and vote tomorrow to bring people to v ote with you. Reporter right here in virginia, a super tuesday with donald trump ad Hillary Clinton lead in the latest poll and that seems the case in many states growing tomorrow. Steph steph, local 10 news. Kristi of course trust local 10 news election season. Find everything you need on local10. Com. We have a voter information guide right there at your fingertips. Your early voti locations across south florida and live reports from all over the country. Guess what, there is speculation that governor rick scott could be on Donald Trumpscott could be on Donald Trumps short lest for possible runng mate if trump wins the nomination. The speculation was spark last month when scott wrote a favorable colmn for trump in usa today. We caught up with the governor earlier today to ask him about it. This is a great job being governor. I have three more years left in this job. A lot left to do. We added 25,000 jobs and i am going to work forward to we have more jobs and mber one state in education andsafe stte. Constance the speculation all started when cott was put on a short list of possible running mates that trump might be contemplating as he continues to roll through the republican miami and caucus calendar. A quick check on the stock market. We are up dow up i know a round of applause, 57 points to 16,696. Nasdaq up 22 points to 4316. P up about six points. New for you at noon, president obama is awarding the nations highest military honor, the medal of honor. Moments ago in washington d. C. , a navy saelz to rescued a fellow stoleier in afghanistan. Engineered the rescue of an american doctor being held by the taliban. The 11th you living sur streiffer receive the award for action in afghanistan. Traffic moving on the venetian. Constance finally. Just the last few hours. Tht changes made to it. Hollywoods biggest night is now over. The recap of t Academy Awards that aired right here on local 10 coming up. And south florida, after a beautiful weekend with belowbeautiful weekend with belowaverage temperatures. That is all a thing of the pastthat is all a thing of the past. Heating us up and the wind direction also providing for more humidity. I will have a lot more in the forecast. You dont want to miss on this monday morning monday afternoon. Today at 6 00 were giving crooks the open door policy. They can be accessed. You dont need a ke. Smart locks, not so smart. New home, same old technology. Reporter Janine Stanwood yourtt2watv v 4 bt qq promotional card with this great offer only from at t. Call an at t expert to switch today. A crash on mcarthur cause a crash on mcarthur causeway. Three westbound lanes that were blocked between fountain street and palm island. Police say the driver was not those lanes are now back open. And no one was hurt after a crash this morning in hollywoodcrash this morning in hollywood. It happened in the westbound lanes of hollywood boule\ard. Right underneath i95. If you take a look at the footage. A car seat that end up in the street after the crash, but child rescue said there was no child involved with the crash. Police are searching for the shooter o open fired on a number cars last night. Responded to shots being fired at northwest 50 at northwest 50th street and 22nd avenue. They found three cars riddled with bullet holes. No one was hurt and the gunman managed to get away. If you know big in that crime, why it happened, do call police. We are learning more of the Rookie Police officer gunned down in virginia and her ties to florida. Ashley guindon was a graduate of emory Aeronautical University in daytona beach, and now we are hearing from a former professor and the time and the moment he found out she was killed the day after she i saw her picture and her name and immediately recognized ashley as one of my students, and i it took it took the wind right out of me. Kristi two other officers were hospitalized with injuries are expected to recover. A pentagon employee Army Staff SergeantRonald Hamilton is charged with that murder. The officers were shpot responding to his home for a Domestic Violence charge. A weekend for julies horse a weekend for julies horse. Arco. On top, julie, congratulations tyou. Kristi the happy mom and dad. Winners circle at lcal 10. Congratulations, julie. Julie thank you. Aid blast. Kristi you would little bit of money too. Julie i put in the win on arcos the number 5 horse in the boom, biscuit made some money kristi that is wonderful. Constance i was her lucky charm. Between you, julie, everyo from local 10 that came and represented us. It was such a grea day and i cant thank you all so much. Our trainer that did a wonderful job with our baby arcos. And we have a filly racin next week. Constance, we will look at your schedule so you can come on outschedule so you can come on out. We are embracewe are embracing this beautiful weather. High and midlevel sunshine. Relative humidity at 45 . East southeast wind at 11 Miles Per Hour. You will notice the shift in the wind direction playing a huge part in our forecast. It feels a bit warmer to the skin. A feelslike temperature of 78 in miami. In ft. Lauderdale, 75. Relative humidity 48 . That east breeze in ace at 7 Miles Per Hour. Beautiful down by the keys. 75 degrees. East wind at 11 Miles Per Hour. Feels like 75. The temperatures are climbing. Anywhere between 3 degrees and 6 degrees warmer than what we saw yesterday at this time. That east breeze, we cant rue out the chance of a stray shower even though the atmosphere is relatively dry thanks to our High Pressure. Dominant weather feature to the north. Showers popping up over the western atlantic. They are starting to dive before they come closer to shore. Keep that in mind because of the eet breeze. The wind direction plays a huge part in our temperatures. The east southeast breeze brings us warm humid conditionsbrings us warm humid conditions. What we had over the weekend was a strong northnorthwest breeze that was and kept the cool air connection, and unfortunately that is the thing of the past. A couple of cool fronts but nothing that limb pact south flo ida at least until we get into the weekend. The only thing we ill notice over the past few days High Pressure being the dominant weather feature thad will continue to push toward the east keeping us under an east, southeast breeze and a toward t rockies moves into south florida by the end of the workweek and into the weekend. Lots of time for that. Conditions mild across parts of th south. Look at that the 60s ahead of this secondary front moving out of the dakotas. Temperatures behind the dakotas in the teens and 20s and deal with Severe Weather threat for the overnight hours. For us seasonable forecast with wiwis off the ocean. Temperatures rise to the upper 0 70s. We are used to seeing the low s and 50s and 60s going into the overnight hour since we had the nice cool weekend. That will all be a thing of the past. The warmth will continue. High pressure will continue to push toward the east. A warm eastsoutheast breeze going into tuesday. A slight chance of a shower off that breeze. If you want to head to the beach, today will be a great die do i boater no, sir advisoryboater no, sir advisories as the bays will be at a light chop. Watch what happens with High Pressure. Our fairweathered friends and provides for the heat. 85 degrees with a slight chance wednesday into thursday and fray a chance of a shower as well due that next front that will be moving in psibly florida. You can see for the weend, high also be in the lower 80s saturday and upper 70s come sunday. Ladyladieses. Chief meteorologist betty davis will be back with more. Constance thanks, julie. New at noon a m man accused of brutally beating his roommate he met on craigslist was in court. The hearing was supposed to be on bond but it was on his charges. Michael seiden tells us in miami why those charges have to be refiled . Reporter constance, simply put, the judge did not see the evidence in the affidavit to hold this defendant in jail without a bond. Prosecutors are going back to the drawing board. They are expected to file new charges later this afternoon or possibly tomorrow morning that will keep him behind bars. In the meantime, though, this is a very emotional morning the victims family got to lay eyes on the guy who is accused of brutally beating their loved one. My heart was beating really, really fast. And i i felt very, very, veve upset. And i just you know all of a sudden i got it really, really numb feeling. Reporter chilling kneeling this mother got when se first laid eyes on Byron Mitchell. The 35yearold is accused of going on an attack. Trying to cut the lips and eyelids off of her 23yearold daughter danielle jones. Right now day 16 and she is still in a coma. Still in critical condition. We we are looking for any little glimmer of hope. Reporter Byron Mitchell stood in court this morning hoping to bond out of jail, but prosecutors say they are preparing to file new charges against him. At least one count of attempted firstdegree murder. Milchell moved in with jones