Was hurt. I heard popping. I didnt seehe car. I didnt know what he hit it was so fast. inaudible reporter an earlymorning crash full after food headed straight for this Apartment Building. I just saw that truck coming in this way and a said thats going to hit the building. Reporter it happened near 71st street and byron avenue. Here is a look from a bus t. Driver of this silver suv ran a stop sign causing the collision. The food service reps tell 7 news thats when their driver lost control and ran into the palm trees here, which luckily stopped the truck from hitting the Apartment Building. If it got me, i would be gone. Reporter this guy on his morning run said he narrowly missed being hit. inaudible reporter luckily no one was hurt but those who live in the area say its only a matter of times before it happens. People hit on that corner. This corner is very dangerous. Reporter for a short time they had to shut down 71st between abbott and carlisle avenue as the 18wheeler was pulled out. The load put on another truck to finish its delivery. Miami beach police tell us that ticketed. For now, we are live on miami beach, elitsa bizios, 7 news. Also this noon, secretary of state john kerry cancelling his Upcoming Trip to cuba. The change in plans comingg because of the island nations Human Rights Violations. Jessica holly is following the story for us live from Little Havana. Jessica . Reporter this could be a sign of trouble brewing for the president s Upcoming Trip to cuba, and some are saying now same. Now. John kerry cancelling his i am really susurised. Reporter congresswoman ileanna roslehtinen reacting to the latt development in cuban relations. I think the acccculation of evidence of the Human Rights Violations got to be too much for even secretary of state john kerry to stomach, and so hes postponed his visit. Reporter the secretary of state was set t to visit cuba to lay the ground work for the commander in chief. President obama headed to the island nation on march 21st. The haggling over human rights in which dissidents will be allowed to meet has kerrys trip on hold. How will this impact the president s visit . Just like kerry cancelled, president obama must cancel his trip as well. Is the castro regime willing to stop beating the heads of human right activists . They wont stop for john kerry. Will they stop for obama . I doubt it. Reporter and w w are continuing to gather reaction to this latest development. Later in the day. For now reporting live in Little Havana, jessica holly, 7 news. Were following a news alert right now. Live pictures here of a podium where were awaiting a News Conference right now. This is los angeles. This News Conference regarding the o. J. Simpson case were telling you about. Omar lewis in the Satellite Center to tell what you says going on. Omar what we know right now, Los Angeles Police tell us and they have confirm that had a knife was found on t former property of o. J. Simpson. Now, that property is located in the brentwood, california just outside of los angeles and theyre investigating a report that this knife was discovered years ago by a construction authorities. And tmz first broke this story just a few hours ago. And ha theyre saying is that a construction worker found a on the perimeter of theormer simpson home and handed it over to a Police Officer working shoot. The officer now retired was recently ordered to surrender the knife for testing by report. And what were waiting for is Los Angeles Police to confirm investigation. What we are hearing is that theyre now investigating what that knife, the circumstances around that weapon. What we know is that its a folding buck knife, is what tmz reporting. An a press conference going on in just a few minutes where Los Angeles Police will talk about investigation. We will, of course, get back to you once that press conference takes place. We did want to let younow this is going on right now in logsz. Thats the latest in the Satellite Center, omar lewis, 7 in the race for the white house, the 11th Republican Debate once again has the gop hopeful targeting front runner donald trump. His rivals threw everything they had at him but hes standing strong. Diana carolinin has the latest. Reporter rivals would be on the attack and he sai bring it on. Last night they sure did. Dont worry about an it little marco. Lets hear it big donald. Dont worry about it little marco. Reporter it was trump versus rubio versus cruz as the two senators tried to take down the feisty front runner. Donald trump has written checks to Hillary Clinton not one, not twice, but ten times. Reporter they jumped on trump throughout the twhour debate, including for not releasing awed owes with an times. In it, trump said he was much more flexible on his immigration plan than he said in public. In terms of immigration and always has to be some, you know, tug and pull and deal. Reporter Ohio Governor john kasich refused to get drawn into the fight and warn withed voerts about electing piticians are no experience. Were putting people in that policy. People are getting more and more frustrated with the system, which is why we must pick somebody that has a record of achievement, not just talk. Reporter today former republican nominee mitt romney squashed all speculation that he would be getting in the race. And as the race for the height house heats up, earar voting starts this saturday in person voting in 20 locations in county. The Broward County supervisor soft elections [ no audio ] talking about it in lauderhill. Weve seen a lot of interest. Being generated because of theed candidates and ha they bring to the table, what they promise to bring to the table, the interactions with each other. So weve seen quite a bit of interest in that. And, as a matter of fact, the Research Indicates that when the voters are interested in issues of candidates, youre goi to have a higher turn out. I dont know if we will have an a higher turnout or not, but voters are showing indations they are really interested in this particular election. Diana Hillary Clinton, donald trump and marco rubio have been hitting the campaign trail in south florida ahead of the primary on march 15th. With the primary fast approaching, n n is a good time to download the voice your choice app always updated with the latest from the campaign trail. An a south florida mother accused of tossing her twoyearold daughter in a dumpster remains behind bars this noon. Now we are hearing from those who know her best. Alex de armas is standing by live with what they have to say al . Reporter we know this story is b absolutely heartbreaking. This mother accused of throwing her twoarold daughter in a dumpster is still in the jail behind me. Just wait until you hear what she told police. What ppened . Reporter this mother from sunrise is in handcuffs. Custody of the state. She is accused of tossing a little girl in an a dumpster building on wednesday. This is crazy. I dont really have nothing to say about it. It caught me unexpectedly and i would never thought she would have did anything like this, but it is crazy. Reporter witnesses told police she saw the 28yearold throw the girl and walk away quickly. Graham who was nearby rushed to get her out. I looked around and saw the kid in the trash. I ran babb to take her out because i didntant her to remember that moment. Reporter andis what police say sheffield told them echl i did not throw my daughter in the dumpster. I put her in the dumpster. She told witnesses she recently had a miscarriage and was depressed. Her cheful demeaner was puzzling. Good morning, miss sheffield. Good morning. How are you . Just fine. Reporter and in court she watched the judge grant temporary custody t her daughter. I was glad i was able to help the baby and know the mom probably had a moment of break down. And this mother is still in now. Charges. She also has a 16,000 bond. Reporting live from pompano, alex de armas, 7 news. Suspected pickpocket stopped in pinecrest here. 56yearold derek hope getting hit with a clue of charges. He is linked to a number of charges. Near u. S. 1 a southwest 136th street. Then accused of racking up more than 16,000 on that victims credit card. New details about an ongoing investigation, fiu captain of the Womens Basketball team filid a complaint accusing the head coach of harassment. Destiny said he made inappropriat advances to her in person and new text messages. The university confirming that the players complaints came shortly after she with us suspended from the team because the police had opened a a theft investigation against her. Head coach has been suspendnd pending the results of the Sexual Misconduct investigation. A hack attack putting south florida officers at risk. Personal information released and 7s liz nagy has more from miami Police Head Quarters in doral. Reporter the personal information of Police Officers, judge, county employees protected by law in south florida is now out in the open on the internet. The only information that we got was and was alarming to us was the computers were hacked and that information very Sensitive Information was released. Reporter according to an official memo from the Homeland Security bureau, miamidade started investigating a Cyber Security breach february 26th. The union that represents miamidade pllice officers alerted their members wednesday. The moment we found out, we were more alarmed by the fact they have counted our members. Its not just Police Officers that are exposed. The web site allows anyone with an Internet Connection to search information from 1121 miamidade employees, 2385 in Broward County and 4114 people in palm beach county. Its our position at the end of the day, its the government that we work for. Its their obligation to protect the information, fire wall, passwords whatever they have to do. Reporter several days into the investigation to find the source of the leak. Wee do not know if its been fixed and we have not heard from the county. We demand they fix it immediately, if at all cost. Reporter in anline letter, the guy that runs the web site where all of this information has been published, he did not commit the hack himselel he said he doesnt condone what happens but also says he doesnt condemn it either. Right now Miamidade County has not said if this hack has been fixed or when it will be. Back now to this news alert out of los angeles regarding the o. J. Simpson case. Lets listen in. We need to we stiti dont know if that is an accurate account of how thistem came into our possession. The actual item is described as a knife. Im not going into description of the knife because that could be jermaine to determine iffin this actual piece of evidence is evidence or if its just fact silly or made up story. We need to look into that. And robbery homicide is going to look into that. So what i can tell you is that the story, as its told to us by the person we received it from, and the person we received it from is a retired lapd officer, who retired back in the late 90s. He was a motor officer. At the time, according to him, he was working an off duty, movie job, which a lot of our officers do on off duty basis as well as our retired officers. Do not know if he was retired tat time he allegedly received the item from the person who claimed they foundt on the property or if he was still in fact an lapd officer and retired some time after that. Were lookingnto that. The bottom line is that with all cases that remain open, such as the o. J. Simpson an other murder cases and robbery cases, unless theres an actual arrest or conviction to prove that we have actually closed the case, the case remain open. That is where we are with the o. J. Simpson case. And i shouldnt say the o. J. Simpson case. This is nicole brown case, this is a double homicide that is still open and ongoing. So the investigators will continue to look into this. That item has been recovered by it is being treated as we would all evidence. Its being submitted to our lab. Theyre going to study it and examinee it for forensic, dna, hair samples and thats ongoing as we speak. So with that, i can take a couple of questions and i may not be able to answer all of your questilns. Let me start right here. Captain, can you just give us reaction, the reaction with an officer with lapd decides to keep evidence in what many describe as the biggest mur murder trial in all of la, what was your reaction . I was reallysurprised. I would think an lapd officer, if this story is accurate, any time you come into contact with evidence that you should and shall submit that to investigators. I dont know what the circumstances are i dont know why that didnt happen or if story is bogus from the get go involving a variety of people. Were looking into that. I was quite shocked. So in terms of charges, the off areas retired. In terms of administrative charges with the department, we will look into that. At this point, i dont believe there are any administrative charges that could be filed because hes no longer an employee of the department. In terms of criminal allegations, robbery homicide investigators will look into if there are any poe ten alty of criminal charges of related to this. inaudible queion i dont have thaha information. The investigators have asked that we not be vy december cryptive about the knife. They havent told me so i dont stent tally tell you and for obvious reasons. We need to one determine is this evidence and if its not evidence, how do we prove one the only way we do that is challenge the people involved as to what where it was recovered, where it was alleged to have been etc. inaudible question my understanding is that its a knife, not a machete. inaududle question so my understanding, im not an attorney, but its my understanding from being a Police Officer nearly 30 years that double jeopardy would be in place here. We could not charge mr. Simpson with the homicides that hes already been charged with because hes been acquitted. inaudible question it depends on what kind of evidence theyre able to glean from the item. Were working on that and theres a lot of attention to this. Were interested in finding out the story to rest or confirm something. inaudible question as im told, the retired officer was working in rocking ham estate area and claimed that an individl who claimed to be a construction worker provided him w wh this knife, claiming that it was found on the property. So he held onto it until just recently when we discovered that he had it. And we have now recovered it within the last month. inaudible question that may be part of the investigation but i dont know. inaudible question there will be plenty of additional investigation. I dont know where that will lead our investigators. That property, as many of you know, has been demolished and rebuilt. I dont know if they will be gogog back there. Certainly they will look into let me go over here. inaudible question yeah were not going to ovide the exact dates and could go to proving or disproving the legitimacy of this ite and where it came from and who was involved. inaudibib question i dont know that. inaudible question yeah, i dont have that information. Its my b understanding that he believed that the case was closed, which, again, is a possibility that he had that misunderstanng. So, again, as i explained at the beginning, any case that is not where we dont have a conviction all of the charges or were not ableo prove to our satisfaction that we have proved the facts of the case remains an open case. And that is the case here. inaudible statement is. Thats the information that i have at this time. Im sure we will look into that further. We are not releasing his name at this time. Do you know the name of the person who found the knife . We dont. If youre seeing this story and you believe you are that individual that provided this knife, we would love to have you contact our Robbery Homicide Division an we would get more information from you then. inaudible question i dont know that. We will look into any criminal charges that may be involved here. inaudible question i dont know that. Captain, how much dna can go over time . Im not a forensic expert, but depending on where an item is kept, stored an maintained, its possible to get dna. Forensically with our natural history, discovery of items that arar very old. So were hopeful. If this involved, our investigators will submit it to the labs that are very good at what they do and we will see. I dont know. inaudible question well, it depends on the type of testing and the condition of forensics. Theres a lot of process and im not a scientist. We have folks experts in that and they will do everything in their power to maintain that and produce anything producible. Can you talk about how lapd found out about snit so it was brought to our attention that this retired officer had an item that was believed to or allegedly, possibly taken from or recovered back in the 90s. Thats how once we learned about that we recovered up. I dont know how the contact was made. We discovered it and investigators immediately followed up on it. inaudible question yeah, i dont know. I dont know where it was recovered orow it was rereported to have been recovered. When a case is remains open, it is handed off to special team. Our open case team. That is who has it at robbery homicide. They would not have been the original investigators on this case. That happens in many cases that go on for years. We have a number of cases that are still openfrom decades ago where the officers and investigators are certainly retired by now. Last question. The retired officer retired back at the time you received i dont have that information. Were trying to determinehat what his status was hen the item was handed to him wheer he was retired or short