East towards the coast. The rain is heavy in coastal communities. All the way down to fort lauderdale, hollywood beach, you have heavy rain in that area. For the florida keys, also showers. Maybe a couple of bolts of lightning here and there as these slide toward the northeast. The middle florida keys hard hit. Lower keys, things are quieter for you at this hour. Two confirmed tornadoes in Broward County. One occurred mid to late morning in the everglades, confirmed by debris signature on the doppler radar. The one that was in Coconut Creek that extended towards Pompano Beach was confirmed by a National WeatherService Survey team that traveled to the location, saw how the debris showed rotation, some trees in one direction, others in another, and they determined that this had a 2. 3 mile long intensity up to 100 miles per hour. Now back to you. Thanks. We want you to take you to the site of the tornado touch down. How does it look tonight . Reporter not that great. A lot of people around here are thankful though that their homes are intact. Were along 43rd avenue. A lot of the surrounding property not intact. For example, this fence, this is a hole through the fence and it should continue to extend here. But it got sucked up by the storm. Trees uprooted from the ground and sheds ripped apart. A tornado roared just enough to cause a stink in this Coconut Creek neighborhood busting out windows but stopping just short of seriously damaging homes. This man says he couldnt believe how close the storm came to being much worse. See this here . This is structure we will need a roofer to evaluate. Reporter his name came home to a downed fence. I got a panic attack. Its hard to believe Something Like that happened here. Reporter northwest at Broward College is where the tornado overturned cars, stacking one on top of the other. Nursing students looked out the window and watched the storm move cars around like legos. See the cars moving arod. Then a couple of cars flying around. Reporter along the turnpike, the twister dumped a tractortrailer on its side just along the Coconut Creek southbound off ramp. It flung this white suv like a toy. Amazingly through all of this damage and debris, just one driver suffered minor injuries. No one else was hurt. Destruction. Mother nature rules. Reporter and amazingly, the cleanup here only took a few of course, everybody has debris outside of their homes around this corner. Again, people just happy it wasnt any worse. They hope they get lucky again tomorrow. Live in Coconut Creek, im marissa bagg, nbc 6 news. Team coverage of the tornado continues now with nbc 6 reporter Stephanie Bertini live in a different part of Coconut Creek tonight. Reporter take a look at this tree. Mother nature literally uprooted it from the soil. Just over this wall, the Retirement Community, the property took a lot of damage today. Not far from here in Pompano Beach, damage so severe even those who say they are used to this weather, they had seen it before, they were shocked. In the darkness, the damage still clear. Mother nature wasnt kind to the Retirement Community in Coconut Creek. Earlier, this view from chopper 6 after a tornado touched down close to here. Nothing compared to what could have been. This man knows about weather destruction well. He says what he saw before his own eyes after the tornado touched down was amazing. I lived through hurricane andrew. It was similar to that. To come out and sese everything upside down. Reporter his business specializes in transporting highend furniture and vehicles. The workers left to clean up after the storm uprooted big trees. When the tornado hit, they were inside the business taking cover. Those who were outside say the winds were fierce. This man walked away with an injury. The wind took the door, hit me in the arm. Then the wind came in the opposite way. Reporter damage still visible. A reminder that weather can be vicious. Back out here live, watching it on tv is one thing. For those of you who have been up close to this kind of damage before, you know seeing it in thats probably why we have heard a lot of people say tonight, theyre grateful that they and their loved ones are okay when weather like this hits, the consequences can be death. Im live there Coconut Creek tonight, Stephanie Bertini, nbc 6 news. The tornado touch down has been trending on social view on 6 all day. After the twister hit, nbc 6 viewers were tweeting and facebooking videos. For more on how social media helps share images from the ground, lets go over to jamie giruirola guirola. For many people, picking up the phone and picking up the moment is instinct. This twitter user posted this cell phone video of the winds. He was riding out the storm at the Broward College north when the tornado barrelled through the campus. Wind and rain, the violent combination in Coconut Creek one thrown on the grass, another on top of another vehicle. Were in it. Check out this post from inside a car on the turnpike. A heavy downpour making for a waterlogged windshield and zero visibility. More winds that ried through northeast broward. Authorities reporting minor injuries but a lot of damage to clean up. We alwlws love to look at your posts and pictures. Put our stories together by downloading our nbc 6 news and weather app and submit photos and videos. Dont put yourself in harms way doing it. When Severe Weather hits, have the nbc 6 news and weather app downloaded to yoururhone. Two families are looking for a place to stay after a fire destroyed almost everything they own. Theres barely any damage outside of this home, but inside its a total loss. And northwest 20th avenue. Someone noticed smoke coming from a first floor window and flagged down police. An officer helped the family save two dogs before five fight firefighters arrived. They had a hard time findinin the source of the fire. Everything burned. Its glass everywhere. We dont have nothing. I dont know. Im lost. I dont know. I just lost everything. The home is separated into two units shared by a family of four and a family of seven. Fortunately, no one was hurt here. The red cross is helping the victims. A look at a dangerous miami rollover wreck that involved six cars including a Miamidade Police cruiser. It happened last night. Red light cameras captured the moment the driver loses control of his car, sending it on a crash course with other vehicles and the police car. Were taken to the hospital. They are expected to recover. The man behind the accident now faces a dui charge. He told nbc 6 that he crashed because his brakes malfunctioned before the impact. He struck five cars in total. Five days away from the iowa caucuses. Most of the president ial candidates campaigned today. Donald trump was not one of them. The republican frontrunner spent the day campaigning in South Carolina which doesnt hold his primary until february 20. This comes a day after his Campaign Announced that he would not be taking part in tomorrow nights debate in des moines. Not everyone is buying it. Jeb bush says that he is betting 20 that trump shows up. Over on the democratic side, sanders took a break from the campaign trail to go to the white house for a meeting with it came days after the president piled praise on sanders rival clinton. Sanders says it focused on domestic and Foreign Policy issues. Polls in iowa show sanders neck and neck with clinton. Florida voters will once again get to decide the issue of medical marijuana. A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize the drug gained enough signatures to qualify for the november ballot. If passed, it would allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana for people with conditions such as cancer and hivaids. 60 of voters need to approve it to pass. A similar amendment came up 2 short. Folks in south florida, there are more showers and thunderstorms that could occur later tonight. Throughout the day tomorrow, thursday. Details coming up. The father of missing teen arrested at the airport after police say he purchased a oneway flight out of the country. Catching the culprits. How they nabbed a dangerous duo accused of robbing victims at atms. A story we cant get enough see the welcome back. Tonight a south florida fath is behind bars after police say he abandoned his son. This while his teenage son is missing. Laura rodriguez is joining us live from plantation with more. Reporter jackie, the boy has been missing since december. School officials here say everyone is very worried about him at American Heritage high school. According to police, the teens father purchased a oneway ticket to new zealand. He was arrested yesterdayat mia airport. In bond court and charged with unlaw ful unlawful desertion of a child. He explained why he was boardin to comy with a court order that commanded me to be there for a hearing on friday. Reporter he told detectives that on december 27, he kicked his 16yearold son out of the car because he was being rude. The father claims this occurred somewhere on northwest 136th avenue and sunrise. He got out of the car and its better if you dont discuss the matter. Reporter police say they were not notified the teen was missing until january 9 by security after he dropped off flyers in an attempt to locate his son. When they contacted the father, he did not want to fi an official police report. Didnt give us information. Didnt want to report his child missing. Reporter the boy attended American Heritage school. He was a new student that began in august. He was lastst seen there on december 18 and after winter break he didnt return. We were worried about him. He we didnt get return phone calls from the father. We received a letter saying he was withdrawing him from school. Reporter police dont suspect foul play. Administrators, teachers and students are worried about the 16yearold. You are not alone. We are all here and we care about you. We want you to come home and we will all do whatever we can to help you and make you feel safe. Reporter at his home, three notes were taped to the window with messages about where he can find a key and numbers to call. He is not in any trouble. We just want to make sure that he is okay. Reporter he was last seen wearing a peach colored tshirt and white cargo shorts. Police say he has been run away before. Theres one reported case in hawaii. An unreported case here in south florida. As for his mother, detectives say they have not been able to locate her. In plantation, laura rodriguez, nbc 6 news. Oregon wild life refuge a night after their leaders were arrested. The leader urged the remaining protesters to leave the site and go home. They remain in custody by police and federal agents after a violent confrontation after a traffic stop left one member of the group dead. They went before a judge in federal court to now face felony charges. The search continues for a shooter who opened fire on two women. Family members of the victims are asking anyone who knows anything to come forward. The 63yearold woman is in serious but stable condition. Doctors discharged the 27yearold woman today. Police havent said if they were the intended target, but they want to get to the bottom of the shooting that happened last night near grand avenue and douglas road. A former dcf caseworker has five years of probation ahead of her for doing her job the wrong way. She pled guilty today to six arges of official misconduct. Her time as a dcf investigator in the case of an 11monthold and his mother. They say she lied on paperwork and didnt think she posed danger to her son. Six months later the baby boy suffocated to death in his moms hot car. Two teenagers have been arrested. They are both 17 and accused of five robberies in Pompano Beach. They would approach victims at atms, hold them up and demand cash. A third suspect is at large. Were n n done with the rain yet. As i mentioned. We will see more rain tonight and parts of the day tomorrow. Right now, the heaviest rain is starting to move offshore towards the atlantic. Look at live first alert depp lore ra doppler radar. You can see where the precipitation is heading. Generally,ortheast about to head offshore here off the coast of Broward County. Thats where the rain was heaviest and has been heaviest throughout the day and into this evening. Finally quitting along the shoreline. The strong rain and thunderstorm activity just offshore. Miamidade county, had rains this evening. Things have calmed down temporarily. More rain on the way for dade coming up from the florida keys where its raining pretty strongly right now. As i said, more rain on the way. Look at this computer model forecast heading into it the day tomorrow. This is our rpm model inhouse model we use. You can seeidespread rainfall accumulation of up to around tw maybe even three inches of rain between the rest of tonight and tomorrow. For Broward County where you had two to three inches of rain, you add a couple more inks, could be up to five before its all said up in palm beach, ty have had over six inches of rain so far. Temperatures are in the 60s right now across south florida. They will actually climb overnight as the rain at least temporarily stopped before it restarts again tomorrow. These rainfall accumulations thth you will see here at the different airports in south florida e not as impressive as some of the other rain buckets we have seen, mainly from the south Florida Water management district. Those are the ones that have yielded two to four inches in broward and up to six inches up in palm beach county. There is the front that will finally clear us out. Its still in the northern setion of florida. Its going to take time before it get downs here. Srobably not until tomorrow night. Ahead of it, moisture and this moisture kind of super charged a bit by the upper level jet stream which has been so strong during the month of january thanks in good part to the el nino weather pattern. A very strongng el nino causing wind aloft that tend to, well, like you see here on the image but also to destabilize the environment and to cause thunderstorms to become stronger and somomimes rotate like what happened today with those tornadoes. Here is the forecast now as we look at the next seven days. The worst of the days would be tomorrow. We will look at tomorrow as far as the feature tracker is concerned. Here is your morning look. Mainly cloudy. Showers tend to wait until noontime on the future tracker. Then the afternoon were socked in with heavier rains tomorrow. 80 will be your higg showers continuing into the evening. Then clearing out for friday. Thats the good news. A much cooler day then. Saturday and sunday look to be very nice. Highs in the 70s, lows mostly in the 50s. John, thank you. New york state is considering shutting off part of Niagara Falls to replace pedestrian bridges on the american side. A temporary shutdown of the falls on the u. S. Falls happened once before. Right now you are looking at the before and after is pretty startling. Officials are weighing their optio and the 40 million bill. Thats a sight to see. Still ahead, what happened when a simple traffic stop turned into a wild ride with a suspect behind the wheel of a a skier tumbles you have to see this. A traffic stop turned into a wild ride for a k9 cop. He jumped into the drivers seat and took off. He led police on a a ase nning a red light and crashing into a fence. People were jumuing out of the cruiser and taking off. He was caught shortly after. Thankfully, no one was hurt. The kingkakau united with its owner. The animal is back in her owners arms. The rare mammal was being cared for at south state animal hospital. Anna had caught the eye of the others in the same area days before she was found inside the miami homeausing intrigue and fear. I see it in the bushes looking at me. I see a tail. We were like, what is that . We called it over. It was playful. Then later it climbed up on my leg. The owner said he will do everything he can to prevent her from escaping again. An amazing story. Here is an amazing story. Footage of of a skiing champion falling more than 1,000 feet down a mountain. The best part is that she lived to tell about it. Angel was filming for a movie at the time when she hit an i y patch that made her fall. She was tumbling at a high rate of speed and went faster as the slope became almost vertical here. Amazingly, the lucky skier suffred two jammed fingers and some bruises. She was wearing a microphone at the time and when she stopped falling she was heard saying, im okay, im okay. Oh, my gosh. That is unbelievable. Wo jammed fingers and some bruises . Thats it . How is that possible . Are you doing this on purpose because im going skiing soon . Thats why did you it. A warning here. Im going to cancel. Not happening. Happening with the heat. Theres a controversy involving lebron james. Why lebron laughed it off when he was asked about trying to get eric fired. A guy who is a limited partner of the miami heat got suggested lebron james tried to get Erik Spoelstra fired. We didnt report th because this guy doesnt know whats happening in the organization. Lebron has fired back. First here is what was said by this g g to an israeli media outfit. Lebron first laughed at this comment and then said this. I have never met that guy. I have never in my time ever disrespected a coach. People get misconstrued because im a smart basketball player and i like to voice my opinion about things. You want me to turn my brain off. Thats what they want me do do. Im not going tot because i got something to give to the game. The reason he is being accused of using his power to was fired last week even thoh cleveland has the best record in the eastern conference and went to the nba finals in his first season. The allstar break begins today for the florida panthers. Perhaps they a a the surprise story of the entire League Playing like this. 15 wins in their last 19 games. The panthers are in first plac