The car owner found but who was driving during this horrific hitandrunrash. Ice blast ripping through the northeast. We are live braving the freezing temperatures. Both parties in the final push delivering the closing arguments to voters all across New Hampshire. Primary less than one day away. Live team live in manchester. Straight take to the news alert open miami beach. Mother found dead and her small children alerted police. Hello again everyone. Active investigation but not too many answers. Alex is live for us on the scene with what we know so far. Alex . Reporter the woman was killed here at the flamingo apartments on miami beach. It was the south tower wch is just beyond these gates and it was her two Young Children that alerted security. The second floor here at the south tower, unit on bay road on miami beach. The floor has been closed off by crime tape. The two children reported to Security Guard at the building their mother was hurt. That Security Officer then called 911. Officers then made the discovery. The children were not injured. They havavbeen taken away by officers. Police wont say how they belie this woman was killed but detectives are looking for a man they say had a relationa man they say had a relationship with the woman this sntd the first time the building. Te last year a man was shot and killed at this apartment complex. We receivedd a 911 call from security personnel indicicing that two small children had advised that their mother was assaulted inside of their apartment. When officers responded they made entry into the apartment and were able to discover a foe mail deceased inside. At this point our detectives im really shocked that this happened again t. In such a short time. They should do something about security or some background check. I dont know. Im really in shock. Reporter so at this hour Miami Beach Police are looking for a man. Again they believe had a realizeship with this woman. If you h he any information the number for Crime Stoppers is here on the screen we are live on miami beach tonight, 7 news night team. Baby snatched when they are mothers car was stolen and she is safe and sound tonight discovered hour after being taken. Crook who stole the vehicle is still on the run but he left a critical clue behind. Police think this man is about 19 or 20 years old. They want him off the streets. Nicole is live in Fort Lauderdale where this whole thing got started. Reporter well, the good news here in all of this is that this little girl is okay and as you mention aleast we have an idea what the man looked like. What a horrifying afternoon for thth family. This mom had a doctors appointment with her little girl this afternoon but decided to run an errand here at the laundromat. Ran inside a second because her ughter was sleechlingt 10 month old. When she came back outside her car was gone. We have just been nofied that the vehicle has been located and that the baby was inside of the vehicle ein a dark alley illuminated by Police Lights you can see a little hand in the back of a cruisea cruiser. The end of a two and a half hour desperate search. In the 900 block of west mcnab the little baby was left in her mothers stolen car all alone. Suspect was gone on our arrival ivshtion this is the young man police have been looking for t. Family nightmare began just before 4 00 oclock sunrise boulevard. I came to pick up clothes left in the dryer the mom says. I left the car running with the little girl in it because she was sleeping and i didnt want to wake her up. Thats when this man, his image captured on Surveillance Video apparently jumped in the chevy cruise similar to this one and took off. Police began the search amber alert issued and two parents desperately w wt for word. Before 7 the good news. Car found 8 and a half miles away. The mother arrived at the scene wrapped her little girl in a her home. Car jaeshing on the loose but a 10 month old home with her family. So once again we have the image of that man on the Surveillance Video from here in the laundromat. Have. About 19 or 20 years old. Dark long sleeve jacket or shirt and blue jeans and timber line boots. Man, think you know him or saw him in the car at any point police definitely do need your information and the number to call is this number on the the best news in all of this that little girl is safe. Reporting live in Fort Lauderdale, 7 news night team. And now man beating a stranger with a metal pole. At any time stop there. Police say he swiped a sword for round two. The night team working thealarming attacks. Didnt take cops long to track this guy down. Liz live for us in lauderdale with the story, liz. Reporter inside this shell station on state road 7 where the bizre string of crimes gachbility it started with an attack and cops tracked him down so quickly because surveillance camera just above where all of this happened were rolling both here and at his man in a red hat walks into a lauderhill shell station sunday morning casually steps into line then for seemingly no reason starts swinging at this stranger. What appears to be a metal pole that you would use maybe to hangup a shelf. In a store type of think. Just starts pummeli him around the face and head area. Reporter two guy duck out of the way and woman wh the innocent white hair old man ts between him and fight off the attacker. He walks out of the gas station. He leaves the store tries to get in another car. Unsuccessful trying to take the care. Reporter paramamic are treating the elderly man bleeding from the head from the attack. We get a call from the swap shop about man in the swap shop brandishing a sword and attackink one of the clerks at the swap shop. Reporter you wont believe this sure enough. Frantically violently swinging a sword at clerk chasing him around the store trying to slice at him over and over again with a sword from the store display even as the clerk tries fight him off. When they get there several bystanders and other store clerk had pinned the guy down. Porter to make it even Stranger Police say walker the pole wielding sword swinging attacker hadad just seent movie poll ter gichlingt we dont know if this individual was on synthetic drug or mental breakdown. Reporter either way the 22yearold is now in jail. Hes facing severalerious charges including attempted murder. Lauderhill police say he was also driving a stolen car during all of this we are live in lauderhill tonight, 7 news night team. Things looking up and down in south florida. Mother roller coaster ride. Phil is in the weather interwith this. Phil. Reporter and looks like most of this week we are on the down side. We look at another chilly night across south florida. Not ass cold as this morning. Meanwhile tuesday we see pary cloudy skies. Temperatures you t ting to reach the mid to upper 60s and more cold airs in store for the rest of the week. Meanwhile take a look at all the cloud cover moving in here across the area. Play a key role tonight as to how cold it may get. Look how we woke up this morning. Temperatures in the 40s everywhere. Check out homestead. 46 degrees for you. Key west morning low of 58. Meanwhile average low 62 degreemeanwhile average low 62 degrees. Becausu of the cloud cover i dont think we are going to see 40s tonight but tememratures will be in the 50s. A little colder wednesday morning and then the models are very aggressive here. Degrees andhe cold air continues right through valentines day. I have a lot more on this a little bit later on. Okay phil thanks. President obama requesting federal fund to battle thzika health emergency. President asking congress for 1. 8 billion dollars to research and combat the virus. Money used to expand mosquitos control president obama and Speed Development of a vaccine. 5 florida counties under state of emergency now including miamidade and broward. 16 cases have beeneported so far in florida including 6 in dade and two in broward county. Mother speaking out after Police Officer who shot and kill her son advertise cleared of wrongdoing. She met with reporters today at her Lawyers Office four days after the Attorneys Office declined to file charges in the case. Video showow the officer shooting 25yearold hall. Halls mother daniels called police to help with her still in disbelief over what ultimately happened. I would have never called them. Feel my pain. My suffering. Been a whole year. Reporter hall is lunging at officers with a broom stick before any shots fired. Family sent request to the department of justice and the fbi to look into the case. Attorney general will visit south florida later this week. Miss lynch here thursday and friday part a 6 city tour where she honor the durral Police Department for the Community Policing strategy. Also host a youth town hall meeting while here. The clock is ticking in the New Hampshire primary fight. Candidate on both side of the aisle are making late night nights out come could be a game changer. Jeff is on the trail with the candidates in manchester, New Hampshire for us. Jeff . Reporter i can tell you at this hour its cold. About 20 degrees here in manchester. Snowing at this hour. Snowing throughout the better part of the day. This late hour the attacks and push for votes continue in the New Hampshire primary they begin. He picks up steam as he look he picks up steam as he looks to lock in a big win in the New Hampshire primary. Trump name 1 in the poll by double digit. He packed a giant arena monday night. He continues to lob harsh attack towards jeb bush. Government, if he werent in government, you wouldnt hire him to do anything. Rererter jeb has spent millions of dollars on tv ad hopeful. Donald trump organizes his people as a sign of strength. Reporter bush Ohio Governor kasich and new jersey governor cristgovernor cristie teaming up against rubio. All together this trio has turned up the heat since saturdays debate. Rubio momentum may beading as the senator of florida is too scripted. Protestors make i lightf the campaign criticism. Im ready to be the next president of the united states. Senator rubio proved on saturday night hes not ready. Reporter not playing gall in the game but to keep his focus on the president. Running second in the poll. Made it for very messy competitive process in the shortterm but listening term it would be third in the poll trying to sway the voting block to his side. One of the developments we libertarian uniting behind our campaign. Our job is not to accept what the establishment has told be. Reporter hilary not standing down. Striking back against his mused just the spwor day 10,000. Okay we are just about two hours away from the poll opening here in the primary three small towns at midnight. As for the rest of the pool they open later tomorrow morning. Polls close at 7 00 p. M. And all the candidates on both sides have a number to get the vet as well and continuevet as well and continuing coverage on the New Hampshire primary throughouthe day on tuesday. Last last. We look for your live reports obtain New Hampshire noon t. Remind you now is a good time to down load the 7 news voice your choice app. Updated w wh the latest from the campaign trail. Its free in the app store or google play. As you saw in the back ground with jeff there a blizzard blast tearing through the northeast, new england especially. Heavy snow blanket several states in the middle of the ice mess. Brandon is in massachusetts for us good evening. Reportrt good evening. We are on the south shore 20 miles south of bost the issue with the coastal unit and initial up a lot of flooding. Streets where i i am standing now. High tide tonight at 11now. High tide tonight at 11 30. Not even come prbl to the high tide this morning that you are with to see but the winds have stayed strong with gust up to 60 Miles Per Hour. Concern on the south shore was high tide high winds. Sent waves crossing crashing over the sea wall. These ties at the end. I dont know how they do it. Pretty good. You look over here hes going up all the over flooded swicklyup all the over flooded swickly. Roads temporarily suit down and asked people to ainvoice the koyingtd line if they could. Water is also up here so we to. Sometimes it floods like down by the light house it floods. Pretty bad. Porter potential for flooding power out a building a concern but surprisingly it didnt turn out to be a serious problem. Jennifer moved back home from the Pacific Northwest and said she had to capture it moment. I love this wment. I have missed it for 20 years so this is great. She has the right attitude. Now doesnt appear to be any significant damage on this part at 11 30 so emergency worker will keep alose eye on that. 7 ne night team. Thanks so much. So ahead from the might team. Cruise ship tossed away. Danielle is on the. Mon0 wavess to the kruck coming up next after the smaibinging a danger strike. He paid someone to do his taxes but something was wrong i well look that in this you are watching this is 7 news at 10 00 boy who has bumped out by not being able to use in your skate park. And now. Hurricane force winds and rough seas. This is all bada im so nervous. Reporter but the ship still sailed. Tonight what did cruise officials know. When theres a Storm Brewing when theres a Storm Brewing, why are mistakes made. Reporter before this nightmare vacation. The storm was forecast days before the ship set sail. Now Florida Senior Center wants to know why the cruise went on as scheduled. Danielle live on Watson Island with the story now. Danielle. Reporter this is one of the World Biggest cruise ships but Mother Nature pring to be bigger. Royal caribbean 168,000 ton anthem of the satisfactory sea sunday sent deck chairs flying. Passenger photo showing heavy top tossed and roof pepel looking. Some of t Collateral Damage from the storm. Tried to keep the water out but its squishy. Rails are breaken. Reporter ship rocked for twe hours what were 30 foot waves while sailing fromew jersey to port ka and a half relevanthen bahamas but never made it. Captain ordering the 4500 passengers to stay in their cabin while the ship weathered the Hurricane Force winds. Newspaper editor on board the good news they never lost a superbowl signal. Perfect tv picture throughout the storm t. This statement. Well turn around and say back and minimize the worst gang rape and have a small sale homerape and have a small sale homeen quobt. The thing about this storm was it wasorecast for days. Reporter but it may not be such smooth sailing for royal ka lean to conduct a shex. Why in the world with a cruise ship with thousands of passengers go sailing right into it . Well Royal Caribbean says the original information didnt call for wind awhat though encountered. As for tax though all get a reef fund of the upper try him. Okay danielle. Gas and smash caught on camera. Video shows a man testing driver of the cash at first the owner of the business thought he was being robbed. I thought somebody break in and stealing but i was very surprised very surprised. Things happen. Most important thing like shorts 1 neat at chico garage near state road 7 and refuse mondayest worst. Fortrtauderdale bank robbery caught on camerara fbi releasing images of woman who right hand this it happenen on northeast 18 street. No injuries were reported. If you recognize any you should call crime stopper. People getting to fanlt all the if its accurate and you you or your tax preparer. An answer in tonights edition of help me howard with Patrick Frazier. They say two tngs in life are certain. Death and taxes. Fortunately you are alive. Unfortunately you are about to have to deal with your income taxes. File my taxes every year. J. C. Has a business. I do at fault and greenfield i had everything. He says when you are the boss you have to make sure everything is as white when it comes to h and r block. They were good because they are naex wide. I went downstairs so i didnt have no problem with it. I arrest. Toned may him on the. The letter didnt come with we for give you card but he got penalize for the wrong form. They charge me 13 objection. He went to talk to who filed his tax return. The lady said what kind of phone to put it on. If i would have known l that there i could have filled it out myself. Reporter hr block filled out the tes here. J. C. Asked them to pay the penalty for their response somebody to come by and view me and see whether we have this. 2 month and nobody ca out. Reporter j. C. Got tired of waitof waiting sew paid the 1365 penalty to the irs. Then he called help me howard you who has to pay for the mistake who. If the tax precipitationer makes a mistake with the wrong form or incorrectly forever they mileage too much back or pay tome they are responsible for any penalties. We contacted hr block good company ease to deal us saying we take this matter very seriously did work with a client to resolve the situation. We have covered penalties and interest. Regret any convenience this caused. When your tax preparehands you the return to sign check the math. Make sure the ducks are prop yacht and you are fooeling filling out the proper form. Take your time and read it. Easier to prevent a smis take than trapped it has to happen real quick. Hr block sent j. C. A check prprlem away. Did me a big flavor. Glad of them. Poor people cant afford alawyer so help me howard they right there on time. Reporter howard said if tax preparer makes a mistake awbd get too much money back you have to pay it. Why dont they have to pay it because if they had done it properly you would have had to pay it any way. Bottom line be careful before you sign the tax return. Got a situation that is taxing your patience . Ready to deduct it from your list of troubles. Conduct us. Well take ivrnt and return your peace of mind. 7 news. Cantt believee are talking taxes already. Im really trying not to think bit. Im thinking about i have to look through a lot of paper. Trying not to. Up next south florida night team. Story on just one station. South florida mom says her child came home with something completely inappropriate. She says it was part of the homework assignment. Im steve. Coming up in sports. One of the heat players is pouting. On frozen pond. First place panthers try to extend the winning streak in detroit. Sddz. Just onee station. South florida mother giving her childs homework a failing grade. Nothing to do with the effort. Shes calling the lesson itself bad. Jessica has this exclusive. Give me all of your money even if you dont very much said the young man. Pocket. Newspaper. Nope. We are talking about a stori that came home in my sons homework packet. Reporter from spanish lake miamidade with a lesson for a second grader. Kerry has a problem with what her 7yearold might learn in this reading comprehension exercise. It is in my opinion 100 percent inappropriate. Reporter 6 paragraphs about a young man who questions a store owr about how much money she makes then robs her. Thats the story. Reporter story she fears could contribute to something ke this. I see the boy the, give me the money. Reporter just last week 8yearoldld taken in by police in Palm Beach County after they convenience store. She came up to the school last thursday with her concerns and and waited three hours to speak with an assistant principal. She says that assistant principal told her that the reading assignment would be removed from the packet. But when heron came home this was still inside. Which was that much more disappointing. Reporter she wants the Miamidade CountyPublic School system to more closely monitor the lessons that are molding little minds. No reason for this type of material to make it to a childs hands. Reporter Miamidade CountyPublic School system respond to this saying the pass annual was taken from a book no longer in service. School system release ago statement that reads in part while the teacher intention were his good, they may have been better serveed to give a more comprehensive review to the material involved to ensure age appropriateness. That statement also confirm that that reading material has been pulled from the packet. Reporting in north west miamidade, jessicaolly 7 news night team. Coming up on 7 news at 10 00. Its the first in south floridaits the first in south florida. Robinins live. Hihtory about to be made here at jackson. Miami jackson Senior High School. Tell but the new female coach coming up. And when you think off a deadly weapon, this may not be what comes to mind bu one guy crime. Another cool night here across south florida. Already temperatures in the 40s across pensacola. How cold will we get tonight . Elderly woman laying in bed shot in the mouth by a burglar who broke in. She survived for two years but never the same again. Now 18 years later as Patrick Frazier tells us, detectives are back on the case to find out who would shoot an 82yearold woman point blank range. Report it takes a special kind of coward to shoot an sleeping in her bed. Some one who had the unmitigated gallon to shoot her point blank directly in the mouth. Reporter police were called to her home in 1998. Saw. As he put i i, quote unquote, gurgling in her own blood on her bed. Reporter ironically after her husband died in g gmany during world war ii, she had brought her two little boys to america to escape violence. My mom was incredible. Reporter she worked hard duplex for the family. Rented one side and lived in the other. Thats where police found her bleeding 18 years a a. House was trashed. Drawers taken out. Everything turned topsy turvy. Reporter she survived but not a pleasant life. She was unable to move. Repoer the day of the crime police did find fingerprints here at the scene but they didnt get a match. Now 18 years later cold case detective has reopened the case and resmithth the old evidence hoping new technology will int the finger at the gunman. Still out there. Reporter if the gunman is caht he will be charged with attempted murder instead of murder since the cause o odeath was listed as heart attack at the nursing home. But john is convinced that shot to the mouth is why the she died two years later. I absolutely, positively think that the cause of death the for my mom was the bullet wound. Its very difficult case frustrating case. Reporter the detective didnt open the cold case just to review it. He wants to solve it. Im hoping that some one will watch the segment. And remember something that will help us. Reporter as badly as gunman, john wants even more to find out the identity of the person hes convinced murdered his mother. Yes. Id like to have that person identified. I would like to have that person brought to justice. Reporter on january 27th, 1998, some one shot miss grave while she laid on her bed i in miami. Someone told you something about that, even if the ataeshing is dead, give miamidade Crime Stoppers a call. This is 7 news. Bizarre gator tale finally solved. According tolorida fish wild life this gator was thrown into a wendy drive through window by a customer in Royal Palm Beach b bk in october. No word why he did it. But police have n arrested 23but police have now arrested 23yearold joshia james of jupiter. They say he admitted to picking up the gate or on the side of employee. He now faces chargeses of aggravated assault. Nobody was injured and the alligator was safely released into a nearby canal. Cold start to the work week cold start to the work week. Morning low in the 40s. In Fort Lauderdale miami the 50 degrees. 58 in key west. Afternoon high kept in check. In the 6 6s and we were rain free across south florida. Right now everyone right at 60 degrees except m mcosuke and at key west. More clouds moving in. Pressure is falling. The wind at around 8 to 22 Miles Per Hour at the coast. Humidity at 72 percent. So this is the stormtracker and we are looking at dry conditions across south floridaconditions across south florida. It should remain dry over the next few days. We have a lot of dry cool air moving in through our direction. There is one fnt right here. There. That series of fronts ll continue to move our way over the next few days. We have more clouds on tap for tonight but no rai by tomorrow the front should be across the bahamas. It will t tn breezy. Highs will be right around the mid 60s and then yet another front should be moving in some time by wednesday in through thursday keeping that cool air around. All long range model suggest the overnight low will remain in the 50s at least through next monday. Heres mat arena forecast for tomorrow, Threat Research current at the beach. Small craft advisory in effect. Look at the winds building to 25 knot. Biscayne bay choppy. For you throughout flat keys you are looking at an advisory 25 knot winds. Sea beyond the reef building to 6 to 9 feet. Next high tide miami 9 52. 9 47 Fort Lauderdale. Key largo 10 15. 11 18 in key west. The m me clouds tonight looking overnight low in the 50s. Low 60s for the keys. Wind will start to pick up t. 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour then by tomorrow partly cloudy. Turning windy again. 15 to 20. Highs will be in the upper 60s to right around 70 degrees. Heres your extended outlook by wednesday morning low of 50. Models really get aggressive for thursday morning. Low in the upper 40s. And then look at that most of the model suggesting we should stay with morning low in the 50s through valentines day and evev through monday. Thats the 7 on 7 forecast. Some one new calling the shots at south in high school. History making coach is s king the field. Its a first for High School Football in our area. Female head coach. Robin iss live at Miami Jackson senior high with this. Robin . Reporter coach is excited getting some wins. The the she is making moves just like her players. Shes taken a career of coaching from her High School Days at miami northwestern to her college days at Tennessee State to the next level. Her time as head coach for the Flag Football Program at Miami JacksonSenior High School was stepping stone to history. Im just happy to be here at Miami Jackson. New head coach of the generals football team. Watch what we are going to do. Big things coming up. Reporter principal rios introducing the first female head football coach in florida history. Everybody wt equality. Guess what we got it because im here. Reporter school new assistant head coach campbell known for work as coach with School Park Program as well as community activism. Shes a legend. She wont tell you that but shes alws been the girl in the neighborhood that played from semi pro to just street football in the streets. Im just doing my job. Reporter her time in the streets known as a driver called bernice on south beach tow that earned her notariety. Her reality now is football t. Students players seem to be on board she probably knows nose. Should be a nice addition to Miami Jackson. I eat my lunch and somebody said congratulations and hi to figure out what for and then after that i figure out what for, i just had to put on my big coach panties and that was it. Reporter former player with the miami fury her expectation of 100 percent off the field will earn her the respect of new Football Players on it. I dont want people think we are here for publicity or do anything. We are here to make Miami Jackson be contend her and win. Practice for the coach andndhe team scheduled for april 25th. Lets start with hockey. First place panthers just beat troit down here last thursday. Up in detroit tonight. Going in panthers won 5 straight in detroit trying to you have seen the space sweatyou have seen the space sweaters. The tshirt in detroit right there no score in the second. Panthers in white. The alexander decked. No penalty called. He had to leave the game with an upper body injury. Might be out tomorrow, too. Go to the third. still scoreless. Kendall from it point deflected by thomas t. Panthers trail 1 nothing. Later in the third down 2 nothing. He turns it over. Red wings 21. The the back handier pass. Panthers down three nothing. Minute left in the fame panthers derek after abdel. The worstp of it here. Panthers lose 3 nothihing. Two straight losses over all and bar coffees hurt. Head shot regardless of what whatever they gave him or whatever i thought it was a head shot. Best player on the team so we have to either figure it out if not coming back or hopefully hes back tomorrow well see. York. In buffalo. San Antonio Spurs make their only miami appearance tomorrow night against the heat. The spurs whout duncan. Heat center white side is pouting. He was not used in the Fourth Quarter yesterday in the loss to the clippers. White side 10 points 10 rebounds in the first 3 quarters. Little sprained ankle but could have kept playing. I dont know what our relationship is t. We are fine notch need toalk bit yesterday. Not referendum other than we went to the other direction. Just g gng to the big game. Play big mibs tomorrow if his ankle is fine. San antonio is here. Last rodeo manning goes out on top. World champion broncos back in december verify this afternoon manning not on that plane. Hes at disneyland in california after winning superbowl last night they beat carolina turning 80 next month. 18 seasons in the nfl. Lunch of record and superbowl titles. Is this it . I dont have a plan. Come on. My plan was try to win the game tonight. This is last one or not he deserves to go out on top we are so happy for him as well. Its amazing. Amazing. I think its a lot of ex xla mission. Newton walked off on the media he could hear harris of the broncos talking to the newton in check. This is what newton heard him throw the football. Keep him from throwing the football he walked off. Canes move up to um home against pittsburgh. Yukon against sou carolina. Both teams undefeated. Stewart let everybody with the huskies with 25. You con wins again. 60 straight wins. History. Oklahoma city scanned her ticket to the superbowl. He stayed and allegedly taking pictures at the game for tribune west side. Wac at practice in okc durrant teenager west brook Photo Bombing his interview. Dogging him about being a at the game. Her than the loss out, there the thunder playing well. That is a wrap for us first at 10 00 on this monday. Ciao ciao im belkys. Stay tune news continues 7 woman picking up laundry and next thing she knew some one had stolen her car. Her sleeping baby inside. Trouble in the store whehe man goes on the attack. Elderly man was the victim. Police say the suspects moved on from there. Temperatures dropping across south flolida. How low will they go tonight. Vacation nightmare on the highgh seas when a cruise ship sails into seve storm developing at this hour