Family making a desperate plea not far from where they lost 55yearold hurley ma clean on in a fatal hit and run. You just dont kill someone and then just keep going like they were an animal or something. Mick hermans mother says he left her Fort Lauderdale home nearby on foot on his way tie store and not long after she learned that she had lost him around 8 00 p. M. T. Was december 27th in 2014. Here on the 1400 block of northwest 19th street. And we struggled with the fact that it this societyty that we currently live in where people are so cold hoortd were told ma cleanton just made itton this sidewalk and his friend a few steps way when the truck slammed into him. His friend too traumatized to speak about the loss so his wife hurley was the sweetest person you can imagine. We give you the last penny out of his pocket or the shirt off his s ck if he felt you needed it. And police recovered the blew ping truck after the crash but the owr has been spoken to and the police have identified a person of interest but no charges have been filed. We 12eu8 dont haven any independent witnesses that have come forward identify whog was behind the wheel that the time. His family also hopeful a witness will step forward. He had just beat stage four can serd ser and survived a life threatening infection was his life was tgicacay taken. For someone to actuallyy run over him and mow him down, its so profound and disheart end. I know you cant sleep just like i cant. Please come forward. Plse come forward. Reporter in Fort Lauderdale, ann key. Information that can help investigators, give broward Crime Stoppers a call, 954493tips. Belkeys a high price heist caught on cravment it happened at lens craft ters in the west spheeld browardman mall in pran taition last week. Two men took more than 10,000 worth of designer eye glass fraivmentz cops say they worked as a team. One picking the frames and handing them off to his accomplice sitting near bite. Sphru any information call Crime Stoppers at 954493tips. A bso deputy involved in an accident in dania beach. Motor man struck a pedestrian near the intersection of sterling road and 5th and way ters road. That pedestrian was transported to the Hospital Department ti was not hurt. Supreme showdown in the works now after pred president obama nom naith naits a federal Appeals Court judge to fill the vacant seat once held by antonin sca lee a. Plex with more on this. Liz. Reporter belkeys, president obama promised to fill what he says is his constitutional duty for someone to fill that va canlt seat and today he d. His decision widely approved by democrats and republicans in the past but this seat on the Supreme Court could change that. The fate of highest court in the land hangs in the balance. Today i am nominating chief judge mer ik brian garland to join the Supreme Court. Reporter this announcement at rose garden from president obama kicked off a long promise constitutional cross washington showdown 20 white house and republicans on capital hill. Tomorrow judge garland will travel to the hill to be begin meeting with senators one on one. I simply ask republicans in the senate t t give him a fair hearing. And then an up or down vote. Only be an add vo caifghts senates cons diewtion nal duty. Will indicate a process of nominating and confirming judges that is beyond repair. The senate will aropriately revisit the bheart it crtz nominations of the nominee the next president nominates, whoever that might be. Reporter the man at the center of the fight is mer ik garland. A long stiem prot prosecutor turned chief justice of the Washington Dc Court of appeals. Fidelity to the constitution and lawt has been the corner stoarch my professional life. And is the hall marveght kind of judge i have tried to to be for the past 18 years. If the senate seize fit to confirm me to the position for which ive been nominated today. I promise to continunu on that course. Reporter but as glarnd subject of the a fierce beat that began the moment his possib predecessor Antonin Scalia passed way. Reporter wel as is part of standard protocol after the president makes a Supreme Court nomination, he reached out to the Senate Leadership tomorrow to set up an intraduck tory meegd between his nominee and the sen neet net leadership at white house. Mitch mcconnell has said he will not even meet with judge glarnd when he heads to the hill tomorrow. Until the senate decides to proceed with any hearing on president obamas nom neerks the United StatesSupreme Court will have justt eight members evenly split between liberal and conservative justices. Live in the plex. Liz nagy. 7 news. Craig five candidates left in the race for the white house. The republican field narrowing with the with drawf marco riewfnlt meanwhile donald trump and Hillary Clinton have for ta tied their front runner status. Sheldon fox is live nowrts plex with the latest for us. Sheldon. Gone with the wind and so are marco rubios president ial hoamplez the wig news on the democratic side was on hillarys big night for every one else, the fight continues. To win by that kind of a number is incredible. Donald trumps a bill built to self pro note appears in the campaign. Donald took fla tuesday and took down mark. Riewbs president ial run with the win in the senators home state. And while today my campaigig is suspended,. Hours after trumps shine wirntion florida Govenor Rick Scott formallyly endorsed trump but trump could not capture tuesdays oer big prize ohio. Govenor john kasich won his home state easily. We are going to go wait to clevelanan and secure the republican nomination. Trump won illinois, north missouri where trump also claims victory and where it was too close to call. Thank you all so very much foomplet democrats, Bernie Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in four of five states with missouri still too close to call. We have come a long way in ten months. Next stop arizona, utah andnd id hot. They will get to vote next week. Were live in the plex. Sheldon fox. 7 news a. Craig and his ambition shattered after losing florida. At 6 00 a look at rice and fall of the states junior senator. And stay with wsvn. Com for ting coverage race to the white house on air, on line and on your art phone or tablet. Belkeys much more coming up here on 7 news. A womans mir rawk less recovery after getting nearly beaten to death. 7s rosh lowe is working this one for us. Reporter we have been valentines day. That is the day miami police say this 23yearold woman was beaten. Beaten so badly she was in a to coma for more than three weeks. We have fold her slow road to recovery. Now tonight youll hear from this would. Have you to stay with us. Thats tonight at 6 00. Craig also a Broward Elementary School teacher learns a tough lesson after she is accused of being drunk on the job. Belkeys a miami store clerk and her baby placed under the gun when robbers barge in o o a mission to steel. Craig a florida barn chard after flames break out. Animals caught in the nistled and were live in lake worth. Belkeys and Mother Nature leaving her mark in one state. Residents left to pick up the pieces. Belkeys a terrifying twister leaving homes gaged and trucks overturned and lots of power problems. Craig ps Danielle Knox in the plex with more for us. Danielle. Reporter . Danielle hats right this. Tornado was on the ground for ten minutes with winds up to 130 Miles Per Hour an hour. A tornado touches down nea this home and others destroyed. The tornado peel ofght barns roof sending metal debris flieght ground. Residents describing what they saw. And i noticed up down the road a little ways my neighbors trailer come up and over and flipped and partially on the road and upside down and powers lines coming down spark and firing and. And we were standing at the window watching it when we saw continue flying off the shed roof and then that is whehe we went for the basement night high winds overturn age semi on the tirn state downing trees and power lines across the yiemplet four homes destroyed. An estimated 40 homes damaged. Residents are now left to pick up the piece ooze but it was really windy. And was starting to hail. Danielle the cyst people tem range hate. Some two and a half inches in diameter. Danielle and we should adhere that ten people did report minor injuries. The National Weather service hasas classified tuesday nights tornado as around ef2. Were live in the plex. Im Danielle Knox. 7 news. Belkeys okay danielle. Craig next up from the plex. Main pickk the wrong house to break into. A Miramar Police officer takes action. Belkeys a plan to build the hotel, the Miami Beach Convention center not going as planned. So whats next . Well tell ought 5 30. Craig and a 65 year traditiln gears up for another go. The Miamidade County youth fair is getting set to open its door. Belkeys be there, the fair lynn im lynn martine coming up knew at 5 30 a gun didnt scare a clerk from fighting off an armed man, even a sus mer jumps in to help. Down nay wild wreck and fire on the water, things heating up a board a luxury yacht and its not a good thing as you might imagine. These stories and more when Danielle Knox joins mefor 7 news at 5 30. Hope will you as well. Craig and were getting news just n. A south florida firefighter who has been arrested. Belkeys sheldon fox in the newsplex to fell us more about this. Sheldon. Reporter well that the law and now he is in trouble at work too. His name is ali upon demplet he is 44 years old. Were learning now he has been placed on administrative assignment pending formal charges. He was arrested last night because he game baim involved in a fight with his live in girlfriend. It got verbal and fizz cavment they say he allegedly tried to to lock her in a room for two hours and he choked her as well. He denies it. It happened on miramar parkway. She called cops for help and done pon der has since bonded out of jail. Were live in the plex. Sheldon fox. 7 news. Craig also on 7, be there the fair. In less than 24 hours the Miamidade County youth fair sop to the public. 65th year now with new rierksdz animal exhibits and lots of good food. Belkeys hats the best apartment. The good food. Shireen sandoval lawf flift the fair looks good for 65 righgh reporter yes, man, loif that ging jingel, the face, b there. And its a special anniversary for the big event too. Last minute unloading and tting up. For the Miamidade County fair and exposition. This year were celebrating 65ears of smiles snoot special anniversary means more fun including extra activities on thursday which sopg day. A special parade celebrating 65 years and that will start at 7 00 p. M. And were alsls doing fireworks at 8 50. Reporter with over 170 food vendors and 100 rides and five planned concerts, definitely something for every one. Have you rides. Have you food. Have you competitive exhibits and animals. You can have a lot of fun here with your family and with your friends. The opening date of fair if you wear a green shirkts you get 2 off ann admission and also o food and drink from participating vendors. One of those planned concerts is the village people. Love them too. The fair runs through april 10th. Live in thnewsplex. Shireen san do vavment 7 news. Now 7 weather with chief meteorologist phil ferro. Phil all rigig. So lets take a look at the big view here. Theres a huge storm right croots upper midwest. You can see the rain in green. The blue, that is snow. Blanketing much of the area. Now, for us, theres a possibility of a rainy weekend as a front approaches. Plenty of moisture head t. 40 to 50 chance for saturday and sunday. And our over night lows are going to remaiai above average through the weekend but then here is the start of spring and then were going to cool down a little bit. It should be the opposite way around. T thatat what were going to get. Meanwhile heres a look at across broward, miamidade and the keys. Just a a few showers off shore. And thats where they will sta heres that storm across the upper midwest. Doesnt that almost look like the tropical storm, very, very tight area of low pressure, plenty of rain heading north where it runs into the cold air. It turns into snow. Now, that big spin is going stick around across the region for at least another 24 hours. And that is not moving very much. Rain and snow moving towards the northeast for st. Patricks day and then finally on friday, everything starts move out. A little bit of snow anan then the cold air moves in across the gion. We on the other hand, were looking warm through the end of the week. Maybe some rainfall for saturday and sunday. So heres the marine forecast. No advisories, the wind out of southeast. Biscayne bay smooth. Nowrt florida keys, were looking at the wind out of east. Coastal waters with a light meanwhile your next high tide at 3 48. 3 43 in Fort Lauderdale. Key largo the next high tide at 4 11 and 609 dplon key west. So for tononht, clouds continue to move out. Nice mild breeze. Over night lows will be in the low 70s. What is typicalis around 65 degrees. Now, for tomorrow mostly sunny. Mostly dry. The average high is around zer were going to be well above that eight 2, 87. 88. Thats the record by the way for miami tomorrow. Setback in 2014. Heres your extended out look. A hot st. Patricks day. The heat sticks around through friday. Rainfall sunday by the way. Thats the start of spring. Thats your 7 on 7 forecast. Belkeys phil, a woman in lakeland trying call the whievmentd she has owned this snake named ram bo for 15 years. She says she has the proper permit to own him. Grown leernlger that 6 feet and her property is not big enough to keep him. Look at. That he is wrapped around here. And she found him inn deplorable conditions with no sun a light and little move to move around. And now he is sensitive to sunlight and cannot be outdoors for long. They want to put him outside, he is sun sensitive. He cant go outside. So they have a two and a heark acre rule but my land does not meet that but he cant go out sides, he is specialeeds. Florida wild life officials have not made a final decision about ram bo yet. He looks awfully coses disi there on her lap. Is he afraid she will bite her head off. Craig does seem to be some affection there. Belkeys what can we say. Craig im sure weve seen it all. Belkeys not yet. Craig and a landmark site off i95 is coming down to make room for something a lot bigger. Belkeys and are you in an empire state of mind . One of the stars of thee hit show sharing some of the behind the scenes drama. Craig that is 7 news at 5 00. Thanks for joining us. We hope you tune in again at 6 00 im craig stevens. Keep it right here. 7 news at 5 is up next. Caio caio. This is 7 news 5 30. Danielle and 7 news at 5 30egins with a killer confrontation. A man breaks into the house of a Police Detective who happened to be at home at the time. Good evening everybody. A detectives family was getting ready for the day when the cop sensed danger. Lynn 7s ann ceel is live on the scene in davie with the top story. Ann. Reporter and we have learned this suspected burglar entered a home than longs to a local detective who was asleep at the time l l this morning just after 6 00 a. M. And when the two made contact there was a confrontation andhots were fired. We were woken up by all the lights. And he had a cap and cape. And police say inside this home a Miramar Police detective since january of 2005 opened fire comaij they say broke in. You never know when w where and when. Reportete sky force over head geer giving you a clear picturu of what neighbors saw up close on the gauntlet lane. He heard the shots. I woke up it was real loud. The Association President has been keeping close eye on. He spoke with us by phone saying the detective was woken up bit sound of broken glass they confronted the vivmentd the individual parentally came at the home owner who was a pd member and he was threatened and within five feast him and he shot him the pba president says the detective is very shaken up. His children were home as well as his nieces. And they think he tried to blocks way minutes before he was shot and killed sweefd approximately 16 minutes before that call, a calf an attempted burglary a few blocksouth. This can happen anywhere and this guy picked the wrong house and unfortunatelyye will never do that again. Reporter and the pba trez prez alsls telling us the detective cut his foot on bken glass but he is expected to be k. As you can imagine the investigation into what happened is still in the preliminarily changes. Ann key. 7 news. Danielle okay ann. And a teen accucud of killing a 6yearold boy making a plea in court. He fled pled not guiltyn court. His accomplice was not in court for the rainment but their attorneys requested a try. The police say the pair washooting at another person when a stray bullet struck and killesix yeerld king carter. Carters family now hoping