If you saw something, just please call. Reporter just this past thursday in ft. Lauderdale a cyclist was killed by the driver of this silver fofodoor car. The suspect took off. Charles blackledge died alongside dixie highway. Im watching my son not grow up without his father. Hes 19 years old. Reporter the number of hitandrun accidents in florida is staggering. 92,000 hitandruns in the state of florida. Reporter miamidade is number one with the most. Broward right behind at number two. Troopers say if youre in an accident, you need to help. You cannot leave the scene. If you leave the scene, minimum by lawyer is four years. Reporter continue living knowing you were in an accident like the onene that killed charles. Its sad that we have so many people down here that are willing to leave the scene and reporter back out liveere. It does not tter. If you know about an accident that happened a week, a day ago, or five years ago, if you know something, pick up the phonene and call police and try to help those families that are suffering. Emotional moments in court today when a man accused o running over a 5yearold boy while trying to escape police appeared in court. A judge denied him bond as the victims family stood by in court. Dan krauth spoke with that boys family. He joins us live froro miramar. Reporter the young boy lived in and played here in this miramar neighborhood behind me. I just spoke with his family members who are distraught. They want the man respoible to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Very polite, respectful. Fun loving. Reporter family members of Jayden Readon never thought at the age of 5 they would be been. He took away my grandson. Reporter readon was walking down the sidewalk in Palm Beach County at the same time lex eugene was running away from police. He not only struck the boy with his car. Police say he then took off from the scene. For him to stand there like fe doesnt matter, all life matters. Reporter the 20yearold came face to face with the judge and the boys distraught family in court. I just spoke with the boys uncle who told me he was a boy who was full of life, a boy who loves his brothers and sisters. As for the suspect, he is facing a slew of arges, including vehicular manslaughter. Happening right now, police are looking for the person who standing on the street in Little Havana this weekend. The victim was with a friend near fifth street and southwest tenth avenue when someone opened fire from a car. He was taken to jackson memorials trauma center. Miamidade Police Officers wanto find a man who targeted two teens in a deadly shooting. It happened late saturday night near 73rd street and northwest 19th court. Several people approached the teenagers and began to shoot. One underwent emergency surgery. By la Lanard Wilcher died. Earth. He never gave them that job to take another mans life. Its up to god for when hes ready for us to come home. Improng and she hopes hell be okay. Anyone out there with information on this shooting call miamidade crime stoppers. New details tonight in the case of a Broward County circuit judge convicted of dui. She is leaving the bench. She submitted her signation friday. They arrested her backin november 2013. She served 20 days on house rest last summer, but was facing more disciplinary action from the state supreme court. Tonight, former president george w. Bush will hold his first joint rally with his other republican president ial candidate jeb bush. The former president will appear in South Carolina at the Charleston Convention center. Now polls in the state show jeb currently running in fourth place behind trump, texas senator marco rubio. The South Carolina primary is set for february 20th. Now, on the democratic side another formr president showed his support to a white house hopeful. Bill clinton supported his wife today at a public event in west palm beach. Hillary clinton was scheduled to hold the rally, but the former secretarys Campaign Announced e would skip florida to focus on nevada. If youre hopi to cast your vote for a president ial nominee, you better make sure youre registered to vote. Florida has a closed primary. Only registered voters can cast a llot. We are live with more on this one. Reporter ticktock. The clock is definitely ticking here. Today, a big push to get as many younger erer voters registered to vote. Turnout, it can really sway the election votes this year. Pundits believe Benie Sanders resonates the most with those Younger Voters. A flurry of students coming and going on the campus of fiu. We have our primary and then our general elexctionelection. Reporter to register Younger Voters ages 18 to 22. Most who stopped by aware theyre embarking on a civic duty. Im pretty excited. Reporter just squeaking under t t deadline in florida, which is tuesday. Its the young vote that could sway an outcome. Were the future of america, so i think its important because we will dictate what our like. Do your Research Just a little bit and make a difference because its your future leader. To be a voice in this country because we all need to have our tomorrow the deadline to register, but its the deadline tohange party affiliation, which these 30year republicans did. Inpendent isnt an option and we definitely could not vote republican. Hillary seems to be the candidate ill probably vote for. Reprter shes been registered since he was 18. I had my address back in daona beach when i was originally registered. I changed it to the address down here. Reporter while these young and inspired voters have made up their minds, interestingly enough they say theyve done their homework and arent bound bybyarty affiliation. Marco rubio is my candidate. I like Bernie Sanders a lot. Probably donald trump. Reporter again the registering deadline is tomorrow. Absentee ballots being mailed out tomorrow in Broward County early voting begins february 29th and if you have work, if youve got school, some other obligation, cant make it during business hours, board of elections say polling is open until midnight. Steve litz is traveling to uth carolina for this weekends primary. Dont forget to f fllow him on twitter. Well be updating the nbc 6 news and weather app leading up to saturday. The paypalpal visit continues in mexico city tonight. Pope francis third full day in mexico included a mass at the city sports center. On wednesday, the pope will Laura Rodriguez is following the pope. Follow her on twitter for updates. Well see what a helelcopter spotted just offshore and why there are so many. It wasnt the day to be out on the beach today with all this wind and clouds and rain. We have a cold front coming through tomorrow. Ill let you know what that is going to bring us. Will temperatures cool down just like the last time . Ill let you knkn. Sex offenders released with little or no oversight. Now someone isowing to take action. We continue to follow breaking news out of miami. Here is a live look from our chopper 6. A dump truck fell off the southbound lanes of i95 near southwest seventh street. Fire rescue is telling us the garbage truck broke the barriers of the exit ramp and plummeted below. I dont know what im doing. I cant t nd anything just when i think its just not going to work. This woman thahaworks there comes over and asks can i help you . And he was so happy, to do it amazing right . I never would have expected would have thought that anyone would find that do that. Make that go out of their way for me. Right then, right there i couldnt believe it he was so helpful i know its such a small thing little thing. Simple thing but t made me smile made me happy made my day share your story. Tte a look at this. A stunning sight from the air along the coast of palm beach. Tens of thousann of sharks. A biologist shot the video this weekend after the sharks faed to show up for their florida migration on time. Scientists believe a strong el no season and warming Ocean Temperatures may be to blame for while it may look scary, blacktipped sharks are relatively harmlessss. A reunion for doctors and their patients who met years ago on the operating table. For many families, it was their first time speaking to the doctors who saved their babys lives. Thats why todays celebration of success is what its all about. Doctors meeting their growing patients and parents who get to say a big thank you to those surgeons who made their sure kids are still strong. I was young. I really didnt know what to expect. Being here, the hospital took care of us. I knew she was in good hands. Doctors promise to continue to evolve the technology that they need to save future lives out there. They agreed watching their them all. Well, we had some rain move through earlier. A Long Duration rain shower in downtown miami and Little Havana. Things not quite as active. Bu we zoom in and see a few showers moving into southern dade county and key largo. Meanwhile, this onshore breeze has just been wreaking havoc along the ast. Rough surf, rip currents as well, with winds gusting to about 35, 36 miles per hour. Diplomats resort and spa cam quite a sig today with the dangerous surf. Our rainfree stretch ended at seven days. This was the longest stretch of our dry season, which started way back in october. Our next rainfree stretch begins on wednesday. Were in a more typical dry season pattern right now with an occasional cold front interrupting our dry weather. 72 right now in miami. 73 in ft. Lauderdale. Part of the reason for the wind gusts is this strong area of low pressure. All the air is rushing into the low and thats why its so gusty out there. This low has a front behind it and the frontal system is expected to cross the gulf of mexico and reach south florida tomorrow afternoon. Give it about 20 hour, maybe 22 hours or so. It should be here. Well ahead of it thats when were going to see some shower and thunderstorm activity thats expected with this front. This evening there are quite a few showers and thunderstorms affecting southern portions of louisiana into mississippi and alabama. As you can see, there are tornano watches, warnings, as well as severe thunderstorm warnings at this hour for that area. Rain, the mostly cloudy skies, the strong breeze. Expect the clouds to remain tonight. Winds will die down just a little bit. Once the front moves through, well get more normal weather condndions in here, but the front is a problem for tomorrow. Its going to be approaching in the morning. Take a look at the future tracker. This is 7 00. We move into the midmorning hours and thats when the future tracker has the majority of the rain affecting us. If you have a late commute in the morning, you can expect thatt to be affected by the rain. In the afternoon, things start toto partially clear out. As we head into the evening, things should be much better. Tomorrow the rain chans increase increase in the morning and the afternoon. Mostly 60s at night with no rain for the following six days. Nbc 6 was the first to tell dangngous sex offenders are released from prison with very little oversight. An advocate has a plan too track sex offenders, hoping to keep them from striking again. Here is a live look from chopper 6. A dump truck fell off the southbound lanes of ii95 near southwest seventh street. The truck broke the barriers 100 feet to jose every Auto Insurance policy has a number. But not every Insurance Company understands the life behind it. Those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. Get an Auto Insurance quote and tonight, a call for change after an nbc 6 investigation exposes the states failure to monitor someeleased sex offenders. New video tonight of a 55yearold convicted sex offender accused of having sex more than 130 times with two 16yearolds. One womans plan to fix what happens with some sex offenders that are released. Reporter lauren book survived years of sexual abuse shes turned her pai into a Child Protection unit. She jumped into action. Lauren book knows. These are the stories that so desperately need to be told. Im thankful as a kid who so wanted people to hear and understand reporter understand that those who like her were abused e ed as children can speak out and get help. So heelt for the two 16yearold girls convicted sex offender fender allegedly molested weeks after he was released from custody. Sending him back to a house where a 16yearold girl would be living, what was that for him . Hunting grounds. Reporter she wants the state to address the lapse exposed in our investigation. Are leaving the civil Commitment Center, theres no real step down program. Not having transition and oversight is extremely dangerous. Reporter book has interviewed men held in that Commitment Center while the courts decide if theyre likely to reoffend. She speaks to School Children about how to report abuse. She knows how both predator and prey think and cant believe he was back in a home with children. I was horrified, but not surprised. Reporterthe department of children and families was warned eight years ago to keep a closer eye on sex offenders. I think theres some pieces of this legislation that are very good. We all would agree there needs to be a transitional release program. Reporter a Prosecutor Says whats missing is money. Its an expensive problem to guarantee safety for your community. Willing to pay taxes to Fund Important government projects. Reporter book is angling to do somthing about it, running for state senate in Broward County county. Here she is inn014 staing with governor rick scott as he signed a bill toughening sexual predator laws. I will fight unt i have no breath in my body to make sure that w whave some of the toughest laws in our state to keep children and families safe. Reporter but for now, shes focused on laurens kids promoting a k12 curriculum. A reminder tonighhthat the nbc 6 investigators are working for you. If you have a story you think email or you welcome back. We continue to follow that eaking news story out of miami. Thats where a garbage truck fell off the highway. Whats the latest . Reporter well, this is certainly not something you see every day. A garbage truck split into two right in the middle of the park. It fell nearly 100 feet off an i95 south ramp that was the seventh street exit. It smashed into two different vehicles. As far as we know, the driver of that truck, he was transported to rider trauma. There were no other injuries. Captain carol is with us. Thank god there were no other injuries. This is a busy park usually. Luckily this park was not occupied and nobody was injured other than the driver. Reporter how do you go forward in this investigation . Fhp is conducting the investigation. A lot of that will lie with the driver who is starting to come around a little bit. Reporter thank you very much. A very busy scene here. A city of miami garbage truck has plunged off the highway into a park. Th driver is at rider trauma. Tonight, supreme war. The death of jtice scalia prompting a highstakes showdown. The president vows to nominate a successor. Republicans refuse to even consider it. Major issues left hanging in the balance. Facing trumps fury. The frontrunner again threatening to sue teded cruz and taking aim at george w. Bush over 9 11. Trumps risky attack as the former president hits t t trail. Hospital bombing. A new horror in syria. Medical facilities and schools are hit. Children are killed. A massive storm from louisiana to maine. Snow and ice in the north. The south. And heartburn alert. New concerns about prescription meds millions take to treat it linked to kidney disease, now linked to an increase risk of dementia. Nightly news begins s right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this the nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. In an Election Year already fraught with improbable plot twists and drama now this. The ideological balance of the u. S. Supre court suddenly in limbo. Tonight theres late word on who president obama might be considering to replace the late Justice Scalia as lines are drawn for an epic battle between democrats and Senate Republicans who are determined to leave the choice up to the next president. Tonight the current esident is suggesting republicans are full of bluster, but they, not democrats, hold the power to control the process. Our justice correspondent pete