In northern Broward County. The weak toads can cause destruction. Well be on guard for potential for isolated severe storms. This morning were dealing with showers moving across the area from west to east across at least the core of the metro area. Its only 4 30 in the mornini. The bulk is hours away. I think a lot of the activity will be out. Miamida county, shower activity to the north of the 836. Now accord Broward County, still on the front end of most of the concentratat areas. Earar this morning well ease it up with a lot offt carrying into ft. Lauderdale. This is a look outside where were looking at mostly cloudy skies. Thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Our high is at 80. Bank on wet weather for the majority of the day with potential for strong storms this afternoon. Kelly . Welcome ck. Good morning to you, south florida. Someone having a problem . Is ryan okay . Everything is okay. Theres an accident reported by fhm on i95. Were taking a look at southbound and northbound lanes around northwest 119th street, the accident between northwest 79th and northwest 103rd. Direction is unknown. Ill make some phone calls and let you know how its affecting your commute. We have an accident right now at northwest 114th avenue and pines boulevard blocking the eastbound lanes. You can take pembroke road, johnson street or taft instead. Kelly, thanks so much. Out of Pembroke Pines. Traffic shut down on pines boulevard while Police Investigate an officer involved crash. Julia bagg first on scene is what we need to know. What have you learned . Sheli, Pembroke PinesPolice Investigating the crash of one of their oechblt let me show what we can see. You see Pembroke Pines police unit and a smashed up car it. At least two people have been taken to the hospital, one of them is a Pembroke Pines police officer. That officers c cdition is stable right now, unclear just how the driver of theother car is doing, though. That person was taken as a trauma alert. Thats the word i have from police out. No traffic, as you heard kelly sheaing, shut down in both directions. Lots of police tape as investigatoto try to figure out what happened here. Have played a factor. Thisappened about an hour ago. Roads are very slick. Lots of rain steadily falling. When you look at how smashed up that other car is, you can see how intense that crash was. Ill speak with investigatoto on scene and see you back here shortly with more. Julia bagg, nbc 6 news. This morni were taking a look at some of the damage after a tornado touches down in south florida. Take a look at this video, the vast majority was cell phone video sent in from viewers. It gives us a much bettete look at what happened out there. Broward county slammed by heavy rains, gusty winds that went along with that tornado. Micha spears has a closer look at the damage. Good morning, michaeln reporter good morning. I can tell you its a much county colleges north campus. Im sure everyoneeas seen the images of the cars, at least s cars tossed by the tornado. This morning everything looks good. You can still see on some of the lawns in the area debris from the trees. Crews were busy yesterday cleaning this up. A little left this morning, not too bad. Have a look at this video. Thesemages all over the place yesterday. This is fr the turnpike nearby. That tornado tossing cars along the turnpike causing damage to buildings nearby. Amazingly just one injury reported at least at this time. That injury minor in itself. Yesterday we saw with our extended coverage from chopper 6 that crews right aftft this tornado swept through the Coconut Creek area, they got busy cleaning this up. Thats why this morning things look a lot better. Thats why i just showed you damage back out on the lawn. Cars were tossed, people spoke with us telling they saw things flying in the air. Things look pretty good and no serious injuries to report. At 5 00 a. M. Well take you to Pompano Beach and talk with Business Owners there who are also cleaning up. Michael spears, nbc 6 news. This morning twro families are looking for a new place to call home after a fire destroyed almost anything they own theres barely any damage outside this Little Havana home, but inside thisjust before dinnertime someone spotted smoke coming from a first floor window and they called police. An officer helped the family save two dogs before firefighters arrived. They had a hard time finding the source of the fire because most of the windows were actually covered with storm shutrs. Everything burned. We dont have nothing. I dont know. Im lost. I dont know. I just lost everything. Wow. Tough to hear that. The home is a plex. Were talking about two families here, a family of four, another of seven. We understand the red cross is helping theheout. As youre waking up this morning on this thursday, the search continues for a shooter who opened fire on two women in coconut grove. Family members of the victims are asking anyone who might know anything to come forward. 63yearold Sandra Johnson is still in the hospital in serious but stable condition. This morning a south florida father is behind bars after police say he abandoned his son, this while his teenage son went missing. Nbc 6 reporter Laura Rodriguez reports from the teens high school inplantation. Reporter in bond court and of a child. Bruce jgensen explained while he was boarding a flight to new zealand while his son was missing. It was to comply with a order by the u. S. District court that commanded me to be at a hearing on friday. Reporter he told detectives on december 22 kt he kicked his 16yearold son augie out of the car because he was being rude. He got out of the car its better if you dont discuss the matter. Repepter Plantation Police say they were not notified of him being missing until january 29th after jorgensen dropped off ffers. According to authorities, when they contacted the father, they did not want to file a police report. Uncooperative. Didnt want to give us information and report his child missing. Student that began in august. He was last seen on december 18. After winter break, he didnt return. We were worried about him. We thought he was sick. We didnt get returned phone calls from the father. Frfray of that week we received a letter from the father saying he was withdrawing him from school. Youre not alone, augie, were all here and we care about you. We want you to come ome. Well do whatever we can to help you and feel safe. Reporter al jgensens family home, three mesages were left for augie about where to find a key and a number to call. Reporter Laura Rodriguez, nbc 6 news. A convicted sex offender behind bars ter police say he tried to abduct a young girl at the airport. Nguyen was arrested on the spot kidnap a girl right in front of her family. She was walking towards this water fountain with her siblings when this girl tried to grab the girl her wrist allegedly. She managed to get away. Nin is a registered sex offender. He stood before the judge saying he grabbed that child by the arm because he, quote, likes kids. A live look from our first alert camera in downtown miami. Meteorologist Ryan Phillips is back to give us a better idea to tell us if today will be anywhere near what we dealt with yesterday. Weve got shower activity this morning. Well corporate with shower chances. This afternoon well have the reat for severe storms, isolated in nature but on guard for nuisance showers. Now moving through the area. Before 5 00 a. M. , not many folks out and about at this hour. Oakland park having seen some of now theyre concentrat into ft. Lauderdale, dania beach, into hollywood and moving offshore. You can see in the wake, conditions drying out in the next hour or so as the showers kick through. Broward county under a flood atch today due in part to the showers a day yesterday and onset of showers this morning. Most of miaidade county, south of the 836 looking good. Into ft. Lauderdale you can see the showers, the shield of rain moving in as we start our day off with temperatures in the lowee70s, showers moving through the area. Well see probably a period of improvement and more showers and thunderstwrms this afternoon. High of 80 degrees. Here is kelly with traffic. Good thursday morning to you, south florida. Thank you for joining us. If youre heading out the door, we havejulia bagg live on the scene of this crash at 114th avenue, pine boulevard shut down information within the next few minutes. 836 drivers easasound, a brand new accident just happened on the lanes at northwest 57th avenue as youre making your way eastbound on the dolphin expressway. This accident involving three cars. Emergency crews just got to the scene. You will find roadblocks with this accident. Cypress creek road to 595 an eight minute drive. 595 drivers, as youre making your way westbound towards the saw grass expressway, a nine min nut commute. Waste watch. How your local garbage colllltor may be helping police fight a birdbrained did you know theres a cough liquid that lasts for twelve hours . Try delsym twelve hour cough liquid. Its advanced formula releases powerful medicine that acts fast while its extended release medicine lasts for 12 hours. Try delsym. Welcome back. You can track the storms along the nbc 6 weather app. His full forecast less than two minutes away. Oday you can catch the gop hopefuls dukit out before the iowa caucuses. That includes marco rubio and jeb bush with the notable exception of donald trump. He has an issue with moderator megyn kelly. And paul will be back in prime time as well thanks to his recent poll numbers in iowa. Tune in later this morning at 5 00 to catch our full report on washington, d. C. For all of that. In the antime, president obama and Bernie Sanders sitting down for a chitchat. They talked about foreign poly, the economy and politics. This is the first real conversation between the two since sanders lost his campaign. Breaking overnight over oregon, two more people and a third arrested as armed protesters occupy the wildlife refuge just two days after one member was klled and the three other men turned themselves into the fbi. These men will also phase one federal felony count. Om behind bars, ammon bundy telling the remaining activists to go hohe. The demonstrators were there all month long. Melody gliniewicz turned herself in after being indicted by a grand jury, facing Money Laundering and disburseing funds for her own benefit. Authorities say her husband staged his sicide to look like a suicide because he was afraid of decades of embezzlement that would be discovered. 4 46 thursday morning. Kicking things off with live live radar on the air in south florida. Showers sweeping through. The bulk of the rain staying just off to our north, but its going to eventually creep up into south florida and give us problems as the day goes on. We have a flood watch to tell you about. Lets talk about where the rn is and where its heading. Most of the area, again, through the overnight hours, relatively rain free. The actitity light in nature. Weve seen shower activity creep up in miamidade county. The south south of the 836, to the don shula. Our thunder shower chances will come late morning into the Early Morning hours. We have problems into the ggi. We have showers pressing off to the east. We will leave wet roads for the 5 00 a. M. Commuters. Into Broward County where most of the activity has been concentrated early this morning, tamarac, margate, coral springs. Coconut creek this morning. Well have the threat for strong storms late they are afternoon. I think the morning, w wre plagued with on and off showers. This batch moving through miami gardens. Hallandale beach, west hollywood, showers moving through. Give it 12, 15 minutes, these are out of here. Theres not a lot in the wake right now, the concentrated shield of rain stays off to our west initially. I think the bulk of our morning commute that well have wet roadways will not be plagued with a widespread shield of rainfall. Live look outside right now, not exactly the most inviting morning. You see a lot of raindrops hanging on the lens. Our first alert camera lookong towards dodge island. The threat for strong to severe storms plaguing us this afternoon. Were talking 1 00 p. M. To 8 00, creeping into the late tonight hours, because of the on going rains yesterday. Broward county today under a cooler air expected. Today is our transitional day. Back into mighty fine january weather. The east. With that and the cloud cover, temperatures are mild, lower 70s across the board. 68 in marathon, 76 in key west because we have not had any rainfall there. Ture radar dry. Morning hours. This is where our Severe Weather lunch hour. We consolidate a line of showers, and that comes into the Late Afternoon and evening hours. That would bring in the Severe Weather threat. Bottom line, prepare for wet weather, take your rain gear with you. And stay weather aware this afternoon. First alert forecast high up to 80. As we get through the next few days, were looking for Better Weather all the way through. Today 80. Showers and storms, some of it could be strong if not severe. Mobile app. Tomorrow brighter, cooler, 73. 74 on saturday. Keeps Getting Better through the weekend. Kelly, one more day for wet weather. The weekend looks great. Well take it, right . Just in time for the weekend. South florida, we have a couple of accidents to talk about if youre making your way out the door in Broward County. We have a patrol car crash blockckg the eastbound and westbound lanes of pines boulevard. Pines boulevard shut down in all directions around the are of northwest 114th avenue right by Pembroke Lakes mall. You can take pembroke, johnson street as your alternate. I95 northbound at hollywood boulevard, left lane completely blocked off. Not causing any delays just yet. Well let you know if that changes. 836 eastbound around northwest 57th avenue, this crush happened around ten minutes ago blocking at least one of your lanes. This crash involvivi three cars. That scene has not cleared yet. Lets change sources and take you over to i95. If we cant, ill show you a the accident thats cleared up. Klly, well see you then. The man accused of slashing a man in the face has to pay a bigger bond. The judge raised his bond to 200 dhou. The chief of e Miami Police Department was at the hearing yesterday making sure bond was increased. Police arrested jose carvalo pez after he a alegedly stabbed a Miami Police Officer inside the magic city casino. He had previously posted bond for only 20,000. A former deputy in trouble this morning for excessive force. Stop resisting top resisting you see it was all on video. By a federal grand jury. The indictment says he hit and kicked a suspect during a 2014 arrest. The suspect was left bloodied in this parking lot. Four other deputies have been fired or resigned. Lake makers are expected to sign a bill rarding a measure backed by florida blue, at t and csx, businesses are saying they lose about 362 million every day in productivity because of lack of lbgt workforce protections. Garbage men in coral gables are joining the fight against crime. Waste management driver are being trained for waste watch. This means they act as an extra set of eyes and ears for local police and report suspicious at 5 30, nbc 6 reporter erika glover will be live as drivers begin their training. Customs and Border Patrol agents managed to stop this birdbrained scheme. He tried to smuggle birds into the country by putting them in his pants, al e ledge edly hiding six birds in a fanny pack and three more inis groin. Its against the law to smuggle any live animals into the United States although i believe there should be a law preventing anybody from putting anything in their pants. A humanitarian crisis. Whats going on . 4 53 right now. Still ahead, Health Officials say the zeek ka virus likely to spread to every country in america. 5 00 this morning, is your uber find out how the ride sharing welcome back. This morning american doctors are calling the spread of zika a pandemic. Top Public Health experts are saying the United States isnt doing enough to prepare for it. Reporter in the streets o o rio, celebration before carnival expted to draw more than a million tourists, but the conditions here are perfect for mosquitos, hot and muggy with lots of standing water. Nbc news was with sanitation crews dispatched to wipe out zika carrying mosquitos, already linked to 4,000 cases of microcephaly in brazil. 24 countries and territories are among the areas that pregnant women or women who can become pregnant should avoid. Two top researchers accuse the World Health Organization of failing to act fast enough. Now we have a pandemic. It started to involve multiple continents and certainlyany countries, more than 21 countries in the americas. We need Global Leadership for this evolving, rapidly accelerating health problems. Reporter while travelers infected with zika abroad have returned to the u. S. , theres growing concern that zika mosquitos could spread to the southern u. S. Tates and then spread north with warmer weather. A quarter million soldiers are on Mosquito Control missions. Carolina lobo is seven months pregnant. Im worried about i can have a baby with microcephaly and i dont want it. Nobody wants it. Reporter president obama is ushing american researchers to develop a vaccine quickly, but that could be years aw. The good news, people who arent pregnant and contract zika symptoms if any at all and then have immunity for life. Tom costello, nbc news, washington. You have to think about the millions of people, let alone the athlet that are showing up in rio for the olympics. Theyre saying because its going to be the winter months in brazil its not going to be that bad. But you have to wonder and fear. Nbc 6 news at 5 00 starts right now. Live, this is nbc 6 south florida breaking news. Now at 5 00, were at the scene of a Police Involved shooting. An accident in Pembroke Pines. Julia bagg is gathering information right now bad weather wreaked havoc across south florida. Meteorologist Ryan Phillips keeping an eye on the radar. Two arrestst, one momo on the road. Broward deputies need your help finding the third suspect accused of robbing people at good momoing to you everybody. Your time is cdlix. Im. Im eric harryman. Im sheli muniz. The tornado yesterday was breaking news for about three hours. Meteorologist Ryan Phillips is keeping track of what happened. Yesterday was a little crazy. We will be on guard, eric, for the threat of severe storms this afternoon. At least initially we started with cloudy conditions and briefly wet weather moving on through. The good news is i think this will be out of here as we get into the bulk of the early drive. We or finding most of the activity in Broward County, not so much into miamidade. Live first alert doppler the only live radar in south florida. Here we are at 5 00 a. M. , on the conditions much drier ak krod