Traffic. Accidentfree in miamidade and browowd county. Good news for drivers headed out the door dark and early at 4 31 a. M. We have construction palmetto northbound at tamiami trail trtrl. Youll hit that road glock because at southwest 8th street youll have to pop off the palmetto and follow the detour signs until 5 30 a. M. We have three lanes of traffic shutdown. Were accident free. This is construction right at red road. You want to stick to the left lanes. s the three right lanes blocked off. In Broward County, southbound by pines boulevard, two right lan completely blocked off. This should be opening up within the next hour. 4 32. Turning to decision 2016, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off for the second time in the last four days. Those candidates meeting at Miamidade College and focused of course on the florida primary which is officially only a couple days away. University poll the former secretary of state leading Bernie Sanders 62 to 32 . Last night democratic debate the two candidates agreed on progressive issues. Another issue, transparency and trust. The moderator for last nights debate had no problems being blunt when asking Hillary Clinton about her email controversy. There was no permission to be asked. It had been done by my predecessors. It was repeated. If you get indicted, will you oh, my goodness. Im not even answering that question. Hillary clinton calling trumps ideas flatout unamerican. You dont make America Great by getting rid of everything iihink its unamerican. I think what he promoted is not in keeping wh american values. Both clinton and sanders were critical on his speech of racee and ethnicity and how he blifrs s his message. The American People are never going to elect a president who insults mexicans, who insults muslims. Sever years ago trump was in the middle of the s called bertha movement. Nobody has ever asked me for my birth ser tiff cat. Maybe it has something to do with the color of our skin. There were Many Americans who tuned in to thth debate as it was also broadcast in spanishsh they heard both sides criticize the cuban government, but the moves to warm relations with cuba. I hope some day there will be leaders chosen by the cuban people and i hope democracy will be deeply rooted in cuban soil. I believe weve got to end the embargo. I believe we should move towards full and normalized political relations with cuba. I think at the end of the day it would be a od thing for the cuban people. This was an important night for both candidates as it was the last opportunity for them to get in front of a National Television audience and press their positions on the important issues of next weeks primary which is less than a week away. Here is a look at the dem grat ig delegate tracker. Hillary clininn with a sizable lead with 1194 delegates, Bernie Sanders sitting at 56 the magic number is 2,83. So lets go to the other side candidates who will take part in their own debate at the bang United Center at the university of miami campus. All are looking to shore up support before that critical florida primary including miamis own marco rubio. Nbc 6 6 reporter Michael Spears lili at um with more on what to expect out of that. Reporter good morning. Talk about a busy week for all the candidates. Behind us final preparations being made for tonights 12th gop debate. Trump heading in with a sizable lead. Were down to four candidateses for the gop field. Big focus on florida. Weve been talking about this for weeks ahead of the winner takes allll march 15th primary. Trump spoke out this week saying florida and ohio victories would pretty much guarantee the gop nomination. The florida primary seen as rubios biggest test. Hes been quite busy in south in hialeah he squashed rumors about dropping out of the race. In the meantime, ted cruz also making stops including Miamidade College where he got quite the endorsement. Well also be talking about throughout the morning. As far as tonights gop debate, it bgins at 8 30. Nbc 6 will have comprehensive coverage. Michael spears, nbc 6 news. Keep itlocked here on nbc 6 for a complete Team Coverage on tonights republican debate. The next big endorsement in the republican race could come from Florida Republican president jeb bush. Yesterday thehe former Florida Governor met with marco rubio. Bush has yet to endorse anyone since dropping out of the race for the white house last month. Another formal president ial candidate you see there has announced a surprising rndorsement for ted cruz. With cruz at a rally in downtown miami. Here is the latest numbers in the republican race to the white house. In florida, donald trump leading marco rubio in the Sunshine State 45 to 22 according to a new quinnipiac poll. Meanwhile ted cruz ha18 to john kasichs 18 . 1237 delegates to win this. Frontrunner donald trump pas 459. You see ted cruz follows with 364, marco rubio 153 and john kasich 54. About 400,000 people have ready voted early in the state of florida. Another 985,000 have returned absentee ballots so far. You can see the breckdown of the republican and democratic voters on the screen. Thats how things are shaking out can get all the information you need on our nbc 6 news and weather app. There youll find extensive coverage including background on every single one of the candidates were talking about thth morning. Ryan, its a beautiful picture. What about our thursday, were awfully close to the weekend. Were getting there. Whats the latest survey monkey survey. I dont know. Well have to ask that little row depth thatomes out of the ground. Well have to bring him back. Thats my favorite poll, the survey monkey. Any time you put a monkey on something, it will work out just fine. 73 degrees right now in miami. The breeze breeze again not letting go. The only problem we really see in our local forecast for the last few days and for the next it doesntake for a good day. From key west to oakland park, everyone at 73 this morning. Breezy conditions out there now. Breezy conditions continuing all day with wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour. Its a warmer and brighter day. Fighting through all t te clouds on thursday. This time around mostlyunny skies. First alert forecast high at 82. We had traffic backups and ponies yesterday. Lets see whatu going on on the roads with kelly. It was definitely exciting yesterday. No ponies out on the road this morning. No major accidents. We have construction up until about 5 30 arm. Expect two lanes of traffic to be shut down on i75 southbound. This is construction that will be going on all year. Approaching red road, three right lanes shut down. We have palmetto expressway trail, southbound youll have to hop off the palmetto and take some detours with the big 18 wheelers. Dont forget you can follow me on twitter kellynbc6, ill be keeping you posted on any traffic trouble spots all morning long. Breaking overnight out of pennsylvania, a back yard party that turned into a deadly shtout. What we just learned about the gunman. A Homestead High School his peers and threatening their breaking overnight, in pennsylvania five people confirmed dead and three more hurt after a shooting in a neighborhood outside pittsburgh. Police say four women and a man were killed during a back yard party. As of right now police are still searching for at least two men party and opened fire in an ambushstyle attack. They believe two different weapons were used to fire the bullets. The partygoers appeared to have tried to run inside the home when they heard the shots being fired. It looks like right now they were all fleeing toward the back door of the residence when the second gunman fired from the side of the yard, and they all seem to get caught on the back porch. As for the three injured, they remain in a hospital ranging from stable to Critical Condition. Police have yet to figure out a motive. As soon as new information becomes available, well bring it to you on air and online using the nbc 6 news and weather app. Miamidade police say Terry Fenelon is accused of Sexual Battery and extortion. Nbc 6s marissa bagg has more. Reporter out of class and into jail. Student is an accused sexual edator. 18yearold Terry Fenelons victims are 15 and 16yearold girls. Investigators say he threatened the teenagers and forced them to perform sexual acts on them. Hea predator on these kids from the school, at homestead senior high. Hes threaten them, hes going to harm them and their family if they dont perform sexual acts and send nude photos. Reporter he allegedly used the kik app using the name re. In the instance where they sent photos, he would threaten to share those pictures on facebook unless he got hiway. They say the crimes went on from november to december of last year and the girls finally told in a statement the school said this fen lon faces multiple charges of Sexual Battery by coercion and allegedly threatening the victims. A judge ordered that fenen remain in jail. He did not give him a bond. Investigators say if you recognize his face or think you have been victimized by him, youre urged to call miamidade police. Marissa bag, nbc 6 news. People forced from their mes this morning after floods destroyed parts of luis an fla. What youre looking at is torrential rains that dumped more than a foot of water on the area of shreveport and theyre expecting more rain. Crews are worried the rivers damage. Already three people have lost their lives as entire by rising waters. It is another dry morning across south florida, though breezy. With the ocean breeze another very warm morning as well. Keep in mind its early march. Our lows should be into the mid 60s. Ill show you where we stand in just a moment. Lets keep in mind we have a dry radar. Live first alert doppler, the only live radar on the air in south florida. Well t tk about winds in just a moment. Lets see what you can expect on the roads thissmorning. 72, brighter skies this time around. Kind of locked in for cloud cover yesterday. With the breeze out there and High Pressure hanging around, more sunshine to come i to play, 72 out and about this morning. The drive home, temperatures at about 80. Breezy conditions but brighter skies. Here is a live look, the camera morning. The breeze is coming in gusting 25 to Miles Per Hour. Thats going to be commonplace all day long. This really bumps up the rip current danger on our wondedeul beaches. Sustained winds 15 to 20. Thats nototjust out on the beaches. It extends into the western areas. Well see oakland park and Pembroke Pines both checking in winds. 73 a very popular reading. When the breeze is running like this and sky conditions are equal, its uniform weather across the area from north to south. High pressure really hasnt budged much. Maybe a few hundred miles, this area of High Pressure moving the the east in the last 24 hours or so. The main story being all this wet weather riding around this ridge of High Pressure. Were warm and dry but breezy. It is down right stormy and wet and dangerous flooding across this is all riding off to the north around the area of High Pressure. With this in mind, we s sy dry for the next few days. First alert forecast contending th the breeze. 82 is your high today. With the strong breeze, thrip current risk staying very high at the beaches. Wind gusts of 30 Miles Per Hour. Danrous rip currents certainly possible. The lower 80s will do it. Were dry. Still a chance for afternoon showers on sunday and monday. Not a great chance. No big temperature swings any time soo lower 80s will do it well into next week. 4 49, back to first alert traffic. Here is kelly. Southwest 88th street there is a car fire. As far as e palmetto expressway northbound in construction right out southwest 8th street, tamiami trail trail, blocked off for another 40 minutes. Dolphin expressway westbound, three lanes of traffic completely shut down. In Broward County on i75, we also have stuff going on southbound as youre approaching pines boulevard. Stick to your lefthand side. Two right lanes shut down. We have the turnpike extension southbound a red road closed because of construction. A lot of traffic alerts that have to do with construction. Hopefully it clears up by the time you head out th doofrmt finally i95 northbound at Hallandale Beach boulevard, only two lanes open. The onramp is still completely blocked d off. It is a story youll see only on 6. A south florida m mher w wts police to look at a man just arrested. Shsh thinks that man also killed her son. Is name is lamontmayweather. We told you about him earlier this week, that mayweather was arrested and accused of sexually abusing a little girl, luring it turns out mayweather was once suspected of killing lataras randall while he was golfing with a cousin five years ago. That case istill open. His family hoping that may wealth ears latest arrest will be a chance to get to the bottom of her sons killing. One man is behind bars accused of an armed robbery. Police are still on the hunt for two other suspects. 18yearold Jonathan Valenzuela is accused of ar investigators are saying the victims were confronted by three young robbers who demanded their belongings at gunpoint. Once the robbers took off with their things, the victims caught 911. Luckily no one was hurt. A jacksonville officern the hospital this morning after he was shot in front of his son. The undercover detective is still in Critical Condition after he was shot three times. He was off duty at the time taking his son to school. Morning as he made an impromptu decision to pull over a man driving recklessly. The person he stopped opening fire. Other deputies chased down the gunman shooting him at least four times and sending him to the hospital. The suspects girlfriend says he might have been suicidal. This morning the widow of an officer who staged his own killing in illinois facing extra charges in addition to what she was already charged wiwi. Now facing conspiracy for allegedly helping her husband, Joseph Gliniewicz stiechb money from a a program in chicago. Gliniewicz staged his suicide to make it appear he was gunned down in the line of duty back in september. This morning a bill that would restrict access to abortions and planned parenthood is heading to governor scott. The bill prohibits state money that also provides elective abortions. I aso forces doctors at the clinic to have hospital admitting privileges or a patient transfer agreement. A big name from the boxing world on hand later today for a big gun buyback announcement. Redick bow will be part of a News Conference to discuss how to make peoples communities more safe by dropping off their guns. This happens saturday at the Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist Church from 10 00 in the morning to 1 00 in the afternoon. No questions asked, no i. D. Is needed. They wont ask for anymore information from that. In return youll get a ft certificate ranging from a Gift Certificate to 100. This morning a substitute teacher behind bars for allegedly showing up drunk to class to teach these kids. 52yearold holly joel faces multiple charges including again, shes a substitute teacher. The School Secretary at this school and another staffer got a little suspicious o joel while she was supervised in the classroom of second grade students in sanford. School staff says she struggled to stand up and was unable to answer what day of the week it was. Youd think that would be Common Knowledge for a teacher. Police say when they caught up with joel she hadad a bottle filled with a pinkcolored booze inside. They still havent said what it was, just that it was a full bottle. Your time is 4 54. Some students are doing more than hitting the books. How their New Invention can keep you safe the next time you head to the beach. Im ari odzer at Northeast High School inakland park. What does this robot have to do with saving lives in rip currents . Well show you coming up. 5 00, if you felt at all guiy a new study is showing vacation proof weve got smart kids around here in this years education on 6 report. 4,000 students answered the samsung solve for tomorrow. There are 15 National Finalists including one team in the fiems from south florida. The contest celebrates the best in innovation, practicality. The team in Northeast High School in oakland park was inspired by tragedy. Education on 6 reporter ari odzer shows how it could save your life. Reporter brainstorming session in progress. What is that hunk of styrofoam . Its thee basic design for a buoy that would warn swimmers at the weweidnt know how it was going to turn out, where it would take us. We put our ideas out there, it ended up turning out good. Reporter the concept, the floating buoy sensor with an underwater robot to guide it is taking these kids at northeast high into the fiems o the samsung solve for tomorrow contest. They were told their first design wasnt work. We jumped back to the drawing board and came up with better ideas. Working to produce a model of our invention. Reporter the kids made this video and it floated them all the way to the top 15 out of 4,000 entries. The idea came to them after a classmate drown in a rip current last summer. It stems from tragedy, but were using that tragedy as inspiration. We wanted to find something to turn that personal loss into something that could help others. Reporter what do the they learn how the spark of innovation can turn into Something Real and tangible. They also learn valuessuch as perseverance. Teamwork, thats the number one thinin just because you know one thing doesnt mean you know anything. Any time you can do something handson where theyre working and billing projects and using tools and its not paper, pencil and a computer, its preparing them for real life. Reporter northeast highs principal says the entire school is rooting for the samsung contest kids. Five teams will be declared National Winners with each of their schools receives 120,000 in technolog whatever happens, its obvious these students have already won. In oakland park, ari odzer, nbc 6 news. Good for them. Thats terrific. Amazing when you see students take it upon themselves to rewrite everything. Fantastic and good luck to that school. Right now nbc 6 is everywhere. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders battle it out right here in florida. We have live Team Coverage llowing the democratic debate, and ahead of the republicans squaring off tonight. Marco rubio not giving up just yet. The senator returns home rallying for a primary win in the Sunshine State. A south Florida High School student accused of threatening his classmates to get his way. Well talkbout him just ahead. Good morning. Your time is 5 00. Im eric harryman. Im sheli muniz. Thanks for joining us on this thursday morning. Yesterday florida was ground zero for the nations politics. Well have Team Coverage as promised in just a minute. Lets get you over to meteorologist Ryan Phillips with that thursday forecast. Looking great because weve well have a lot more sunshine in your first alert forecast today. Dep pler is sweeping clear across miamidade and down through the keys. It will be a few days before we bring rain chances to your local forecast. The cloududover is not quite as thick first thing this morning. That will lend itselflfo more sunshine across the area. Clouds extending on the southwest coast. Here on the southeast coast, a few extra clouds down through the keys. But again all of us dry. The ocean breeze will bring in passing clouds from time to time. The winds not changing much. These are the 5 00 a. M. Observations which are relatively unchanged from 4 00 a. M. Everyone is at 73. Winds off the atlantic waters running 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour gusting up to 25or so. Its going to be another breezy but bright day. First alert weather on the drive in, 72, partly cloudy skies, 80 by the lunch hour. A breezy, warm afternoon with highs of 82