The next complicating factor in the forecast means the cloud cover, it, too, is starting to thin out in the wake of last nights front. Were already seeing the back end of the cloud cover sneaking through miami and continui through southeast Miamidade County and through the keys, bringing in a lot of sunshine this morning. Cooler readings, feels great out there. Temperatures still falling into the lower 60s. Leveled off at about 62 or 63 for your morning drive. Delightful with highs of 72. Kelly blanco off but joe brennanan with with a look at traffic. Got a little trouble. We hadd a disabled vehicle on 95 in deereld on the northbound side just before the exit at southwest 10th street. Now it looks like its turned into a crash. Dont know if that means somebody ran into the rear end of that or not. It was in the center la, now blocking three lanes. Approach to southwest 10th street. You can see things are getting very heavy very quickly through that area. Beware beware, travel much better in dade county. Believe it or not, thats traffic, backto you. A pair of shootings in northwest miamidade leaves yet another teen dead as Police Search for the ooter. Community members say the violence must stop. Nbc 6 reporter julia bagg is live at Miamidade Police headquarters in doral. This is not the only violent scene overnight. Reporter sheli, there were two of them. Here is whats knew about them. Detectives try to figure out whether the two latest shootings are connected, local moms and dads will rally for an end to guviolence where this latest teen was killed in northwest miamidade. The latest tweet from miamidade superintendent Alberto Carvalho to become desensitized when news of juveniles getting shot in our community become a daily occurrence. Both shootings happened southh of northwest 79th street, one on 19th avenue, the other on 144th avenue. The first shooting left a 16yearld in the hospital after somebody shot him in the leg yesterday evening. The second happened yesterday evening just two minutes later. Thats where police say somebody shot a 17yearold boy multiple times. He was rushed to the hospital but he did not make it. If you know anything about these shootings, you can help detectives by calling miamidade Crime Stoppers. That number is 305471tip still ahead in our newscast, well share details about the 17yearold boy who was killed, about those moments before he died. Were live at Miamidade Police headquarters, julia bagg, nbc 6 news. Julia was telling us about the most recent shootings. Obviously both haaened yesterday. Another shooting here. Two teens are in custody for the shooting death of a south florida child, a arime that struck a cord without a doubt in this community here. These are the two mug shots of 18yearold Leonard Adams and 17yrold Irwen Pressley. King carter was shot outside his house playing wiwh his friends. Adam and pressley are facing Second Degree murder charges and attempted murder charges. That shooting apparently triggered by an argument on facebook with a person identified as juju. Police say the teens went looking for juju at the apartment complex in northwest miamidade where that 6yearold little boy lived with his family. Police have not ruled out making more arrests in this case. We do also knowthat king carters funeral is going to happen this weekend. Nbc 6 reporter erika glover is working on new details on this this morning. Well have the latest from erica in a live report in our next half hour. It was a close call in a hollywood neighborhood. A sigh of relief. The plane forced to make an Emergency Landing in the middle of the street. Nbc 6 reporter Michael Spears is live in pembroke pines. Thats where the pilot was supposed to land. The pilot tells us he did everything he was trained to do. Neighbors will tell you this was short of a miracle. Crash landing in a hollywood neighborhood. This happened yesterday on the 300 block of 76th avenue just after 4 00 p. M. The pilot, identified as randy shur, he was the only one on board and made it out. He was pretty bloodied and banged up. Made it out alive most importantly. This morning the faa is investigating the crash as you can see came dangerously close to homes. The tail of the plane actually resting on one neighbors back yard fence. When we spoke to the pilot afterwards, he was bandaged up. He said once he knew he was going down, the First Priority was looking for an area where traffic, no people around and trying to involve homes. Neighbors as you can imagine thankful the pilot was able to do that. The plane has been towed away for further investigation. It is six minutes past the top of the hour now. No bond this morning for the man accused of fighting with his wife and charging at officers with his car outside the dadeland mall. Police charged 36yearold Michael Guzman with kidnapping, false imprisonment and battery on a Law Enforcement officer. This istemming from a chaotic scene that ended in police gunfire. Cops say guzman was involved in a violent fight with his wife and drove straight toward officers in his car dodging bullets from a detectives gun. Police caught up with him and a few minutes later booked him into jail. Fe is doing okay. The senate versus president obama. Nominee be changing things . Our team in washington takes a look at the questions being raised about the white house strategy. Republicans take to the stage again. Florida senator marco rubio is republicans vow president bamas replacement vote for Antonin Scalia will never happen. Tracie potts is live in washington. We could see a compromise there. Reporter were trying to work on it very slowly. Republicans would ask the questions and say theyre not even going to question any over. Now were starting to see some small signslf that relationship thawing. Well not have hearinas. Action taken. And Senate Confirmed that chuck grassley, the head of the Republican Judiciary Committee that holds the hearings will meet with president obama next week. Nbc news has also co nfirmed the white house is vetting a republican, nevada governor and former federal judge Ryan Sandoval to replace justice scalia. I think it will be very difficult for mr. Mcconnell to explain how, if the public confirms this person is very well qualified, that the senate should stand in the way simply for political reasons. This is a way for democrats in the white house to extract maximum pain on republicans. Reporter democrats have a petition, 1. 33 Million People who say the senate should not block the president s nominee. Its wrong, and the American People i believe wont stand for this. The senate needso do its job. Reporter republican leaderer insist they wont even consider an obama appointee during ann and we still dont know how soon or how long it might be before the president sends someone over here to the hill. Live from washington, tracie potts, nbc 6 news. All right, tracie, thank you so much. It is 6 12 on your ursday morning. A pro trump robo call, maybe you know whaha im talking about, is urging voters not to vote for a specific president ial candidate. Its getting someme national attention. Marco rubios Campaign Says the robo call is, quote, outrageous. The pro tum message, not authorized by donald trump, is urging voters not to vote for a cuban. The white raceis dying out in america and europe because we are afraid to be called racist. Its okay that few schools anymore have beautiful white children as a majority. Im afraid to be called racist. Donald trump is not a racist, but donald trump is not afraid. Dont vote for cuban. Vote for donald trump. Ets back up a little bit here and give you a little background. National pac, voiced by its founder, William Daniel johnson, the leader of the White NationalistAmerican Freedom party. Evev though he stands by his opinion that a cuban should not be president , he says the decision to blatantly say dont vote for bans was just to save time and money. You have one minute to do a ro call. If you go over a minute, it costs more money. Both of his competitors are cuban. You can say dont vote for a cuban, you can get a lot more meaning both cruz and rubio. Obviously he is talking about two different campaigns here, but the Rubio Campaign immediately firing back. They say trump should demand this this gro stop its operations altogether and say these are the same type of dirty tricks that trump has been putting out there for weeks now. Again. That is from the Rubio Campaign. We have posted thatull robo call. You heard a little bit of it. We posted it on our nbc 6 news and weather app. You can hear the whole thing if we want to hear from you, what do you think about this ad . Should it be out there, should it be stopped . You ca head to our Facebook Page and let us know what you think about that. Thursday morning. Were coming up on 6 15. A beautiful start to our day. Were finished with our cold front offshore. That means were finished with the rainfall. Free and clear of wet weather. Well move right back into a sunny and mild pattern, a beautiful start to our thursday morning. Well keep the nice weather through the upcoming weekend on our way out the door this morning. Let me show you what youre looking at at the roads. Theyre dry, but a little northwest breeze. Extra clouds are quick to get out of here. Im happy about that. The sooner those leave, the more sunshine well have to kick off our mornings. 63 is what well average on the drive in. Ill show you verification of the drive home, beautiful. Mild and bright. Temperatures right around 70. Well hit in between, a high of 72. The cloud deck starting to ease up here, low clouds sweeping and hovering over the area. Starting to see those thin out. Well contend with a little cloud cover on the front end of the thursday. Now a cool northwest wind blowing in, bringing in the cooler and drier air. Even at 6 15, our temperatures are still falling. The winds will be around at least for the first half of the day. I think this afternoon well see some improvements, 62 pembroke pines. 64 in miami. Weve already come down two degrees in the last few hours. If you compare this morning to where we were this time on wednesday morning, were ten, 15 degrees cooler across much of south florida. Thats a change. Were talking maybe hoodie weather initially this morning. Front well off to our south and east, very strong area of low pressure. States, but that breeze helping to bring in the very dry air, the drop in humidity. What a beautiful forecast. Ill take you through some of the numbers here. A slow warmup with temperatures coming up through the mid 60s all morning long. Peaking into the lower 70s just after the lunch hour. We get into the overnight hours tonight and temperatures fall out by the time we get into friday morning. I think lows overnight will be into the 50s, 52degree range out west and 53 to 55 near the beaches. Weve got some 40s in the forecast for the next few mornings out west. Lets take you through your day. Doing away with the cloud cover, brighter skies and a breezy pattern but mild. Enjoy the sunshine and 72 today. 86 we recorded yesterday. Tonight, 53 for most of the metro area. Lower 40s possible out west each and every morning for the next few days. Your weekend looks great. Talking morning temperatures on saturday right around 50. Western areas seeing 71 on saturday, 74 on sunday. Dry forecast for the next several days and certainly on through your upcoming weekend. You can check the forecast any time and our free mobile app. Lets get a check on traffic with joe brennan. Some headaches, not in dade county though. Its been unusually quiet. Take a live look at things on the palmetto expressway where they meet up with the dolphin. Looks like a razy mess, doesnt it, as far as the road work goes. But everybody getting by it pretty easily including least so far. That will be in the backup from 874 to 836 as you head northbound. Ght now still moving at a good clip. Route. Just had good news on the crash northround 95 before southwest 10th street in deerfield, was taking upp three of the left lanes. They finally got the vehicles over wn the shoulder. Thats starting to help get everybody thrgh. Thats traffic. Back to you. Joe, thank you so much. Assignment desk was looking to get confirmation on the line of tornadoes that ripped through eastern virginia and killed eight people. The confirmation came dozens of twisters, leaving some trapped under the debris of their homes as it swept through, more than 20 people critically injured. A lot of people saying their neighborhoods looked more like a war zone. Rescue crews not allowing anyone close to that devastatn because of safety issues. Several local roads closed altogether because of downed trees, power lines and debris still on the ground. Hundreds of Cuban Migrants making their wayayto the united states. Flights for 145 migrants a day scheduled through tomorrow to help cubans cross the border legally from mexico into el paso, texas. They often start their junny by starting in central and south america who gives out visas or dont require visas. Being denied entry into nicaragua. Were learning new details on the sunken ship el faro. This is what we know so far. It looks like the coast guard initially dnt think el faro was sinking. During the investigative hearing a coast guard officer said a rep for the ship led the oast guard to believe the ship was just disabled, but were thinking they could fix the problem. El faro sank in a hurricane almost five months ago killing all 33 crew members on board that day. Checking the time on this thursday morning, 6 19. The Academy Awards are nearing. For in the focus turns from who might win to what might be said. Lowes presents how to put your foot in your mouth. Man, wish my yard looked like yours. Hey, the grass is always greener sorry. Now get 20 off stagreenn fertilizer, music playing i feel pretty west side story not every cake can be handcrafted in store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake itll be remembered forall the right reasons. Publix. Welcome back. What do you usually do with your boarding pass once youre done flying . Pocket, right . Well, that can also be a way an i. D. Ief can get your most personal information. Tonight at 6 00, the nbc 6 investigators investigate and look into boarding pass insecurity. You ever left it in a hotel or in the seat pocket. Probably, or lost one because i dont hang onto it. How easy thieves can access your information using your boarding pass. This story s sunds like something that would be one of our it only happens in florida stories, but its actually coming out of kentucky. A man might have successfully pranked his girlfriend, but police ended up getting the last laugh. His girlfriend got home to find him face down on the bed and covered i i what looked like blood with a knife stuck in his neck. It was a prank on his part. Naturally right away she called police thinking the dude is dead. When the cops showed up, they real warrant out for hisarrest. Dude. Now the joke is on him. Hes sitting in jail this still on him. Mexico. What did he actually think she was going to do . With the oscars a few nights away, preparation haves already awards with scheduled to take place this sunday night. The 500footlong carpet you see rolled out yesterday. Soon it will be surrounded by more than 700 fans, photographers and reporters. This Year Academy Award ceremony comes with little more suspense than previous years. A little background, whats said could be more or getting even a lot of attention, even more attention in light of the diversity. Host chris rock, oskars, the may be to come. This is fueled by a second Straight Year without a person of color amo oscars, 20 acting nominees and best picture snub for critically acclaimed straight outta compton. Diversity isnt about black and white, its multiplicity of ethnicities and stories from all over the world. The academy has responded by changing the membership criteria for oscar voters in an effort to diversity the ranks. Celebrities like jay da Pinkett Smith are expected to skip the event altogether. Others are in stead going wo an event in susuort of flint, michigan residents. Your time is 6 25. Donald trumps win i nevada has people talking running mate this morning. A florida lawmakers name is being thrown out as a possible vp candidate. Community outrage in northwest miamidade after yet another teenager is shot and illed. But the violence doesnt stop there. If youre justick off your thursday morning, cooler weather waiting for you outsde and good news. Skies starting to clear out as temperatures dip down into the lower 60s. Parents, i want you to know its a lot cooler out there this morning. A little northwest breeze and the lower 60s. Welcome back everybody. 6 30. Take a look this funnel cloud captured by an nbc 6 viewer in west palm beach. Look how clear that is. Few storms moved in last night. Luckily that funnel cloud and the storms were talking about here moved out to sea relatively quickly. Lets take a live look locally in downtown iami. The weather drying out with cooler temperatures on the way. Youll see who is here when change. Sheli says she doesnt feel cool weather is nice weweher. Did i really say that . Thats a south florida native, though. Its going to be really pleasant. Weve been above average for the lasasfew days. We hit 86 yesterday. This m mning temperatures some 20degrees cooler. Autiful weather as we wind down the month of february. You were mentioning the south beach wine and food festival. Here is live first alert doppler. You can get this any time on our free mobilil app. Many of you using it yesterday. A thin line of showers coming through in the evening hours. They were quick to push ooshore. In the wake of that line, cold front moving past and weather calming drown. Our roadways are dry. Live first alert doppler free and clear this morning. My only complicatatn here being the cloud cover, and its even deck is quick to eyerode this morning. That will yield more sunshine as we go through the morning commute. A sliver of cloud covern the homestead area. It will move to our south and east. The sunshine is the focus of the forecast. Morning cyclists and runners, a northwest wind at 10 to 15, maybe up to 20 miles per hour. Our temperatures still dropping. Were at 62 in ft. Lauderdale, 64 in miami. Mix of sun and clouds this morning. Then bright sunshine and a mild day. Sunny skies and 72 in your first alert forecast. Kelly blanco off, but joe brennan checking on traffic. Gorgeous weather, but this is not so nice. Palmetto expressway coming around the curve from westbound trying to get pastt red and lud lum, 67th ave. Around t t curve heading southbound are all the that continues towards okeechobee road. Whats the problem . Nothing in the way, all lanes are open. Its just normal heavy congestion trying to make your way from miami lakes into hialeah and towards doral. Be prepared for that. Elsewhere things moving a little better now, 95 in Broward County, issues at southwest 10th street, finally everything to the shoulder and all lanes open. That delay quickly thinning out. Thats traffic. Back to you. 6 32 on yours thursday morning. Unfortunately its becoming all too familiar in northwest miamidade. Yet another teenager shot and killed. Just a few blocks away, two more people were shot. Nbc 6 reporter julia bagg is live at the Miamidade Police department in doral. Do police think these are connected . Reporter sheli, thats Something Police are trying to figure out. Also, moms and dadsds are fed up and theyre planning to rally on the s se where the 17yearold in fact, in my hands ive got a post, a Facebook Post from the mom who is organizing this rally. Here is what shhsays. She says its time to take back our streets. Every time you kill someone, were going to rally the area until they catch you. Meanwhile police at miamidade headquarters trying to figure out whether the case of the 17yearold shot to death is related to another shooting that left another teenager in the hospital. Hes still there this morning. Were talking about two shootings that happpped only minutes and blocks apart. Well show you on the map. If you t te a look at that, you can see how close they are. The first shooting left the 16yearold with a bullet wound in his ll. That happened south of northwest 79th street on 19th avenue at about 5 19 p. M. The second shootingas deadly, happening only two minutes later. Police say that is where the 17yearold boy,omebody shot him over and over. Was struck multiple times. They say he ran for his life to an apartment complex and collapsed there. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but doctors were not able to save him. If you know anything about thth shooting or the other one, again, happening two minutes apart from each oerks you can help detectives by lling miamidade Crime Stoppers. You can do that anonymously, that number 305471tips. Julia bagg, nbc 6 news. A Community Coming together pushing back aainst the gun violence julia was just talking about and other cases. Unfortunately very similar. The small and informal gathering at the new beginning missionary baist church was about the number of young people impacted by violence like this especially gun violence and how its becoming difficult for teens, kids, adults to handle this stuff and move forward and leave it behind. Joe to comfort people whose family members were taken by bullets. So busy being parents, working, paying the bills, doing what weve got to do, we dont know what our kids is in to. So you know, weve got to talk about it, not only kids who choose to be in to crime, but then youve got the innocent bystanders. So the churchs pastor and other local leaders want the youtu here to believe that there is a better life outside the streets, better choices to be made. The church says it will fundraise donating all the money to Crime Stoppers to solve unsolved cases related to gun violence. The death count isp to four people in waverley after Severe Weather swept through the area. Virginia police say a man who was missing after a funnel cloud destroyed his home has been found dead. The storm system brought about two dozen tornadoes along the gulf coast. Power in tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region. Locally two people waking up behind bars arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 6yearold south florida boy. This morning officers say the two arrests are a break in a case thats far from over, theyre not ruling out more arrests in the shooting death of king carter. These are the brand new mug shots of 18yearold Leonard Adams and 17yearold Irwen Pressley. Adams and pressley are charged with Second Degree murder and attempted murder in the death of 6yearold king carter. The shooting was apparently triggered by an argument on facebook with a person identified as juju. Police say the teens went looking for juju saturday at the apartment complex in northwest miamidade where the 6yearold lived. King was caught in the crossfire. The father is speaking up this morning and tej us more about made an emotional call. Yall heard the cries, you heard the police. I dont expect them for t t cowardly act they did. Buff i respect them for turning themselves in. Both teens have a criminal history w wh charges from armed carjacking to aggravated assault. Officers are looking for a black early model 2000 lexus with possible bullet holes in it. Carters p prents say these arrests bring a sense of relief as they prepare to bury the first grader on saturday. Eres aandlelight vigil from carter from 5 30 to 7 00. Live in the stuo, erika glover, nbc 6 news. A big win in court for a south florida father accused of deserting his teen son who still hasnt bee found. Defense attorneys sufficiently proved that Bruce Jorgensen was not a flight risk, successfully million to 5,000. Investigators say he waited to report the disappearance because his son ran away before. Grandma ad grandpa says hes perfected the disappearing act because he has a problem with authorities. Tonight republican hopefuls will have their debate at 8 30 tonight at university of houston. Donald trump hopes to keep his sizable lead while senators marco rubio and ted cruz fight for second place. A big writeup in this mornings New York Times that focuses on trump and his mara lago club. As yoknow hes running on a platform bringing jobs back to americans. The story reveals that trump uses primarily Foreign Workers in that report. The paper found out since 2010 nearly 300 residents applied for jobs at the club but only 17 have been hired. It takes a lot of people t t run a place like that. Theyre most likely fromly from romania. Washington post columnist listed rick scott as one of five potential vp candidates. So far scott has praised but not endorsed endorsed trump. Says right now his plans are to keep the job market growing in florida. 6 39. It turned out to be manic situation in a mall. Started in a restaurant andent outside. Why the man accused of fighting with his wifend charging at officers with his car outside thedadeland mall will be staying behind bars. Well have that story and a lot more in the big 6. Several new cases of the zika virus here in the sunshine state. Those who tested positive are pregnant women. Hear what the governor is requesting. Sheli, the cold front through the area. Temperatures falling all night we start our thursday with temperatures at 61, ft. Lauderdale in 62 and 64 in sflorpd sunine, a welcome back. A man is nally caught after running from police more than 55 years ago. Police found him here in florida. Frank fresh water disappred from a prison work camp in ohio in 1959. Now he is back, and a review board is back tryi to determine whether or not they should grant him parole. Fresh water was caught once before in west virgrgia but he was never expedited because according to the state governor at the time he had, quote, had a the state. Weve got new video out of our nations capital. D. C. Got hit with some severe thundersrsrms yesterday. The area seeing some really heavy rain, high winds, even so much rain actually dumped in such a short amount of time that soso parts of the city flooded altogether. Remarkably no one was hurt. But boy, was it ever an inconvenience. Hh winds might be to blame for this tractortrailer flipping over on its side along the George Washington bridge. And if the weather wasnt bad enough by itself, commuters also had to deal wth even more traffic as that overturned semi truck youre looking at delayed it for more than an hour. Forecasters predicted the winds an hour. Now first alert weather with meteorologist ryan phillips, forecast. Thursday morning. Off to a good start. Weatherwise setting ourselves up for what will be a great run of weather to end the month of february. Now. Made it through the shower activity through the late evening and overnight hours. Across the bahamas and offshore waters. Our roadways are dry. Skies clearing out. Here is a live look at over the 6 with our first alert camera. There are lingerii clouds exiting. This is true in Miamidade County. Up north into Broward County, the clouds are quick to pull away at this point. Northwest winds pulling in drier and cooler air. Noticing a change in the air the moment you step outside. This is going to hang around for the next few days. A delightful pattern. 64 right now in miami. You can see the shield of cloud cover really thick just offshore, and the badge edge just hanging on across Miamidade County. Well bring on the wiptder sunshine. Right now temperatures stacking up this way, ft. Lauderdale with 62, clouds thinning out. 64 in miami. Clear skies and 68. Notice the common theme, that northwest wind bringing in the drier air, humidity coming way down. Mix of sun and clouds this morning. Were finished with the rain. First alert forecast is dry, 63. On the morning drive well average the temperatures out. Its a very slow climb just to even get to 70 by the lunch hour. All the while, a cool northwest breeze. Mostly sunny and 72 today. What a beautiful day, enjoying the sunshine, 68 this evening. A pretty significant fall overnight tonight leading into your friday morning. Most of us into the lower 50s. We could still find for the next few nights upper 40 pockets dipping into the western areas. Were clear and cool. A marvelous pattern. Were doing away with this huge area of low pressure wrapping through the great lakes, snow through michigan and ohio, Severe Weather overnight into boston. That front extending through the mid atlantic and offshore from southeast florida. Now we bring in the really nice weather. Future tracker again, were finished with the wet weather, continuing on the north and northwest winds driving the clouds out of here and bringing on full sunshine. Afternoon and letting these cool readings settle in friday night into saturday morning. I think thats going to be the coldest morning of the next several. Here is what you can expect, coolerthanaverage readings, 73 as we clear out. 53 tonight. 72 on friday with 71 on saturday. Lows near 50. Up to 74 on sunday. Were dry well into next week. 6 47. Here is joe with traffic. Looks like a little trouble now on the palmetto expressway. Weve got an accident southbound right at i75. 5. Unfortunately it is a left lane that is blocked off. You can see the big curve area. It slows down a little bit. Weve got things on the palmetto expressway, it looks like its affected in the left lane there, trying to get by. Everyone trying to get by to the right side. We can see further down its created a bottleneck. After you get past that, it looks crystal clear. Thats the latest look at traffic. Thank you so much. 6 48. The Broward County lawyer already facing federal child porn charges is w charged with molesting a child on top of all that. Poce are saying 47yearold david rothenberg, this man here sexually abused a girl on several occasions. The new charges are coming after federal agents say he was also sending child porn videos to an undercover officer. Were still waiting to hear back from the law firm where he worked for the last six months. We know rothenberg is being held on no bond. This morning detectives near orlando are trying to figure out what caused a mom to kill her son in the shower. Police say virginia ortega killed her 29yearold son as he was bathing. The 59yearold allegedly called police after the shooting. Officers say when they got to the scene they found the Mother Holding the gun and her son shot several times. The family says they never saw this coming. Ortega is charged with murder. New details about the murder a fourtrt person, adoniz gillis under arrest in connection with the death of the 19yearold. Surveillance video shows his car going into the apartment complex where Nicholas Acosta was killed and then drove out. This was near Florida Atlantic university. We told you about the three other people who have also already been arrested. Detectives believe this is all stemming from a drug deal that went bad. A new bill inspired by corey jones is making its way to the florida legislature. In october of last year, 31yearold jones was shot by a palm beach officer in plainclothes. The bill would require clearcut rules for Police Departments that use body cameras. Rules would be in place for those that use body cameras. The Florida Police union approved the bill. Its now heading to the full house. The numbers here are jumping and definitely not in a good way. Confirmed that three pregnant women living in the state of florida have contracted the zika virus. This is what we know. Health officials are not disclosing the counties where these pregnant women live because of privacy issues. The new cases bring the states total number of confirmed cases to 32. All of those right now are travel related. In miamidade alone, there are 11 people with the virus, in broward there are four. Governor rick scott has requested the cdc to send 250 additional antibody tests to the state of florida. You could soon have a say in who is floridas top voting official. Since 1978 the secretary of state position has always been appointed. A senate panel approved calling for election. It has to get three fifths vote. The state nat store sponsoring the bill says he wants the position to be mosh accountable to the people. In a few hours well know how many people applied for unemployment. Last weeks report saw a drop in the number of Weekly Applications for unemployment it fell to 273,000 applications. It is the lowest number of people looking for benefits since november. These numbers really speak to a healthy job market and show that recent worries about the stock market have not caused u. S. Businesses to cut jobs. Syrias president has agreed to a u. S. Russian plan for a truce between government and weekend on saturday. The bombing and shelling that continues ahead of the deadline. Youre looki at the latest video here. The truce is supposed to last for two weeks. Its supposed to anyway. The United Nations is hoping the planned stop in fighting will provide a little breathing space in the hopes that syrian peace talks can start again. If you own a dog, here is a warning for you this morning. A woman says her lost dog appeared on craigslist for sale Angelica Fernandez says her miniature schnauzer ran away from home and five days later she was sent a link to an ad on craigslist. It was her own dog. Hernandez says she emailed the seller asking if the dog had a lump on her left leg just to confirm it was the same dog. The seller answered yes and admitted they found the dog. She never denied she didnt have my dog. She said she did have my dog and tried to take care of her but she ran away. Im really scared its going to be too late before i fnd her if i find her. A private dek detective says its common for people to sell lost or stolen pets online. Shes asking anyone who might have seen her dog to please come forward. Be sure to watch nbc 6 black history special called paving the path, hosted by juwan strayeder and trina robinson. It airs tonight 7 00 right here on nbc 6. Now the big 6 stories you this morning parents fed up with gun violence are preparing the rally later today on the same spot where somebody shot a 17yearold to death yesterday. Police here are trying to figure out whether that shooting is connected to another one that happened only minutes and blocks away yesterday afternoon off of northwest 79th street, one happening on 19th avenue, the other on 14th avenue. One shooting left a teechb dead, the other left a teen boy with a bullet wound in the leg. If you know anything about either shooting, you can help investigators by calling miamidade Crime Stoppers, 305471tips. Live at Miamidade Police headquarters, julia bagg, nbc 6 news. The death toll comes to rise in the wake of a severe winter storm. Four people were killed in virginia yesterday with another three killed the day before in louisiana. The storm system spawned several tornadoes and dumped several inches of rain across the southeast. Two teens are in custody this morning for the shootth he was only 6 years oechltd 18yearold Leonard Adams and 17yearold Irwen Pressley are the two teens charged in the death of 6yearold king carter. Thre facing Second Degree murder and attempted murder charges. Tonight republicans face off at the university of houston at 8 30. Trump hopes to keep his sizable lead while senator marco rubio and ted cruz battle for second. Ted carson and mark kasich are hoping for a comeback in the polls. During an investigative hearing a coast guard officer said aep for the el faro ship rold the coast guard the ship was disabled but gave the impression they could fix it. El faro sank killing all 33 crew members on board. Federal agents are investigating after a Small Plane Crash landed in a hollywood neighborhood. The pilot managed to avoid damaging homes and property along his makeshift runway. Minor injuries and no one else was hurt. Good news finally on the palmetto expressway rig at i75. We had a left lane blocked by a crash there. It was really bottlenecking things and finally moved it over to the shoulder. All lanes have reopened through the area. Its still a bit slow, and it will take a while for that big delay to stretch around the big curve. It stretches around the big curve to thin away. Once you get past the 75 scene, look what you get. A nice smooth ride down to okeechobee road. Thats the latest traffic. Joe, well get another update at about 7 25 during the today show. Starting with ctearing skies. Moving things in the right direction in the wake of last nighs cold front. If you havent been outside, two things going for you, a cool northwest wind down the peninsula at about ten to 20 miles an hour. Breezy start to the day. Here is the payoff. A high of 86 yesterday. 63 in miami. Updated readings that guide us down to 60 in oakland park, 61 in ft. Lauderdale, 62 in the west kendall area. It gets colder as we go through the next few days, but at least the sun will come back. Clearing skies the trend. In the wake of the front. Sunny skies and mild readings. Well get through the cloud cover and stuck in the lower 60s initially this morning. On. A mild afternoon, highs of 72, well below average. Were below average tonight. The payoff of all this warm weather and clouds and showers around yesterday, we have no rain in sight. Lower 70s all week, sunny skies and morning lows into the 50s. I call that perfect to end the month of february. Food festi donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Good morning. Breaking overnight, f frce after slamming the south. Took my truck up in the air and glass is coming in. A new round of tornadoes killing at least four people in virginia. Heavy rain and high winds knock out power across the northeast and in the midwest a crippling blizzard. Mitt romney jumps into the president ial fray taking on donald trump. I think we have good reason to believe that there is a bombshell in Donald Trumps taxes. Trump insist tlg is nothing there. When will he release his return . Hurt and humiliated. Erin andrews in trs after her father testified. She is terrified, depressed. And he said that secretly recorded video of her in a hotel left her a shell of herself