Reporter 125 fires are blazing across florida. Firefighters have contained another massive fire in polk county. Its amazing what they can do. Reporter so far, no homes or lives have been lost there. Polk county officials think arson was the cause. And they have a warning for whoevers responsible. Dont sleep, dont relax, because we are on you, and it will be hotter than this fire until you are locked up in this jail. Reporter in lee county, investigators say a cigarette sp fans are mourning the death of a beloved happy days erin moran, best known as joanie cunningham. Chris martinez looks back on her leave and career. Sunday, monday, happy days reporter at just 13 years old, erin moran was launched to stardom on happy days, as joanie, the loveable sister of richie cunningham. If i get my head chopped off, im going to tell mom on you. Reporter her acting career began at age 6, appearing in shows like Family Affair and gunsmoke. But it was her role on happy days that made her a household
Obviously, you have the homegrown terrorist. I dont know how to stop that or detect that. You have other terrorist threats that come across the border. I believe in the case of the paris shooting, i believe he was homegrown, but, again, there are so many threats that come in from across border, and its essential, absolutely, to control ones border. The other thing that has me, keeps me literally awake at night is the threat against aviation. We know that would be the super bowl for the terrorists to knock down an airplane in flight, technicall particularly if it was full of americans. We have taken measures overseas to reduce that threat. But its something i watch every day, because there are a number of plots we are watching very, very closely, and theyre very sophisticated and very threatening. The number one thing in my mind is to protect the american people. So well do that. You said on the homegrown threat, a lot of people think ppart of the San Bernardino as shooting and theto to
Full screen. Theres cloud cover out there to the north and east. Looks like well start out with some sunshine across the region which is good news as we take a look at visibilities once again today, there is the possibility of some patchy fog. Visibilities actually there were pad in our reporting stations but every now and then some patchy fog possible so thats something to watch out for. Cool, 51 degrees in allentown, vaught degrees in 58 degrees in trenton. Were looking at nice warmup later on this afternoon. 59 degrees by 7 oclock with some sun mixing with clouds. By 10 oclock 67 and the afternoon has a shot at looking mostly cloudy 69 by noon. 67 degrees by 6 oclock. A slight chance of a little bit of drizzle or a real light spotty sprinkle or shower today but most of you stay dry. Were continuing to track Hurricane Matthew as it charges up the coast this weekend potentially and karen well take a look at the latest long range model tracks and see whether or not theres a chance it a
How the president ial candidate is defending himself. And act of political vandalism. Why one local woman says her political views made her a target, and shes not the only one. Announcer nbc10 news starts now. Right now at 11 00, a city in mourning, shaken by the loss of two teenagers killed in a crash on one of the deadliest roads in our area. Were talking about roosevelt boulevard. Thanks for joining us. Im jim rosenfield. And im jacqueline london. Tonight there is disbelief among the victims closest friends and anger at how this all started with a Violent Crime targeting the drivers father. Nbc10s drew smith is live in ulny where that crash happened. Reporter dozens of people have come out tonight to pay their respects. You can see there are still people here right now adding to a memorial for these victims, who died on the way to help another victim of a beating attack earlier that night. Friends gathered in the neighborhood with usman zel november lived. He was a kind hearted kid,
Some time. Sadly theres not much left of the body. The number one priority is finding out the cause of death. Once thats determined then we know which route to begin that investigation. Reporter those in this neighborhood add on top of being alarmed theyre not surprised. They say this neighborhood is steadily getting worse. Drug activity on the railroad has been doubled increased. I dont know if its because they pushed it off of sommer street or tioga but weve had nothing but addicts and drugs. Reporter im look argue round and you do he see some of those things people are concerned about Drug Paraphernalia bags things like that. They dont want their kids to see this stuff. They use this route to walk to school and thats why they want it cleaned out. They need to cut all of this grass and get rid of all of this stuff so people can see whats going onism at this point detectives say they dont even know the gender of the person burned. That, too will take time. They want neighbors to know