Miles in Fort Lauderdale and we could see some fog developing across other locations. The wind shiftedut of the northwest 910 miles per hour. Thats ushering in dry air. Low 60s across the board except umbrella the keys mid to upper 60s so light jacket will do. I would sasatodays the day to dress in layers by the afternoon with 78 degrees and the return of warm sunshine you wont need the jacket. Well see the return of some wet weather, as well, into the weekend ill have more coming up. Lets get a check of traffic. So this it the only construction spot we have out there south florida on the 395 for those of you living in miami beach and leaving miami beach on 395 this is the westbound side. A couple right lanes blocked off but youll see all the drivers able true drive around it. And no delays in the area. So thats the only construction ot really slowing anyone down. I95 southbound and northwest 103 street slow. The lanes are moving. Theres no construction and no accidents in miamidade or Broward County. So good news there. 826 northbound this is right before you get to the dolphin expressway leaving you on the palmetto the eastbound and westbound drive in and out. And now at 5 30 a restaurant robber who apparently didnt want to wait in line caught on camera. The masked man blew bit late night crowd and werent to work. Dirty work. We have more from west sunrise boulevard near Fort Lauderdale whe it happened. Reporter into the kfc no amateur here dressed in total black. Watch the slide across the counter. Leaves his backpack behind as epulls a gun on an ploy eve. Thats all in one motion. Employee tells him, cant open the registers. Not slowed down one bit the quick moving crook moves to the driveup window. Forces the manager to open the register. The money and stuffs it into a jordan backpack. Gun in happened throughout the whole time. Reporter you are w wching a classic Armed Robbery the suspect quickly but methodically stuffs the cash into the backpack. In 2014 Broward County a during the fdle had 878 armed robberies an afternoon of 2. 4 a day. This one will certainly make the list. This happened d ecember 22nd, at night. Reporter the kfc located at a busy intersection of west sunrise boulevard and 31st street. Plenty of eyes inside and outside the kfc but this guy was working quick. But his smooth moves hit a snag. Again, he tries the register, behind the counter. Struggles and abandon, one cash drawer but he snags a second. Then leaps back over the counter all this going down in 1 minute. Yes, in and out in 60 seconds. Out the door before many customers realized what had happened. In black, face covered glove in catch someones attention. Reporter that attention had to be quick watch this guy sprint across the parking lot and totally disappear into a late december night. So he came right out of that door, sprinted across this parking lot as you saw. And disappeared but somebody knows who he is. And if you do, it is 954493 tips t. Thats broward crimestoppers. Im hank tester,y cbs4 news this morning. Heres a look at your thursday Morning Headlines you didnt win last night powerball drawing dont feel bad. No one else did either. Saturdays drawing will be the biggest in history 675 million. Two lucky tickets did win 1 million in florida. Two, 11, 47, 62, and 63 and powerball is 17. Police introgation videos of the teenager accused of murdering a visiting rabbi in 2014 in late may 2015 detectives sat down with him and questioned him. Investigators confronted the teen worth testimony from an eye witness who said he saw someone matching charles description runninfrom the scene. Charles maintained that he was at home at the time. This morning a 16yearold girl charged worth stabbing a teenaged boy after getting off the school bus. According to police, a group of Piper High School students had been dropped off at northwest 56th avenue and 19th street wednesday afternoon. A verbal fight broke out for several blocks. The victim was rushed tour the hospital. The girl charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. This morning we are hearing the calls for help following a new years day murder a gunman killed one person and seriously injured another before taking police say he had been fired months earlier. Screaming can be heard in the call. 911 what is your emergency . I got shot. Somebody got shot in the head. Police say the gunman went to an apartment moments before and killed his girlfriend who restaurant. He then went tour the Boston Market and shot another man before turning the gun on himself. A friend said the gunmans life was unraveling and he was upset over losing his job and his girlfriend. The trial is now underway in the case of a former Broward CountyTeachers Union president. He could face the rest of his life in prison. The 68yearold is accused of stealing roughly 300,000 from the Teachers Union. His lawyer says his client is not guilty. He says this is part of a north miami Police Investigating the ath of an elevator repairman. Police say its not clear how it happened. They gathered evidence yesterday inside the shaft where the man died he was work on the third floor of the apartment building. He was found in an awkward position as though he was working on the actual elevator. So he was at the top of the elevator. The victims widow says her husband came to the u. S. From cuba two years ago leaving her daughter behind. Detectives are waiting for the results of the autopsy. Theres a somber mood at zoo miami after a freak accident that claimed the life of a young giraffe. 8monthold giraffe had to be euthanized after he lodged his head between two metal posts it happened while another was undergoing a procedure. Zoo keepers say he may have been trying to look at the other giraffe when it got its head stuck. Giraffe but by the time they were able to, it was too late. Several hours with different types of medications. Different types of supportive therapy burt it was a consistent and dramatic decline and eventually the very difficult decision had to be made. Zoo mamas now looking for any other potential trouble spots for their animals. Now, to the historic change king relations between the United States and cuba. A considered together it News Partners at the miami herald miamidade is pursuing a ferry service. County officials want to transform an empty waterfront property. This is the same sight David Beckham wanted to use for his soccer stadium if it is built it will serve for passengers and cargo ships to go to the island. Port miami isnt the only port interested. Ferry companies have talked about launching ferries. Is about to get ive en big. Aventura mall is talk about expanding. We spoke with the mayor about the plans. Reporter power tools are tagged to the sound of ringing cash registers at the mall as mall owners expand floridas Largest Shopping Center by 300,000 square feet. The state of the art everything you can imagine. And then additional retail merchants. Reporter the mayor may be the malls biggest fan. Excited about new tenants coming in. It is an economic driver. Reporter the more than 200 million private investnt into the Maleah Williams mean more sales tax dollars flowing through this community what many here fear wont be flowing. Traffic will be ridiculous. We were driving through the traffic just a whole bunch of mess over there. Reporter residents and visitors fear the congested streets will become more of a nightmare with the construction and expansion. In addition to construction, driving will also soon see a big construction project right here on biscayne boulevard. Fdot making improvements and they say there will be lane closures and detours for the next 10 months. Reporter mayor wiseman says shes concerned about traffic, too, the p pject will include a transportation hub inside one of the garages. The bus traffic whether its dade county public track sit or our own transit will all go in an enclosed structure. Reporter the expansion may be in part to compete with massive mall projects in the works around south florida. One is working on half a million square feet of retail space and mixed use mega project. Just up the road in downtown, high Fashion Stores would anchor rest ran and entertnment at the proposed Miami World Center project. And the push to build the largest mall in the country, American Dream miami, could bring shopping and apology musement park complex and even skiing to northwest miamidade the mayor says her city is not worried about the competition. Our mall, the mall it will give a much better eerience to everyone who comes to it. And we reached out to the mall owners for more details, as well as their full plan to handle traffic and parking. A spokesperson told us they had nothing another to add at this time were going to have to wait. Most of us have smart phones but what about a smart coffee mug. See what it can do coming up. Fir, netflix crosses off the biggest item on the list of resolution t surprise move. Did you got a fancy new drone for the holidays where you can now go to find out if its illegal to fly in your location. And drop two sizes, now drop d forever. One fitness magazine banning that and another overused phrase from the cover. And our rain chances drop today because we have this low pressure system that brought us it is moving away from our state anwe are in for a cool start this morning but much warmer this afternoon. Looks like the wet weather will stay close. Behold the power of protein in birdeye protein blends. Ok. Theyre delicious side dishes with the protein of beans, whole grains. And veggies mmm good. My work here is dooooone birds eye protein blends. Happy thursday. And right now as we look live from our miami camera, instead suv the rain we are waking up to fog in spots. As we have plenty of low level moisture since it was such a signature wednesday yesterday. And we had those clouds just hanging tough. And as we look live from our Fort Lauderdale camera in broward were also seeing low clouds basically what fog is. So just keep that in mind could be redues of deucing visibility you dont have to contend worth the rain and windshield wipers. You wont need them. You wont need the ac, either. Right now visibility map showing us that everything is looking okay except for lauderdale down to 9 miles but as the morning progresses we could see more dense fog developing. The breeze shifted out of the northwest anywhere f rom 78 miles per hour. That will help to usher in some drier air today and bring the rain chance down. In fact, expecting a lot more sunshine this afternoon but for now, light jackets required with low 60s across the board in browa and dade county. Right now 65 in marathon, six in key west. Heavy coats necessary for the rest of the u. S. With 20s, around boston and cincinnati, 30s in new york city, d. C. And kansas city, minneapolis. 40s in atlanta and 50s in houston. On the west coast 30s urn the Pacific Northwest 50 in los angeles. Also dealing with rain moving from texas now into the gulf coast states with the potential for more river flooding across the Mississippi River valley. Also, some wintry precipitation Corners Region and a mess on the west coast. The potential for more flooding and mudslides from california through the Pacific Northwest due to el nio. The rainy low pressure system that brought us the wet weather yesterday moving away. Weather is improving at least today we will see the return of sunshine. And well be warming up and well continue to be warm through tomorrow with stray showers. Now, the weekend, were talking about a 40 chance of rain. So not a complete washout. However spotty showers possible ahead of the next cold front. Which will bring cooler drier conditions for early next week. For today highs upper 70ments. Dressing in layers will be key by the afternoon you wont need those jackets, pleasant but a dangerous high risk of rip current will stay in place. Best to stay out of thwater boaters seas 24. And cooler in land with patchy fog. Back in the 80 its tomorrow cooler breeze by monday lows in the low 60s highs in the low to mid70s. Lets get a check of the traffic. Still talk about that construction spot on the mcarthur causeway. Seeing flashing lights. Construction cones set up two right lanes blocked f. Also noticing the drivers getting right past it. No delays. Heading out there throughout the rest of south florida no accidents in miamidade or broward counties. This is a liveook im 95 southbound at 79 street northbound would be the taillights. Plenty of drivers out there but nothing slowing them down. 826 northbound drive, youre seeing it right there as you approach 836 a lot more drivers on 826 around red road or 57th avenue. After you hit that big curve heading away from the goen glades interchange or toward it directions looking good. And Broward County no accidents or construction either. The knicks snap the losing streak. Good morning the heat hit the road and they may not be in a good mood after losing last night to the New York Knicks at the aaa. They look like they had plenty of energy before tipoff but once the game started it was new york that went to rk. Check out lopez with the up and under move com\letely fooling whiteside made him a kite and he pulled the string. Chris bosh going strong to the rack 28 t. Heat not nearly offensive balance. Carmelo anthony shows us its hard to stop everybody. Knicks win by 8 snapping an 8 gameme losing streak. We want to win we want to turn the curve. But once, again, you know, we have taken a step back. So were just not there yet. Theyre still working at it. Well congratulations to south florida resident finally in the Baseball Hall of fame. He makes it on his fourth try. Great catcher and pretty good actor he was in that cameo in the miami city ballet. Also going in ken griefy junior. That sweet swing and what a great glove in the outfield and the voters recognize it as a vote him in on his first try. Gets better than 99 of the vote that is a hall of fame record. Im jim berry. Now, time for talking with jill live. Good morning lauren how are you this morning. Im doing all right this morning tough loss for the heat. We have a knicks fan in the studio. Im being tortured over this loss. He called it our camera knicks are going to win. 8990 what do you think about this loss for the heat as they go on a long road trip. You know what, lauren you cant just show up and go oh, its the New York Knicks theyre not very good well still win. You got to bring it and if you dent bring it and this happened they played brooklyn not too long ago. The Brooklyn Nets samehing happened. And they just didnt look ke theyre into it. They usually their defense has been very good. The knicks shoot 55 from the field and worse than that, one problem the heat have had on and off is their three point shooting last night just 2 of 17 if you that that big come back which they had before was going to happen late in the game they didnt have anything left i. Know a lot of folks were waiting for it to happen with four or 5 minutes left in ththgame. All of a sudden thats a billion dollars loss after winning three state gas and they have some tough games so they better rally because they have had a lot of home games early in the season. Now, its time to pay the fiddler and get on the road. Yeah, chris bosh calling it a step back for the team well see if they can step it up and step forward. Lets switch gears from basketball to football. Nfl surprise late last night the ta tampa bay bucks firing the coach did you see this coming what do you think of s tenure there. I never understand that. Usually if its going to happen, ownership has their mind made up monday to get rid of them so you dent have to go through this. It was strange to see a wait until wednesday night before they end up doing it. Lovey smith ended up going six 106789 i think a lot of people were surprised. Jameis winston looks like e a really good quarterback in this league. They have a lot of good ung players but let me tell you they had a really good offense and a hot offensive coordinator. A lot of people are spec laterring hes going to beat next head coach. They didnt want to lose him to another team and teams aring to the call about him. Getting one of those openings in the other six markets that are looking for a head coach. And outside shot, maybe jimbo fisher connects with jameis winstonston could he take that job leaving Florida State to be the head coach at tampa bay. That could be intesting. Two names to watch. All right, joe, well have to wait and pee well talk to you in the next hour. Thank you you take care. Well, lots of people have been very busy registering their drones. It is now illegal not to. The faa has already processed more than one happened 81,000 applications since the registration process began three weeks ago. And the faa also has a new app that lets people know where its against the law to fly a drone and i know the city of ami passed a law recently you if you own one you have until february 19 to register it. Womens Health Magazine banning two weight loss clear chaises starting immediately they will no longer publish bikini body now or drop two sizes next to its cover models. The editor in chief says plenty of readers told her they hated those phrases. Shrink and diet werereanned last year. What about drop one site or drop three sizes well see what they do with those next. Those magazines, pretty cover models. Time now 5 54 netflix could reel in new viewers. Coffee mug will keep your of joe at the perfect temperature theres a catch. Other new movie ride along 2 netflix going further than it has ever gone before plus, investors on alert after another plunge by chinas stock market jill wagner is live with those stories and more. Hey, jill, good morning. Be in for another rough ride on wall street this morning. Earlier today chinas stock market halted trading for a second time in three days. This time it took just 30 minutes foothills stocks to plunge 7 . At triggers an automatic Circuit Breaker and trading for the day was over. The big concern chinas economy. The second largest in the world is slowing down. Chinas one of the biggest trading partners. Apple says customers spent more than a billion dollars in app purchases. New years day was the biggest day ever. Christmas day was second. Netflix expanding the reach now in 130 countries, supports arabic, korean and they told the Electronics Show you are now witnessing the birth of a global tv network. Pretty cool. Theres something thats going to perk up your morning, of coffee which we love to talk about right, jill . Of course. My favorite topic anyways. Check out this smart mug. Its debuting this week at the consumer Electronics Show sin vegas called the em ber. Promises to keep your coffee at the perfect temperature. For two hours. So theres a Rechargeable Battery and then a ring at the bottom of the mug lets you adjust the temperature. Costses 130 i say well with it as i just danning the rest of my lukewarm coffee. I dont know about you. I dont know if you had cuban coffee, but when thats cold yuck. Thanks so much have a great day. Thats a great idea. Thats our next business idea. I want to get in on that for sure. Thats a really good idea. Im still drink it. That will do it for cbs4 news this morning. No one won last nights drawing