7 news. Lynn all right now to two developing stories affect traffic. A bad break in Fort Lauderdale robbin, and things heating up on the i and that had drivers thrairpg brakes. Craig stevens rif at the news desk with the details for us. Craig. Craig all right rob baind lynn. Lets go to the water main break. We think it may be a water main break affect trafficn this portion of Fort Lauderdale. This is 2100 block of north ocean boulevard no. Far from the pell a dan can grand hotel. Couple of the lanes are closed. Traffic moving in outer lanes in both directions but motorist are being urged to avoid the area if possible. The 2100 block of north ocean boulard no. Reports of Water Service being interrupted as they work to repair what looks to be a water main break in thisarea. Now, something that had a much larger impact for a larger southbound. Caught fire somehow or another and the back up was at i95 southbound at broward boulevard and it was backed up for a good distance. I think up to oakland park if not beyond. There the charred remains of the vehicle no. 1 hurt in this but i can tell you there was a good deal of traffic that backed fowrp quite a while while they worked to one put out the fire and move the car way and also do patch work on the roadway and i95 all those lanes have since reopened. So thats latest on that developing story in Fort Lauderdale. At the news desk. Craig stevens. 7 news. Lynn now at 5 30, a scary scene on surveillance. A young girl running from a stranger to. Night she is talking about her escape. Kind of Like Fighting just to getaway. Lynn 7 news with her terrifying tale. This teenager had to put what her family taught her about stranger danger to the test. Scare at school to 7s easm de ar mass. Reporter i was scared i started n. Reporter run and yet. Thats what this girl did last week bhain tried to to abduct her in Pompano Beach. Family requesting she not be identified. The moments captured on surveillance camera as she frantically looked behind her. Main following her in his suv. The only thing on her mind. Just to getaway. Reporter deputies say the girl was walking along 14th avenue in Pompano Beach wednesday afternoon around 4 30 when a man who looks like this pulls up next to her in his car. He pulled into the grass and stopped the car and asked if he me if i was on my way home. When he i didnt say nothing he got out of his car and grabbed me and tried to to put me in his car. And a pulled way from him and a started fighting to getaway. He may have been unable to get a good grip because of her still she screamed and took off rung. The man continuing to follot her. She was able to safely get trial tiffs home. She did everything right. She did exactly what weve been telling her to do and telling all the kids too. Reporter but this video still difficult for h h aunt to watch. How whatever is it like for to you watch tha its horrible. Im proud of her though. She did a good job. Heres another look at that sketch. The man ha reddish brownish hair. He was nay tan suv. If you recognize him or know anything at acialtion detectives want to hear from you. The phone number to call in Broward County is 954493tips. Reporting from Pompano Beach. Im alex de mamplets 7 news. Lynn nail jail no bail for a south florida man ciefdz highh price heist. Alberto perez staying behind bars until his rainment next week. The 46yearold is accused of stealing 4. 8 million worth of in North Carolina last year. Lice say perez used gps to track down theig brig sprague the driver and passenger with perp spray. He is now facg robbery and firearm charges. Town house trouble in tamarac. Fire break out at a home at the Shaker VillageCommunity Long canter berry laifnlt there is damage to the unit and four People Living inside now need a new place to state. The red cross is themg temporarily. The search is on for a missing south florida student. 14yearold kaitlyn king dpiersd thursday. 5foot five and he was 105 pounds. Last seen wearing beige uniform pants and white po lor shirt at middle school in mare march. If you have any information call Miramar Police at 9546024400. Lynn and now a frantic photo baits wall game plaintd every one is talking aboutut went to the hospital racing for my life eee was definitely the ee pit to my of hero. Tonight mean the other her roc ik batman. Lynn incredible. Sports director Steve Shapiro live i the plex with the story. Steve. Yes he s. What are dads for anyway . But almost a very serious accident during one of our greatest American Pass tes. Christopher hor ner captured the exact moments Marion County firefighter shaun cung ham stopped a flying baseball bat from hitting his 8yearold son in the face this weekend this. Is the baseball bat that hit me right here. This thing was flying. It went cros crossssg like that. Think when it was doing that my dad blocked like that but then it whipped around and hit me right here. Reporter sthe were at a spring training game at disney sports for landons birthday. Ndon just borrowed his dads phone to take pictures and he looked down f r a second, the bat slipped out of hitters hand. I saw it headed towards him and a didnt have time to think i just kind of through my arm out there. Stopping bat in its tracks. I definitely think he had a hand of god Guardian Angel watching over him that day absolutely. You can see the terrified looks on peoples faces. The bat hit shaun right there in the wrist. Wenen into dad mode and started to look him over and making sure he is okay. I think i would have died or went to the hospital racing for my life. These photos have gone vie vavment when i initially saw the picture. As a mother i wanted to throw up in my mows mouth. It was a very scary picture steeg all caught in acts. Landons mom ashley says it he was the ee pit to myf a hero to my son and daughter. And my job is to protect my kids. No one got humplet the cunning hams say they will go back and see another game real soon. In the plex. Im Steve Shapiro. 7 news. Lynn twhaz scary snie. And a small plane make dramatic drop in new york. The aircraft bouncininoff the ground and nearly flipping over. The pilot and his daughter with heading toward long island when the engine shut off. He was forced to deploy the planes parachute, both escaping with minor injuries. Wow, some incredibleear misses. Thank goodness every one is okay. Lynn yes, coming up to night on 7 news. Unscried dra pla happening on the baywywch sevment the story on just one station. New neengt word nij. Lynn and men becoming a dogs best friend sheaferg from a dmal but the rescue mission not over yet. And the flight from the sky leaves several businesses burned. Phil all try. Is that time of year swraivment lot of friends fanldly and spring brairksz coming down. They all want to head to the beach. Now what, we have the threat of rip currents and coming back well let now how long that stleat will stick around for. Robbin and we are check into a situation in cie biscayne involving some sort of a device. Lynn it washed a shore somewhere. Ralph rayburn what is going on . A. Washed ashore at crandon bach park. Someononbrought it over here towards the Office Headquarters the and turned it n. Well, the police department, miamidade popoce responded out here and notified the coast guard. It was some kind of a device that maybe used in a water eration. They not exactly sure what it was. Were going to roll a piece of video that i have here. Let let necessity ee me see i caca do that and take it and you will seat Police Officers take you to the and put it in an igloo cool threemplet lets see the live picture here. Hopefully you could see. That they have clos closed the entrance way to the park. They have done that and waiting for coast guards to rief out here. A suspicious device. They have take the predawtion by closing the roadway there. You can see the sen tis center off to the left. As we get more information well bring it back to ycu. Im Ralph Rayburn recording live. Robbin and the number of parents choosing to teach their children at home has almost doubled in a decade. Lynn but an advocate says a loophole in the florida law is putting children in danger. The special report hidden at home. Belkeys for most children the school day starts with a ride on the bus. For others the living room is their classroom. I had a really good home school experience. My parents were make sure that we were meeting all the educational requirements. But not all Home School Children are getting lessons in reading reading math. You needed to be sparchgd until your spirit had been broken. Some are learning about abuse. I would be punished for miss loading a fork in the dishwasher. And she was asked to hide ser identity because her siblings still live at home with their and they say there are reasons to believe children are as you boo d that are home schooled. And deaths are higher for kids taught at home. They can become more a veer because no one to intervene tbhai lot of cases. 111 home schooled children have died from abuse since 2000. These skids have no outside influence. Theyont have teachers or friends. And known parents could educate thenl at home. And twins vicicr and nubia and pulled out of school and home schoed after teachers report add biewssments niewb bee a was found blug bluj donned to death. Ctor barely survived being doused by chemicals by their adoptive f fher. A a jania thomas body was found hidden in a freezer. Her mother facing murdede charges. She was accused of child abuse school her daughter. Advocates say its time for a tough ear prove evaluate process including background checks. And people who are convicted of a child abuse should not be lowed to home school. And they want regular monitoring of the kids. Having people outside the family would co provide protection that i lot of children dont have. Laura says over site could of savedhese children. Its not home schools fault that abusive parents use home schooling to hietd abuse. However we need to catch the kids that have fallen through the cracks. Belkeys well, draft legislation has been create bud the group is still waiting to get a law maker to sponsor the changes. We have the pro fosd change ons our web site at wsvn. M. Im belkeys nerey. 7 news is going to be right back. Now 7 weather with chief meteorologist phil ferro sniemplet all right. Heres a look at the nation and this afternoon theres high pressu sitting across the east coast. That is keeping us breezy here across south florida. But that same high pushing a lot of w wm moist air across the nations mid section and that is causing nasty weather this afternoon. We also have a clash between hot and cold air. Look at temperature in san antonio. 84, 67 in dallas. Any time have you a hot versus cold. Have you going to get strong do have flen plen tiff heavy rain moving in right croots plains. All these areas highlighted in green are under a flash flood watch. Everything in yellow is a tornado watch until 7 00 p. M. And even windy right long the coast. We do have a gale warnings there, all the way in through new orleans and in through the panhandle florida. That will remain in effect until 7 15 tonight. Now, the tale end of that will continue to travel through the northeast. We will replain breezy if not down right windy over the next couple of days. Threat of rip currents. Small craft advisory. Winds building all the way up to 30 kno. For new the florida keys, you have an advisory as well. Coastal waters very rough. Next high tide 8 18. 9 39 for the lower keys. Water temperature holding firm at 72 degrees. For tonight still some i and out clouds. Over night lows will be in the low 70s right around coats and the lower keys. And then for tomorrow were going to see once again moments of sunshine and cloudiness. Highs will be in the upper 70s to the low eight 350e6789s heres 80s. Heres your extended out look. Breezy through saturday and a reminder on sunday. The start of daylit saving which means we lose an hour of sleep. Time to set your clocks head one hour. Thats your 7 on 7 forecast. Lynn yairks yairks less sleep. Thanks phil. Robbin and coming up next from the newsplex. You buy a an electric bike but you are tired of getting it fixed when it breaks down. Lynn can you get a an up grade. Its tonights help me howard with patrick fraser. Robbin a man was excited when he bought what he called a top of the line electric bicycle lynn so if you buy a product and it does have a warranty and it does break down, what does the manufacturer have to do if anything . Its tonights help me howard with patrick fraser. Give jeffrey credit. He has his life in order. I am a graduate of a drug and alcoholic regeneration program. He is now a fulltime student and works in tell marketing selling vacations. I call people up who have had bad experiences in the past and try to offer them a gd experience. Jeffrey need add an easy way to get around. I came up with the solution of getting an electric bicycle. The top of the line in loud raw. They use superior components. None are cheap from overseas. He paid 1500 on the bike and since he is on help me howard, now where this is going. Home from buying it, the electrical system cut out. It basically wen dead. He got it rung again and it stopped. Again and again. It kept happening. It happened three or four more times that w wk. Jeffrey took it wack to the bike shop. They tried to to fix. It i went to pick tup and got less than 50 yards down the street and it did the same thing. The bike shop couldnt fix the problem and sent it back to the the manufacturer to get repaired. Im not really comfortable riding it any nomplet the manufacturer said they wod fix the bike and throw in a 300dollar upgrade. He said give me a different modest bike even though it would cost 500 more. Anything having to do with that youll have to speak with the bike shop about. I said this snot the wiek shops problem. I twhaz jeffrey called help me howard to find out his legal rites. The law isp on jeffrey side. His warranty staith states that if there is a major defect in cannot repair it, they must give him a new biesk the same mold or a full refund. But legally they dont have to give him the bike that cost 500 more. Jeffrey told us ee he bought this electric bike because his research showed it was top of the line. Now he can add made by a Quality Company on the list. We tiewkd pro deco bike. Once they got the bike to the shop they w we able to fix it in 24 hours. To make him happy they gave him the more expensive moafltd bike that cost 500 more. Legally they didnt have t give him the more expensive versn but thats the sign of a good business, the kind you want to deal with. Im definitely happy i called help me howd. It this was great imreerchlts jeffrey was happy with us and the new bike and the company. Im happy with the bike. Its a nicer bike. And if you buy and it brairksz a fridge, a stove, a wise clevment if the shop that sold it cant fix t contact the company that made. It its that simple pel. It was in this case. Taken for a ride that left you broken down. Need a jolt to get things going. Contact us. May not say were electric but were charged up to help u. So we got that going for iewssments with this help me howard im patrick fraser. 7 news. 7 news a`d this is 7 news 5 90, im robbin simmons. Lynn and im lynn martinez. 7 news at 6 00 begins right now. Now on 7 news. The florida primary is next week a south florida. Rival going on the strum record with news a. And on just one station, a movie about lifeguards shot on our beaches but a real lifeguard spring bakers beware as warning flags are raised. And firefighters talking about a gra make the dog rescue. But big querks where is the owner . Craig weontinue to follow a developing s sry in Little Havana. Boys robbed at gunpoint. Details next at 6 00. This is 7 news at six clorch. Belkeys were going to be begin that develong story. Live pictures of the scene where armed thieves have robbed some children there. Hello and welcome every o. Police say the thugs are juveniles. Craig 7 News Reporter alex dprea do on the scene with the live update from miami. Alex. Reporter craig, a very active scene here in Little Havana miami neighborhood. Robbed of their backpack and drel phone and lee the believe that the people who robbed them were three other boys. We have video to show uf t t two victims. They were robbed of a backpack and cell phone. Miami police put up up a perimeter in the area and west avenue and flagler to try and capture these guys. They were able goaone of these boys in custody but at thisour there is a large perimeter that remains here in miami. It is just breaking down. They havent been able to find the two othe. We did talk to a student that was at one of the two schools put on lockdown. Citrus grove middle as well as citrus grove elementary. The student explains what happened a. There was 3, i dont know kids from high school. They were all armed and they robbed someones phone and they found out where one was and the othth two started running in the back streets here and then they havent found them. Okay what did they say at school . They just had us on lockdown. Much. And whehe youre on lockdown, what does that mean . They haveo durn turn offer all the lights and close the windows and lock the doors. Yes. Because you dont know what is going on outside so. Reporter so that say student who was at one of those two schools that was on lock down. The lockdown has been lifted and the perimeter here has just been evacuated because police havent been able to find these two other people that they believe robbed these two others today. So at this hour, they have one person in custody and l lking for two others there. Is no description of. They were live in miamis Little Havana area. 7 news. Now at 6 00, four states up for grabs tonight in the race for the white house but mo must focus is lrt beat for the sunshine state. Next week this contest goes into the winner take all phase meaning whom ever wins a given state gets all of the delegates and florida is coming on line. Republicans and democrats nay fightt for florida. Belkeys live pictures now from downtowmiami. One president ial candidate stumming for support in our backyard tonight. Our primary isnt til next week