bringing a loaded hand gun to a hollywood middle school appear in court for the first time. thanks for joining us. >> one of those students behind the school security scare, just 13 years old. we're joined live from the courthouse with this case. steve? >> reporter: it was said in court today that the gun was loaded and stolele out of ft. lauderdale. and one of the students connected to this case told authorities that he brought the gun to school because hwas being bullied and he wanted to scare the kid who was bullying him. so today, those teenagers went into court and found out they are staying while investigators figure out some confusion. the two teenagers arrested for allegedly having a gun at a middle school are staying in jail until tomorrow. police say it was a loaded 9 millimeter found yesterday. >> no comments right now. of the teenagers said nothing. anything about the gun or anything of that nature? the father of the second suspect also declined comment. another student at school saw the gun yesterday and told an adult. according to the police report, juvenile three advised that juvenile two pointed the gun at him and told him "don't tell." >> i think that's already considered, as well. >> reporter: during their first court appearance today, one of the teenager's father says he doesn't know where his boy got the gun. the police report is a bit confusing as to which juvenile brought it to school, so the judge voiced her concern, then gave investigators an additional 24 hours to clarify that information. >> the safety concern of having a firearm in a middle school to me is -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: we typically don't why we plur blurred the faces of their parents. the juveniles are onlnl identified as juvenile one and juvenile two, and that is where the confusion sets in. so both are due back in court tomorrow. >> steve, thank you. now to a story you saw first on 6. a rude awakening for a south florida neighbor ater a wanted man makes a desperate attempt to avoid being arrested. take a look at this guy who landed in the hospital after assaulting two cops. now the drama putting people on lockdown, including our own news crew. >> this is normally a typically quiet, great neighborhood. never any problems. >> reporter: police say they were after this guy, 25-year-old billy hockaday. investigators say he was stopped as he walked his dog in the area of northwest 14th street around 3:30 a.m. wednesday. he asked the officer if he could put his dog inside. the officer called foror backup and walked him to his front door once a second officer arrived. that's when police say hockaday slammed the door on offers and bolted. this is billy's stepdad. police say one officer was cut when hockaday slammed the door. police set pp a perimeter telling us to stay in our cars. officers then searched for him. >> it's tough, especially at my age. >> reporter: the manhunt ended when a canine found the 25-year-old hiding in bushes. police tell us he faces several new charges, including battery on an officer and resisting >> as for the parent, she's a hard worker and he's recovering from major surgery and they don't need something like this. >> reporter: police tell us that the suspect did have a couple cuts when the canine caught him. police say he will now b btaken to jail. a michigan professor accused of traveling to weston for sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy was sentenc today. the dad was an undercover fficer. he's been locked up since august when he showed up in florida to have sex with the child. the widow of a man has filed three separate lawsuits. she's seeking more than d 15,000 for physica psychological and economic damage. she's suing the theater, the developer and an employee for prohibition on weapons. he's accused of shooting chad olson, who was using a cell phone in the movie theater two years ago. reeves, a former police officer, plans to invoke florida's stand your ground law. uncle sam trying to put a stop to money laundering. new rules me home buyers who want to pay cash will no longer be able to remain anonymous here in south florida. dan? >> reporter: the feds are only cracking down in two cities here in the entire country. that's new york city and miami. so if you're looking to buy a million dollar home, lit be harder to hide your identity and where you got the money to pay for it. miami is the land of beautiful, multimillion dollar landscaped homes. but unlike you and i, the people that buy these homes don't have to say who they are or where eir money comes from. this $47 million homein key biscayne and paid in cash. >> the individuals that we're talking about are typically wealthy and they're taking van of the laws available in the u.s. >> reporter: not anymore. the feds ordering anyone who pays more than a million bucks in cash for a house has to report their real name to the feds so they can trace where the money is coming from. an effort to crack down on money laundering, making sure dirty money stays out of south florida. professor william harden is a real estate expert. >> people want transparency. they want to know who the people are behind these llcs. >> reporter: although the new rule is only in effect until august and there are ways around it. >> why not buy 10 $300,000 properties? it's more work but it's doable. >> reporter: some of the buyers who do conceal their identities are foreign investors that do it for they say their own safety. dan krauth, "nbc 6 news." a sad day at zoo miami. patty, the oldest known key kangaroo has died. she had developed issues and was having trouble getting to name. patty came to miami from south carolina. she gave birth to four offspring. a man is credited with saving his mom's life after a tornado touched down. he says he knew they were in trouble when the walls started to shake. in seconds, he made a quick decision. >> it's like oh, no, this is a tornado. i laid over top of her and about the time i got over top of her, things started exploding and glass startedflying. >> good son. the winds were so strong, the struck parked in their driveway was tossed through the roof. the house is a total loss. now in tonight's decision debrief. south carolina governor nikki haley not ruling out the possibility of running for vp. telling the "today" show it would be a "big decision and a family decision," but she would absolutely consider it. she delivered the republican party's response to the state of the union address last night. she says her message denouncing the angriest voices in politics was developed to donald trump and other members of the party and media. and marco rubio weighing in on the iranian detention of u.s. sailors today. speaking to a lunchtime gathering, rubio said the ordeal iran knows they can humiliate america. >> american sailors, on their knees, hands behind their heads. a female sailor forced to wear a head scarf. you knoll why these things happened? because theynow they can get away with it when barack obama is in office. >> he also accused president obama setting up what he called strawman arguments in his speech. still to come on 6, a 12-year-old girl shot and killed by an official in pennsylvania. how this little girl was put in rm's way. >> i remember being in shock and i started crying. >> a murder plot with all the makingof a hollywood movie. the brush with death ahead. >> and the draw-dropping move >> and for rain, you have to go down to marathon to actually find rain falling out of these clouds. the trend is for this moisture to creep north bound. i have the timeline on that. the elected peace officer reportedly tried to serve an eviction order to 57-year-old donald yer monday. meyer slammed the door and returned with a rifle and pointed it at the constable. officials say the bullet passed through his arm and struck his daughter, killing her. the 12-year-old girl was standing behind her father. meyer has been charged with simple assault, terroristic threats and endangerment. 46 inmates in bazil escaped from a prison through a 0-foot tunnel bug into the ground. the inmates here were seen escaping by taxi or on foot, leaving their jail uniforms behind to prevent them from being identified. at least seven have been recaptured, but the status of the others is unclear. most of the inmates were being held on charges of theft. prison break in the history of brazil. texts show how el chapo guzman began courting del castillo in september for a meet and greet. nbc news has not verified those text messages, but he's referred to as "papa" in the messages and tells the latin star that he's looking forward to meeting her and although he doesn't drink, he would be willing to partake if she brings wine and tequila. officials say that they are investigating the meeting that penn and del castillo had. two waffle houseworkers called out for transforming the kitchen into a beauty salon, all caught on camera. we have the shocking new video. >> reporter: sosothing you don't hear every day. the women have been fired after hair. it. they did it in front of customers. this videoosted to facebook times. it shows two waffle house employees dipping their hair in a pot on the stove. the employees then pulled their hair out of the water, drying it nearby. you can see the condiments on the counter, just feet from where they were standing. we showed customers the video.o. >> wow! that was gross, to think that would be that bold to do it in front of the customers. >> reporter: and they couldn't believe what they were seeing. >> oh, man. >> reporter: we reached out to waffle house about this video, but call wrs not returd. >> they should stake a stand on it to reassure the customers that's not something they tolerate. be some health laws that has to come against the restaurant for mething like that. >> reporter: the arkansas state health department says within a few hours of the video being posted they had an inspector there who did a full assessment and found some violations. the store wiil remain open as managers and inspectots will make the changes necessary. >> that makes you wonder is that the first time? >> reporter: recent reports show the business did pass its most recent health inspection. meteorologist adam berg, south florida's most accurate forecast. >> yeah, this isn't@ something you see very often, especially outside of your typical hurricane season. have subtropical storm alex. characteristics of a cold core system and warm core. i don't want to go into all the details, but tropical systems tend to be warm core, actual temperatures around that core much warmer than some of the systems that we deal with. so this is a hybrid system, and it's got strong winds right now, but the good news for us, this is way out across the eastern atlantic right now. let's show you the details with alex. yeah, it's got some strong winds right now, coming in at 50 miles per hour. pressure pretty low, moving to the northeast at 14 miles per hour and subtropical alex will continue to work north bound quickly. so only an issue across the shipping lanes. going due north here between now and saturday, making it up towards greenland. pretty wild to see something like this outside of hurricane season, but we have seen it before. so there you go. alert doppler. rain to our south. marathon, key west, you're keeling it right now. this is heading north bound over the next couple of hours or so. some of the models saying it's going to move a little earlier, some kind of going in the middle and thinking once we hit midnight, we'll see a few showers. right now, certainly a wet one across the middle and lower keys. the temperatures, big story, as well. 50s in northern florida. we managed to work into the 70s across miami today, but a below average today with 76 the average. another overnight low below average, as well. here's the zoomout. you can see we've got some of that green to work with. moisture will be working in overnight tonight. let's see what this particular model says as far as rain. this one is overdoing it. florida as we speak. working in here overnight tonig. pretty steady once we hit 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning and beyond. just a final look at the lows we're expecting region by region, low 60s across the keys. flirting with 50s in miami. certainly some 50s out there. and then after this, the temperatures really bounce and they really drop again next week. i'll take you through it coming up. >> thank you, adam. a breakthrough in buffalo, as a car breaks through encasing it. the driver parked outside a restaurant along lake erie sunday. one problem, lake waves splashed and covered the entire car, which turned into several inches of ice when the temperature dropped. >> it's kind of cool to look at. transformers, but this friday will see the release of a different kind of fil >> it's based on the 2012 attack in benghazi. here's a preview. >> at the very beginning of the film, it doesn't say based on a true story, it says "this is a true story." >> everyone thinks they know. they don't know the story. that's the amazing thing about this story, it hasn't been told. >> libyan visas, official. >> sorry, i can't do that. >> reporter: and the wound is still so sore. >> the political debates and the opinions are very important. we have to talk like that in our country, but at the same time, you can't overshadow the real story. >> reporter: the real story of six elite ex-military operators the threat level in benghazi, libya was deemed critical in 2012. >> you are not the first responders, you are the last resort. you will wait. >> reporter: september 11, 2012, libyans attacked the american diplomatic outpost. u.s. ambassador christopher stevens inside. these men moved in against what they were told to do, because american lives were at stake. >> none of you have to go. we are the only help they have. >> people died that night and this movie honors them. i've worked in the military over 20 years. i've been friends with a lot of people, s.e.a.l. teams particularly, close friends. it's a close group of people. >> these guys are a different breed. they run to the fire when most of us run away. it's in their dna, it's who they re. this is their story. >> join us tomorrow at 11:30 and we'll hear from the heroes, those actors portrayed. you'll hear the story from those who lived it and suived it, and i go one on one with them. it's in theaters this friday. >> the cast looks incredible. >> yeah. and the story line interesting. still ahead on 6, it reads like a hollywood script. >> police say the suspect was aiming to kill. >> never talked to him. >> the cross country -- aimed at a complete stranger. and hoverboard hazard. as the injuries rise an a california woman and her boyfriend were the targets of a lovelorn man who hatched a plot to kill. and it was prompted by a fake tiffany watkins ending her silence about the plot to end her life. >> i just remember being in shock and i started crying. it was really scary. scariest thing i've ever been through. >> reporter: the 30-year-old man thought he was engaged in a relationship online with a woman in south africa who looked like tiffany from san diego. a man was using social media pretending to be tiffany. it's a term known as catfishing. >> i've never talked to him. >> reporter: he shopped a bus to san diego, according to investigators. looking to exact revenge against tiffany and her boyfriend, thinking they may have had something to do with the hoax. the complaint knows she told her brother he planned to kill or warm watkins and her boyfriend. cording to the complaint, he had a backpack with zip ties and duct tape. hile was arrested after his brother contacted police after they bought things to carry out the crime. >> i don't know how to not be worried about that. >> reporter: he was sentenced to five years in prison in 2013. meanwhile, she started tiffanywatkins.com. >> i think young girls can happen. i think everybody should be more aware. >> scary. >> very scary. hopefully that will help some young girls. that will do it for the news at 5:30. >> more news straight ahead. >> right now, nbc 6 is everywhere. the first group of cuban migrants arrived in mexico but thousands stayed behind. coming up, the people who have opened their hearts and doors to the cuban people plus, powerball mania gripping south florida and much of the nation as we move closer to the drawing. >> live, the news on nbc 6 south florida starts now. on the hunt for this dangerous duo police say were making fiery threats during several robberies. >> investigators now racing to catch them after they struck three times in the past three days. we're live to tell you how the two were threatening their victims. >> reporter: we don't usually hear about the threat of gas bombs, then an apology during a stickup. cops hope that eventually this couple will be off the streets. threatening to 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