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cops were called. >> they had like a blanket that they took out of their car that was full of phones and wallets and around $500 in money, credit cards. >> reporter: it's unclear how many cars were hit and less than two months ago carlos himself was ripped off. >> i had bags. i forgot to close my car. i had some money in there. when i came back, we opened it up to deposit the money that was there. it was gone. >> reporter: someonon took him for 200 bucks and a lesson learned. something the whole neighborhood can appreciate. >> i don't feeee quite as at ease about leaving doors open. won't be so c celess in the future. >> reporter: all three suspects are charged here with burglary and theft. bso detectives made pretty quick work of this one. made the arrest at 5:30 this morning. they started returning the wallets andell phones to the victims in this case. nbc 6 news. west palm beach teenager arrested for posting as doctor. robinson facing grand theft charges in a new and unrelated case. he went as far as opening his own medical office. willard shepard here now with more information on that. >> we have uncovered more about what th young man was allegedly up to. he was just 17 when he formed the medical compapy he was using. he was even making house calls. a palm beach county teen far too young to practice medicine nabbed. robinson charged with practicing without a license and grand theft. at his residence today he didn't have much to say, but police say here at this office complex behind this door he dressed the undercover officer, and asked questions any physician would and even hired staff. allen shultz has his office in the same building, but had no idea what robinson was allegedly up to. >> i've heard of these things happening, but not in this building. >> reporter: the new birth life medicalalenter was started in november and the then 17-year-old listed himself as the registered agent and manager of the company and it was active, uppnd running. a tip to the florida department of health led to the unercover sting operation. for him. >> reporter: detectives say an 86-year-old woman out to try natural medicine for stomach trouble found him online. police say he went to her home. when she was being taken to the theft the police report says wiped the elderly woman's bank accocot out. >> love robinson has not reached out to hour station in palm beach. no one answered the number that we called. also reportedly he had been at a hospital with a lab coat on too. this time he'll get his day in court. willard shepard, nbc 6 news. another story now you'll see only on 6. is week cuba and the united states signed an agreement that would allow commemeial flights between the two countries for the first time in over50 years, but one family isn't so happy about this. they say they wewe the majority shareholders of cuba's state airline before castro tookver >> reporter: jose lopez says he has been patiently waiting for 57 years. he's the heir and the majority owner of the cuba state airline. lopez says his father was the majority owner before it was seized by castro's communist government. why come forward now? >> the cuban government and the united states signed a jint agreement in havanallowing commercial flights. >> reporter: lopez argues that he owns the rights to the airline and the airport and the cuban government owes him money if they start operating in the u.s. >> the company belongng to jose ramon lopez, who in federal court in the united states was declared the heir to the airline. >> reporter: with his federal probate decision if the cuban could put in a plane to try to seize those planes as his property. ongoing negotiations mentioned president obama can't prevent these planes from being seized by the u.s. courts. lopez also says he was never compensated. in 1956 panmerican airlines sold its minority ake, making lopez's father the majority stake hoeld stakeholder. he has the documents to prove it. >> now that he hears his family his company, is going to be used by the cuban government to possibly fly to the united states in the future, why should they have these rights? >> reporter: this may be the first of many claims as normalizatioiobetween these two countries continues. it will allow u.s. carriers to travel between the two countries lopez says he'll keep his legal battle going to get his company back. check out >> to check out this story and others, head to our nbc 6 news and weather app. nbc 6 is everywhere in opa-locka. a driver walks away after getting struck by a train.. this car collided with the tri-rail around 4:30 in the morning at rutland street. the driver is not injured. deputies in florida calling a personal foul on a former university of tennessee football player. police arrested mckenzie crowder last night near st. petersburg after authoririties say he tried solicit sex from someone he thought he was a 14-year-old girl. e minor was an undercover he is facing five felony charges. details on a big endorsement in tonight's decision brief. nbc 6 learning marco rubio is expected to win a coveted patronage. south carolina governor nikki haley is set to announce her endorsement of the senator. the goverr's endorsement comes at a critical time. it is a major blow to jeb bush's chances of winning the palmetto state. the nation's leading latino organizations have launched a national voter outreach effort to mobilize latino votots in the 2016 election. while approximately 27 million hispanics will be eligible to cast their ballots this year, the our vote, our future campaign will try to reach the other 12 million that have not >> 2016 will be one of the most important elections in the history of this country, and we want to make sure latinos have a full voice at the ballot box. >> they'll expected to play a critical role in the caucuses that come this saturday. a florida school in hot water for what happened during a clinton campaign rally. the palm beach county scol is investigating why students from an area high school perfornmed at a local political rally for the democratic presidential candidate. her husband, former president, bill clinton showed up instead. school policy prevents students from performing at any political rallies. nbc 6 is everywhere. steve litz is traveling to south carolina ahead of the primary. you can look for his live report starting friday. >> shackles on my ankles, shackles to the waist. >> a shocking story from the lone star state. how the feds are taking the ballooning student debt crisis into their own hands. a gainesille police officer making headlines for all the right reasons. why his love for a woman and his job came together in a very special way. we're live at the american airlines arena. bosh a a dwyane wade i don't know what i'm doing. i can't find anything just when i think it's just not going to work. this woman that works there comes over and asks can i help you? and heheas so happy, to do it amazing right? i never would have expected would have thought that anyone would find that do that. make that go out of their way for me. right then, right there i couldn't believe it he was so helpful i know it's such a small thing little thing. simple thing but it made me smile made me happy made my day share your story. all right. for the first time the miami heat are addressing chris bosh's latest health scare. >> bosh is not traveling with the team for the next game. what's going on with all of this? >> reporter: indeed he's not going to travel with the team to atlanta. hehe not expected to play. there is no time frame for his return. the team's rep not providing much more information past the statement they put out after practice today. the miami heat announced that chris bosh will not participate today in the practice and not accompany the team to atlanta for the game on friday. when further information is available that we can pass along, it will be provided, end qte. of course, the repor of a clots in his legs has been worrying to everyone in the organization and the south florida fans. there have been various reports and rumors that bosh had to get bacacon blood thinners. at the team practice today the players didn't seem to know the extent of what bosh was going through, until one of his best friends spoke on the issue. >> i mean, he's fine. it's not a health scare like it was last year at all. none of us are overdoing it from that standpoint. he's fine. >> do you think he'll be back sooner than later then? >> i don't know. i don't know. i'm not going to speculate on anything. he's going to takit a day at a time. he's in great spirits. we're not doctors. we don't know exactly what it is, but we're going off of him. we've talked and he's feeling gooo >> reportereveryone praying for bosh, but wade really the only one providing any sort of insight on the situation. as you heard, it's not as serious as last season. the team has a practice one more time tomorrow before flying out to atlanta. no time frame on bosh's return. nbc 6 news. now to an update on the lakeland woman who live streamed herself driving drunk as part of a plea deal. whitney wass sentenced to 12 months probation and her license is now suspended for six months. police arrested her after she blasted her drunk driving home to her periscope viewers. police say they found her driving with a flat front tire. mounting student loan debt with feel like a prison sentence. several armed u.s. marshals arrested ball acre at his unpaid student loan from 29 years ago. with interest, it's now $5700. marshals say they tried for three years to get him to pay up. they even taped notices on his door. he sayhe only received one postcard, which he thought was bogus. >> shackles on my ankles. shackles to my waist. >> we talked to him on the phone in 2013 at which time he told us he would not appear in court and we would have to get him. >> acre will have to pay almost $1300 to the u.s. marshals for them doing their job. hope you have a chance to get out there this evening while the sun is still out. it will be out for another half hour or so. it is a beautiful evening. there's no rain right now on the live first alert doppler radar. there's the aaa. you can see the temperature is 75. can it be a better? it's just beautiful out there right now. a sun-drenched afernoon across south florida. we are looking at a nice evening. no chance of rain. a couple of scattered clouds. temperatures as you can see dropping tonit into the low 60s and upper 50s, so we're going to end up with temperatures below norl tonight across south florida. let's look at those details as far as the low temperatures overnight are concerned. you can see in the florida keys wewee talking low to mid 60s for your overnight low, but you reach the mainland and you start to see some cooler readings. 55 degrees for tonight in homestead. 56 in kendall. pines and weston. down to 56 in coral springs. because of the marine influence you'lllave readings closer to 59 or 56 degrees. you can find readings 55 to 60 degrees tomorrow morning. there's no rain in the forecast for tonight. we will later, as the day progresses, start to see some clouds. here's the future tracker for tomorrow. you see these north-northeast winds. the future tracker insists on bringing showers pretty close to e coast. i doubt we'll see any rain tomorrow. i'm not forecasting a dropf rain for tomorrow, but i do think we'll start to see some clouds as the day progresses. it'll end up being a partly cloudud day as opposed to a mostly sunny day like today was. the other issue with the north to northeast winds i we'll start to see some rip currents. therefore tomorrow's threat tracker is set to yellow only there's no other threat type expected in south florida. mostly sunny, a high of 76. looking really good for the weend. sunday a mixture of clouds and sun. a high temperature nearly 78. the overnight lows this weekend will be in the 60s. pleasant temperatures all around. looks like a very nice weekend in our area. for the seven-day forecast, stick around and i'll have that information during the 6:6: news. a gainesville officer is gaining attention on social media for his arresting show of love. the officer too his girlfriend for a ride in his police cruiser and then surprised her with a giant paintingn a wall that said, ashley, will you marry me. she grabbed a can of paint and responded with a yes. this wall is known as the 34th street wall. llers of graffiti. this weekend a star-studded tribute to a director. he's worked on shows like "cheers" and "will and grace" and "friends." >> roxanne vargas has more. >> we were called to play -- i was called to audition for monica and her rachel. i ttnk we both just thought the other was better for the other part. >> reporter: the gang got back together to honor tv's most accomplished comedy director, james burrows. he made his tv direreing debut maybe you've heard of it. you're going to make it after all >> reporter: that was just the beginning. fondly referred to as jimmy by the stars he's worked with, burrows is the mind behind pilots for kwtd"cheers," "taxi," "the big bang theory," and "mike and molly." >> he is essential to helping us as a cast. refined our relationships with each other. >> he was the kind of guy who would never let a set up kill a joke. if you didn't set it up bup bup bup. >> reporter: the stars of these shows and more will be in their seats to honor one of the best in television. he's been a huge part of making us laugh for years. >> you can be a part of all the laughs. an all-starar tribute is this sunday at 9:00 right here on nbc 6. nbc 6 news. still to come on 6, they say honesty is the best policy. >> a stranger returns lost belongings to a new york man, but there's a catch here. >> i was very surprised. i got this blank white envelope. >> the brutally honest hilarious response from a thief. new tonight at 6:00. where all right. you're looking at pope francis as he heads to ciudad juarez. the great lengths a so-called good samaritan went to return some of his things. it may be one of the worst hassles when you lose your wallet. it happened to riley. he thinks he dropped his wallet while attending a concert in brooklyn. >> it was a freakout reaction. >> reporter: two weeks later, a letter came in the mail. >> i was initially,terrified. i was very surprised. i got this blank white envelope. >> reporter: inside credit cards which he cancelled and a driver's license and a note written by a quote/unquote, goodd samaritan. >> the note was basically i'm a good guy, but i'm also giving you the middle finger and i'm keeping anything that would d ave any currency behi it. keeping the cash because i need wide weed and the wallet because it is kind of cool. >> i can't believe the person went to all this work. >> reporter: he can't help but appreciate the humor. >> this is something my friends and i have laughed about quite a bit. >> reporter: the kings theater got wind of what happened and offered riley free tickets, but they said why don't you leave your wallet at home this time, ray riley. >> that'll do it for the news at 5:30. under pressure. a man with a knife threatens a nervous gas station clerk during a robbery. pope francis arrived in cu ciudad juarez mexico. an officer who was ambushed while sitting in his patrol vehicle is out of the hospital well wishers at a surprise visit. it's a huge day for the modern dance team at northwestern high school. don't miss this. right, girls? >> right. hurry up. >> relax. open the register. >> he forces a gas station clerk to open her regist. good evening, i'm jawan strader. >> and i'm jackie nespral. sharon lawson joins us liv from the gas station in plantation with more of the video. >> reporter: that video is clear. the audio clear a a well. we spoke to the clerk who was at the mobile mart at the time of this robbery. she was too frightened to speak on camera, but her boss did. he said they've seen this guy before and they're hoping someone in the audience out cops find him before he strikes again. >> she was very shocked. >> reporter: shocked and terrified after an armed crook set his sights on a convenienen store for some quick cash in plantation. >> clean everything up. >> reporter: the crime caught on camera february 6th at the mobile gas mart on broward boulevard. >> get everything. >> reporter: the store manager shows us the brazen culprit who was casing the sto around 5:00 that morning. >> by this time, people are cocing in to get coffee, getting ready to go to work. it was after a couple of customers. >> reporter: the thief seizes his opportunity, ducking below the counter before catching the female clerk off guardrmed with a knife >> she didn't know what to do because the guy threatened her. >> hurry up. open the reester. >> reporter: the armed bandit put her at ease. >> you're putting me on pressure, please. >> relax. open the register. >> she did everything right then? >> exactly. >> reporterthe thief got away, but not before cameras got a clear look athim before he made his getaway. >> someone who probably sees this picture will know who he is. >> definitely recognize who he is. he looked at the camera outside. reporter: there is a dark car aving the scenene if you have any information, be sure to contact broward crime stoppers. that number on your screen. live from plantation, sharon lawson.

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