it was declared to be an ef-0 tornado. mainly downed trees in that area, but we have a lot more coverage regarding that tornado, so back to you. >> in delray beach residents are cleaning up tonight after that tornado churned through the area. it toppled trees and littered the streets with debris. laura rodriguez continues our team coverage from the scene in delray beach. >> porter: we are at st. mary the virgin anglican church just off of atlantic avenue west of i-95. they have cleaned up very quickly heje, but let's look at some downed power lines.p that pole is completely tilted over to the left, but lucki power is back here at the church. >> i got the weather alert. said extreme danger delray beach. >> reporter: taking cover inside the tornado swept right through the middle of the courtyard. >> i heard this huge noise. i could feel the rain just beating. >> reporter: take a look at this man making a delivery for the bishop. his pants blowing in the nd. as the door opens, the patio furniture flies everywhere. >> it was hard to close the door with the wind trying to suck u u out. >> deeis all over. the furniture in here was broken. fence torn down. damage to the ro. >> reporter: across the street from thehurch the severe weather also uprooted a tree in derrick phillis yard. he heard a branch snap and quickly hid in the closet. >> i heard a roaring sound. i jumped up panicking. i looked out the window and saw heavy rain and then it was like darkness. >> reporter: a gas line near the tree caused some concern, but the line was shut off temporarily to avoid any issues. area also lost per for several hours. >> we're going to have to work even sunday to keep up with the ticket load. >> reporter: no injuries to report, but a big scare for all who witnessed the tornado. a weather event that could have ended much worse. >> we're okay. the church got some physical damage, but everybody's okay. >> i just thank god i made it through it and no damage came to the house. >> reporter: and the bishop tells me when he arrived here at the church it looked like a war zone. now they'y' hoping that insurance can cover most of the damage. reporting from delray beach, nbc 6 news. we're seeing a new view of the tornado that devastated rts of broward county. take a look at this. this view is from the turnpike moments after the twister roared through and cused accidents. and as cleanup begi from yesterday's storms, neighbors in coconut creek are forced to deal we are live in coconut creek with more. how is it looking today out there? >> reporter: yes, it's still pretty messy and quite bad out here. residents in coconut creek still cleaning up all that damage from yesterday's tornado. take a look at this fence. it is just completely destroyed and all mangled up. definitely lots to repair, but first take a look at some new video that captured yesterday's storm. >> it was terrifying when it was going down. >> reporter: those frightening moments captured on home surveillance video. yesterday's twister lifting up trees, umbrellas, chairs, and even a boat as that wind started swirling. >> we got maybe a minute and that was about it. we had about a minute. my wife went intohe closet. >> reporter: crews from public works and p pvate companies working around the clock, picking up debris and scattered branchs. landscapers out here taking i ran inside, shut the door, when i looked out the window my neighbor's boat has broken loose across the canal. >> reporter: her neighbor's boat got loose, floating over to this tree that fell in the canal behind her home. it was rainy again this morning with littleisibility out on the roads. >> what was that? >> reporter: this woman was in her home when that nasty weather blew in earlier today. thick tree branches landed on cars outside her home and one of them hit a power line. >> it hit the power line and start sparking up. that's why they're here. >> reporter: mother nature definitely left a lot to clean up. again, just a lot of damage out here as these residents had to face two days of some severe but thankfully there were no major injuries. live in coconut creek, nbc 6 news. and while the northern parts of south florida are dealing with tornados and heavy rains, farther south the rain brought flooded streets. >> reporter: hi. so many things can go wrong when it rains. this car right here is stalled in the middle of the street. these cars right here are tryingng to get through the water just to make it onto second avenue. there are plenty of condos down there. also some businesses and some homes. this is t only access. one resident asked me if w were here to cover this lakefront property. ithere are rain drops, the road floods. i'm surprised how that doesn't stop anybody from driving, biking, or walking through the water. little bit late. you're looking at other cars that did not stall. the woman's boyfriend had to come down here and try to push the car into a safe spot while they wait for a tow. >> always flooded. there's no drainage if you look around. ever since we moved into this ago. it's been flooded ever since. >> reporter: another problem area collins avenue between 17th and 18th. the rain and flooding just complicating things. this video actually is not the worse of it, but pedestrians typically have no way around it. we see people walk through the water and get soaked anyway. back out here live. car stalled right here. this road always a problem. neighbors coming up to us telling us they have complained many times to the city and obviously the problem has not been fixed. i'm surprised to see a lot of they take off their shoes and carry them into the building juu to get home. there's a car coming here. i'm going to send it back to you guys now. live in miami, nbc 6 news. >> the heavy rains are creating a mess on the roads. we're going to help you navigate around those wet roads out there. >> good evening. good evening to you south florida. taking a look at your screen, this is our first alert camera around i-95 northbound and northwest 153rd street. we have this tractor-trailer here blocking one of the express lanes. onlooker delays. let's take you over to the palmetto expressway. this is southbound right around northwest 122nd street. no accidents, but what they're construction, those delays stretctcing back westbound on the palmetto expressways. you're starting to catch those delays. let's change sources and take sou on over to our first alert traffic map. this accident just happened moments ago. it is on i-75 southbound on the palmetto expressway. emergency crews on the scene of the accident. a 28 minute ride. if you're headed towards hialeah hialeah, stick to red road. better than sticking in that traffic on 826 southbound. >> thank you. be sure to keep track o the weather through the nbc 6 news and weather app. you can check out our live first alert doppler radar anytime you want. >> always very helpfulp. law enforcement agencies team up for a massive takedown. and we'll tell you the dozens of people in custody now and what investigators say is now evidence. we're seeing what it looks like through the ieeyes of a po every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. have earned the very best service in return. usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and welcome back. find a knife-wielding crook who threatened to stab a cashier. a man entered the family dollar store. he demanded the cashier to open the register. he threatened to stab her when she refused at first. the man took off with an undisclosedmount of cash. federal, state, and local law enforcement say the streets are safer after several agencies joined forces to take down some dangerous criminals. their misdeeds range from selling drugs and guns to violent crimes. we're live with details on this crime crackdown. >> reporter: jackie, investigators say the crackdown started in liberty city with just a few suspects, but soon they learned what they were looking at had many more legs. 55 people busted facing serious charges. the drugs, cash, and weapons seized as evident is a result of the u.s. attorney's violence that's local, state, and federal authorities working together. >> which strategically targets and focuses all of our resources into specific neighborhoods and communities that are plalaed by high levels of crimes. we call these hot spot communitieses >> reporter: in miami-dade those hoho spot communities identified as overtown, little ciciy, little haiti, and miami guard enardens. >> it's only a few individuals creating all the havoc. >> reporter: these arrests are proof the streets will be a little safer. >> eight of them qualify for the fbi f feral career crime statute. you have to try hard at being a criminal to reach that level. >> reporter: from the streets of miami-dade to across the united tates southern border, authorities say those busted >> cases today by focusing and targeting our resources on a couple of individuals that were known to be selling firearms and crack cocaine in the liberty city area. during the investigation, these incredible agencies and officers discovered a vast network of different drug trafficking organizations and enterprises and the distribution of these drugs were so extensive that we found some of the suppliers a a original sources of the contraband, like heroin, were coming from mexico. >> reporter: overall, authorities calling this a big get. these five cases combined they say they got almost 50 guns off the streets and the drugs they got off the streets include heroin and cocaine. i'm reporting live in northwest miami-dade tonight. nbc 6 news. a naples man who burned his face, throat, and lungs after his electronic cigarette ploded in his mouth is now filing a lawsuit tonight. about evan spallinger back in october. he's filing a lawsuit against the companies that manufactured and sold him the e-cigarette. his injuries are permanent and he needs constant care. the company has not responded to the lawsuit. all right. here in south florida we're in a lull between rainstorms. the next one should be here after dinner time. then that'll be it because beginning tomorrow things are going to improve considerably. pretty night by the way. you can see the metro area finally, at least for a little while, free of rain. the one batch is off to our east and moving away. another one is coming up from the west. you can see how this one is moving. the keys, boy, you had a wet afternoon in thehe mid and upper here's that next batch that i'm telling you about. it's linked directly to the cold front. once this moves through, once this batch of rain and thunderstorms moves through, that'll be the end of this particular front. tomorrow as well as saturday sunday look to be nice and sunny. all right. let's take a look at our weather headlines here because we're in this lull. another squall coming. clearing tomorrow.. becoming cooler with a rain free and comfortable weekend ahead. current temperature inn miami 73 as well as in ft. lauderdale. kendall and marathon at 72. key west still 76. it hasn't rained in a few hours in key west. take a look at the rainfall accumulations today. hehevy for miami-dade. 2.5 inches of rain in kendall. the way, the dade basin, as fafaas measuring rainfall is concerned, we're halfway thrhrugh dry season and we've already had doubleehe amount of rainfall for an entire dry seseon. this el l no winter here in south florida. here's your surface map. there's a front being dragged by the low. this is a a front that will bring us cooler and clearer conditions beginning tomorrow. for now, there's still a lot of rain on the weather radar. there's still precipitation all the way up to tampa. it will be awhile before this rain gets here but gradually we'll start to clear out and behind all these clouds and rain there's a big area of dry air here in the central gulf of mexico that will quickly arrive and allow for tomorrow to be mainly sunny. so here's your seven-day forecast. no, there's not a lot of rain on it and that's good. we'll go through the weekend without rain. monday. the next front would come a week from today on thursday. that being already in the month of february. now as far as tomorrow is concerned, a cool day. notice at 7:00 a.m. northwesterly wind flow. the florida keys, but sunny for miami-dade and broward. clears out inthe keys. these are mainly clear skies tomorrow. should be nice, but cool for our standards. temperatures much of the day will be in the 60s. the high in the afternoon reaching only 70 degrees. should be a very, very nice day after all the rain t at we've had and the nice weather stays in place for saturday. high of 74 after a low of 52. sunday a high of 79 degrees. looking g2eat for the weekend, but we have to get through this next line of rain first. the first police force in >> avo: when laquinta.com 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suspect but never pulls the trigger. >> he is in a situation where his life is in danger. at that time he chose not to e force. >> reporter: t`e hallandale beach police department hopes to show transparency. the department is the first in broward county to implement body cameras for its officers. 28 cameras currently in operation with police accessing the camera as soon as they're dispatch if you're out in the community and someone starts talking to yqu, would you start rolling on the camera? >> yes, i would. i would reach up to this button twice. i get a beep that it is on. i'm recording for my safety, the citizen's protection, and anything else that may occur around or behind that i could possibly capture. >> reporter: the video coming in loud and clear. officials are hoping it will be a success. >> i believe it will help and they'll capture incidents as they occur. >> reporter: the cameras are use as a training tool, like this one where the man in the suspicious vehicle got away. authorititi later recovered the vehicle with a firearm and drugs inside. the suspect nowhere to be found. if you have any information on who was i iside that vehicle, contact police. sharon wson, nbc 6 news. coming up, stealing the spotlight. gambit and his standoff with fox news. zika in the u.s. why experts think they can draw a line here. and why does it seem the hot shows are sold out the minute a new and finally tonight a quick look at today's top stories. another day of severe weather across south floridas a tornado touched down in delray beach. strong winds knock down trees. meanwhile heavy winds and rain were reported in parts of miami-dade and broward counties. outages to 577 customers in miami-dade with another 257 customers in broward. >> the high winds flipped over cars, damaged the roof of a condo complex, and left hundreds without power. pictures of the tornado damage and the live radar on our news and weather app. and you can follow the latest on all of these stories and other news on the nbc 6 news and weather app. >> in order to get to the light at the end of f e tunnel, we have to go throoh some more showers? >> one more batch of showers. at one point we thought it might yield more dangerous weather. i'm talking about that line near naples there. shuld be here around 9:00. i'm not going to completely discount t possibility of severe weather tonight. stay tuned. obvioly through our social platforms and our news and weather app we'll have all the information for you. the good news is it rained so much today the air is kind of stable. it's going to be tough to get dangerous thunderstorms out of this line. fingers crossed. after that, like you said -- >> the weekend. >> we paid our dues. friday, saturday, sunday and