It was such a beautiful weekend and the rain has returned this monday morning. Much of south florida is seng this on the way to work. Video showing roads in nest miamidade drench and dangerous. Lets take a live look over ft. Lauderdale same ing. Showing the rain has subsided. The gloominess still hanging over for us. Thank you for joining us. We will see improvements later on weve got ryan fill hips here with your first alert forecast. A very fitting monday. Well quickly get back to the beautiful weather we had over the weekend. Shower activity, whave an arc of wet weather from Broward County into North Central miamidade. The heaviest of the rain having push off to the east. Now were dealing with residual showers acro the twocounty area. A little bit closer here into miamidade which you really were weather for the b lk of the morning commute. More spotty showers down a miami. Back into coral gables and coconut grove, heavier showers moving across miami lakes. Light shower activity again. To Coral Springs as well as parkland. Back down to the miamidade area, north of the don shula and points continuing up to the 835, much better pattern here in place. Heres the big picture. Sseld of shower activity creeping off to the east. Now its a matter of ending the showers which i think well do into the early afternoon hours and so slowly bring on a clearing trend. Well y to get some holes in the clouds this afternoon. Rain pretty significant in the keys. 1. 5 inches. The clouds holding back temperatures in the middle70s. Forecast, this afternoon, improving conditions, maybe a pocket or two of sunsne later toight and tomorrow. Stick around, your complete first alert forecast in just minutes. Thanks so much. When students go back to school this morning, heres what they saw on their way in the hallways at the local Catholic Church hallways spray painted with hateful and derogatory words. Our reporter is there. What happened . Reporter we just got off the phone with the archdiocese from miami. They were found at the Catholic High School in southwest ranches. These are brandnew pictures of the vandalism. We have to blur them because they contain inappropriate images and very offensisi and derogatory words. They are spray painted over the school overnight. The a spokesperson confirmed police have been contacted. The school will provide Surveillance Video and whateverer else necessary to help identify those responble. We also talk to some students here as far as they can remember this is a rst, but i can tell you students have been talking quite a bit about this on social media and they are in fact blaming a rival high school that they say lost a recent basketball game. It was outside the gym, outside the cafeteria, on walls. They painted over the dance picture, which i was on the dance team and they painted over it too. Most of the Basketball Team is scrus upset. Were all talking about it. Bunch of stuff on twitter, fights with other people. Reporter students have in mind who they believe did it. Not saying as far as who didd this is confirmed. Right now, police is still investigating as far as we know. When we talk to the archdiocese and students, they say the vandalism has been cleaned up. We alerted drivers to this mess here during the morning commute through the nbc 6 news and weather app. Look at those flames there. A car burst into flames on i75 southbound by sheridan street exit. All lanes have reopened. We understand there was no one in that car. The Iowa Caucuses s d hundreds o o pictures and opinions are flooding social media. Voters are making a final push of who they think winner should be. The front runners are each race e neck and neck. Julia bagg joins us live in the studio to break it down for us. I was all about testing the toughness of those who would be president nd it starts tonight at 7 00 central time. 8 00 our time. But something unwelcome and totally outside the political realm could steal the spotlight tonight. A frenzy to the finish with candidates stumping and sarah palin trumping. Is donald trump going to win iowa . I believe he willwin iowa. Iowa voters too are ready for restitution of Constitutional Government again and donald trump is the one who can do this. The former vicepresident ial candidate touted her support for the republican front runner on the today show this morning. The donald has the edge in a tight race with senator ted cruz. This is our time. This is the time for the men and women of iowa. We have to win this election and we have to win in iowa. On the democratic side, turnout could be the key to triumph tonight. Bernie sanders is hoping firsttime caucus voters will push him past hillary clinton. There is a large turn out all over the state. I believe we will win. Secretary of state is neck and neck. I hope you will stand up for me, fight for me. Tonight will be about moving on with momentum and Mother Nature could be a game chaaer. A late night blizzard could crash political parties. Even so, there wasas one reminder, tonight is one step down a long road to the white house. We have ten more months before we actually know who will be our nextpresident. Whats the big deal about iowa . Well, it tests the endurance of a campaign and its where candidates find out whether they have what it takes to go the distance in this race. Live in the studio, julia bagg, nbc 6 news. Certainly interesting. On the nbc 6 news and weather app we have a comprehensive guide to the november election. You can keep tabs on wha the contenders are up to on the campaign trail and also how each one stacks up on issues like education, gun control, and a day after his home was broken into, a south florida corrections officer was murdered. Its an interview youll see only on 6. His family kpleeding for someone to come forward. I dont know of him having enemies. Hes very friendly and helpful. Hes a mentor to the kids in the neighborhood. Daveon halls mother discovered his body inside his apartment after his supervisor reported he did not show up to work on friday. Nbc 6 was told he had been shot in the chest. Just the day before he reported someone had burglarized his apartment. Now, friends and family want their questions answered. If his home was bubrglarized the day before and the next day the guy is found dead in his apartment, obviously, thats an obvious concern. Halls mother said he went into Law Enforcement because he witnessed his own fathers murder and he wanted to solve that mystery. This mystery, call broward Crime Stoppers at 954493tips. Well, its a viral traffic stop getting a lot of attention on the app. Except during this stop. Its the officer thats getting pulled over for allegedly speeding. This story joins strong opinion, some pointing fingers at the driver behind the camera. Nbc 6 reporter erika glover is live at the Miamidade Police headquarters on more on this unusual traffic stop. Reporter the woman behind that viral traffic stop video says no one is above the law, which is exactly why they posted the video on line. Now, despite criticism, she hopes officers here get the message. Theres an officer in front of me that ive been following since miller which is 56th strtrt. When he got on to the palmetto. When Claudia Castillo hit the road sunday afternoon, she decided to take the law into her own hands and pressed record. Not only is h h endangering the uniform. Reporter it took her about 20 minutes to catch up wiwi the Miamidade Police officer who cast stibl claims flew past her driving in and out of lanes with no emergency lights on. I had gone 80 and i was still eati his dust. After flashing her lights and honkingg the horn, she catches i was finally a ae to pull him over. Lets see what happens here. The reason i pulled you over today, and im asking you to come over and have a conversation is because i saw you since miller drive when you were first jumping o to the palmetto and you were pusng 90 miles an hour. Is everything fine . No, everything is fine. You are speeding. I apologize. Ill be sure to slow down then. The miamidade director juan perez released a response. The Miamidade Police department will have his immediate command staff investigate the matter. Once the officer and citizen are soifed. Will be taken at that point. We asked her if she was concerned about if she will receive a citatio. Im worried about the possible retaliation of me standing up to a police officer. Reporter castillo says the officers response to her citizens stop was polite. She hopes everyone remembers to slow down behind the wheel. Erika glover. Is the zika virus a worldwide emergency . That is the question for Health Experts to decide today. Right now, the World Health Organization meeting in gentlemen neef you cant to look at the at the severity of the virus, they estimate the americas could see up to 4 million zika cases over the next year. Cuba connecting in a whole new way. The country is launching its first broad band Home Internet service. It would allow cubans to order it is a Pilot Project and prices will be announced in the future. As it stands right now, foreign firms in cuba pay hundreds of dollars a month for home connections for their executives. This while most kawbnd cubaans satisfactorily salary is 25 a month. And tragedy near gainesville whenen a state of the union dies near uf campus. We have residual showers here in the two county area. Well eventually put an end to that. Your first alert forecast will be in a few minutes. Were live at Miami Springs highghchool bragging about the home of the golden hawks a lot features florida shrimp and clams. First saut\ olive oil, vegetables, and sausage, simmer until ready. Now add the fresh florida shshmpand clams. Things are getting delicious ce the shrimp is ready and clams have opened, add the final touch of creamy butter and juicy tomatoes; garnish with parsley and serve over rice. And thats how easy it is to create a seafood delight. Visit fresesromflorida. Com for more recipes. A second arrest has been made in connection to a 13yearold girl from virginia who was abducted and killed last week. Now, two Virginia Tech students are being held without bond in connection with her death. Freshman David Eisenhower is charge with kidnapping and first degree murder while 19yearold natalie keeper is charged with improper disposal of a body and accessory after the fact. The body was found a hundred miles away in north carolina. News. According to police, they disappearance. They say he used that relationship to an duck and kill her then used keepers to help hide the body. Police are still trying to figure out a motive this morning. A university of florida fraternity in disbelief after one of their brothers is gone after an accident. They were looking into the death of chance wolf. He fell six floors. He fell over a waist high glass divider. A woman, a man and two monkeys at the center of mystery Death Investigation on the west coast of florida, north poioi police say 59yearold rin Linda Marie Smith was found dead inside of a hotel room near sarasota sarasota. She had two cage monkeys. They did not find any trauma to they also found a man who was coherent at the time. Wwdlife officials took the monkeys away in good health. It is monday and were heading back to school today. Were bragging about miami rings senior high. The school that has the longest running tours and academy in Broward County. Were join live by ari. Were at the home with the golden hawks, not confused with the Atlanta Hawks which who the heat van qished last ight. Ed smith is the principal. Hes standing next to me in the gym. What makes you so proud of this school . First of all, thank you for coming out, ari, to visit o school, we have so many things going on here at Miami Springs from our acamy of hospitality and tourism, to our high tech, our nascar 1080 team. Traditional high school has been around for 5 years. You have a huge alumni base and a lot of t tngs that have happened over the years that you can draw on to show the kids perspective. A lot of excellence. Our hoht program. Were proud of it. Lets talk to the leader that many pra. What he was talking about the hospitality program. Program. Whats it about . This program is an acadmy and it is a career to college for college to career academy. They are young profsionals while they are in high school and they get certification at the end of the academy, at the d of the fouryears. I think tourism is a Huge Industry in south florida. Its a driver of our economy. You are producing graduates ready to jump in . Graduates, they come out with certification, and they do done with that, they automatically have a job in nine out of ten cases and the best part are the kids. Tts fantastic. Obviously a lot of things going on. Do you see the cheer leaders back there, you see the hawk over there and we got the miama springs marching band over there. They are dying to play for us. Hey, band, you guys kick it into gear for us i hope is sounds as good at home as it does here. It sounds great in this gym. Bye guys, bye dan have fun in the studio. They sound really good. They have a hawk dancing around. Ari used to play the owe bow in high school. Did he really . No. Waawaa. Yesterday was so nice and today to wake up and its rain all over again. Thankfully this time its brief. Sunshine maybe by the end of the day and certainly a better forecast for tonight. Im picturing ari with an oboe. No, he was a great hoops player for fairfield high as a matter of fact. The shower activity was kind of crushing for the morning commute. Had a really decent shield of shower activity moving in. 1 1 2 inches in the key. Its the winter season. Season. Heres the live radar in southwestern Broward County. Over extending into east miramar and Miami Gardens area, across a reallydecent band of rain. Starting to see some well, thing winding down. Some improvemts across southern Miamidade County boy which you were really on the front end of it early this morning during the 8 00 and 9 00 hou wet weather through Miami Springs into hialeah and again the trend will be for improving weather the rest of the afteoon. Light showers here along the expressw and even into the turnpike area. This will press out toward the east toward i95. You are not out of the woogs yet into the beaches of eastern oward county here. Is some pockets of sunshine will return. This is not our normal picture in miamidade. Normally its sunshine. This time around, gloomy conditions. Mia r porting 73 and showers in the vicinity. A clearing trend out into southwest florida and well kick this through off to the east. After 2 00, well see a lot of improvement. Will be dry so that in and itself is great news. Future radar again keeping the bulk of the showers now off to our east. Drier air will move in. Temperatures with a little bit of sunshine this afternoon may touch 80 degrees. Right now were locked into the mid 70s but with a southeast wind will not take much to boost these tememratures. By the way, the week overall after we get through the cloudy skies with the isolated showers, the weak trend is very warm. Temperatures 77. Overnight lows will dip into the upper 60s to near 70 degrees. Groundhog day tomorrow begins our trend of some very noise weather here across south florida. Lower 80s each a a every day. Upper 70s by the weekend. Theres a slim chance for some shohors on friday but i think overall the rest of the week looks so much better than the gloomy conditions we had first thing this morning. Fantastic. Thanks so much. One of biggest names in the modeling industry says she is heres six in the mix host roxanne vargs with thth latest. Sydney crawforddone over. Shes walking fabulously away from the business that actually made her a household name. Cindy crawford says shes not going to go modeling for the pai anymor what else do i need to do . I shouldnt have to keep reventing myself. I dont want to. They still expectsto have pictures taken just not as a model. Over 30 years of modeling, shes appeared in well over 500 magazine covers. Coming up at 11 30 on six in the mix, paul adeen joins me in the student joe and the kitchen. Shes going to tell us how to cut the fat on your favorite southern dishes. Its never too early to helping your kid make Healthy Lifestyle choices. That and more fun one surfer lucky to be back out on the board this morning. Look at that right there. Oh, my. That doesnt get old. Check it out as he tumbles 40 feet off the top of a monster wave in maui. The only thing broke in the fall is his surf board. We were trying to figure out the skill. 40 feet. It takes a special person to be out there on those waves anyway. I would have a heart attack. If all he lost was his board, no problem. Finally we can ditch the umbrellas as we get through the afternoon hours. Gloomy skies prevail by the end of the afternoon well see cloud breaks and well be finished with the rain. At this point well move on to a very nice weather pattern. Tomorrow is groundhog day. What do think . I dont care. Im not even worried about the groundhog