he had issues trying to mail them. haz-mat crews were able to clear both items eventually, but now the fbi would like to speak to this man. >> remember we're going on the suspicion of the behavior ofofhe person that was in the post office that's who was suspicious of the employees. now they were addressed to the fbi. so obviously we're in talks with them. they are addressed to actual fbi addresses, but we don't know what's in them. >> again, nothing dangerous was found. the investigation is still going on. take one more good look at this photo. authorities are saying they're searching for a male right now. the fbi just wants to know what this was all about. anyone with information on this person or theuspicious envelopes are asked to call ( (877)876-2455. for now reporting in miami beach, i'm andrew perez, local10 news. >> we are just five hours away now from finding out who is the world's instant billionaire. check out our special powerball drawing clock. it is counting down to the big

a frenzy. people wililbe lining up, waiting in lines, all for a chance of win zag feeling their luck today and you can only watch the drawing right here on local10. >> neki is live out there. neki. hey. erybody is hoping for a little luck, but it's nice to treatment i know i'm in e pool with you guys, but i couple extra cases just in case. this line has been busy all afternoon. a lot of lucky folks.s. in fact this is the quiteest it has been. everybody all st. paul's at the thought at the dream of being a big winner. >> powerball tickets >> this is the winner tonight. me. >> over half a billion people have bought tickets for tonight's drawing and the night is still young. >> when it's like this, it's a must. it's a needed commodity out there, so everybody would like to get hands on some pretty hefty money out there.

>> laurie a her team are feeling lucky tonightht the jackpot they won in 2013 was $1 million. this $1.5 billion jackpot they couldn't resist. >> there are 28 people in the pool.l. weaver never done it so large before. each person put in $75 and we've got all ourickets. they're all printed. they've been distributed and tonight we're going to have a party and watch the numbers come out. >> everyone is dreaming of what they will do with that jackpot. >> what are you going to do if you win? >> move out of here. >> help people. buy myself a house. buy a new car. >> everybody's dream is that. >> tomorrow i'm going to call my boss to tell him, okay, buy, bye, thank you, see. >> but if he sees that and then you don't win, what happens. >> go back to work again. >> that guy cracks me up. >> listen, folks, until you win the actual ticket, here's a tip.

well, you know, we all have the same chance. one in 292 million chance of winning tonight, so because everybody is saying powerball, i'm also plang florida lot tow, because it's 31 million and laurie and calvin, i'll take that too. >> that's a nice consolation prize. >> 31, i can live with that. $1.5 billion, yeah. >> thank you, neki. >> a reminder, local10 is the only place to watc the powerball drawing tonight. we will have that for you on the local10 news at 11:00. >> two middle schoolers, one of them an honor school student had to go before a judge today for bringing a gun to school. terrell foreign forney was at the hearing and the judge got pretty upset, terll. >> we're not identifying these youngsters because of their ages, but we can tell you that they're both facing charges of possessing a firearm on school grounds. >> a bullet was in the chamber of a

students handled the weapon on school grounds at a powell middle school in hollywood. >> the firearm ielf was actually stolen. >> the stolen weapon was allegedly brought too school tuesday by this 13-year-old boy now under arrest after he showed it off to a classmate. witnesses saw the teen and another male student handling the weapon before reporting the incident to serity. both boys apparently got scared and tried to hide the gun underneath the school portable. apollo middle school was placed on lockdown and cops eventually founded loaded gun and arrested the last two boys seen with it. >> the public safety concern of having a firearm in a middle school to me is enough to aggravate at least two points to go forward. >> both kids sat guy the as the judge hashed out their futures. the father a the teen accused of bringing the gun disputes his story

>> i searched the house last night, searched his room and everything. i'll cooperate with the police. if he made up a story -- >> where that 13-year-old got the gun is a big question. considering his family describes him as a model straight a student. >> h% was always -- i mean, just as cent of 2015 was on the honor roll. >> and bh of these boys will be back in court yet again tomorrow. that's because the judge wants to see a more detailed probable cause affidavit before making the next move. so for now they both remain locked up in a secure juvenile detention center. we're live in fort lauderdale tonight. i'm t trell forney local10 news. >> secretary of state john kerry has announced the u.s. will increase the number of refugees admitted into you had u.s. fleeing violence in central america. we're talking specifically el salvador, guatemala and holiday honduras.

assistance, the first group of cuban migrants stuck in legal limbo in costa rica. they are now in mexico as part of a pilot program to help them make their way north to the u.s. hatzel vela first reported on their situation in costa rica and he is joining us live where he is waiting for thememn laredo, texas. hatzel? >> and laurie, the reason we're in laredo, texas, that's because this is one of the more popular entry points for thousands of cubans there have been using the southern border to get to america. let me go ahead and show you something here. this is the bridge they call bridge one which is over the rio grande also called the laredo international bridge. this is the bridge that cubans cross which is on the mexican side to laredo, texas here. they simply walk across it, they tell immigration officials that they're do you know, that they're seekly political asylum. they get process and had eventually they're free.

this is the mexican border town, a populala entry point for cuban migrants. 180 of them on their way right now seen her leaving costa rica. hours later landing in el salvador but said to be on their way to mexico. the price tag $570 and they still have to come up with money to cross all the way through mexico and into the u.s. we found relatives already waiting. >> he drove 24 hourso get here. he's been here on the american side waitininthree days. he's waiting on six migrants, three of them are his cousins from his hometown. the others are just friends he plans to drive all of them back to miami. >> he says they're desperate and anxious to get here and cross the

>> 25 cents gets you out of mexico, then they walk over this pedestrian bridge. it is here at the laredo international bridge where cubans realize this is the end of their journey from here on out we're on american soil. unlike other migrants, when they get to the security point, cubans simply state they're seeking political asylum. >> he points to where they get processed and says sometimes it can take hours, a whole day before they're finally released. >> and, again, we're talking about 180 cuban migrants now said to be in mexico. again this is only 180 out of 7800 who are still in costa rica. we're getting word from the coast rican government that starting next week they're going to do two flights a day so they can speed up the coast. reporting live on the u.s. mexican rder, hatzel vela, local10 news. >> thanks, and as those migrants make their way to the u.s., local leaders are now trying to prepare

many are children and the miami-dade public school system is already asking the federal government to help cover some of the costs. >> the additional costs beyond what the state provides us of educating a recently arrived child to be arrived $2,000,720. there should not force a crunch, a financial crunch on our school system. >> more than 15,000 foreigner -- foreign born children. the cost ated up to $41 million. >> let's get a check check on the evening rush. traffic reporter genice fernandez that is a close eye on everything. >> that's right, laurie. right now we're taking a look at the palmetto expressway. there is an accident that is causing that backup. zoom on in closer to our maps again, this is the palmetto as you are heading east. speeds there are at 9 miles per hour.

this is as you're heading south right around souththst 152nd street. there are two center lanes blocked with speeds there at 35 miles per hour. as we crews on up to broward county we are watching this accident on i-75. this iss you're heading north right around miramar parkway. we are seeing some delays as you're approaching the crash with speeds there at 38 miles per hour. laurie and calvin. >> thank you, genice. >> still coming. american sailorsetained by iran. >> what happened while they were being held captive onorld news tonight at 6:00 30:00. >> still a touch on the cold side this evening. hey there, i'm chief meteorologist betty davis. we'll talk about temperatures, rain potential and sub tropical storm alex is all after the break. >> first south florida back in the nationalalpotlight. why the u.s. treasury department

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now the govererent wants to take a closer look at where that money is actually coming from. local10 reporter liane live, liane. the treasury department says this is all a move to catch corrupt criminals who are trying to lander money and big luxury purchases of upwards of a million dollars in cash. >> the federal agencies want to know the individuals behind the purchase of high end real estate in the united states. >> in a first of its kind program, the treasury department announced a trial run of sorts targeting cash buyers of luxury property in both miami-dade county and ritzy manhattan. fiu profess examiner real estate director william harden says the reasoning is simple. we know we have a lot of foreign buyers. >> starting march 1st, financial crimes enforcement network will

to identify the people behind cash only deals of over a million dollars. they say they're targeting shady buyers who hide behind shell companies or llcs so conceal their identities. >> it makes it difficult for someone to easily track that owner. >> buying property through an llc is a common legitimate practice but can also be used to launder money. >> the global elite want to own a place in miami, so is it the global elite that have legitimate sources of revenue and income buying these properties or something a little bit different from that, in this case they highlight money laundering. >> he says it's likely that the title companies will feel the burden of these requirements since it's their job to report it to the federal government. this is expected to start in march anrun six months through august. depending on the results of this, these requirements could go nationwide. local10 news.

>> what a sad day for zoo miami after the oldest tree an radio in history died today. patty was 27 years old and she was the oldest of her kind. she even located to paint. yes workers serious. paint. her dexterity was so good. look how she holds that brush, much like a human would and the miami sea -- a quarium. look at sull now. weighing a more shapely 900 pounds, thank you, after getting treatments and some good food. he was released at willoughby costa rican in martin county. feeling as good a a a manatee can feel. we needed some of that girth on us. >> bulbar. we'll take leather, though,. >> i think some vacationers are disappointed. you know? , it's been a little cool over the past couple days or so, and if

boy, it is kind of cool out there tonight. the current temperature at 64 degrees and our high today was 68s we're looking out through the lens of our mallory square camera, i did some checking and we actually hit that 68 degrees around 9:30 this morning, key west so with our current being 64 that means our temperatures have been dropping off through the day. so there's definitely a chill in the air and you could say the same for a lot of other areas including marathon where it's 64, kendall, 66, fort lauderdale and pembroke pines sitting at 69 degrees tonight, but miami still hanging on to 71. the forecast for the evening will keep us a bit on the cool side. miami by about 10:00 tonight, 65 degrees a possibility for you and there may be a shower trying to cruise in somewhere around south miami-dade county. we're watching the doppler radar pretty carefully. already earlier we had a little bit of rainfall, light rain reported around key west but it now looks as though the balance of that is sort of offshore on the atlantic side

out over the gulf of mexico waters, but we do have that south westerly flow continuing and some tell tale signs that we're going to push that next batch of showers in our vicinity. so we are still expecting some wet weather as we get into a northeasterly flow to east flow as we move through thursday. so dreary a a rainy weather is in the forecast. we're not doing away with the clouds. it is just going to continue, so even when it seems as though we have this drier air working i at the surface, we're going to have a great sun filled day, not happening because of a southwesterly flow a lot and then by friday we'll be tracking a weather system moving across the gulf coast front extending from that. this could push a line of blustery showers across our region friday afternoon around 1:00. we'll be watching that pretty carefully, once that passes we'll start it dry out friday night and we'll step into our saturday on a pretty decent note before we change thinin up again sunday morning.

we're looking out over the atlantic basin and on this january day we're actually tracking a sub tropical storm. is not alex not a threat for the u.s. way out over the atlantic in the eastern atlantic several hundred miles southwest moving towards the northeast. basically going to stay out over the waters generally pulling up ways the north. south head thed -- headed in our direction, but the last time we had a tropical storm in january was 1978, so you do see that every january day. tomorrow we're expecting to see some rain in the area. we'll start the day around 60. plenty of clouds around. keep your rain gear handy. temperatures marching up towards the 70s. some blustery showers passing through too. temperatures getting milder as our next frontpprorohes. sunday that one moves through and behind it, mlk day looks as though it's going to be mainly dry and

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and now local10 sports with clay ferraro. >> it was already going to be tough enough for the heat tonight in la. they're taking on a clippers team riding a nine game winning streak and now it just got even tougher. heat will be without drogus tonight, because of a calf injury. he's been sent back to miami for an

to find a way to stop chris paul without their starting point guard. to football now. dan campbell wasn't out of work for long. he's on his way to newew orleans as an assistant. he was a member of the saint 2009 championship team and although he was injured that year, he still got a ring and saints head coach sean payton on ione of his mentors so it all makes sense. the players loved him at the dolphins but not enough to get the full-time job. >> joe philbin could have a new job as well. talking to the colts about taking a job as an assistant there. the feeling is that philbin would be their offensive line coach if he did indeed go to indy. meanwhile another nfl team has filled its head coaching vacancy. the clevelanddrowns have hired hue jackson, the former benjamins offensive coordinator. another interesting twist here is that jackson does not want to keep johnny manziel around, that according to nfl media. one time dolphins running back lawrence phillips has been found

this comes 10 years after he was convicted of choking his girlfriend and driving his car into three teenagers. he played two games for the dolphins back in 1997 after a stellar career at nebraska. he was 40 years old. >> on the ice, the partly sunny looking to start a new streak tonight. the cats have their 12 game winning streak snapped on monday night in vancouver, although they did still pick up a point in that game. tonight the cattle take on the flames in calgary at 9:30. >> how about 13 more in a row, guys. >> no better time than now to start. >> line them up. >> speaking of ice and hockey, another chilly one tonight? >> kind of cool. not quite icy, though. let's not exaggerate this. lows tonight around 60 degrees. if you're heading out to get your powerball ticket, we don't have rain in the area yet, but really late tonigig wmay have a few showers spreading in, so the big change for tomorrow is we're expecting some showers in the area. so get ready to get wet again.

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