ma'am, and i got a lawyer. >> hatzel: cameras waited for the injured officer to come out and say something. miami-dade police gathered at the back but starling was brought out at theront entrance where our cameras were waiting as well. starling was placed in a police car, part of aur larger police caravan. >> the department feels relieved that he's out and he is me recovering and nothing else happened. >> hatzel: david mejia still in jail charged with self counts of attempted murder. reportinglive tonight in miami garden, hatzel vela. >> laurie: we do wish him well. tonight we're witnessing a touching tribute for a federal agent who was chilled in a hit-and-run crash.a police transport transferred the former immigration and customs enforcement body to the medical examiner's office early this morning. late this afternoon there i was second procession where the agent eats body was moved once again. here's video that of seconde

traffic was temporarily shut down as the agent's bodod was moved to woodlawn south. he was struck in i miami beach earlier this month. he and another i.c.e. agent were hit trying to flag down a cab. the. >> calvin: another round of changes announced today in washington making it easier to travel and trade with cuba. >> laurie: this is the third time the obama administration has eased those regulations. let's get to our from michael milk in the newsroom. >> michael: laur, they say they have loosened the regulations again to improve the lives of o oinary cubans, make them less reliant on their government, but the critic say the big winner in all this is the castro government. despite the american embargo, cuba for years has been allowed to buy u.s. food products, medicine and medical supplies, but only with cash up front. now the cubans will be allowed

authorized exports and pay after they've been shipped through financing. agriculture products remain exmpted. the new regulations which go into tomorrow also permitt airline to block space, do code sharing and make leasing arrangements with cuban airlines. traveling to cuba will also be easier for business, artistic and humanitarian reasons, and for athletic competitions. tourism, however, is still not permitted but a wider range of travel will be allowed in the 12 permitted categories. the eased regulations are in keeping request president obama's goal of making life better for the cuban people but some south florida politicians say they'll just mauk life tter for the castro regime because it runs the island's tourism industry. senator marco rubio says the new changes further empower the regime andnable it with an

miami congressman mario diaz marted, a fierce opponent of the hurricane change said we have a u.s. president to repeatedly sides with the 0 pressors over the oppressed. u.s. business interest will certainly like those new regulations, but the critics say u.s. exporters still have to do business with the agencs of the castro government since it controls t cuban economy, including, of course, tourism. we are in the newsroom this evening, calvin. back to you. >> calvin: a bogus bomb care at the u.s. air base in guantanamo bay old sparked so many of suspicion that the navy called -- but it turns out it was a broken car battery left nide is a shopping cart outside the commissary monday. it was a precaution and as was all cleared ten hours later. earthquakes have been rocking the island nation of cuba game in fact, the cuban government reports 32 quakes since it began track can them on

just this morning an earthquake measuring 4.4 in maitude shook the steph santiago de cuba the in thorn part of the country. another one was reported just yesterday. both could be felt as far out as the province of who will ginn. there was an large emergency declared when a quake was reported in the city. here's video of people sleepingin the parks out of fear that delicate head coach structures could c ce crumbling down. and in cuba's capital of havana on the western side, severe flooding is letters a concern. last week's wind and rain forced water to seep over the mal cohn and into the streets. more rain is expected tomorrow. >> laurie: a man accused of an armed robbery at a mobile gas station in pembroke pines earlier today, he is behind bars tonight. police say jesus crespo walked in this gas station, showed the clerk a hand gunnar, took cash from the register and then took off. officers used a k-9 to track dodo crespo 400 feet from the crime scene and now he's under arrest. coming up on five minutes

out there on this tuesday night so let's get cut off withh traffic reporter jenise fernandez. >> jenise: it's been a busy afternoon. here's a look another i-95 northbound. this is the view from northwest 135th street but there is an accident a bit further up right around northwest 151st street but we are seeing those delays all along i-95 northbound. as we zoom on in to our maps that accident again northwe 151st street. speeds are at 21 miles per hour. let's take you to the palmetto expresswaywhere there's answer& accident in the southbound lanes right around northwest 103rd street. seeing heavy delays here as well with speeds at 14 miles per hour and we are still waiting to get the all clear on this overturned trick-or-treat. this is just east of us-1 -- tractor-trailer. there are lane closures between uterus 1 and northeast 7th avenue. we letters avenue accident on the i-95 northbound. this is right around broward boulevard with speeds hor clocking in at 37 mileseser hour. >> calvin: jenise, thanks a lot.

who was caught on camera trying to rob a coral gables store but he got away with nothing police say the man walked into the 7-eleven on eighth street and pons de leon boulevard on sunday, hand aid note to the clerk saying he is was armed with a pistol and demanded money but momts later the man walked out empty-handed me. s was seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, sweatpants and sunglasses. the transit bus caut fire near red road and west flagler street. 's unclear why the bus caught fire as this may be some sort of medicall issue. >> laurie: another fiery scene but this time on the dolphin expressway after a garbage truck caught fire today. the truck went up in flames ght there in the eastbound lanes of of dolphin on northwest 72nd avenue and that result in an oil oil spill which led to all this. all the lanes w we shut down. a huge back up to the palmetto expressway. >> calvin: now to a story you will only eon local10. a 99-year-old woman in miami

sleeping next her but on her. >> laurie: this came from the south american rainforest. local10 news reporter terrell forney live with this exclusive. >> terrell: laurie and calvin, not many places around town where someone could take a rare exotic animal, but in the ca of which 99-year-old woman, she knew the right people so that king ofaju wilil appear at the south dade animal hospital. a feisty furry creature is carefully coaxed out of an attic in a southwest miami-dade neighborhood following an odd and frightening encounter with an elderly woman. >> 99-year-old woman is sound asleep. she feels something. she wakes up. and this kinkaju, this furry big animal is curled up asleep on her chest. >> terrell: the woman and the animal both scream since the woman doesn't own any pets, so says the vet now treating the

the scare is how this exotic animal wound in the attic afraid and most certainly hungry. they are nocturnal, rarely seen in the day and only native to central and south america. however, special p pmits allow people in the u.s. to keep the animals a as exotic pets, and this one likely slipped away from its owner some time over the past few weeks. >> you do not hear a lot about kinkajus and coattamondes because they don't make good pets. this particular animal is kind of chaos between a ra spine monkey. it's in the racoon family. so they're very dangerous, first of all, ifot -- if the person taking care of them isn't really knowledgegble and careful. >> terrell: and that's why it was not wi for us to actually touch that animal. the folks here at the south baying that hospital will take good care of it at least for the next few days and then it will go tow a temporary shelter for

florida until its rightful owner steps forward, s they do want to reunite it if that owner is out there. theyeyre urged to contact this animal hospital for more information. we are live in south miami. i'm terrell forney, local10 news. >> calvin: still to come, u.s. health officials are now urging doctors to test newborns for the growing zika virus. plus they are still digging out that of historicbly in the northeast. that's all coming up on "world news tonight" 6:30. >> laurie: then tomorrow on gma the doctor caught on camera in that apparent drunken rage with an uber driver, hear from her at 7:00 after the lamont morning news. >> betty: almost 80 degrees out there today. now it's time for the next twist in our chas forecast. i'm chief certified meteorologist betty davis betty davis. >> calvin: and why kay simple tweet meant as a joke made national headlines instead. >> laurie: but first, this year's python chaenge, it's

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leading to desperate calls for help from the people onboard. that 106-foot yacht was headed for the bahamas when it ran into trouble. >> laurie: the people on gored were rescued moments before that ship went under. local10's liane morejon is live on miami beach with the details tonight. >> liane: and, laurie and calvin, this is where those 13 people were brought after they re rescued. you're about to hear the calls for help me by that captain as soon as that boat started taking on water. >> may day, may day, may day, may day, may day. channel 3. we are sinking. we are sinking. we are sinking. >> liane: a captain makes an urnt call for help as a 106-foot luxury yacht begins to sinks p the coast guard releasing this harwing video showing the serena 3 on its side 1300 nautical miles off lauderdale by the sea.

we saw the water inside the boat and everything was so fast. >> liane: that may day call came monday night. the yacht as on its way to free port in the bahamas, but 15 minutes into the journ at the yacht began to take on watat. the ship eats crew wasted no time getting everyone to s sety. many of them piling into this lifeboat. >> first i didn't think the boat was going to sink so i wants nervous we just made sure we got ever in the life rafts. >> the passengerer got into this lifeboat while tow boat and sea tow and the crew tried to dewater the boat. >> liane: the coast guard suspects it may have been scraped the sea floor. >> they may have grounded out of port everglades and it wasn't noticed until they were further offshore. >> liane: the entire boat wend quadrant just after 9:00 p.m. the captain and passengers all escaped just minutes before it sank. >> we were able to safely remove the 13 people onboard. no injuries. no medical concerns.

i'm good. everybody is okay. >> liane: and the coast guardcredits a collaboration between their accessible, the folks fm sea tow, the crew of that yacht, as w wl as a good samaritan who are for helping this to end with a goodutcome. we are live one miami beach, liane morejon, local10 news. >> calvin: the python challenge is proving more and more. and here's video released from the hunt this past weekend in the everglades. all 61 burr mice pythons have been caught. here are two pythons caught by this group of hunters. oh, my p the python challenge will last until february 14th. >> laurie: and they're getting prizes for the lgest one and the most caught. that might be a contender. >> calvin: i will cheer from a distance. >> laurie: a simple tweet buy a local bunker king employee has made national headlines. >> calvin: it was said to be a joke but it was taken seriously

local10's carlos suarez joins uslive. >> carlos: the teen says that he actually is low-key about things wewe joyce keeping to himself, which is why he said he found the entire thing amusing if not sad considering how mucuc attention the tweet got. a single today 18-year-old john core a a. a biting critique that b ban as a joke a comment about everything in our -- need to commentbout everything in our lives. >> i feel like what everyone is doing is just following whatever trends he the see and are losing their individuality. >> everyone has the same reaction. >> exactly, the same reaction and everyone is following the same compact trends that they see instead of embracing themselves. >> carlos: korea who works at a fast food restaurant quoted earlier this month "today was my last day working a burger king so you took all of their nuggets."

bags of nuggets he got at another restaurant. >> all of a stud it blew p and i'm getting tweets from eurure saying i'm a hero. >> cleared out his locker and a whole lot more. >> carlos: perhaps more disturbing was that the story found its way at on news, including this broadcast in chicago. korea, a senior at bradock high said no one tried to get in contact with him to see if the sdory was true. >> i realized that media just jumps and attacks anything they see to try to get attention and fame for the network, and it's pretty pathetic honestly. >> carlos: he wants to be an architect and said his coworkers and boss found the whole thing amusing.>> at first they didn't even know, and then i just told them the news articles and i showed them everything and they were cracking up because it's f because that never happens. >> carlo john has been working at this burger king since june and says he has no plans on quitting, alt at least unless he

as for that tweet, he sayst has since been taken down. >> laurie: not what you want on your resume. >> calvin: yeah. >> laurie: he was just moving them from one place to the other but by joking, it looks like they was stealing them. >> calvin: he didn't have have have it his way so it looks like we're having fun with the saying frfm bugg king. >> laurie: we'll see what his next job is. betty, you he a great job today because you have all good news. >> betty: do i? >> laurie: it's gorgeous out. >> betty: rain is in the forecast. good news! almost 80 degrees today. good news! i'm all about the good, laurie. we're looking outside right now, and miami, it looks okay but we are already starting to see am is on changes occurring as we speak. temperatures dropping a few degrees. 7 for 4 the mia. pomp beat of a 75 and pembroke pines, it was a pretty fantastic day. you're checking in at 76 and 74 in key west. the forecast for the evening, we'll have some clouds around. by 10:00 tonight we're not going to cruel out an isolated shower,

doppler radar right now, look at what'sappening just offshore of key biscayne. a little line of shers extending out into the atlantic waters, and these are pushing toward key biscayne rolling in that southeast wind so they may make a wit more progress into downtown miami so we may have to introduce even the possility for sprinkles or light showers early for downtown miami. t the rain at this point is not widespread. but with those winds flowing in from t t southeast, we could certainly get a few showers coming in on the atlantic side, and check out the gulf of mexico side. do you see that batch of rainfall showing up on the cloud and radar imagery? southwesterly flow aloft, that, too, pushing toward south florida. so the bottom line is we are in line fore rain in the area, so ingestst change is on the way for wednesday as we turn wet and stormy. then even on thursday as you cold froro starts to get closer to south florida, focuses more moisture, it meansore rain for us.

now there is the risk for severe severe weather. the risk is marginal. it's not huge but we cannot completely r re out maybe an isolated tornado blowing in with a strong storm if not damaging consistent winds. sioux so just some things to think about between wednesday and t trsday. these changes are significant considering it's been dry over the last couple of days and chilly a couple morning, a a now we have to look forward to this. temperatures are going to stay on that milder side, forecasting highs in the 70s. rain a few storms in the hear tomorrow. more rain around thuhuday as i mentioned. and then once we push a cold front through, the temperatures cool down and we dry out as well.. so by fry morning 62 to start the day. brightening skies. friday morning. highs in the lower 70s. saturday morningng 50s, maybe an isolated spot inland in the upper 40s. but definitely some cooler weather on the way, but first we

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