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face until heade a final strange statement to the court. >> focus, barack obama, president on this corrupted world that i will be suing. did i not get a fair trial. god knows the truth and nothing further. >> todd: jennifer alfonso's father spoke to reporters briefly after the sentencing wantingo thank law enforcement and the prosecution, but he also did say that now his family might be able to just get some closure. in miami-dade at the courthouse, todd tongen, local10 news. >> calvin: now to a safety alert. the arrest of a taekwondo instructor accused of inappropriately touching students and there is fear there could be more alleged victims out there. our local10 news reporter derek shorlive now with what we all need to know. >> derek: today the judge made it very clear she did not want this guy getting out a possibly working with students again. that 64-year-old taekwondo
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the wynwood area, and tonight he remains behind bars. he's trusted to teach children discipline and physical a why it but tonight rafael a necessity grown is accused of getting i physic with his students in a most inappropriate way. the 64-year-old marshal arts instructor and owner of the rn taekwondo center under arrest,accused of molesting two of his students, sisters age 15 and one just just ten years over old over a period of years, the judge macing it clear. >> do not have any contact with these children either directly, indirectly, inerson, in i go radio, by telephone, through third parties. >> derek: according to a police report he is accused telling one victim he wanted to be her sugar daddy, allegedly sectioning them and touching them inappropriately even exposing one victimization to touch his private area while asking for compliments on his anatomy. >> i'm concerned about you being
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that'shere these victims go and tak taekwondo lessons. >> derek: judge mindy glazer disturbed by his profession and based the it's on the younger age the sensei will not be sensing any time soon count one is no bond definitely and necessity grown's adult son came to bond court asking for lieniencey. but the judge said she has no choice, the law requires h h stay hind bars. tonight it's unclear if there are anyther possible victims. live in miami. >> calvin: a family is in moning after a man was shot and killed in miami this morning. family members say b.a. parrish was shot and killed along northwest 31st street and 19th avenue. they say parrish was shot while standing outside his home. friends and family say a ip vigil will be held for parrish later tonight. another teenager haseen shot in miami, this time while riding a bicycle.
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near northwest 64th street and sixth avenue in miami. he was taken to jackson memorial where he is expected to recover. >> laurie: now to a bizarre scene caught on camera. a man apparently not satisfied with his cable service. davie police releasing video of the man throwing a rock at the comcast office on nova drive last month. his first throw didn't do much but his second shattered a window. police say the man also left a note reading "dear friends, the next one will be on fire. please remove your nonsense from my phone. your pal, friendly neighborhood spider-man." >> calvin: it was day three today in the resentence can hearing for michael hernandez with testimony from his own mother. she's fighting to get his sentence reduced so that her son can be released from prison. local10 news reporter glenna milberg is live at the courthouse with her testimony today. glenna. >> glenna: resentencing had to happen under new supreme court rules, u.s. supreme court rules, mandated a change in the way juveniles are sentenced. that's why we were here for the
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this was almost like deja vu for this community who has lived through this and this real incredible crime, unbelievable for someone so young. that was 16 years ago. today was the last day of sentencing, and the victim's family, jaime gough's family as they've been all along, were right here again. >> if this had to happen again we would be there for our son no matter what it takes. >> glenna: the goughs sat through three daus of it again. composure only cracked to talk about him's frozen in him at 14. >> have you ever seen this list bebere? >> yes. >> that's the hit list. yes. >> that's disturbing, isn't it? >> it is disturbing. >> glenna: michael hernandez's mother was on stand-in cysting still her son needs mental help, not prison, well living his behavioral spiral in eighth grade, the details noted notes of hamey's stabbing in the school bathroom, the obsession of killing that michael exhibits to this day in jailhouse calls.
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mrs. hernandez was on the stand what were you thinking? >> as a mother, i feel sorry for her, but i think she's in denial. >> glenna: the goughs do not lieve immanuel's flat line apology on the stand, neither did his friend on that go eighth grade hit list who came to court of his own accord to say so. >> iean going to stay home and stand for his manipulation of the court or the people in the courtroom. >> glenna: for the judge to decide life again or a 40-year prison sentence. >> michael is not irretrievably damaged. michael can be saved and is worthy of being saved. >> a live sentence could be appropriate because he is the worst of the worst. >> glenna: i iis the very same judge who sentenced michael the first time hearing in resentencing again, and as he did the first time, he's going to take a few weeks to consider what he's heard today and he
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this new sentence for michael hernandez on february 22nd. m glenna milberg reporting live in miami tonight, local10 news >> calvin: now to the latest on the crisis in haiti. loca0 news has learned today that haitian president will leave office on sunday. the one and only has obtained a letter stating that michelle martially will step down just after midnight saturday night. in the letter mararally says "it's unfortunate that we did not have the election so that he could pass the torch to an elected president. the haitian arm is riding the through the streets making their presence felt. atransition government will be in place until there is a new presidential election set t happen on april 14th. meanwhile, there are reports of civil unrest near the national palace in downtown port-au-prince. >> laurie: suction minutes after 6:00 on this friday night. we'd better check the rush hour for you. jenise fernandez keeping a c cse watch.
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congestion on i-95 northbound probably putting a damp ore hur your friday night plans. if you have loved ones wondering why they're not home yet, they could be stuck in this mess. this is northwest 54th street. there was an accident that has cleared up butted we are seeing those delays. this is northwest 54th street. speeds there are clocking in at at 17 miles per hour. and another accident on i-95 southbound, though, right around miami gardens drive. doesn't look like that crash is really impacting your commute that much. speeds are cartel 40 miles per hour. as we cruise on to broward county, we are watching this broken-down car off shoulder 595 westbound around davie road but that broken-down car i causing some problems. speed there 18 miles per hour. laurie. >> laurie: jenise, thank you. and in another history making move, pope franans will be heading back to cuba next week. this time for a visititith the leader of the russian orthodox church. local10 news reporter andrew
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this trip is so important. >> andrew:7laurie, for starters,ness the first kind of meeting ofts kind, and i mean ever, and then on top of that, this is also the first step made to kind of ease extensions tensions that can go literally 1,000 years. histsty to be made in the company airport. the pope and the leader of the russian orthodox church will make history in cuba andnd make amends in the process. it will be the first meeting ever between a roman catholic pope and a russian orth box patriarch, a step cord healing a thousand year old drift. >> hopefully it. signals a peace between the eastern and western branches of christianity andrew archbishop thomas wenski s sd this meeting is long yore due. >> pope john paul ii was trying to bring eastern christianity back together with western christianity bought basse said
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to breathe with both lungs. >> andrew: then >> reporter: centuries worth of religious disputes, languages, who had authority in these religious circle ps p so after this split all these years later, cuba appears to be the mutual ground to meet. the pope will stop at jose marti international airport on havana on his way to mexico, and that's where the two will have this historic meeting and signed a joint declaration. the meeting brokered by cuban president raul castro who hosted pope francis in cuba last year. and officials have been negotiating, organizing this for years now. this is not just some spur of the moment meeting. all expected to go down next week, february 12th. for now we're live in miami, andrew perez. >> calvin: thanks a lot, andrew. the widow of a missionary killed in last month's terrorist attack in burkina faso spoke about herr husband. michael was unbefore 28 people killed during t tt terrorist attack. he lived with his wife in hollywood before moving to africa to work at an orphanage
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planned on making it his life waste work. >> every single i'm he would say "i'm going to be buried on african soil or i'm going to be buried in orange duty. this is where i'm going to be for the rest of my life." so, of course, that's where he was going to be buried because this is -- this is what he wanted. >> calvin: michael and amy also adopted two children from burr keen a fast oh. he was only burkina fast a. >> laurie: she's being very strong. >> calvin: still to come, a construction crane came crashing down on in new york city. >> reporter: three people were injured. it happened during a morning snowstorm. a live report on "world news tonight" at 6:30. >> betty: a touch on the cool i'd side tonight. miami at 66 degrees but it's going to get colder. i'm chief meteorologist betty davis. >> calvin: lake okeechobee is overflowing and that has water managers very kid, about flooding.
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more than 5 million people coming up. >> laurie: but first, this years pie phon changes also breaking records.
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bagged after the break. 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 d was so happy, to do it amazing right? i never would have expected would have thought at 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 simple thing but it made me smile made me happy made my day share your story.
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>> calvin: there are nine days left ithat is that i can hunt of. we all know january was one the of the wettest months on record so@ consequently lake okeechobee is overflowing and the managers are very concerned. >> laurie: they're taking action to protect 5,000 people across florida from flooding. local10's ben kennedy took a trip to the lake. >> ben: it's a noise heard at the big lake as engineers make repairs to the herbert mover ever hoo dike, a 133-mile errands dam surrounding lake okeechobee. we traveled morerehan an hour north of us-27 to check on the aging structure. the risk of flooding to south
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fills up due to record rains. >> the importance to people living in south florida is this is major flood control structure overflowing its banks. >> ben: at one point last month the lake rose nearly a foot in 24 hours, a concern to engineers. >> the herbert hoover dike has been one of the country's most at risk for failure for quite some time. >> ben: the u.s. army corps of engineers now working to prevent failure andlooding in south florida by updating the eroding dike. >> this has bn here since 1930. >> right, the original culvert were constructed during the 1930s. >> ben: this is the cougher d, 26 feet tall. on the other side of this steel is theake that's actually holding back all of that water so crews can work right here. that work clues new fortified pipe work piping and technology to help with the risingater levels which can cause leak and
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that's protecting homes and nearby farms. this tunnel connects lake to land side and to be honest i soon won't automobile to stand inside here as it will be filled with water, water that have they'll travel 220 feet to the mainland, one of several ssages that helps drain the lake when it reaches dangerous daerous marks. engineers try to keep it went 12.5 and 15.5 feet. this week it hit 16 feet above sea level which puts a strain to the dike. >> the federal investment in the $5 million, very substantial. i think it's illustrative of the corps and the federal government's commitment to reducing the risk of failure of this particular project in south florida. >> ben: some of the trails around the lake are closed a construction pushes forward. engineering say, look, this is such a a big undertaking, and they have only reachedhe halfway point in project. reporting at lake okeechobee, ben kennedy, local10 ns.
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billions of gallons of water are being released from lake okeechobee to the east and west but not to south florida as it's being raining so much here, and there's no room for additional water. >> calvin: now to a problem that we can actually handle. that's pout layers. we need layers. >> laurie: we can do that. betty. get the long sleeves ready for all of next week, huh? >> betty: i think some people have t tse sleeves out already tonight, laurie, but definitely them. it looks drab out there tonight. we're staring out toward the atlantic, and not a good look but at least it's not pouring rain. still on the col side, though, with these temperatures holding in the mid-60. 67 in fort lauderdale, miami and pembroke pines. i hope it's a great friday for you checking in at 66 degrees at this hour. the forecast for the rest of the day, well, between now and 8:00 thin mainly dry even though we'll have those clouds, and those clouds will tend to be around for tight with
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in a few neighborhoods by 10:00. winds are flowing in from the northeast, and that northeast wind allowing some of those lower clouds to move on in off the atlantic waters. as we're respecting the trailer, mainly dry. was we're seeing just off the keys side on the gulf s se, i think that's false returns. we're not yet starting to see rainfall developing and threatening to make a run at us but there could be some showers moving in as we head toward saturday. so northeast winds, that's what we're getting into now behind a ld front that pushed through very early this morning. i know you felt that change in the air. after 8:00 this morning, that's wh some of your neighborhoods took a little dip down into the upper 50s before we mad a rebound at least into the 60s. well, that frontal system returns to us for tomorrow were a wave of low pressure along it, and with that it's going to spread some showers across the area. so tomorrow afternoon be ready for some rain in the area, and then on sunday once we get into a northwest wind, we will concentrate on chilling down the mperatures, and that breeze is
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now, sunday night, that's when we're expecting a more substantial crash in the temperatures. lows for monday morning could dip down into the 40s. this model taking miami down to 47egrees. so you may need two layers if not a coat if you're up really early and doing something outside on monday. for tomorrow, though, this is a mild day. morning lor 60s, afternoon some of you will make that run into the 70s, clouds and showers in the area. once the front passes and the northwest wind kicks in, sunday morning our lows are going down to the mid-50s, so sunday itself is going to be chilly with the high temperatures only reachingnghe mid-60s. and then monday morning be ready for 40s. afternoon highs maybe getting up to about 68 in miami. and then each morning after that the lows will be on the cooler side, below average, in the 50s. clay college of the heat's brutal road stretch is about to coming-to-an e and it may have
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i don't know what i'm doing. i can't find anything just when i ink it's just not going to work. this woman that works there comes over and asks can i he you? and he was so happy, to do it amazing right? i never would dave 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.
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>> clay ferrero: considering just how brutal the heat's schedule has been over the last mondays they have to like where thth stand right now. after playing 13 of 16 games on thth road, more importantly they're finally getting healthy. the latestt big return is the big man hassan whiteside. he dominated the maverick in the paint to help lead the heat to a balad needed victory. ach erik spoelstra will bring whiteside back off the bench again in charlotte. he's also happy with how he's fitting back in theeam.
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coach spo, he did a really good job of just changing the offense around so it's a little easier to find guys and use them to their strengths. >> it was great to have him back out there, man, and it was a great rotation we had with amar'e starting, with him coming in being his dominant steph. >> clay: supped we are excited do bringou our first local10 courtside of the year. we're going to tip things you of at metropolitan american. an hour before tip off with the heat and clippers. it will be just the third home game for the heat in a full month, believe you the or not. we're going to have it all for you right hor on local10 starting at 1:00 and we'll of the postgame right here as well. on the ice the panthers keepp on setting team records. not only did they beat up on the detroit red wings, the c cs of scored five goals in each of their last fife games,he first time they have ever done that, and as you can imagine it's been
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lots of spacey in space shirts. >> we work a lot on it, and there's a lot of homework that goes into it d i i think our coaches do a good job of setting us up. autonomy weigh executing. that's what it comes down to. >> i'm excited. we just want to work harder and try to compete better, put the put the puck in the net. i think that's the biggest key. >> clay: now to football. an interesting annal ye by a dolphins wide receiver today about quarterback ryan tannehill has got people talking. greg jennings kels cbs.com tannehill has been baby i had by the organization comparing tannehill to a six-year-old child who is still trining out of the a bottle. he said now you of to see if he can drink out of a cup. and legendary fins coach don't shula spending this weekend watching his son coaching in the super bowl, also spending some time with the nfl commissioner today. shula posting this picture on twitter. i think he is pulling for the panthers and his son just a lit little? >> laurie: just a little.
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