member who elogily did it. accused of playing doctor. the teen who made headlines tells whye allegedly did it. other campaigns surge towards the nominations. good mornini, south florida. i'm eric yutzy. >> i'm jaceyirch. welcome to thursday. we're already towardsthe weekend. let's check in with julie and get the focast. it's another nice one. mid to upper 60s greeting you. we will have a nice start on this thursday. we like to call it our friday eve. we're almost through the week. hasn't been that bad. 65 at 6:00. 69 by 8:00. dry conditions will continue as a very weak front is just pusng towards the south. as can you see, temperatures will warm up to the lower 80s today. just like what we saw yesterday, it's going to be another warm day. this is another day to head to the beach or do

because there are no advisories. temperatures in the upper 60s miami, ft. lauderdale, ke west. with the north wind anywhere between five and seven miles per hour. pembroke pines 67 degrees. 69 in hialeah. 70 in marathon. i'll have more on your forecast coming up. for you to put your family in danger, to put me in danger, put my kids in danger, something is wrong. >> that's a mother describing her worst nightmare and a story you saw first on local 10 after her two month old little girl is kidnapped at gunpoint. the culprits was her >> andrew perez talked to her about the abduction. >>reporter: tears of joy rolling down melinda kemp's face. >> danger is seconds know. >>reporter: that feeling of losing her child, kidnapped at

i just woke up to dark fingers buto shadows. >> kidnapped your baby. >> i don't know. they came, they put a gun to my face, told me they were going to kill me. >>reporter: you can hear the panic in that 911 call made at the home of northwest 1th court in broward county's roosevelt gardens. armed intrueders stormed the place, the two month old was taken and an amber alert issued. her cousin would be arrested along with her 14-year-old relative who investigators say helped. >> i don't know what was going through her head. i prayed for her. i prayed for her. >>reporter: augustine was arrested after the baby was founun abandoned but fine all the way in orlando. kemp said she's spoken to her cousin since. >> for you to put your family in danger, put me in danger, put my kid in

she told me sorry. >>reporter: there you have it, just sorry. kemp says that's clearly not enough. kemp was telling her austine told her she had suffered a miscarriage and that's one of the reasons she believes she was involved. after all of happened police trying to get in touch with her. they started honing in on the suspect they were looking for. kemp's seven-year-old son witnessedhis kidnapping. reporting in ft. lauderdale, i'm andrew perez, local 10 news. veloping out of opa-locka, police have located the lexus they believe is connected to the shooting death of king carter. three teens have already been charged in the case police say the three were shooting at somebody at a nearby apartment complex. king was playing at that apartment complex on his way to buy candy. he was killed in the cross-fire.

king carter asaid she was witness to another shooting that left a man dead yesterday. carter's great grandmother describing a moment she heard those shots fired. >> i heard about four or five bang, bang, bang, bang, and i thought oh, lord. i'm so tired of them losing their lives. it hurt my heart. >> police have not released any information on the victim including their age. the west palm teen accused of playing doctor is out on bond. we first told you mal chai love rob in suns 1818-year-old mal chai love robinson walked out of jail. with his head lowered answering questions about the charges. it stems frorom the woman

selling fake, natural vitamins to treat severe stomach pain, writing checks to pay off car loans and to credit cards. >> i think we lose sight of who he is. he was 18 years old at the time. >>reporter: the teen made nationalal headlines last month when he opened a medical clinic and wasrrested for practicing medicine without a license. the grand theft charge is the latest chapter in a story incding mal chai taking issue about what is being said about him. >> i am deeply saddened and disrespected. i'm sorry. i'm going to have to cut this interview short. >>reporterhe walked out of an interview with "good morning america" when he was pressed about the allegations against him. a knock at mal chai's west palm beach he went unanswered. paperwork alleging the teen treated an under cover deputy.

physical exam by checking my temperature using a digital thermometer. he placed a stethoscope diaphragm on when i my upper back and offend my bra claiming my lungs were clear. the judge ordered that he undergo a mental exexination and he was allowed to be jailed on pervised release. carlos suarez, local 10 news. a dump truck driver surviving a dangerous wreck. sky 10 over the scene yesterday. all lanes were blocked while crews worked to free that driver pinned officials say he was alert andnd conscious when they air-lifted him to broward health. a south florida man has been arrested in connection with north carolina gold heist.

million worth of gold bars hpened one year ago this week. remember this story? police say alberto perez was involved in the heist but they haven't said how. perez's sister-in-law isn't so sure. >> the type of vehicle he owns, two and two doesn't add up. >>reporter: the heist happened of a tract trailer was pulled over on i-95 by two gunman pretending to be police, and then they made off with all the goal. perez is the second to be arrested in connection with the crime. a day after super tuesday dr. ben carson signals an end to his run for the white house. >> it's looking more and more likely that the election will be a clinton-trump affair. janine stanwood has more. we have an important night in your state. i'm looking forward to the debate.

to the debate? >>reporter: marco rubio may have only one one state, but he's in michigan, casting his early ballot in the florida primary less than a month away. ted cruz has momentum after his win in his home state of texas. >> i am a unifier. >>reporter: the front-runners of each of their parties, trump laying out for the first time a seven-point health care reform plan. clinton head lining a star-studdeded event. even elton john. proclaiming he's not going anywhere. there was one casualty after super tuesday, dr. ben carson telling g.o.p. supporters he es no path f fward in his campaign.

working hard and i have a lot of respect for him. >>reporter: that was j jn kasich who won zero states on super tuesday. he says he's focusing on michigan and his home state of ohio. former g.o.p. nominee mitt romney is scheduled to speak later today about the state of this presidential race. what he has to say, stay tuned. in the videoport, i'm janine stanwood, local 10 news. local 10 investigates what's being done to curve wrong-way wrecks. that's jt ahead. carnival on the mile and watk for the animals, our own jacey birch will be hosting this event on saturday. a nice breeze in the morning. we'll see 78 degrees for

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collision seemed to be a deadly occurrence on south florida roadways. >> more than 100 people died in these crashes just last year alone with the latest coming just last week. >> erica rakow shows us how there's a strong push to put the brakes on these wrong way wrecks. >>reporter: dangerous decisions with devastating consequences. it's his son brian who hasn't woken up since december 13th. >> waiting for a miracle. >>reporter: brian's sister 22 years old, carmen, never made it to the hospital. the brother, sister, their mom hit head-on by franklin chavis who troopers say was driving south in the northbound lanes near the southwest eighth street exit. carmen flying to new jersey for med school orientation. she would never walk off that plane to her

>> the moment when my daught don't come on the plane, my life changed. >>reporter: more than 1 killed this way in our state last year. troopers give us exclusive access. shutting down on exit ramp on the sawgrass expressway to show us what's inn place to stop these crashes in southwest florida. >> there's the wrong-way lights flash. you can continue to see the red reflectors. >>reporter: one of 15 exit ramps with this technology. sensors activate these signs, tse cameras snap a picture and troopers are notified. in the past 16 months, 22 people, 22, at just those exits getting on the wrong way turned around. one man made it past the warning sign. he crashed into another car head-on and died. this system is no where on 95. the warning wasn't there to save brian, to save

>> the chance of not surviving is 125% in a this system. >> so once the signs light, we're going to have them come up out of the ground that block the roadway. >>reporter: he's dedicated his life to saving others. >> if i toldd you i didn't walk around with a very heavy heart, i'dbe lying to you. >>reporter: because his own daughter's's was cut short at 21 years old, marissa and her best friend were killed in a wrong-way crash heading home. >> every life i save saves someone from going through this tragedy. >>reporter: this infrastructure top priority. >> so it's invaluable. >> his other calling he calls design

agrees. >> my daughter. >> we're kind of like brothers. we're here forhe support of him and his family, and moving forward, i think we heal each other. >>reporter: healing each other and working together to right wrong-way c cshes. >> let's get out the shovel. let's get more of these things on the road. >>reporter: gary is in talks and is now working on setting up a model to be tested with real cars. another device you always suggest every time we cover these crash it's spike strips such as in rental car parking lots. i got a analysis as why the installation of spike strips would not work. they posted ten reasons. i posted this on our website local10.com. erica rakow, local 10 news. >> that same system also being tested in tampa and tallahassee.

markers that light up were recently installed and they are studying how effective other technologies would be. let's talk about your forecast on this friday, friday eve. we're seeing temperatures in the upper 60s miami, key west. much warmer this morning than what we wokee up to yesterday. you notice every day we creep one, two, three, now four degrees. it's still comfortable but again not nearly as cool as what we saw over the weekend. currently a temperature of 67 degrees in pembroke pines. 69 in hialeah. 68 in kendall and 66 in pompano beach. the winds out of the north west today. that's the one change remember we told you that we have a weak front that's meandering over the central half of the state. the only thing we notice is a shift in the winin direction and that's exactly what's occurring. five to seven mile per hour wind down in miami. we are eecting the winds to eventually move

southeast and that will warm us up again today. mid and high level cloud cover is in place associated with that weak front diminishing over south florida. we'll turn our attention to another front that again this will be the friday fro that we'll watch moving into the evening hours of our forecast and do the same thing this first front is doing, bring us a little cloud cover, overall not much of a change in the forecast. for where the shower and thunderstorm activity is, enhances over the louisiana v valley. high pressure from the south sououeast breeze today. that low will track towards the southeast and we'll stay warm ahead of it it. south florida by the overnight hours. a couple degrees cooler, comfortable conditions going into the forecast for the weekend. but overall nothing major. we're not seeing a big

where the warmup will be right over the nation's midsection. most of the nation's midsection with temperatures anywherebetween 15 to 25 degrees warmer than where they should be this time of year. a little taste of spring for everybody even though we're officially in fall. tomomoow highs in the mid 80s. the front moves in by friday night. carnival looking good with highs in the 70s. still to come baywatch alert. >> find out which abc star is going to make an appearance in that series, that film. we'll have the details when we come back. >> movie, it's a movie.

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hotel in miami beach. those in favor of the hotel say it's a no-brainer. all $400 million to pay for it will be put up by the developer with no cost at all to the taxpayers. those oppose it saying it's too big and bulkie and could pose problems in the area. >> i want it to be a hotel in the center and heart of our island. 's just too risky, it's too big and too much. >> the project requires 60% approval to b be built. now to the latest on the story you first saw on local 10, police are on looking for six stolen birds swiped from eir pages. it turns out one managed to escape the burglary. one of the stolen birds say parrot worth $2000 and it'seen with its family for more than 33 years. police@are looking for the thieves who got away

a famous lady iss joining the cast of bay wawah. it stars the rock and zac efron. but wednesday it was joined by another star, bianca chopra. the film said to hit theaters in may of 2017. >> i can't waito see that it. are you excited that? t> yeah. >> i want to see how much they parallel the original versus breaking out on their own. >> i think it's going tobe like a parody of the original. and the rock, he's hysterical. when we come back -- >> that's why you like him. >> he films a tv show in miami. i love him. d-wade is taking on some criticism about his midseason work-out with his temperatures.

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>>reporter: good thursday morning. i'm will manso with your local 10 morning sports wrap. dwayne wade got ready for tonight's game against the suns by working out with an old friend yesterday, lebron james. the cavs are off until friday.. hehe's a picture of those two guys and former teammates after a work-out in miami yesterday. what makes this strange to some is this is going on in the middle of the season. it had some drama from wade. he said from his perspective, there's nothing strange about it at all. >> 4akesesis time. it's a nice place to come and get away for a couple days and clear your mind, so miami is a great place to do that. so that's not hard for me to work withoutout with someone that i've

years. um l looking to finish strong with two games left in the road.d. noter game is saturday at virginia tech. the canes win out, they will guaranty at least a share of the acc regular season title. ming out like gang busters. angel rodriguez givivg um a 21-30 lead. angel had 19 points before filing out. irish made it a nine point game. he had 17. canes just rolling with this one, 68-50. they do finish the regular season saturday at virginia tech. number six hurricanes hosting gulf coast cololge. he's also a very good hitter doing some work withthhe bat, not one but two home runs last night. how about this it, se fernandez simulated game yesterday getting some work in in jupiter as the marlins open

their first game. they played um a couple nights ago. looking good, saying that he feels healthy. i'm will manso and that's your local 10 morning sports wrap. >> will, thank you for that. the mother whose baby was kidnapped at gunpoint describing the terrifying moments. >> howhey felt of she found out the alleged

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the missinin mh-370. good morning, south florida. i'm eric yutzy. >> i'm jacey birch. itit thursday. we've got a lot of stories we need to get to you but first we have to start with that weather. it'sonstantly warming up. julie durda is here. >> jacey, eric, south florida, this morning at least we're waking upo dry conditions. i'm happy to tell you that. temperatures well above average. in the upper 60s in miami. 69 aeady in key west. one thing you'll notice as you shift in the wind direction moving in from the northwest and that's because we do have a continuing to push through the area. to notice anything because temperatures are not dropping and the winds are not strong enough to make an impact on the forecast. 69 hialeah. 66 pompano beach. 68 kendall and homestead. the forecast on your friday eve. nice and mild. the kids are definitely going to need the sunglasses today. highs rapidly warm up to the lower 80s.