break-ins are related. >> it's true. you feel violated snoot first at vaip queen in david owned by ca mel a. it's a vaporar where they manufacture their own vivment surveillance cameras catch the crime. the crook hits the glass and ducks inside. second later he is grabbing the ritionster. >> to have someone randomly select you and just turn everything upside down in your world over a couple of dollars is hard to understand. hard it to faj am. >> the guy just crashes in snoot second crime looks eerily similar. a half an hour later thvment time in holy smokes pembroke pines. shame ammo. shattered glass. rooks crook ducks in and in secondse has the register. >> it's ago imra investigated that someone is lazy and want a quick back and come comes nand destroyed troiz your store.

into to see if these cases are relating n. meantime sthe are not taking any chances and beefing up security. >> we are very secure in the knowledge that that won't happen like that again. >> reporter: so police are look into these two case and think this thief may have hit others as well. >> maybe you recognize that guy from the surveillance video. call broward crime stoppers. 954 tip tip ouch we're live in davie. brandon beyer. 7 news. >> danielle: all right bran done. thank you. >> an antimuslim social media post is cause for concern in south florida. a a facebook user threatened to burn mosque. the council on islamic relations in florida alerting police after seg seeing the the post. >> a spokesperson for the organization saying the comment are disturbing,. >> it frustrating because there's a lot of good work that our community is putting out there.

advancing in the integration of our community to the rest of the social, american social fabric. then you hear this hateful voice of this few. >> danielle: well, according organization, mosque and religious institutions sell sought highest number of vandalism in 2015. a school bus scare in fort lauderdale. a car rear ending that bus near northeast 13th street and progresso drive. this morning. four students on board at the time but none of them were hurt. >> lynn: also on 7, oh, this what h- to hurt big time. a popular holiday gift landing many use ners the hospital and they are finding out riding a hoverboard is a lot harder than it it look. 7's ann keil is live at nick close children's hospital in west miami-dade with words of warning. ann. >> reporter: well, doctors are

have fun on the seemingly coolest device out there. but those hover boards are not necessarily safe if you're not care careful. nicholas children's hospital seeing a quie scwie root rocketing number of patients who trd to it out and wiped out. >> ouch, you can hear her pain. a tough fall from her cousin's hoverboard caught on camera. she land ond her back. everything went by so fast. i crawled to the couch. she suffered a compression frak tour of two vertebras. >> she fell off her cousin some she ip one of 54 kids and teens treated at nick close children's hospital between december 19 aj anjanuary 9th for a hoverboard injury. >> i anel be fracture. that's three and half weeks when these item were a hot ticket item and a cause of 42 fractures.

surgical and 20% needed to have conscious sedation to put under anesthesia and have the bones manipulated and put back in place. >> and even adults and heavy weight champs can't seem to not wiet wipe out. there video tapes filled all over the web. you can hear the giggling on lookers. but not every hoverboard rider will get upnder where free. they don't seat kids in the operating room. the ones in the back brace and in cue baited withead jaimpletz so doctor are recommending helmets and other safety gear admitting the two bheel devise conditions fun but dangerous i know for a fact that it's a safety hazard. >> reporter: 14-year-old ali a posted her tumble on instagram hoam hoping it receives as aing. she soanl able to walk for ten minutes at a time until she recovered.

>> and beyond that safety gear. find a with buddy or spot erin case you want to try out that device. ann key. 7 ne. good idea ann. thank you. >> danielle: the search is on for a south florida man gone without a trace. take a look at him. ee von gomez who suffers from memory lost is believed to be driving aa996 black toyota tam ray with plate number m688 imrks m and last seen in southwest miami-dade and 21 street. if have you any information call crime stopper at 305-471-tips. >> i'm also in the news today growing number of cuban refugees ien journey to freedom and south florida school administrators are working on a lesson plan to accommodate those that want to come to class and it in volsz money.

miami-dade school building with plor on thvment jessica. >> reporter: lynn, consider this. last year miami-dade public school had5,000 foreign born students involved from several foreign count tree. this year they are expecting that number to top 20 thght. with we know they are heading this way. the question is, how is the miami-dade public school system going to be able to care handle it. >> reporter: motion care reevmentz thank you very much snoot s#hool of miami-dade county voting to help and asking for help. >> we need to recognize that immigration say federal responsibility. a responsibility that required resource and funding. we are ready to teerchtion hug and love every one of these kids. it is our moral responsibility. but the government cannot assure it is their responsibility in term of financially supporting their needs. >> reporter: the urgency highlighted by the the 1st of 8000 cuban migrants beginning their long waited journey to the

of agreement after nicaragua's last approval to land. >> we're not traveling on the first flight because we have older children. we hope god wilg we can take the next fly snie. >> reporter: as cuban migrant make their way to the u.s. >> we're not prepared. >> reporter: miami mayor regular gla to concerned about support. >> what we're sayininis gotten give money to the city of miami. give money to the aght agency so they can have more resource. >> reporter: more resources for the children and families to envolume roll in pun lick schools. each foreign born students comes with an additional 2700-dollar burden. >> congress and administration need to act and provide the financial support to school system like miami-dade's snoontd superintendent says without more federalupport, the miami public school system is facing a serious financial crunch.

jessica holly. 7 news snie. >> lynn: jessica thank you. >> danielle: coming up on 7 news. a woman back from mer ma tyranny leave at work when the place gets rob and the dangerous do o though the ens something explosive. >> lynn: and a dare at school. first a teacher who claimed to be with a popular ride sharing service asked to pick up a student. a warning for all parents on just one station. >> danielle: and two students in court instead of in class after a loaded stolen gun was found on campus. >> lynn: plus, workers claim power ball thought they hit the jackpot. one person even quit on the spot. don't do that. find out yes had to ask for his job back. >> phil: you know, if i were to win the big lot to. i would not quick work. >> lynn: oh you're lying. >> phil: right. let's take a look at what we can expect. a big area of low pressure snrepght gulf of mexico. that could bring us a couple of rainy days here across south florida.

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>> >> lynn: u oh my gosh. those poor people. not so much. >> a major mix up had a group of new jersey employees celebrating striking it rich. >>&danielle: i'm so shocked. >> lynn: that won't happen to you. they thought they won nearly a billion dollars. >> danielle: imagine how excite thed were.

toy bitter realization. >> >> danielle: this was the scene at gra fee knees restaurant at evening will woot new jersey last saturday night. >> that the most valley drivers. bus boys, cooks in the kitchen including pedro ma saturday all thought they were going to share in the winnings and begin aing a new life. >> the 20 most important minutes of any mi life. i feel great. >> but that feeling going from joy to pain when they realized someone made a expensive air. the winning number they saw appearn a cell phone were from a different power ball jack pots for which no winningickets were sovmentn bartender and host broke the bad news to their very excited colleagues. i'm a staring on his foafnt i didn't want to believe that but i just like okay that's the

and i, the guys still jumping around over there. i'm like oh my god. >> we realized something was seriously wrong. >> you guys had been steve harveyed. yes, we had. >> wow, well, all four # restaurant employees are still on the job including the guy who quit on the spot. he ended up getting his job back. they are invested in tonights power ball crawing. so they would have won just a different week. >> >ynn: well, yeah. would have could of should of. >> lynn: speak of power ball. lot to fever at an all timeme high in south florida, billionaire wannabee standinin long lines dreaming of cash and the giant jack povment it's fun to dream. a live report at 6:00. >> danielle: american idol stop in fill lie to see if any one can sick. a sneak peeskt moments the the view rers talking about tomorrow. >> lynn: and courtney cox is

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>> danielle: we do continue to follow this news alert four. we have new information regarding the suspicious packages found at the post office in miami beach. >> lynn: let's get an p date from liz nagy on the scene. liz. >> reporter: lynn, we've been telling you all afternoon that miami beach police are looking for a person who they say is a person of interest who they think may have started this entire situation at the post office on miami beach this afternoon. we want to show thu picture. this is pictures that were taken on surveillance cameras inside the miami beach post off. they say this man walked into the host post office at 13th and washington avenue about 2:45 this afternoon and had two ma nel a flat envelope that's he

well, what is in those envelopes, we still could not know. if authorities do, they have not released that information. but they said that man was act strangely and then very quickly left miami beach post office. that was what spurred this entire situation. they called in the hazmat team and called in the bomb squad just to clear the entire 3weu8gd and make sure there was nothing dangerous or hazardous inside those envelope. those pictures are difficult to make out because they were taken on grainy surveillance cameras inside. but you can see that he is wearing a long overcoat. two yellow envelopes in his hand and in one of those photos he is carrying a backpack. authorities are throok speak to this man to ask him questions about why and what he was sending the fbi. now we'll bring you back out live to this situation at 13th and wa waive now. they now have just reopened the post office. there are post office workers that are ah lod back signed.

loads loading them into the truck because they were not able to complete their mail route. police have not cleared the scene of the the hazmat has determined no one was in danger and now police aring for that person. if snri idea who sevment oor you've seen him. call crime stoppers. live in miami beach. liz nagy. 7 news. >> all right liz. well, a sing competition stop in fill lion it's search to crown an idol. will the contestant show the judges some brotherly love. >> they are looking for the 15th and final idol. >> lynn: contestant you see tonight are hoping to get the golden ticket. shireen has more. shireen. >> reporter: and it now for never for farewell season. the judges have been impressed

getting started snoot idle ol judge kickoff their search for the next american idol in philadelphia. >> i guess there's a sense of oh wow, will we ever could this again? snoot contest tan know stepping on the idol stage could change their life forever. >> it creates stars. philip fill a. carrie underwood. reuben stud artd art. they are creating records and that's what i want to do. >> you could become a super start. you stand in line and waited a few hour and you have a chance to make your dreams come true. >> it gives me a chance to share my talent with america. and she shares her amazing story i was nt able to breathe most of my life. have a lung disease and from

hospital and i could barely talk. being able to sing now say blessing and something i never take for granted any more. >> and magazine >> and for the judges. it's all about finding superstar call ent as they look for the next american idol one last time. >> got to blow us way in the audition. >> even if it's a spairl number i would rather see extraordinary people. >> me 250. >> finally feel the way i do >> reporter: you can watch american idol pass through philly tonight at 8:00 here on 7. live in the newsplex. shireen sandoval. 7 news. >> danielle: all right shireen, thank you.

fovment the former actress will be starring in the comedy network. she will playayley. a widow that in her race her late you husband's billion dollar charity. and she finds changing the world, well, that is not so glamorous. >> now, 7 weather with chief meteorologist phil ferro. >> phil: and good afternoon every one. we are following cloud cover a s cross the gulf of mexico. low pressure could be developing there. they are bringina with it a better of rain starting tomorrow and stick around through friday. meanwhile cold air that is starting to move in across the north east. temperatures there right now are in the teens across chick schik. still in the 20s across new york but this cold air in canada will sink through over theext 12 hours looking very cold for. they 70 defor us. in the tropic. we are following a subtropical storm named alex. now, a subtropical system in

center like a normal tropical storm, this one has a cold center. otherwise they look alike and act alike f. it hangs around over next few days. it could be getting very close to the azores. slight chance for rip currents tonight. biscayne bay with a light chop. small craft advisory for nut florida keys. coastal waters choppy. next high tide will be at 11:21. 12:18 inhe lower keys. you're water temperature. 72 degrees. so for tonight florida keys will see more showers. for us mostly cloudy. over night lows mt. 60s. tomorrow mostl cloudy across south florida. better chance for rain. here's your extended out look. still rainfall on friday. warming up for the weekend. and maybe a little cool down for monday. that's your 7 on 7. 7 news will be right back.

>> lynn: finally tonight at 5:30, a selfie stun nempt. >> danielle: a fugive didn't like his mug shot so he sent a photo to police. jeff lennox in the the plex with what happened next. i should never be surprised but in this one i am jeff. >> reporter: that's right ladies. the man's van a ty ti ld to his arrest in this day. now he is going from taking a sell if i it to foft position for a police department's camera. >> a man's picture left him caught and cuff ood and he sent them a selfie smiling from ear to ear baw they didn't like the photo he was using. along with that photo say message stating theer say better photo. that one is terrible. the man was wanted by. >> o- eye high ohio police for filing a appear in court.

that's when he saw the mug shot and deciden heidn't like the ones they were posting. he was posting a picture and saying hey, this picture is better and raid yo calling radio stations. >> but after he did that sheriff deputies in the florida panhandle act on a tip and tracking him down. not only was he wanted in ohio and ima ima for ep best bezelment and bat rimplet now they believe that selfie lead to his capture. he made our job ease jemplet he put more photos out there and people were able to make a tip and identify him a so we could make that arrest. i don't know if he thought about that. >> might be regretting that sell feecht the suspect will be held in this morning earn florida bre is taken back to o ohio by police es court. live in the plex iemplet i have to agree women.

better lighting. better aj. >> danielle: and now i won't have better anything. an hour outside and that's about it. >> lynn: that's true. >> danielle: that is 7 news at 5:30. thank you so much for watching. our half hour is up. i'm danielle knox. >> lynn: i'm lynn martinez. 7 news at 6:00 begins right now. >> now on 7 news. a couple accused of robbing restaurants and using explosive threats to get what they want. and concerns at a south florida school after a driver came to pick up a student ch but teacher noticed something was wrong. one station with the story. disturbing details bay gun that caused a school scare. another school day a crow air. and feeling lucky? power ball players across south

dollar dream comom true. >> craig: and we continue to follow a developing story in miami beach. a paifer suspiciouou packages at a post office. the latest next on 7. >> this is 7 news at 6:00. >> >> belkeys: we're going to begin with that stroarpg ri on miami beach. two suspicious packages causing some wernz. hello and welcome every one. they were left at a post office. and now police are look for the person who left them there. >> craig: 7's liz nagy live on the scene with the update. liz. >> >> belkeys:, craig, the the fbi and several different agencies have all determined that this post office is now safe for employees and other people to step back inside. but now miami beach police are look for a person they say may be responsible for causing this hour's long scare. tht picture that is just been released by the postal service and mie beach police of the man

ffice at 13th street and