hollywood is mourning the death tonight of renowned actordeath tonight of renowned actor.

british actor alan rick man has died following a previously undisclosed battle with cancer. he was famously known for portraying professor snake one of the most iconic characters in the harry potter series. break out role came in the late 80's when he played hans groover the dillan in die hard. he was 69 years old. and singer celine deion's husband passing away. renee died this morning after an 18 year battle with throat cancer. he served as his wife's's manager since 12 years old. they later married in 1994 and had three children. he was 73 years old. golden moments for some big hollywood stars. soso aren't impressed with the nomination this year. >> there's even a hash-tag for that apparently. we are in the plex with more on this. >>reporter: hi good evenings.

movie everyone is talking about including the the academy. but could it be the movie that finally makes leo the king of the world? the stars were up ely this morning to catch the academy award nominations. >> leonardo di caprio in the revenant. >>repopoer: could this be the year leo walks away with an oscar? himovie the revenant got 12 oscar nomination this is morning including best actor nod. leo has yet to win an oscar despite 4 other nominations. >> i want. >>reporter: mad maximum up for 10 oscars including best director to production design and best picture. speaking of best picture, the nominee in that category also include the big short. bridge of spybridge of spies. brooklyn. the revenant. room. spotlight and the martian. the star of that movie matt

his fourth nomination. aside from di caprio he's up against brian koran storngs chael fast bender and ed in the same category. carol and best supporting actress for kate blanchette and ryan. >> jennifer lawrence up for the fourth best actress nomination. she won it in 2013. in additiono kate blanchette she's up against bree larson, charlotte, ramp and myself ronan. noticeably missing from the nomination african american performers. all 20 acting nominee are whiteall 20 acting nominee are white. social m mia trending with tweet like this one from the rap. 14 award worthy performance by non-white actor the academy overlooked. hash-tag oscars so white. >> one of the biggest movies in history came away with 5 nominations.

nominated for best editing, nominated for best editing, sound, vial effects and that classic john williams score. chris rock will host the 88th annual academy awards on sunday february 28th. live in the news plex, 7 news night team. all right thank you. >> coming on 7 news at 10:00 o'clock on just one station. elderly man ripped off. pick pocket stealing his wallet and everything tonight. >> south florida restaurant is stepping in to treat him for all of his troubles. >> we are tracking a hurricane in the atlantic. now these are rare but they have happened in the past. the earliest hurricane number one in category one system on january fourth, 19 38. now we have hurricane alex developing today. honorable mention goes to hurricane alice that developed into a hurricane december 31st 1954.

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it's on the house for elderly south florida man who was targeted by a crook. restaurant treating him and friend after hearing his story. thief snatched the man's wallet and very important documents as he tried to shop. >> alex has this exclusive. >> come on in. i have a table all set up for you. >>reporter: this is 94-year-old john burt. world war ii vet. >> special table for special man. >>reporter: we introduced you

this man stole his wallet from his pocket la month -- last month inside a publix in pine crest. the cash. soci security card and red lobster gift card from his niece and i.d. niece and i.d. so after the team at red lobster saw our story on 7 newslobster saw our story on 7 news. >> so we discussed and we ended up saying you know what let's get him a card and let's get him a gift card to replace it and treat him to lunch to take a bad situation and make it agent bit better for him. >> it has been a very hard time i'll tell you that. too much for an old guy. and i hope i just keep moving along. that's all i can do. >>reporter: burt extremely thankful since he's still shaken up weeks later. >> my wallet i didn't even feel so it he's a good, he's a pro there's no question about it. he's going to do it to a lot of people if we don't stop him somehow. >>reporter: he's talking about

policece say he spent more than 6000 dollars out of bloomingdale and macy in pine crest with burt's credit card. >> i don't wish it on any more guy but i guess the old folks are the ones they are trying to get a hold of because they are easy. easy. they don't want any fights probably these people. >>reporter: the thief is still out there. >> i don't we shall him any bad luck the but he sure shook me up a lot and it's not good i'll tell you for old people. >>reporter: but for now. >> just go day by day and i'm lucky to beere. >>reporter: this sweet 94>>reporter: this sweet 94-year-old has a smile on his face and he's making light of a situation. >> he's probably uses my 25 dollar card now. so i have got 100 dollar card. >>reporter: see the photo of the man one more time. police say this is the guy who took john's wallet. if you recognize him pick up the phone and contact crime

that phone number in miami-dade county is listed here on the screen. reporting from pine crest, 7 news night team. . south florida and the clouds kept the temperatures in check. morning low are in the 60's. afternoon high in theow 70's t.15 1/100's inch of rain in key west. right now 68 degree ins miccosuke. everyone else reporting temperatures in the 70's under mostly cloudy skies. pressure is falling. wind gust now 22 miles per hour and it's only going to get stronger during the overnight. humidity at 87 percent. so we are seeing rainfall moving from the gulf of mexico into the atlantic and it looks like it will be on the increase overnight and if the models are correct we should see a soggy day on friday with a little better chance for some strong thunderstorms. we have a couple of areas of low pressure here in the gulf of mexico. they are going to converge

the same time the`wind coming out of the south is going to pump a lot of moisture in our direction. tomorrow good chance for rain. could see a strong thunderstorm or two and then the two low converge into one. head up the east coast. big rainy mess f them. for us friday night everything should start to clear out. saturday is looking good. but another front will arrive by sunday. more rain and that should cool us off for the early part of next week. meanwhile here's the latest on hurricane alex. 80 miles p hour winds. come down a little bit earlier today 85 miles per hour. it's still aiming for the azores they are under warnings right now and they are already feeling some gusty winds and some rainfall. here the marine forect for tomorrow. threat of rip current small craft advisory. the winds will be picking up. the sea will be picking up as well. business contain bay choppy for you throughout the florida keys

side. small craft advisory coastal waters choppy. next high tide 1:14. 1:09 fort lauderdale. key largo 1:37. 2:20 in key west. chance of rain overnight low in the upper 60's to right around 70. tomorrow cloudy. storm risk. high in the upper 70's t right around 80. look at the wind. here's your sentenced outlook saturday we start off good. cloud build. more showers on sunday. and a little bit of cool weather for next week. that's the 7 on 7.

john kasich. some say a popular lip balm leaving them chapped and worse. they claim it's giving them terrible rashes. now the company is being sued. >> lynn martinez has more. >>reporter: blisters and rash>>reporter: blisters and rashes around a woman's mouth and a lip balm is to blame.

dry and course hours after using the lip balm summer fruit and now she's taking action. filing a lawsuit against the lip balm company. she claims she tried to fix the problem applying more balm but things only got worse. ultimately lasting for 10 days. many people use the lip balm on a daily basis including celebrity. some of which advertise for the company including kim kardashian. britney spares and miley cyrus. but her lawyer says that hundreds of thousands of customers also could be affected and that other people have sent in pictures of their rashes, too. >> any product you put on the skin can cause a reaction so it's wise if you see when you are using a product that you get a skin rash certainly stop using the pduct and talk to your doctor. >>reporter: the lawsuit states that the advertisements and marketing by e o s emphasizes the product is organic and gluten free.

s deceived the customers and myself represented the product saying the customers have exrienced devastating adverse reaction to the product consisting of mild to severe rashes. drooiing dryness. bleeding. blistering, cracking and loss of pigmentation. >> the contact dermatitis is common and we see it every day this particular lip balm claim to be natural a free of pair a ben which is a common contact there are some other ingredient that flavor for the different varieties they sell that people may be sensitive to. >>reporter: the company not backing down saying the product is 100 percent natural and 95 percent organic. taking to twitter saying in part quote we wanted to be sure that you, our valued customers and fans, know that tf health and well-being of our customers is our top priority. our products are safe to use. ourproducts are safe to use. are made with the highest qualityen greed gentleman and they all meet or exceed all

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team. the heat can't get home soon enough. two more games on the road. heat are one and three out there so far. white last night in l.a. against the clippers.

23 turn overs. the heat lost by 14. three straight losses. they play at denver tomorrow. >> over all focus for the game for our team just wasn't there we have to figure that part out. you can lose ball game in the league. we accept we all lose but certain way that you don't want to lose. we have to do a better job next time we step on the floor. being more together. communicating more. focusing more. we had too many mistakes. >> hold on to the rope. david black and cavs won 8 straight. the spurs then in a row let's do it. cleveland up by 12 but the spurs come back fourth quarter. parker drives. dishs to green. green for 3. leonard exclamation. spurs beat cleveland 99-95. 23 and o at home. this is hard to believe. chicago butler is 53 points against the lowell 76ers. game still goes to over time. chicago trailed by 24.

in the o t smith misses. no el misses and butler comes away. bulls win 115-111. 53 a career high for butler. the canes play at clemson on saturday trying to get back in the we know column after losing tuesday at virginia. the 21st rank lady canes at home against lake forest. canes up 9 in the fourth. davenport to mottly for 3. she finished with 18. jessica thomas drives. passes to hays. she ties her career high with 22. canes win 71-60. the lady canes are 16 and 2. panthers still in first place but didn't play like it last night in calgary. after the game he said the panthers got arrogant during the winning streak. now they have two straight losses. next game is sunday at 10:00.

i think we have to just regroup a little bit and be positive so we know we are still a good team and have to erase that one game out of our memory and it will be important the division game so it's huge. >>reporter: nfl play offs this weekend. sunday here on channel 7 seattle at carolina a this is a rematch. carolina went to seattle in week 6 and beat seahawks on their home field but since then seattle was won 8 of the last 10. >> must see tv. you have a good player on both sides of the ball with special teams offensively, defensively on both teams and that's why you pretty much come to the league when you look and there are match up like this. >>reporter: on saturday the patriots at home again kansas city. rob spent part of today in the hospital getting his knee worked on. defensive line man jones in the hospital last weekend. he was using synthetic marijuana not illegal.

will play. >> we'll find out on saturday. ear xerox a copy of the game plan send to it kansas city. might be easier for all of us. >>reporter: not necessary. new coaches kelly to san francisco. peterson to the eagle. cutter in tampa and former dolphins coach philbin an assistant with the giants. i'm steve. aig and belkys staying right

that is a wrap for us here first at 10:00. ciao ciao. >> i think>> i keep thinking it's friday. >> you are broke you didn't win power ball. >> wow! put it that which thanks. >> stay tichbility your allergy acting up. >> just a mess.