shots eye wokep and it was real loud. >> a shooting the broward p pice benevolent association president has been keeping a close eye on. he spoke with us by phone saying the detective was woken up bit sound of broken glass. >> they confronted the individual. the individual apparently came at the home owner who was a pd member and he felt threatened d he was within five feast him and he shot him. >> reporter: the pba president says the officer was shaken up. his siblings were home as well as his niece ooze and now they are trying to figure out if that burglar fired tried breaking into another home a f blocks way minutes before he was shot and killed. >> we received approximately 16 minutes before that call, a calf an attempted burglary a few blocks south. >> this could happen anywhere and this guy picked the wrong house and fowrn tiew netly le

>> reporter: the pba president telling us the detective cut haze foot on broken glass. he is expected to be cool. investigation into the 6:00 a.m. shoot lg now under way. o obviously still in the preliminary stages. reporting in davie, ann key. 7 news. >> danielle: a teen accused of killing a 6-year-old boy is facing a judge. his allege add come plis 17-year-old a dam mass was not in court foort rainment. police say the pair was shooting another person when a stray bullettruck and killed king carter. carter's family is hoping justice will now be served. >> i did want justice done for my grand son. it reall has thrown me overboard. because i want justice to be done to him because truly it's a shame that his heaea on my heart every day. >> danielle: well, the first grade wears shot in the chest while playing outside his home

king was rushed to the hostal where he was late proar nownsed dead. >> lynn: cameras cap armed rob flir high. >> lee a.3 men holding the strij at gunpoint. they tried to to snatch her purse but took off when she screamed for help. it happened near west 31 court. here's anoth look furks recognize them or have any information, call miami-dade crime stoppers 3-471-tips. >> danielle: and a former miami-dade detective is heading behind bars. the judge sentencing carol ro star yoo a year and a half in state prison. the decision comes a@ro sar yo pleaded guilty to dealing in stolen property. now the former cop was captured on camera last may trying to sell a stolencaia watch and bracelet tie jierl. officials say he s sle that jewelry with from a home that he searched with a warrant. >>

judge mer ik brian garland to joint supreme court. >> president obama carrying out his promise selecting a a nominee for the supreme court. the seat left vacant of course in the wake of justice antin scalia's death one month and it's a nomination many urged the president not to make. and liz nagy in the plex with this supreme showdown. liz. >> reporter: and president obama says it is his constitutional duty to nominate someone to fill that vacancy and today he d. hiz his choice is a move widely approved by republicans and democrats in the pavement but this seaeaon the supreme court could change that. fate of highest court inhe land hangs in the balance. >> today aim nominating chief judge mer ik brian garland to join the supreme court. >> reporter: this announcement

obama kicked off a long promise constitutional cross washington showdown between the white house and republicans on capital hill. >> tomorrow judge glarn will travel to the hill to begin meeting with senators one on one. i simply ask republicans in the senate to give him a fair hearing. and then an up or down vote. if you don't, then will notnly be ad an add vo caifghts senate's constitutional duty. it will indicate a process of nominating and cornl firming judge that'ss is beyond repair. >> the senate willppropriately miss re visit the mat wher it considers the quality faition indications of the nominee, the next president nominates. >> whoever that might be. >> reporter:he man at the center of the fight is mer ik garland. a long time prosecutor turned chief justice of the washington dc court of appeals.

and lawt has been the corner stone of my professional life. and is the hall mark of the kind of judge i have tried to to be for the past 18 years. if the senate sees fit to confirm me to the position for which i've been nominated today. i promise to continue on that course. >> >> reporter: but as glarnd well knows thairksz big f. the subject ave fierce battle that began the moment his possible predecessor antonin scalia passed away. until the senate decides to proceed with any hearings on president obama's nominee the united states supreme court will have just eight members evenly split between liberal and conservative justices. live in the satellite center. liz nagy. 7 news. >> no to the race for the white

the florida primary. republican front runner donald strum picking up support from govenor scott. >> lynn: former senator marco rubio failing to win his home state nailing his bid for the nomination. >> danielle: and a triumphant tuesday for hillary clinton who took home three big wins over her po nent bernie sanders. today donald trump announcing le not attend the next dwop debate and it has since been canceled. >> lynn: and for all the focus now on the candidates is in arizona. sheldon fox live in the plex with the l lest from the campaign trail. sheldon. >> reporter: lynn and danielle, tuesday is gone with the wind and so are marco rubio's presidential hopes. the big news on the democratic side was about hillary's big night for every one else, fight continues. >> to win by that kind ave number as, is incredible. donald truru's ability to self promote right now appears as

the donald took florida tuesday and took down marcoco rubio's presidential run with the win in the senator's home state. >> and while today my campaign is suspended. hours after tmp's sunshine state win govenor scott formally endorsed trump but trump could not capture tuesday's other big price. ohio. off govenor john kasich won his home state easily. we are going to go all the way to cleveland and secure the republican nomination. trump won illinois, north carolina and lead ted cruz in missouri where trump claims victory and where it was too close to call. >> thank you all so very much. >> for the democrats bernie sanders lost to hillary clinton in four or five states with missouri too c cse to call. we have come a long way iten months.

vote thrers get to vote next week and we're in the plex. sheldon fox. 7 news. >> danielle:&all right and we do have this alerttfour coming into the plex. a verdict reached in the case of that officer who slapped a homeless man in fort lauderdale. >> lynn: we have 7's walter morris outsi the courthouse with the verdict. walter. >> reporter: well, this just n. that officer acquitted, found not guilty of both charges including brairt and falsify age police report. now we do have video from signed the courtroom we want to go to. again, that was officer victor ramirez who had been on trial for again slap age homeless man in the face. now again ramirez was in court facing those dmoornlings slapping a man tbhak february. the state's attorney file those charges after a video of the incident hit the web. now, we want to go to that video. thru can see a witness shooting it on his cell phone in

ramirez is seen hovering over that man and hitting im him in the face. the video officer, ra mir he ramirez's was heard stage that to that man but they say the report did not reflect what happened. and again, that verdict coming down on the officer a. quitted and found not guilty of both choonchtz reporting live in fort lauderdale. walter morris, # news. >> lynn: walter, thank you. >> danielle: and 7 news is coming right back.

>> >> lynn: parts midst cleaning up after severe weather left a path of kiss triewfntle hail and heavy winds causing significant dame to several homes. several tornadoes touching down over night farmers feeling the browfnt weekend weather that destroyed barns impact thrirg

>> for t tnado on the ground. >> danielle: a tornado touching down near springfield illinois on tuesday. this farm and several others destroyed. the tornado pealing off the barn's roof sendingetal debris flieght growrchltd residents describing what the saw. >> i said i notice up down the road a little ways. my neighbor's trailer come up and over and flipped and upside down and smarlly on the road. and power lines were coming down spark and firing. >> and we were standing at wint do twachg when we saw continue flying off the shed rf. and that is when we went for the basement the high winds overturn age semi on the tirn state. downing trees wiernd lines across the area. four homes destroyed. an estimated ho homes were damaged. residents are now left to pick up the piece ooze. tbu was really windy. >> and was starting to hail.

of it two andalf inches in diameter. and really scary. >> danielle: and ten people did report minor injuries. the national weather service classified tuesday night's tornado as an ef2. >> >> lynn: all right next tonight from the news station. a weatherman attack bid a bird. look. that lookout, in the middle of the forecast. >> danielle: but like they say, the smoa show must go on and he is laughing b it did.

>> danielle: well, the morning weather forecast not going as >> >> lynn: a surprise guest flying to spook the weatherman. >> and a bird. i've been attacked. oh. >> lynn: his reaction was more funny than the dumb bird flying into the camera. california weatherman sharing his forecast when a bird game in for lainding on the station's live i camera. look out. aaron from bakersfield california playing it out like he got tacked from the an map. but it was all on camera. i think he was perhaps scared for a second. >> lookout. >> and now 7 weather with chief meteorologist phil ferro. >> phil: and we get this big spider on our roof cam and it's really weird. all right. let's take a look at the temperatures across the state.

86 in tallahassee. big temperature change there. orlando 85. 77 in fort lauderdale. key west 79. 80 in miami. right now everything is dry and we don't foresee anyny changes to night or throughout the day tomorrow. meanwhile you can see the flow of air coming in from the tropics. so tomorrow we're looking at another hot day. forecasting for miami. the record is 88 setback in 2014. think broward and the keys, you're going to be just fine. then we take a look at this front that will set@ up shop right croos northern florida for the end of the week. we may get some of that moisture here come saturday and sunuay. and then not as hot for the start of next week. so here's the marine forecast. the wind out of southeast. biscayne bay smooth. for you throughout the florida keys, the wind out of east. seas beyond the reef two to 3 feet. coastatawaters with a light chop. next high tide will be at

6:09 for the lower keys. uv index will be high at 11 and water temperature at 72 degrees. tonight mostly clear. over night lows in the low 70s. mid 60s in the western suburbs. tomorrow we're going see plenty of shine. highs in the low 80 feerts keys. upper 80s for the mainland. what is average is about 78 to 88. we're going to be well up there. here's your extended outlook a. a hot st. patrick's day, still sizzling on friday. saturday and sunday showers byy the way sunday is the first day of spring and instead of heating up, our temperatures will come right back down to near seasonal values. that's your 7 on 7. 7 sports is next.

>> >> time now for 7 sports with stevevshapiro the third seed canes opt tournament tomrow night against buffalo in providence. the canes are the heavy 14 points favorite. um is 25 andndeven over a. ranked 29 nj the country. caim cape able of beating any one in the country. during the seasons the canes beat seven of the teams in the n scrrks aa. >> thief grown closer to and closer to their teammates swrevment a great bond and glait chemistry on this team and a think day von reed described, he was asked in one word the best way to describe this team and he said fun. >> fun is good.

barry university advances to the lead eight division two last night. barry beat huntsville alabama. 87 to 83. unio and ed car frederickson. next up they play lynn onuniversity. next wednesday in fris to texas near dal. the first plate heat are home tomorrow nig against charlotte. mike dipasquale reports hassan white side made a change in his gainld he is scoring more popots. >> hassan white side has come off the bench to have six straight double doubles. 12 in his last 13 games. white side has also been consistent from the free slow line. i call them jump throats. i do don't qual them free throws be jump throadz. >> the 7-foot ser make the shots. and call it what you like but when he stipped to the shooting line he was shooting 55%. now 81 %.

it is working. height side's teammates are like, let it fly. >> it takes the thought to you. he yabdz the ball and let's it go like a jump shot. not only do we feel ik lea make it but we all feel the small way. from the all start starr break, brand new playerer, brand new guy. he is focused and working hard and list toaj the play oars weantsts to win. with the heat mike dipasquale. 7 sports. >> this is a greatlace to be a sports caster. every one is in first place. the panthers are back in first. cats beat montreal last night four to one. while boston and tampa both lost. panthers a v- a one point lead in the division. last night they took a three to nothing lead and heldton that four to @ne win. we now it was going to be a tough game. playing wack to wack and the guys were tirere keep it short and feed off their turnovers. we day lot and caught them when

>> also grere because i get to work with knox and martinez. back after this.

>> lynn: signed edition coming up next. >> danielle: here is debra nor develop way preview. >> thanks lynn and danielle. coming up today kennedy's grand daughter. can you believe she's a comedian. >> reporter: and donald trump speaks about megyn kelly again. this time he is call herg crazy. toin join us tonight on 7 at 7:00. >> and that is seven news at k34r06b, thank sow much for watching. i'm danielle knox. >> lynn: i'm lynn martinez. have a good night everybody. >> danielle: good night. real-time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company.

[ music ] donald trump vs. megyn kelly. again. >> one of the commentators who i'm not particularly fond of. >> he's actually calling her crazy megyn, and broadway donny trump. the untold s sry of donald trump's first job out of college. >> no, he wasn't singing or dancing, he was a producer. >> and the new supreme court minee. one daughter is there, but the other is on a hike and out of cell phone range. and did ey or didn't they? did o.j. simpson prosecutors hook up? then the american college junior in a state of shock. >> sentenced to 15 years hard labor in north korea. >> i entirely beg you for your forgiveness. >> all for a stupid college prank?

mistake of my life. >> plus, jackie kennedy's look- alike granddaughter. can you believe she's a comedian? now "inside edition" with deborah norville. >> deborah: hello everybody, and thanks for joining us. donald trump today is baskqng in the glow of winning four out of five states in tuesday's primaries, but he took time out of his victory night to take another swipe at his old foe, fox new's megyn kelly. he actually called her crazy. >> disgusting reporters. horrible people. >> donald trump sure came out swinging at his victory rally. >> some really d dgusting people back there. >> taking aim at reporters he says are unfair to him, and reigniting his feud with a familiar foe. fox news's megyn kelly.