here and for the property owners is to way. they have to wait for the city to send an engineer out here to deem this structure safe. at this point there are three families who cannot go back home because of this latest crash. for now we're live in northwest miami-dade. elitsa bizios. 7 news. >> danielle: all rig a let's a. a southwest miami-dade man vanishing without a trace and police are asking for your help low dhaightan, alfonzo ma ken knee who went missing near 107th avenue. he is 6 feet tall way skinny build. lairnlg scarl on his forehead and missing one toofnlgt he was last seen wearing red shirt and blew blu jeefnltz officials say ma ken nick suffers from severe memory lost and may becom confused. >> >> lynn: lons 7, spring break in full swing. rescue workers wan to make sure water enthusiasts have aafe time off land.

their trip to south florida all year long and miami-dade fire rescue workers don't wanan it to end with a trip to the hospital. 7's alex de mars road with them today as sthe shared some important rules on the water. news take you on board the boat. >> we're the only fire boat with miami-dade fire rescue which means we cover all the waterss from broward county line all the way to key largo. the team of four on the job 24/7 every single day. we're all march made iks and firefighters and rescue dive divers and coastuard licensed cap tafnltz a this week they know they will have their mandz full. it's spring break. and that is ploib one of the busiest timeon the water here in south florida. so here's advice from the g themselves. no one, know where you're at. gps is important out on the waw tesh.

if you don't go to your smart phone thrairksz compass app on your smart phone that will always give you qulur yur latitude and longitude. that's helpful for us to locate you. >> two, tell someone where you're going. >> let a family member or friends know hey listen, we're going fish be and your frendz we'll be back at 4:00. your friends should know if you're not back at #? they should start to try to start getting a hold of you. and note wake zones. not foanl only for the man tease but we have busy boating areas. and of course. >> very important. >> drinking and boating is not a good thing. we recommend every one wear their life jacket. very important. stai have a nice day on the water. and need need rescue remains to you haveve fun this spring break but keep an eye out. they will be out there on the water ready to respond in case of an emergency. frorgt port miami. government cut i'm a.m. alex de mars.

>> >> >> danielle: well, president obama is just days way from make history in what snran when he arrived there this weekend. and many people have strong opinions about his trip including a member of the cuban fight. a convicted cuban spy who spent time here in south florida. # # 7's alex diprato is in what snran with this exclusive. >> >> her rar do hernandez is so well-known he travels with body guards. at an n riculture fair outside havana he was surrounded by adoring cue because. >> this has been his life on the island since being released from prison in the united states in decembmb of 2014. >> it's a huge thing after so many years now we have vg family with all pevment we don't have to.

known as the cuban five. they were convicted in mie on 2001 on espionage charges. the cuban government maintain the five posed no throat and only sent to monitor exiles in uth florida to prevent ser terrorist attacks in cue boom. two released after serving time. last three including hernandez were freed in 2014 as part ave prisoner swap in cuba for an american ing tell against officer. the exchange coincided with the cubans releasing of american contractor allen gross. but both governments have maintained gross' releasi was unrelated to the prisoner change. >> cue what's turned the five into national heros. signs like these are all over havana. geraldo says he size new day for cuba with president obama's visit for many years something like this was impossible because of the u.s. blockade and right now the president coming from u.s. to cuba is very important.

historic moment on the island t. he would not have wits necessaried it if it wasn't for the prisoner swap. in cuba, i'm alex diprato. 7 news night restored relationship between the siewts united states and cuba is turning the couple nis island into a vacation destination robbin simmons is in havana and they sle have that part of story night at 6:00. and stay with the news station for ting coverage historic visit. president obama expected to land in cuba sunday at 5:00 p.m. and you can watch it live right here on 7 news and on wsvn.com. >> lynn: parents in new jersey dealing with serious water problems. newark public school students are voluntarily being tested for lead poisoning officials announcing that lead levels in the distraict's water have been elevated since at least 2012. water is now shut off at 30 of newark's 67 schools and parents will receive the test results

as we are take you across country now. a barn fire and explosion. the fews camera captured milwaukee barn bursting into flames. officials believe gas and oxygen tanks being stored inside sparked that blast. a big and goat were rescued just before the giant explosion. firefighters battling blaze at an apartment complex in texas. houston officials say strong winds made that fight divment all ten units were destroyed. but no one was injured. the cause of that fire is under investigation. twitter telling it's use tords keeee it short. the soarnl social mediaites 140 char ablg ter limb met will not be extand pand despite plans to make it longer. it really saystein any space. twitter ceo jack dorsey says keeping the space brief allow rs the of the moment feel and

10,000 characters to a track new users but now officially it has been declined. >> 175 c cracters. a little more would be helpful. >> lynn: yeah, it's hard. it's like a budget now. >> danielle: you got to stick to it. >> lynn: yes. >> danielle: that's a good way to look at it. >> all right coming up on 7 news. aenior citizen roived something sentimental when she was distracted theft and that's not all. her story on just one station. >> lynn: a fire breather recovering. this is so hard to watch every time you see t. tonight he is catch fire. >> i was shocked. to say the lease. ways shocked. i couldn't believe it that a nun would do something like that. >> >> danielle: well, the nun is accused of breaking one of the commentments, her alleged crime is caught on camera. >> and the weather it's been a least so far. that's a trend that's not likely to continue.

forecast. we'll have the forecast head.d.

>> >> lynn: wrel, an alleged unholy act and the person accused of the crime may surprise. a nun is supposed to be a witness for the lord. but customer said he witness td herr being a shopt lifting sister. belkeys nerey livi in the satellite center with more. belkeys. >> she's accused being a nun on the run and the store manager says he has it all on tape. >> >> belkeys: a manager at the grocery store points out what is believed to be a woman shoplifting at the score. >> and another customer came to me on aisle five and i'm not sure what i'm seeing but i think

already left the store by that time and a went out to pursue her. >> belkeys: workers were able to get license plate number from the car. state police say that car i owned by the nuns at a local con convenient in danville pennsylvania. but then came the biggest surprise. troopers say the thief say nun. 78-year-old agnes pawnee no who lives at couldn't onvenient. ways shocked. >> to say the lease. ways shocked. i couldn't believe it t tt a nun would actually do something like that. >> investigators and store employees say the the nun planned toto steal from the disor. >> this is where the fun removed the shopping bags from her purse p. they say pawnee no brought in the store's red cross before i bationz in her purse to take the stolen items oututf the store. yes, she had red grocery wags this. was planned. video shows her leaving from the front door when someone coming triggered the automatic door open, she makes a run for it.

coffee, soap and shampoo with her. tbiertd somebody to come in the door and when they came in the door, she ran out. terrible. humanity has gone to hell. to put it bluntly it's not good any more. and the con convenient declined to comment. if she pleads guilty she will only have to pay a fine. live in the plex. belkeys nerey. 7 news. >> lynn: she is human and she is a nun. thank you belkeys. >> danielle: new more tonight from the news station including this story or stories. big weekend event.. miew tic sick to people's ears f. you're in downtown miami a rif report from the ultramusic festival at 6:00. >> lynn: and now at 5:30, w w have your back stage pass to live in the gardens. >> danielle: and a sak preview of what is expected to be a hollywood block with us ter. batman versusuper man. not everyryne thinks one of the

>> >> danielle: an annual event that bringssf the biggest names in music this weekend in soovment. >> lynn: we're talking about jazz in the garden. shireen sandoval takes us back stage. >> snoot 11th annual jazz in the gardens in full prep moavmentd the festival set to host 70,000 fans at sun life stadium in miami gardens. >> everything will be fabulous. this is going to be ab extraordinary weekend. >> along with an impressive sical line up, fans can enjoy 50 plus food vendors and dozens of pop up shovmentz host ricky smilely talking up the festival. eye talk about it on the rio and try to get every one to come down and make this one of the biggest events in the country. >> and there could even be ain empire celebrity surprise. >> as far as guest celebrities, any one from empire, are they

can you give me a hint? right there loooothat the camera? anybody from empire? we you got to show up with the camera and see. >> >> reporter: the festival that has added another entrance to do way with long lines has been working on a musical line up for seven months moo music in miami is rich and so ga glatz gardens in my mind brings in the forefront not just the international and national music but also it helps to bring out and show case the music here in miami. local artist april rachelho performs early saturday can't believe hor her luck. at are you thinking. >> sn. >> i'm feeling like i've been step nothing a dream. it charlie wilson is head lining the event. he stepped in when aretha franklin canceled at the last minute. other performers. baby face. usher and cool and the gang.

shireen sandoval. 7 news now 7 weather with meteorologist brent cameron. >> and good afterno every one. just heading into the evening hours soon with weather change that's aren't too far away heading into the weekend. more moisture available for some showers. so we're going to have to have a heads up. be prepared for change skies. today looking pretty good. and the activity on radar has been very distant. a few tiny showers to our south in the straights. and then some more frequent activity inhe distant gulf of mexico and that's one of the areas we'll continue t t watch late night and during the day tomorrow. the western sky, that's when the storms will tend to get a little more vigorous during the afternoon from west to east. notice these temperatures on the warm side across south florida in the 80s but kind of a hoj poj of temperatutus. 60s showing upment around the panhandle and the 70s across the northern states already under the gun for some wet weather.

moving in to the state fro the gulf or from the west. and we'll look for the potential for some of that probably not tonight or at least very limited tonight. but heading into saturday and noo increasing rain chance. the models do show some of that developing activity, first around the everglades even where that across the southwestern part of the state and then advancing late in the afternoon tomorrow and even better rain and storm chance heading i io sunday because of this feature and it is a cold front that will be coming on the back stiefd some drier air. but that doesn't arrive until lir next week on monday and tuesday. ll nl then boating forocast winds out of south southeast just a short term risk of rip currents. mid 60s for temperatures well inlandnd otherwise low 70s a littltl more common and a wore warm night highs tomorrow in the mid 80s and not far behind that on the first day of spring sunday and then temperatures come down for at least a couple days early

that's your 7 on 7 forecast. brent thank you. >> lynn: a tououing tribute revving up today in broward county. look at this. the 8th annual fallen officer's ride kickoff cood from the ron cochran public safety building on west broward boulevard near 26th avenue. mat memoria ride stretch fors more than 2000 miles including all across the state of florida in mon nor of officers who are made the ultimate sacrifice. we have done a motorcycle ride riding to the other agency where's an officer was killed in the snraift flavment his year we're very fortunate to have two officers killed in the state of florida. ot cool call la police department and o ca luca sheriff's office. the annual ride started in 2008. remember sergeant chris reyka who was killed in in 2007. 7 news coming right back.

>> >> lynn: americans with disabilities act allows physically children challenged people to access places that are have access. >> danielle: but it st being accused by peopleho sue hundreds of businesses. that's the question. patrick fraser haltz special assignment report. disability ti deception. there are two s ses to every story. sometimes the only question chrks side to do you take? let's begin with patricia kennedy who say quadraplegic and needs a wheelchchr to get around. >> i just want access to that place o business soy can go in there, have a dinner, go to the reststom and go shopping just like anybody else. >> when patricia meksz access, she's referring to business that are not add compliant meaning they don't have

bathrooms. she considers herself an advocate to force the businesses to follow the law. >> we have a right to go anywhere and every where, tom bacon shoes businesses on behalf handicap people like patricia for not following the americans with disabilities act. >> it takes a dedicated individual who is willing to challenge the practice nand federal court to get a place fixed. and then there's the other side. the businesses being sued. be we never got a notice. just immedtely got a subpoena and we're currently in this legal battle. mario owns lation pal mass cafeteria in miami. on the day he was sued. several nearby businesses were also sued. mario's violation, access to hik bath room is difficult. the light switch in the restroom is too high and the sink nobz need to be changed. we have disabled custors that come here on a regular lay bai cyst and none of them have it's any issues whatsoever.

by what's called a tester, a person like patricia who travels around, see as a violation and fielsz suit. patricia is very busy at t. once suing 20 businesses in a day. and accoing to two court records 270 businesses every all. she doesn't feel that's successful i feel if there's not somebody to stand up and watch dog over these things, these issues will never be fix oovmentd bacon estimates he sued several hundred places and says it's necessary to get the law enforce oovmentd no one enforces the ada. local cord code enforcement it tend not to do that because it's not their job. the only people who enforce the law are people like my clients. once a business is sued, the owner has to hire an attorney to solve the problem. nolan klein represents many of those business. my first obligation as an attorney is to get them out of lit ta investigation as quickly as i can. at the same time we want to create ann access to the ais disabled.

violations have to be crectd and attorney suing like bacon is usually paid by the business owner like e rio. in mario's case money to pay the other side's attorney and his niemplet if we're not compliant with ada standards, i completely understand that we have to remedy these things to fix them but to come at us out of where. it's not fair. it's not edge cavment it's not moral. patricia says that she snot paid to be a tester and is both erd that people criticize her for going after so many businesses. >> i'm not a bad person. one siewftd story tters have filed lawsuits costing them lots of money. and the other side of the story. there are businesses with adr arks violations. 7 news. and that is 7 news at 5:30. thank you so much for watching. i'm danielle knox. >> lynn: i'm lynn martinez.

>> now on 7 news. a professional stunt man man says a mistake turned his body into a fire ball. this is what happens when you have a firir >> thieves tricking a 90-year-old would. sometng near and deer to her heart. and have you to not trust nifnlt it's terrible. just one station with her story. and the president stay ways from a historic visit to cuba. and he is far from the only one heading there. >> we're live in havana. >> and ultrais underway. >> this is 7 news at 6:00. >> now at # 6:00, a performers stunt a a school taking a fiery turn. >> it happened to fast and quaij and hit my face. ways like oh, his is knew. >> and tonight he is talking about the accident that left him scared and scarred. >> belkeys: good evening every one he was burned life what i

terribly wrong. >> craig: and he sayss he only has himself blievment vanessa at the spital with the story. vanessa. >> reporter: so craig, ricky charles is in a lot of pain. because of the damage to his face he is afraid his performance career is over. >> first of all i'm lucky. >> danielle: rake can i charles is lucky to be life after the fire breathing stunt went wrong. it's like being burned ally. and an audience is watching. it happened so fast snoot pembroke pines man has done this strict thousands of times. however, conveniently changed the rairt flied he uses using it for the first time at atlantic gh school in delray beach. >> my mistake. i faikake full responsibility. i should of practiced. this is what happedz when you

says i can control the other lierlt fluid. >> when i dot flairnlings ith lights so farveghts the flame came back and caught m m face. i thought oh, this is knew. `because can see i wasn't panicking. he has second degree burns ever varying depths and they are on his face, his ears and the rest of his head and goes around the back of his head and then he has one foorm and part of a thigh and calf. >> seven students taken to the hospital as a precaution. palm beach county superintendent says it's against school board policy to bring pyrotechnics inside the school i w w shocked and i wasn't happy and a was a little confused about who had approved that kind of activity.y. to my it's common sense. you don't bring that kind of activity into a building anywhere. let alone a school oruditorium or media center or gym filled with children.

high school. apologize for them to see that kind of you know madness. >> so doctors here at delray beach medical center are watching charles in case has respiratory issues or possible infection. now charles says that he can't wait to get back t t performing. however, for his fa nal lirks that fire breathing finale, he again. reporting live in delray beach, vanessa medina. 7 news. >> now on just one station, a 90-year-old woman duped at door and something priceless stolen. >> at my age, mine you think you're going to go peacefully and it doesn't look that way. >> tonight police out to stop a crime ring. >> and 7's rosh lowe is live for us on the scene in bay harbor