jorge estevez went to the construction site today. when commissioners green lighted this sale. >>reporter: a fully private venture. a look at this construction site of the new stadium shows progress, but this progress no longer comes with a major price tag for taxpayers. >> the motion carries. >> all right. finish the stadium. >>reporter: orlando city council members approved the final deal to buy this land in paramore from the city of orlando, an 18 million dollar offer. >> we'll get ready to get ready for the beginning of 2017 and the grand opening of the stid yaum. >>reporter: expected that the new stadium would be built. the 2017 major league soccer season. able to pack more than 25,000 fans inside. but on the outside, is a surrounding community of paramore, which the team addressed its continued commitment, even though their project is now totally privately funded. >> we will don't do that, we will continue to take the residents of paramore, the with everything that we do and we want to be good neighbors, for many, many, many years to come. >>reporter: and part of being a

channel 9 anchor jorge estevez has been following this. and these investigations took 14 months to complete. >> 1.7 billion dollars to iran settling a 30-year debt. family members of these guys here, of course, say it was worth them to get them back. five americans are free at last. >> we're overjoyed that he's out. >>reporter: a boston university first to return home. he arrived in massachusetts, after being detained for 40 days in iran. where he'd been teaching. meanwhile, 3 of the exprisoners are now getting much needed medical treatment, at a u.s. military base in germany. their first stop out of iran, was switzerland. where washington post reporter jason rezaian, met the u.s. official who helped negotiate his release. rezaian was held for more than a year and hey half on charges. >> he's doing okay, i mean, he's, you know, mostly been neglected for a long time. >>reporter: former marine, amir, here with his family, spent more than 4 years in iranian prison. his sister beamed with joy at the news he was free. >> we are looking forward

george estevez has -- jorge story. on camera. >> reporter: here is a shot. it's right near pompano beach. within the last few hours, the weather service confirmed this was in fact an ef-1 tornado. i want to go over to this the damage. each other. the tornado even picked up this bus and simply threw it over several fences and onto a busy street and then, come over here what you see. the area looks like a war zone. the storm tore off a roof at broward college and flip this brock >>> -- flipped this box truck on the highway. the national weather service says the tornado touched down three times last night. crews are working to assess the damage, which could add up to millions of dollars. one person was hurt with minor injuries. this tornadoes part of the el nino system we have been seeing and talking about him severe weather center nine since january 1 of this year. for has seen seven tornadoes. this is serious stuff. >> we have a little bit of systems out there that are affecting us tonight. but no tornadoes. >> fortunately, the severe weather threat is very l