this week's scheduled plea is the first involving a margate employee. investigators have also focused on public workers in atlantic city and other communities. 15 people uncolluding pharmaceutical reps have already pleaded guilty to take iing parn the multimillion dollar kickback scheme. prosecutors say it defrauded benefits programs and other insurers through claims for expensive and medically unnecessary compounded medications. i reached out to the lawyer, but he said neither he or his client has any comment. i asked margate's commissioner of public safety if residents could expect more fallout. >> do you anticipate additional vacancies at the fire department in the near future? >> i would hope not, but i can't say that i would be surprised if there weren't. >> no matter what happens in the future, i can assure you that the margate city fire department will provide u the excellent service we always have. this will have no effect on fire department response whatsoever. >> ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >>> turning to our weather. a beautiful day across ou

will tell you something that may be true and leading to confusion and that is that coconut creek margate is helping coral springs p.d. and broward sheriff's office are on the scene. but they have said that this is a level three mci, which is the possibility of multiple victims, more than 21 victims. that means that they are preparing for an incident that may have more than 21 victims. which is probably prudent to do if you hear of an active shooter at the school. some reporters are interpreting that to mean that there are more than 20 people injured. we do not have that information yet. stand by, jim. tammy leitner is headed from miami up to parkland, florida. tammy, i guess that is -- if you were starting in miami, that is about a 30 minute drive four? >> actually it is a a little bit longer. we're about 30 minutes out right now. you guys, i can tell you that we did speak with a mother whose daughter is inside of the school right now. she is actually trapped inside of the school. according to her, there are still -- at least about 20 kids and teachers inside of the school. they've barri

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situation that school we heard of confirmation of at least twenty people are injured that's from the margate fire department a local fire department in the area on the shooter is still at large wearing a burgundy shirt or sweater and is described as a white male. ok so these are the latest pictures we're seeing from there police say one of the exits or entrances in the area at that news helicopter about media culture just keeping a close and what's coming in there at the moment ok we will be keeping a very close eye on this story in the coming hours as well any and all updates keep it locked here at r.t. we shall bring it to. you. ok so that is the situation there the moment next is peace on the korean peninsula edging closer or is the thawing of relations during the ongoing winter olympics a temporary rest by delves into the movement. i i. i. i. i. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the games have begun the younger sister of north korea's kim jong un has captured the attention of the media while u.s. vice president mike pence was mocked as a dud ev

for those of you at the shore you know the impact of the complication of those factors and roads in margate get flooded again. that's going to happen. and as it continues to strengthen offshore, we have strong northwest winds behind that storm. heavy rain thursday night and friday morning. the winds pick up. the colder air comes down, and changes the rain into potentially heavy, wet snow. at least in parts of the area. something is going to have to be watched. so we have the rain tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night. we have the highest winds on friday, saturday is the threat for the coastal flooding. and then we finally improve the weather as we go through the weekend. so we could have sunshine coming out late saturday but still have problems at the shore. and then another system coming in next week. so this is one of those large systems. we have a blocking pattern. that's why it's going to hang around a little while. >> need to get it to move out of here. >> all the other storms did this winter, but not this one. >> a mind of its own. >>> leave nature alone. that's the message for supporter

we got screen shots from the jersey shore perfect margate to point pleasant. a.m. a private company senout the alert following a monthly test by the national weather service and looking into why the test message was communicated address an actual tsunami warning and there was no danger today. sorry for the false alarm. the good news the test since tim works. >> just don't send it out good so many false alarms. >> was checking to see if i got that alert but i didn't that is good. thank you. it's time for a check of the roads right now. >> matt pellman standing by with the update for us. >> we don't have time for tsunamis these days and other things to focus on like a wintry mix rolling in early tomorrow morning and a big parade the next day on thursday. we get ready already here along the ben franklin parkway. this is the scene by 20 and street and you see the police suv blocking off the inbound inner drive of the parkway. as they get ready this afternoon, if you head outbound toward the art museum both drives are open to get you out of town this afternoon. on

we were out here, able to get the ambulances from the coconut creek, parkland, margate area. one shot of what looked like a type ager on the inside of one of those ambulances. i spoke to a friend -- >> shepard: this is the description of the person of interest. let's listen. these are live pictures from wsvn's chopper. that's ralph rayburn trying to tell us about it. >> i just -- i'm being told two different things here. i want to make sure i'm on the same page. they have a subject in custody, this is the man that they believe police officers was involved in the shooting here. our address that we gave you before, 11735 northwest 47th drive was the corrected a dress here. he has been identified by witnesses now and they have requested a broward sheriff's office vehicle to come and do the final transport of the subject to whatever destination they'll take him for processing. this all happening within the last hour and 20 minutes or so when the original call went out of shots fired at marjory stoneman douglas facility, the school facility that has a middle school and other schoo