in other words, the bottle of pills you paid $500 for in broward county, you could sell for $5,000 inenup county. >>it's created entrepreneurs out here that literally send dozens a month, dozens a month down there. (mariana) you say dozens of people out there just to buy pills? >>just to go to florida to buy pills, and do a turn about come right back. if i front you the money and you go for me, i give you half of the pills. and you get me the other half of the pills. >>so i'll be able to feed my addiction without having to pay anything up front? >>exactly. you get your addiction fed, i make money. everybody's happy. everybody except the old worn out sheriff of the county's not happy. (mariana) with florida several hundred miles outside his jurisdiction, sheriff cooper focuses on the only part of the pill trade that he can. >>wanda ten. >>today the sheriff is going to serve a warrant on a man that he's learned is selling oxy he bought in florida. come on man, be there. be there, be there, be there. there he is. >>is that him? >>yup. that's him. let's find out what's up. >>what kind of

. >> reporter: neither could sheriff's deputies in broward county, who days later, they finally sorteder was. this woman, 67-year-old cheryl hepner, the potty-mouth grandmother of miglino's 3-year-old son. >> you shot me. >> reporter: you had no idea that cheryl hepner was going to come out. >> i don't talk to her. there's no reason to talk to her. i didn't know why she was stepping out. i didn't know why. i thought she was going to keep yelling at me. >> reporter: which is why he hit the record button in the first place. he tells "nightline" in an exclusive interview, heppner was holding miglino's bag and pillow. from behind it, she pulled a gun. >> she shoots, my reaction, as i came around. grabbed the gun. >> reporter: wow. >> grabbed this way. pushed her all the way back to the grass and was on top of her. and i was trying to take the gun away from her. >> reporter: miglino says he swats the gun away, grabs it and bolts. you can hear him wheezing, as he races back to his car. >> what's your emergency? >> she shot me. >> reporter: but heppner wasn't through yet. >> what's your emerg

>> what we're seeing is broward county deputy paul fletcher pulling over a 38-year-old woman back on may 23rd, 2011 in plantation, florida. paul was off duty and out of uniform. he was in his squad car. >> so is this like a road rage thing where maybe he didn't like the move they pulled on the road? >> according to asore yo he never said what made him so mad. he used an ethnic slur, told her to go back where she came from, put his right elbow in her throat, he grabbed her right arm by the wrist, snatched her cell phone. her cell phone was later found broken in half. police were able to recover the video, the card. as soon as this incident was wrapped up, she called 911. police came to the scene, and there has been an investigation on deputy paul pletcher ever since. this monday of this week, he turned himself in and is now facing charges of burglary, battery, criminal mischief and petty theft and has been suspended without pay. this whole thing almost turned into him being mad about her filming him, which chetekcally has the right to do. >> it's also a little bit telling when an offi

a bus in lauderdale lakes florida, in broward county, a man is about to stand beside the bus driver. this is 22-year-old dudley randall pierre. he looks like he's having a conversation. >> not supposed to go in front of that yellow line. >> what happened? >> dudley looks like he's about to get off and turns around and goes to the back of the bus. dudley comes back to the front of the bus and reportedly slammed his too the on the brake pedal. dudley actually gets off the bus, he comes back, and this is where it gets really bad. >> whoa. >> he starts punching the bus driver. this bus driver is 60-year-old larry con. the fight gets pretty violent. con suffered a split lip and black eye from the attack. according to reports the bus driver did not know this man and had no idea why this fight even happened. >> look at dudley's face during this fight. his eyes are wide open and he looks -- he looks pretty crazed. some of the passengers on board helped get dudley under control. according to reports, dudley did end up getting off the bus after he had this run-in with the but driver. dudley is

broward county sheriffs believe maybe he's from south florida but there is no way to tell. they're hoping someone recognizes him from the video. >> i hope that his mom or his wife recognizes him in this video and says what the heck are you doing? >> in some reports gloria said that she believes she made eye contact with his guy after she had lost the watch, but before she realized it was missing. so that i'm sure is going to haunt her. >> i hope they find him because regardless of the value of the watch, the meaning behind it i think is even more special. >>> lonnie is partially paralyzed but not letng them st eliveler. lni here is getting a piggyback ride to a cliff in norway. he had 1200 base jumps under his belt when in 2005, he suffered a freak accident that left him partially paralyzed. even so, he still has that adventure blood in him. >> oh, man! >> whoa! i thought lonnie was going to stay on the back of the guy, but no, he's totally separates. how does he land? ♪ >> they caught him? >> yes. >> how awesome. what a great team of friends to get out and do this with him

it was jail that actually saved my life, because that is where i met broward county drug court judgeho loved me, and so i could love myself. she placed me in the sheriff's 90-day in-custody treatment program. the time there helped save my life. the last 30 days of the 90 days i did something i had never done before in my entire life. i made a plan. today, i'm an intern for intherooms.com. we are the world's largest recovery web site with over 260,000 people worldwide, sharing their experience, strength, and hope with each other, and it's powerful. today, i'd like to tell you that i'm an asset, not a liability. today, i'm a face and voice in and of recovery, and thank you for having me. (applause) on behalf of the president of the united states, the national alcohol and drug addiction recovery month, there is a proclamation. i will not trouble you to read the four or five paragraphs that are in here, but i think that-that when you do get to see it and you see it up on the white house web site, it is particularly impressive that-the way he and this administration want to deal with this

in broward county's first appearance court you can hear his wife pleading for clemency. >> i love my husband. >> i know you love him. and you don't want anything bad to happen. >> reporter: the 47-year-old bray was released on his own recognizance because he has no criminal past. still, plantation police say when they responded to the couple's apartment on monday, things were heated. >> the victim indicated that she wasn't wished a happy birthday and because of that as a result she got upset with him and in turn he apparently pushed her over the back of the couch, grabbed her around the neck, and cocked a fist back as if to punch her. >> reporter: bray was charged with one count of simple battery. we knocked on the couple's door. mr. bray answered. and he did not want to comment on his sentence, for better or for worse. but it appears he's the only one who doesn't want to comment, especially advocates against domestic violence. they're outraged. hurley is going to get a letter from mary reedle of women in distress, who gave me this statement. "i am very disappointed at the judge's ru

broward county. domestic violence issue.who took his wife and pushed her on the couch. this happened before. raised his fist. escalated. it goes to court. a guy, the judge in this case is a john hurley who rules on the case. and what you are about to see is the most unusual ruling of what mr. bray must now pay back to society. >> he will be out of jail by 3:00 today and he will stop by somewhere. he will get some flowers. now hold on. hold on. he will get a card. he will get flowers. and then he is going to go home, pick up his wife. get dressed. take her to red lobster. after, that they'll go bowling. >> bob: can i suggest his wife pick up a 12-gauge shotgun on the way back home? i guess this is serious, but have you heard a ruling like this before? >> kimberly: in the olden days judges used to do this type of thing. that's how you settle it. now people are aware of the seriousness of domestic violence and abuse that occurs to women. this is inappropriate. the guy is out of line. first, he hit her. that is not good. second,

phil keating is one of our florida-based corresponds live at port everglades in broward county.week they reported the crown princess was a okay, right? >> they did. that was after the next round of 3,000 passengers waited for an extra six hours to board the crown princess while it was being thoroughly scrubbed down. while the lab tests finally came back to atlanta for the cdc revealing norovirus from the previous cruise it was too late. more people were getting sick from this very violent stomach virus which causes two very unpleasant things to happen for 24 hours. one being vomiting. >> i feel a little green still. >> do you? >> yes. so it wasn't fun. i'm not happy. but i'm back on land. my first and last cruise. >> we saw them getting sick. >> what did they look like? >> green. they were throwing up. it was a bad experience for those people, yes. we had people on our floor that were, you know, put in their room and not let out. >> princess cruise lines apologized to everyone. reimbursed everyone for the shortened trip it never made to aruba. ended up being a four day cruise to

. >>> and the sheriff's office in broward county, florida, want to speak to a man that took an expensivehat didn't belong to him. he was going through security at the time ft. lauderdale with hollywood, airport last month and he spotted the watch in a bin and he took it. the police say it was left in the bin by another passenger. the man who took it boarded his plane before security could talk to him. arounderson? susan, thanks. >> we'll be right back. hey, aren't you supposed to be following that fidelity green line? well, yeah, but it keeps leading me back to my old office. i think it might be broken. or maybe it's trying to tell you something. yeah, but what could it be try-- oh, i left my 401(k) at my old job. and i left a jacket on the back of my door. but i think the line's talking about my 401(k). leave a 401(k) behind? roll it over with a company that's helping more people reach retirement than anyone else. call or come in for a free portfolio review today. i want to fix up old houses. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i

maybe one to three inches of rainfall here, broward county, miami-dade here, homestead, you'll get theest of rainfall but we may even get good rainfall into several parts of florida. that's good news. all of florida is in some type of drought condition. much of south florida could use a good eight to ten inches of rainfall to make up for the deficit. we've had a lot of fires burning across parts of florida so any kind of rain is much needed. you're saying to yourself is this unprecedented, have we ever had any kind of prop cal system before in the month of february? well, yes we have and it happened on ground hog day back in 1952. it was a tropical storm, maximum winds around 50 miles per hour. take a look at the track that it took. very similar to what we're expecting this one to do. we'll keep our eye on it. don, back to you. >>> residents of joplin, missouri, still trying to recover from the massive tornado that hit last year and part of that recovery comes in the form of a new hospital. we'll take you there next. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we we

so many people saw the video the broad county sheriff's office says tips came in from -- the broward county sheriff's office says tips came in from all over the country. the victim who lives in el salvador is happy to get her watch back. >>> now to orlando where a beef burglar is caught on tape. surveillance video shows the man jumped through a hole in the roof of the family food supermarket. then he grabbed packages of meat and tosses them into the hole that he created to break into the store. the thief got away with about $75 worth of food and caused about $500 in damage. that's it for all that work? i don't know it. just seems like it's completely not worth it. the store manager believes he recognizes the crook as someone from the neighborhood. >>> over in waltham, massachusetts, a surveillance camera outside a funeral home captures a good samaritan rescuing two people from the house fire. >> the video shows the man sprint through the parking lot and run right inside the burning home with no hesitation. with his help the two men inside made it out okay. >> we are very grateful for what h

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jennifer herrato is responsible for helping broward county deal with rising water. the county is one of four from palm beach to the keys, developing a regional climate action plan. drainage improvements, roads elevated, well fields moved inland. it's hoped federal dollars could cover much of it, but some improvements, like raising a sea wall -- >> it may be a community would need to come together and jointly agree to fund an improvement like that. >> study indicates sea level rises in florida from 9 inches to two feet by 060. john zarrella, cnn, ft. lauderdale. >> so is the u.s. headed towards world war three? iran's nuclear warning today could make keeping the peace even more difficult. time magazine's foreign policy correspondent joins me live in just a few minutes and she says iran may be itching for war. in america, we believe in a future that is better than today. since 1894, ameriprise financial has been working hard for their clients' futures. never taking a bailout. helping generations achieve dreams. buy homes. put their kids through college. retire how the

in broward county's first appearance court you can hear his wife pleading for clemency. >> i love my husband. >> i know you love him. and you don't want anything bad to happen. >> reporter: the 47-year-old bray was released on his own recognizance because he has no criminal past. still, plantation police say when they responded to the couple's apartment on monday, things were heated. >> the victim indicated that she wasn't wished a happy birthday and because of that as a result she got upset with him and in turn he apparently pushed her over the back of the couch, grabbed her around the neck, and cocked a fist back as if to punch her. >> reporter: bray was charged with one count of simple battery. we knocked on the couple's door. mr. bray answered. and he did not want to comment on his sentence, for better or for worse. but it appears he's the only one who doesn't want to comment, especially advocates against domestic violence. they're outraged. hurley is going to get a letter from mary reedle of women in distress, who gave me this statement. "i am very disappointed at the judge's ru

speaking of florida, a judge in b broward county, florida making headlines after an unconventional rulingomestic court case. here is the ruling, buy your wife flowers and take her to red lobster. joseph frey forgets his wife's birthday. the wife claims he shoved her against the sofa and put his hands on her neck. the wife says "didn't get hit." wanted to work things out. that's what she says. the judge orders him to buy his wife flowers, birthday card, dinner out to red lobster, perhaps, and after dinner, the couple has been ordered to go bowling. >> it defies logic. >> that's unbelievable. >> it happens a lot it may be strange to hear for the first time, but this happens a lot. judges who don't have the sensitivity to domestic violence have been known to do these kinds of things. >> i don't know, ashley -- >> one husband was ordered something like this, he ended up burning his wife after a similar order like this. it's a serious issue. clearly it's getting national attention. that's critical at this point. >> i will find the story and put it on facebook for you. >> that is amazing. >> so

if you recognize him and that's a pretty good look at him on that surveillance video, call the broward county hotline, there is a reward, $1000, if you have any information that leads to the watch and leads to an arrest. keep your eye on the tape. back to you guys. jon: that is just awful. let's hope they get that guy. >> reporter: let's hope so. jenna: a small pennsylvania town is under seige by thousands of crows, and residents are complaining about it. as you can imagine. nonstop noise, a whole lot of mess and the town says the invasion is keeping people away. which is very bad for business, except, of course, for the local car washes who are doing just fine. residents say attempts to use scarecrows and other means are having little impact on the bird's remains jon: i don't suppose a shotgun is an option? just asking. >>> folks celebrate valentine's day by candlelight, whether they wanted to or not. southern california edison says a deflated helium balloon, one of those mylar kind, fell into a sub station, causing a power outage that left nearly 16,000 customers in the dark. there's no wor

broward county, 10% of the population, 52%. to palm beach county, 55%.int i was going to make. this is why that speech is so important. look at these areas of strength. remember this area in a competitive election of florida, i-4 tampa to orlando, independent voters, swing voters, these are very important parts of the state. i want to make that point come back to 28008 and the presidential race. barack obama won florida but it was a close race and the unemployment race has gone up. look down here, general election, democratic territory, performing very well. split area, mccain doing well and obama some others. when governor romney speaks tonight he is speaking to the people of florida but wants to project a sign of strength to move on. >> this is a close state. only republicans can vote. that does not necessarily bode well in november, if assuming mitt romney gets the nomination for president obama. he needs florida. he needs it desperately. they will both be fighting for the fourth largest state in the country. >> if it is mitt romney, you moderated las

broward county, 10% of the population, 52%. to palm beach county, 55%.int i was going to make. this is why that speech is so important. look at these areas of strength. remember this area in a competitive election of florida, i-4 tampa to orlando, independent voters, swing voters, these are very important parts of the state. i want to make that point come back to 28008 and the presidential race. barack obama won florida but it was a close race and the unemployment race has gone up. look down here, general election, democratic territory, performing very well. split area, mccain doing well and obama some others. when governor romney speaks tonight he is speaking to the people of florida but wants to project a sign of strength to move on. >> this is a close state. only republicans can vote. that does not necessarily bode well in november, if assuming mitt romney gets the nomination for president obama. he needs florida. he needs it desperately. they will both be fighting for the fourth largest state in the country. >> if it is mitt romney, you moderated las

. >> you have to be concerned he did so well in miami-dade and broward and palm beach county, the largest population centers in the state. those are economies that the president of the united states will desperately need to have a shot at florida. >> president obama, i'm quite confident, is going to win overwhelmingly in south florida. like most presidential candidates do on the democratic side, the republicans really need to be kirned tonight because if there was so much fervor on their side to beat president obama, they would have had a bigger turnout in the primary in 2012 than 2008, and it was lower. that's reflective of the fact they're not very enthusiastic about their field. that's going to cause them problems down the road. florida is the biggest battleground state and it's going to be key to the candidate that wins, which i think will be barack obama. >> is he the strongest candidate, the one you fear the most as a democrat? >> you know, fear is certainly not the term i would use. it doesn't much matter which one of the republican candidates ultimately is there nominee. they're a

one-fourth of romney's vote of last night came from palm beach, broward and miami-dade counties. viewer understand a republican in a general election is not going to win those three counties over barack obama. if i'm newt gingrich, i want to take on mitt romney in places like the northern panhandle in florida which is states like louisiana, texas, mississippi, alabama, georgia,et al. >> he needs to hire you as his coach. thank you very much. good to see you. >>> a possible extension of the federal pay freeze tops our looks at stories around the news nation today. the house is expected to vote on the measure today that would freeze the salaries of federal employees, including members of congress and their staff for a third year. president obama wants to be end the pay freeze next year and raise federal salaries a half percent. bail increased for the former los angeles school teacher accused of taking sexually explicit photos of children. mark berndt was on court today on allegations he committed lewd acts involving nearly two dozen children. bail has been raised from $2 million to

margin victory won by over 200,000 votes, half of it basically came in five counties, the state of miami here, dade, browardplus tampa bay, st. pete and tampa, pinellas and hillsborough, something like 49% of his margin simply came out of these five counties. it really was a stunning number. he won miami-dade by 38,000 votes. won it by almost 50%. just a huge number on that. let's look at what was another unbelievable number when you really think about it. 40% of republicans came out and viewed newt gingrich unfavorably. this is republicans. if you had a 40% unfavorable rating in a general election, that would be okay. it's not great, it's not something you want. it's about where president obama is in his personal rating with all of the elector raitt. newt gingrich 40% unfavorable with florida republicans. you think negative ads don't work? they work. the next thing that was probably the second most important number out of this and why newt gingrich and santorum want to go on. look at this number, 41% not conservative enough. among those folks who said mitt romney wasn't conservative enough, newt gingrich w