People were seen waiting in lines outside Miami-Dade supermarkets Friday after the county’s mayor issued an order for stores to limit crowding inside their facilities. Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s order calls for essential commercial and retail establishments that provide unpackaged food for consumption to limit capacity and monitor entrances...

You’re stuck at home and you’ve run out of toilet paper. At the local supermarket, the shelves are bare. The pharmacy has been out of hand sanitizer for weeks. The corner store stocked masks for a minute, but now they’re gone. Or perhaps you want to help by making masks for essential workers. Whatever it is, you’ve been turn...

Miami-Dade county will begin randomly screening residents for the novel coronavirus in order to survey the area’s estimated rate of infection, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced Friday.

If we’ve learned one thing so far during the coronavirus crisis, it’s that most scientists really do know what they’re talking about. They use models, inputting data like the number of known cases and deaths over time where the virus has already struck, to estimate when the nation or any state may see a wave of sick people headed....

Farmers across South Florida are hurting.  “We never thought we would see this in this great country of ours,” said Sam Accursio, president of Sam S. Accursio & Sons Farms.  Accursio sends squash, green beans, pickles and cucumbers to restaurants, but most of that has stopped since COVID-19. “That takes half of our produce that we shi...

Passengers from an ill-fated cruise are being allowed to touch dry land for the first time in weeks

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ statewide stay-at-home order began early Friday, as Florida’s confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 10,000 and the state’s death toll from the virus rose sharply to 170. Florida’s total confirmed cases rose by more than 1,200 since Thursday to 10,268, according to figures released by the Florida Department...

“So these are unprecedented times,” says the man in the middle of the computer screen, whose face is surrounded by several other faces, all logged in from their homes.  Unprecedented times call for extraordinary action.  The Jason Taylor Foundation moved its annual Louder Than a Bomb spoken-word poetry competition onto a virtual platform,...

It’s Friday, April 3th – and NBC 6 has the top stories you need to know for the day. No. 1 – Healthy passengers are finally leaving a cruise ship docked at Port Everglades on Friday, one day after several on board were taken to an area hospital to be treated for the coronavirus. Hundreds of people will be transported…

A woman on Florida’s Treasure Coast was arrested for violating a order to stay quarantined and isolated at home amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the state. Stuart Police arrested 38-year-old Melissa Barton on Wednesday after she was walking in the downtown area of the city while being active on social media about having taken a test for the...

Hospitals across South Florida have become a battleground against the coronavirus pandemic – and many are now preparing for the possibility they may become the new epicenter in a few weeks. One of the hospitals treating the most patients is UM Jackson Memorial Hospital, where emergency room doctors says they’re ready for now after seeing an i...

A cruise ship carrying at least a dozen people who have tested positive for coronavirus won’t be allowed to dock in South Florida Saturday, officials said. Carnival Corp.’s Coral Princess had been expected to arrive at Port Everglades at some point Saturday but was refused permission to dock by the U.S. Coast Guard. The ship has more th...

Walt Disney Co. officials announced they’ll start furloughing some workers in two weeks at its theme parks resorts in Florida and California