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- It’s Wednesday, April 17th – and NBC 6 has the top six stories you need to know for the day.
It’s Wednesday, April 17th – and NBC 6 has the top six stories you need to know for the day.
Weather wise, comfortable temperatures and low humidity are again in the forecast for South Florida – but warmer weather and another front are on the way starting at the end of the week.
No. 1 - The father of a South Florida woman suspected of making threats against multiple schools in Colorado, including Columbine High School, is begging for his daughter to come home and turn herself in.
Authorities are searching for 18-year-old Sol Pais, of Surfside, who traveled to Colorado on Monday night. Police said she made threats to more than 20 schools, including Columbine High School -- just days before the 20-year mark of the mass shooting that killed 13 people.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the FBI say Pais bought a pump-action shotgun and ammunition.
No. 2 - Newly obtained surveillance footage shows the confrontation among Miami police and two men accused of impersonating federal agents at Little Havana's Versailles restaurant earlier this year.
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Police say Ismael Diaz, 51, and Alberto Nunez-Horta, 48, were arrested back in January and faced charges of impersonating a police officer, assault and battery on a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct.
The restaurant says for several days at various hours, the pair spoke with customers and portrayed themselves as agents with the FBI.
No. 3 - Nearly $1 billion has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the French president set a controversial five-year deadline to get the work done.
Construction teams brought in a huge crane and a delivery of planks of wood to the site Wednesday morning. Firefighters are still examining damage and shoring up the structure after Monday's fire collapsed the cathedral's spire and destroyed the roof.
No. 4 - Stepping up pressure on Cuba, the Trump administration will allow lawsuits against foreign companies doing business in properties seized from Americans after the island's 1959 revolution, a senior administration official said.
The move marks a change in more than two decades of U.S. policy on Cuba.
No. 5 - Suicide prevention has become issue number one in the Parkland and Coral Springs community, since two teenagers died by suicide in recent weeks. Both deaths are considered fallout from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
The MSD Safety Commission raised the suicide prevention issue at last week's meeting, with some commissioners saying important tools are not getting enough attention. They were talking about free mobile applications such as SaferWatchand Fortify Florida.
No. 6 - Nationally, African American women are four times more likely to die during childbirth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result, maternal morbidity rates for Black women in the U.S. are the highest in the developed world, equal to that of Haiti and countries in West Africa.
The concern is shared by about a dozen U.S. lawmakers who introduced the first ever Black Maternal Health Caucus, one day before the start of Black Maternal Health Week.
