A Davie father of three is facing child pornography charges after detectives say he downloaded videos of children engaging in sex acts while neglecting his own children, keeping them in a filthy house.

Davie Police said Michael Salisbury, 35, viewed and downloaded child porn from his Davie home between April 23 and July 4. Investigators found multiple files of children having sex with adults and animals, according to the arrest report.

Salisbury’s three children, aged 5, 9, and 11, lived with their father, according to police. When officers went to arrest Salisbury, they found a filthy house strewn with feces and garbage.

“Upon reaching the doorway of the residence there was an extremely foul odor of feces coming from inside the residence. There was garbage all over the residence. There were piles of feces throughout the residence. The secondary bathroom toilet did not work and was backing up into the residence. There was food throughout the residence on the floor. Wires were exposed in the residence and were within reach of the three children,” detectives wrote.

Police said Salisbury talked to detectives after being given his Miranda rights. He admitted to downloading a file-sharing program and said he downloaded pornography, but said he only looked for adult pornography.

Neighbors NBC 6's Jamie Guirola spoke to said they believe Salisbury is being set up.

It's unknown if Salisbury has an attorney.

Salisbury is facing three counts of willful child neglect without great bodily harm, two counts of child pornography and one count of possession of marijuana.

Jaime Ruiz was in town talking up another tool the United States is using to try to stem the tide of Central American Children streaming into the country. Ruiz is a former television reporter who now works for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

He screens a couple of very well-produced TV public service announcements, plays some radio spots, and discusses billboards.

"We are going to pay a million dollars for close to 7,000 radio and TV spots, 233 billboards running in three countries," Ruiz said.

Those countries would be Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Those countries provide the vast majority of children that are often sent on their own to get to the United States. The message is clear. Don't do it. Do not try to make a dangerous journey that may prove fatal.

One of the TV commercials relies heavily on drama. A mother urges her son not to go to the U.S. He makes the journey anyway. His journey ends in a death in the desert. The mini-drama hits heavy on family ties.

Another commercial takes a cynical animated look at how a "Coyote" operates. They are the smugglers who take as much as $10,000 per youngster to escort them to the U.S. border. The message: the "Coyote" care less about the child's welfare, as it is all about the money.

Julio Cerrato and his brother, while sipping sodas from their native Honduras, say the TV spots will not work. Both are U.S. citizens, got here the old-fashioned way and say the tide of kids will never stop.

Talking about the United States Julio said, "We know how good you are and we, referring to those who are sending their kids north, and we take advantage of it. You got to understand that. He says despite tougher policing of the border between Guatemala and Mexico, the beefed up presence along the U.S. Mexico Border parents will get their children to the U.S. one way or another. They want to give them a future. Those parents already here in the U.S. are saving money to pay for their kids coming. That is what they are doing. How are you going to stop that?”

A six-year-old little girl is inspiring everyone she comes in contact with as she fights cancer. But Wednesday, many of those she has inspired gave back to her in a big way.

NBC 6 photojournalist Felix Castro was at a special “going-away party” for Giselle and shows you what she got from others today and the infectious smile she keeps on her face.

A woman accused of making it through airport security without a boarding pass and taking a Southwest Airlines flight from San Jose to Los Angeles pleaded no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor trespassing charge after being arrested at LAX two nights earlier.

Marilyn Hartman, 62, was charged in connection with willfully and unlawfully entering Los Angeles as a stowaway on an aircraft, a misdemeanor, according to the LA City Attorney's Office. She was ordered to 24 months on probation and three days in jail.

Hartman, whose court-appointed attorney said she was homeless, was also ordered to "stay away from LAX" unless she has a ticket to board a flight.

Hartman allegedly bypassed a document checker after a few failed attempts at Mineta San Jose International Airport on Monday night and boarded Southwest Airlines Flight 3785 to LAX.

Southwest flight crews noticed the Bay Area resident after doing a head count when the plane landed in Los Angeles, officials said.

Hartman has previously breached security at San Francisco International Airport and has a history of trying to get on flights without a ticket, officials said.

Three times in February, twice in March and at least once in April she tried to board flights at SFO, where she has a restraining order against her, officials said.

At least twice she was able to breach Transportation Security Administration security and make her way into the boarding area. But the Los Angeles-bound flight from San Jose was the first time she flew anywhere.

The flight to LAX caught the attention of a US congressman who sits on a Homeland Security committee.

"This can't happen," said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California. "We're fortunate this woman was harmless. But we might not be so fortunate in the future."

"San Jose has training issues that I think it needs to fix, because passengers want to know only screened and ticketed passengers are on that plane," he said. "And if that's not the case, the general public's confidence in air safety will collapse, and that will affect all of us."

San Jose Airport officials said Wednesday the incident was not a security issue because the woman was screened by the TSA.

"She was screened for prohibited items," said Mineta San Jose International Airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes. "This was not a security breach."

The TSA issued a statement and said the woman was not a threat.

"The individual was screened along with all other passengers to ensure that she was not a security threat to the aircraft. Following an initial review by TSA at San Jose International Airport, the agency has initiated minor modifications to the layout of the document checking area to prevent another incident like this one," the statement read.

Southwest Airlines and TSA officials said they have opened an investigation into what happened.

Tony Kovaleski and Conan Nolan contributed to this report.

Miami Police are trying to figure out what led to a man being shot to death in a home while he was babysitting a child.

According to Miami Police, Jorge Fuentes, 28, was found unresponsive inside of his home on the 3000 block of Southwest 11th Street shortly after midnight. Police said Fuentes was babysitting a two-year-old child for his live-in girlfriend when he was murdered.

Police said they don’t have a motive for the shooting and are continuing to investigate the homicide.

If you have any information about the crime call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477).

One year after a gambling scandal prompted Florida to ban casino-style games from storefront arcades, cash is once again changing hands amid what appear to be video slot machines at businesses in Broward County, a Team 6 hidden-camera investigation has found.

An undercover producer who went into Play It Again arcade in Davie and Boardwalk Brothers in Tamarac was able to pay cash to obtain credits on a players card. After inserting the card into what appear to be video slot machines and playing for a period of time, the producer was able to exchange the remaining credits on the card for cash – based on how many credits she gained or lost.

The owners of both establishments, brothers Mitchell and Jason Fisher, sued the Broward state attorney last year to have the stiffer arcade law ruled unconstitutional. That federal lawsuit failed, but they say they have found a way around violating the law: they now call their locations “social clubs.”

They also deny the cash returned to players is based on accumulating points from winning spins on the machines. They say players get reward points, redeemable for merchandise or cash, but those points have no relationship to winning or losing points on the spins of the virtual wheels.

But the Team 6 Investigators producer saw her $18 in winnings at one location and $15 in losses at the other were based on points accumulated or lost through play on the digital machines.

The Florida Legislature banned casino-style machines from arcades last year as it revamped gambling laws in response to a crackdown on internet casinos, which claimed their gambling was legal under the state sweepstakes law.

Dozens were arrested, including Kelly Mathis, attorney for the group, Allied Veterans, which led what prosecutors called a $300 million illegal gambling operation. The lawyer was convicted of racketeering and received a six-year prison sentence, though he remains free pending appeal.

Then-Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigned on the day of the raids after investigators found she was paid public relations consulting money by Allied Veterans while a state legislator.

At the time, Gov. Rick Scott said Carroll resigned because “she was involved in a company that we know has been involved in criminal activity.”

But the Fishers say they are not breaking the law.

“The cash changing hands are not for anything as far as the game played,” Mitchell Fisher told Team 6 Investigators.

Informed that the Team 6 Investigator producer witnessed a correlation, Fisher said, “I’m not aware of that and I would look into that with the staff that we have there.”

Days later, he and his partner, brother Jason Fisher, watched the hidden camera video that appeared to show cash-based credits flowing from players cards through machines and then being paid out in cash.

“On that video you showed us, that screen that said $50 – that’s not dollars,” said Jason Fisher. “Those are credits and the important thing is not to confuse credits with reward points.”

Told that more credits led to winning at Play It Again and fewer credits produced a loss at Boardwalk Brothers, Jason Fisher said, “I don’t believe that. I got to investigate that because that should never happen.”

Agreeing that cash should never be exchanged for game credits at arcades was the Fisher’s own attorney, Michael Wolf, who also represents the Florida Arcade and Bingo Association.

“We don’t want to operate illegally,” Wolf said in an interview. “We don’t want to get arrested….Without question, paying cash in the arcade setting has never been legal.”

But the Fishers now say they are no longer an arcade.

“What we did is we changed our business to a social club so people pay a daily membership to come in to play at our location,” Jason Fisher explained.

His brother said the reward points are based on simply showing up, buying credits and spending time on the machines.

Davie Police tell Team 6 Investigators they have an active investigation underway, but neither they nor the state attorney would comment further.

A Miami grand jury has indicted Miguel Ruiz Lobo, 42, on a charge of first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing an 11-year-old girl to death earlier this year, according to the Miami Herald.

Lobo was arrested after Marta Guzman, 11, was found in a pool of blood in her mother’s apartment. Miami Police said Guzman’s neck had been slashed and her wrists cut so deep that the girl’s hand almost came off.

Police said the motive for the crime may have been a bad breakup between Ruiz and Guzman’s mother. According to the Herald, police said Lobo tried to make the scene look like a suicide after he allegedly stabbed Guzman.

According to the arrest affidavit, a neighbor’s surveillance camera showed a person entering the apartment where Guzman was found and staying for roughly 32 minutes. Police said no one else entered the apartment until the victim’s mother returned and found the body roughly 2.5 hours later.

Miami Police said Ruiz (below) had fresh scratches on his arms and face. Police then were able to use DNA to link the fingernail scrapings on Guzman’s hands to Lobo’s body.

According to the Herald, the indictment on first-degree murder now opens the door for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

Doctors say just one plane ride can bring the Ebola virus to the United States. In Bethesda, Maryland, scientists are studying blood samples and measuring antibodies as they work on a vaccine.

"Someone can get infected in one of these West African countries, feel reasonably well, get on a plane, get off and then all of a sudden get sick here,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. “That's feasible, and I don’t think anybody can deny that."

But the U.S. is much better equipped to prevent the spread of the virus, health officials say.

"Extraordinarily unlikely that it will be an outbreak at all because of the way we take care of people, how we have the capability of isolating them, how we understand what one needs to do to protect the health care providers and the kinds of health care facilities we have," Fauci said.

With no effective treatments available, one of the best ways to stop the spread of Ebola is prevention in the form of a vaccine.

National Institutes of Health scientists have been working for more than a decade on an Ebola vaccine. As the latest outbreak continues to grow, so does the pressure to create a vaccine to prevent a disease that can kill up to 90 percent of its victims.

It's a complicated process of finding the right combination of genes from the virus that's effective with few side effects, but they are closer than ever, Fauci said.

"Vaccine has been tried in monkey models, and it seems to be really quite promising," he said.

The vaccine is made with genetic material from the virus, meaning there's no live virus involved.

"You don’t inject the entire virus of Ebola because that would be dangerous, so what you do is you get a very small component of the virus, which is a protein that coats the outside of the virus," Fauci said.

Scientists hope to be testing the vaccine on humans as early as the end of September, Fauci said. If it proves to be safe and effective, they hope to make it available by 2015. The first group to get it would be health care workers.

"It's difficult to vaccinate an entire population because you don’t know who's going to be at risk because you don’t know where an outbreak is going to be,” Fauci said. “But when you have health care workers who are putting themselves in clear and present danger of getting infected, those are the ones you want to protect."

The Miami Marlins dropped the middle game of a three-game series to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday by a final of 7-3.

Tom Koehler gave up four runs in the first inning and then nothing more in his next five innings. The damage was done however as Koehler was tagged with his ninth loss of the season. The right-hander walked four and gave up five hits while striking out four.

After Chris Hatcher found himself in trouble as the first man out of the bullpen, Mike Dunn entered. The left-hander didn't fare much better however and went on to allow both of Hatcher's inherited runners to score. Dunn also allowed a run of his own along the way.

Miami scored once in the first and added two more in the second inning on a two-run home run from Christian Yelich. The left-fielder now has nine home runs on the season. In the first inning, Jeff Baker brought home a run on an infield single.

Giancarlo Stanton struggled in an 0-4 day and his average now sits at .290 on the year. Casey McGehee's recent offensive problems continued with a 1-3 day. The third baseman is hitting under .100 in August after nearly a week of games.

Brian Flynn will get the ball for Miami on Thursday as the Marlins try to take the rubber match and win the series. Flynn is replacing Jarred Cosart who is being forced to miss the start with a sore oblique.

An ongoing feud led to a fight involving three men in Hialeah Wednesday night.

According to Hialeah Police, the fight happened at 2890 Palm Avenue and involved three men who were in an ongoing feud. Police said one man suffered a head injury and another suffered a laceration on his back from a machete.

Police said both men were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment. The injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Hialeah Police said the third man involved in the fight is in police custody. Police haven’t said what charges will be put forth against the three men.

Six-year-old Madison Bergstrom of Stoughton, Massachusetts, is like any other girl her age, dancing and lip syncing to One Direction and dressing up like a princess.

But Madi has been battling Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia off and on since she was 19 months old.

"She’s been through a lot for her age and she still has about two years of treatment to go," said her mother, Shauna McLaughlin.

McLaughlin has been through a lot, too, as a single parent and primary caregiver fighting this battle right alongside her pint-sized hero.

"It’s hard, it’s scary but she is resilient, and inspiring and that’s what helps – she makes me strong," she said.

So when some friends bought Madi One Direction tickets for her and her mom to go see the band at Gillette Stadium this Saturday, they were thrilled.

In home video from earlier this year Shauna asked Madi, "How much do you love One Direction?"

"Like to the moon!" Madi said.

"And how much do you want to go to their concert?" Shauna asked.

"I’ll ride to there as fast as I can!" said Madi.

"You want to go so bad?" asked Shauna asked.

"Yes!" exclaimed Madi.

"We are totally going!" Shauna said.

But sadly, Madi ended up back in the ICU this week at Dana-Farber Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and she won’t be able to go to the concert.

Madi’s focused on the positives, such as ice cream sundaes in her hospital bed. But her mom was bummed, and posted a message on Facebook asking if anyone wanted to buy the tickets, figuring she could use the money to do something special with Madi once she feels better.

• Auction Being Held for Madi's One Direction Tickets

That post has led to another page with thousands of "likes" asking "One Direction" to visit Madi in the hospital.

"To see that there’s so much good in so many people and that they care, Madison has an army of people behind her," Shauna said.

Shauna says while it would be awesome to see the sparkle in her daughter’s eye from meeting her favorite band, she has much bigger hopes and dreams for her little princess.

"I want to see her grow up to be normal and I’m sorry," said Shauna tearing up, "I just want to see her be -- the range of normal – there is no range and this is our normal, but I want her to grow healthy, I want her to grow happy."

A mostly clear morning will be followed by afternoon showers and storms Thursday in South Florida.

The storms will begin to arrive around lunch time but will end by early evening. Highs will be in the low 90s.

Storm chances will continue Friday and will last into the weekend.

A 16-year-old Connecticut high school student was killed and another suffered a serious leg injury after the teens fell while tubing on Long Island Sound and were struck by the boat towing them, according to police.

Police have identified the teen who died as 16-year-old Emily Fedorko, of Old Greenwich. Authorities said she was out on the water with three old friends, all ages 15 and 16 and rising juniors at Greenwich High School, when tragedy struck.

According to police, the teens were boating off Greenwich Point Park Wednesday afternoon, in a 21-foot Wahoo center console recreational powerboat that belonged to one of their fathers.

Police said Thursday that the driver of the boat was properly licensed with a boating safety certificate and described the scene as a "tragic accident." Alcohol did not appear to be a factor, according to police.

Fedorko and another teen fell off an inner tube between 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., according to police. The driver of the boat made a turn to pick up the tubers when the boat hit the two girls in the water, injuring them with the propeller of the outboard engine, police said.

The teens who were in the boat immediately lifted the injured girls into the vessel and brought them to the Old Greenwich Yacht Club, about a mile or two from where the accident happened, according to police. The Greenwich harbormaster said the girls are not members of the yacht club.

Greenwich police spokesman Lt. Kraig Gray said at a press conference Thursday that the driver and passenger of the boat rendered medical aid in an effort to save Fedorko, but it was too late.

She sustained an severe injury to her torso and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the medical examiner will determine the cause of Fedorko's death.

The other teen sustained a significant but non-life threatening soft tissue injury to her lower left leg and was rushed to Stamford Hospital for surgery and "extensive stitching," police said. She remains in the hospital Thursday and officials said she is recovering well from her injuries. Her name has not been released.

"This is a devastating loss for the whole Greenwich community," said Greenwich school Supt. William S. McKersie, at a news conference on Thursday.

Twenty grief counselors were available Thursday at Eastern Middle School and Greenwich High School, McKersie said. Anyone in need of counseling can dial 211 or call the Center for Hope at 203-655-0547.

This is the second tragic death the rising juniors have experienced in two years. In August 2013, a sophomore committed suicide just hours after the start of the new school year.

The Greenwich Police Department Marine Section is investigating and the State Environmental Conservation Police will conduct the accident reconstruction. Police said the report will be extensive.

A photo near the investigation site of the boat accident pic.twitter.com/Oz32ygeg2B

— Greenwich PD PIO (@GreenwichCTPD) August 6, 2014

Former Miami Heat player Greg Oden was arrested on battery charges near Indianapolis early Thursday, authorities said.

Oden, 26, was booked into the Marion County Jail in Indiana on two battery charges, WTHR reported.

According to an arrest report from the Lawrence Police Department, officers responded to a disturbance at a home just after 3:30 a.m. and found a woman with blood on her face, a swollen nose and lacerations to her forehead and nose.

The victim was uncooperative but a witness told officers Oden punched the woman in the face, the report said.

Oden told officers he and the victim had dated for two years but broke up about two months ago.

"Things got out of control and I started to go after the victim. My relative and witness tried to hold me back, but as I swung my arms to move them out of the way, then punched the victim in the face," Oden told officers, according to the report. "Gregory Oden advised 'I was wrong and I know what has to happen.'"

Oden signed with a one-year deal with the Heat before the 2013-2014 season but played in just 23 games due to injury. He became a free agent after the season.

Oden attended high school in Lawrence and started his career with the Portland Trail Blazers in 2007.

Testimony will continue Thursday in the trial of the Miami man accused of killing University of Florida student Christian Aguilar.

Pedro Bravo faces several charges in the 2012 death of Aguilar, his one-time friend and former classmate at Doral Preparatory High School.

On the stand Wednesday was Erika Friman, Bravo’s high school sweetheart and Aguilar’s college girlfriend.

Friman said Bravo was set to go to college in Miami, but changed his mind and by the summer of 2012, he had moved to Gainesville where Erika and Christian were both in school at UF. Prosecutors said the move was made in hopes of reconciling with Erika.

Friman said she didn’t tell Bravo she was dating Aguilar. Prosecutors say Bravo orchestrated a plan to kill Aguilar because of an obsession with Friman.

Bravo researched ways to kill and get away with it before drugging and strangling Aguilar in a WalMart parking lot, prosecutors said. Defense attorneys said the two had argued, but denied that Bravo killed Aguilar.

Aguilar was reported missing in September 2012, setting off a massive search. The 18-year-old's body was later discovered by hunters in a rural area of Levy County.

Police said they found blood in Bravo's SUV and found Aguilar's backpack hidden inside a suitcase in Bravo's closet. Bravo also bought a shovel and roll of duct tape days before the disappearance of Aguilar, a UF freshman, according to authorities.

Bravo faces seven charges, including homicide, kidnapping, poisoning, making a false report, obstructing a criminal investigation, destroying evidence and mishandling human remains.

A 47-year-old mother arrested in the cold-case killing of her 5-year-old son, whose remains were found in a New Jersey industrial park nearly a year after he was reported missing from a carnival in 1991, was held without bond Thursday on a charge of "fleeing from justice," authorities say.

Michelle Lodzinski, formerly of Perth Amboy, is accused of killing Timothy Wiltsey, who was reported missing from a carnival in Sayreville on May 25, 1991, prosecutors say. The 5-year-old’s body was found in a marshy, remote part of a large industrial park in Edison nearly a year later, on April 23, 1992.

Lodzinski currently lives in Florida and was taken into custody by authorities there after a grand jury in New Jersey handed down a one-count murder indictment late last month. She was remanded in Florida and is awaiting an extradition hearing. 

Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey said that a cold-case review helped launch a new investigation into Wiltsey's death.

“Following a routine, cold-case review of the evidence and facts surrounding the disappearance and murder of Timothy Wiltsey, a new investigation was conducted and the matter was presented to the grand jury,” Carey said.

Alan Rockoff, the Middlesex County prosecutor when Timmy disappeared, said he wasn't surprised at Lodzinski's arrest.

"We didn't have sufficient evidence at the time to pull the trigger," Rockoff told The Associated Press. "There was no direct smoking gun here."

Rockoff, 81, said detectives never stopped working the case and did as much as they could to solve it.

"Hopefully now, there's a possibility of closure," Rockoff said. "Justice works slowly, but works surely."

Lodzinski ran into other legal troubles after her son's death.

She surfaced in Michigan in January 1994 and said two men claiming to be FBI agents had abducted her at gunpoint outside her apartment building, forced her into a black SUV and drove her to Detroit, where they let her out.

She pleaded guilty in 1995 to making false statements to the FBI and fraudulently using the agency's seal. She was sentenced to probation.

In 1997, Lodzinski was arrested and charged with stealing a computer from her former employer. She pleaded guilty to a theft charge and was pregnant in 1998 when a federal judge sentenced her to house arrest after she admitted she committed a crime while on probation.

A high school cheer program in Southern California is on hiatus after what school district officials called an "offensive" photo surfaced of 13 girls dressed in what looks like gang attire.

The photo shows members of the Redlands East Valley High School cheer squad wearing baggy clothes and flashing gang signs.

"Anything stereotypical in a negative light like that is not funny, especially at somebody else's expense," parent Tracy Gomez said. "Teenage pregnancy, gun violence."

School officials believe the photo was taken a few weeks ago at a student event. Redlands School District official Brad Mason said the district became aware of the photo Tuesday.

District Superintendent Lori Rhodes released a statement, which said in part that she found "the picture offensive" and that "this type of depiction will not be tolerated."

Ashley Scott, a recent graduate of Redlands East Valley High School, knows several of the cheerleaders in the photo.

"I was a little disappointed in the girls, just because that's not who we are," Scott said. "I don't believe that any of the girls meant to do this on purpose, to send any kind of message to anyone."

Ashley Scott and her mother Nicole Scott believe that any adults involved in the group’s choice of attire should be held responsible.

"I think that the teacher who approved it, the administration, whoever approved it should have thought a little better about that because it just, it puts us in a poor light," Nicole Scott said.

Superintendent Rhodes said in a statement that the circumstances surrounding the event and photo are being reviewed, and that "appropriate action will be taken once (the) review is complete."

The school district said it is working with Redlands East Valley High School and the community to address cultural awareness and sensitivity at the school.

"Team building exercises such as dress-up days are to build spirit and camaraderie in a positive manner. They should never demean, insult or portray negative stereotypes, as done in this photo," Rhodes said in the statement.

Editor's Note: NBC Chicago will stream the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby live right here starting at 1 p.m. CT.

Get ready. More than 60,000 ducks are making a splash in the Chicago River for the 9th annual Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby Thursday at the Columbus Drive Bridge.

Participants buy rubber ducks to support training for Young Athletes and the Special Olympics and compete for prizes such as a 2014 Chevy Equinox and an all-inclusive Apple vacation. The duck race starts at 1 p.m.

Proceeds from the derby help nearly 21,500 Special Olympics athletes and more than 18,500 young athletes throughout Illinois. Participants can buy ducks for $5 each, a quack pack of six ducks for $25 or a flock of 24 ducks for $100.

Beginning at 10 a.m., families can enjoy entertainment from the Radio Disney Team and several sports mascots at The Wrigley Building, 400 N. Michigan Ave.

Can't make it to the event? Watch the livestream online here.

More than 100 moms held a "Nurse-In" at Aventura Mall Thursday after they claim a woman was "harassed" at the mall for breastfeeding without a cover.

Organizers of the peaceful protest claim the mother was feeding her child at the mall on Tuesday when she was approached by security and told she needed to cover up.

"Aventura Mall is committed to promoting a better understanding of social causes and supports mothers who breastfeed. Our mission is to enhance the experience of our visitors and we welcome mothers to nurse in a comfortable environment at Aventura Mall," the mall said in a statement. "Our employees and retailers have been informed of the rights of nursing mothers, and we look forward to working with our staff and key organizations to support and promote breastfeeding programs and initiatives."

Florida law allows mothers to breastfeed in public whether they are covered or not.

Venice has seen more than a dozen property crimes recently, and for one resident, it produced an odd, pre-dawn encounter with an intruder.

Mitch Kirsch got up before dawn Wednesday to use the bathroom in his Santa Clara Street home when he bumped into the intruder.

"He was right in front of me," Kirsch said. "I'm naked the whole time, so it was a little awkward."

Kirsch grabbed the man, forced him to drop a laptop he was clutching and then let him go.

"I don't really want to hold on to this guy for 10 minutes naked," Kirsch said.

After the burglar ran off, another break-in happened two houses down, and police suspect it was the same man. He was described as about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 135 pounds.

In a one-week period at the end of July, police said they recorded more than 30 property crimes in Venice.

"I was so glad this guy wasn't armed," said Izumi Hamagaki, Kirsch's girlfriend.

Two burglaries happened on their street Wednesday morning, police said.

The couple's high walls and locked doors helped, but they left a window open just a touch for their cat to go in and out.

Police say open doors and windows are the commonality behind the rash of Venice home burglaries.