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One more time before the official end of summer. South beach in Staten Island was teeming with beachgoers today. Prime spots on the beach were grabbed, and they were rewarded with a spectacular day. Meteorologist jeff smith joins us with our first look at the Labor Day Weekend forecast. Jeff . Reporter apparently mother Florida State does not care about calendars. Tell us are going to be getting even hotter. 86 degrees in the park, cooler along coastal sections. Kicking in now, sending your temperatures down to 75, down to 80 at the park. Up to 90 in the hudson valley. Further away from the cooler influence. Dew points measuring the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, between invigorating and pleasant right now. These are going to be rising over the next several days. We have eye heat wave potentially starting tomorrow. Lows tonight in the meantime, getting down to 68 in the park. A last 50s in the northern and western suburbs. Check out tomorrow. The high reaching all the way up to 90 in the city, even upper 80s down the jersey shore. Mid80s, down the island. Monday through wednesday 10 degrees above normal. We could be in reach of a record high during the day on tuesday. Many more details on that, and your full accuweather forecast a little bit later in the hour. Beachgoers swarmed the jersey shore today to soak up the last bit of summer. With the swimming comes a note of caution, a moderate risk for rip currents. Mallory hoff is in long branch, mallory . Reporter people are asked to be safe out here. Most people we have spoken with are telling us they are having a spectacular time. I want to set the scene for you. You have people enjoying themselves on the boardwalk here, walking across long with their family, really having a nice, nice day. If you look out here, you have people playing games on the beach, and then as you make your way a little bit closer to the water, you can see just how packed it is today. Earlier today, people actually told us it was hard to even find a good spot out there. Many saying this was the best day they have had on the beach all summer long. Reporter beachgoers backed in the sun while enjoying a salty breeze. It is a perfect day out here. Reporter a busy Labor Day Holiday weekend, marks the unofficial end of the summer season. Some say they know they soon will trade warm sand for frigid snow, and it is only a matter of time before they go from bikini clad to blizzard sad. Until then theyll savor a moment of sand and sun. I do not look forward to the snow. The National Weather service issued a warning for swimmers along the new jersey coast that there is a moderate risk for rip currents. Officials say beachgoers should lifeguards are present. The water was nice. It was actually really warm. The waves are hard but it was fun. You had to be careful out there. Yeah. Visitors say as they prepare for the sun to set on a season theyll hold onto the memory of an umbrellalined shore i dont the water is fantastic. One of the best days of the year. Reporter how do you feel about the end of summer. Horrible. I was born to sit in the sun. Reporter and he certainly is not alone out here. Not alone at all. A lot of people we have spoken with, we have said what are your plans for tomorrow . They have said exactly what we did today, we are just going to do it all over again and we cannot say we can blame then. Mallory hoff, channel 7 eyewitness news. Sounds like a good idea to me. Now at 6 00. Tom brady speaks out. Addresses reporters for the First Time Since his News Conference in february and the deflategate scandal that followed. Laura . Reporter the news that tom bradys 4game suspension for his involvement in the saga of illegally inflated footballs had been overturned thursday. That night the quarterback arrived at Gillette Stadium and quickly left before the game and before speaking to reporters. But today, brady meeting for the media for the first time time this season as his team opener. It has been a long 1 months since the scandal began. Everyone deals with things differently. I dealt with them the best way i know how and certainly i have so much support from family and friends and the organization. Mr. Kraft has been unbelievable support for me just like he would be for any player in this locker room. There is a lot of people that have supported me and you know, well need that this season. Reporter brady also expressed concern for the two staffers who were suspended by the team in the wake of the scandal. He didnt say whether he has been in contact with them, the two are banned from returning to work until cleared by the nfl. Joe . Thank you laura. In brooklyn the search is on for a hit and run driver. A woman carrying grower ries and walking with a walker was struck and killed by a vehicle a half block from her home. She was a great girl. Got a great heart, and never got a break in life. Reporter Robert Medina says his sister was a lovely woman and she didnt deserve being left for dead in the street. Medina said he had been at the grocery tore store with her hours before she was hit and killed by a car. I get home around 9 00, 11 00, i havent heard from her. So i call her. No answer. I realize it is 1 00 in the morning and she is not picking reporter medina says the next phone call he got was from police saying his sister was street. The driver fled the scene. His sister had some physical handicaps. Seen her stuffing her car devastating. Reporter she was crossing struck. We spoke with people in this neighborhood and they say this is a very dangerous street, that they are not entirely surprised that Something Like this happened. This is a very busy section. Very busy. We tell people because of the transition down the block, it was a matter of time. Im sorry the lady died but it is time to put a traffic light here. God have mercy. That is all i could say you know. That he should come and confront that he did. Because i think that is very wrong. I feel bad for the family. Reporter police described the vehicle as a white minivan. In sunset park, channel 7 eyewitness news. Four firefighters were hurt during an overnight blaze in new jersey. The flames broke out in this 3 story residential building in jersey city. The fire became so intense, one of the stairways collapsed. The injuries included breaks and sprains. The red cross is assisting five adults and a child now unable to return. A disaster narrowly avoided when a tractor trailer crashed into scaffolding in nassau county. A refrigerated truck struck scaffolding and that sent the truck toppling on its side. Officials pointed out some very good fortune. Compressed natural gas tanks on board were not compromised. The driver was treated for minor injuries. Hot water is now back on for some residents of an apartment complex in the bronx, where the bacteria that causes legionnaires disease was discovered last week. Yesterday the City Housing Authority installed ionization systems to treat the water at the melrose houses. Starting today, something very different. On the front of dozens of mta buses. The s 53 and s 93 routes tested three types of bike racks. They hold two noncollapsible bicycles and are available on a first come first served basis. A video was released about how they work. This is a pilot program. Their vacation overseas became a nightmare. Coming up on eyewitness news, joy became tragedy and months of frustration for a company from new jersey. Eyewitness news is there, as the family finally a homecoming months in the making for a family from new jersey. They were celebrating a baby, born overseas when the unexpected happened, the birth of twins. Nightmare. Story. Course. On becoming a father. Reporter emotionally exhausted, fred his wife kim in this ambulance. The family is back home in new jersey, touched down just after 2 00. We feel like we are coming home in incomplete. We are happy to be home. Reporter hudson, haydens twin died two weeks after the in portugal. Kim and fred after get being the okay headed overseas for a visit back in may. The twins were born 13 weeks early. Hudson didnt pull through but hayden was holding her own. You could tell they had some highs and a lot of lows during this. We shared those with them. Reporter the couple wanted to bring their girl home but initially high mark blue shield said it wouldnt pay for a medical transport. Elected officials helped them and late last week the Insurance Company reversed its decision. So the family began their Cross Atlantic trip on a private jet from fox flight, which specialize in his medical transport. It was a success. This home video showed the crew carefully taking hayden off the plane. She was awake for quite a bit. Reporter the family still faces a long road. Hayden will have to stay in the hospital for some time, and then there is hudson. Their rooms are gorgeous and are all set up for hudson and hayden. My daughter wants hudson to be remembered and he will be. Reporter as for hayden, brett and kim plan to, one day, take their little girl back to portugal to meet the doctors and nurses now considered family. Kimberly richardson channel 7 eyewitness news. A drone crashed at a College Football game just two days after a drone crashed at the u. S. Open in queens. A students drone crashed into the press box at the university of kentucky stadium yesterday. Police are still considering what steps to meanwhile, a High School Teacher faces charges after a drone charged thursday at the u. S. Open. No one was injured in either incident. And lightning bolts light up louisiana. Before we go to break, we want you all to check this out. Spectacular lightning streak ago cross the sky near the lsu stadium in baton rouge. That forced the game to be called off. A much different weather youre a parent. Im a colonel. Were both busy people. So pick up my new hand prepared 20 family fill up meal. Eight pieces of original recipe chicken, two large mashed potatoes and gravy, a large coleslaw, and 4 biscuits. Ill get back to ya. door squeaking its Finger Lickin good. Well it turns out you can make your way to the courts of the u. S. Open without even having to practice. All you need is a fluffy tail. This squirrel made its way, couldnt find its way to the exit. After running around for a few seconds, the ball girl chase it had into the stands and from there the squirrel safely ran away. When is the ball girl not the ball girl . When she is the squirrel girl. That is todays pet story. Top spin on it there. The squirrel is going to be just fine. Yes. This weekend. What a spectacular day. We couldnt have ordered up a better Holiday Weekend for the last unofficial few days of summer. But it is going to get hot. Tomorrow we are talking 90 degree heat. We could be breaking records actually on tuesday. Low humidity out there right now 35 with a temperature of 80, makes it feel spectacular. Wind coming in from the south around 10 miles per hour. The high on the day, up to 86 after a morning low. Very refreshing for new york city down to 65. A lot of the suburbs were in the 50s. The record 97, set way back innocent 1881. Tuesday is the day where we could be setting records or tying records. These records were set back in 1919. So those are very longstanding. Abnormal heat for september over the next several day. 90 degrees plus right through wednesday. Tomorrow that will make Outdoor Activities comfortable, as we head toward midweek. Tomorrow more humid than today but bearable. A potent front thursday can bring locally heavy rainfall. That is very good news for much of the region. A lot of the region right now in a moderate drought. Also on long island. 80 right now at newark. 80 in la guardia. Then you head up into the upper 80s. You were just shy of 90 earlier this afternoon. Getting up to 89 there. 75 at bell mar and toms river. Only 74 on the island at monday talk thanks to the at islip. Degrees below normal. 80s will be limited to the beaches along the slower towns. Lower 90s, the heat index values the next several days between 90 and 100 degrees as we pump in the heat and humidity. As you heard from mallory earlier the rip current risk is moderate. Tomorrow water temperatures in the lower to middle 70s and waves around 3 feet. Accuweather forecast for tonight, patchy clouds out down to 68. Sunshine for the most part. Tomorrow 90, mainly middle and upper 80s right up the beaches. Bad. Clear tomorrow, down to 71. Downright steamy. Tuesday and wednesday, record 93, 91 on wednesday. Most of the area stays dry and thursday. 80s. We should clear out just in time for the majority of next weekend to be high and dry, sunday. Need the rain for sure. Laura and becky up next with a look at sports. Four weeks remain of baseballs regular season. The only thing we know right now is it is going to be a pretty wild ride to the finish. The mets still have a lead over the nationals. But getting less comfortable after watching the marlins do ava and i needed a little vacay. But we needed to watch our spending. Meaning i needed to watch nikki. Shes the spender. Im the saver. So, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track. For both of us. She was just browsing. We gotta go. Im ava. Im nikki. And we bank human at td bank. What . The marlins not being nice to the mets. Going to be okay. Still a little ways to go. While the great matt harvey debate rages on, there could not have been a time for steven to return. The mets welcome back the long island native. So today in miami, matts making his first start since the fifth of the mets then left with a blister not considered serious. Flores, everybodys famous met, restaurantches a homer. The bullpen would give it up. The eighth, just in four, makes this a tie game. Enter heartbreak. Bottom of the ninth. Martin cant make the play at the plate. 43 the marlins with their second walk off of the series. The mets open against the nationals tomorrow not yankees have won 7 of their last 9. The bluejays just keep winning themselves, including this afternoon over the orioles. So the pinstripes trying to keep pace. Second inning, kevin facing nova. Goes to the batter. It is 20 rays. But the yankees can play that game. They invented that game. Brian mccann, three runs come in here, that will tie the game. Alex rodriguez next batter giving them the lead, belting his 28th homer of the season. Kept it interesting as cabrera with the fourth homer of the game here cuts the lead to one. The yankees turn to Andrew Miller to get his 31st save of the year. That will do it. Back. Serena williams looks to complete the true grand slam u. S. Open here. The best womens tennis player in the world tends to only get stronger in the fiscal of adversity. Today her challenge was madison keys, the 20yearold proved she is indeed wanting to keep an eye on the future. Serena moving three match wins closer to the grand slam. It will be a sister act in the quart finals. Little sister venus will face big sister serena. Okay i got that wrong. Serena is younger. I got this i swear. Beating annette in straight sets in a match that took just 50 millipore. Cut day in the nfl was yesterday as all teams were required to trim to 53 players. That did not stop the giants from making moves today. Big blue releasing cornerback mike harris along with tackle kendrick ellis. The jets will be without dee milner for half of the season. He wont be eligible to play until after week 8 because the jets have an early bye week. Milner had wrist surgery on august 7th. The patriots opened thursday against the steeler. As we all know by now, tom brady will be under center after his suspension was overturned by a federal judge. As we mentioned earlier in the show today he spoke out for the first time. Like the rest of us, he would prefer now to just move on. Ill be excited to run out there thursday night. Obviously it has been a long seven months for everybody, but i think now the goal is to focus on what my job and what i need to go out there and do to help our team win. Lets talk about football shall we . Thank you laura. That is the news for now. 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