I dont know what happened in the accident. No one said much to me about it. I wish i could tell you more. Reporter others too who come and light candles and place flowers here at this growing memorial also want to know more. For many it is hard to understand this tragedy. Im still shocked. Its unbelievable. I just hope the family can get beyond this. It must be horrible what theyre going through right now. That outpouring of grief very evident on social pages as well. Justin writes on twitter, its just terrible for this mother to have to go through all of this. Reporting live in the morris park section of the bronx, tim fleischer, channel 7 Eyewitness News. From the bronx to brooklyn, police hoping to catch two suspect whose shot and killed an innocent customer inside a bodega. The crime caught on camera. Two men in hoodies walking through the store pulling out a gun and demanding money. Damian francis, a father, tried to step in and gunman turned and shot him in the chest. His family tonight obviously heart broken. I started to cry and i just cried for like two days straight. He had a nice heart. He loved to help people. The two robbers taking money from the register then taking off. Police say they hope someone will recognize the suspects and help track them down. An arrest tonight, the mysterious death of a woman in an apartment on the upper west side. Nearly six years ago the dead in a bathtub. At first thought an accident but now her husband has been charged with Eyewitness News reporter Kemberly Richardson is in scarsdale where her husband was arrested. Covlin was living in a quiet neighborhood. Would often visit his two kids who now live with his parents. But after six long years his world was just turned upside down and he never saw it coming. Mr. Covlin is stunned. Hes stunned by what has happened. Reporter after six years of truly believing he was free and clear living in this home in new rochelle, convinced he was not a suspect in the death of his wife shelly, today rod covlin seemed dazed as he sat in a courtroom now charged with Second Degree murder. The sister listened as the man who was once part of their family entered a not guilty plea. In the back of his mind he to come. Right from the beginning he said he did not commit the crowd reporter the 42yearolds house of cards came crashing down yesterday morning. Covlin stepped off a train and was cuffed. Back in 2009 at the time of shellys death, the pair lived in separate apartments in this building on west 68th street. They were going through a bitter divorce but on new years eve the couples then 9yearold daughter found her mom dead in a bathtub. For religious reasons shelly was buried the next day, her death ruled an accident, but months later her family had her body exumd. Exhumed. It was ruled homicide by strangulation. Covlin was on his way to visit his kids, 15 and 9 years old, who live with his parents in a home in this quiet culdesac. The two people who are suffering tremendously by this are the two very Young Children and mr. Covlin is devastated by that. Hes done everything in his power to watch over them and take care of them. Both families have been fighting in court over shele s estate. Covlin is due back in court november 9th. Kemberly richardson, channel 7 eyewitness a woman from connecticut is denying helping her boyfriend kill his parents. 31yearold jennifer valant made her first appearance in court today in bridgeport. Shes charged with conspiracy to commit murder and hindering prosecution in the death of jeffrey and jeanette navin. Kyle navin is charged with their murders. The bodies were found buried in a vacant home. A fire started in park slope. Officials say the flames were contained to one apartment. One resident did suffer minor injuries. President obama in the tristate tonight, right now in new jersey where mr. Obama is calling for an overhaul of the criminal Justice System and the prison system that pushes punishment instead of rehabilitation. A recidivism rate of right now. Political reporter dave evans is here with more. The president is indeed pushing for an overhaul of the criminal Justice System. There are more than 2 million men and women behind bars, far more than any other country in the world. When they get out, many find out its hard to reenter society. Finding a job and staying sober, not easy. The president wants to change all that. Reporter the president today visited a rehab center in newark and held a discussion on how to make our criminal Justice System more fair. We have only 5 of the 25 of its inmates. Most are black and latino and the president says this has got to change. Many republicans agree. Its good for everybody. It means less crime. It means less recidivism. It means less money spent on incarceration. It means less wasted taxpayer money. Reporter obama wants to extend Technical Training for inmates. And he wants to cut sentences for nonviolent drugrelated crimes. Today some of the president s biggest applause came over his decision to, whats called, ban the box. Like a lot of big employers on many job applications theres a box that asks if you have a criminal record. If you answer yes, then a lot of times youre not getting a call back. Were going to do our part in changing this. Reporter today in camden governor christie blasted the president , accusing him of trying to take credit for his own criminal Justice Reform statewide. Christie put out this instagram message saying dear mr. President , weve been getting this done in new jersey since 2010. Im confident when the spotlight is shown on camden that camden is going to shine and so will its residents and thats a really good change. Tonight the president is attending a Democratic Party fundraiser then another fundraiser at a special performance of the hit musical hamilton. Former new York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver is back in court as jury selection got underway in his corruption trial. Hes accused of accepting millions of dollars of payoffs and kickbacks. His lawyers claim hes being targeted over practices that have long been sanctioned in albany. He faces up to 130 years in prison. They made it to the world series. Few thought they would do that. The mets thanking their disappointed fans around the tristate on twitter today. Fans say theyre the best in baseball and the mets say back at them. The tweet coming after a punishing extra inning loss last night to the now world series champions, the kansas city royals. Lots of second guessing of manager Terry Collins after he seemed to use his heart to make some decisions like keeping in Yoenis Cespedes after he was hurt and not pulling matt harvey before he fell apart. It was a terrible what happened. Once you get there, thats it. Doesnt matter what you do before that. They made terrible plays. It was ugly. Aside from that, well hear from mr. Harvey about the devastating loss coming up later in sports. As we continue with Eyewitness News at 6 00 on this monday night, why did a russian passenger plane with more than 200 people onboard suddenly crash in egypt . Tonight youre going to hear what officials are saying about the possibility of terrorism. Plus, remember that horrific fire that killed seven kids in brooklyn last spring . Tonight its leading to a major new campaign to try to protect other families. Well have details on the free detector giveaway. Im meteorologist lee goldberg. November 2nd. Accuweather outside with coat. Very nice. Heres a pick heres a picture of a beautiful sunset over belmar. Second standard now to the latest on the investigation of the plane crash in egypt over the weekend. The director of the National Intelligence said he would not rule out the possibility of terrorism. A branch of isis has claimed responsibility. Aviation experts say a large debris field indicates the plane broke up in the air. So far thats been the only clue. All two of the partners at save a Life Fire Safety Campaign tonight spreading the effort even further. Working with new york city officials and the red cross to install an additional 100,000 Smoke Detectors for people who otherwise cannot afford them. This is huge because Smoke Detectors we know save lives. Heres Eyewitness News reporter michelle charlesworth. Reporter the line to get a free smoke and Carbon Monoxide alarm stretched down the block with the mayor himself handing them out. Alarms that would have saved the lives of the seven children killed in midwood back in march. Sometimes it takes an enormous tragedy, i cant even seven children. I dont even begin to understand what that means. Reporter a life saving around 30. Now the city is handing out 100,000 of these free. Cross, and the company that makes these, kidde, have come together to make it happen. Installing smoke alarms with sealed batteries. We heard the stat that 70 of people who died in home fires in new york have no working smoke alarms. The number one reason they wouldnt be working is because of dead or missing batteries. The difference with these is you cannot crack them open. The battery lasts 10 years. New yorkers knew all the pitfalls like putting one too close to the kitchen. Battery comes out. See it all the time. Sometimes people will take the batteries out of their Smoke Detector to use them something else. The batteries last 10 years. You dont have to replace them for another 10 years. Give me three. Reporter for a free alarm or to get help installing, call 311. Michelle charlesworth, channel 7 Eyewitness News. If you dont have a Smoke Detector, get one. So important. Or call me. Ill get you one personally. Just ahead, how much time are your kids spending on smart phones and tablets . We reveal kate murray i am not a prosecutor. I am a manager. Vo well, the first parts true. Kate murrays never practiced criminal law. Never prosecuted one murderer, one drug dealer, or one corrupt politician. Editorials call murray utterly unprepared to serve. And clueless about pressing issues surrounding criminal justice. Theres a better choice. Madeline singas has spent two decades prosecuting crime. Targeting murderers, drug dealers, political corruption. Madeline singas. A prosecutor, not a politician. I tweet, therefore i am, could soon be the monrufor this new generation of cyber kids. A new survey finding 70 of children have a tablet or phone of their own before 4. Many parents let their kids use devices just to keep them busy while theyre doing chores or to calm them down. This study did not examine the effects of all that technology on kids. A lot of 40yearolds on the accutrack app. [ laughter ] is that how you get your ive got a whole new generation of meteorologists. Little mini Lee Goldbergs running around out there. [ laughter ] meanwhile, its like Early September outside. Awesome outside. So nice outside. Great weather. Hi, laura. How about the Sports Department this weekend. [ applause ] the Empire State Building in red for you tonight. This is a great looking sup set. It is spectacular. Only thing wrong with it, how early 4 53. The Empire State Building in red. Its in red for ted 60. Wind is calm, barometer on the rise and high today 63 degrees. Thats 5 00 above 5 00 thats 5 above average. Last year we had a couple 60degree days in the first week of november but not this year. 60s going to 70s for four straight days. Record warmth a possibility on friday. Around 70 all week. A small shower threat during the afternoon hours on thursday. Then on friday night maybe a little better threat. Turn more seasonable over the weekend. Well have lots of 40s in the there will be a chill tomorrow morning but nothing a light jacket cant handle. 55, islip. 55 in bel mar right now. With the skies clearing and temperatures dropping, we could see patchy suburbs. Any suburb can have a little bit of patchy fog. Upper 60s by lunchtime. Maybe the outdoor lunch then lower 70s in the afternoon. There are the clouds starting to retreat right rain going offshore. High pressure build it will be with us for much of the week. All that rain bypassing us to the north. All these numbers here in the low and middle 70s coming our way. 70 degrees, warmer sunshine tomorrow. Clouds are going to go to the west. Probably in the upper 60s on thursday but even warmer on friday. Heres your accuweather forecast, turning out mostly clear tonight. 52. For tomorrow its 70. Little patchy fog early. Plenty of sunshine around 70. Tomorrow night, 56. Claer and calm and just beautiful. Heres the 7day accuweather forecast. More clouds on thursday may keep us in the upper 60s. Maybe a shower, more likely in the afternoon hours as the clouds thicken up. Friday, record we could tie that rain at night then back to normal. 55 sunday. That cool shot only lasts two or three days. Were back in to the 60s by tuesday and wednesday. We like. Any cold weather in the longterm forecast . Islands of cold and a sea of warmth. Laura behnke in for rob powers with i guess a couple little sports stories. A little bit. I wish my news was as good as lees was. At least we have the warmth. The mets and their fans have had one night to sleep on it. The world series loss is just as painful today. The mets had plenty of chances in this fall classic. Instead they were forced to watch the royals celebrate in their house last night. Plus the giants went down to new orleans yesterday but left their defense at home. For the girl scout meeting. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . at stop shop, prices are down. Savings are up. This price cant be right. Thats the right price its that low. What other things on this list cant be right . Looks like a list of cant be rights. Seriously . At stop shop, prices are down. Savings are up. My stop shop. Some second guessing of the mets decisions. Certainly not by you. Im just an observer. The record books will show the mets lost the world series four games to one but what will always haunt the team is that they had three games where they were five outs, four outs, then three outs away from winning and then blew it. Game 5 will be remembered for a 9th inning decision that will be second guessed all winter. Dominant matt harvey, talked Terry Collins in to pitching the 9th familia. A run scoring double to eric hoss. That point. The damage was done. Still familia could have worked out of it if not for a daring play by hosmer to try to score on an infield out only to have lucas duda throw wildly and the possible final out of the inning turned in to the tying run. The mets defense let them downtime and time again. I love my players and i trust them. So i said go get them out. As a competitor, any chance you get to go back out there and try to get us back to winning baseball, its everything any guy would once the royals tied the game it seemed like it was just a matter of time. With the mets offense going nowhere, kc scored five times. The championship run about to end. Wilmer flores taking the called strike 3 in the bottom of the 12th. That was that. The mets dream of a championship was over as the royals celebrated their first world series title in 30 years. The mets left to watch and wonder what if. Theres frustration butalize also i think an opportunity to step back and realize that as a group we accomplished some really great and cool things. Hurts for sure but when i look back on this field it will be the best time i ever had on a baseball field. Opening day, 2016 set for april 4th for the mets. They begin the season against the royals in kansas city. Think it will be a big deal. Speak of the royals, the new world series champs arrived back in kansas theres manager ned yost hoisting the trophy. Don mattingly officially introduced as the manager of the florida marlins today. It was a rough day all together for new york sports team yesterday. Week 8 not kind to the giants or jets. Big blue went to new orleans and scored an amazing 49 points. The only problem, the defense allowed 52. It was a wild gun slinging affair at the super dome. 13 touchdowns. Thats the most ever in an nfl game. The saints basically had their way with the defense, racking up 614 total yards of offense. Definitely frustrating and something weve got to look at and fix. We cant win games if teams are scoring 52 points. The jets did not fair much better on the west coast. They dropped their second straight game, this one to the raiders. That was not the only thing they lost. Ryan fitzpatrick went down with ligament damage in his left thumb. To make a season debut. He is listed as daytoday. Hell eventually need surgery. The qb will take snaps in practice to see if he can play through it now. Weve got to be able to quickly put it behind us because in the nfl no matter how healthy or hurt you are nobody feels bad for you. Nobody feels bad for you. Thats what the motto is. [ laughter ] lets check in with sade to see whats coming up tonight at 11 00. A father and son held hostage. Masked men storm a hardware store. The victims share their horrifying hale. A mom wanted for stealing all of the snacks and leaving other trick or treaters empty handed. Much more tonight on Eyewitness News at 11 00. Thats it for us for now. Thanks for watching. Im bill ritter. Im liz cho. World news tonight comes up next. Eyewitness news returns at