Divulged to join the Consulting Company taneo to advise them on terrorism. I get to stay in the city and i can walk to work. Three blocks and im at work. Reporter today a handful of people protested as bratton left city hall. Hes a continuation of giuliani and this mayor has to go next. Reporter for the most part bratton remains extremely popular in the city. Hes tried to create a kinder, focused on community policing. His replacement is jimmy oneill. And next in line, carlos gomez. Chief oneill, soon to be commissioner oneill and i, were a people person. We love cops. We love communities. Commissioner bratton says under no circumstances will he ever come back from the private sector to rejoin the police department. Hes joining the company taneo. Hell make a lot of money. All this takes effect september news. One of brattons harshest critics quickly responded to the resignation. Reverend al sharpton organized leaders in the African American community. Among other issues sharpton has been highly critical of brattons notion of broken windows policing. It is mixed feelings i have on mr. Brattons departure but i wish him well. I feel that broken windows policing is broken policing and the communitys police relations. Reverend sharpton strongly encouraged chief oneill to meet with civil rights leaders. Other reaction to the change in command. The head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association says commissioner bratton is finally doing what is right for the members of the nypd and people of new york city. We wish him well and look forward to a new direction for the nypd. And the patrolmans Benevolent Association says we thank period for the nypd. They hope that chief oneill will make supporting and protecting Police Officers on the street his first priority. The pba comes hours after Union Members followed mayor de blasio around the city in protest today. They demonstrated outside Gracie Mansion and then in brooklyn as the mayor worked out and got his morning coffee. Theyre calling on the mayor to get to work on a new police contract. As we have oneill will take over the countrys Largest Police department. Oneill is a lifelong officer who started with the department in 1983 as a transit cop then rose through the ranks. Hes been at the helm in overseeing security planning for major events including the visit of pope francis last year. And most notably he spearheaded the departments new approach to neighborhood policing. Tim fleischer is in foley square tonight and continues our coverage. Heard that phrase before. Chief oneill is actually a cops commissioner. He started out as a rookie transit officer. Hes worked his way to the top position. He comes with a wealth of experience. I cant wait for the opportunity to lead the great cops in this city to make new york city an even safer place. Reporter chief james oneill, affectionately known as jimmy, has coming in and served to make sure the cops, more importantly the Community Knows us. Reporter former Police Commissioner ray kelly is surprised by commissioner brattons sudden departure but sees chief oneill as an accomplished police official. I think hes well qualified. He came up to the ranks. Hes an experienced executive. Reporter as he watched commissioner bratton step down, chief oneill is preparing to take over the nypd, having served from the ground up, learning as a rookie subway cop people of this city. Reporter his mother and helen and sister sheila are important influences in his life. Because of her, i learned we can change the world in to what we want it to be and life is much, much more than about oneself. Its about all of us. Thank you, mom. Reporter he faces a number of challenges though in a changing department. I think continuing to address the breach between communities of color and the nypd, weve got to resolve that breach. Its fundamental to a safe city. One expanding initiative is the neighborhood pic e officers are, especially what their names are. If youre dealing with an nco, you also have their phone number at your dispossessal is one way to strengthen the bond that already exists in many places. Chief oneill is very excited about pushing the Neighborhood Initiative and he believes in its success. Reporting live at foley square, tim fleischer, channel 7 Eyewitness News. We have more information about james oneill, his rise up the ranks of the nypd on our well turn now to the other news of the day. Were learning disturbing new details about the death of a 5monthold baby in queens. The baby, alaia baque, was found unresponsive in her familys apartment saturday. The medical examiner says she died from abusive head trauma. Sources say the parents were convinced their baby was possessed with a, quote, evil eye, and they brought her to a socalled priestess last week for a cleansing ritual. Neighbors say they did not notice any issues with the girls parents. Definitely nothing violent. Saw them with the stroller pushing the baby around a lot but nothing out of the ordinary. At this point there are no arrests. The babys parents have both been questioned by police. Weve learned a man who remained in a coma a week after he was a victim of an apparent road rage attack in queens has vincent chun mansay took him off life support over the weekend. He got in to a fender bender with anderson last week in flushing and things quickly became violent. Anderson is now charged with felony assault. Turning now to president ial politics, president obama bluntly criticized donald trump today saying hes, quote, unfit and, quote, woefully unprepared to lead the country. Mr. Obama answered a question about the president ial race even while in a jnt he criticized trumps attacks on the muslim parents of an american soldier killed in iraq and he went on to ask why Republican Leaders endorse him. Somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesnt have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the his recent battle with the khan family, who spoke during the Democratic National convention. He sat down a short while ago with our sister station in washington, d. C. Hes a terrible president. Hell probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country. I think it just means hes concerned im going to win. Do you regret at all engaging in this back and forth with the khans . I dont regret anything. I said nice things about the son and i feel that very strongly but of course i was hit very ha just one of those things. No, i dont regret anything. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is speaking out in support of the kahns. For mr. And mrs. Kahn, the pain of losing their son while defending our country is unfathomable and i think it gives them the right to say whatever they want, whether theyre right or wrong. Christie fell short of specifically criticizing trumps handling of the situation. Christie added that any advice be personal and private. Its not too late to land a summer job. As we continue with Eyewitness News at 6 00 on this tuesday night, dozens of new jobs for young people designed to help the community. Also ahead, pope francis takes action that could lead to an increased role for women in the catholic church. And the mets get some extra hitting power today as they take on the yankees for game two of the subway series. Nice night for baseball at citifield. 74 degrees now. Clouds trying to break for sunshine. As you go through the evening hours, it should be partly cloudy. About 70 degrees. Were looking at the tropics. Tonight we introduce you to some teens in new jersey who are spending part of this summer cleaning up their town. For six weeks they are bagging garbage, planting flowers, and removing graffiti. Theyre doing it in the cash strapped city of y forced to close dozens of summer camps. All that hard work is making a big difference for their community. Heres toni yates. Reporter this will call for a good nights sleep tonight. Theyll be up and at it again tomorrow. 40 High Schoolers busy making paterson more beautiful. Were out here, we help the community. Thats our job. Reporter they can thank the creating this program. And paterson mayor joey torres for providing the grant that gave them paying jobs and teamwork experience, working with and learning from the more experienced great falls Neighborhood Community group. Its getting a lot of kids off the street. Look at all the kids here today. Its doing a lot. This time this Community Needs a lot of helping. It means the world to me to be involved. It shows us we can all come together and work as a team and some of the positives, some of attitudes we bring, it changes. You can have a positive attitude. Reporter a 100,000 grant from the city of paterson makes all of this possible. Theyre calling it a winwinwinwin situation. It means an opportunity to really gain work skills, life skills, build a work ethic while theyre teenagers and also to put some money in their pockets so they can have a brighter summer and maybe some money to buy books when they go back to the job done, stopping at one point long enough to receive a well deserved salute. Its especially gratifying to see a group of young people serving our great city of paterson. Reporter at West Side Park in paterson, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Pope francis is making news today on gender issues. Hes setting up a panel to study whether women can serve as deacons. Hes also making waves with comments that are not supportive of transgender community. The role of deacon is resve can preach and preside at weddings, baptisms, and funerals but cannot celebrate mass. Vatican also released a transcript of remarks francis made last week in which he said its, quote, terrible that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice. Taking a quick look at wall street where stocks finished the day slightly lower. Dow lost 91 points. Nasdaq down 36. S p 500 closed down nearly 14 points. A healthier option as we news at 6 00, mcdonalds is making changes in the way it prepares some of its popular meals. Lee says were in for some theres one place where americas . . And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. . . Discover something one of a kind in new york. . . New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your Summer Vacation at iloveny. Com where should you start when youre told you have cancer . Start with a specialist. 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Lets take a look at street level on the Upper West Side which looks very nice. A pleasant evening. Overcast skies. Its really, really comfortable out there. Were at 74. The humidity, its on the moderate side but lowering during the day tomorrow. Nice northeast breeze at times. Pressure is holding steady. High just short of 80. Shade below average. Sunset tonight at 8 10. So august is about to get back on track. Its really nice the next three days. Saturday is a bit of a question mark. Humidity is climbing. Theres a thunder threat. I like the way sunday is looking so far. 76, poughkeepsie right now. 74 in islip. Definitely seeing a thinning of the clouds over connecticut and hudson valley. 72 in belmar. Still partly to mostly cloudy. During the evening hours, low and middle 70s. Sunshine tomorrow. Light northeast wind. Patchy clouds at times especially over western new jersey and hudson valley. No worse than partly sunny and high in the lower 80s. Looking great. Clouds are starting to thin out. Still patchy cloudiness. A little disturbance in the atmosphere over the cape. Thats going to be shifting off in to the atlantic. Once that leaves, its all about surface High Pressure moving in. You can already see how its carving out this large area of clear real estate. Will fall apart. No big deal there. Then well look to this front getting in to the pacific northwest. Thats the one were timing for saturday and ill get in to the timing in just a really a nice day tomorrow but as High Pressure builds in on thursday, even better. Pictureperfect day. A little front off to the north. Humidity nice and low. Theres that front. It should approach later friday night in to the first part of saturday. This is Tropical Storm earl looking healthier in terms of Tropical Storm status during the symmetrical around the center. That indicates strengthening. Winds at 50 miles per hour. Its moving off to the west at a pretty good clip. Likely either a strong Tropical Storm. 70mileperhour forecast or minimal hurricane as it approaches belize later tomorrow night in to early thursday. If it maintains the circulation it could go back in to the gulf of mexico and back in to southern mexico as we go in to the weekend. Something to watch for a while. This is not a storm thats forecast northern gulf of mexico or have a major impact on the u. S. Mainland. 67 degrees. Partly cloudy to clear skies tonight. Will be comfortable. Tomorrow is a high of 80. Beautiful day. Partly to mostly sunny. Pleasant. Tomorrow night, partly cloudy and 67. Heres your 7day. Near 80 the next couple days. Lower humidity. As we go in to friday, a little bit more humid. A nice august day at 84. Any thunderstorms we wait till late at night and in to the day on saturday. The thing with saturday is the timing of the front. We could hit 90 but that front may be over us during the middle thunderstorm threat is better through late morning and early afternoon then it clears out later in the day. That could hold us in the mid 80 thats a humid day. Sunday, beautiful. Low humidity. Great weather. Saturday, a little problematic right now but its only tuesday. Hopefully those storms will hold off. Still tuesday. Maybe it will. Exactly. Anthony johnson is up next with sports. Mets and yankees are getting ready to do battle once again as the subway series rolls along. Th more pop in their lineup tonight as they welcome their newest member of the amazings. And the u. S. Open just weeks away and well show you a major hi guys got the birthday girl a drum set. Drum set . [laughs] oh you guys must have Time Warner Cable. This is gonna be some party. Yeah, their free home wifi lets us connect all our devices at the same time. And theres no data cap, so. 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Mets are hoping the National League rbi leader can lift this anemic offense. But myself, hopefully come in and contribute the way im capable of doing as a player and im very confident in that contribution so i plan on being apart of this team and helping out for that common goal. Late news for the mets. Asdrubal cabrera is on the dl. Yankees drew first blood in the subway series. Dd gregorius with a clutch twoout tworun single. Jacobyelsburg. The new yankee closer Dellin Betances ran in to trouble bottom of the 12th but gets Curtis Granderson swinging. The yankees draw first blood in the subway series. 65 in 10 innings. The Food Consumption at giants Training Camp has just gone up. No, im not sitting there. S back. Snacks is one of the new faces on big blues defense. Thats right, snacks. Following a season that saw among the leagues worst. Now the chance is to gel as one. I think one of the big advantages we have is we have an understanding of the defense. The new guys are picking it up fast. I like where were starting at. Its going to be a long journey to get to where we want to go. As for the jets running the First Time Since injuring his hamstring. A lot of attention has been on the jets offense but the team will only go as far as the defense will take them. Todd bowles knows he can have a dominating unit but he also knows theres a lot of work to do. Communication is always a big thing. You try to improve on every year. Guys getting to know each other. Weve got to do better there. Weve got a couple new guys over there. Were trying to get that accomplished. And the first start at the u. S. Open is set 29th. But today the new roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium was unveiled and its magnificent. Billie jean king and the wife of arthur ashe were on hand for the ceremony. The retractable roof will make rain delays a thing of the past as the 150 million project had its first public showing today. Construction on the roof began after the 2013 tournament and will protect 20,000 spectators from bad weather. Wont believe this file, we head to russia for the hockey skills breakaway showcase. 23yearold vladimir checkov. This goes beyond words. He scoops up the puck on a stick. Then he javelin style throws the puck and the stick in to the goal. I told you it came from the you wont believe it file. Can you do that . Do they count that . You know what, i think they would. All right. And it count. Thats what the producer just told me. Goal. Thanks, anthony. Time now for us to take a look at what were working on for Eyewitness News at 11 00. A woman falls on hard times and gives away her dog. When she goes to give her pet back, wait till you hear what she did to get herself in news at 11 00. Thats the news for now. Thanks for joining us. World news tonight with david breaking news tonight as we come on the air. What donald trump has just declared about one of the Leader Office the republican party, House Speaker paul ryan. Is this political war . Also, trump today receiving a purple heart, declaring in words, i always wanted a purple heart. This was much crash. Authorities now calling it catastrophic. Aerials from the scene coming in. The allout air assault tonight against zika. As the cdc warns against travel to a certain part of florida. And what weve now learned about the spraying. The states in red there, bracing next. The shooting rampage and the employees. Their splitsecond decision, where they hid that saved their lives. And the urgent manhunt under way tonight. And the pilot, just moments