Still feeling a little muggy as well. As we wait for this cold front t will be coming through, back door cold front edging in from the north and northeast. Thats what will cut our temperatures down. However, there will be clouds around. As the front comes through, wouldnt be surprised to see a few isolated spotty showers, not a big deal. Not looking for rain across the board. I wont rule that out completely. More clouds and sunshine and a high of 83. Tomorrow well turn it into beautiful sunny skies and temperatures in the upper 80s. We will get back to 90 before the big Holiday Weekend is over. Away is Heather Orourke. If you want to do that via the rails it looks like long island railroad, new Jersey Transit, metro north they will 1 40 p. M. Is the start for long island railroad, 1 p. M. For metro north and new Jersey Transit. Cross bronx expressway eastbound near white plains road we have an accident. Two lanes are blocked off as you go through that spot. Island expressway eastbound from at least 440. That takes you all the way in to victory boulevard where we do have that ongoing construction that is really slowing traffic down. As we look at the new jersey turnpike truck near 8a thats a truck fire and you also have one lane closed down in the car lanes. Ill show you that Staten Island expressway backed up into the area of exit 9. Its just a mess. We have our street cleaning rules in effect. Lori over to you. Thank you. Its 6 02. And breaking news in brooklyn, a suspect gets into a shootout with police, and he gets shot in the leg. It was one of several shots exchanged early this morning in bushwick. Dray clark is live on the scene for us. Good morning lori. Police say that suspect fired using an automatic weapon. You cant see the crime scene because this detective vehicle was blocking the area. Just down the block at jefferson and bushwick is where that exchange of gunfire happened between police and that suspect. No Police Officers were hurt. You can actually see just howe being hit. This is actually a gunshot in the Unmarked Police car with those officers arriving in this morning when they encountered that suspect. Initially police were called to the area at 1 20 on madison street where there had been a arm. Officers caught up with the jefferson. That is where that exchange of gunfire happened. When the gunfire stopped that suspect was hit in the leg and taken to kings county hospital where hes listed in stable condition. Police did recover a weapon at the scene, and police tell us it is an automatic handgun. The officers involved in the shooting are from the 83rd police precinct. They were not hurt but were taken to the hospital as a precaution. This is one of two crime scenes that detectives were actually working right now, this section of bushwick still blocked off and will continue to be blocked off until their investigation is wrapped up. Were live in bushwick, dray news. Developing in manhattan, firefighters battled a blaze in a building on the west side overnight. That fire broke out in a fifth floor apartment in the building on west 45th street. The same building houses Justin Timberlakes barbecue restaurant Southern Hospitality on the ground floor. Firefighters were able to stop nobody was hurt. Police in manhattan are trying to identify the man bus. Authorities released this picture of the man they say threw a metal garbage can at an mta bus. It started as some sort of verbal dispute with the driver in greenwich village. It happened in july. Police are now asking the 6 04. Newark mayor ross baraka and other officials plan a city hall tribute for the officers involved in a dangerous carjacking case was tuesdays carjacking of a jaguar included several robberies a shooting, a car and foot pursuit and a barricade in an abandoned house. A sixth carjacker was struck and killed by a police car. The murder of an Illinois Police officer in the line of duty, his Funeral Plans have been announced. Services will be held for lieutenant Charles Joseph gliniewicz monday morning 50 miles north of chicago. He was shot to death on tuesday. Investigators say they now have what they believe is a significant video from the killing. Police will only say it shows three people. Detectives are hunting for three suspects. The american airman who was injured when he and two childhood friends took down a gunman on a parisbound train has finally returned home to california. Airman first class Spencer Stone arrived during the night sacramento. He was greeted by hundreds of people who cheered and waved small american flags. Hand. Hospital. Stone and his two friends will sacramento next week. 6 06. And the weather is cooperating with the big journey ahead today for thousands of people heading out of town for the labor day holiday. The Port Authority is prepared to serve more than 4. 3 million travelers from the roads to the rails and in the skies. In just an hour from now, gas prices will cooperate too. Theyre dropping along the new jersey turnpike. Eyewitness News Reporter rob nelson live in ridgefield new jersey with that part of the story. Rob. Good morning ken. As you just said, the weather really is cooperating. It as beautiful morning out here. Of course thats just extra incentive for folks to hit the road. For those of you traveling by car, great news in just about an hour, gas prices will drop. 7 a. M. , less than an hour from now, gas prices will drop appropriately enough, 0. 07 at 7 a. M. On the garden state parkway and the jersey turnpike. Those will be the lowest Labor Day Weekend prices in a decade, a long time since its been this low. A gallon of regular will cost about 2. 20 a gallon compared to labor day. Last year thats a drop of more than a dollar. Back then in 2014 the cost was about 3. 28 a gallon. This years 2. 20 price starting about a few minutes from now the lowest price since 2004. Thats when the average price for a gallon of regular was just a buck 82. Thats a small snapshot of what the big travel weekend will look like. The Port Authority says will serve more than 4 million travelers for this labor day holiday, about 1. 7 million of those will hit local airports and that actually is a 1 increase over last year. This is a look at the expected breakdown at the airports, about 800,000 at jfk, 470,000 at newark, and 336,000 at laguardia. Meanwhile at bridges and tunnels around town, Port Authority officials expecting about 2. 6 million vehicles to pass through, not bad at all. Now back to the gas prices. Begins at 7 00 this morning the gas here along the turnpike will drop 0. 07 to 2. 20 a gallon. Prices are basically an average of statewide gas prices in jersey. 2. 20 gives you a good idea of what youll face if youre hitting the road. Officials say it is a busy Holiday Travel weekend so build in a little extra time. Give yourself just a few extra minutes but certainly not bad news at all to face on this Holiday Weekend. The lowest gas prices in ten years. Not bad at all. Reporting live in jersey, rob nelson channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right rob, thank you. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and mom amy freeze. Happy friday to you, what a day its going to be with temperatures lower in the lower 80s. Its going to feel refreshing by the time this front comes through. Not as much sun as wed like to see. There will be clouds today. Temperatures will top off in the low 80s after a streak of 90degree days. We had five in a row of them. Relief is on the way. This cold front thats coming in is a back door cold front. It starts edging in this morning and the relief really comes this afternoon. Theres only an isolated chance of a shower or thunderstorm around here today. Thats the only chance well get all weekend long of any rain. By tomorrow beautiful sunshine, temperatures are back into the mid80s. We could see a spot shower, clouds will give way to sun breaks, much cooler, 83 the afternoon high. Right now Heather Orourke with a look at your drive. Yeah and unfortunately when something happens on the cross bronx expressway it affects the George Washington bridge. Lets take a look at the bridge. You can see the upper level which should be moving along left to right. It is bumper to bumper. Well head to our maps and tell you whats going on. Cross bronx expressway east at white plains roted, an accident blocks at least two lanes. All lanes are subject to closure on the eastbound side causing major mess as you travel inbound at the George Washington bridge, Staten Island expressway, forest avenue to victory boulevard ongoing construction and our street cleaning rules are in effect today. Over to you. 6 10 and still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, the victim of a Home Invasion takes matters into his own hands shooting and killing the intruder and the age of the person who pulled the trigger may surprise you. Days before the professional football season kicks off new engl join the millions who have already switched. We switched. And now, were streaming netflix. Who knew Time Warner Cables internet was so fast mom switched. And now, we can watch our favorite shows together, on demand. I switched. So i can connect to the internet just about anywhere with my free twc wifi hotspots. Join the millions who switched to Time Warner Cable. For 89. 99 a month, youll get 100meg internet, and hundreds of hd channels. 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Deflategate is over at least for now. The nfl is appealing a judges ruling lifting the fourgame suspension handed down to new England Patriots quarterback tom brady. The league will not ask for an emergency stay of yesterdays decision. That means that brady will be able to suit up. New england opens the regular season against pittsburgh next thursday. Brady set out last nights exhibition game againsts giants. Time to check the accuweather forecast. And lets check in with amy freeze whos outside the studio here. Good morning. The sun is coming up later and later. 6 24 sunrise time so seasons are changing on us, but dont tell Mother Nature about that because our weather, while temperatures will be cooler for a day or two, weve got 90s in the extended forecast. So even after our heat wave that weve had the last couple of days, temperatures are not done as far as being hot and well above average. Starting off right now, looks hazy, but muggy as well. The breeze is starting to pick up. As the winds come out of the north, thats when were expecting more crushing air mass. 77 currently in central park. Lows this morning have been in the low to mid70s to the north and upper 70s in the boroughs. Its been still sticky. The leftovers from yesterday, our fifth day in a row with 90 or better. That 93 turns into 83 today. Knocking at least 3 degrees off the high temperatures this afternoon. Thats because of the front thats edging in as we speak. When it comes in its going to bring a more refreshing air mass. As far as the clouds go, theyll still be around, maybe a spot shower or a spit of rain can be expected early on. For the most part its going to be a much better feeling day, a bit of sun will take our temperatures into the low 80s today. Its picture perfect tomorrow, lots of sunshine and 80 degrees and before labor day is over, we will see temperatures return to 90. , not much but a few rain showers, just like i said a spit of rain the winds will feel really good. So thats the change in the weather for today. By tomorrow sun and temperatures in the midor 80 degree range will lead us into a warmer forecast the second half of the weekend. So well turn things into 86 on saturday returning northeast winds becoming easterly going up to 25 miles per hour. It will be very breezy at the beaches today. We have a high rip current risk. 83 this afternoon, temperatures going down into the mid60s, very comfortable. A windows open kind of night practically and then tomorrow its 80 and comfortable. Well see the temperatures going back to 90 on monday, tuesday and wednesday also in the 90degree range, 85 on thursday. There you go guys, a pretty nice summerlike weekend on the unofficial end to labor day. Hard to beat temperatures like were seeing over the weekend. Well take it. Let it keep going. Very nice. One thing is maximus is not taking off his coat. Hes one guy i cannot sell the hot weather too. Nice. Thanks amy. Over it heather with another check on the commute. Its a great weekend to get away. The way you want to do it is mass transit, long island railroad, metro north, you dont want to sit in traffic. We have news copter 7 up above, john del giorno showing us what happens when everybody starts rushing around. Good morning john. Good morning to you heather. We have an accident on the cross bronx expressway. This ones a little unique. Were on the eastbound side of the cross bronx near white plains road. There were two tractortrailers involved in this accident. If you look closely that is a new car carrier involved in the accident. It looks to me as if theres a pretty expensive car hanging off the top of the car carrier. Thats what the issue is going to be, getting that secured before they can get this accident cleared and out of the way. Eastbound side two lanes are shut. On the westbound side we had one lane closed. Thats been reopened. Look for heavy delays both ways. I can see rubbernecking delays on the bridge with people checking that out. Lets go to our maps. 440 making your way into victory boulevard, ongoing construction, two lanes are closed down as you head through that spot. 78 west at exit 18 that is a vehicle fire, and alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect for today. Thank you very much heather, 6 16 and a super sized surprise is expected from apple during its event next week. Reena ninan and phillip mena. A super sized ipad,. Apple is planning to unveil a 12. 9inch tablet at next weeks product event. The ipad pro would be more than 3 inches bigger. If you google your latest ailment. Google is adding hundreds of Health Conditions to its database, more than 900 making it easier to find information about an illness. One in every twenty google searching is health related. 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Happy friday to you. A lot of folks watching the forecast wondering whats the best day to do their getaway or watching the weather to see how nice its going to be wherever they end up. This afternoon temperatures will be 10 degrees cooler. A high of 83 degrees. The accuweather sevenday forecast tomorrow beautiful, sunny and a high of 80. Warmer but still very nice on sunday, 86 and its hot again on labor day itself, monday, a high of 90 degrees. Near records for tuesday when we go for a high of wednesday 90 degrees and showers and thunderstorms expected. Thursday were back to 85. All in all a pretty good weekend. As folks head out the door this morning, not expecting a lot of sunshine, it will be sort of cloudy but still much cooler. We have news copter 7 up above this incident on the cross bronx expressway eastbound right near white plains road. Right here there was a car carrier. The car carrier was involved in an accident, and it looks like theyve moved that car carrier off the road. As john is showing you we have sanitation out there. It looks like there are Police Officers who are just sweeping down the road trying to get the debris out of there so we can get everything cleared away. I want to caution those Police Officers. I wish they could hear to me to be careful of those cars whizzing by them. How this affected the George Washington bridge. Look at the upper level of the George Washington bridge, bumper to bumper because of that accident. Lower level a much better ride. Inbound into the tolls its about a 15 minute delay. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Thank you so much. If you are never seen star wars [ laughter ] today Means Nothing to you. For millions who love luke, leia and darth vader, its force friday. New star wars toys and collectors items went on sale add midnight. Hundreds lined up to get their hands on new stuff in anticipation of im so excited for this movie and im so excited that new merchandise is out. Star wars episode 7 the force Awakens Opens in theaters december 18th. Very cool. We are closing in on 6 30. Breaking news in brooklyn, a shootout between a suspect and police in the middle of the street sends the suspect and officers to the hospital. Were live with an update on now north americas number 1 news channel 7 Eyewitness News this morning. Breaking news in brooklyn, a shootout with Police Leaves one man wounded overnight. This is a live look at the street where it happened closed off for hours now. The suspect was shot in the leg and a bullet pierced an Unmarked Police cruiser. Were live with the latest. And we have new information this morning after a drone open. Morning. And the exclusive spectacular. Say that again. Weekend. Good morning im ken rosato. And im lori stokes. Thanks for joining us this morning. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist amy freeze. Lori and ken good morning to you. Hey everybody this Holiday Weekend getting off to a nice start. First up our temperatures will be cooler this afternoon. Yesterdays 93, knocking about 10 degrees off that. A front is coming through the area right now. We have 77 degrees. It was a muggy warm start, but the winds are starting to pick up a little bit. Once we get that refreshing air mass of the north, expect hazy conditions. Not going to see a ton of sunshine. Wont rule it out for a sun break or two this afternoon. The sun takes over tomorrow. Its all about cooler temperatures and the way it feels, a lot more comfortable this afternoon. Radar and satellite picture showing not much at all. Could be a spotty shower as the front comes through. Mainly more clouds and sunshine and a high of 83 in the city. Temperatures will be even cooler tomorrow but lots of sun returning for saturday afternoon. Ill have details on that plus the accuweather holiday labor day forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Nothing to cheer out if youre going on to the cross bronx expressway. We have news copter 7 up above john del giorno showing us that this is where the accident was. Theyre trying to clear away this car carrier. See that expensive car that john del giorno pointed out, this guy is teetering off the edge here. All lanes have been reopened on the cross bronx expressway. That doesnt mean were out of the woods. Lets go over to a camera and show you the George Washington bridge. You know what happens when theres an accident on the cross bronx expressway. Lower level moving just a little better. Well pinpoint where the accident is. Cross bronx east at white plains road. The accident cleared away. However, that delay goes across the George Washington bridge. Getting into the tolls, at least 20 minutes inbound at the George Washington bridge much heavier to the upper level. Lincoln is 15. The holland is still only 5 minutes. C trains downtown express only, hoyt street because of mechanical problems. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Thank you. 6 32. We are following breaking news in brooklyn. A suspect was shot in the leg during a shootout with police early this morning. It wasnt the only shot fired. Eyewitnesses say that at least a dozen shots were fired in bushwick. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark sent this tweet from the scene showing the extent of the investigation. He is joining us now live from the scene in bushwick. Reporter good morning lori and ken, a dozen shots fired. That shooting happened at jefferson and bushwick just down the way. You can see detectives still here working the scene. Despite that exchange of gunfire, the suspect was hit but luckily no Police Officers hurt. Take a look at how close they came to being hit. This is the Unmarked Police car. On the driver side of the car that bullet hole right there in the door. Initially police were responding to a report of a shooting on madison street at around 1 30 this morning. That is where a man was shot in the arm. Officers later caught up with the shooter at bushwick and jefferson. That is where police say that suspect pulled out an automatic weapon and started shooting at them. The officers returned fire and hit the suspect in the leg. He was taken to kings county hospital where hes now listed in stable condition. Police also telling us they did recover an automatic handgun here at the scene. Now those officers who were involved in the shooting were told are from the 83rd precinct. Ere not hit but they were precaution. Being detoured. Detectives still working the scene along with crime scene investigators making sure they find as much information as possible to make sense of what happened here and to also learn more about why that suspect turned and opened fire on those automatic hand gun. Were live in bushwick this morning, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. New information this morning. Police say a new York City Public School teacher is behind the drone disruption at the u. S. Open. High School Science teacher Daniel Verley faces Reckless Endangerment and other charges. The drone packed into the stands at the Louis Armstrong stadium in the middle of a match. Nobody got hurt. Ntsb investigators will be in cresskill new jersey on the scene of a plane crash that left two coast guard volunteers badly hurt. It is the top story on our free news app. Police say the pilots skill helped keep this crash from becoming a real tragedy. The pilot was able to put the cessna 172 down in a line of trees behind Cresskill Community Center at about 5 00 last night avoiding a large soccer field filled with children. He stayed as far to the edge of the field as he did. He did a heck of a job getting it down there. He saved people. He saved lives. The two men on board the plane were taking a survey at the hudson river when the pilot radios air Traffic Control saying the planes engine failed. He tried to make it to Teterboro Airport but couldnt. Both men are in the hospital with serious injuries, but they 6 35. The Rutgers Football Team will kick off a regular season this weekend without five of its players. They are in trouble with law. One of the players andre bogs is accused of two Home Invasions. Four other players are charged with assault for a fight that left a fellow student with a broken jaw. Five other people including two former players were charged in the crime spree. In the race for president and Vice President joe biden is talking openly about a possible campaign. His uncertainties and emotions following his son beaus death. Biden says his decision will depend on whether he and his family have the Emotional Energy to run. Unless i can go to my party and the American People and say that i am able to devote my whole heart and my whole soul to this be appropriate. Biden said at an atlanta synagogue that he is not run. Donald trump says he has signed a republican loyalty pledge. It is not legally binding but Party Leaders had demanded trumps public assurance that he would back the partys eventual nominee and that he would not attempt a thirdparty 6 36. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a big Music Festival kicking off today a year after several people overdosed. Well tell you how police plan to protect people now. And also ahead, gearing up for the popes visit in a couple of weeks. Hear from some of the folks in our area who will get to meet him. And were taking a look at the backups on the gwb after an earlier accident on the cross bronx expressway. Another update on traffic and the Holiday Weekend exclusive accuweather fore 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. Pope francis will be in new york in three short weeks where hell be greeted by tens of thousands of people. The pope will meet with immigrants and refugees who have been helped by catholic charities. Hes only in new york for a short time, but those hell meet with feel this will highlight the role of people who fought to make america home. I think its great what hes doing to come talk about the immigrants and the youth to let everybody know were not on the low standard. We do mean something. We need to be an inclusive people. A people who welcome, a people who value diversity. This comes as the National Debate on immigration heats up among president ial hopefuls and europe faces an ongoing migrant crisis. Tonight at 10 00 there will be a special edition of 2020. Abc news goes inside the vat began as david muir sits down with pope francis. You cannot miss it. Its going to be a great show. That is tonight, 10 00 right here on channel 7. I cannot wait to see it. Ive just seen the excerpts. Looks amazing. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and amy freeze. Good morning to you. Happy friday everybody as we kick off the big Labor Day Weekend. Things looking good in the weather. Some haze lingering, warm temperatures for the overnight lows. 77 already in central park. We have a little mugginess to the atmosphere. There is a front coming through thats going to take our temperatures down. After five days of 90 degrees or hotter, yesterday 93 were going to see some relief and taking 10 degrees off the afternoon high. The front that comes in, it makes things cooler and brings a refreshing air mass to the area. There will be more clouds and sunshine through the afternoon, and it looks like there could even be like a little spit of rain, a little tiny sprinkle in some isolated areas. Look for clouds and better feeling temperatures want well be in the low 80s above the seasonal averages. Thats our high today in new york city. 83 degrees. And after sunset well slide back into the 70s. Better weather tomorrow. Were going to be spot on for saturday and sunday and monday looks terrific too. As far as the accuweather seven for that. Commute. People are trying to do that. Get away. They are for sure. Lets take a look at the George Washington bridge. Unfortunately this is not the way to get away. This delay getting into the upper level is at least a 30 minute delay and its all because of an earlier accident on the cross bronx expressway. John del giorno is sticking above that George Washington bridge in news copter 7 showing us that mess. Were going to head to our maps. I can tell you the inbound side of the George Washington bridge at least 30 and building. Lincoln is 15. The holland is a 5 minute delay. The cross bronx, look at that delay coming off the George Washington bridge into white plains road and westbounders you have a rubbernecking delay. And our street cleaning rules are in effect. Thank you. And still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, two local day cares accused of running a day care fight club in new jersey face a judge. And the crackdown on drun seen mauricia. Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. In california, Sacramento City college is set to reopen this morning one day after a lone gunman killed a student and wounded two others. Police shut down the campus in search for the shooter, but he escaped on foot. Investigators say an argument along side the schools baseball field escalated into a fistfight and took a deadly turn when the suspect drew a semiautomatic handgun. Police dont know if the killer was also a student at the school. Two former new jersey day care workers accused of creating a kids fight club are due in court. Erica kenny and chanase white provoked shoving matches between kids in cran ford, then videotaped them and posted the fights online. The children were as young as 4 years old. No one was seriously hurt. The three day electric zoo festival kicks off on randalls island. 25,000 people expected to attend the three days of electronic dance musics. This is the first full festival since 2016 when it was cut short when two concert goers overdosed on drugs. Good morning america is coming up next and George Stephanopoulos is live in time square. Good morning george. Good morning were following that story as well, that shooting in sacramento at a city college. Were going to have the latest on that and more on the kentucky clerk that refused to issue samesex marriage licenses. A judge holding her in contempt of court for refusing to sign the licenses. She says it violates her religious beliefs. Its become a huge controversy right now. And tory spelling is suing benihana. She got a bad burn after falling and tripping and falling into one of those grills. Going to have some fun this morning as well, our final concert in the park this Labor Day Weekend, florida georgia line. Excellent. Thats a good way to kick off the weekend for the holiday. Have a good one, thank you george. Have a good one. 6 47. Police will be out in force on long island cracking down on drunk driving. The Program Starts today. Its going to run through the Holiday Weekend in long beach. Nasa county officials will be out in long beach to announce details. Police patrols will be out looking for drunk and drugged drivers. Its 6 47. Time to get a check on the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist amy freeze in for bill evans. Sort of muggy this morning, when i came out the door, maximus ran right up to me. He shrunk a little bit but ran right up to me and said hello. Hi baby, how are you . Youre so much smaller. What happened. Yeah. Just kidding. This is haley. That was a joke. Maximus was here. Hes got stuff to do. Thank you haley for your appearance. A little stand in there. Im terrible, i know, i know. Outside right now 77 degrees. Weve got clouds and haze but were waiting for this cold front thats going to cool our temperatures down. After yesterdays 93 were going for 77 right now to 83 degrees. That takes a little relief off the hot steamy air we had yesterday. Its also a book door cold front. The edge in from the north bringing in a refreshing air mass. 72 for hog position, down the shore temperatures are in the 60s and 70s. Toms river at 63. Areas to the north have their temperatures overnight in the low to mid60s. Visibility is the lowest right now in morristown, not as much patchy fog. As this front comes in from the north, it really doesnt look to spark too much showers. Well call it an isolated sprinkle here or there. Not a big deal. Its cooler today as far as temperatures go, but still a little mugginess that were trying to cut through with this front. By tomorrow its comfortable. Its beautiful, its ideal. 80 degrees, lots of sunshine and for labor day well see ow temperatures returning to 90. Summer is not over yet in more ways than one. On the Accuweather Futurecast you can see the spotty rain showers that show up early on, a little instability. The rest of the weekend is looking dry. If youre making a get away whether its down the shore or the hamptons or the higher elevations, the catskills, the poconos around the area the weather does look good for the next couple of the days. There we are as the front comes through. Saturday i think is the best day of the Holiday Weekend. Its so comfortable and temperatures are right on track where they should be for this time of year when you look at the longterm averages. Rip current risk is high today. Check in with the local lifeguards, winds up to 25 miles an hour to the northeast. Hamptons and jersey shore 70s today and tomorrow. The catskills a little warmer. By sunday 83, 85 by monday. Temperatures climbing to the 80s across the area, except for the city will be at 90 on labor day. So here we break it down, cooler today with 83. Tonight going to 65. This is a windows open kind of night, fantastic with comfortable temperatures. And then 80 degrees on saturday. Lots of sunshine. It will be beautiful tomorrow. Sunday sunny, 86, and then labor day 90 degrees. It will be steamy. 91 on tuesday. As kids go back to school next week, 90 on wednesday. It will be hot and sticky, 85 on thursday. There is your accuweather seven day forecast. You guys all in all its the dog days of summer in september this go around. Thats when the dogs get real small. Thats right. They shrink. Over to heather with another look at the commute. We had an accident on the cross bronx expressway that caused major delays at the George Washington bridge. John del giorno is going to give us an update on the bridge. How is it looking john . And heather you can see some of these delays all the way down the hill coming inbound at the george, a 30 minute delay from the express and local lanes of iate. This all due to the earlier accident on the cross bronx expressway. George Washington Bridge one of the spots well be watching this afternoon. Heather i think were in for a doozy over a get away day this afternoon. The trend has been for folks to fete out of town on thursdays. However, with so many kids back in school this year i dont think that happened. I think were going to have a big rush hour at the usual spots, the l. I. E. , garden state parkway, the i95 corridor and of course right here at the George Washington bridge. Look for delays to begin to pick up between 2 and 3 00 this afternoon. I agree john. Good point. If you are making your way out of town this afternoon, you can use new Jersey Transit. You can use long island railroad, metro north, they are all providing extra service. No major problems with the subways. We had mechanical problems on our c trains. We did have an accident reported on that upper level. The lincoln is 15. The holland is a 5 minute delay. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Thank you. Its 6 52, and we are following breaking news in brooklyn. A suspect was shot in an Early MorningPolice Involved shooting. This is a live look at the scene 6 55, and police in brooklyn found themselves at two shooting scenes during the night, and they put one suspect in the hospital after a quick gunfight. Dray clark live in bushwick with that story. Dray. Good morning, detectives are still here on the 1100 block of bushwick avenue near jefferson where that exchange of gunfire happened. That suspect hit in the leg. The officer the not hurt at all. Take a look at the vehicle they were riding in. You can see on the driver side of this Unmarked Police car there is a bullet hole actually inside the door. Initially police were responding to a report of a shooting on madison street. That is where a man was shot in the arm around 1 30. Officers caught up with the shooter at bushwick near jefferson. The officers say that suspect raised a weapon and fired at them. They returned fire hitting the suspect in the leg. He was taken to kings county hospital where hes listed in stable condition. Meanwhile police say they did recover a gun here at the scene. Were live in bushwick brooklyn, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. 6 56, new information this morning, police have charged a new York City Public School teacher with last nights drone disruption at the u. S. Open. High School Science teacher Daniel Verley flew the device into Louis Armstrong stadium during a womens match. The t it crashed into the stands. Nobody got hurt. Firefighters battle the blaze in a building on manhattans west side overnight. That fire broke out in a 5th floor apartment in the building on west 45th street. No one was hurt. Same building houses Justin Timberlakes barbecue restaurant Southern Hospitality on the ground floor. Ntsb investigators will be in cresskill new jersey this morning on the scene of a plane crash that left two coast guard volunteers badly hurt. The pilots put that plane down in a line of trees behind Cresskill Community Center avoiding a large soccer field filled with children. The two men on board were taking a survey of the hudson river when the gas in new jersey will drop to its lowest price in more than a decade. Gas will cost an average of 2. 20 a gallon down 0. 07. That as millions of people hit the road to soak up the last few drops of summer. Labor day travels expected to be up this year. More than 1 1 2 Million People flying into and out of local airports. Its 6 57. News copter 7 is in the air this morning. We check in with john del giorno live over the big delays over the gwb. Reporter thats right. Our focus this morning has been on the George Washington bridge. That was largely due to an accident on the cross bronx expressway. Thats been cleared but the damage was done at the inbound george. Look for delays of 30 minutes both the express and local lanes of i95 due to that earlier accident. Also getting a report of a collision on the upper level inbound deck on to the apartments. Looks like heavy delays that direction as well. Use the lower level or the route 4 and route 46 approaches to the bridge. It will save you some time. Were live over the george, john del giorno channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you john. Another check on the commute with Heather Orourke. Lets take a look at a picture of the George Washington bridge as you try to move across the span. It is just a mess. Upper level moving left to right while basically stopped left to right because of that accident we have reported. Look at the lower level. Were just flying through. Go there if you can like john said. Well head to our maps. Johns calling 30 minutes. Were going to stick with 30 instead of 406789 that accident reported underneath the apartments. Lincoln is 20, the holland is 5 minutes. This was because of this accident at white plains road. That accident has been cleared away. Extra Service Starting at 1 4 00 long island railroad, metro north and new Jersey Transit buses for this afternoon, and the weekend get away. If youre headed on to the new jersey turnpike we have this accident northbound, a truck fire near 8a. That truck was carrying watermelon. What are you going to bring to your picnic this weekend. Our street cleaning rules are in effect. Thank you heather. Amy. Weather looks really good. Temperatures in the upper 70s now. Weve got this cold front coming through. Its going to keep our temperatures cooler this afternoon. 93 yesterday, 83 today. The accuweather sevenday forecast, tomorrow a beautiful day, i think the best one of the entire Holiday Weekend, 80 very comfortable. Sunday were warmer at 86. 90 degrees on labor day itself. Thank you amy and that is the news for now. Im ken rosato. And im lori stokes. Thanks for starting your friday with us. Have a great Holiday Weekend