68, and were looking at 70s on the way. Well talk about that next. Heathers got all kinds of issues this morning. Thats why we do weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. Were going to head to dix hills and show you where there closure is. Northern state parkway remains closed down. Everything is closed down both directions between exits 41 and 42 with an ongoing accident investigation. Deer park avenue onramps to the Northern State parkway are also closed down. This was a double fatal accident. Kristin thorne has been giving us information all morning long. This is where the closure scene is. You can head to jericho turnpike. That is a good alternate to the Northern State parkway if you are heading up the north shore. Chelsea fire closures, 7th avenue right near west 18th and 17th street between 7th and 8th avenues. You want to avoid the area of chelsea. Our mass transit times are doing just fine. Our street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken over to you. Heather thank you. Its 6 02. We have new details on a breaking story we just heard from heather about in manhattan. Firefighters have called in even more help to battle that raging fire in a big building. Officials also fearing this building could collapse at any moment. Several streets are closed right now near the fire scene on west 17th street. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live in chelsea. What do we know dray . Good morning, ken. Theyre still calling for more backup, and within the last half hour, the fire now escalated to a 5th alarm. Theyve set up a collapse zone because theyre concerned about the stability of the building and because of that theyve now began evacuations on west 17th street. Buildings 218 through 224 are now in the process of being evacuated. Meanwhile, the main fire building is at 221 west 17th street, and you can still see theres a considerable amount of smoke coming from inside that building. This fire is not under control. It is not contained. Firefighters still using a lot of water to put those flames meanwhile, take a look at this video here. Just absolutely unbelievable the amount of flames that were shooting from inside the building at the height of the fire. Pretty much flames shooting out of every window. This is a 6 story brick building that was under renovation at the time. The fire broke out just before 3 00 this morning, and because the building was empty, there was no evacuations and no rescues but because of the size of the fire, firefighters were very concerned about the fire jumping to adjacent buildings so they immediately employed their surround and drown technique and for the moment it seems as if theyve been able to stop that from happening. Theyre now in the process of conducting those evacuations. Meanwhile we spoke to a couple of people who were standing outside this morning and saw this thing play out, and they say it was absolutely unbelievable how fast this fire moved. We kept smelling a strong odor of smoke and then when we came outside, that whole black full of smoke and then all of a sudden the Fire Department took like 10 minutes and by then it was just flames shooting out the side. That was almost like 20 minutes that the flames were still going on, and there was no water hose at the time. Maybe they was trying to find a johnny pump or a fire hydrant or Something Like that for them to like actually like put out this fire. It was a lot of flames. It was pretty heavy. Reporter and heres a look at some of the people who were asked to leave their Apartment Buildings this morning. Again, buildings 218 through 224 here on west 17th in the heart of chelsea. A moment ago we saw jazz legend Winston Marcellus rushing away from the building carrying his trumpet. He was among those asked to leave his apartment because firefighters are now concerned about the stability of the building thats across the street. Theyve now set up that collapse zone. Were at a 5th alarm and more than 100 firefighters on the scene and we understand more on the way. Were hoping to hear from the battalion chief here in a moment to get more details. Again, weve been here all more than long keeping a very close eye on firefighters trying to get a handle on this building here now consumed with smoke here on west 17th street here in chelsea. Thank you. Its 605. And we just received an update on a breaking story on long island. Tragically two people are now confirmed dead in a car crash that has also closed the Northern State parkway, and weve also learned that one driver was going the wrong way. Eyewitness News ReporterKristin Thorne is live now in dix hills with details for us. Reporter that is information we confirmed in just the last few minutes. Again, yes, two people have died as a result of this head on crash. Its believed that both the deceased are the drivers of those two vehicles. I want to give you a live look right now here in dix hills. Ramp to the Northern State parkway westbound from deer park avenue now shut down. In fact, the Northern State parkway is shut down in both directions between exit 41 and 42. Were going to show you some pictures we got of a burned out suv. This is just east of exit 42 on the Northern State parkway. Were hearing that the driver of one of these vehicles was fleeing police, crashed into another vehicle head on and at least one of those cars burst into flames. Two people now confirmed dead. This happened around 2 30 this morning. Why were police initially going after that car. We dont know that. We are still waiting for those details from investigators. Givings you one last live look to the entrance ramp, you know, we were hoping that perhaps this would be cleaned up by the morning rush. It appears that is not going to happen, so if you take this parkway routinely, you should plan accordingly. Were live in dix hills this morning, im Kristin Thorne channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Its 6 06, 6 07, and new this morning, police just released new pictures of a violent armed robber. This is Surveillance Video of the man attacking a woman inside a building on hudson street in manhattan early saturday morning. 15 minutes earlier and police say the same suspect robbed a man outside a Greenwich VillageApartment Building. Now both victims are expected to be okay. Also this morning, we now know what killed a dermatologist from long island whose body was found in an Apartment Building in chelsea. As we first alerted on facebook and twitter, 38yearold Kirsten Cerveny died from an accidental mix of cocaine and alcohol according to the medical examiner. The mother of three was partying with friends on october 5th when one of them called 911 and left her in the buildings doorway. At this point no one has been charged. 6 07 now, new this morning, one of canadas most famous political names is back in justin trudeau, son of the late canadian Prime MinisterPierre Trudeau has followed in his fathers footsteps. The liberal picked up an overwhelming victory. Justin trudeau is the second youngest Prime Minister in canadian history. 6 08, and happening today, manhattans largest apartment complex is set to get a new owner and keep much of its middle class housing. Reports say stivers and town will be sold to a wall Street Investment group for 5. 3 billion. The deal with the Blackstone Group reportedly caused half of the 11,000 unit complex to be reserved for lower and middle income residents. Meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Here we go, we take a look outside from our camera at astoria queens. Where else would you find your princess but in queens. As we look southward toward the 59th street bridge, great visibility, got a nice morning. We are looking at temperatures around49 degrees, clear and partly cloudy skies. Southwest wind that will hold this front to around lake ontario and lake erie. That will stay to the north to platsburg at least for a couple of days. Temperatures will rebound nicely. 68 this afternoon. 15 degrees warmer than yesterday, and its only going to get warmer into the 70s tomorrow. At the bus stop, kids, here are the huckleberries, theyre all dressed appropriately. They are your role models for the day today sadly. It will be 45, breezy, and chilly this morning. Weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. Weve got a lot of messes out there. Lets take a look at a webcam and show you how things look. This is right near deer park avenue. You can see all traffic being diverted off of the Northern State parkway, and then a look at the l. I. E. As you make your way into deer park avenue which looks like a good alternate. This accident investigation parkway between exits 41 and 42. Its a double fatal accident. We have all lanes closed both ways. Deer park avenue onramps to the Northern State parkway are also closed down, and then we have jericho turnpike, a very good alternate to the Northern State parkway. So you can go up there if you can. And chelsea fire closures continue as well. Our street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Ken and lori over to you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a woman sexually assaulted at Union Square Park. This Morning Police are revealing more about the suspect theyre trying to find. New this morning, a driver shot and killed by a Police Officer in florida. His family now demanding answers. And the force awakens. Were going to check out the stay with us. Whatever life throws your way, youve got it in the bag. Youve got t. J. Maxx keep your standards high, and your spending low. 6 13. Breaking news in new jersey, two buildings went up in flames in a 3 alarm early this morning. John del giorno over lodi. The good news is it looks like the fire here has been knocked down, if not completely extinguished. This fire began around 3 00 this morning. Were on river street in lodi. The fire affected two buildings here. You see that private home there on the left and an Apartment Building on the right. The fire on the upper floors of both of those structures. Again, the fires been knocked down. The good news is that there are no injuries to report here. No word on what started this blaze. Its a very residential section of lodi. You will see a lot of Fire Department activity, especially if youre on 1st street, some even spilling across the river on to passaic avenue. If you have to travel through morning, expect many street closures. Eyewitness news. New this morning, a family demanding answers after a florida musician broken down on the side of the road was shot and killed by a plain clothed Police Officer. Corey jones was killed sunday morning by a Palm Beach GardensPolice Officer along an exit ramp from interstate 95. Worshipers gathered in church yesterday after services to pray for jones. I dont understand how anyone could ever perceive corey as a threat whatsoever. Hes the most level headed calm, kind person. A Police Statement released yesterday evening says the officer who shot jones was suddenly confronted by an armed subject. Theres no further explanation for what sort of weapon or how a confrontation developed. Happening in boston a mother and her boyfriend will face a judge in connection with the death of the 2yearold girl who became known as baby doe. Rachel bond and Michael Mccarthy were charged last month after the remains of bonds daughter bella washed up inside a trash bag on a Boston Harbor beach in june. Police got a three months later after bond told a friend that mccarthy killed bella. Mccarthys lawyer has said he knew nothing about bellas death. 6 15. Time to check the accuweather forecast. Lets step outside with meteorologist bill evans. Good morning, its cool, its crisp. Its suit weather as i call it. Everybodys getting underway today and grab a jacket or sweater. Its certainly not harsh. But it is chilly to start the day. 15 degrees warmer today than yesterday. Heres a look outside. Weve got a pretty morning outside. Were looking at a nice clear sky. You can see the big dipper right over 1 world trade. Were looking at temperatures starting out right around 49. A southwest wind to a calm wind in central park, but with a southwest wind, thats a warmer wind, and so thats a dry wind as well. That will feel great today. This High Pressure ridge to the south holds that front to the north. That wont sag south until at least thursday night. So after school kiddos today its 68 degrees. Need a jacket and a sweater this morning. It will be warmer with a southwest wind. Yesterdays high was 53. Were looking at really nice warm weather today at 68 degrees. This front kind of sags south but the high in the atlantic holds that off tomorrow. We warm up even more with 73, and were at 73 on thursday. Now eventually that low and those systems in the great lakes sweep through thursday night virtually unnoticed except for the cooler air, and youll feel that on friday. Three really warm days starting today. Sunny and warmer high 68. 55 in the five boroughs, 52 long island, coastal connecticut about 50 to our north and west. Were looking at sunshine, warm and pleasant tomorrow, the high is 73 which is 11 degrees warmer than normal for this time of the year. Here is your accuweather seven day forecast. Pleasantly warm on thursday, and then thursday night there might be a scattered shower thursday night, and then its going to be sharply cooler when that front moves through thursday night into friday. Were going to be looking at a temperature around 58 friday and 60 on saturday. Mets are in chicago playing the cubs. Game time temperature, id like to introduce you to the starting pitcher for the mets tonight, and that is of course the white knight, maximus. Good morning buddy. Show me some love. Thats my boy. This kind of weather makes it really exciting. Yeah, yeah. Yeah yeah. Bill, is it true hes a south paw . Yep, thats right. Hes a south paw. He proved it. Big boy. Big boy all right. Hes into the snack wagon today. This kind of really exciting. Yogis have a great day. Weve got a busy day on long island. We have a very busy morning on long island and elsewhere. So lets take a look at a camera and show you whats happening on the van wyck expressway. You can see a ton of accident activity right over here. Its off on the shoulder, but it is causing a delay. Well head to our maps. Ill tell you where this is. Its the van wyck, its going north. Its right near queens boulevard. Off to long island we go. As we check out the Northern State parkway between exits 41 and 42. All lanes are closed down in both directions. Deer park avenue the onramps to the Northern State parkway is closed down. The l. I. E. Is starting to pick up a little bit of volume. Its not doing too badly. Your best bet is to head to jericho turnpike. Thats a good alternate to the Northern State parkway. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect for today. Thank you heather. 6 19. Were officially less than two months from the debut of the new star wars film. The trailer alone has already broken the internet. Abcs Kendis Gibson and reena ninan report. Hey there in todays tech bytes, demand for tickets to the upcoming star wars movie breaking the internet. Those tickets were supposed to go on sale after the new trailer aired last night. Fandango started selling them early. As word spread the website crash. Amc theater site and movie tickets. Com down for a time. 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Lets take a look at temperatures; 46 at newark, 49 laguardia. A southwest wind here at 7. Thats going to make it warm. The humidities are low, and were looking at a nice ride on the ferries. A southwest wind thats going to be coming across today, and that southwest wind will make it feel much warmer. By the time we get to the afternoon, were looking at 6. 69 degrees, going to be beautiful weather. Kiddos at the bus stop, dress warmly this morning. After school its going to feel great, bright and beautiful, 68. Heathers looking at your commute. Shes got a whole bag full of troubles. This is true. Ill explain whats happening as you travel through dix hills on long island. You have the Northern State parkway between exits 41 and 42. Accident investigation. All lanes are closed down. This was a wrongway crash. There was a double fatality. Deer park avenue onramp to the Northern State parkway closed down as a result. Deer park avenue closed down near the Northern State parkway. Jericho turnpike a good alternate to the Northern State at this point. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect for today. Mass transit is on or close. Over to you. Thank you heather. Its 6 25. Abcs jimmy kimmel in brooklyn for the first night of his week long stint on the east coast. The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live even put on a tutu while practicing his pirouettes with misty copeland. Be sure to watch tonight at 11 35 right after Eyewitness News. Were closing in on 6 30. And still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, fast moving Fire Destroys the top floors of a building in chelsea. These are live pictures now from news copter 7. Well have the very latest including incredible video of the firefight. Today new york city takes a big step toward cracking down on a dangerous new type of drug. And beaches evacuated along the Southern California coastline when an 8foot shark appears offshore. The warning for swimmers and surfers. And meteorologist bill evans ac we thought wed be ready. But demand for our cocktail bitters was huge. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didnt need a loan. We needed shortterm funding. Fast. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. You cant predict it, but you can be ready. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself. He now new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News this morning. Were following two breaking stories right now. We have live pictures near the scene of a deadly wrongway crash both directions of a busy long island highway remain shut down. Breaking in manhattan, fierce flames destroy a big building downtown forcing officials fear that building could come crashing down and were expecting an update from firefighters at any moment now. And the mets getting ready for a battle in the windy city looking to take a decisive threegame lead over the chicago cubs. Good morning, im ken rosato. Im lori stokes. Thanks for starting your morning with us. Its tuesday, october 20th. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and bill. Good morning everyone. Grab a coat. Grab a jacket, a sweater, a scarf and all good stuff. Were at 49 degrees, which is normal for central park. We go up the hudson river valley, 42 kingston, poughkeepsie, newburgh, monticello 34, and 53 at norwalk. Montauk, 54. Temperatures around somerset around 42. Were looking at 45 at 8 00, 60 by noontime, and 68 this afternoon. And it only gets warmer into the 70s. Well talk about that and your weekend coming up. Heathers looking at your commute. Its been a very busy morning. The chelsea fires first. We have this chelsea fire ongoing. Dray clark has been giving us updates all morning long. 7th and 8th avenues closed between 19th and 16th streets. 17th and 18th streets closed down between 7th and 8th avenues as a result. Ongoing closure on long island, Northern State parkway, accident investigation. This was a wrongway crash, two people have died in this accident. You have all lanes closed both ways. Deer park avenue onramps to the Northern State parkway are also closed. Kristin thorne is giving us updates on that. Jericho turnpike is a good alternate to the Northern State parkway at this point. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Mass transit is on or close. Ken, over to you. Thank you. Its 6 31. Now back to that breaking story heather was just talking about. We have learned in the last half hour once again two people were killed in that crash on the Northern State parkway. This happened just a few hours ago near dix hills, and weve also just learned that Kristin Thorne is live now with an update. Kristin. Good morning lori and ken. We just spoke with a witness who says he was driving on the Northern State parkway heading westbound early this morning when he looked to his left, and apparently saw an suv and a police car go speeding by him also heading westbound, but they would go in the eastbound lanes. I want to show you right here, this is the entrance to the Northern State parkway westbound here off deer park avenue. It is shut down. In fact, the entire Northern State parkway between exits 41 and 42, that is both directions now shut down as a result of this. Were going to show you pictures of this burnt out car. Its believed that the driver of one of these vehicles was fleeing police, crashed into another vehicle head on. Again, two people now confirmed dead. Its believed that the two deceased are the drivers of those vehicles. This happened around 2 30 this morning. So why were Police Chasing after that initial driver . We just dont know that at this point. Were still waiting for an update from investigators, but if you are heading out this morning, you take the Northern State parkway. Again, both ways now shut down between exits 41 and 42 as the result of this investigation, so you should plan accordingly. Were live in dix hills, im Kristin Thorne channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you very much kristin were going to go right to john del giorno now in news copter 7. What do you have for us john . Weve got an update for you ken from the air on this 5 alarm overnight fire in chelsea, and you can zoom down, and you can see right there all the smoke from this fire there bringing it under control right now. But you can see the smoky blaze. This was on 17th street between 7th and 8th avenue, and from the air what we see are a lot of potential traffic problems. We radioed down to heather. 7th and 8th avenues both closed right now for your morning commute. 7th and 8th avenues both closed between 16th and 19th streets. You can see all the equipment. Thats where it was parked. This was a 5 alarm assignment, a lot of equipment down there. Also 17th street where the fire took place and 18th street. Both of those cross streets are closed through the fire area as well. Thats the summary from the air, the traffic closures and the visible smoke. Weve got a lot more information to cover. With that dray clark can give us the latest from the scene. Reporter quite a busy scene down here on the ground. The fire now standing at a 5th alarm with more than 100 firefighters on the scene. That main fire building just behind me down the block at 221 west 17th street. The concern right now is the building could collapse. They set up a collapse zone and began evacuations of buildings 218 through 224 in the event that this building could actually fall at any given moment. Also firefighters have been pushed back because of that concern. Meanwhile take a look at the scene from earlier this morning, just a tremendous amount of flames shooting from inside of that building. The fire again now at a 5th alarm. Firefighters say this building was under renovation. It was empty. There was no evacuations or no rescues necessary. It was actually in the process of being converted from a manufacturing building to a multifamily building as well. Right now firefighters, the concern was trying to prevent those flames from jumping to adjacent buildings, so they employed their surround and drown technique, and they were successful at stopping the fire from spreading. The main concern right now is whether or not this building is going to collapse. Meanwhile, we talked to one man who actually says he was working across the street and could not believe how quickly the fire moved. All of a sudden we see its pitch black, and within 5 minutes, the flames start coming out, and then within 10 the flames were really 2 story high and the Fire Department going into action, it seemed a little late because by the time the water come out the flames were all over. Reporter because of the concern about the building possibly collapsing, the Fire Department started evacuationing buildings here on west 17th street, buildings 218 through 224. This is what youre seeing right now. Many of those people who live in those Apartment Buildings leaving in a rush. Among those jazz legend Winston Marcellus who was coming off tour. The Police Department banged on his door and said get out. He grabbed his trumpet and hit the ground running. He didnt want to go on camera but he says certainly it was a big scare getting that knock on the door because there was a fire just across the street. More than 100 firefighters now on the scene. Were expecting to hear from the chief of department here at any given moment to give us an update. No injuries reported by the way, and because this building, begins was under renovation, there was no one inside the building. Certainly quite a scene in the heart of chelsea as process of trying to get a handle on this fire here in the heart of chelsea, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Wow, all right, thank you. 6 37, and police have released a new sketch, and new pictures overnight of the man wanted for a sexual attack in a popular manhattan park. Take a look at these sketches and pictures we have of a suspect who attacked a woman in Union Square Park over the weekend. The woman escaped by biting her attacker. He even drew blood. In addition to the videos theyve collected blood evidence from the scene. They searched for a dna match. Late last night in south africa, oscar pistorius, the double amputee olympic runner was released from prison and placed under house arrest. He continues serving his five ier sentence for killing his girlfriend in 2013. Officials decided to release pistorius a day early and at night to avoid a media tsunami with journalists gathered from around the world. Happening today an honor who died in the line of duty. A street in brooklyn is being renamed this morning in honor of lieutenant richard nappy. He died in 2012 after collapsing while battling a fire in bushwick. He was a 17 year veteran, and he also was among many who responded while off duty to the World Trade Center on september 11th. The mets looked to take a big step down the road to the world series tonight. In chicago the nlcs shifts to the windy city for game 3 with new york holding a 2 games to none lead. The man with the hair, jacob degrom takes the mound tonight with a chance to put the cubs season on the brink of extinction. He says the bright lights and baseballs big stage have not been a problem. A lot of fun. Thats what we play for. We play to get this chance, and you never know how many times youre going to get it, so when you get this chance, you want to make the best of it. Game time tonight just after 8 00. Sports anchor laura behnke, reporter anthony johnson, they tonights big game. Watch for their reports later today on Eyewitness News. We want to see how youre sell britting the mets playoff run. Share your pictures and your video with hashtag abc7ny. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. Here we go, we take a look outside, and were looking at clear to partly cloudy skies. This our camera on the roof looking toward midtown manhattan. The lights are on, kids are skating. Thats right. Were going to be looking at a morning where we start out with temperatures right around 46 degrees. You see here around paramus, 49 around the park. Were going to be looking at 46 newark, 50 around jamaica queens. Were going to be looking at a wind coming out of the southwest at about 12, 14 miles an hour. Were going to be looking at low humidities, a nice start to the day, grab a jacket or a sweater. Even if youre taking the ferry about a 14 miles an hour wind out of the southwest. Weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. Its weather then heather. Were going to show you whats happening here on the well take a look at a webcam and show you where all traffic is being diverted off the Northern State parkway. This is right near wolf hill road. Its also being diverted off deer park avenue. As an alternate you can always take the l. I. E. , which is really doing pretty well through that spot. However, lets go over to our maps. Well talk about where the closure is. Its closed between exits 41 and 42. Kristin thorne has been telling us about this all morning long. It was a wrongway crash, two people were killed in the accident. Deer park avenue closed down through the area of the Northern State. Jericho turnpike a very good alternate to the Northern State parkway at this point. We have our mass transit running on or close to schedule and street cleaning rules are in effect. Lori and ken over to you. Thank you very much. 6 40. New information on a stabbing aboard a city bus on staten island. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, the charges one man is now facing after a dispute over a seat. And video thats pretty hard to watch. Woman in the face seemingly for no reason. Recovery of patients across the country have spoken. They recently rated their Care Experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Fewer than 10 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Learn more at cancercenter. Com eastern. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Care that never quits. Lifeguards in Newport Beach believe two women spotted a hammerhead shark. They said they needed physical proof so the women went back to new port pier and shot video of the shark swimming 15 yards from shore. That was physical proof enough. The beach got closed for a mile in each direction for about five hours. One mom on the beach said her children didnt have to be told twice to get out of the water. And now to the top story on our abc7ny app. Police have made an arrest on a brutal attack on a homeless woman in new jersey that was caught on camera. 25yearold eban hunter is charged with aggravated assault. Police say he posted video of himself punching the woman on saturday in a park in atlantic city. The woman was knocked unconscious and critically hurt. Hunter is being held on 100,000 bail. 6 44. Former nba star lamar odom is reportedly back home in los angeles this morning. Enews reports odom was discharged from the las vegas hospital last night and transported by helicopter to a hospital in los angeles. A spokeswoman for odoms aunt says hes overcoming insurmountable obstacles after being found unconscious at a legal brothel. Good morning america is coming up next. Robin roberts is joining us live from time square. Coming up on gma speculation continues about whether joe biden will run for president. Its heating up now. Will the Vice President throw his hat in the ring. George will have the latest. Also ahead an abc news exclusive, major milestone for all those people who were taken advantage of in the Bernie Madoff investment scandal. Story. Could be getting some money back. All right. Thank you. Time to check the accuweather forecast. And lets head outside again with bill and take a look at the accuweather forecast. Its a really nice morning. Its cool, its crisp. Its a good morning. Thank you sir. Here we go. Subway, getting off the bus. Grab your jackets, sweaters, scarfs. Got a beautiful sunrise in progress. Suns officially up after 7 00. Normal high is 62. Were at 49 to start the day which is normal. And today not as chilly of a day. Were looking at a nice turn around with temperatures in the upper 60s. 70s believe it or not tomorrow and thursday. Well cool down by friday. Heres whats happening today. The uv index is low. Thats because the sun good morning. The pollen count is still up there for ragweed, so be alert for ragweed today you ragweed sufferers. If you dont know whats going on check with your allergist. Were at 50, 51 degrees across long island. 54 toward the eastern end and down the jersey shore were looking at 45 to 40 degrees. Inland mid40s. Thats pretty much normal for this hour of the day, not that harsh sub freezing temperatures we had. We have a southwest wind, which makes it nice and warm, and were going to be looking at clear to partly cloudy skies this morning. The front you see off to the north is going to stay to the north at least for three days. This High Pressure ridge will hold it away. I want to show you our futurecast. Theres the front hanging there and then you see finally on thursday evening it starts to approach, and then blasts through with maybe a sprinkle thursday night. Kids at the bus stop, grab a jacket, grab a sweater. Were going to be looking at a temperature of 45 at the bus is to be. Well be looking at sunshine today, 68 degrees. Tomorrow its warmer. Right around 73. Sunny and warmer today, were at 68. Tonight its a cool and crisp night. The overnight low drops down to about 50 in the suburbs, 55 in the city, and then look at tomorrow. Sunshine, 73 degrees. Here is your accuweather seven day forecast. Weve got sunshine and clouds thursday. Then maybe just a sprinkle as we go through the day on friday evening. Actually, it will be much cooler coming up this weekend. We have a gift for you this morning, thanks for stopping by, grab an umbrella. Lucky lady. Lucky day to walk by right . See that. One moment of charity. Hope you always have sunshine. There you go. Weve got a busy day on the roads, especially on long island. Weve going to talk about mass transit. Before we get to thatten pro on long island, we are going to tell you that mass transit is running on or close to schedule, metro north just have that track work going on in new haven. Subways are doing fine. This is whats going on on long island. Northern state parkway between exits 41 and 42, ongoing accident investigation. You have all lanes closed down in both directions. Traffic is diverted westbound on to deer park avenue, eastbound on to wolf hill road. What you can do is use jericho turnpike as an alternate. Thats a good alternate to the Northern State parkway if you travel along the north shore. Chelsea fire closures, dray clark on the scene of this, 7th and 8th avenues closed between 19th and 16th. Street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Thank you. New this morning, theres been an arrest in a stabbing on bus in staten island. The attack happened last tuesday on the s74 in stapleton. 18yearold Franklin Bethea faces attempted murder and other charges. The victim was stabbed in the stomach. He suffered a lacerated liver but is expected to recover. The incident started when the victim was arguing with a female passenger. 6 49. New this morning, mayor de blasio will sign three bills to snuff out the growing problem on synthetic marijuana, also known as k2. The new laws will criminalize the manufacturing and sale of the drug. The punishment will be up to a year in prison and a fine of up to 15,000. Any business selling k2 will be at risk of having their cigarette license suspended or revoked. Defenders could be shut down permanently. It is 6 49 and attention dog lovers, a Ground Breaking discovery shedding new light into our four legged friends history. Ve you seen alexandra . Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. 6 52. Updating a breaking story in manhattan. Fire officials have just told Eyewitness News that the building destroyed in a fire in chelsea is now in major danger of collapse. Our dray clark is live on the scene. Hell have an update shortly. First responders dont working when they save a life, but in texas an emt training class turned into a water ride to catch up with a young boy who was drowning after he fell off his inner tube. The commander of the class kept the boy above water while another instructor threw out a rescue rope and pulled that boy the rest of the way in to safety. 6 53. Ever wonder where on earth the first dog was born. It appears a new study has tracked down the location. Yeah. Researchers at Cornell University say mans best friend was first found in central asia somewhere near nepal and mongolia. The new study is based on dog dna from 38 countries. Thats where max came from. He came from dogs that wandered freely in villages or fields, not house dogs of course. The results were reported i by the journal proceedings of the National Academy of sciences. Were also following breaking news on long island. Thats right. Lanes closed on the Northern State parkway because of a have you cant predict. The market. But at t. Rowe price, we can help guide your investments through good times and bad. For over 75 years, our clients have relied on us to bring our best thinking to their investments so in a variety of market conditions. You can feel confident. In our experience. Call a t. Rowe price retirement specialist or your advisor. To see how we can help make the most of your retirement savings. T. Rowe price. More firefighters are headed for chelsea as a 5 alarm fire threatens to collapse an entire building. Dray clark is live in chelsea right by that building with the very latest. Dray. Reporter good morning ken and lori, we just spoke to the Fire Department chief a moment ago, and he said the building west 17th street behind me is in major danger of collapsing. Theyre in the process of evacuating several buildings. Heres more on what the fire chief shared with us moments ago. At this time the building is in major danger of collapse. We are keeping everybody away from the building. We have a few other buildings that are evacuated because of the potential collapse, and this is going to be an extended operation. The fire, we have our fire marshals on the scene, and the fire is under investigation at this time. Yeah, that fire broke out at around 3 00 this morning here on west 17th street. Quickly reaching a 5th alarm. You can see just a tremendous amount of smoke and flames coming from inside the building. The building was in the process of being renovated so there was really no one inside with the exception of a watchman. He was able to make it out of the building safely, but the official cause of the remains under investigation. As for those people who were asked to leave their apartments, the Fire Department tells me they may actually be away are it their apartments for several days, at least until they can determine what theyre going to do with this building if its going to collapse or if theyre going to have to go ahead and knock it down because the threat is so serious. Well keep you updated. Were live in chelsea, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. What a mess. All right, thank you, sir. 6 58. Were getting a view from above at that devastating accident weve been reporting on all morning that killed two drivers on the Northern State parkway. We get the latest del giorno over dix hills. Lori and ken, this is a horrendous scene on the Northern State parkway in suffolk county. This accident happened around 3 00 this morning in dix hills. Two suvs collided head on in the eastbound lanes. One of those vehicles traveling the wrong way. You can see whats left of both of these vehicles. This was a high impact collision. Weve spoken to a witness that says one of the suvs was traveling the wrong direction Northern State lanes of the Northern State parkway at a high rate of speed. That vehicle was being followed by a police car. Weve got two people fatally injured this this accident. The Northern State parkway remains shut down for the morning commute. Its closed in both directions. John del giorno channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you very much. John. Heather. Were actually going to talk to bill, sorry. Sorry, my bad. Lets take a look outside, we start out with sun and clouds, high clouds. Were looking south here, temperature 49. Weve been hanging on to that 49 all morning long. 59 cambria heights. Ridgewood, oakwood towards staten island, 45, 46 newark. 41 up the hudson river valley. 60 by noon, 68 this afternoon. And were looking at 73, a pair of 73s tomorrow and thursday. Take it. Mmhmm. Thank you, bill. That is the news for now, im ken rosato. Im lori stokes. Thanks for starting your