Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News This Morning 20151208

Minutes away from weather and traffic. Were looking at a cooler morning and cloudy skies. There might be a shower out of eastern long island. We are going to be looking at temperatures still above our seasonal averages. As were starting out in the morning with temperatures warmer than normal. Should be at 36 in the five boroughs 41 toward nyack, white plains 39. It should be about 26 up there around poughkeepsie. Numbers are warm. Heres nyack up until about 11 00. The temperature will drop down just a bit between 6 and 7 and by the time we get into the afternoon were looking at near 50 degrees. Yesterday we were at 54. Its a little cooler today. Were going to warm into the 60s by the weekend. Its weather then heather every 7 minutes. Shes talking about the subways and mass transit this morning. This is true. I can tell you everything is doing fine if youre using new Jersey Transit Long Island Railroad, metro north. West 4th street. Over here as you go on to the cross bronx expressway west, bronx River Parkway into jerome Avenue Construction you have at least two lanes closed down as a result. Construction at the lincoln and the holland. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are suspended today for religious observance. Thank you. Back to our breaking news this morning, an offduty nypd officer shoots and kills a man during a craigslist deal that quickly turned deadly. That officer was responding to an ad in queens when two men tried to rob him. Kala rama is live in Springfield Gardens with the latest for us. Reporter lori that offduty Police Officer met here with those two men to look at an older model bmw. When they met here thats when things went sour. Started to talk money, and thats when they started haggling over the price. One man pulled out an air pistol, held up the offduty officer for his wallet. That officer pulled out his gun and shot a man a number of times killing him. That second suspect took off in the car they were trying to sell. The older model white bmw which police are now looking for. A woman who lives across the street from where the deal was being made heard the whole thing going down. I was laying in bed watching tv and i heard a total of five to six gunshots, loud gunshots and i wasnt sure but about maybe 5 minutes later i heard sirens and helicopters and then i knew it was something serious. Reporter right now police are still looking for that second suspect who got away in that older model white bmw. As for that Police Officer, he as protocol after firing his weapon. Were live in queens kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. 4 34. Part of 1st avenue remains shut down this morning after bricks fall off the side of a building raining down on the street. Amazingly nobody got hurt unfortunately. One cab driver had a very close call. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark live on the upper east with the story for us. Dray. Reporter good morning ken. 1st avenue between 62nd and limits. You can see behind me the fdny street. It was quite a scene around 10 00 when hundreds of bricks spread across the street, and people were wondering where the bricks came from. To find the answer to that question look no higher than the 35th floor of this high rise here on 64th street. You can see a large section of the buildings brick facade about 100 square feet is actually missing. Take a look at this yellow cab. Luckily no one was riding in the backseat. The bricks cover the sidewalk and the street and some people thought they actually heard an explosion. Investigators say what they likely heard was the roar of pavement. Laura smith was dining in a restaurant below the building. Of the restaurant and everything as usual, and all of a sudden we hear this loud sound like a clatter coming down, and this guy sitting in the front of the restaurant right by the window jumps on top of his girlfriend and brings her down to the floor, and so me and my coworker, we freaked out, and this big cloud of just dust goes up in the air, and you cant see anything. Reporter and back here live now on 1st avenue, you can see quite a few cars here going down east 62nd, although its early in the morning traffic is beginning to become a concern. They have two traffic officers here getting people in the right direction being done on the building. There is scaffolding over the sidewalk. That prevented anyone from being injured. It will be up to the citys Buildings Department to find an explanation for what happened last night. Were live on the Upper East Side, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Its 4 36. Weve learned new details about a deadly headon crash outside the gates of st. Johns university. This is what it looked like in jamaica last night moments after a car slammed into the front of an mta bus. Police believe the car left the campus and was headed west on union turnpike. For some reason the 60yearold man driving the car veered into the eastbound lanes and hit the bus. The cars driver was killed. The bus driver and a passenger are expected to be okay. 4 36. New video released overnight of a serial violent robber on the loose in brooklyn. He shoves them to the ground, then grabs their cash. Donald trump is facing a firestorm of criticism from all sides after suggesting the u. S. Close all borders to all muslim immigrants. The proposal was denounced by democrats but trump is sticking by his idea calling the ban common sense. Abcs lana zak has more. A stunning proposal from republican president ial front runner donald trump, a ban of all muslims coming into america. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. Trumps proposal has brought together for perhaps the first time in this Divisive Campaign republicans and democrats in universal condemnation. Jeb bush called him unhinged. Chris christie called him ridiculous. This is the kind of thing experience and dont know what theyre talking about. The republican chairs of three campaign states, iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina slammed trump owes proposal. Hillary clinton tweeting this is reprehensible, prejudice and divisive. Donald trump you dont get it, this makes us less safe. Even dick cheney agreed. Trumps Campaign Said the ban would apply to every muslim coming into the state. St. Petersburg mayor turned the tables saying i am barring donald trump entering. That was lana zak reporting for us. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Were going to take a look outside from our camera here in astoria. Were looking south, and weve got a good visibility here. We do have cloudy skies. Theres a system out of the over, a shower or two to the east end. Thats going to be about it for the morning. Well see sunny breaks later on. Here are the clouds were talking about and the wind is out of the north here. Theres a couple of showers out here out toward the eastern end, out toward montauk you see there eastward to block island. There will be a couple of showers around riverhead. Then well have High Pressure filling in. It makes for great weather the rest of the week and into the weekend. 47 by 10 00 to noontime. 48 this afternoon. It is a little cooler than yesterdays high of 54, but its still above our normal high of 46 degrees. Well talk about reaching possibly a record high on sunday. Thats coming up in your accuweather sevenday forecast. I just made somebody so happy. You totally did. Yes, you did. Lets go over to a camera, and i want to show you how things look at the George Washington bridge. This will make somebody happy as well. Moving left to right and theres cars on it. Lets go over to our maps. I can tell you the George Washington bridge inbound lower level has been reopened. We have the lincoln tunnel with some construction, the holland tunnel has construction as well and the cross bronx expressway westbound from the bronx River Parkway to jerome avenue, thats more construction. Two lanes are blocked off as you go through that spot. New Jersey Transit Long Island Railroad metro north doing fine. 6 trains you still have the rail condition at longwood avenue. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are suspended today but metered rules are in effect. Still ahead on Eyewitness News, new details on the deadly terror attack in california. The fbi focusing now on the killers families. Why one parent is being watched, and whats ahead for the couples 6monthold baby. Scare in the sky, new video as a threat forcing an air France Flight to make an Emergency Landing. And a real live grinch steals two Christmas Trees from there are troubled water off a large section of the coast. Swells of more than 15 feet have been spotted offshore. Its all part of a storm system thats bringing heavy rains to california, oregon, and washington. It is 4 43. Lets check in with meteorologist bill evans and your accuweather forecast. We take a look from the roof camera we have and we can show you were looking toward midtown with cloudy skies this morning. Were going to be seeing clouds from a system out in the atlantic. This morning were looking at whats going to be some pretty sunshine later on today. Heres a look from the beach as we look down from asbury park this morning. Were looking at whats going to be a pretty good visibility even though we have these clouds. You can see the beacon, the atlantic. Temperature 42 to start the day. Normally wed be around 36. So weve got a storm sliding out to our south and east throwing some clouds over us. Cooler today, but then we start to really warm up this weekend. Danbury is 39. 43 right there around norwalk. 42 islip, 43 around belmar. These temperatures way warmer than normal. Should be about 36 to 26 here north and west and about 22 around monticello. Numbers are way warm. A light northerly wind here because of this low out in the atlantic. High pressure is coming in from the west. There goes the low were talking about, throw in a few showers out there toward the east end. As that leaves we get sunshine coming in. Well be looking at High Pressure. Were looking at morning clouds and sunshine breaking through this afternoon. Temperatures around 48 degrees. Tonight its partly cloudy. The low is going to be around 39. Sun. Its a milder day. The temperature is going to be around 52 degrees. Starting tomorrow, check out our sevenday forecast. Starting tomorrow were at 52, and were going to warm up each day incrementally. Fridays a wonderful day at 58, 60 on saturday, and then sunday with saturday the way its working, you know, were going to see the jet stream running up to the north. Warm air surges in this weekend. That means sunday at 62 gets really close to the record high, which is 64 set back in 1923. So that was a while back. We might tie or get close to a record on that day. Monday were still into the low 60s with a shot at some rain. No real record setting cold or any snow on the way anytime soon. As we get closer to january, it gets warmer. I like that forecast. This is awesome. This is a lovely gift. Thank you. And i will cherish it right . Lets go right over to our subway status. We did have an earlier problem with our a and e trains. That track work has been completed at west 4th. 6 trains you have a rail condition at long avenue. If youre going to the George Washington bridge, inbound lower level has been reopened, and traffic is moving fine getting across the span. Lincoln and holland you still have leftover construction there. That should be cleared away shortly, about 5 a. M. Cross bronx expressway westbound bronx River Parkway into jerome avenue thats construction. Two lanes are closed down as you go through that spot. We have the fdr drive with construction, northbound from the 60s to the 70s, southbound from the 90s down to the 70s but its not causing any major issues. The Staten Island expressway eastbound exit 14 to 15 you have construction blocks at least two lanes. Its really not affecting the roadway. Lets go over to a camera and as you travel along the fdr drive. This is right in the 90s. It looks like youre doing just fine. Dont forget alternate side of the Street Parking rules are suspended but metered rules are in effect. Thank you. New this morning an air France Flight bound for paris was forced to make an Emergency Landing in montreal due to an anonymous threat. The flight took off from San Francisco and then landed safely last night. All the passengers and crew are safe. The plane is being inspected this morning. Details on the nature of the threat have last month two air France Flights from the us to paris were diverted due to bomb threats. 4 47 is our time. Also new this morning, the 66 yearold father of the california mass shooter syed farook is now on the fbis terror watch list. His father whose name is also because of his sons status and his trips to pakistan. Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik had been radicalized for quite some time. The couple had taken target practice at gun ranges in los angeles. The most recent session just two days before the attack. The fbi says 19 pipes that could be turned into pipe bombs were discovered inside their home. We want to find out everyone who profited from it, financed it, and im not saying there is anything like that, but we will leave no stone unturned. Custodys of their 6month old daughter is still in. Amid the growing threat of domestic terrorism and lawmakers on capitol hill are making moves to crack down on visa free travel to the u. S. Vote on legislation to deny visa free travel to anyone whos been in iraq or syria in the past five years. Its expected to pass by a wide bipartisan margin. The bill would make changes to the Visa Waiver Program which would allow citizens of 38 countries to travel to the u. S. Without a visa for 90 days. A Colorado School bus flipped on its side has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs. The students on board range in age from 7 to 15. The most serious injuries included cuts and a dislocated shoulder. The boy scout motto is be prepared but its tough to plan for Something Like this. You see the guy in the Surveillance Video. Hes stealing Christmas Trees, and they were being sold in ohio by a boy scout troupe. The thief snatched the trees on loose. No. 4 50. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, new york city is launching a new effort to curb Overdose Deaths. Details on the plan that could save lives. An offduty officer shoots and kills a suspected robber. Coming up at 5 a. M. , hear how a deal that started on craigslist turned deadly. Holiday seasons just like football season. You got your big games. And regular games. Get it all at a great price. And the Holiday Season is won. Everything in one place. Holiday seasons just like football season. You got your big games. And regular games. Get it all at a great price. And the Holiday Season is won. Everything in one place. Kayla . Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic together here on Eyewitness News this morning, we have cloudy skies. The clouds are up around 1500, 2,000 feet. Were looking at a pretty good visibility at the surface with cool temperatures, 42 newark and elizabeth, 42 around the park, a little north to a northeast wind this morning makes it feel cool. Grab a jacket. Hey morristown, heres what youre looking at. Were looking at 37 by 8 00 and then 40 to 45 by the time we get to 11 00 today. Then as we get into the afternoon, about 46 noontime, warmer than normal. Its a little cooler than yesterday. Heathers looking at your compute. Whats up out there. Well talk to you about where dray is. We have these closures still going on on the east side, 64th and 63rd streets closed between 1st and 2nd. 1st avenue closed between 62nd and 64th street. Dray will be up later to give us a little more information. This is because of those bricks that were falling from the facade. As we look at the fdr drive construction northbound from the 60s to the 70s and southbound from the 90s down into the 70s. A and e trains track work at west 4th street. Our 6 trains condition at longwood avenue. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules suspended today for religious observances but the metered rules remain in effect. Its 4 54. Police are looking at Surveillance Video right now trying to identify the car involved in a deadly hit and run in the bronx. 47yearold thomas kirby was section yesterday morning when he was hit. The driver of a van did not stop. Kirby is the sixth person this year to get struck near the entrance of willis avenue bridge. In this mornings health alert, new york citys effort to combat Overdose Deaths from painkiller drugs. Mayor bill de blasio and Health Officials are making the drug me lock sin available in the citys pharmacies without prescription. It can help prevent Overdose Deaths. A brazen robbery at Gwenyth Paltrows holiday popup shop. The robbers grabbing nearly 175,000 worth of jewelry on one of stores busiest day. It happened saturday at goops temporary store inside the shops at columbus circle. Employees were distracted. 4 56. Bear hunting season has returned to new jersey and state wildlife Officials Say 120 bears were killed on the first day of the hunt. That is four fewer than the first day of last years hunt. Officials say the final tally could increase. About 600 square miles of year. A sign of the season in new jersey, residents of newark came together to celebrate the citys 30th annual holiday tree lighting. Thats so nice. Sounds so nice. Festive sounds and dancing all part of the ceremony inside the grand rotunda in Newark City Hall last night, and then the festivities moved outside city hall where the citys Christmas Tree was lit. Pretty. Yep. Patricks cathedral unveiled a historic scene, an artists depiction of a crib scene depicting jesus mary, and joseph. We are closing in on 5 00, just ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a murder mystery in new jersey, the body of a 35 yearold mother found in her basement days after search dogs failed to find her. This morning the husband of the victim is speaking out. Oscar pistorius walked out of jail overnight as he awaits sentencing for his new murder conviction. And meteorologist bill evans talking about this wonderful july oh, im sorry, december weather that were having. Wow, temps may be getting up to the 60s. Many patients and their doctors unfortunately are not aware of the options available to patients with bone cancer. Patients with bone cancer deserve a specialist too. The advantages of being treated at Cancer Treatment centers of america is that we have all the specialists under one roof to take care of every aspect of that patients cancer care. We want our patients to survive their cancer but we also want them to maintain independence this is new yorks numbers 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News with lori stokes and ken rosato, Heather Orourke with traffic, and bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Now Eyewitness News this morning. Breaking at 5 a. M. , one man is dead and another on the run after trying to rob an off duty Police Officer. Eyewitness news is live with what led up to the deadly shooting. Developing now, bricks crashes down on a manhattan street from a 35story high rise. How did it happen, and is the area safe this morning. And lets take a look outside, a welcome december warmup is in store for the rest of the week but will the sun shine into the weekend. Good morning, im lori stokes. And thank you for joining us. Im ken rosato. It is tuesday december 8th, and youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. The exclusive accuweather forecast. Got some high clouds over us as we look from our camera here at 4 times square looking south. And with cloudy skies weve got a temperature of 44 degrees, which believe it or not, 45 is our normal High Temperature. 43 long branch, 42 toms river, wrightstown 36, even 38 in poughkeepsie. These numbers way warm for this hour of the day. A couple sprinkles are out there toward the hamptons. Clouds over a system in the atlantic. Those clouds will break up. Well have 46 by noontime, 48 later on this afternoon. Still above our seasonal average High Temperatures for this time of the year. Heather is looking at the 6 train. Yes. Whats wrong with the 6 train . Well, its just a little bit of a rail condition thats going on. Well head over to our subway status. Ill tell you where it is and how youre going to be affected. You can expect some uptown delays. Streets closed between 1st and 2nd. 1st avenue closed between 62nd and 64th street. Thats because of those bricks that were falling. Dray will be with us to give more information on that. Street cleaning rules suspended. Thank you. Were following breaking news in queens where one man is dead and another is on the loose after trying to rob a Police Officer. This happened when the offduty Police Officer was responding to a craigslist ad. Eyewitness News Reporter kala rama is live now in Springfield Gardens with more for us. Reporter that offduty officer lori met here with two men around 10 30 last night. Theres still a scene now. What was supposed to be a craigslist deal over a bmw turned deadly. Police say the men started to talk money and thats when they started haggling over a price of the car. One man pulled out an air pistol and held up the offduty officer for his wallet. The officer pulled out his gun the second suspect took off in the car they were trying to sell, that older model white bmw which police are now looking for. Witnesses in this area reported hearing a number of shots fired. It was consecutive. It was like boom, boom, boom like six of those. So its crazy. I slammed the door. I dont want to be involved, you know, i just slammed the door. I just heard i thought it was fire crackers until i saw the police coming, and i knew that something serious was going on. Reporter so now we have one suspect dead and Police Searching for a second suspect right now who took off in that older model white bmw. The offer was not injured but brought to the hospital as a precaution. Live in queens, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. New this morning, and police are investigating a murder in sunset park brooklyn. Victim as 68yearold ying wan chin. He was shot several times and found on 7th avenue not far from park place. The case is being handled by the 72nd precinct. 5 04. Developing in manhattan, hundreds of brickings come crashing down on to a street from a building currently under construction. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live on the Upper East Side for the massive shutdown of part of 1st avenue. Reporter thats a good word to describe when were seeing, a mess of traffic if you will. 1st avenue between 62nd and 64th is still closed. So right around 62nd here and 1st avenue traffic is backed up here. You can see we have these traffic officers here trying to get folks along here. Its becoming quite a mess here. Meanwhile by some stroke of luck or mercy, no one was injured last night, and thats really amazing when you consider how many bricks hit the wall. Heres a look at that wall. 100foot section of brick on the buildings facade missing. The building is on 64th street. Some of those bricks smashed the rear windshield of this yellow cab and hundreds more covered the sidewalk and the street. There is construction being done on the building. Thats a big reason why no one was injured. A little nothing too crazy, but then, again, the helicopter started coming out. Its pretty amazing. Im shocked that nobody got hurt. You have 16 handles there which is open all the time, and you know, that people arent just walking in and out. Very lucky. Reporter and back here live now with a look at this crosstown traffic. If you normally travel through this stretch of the city, you probably want to leave a little earlier this morning because there really is no timetable on how long 1st avenue will be closed between 62nd and 64th. There the fdny maintaining a presence keeping close watch of that building on 64th. Some people thought they heard an explosion last night but investigators say what they probably actually heard was the roar of so many bricks hitting the pavement all at once. The citys Building Department is investigating to find out why that wall collapsed last night. Were live on the Upper East Side, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. 5 06 is our donald trump feeling the heat this morning after he called on america to close its borders to all muslims. Trump got thunderous applause and cheers from reporters in South Carolina. He told us its time to exclude muslims. Trump declared the time for Political Correctness is over. We cant live like this. Its going to get worse and worse. Youre going to have more world trade centers. We can be politically correct going to get worse and worse. Is unhinged. Carly fiorina said trumps reaction is as dangerous as president obamas under reaction. And former president george w. Bush spokesman ari fleshier commented under truck abdella of jordan who is fighting isis wont be allowed in the u. S. To talk about how to fight isis. A strong reaction to those comments coming from dick cheney. He said i think this whole notion that somehow we can say no more muslims, just ban a whole religion goes against everything we stand for and believe in. 5 07. The second candle is lit on a menorah on the Upper East Side a day after he was vandalized. Community leaders say the menorah was knocked over and damaged both saturday and sunday nights. Police are investigating the incidents as possible hate crimes. 5 08. For the person who murdered his fiancee who was also the mother of their children. The mysterious killing happening sunday night inside a home on beacon street in rahway. The body of 35yearold yolanda vega was found yesterday morning after search teams failed to find her. Hours earlier a Family Member saw a gunman jump out of a closet and run from the house. Her fiancee doesnt know who would want to hurt her. If you knew her, you would love her. Honestly. Whatever animal did this needs to be caught. He left my kids without a mother. In another twist to the story, a neighbor apparently chased the suspect as he ran away. However, Police Stopped the neighbor and the gunman disappeared. A 10,000 reward being offered in the case. Its 5 08. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans. This morning we are looking at some high clouds, some of weve got some clouds. Its a cool morning, 41 degrees as you see in our beautiful circle 7 there. 5 09. Looking from our camera 4 times square looking south, temperature 41 degrees with a little north wind at 5 this morning. Grab the jackets and sweaters and things. Theres a lull in the atlantic, throw in some rain across the coast, up there toward South Kingston east of montauk and into rhode island. Its going to stay away from most of our area. And then High Pressure from the west will start to build in and really warm things up starting tomorrow. Were at 43 today by about 11 00. 46 noontime, 48 this afternoon, and thats still a couple of degrees warmer than normal for this time of the year. At the bus stop meet the huckleberries, greet the huckleberries. Theyre all dressed warmly this morning. They need to. A little meet and greet this morning. Nice. That one in the green hat for meet and greet. I learned how to cook. Thats right, i cut up cheese. Just bring something. Lets go over to a webcam. Well talk about the ed koch 59th street bridge. This is the approach coming off the ed koch 59th street bridge into 63rd street where youre going to make that left. Youve heard dray talking about 64th street and 63rd closed between 1st and 2nd. 1st avenue closed between 62nd and 64th streets. This could affect your ride to and from the ed koch 59th street bridge. Street cleaning rules are suspended but the metered rules are in effect. 5 10. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, another Deadly Police shooting in chicago. An officer fires multiple shots at a suspect as hes seen running away. The cop will face char son, the Holiday Seasons just like football season. You got your big games. Cheese plates, turkey, appetizers. And regular games. Get it all at a great price. And the Holiday Season is won. Thats my boy fill your cart with everything you need this season, all at one place. You get a cold. You cant breathe through your nose. Suddenly, youre a mouthbreather. A mouthbreather how can anyone sleep like that . Well, just put on a breathe right strip and pow it instantly opens your nose so you can breathe and sleep. Shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. Breathe right jill and kate use the same dishwasher. Same detergent. But only jill ends up with wet, spotty glasses. Kate adds finish jetdry with five power actions that dry dishes and prevent spots and film, so all thats left is the shine. Earlier this morning a South African judge granted bail to Oscar Pistorius pending sentencing for his new murder conviction. Pistorius was convicted last thursday of murdering girlfriend reeva stein camp in 2013. The Appeals Court ruling overturned a lower court which had convicted pistorius on the lesser crime of manslaughter. Theres no date set yet for sentencing on the murder conviction. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel says that he welcomed a federal investigation of his citys police department. The probe announced yesterday by attorney general Loretta Lynch is the latest fallout from a number of Deadly Police shootings including the killing of laquan mcdonald. The mayor says the city will initiatives to address the use of force. 5 14, and were seeing video of another Deadly Police shooting in chicago. A newly released dash cam video appears to show 25yearold Ronald Johnson running from police. An officer is seen firing five times. Johnson was hit twice. Charges will not be filed against the officer. A new federal investigation will review how the Department Disciplines officers and handles misconduct accusations. In baltimore the trial of Police Officer William Porter for the in custody death of freddie gray has erupted in a dispute over evidence. Porters defense say prosecutors withheld a document that show gray had a back injury a month before the arrest. He died of a spinal cord injury after Baltimore Police arrested him. A long island mom was shooting. Nicole mcdowell was riding in her boyfriends car last night on sunrise highway when he flashed his lights and passed a van that was weaving left and right. The van then sped up, flashed its lights and as it passed two shots were fired hitting mcdowell in the hand and leg. Shes now in the hospital in stable condition. 5 15 is our time. Meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. A look here from the George Washington bridge this morning across the hudson river and over to the west side around harlem and on down the cross bronx expressway. A morning toward Washington Heights and in this area we have a great visibility. Were just seeing high clouds this morning from a system thats way out that way out in the atlantic. 41 to start the day. Humidity dry. Wind are north. The pressure is rising. And when the rising pressure is coming in, low pressure is leaving, makes for a little breeze this morning. 45 is our normal High Temperature. 34 our normal lows. Were not far off our normal high to start the day. The suns going to be up at 7 07. A pretty sunrise and another gorgeous sunset like yesterday. 38 around kingston to poughkeepsie and 39 carmel. 37 around newburgh. Should be about 24, 25 in here, 28 so you can see were way warmer than normal. Were looking at temperatures that are warm. Weve got a light northerly wind at about 5, 10, 8 miles an hour, 10, 13 across long island. Here are the windchills. 30 here in brooklyn, and down toward coney island and in around jfk its 38. It warms up pretty quick here the closer you get out here toward jamaica bay. 38 toward white plains, 37 you see up here toward poughkeepsie. 38 in here around westchester county. 33 white plains. Morning. Dress warmly. Weve got these cloudy skies. That slides eastward and the High Pressure builds in and makes for great weather. After school not bad. Getting ready for the bus stop this morning youll want to dress warmly. Its certainly going to feel better with 48 and sunny breaks. Partly cloudy skies, 39 and then clouds and sun and milder tomorrow. Were at 52. 56 on thursday. 58 on friday, and 60 on saturday and saturday the warm air really surges up. That gives us a shot at a record High Temperature on sunday. The record high is 64. Were going to be around 62. Were going to get pretty close as we get to sunday which unusually warm for this time of the year. 45 is the normal high. Thats going to be around 17 degrees warmer than normal. Thats awesome. Its a great debate on that so far on social media. If you join me well talk about it on twitter and facebook. People are very upset. Why and. Heather, are you upset . People are upset its not cold and we dont have the snow. They really want it to be cold, like cold. People really enjoy the cold air. You know, its just i dont know. I dont represent them. Im just telling you what their feelings are. And people are entitled to enjoy the cold but i appreciate the weather that we have. [ laughter ] lets go right over to our subway status and talk to you about whats happening here with our 6 trains, g trains Police Activity at nassau avenue, new Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad metro north on or close to schedule. 84 closed down middletown east exits 4 to 5 with an accident. Street cleaning rules suspended, metered rules are in effect. Still ahead, the driver who wouldnt give up, a Wild Police Chase in california had tricks to every coconut has a dream. To come out of its shell. To show all the world its true, inner beauty. And then, in an ironic twist, get covered up by chocolate and almonds. Almond joy mounds. What every coconut wants. The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . 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Right out there is the navigational beacon and right there is the end of the pier. When you can see this kind of a visibility from asbury park southward were looking at a good visibility and a nice morning outside. Were also going to be looking at temperatures that are a little warmer than normal for this hour of the day. 39 around new city where it should be about 26. 42 around newark here. Today over the next seven hours, 41 at 6 00, 42 by 8 00, and so we get into the mid40s by midday today which wont be so bad. By the later part of the afternoon well have sunny breaks. Heathers looking at your commute. The 6 trains are having that issue near longwood avenue. We also have this as you go through middletown. 84 is closed east exits 4 to 5 with an ongoing accident theyre trying to get cleared away. In addition to the 6 trains you have the g trains with police new Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, metro north all running on or close to schedule. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules suspended today. The metered rules are in effect. Ken, lori over to you. Thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, new problems for chipotle. Another restaurant coming under scrutiny for an e. Coli outbreak on a college campus. King james will be king for life as asian markets closed in the red overnight. Japans nikkei dropped 1 while hong kongs hang seng dipped. The dow starts down 117 points, nasdaq and s p 500 begin lower. Futures point to a drop at the opening bell. Nearly two dozen Boston College students are sick after eating at a chipotle restaurant. Richard bacon and reena ninan have this mornings business headlines. More trouble for the chipotle restaurant chain. More than two dozen Boston College students got sick after eating at a local chipotle. The chain has been reeling e. Coli is not confirmed in boston. Both chipotle sales and stock are plummeting. Shares of smith wesson and other manufacturers have jumped 70 on average this year. And retail gun sales are up 5 compared to this period last year. And lebron james has a good can its about to get better. He inked a lifetime contract with nike. Sources say the agreement surpasses the 300 million deal nike signed with nba star kevin durant last summer. I bet it does very well. I imagine it does. That is it for americas money. Have a great day everyone. 5 27. Microsoft cofounder bill gates is being honored for his humanitarian work. Kuwaits king presented gates with what is called a first degree award. Its also presented him with medal for contributing to the field of information and coming up in our next half hour a driver is dead after slamming head on into an mta bus, how it happened and if others were injured in that crash. 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Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about a whooping cough vaccination today. Now new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News this morning. Breaking now, a robbery turns deadly after two men try to hold up an offduty Police Officer. Weve learned that officer was responding to a craigslist ad. Right now police are on the hunt for another suspect. Bricks falling from the sky in a busy manhattan street, how did it happen and are residents safe this morning. Good morning, im ken rosato. Thanks for starting your morning with us. Its tuesday december 8th. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans. Normal High Temperature this time of the year is 45. Were starting out at 41 degrees. Here we go. Were looking at 42 around ridgewood, whitestone, 43 long island, 42 bridgeport. As we go through the morning, we take a look at nyack. Warmly. Its a little cool out there. This afternoon temperatures are still going to be warmer than normal for this time of the year by about a few degrees, and well be looking at a lot of sunshine by afternoon. Weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. Heather orourke is looking at it for you right now. Were talking about subway status this time around. Once again we do have issues our 6 trains. Its a rail condition at longwood avenue. As you head into middletown, we have 84. Thats in middletown new york. 84 is closed eastbound exits 4 as we take a look at the fdr drive we have construction southbound,s down into the 70s and very close to that, 64th street, 63rd streets closed between 1st and 2nd. Dray clark is on the scene of that. These closures may affect the problem going to and from the ed koch 59th street bridge. These closures on the east side may affect this for you. Already seeing some delays inbound. We have our street cleaning rules suspended for today but the metered rules are in effect. Thank you. At 5 31, were following breaking news in queens where one man is dead. His partner is on the loose after trying to rob an offduty Police Officer. Eyewitness News Reporter kala rama live in Springfield Gardens with the details. Reporter what was supposed to be a craigslist deal turned deadly quickly, ken. That offduty Police Officer met with two men here to talk and thats when things went south. The offduty Police Officer started to talk money with the two men. When they were haggling over the price of the car one man pulled out an air pistol. The officer then pulled out his gun and shot the man a number of times killing him. The second suspect took off in the car they were trying to sell, that older model white bmw which police are now looking for. A woman who lives across the street from where the teal was being made heard the whole thing going down. I was laying in bed watching tv and i heard a total of five to six gunshots, loud gunshots and i wasnt sure but about maybe 5 minutes later i heard sirens and helicopters and then i knew it was something serious. Police right now are looking for that white bmw along with the second suspect who fled in that car. As for the Police Officer he was not injured but brought to the hospital as part of live in queens, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. Developing in manhattan, hundreds of bricks came crashing down on to a street from a building currently under construction. This happened near 64th and 1st avenue. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live on the Upper East Side where the mess has part of 1st avenue shut down. Reporter good morning, lori, yeah, 1st avenue between 62nd and 64th is still off limits this morning. Behind me you can see the traffic officers trying to get the flow of traffic moving here while the fdny is keeping watch over that building where that wall came crashing down last night. It was quite a scene here with hundreds of bricks spread out across the street, and people from. Well, to find the answer to that question, look no higher than the 35th floor of this highrise on 64th street. You can see a large section of the buildings brick facade is missing. Take a look at this yellow cab. The rear windshield completely luckily no one was riding in the backseat. The bricks covered the sidewalk and the street. Some people thought they heard a loud explosion. Authorities say what they actually heard was the roar of so many bricks hitting the pavement at once. Laura smith was dining in a restaurant below the building. I was standing by the front of the restaurant and, you know, everything as usual and all of a sudden we hear this loud sound like a clatter coming down and this guy sitting in the front of the restaurant by the window jumps on top of his girlfriend and brings her down to the floor. Me and my coworker we freak out, and this big cloud of just dust goes up in the air, and you cant see anything. Reporter and back here leave along 1st avenue traffic is beginning to become a concern here because 1st avenue is still blocked off between 62nd and 64th. Folks are looking for a way around this, and its creating sort of a mess here. For the most part these traffic good job with keeping the traffic flowing. There is construction happening on this building here, and so there was scaffolding around it. That prevented more people from or anyone from being injured. Meanwhile the Buildings Department will have to conduct an investigation to figure out why that large section of wall came crashing down last night. Were live on the Upper East Side, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you dray. Its 5 35. New video released overnight of a violent serial robber on the loose in brooklyn. Take a look at the suspect. Police say hes behind at least three attacks in brownsville. One victim an 83yearold man. All robberies occurring in november, in all three the suspect knocked the victims to the ground before taking their cash. Weve learned new details about a deadly headon crash outside the gates of st. Johns university. This is what it looked like in jamaica last night moments after a car slammed into the front of an mta bus. Right now Police Believe the heading west on none turnpike. For some reason the 60yearold man driving the car veered into the eastbound lanes and hit the bus. The cars driver was killed. The bus driver and a passenger are expected to be okay. The driver blamed for a deadly car accident in brooklyn is free this morning without bail. Marlon sewell moved quickly as he left court last night. A friend waiting to drive him away tried to discourage from getting pictures. He ran down victoria nicodemus. She was shopping when sewells car hit her and killed her and injured her boyfriend. Shes living a happy life its snuffed out. Sewells license had been suspended because he failed to pay child support. He had been speeding when he then a bus and then wound up on the sidewalk killing nicodemus. We can see all the way down to the verrazano narrows bridge. Weve got about a 20, 22mile visibility to sandy hook. Heres how it looks on the Upper West Side as we look over towards juilliard, over towards lincoln center, 41 degrees now. Weve got dry streets and roads. Out toward the eastern end there could be a few little wet streets toward montauk and down to block island and Fishers Island and on over toward new port. Thats a low that goes eastward. The clouds go away. We have sunny breaks today starting around midday. Were looking at 44 to 46 by noon, 48 later on this afternoon. Jackets and sweaters you need. It is still a little warmer than normal for this time of the year. Kids at the bus stop dress warmly. I give it a c. Weve got sunshine coming out today, 48 average is not so bad is it heather . No, average is perfectly fine. Hows the commute, is it average . No, its a little i wouldnt say. I dont know how to really clarify whether this is above average or below average. Lets go to our maps and we can talk about that. Lets go over here and about it our subway status first, 6 trains rail condition at longwood avenue and then we have Police Activity on our g trains at nassau avenue. Over here below average, eastbound side is closed between exits 4 had and 5 with that accident being cleared. Fdr drive south 90s to the 70s you have some construction. Youre starting to pick up delays and closures on the east side. Dray clark has been talking to us about this. 64th and 63rd closed between 1st and 2nd. 1st avenue is closed between 62nd and 64th street. The closures on the east side may affect travel to and from the ed koch 59th street bridge. We also have a ton of delays on the l. I. E. West. We have construction between street cleaning rules are suspended today but the metered rules are in effect. Ken, lori over to you. All right heather. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, were learning more about a San Bernardino shooters including how long they have been radicalized. And new developments this new this morning, the 66 yearold father of syed farook is on the fbi terror watch list. His father is being monitored because of his sons status and his trips to pakistan. Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik has been radicalized for quite some time. His coworkers underwent active Shooter Training in the same fire. The fbi now says 19 pipes that could be turned into pipe bombs home. We want to find out everyone who profited from it, financed it, and im not saying there is anything like that. But we will leave no stone unturned. Memorial services for some of the 14 People Killed are scheduled to begin on friday. To the stage in france with an American Band that was playing at the bataclan theater during the terror siege in paris. California rock band eagles of death metal performed with u2 last nigh. It was the first time the band took the stage since the attacks in paris last month. The band narrowly escaped death when the terrorists opened fire on the crowd. It is 5 43. Meteorologist bill evans joining us now with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Here we go, we take a look outside. A morning where we start out weve got a look here, thats the fdr ed, if we look south here from our roof camera. That is the fdr drive. What do you think about traffic heather . I think the traffics doing well in that area. Lower manhattan. Wow, she knows everything. You know, you are good. Heres whats going on this morning. Heres the Chrysler Building right there. I know the Chrysler Building and its brought to you by jeep. Nice. A great day to purchase a we look across toward flushing bay and laguardia airport. Things looking really good. Temperature 41 degrees, the humiditys dry. The winds are north at 5. The pressure is rising. Yesterdays high was 54, 9 degrees warmer than normal. Our normal high is 45. 34 our normal low. Were way warmer than normal to start the day. Temperatures around 48. Sunsets at 4 28. Sun up this morning at 7 07. There is this little storm out in the atlantic, if we want to call it that. Its a low pressure system creating clouds for most of us. A couple of showers out towards the eastern end. We start warming up this evening tonight and tomorrow. Were near record warmth coming up this weekend. Brook haven is 44 and west hampton at 47. The cloudy skies keep the temperature pretty much close here as we go, even up to the north 38 around poughkeepsie, 30 around monticello. And 25 well north and west. We are warm. Weve got a light northerly wind in here this morning, theres lows in the atlantic going away. Northerly wind throws some clouds in here and showers out toward the south shore of Suffolk County and out toward montauk. High pressure to our west will keep sliding eastward. This weekend records to be challenged, particularly on sunday. The jet lifts up to the north. When this happens High Pressure from the south generally takes over and warms things up. On our futurecast we see that sun coming out by noontime. Eastern end a little longer and clearing out later on today. There will be a lot of sunshine this afternoon and 48 degrees which as i mentioned is warmer than normal. Partly cloudy 39 tonight, tomorrow clouds and sun, its a milder day. Were at 52. Heres your accuweather seven day forecast. 58 on friday. What a great day. And then saturday into sunday, here we go, that big ridge of we could set a record high on sunday. As we get to 64 degrees. Thats possible. I like those big ridges of High Pressure lori. And they like you. Thats a good thing. Lets check in with Heather Orourke. Okay. Lets go over to the 59th street bridge. Well take a look at a webcam and show you how traffic is looking as you travel across the span and then get on to 2nd avenue. We have quite a delay as you get into this spot. These closures on the east side are going to cause delays to and from the ed koch 59th street bridge and they certainly are as you saw from that photo. Its a lot of spillage. 64th, 63rd streets closed between 1st and 2nd. Dray clark will have more information on that. He is at the scene. Fdr drive south from the 90s down into the 70s. You do have some construction. Thats causing delays. Hopefully theyll get that cleared away. 6 trains its a rail condition at longwood avenue. The g trains you still have Police Activity near nassau avenue. Going on to 84 we have a little bit of a change east of 84 near exit 5. We did have all lanes closed down. At this point theres one lane closed. Its an accident. Street cleaning rules are suspended. The metered rules are in effect. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, the fans demanded it and toy maker mattel listened, a doll made in the likeness of selma director ava debonier. And you had to act fast if you tried to buy it online. Jon stewart returns to the daily show and hes taking cause that is very im theres something out there. Its a highly contagious disease. It can be especially serious even fatal to infants. Unfortunately, many people who spread it may not know they have it. Its called whooping cough. Make sure their whooping cough vaccination is up to date. Understand the danger your new grandchild faces. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about you and your family getting a whooping cough vaccination today. Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. Time is 5 50. The daily shows former host brought his new cause back to the program. A bearded jon stewart joined his successor trevor noah to talk about the zadroga act, portions of the measure that provide Health Care Funding for 9 11 responders expired in october. The rest of the act will disappear next october if it isnt renewed. Stewart appeared in a segment where he shamed lawmakers into backing the measure. The question is lets find a way to pay for it. When you guys want to find money you know you can find money. So that paid for stuff really just doesnt reach its not passing the litmus test with me. That night senator portman of ohio signed on to the bill. Stewart also slammed Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell saying the Kentucky Republican is stalling the bill for political reasons. A limited edition line of to sell out. That was a huge disappointment for the people who had waited hours to buy the doll. It was a custom designed fashion actor ava duvernay, the woman who directed the movie selma. It cost 65 and one would be buyer said in the time it took him to fish out the credit card the last available doll on the barbie website was sold. Wow. It is 5 51. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, rapper is spreading Holiday Cheer this season, how hes bringing joy to a disabled veteran and her family in georgia. Meteorologist bill evans will be back with an update on we come back. It seems that every year, we have to watch out for different types of germs. 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Today we will have a lot of sunshine, babylon long island, youre looking at 42 by 6 00, 9 00, 44, and then 46 by lunchtime. Well have plenty of sunshine. Weather then heather every 7 minutes. Youve got something going on with the subways. We have a problem with our g trains. G trains theres some Police Activity at nassau avenue. You can expect delays in both directions. Then as you head on to the l. I. E. Going east near exit 32 which is little neck parkway, that is a disabled vehicle. Middletown new york, its eastbound. That accident has been cleared. Delays are starting to ease as you come into that spot. 64th and 63rd streets closed between 1st and 2nd. This is all because of those bricks that started falling from that building. Dray clark is on the scene. Hell come up with more information about that later. Closures on the east side are causing delays to and from the ed koch 59th street bridge. We can take a look at a webcam and show delays as you travel inbound at the ed koch 59th street bridge. This is the lower level. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules suspended for today but the metered rules are in effect. New this morning an air France Flight bound for paris was forced to make an Emergency Landing. That flight landed safely. All the passengers and crew are safe. The plane is being inspected this morning. Details of the nature of the last month two air France Flights from the u. S. To paris were diverted due to bomb threats. Both were given the all clear. A rap artist plays santa claus to give a disabled veteran happy holiday. Rapper 2 chain stepped in to help when he learned the mom and her two sons were having trouble making ends meet. He brought her new furniture and offered to pay her rent for the entire next year. It was much needed during this time because i just had surgery and looking for a job and getting ready to start school in january since its so hard to find a job. Platter said she had been out of work for a year. 2 chain used money from his Charity Organization to give back because he grew up poor in the atlanta area. What a sweet story. 5 56. Closing in on 6 00, were following breaking news in queens. Is opt run after police say the pair attempted to rob an off duty nypd officer. Were live with details on the craigslist deal that sparked the deadly confrontation. Also following developments on the Upper East Side, road closures are in effect after bricks come crashing down from a 35 story building. Its a little cooler than yesterday but still warmer than usual with even layover. 24 hours. Hello, reykjavik. Oh, so thats how you spell it. What are you looking at . Hungry. Fish, anyone . Hello, seventh waterfall of the day. Hello, duck boat. Hello, sheep . Oh right itchy icelandic sweaters and no foreign transaction fees. Sweet. One last look. Ahh. Triple points. And were off. Whats next . Wherever the journey takes you, carry American Express gold. Its more than a card. This is new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News with lori stokes and ken rosato, Heather Orourke with traffic and bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Now Eyewitness News this morning. Were following breaking news at 6 00, an offduty nypd officer shoots and kills a