Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News This Morning 20160126

The full list is at the bottom of your screen. Good morning, im lori stokes. Im ken rosato. Its tuesday, january 26th. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans now with the accuweather forecast. Good morning. Areas with black ice where the temperatures are below freezing but the temperatures are warming up. Temperature is 39 in central park. We have wet streets. Up to the north, new city rockland county, 14 andresen cover ever andover. Many are treated and wet. It may be ice particularly if you are in the suburbs north and west. 41 long island. We will have cloudy skies with brakes of sun this morning. By afternoon a rain shower. 42 degrees. It will be warm and melting of the snow. Each evening we will have a chance for black ice on we will talk about that in the forecast. Heather has the day off. Debbie duhaime is looking at the commute. Some delays with the l. I. R. R. Things should resume fully shortly. No Service Jamaica station to Atlantic Terminal. West hempstead branches are suspended at this point. New Jersey Transit will cross honor tickets systemwide on the buses, lightrail and on all of the buses path trains newark to Journal Square. Staten Island Railway delays on time. Ferries on time. Buses expect delays on the buses as well. Alternate side suggestion spended. Back to you, lori, ken. Debbie, thank you. We are following breaking news. This time Lower Manhattan where police shot and wounded a man overnight. Kristin thorne is live in the east village with the latest details. Kristin in. Reporter ken, police say they were forced to shoot the man once in the chest because he is recovering in stable condition at bellevue hospital. Police say they got a call from this, someone in the Apartment Building in the east village on avenue d about an emotionally disturbed man with a knife. When Police Arrived they found a man on the 7th floor brandishing a knife. They ordered him to drop the knife but he moved toward officers in a threatening manner with the knife and an officer fired one shot striking the man in the chest. No officers were injured. Police say a knife was recovered at the scene. Live in the east village, Kristin Thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Kristin, thank you. More breaking news. This time in the bronx. Firefighters made a deadly discovery. They put out a fire at an abandoned home in east tremont when they found a body inside. Ed person has not been identified. The cause of the death is still being determined. Well, at least 42 deaths on the east coast are linked to the weekend blizzard. Got the shock of their lives when they found a neighbor lying dead in her driveway buried by snow. A group of middle School Students had just gotten off the bus yesterday when one of them spotted what appeared to be clothing in the driveway. They knocked on the neighbors door to tell her. When no one answered, they went back to the clotting with another neighbor. I thought it was a pillow case of clothes. The jacket was white. I thought the pants were in the white bag but it was actually her shirt. My neighbor moved snow over and it was her hand. It appears the 64yearold mary wall died shoveling snow on saturday. She still had the hand. The driveway did not appear to have been cleared. In brooklyn, Police Identified a man who was also found dead inside a snow covered car. Police say the body of 44year in sunset park in the drivers seat of a lexus. Janeal was last seen alive sunday night. He dug his way into his car to take a break. The car was still running when his body was found but the tailpipe was obstructed by snow. Nearly a thousand plows are in place to tackle neighborhoods in queens. Its a huge undertaking. People who live in queens are furious because some side streets have been impassable since the huge snowstorm. Eyewitness News Reporter dray village. He has been covered queens since the storm with the latest on the cleanup efforts. Reporter good morning, ken, no doubt that a lot of people in queens have been very angry with the mayor and the way the city handled the snow cleanup. As of yesterday, he made it the largest cleanup but it seemed it was getting the least amount of attention. The Sanitation Department has almost a thousand plows in queens alone. That is nearly half the citys fleet. Its getting ready to use a giant snow melting machine in fresh meadows. Across queens, clearing the streets is still a back breaking job. Plows get stuck, icy streets leaving sanitation workers to dig them out or hook up chains to pull them out. People are fed up blaming mayor de blasio. 5 to 10,000 in taxes we pay, we should get representation. Absolutely terrible. It made lindsey look like a star. Forget about it. Lindsey lost elections over snow. Reporter state senators are the crisis unacceptable and less than adequate. Mayor de blasio is pointing at the less than stellar results. Some areas of queens strong, others less so. I didnt see the kind of results i wanted in sunnyside, woodside, elmhurst, corona. Reporter back live you see city workers are very busy. This is one of those streets that they have been clearing out, one of many they have done overnight. That work still continues. We saw a convoy of dump trucks leaving this neighborhood moving to another. They took the mayors orders to heart and these guys are, giving them credit, doing a good job of getting the streets cleaned up in a short amount of time since the mayor made it clear he wanted to see a difference. Dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, dray, thank you. In new jersey, path service between newark and penn station but it should be up and running by this afternoon. 650 workers are removing snow from the tracks. Snow drifts were 15 feet. Path is adding limited Shuttle Bus Service and new Jersey Transit is cross honoring. Newark. Anger has been rising since the snow stopped falling as many streets are buried. Mayor ross barack cap apologized for the citys response but insists that they are working around the clock to get the streets clear. People digging themselves out last night are not ready to accept the apology. He is not doing his job. Every other street in newark other than the side streets are plowed. We cleared all of this out. We had a neighbor get a snow plow and come out. He helped us a little bit. But people are still stuck. Closed again due to the ongoing cleanup operations. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with meteorologist bill evans. Welcome back, bill, with the accuweather forecast. Thank you, ken. Taking a look at the bottom of the screen you can see delays at schools and closings. We are looking from the roof camera to the east side and down to the intersection of 5th and 59th with just clouds. We will look at here in the five boroughs, where you see melting, streets are bet and sidewalks are wet. Outside the city to the north, some of this that looks wet will be frozen and black ice on roadways. Be aware of that. Northern new jersey, hudson river valley. You see a few clouds from the west today. We have a little area of rain that will slide by. That is rain for this afternoon. That means more snow will melt. It will get chilly. We have this back and forth much of this week. By 8 00, 36. 40 at 10 00. 41 noontime and 43 this you may need your umbrella for the evening commute and into tonight for a few showers. We will talk about how long this warmth will last and a storm for later in the week. We will talk about that. Debbie duhaime is in the traffic center. I will tell you what is happening. You did mention the black ice. Be careful. L. I. R. R. , just keep in mind that still no service on the far rockaway, long beach, hempstead and West Hempstead branches. Suspended jamaica station to at lane continuing terminal. That Atlantic Terminal. New Jersey Transit gladstone is suspended. Path trains newark to Journal Square suspended. Staten Island Railroad suspended. 3 train uptown local only 472nd to 96th street. Keep in mind speeds are reduced on the garden state parkway to 50 Miles Per Hour 105 to the raritan tolls. The Northern State, this is the Northern State through nassau county, keep in mind on 25a in smithtown snow removal there as well. Alternate sides are suspended today through next monday. Back to you, ken, lori. Thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a road rage dispute escalates on a street in austin texas. One of the drivers brought a bat and it was caught on camera. New information on the lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for 399 a month new video of the overnight clean up in smithtown. They used heavy machinery to clean main street between 111 and brookside. Dozens of dump trucks were filled with snow then dozens of smaller bobcats moved in to clear the sidewalks in front of the towns businesses. A massive cleanup operation and it has taken most of the night. Washington, d. C. Area is getting back to normal. With nowhere to put the snow, much of it is being hauled into rfk stadium. Metro service is expected to resume on almost all rail lines. Government offices will reopen and four smithsonian museums. Students in school and fresh back from the place that gave us swiss cheese, bill evans joins with us the forecast. Lori, is nikki in class in d. C. She does not have class. My son at america doesnt either. He has been acting crazy in the 3 feet of snow. The city is shut down. Here is what is going on this morning. Skies are partly cloudy. A good looking sunrise. Looking from brooklyn we have a good visibility. Down the jersey shore, snow on the beach all the way down the boardwalk, down the street. Temperature 39 degrees. Humidity is dry. Winds are southwest. That is a warm dry wind. That will warm things up today. Yesterdays high is 39 degrees. Normal high is 39. We will be above that today. There will be more melting. Temperatures drop off to 26, 27 degrees. You get this refreshing overnight. By 5 00 we may have showers around. Look at the temperatures this morning. With snow on the ground and you get a clear to partly cloudy skies and a hardly any wind. The temperature really drops off. Hanover 10, 12 bridgewater. 16 in Passaic County and low 20s here. Here is where you can have big time issues with freezing on roadways. They have been treated but, remember, it melts then washes that off and refreezes again. We have a southerly wind but light. Where its calm, things refreeze with this clear sky. A few clouds pop up today. To the west is a front. A couple of showers. Its warm. Showers of rain will come with this. There will be a few frequent showers. Notice the temperatures this afternoon get into the 40s quickly and you see its hit and miss spotty sprinkles with rain eastern long island, jersey shore. Temperatures are around 40 and 43, so that ends overnight and temperatures in to the low 40s. School. We posted the School Delays and closings at the bottom of the screen. After school cloudy skies, a couple of sprinkles, 42, 43 degrees. Then plenty of clouds tonight with a spotty shower, 34. Tomorrow clouds giving way to sunshine, 42. Look at the sunset, 5 06. Daylight hours getting longer by a couple of minutes. 37 on thursday. We will watch a storm that will be around like the atlantic ocean. We will see where that goes on friday. It looks like that could miss us. Its not of the caliber that passed by on saturday which i was keeping an eye on in switzerland by the way. They were very enamored in switzerland with the storm. It was on all of Swiss Television because in zurich where i stopped by for a few minutes there is no snow. Switzerland. Where they ski. There is some in the alps but that is about it. Thats crazy. You must have had a fantastic time. You took sandy. Of course. Of course you took the dog. That is crazy. They very dog friendly there. Awesome. Lets check on the morning commute. We had Debbie Duhaime in. Good morning to you, lori, ken, bill. Good morning to everybody. We will keep telling you what is hang with the l. I. R. R. Still seeing suspensions far rack away, hempstead. Suspended jamaica station to Atlantic Terminal as well with ongoing snow cleanup. New jersey will cross honor the glad stone. Path trains journal to Newark Square us spended. Delays and cancellations at the airports. Newark up to 233 cancellations alone. 454 through hauppauge moving okay. 25a in smithtown doing ongoing snow removal. Alternate side parking rules are suspended today through february 1st. Back to you, lori, ken. Debbie, thank you. A special council has been appointed to look at possible criminal charges for the toxic water crisis in flint michigan. There are complaints that the special filters are not getting to some 6,000 Senior Citizens and other home bound people. We are working grids to get to them individually. We are tracking that specifically and then once we can work our way through the city and circle back to them. Flints public work director, environmental top regulator and a high federal regulator resigned. Two other state and environmental officials have been suspended. Hollywood is offering a helping hand to flint. Combs pledged a million bottles. Cher has donated 181,000 bottles and jimmy fallon water. That is great. Police are trying to find two men responsible for a case viral. Take a look at what happened austin, texas. Two drivers go after one another after stopping at a red light. One armed with a long stick and the other with a bat. The two brothers who recorded the whole scene thought it was going to be much worse. I mean, honestly, when that guy reached back in the truck i thought he had a gun. I thought one would get knocked out or something. Well, no one was shot and no one was knocked out. The whole incident happened during one red light. When it turned green, both men got back in their vehicles and drove off. Wow. Cool heads, please. A grand jury in houston found no wrongdoing instead indating antiabortion activists for tampering with a governmental record. They shot videos that alleged planned parenthood sold fetal tissues to researchers for a profit. Chaos in the courtroom. Video of a wild attack on a prosecutor after a guilty verdict. The defendant charged at the Deputy District Attorney in new mexico, shoving him to the ground and punching him. The man was found guilty tf criminal sexuality contact for fondling a girl. The attack set off a panic with people jumping out of their streets including the judge as deputies tackled him. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, new photos and video of a man suspected of randomly slashing someone on the subway. Well known yoga guru has been ordered to pay nearly 1 welcome back. New details in the slashing of a 71yearold woman in the subway. This video shows the suspect stumbling as he tries to get out of the bleecker street station. Police say the suspect was sitting across from the victim on the southbound train when he got up and slashed her face and just ran off. The womb man is expected to be okay. Lets check in with bill. This morning we are looking at what will be temperatures above freezing. Melting going on around the five boroughs. Up to the north black ice. You will see the next seven hours, temperatures rising into the upper 30s. Low 40s later on this afternoon. Might have breaks of sun. There will be a sprinkle of rain. That is rain sprinkling maybe later on today into tonight. You may need your umbrella. We will talk about when it gets cold again coming up in the sevenday forecast. Debbie duhaime is in the traffic center. How is it going . Good morning, everybody. Still seeing suspensions on the l. I. R. R. L. I. R. R. Long beach, hempstead and West Hempstead branch. Suspended Atlantic Station with cleanup. Gladstone is suspended but should be up and running shortly. Path trains newark to Journal Square suspended. Staten Island Railways delays as well. Metro north on time. Ferries are running. Buses you will see delays on the buses still. On the 3 train uptown local only 42nd to 96th street. They are doing snow removal on the garden state parkway 142 to 155. Lets go outside and look at 139. This is out to the holland tunnel, a stalled car. Also everything is still moving smoothly at the lincoln tunnel and the George Washington bridge. Alternate side suspended. Back to you, ken, lori. Debbie, thank you. There is word of a deal involving the cargo ship that sank during a hurricane in the bahamas. Aboard the el faro will receive a half million dollars. 33 crew members were killed when the ship went down in october shedding from florida to puerto rico. Some families have filed a negligence suit against the company that operated the ship. We are following breaking news in the east village. The nypd saying an officer shot a man who threatened officers with a knife inside the hallway of an Apartment Building. We are live at the scene. And we are in queens where the massive cleanup project following the monster storm rolls now into another day. 5 00 a. M. Police shoot a man. We are live with his condition. A person found dead in a burning home. And we are in queens where there are still streets that have not been plowed. Frustrations are piling up as high as the snow. Good morning, im lori stokes. Im ken rosato. Its tuesday, january 26th. Dozens of schools are closed or delayed openings around the region. The full list will be scrolling across the bottom of the screen throughout the broadcast. We posted it at abc7ny. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill is back. Nice to be here because its 39 degrees and the storm is gone. Take a look outside from asbury park down the beach. There is snow there. We have teams that will be warm. Loop to the north where you will look to the north where you will have issues with black ice, particularly on untreated roads. You have sand and stuff, salt was used, that gets washed off then refreezes into black ice. We will have that just about every morning this week. Rain shower late in the day. Debbie duhaime is in for heather. On the l. I. R. R. , some suspensions, l. I. R. R. Telling us to expect a normal commute. Far rockaway, hempstead and West Hempstead suspended. Jamaica station to Atlantic Terminal snow removal continuing. New Jersey Transit cross honor. Gladstone suspended but should resume today. Path newark to World Trade Center suspended. Metro north ferries on time. Going outside to 139 out to the holland tunnel, stopandgo traffic with a stalled car. Alternate sides are suspended. Metered in effect. Back to you, ken, lori. Thank you. Breaking news in the east village. Police shoot a suspect after officers were threatened. The man had a knife and refused to put it down. It happened just after 12 30 this morning. Kristin thorne is live at the scene with the latest. Reporter ken and lori, police are still on the scene investigating this incident as well as speaking to witnesses. They say they were forced to shoot the man because he came at officers with a knife. Police responded to the jacob read houses on the ford drive around 1 fdr receiving reports of a man brandishing a knife. They found him on the 7th floor of the Apartment Building with a knife. He apparently lives on that floor with his grandmother. Police say they told him repeatedly to drop the knife. He did not. Instead, apparently came at officers in a threatening manner with the knife. They shot him once in the chest. He is in stable condition at bellevue. No officers were injured. Live in the east village, Kristin Thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. We are following a breaking story from the east tremont section of the bronx. A body was found in an abandoned home. A house on core ton that avenue when they made the diets discovery. The cause of death is still being determined. As debbie and bill mentioned, watch out for black ice. Its all over the roads and sidewalks. Drivers who are not dealing with that are dealing with this, streets that have not been plowed. Look at the mess. Dray clark reports from middle village. Reporter the Sanitation Department has almost a thousand plows in queens alone. Thats nearly half the citys fleet. And its getting ready to use a giant snow melting machine in fresh meadows. It can melt 60 tons of snow an hour. Across queens, clearing the streets is still a back breaking job. Plows get stuck on icy streets leaving sanitation workers to dig them out or hook up chains to pull de blasio the same way mayor john lindsey was blamed for not plowing queens. 5 to 10, 000 a year in taxes we pay, we should get a little representation. Terrible. It made lindsey look like a star. Lindsey lost elections and everything over snow. Reporter state senators and Assembly Members from queens are calling the mayors response to the crisis unacceptable and less than adequate. Mayor de blasio himself is pointing at the less than stellar results. Some areas of queens strong. Others less so. I didnt see the kind of results i wanted in sunnyside, woodside, elmhurst, corona. Reporter dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Public schools in hoboken will reopen as the city struggles to clean the streets. Crews are slowly making headway. This is video from a tweet from the city of hoboken. Discounted parking has been extended through tomorrow. On the go with our free accutrack weather alert app. Go to the itunes or google play store, search abc7ny. On to the race for president and the democratic president ial candidates barraged with tough questions at a town hall meeting. The Iowa Caucuses are next monday. At this stage 6789 game, undecided voters are getting special attention. They were all questioned separately in iowa city by separate voters. Socialism. Clinton was asked about honesty and trustworthiness. What this campaign is about and i believe in, creating a government that works for all of us, not just a handful of people on the top. Thats my definition of democratic socialism. Time. People have thrown all kinds of things at me. I cant keep up with it. I just keep Going Forward. They come up with these outlandish things. They make these charges. I just keep Going Forward because there is nothing to it. Well, with the Iowa Campaign in its final week and sanders is drawing crowds that double or triple the size of clintons. And he is particularly energized voters with his call to break up the wall street banks. On the republican side, donald trump proving again that he is apparently impervious to controversy. His recent remark about shooting someone on 5th avenue has not hurt his poll numbers as he predicted. He is main taking his lead. An attack ad by cruz shows years ago he said he is pro choice. Stay with Eyewitness News and abc news for updates on the race for president. Good morning america picks up our coverage with live reports from iowa and texas that begins at 7 00 this morning. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with your accuweather forecast. Lori, thank you very much. At 4 times square looking south. That way we get a look at the empire state building. At the bottom of the screen you see union county, the closed schools in spots. Some spots where there will be delays, closings today, it all depends on how they can get the snow removed from around the school. Watch that at the bottom of the screen or at our web site. You will see that today our camera bouncing around a little bit and that is because we have a southwest wind coming in on the camera. We have a breeze today where we look at temperatures 39 with a southwest wind that warms us up and dries us out. Clouds and sun to the west after sunrise, 7 00 this morning, showers of rain off to our west. Ice near the mountains. That will die out. We get sprinkles this afternoon of rain as the temperature will be at 40 by 10 00 t. 42 to 43 this afternoon. Thats above normal for this time of the year. Normal high is 39. We go into the evening and tonight. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes deevment lays out there. The Grand Central east at laguardia, an accident blocking two lanes. Delays building already. Far rockaway, long beach, hempstead and West Hempstead everything restored. Back on track here on the l. I. R. R. New Jersey Transit still cross honoring systemwide. Gladstone branch is suspended. Path trains newark to Journal Square suspended and the staten Island Railway seeing delays as well. Metro north and the ferries back on time. Buses, watch for delays as well. 3 trains local only 42nd to 96th street. Snow removal on the garden state parkway 142 to 150 to 155. Up to the holland tunnel, stop a stalled car on the way out to the holland. Alternate sides suspended. Thank you, debbie. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a huge fine. The founder of vicram yoga is forced to pay in a lawsuit from his own lawyer. Big changes in the criminal Justice System across the nation. For the girl scout meeting. Okay. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . at stop shop, prices are down. Savings are up. Which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. The founder of a popular hot yoga method has been ordered to pay more than 900,000 to a lawyer who said she was harassed then fired for looking into sexual attacks allegedly carried out by the guru. Later today los angeles jury in that case will decide whether damages. The hot yoga guru is facing lawsuits by six other women who claim he sexually assaulted them. The first of those trials will begin in april. President barack obama is using an executive order to ban the use of solitary confinement to punish juvenile offenders. The practice can cause long term psychological harm. The changes will ensure that solitary confinement is a practice of last resort used for prisoners that present a danger to themselves and others. Lets check in with bill evans and the accuweather forecast. This is one of the scenes you will see around the five boroughs and everywhere this morning, snow on the side of the sidewalks. Some of that refreezes overnight particularly outside of the five boroughs. Thats where you can see black ice this morning in the suburbs particularly to the north and west. Here is what is happening. Temperature 39. Humidity dry. West wind to a southwest wind. So, that will warm things up to temperature for this time of the year. Pressure has been falling. 30. 15. Low pressure system in the great lakes and a front with that slides our way. Yesterdays high was 39 degrees, right at normal. Back in the 50 it was warm. 72 in 1958 the record high. We need to give you the heads up for the snow, melting ice, snow freezing overnight. Watch out for the black ice and watch out for the snow melting on buildings, falling off buildings today. Watch out for that. We have the barriers, the barricades around our building at west 56th street. A shower may pop up later today and this evening. 33 wrightstown. Look at sayreville 19 and 37 long branch. You go inland, where the sky is clear and there is snow on the ground. The temperature really drops off. So, you are looking at 14 down here. 24 bridgeport. Ice on roadways and things. What happens is the salt and sand that was used gets washed away by the melting then some of that refreezes. Southerly wind will warm us up. Melt more of the snow. We will have black ice issues overnight. Off to the west a few clouds. Here is the low im talking about. That will move into canada. This trailing barrier of rain you see along this boundary will give us a shower or two later today. Temperatures warm into the low 40s. 42 belmar and a few sprinkles start popping up during the evening commute. There is a line of smores earn long island, jersey shore. Then tomorrow temperatures are back into the low 40s and we will look at sunshine. Tomorrow. Kids, warm gear, you need for this morning. We will be around 39 degrees. 43 after school. A popup shower, i give it a d. A few showers this afternoon. Spotty shower tonight. Overnight 34. Tomorrow sunshine and 42. Accuweather sevenday forecast, a lot of snow is on the ground. Big snow back here around the five boroughs. Not a lot of snow is up into new england. So s its really from the city of long island southward that we are seeing this. So, thats where that could be an issue. Then as we go into thursday, thursday we will be watching a low to the north and one out of the atlantic and we will see where that goes as we go into thursday night into friday. Otherwise a include yet weather saturday. And no storms on the horizon any time soon into sunday and monday. We see the temperatures are in the 40s. That will melt more of the snow. Yesterday i was in zurich, switzerland, 47 degrees. Really. Warmer in zurich. 47 degrees. I was talking to the wonderful locals there. They are happy about it. I would imagine. It is so clean. Ago. You can eat off the sidewalk. Still like that. Still like that. Food is good. Eat good food on the sidewalk. And no snow. Amazing. We certainly have that here. Lets check in on the commute with debbie. Lets go outside. Somebody that ended up in the snow Grand Central parkway eastbound by astoria boulevard, car off into the snowbank. Take it slowly. Going to the maps, farther east on the Grand Central east to laguardia, an accident blocking two lanes as well. Now, on the l. I. R. R. , Service Restored on the far rockaway, long beach and hempstead, West Hempstead branches. New Jersey Transit still cross honoring. Gladstone suspended. Should move soon. Path trains newark to Journal Square suspended. Staten island rail way delays uptown 3 trains local only 42nd to 96th street. At the airport over 200 cancellations at newark alone, laguardia and kennedy. Watch for cancellations as well. 25 a in smithtown ongoing snow removal. Alternate side parking rules are suspended. Metered in effect. Back to you. Debbie, thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, mayor de blasio has a busy day ahead. He is leaving the five boroughs, heading to albany in an effort to help city schools. We will tell you the other goals of the trip. As we have been showing you, some people in queens are waiting for the streets to be cleared. Neighborhood. Having lots of devices in your home can really slow your internet down. So keep things moving with 100 fiber optic fios, the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. Its no wonder were ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power. Now, for 79. 99 a month online, get 50 meg fios internet, or with a 2 year agreement, get 400 back. Welcome back. Mayor de blasio heads to albany to press for more money for the citys schools. 13 days since his last visit. Mayor de blasio wants an extension of mayoral controls of city schools. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill, again, with your accuweather forecast. Temperatures this morning. We have good visibility from brooklyn to the wall street area and Bowling Green and down to the battery. 12 in morristown and sussex. 23 rockland county. This is where there could be black ice on roadways. You get in the five boroughs, we are above freezing. Newark and elizabeth, black ice issues. Southwest wind. That will warm things up nicely and that will, in turn, melt more snow. Some of these humidities are starting to dry out. You have a good ride from the ferries this morning. A light southerly wind that will push across from staten island. We will talk about warming in the accuweather sevenday forecast in a moment. Debbie duhaime is in the traffic center. I will tell you what is happening. Good morning bill and everybody. Lets go to the camera. Grand central eastbound by astoria, a car into the snowbank. Take it slowly this morning. Watch fourth that black ice. As we go to the maps, the grand laguardia, another accident. Two lanes blocked there as well. Heading to 1 and 9, truck route 1 and 9 an accident with a downed pole. Alternate sides suspended. Back to you, ken, lori. We continue to follow breaking news in the east village. A policeinvolved shooting inside an Apartment Building. Find out why police say that they were forced to open fire. Also ahead, new video showing the massive cleanup stay w in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. And on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today asian stocks take a nosedive. Nikkei and hong kong hang seng index plunged. 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A suspect holding a knife has been shot by police after officers say he threatened them inside an Apartment Building. Three days after the record breaking blizzard hit the tri state, the conditions in some neighborhoods in the region where frustration is growing. For black ice this morning with rain on the way. Good morning, im ken rosato. Im lori stokes. Thanks for starting the morning with us. Dozens of schools are closed or delayed around the region. The full list is scrolling at the bottom of the screen throughout the newscast. We put it at abc7ny. For what you can expect today, you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with meteorologist bill evans and the exclusive accuweather forecast. As you just saw by taking a look at our corner of the world at west 6 every 56th street 56th street, streets are wet. You get this all week long where the snow kind of melts and creates the wet streets here. In the suburbs where the temperatures are below freezing, we have an issue of looking at a morning where we have skies that are cloudy and its a the five boroughs. North and west, look at this. Thats where you can see an issue of the black ice. 14 andover. The snow melts, washes away the sand and salt refreezing at night. This afternoon a spotty shower and 43 degrees. You may need your umbrella for the evening commute and into tonight. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. How is it going, Debbie Duhaime. Its slick. Some people are ending up in snow banks. Be careful. A look at the Grand Central parkway eastbound, a car off on the shoulder. Looks like he may have run into the snow. Accident. Lets tell you about new jersey systemwide. Gladstone is operating again. Path trains journal to Newark Square suspended. On the l. I. R. R. , Service Restored on the l. I. R. R. Lets tell you what is happening 287. Bill mentioned north of the city black ice. 287 eastbound exit 11 in port alternate side suspended. Back to you, lori, ken. Thank you, debbie. We begin with breaking news. A policeinvolved shooting that happened in an Apartment Building. Eyewitness News Reporter Kristin Thorne is live in the east village with the details. Kristin, what happened . Reporter well, ken, police say they were forced to shoot at this man because he came after responding officers. The man is in stable condition at bellevue hospital. Police say they got a call from someone inside an Apartment Building along avenue d, between avenue d and the fdr drive in the east village earlier this morning around 12 30 about an emotionally disturbed man with a knife. When Police Arrived they found a man on the 7th floor of the building brandishing a knife. They ordered him to drop the knife. They say he did not do that. Rather he came at officers in a threatening manner and an officer fired one shot striking no officers were injured and the knife was recovered at the scene. Live in the east village this morning, Kristin Thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, kristin, thank you. The citys Sanitation Department says its hard at work trying to clear the snow clogged streets in queens. Convoys are moving through the borough all morning long. In some cases, quite a battle beginning being waged by just one plow and then some get stuck in the same street its trying to clear. The slow progress angered residents. Some came paired mayor de blasio with mayor john lindsey who suffered a political death blow when he failed to plow queens neighborhoods. Queen is the forgotten neighborhood as well. He just worries about manhattan. There are five boroughs. We pay taxes, also. Kids are in school. You cant get down the street as manhattan got secured and much of brooklyn got security secured, the secured, the bronx, the equipment was sent to queens. Crease moving through queens this morning are finding more streets cleared of snow. New video into the newsroom of the overnight cleanup in smithtown. Long island town used heavy machinery to clear main streets of snow between route 111 and brookside drive. Dozens of dump trucks were filled with snow and then dozens of smaller bobcats and men with shovels moved in to clear the sidewalks in front of the towns businesses. Its a massive cleanup and has taken most of the night. At least 42 deaths on the east coast are linked to weekend blizzard. Police in mahwah say children got the shock of their lives when they found a neighbor laying deed in her driveway dead in her driveway. Students just got off the bus when one spotted what appeared to be clothing in a driveway. They knocked on the neighbors door to tell her. When nobody answered, they went back to the cloth wearing another neighbor. I thought it was a bag of clothes. Her jacket was white and she had pants so i thought the pants were in the white bag but it was actually her shirt. My neighbor moved snow over and it was her hand. It appears 64yearold mary wall died shoveling snow saturday. She still had the shovel in her land but the driveway did not appear to have been cleared. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death for a man in his snowcovered car in brooklyn. An autopsy takes angel janel. His body was discovered monday in sunset park. Police think he was taking a break from shoveling, got in the car and a plow pushed snow on the door trapping him inside running and the tailpipe was blocked. He may have died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. So sad. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill. Lets take a look outside here from our camera at 4 times square. We are going to be looking at a day where we start out with cloudy skies. Actually, temperatures above normal there. You see we are looking at 39 right there. School closings and delays are posted at the bottom of the screen. You can go to abc7ny and check that out, too, on our web site. But this morning temperatures are going to be above our normal afternoon high which for this time of the year is right at 39 degrees. We are at 42 at the end of the lunch hour and a few sprinkles of rain will come in for this evening and a few showers maybe tonight. At the old bus stop today, we will have one student playing hookyand a truant officer will 40 at the bus stop. Kids, dress warmly. After school a shower. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. Debbie duhaime is in for heather this morning in the traff center. The Grand Central parkway eastbound by astoria boulevard, car off into the snow. Take it slowly this morning. Lets go to the maps, Grand Central parkway eastbound by laguardia an accident blocking two lanes as well. Truck route 1 and 9 in jersey city, a downed pole causing a delay here. In westchester county, 287 eastbound in port chester, exit 11, accident again. Slick conditions. 3 trains local only 42nd to 96th. New Jersey Transit cross honoring systemwide. Staten Island Railway seeing delays. Alternate sides are suspended. Back to thank you, debbie. The streets. New video police want you to see as they search for a man riding on a subway train. Our cosmetics line was a hit. The orders were rushing in. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didnt need a loan. We needed shortterm funding fast. Building 18 homes in 4 months . That was a leap. But i knew i could rely on American Express to help me buy those building materials. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . 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You got to watch out in spots for black ice this morning as we look to the battery, down in Lower Manhattan and around Bowling Green. 39. Temperature above freezing. We will get melting. Watch out for the melting of ice off buildings. Light west to a southwest wind. That will warm us up above the normal high of 39. Probably a decent sunrise this morning. Outside the city where there is snow on the ground and a clear sky and a calm wind, temperature drops off to 10 from hanover to bridgewater. 17 montclair. 20 toward poughkeepsie. A couple of things, dress warmly. Second, the roadway that may seem to be wet here is not. Its icy roads. The snow melts, washes off what is treated on the roadways and then some spots, particularly secondary roads and refreezes overnight. Thats where we will get the ice working in. You see a few clouds from the west. This is a front sliding eastward with a couple of rain showers, southwest wind is ahead of it. Temperatures in the low 40s. Spotty showers here and they spotty is 9 key. A line of showers from the someone forks around riverhead to the hamptons and down to toms river. Tomorrow sunshine with temperatures in the low 40s. After school, watch out for a sprinkle. Temperature mild, 42. Be careful getting to the bus. So, this late rain comes in as the front pushes eastward. Tomorrow sunset returning with a big ridge of High Pressure as we go into the rest of the week. A few showers this afternoon. Tonight plenty of clouds, a spotty shower, 34. Tomorrow a nice day. 42. Melting snow. Daylight hours are getting longer by a couple of minutes. We will watch a storm going into thursday night, friday t. It looks like that kind of misses us. Keeping an eye on an offshore storm for that but it looks like much of that storm as we go into thursday is out in the atlantic and the other low from the great lakes. We are in between. We dodge a little bit of a storm for friday. Nowhere near the character, quality, amplitude of the storm on saturday. Temperatures warm next week and more snow melts off. Im going to go out on the streets of city of new york and brave the elements of the snow in a moment. You are . Do you did you miss maximus. Di. They call them the hounds. I took sandy and they say you have a lovely hound. She is 10 pounds. With a lot of tude. Lets check in on the morning commute with debbie. Love it. Good morning to you, lori, good we start off with a webcam of the Grand Central parkway out to astoria boulevard. Out by laguardia an accident blocking two lanes. Going to our list of what is happening with mass transit, new Jersey Transit will cross honor systemwide today. Gladstone operating again. Path trains suspended newark to Journal Square. Staten Island Railways delays as well. L. I. R. R. Back operating again. Newark over 200 Flights Canceled today. Laguardia and kennedy seeing cancellations as well. Watch fourth icy spots on 287 eastbound exit 11 in port chester, an accident blocking one lane. Take it slowly there. Slowdowns on the Grand Central parkway east by laguardia with that accident. Alternate side parking rules are suspended. Back to you, ken, lori. Debbie, thank you. Back to the aftermath of the weekend blizzard and back in queens where viewers are calling our newsroom streets. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark has just arrived in glendale. He is joining us now with an update. Dray . Reporter yeah, good morning, lori. We are on the west side of 83rd avenue in glendale. This is one of the streets that hasnt been plowed. A neighbor walked by and said we have been calling for days and sanitation still hasnt arrived. Take a look behind me all the way up the hill here behind me and around the corner. This is what you will find. A street still packed full of snow. Here is the good thing. We spent a lot of time driving around queens this morning and we did come across the city sanitation crews. They are out spread around queens and compared to what we saw yesterday, they are making some progress. We know on the roads there are more than 1,000 plow trucks. Close to 200 frontend loaders and an army of dump trucks as well. This is a major operation after yesterday that queens would snow cleanup. Satisfied. He didnt like the way things looked in several different throughout queens. So, yesterday, all of a sudden queens was getting the attention that it deserves borough. Second it has more roads than any of the other boroughs and third it was the hardest hit in the storm. Many said it was getting the least amount of attention. This is one of the few streets right now across queens that is untouched. Im sure the folks that live on the block are hoping, probably praying that the city sanitation crews will find their way here and get this mess cleaned up. It looked bad and it goes all the way around the corner. You cant drive and walking up and down this block is dangerous as well. You can tell on the paths here that the neighbors have tried to find a path because thats the only way they have to get we will keep you updated throughout the morning if the crews should come here, we will let you know right away. This is the scene in this section of glendale. Rough section there. Clean that up. Thanks, dray. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a rescue caught on camera. In the water off the florida coast passengers were trying to enjoy a Pleasure Cruise on a yacht. Ran a Half Marathon. [car starting] [engine revving] [crashing] the coast guard is yacht to sink off the coast of fort lauderdale. The coast guard rescued all 13 people on board. The captain of the serena 3 radioed the yacht was taking on water. A towing service tried to save the ship but it went down so quickly the coast guard says that its impressive that everyone got off the yacht in time. Caught on camera, chaos in a new mexico courtroom. A defendant charges at a Deputy District Attorney after hearing the guilty verdict in his child molestation case. A Court Officers tackles the deaf daunt. I have defendant. I have never seen this happen. I have seen it on tv but never seen it. A Little Something to make you smile. A dogs bathroom break turns into her big break as she the blood hound turned up at the starting line of the elk mount Half Marathon in alabama. The dog trotted for the entire 13. 1 miles. She competed without a human or place. Her owner who isnt a runner didnt know about the celebrity dog until a friend called and filled her in. She was awarded a finishers medal. She then went home and took a long nap. [ laughter ] if you are looking for a run of your own, the 2016 tcs new York City Marathon will be held november 6th. Broadcast live here on channel 7. Applications will be accepted until february 21st. A drawing in march gets to determine who participants. Thats cute. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, evacuations in danger on the west coast. Look at that, at the time wow. The internet is crazy fast here. I know, right . Its so nice to have everyone over. Hi hey. Mmm. I just laid an egg. Does anybody want it . Joey, you want some gasoline . Mom, guess what . I married a clown and were having tiny little clown babies. Mhm. I just bought a hammer. With internet fast enough for everyone, your guests might get a bit carried away. Get out of the past. Get fios. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic here on Eyewitness News this morning. Six minutes before 6 00. This is the scene in the five boroughs. Snow on the side of the road melting into the streets. But this is wet. North and west where the temperatures are 12 sussex. 19 monticello. 24 new city. 24 bridgeport you will have issues with black ice. A nice southwest wind that will warm us up. Over the next seven hours, the temperature warms to 40 by noontime. More melting today and we are looking at breaks of rain comes in late in the day. Heather in the traffic center. What is the latest. I will tell you what is happening. Good morning bill and everybody. To the b train, express service has been restored between Brighton Beach and prospect park. The snow removal cleared. L. I. R. R. Still anticipate delays. First train out of West Hempstead leaves at 6 53. Amtrak on time. Metro north on time. New Jersey Transit will cross honor systemwide. Gladstone operating again. Path trains suspended newark to Journal Square and jersey city. The staten Island Railway still seeing delays as well. Cancellations at the airports over 200 alone at newark airport. 287 eastbound an accident exit 11 into port chester. Back to you, ken, lori. We have new video from california where authorities are evacuating homes on the brink literally of falling into storms fueled by el nino have eaten way at the sandy cliff in pacifica. Now there is no choice but to get people out of their homes on the cliffside before they go over the edge or the edge vanishes beneath them. The city manager in pacifica has declared a state of emergency in hopes of getting state and federal funding. They could be subject to arrest. Yes. This is a difficult situation for everybody involved. Thats why we are working with the residents to let them know that this could be possibly coming if that cliff eroded to the point that it was dangerous. And what he is talking about, he is talking about a driver who was on the streets in something that looked like a rolling igloo. What happened was something unexpected. Its the top story on our free news app. This is in howell township. The elderly man only cleared part of the windshield and the side view mirror. After issue a ticket for failing to remove the snow and ice, the officers then turned Good Samaritans and want driver said he didnt remove the snow from his car and the windshield and thats what happened. You heard the officer talk about the whole incident. Closing in on 6 00. Just ahead this morning, anger boiling over in queens for residents who say the city