Hours to get to the suspect who barricaded himself in an apartment in the bangers hill area. A producer on scene did tell us that authorities just shot more rounds of tear gas at the building. Were waiting to see what happens here. Police initially got the call after 9 00 a. M. For a domestic via lils call. When they arrived they immediately came under fire according to officials and officers were almost hit. I checked in the San Diego PoliceDepartment Twitter account and advised the residents nearby to shelter in place. The schools went on lockdown. The residents in the neighboring apartments and homes to stay away from windows, dont come outside and take a look whats happening outside. We believe this person has a very high powered rifle and can reach extension civilian range targets. We do know officials shut down traffic on the ground and in the air but a reporter from our nbc affiliate there in san diego said in the past couple of departing from this area but, again, those arrivals still stopped. Be sure to stick with us. Thanks. Here at home jewish leaders in brooklyn are issuing a warning tonight asking everyone to be on the lookout for possible attackers. There have been two attacks in Crown Heights within an eight hour span. The victims, both jewish men. Reporter as investigators continue to patrol Eastern Parkway today local leaders in Crown Heights are denouncing attacks on two Orthodox Jewish men in the neighborhood both being investigated as hate crimes. This is not a jewish issue. This is a new york issue. This is a human issue. Reporter thats the radio transmission of an off duty emt worker who was slashed in the shoulder last night. Police say the attack was black with a black and white hockey mask came from behind and attacked with a knife. He didnt shout antisemitic he thats but the worker was wearing a yama camp. This morning another attack on leopard avenue. Police say a 49yearold man dressed in ed ed ed ed in hasidic garb. A man was arrested in that case. Rojas was screaming his hatred for jews. He was screaming watch this face, ill be back. You know, i hate all the jews. It was very, very upsetting and sad to hear that. Reporter at this point police say theres no hard evidence suggest two incidents are related but exploring all possibilities and they are still searching for the man in the there are two separate 5,000 rewards for any information that leads to an arrest. Theres growing concern tonight that there may have been a bomb that brought down that plane over egypt. Our chief Investigative Reporter is here to explain why at this early stage in the investigation its leaning that way. Reporter were told theres no smoking gun to give us a full answer yet. The debris field may hold final answer. Investigators are combing the wreckage looking for evidence. But with wreckage spread over a huge area it will take some time to get to that final answer. Mechanical failure and expossible sure to the fuel tank has not been ruled out. British authorities are suspending flights from the sinai region. Their concern it was a terrorist bombing and u. S. Intelligence citing unspecified intelligence intercepts. This as isis terrorists claimed responsibility saying the bomb they bombed the russian jetliner for revenge for russias growing involvement in syria. U. S. Officials say those claims of responsibility not yet confirmed. No known terrorist suspect found on the passenger manifest or among the crews. They are looking who had access to that plane. A bomb in a suitcase remains a possible leading theory but for now it remains just that a theory as the search for clues continues. Back to you. And new at 5 00, take a good look at your screen right now. This is very clear surveillance individual offthree men wanted for holding up a queens pharmacy in broad daylight. We go to glendale where it all happened. Reporter these robbers chose a pharmacy thats been barely when they went inside the determined to get their hands on prescription drugs. Surveillance cameras like this one were rolling on their every move. This all happened in the middle of the day. The suspects were first caught on camera around 12 45 yesterday afternoon, walking casually down 76th street. Two of those men were wearing halloween masks and a third one covered his face by wearing a hood. Once inside the trinity pharmacy, they bee lined it for the counter. Police say one pulled out a gun and thats when they handed over a note demanding their list of prescription drugs they wanted. Heres how one worker described those terrifying moments. At the beginning i saw them coming or playing or having fun so a gun and they jumped inside. People can be on drugs or do what they will do later. Reporter police say those three men took off with the prescription drugs and they also took off with the employees wallets. No one got hurt. Right now this afternoon the search continues for those three suspects. Police are asking anyone with any information on their whereabouts to call crime stoppers. That number 1800577tips. Were live in glendale. A News Conference caught everybody offguard hit nothing to do with what was announced. Reporter for a moment it was a scary scene at citifield. Mets general manager Sandy Alderson collapsed while talking to reporters following the teams seasonending News Conference but the good news is sandy will be just fine. This is a shot of sandy just mets press conference room. According to pr guru jay horowitz he didnt eat breakfast and got light headed with the hot lights. He was Walking Around and doing fine moments later and was cleared by the mets trainer. A short time earlier sandy talked about the pain that lingers following the mets defeat in the world series. When you do get to the world series and get that close, i think it hurts a little more knowing how close you got and didnt get there. 29 teams go home unhappy and in some ways i think the 29th team goes home the unhappiest of all. The mets also announced the two Year Contract extension for manager terry collin. Well hear from the mets skipper coming up at 6 00. Some intense moments today but all is fine in mets line and pennant resides in flush. Thanks so much. New at 5 00 violence erupts at a California College leaving five people injured and a suspect is dead. Campus police at ucmerca shot and killed the attacker. A helicopter airlifted two victims to the hospital. Three others were treated on campus. The violence has students on edge. Im shaken up. This never happens at ucmerced. Its shocking to have this happen on our campus. School officials lift ad lockdown at the university but cancelled classes for the day. Authorities say the suspect was a student at ucmerced. Flight disruption. The commotion that cause ad new york plane to make an emergency stop and federal he is renarks the Serena Williams the hero. Another 70 degree day. Can we make it one more . You might get a how many more. Ill have the details in the forecast. The beat goes on. At 5 30 a proposal that might have you rethinking how you get to and from the airport. The new fee you could get hit were digging up new details on a passenger who forced a flight to be diverted. The passenger accused of acting out is facing federal charges. Reporter the folks at this barber shop had a hard time hiding their surprise. 38yearold jason has been coming here for 15 years. Even posted photos of the shop on his facebook page. So no one here could believe he had been arrested on charges he made threat on a passenger plane. Pretty big shock. Definitely. But definitely not, you know, definitely not a terrorist. Reporter he was one of 126 passengers on board an American Airlines flight from phoenix to jfk. The flight had to be diverted to wichita, kansas after a disturbance captured in this twitter to. It was posted by another passenger a member of the rock group the augustins. He told news 4 the Flight Attendant told me a passenger was threatening to kill people around him. Police swarmed the plane and removed a man. Police in wichita said hes being held in a jail there and the case is being handed to the fbi. Investigators refuse to explain exactly what happened on that plane. What may have driven jason to allegedly make any threats. I would never expect that from jay. Great guy. Harmless. Reporter no one answered at his home but neighbors here this guy has gotten into so much trouble. Probably just had a few too many drinks and cant do that on a plane these days. A former Public School band leader accused of ducttaping a students mouth is getting support from his school community. Parents of the marching band stood in solidarity, united in their support for their beloved former band leader. Last week he faced a judge after taping a 9yearold students mouth shut. It took kids off the streets. If you look at it, all the things that are being said, i just dont understand how could it be true. He put the tape on the childs mouth as a lesson about slavery. His case returns to court later this month. In washington a pair of republican senators is blasting spending taxpayer money on patriotic promotions at sporting events. They dont have a problem with honor are men and women but they say the pentagon should not be paying sports teams millions of dollars for honors that should be free of charge. A consumer alert. Mercedes is recalling 126,000 cars and suvs because of an error that could cause airbags to inflate without warning. It covers 2008 2009 c300, c 350 and c 63. They could malfunction causing air bags to go off without warning. The defect has been linked to unintended deployments. Thieves be warned if you plan on stealing a phone you shouldnt target the worlds top womans tennis player. In a Facebook PostSerena Williams says her superhero sense kicked in when she noticed to her table at a restaurant. When he swiped her phone williams said she ran after him and tracked him down and asked if he accidentally took the wrong phone. She ended the story saying just because youre a lady dont be afraid to step up to any challenge. Then she beat him to a pulp. Exactly. Especially bench pressing 200 pounds. Designee didnt know who he was messing with. I bet she wasnt wearing that superhero suit. She doesnt need a superhero outfit. She stands alone. Okay. You should have an s on your chest. You think so . The sunset is stunning. This is a live camera view for those of you that dont know, 70 stories above here at 30 rock catch it every single night. Tune in every night. It is stunning too. What a great day again today as theres a look at Lower Manhattan and you cant get much better than that for a lovely november evening. And with temperatures like this too, clear skies. Crystal clear thanks to High Pressure right on top of us and its 63 degrees right now. Down from 70 today. There were some cooler temperatures today especially near shore areas lightning bridgeport, you were in the mid60s because the winds coming in off the ocean and off the sound. A little bit cooler today with that south wind. But going into friday we have a southwest land and temperatures will warm up even more. We could see record high temperatures by friday. In the meantime there will be a few slight changes tomorrow. Still mild but more clouds and a few showers scattered around here and there. Not looking for a lot of heavy rain, probably not even enough for an umbrella but take one just in case for tomorrow afternoon. Meantime, heres a look at the temperatures around midtown and through new jersey. Madison is at 60. Out towards long island, upper 50s and low 60s and cool over the shores facing the sourngsd westport, stamford in the 50s. Inland you warm up a few more. 69 in surf city. 64 in cream ridge. North and west temperatures are in the low to mid60s from danville to chester over to saddle river at 67. Clear as a well. High pressure pushes down on the atmosphere and that doesnt allow any development, any vertical development to get the clouds that we need. They are all down here over parts of the carolinas and virginia. Seeing some scattered showers there. Some of that moisture creeping our way and well have more clouds in the area tomorrow and one or two showers mainly in the afternoon. Not that many. You can see they are pretty spars sparse and scattered around. So, thats coming up tomorrow friday still a very warm day. Forou this evening youre going out, you dont have to worry about rain, dont have to worry about a big heavy coat. Temperatures will fall in the 60s to upper 50s by 11 00. Pretty mild in the city. Clouds return with spotty afternoon showers tomorrow and then friday is a day when we may get a record high even in the city. Record is 74. Were looking at 73. Breezy and cooler going into the weekend more like november sunday into monday. Guys, back to you. A large group of teachers is rallying in front of the offices on the east side. Royal about 200 faculty and teacher members down below in front much cuny at 42nd street between 2nd and 3rd, this rally began at 4 00 this afternoon, started as a protest and civil disobedience. 200 members here, faculty and here on the sidewalk, but just within the last 15 to 20 minutes they began to do a sit in directly in front of the Welcome Center here on the sidewalk. We understand possibly a couple of them have been arrested. We have not confirmed that yet by nypd. We can see that the sidewalk is reopened to traffic. You can see traffic on 42nd street eastbound and westbound is getting by. Again about 200 teachers out here protesting the fact that they have been working for over five years without a new contract. Well keep an eye on this. Right now things have seemed to calm down but well bring you any Additional Information as we get it. Still ahead as we continue, on to 30 rock. This years rockefeller tree has been officially cut down. Next stop right here our backyard. Well give you some stats on this worldwide attraction. A major update on an iteam Birth Control device. News 4 investigates the new action now being taken by the fda. Are you happy with but for years, i thought i didnt have the money, until i learned about bath fitter. Bath fitter puts a new bathtub right over your old one. Isnt that amazing . Bath fitter will measure and that they install right over your existing one, that means you dont have to rip out your old tub. So theres no demolition or ridiculous costs. And they do it all in just one day. Thats my favourite part. Plus, you get to choose everything heres a before and after photo. This is a gorgeous acrylic tub that fit right over the old one. And only bath fitter has seamless walls, which guarantee a watertight fit. When you change your tub, you change your bathroom. And that can change your life. Take a good look behind us because the scene here at Rockefeller Plaza is about to change. World famous tree is on its way. The tree is coming. It was cut down today. We get a look at this years holiday star. Reporter the Rockefeller CenterChristmas Tree was cut down this morning in front of a small crowd of mostly families and a lot of kids. About two hours north of the city. This 78foot tall, 10 ton norway spruce maneuvered so well using all sorts of heavy equipment will soon arrive onto plaza to be decorated for christmas. We figure we would watch it get cut down and then go down for the lighting. Tree taken from a front yard in gardner, new york. Albert has lived in this home is the tree has been in his front yard since he was 4 years old. Albert was a baby. The tree was a baby. A little bit heart warming that its cut down like that but its going to a great place. Today after the slice families could be seen sitting on the massive stump. Children counting the rings of this more than 50yearold tree. They have a lot of memories with this tree. Kids played on it. Made forts in it. They climbed it. So, you know. Tough to watch it come down but an honor. Tree had been eyed for months. Head gardner came up last august and said it was a nice tree and well consider it for a Christmas Tree. It was. Before you know it this tall spruce will look Something Like this. Lit up for millions to see, a kind of crazy to talk about a Christmas Tree on a day when its in the 70s free speech will be arriving this week on friday and takes about a month to decorate and then the lights come on. Thats december 2nd at 7 00 p. M. Right here on nbc 4. Spectacular thing to see. Always is. Made a good point about the temperature. The tree and its 70s. David is here now with a look whats coming up new at 5 30. A new twist in the fight for Health Care Funding for 9 11 responders. How some harsh words from a worker could tip the scales. Plus this as if flying these days didnt cost enough im Brian Thompson with why getting to or leaving the airport could cost you more. Find over 1,000 special stories at hospital for special surgery. Star light star bright, the first star i see tonight i wish i may, i wish i might, have the wish i wish tonight the lincoln wish list event is on. 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