Neighbors have seen her around and describe her as quiet and unassuming. I saw somebody being taken out of the house with bandages. Reporter why a random person would target a 16yearold girl is not clear. He didnt say anything to her. Just slashed and ran. Parents in the neighborhood were horrified to learn about what happened. Its sickening. Im sad. I feel bad for her. You know something needs to be done. Are you worried about the safety of your own teenagers of course. Im worried for all of our children. Reporter state assemblyman says attacks on asians is all too comfortable. We feel target and we want to attention. Reporter i asked police if they know of any connection between this particular attack and other attacks on asianamericans and they say at this point they are not making that connection. Victim here, the teenager was taken to the hospital and she is going to be okay. Shes in stable condition. But, again, her attacker still out there. If you think you might recognize him you should call the police right away. Reporting live from whitestone, ida siegal, news 4 new york. A chilly new look at the aftermath of the deadliest crash in metronorth history. Six people died in this terrible accident back in february. Now the ntsb is revealing new information about its investigation. News 4 Gus Rosendale reports. Reporter for the first time a clear look at how hundreds of feet of third rail pierced a metronorth commuter train in february turning it into a fiery death trap. Passenger seats sliced in half. The engineers compartment burnt beyond recognition. Three sections flew to the front killing three passengers. Rail after rail intersected each i remember that night, we all slept together. It was hard. Reporter we learned more about ellen, the driver of the suv who died. She got stuck when the rail crossing guards came down on her car. I called her on voice mail and started to get upset. Reporter ntsb findings show no alcohol or Illegal Drugs were in her system. She was well rested, emotionally sound and not on phone. But her husband said she was unfamiliar with train crossings and the road she found herself on that february night and had no idea how much danger she was in. This crossing can be confusing even for neighbors. These crossings can be confusing to people who come here all the time. For people who arent familiar with this area, it can even be deadly. And new at 5 00 security video shows the moment an nypd teen into a window. The family released the video clip of that may incident hoping to reopen the case. The d. A. Cleared the sergeant of wrongdoing because window was already cracked when it exploded on impact. Paynes lawyers say justice was not served. Its upsetting that the current District Attorney chose not to present this case to a grand jury to let the citizens of the bronx determine whether or not they believe an assault occurred. The teen had to have chards of glass removed from his lungs and heart. A lawyer for the sergeant said we remain confident that the sergeant will be cleared of any wrongdoing after a fair examination of all the relevant facts. Going back to that breaking story in queens. We reestablished contact with shes standing by with breaking details. Reporter this is still a very active scene. Ill step out of the way so you can see whats taking place. The cement truck in question is still on scene at the corner of junction boulevard and 55th avenue. Its unclear if it was make acrighthand turn off of junction when this happened. Two small children and adult were hit by that truck around 2 30 this afternoon. Ps13 the school is at the end of this block. We dont know if they were walking home from school when the accident happened but one witness tells us the area was packed with kids heading home from ps13. He also describes a man he believes may have been the childrens father rushing to the corner after he heard about the accident. The ground to see who there was but it looked like a dad running as hard as he could running in that direction. He was cuddling the child prior to the child being taken to the ambulance. Reporter and crn transit mix the company that owns this cement truck declined to comment when we contacted them just a short while ago. Three people one adult and two children taken to the hospital. The kids had minor injuries and that the adult suffered serious injuries during this accident. So very much still under investigation. Checkey beckford, news 4, new york. Tonight a big change to nations terror alert system. A new level is being added. This all coming in the aftermath of the attacks in paris and San Bernardino. News 4 david ushery is here to tell us why the feds believe youll be better informed now. That Warning System had evolved since the 9 11 attacks and so has the terrorist threat to the homeland. Today saying both Law Enforcement and the public have to be as vigilante as ever. Nearly 700,000 students went back to school in l. A. Today. Kind of like scary to hear about that. Reporter a Terror Threat message that closed the system yesterday underscores the apprehension about a new enemy. San bernardino, as with chattanooga, another terrorist attack that we dealt with in recent times involve people consuming poison on the internet and radicalizing. Reporter only in terrorist propaganda may have ignited San Bernardino attackers. The fbi said the couple used private messages. They are in those communications which weve been able to recover now. Demonstrating a commitment interest in jihad and martyrdom. Reporter in an effort to respond to evolving threats Homeland Security secretary jeh system adding an online tool to release Vital National security information. The first bulletin warns about watching for self h radicalized people. He outlined more strict screening for visa applications move to the united states. Consulting social media is something that since ive been secretary i believe that we need to do and we have done that. Reporter all of this new information for the public led to this recommendation by the fbi director. Dont let them win this by freaking you out. Channel it to something healthy. Tell fuse you see something concerning and live your life. Reporter one other note a short time ago the white house announced president obama will visit San Bernardino friday. Hes planning to meet privately with families of the shooting victims. He added this stop on his way to hawaii where the first family will spend climb. It turns out a student spring mace that forced evacuations at a long island school. Yesterday at west babylon high school. Today Officials Say one student sprayed mace. The School District is trying to identify the student or students involved and say they will face disciplinary action. Armed and on the run. Police are searching for two men seen here robbing a cell phone store. Heres the scare they caused and what they got away with. Reporter employees say these robbers were bold walking into the store in broad daylight at the middle of the afternoon at the height of the Holiday Shopping season waving around a gun. It was sunday afternoon right around 3 30. Police say these two entered a tmobile, flashing ad gun and ordered two employees and one customer to a back room. Take a close look. They got away with nearly 40 iphones and samsung galleries and about 2,500 in cash. Even going as far as to swipe the dimes and penny from the before they left i dont know if it was a scaring tactic, they were shooting and then left. Reporter you can see two victims forced to get on all for us while the suspect orders another to dump the phones into a bag. Very scary moment. And i dont wish it on no one. Reporter the employees said they never seen either before and they hope they are caught before they see them again. If you have any information, call the nypd. Still ahead as we continue a big move by the Federal Reserve one we havent seen since the 08 recession. Well tell you what this means for your money. And a subway alert if you see this man. Police want to know right away. The crime hes accused of committing twice underground. Youre feeling sick . Blame this warm december weather. If youre not feeling sick i got great news. Beautiful day today. Rain coming our way and cooler temperatures which you may be looking forward to all that coming up in the forecast next. At 5 30, staring into the barrel of a shotgun. Gas station clerk did just seconds after the scene youre meet the moores were the moore family, and as you can see, we need an internet that can do more. We do more games, and more streaming. So we need more speed. 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Investigators are looking at a crash on the van wyck expressway. The southbound lanes were shut down and traffic was backed up to the whitestone bridge. The driver of the car was killed. Sandusky scored a win. The pennsylvania retirement system will not appeal last months court order that restored the pension of the former penn state football coach. Sandusky stopped receiving his pension back in october of 2012 when he was found guilty of sexually abusing boys and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. The university of connecticut just approved a big tuition hike. Today the schools board of trustees voted to raise tuition by more than 30 for over four years. That means 13,700 for instate students. Out of state students tuition will jump to 36,000. If increase kicks in next fall. Time to talk about the weather. Its a little bit cooler today but not that bad. Beautiful today. Litt bit cooler. Less windy. Temperatures dropped a bit into the 50s this afternoon but still about 10 degrees above average. Were still warm for this time of the year. 53 in central park. No records set. A delightful day. Wet weather on the way. Rain were track. Temperatures will remain above average until the weekend. Right now youre in the 40s in reading, stanford and fairfield. Generally speaking were seeing midtoupper 40s across the area right around 50 in poughkeepsie, thats your temperature. Winds are mainly coming out of the east this time, to help cool things down a bit and now clouds are starting to roll into the area as well as a cold front approaches from the west. We can see some of those clouds starting to thicken from the south and they will dont increase as we go through the night. The actual rain make terrify front sheer. Low pressure spinning over the upper midwest, trailing cold front down to the gulf coast and well get some of that gulf moisture in here with the system as it comes through. Mainly cloudy for the rest of tonight. You might see a bit of drizzle here or there and patchy fog too. That will continue into the overnight. Show up until midday tomorrow. Moving in from the south and west. Could be some downpours throughout the afternoon as the system passes through. This is 3 00. Here we are as we go through the rest of the night starting to dry out. 4 00 a. M. Friday still left with a lot of cloud but the rain is done. Rainfall totals estimates anywhere from a third of an inch to an inch of rain from this system as it comes through and every little bit helps because were running a deficit. For the rest of this evening, though, it should stay dry. But cloudy across the area and temperatures generally in the 40s to around 50. It warms up a bit tomorrow. Midtoupper 50s again. Cool down comes. Even few snow flurries possible. Windy cold over the weekend temperatures back to the 40s. Look ahead to christmas week. It looks like the jet stream will go to the north and when that happens the warm air comes back. We start the week very mild. No snow in sight. White christmas. Definitely see some rain showers next week in the area. And temperatures above average. For tonight down to the 30s and 40s for the overnight loss. Fog and drizzle developing. Showers for most areas by noon tomorrow including the city. You may get a few showers earlier at the jersey shore throughout the day, temperatures in the 50s to near 60. Showers by midday north and west as well. And across long island and coastal connecticut you got the showers so just get your umbrellas ready. Heres your seven day forecast. A high of 57 tomorrow in the city. Then we drop to 51 on friday. The sun returns. It is windy and cold on saturday. This 42 degree High Temperature will feel more like 32 with these wind gusts coming in. Now you get a chance to feel december weather. Winter begins on monday and were expecting a high of 50. Well be back above average and notice the trend going into next week right before christmas, by guys, back to you. We should give this winter a new name, winterspring. Well call it wing for now. Thank you. If you have been feeling under the weather lately you might be thinking its the flu. But it may be that youre really under the weather. Doctors tell us this record warmth have people feeling sick. The symptoms are the same. Reporter the calendar says december but the thermometer looks like spring. And most arent complaining. I hate cold. Last year was enough. Not wishing for cold. I like this. Reporter as they say one persons pleasure is anothers pain. A lot of sniffling, itchy eyes, my throat has been very scratchy. Reporter ians allergies have been acting up. Without a cold snap to eliminate pollen and rag weed the agony for many drags on. Warm weather is coming in to reporter this doctor has been seeing two to three patient as day battling allergies, often he says they may be coming down with the flu. For 35 years ive never seen it like this before. Reporter richard is the Employee Health manager at Good Samaritan hospital. Heres many as seven Staff Members a day come looking for allergy relief. First frost and thats it for the allergy season. This year its continuous. We need cold weather. Reporter allergy victims are suffering, its true but if you think they are praying for an end of this so they can breathe easier, guess again. If i had to choose i would prefer a few snifls and the nice weather as opposed to the cold weather. Got to take the bad with the good. Something is going around. A lot of people sick around me. Im with that guy. Could affect your money. What the Federal Reserve has done for the first time in nearly a decade. Will the Second Avenue subway really be ready by next year . How that question is being answered. Coming up at 6 00. Justice has been done. Three men exonerated after the Federal Reserve this afternoon made a move weve not seen in nearly a decade. Raised the Interest Rate by a quarter point and this will impact your wallet. Break it all down. Reporter thats right. It was a move that was widely expected, well telegraphed and so the Market Reaction was fairly modest to say the least. Yes its the first fed rate hike weve seen in nearly a decade, but investors were ready for it. So the Federal Reserve is working towards what it is considered a more normal monetary policy. The group looks at many factors when it comes on deciding what to do with Interest Rates but most importantly the job market and inflation. Its largely based on the strength of the economy as measured in addition by things like industrial manufacturing and to some degree the financial markets. So heres what it means four. The Interest Rate that the Federal Reserve raised is called the federal funds rate. Its the Interest Rate that banks charge each other not the rate that consumers pay on credit cards or home loans but those loans are ultimately influenced by the feds federal funds rate. Norjs, car loans or even your educational loans arent expected to jump quickly if at all. Its an existing fixled rate its just that its fixed. It wont change. Loans variable are more tied to if feds benchmark rate but thats Something Like a credit card or home equity line. They will likely increase but only slightly as the fed signaled it will raise rates carefully and at modest increases and your bank should let you know. Wells fargo, jpmorgan and other announced prime rates will increase from 3. 24 to 3. 5 . Thats the first increase in that prime rate since 2008. Though things have definitely changed today its good to be aware of. Not something i would tell to you worry bhowever. A lot of talk were worried about Something Else and thats some clip clop sound at the what was that . Reporter oh, im sitting next to a staircase. Some high heels walking by. High heels. We thought it was horses. We thought it was a horse leaving the stable. David is here on whats coming up new at 5 30. Can you top that, david . No horses here. Guys well go live to baltimore for an update on the mistrial in the freddie gray case and how the city is reacting tonight. Plus a deadly hitandrun in long island. The message the family has for the driver that took off. A mass robber storms a local Convenience Store shotgun in hand, wait until you see what happens next. Have a tip for new yorks call 866news244 or email tips nbc