In a hazing, the charges going from hazing to murder. It would a of the brain. He took. Im golden and carrying a 20pound back lack. He never thought they were to it it, and the Fraternity Brothers waited an hour to help, some allegedly hiding their cell phone from police. Theyre tuchers. Hes the attorney where was. That thing is more banned pi delta si. I would like to read in a statement, the school said we oe it to michael and his family to hold a countable vote for his senseless death. More coming e news in the coming weeks. New york governor edward cuomo and new jersey governor krils Christie Chris christie want the government to pay for half of the new hudson rail tunnel. Theyve both written letters to ask for federal funds to build the terminal. The Port Authority would pick up the other half. Chris christie says their plan is a. There is a lot of politics in our way to try to get a resolution and say to the president. How about this . We split it. The cost of replacing the terminal is 20 billion. That is well beyond what any state can afford on theirly physical. It was a tight race between until he was kwikd for corruption. Whats going on here now . News4 has more. He spent 7 years in federal prison, and now joe gannett wants his job back. That job was mayor of bridgeport. I think this is the best opportunity. No one has more experience, good or bad, than i do. Not the challenges that face this city. Joe gannon was convicted in 2003 of taking prides for developers. The city got new. For that. He apologized. The influential minister here was convinced. Should people believe him . Youll take a person at his or her word. Want. Well choose our positive direction forward, not look backward when envelopes of money were ex chajd for things that hurt the city. Then theres a third candidate who starts with a very simple message to voters. Ive never been to prison. Activist Mary Jane Foster says shes the true alternative. These are two guys cut out of the same cloth. Theyre career politicians. You vote for either one of them and youre going to get more of the same. The tough issues of taxes and Small Businesses and economical growth. Tough issues and tough choices with only one day to go. In bridgeport, andrew siff, news4 new york. Coming up, news4 continues. If everyone was so outraged about the naked women on times square, why havent they been confronted . Not even one meeting yet. A building is engulfed in flames in new jersey. Janice is here with our midweek forecast. We continue. Is there any rain in the forecast because we still could use it. [excited yelling] ah, yes you cant stop it aww. Your mom liked my post. Youre friends with my mother . Whoa. Another episode . Definitely. We all use it differently. So why should we get it all the same way . Call Time Warner Cable to get the Internet Speed you need. Are you guys texting each other . Whether its 3 megs or 300 megs, yeah. For the right price. From 14. 99 Everyday Low Price internet, to 300 meg ultrafast internet, we have you covered. Even with wifi at home and on the go. Plans start at 14. 99 per month. Call 1855want twc to switch today. Time warner cable. Leaders in newtown, massachusetts decided to spend last of the sandy hook donations. The remaining 17,500 will be awarded to a parent group that supports newtown high schools marching band. Another 8,000 that came in with specific spending requests went toward things like a sandy hook memorial. A gas explosion destroyed a building in pensville, new jersey, and this is all thats left of that structure. They believe a crew hit a gas main this morning. It went off in a basement. It housed a law office and an apartment. No one was injured, though. Coming up at 6 30, news4 returns. An alligator at the park. Lester holt is back from hungary. He joins us now to tell us whats on nightly news. Were going to talk about the refugees getting rides with smugglers, but the u. S. Lags far behind russia when it comes to a central part of patrolling those waters and american interests. The u. S. Has two aging ships, russia has 41, and that could be a problem going forward. What is changing to cause all this . A lot of it is the environment. Melting sea ice means more commercial shipping during certain times of the year. More than half the year, the u. S. Cant get there, its frozen out, and russia has more ice breakers. They can get to these areas surrounding russia and alaska, so a lot of people calling this the new cold war, america getting left behind. Huge disparity there. Bill de blasio convened a task force. A new Jersey Transit is optimistic it can handle the crowds predicted for pope francis visit to both new york and philadelphia. Part of that optimism may come from the number of tickets presold so far to camden. Both Train Service from Atlantic City and light rail from trenton still have more than half their tickets unsold so far. According to the executive director ronnie haca krrks hakim. I think people are thinking, i dont know what my weekend looks like now. Am i going to Atlantic City, my traveling to trenton . What were suggesting is its less than 10 days away. Make your plans now, buy your tickets now. As for events in new york, new Jersey Transit says it expects its trains to be crowded but theyll add extra trains at peak time. People have spotted in critter, nicknamed jaws, twice in the last few months. He is quick. Today they finally managed to catch the gator with the help of local fishermen. Every day i come down and look for him in the water, and i happened to be in the right place at the right time again and i got him. Its not clear where that gator came from but it was likely a pet. When it becomes too much to handle, gators cannot survive in the cold, so he will survive now. Last year they had the tortoise, remember that . Its like wild kingdom out there. Nice weather out there across the tristate area. It looks like more sunshine and even warmer conditions coming up tomorrow. Summer hangs on. Its got another week to go, technically. Fall begins next week. Heres a look outside now. A reminder atop the camera looks great. The skies are mainly clear. Some high clouds out there. We finally found a few clouds to show you, but not too many. 81 degrees right now in the park, down from a high of 84 this afternoon. It did warm up. We had 70s yesterday so were back to the 80s. 85 in newark, 81 in bridgeport. In most locations were right around 80 or above today. Another cool night tonight. Temperatures this morning were down into the 40s and 50s, again north and west. Its even warmer tomorrow, though, as we make it into the mid to upper 80s. Still no rain yet. Nothing significant. Generally 70s. 80 right now across the board from monticello to morristown to long branch. The rest of the evening, no worries at all. The sun sets at 7 05. Well stay in the 70s for most of the evening. I mentioned the lack of rain. Of course, weve been talking about that for months and now the area of moderately dry conditions has moved over the city and encompasses most of the tristate area now. But theres no end in sight as High Pressure dominates and the jet stream is too far to the north. Were not getting these storm systems at all. It keeps them to the north of our area so we stay dry for at least several more days. All the way into the weekend, actually. By sunday we might get one or two thunderstorms. Not too many, not looking for anything major. We do need a lot more rain. The weekend looks pretty nice. 83 on saturday. Keep an eye in the sky on sunday. They will be isolated, those storms, if they pop up. The High Temperature right around 80 degrees. For tonight, 62 in garden city, 65 in new york city. Its fantastic sleeping weather across the board, and north and west, you can expect more 40s and 50degree temperatures, once again, too. The day planner, start off at 50s in the morning. Midtown, mid80s, and sunday a stray storm or two. The city not moving very fast right now. Its been almost a month since mayor de blasio convened a task force to find Speedy Solutions to the topless painted women and topless characters in times square. Reporter but news4 has learned that the task force hasnt even met yet. Heres la russo with an exclusive report. There is a task force that will move quickly. Reporter that meeting was announced back on august 5, saying his task force would move with great speed. I expect to report back with more tangible actions, no later than october 1st. Reporter despite that october 1st deadline, the task force tells news4 almost an entire month went by, no instructions and not a peep from city hall. We will certainly work with state holders in the Times Square Community and with local elected officials. Reporter sitting with certain members of the task force, they sat with members of city council. Several sources who attended that meeting and tell news4 concerns are voiced there about whether the Mayors Task Force was real. Then Task Force Members tells news4 that in the past couple of days, they finally heard from the Mayors Office to schedule a meeting for this coming thursday, less than two weeks before the october 1st deadline. President gail brewer is on the task force. Yes, were getting late notice of the meetings, but to be honest with you, thanks to the times square wives, a lot of work has been done and i think some ideas will come out of it. Our feeling is that as long as the task force is responsive to the plan put forward by elected officials and supported by the Times Square Alliance and community, thats all that matters. This afternoon, the mayors spokeswoman, karen hinton, tells us that all members have gathered to discuss issues. A meeting of the task force will be on thursday to discuss certain issues issues. Theyll have to move quickly to meet the october 4 deadline. All right, whats the latest at jpp . Weve got the newest story and it doesnt sound good. The current champs are still dealing with sundays fiasco in big d. Well hear their thoughts on the plane eli manning is taking for the messup on the cowboys. And theyre making an impact off the diamond as well. Well take you an a hazard. Everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios but why . Well, fios is a 100 Percent Fiber Optic Network to the home, so you can get access to the Fastest Internet and inhome wifi available. And fios gives you big capacity too. So everyone in the house can get online. But the main reason to get fios . Were rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. Ultimately, thats why. Get 50 meg fios internet, tv phone starting at 79. 99 a month. Plus get 300 back. Hurry, offer ends september 19th. Get out of the past. Get fios. More bad news at jason pierrepaul. According to an espn report, he is missing the tip of his thumb and had surgery on his right middle finger three days before visiting the giants last week. Jpp remains home in south florida. The giants 14. 8 million franchise tender still remains on the table. Meanwhile the current giants are trying to get over sunday nights debacle. Today general jennings and his teammates visited the Observation Deck of the empire state building. I asked them about their quarterback, eli manning, who has shouldered the blame for the devastating loss to the cowboys. What kind of class has he shown out here . Eli has always shown class. It takes a big man to do that. Hes lasted this long for a reason because he knows how to handle situations like this. Reporter what do you think of the way eli is handling this whole situation . Hes handling it like a pro like he always does. Hes a true leader, always has been, always will be and hes a guy we can count on. The mets go for their ninth straight win tonight against the marlins. Earlier today in woodside, several members visited fire house number 4. They lost some men, including four in the terrorist attacks on september 11. Bobby parnell and others signed autographs, took photos and had lunch with the firemen. Parnell comes from a long line of firemen. These guys are running into buildings when people are running out, and they made the supreme sacrifice, and for us to be able to come show our respects even several years later, its the small things we can do. We can always do more, and i wish we could, but this is what kek we can do and were trying to do as much as we can. Meanwhile on the field, they continued to look like winners. They celebrated in front of their diehard fans. Would you like to clinch this at home before you go back on the road . No question. These fans deserve that and wed love to see that. Well take it where it is, whether were at home or not. Well take the division wherever its at. Were going to win as many as we can so we can celebrate as long as we can. 22 games over 500. The mets are on fire. They are. Lets hope it continues. Up next, nbc nightly news, the latest from flash flooding in utah. Tonight, lost in the flood. A wall of Rushing Water and debris trapping mothers and children in their vehicles. Rescuers springing in action. At least 12 are dead. And tonight the search for the missing. Caught on camera. Richard epgel exposing the danger of refugee falling prey to human smugglers ready to exploit they are desperation for an enormous price. Ready to rumble. The second debris expected to be a fight but donald trump says bring it on as jeb bush looks to avoid a knockout. And the new cold war. An extraordinary journey to the top of the world. Rising temperatures are opening a new race with russia and many fear america cant catch up. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. Late today the death toll climbed near utahs border with arizona where a wall of water with breathtaking speed and power swept away vehicles filled with people, killing at least a dozen. This is what it looked like late yesterday as the flash flood waters came thundering down a utah. The drivers of a van and suv helpless as water and debris carried them downstream. Passengers had to be pulled to safety after raging waters over took them. Ron mott is there for us. Reporter it stand. Oh, it went over the fence. Reporter raging floodwaters and mud ripping across a road, two vehicles filled with three families, disappearing. Swept away hundreds of yards. Three survived. As did others who were trapped. Rescued and able to wade away to safety in kneehigh water. Virginia black shot this video on her cell phone. Her concern building as fast as the water rose. The first thought was what about the people in the vehicle, wished we could do something be started to realize we were in trouble too. Today search crews continue their efforts to find the missing as the remains of rubber and metal were recovered, shelter for the victims one moment and a tomb the next. Ive lived here all of my life and never seen anything like this. Storm cells blue over the community of hildale utah and colorado city, arizona. Dumping an estimated 2. 5 inches of rain in just two hours. From top of the creek to hill doyle is over a thousand feet and it is a wall of water rushing into hildale. The community is far less known than the man who inspired the creation, warren jeffs, serving a life sentence for child sexual assault. Tonight the mourning continues. An unimaginable loss that hit so suddenly, and touching so many. Yeah, it hurts. It hurts my heart hearing about all of these people. Reporter adding to the misery and sadness, the area has plurpged into another Flash Flood Warning for tonight. Take a look behind me. The water from the creek runs under the road