Are free of anger. I know god is there. Both were paroled two years ago but never gave up the fight to prove their innocence. Today i feel that if i died this afternoon, ill be able to go to my tomb and rest in peace because my name has finally been cleared and justice has been done. It was emotional too for morris family. He died from a heart attack back in 1989. My husband is not here today to see tae victory but hes looking down on us and know hes resting in peace now. How much does it mean to you to be able to say my dad was innocent . Versus no better Christmas Gift that i can get. Lets just say my dad is innocent and now everybody knows. The d. A. Is now expanding his conviction review unit which up until now has focused on homicide cases. They will now be looking at crimes including rape, arson robbery. Updating a breaking story a mother and two children were struck by a cement truck in queens. Checkey beckford is live in elmhurst with late details for us. Reporter police say the victims are 36yearold mother and her two small children ages 3 and 5 years old. Ill step out of way so you can take a look behind me at this very active scene, active investigation behind me. The accident happened here around 2 30 at the corner of junction boulevard and 55th avenue. The truck was making a right turn on to 55th when the family crossed. Police say they had the rightofway. This all happened as the street was packed with kids walking home from school. Ps13 is at the end of the block. A witness tells us the womans leg was badly injured but the kids appear to be okay. They suffered minor injuries. Their mother was in serious condition. Scene tell us a crossing guard needs to be posted here at the corner. Actually, i have personally never seen a crossing guard here. I think theres one crossing guard for the entire school up there. When i got here i didnt even look directly at the bodies. Out of the corner of my eye i saw two bodies laying across the street. Thats all. I was busy chasing parents away i guess you would say. Reporter mother and children are being treated at the elmhurst hospital. The company that tones cement truck declined to comment when we contacted them earlier this evening. Tomorrow congress is expected to vote 0 a 1. 1 trillion budget for 2016 a budget that includes an extension of the zadroga act. Its what former jon stewart and september 11th First Responders lobbied hard for over the past several months. The extension will pay the at ground zero through the year 2090. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is happy First Responders dont have to fight for their health care. Its wonderful victory for the First Responders, fires, residents, all those that sacrificed their Health Working to rebuild or to protect and save others on 9 11. And the new spending bill contains another victory for 9 11 families. In addition to the health fund an additional 4. 6 billion will go towards a Compensation Fund for 9 11 victims and extend it for five years. Chuck . The u. S. Defendant Homeland Security updated the nations terror alert system today. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson made that announcement. The new system includes a new online category called bulletin. In addition to the previous categories of imminent and updated. The bulletin asks us to be onto lookout for people to however, johnson also stressed there is no new credible specific threat to the united states. In new york today the director of the fbi met with nypd officials to discuss security. Reporter the fbi director was direct saying isis online recruiting doonts growing problem. With terrorists using encryption tools fbi is having a tougher time trying to keep track of some threats. This is the nypd showed us more tools they are using to try to keep the city safe. Hundreds more officers being added to the Strategic Response group, a mobile team of cops ready to respond fast to major crimes, riots or a terror incident. Here to assist in the event of an active shooter. Or a hostage barricade situation. Reporter this unit another year of terror defense on the streets after Emergency Service units and Critical Response command teams. Threat. On our cameras given exclusive to this training. The fbi director spoke about the evolving threat and how isis keeps using social media to recruit here. Twitter works as a way to sell books, as a way to promote movies. It works as a way to crowd source terrorism to sell murder. And its a message that resonated and continues to resonate with troubled souls. Reporter he says hundreds of investigations ongoing nationwide and today he all but said the culprit behind the San Bernardino terror attack used Encryption Technology to avoid detection. He talked about how the would be shooter in garland, texas used encryption to speak with a terror leader in syria. All the judicial orders in the world wont tell us what they said that morning but i can tell you this. I know it was important. It was important enough to exchange 109 messages across an ocean to talk about what was i cant tell you what it was. Thats a rob. Reporter he announced the fbi calls the past shooting in chattanooga and the 2014 hatchet attacks acts of terror. In queens, zale thomas swung an axe at this officer. I didnt think i would live. Reporter he drorchts. More nypd officers like him now hitting the front lines to try to stop the next attack. We just spoke by phone with officer healey. He went back network this week and said its great to be back serving the city. In the newsroom im jonathan dienst. Coming up as news 4 at 6 00 continues why new york will have to move over 1,000 prisoners. A wife left alone after her Police Officer husband was gunned down in the line of duty finds purpose one year after his death. Have any plans to come up to new jerseys biggest ski resort this weekend . Well you might want to bring your swimsuit. Im Brian Thompson ill have that story. It will be a little cooler than that but no snow in the forecast for quite some time. Whats going to happen next week as we approach christmas . We are just days away from the one Year Anniversary of the murder of two new york city Police Officers shot and killed in their patrol car. One of their which dose is speaking publicly for the first time. Shes hoping to bring positive change between police and the community. We talked with her one on one today. What did she say . This. Can you believe sunday marks one year since a man shot and killed detectives rafael ramos and liu. The wife told me she wants his legacy to live on by focusing on relationships between police and the people. He was filled with a lot of hope. And a lot of love and he always wanted to do something more. She shared her husbands aspirations speaking out for the First Time Since the nypd officer and father of two was shot and killed along with his partner officer liu one year ago. She told me shes been able to get through the past 12 months because of the outpouring of community support. My faith in god and knowing that this was gods plan. Her plan now starting the Detective Rafael Ramos Foundation will which focus on between police and the community. I know that this is something that if he were here would be something that he would want to do anyway. So i felt why not take the opportunity to do something great. The offensivers were sitting in their patrol car when they were gunned down on december 20th. Today, she wants her husbands legacy as a man who loved his family, community and job to live on through the foundation by focusing on interaction between youth and police, an idea welcomed by parents i spoke to when i went to the bedstuy community where the officers died. These two boys go for school in the neighborhood. Shes all for more education on police and trust. It should start with young kids. Theres a lot of misconceptions about Police Officers and, you know, teenagers. Leaving families behind and they move forward to help everyone else. Sometimes they dont get to come back home. The foundation will also the dangers Law Enforcement face every day and offering scholarships even Financial Assistance for families who are going through what her family has faced losing a loved one so suddenly. They couldnt stress how much support they have been receiving. Shes so strong. They do so much in almost just a year here. Shes excited about the foundation. 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If you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, x or any symptoms stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. Cialis for daily use. Expanded nationally and you may now be covered. For the latest information. We have a look at whats hide on nbc news. Were following the gop debate and tonight we kick off a series called target cancer. We got rare access to the los a testing a way to target cancer. They had some success and its very exciting and well tell you about it at 6 30. Get some tea before the news begins. The new York Civil Liberties Union and state announced a settlement in new yorks prisons. There is a 30 day cap on solitary for first time and three month maximum. Fewer violations will be punishable by solitary. This deal could free as 1100 inmates from solitary confinement. People in solitary are intentionally denied all meaningful Human Interaction and mental stimulation. It is literally torture. The union that represents new york states Prison Guards says its reviewing the settlement but the Union President says its wrong to take tools such as enforcement officers that face dangerous situation every day. Newark School District has reached an agreement with the federal government. A deal affecting the systems reorganization plan. The district will be required to address allegations of discrimination against africanamerican students. Investigators from the u. S. Department of education say they found a disproportionate number of black students were affected by the reorganization. Likely record warm december were expecting is wreaking havoc in one corner of new jersey and thats the northwest concern where the ski slopes are bare. You wouldnt recognize this as a skiing area. Looks like parched prairie land. December started out warm and then in the last the week highs in central park topped 60, yesterday it was 68. Brian thompson found out people in ski areas are jumping in to the pool instead now. All of the lifts here are skill, ski poles hanging, snow bare. Employees wearing short sleeves and at the appalachian resort hotel jeff just may be the loneliest front desk man in the world. Its very boring. Im not going lie, it is. This is how it should look on these slopes. Last winter packed with skiers. Snow making machines blasting at full title. This is reality. Not enough subfreezing nights to turn the snow makers on. If we get three good nights of cold temperatures we can be open top bottom. From chopper 4 the same scene, slopes all over this area opening later and later in recent years. This is warmer than normal. Mountain creeks ticket windows are closed but fully expect cold weather by january. Hoping for a repeat of what turned out the be a record year last season. The golf courses are open, as is the pool. How warm really warm. Probably like 80 degrees. Last weekend they say this pool deck was packed. This past weekend, you would think we were open for the summer. There is kind of a virtually lining here. Many of the staff could get a rare Christmas Day off if this warm weather continues until then. In vernon, Brian Thompson, news 4 new york. We heard that maybe three cold evenings could do them well to start the snow. Are we going see that this week . Doesnt look like they will get that even there. We just looked up some information. It looks like the el nino in place will extend through most of the winter into spring. That means abovenormal temperatures for the rest of winter even if i want cools down. Were not expecting what we saw last winter. Another beautiful day, another beautiful evening. Expecting it to be quiet this evening but there will be rain in the forecast for tomorrow. And the temperature now is 49 degrees. Remember our daytime average is 43. And temperatures arent really in that category yet. Not until the weekend. Heres a look at starting from today going into the weekend. Remember you had all those record high temperatures from the weekend so we were above 50 again today. Were in the mid50s tomorrow. It tarts to cool down friday night. There ll be some cold nights come saturday, sunday night but temperatures rise again christmas week. These are the highs today for the other locations. Jfk 53. 53 in newark. About ten degrees above average again today in islip at 51. Well we got rain on the way and were tracking that now. Temperatures remain warmer than average. I want does get blustery and cold coming up this weekend. We had today for the winter coats coming up saturday into sunday. Beautiful weekend in store but temperatures in the 40s during the day. 20s and 30s at night. Then warm weather comes back. West hampton is at 47. Not snow making weather or snow making temperatures. Scattered clouds are rolling over us right now. The cold front that will bring the rain along with gulf moisture coming through the great lakes today. Even even though its cloudy it is dry. Temperatures will stay in the 40s to mid50s. Notice sprinkles starting to move into coastal areas and overnight and early tomorrow morning. We continue see heavy rain until midday tomorrow. Thats when we may get a few Thunder Showers maybe at the jersey shore, some heavy downpours. You may see as much as an inch of rain, there maybe half inch in the city and third of an inch as we go christmas week projection for the jet stream, upper level wind that steer the weather systems around the world, the mild weather moves back, wild mild weather moves back. May see snow over the great Lakes Christmas week. No snow for us. Thats rare for us anyway for the city and try city area on Christmas Day. Temperatures tonight 30s and 40s. Tomorrow were back into the midtoupper 50s. It turns windy and chilly on friday and then the cool air is here for the weekend, lows down to freezing saturday night. Maybe in the 20s in is suburbs. 60 by wednesday. Could be even more on christmas eve. Santa may not need the full suit. May not. Im dreaming of a warm christmas. For the jets its all about winning out and trying to secure a playoff spot in the crowded afc. Figure out a way to tame cam newton and the panthers. Well hear from the head coach. A fan favorite will be back in flushing this season with nets. The centers for medicare and Medicaid Services recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3. 500 hospitals. T fewer than 6 received 5 stars. R among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Are you happy with your bathroom . I wasnt. Until i learned about bath fitter. Bath fitter puts a new bathtub right over your old one. Isnt that amazing . Bath fitter will measure, custommake and install right over your existing tub. And only bath fitter has seamless walls, which guarantees a watertight fit. Plus, they do it all in just one day. Head coach todd bowles has turned jets fans into believers. They won three straight games and sit in the number six spot in the afc. Even if the jets win out they could miss the playoffs. Three way tie with pittsburgh and kansas city does them no good. But enough with scenarios for now. The jets need to take care of business on saturday night in big d. This team knows they cant been in this situation a few times. The only thing you can control is your job. And something that were talking about is everyone just believing and doing their part. We know things are at stake but we got to take it one game at a time and take care of dallas and then go on from there. But, you know, should be fun going down there. The giants host the 130 panthers on sunday at met life stadium. Cam newton and carolina have been unstoppable this season. Newton is arguably the leagues mvp. Hes thrown for 28 touchdowns and rushed for seven more. He leads an offense that tops the nfl averaging over 31 points pergame. Head coach tom coughlin knows this is one tough task. The giants signed defensive get excited mets fans Bartolo Colon coming back. He was indispensable out of the bullpen in the playoffs. Who cares if he turns 31 in may hell be the mets starter until zach weller er wheeler returns from tommy john surgery. Monmouth University Won with a 6843 of georgetown last night and their celebrations have everyone buzzing. Check out these intricate dances and moves. You have to love the enthusiasm and creativity. Way to go hawks. Monmouth has beaten ucla, notre dame, usc and georgetown but everyone is talking about their moves off the court. Yes, you would have to say its
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