It gets heavy enough. By 2 00 a. M. , we see that wintry mix shaded in pink here. Westchester county, Rockland County changing over to rain and the city in time for your morning commute. But other spots still frozen like Ulster County and more on what to expect for tomorrow as we look at your full forecast. Looking at the picture you just painted. The freezing rain and the ice. Folks in connecticut getting ready the best they can in manchester dozens walked out of area stores with ice shovels and tarps they used to cover the boats just last week. Never ready for ice. Snow maybe. Ice, who knows. Just trying to get ready. If i get ready, it wont come. And raphael just laid it out for us. Snow, sleet in the forecast. The northern part could see up to three inches of snow. All right, now, lets go to Rockland County where the Winter Storm Team 4 ida is there waiting to feel winter for the first time this season. Ida . Thats right, sibila. Whenever there is a pending winter storm, the focus is usually on the roads as it should be. The one bit of good news is it looks like the storm is coming in after the evening rush is thoroughly over. Ho wever, the snow plows are ready to go in case the storm takes a turn. Workers at the garage are attempting to get every one of their 28 trucks ready to go this evening. Superintendent anthony sharoi would like the full fleet on hand just in case tonights snow sleet storm turns out to be troublesome. Perhaps it could get prit icy. Little bit of black ice in spots. I dont see much of a storm. Supposed to go to rain in the morning. Everything should be okay. Reporter meanwhile down in yonkers tod workers were prak breaking up the salt pile there how much will they really need . Thats not clear. While the air temperature in the 30s and 40s today, sharon says the ground temperature is actually much warmer. Temperature . 50. 4. So that means snow will melt when it hits the ground. Hopefully. Reporter a good thing for folks around town who were thoroughly startled by the nip in the air today. Plus its freezing. I wasnt expecting it after the pa couple warm days. Reporter you got spoiled . Yes, absolutely. Reporter and not ready for the thick, gray clouds to roll in with snow. F ill probably stay inside this evening then. And im glad you told me. I didnt realize it was going to i just thought we might get rain tonight. Reporter no, theyre talking snow and sleet. Okayuc. Well have to hope for the best and stay home off the roads. Reporter yes. A good planined. The folks here in ramapo are hoping for a light storm. Last winter they blew through their snow budget topping more than 1 million. Would be good for them. Reporting live from airmont, ida siegal. Thank you. You can track the wintry weather on your phone or tablet. Just download the news 4 new yo rk app to see the forecast and interactive radar. We have some breaking news we need to tell you about here because it is affecting the evening commute. Because of signal problems. Path service due to signal problems. Honoring tickets at newark and New York Penn stations. Other stories, the hunt for two people who brutally robbed a man in brooklyn. Nypd says Surveillance Video captured the assault of a 60yearold man. Brynn gingras is live with more on what she has learned. Brynn . That man w, a few minutes from home walking right here on throw jabs even after they took higs cell phone and wallet. One, two, three brutal punches on the defenseless man. The victim 60 years old and he told Community Leaders he didnt see it coming. He could have kolled him. They could have killed him. Thank god he is alive, breathing, appy that this is over for him. But it was, absolutely he is in shock. Reporter assemblyman spoke to the victim at his home where he is recovering. He is nearly 80 stitches in his head. The assault happened around 1 00 a. M. On this sidewalk of avenue in brooklyn. This is a residential block and it just so happens the robbers attacked right in front of aerial cohens home equipped with surveillance cameras. Im very surprised that even they took his wallet and his money, they kept on beating him. Reporter Community Leaders say plenty of more video even from the nearby subway stop whrere they captured this image. They believe the two men picked ou t this victim and then they were looking for a ctim. Just a horror. We live in a world where you think youre safe, but youre not. Reporter and every night members of the Community Policing group will be out saying theyll find these attackers and wont rest until they do. Now you can imagine how up in arms this community is. Now leaders are saying they are convinced there was a third person involved. A get away driver in addition to those two people you see in the image and video. And theyre posting a 3,000 reward if any information comes forward leading to this arrest. Im live here in flatgrass. Ynn gingras. Police say a man was found dead right outside his home and likely knew his killer. 39atyearold david cuss was spotted in his yard in the upscale neighborhood. He had been shot several times. Investigators think that he was shot before dawn saturday morning. Calls captured the dramatic ments during a bear attack on a new jersey boy scout leader. New 4z Brian Thompson has those calls and joins us from Jefferson Township with the understandably anxious pleas for help, brian. Co absolutely, dave. They are certainly d. Matic moments, but perhaps more startling is the cool, calm reaction of those three boys age 12 and 13 trying to save a scout masters life as he laid trapped in a cave with a bear on top of him. My scout master went into a cave and a bear is in the cave with him. Is he, like he cant get out because of where the bear is or oo injured to get out . Repor r alone deep in the woods scout master tells his boys to lure the bear out. My scout master just suggested that we get food are you still okay . Reporte dm you want us to make a signal fire . Would that help . It you guys can start a fire. Reporter meanwhile after getting out from under he bear, he calls 911. 911 wheres the emergency . Split rock reservoir. Where are you bleeding . Left arm, left leg, neck and head. Im getting cold pretty quick. Reporter they kbew searchers were soxewhere out here. Guys on three, on three, everyones going to yell, hello, can you hear us . Can you hear us . I see the helicopter. He sees the helicopter. Hell make it out of this alive. I love you guys. We see them were over here reporter at the same time, he sees them rescued. Do you see my guys or anybody out there right now . I see them. Because unaware there was a bear in that cave intruded o its space, the dep allowed it t live. Is not clear yet if he is out of the hospital, but he is fully expected to recover, according to his doctors. Live in Jefferson Township, im Brian Thompson, news 4 new york. Job well done by those young scouts. Incredible story of survival. Coming up as new 4z at 6 00 continues. Take what one a brawl that injured Six Police Officers and got six people hauled off to jail. Have a tip for new yorks biggest iteam . Meet the moores were the moore family, and were always looking foa ways to enjoy more. So we called Time Warner Cable and got even more than we expected. Call now to get more. More speed. Like, 300 meg. More tv shows and movies on demand. More places to make more unlimited calls. For 89. 99 a month, youll get 100 meg ultra fast internet, hd channels included, and unlimited calling to international destinations. We find more good things every day more ways to watch more shows. On more wifi connected devices in our house. Time warner cable made switching easy with a one hour arrival window. They even made sure all of our connections were up and running before they left. Why settle for less, when you can get more call now. Get free installation with a one hour arrival window. And ask how you could get a 300 reward card. In bridgeport an uptick in violent crimes. Tonight a new program goes leinto effect. Created a task force to address the problem. As part of the effort, more uniformed officer os will patrol neighborhoods focusing on highcrime areas. The citys most recent statistics show a 50 increase in homicides and an 18 increase in shooting incidents in the last year. Its more than an uptick. An increased level of shootings in the city. Unfortunately, too, in homicides for almost the past year. City leaders say the Police Department should have at least 450 officers in the ranks, but only has about 360. And police in one new jerse community are trying to figure out whether a pai of stabbings both victims were attacked last night in the same block of third street and tossaic. In one case a 15yearold garfield boy was stabbed in the upper body. On the other side a 55yearold passaic man was stabbed in his left forearm. No word of any arrests. An argument at a long island Bowling Alley got so out of hand last night six people arrested and four officers were hurt. Police say it started when this 21yearold woman curtis got into a fight with a 24yearold that became physical. We have the mugshots of several others who police say then jump under to the fray. This happened at the garden city bowl in east garden city. When all was said and done, the victims wallet was gone. The relationship between all of those involved, unclear. Comin g up wthhen news 4 at 6 00 yeturns, an amazing accusation against a long island landlord. What he is being accused of doing to scare some of his connecticuts minimum wage is about to go up 45 cents. The raise from 9. 15 an hour to 9. 60 starts new years day. It is the second of three planned increases that will eventually bring the states minimum wage to 10. 10. 10 next year. Molloy called it a modest increase to give working families a boost while having stimulating efenths fects on the economy. Hello, kate. Hi, david, sibila. Coming up on nightly news. A lot of weather. More than 100 million americans in the path of severe weather. Tornadoes, flooding has already killed hundred ed ed people. Also in cleveland a grand jury deciding not to press charges against a Police Officer who shot and killed a 12yearold boy. The prosecutor calling it a perfect storm of human error, but not a crime. And a scary story about a decades old design leading to explosions in some private choppers, helicopters. All coming up on nightly news. Pretty scary stuff there. All right, kate, thank you. Now to a landlord tenant dispute that got way out of hand. The landlord is accused of setting fire to his own home after an argument with his tenants. News 4 greg cergol has more on this bizarre story. Reporter neighbors passing the boarded up home seem troubled by the obvious quession. Why would its owners set the house on fire to settle a dispute with his tenants . I am definitely surprised to hear he will pull Something Like that. Reporter calls the landlord a good guy. He lived in the homes basement and rented his ground floor to what chapman remembers as a family of three. But Nassau Police say sunday night anderson damaged a gas line with a sledge hammer and set fire to his own home. I saw a woman coming out and she was outside in smoke when reporter but while damage from the fire led to the homes condemination, no rne inside was badly hurt. According to Court Documents obtained by news 4, just before started the fire in the homes esement, anderson had complained to the people upstairs about children making too much noise. I feel his pain. But wou i take to that measure . Definitely not. Its not worth it. Od reporter neighbor dell taylor says many sen rs in this area rent part of their homes to help coverhehe cost of rising taxes. That arrangecament now has this 69yearold pleading not guilty to arson and other charges. Its sad. Its sad. You dont want to go into the new years like this. Reporter greg cergol, news 4 new york. We have a commuter alert for anyone who uses the atrain. The brooklyn platforms at the 11th street and 80th street stations are closed for renovations. Crews will spend the next three months repairing or replacing the stations walls, doors, and installing new lighting and artwork. A similar renovation project just wrapped up on the queens bound platforms earlier this mont if you plan to send your younger teenagers on a united flight alone, prepare to pay an adishzal 150 bucks. Their unaccompanied Minor Service to 15 and under. Used to only apply to children 5 through 12. Other airlines tack on similar fees. Their cut off is anywhere from 11 to 14 years old. Really . Just another way to pay the airlines. Remember when food was free and then there was leg room, you know. I mean distant memory. Checking your luggage was free. Buy a ticket and the rest was free. Times have changed. It sure has. So has the weather. Big time today. Much more chilly out there today. Feels like winter. Starting out some reports of winter precipitation. Listghe sleet now reported at jfk. Thankfully, though, temperatures are still in the 40s around the city. Its going to melt rather quickly once it hits the ground. Sone warm over the past few days. I wouount expect any real problems for y r commute. Were at 41 right now and mostly cloudy in central park. Taking a look at the radar. Orm tracker light precip moving in and light sleet in Morris County and a few flurries starting to work into the hudson valley. As we look at futuretracker. That trend continues ah we head later into the eveni g hours. W, by 11 00 more of that light, wintry mix around new york city north to Westchester County and cold snow coating the colder surfaces in monticello and duchess county. Youll see some snow. Everyone changes over to a wintry mix after midnight. The warm air aloft is going to melt a lot of that precip as it falls through the atmosphere and then freeze again on contact. Sleet and freezing rain a possibility. Everywhere shaded in pink. Thats north of new york city. For the city overnight it gets rainy quickly as the warmer air works towards the north. This is 5 00 a. M. Your Early Morning commute. Lots of heavy rain streaming into the city here as you head into putnam c. Uy and olster county and still some frozen stuff going on. Give yourself extra time and be extra careful. 5 00 to 7 00 a. M. Ter 7 00, eueryone changes er to rain heavy at times and then its gone. In and out by lunchtime you could see its all shutting down here. Things really improving as we head into the afternoon. By your evening commute everything is just a memory. Fading away here nice and quiet as we get into wednesday, as well. Look at your weather headlines for tonight. Winter weather is on the move, moving in already. That icy mix for tomorrow rning north and west o f town for the city and the coast. It is a soaker of a morning commute. Get your umbrellas ready. Temperatures are watching very closely and were tracking these temperatures below freezing now. These are the spots to watch out for that icy mix. Monsello, poughkeepsie and you can see for long island were well above freezing. Thats the good news in the city, as well. The other component, the winds. Very hard to hold on to those umbrellas tomorrow morning. Winds gusting over 30 miles per hour. Winddriven rain in the city a along the coast and heavy rain at tih mes. Localized flooding. If you know those spots that typically flood with heavy rain, theyre probably going to flood tomorrow. You need to watch out for that. E rain tapering off by tomorrow afternoon. Another shot wednesday into thursday. New years day should be dry and then finally back to normal where we should be this time of year into the low 40s into the weekend. Feel very cold even though its normal because were not used to it. Thank you, raph. What is normal . Who knows. Its relative. Out of no where the yankees made some noise today. Trading for a talented, but troubled closer. Coming up in sports, the hardest thrower in baseball is coming to the bronx. Well tell you who he is and why hes in trouble. 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Point on ac quisition has, you know, been notified and i think that given the fact that all of the information that is currently existing and we felt that this was an opportunity, you know, for us to add, you know, a big arm to our bull pen. Were acquiring him understanding there are unresolved issues and let those processes continue and without interference and wait for that to be completed. The yankees ship four minor leaguers to cinci but none of their prize prospects. As for the football giants the season cant end big enough. Embarrassed on sunday night football. Failed in both effort and execution. The final mckinnon 68 yard touchdown scamper to put the vikings up 4910. Following the game, the head coach was at a loss for words. You know, we had an opportunity to play for pride and play to regain some respect. Tonight, just very difficult for me to explain it to be honest with you. Meanwhile, the jets are one win away from advancing to the nfl second season. Yesterday they got a gap where the patriots botched their decision after winning the coin capitalized