Thompson is live. Reporter yeah. Thats a problem, especially with this winter, with the warm temperatures, the cold, the warm, the cold. They dont know exactly how to predict how this ice will act. And that has a lot of people worried up here. This lake looks safe enough for these kids. We found one checking to make sure the ice was at least four inches deep. I was by the shore and it wasnt as solid. I was running and my foot we want through went through and went up to my knee. Reporter some shoreline locations without any ice at all. While not so far away you could safely skate and play hockey. Its fun. You do a lot of things. Ice skating, sledding, biking, skateboarding. Reporter but the up and down temperatures of this winter not have a hard timekeeping kids keeping kids off the ice. The lake didnt freeze until probably a month ago. Reporter kids need to take extra care. And tomorrow will you see them out here after school . After checking it again to see if it turns to slush or its softer. Reporter so in these conditions, youd wonder exactly, well, why would there be any concern at all . s sold, its snow. Ive got the ruler here. Were up now a little over 1. 5 inches. But they snow better up here and this lake can be very deceiving indeed. The snow st come is coming down in thats where Checkey Beckford is. Reporter right now the roadways i dont know if you n rflly tell as well through the camera as we can heresin the real situation, but the roads are really, really bad. Weir on i80. Theres a solid accumulation right now of snow. Were getting some precip as janice mentioned. Ates this point it doesnt look like its completely snow. It might be a mixture. With temperatures here reading 21 degrees, when that hits the ground, it wont take long for some of the stuff to start to harden up. Ca we have an updat ne now. Checkey we cant hear you. An update now on that power outage at gran central d central station. Looks like things are still dark on when crews will ave that fixed. Thone dining con source course and shops roughout the t rminal remaee closes. Customers ll be able to buy tickets on board without paying a penalty because the machines are still offline. They believe a burst water pipe led to the outage. Zbloob were continuing to follow breaking news out of the bronx where theres been a Police Involved shooting. Investigates say residents agged down police on patrol to say they saw a man with a gun. Responding officers searched and found the suspect waving his weapon in the air. That man was shot once in the shoulder. He is expected to survive. Police recovered a gun at the scene. D the Yonkers Police department is in mourning. Theyre mourning one of their own today. Department died when the cardriving collided with a firetruck. Reporter and exactly what happened that morning is still under investigation. But yes, it did result in the death of a beloved detective here. And now the entire Law Enforcement community in this area is in mourning. He was a 15year veteran of the Yonkers Police department, an allaround good guy according to coworkers and friends. Today they are still trying to come to terms with the sudden death of detective frank fern andez. Were crushed. Hes a big part of our family. This is a tough one. Reporter fernandez was killed in a car accident early sunday morning 3 00 a. M. Police say he was driving home on palmer avenue when his suv collided with a firetruck responding to a call. Firefighters tried to pull him out of the car but he died from his injuries. Police are camped outside detective fernandezs home to talk. Pbt. A president remembers a good ufriend and solid detective with an enormous heart. He was intelligent, tough, smart, caring, compassionate, diligent. Yoeu know, just perfect. Reporter the district attorneys officer is investigating what caused the accident. The Fire Department says the truck did have its lights and sirens on. Police arent releasing any additional information. Detective fernandez was involved in numerous charities. He and his sons shaved their heuads to raise money for childrens cancer. Amazingly dedicated father. He was an avid snowboarder. Took his boys snowboarding. Just a great father, great husband, great cop, great friend. Reporter and funeral arrangements were finalized today. The wake will be held on wednesday and thursday. A funeral mass will be held at reporting live from yonkers. It wenttthe hunt is on for a pair of masked thieves who kidnapped and stabbed a 51coyearold man in brooklyn. They forced the victim into his minivan seen in the security camera. Investigators say they stabbed him several times, stole his money, stone phone, debit cards before letting him go. I didnt hear the shooting but i heard the commotion with a lot of cops around and stuff. Its crazy because this area is not like that. Its supposed to be a good neighborhood. The victim is recovering. Its not clear if he was targeted. A storm is brewing over new jerseys plans for development along the shore, specifically in areas battered by hurricane sandy. Residents and environmental groups are suing the new state of homes and restaurants, piers and marinas. The department of environment vier Environmental Protection protection. News 4 takes a look at what it takes to hack a cell phone. Ive seen yoe everywhere. Reporter they knew each other professionally as shown in this yeutube interview done for blue chip marketing. But did a cell phone hhcker make it appear that the two also had a sexting relationship. There are different ways somebody can hack it. It is possible. Reporter hackers can take control of your phone in minutes ing an app or via wifi and bluetooth. Phone number and the phones id number. It should not be that complicated if you have all the technology. Reporter Nassau Police offered no new comment today on their investigation into the county executives claim that his phone was hacked. A Law Enforcement source tells me the nassau d. A. Could subpoena phone records to verify his claim. K corrine wasnt home but Court Records show she is in the process of divorcing her hu sband. The county executive spokesman tells 4 investigates the pr company did receive two county contracts in 2013 and 2014 working for nassau parks for 48,500. The county executive he says played no role in approving a new law aimed at making schools safer where there could soon be Armed Security guards greeting college students. This is charlie. Charlie is missing. But charlie is more than a dog. For roman schar lee charlie is a lifeline. Armed security guards may be coming to a Community College near you. Discussing a bill that would allow officers to carry guns on all 12 Community College campuses in the state. Right now only one Community College in the state is allowed to have an armed Public Safety officer. At this hour crews are working on repairing a gas main break in new jersey. The pipe of route 17 near ridgewood avenue in paramus broke this morning. Pse g says it is not clear how the main ruptured but they are looking into whether the frigid weather played a role. Ae the manhattan democrat called it a reaggressive tax on women and their bodies. Lawmakers in everal other states are considehing similar biutlls. Coming up, a search for a lester holt joins us now. Weve got politics, george bush and the campaign trail. Theres a lot of talk on the trail about the death of Supreme CourtJustice Scalia and who replaces him. Well also have the results on a large new study that found that people who took certain types of heartburn medication regularly had an increased risk of dementia. Well have more on that at 6 30. This missing maltese charlie has taken on the role of therapy dog, helping the child. Charlie is gone. Hes vanished. Reporter a boy and a dog playing together. You. But for lauren it was a miracle. Its just him not thinking about it and playing and being like a regular little boy. Laurens fiveyearold son just had his 20th surgery. He was born with a rare tumor. Tumors that grow out of the bone. Theyre just tumors that run havoc on the system and in really bad places. Reporter roman has titanium ribs as well as rods in his back. Since birth his physical movement was limited. Then charlie came along. And the friendship quickly blossomed and soon roman was doing things right here on the ground that his mom never imagined, all because of charlie. Rolling over. Hes playing with the dog. Hes crawling after him. Reporter in just months with charlies help roman has made incredible strides. We play. We play. Reporter theres now fear that charlie is gone. Hes constantly worried about him. Reporter laurens mom went out for dinner, lefhet the door undlocked. When she came back charlie was gone. They wonder if someone stole the dog. Roman just wonders if charlie is doing okay. I love him a lot. I hope, i hope he doesnt get stuck in the woods. We just want the dog back to make the family complete again. Thank you for taking in the dog. Th,ank you for keeping after him, but theres also a family that wants him back, especially a little boy. Please bring charlie back and i love him. Reporter in the willowbrook section of staten island. Were learning tonight an outrageously pricey table bought by Kean University was bought this 200,000 table was already ordered and shipped before the board gave it the green light. Th the university insists the conference surface general pace generated money for the school. Lawmakers are now hope ing to propose a cap that was removed in last years state budget. If approved the fee could be capped at 12,500 for settling estates. Right now th fees could top 1 million. Thats a huge difference. Were going to see dramatic changes over the next 24 hours. This storm system is very complex. Its got snow, ice, rain. It has heavy rain, thunderstorms. Even the possibility of tornados. And temperatures in the 50s. Well get to all that in a moment as we track everything. A lot of changes coming. Were going to see a 30 degree temperature swing around here tomorrow. Rockefeller center. s quiet tonight becauserehe weetather is so nasty out. Its snowing in the city still. Hasnt changed over yet, but were expecting that to happen in a matter of hours. Remember the ground is frozen solid now and that glaze of ice is likely to form on roadways and sidewalks in just a matter of time. The temperatures slowly warm up overnight. Were going to see a variety of things happening from snow to ice and then ice to rain and then all rain by tomorrow morndng, whats left of it. A coating to rain quickly alon the the coast. Two to four inches north and west of the snow. Snow and then ice, then a dplaz glaze on top of that and then rain. We see the pink line creeping up raining now from middletown to sfafrd stafford. Were on the cold side of the system but the warm ear air is moving rapidly to the north. This area of Severe Weather thats moving through the golf coast is coming our way tomorrow. Were not predicting tornados here, but we are predicting some strong thunderstorms and lots of heavy rain. Its starting to ing to ing to warm up along the coast already. At the jersey shore your temperatures are above freezing. By 8 00 this evening youll be in the 40s. North and west, youre still getting snow. Thats where youll see the heaviest amounts. You can see the snow and ice moving out as the temperatures warm up. By tomorrow were in the 40s to near 50. 50s. Thats where we see the heaviest rain. 55r degrees tomorrow. Todas we were in the mid 20s. Remember j t how cold it was yesterday. And then the weather calms down fo ir the rest of this week, 40s and back to the 50s again this weekend with only a slight chance for showers. Just a couple of days. The mets First Official workout for pitchers and catchers is later this week. Spring training, here we come and the big question is will matt harvey be in port st. Lucie for many years to come . The player of the year weighs in on that issue. And one game after being blitzed in carolina, the isles were heading ing ing for a warmup but so are the mets. Yes, indeed. Spring is in the air. Today at city field the mets had an open house for fans as mr. And mrs. Met loaded up the truck to carry the teams gear to port st. Lucie. Fans were invited inside the stadium for tours of the ubhouse before the 18wheeler headed south. When it arrived in florida, matt harvey will be there to greet it. Harvey now two full seasons removed from tommy john surgery is expected to be even better than he was last season, a year in which he won a career high 13 ball games. The ace righthander may have hed be open to a contract exintension. I think whatever comes up is going to come up. I think ive never shied away from it. Ive never said i wouldnt consider it. But i havent heard anything considering that. On the ice, the islanders hosted the red wings at barclay center. The isles looking to rebound from a brutal performance saturday night. The islandeat turned defense into offense as they block and race up ice the other way. Brock nelson knocks the puck out of midair and a rebound by jimmy howard for the games first goal. Howard makes the initial save on boychuk. But the rebound falls right to josh bailey in the slot and hes 41 the final. The isle today, there was a rick nash sighting. He stopped by the new york toy fair to help unveil the expanded line of playmobile play sets. When he returns is anyones guess. Its really frustrating. You know, it seems that we tried to come back a bit too early and i just needed a little bit more time to heal. Ive got full trust in our doctors and Training Staff to do the right thing. Its fun to sit back and kind of wa dotch the team and evaruate your own game and what you can do better. Ive got to stay in shape and keep my skills up. Talking hockey playoffs and spring training in the same show, ice and sun. I think the sun is the way to i think so too. Youre going that way soon. Up next on nbc nightly news, the huge political battle touched off by the death of Supreme Court justice antonin scoralia. Al tonight, supreme war. The death of Justice Scalia prompting a highstakes showdown. E president vows to nominate a successor. Republicans refuse to even consider it. Major issues left hanging in the balance. Facing trumps fury. The frontrunner again threatening to sue ted cruz and taking aim at george w. Bush over 9 11. Trumps risky attack as the former president hits the trail. Hospital bombing. A new horror in syria. Medical facilities and schools are hit. Children are killed. A massive storm from louisiana to maine