Car in sell don. And in deerpark, a broken tree damaged pour wer lines. It seems after all of that, i know that wind advisory was in effect for a while, but things are beginning to calm down a little bit. The wind advisory expires at this hour. Lock at these numbers, although all of this was expected, its still remarkable. Newark, new jersey, 58 Miles Per Hour. Currently, we see gusts close to 40 at white plains. 26 Miles Per Hour in central park. Close to 40 in monticello. 30 in morris town and close to 40 in west hampton. The gusts will continue through the afternoon. So we have to watch for that. Comfort 49 degrees, but it feels out there. Now, over the next 18 hours, the strongest winds are going to diminish. Windy through the dinner hour. Plenty of sunshine as we head into the rest of the day. Full forecast ahead and well take a look at airport delays as well. Big weather day. Back to you. Of course you can track the forecast any time you need to. Just download the news4 new york tablet. Moving now to the hijacking of an egyptair flight. The motivation still not exactly clear. This is believed to be personal. The question though is how he managed to get onto the jet with a fake explosive belt. The plane was flying from alexandria to cairo when a hijacker forced it to land instead on the island of cyprus. Reporter the hijacking ended people were seen coming down the stairs. One person climbed out of the cockpit window. This after tense standoff of just over seven hours. Egyptair flight ms 181 was hijacked at larnaca, cyprus, overnight. An early hopeful sign, most passengers, women and children, were allowed to get off the plane leaving the hijacker, plane crew, one security officer, and three british passengers on board. There were eight americans originally on the flight according to egypts civil aviation. And the motive for the hijacking, personal. The cyprus president ruled out terrorism, adding the hijacker is not a terrorist, but an idiot. The Cyprus Ministry of foreign seif eldin din mustafa. A high level source close to the operation told nbc news. Then he asked for asylum. The official goes onto say it seems the hijacker was an unstable personality. Reports say this is the eighth hijacking involving an gyp chan airline going back to 1976. Now officials will begin an investigation to find out how this man got an board the plane with what appeared to be an explosive device in the first place. Back to you. In brussels now, the man hunt has intense foye ified for a suspected terrorist has authorities released the man who ha d been charged. Police would like to find and question this man in a white coat seen pushing a trolley alongside the two suicide bombers. The airport is now staging a security exercise today to see if it is actually ready to reopen tomorrow. Moment of silence to mark one week since the attacks. All clear on alcohol where two suspicious packages arrived. Police can be seen here investigating one of these bags left outside of the visitors center. The first bag was cleared at about 9 30 this morning, the second a short while later. The Capitol Building was not affected. Shooting at the u. S. Capitol. Of course that incident comes just a day after this. This is where tourists scrambled after Capitol Police shot a man who they say drew a pellet gun. He was identified now as larry dawson of tennessee. Now he faces assault and weapons charges. He is also recovering at the hospital. One person dead after a fire ripped through a twostory house in new jersey. It was earlier this morning. We have cell phone video capturing the moments after this home went up in flames. Person inside. The cause of the fire is under investigation. And gusting winds fueled the fire that tore through two homes and three garages, this time in queens. Firefighters called to the scene in East Elmhurst just a little after 2 00 this morning. By then though flames were lighting up their neighborhood. We all came running out and the fire was going crazy. I saw one house was on fire. It happened like say six, seven minutes and the other house went on fire too. Because there was a lot of wind. Investigators say the fire may have started in one of the garages were there were auto repairs being done. Everybody in the two homes got out safely, but six firefighters were treated for minor injuries. Police say the gunman wanted in the murder of a mother and son on Staten Island has been caught. Anthony morales was shot and he shot and killed 21yearold Anthony Rivera on tuesday. There was another man also wounded. There is no word on when morales will be returned to new york. Moving now to new jersey where police are investigating a crash that may cost a mother her life. News4 obtaining exclusive video of the aftermath. The victim run down in the street. Witnesses say this was no accident. Were at Jersey City Medical Center with the latest. Reporter that woman remains in t intensive care here at this hour with lifethreatening injuries. But the woman struck here is here as well. She is recovering as well. We have learned however she was assaulted by nearly 20 people before all of this happened, and authorities tell us that the woman she struck set things in motion. Thats according to officials this morning. All the result of an ongoing dispute between them that led to chaos in the streets. Drive hours after a chaotic scene that sent two women to the hospital. News4 obtained this exclusive video of violence between residents and police after a car barrelled into walker. She was hit. But Authorities Say she may have started the incident spraying mace at a woman shes had an ongoing dispute with who was behind the wheel of a car. Authorities now say unknown a assailants began to assault that driver. She struck walker. This is my store. Reporter the impact from the car that hit walker was so strong, it brought down a light pole. Its still not known what the two were arguing about. As walker fights for her life, that driver is preparing to deal with the law. Reporter that driver whos been identified is here in serious condition. Right now, shes facing charges live in jersey city, news4 new york. Police on long island are looking into a chilling discovery after some dog remains were found in a wooded area. A passer by noticed an Animal School near roosevelt preserve in the town of hempstead. A further investigation in that area found additional dog remains, some of them buried in plastic bags, others openly disposed of aboveground. Sources tell news4 those remains may be linked to dog fighting in thviat area. Up next at noon, how some west chester officials are making sure Drinking Water is safe for kids. And also cracking down on cabbies. What the tlc is doing to make sure the drivers dont get too passengers. And caught on camera, a rat spotted crawling on a sleeping subway rider. Well be right back. Coming up next on new york live at 12 30, from battles on reality show moments you need to know. Plus, backstage at the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. And george lopez stops by. Live at 12 30. We can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, very rapidly. Thats why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. Micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria. For a cleaner, fresher, welcome back. A new report from the new York City Department of investigation shows major problems with Public Housing elevators. This investigation launched after the death of a Senior Citizen last year in a broken elevator. The report highlights problems with communication and a broken safety device in the death of the 84yearold. But the investigation shows much broader safety problems as well. The doi issued 14 safety recommendations including monthly elevator inspections and compliance with all new york City Building codes. In todays money report, the battle for the Starwood Hotels and could Virgin America will be for a takeover. We have a look at the airports. Yeah, busy day. As a matter of fact wall street is in wait and see mode right chair janet yellen will be speaking to a lunchtime audience here in new york city. Shes be talking about the economy. Wall street will listen very carefully for any clues about when they will be raising Interest Rates a second time. Right now, you see the dows down 33 points. The starwood story is not over yeyot. Chinese conglomerate which owns the waldorf astoria has made another offer topping marriotts bid for a second time. Th is time roughly 15 billion in cash for starwood. So the question now becomes will marriott come back with a third bid. They thought they had a deal twice for starwood. Marriott said its most recent offer of just over 14 billion was its best and final offer. Well see. Meantime, the wall street jetblue and alaska air are preparing takeover offers for Virgin America. It said last week it was exploring a sale of the whole company. There are reports also that some Asian Airlines might also be getting ready to submit bids. They hope to have a deal in place as early as next week. So that is going to happen very quickly. This starwood story is crazy. Marriott last november thought it had a deal. Marriott struck a second deal. Now theyre back. Well see what happens. Indeed we will. Bill, thank you, as always. The city of yonkers testing the Drinking Water in the wake of the lead contamination in newark. This is being done as a precaution though. Reporter here in yonkers a spokeswoman for the mayor says the city and board of education are being proactive and right now testing is under way to make and all of the city schools. In yonkers another test will be done at all schools across the city. Its not a test little ones will be taking, but a test to see if their Drinking Water is safe. So far, my daughter drinks water from this school. She has been tested for lead and hasnt come out positive. Reporter she says her 10yearold was recently tested for lead by their Family Doctor and results showed no elevated levels. The city will test the Drinking Water at all of its schools, some School Districts in the tristate have been testing in the wake of newark schools having elevated levels of lead at dozens of School Buildings. Children in newark have also been tested themselves. A dad of an Elementary School child this is the first time im hearing about it from you. Welcomes testing, but wonders if the School Buildings have lead pipes. They should have been upgrade the the pipes. It should never take this long to do that. Reporter again, the city is telling us this is only a proactive measure, theyre just trying to be safe and that theres no concern about Drinking Water inside the city schools. Back to you. Thank you. Time now to join storm team 4s dave price. The winds last night, oh my gosh. Remarkable. Last night, through the overnight, into this morning. Now were just beginning to see things settle somewhat. While the sustained winds are going to die down, the gusty conditions will stay with us through about dinner time. Lets go outside. Flags flying and lots of sunshine. 49 degrees and nice afternoon if you have secured yourself because if youre walk around, it is a tough go, even now. The headlines look like this. We have a spectacular wednesday ahead. But we have rain back in the forecast with some warmer weather, and then a chill ahead as we head into the end of the weekend and beginning next week. 53 degrees right now in lbi. Ocean county looks just beautiful right now. The entire eastern seaboard is very, very nice. Certainly, the Pressure Gradient causing the high winds weve seen, but the sky conditions are lovely. That stretches all the way back to the midwest. Its just a very nice picture. Beautiful. So we inherit all of this as we head into tomorrow. Currently, we have sustained winds at about 28 Miles Per Hour in white plains. But down to 10 in central park. 29 Miles Per Hour in west hampton. Take a look out west, 26 Miles Per Hour in monticello and 22 Miles Per Hour in bridgewater. Gusts close to 40 Miles Per Hour and look at these numbers out in islip and west hampton. We had gusts close to 60 Miles Per Hour in newark. Those were peak wind gusts during the last 18 hours or so. Temperatures in the upper 40s to low 50s. Its an unremarkable thermometer reading around the area for this time of year. Water temperature about 44 degrees. As we head into tonight, its going to feel like its 33 in the city as we head into tomorrow morning, it is a dose of winter to start off, but a nice recovery as we head through the day. Lets take a look at the next seven days. Were going to be at 59 degrees tomorrow. But its just going to be a really, really nice day. Thursday, we begin to cloud up. See some evening showers. Friday, look for possible thunderstorms to head into the weekend. Dry on saturday, up to 60. And then look at that cooldown with lows around the freezing mark on sunday. Thats a quick look at your weather picture. Some other news to get to right now. After concerns over a mystery ailment, the mets have announced that matt harvey will be on the mound for opening day on sunday night. He actually had a blood clot in his bladder that passed yesterday. Doctors cleared him to do some minor activities today, but he should be back to normal tomorrow which is what we were hoping to hear. New york live is next at 12 30. Heres a look at whats ahead. Hi there. Hi. Coming up, ginger zee wows on dancing with the stars. We are breaking down last nights tough competition. Hes almost as excited as we are. And were sitting down with actor and comedian george lopez. You do not want to miss that and so much more here at 12 30. Ginger zee had her baby three months ago. She looks amazing. Ridiculous. See you then. Still ahead on news4 new york at noon, youve seen the pizza rat. Wait until you see this video some new video right now just into the newsroom about the search for a man suspected of attacking a woman ininside the Historic Stone wall. They say he walked into a bathroom saturday night and sexually assaulted a 25yearold woman. He allegedly left, but returned a short while later and fondled the same victim again. The taxi and Limousine Commission proposing new rules to protect passengers from inappropriate behavior and language. Cab drivers will be barred from sexually charged conversations they will also be required to under go antisexual assault training. Drivers will face a 1,000 fine and a 30day suspension if they break the rules. If you are not looking at your tv, stop what youre doing second. This shows a snoozing 7 train rider getting a wakeup that this person will never forget. A rat started climbing up this sleeping passenger. It actually crawls up his chest and behind his neck, maybe into his jacket even . Before the camera pulls away and you can hear him shrieking. No word on whether he managed to get back to sleep. Gross, right . Still ahead, surprise on the hardwood. Now a knicks fan managed to sneak past security to thank one this morning, people on medicaid who might otherwise be struggling to care for themselves wont have to. Because homefirst, a product of elderplan, is there. 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Happy tuesday, and welcome to new york live. Thanks for spending a little time with us today. We have a fun show planned for you today. Thats right. Coming up, theres nothing quite like it on broad way. Find out why audiences are raving about the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. And hes navigating the strange world of hollywood in his own unique way. Were getting the scoop on a