Its gotten lighter in town. Heaviest moving into Nassau County. Thats lighter for a time anbeother. Another band of heavier showers anrough the latter half of the morning commute. The Bigger Picture shows a stronger cold front. More shower and thunderstorm activity late this afternoon and this evening. Were talking about low 70s in and around the city. Most folks between 70 and 75. Not a big rise in temperatures. But the clouds and on and off showers and thunderstorms, a high of 79 degrees. The rest of the forecast just ahead. Lets find out if the weather is creating any issues for the commute so far. Se it is creating issues on the roads. Be very careful. We have issues on trains. Delays on g trains. If youre getting on the buses, ththe b 63, bx 21, m 7 and m 102 are elayod. Major commuter lines look good. Everything on or close to schedule so far. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4 you lauren, thank you very much. 5 05. Police arrested a man who tried to rob an Upper East Side deli with his shotgun. We told you about this yesterday. Alexander pearson charged with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. Poew wlice say he entered that deli cafe on lexington avenue and demanded money from workers. The workers say as he was about to open fire, his shotgun jammed. He ran off. In the race for president , Carly Fiorina is fighting back against attacks from fellow republican, donald trump. Trump says of fiorina, can you imagine that the face of our next president . Trump adds, i mean, shes a woman. Fiorina calls the comments very serious. She speculates trump is threatened by her climb in the polls. Ne in to the today show for much more on trumps comments. Fiorinas reaction as well. Thats at 7 00 a. M. After today in new york. 5 06. There are several democratic primaries taking place today. The polls open in about an hour, 6 00 a. M. For more information, head to nbcnewyork. Com. Watch news 4 at 11 00 tonight and well have the results for you. Happening today, a 9 11 Visitors Center will be dedicated and opened up in pennsylvania. Prepared to mark 14 years since the attacks. The new complex at the flight 93 National Memorial includes an overview of the crash site. New exhibits and a learning center. Passengers fought with terrorists on flight 93. It crashed in a field near shanksville. A reminder, tune in tomorrow morning on nbc 4 here as we remember those lost on september 11th. Our coverage of ceremony in Lower Manhattan begins at 8 26. Right now, 5 07. Pope francis plans to speak about hot button issuess vatican Officials Say the 30minute speech will touch upon the migration crisis in europe, income inequality, poverty and the iran nuclear deal. He hopes to meet with russian president vladimir putin. His ordginal itinerary did not have him visiting the 9 11 memorial but the poem wanted it added to his schedule. One part of his trip thats disappointing, aides say hes not happy that people need tickets to see his motorcade ridehrough central park. For him, its always the people. Being in the people energizes him a lot. He understands with the amounts of security. A lottery was set up in advance for anybody who wanted tickets to see the holy father in central park. The city is going to start notifying the people who actually won that lottery today. A reminder, head to nbcnewyork. Com. You can see our special section on pope francis. Find outgeverything you need to know about his upcoming visit getting closer. Happ. Ing today, the 89th annual feast of sangennaro kicks off today. They will be blessing the restaurants and cafes and shops and vendors. Saturday afternoon will feature the grand procession. The grand marshal this year, tony danza. He will help lead the parade along with other community leaders. Good stuff. Apple shares they did not get the pop that investors hoped for after the company unveiled several new products. The shares actually fell nearly 2 after apple announced the up rodafted smartphone, the new ipad pro, apple watch, set top box and then the 99, the apple pencil. The new pencil drew plenty of criticism online. Many were disappointed in the iphone 6. They felt a new ipad pro is too big. Its either too small, too big. Today Governor Cuomo and Vice President joe biden man to call for an expansion of the 15 an hour minimum wage. The governor wants all new yorkers to share the benefit. Right now the minimum wage is set to go to 9 an hour at the end of the year. Any wide scale raises to 15, that would need the approval of state lawmakers. Weve seen it in several cities. Out west in seattle and a lot of debate about what that means to make 15 an hour in an expensive place like new york. Its so expensive to live mere. An mportant alert. A massive hack targeting one. Most popular apps. A rescue. See the groom who happens to be a firefighter. Had to get called into action to save the life of one of his guests. Weather and traffic on the 4s. Youre watching today in new york. Blinds to gos Summer Celebration sales so hot youre gonna need shades. Not those shades. These shades take a cool 2035 off all sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more. Shades on sale. Theres nothing cooler than that. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Cannonball blinds to gos Summer Celebration sale is going on now make a splash with new sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more, all at 2035 off its the hottest sale of the year. Just when you need to cool off most. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. 5 13 right now. Looking at the Alexander Hamilton bridge on this thursday morning. Here are four things to know this morning. Breaking news in japan. A levee broke after heavy rain swept away homes. That left people stranded on their rooftops. Stay with us for updates throughout the morning. We have an alert for anybody who uses the what is app on their phone. Users may have been hacked. They sent malicious contacts and went to random phone numbers. We told but this yesterday. The citys board of health approved the first of its kind bill that applies to any dish that has more than the recommended daily limit of about a teaspoon of sodium. A consumer alert weve been telling you about for a while. The cost of eggs is going up. We found these signs at stop and shop and teaneck. The shortage is due to the bird flu virus that wiped out millions of chickens on commercial farms this spring. Its funny, you take the price of certain things for granted and all of a sudden it skyrockets and you got to make choices. Sure. In certain families, the bread, the milk, the eggs, the things you buy all the time. Whatever the price is, you dont have a choice. Well check in with chris. Looking at the weather. How are we going to make the french toast without the eggs . That would be nice about now. It would be actually. Unfortunately, we have soggy conditions now. More rain through the day. A few rounds of heavy showers and thunderstorms today. It does turn drier by tomorrow. There are some changes now into the weekend forecast. Not the greatest of changes. Ill explain in a second. Outside right now, dealing with temperatures between 70 and 75. Pretty uniform conditions. 72 at city island. 74 in Valley Stream up to the north. 72 poughkeepsie. In long branch, guess what . 72 degrees as well. Upper 60s to the north and west. The next 45 minutes or so, the boroughs, nearby suburbs as well, local street flooding into Nassau County as well. That activity is sliding reiss now. Thats good news. Look at whats coming. More to the south and west. Theres further shower and thunderstorm activity out here. A front has to push on through. Until that happens, showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy downpours on and off throughout the day. Another batch is moving east now. A little break briefly. Here comes another one, up the corridor as well. That will take place in the next couple of hours. A few more rounds with soaking rains. 79 the expected high temperature. If we dont get to 80, that ends the streak. 67 tonight. First part of the night, heavier showers and thunderstorms. Once we get past 9 00 or 10 00, things linger and things should dry out. A leftover shower or two east of the city. Clouds should give way to partial sun in the afternoon. Up around 80 degrees as it turns less humid. Could be an issue tond. Blue jays and yanks. First of four is he. Were talking about 76 degrees. There could be a delay if the heavier showers sit in one spot. Thats a fourgame set. Into the weekend, the showers will arrive later saturday toward evening. Especially saturday night into the first part of sunday. Even saturday itself, a little cusspy in terms of nice weather. Temperatures from the 70s back into the 80s again next week. Soaking thunderstorms as times. Leftover shower early tomorrow. Clouds and sun in the afternoon. 78 saturday. The rain threat late in the day toward evening. Rain saturday night. Lingering into part of sunday. Only in the low 70s. Gradual clearing monday. Leading to a couple of nice days tuesday, wednesday into the 80s with sunshine. Lauren scala, find out about the commute. The commute is ugly already. Not a good one, especially for the long island expressway. Two problems in queens. Well take a live look outside. A lot of flashing lights out there. I know the camera is zoomed in really close here. Basically, l. I. E. Shut down westbound by the clearview. Theres an overturned truck out there. Emergency vehicles on the scene trying to clean this up. Westbound l. I. E. Shut down right now between the clear view, exit 27 and Francis Lewis boulevard. Exit 26. Youll need to head to the service road or the Grand Central parkway. Thats moving fine. Heading further west on the l. I. E. Westbound, we have another accident out there before exit 18. That also shuts down two lanes. Its a very slow ride through here. Just a messy morning already. Then heading up to 95 northbound after westchester avenue, we have an accident with a jackknifed tractortrailer taking out two lanes there. Also a very, very slow ride. So the hutch is the way to go to get around this. Cross bronx expressway delays eased out a bit. Alternate side parking in effect. Push for tougher gun laws. A rally will take place on capitol hill and the man leading the charge this time is the father of the Young Television reporter killed in virginia. Nbcs tracie potts is in washington with more on todays event. Tracie . Reporter yeah. Andy miller has teamed up andy parker, sorry. Teamed up with this group called every town for gun safety. Theyve been active since sandy hook getting families together, victims families to come to washington and personally lobby for gun control. They have not yet been effective. Its been a complicated issue here on the hill. Andy parker is hoping to lend his voice to that later today. Theyve got a rally happening here, billboards on around town and on taxis. Its actually a national event. Theyre calling it the whatever it takes events. They have events planned around the country. Well see victims family from sandy hook, from aurora, colorado, jordan davis mom from florida is expected to be here. This is an issue that has simply gotten stuck in congress. Lawmakers unable to agree on things like ammunition, assault rifles and even background checks which many early on thought would be the one area of agreement where they might be able to get legislation done. When it comes to background checks on what types of weapons at gun shows in private sales, it hasnt happened here on capitol hill. Its part of why theyre coming back to push for it. A personal appeal today. Thank you very much, tracie. Firefighters are always on call. Theyre always ready and for one in los angeles, he made a rescue during his own wedding. Somebody call 911 right now. That was Cody Campbell jumping into action. His father toasted him and his new wife. A woman from the brides family was choking and campbells training kicked in. He performed the heimlich maneuver and saved her. Her eyes were starting to roll in the back of her head and had cyanosis like when the lips get blue. I saw something pop out of her mouth, a piece of steak. Her color started to come back, she started to talk to me. She said, he saved my life. At his own wedding. Campbell is a Second Generation firefighter who has been on the job for a year in los angeles. His fatherinlaw just finished a toast where he said if he ever needed a firemans help, he would want it to be campbell. Good looking couple. Beautiful family. Great work. Saving lives. 5 20 right now. Still ahead, new information about the hero in the cockpit of that plane that burst into flames in las vegas. Why he says his days in the sky are over. You got to fight. For your right to party a History Lesson on the tonight show. Jimmy fallon and Justin Timberlake reunite. Having a good time there. Facebook and twitter will fight for your right to party and well be right back. Here in vineland, new jersey, home of progresso, we love all kinds of chicken soups. But just one kind of chicken. Its white breast meat chicken every time. Because white breast meat chicken releases its flavor into the broth and absorbs more flavor from it. And in vineland, its all about flavor so if youre not going to make your own chicken soup tonight, do what we do. Make it progresso. And when we rock up on the mic we rock the mic right fight the power fight the power fight the power fight the power we got to fight the power hey jimmy, weve been through this before. Yeah. You are not straight outta compton. No. You are straight outta upstate new york. Thats right. Thats right. If you missed the tonight show starring jimmy fallon, an epic medley. Jimmy and his buddy Justin Timberlake reunited to perform the history of rap for the sixth time. If you missed it, you can head to nbcnewyork. Com. Theres so many things you cant say, like everything from straight outta compton. Basically. If you had any doubts about how close they are. They take in the u. S. Open together. They couldnt stop entertaining. During a break in the action, they got up and showed off the moves. Dancing to single ladies. They know that routine, you know that. I can watch that forever and ever. These guys are the greatest, so talented. So funny. The guys you want to hang out with. Absolutely. Its straight outta sullivan county. Straight out of binghamton. Same thing. They pull it off well every time. Little dancing in the rain this morning. Singing in the rain all day on and off for the most part. Weve got rounds of heavy downpours heading our way. This is live Storm Tracker 4 radar. Heaviest rain over Nassau County, western sections of Suffolk County. Pulling out of the city, out of brooklynqueens. The rain is getting lighter too. For the time being. Thats a temporary stay. Because theres more heavy showers that will move back in. The real round of heavy thunderstorms. Upper 70s to near 80. Showers and storms, the first half of tonight. A couple of leftover showers lingering lighter showers overnight and a low in the upper 60s. Improvement briefly into early saturday and another change. We do need rain. Blame it on the rain. Thats going to be the commute. Thats the motto of the commute. Millivanilli. Are you a lipsyncher. Its all right. Unfortunately, i have a lot to talk about. The long island expressway, westbound all lanes shut down after the clearview. Thats exit 27. Theres an overturned truck out there. To get around this, head to the Grand Central parkway or the service road of the l. I. E. Then further west of there, an accident by maurice avenue blocking two lanes. This came in from our new jersey commuters. 80 westbound after exit 58. The Paterson Clifton exit. An accident in the right lane. At least the trains are doing okay so far. Lauren, well keep track of that. Still to come, a breach at a local airport. Officers found a man sitting all alone. Plus, its being called domestic terrorism. The manhunt after a rash of shootings targeting drivers. Reporter a former tennis star wants an apology after being arrested by the nypd by mistake. Im Tracie Strahan live in midtown with the details coming up. If youre about to head out the door, take us with you. Keep watching today in new york. Download the news 4 new york app on your mobile device right now. Weather and traffic. Well be right back. [ cheers and applause ] a wave of gameday excitement is rolling into dunkin. 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Storm team 4s chris cimino is here with the forecast. Chris, we did get the rain we needed in some places. Too much in others. We had Flooding Issues and still a concern over the course of the day. The rain is coming in batches and batches of heavy downpours. One moved further east, another one over central long island. Nassau county. Then theres a break and another one just beginning to enter central new jersey. This is the way the day will play out. Periods of heavy downpours from time to time. That could lead to local street and highway flooding. 73 now. 77 at noon. We may not make it to 80. That could end the streak. Forecasting a high of 79. Watch out for the potential for flooding on the roadways this morning and again this afternoon. Shes always watching the roads and rails for us. Heres lauren scala. Thanks, chris. We got this in. There are delays on downtown 2 and 3 trains. Otherwise, the rails are running nicely today. Thats the way to go. We have a lot of problems already on the roads. Not flooding just yet. We have wet ones. An overturned tractortrailer on the expressway. Westbound by the clearview, youll need to head to the service road or to the Grand Central parkway. A better option. Further west on the l. I. E. , an accident by maurice avenue. That shuts down two lanes. Delays past queens boulevard. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thank you very much, lauren. 5 31 now. An update on the breaking news out of japan. Thats where we show you here the desperate rescues now under way. People being airlifted from their flooded homes. It turns out, Tropical Storm rains caused a river to breakthrough a levee. Thats sparking a state of emergency. Not far away, its feared its caused contaminated water from the fukushima to flow into the pacific. A case of mistaken identity. Officers took a former tennis star into custody briefly. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in midtown with more. Tracie, what happened. Reporter michael, were talking about james blake. He says he was simply standing here on 42nd street in front of the Grand Hyatt Hotel when he was cuffed and tackled by five plainclothes officers who mistook him for a criminal. He wants on apology. The commissioner wants to know actions. He was ranked fourth in the world for singles play. He was waiting for a ride to the open when officers working an Identity Theft ring thought he was one of the criminals. A retired Police Officer who actually works at the hotel recognized blake, said he was freed to go afterwards. But this morning, questions are lingering about why this happened. What would you like to hear from them . An apology. The idea he claims that he was rushed by a person in a pair of shorts and tshirt who pushed him to the ground and he was assisted by four others who identified themselves ultimately as Police Officers. And that he suffered an injury during that. Just the nature of what he described is not what we do, not what were supposed to do. Reporter Police Say One of the officers that arrested james blake has been placed on modified duty while the incident is under investigation by the nypds internal affairs unit. Authorities did say they did arrest another man standing near james blake at the time as part of that Identity Theft ring, michael. We expect to hear more from james blake today. Hes expected to address the media at some point on this. Back to you. Tracie, thank you very much. Police are now releasing a sketch of the suspect wanted in the shooting of Governor Cuomos aide. Take a look. Investigators say this man opened fire during the festivities leading up to the west indian day parade. A bullet hit carey gabay in the head. Cuomo says hes not doing well. Hes in a coma surrounded by loved ones. Governor cuomo and Vice President joe biden are going to call for a raising of the minimum wage. Now, he wants all new yorkers to share the benefit. The minimum wage is set to go up to 9 an hour at the end of the year. A wide scale raise up to 15. That would need the approval of new york state lawmakers. 5 34 right now. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s on this thursday morning. Lots of rain out there. Even last night. I know, it woke me up. I think it woke up a lot of people. There was a lot of thunder and lightning. We see a batch of rain moving east. A flood advisory stays in effect. New one over Suffolk County. Thats in effect until 7 00 a. M. Street and highway flooding possible with the heavy downpours as they move on through. There are further bands behind that one too. This is pushing through long island right now. A break in the action here. Here comes the next one. The lower end of Middlesex County, western end of monmouth county. 95, probably into the city within the next, lets say, half hour to an hour. Behind that, theres even more to come. You can see the lightning bolts showing quite a bit of thunderstorm activity. Be prepared for a stormy day. Popup showers into the evening hours too. Because of the cloupd and the rain may not make it to 80. Forecasting a high of 79 degrees. Weekend outlook straight ahead. How is the ride looking, lauren . We have delays on uptown 6 trains. Thats due to signal problems. We still have delays downtown 2 and 3 trains. Major commuter lines still look good. L. I. E. Westbound shut between 29 and 27 heading into queens. An overturned truck there. You see the lights moving along. Thats moving fine. You can see slow rubber necking here. Theres another accident westbound by maurice avenue as well. On 95 northbound by westchester avenue, a jackknifed tractortrailer accident shuts down two lanes. The hutch is your way to get around it. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules the rain that chris has been talking about is not helping the situation on Staten Island. Crews worked to pump out water that overtook neighborhood. Lori bordonaro is in south beach with more. Lori, good morning. Reporter darlene, the rain here fine lip let up a little bit. But its been on and off all morning long. Thats not helping matters here. Were on doty avenue on Staten Island. You can see a big part of this street here is flooded. Its receded quite a bit since last night. Take a look here at the street. It looked more like a lake than a street yesterday. Many around hearsay it was a flashback to Hurricane Sandy. The water in one persons basement rose four feet higher than in sandy. It happened in less than an hour. Drenching rain causing havoc for drivers as well. Check out this man stranded on top of his car after it got stuck in the flood. You can hear a neighbor calling out to help him. Fortunately, that driver called 911 himself. Many who live around here are tired of dealing with flooding issue and Say Something needs to be done. This block needs storm sewers. They added 200 houses and never put in storm sewers. Reporter unfortunately, residents tell us theyre getting too used to the flooding here in this neighborhood. But fortunately this morning, the rain seems to be letting up a little bit. Hopefully it will hold off after the hes of the morning. Darlene and michael, back to you. Lori bordonaro, thank you. A man facing trespassing charges after boarding an empty plane without authorization. Security officers spotted him on the plane inside the United Airlines terminal near gate 74. That was about 8 30 last night. They said he had gone through proper security screenings. Officers got on that plane and placed the man under arrest. The pilot who saved the lives of dozens of passengers says hes finished flying. Captain chris hanke says its his first time in 42 years that he ever faced a lifethreatening emergencies. He said it happened on one of the last runs before retirement. After he noticed flames, he made a decision to hit the brakes. His crew evacuated all 172 people from the plane. I looked behind me. Theres engines the size of a house. It is the flames are just hundreds of feet into the air. No one seriously injured. Hanke is planning to retire on tuesday. Were hearing from two of the survivors of the Charleston Church shooting. They sat down for an interview with nbcs lester holt. You saved your granddaughter. You held her. Yeah. What did you say to her . I nuzzled her so hard, im surprised i didnt suffocate her. I tried to hold her as tight as i could to me so she wouldnt make a sound. Prosecutors are seeking the Death Penalty for 21yearold dylann roof. 70yearold polly shepherd wants roof to live. She says she wants roof to think about that shooting for the rest of his life. You can see more of this exclusive interview on the today show. In arizona, a string of possible sniper shots along a busy interstate is called a days of domestic terrorism. In 12 days, there have been ten shots fired at cars along the interstate 10 in phoenix. In some cases car windows were shattered and others bullet holes seen in the sides of vehicles. There have been no serious injuries but drivers and passengers have come within inches much being hit. A 20,000 reward is offered for the gunmans arrest. Still ahead, bag ragging rights. The university called the best in the nation. A Massive Wildfire that burned in new jersey. Grab an umbrella before you head out the door. Coming up, youre watching today in new york. Selling 18 homes . Easy. Building them all in four and a half months . Now that was a leap. I was calling in every favor i could, to track down enough lumber to get the job done. And i knew i could rely on American Express to help me buy those building materials. There are always going to be unknowns. You just have to be ready for them. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . 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Today the nfl season begins. It kicks off in foxboro, massachusetts. The defending super bowl champion, the patriots, take on the pittsburgh steelers. After an off season of legal wrangling, tom brady will be allowed to play tonight. Last week a judge tossed out his fourgame suspension related to deflated footballs. You can watch tonights game here on nbc 4. Coverage begins tonight at 7 30. Dont forget, the giants kick off their season sunday night versus the cowboys. Coverage starts at 7 00 p. M. With football night in america. Stay tuned after the game for the post game coverage of sports final. Football is here. I know. Its hard to believe, chris, because by the end of the season, theyll have the heaters on the field. The big things to warm your hands. Not now. Thats one of those sports that really does run for almost three seasons effectively. Summer fall and winter. Im not thinking football. After the mets win, this is the first time in september im thinking baseball. Chris what, are they 19 games. Theyre up by 7. Lets not have lets not talk about it. Lets not get crazy. Im not going to get crazy. Not yet. Not any crazier than i am already. Showers exiting the city. Theres more to come and heavy downpours too. That will be the case on and off throughout the day. There will be lulls in the action, not necessarily continuous rain. Light rain quitting in the city. The heaviest rain to the east of us. Showers and thunderstorms heavy at times today. It turns drier tomorrow into early saturday. And then it looks like changes to that weekend forecast. Rain could move in quicker on saturday late in the day and more likely saturday night lingering into part of sunday too. The humidity is with us today. Weve lost the heat. You saw 90degree temperatures yesterday. Only talking upper 70s, maybe close to 80 this afternoon. Close to where it should be. Normal high is 78. First time in a long time, near average temperatures. 70 in stamford. 74 in greenwich. 73 in the park. Same numbers in long island and the northwestern suburbs. Not much cooler. Close to 70 degrees. You can see batches of showers and thunderstorms moving from southwest to northeast. Still more sitting off toward the south and west. One batch east of the city over central long island. Then a break. Here comes another area into Middlesex County, western end of monmouth county. Staten island again, brooklyn, queens, the city as well over the next hour or so. Future tracker keeps the shower threat in here at 9 00, 10 00 a. M. That area there is where you get the heavier downpours and folks who sit there, thats where the flooding could take place. Be cognizant much that possibility all day. 2 00 in the afternoon, central new jersey, pushes into the city by 5 00, 6 00. Up through the hudson valley. It moves northeast ward bound. By midnight or so, most of the activity is east of the city. Notice leftover clouds tomorrow morning. But breaks in the cloud cover in the afternoon. It should turn drier too and fairly comfortable temperatures. Stormy today, showers, thunderstorms. Upper 70s. Tonight, showers and storms especially during the evening hours. Then lingering lighter showers after midnight with a low of 67 degrees. Showers return, though, this weekend. Looks like late saturday or saturday night. Temperatures in the 70s over the weekend. Showers could linger on sunday too. Then we break back out into sunshine early next week and starts to warm up again, believe it or not. 79 today, 80 tomorrow. Most of it tomorrow is rainfree. 78 saturday. Showers late and at night, rain could linger in part of sunday too. We dry it out monday. Back to the sun and 80s tuesday and wednesday. Lets find out about the latest trouble spots for the commute. Heres lauren. Thanks, chris. Good morning. A lot of trouble spots for the commute. The long island expressway, we have two of them. One of them a big one. Shut down westbound between exit 29 and 27. Between springfield boulevard and the clearview expressway. You can see a lot of emergency vehicles. Theres an overturned truck out there. Eastbound in this area, you have the left lane shut down with emergency vehicles. Delays all the way back into Nassau County. We have another accident on the l. I. E. When you get past this or if your commute begins past that, westbound before you get to exit 18, another accident out there blocks two lanes and delays past queens boulevard. Heading to the bronx. 95 northbound after westchester avenue, you do have an accident involving a jackknifed tractortrailer. That shuts down two lanes. You can see heavy through here. Now on the hutch, heading southbound out by the through way here, you do have an accident blocking two lanes as well. That seems to be the problem. More accidents. Bqe, heading into the williamsburg bridge, two lanes shut down there. Delays back at least an exit and heading to the belt parkway, our first report much flooding this morning. Down. Expect a slow ride there. It always floods here. Ill keep an eye on it for you. 80 westbound in new jersey, out in paterson, an accident in the write lane. Thats an improvement. Lanes. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. The titans much wall street could be in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors. The Justice Department is changing its focus. Not only will businesses be prosecuted for White Collar Crime but now the executives who run them could be changed. This is after how the federal government handled the financial meltdown and executive scandals. Executives escaped federal prosecution. Federal Court Wednesday to face 13 counts. Hes accused of paying off oyster baytown officials to have taxpayers guarantee his loan. Hes charged with wrongly seeking a Million Dollars in sandy relief money. He denies any guilt. Nobody wants to get up at 6 00 a. M. And put in handcuffs. Hes grateful to go home with his mother and his wife. Hell deal with what he has to deal with on a go forth basis and fight the charges. Singh is free on 5 million bond. A young man from new jersey admits now he wanted to fight with isis. Samuel topaz pleaded guilty wednesday in federal court. His lawyer says hes cooperating with investigators. Federal prosecutors say they wanted to go to syria. The group is also accused of plotting to shoot out the white house lawn. Hes 21 years old. He was turned in by his own mother. There will likely be no charges for Sean Diddy Combs in the scuffle with one of his sons football coaches at ucla. Prosecutors will sit down with combs next month to decide if hell face any charges. They will be looking for alternatives, like restitution, anger management or community service. Trees slated to be cut down and removed. Yesterday the trees were inspected in the park. Four could pose a danger to parkgoers. It comes after one of the trees snapped last week, injuring five people. Park Officials Say they retunely check the trees for damage and prune them to prevent similar accidents. Careless this is for the fire. This happened in charcoal briquettes from an unauthorized campfire. They also say the person responsible may never be caught. The fire score frpd more than a thousand acres of land. Still smoldering in some places. Look at the price paid by everybody. Longterm. Its 5 51. The best of the best. The university that defended its title. A collection about to make its way here in manhattan. When you can see it. Youre wachk today in new york. Welcome back. Looking at our control room. Theres our esteemed director known as the pride of do you lynn college. Also known as harvard of long island is what that means talking about colleges and universities. Princeton university can call itself the best college in the country for another year. The school topped u. S. News and World Reports annual list of the best colleges for the third year in a row. Harvard finished second followed by yale. Among the other schools in our area, Columbia University ranked fourth. Nyu came in 32nd place. See. I went to nyu. I checked or you went. Fordham is in the 40s. Florida 51. City College University of miami. 51. I checked out city college, they rank it differently. But in the top 60 regional colleges. You cant actually theyre all great schools. You wore your purple nyu tie. We should remember, its just a number. Thats what People Like Us tell ourselves. Those who didnt go to harvard, yale or princeton. My s. A. T. Scores, please. Its what you do after that. I graduated postgraduate. Whats amatter you. Kevin told me that. Showers and thunderstorms across new jersey. In between a lull over the city right now. Thats the way this day plays out. Heavy downpours from time to time. Thunder and lightning too. Local street and highway flooding. Upper 70s. A nasty rough day morning and evening commute. Look for the showers to taper off overnight with a low of 67 degrees. We catch a break in the rain tomorrow. There could be more by the weekend. Well talk about that in the 6 00 hour. Lets check in with lauren scala. We dont have a good commute today. We have a lot of problems on the roads. Well start with the rails. For everyone on the subways, delays on downtown 2 and 3 trains due to signal problems. A live look at the long island expressway in queens. This is the spot to avoid this morning. It looks like a parking lot. Westbound, these are the delays heading into a closure. An overturned truck between springfield boulevard, exit 29 and the clearview expressway. Another accident by exit 18. These go into Nassau County to exit 34. Head to the Northern State into the Grand Central or the service road. Do not go to the l. I. E. Thanks lauren, so much. Its 5 57. The biggest picasso exhibit about to open in manhattan. You can see 140 of his modern art. You have plenty of time to see them. The exhibit will be there until february. Were listening to the curator say earlier, theres so many different materials he used. Its beautiful. Fantastic to see. Up next at 6 00, apple, their design falls flat. While the new devices are fail to grab at tension of tech after i consumers. The School Bus Driver strike on long island. Will workers be behind the wheel or on the picket lines this morning . Youre watching today in new york. Blinds to gos Summer Celebration sales so hot youre gonna need shades. Not those shades. These shades take a cool 2035 off all sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more. Shades on sale. Theres nothing cooler than that. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Cannonball blinds to gos Summer Celebration sale is going on now make a splash with new sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more, all at 2035 off its the hottest sale of the year. Just when you need to cool off most. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Breaking news, buildings swept off foundation as raging floodwaters sweep through japan. Storm team 4 is tracking several rounds of heavy thunderstorms that may impact the morning and the evening commutes. And new this morning, the nypd takes action against one much their own following a mistaken identity incident volving a former tennis star. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everyone. Thursday morning, september th. Im darlene rodriguez. Im michael gargiulo. We want to check in with storm team 4s chris cimino. Evenuif you think the rain is over, its not over yet. The es lulls in the action throughout the day on and off. After that, more downpoursi likely to come through the neighborhood. One batch moved east of the city. We are one of those lulls in the city. Across western sectiess of Suffolk County, heavy downpours to the s al of the l. I. E. And toward the south shore. New batch developing inpcentral new jersey. This is Middlesex County coming thelturnpike. Edging into the lower end of Staten Island. Northeast sections again of monmouth county. Meantime, what to expect throughout the day. More humidity. Temperatures not as hot. Random popup storms later this afternoon. Leading to street and highway flooding. Lets find out if there are big problems or justtin general. We have a lot of problems. Flooding on the belt parkway shutting down two lanes. Westbound by flatbush avenue. The long island expressway completely closed westbound by ringicfield boulevard, exit 29. The delays, this parking lot goes all the way back to exit 34. Well into Nassau County. Once youre past that, take the service road or the Grand Central. Another sdint on the l. I. E. Westbound before delays real i will far there. Another one on the bqe westbound heading into the williamsburg bridge blocking the right lane. A lot of other problems. The details coming up on the 4s. Thank you, lauren. Breaking news from japan. You can see the desperate rescues of people from flooded homes. One man was airlifted after clinging for h life to a utility pole. Homes and ees have been swept actu, disaster struck when a rain swollen river broke through a levee. One person is missing. Hundreds of thousands under evgoacuation orders and a state of emergency is in effect. Now this mog, weve learned that the internal Affairs Investigator viewed suhn . Illance video of the mistaken eye tent incident that ended with former tennis star, james blake, in handcuffs. Tracie strahan is outside the midtown hotel where this happened. It happened pretty quickly, trace. Reporter it di michael. Weve learnedm his morning that one. Officers involved in this incident has been placed on re dified duth as a result of it by the nypd. According to james blake, he was handcuffed and arrested by five plainclothes officers right here ou atside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Today he wants an apology. At one point james blake was the fourth ranked tennis player in the world. He retired in 2013. Hes in tof now for the u. S. Open. He was standing outside on 42nd street waiting to go there. He says thats when five undercover officers slammed him to the ground and handcuffed him. Mistaking him for someone they wanted in connection to an Identity Theft ring. The former tennis pro was arrested and held for several minutes until a retired with, with the police. Well find out what they have to y internally. Hopefully, theres video of it and people can see what happened. Reporter james blake was actually injured as a result of this, suffering bumps and bruises. Its under investigation by the internal Affairs Division of the nypd. Were expecting to hear from james blake again today. lt address the media about what happened. Back to you. Tracie, thank you very much. New this morning, Police Arrested a man they say tried to rob al Upper East Side deli with a shotgun. Its an update to a story we talked about yesterday. Police say 24yearold Alexander Pearson is the man who entered the cafe on lexington avenue Tuesday Morning demanding money. Just as he was about to open fire, his shotgun jammed and he ran off. New this morning, talks aimed to prevent a School Bus Driver strike on long island that will reportedly get back together today. News day reports that officials baumann and sons company will meet with the bus union. They talked for 11 hours. The drivers, if they walk off the job, about 35 School Districts and nassau and in suffbok counties could be fected. Nte cleanup is on as crews have been working through the night to pump out the water that flooded neighborhoods on Staten Island. Buddy, are you all right . This is just one of the drativers thro got stranded on top his car in southlbeach. He was able to call 911. Neighbors have been removing water from inside and outside their homes. E best they can. Many claim the 4foot high floodwaters reminded them of superstorm sandy. As you see, water remains in some plac an. Lori bordonaro will have reaction from the neighborhood coming up live at 6 30. Classic tbird there. Thats got the water rising around it. They may want to move that. Lets check in with chris cimino right now the heavy downpours through Staten Island could be repeated in other areas today. Were seeing heavy downpours and have seen, extreme southeast Suffolk County, still an m. This morning. One area of thunderstorms that came on through, theyre in a little bit of a lull. But more to come. As this continues to move to the north and east, youll see bands much heavy downpours. Here comes another batch out of central portions of new jersey. More sitting downstream here. Theres more in the area for 12 to 18 hours before things dry out overnight tonight. Prepared with the rain gear for the downpours. 72 right now. Midday shower or thunderstorm could drench you at any time. Better chance ate afternoon evening and a high of 79 degrees. The rest oitthe forecast at 6 06. Lets find out about the difficult commute, lauren . The long island expressway shut down westbound ben exits 29 and 27. Delays back into Nassau County. One lane blocked eastbound. You have some slow rides through there as well. In the bronx, on the hutch southbound by 95. Theres an accident that shuts down two lanes here. On 95 northbound by pelham parkway, a jackknifed tractortrailer accident shutting down two lanes as well. Heading westbound, watch out for flooding by flatbush avenue. Two lanes closed there. On the trains, we can add delays. Delays in both directions on the 6. More weather and traffic ahead on the fours. 6 06 right now in new jersey, a wild crime spree ended with a person crashing into a halloween store. The 35yearold got into an argument at a nearby hotel, pistol whipped the manager, shot at a woman and stole a car. He started to drive wildly, hitting three cars then smashing through the store a short distance away. This is anen individual that came there for a purpose. His purpose was not he wasnt able to get what he wanted to achieve with a handgun, mind you. At that point, he knew he need today flee. One of the cars hit belonged to the union county prosecutor, grace park. No one was seriously hurt. Frazier will face a series of charges, including attempted murder. Rutgers expected to give alarms. School is stepping up security patrols and adding surveillance cameras after ten current and former rutgers students claim five members of the Football Team were charged with robbing and assaulting other students. A new 911 visitor senn letter will be dedicated to honor pennsylvania. 14 years since the attacks. The new complex at tst National Memorial includes an overview of the crash site. New chints and a the plane crashed in a field near shanks shill. We remember those lost on september 11th. Our coverage of the ceremony in Lower Manhattan begins at 8 26. 6 08 now. The polls are now open for todays democratic primaries across new york state. Well watch several races including the 23rd district in queens where several candidates are trying to take on take the former seat in the city council. For more information, you can head to nbcnewyork. Com. Then watch news 4 at 11 00 tonight. Well have the results for you. Meanwhile, in the ongoing president ial race, donald trump drawing fire for the way he lashed out against the only woman in the gop field. Trump says of Carly Fiorina, can you imagine that the face of our next president. Now the comments are part of a Rolling Stone article saying i mean shes a woman. She calls the comments serious and thinks trump is threatened by her rise in the poll. Live coverage on the today show at 7 00 a. M. Cnbc money report. It seems apple isnt drawing the same hype as it used to. Cnbcs landon dowdy joins us with those details and more. A lot of people disappointed with the new iphone and the tempo of the products. Apples new products failed to invest them. New features on the iphone 6k such as the 12 mega pixel camera and the ability to do video, this may not be enough to get people to dot upgrade. Apple gets most revenue from the iphone. They say the ipad pro is too big and similar to mike owe softs surface tablet. Apple has dropped average of half a percent on the day of iphone announcements. Toysrus steps up its game before the Holiday Shipping season. Theyve changed the charge from 40 to 19. Unlimite Free Shipping for 50 amazon prime costs 99 a year. Its so true. I was in the supermarket and i saw mums outside and then i saw halloween candy inside. I was a little upset. Youre confused. I put up the tree last night which i thought was early. Landon, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thanks. A major announcement coming today on minimum wage. Well tell you how much workers could be making. Why pope francis is upset over part of his upcoming visit to new york. Plus, weather and traffic on the 4s as we look at the queensboro bridge. Beautiful view and nice picture. Youre watching today in new york. This fall at dunkin donuts, get lost in pumpkin. Pick up your favorite pumpkinflavored beverages and baked treats, like the new pumpkin cheesecake square, while theyre still here. America runs on dunkin. Good morning. What can i get for you . A medium hot coffee, cream and two sugars, please . Medium hot coffee, cream, two sugars sounds good. At dunkin, we make your coffee just the way you like it. If not, well make it again on the spot. See you tomorrow. Thats the dd commitment. America runs on dunkin. Welcome back. Live pictures. Island. Its begun raining again. This is a neighborhood dealing with a lot of flooding already from the rain yesterday. Certainly homes trying to take that water out of their basements, their garages and so forth. We want to check in with chris right now. This is what you said would happen. We were going to have a respite and then it would come back. Rounds of rain and heavy rain. This is a tropical air mass. The humidity in the air, thats fuel to the showers. Thats what will produce pretty significant rainfall totals. A few heavy thunderstorms, one batch or two this morning. Another batch this afternoon and evening. That could come with strong gusty winds too. Finally drying out tomorrow. It stays dry early saturday. Changes in the weekend forecast looks like it will be soggier sooner. The streak of 80degree days could be in jeopardy. 62 in a row so far. Expecting a high of 79. The last time we stayed below 80 was back on july 9th. The streak could be over. Well see. Meantime, 71 chelsea. Green ridge and Staten Island same number. Most folks upper 60s to low 70s over eastern long island. Its a muggy morning. You can see a lot of showers congealing so to speak over the state of new jersey, the tristate area. Lets zoom in closer. Sitting in a lull but not much lorter. Towards Staten Island, that heavier shower on the south shore. That will move to brooklyn, queens. Even in the city, the rain picks up. It extends through middlesex and mercer. That will come sliding on through northeast. Rainfall totals on average. 1 to 2 inches much thoel be locally higher amounts. Wont be surprised if some folks exceed 3. Upper 70s the expected high. First half could be local i heavy downpours. 10 00, 11 00 it quiets down. East it could linger longer. Leftover shower or two overnight. 67. Tomorrow, showers north and east could linger in the Morning Hours and then the clouds could break with a little bit of sun temperatures back to the 80degree mark. Showers return saturday, saturday night into sunday. Drier weather next week and it could warm up again at that point believe it or not. 79 with soaking storms. 80 tomorrow morning. Clouds and leftover shower. Rain developing later in the day and at night. Rain lingers on sunday. Drying out monday. Back to the 80s by tuesday and wednesday. Rough commute, lauren. To say the least. Three separate accidents on the long island expressway. Ill start with queens. The l. I. E. Westbound remains shut down by exit 29, springfield boulevard. That closure goes to the clearview expressway. Head to the service road or the Grand Central. This is the l. I. E. Further west of there before exit 18. Maurice avenue. Theres an accident shutting down two lanes and its a slow ride through here. Heading to Suffolk County, another accident on the l. I. E. This is westbound by exit 51. Delays are building there. Then well head over to the bronx where we had one accident cleared, the one on 95. We have one on the hutch southbound. Delays continue to build. The bqe, by the williamsburg bridge, a disabled vehicle blocks the lane. A slow ride there. Flooding on the belt parkway. Westbound by flatbush avenue. Two lanes are closed. Also reports of an accident by 117 blocking two lanes. Its not an easy morning commute. Well have your next up day on the the 4s. Police in arizona are hunting for a possible sniper. Theyre now calling a domestic terrorist. Since august 29th, at least ten cars were hit by gunfire along interstate 10 in phoenix. The shots shattered car vehicles and bullet holes in others. No serious injuries but drivers and passengers have come within inches of being hit. A 20,000 reward is being offered for the gunmans arrest. Two survivors of the Charleston Church shooting are talking about the moments of terror inside the church. Two of them sat down for an exclusive interview with lester holt. About to say the prayer to be release. He caught us with our eyes closed. I remember my son saying, mama, he shot me in the head. Prosecutors are seeking the Death Penalty for 21yearold dylann roof. However, 70yearold polly shepherd wants roof to live. She says he wants him to think about the shooting for the rest of his life. You can see more of the exclusive interview coming up on the today show. The pilot who saved the lives of dozens of passengers on a burning British Airways plane in las vegas says hes finished flying. It was his first time in 42 years of flying that he faced an emergency. It was one of his last runs before retirement. After noticing raging flames from the left engine, he made a split decision to hit the brakes and abort takeoff. His crew evacuated all 172 people from the plane. I looked behind me, theres engines the size of a house. The flames are just hundreds of feet into the air. No one seriously injured. Hanke is planning to retire on tuesday. He is done. Right. It was a lifetime of training that went into place to make the receipt right decision. 6 20. Still ahead, a local Football Program under fire when a coachs practice exercise leaves players with blisters and burns. Dont forget, follow the entire today in new york team on facebook and twitter. Well be right back. Hey let me help with that. Oh, thank you introducing the oneandonly Volkswagen Golf sportwagen. The sportier utility vehicle. Welcome to fort green sheets. Welcome to castle bravestorm. Its full of cool stuff, like my second in command. And my trusty bow. And free of stuff i dont like. And in my castle we only eat chex cereal. Chex cereal. Its full of delicious crunchability. No artificial flavors, and its glutenfree. And thats something even my brother. Sister can understand. Mom, brian threw a ball in the house beautiful view of looking downtown. 6 23 right now on this thursday. Today even in the heat, the nfl season kicks off right here on nbc 4. Defending super bowl champs, the new England Patriots will be hosting the pittsburgh steelers. The patriots will hang a fourth super bowl banner inside gillette stadium. Despite an offseason of legal battles, all the faces on the set, tom brady will be playing. Commissioner roger dood goodell will not be there. Hell try to you can watch the game tonight. Theres a lot to watch on nbc 4. Coverage begins at 7 30. The giants kick off their season versus the cowboys on nbc sunday night football. Live coverage starts at 7 00 p. M. With football night in america. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Theyll drag that banner hanging for 45 minutes, right . They may have rain up there, too. Interesting. Could be stormy and rain that were seeing will slide into new england. Live radar showing heavy rain. Its moving through Staten Island right now. Just beginning to brush up the areas of brooklyn. Coney island into queens, i think, eventually youll see heavier downpours. Even in the city, theyll pick up more. Lower end of brooklyn and queens in the next half hour, 45 minutes much thats one of several rounds of heavy downpours today. The heaviest comes through Late Afternoon and early evening. Upper 70s for a high. Showers and thunderstorms this evening. Lighter showers overnight and a low of 67. It does get better tomorrow. Thats a temporary state. Well talk more about the weekend forecast on the 4s. Were looking forward to the weekend. Its 6 25. Such a tough commute. Problems on the l. I. E. Its shut down westbound by exit 29. To add to this, the Long Island Railroad has the Ronkonkoma Branch suspended in both directions between ronkonkoma and hicksville. There was a train excuse me, a vehicle on the tracks that was struck. Ill continue to get updates on that. Ill let you know. If youre taking the l. I. E. In Suffolk County, an accident at exit 51. Delays in both directions on the 6 and downtown on the g, 2 and 3. Tough commute this morning. Coming up next, new rain hampering storm cleanup on Staten Island. Reporter im Lori Bordonaro on Staten Island where a fast and furious rainstorm flooded streets and homes. Ill have the latest on the cleanup coming up. Reporter and a former tennis star is asking for an apology this morning from the nypd after a mistaken arrest that even the commissioner is calling disturbing. Im Tracie Strahan live in midtown with that story straight ahead. If youre about to head out the door, keep watching today in new york. Download the app on your mobile device right now. Well be right back. Now at 6 30. Grab an umbrella. Storm team 4 is tracking heavy rain thats drenching our area. Commuter alert. Live pictures here of the long island expressway where two crashes have traffic backed up for miles. We just learned the train may not be a travel alternative for some people. New this morning, swift action by the nypd comes after officers mistook a former tennis star for a suspect. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everyone. 6 30 a. M. On this thursday, september 10th. Im michael gargiulo. Im darlene rodriguez. Lets check in with chris cimino. Weather causing lots of problems, chris. It is. The line of showers and thunderstorms cuts out of central new jersey, towards the city, northeast new jersey and works into long island, connecticut. Not a lot going on all morning long. More showers sitting to the south and west. The main front still sits way to the west of us. All of that has to pivot on through. Several hours of showers, thunderstorms, locally heavy downpours. Thats the way the day will play out. That will lead to local, treat highway flooding. 77 at noontime. Forecasting a high of only 79 with the clouds and that on again, off again rain. Lots of problems to talk about. Lauren scala is here with the latest. We have problems all over the roads. The worst of them, three on the long island expressway. Two of them in queens westbound. All lanes shut down between exit 29 and 27. The service road is something that you could take. If not, you could head to the Grand Central parkway. That is really jammed. Once you get past that, an accident on the l. I. E. Westbound by maurice avenue. Exit 18. Two lanes are shut down here. Thats a big old mess. We have an accident westbound in Suffolk County by exit 51. Now issues on the trains. Lirr Ronkonkoma Branch is suspended in both directions between ronkonkoma and hicksville because of an unauthorized vehicle on the train tracks. Ill continue to keep you updated. One rough commute for long island into the city. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thank you, lauren. The state of emergency just northeast of tokyo. Look at these dramatic pictures. The military helping to rescue people from their flooded homes. We saw one man being airlifted into a helicopter. He was clinging to a utility pole as the water raced past him. Homes and trees swept away in some cases. This happened after a local river broke through a levee. Japan has been drenched by heavy rains from a Tropical Storm. New this morning, we learned that nypd internal Affairs Investigators reviewed Surveillance Video of the mistaken identity incident that ended with james blake in handcuffs. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is outside the midtown hotel where it all happened. Tracie . Reporter darlene, were keeping our eyes on the entrance for james blake to exit. Hes bound to tell his side of the story today. Likely on morning shows. He says he did nothing wrong standing here on 42nd street and was tackled and handcuffed. Now he and officials within the nypd want to know why. Blake retired from tennis in 2013. At one point he was the fourth ranked player in the world. He says he was waiting for a ride to the u. S. Open when plainclothes officers working an Identity Theft ring thought he was one of the criminals. A retired officer that works in this area recognized blake and then he was suddenly free to go after he alerted the officers to what was going on. But this morning, questions are lingering about why this happened. What would you like to hear from them . An apology. Its very disturbing. He claims that he was rushed by a person a pair of shorts and tshirt who pushed him to the ground and assisted by four others who identified themselves as Police Officers. He suffered an injury during that. The nature of what he described is not what were supposed to do rs police say they arrested another man standing near james blake at the time. As part of that Identity Theft ring, they thought he was a parts of. One of the officers part of the james blake arrest has been placed on modified duty. James blake is going to tell his side of the story once again, today. Tracie, thank you. Police are releasing a sketch of the man wanted for the shooting of Governor Cuomos aide. This man opened fire during the festivities leading up to the parade. A bullet hit carey gabay in the head. Well. Hes surrounded by his loved ones. Today Governor Cuomo will team up with Vice President joe biden to demand a pay raise. He called for them to make no less than 15. He wants that to be the minimum wage for all workers. As far more than the rays scheduled later this year. Theyre going to make another attempt to officials from baumann and Sons Bus Company will reportedly meet again today with representatives from the bus drivers union. According to news day, the two sides held talks fo 11 hours yesterday. More than 3 dozen Bus Companies would be affected if the negotiations break down. Its 6 35. Weather and traffic right now. Checking on this weather situation. Causing lots of trouble. Lauren is dealing with the commute. But were going to talk to chris first. Good morning. Good morning. A lot of downpours out there. One batch moving across Suffolk County that came through the city earlier. New one approaching the city, through Staten Island, Middlesex County new jersey to the lower end of brooklyn. Its moving to the northeast. That would take the heaviest downpours and get them into borough park at 6 44. Glenndale at 6 59. Expect the rain to increase in indensity across brook lind and western sections of queens as well in the nas half hour to 45 minutes. Take the heavy rain gear. You need the heavy one that can handle the gusts. We expect heavy gusty thunderstorms this afternoon. On and off downpours still a possibility through the day and highs in the upper 70s. Long island had a bullseye, any other problems. Well talk about the lirr and the suspension. Ronkonkoma and hicksville, no Train Service because of a vehicle struck on the tracks east of bethpage. Right now, theres no bus service in place. Youll need to head to montauk or babylonbranches. We have delays and Service Changes on downtown 2 and 3 trains. Otherwise, the subway is moving nicely. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect today. The next weather and traffic update on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. Its 6 37. This mornings heavy rains creating new problems for Staten Island residents. Theyre trying to clean up from yesterdays storm. Lori bordonaro is live in south beach where its raining once again lori. Mining al, a big change from an hour ago. The rain coming down heavy once again. Only making matters worse out here. Were on doty avenue. A good portion of the street is flooded as you can see. This is nothing compared to what it looked like last night. Take a look here. It is a scene residents around hearsay theyve gotten used to. Some telling us that the flooding reminded them of Hurricane Sandy. One neighbor says it rose to 4 feet, even higher than it did during sandy. Many shocked at how quick it happened. The damage done in about 45 minutes of heavy rauen infall. Take a look at this man who was stuck on his car. One neighbor was yelling out to see if he needed help. Himself. Others here spent the night bailing out water as best as they could. So were pumping water from the basement and pumping water from the outside. Some neighbors around here complaining that this block needs more storm drains. They added about 200 homes here, but no storm drains were added. A lot of neighbors Say Something needs to be done to eliminate the flooding happening out here. The rain keeps coming down. Lori, thank you. A High School Football coach is is apologizing after a punishment left players blistered and burned. They were forced to crawl across the field. The air temperature was in the 90s that day. The artificial turf was hotter. That left players are blisters and burns on their hands. It wasnt just a hot field. Hands. What are we supposed to do, cancel the season now, give them participation trophy and fire the coach . Thats ridiculous. Head coach t. J. Cavalier wrote an apology to parents saying he was not aware that the turf could cause blisters. The new jersey wildfire that burned more than 1,000 acres in the pine barrens is blamed on carelessness. Some improper tossed out charcoal briquettes from an unauthorized campfire. The person responsible may be never found and caught. Some smolders still takes place in some places. We have a new new Jersey Transit app. You see it there. Its got a lot of new features. You want to check it out. Youre going to be able to do a lot of different things. Youll be able to see time arrivals, see tickets abdomen Trip Planners as well. Make you available to that and well talk more about that with lauren. She has a lot going on. Dealing with all the issues in long island. Well check in with her and chris as well. Theres one thing that the pope may not be looking forward to when he visits new york from two weeks. The pope is not happy about people needing tickets to see him on his trip to central park on friday, toept 25th. The event would be open to everyone if he had his way. For him, it is always the people and being the em it energy lies jazz energizes him a lot. They will begin notifying the winners today. A reminder, head to nbcnewyork. Com and see our special section on the pope. You can find everything you need to know about his upcoming visit. Still ahead, one of the best highlights from the u. S. Open. It took place off court. Well show it to you. Your weather and traffic on the 4s is coming up as well. The heavy rains making a mess of the commute. Youre watching today in new york. We thought we d be ready. But demand for our cocktail bitters was huge. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didn t need a loan. We needed shortterm funding. Fast. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. You can t predict it, but you can be ready. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . Realize your buying power at open. Com. 6 44 right now. Theres the plaza. If it seems extra busy even with the rain, know why . The biebs is going to be there. Justin bieber live on the today show in concert. Very exciting. My new Favorite Song of his is what do you mean. Its hes talking to a woman and when you say no, but you want to say yes. When you say make a left but you want to go right. Before. What do you mean. That he knows all about that already, justin. Hes on to it. Unfortunately, there may be raindrops to dodge heading out to the concert. There will be spaces in between where it is not raining. But there will be heavy downpours. A little lull in the action in the city. Nothing too heavy coming down. To the east and to the south and west, were seeing heavier rain. 72 and shroud cloudy. Showers and drenching thunderstorms possible from time to time today. It turns drier tomorrow. Changes to the weekend forecast making it more unsettled. Pushing the rain in sooner on saturday. Talking about the rain, we have a drought issue were talking about. Moderate drought in new jersey. Its abnormally dry for the entire viewing area. While its good to get this in. This will not end the drought. But we need several storms like this over the period of time. The good 30 to 60day period to get back into a pattern. 69 parsippany. Upper 60s to low 70s. Were watching the showers and thunderstorms. You can see clusters of them. One batch east of the city. The next one moving into brooklyn and queens primarily. Lighter rain towards the city and more to the south and west. That comes on in here through time. Future tracker shows that. There might be a lull close to the city. Heavy showers toward of the north shore of long island and more to the south and west. Notice this filling in. 3 00 in the afternoon. Its going to be a rough evening commute. Heavy downpours. Drenching rains through a larger Coverage Area i think. Through the evening hours. Then that shifts eastward. Probably by about midnight. Most of the rain is certainly over. Leftover showers linger for a time. The clouds give way to sun in the afternoon. Were talking a widespread 1 to 2 inches if not locally higher amounts. Wouldnt be surprised if areas exceed 3 inches. Street and highway flooding certainly a possibility from that. Going to try to play the game one of a big fourgame series. Blue jays in town against the yanks. 76 degrees to start the game if they start the game. There could be a delay certainly for a postponement depending where the heavier bands of rain set up. 80 tomorrow. Early shower east. Partial clearing. 78 saturday. Rain moving back into the picture. Rain saturday night into sunday. Drying out on monday and then su y and warmer by tuesday and wednesday of next week. It has been one of the worst commutes in a long time in the area. Lauren has the latest. It certainly is. I have updates to the commute. It keeps getting worse. Ronkonkoma service is suspended in both directions between hicksville and ronkonkoma because a train that struck an unauthorized vehicle at bethpage. The Port Jefferson branch, 30minute delays. The roads on long island, an accident on the l. I. E. Westbound by exit 51. And then we still have the l. I. E. Completely shut down westbound in queens between exits 29 and 27. A lane is blocked eastbound as well. I wanted to show you the delays. Look at the Northern State parkway into the Grand Central, both are a mess. You cant get through on the l. I. E. Once youre past that, another accident westbound shuts down two lanes. Fdr drive, a big mess because of vehicles. The flooding on the belt parkway westbound by flatbush avenue shutting down two lanes. Delays building through here. One accident on the garden state parkway. The worst on the hudsons is the 30minute on the lincoln tunnel. Thank you very much, lauren. Ellen has been taking new york city by storm this week. Last night she paid a visit to the tonight show. And she c llenged jimmy once again to a lipsynch battle. Do you know where youre going to do you like the things that life is showing you where are you going to do you know now watch me nene. Now watch me whip watch me nene you can see more on nbcnewyork. Com during a break. Brand new history of rap starring jimmy and j. T. , Justin Timberlake. Who was the winner . Ellen. Early in the evening, they took in a match at the u. S. Open. During a break they got up and started showing their own moves. Something else theyve done im n the past. Dancing to beyonces single ladies. Just a traveling show no matter where they are. I know. So fun. 6 49. Coming up next, an amazing discminiovery announced a short time ago. See the newest member of the human family tree. Dont forget. Follow us on facebook and twitter. Michaelg4ny. Darlene4ny. Youre watching today in new york. N this morning, scientists are introducing us to one of our oldest cousins. They call him the the fossilized bones found in south africa. Researchers are not sure how old this form of man is. But theyre surprised that his ancestor buried its dead and may have use kd fire for light. Wow. This is a prehuman. 5 feet tall and a brain the size of an orange. So ancestors to us. So hes my height is what youre saying . You tower over him. We call him primo. Cousin. Well check in with matt and savannah. Good morning, guys. Good morning to you. On a thursday on today, were riding along with the police as they step up their search for that possible serial sniper targeting cars along a phoenix highway. Also ahead, should seatbelts be required on school buses for children. We have a live demonstration of what can happen in a crash when kids are not buckled in. Part two of the exclusive conversation with caitlyn jenner. Her one moment of doubt during her transition and now life as a woman has actually helped her golf game. Take a look at our crowd. Im sure you have noticed this morning. Were full up with Justin Bieber fans. Guys, i had to park at 96th street because of the crowd. The cops and the crowds are there. Youre welcome. Thanks, matt. We appreciate it. See you guys soon. Take care. Well be right back. Well have an update from chris and lauren following how the messy weather is creating major, major problems for the commute, especially in long island. Youre watching today in ne iyork. The nypd is taking action in re sponse to a case of mistakenr identity involving a former tennis star. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is outside the midtown hotel where it all happened. Tracie. Reporter james blake plans to address the media abo his mistaken arrest on the way to the u. S. Open. The former t tonis pro retired ir 2013 but at one point was ranked fourth in the world. He was waiting for a ride to the open when five plainclothes officers working an Identity Theft ring thought he was one of the criminals. He says he was cuffed, thrown to the ground and arrested a retired officer working around the hotel recognized him and blake was later freed. One of the officers involved in this has been placed on modified duty while the incident is under investigation by the nooimds ypds internal affairs unit. Thank you, tracie. Now Lori Bordonaro has more from south beach with the residents cleaning up from the storms. Reporter the rain coming down pretty hard right now. I want to show you what residents are dealing with as they wake up and head to work. Were here on doty avenue on Staten Island. You can see a big portion of the road here is flooded. In fact, you can see that car over there, that blue car, someone has their window down. Not going to be pretty tnis morning when that person heads to their car. Its not just the streets here. Its also basements, neighbors spent much of last night pumping out water from their homes. In some basements, the water reached 4 feet high. One neighbor telling us thats higher than in Hurricane Sandy and a lot of people saying this torrential downpour reminding them of what happened in Hurricane Sandy. Back to you. Thank you very much, were watching that situation. Also watching major traffic problems. Rail problems as well on long island. Thats right. Were getting reports of delays aught jfk. Lirr suspended between hicksville and ronkonkoma. Youll need to take the Port Jefferson branch. 30minute delays there because of an unauthorized vehicle struck on the tracks by bethpage. L. I. E. Westbound an accident by 51. Still shut down westbound by exit 29. The delays back to Nassau County. The Grand Central is a mess because of this. If youre on the belt parkway, flooding westbound by flatbush avenue blocking two lanes. Wow. Thank you very much lauren. Chris, one more check of the weather. I wish i could say it would get better. More issues today. You can see the heavy downpours stretching from adelphi to jamaica queens. This will continue to move to east. Staten island seeing moderate rain across portions of new jersey. This is one of a few batches konling through over the course of the day. The heavy duty one arrives later this afternoon and evening with the actual front. Upper 70s. Local flooding a good pofblt. Dries out tomorrow. Dry start saturday and more rain saturday night into sunday. Chris, thanks very much. The today show is next. Thats whats happening today in new york. Good morning. On ngge, a tense commute for drivers in phoenix this morning in the wake of ten interstate shootings in 12 days. The latest happening on wednesday. We are with police as they try desperately to track down a possible serial sniper. Look at that face. Donald trumps own words, mocking the appearance of the only woman in the republican race. This morning, how Carly Fiorina is fighting back. Excessive force . Former tennis star james blake slammed to the ground and handcuffed by police in a case of mistaken identity. It shouldnt happen and i just its something that, you know, we will deal with the police. One officer reassigned while the incident is being investigated. And just in time, he has grown up right before our eyes here on today. After three years awake justin eber is back wit a new song. Thva new outlook and a new concert on the plaza, he is about to show this crowd exactly what he means, today, thursday september 10, 2014. Announcer from nbc news thia is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today, a thursday morning there are concert crowds and then there are Justin Bieber concert crowds and they are not all created equal. Yeah this is a bic one. He first appeared on this show when he was 15 this crowd first started appearing some time two days ago. Need a little help from Mother Nature it has been raining hard overnight, flying without a net. No tent today f it rains, they get wet. Everybody gets wet this morning. We will have the concert in a ttle bit. Let us start this thursday morn with our top story, a string of shootings targeting cars on the phoenix highway, rat. Ing the nerves of the drivers and the police. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer went with Police Officers as they were searching for clues. Good morning to you. Reporter hey, matt it is happening day and night. Drivers here on the i10 are box beinging moving targets and police say there maybe multiall here is the as they have no idea hot suspect or suspects may be. Now they are worried the next shooting here could turn deadly. Along interstate 10 in phoenix, arizona we are looking for pedestrians on the freeway. Reporter police desperate to filnd a shooter, someone who has inp nocent drivers in their crosshairs. E ite very terrifying for them. Reporter this morning, no suspects, no car description, just a growing number ofi vehicles riddled with bullet holes or projectiles that nearly took the lives of those behind the wheel. And now the news there maybe multiple here is the. Im of the opinion we have multiple shooters because the m. O. Changed. Reporter the Highway Patrol took us on the stretch of roadway that could be the most dangerous in the nation, ten