For their children. School board says children can be legally excused for religious purposes. All right. 5 04 right now. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Good morning, chris. Good morning. In pretty good shape again as we finish up the workweek, which has been a beautiful weather week, certainly if you like summertime weather. Its a comfortable, beautiful start this morning. Temperatures generally in the locations. Were back to the mid and upper 80s. Yesterday, 89. I think today, 87 should do it. Night. 69 degrees right now. A beautiful morning. Weve got clear sky, lots of sunshine will greet us. Sun down. Degrees. In for lauren scala this morning, heres emily west. Those downtown subway delays on the 6 train. Just be aware of that as you head out. Also, some bus detours. Q46, qm6, s74, s76. Everything else looks fine. Commuter checklist is okay. We got a report of an accident off to the side the l. I. E. Doesnt seem to be a delay right now. Alternate side, meter rules in effect. More weather and traffic coming up. So today the debate resumes. A special task force trying to figure out what to do about topless women and those often aggressive costume characters who roam times square. Tracie strahan is in times square this morning with the latest. Reporter kerry, i think theyre learning that its not exactly an easy task, but there is progress to report after thursdays meeting. The task force agreed the construction in times square thats been a headache to some will be completed on time. But when it comes to spider man and some of the des nudas asking for money, thats up in the air. They discussed zoning off sections of times square for those costume characters. Commissioner bratton says hes not sure that will work. With an end of september deadline, this task force is weeks behind. The schedule is concerning some. Commissioner bratton says, however, hes not worried. It was a very limited discussion about times square. This was an hour. I thought it would be longer. Im very comfortable by the deadline or close to it that well have something that will allow us to move forward. Reporter it seems like the zoning idea is the big Sticking Point for this task force. Theyre proposing three zones. One for solicitation or commercial activity for the des nudas and everyone else, one happen in times square, and another one just for pedestrians to pass by. It doesnt seem theres any easy resolution. Back to you. Thank you. 5 07 right now. Breaking news this morning. Police are investigating a crash in the bronx, as you see these live pictures here. It has left a 23yearold man dead. Were told that man was hit by an mta bus on west 231st street in kings bridge earlier this morning. Were told he was hit just after he had gotten out of a livery cab. No word yet as to whether any arrests have been made. A 2yearold boy is now back at home. Hes with his parents after he was found wandering alone in a brooklyn park. Ethan was found in sunset park playground yesterday about 1 00 in the afternoon. He had been left at the park when his day care, quality of life academy, took a field trip with 14 other children. Police sent out a tweet asking for help in locating the boys parents. It wasnt that tweet that let the parents know their son was missing. I found out by the day care. One of the supervisors there, she called me and told me he was in the precinct. Basically, i was totally unaware of what was going on. Were told detectives later questioned workers at that day care center. Happening today in connecticut, Governor Dannel Malloy expected to sign a new law to improve boating safety. That law is named after a girl hit and killed by the propeller of the boat pulling her. Emilys law raises the age of boaters towing skiers to 16. The son of a missing connecticut couple now facing a federal gun charge. His home was searched last month in connection to the disappearance of his parents. Jeffrey and jeanette went missing august 5th from their easton home. Law enforcement sources have called kyle a person of interest. 5 09 now. New this morning, the taliban claiming responsibility for the deadliest attack this year on a military facility in pakistan. Gunmen stormed an air force base this morning in peshawar in pakistan. They killed 16 worshippers praying in a mosque thats on the base. Security forces counterattacked. They killed 13 of the militants, but the pakistanis lost one of their officers, a captain, in that battle. Right now reporters are at a prison in south africa to see whether Oscar Pistorius is going to be able to leave and go home. A parole board could decide to conditionally release the paralympic runner. He would serve the rest of his sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at home. The parole board is being tight lipped about what theyre going to do. It is 5 10 right now. Those faulty ignition switches are going to cost General Motors theyve agreed to pay a 900 million fine and another 575 million to settle civil lawsuits. Despite the settlement, the u. S. Attorney is refusing to rule out criminal charges against gm officials. 5 10 right now. Ahead, a popular snack is changing its look to show support for gay rights. Plus, another controversy for donald trump. This time its not something he said but something he didnt say. And were going to have weather and traffic on the 4s coming up as we take a live look at people getting into the 5 13 right now. Four things to know this morning. Today on long island, police will release new details about a man wanted for 15 different gas station robberies in both nassau and suffolk counties. Police have only a glimpse of him from Surveillance Video, but they did put together a sketch. Also on long island, negotiations stretching into the morning to prevent a possible bus strike, but theres no deal yet. A consumer alert this morning. The government is recalling plastic Water Bottles sold at target because the straws can break apart. Company that makes them is offering free refunds. You can get a little morning boost for just a quarter at whole foods. The chain selling 12ounce cups of coffee for just 25 cents. Theyre going to be doing it for the rest of the month. Thats not bad. And knowing whole foods, it wont be just regular coffee. Some fancy organic blend. Hand ground. There you go. Way above my stock. In the meantime, if youre heading out this morning, expect a day very similar to the last few days weve had around here. More summertime weather. Maybe iced coffee for the afternoon. Weekend looks nice. Just a few more clouds get into the picture. It starts to feel like fall early next week, if you were looking for that type of thing to happen. We have an air quality alert in effect for a good portion of new jersey from 11 00 a. M. To 11 00 p. M. Folks in these areas with respiratory issues should limit their time outside and especially limit exercising. Pollen report, a little better news here. Ragweed pollen is still high, but it went from very high. The weed pollens have dropped to a low level. High point, new jersey, 53. One of the low points in terms of temperatures. Oakland, its about 55. 60 in white plains. In the city, were in the upper 60s. 69 degrees in central park. Most of long island and coastal connecticut in the low 60s this morning as well. Future tracker, pretty quiet. Clear sky right now. It stays that way for the bulk of the day today. Lots of sunshine. This is 1 00 in the afternoon. We go into the evening and start tomorrow morning. Could be low clouds, especially from the city and clinging up particular. Off. Afternoon. Tomorrow night, this is 8 00. Low clouds start to return. Clouds from the north, which pretty much dies out. There could be a couple showers that hold together well to the north and west of us. For the most part, this is not a rainproducing front coming through. Just a lot of clouds around on sunday. The front goes through. We may break out back into sunshine, but a northeasterly wind will develop off the water, keeping us cooler. 88 for today, the expected High Temperature in the city. Mid and upper 80s. A full day of sunshine. Sevenday forecast, 83 tomorrow. Well see a few clouds late in the day. Not bad though. 76, a little cloudier on sunday. Maybe some afternoon sun as it turns cooler. Breezy, gets a little cloudier on monday. Could be a touch of drizzle or a couple showers on tuesday. Back with nice stuff even though fall arrives on wednesday. Near 80 once we get to thursday. Lets find out about the commute. Were heading to long island now. If you are traveling from there, this is the l. I. E. Eastbound. This accident in the hov lane. Traffic is getting along okay, but the hov lane is taken up. Lets look at the l. I. E. Central parkway traffic is moving along very nice. The lincoln tunnel this morning looks like a nice ride. Out of the way. Where we still have problems is in westchester on the taconic parkway. Reports on the throughway southbound. Expect delays there into Rockland County this morning. Still delays on the 6 downtown trains due to signal problems. Commuter checklist, everything looks great. Not going to find any problems there. Alternate side, meter rules in effect. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. 5 18 right now. Now to decision 2016. Donald trump is being criticized this morning, and its for something someone else said at one of his town hall events. Tracie potts is in washington with that. Weve seen this happen to politicians before. Its what you say or dont say when people speak out at your event. Reporter exactly. Usually with donald trump, its what he says. In this case, its what he did not say. Well show you part of that question and how he responded. But we are going to see him and many of his republican colleagues later today. Theyll be in the souths first primary state. Most of the republicans, 11 of them, will be at a conservative forum in South Carolina this afternoon. South carolinas senator, lindsey graham, didnt make the cut. Hes polling below 1 . Donald trump will be there. This morning trumps under fire for not correcting this question in New Hampshire last night. We have a problem in this country. Its called muslims. We know our current president is one. You know hes not even an american. This is the first question. Reporter Hillary Clinton tweeted calling it hateful rhetoric, disturbing, and just plain wrong. Cut it out, she said. She also said shell soon announce whether she supports the keystone xl pipeline. Im putting the white house on notice. Im going to tell you what i think soon. Because i cant wait. Reporter jeb bush targeting clinton and democrat Bernie Sanders in las vegas last night on growing the economy. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders, you know what their views are. Hillary, shes kind of drafting right behind bernie. Reporter sanders is a new target, since polls show hes overtaking clinton in iowa and New Hampshire. Now, clinton is also putting out a new statement, urging the folks here on capitol hill, lawmakers, not to get hung up on this planned parenthood issue and Defunding Planned Parenthood and shut down the entire government. Theyve only got a couple weeks to figure that out. All right, tracie. Thank you very much. Its 5 20 right now. Doritos colorful new look didnt last long. They began offering rainbowcolored chips this week to celebrate the lgbt community. They were only Available Online if you made a 10 donation. We just checked the projects website. It seems there was such a big demand for these that they dont have any left. Theyre sold out. However, we should mention there are some up for sale on ebay. More. Still ahead, a local School District warning parents about a possible data breach. Also, a School Bus Crashes into a pond. There are kids inside. How they made it out. 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 and were back right now. 5 24 on this friday. We want to show you some amazing and cute video of a young bear having fun. The bear is trying to get in the hammock. It was spotted in the backyard of a home in Colorado Springs. He got in the hammock, trying to relax. Says the mother bear was keeping a close watch. This happens when the beds are too soft or too hard. I think the little bear likes the hammock. Just right. That is cute. What is this human thing . Yeah, somebody fetch me a cold drink, please. Exactly. Some peeled grapes. I want to see him get out of that thing now. Weve been in this very, very warm weather pattern, but its about to change. Not so much today, but by the time we get to the weekend. Summer has been clinging and lingering. 87 the expected High Temperature this afternoon with lots of sunshine around. The humidity stays at a comfortable level. Pretty similar to where we were yesterday. Friday night looks good too. Mainly clear skies, patchy low clouds by morning. This evening is fine. Overnight is fine with the low temperature of about 67. Still in the 80s one more day tomorrow. Then i think we start to see more 70s show up, which is where were supposed to be this time of year. Moving into fall. 21st . Its actually the 23rd this year. Yeah, we have the big party coming up. Whats going on there, emily . Commuter checklist looks really nice, especially people have had trouble all week with lirr. No delays. Starting off okay there. All the other commuter rails look great this morning. Lets take a live look at the gowanus expressway. Moving nice through industry city. Coming up at 5 30, an accident on the l. I. E. Ill tell you where that is and how much trouble its causing. Thank you. This morning, some Good Samaritan s and First Responders being called her ed ed heroes for saving a bus load of kids. 27 students on a bus when it crashed into a pond. This is near tampa. Thats not a little pond. Its pretty deep. One man jumped into action with a few others. Soon they were soaked, but they were pulling kids out of the bus. Every child was accounted for. I seen a kid, i grabbed him, took him to the bank. How many did you pull out of there . Myself, i probably grabbed half a dozen. No word on what happened, why this ended up in the pond. The bus, though, is expected to be checked for any mechanical issues a little later today. Amazing and fantastic all those kids were out. Ahead, the popular Clothing Store that accidently overcharged customers. And were hearing an explanation from the mother of a High School Player who hit one of his opponents with a helmet. Im lori board narrow live in younkers where police are looking for a gunman. Ahead, the latest on the victims condition. And if youre heading out the door, download the news 4 new york app on your mobile device. Everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios but why . Well, fios is a 100 Percent Fiber Optic Network to the home, so you can get access to the Fastest Internet and inhome wifi available. And fios gives you big capacity too. So everyone in the house can get online. But the main reason to get fios . Were rated number 1 in ultimately, thats why. Get 50 meg fios internet, tv phone starting at 79. 99 a month. Plus get 300 back. Hurry, offer ends september 19th. Breaking news this morning. Gunfire in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. These are live pictures from younkers near the cross county parkway. A man is rushed to the hospital. Well have a live update. Plus, two Rikers Island guards arrested. The plot theyre accused of hatching with some of the prisoners. And we have a commuter alert. When an entire subway line is going to be shutting down. Today in new york starts now. Were going to get to that big news in a second. 5 30 a. M. On this friday, september 18th. Im michael gargiulo. Thanks for waking up with us. Get the slobber off your mouth. Im kerri barrett. Darlene is on assignment. You know how that is. The slobber. Okay. Well, whatever it is, get yourself started with another nice day. Starting out around 60 degrees. Most of Suffolk County flirting with 60. One or two degrees off. North and west, looking at generally 50s. As cool as 50 degrees in morristown this morning. Another day filled with sunshine. Same old story. Just a different day. But its a good day because its a friday carrying us into the weekend. Look for a high of 87. More about that in a bit. Heres emily west. Still this accident in westchester on the taconic parkway near saw mill. Still seeing delays. Lets take a live look near the bronx river parkway. Westbound heads away from us. Not too bad of a go there. Still on long island, near sagtikos parkway, an accident wrapping up in the hov lane. More weather and traffic coming up. Were following breaking news in younkers. A man shot in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. Its the burger keng ing on central park avenue. Lori, whats happening . Reporter michael, police tell me the man was standing in this parking lot with friends when it appears someone drove by and fired. I want to show you the scene here. You can see its still a pretty active scene out here. A lot of detectives. Theyve been focusing on that black mercedes you see there, which police say belongs to one of the victims friends. The shooting happened just after 12 30 this morning here in the burger king parking lot. Police cordoned off the area and spent the morning interviewing witnesses and searching for evidence. Weve seen at least four evidence markers here on the ground. Earlier, a woman was seen here visibly upset. Friends of the victim, police say, tried to put him in the car. He was eventually taken by ambulance where he is listed in very serious condition. Police tell us they do have quite a few witnesses, but at this point, no description of that car or the person theyre looking for. Thats the very latest from here in younkers. Back to you. Okay. Thank you very much, lori. It is 5 32. Two guards from Rikers Island facing charges for allegedly arranging to have an inmate beaten. Nakia gales and Herman Jiminian are involved. Gales pleaded not guilty yesterday. Shes being held on 25,000 bail. Jiminian is scheduled to be arraigned later today. A commuter alert. The 1 train is going to be shut blitz of maintenance and repair work. The entire line out of Service Tonight starting at 11 30. However, theyre going to take the 2 and 3 trains still running local. The 1 will be back open monday for the morning rush, 5 00 a. M. Meanwhile, normal Services Expected for nj transit trains this morning. Yesterday there was an amtrak power problem in the hudson river tunnel. It took hours to fix. It caused delays of up to 90 minutes for commuters trying to get out of penn station. Well watch for any problems. Stay with us all morning long. It has been such a rough ride for new jersey commuters, for Long Island Railroad commuters. We would like to forget. Indeed we would. Fingers crossed we can. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. A beautiful start to the weekend. Were talking about a good weather run continuing today and today the last really warm day. Were starting out in the 50s and 60s. Warm temperatures with sunshine for the afternoon. Were talking mid and upper 80s. Pretty much where weve been the last two days. Thisll make it three in a row. A fantastic evening with a clear sky and temperatures slowly settling back down into the 70s. The humidity stays at a good level. A lot of 50s in the suburbs. 84 by noon. 87 by 3 00. Still into the 80s at 6 00 with sunshine. Well check that weekend forecast shortly. Right now, almost 5 35. Lets find out about the commute. A subway update. Still have those delays on the downtown 6 trains. Thats due to signal problems near morrison avenue. Your commuter checklist, everything looks okay. A couple buses that are detoured. The q46, qm6, and s76. Everything else looks fine. A good ride on your commuter rails. Alternate side, meter rules are in effect. Today, mayor de blasios task force on times square are going to meet for the second straight day. Theyre under orders to try to figure out what to do about the topless women and the often aggressive costume characters in times square. Tracie strahan is there this morning as we wait and see what this panel is going to recommend to deal with all this. Reporter theyre under the gun to really buckle down in todays session. Theyre trying to come to some conclusions on these proposed flow zones, specifically areas that would keep some of the costumes and uncostumed characters in one place. Theyre on a deadline to complete some of this by the end of this month. This zoning idea is called the times square. It suggests breaking these zones into three, one for pedestrians, one for many of the events that happen here, and one for any activity. Mayor de blasio says this task force has to look at this as a quality of life issue. Commissioner bratton, however, sure all of these zones work. Im going to have to give some thought to that because in the sense of would it make it easier to control, certainly, but would it, in fact, work. When these clauses were put in six years ago, they were not fully fleshed and thought out. Today its very much the tail wagging the dog over there, where everybody can do whatever they want. Reporter there is some progress to report after yesterdays session. Some of the construction weve seen around these pedestrian plazas will be completed according to an agreement from the task force yesterday. But keep in mind, they are weeks behind according to mayor de blasio. They have an end of september, october 1st deadline to get everything complete here and actually implement it. Back to you. All right, tracie. Thanks very much. 5 37. Police on long island admit theyre looking at one person who may be responsible for a really scary cyber breach. Hacked at commack high school, and some of the students records were breached. It includes their name, addresses, school records. Thankfully, no Social Security numbers. Police are still trying to stabbed a livery cab driver to death in brooklyn. 35yearold ralph veras was working his first day solo when he was killed in east new york. It was early yesterday morning. Veras was sitting in his car when a man approached him with a knife. Police say mr. Veras was stabbed several times in the neck and body. His family is in shock, insisting he didnt have any problems with anyone in the neighborhood. He dont do anything wrong to nobody. Hes a real good guy all the time, come to this country to work hard, not to do anything illegal. Now, witnesses say veras appeared to get into some kind of dispute before that stabbing took place. The mother of the Linden High SchoolFootball Player is standing behind her son. That player was caught on video hitting another player in the head with a helmet during the game. Anita mcduffy says her sons punishment is too harsh. She says the incident on the field was an accident. She says that her son told her his hand got stuck in the helmet of the immaculata player, who needed ten stitches. Mcduffy said her son has apologized and that the incident was unfairly characterized as racial in nature. I believe my child. Im not saying hes right for what happened, im not saying hes wrong. Im going to stand by my son. To go to the race thing, its not a race thing. To call him monkeys and say his dad should hit him in the head with a bat, thats too much. The investigation now in the hands of the Union County Prosecutors office. They are the ones who will decide if charges will be filed. 5 39 now. Just ahead, the moment a former president ended up on the kiss cam at a baseball game. Surprise you. Why some employees at the bor ga checks. And weather and traffic on the 4s coming up as we take a live look there at the Grand Central parkway by the long youre watching today in new york. Here in vineland, new jersey where progresso light soups are made, well never give up our cheddar, our cream, and especially our bacon. So we figured out a way to add rich ingredients like this into 22 light soups, all with 100 calories or less not give up rich flavor, do what we do. Make it George Washington bridge, traffic moving nicely at 5 42 right now. Weve seen some bad first pitches over the year, like 50 cent. Now one to add to the list. Its nba point guard Michael Carter williams. Threw out the first pitch before the brewers home game. Just a bit outside. That pitch sailed to the right. Actually hit one of the photographers. Carter williams appeared to apologize to the cameraman after that and tweeted, i clearly need a warm up. Oh, no. Its a lot of pressure. Ive done that. I did that at a brooklyn cyclones game. The most nerve racking thing you can do. Ive done it for just a Little League game. It was horrible. I was nervous, even worse. Its 5 43 right now. Many chief, the kiss cam can get you too. Former president jimmy carter and former first Lady Rosalynn carter were caught on camera. They engage in a little pda, as they say, public display of affection. Love that. It was at the Atlanta Braves home game. Jimmy carter just two weeks away from his 91st birthday. Just inspiring people as he deals with cancer with a wonderful attitude. Such a great sense of humor and sharp as a tack he is. Loving couple. Lovely couple is what i wanted to say. And loving. All of the stuff we were trying to say. 5 44. Coming up on it, anyway. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Definitely an inspiration. They really are, arent they . Its great to see. Hes an atlanta brave fan, but ill let him slide. He is from georgia. Hes earned it. Thats right. Absolutely. Its quiet out there this morning. Dont see any movement in the flags. I think theyre sleeping. Theres no breeze to speak of this morning. Temperatures fairly comfortable. A view of times square. Again, were talking about a nice start and a warm day ahead of us. Were looking at temperatures probably heading back well into the 80s. Were going up, up, up. Okay. 70, clear sky right now. Again, starting out a little cooler in some of the suburbs. Normal high is 75. Only 5 degrees away from that already. 87, thats where were expected to get this afternoon. Again, with temperatures over the next couple days starting to slide closer to normal, this is going to be the last really toasty one for a while. 63 in hoboken. A little cooler just outside of town. Much cooler further north and west. Bridge water, youre down to 53. Poughkeepsie and danbury both at 56 degrees. Visibility not an issue. West hampton reporting zero visibility at the airport there. Morristown, you were down to a quarter of a mile. Suddenly back up to ten. These patches of ground fog form and dissipate in a hurry. Theres not a lot of them out there. Be on the lookout. Could pop up here or there early on before sunrise. Wedge of high pressure. Thats all the clear sky you see here. Protects us from that storm to the south and any significant moisture from the west. Eventually that front from the west gets closer, but the showers stay mainly to the north and west. This is the last very warm day. The humidity stays down, so its comfortable. Tonight, just patchy low clouds late. 67 the overnight low in midtown. 50s again in the distant suburbs north and west. For tomorrow, a good deal of sunshine after some low clouds in the morning. Itll take a little while to burn off. It may start out gray in some spots tomorrow morning. Then it turns partly sunny in the afternoon. Still warm, above normal, but not quite as with a temperature of 83. Big series, subway series, part two. Yanks took two of three way back in april. Firstpitch temperature at citi field, 80 degrees. The wind goes northeast on sunday. There will be clouds around early then sun peeking through in the afternoon. The low clouds start to return little drizzle or light showers creeping into the picture later monday night or especially on tuesday. Look at the temperatures, back closer to normal. 87 today. Still well above normal. Above normal tomorrow at 83. 76 on sunday. 73 with clouds on monday. Fall arrives in the wee hours of the morning wednesday. Then it turns a little warmer with temperatures approaching 80 by next week. Emily west in for lauren. How is the friday morning commute . Beginning to see the delays build, especially in queens. Youre going to find the l. I. E. Lowing, starting around the cross island and continuing on to wood haven boulevard. Still checking out the accident in Westchester County on the taconic. This is on the saw mill northbound. Two lanes blocked. Also, Police Activity reported on the hutch southbound between mill road to webster avenue this morning. Lets take a live look at the holland tunnel, where everything is moving along fine whether you take the turnpike approach or belt parkway looks nice by jfk. No problems there. Staten island expressway, wide open this morning. You do have a very nice ride. No problems there. And 36 northbound, palmer avenue, right lane blocked with a gas main break. Still these delays on downtown 6 trains. Everything looks great this morning. And you have to move the car. Alternate side and meter rules in effect. Emily, thank you. A lot of people under a state of emergency along coastal chile because of that deadly earthquake we reported yesterday. Tsunami. Hundreds of oceanfront homes are damaged. Cars swept away. The death toll from wednesday 12. Also, a small tsunami reached japan less than three feet high. That wave caused no damage. 5 48 now. Philadelphia gearing up for pope francis arrival one week from tomorrow. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson will be in philadelphia today. Hes personally going to review the citys security plans. Secretary johnson has already designated the popes visit to the usa as a National Special security event. That allows for enhanced cooperation between local, state, and federal authorities. In east harlem, theres a big sign of pope francis imminent arrival. A huge banner was put up to welcome the pontiff. The pope plans to meet with students next friday. Before he heads to the united states, the pope will head to cuba. He arrives there tomorrow night. Many cubans wondering whether hell address the issue of human rights. Also, will he speak out about u. S. Cuban relations . The pope does not plan to meet with cuban dissidents there. Our own drargz Arlene Rodriguez is going to be in cuba. Stay with news 4 for her reports. All right. 5 49. You may want to take a closer look at your Bank Statements if youve recently shopped at forever 21. Customers have been reporting theres a 100 fee thats been appearing on their Bank Statements after they made purchases at forever 21 stores. The company says a processing error is to blame. Theyre working to fix it. Forever 21 says the mistake began on sunday. No Customer Data has been compromised. The scales of justice, you might say, are tipping against some women in Atlantic City known as the borgata babes. These people wear tightfitting clothes while serving drinks at the borgata casino. On thursday, an Appeals Court ruled the borgata can force these women to stay within a certain weight limit or face being fired. The case is going back to a lower court. The women are going to argue once again that that would make this a hostile Work Environment for them. All right. Well see what happens. 5 50 right now. Still ahead, it could mean major upgrades for a local airport. And then, its a boy and a boy and a boy. This morning a long island couple celebrating what theyre calling a miracle. How they tell, though, these identical triplets apart. Live look there. Its a little dark, but thats the Northern State parkway. 5 53. On long island, a family celebrating a long shot, and its going to mean long nights for a while. Jason and kelly fenley are the new parents of identical triplets. Doctors say that happens only once in every million births. Kelly didnt take any fertility drugs. Owen, noah, and miles were born they were only three pounds. Two months in the hospital before they headed home. Despite all the work, mom and dad are thrilled. Its a miracle. There are no words to describe. We always ask, why . Wow, why us . For some reason or other, it happened. Like i said, its an absolute miracle and blesing to have. What mom and dad did is painted different nail colors on each boys toe. Thats to tell them apart. If you didnt think they had enough on their plate, they have another boy at home, a 2yearold. Hes now a big brother. Mom and dad say noah is very helpful and tries to burp the babies. Hes doing his part. Thats so cute. Oh, my goodness. And theyre two months now . I think so. She looks fantastic. For having triplets. My hats off to you. One in a million. Isnt that crazy . Naturally. Fantastic. One more away from a basketball team. Im sure theyre really thinking about that. Kellys like, were good, chris. Thanks. I understand. Meantime, were good to go weather wise. Lots of sunshine today. A warm day. Very warm for this time of year. 87 the expected high. With the humanity still at a comfortable level, its a bearable day in the heat. You find the shade and it feels really nice. Tonight, even better yet. 67 and patchy low clouds. As you head into the weekend, saturday looks to be the better of the two. We will see sunshine. Temperatures in the lower 80s after low clouds burn off in the morning. I think we see more clouds in the picture sunday, especially the first half of the day, but its also a little cooler. 76 isnt bad. Some folks like 76 better than 87. I do. Emily is one of those people. We have bus delays this morning. We have some detours due to Police Activity. Actually on the bx1, bx7, and b10. Other detours, q46, qh more 6, and s76. Lets take a live look where the ride is still dealing with construction. The bqe looks okay but still have that Brooklyn Bridge road work. No manhattanbound traffic. That should be wrapping up. All right, emily. Thank you. Speaking of travel, 1. 5 million coming in for landing, carthur airport. Part of the money will go toward marking. The rest will be used to build a new inspection station that would let the airport accept international flights. Nasa has released impressive new photos of pluto. New horizon spacecraft snapped the photo showing the planets horizon. In them you can see plutos icy mountains and flat plains. The pictures are very clear they were actually snapped from 11,000 miles away. Nasa experts calling the pictures, quote, a scientific bonanza because what they repeal about plutos surface. Is pluto a moon now . Its what they call a dwarf planet. Oh, its been downgraded. Its 5 56. Next at 6 00, failure to launch for apple. Why some users may want to wait before they download the latest update. Also at 6 00 a. M. , a backlash for the actor who lied about escaping the twin towers on 9 11. Well tell you whats happening now. And if youre about to head out the door, take us with you. Keep watching. Download the news 4 new york on breaking news in west chester county. A man fighting for his life following a shooting in a fast food parking lot. And a 2yearold boy left alone in a park for hours. We have new information about this day care scare. Plus, we have an alert for apple users. Why you might want to wait before you download the newest system update. Today in new york starts now. Good morning, everybody. 6 a. M. On this friday, september 18th. Im michael gargiulo. And im kerry barrett. Darlene is on assignment today. Chris cimino is here with the forecast. You said cant find any wind anywhere, huh . Pretty calm out there. When you have clear skies and calm conditions overnight, we lose the heat quickly. Our northwestern suburbs, pretty cool once again. Then you get closer to the city, we still hold on to the heat a little bit. 69 degrees in central park. A lot of low 60s in long island, coastal connecticut, and hudson valley. There it is again. Another day filled with bright sunshine. Blue sky expected throughout the day. 84 by noon. Forecasting a High Temperature of 87 degrees. A little after 6 00 a. M. Lets see how the commute is treating us so far. We have an accident now in newark on 280 westbound near 21. Youre going to find some slowdowns getting right near there. Lets take a live look this morning of the Grand Central parkway. Right near laguardia, you can see a few taillights there. It is that time of the morning. Also, on long island, the l. I. E. Right near nichols road. Again, its the same story. Starting to see the delays beginning to build. Well have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Breaking news in younkers. Shots fly in a fast food parking lot, leaving a man fighting for his life. Lori bordonaro is there. We understand youve just spoke within a family member. Reporter i just spoke to the victims father a moment ago. As you can imagine, hes extremely upset. He says his son is 23 years old. He lives here in younkers. He plays sports, basketball, and baseball. In fact, last year he was drafted by the oakland as. He was here in this parking lot, a burger king, eating with some friends, standing around, whether police say someone came by and apparently fired and struck him. The victims father tells us he was hit in the head as well as the arm. He says he is not doing well at all at this point. Again, this all happened after 12 30 this morning. He was here with friends. Someone apparently drove by, hit him with bullets. We also saw a woman on the scene here earlier. She was clearly upset, yelling my son, my son. That victim was taken to the hospital. Hes listed right now in very serious condition. You can see police have cordoned off this parking lot here. Theyve been searching cars. That black mercedes there. Theyve also been interviewing witnesses. At this point, we dont know what the motive is or if that young man was the intended target. Of course, well continue to follow this story throughout the morning. Kerry and michael, back to you. All right, lorry. Thank you. Also breaking this morning, Police Investigating after a man was hit and killed by an mta bus in the bronx. Were told the driver of a livery cab pulled over on west 231st street in kings bridge because one of the passengers apparently wasnt feeling well. A 23yearold man was then hit by the bus just after getting out of a cab. Both of the drivers stayed on the scene. Also new this morning, a little girl safe and sound. Her parents arrested for allegedly abducting her. 42yearold carlos hicks and 39yearold Jacqueline Hendricks both facing custodial interference charges. Hicks was also charged with aggravated harassment. Police say that their daughter, 10yearold celine hicks, was found in good condition. They say her mom, who doesnt have custody, took her from School Wednesday afternoon. Police are expected to release more information today about a man wanted for a string of gas station robberies on long island. Same person believed to be behind 15 gas station holdups in just the last two months. Police have released Surveillance Video of the suspect along with a sketch. Investigators say in each of these cases, he has been armed with a handgun thats covered by a tshirt or a cloth. Its pretty scary. Its not safe. Our kids are walkers to that middle school. Just to know that someone is doing this is very concerning. In fact, the most recent robbery happened just two nights ago. Coming up on 6 04, time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Hi, chris. Good morning. Another good one on tap today. We finish off workweek with an exclamation point. Beautiful out there this morning. A lot of 50s and 60s. Back to the mid and upper 80s well be heading. For your friday evening, temperatures just settling back down into the 70s. No real surprises here. No rain to worry about. Right now in the city were at 69 degrees. Lots of sunshine by noon. Still in the 80s at 6 00. Some changes in the works for the weekend. Well talk about that in a bit. Any changes on the commute . Yeah, better for the 6 train. Everything is back to normal. With the buses, there is Police Activity on 231st street. This is detouring the bx1, bx7, and b10 buses. Your commuter checklist, had our long week on lirr, but were starting off okay today. Not going to be a bad go. Alternate side, meter rules in effect. More weather and traffic coming up. A 2yearold boy now back at home with his parents after he was found wandering alone in a brooklyn park. Ethan was found in sunset park playground right around 1 00 yesterday afternoon. Turns out that hed been left there when his day care, quality of life academy, took a field trip with 14 other kids. Police sent out a tweet asking for help in finding his parents, but it wasnt the tweet that i found out by the day care. One of the supervisors there, she called me and then told me he was in the precinct. Basically i was totally unaware of what was going on. Were told that detectives later questioned workers at the day care. In new jersey, the mother of the wounded High School Football player who hit another player in the head with a helmet is offering an explanation. Anita mcduffy says her sons punishment was too harsh for what she says is an accident. Her son told her his hand became stuck in the helmet of the immaculata player, who needed ten stitches. She said the incident was in nature. I believe my child. What happened. Im not saying hes wrong. Im going to stand by my son. To go to the race thing, its not a race thing. To call him monkeys and say his dad should hit him on the top of much. Union county Prosecutors Office is deciding now if new this morning, Security Forces in pakistan hunting for mill itants who carried out a deadly attack on an air force base. Worshippers. Security forces then killed 13 military officer who was one of the guys leading this counteroffensive. The attack. Also right now in chile, the Coastal Region under a state of emergency after a 15foot tsunami struck. Hundreds of homes are damaged. It is because, of course, of wednesday nights 8. 3magnitude earthquake. It killed 12 people and many others are now living without electricity and living in shelters. The actor who lie about escaping the 9 11 attacks is now out of an endorsement deal. Steve rannazzisi lost his deal with the restaurant chain buffalo child wings. The company is pulling ads featuring the league star. For years, rannazzisi claimed he the south tower and saw the first plane hit. He admitted earlier this week he made up that story. Disgusting. In this mornings cnbc report, apple may be having launch issues with its latest update. Landon dowdy joining us with those details and more. Happy friday. Several apple customers reporting their devices crashed when they tried to upgrade to the new ios9 software. Some users took to social media. Tech analysts say thats likely because too many people tried to download the update at the same time. Others say their older devices froze. Apple encountered several bugs during the rollout of ios8 and some were never fixed. And a walmart is hiring 60,000 extra workers for the holidays, the same number as last year. The retailer will have more employees in stores. Current employees will have first choice on picking up additional hours. Walmart says more than half of last years temp workers stayed weve heard a lot about the holidays. Everybodys getting ready. And well see them when they start doing the 24hour thing. Usually thanksgiving week. Black friday starts a week early now. More like black monday. Its true. Black july 4th now. Thanks so much. 6 08 now. Up next, yet another controversy for donald trump. Why the president ial candidate is now in hot water over something he didnt say. Thats a change. And then a little later, a local School Board Meeting turns into a shouting match. Well tell you what sparked this contentious debate. Plus, weather and traffic on the 4s coming up. Beautiful view there from our sky cam looking downtown. 6 12 right now on this friday morning. Heres four things to know this morning. Some popular plastic Water Bottles sold at target are being recalled because the straws can break apart. Several people have been hurt. The company that makes them are offering free refunds. Talks to prevent a possible bus strike on long island are continuing this morning. Drivers for the bowman and sons company would like higher pay and better benefits. A strike could affect 15,000 students in nassau and suffolk counties. Theres a weekend commuter alert. Service on the 1 train will be suspend suspended in both directions. This is to accommodate significant maintenance work. So that shutdown is going to start tonight at 11 30 and until 5 00 a. M. Monday morning. Also, citi field will be buzzing tonight as the first place mets greet the yankees for the subway series. The bombers hungry for a win. They trail the first place blue jays by three games in the American League east. But they are leading the wild card race. All right. Time for a check of the weather and traffic. Chris, i have to bust you on this. Chris is nervous about the subway series because he says the yankees are going into it needing it much more than the mets. Mets magic number down to nine. They could technically go 97, which isnt great, and still clinch. Yankees have a little work to do yet. Well see. Its going to be okay, chris. Were talking about both teams in the playoffs. This is amazing. Im thrilled. Meantime, weather headlines. Pretty happy about this too. A great finish to the workweek. More sunshine heading our way. Weekend looks nice. A few more clouds in the picture, especially by the time we get to sunday, as temperatures start to cool back down a little bit. When i say cool back, to where they should be for this time of year, which is the 70s. Itll feel like fall early next week, which will officially air quality alert in effect in new jersey today. Try not to exercise outside. Its code orange. So respiratory problems could affect affected. Morristown back to a mild visibility. Most folks in good shape. Not a lot of fog. It was zero visibility in westhampton. Now a quarter of a mile. Very patchy in nature. A little ground fog out there early on, should lift and burn off quickly. 69 in the park. Jfk at 67 this hour. 50s north and west of the city. Future tracker, its quiet. Still bathed in sunshine with temperatures in the 80s. Through the overnight hours, we tomorrow morning. So if you get up tomorrow morning and dont see that bright sun, the low cloud cover will burn off and turn partly sunny for the afternoon. Tonight, more low clouds return. Most of the showers die out, but we cant rule out a light sprinkle or spritz, especially sunday morning north and west of the city. Notice a lot of cloud cover sunday. It may thin out later on in the day or toward en vening. A northeasterly wind is going to bring in the cooler temperatures. Not cool today. 87, one more time with that midsummer heat. 67 the low tonight. Just patchy clouds late overnight. As we head towards the weekend and next week, notice the northeast wind. Were in the 70s sunday. That northeast wind almost becomes more easterly. Brings in even more moisture for ocean. More clouds around. Maybe a little drizzle or a couple showers, especially near the coast. 87 today. Nice one on saturday. Cooling to the 70s saturday with a few more clouds. 70s. We warm it up again wednesday and thursday. Near 80 again by next thursday. Lets find out about the commute. Whats the latest . Its not too bad overall. We are seeing just some normal delays. Looks like getting into the the bqe. A couple things on 84. First off, youre going to find an accident here eastbound right after exit 19. Then a disabled vehicle, 84 eastbound between the taconic to ludington road. The George Washington bridge this morning, minor delays. Everything looks okay on the upper and lower. The lincoln and holland, looks like everything is moving along just fine. Also near newark at the new jersey turnpike, not going to find any problems there. Both directions really looks like its a good go this morning. And lets head to queens, where were starting to see those delays. Towards us. Thats the l. I. E. Over the Grand Central parkway. That westbound slowdown, thats going to continue on into wood haven boulevard. Really, those delays start around the cross island parkway this morning. Everything is okay. Not going to have any problems there. Alternate side, meter rules are in effect. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Its 617 now. The talk this morning in the race for president involves how donald trump handled a question at a rally in New Hampshire. We have a problem in this country. Its called muslims. We know our current president is one. You know hes not even an american. We need this question. This is the first question. All right. So the questioner went on. Hillary clinton denouncing donald trump for not correcting the questioner. Then she called the whole thing, quote, hateful rhetoric, disturbing, and just plain wrong, cut it out. The today show will have much more on this latest trump controversy. Plus, a live interview when new jersey governor Chris Christie. A man in texas facing charges for a very unusual robbery attempt. Police say he crashed his car through a security gate at the waco Regional Airport and then tried to steal an executive jet. Security guards used a taser and tackled him before he could get undergoing a Mental Health evaluation. In florida, a school bus plunged into a pond, and a group of Good Samaritans jumped in to rescue the children. There were 27 students on that bus when it crashed into the water near tampa bay. One man jumped into action with a few others. Soon they were soaked and pulling kids out of the bus. Fantastically, every student was accounted for. I seen a kid, grabbed him, took him to the bank. Eeow many did you pull out of there . I probably, myself, i probably grabbed half a dozen. No word as to what caused the bus to go into the water. The bus expected to be checked for any mechanical issues later today. It was great they were there and great they did the right thing. Good for him. He looks to nonfazed by the whole thing. Still ahead, a local School District is hacked. What it means for your childs personal info. Then later, its a popular snack changing its look to show 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 beautiful view there of Lower Manhattan on this friday morning. 6 23. A sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium is breathing some relief. She was diagnosed with asthma after she breathed in some of the smokey air from all the wildfires that theyve had around there. Trainers are teaching her to use by using food and fun incentives, shes learning to push her nose on the inhaler and take a deep breath at the same time. Thats impressive. I cant do that. Thh medication, by the way, is the same used by humans. We also have amazing vk eo y of a young bear having a little fun in a hammock. Young cub wat spotted in the ckyard of a Colorado Springs home, hopped up on the hammock to enjoy a little relaxation. Homeowner behind the camera says the mother bear was keeping a close watch. This happens apparently when the beds are too soft or too hard. That hammock seems just right. Chris says he wants to see the bear get out of the hammock. I dont know how thats going to happen. Maybe hell do a little snooze. So cute. What do you do when a bear goes in your hammock . You offer him a pillow. You stay away. Especially when mom is watching. Absolutely. Very cute stuff. All right. You dont think of bears and 80 degrees temperatures, but we have another day of warm well into the 80s once again. Yesterday made it to 89, just shy of 90 in the city. 87 today. Plenty of sun. Tonight, clear sky, temperature settling back to the upper 60s. Well get clouds in here i think late tonight and tomorrow morning. Just low clouds. Theyll burn off again, leaving us with a pretty decent start to the weekend. Other than temperatures trending closer to normal next week, still quiet weather. Nice run. Sounds good. Traffic is not too bad overall. Commuter checklist, everything looks great for your rails. Bad. Lets take a live l thk at the l. I. E. Near marathon parkway, it is heavy. Just a lot of people out there. Youre going to find those delays really on and off continuing westbound all the way into wood haven boulevard. Its a long stretch, maybe the Grand Central. Thats going to be a better ride for you. All right, emily. Thank you very much. Up next, an update from the breaking news in Westchester County. Reporter ive lorry bordonaro live in younkers where a man was shot in this burger king parking lot in a driveby shooting. Hear from the victims father coming up. Reporter and theyre on the clock. A task force charged with taking on times square has to come to some concrete decisions today. Im Tracie Strahan live in sometime tilemes square with their progress. Keep watching today in new york. Download the news 4 new york app on your mobile device right now. Huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen lercent or more on car insurance. Yeah, Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know that playing cards wilyth kenny rogers gets old pretty fast . You got to know when to holdem. Know when to fold em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. You never count your money, when youre sitting at the ta. What . You get it . I get the gist, yeah. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent im michael douglas, and new york is my home. Theres no place like it in the world. And theres no time to see it like the fall. Take metro north to take in the beautiful fall foliage from high above the hudson. Swing a club at one of americas greatest courses. See spectacular sights underground. Or thrilling sights above it. Theres so many incredible ways to experience the fun of fall in new york state. Plan your trip at theres something for everyone. Breaking news. A promising local athlete gunned down in a fast food parking lot. Were live with the story. A new jersey School Board Meeting turns into a screaming match over religious holidays. Hear what parents are saying about this heated debate. And then, whats next for times square . Well tell you about new proposals being considered by a special task force. Today in new york starts now. Good morning, everybody. Coming up on 6 30 on this friday, september 18th. Im michael gargiulo. Im kerry barrett. Darlene is on assignment today. Chrissy cimino is here with the forecast. Good looking friday. Indeed. Fine start once again. Pretty much the finishing touches on whats been a beautiful weather week around here. Floral park, youre at 61. Thats the trend. In and around the city, upper 60s. Nearby suburbs, low 60s. Distant suburbs, you drop into the 50s. Were starting off with sunshine. Itll stick around all day long. A warm afternoon. Noontime, 84. 87 the expected High Temperature. I think we peak. Thats it today. Some changes, well talk about that in a little bit. Lets find out about the changing commute. Heading north of the city, 84 eastbound by exit 12. Route 52 accident here. The delays go back for a while. Also a crash on 84 at exit 19. Lets look at the cross bronx expressway this morning. Youll find those westbound delays from that point on into 3r td avenue. Edits going to be a slow go. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Breaking news weve been following in younkers. Were learning new details now shooting in a fast food parking lot. Lori bordonaro is on the scene, ere f ily members have been gathered. Youve spoken to some of them. What arerthey telling you about this young man . Reporter michael, that victim is identified as 23yearold Michael Nolan by his father, who wass xtremely upset here, as you can imagine. He says his son is 23 years old. He was drafted just last year bysthe oakland as. He played baseball, and he was here in this parking lot. You can see here where theres still a little bit of activity. He was here about 12 30 this poli ce say someone drove by and fid. Red. The victims dad tells us his son was struck in the head and life. You can see police have cordosed off this parking lot. Theyve been searching several cars here, interviewing a lot of witnesses. Right now its not clear if nolan was the intended target. Again, his father tells us his as. This week, a hitandrun in arizona, and he hasnt been playing. But he says he also plays basketball. Hes known in the community as white mike. Now hes praying that his son pulls through. Its notigood. Haits a bullet to the head. It didnt come out. So you know what it did in there, all right. Im trying to keep my wife calm and keep all my kids calm. Reporter and at this point, police have not released a description of the car or the person that theyre looking for, but once again, the vics m, mike nomlan nolan, in very serious condition at the hospital. Well continue to follow this story. Back to you. All right. Lori, thank you very much. 6 32. New this morning, the nypd questioning a suspect they were searching for in two murder cases. Law enforcem t sources telling news 4 that 36yearold Joseph Danclair was picked up last night. Police believe he spent time with a 35yearold woman who was found dead in brooklyns Bushwick Hotel in july. They also say he was with a woman who was found inside the Manhattan Broadway Hotel justt about a week ago. Second guard from Rikers Island scheduled to be arraigned today in connection with the ke beating of an inmate. Nakia gales and Herman Jiminian arlee facriing charges. The case dates back from january of 2014 when gales allegedly got into a dispute with a rikers inmate. Prosecutors say with jiminians help, she later recruited four other prisoners to attack that fe inmate. Gales pleaded not guilty yesterday. In jersey city, a heated debah taking place at a School Board Meeting over whether to add a muslim holiday. Some from the Muslim Community walked out as the School Board Denied their request to close school for the holiday next week. The holiday had Unanimous City Council support. The school board says that it would not create a new holiday, what they describe as at the last minute. Were no mannger t minority. Thats clear from tonight. Soon. Cause undue hardship on possibly 5,000 or 10,000 people who have going to have to scramable to get coverage for their children. The school board stay ays students can be legally excused for religious reasons. Members of the Jewish Community pointed out the school didnt d holidays like raasch that shan that. A School System hacked. A warning wept out to parents. A few student records were breached. The information included names, addresses, student schedules, but not Social Security numbers. New cyber safeguards are now in pllke. All right. 6 34. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Moving back into the range of temperatures i guess we should be in for this time of year, yes . Yeah, by the end of the weekend and next week. We have a couple more days still haabove normal. Talking about temperatures this afternoon still in the upper 80s. Its a comfortable morning to start. 50s and 60s most locations. A full day of sunshine. Were going to warm it up into the mid and upper 80s one more time. Thats way above normal. The evening hours, heading out, stepping out for a friday night. Step out to some good stuff. Right now, weve cooled down to 69 degrees. Thats in the city. Thats actually one of the warmer temperatures youll find out there. A lot of suburbs down in the 50s this morning. By noon, we all bounce back into the 80s. 84 noontime in the city. 87 at 3 00. Still in the 80s at 6 00. Well talk about that cooling trend in the sevenday forecast coming up on the 4s. Right now emily west is here. No delays on the subways. Everything is running fine. We had earlier problems on the southbound 6 train. Thats okay. Now, there are bus detours. Bx1, bx7, and b10 due to Police Activity. Q46, qm6 and s76 detoured. Otherwise, not bad. Commuter checklist, all the rails are l oking good. No problems, especially with lirr. Weve had a lot of trouble all t week. Really a nice ride for your friday. Even your hudson river crossings. About five minutes at the george. 15 at the lincoln. A tenminute wait at the holland. Alternate side, meter rules in effect. More weather and traffic coming up. A queens man is behind bars, charged with pledging his support online to isis. He was denied bail thursday in Brooklyn Federal court. Prosecutors say the 22yearold tweeted online he was ready to die for the militants. He tried several times to fly overseas. Prosecutors say he wanted to join isis on the battlefield in syria. Today theres a meeting for mayor de blasios special task force aimed at cleaning up times square. Theyre going to be discussing several proposals to curb those topless performers and some of the aggressive costume characters that you see out there as well. Tracie strahan is there with the latest. Thats what i said. Reporter okay. Panhandlers panhandlers, perhaps another word. Hopefully they dont perform for thice money, but thats the goal of todays meeting for this task force. Theyre not expected to tackle whats next for times square. Today they have to come to some concrete decisions on what to do first. This is all under the umbrella of a plan thats called how to a road map, i should say, for the 21st century times square. This is a commission that was appointed by mayor de blasio. Yes, they met yesterday. No, they really didnt come to any concrete ideas about the zoning suggestion. Breaking times square into three different zones, one for petds, one for special events, and one allow for commercial activity. Mayor de blasio says this task force is under the gun to really life issue. Commissioner bratton, however, says hes not sure how to make owl of these proposed zones work. Im going to have to give some thought to that. In the sense of would it make it easier to control, certainly. But would it, in fact, work. When these clauses were put in six years ago, they were not fully fleshed and thought out. Today its very much the tail wagging the dog over there, where everybody can do whatever they want basically wherever they want. Reporter again, that task force meets once again today. Theyre on the deadline for the end of september to present something to mayor de blasio and me to a decision. Its not just coming to a decision but also the implementation on this. Many are wondering how soon we would see any changes in times square. Back to you. All right. Tracie, thank you. 6 38 now. The security plans for pope francis visit next week to philadelphia, theyll be under scrutiny today. Homeland security secreta jeh johnson will be in philadelphia to personally review the steps being taken to keep the pope and the public safe. The holy father will arrive in philadelphia on saturday. Ythatll be september 26th. Thats right after his trip to new york. In east harlem a different kind of welcome mat is being rolled out for pope francis. Its a huge sign that hangs at our lady queen of Angels Catholic school. Thats where the pope plans to meet with students and immigrant workers next friday. The banner has pictures of several students in the archdiocese School System. Of course, pope francis arrives in cuba tomorrow. Thats where people are seeing an unprecedented tv message. [ speaking Foreign Language ] the pope spoke for four minutes on cuban state tv. He said jesus never abandons us and loves us very much. Thats very unusual in a country that is officially run, of course, by the communist party. Our own dArlene Rodriguez will be in cuba for the popes historic visit. Stay with news 4 for her reports beginning saturday night. Right now it is 6 39. Way to long islands macarthur airport. Suffolk county has agreed to give the struggling airport 1. 5 million. A third of it will be used toward marketing. The rest will go to a new inspection station. That station needs approval from the fe ral government. Moving to Atlantic City, some casino workers known as the borgata babes are facing new legal challenges. You may have seen them at the borgata. Were talking, of course, about those scantily clad women that are serving you cocktails. A new jersey Appeals Court ruled they can be forced to stay within a certain weight limit or they could risk losing their jobs. There they are. Their case was sent back to the lower er er court. Thats where the women can argue they work in a hostile environment. Still ahead, see what happens when a former president gets caught by the kiss cam at a baseball park. And also up next, a special meet the long island couple celebrating three new additions that really beat the odds. Plus, weather and traffic on the 4s coming up. Youre watching today in new york. D be ready. 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 6 44 right now. A live look at times square on this friday morning. Its time for a check of weather and traffic on the 4s. Well start with chrissy cimino. Its quiet out there. Too quiet. We dont like it when its too quiet, right . Weather has been wonderful. Next several days still look okay. Were just going to back down from the summertime temperatures. Right now, one more warm day today. Not much breeze going on out there. The air is pretty still this morning. 69 degrees. Sky is clear. A little haze in the air early this morning. That should be burning off. Patches of fog here and there. Temperatures normally should be in the mid70s on this date. 75 is your normal high. Heading to 87. Yesterdays high was 89. Were in the same ballpark once again. Pollen report, slightly better news for allergy sufferers dealing with ragweed. Still but came down from the very high category it was at for several days. Weed pollen also dropped from moderate to low. Better news there. Meantime, temperatures, 65 in middle village. 61 in valley stream. The city. Most of long island. Then generally 50s once you get north and west of the city. Poughkeepsie, 55. Danbury at 54. This is the last very warm day for this time of year. Upper 80s this afternoon with that sunshine persisting. Tonight, just so much patch you clouds late. Generally clear. And west. Tomorrow morning, we may start out with clouds, especially city and near the coast. Thatll burn off. Itll turn fairly sunny for a time in the afternoon. Temperatures notch down a couple degrees, about 83 the expected high. Thats still above normal and still a nice day to be out. Playing ball at citi field. The yanks and mets, a very important subway series. Both teams in the mix for a change this late in september. 78 degrees is your firstpitch temperature. A beautiful night for a ball game. Meantime, we turn the wind to the northeast on sunday. Well have some clouds around the bulk of the day. Thats going to keep the temperatures in the 70s. Dont anticipate any rain. Then as we work our way into next week, we stay in that easterly flow. Thatll bring in more low clouds from off the atlantic and eventually some drizzle or showers against the coast. Temperatures cool back down a bit. 87 today. Thats the warmest of the next seven. 83 tomorrow. 76 on sunday. Then its lower 70s monday, tuesday with more clouds. Maybe that shower or drizzle threat tuesday. First day of fall, 78 with sunshine on wednesday. Then right back to 80 by thursday of next week. Lets get to emily west with the commute. Starting to get busy. We have a lot of delays through queens. The l. I. E. Slows into wood haven boulevard. Bqe slow both ways. Also, 287 northbound near exit 37, thats route 24, two lanes blocked here with a crash. You can see how heavy it is both directions approaching that. Also a serious crash here on 84 westbound between exit 1211. Eastbound is closed now. We have a med vac on that westbound lane. Thats whats causing delays. 84 eastbound after exit 19, another crash here reported. Lets take a live look at the lincoln tunnel this morning, where your ride is a little slow. We have about 15 to 20minute delays beginning to build there this morning. Also with the belt parkway, you are going to find a heavy go there. Westbound on the right. By jfk airport, you are going to find it just inching along. New report of a crash on the Southern State parkway on long island. Right near eagle avenue. Youre going to find delays getting into this area on the Southern State parkway this morning. For your commuter checklist, everything looks great. Alternate side, meter rules in effect. Back to you. Thank you very much. 6 47 now. The clothing chain forever 21 says its fixing a problem that caused some customers to be overcharged. Customers have been reporting that 100 processing fee from forever 21 has been appearing on their Bank Statements after they bought something. Now, forever 21 Officials Say the processing error began sunday. Theyre working to fix it. They also say no Customer Data has been compromised. And doritos colorful new look didnt last long. They began offering rainbow rainbowcolored chips to support the lgbt community. They were Available Online for a donation of 10. The it gets better website says the demand for the chips was so strong, theres no bags left. There are, however, some up for sale on ebay. Of course there are. So a long island couple welcoming home three new additions to their family. Jason and kelly finley are the new parents of identical triplets triplets. Its a rarity that happens once in every million births. They were born prematurely in july. After spending nearly two months in the hospital, theyre finally back home. Look at their cheeks. Oh, my word. Mom and dad having a tough time telling them apart. Thankfully, they had three different colors of nail polish. Green is miles. Gray is noah. And blue is owen. When youre that sleep deprived, how do you remember that much . Just write their names on their arms with permanent marker. So those are the nail colors they painted on each boys toe. Their big brother aiden cant tell them apart either. He calls all three of them noah. Ahead, what happened when the kiss cam caught former president jimmy carter. 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 well, even a former president oh, theyre so cute cant grant himself immunity from the kiss cam. Jimmy carter and his wife rosalynn sharing a public smooch. This was at the Atlanta Braves home game. Thats where theyre from, georgia. Jimmy carter keeping spiriting high battling cancer. By the way, he turns 91 in two weeks. And hes been inspiring. They have a wonderful marriage. Seems. Today show coming up in a few minutes. We want to check in with matt and savannah across the street. Oh, just kidding. We thought it was a kiss cam. Isnt that sweet though . Theyre cute. Oh, michael, pull it together. I have to pull it together. Guy, good morning. How about michael checking out duran duran yesterday . My wife is their number one fan. I beg to differ. Next to you, thats right. Might possibly have something on her. A bill little picture. I closed my eyes. So embarrassing. You took the picture. No, not good. Terrible. We digress. Were going to start with politics this morning. Im sure youve heard donald trump under fire for his handling of a question about president obama and muslims. What hes saying about the controversy this morning. Plus, governor Chris Christie joins us live to talk about the future of his campaign. Also ahead, more of our exclusive interview with Joyce Mitchell. This morning, what shes revealing about the gets ai away plan, the plot to kill her husband, and their future. And the star witness in the Scott Peterson case that riveted the nation more than a decade ago. And johnny depp and Keith Richards will join us as we get started on a friday morning here on today. Theyll be separate. They will not be together. That would be cool though. Keith richards, my idol, is going to be there. Keith richards, were going to hear about his new album and a new documentary called Keith Richards, under the influence. Where did they get that from . All right, guys. Thanks a lot. Up next, were going to check in with chris and get an update on our weekend forecast. Want o update you on the breaking news in Westchester County. A promising young athlete now fighting for his life following a parking lot shooting. Lori bordonaro is in younkers where all of this is happening. Reporter the victims father tells us his son is a good kid and, an athlete who was drafted last year by the oakland as. 23yearold Michael Nolan is now fighting for his life. His father tells us he was shot in the head while hanging out with friends here at this burger king parking lot at about 12 30 this morning. Police say it appears to be a driveby shooting. They have cordoned off the area and have been searching cars. Police say they have a lot of witnesses. Right now its not clear who was the intended target of the shooting. Back to you. Okay, lori. Thanks very much. We want to go to Tracie Strahan. She has the latest on mayor de blasios task force to clean up times square. Reporter theyre expected to focus on things like construction and how to control this is all part of mayor de blasios charge to put this panel together. Its under the road map called 21st century times square. Right now it suggests breaking the area into three zones. One for pedestrians, one for special events, and another for solicitation or commercial activity here. The mayor says this has to be looked at as a quality of life issue. Commissioner bratton says so far hes not sure how to make this zone plan work. Again, theyre back to the drawing board today. The deadline, october 1st. Back to you. All right. Tracie, thank you. Lets check in with emily. A lot of closures right now. First on the new york state throughway due to a tractor trailer northbound. Thats shutdown. Its near the woodbury tolls. Also on 84 between exit 12 to 11 shut down. Big trouble on 287. An accident near 24 causing delays and a couple things in queens. Right near oceania street. Really got busy really fast. It did. All right. Chris . This is it. Last official weekend of summer. Feels summer today. 87 today with lots of sun. I didnt mean to disappoint you. 83 tomorrow. Cooler but still nice. More clouds around sunday. Cooler early next week. Maybe a little drizzle or shower tuesday. By the time the pope arrives thursday, 80 and sunshine returning. Of course. Youve probably been saying the last official weekend of summer all morning long. We just havent been listening. The today show is next. Thats whats happening today in new york. Supporters controversial statement about president obama. We have a problem in this country. Its called muslims. We know our current president is you one. American. This morning, terse words from Hillary Clinton and trumps camp has issued a statement and its no apology. Nbc news exclusive. Woman who admits helping two convicted murderers escape from it happens. I was scared because i knew that was the night that it was going to happen and i was i didnt even really know what to do. This morning Joyce Mitchell talks about why she chose naut not to tell anyone the plot to kill her husband and his decision to stay with her. Life beyond Scott Peterson. Scott told me he was not married. Relationship. In our where are they new relationship, peter frye, she opens up in a live interview about the man and the case that changed her life forever. And shocking finish. The Denver Broncos stun the Kansas City Chiefs in the final minute of the game. Manning and hes there for the touchdown with two touchdowns in nine seconds. Hes hit the end zone. Comeback for the ages living denver fans feeling a mile high today, friday, september 18, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this the today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Feeling really good in denver. Im not sure how they are feeling at Arrowhead Stadium this morning. Nine seconds, two touchdowns. Our little intro, you know, where they say this is today and our voices, thats like 13 seconds. Amazing they were able to pull that off. More about that in a little while. The race for the white house. Got all sides covered this morning, including a live interview with governor Chris Christie, but let us start with hes at the center of a new controversy after failing to correct one of his supporters muslim. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has the story for us this morning. Hallie, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Overnight new reaction from Hillary Clinton after Donald Trumps response to the very first question in his town hall, yet another controversy in a campaign thats already seen several. This morning its what donald trump didnt say that has him under fire after this back and forth during a q a in New Hampshire. We have a problem in this country. Its called muslims. We know our current president is one. Right. You know hes not even an american. We need this question, this first question. But anyway, we have Training Camps growing where they want to kill us. Mmhmm. Thats my question. When can we get rid of them . Well be looking at a lot of Different Things and a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out will