Some spots in the 20s. Cold start in western new jersey. This is the day. This is our transition to warmer weather. 37 right now. Back to 53 by lunchtime. It will be breezy and mild throughout the afternoon. Scattered clouds and sunshine and a high of 57 degrees on this monday. Yeah, head out there with a layer and lose a few layers as you head throughout the day. Coming up, well look at the school day forecast. Emily west has a look at your commute. Good morning everyone. Overnight roadwork. The hugh l. Carey tunnel. The manhattan bound tube closed. Same with the queens midtown tunnel this morning. Youll find a queensbound tube that is going to be closed. Manhattan bound is taking twoway traffic until 5 30 this morning. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thanks so much, emily. In queens, one person dead, four in the hospital including two officers. Police say theyre victims of he began his crime spree yesterday morning when he slashed a neighbor. For the next several hours he committed multiple crimes. Police chased him around the borough until they ultimately found him and shot him last night. Katherine creag is in astoria where it all happened. Kat . Reporter what an ordeal to for the victims and the police department. We want to show you whats going on right here. This is one of the crime scenes. You see investigators right there. Theyre still gathering evidence. This is where police say the suspect fatally stapd bbed a store owner. The area closed off by police tape. The capture of the suspect ended in gunfire. Police tracked down the suspect in his house where he lives with his parents in queens. They shot james dylan several times. Hes in the hospital in critical he went on april violent sevenhour crime spree. At 11 30 in the morning, she was walking to church with her children when she was slashed in the face and stabbed in the head. Later on police say he got into an argument with an owner of a liquor store on astoria boulevard. He stabbed that person. That victim died. He also tried to set on fire a man nearby. Hes in the hospital now. The first victim the woman slashed, told us this. Translator grabbed my jacket. I saw him taking the knife out. Immediately, he started stabbing my neck. I fought back. I didnt even know i was being cut. Reporter police tell us they found this beer bottle and april knife. The beer bottle had in it a chemical. Two officers were burned when dylan sprayed them with a chemical in that bottle. Hes in Critical Condition. The motive for the rampage, according to police, is still the officers hurt, were told they in will be fine and fully recover. Back to you, darlene. Thanks so much. So much happening there yesterday, kat. Happening today, jury selection begins in the second trial for the man accused of killing etan patz. The first trial ended in a hung jury last may. 11 jurors voted to convict. There was one holdout. Pedro hernandez confessed to killing the 6yearold as he walked to school in 1979. A former nypd officer killed in the line of duty in texas will be laid to rest here in new york today. The funeral for david hofer will be today. He was killed in a shootout in euless, not far from dallas. Over the weekend, they paid tribute. He moved there to be in a safer city to start a family. Strike, the workers threatening to yo walk off the job sunday about if they dont have a new contract. Representatives from the union met with a mediator in washington last friday. No word on whether any progress was made. 4 34. Time for weather and traffic on the fours on a monday morning. Looking forward to warmer temperatures this week. Its still on the chilly side. On live radar and satellite, not a lot going on. Its nice and dry monday. Were dealing with these temperatures around the city. 36 in hoboken. 38 in chelsea. 32 in green ridge. Staten island, 37 city island. 36 in jackson heights. Those are some of the warmer readings. As you head away from the city, you have 20s in sussex, bridgewater. 16 degrees in westhampton. Your school day forecast shows jackets needed this morning. Throughout the day, recess is looking good. Look at that. 57, breezy around 3 30. After school, coasting along in the mid50s. This is just day one of the warmup. Well tell you how warm it gets in the sevenday forecast. Right now emily west is here with the commute. Lets look at mass transit. Heavy overnight track work from the weekend. These lines still have the track work. You want to give yourself extra time there. Everything is on schedule. Delays with lirr but everything is on the move. An early ear unauthorized vehicle. Doing fine there. Not bad at all. The kbchlt x 8 and 24. M 60. Delays. Alternate side of the street is in effect today. Its a major change in manhattan. A change that could have landed you in happened cuffs will result in a summons. Tracie strahan is in union square to break down the changes. Reporter michael, probably the offenses you have seen in an area like this. Drinking in public. A public urination. As you said, starting today, you wont be arrested for those crimes. The manhattan d. A. Says the d. A. s office put this into effect. It starts today. Not prosecuting these low level offenses will save the nypd from arrests. Instead of being prosecuted, violators will receive a summons for things like riding between subway cars or littering. Before the policy went into effect, officers had to arrest someone committing a low level crime if they had an open summons. That created a backlog because the d. A. s office say more than 1 million new yorkers have open summons for failing to appear in court. This is a policy that only goes into effect in manhattan. Its not sitting well with the Civil Liberties union. Well tell you why in the next half hour. Did you say theres a million new yorkers who have these summons right now. Yorkers. Million. Theyre trying to cut down on the work in that backlog, michael. Thanks so much tracie. Mourners are are paying their respects to former first Lady Nancy Reagan in california. People are dropping off flowers at the Ronald Reagan president ial library in simi valley. She died sunday morning before heading to the white house with Ronald Reagan she was an actress. They appeared in one film together. She is remembered as being her husbands protector in politics. She wanted to make sure the people who were around her husband were advancing his agenda and not their own. She was outspoken about it, nancy and Ronald Reagan were married for 54 years until the former president died in 2004. As first lady, mrs. Reagan was known for her just say no campaign. Nancy reagan was 94 years old. The democrats who wanted to become president , one last showdown ahead of the primaries which take place in mississippi and michigan. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders debated in flint, michigan, that city dealing with leadcontaminated water. Clinton said sanders voted against the aid package for the auto companies. That sparked some heated words. If you are talking about the wall street bailout where some of your friends destroyed this economy you know excuse me. Im talking. If youre going to talk, tell the whole story, senator sanders. I will. Sanders got former president jimmy carter sharing an Amazing Development in his battle against cancer. He told his sunday school class in georgia that doctors are ending his advanced treatment. That drew a round of applause. All of this happened within months of learning of his battle against melanoma. Threatening to launch a Nuclear Attack against us in the united states. New threat comes as american and south Korean Forces carry out joint military operations. Experts believe the isolated country lacks the technology to fire a longrange nuclear tipped missiles. Right now, Vice President joe biden and jill biden are in dubai. They meet with the crowned tomorrow where biden will speak with Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Happening right now, a first look at the suspected robber who opened fire in a Brooklyn Grocery store. Police say the man in this Surveillance Video held up the grocery on saturday night. He stole 400 and fired a round into the shop before taking off. No one was hurt. The police in queens are still searching for the man who pushed a 17yearold girl into the path of a train. Police released Surveillance Video of the suspect. They say he shoved the girl off the platform at 103rd street, corona ploz a station. The motor man was able to activate the emergency brake as the teen wedged herself between the platform and the wheels of the oncoming train. Wow. 4 41. This new push to put an end to robo calls. And distracted. What they claim he was doing behind the wheel. A major warmup on the way this week. Not right now. Storm team 4 tracking some temperatures. We havent seen these in a while. Weather and traffic on the 4s coming up as we look at that statue of Darlene Rodriguez in manhattan plaza. I always love that dress. Dont forget. Follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram, michaelg4ny, darlene4ny. Youre watching today in new its 4 44. Here are four things to know. Labor talks aimed to prevent new Jersey Transit strike. Railroad workers are threatening they dont have a new contract. Long Island Railroad train, new schedules for several offpeak trains on the south shore due to construction work on the tracks. Perdue issued a recall for apple gate chicken nuggets. Some sold in new york. There are small pieces of plastic inside the nuggets. They have a best by date of september 27th. You can bring them back for a full refund. Today is National Cereal day. Heres a tidbit. 2. 7 billion boxes of cereal are sold every year. Good morning everyone. Well, the warmup begins today. Weve been waiting for it all weekend. It was a chilly weekend. Its still a little chilly. Its going to issue mild weather. Into the 50s later today. Into the 60s tomorrow. It gts milder than that. Us. One exception i will explain in a minute. Temperatures are in the 20s. You still need the jackets in franklin, mine hill. 29 there. 22 in walpack. Degrees. 16 in westhampton. 37 in bridgeport and milder in the city with temperatures in the mid to upper 30s. Heres your first forecast. Lots of clear skies right now. Expecting a mixture of sun and clouds throughout the morning. The breeze picks up later on. Probably around 10 00, 11 00 a. M. Stays breezy throughout the afternoon. Focus on these numbers. Back to the 50s by lunch. We stay in the 50s throughout the afternoon. 3 00 p. M. Temperature feels great. 57 degrees. Each at 6 00 its still mild with temperatures in the 50s. Storm tracker shows a nice High Pressure morning on this monday morning. We stay like that throughout the day. Future tracker, not much going on throughout the morning commute. Right through the evening. 6 00 p. M. , no umbrellas needed. Cloudiness for your tuesday, especially to start things off. We coast along throughout the day. Another dry one for tuesday. Look at the highs today. 57, well above average. Up to 60 in ramsey. 55 in larchmont. Cooler along the coast especially for long island. Thats going to be the trend over the next few days. Youre not going to see the temperatures in the 70s like the rest of us will. As you head away from the water, looking great. 58 in long branch. Later on today, 57 degrees in hamburg. Temperatures are in the 20s there. Down to 47 for a low in the city. 41 in rye brook. Look at this temperature trend. 64 tomorrow. Less breezy there. Wednesday is the pick of the week. 72 and sunshine. Even thursday with showers approaching stays mild. 70 degrees. Cooler on friday, still above average heading into next weekend. Great looking forecast. Lets see if theres a great looking commute. Emily west has that. Not too bad so far. Starting off pretty nice for your monday morning. Garden state parkway in woodbridge where the ride looks very nice. A couple cars moving along. No big delays. Heading to queens, the l. I. E. , right at the Grand Central parkway. Westbound trip comes towards us. That is moving very well. Also a check of the alexander there. Heading to the George Washington bridge, no wait. Fine. There is roadwork on battery tunnel, still have the manhattan bound closed so brooklyn bound is taking twoway traffic. Same with the midtown and queens bound tube. Thats closed so manhattan bound taking twoway traffic. Give that another hour or so. That should wrap up this morning. Everything is on schedule and alternate side meter rules in effect today. More weather and traffic on the 4s. In new jersey, just two miles from where a 7yearold girl was killed in a hit and run. Two teenage boys died when a car this was a heartbreaking scene. 17yearold noah herrera and 16yearold Brian Rodriguez were hit as they walked home from a friends house. As a mother, its very hard. I could never imagine what both their moms are going through. To see my son, it is heartbreaking. There is a third friend also hit. Hes in Critical Condition but expected to survive. Police have made an arrest but not released that persons name for the charges they face. In long island, Police Arrested an alleged drunk driver who left a social media trail for officers to follow. Troopers received several calls sunday morning about a man driving erratically on ocean parkway. 33yearold ahmed was using the Live Streaming app periscope. Police found his stream and from there, they pinpointed his location. Ahmed is waiting to be arraigned on felony dwi. Arrest in a bizarre attack involving a small explosive device. They accuse him of planting two aerosol cans in the wheel well of a rental car. He allegedly detonated that device while the car was moving. It happened in pelham bay. The motive is still unclear. Hes charged now with attempted murder. The two people inside that car were not injured. There were more than a dozen arrests in hobokens annual pub crawl ahead of st. Patricks day known as leprechaun. 54 summons were issued. Its down from 93 summons last year. The last arrest came yesterday when a former College Football player turned himself in. Hes accused of injuring two officers after allegedly being involved in other fight. Senator Charles Schumer trying to end robo calls. Hes calling on phone calls to make blocking Technology Available to customers. The automated telemarketing calls can be routed to a spam box like email spam. The federal do not call rules, despite that, thousands of calls are still getting through. Were hearing about another piece of debris possibly from the missing malaysia flight. It was found last week on reunion island in the indian ocean. Its in the hands of french police. This follows the discovery of a possible part along the african coast. Yesterday, families of the victims marched since that airliner vanished. The u. S. Olympic committee will begin discussing mosquitoborne zika virus. In a few months, athlete around the world will compete in the summer games. Officials in Rio De Janeiro have been telling the public about standing water and sites are inspected every day. Today at the erin andrews trial. The sportscaster suing the man who secretly admits to posting nude videos of her online. This 75 million lawsuit also names the hotels owners. Andrews tearfully testified about the Emotional Trauma the video has caused her. Lawyers for the hotel, its the nashville marriott, say the hotel should not be held responsible. 4 51 right now. Happening today, one of the nfls greatest quarterbacks goes out on top. Peyton manning will announce his retirement from football. Manning played for 18 seasons. First for the indianapolis colts, then the denver broncos. He won championships with both teams, including this past super bowl. He holds records for most passing touchdowns, passing yards and is tied with brett favre for quarterback wins. Hall of famer, clearly. Going out on top for sure. 4 52. Which local airport landed on one much our three, right . Something we havent had to say in a while. Why you may want to fill up the tank this morning. Youre watching today in new time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Raphael is off. Emily is in for lauren. Happen all week long. Easy job for me. No major storms and a warmup coming our way. Starting today, what more could you ask for . Its been a chilly weekend. The radar picture, nice and quiet. Look at that temperature later today. This is just the beginning, guys. 57 for a high. About so degrees above average. A warm southerly breeze giving us that milder weather. More clouds to the north and west of town. Maybe not a bright, sunny day for everyone. Overnight tonight, it stays mild. 47 is your low. High this time of year. Its going to be a mild night ahead. Lots of clear skies to start. The clouds build in. We have to say about the warm weather, if you live in long island, you know how it works. Spring takes a while to warmup. Its going to stay chilly in long island. When im talking about 70s. If you live in long island, just know im not talking about you. Sorry. This happens every year. It just takes longer for long island. Theyll get there. Thank you, raphi. Are you okay . Okay. A couple lines that were still dealing with the weekend track work should wrap up soon. Lets take the tappan zee bridge. I can take that for you. The tappan zee is moving well. Which is a good thing. What else are we going to see there, emily. Not much. We have to tell you, shell do it herself. Okay, emily. I should have gotten today, if you see a few 44 bus, move aside. The Department Much transportation is going to start using cameras along the route and give tickets if you block the bus lane. 244 runs between the bronx and queens. Theyve been issuing warnings now for 60 days. That grace period is over. Pay up now. We know it would happen sooner or later. Gas prices back on the rise. The National Average rose more than . 07. Its still 70 cents cheaper than last year at the same time. New Jersey Drivers are paying 1. 57 for a gallon of gas. In connecticut, 1. 86 pds. New yorkers paid the most at an average of 1. 94 a gallon. Prices are good. People who fly internationally from Kennedy Airport will be waiting the longest at customs. The global gateway allowance found that incoming travelers to times. About 25 minutes to clear customs. At newark, that wait time is 18 minutes. Last week, our three local airports are named among the worst for on time, being on time there. The reality tv star known to fans as big ang is being remembered on staten island. Fans turned out as a mural was unveiled on the side of her Sisters Boutique in west brighton. She died last month not long after telling fans she was diagnosed with stage 4 brain and lung cancer. She was best known for appearing on the show mob wives. She later got her own spinoff series, big ang. Work at the new jersey mansion once owned by doris duke has been put on hold. An Appellate Court issued a ruling stopping the demolition. Just as crews were tearing down the historic estate in hillsborough township this weekend weekend. Community work is trying to keep the facade of this 67,000 square foot estate and the wing of the mansion was destroyed before that court order was received. Connecticuts Largest Teachers Union will make their case today as to why teacher evaluations should not be based on standardized test results. The new system scheduled to begin in september. Union leaders say its unfair to teachers who teach special needs students. It puts teachers in schools with high poverty rates at a disadvantage. Manhattans west side will have the First American kennel club retail store in the u. S. According to the wall street journal, it will open up between 11th and 12th avenues this fall. Daycare for dogs, along with training, grooming and other services. The akc store will be at the base of whats described now as an upscale rental tower. This years iditarod is under way in alaska. 85 dog sled teams are competing outside anchorage to nome. It will take them over two mountain ranges, across the yukon river and through fierce winds along the coast of the bering sea. Its expected to take 9 to 15 days to complete, depending on the weather. You ever want to try that . I have two cats. I dont think they could pull that. A fuf their friends. Coming up on 5 00 a. M. Download the news 4 new york app on your mobile device. Our next hour starts right now. It was a wild day in queens. One person is dead, others hurt. Police say this is all the work of one man. Plus, a sea of blue will descend on manhattan for a former nypd officer killed in the line of duty. The clock is ticking. Political talks to prevent a transit strike. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everybody. 5 00 a. M. On this monday, march 7th. Im michael gargiulo. Im Darlene Rodriguez