Today we start out on the humid side as we walk outside you will feel the humidity today. Temperatures are not going to be as hot but its muggy. Muggy 77 degrees to start the day. We like 7s. North port and massapequa is 73. Hauppauge 75 and east hampton 74. Toms river 66 there with a wind out of the southwest today. By the time we get to the afternoon, 83 to 86 degrees. Its not as hot. You tack on the humidity, it will feel like 90. Its wednesday. I will give you the forecast for the weekend. How is that . Awesome. I love that. Okay, great. I have an ugly picture of the fdr coming up for you right here. It is bumper to bumper. A sea of brake lights heading on the northbound side. Its because of a construction project that leaves the right lane open. Where is it . Lets go to the maps. Fdr southbound from 96 to 79th. Northbound from 63rd up to 96th street. We have street cleaning rules in effect. Michelle over to you. Thank you so much, heather. Safe and sound. Relief for Rosie Odonnell and her family. Her 17yearold daughter found on the jersey shore a week after she disappeared. Rosie tweeting thanks to everyone for help as she announced the search has ended. Kala rama is live in south nyack. You said it, safe and sound. That is how it feels out here. Its the calm after the search party storm is now over after Rosie Odonnells teenage daughter is safe and sound at home after missing for a week. I am glad she is found, rosie. Reporter Rosie Odonnell thanked everyone after chelsea was found safe. This nyack police s. U. V. Found her in barnegat. She was at a new jersey shore point. She was of sound mind and body, lucid. Odonnells 850,000 twitter followers were alerted that chelsea was missing. The 17yearold has a history of Mental Illness and left home with her therapy dog a week ago but not reported missing until sunday. Rosie thought her daughter was staying at friends. Police used her cell phone to track her down. The man who answered the door first denied she was there then cooperated with police. I checked rosie has not tweeted anything since her daughter was found 10 hours ago. Everyone is home and happy. Chelsea was adopted when she was two months old. Kala rama, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Check this morning, a gas leak forcing workers and guests out of a motel 6 near seattle, washington, in the middle of the evacuations, part of the building exploded critically injuring a gas Company Worker. She was alerted of the problem when a passerby told her a leak was in the back of the building. 70 guests were inside the hotel before the blast. Thy police say the man Thai Police Say the man being hunted did not act alone. A man with a yellow tshirt held a backpack that had an explosive device. A woman was mode down, left lying in the street battered, bruised and broken. Now she claims she knows who did it but says police will not touch the case. The woman spent an air enter recovering while neighbors and lawyers recovered evidence digging up Surveillance Video of what happened to her. Jim dolan has the story from brooklyn. Reporter doll see is back on her dolcy is back on her bike. The first words she heard after the accident were is she alive. Reporter this is Surveillance Video of the accident. Watch the left side of the screen. When she gets hit, she and the bike get thrown to the pave. And the car just speeds a bay. Now, watch from a different angle you can see how fast that car was going just before it hits canton. She broke some bones and even though she was wearing a helmet, the big problem was had a major brain bleed, a concussion. That entire night in the hospital they wouldnt give me painkillers or let me sleep. They kept saying every hour we may have to medevac you to the city. Reporter after she was hit by the car, horrified neighbors came running. They did more than look. They tracked down the car that hit her parked several blocks away. The owner of that cars Insurance Company eventually settled a civil suit with miss canton but he was never prosecuted. The woman that answered at Richard Rivera juniors home said he was not there. Watch again how fast the drift was going and how violently he hits dolcy canton. I dont feel comfortable with the fact that he is still driving. He is living his life, no consequences. That is frightening. Reporter it is. But in court its difficult to prove who was driving a car, even when you can prove what car was involved in a particular incident. The nypd will say no arrests have been made in this case. In bushwick, jim dolan, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Disturbing video of a brutal attack in upper manhattan. Police want help finding a man seen beating and punching a woman in harlem on august 2nd on west 138th street. The suspect got away with the womans purse and iphone. She was not seriously injured. This morning six Kennedy Airport employees are facing criminal charges accused of stealing mail. Prosecutors say they took part in a scheme to steal mail with 350,000 in cash. They targeted International Flights transporting mail with foreign currency. A sickening crime in newark. Police are looking for the grave robbers that stole human remains from a cemetery. They dade to the 19 40s. They were taken from a most lee yum from the Mount Pleasant cemetery. A town hall meeting in mount vernon over the death of a woman found dead in a jail cell in westchester county. The family of Raynetta Turner including her widower and her son attended the meeting. The 42yearold mother died in a Police Holding cell last month two days after being arrested for shoplifting. The cause of her death has not been determined. I would love to see for these people to answer some questions in my face. I would like to see the cameras that were filming the Police Station if they are supposed to check on their prisoners every 15 minutes, i want to see that. The state Attorney Generals Office is investigating the case. Funeral services will be held for the maryland man who visited thousands of Sick Children as batman. Leonard robinson was killed this past weekend. His obituary touched on his 14 years of hospital volunteer work as the route 29 batman. He was known to spend 25,000 of his own money on batman items for kids every year. I know we covered him as well. Amazing guy. Sad to hear of his massing. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the accuweather forecast. We take a look outside this morning. We are looking from the camera on the roof across the park. We have clouds. Midlevel stratus clouds, altocumulus clouds. A morning that is quiet and it is humid. Humidity, dew points very high outside. Temperature is 78 degrees. We look at temperatures and humidity that make it feel warm. It wont be as hot today. We look back to the west. There is a couple of showers in pennsylvania. There is a cold front around chicago. This is what will come to tuesday late tomorrow night into friday. Very slow moving front. Today we are looking at about 76 at 8 00. 80 by 10 00. Noontime 85 to 86 this afternoon. You take on the humidity, it will feel like its 90 degrees today. U. V. Index an 8. We will talk about the beach and surf in your accuweather forecast in a moment. Heather is looking at your commute. What do you have going . We got word that path trains have a suspension between exchange and the World Trade Center. The fdr drive, traffic is bumper to bumper. This is because of ongoing construction. We will head over to the maps and pinpoint where it is. Northbound from 63rd street up to 96th street two lanes are closed southbound from 96 to 79th street one lane closed down. Ed koch, 59th street bridge is moving well. No major problems there. One trains, no trains between penn station and barclay because of track work. Metro north Waterbury Branch ongoing bridge work. Long Island Railroad, new Jersey Transit doing okay. Brooklyn bridge closed inbound until 6 00 a. M. Because of ongoing construction there. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken, over to you. Heather, thank you. We have some sad news to report about a trail blazing politician and civil rights champion. Congressman louis stokes has died. He was the first African American member of congress from ohio. He was elected in 1968. He served 15 consecutive terms. Prior to that he was a distinguished attorney practicing several cases in front of the u. S. Supreme court. He received countless honors during his life and career. He was also the father of my colleague, Eyewitness News anchor lori stokes. Louis stokes passed away last night at the age of 90 after a battle with cancer. Our thoughts are with our dear friend lori and the entire stokes family this morning. We will be right back. This video has 43 million views. A truck driver took a bird on a semi wild goose chase if you will. Luckily it didnt turn into a modern day version of alfred rich cokes the birds. As Johnny Carson used to say, its a canada goose, not canadian. He also used to say i did not know that. Meteorologist bill evans, remember that, he would correct everybody. Yes. Of course they are pest city little fellows. My car roof could prove that. Looking from the Chrysler Building to one world trade, a good visibility across the east river. And from the George Washington bridge we can show you that we have some good visibilities here through Washington Heights and on out to long island. Today we are starting out with a temperature of 78 degrees. Humidity 74 . That is high. Winds are out of the south. That pumps up the moisture and the pressure is steady d. High yesterday made four 90degree days in a row. We havent had that since july of 2012 and. 3 of an inch of rainfall yesterday morning. Sun is up at 6 10. As the heat wave ends the humidity hangs on. A thunderstorm possible north and west of the city today. Then tomorrow as well but the storms are going to stay spotty until we get to tomorrow night and into friday where they will be more numerous and we could have drenching flooding rain around. We are about 5 inches short of normal rainfall. U. V. Index a 7. Takes an hour you can get a sunburn. Pollen count will be moderate to high for the grasses. 74 sayreville. Brick 74. 66 monticello and low 70s north and west. A southerly wind coming up with a southerly wind across the tri state area. We see the humidity is really rising. A couple of showers off to central pennsylvania. Not that big of a deal. This that means it will keep moving slow and get here on friday. Futurecast is showing our futurecast, our computer model shows a pop up thunderstorm west of the city and maybe a pop up tomorrow ahead of the here is the front. You see this is thursday at 3 00. Here comes the front for thursday night and into friday mornings commute and then gone by friday afternoon and that sets us up for a good weekend. Not as hot today. We will be quite humid. Moisture flow from the south. Pop up thunderstorm possible. There is the front. To friday. Sun and clouds, warm and humid today. 86. The humidity may make it feel like 90. Partly cloudy, warm, sticky. 74. Tomorrow quite humid. Sun and clouds. There is an afternoon thunderstorm possible late in the day that become more numerous around the city, long island, coastal connecticut thursday night into friday. And then its kind of a muggy day on saturday and sunday. Highs in the low to mid80s and lows at night into the mid70s. Good weekend is coming up. It will be august like. It will be warm and humid across the area as we go along. Not augustlike but august like. Yeah. What is going on over there. Thank goodness there is only a Million People watching now. Hey, heather. This is out of control. Lets go to the mass transit map. Unfortunately the path trains have a temporary suspension between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center. They are having signal problems. Long Island Railroad, new Jersey Transit doing okay. Metro north is okay. You have ongoing situation with the bridge work in bridgeport. One trains, no trains between penn and Barclay Center because of ongoing track work. Fdr drive southbound from 96 to 79th street you have one lane closed down. Northbound from 63rd up to 96th street two lanes are closed. As a result, we do have a heavy ride on the fdr drive. Now, if if you are planning ongoing to the ed koch 59th street bridge, everything is moving well. No major problems there. We can show you a webcam, how it looks on the fdr drive. Check out that delay. One lane is open. This is the northbound side. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect today. Ken, over to you. Thank you. Times square or times bear. Topless women causing the commotion sparking debate over whether bare breasts should be legal on the streets of new york city. Maybe you noticed these women with their breasts painted working the crowd for cash tips. People on the floor are saying what is the difference. Its not illegal to go topless but it is a problem for visitors. A naked woman showing her body painted i dont see anything wrong with it. I consider myself a decent woman. People are here with kids including myself. I would avoid this whole area. She has the courage to walk around promoting it. Let them enjoy it. Many say the problem in times square is the aggressive panhandlers in costume and out. The city is working on that. A lot going on down there. The fda approved the first drug for increasing sexual desire. Combining it with alcohol can cause dangerously low Blood Pressure and fainting. What viagra does is increase blood supply to the genitals. But this works on the brain. It balances out the all important if your row transmitters like dopamine and sarah ton anyone responsible for libido. The fda rejected the drug twice because of the worrisome side effects and lackluster benefits as well. It is expected to be available in october. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, a cold hard act. Mr. Softy suing the competition accusing a rival Ice Cream Truck in queens of stealing old familiar tune. Chelsea manning, the transgender National Security leaker has been busted for breaking get this. I was at my shop tied up with a customer when i realized the time. I had to get to the bank before it closed, so i made a break for it. When i got out it was almost closing time. Traffic was bad. I knew i was cutting it close. But it was ok. I use td bank. Its got the longest hours and stays open an extra ten minutes every day. Im sid. And i bank human at td bank. Controversy is swirling over a sound of summer that may make your inner child rejoice, the mr. Softy truck. If if you are me, you do this. Mr. Softy losing his good humor accusing a rival truck in queens of stealing his jingle. Josh einiger has the scoop. Reporter its just 16 notes in the key of e flat and to children everywhere the jolly jingle means one thing. It means that we can go outside and get some ice cream. Reporter you may not share the same enthusiasm for the endless loop of chimes. Celebrating with the music. Reporter it sounds like money for joe valerio. The long time mr. Softy driver earns his living on those notes. It has been the brand for generations. Now joe has knock off Ice Cream Trucks are churning on his turf. Reporter the jingle drives every dollar. When competitors use that mow sick to scoop up his business, his profits melt away. I am victor. I drive an Ice Cream Truck. Reporter mr. Softy said this is the culprit, one of the drivers from new york ice cream. Mr. Softy wants 30 grand now. They used to charge 15 grand. Reporter now mr. Softy is playing ladder ball, suing the Long Island City company where no one wanted to talk to us today. About time they do something about it. Reporter joe is focused on keeping his valuable clients happy, a freebie here and there doesnt hurt. He hopes his employer can ice out the competition. Josh einiger, channel 7 Eyewitness News. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic here on Eyewitness News this morning. Good morning, im meteorologist bill evans. We take a look outside. We got temperatures this morning starting around 78 around the five boroughs. 75 islip. Island. South to southeast wind. Look at the humidities. Its high out there. 91 newark. 88 jamaica queens and st. Albans. A little humid ride on the ferries today coming from jersey city. Winds out of the south. 86 for the high this afternoon. It will be warm. It will be humid. Thunderstorms to end the week. We look at the weekend forecast. Heather, are you a mr. Softy ice cream person. Who isnt. I chase the truck down in my neighborhood. That must look good. Lets go to the maps and talk about something that doesnt look good at all. Thats path trains suspended. One trains no trains between penn station and barclay and includes suspension on the d trains. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Michelle, over to you. You thank you, heather. Former subway spokesman jared fogle is expected to plead guilty to federal child pornography charges. Six weeks ago the fbi seized computers near his home. By that time they charged Russell Taylor, the head of the child pornography. Fogle became a pitch man for subway 15 years ago after he loft 200 pounds on a diet of subway sandwiches. Subway splendoraed its relationship with fogle. The case against tom brady back in court today but brady will not be there. Roger goodell is expected to show up and neither is required to attend. The case centers around accusations that game balls were deliberately deplated. This Court Appearance is an opportunity for attorneys to make oral arguments following last fridays written submission saying the court has no right to interfere with the inbound terminal internal management of an organization. Hillary clinton fires back when a music another sunny day by belle and sebastian such a shame its labeled a getaway. Life should always feel like this. Hampton. We go together. Good morning. Its 5 00 a. M. Breaking news. Police make an arrest in the brutal rape of a 7yearold girl on Staten Island. A bandit on a bike. Authorities in brooklyn are trying to track down the man accused of racing up to his victims snatching their jewelry. And we may get a break from the heat soon but the humidity seems to want to stick around. Stick around. I like that. I think it will be here all day. Good morning, im ken rosato. Im Michelle Charlesworth in for lori stokes. Today is wednesday, august 19th. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. We take a look to start the day from heathers house, the George Washington bridge where she lives atop of the bridge so she can see the traffic around the tristate area. Partly cloudy, calm winds, 77 degrees in manhattan. 69 hopatcong. Hackettstown 71 right there at beautiful centenary college. 74 bridgeport. 75 belmar. Today by noontime 85. 86 this afternoon and we will be looking at a humid day today. It will feel like 80. The temperature is not going to reach 90 today. Its not as hot. We will talk about the rest of the week because we have thunderstorms on the way and the weekend, too in your accuweather forecast. Did you clean up around the house, the bridge . I did. I turned all the lights off. Everything is set. Path trains Service Restored between Exchange Place and World Trade Center. Long Island Railroad new Jersey Transit doing fine. No major problems. Ed koch 59th street bridge moving well across the span. Fdr drive a couple of problems. Northbound 63rd up to 96th two lanes closed down. Southbound side from 96th to 79th street one lane is closed down. You can see what its doing to the fdr drive. It has you completely jam packed. Head to the west side. Brooklyn bridge closed inbound until 6 00 a. M. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. Ken, over to you. Thank you, heather. We have breaking news. Police tracked down and arrested the man suspected of raping a 7yearold girl on Staten Island. Police caught up with daniel nieto at a restaurant he was working at in east brunswick, news channel. He was arrested earlier this month for breaking into the familys home in port richmond. After he was released from custody, the young victim told detectives he sexually assaulted her. He will be sent back to Staten Island to face charges. Police are trying to find the brooklyn bandit that rides up to his victims on a bike and steals their jewelry. Eyewitness News Reporter rob nelson is live in kwon any island. Good morning, michelle. During the summer months the coney island boardwalk is a popular place to be. Police say someone has gone on a robbery spree taking advantage of the summer crowds and particularly targeting elderly residents. Take a look at this picture. This is the man police are looking for. You a Authorities Say he is Authorities Say he is responsible for the incidents that go back to july 3rd. So far police say he made off with gold chains and bracelets and has mainly targeted elderly residents ranging in age from 63 up to 81. The incidents began back in early july and the most recent took place on august 13th a few days ago when he stole a gold chain from a 63yearold victim. Many of the incidents have taken place in the west 30s, usually in the afternoon in broad daylight. Anyone with information is asked to call crimestoppers, 1 800577tips. Those calls remain confidential. Reporting live in coney island, rob nelson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. A quick thinking manager saved lives when she ordered everybody out of a motel 6 right before it exploded. The blast and the fire that ignited destroyed much of the hotel in bremerton, that is right outside of seattle. One gas Company Worker was injured. 75 people were lucky to have survived. The acting Hotel Manager is a former volunteer firefighter. She academy instantly when a passerby said there was a leaking gas line at the back of the building. Thai police say the boomer that bomber that killed 20 people did not act alone. The shrine reopened this morning three days after a man with a yellow tshirt left behind a back backpack with a bomb. Police are trying to figure out what lead to a horrible scene in westchester county. Candles are near the scene in accident. A 10year old girl is dead and 12yearold boy were run over after both were run over by the same ford explorer. They were with their mother when the kids fell out of the s. U. V. I guess it wasnt in the right gear and she started rolling back. I dont know how the boy and the girl got out of the car but then they got hit by the. The 12yearold is recovering at jacobi medical center. The girls mother was behind the wheel. No charges have been filed. Police have released new Surveillance Video of the man they are looking for in a rape in brooklyn. Authorities say that man attacked a woman in a stairwell of an Apartment Building early monday morning. He threatened to shoot her and beat her in the face knocking out two teeth. She is in stable condition. National security leaker Chelsea Manning has been found guilty of violating prison rules. Manning faces three weeks of restrictions at the kansas military prison where she is serving a 350 year sentence. Manning 35 year sentence. The Intelligence Analyst formerly known as Bradley Manning was convicted of sending 700 classified documents to wikileaks. Now to the race for 2016. Hillary clinton is still being dodged by questions dogged by questions about her email. Reporter a crazy week of dueling campaign events, tense moments on the trail. Bernie sanders is continuing to gain support holding a large rally in nevada. In the state yesterday, front runner Hillary Clinton who had a Heated Exchange with a reporter at a Las Vegas Campaign event. The topic, yes, her ongoing e mail saga. My personal emails are my personal business, right . The former secretary of state asked did she try to wipe her private server. Like what with a cloth or something. We have turned over the server. They can do whatever they want to figure out what is there or not there. That is for the people investigating it to try to figure out. But we turned over everything that was work related. Every single thing. Reporter it has been that type of week for clinton. Video emerged of her tense behind the scenes i dont believe you change hearts. You change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. Reporter the republicans are playing a game of dueling campaign events. Frontrunner donald trump proving nobody trumps trump announcing a town hall meeting in New Hampshire at the same time as jeb bushs town hall. The two will be in the state to speak at major education summit. The rest of the week will be busy for g. O. P. Candidates. Trump who at last check was polling about 24 leading the pack, he Just Announced he is holding a large pep rally friday night in mobile, alabama. Kenneth moten, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you so much. Seven minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with we forecast. We take a look outside. Here we go. Looking from our camera at 4 times square looking south. Morning here. Its on the humid side. Temperature is 77 degrees. We have partly cloudy skies. And the winds are calm. They will be mostly out of the south then later on out of the southeast. Back to the west, there is showers around State College but really this kind of humid air mass comes eastward. There might be a pop up thunderstorm north and west of the city. It will be humid, sticky today. The thunderstorm threat holds off until later thursday. We are looking at 78 at 9 00. 85 by noontime. 86 this afternoon with the humidity. It will feel like 90. Heather is busy already this morning. Weather then heather. How is it going . We have relief as far as the path trains. They are running once again with ten minute delays. The other mass transit systems are doing fine. Track work on the subways have been cleared away. So lets go over to a webcam and show you something that has not been cleared away. Fdr drive, northbound side getting up into the 70s. You can see that that delay is just jam packed. Its because only one lane is open on the northbound side but the southbound side you are going to find construction. You have one lane blocked going southbound. We can take a look at another camera and show you a view from the area of the 59th street bridge looking across the east river at the fdr. That is the northbound side. You can see the traffic is jam packed. Not a good place to be. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken, over to you. Heather, thank you. This morning we remember the life and legacy of former ohio congressman low wise stokes. Stokes was louis stokes. He was the first African American member of congress from ohio. He served 15 consecutive terms in the house. Before his time on capitol hill he practiced as a lawyer for 14 years and was an instrumental force in building relationships between police and communities. He was the father of my colleague Eyewitness News anchor lori stokes. Louis stokes passed away last night, a minute before midnight at the age of 90 with cancer. Our thoughts are with lori and the entire stokes family this morning. We will be right back. Alaskan Authorities Say three men missing in a landslide are presumed dead. They went missing at a construction site about 100 miles south of the capitol. The slide came down on top of them. Officials say the search will be a recovery effort. From roads to rivers, these are streets in south carolina. Drivers and those on foot had to move slowly through waters that were getting pretty high. Heavy downpours flooded the area. More rain expected today. Tour rents of rain torrents of rain fell in chicago. A nasty morning commute. Some roads were shut down for about an hour. Relief not on the way today. Another round of storms heading in that direction. Bill evans joins us with the forecast that does not include that mess. Oh, we take a look at the Chrysler Building and over to the east river. A pretty morning. Hums in the 70 range. 80 in brooklyn and queens. Around 90 over to newark. A stuffy morning. Yesterdays high 90 made it four days in a row in the heat wave. The heat wave is over. We havent had four consecutive days of 90degree weather since july of 2012. Hanover is 68. Blairstown about 76 to newark and 75 trenton. 78 around the park. Warm overnight numbers. Southerly wind coming up making it warm and humid across our tristate area. Now we will look at sunshine and breaks of that. A warm day, humid day. Back to the great lakes and there is this cold front. Travel to chicago may have delays there, cincinnati, indianapolis. This will slide eastward. That is gets coming eastward, late to us thursday or friday. A popup shower west of the area today. Maybe a pop up thursday afternoon. Thursday night and into friday this front moves through the area. Friday thunderstorms in the morning and possibly into the afternoon. So, you got to make your travel plans around that, whatever you are doing for the weekend. Thunderstorms friday night out on the eastern end of long island. So, the boating forecast, going to the beach, rip current risk is moderate at the beaches. A low risk at the jersey shore. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 knots with gusts to 20 later on. Waves two to three feet. Not as hot today. 84 to 86. Tomorrow 83 with sun and clouds. You can have pop pups any time until the front pushes through the area. That will be on friday. Not as hot as yesterday. Sun and clouds, warm and humid, 86. The real feels close to 90 with the humidity. Warm and stuffy tonight, 74 tomorrow. Thunderstorm north and west. Long island and connecticut thursday night into friday. Friday you have to plan around that, scattered showers and thunderstorms. Its a humid 83. Then 84 on sunday. We will see sun and clouds. Thats why they call it sunday, right . Sunday. You would have sun. Thats why they flunked me out of meteorology school. I will see you guys. I got your back. Dont worry about it. I will take care of this. Lets go to a camera and show you how things look traveling to the George Washington bridge. George Washington Bridge actually looks really great. To no major problems takes no major problems traveling inbound. Southbound side is toward us. Northbound side, that is where you have your big problems. This is all because of an ongoing construction project that you have here. Traveling up the fdr, over here they have cones set up. This is because they have one lane getting by on the fdr drive. Southbound side we have some construction but that southbound construction is one lane closed down. So, you can see what a difference it is between having two lanes closed an one lane closed down. This is the George Washington bridge in the distance doing fine. Here is the west side highway southbound not a bad ride for you here. Going northbound you are doing fine. Looks like that is a great way to go this morning. B. Q. E. Traveling northbound, up to the Brooklyn Bridge, you will find a little bit of a delay with the Brooklyn Bridge closure. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken and michelle, over to you. Thank you, heather. Still ahead, u. S. Coast guard pulled off another daring rescue. This is not over the ocean. Instead it was over the wilderness. A disturbing case of animal cruelty on long island. Authorities find dozens of malnourished animals on a farm. Authors on long island are investigating animal neglect. He is facing 25 counts. Police found doze sense of animals on his farm, many needing medical attention including horses, dogs, geese and many others. The condition these animals were living in is deplorable. They didnt have enough to eat or drink. The water was covered in slime. There was evidence of malnutrition. Some animals ribs were showing. Others had serious infections. Five animals needed medical treatment. The westchester county, a huge fire sent a huge plumb of smoke into the sky. It destroyed a salt shed owned by the state thruway authority. Newscopter 7 was overhead minutes after the fire broke. Nobody was reported to be injured. No waves for this rescue. The coast guard used one of its helicopters from Atlantic City to lift a man off the appalachian trail over the Delaware River gab or water gap in pennsylvania. The steep terrain forced a change intact ticks. Instead of hovering 30 feet above the ground, the chopper stayed at 110 feet. That make it a long way up for a man who suffered multiple injuries when he fell out of a tree and taken to lehigh hospital in allentown. Wow. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the accuweather forecast. Here we go. A look outside. Here is our camera in brooklyn looking across to the wall street section of manhattan and right at the top of one world trade, right there you see the clouds that are low and kind of hanging around here in these early hours. But as we start the day, we will be at a muggy 78 degrees. We are going to a high of 86 today. 75 in islip. Riverhead 66. 76 around newark. Look at the winds out of the south pumping up the moisture. 88 is the humidity over jamaica queens. J. F. K. 91 newark. Taking the ferries water temperature of 75. Look at that water temperature in the sound. 80 degrees going back and forth from bridgeport to port jeff. If you swim it, still kind of comfortable. Naturally. I know you like that kind of stuff. I do, i swim it every day. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about something that is not going swimmingly, the fdr southbound side 96th to 79th street. One lane is closed down. Ongoing construction f. Your plan is to cross the ed koch, 59th street bridge that is doing fine but you encounter that problem traveling on to the fdr drive. We had earlier problems Exchange Place, World Trade Center that have been taken care of on the path trains. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. Michelle and ken, over to you. Thank you, heather. The sketch of tom brady in court is gaining as much attention as the nfl case to begin with. Still ahead this morning, the artist that penned that sketch now stands to profit from the portrait. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Thats the on the money, wall street futures are lower. The dow starts down 33 points at 17,511. Made in china, an American Car Company may become the first to make vehicles in china. Abcs reena ninan and phillip men that have this mornings mena have this mornings headlines. General motors may import buicks from china. It is a cross overmade in beijing. Gm would be the first to sell a chinese made vehicle in the u. S. Target will pay 67 million to visa over the Security Breach in 2013. The accounts of about 40 million customers were hacked. Visa sued target to recoup the costs. We have seen the infamous courtroom sketches. Tom brady from last weeks deflategate hearing. Probably the most well known sketch going crazy. The artist Jane Rosenberg says she may sell it. She said there are bp two dozen interested buyers. No word on how much. Thats americas money. Grim outlook for american apparel. The troubled company says the losses are too substantial to stay in business and they may be nearing bankruptcy. According to the Balance Sheet it has 7 million cash on hand. American apparel is not throwing in the to well yet. They plan to cut costs by 30 million by 2017. An email glitch offered bloomingdale shoppers thousands of dollars in unexpected store credit. By the time the Department Store realized, some had gone shopping. One said she had 5,000s in credit. When she tried to use it, she was denied. One man with 25,000 reportedly bought diamond earrings, a watch and designer bag. Bloomingdales is saying give those things back. Was it credit or a cash gift . Credit you have to pay back. Im confused. There is more to it. Right. Safe and sound after a massive Twitter Campaign and help from police, Rosie Odonnells daughter has been found. You get used to the lingering odors in your bathroom you think it smells fine, but your guests smell this. Febreze air effects heavy duty has up to two times the odoreliminating power to remove bathroom odors youve gone noseblind to use febreze air effects till its fresh. And try febreze small spaces. To continuously eliminate up to two times the odors for 30 days febreze small spaces and air effects, two more ways to breathe happy. I was not aware of how much acidity was in my diet. I was so focused on making good food choices, i had no idea that it was damaging the enamel of my teeth. I wanted to fix it, i wanted to fix it right away. My dentist recommended pronamel. He said that pronamel can make my teeth stronger, that it was important, that that is something i could do each day to help protect the enamel of my teeth. Pronamel is definitely helping me to lead the life that i want to live. Police track down Rosie Odonnells daughter one week after she disappeared. Authorities are trying to find the man behind a brutal attack in upper manhattan. Several workers at Kennedy Airport are facing charges accused of stealing mail. Good morning, im ken rosato. Thank you for being with us, im Michelle Charlesworth in for lori stokes. Today is wednesday, august 19th. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans and the accuweather forecast. Well, it will be the humidity that you feel today. The temperature at 5 3178 degrees. The humidity is way up there, too. So, right around hanover new jersey and around montclair 68 to 74. Making the commute into the city, its 75 around teaneck. 70 around poughkeepsie. Well, at lunch it will be humid. We will be around 68 this afternoon. It will be a muggy night tonight. We got a cold front coming with thunderstorms possible thursday night and a good part of friday. We will talk about that for your friday plans and the weekend coming up, too. Muggy. Thats what its like out there this morning. Weather then heather. How are the subways. Subways are okay. No major problems with the subways. Earlier problems with path trains. They are taken care of. A delay between Exchange Place and newark and World Trade Center. Lets go to a camera and take a look at the George Washington bridge. As you move across the span, doing fine. No major problems to report. Upper level, lower level. Once you get off the span and you want to head down the harlem river drive with a nice clear ride, that wont happen. Lets go to a webcam. Fdr, southbound side is traffic coming toward us. You can see we are bumper to bumper. Northbound side you can see only the right lane is open. So, this is basically between the 70s and the 90s and the 90s getting back down into the 70s. So, a big mess on the east side of manhattan. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken, over to you. Heather, thank you. This morning we are seeing new video of Rosie Odonnells daughter making her way back home to rockland county. She disappeared almost a week ago. She was found on the jersey shore more than 100 miles away. Kala rama is live in south nyack. Reporter michelle, now its time for like any parent to ask the tough questions of why did you leave and how did you get there without telling your parents, right . But all fans are happy to hear that Rosie Odonnells daughter is home safe and sound after missing for a week. Thank you. Im glad she rosie. Thank you very much. Rosie odonnell thanked everyone moments after finding that her daughter chelsea was found safe. Late last night this nyack police s. U. V. Picked up the 17yearold in barnegat and brought her back home. Chelsea was located at a nudge shore point. She was of sound mind and body, lucid, no injuries. Odonnells 850,000 twitter followers were alerted that her daughter chelsea was missing after she tweeted chelsea and her dog bear last seen in nyack, new york may be in nyc. She has a history of Mental Illness and left home with her therapy dog a week ago but not reported missing until sunday. Rosie thought her daughter was staying with friends. Police used the signal from her cell phone to track her down at a home on the jersey shore. The man who answered the door at first denied she was there then cooperated with police. Odonnell tweeting chelsea has been found in police custody. That tweet was favorited and retweeted by thousands of fans. This is now calm after the search party has ended. Now chelsea is home safe and sound. She was adopted by Rosie Odonnell when she was two months old. Live in south nyack, kala rama, channel 2 action news. Thank you, kala. New this morning, disturbing video of a brutal attack in upper manhattan. Police want your help finding a man scene beating and punching a woman in harlem. It happened on west 138th street. The suspect got away with her purse and iphone. She refused any medical help. This morning six Kennedy Airport employees are facing criminal charges, accused of stealing mail. Prosecutors say the workers took part in a scheme to steal male containing about 250,000 in cash. Three of the defendants worked as cargo handlers. In newark, police are looking for the grave robbers who stole human remains from a cemetery. Police say they date back to the 1940s taken from a mass lee yum from the Mount Pleasant cemetery yesterday. No word on suspects. A town hall meeting in mount vernon over the death of a woman found dead in a jail cell in westchester county. The family of Raynetta Turner were there. She died in a Police Holding cell last month two days after being arrested for shoplifting. The cause of death was not determined. I would love to see for these people to answer some questions in my face. I would like to see the cameras that were filming the Police Station if they are supposed to check on their prisoners every 15 minutes, i want to see that. The state Attorney Generals Office is investigating the case. Funeral services will be held for the maryland man that visited thousands of Sick Children as batman. Leonard robinson was killed in a car accident this last weekend. His obituary touched on his 14 years of hospital volunteer work as the socalled route 29 batman. Robinson was known to spend 25,000 of his own money on batman items for kids every year. Mr. Softy is playing hardball with a competitor stealing his jingle, 16 notes in e flat. Mr. Softy is suing new york ice cream for trademark infringement. I think its about time. About time they do something about it. They guys are running around here playing our music, not paying the royalties, pretty much laughing at mr. Softy. Mr. Softy drivers like that one say the rivals playing their jingle cut into their business to the tune of 30 to 40 per day. Wow. That song reminds me of my youth. Mom, 5 cents i want an ice cream cone. Sorry. Sorry. It was more like a quarter. Bill evans with the accuweather forecast. We didnt have a mr. Softy truck. What did you have. We had the fog machine. We chased the fog machine. I feel bad for you. To kill the skeeters. We have cloudy skies. Its humid. The humidities are running 70, 80 . 90 to newark. 78 the temperature right now. It will be a muggy day. Not as hot as yesterday. We hit 90 for the fourth straight day. To the west a cold front that doesnt get her until friday. We have muggy days with temperatures 86 by afternoon. A pop up thunderstorm inland away from the beaches is possible, catskills, northern new jersey, that sort of thing today and tomorrow. Then tomorrow night and friday we have a cold front coming through with thunderstorms for friday. We will talk about that with the travel plans coming up in the weekend forecast. Heather is looking at the commute. I know you chased the Ice Cream Truck as a young lady. I still chase the Ice Cream Truck. With your kids, yes. Of course. Let me show you what you dont want to be chasing. This delay on the l. I. E. South oyster bay road, westbound side traffic coming toward us. Left lane closed down. Right lane emergency activity. This is the l. I. E. Westbound near exit 43 with an accident being cleared away. Then, of course, you have the delay on the fdr drive with ongoing construction. So, southbound side 96 to 79th street, one lane is closed. Northbound 63rd up to 96th street two lanes are closed down. Ed koch, 59th street bridge is moving well in both directions. Then if you go to the Brooklyn Bridge, that is closed inbound until 6 00 a. M. With construction. You can see the long line of delay there on the b. Q. E. Northeast up to the Brooklyn Bridge with a ramp closed because of the Brooklyn Bridge closure. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Ken and michelle, over to you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News on this wednesday morning, outrage over what is going on in times square. Topless women who are painted sparking a debate on whether or not this display should be legal. Also ahead, a look at the wreckage of that deadly plane crash in indonesia. The latest on the desperate efforts to recover the bodies. Images from the deadly plane crash in indonesia. Rescuers are trying to remove the bodies from the wreckage. The crash killed all 54 people aboard. It took rescuers almost two days to reach the crash site because of the forest and terrain and bad weather. Crews are getting creative to put out the fires out west. They battle the flames from the inside then hike back to safety. In washington state, the National Guard is on the ground. Flames near chelan have burned more than 1700 square miles. Nearly 100 fires are burning in washington and idaho. In one area, the area that burned is the size of New Hampshire. Meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. Hey, we take a look from our camera at times square. I dont know. See anybody down there. I dont know. You see elmo or woody or anybody in times square this morning. Here is what is going on. We look at the crossroads of america and down to where Good Morning America is located right there. Here is what is going on this morning. Clear skies, cloudy, a lot of humidity. Humidity running in the 70 to 80 range. We have a bermuda high right over us and that pumps up the moisture from the south. We had. 3 of an inch of rain yesterday. Normal high is 83. We will be at you see the heat wave ends but the humidity ranges on. There could be a thunderstorm or two north and west of the city today and tomorrow. Those storms will stay spotty, but friday they are numerous with a cold front working its way through the tristate area. We will look at a u. V. Index of a 7. Around the area an hour is all it takes for a sunburn. Pollen is high. Ragweed is starting to come on. Northbound and down to massapequa, around 73. Hauppauge here and around 74 as wells as east hampton. Comfortable numbers out there in the coastal section. 74 belmar. 70 to the north. You will the southerly wind out of the gulf wrapped around the bermuda high into the atlantic, that keeps pumping up the moisture around new york state, connecticut, long island. The front, talking about friday, it is back here around chicago. Its moving slowly. It will take about 48 hours to get here. A thunderstorm could pop up this afternoon north and west, maybe another on thursday but you see here comes the front. So, with the front sliding eastward, these showers and thunderstorms come in friday, friday morning, friday afternoon into friday evening. So, travel plans, 11 00 on friday night, everybody will be trying to get to the hamptons or over from connecticut on the ferry, back and forth, new london, fishers island, that will be a problem friday evening. A moderate risk of rip currents at the beaches. Jersey shore a low rip current risk. Not as hot, humid. 86 with 90. Tonight we are down around 74. Its warm and its sticky. Then tomorrow its still quite warm and sticky but it is august. Its 83. We will have scattered thunderstorms that pop up around tomorrow, tomorrow evening, tomorrow night and on friday. Then that kind of gets out of here by friday night. There might be a scattered storm around on saturday or sunday. Mostly saturday and sunday, 80s. Isnt that a at the very wonder song. Just enough, just enough for the sticky. At the very has been in my head stevey has been in my head since he did the concert. I cant get the mr. Softee tune out of my head. Between me and mr. Softee we made bills month. Lets go to a webcam. L. I. E. , this will not make your month at all, especially if you didnt hear about this before you head out the door. This is the l. I. E. Its near exit 43, South Oyster Bay road. Action activity on the left side. Activity on the right side. And you can see there is a ton of delays. We will head to the maps and pinpoint where this is. This is the leigh west near exit 43 where the accident is in the process of being cleared away. 287 west near exit 5 you have an accident there. Its not causing a tremendous amount of delays but then you have this. This is the fdr south 96 to 76th street. One lane is closed northbound 63rd. Two lanes are closed. This is ongoing construction. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken and michelle, over to you. Thank you, heather. National sandwich chain subway is distancing itself from former spokesman jared fogle. Today he is expected to plead guilty to federal child pornography charges. Details in a moment. Ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, you dont have to find a magic lamp to get a cheap ticket to a la din on patients recently rated their Care Experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid. Only seven percent received five stars. Including four of ours. Learn more at cancercenter. Com welcome back. Turning time square into times bare. Topless women are sparking commotion over whether or not bare breasts should be legal on the streets of new york city and raising a question about panhandling. These women with their breasts painted have been spotted working the crowd posing for pictures with tourists for cash tips. Its actually not illegal for women to go topless in the city, hasnt been for a dozen years. The show of skin isnt sitting well with some visitors. A naked woman showing her body painted, i dont see anything wrong with it. I consider myself a decent woman. I am here with kids. I would avoid the area if i knew that is what i was walking into. She has the courage to walk around. Let her enjoy it. Some are not enjoying it and say the problem is all of the aggressive panhandlers, those in costume like woody right there and outside. Mayor de blasio says the city is working on that. Happening today, get ready to be dazzled on the great white way. 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Hersheys is mine, yours, our chocolate. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Happy wednesday. Wednesday, thats right. Hump day. We take a look outside at midtown, clouds out there. Temperature is 78 degrees. Humidity is high this morning. You will notice the stickiness right away as we go to a high of 86. 77 laguardia to jamaica queens, j. F. K. Today if you want to go to the beach, watch out for a moderate risk of rip currents at the new york beaches, long island beaches on the south shore and low risk at the jersey shore. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. Heather has big troubles. Lets take a look at a web and show you. This webcam is showing you a problem on the l. I. E. That problem is right here. Its an accident on the westbound side near exit 43, South Oyster Bay road. Traffic is jam packed at that spot. Another camera and the George Washington bridge where we had a huge accident. It was on the upper level coming inbound. But as you can see, the accident has been cleared away. So, we go to the maps and tell you that the George Washington bridge inbound is ten minutes but that earlier accident cleared. Lincoln is mon nor. Holland a minor delay. Not doing badly at the tunnels. I guarantee that will change soon. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken, over to you. Thank you. Happening today, a source telling abc news that former subway spokesman jared fogle is expected to plead guilty to federal child pornography charges. This is coming six weeks after the fbi seized computers near his home in indianapolis. By that time they charged Russell Taylor with producing child pornography. Fogle became a pitch man for subway 15 years ago after losing 200 pounds on a diet of subway stand tices. Subway sandwiches. Subway had no comment adding it ended its relationship with fogle. A Little League softball scandal with a team playing to lose. They want a rematch for the semifinals. They played again after organizers ruled the manager of the Washington Team had his girls purposely lose a game so that iowa would be knocked out. Little league did what was right and they got it right and they had a lot of integrity to settle it on the field and not let the kids be affected by an adults decision. The iowa girls luck ran out. They lost to a team in rhode island in the semifinals. Following breaking news stretching across two states. Police in new jersey have in custody the man suspected of Staten Island. How do you feel about your wireless company. New numbers show which Company Ranks highest in customer satisfaction. We wont see the extreme heat we have seen the last few days but we will feel the humidity. I was not aware of how much acidity was in my diet. That it was damaging the enamel. I wanted to fix it right away. My dentist recommended pronamel. He said pronamel can make my teeth stronger. Pronamel is helping me lead the life that i want to live. Good morning. 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