Minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist jeff smith in for bill with the accuweather forecast. Its going to be a muggy monday out there, we have a couple of showers especially well east of the city. Check that out on the accutrack radar. We zoom into that area right now, east hampton. Were talking out by montauk, to south hampton, a couple showers out there. Might even be a downpour or two. These are moving from south to north. These are going to be dissipating for the next few hours. See that little wedge of clearing moving into eastern pennsylvania, that moves in during the day today. That means were going to be having a lot of sunshine. 74 in the park. Laguardia temperatures in the upper 50s. Dew points are in the uncomfortable category. 72 at 8 a. M. , 82 at noon, probably top out around 86 at 2 00 before falling back down to 82 by 4 00 in the afternoon. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Shes in for heather. Good morning jeff, good morning to everybody. Well start off by telling you lirr, new jersey transit, metro north on or close to schedule. On the 1 train no service 14th to south ferry. Its all due to track work. If youre heading to battery tunnel watch for construction. The east tube is closed. The ed koch 59th street bridge, ongoing crush into queens. Its that ongoing maintenance project. Inbound George Washington bridge lower level and the palisades approach ez pass only until 6 and alternate side parking rules are in effect for today city wide. Thank you. 4 32. We have breaking news, firefighters pull a toddler out of a burning building in brooklyn overnight. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark live in marine park with what we know right now. Good morning. Reporter good morning ken, that 2yearold was rushed to beth israel hospital in very Critical Condition. Eyewitnesses tell us that emts did try to resuscitate the little 2yearold in front of happened. Lets take a look at the house here. You can see where the fire happened here in the 3700 block of avenue p. The fire broke out around 1 15 and was placed under control at around 1 45. Eyewitnesses tell us there were two men who ran inside the home to try and help the family. One man was walking the dog and saw the smoke. Another neighbor who lives across the street also ran over to help. Both men rushed into the home with the intent on saving that 2yearold, but the smoke was so intense that it pushed them back outside of the house. The Fire Department arrived here very quickly according to those witnesses and ultimately it was a a firefighter who rushed inside that burning home and found the 2yearold and removed the 2yearold from inside the house. Eyewitnesses tell us that for quite some time there emts were doing their best to try and resuscitate the 2yearold who is at the hospital. Heres more from one of those men who rushed inside the home. He was more than willing to share his story. Say to us. People screaming my little brother, my little brother. Im like what happened to your little brother. They say hes upstairs in the room. When i looked upstairs all i can see is smoke gushing out the window. Me and another guy rushed into the house. We try to break the door. We back off. Theres too much smoke. That was one of two men who rushed inside that home hoping to save that 2yearold who he says is a little boy. Were still waiting on confirmation of that. It was a very quick fire. Certainly it caused significant damage to the home. Right now fire investigators and the nypd remain on the scene trying to determine a cause. Were live in the Mariners Park section of brooklyn this morning, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you dray. Developing now investigators are questioning two teenagers after a pellet gun shooting near Gracie Mansion last night. One of those pellets struck a Police Officer in the back. Kala rama is live with details. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. That officer has since been released from the hospital and morning. Happened. Just beyond this crime scene van a block away you can see the entrance there to Gracie Mansion. That officer was pulling in in an Unmarked Police cruiser and she got out and felt something hit her in the back. They discovered it was a pellet from a pellet gun. Police say she was hit in the lower back and had some bruising. She was taken to the hospital just to be checked out. Again, she is doing just fine this morning. Police tell me at no point was mayor de blasio ever in danger. The mayor and the first lady of new york city were actually out of town this weekend. They brought their son dante to college. Heres what we know about whos responsible for this pellet gunshotting incident outside Gracie Mansion. Police say two 19yearolds, a man and woman were taken into custody and are being questioned about this shooting. Were also told that they policy possibly live in the area possibly in the building across the street from Gracie Mansion. That is one of the things officers are supposed to be hashing out. Were life on the Upper East Side, kala rama Eyewitness News. The three americans and a british man who tackled a heavily armed man on a train speeding through belgium have received frances highest honor. The french president pinned the medal of honor. The gunman is being questioned by french Counterterrorism Police outside of paris we will have a full time is 4 36. A fire in queens took a deadly toll killing the man and woman who became trapped in a home. The fire in far rockaway is under investigation because it spread with unusual intensity. Flames were jetting out of six ground floor windows. Officials say it was a colliers mansion. The flames clutter inside. It was terrible but two cops came. They were the first to respond. They came in an unmarked car. They tried to do whatever they equipped. The Fire Department response relatively speaking was slow. The bodies of the man and woman were burned beyond recognition. 4 37. It happened yesterday as rapper fetty watch performed at the theater. Causing the crowd to rush the stage. The two concert goers were not seriously hurt. This boat was hit on saturday. The boat t tt hit them may have a white cabin and an aluminum propeller. Today begins the three day process for sentencing james holmes, the murderer who killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a colorado movie theater. 100 victims and witnesses are expected to testify about the crimes impact on their lives. The trial judge will sentence holmes to life on 24 counts of first degree murder, two for each of those killed. The first family is back in washington after their annual Summer Vacation in marthas vineyard. President obama has a lot of work ahead of him. The house and senate are scheduled to return to session after labor day. The president will have to build support for his nuclear deal with iran and hell be looking for a budget compromise to avoid a government shutdown. If you are in the mood for a road trip now is the time. Good news for drivers in the garden state, gas prices plunging below 2 bucks a gallon in some parts of new jersey. A gas station in wood bridge selling gas for 1. 97. Week after week after week, this is the ninth straight week gas prices have dropped in new jersey. The state average is still 2. 32 a gallon. Prices are expected to keep dropping through the fall. Also in new jersey one young lady is going to have a heck of a story to tell about her welcome to the world. This is a picture of bella rose abbud. She was born saturday night in sea bright in her parents car on the side of the road. Bella was not waiting. Dad says things got a little nerve wracking once moms water broke. Shes like no, shes coming now. Thats when she puts the seat in recline. She takes her pants off, and i see the babys head and im like, oh, my god, no. Oh, yes. The abbuds caught a huge break. There was an emt in the car in front of them, and she jumped out and helped with the delivery, again, on the side of the road in sea bright. Momma and baby doing fine. The couple also has a 17month old son. Hes said to be in love with his new baby sister. Good looking family, and good name, bella meaning pretty, right. She is a pretty girl. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. And i heard the 17monthold son was actually born in the hospital. Not on the highway. Theres something unique there. A live look towards midtown. We have a couple of clouds especially on eastern long island. A few showers as indicated ant High Resolution futurecast. Some can last into the mid and late Morning Hours over the twin forks of long island. The rest of the area were high and dry and talking sunshine during the majority of the day. Later on this afternoon a cold front from the west. I dont think those showers and storms get in here until well after dark. Lets take a spin on the weather wheel. We have temperatures in the lower 70s, mid70s at 10 a. M. We rise into the middle 80s, our high probably around 2 p. M. Around 86 degrees. Its muggy out there. It will feel even warmer than 86 and temperatures tail back off into the lower 80s and upper 70s. Full accuweather sevenday forecast. We have a bunch of beauties on there coming up in a few minutes. Right now we send it over to Debbie Duhaime. Good morning jeff, were going to start off with the maps and tell you about a problem at the whitestone bridge into the bronx, an accident. Throgs neck a better choice. Tappan zee bridge speeds down to 45 Miles Per Hour because of the weather. Taking a ride to 88 over by route 9. Its an accident with a downed pole. Crews are still at the scene. Lets go to our webcam, up by kinsey boulevard okay. A little bit of fog. As we go to our other camera, the new jersey turnpike. Heres the new jersey turnpike northbound toward 13a and elizabeth. No problems to report there, and everything moving smoothly on the garden state parkway. Everything still moving fine at the hudson river crossings. No problems to report at the hudson river crossings. Alternate side parking rules are in effect for today city wide. Back over to you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, when it rains it pours in michigan. Drivers trapped in their cars as flood waters rise. An accused cop shooter is charged with attempted murder after opening fire on an officer with a sawed off shotgun. This morning a grim outlook on that state troopers condition. And a chicago activist who lived his life fighting crime in his community, now grieving powerful thunderstorms brought new flooding in lansing michigan and that meant a sunday afternoon trip to the zoo left cars stranded in deep water nearby. Six drivers had to be rescued total loss. Half an inch of rain came down in the first 15 minutes of that storm, and some parts of the a half. Meteorologist jeff smith joining us now at 4 45 for the good morning. Good morning guys. As that system approaches us from the west later on tonight into early tomorrow, it will be weakening. Were not expecting big storms around here. A live look towards midtown, in Astoria Queens high and dry in the city. Just a few clouds out there. Humiditys up there at 73 . Because the humidity so high fog. Debbie had alluded to that earlier. We have visibilities down to a state parkway in spots. 82 is your normal high this time of year. Well be beating that by 3 or 4 degrees by later on today. 94 the record in 1972. Sun coming up a at 6 15 setting at 7 42 this evening. Muggy out there today, a few showers later on tonight with that cold front passing on through. As it passes on through tomorrow, there could be a thundershower around, especially earlier in the day. The less humid air starts trickling in. We have a beautiful stretch of weather beginning on wednesday and lasting through the weekend. Visibilities down to a half mile in places like belmar and toms river down the shore with that fog here in the city, no worries with that 10mile visibility, temperatures in the mid70s here in the city but in the 50s and 60s in some of the outer suburbs. Another thing we have been watching in addition to the fog there are showers way east of the city. Out towards montauk, a couple of these contain downpours. Theyre going to be weakening during the next several hours and giving way to sunshine as some drier air in the mid levels of the atmosphere moves in from the west. Again, this front will try to slice on through here later on tonight and tomorrow. As it does so there could be a shower or thunderstorm with that. Were tracking the tropics right now. We do have Tropical Storm danny here east of the leeward islands. This is moving off to the west. Well move just south of puerto rico during the day tomorrow. This is actually good news for drought recently. This is going to be very weak by the time it passes but there will be beneficial rainfall. Theres another system were watching carefully that can develop into a tropical system. Warm and humid for the day, the high around 86. As we head into the day tomorrow, maybe a thundershower around that front. The drier air comes in later on in the afternoon. Accuweather forecast for today, partly to mostly sunny, warm, humid, 86, mostly cloudy and muggy with a few showers and a thunderstorm out there tonight north and west of the city during the evening, probably waits until after midnight in the city. Could be a shower or thunderstorm especially in the morning tomorrow, 85. Less humid on wednesday. Look at this stretch we have coming up. 84 wednesday, 82 and 84 for thursday and friday. 86 and 87 for saturday and sunday. Pretty benign accuweather forecast. I like that. I bet you Debbie Duhaime could come up with a good word for us. Beautiful, i like this weather im very happy. Beautiful, benign. It works right . Good morning, Michelle Jeff and everybody. Im going to tell you about a problem at the whitestone bridge getting into the bronx. So you may want to take the throgs neck instead. Up at the Tappan Zee Bridge speeds down to 45 Miles Per Hour because of the visibility issues at the tap and at the George Washington bridge lower level and palisades parkway ez pass only. Back over to you. Thank you. 4 49, a violent confrontation between a father and son ends with the murder of oklahomas labor commissioner. Police in Oklahoma City say marcus stello was stabbed to death by his son in a restaurant. The suspect is one of the victims five children. Police have not said what may have led to the stabbing. 4 49 right now, a Louisiana State trooper is in Critical Condition, the victim of a shotgun blast to the face. Authorities say Trooper Steven vincent was shot yesterday afternoon about 20 miles from the texas border. Suspect kevin dagle is charged with attempted murder. He shot vincent after the trooper approached dagles pickup truck sitting in a ditch. Good samaritans stopped to help vincent. Two men who made violent online threats against people attending the poke man world championships, the two men were stopped as they tried to enter the event. Police got a warrant to search their car and found the men had a 12 gauge shotgun, an ar15 rifle, several rounds of ammo and a hunting knife. Police in indiana are searching for suspects in the shooting death of the daughter of an antiviolence activist. She was sitting in a car outside an indianapolis mall when gunfire broke out. Her father who helps victims of violence in chicago reflected on his daughters life. 32 years, 32 years of joy, something that you the perpetrators couldnt take away from me. A man was also killed during that incident. Police say the shooting was sparked by an argument at a movie theater. Tense negotiations between north and south korea are stretching into a third day. South koreas president says propaganda broadcasts will continue until north korea apologizes for planting land mines that maimed two south korean soldiers. South koreas military says north korea continues to move unusual numbers of troops and submarines to front line positions. 4 51 right now on this monday morning. Coming up on Eyewitness News black soot frames the windows of a highrise building in harlem. An update on the people who were hurt indicating several firefighters. A crash at an air show ends in tragedy. Seven people we you seen victoria. Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. 4 54. Welcome back, there were few worries about what to wear during a revealing walk through midtown. Oh, my. New yorkers among 60 cities worldwide that took part in the go topless pride parade. Only a few dozen men and women took part. Men are always wanting to go topless. I cant figure out why these men do this. It was part of the eighth annual go topless day which promotes gender equality when it comes to baring ones chest. These topless men i cant understand them. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Jeff, im glad you dont go topless anymore. This is the point where the weatherman keeps his mouth shut. Just do the weather. Were looking at we dont want to get in trouble. Were looking at eastern long island. We have a couple of showers by the twin forks close to Shelter Island getting a decent downpour. Thats the only area getting rainfall right now. That will weaken. Highs today getting into the middle 80s in the park, lower 80s on the island and mid80s along the jersey shore. Debbie has a look at the roads and rails. Well start off by telling you about an accident at the whitestone bridge into the bronx. An accident that looks like the throgs neck treating you better at this point f. Youre taking a ride to 88 at route 9 in lakewood its an accident with a downed pole. The inbound gowanus moving okay towards the prospect. At the battery tunnel ongoing construction. Thank you very much. It was an awful weekend for several families in harlem after a fire burned through a 35 Story Building for more than an hour. This was at broadway and 133rd street. Two dozen people were injured. Many of them firefighters. Eyewitnesses say the hallways filled with smoke as firefighters rushed to get everybody out. The victims are expected to recover from their injuries. One fast thinking teenager in the apartment next to the where the fire started. I gave them towels to put on their mouth and then we were waiting for them to knock on the door and i just said keep it over your mouth as we go down the stairs so we dont inhale the smoke. A teenager could hear firefighters nearby but still called 911 to make sure help would reach her family. They all got out safely. Thank goodness. We are closing in on 5 00 brooklyn. Flames ripped through a home early this morning leaving a toddler in Critical Condition. Were live at the scene with the quick moves by the Fire Department to get that fire under control. And new this morning, the three americans who jumped into action taking down a heavily armed man on a train received frances highest honor. And were going to see the heat and humidity again today and feel it too before some big relief. Meteorologist jeff smith in for bill. He has the exclusive accuweather forecast on this monday morning when channel 7 stay with us. Now new yorks number 1 news channel 7 Eyewitness News this morning. And were following break news at 5 a. M. , a toddler in Critical Condition after a fire spreads through a home in brooklyn. Were live on the scene updating the investigation. And a member of mayor de blasios security detail is recovering this morning after she was shot in the back with a pellet gun. Were live at Gracie Mansion. The highest honor for civilians in france given to three americans this morning for their quick action and bravery in confronting a terror suspect. Good morning, im ken rosato. And im michelle stokes. Thank you for being with us on this monday august 24th. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and meteorologist jeff smith in for bill with the exclusive accuweather forecast. A muggy monday shaping up and a couple other things were watching this morning, one of those being a little batch of showers over extreme eastern parts of long island over the twin forks, even a couple of downpours, were talking near Shelter Island near east hampton getting a couple of showers in that vicinity. Those will be weakening during the next couple of hours, drier air tending to move in from the west and kind of erode this marine layer. 74 in the city, 60s in the north and western suburbs. Another thing that were watching this morning, a little jersey shore lowering visibility to a half mile or so. Dew points have risen up to 65 so the humiditys in the uncomfortable level right now and will continue that way through tomorrow, and then the humidity really comes down heres your day planner, 72 at 8 00 in the morning, were looking pretty good. Temperatures in the lower and middle 80s as we head into the afternoon. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Shes in for heather with a look at traffic. Morning to everybody. Well start off on the subways and tell you about track work going on over on the 1 train terminating at 14th street and 2 and 3 local only 34th to chambers because of that ongoing track work. At the whitestone bridge into the bronx its an accident blocking two lanes. Try the throgs neck instead. Throgs neck treating you a little better at this point. Problems on route 88 right at route 9 in lakewood. An accident that happened last night, crews are still at the scene working on that downed pole. At the Tappan Zee Bridge speeds reduced to 45 Miles Per Hour. The Staten Island expressway eastbound still moving okay here through bradley avenue, and finally going over to our other camera, the van wyck is off to a nice start in both directions. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. 5 02. Breaking news in brooklyn, a toddler in Critical Condition after an Early Morning house fire. It started about 1 this morning on avenue p in marine park. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark live at the scene with the story. Reporter good morning ken, neighbors tell us that 2year old is a little boy, and they say he was not doing well when he was rushed to beth israel hospital. We do know that emts did try to resuscitate that little boy right here in front of the home where the fire happened. Here is a look at the home here in the 3700 block of avenue p here in the marine park section of brooklyn. The fire broke out around 1 15 this morning and was placed under control around 1 45. Neighbors say there was a lot of smoke coming from the second floor of the home. There were two people, one guy who was walking his dog and noticed the smoke and another neighbor who lives across the street. Both of these men rushed inside the apartment there or the house i should say with the intent on saving that 2year old little boy, but they say the smoke was so significant, so intense it pushed them back out the house. The Fire Department was here in a very quick amount of time, and it was one of the firefighters who rushed in to save that 2yearold little boy. Heres more from one of the men who rushed inside the home. He did not want to show his face on camera, but he willing to share his story. The guy i told him the babys upstairs in the room. He put on his mask and the guy went upstairs. It took less than 2 minutes for him to bring the child outside. From the Fire Department. He brought the child outside and laid him on the grass. There was like four fireman and some ambulance start to perform cpr on the baby. Yeah, they performed cpr for quite some time and then rushed the 2yearold to beth israel and were still waiting for an update on his condition, but at last check he was in very Critical Condition. Here at the scene the fdny is here starting the investigative phase of what happened here trying to determine exactly how this fire broke out. So, again, a 2yearold rushed to the hospital in extreme condition, extreme Critical Condition after an Early Morning fire here in the marine park section of brooklyn. For now were live dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you dray. Now to a developing story. Two teens are being questioned after a Police Officer in mayor de blasios security detail was shot by a pellet gun. It happened outside of Gracie Mansion last night. An officer was getting out of an unmarked car when she felt pain in her lower back. An 18yearold boy and 17year old girl have been questioned. There have been no arrests made. Well have a live update ahead at 5 30. A crane is removing the last of the wreckage from saturdays air show jet crash in southern england. British police now say the death toll will probably rise to 11. Original reports were that seven people died when the fighter jet crashed on a busy road during a loop maneuver. The pilot miraculously survived, remains hospital used ken. 5 06. Stocks got off to a dismal start across asia. Chinas main index plunged 8. 5 erasing all the gains so far this year. Jittery. There were signs some investors were venturing back in. Wall street coming off its worst weekly slump in four years. It fell 6 friday. Stock futures indicate another rough day lies ahead. New this morning, a heros welcome for three americans who stopped an attack on a train in france. The men received the highest honor from the french government this morning. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details. In a ceremony at the president ial palace in france, three american friends humbly severed frances highest honor, the legion of honor. Oregon National Guardsman alek skarlatos, Spencer Stone and a british businessman were honored for their selfless acts of courage. Last week these Three Friends made a split second decision to stop a gunman. We saw him cocking an ak47. Stone sprang into action. We hit the ground, alke came up and grabbed the gun out of his hand. I put him in a chokehold. It seems like he kept calling more weapons left and right. The gunman nearly severed stones hand with a box cutter but that didnt stop him from giving first aid to the british businessman who had been shot. French authorities have identified the gunman as ayoub elkhazzani, a moroccan national. The 25yearold was on a security watch list. A lawyer for elkhazzani says he is not a terrorist but a homeless man. Stephanie ramos abc news. Stay with Eyewitness News and abc news for updates on the terror attack investigation. Good morning america will pick up our coverage with a live report from paris. Multiple explosions and a large fire at a u. S. Army base lit up the night sky tokyo. The first blast came after midnight in a building that stored compressed gas. No word on why this happened, but video on Japanese Television showed a fire in the distance, subsequent explosions shooting small fiery blasts into the night sky. We are working to confirm whether anyone was hurt. There are new signs Vice President joe biden could be serious about jumping into the race for president. Martin omalley told George Stephanopoulos it would be nice to have biden in the race. Omalley says he has a great deal of respect for biden. Biden met with massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. It is thought that biden could have made a pitch for her support. Former president jimmy carter is given two back to back bible lessons to large crowds. More than 700 people attended the sessions in plains georgia. Some traveled hundreds of miles to hear carter share his insights on faith, love, and relationships three days after undergoing radiation treatment for cancer. The former president explained his treatment and how doctors discovered the disease was spreading. They removed part of my liver and i think they got all the cancer from my liver but then we had another mri and it showed up i have four places in my brain, and so this thursday they treated that with radiation and im taking additional medicine to stimulate my autoimmune system to fight against the cancer. The 90yearold says radiation is complete. He also says he plans to stay as active as possible but also will use this opportunity to cut back. Carter has been Teaching Sunday School for more than three decades at the small Red Brick Church attends. Those former president s they are amazing. All of them. Unreal. It is 5 10 right now. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with jeff smith in for bill evans. Were watching a couple things, a few showers over eastern long island. Parts of the area getting dense fog, especially along the jersey shore. Were looking pretty over towards midtown. Mainly clear skies. Heres our High Resolution futurecast, during the Morning Hours showers over eastern long island tending to weaken. Were talking extreme eastern long island. 90 of the area remains dry during the day. Those showers weakening by around 10 or 11 00 in the morning. We watch a cold front approaching from the north and west. I dont think those showers and storms get into the north and western suburbs until overnight tonight. Much of the area just remaining dry during the day today. Temperatures rising well into the 80s, its muggy out there too. 86 by 2 00 in the afternoon, that will feel warmer with the humidity and back down into the upper 70s and low 80s as we approach evening. We send it over to debbie right now. Well start off on the subway, tell you about whats happening on the 1 train. Keep in mind downtown terminating on 14th street. Lets go to the whitestone bridge. Whitestone bridge into the bronx, an accident still being cleared. Keep in mind if youre going to be taking a ride to 206, a problem on 206 southbound at brooks boulevard in hillsborough, thats an accident involving a truck fire and going outside to our webcam, heres a look at the approach to the inbound side of the holland tunnel. Everything moving okay here, 1 and 9 as you get out toward the inbound highland. Our other camera, the inbound George Washington bridge is moving slowly. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. Back to you. Thank you very much. 5 12. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning severe rainfall leads to chaos in the south when an entire road collapses even swallowing up a police cruiser. Well show you the damage left behind. Also ahead, summer snow. Find out where it fell over the weekend, and youre going to be patients across the country have spoken. They recently rated their Care Experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid. Just seven percent received five stars. Among them were four hospitals that are part of Cancer Treatment centers of america. Learn more at cancercenter. Com. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Care that never quits. Appointments available now. New video this morning, something thats going to cause a few detours in shelbyville tennessee. The city was working on new drainage system for that section of road. It had collapsed twice this year before the latest mess. Authorities say it could take months to rebuild the road. Say it aint so, snow . What is that behind me . Well, what you ought to see before labor day. The good news here is that is alberta canada. Theyve got their first taste of winter. The city of calgary had snow flurries, not much in terms of accumulation. In the Higher Elevations closer to the Rocky Mountains snow did blanket the ground. Im feeling a little queasy right now. Im feeling a little thankful that we live here. I need br ios ky. My friends in brooklyn and the bronx, its like a fizzy drink that helps settle your stomach. Meteorologist jeff smith in for bill evans. Im going to pretend i didnt hear that story. Someones got two thumbs right here and hes going to be in trouble in a few months. Were looking at George Washington bridge right now. Temperatures around 74 degrees. Humidity up at 73 . Its a muggy monday morning out there. The wind is calm, the pressure 29. 93 and steady. Average high this time of year around 82. Were getting into the mid80s today. Well go above normal, the record high 94 back in 1972. Sun coming up at quarter past 6 this morning. Why dont i draw your attention to the visibilities. We have visibility down to about a third of a mile in belmar due to dense fog, down to about 5 miles in monticello, especially outside of the city, the farther outside of the city we head the better chance you have of running into dense fog out there early this morning. Right now 63 in morristown. You even have 50s well north and west in places like sussex and monticello. Low 70s on the island. Speaking of the island were still watching a couple of showers over extreme eastern long island up by the twin forks not too far from Shelter Island, not too far from montauk. Even a few downpours involved. Theyre going to be weakening during the next few hours. Drier air tending to move in from the west. Much of the region is just going to average partly to mostly sunny. Then this cold front slices through later on tonight with that, maybe a shower or storm. Were watching the tropics, Tropical Storm danny right now moving into the leeward islands. Going to be moving south of puerto rico by tuesday. Thats good news for places like san juan. Youre in a drought. Youre going to get beneficial rainfall from that. Were watching another system in the tropics. This has potential to develop into a named system during the next couple of days. Around here, heres your accuweather forecast for today. Warm, humid, those early showers over eastern long island. The high getting up to 86 for tonight mainly cloudy, muggy, a couple showers and a thunderstorm arriving north and evening. A few might survive the trip into the city after midnight. Shouldnt be a big deal. Clouds giving way to sun thunderstorm possible, especially early in the day. The high around 85. Less humid air working its way in from the city and points west late in the day tomorrow. Youll start to notice it, and wednesday is going to be absolutely spectacular. Humidity. That continues into thursday, friday, humidity inches up a little bit on the weekend. Thats a pretty nice looking sevenday forecast as we round out the month of august. Less humid, tastes great, less humid tastes great. Pretty good looking isnt it, good looking saturday. Speaking of good looking, Debbie Duhaime. Good morning, ken Michelle Jeff. First well start on the subways, the 1 train downtown terminating at 14th street with track maintenance. 2 and 3 downtown local only 34th to chambers because of that. Lirr new jersey transit, metro north on time. Over at the whitestone bridge into the bronx its an accident being cleared and taking a ride over to 206. 206 southbound at brooks boulevard in hillsborough thats an accident with a truck into the overpass. Going to our webcam heres a like at the l. I. E. Moving okay. Alternate side in effect. Back to you, michelle, ken. Thank you. 5 19 right now. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, the problem that led apple to recall its iphone 6 plus. And an emotional journey down the aisle for comedian tracy morgan after months of physical therapy big congratulations this morning to comedian tracy morgan who tied the knot with his longtime fiancee. Morgan married woll overin a ceremony in new jersey with her 2yearold daughter in attendance. In june of last year morgan was in a serious car accident that killed his friend and left morgan critically injured and needing longterm rehab. They were both passengers in the car. His wife told People Magazine im so grateful to be married to the of of my life. You are never more than 7 traffic. Meteorologist jeff smith in for forecast. Were still watching a couple of showers over the twin forks of eastern long island. Those should be weakening during the next several hours. The rest of the region is pretty much high and dry. Well average partly to mostly sunny during the day today. Upper 80s farther away from the ocean in morristown and poughkeepsie. If youre heading to the beach, winds south at 5 to 10. Be careful the rip current risk is moderate. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Shes got a look at the monday morning commute. Good morning jeff and good morning everybody starting off, a problem on 206 right now, 206 southbound at brooks boulevard in hillsborough. A truck into the overpass. Watch for some delays building the whitestone bridge getting into the bronx, watch out for an accident, try the throgs neck. Heres a look at the Northern State through 106, remember we had that flooding last week. Everything moving fine through that stretch right now. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. 5 23. Thank you debbie. The chaos on long island that led to injuries for two concert goers. More trouble on the horizon for your 401 k . Stock markets are plunging anything. Anywhere. Anytime. Anyone. Spread the delicious taste you know and love. Hersheys is mine, yours, our chocolate spreads. Youre a parent. Im a colonel. 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I think in general over the next couple of hours theyll be weakening as drier air tends to move in from the west. That means most of the area will just be partly to mostly sunny during the day today. Maybe some fog to start in the outer suburbs. Right now you have temperatures in the lower and middle 60s down the jersey shore. Weve had some denser fog. 64 morristown, mid to upper 50s well north and west. Dew points up around 65. This measures the amount of moisture in the atmosphere and basically measures our comfort level. It will stay that way during the day today. Its kind of muggy, 72 at 8 00 in the morning. Other than those showers over 82 by noontime. Topping off in the middle 80s during the afternoon. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Good morning jeff, good morning everybody. The subways right now. The 1 train. Downtown terminating at 14th with track work still going on. The 2 and 3 downtown local only 34th to chambers, and on the 7 queens bound express only 74 will lets point due to ongoing signal issues. George, lincoln and the holland moving smoothly. And lets see whats happening on 206. 206 southbound this is right at brooks boulevard and hillsborough a truck into the overpass. Expect delays building heading through that area. And the whitestone bridge getting into the bronx, an accident still being cleared. Lets go over to our webcam. Heres a look at the throgs neck bridge in both directions a better choice than the whitestone. Alternate side parking rules are in effect for today city wide. Back to you. Thank you. At 5 32 we have breaking news in brooklyn, flames consume a home early this morning. A toddler is in Critical Condition. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live at the scene. Reporter good morning michelle and ken. Fdny investigators are still on the scene trying to determine a cause of the fire. That 2yearold who suffered smoke inhalation remains in Critical Condition at beth israel. Heres a look at the home where the fire happened this morning. This is the 3700 block of avenue p here in the marine park section of brooklyn. The fire broke out around 1 15 this morning. Firefighters had it under control. There were two eyewitnesses. One who saw the smoke, the other who heard the commotion. Both of those men ran inside to the second floor of the home hoping to rescue that 2year old little boy, but the smoke house. The Fire Department was very quickly. It was a firefighter who ultimately ran inside the home and was able to locate the 2 yearold and bring him out of the house. We do know that emts resuscitated that young man and condition. Heres more from one of the men who ran inside the home trying boy. All the people screaming, my little brother, my little brother. So i was like what happened to your little brother right. Room. When i looked upstairs all i could see is smoke gushing out the window, right, so me and another guy, another caucasian guy, me and him rushed into the house. When we rushed into the house we tried to break the door. I told him no, lets back off. Theres too much smoke. That smoke he says was very intense, and he was happy to see the Fire Department arrive just seconds later after they had to leave the house because of the smoke. Again, a firefighter making that rescue and the 2yearold now listed in Critical Condition fighting to stay alive. Were live, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you so much. We continue to follow a developing story, a member of mayor de blasios security detail was shot in the back with a pellet gun outside of Gracie Mansion. Kala rama is live on the Upper East Side with the latest on that. Reporter michelle, good morning, since the incident happened, that female officer has been released from the hospital. Shes doing just fine this morning, but let me show you where this happened. You see at the end of the block, thats the driveway to Gracie Mansion. That officer was pulling into the driveway in an Unmarked Police cruiser, and when she got out of the car she felt something hit her in the back. Then she discovered she was hit by a pellet from a pellet gun. She was hit in the lower back and had some bruising. She was taken to the hospital just to be checked out. Police tell me at no point was mayor de blasio ever in any danger. The mayor and the first lady of new york city are actually out of town. They were out of town this weekend bringing their son dante to college. Heres what we know about whos responsible for this pellet gun shooting incident outside Gracie Mansion. Police say two 19yearolds, a man and a young woman were taken into custody and are being go ahead about the shoot being questioned about the shooting. Were also told they may live in the area. They may live in a building here across from Gracie Mansion. Were told they are still looking into this. Officers will hopefully have more information for us about a possible arrest coming later today, and well learn about that later this morning. Were live on the Upper East Side, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. We have new pictures to show you of a group of men police say beat a man to death in brooklyn. These pictures came into the Eyewitness News room a few hours ago. These men are among five who beat and kicked a man in the street in front of a deli on utica avenue in Crown Heights saturday morning. The man died that afternoon. A fire in queens took a deadly toll killing the man and woman who became trapped in a home. The fire in far rockaway is under investigation because it spread with unusual intensity. By the time firefighters arrived flames were jetting out of six ground floor windows. Officials say the flames were fueled by clutter inside. It was terrible, but two cops came. They were the first persons to respond. They came in an unmarked car and tried valiantly to do whatever they could do, but they were not equipped, and the Fire Department their response relatively speaking was slow. The bodies of the man and woman were burned beyond recognition. A chaotic scene at a Music Festival on long island has left two concert goers hurt. Performed. Two women got trapped under a fence after the rapper jumped off the stage. The move caused the crowd to rush the stage. New Jersey State Police need your help in feigning a hit and finding a hit and run boater. This lake was hit saturday. The boat was badly damaged. It may have a white cabin and aluminum propeller. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with jeff smith and the accuweather forecast. Weve been watching a couple of showers over eastern long island. Here in the city we are high and dry as we take a live look down towards 1 world trade. Another factor were looking at this morning is a little bit of fog, especially down the jersey shore. Belmars visibility down to a third of a mile. Be careful if youre out driving this morning. High resolution futurecast showing those showers over eastern long island weakening during the next few hours, and they should be just about gone by 10 or 11 00 in the morning as dry air kind of takes over. Watch that line into pennsylvania. That approaches the Delaware Water Gap by sunset, and some of these showers and thunderstorms can get into areas north and west of the city during the evening hours as another cold front approaches. During the Daylight Hours of today, other than that little fly in the ointment over eastern long island with a couple of showers, should be partly to mostly sunny. 75 by 10 00 in the morning. We have temperatures up to 86 by 2 p. M. , humid out there. It will feel warmer than these actual air temperatures and then were back into the upper 70s and low 80s. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime. Shes got a look at the roads and the rails this monday morning. Good morning jeff. Good morning everybody. Well start off by telling you about a problem on 206. 206 southbound is closed at brooks boulevard in hillsborough. Truck into the overpass. The northbound side is taking twoway traffic. Downtown terminating with ongoing track work. Also 2 and 3 downtown local only 34th to chamber, and on the 7 queens bound express only 74 through willis point due to ongoing signal issues. Still moving smoothly. East river crossings, 59th street bridge, battery tunnel still moving okay. Over at the whitestone bridge getting into the bronx an of the way. Ill also show you a look at webcam. Heres a look at the throgs traffic is moving okay. No problem getting into the bronx at the throgs neck bridge. Heres a look at the l. I. E. Westbound coming into casino boulevard starting to pick up volume. Our other camera at the Grand Central parkway. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. Back to you, michelle, ken. Thank you. New video police want you to see as they try to track down a group of men. How they managed to make a clean get away. I see her stomach and im like its smaller. It like shrunk. Im like that babys not in the stomach anymore. Yep. Also ahead the special delivery on the side of a busy new jersey road. The Good Samaritans who jumped in right when it really since 1961, Pearle Vision has provided the neighborhood with expert eye care. That was dr. Stanley pearles vision and we still proudly carry on his legacy. Today, doctors like Lisa Hamilton perform eye exams that can help detect diabetes. Because we care for you. And your eyes. This is genuine eye care, in your neighborhood. This is Pearle Vision. 5 42. Police in the bronx need help identifying the men who year overyear out of a public garage with stolen cars. It happened about down at the surf logistics parking garage at the grand concourse village west. One man distracted the attendant, second man took some keys from the lot office. A few minutes later four men used those keys to simply drive off in a beautiful range rover and a honda. Please give police a call if you recognize the men. In new jersey one couple will be talking about a very special delivery for a long time. This is little bella rose abbud. She is only two days old but shes already made little bit of a name for herself. Bella rose decided to make her debut in her parents car while they were struck in traffic. Dad pulled over to the side of the road in sea bright and nature took its course. She said no shes coming now, and thats when she puts the seat in recline. She takes her pants off, and i see the babys head, and im like, oh, my god god, no. Oh, yes. There was an emt in the car in front of the abbuds who helped out with the delivery. Everybody is doing just fine. The couples 17monthold son is very happy to have a new baby sister. Family. Right, isnt that sweet. Just gorgeous. He was still pretty wired up when he did that interview. His motivation is great. Thats so terrific. Good health to all of you. It is 5 44. We go to meteorologist all these meteorologists, its like there. Its one of our weather conventions out here. Didnt i see you at 11 00. Why were you up at 11 00. No, because we had the rebroadcast. When is that on . 2 something . Something like that. Heres a look at the Chrysler Building right here. And we have a decent morning in the city over eastern parts of long island. There are a few showers out there. Especially out over the twin forks. Another view over towards the George Washington bridge looking off to the north right up the mighty hudson river. Temperature 74, humidity up there at 73 . That wind is calm, the pressure 29. 93, and steady. 82 is your normal high for august the 24th. Well be bettering that by probably 4 or 5 degrees this afternoon. 94 the record back in 1972. Morning. Visibility by the way in some of the farther suburbs down morristown down to about a third of a mile, down to half a mile at belmar. There is some locally dense fog out there, so just keep that in mind if youre out and about traveling this morning. Temperatures ranging from 57, very comfortable at monticello and sussex. 74 in the city. Low 70s on the island. As i was saying a few showers long island. Theyre tending to exit, not too far from Shelter Island right now, the north fork towns here, just north of montauk these are moving off to the north and weakening as they do so. There were a couple of downpours during the wee hours of the morning though. Drier air takes over during the day today, and well clear things out over eastern long island. Tropics theyre starting to lighten up a little bit. Danny is a Tropical Storm now approaching the eastern lesser antilles. This is moving off to the west, will move south of puerto rico during date tomorrow. That will actually provide some beneficial rain. Puerto ricos been suffering a drought recently. Theres another system out here in the atlantic as well. Were going to watch that develop into a named system probably in the next couple of days. Warm and humid, partly to mostly sunny skies, as that front moves through tonight into tomorrow, there can be a shower or a thunderstorm. The high getting up to about 85 for your tuesday. Accuweather forecast for today, other than those showers over extreme eastern long island, partly to mostly sunny, warm, humid, the high getting up to 86. Its mainly cloudy and muggy with that cold front approaching, a few showers and a thunderstorm north and west of the city during the evening. Those will wait until after midnight if they make it into the city. Down to about 72. Clouds giving way to sun tomorrow, a shower or storm mainly early in the day. Youll actually notice lower humidity coming into the area. Its going to be pretty nice out there by tuesday evening. Less humid on wednesday, beauty, 84, 82 on thursday, 84 on friday, just awesome days to round out the workweek then humidity does start increasing as we head into the weekend. Cant rule out a thundershower by later on sunday. All good things. Do we know where bill is on his vacation . I dont know where he is. He took a submarine to antarctica. Very smart that bill evans. Hes relaxing. Lets see whats happening as we head over to the maps; a problem on 206 this morning. 206 southbound is closed at brooks boulevard in hillsborough. A truck into the overpass northbound side taking twoway traffic. On the 1 train downtown terminating at 14th with ongoing track work. Downtown 2 and 3 local only 34th to chambers. On the 7 to Willets Point with signal issues. Lirr, new jersey transit, metro north on time. Okay at the hudson river crossings and the east river crossings. Lets go outside, ill show you a look at the van wyck moving okay North Carolina towards q gardens. No major problems. Heres a look at the Staten Island expressway toward victory boulevard. Off to a nice start. Alternate are in effect. Back to you. 5 48. Still ahead on Eyewitness News thismorning, a look at the progress made on dealers thank you for helping protect our children. 5 51. In the bronx seven people were hurt after a church van collided with a truck. The crash happened sunday morning on interstate 95. The impact ejected four people from the church van right on to the roadway. Police say the van clipped a box truck as it tried to exit the thruway suddenly. The truck crashed into a third car. The victims injuries are not lifethreatening. Now to a developing story, two climbers are dead after a 200foot fall in a National Park. The women died inside grand tee ton National Park this weekend. Authorities say they were trying to climb a 12,000 Foot Mountain saturday morning. A third member of their party was rescued. The group was not using a preferred route on the mountain. They were also climbing without ropes. This week marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the u. S. And people of the gulf, especially new orleans are still feeling the effects. The storm killed more than 1800 people and left behind 100 billion in damage. A decade later new orleans has rebuilt itself, but residents who stayed through the recovery say there is still a lot to be done. Things are just beginning to come back ten years, and were just seeing something. Katrina was the most expensive National Disaster in the nations history. It is 5 52. We continue to follow breaking news in brooklyn where a home went up in flames early this morning. A toddler is in Critical Condition. A live look at the 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. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic together. Were watching just a few showers over eastern parts of long island. Were talking the eastern tip of the island by the twin forks. And also another issue were dealing with, a little bit of dense fog and a few patches over the northern twothirds of new jersey. That will be burning off rapidly around sunrise. 88 your eventual high today in morristown. Waves around 3 feet, watch out for that rip current risk which is moderate. Water temperatures in the low to mid70s. We sent it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Shes got a look at the commute. Good morning jeff. Good morning everybody. Were going to head to route 9 at jack road getting into court land. Looks like youre seeing delays in both directions. Problems on 206 southbound at brooks boulevard in hillsborough. All lanes closed, truck into the overpass. Expect delays, downtown terminating at 14th street with track work. Also 2 and 3 downtown local only 34th and chambers. The Southern State parkway moving okay here through peninsula boulevard for reports of an accident by carlton avenue. Alternate side parking rules in effect. Thank you so much. In brooklyn a brother and sister who worked for the fdny were arrested. They were offduty when a reported scuffle broke out with police. Fire aaron garner and emt janice garner face charges that include resisting arrest. A fight broke out over the weekend at Herbert Von King Park at bedstuy. One of the siblings disagreed with the arrest of a man and tried to punch an officer. Thats when the other sibling reportedly started punching the officer as well. Amtrak has boosted security procedures. The security measures included increasing passenger and baggage screenings. Amtrak will team one local state and federal authorities to share intelligence and exercises. Amtrak says the changes not due to any specific threat. Closing in on 6 00, just ahead on Eyewitness News this monday morning, a young child critically injured after a fire consumed his home. Were going to have a live report with the efforts to save his life. Will it be another brutal day on wall street, overseas markets taking a nose dive overnight leading to fears of a global selloff. And a series of Cyber Attacks at rutgers, why the internet crimes may Binge Eating Disorder or b. E. D. Isnt just overeating. Its a real medical condition. 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