And you say, dang, they do make them like this still. He was one of those kids. Now. Saint johns prep. His family lived in the neighborhood for years. Once again, police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. They want you to call crimestoppers. The number is on this board, 1 800577tips. We are live in corona, queens, stacey sager, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Stacey, thank you. We are following a developing story. Protests in chicago right now. Hundreds of people marching in the streets blocking traffic and causing disruptions in the downtown area. At one point demonstrators encircled one vehicle but eventually disbursed. They are upset about police shootings, in particular the earlier today mayor rahm emanuel apologized for his death and called for Better Community policing. New developments in the Upper East Side where bricks came flying off a building. Store owners ordered to shut down this morning are expected to reopen at any moment. The area is off limits to pedestrians while part of first avenue is closed. Darla miles is live on the Upper East Side. Darla . Reporter all afternoon we have seen pedestrians instructed to walk all the way around the block and we have seen restaurant workers standing outside looking kind of board because they have no customers. In fact, we have seen a limited number of people down first avenue including those who work for a local construction company. We were concerned getting back and forth earlier. Construction, hard hats and safety gear but they are letting us go through. Businesses between east 52nd and east 64th are closed for business on wednesday. All the restaurants there is a pizza place downstairs from us, they got told to shut down. Most of the block i think has been shut down. Reporter a controlled dismantling of the bricks three stories up at 450 eastwood 64th got underway around 10 00 a. M. This is two days after the clay started to crumble monday night around 10 00. Suddenly a holland tunnel noise. Looked like incredible hail storm. Reporter the Building Department is overseeing the project conducting an investigation of the inspection of the facade. They could let the m 57 bus come to 60th street and turn because thats where it turns anyway and its problematic for no reason to put the sushi out of business and persian restaurant. No way bricks can get over there. I know it stinks and ruined everyones day but better safe than sorry. Reporter again, the businesses on first avenue between east 62nd and east 64th are expected to open after 5 00 p. M. So, that is sometime around now. But in terms of the vehicular traffic on first avenue, no indication when the street will reopen. Reporting live on the Upper East Side, darla miles, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. We have problems with new Jersey Transit trains delayed up to 20 minutes in and out of penn station because of downed wires in sunnyside yard. Sunnyside yard is used to store and turn the trains around its not clear when the wires will be repaired. A state special prosecutor is overseeing the investigation into a police chase and a Miguel Espinal was killed after a pursued yesterday. Officers tried to pull him over in the bronx. They say he was shot when officers gun discharged during a struggle. One northbound lane of the sawmill is closed tonight. In the bronx, nearly 50 people swept up in a massive gang bust. 48 people are charged in connection with two rival gangs. The men and women are accused of dealing narcotics in the south bronx and possessing weapons. Residents in the area say gangs have been terrorizing them. Kids in school, shooting, kids outside, they are still shooting. Ridiculous out here. They shoot by the kids. Elderly people, they dont care. Its ridiculous. The suspects were arrested in a series of raids at city run Apartment Buildings this morning. To politics and donald trump. Gathered to denounce the republican president ial candidates latest comments about muslims. At the same time audience members cheered for trump during his appearance on live with kelly and michael. Immediately afterwards, trump talked one on one with our political reporter dave evans. He is in the newsroom with more. Reporter a lot of people have been asking exactly who are these many donald trump supporters. We will show you. What trump said on live with kelly and michael and me about the latest controversial idea. Donald trump doubled down on his controversial plan to try to this country. Our county has to get its act together. This is about safety. Reporter then trump explained to us his plantar getting muslims is in response to the recent attack in california. So, i say things that are absolutely correct. Politically correct and sometimes people dont agree with them and thats okay. The public does agree with it. Reporter trump has supporters like these who say they like trumps angry talk. They cant put trump in a box. Thats what we love about him, all the trump supporters, he is unvarnished and he is just for the people. Reporter but many people are calling trumps latest controversy too much, too offensive like at this rally at city hall. Donald trumps most recent remarks are hateful and ignorant but they feed into the hands of terrorists. Reporter trump may have offended a lot of women again with this line of attack on Hillary Clinton. She goes away, she does an interview then you dont see her for five days. Sleep. Or stamina. Reporter Hillary Clinton laughed at this attack on sundays this week with george stephanopoulos. If he gets the nomination, i will be more than happy to campaign against him. Reporter trump remains the clear frontrunner for republicans but he could bolt he has behind that is possible especially if criticism from his own party continues. I dont think that will happen. I think i will get the republican nomination. I have great friendships in the republican party. They are stunned at what happened because nobody expected a thing like this to happen and it happened. One of the reasons it happened because i tell the truth. Reporter trump dismissed his critics as mostly republican opponents not doing well in the president ial race but that hardly explains comments like joe biden who called the muslim ban a dangerous brew. We have the entire interview posted on our web site. A lot of people are checking it out. Go to abc7ny if you want to watch it. Trumps comments rejected by israeli Prime Minister netanyahu. He said israel is fighting islamic militants who target muslims, christians and Jews Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with donald trump on december 28th but he says he will meet with all president ial candidates and that trumps visit to israel is not an endorsement. New information about the killer couple behind the mass shooting in San Bernardino. Syed farook and Tashfeen Malik were radicalized individually and before they gain their began their online relationship. As early as 2013 they were talking about jihad and martyrdom and malik held extremist views before she arrived in the u. S. Last year. We are working to find out if anybody else was involved in assisting them, equipping them and did they have other plans for that day or earlier and that work continues. Also abc news says that images of a local high school San Bernardino county have been retrieved from the 14509ers cell phones and computers but its not clear if the places in the images were potential targets. Several outburst in court for the man accused of a deadly rampage at a planned parenthood clinic. Robert dear said he is a warrior for the babies and spoke about atrocities at the clinic. He said he is guilty and doesnt want a trial. He was formally charged with murder on the attack on the facility. Stocks on wall street tumbling for the Third Straight day. Yahoo dropped after the struggling Internet Company reported plans to scrap a spin off of the chinese ecommerce giant. The do i closed at 17,492. Nasdaq dropped 75 points and s p 500 lost nearly 16 points. Tonight an Eyewitness News the metro north engineer at the controls of the train that derailed in the bronx talks for the first time about the accident that killed four people. Here who he credits for helping him get through the tough times. Plus, kids terrorizing Senior Citizens in a housing complex. One victim catching him in the act. We will show you the hidden video. They are not on sale. A warning about Bruce Springsteen concert tickets. And little to no sun no problem. Temperatures are still in the upper 40s and low 50s today. The its getting warmer. To the west. Meet the moores were the moore family, and as you can see, we need an internet that can do more. We do more games, and more streaming. So we need more speed. Thats why we switched to Time Warner Cable. You can too. 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New yorks attorney general is investigating how. Our investigators are seeing tickets on the secondary market going for up to 5,000 apiece. Today most tickets are in the hundreds but the top ticket price for his new years eve concert in newark, a cool 7500. On another network a single ticket to a luxury box nearly 24,000. This kind of predatory behavior drives up prices for consumers and distrust in the ticket industry. Reporter ticket brokers are operating legally, the a. G. La tore tickets. They leave music fans holding the bag with bad tickets or none at all. Reporter last october that is what happened to justin and his fiancee. We drove probably an hour and a half to get here and now we cant get in. Reporter the a. G. Sent out letters asking them to remove speck tickets from the site. Ticket network took the new york shows down but kept selling to the newark show. Later today stub hub moved all speculative tickets from the web site. Reporter when consumers see tickets that havent been released publicly yet, i hope they are born to run as far way from these predatory sellers as possible. Reporter congressman Bill Pascrell asking the ftc to investigate. The big take away, before you you print at home. Scammers can resell the same ticket to multiple buyers. Watch out for the too good to be true prices. We see it on craigslist. Low ball prices usually signal a scam. Avoid paying for tickets by cash, prepaid money cards. If you pay by credit card you can dispute it if there is fraud. Stay tuned for more. Thank you. Letter. Prosecutors now cross examining the Baltimore Police officer charged with manslaughter in the custody death of freddie gray. Officer William Porter was called to the stand to testify in his own defense. Gray was a 25yearold man who died a week after suffering a spinal injury riding handcuffed and shackled in the back of a police van earlier this year. Jury deliberations begin tomorrow in the corruption trial of former Senate Majority leader dean skelos. He is accused of strong arming adam 300,000 in fees. Closing results were held the last two days. Skelos and his son pled not guilty. The president and first lady hosting two receptions for hanukkah. The president of israel was at the first celebration in the east room. The second is at 7 00 tonight also in the east room. This is the 4th night of the 8 nights of hanukkah. East room is busy. Halfway home already. You guys have been celebrating. I will skype the candles at 6 30. Its fun. Got to light the candles earlier in the weekend. Kids are creeping up. Nice. A little chilly out there. A little bit. But by december standards not bad. We get more and more mild. We had a chilly morning and things are looking up. Outside tonight, temperatures in the low 50s. Lower manhattan under a mainly cloudy sky. We are above the typical daytime highs. High at 52. That south wiped is picking up. Consistency. Low 50s holding with the cloud cover because of a wind off the water, the numbers are not going to be at chilly tonight. Especially inland with increased cloud cover, not the 20s and 30s we saw last night. There are the sunrise and sunset times. 66. Todays record in 1966. Last year on this date rain. Good soaker, 2 1 2 inches of rain and 42. Back to the record warmth, that is a possibility by the end of the weekend. Thats quite a weekend for the middle of december. 23 in sussex. Ice patches north and west. We wont see this type of chill tonight because of the blanket of cloud cover. 41 westhampton. Across the sound 51 norwalk. Letter same thing in hempstead. Our numbers are in the upper 40s north and west. 52 in belmar. Partly cloudy now. Mostly cloudy overnight. There could be light rain in the wee hours of the morning. 8 00 in the morning a shower north of new york city then clouds probably win the battle tomorrow but temperatures respond in the 50s. We had thinning of clouds. Its now over stamford and parts of western suffolk county. Now the clouds are thing keening over thickening over parts of new jersey. In the last couple of hours we have seen the showers blossom near the warm front. I think after midnight a few of these showers can survive. With the wind off the water, maybe a little drizzle as well. Once the warm front gets close and goes through, we become exposed to this. As early as friday and late tomorrow south and west, 60 degree numbers within reach. If you notice the futurecast picking up on a couple of these showers that could form later tonight, especially in the wee hours of the morning. At 7 00 a. M. A little shower not far from white plains, over greenwich, a couple of showers near pine plains. Scattered showers early. Clouds will try to thin out. Tougher near the coastline. A little early shower activity, breaks in the clouds. More cloud cover friday, goes still around 60 degrees. Here is what is coming up. Mostly cloudy skies tonight. Areas of fog. A couple of showers late. 58. Clouds and fog should britten to give way to sunshine. Partly cloudy and 47 tomorrow night. At 5 30, do we need the sun for 60degree temperatures . Murky mornings and could we be spared of the soaking rain that we need monday. Check out the weather app for all the information you need. Back to you for now. Thank you. Watch what you text. A new study on how you end your message could affect the way your message is interpreted. A hoverboard catches fire inside a home in westchester county. Why this could have been a lot worse. A little girl dragged for nearly a mile by the school bus. What may have saved her life. Advice for parents. Holiday seasons just like football season. You got your big games. And regular games. Get it all at a great price. And the Holiday Season is won. Everything in one place. My stop shop. Its the holidays. Which means a house full of people who all want to get online. 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But level of safety and the most convenient car seat option. New test results find that for older babies turning one, a rear facing convertible seat can provide more crash protection than an infant seat. Consumer reports crash tested both types using a 22pound dumm