There are other carriers that do operate within terminal 8. This does impact all airlines operating in terminal 8. We encourage folks if they want to make changes to their reservation, do it online at aa. Com or contact reservations directly. The terminal flights are still departing. Obviously the biggest impact will probably be the weather out of jfk but we want passengers to give themselves extra time. Impacting th real quick, any idea when the power will be back on . Were working quickly to get that restored. It does appear to be some type of powerrelated surge that may have occurred at 1 50 p. M. Eastern time. So were working very quickly to get that back online as quickly as possible. It seems one part of the terminal. Its not impacting the entire terminal. Computers are still running fine. Its just the check baggage screening. Ross feinstein, thanks so the news tonight, were learning more about the 35yearold from brooklyn charged with the execution style murders of an imam and his associate. Oscar morel went before a judge late this afternoon facing a count of first degree murder and two counts of Second Degree murder. Police released a photo of the revolver they say morel used in the killings. N. J. Burkett was in the courtroom today and he joins us now from q gardens, queens. Smoking gun. Its an exact ballistics match to the bullets recovered from the victims bodies. But no, the suspect insists he didnt do it. That left the victims families outraged. Reporter the imams son says its a nightmare. Oscar morel, the man accused of murdering his father, stood before the judge this afternoon and pleaded not guilty. Insisting through his attorney that he didnt do it. Thats it. Nothing else. Did he say anything to you . Was he upset . He just denied. Said i didnt do any of this. Can you describe his mood . He was fine. Calm. Upset that hes here. He said i didnt do anything. Reporter the cold blooded execution double murder shocked the city. Captured on surveillance video. The 55yearold imam, maulama akonjee, and his 6 assistant, tara uddin, both shot point blank in the head. An suv struck a bicyclist shortly after the shooting. A vehicle that matched the description of the getaway car. Detectives say he later tried to ram officers who tried to stop him. They later recovered his. 38caliber revolver. Oscar, did you shoot them because they were muslim . Reporter prosecutors say the evidence is overwhelming, that the bullets are an exact as the gunman. That he was seen on, quote, numerous cameras and that morel admits he was at the scene. For the relatives of the victims its an outrage. Hes been an imam his whole life, from the very beginning. Scholar. And no enemy. Family says the imam barely spoke english, and no, he had no known enemies. As for the motive, thats still not clear. Anyone hoping to hear more on because the prosecution simply didnt bring it up. Morel was ordered held without bail and has not been charged with a bias crime, at least not yet. N. J. Burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Right now storms are moving through some parts of the area. Meteorologist jeff smith is in for lee goldberg and is tracking things at the weather wall. Those storms already dropped temperatures down to 81 degrees in new york city. We had a downpour move through manhattan, sections of the bronx storms are over eastern pennsylvania. Thats prompted a severe thunderstorm watch for central and western parts of new jersey right through 11 00 this evening. First ahead of main line, downpours have formed over the city moving up in to southern parts of westchester county. This is the one that concerns me here. This line of storms over eastern pennsylvania, approaching allentown and the Delaware Water Gap probably within the next hour or so. As it moves off to the east, it should weaken a little bit before moving in to new york city. So i think the bes of getting strong damaging winds with Severe Weather west of new york city during the evening. Some relief behind this front. Well talk about that in your full accuweather forecast. Some patients starting to return to a nursing home in middletown after the air conditioning broke down at the height of the heat wave. For those patients and their families, its been a nightmare. Many worry not enough has been done and it could happen again. Marcus solis is outside the home the mayor of middletown so upset is that there are problems with the air conditioner discovered in may, violations were issued and the problems were supposed to be fixed. They werent until now. Reporter it is a 200ton chiller, a temporary unit now doing something that hasnt happened all summer. Circulate cold air throughout a nursing home. On saturday 98 elderly patients had to be evacuated from the highland rehabilitation and e reached dangerous level. An evacuation ordered by city and Orange County officials. The fact that we had to go out there on a saturday and evacuate them is really the ultimate failure. The only thing worse than that would have been having a fatality. Reporter no one at the nursing home was willing to speak to us, but management is at no choice but to deal with local officials in the state health department. The first sign of trouble occurred memorial day weekend when temperatures on the top floor exceeded 100 degrees. One of the facilitys air conditioning units failed. Only 50 and leaking coolant. Repairs that had been promised were never done. One explanation given by a maintenance guy up there was we were trying to get through the summer so we wouldnt have to shut the facility down during hot weather. Thats not an acceptable explanation, but that was the rationale that we believe they were taking. Reporter it took nearly eight hours to transfer the patients to 11 different facilities, as far away as tarrytown. This afternoon the home was patients to return. Theresa desethno is the mayors mother. Her sister is a resident at the facility whose new management is now under fire. I was heart sick. Because i was a member of the board there under Catholic Charities for 23 years. Our goal is not to shut the facility down but its also not to have a facility operate within our community that is not that owns this nursing home will still have to deal with the violations, face that manner in court this fall. The patients will start to return. Going to do it gradually. It should take a couple days. Marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. As Police Investigate more than 600 tips in the murder of a new york woman killed while jogging in massachusetts, family and friends say their final goodbye. The funeral for Vanessa Marcotte was held today. On august 7th in the town of princeton. Its a tight knit community. Some residents who did not attend the funeral still stood by the church to pay respect today. I just wanted to put my hand on my heart and say a little prayer inside. Hopefully theyll hear me from the inside. Maybe shell hear me up top. Marcotte worked at google in manhattan. Least one possible person of interest. Meanwhile tonight in a similar case but unrelated, family and friends of a 30yearold queens woman will take the same path Karina Vetrano jogged before she was murder two weeks ago. A gofundme has raised more than 244,000. Part of it will be offered as a reward for information on her murder. Of akai gurley. The family will get more than 4 million. The 28yearold was killed in brooklyn, shot in a stairwell by former nypd officer peter liang in the pink houses back in november 2014. The money will go to gurleys 4yearold daughter akayla. The familys Attorney Says because of the way that money is being invested, she could receive up to 12 million over her lifetime. To bring him back but shell be taken care of. The officer convicted will pay 25,000 toward the settlement. Hillary clinton is not taking anything for granted, including good poll numbers. While donald trump took a day off, clinton was blasting him and working to get out the vote. Eyewitness news political reporter dave evans with more from the cam as you mentioned, Hillary Clinton was on the campaign trail today but focused on Donald Trumps controversial new plan to fight terrorism. She is significantly ahead in several polls right now but clinton urged her supporters dont be complacent. Reporter Hillary Clinton today tore in to donald trump, not speaking directly about his terrorism plan but about the nations overall security. It just absolutely bewilders me when i hear donald trump try to talk about national security. Trump unveiled his plan that focuses on protecting the homeland, requiring immigrants to pass an ideological test to make sure they share our values. The time is overdue to develop a new Screening Test for the threats we face i call it extreme vetting. I call it extreme, extreme vetting. Its not just a says, its not just he doesnt know what hes talking about. Thats bad enough. But what he often says hurts us. It sends the wrong message to friend and foe alike in the world. Reporter the Clinton Campaign also released a new ad, questioning whether trumps plan is constitutional. But mostly today clinton focused on getting the vote out. Governor christie, a key trump but polls show trump losing ground in key battleground states. In virginia, a new poll gives clinton a 14point lead. Even though were doing fine right now, im not taking anybody anywhere for granted. Were going to work hard these next 85 days. And i cant do it without your help. Tomorrow afternoon donald trump will have his First NationalSecurity Intelligence briefing. At because of trumps shoot from the hips style. Also because trump yesterday called for closer ties with russia. Today trump is in milwaukee. Relative of a boater found dead in the water off of long island speaks exclusively with Eyewitness News. What he thinks happened and what hes asking for tonight. Plus, new york city getting aggressive with the zika virus. But officials need just one thing to help protect you. And for the First Time Since 9 11, shops opened today in the i know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable like the rest of the hood. Genius. Tons of free hd channels. And you can record six shows at the same time. And with the super fast internet, entertainment nirvana wow. Nirvana. 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Right now we want to take you back to the breaking news airport. It is experiencing a partial power outage in terminal 8. American Airlines Says it is affecting escalators, elevators and bag screening. Lights are on in the terminal and the jet bridges are working. Four fires considered suspicious tonight in new jersey. These are the flames from one of the fires in mahwah. Pallets outside of a post office it could have been deliberately set. Theres a lot of people in close proximity, no reason for that fire to have started without it being ignited. The other three suspicious fires, all of them brush fires, and all of them flames were put out quickly and nobody was hurt. New york city taking action in the fight against the zika virus. Mayor de blasio says thousands of pregnant women have been tested for zika with 49 testing positive. None contracted the virus here. Hes asked congres emergency funding. Eyewitness News Reporter lucy yang is live in Hamilton Heights where the city is spraying pesticides to fight mosquitos. Im in riverside park, and this area will be sprayed with pesticides starting tomorrow night. New york city officials determined not to let the zika virus become a local epidemic. Im already pregnant dealing with enough stuff, to worry about this too is too much. With her first child. She recently canceled a cruise to the caribbean because a vacation was not worth the risk of possibly getting zika, not worth the risk of permanent crippling brain damage to her precious baby. Id rather lose all that money than risk my baby, something happening to her. Reporter as new yorkers take personal precautions, the mayor and other officials today announced a new round of spraying for new york city. For the fifth time this year the next round of spraying to be done wednesday night in to thursday morning in manhattan and queens. By tracking mosquitos we are able to figure out where we should place our traps and where we should spray. Last night our team sprayed over 5,000 acres in the bronx. Reporter the Health Commissioner confirms 483 cases of zika virus in new york city. 49 of them, pregnant women. Were told all those patients got sick while traveling. Here carrying the virus. But officials are not taking any chances. The mayor now pressing the federal government to commit heavy funding to fight what he calls a National Health crisis. We need the federal government to act now and pass the authorization for 1. 9 billion in funding for actions against zika. Right now the city has a budget of 21 million to fight zika. No doubt theyre anxious to add information on the pesticide schedule and the exact locations where they will be spraying, you can go to our website at abc7ny. For now were live in Hamilton Heights tonight, lucy yang for channel 7 Eyewitness News. Exnew england patriot Aaron Hernandez back in court today for a hearing in to the double murder case against him. The judge set a february trial date for hernandez. Hes already serving a life sentence for killing another man murder led police to charge hernandez for the murders of two men outside a boston nightclub in 2012. A giant panda surprise in austria. Officials announced yang yang gave birth to a cub at sienna zoo last week. Then a day later they discovered there was another cub. She had twins. When they saw yang yang cradling two babies, thats when they realized. You can see the two little babies on the camera there. Panda was just 4 inches long and the other was about 3. 5 ounces. So just very precious. So sweet. You know all about this. As far as i know, we dont have twins. [ laughter ] i dont know i guess. But jordan slept will last night. He did, yeah. Get us up to speed with the weather. Were watching storms over eastern pennsylvania. They have a history of producing wind damage near harrisburg. Well have to watch them as they new jersey during the next few hours. We have one downpour that developed right over new york city, right over manhattan, and caused about. 02 of an inch of rain in a short time. Temperature right now, 81. If anything, that downpour increased our humidity. Now up to 85 so its pretty oppressive out there. The high on the day getting up to 87 after a morning low of 78. Average high, 83. So we were still above that. Not quite continuing the heat wave though. 96 the record in the sun any thunderstorm during the evening hours could be locally severe. With such a moisture laden air mass in place, the threats are flooding downpours and potential for damaging wind. Especially west of new york city. It does become a little bit less humid in to the day tomorrow. Dew points with ildrop even though its pretty hot out there its going to feel a whole lot better than today. Right now 81 in the city. Rain cooled degrees. But youre still near 90 in lower 80s on the island. You add in the humidity and this is what it feels like. It feels like 100 degrees in morristown, new jersey. Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for the morristown area and points west. Also that heat advisory, because we still do have the heat index values between 95 and 100 in spots for the five boroughs in new york city and points south and west through 10 00 this evening. Heres the radar picture. The big line of storms off to our west, a couple of renegade showers developed ahead of that, bronx, lower westchester county, approaching greenwich and stanford, connecticut a little light sprinkle there. Those have tended to weaken. These are not weakening over eastern pennsylvania. Approaching allentown right now. This one has a bow shaped signature on it which indicates the potential for strong damaging winds. In fact these do have a history of producing some wind damage. Each of these little symbols here indicates wind damage, p. M. , just approaching, just moving in to the Delaware Water Gap by 7 00, much of western new jersey being affected by these storms. There could be one or two cells that develops ahead of the main line. I think the line of severe storms would tend to weaken as it moves in to new york city. Best shot of getting severe storms would be west of the city. 76 overnight tonight. Back up to 87 during the day tomorrow. Lower humidity. So one or two strong storms in the area this evening. Down to about 7 little less humid. Tomorrow sun and clouds. 87. Partly cloudy tomorrow night. Were down to about 74. Well continue to track these storms coming up at 5 30 and also on thursday. Might not be a completely dry day. Then were timing the front for next week. Behind that front is much lower humidity and much more comfortable air mass on the way. Well see you next half hour. 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