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News copter 7 was also overhead capturing the mess, snarling traffic for several blocks and evacuating multiple buildings in the area. Luckily no one was injured. Fire Officials Say it took so many hours to get things under control because of all that water aboveground. Unfortunately the Flooding Condition was such that dep had a difficult time finding the exact gate valves to shut down, to isolate the problem area. Now buildings nearby had water restored by this afternoon. In the meantime subway and bus service was also disrupted for many hours today. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 5, well tell you who city Officials Say will have to pay for all of this mess. In elmhurst cefaan kim. 17 schools, elementary through high school in fairfield connecticut were locked down earlier today after receiving several threats. Students were dismissed early after all School Activities were also canceled tonight. So far the threats have been unfounded. Eyewitness News Reporter Tim Fleischer in fairfield with what we know at this time. Tim. And david, at this very hour, police were moving through each of those 17 schools in the Fairfield District to make sure they are safe and secure. All of this pain staking work coming after several forced a lockdown. It sounded like it wasnt a lockdown drill. It was real. The first indication for Dominique Walter and other students here at Fairfield High School after a threatening series of calls forced School Officials to lockdown all 17 schools in the district. We had to stay in class like an hour later, and it got really scary. It is something that we practice. It is something our schools are used to doing, and the police provided additional resources. The threats phoned in to those schools and to police were most alarming. They received a threat thats going to show up with an m16. We then got threats from one of the high schools saying that they were going to have that theres a bomb inside the school. Police from several surrounding communities began responding to cover all the buildings while inside students were kept calm. Suzannes daughter julia was in tomlinson middle school. I felt really safe in our room with the windows closed and everything. You train for this. Mmhmm, we practice a lot. So, yeah, but its you got to just pray and be hopeful. I think the schools did a really good job of keeping all the parents notified and making sure that all the kids felt safe. Safety and security of our students and our staff has been their utmost priority for the entire event. As students had early dismissal, police had turned their attention to the investigation and what might be behind the threats. We are looking at this as possibly not credible, although we cant be absolutely certain until we start clearing all the schools. Eyewitness news has also received some cell phone video of the situation this morning. There was a confrontation between a parent and a Police Officer at one of the schools. It is very tense at one point. Coming up tonight on Eyewitness News at 5 30, well show you that video and whats behind it. Reporting live in fairfield, Tim Fleischer channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you tim. Right now we are tracking the strongest storm ever recorded in the western hemisphere. Hurricane patricia approaching landfall as we speak, and you can see how massive it is in this photo from nasa. It will reach southwestern mexico in the tourist hot spot of Puerto Vallarta. Meteorologist lee goldberg has been tracking the storm. Patricia really burst on the scene here. We havent been talking about it all week because it just became a Tropical Storm within 24 hours. It was a category 5 hurricane. 200 Miles Per Hour winds, faster than andrew back in 1992. In terms of pressure not the strongest hurricane ever but in the western hemisphere in terms of wind this is in the top spot. The core a few hundred miles wide but the wingspan over 1600 miles if you trace all the cloudiness back into the pacific. Its only about 50 miles offshore, incredible looking eye and more parallel to the shore than headed inland, so Puerto Vallarta right here. 200 Miles Per Hour winds moving north at 12. You can see on the current track its forecast to take a little bit of a northeasterly jog. That would put it on land after 5 or 6 00. I think that may be delayed in the next update where its going a little bit more north and unfortunately that track may be a little bit more to the left, closer to Puerto Vallarta. See the futurecast coming on shore this evening. The mountains weaken if t quite a bit, 10 to 20 inches of rain, mud slides and then this storm will send a lot of its moisture the next couple of days with a half foot of rain. Eventually that moisture could get close to us. In the meantime look at the flooding rains that will happen over eastern texas, louisiana over the next 24 hours. Well look more at that and then how the moisture from the remnants of patricia will affect the seven day forecast. Back to you for now. Well see you then. Thanks a lot. Mayor de blasio is calling for bail reform in the wake of the murder of nypd officer randolph holder. The mayor said today that sealed documents of tyrone howards past prevented judges from knowing about his prior violent crimes. That gave the false impression that he was a nonviolent criminal. Something as fundamentally broken both in terms of the way we treat hardened criminals and the way we treat low level first time offenders. The mayor wants the judges to be able to consider whether defendants pose a threat to the public when setting bail or sending them into Drug Diversion programs. This is a live picture from east harlem outside psa5 where there is a growing memorial. You can see how big it is getting remembering officer holder and his wake will be next tuesday at the greater allen a. M. E. Cathedral in new york in jamaica queens effort his funeral is set for wednesday at the same church. Officer holders body will be flown to his native country of guyana where he will be buried. Funeral Services Held today for the 12yearold girl shot and killed by a stray bullet. Dejah joyner was shot and killed while standing in the living room of her own home. Community members came together to try and comfort the family. Theyre not alone, that they are cared for, that they are loved, that people who feel their pain and hopefully out of that they will gain some degree of comfort. Police believe someone else in the house may have been the target. Could be gang related. A former new york city Police Officer today facing murder charges. Hes accused of killing his girlfriend in new jersey before jumping in the path of an oncoming subway. Investigators say 44yearold Arthur Lomando is expected to survive after he had both of his legs amputated. The fired nypd cop is accused of using a machete to kill his former girlfriend Suzanne Bardzell in her car outside her home yesterday. The 48yearold was a mother of two teenage boys. She also had an order of protection against lomando. New at 4, school bus goes up in flames right outside a middle school in Westchester County. News copter 7 was over Pella Middle School as firefighters put out the fire. No students were on the bus when the flames broke out, and no one was injured the fire was contained to the bus, but students were evacuated from the school just as a precaution. The bus was supposed to take a soccer team to an away game. The cause of that fire still now time for the mets, and today the team took part in its first practice since clinching a berth in the world series. The amazins are still waiting to learn who they will face in the fall classic. Not going to matter either way. Anyway, several rallies are being planned for the mets on monday. A rally at borough hall from 3 to 5 p. M. At 5 there is another rally on long island on the front step of the theater roosevelt executive and legislative building in minneola. The dome will be lit in mets orange and blue. Rob powers in the newsroom with how the players are getting ready for the upcoming series and the debate over if too much rest is a bad thing. Reporter its rest versus rust, the blue jays and the royals play game 6 of their American League championship series. Kansas city stands one win away from meeting the mets, so as the mets wait they held an optional workout this afternoon at citi field. Elected to take this day off. The workouts become mandatory tomorrow. Yoenis cespedes working a sore shoulder, and the pitching rotation is not ready to be announced yet either. Were going to get deeper at 6 00. All the questions are to be answered soon enough. Today, a day to stay sharp, get the work in and rest up. There are some guys who were tired and i want them to have rest and then i told them saturday and sunday were getting after it. Tomorrow everybody will be out here and well get ourselves our guys are pretty excited. Ill tell you that. Again, we could know the mets world series opponent by the end of the night. The mets say they will start ramping up preparations tomorrow, mandatory workouts. The fall classic starts on the road tuesday. Liz, i know you for one cannot wait. Cannot wait at all. Lets get it going. Thank you very much. Game 1 of the world series will be on tuesday in either kansas city or toronto, the mets first home game will be a week from today at citi field, and you can find a complete schedule including game times on a special section at our website abc7ny. Com mets. And weve got one more note about the National League champs. Four mets players will be on jimmy kimmel tonight, jacob degrom, matt harvey, Willmar Flores and david wright expected to appear. This is kimmels last night in brooklyn. He wanted to do it right. Howard stern will appear along with music from public enemy and catch all the fun right after Eyewitness News at 11. Hes a huge mets fan. Hes very happy right now. Very happy. And still to come on Eyewitness News first at 4, a bus driver trapped after colliding with a tractor trailer. Well tell you what firefighters had to do to free her. And new details about what may have caused lamar odoms medical emergency. And you may want to double talles sobre lo it is 4 13. Time for a check on traffic this friday evening. Slow going, route 287 in new jersey in both directions. You can see it right there. This is near washington avenue middlesex county. As for the hudson river crossings, 20 minute delay outbound at the holland tunnel, 15 minute delays outbound at the lincoln and George Washington bridge at this time. To politics now, and the field of president ial candidates is thinning again. Lincoln chafee is dropping out of the race. The former governor of rhode island announced he is ending his campaign in washington this morning. Chafee had struggled in the polls and in fundraising and failed to Gain Momentum after his performance in the democratic debate. His departure comes days after former virginia senator jim webb ended his candidacy as well. Stocks on wall street ending the trading week with a strong gain. Stocks rose thanks in part to the results of Quarterly Earnings reports, microsoft, amazon, googles Parent Company alphabet all posting positive earnings, and in the end the dow rose 157 points to close at 17646. Authorities believe an overdose drugs rendered former nba player lamar odom unconscious inside a brothel in nevada. According to court orders women at the love ranch told police they think odom snorted cocaine in a bathroom on october 13th. Other brothel employees claim they only saw him take herbal viagra. Odom is in a hospital in los angeles and said to be improving. A video shows two suspects police in new jersey want to talk to about a rash of egging incidents this month. Two males believed to be in their teens were caught on camera tossing eggs at a house on Howard Terrace last friday night. Theres camera everywhere kids. One is throwing lefthanded and the other appears to be right handed. Other houses egged as well, one of them hit a house three times. They were taking this seriously there. Police hope someone recognizes the suspects and will give them a call. Opening Gracie Mansion to share an Art Exhibition designed to reflect the citys rich history and diversity. Mayor de blasio and his wife have installed paintings and sculptures at the residence meant to capture life in the city through the centuries. It includes pieces on loan from the New York Historical society including a portrait of frederick douglas. Tours of the mansion are open to the very cool. Mmhmm. Got a Halloween Party there too. Thats a great place for it. Hows it looking out there right now . 59 degrees im looking at. Not too bad, right . Suns out. Want to do the weather dave . Is that all youre going to say . If that is, you know,. Its fantastic. Sure, its not 70 degrees, but it feels great out here. A nice deep blue sky, a breeze sunny side of the street is definitely the preference. It really feels beautiful out here. Youll need the coat. A look at Lower Manhattan with the deep blue sky and lots of sunshine. Were at 58. 35 humidity and the pressure is holding steady. A high today managed to get into the mid60s after midnight, but during the Daylight Hours we were in the upper 50s to around 60. Winds streamlined showing that we have a good gusty wind out of the north and northwest, although the peak winds which were near 30 miles an hour have certainly backed off and the winds will continue to die down in the evening hours. Its 59 bay side still low 50s in monticello, 54 in poughkeepsie. What happens when you get clear sky and the winds drop off, those temperatures nose dive. Lots of 30s in our suburbs. 24 hour temperature change, no surprise here, anywhere from 14 to even 23 degrees behind yesterdays pace. So mainly clear skies through the overnight. 48 at midnight. A pair of 4s in new york city. You want the sunshine get up early and enjoy it. The first high clouds will fade the sun, and then theyll thicken during the afternoon hours. Winds will be light out of the northeast and top out in the upper 50s, maybe mid50s in a couple of spots. Satellites clear right now. You can see that wind pouring out of canada. High pressure over hudson bay, and you also notice that rain thats going into the great lakes. Its going more north than east. Eventually that fronts going to swing through the area. The part of the front thats coming through our area is a broken area of showers. It looks like its light. When you trace that front down into mexico, there already is some connection to Hurricane Patricia, which is nearing the coast. Its only about 50 miles offshore but moving to the north. Our wind streamlines, you see how its red on the right side of the storm. Thats the strongest winds, and on the left side is the big rain. The coast is exposed to those big time winds coming onshore in the next several hours. For us tomorrow its cool clouds. You see the clouds increasing. Were at 58 degrees. Were dry during the daylight youre out late tomorrow night, thats when the first showers can start i think well start out with showers on sunday. Its not a lot of rain, maybe its a tenth of an inch, a couple of spots maybe get a quarter of an inch. It looks like im aiming towards the lighter sky. 64 degrees, skies will brighten. Its not going to turn perfectly sunny, but at least well have brightening and drying during the afternoon hours. Heres your forecast. Clear and chilly and accuweather. Less wind, 30s in the suburbs, 44 in the city, tomorrows a high of 58. Sun fades behind the increasing cloudiness, and well have a couple of showers that roll in. Well wake up to a little rain on sunday morning, but its fine by the time we see the afternoon festivities. Coming up at 4 30, on monday were going to be watching the gulf of mexico. Theres going to be remnants of patricia. And all of a sudden thats moistures going to want to head northward up the coast. How will that impact our midweek forecast. Well get into that as we go into the sevenday accuweather forecast. Wow, lee, that was so much better than my weather check. So much more complete. Youre going to keep that job. Yeah, but you know, youre at this. All the time. You. Yeah, i make you look so good. Thats right. Thats whats important. Thank you lee. You go it. Coming up next, caught on camera, teachers rush in to save the life of a teenage student who collapsed during gym class. And also a fun story, its news youve been waiting for. A sequel to harry potter. Were not done, this story has more to go. Well tell you all about it. This weekend, should you okay. So everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios but why . Why fios . Well fios is a 100 percent fiber optic network, so you can get 100 out of all your devices. Whatever speed you need, fios has it. So if you need more streaming for more devices, fios gives you options with the Fastest Internet and wifi available from 50 to 500 mpbs. And were not just talking downloads. Were talking equal upload speeds, too. You can upload your favorite videos up to 5x faster than cable. But the main reason to get fios . Were rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. Why fios . Ultimately, thats why. Right now, get 50 meg fios internet, tv phone starting at 79. 99 a month, guaranteed for two years. Plus get 350 back. Last chance, offer ends november 7th. Alexandra . Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. A louisville mens basketball coach rick patino says he will not resign in the wake of the scandal rocking the school. The coach made the announcement in a letter posted on his website. This following the launch of an investigation by the ncaa and the university into allegations that a former louisville basketball staffer paid escorts to party and have sex with players and recruits. Patino denies knowing anything about the alleged parties. Well, harry potter fans probably pretty excited this afternoon. Author j. K. Rowling announced a new harry potter play which comes out next summer, harry potter and the cursed child. Its not a prequel. Its a sequel and apparently harrys story. Its the first ever play based on the boy wizard from the Popular Series books and films. Bill murray returns to the big screen in a starstudded movie that includes bruce willis, kate hudson and others but will rock the kasbah make you laugh. Sandy kenyon here with his review. Dave, some setup required. I had to watch several dark and depressing movies this week, so by the time i headed to rock the kasbah, i was ready for a good laugh, and i got more than a few. I have to say i enjoyed this one. I tell you, im apparently the only critic who rock the kasbah may have been certified rotten by the nations movie critics but bill murray is a hoot and a half as a has been rock tour manager who truth be told never really amounted to very much. Im famous for these right here. Richies taking a break from auditioning hopeless singers to take his assistant, an aspiring performer on tour. To afghanistan . The very talented dewey day shoe melodies appears from the movie which is completely illogical. The girl is gone. Bruce willis as a mercenary, Danny Mcbride has too little to do. Another whos making a fortune off of this is the prostitute played by kate hudson. Can you sing . Sweets, i can do things to you that are illegal in every civilized nation. With so many talented people in such an unlikely place, rock the kasbah should be even funnier, and the movie never quite decides what the president s to be, a satire and story of a woman richie discovers in the desert. His durables its gods will she gets to sing on an afghan tv show. She has the gift. She has the magic. She is the best i ever heard. Now incredibly this part of the story is inspired by a real muslim woman who defied her elders to sing on the afghan equivalent of american idol, and several reviewers noted that woman deserves better than this movie. I see their point, but when i saw rock the kasbah i was ready to laugh, and you know, i did. So your recommendation is that we should all go see a depressing movie first, then go see this and well like it. If you believed go to this video. I had a great time. You see kate hudson, you see zoe medical, you want a fix from that. Thanks sandy. Earlier we told you about Hurricane Patricia. Next were going to show you how mexico is getting ready. Ravaged by flames, a massive fire tears through businesses in downtown i dont knows. And campus, assault a group of s i. Love new york. These grapes are squishy. I. Need a shove. Can someone help me . I. Love new york. Yes, thats a real bear. I. Won a trip. That is so exciting. announcer vo play the i love new york scratchoff from the new york lottery. You could win trips to exciting now new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Its 4 30, and all new this half hour, tracking a monster storm. Mexico braces for a potentially catastrophic hurricane. One of the strongest storms in history. Plus a terrifying collision, a School Bus Crashes into a truck in new jersey trapping the bus driver. And a cheerleader crowned home coming queen wins the Football Game minutes later. I had to walk out there in my pads and everything which made it special. But our top story this half hour, Hurricane Patricia. Residents and tourists along mexicos southwest coast bracing for the arrival of hemisphere has ever seen. Yeah. This is a look at the latest radar. The storm is marching closer with 200 Miles Per Hour winds. Meteorologist amy freeze is here with much more on this massive hurricane. Liz and david, impressive. This storm went from category 1 to category 5 in less than 24 hours, and now mexico is really scrambling to get ready for what theyre considering record rainfall, the potential for damaging and devastating floods, and monster winds. Seen from space as it approaches the southwestern coast of mexico, Hurricane Patricia is a monster storm. It has the strongest winds ever recorded in the western hemisphere. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] emergency evacuations happening today along Mexicos Pacific coast with towns like Puerto Vallarta bracing for the worst. Resorts and fishing villages boarding up ahead of patricias landfall expected tonight. Patricia has maximum sustained winds of 200 miles an hour, and that wind field has a width of nearly 10 miles, equal the damage tent of an ef5 tornado. That means at landfall the storm could pick up cars, destroy homes and carry people away if caught outside when the storm strikes. Another serious risk at the coast is deadly flooding up to 20 inches of rain and a storm surge up to 25 feet is possible. Now once patricia makes landfall the path is headed to the central Western Mountain ranges. Eventually that tropical moisture will make it into the u. S. Were expecting major flooding for parts of east texas and louisiana. Maybe some of that gets caught up in our weather system. Lee goldberg will be back in the full forecast. This is going to go down as a record breaking storm. Perhaps most dangerous is the label most of us are paying attention to. Liz. Thank you very much. We invite you it stay with Eyewitness News and abc news as we track Hurricane Patricia, and updates around the clock at abc7ny. Com. A School Bus Driver in new jersey was injured when her bus collided with a tractor trailer. Fortunately no students were on the bus. The bus hit a rig parked on the side of new monmouth road in middletown this morning. The bus driver was trapped in that crumpled bus. Firefighters had to pull her out before she could be rushed to the jersey shore medical center. Police say her injuries are nonlifethreatening. Just know that it looks like the back of that truck was hit by the bus, so its very scary. Police say the tractor trailer driver was not inside his rig at the time of the crash. He left the scene on foot before police arrived. Theyre working with the Trucking Company to locate him. A 4alarm fire in Westchester County ripped through a row of stores at the heart of downtown yonkers. Firefighters finally extinguished the flames in a building in getty square around 6 00 this morning. Thats about 8 hours after that fire broke out. When the smoke cleared, several businesses including a mcdonalds and a dollar store were gutted. One landmark was saved. Thats st. Johns church which is what youre looking at which is more than 200 years old. Its really a landmark, so we took a little extra care in trying to protect it. Im glad that was saved, you all. I didnt want nothing else to burn down but especially the church. Several firefighters suffered minor injuries. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Two men on long island attacked and robbed outside a home in central islip, police say the two pulled off to the home on oakland avenue around 2 a. M. They were approached by 1 or more suspects. One man was slashed with a knife and was airlifted to a hospital. His condition is unknown. The other victim attacked and is expected to be okay. Officers are looking for one or possibly more suspects. Also on long island, a gulf Center Manager in South Hampton under arrest accused of taking inappropriate photos of an underaged girl. Steven lee turned himself in to police this week. Employees at the golf center an underaged girl through a one way window at the course. He then showed the photo to his staff they say. The police in new jersey are looking into a mail mistake. A package meant for someone else was actually illegal drugs. Investigators say 50pound of marijuana was delivered to a home in haslett. The package was addressed to someone who doesnt liver there. They found the pot when they opened the package, tried to figure out where it should go. Theyre trying to determine if the shipper was the intended recipient. New information on the investigation into the alleged hazing death at albany university. Police have arrested two more people in connection with the death of 19yearold last year, jonathan moldonado and steven villa are charged with hazing. Trevor duffy was forced to consume toxic levels of alcohol. Five ole miss students are charged with the connection of a beating inside a fraternity house. The group attacked jeremy boyle at around 4 00 in the morning. The daily mississippian reports boyle suffered a concussion, broken teeth, ruptured eardrum and a lung contusion. The fraternity says it has kicked out all the students. J. Crew is the latest major retailer to end on call scheduling in stores nationwide. Earlier this year, new York Attorney general Eric Snyderman wrote a letter to 13 retailers asking them to stop keeping workers on call for shifts on short notice. Bath and body works, abercrombie and fitch and gap are some of the other retailers that have cut on call shifts. Urban outfitters has agreed to end on call shifts in its new york stores. The nutrition super store accused of selling supplements spiked with synthetic drugs. Also ahead a student collapses in the middle of a gym class. How others jumped in to save his life. Well show you. And a texas roundup after a [excited yelling] ah, yes you cant stop it aww. Your mom liked my post. Youre friends with my mother . Whoa. Another episode . Definitely. We all use it differently. So why should we get it all the same way . Call Time Warner Cable to get the Internet Speed you need. Are you guys texting each other . Whether its 3 megs or 300 megs, yeah. For the right price. From 14. 99 Everyday Low Price internet, to 300 meg ultrafast internet, we have you covered. Even with wifi at home and on the go. Plans start at 14. 99 per month. Call 1855want twc to switch today. Sucov. Inmates in connecticut could soon be able to take College Courses in prison. The states largest public system is asking the federal government to use taxpayer money to help convicts get college credit. Inmates would be able to enroll in job training courses and complete coursework on degree programs. While the program may give inmates a new opportunity, some Current College students have mixed opinions on the idea. They have a problem funding people who want to go to college who have hard means, and yet were going to fund people who got themselves in their own jams. Education is power and everybody has the right to education. Well, if approved, prisoners will get pell grants and start classes next fall. Gnc defending itself against a major lawsuit. The Oregon Attorney general says the company knowingly sells supplements labeled as all natural even though they actually have some synthetic ingredients. The suit claims 22 fat burning substitutes contain chemicals not approved for sale in the made a similar complaint in march. Companies that manufacture or sell herbal supplements have a responsibility to make sure their products contain every ingredient thats on the label and do not include ingredients that are not on the label. Gnc says the accusations are without merit. It says it no longer sells products containing the ingredients. Several teachers sprang into action to save the life of a teenage student who collapsed during gym class. Students were running laps in a middle school in utah when 14 yearold Skylar Nelson in the upper right corner of your screen collapses from heart failure. The teacher quickly started cpr, theyre credited with saving skylars life. I feel like i need a second chance. Hes going to have a full recovery, and im so grateful. Id like to say thank you very much and im grateful and god bless you. Thats just amazing. Turns out that skylar was born with a genetic heart defect. He underwent heart surgery and is now expected to make a full recovery. Ye ha, we have ourselves an Old Fashioned emu roundup in texas. Birds evadeds authorities for the entire day after getting out enclosure. The four emus were recorded on dashboard camera. People were warned to keep clear. You dont know what an emus going to do. A few hours ago livestock deputies corralled the big birds and returned them to their owner. There is more, officers in downtown Oklahoma City spent their overnight hours scrambling to capture, look at that, thats a small Shetland Pony on the loose. The small horse first spotted running around after midnight. After several attempts officers used their cars to corral the animal into the field. This is what the rest of the country is doing while were busy stuck in traffic here. Emus and pony, ohmy. And still to come she swapped her crown for a football helmet. Coming up on Eyewitness News, a cheerleader who kicked a winning field goal after getting crowned home coming queen. Were going to tell you why her heroics are for the girl scout meeting. Okay. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . At stop shop, prices have just gone down. The savings keep going up. Which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. Following breaking news right now, youre looking at live pictures from news copter down there is fully engulfed in flames. Were told that it is a 2alarm fire. This is in New Brunswick new jersey, and we have been told that building that is on fire right now is a synagogue. Were still getting more information about the situation there, but you can see the firefighters are on scene right now trying to get control of this fire that is still burning throughout the entire building. We have not sure yet if the other buildings that are right in that area if they have been evacuated or what the cause of concern is for this fire to spread. We are conning to monitor the situation at 145 nielsen street in New Brunswick. As soon as we get more information we will bring it to you. Its right near Robert Wood Johnson hospital and along Memorial Parkway on the rare don river. Anyone who knows the area has an idea of where this is exactly. Of course well find out more. The reports in as soon as we can get them in. Were going to shift gears right now. It was quite the home coming weekend for one High School Student and her dad. Jody farnaretti is the head cheerleader and her dad is the head football coach at her high school in alabama. This past weekend she was crowned homecoming queen, but it was what she did at the end of the game that melted her dads heart. She fulfilled a promise she made to him when she was 10 years old by suiting up for the game and kicking the game winning field goal. Every dad im sure dreams of having a son that will be able to play football. Now he can say that my daughter kicked in a game that we won in. Its just very, very special. Shes got the support of her team and the other cheerleaders. This is a onetime deal for jody. Shes heading to College Next Year while her dad is retiring as head coach at the end of the season. I love the reaction. The teams like, yeah, we did it. Thats just awesome. Emily did field hockey for a year, and she was a goalie. Theres nothing like that feeling watching your daughter. Its amazing. So let me ask you this. It sounds like patricia sprang up out of nowhere. We usually have days watching these hurricanes. We have an el nino year, we have the equtorial pacific, it was just prime to accelerate in a hurry. Its kind of like when our hurricanes hit the gulf stream, but this one happened like youve never seen. It was really something else. Tropical storm goes straight to a cat 5, and now its about to make landfall over the next few hours. We go outside now and have what is just perfect weather here, yes colder than recent days but still so beautiful. Visibility is great all the way up to the George Washington bridge, 58, a northeast wind at 6. Planner for the evening hours, were going to remain clear. Its going to remain chilly. 44 in new york city by morning, and lets go riverhead long island and look at a planner for you. Into the 30s and be in the low and mid30s by morning. Theres a frost advisory for the east end of long island until 9 00. We didnt have a hard freeze in some locations in eastern long island. So for tomorrow, we start out with mainly clear skies, sunniest part of the day early on. High clouds will start to increase. Low clouds will start to come in. Its dry and temperatures will be in the mid and upper 50s and drizzle could come in during the evening hours. Heres a storm coming up from the west. The showers still a ways away. Thats why we can squeeze in all of tomorrow with dry weather. You can trace this moisture all the way down to patricia just offshore. A very powerful storm with no signs weakening. Quickly diminish over the mountainous areas of mexico and then some of that moisture can come up to us. Theyre just going to get some devastating impact with all the rain and mud slides, incredible storm surge that will come ashore. This is really cool. We start out with chilly temperatures tomorrow morning. I know dave especially will like this. Clouds coming in from the west. Some clouds from the ocean. We get two cloud layers. We get mostly cloudy by late day. The next threat of showers or drizzle later at night and a more organized area of light rain comes in during day break. So lets say theres a tenth of an inch to a quarter inch of rain. That would last through late morning. Its enough to get fields wet for games in the morning hours, so as long as everything drains well were fine. Foliage peaking just 30 miles northwest of new york city. Your seven day accuweather forecast looking like this, 58 degrees, clouds overtake the sun during the afternoon. Some rain sunday morning brightening during the afternoon. 64. Were dry by the giants game and then on monday about average, which is great for october. Low 60s tuesday as well. Clouds will increase on wednesday. Then we look for a steadier rain wednesday night, at least into the first part of thursday. That may have some relationship to the remnants of Hurricane Patricia. Like weve been talking about all week i think that gets out of the way and leaves news good shape for halloween and the marathon. Thats what we need. Lets ask david. David . I agree. That was profound. Okay. Cant mess with perfection. Heres whats trending on this friday. One of the kings of social media getting lots of attention for his latest music video. Justin bieber came out with a new video for his song sorry and some wonder if its an apology to selena gomez. People who closely followed his on again off again relationship say there are a lot of clues in the relationship pointing to the song having to do with them. Adele trending for her first song in three years. Take a listen. Its so typical of me to talk about myself, im sorry. What a voice, huh . Wow. The name of that song is for someone to have some fun with that. Hello, is it me youre looking for shes like, no, its my time. Thank you lionel. He doesnt give up. All right. In tech news time to check your privacy settings on facebook. Facebook rolling out a new universal search tool to help you find posts from around the world if your privacy settings are not set to private. The move is an effort to compete with twitter. When a 3yearold knocks off her blanket during a nap, the family dog comes to the rescue to make sure shes all tucked in. Okay. You see . Hes like come on, i got you. Look, youre going to get cold. Youre supposed to have that on you. This is how it works. Thats sweet. And thats what you call the family dog on the lookout. Lee can your dog do this . Well, he does that but its because he has dry eye, so i dont know that thats what hes doing. He cant blink right now so we have to do eye drops. Tmi. I wanted to end that on a really happy note but now dry eye. You asked me. Ill stick to weather. Check out the trend abc7ny. Dry eye. He cant blink. Poor thing. Still to come, growing outrage over a musician killed by an undercover Police Officer. Coming up, family and friends answers this afternoon. And we continue to follow breaking news in new jersey, a fire at a synagogue. You can see the flames inside in New Brunswick. The building completely consumed by those flames. The fire began about 25 minutes ago, and it is still burning out of control. Were going to have much more thats a big bull. I think thats old cyrus. 1800 pounds of do whatever the heck i want. Take the long way, huh . Thank you cyrus. There are new details in the case of a church drummer in florida killed by a plain clothes Police Officer after his car broke down. The family of cory jones is demanding answers after the family goes through new information. I need to know why . Why my son is gone today. Why . Reporter desperate for answers. Family and friends of cory jones say they know one thing for certain. We know that he would not ever, ever, ever, ever pull a gun on police, never. Authorities in Palm Beach County say the 31yearold musician was shot and killed by an officer waiting for help after his car broke down on the side of i95 in south florida. At the time, officer raja was working under cover driving an unmarked van. According to the familys attorney, prosecutors told them the officer never showed his badge. Why didnt he identify himself. Why didnt he show the badge. Police say officer raja told them this. He stopped to investigate what he believed to be an abandoned vehicle. He was suddenly confronted by an armed subject. Reporter jones recently purchased a gun but his familys attorney said he had a concealed weapons license. He never fired his gun. Meanwhile, prosecutors allegedly told the family the officer fired six bullets hitting jones three times. One of the most important questions, how clearly did he identify himself as a Police Officer. We will never know. We will get his account and the police account. He is the only witness. Reporter the officer is on paid leave while the case is under review. Cam videos, experts say this will be a tough investigation. Elizabeth hur, channel 7 Eyewitness News. There is more news ahead including another update on the fire burning at a sign no gag in new jersey. Eyewitness news at 5 00 begins right now. New video as parents demand answers from police as thousands of students and more than a dozen schools are placed on a lock down. Mayor de blasio calls for change to prevent another tragedy like the shooting of nypd officer randolph holder. Tonight a new plan to keep violent criminals behind bars. Good evening. At 5 00, im diana williams. Im sade baderinwa. We will have those stories in a moment. First the latest on breaking news. Newscopter 7 is over the scene of a fire at a sign no going in synagogue in New Brunswick. It is still really going. We will show you video we took a short while ago. There are the flames are engulfing the building. The synagogue is on nielson street and we will stay on top of this and bring you new information as it comes to us. Now new information on the massive water main break in queens. The water main break on busy queens boulevard leaving a huge mess. Who will pay for cleaning it up . Stefan kim is in queens. We are on queens believed by grand of a queens boulevard by grand today i would be standing in water. We learned that the Buildings Department issued a partial stop work order after an august inspection found a lack of shoring during excavation. Inspectors are determining if the work violated the order. There is a huge mess here and now the cleanup is underway. Queens boulevard at elmhurst