Eyewitness news corner stefan kane joins us now. Reporter not only will peter liang not head to prison, but six months of house arrest that d. A. Recommended is not part of his sentence and that is because the judge modified and reduced that manslaughter charge to criminally negligent homicide. The judge says there is no evidence that the defendant was aware of akai gurleys presence in that darkened stairwell that night when he fired off that shot that killed the unarmed man. D. A. Thompson had recommended no jail time and six months house arrest along with five years probation. The judge called that an appropriate recommendation and given liangs background and how remorseful he is he did not find it necessary to incarcerate him, saying it would be productive for him to do Additional Community service. He is sentenced to 800 hours of Community Service with five years probation. He turned towards the gurley family and his loved ones as he delivered this statement. I dont have any words. And with respect. November 22, 2014, was devastating. I shot my gun at a person. That was the shot [ inaudible ]. The shot was accidental. I apologize to the public and to the family. I wish i could undo what happened. My life has forever changed. Hopefully, it will give me a chance to recover. I have a loving wife and family supported me through the darkest point of my life. Reporter criminal negligent homicide is still a felony. Liangs attorneys still plan to appeal. This is a long way from over. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 we will tell you what gurleys loved ones had to say in court. Reporting live from brooklyn, stephane kim. Now those large brushfires burning in new jersey. The fires are now out but they are causing problems for the new Jersey Transit trains which were suspended for some time are up and running but there are 60minute delays between newark and new york. The brushfires burned in kearny and secaucus this afternoon. The area now is under a red flag warning, which means a high risk for fire because of winds and dry ground. Meteorologist lee goldberg will have more on that. Lets get to n. J. Burkett. Reporter thats right. More than four hours after this fire started it is still smoldering. Get a look behind me at 150 acres of scorched meadowlands. You can see the new jersey turnpike to the left. Out to the east is the new Jersey Transit and amtrak northeast corridor line. The railroad is up and running. You can see the trains now moving through the northeast corridor. There are residual delays. At one point this afternoon rail service was suspended the smoke could be seen from across the hudson river from Office Towers in manhattan. The fire ranged out of control for raged out of control for nearly two hours. Drivers on the turnpike gamed as the flames roared across the jersey meadowlands like a blowtorch. Firefighters struggled to reach the fire in the face of stiff winds that kept fanning the flames. Secaucus mayor michael ginelli says there were no injuries, but putting the fire out was a challenge. When we first got here the wind was the biggest obstacle we were dealing with. These types of fires put out embers. If you look around the ground, you see black embers, which land on the buildings behind us, cause the roofs to go on fire. The firefighters will be out here several hours putting out the hot spots. Reporter because flare up is a possibility . Yes, through the evening. I dont think we will see any rain until maybe this weekend. So were probably going to be times over the next few days. Reporter back now to a live picture, rail service on the northeast corridor has been restored for the evening rush hour, but passengers aboard amtrak are advised of residual delays of 30 to 45 minutes and worse on new Jersey Transit. As liz mentioned a moment ago, delays for the evening rush hour as high as one hour. We will have an update on the situation. More coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 00 tonight. For now live in secaucus, new jersey. N. J. Burkett. Thanks. Lets go to meteorologist lee goldberg and hear about the conditions that are ripe for brushfires. Dave, you figure on a Beautiful Day we have no weather worries, right . The problem is the dryness. This is our seventh straight die day. You have abundant sunshine and gusty breeze. Well above average. We are at 71 and we have gusting to 20 and some spots higher than that. Our fire warning or red flag warning, same thing, will go 8 00 this evening. Humidities are low. In most cases below 30 . Then you have winds at 32mile perhour gusts in teterboro, 26 Miles Per Hour at jfk and its coming out of the northwest here. Thats why we were concerned of the smoke going from kearny it jersey city. That brushfire may have dwindled, but we are ripe for some brushfire danger. Notice on radar we picked up some of that smoke. The plume going off into the atlantic and no fresh areas of smoke. N. J. Talked about the delays on new Jersey Transit. We are not seeing any delays because of the airborne smoke at the airports right now. In terms. Wind speed, the wind speeds are going to continue into the early evening hours. But the humidities come up when the sun sets. Thats why that red flag warning will subside at 8 00 tonight. We will let you know if we have to deal with this tomorrow. You also heard about rain down the road. We will let you know if it gets mere by the weekend. Its coming up on accuweather in a few minutes. So excited about both campaigning here in new york, voting here in new york. I love new york. This was just a great honor. I think its a great honor for new york. Nor is a special place. Reporter two candidates who call new york home got to cast you are their ballots today. And three others candidates are hoping hours of stumping here in the state will translate to votes. I spent the first 18 years of my life in apartment 2c. Reporter competing and competing hard in new york. This is like being solo, being in new york. It has been four decades since we have seen primary election in new york. If you are registered and havent voted yet, you have a little less than five hours to cast your ballot. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton will watch the returns tonight in manhattan. We have several reporters covering each of the campaigns. We begin with dave evans in midtown. Reporter i think this new york state primary much more competitive than anyone would Hillary Clinton is going to be here at the sheraton this evening, 9 or 9 30 for what she hopes is a victory party. I talked with Election Officials on sunday and they say they should have good results to call this race no later than 10 00 tonight. After three months of watching everyone else vote in the primaries, Hillary Clinton could finally vote today for herself in her hometown of chappaqua. I love new york, and this has been a joy during the last two weeks to be here all over the state and i hope everybody gets out to vote. Reporter Bernie Sanders was in midtown earlier. Reporters asking about sanders path to the nomination. Then there was off to the next state voting. Pennsylvania next week with a rally this afternoon. What this campaign is essentially about is thinking outside of the status quo. Every day as something that has to exist decade after decade. Reporter sanders has won seven of the last eight primaries and clinton is determined to stop him. This afternoon clinton traveled to d. C. For a conference where she seemed to focus more on trump than sanders. Its not building a wall thaw get the mexican that you get the Mexican Government to pay for which, you know, somehow i dont think will ever happen. Reporter we talked about lot about how breaking news needs to pull off an upset if he wants to democratic nomination in philadelphia. Thats because the delegate map favors Hillary Clinton. She is ahead by 220 delegates. If he is able to pull off that upset, everything will change here in new york. For now reporting live in midtown, dave evans, channel 7 Eyewitness News. We are going to turn to Sandra Bookman who is at donald reporter yeah, liz, donald trump of course expecting to win big here tonight. That big win important because it will put him one step closer to clenching the gop nomination before the convention in july. Republican donald trump stopped into the Central Synagogue in midtown this morning to do something completely new. Vote for himself. It was a great honor. Who would have thought . This was a great honor. I think its a great honor for new york. Reporter the frontrunner hoping by the end of the night hell be able to walk away with the 95 delegates at stake here in his home state. It would mean a lot. Reporter meanwhile, fellow republicans ted cruz and john kasich are already looking forward to next weeks primaries in five east coast states. Kasich hits maryland tonight, while cruz is watching the New York Primary results from pennsylvania. Trump supporters, meanwhile, confident their vote will count towards a huge win. Donald trump is the only the integrity to do it. Reporter now, nothing would make trump happier than it get his hands on those 95 delegates tonight. But in order to do that, to have a chance of doing that, he has to win at least more than 50 of the vote statewide. Mr. Trump has already scheduled a News Conference at 9 00 tonight here at trump tower. Live this evening in midtown, Sandra Bookman, channel 7 Eyewitness News. We shall see. Thank you. Meanwhile, two special elections being held today in addition to the president ial primary. Voters will select new state representatives to replace two corruption standers. Dean skelos, a republican, and former Assembly Speaker sheldon silver, a democrat. Back to the race for president for a moment. In the delegate process, heres how it works for the republicans. They have 95 delegates to distribute. 81 are split among the congressional districts. The votes, he takes all the district delegates. Another 14 delegates here will be awarded to the winner of the statewide vote. The democrats, they have 291 delegates. Like the republicans, they distribute some delegates through congressional districts and some through statewide vote. And some of those delegates are called super delegates. People who can vote the way they want and not necessarily the way the voters choose. Hoped that cleared it up for you. Again the polls are open until 9 00 tonight. We invite you to stay with Eyewitness News and abc7ny through the night. We will bring you the winners and speeches and have a complete wrap up tonight at 11 00. A quick look at wall street right now. Another good someday for stocks fueled by a rise in the price of u. S. Oil. Todays gains extended a lucrative winning streak that pushed the dow back above the 18,000 mark. It closed above 18,000 yesterday for the first time in nine months. Here is a live look right now. The big board. The day at 18,035. And still to come on Eyewitness News first at 4, is it art or is it obscene . A local city says one art gallerys display is just too risqui for public viewing, but that gallery owner is now fighting back. And coming up next we are going to take a look at the devastating floods that have smoking causes 16 different types of cancer. You have one clear way to reduce your risk. You can quit smoking. 4 14 right now. A look at the roads and rails on this tuesday afternoon. This is the Southern State parkway. Look at that sun bearing down on everybody near exit 17. Steady but heavy traffic in the eastbound lanes in particular on the right there. At the hudson river crossings at the outbound George Washington bridge two lanes are closed for emergency construction. Meanwhile, there are 20minute delays at the inbound lincoln back to the brushfire. 60minute delays between newark and new york after that brushfire suspended services this afternoon. Amtrak trains have 45minute delays. New information this afternoon about that fatal fire in brooklyn. Investigators say careless smoking was the cause. The fdny was called to the scene on fenimore street after six last night. Once they got to the fire out they found 64yearold Patricia Thomas dead and another person injured. Investigators say there were smoke alarms in the home but they were not operational. A controversial bathroom rule for transgender students. In a 21 ruling a panel of judges sided with the transgender student in virginia who sued the school board arguing the decision to bar him from using the boys bathroom is discriminatory. This could have implications for a North Carolina law that critics say discriminates against lbgt people. The u. S. Will do everything it can to support ecuador as it recovers from that devastating earthquake. Meanwhile, we are getting this dramatic new video. It shows a man being rescued there. He was working inside a five hit. The building collapsed on him. He held out for 36 hours, praying that Cell Phone Service would be restored before his phone died. He was able to call his wife and then was pulled from the wreckage shortly thereafter. The death toll from the torrential rains and severe flooding that swept through houston, texas has risen to at least six people. A heavyduty truck was used to rescue elderly and other residents from an assisted living facility that is surrounded by floodwaters. A state of emergency has been declared this nine counties after nearly 18 inches of rain fell in just 24 hours. You see this on tv all the time and you dont think it will be you. People worked hard for what they got. Now they dont have nothing. A lot of people jumped in to help. 100 volunteers helped to rescue a team of horses trapped by floodwaters. The horses had to spend the night swimming fighting to keep their heads above the water. They lost a bunch of the horses. I know they were keeping the horses also. A lot of devastation there. Its a scary situation to see set up on the weather map. Its difficult to forecast. You can forecast heavy rain in the areas. Remember this happened over islip a year ago. 13 inches in the course of 24. This is what happens training pretty nasty. And then the polar opposite here. So dry, too. Yes. That can be problematic. We will tell you when we have some rainfall. I have the map up with the Doppler Radar estimate. For us its about dryness. You see central park. If the foliage isnt in, you know everything is the topsoil is drive. We are at 71 degrees. The humidity very low. A north wind at 820. And the pressure is on the rise. The High Temperature today 73 degrees. Here is your record. Its 92. The average high is 63. So 10 degrees above the average today. Remember yesterday we were in the lower 80s. So white plains coolish feel at 65. Laguardia at 68. 72 jfk. Newark 73. Pair of 6s in islip. More of a northwest wind. 61 monticello and 73 in toms river. But again very, very dry with these dewpoints in the 20s and 30s. Its been like that for the better part of a week. Winds are gusting out of the northwest. You will notice a gusty breeze into the early evening hours. The fire weather warning will gusty breeze early. Slowly diminishing. We never totally get rid of it. There is only a breeze north 6 12, even 510 during the day tomorrow. Should be fairly light and abundant sunshine. We have a few clouds. Remember the front that came through this morning, dropped a couple of sprinkles over the hudson valley, long island, and connecticut. Now a few clouds lingering over ocean county. You see low pressure here. There is the cold front to the south. Its showering here in down east maine. Its in the 40s. Its in the 80s in d. C. We are in the sweet spot with comfortable temperatures and that beautiful breeze. Only problem is the dry stretch. We are eight straight dry days tomorrow with High Pressure over us. The wind is lighter. Still out of the north 612. Then here comes this front from the west on thursday. Clouds will be increasing later in the day. But just looking at some of the new indications with this system is that there may be a shower north and west thursday night. I think it will be the predawn then offandon showers friday, maybe lingering to saturday morning. Lows tonight cooler than last night. No patchy clouds. Cooler air mass. Upper 30s to the north and west. Then comfortable tomorrow with temperatures in the mid 60s. Clear and chilly tonight. Brisk wind early. Some high of 67. Beautiful day. Lots of sunshine and less wind. Then tomorrow night clear, moonlit skies, 47 degrees. Coming up at 4 30, looking at this friday map the dry streak will come to an end. There are the showers off to the west. We will time that and maybe a threat of a thundershower coming in as we go into friday afternoon. The question now is, is this rain going to hold on and dampen part of your weekend . The front looks a little slower now. We will deal with that in the sevenday forecast accuweather forecast in the next hour. Julie and money stolen from a home in new jersey. What was really taken was so much more. We will tell you how this heist is impacting an entire group of children. A warning for people trying some of those all across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. 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