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WABC Eyewitness News This Morning November 16, 2015

Euro zone joining together in a shared moment of silence. The new New York Stock Exchange will honor at 9 25 00 a. M. And another at 9 26 00 a. M. Marking the conclusion. We have Team Coverage this morning marking. We are going to start with jim dolan live in paris with the new information just coming in. Here in france and around the world the french response to friday night now being heard. Theres a moment of silence being observed here in france at this moment. We want to talk about the police raids. Massive police raids overnight. At least 23 people were arrested overnight and listen to what they seized in those raids. Rifles, a Rocket Launcher and bulletproof vests all of the stuff of modern terrorism because they also got computer hard drives and computers and expect to learn so much more suddenly the French Police were everywhere. Massive raids, sweeps of people expected in isis terror in europe. Police using new powers granted under the current state of emergency and at least six arrested. The french Prime Minister says much more on the way here in france and throughout europe. This is in a war context because that is what we are living in. We have to go beyond that. Over the weekend seven people were arrested in belgium and arrest warrants could be issued for them today. The manhunt continues for 26 sold salah abdeslam. They had him but let him go after checking his id. Hes believed to be the gunman who led the Team Shooting at people in restaurants and bars. Officials believe that isis commanders in syria ordered the paris attack as part of a new strategy to go global. The french relying on air strikes. There are reports of 30 sites bombed in the eastern syrian city of raqqa, the isis capital. Water and power have been cutoff there by the french air strikes. To be sure these are just the initial responses of the french and her allies around the world it especially seems in belgium where the seeds of this terror plot that took place right back here where 90 people were killed where the seeds of this plant were first planted. Reporting live in paris jim dolan Eyewitness News. Jim thank you. Security has been tightened in cities all across america as officials warn of more attacks in france. Today nasa county police will discuss their efforts to protect their residents and it was bathe made the colors of the french flag as people lay base. Kella ramma is live outside of the french consulate on the Upper East Side. Security has been amped up throughout new york city and two things the nypd wants you to do today, be vigilent and patient as you are headed out as security is amped up and you see that on your morning commute. Here you see its a growing memorial. Officers even guard this memorial as more and more people have come to drop off flowers, candles and beautiful york city. Across the city weve seen amped up security including times square where armored trucks stand for all to see. Later this afternoon the mayor and Police Commissioner will announce the first deployment command of Counter Terrorism to conduct daily deployments in sensitive locations throughout the city just like weve seen in times square. Commissioner bratton told Eyewitness News more than 20 attacks have been stopped since 9 11. Get the information and get them before they get us. Weve been very successful with that stopping 20 attacks since 9 11 but coming at us more frequently and we have to be prepared to defend when an attack occurs. Weve seen memorials popping up all over new york city and all of the beautiful pictures of memorials going out to paris and the hash tags pray for peace and pray for paris. Another hash tag you notice this afternoon is hash tag united with france as people gather at the 9 11 memorial paying respects with people gathering at the survivor tree to show france that new york city stands with them. Live on the Upper East Side channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. International authorities race responsible we are learning more about the methods used by horrific attack. Dre clark has that part of our coverage in the news room. Good morning. Intelligence agencies are adapting to new technology to track terrorists and the most hardest to break. They may have used a Sony Playstation 4 to communicate plans. The playstation 4 is chosen because its difficulty to monitor. It remains unclear if the ps4 was used for planning friday nights series of attacks in paris. Here in the u. S. Intelligence agencies are on high alert from any communication from isis. Confronted in the u. S. In the last two years. Isis is more aggressive than al qaeda and investigators are working to have encryption used by the terrorists. No question the world has changed in terms of encryption apps that are pretty good. Im sure there are people in washington trying to break into those apps. As jim mentioned a moment ago in those overnight raids across France Police seized computers and hard drives and investigators are hoping it will provide more insight into how the attackers were carry out a well plan and highly coordinated killing spree. Live in the news room Eyewitness News. Dre thank you and we will bring you breaking updates as we get them on the air and on abc7ny. Be sure to download the app to receive alerts on your smart phone. We want to get a check on the commute and forecast. Minutes away from weather and traffic. We look at our camera south of the east river where its quiet calm and glassy and to the far right is the fdr and weve got a gorgeous sunrise on the way up in about 35 minutes from right now. We are looking at dawn and chilly numbers outside the five 52 overnight low was 42. A west to northwest wind. A front you can barely see by the out line of those clouds up to north bay. Windsor, toronto is colder air that pours in tonight and tomorrow and back to our west a cold front thursday. By noon time at 61, 65 this afternoon. Thats over ten degrees warmer than normal for this time of year. We have a great sunset. Kids and school this morning dress for chill. Jackets and sweaters later on today its going to be great. Cooler weather tomorrow. Rain on thursday. All of this in your seven day forecast to talk about. Heather has your commute. Hows it going out there . Ive been telling you about this accident in elizabeth and last night as well. We have a birds eye view of whats happening in this area and will check in now with john. Good morning heather. Yes we see all of the activity on the roadway this accident happened during the overnight hours just a few blocks north of the Bayway Circle in elizabeth. All of that around the utility pole which is leaning over the roadway. A cherry picker was attaching wires back up to it. Im not sure if its secured or if they are in the process of picking up the cones. I dont think so. Weve got one lane open north of the Bayway Circle and problem. Heather. Thank you for that john. I can tell you about your hudson River Crossing and mass transit doing okay. Subway Service Running on or close to schedule. If you are heading onto the merit Parkway Police activity all lanes the activity is in the fairfield rest area and local streets and the Westchester County bound we have debris in the right lane. Minor delays George Washington bridge. The lincoln is fine. The holland ton a minor delay and the George Washington bridge through the tolls traffic moving well as you make your way across the span. The Brooklyn Bridge is moving just fine. The Manhattan Bridge is doing okay. No major problems there and the williamsburg bridge is in very good shape. You have street cleaning rules in effect for today. Ken and lauri over to you. Heather thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning some other news of the day including a fire inside a home overnight that turned deadly on long island. Also the tragedy in france one woman from new jersey waiting for word if her brother is safe. Heres a live picture from paris hundreds of people gathering at the place coming together in a moment of silence just a few moments vo always a warm welcome. Always a friendly hello. Always a perfectly flaky crust. The only one made with real butter and abundant seasonal fruit. Warm and welcoming and fresh from your oven with our flakiest crust ever. 6 13 breaking news now as france and the rest of the European Union observes a moment of silence to mourn the paris victims. Overnight police carried out 168 raids and those raids continue according to the Associated Press investigators topped that by naming the suspected mastermind of the paris attacks a belgium citizen, abdomen Abdelhamid Abaaoud who knew attacks were being prepared and more across europe. Meanwhile syria sites were struck in the isis capital of raqqa. A new jersey woman hopes today will be the day she will hear from her brother who may have been at a targeted venue in paris. She has not heard from her brother john since thursday. He planned to go to the concert hall on friday. 89 people were killed and hundreds of others wounded by a shes afraid her brother is hurt and in the hospital unable to reach her. I called him friday night attack. I call him no answer. I call saturday no answer. Today i call no answer. Fuller says the search for her brother is complicated by media. G. O. P. President ial hopeful dr. Ben carson says the paris attack shows president obama is not helping and isis is not growing in strength. I dont like to be Super Critical but obviously we can see that isis has quite a bit more strength than perhaps we thought that it had and that would probably be a matter of not getting very good intelligence about it. Dr. Carson has come under fire for his own lack of Foreign Policy expertise but he gets daily briefings from a number of people and some of them are generals. Since the Paris Attack Police have found passports belonging to the governors of michigan and alabama want to bar all Syrian Refugees from coming into this country. Robert bentley has not received any refugees into alabama and never will. I will appose any attempt to relocate Syrian Refugees to alabama and i will not stand complacent to a policy that places the citizens of alabama in harms way. Time to get a check on the forecast. Meteorologist bill evans outside of our studios. Weve got a nice morning, very comfortable. Its suit weather. You dont need a top coat or jacket or sweater and outside the nice warm bureaus the lot cooler in the suburbs. A beautiful sunrise in progress where dawn is pretty and nice, 52 degrees. Humidity is dry, winds light out of the south west going northwest today. The pressure is 30. 20 above the normal weather pressure of 30. 00. Its a little cooler north and west. You need the jacket or the sweater. Its 34 and 41 around bridge port so the wind northwest today up to the north and theres a front from syracuse, plattsburg a little line of clouds. Thats a line of clouds with a cold front that will come north south over us and to our west clear skies the bubble high will spread eastward tomorrow and the rain in the midwest big storm creating a lot of snow working its way through the rockies. See that big low that came moving into the great lakes to present good old fall thunderstorms for the mid section of the country. That comes to us with some rain on thursday and we could get some supersoaking rain on thursday maybe an inch or two. At the bus stop temperature about 52 degrees this morning into the mid 60s afterwards a nice warm day. Tomorrow the bubble high slides eastward warming to 52 then 58 wednesday and rain gets here thursday. Nice day today 65 degrees over ten degrees above normal. Tonight we cool back down to 42 suburbs. Tomorrow plenty of sunshine high of 52 pretty close to normal. Wednesday. Thursday weve got a lot of thunder. Then friday weve got breezy clouds decreasing and then well have sunshine and seasonal weather for this weekend. Well have great weather coming so grab a jacket or sweater, all right thank you bill. Another check with heather on the commute. We are going to take a look at pictures from news copter 7 and john showing us this problem here on routes 1 and 9. This is southbound before the Bayway Circle. Only the left lane is getting by here. We do have police and crews on the scene trying to fix this light pole. There was an accident the pole was knocked down so they have to clean up the area, get the pole back up and fix the wires until they could get all of the lanes reopened. Its effecting the southbound side but not side. Our maps tell you throning island railroad, metro north, new Jersey Transit running on or close to schedule. The bqe northeast disabled vehicle being cleared away. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect. Lauri and ken over to you. Thank you so much heather. Still ahead on Eyewitness News today for one of a big political officials. Whats in store for dean skillets. The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, in the money this morning global stocks are taking a pounding after the terror attacks in france rattled investors. Theres extra security on hand at frances euro market. Wall street futures are higher after fridays losses. The dow jones starts the day 202 points in the red. Nasa positive and s p 500 begin 1 lower. Now to a developing story in long island. A body has been found at the scene of a house fire. It started at about 2 00 a. M. On maple street. Investigators are not sure how the victim died. The cause of the fire is under investigation. 6 23. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Bill evans has your exclusive forecast. Here we go. Taking a look outside this morning and a beautiful sunrise. A nice morning. Its cool and crisp. Grab a jacket you need that. 36 morris town and chilly. 41 bridge port. Grab a jacket you need it. It warms to 65 today. Tomorrow we talk about that and heavy rain possible on thursday. Heather how is it going out there. We still have this problem in elizabeth and john in the copter is showing us we still have a lot of activity involved in this accident that was cleared but this pole, they are still out there trying to correct it and make sure the wires are setup. The left lane closed before the Bayway Circle. We also have mass transit doing fine. No major problems to report there and alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect for today. Lauri over to you. Heather thank you. This morning jury selection begins in the trial of a former political power broker in albany facing federal exportation charges. He was state Senate Majority leader until he was arrested in may. He is charged in a plot that earned his son adam more than 300,000. His sons trial began three weeks ago. A tornado touched down in Central California outside of modesto. The strong winds uprooted trees and broke windows. A tornado ripped the roof off of a church but fortunately nobody got hurt. And breaking news ahead at 6 30 and urgent manhunt to a suspect tied to the terror attacks in france. Streets blocked off and a they step it up to find this man. More than 1,000 officials what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. Breaking news french authorities increasing their pressure on Islamic State militants zeroing in on the suspectst responsible for the terror attacks in paris. Heavily armed police are storming brussels as the manhunt intensifies for the man in charge of the plot. The investigation is happening right now in the brussels neighborhood where three suspects were arrested on saturday. And the alleged mastermind of the attacks identified a short time ago is a 27yearold belgium man who is believed to be responsible for plotting attacks on a plane and a church. Warned members about an eminent assault by isis one day before the attacks occurred. A union find moment of silence was held this past hour at noon time in paris by every member of the eu. Everyone continues to honor of victims of the attacks. President obama ordered all flags at half staff. New york city and state flags have also been lowered. This afternoon a gathering will be held at the National September 11 memorial paying tribute to those who died. Eyewitness News Reporter jim dolan is live now in paris at jim . Lauri no question about it the people of france were wounded on friday night but as the work week begins here in paris the french response now being heard as Law Enforcement has a massive response even as this nation mourns and just a half hour ago azoleon moment of silence here in france the french president taking part with the people. They are broken hearted here to be sure but they are far from broken. Overnight there were massive raids throughout the country, 23 people arrested and they think they got intelligence about how this raid started and was planned at very least the raids took some very dangerous weapons off the streets of france. We have ordered to search the household of a lot of pe

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