minutes away from weather and traffic. >> you can call it december 4th if you want to, weather- wise it's not going to feel like it. we have some very mild weather, a nice start to your weekend. 44 degrees right now. we should be in the mid-30s, upper 30s around the five boroughs to the 20s north and west. 37 monticello, 35 armond, 36 norwalk. these numbers are mild. we're off to a very night start to the weekend. we'll have sunshine, 50 to 52 degrees later on this afternoon. going to be great. going to get warmer. we're going to be in the mid- 50s by sunday. that has had heather o'rourke dancing around the maple all morning long. >> i put a new ribbon on the maple. i don't know if you noticed. let's go over to our mass transit chart. everything is doing fine if you want to use new jersey transit, long island railroad. we do have construction george washington bridge, lincoln and and that's the george washington bridge. the upper level has two lanes closed in both directions. not causing major problems at this point. we're looking at the covered roadway in jersey city. we have some construction there. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect and it's a gridlock alert today. leave the car at home. thank you heather. 4:32, and we begin with breaking news overseas, at least a dozen people are dead after an attack at a nightclub in egypt. it happened early this morning in cairo. officials say three men on a motorcycle threw molotov cocktails into the club killing 12 people and injuring five more. the fire was put out, and investigators are now on the scene. time is 4:32. now the deadly mass shooting in california. more details are surfacing as the fbi investigates the couple accused of killing 14 people and wounding 21 others. >> we're also learning new abc's lauren lister is in san bernardino with the update. >> this morning we're learning more about the victims of this deadly mass shooting and about the two suspects killed in a shootout with police. authorities still searching for the motive trying to figure out what would drive a young couple with an infant to allegedly carry out this attack. >> the sights and sounds of grieving on display in this southern california community grappling with the loss of 14 lives. as we learn more about the suspects who abruptly took them in wednesday's shooting ram pain. >> they were equipped and they could have continued to do another attack. >> 12 unexploded bombs found in the young couple's home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition. one neighbor said his wife had become suspicious. >> she had noticed that they had been receiving packages, quite a few packages within a short amount of time and they were actually doing a lot of >> the fbi is now treating the investigation of syed farook and his pakistani born wife -- their names all confirmed by the medical examiner. ryan reyes lost his partner daniel kaufman. >> the world will suffer from having one last person like him. >> michael wetzel is survived by a family reeling with the loss of a father, husband, and breadwinner. >> they are very overwhelmed. there are six kids that have lost their father. >> jennifer thalisinos now clings to her last embrace with husband nicholas. >> i got an extra hug and kiss when he left. >> authorities tell abc news the fbi is looking for connections between farook and two individuals here in the in cad radicalizing him or in planning the attack. ken and shirleen back to you. 4:35. we have been learning more about the victims. police have released the names of all four victims and we're getting a better sense of who they were, nine men, five women. the youngest 26, the oldest 60. almost all of them were county workers. they included a father of six and a mother of three who fled religious persecution in iran. nicholas thalisinos was a worker at the san bernardino department of health. he was born in work. he was just 52. the shooting rampage sparked a renewed debate about gun control in america. while some people are calling for tougher legislation one local county sheriff wants more people to embrace their right to carry their guns. eyewitness news reporter dray clark joins us now in the >> while the deadly shooting in california has once again ignited the gun control debate for politicians across the country, a local sheriff is telling his citizens to arm themselves when they leave home. ulster county sheriff paul facebook. he's urging the residents with permits to carry their guns in and others. the sheriff says the post comes in light of the attacks in the u.s. and the terror attacks in paris saying if he was there he'd want to know people were armed. >> i'm just reminding them that they are licensed and if they're comfortable, responsible enough and they have the training and they're familiar with the laws of the state of new york i'm encouraging them to exercise that right and carry a firearm. >> and when asked about sheriff blarkam's facebook post william bratton encourages getting q1s support telling people to arm themselves. >> stay with eyewitness news and abc news for the very latest on the mass shooting in san bernardino. time now is 4:37. following attacks in paris and the killings in cribella your de blasio will reach out to muslims. mayor says it's important to ease their fears of hate-filled retaliation. now to horrific story out of brooklyn, a mother and her boyfriend shot in front of the woman's two children. police say the man who pulled the trigger was the children's father. eyewitness news reporter kala rama is live with an update for us. >> this story is as hard to hear as it is to tell, horrific story here out of brooklyn. the kid's mother is doing okay this morning. we're told she will make it. it's these kids who have been through a traumatic situation here watching their own father shoot their mother, then kill her boyfriend and turn the gun on himself. the kids 33-year-old mom walking with her 43-year-old boyfriend into the corner bodega. the suspect and his former long- time girlfriend were meeting to hand off the kids to one another. instead, the suspect turn enraged shooting the boyfriend in the head killing him and shooting his ex in the upper body all while their two kids ages 11 and 6 watched in horror. police say the suspects brought those kids to the corner of 91st and clarkson to watch the violence unfold before he took his own life. >> apparently there was a domestic violence issue which related to somewhat of a triangle where there's a boyfriend and a young lady and another man involved. going to shoot, my brother was in a shooting. >> those kids an 11-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl are now in the care of family. their mom is in stable condition this morning. we're told she will survive. we're live in brooklyn outside kings county hospital, kala rama channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you. police hope new video will help them find a suspect wanted for a bias attack on the upper west side. officers say this man went inside the west side on broadway and shouted threatening anti-semitic remarks. he pumped a 15 a 2 -- punched a 52-year-old worker outside the store. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with meteorologist bill evans and the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> here's our look from 4 times square southward. you can see all the way down to that bridge in the middle of the screen. that'sed verrazano bridge. staten island, farther to the south and west there. new jersey, clear skies to partly cloudy skies. great visibility this morning. our temperature 44 degrees. when the wind comes down the temperature drops a little more. you don't have that friction from the wind. we have clear and partly cloudy skies. a light west to a light northwest wind here. a lot of sunshine today and right through the weekend. 42 by 7, 8:00. noontime temperature gets to 47 and we're at 50 later on today with a lot of sun today and only warmer weather as we continue into saturday and sunday which i'll tell you day forecast. 7 minutes. >> it's not going good for washington bridge. let's take a look at a traffic camera and show you the delay going across that upper level. that's just a parking lot as you go inbound on that upper. if you're a non-commercial vehicle head downstairs. we're also going to look at a webcam and show you how things look on the fdr drive. directions right through the 90s. we'll go over to our maps and i can tell you southbound, northbound, again on the fdr drive 70s up to 90s and again going southbound through the 90s. we have that construction and the george washington bridge's upper level construction, both directions where two lanes were closed. street cleaning rules are in effect. it's a gridlock alert day today. leave the car at home. good to know. thank you heather. 4:41. still ahead on eyewitness news, this morning you may need extra cash for your weekend travel plans. where you can expect to see a toll hike. >> comedian jon stewart returns it is 4:43. while some people are man in south carolina decided to go prehistoric in his front yard. he constructed this tyrannosaurus rex using the metal used over when he ripped up his underground pool. i bet the neighbors are real happy about this. they're working on adding to the scene to make it look more like the genuine jurassic park. >> nothing feels like the holidays like a t rex in your yard. >> frighten the children. >> 4:44. meteorologist bill evans joins us with the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> nothing scary about this forecast. >> not at all. unless you're a snow lover. it should be cloudy, maybe some flurries, kind of chilly, blustery. we would be looking at, you know, temperatures that would be starting the day right around 30. see the left part of the screen there, that's wollman rink. the lights are on this morning. kids will be skating. that's 5th avenue or 59th street south or central park south. we just through. a lot of sunshine today, and things will warm up very fast. here's our camera at 4 times square looking south. we're looking at a beautiful morning, 44 degrees, normally we would be in the mid-30s, upper 30s. it's warm to start the day. dry winds west at 8. the pressure up there at 30.31. yesterday's high 55. that was just after midnight, and now all our numbers are going to be well above normal as we go into the weekend. we should be around 36 at this hour, and we're looking at about 26 off to the north and west. it's way warm for this hour of the day. a lot of roads set back in '98. that was a big year as far as warming not only in the u.s. but around the globe. now we're going to be looking at temperatures today even warmer than they were a year ago. we have a big el nino going on across the united states and across over to europe. the temperatures are spiked up warmer this year. be gorgeous. the wind has diminished. fantastic first weekend of december, and we've got a possible coastal system coming up the shore next week to give us rain on tuesday. it's still very warm and mild and sunny until then. high pressure is coming right across the northeast and new england here. we'll have sunshine today, mild temperatures, a high sliding eastward so the wind really dies down as we get into the center. saturday we're looking at 52 and the high goes down into the atlantic. the winds come around from the south and there's nothing to come along and do anything. the temperature will warm into the mid-50s. here's your accuweather seven- day forecast. 52, a december slight saturday. sunny and milder on sunday. the high is 56. there you see that little coastal system. that's what i'm calling a coastal consign on tuesday. >> yes, i'm going to consign ton. >> don't let it rain on your parade. >> that's gorgeous. >> that's beautiful bill. >> massage sounds good. >> yeah. >> let's move on at this point. >> let's do it, shall we? get a check of the commute. >> i'm trying to fulfill his wishes. >> i was just mispronouncing the word message is all i was doing. >> i take massage. >> we'll go over to our subway status. our subways are running on or close to schedule. check out the george washington bridge as you come inbound. you are bumper-to-bumper coming across that upper level, and that is actually good news going on here. the construction has actually been cleared. we'll head to our maps. it's doing just fine, so is mass transit as far as new jersey transit long island railroad. great day for a ferry. fdr northbound 70s up through the 90s construction both directions. that upper level george washington bridge construction cleared. you'll find it slow across that upper level. lower level a better bet if you're a non-commercial vehicle. covered roadways closed between jersey city and tonnele circle with construction. we've been dealing with a lot of delays right over here on the newark bay extension getting into exit 14a with an ongoing project they're doing there and the goethals bridge some more construction. our street cleaning rules in effect, but it is a gridlock alert day. >> thank you heather. apparently this, yeah, isn't as good as it looks. police in arizona say things could have been much worse when a car careened through a chick- fil-a drive through in tucson. the car wound up on its side after smacking into three other vehicles at a mall. the crash caused some delays but no one was seriously hurt. time is 4:48. in new jersey are still awarting answers this morning following a foiled bomb plot. five students are suspected of planning to set off a bomb at clifton high. it was thwarted when teachers discovered the plan. the students have been released to their parents. other parents say they weren't alerted to the plot until yesterday. comedian jon stewart made a return to washington to plead the case of 9/11 workers. stewart was on capitol hill urging lawmakers to provide money for those workers, health care. stewart wanted to meet with ohio senator rob portman but was routed to portman's chief of staff. >> we just can't figure out why we have to drag guys hundreds of times down to washington who are suffering from cancers to plead their case when our country should have taken care of them in the first place. >> advocates hope to get lawmakers to approve funding before they leave for their one vote hurts two of president obama's major health causes, senate republicans have approved a bill that destroys the so-called obamacare and wipes out funding for planned parenthood. the house is expected to follow suit in a few days. the president has promised to veto. the port authority will have more cash rolling in this weekend. good for them. that means they're raising your tolls. the hikes take effect on sunday at the lincoln and holland tunnels, the george washington, bayonne, and goethals bridges and outer bridge crossing. az pass rates will go up $0.75. cash tolls will go up a dollar. e-z pass customers will pay $10.50 during offpeak hours and 12.50 during peak hours. cash customers will pay 15 bucks at all times. >> some days i'll get those bridges and tunnels paid off. >> comenting -- coming up, police help new images will help police make an arrest after a man claims he was >> and a lung cancer patient gets a second 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. seen pirelli? abc7 and your tri-state ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and eyewitness news this morning. it is 4:54. 6 minutes before 5 a.m. we look down the jersey shore here, got a little light wind right there out of the north to the northeast coming in today that is kind of heading on out. a little northwest wind there this morning. we are looking at temperatures that are warmer than normal for this hour of the day. 38 around new city to 31 morristown. 44 around the park. a little bit of wind. there's that wind kind of northwest to west, here's showing up southwest around the urban areas of new jersey. we'll have sunshine today. we're going to warm to 50 degrees this afternoon. great start to a beautiful weekend. it's weather then heather. she says it's construction junction everywhere. >> yes, there is so much construction this morning, but hopefully it will just stay as construction and they'll clear that and we'll have a good commute. we have the rfk triborough bridge construction into the bronx, and then over here on the fdr drive northbound from the 70s up to the 90s, southbound through 90s you have if you are going over to the verrazano bridge, staten island bound because of construction. new jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north doing just fine. construction at the george washington bridge upper level cleared but you're still going to find it slow going across the span. we have alternate side of the street parking rules in effect. it's also gridlock alert day. thank you very much. 4:55. new this morning, police are searching for this man saying that he is the suspect in bias attack in brooklyn. this man punched a 42-year-old man in the head while yelling antiwhite statements. the suspect then ran into the roberta clemente housing development across the street. a second person is being questioned in an attack on a former resident of a city-run homeless shelter. katori washington is the mother charged with assault. katora says they were defending themselves while being attacked by the alleged victim and her boyfriend. she says a photo shows the injuries she suffered when she was punched in the eye. >> i'm here to turn myself in just to get justice because i was assaulted. i was the one that got punched in the eye. no one else got injured. it was just me. >> that is a very different story than that of the alleged victim. she says video shows shelter workers screaming at her when she went there to retrieve her belongings, and she says the attack was unprovoked. 4:56. hoop dreams came true in new jersey for a budding basketball player who survived a life saving double lung transplant. 12-year-old josh hernandez suited up with his teammates at st. patrick school in chatham. it was his first game since his transplant surgery in may. this time last year josh could barely walk the halls of the school let alone play >> i'm really happy to be back with my friends and playing basketball this season. i feel great. >> josh has spent the last two years in a battle for his life, so these boys and this school, st. patricks school have rally around josh and his family. >> what a cool story. josh since he was very young has suffered from a series of serious lung conditions. when he turned 12 he became eligible to be placed on the transplant list for adult lungs. >> what an adorable kid. good luck to him. >> so happy for him. >> just ahead on eyewitness news, this morning investigators say they are looking for another person in relation to the mass shooting in southern california, but he is not a suspect. meanwhile loved ones and community members come together to remember the 14 people killed in that massacre. >> also, two children witness a terrifying scene. their father shooting their boyfriend. let's get these dayquil liquid gels and go. but these liquid gels are new. mucinex fast max. it's the same difference. this one is max strength and fights mucus. mucinex fast max. the only cold and flu liquid gel that's max-strength and fights mucus. let's end this. enough pressure in here for ya? i'm gonna take mucinex sinus-max. too late, we're about to take off. these dissolve fast. they're new liquid gels. and you're coming with me... you realize i have gold status? mucinex sinus-max liquid gels. dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. let's end this. with a whole-roasted hazelnut, delicate crisps, and layers of rich, creamy chocolate, they're twice the size of the kisses chocolates you love. this is new york's number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news with lori stokes and ken rosato, heather o'rourke with traffic, and bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. now eyewitness news this morning. good morning, it's 5 a.m. we're learning more about the investigation into that deadly mass shooting in california including the search for the person who purchased two rifles used in the attack. >> community members are banding together in grief remembering the 14 people killed in the san bernardino massacrer. >> and children witnesses a terrifying crime in brooklyn, a father shoots their mother. >> i'm shirleen allicot lori stokes. >> you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. hey bill it's the weekend. early spring weekend too or maybe an early fall weekend. it's not going to feel like what it should be for the first weekend in december. here's a look outside. we've got clear skies. you can call it fair skies if you would like. the temperature is 43 degrees. we've got a little west wind at 6 to 8 miles an hour. north port and massapequa is at 41. when the wind dies down, look at hauppauge, 33, sandy soil, clear skies. today we've got sunshine. we're looking at 47 by noontime, we're looking at 50 degrees this afternoon. it only gets warmer this weekend. heather's looking at the commute. she's busy already. they're building everything again. i thought they built everything around here. >> they have. we just need to repair them all the time. we have an accident this time around, the new jersey turnpike earn spur southbound near exit 16e. that is the exit that will take you to the inbound side of the lincoln tunnel. we have that accident there. subway service is running on or close to schedule. no major problems new jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north. if you're going to the rfk triborough bridge we have construction heading into the bronx. fdr drive construction both directions between the 70s and the 90s causing a bit of a delay, only have one lane open coming southbound. street cleaning rules are in effect for today but it is also a gridlock alert day. shirleen, ken over to you. thank you very much heather. it's 5:02. grieving loved ones are mourning the 14 people killed in a mass shooting in southern california. >> investigators are focusing on the suspects and the arsenal recovered at the scene of the shootout with police. the fbi says a suspected gunman syed farook legally bought two handguns that were recovered by police. now they are trying to find the person who bought two rifles also found at the scene to determine if they were purchased legally or if they were stolen. >> eyewitness news reporter dray clark is here with the latest details on the investigation. good morning dray. initially some believed the shooting might have been a reaction to a workplace dispute, but investigators say it now appears to go much deeper than that. investigators say syed farook clearly planned extensively for the attack and now the fbi has to determine if it was an act of terror, and if farook has more accomplices. >> a vigil mourning the victims as authorities look for the man who purchased the two rifles used in the massacre by syed farook. >> hurt, pain, disappointment, disbelief. >> investigators say farook had reached out on social media to extremists who are under fbi scrutiny. the question now is was farook really calized, and was he in contact with foreign terrorists organizations and how did he convince his new wife to stand and kill by his side. the 14 people killed have all been identified and want hospital raised the number of wounded to 21. knocked back by a bullet smashing straight through a restroom wall. >> it was like a bomb went off, and i turned back and looked at the mirror. i can see that i'm bloody here, here, and here. >> two brothers who attended the same mosque as farook says he was a devout muslim who showed up to pray every day before he abruptly stopped three weeks before the attack. police who broke down the door to farook's home found an arsenal of terror. these search photos were released last night after police found a bomb factory with hundreds of tools, 12 unexploded pipe bombs and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition. >> clearly they were equipped and they could have continued to do another attack. we intercepted them before that happened. >> finding possible collaborators now will be tougher because the couple destroyed their computer hard drive. >> the digital media is incredibly important because we are trying to determine the with the couple having so many weapons and so much fire power inside their home, they could have been planning more attacks. the investigation into what happened certainly is very far from over. shirleen. >> that is the truth. thank you dray. >> the rampage in california is having a ripple effect across the country as loved ones mourn the lives of the 14 people killed. two of the victims have personal connections to our area. 52-year-old nicholas that will see -- his wife says when she said goodbye to him wednesday morning she had no idea it would be the last time. >> i actually got an extra hug and a kiss before he left so i'm just holding on to that. >> new york giant's stacy before urhay tweeted just got word that one of my cousins was one of the 14 killed yesterday. i am so sick right now. hours after the massacre the u.s. senate voted against expanding the background checks for gun buyers. the vote was 50 to 47. it means gun buyers will face a background check only when they buy from a licensed gun dealer. the proposed law had tried to expand that to include all gun purchases online and at gun shows. time is 5:06 this morning, a brooklyn woman is recovering in the hospital after police say that she was shot by the father of her children. authorities say the man ambushed the woman and her current boyfriend killing that man before turning the gun on himself. this all happened in front of their children. kala rama is live in east flatbush with the latest on the woman's condition. >> this morning we know that the kids' mom is in stable condition here at kings county, that's the one good thing out of this. the worry really is about these kids ages 11 and 6 years old saw their father shoot their mother, kill her boyfriend, then turn the gun on himself. the whole thing was caught on surveillance camera here. take a look. 33-year-old mom here was walking with her 44-year-old boyfriend into the corner bodega. we've learned this suspect and his former long-time girlfriend were meeting to hand off the kids to one another. instead, the suspect turned enraged according to police shooting the boyfriend in the head killing him, then shooting his ex in the upper body all with her two kids ages 11 and 6 watched in horror. police say the suspects brought those kids to the corner of 91st and clarkson to watch the violence unfold before he took his own life in front of them. >> apparently there was a domestic violence issue which related to somewhat of a triangle where there's a boyfriend and a young lady and another man involved. a shooting, my brother was in a shooting. >> those kids, an 11-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl are now in the care of family. they're going to get the help they need. as for their mom, once again she's in stable condition here at kings county hospital. she will survive. we're live in brooklyn, kala rama channel 7 eyewitness news. >> kala, thank you. authorities say a deadly building explosion in brooklyn was not caused by an accidental gas leak as previously suspected. the fdny says francis figueroa a tenant poured gasoline in the stairwell of the building in borough park. that's what triggered the explosion last month. figueroa who was on the verge of getting evict asked another tenant were killed. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with meteorologist bill evans and the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> let's take a look outside this morning. we are going to have clear skies, going to have beautiful weather to start your weekend on this friday. we've got a little wind, yesterday at 30 miles an hour, and here we go. we look down the jersey shore. i am lost today, i am so lost. it's friday, and it should be snowing and i'm just so lost. we are looking at sunshine. we're going to be looking at beautiful weather today, unusual december weather. we'll be looking at temperatures about 10 degrees warmer than normal. as we go to saturday and sunday it's 52 to 56 and the next shot of rain may not come until tuesday and that could be a coastal low pressure system. we'll talk more about the warm air and that shot at rain from this system coming up on tuesday in your accuweather seven-day forecast. i am so lost. >> it's okay. >> we are all over this place. >> i need a bracelet or something. please find me, will you? >> okay. we'll take care of it. let's go right over to a webcam and show you the east side of manhattan. fdr drive we have that construction just about cleared away. it looks like over here they may have removed the cones. that's some good news. you go through the 90s earlier. let's go over to our maps. we'll talk about subway status. subway service on or close. it's a gridlock alert day. leave the car at home. you can leave your car where it is. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect. shirleen, ken, over to you. >> thank you very much. it's 5:10 and shocking and sad news out of the music world this morning. the former front man of the stone temple pilots scott weiland has died. >> the new video police want the man behind a son, the holiday season's just like football season... you got your big games... ...cheese plates, turkey, 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bullet on the counter. police say the men are behind three jewelry store robberies. stunning news from the music world. we learned overnight that the former lead singer of stone temple pilots has died. the body of scott weiland was found on a tour bus overnight. right now there is no word on how he died. weiland did have a long history of drug and alcohol abuse. scott weiland was just 48 years old. 5:13. bill evans joining us now with that friday accuweather forecast. >> absolutely, shirleen. here we go. we look from our camera in brooklyn across the watchtower building over here to wall street, 1 world trade, right -- local law enforcement activity heather along the fdr there at the brooklyn bridge. clearing construction she said. fair skies, 43 degrees. she's on it. you know how come she's on it, because she caused it. 62% the humidity out there. right now the wind is west at 6. we've got a rising barometer all pointing to what's going to be a great day. normal high is 47. we'll be at 50 today and it woman -- only gets warmer this weekend. the wind has died down, a fantastic first weekend of december and we're going to be looking at what's going to be an interesting coastal -- 37 around wrightstown. these numbers are warmer than normal and the wind having dropped off allows these temperatures to drop off. the winds now are 3, 6, 9 miles per hour out of the west to a calm wind northwest. and far between. jfk, montauk, that was hours ago prior to midnight. those are the latest. but the wind has started to die down with this high pressure ridge sliding eastward. you see these grayer clouds. swinging through. as we go through this month, we're going to be looking at the upper level winds staying up to the north, mild air this weekend and into next week. now after school today, it will we'll have sunshine, 50 degrees, a little breeze will be out of the northwest. we're looking at a little breeze because it's less windy today. the upper level winds have pushed up here. we'll have 52 degrees tomorrow, a delightful saturday. less wind today, 50 degrees very nice, clear skies tonight, 30s in the suburbs, 44 in the five boroughs and tomorrow plenty of sunshine with a high of 52. 56 on sunday. 10 degrees warmer than normal for this time of the year. we've got sunshine monday, and here's that little coastal thing we were talking about for system coming up the coast to give us some rain, but you know, that's really all i have to talk about. that's why i focused on it. we have quiet weather. it's a very quiet weather pattern for the first week and weekend of december. something to talk about. a whole new song. >> i was going to sing it but i'm not going to. >> 5:16 with heather. >> unfortunately we have something to talk about. if you're taking the new jersey turnpike east, you want to keep this in mind, we do have an accident right over here. it involves a trooper vehicle and a motorcycle. an ambulance is on the scene at this point. this is on the southbound side of the new jersey turnpike eastern spur south of the 1618e tolls. as you come out of the tolls there's a lot of construction that's been going on in this area anyway. we've had the left lane closed down. you're going to experience a lot of delays as you go through this spot as this accident is being cleared away. as you go on to the new jersey turnpike eastern spur, here's the exit for route 3 just south lincoln tunnel. again, this involves a trooper. now if you're going on to the goethals bridge, staten island bound, there's construction. mass transit is doing okay. it is a gridlock alert day. leave the car at home. effect. shirleen over to you. a lawsuit has been filed looking to block a new law forcing restaurants in new york city to label menus for sodium. the national restaurant yesterday. the rule requires chain restaurants to put a salt shaker icon on menu items that top the recommended daily limit for sodium. the suit claims the labeling is an overreach by the city's board of health. 5:17. still ahead on eyewitness news this morning, former new york welcome back. federal -- in spite of his corruption conviction, silver served nearly 40 years as an assemblyman. the state constitution says that silver cannot lose his pension. he is expected to collect, get this, about 100 grand a year in his final days in the assembly silver earned just over $79,000 another woman is set to face questions in bill cosby's defamation lawsuit. this time his wife, celeste cosby will be deposed next month more than four weeks before cosby himself testifies under oath. seven women are accusing cosby of defamation. they say cosby damaged them publicly when he said their sex abuse allegations were lies. actor charlie sheen is now facing a lawsuit from his ex- fiancee who says the two had sex several times before he told her he was hiv positive. ross says sheen was also physically and emotionally abusive during their relationship. sheen said he would not pay to settle any claims for partners who accuse him of exposing him to hiv when he announced his status last month. the claims are being addressed in private arbitration. 5:21 is our time. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. here i am ready to go. i am on the jersey shore right here at asbury park, a little west wind coming here. if you're taking the ferries over this morning, a little light west wind. water temperatures still not bad at 51, 49 degrees here. not all that cold. the port jeff area going to be just fine. temperatures are warm to start overnight. you'll need a jacket but this time of the year we're really looking at very warm temperatures. it only gets warmer this weekend. sunshine, 47 by noontime. 50 degrees at 4:00 today. it's going to be really nice. at the bus stop kiddos, the huckleberries will be there. one huckleberry is playing hooky. do we happen to know who that huckleberry might be who's playing hooky this morning? i think that's her. where could she be? >> could be lori? >> what is she >> she's probably in the bus driving. she's driving the bus. lets go over to a webcam and show you where you'll be driving very slowly and this is because of an accident in the process of being cleared. new jersey turnpike east, south of the 1618e tolls this was an accident involving a trooper and a motorcycle. we did have an ambulance tending to the injured passenger of the vehicle, the person that was driving the vehicle, the motorcycle. let me just try this one more time. we have our street cleaning rules in effect, gridlock alert day today as well. you want to leave that car at home. ken, shirleen. >> whatever bill had is now clearly being caught by heather. 5:23. still ahead, starbucks giving customers a new menu option to bite into. >> and police commissioner stock exchange to set the so how ya doing? enough pressure in here for ya? ugh. my sinuses are killing me. 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version of doughnut hotels. >> it's called bagel balls. it's prestuffed with maple cream cheese. for now they're only available in new york, philadelphia and indianapolis. >> i like to put my own smear on my bagel. >> you don't want them to do it for you. >> that's america's money. >> sounds good to me. new york city police commissioner took a little time >> 2, 1! william bratton flipped the switch at the new york stock exchange. he was joined by exchange president tom farly. the event marked the 92nd annual tree lighting in the financial district. following breaking news overseas, more than a dozen people are dead after a fire bomb in egypt. >> we are learning more about the couple behind the deadly mass shooting in california. federal investigators are looking for another person to explain how the suspects got morning ted! scott! ready to hit some balls? ooh! hey buddy, what's up? this is what it can be like to have shingles. oh, man. a painful, blistering rash. if you had chickenpox, the shingles virus is already inside you. 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime. after almost 3 weeks, i just really wanted to give it a shot. you know, i'm not feeling it today. talk to your doctor or pharmacist today now new york's number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news this morning. loved ones come together to remember the 14 lives lost in the mass shooting in southern california. >> one local sheriff has a controversial solution he thinks will keep everyone safe in the event of a mass shooting. >> and a terrifying tragedy in brooklyn, police say a man shot killed her boyfriend and himself all in front of their children. good morning, i'm ken rosato. >> and i'm shirleen allicot in for lori stokes. today is friday december 4th. >> and you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. >> let's take a look at some temperatures this morning. we take a look at the jersey shore, monmouth ocean county looking good, wrightstown 37. you go up to the north, poughkeepsie's at 29. the only spot below freezing. a little wind out there, not the wind that we had yesterday, which was around 30, 35 miles an hour. we are going to be looking at a couple of spots with some wind gusts. these are a few hours old now and kind of dying off. we're looking at sunshine today, 50 degrees warmer than normal, and it only gets warmer this weekend. we do weather and traffic together every 7 minutes on this fine news broadcast. >> yes, we do. that's my partner in this little deal. we're talking about this accident on the eastern spur of the new jersey turnpike. it was right here, the accident has been cleared away. we'll head to our maps now and tell you that we still have construction verrazano bridge, staten island bound the lower level is closed down. as you go on to the fdr dry south through the 70s, the 90s we ve some construction. they're in the process of trying to get that cleared away. subway service is running on or close to schedule as far as new jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north everything doing fine. george washington bridge a very good ride. a minor delay getting into the tolls, the lincoln is fine, the holland tunnel no major problems. it's a gridlock alert day today and street cleaning rules are in effect. shirleen over to you. thank you. authorities are uncovering chilling details about the husband and wife accused of opening fire inside a california health care center killing 14 people. investigators recovered two military style rifles, two handguns and thousands of scene of the police shootout where the suspects were killed. the fbi says the suspected gunman syed farook legally bought those handguns but now authorities are looking for a man who bought the two rifles used in the san bernardino attack. it's not known if the man was acting an farook's behalf when he bought the weapons or if they were stolen. community members in southern california are focusing on the lives lost and remembering the victims eyewitness news reporter dray clark joins us with the very latest information. >> reporter: good morning shirleen. reality is still setting in for so many people mourning the loss of their loved ones and close friends. the nails of those killed have been released. the youngest shooting victim is 26. the oldest 60 years old. >> there were prayers for the dead last night in a mosque not far from the scene of the massacre. the religious leaders there condemned the attack, and there were tears at a vigil in a nearby baseball stadium, but it does little to ease the loss for the wife of new jersey native nicholas thalasinos there is the memory of a final hug and kiss good-bye. >> i got an extra hug and a kiss before he left so i'm just holing on to that. i'm just grateful for that. >> he was a good person. i loved my father, i always will. >> giants safety nat berhe tweeted his cousin was killed in the loss. and michael wetzel, the father of six children. >> there are six kids that have lost their father and renee is a stay at home mom so they have also lost all their financial support. >> the first officer on the scene says the sight of so many dead and panicked people was surreal. >> it was unspeakable, the carnage that we were seeing, the number of people who were injured and unfortunately already dead and the pure panic individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe. >> so many lives lost, so many good-bye services being planned, and the one question mourners would like answered to bring them some sense of peace is why, a question investigators certainly hope to answer. ken. >> dray, thank you. 5:34 is our time. while the deadly shooting in california has ignited the gun control debate for politicians across the country, one local sheriff is telling his citizens to arm themselves when they leave home. right here in ulster county up the hudson river, sheriff paul van blarkam posted this message on facebook. he's urging the 10,000 county residents there who have permits to carry their guns in public to protect themselves and others. >> i'm just, you know, reminding them that they are licensed comfortable, they're responsible enough, and they're -- you know, have the training and they're familiar with the laws of the state of new york, exercise that right and carry a firearm. >> now when asked about sheriff blarkam's facebook post, bratton says he wants to get guns off the street and does not support people arming themselves. our n. j. burkett is live from california with a report at 6 a.m. breaking overseas we have just learned that the death toll has risen to 16 in a fire bomb attack in an egyptian nightclub. it happened this morning in cairo. two men threw molotov cocktails into the club after being denied entry. in addition to the 16 people killed, three others were hurt. the fire has been put out and investigators remain on the time is 5:35. following attacking in paris and the killings in california, mayor de blasio today will reach out to reassure the city's 800,000 muslims. he'll deliver a speech at the jamaica muslim center. the mayor says it's important filled retaliation. police urged muslim to report any biased crime. an apparent love triangle leads to a murder suicide in a brooklyn neighborhood. police say it ended when the suspect shot himself in front of his children. the chaotic scene took over flatbush. a woman and her boyfriend seen here on surveillance video were ambushed inside their car. detectives say the shooter was the woman's ex-boyfriend. both men died. the woman is recovering in the hospital. neighbors say they've had enough violence. >> happen and happen and happen you know. i don't know what to say. i'm ready to move. >> the gunman and the woman have two children together. police say the shooter brought them to the scene, and they witnessed the horror. anger and a whole lot of unanswered questions for parents at an elementary school in new jersey where a bomb plot eleven years of age are suspected of planning to set off a bomb after clifton high school nearby. it was thwarted wednesday when teachers discovered the plan. the students have been released to their parents. other parents say they weren't even alerted to the plot until yesterday. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with bill evans and the accuweather forecast. >> our director eddie is pointing me toward the proper place to stand today. [ laughter ] here's what's happening this morning. we're looking at clear skies. we're looking at a great picture from our camera 4 times square looking south. you can see to the verrazano narrows bridge. here's our camera towards lower manhattan, wall street and boll bowling green, a little light wind out of the west. we have clear to partly cloudy skies all the way back to the great lakes, the great lakes, the northeast, the mid- atlantic, the ohio valley. ridge that will rotate around and give us beautiful weather all weekend long. noontime 47 and 40 later on today and it gets warmer on saturday and sunday. you need your warm gear this morning kiddos at the bus stop. after school is going to feel really great. give it an a heather what do you give the traffic and the commute. >> why don't i do this report and then you can tell me. let's go right over to a map and we'll talk about the subways. we have an issue with some track work, the 2 and 4 trains at grand army plaza. you can expect delays and changes there. throgs neck bridge bronx bound, you have an accident heading into the bronx manhattan. as you take the fdr drive south in the 70s, we have that construction clearing away. it is a gridlock alert day today. leave the car where it is. utilize mass transit. street cleaning rules are in effect. eyewitness news this morning, the temperatures we're getting a setting a record in upstate. what this season's snowfall totals mean for one city. >> also ahead people forced out what if the holidays were about people again? and the four-letter word that defined the season was l-o-v-e, and not s-a-l-e. that's the world t.j.maxx, marshalls and homegoods stores live in. where there's no need for sales because we offer amazing prices on thoughtful gifts everyday. let's put more value on what really matters. this season, bring back the holidays. with t.j.maxx, marshalls and homegoods. 5:41. about buffalo, but our usually snowy neighbors in western new york have shattered an antisnow record. yeah, we're only four days into december, and the city has already eclipsed the 116-year- old mark for lack of snow. up until today the latest snowfall in buffalo was december 3rd. there's none in today's forecast or the foreseeable future as we see. that means lots of bonus time on that golf course. 5:42 is our time. and tens of thousands of people are forced out of their homes this morning in india. some of the heaviest rain in more than a search hits parts of that nation. at least nine people have died neighborhoods. the coast guard working to continues to rise. right now thousands of people are crowding into government- run relief camps. 5:42. bill evans joining us now with the accuweather forecast. >> let's take a look at the chrysler building. the chrysler building is look across from the chrysler building to roosevelt island this is a little area of light on the other side of the chrysler building. a very nice morning out here. very nice chrysler building. as we look out here toward flushing we're looking at clear skies, and you can see the plains starting to take -- planes starting around laguardia. the west wind at 6 and the pressure rising 30.33. that's really strong high pressure that will be with us all weekend long. blocks out everything else. yesterday's high was right after midnight at 55, and then yesterday we hung around in the low 50s. we're at 42 now riverdale, murray hills 43. 39 belmar, 36 monticello. these numbers although they're chilly, they are above normal for the overnight hours. we've got a little light wind now as opposed to that 30 miles an hour wind we had yesterday. so that's calmed down, and this high pressure ridge which reaches all the way back to the great lakes will slide eastward and give us a lot of sunshine and very nice weather. of the west, and it will feel great today. up to the north will be all the cold air trapped, this high pressure ridge gives us a december delight starting tomorrow at 52 degrees, and it warms to about 56 on sunday. sunny and cool, less wind today, 50, tonight we've got clear skies, 30s in the suburbs, 45 in the five boroughs. saturday plenty of sunshine with a high of 52. here's your accuweather seven- day forecast, sunshine and really nice weather on sunday, 56, 52 monday. we'll be watching a coastal system on tuesday. this system could give us some rain. it may stay offshore, you know, 50 to 100 miles east or west could mean a very rainy tuesday. after that wednesday or thursday temperatures will still be above normal for this time of the year. looking at sunshine and mild temperatures as opposed to last year we were really cold. we're in an el nino year. that allows one year every six years where the temperature spikes up like this. >> i want to say good morning to all the veterans i was with last night and old bethpage at the american museum of farmer. peter king, ed mangano the county executive there, gary louie put that wonderful place together. the american museum of armor is a place, a great educational facility about all of our past and history. it's a wonderful place to go. it's been awarded many awards from education as a great learning center for kids. >> crazy you could make it out. >> fundraiser last night. it's a nonprofit organization. had big dinners. >> appreciate you for doing that. beautiful. >> a lot of people don't realize she used to have the nickname of iron lady. >> heather o'rourke. >> i still have that nickname. >> she can go down the highways and all the cars get out of the way for her. >> we can tell you that this construction on the fdr drive has finally been picked up and put away. we're also going to go to our status, 2 and 4 trains, track work at grand army plaza. franklin avenue into atlantic avenue, taking the throgs neck bridge into the bronx you're going to find an accident being cleared. over here at the rfk triborough bridge manhattan bound that is a disabled vehicle. we also have a problem at the verrazano bridge staten island upper level that's closed down with construction. new jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north, they're running on or close to schedule and going on to the parkway south route 287 there is a bumper in the roadway. i couldn't find a bumper icon so i put this here. we have street cleaning rules in effect. it's also a gridlock alert day today. so leave the car at home. shirleen, ken, over to you. >> very resourceful of you. >> still ahead on eyewitness news this morning, police looking for a man accused of punching another man in a violent bias attack in brooklyn. at a bronx polish shelter comes introducing kisses deluxe chocolates. with a whole-roasted hazelnut, delicate crisps, and layers of rich, creamy chocolate, they're twice the size of the kisses chocolates you love. son, the holiday season's just like football season... you got your big games... ...cheese plates, turkey, appetizers. and regular games. get it all at a great price... ...and the holiday season is won. that's my boy! fill your cart with everything you need this season, fomonique? abc7 and your tri-state ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. it's 5:49. welcome back, new this morning, police are searching for this man saying he is the suspect in a bias attack in brooklyn. it happened early wednesday morning at the corner of berry street and division avenue in williamsburg. police say this man punched a 42-year-old man in the head while yelling anti-white statements. the suspect ran into the roberta clemente housing across the street. police say the suspect went inside the west side on broadway and shouted anti- semitic remarks. he punched a 52-year-old worker the suspect took off on a razr scooter. so far no arrests. 5:49. a suspect surrendered to police for questioning in an attack on a former resident of a city-run homeless shelter. that suspect says she is innocent. katoria washington is the mother of tyhera washington shown here who is charged with assault. katoria says they were defending themselves from the alleged victim and her boyfriend. she does not want to show her face but says this photo here shows the injury she suffered when she was punched in the eye. >> i'm here to turn myself in just to get justice because i was assaulted. i was the one that got punched in the eye, no one else got injured. it was just me. >> that's a very different story than that of the alleged victim. she says video shows shelter workers screaming at her when she went there to retrieve her belongings, and she says the attack was unprovoked. 5:50. an iowa couple had a never forget. that after a routine traffic stop turned into a life changing moment. >> jeff schulz was driving to his girlfriend's parents house for dinner when he was pulled over for speeding. things took a turn when schulz was told there was a warrant out for his arrest. he was handcuffed. when the officered ask schulz's girlfriend to take a look at a high priced item he had supposedly stolen. >> set up a time frame when he was going to be at. >> i'm happy i was involved with it and nice to be involved but something they'll remember for the rest of their lives. >> the officer involved in the proposal actually has a history with the couple. he ticketed schulz for real when he was headed to meet his now fiancee's parents for the first time. so yeah they have a little history there. >> that's good it turned around in a positive way. >> always. >> 5:51. still ahead on eyewitness news over for some local bridges is going to cost you a little bit more. we're going to tell you where drivers will soon be having to dig deeper. >> and meteorologist bill evans is updating a great weekend forecast. 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[ laughter ] that's the china side. >> oh. >> see the water bubbles up in china. >> oh, there you go. >> i know someone who could explain what this is. >> let's see what bill evans has to say about this. >> well, you people in texas, you know what we call that up here? >> that's a drain. >> oh. >> yeah right. [ laughter ] >> that there is a morning glory. we have a glorious morning down the jersey shore, a little west wind heading across the beach into the atlantic. a nice day today. we're looking at temperatures 43 around the park, 42 sussex. 44 around laguardia to 43 around jfk. a little west wind here, not bad at all. we're looking at 47 by 11:00, 49 to 50 degrees later on this afternoon. we're looking at some beautiful weather today at the bus stop. here we go, kids dress warmly, just like the huckleberries here, and they call that one there near the bus morning glory. there she is. [ laughter ] >> thank you. >> weather then heather every 7 minutes there mg, what's going on? >> let's go right over to a webcam and show you how things look at the throgs neck bridge. this is traffic coming towards us. that traffic would be heading into queens. this is the traffic going into the bronx. i'm not seeing a lot of traffic at this point. there's a lot of activity. i'll explain what's going on. throgs neck bronx bound you have an accident, but there are two lanes closed both directions because going into queens, you're going to find a lot of emergency activity. 2 and 5 trains track work at grand army plaza. uptown express only. franklin avenue into atlantic avenue and the rfk triborough bridge, it's also a gridlocked alert day. awe 56. the port authority will have more cash rolling in this weekend. it's raising your tolls. the hike takes effect on sunday at the lincoln and holland tunnels. the george washington, bayonne, and goethals bridges and the outer bridge crossing. e-z pass customers will pay $10.50 during offpeak hours and 12.50 during peak hours. cash customers will pay $15 at all times. we're closing in on 6:00. just ahead on eyewitness news victims of the san bernardino rampage, 14 victims whose lives were cut short including one man from our tri-state area. >> after another mass shooting in america, lawmakers are stepping up efforts to curb gun violence. >> and new video of the suspects behind an armed here in manhattan. >> and meteorologist bill evans has that exclusive weekend accuweather forecast, how's it shaping up. you'll have the answer for us stay with us. spend less time chasing sales and more time making room at the table. find thoughtful gifts at amazing prices everyday at t.j.maxx, marshalls and homegoods. your four legged friend deserves something as special as everyone else in the family. find thoughtful gifts at amazing prices everyday see curiosity become wonder, and winter become christmas. the radio city christmasspectacular presented by chase. visit radiocitychristmas.com today. this is new york's number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news with lori stokes and ken rosato, heather o'rourke with traffic, and bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. now eyewitness news this morning. >> good morning, it's 6:00, an bernardino two days after a

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