56 kingston, poughkeepsie, newburgh, temperature still dropping a little bit here. Were looking at a temperature around 62 long island, 59 down the jersey shore. A couple little sprinkles are left on the eastern end of long island and up toward ulster and sullivan county. That will cut across dutchess. Sunshine returning today. 60 by noontime, 62 this afternoon. Stihl well have that wind today up to 25 miles per hour. More rain is coming and a big chill this weekend. Well all talk about that in the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Its weather then heather every 7 minutes. Lets see whats happening. Good morning everybody. Seeing delays on the 7 train. The problem is ongoing signal problems over at willets point. New Jersey Transit, metro north, lirr all on time. Watch for this problem on 84 eastbound towards exit 17 in dutchess county, a collision. Heres a look at the westbound side of the southern state, very solid here right through eagle avenue in nassau county. Going to our other camera, the belt parkway westbound picking up a lot of volume heading right out toward Kennedy Airport. Alternate side parking rules are in effect for today city wide. Back over to you. Thank you. 6 02 and a murder mystery this morning in brooklyn. Police first thought an elderly woman died of Natural Causes. That was five weeks ago. Now they say she was murdered. The 82yearold victim was found dead inside her apartment at the woodson houses. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live now in brownsville with the bizarre turn of events. Dray. Good morning, lori. Certainly bizarre is one way of putting it. There are still two primary questions that need to be answered. One is how did the medical examiner miss the mark while examining the elderly womans body. Second who was responsible for killing the 82yearold victim. Unresponsive inside her sixth floor apartment on november 9th and eventually declared dead. Police had gone to her apartment here at the woodson house for a welfare check because no one had heard from her. As mckennys body was being prepared for burial, workers at the caribbean Funeral Center noticed a knife wound in the back of her neck. The medical examiner has made her death a homicide. Investigators spend a significant amount of time inside her apartment yesterday looking for anything, any kind of evidence that might lead them to her killer. Certainly people who live here at the woodson houses were very surprised to hear that the elderly victim had not died from Natural Causes but rather she was murdered. Were live in brownsville, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Tornado driver is still on the loose hours after a deadly hit and run. Witnesses say the truckdriver actually got out of his rig after hitting a man in newark, then drove off after realizing what happened. The victim was hit at the intersection of chancellor avenue and leslie street around 6 00 last night. He died at the hospital. The truck also damaged an suv. 6 04, and police say a serial sex offender on long island has struck again. Edward ramirez is charged with molesting two young sisters while delivering furniture at their queens home over the week. This is his third arrest in little more than a year. Previously ramirez was accused of planting a recording device in the womens room of a restaurant. Hes being held on 50,000 bail on this latest arrest. We have new details in the weekend double murder of a mother and daughter in new jersey. Beaten to death rareton by 51yearold ramon cadiz. The victims have been identified as 51yearold Sandra Giuseppe and her 15year old daughter kimberly strength. 6 05, his front runner status puts Donald Trump Center stage tonight with senator ted cruz right beside him thanks to a surge in the polls. The preparations in las vegas have been intense. Remember, there are just six weeks to go before Iowa Republicans cast their votes in the nations first caucuses. Trump is going into the debate hot off a rally near the vegas strip. This will be the first debate for republicans in more than a month and the first since the attacks in paris and california. The four previous debates got record viewership. Trump says it will be the same tonight because all the other candidates gunning for him. So were watching television before were hearing these announcers saying whos going to take on trump tonight, whos going to hit him hard. Yeah i would say bring them on. Who cares. What difference does it make. But i would say it wont be this will not be like an evening in paradise for me. Do we agree . The three Democratic Candidates will be in New Hampshire for their debate on saturday. Bernie sanders is campaigning there this week but Hillary Clinton used brooklyn for a warmup attacking republicans who have turned against immigrants and refugees after the paris and San Bernardino attacks. The time when a lot of americans are fearful about future attacks here at home, some candidates are even stoking those fears more and turning people against Muslim Americans saying some really hateful, hurtful things. Clinton called for a break in fees for immigrants applying to be u. S. Citizens. 6 06. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. Lets take a look from our camera here on the roof across the park to the wollman rink on the right there. Thats 432 park. Were looking at whats going to be. Skies clearing up. Well have a good looking sunrise here. You see the back edge of the clouds in the distance. Sun will be coming up in 45 minutes. Well be looking at a lot of sunshine and prettier sunset. 62 degrees, cloudy skies. Last of the shower toward the twin forks right here around south hampton, deeing harbor around riverhead, eastward to Shelter Island to gardners island out toward orient point in montauk. High pressure builds in today makes for a lot of sunshine. Were going to cool down a few more degrees into the upper 50s by 7, 8 00. 60s by noontime. 62 this afternoon, still temperature 20 degrees warmer than normal. Well have a clear night, a great night tonight and the kiddos grab a jacket or sweater this morning. By afternoon were at 62. Its going to feel great. Youll need jackets and sweaters again this evening. I give it a b. This weekend is brisk. There you go debbie duhaime. B is okay. Well take it. Good morning to you bill. Good morning to everybody. Lets see whats happening as we head to the subways right now. On the 1 train delays downtown with the ongoing signal problems at 145th. And on the 7 train delays hudson yard bound. Its all due to ongoing signal problems at will ets point. Watch out for slowdowns on 84 eastbound exit 17. Lets go outside. L. I. E. Westbound moving slowly right through queens getting out toward kew gardens. Watch for stopandgo traffic there. Going over to the other camera, the westbound belt still very busy heading out toward Kennedy Airport. Are in effect. Back to you shirleen, lori. Still ahead on Eyewitness News another new yorker crossing the street struck and killed by a city bus. Dozens of fishermen trapped on thin ice. See how firefighters swooped in to save them. And moments ago a rocket carrying the latest group of astronauts blasted off to the International Space station. Wewhat 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. Get the recipes at walnuts. Org. Layover. 24 hours. Hello, reykjavik. 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Law enforcement Officials Say federal investigators did not find new clues in the attack cached out by Tashfeen Malik and syed farook. The white house is asking for a review of how would be immigrants are vetted. The focus on their online presence. The state department is looking at ways to use social media posts in its vetting process. Army sergeant held captive by the taliban will face General Court martial. After five years in captivity, now under General Court martial bergdahl could face a life sentence if hes convicted of misbehavior before the enemy. He faces five years in prison if convicted of desertion. Saudi arabia said 34 muslim nations have agreed to form a military alliance to fight terrorism. It will have a joint Operation Center based in the saudi capital. The coalition includes egypt, qatar, the United Arab Emirates and turkey. Three new crew members are on their way to the International Space station. They blasted off in a russian spacecraft just about 15 minutes ago. Nasa astronaut tim with veteran cosmonaut and tim peak. He is the first british astronaut to visit the space station. It will be a sixhour journey to the i. S. S. With docking scheduled for 12 24 p. M. Once aboard three crew members will quickly become involved with Many Research projects including experiments on the effects of space on the human body. And well also test out an inflatable capsule similar to one that may be used on missions to mars. Time to get a check on that accuweather forecast. We have a wind out of the west. Be aware of that making your commute today. If youre around the five boroughs, theres that canyoning effect that doubles the wind speed. Be ready for that. Things can get blown around, debris and dust. Its a refreshing morning here. You can tell that the humidity is gone as compared to yesterday, yesterday evening when we had the rain. We have a half inch of rain in a lot of spots. Heres how it looks outside this morning. Were going to have a beautiful sunrise. Lights are on at wollman rink. 62 degrees, dry humidity, a west wind up to 18 and the pressure is rising. Look how low it is. Its really low there. That means its going to be windy as High Pressure builds in today. Low 60s around the five boroughs. 58 up toward white plains. All these numbers are nearly 20, 25, 30 degrees warmer than normal. Well have this all day with gusts at 25. On the radar the last of the showers on eastern long island High Pressure will now build in. Clears us out. Our futurecast shows us sunny today and tomorrow. Here comes thursday, rain, 1 00 on thursday into the afternoon, into the evening and into overnight thursday night and friday well clear out. Temperatures today is going to be right around 62 degrees, and then tonight we drop down in the 40s. Look at tomorrow, temperatures are going to be around 50 degrees, 48, 47 degrees, so much cooler for tomorrow. After school today kids its going to feel great. Were right around 62 degrees, 42 is our normal high this time of the year. Great weather this afternoon. Tonight weve got less wind, 45 degrees. Tomorrow weve got sunshine, a cooler day, warmer than normal by 10 degrees. Were at 52. Your accuweather sevenday forecast, theres the rain on thursday. Fridays cool and saturday a bit brisk and chilly with a wintery wind on saturday it will feel like the 30s as we go into saturday. We warm back up next week. The big star wars premier is tonight. Are you going to the star wars premier . Shirleen is going and alex, my little alex is going. I am going tonight and i have a date. Whos your date . Ill show you. My date is the maxi moose. Yeah. This is my date max sky skywalker. I am your father. You are the master. Wow. And also cleo pup is here this morning. I thought the movie was something to look forward to. I want to see this. You can see him in a Storm Trooper out there. Hes 80 pounds, 60 pounds fuzz. Yeah, all fuzz. You guys have a great day. I want to tell you whats happening as we take it over to the 1 train, downtown delays and on the 7 train delays with signal problems at willets point, delays hudson yard bound. Lincoln only 5, holland looks okay, throgs neck, whitestone and watch for this closure on 63rd between 1st and 2nd blocked after last weeks partial Building Collapse over there. Lets go out to the webcam, the fdr drive southbound moving slowly down towards the 70s. Our other camera, the Grand Central parkway westbound moving really slowly heading out toward the rfk bridge. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. Back over to you. Thank you. Drones are growing in popularity and the owners will soon have to get them registered before their first flight. Abcs reena ninan and Richard Bacon have this mornings tech bytes. Registering drones. It will be required by late february for the hundreds of thousands of drones currently flying. Have to register it right way. The faa registry week site opens next monday. Google map rolling out new features. Users will be able to pull up a stores Holiday Hours as well as days on the retailers busiest times of day. Facebook is getting in on the star wars excitement. Click the try it button from the star wars account posts and choose between the blue lightsaber, the color of the jedi or a red lightsaber. Whats it going to be . Blue. I prefer the color red. That debate settled. Those are your tech bytes. Have a great day everybody. I think thats darth vaders color, too. I dont know rena. 6 19. Have you completed your holiday shipping, some important deadlines are fast approaching. And you saw it right here on giants now squarely in the playoff race thanks to lucky number 13. Fist a holiday greeting from a member of our military overseas. Hi my name is la Trisha Thomas here at Naval Base Guam happy holidays to my announcement this storm promises to be the biggest of the decade. 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Companies like uber usually classify their drivers as i believe dependent contractors who dont get benefits. The seattle ordinance allows them all to bargain collectively. If youre hoping to get your presents under the tree in time for Christmas Morning you better get to the post office. Today is the last day to get presents delivered by the 24th using standard Postal Service shipping. And the rush to beat santa to the punch has people lining up at the post office. If you want to skip the long lines you can request a package pickup using the usps website. 6 24. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with meteorologist bill evans. We look at the ferries from staten island, jersey city, should be a fine ride here, a little breezy this morning with a west side wind here. Shes got to push you a little over toward the brooklyn side. Should have a nice ride from brooklyn back and forth toward the hudson river. Even if youre taking the ferry over from bridgeport to port jeff water temperature 51. Still warm for this time of the year. By the next seven hours were looking at temperatures of 58 degrees cooling down a little bit. Then we warm back into the low 60s later on this afternoon. And were going to be looking at temperatures here around plain view long island looking at 59, 60 degrees. By noontime low 60s this afternoon. Its weather then heather. Debbie duhaimes filling in today in the Traffic Center. Hows it going out there . Good morning bill, good morning everybody. Ferries are on time but a problem with metro north on the Danbury Branch. Delays with a disabled train. Engineer transit lirr on or close. On the 1 train downtown delays, signal problems at 145. On the 7 delays hudson yard bound because of signal problems at willets point. The l. I. E. Westbound taking up volume getting into little neck parkway. Our other camera the southbound van wyck moving slowly into kew gardens. 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