There are the snow showers we are talking about on 684, i 287, i95 and across the l. I. E. So cold it will be a fluffy flurry. 33 degrees at noontime. 38 this afternoon with sunshine. We turn the corner to warmer weather. Its warmer tomorrow into the 40s. We talk about that next. Heather has all kinds of stuff. We talk about the connecticut turnpike northbound side 17 to 18 a tractor trailer fire being cleared away. This is something you want to think about for the weekend since its a for most. Major construction project, harlem river drive ramps to and from the harlem river bridge will have closures. George Washington Bridge southbound on the harlem river drive the ramp will be closed. Northbound one lane open. This is supposed to start tomorrow evening and last until at least monday. Now, we are finding that we have construction still with us to the 60s. Two lanes are closed down. New Jersey TransitLong Island Railroad, metro north doing fine. Brooklyn bridge is completely reopened into manhattan. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Lori, over to you. Heather, thank you. A volunteer mission to help poor people in honduras ended tragically when a bus crashed and fell into a ravine. Two students from Columbia University and Barnard College as well as a u. S. Health care worker were killed. 12 other americans were injured. Eight are in Critical Condition. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live in Morningside Heights. Dray . Reporter good morning, lori. Both columbia and Barnard College are both out on winter break. Classes resume next week. These are some of the students that decided to spend part of their break doing goodwill. Suddenly on the way back home it was a mission of mercy that ended in tragedy. Two student volunteers and u. S. Health care worker in honduras to help the poor were killed in a bus crash now blamed on mechanical failure. The ride to the airport for the flight home ended with the bus veering off the road and plunging at least 260 feet into a ravine near the honduran capitol. All 30 passengers on the bus were from columbia and Barnard College, members of the University Medical brigade. Daniella moffson died and Olivia Erhardt. At least a dozen more on the bus were injured. Eight are in Critical Condition including Heather Bender from scarsdale. Columbus university is sending both medical supplies and personnel to honduras to provide on site help for those live in Morningside Heights this morning, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Dray, thank you. Breaking news out of indonesia. It is all about terror. Jakarta was rocked by explosions and gunfire. Seven people killed, four attackers. Suicide bombers targeted a starbucks and a gas station came under attack. There were open gun battles in the streets while people watched from office towers. Ten people were wounded. There were repeated warnings of attacks by islamic militants since november. News of the terror attacks sent stocks sliding in asia. Markets are down in taiwan, japan and hong kong. Futures are up this morning following huge losses wednesday. The dow starts at 16,151. You may not care about the stock market, someone is not this is the story everyone is talking about. The powerball. Three Winning Tickets were sold at the historic 1. 5 billion drawing. None was sold in our area. Yeah, get up and go to work. Winners in california, florida and tennessee. Here is the good news. We had several second Prize Winners in the tristate area. Take a look at the winning numbers. Minutes after the winning numbers were announced, a huge crowd appeared at the store in california that sold one of the Winning Tickets. Lauren lister is live at that store in chino hills. Good morning, lauren. A lot of activity at that store today . Reporter yeah, rob. Someone who shopped at this Southern California 7eleven is one of 292 million. Those were the odds of winning the Powerball Jackpot. Say a Winning Ticket was sold here. Can you believe it. A world record jackpot coming to you right now. Reporter the more than billion dollar moment people across the u. S. Were waiting for. The winning powerball numbers. Reporter that moment changing the life of a powerball winner that bought one of the tickets here at this chino hills 7 he leavened. Crowds of people showing up last night after it was revealed. Happy, excited. Like we won even though we didnt because the community won. Reporter call it a sign of powerball fever sweeping the nation. Tickets ahead of the drawing selling at 1. 3 million a minute during rush hour. Winner. Reporter drawing long lines, inspiring people to powerball free nevada into on our web site at abc7ny and on our social media pages as well. Just before the kick off of primary season, republican hopefuls will meet once again on the debate stage. Fox Business Network is hosting tonights debate. Its the lineup on the results of recent polling. The debate comes as donald trump faces a rising challenge from ted cruz, particularly in iowa. Rand paul and Carly Fiorina were cut from the primary stage. Big sports news. The giants are keeping it in the family as they have hired a head coach to replace tom coughlin. Ben mcadoo will head the team. He was on the green bay packer staff where he won a super bowl ring five years ago. He is the second youngest head an official announcement is expected soon. Good morning, coach. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist billy evans. I like the sound of that. Taking a look from the roof camera. Central park south to the left with wollman rink. We have cloudy skies, flurries out there, too. Maybe not able to see them on the live picture but this morning, 24 degrees at 6 00. Here are the flurries we are talking about. Cutting across sussex, warren, passaic, bergen, through the five boroughs across long island. These are lake effect snows making flurries are gone by 8 00. Sun is out at 10 00. 25 by the time we get to the end of lunch hour and 38 this afternoon. At the bus stop, you can meet the huckleberries. Three out of four huckleberries will be there. Like the four out of five dentists surveyed. After school today, 38. That will feel good. They will still be there. We are also there. There. I will definitely be there. This is the fdr doing fine we had earlier construction project picked up and put away. Lets go to the maps. Vehicle fire extinguished on the connecticut turnpike northbound 17 into 18. As you travel to mass transit times, looking fine new Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, metro north. Subway service on or close to schedule. 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The suspect was denied on dna evidence found at the scene. The first lawsuit against Malaysia Airlines for the disappears of flight 370 have been filed in the u. S. The flight vanished two years ago. 239 passengers and crew were on board. From a piece of a wing, has not been found. The statute of limitations for filing a claim against the airline is early march. Time to get a check on the accuweather forecast. Lets check in with bill evans outside the studio on the upper west side. Good morning, gang. Here we go. We start the day with what will be flurries out here. Can you see them out here . They are fine flurries. The temperature is on the cold side. These flurries are small. They are making their way across the five boroughs this morning. Thats okay. Come on buy. Nice to see you. Good morning, here we go. Take a look outside. Skies are cloudy, flurries, high yesterday of 30. Normal high is 31. A cold morning out here. Temperature. Wind. Morning. We are looking at a few flurries. Threw, 287, i95 in connecticut, merritt parkway. These are fine flurries. Be on the lookout for that. You have to clear the car. By 8 00, 9 00 this morning, those are gone. The sun is out. A nice day with less wind. Temperature 38. It will feel better today, not as harsh or cold without the wind out there. Temperatures will start to warm up tomorrow. We get into the upper 40s friday with cloudy skies. Look at the futurecast as we get to friday night and saturday. 2 00 a. M. Saturday. Here comes rain. Rain on saturday morning. Up in the catskills, that will mix with ice and snow. So,ing skiing this weekend up to hunter mountain, up to upstate new york and doing skiing up that way, rain in massachusetts, too. It will be warm. You will have that mix, el nino season. The sun comes out late in the day on saturday. A cold start to the day. We look at temperature warming to 38. A c. Its normal for this time of the year. Tomorrow we got sunshine, 47. Its cloudy by late in the day. Temperatures are upper 40s to near 50. The rain saturday morning. 48 and sunny saturday colder sunday. Tonight partly cloudy skies. Tonight tomorrow is a nice day, mild 49 degrees. 11 warmer than normal for this time of the year. Day forecast. Saturday we have the rain in the morning then we got sun in the afternoon. Then its back to chilly on sunday. Sunshine on sunday, high 37 and 32 on monday and tuesday. I dont know if you heard it or not but there is a dog barking out here. Hard not to hear. Come on over. I know, its thursday. Nobody ever feeds this dog. Sir, what is your name. Thats my buddy. That is maximus, maximus el chompo, maximoose. He has been in hiding. Now he is out. All right, thank you, bill. You guys have a great day. Problems on the m trains, m for maximus. Problems at metropolitan avenue. Service is suspended between metropolitan avenue and myrtle. New Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, metro north doing fine. 46 east in teterboro near green street an accident. Then going over here to the connecticut turnpike, as you head north, exit 17 to 18 we have a tractor trailer fire being cleared away. Major construction projecting on, harlem river ramps this weekend and next weekend. Plan accordingly. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Over to you. Thank you. Skype is celebrating a decade in business with a feature that users have been indeed, reena ninan and Kendis Gibson report. In techbytes, skype celebrating the 10th anniversary with a brandnew call fee tire. Users will be able to conduct free Video Conference calls from the mobile twices. The feature will roll out in the coming weeks for ios, android and Windows Mobile devices. Ford unveiled a concierge service. You can book advanced parking and arrange ride sharing trips. You can take a tour of the Worlds LargestModel Railway exhibit without leaving home. Google maps captured every tiny detail of the miniature wonderland in hamburg, germany. Consists of 8,000 miles of track. 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You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the accuweather forecast. A few snowflakes out here. A few flakes falling around as you see here. That will be through the morning here for another hour or so. Then we will see these flakes winding down about 8 00 this morning. You see on the accutrack radar, some back up to the hudson river valley. Not the heavy wet ones to slippery up the roadway. A light wind over the next several hours and the next 7 to be precise. Temperatures warming above the freezing mark by the time we get to lunch hour then this afternoon a sunny 38 degrees. M trains have been repaired. New Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, metro north on or close to schedule. We had an accident on 46 and teterboro eastbound near green street. That has been cleared away. On the connecticut turnpike, as you go northbound, around exit 17, 18 you have a vehicle fire being extinguished and cleared away. Minor delays george Washington Bridge. Ten minutes apiece at the lincoln and holland inbound. Major Construction Projects starting this weekend 10 00, midnight. I dont have the precise time yet. Harlem river ramps to the george Washington Bridge, big construction project. Effect. Lori, over to you. Thank you, heather. Just a couple of hours away now and we will know who is in the running for an oscar this year. You can watch the big announcements live. Then the oscars on february 28th here on channel 7. Closing in on 6 30. Heart break at Columbia University. Three students were killed in a horrific bus crash in honduras. We are live at you cant predict the market. But through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Your path to retirement may not alw