Of snow. That snow is off to the west in Central New York state and pennsylvania gets here around 11 00 today, toward noontime. Burst of snow this afternoon. Then look at the temperature between 4 00 and 6 00. It drops like a rock. That it does. The windchills will feel like the 20s later on. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. I beat you to at this time. You totally did. You do it better but a lot of practice. Practice makes perfect. We have path trains Journal Square to newark resume. Expect residual delays. Long Island Railroad without issues. Metro north on or close to schedule. Subway service is on or close as well. No major issues with that. Van wyck southbound side clearing away a crash. This oil tanker is still on the scene. You can see we have a couple of lanes getting through. This is the van wyck southbound expect delays as you go to j. F. K. As a result. Street cleaning rules are suspended. Metered in effect. Ken, over to you. Breaking news. Police are searching for a man that tried to grab a girl off the street near a school. It happened at rogers and albermarle road in flood bush. Police say a man offered the 11 yearold girl a ride home. She said no. He is accused of grabbing her with one hand and holding a wooden stick with another. She ran away back to ps 99 less than two blocks away. We have a reporter heading to the scene and will bring you a live report ahead. New video of a suspect in the citys latest slashing attack. Police say the 37yearold attacked a woman on a 3 train in brooklyn. While this attack was not action to protect strap hangars. Reporter one of the subway slashings that happened began with an argument that happened on the platform at this subway station in downtown brooklyn. That argument turned violent on the train. 37yearold ras nagarit is accused of cutting a woman with a machete on a 3 train tuesday night. She was not seriously hurt. Nagarit turned himself in last night. Commissioner bratton toured several midtown subway stations and rode the train along with the chief of department. He is trying to send a message to millions of commuters that the system is safe despite the three slashings that happened this week. The commissioner announcing they will beef up patrols in the sway station and the trains by adding additional Uniformed Police officers. 2800 Police Officers are assigned full time to the so far this year, there have been five subway slashings. Of the three that happened this week, the police are classifying one as being random. In downtown brooklyn, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. New this morning, on long island, a registered sex offender is back in Police Custody accused of having sexual contact with a teenage boy. He will be in court in suffolk county. He was arrested when police found him in a car with a 14 yearold boy in a parking lot. He is a level one sex offender. Happening today, a suspected violent sex offender faces a judge in new jersey. Kirban michael is due in court. He is charged with three sex assaults and. One attack was on a 13yearold girl. Prosecutors say he attacked the for the first time in this years election season, republican candidates debated without the donald. He sat out the contest in iowa holding his own rally across town at the same time. Lana zak is live in desmoines with the countdown to the all important iowa caucuses. Good morning. Reporter good morning, ken. Even without donald trump on the main stage, there was still plenty of memorable moments in the debate. Of course most of those moments were about donald trump. It was the final debate before the first votes are cast in iowa and the National Front runner was absent. Lets address the elephant not in the room. Everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. Now that we got the donald trump portion out of the way. Ted cruz jokes soon turned tense. Chris, i would note the last attack ted, marco please attack ted, jeb please attack ted. Let me say this. It is a debate, sir. If you guys ask one more mean question, i may have to leave the stage. Reporter dont worry, im not leaving the stage no matter what you ask me. Reporter just a few miles away, trump held his own event. I didnt want to be here. I have to be honest. I wanted to be about five minutes away. Reporter he raised millions for veterans. Will i get more votes, less votes, nobody knows. For him the less risk was something happened in the debate as opposed to just missing the debate. Reporter back at the debate without trump, the candidates took on issues from abortion. Get rid of planned parenthood funding. Reporter to immigration. You used to support a path to citizenship. So did you. Reporter a Fiery Exchange on immigration. How about this for a wild card. After the debate that they more than a coating to an inch. Our camera in astoria southward down the east river, this is asbury park looking down the beach. A nice morning here. Cloudy sky. Your commute is flurry free. 37 degrees right now. Clouds are just over us. To the west we are looking at the radar where there is snow in buffalo, rochester, toronto southward to pittsburgh. This slides eastward as i mentioned. To western jersey 10 00, 11 00, noontime in the city then about 1 00, 2 00 in the afternoon connecticut and long island. Then burst of snow might coat things. Could make for slippery roadways. Some of that will be a sprinkle of rain. Then we clear out tonight. At the bus stop, kiddos, flurries, flakes unlike these flakes at the bus stop after school, 37 degrees. There is the chief flake in charge. Thats right. Heather orourke. Van wyck because i have been telling you about this accident southbound near rockaway boulevard. Big accident there. Take a look at this picture. You really only have the left lane and the right lane getting by as you travel on to the van wyck expressway. Think about this as you travel down the van wyck and you are trying to get into j. F. K. , you are close to the airport. Center lane blocked off as a result. We have path trains resumed but some delays between Journal Square and newark. Long Island Railroad no major problems. Subway service on or close to schedule. Lets take a look at a webcam and show you how it looks on the fdr drive southbound side. This is 111th straight. We have an accident in the process of being cleared away. Street cleaning rules suspended. Metered in effect. Lori, over to you. Thank you. Caught on camera, mother natures furry ravaging parts of florida. New video of a tornado as it strikes and what people inside more than four years after the mysterious disappearance of a College Student from westchester. Police uncover a new lead in the search. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. 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The wind whipped up furniture and debris and one man outside when it started struggled to get back inside an open door to avoid getting sucked out by the tornado. The storm knocked down trees and tore tiles from the churchs roof. Ethan couch will find out if he will be transferred to an adult jail. Couch is being held in a juvenile Detention Center in texas after he was flown back to the states from mexico. A judge will decide if he will be held as a juvenile, moved to an adult facility or released. He fled to mexico with his mother after video surfaced of him allegedly violating probation following a deadly car wreck in 2013. Sonic booms that shook the tri state area. That shows the activity on twitter of people talking about the event. The navy says the booms were caused by the testing of an f 35 fighter jet like the one we are about to show you. The plane broke the sound barrier and combined with the weather conditions shook residents from long island to new jersey. It shimmied then it swayed a bit and stopped. Of delaware. Nine booms were recorded over a span of 90 minutes. Time to get a check on the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist bill evans is upper west side. A morning where we start out with temperatures near the normal High Temperature. Lets take a look at a live picture. A morning where we look from the fort lee side of the george 39 is the normal high. We are warmer. It gets colder later today. Yesterdays high 42 melting more of the snow. 29 around westhampton. 23 wrightstown. This morning we are looking at clouds across the tristate. We are looking at what will be snow back to the west. Thats from rochester, buffalo with a front, a clipper system. Clippers bring light amount of snow and changes in temperatures. It will get windy later today. Mild this morning for the commute, get that in. Then for the afternoon, snow starts around noontime, 11 00 to noon western new jersey, Hudson River Valley and the city then through the afternoon. You see on the satellite, i should say on futurecast, its showing some of that may turn to sprinkles of rain at the jersey shore. At the ocean its warmer and we clear out tonight. Kiddos at the bus stop after school, you will have flurries snow, wind. I give it a d. It will be cold. The temperature gets to 41. That is around midday. Temperatures in the upper 30s. Feels like the 20s with the wind. Tonight clear, brisk and cold. After midnight the wind dies down, 26. Tomorrow sunshine but still saturday a brisk and chilly day. Leftover wind. Sunsets at 5 10. We will look at warmer weather to sunday, in the accuweather sevenday forecast. We will have nice weather as we get into sunday afternoon. So, that will be a mild day. Look by the time we get to tuesday, we will look at temperatures that will warm on up and get to the low 50s. Hey, its friday. Why not have the samoan squad with us this morning. Rei i, maximus, the kiddos are dressed up for mardi gras. They got beads. Joy is a dog that works in the local hospitals with patients. She is one of those emotionally comforting dogs. This is her without the mardi gras beads. Do i look like i got snowed in in a blizzard. How cute. Finally i got my blizzard. Best blizzard ever. Have a great weekend. There is nothing in the bag. You will be there for a while. Lets check on the commute. We have an accident fdr southbound around 111th street. We will go to newscopter 7 and check in with john del giorno over the scene. Good morning, john. We have first live pictures from newscopter 7. This looks like a reasonable minor accident. You can see a fender bender in the left lane. There is a lot of activity responding to this. Southbound side of the fdr in you can see the accident in the left lane. Police and fire blocking the center lane. Right lane is open. As you can see, all those flashing lights, we have more up there where the lane closure is. A lot of activity where the accident is. Southbound delays begin north of the triboro bridge. Bumper to bumper delays from the 130s to the 1 40s to the accident scene. Not good. To the van wyck southbound near rockaway boulevard, this accident we have been looking at all morning long. A lot of lights there. The left lane is getting by here. The right lane is getting by. The center lanes are closed down as a result of this crash that is still being worked on. That has been there for a while now. Journal square to newark, path trains resume. Long Island Railroad on or close to schedule. New Jersey Transit southbound truck lanes near 7a a jackknifed tractor trailer. Closed down. All lanes are reopened in the truck lanes. Street cleaning rules are suspended. Metered in effect. Lori and ken, over to you. Thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, the spread of the zika virus around the world and in new york. Three patients including a pregnant woman battling the virus. How Health Officials plan to fight back. Not a cat stuck in a tree. The unusual call for state police to help this elk. Join the conversation with us throughout the morning on twitter, facebook and when heartburn hits fight back fast tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue and neutralizes stomach acid at the source tum, tum, tum, tum smoothies only from tums enamel is your teeths first line of defense. But daily eating and drinking can make it weak. Try colgate enamel health. It replenishes weak spots with natural calcium to strengthen enamel four times better. Colgate enamel health. Wall street looks to finish out the week after a day of gains boosted by tech stocks. 16,069 for dow. Nasdaq and s p 500 begin higher as well. Futures are higher at this hour. Nikkei added 3 . Hong kong hang seng index gained 2 1 2 percent. A new type of plane takes to the sky if the weather cooperates. The boeing 737 max will fly its an updated lightweight version of the popular aircraft with new engines that use up to 14 less fuel. Its quieter with a split wing tip to reduce drag. Barring a rain delay its scheduled for 12 45 eastern time. Head to abc7ny and we will give you a link to watch a live stream of the event. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the forecast. Temperatures this morning are warm for this hour of the day, 39. Cloudy skies. Good visibility. If you take the Staten Island ferry, a little wind out of the west to the northwest here about 3 miles per hour. Not really a big deal this morning. Taking the ferry from port jeff, a northeast wind here. Nice ride back and forth. Temperatures the next seven hours, 36, 35 at 8 00. Warming to 38, 39 by noontime. Those snow showers getting going around noontime. The weekend we will talk about next. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. We will take a look at this. This is pictures from newscopter 7. Checking out the fdr drive around 111th street. The left lane is closed off. Two lanes are open now. We had one lane getting by earlier, we have delays back before the triboro bridge. Lets go to the maps and another camera here and what is happening on the van wyck expressway, southbound side and this is an accident that is still being cleared away near rockaway boulevard. Street cleaning rules are suspended. Metered rules are in effect. Lori, over to you. Two people are safe after escaping a crash seconds before the truck went up in flames. This happened in Southern California when the truck was rear ended causing the truck to lose control. The driver web site through a guardrail an crashed below the freeway. Other drivers stopped and in less than a minute before the flames engulfed the truck. New video of wildlife officials throwing out a lifeline to an elk in distress. This happened last month in oregon. That is a 6point elk that got trapped in snow. It was weak and having trouble standing up. Trappers came in and attached it to the elk which managed to free itself. Closing in on 6 30. A young girl nearly snatched off the street near her school in flatbush. Alerted this on our news app. Breaking news in brooklyn. Nypd putting out a call to help find a would be kidnapper who tried to kidnap a girl near a school. New search for Lauren Spierer five years after she vanished from college. A major price cut for uber riders. Not everybody is happy about it. Im ken rosato. Im lori stokes. Its friday, january 29th. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans. Bill . This morning we will look at a cloudy morning. Maybe a little brightening of skies toward sunrise around 7 00. But we are looking at temperatures of 37 degrees as we look from the fort lee side of the George Washington bridge to the west side. Cloudy skies and a light west wind. 23 hopatcong. Up the Hudson River Valley, 26 poughkeepsie. White plains 31. This is the radar. We have snow showers in new york state to williamsport, state college, pittsburgh to west virginia. That will slide our way by about 11 00 in new jersey, 12 00 in the city and 1 00, 2 00 in the afternoon. Bursts of snow and the temperatures dropping like a rock. Windy. Feels like the 20s. Low 30s later on this afternoon. Weather then heather every seven minutes. We will talk about the weekend next. It will get better. We will head over here where hopefully this will get better. Fdr drive, newscopter 7 is above. John del giorno showing us they are trying to clear the crash on the fdr drive. One accident south of 111th street and one in the same vicinity. Either way you can have heavy delays on the southbound side of the fdr drive, even the northbound side dealing with rubbernecking delays. Lets go to the maps. Queens, van wyck south near take a look at the scene. You have only one or two lanes getting through. Accidents still being cleared away. Everything is doing okay as far as mass transit. No major problems to report. Alternate sides are suspended. Metered are in effect. Ken, over to you. Thank you. We are following breaking news. Police are searching information a man who tried to snatch a girl off the street blocks from her school. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live in flatbush with late breaking developments. Reporter good morning. The incident happened outside of ps 399 in flatbush. Here is a map giving you a sense of where it is on rogers avenue in flatbush. The 11yearold victim did not attend ps 399. She attends a charter school. But the incident happened outside of ps 399 where the victim was standing at a bus stop around 5 40 yesterday evening. A man pulled up in a van, said no, the man jumped out of the van and tried to grab her. Luckily she ran way, back to her school and told a School Official what happened. That School Official then called 9