Its 28 degrees, 26 up toward hauppauge, hack et ceteratown around 25. And you look at that white plains 23. So were in the 20s to at least freezing an below. Theres some snow showers arn, theres a Winter Weather advisory for all those counties there you see in beautiful new jersey until tomorrow morning. Theres a coastal Flood Warning that is posted for the south shore of long island, jersey shore and thats until 11 00 for the high tide cycle this morning. Now, we have a few flurries that have been popping up. Those are snow showers up the hudson river valley. You see them north of the city a little bit. Well have some flurries today and some chilly temperatures as we get to 35, 36 degrees this afternoonment a period of sun is going a period of snow tonight. Well talk about that next. Weather then heather. Already got your hands full to start the day. Reporter we have mallory headed here. This is great neck road an accident. All lanes are closed down. Then this problem as you travel up the bqe, northeast ramp to the l. I. E. Subject to closure. A separated tractortrailer on that ramp, so that ramp is long island railroad, metro north, new Jersey Transit trains, theyre all doing okay. 7 trains we have track work. Service is suspended between 31st and 34st street and queensboro plaza. And j trains no service between chambers and broad street. Effect. Lori, over to you. You. 4 32. Were following two breaking stories. First to long island where part of sunrise highway shut down after a nasty crash. Now, the driver of a pickup truck crashed at about 3 00 this morning near great neck road in hauppauge and police say nearby theyre looking for that truck after reports that the driver was driving erratically. Three people were ejected an rushed to the hospital. We do have a crew headed to the scene. We will continue to bring you the very latest on this breaking story. In the meantime were also following breaking news in southern germany where two passenger trains collided head on. Have been killed and some 150 have been injured about 40 miles from munich. German news reports say that one of the trains derailed and several of its cars overturned. Helicopters have been airlifting rescue workers to the scene. There are reports of people still trapped in the wreckage. In newark now, police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found between two homes. The discovery was made just before 10 00 last night on south 20th street. Investigators say the woman appears to have been in her 30s and her death is considered suspicious. 4 33. And mayor de blasio sent volunteers out across new york city this morning to count the homeless. Its part of a program called hope count and these are new pictures of the volunteers working overnight. Weve also learned that financial help could be on the way from the obama administration. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark live in midtown with the details. Good morning, dray. Reporter good morning, ken. This is one of the areas mayor morning, west 31st street near 6th avenue. It is a wellknown hub for the homeless with at least a dozen people right now sleeping on the sidewalk behind me. They were among those counted for the annual hope count overnight tonight. Meanwhile, here is a picture of mayor de blasio talking to one of those Homeless Individuals here on west 31st street. The mayor was among more than 3,500 volunteers that spread out across the city for a few hours this morning counting the number of unsheltered Homeless People living in the city. Last year the count was 3,182, and that number is expected to be higher this year. Volunteers wrote down some very basic information about the Homeless Individuals they encounter here on the street in order to help determine what kinds of services and resources they might need to help get them off the street or even survive on the street, if they should refuse help. Its very sad, and its broken down and, you know, there but for the grace of god go i, i think we all have to feel that way. These are people who at some point in their life, maybe not that long ago, had a home, had a more normal situation and situation and something went wrong. It is ad sad reality and we need to be looking at this in a humane way. We need to have empathy. We need to understand that people need support and resources. Not a situation of out of sight out of mind. Reporter some critics have said the annual hope count which happens across the country may actually miss some Homeless People and that is why mayor de blasio actually launched his Homestead Program which is a daily canvass of the Homeless Community, stretching from canal street all the way up to 145th street. Again, the idea here is to maintain a connection and establish a relationship between volunteers and the citys Homeless Community, again, to try and provide them with the best resources also joining the mayor this morning was homeland i should say, secretary of housing an urban Development Julian castro. He was along with the mayor. He said that today president obama will be proposing an 11 billion spending plan to help get homeless families off the streets, and new york city will be receiving some of that money. Were live in midtown, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, dray, thank you. Closing arguments begin today in the manslaughter trial of a new york cop who shot and killed an unarmed innocent man. An emotional peter lange took the witness stand in his own defense and broke down as he described the night he shot and killed akai girly in a dark stairwell of a Housing Project in east new york. Lange also claim he was startled and accidentally fire his gun. Prosecutors say he acted recklessly. Well, this morning we have new video of a second person wanted for the brutal beating and robbery of a cab driver. Two people accused of attacking saturday. Police say the men were passengers in rahmans cab. Theyre accused of hitting him in the face with a champagne bottle and stealing his jacket. Rahman suffer a fractured jaw and required 12 stitches. A man was arrested sunday morning in the attack. The search is on for a man who raped a woman in a bronx stairwell. Take a look at this Surveillance Video released overnight. Police say this man followed a woman into an elevator inside a last friday. Thats where he attacked her, robbed her, and then taking her into the stairwell where he is accused of sexually assaulting her. The victim is being treated at the hospital. 4 37. A teenager was randomly slashed queens. Its a bizarre story, and learning more about the incident. East elmhurst. Im going to be paranoid for a while. Reporter vanessa etchberry shoulder for a long time to come. Shes nursing a deep gash in her thigh after a random attack when she walked to her car. Someone was jogging past me, but when they got close to me, i felt a sharp pain on my leg and they started sprinting past, and then thats when i saw the blood. Reporter East Elmhurst may not be quiet in the literal sense, but if you can bear the noise from roundtheclock landingsality laguardia, people here say its usually pretty peaceful. This weekends attack, though, has rattled longtime residents like resident like vanessa. Top Officials Say its likely an isolated incident, but without knowing about the suspect, they cant do it without help from the public. Vanessa cant believe it happened to her. Its a very safe, very calm place. You dont normally see any of this happen around here. Reporter police say this doesnt fit any patterns of slashings that they know of and because no words were spoken during this encounter, they if you know anything about this case, youre asked to call the nypd. In East Elmhurst queens, josh einiger, channel 7 Eyewitness News diswhrvment thank you, josh. 4 39. Police have released Surveillance Video of a suspected sexual predator loose on the Upper East Side of manhattan. Take a look at this video, it was recorded inside a store shortly after the attack. Police say a man grabbed a woman from behind on east 94th street, threw her to the ground and then assaulted her. He also stole her cash. The polls are open for the nations first president ial primary in New Hampshire. In tiny dixville noj, they vote at midnight. Bernie sanders won all four democratic votes and Ohio Governor john kasich sneaked past donald trump 32 among republicans. The tiny town near the Canadian Border has a record of correctly predicting the eventual republican nominee in every election since 1998. Clinton has been fight ago doubledigit lead by sanders rs r, something that seemed impossible a few months ago. We were 30 points behind, but i think were going to do just fine tomorrow. I will get up everyday and do all that i can to make a real difference for you, your families and our country. Well, donald trump is expected to win the gop vote, but theres a fierce fight to come in second, and with 44 of voters undecided going into primary, it is anyones game. Dave evans is in New Hampshire today reporting throughout the day and the night, and well have results and reaction tonight at 11 00. Time is 4 40. And youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans and the accuweather forecast heres a look outside this morning. Weve gotta get that little kind of cloudy, kind of little hazy look there this morning, and we have a win thats out of the northeast today, and we have cloudy skies, and were going to be seeing a little flurry or two around. Screen some School Delays that are still around around, particularly on the east end of long island and connecticut. 28 degrees to start your day, a chilly morning. In the suburbs its in the low 20s. These are a few flurries that have been working their way northward. The Bigger Picture of this is this is a giant upper level low, we call it a trough. Its called a norland trough, if youd like to know exactly what that is. What it means is well have flurries on and off today, intermittent snow, 30, 34 by this afternoon. Then the snow gets heavier tonight and we could have an inch or two it of snow around this evening, higher in jersey. Well talk about that next. Hepter has already hit the ground running this morning. Reporter yes. You see this right here, you see this tractortrailer . This tractortrailer is cause ago little bit of trouble for brooklyn commuters. Lets go right over to our maps, and the bqe northeast, the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge is closed because of that unauthorized tractortrailer. Then as you head farther northeast, getting onto that ramp to the l. I. E. , that ramp is subject to closure. Trailer on the ramp, and then, of course, we have this problem in cope ago, sunrise highway east at great neck road, an accident investigation. All lanes are closed down. Long island railroad, metro north, new Jersey Transit all doing okay. Street cleaning rules in effect. Over to you. Thank you, heather. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a community in virginia gathers to remember the life of the 13yearold girl who is believed to be murdered by two Virginia Tech students. 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And she wowed fans during the super bowl half time show, now beyonce wants to help the during its water crisis. The superstar singer will partner with local united way and Community Programs in the city. Those programs are getting Water Filtration equipment and also clean water to affected residents. Beyonce is asking fans to be part of her campaign, hashtag good. A portion of the effort aims to help flint children with long term needs. Its 4 45. A pizza Delivery Driver was on her route in Staten Island when she found a 3yearold child wandering the streets, possibly for hours. While making a run thursday around 1 00 in the morning, lee anna lechung saw the girl on morning star road and marinaers harbor. She took the child into her car, called 911 and waited for police. The child had slipped out of her house nearby. It is unclear how long she was inside. She was really sweet. It was so easy for me to get her into the car. Like i just asked her to come over and she came. Well, the girl total lejung that her mother went to the police say the mother didnt call them until 10 00 the next morning, the mother now charged with endangering the welfare of a child. It is 4 46. Lets check in with meteorologist bill evans. Bill. Well, good morning, everybody. Here we go. We take a look at our camera toward midtown here, right around the plaza hotel, 9th street looking good here. Just some low clouz, there have been some flurries around this morning. Thats really what well see all day long, a shot at a flurry or two. We look down the beach at asbury park where they just party on right there. I absolutely love it. Heres whats going on this morning. We look down toward point pleasant. We have a nice morning thats kind of calm. We dont have that wind like we had yesterday. We do start out with a couple of flurries, but a light northeast wind this morning as opposed to all that wind we had yesterday, piling up the water, creating that flooding. Now, we do have a new moon, we do have a high tide this morning, and we got a low pressure out there, 29. 71, the air very unstable. So there could be the coastal flooding again this morning. I dont think its the severity yesterday was 39, normal is 40. We were right at that. Well be a little colder than that today. Record high is 63 back in 90. We set a lot of record highs back in 1990. But if i am not if i am correct, this is the coldest morning ever in the history of new york city. This is the day. Its 15 just tweet me if im wrong. I didnt have time to look it up, but i think that is the recordest coldest morning in central park. So were looking at one to two inches of snow coming in tonight, maybe, you know, more so for the overnight hours. And i think, you know, were going to have this batch of snow that comes in tonight thats going to be heaviest. So 27 northward towards massapequa, 19 hauppauge, 19 plel, 30, 32 down the shore. Its a cold morning, but the temperatures are pretty close to where they should be for this hour of the day. We still have this northeast wind coming in which comes into the shore. So youll see we have Single Digits except for bridgeport at 10 miles per hour. This morning, jfk feels like 17. Staten island 27, 10 poord monticello, 25 toward poughkeepsie. So we have a Winter Weather advisory posted now for much of the area until noon tomorrow. Thats with this snow coming in tonight. The weather also we still have this flood issue around with that northeast wind coming in, so at the time of high tide there could be some minor koaferl flooding during that high tide minor coastal flooding during that high tide cycle this morning. Snow showers will be off and cloud cover and kind of chilly. Itll come up, go into some snow showers. This big low pressure system will swing in batch of snow in this evening and tonight which could be heavier to the south. So you see this afternoon from the temperatures its 31 to 34. Tonight there comes this batch of snow were talking about overnight tonight that could be heavy, particularly in southern new jersey. Well have some snow showers for tomorrow morning. All right. So were going to be windy and colder. Its going to be blustery and cold tonight. Well have a coating to an inch, maybe higher to our be looking at some snow showers for tomorrow. Still brisk and chilly. Your accuweather sevenday forecast, here we go, weve got some snow showers on thursday, weve got cold air pouring in here thursday night and friday and saturday. Look at the lows saturday night, 7 degrees. Whoa and that mean with a little wind its going to feel much colder. But look at that, 19 on sunday im sorry, what . Can you hear him . Well, i have 26 personalities in my head. All right, sybil. I couldnt figure out what number it was that was talking to me. Reporter maybe it was number 7. Track work Service Suspended between 34th street and queensboro plaza, 6 train track work is still with us. No service between 123rd street and 36th avenue. No service between chambers and broad. This should all be taken care of in a couple of minutes. Our street cleaning rules are in effect. Lori, over to you. All right, heather, thank you. Have been killed by two Virginia Tech students was remembered last night during a candlelight vigil not far from her home. Nicole lovelle was a bubbly girl who survive a lifetime of Health Problems and then endured bullying in school over her surgery scars. Police say nicole was kimedded and kill