It is thursday, february 11th. You are never more than seven minutes away from the bitter cold accuweather forecast. Good morning, everyone. It is cold and only going to get colder. 26 degrees is our temperature right now. 21 hauppauge. Heres the real deal feel out there. The teens. 13 around jfk. 18 around the bronx. 14 around islip. This is pretty much how its going to feel today. Its going to get colder. Were talking about traffic and weather every 7 minutes. I guess you have subway issues . Yes. Long Island Railroad and new Jersey Transit are running on or close to schedule. Exits 38 and 39, jackknifed tractortrailer. We have three lanes closed down as you go through that spot. Then on the new england throughway this is a vehicle fire thats been taken care of. We have construction at the george, the lincoln, and the holland. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Developing this morning, and police are on the hunt for the man who stabbed his girlfriend and three children inside of a hotel. Eyewitness News Reporter trey clark is live dracula clark is live with video of the exclusive suspect. Reporter police say Michael Sykes went on a stabbing rampage and there is a Police Officer still guarding the room where the stabbings took place. Meanwhile across the city, police are looking for sykes he struggled and struggled. This is what happened. Reporter a Family Member talks about the mother of three who was stabbed to death yesterday morning along with two of her children. A third child survived the stabbing and is expected to survive. Police say her boyfriend, 23 yearold michael psychs is the man who did it. Now they are trying to find him. We want to get him. We want to get him very, very quickly and off the streets as vast as as fast as we can. Reporter police hope this video will help just minutes before he stabbed cutler. Her 2yearold and 1yearold daughters and 4monthold little girl the couple share. Police believe it happened around 9 00 yesterday morning gannon avenue that sevens as a homeless shelter. Relatives found out about the tragedy on the news. They are taking it really bad, especially my wife and her sisters, rebeccas sisters. Reporter police did recover a weapon, a very bloody knife at the murder scene here. They believe sykes left that weapon behind after committing the stabbings. Sykes apparently called a Family Member and confessed that he had, in fact, stabbed his girlfriend and children and threatened to kill himself. He was last seen on the Staten Island ferry. If by chance you do come across Michael Sykes, you are urged to call 911 right away. Dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, dray. Police in brooklyn are investigating a stabbing attack as a possible hate crime. The man. The victim was stabbed in the back as he stood in Crown Heights outside of a building. He is expected to survive. They are finally home. A sevenday cruise that sailed into stormy seas. Some passengers quickly made their exit when the ship docked but there are still hundreds on that ship even now. Good morning to you, mallory. Reporter ken, good morning. This is a frustrated group to put it mildly. The remaining passengers will make their way off of the ship this morning ready for this so called vacation to come to an end. You can see here, passengers making their way off of the ship last night. It came back home, and passenger video shows the horrible conditions for those on board of the anthem of the seas, the worlds Third Largest 125 mileperhour wind. Close to 6,000 people were left swirling in their cabins. The company has now made changes to storm avoidance policies. It is standing behind the ships captain. The vast majority of passengers are not. They are not paying for anything to get us home, nothing. They arent giving us any reimbursement. All of the people who had to change their flights, they are on their own. You under bayonne. It was the worst experience. I would never go on a cruise again. Reporter and we now know the passengers will now get a full refund on this cruise. Theyll also receive 50 off of a future cruise. As you can imagine, for a lot of these folks, that is simply not going to cut it. We are live in bayonne, mallory hoff, channel 7 Eyewitness News. I bet you thats the case. Thank you so much. Video from the terrifying cruise. Head over to our web abc7ny. Com. Jurors resume deliberations this morning in the manslaughter trial of an nypd officer. In court yesterday, jurors asked to handle the gun used by officer peter lange on the night that he shot and killed akai girly in a Housing Project in 2014. Meanwhile, the judge denied a motion by the defense for a mistrial. If convicted, he could face up to 50 years in prison. Two new jersey Police Officers spent time in a hospital after this crash at a gas station. This happened at south livingston avenue in livingston. Police vehicles from millburn crashed into each other. They should be fine. You are never more than and traffic. Forecast. Lets look outside with our camera here at 4 times square. Trade. You can see Staten Island with good visibility. A couple of cloudy skies. Going to have a windy, cold day today. Get ready for that. This is our camera in brooklyn world trade. Looking at a temperature at this hour of 26 degrees. The winds keep picking up. There are snow showers on eastern long island. There are some clouds. Theres going to be bursts of snow. Well be looking at even colder air coming in out of canada, and the arctic for this weekend. Temperature is 24 by 8 00. 25 by 10 00. 27, 28 degrees for the afternoon. Thats going to be it. Going to be below freezing. The real feel Single Digits north and west in the teens. Get ready for that. Even as we get into the weekend. Well talk about that next. What do you have going on this morning, young lady . Reporter well, i have a jackknifed tractortrailer in wharton. Well tell you whats going on farther east right near exit 3, jackknifed tractortrailer. Three lanes are closed down. So this is before you get into route 287. Then we have the 4 and 6 trains signal problems repaired. You can expect residual delays. Going onto the new england thruway, they are trying to clear away this vehicle fire. Then the George Washington bridge, lincoln and holland are doing well. Following a developing story out west. That armed standoff in oregon is almost over. The department of justice takes legal action against ferguson, missouri and rejected an overhaul of the police department. Basketball star lamar odom is healthy enough to fly and is plying to you like being picture perfect. You should want your banking to be too. 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Critics, though, are questioning that claim because investigators have yet to pinpoint how the leak happened. 4 43 is our time. I believe he referred to it yesterday as booyaa cold. You are correct, sir it is that kind of cold on the way. To me its that kind of cold now. You see that camera bouncing up and down and winds gusting up to 30 miles per hour. This is how it looks this morning from the east river down to one world trade. Looking at the camera in astoria, we have clear to we have 26 degrees, dry humidity, the west wind gusting up to 23 in the park right now and the barometer rising. Yesterdays high was 39. Today, well, below freezing for the next five days. Winters coldness is going to be this weekend. Weve got a 100yearold record that could be broken as we go morning. 27 right now around north point cold and windy. You can knock about ten off of the windchill. Up to white plains, 22 mileper hour winds. You factor in how that feels on the skin. It feels like 2 in monticello. 14 degrees around islip. I was requested to show this yesterday by a viewer by a penguin. It is a new policy. We have a few clouds, but were going to have bursts of snow. Particularly lake effect snows off to the west. Thats because of the cold air coming in. Notice the flow. Temperature about 29 by afternoon. You see our flow is right off to the northwest, and that keeps the cold air pouring in here. Tomorrow morning around 7 00 it will be 6 in monticello. Were into the upper 20s and we have more snow showers around. Here is the real factor in that wind. This afternoon, were looking at 2 for the real feel in monticello. 17 in the park. Tomorrow morning, were looking at real feels below zero around monticello. This is before the arctic air blasts in here friday night into saturday. So saturday at the morning hours, you see were going to have this even colder air off to our west coming in. Snow with temperatures dropping like a rock. Windy and colder, a few flurries today. It will feel like 5 to 15. Winds diminish 7 in the suburbs. Arctic front comes in late tomorrow. Check out the accuweather seven day forecast. It is cold, cold on saturday into sunday. 2 will be the low overnight saturday into sunday. Were looking at real feels of 10 and 20 degrees below. What . Below zero. Yeah, 10 to 20 below for the real feel this weekend. I looked at the accuweather warmer. [ laughter ] this is a movie book weekend, e reader. Cuddling up with the one you right. Just find somebody and say, you are now the one i love. [ laughter ] thats it. Lets talk about the there. We have Subway Service on or close to schedule. Then on route 80 going eastbound this is a jackknifed tractortrailer. We have one lane open adds you go through that spot. Two lanes are closed down, so expect heavy delays to start expressway. We have relief from the new england thruway north. The earlier vehicle fire has been extinguished and cleared away. George washington bridge, you have construction. Lincoln and holland have major problems. Inbound upper level of the bridge is closed outbound. Lets go over to a web cam, and bridge. This is traffic trying to get out of Staten Island to the goethals bridge. So it is a traffic hold for about 15 more minutes. We have street cleaning rules in effect for today. Its 4 48. New this morning, former nba champ lamar odom is on his way back home. He was seen boarding a plane. Odom plans to attend kanye wests fashion show. This would be odoms first public appearance since being october. He was released from a los angeles hospital last month. A gun and hover board combined to make a deadly combination. A 13yearold boy in orlando go, florida was killed by a gunshot to the head in a relatives home. An 18yearold told them he was playing with the gun while on a hover board when he fell and the gun went off. The homeowner faces charges of possession of a firearm by convicted felon. The gunman who shot and killed robert f. Kennedy has been denied parole for the Sirhan Sirhan said he doesnt remember the assassination in 1968. Kennedy had just won the primary and was shot after a victory speech in los angeles. He gets another parole hearing in five years. The nations top Law Enforcement official says the department of justice has no choice but to sue ferguson, missouri. The city council rejected a deal this week that would have brought sweeping reforms to its police department. Attorney general Loretta Lynch says the residents of ferguson should not have to wait for an agreement on how they treat poor people. These were not only egregious, they were routine. They were driven at least in part by racial bias. Fergusons leaders say their vote wasnt a rejection to the deal, rather they were upwards of 4 million in the first year alone. A first of its kind report shows ignition locking systems are making the roads safer. 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You are watching Eyewitness News. Im meteorologist bill evans. Today will be setting off a day of cold and wind that only gets colder as we go into our weekend. We have clear to partly cloudy skies with a couple of snow showers still out here on the eastern end of long island. This will continue for a little while longer, but any time you could be getting bursts of snow that will be around. Well be seeing this new out today. So there you go. Looking at the next several hours, temperatures in the 20s, thats it. Next five days, well be looking at temperatures below the freezing mark. Well have sunshine, but its going to be cold. Dress warmly. Heather, cover up your eyeballs out there. Fist, i need to do this. We have the goethals bridge with traffic trying to get over to the goethals bridge making your way over to new jersey. In about six minutes, they should be reopening the were also looking at route 80 as you head each in rockaway. Jackknifed tractortrailer. We have only one lane open. Then the van wyck going north in the l. I. E. The accident with two lanes closed. Street cleaning rules are in effect for today. An afterschool instructor in a queens mosque is accused of molesting a 9yearold girl. He is accused of sexually assaulting the student inside of that mosque. Police say the case came to light when the alleged victim told an instructor what happened. A stockpile of weapons were discovered inside of an apartment in reno park. They seized 45,000 rounds of ammo, rifles, bulletmaking equipment and bulletproof vests. Prosecutors say the 33yearold and unsecured inside of his home. Hes facing reckless charges. Children in the Island Park School district on long island have had their flood days off, but today its back to school. A combination of the moon cycle, a tide turned some sections of island park into virtual islands. The schools were closed monday and tuesday. Because more flooding was expected yesterday, schools were closed once again. The flooding, though, never came, classes will be back to normal this morning. In todays health alert, your fitness level may be linked to the size of your brain. A new study found those who were out of shape had smaller brain volumes compared to their peers who make time to work out. Inactivity is among the growing things leading to the brain shrinkage as we age. Airs in july will be published as a book. Harry potter and the cursed child goes on sale july 31st based on the play that will premiere in london. J. K. Rowlings web site will release an edition. The potters have sold dids 400 million books worldwide sold 400 million books worldwide. Gardner case. Its now in the hands of a federal grand jury. The witnesses called before the panel so far. Bundle up before you head outside. Temperatures. Thats only going to continue into the weekend. Bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. 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Minutes away from weather and traffic. Yes it is cold outside this morning. We look at asbury park, new jersey. The camera is bouncing around a little bit here. We are going to be looking at good visibility, just cold temperatures. Normal overnight lows are 26, 28. We go from asbury park, which branch. Meeter is there. It ought to be working but they are not. Windchills 11 la guardia. , jfk, Staten Island is 17. 12 belmar and wrightstown. Thats the real deal feel out there. Its just going to be flat out cold. This is going to be warm weather compared to whats coming for the weekend. Well talk about that next. I cant wait. I saw you cringing. Seriously, i havent stopped. We have this traffic hold. They lifted it at 5 00 a. M. As scheduled. Lets go over to our maps and talk to you about route 80 eastbound. J