Working alongside you. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Your temperature around a soupy 80 degrees. It is humid out there this morning. Thats going to fuel some rain across the area. Youre going to be looking at 82. Murray hills 80. 81 riverdale. 76 bridgeport. Heat advisory in effect. Theres so much humidity, it will feel like 95 to 100. A couple sprinkles are popping a thunderstorm today across the area. That could be dangerous, heavy, gusty winds. Heavy downpours of rain. Frequent lightning. That will start after lunchtime today. Weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. We have construction at the holland tunnel. At the lincoln tunnel, we have an accident. This accident has been on going and its in center tube and involves a motorcycle. This has been there for awhile now. Tube and the north tube. However, the center tube is the tube closed down. We still have a minor delay, but something to think about as you head out. And the new jersey turnpike, truck lane south of exit 13. 7 trains are in that fast track work going on and our street cleaning rules are in effect. Thank you, 4 32. Developing of the jersey shore. What caused a deadly house fire. Eyewitness News Reporter is live with a. J. Thats right, two men lost their lives overnight in that vicious blaze that ripped through this home on 14th avenue. Not far from b street. At this point, they are investigating what caused this blaze. Police tape is blocking off what remains of this charred out home. The fire broke out around 9 45 last night as flames quickly spread throughout. Several Fire Departments responded to the blaze, but unfortunately, two men were not time. The charred remains and frame of the home are now all that is left as its a complete loss. Belmar mayor called the blaze tragic and a tweet posted just hours ago. Again, we are still trying to get an understanding as to if this home was someone that lived in the belmar area. They are not releasing the names until family members have been notified. This vicious blaze that took several hours to put completely out. Live in belmar this morning. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. A. J. , thank you. 4 33, new video just in of a truck fire causing traffic problems. Cell phone video shot by eyewitness News Reporter, a. J. Ross, showing flames shooting out of the trailer. Shortly after 3 00 a. M. The driver was able to get out safely. The man accused of killing a judge this morning. Diana rocco is live in q gardens with details on how to track down the suspect. Michelle, good morning. As Police Continue to search for a motive. It was a hitandrun that happened minutes after these murders that led to 35year old, oscar morell. He morning, arraigned on two counts of firstdegree murder. Morell is now charged with killing a queens imam and his friend. Queens precinct yesterday after police took him into custody at his brooklyn home. The search turned up a murder weapon and clothes matching. Imam and his assistant were killed as they left afternoon prayer in ozone park. Surveillance video shows what is believed to be morell shooting them in the back of the head. A chevy trailblazer was driven man on a bicycle. Thats what led them to morells East New York home. Right now, we cant explain why this person was there. He was there just prior to that. We have him on video, just 8 minutes prior to the homicide. Well put those facts together and explore his life to see whats going on. The Muslim Community in queens made it clear they have felt targeted this morning. Police have no the yet classified this a hate crime. Into morells past. He has also been charged with seconddegree possession of a murder weapon. He will be arraigned in court here later today. Were live in q gardens, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, thank you. At 4 35, new this morning, new york city agreed to pay more than 7 million filed by the family. In the pink houses back in settlement will include a 25,000 payment himself. And 4. 1 million from the city. Happening today, the former Newtown Middle School accused of bringing a loaded gun into school will be in court. Jason adams will make his case for a judge to allow him into a probation program. He was charged in april with carrying a pistol into school. The program could lead to having the charges dropped. The citys plan to open a homeless shelter a lot of pushback. Dozens of people took to the streets vowing to derail a plan. The shelter is expected to open october 1 and house 110 families. There will be no children under 18. The city promises round the clock security supervised by the nypd. Safety is their main concern. We dont want the homeless shelter because of the safety of our children. There are three schools, one the corner from this facility. This will be the first shelter. Though there is another one mile and a half away. The neighborhood does have an obligation to house the homeless and they are committed to finding a better location. 4 37. An olympic celebration being blamed for a scare that paralyzed Kennedy Airport for hours. Panicked passengers were evacuated from terminals 1 and 8. Officers swarm the terminals evidence of a shooting was found. Abc news confirms a caller confused excitement over usain bolts victory for gun shots. The Port Authority is planning to review how it handled the shooter scare. Mayor de blasio will push for washington to fund the battle against zika as the citys Health Department calls for more spraying to prevent mosquito born illnesses. Although no zika has been parts of manhattan and queens. Weather permitting, spraying will begin wednesday night at 10 00 and continue through 6 00 a. M. On thursday. A new zika case meantime in texas is the first to be linked to travel within the u. S. After a person contracted the virus while visiting miami. A miami neighborhood is the first place in which local zika has occurred. Health Officials Say while there have been more than 100 zika cases transmitted by mosquitoes there. Time is 4 38. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic with bill evans. And that is true. Its going to be very humid. Its going to be warm today. The humidity is going to drive up that real feel today. We have good visibility. 80degrees to start the day. 68 is the normal overnight low. A couple showers have been on delaware bay. Thats from the overnight hours. The thunderstorms that are coming our way are in the ohio valley. They will be coming here i this afternoon. The thunderstorms start taking off. Even though you see these temperatures around 86, 88 degrees, the humidity is going to drive the real feel up into the mid 90s to near 100. Well talk more about thunderstorms later on this afternoon. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. Know what that is a picture of, its the George Washington bridge. This is Newark Airport and thats the new jersey turnpike in front of Newark Airport, where its doing just fine here. We have an issue just south of there. Its on the new jersey turnpike. And a. J. Ross shot video of this. New jersey turnpike, southbound truck lanes right near exit 13. Tractor trailer fire. The fire has been extinguished, be removed from the roadway. Same with the lincoln tunnel, and the lincoln tunnel, we have an accident being cleared away. 7 trains fast track. No trains, the e, the f, or the n trains or the shuttle bus will be provided for you. They all have track work until 5 00 a. M. And our street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Michelle and ken, over to you. Its 4 40, and still a, new arrests in milwaukee overnight, how the city is the peace over a Deadly Police shooting. The death toll is rising in louisiana this morning as flood waters there hit historic levels. 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The Officials Say the arrest happened last night, helped clear the streets of protesters. The mayor put in a teen curfew in an effort to curb violence after a Police Officer shot and killed a man who police say was armed during a traffic stop saturday night. The shooting sparked two nights of unrest, including the widespread destruction of property and several shootings. The people continue to have reaction weve seen the last days, continue to to do things that threaten people who live in those neighborhoods. Its going to make it hard to address other issues in the future. Milwaukees police chief called the violence unanticipated. 4 43 is our time. Police in mexico searching up to a dozen gang members. Mexican police say the gang a restaurant in pueerto vallarta. Police in california have arrested a man starting a wild fire that caused more than 10 million in damage and destroyed more than 175 homes. Damon anthony has been arrested on 75 counts of arson. He started numerous fires over the past year. 4 44. Us with the exclusive accuweather forecast. The intersection of 59th street, 5th avenue right there at the plaza hotel. Really pretty spot in new york city. And this morning were looking at temperatures of 80 degrees. The humidity 71 . Thats at the low end of the high range here. We have a west wind, southwest wind at 3. Pressure falling. Yesterdays high was 92. Normal is 83. Sun is sup at 6 07. Thunderstorms today can be strong. Mainly this afternoon. Threats are heavy downpours of wind. Its going to be a day where we find ourselves starting out so warm for the morning hours. 69, 70, around morristown, central sections of morris county. 77 long island, jersey shore. Here you go. We see wind out of the south and out of the south what brings in all this humidity. Thats why the heat advisory is in effect until 10 00 tonight. A couple showers popped up around coney island. Thats been sliding eastward. Now we are also seeing a couple showers. Thats ahead of this main branch of rain. Its a low that will cut up through western new york state. Here we go, well, 3 00 they start firing up. This afternoon, with the afternoon heating, the front, the temperatures in the mid and upper 80s. The real feel in the 90s. By 5 00, this line gets going in western new jersey. And there we go. 7 00, 8 00 this evening, right at sunset. They are fired up and strong. Heavy downpours of rain flooding on roadways. Lightning, and some downpours of rain with that wind, it could be damaging and those go away and there might be one or two overnight. A muggy, steamy night, and northwest wind, they will start to dry things out a bit. Heat index will get from 95 to 100 range once again. That will help fire off thunderstorms. Tomorrow, the heat index is not so severe. Boating forecast, small craft advisory. Winds out oaf the south. 15, 20 miles an hour. Gusts around 30. Rip currentrisk high at the with a northwest wind. That will feel good. Warm and humid, sun and clouds, thunderstorms this afternoon and early this evening and then its warm and sticky overnight. Tomorrow, a great day. Sun and clouds, 87 to 89 and were looking at 86 on thursday with low humidity. Nice weather, the humidity and thunderstorm threat is starting to come back into the forecast. Next week, the extent is looking a lot cooler and are a lot dryer. Right. Feel that. Who would expect thunderstorms in august . So weird. Hello. Whats up . Good morning, everybody, welcome back, ken. Were looking at the l. I. E. Westbound side near exit 39. We have an accident, we have two lanes closed down as you go through that spot. 7 trains, fast track, there are no trains between 34th street and queensboro plaza. Same situation, the l and m. The adlm trains should be cleared away by 5 00. Construction at the holland, accident in the lincoln tunnel. We have this accident being cleared away. The center tube is closed down, but they do have the other tubes open for traffic and really just minor delays. New jersey turnpike south of exit 13, tractor trailer fire extinguished. They have to wait for the tractor trailer to be removed from the roadway and this problem on 70 and manchester. Accident with the downed pole. All lanes are closed down. Back to you. Police in new jersey are hoping to catch a pair of con artists. Three couples paid rent for a home, when two of those couples arrived at the house to move in, they realize they had been ripped off. The scammers did not own the property and didnt leave a off of the south shore of island have been found dead. Andrew left the beachheaded for lyndon hurst. He was reported missing saturday when his damaged boat was recovered and Police Believe it was in some type of accident. His body was pulled from the water yesterday in the great south bay. 4 49 is our time, and the man accused of killing a Police Officer in georgia is now in custody after being found a car. 24yearold deeds was arrested early yesterday morning in florida when police say he was found hiding in a car during a traffic stop. Investigators say he shot and killed officer tim smith saturday night when he responded to a call of a suspicious person. Smith followed his father into law enforcement. Restaurant in new mexico is facing backlash after serving up a pun causing controversy. Selling shirts that read, black first put the slogan on its sign up front. He got calls around the world looking for merchandise, but a local professor says that officers pun is taking advantage of discord. After the owner decided to expand the Company Opens its 1 00th e restaurant today. They are burgers. 10 31, im online. Opening at the boston sea port. Theres more. Dominoes pizza is helping customers stay healthy. They are now going to be delivering salads in an effort to bring salad lovers to the same table. Cats and dogs living together. There are three kinds of salads available. Classic garden, chicken cesar, side salad with your pizza. Its 4 51. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, coming up in the next half hour, a nightmare a new jersey family is dealing with after sewage backs up into their home. We could brag about whats in new light fit yogurt. But wed rather talk about whats not in it. Like no artificial colors or preservative ingredients. And with 70 calories. Maybe were kind of bragging . 4 54. Welcome back. A deadly 4. 5 magnitude earthquake killed four people. We have one american among the dead there. The walls and roofs of dozens of homes collapsedded in sundays quake. At least 80 homes were destroyed. The last major earthquake hit august 15 in 2007 and killed near 600 people in the coastal city. 4 54 right now. A new health study about prolonged sitting. The American Heart Association warns too much time between too much activity can impact your heart and blood vessels. Linked to a higher risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Americans should sit less and move more. Any time the producer haves studio, its for us. Thats right. The cardio, moving. Its 4 55. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Bill evans in the accuweather forecast. Were looking at a humid morning here. Down the jersey shore, a good visibility here, asberry park. A good day to be at the beach. Watch out for a gusty thunderstorm, starting around 4 00 or 5 00, 6 00. They are cleaning up the beach. The beach cleaners out there already. Onsh along the turnpike here. By the time we got going, its humid, 78 and 80 degrees by lunchtime. Authorities start popping up after lunch. Heather, ill buy you lunch today, how about that . That sounds terrific. As long as its not tuna and onions. You can see that there isnt a lot of traffic on the fdr drive because its closed down. Both ways between the 90s and to you about the l. E. E. Going westbound. Glenn cove road an accident, two lanes are closed down as you go through that spot. 7 trains, fast track repair going on. Use the e, the f, or the n trains and also some track work until 5 00 a. M. On the m lines and we have that accident still working in the lincoln tunnel. Our street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Ken and michelle, over to you. A nice surprise from total strangers this week. A group of Good Samaritans came together to foot the bill for more than a dozen people. One of the men say they started raising money in july for this random act of kindness. They are planning to do another surprise visit in the future, just to be nice, thats it. Well, get this. Showed up at last nights game. The royals rallied for a win, but he died during the trip. Players were surprised, last night when number two showed up in the dugout. The royals also won that game. Clearly prayed very hard. There you go. All right, we are closing in on 5 00. Just ahead, a fast moving fire claims the lives of two people home as the flames spread. Also, a smelly problem. The blame game erupting with the city of irvington. Meteorologist, bill evans is timing out the next round of strong storms. Its happening sometime today. Get the update and exclusive accuweather forecast. Coming back 18, 17, 16 seconds. Stay with us, were coming when you can take your hands off the wheel to get out of a tight spot. When you can relax with your foot off the brake and stay put. And when you enjoy 400 horsepower thats both smooth and controlled. Thats the more human side of engineering. This is the lincoln summer invitation,