Traffic and weather on the 2s. High levels of lead discovered in the water. The taps now turned off as officials call for help from the state and federal government. Janelle burrell live in newark with more this morning. Reporter hi chris and mary, most of the samples were actually taken from water sources from sinks and polices where you would wash your hands these test results showed that some of the Drinking Water sources, some of the water fountains at this Charter School came back with lead levels ten times above the acceptable limits. The testing took 324 water samples, a sample from every single water source in all eight nontraditional facilities within the Newark Public School district for this phase of testing. A quarter of those samples came back with elevated levels of led. 16 of them were from Drinking Water sources, 10 of those Drinking Water sources were the newark legacy Charter School. The epas acceptable level of lead and water is 15 parts per billion and some of the samples from water fountains, the levels were more than 10 times that. The School District began offering free blood tests to 17,000 students who attend class in the initial 30 schools that had elevated lead results. Were not forcing people to get lead testing right. We dont know how many parents are going to come forward. The mayor says the water supply is fine but old pipes in the aging building are to blame for the spike in lead levels. Reporter earlier this week the citys mayor continued his call for outside help to address the citys lead issues. He estimates that it could cost more than 1 billion to fix the citys crumbling infrastructure. Reporting live from newark, time is now 4 32. Weve got traffic and weather on the 2s. Johns off. Good morning, feels like a summer morning out there, starting off in the 60s. The air is sticky. We have showers on the way. Variable winds at 5 Miles Per Hour. Your relative humidity at 75 . As we look at the vortex satellite and radar picture. Note we have some showers around, its not widespread across the region, mainly to the south and east of the city right now. As we go through the day, showers remain a possibility, best bet for thunderstorm activity will be this evening around that evening commute as the final line of this front rolls through. Showers for today on and off issue not an all day washout by any stretch. It will be warm and breezy. 74 degrees today the anticipated high. Again, closer to the 6 00 hour is when we have our best bet for thunderstorms. Coming up in my full forecast well talk about that potential for snow this weekend. Right now it is time for a check on your traffic. Oh, my goodness. Lets talk traffic. We have some construction this morning, one lane blocked in both directions so on the wit penn bridge no major delays. Also on the bayonne bridge weve got closed until 5 a. M. For construction. You want to stick with the goth else bridge as your alternate. In brooklyn a problem at decallen avenue. Thats due to the cleanup from wednesdays very serious fire. Few subway issues this morning, suspended service on 1 trains between dikeman and 96th streets due to track maintenance. You can use the a or c trains or the m3 bus your alternate. Police in butler new jersey opened fire at a man after they say he pointed a gun at him. Had happened last night near the 23yearold who pointed the gun has a history of breaking into homes. He was good kid growing up, and then he had some runins with the law, and i guess he just went downhill. The accused gunman was shot several times. No word on his condition and no comment from the Butler Police department. A woman was slashed in the face in Lower Manhattan. Police say shes now admitted it was a lie. She claimed the man called her a terrorist and slashed her. Police say the wound was self inflicted. Also new this morning, a new budget for the state of new york with benefits that may affect you. The state legislature and Governor Cuomo reached a deal just ahead of todays deadline. It includes a hike in the minimum wage raising it to 15 an hour, in new york city by 20. 18 and later statewide another measure includes 12 weeks of paid family leave and a middle class tax cut. Well have more on the budget deal in our next half hour. 1 system. City official say the ems Computer Aided Dispatch system went down for nearly 20 minutes. Ems operators were forced to grab pen is paper to take down information and dispatch ambulances. No 911 calls were missed during the outage. The city adopted a new dispatching system three years ago. Since then the software has experienced sporadic shutdownings. A hackensack man is killed in a crash with a patrol car. The pursuit started yesterday afternoon in paramus. The motorcycle wound up in hackensack where it was involved in a crash thats when an officer responding to the accident slammed into a silver sedan killing the 76yearold driver. The person was still in the car. They were doing everything they can, i guessworking on them trying to revive them or save them. Prosecutors say the and later crashed into another car in maywood. Salvador deangeles faces numerous charges. An Investigation Underway this morning in virginia after a man shoots and kills a state trooper a at bus station. Police say the man had a brief conversation with 37yearold chad durmeyer before shooting him several times. It happened yesterday afternoon at a greyhound station in richmond. Two other troopers returned fire killing the suspect. Now to campaign 2016, Hillary Clinton holds a fundraiser in ten fly new jersey after a strong push to win the New York Primary. Clinton was one of three candidates making an appeal to voters ahead of the april vote. Dueling democrats in a significant primary, front runner Hillary Clinton seems to be feeling the bern as she lashes out at Bernie Sanders people. I am so sick of the Sanders Campaign lying about me. Sanders is pressing hard, rallying his troops in the south bronx thursday night blasting clinton for her quarter Million Dollars speaking fees to private wall street groups. It must be a brilliant speech. It must be an earth shattering speech written in shakespearean prose. A new quinnipiac poll shows clinton leading sanders 54 to 42. She charged his perceived political base, a State University campus. Sappedders protestors interrupted the event before they were escorted out. She told the crowd sanders promised social programs like Free College Tuition are simply too expensive. Go and read the fine print. It basically says yeah, it will be free if the governors of america put in about 28 billion. Sanders told our marsha our plan imposes a tax on wall street speculation, which raises more than enough money to pay for free tuition in public colleges and universities. Twothirds of the money come from the federal government. A third comes from the state. On the republican side hometown boy donald trump leads his opponents with 56 parent of the new york gop vote, 20 for ted cruz, 19 for john kasich. The poll, though was taken before trumps recent comments on abortion and punishing women whod get one if they were illegal. Trump backtracked after he spoke those words tweeting after talking to Republican Party leaders, just had a very nice meeting with reince free bus. Kasich lashed out at a News Conference blocks from trump tower. Donald trump is clearly not prepared to be president of the United States as commander in chief and leader of the free world. You dont get doovers. Voting is still weeks away. This is the first new york state primary thats mattered in a National Election in recent memory. Were in the south bronx, lou young cbs2 news. Time is 4 39. Still to come, could the zika mosquito make it all the way to new york city. And one of the most infamous cold cases, the steps the family of kathy durst is taking. All right. Here we go, for today feels like summer to start things off out there. You will be dodging raindrops today. We are going to return to the 70s and then were going to talk snow for the weekend. Up. Nothing seems to work your hair is still thinning. You may have inactive follicles. Reactivate them with womens rogaine foam the only once a day product, proven to regrow new hairs up to 48 thicker revive your va va voom and save on any rogaine a live look on this friday morning, tgif. Temperatures nice and warm out 66 now, normal high 55 degrees. You get a sense of how mild it is out there. It is muggy as well. Weve got some rain that will be on and off throughout the day, so we will have to deal with that. This evening, though, is the best bet for some stronger storms. Maybe a severe thunderstorm cannot be ruled out. As far as whats happening right now. Well check in with our weather watchers. 66 degrees northwest of the city, reporting a little light rain in river edge new jersey this morning, and then lets see. Well head up way far away, 62 degrees says charlie hoffman, cloudy skies in farrisburg new jersey. It will be breezy out there. Live outside across the skyline, 66 degrees and cloudy in central park, variable winds at 5. Weve got relative humidity at 75 . Temperature range right now 53 degrees in the hamptons up to this is before sunrises. We are anticipating highs in the 70s today, very warm, breezy, with showers. Thats whats going down. The 24 hour temperature change looks like this. 24 degrees warmer in sparta. It is 6 degrees warmer in babylon. Visibilities are down, especially in babylon, hamptons, well below that mile marker. As e look to the west skies are more visible. On the vortex satellite and radar picture this morning, showers to the south, showers to the east, this will be the general trend. Well just have kind of some waves of showers lifting on through. Right now it doesnt look to be anything too heavy. As we head into the evening hours, that will change. On to the wet weather moving through ocean county at this point in time, and all of it associated with a cold front. Back end of the cold front is out here over the ohio valley. It is moving to the east. This is what has the potential to bring us some thunderstorm activity later today. Showers for much of the days. Then as we head to the evening drive time this looks to be the strongest stuff, best bet for stronger storms to mover through then. Skies partially clear tomorrow. Were in for another round of maybe some showers. It will be a cooler start to the weekend. Take a look, 74 today, showers, maybe a storm. Tomorrow 59, tracking showers overnight saturday into sunday, were tracking the potential for snow, yes, and it is going to be frigid sunday morning with windchills in the teens and 20s, by afternoon 45 degrees. Thats a look at your forecast. It is now time for a check on kyla grogan. Construction in kearney where weve got one lane blocked in both directions. Also the by aon bridge is closed until 5 a. M. And at the queens midtown tunnel as we take a live look outside one tube is shut for construction until 5 30 a. M. In both directions. Alternate side parking is in effect city wide. Thank you. Heres a quick look at some of the stories making news this morning. A paterson new Jersey Police officer is indicted in a fatal hit and run. Prosecutors say jose arena was offduty when he hit 23year old jaquiel fields and sped off. He faces 15 years in prison. The family of Kathleen Durst is asking a judge to declare her legally dead. Its been 34 years since she disappeared in westchester while married to robert durst. Last year durst was charged in california with the 2000 death of his friend susan berman. In february he pled guilty to a weapons charge in new orleans and agreed to a sevenyears sentence. The star of broadways hamilton Christopher Jackson will flip the switch at the Empire State Building lighting the tower blue to mark world autism month which begins today. Chemical and Agricultural Companies led the dow to a loss. The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 31 points. The s p 500 lost over 4. Now just how do you compare prices at trader joes and whole foods. A bank analyst set out to find out. Products at trader joes were about 21 cheaper. The 77 items tested included a mix of perishable foods and nonfood items. Trader joes had the lower price on 70 of the items. Whole foods offered a lower price on 7 items. Apple has fixed a bug that caused iphones to crash. The tech giant has released a new version of its 9. 03 software. It fixed an issue that caused some apps to turn unresponsive. It features a new nighttime mode that makes the screenless blue. New York State Health officials are attending a zika summit at cdc headquarters in theres growing concern that mosquitoes which carry the zika virus could end up here in new york city. Mosquito season is upon us. When may, june, july, August September happen, mosquitoes are going to start to thrive and were going to be in trouble with regard to zika. A study published in the new england journal of medicine shows the potential range of two types of mosquitoes which carry the zika virus, initially concentrated in the south the cdc shows them reaching as far as San Francisco and new york city. But new york state and city Health Officials say the new maps are misleading. Weve been sampling for over 15 years, and have not identified this mosquito here in new york city, but we do know that we have its cousin. Still Officials Say theyre ramping up preventive measures. Were going to be doing more larva sightings, specifically in areas where this asian tiger so far in the u. S. There have been no reported cases of zika transmitted through a mosquito bite. The cdc has reported 273 cases in the u. S. , the vast majority of those from top Health Officials gathered near washington for a zika summit. Congress has yet to approve an emergency request for nearly 2 billion to fight zika. Im taking money from other areas that we fund in order to fund the important zika research, morally the vaccine research. The National Institutes of health is working on half a dozen potential vaccines but so far nothing yet. In the newsroom alice gainer cbs2 news. Still to come, i speak with Academy Award winner helen mirren. And wait until you see what james gordon had in store for luke bryant and decks bently we love our Country Music. Yes, the decks bently. Morning. Country with a british twist, its a jolly good honky tonk song in the uk, luke bryant and Dierks Bentley on the late late show at this weekends amc awards. Well have more on the awards later this in blast. You can watch the academy of Country Music awards this sunday at 8 p. M. Right here on cbs2. Its 4 52. Traffic and weather on the 2. Starting out pretty warm. Very warm out there. Were in the 60s, normal daytime high only in the mid 50s. And off showers today, best bet for a thunderstorm does look to be during that evening drive time tonight. It will be breezy with wind out of the South Southwest. 52 degrees for your day tomorrow, cooler, 59 a chance for showers sunday, a hay of 45. Well feel like the 30s. We are looking at snow, a trace up to 2 inches north and west of the city. It will be very windy on sunday. Time now for a check on your traffic. And we are going to take a look and see whats happening this morning. Its construction thats holding us up in a few spots in kearney. Construction has one lane blocked on the wit penn bridge. No delays so far. Also the bayonne bridge is closed. Youll want to stick with the goth else bridge as your alternate. Subway Service Suspended between dikeman and 96th street. You can use the a or c trains or m3 bus as an alternate. Alternate side parking is in thank you. Coming up in our next half hour, a father uses 21st Century Technology to get to his daughters wedding. This morning a casino deal struck for Nassau County, not everyone agrees the location is going to be a winwin. It was the kiss heard around late night we speak with helen mirren about her lip lock. After this. A thriller about the use of the latest Drone Technology in the battle against terrorism. It was a different kind of stealth operation i had the chance to ask helen mirren about. I have to ask you about the kiss you planted on steven colbert. I know. I hope that wasnt sexual harassment. It was sort of because he had no choice it he. I have been secretly passionately in love with Stephen Colbert for a long time, and as i walked out, you know, i absolutely didnt plan it, and literally as he said and helen mirren, and out i walked, and i think ill have to kiss him. I have to. If i dont kiss him now, ill never ever get to kiss him. So i grabbed my opportunity. Terrible. What do you think hes going to say when he find out helen mirren is secretly in love with him . Oh, i dont know. But its the truth. I mean i love my husband dont get me wrong, you know, but comes Stephen Colbert. Talk to. What a joy. Movie. Look at you, eye in the sky. What she said was that the script was originally written for a man, when she was cast they didnt change a word. Wow. S