All the time theyre outside riding bikes and playing. Beautiful kids. Reporter late today the District Attorney issued this statement saying, it is our hope it will bring justice and provide closure for her grieving family and friends. We are going to see whether in fact they have evidence, credible evidence to support a murder indictment. Reporter the judge today did not set bail. Vlin remains in custody and wihl go back to court november 9th. Lori bordonaro, new 4z new york. The investigation into the murder of a new York City Police officer has moved down south now. Detectiv traveled to South Carolina today following the trail of the gun used to kill officer randolph holder. He was killed last month in east harlem chasing a suspect. 30yearold Tyrone Howard has been charged with murder and robbery as Police Continue to build their case against him. Talking to South Carolina that firearm, part of building the evidentiary case when it goes to trial. Also had some good news for the department today, the latest statistics on crime show that crime was down nearly 6 for the month of octobea. Making it the safest october er in modern era. Two construction workers were hurt this morning after a ceiling collapsed at a former Catholic School on up thor west side. Firefighters were called to that building at west end avenue between 86 and 87th street around 7 30 this morning. One worker was taken tolukes spital with a leg injury and expected to be okay. The second person refused any medical attention. A couple on long island raised a few eyebrows on the way they keep track of their kids. They attach gps trackers to them so they can monitor their every move. Might sound over the top but a goo id reason what they do. Greg cergol explains. Waging a public fight with local schools wasnt something a north merit couple wanted, but fight they d, they say, to protect their two autistic sons. Every time their sons arrive home safely, the mcdonoughs breathe a little easier. Their boys, douglas 10, and donovan 8, are autistic and have wandered away from home or school 14 times in two years. Despite alarms on the windows, and extra locks on the doors. I cant even describe for people what it is like to wonder if this is the time hes not going to come back. Reporter to ease their fears, they turned to these gps tracking devices. They attach to each boys clothing. Just like the security devices at department stores. Reporter and enable mom and dad to use an app to track their sons movements 24 hours a day. Dou las left home at 8 32. He reporter the trouble is the mcdonoughs say the boys school first ref aed to le them wear ceit devices. Th we were indsided. Reporter the schools argues the gps devices posed a threat to other students confidentiality. An agreement was worked out. The superintendent of the school said in a statement, we would not put up any road blocks to a device designed to ensure a childs safety. In this case, we felt it was literally a life and death is wsue. Repor r its an issue for many other families. 4 investigates found state education numbers showing close to 2,300 tistic kids in Nassau County schools alone. Antod according to a study e. Published in te American Academy of pediatrics, roughly half of all autistic kids have wandered away once. Last year he was found dead after running out of his Long Island City school. You dont know if today is the day that it is your child. Reporter the gps devices cost about 100 bucks and federal money has a lowed some local Law Enforcement agencies to distribute those devices. So far congress has yet to pass aviontes law, which would increase the funding for that program. Were in north mare ik tonight. A disturbing find inside the candy of one trick or treaters bag. One parent says that her child discovered a pill inside one of he sweets. Perhaps even more surprising joann turner told her the candy bar with the pink pill inside came from trlk or treating at the mall. Police took the pill for testing. Ey are investigating the incident. In a statement poughkeepsie galleria said that it has hosted mauloween event for years to provide a fun and safe place for the community to enjoy halloween. We encourage everyone to always check their candy. New at 6 00, the results of the new wnbc marest poll on mayor deblasios popularity. Its declining. Still popular in communities of color but starting to slip there too. S reporter midway tirough his term, mixed reviews for bill deblasio. Great. Kind of mediocre. Reporter but increasingly, voters are throwing tomatoes at their mayor. I think a horrible job so far. Why . I dont know. He just dont look like a mayor to me. I havent seen like some of theee bums come off f the stree t and i havent seen the debt go down. Reporter mayor de lasios Approval Rating dropped in recent months. 38 say es doing an excellent or good job. 58 rate his performance as fair or poor. I think hes just too condescending and not he has a great understanding of what is going on in the city. Im worried about how hes handling schools. Reporter our poll show voters think deblasio understands their concerns and in the past six months hes lost support from his base. Vo ers of color dropping nine voters and 12 points with latinos. What were seeing in these numbers is really a startling change, an erosion in the base, deblasio was selected with huge numbers and that has declined amaticolly. Hes not given a lot of spect. I dont think hes doing a bad job. Ore confidence in mayor bloomberg. Reporter speaking of mayor bloomberg, both he and former mayor giuliani had low ratings at the midpoints of their first terms. But they were republicans who won tight races in a democratic town. Unlike deblasio who won a landslide. Whnke the poll may look bad for deblasio if the democratic primary was today, he would win with 43 . Po atential challengers like scott stringer, james and diaz and adams or jeffries, barely registering with voters. The only exception was that outpolled mayor deblasio in his own borough. Polls are a lot like cotton candy. They evaporate quickly after consumption. Noting that quality of life has rarely been better. She says chime is near historic lows and jobs are up and more than 65,000 children are enrolled in prek on mayor deblasios watch. Melissa, thank you. Tomorrow is the first tuesday in november and that means it is election day. Several races across the tristate tomorrow. A few to watch very closely. And here they are. E Nassau County district attoeys race where polls show it is a tight one between de ocrat madeline sings and the incumbent republican kate murr. Therelare seven candidates for mayor on the ballot there. The most interestingiis the foer mor who served sev n years behind bars for bribery. His main competition is republican Enrique Torres and mary jane foster. The once quiet Staten IslandDistrict Attorneys race has become a full fledge brawl between democratic Michael Mcmahon and joan aluzi. Ethe polls opened here n . New hayork from 6 i0 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. To 6 00 a. M. And 8 00 p. M. In new jersey and connecticut. Flames break out on the top fl oor. Fire starts in a brooklyn high rise. Plus, the end of a new jersey institution. A family that has run a farm for 90 years is closing its doors. And storm team 4 meteorologist janice huff is here with an unusually warm forecast. Bring it on, janice. I know, hopefully you didnt pack away a the short sleeves because youre going to need some of that t hs week. Llmtalk about how warm it is going to get and when things will cool down in the forecast, members of our local congressional delegation say zadroga act would result in undercutting and congress to reauthorize the act every five years. In a News Conference in lower enhattan this afternon both sides of the hudson said it needs to be reauthorized permanently. The idea of a fiveyear reauthorization so well have to do the same battle intfive years, again, is wrong. The fact i that these diseases are nothtoing away. If anything, as we get older, we find that there are more and more people that are affected by the impact of 9 11. The act, of course, is designed to help peopls whe have 9 11related illnesses. The lawmakers at todays news conferen tce were all democrats, but they say there is bipartisan support for permanent reauthorize. A n,w jersey ruptured gas line forced the evacua ion of a middle school and Day Care Center this af rnoon. Hit that fourinch and day care kids were taken to a nearby senior center. Middle School Students were moved to an auditorium and nobody was hurt but one worker was taken to the hospital f observation. A fastburning fire broke out on the top floor of a highrise Apartment Building in park slope this afternoon. Several of our viewers shaird c ese pictures with us. The fire started around 3 30 on 10odth street. Firefighters were able to put that fire out within about an hour. One person was slightly injured and taken to the hospital. Pretty scary. Coming byp when news 4 at 6 00 returns a legendary Bergen County farm store closes its doors after more than 90 years in business. Jm im jen maxfield, ill tell find over 1,000 special stories at hospital for special surgery. Well, lester holt is joining us now from newark with a look at whats ahead on nbc nightly news. Sibila and chuck, we are here because president obama was here today. Integrity house. A house that specializes in substance recovery. Those coming out of prison, those who are being sent as an alternative to prison. The president wanted to highlight it today because he is, of course, trying to champion criminal Justice Reform right now. We sat down, had an exclusive conversation. The president talked about the importance, about the soaring incarceration rate in this country and how he wants to tackle it by having alternate programs for people who had been involved in nonviolent drug crimes. Hes very passionate about this. We also talked aboei the racial component of this and how his view that blacks and hispanic men primarily are not treated fairly in the system. Youll hear more of what he has to say about that. Also the announcement regarding american troops being sent into northern syria. Well get his reaction to that and well see you coming up in a few minutes for nbc nightly news. A Bergen County institution for residents the country farm is a favorite neighbor there. Everyone shops there for their food and many of the Community Kids have worked at the store. But for now, after 90 years, diperos is closing. Jen maxfield went to find out why. Its not seeing my family every day. Thats a big thing for me. Reporter kendall can barely hold back her tears. She is the fourth generation in the family to work here at the mily farm and store in montvale. The store closed its doors night after mor than 90 years in business. Its a hard thing to leave. Reporter ed grew up on this farm. Hie father donte started it more than 9 years ago. Ed and his wife, elaine, have run the business eser since they got married 64 years ago, but e numbers no longer add up. Our utility bill is 20,000 a month here in this building and we cant sell vegetables to cover that kind of expenses. So, this is why we have to give it up. Repor er they sold 28 acres of their land to developers. They plan to build a Large Shopping Center with a wegman supermarket. Not just strangers waiting on you. A family that you could know and alwas rely on. D d its a great loss. Reporter this familyowned farm is the latest in Bergen County to close. Following the farm in closer and d angrr and union run. Part of the Family Business well remain open, like their olesale plant operation. More than 35,000 poinsettias are here in this greenhouse and several others rdy to be sold between thanksgivingtand christmas. Ed and elaine say they will use their free time to tpavel and to spend tite with heir family. Loyal customers, even the youngest ones, cant imagine shopping for food anywhere else. Im really sad. Why are you sad . Because im going to miss the ancoimals. Were sad. Sad to see it go. Surely will be missed. R orr im jen maxfield, news 4 new york. Their prayers have been answered. Owners of a religious store in connecticut pleaded for the return of the jesus statue stolen from outside their shop. Back and has a brandnew paint job, as well. The owners say theyre thankful and they callit a blessing. His robe is now a vibrant red and his hair touched up with the darker brown and much different from what it looked like when it was all faded a week ago. A a new campaign is aimed at keeping new york tou ism hot during ahe winter months. Nyc and company has unveiled its new find a winter less ordinary campaign on social media. Of ering tips for popular destinations for visitors. Winter is a great time for bargains in new york city with hotel rates in january, february and march. Some 22 lower than other times of the year. The new campaign is part o a yearround strategy of tourism promotions under the banner, unlock nyc. That looks very pretty. Snowy in the big apple. Weve been through these snowy nt. Rs a few times, janice. First snow afall is fun. The first snowfall is fun but not the first snowstorm. When i moved back to new york i was like yay and then after the second time you dont have to worry about that today or the rest of the week. Talk about falling back, we turned the clocks back and went back in time. Temperatures in the 60s and the rest of this week right around 70 degrees. So, here comes the warm up. Get ready for it. Heres a look outside right now. Our view from the top of the rock camera looks pretty spectacular tonight, of course. Its darker earlier now that were back to standard time. But the temperatures are mild. Its 60 degrees right now under cloudy skies. Yeah, it feels more like early se ptember out there versus november. And it will stay this way for the rest of this week with temperatures abut ten degrees above average or maybe even higher than that at times. More sunshine is expected for tuesday, so, bring out the short sleeves if you packed them away already. Time to t a few out. Todays high temperatures in the 60s generally and these temperat des 5 degrees above average. 63 in the cit and r aht now 60 in midtown and 53 in white plainsuand 52 in monticello and me in morristown. Not bad out there at all. And 60s back across the great lakes. Cleveland, saginaw, chicago, minneapolis, louisville, its mild across much of the. Northeast and the eastern half of the country. Stormy t the south of us over georgia and the carolinas. Thats why we saw the clouds here. On the Northern Edge of all of that the rain not coming our way. Desperately needed, but were not getting it this week. It stays dry. We might get a slight chance on thursday. But thats our only chance this week. In the meantime, were mainly tracking temperatures. 40s and low 50s by the time we get to 11 00 tonight. Overnight, most areas will be in the 40s when you wake up this morning. Where well see the temperatures in the city. Newton, monsello, asbury park some 70s on the map. From the city and down the ojersey shore. This evening mainly in the 50s across the area. Clouds still with us. Wednesdays high up to 72. And f thursday, 68. And even by friday were up around 70. Now, ell get a front coming through at the end of the week and we will cool down over the weekend. 60s on saturday, back to the 50s sunday monday with lots of sunshine in store. Thats your weather. All right, janice, thank you. All right, bruce. Guess we have to talk about it. It was fun while it lasted. But its over. And the metsngirst world series appearance in 15 years end n controversy. Coming ur in sports, the ace matt harvey fires a em. But his plea to stay in the game is what well always remember. And the guttae, grinty royals font the relentless style right4. Ntil the final out of the fall classic. Game five of the world series in kind of wish we have been on the air for the last couple minutes through that commercial break because vigorous conversation among the four of us what might have happened and what could have been and what might have happened with t lyhe mets. Its water cooler stuff. Its a secon guessers paradise paradise. Should matt harvey have started the ninth inning last night . A question that will haunt the mets, their fans and their manager for the coming months. Harvey the 26yearold righthander was brilliant last night in game five he fired eight shutout innings t manager Terry Collins had made up his mind, closer would pitch the ninth. Cameras caught harvey pleading his case begging to go back out and collins relented and the royals rallied. And an rbi doublegoff the bat oferic sealed his fate as collins made the long walk to the mound to relieve his ace. I just trusted him and i said, you got it. Youve earned this. So, go get them. And its my fault. Its not his. Thats who he is. I know better than that. I know that he wants the ball, he never wants to come out. And he was pitching good. I mean, he was throwing the ball great. How much did you want to come back out there for the ninth inning . I wanted it bad. And the way the gams was going, the last thing i aanted to do was not finish what i start ed ed and, obviously, disappointing. I felt so great all game. Felt so great in the ninth. Wanted the ball and, you know, i gave it everything i had. Still the mets had a chance. But eric made a fanta hstic base from third base and forcing first baseman duda to throw him out. Made a terrible throw and in the process familia blow three saves in the same world series. The flood gates oned inhe 12annd the relentless royals scored five times in thenning to take an insurmountable lead d the mets looked invincible following their sweep. Left to wonder, what if, during a long, cold winter. You get beat at the end of the season, its not fun. Tremendous year. I just td the players, you know, ive done this for a long, long time and this is the most fun ive ever had. How proud of are you of this group . Extremely. As i mentioned earlier, i cant thank these guys enough for turning personally the worst season of my career, because of thi