Graphic on itsehome page to illustrate. You may have seen it before. Here are some examples from the last two wintersrafter salty melting snow seeps below the street. But the last few days has been especially active. Buildings. Reporter Building Super Maria Manning is among the 59 customers in the dark today from the sunnyside explosion. In brooklyn more thani thousand customers lost power. It all led to anxious moments. I was trying to get everybody out of the house. I didnt know what was going on. I smelled smoke. Reporter con edison says common sense could protect you from a serious injury. If you see a smoking manhole, report it. Obviously, stay back. Reporter a lot of people on this block asking us when will ke a look at the other side 53rd street. Dozens of families here waiting to find out when theyll get their electricity back. Con edison has crews fanned out across the city trying to make these Power Outages as brief as possible. Live in sunnyside tonight, andrew siff. Also, the dangers of thin ice were brought home for a pair of patterson boys with a dramatic rescue by firefighters. We asked Brian Thompson to dig a little deeper into this. I was terrified. It was cold. I hecould barely move my legs. Reporter learning the hard way the dangers of walking on ice here at the passaic river. The boys were reunited with the firefighters who saved their lives. They were hypothermic and fading fast. To the scene, one crawling out onto the ice to snatch them out of the water. The lead firefighter breing through into the water. Did i have that initial, oh no, this is cold . Yes, i did. Reporter tethered and backed up by several others, those boys were pulled to safety. Thank you, thank you. I love you so much. Reporter guidelines say never go out on ice two inches thick or less. While we dont know the thickness in the passaic yesterday, in less than 24 hours it was mostly gone. Kids are kids. You make mistakes. This time you got another chance. Reporter both say they want to be firefighters. Firefighters saying while some ice may be safe, river ice never is. No ice is safe to walk on, not in this river. This is constant moving water. I learned the lesson not to go on ice anymore. Reporter while there are safety of walking on ice, perhaps the warm weather were expecting over the next week may be the biggest threat right now. A threeyearold new jersey girl hospitalized after being found in a Carbon Monoxide filled car has now died. She was inside an idling car with her mother and brother while her father was working outside trying to clear know from that vehicle, snow that was also blocking the cars tail pipe. When he looked inside the car, he discovered his wife and son dead, his daughter in critical condition. Now the she is gone too. 21yearold damon knolls was arrested last night. Police believe he carved a four inch gash on a womans face on the d train. Rivera needed 20 stitches to close her wound. Of cops, community and Technology Led to the swift arrest of a murder suspect. A man was shot and killed in union dale. In Minutes Police had a fleeing suspect in custody. Sibila, we have done several stories on the shot Spotter Technology and array of sensors in high crime areas that helps cops get to a shooting scene quickly. The grief is visible and heartbreaking in uniondale. At 9 44 on monday night gunfire pierced uniondale. Shot Spotter Technology picked it up and witnesses were on the move. In bcrely a few minutes two ofeificers spotted a suspect in a getaway car and arrested him. Cops who had t ehe wherewithal not only to respond to the southeastern but scene but also Pay Attention to that vehicle. Reporter police saying they found weapons and shotgun cases on the floor of the getaway car. Reaction from a friend of melendezs family. How can something happen like that to a person like, you know, he just camen here to work, support his son. Just last week the nepd announced it was expanding shot spotter to additional neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. In new jersey a suspended Police Officer pleaded not guilty to gunning down his exwife while their daughter was in his car. He faces murder, weapons and child endangerment problems. He had his sevenyearold and killed his exwife last june. A new report shows police in connecticut used stun guns on minorities at a higher rate than white suspects according to the data obtained by the associated press, connecticut state and local officers fired their stun guns 437 times in 2015. A breakdown on the data shows that police fired their stun guns 60 of the time in cases involving whites, 80 of the time in cases involving plaque e ing ing blacks and 69 of the time in cases involving hispanics. Coming up, how technology, community and team work came together to capture a murder plus a bold statement to east ciders side Donald Sterling in the meantime, it gets a little cooler again tonight. That means more black ice. The mta is making a big promise to Upper East Side residents. The Second Avenue subway will open on time. The second phase of the project from 63rd to 96th street st was supposed to be completed by december. Theyll do whatever it takes to meet that deadline. We are looking at this internally every week. We are taking this deadly seriously. We want to meet that deadline. We want to meet our timetable. And we want to meet our cost schedule as well. The next independent review will be released in march. Families of three men killed when a metro north train struck an suv last year are suing the railroad and the engineer. The suits complain a poorly designed ed ed crossing and failure of an engineer to apply the brakes in time caused the accident. The crash happened yesterday morning. Penny skoe cofield suffered an unknown medical issue and crashed into a g mrdrail before crashing into those two parked cars. The jets have reached a class action leaders. In the suit the women claim they were cheated out of wages and not paid and forced to cover work related expenses. The league f ces pressure to pay cheer leaders according to labor laws. Coming up, bad news for the trader joes damaged by the winter storm last weekend. Well give you the update. First heres a look at until i learned about bath fitter. Bath fitter puts a new bathtub right over your old one. Isnt that amazing . Bath fitter will measure, custommake and install right over your existing tub. And only bath fitter has seamless walls, which guarantees a watertight fit. Plus, they do it all in just one day. I know because i did it. My whole life. Andd i raise turkey for shady brook farms. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms. No growthpromoting ntibiotics,. Breaking news, an accident on the bqe is causing a image traffic mess. Dennis . Reporter thats right, chuck. Accident involving this box truck and this car. Problem is its been out here since about 4 30 this afternoon. Over four miles of bumper to bumper traffic since its been out here so long. Also looking at southbound delays. We had an earlier accident southbound on the bqe in the same area. We have delays of over four miles as well bumper to bumper from the Grand Central down to the bqe. Try to steer clear of it this evening. Pack your patience. Thank you, dennis. The museum of modern art is getting a new look. The new designs include a 50,000 square feet expansion. The 400 million project is expected to be finished within the next three or four years. And dont worry, it will stay open throughout construction. Lester holt joins us now look at whats ahead on the nightly news. I had a one on one conversation with Bernie Sanders fresh off his meeting with the president. Well also tell you why the alarm is being raised for an aggressive Global Response to the zika virus. And the daring act of baif ri ravery that has one Community Mourning a local school principal. New at 6 00, jealously may have sparked a shooting that left one woman dead and another jured in queens. Guornfirn erupted this afternoon. Reporter police right now are looking for a man identified as he shot a 36yearold woman here in far rockaway. Also shot, a 51yearold woman. The 36yearold woman is the girlfriend of the shooter. Her mom spoke to us a few minutes ago and this is what she had to say. She was a medical biller. She worked all her life. She has one child. This man came into her life and he took my child away from me. Reporter im so sorry, maam. He took my baby away from me. Reporter police tell us that the suspect is armed and dangerous. If you see him, police call police immediately. Now were waiting for an update from police in just a few minutes and well keep you updated. Pablo gutierrez nbc 4 new york. The trader joes in westfield, new jersey, that was damaged in saturdays bliteard the owners of the building have two weeks to knock that structure down. The super market chain says it plans to reopen at the same location. He this is the scene across parts of the city, garbage piled up on the side of the street. The city sanitation denepartmentl will resume garbage pickups todorrow. Garbage has been piling up since saturday. Crews were kept busy hauling away mounds of snow. Eyll begin rounding up the garbage in the morning. The roads may be a bit clearer but the snow mounds that remain can still keep people from doing their jobs. Postal workers are really feeling the impact. Giant snow piles are blocking mailboxes on their routes and some homeowners are not making it any easier for the letter carriers. Its really brutal. The snow is two or three feet wi and the shes teps arent all shovelled. The post office has sent an advisory to homeowners asking them to make a semicircle in kmont front of the mailboxes. The temperatures fall below freezing tonight. Last night it wasnt that cold. Most areas saw melting overnight. Tonight it does get a little chillier. Belief me, well see a lot of melting over the next several days as the temperatures warm up. Heres a look at our view from the top of the rock camera. Just a few clat scattered clouds overhead. Its just a couple of degrees above average light now in the city. More of that next week. In the meantime, tonight, black ice is likely. Our temperatures will be falling tonight back into the 20s in some areas. All that melting today we knew we were going of this pattern for several days. A little cooler on thursday. Friday its chilly and blustery. Were expecting that coastal storm to miss us offshore. Right now were down to 30 in monticello, an area where youre likely to see very chilly temperatures tonight. Back to the west we could see some 20s around indianapolis a columbus. Not a lot of really cold arctic air. South of us we see some clouds. Part of that is a moisture thats going to be gathering for th k coastal storm later in the week. But its going to stay offshore from our area, not making a hit on us. Tonight the skies will clear off a bit across the region. 40 around 7 00. And then falling through the 30s the rest of the night. After midnight we start to see some of the chillier temperatures around freezing or below. Saturday, a few flurries come by saturday it clears. By sunday were well into the 40s. Its mild and a nice outdoor day. The melting will continue. The january thaw is going to go into next week when the temperatures will be five to ten degrees above average, back to the el nino pattern. More meltd ing snow and more potholes unfortunately. Watch out for black ice in spots like at the jersey shore where you got some melting today. 40, though, tomorrow afternoon. Areas of black ice north and we ist, temperatures around 40, though, by the afternoon as well. Long island, coastal, contracted contract coastal connecticut. Tomorrows not as warm a day by ut its still going to be avera or above. 42 is the high. Little cooler on friday and blustery with flurries coming through. Were back in the 40s by sunday. By monday the upper 40 s. E and by wednesday the 50s come around. Typically this time of year we start begging bruce to talk about spring training. Its easy to talk baseball, isnt it . The cespedes signing is official. Sandy alderson and jeff wilpon talk about their h he off season. So it seems like theres going to be a cespedes for the rest of us for a little bit longer. The countdown is on. Spring training starts in 21 days. No one is more excited than the mets and their fans. Last night they finalized a deal tos bring back electrifying outfielder cespedes. Its a three Year Contract with an opt out after one year. The mets brass addressed the media on a Conference Call. The fact that a player of this magnitude wanted to be a new york met and wanted to be here and were a destination now where players want to be, i think, is the biggest testament. From our standpoint we recognize that we have a pretty but we also recognize that there was an opportunity for us to be better team. Ie think its a clear acknowledgment thaar you know, the present is important to us. The translation, the mets are going for it now. I think its a terrific deal for both sides. Now, to football and the countdown to super bowl 50. Believe it or not, were still 11 days away from the broncos and panthers in sbnta claire. Ra. The game could be Peyton Mannings swan song. At age 39, manning w l look to go out on top with his second super bowl title. On a Conference Call today his younger brother eli talked about the possibility of this being the end of the road for peyton. When you get to year 19 and things going on, you know, it would be a good way to go out. But i dont know if it is. But i think because of that possibility i hope that he can win this game. And if he decides to hang it up, you know, go out on top. In colle hoops tonight, st. Johns visits seton hall. Rutgers travels to michigan. Finally check out one of the best buzzer beet aters youll ever see. He somehow scores from half court. He catches the ball in midair, twists and heaves it in one motion and off the glass and in. Unbelievable stuff. Craig hails from South Carolina and is the most valuable player in the australian basketball league. You could try that a thousand times, a million times and you would never be able to duplicate it. They had . Yes
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