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WNBC Saturday Today In New York March 19, 2016

Welcome to today in new york. Yoit is saturday, the 19th of march. Im pat battle. Od and im gus rosendale. And Raphael Miranda is talking about snow. Feeling that chill out there this morning. Temperatures back down to the 30s right now. You can see a quiet picture. Mostly clear skies. Storm still getting its act together off in the southeast. Temperatures, though, are cold enough in some spots. Were in the 20s in poughkeepsie. 37 in central park. 25 in monticello. Thankfully the winds are light. So windchills not a big deal. Heres a look at the day planner. 37 degrees. By lunchtime were at 42. It does stay chilly throughout the day. Much colder than yesterday. Todays temperature, only 45 degrees. Tomorrow we have temperatures stuck in the 30s throughout the weve made changes to the numbers. Over to you. All right. Hopefully those are trending down. With the possibility of snow on the horizon, the mayor issued a travel advisory for tomorrow. Department of sanitation saying the salt spreaders are loaded and ready. Same story in yonkers though typically that would not be the case. If the storm wasnt coming, wed be packing away the equipment today. I would like spring to come. Theres some 20,000 runners who are also watching the forecast. The nyc Half Marathon scheduled for sunday morning. Participants picked up their bib numbers last night. Whether you are running or trying to plan your weekend, download our news 4 weather app to stay up to date with the latest storm track. Trying to figure out what caused a plane crash i russia that uskilled all 62 on board. The airliner from dubai crashed while trying to land at the airport in the Southern City of rostovondon. A video appears to show the impact. And this video you may find disturbing. Well, nbc has not independently verified the video, but you can see as the skylights up there fri om what appears to be a explosion and you see the dust cloud there. It was rainy with Poor Visibility at the time of the crash. When he made a second attempt to land, the aircrafts tail apparently clipped the runway. Investigators believe a gust of wind may have played a role in that crash. Theres also new information this morning on the capture of the prime suspect in the paris Salah Abdeslam is now in police custody. An ambulance thought to be transporting the most wanted terror suspect was spotted this morning. A second suspect was injured in that raid as well. Abdeslam had been on the run since novembers attacks that killed 130 people. A judge could file an extradition request as early as this weekend. Well have more on the investigation coming up at 6 30. Later today officials will begin testing the lead levels in mo o than a dozen schools in the city of newark. The district shut off sinks in 30 schools where there were high levels of lead found. And that has other districts concerned. Brian thompson has more. Reporter brett has taken many wl,er samples as a certified lead tester. Hes seen too much lead in the water. But its not like it was in every home. Reporter testing is as simple as drawing water from a tap, as complicated as analyzing with hightech equipment. We first reported on the lead in the water. The epa has offered assistance to 12 districts in our area from new york to nine communities in new jersey. Go mvernor christie on newark. Were going to do whatever we need nor remediation thats appropriate and recommended by the experts. Reporter 4 investigates went through four years of lead testing reco s. Results show an increase in the number of unacceptable samples through 2012 through 2015 before dropping back down this past year. Shutting down fountains, one solution. As is bringing in bottled water. Fixing the plumbing is best but it can go deep behind the wall. To redo the lines of a property, it takes a lot of demolition work to go through the walls and get down to the areas where you need to get, replace all the lines. Reporter Brian Thompson for weekend today in new york. New this morning, police are investigating a knife attack near penn station. Delivery man on a bicycle was stabbed and slashed near 5th avenue. They are in stable condition. A long island teenager to be raigned today in the accidental shooting of his friend. Neffi reyes is facing harges of manslaughter. The wo teenagers were looking at a weapon at a hope me. Reyes called police immediately after the shooting. Mother talking about when bullets came into her car with two babies inside. I just thank god that were good. Like, everybodys safe. Reporter this queens Mother Holding her 4monthold baby boy extra tight. She didnt want to show her face or her childs as she described to me a terrifying car ride to pick up her sisterinlaw in queens. Gunfire erupted, windows shattered. I seen the bullet coming towards the careand i just ducked over, over both of the kids. I flipped over the whole car seat and i just laid there. And i heard the glass shatter over my head. Reporter she looked up to make sure her baby, 1yearold niece, and motherinlaw were okay. Her motherinlaw was driving making a turn when someone fired from a nearby roof hitting two other cars as well. Thank god we okay. About was the kids, the baby. I said the baby, the baby, the baby. Thats all i was saying. Reporter everyone in the car okay. The bullets had just missed them. There was one next to the car seat and one in the front. Police say this family was not the target. This family feels someone was looking out for them. Guardian angel. Reporter you feel like this an was a Guardian Angel looking out for you all . Yes, indeed. Reporter again, both babies home safe this morning. As for the smarch for the shooter, police said they found shell casings on the roof of that building. For now reporting in queens, Natalie Pasquarella for today in new york. And now to decision 2016 and another tense showdown between protesters and donald trump supporters. This time outside the rally in well, the protest started hat pei acefully enough. People carrying signs and chanting outside the infinity center. But clashes quickly escalated. Police tried to restrain the owd. We dont have word on arrests. The utah caucuses will be held tuesday. And mitt romney is urging people to vote for senator ted cruz in utah. He isnt calling this an endorsement but says hes v ing for cruz because hes the to only one who can, quote, defeat trumpism. Meantime, trump is not talking about the threat against his son no new york. A threatening letter was sent to his apartment. And Bernie Sanders is hoping to cut into Hillary Clintons lead come tuesday. He campaigned ahead of that caucus. Noting she attended trumps but it might not matter. Clinton only needs 35 of the remaining delegates to secure the nomination. Still to come on this saturday morning, the mild winters been good to the jersey shore. Now even a a winter storm approaches, spring fever is hitting the rental market. Why you already might not be able to find a place down the shore. Armed, dangerous, and a fraud. The search for a man who police say is posing as a cop. And weve had some major changes in our storm track overnight. Does that mean more or less snow for tomorrow . 6 12 and a bit of a reality check on this march saturday morning. We are talking a wee bit of snow heading our way. Maybe more than a wee in some places. But not today as you head out the door. Actually, maybe a few snowers i like it. Ill translate in a minute. Later today on the jersey ore. A bit of a bump in the ftecast in terms of the timing and how much snow were expecting tomorrow. All details coming up in a moment. But a nice dry start to the weekend. It is chilly. Were looking good. Mostly clear skies. We have temperatures in the 30s and 20s. More of a wintry feel. It is the last full day of winter, anyway, so might as well have a cold start here. You can see in your weather headlines it is a chilly start to your weekend. You need the jackets out there is morning. We are tracking that snow for tonight and tomorrow. Now you can see theres a question mark there. Spring snow on sunday . Not everyone will see snow. And warm weather does return in the sevenday forecast. 29 right now in stamford. 20s to low 30s. 30 in white plains. Heres the latest on our storm. Right now nothing going on in the tristate. This is the area of low pressure across the southeast. Were not going to see the fazing we were expecting earlier making it a stronger storm. Its going to be farther off shore over the next 24 hours. So this is going to be more of a miss than a hit. And thats good news for those who didnt want any snow. Nyou can see we bumped down the snow totals now. This is for the city, long island, down the jersey shore. A coating to two inches at most. Most of us are going to be on the coating side of the scale here. Very light snow during the day tomorrow. Best chance for significant snow, eastern long island where you may see 2 to 4 inches if you are lucky. You can see on future tracker, this is 12 00 today. The clouds start to roll in. A piece of energy moves in earlier than earlier forecasts. 6 00 p. M. , light snow and a no accumulations though. Its too warm and its melting. Overnight things are mainly dry. You can see on future tracker, not much going on tomorrow along the coast in the fternoon we start to see a wintry mix. But again, cr a lot of melting. And by 6 00 p. M. , not much. Light snow, especially east along the coast and mix going on. Overnight into monday morning, thats when we could see accumulating snow. And by your monday morning commute, storm already pulling away. This is all a distant memory not much of a storm with this one. You can see spring arrives overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. Happy first day of spring tomorrow. Look at that temperature though. 36 degrees. That is a rude first day of spring. Its breezy. It is cold. Even though were not going to have a lot of snow, its going to be a day to spend inside because of how cold itll feel. Snow showers in the morning back to 48 degrees. And then anything that falls will melt quickly back to the you want to stay uptodate with the news 4 new york app. Scroll down and select the weather tab. You can see the latest forecast. Use our interactive radar and learn to submit your own weather video. Pat and gus, over to you. Thank you. The big Opening Day Party at luna park, that has been stponed. Blame it on the snow heading our way on of course the first day of spring tomorrow. Hthe Amusement Park postponed its Opening Festivities until next saturday, march 26th, because of the expected snow. Next week there will be free rides on the cycle. The first 150 at the park will get a free egg cream. Winter is going to make a return for a bit but summer already on a lot of peoples minds. Many expected to visit the jersey shore this weekend to check on their summer houses and make plans. The nice weather weve been enjoy k seems to be sparking the reporter ray and pat sundee were thinking summer on this mild end of winter day as they put a deposit down on the place theyll rent in july. Ive come down here manyayear and youre trying to look at houses and its 30 degrees. This is really getting you in the spirit for the summer. Reporter jersey shore Real Estate Agents expect this to be a busy weekend for bookings following whats already been a booming year so far. They say the soaring temperatures weve had lately have helped drive up business. The rental market is strong. Rentals are up 10 from this time last year. Reporter on long beach island, realtors say their increase is even bigger with bookings up 15 t 20 . Every year people are booking earlier and earlier. Reporter and with snow in the forecast for the kickoff to spring, folks like the sundees say theyll really be longing for their Summer Getaway at the shore. Cant wait for the snow to ive been waiting for the last months. Cant stand the snow. Reporter and im told ocean citys rental inventory is already close to being completely booked for the simmer peak weeks at the end of july anskd early august. Im ted greenberg, news 4 new york. And coming up after the break, march madness in your saturday sports. But first heres dave karger with your fandango weekend ticket. There are two movies to tell you about. Miracles from heaven and allegiant. Lets begin with miracles from heaven. This is inspirational truelife drama where a mothers faith is tested the when her daughter was diagnosed. If you need a good cry, this is the movie for you. This is the latest installment in the divegent franchise. Now lets see what our fans are buzzing about. Here are this weeks scores. So thats whats going on at the movies. Its a god one. The 1989 cult classic uncle buck. Its making a return to the all screen. Mike epps. How are you . So much better now that youre here. Good. Im particularly interested in one of the projects youre working on right now. Thats racist. Admit it. Weve all heard a bit of racial jokes. I really believe that Political Correctness is the death of humor. Do. And so when i saw you were doing thats racist, seems like yoerure taking this head on. Every race has their own little fun party about racism. Toward themselves or toward others . Toward themselves and others. Who the hell are you . Its your uncle ck. Cake i do need to tell you, in uncle buck, series thats coming out now based on the movie, you basically play a manney. I have a manny that helps me wieh my two sons. Can he live with us and be our manny . How do you feel about thi playing faux dad to someone elses kids. I got four kids and i got im sort of like an uncle buck. What defines success to you . To be as happy as you can. Thats successefor me. Find happiness. Being a comedian, one of the securities i live with is my education. You know . I had to teach myself how to read and write. I think thats why i became funny. But now that i you know, that im doing pretty good for myself, now my kids come in the room, like whats that word and i have to play it off. I dont have time right now because i dont know [ bleep ] about the word. Thank you for being on the show. Even if you didnt go to college. You can watch a half hour of talk stoop every sunday 9 00 p. M. On cozi tv. Well, it time for sports and this morning were talking about bracket busters. Heres john chandler. Good morning, everybody. 13, 14, 15. Theyre not lottery numbers. Though the way they popped up on it iday, felt like the jackpot , 14, and 15 seeds all won their games friday in the ncaa tournament. The big shocker . Michigan state lost big. The e spartans, a 2 seed, National Title pick of many, fell to 15 seed middle Tennessee State who led the whole way. Yes, the blue raiders never trailed pulling off a stunning 9081 upset of sparty. Its just the eighth 152 upset in history. Coach izzo thought he had the team to win the title. He was at a loss for words. I feel bad for my guys. Theyve given me, this university, this program, and the city a lot of stuff. But t Better Team Won today. Tethey really did. Its been a wild tournament so far and its only the first syracuse on sunday. Lets talk baseball. Six pegs, only five holes. Thnuats how they describe the yankees starting. The math isnt adding up in c. C. Sabathias favor. Allowed four runs before the first out in the first. Kr. C. Done after allowing seven runs after 3 2 3 innings. He must become a good pitcher er ers in this ifnhe wants to stay in the rotation. Danny espinosa here crushing a threerun homer in the first. Now, the box score, it wasnt pretty. Lycolon says everybody relax. Its just spring training. Ryan fitzpatrick remains at odds for a new contract. The two sides just have to find some common ground. Problem is they both feel like they need a map to get there. Fitzy wants it in the range of e 15 million a year starter money. The jets ars offering much left. Praising fitzpatrick in a Conference Call saying we like ryan. Adding the goal is to eventually get yan under contract. But if that doesnt work, he says starting geno smith is a possibility. The ncaa tournament col,ntinues this afternoon. The round of 32. Uconn takes on number one overall seed kansas. And yale tries to pull off another huge upset. This one against coach k. And duke. Enjoy the rest of your saturday. Next on today in new york, the legal outrage after the iteam revealed patterson City Employees working at the mayo s home. In our area. Whveere those two wheel rers no longer wanted. And after temperatures in fithe 50s yesterday, a chilly change as we start the weekend. How cold will it feel . Thats coming up in your fo thank yo. Imagine if the things you bought every day. Earned you miles to get to the places with the united mileageplus explorer card, youll get a free checked bag, two united club pa es, priority boarding, and 30,000 bonus miles. Everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. R the united mileageplus explorer card. Well, we havent seen 30s in a little while, but we are seeing them today. A little bit, well, lets just say winters not quite done with us yet. Though spring starts tomorrow. Some people will see some snow. Look how fast im glad we use that shot. Not so pretty anywhere with all the construction. Glad to have you with us on a saturday morning. Albeit a chilly one. I think were calling for maybe a fourlayer day to start off. Really . Havent had that a n awhile. I agree. Weve become akos ccustomed to the warmer weather. Lighter jackets. Out the Winter Clothes once again. You can see nothing is going on in terms of that storm just yet. That moves in later tonight. This is your saturday looking good but looking chilly. 37 degrees right now. Bundle up. Keep the jackets on throughout much of the day. Thankfully its not breezy today. That happens tomorrow and thats going to feel much colder than it will today. Temperatures in the 40s and it feels like 40s. And also the clouds are going to build. By 6 00 p. M. , its mostl cloudy for dinnertime, but still dry again. Enjoy it. Wear a jacket and youll be fine. Well talk more about that snow potential coming up in your full forecast in just a few. Thank you. Happening today, test willing begin at m e than a dozen schools in newark after growing fears of high levels of lead in the water there. The epa is going to determine the levels. The district shut off sinks in 30 buildings and dozens of parents have submitted their children for blood tests. For the only surviving attacker in last years paris attacks. Officials could extradite him tove france as early as this weekend. Heres more on the

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