We start out clear, crisp, and chilly. Not a lot of wind throughout the day today. High clouds mix in by noon, about 40. Were into the 40s this afternoon, forecasting a high of 43 degrees. Well talk more about that sevenday forecast and peek into the weekend in a bit. Lets look at the commute with lauren. Good morning. The construction delays on the van wyck expressway southbound by the kew gardens interchange have eased out. Our first minor problem on the roads. Northbound on tonnelle avenue, watch out for a disabled vehicle by carlton avenue. Well look at the gowanus expressway, where things are moving along nicely past the belt merge through industry city. Enjoy that while you can. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Thanks very much. New this morning, police say they found the man who splashed a stranger for chelsea. They found him thanks to a man who reck nieds ognized that attacker. Katherine creag is live where the suspect is being held. So many people shocked to see the video of this attack. Reporter indeed, michael. Also, just as incredible for a the suspect. As you said, it was an alert passerby who got a look at that suspect, recognizing him from Surveillance Video released by police and some of the businesses in that area on 23rd street. The suspect, kari bazemore, slashed a woman on the face yesterday morning, but there was a man around the midtown area right by st. Patricks cathedral 6 00 at night and alerted two officers, who called for backup and the 41yearold suspect was arrested. This happened about 6 00 at night. A 24yearold woman walking to work on 23rd street was followed by the suspect, according to police. Out of nowhere, investigators say he slashed her, possibly with a razor blade. He talked with us about what happened, but first youll hear from one of the diner workers who helped her. It was really scary. She didnt know what to say. Shaking. I wish i could have reacted better and got a better description of him, but the to get inside a building. Reporter and understandably, the victim doesnt want to reveal her face. She received seven stitches. The diner worker said she was shaking but she was actually quite calm in trying to figure out who this person was. It was a random attack, were being told by police. As for the suspect, hes here at this Police Building. Hes expected to be walked out about 9 00 this morning. Back to you. Kat, just amazing that this other man recognized that suspect in a totally different part of the city hours later. Reporter right. In midtown apparently wearing the same kind of clothes. Quickly alerted police. All right. Thanks so much. A homeless man now faces murder charges in a deadly stabbing at a bronx mcdonalds. Police say raphael gonzalez, seen in this video, turned himself in yesterday. They say he attacked 28yearold adam garcia at the kings bridge restaurant on monday. Garcia was the manager at that were told gonzalez spent hours at the restaurant before garcia finally asked him to leave. Gonzalez allegedly returned and then killed him. Happening today, medical marijuana dispensaries open their doors in new york state. There are only a handful of facilities across the state. In our area, there are two. One is Columbia Care on 14th street in union square. The other is on east post road in white plains. The medical marijuana is only available to qualifying patients in nonsmokeable form. We expect there to be a fairly slow ramp. A handful of patients coming in by appointment at first. Over time, well have normal hours. At least six more facilities are slated to open in our area soon. One will be in manhattan, one coming to queens, another to the bronx. Two are slated for long island. A second facility will open in westchester county. That will be in yonkers later this month. 5 04 now. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Chris, like you said, its all from where we started out, its pretty good relative. Not bad at all. Temperatures right at the freezing mark this morning. Seasonably cold well call it. Teens in the suburbs early on. Sunshine will mix with clouds as we go through time this afternoon. Not too much wind throughout the day and on into tonight. Thats whats going to make these chilly temperatures more bearable early on this morning. First forecast, were right at the freezing mark in town. Teens in a lot of the suburbs. Bright sunny start. 40 by noon. Just high clouds drifting in. We hit the high for the day about 3 00. That will be 43 degrees. No rain and or snow to worry about for the next few days. Lets head to lauren and see what she can tell us about this thursday morning commute. Things are looking pretty good. You were just talking about being chilly at the bus stop, so lets talk about those buses. Just one detour in place this morning on the m50. Everything else running on its regular route and schedule. That goes for the trains too. Subway track work is wrapped up. Youll need to move your car today. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect. Your next weather and traffic update on the 4s. Thank you very much. Right now police are trying to track down a Sexual Assault suspect in brooklyn. This happened in early december, but investigators just released this Surveillance Video of the man theyre looking for. They say he grabbed a 24yearold woman walking along bergen street and tried to pull down her pants. However, the woman did manage to scream and ran away. The man ran away. The woman fortunately was not hurt. The bronx man now charged with murdering his pregnant daughter is expected to go ber phfore a judge today. William caruth is accused of killing his 39yearold daughter andrea. Her body was found in the basement of their home in baychester yesterday, three days after she went missing. Sources say he bludgeoned and strangled her after she found out he had secretly taken out a second mortgage on their house. She was a very giving person, very, very generous. This is a terrible, terrible family and friends held a vigil last night outside Andrea Caruths home. They released balloons into the sky to remember her and her unborn child. Just about 15 minutes, were going to be hearing from french president francois hollande. Hell address his security forces. Hes going to mark one year since a paris terror spree, an earlier one. Thats when gunmen attacked the offices of the satirical mgz charlie hebdo. That assault nearly wiped out the magazines executive staff. Two days later, hostages were taken at a kosher supermarket also in paris. In all, 17 people were killed. Today a suspected terrorist who was born in texas will be arraigned on new charges, but this time it will be in Brooklyn Federal court. Hes charged with helping to build a suicide bomb for an attack to take place on u. S. Military base in afghanistan. No americans were killed. Hes now accused of helping al qaeda. On long island, a twist in the father and his alleged dealer were arrested outside a beth page motel yesterday. He said he began smoking crack after his sister was murdered by her son in 2014. The son later killed himself. Nassau county police couldnt confirm his drug use began after his sisters death. Hes pleaded not guilty and was released without bail. New this morning, watching your Retirement Funds may take some nerve today because of whats happening in china. Stocks plunged overnight once again, more than 7 on the shanghai exchange. For the second time this week, automatic trading halts were put in place. This is on top of yesterdays selloff on wall street. The dow down 252 points. Right now stock futures are down some 400 points. Were going to be watching what happens there. 5 08. New this morning, your lottery drones are still alive. No one hit the Powerball Jackpot. Overnight, the jackpot hit a new record. Barrett is here with the big numbers. First of all, a personal confession. If my husband had any idea how much i spent on the workplace lotto pool, he would divorce me. Oh, they dont buy tickets. Dont worry about it. Thats for another time though. Because there were no winners, the jackpot has climbed to the largest in u. S. Lottery history. It is a staggering 675 million. Last nights prize of 524 million was the fourth largest Powerball Jackpot of all time, neand it was the 18th that didnt have a winner. The previous record, 656 million, somebody took that home back in march of 2012. And theres no shortage of people with a dollar and a dream this time around either. They walk in always asking for the Winning Tickets, you know, but i usually tell them i give it to the guy before you. He walked out with the winning numbers. Thats not right. Even though nobody hit last match five numbers but didnt get the powerball won 1 million. There were two matchfive winners locally, one in new york and one in connecticut. Check your tickets. And there was a powerball winner not too long ago. That was back in november. The Winning Ticket sold in tennessee, worth 144 million. This one is a little bigger than that. The next drawing is saturday night. A quick quiz to think about before i see you next hour. Do you have a better chance of winning the lottery or, being crushed by a falling asteroid, becoming president of the united states, being canyonized by the pope, or all of the above . So we answer next . Dont answer now. Thats a tease. I dont have a shot at c. You and me both, honey. Thats out the window. Thats not true. All right. Ahead this morning, this years state of the Union Address might have a bit of a different feel. Plus, this morning, casting doubt. Lying about a nuclear test. Replus, it is quite a different morning out there today. Were going to have weather and traffic on the 4s as we look at the belt parkway there by jfk. Youre watching today in new york. Find your sweet spot today with dunkins chicken apple sausage sandwich. And savory sausage together for under 400 calories. Its 5 13. Here are four things to know this morning. Police arrested a man in the random slashing of a woman in chelsea. They arrested him thanks to an observant person who spotted him on the street. Today, mayor de blasio will sign an order providing paid parental leave to city employees. Its going to guarantee the citys 20,000 nonunion workers six weeks of paid leave. The faa released a new app specifically for drone users. Its called b4u fly. The app will show you exactly where you can and cannot fly. No one hit the big Powerball Jack pot, so its jumped to a new record. That record, 675 million. It will be up for grabs on saturday. That number could grow before the drawing. All right. 5 14. Temperatures a little better this morning in the city than theyve been in recent mornings, but the suburbs still on the chilly side. We start out with sunshine well mix in clouds through the afternoon and evening. Looks like rain as we head towards the weekend. Light at the onset on saturday. The heaviest push of rain coming our way sunday. Well talk about that in a second. The bus tops this morning for the kids, upper 20s. By recess time, close to 40 degrees. By the time youre dismissed, in the low 40s. Not bad at all with a light wind throughout the day. Well just build in more clouds. After school, temperatures slowly sliding closer to the 40degree mark. Its 17 in woodland park. 32 in sheepshead bay. A 15degree temperature range in not a great distance. Thats the trend this morning. Suburbs a lot chillier. A dozen in suss ex ex right now. 16 in monticello. The city at 32, one of the warmer spots. Starting out in the clear right now. Notice some clouds coming up from the south. Thatll be the trend during the course of the day. To the south of the city. There are the clouds through the morning and afternoon hours. North of town, i think more sunshine. From the city on south, you can see more cloud cover. Same thing through the overnight hours. Tomorrow we start out with sun at times. Well build in more clouds through the day. Wind becomes more east, northeast in the afternoon. A warm front approaching tomorrow night. That brings a light area of precipitation. It was mostly green as it came through. That means light rain or drizzle. On north, could be a period of freezing drizzle. Be aware of that. We all warm up during the day on saturday. Here comes heavier rain. Thats going to push in we think by sunday. In the meantime, temperatures for this afternoon, 43 should do it. Normal high is 38. Most folks are above the 40degree mark this afternoon. Even those places that are starting out in the teens this morning. 31 the low tonight in town. Well see 20s to the knot west. Not a lot of teens showing up. Sevenday forecast, a lot of ups and downs. Low 40s today and tomorrow. More clouds around tomorrow. Giving way to sun at times. Looks like spotty rain or drizzle early saturday. Bulk of saturday probably not a lot of rain. Heavy rain moves in on sunday. Look at the temperature, 55. Were back to the 30s monday and tuesday. Maybe our first chance at a little snow on wednesday with a high of 37. 5 17 almost straight up. Lets find out about the commute from lauren. Good morning. We have a couple minor problems out there as you make your way out the door. One of them in jersey city. Northbound on tonnelle avenue, theres a disabled vehicle in the right lane. If youre headed out to the verrazano bridge, Staten Island bound lower level, a lane is blocked. Well take a live look outside at the tappan zee bridge, where things are moving along nicely. No issues. The roads are quiet with the exception of those two minor problems. Alternate side of the street up on the 4s. Thanks so much, lauren. Breaking news in Central New York. 17 workers at a salt mine are stuck 900 feet below ground in an elevator. Rescue teams are in contact with them right now. Theyre bringing in a crane to low aero er a basket and try to bring them up. President obama days away from delivering his final state of the Union Address, but this year could be different than years past. The white house released a video previewing the speech. Tracie potts is in washington with a look at that and whats going to be different this year. Reporter well, hes not going to come with a laundry his of things he wants congress to do because, in fact, we know that theres a very tense relationship with congress, and its his last year. What the president apparently wants to do now is to reflect on his successes from the last seven years and take a look at the big picture going down the road. Heres a bit of that video. Just the remarkable progress weve made. Not just what i want to get done in the year ahead, but what we all need to do together in the years to come. Reporter now, next tuesday, the president will be here for the state of the union. In an email, his chief of staff says some of the themes you may hear in that speech include the budget deal that was reached just last month, the iran nuclear deal, oil production, environmental regulations, and High School Graduation rates being up as opposed to unemployment, crime, and prison being down, and of course he will very likely mention obamacare, which is such a big deal here today. Right. And a bill repealing it headed to his desk. Thanks, tracie. Its 5 19 right now. This afternoon, republicans plan to celebrate on capitol hill and challenge president obama to repeal his Landmark Health care reforms. The house voted yesterday to lawmakers also vote to cut federal funding to planned parenthood. Its the first time that repeal legislation will land on the president s desk. He will veto that. Looks like the u. S. Navy is going to step up aid to south korea, even though its believed north korea lied about testing the hydrogen bomb. Hours ago, an antinuclear protest was held until south korea. That countrys government says its going to resume propaganda broadcasts aimed at the north. This is after that test was detected. The impact. That initial analysis is not consistent with the claims that were made by the north koreans, that they had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb. U. N. Security council did meet yesterday. They condemned the nuclear tests. Theyre promising to impose even tougher International Sanctions against north korea. Just ahead this morning, why one little boys first day of School Photos made the front page of newspapers overseas. The announcement from macys. Youre watching today in new york. Savor an egg mcmuffin any time you like. A fresh cracked egg, canadian bacon and an english muffin with real butter. Mcdonalds all Day Breakfast menu. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. All right. Earn everyone troo is trying to read whats on the back of our directors chair. Tennessee valley. Star wars the force awakens now the highest the film earned enough yesterday to pass avatar, which made 760 million gross. So far, the force awakens has pulled in 1. 6 billion worldwide. Avatar made 2. 8 billion. Thats a fortune. Thats a lot of dough. Well, we have a good excuse to show you some brand new adorable pictures of britains prince george. Yesterday was his first day at Nursery School. His mom, the duchess kate, sharing candid photos with us. Hes 2 1 2 years old now. The royals proud to tell us george reported to class without shedding a tear. Hes adorable. I love the Nursery School backpack because theres nothing in there, right. I love it. Its usually pretty empty. But you got to have it. Maybe a sippy cup. Hes cute. Well, we wish him well. Meantime, its a chilly start this morning. Low 30s in the city. Right at the freezing mark in town. It gets a little better by this afavternoon afternoon, 43. Some clouds will mix in at times, especially south. Tonight, 31 in town, 20s suburbs. This weekend, a lot of clouds around, spotty showers or drizzle on saturday. Its mild, 47. Even milder sunday but we could see a drenching rain the first half of the day especially and a high of sunday of 55 degrees. Maybe one of those weekends to take in a movie, just chill inside for a little bit, whatever. Weve had enough of those, havent we . Whats happening, lauren . Not much for the commute. Nice quiet morning. For everyone getting on the rails, subway, majo