New jersey, into the city, into the hudson valley. Thats it. Theres a sharp cutoff in eastern pennsylvania. It should be out of here by 7 00 or 8 00. Things will continue to dry on out. A wet start early this morning. Clouds give way to clearing. By noontime, the wrongway temperatures today. We start out mild, 53. 43 by noon and into the 30s by the evening hours. Wetd roads. Lets see if there are early problems. On. On the bqe to the williamsburg bridge in the westbound direction. That shuts down the left lane. Its still passable. Heading over to new jersey, we have a water main break on route 46. This blocks the right lane. Otherwise the roads look pretty good. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Lauren, thank you. Now to decision 2016. Super tuesday brought a few surprises. But not enough to slow down the frontrunners on both sides. Donald trump took seven states. He did not win texas. But it may not matter. Hillary clinton was also the clear winner on the democratic side. She also took seven states. This morning, theres a lot to sort out. Kerry barrett is in the newsroom with the super tuesday fallout. Massive turpout yesterday. Records broken in every state Hillary Clinton, donald trump got the most delegates. Bernie sanders did score four states. Marco rubio he won his first contest. Ted cruz beat donald trump in three contests, including texas, oklahoma. Cruz supporters thinking that the gop race is finally down to ted cruz and donald trump. He didnt win the most states. He was a wig big winner in texas and oklahoma. Marco rubio picking up his first win in minnesota. He headed out there last week and started to campaign specifically in the midwest. Bernie sanders, meanwhile, targeting more wins. Last night he won his home state of vermont. Oklahoma, colorado, minnesota. Hillary won the states with more delegates delegates. Trying to divide america between us and them is wrong. Were not going to let it work. We are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace to every one of those states. It was a really big night for hillary. But the storyline this morning is how that was overshadowed by cruz emerging as Donald Trumps top challenger. In terms of cruz stopping trump with rubio still in the race, it looks impossible at this point in time. Kasich, ben carson staying in the race. Theyre splitting the vote. Theyre split between cruz and trump at this point. A lot to get through later on this morning. Local volters wont get their say next month. Primary day is april 19th in new york. Voters in connecticut head to the polls april 26th. The new jersey primary is later on june 7th. On the today show, much more on the fallout from super tuesday and what lies ahead. Stay tuned at 7 00 after today in new york. All City Employees will be back at work in paterson, new jersey. The city council approving a temporary budget plan that ended shutdown. Employees who had to stay home without pay, they were the temporary budget only covers through the month of march. It does not resolve the issue that led to the government shut doup in the first place. The mayor asked for a 6 property tax increase. Several new York City City Council members think local a 400 tax rebate. Some of that money should go back to taxpayers. The citys last Property Tax Rebate Program ended in 2009. All right. 4 34 right now. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Lets check in with chris cimino. Chris, youre right. Its nice and warm this morning. One of those backwards days. Were peaking right now in the low 50s. But theres a cold front working its way through. Ahead of it, early showers to get through. Early showers, wet roads up until 7 00 to 9 00. The afternoon is breezy. From the 40s into the 30s today. The sun return ach the rain but, again, brisk and chilly night into the 20s. Heres the aforementioned showers getting their act together. But the back edge of them already in eastern pennsylvania. You can see making steady progress off to the east. We should break out into sunshine later this morning. Its cloudy with rain in parts of the area. Well drop into the 40s and keep 30s by Late Afternoon and early evening. How low will it go tonight . Well detail the sevenday forecast. Now a look at the commute. Good morning everyone. If youre getting on the subways, overnight track work. These are all affected. Expect delays and service changes. A live look at the long island expressway in queens. A few moments ago there was a disabled tractortrailer out there that blocked a lane. You can still see wet roads and a slow ride making your way westbound past the Grand Central parkway. Ill keep a close eye on that and alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. The next update on the 4s. Two men are wanted in a handful of gas station robberies across brooklyn and queens. They hit seven gas stations in less than a week. Four happening on the same day. The robberies happened between february 20th and last friday. Each case, the men did use a gun to rob the clerk. They got away with money, a cell happening today, the couple accused in the hit and run that killed a 7yearold new jersey girl are an undocumented immigrant was behind the wheel that struck the girl and her mother in west new york. The girl was killed, her mother hospitalized. His girlfriend, alvarez of newark is charged with lying to police. She tried to report the suv had been stolen. Today, a different new jersey courtroom, another driver accused in a deadly hit and run heads to court. This happened and hit an offduty nypd officer and he died. Tracie strahan is in elizabeth with what we can expect. Reporter he turned himself in to authorities monday night. Today here at the courthouse, hell face a judge for that hit and run that claimed the life of that nypd officer who had only been on the force for a little more than a year. This man is facing a single count of leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Authorities say he was driving his infiniti on the southbound lanes of the turnpike near elizabeth when he hit the offduty cop. Stopped briefly but left before state troopers arrived. That man had been involved in another crash with another vehicle and was arguing with that driver with his gun drawn around 3 00 sunday morning. Thats when police say he was struck by on the shoulder. The suspect stopped briefly but took off afterwards. Harrisons family says he joined the nypd to follow in the footsteps of his older brother. He has been held on 100,000 bail. Back to you. Tracie, thank you very much. 4 38 right now. The nypd is remembering a fellow officer who died in the line of duty. The 9th precinct tweeted ri pichlt to former officer david he died in a shootout with a suspect in texas. He joined the yu lis police force there in 2014. Before that, he was a siepd to the 9th precinct in manhattan. New this morning, astronaut scott kelly is safe on earth after nearly spepg a ly ly spending a year in space. He pumped his fist in the air and gave the thumbs up in kazakhstan where he and two russian cosmonauts were. They will examine the effects of scott kellys 340 days in space. Right now, a cruise ship has run into difficult times is returning to port in new jersey. The anthem of the seas cut its most recent trip short. Katherine creag is there. Reporter difficult times, absolutely right, darlene. Good morning to you. It will be a rough morning for some of those passengers the anthem of the seas, as you know, has become the nightmare of the seas. It is scheduled to arrive here ahead of schedule yet again. This time passengers are telling outbreak. Royal caribbean says it is returning two days early because of bad weather. But the company also acknowledged some passengers had fallen ill and they were getting overthecounter medicine while on board. Passengers were also telling us, skyping us over the weekend saying that workers on the ship were telling them that there was a norovirus outbreak. This is happening weeks after the ship was in an awful storm. It was like a scene out of a movie. The ship returned again, came back ahead of schedule that time and now the norovirus. Thats what workers with dealing with. 6 00 a. M. Is when were hearing the ship will come in. Were hearing thats when the rain is supposed to hit hard when passengers arrive here, it will be raining again. Some of the passengers we talked with are honeymooners. Theyre not too thrilled about come back. But theyre hoping at least when they get back here, it will be safe. Back to you, darlene. Hopefully. Kat, thank you. Today is testing day for juniors in some new york city high schools. But this year its free of charge. 92 schools are administering it during the regular school hours today. Its part of mayor de blasios plan to make college more accessible. Next year all 438 schools will take the test for free. They offer free practice, s. A. T. Exams in school. The parents can afford and guard kwlans to pay for the s. A. T. Testing. The annual list of richest people sp out. Who made a major move . A boy who was hit by a stray bullet. Wait until you hear what he did after this happened to him. Its a wet morning. Your weather and traffic on the 4s is coming up. Follow us on facebook and twitter and instagram, darlene4ny. Michaelg4ny. Youre watching today in new york. [text message alert] [crashing] 4 44. Four things to know this morning. The super tuesday results are in. Both donald trump and Hillary Clinton won seven states. Hear from the candidates in about 15 minutes. City employees in paterson, new jersey, they head back to work this morning. Late last night the counsels approved a temporary budget ending that partial government shutdown. Lottery open for a shot at an Affordable Apartment in manhattan. Units in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village start at a cost of 1200 per month. In new york city is comin to queens. It will be at the Queens Center mall. No opening date set. 4 44 20 seconds. A look back at the winter season, december, january and february. The warmest day was on Christmas Eve at 72. Valentines day the coldest. We were almost 6 degrees above the normal high. The normal temperature is 41 is the average. Were put at number two. 41. 5. That was at warmest. A half of a degree shy of that. Were dealing with rain this morning. Soggy across new jersey in the city now. By 7 00 a. M. , look at the back the city. It shuts down across new jersey this is a quick hit of wet weather early on this morning. Future tracker shows that. Showers going out of here. We break out into sunshine by noontime. Then into the evening, it clears on out, gets colder, though. A brisk northwesterly flow will keep us on the chilly side through the day. As we go towards the afternoon, still nice and sunny. By evening, clouds roll in. Watch what happens late tomorrow night towards friday. Little bit of snow moves in our direction. Still watching that offshore it stays to the south and east. Light snow is possible late tomorrow night into friday. Should shut down by early afternoon and move on east. By friday night and pull on out of here. Should clear out in time for the start of the weekend. Wet to start. Becoming colder in the low 50s early. Dropping into the 40s. In the 30s by the end of the day with a gusty northwest wind. Beautiful weather by next week. This is something were looking forward to. Temperatures average 10 to 20 degrees. Builds i the southwesterly flow. Little springtime treat heading our way next week. It should be dry most of the time. At this time of the year, a sea breeze kicks in if you live along the coast. Gets cooler. 50s early today, colder late. Partial clearing, windy. 20s tonight. 30s thursday and friday. Light snow thursday night, friday. Most of the time its dry. Look at next week, near 60 by the time we get to tuesday. 4 47. Lets find out about this. Its certainly wet out there. Not too many problems. A water main break on route 46 headed westbound by beverwyck road. Route 39, the covered roadway towards the holland tunnel, thats shut down with roadwork in both directions between jersey avenue and tonnelle avenue. A live look at the connecticut turnpike. Things are moving nicely. Heres what it looks like in darien. No accidents or major delays in for a decent ride. Leave space between you and the car in front of you. Alternate side of the street park pag rules are in effect today. 4 47 now. A costume character was handcuffed basically for trying to hold a teen for ransom. A 13yearold boy was about to walk away after taking a picture with spiderman. Then the character grabbed the boys arm and refused to let go until the boy or his father gave him 10. Police saw the whole thing and spiderman got a ticket on the spot. A brave 7yearold is waking up with a bullet wound to his shoulder. A stray bullet hit the boy while he was looking through his window in paterson, monday night. The bullet missed his heart by inches. With his family in shock, he called 911 himself while he was still bleeding. His family talked exclusively to news 4. Cop tried to calm me down. He was being so brave. This so he wont get hysterical. He was so calm and collected. Im like oh, my jaden is expected to make a full recovery. The suspects still on the loose. Starting monday, the nypd will take a new approach towards people who commit lowlevel offenses in manhattan. Officers will no longer arrest people committing certain crimes like littering. Instead they get a summons. It will reduce the backlog of cases in criminal court and enable police to better focus its resources on more serious crimes. The new regulations cover lowlevel cases including public urination, public consumption of alcohol, taking up more than one subway cars. Investigators are trying to mysterious loud boom. Suffolk Police Received calls from residents in lindenhurst, babylon and west islip. Explosions in the area. The u. S. Coast guard is looking into the reports. Some residents say it was so loud it shook their homes. I was on the couch watching tv, the whole house started shaking. We went outside and all my neighbors were like did you hear that, did you hear that . Tristate residents reported similar booms in late january. Naval Officials Say they were testing Fighter Pilots over the ocean and some of them may have caused sonic booms. In brooklyn, theyre trying to figure out what caused a giant sinkhole that forced crews to shut streets. It opened up around noon yesterday on 56th street between 6th and 7th avenues. Chopper 4 was over the scene showing the cracks in the pavement. Theyre looking into whether water and sewer the George Washington bridge lane closure. Two democratic lawmakers in new jersey, they want nearly 3 they want the money from a law firm that governor christie hired to investigate the lane closure. Lawmakers say that firm exceeded the guidelines on how much they could charge the state. Meantime, governor christie facing opposition over his Supreme Court nominee. Senate president says judge david bowman will not get a hearing. Democrat Steve Sweeney will only consider a pick who is a democrat because christies republican nomination leaves two democrats on the sevenmember court. Donald trump is facing new troubles due to his failed trump university. An Appeals Court ruled unanimously that a Fraud Lawsuit can go forward. It was brought by new York Attorney general Eric Schneider man saying some were cheated out of millions. The richest person in the world according to forbes 17th time hes led it in 22 years. Hes said to be worth 75 billion. The spanish clothing magnate, ortega came in second. Hes worth 67 billion. Thats Warren Buffett not to be confused with any clothing magnate. Warren ranked third with 60 billion. Amazon ceo jeff bezos. Facebook ceo, mark zuckerberg, he went from 16th place up to 6th. Hes worth 44. 6 billion. Former mayor Michael Bloomberg is 8th with 40 billion. Donald trump estimated to have 4. 5 billion. People at the top of the list got some serious jack. As we say. 40 and 50 and 60 billion. 4 52. Still to come, the historic new york City Building that one falling into disrepair. We have new details about the event of a new Jersey Transit strike. Later at 5 00 this morning, how Chris Christies Campaign Appearance started a twitter hash tag. Welcome back. 4 55. Its wednesday morning and feeling so nice. Yeah. I got some raindrops but the temperature felt warm, i didnt care. Peaking early. 55 right now at this hour of the morning. Get out and enjoy it. Sitting in the rain. You can see on the radar, theres rain coming on through. Its moving pretty quickly. By 7 00 or so, its done in the city. Takes longer across long island and connecticut. For the most part, fast moving cold front. Darlene in the 50s. Well drop in the 50s to the 40s and eventually into the 30s by the end of the day. The winds start to howl later today. At least the sun makes a return. Tonight, gets colder. 25 in the city with a clear sky. Windchills down in the teens and the actual air temperature. Its a quick brief shot of cold weather for the end of the week by next week. Back into the spring feeling again, 50s and 60s. Going to hang in. April around the corner. Thats right. Were dealing with wet roads, no major accidents. A live look at the George Washington bridge. Start with that. Where the roads are glistening. If you like that. Take it easy today. Lower level is open. No roadwork here. Then lets head over for a live look at the Grand Central parkway by laguardia airport. Also smooth sailing, i hate to say that when the roads are wet. Things moving nicely. Out the door right now. A political transit issue, lauren. Theres going to be a rally in city hall calling for renewed f train express service in brooklyn. Councilman David Greenfield will join advocates before he attends a Transportation Committee hearing. He says hes going to ask officials what they intend to do to restore transit equity. Theyre pushing for more funding for the mta. Weeks away from a possible new Jersey Transit strike. Contingency plans are being put in place. Thousands of workers could go on strike march 13th. They tell the wall street journal, more buses, ferries and path trains would be added to get ferries across the hudson river. However, the services do not train riders. It would be to find another way to get into manhattan. If your neighborhood is well lit at night, it could be the reason youre not sleeping well. University researchers, people will be more likely to sleepless than theyre more likely to suffer from from low light exposure. The yankees start the season without chapman. He was suspended 30 days for violating Major League Baseballs new Domestic Violence policy. Hes not facing criminal charges. He admitted to firing a gun eight times in his garage. This is during a domestic dispute. Chapman accepting his discipline. He will not appeal. He can pitch, though in spring training games. President obama makes a historic visit to cuba later this month. He could root for a home team. He will attend the exhibition baseball game between tampa bay and the Cuban National team on march 22nd in havana. Just two days later, the cuban people find out its only rocknroll. The Rolling Stones will play a free outdoor concert in havana. It is their first performance in cuba. In a country where fidel castro cracked down on rock music in the 1960s. Possible glimmer of hope for atlantic city. On top of the former rebel casino shining bright once again. The white ball glowed for the first time. The casino closed that was nearly a year and a half ago. What they call the property under a new name scheduled for midjune. A new casino is possible if the permits are ready. Residents are hoping it brings more jobs to the area. Today, preservation is looked to save a bronx landmark. The Gould Library of Bronx Community college. Its home to the hall of fame of great americans. Since the 1960s, the old nyu library suffered fire and water damage. Today in new yorks preservationist league will add it to their seven to save list. Theyre going to call for a massive restoration project. Successful. Its so important. People that work hard at preserving things important to our history. Its coming up on 5 00 a. M. Take us with you as you head out the door. Keep watching today in new york on your mobile device. Our next hour starts right now. Super tuesday winners. This morning, the frontrunner for adding to their lead in the race for president. Plus, a packed house in paterson where City Employees turned out to voice their frustration over the money crisis. Right now, a troubled cruise ship thats run into rough seas before is about to return early once again. Today in new york start now. Good morning. 5 00 a. M. On this wednesday, march 2nd. Im michael gargiulo. Im darlene rodriguez. Storm team 4s chris cimino here with the forecast. Good morning. Its a mild start but a damp start to temperatures across the northwestern suburbs. Delaware water gap at 50. Belvidere same thing. In the city at 54. One
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