Verrazano, head to the lower level to avoid this. On the Grand Central parkway, this is eastbound out by clear vie two lanes remain closed. Stick to the expressway. Breaking news in Staten Island, thats where police say a man was found dead near the Ferry Terminal. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in st. George with what we know now. Reporter were watching the investigation officers and detectives with flash flights are going down the ramp between the st. George terminal and the baseball park. Thats where they found the body of a man believed to be in his 30s on a park bench. Well show you some video of this investigation which started just before 2 00 this morning. Thats when officers received a 911 call about someone on the bench. When they arrived, they found the victim stabbed multiple times in the torso. He was pronounced dead added scene. Here, but they also dont know who could have done Something Like this. That is part of the investigation. This is also near a correct shun site. A lot of people showing up for this project on the st. George terminal have been kept away as the investigation continues. Back to you. Thank you. Firefighters are still putting out hot spots at a factory fire in queens that fire erupted around 7 00 p. M. Last night inside the mill work sunnyside. The intense flames fueled by wood and paint thinners destroyed the factory. Firefighters were able to save three neighboring businesses without injuries. Theres no word on what sparked the flames. Lori bordonaro will have reaction at 5 30. Police are looking for clues that will lead them to the person who killed a jog ner queens. The body of 30yearold karina beach yesterday. She was strangled. Hundreds of people remembered her at a candlelight vigil last night. Police do not know if she was targeted by her killer or if she was the victim of a random attack. The lawyer for a suspected burglar who was shot by police in queens say it was an unjustiiable use of force. Theo peres was arraigned last night. He was caught on surla when officers got there, peres got into a scuffle over a gun, and he was shot in the groin. His lawyer said he should not have been shot. You dont shoot somebody who is unarmed. You dont. Theres other ways of doing it. Police say peres is a career burglar who has targeted homes in brooklyn and queens. Right now were getting an says it is weakening as it moves inland. Winds are barely at hurricane force. Just 75 Miles Per Hour at this point. Just hours ago, it came ashore in the Central American country of belize. Earl is expected to dump up to a foot of rain as it moves towards the yucatan peninsula. 5 04. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s that storm seems to be breaking down. As it moves on winds will diminish, but it will rain itself out it stays well to the south of the u. S. Mainland. For us, High Pressure in charge. Another Beautiful Day ahead. Cooler tonight. In the 60s in the city. 50s in the suburbs. Stickier tomorrow, but a dry day. On saturday, the next chance for showers and thunderstorms. Right now, a pleasant room winds are calm. Mostly clear sky in central park. Up to 78 by noon. 82 by 3 00. That should be the high for the day with a mix of clouds and sunshine. Tenday forecast coming up in a bit. Heres lauren with the commute. All the subway track work has wrapped up. We have slowdowns on the roads. The bronx, southbound on the bruckner out by country club road there is an accident shutting down two lanes. Delays back to pelham parkway. Move over to the hutch to avoid this. On the cross bronx expressway eastbound, ongoing overnight road work. By webster avenue, two lanes are closed. Delays are not yet back to the Alexander Hamilton bridge. Still a slow ride. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thank you very much. The world is turning its attention to brazil. A day ahead of opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games in rio. Team usa made the trip and so us now as we start our olympic coverage. Great to see through from rio de janeiro. Michael, darlene, good morning from rio. Good to see you as well. What a trip it is. The mayor has declared a citywide holiday here today. The torch will tour rio. The city, this olympic park already on fire, ready for the games to begin. Reporter rio is for the most crews are putting a few finishing touches on the venues. While the olympic celebration has already started in the city. Team usa is on the ground in rio and getting settled into the athletes village joining 18,000 competitors from around the globe. I think overall our team is so strong, its incredibility to be a part of the team. Reporter even before the Opening Ceremony and workouts, the intensity of the olympics. The energy almost punches you in the face. Reporter all working towards the same goal, olympic gold. Probably no big surprise here, but the man with the most metals, the most golds in olympic history, the standard bearer for olympic athletes, Michael Phelps will be the flag bearer for team usa in the Opening Ceremony. Thats the latest live from rio. Back to you. You can see how excited all the olympians are. Do you feel like a lot of their concerns have sort of been assuaged . Going up, leading up to getting there, there were so many concerns about the environment and the water and the rooms. Thats a good point. When you talk to some of those who will compete in that water, theyre concerned about that. Theyre concerned about what is in the water and how theyll get through that. The excitement of being here and representing their country seems to be outweighing this. Theres been security across the area. Everywhere you go you see strong security, whether its police or national guard, Brazilian National guard. Everybody feels safe. While there are concerns about the water, the athletes say theyre ready to go. I bet they are. Jay, great to see you. 2016 Olympic Games. It begins friday at 7 30. Opening ceremony from rio de janeiro. I can watch it here. Follow the games on the go by downloading the nbc 4 new york app. Were learning what new sports will be added when the olympics are held in tokyo in four years. The International Olympic committee announced competition in sports climbing, skateboarding, surfing and karate will be held. Back. Baseball and softball. New this morning, were getting a better look at a pair of credit card thieves with nearly 60 victims. Look at the couple police are looking for. Police say the two made purchases of more than 30,000 with stolen credit card numbers. All the purchases made in East New York and brownsville, brooklyn. About 2300 trump taj mahal employees in Atlantic City are the casino is expected to close after labor day. Nearly half of its employees have been on strike demanding health and pension benefits. Carl icahn purchased the final shares of the business from drum in february. Icahn claims he lost nearly 10 0 million on his takeover. Theres a new ad campaign trying to convince new jersey voters to expand casino gambling in new jersey and say the money new york and pennsylvania have stolen billions of our gaming revenue, robbing us of dollars to Fund Programs like meals on wheels and the property tax freeze. New jersey voters will decide on an amendment that will be on the ballot in november it proposes two new casinos in north jersey. Former reebok and Meadowlands Racetrack operator are backing the our turn nj ads. They each propose building the new venues. Still ahead, new information ab minutes correspondent. Lawyers say one crucial piece of evidence is missing. Plus weather and traffic on the 4s coming up. Youre watching today in new fios is not cable. Were wired differently. N can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Theres one place where americas pastime is preserved for all time. . . G you can only find in new york state. . . Discover something one of a kind in new york. . . New york. Its all here. Its only here. 5 13. Heres four things to know. Were following breaking news on Staten Island. A man was found stabbed to death Ferry Terminal. More coming up in an hour. The zika related travel advisory in miami could last as long as a year. Cdc Officials Say the advisory will depend on how quickly the local officials can get the mosquito situation under control. Clinics across new york city are offering free or reduced cost hiv and std screening for anyone ages 12 and older. You can visit any one of the Health Departments eight clinics to get tested without insurance, appointments or parental consent. In new jersey two beaches are off limits due to concerns beechwood beach west and west beach are closed as of now. Waters there exceeded safe bacteria limits. 5 14. Were talking about temperatures again this afternoon heading to seasonable levels but comfortable levels of humidity making it nice to be outside. A brought and refreshing morning. A lot of 50s in the suburbs. Sunshine throughout the day today. Cool and comfortable one more tomorrow. Looking at hurricane earl becoming a Tropical Storm shortly. Still a category 1 storm. Made landfall in belize. Moves inland. So winds down from 80 to 75 Miles Per Hour. This storm will rain itself out through central mark and the Central Coast the north coast, and then the southern end of mexico, becoming extra tropical here. There could be Flooding Issues when you have bring in a tropical system, you can rain that thing out. For us, no problem. 61 in newberg. Same thing in white plains. Lots of 50s showing up in monticello, sussex, bridgewater. Danbury at 55. Montauk down to 57. Its another refreshing nice day out there with sunshine. A few fair weather clouds dotting the sky. High temperature close to where it should be this time of year. 82. Mainly clear. Another good night for sleeping. West. Tomorrow, more humidity. Bumping up the temperature to 84. Not a bad finish to the work week. Discomfort level goes up by the end of the day with more humidity. Time game of this subway series, maybe the mets can get even. Looks nice. First pitch temperature, 76 at the stadium. No weather worries. Going into the weekend, a cold front will approach. Out ahead of it, a southerly flow will enhance the chance for showers. 80s. Behind the front, humidity drops into sunday. In the tenday forecast, once we get by that shower threat on saturday, good stretch of days. Sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, all featuring sunshine, in the 80s. Upper 80s, flirting with the 90s. Lets see if theres any problems on the roads. Couple things out there. An accident on the bruckner, heading southbound out by blocks two lanes. Delays back to pelham parkway. If you want to head over to the hutch, thats a better option. On the verrazano bridge, brooklyn bound upper level two lanes are blocked. Stick to the lower level. As far as the Brooklyn Bridge goes, everything looking good right now. A while ago the manhattan side of the span was backed up. Still some construction out there. Getting on the rails, all good news, Jersey Transit and p. A. T. H. Are operating without delays or service changes. Next weather and traffic on the 4s. Now to decision 2016 mounting pressure for donald trump to tone down his campaign and for the Obama Administration to explain cash overnighted to iran. Tracie potts is following it all for us this morning. What a day yesterday. That cash to Hillary Clinton, even though it happened years after she left office. But republicans are at least happy thats that hes focusing on her and not on them. The love in that room was so incredibility. Reporter donald trump praising military families after publicly criticizing one. Today veterans in washington will pressure republicans to denounce him. Theres nothing he will reporter the Republican Party may intervene. They want him focusing on Hillary Clinton. Trump claims she initiated a payment of 400 million to iran the same day as hostages were released. As far as i know it was not because of a hostage swap or any other titfortat. It happened years after was for a canceled contract, not ran some. Team trump is not buying it. Hillary clinton and barack obama put a price tag on the head of every americans traveling abroad. Reporter clinton is focusing on trumps businesses. I would like him to explain why he paid Chinese Workers to make trump business in vegas today. Actually her lead has widened over donald trump just in the last 24 hours. Theres a new fox poll out, she has a 10point lead in the latest one. People are looking at that, and that caused some of the consternation that happened yesterday. Reporter a key piece of evidence has gone missing from the car that killed 60 minutes backseat is missing from the town car. His widow followed a wrongful death suit against the company and its driver. The company argued simon was responsible for his own death because he was not wearing a seat belt at the time. Were told kris jenner is doing well despite a scary car accident. She was cut off by the driver of a prius. Apparently it happened at a california freeway hit. Jenner and the other driver were treated at the scene. President obama turns 55 today, but he has a busy morning of important business before birthday celebrations. He will meet with his National Security team at the pentagon. He will also talk about how to protect the election process from cybersecurity risks. . Happy birthday . The president did get to hear happy birthday a day early, nearly 1,000 participants of the Young AfricanLeaders Initiative broke out in song during an event in washington, d. C. Yesterday. The president has not said how he plans to celebrate what will be his final birthday at the white house. I got the latest. Going to chuck e. Cheese and then the bouncy castle at the white house. Little bouncy white house. Still friends going viral on social media. Something healthy for you so you can stay in shape. Looking good and all that. The teen who won over wild animals and touched hearts across the country. Youre watching today in new . Welcome back. A pennsylvania teen has some new friends who are hangi his backyard. Its that good, man. Im telling you. Truth me. Here you go. Ill roll it to you. Its that good. Eat that. Eat that. Kelvin pena spotted one deer in his yard, and called it money. After that, he noticed the number of visitors increased. He started naming them all, theres baby, tequila. He reports himself feeding the some even eat strawberries out of his hand. I have a lot of deer where i live. I have never seen one of them consider getting that close. The deer whisperer. I couldnt. I would likely not be. Probably not. I think im were all spooked by them. Theyre really afraid of people. That was interesting to see. Kelvin has the touch. I think when you get called tequila, youll come. Thats the key. Ye he has it going. We have it going weatherwise. Nice day. Temperatures in the low 80s this afternoon. Starting out comfortable. Temperatures in the 50s in the suburbs. 60s in town. 82 the expected high. Lots of sunshine around. Tonight, 67 in the city. 50s in the suburbs. Friday will be fine. Just more humid. Saturday, thats our next chance of scattered showers. Thats the day that runs the risk of some rain. Not a washout of a day. Humidity, Beautiful Day on sunday for beach, picnic, cot, anything. Hammock. There you go. Lets check in with tequila scala. How did you know . We know. Lets talk about the buses. A bunch of detours. 1 of them for the city. Otherwise everything rolling along nicely. A live look at the George Washington bridge, just a while ago on the outbound upper level, disabled vehicle. Thats cleared, but some delays on the inbound upper level span. That may be due to the road work on the cross bronx expressway. Ill check in on that. Still ahead, the burglars caught on camera in queens. Police say they didnt get in through the door. And an Early Morning mystery investigation into the body found near the Ferry Terminal. Keep watching today in new york. Download the news 4 new york app fios is not cable. Were wired differently, which means we can fix things differently. Thanks for calling fios. This is ryan. You cant tell me this cord isnt in. I know its in. Its in, but its not working. Im sending you a link to the my fios app that going to let me see what youre seeing. Really . Yes, mr. Mcenroe. See that cord . Just plug it into the connector on the right. So you can clearly see whats in and whats out . I like that. Tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. Breaking news, island Ferry Terminal. And the raging fire that consumed a factory in queens and left four firefighters hurt. And hurricane earl makes landfall and is battering belize right now. Today in new york starts now. Good morning. Thursday morning. Its august 4th. Im darlene rodriguez. Im Michael Gargiulo. Storm team 4s chris cimino is here with a look at todays weather headlines. The headline could be nice like yesterday morning. 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