You. Not only a new toy for us at the Weather Center and how it will help you at home and give you information that you need to know. Its a unique thing. Its exciting. Well talk more about that through the morning. Weather not all that exciting. 74 in jersey city. Tenafly, 69. In the city, 75 degrees. A lot of 60s. A fairly comfortable morning. A mix of sun and clos 83 by lunch time. Upper 80s by the end of the day. Lets see where the trouble spots are on this friday morning. Heres lauren. We have a trouble spot out there. Heading over to the long island expressway in queens, all lanes are shut down with an accident in the westbound lanes between maurice avenue and the bqe. Heading in closer here. I turned off the traffic flow so you can see the roads. Youll have to get off at the maurice avenue exit and take the service road towards the become this accident and avoid it. Dont go to side streets, take the l. I. E. Happening now, firefighters still on the scene of a Staten Island fire that injured more than 20 people, damaged several homes, Tracie Strahan is at the scene with the latest. When you see this video, you cant believe how quickly this fire spread and how serious it was. Reporter it did take time to get things under we want to show you the aftermath of all of this on benzinger avenue. These homes charred by flames. A couple collapsed. As officials try to pinpoint all this, they may be looking at the home with the heaviest damage. This fire burned from one home to the next burning seven of them. Two of those homes collapsed. Flames so intense it burnt the siding on several homes. I keep thanking god that everyone is okay. Reporter fire marshals will return to the scene, but records on the citys Building Department website shows an active complaint against one of the homes saying it didnt have a permit for being performed on the second floor. It even said in the complaint if they continue, the crew could electrocute themselves and they deemed this site to be unsafe. 21 people were injured as a result. Everyone expected to be okay. That also included 19 firefighters, because of the intense heat outside and what they were up against, they were heat related injuries. Back to you. You can see how that would happen. Thank you very much. Police have just released video of a plan wanted for queens. They say this man walked up to a 14yearold near astoria boulevard and 44th street and punched him in the face, stole the boys iphone and 7. Jen maxfield will have a live report coming up at 5 30. 5 04. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Chris, good morning. Good morning. Not a bad finish to the work week. Temperatures starting out in the 60s in the northwestern suburbs. High point, 65. Madiso towards the city we hold on to the heat more, at 75 in central park. Right now most of long island is low 70s, except out in the pine barrens. Westhampton down to 73. Clouds may gather long enough this afternoon to produce a shower or thunderstorm the mid to Late Afternoon. Still only a 20 , 30 chance of that with temperatures in the look at your weekend forecast coming up. Now a look at the commuted from lauren. Theres a fallen tree on the sawmill after jackson avenue. Thats in the right lane. Its slowing down as you make your way through the area. Head over to the thruway or 9a. Thats doing better. Heading over to the rails, major commuter lines, subways, all that overnight track work is wrapped up. Everything at the moment is running without a delay or service change. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. Well have m w traffic coming up on the 4s. Thank you very much. We just got new information about the scandal surrounding four u. S. Swimmers. They claimed they were robbed at gun point in rio. Police say its all a lie. Weve just learned one of the athletes reached an agreement with authorities there. Kerry barrett is in our newsroom with the new information. Whats happening . Darlene this came in a couple minutes ago. Jimmy feigen made a statement to a rio judge and agreed to pay 10,000 to a brazilian charity. His passport back and his part in this case will be considered closed. Not the case for ryan lochte, negative sentiment here in the United States is growing. Look at what we just saw on the cover of the New York Post. Liar liar speedo on fire. Rather than being the victims, it was ryan lochte and three other teammates that were actually the ones causing trouble on the night they claimed they were robbed at gun point. The pol c accounts and Surveillance Video confirmed the four vandalized a bathroom at the gas station. The athletes told officials and Media Outlets including the today show that they were robbed at gun point and had their wallets stolen. As they returned to the olympic village, close to three hours later than they claimed, Surveillance Video shows them pulling out their wallets to yesterday the u. S. Eoc said they stopped at a gas station where one of the athletes committed an act of vandalism. An argument ensued between the athletes and two Armed Security gas station security staff who displayed their weapons ord othered the athletes from their vehicle and demanded the athletes to pay the money. Once the Security Officials received money, the athletes were allowed to leave. The behavior of these athletes is not acceptable. We apologize to other hosts in rio and the people of brazil. The four paid 50 to the guards before they left. The rio police chief said he will look in as to guards overstepped their bounds, but the fbi is looking at this investigation as well. As far as the charges go the three swimmers now could face charges of false testimony and vandalism, those charges face up to six months in jail. All right, Kerry Barrett, thank you. Today in rio the u. S. And spain mix it up in the mens basketball semifinals. And usain bolt looks for his competition in the 200 meter winning his Third Straight gold medal. He has eight career golds. American ashton eaton is once again the worlds greatest athlete. He won his second straight gold medal in the decathlon. A queens girl is making history in her first ever olympics. Dalilah muhammad from jamaica queens captured americas first ever gold in the hurdles. Denmark took the silver, another american, Ashley Spencer won the bronze. Was a celebration in muhammads hometown. They watched her make history. [ cheers ] getting a little excited. Thats her family, friends and coaches roars with excitement as she crossed the finish line. She set records in hurdling at then left home to attend college at usc. Its beautiful. Thats what she told us a year ago. She said i know i can beat the olympics. I know i can get the gold. She did it. Mayor deblasio was keeping an eye on the race and tweeted deliliah did it. Nycs pantheon of heroes just gained a new member. Check out nbcnewyork. Com for the four to watch today. Highlights include Jordan Burroughs going for gold in freestyle wrestling. Read up on the athletes, get highlights and details on the mustsee matchups ahead. A multimillion dollar plan to transform the ohika castle may get scrapped. The castles owner has been in talks with Jack Nicklaus and a developer but news day said the talks have stalled. They had planned to turn oheka castle into a clubhouse for the course. After a tour of flood ravaged southern louisiana, the u. S. Homeland security secretary is pledging full support from the federal government. Jay johnson says more than 900 Emergency Personnel are on the ground there. At least 13 people have died in the flooding. Johnson said president obama is getting daily briefings on the floods. Hes on vacation in new england right now. Many are calling for him to cut his vacation short and visit louisiana. Gop president ial nominee mate governor mike pence of indiana will go to louisiana today. At a rally in North Carolina yesterday, trump made it clear hes taking advice from his new Campaign Team and offered a vague apology for some recent statements. You dont choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that and believe it or not, i regret it. For lying about her illegal email server. Secretary clinton was in new york giving police and africanamerican groups some advice. Everyone is safer when there is respect for the law. And when everyone is respected by the law. Clinton met with eight Law Enforcement leaders yesterday, reaffirming her support for police. The Clinton Foundation will put donations if Hillary Clinton becomes president. Nbc news has confirmed it will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if she wins. The foundation will only accept from american citizens and independent charities. Critics questioned whether donations were met with government favors while clinton was secretary of state. The uber rides that are getting people from point a to point b even though theres nobody behind the wheel. And just ahead a closer look for all of us when a storm is heading our way. Youre watching today in new time for weather and traffic on the 4s we had an accident on the long island expressway shutting down all lanes westbound in queens. We do have some lanes getting by now. Heres a live look at that area. Earlier this was all stopped. Youll have to take the service road around it. Thats great news for queens commuters. Heading over to hamilton avenue, this is an overturned truck southbound, bin at least if youre coming out of the battery tunnel, you need to get on the bqe, thats fine. The ramp getting on to it. The best news for ferry commuters, seastreak we had Service Changes all week long. Everything is expected to be on its regular route and schedule. If youre taking the ferries, youre in for a nice ride. Back to you. Thank you very much. We have some exciting news. Theres a new force, a new member on storm team 4. Its storm ranger 4. There in jacob reese park. Its a Doppler Radar on wheels. It gives us unprecedented access to any storm. No one in the broadcast business has anything like this. Chris shows us what it can do. Storm ranger 4 is not just a truck, its next generation weather technology. We built it and no one else has it we can drive it anywhere to get closer to the storm and give you a closer look at whats coming. If theres weather, you may see storm neighborhood. Here in the studio well show you what its seeing. Its marked by that red radar sweep. The reach is 75 miles all around wherever we take it. Now traditional radars, again, beam way into the upper levels of the atmosphere. Storm ranger 4s radar beams into the lower levels of the atmosphere, about 4,000 feet. This is the part of the atmosphere where most of the unstable and Severe Weather can take place. Close to the ground. With the predictions pinpointing the downpours and flash flooding or the rain snow line. Up until now weve been depending on a handful of radars. You can see them on this map. Storm radar 4 will compliment the coverage. Lets say we want to send storm range 4er to rye. It will not only help us get Important Information about weather in rye but whats communities, like yonkers, tenafly. This thick red line is 30 miles out. This is just the beginning for storm ranger 4. A first of its kind here in new york and everywhere. Well be sending it all across our area in collaboration with telemundo 47. Right now theres a live look at storm ranger 4 out at jacob reese park in the rockaways. Theres not a lot of weather on board with this radar is amazing. We control it. The old standard radars that exist today, you have to wait for the storms to come to them. With storm ranger 4 we take the radar to the storm. We can get to it quicker and find out if theres severe dangerous weather approaching. This is something we will talk about. Erica grow will give us an upclose look at the truck. Right now its quiet. Thats good w later this afternoon we could see a shower or tomorrow pop up. Most of us are rain free today. Sunday is the soggier day this weekend. More numerous showers and thunderstorms. Beautiful weather by next week. This morning, temperatures in the 70s. 60s north and west. Expect a High Temperature of 87 in town. Most folks in the 80s. Light breeze out of the north. Isolated thundershower. Heres the tenday forecast. Looking at 85 on saturday. 84 on sunday. Look at what happens comes monday, tuesday, wednesday. Temperatures in the low 80s. Nighttime lows in the 60s. We can open up the windows, it stays nice through the end of next week. Temperatures in the middle 80s. You talk about the accuracy, when winter comes and you predict snow but some people we can see the transition process, because it can look into the lower 4,000 feet of the atmosphere, you can see that transition going from snow to rain or sometimes the opposite. Well be ahead of that transition for different areas. So important. It really is. Were excited. Not excited for the snow but excited well know more about it. Lets not think about snow yet. Perfect. After nearly 14 years online, the site is expected to shut down operations next week. The announcement comes two days after univision purchased gawker media for 135 million. Gawker media lost an invasion of privacy suit filed by hulk hogan. He was awarded 140 million. Gawker went into bankruptcy protection after the verdict. 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Louis, mississippi the agency hopes the engine will power the orion spacecraft. Nasa wants to launch a Human Mission to mars in 2030. Matt damon will do that. He will sign up. No, it will go much better than that. Didnt go so great when he did it. A bit of a challenge. Crazy. The orion spacecraft, the mock up is not that much bigger than apollo. Apollo they were in for six, seven days. A bit longer to mars. A big commitment. Back on planet earth, the weather picture is nice. There could be an isolated shower or thundershower in some spots. For the most part a decent day. Temperatures in the upper 80s. Humidity levels moderate. Tonight, a nice looking evening. Low temra weekend outlook, a couple showers will roll in later saturday, saturday afternoon, towards the evening hours. 85. Sunday, more numerous showers and thunderstorms. At night could be heavier ones. That will transition us into a beautiful stretch of weather next week. Love it. Thank you very much. Good morning. Not many problems on the roads right now. There is a downed tree on the spring brook parkway southbound by jackson avenue. That blocks the right lane. A look at the George Washington bridge, things are moving along nicely into the tolls. No construction getting in your way. The lincoln tunnel and holland tunnel are free and clear. Can i give good commuting news. Metronorth riders in connecticut will have an easier way to buy tickets with the mtas etick app. You can buy your tickets on your smartphones starting next week, august 22nd. Once you get eticket to the conductor. Governor malloy calling this another step forward in Customer Service and convenience. Im all about the digital tickets. Makes life so much easier. I lose it every time. I dont know what pocket. 5 26. Coming up next, how two wouldbe robbers got away even after the victims trapped them inside the im jen maxfield live from the scene in astoria. A live report coming keep watching today in new york. Download the news 4 new york app on your mobile device right now. For the road. For the ride. For the early mornings. Long days. And late nights. For the love. . . The massive fire that tore through several homes that left assaulted a teen is free in queens. And thats storm ranger 4. Today in new york starts now. Its a cool machine. Well be talking about that throughout the morning. Absolutely. Im darlene rodriguez. Im michael gargiulo. Storm team 4s c c 4 and all it can do. Well do that throughout the morning. Erica grow is out there this morning. The truck at Jacob Riis Park. All is quiet right now. This morning temperatures in the low to mid 70s around the city. 60s in the suburbs. Upper 60s for the nearby suburbs, low to mid 60s the further north and west you go. Day planner, plan on sunshine mi