happy they're here. >> i was born and raised in brooklyn. this is what i know. this is what i love. >> reporter: a few days later, glad to see them go. >> i hate it. i don't want anything to do with it. i was happy we had snow opchristmas, but no. i'm done. >> reporter: doug is far from done with the cold temperatures. inside his shop here, the shelves may be full of winter gear but he's not worried. he's only slashed some prices by 10%. other retailers nervous about slow sales are offering 75% off. but doug believes there's still a lot of winter left that this is just a taste of things to come for the rest of this month, in february, and in march. >> i feel the magic number is three days of cold in a row. and people finally realize oh, my god, winter is here. i need a jacket. i need a coat. i need a hat. >> for some that realization >> where is your coat? >> reporter: others have given in to mother nature, at least for now. >> do you worry bringing him out in the weather? >> no, i don't. i have him all wrapped up. >> she did. she had a 2-and-a-half month old in the carriage and he cover also bring in your pets and check on any seniors. the brooklyn ice cream factory, it's packed in there. they're not selling too much ice cream. number one thing, hot chocolate. kemberly richardson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> makes sense, that girl without a coat needs a hot chocolate for sure. the freezing temperatures will be dangerous for the homeless in our area. governor cuomo has a new plan forcing cities to move the homeless in to shelters when temperatures are below freezing. that plan isn't sitting well with everyone. reporter dave evans has more. tom coughlin is stepping down after 12 years as head coach. new at 5:00, we hear from players who cleaned out their lockers today. some of them very emotional. sports anchor rob powers is in the news room with coughlin's leaving. >> bringing an end to his time with the giants and opening up one of the biggest jobs in the nfl. 12 seasons with the giants, 102 wins. five playoff appearances. three division titles. two super bowl titles. the giants haven't made a postseason appearance since they won that last super bowl. three straight losing seasons. this season ended yesterday at the meadowlands, a loss to the eagles, bringing the concern down on another rough one. the curtain comes down with coughlin's time in big blue as well. he wrote i think it's been evident these last 12 years how much pride i take in representing the franchise. gratified and proud we were able to deliver two more lombardi trophies to the display case in our lobby during that time. now, the locker room. >> had a good run. could have been better obviously, but i appreciate everything he's done for me. >> brings it every day. if you look at him, he could have that type of passion and that type of dedication to the game, you feel guilty if you're not bringing that type of energy when you're half his age. >> so the changes have started. this is known as black monday in the nfl, when coaching changes are made. the giants do make theirs. tom coughlin moves on. as he state d today, this is not a sad occasion for me. we'll hear from giant fans on eyewitness news at 6:00. more from the locker room and what ownership had to say. we're following another developing story, this one on wall street where it was a bad day for the markets. u.s. stocks dropped giving the dow its worst start to a year since 2008. the nasdaq along with s&p over fears of a global slowdown. eyewitness news reporter shirleen allicot in lower manhattan. >> what a way to start a year. definitely a rough ride on the markets. you'll see red all across the board. the dow was down 276 points, ending at 17,148. nasdaq down 104. s&p 500 down 31 points. thankfully this is nothing like the numbers we saw earlier today. >> reporter: at one point the index fell more than 450 points. this followed an equally rough day on the foreign markets. investors spooked when china's shanghai composite index fell. saudi arabia announcing it's severing diplomatic relations with iran, which could threaten oil supplies. analyst ramirez says the year ahead is not gloom and doom. >> the reality is the u.s. economy is kind of chugging along. it's not in as bad shape as what the market indicated the last few days. i think we should focus on fundamentally what's going on in the u.s. economy, and that outlook i think for 2016 is still a very positive one. >> ramirez says in terms of your investments, like your 401k, she says leave them alone. the key is not to panic and make any knee jerk reactions. she also believes oil prices will continue to stabilize even with all the unrest in the middle east. so there is still a silver lining. we're going to keep an eye on it for you. reporting live from lower manhattan, shirleen allicot, channel 7 eyewitness news. police right now searching for the man who stabbed and killed a worker at a mcdonald's restaurant this morning. this happened when the worker asked the man to leave the restaurant. restaurant for eight hours. the restaurant is on 236th street. sandra bookman with more on the investigation. >> just about 15, 20 minutes ago the crime scene van rolled out of here. investigators rolled up the crime scene tape. mcdonald's not quite open but they have wrapped up their they spent most of the day onsite. they were interviewing witnesses, looking for evidence, collecting evidence, and also looking at security camera video. tonight it appears investigators know who they are looking for. >> when i tell my mom, oh, man. oh, my gosh. >> reporter: a heartbreaking loss, the senseless murder of lifelong friend adam garcia. >> a beautiful person with everybody. one of the most >> reporter: garcia was the overnight manager in this mcdonald's in the kingsbridge section of the bronx. at about 4:30 as he was leaving work for the day, garcia asked a man who had been there for hours to lever as well. it was in the parking lot where the fatal confrontation took place. >> a person looked out the window and saw the two arguing. out of the view of the witness, he is stabbed in the back and then stabbed in the chest. >> reporter: garcia managed to make it back in to the restaurant and was rushed to the his assailant, a man described by locals as homeless and a familiar face around here, fled. >> i'm surprised that it led to someone actually dying but as i'm surprised that's the first. >> reporter: this woman did not want us to show her face but said aggressive panhandlers who appear to be homeless as well have long been an intimidating though it sits yards from the 50th precinct. meanwhile, a cousin who answered adam garcia's department described him as a family man, a loving son and father. >> he always worked hard, tried his very best in everything and it's such a loss for the family right now. >> back live now in the kingsbridge section, investigators are not saying exactly what may have led up to that violence. they do tell us tonight that there were officers in the homeless outreach unit that were out today looking for the man in question. they believe they've got surveillance video of him which they say they are hoping to release shortly. live tonight in the kingsbridge section of the bronx, sandra bookman, channel 7 eyewitness news. a 15-year-old girl is now charged with the murder of her mother and her mother's boyfriend in brooklyn. 15-year-old destiny garcia is being charged as an adult. bodies of 39-year-old rose sanchez and her boyfriend were discovered yesterday in an apartment in the sheepshead bay section a week after they were stabbed and shot. investigators say garcia confessed, telling abusive to her. new at 5:00, tonight we're hearing from the young woman from our area who was carjacked her daring escape was caught on camera. she said she knew she had to do something if she wanted to live. >> i felt like the whole world got lifted off my shoulders. >> reporter: it's a feeling brett stevenson will never forget. his daughter rachel calling home minutes after she escaped a carjacking in eastern pennsylvania. this is surveillance video from the service station where she made her getaway. running from the car, seconds before the car jacker takes off. brett will never forget what he told her. >> just that i love her. that she was >> reporter: rachel stevenson was returning from greenpoint, long island to graduate school at suni binghamton. >> she described grabbing her kittens and he grabbed her and told her she was going for the ride with him. >> reporter: rachel told us by phone that she struggled for two hours to keep calm. >> several times i said i can get out right now, i won't call the police, you can keep my phone. i won't say anything. he said no , you're my hostage. they won't shoot a young black kid in the car if there's a pretty white girl in the passenger seat. >> reporter: when they stopped for gas she made a break for it. >> i knew as soon as he let me out of the car i was going to run. >> reporter: he was arrested after a high speed chase. >> it was the worst time of my whole life. two hours of sheer panic because i'm 200 miles away from where she was. >> reporter: happened last >> the thought of getting in my car, even just thinking about it now, it's really hard. if someone had asked me a month ago what i would have done if i was in this sort of situation, i honestly think i would have said that i would be sobbing in the front seat the whole time. >> reporter: in greenport, long island, n.j. burkett, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> what a story. president obama is defending his plan to tighten gun control without going through congress. he met this afternoon with administration officials to discuss executive actions that he can take to curb gun violence. afterwards he offered few details about the recommendations he's received. but he did say that the steps he will take are well within his right. he's expected to order the expansion of background checks. buses vandalized, school canceled. coming up, our first look at the damage left behind and why officials made the decision to call off classes for the day. >> parents from our area their kids when they went to a casino. >> plus, a concert for dogs in times square tonight. we have new video showing you vandals damaging school buses. the damage so bad and involved so many buses, officials canceled school for the day. eyewitness news reporter joe torres has more on the damage and the cleanup. >> reporter: instead of driving kids to and from school, bus company workers spent today repairing windshields and replacing tires. vandals damaged about half of the district's 60 buses and that forced administrators to canceled classes for 3200 students. >> there's also an additional students to private and other schools . it had a big impact. >> reporter: only a handful of administrators reported to schools. they learned about the damage 6:15 this morning. they quickly sent an e-mail alert to parents. >> if i would have been at work today it would have been very 90 to find childcare coverage. >> reporter: the buses haven't been used for quite some time thanks to the winter break, but investigators are confident the vandalism happened last night. about 11:00 last night. how did they know that? cameras. >> right now it's several counts of criminal mischief. obviously will be felony charges based on the amount of damage done to the buses and the cost to repair the buses. >> reporter: today would have been the first day of classes this year. 6th grader jasmine harris just transferred to the district from hartsdale. >> i was so pumped about going here. >> reporter: that's the plan for everyone according to district leaders who say all the repairs should be wrapped up sometime tonight. joe torres, channel 7 eyewitness news. police in the bronx are investigating a deadly car crash. a 31-year-old man was killed when he lost control and slammed in to a row of parked cars. this happened on bronx wood avenue in williamsbridge. a 21-year-old woman who was also in the car was taken to the hospital. she's expected to survive. police have not released the names of the victims. the knicks player who was shot outside of a queens nightclub is out of the hospital, reserve forward today. he was shot in the knee during a robbery last week. the injury does not require surgery but there's no timetable for his return to the court. still though teammate carmelo anthony says early is in good spirits. the mississippi river near st. louis. while the swollen river is receding in some areas, communities along the lower portion of the mississippi are bracing for more high water. home and business owners are using sandbags to protect their property while the national guard is helping to fortify the riverbanks. >> getting colder there and may take several weeks for it totally crest in places. >> colder there, colder here. doubt about it. >> take 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in the 7-day forecast. by then we'll be in the mid and upper 40s. right now, 7 degrees in monticello. 21, islip. 23 in the park. 12 below the new wind chill reading at monticello. 17, montauk. subzero wind chills outside the city tonight. 24, 7:00. wind gusts first part of the night. backing off but still brisk tomorrow morning. zero. less wind, not as harsh during the afternoon hours. you'll need the sunglasses as well. i've had flurries and snow showers on the east end that's pushing offshore. clouds to the east tonight, otherwise most places clear out. it's all about this gusty wind. that's where it's in the single digits. our lows tonight drop down to 4 in monticello. 18 in islip and barely up to 30 in the afternoon hours. less wind and a lot of sunshine. bright but cold tomorrow. this high spreads out, lightens our winds by wednesday. 40, maybe 42 degrees. lots of sunshine. the warming continue s late week. it's bitter cold tonight. down to 14. coldest air since early march. very 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[ laughter ] >> pretty cool. i guess it's can hear. outside we go. we have what is a mainly clear night. very chilly. there's the skating rink in central struggling to keep it frozen. now we have the freezing temperatures and the ski areas must be thrilled. northeast wind, 12 to 22. maybe get natural snow next week. through tomorrow is our first arctic cold shot here and then temperatures will moderate during the middle of the week. but tonight, look at these numbers dropping in to the teens by 11:00. how about a northern suburb like newtown, connecticut dropping to 10 by midnight with a couple patchy clouds and with the wind, subzero wind chills. here's the futurecast during your evening hours, dress for teens. flurries over the east end may continue from montauk to block island. those will continue to sea. by 8:00 tomorrow morning, how about 11 degrees in newburg. 19, belmar. 10 in sussex. during the afternoon hours we barely get to that 30-degree mark and feels like we're in the low and mid 20s. still a breeze at 7 to 14 miles per hour. these are your wake-up wind chills. 5 above to 6 or 7 wind chills will moderate in to the teens and 20s harsh. when you look at the 7-day forecast, we get a bounce back day but still cold in the morning hours. only in the 20s. we should rebound to above 40 during the afternoon with lots of sun. just some high clouds on thursday but nicer, 45, then upper 40s on friday. i think daylight hours friday but rain could move in to new jersey during the afternoon hours. then we time out rain for the weekend. the initial thought is at least rain saturday morning. best window would be for drying that's our best opportunity. otherwise we're near 50. look at the high 44. rain giving wi way -- rain giving way to sun. then temperatures plummeting. we've got another big shot of cold air that comes in between tuesday and thursday of next week. this time it's not dry and cold. there are storms that are coming up the coast. pay attention to that 7-day accuweather forecast as we get closer and look at wednesday, thursday of next week where we could have a snow threat in the east coast. that's what we're looking at down the road. first the shot of cold but this time it's dry and maybe cold and snow next week. >> it's time for it. >> we've put it off long enough. first below normal day since november 30th. that's how nice. two parents from newark behind bars in pennsylvania accused of leaving their kids in a cold car, they went gambling in a casino. police were called to a parking lot when someone reported three kids in the car in near freezing temperatures. >> they were there for about an hour and a half. through video and other leads we were able to track down the parents and took them in to custody. >> reporter: police were notified after a casino patron alerted security. the kids were evaluated at a local hospital and release today their grandparents. nelson and walker were sent to jail and charged with recklessly endangering another person. >> the case will be turned over in to children in youth authorities in newark, new jersey, since that's where the parents are originally from. >> reporter: director of public safety said his department has seen fewer cases of parents leaving children unattended at the casino in recent years. he credits parks for increasing security and cracking down on irresponsible parents. >> just two more dopes that were not thinking. anybody can reproduce. not too many can be parents. children were in good condition and unharmed. with temperatures sitting firmly above freezing for the first time this winter, the broadway hit hamilton is moving its ticket lottery online. the popular impromptu cast performances outside the theater will also take a winter break. the online lottery goes live tomorrow and is going to offer 21 front row tickets at the price of just $10. the bill that displays the face of alexander hamilton. >> glad it's moving online. >> i hear it's an awesome show. this winter's warm weather means deals for you. coming up, the best things to buy in the month of january from clothing to electronics to jewelry. best deals. meet the moore's! 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[ laughter ] still much more ahead including the nypd releasing final crime find out which crimes are on the rise. starts right now. tonight a major shakeup for the new york giants. tom coughlin the oldest coach in the league is out as head coach after 12 seasons. now a search is on for his replacement. a family tragedy. a 15-year-old girl charged with murdering her mother and her mother's boyfriend. we'll tell you what police say the daughter did after allegedly killing them. good evening at 6:00. i'm liz cho. bill is off this evening. we'll begin with tonight with the weather. winter weather is finally here with temperatures falling, wind chills tonight will be around zero. it is the coldest weather in nearly 10 months. no surprise, folks were out bundled up in their warm jackets today for the first time this winter. we have a team of meteorologists covering the cold weather. jeff smith is in new jersey. we'll begin with meteorologist lee goldberg outside the studios >> man oh, man, from balmy to bitter in no time. the temperatures are in free fall after the sun went down. it's scarf, gloves, hat, everything. all your winter gear is out again if you can find it. we start with temperatures that drop below freezing. normally it should be november that we see temperatures drop below freezing. it's clear out right now and it's windy. we're now down to 21. we've been dropping like a rock since sunset and now digits for the first time this season and feels like 15 below in monticello, 5 islip, 8 in newark. see those gusty winds howling out of the north and northwest. those winds are coming in from the hudson valley where it's in the single digits. see where temperatures are going to be dropping off tonight. still a couple flurries near greenport. close to the city it's mainly clear and across the river in weekawken, that's where jeff smith is. it's windy and cold near the river.

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