Get suspended and parents get involved. Unfortunately now we live in a world where parents are disengaged. Kids have access to guns and sometimes it results in this tragedy. In this case one suspect in custody fired at one student who was shot once in the leg, is going to be okay police say. And the lockdown lifted. Everybody has left the school area at this point. We are live in jersey city josh einiger channel 7 Eyewitness News. Were going to turn to that wild pursuit, a crash and a police shooting, all started with an attempted traffic stop in the bronx. The driver took off eventually crashing on the Sawmill River parkway. It didnt end there. Officers wound up shooting one of the suspects in a wooded park. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis is in yonkers with the very latest. Marcus. Shirleen, liz as you said this was a chase that started in the bronx, ended in yonkers. Now you have multiple agencies in the death of an unarmed suspect. It all started around 11 45 this morning in riverdale. A patrol car from the 50th precinct tried to pull over a gray nissan at 242nd street and broadway. The car took off, headed north on the henry hudson parkway. That becomes the Sawmill River parkway at the county line. Near exit 4 in yonkers that nissan crashed. Police arrested one person but a second suspect climbed through the window and ran into tibbets brook park. Police say there was a confrontation and an nypd the suspect. As we said it started with that chase. It ended with the suspects car actually traveling in the wrong direction at one point. At some point nypd lost contact and for whatever reason, whether they saw other Police Vehicles ahead, they made a uturn and came southbound in the northbound lane colliding with several other civilian vehicles. Reporter now investigators have not yet had a chance to speak with the officers direct witnesses to the shooting itself. No weapons have been recovered. The nypd still searching the park for possible weapons. As it stands, this case remains under investigation by the nypd, the Westchester County police and because of the fatality the Westchester County district attorneys office. Live in yonkers, marcus solis channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Were ahead above the scene so check in with shannon sohn in news copter 7. She is above the sawmill, which is still closed at this hour. Reporter it looks like its going to be closed in both directions liz, probably for the entire rush hour. You are looking down at the closure on the southbound side after the Sawmill River parkway. They have that in place at the cross county parkway. We want to show you what this is doing to traffic. If you follow that roadway back you can see its actually not too terrible, but to the left side of your screen, that is what is picking up all of that alternate volume. That is rumsey road. To take you for a ride across the cross county parkway. It is jam packed. Delays back past the new york state thruway, and of course the thruway itself is picking up all of that alternate volume as you head down through Yonkers Raceway and right on through Van Courtland park. You also need to know traveling through this area theyve got it shut down on the northbound side as well. That closure in place. Delays take you back to the henry hudson parkway. This is going to be a bottleneck throughout the evening commute. Reporting live over Yonkers Shannon Sohn channel 7 Eyewitness News. What a scene, thank you shannon. New at 4, police in new jersey are searching for two suspects in connection with a hit and run where a Toms River Police officer was dragged by a car. Police are looking for and woman. The incident happened this afternoon in a parking lot at the silverton Motor Vehicle office. Authorities say the car involved is believed to be a black honda civic or accord with temporary pennsylvania tags. A mother from long island after she was shot in a road rage incident. Nicole mcdowell was riding in her boyfriends car on East Patchogue when he flashed his lights and passed a van weaving left and right. Police say the vans driver then sped up, fired two shots at the car. Mcdowell was hit in the hand and the leg. One of the bullets also came close to hitting a baby. Mcdowell is expected to be okay. Meanwhile the search is on in manhattan for a man who opened fire during a road rage incident here. It happened on ganzavort street in the meat packing district around 4 00 this morning. The 27yearold victim was pulling his car out of a parking spot when he struck a passing gray minivan. An argument between the two drivers escalated and the minivan driver shot the other man in the right arm and in the hip. The victim drove a short distance and then managed to call 911. 24 hours after announcing allowed to enter the United States, republican president ial front runner donald trump continues to be craze criticized. This afternoon the white house said trump should be disqualified from the race. Political reporter dave evans is here with more on what could be a watershed moment this this campaign. We dont know whether this could hurt the trump campaign. His poll numbers keep climbing. Ever since the attacks in paris and more recently san bernardino, trump has taken a hard line against muslims. Today trump made no apologies. It was a stunner of a Statement Last night, one his supporters loved. A total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. And a day later on good morning america, donald trump wasnt backing down one bit. Look, george, we have problems in this country. We have people that want to cities, and we have to figure out whats going on. But the condemnation came from democrat and republican aligning, even the House Speaker whose careful to say little about the 2016 race today said he could not remain quiet. What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and more importantly its not what this country stands for. The chairman of the gop in iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina all denounced trump. You know America Great again, tell donald trump to go to hell. From the muslim world it was almost disbelief, many calling trump a fascist to target and punish one religion. Hes somewhat like hitler. He was intolerant toward jews and hes becoming intolerant toward muslims. This former reporter in New Hampshire questioned whether trumps proposal applies to him. Its scary. We are american citizens here. We contribute to society. We employ people. We pay taxes here, and for someone to say you know you country but you cant youre not allowed here because youre muslim. It hurts. And the white house today said trumps proposal is simply unconstitutional. What donald trump said yesterday disqualified him from serving as president. But trump has his supporters outside a rally in South Carolina last night, no one seemed to have a problem with trumps plan. Donald trump is now saying muslims should not be allowed to enter this country until the u. S. Figures out whats going on. Do you agree with that . Yes i do. Why . I dont want them here. This afternoon trump tweeted that 68 of his supporters would still vote for him even if he departed the Republican Party and ran as an independent. That has republicans worried it would split conservatives and likely hand this election to democrats and hillary clinton. Shirleen. Federal Officials Say they are pursuing leads that could result in charges against other possible accomplices in the attack in san bernardino. Investigators believe a large farooks bank account two weeks before the attack. The fbi also says it has Surveillance Video of farook and his wife taking target practice around los angeles. Meanwhile were also hearing from the victim survivor denise piratza hid under a table with her friend shannon johnson, who did not survive. He put his arm around me and he said i got you. He didnt just save me, he saved our whole family. Were also seeing this new picture of a moments before that shooting began. One more note, the fbi has also questioned enrique marquez. Hes farooks longtime friend who bought the rifles that were used in the massacre. A somber scene in paris today as members of the american rock band eagles of death returned to the bataclan theater for the First Time Since the attacks. Band members laid flowers outside the now closed theater where at least 89 people were last night the band performed at a u2 concert. Bono introduced the group saying the band was robbed of their stage three weeks ago. So he wanted to offer one to them. An investigation is now underway to figure out what caused bricks to fall off a building on the Upper East Side of manhattan. We have just learned that the buildings owners have been cited for failing to secure the site. A large portion of the brick facade of a building on east 64th street came loose last night. Most of the debris landed on the buildings terraces. Some of the bricks fell more than 30 stories on to the street. No one was hurt. Thank god it was only the wall and its not here nobody got hurt. It was so loud. It sounded like i mean i know what a bomb sounds like. Surrounding streets are closed as City Building apartment inspectors assess the damage and determine what to do next. Taking a quick look at wall street, stocks suffering another round of sizable losses today. The price of crude oil stabilized. Still crude remains at its lowest level since early 2009. Heres a live look now at the big board. The dow fell 162 points, closing at 17568. It was supposed to be a craigslist car sale but now a man is dead and another is on the loose. So what went wrong. Were going to show you the exclusive video. Plus drivers thought they were getting pulled over, but when the officer approached their car they were given something they never expected. Youve got to see what they were handed instead of a ticket. A little hanukkah guilt maybe. Im meteorologist lee goldberg. All right, well this is a tame taste of december only mt. Mid 40s. Heres your signal, need the fog lamps late, take advantage of the nice mild weather to go out for a run, out and about just an its the holidays. To watch things. Buy things. But slow internet makes it hard. Thats why its time to get fios. It has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. With speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. It is time for a check on the roads this tuesday evening, and the big problem remains on the Sawmill River parkway, these are live pictures from news copter 7. Check out that backup, the northbound and southbound lanes are still closed at exit 4 in yonkers. It is looking not too good out there. Yeah, well let you know when the highway will finally reopen. And there is some good news, though. The only problem at the hudson River Crossing is a 10 minute delay outbound at the lincoln tunnel. Chicago police are facing more criticism and controversy today after the release of video showing questionable treatment of a jail inmate who later died. Surveillance video shows officers surrounding 38year old Phillip Coleman as he is repeatedly tased. Hes then seen being dragged he later died. The incident happened three years ago, but the video was just recently made public. This is not a gang banger. Hes not a drug dealer. Hes not a thug. So you cant use the regular Chicago Police scenario for this. Colemans family says he was suffering a mental breakdown and needed to be in a psych ward. Investigators had ruled the officers were justified in their treatment. This case is now part of the justice departments probe into the entire department there. And drivers being stopped by sheriffs deputies in one community in michigan getting a little bit of a surprise. Speeders and other violators in ross common county, theyre not getting the tickets that they had anticipated. Under a program called operation present patrol, theyre being given a turkey or a 25 gift card. Two local rotary clubs raised more than 3000 for all of the turkeys and all the gift cards. I always get nervous when a theyre legitimate traffic stops, speeding violations, lane usage, defective equipment, things of that nature. After we run them and make sure theyre not wanted or have valid licenses, instead of issuing citations were issuing them a turkey instead. Wow. I love it. The Program Continues until the turkeys and the gift cards run out. Thats really nice. He is so right. When you get pulled over you get so nervous. Its nice when its its a horrible feeling. Its the worst feeling ever. Right lee . You are wanted so you only get leftovers but well still give you something. I mean, wow, thats pretty cool. Ver cool and everyone learns their lesson not to speed. Right. Of course, of course. Dont want that to get lost. Everybodys so happy with the weather. By the way theyve commented on your lovely smiles, i was told to pass that message around. Wii in a good mood. Its the holidays. So nice out here. It is really something else. Were in the mid40s and upper for december, and the warming trend will pick up again. Another lovely sunset brewing here in new york harbor. Thousands of you looked on our Facebook Page yesterday to look at that time lapse. We should have another beauty tonight. The sun going in between the clouds from time to time. Water pretty calm. Theres a bit of a breeze out there. 46, the humidity still low, northwest wind at 7, barometer on the rise and the high today just shy of 50. Well wait until the official numbers come out to see if we inched up to 50. 7 on 7. Heres the next seven hours. Just clouds from time to time and temperatures slowly dropping to the mid40s. Patchy fog late tonight into tomorrow morning. The big warmup coming in, may be record warmth by the weekend. Never too early to look at that weekend, even though we may have clouds from time to time were going 60 saturday and now weve bunched up to sunday high to tie a record at least and i think were going to end up forecasting a high thats above that record. 47 in oyster bay right now. 47s are wild on the island across the sound. Weve had a little bit more sunshine in new jersey but lower 40s in the hudson valley, 36 in monticello. So partly cloudy at times tonight, tomorrow morning there will be clouds, a little bit of fog. The clouds going to battle with the sunshine during the day. We should get in the lower 50s. Just a couple degrees warmer. Look at those wind streamlines. It just missed up, the eastern end of long island a couple of showers. Its still spinning clouds back on us from time to time. A few batches of clouds northern new jersey. A clear spot over ocean county. A warm front sits off to our west. That will bring the toasty air for the weekend. Its not the cleanest sky coverage. There are waves of clouds, you can see those coming in from ohio and the great lakes area. Numbers to the south of that warm front into the 60s. Thats what we can look forward to friday, saturday, sunday, maybe even into monday as well. Tomorrow its a mix of sun and clouds. A little milder than today. I dont think youll notice too much. 3 degrees milder. And then that cold front just watches out and we get into this mild offer mass. We will start out with cloud brecks of sun, milder air. There might be a brief shower tomorrow night into thursday morning, especially east of the city. Not a big deal. Partly cloudy, areas of fog tonight down to 39 or 40. 52 tomorrow, clouds and sunshine, and then tomorrow night might be a stray shower, especially east, 46 degrees. Coming up at 4 30, look at that friday map, even though, again, we may have to deal with morning clouds over the next several days, we might have to speed up that arrival of 60 degree temperatures. More on that in the seven day accuweather forecast. Want to come inside this time of year. I love to run inside. Not this year. Its so nice out. Its remarkable. 37 degrees last year on this date. And we had still well ready right . Did we have a little trace of snow. Around thanksgiving. Yes, we did. What a difference a year makes. Come back inside lee, please. You got it. The recent heavy rains in india caused a massive landslide. Take a look, frantic onlookers ran for cover. Into the sea amazingly no one was hurt in all of this. But it did block a road below and vehicles were stranded on both sides of the landslide. Looks like it could have been a whole lot worse. Such dramatic video. Yeah. Still to come on Eyewitness News first at four, more problems for chipotle. Dozens of students say they got sick in one of the restaurants over the weekend. Were going to tell you whether these cases are linked to that nationwide outbreak. Up next we sit down with the star of the new movie in the heart of the sea, entertainment reporter Sandra Bookman talks with ron howard and much more. Before we go to break, heres a message from the member of the military who cant be home for the holidays. Hi my name is captain curt id like to say merry christma meet the moores were the moore family, and were always looking for ways to enjoy more. So we called Time Warner Cable and got even more than we expected. Call now to get more. More speed. Like, 300 meg. More tv shows and movies on demand. More places to make more unlimited calls. Call now. For 89. 99 a month, youll get 100 meg ultra fast internet, hundreds of hd channels, and unlimited calling to international destinations. We find more good things every day more ways to watch more shows. 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Shirleen, its the sort of big epic hollywood used to make but director ron howard told me he needed the latest 21st technology to tell this 19th century tale. In the heart of the sea is history coming to life on the big screen. We were headed for the edge of the earth. To be in the heart of the sea is to brush up against the belly of the beast. We were cursed. 200 years ago, lamps were powered by whale oil, and men spent years at sea in pursuit of the precious fluids inside the Large Mammals who often killed these sailors rather than get killed. The new movie is based on a book that told the true story ship, wrecked it, and forced the survivors to drift for months on an open ocean and small boats with very little to eat or drink. All the actors wanted to rise to the occasion because theyre playing, you know, theyre playing real people. Director ron howard asked each of his actors to lose a lot of weight for scenes showing them as cast aways. We were exhausted. We were uncomfortable. Were wet, were tired. Were hungry. You go from really, really bulked up with lots of muscles to withering away to almost nothing. How tough was it to exist on 5 to 600calories a day. It was brutal. Just the sort of insanity that plays out, and the mood swings and the sensitivity to trivial things. It was not fun, probably less enjoyable for the people around us who had to deal with our moods. None of this was lost on their boss. Level of commitment that they all gave. Chris hemsworth says hes never going to get that thin again, and he plans to pass, reject any script requiring him to do that. In the heart of the sea is in theaters everywhere starting friday. Ill have a review for you then on Eyewitness News at noon with you shirleen, back to you liz. Ill see you then. Very giving of him to say health badly for the people around them as they lost that weight. They were really cranky apparently and talked about it all the time. You think. Not having food, that can make you cranky thats for sure. 500 a day. Wow. Still to come on yay eye first at 4, thieves going after packages during the holiday season, see how one, the Police Department is fighting back. And an officer opens fire during a potential craigslist deal. We now have exclusive video in the case. Im Michelle Charlesworth. We are going behind the scenes at elf the musical showing you all the stuff that happens to opens tomorrow. Look at this ironing board. These are santas helpers beards. Plus we have an amazing jersey connection, family cwhat makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. Now new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Its 4 30. We want to go ahead and check in with shannon sohn once again. Shes in news copter 7 where the Sawmill River parkway still shut down at this hour after a Police Pursuit earlier today. Shannon hows it looking . Reporter liz, unfortunately it is a disaster here. Youre looking at the southbound closure on the Sawmill River parkway that is in place right here at the cross county, you can see the volume on the sawmill itself. To the left that is picking up the alternate volume. We want to show you what it is doing to the cross county as well. If you are on the southbound side of the sawmill, you can get back on at mcclain avenue. Look at this volume just trying to get there. All of this volume on the cross county parkway itself takes you back past the thruway and the thruway delays, thats picking up all of your alternate volume as well. Youre going to see delays on start right at the cross county parkway. Thats off in the distance. It takes you right on through Yonkers Raceway and down to van cortland park where it meets back up with the major deegan expressway. Your local streets are jammed up through this area, particularly midland avenue and lee avenue through tibbetts park. Youre going to see your closure in place getting on to the Sawmill River parkway. It is just bumpertobumper volume everywhere you go. Reporting live over yonkers Eyewitness News. Long night ahead for those folks. Thank you. Now to our top stories new an exclusive video of an offduty Police Officer answering a craigslist ad ends up opening fire and killing a man, and right now police are searching for a second person. Investigators say that officer was meeting the two men in Springfield Gardens about a car for sale. Thats when one of the men pulled out a gun, and the officer managed to fire back killing him. Eyewitness News Reporter shes in Springfield Gardens this afternoon with the latest. Kem. Reporter sources tell Eyewitness News this officer had no choice but to shoot his weapon because at that exact moment one suspect while pointing a gun at the officer grabbed the officers wallet. He opened it, and he spotted the officers shield. What happened next, take a look, this is that exclusive video, that silhouette in the distance that you see, thats the officer with his gun drawn. The nineyear veteran is pointing his weapon at the suspect who by now was alive on the ground with gunshot wounds to his leg and torso. That man who later died at the hospital is devon holder. The 30yearold and a second suspect arranged to meet the officer here on 145th avenue around 10 30 last night. In an ad on craigslist, the suspects posted about selling a white bmw. The trio met and sources tell Eyewitness News one suspect told the officer the car was holder pulled out what turned out to be a bb gun and took the officers wallet and tried to rob him. Thats when the officer pulled out his gun, shot holder at least once, holder kept running, and the him again near guy r. Brewer boulevard. He didnt want to show his face. He told me what he saw next. He was on the phone with his gun drawn at the gentleman on the ground, but i didnt know he was a cop until i heard him on the phone saying, you know, he might have been telling somebody his badge number or something on the phone. He was definitely on the phone with the authorities, though. Talking to them. What did you think of all this . Its pretty crazy, you know, it was right there happening right in the driveway, you know, the first shot i thought it was a fire cracker and then i heard other shots and i was like wow somethings going on outside. Reporter now also in this exclusive video, you see officers looking for the weapon in the grass the holder is still cuffed and alive on the police say they did find the suspects weapon in the leaves. Again, a bb gun were told a black pt85 blow back air pistol. That second suspect, he did get away again in that older model white bmw. At this hour, police are still looking for him. Youll hear much more from eric coming up at 6. For now were live in queens, Kemberly Richardson channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Police are investigating a possible hate crime in philadelphia. The severed head of a pig was found outside a mosque. Surveillance outside the alaxa mosque shows a red pickup Truck Driving by slowly. Someone on the passenger side tosses the severed head of a pig. It was found in front of the mosque yesterday morning. Pigs are considered insulting to muslims. It scares the community because theyre afraid that god forbid next time it could be a bombed in of a head of a pig. It was an attempt to deface a religious institution. Police are trying to figure out if a troubling voice mail left at the mosque the day after the paris attacks is connected to this latest incident. Philadelphias mayor elect jim kenny has released a statement asking residents of the city to join him in rejecting this latest act. Health officials are confirms that College Student who is got sick after eating at chipotle in boston suffered from norovirus. A restaurant employee got sick at work on thursday and that is what spread the norovirus. This comes as chipotle tries to reassure customers after an e. Coli outbreak made 62 people sick in nine states. A government watchdog says urgent attention is needed to deal with the shortage of air traffic controllers. The Transportation Department says 13 of the busiest control facilities in are below minimum staffing requirements. New york, dallas, denver, and while many controllers have been hired, many are still training. The same time veteran controllers continue to retire. tis the season for grinches to ruin your holiday. Were talking about thieves going after packages at your front door. Weve seen the countless videos from home surveillance cameras of people stealing packages, sitting outside houses. One Police Department is using a hightech approach to curb the problem. Officers in california are starting to bait package thieves. They are putting fake packages with gps tracking devices on doorsteps to catch those criminals. Were follow these people to wherever theyre going to be going and hopefully maybe find some more products they may have stolen from other houses. Police say the boxes look just like a normal package and thieves wont be able to tell that a gps device is in it. 10 of americans say theyve been a victim of package theft. It is a little boys heartbreaking confession to santa claus. Coming up well tell you why he list. It is a story you will not want to miss. And a Company Takes on its the holidays. And of course, Everyone Wants to get online at once. To watch things. Buy things. But slow internet makes it hard. Thats why its time to get fios. 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Its possible because the Postal Service already photographs mail for sorting purposes. If you sign up for informed delivery you will get an email in the morning with pictures of your physical mail. Speaking of the holiday favorite for many, elf the Broadway Musical is the story of a young or fan who ends up in the north pole. At first he believes hes an elf but then searching for his family. In this years production theres a very special real life family dynamic. Michelle charlesworth has the story. Stage, what you love in the movie. Its a show about family and like to be working on a show about family with my sister is pretty amazing. Yeah. Dancer amanda brawn and her big sister associate choreographer nancy brawn are jersey girls working together for the first time. Is she bossy pants . [ laughter ] she is. Shes the boss of the family. She has to be throe right . She has to be. Shes the oldest, the best role model. And shes the choreographer. The sisters took me behind the scenes at Madison Square garden to show off the costumes, the secret passageways and the work it takes to put on this show. Everybody in the show at some point has an elf costume. Beautiful, very cool. And then over here this is our santa costume. Everything is handmade, including the santa beards which were pinned to an iron board. Here are all of the beards for one of the numbers in the show called nobody cares about santa. Its so fun. They all wear them. Youll see the entire cast the male ensemble is in santa costumes. How many changes do you have . I think i have like four different wigs. You get all this under a wig somehow . Mmhmm. All around my hair. Wow. Yes, this is my outfit for the show. Some of the costume changes take only 30 seconds. Sometimes i run right offstage, change right off the edge of the stage, and then go right back on. Elf the musical at Madison Square garden runs through december 27th and tickets start at 30. At Madison Square garden, Michelle Charlesworth channel 7 Eyewitness News. Perfect family fun. I say when david gets back we all take a family trip and go see it. Im in. Yeah. And coming up, the most popular restaurants in the u. S. According to instagram. Were going to tell you which new york city spots made the cut. Brewing between trader joes and pepperidge farm. Well explain. What happens when youre the train conductor and the glee club claims aboard. We have the video that has become a viral sensation. Cant wait to show you why. Beautiful. And get ready for a youd be surprised how easy it is to get a good lowcost health plan you might even get help paying for it go to nystateofhealth. Ny. Gov or call 18553555777 a cookie battle is heating up. Trader joes has been slapped by a lawsuit by pepperidge farm. Take a look, heres a bag of milano cookies on the left, and then those are the trader joe crispy cookies on the right. Did the crispy cookies have chocolate in them. The lawsuit filed in connecticut claims trader joes is confusing customers with the packaging and that the cookie mimic the m lyrics anos signature shape. I say we do a taste test. From a cookie battle to a cookie crumble, girl scouts marks the end of their first year selling cookies online. The sales arent as sweet as they had hoped. This year the girl scouts sold cookies online earning 10 million, but overall sales fell by about 1 million boxes compared to last year. Membership numbers continue to decline. You know if someone puts a girl scout cookie in front of you you cant turn it down. Ill support it right after the show is over. Youve got to make like a kale cookie organize Something Like that. And then well turn it down. Gorgeous night out there. This is pretty much the coldest its going to get. Were going to warm up for the weekend. Its incredible. Outside we go tonight where we have a sliver of sun left over as the sunset about 20 minutes ago. Very pretty reds, deep reds and oranges right by the horizon near new york harbor. 46 degrees right now. Partly to mostly cloudy. A northwest wind around 7. Heres the planner for central park just dealing with cloud cover. You know what at night this time of the year its nice because it keeps the temperatures pretty stable during the early evening hours. Lets give you a planner for red bank new jersey. Variable amounts of clouds, a well drop into the 30s tonight. The clouds thin out enough north and west. We have to watch out for fog and ice patches in north west new jersey and parts of the hudson valley. Weather wheel for tomorrow, clouds and sunshine, lower 40s to start the day. We should get in the low 50s. A few degrees milder. Its kind of a battle between clouds. Its not a perfectly sunny day. There are a lot of clouds tomorrow night. Thats really the leading edge of some of the warmest air for the week. Look at the comparison over the next five days. Last year on the ninth we thats tomorrow. We had 2 1 2 inches of rain. Then we had an inch of snow on the 10th and we were in the 30s and low 40s for the a couple of days. This year its the climb into the low and middle 60s by the upcoming weekend. What a difference. Look at the futurecast over the next 24 hours. First of all, this evening varying amounts of clouds, 40s and 30s north and west. Theres still a chill in the air. You see how there are some sprinkles offshore, there could be clouds that come in later tonight. If we do get some low clouds may have some icy spots north and west tomorrow morning. Clouds and sun tomorrow, lower 50s should do it. On your sevenday accuweather forecast, weve got clouds and sun tomorrow. On thursday morning clouds and a shower cant be ruled out, but then i think well have some midday and afternoon sun. You look at the futurecast, and theres really not much moisture at all. Maybe theres an Early Morning shower and brighter skies in the afternoon. Friday is very mild, quite mild on saturday, and then this pattern as we go into the upcoming weekend, 10, 20 degrees above average into sunday and monday as well before we have a chance at getting a decent rainstorm. And that would be on monday way below on the rainfall. Even when we cool off its only back to 50. Looking good. You know what else is looking good. What . The trend. Im rolling up my sleeves so i dont screw this up because david does such a good job. Were going to take a look at the stories that are trending. No surprise donald trump at the of most of the feeds after his it seems like everyone has a reaction including author j. K. Rowling. The author of harry potter compared trump to voled medical report in a tweet saying the villain was nowhere near as bad as the president ial hopeful. Just a few days after stone temple pilot front man Scott Weilands death his exwife wrote a powerful letter to Rolling Stone magazine. In it she said lets choose to make this the first time we do not glorify this tragedy with talk of rock n roll and the demons that by the way, dont have to come with it. When talking about his two teenage children, she went on to write the truth is like so many other kids theyve lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on december 3rd was hope. Some heartbreaking words from her. Now were going to turn to something we all talk about, that is food. Instagram revealed that the u. S. Based on geo tagged pictures and several new York City Restaurants made the list, katzel bakery and friend of the four. And also the frying pan all made the top six, and if you were wondering the most photographed restaurant in the country, there they are. Can you recognize it . Do you guys know, new orleans cafe and their famous beignets. And finally if you were the conductor of a train and you have the Yale Glee Club on board, what do you do . [ singing is ] so the conductor is bob mcdonough, so into it. Dont you just love it. His train is traveling from new york. Wouldnt you buy tickets to the glee club train. How great is that. Of course, who wouldnt want to be a passenger on that. Needs to take the show on the road. Check out the trend online at abc7ny and send us your trend ideas using the hashtag the trend. Awesome job, thanks liz. A little boy makes a heartbreaking admission to santa. Next on Eyewitness News first at 4, why he told santa that he was worried about being on the naughty list. And a little bit of progress on the Sawmill River parkway. One southbound lane has reopened near exit 4 in yonkers. In the northbound lanes remain closed. Well check in wit its the holidays. Which means a house full of people who all want to get online. So its the perfect time for verizon fios. It has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. We all know these the time of year when children get to visit santa. One little boy got a special gift, one of acceptance. The 6yearold shared with him his big fear, one of the most shared stories on the eyewitness News ReporterLauren Glassberg has the heartwarming story. Reporter 6yearold Landon Johnson loves santa. What did he say when he met st. Nick . He told me what he wanted for christmas and i toll him i loved told him i loved him and he was a good boy and he walked out and while his mother was waiting. Reporter the meeting took an interesting turn. Waiting for pictures to print, i turn around and landon has gone back to sit by santa t. I was like what is he doing. He same back and he said, santa, he says, im autistic. It was something that kris kringle wasnt expecting to hear. Santa took his hands and was really, really excited and he took his hands and this is all i saw was him massaging his hands. Reporter massaging his hands to calm him down after he said he was worried his autism after that he said its okay to be yourself. Christmas is about love and joy. Thats what i tried to bring to all the children and people that i meet here. Its an honest pleasure to do that. Landons mother put this picture of santa and landon on facebook along with a thank you to the mall. Once it was posted it was shared throughout cyberspace. I woke up this morning and i had 12,000 notifications on facebook of people that commented, shared it, writing me messages, telling me my son is a blessing. The photo touching people from halfway across the world. She said Merry Christmas from down under and spreading Holiday Cheer and the magic of christmas. That there is that magic still there. That is what Everyone Wants this time of year. They look and hope for that magic. Lauren glassberg, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thats what Everyone Needs around this time of year. Absolutely. Awesome. Straight ahead. Eyewitness news at 5 00 begins right now new information after hundreds of brakes fall from a building on the Upper East Side. The violation issued and the change order on site. A big mess during the evening rush hour. Part of the sawmill reopening after policeinvolved shooting turns deadly. Good evening, im sade baderinwa. Im diana williams. Its a rough commute for anybody that has to take the sawmill, but things are finally improving just a little bit. We learned a short while ago that one southbound lane has reopened. All of those northbound lanes, they remain closed. All of this is right near the bronx westchester line and this is creating huge backups on surrounding roadways as well. Its more than five hours since a chase involving nypd tonight one suspect is dead shot by police, another is in custody. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis has been tweeting photos and updates throughout the day and joins us in yonkers. Marcus . Reporter sade and diana, no doubt about it, extensive investigation. You can see the lingering traffic. Northbound lanes are completely closed. Police say there was a confrontation and that lead to the shooting. There were two key areas of concern here. One it appears that the suspect was unarmed and, two, goes there were no witnesses to this actual shooting. The best information that we have at this point is that one shot was fired. Reporter a fatal shot that marked a dramatic end to a chase. It started before noon at 242nd street in the bronx. Officers from the 50th precinct tried to pull over a gray nissan but the driver took off instead heading north on the