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System from New York Stock Exchange to some of the worlds most powerful financial institutions. Many of them here in new york. One hacker was also able to take control of the bowman dam in rye brook new york. Although they were unable to open its doors because the dam was offline for maintenance. Although know actual harm resulted from that infiltration, the potential havoc that such a hack of american infrastructure could wreak is scary to think about. It happened in an 18 month period between 2011 and 2013. When the sites crashed, untold number of Bank Customers were unable to access their accounts. Hundred of thousands of americans were unable to access Bank Accounts online. The men have not been arrested, prosecutors say the case demonstrates the global reach of the hackers as well as the global reach of u. S. Law enforcement. No matter where they are, we will try to reach them. Work to hide their identity and their trade craft, we will find ways to pierce that shield and identify them. The fact is the hackers may never be arrested. Prosecutors admit that. But this case shows whats possible and how vulnerable we are. Whats being done to fix that coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00. Now to the terror investigation in belgium. Investigators are connecting the cots bring the brussels attacks and the ones in paris. A man who blew himself up in Brussels Airport is believed to be the bomb maker for the attacks in paris. And subway bomber rented a house in bell yum used by the attackers. Meanwhile, as the memorials grow in brussels, belgium lowered the Terror Threat level a touch. But they say another attack is still possible. Marcy gonzales is here with more on the investigation. Reporter brussels is still on edge this afternoon. A Shopping Mall there was evacuated. Because of a suspicious package. That scenes now cleared. There are still check points and extra security across the city as the search continues for at least two people believed to be involved in the attacks. Across belgium, a moment of silence for the 31 People Killed and 300 others injured in tuesdays terror attacks. I remember seeing an explosion. The whole time i was telling myself im going to make it. Im going to make it. The man hunt for those responsible now expanding. Police looking for one of the airport bombers and now searching for a suspect shown in surveillance images along with suicide bomber inside the subway station just before the attack. And new questions about an apparent failure of intelligence involving his brother, one of the terrorists to carry out the airport attack. Authorities admitting he was detained last year at the back to europe. Flagged by turkish authorities as a terrorist fighter but not by belgian officials. Police saying he left an apparent suicide note on a discarded laptop saying he was being in a rush no longer knowing what to do. And if he did not act immediately, he would be in a prison cell like him. Investigators believe it is a reference to saleh abdeslam. One of the suspects of the paris attacks captured just last week. While his attorney denies any connection, Police Believe saleh abdeslams arrest may have caused the terror cell to panic and accelerate plans. Police are looking into the possibility that this terror cell may have had other potential targets revealing today that the brothers used hidden cameras to secretly record one of belgiums top nuclear scientists. David . Thank you marcy. We invite you to stay with Eyewitness News and abc news throughout this terror investigation. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross will join us live from brussels coming up on former nypd officer peter who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of aki girlie today apologized to girlies domestic partner. He met with kimballinger to apologize in person. He was convicted of shooting girlie who was unarmed when he fired into a dark stair way in the ping houses in brooklyn. The brooklyn da is recommending he receive six months of house arrest and five years probation but no jail time. Girlies family calls thompsons decision absurd. Had the table been reversed aki girlie would be in prison. This minute. This second. This day. He was fired from the nypd after the verdict, he will be sentenced next month. A jet blue Flight Attendant accused of trying to smuggle 70 pounds of cocaine. Judge approved home confinement tsa Officials Say she was pulled over for random screening at lax on friday. They say she then dropped a bag full of cocaine, kicked off her airport barefoot. A plan for a new remodeled Port Authority bus terminal in manhattan took a step forward today the Port Authority board voted to replace existing terminals instead of building a new one in new jersey. The project could cost as much as 10 billion the terminal is part of the tenyear capitol plan. The port thyroid Port Authority board approved the redevelopment of the Central Terminal billion the cost has grown to 5. 3 billion. Now to vote 2016. You dont often hear the words sniveling coward on the campaign trail but this Years Campaign has proven to be like few others. Listen to republican ted cruz its not easy to tick me off. I dont get angry off but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids that will do it every time donald, youre a sniveling coward and leave heidi the hell alone. Donald does seem to have an issue with women. Donald doesnt like strong women. Strong women scare donald. The two have been in a back and forth twitter battle since a super pack for cruz released an ad with a photo of trumps wife from a gq shoot. Trump struck back saying he will quote spill the beans on cruzs wife, what that means is still not known. Turning to the democratics, Hillary Clinton is focused on security as she hits the campaign trail. She took part in a National Security round table in l. A. Fellow democratic Bernie Sanders appears later in washington state. It reveals Hillary Clinton with a healthy lead over donald trump. Regardless of party, if youre not all ready registered to vote and plan to vote in special election, your registration must be postmarked by tomorrow. He helped rebuild a devastated fdny in the years following the 9 11 terror attacks the department is mourning the death of former new York City Fire commissioner nicholas. He died today of cancer at the age of 83. He served as fire commissioner from 2002 to 2010 and lifted the Department Following the loss of 345 firefighters at the world trade center. Fdny commissioner daniel released a Statement Today saying in part quote the department is stronger today thanks to his leadership in the years following september 11th. He was truly a Public Servant without peer and we deeply mourn his loss. Just a short time ago, former about him. I knew he was hill for quite sometime. But i was upset. And disappointed. He was a personal friend for over 40 years. And he also was a very important part of my administration. Well he was a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and he served as deputy mayor and commissioner of investigation during four decades of serving new york city. Stocks on wall street ending the trading day relatively flat. Stocks waiverred between modest losses and gains most of the afternoon. Following the stretch of sustained gains oil prices dipped again as concerns over excess supplies returned. Heres a live look at the big board, the dow rising 13 points. Closing at 17,515. Coming up on Eyewitness News first at 4 00, well have details on a baby food recall you need to know about. Students exposed to tuberculosis at two local schools. Whos infected and what parents are being told. Fourth floor of a parking deck. Well tell you how the driver inside that car managed to survive. Im meteorologist lee goldberg. Some unwanted care conditioning courtesy of the atlantic ocean. Theres definitely a chill out here. But were going to warm up. And were not going to wait until tomorrow. Youll need your umbrellas in the sevenday forecast. Heres the next 7 on 7. Temperatures in the low 50s. A lot of clouds. I hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too what are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey come in, come in i didnt know your home wifi could stream so many devices at the same time. 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Like in rochester, and in buffalo, where medicine meets the future. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow today at business. Ny. Gov its 4 12. We have a live look at the long island expressway. The two eastbound lanes are blocked. You can see the traffic thats causing at the hudson river crossing, there are 35 minute delays at the outbound holland tunnel and 20 minute delays at the outbound lincoln. Things good at the George Washington bridge. The vessel that crashed and sank with three crew members on board has been raised from the bottom of the hudson river. The tug boat specialist is on the surface of the water after it was pulled up by a crane. It sank in the Early Morning darkness of march 12th. The body of Harry Hernandez had been trapped on the tug. Today being holy thursday. Religious. They found comfort in that too. That on holy thursday their the waters. The bodies of the crew members were recovered in they hope to recover the logbook and gps device. The Vice President laying into lawmakers who refuse to move forward on the president s pick for the supreme court. Merrick garland. Joe biden says the president fulfilled his constitutional nomination to present a nominee following the death of justice antonin skalia. He says republicans are wrong to say they wont consider him. Simply to turn your back before the president even names a nominee is not an option the constitution leaves open. And the Vice President went on to say that congress is acting dysfunctionally. Well startling video of a car tumbling off of a fourth floor parking deck and with the driver still inside, watch as the vehicle comes crashing down on to its roof. This happened in baltimore. The drivers okay. 23yearold lindsay cook claims when the vehicle suddenly accelerated, it crashed through the concrete barrier and then fell down as you can see on to the sidewalk below. Remarkably, she was not seriously hurt. Wow. You know, lee has been doing stories at the auto show. And a lot of it is based on safety and how these cars can handle the impacts. Theres an example. The fact that she was able to walk out of that is amazing. It looked like the planter broke the fall. But we looked at a car today that has gorilla glass on it like on your phone. They had a test that hail couldnt go through it. It was pretty incredible. Its on the new ford gte. Its one of the many things at the new york auto show. Youre going to be down there signing things. Yes we are. On saturday. Everybody come down and say hello. Dicks doing all the fun things. Of course. Lets look at the weather forecast. Cloudy and chilly all of a sudden. Convertible day yesterday. Now folks are rolling up the 50 isnt good enough any more. Thats normal for late march. A lot of cloud cover over central park. More low clouds to the east. We held on to the brightening longer than i thought we would. Temperatures havent done very well. Low and mid 50s. 53 after yesterdays 71. And thats still above normal. Record high of 76 back in 1988. You can see the wind direction. See how we now have a wind coming straight off the atlantic. Its 43 in montog. Not in the 60s any more. We were earlier but the cool ocean air has gone way inland unless youre in eastern pennsylvania where youre pretty warm. Otherwise youre about 20 degrees under yesterdays pace. There will be a lot of clouds around at 7 00. You dont need your umbrella this evening. But you will need your umbrella for the morning commute. There will be showers or drizzle or light rain. But look at the temperatures, theyre going up over night. The winds are shifting to the by midday, a front will come through, and i think there could be a rumble of thunder or a gusty down pour there. And then well try to clear it out after 2 00 or 3 00 in the afternoon. See the low clouds confined to monmouth, and eastern long island, now theyre going farther to the west with the ocean wend. The front is sitting to the south. It comes back over night. As it lifts north, it exposes us to the mild air in pennsylvania. Its near 80 in dc. 51 new york. And 38 in boston. How about that ride along i95. Looking at the system to the west, thats the system that brought the blizzard to the front range of the rockies. The snow is going into canada. Look at the rain near cincinnati and over the ohio valley. Theres down pours there. Im concerned a couple of those get to us late morning or lunch time tomorrow. With the that in mind, watch this future cast. The rain moves northward. Its scattered showers and light rain for the morning commute. Theres the potential down pour for your lunch. Lunch plans or any errands around midday. There maybe brief down pours and a rumble of thunder and a gusty wind. After that we should see the clouds break after 3 00 or 4 00 in the afternoon. Most mostly cloudy tonight. Temperatures go up into the over night. Rain develops at dawn. We end up near 57 toward morning. 69 degrees. Thats later in the day. Rain possible through midday. A rumble of thunder. It should be beautiful tomorrow like it did yesterday. 41. 30s in the suburbs. Up and down we go. Lets look at the weekend. Well look at the saturday map and Easter Sunday after 4 30. Well get the weekend off to a nice start. Im concerned that clouds come in brief sunday. Hopefully well keep the rain away. More on that at 4 30. During his homily holy thursday, pope francis blaming the deadly attacks in brussels he told the crowd at st. Peters pa silica that gods mercy restores everything. He watched the feed of twelve refugees from different faiths. Timothy dough lynn spent the day at the food pantry. The program feeds body and the soul. I love the workers say our goal is to make sure they teen have to come back. They come here in an emergency situation, we want to give them the basics, but we want to help them get back on their feet. This is holy thursday. The service that jesus taught us come alive. Tonight Cardinal Dolan will celebrate mass at Saint Patricks cathedral. Still to come, allegations of discrimination, well tell you why some people say their race stopped them from getting into the apartment they wanted. Imagine you come home to find your house demolished, and fios is not cable. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years our competitors have received a fewawards. But weve received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in Customer Satisfaction for the third year in a row. Now get superfast 100 meg internet 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. Hey what are you here for . You getting poked, prodded or pinched . . Uhhh yeah, colon cancer screening. Hey me too, second time. Its a piece of cake that sounds good right now. Its no big deal. Thats what everyone tells me. Today there is more than one way to screen for colon cancer and its easier than ever. If youre 50 or older talk with your Healthcare Provider and choose the best test for you if youre 50 or older your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. Get used to hearing shhh if you ride on more metro cars. Theyre adding more quiet cars to rush hour trains. Starting april 4th, two cars on every train will be designated quiet cars. If youre in a quiet car, youre expected to not talk on your cell phone and keep your headphones turned down. From trains to car, a few minutes ago we were talking International Auto show. Earlier today the car of the year was announced. You hear that lee . The winner is the mazda mx 5. Yeah. The prize was handed out today at the auto show. Automotive journalists picked the mazda over the mercedes and the audi. The mx 5 also took home the prize in the best car design category. Retractable hard top, so cool. You know too much all ready. Hes just been binging car information this week. We invite you to watch our auto show special in the fast lane saturday night at 7 00 here on channel 7. Lee will be hosting it which is why hes binging. And you can share your favorite rides from the auto show with us using the abc7ny. She brought us scandal, grays anatomy and how to get away with murder. And tonight shes adding a new its called the catch. And sandy kenyon spoke with the shows store. Tgit is the label abc gives to its dramas on thursday night. You knew that all ready. Thursday night is home of some of the most popular shows on the network. And the catch is hoping to follow in that tradition. First came grays anatomy then scandal. And how to get away with murder. All are on abc thursday night. And now with the drama starring viola davis finished until the fall, heres the catch. Im interested in seeing one office. All come from shonda land. Theres a Strong Female lead like her other shows and shes driven and beautifully dressed and has complications in her love life. The character, a private played by myray inos is headed to the alter when he just disappears. Im at his office now. Shes betrayed. Its revealed her fiance is a con artist. The rest of the season is promoted to finding him and making him pay. Fans of her work in the killing might not recognize her. Its fun to play dress up. My personal style is probably somewhere in between. Glamorous world. Her personality is actually closer to alice. Inos studied tai kwuando for years. And thats not the only way art imitates life here. In my own life, i have a lot of energy, i love to smile, i love to laugh. What do you think . So is the rest of this diverse cast. The star got her start at lincoln center. Won a tony on broadway and met her husband on stage when both appeared in the same show. They will play opposite each other again later this season on the catch. Dave, liz, tonights lineup starts with grays anatomy at 8 00. Followed by scandal at 9 00. And the catch at 10 00. Then Eyewitness News at 11 00. Tgit, liz. We love that phrase around here. Thanks andy. As we continue on this thursday afternoon, major health scare at a local school district. Well tell you why parents are being warned about tuberculosis. Why president obama is coming under fire by some for his tango dance last night. All across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. Thats because weve been working hard to give you better service, and it shows. We came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. Oh shes impressed. Were catching up on movies and shows on demand just as fast as we can watch them. 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Dave and liz, Eyewitness News learned it was a School Bus Monitor who has fallen ill and remains hospitalized. And now as many as 50 children are being tested to make sure they havent contracted the potentially fatal infection. Yesterday emails and letters went home to parents of children at Liberty Elementary School in Valley Cottage and nyak middle school. The exposure didnt occur in school buildings, not all students needed to be tested. The person who contracted tuberculosis was possibly exposed months ago. Recently the person was hospitalized and diagnosed. The Health Department was notified and the letters went out. That can be treated with bibi jot with antibiotics. The Health Commissioner says at this point, none of the children are showing signs of testing positive. It doesnt mean that because the child was exposed that the child will ever have tb. Were checking and its very treatable. As we said the bus monitor remains hospitalized. Being treated with a variety of medications but is said to be improving. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you marcus. Police say theyve arrested a man for at least six bank robberies. 40yearold Reginald Tucker charged in two attempted bank robberies. A Crime Stoppers tipped helped them link the cases together. They think he may be responsible for four other robberies. We had a series of bank robberies. We received tips and investigative information that he was all ready on parole for robberies. And assault. Police say tucker has all ready pleaded guilty to the on ris. A popular restaurant in greenwich went up in flames. The fire broke out after fire a. M. At the barcelona restaurant and wine and bar on west putnam avenue. Officials say no one was in the restaurant at the time but residents were evacuated. They wont be allowed back into their homes because the building has been deemed unsafe and dangerous. A village purposefully discriminated against minorities. Ruling over a 25acre area in garden city comes after a decade long battle. Racial opposition caused the village to insist on Single Family townhouses instead of multifamily zoning. Now this decision means the door is open. Yes. Okay. For everybody. County must now stand trial for steering Affordable Housing to low income communities. A man from tennessee will plead guilty to stealing from the charity he created following the Sandy Hook School massacre. Robert bruce cofounded the 20 for 26 foundation to raise money in memory of the victims, ryan who was bruces partner tipped off authorities about the misuse of the funds. She told them that bruce failed to account for 73,000 of more than 100,000 the charity raised. Bruce is scheduled to appear in federal court may 12th for a change of plea hearing. President obama admitted the u. S. Was slow to speak out for human rights in argentina during the dirty war in 1976. This afternoon the president paid tribute to the victims by laying a wreath near a memorial bearing thousands of names. It takes courage for a society to address uncomfortable truths president says its important to move forward. Hes vowed to classify more documents describing the role of the u. S. In that so called dirty war. To continue helping the families find truth and justice they deserve, i will announce the government will declassify more documents from the period including for the first Time Military and intelligence records. Meanwhile the president taking heat for doing the tango at a state dinner the president of the council on Foreign Relations call it a tremendous mistake inconsistent with the seriousness of the day. The president said he didnt change his schedule because he wont let terrorists have power over us. And the dance is a traditional dance of the country of argentina. Coming up next, it looked like an ordinary living room inside an ordinary home, but as you can see, theres much more hiding underneath the surface. We have the details coming up next. A fourmonthold, a i hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too what are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey i didnt know your home wifi could stream so many devices at the same time. Dad, its Time Warner Cable. 300 megs. Crazyfast. Dad you can get wifi all over this place. Cool make your home as connected as possible. Get 50 meg internet with unlimited data for 39. 99 per month. And ask about free installation. Hey, have you heard . Heard what . Before School Starts in september, all kids going into 7th and 12th grade have to get the meningococcal vaccine. It protects against diseases like meningitis. That can be serious, even deadly. Yeah, thats why they cant start School Without it. Something to share . giggling actually, yes talk to your health care provider. Even kids whove had one shot may still need a booster. Well federal authorities are making a remarkable discovery out west. A drug tunnel from mexico to california. Of the tunnel being used for smuggling drugs running from under a restaurant in mexicali to a living room in a house in california. Authorities say the land was bought specifically for drug running and the tunnel became operational last month. So far four people are now under arrest. A juror in the hulk hogan sex tape investigation are speaking exclusively to abc news about the case. The prowrestler sued gawker after a tape was posted of him having sex with his wife. The jury sided with him and believed argument wasnt valid. He made it clear that they were all about crossing the line. The decision we make was correct. You believe he was emotionally distressed by it. We were all in the same circumstances, how would we feel about it, emotionally, we would have been devastated. Hes still a human being. The site now appealing. We didnt post the sex tape. We posted nine seconds of Sexual Activity in an excerpt of a much longer tape. It was in the connection of a story. The story has been found news worthy by a federal judge. But the court on repeated occasions. The ceo argued the jury wasnt able to hear testimony from the man who taped the encounter with hogan and that in the end damaged gawkers case. A Landscape Contractor working with a headset on gets his arm clipped by the wing of a small airplane. It happened at a flying Community Near Orlando Florida where many residents owned planes. They use hangers instead of garages. The plane clipped the workers as it taxied through the neighborhood. The man was taken to the hospital for back pain. The Neighborhood Association is urging pilots to take more caution and for people in the area not to wear ear plugs or headsets. Not the kind of problems we its become an annual tradition in long island girl scouts teaming up to send treats to military around the world. The girl scouts loaded more than 65,000 boxes of cookies for its Eleventh Annual operation cookie shipment the project allows row call residents to buy cookies for donation to military personnel. Operation cookie shipped more than 620,000 boxes of cookies to service members. Well, a Baylor University professor lent a helping hand to a student who was having trouble with a fussy baby. Katie humphrey had no choice but to bring her fourmonthold to class with her. When the babysitter canceled at the last minute. She says she was embarrassed when she showed up late and millie was making noise. The professor came over and picked up millie. The teacher held her for the quiet. I love how buff professor willabie is. Shes perfectly content. Coming up, a big recall involving baby food. Well have the details. Plus a demolition crew does a great job knocking down a home. But they may have wanted to double check on the address first. So how in the world did they make such a big mistake . Do you want to spend the when does your body become a medical breakthrough . When 61,000 people look at it differently. While others only focus on healing your body with new medication, were researching bioelectronic medicine that will help your body heal itself. Look north to see how were not just looking to raise our standard, but raise the standard of health care. Ch we are following some breaking news right now. And our sister station in los angeles has confirmed that actor gary has died. A comedian, actor, writer, producer, best known for the Larry Sanders show. Born in chicago, raised in tucson, in 86, he created his own sitcom and people still talk about it. This was for show time. That show nominated for four emmys. It ran until 1990. His second hit ran from 92 to 98. He was just 66. No word yet on what was the cause of his death. Sandy kenyon will have more on his life at 5 00. He was so funny. Well weve got an important baby food recall to tell you about. Gerber is recalling organic the products are organic second food pouches of pears, carrots, and peas in a pouch with the best buy date of july 2016. And gerber organic second food pouches of carrots and mangos in a 3. 5 pouch with a best buy date of july 2016. Some of the pouches may be bloated and the food may have an off taste or odor. Amazon is now the latest company to show the wage gap is getting smaller. The online giant announced women make 99. 9 of what men in the same positions earn in that company. Study also shows minorities at amazon are paid slightly higher than whites. A texas woman was feeling lucky when her homoeoses caped serious damage after a tornado. But she came back to find this big pile of rubble. This duplex near dallas texas was her home. Instead of her home. Her home was supposed to be all right. They demolished another home. It was a mistake. Workers were supposed to take down a home. She lived in the home. All she received is excuses at this point. I was hoping for an apology. Im sorry my company did this. Well make it better. But instead hes telling me how the insurance is going to handle it and telling me its going to be a nasty fight. How terrible is that. Diaz says her family had been out of the home since it was damaged by a tornado in december. Wow. New video shows the damage caused by golf ball sized hail in texas, a powerful storm moved across the northern part of the state around 10 00 last night. Hail rained down on builds and cars in plano. It shattered windows. You can see in the video here. And dented dozens of vehicles. Several skylights at a local walmart were broken. Luckily no one was hurt. This is the second hailstorm to but if they had gorilla glass as lee told us earlier. Would it have been able to withstand that . I just posted the video of them testing it. The normal windshield shattered and the gorilla glass didnt. It was in this ford gt. Which is 600 horse power. Its twelve pounds less. And a lower center of gravity. But this may be included on a lot of cars. His car geekism is off the charts now. Sorry. Dont press the wrong button. Outside we go. We switch gears and talk about see gears, i cant help it. We look to the south. You see the empire state building. Lower manhattan. A little filtered sun working in. 51 degrees. Cloudy skies an easterly wind at 13 to 21 miles per hour. Look at the range on this temperature map. You have a pair of 40s in montauk. There maybe 60degree readings west of trenton. Near 70 in philadelphia. Clearly a front is sitting over the area. It comes north and warms us up. Were getting rainfall later tonight. We really turned it around from our dry fall. As we started 2016, were just a touch below average. We could probably get to average by rainfall tomorrow morning. In terms of reservoir levels, were in nice shape heading into a High Consumption season here. Were running a shade above average. Good news there. Numbers now are in the low 50s. Thats where we hold through much of the evening hours. There will be more clouds around. The easterly winds shift southeasterly. So the wake up temperature, 57 degrees. There will be scattered showers. A little rain around. And i think the opportunity for steadier rain may be around the lunch hour. And there may be a rumble of thunder and a heavy band of showers that goes through and kicks up the winds. For sunshine after 2 00 or 3 00 in the afternoon. And then were really mild. With the showers, were in the southeast 60s by midday. See the deck of low clouds around. Showers over parts of southern new england. I think well stay dry. We may have to watch for late night drizzle or showers tomorrow morning. But look at the steadiest rain maybe late morning in the middle of the day. This has a look of a qualify line coming through with a cold front around midday. And then we see the exit. It might take until midday to clear out to long island. But temperatures make a run at 70 degrees. It should feel great during the afternoon hours. Air quality will be good tomorrow. The rain coloring things out. Knocking down the pollen count and a pretty good wind. The uv index is at a low 2. Later in the day itll be higher than that. Heres the sevenday forecast. After tomorrows push to 70 in the afternoon, well drop down 30s in many suburbs. As we go through the weekend, its pretty much where we should be this time of the year. Mid 50s. 40s at night. The only thing im concerned about on Easter Sunday, and right now future cast is not depicting it. Its throwing the low clouds into new england. We have to watch this trend. We may cloud over a little bit. That could hold temperatures back a little bit. But i think its a dry easter. Rain returns monday later in the day. 50s in the middle of the week next week. Well have more weather at 5 00. Dave and liz, back to you for now. Heres whats trending. Microsoft is in damage control after its Artificial Intelligence chatbot they called this turned into a racist nazi loving social media loving monster. Microsoft launched the twitter account with an Artificial Intelligence Program Acting like a teenager. The idea was it was supposed to answer tweets. Terrible things about african americans. Professed love for hitler and the hate of jews. It blamed the behavior on twitter pranksters looking to trick the programs commenting skills. It wasnt learning good things. All the bad tweets have been taken down as microsoft retools it. Actor chris pratt showing us around the set of guardians of the galaxy two for a good cause. Im not going to show them any props. Put this helmet on and punch me in the face. Thats a promise. Its for the kids. Dont worry. Someone will take care of that for us. Youll see how they film me and then seemlessly transport me to another universe. Its too bad the guy is not charming at all. 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Two walkons have not gotten a lot of play time during the ncaa tournament but theyre social media phenoms just the same. Heres how they get ready courtesy fresh prince of bellaire. [ music ] how cute are these guys. Ill introduce you to the fresh prince of the big dance. These guys are a pretty good talent. Theyre in philadelphia where the show was set. I guess they went with that. As always check out the trend online at abc 7 ny. And send us your trend ideas using the thetrend. A new wave of cell phones coming out. How do they stack up . Which is best for you . And heres a quick check on the delays. Smoking causes 16 different types of cancer. You have one clear way to reduce your risk. You can quit smoking. Let the phone wars again. Apple is getting its new smaller iphone ready, samsung promoting its new galaxy s7 with a celebrity filled ad campaign. Consumer reports has just finished testing of the s7 and the s7 edge. Reporter samsungs ads tout that its new s7 phones have a long battery life, a great camera in low life and that theyre water resistant. How well does this phone work if i pour expensive slam pain all over it . Reporter champagne all over it . Ran the galaxy s7 and s7 edge through the tests. Consumer reports dropped the phones in a pressurized tank which sim lates submission in 5 simulates submersion in 5 feet of water for 30 minutes. Both phones passed. With the s7 you dont have to worry about the flaps over the port like on the s5. Next the camera 6, both phones have clearer images than the galaxy s6 although the colors are the as accurate. Battery life was also tested by consumer reports. Both phones delivered more than 24 hours of talk time in our tests. The edge performed a little better because frankly, it has a bigger battery. Reporter the s70s also have expandable storage which is s7 also has expandable storage which is not available on the iphones. All these things help pro propel the s7 to the top of the ratings. Reporter these can be pricey, the s7 is 650 the s7 edge goes for 750. But the battle is not over. Consumer reports will be testing the new apple iphone as soon as it goes on sale. Still more news ahead. Eyewitness news at 5 00 begins right now. Now new yorks no. 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Subway construction workers fired on the spot for using drugs and alcohol. Its an Eyewitness News investigators exclusive. Plus the brussels terror attacks, new developments tonight, investigators searching for another suspect and was the Belgium Nuclear program being targeted . New at 5 00 the Flight Attendant accused of trying to smuggle more than 60 pounds of cocaine on a plane says she didnt know what was in her bag. Good evening. Im sade baderinwa. And im diana williams. Tonight that Flight Attendant she is 31yearold marsha gay reynolds. She surrendered to Police Last Night in new york city. Reynolds is a fulltime Nursing Student at nyu and was a Flight Attendant with jetblue for six years but has been suspended. Eyewitness News Reporter stacey sager is in court today in downtown brooklyn when reynolds went before a judge. Reporter this Flight Attendant made plenty of mistakes, 3 million worth at l. A. X. Airport, but clearly turning herself in last night made all the difference today here in court. A federal judge did just approve a bail bond package for her a short time ago. This was the scene as the family of marsha gay reynolds left the courthouse today. They did not wish to speak with us. She was accused of a crime. Reporter in fact, they yelled shut up as we asked them questions, but a federal judge in brooklyn did approve a reynolds on hold for one more day. This is so california prosecutors can appeal this case if they wish. Reynolds is a 31yearold former beauty queen, a college grad. She was a flight attend ant for jetblue caught with nearly 70 pounds of cocaine in her bags during a random check at l. A. X. Friday, but whats even more incredible is reynolds managed to get away, kick off her gucci shoes running down an up escalator and hopping a plane back to jfk and she did not turn herself in till days later. The facts will come out and everyone will be surprised. Theres more to the story. Reporter how did she get on an airplane without anyone noticing and what time was it . I dont know the details of what time she got on the airplane, but obviously she had security clearance because she works as a Flight Attendant for jetblue. Reporter it came out today for jetblue. She has been suspended from her position there as a flight