Today. Brayton came with his chief oneal. The top uniformed off ers. Brayton is the best face in policing and he has run Police Departments in boston, los angeles and twice now in new york. He took over a department in transition reducing stop and frisk while continuing a dramatic record low crime level in the city. Today, brayton wouldnt say what hes going to time. Im leaving with reluctance. I wish i had more time chronologically to stay around three or 4 years to work on issues. I dont have that type of time. Missing you every single day, but this friendship, this deep, deep connection will continue. I want to thank you for all youve done for the people of new york city. And today, brayton says hes spent the last 31 months in Office Putting to the a team that can take over for him once he does resign. Will take place on september 16th. Well see you at 5 00. Live at city hall, dave, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, dave. Lets go over to tim fletcher who has more on oneal. Reporter you heard the phrase a cops cop. Oneal is a cops commissioner from a rocky Police Officer to the subway station to the top job, he brings a wealth of experience. James oneal known as jimmy comes into the department. The highest ranked Police Officer. I see this as an opportunity to advance and see the he watched commissioner William Brayton step down, chief oneal is preparing to take over the nypd having served from the ground up learning his rookie subway cop in 1993. His mother and sister are influences for him. Life is much more about oneself. Its about all of us, thank you mom. But hes facing several challenges. Richard is president of the non partisan nonprofit citizens crime commission. Hes a proven crime fighter and hes adopted a strategy on guns, on gangs, on domestic violence. On rape. One expanding initiative is the neighborhood policing program. Knowing who your police are especially what their names are and especially what their names are. Working with neighborhood residents on problems that are vacs sashs. That will repair the breach between the police and the community. Its important. Mayor de blasio strongly supports his choice. Oneal burns with a passion innovation. And hes going to be an extraordinary leader for this department. Coming up tonight on Eyewitness News at 6 00, were going to hear from a Previous Police commissioner and his assessment of chief oneal. Live in folly square, tim fletcher. Thank you. The police union will release a state. Pat lynch says quote we hope chief oneal will make protecting Police Officers on the street his First Priority assumes his role. Lynch and Union Members followed mayor de blasio in protest. They protested in brooklyn as the mayor worked out and got his morning coffee. Were going to hear much more from that coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 00. And a to your phone by downloading the abc7ny app. A babys death is being ruled a homicide. Back was found unconscious and unresponsive inside her familys apartment in he died from abuse of head trauma. At this point there are no arrest. The babys parents have been questioned by police and investigators are investigating the claims of a ritual involving the child. Well have more on this story comin at 5 00. Unfit and unprepared. That is what president obama is calling republican president ial candidate donald trump today. The comments came as trump continues to face Harsh Criticism of his treatment of that gold star family who spoke at the Democratic National convention and theres more controversy. A purple heart recipient gave it to trump today and trump said it was easier zach has more from washington. Lonna. Reporter hi there, liz. It has been a day on the campaign trail with clinton taking a great. The ceo, and other top officials are out after the email scandal, donna brazil is in. But the huge headlines are around trump and the president. An unprecedented event in modern elections. Yes, i think the republican nominee is unfit. A president standing next to a foreign leader doubting hes willfully unprepared to do this job. I think i was right in mitt romney and john mccain were wrong on policy issues, but i never thought they couldnt do the job. Meanwhile at a trump rally in virginia, a babys cries punctuated his speech. Watch for yourselves. Dont worry about that baby. The moms running around like dont worry about it. Its young and beautiful and healthy and thats what we want trump discusses chinese evaluation and then paused again. I was kidding. You can get the baby out of here. Thats all right. Dont worry. I think she really believed me that i love having a baby crying while im concernal gave trump a purple heart. I always wanted to get a purple heart. This was easier. This comes after veterans were clinton capitalizes that. Hes forgetting our troops on the front lines. Chris christie distancing himself from donald trump and his criticism of the khan family. This happens on the picks up her first endorsement from a congressman Richard Hanna from up state new york. Live from washington, lonna zach, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, lonna, thanks so much. Lets get a look at the weather with meteorologist lee goldberg. Dave, still dealing with clouds right now. You see a couple of sprinkles over the twin forbes and into connecticut. Well deal with clouds and a stray shower for the next few hours. Were 75 degrees right now. Still a lot of cloud cover, but as we look at the evening planner, were going to see our temperatures dip into the upp 60s. It will be patchy clouds around. We do have our first or actually our fifth named storm of the season. Its Tropical Storm earl. We had that Tropical Storm update. A nice night for the its coming up in a few minutes. Dave and liz back to you. Thanks a lot. Gunfire erupting on the streets of brooklyn. A man dead and a woman wounded. Police say brown shot in the neck and torso. His family wanted to know with someone would want to harm the family man of 8 children. He tried to [ crying ] and live by his kids. He wanted the best for his kids. A 22yearold woman who was also in the car was struck. Once her once her condition is stage at this time no arrests have been made. New at 4 00, a car slamming into a laundromat leaving the building unstable. News copter 7 over elizabeth this afternoon. You can see the damage to the stall front. Amazing no one hurt from all of this damage. Another down day for stocks on wall street despite encouraging news about Consumer Spending. Federal government says Consumer Spending rose at 4 tenths of 1 in june. This despite the sells dipping slightly. Personal income rose fell 91 points to end the day at 18,313. Florida deals with zika issues and new york taking prevention and it begins in the subways. Well tell you about it. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Looking for balance in your digestiv for a nonstop hold o live 2 nonstop a disturbing attack on a subway came from someone who looked like he was a subway employee. The nypd says the attacker was dressed in an mta uniform. He approached a man from behind in manhattan last week. Police say he put a sharp stole his backpack and ran away. The victim wasnt seriously hurt and they do not believe the attacker was an mta worker. The zika virus heading into the subways. Officials are targeting standing water with pellets andrew cuomo demonstrated the approach at a Downtown Manhattan station. The stress that the measures are just precautionary. The best crisis is to prevent it, and i feel very strongly a situation like this, the best courses is always to get ahead of it. Meanwhile in miami, prevention efforts have turned into containment efforts as Health Experts try to figure out how mosquitos are continuing to spread the virus there. This despite stepped up efforts to wipe them out. Elizabeth her have the latest from miami. Reporter Mosquito Control in spraying pesticides. You know about the zika virus going on. Handing out bug repellents to residents and delivering pamphlets, zika prevention kits and treatment for standing water. Its scary that people are getting it from mosquitos. Im not pregnant, so im not concerned. A concern from visitors and residents mixed. It makes me slightly nervous, but im not changing what i do. One neighborhood, one scare mile north of downtown miami. Officials believes that number will grow. This is referred to as the cokeroach mosquitos. Stopping the spread of the virus is protecting pregnant women is a primary because those who show know symptoms the virus is thats the reason the cdc announced 16 million in additional funding to better monitor and detect birth defects, possibly caused by zika. What weve realized over the weekend is the mosquito counts havent been coming down that was abc elizabeth reporting. While, look at that. That was caught on camera. A Close Encounter with a whale in canada. On the Saint Lawrence river was posted on you tube. Watch look at that. As a fin whale comes under the boat. Fin whales are the second largest mammal after the blue whale. What an incredible thrill. Yeah, they offer these whale watching trips right here on our there were sighting we were talking about. You can see the pin stripes on that. Beautiful. How is it out there . You had your jacket on a few minutes ago, is it warm . Its room temperature. Its comfortable outside. Theres a breeze at times. When the sun comes out, it changes and it feels warm because theres humidity around. Pleasant through the evening hours. It may look threatening in your neighborhood, but little rain around the area. Theres light springles. For now we have have a pretty sunset with the clouds basically filtering out. Were at 75 degrees. The humidity at 60 possession. Southeast wind is kicking up and it could feel cool. Barometer on the rise. Were shy of the 80 degrees mark. Mark taking the day off on summer vacation. As we go to low to mid70s. Well turn clear overnight and tomorrow its sun and patchy clouds and what a beautiful day. Little lower humidity and higher temperatures. Its a gem and more of that to come later in the week. The clouds are spiralling from the north and east. Showers over eastern pennsylvania. One sneaking into sullivan county. Were watching this disturbance over cape cod and its going to swing over to sea. Its throwing clouds over our way. Ther significant rainfall on radar. High pressure is ready to settle in for a couple of days. Theres a weak front to the west. Thats going to fall apart, impressive looking west of hudson bay. The northwest will bring us our storm tomorrow is a really nice day. Partly to mostly sunny skies and lower humidity and temperatures around 80 degrees and thursday best bet of the week. Theres Tropical Storm earl and theres more organization this afternoon so were going to wait for a 5 00 advisory. Its headed quickly off to the west and headed to the yucatan towards belize. It can be a minimal hurricane and gusty winds. Well have the latest forecast track in our next half hour. Cloudy skies to clear. Comfortable, 67. Tomorrow, your highs around 80 degrees. Partly to mostly sunny day and pleasant and partly cloudy at 67 degrees. Coming up at 4 30, well look at the map. Maybe theres a thunderstorm at night. Well look at that future cast and a look at the weekend and tropical track and the subway series. Well make sure rain stays away from city field. Dave and liz back to you. I think weve had enough of week and a half of august. Liz has spoken. Thanks a lot. Thanks, lee. As organizers in queens prepare for the u. S. Open tennis championships, they no longer have to wait of rain speaking of which. The Tennis Association today unveiled the new roof over arthur ash stadium. The retractable roof is built to close or open in less than 7 minutes. Its part of a 500 million renovation at the Billy Jean KingNational Tenn a lot of fans says about time too. I should say fewer than 7. Not less than 7 minutes, sorry about that. Good correction. This is a disease you never hear about these days, but mumps is making headlines again in one community on long island. Well tell you your and how concerned you should be. Plus a tax on your binge pope francis is making hes setting up a panel to study whether women can serve as deacons, but hes making ways with commons thats not supportive of tran gender rights. The role of deacon is preserved for men. They cant celebrate mass. Vatican released a transcripts of remarks that francis made last week where he said quote, it is terrible that children are being taught at school that gender is the Season Finale of the bachelorette, the final rose went to a former pro football player. A lot of people saw it coming. Bachelorette joe joe fletcher now engaged to jordan rogers. The brother of green bay packer great aaron rogers. Entertainer reporter sandy kenyon with much more. Reporter dave, by the time the First Episode of the bachelor the aired, filming had been completed so joe joe and jordan are already a couple. Surprise for viewers, they can meet occasionally in secret. That proved frustrating. The how many come left that left many fans one viewer tweeting im disappointed in joe joe for her choice and disappointed in myself for choosing jordan roger. I knew i loved him on our first oneonone date and it grew from there. Joe joe and jordan said love scenes were edited out and it added to the show by having joe joe no one understands what it is like to break up with someone and get engaged. It doesnt make sense and it never will. I with him. Into the couples frustration, the tabloid stories that ran as the show progressed. Falling for a fraud. The tabloids were horrible for me. There were nights where i would call him crying myself to sleep and he was on the phone with me all night. It breaks my heart shes hurting because things are being said about me and how it reflects on her. The two plan to move together and find new truth in the old saying, if it doesnt kill you, it just makes you stronger. Weve had criticism and weve made it through it, and i just feel like if we can get through that, well be able to get through anything. They plan to make their home in dallas. You nay sayers and they plan to get married. Joe joe says shell take jordans last name of rogers and the final episode and so many other scenes of joe joe getting cozy with the other guy, jordan claims he never watched those to do so. Smart man. I cant wait until aaron rogers gets grilled in the locker room over this episode. Its all soap opera. The two brothers are estranged and thats extra layer. Thank you, sandy. Members of the soccer team showed up at the Microsoft Store program. The spanish team is on its summer tour. That grid will be at met life as apart of the stanley cup. We have an attorney health alert to tell you about. Theres an outbreak of mumps. Well tell you why Health Officials are worried. The pokemon go game has a homeowner fed up. Wait until you hear why hes filed a an Airline Pilot turned hero for taking down a passenger. I know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable like the rest of the hood. Genius. Yeah, they offer tons of free hd channels. And you can record six shows at the same time. Looks like youre all hooked up. Games about to start. Lets do it. Were watching here . Oh yeah. Make your move to Time Warner Cable. For 89. 99 per month youll get tv, 100 meg internet and phone. Our top story this half hour, a warning about the outbreak of the mumps. 200 cases have been in nassau county. Theres concerns that the strain may be resistant to the vaccine. We have the story with stacy sager. Reporter dave, 18 suspected cases of the mumps in and around this community. While Health Officials say no vaccine is of stopping a disease from spreading into your community in the first place. And so theyre urging people here in wash your hands and dont share drinks and stay home if you do get sick. Most important thing is were on top of it. Weve identified these early cases. Health officials in long beach says proper precautions are being taken. They urge anyone who thinks they may have been exposed to the mumps to make sure theyve had both the far in the area, there have been 18 suspected cases. Most of them in young adults and in additional cases are expected. Mump outbreaks around the country not that unusual they say. Some of them are very small. Just a handful of cases. There have been outbreaks in the united states, hundreds of cases. Were trying to prevent this from getting larger. That means knowing your vaccination history. Here on the boardwalk today, we werent the case have you had a vaccine . No, maybe. They say the vaccine offers the best protection despite the fact that those who have gotten sick also got vaccinated. Its a safe vaccine. Its a vaccine every parent should make sure their child gets vaccinated for and its not going to be perfect and its going to be less perfect the more people dont take advantage of this vaccine. And so once again, they only have working theories at this point. E this was a case where maybe the first person who got the mumps did not get the vaccine or perhaps this is a strain that is a bit more resistant to the vaccine. Once again, common sense is the best way to protect yourself. Wash your hands and were going to have much more on the symptoms of mumps at 5 30. Im stacy sager, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, stacy. New at 4 00, police made an two yesterday. 21yearold he have perez is accused of striking a man. Hes charged with leaving the scene of a deadly crash. A homeowner in new jersey is fed up and gone to court over pokemon go players. Jeffrey of west orange says strangers have been lingering outside of his home since the smartphone game was released last door and asked to get in his backyard to catch a pokemon. The lawsuit is asking for a class action status for anyone who wants to keep pokemons off their property. Meanwhile in the hudson valley, a fight broke out in downtown near a popular park with pokemon go players. Cell phone video posted on you tube called it a huge pokemon go brawl. One witness says it started with nasty words. Police are reviewing the video they think the game was involved. Caught on camera, an American Airlines pilot captured a drunk passenger. The passenger accused of threating and threatening the crew. New video showing an American Airlines pilot taking down a passenger after he allegedly attacked the passengers. Take a seat. I dont want to take a seat. I dont care what you want to do. Hes facing charges after interfering with a flight crew after his plane landed at Douglas Airport. He took the he became disruptive after drinking three glasses of jack daniels in an hour. In the video, you can see kirk refusing to sit down. Attendant up the aisle. According to an fbi affidavit, he threats evened to break the he pushed the attendant down before kirk take her to the ground. The an associate of flight an increase throughout the industry. Alcohol is a problem as it is in this case. Cur has been released on 20,000 bond. No future court date set. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. One of the results of this incident, cur is not allowed to fly by commercial flight or visit Douglas Airport in the future. The hall currently named Calhoun College after john see calhoun, a slave supporter. The school said it will not change the name, but after a call from students and faculty, they decided to revisit the issue. A mother goes gets kicked out for break Breast FeedingBreast Feeding. Do you floss your teeth . Yes. Well tell you why you may be wasting your time and money youre kidding me. Youre told to floss, floss. Were at 75 and cloudy skies. On radar, clouds trying to thin out. As you go through the evening hours, i dont think youll need the umbrella. Will you need the umbrella on im only in my 60s. Ive got a nice long life ahead. Big plans. So when i found out medicare doesnt pay all my medical expenses, i got a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if youre eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. About an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, tedhealthcare insurance company. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, it could save you in outofpocket medical costs. Call now to request your free decision guide. Ive been with my doctor for 12 years. Now i know ill be able to stick with him. [ male announcer ] youll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. Plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. See why millions of people have already enrolled endorsed by aarp. 4 stories were following at 4 00. A change of command for the nypd. Brayton announced his future job im asked to create a new division to join the 12 divisions they have and risk is the name of it and to build that company out so im in a position relative to the current threats that this is his how do i identify them, how to prevent them and how do we respond to them. Brayton will step down in september. The death of a 5monthold baby in queens have been ruled a homicide. Police say the b was found unconscious and unresponsive inside her familys apartment in aim hearse on sunday. A mosquito spreading zika 15 people are said to be infected from local mosquitos. President obama today saying donald trump is unfit to be president. And trump says obama is failed leadership. Are you a flosser as in your teeth. The daily ritual is a huge waste of time. The federal government recommended flossing since 1979. Recently without saying a word the government removed its flossing recommendation. Its government now admits the effectiveness of flossing has never really been researched. And by law, if theres no proof, then it cant be recommended. My dentist recommends it. All right. Mcdonald is cooking up something new in hopes of attracting Health Conscious customers. Its removing artificial flavors in its food. Mcdonald says it has reached its goal of serving chicken not created with antibiotics and the change has effected half of the actress Shannon Dougherty says her cancer has spread. Some cancer cells have spread to her body. Shes undergoing more therapy followed by radiation. She has undergo three 8 rounds of chemo therapy. A woman says she was kicked out of a Movie Theater for br baby. She was catching a movie of bad mom is when the manager confronted her about Breast Feeding her baby. He said you can cover up or leave. At that point i kind of i was so hurt. I dont need anybodys approval to feed my baby. She was in her lobby arguing with the manager when he made that request because the theater doesnt allow children under the commenting on the matter. 100 dogs will be available for adoption. No one know where they came from, but the center where they came from said they received adoption inquiries. March 8th is day they can go to new homes. The adoption is 20 per dog. A womans trip to a walmart in kentucky was quite eventful and tu sensation. She posted this photo of two dogs on facebook. In the caption she explained she saw the car they were in, crash into the side of a building. It wasnt a serious impact. When she looked in, and noticed the dog was behind the wheel. She joked they decided to get their mommy in the store. The woman sat with the dogs until their just a minor detail. Thats a weird story. A frightening shopping ordeal to tell you about. At 4 00, a 4yearold gets locked in a safe. How he ended up in fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, s can. It was a scary 15 minutes for a boy and his mother. Locked inside. Strong employees didnt know the combination to get him out so she had to call the fire department. They put oxygen into the safe to help the little boy breathe. They used the manufacturers override code to finally set him free. That story made me anxious. Lincoln center the home of talented for formers have its ticket booth today. This is a special pop up booth for a starts selling tickets at noon at lincoln stadium on west 22nd street. Theyll sell discounted tickets for the full range of performing arts across new york city. Will it become the Leaning Tower of San Francisco . The Leaning Tower the millennial tower sinking and now leaning as a result. The high rise condo building is leaning 2 inches engineers expected. Theyre blaming a tran yent center nearby. But the transient center is blaming it on poor design. Regardless, its leaning and its sinking and thats scary. Yeah. Not to mention you cant put an egg on a table. Theres a lot of side effects. At least the ground is typically stable out in california. I wonder if theyre going to take that down. Oh my and were wildly speculating on that. Exactly. So true. To do see storm storms good to see storms. Its windy as we get out of the cloudy days. I think youll like the rest of the week. Cold . Warm. We have thinning skies to the east and north as we look at the George Washington bridge. Youre there. Exactly. Because lime looking off to the north and east. The camera is pointing to to the bronx. Our temperatures in 75 degrees right now. Mostly cloudy skies. Northeasterly winds. Mid80s by the end of the month. Average highs around 80. Rainfall, a little under 4 inches of rainfall. What to watch during this month while the tropics are activity, were seeing that. First immediate showers is a nice highlight. That peaks on august 12th. Look to the northeast sky. Well keep you posted on that. This system. This is earl. And its moving south of jamaican right now and winds at 50 milesanhour and its moving to the west at 16 milesanhour. Computer models, a lot of green in here. Its going towards belize and the yucatan peninsula. Its a strong tropical system at 50mileperhour winds or a minimal hurricane as it approaches and it may resurface in the gulf of mexico and regain evolves, but it looks consistent westerly trap and it doesnt look like its coming into the northern gulf of mexico or the main u. S. Meanwhile tonight, we have clouds thinning out. Upper 60s overnight. Tomorrow night, patchy clouds and upper 70s and humidity down. Subway series ago, no rain slicker needed and no umbrella. Yankees at met city field. Satellite picture right now, a few clouds around. You can see how were looking to the north and east. More clears and heavier clouds over parts of lets say Morris County into hudson and union and monmouth. It looks threatening, but no showers. Just a sprinkle. Clouds thin out through the night and its cloudy. Tomorrow its a mix of skies and highs near 80 degrees. If theres sprinkles, they form in the cascade. I think most areas will be dry during the afternoon hour. Good. Uv index is 9. Boaters knot the current risk is moderate. 7day accuweather forecast, 80. Beautiful sunshine on thursday. Friday is more humid and warm. As we go into saturday, thats the only little blemish here. And i think theyll be a spotty thunderstorm around. The timing is a little tricky right now on saturday with the storms. Looks like it might be around midday, but its not a washout and then sunday it goes back to that momentum until early neck week. There you go, dave. Nice job, thank you lee. Heres whats trending on this tuesday, august 2nd. And bad news for all those who like to binge watch on netflix. The state started charging tax. Pennsylvania added the netflix tax to help close a budget of 1. 3 billion hole there in their state budget. Hula and other similar services. Chicago introduced a 9 tax last year and they wont be the last to do that. Nfl Training Camps in section which means were getting closer to the seasonal kickoff but not before the the reporters gathered expecting to hear from reid they got this guy. Fake reed. Some people wondered if reed changed over the summer. The team is looking prey thats my queue, good looking. Come on, beautiful. Go go get you a hamburger. Hes known as fake andy reed and im told hes the coachs biggest friend. Samsung looking to apple a run. And mobile devices and it comes with a stylist to write on the device and a powerful processer comes with it and a better camera. The standard feature is an eye scanner and you can unlock phone by staring into it. Look into look into the 21st century. It hurts my eyes. Its not going to hurt your eyes. I know, but it kind of does. Embrace the technology. Stretch it out it will promote eyeball theft. I dont know. Thats right. Lets move on. You dont freak me out. Parents used a sweet treat with an announcement on the side of this candy to tell the children theyre having another baby and the reaction was perfect. Youre pregnant . Yes. [screaming] thats awesome. Theyre not sure how to react. We know how he feels. Hes very happy. Hes freaking and he cries happy tears. Its so cute we had to share. I wonder if the next line is were having a girl. And they stop. Im sure they would be happy. Check out the trend online abc7ny and use the thetrend. I love theyre the best. Pure happiness. Coming up next, teens earning money for the summer and improving the community. We have information on a program in new jersey. Hes the delays at hudson river crossing. 35 minutes lincoln. I know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable and you can record six shows at the same time. And with the super fast internet, entertainment nirvana wow. Nirvana. Switch to Time Warner Cable for 89. 99 per month, youll get free hd channels, 100 meg internet with no data cap, and unlimited calling. Call now. Looks like youre all hooked up. Games about to start. Lets do it. Were watching here . Oh yeah. Ohh. How about you and i go watch my favorite show . Switching is easy. Youll get our exclusive onehour arrival window, a moneyback guarantee, and theres no contract to sign. Oh youve got the twc phone. Its unlimited calling to like half the world. Including mexico, canada, india, european union. Yeah. This will work as a coffee table. Dont ah it says. Fragile. Get tv, internet and phone for 89. 99 per month. Plus free installation, tv equipment, and epix included. Call now. New at 4 00, putting teens to work and improving the are getting a chance to earn money while making their neighborhoods beautiful. Theyre doing everything from painting to planting flowers to picking up bags of garbage. New jersey reporter toni yates is in paterson with the details. Yes indeed, we are in West Side Park where those kids work really hard today under the hot sun and they did get a whole lot of stuff done. You see there behind me. What you dont see now is the graffiti that used to cover gatelike monuments. No weeds. You see flowers. And the results of what we call elbow grease in sprucing up the park. Reporter look at all the kids. They spent hours being apart of teamwork, making new friends, making West Side Park more pretty, and making some money doing it. Patersons mayor jose torres gave the Organization Behind this, which is junior youth build, a 100,000 grant to employ these high schoolers. 40 of them to spend their summer working, cleaning parks and responsibility. Its all about really caring for the city of paterson. This is a design to improve conditions here in the city of paterson. This is a real job. They clock in. They clock out. They have bosses. So really its for the teens to understand what it means to have a job. Good way to spend the summer . Yeah, its pretty fun. Yeah. What do you think about the paycheck . I really dont care about the paycheck. Why . I like helping out in the community and stuff. See, isnt that cool . We talked to a lot of those kids while they were out here working. Coming up at 6 00, well talk to them and find out why its changed their attitude a lot. Youll also hear more from the Program Director about all the benefits its offered these teenagers. Live here in paterson, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Im just doing it to do it. A lot of parents would be still more news ahead. Eyewitness news at 5 00 begins right now. All new at 5 00, the major cleanup at a Church Preschool in new jersey flooded by more than five feet of water. A big shakeup in the nypd. Commissioner bill bratton resigns amid turmoil within the ranks. Tonight we hear from the man taking over as top cop. Allicot. Diana williams is off. Im sade baderinwa. Last week bratton said hed step down when the time was right. Well, that time apparently this september. We already know that replacing him will be chief of Department James oneill. We have two reports tonight, Kemberly Richardson with new reaction just coming in. We begin with political reporter dave evans at city hall. This was certainly a big surprise today because he told the New York Times a couple term in office. That would be december 31st, 2017. We now know that bill bratton will be joining a Company Called taneo, a private consulting company, the ceos, hell be advising them about business in this new age of terrorism. All these changes we understand now take place september 16th. I want to introduce to you the next Police Commissioner for the city of new york, jimmy oneill. [ applause ] News Conference was not so much about bill bratton resigning as it was about whos replacing him. Jimmy oneill, the top uniformed cop in the department. There was still plenty of questions on why is bratton leaving, is it because of the Ongoing Police probe by federal prosecutors . Is it because of growing protests over how the department is run . 110 has nothing to do with this. Reporter the mayor today said bratton is leaving simply im leaving with reluctance. I wish i had more time chronologically to stay around for three or four years to work on the issues that are going to take that time to straighten out. I dont have that type of time. Reporter hes been the top cop in los angeles and new york twice. He performed stop and frisk dramatically yet kept crime at record low levels and over saw the retraining of an entire department, making a kindler, gentler police. Ill miss seeing day but this friendship and this deep, deep connection will continue. I want to thank you for all youve done for the people of new york city. Reporter his replacement is the architect of neighborhood policing. Neighbors getting to know cops in the precinct on the street by name. He promises crime will remain low. The only way we can continue to do that is to bridge that gap between us and the community. Reporter so far the reviews on oneill are good and how the