Gray out there in spots. We are tracking heavy rain moving out of Putnam County. Already the damage has been done. A flood advisory in effect for western Putnam County until 6 45 this morning. Weve seen heavy rain in the Hudson Valley. Heavy rain is the trend for today. You can see in the future forecast, 74 outside. Winds are calm out of the east long. Scattered storms through the morning and this afternoon. It wont be raining all day, when it does rain, it will rain heavily like yesterday. Its muggy and unsettled with temperatures in the 70s to low 80s. Well look at your tenday forecast and tell you when we finally dry out in a few. We are following breaking news out of austin, texas. Person dead and four others injured. The first shots fired about three hours ago. You can see that huge crowd of people gathering downtown. Austin police were originally calling this an active shooter situation but now say both scenes are secure. Well bring you the latest updates as they come in. Police reopened a stretch of the new jersey turnpike that was closed investigation. New Jersey State Police were chasing a driver who was armed and dangerous. When the car finally stopped, troopers found out that the driver apparently shot himself. The driver is a form Police Officer from rhode island who was suspected in the disappearance of his wife. A big cleanup is underway after storms lashed out in new jersey. Winds and rain brought down tree limbs in morristown. One branch punctured a car. No one was hurt. Live wires dangling over streets. This was the scene at the Princeton Junction train station. The rain coming down so fast, the stairwell and tunnel completely flooded. Heres rana novini with more. Reporter this is a pedestrian walkway thats obviously not very pedestrian friendly right now and believe it or not, this is a major improvement as many areas were flooded with heavy rains. Its crazy. Its a crazy amount of water. Reporter the water would be up to their necks if they tried to wade through. Princeton junction looks more like a loading dock than a train station. Its creating a big mess for the passengers. If you had a boat with a gondola and a guy with a hat, it would be very romantic going through there, but we dont have that. Reporter some stores flooded out. Nature trails looked more like rivers. Torrential rains, downpours like crazy. Sounds like nails on the roof. Reporter drivers in princeton had it rough. Rescue crews even tougher. Close to traffic. The water is just above my ankles right now, but some drivers learn the hard way, it doesnt take much to get stuck. Carl said they were just trying to get to the train station when this happened. We turn around and as im pressing on the gas pedal, the car stops and were in the middle of fourinch water, police cars were like, why did you go past that . And we were like, we dont know. Reporter all over new jersey, a wild weather saturday with a Silver Lining of rescues and no reported injuries. In princeton, rana novini news 4 new york. Track the weather all weekend with our nbc 4 new york app. Click the weather tab for the latest forecast, interactive radar and important weather alerts. It just takes a few seconds to download. New this morning, a traffic officer was injured at crime scene on long island. Suffolk county investigators say a 21yearold man was shot in while police were investigating that gunfire, a traffic officer was hit by a car. He was taken to the hospital with a leg injury. No charges have been filed. The shooting victim is recovering. There is a search this morning for a man who allegedly slashed another man in a bronx park. Police released this Surveillance Video of the suspect. He was involved in an argument with the victim. He slashed him on his arm and back before stealing his backpa w police are looking for a man who attacked a woman in greenwich village. This happened on 5th avenue near west 8th street. Not far from Washington Square park. The man walked up to a 20yearold woman, struck up a conversation and then things turned violent. He grabbed her and sexually assaulted her. She was able to fight him off. Federal investigators are a hot air balloon carrying 16 people caught fire and crashed. No one survived. Witnesses say the fire spread so fast there was no time to react. It wasnt like an explosion. It was kind of like a it just went up. The ntsb says victim specialist and weather expert also conduct an extensive investigation. In california a wildfire continues to race across the big sur coastline. Flames are forcing thousands of residents and visitors to run for it. That fire burned more than 52 square miles. At least 57 homes have been destroyed. 2,000 more are threatened. That fire just 15 contained. If you played powerball last night, chances are you did not win. The jackpot ticket was purchased in New Hampshire. Saying where in the state the ticket was purchased. Last nights jackpot worth 487 million. It was the eighth largest jackpot ever. The winning numbers were 32, 21, 17, 23, 11, powerball 5. Again, sold in New Hampshire. There you go. That says it all. Coming up on today in new york, some deals promise big money back in the mail. But what happens check never comes . Better get baquero. And trouble on the trail for donald trump after reports he got stuck in an elevator. And why netflix customers are bothered rather than binging this weekend. And it is a good weekend for binge watching. Rain a problem yesterday and today. We have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for parts of the region. Lets look at the brooklyn bridge, lots of clouds and some soggy coming up in your storm now to decision 2016. New details about attempts to hack into Hillary Clintons campaign networks. A source tells nbc news that the february fib today the campaign about the attempts in the spring, but the clinton team declined agents requests to look clinton and tim kaine hit the road in western pennsylvania to sell their plan for america. For residents in rural cambria county, its all about jobs. Clinton said she is listening. Were going to create jobs in pennsylvania and across america, especially in places that have been left out and left behind. Clinton picked up an endorsement from Dallas Mavericks owner mark cuban. Again for something he said on the campaign trail. His target this time the parents of a fallen american soldier who spoke at the Democratic National convention. Trump taking issue with the father telling a National Audience that trump sacrificed nothing and nothing in a speech. Trump said he sacrificed a lot in his business career. She was standing there. She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. Im cannot see my sons picture. Trumps latest controversy wasnt the only obstacle he had to overcome. His campaign confirms he was among ten people who had to be rescued from an elevator that got stuck in a Colorado Springs resort. A pocket version of the u. S. Constitution became a best seller. 1 on amazon. Happening today, or really not happening, the largest hot air Balloon Festival would resume today in new jersey but the weather forced them to cancel events yesterday. They say safety is always the top priority and the decision was made out of an abundance of caution. Some balloons offer rides, i dont know if go up in this weather. That unsettled weather still looms. Very foggy right now. Very heavy rain. Flooding a concern. We picked up over five inches of rain in some spots yesterday. A small section of new jersey, but you saw some of the flooding. We may see that again. Were on a flood watch in new york city and suburbs. Theres the gwb, no flooding around the city, but light rain you can see a little glisen from time to time. Heavy rain may return this afternoon. Lets see the flood area watches. This is new york city, northeast new jersey, all of these counties, bergen, hudson, essex, union, under a Flash Flood Watch until 11 00 tonight. That means conditions are ripe for flash flooding. Heavy rain at times. The ground also saturated from the rain weve seen. So any heavy rain that fal localized roads could get flooded. This is more a local variety. That could affect roadways. From the Hudson Valley through Nassau County under a Flash Flood Watch. We are seeing pockets of heavy rain, not around the city. Light rain around the five boroughs. North and south of town is where were focusing attention. We had flooding in Putnam County. Heavy rain has moved into duchess county. Poughkeepsie, new milford, morning. Down the jersey shore, not much better. This is ocean county, lacy, toms river, and Seaside Heights seeing the downpours. That could cause ponding on the roadways as well. All about the flash flooding concern on this sunday. Heavy rain and storms likely, just like yesterday. Most widespread this afternoon. So if youre not seeing rein right now, you probably will see heading back to work tomorrow. Temperatures are mild in the 70s, its muggy. 74 in greenwich, Fairfield County feeling warm. 72 in fairfield. 75 this hour in bridgeport. Temperatures in the upper 60s in newburgh, 64 in monticello. 75 in long branch. The mets taking on the rockies at 1 00. Maybe a few peeks of sunshine this is 12 00 today. We see spotty showers and storms picking up in intensity and coverage. This is a wet scenario around 3 00. Heavy downpours if you get the rain. Like yesterday, rainfall rates over 2 inches per hour. Not a great beach day. We may keep it drier east of town. Eastern suffolk county, you from new york city, westchester, jersey shore, the rain threat lingers into monday morning. Lets look at your exclusive tenday forecast. Still unsettled tomorrow. More showers and storms. High of 81. Tuesday, much better. One or two showers. 81. Losing that humidity and the rain by wednesday. The sun returns with a High Temperature of 84. Learn how to submit your own weather videos. The news 4 new york app for iphone is available in the app you. Thank you. A netflix outage left binge watchers stranded on a rainy saturday. Web users across the country saw a technical difficulties message when they logged in. Outages were reported as far away as switzerland and argentina. The service was back up and running for customers at a rebate can be a great incentive to buy something. It convinced a long island man to spend more at the hardware store. But when he filled out the rebate form and didnt get it, he said better get baquero. We had pans in rollers. We were just rolling this on the floor. Reporter this is where nicholas planned to use a new product hed purchased, an epoxy craft beer and sports bar called the north tap. The price of the five gallon pail was 167. We were entitled to a 40 rebate. Reporter nicholas bought the epoxy at home depot. He followed the procedure for getting the 40 rebate. Including making sure he bought the product within a specified time frame. It is dated september 4th. Their product rebate says must buy between september 3rd and september 7th. Reporter after sending in the form and the receipt, nick lat got a postcard s i sent it back again circling the date on the receipt. I showed them we followed the procedure. Showing them the date. Showing them the time. Got another postcard saying we didnt qualify. Reporter nicholas who has also been busy all these months as an ordained wedding officient reached out to us for help. I see lynda gets results. It was a matter of principal and its only 40, but its the principle of the thing. We asked home depot to look into this. Problem solved. They discovered when nicholas typed the receipt Number Online he was off by one digit and that number had a different purchase date. When he appealed his case, the Home Depot Rebate Center made the same mistake. Now home depot has sent him the 40 rebate and they added a 50 gift card for his inconvenience. Home depot tells us they are sorry for his trouble and appreciate the opportunity to make it right. Lynda baquero, news 4 new york. They more than mad r made it it right. To get in touch to the team, logon to nbcnewyork. Com gethelp or call us at 8666397244 to get help. Everybody who reaches out is going to get a response from our team at the consumer investigative center. Harry cicma has sunday morning sports coming up. And one part of the state is pump. Find out where gas is less than if you want to soar along the highest, longest and fastest zipline in north america, theres only one place to do it. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. . . Its all in the catskills. Only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Some scary moments on board an American Airlines flight. Flight attendants reported smoke in the cabin of the plane headed to toronto. This was moments before the plane landed yesterday. The plane made it to the ground safely. Nobody was hurt. Passengers were bussed to the terminal. Gas in the country. The price of a gallon of gas went down again in the garden state. It will cost you less than 2 on average for a gallon of unleaded gas in the garden state. The National Average is 2. 14 a gallon. Pretty cheap. I saw gas 1. 77 in new jersey yesterday. It is a summer to remember for a group of local children. They are learning to swim free of charge. Michael george tells us about the thats eightyearold unique looking at the camera. Shes about to swim for the first time. Unique is one of about 20 kids getting free swim lessons from experts. Ready, two, three, go. Reporter many of these kids live in Public Housing and come from lowincome backgrounds. Something as simple as a day at the pool is a luxury they never had before. Statistically if you dont learn between the ages of 8 and how to swim. Reporter Archie Lee Coates helped to start this program as part of his organization, loft pool. They have the lofty goal of creating a clean, chubb pool right on the east river. Its not just about swimming. Its being empowered to do anything that you didnt have the opportunity to do. Reporter its not an easy start. Some of the children have never been in the water before. Are you scared at all . Just a little bit. Reporter but it doesnt take long before the kids forget they were ever scarnd having fun. Unique is learning to swim alongside her sisters and watching from above their very proud grandmother. She never got the chance to learn to swim. Im very proud of them. Theyre doing wonderful. Theyre learning a lot. Reporter now vivian says her grandkids may teach her. Unique says shes ready. On the upper east side, michael that magic number, if kids dont learn between 8 and 10, they might never learn. Its time for a check of sports. Heres harry cicma. Well, what a special night in queens. Just six days after being inducted into the National Baseball hall of fame, mike piazza had his number retired by the mets. And it was a packed house. There was a chance of rain, but Mother Nature cooperated and the hall of famer was greeted with a standing ovation. Piazzas family and a few former mets teammates were on hand. Mike was drafted in the 62nd round back in 1988. He spent 16 years in the major leagues and is considered to be the greatest offensive catcher in baseball history. The 12time allstar earned ten silver slugger awards and hit 396 home runs. The most by any catcher. He also led the mets to a world series appearance in 2000. Piazzas number of 31 becomes with you. So, every time these guys are down and you need a little bit of inspiration, just give a little peek up there to old mikey and know that im back home watching you guys on tv, saying a lot of prayers, praying for the mets. And i just want you to know you have given me an honor that no man deserves and no player deserves. Congratulations to mike piazza. The Major League Baseball trade deadline is tomorrow. And there are possible moves between the mets and yankees. Saturday the mets announced that jose reyes is going on the disabled with a strained oblique. The rockies looking to stop a threegame losing streak. Up in the fourth. Not anymore. The tworun blast gives the rockies a 32 advantage. Next inning, two men on and he goes up the middle under the glove of cologne. Two runs score. Rockies up by three. Colorado holds on for the victory. Yoenis cespedes left the game with a sore right quad. The yankees are Still Deciding whether to sell at the trade deadline. They were taking on the last place race. Eighth inning, Nathan Eovaldi to deep left center. The rays lead 10. In the 3rd, yankees up one, its kirt crushing this pitch deep to left. And in the seventh. Tick beckham joins the party with this tworun blast to center. The yankees fall 63 the final. Its their Third Straight loss. They will try to avoid the sweep this afternoon. The third round of the pga championship was suspended due to yesterdays storms in new enjoy the rest of your sun. For today in new york, im harry cicma. Up next on today in new york, a new jersey grandmothers story of survival after days with no food or water, just her and her cat. And were keeping an eye on a flood threat on this sunday. Lets look outside at the hamilton bridge. Not a lot of rain around the five boroughs, but what about your beach plans . Well look at your shore cast ewide sale going on now buy one, get one at half price. Hundreds of styles and colors. Every item through the store. Buy one get one at half price. Our biggest sale of the year is a blast blinds to go. Blinds for life. Celebrate something really special this summer at blinds to gos annual storewide sale going on now. Buy one, get one at half price. Hundreds of styles and colors. Every item through the store. Buy one get one at half price. Thats something to celebrate blinds to go. Sky cam live looking at lower manhattan. The entire tristate area waking up to haze and serious weather concerns. Theres some showers passing through and also some flooding concerns. Welcome back to today in new york. Its sunday morning. Im gus rosendale. We should get right to raphael. Im sure you want to make plans probably not a beach umbrella. Yesterday we had great beach time. That was great for the east of town and the jersey shore, you enjoyed lots of sunshine early on. Clouds rolled in as the day went on. Today we have clouds around the tristate and showers extending out towards long island. So you will not luck out with your beach plans. Not a great beach day. Showers and lots of clouds. A few rumbles of thunder. Temperatures stay down in the 70s to low a moderate risk for rip currents. So make sure a lifeguard can see you if you head to the water. A moderate risk for lightning. Flash flood watch in effect for Nassau County. Temperatures all around the tristate today are below average. 77 for your High Temperature in poughkeepsie. 78 in white plains. 82 in central park. Again, heavy rain possible, especially as we head into the afternoon. Well look at the tenday dry out in a few minutes. Pat and gus . Thank you. We are continuing to follow breaking news out of austin, texas. Police saying all four victims of a shooting in the downtown area were women and the gunman remains on the loose. One person killed, three injured. Bars were letting out early. At the same time shots were fired during an assault in the same area leading police to think they had an active shooter in the area police reopened a stretch of the new jersey turnpike that was closed overnight for an investigation. New Jersey State Police were chasing a driver who was reportedly armed and dangerous. Well, when the car finally stopped, troopers discovered the driver apparently shot himself. That driver is a form Police Officer from rhode island suspected in the disappearance of his wife. He did shoot himself but he survived and is being treated at hackensack hospital. New this morning, a long car at a crime scene. Suffolk county investigators say a 21yearold man was shot in the back in a large Outdoor Party in west babylon last night. While police were investigating the gunfire, a vehicle struck that traffic officer. He was taken to the hospital with a leg injury. No charges have been filed. Theres a search for a man accused of trying to rape a woman in the restroom of a church gym on staten island. Police are looking for 42yearold anyone with his whereabouts is asked to call police. At least 16 people are feared dead after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed outside of austin, texas. It appears to be one of the deadliest balloon accidents in u. S. History. Reporter investigators worked all day at the scene of a morning in a pasture in lockhart, texas. Margaret wiley was one of the first people to call 911. I looked off over there, you saw a fireball going up. Reporter the balloon carrying 16 people caught fire and crashed near some high capacity Power Transmission lines. Everyone on board is believed to be dead. The faa, ntsb, and fbi are investigating the crash. Its like a crime scene. You only get one chance everything correctly. Reporter the balloon is owned by the heart of texas balloon rides of san marcos, texas. Investigators will be looking at many factors including weather conditions to see if they factored into the crash. Earlier in the morning it was foggy. But at the point in time that the balloon went down i didnt see that much haze. Reporter a local balloon pilot from austin tells nbc news that he believes power lines people who live nearby were stunned. It looks exciting when you see them up there. You think, wow, theyre having fun. So unfortunate this happened. Reporter Texas Governor greg abbott said in a statement that our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. I ask all of texas to join news praying for their loss. Chris pallone, nbc news, new jersey. In dallas, it was a day of healing. 5,00ou to the American Airlines center. They enjoyed a day of activities, performances and games. The event was held three weeks after five dallas officers were gunned down in a protest. Officers say this day of healing is about improving community relations. There was a vigil in memory of three people shot and killed during a party in suburban, seattle. Friends and families grieved as a fourth victim is hospitalized. A 19yearold College Student murder. Police in queens are looking for a thief with a unique m. O. He allegedly snatches smartphones while riding a bike. Authorities releasing this video of the suspect. They say he struck a dozen times in the corona queens section since june. In new jersey, nine families had to evacuate their condo building when a City Engineer said it was unsafe. A resident boeing, so he called police and a borough engineer suspected the building but couldnt figure out why the wall was doing that. So officials cut off the power and gas and the family has been told to leave. A new jersey grandmother hat National Guard to thank for saving her life after she made a wrong turn down the road. Family but went off course and wound up stuck in the woods. She was traveling with her cat and didnt have food, water, or a charged battery for her smart phone. The trail was on the National Guard base, and she was found by soldiers out there for training. We were just walking up to the worst situation. Shes a trooper. Im amazed that she made it. Being 87 and being out there for that long time, and only having water, she must be really healthy to survive this long duration. Ms. Dehydration and heatstroke and still went on to celebrate with her family. They posted this photo on the National Guards Facebook Page with a thank you message. New memories begin today for fans of the legendary Broadway Musical cats. The revival of cats opens tonight at the neil simon theater. Its been 16 years since the show was performed on a broadway stage. It had more than 7,000 performances spanning over 18 its a classic. Im sure youve seen it. Coming up next on today in new york, police say the heroine problem in the suburbs has blown into a full blown crisis. An iteam report coming up. And unsettled weather continues to affect much of the tristate area this morning. Raphael miranda has your details and hourbyhour forecast next fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. N 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. The heroin crisis in westchester. Police say they have never seen so much of the drug in their community and its killing more people than ever before. The iteams peisze cheng rode along with police for a firsthand look. Reporter its an ongoing battle that until eventually was never discussed in the new york heroin. When i was assigned to narcotics, most of the time it was marijuana, pills, ecstasy, cocaine, but every now and then you would get heroin. Now it is just mostly heroin all the time. Reporter in the wake of a string of fatal heroin and opiate overdoses in the new york suburbs, the iteam went behind the scenes with the Harrison Police department. Its a department that sits at the epicenter of the crisis. This came off a female party. The subject in the back asked her to hold it. Reporter one that has decided to do things a little differently. If you walk in the front door of our headquarters and you bring your drugs and paraphernalia, no problem. No arrest. No incarceration. No interrogations. I will guarantee you that i will have somebody do everything they can to get you assistance. Reporter compassion for addicts, not for the dealers. Plain view the pipe and foil they used to smoke it. Reporter the numbers are staggering. Five years ago, the state Health Department recorded 924 heroin overdoses. In 2014, the number increased by more than 50 to 1,443. Some of the biggest increases happened in upscale suburbs like this. Neighborhood. You would be surprised what comes through here. You get off at whatever stop your dealer lives close to. You meet him at the train station. Quick transaction. Youre back in harrison in a half hour. I think part of it is they have money. Reporter susan started drug crisis in our backyard after her son justin died from a heroin overdose in 2012. Theyve been raised in an environment that is so comfortable that they dont serious can happen to them. Reporter in harrison, we spoke with this Young College graduate who has been clean for about a month. A few weeks ago, two people that i knew, one that i was very close with, they passed away due to this drug. That kind of woke me up. Reporter he said he got hooked on painkillers after suffering a football injury in college. When he came home to westchester, heroin was everywhere. All this area, theyre all affluent kids, smart, intelligent kids that get hooked reporter when he was ready to quit, it was the Harrison Police that helped him go straight. For him, he hopes the drug is in his past. For his community, he sees no end in sight. Its here now. To be honest, it doesnt seem like it is going away anytime soon. Peisze cheng, weekend today in new york. If you have something you think the iteam should look into. Give us a call. Brought torrential rain to maryland as well this is ellicot city. Water is rushing through the city streets. Some cars swept away. Some people had to be rescued. We have been tracking this this weekend. New jersey saw some serious flooding. Over five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time yesterday. We could see that happen again today. Thats why the Flash Flood Watch is posted for the tristate, including new york city. To remember turn around, dont drowned. If you see any standing water, dont try to drive through it. Or else you could be a rescue. Atmosphere is right for that heavy rain to fall again. Same setup for yesterday. Storms not moving that fast. Theres a look outside. Thats the lincoln tunnel. You can see not too wet just yet. Very light rain around the region. But the heavy stuff to the north and to the south of town, we are Flash Flood Watch, new york city into the Hudson Valley, thats until 11 00. Nassau county and northeast new jersey included in this. Heres a look at the rain. Around the city, not much happening. As we head into duchess county. Thats where we see the heavier rain and also down the jersey shore. Lets look at duchess county. This rain caused flooding for Putnam County earlier on. Now its moving north and east. It continues to pull dealing with moderate showers around poughkeepsie. Jersey shore, ocean county. Not a great start to the beach day there. Places south of manchester, toms river, we will see ponding on the roadways. We will see rainfall rates of one to two inches an hour. In western new jersey, the latest flood advisory in effect until 7 15. We so seeing heavier rain drift back into the region. Heavier stuff back into pennsylvania but it may drift east. Its all about the flash flooding potential. Heavy rains and storms more widespread in the afternoon, gradual improvement towards monday. For today, temperatures in the 70s as you start your day. Where we saw that flooding yesterday, mid 70s, 70s for timing it out on future tracker, worse this afternoon. We have scattered showers. After that happens, 2 00 p. M. , 3 00 p. M. , more widespread, heavy downpours. Lightning, just like yesterday. That continues through 6 00 p. M. Not an all day washout as you head east of town, but especially from new york city towards new jersey, heavy rain potential all day long. Now, heading into tomorrow. Be wet at time. Heres future rainfall according to future tracker. Im not expecting six inches of rain in central park, but this shows the potential for very heavy rain to happen. Really anywhere around the area under that Flash Flood Watch. Flooding could be a concern for everyone today. The atmosphere again just rich with moisture. 82 degrees your high for today. Temperatures below average. Still muggy and unsettled tomorrow. In the tenday forecast there is brighter weath corner. Tuesday, starting to dry out. Wednesday through friday looks fantastic. Sunshine and temperatures in the 80s. Thenys the news learn how to submit your own weather videos. The news 4 new york app for iphone is available in the app store right now. It is the longest running Film Festival of its kind. Year. Tracie strahan finds out what fuels the fuelmakers in this weeks positively black. That guy was harassing me. Did you get that on camera . We see this guy all the time. All he does is ask for money. You went off on him. Please stop filming me. How would you feel if you had to pass by that every day . Why dont you take another road . Does the sidewalk belong to to feel racist . Im not racist. Please stop that. Dont touch her. One of the interesting clips and films part of the newark black Film Festival. We are joined by newark native and filmmaker richard wesley. Also joined by stephen kern, corrector and ceo of the newark film museum. What does Something Like this, a festival like this do for young filmmakers who are not in hollywood . It tells them what is possible. It tells them that this is something that you can do, that you can be a part of if you have the talent, if you have the ambition, if you have the drive. If youre willing to reach outside of yourself, start bringing around you people need and are willing to work with you. I have to think its good to be surrounded by others doing what you do. Steven, you had a lot of these film showings since june at the museum what has the crowd said . What has the Audience Response been so far . We heard about the filmmakers and what it does for them. What about the audience . The audience is enthusiastic newcomer, its nice to talk to people who have been coming for 42 years. We fill up the museum seats and everybody enjoys it. Its a great program, its free thanks to bank of america and united airlines. Ten gauges the community. Looking at some of the movies that have been playing or a part of this filling festival. How do you go about selecting these reflect the diversity of the black experience. I have to imagine you get a lot of submissions. We do. We have of course im a member of the selection committee. I have no doubt about that. You have the credentials. What i was going to say is its selfexplanatory. Selection committee. There are eight or nine of us. The winter. We sit down. We look at each of these films. We select the finalists, then we go do another process, making sure that these are the films we want. We reach out to the filmmakers, let them know that their films have been included. And then much smarter minds than mine go about the organizing, planning, and moving forward with the final presentation. You also have the Paul Roberson awards. Yes, coming up august 3rd. Steven what does Something Like this do for newark . Theres tribeca, all of these different Film Festivals, sundance. This is the longest running black Film Festival what does speaks to the relationship between the museum, community and profession across the country. This Film Festival is distinguished in every way. I think richard is being polite in talking about the commitment of that committee in selecting the films. The roberson award secures this very rightfully into its reputation. Walking the walk, not just the talk of being the longest running ane in the country. Guys, thank you very much for being here with the newark black Film Festival. Get to the newark museum. Come visit. Please do. Its a story so many of us have grown up with and its back after nine long years. The next harry potter book is finally available. And the cursed child, is set in the future. Scholastic is printing 4. 5 million copies of that book. Cant wait. For game of thrones fans, this may feel like the red wedding all over again. Hbo has confirmed the show will end after eight seasons. Hbos programming chief broke the news conference. The seventh season has been delayed but will reportedly air next summer. After that, one season left to figure everything out. Those dragons getting old. Never. Still to come at 8 00 on today in new york, its Restaurant Week in new york. 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Have you seen that, small car . I enjoy it. Ive done this for years when there was no audience, you got booed off the stage, ripped off. So suddenly go someplace, people are buying a ticket, coming to see you. I like it. I dont get performers who dont like the audience and get mad at them. I like people. I like to interact with folks. Its great fun. Night, jay lenos garage. It felt a little porn carnography. The idea of the show was to try to get nontraditional car people to watch it. Its there for the enthusiast. Car enthusiast wives hopefully will watch it, too. You did it for the women. Im not a fast driver. Im 2 sees you. I like to cruise. Lets cruise. Yeah. Lets talk about latenight tv. How do you think its changed since you had your own show . The thing thats changed is the attention span. When you watched bob newhart on an early the tonight show he would do eight minutes. If people are not laughing in theres no discourse. Yeah. So i think we have to bring back long talking. I think we brought it back today. Doesnt get any longer than this. Then im done. Over. This is over. If you want to see where cat went, watch that full half hour of talk stoop. It every r airs every sunday at 9 00 p. M. Coming up on today in new rk stories. Including an officer struck by a car while investigating a shooting on long island. But i would have a secure pension plan when i retired. Each and every one of us made that contribution from every paycheck we ever earned. Theyve been negligent in their responsibility over the years of not funding this pension the way it should have been funded. They have made a promise, theyve made a commitment, welcome back to today in new york, its sunday morning, july 31st. Im gus rosendale. Im pat battle. We want to get to Raphael Miranda in the weather center, its a touch and go situation out there right now weatherwise. Will we see the same torrential rainfall today . We have a new Flood Warning to get to. We are tracking heavy rain out of the Hudson Valley, but our of new york city and western new jersey. A flood advisory for hunderdon county until 7 15. And this Flood Warning for the millstone river for now until tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the city, 74 degrees in central park. Not a lot of rain. Winds at 3 Miles Per Hour tristate, especially from new york city west. If youre planning your day today, if you have to be outside, have the umbrella with you. Heavy rain a possibility, especially after lunch time. Hit or miss at 11 00, becoming more widespread as the day goes on. A floor flood watch in effect for new york city and suburbs. Ill tell you how much rain we may see coming up in your full the new jersey turnpike near Ridgefield Park has reopened. Police closed down the northbound lanes overnight for an investigation. Were told that new Jersey State Police were chasing a driver who was reportedly armed and dangerous. When the car finally stopped, the troopers discovered the driver shot himself. The driver is a form Police Officer from rhode island who was suspected in the disappearance of his wife. Soggy mess in morristown, wins and rain brought down tree limbs and power lines. No serious injuries have been reported. Thousands were without power at the height of the storm. This was the scene at the Princeton Junction train station. The rain coming down so fast, thats the pedestrian tunnel. That was flooded. The rain at one point was waist high in some places. Passengers. If you had a little boat, a gondola, a guy with a hat it would be romantic going through there. We dont have that going through there. The rain caused road closures all over princeton and led to more than a dozen car rescues. No injuries have been reported. There is a search this morning for a man who allegedly slashed another man in a bronx park. Police released this Surveillance Video of the suspect. He was involved in an argument with the victim. He slashed him on his arm and back before stealing his backpack with wallet inside. The victim is recovering. Police are looking for a man who attacked a woman in greenwich village. This happened on 5th avenue near west 8th street. Not far from Washington Square park on saturday morning. The man walked up to a 20yearold woman, struck up a conversation and then things turned violent. He grabbed her and sexually assaulted her. She was able to fight him off. Police there are looking for the gunman who shot four women killing one. Happened around 2 00 a. M. Austin time as the bars were letting out in the downtown area. There was a second shooting in the same area at the same time leading police to think they had an active shooter on their hands. But authorities now say both scenes are secure. At least 16 people are feared dead after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed it appears to be one of the deadliest balloon accidents in u. S. History. Chris pallone has the latest. Reporter investigators worked all day at the scene of a fatal hot air balloon fire and crash. It happened before 8 00 saturday morning in a pasture in lockhart, texas. Margaret wiley was one of the first people to call 911. I looked off over there, you saw a fireball going up. Reporter the balloon carrying 16 people caught fire and crashed near some high capacity Power Transmission be dead. The faa, ntsb, and fbi Evidence Team are investigating the crash. Its like a crime scene. You only get one chance at it. We want to make sure we do everything correctly. Reporter the balloon is owned by the heart of texas balloon rides of san marcos, texas. A Facebook Page says the Company Offers breath taking hot air balloon flights. Investigators will be looking at many factors including weather conditions to see if they factored into the crash. Earlier in the morning it was foggy. The balloon went down i didnt see that much haze. Reporter a local balloon pilot from austin tells nbc news that he believes power lines were a factor in the accident. People who live nearby were stunned. It looks exciting when you see them up there. You think, wow, theyre having fun. So unfortunate this happened. Reporter Texas Governor greg abbott said in a statement that our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Praying for those lost. Chris pallone, nbc news, new jersey. Dozens of homes have gone up in flames in northern, california. A wildfire burning near big sur has burned more than 52 square miles. At least 57 homes have been destroyed. 2,000 more are threatened. It should be the peak of the summer tourist season but those flames instead are forcing people and residents away. Those images never cease to amaze me. Now and new details about attempts to hack into Hillary Clintons campaign networks. A source tells nbc news that the fbi told the campaign about the attempts in the spring but the clinton team denied to grant requests to look at internal data. Clinton and tim kaine hit the road in western pennsylvania to sell their plan for america. For residents in rural cambria county, its all about jobs. Clinton said she is listening. Were going to create jobs in especially in places that have been left out and left behind. Clinton picked up an endorsement from a high profile businessman. Dallas mavericks owner mark cuban announced his support in a surprise appearance on the campaign trail yesterday. Donald trump under fire again for something he said on the campaign trail. His target this time the parents of a fallen american soldier who spoke at the Democratic National convention. Trump taking issue with the father telling a National Audience that trump sacrificed nothing and no one. Trump said he sacrificed a lot in his business career. He also questioned whether mrs. Khan remained silent on stage. She was standing there. She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. Im very nervous because i cannot see my sons picture. Trumps latest controversy wasnt the only obstacle he had to overcome. His campaign confirms he was among ten people who had to be resort. There was no luck for powerball players in our area this morning. Lottery Officials Say the winning jackpot ticket in the drawing was sold in New Hampshire. New hampshire officials have not said where in the state the ticket was purchased, but somewhere someone won a jackpot worth 487 million. The eighth largest jackpot ever in the u. S. The winning numbers, 23, 11, powerball 5. Still ahead on today in new york, a scare in the sky when a flight leaving from Laguardia Airport had some smoke in the cabin. Maybe you didnt hit the powerball, but theres gas in the tristate area for less than 2 a gallon. Well tell you where you can feel like a winner. And rain causing major problems out there this morning already. Lets look outside at Newark Liberty airport. Flood warning has been issued. Ill let you know what to expect coming up. Theres one place where americas pastime is preserved for all time. . . And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. . . Discover something one of a kind in new york. . . R Summer Vacation at iloveny. Com 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. Back with you on a sunday morning at 7 12. Hazy skies out there. Flood concerns in the tristate area. Raphael will have details in a moment. First scary moments on board an American Airlines flight. Flight attendants reported smoke headed from toronto to laguardia. Officials say the plane made it to the ground safely. No one was hurt. Passengers were eventually bussed to the terminal. Despite the looming gas tax hike in new jersey, theres good news for drivers in the garden state. The price of a gallon of gas is down right now. It will cost you less than 2 on average in new jersey. Out in cor if you were trying to netflix and chill last night there was a problem. There was a netflix outage, so you had to talk to the person. Web users across the country saw a technical difficulties message when they logged in. Outages were reported as far away as switzerland and argentina. The service was back up and running for customers at 11 30 last night. No details on what caused that outage or the total extent. Netflix. A rainy saturday night, you want to binge watch, and bam. You will have another day for that, look at the sky behind us, not a pretty picture behind us. The rain is turning serious already early on this sunday morning. Lets look at the five boroughs, not bad for us. The brooklyn bridge, lots of clouds shrouding the bridge and skyline there, but heavy rain not falling yet. That will happen as the day goes on. Lets explain. Different story depending on where you are around the tristate. Heres our Flash Flood Watch. New york city, all these counties shaded in green until 11 00 tonight. We are expecting very heavy rain. A lot of the ground saturated from yesterdays downpours. Any runoff will happen quickly. You can see on the satellite picture, Hudson Valley quieting down. Down towards ocean county, this is very heavy rain showing up, hour. We have already gotten reports of up to three inches of rain falling from this cell alone. Not a lot of movement to push this cell away. Its just sitting here over ocean county. Now that flash Flood Warning in effect. Rainfall rates of one to two inches per hour. This cell is gradually drifting towards the south and east. So toms river and lacey could be seeing heavy double trouble state park, dover, lacey and cedar crest seeing that heavy rain. This is our flash Flood Warning. It includes toms river. If you live in this area, stay off the roadways. This flash Flood Warning in effect until 11 00 this morning. That heavy rain just sitting over ocean county and will probably do so for at least the next hour. Towards western new jersey, we had that flood advisory in somerset county. This cell not too impressive. Still dealing with moderate rain out there. Flash flooding is a concern today. Already happening. Heavy rain and storms become more widespread through the afternoon. We get gradual improvement as we head into monday. Mid 70s down the jersey shore. 76 in red bank. 72 in danbury. 72 in white plains. Very muggy out there. Heres future tracker. Its after 12 00, we see the showers and widespread. Heavy rain potential is there. I know that because i see the yellows, oranges and reds. Lots of moisture to work with. Around 6 00 this evening, also could be quite wet. And as we head into the overnight hours, not much better for tomorrow morning. Monday you still need the umbrellas. You can see in our exclusive tenday forecast, tuesday, slightly unsettled. By wednesday, thats when we turn the corner. Heading into the end of the week. You want to stay up to date with the news 4 learn how to submit your own weather videos. The news 4 new york app for iphone is available in the app store right now. If you are looking for good titles to fill out your Summer Reading list, we have you covered. Kerry barrett sat down with bill gold phone for bills books. The heat, hunker down with a good bunk, bill has some great reads. Lets start with the return. An amazing book. By hisham matar. He is a novelist who wrote two books that i talked about, the anatomy of disappearance and his first novel, in the country of men. He grew up around the world. This is about his return to libya after gadhafis fall. Its a nonfiction book. Its the story of him and his family and his father who was a an antigovernment not exactly a dissident but the enemy of the gadhafi government. And he was kidnapped in 1990 when the author, matar, was 19 and living in this is the story of his return to libya, the search for his father. A beautiful book. I cant tell you how potent it is as a story of fathers and sons, and as a trilogy, it works to beautifully with his novels. You could read all three of them in one long sitting in front of the air conditioner. The second one is the dream this is all around the Space Program in the 70s and into the 80s. So you get apollo astronauts, people who didnt quite get to be apollo astronauts. You get family stories, each one is different about the faded dreams, fraying families. Patrick ryan who also writes young adult novels has a great sense of the sights and sounds of the past. You feel immersed in these family lives in these homes, in these rooms where radios are playing the music that you might remember from your own youth. Theres always something heartbreaking in the way in which families are coming together or not coming together. Such a great protagonist in each story. Sounds fantastic. Thirdly we have sarong party lulien tan. Its sort of like sex and the city in singapore. Its a window into another culture, sarong party girls, young women in singapore who want to marry white men. That is the status symbol. That and having their babies with white men who would then be chanel babies. Its funny on one hand about what these women are like in these nightclubs looking for men, but theres also into Singapore Society that and to one strata of Singapore Society. These women are also fighting with their mothers and grandmothers for the traditions of singapore. Also told in singlish, a little bit english and spanglish. Yes. English. Just a delight to read. Finally we have white trash. The 400yearold untold story of class in america. This is by Nancy Isenberg. This reflects on the divisions people see in the election today, class, race. And what Nancy Isenberg has done is look at 400 broad as elvis presley, trailer parks, and then the desegregation of the high school in little rock. She does that through all the decades of American History taking a broad, leaping view from pop culture into politics. Its just so eyeopening and wonderful to read and has a brilliant title using its title to sort of get its message across. Thats something that people really understand about class founding of america. Even though we talk about equality for all, that Class Divisions have always been present in american life. Just such a good book. Bill, thank you very much. My pleasure. If you have a question for bill, email him at billsbooks nbcuni. Com. You can find a list of his recommendations on our website, nbcnewyork. Com books. Still ahead on today in new york, new information about an attack on a woman on do to the victim inside a church gym. And an elderly woman from new jersey lost in the woods. Well tell you what happened to her after two days with no food or water. Thankfully the story has a happy the summer seems to be flying by with august one day away but theres plenty of time to pack in summertime fun. We welcome back carla with this months top pic good morning. Good morning. Where is summer going . I know. Going by fast. A lot to do. The International Spring festival. An eclectic group of people. It hits town every august. More than 200 shows. Some really big shows have come out. Youre in town, debbie does dallas, a ton of different manhattan. 18 a ticket. Two weeks of amazing stuff. You will sound so cool when you say i saw that before everyone else. Midaugust, the elements music and arts festival. This is like burning man meets a bushwick warehouse party. This happens on the brookn waterfront on columbia street. Five different stages representing earth, air, water there be fire eaters, food, super fan. If at 11 00 p. M. , youre ready for more, theres an after party. I could probably hold my own at the battle of the burger. This is an event you guys put on. Conversation. Im biased, but time out new york puts on a lot of events, this is one of our most popular. Its battle of the burger presented by budweiser. Come down to south street seaport, 20 burgers from some of the best places in the city, a cover band, life size jenga, connect four, cant be beat. 50 bucks. 50 bucks gets you in, much beer and burgers that you can withstand. Not a bad time. Fun night. Talk about the afro punk fest . Its one of the coolest things that happens. We have a lot of music festivals. This is worth it for the people watching. The most stylish concert goers. I cube, future, janel monet all performing. Food trucks, a vendor market. A fun week on august 27th and queens, you know summer is wrapping up when the u. S. Comes. The u. S. Open comes, and tennis is the main event, ill be there hoping to see serena williams, but theres a gray goose bar, a wine bar, tons of restaurants, fountains, grandstand with much more seating, lawn chairs, umbrellas. You can affordability tickets or really expensive tickets. I think more people are going now to take photos of themselves and put on instagram than are actually watching tennis. Glad summer is going well for you. Its going good. We have a link on our website of all these things on nbcnewyork. Com. Well send it back to pat at the desk. At 7 30, the latest on our officer injured. Im Checkey Beckford with that story coming up. 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Com caremanager welcome back to today in new york on a sunday morning. Some folks getting up and about there. Its going to be a rainy day. Might want to get it done now. Im pat battle. Im gus rosendale. Some flash flooding concerns across the tristate area. Raphael, you say ocean county that did not see rain yesterday, they are getting it this morning. Toms river, manchester included in that warning. Flash Flood Warning in effect through 11 00 this morning. Weve seen about two hours of heavy rainfall. That rain not moving anywhere. Stationary. Sitting over ocean county. Otherwise, not much going on around the rest of the tristate. Lighter rain flash flood advisories in effect, but the worst weather in ocean county. The of ranges, yellows and reds are rainfall rates of two inches per hour. This cell has no upper level support to push it away. The rainfall rates between 1 and 2 inches per hour. Weve already seen around three inches in some spots. Still raining heavily. Lacey, and off to the west, flood advisories for the area. This is where we saw heavy rain yesterday. Up to five inches in some spots. Whats happening the rest of the day . Ill have more in your fiveday forecast. Back over to you. A driver ran over a Police Officer as he was investigating a shooting. Checkeyec reporter were told the officer is in good condition. He suffered a minor leg injury. As for the shooting victim that police initially responded to help, we are told he is stable this morning. His exact condition is not known. That all played out here on cortlandt street in west babylon. The chaotic scene is something that we see when we know Police Officers are here at a crime a shooting at a party. The 2 1yearold victim was shot in the back shortly after midnight. The officer trying to direct traffic away from the scene was struck by a driver. No charges have been filed against the driver. Police are also looking for the shooter in this case as they continue their investigation. Live in west babylon, Checkey Beckford, news 4 new york for a man accused of trying to rape a woman in the restroom of a church gym in staten island. Police are looking for 42yearold miran barerra. He pushed the woman down but the woman was able to get away. Anyone with his whereabouts is asked to call police. Police in queens looking for a thief with a unique m. O. Bike. They say he struck a dozen times in the corona queens section since june. If you have information, police want to hear from you. In new jersey, nine families had to evacuate their condo building when a City Engineer deemed it unsafe. A resident noticed a wall was bowing about six inches, so he called police. A borough engineer inspected the building but couldnt figure out why the wall was doing that. So officials cut off the power and gas and the family has been told to leave. A new jersey grandmother has the National Guard to thank for saving her life after she made a wrong turn down the road. Janet haskins was headed to maryland to celebrate her birthday with family but went off course and wound up stuck in the woods. The trail she was on was on a National Guard base, and she was finally found by soldiers out there training. She spent two days without food, water and her smartphone whose was out there. We thought they were walking up to the worst situation. Shes a trooper. Im amazed that she made it. Being 87 and being out there for that long time, and only having water, she must be really healthy to survive this long duration. Ms. Haskins was treated for dehydration and heatstroke and still went on to celebrate her birthday with her family. They posted this photo on the National Guards Facebook Page with a thank you message. All smiles there. Broadway rolling out the red carpet for cats. The webbers hit show reopens tonight. Its been 16 years since the show was performed on a broadway stage. It had more than 7,000 performances spanning over 18 years. Looks like theyve done some costume changes, right . Originally at the Winter Garden it was unique the whole theater was transformed into the stage. Ill be curious how they do it returns with a steamy, wet forecast. Youre watching today in new 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. 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. You can barely make out skyline behind us here. Disappearing fast. Lots of clouds. Not a lot of rain here, but down the jersey shore were getting hit this morning. Ocean county with the worst of it flash Flood Warnings in effect across parts of the area. Lets look outside around the five boroughs. The hamilton, dry. Not a lot of rain in the city. All off to the south and southwest. It day goes on. Were under a Flash Flood Watch in the five boroughs. Thats until 11 00. That tells you about the heavy rain potential. Want to show you which counties are included. Everyone shaded in green including new york city, the Hudson Valley. Heavy rain like what we saw yesterday could happen again. That Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 11 00. This is the most serious spot, ocean county, new jersey. Under a flash Flood Warning. Happen now or will happen soon. All of these places like toms river, areas south towards forked river, you need to stay off the roads while the rain continues to move through. A wider view here. Not much in the city. All of the action well to the north. Spotty showers across long island. This is the worst of it now. Starting to see this cell diminish in intensity a bit. Its been torrential over the same spot. This is the lacey, toms river, one to two inches per hour under this downpour. Now moving to the south and east. Dover, cedar crest, double trouble, stay off the roads if you see standing water. That flash flood in effect until 11 00 this morning. As we take a jog further west, hunderdon, somerset counties advisory for rain streaming in. You had a lot of rain yesterday. This may sort of exacerbate what we have now falling. All of the rain combined from yesterday and today, flood advisory in effect until 11 15. Its all about the flooding potential today. Heavy rain and storms as we head after lunch time. Some improvement on monday. Still unsettled and you still need the umbrellas as we head back to work. Baseball forecast is iffy for the rockies taking on the shower or storm possible, even likely. 79 degrees at the first pitch. Tomorrow, unsettled there. On and off showers and storms for your monday. Tuesday, one or two lingering showers. Then we have a beautiful stretch of weather waiting for us, starting on wednesday and sunny through the end of the week. Stay up to date with the news 4 learn how to submit your own store right now. All right. 7 43. Time now for a check of sports. Hike harry cicma. Well, what a special night in queens. Just six days after being inducted into the National Baseball hall of fame, mike piazza had his number retired by the mets. And it was a packed house. There was a chance of rain, but Mother Nature cooperated and the hall of famer was greeted with a standing ovation. Piazzas family and a few former mets teammates were on hand. Mike was drafted in the 62nd round back in 1988. He spent 16 years in the major leagues and is considered to be the greatest offensive catcher in baseball history. The 12time allstar earned ten silver slugger awards and hit 396 home runs. Piazzas number of 31 becomes the fifth number to be retired in mets history. That means i will always be with you. So, every time these guys are down and you need a little bit of inspiration, just give a little peek up there to old mikey and know that im back home watching you guys on tv, saying a lot of prayers, praying and i just want you to know you have given me an honor that no man deserves and no player deserves. Congratulations to mike piazza. The Major League Baseball trade deadline is tomorrow. And there are plenty of rumors about possible moves by the mets and yankees. Saturday the mets announced that jose reyes is going on the disabled list with a strained oblique. The rockies looking to stop a the long ball off bartolo colon. The tworun blast gives the rockies a 32 advantage. Next inning, two men on and he goes up the middle under the glove. Two runs score. Rockies up by three. Colorado holds on for the victory. Yoenis cespedes left the game with a sore right quad. The yankees are Still Deciding whether to sell at the trade deadline. The on the last place rays. The home run ball hurt the yankees last night. First inning, brad miller takes Nathan Eovaldi deep. The rays lead 10. In the 3rd, yankees up one, its kurt kisali crushing this pitch and in the seventh, beckham joins the party with this tworun blast to center. The yankees fall 63 the final. Its their Third Straight loss. They will try to avoid the sweep this afternoon. The third round of the pga championship was suspended due to yesterdays storms in new jersey. Play will resume later this morning. Thats it for now. Enjoy the rest of your sun. For today in new york, im harry cicma. Up next on today in new york, a taste of the jersey shore. Where you can enjoy the boardwalk favorites from your own kitchen. And fighting depression. How some people are doing it at the the lincoln summer invitation sales event, its time to relax. From the moment you take your foot off the brake, the brake stays engaged and you stay put. Taking the legwork out of stop and go traffic. And even hills. Thats the more human side of engineering. This is the lincoln summer invitation, hurry in now to your dealer for limited time offers. Lease a lincoln mkx for 349 a month or get 0 apr for 60 months a trip to the jersey shore is not complete without a taste of some of the fresh summer flavors. The author of the jersey shore cookbook, debra smith, joins us to tell us about this culinary compilation. Welcome. How are you . Thank you. Im great. Good to have you here. Thank you. Youre the founder of jerseybites. Com, the blog. You reviewed many a co what prompted you to do this . Its so exciting. Ive been a writer about food in new jersey for nine years. New jersey bites will be nine on labor day. The publisher reached out to me last spring with the idea. We would like to put together a compilation of recipes from restaurants, we think you can do it. I said i think i can. How did you choose . Theres so many . It was a process. I went to restaurants that i know and love that i go to all recommendations from people all up and down the shore. I had to keep it to restaurants that were in towns that touched the ocean. Its just too long of vast. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. Those are the scallops from the gables in lbi. Lovely. Was it tough to get them to give up the recipes . It wasnt that easy. Some of them were excited about participating. Some restauranol their recipes. I can understand that. The ones that did agree to be in the book, theyre just loving the publicity and the great pr. I brought some of them to television interviews. Theyve been interviewed by newspapers, so theyre excited. Awesome. As i scan the book, being a girl of the jersey shore, i recognize several of these places. Hardly all of them, as you said, were touched by the storm, too, by sandy. And you included references to that. Every restaurant got a story about them. And i interviewed them. It was all about things that the patrons would be interested in. Whats the best dish the most popular dish. Whats the best see the in the house. Also i wanted to know whats the history. So many of the restaurants are Third Generation owned family run businesses. All of them were touched by sandy. Water throughout their restaurant. And how the community helped them recover and get back to business. Some are still getting back to business. And its booming now. Everyone is doing so well. Thank goodness. Its a great read. Great pictures, too. Yes. Thomas robert clark, a photographer out of princeton, the shrimp and grits from the brick wall tavern in asbury park, phenomenal, but all of them are good. Ill have to stop in for breakfast one day. The jersey shore cookbook, and the blog, jerseyshore bites. Com. Gus, over to you . Thank you. Depression is an illness that why people are finding help theres news about an illness affecting millions of americans of all ages and from all walks of life. Depression. Researchers say theres a way to fight it without medication. Sit, sweat, change the brain. New research is suggesting practi running could be a winning combination to fight depression. More powerful than do be either of those activities alone. Up to recently nobody had combined those two in one intervention. Reporter a small group of men and women were studied who practiced both activities for 30 minutes each. After doing it for eight weeks, depressed. Aerobic exercise makes more new neurons. What does the meditation do . Theoretically meditation would keep those neurons alive. Reporter shore says it can also be preventive, which is why she leads a study for College Students who are at higher risk of developing mental illness. Its easy to get wrapped up in your gpa, trying to stay on eating habits. Reporter after six weeks, shes already noticed a change. I wake up feeling less groggy. Reporter shore says the best part is you dont need fancy equipment and it doesnt require a lot of money. Once you learn how to do it, you can do it anywhere. Reporter decreasing depression one step at a time. Up next at 8 00 a check of stories an officer responding to ab emergency has his own emergency. Im Checkey Beckford, ill have the details coming up. [ bus engine revs ] i dont understand. Where do they all go . Well, we have plenty at staples and all at low prices. Staples has the lowest prices. Period. Staples. Make more happen. 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, only fios can. Right now, a disturbing attack on staten island. The man police say targeted a woman inside a charge. And wet rain for your sunday, flooding. And we have a winner. Someone is waking up a powerball multimillionaire. Today in new york starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to today in new york on this sunday morning. You know who didnt win because were here. Im pat battle. Im gus rosendale. A lot of us waking up to rain. In some parts of the area its very heavy. Raphael miranda is tracking it. Not a great weather start to your sunday. Tracking rain around the tristate. Around the city, very light. Weve seen heavy rain down the jersey shore. Weve had flash flooding problems already. Look at these advisories. We have a flash Flood Warning for ocean county. Thats the most serious, and thats in effect until 11 00 this morning. This is the one cell weve been tracking, dumping torrential rain throughout the morning. Its hardly moved. The good news is its starting advisory for areas south of forked river towards stat ford. Rainfall rates of one to two inches per hour causing trouble out there. 75 degrees in the city. Winds are light. Thats the trend throughout the day today. Its an unsettled day. Not raining all day long. When it does rain, it rains heavily. Showers and storms more widespread throughout the afternoon. Its muggy. Temperatures in the low 80s. More on the flood threat coming up. An officer hurt aft responding to a 911 call in suffolk county. There was a shooting at a party but the officer was hurt when someone ran him over. Checkey beckford has the latest. Reporter good morning. What a chaotic scene that was. The officer responding to a shooting on cortlandt street, required an ambulance himself. The good news is were told that officer is in good condition. He suffered a leg injury. As for the shooting victim, his condition is unknown, but police undergoing surgery. That dual emergency playing out on cortlandt street after a large Outdoor Party at a home here. The 21yearold shooting victim was hit in the back after midnight. After police responded, an officer directing traffic at the scene here was accidentally struck by a vehicle. Suffolk county police say no charges have been filed against the driver of that vehicle. Police say theyre still looking for the shooting suspect. Point. Checkey beckford, today in new york. Police reopened a stretch of the new jersey turnpike near Ridgefield Park that was closed overnight for an investigation. New Jersey State Police were chasing a driver who was reportedly armed and dangerous. When the car stopped, troopers discovered the driver apparently shot himself. That driver is a former Police Officer from rhode island who is expected in the disappearance of he is being treated now at hackensack medical center. The search for a man accused of trying to rape a woman in a church gym. Police are looking for 42yearold miran barerra. He pushed the woman down and the woman was able to get away. Anyone with his whereabouts is asked to call police. Storms have soaked parts of new jersey. Wind and rain brought down limbs in places like morst winds and rain brought down tree limbs in morristown. One branch punctured a car. No one was hurt. Power lines came down leaving live wires dangling over streets. Rising waters left weekend travelers stranded in princeton. This was the scene at the Princeton Junction train station. The rain coming down so fast, the stairwell and tunnel completely flooded. Passengers say the rain was waist high in some places. Its creating a big mess for the passengers. If you had a boat with a gondola and a guy with a hat, it that. Romantic it was not. The rain caused road closures all over princeton and led to more than a dozen caress cues. There are no injuries to report. The rain storms in maryland have turned deadly. A woman drowned in ellicott city. Not clear if she was swept away or if she was in the car. This video shows the water rushing through the flooded streets. More than 100 people had to rescued. Town officials have declared a state of emergency will. And in california, more than 5,000 firefighters are battling a wildfire in big sur. This should be the peak of the summer tourist season, but flames are causing many visitors and residents to run for it. That fire burned more than 52 square miles. At least 57 homes have been destroyed. 2,000 more are threatened. Another story from austin, texas where police are looking for the gunman who shot four women killing one. Investigators say there was a disturbance as the bars were letting out. At the same time shots were fired during an assault in the same area leading police to think they had an active shooter in the area but both scenes are secure. Federal investigators are going to return to the scene of a deadly hot air balloon accident just 30 miles f Officials Say it was carrying 16 people when it caught on fire and crashed in a pasture. No one survived. A witness said there was no explosion, just a whoosh sound when the fire ignited. Victim specialist and weather experts will help conduct the investigation. This Morning Police are trying to identify a woman who was found unresponsive in the harlem river. The nypd harbor unit pulled the victim from the water near 225th rescuers took her to the boathouse where she was pronounced dead. A medical examiner has yet to say how she died. Officials dont know her identity. Police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly slashed another man in a bronx park. Investigators releasing this surveillance image. He was involved in an argument with the victim. He slashed himhi back before stealing his backpack with wallet inside. The victim is recovering. A new jersey grandmother hat National Guard to thank for saving her life after she made a wrong turn down the road. Janets haskins was headed to maryland to celebrate her birthday with family but went off course and wound up stuck in the woods. She was traveling with her cat and didnt have food, water, or a charged battery for her smart phone. The trail was on the National Guard base, and she was found by soldiers out there for training. We didnt know how long she up to the worst situation. Shes a trooper. Im amazed that she made it. Being 87 and being out there for that long time, and only having water, she must be really healthy to survive this long duration. Ms. Haskins was treated for dehydration and heatstroke and still went on to celebrate with her family. They posted that photo on the National Guards Facebook Page with a thank you message. If you played powerball last night, chances are you didnt win. The jackpot ticket was purchased in nha New Hampshire officials have not said where in the state the ticket was purchased, but somewhere someone won a jackpot worth 487 million. The eighth largest jackpot ever in the u. S. The winning numbers, 32, 21, 17, 23, 11, powerball 5. Oh well. Still ahead on today in new york, trouble on the trail for donald trump after reports he got stuck on an elevator during a campaign stop. And even more shocking than this crash video well show you street, how the driver survived. Flash Flood Warnings in effect south of new york. Lets look at the gwb. The five boroughs off to a wet start, but it could get worse as the day goes on. Well have your hourbyhour we are back with decision 2016 and new details about a source tells nbc news that the fbi told the campaign about the attempts in the spring but the clinton team denied to grant requests to look at internal data. Clinton and tim kaine hit the road in western pennsylvania to sell their plan for america. For residents in rural cambria county, its all about jobs. Clinton said she is listening. Were going to create jobs in pennsylvania and across america, especially in places that have been left out and left behind. Clinton picked up an endorsement from a high il businessman. Dallas mavericks owner mark cuban announced his support in a surprise appearance on the campaign trail. Donald trump under fire again for something he said on the campaign trail. His target this time the parents of a fallen american soldier who spoke at the Democratic National convention. Trump taking issue with the father telling a National Audience that trump sacrificed he also questioned ms. Khans silence on stage. She was standing there. She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. Im very nervous because i cannot see my sons picture. Trumps latest controversy wasnt the only obstacle he had to overcome. His campaign confirms he was among ten people who had to be rescued from an elevator that got stuck in a Colorado Springs resort. A constitution has become a best seller after mr. Khans convention speech. He held his copy up on stage and offered to lend it to trump. The pamphlet is printed by the National Center for constitutional studies. If youre interested t sells for 1 on amazon. This morning, a man in florida is recovering after an incredible car accident. The only thing more shocking than the video is the guy this happened in friday. The care went airborne, flipped several times, eventually landing on its roof. People ran to help and flipped the car back over and pulled the driver to safety. His condition is unknown but he was pulled out alive. There are some flash Flood Warnings for people along the shore. Worst weather in ocean county. Even in the city we have light rain. Its one of though unsettled days. We could see heavy rain at any already posted. Yesterday we had some sunshine on the brooklyn bridge. Now we have lots of clouds. Even a few light showers around the five boroughs. None of that heavy stuff. Thats off to the south. Looking now at your Flash Flood Watch, thats in effect until 11 00 tonight for new york city and all these counties shaded in green including northeast new jersey, Nassau County and the Hudson Valley including orange, counties. Flash Flood Warning in effect until 11 00 this morning. Already over 3 inches of rain in some of these spots. As the cell is drifting to the south, a flash flood advisory has been expanded for Southern Ocean county. We can expect downpours to continue off to the south and wrest of new york city. Thats where the worst weather is now. Light steadier rain in the northern Hudson Valley. Lets look at this cell. This is our flash Flood Warning. The box shaded in black. You can see the rain moving away from there. There could still be rising waters, lots of standing water left over. South towards forked river, thats where the heaviest rain is sliding. Rainfall rates of one to two inches per hour. This is drifting towards bayside coast. Further west into western new jersey, hunterton and summer set counties, you had a lot of rain yesterday. Were not seeing torrential downpours yet, but flood advisories in effect for hunderdon counties until 11 15. Rain today on top of rain from yesterday. The weather headlines, its all about the flooding potential. Heavy storms more widespread through the were getting a preview of whats to come. Then we start to see improvement heading throughout the day tomorrow. Baseball weather, maybe touch and go for the mets taking on the rockies at 1 10. Showers and storms likely to be in and around citi field. 79 degrees for the first pitch. Hopefully the game will go on. You can see how much rain were expecting in some spots. Less than an inch. In others, well over an inch, two inches of rain. Theres no way to pinpoint where includes so many counties. This is 2 00. Thats when you see more storms bubbling up to the west of new york city. Yellows, oranges, reds indicate heavy rainfall potential. That can continue through the evening, 6 00. Tomorrow morning, waking up to more rain. Umbrellas still needed tomorrow morning and into the afternoon. Cant rule out a shower or storm, but it does start to improve. The weather gets better tomorrow, you can see that in our tenday forecast. Tuesday, one or two showers left over. Otherwise starting to dry out by the afternoon. Wednesday looking great. Lower humidity, sunshine. Thats a nice dry stretch through the end of the week. Stay up to dated with the news 4 new york learn how to submit your own weather videos. The news 4 new york app for iphone is available in the app Restaurant Week 2016 is here. The event has expanded now lasting nearly a month and including nearly 400 restaurants around town. Joining us is chef anthony patelli of the rock center cafe, and the chair of Restaurant Week committee. This is such a great event. What is new this year . We have the largest number of restaurants weve ever had. 386 restaurants, four across the country. Well have Restaurant Week until august 19th. In 40 neighborhoods, 34 different cuisines. The chef is starting to cook there. That smells good already. Tell us about the prices. Its one of these opportunities where you can check out some restaurants and get a good deal. Its a better deelt today than in 192 when we started. New york during that time has gone up about 72 . Restaurant week, we raised our prices about 45 . I guess reservations are a good idea . Excellent idea. Go online to nycgo. Com restaurantweek or call the restaurants directly. Make reservations online, you can see menus online. And it runs all month, or a couple weeks . Were running of august 19th. When we started, it was just a lunch program. In 2000 we added the winter, then in 2002 we started doing dinner as well. If we go down to the rock center cafe, we can sample what the chef is doing here. Vegetables. You go to the market, find nice, beautiful fresh vegetables. Summertime is beautiful. Beautiful heirloom tomatoes, mix and match. Have fun with it. You adjust the menu on whats in season. We have the market on the plaza. Saves us a bit of a trip. We picked up most of our produce for this there. Its exciting f normally come, theyre attracted by the deal. We open our doors to a lot of people who wont come or dont currently come out. And they try some of our feature ed dishes. Its beautiful. Outside, summer time, rock center. The rink. And if youre like me, i get into a restaurant rut. You go to the same places all the time. Here you can explore and see all how many again . 383 restaurants. Weve been doing it from the beginning at tribeca grill. Its a wonderful way to welcome guests and enjoy hospitality. New york is not an industrial economy, its a hospitality. People come here for dining, theater, see shows, mu samts. Its important to remember, as much fun as it is to of our economy. When people sit down for a meal, all the troubles of the day go away for a bit. This started in 92 when the Democratic National convention was in new york. Theres history to that. That smells fantastic. Appreciate it. 8 20 is the time. You can find out more about these participating restaurants, nbcnewyork. Com. Coming up after the break, big news for fans of harry potter and game of thrones. Some of it good. Some of it not so good. Its a supercomputer. With this grade of protection. Its a fortress. And with this standard of luxury. Its an oasis. Introducing the completely redesigned eclass. Its everything you need it to be. And more. Through mercedesbenz financial services. whispering what are you doing up . whispering mom said i could have a midnight snack. Well, i say its late, and you need to go to bed. Why . Because i am the boss. Youre not the boss, moms the boss. Well, technically, we are cobosses. Technically, moms the boss. Shhh. Scary moments on board an American Airlines flight. Flight attendants reported smoke in the cabin of that flight headed from toronto to laguardia. Officials say the plane made it to the ground safely. No one was hurt. No one was hurt. There may be a gas hike ahead for drivers in new jersey, but for now the price for a gallon of gas is way down. Right now it will cost you less than 2 on average for a gallon of unleaded gas in huge. Ive seen it as low as 1. 77. The National Average is 2. 14. The magic of harry potter returns after nine long years. The next harry potter book is finally available. The eighth story, harry potter and the cursed child, is set in the future. Scholastic is printing 4. 5 million copies of that book. Not such great news for fans of that lady, the dragon queen and game of thrones. This may feel like the red wedding all over again. Hbo has confirmed the show will end after eight seasons. Hbos programming chief broke association conference. He didnt rule out the possibility of a spinoff. The seventh season has been delayed but will reportedly air next summer. A lot of those actors are getting work on other projects. You have to coordinate. I know. You going to be okay with that . No. Well be back with your fios is not cable. Were wired differently. 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. Most people would normally want to get far away from a foul stench. But the opposite is happening at the new York Botanical garden. 25,000 visitors have checked out the corpse flower since it went on display. That is four times the amount of visitors in a typical summer the bloom known for its rotten smell began to emerge thursday afternoon. This live look at the corpse flower there. Keeping an eye on that thing. Been growing there for ten years. Reminds me of audrey 2. And speaking of broadway, we do have new memories today. Memories, yes. For fans of the musical cats. The revival of cats opens show was performed on a broadway stage. You remember at Winter Gardens. More than,000 performances over 18 years. Cats got a lot of lives. Lets check in with raphael, youve been keeping an eye on the possible floods in ocean county. A new flash Flood Warning for hunderdon county. The two black boxes are okay county and hunderdon county. Flash Flood Warnings in two counties. We have some very heavy rain moving through. Over three inches of rain has fallen already this morning. This storm threat continues throughout the day. These storms become more widespread heading into the afternoon. You will see in the tenday forecast, unsettled for tomorrow. A few storms lingering there. By tuesday and wednesday, drying out nicely. Stay with us for updates throughout the morning and afternoon. Flooding will be a threat for the city as well. Good day to download that due to nbc sports coverage, meet the press will air at 10 00 a. M. Instead of 10 30. Thank you for having us in for the news. Were revisiting some inspiring homes from inspiring designers. Were taking you inside a whimsical home designed by designer to watch sasha bikoff. We head to queens to visit interior designer bret leemkeils asianinspired artful and colorful space. But first, artist and designer laura kirar shares inspiring lauren kirar this living room is the first thing you see when you step off the elevator, so it had to be dramatic. [music playing] welcome to open house nyc. Today, im coming to you my sun drenched and private full floor residence on the upper east side
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