eastern portion of the country as we get into the 70s, and we could set an all-time record high if we hit 75 on thursday. we ll talk about that, the warm air for christmas day and the weekend too coming up in your accuweather seven-day forecast. keep an umbrella handy for the next couple of days. back to you. thank you bill. we have just learned that another man with ties to our area was killed in an attack in afghanistan. yesterday the nypd confirmed that detective joseph lemm died in the attack. now the orange county executive says a second man from stewart air national guard base was killed in a suicide bombing near bagram airfield. dray clark is live in the bronx. reporter: behind me you can see the black bunting outside the 5-0 precinct hanging in memory of detective joseph lemm. by all accounts he was a great police officer and an outstanding soldier. yesterday his life met an one of the most dangerous villages in afghanistan. detective joseph lemm served new york
conspiracy theories calling it a publicity stunt and the pageant facing threats of a lawsuit. we speak live to one of the judges what happened behind the scenes only on gma. and good morning, america. okay, so are you ready, three days to go. kind of. kind of. christmas is coming. today is the busiest delivery day of the year but you still have a little more time to get out there, make the final what about getting yourself where you need to go? it will be busy if you re heading out, be prepared for traffic. long lines at the airport and tomorrow, i hate to tell you, could be worse. wednesday is expected to be the busiest day on the highways and wicked weather across the country is not going to help. rob marciano is starting us off with that. good morning, rob. yeah, today is no picnicment tomorrow worse across the roads in the east. west, snow at the higher elevations, i-5 from seattle to san francisco will be wet but over the siskiyous, snow and ice. air tomo
assigned to the mall. the. reporter: once again, that protocol has been in place since the shootings in paris. we want to emphasize that on a busy night of shopping, this mall is now open to shoppers. as you mentioned, there was an off duty deputy inspector from the fugitive enforcement division from the nypd. he helped take down the suspect. he was just at the mall christmas shopping. live in garden city, stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you. now to the weather and the potentially record breaking warmth. we could hit 70 or higher for christmas eve. before we get there, all the warm weather could wreak havoc on a holiday get way in the form of fog and heavy rain as well. meteorologist lee goldberg it is tracking it all. on the first full night of winter, dress spring. 20 degrees above average. pretty shot of midtown. you can see the low cloudiness. it hasn t lowered to the point where visibilities are way that will happen tonight into tomorrow morning. w
i wasn t in the store 30 seconds and people started screaming and running out of the door of macy s. a stampede came through. reporter: so,ing a lot of shoppers are upset tonight. the man shot, the mall employee, 67 years old, he is in serious but stable condition in the hospital right now. as for the way the suspect was apprehended, this is an interesting side note. through the help of this guy, an off duty nypd deputy inspector named kenneth lair. he is from the fugitive enforcement division. he was out doing christmas shopping. turns out he helped apprehend the suspect who is now in police custody. one of the busiest shopping days of the year. we are live outside roosevelt mall, stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. stacey, thank you. we are hearing more from people terrified when they heard the gunshots, many of whom hid out in locked back panic. long island kristin thorne with that angle. reporter: some shoppers were in those back rooms locked in supply ro
newark a half mile. jfk a half mile. 3/10 jersey shore. so today that s why we have this dense fog advisory, not really for manhattan or for hudson county but it s really more or less for southern brooklyn and long island and everywhere else this morning until 10:00. we have clouds, fog, rain to our south. that rain gets here at 11:00. you need your rain gear today, rain this afternoon. 59 by lunch. 62 this afternoon, and we do the fog dance all over again this evening, christmas eve will shatter the record high. we talk about that next. weather then heather every 7 minutes. she has all kinds of problems this morning. we have a new problem now out in suffolk county. let s take a look at sunrise highway, that whole area, sunrise highway closed west, williams floyd parkway north at sunrise highway, all lanes are closed with a pretty serious accident in this spot. long island railroad, new jersey transit, metro north doing just fine. our subway service is also running on or cl