Many people dont seem to mind. This warm december has many people trading in their sweaters for tshirts. In soho plenty of folks spent the day dining outside or taking the dog for a walk. How long will the warmth last . Meteorologist jeff smith is here with the answer and the forecast. We obliterated records in parts of the area. Central parks old record was 64 set in 1923. Got up to 67 this afternoon. Records at newark and islip, a pair of 68s. Bridgeport 61. Those werent the warmest locations. Morristown, 72. 73 for belmar and toms river. It was cooler well off to the north and east and we were advertising that, the backdoor cold front slipping in from the north and east cooling off places like montauk and poughkeepsie. Cooling off in the 50s there. The front moved through cooling us down to 58 agrees. The time of the year. 50 at monticello. You are sitting pretty at 61 at toms river. We are going down to 54 overnight. Rob, you were asking me how long it will last . At least into the day, 63. We have rain coming in tomorrow. With will time it out in the full accuweather forecast. Right now out to mallory hoff. She had the difficult task of talking to people about the warmth in union square. Reporter we have seen shortsleeve tshirts, crop tops and sandals. We are not seeing earmuffs, wig winter jackets. Just not needed now. Tis the season. People are going to enjoy the weather for as long as they can. When we asked how it feels, the answer was not fright full. The weather outside is amazing. Springtime. I am enjoying it. I will take my citi bike and take a ride. Come out and enjoy the outside. Everyone is eating outside, walking outside. Its great. Who would have thought . Reporter really incredible. Folks plan to enjoy every moment of this and then some. Live in union square, mallory hoff. Thank you very much. In other news, amateur video of a Police Shooting in california is sparking questions about use of force. This video shows Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies firing at a man on a street in the community of lindewood yesterday. They continued firing even after that man fell to the ground. Investigators today said deputies fired 33 shots in all. We are not showing the complete video because of its graphic nature. The sheriff says the man was firing shots in the air and pointed his gun at the deputies before they opened fire. Criticism any time there is a deputy involved shooting. We have seen that particularly in the last two years or so. Thats why we came out today to be transparent with the information that we can share at this time to say, hey, here is what we have. Here is what we know about it. Reporter detectives say they have recovered. 45 caliber handgun found at the scene. The investigation it is continuing. A wild scene on long island. What started off as a routine traffic stop ended when an s. U. V. Crashed into a building. A Police Officer pulled in front of the s. U. V. This afternoon in west islip while attempting to pull the vehicle over after seeing the driver texting. Instead, the jeep rear ended the police car and another vehicle before careening off the road, into a fence and into the building. The officer suffered minor injuries. The driver was arrested on a drug charge. Local lawmakers are calling financial crisis in puerto rico. Sat a News Conference today, senator at a News Conference today, Charles Schumer and others pressed the house and senate to approve a provision that would give public agencies access to chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. We are calling on them not to forsake the citizens living in puerto rico during their time of greatest need. Puerto ricos governor says without the debt restructuring measure, the u. S. Territory will likely be unable to pay more than 900 million in bond payments next month. Investigators are looking into the cause of a fire that damaged six postal manhattan. The fdny said it started on the third floor of a parking garage night. Firefighters got the blaze under control about midnight. No mail was in the trucks. Meantime, a man is in Critical Condition after police say his scooter collided with a livery cab at an entrance to central park on the upper east side. A 29yearold man was thrown from the vespa when he collided with the livery cab about 3 30 this morning. Authorities say the scooter driver may have run a red light and hit the s. U. V. Turning on to 5th avenue. One person in the s. U. V. Suffered minor injuries. Still ahead on Eyewitness News at 5 00, when is the right time to upgrade your childs car safety seat . It could be sooner than you expect it. We will explain. What makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. The weather was a blessing for animals and their caretakers. Christchurch hosting the belying of the animals today. The senior minister blessed dogs, cats and other pets as well. You know who was there . Some of the nypd dogs and horses were also blessed. And fun and joy use event. Everybody is happy with their companions. We hear a sheep and there they are. A sheep and llama were blessed this afternoon. A little bit of everything in the city. Santa claus take a break from making toys in order to spread Holiday Cheer in manhattan. St. Nick was on hand at the hard rock in times square. It was breakfast with santa. For patients at st. Marys, justin love came to sing and children got a chance to tell santa holiday wishes. Means the world to them. Good time was had by all. A good time is being had by evening. At times with the sun beating down it felt warm. Two. Enjoy it while it lasts. You never know when it will last r end. You remember last year in late january. Checking out the view toward visibility increasing off to the south. Patchy dense fog developing overnight that can last into tomorrow morning. 58 right now. That wind from the east around 3. So, that helped to cool us off a little bit from the earlier high of 67. 58 is the low on the day. I want to put this in perspective. 44 is the normal high. We got up to 67. A full 23 above that. 33 is the normal low and our low today was 58 degrees. Just incredible. 64 was the old record in 1923 which we on litter raid this afternoon. Sun setting before 4 30. Showers show up tomorrow, especially late in the day. Much of the day it may not be raining too hard, fog and drizzle around during the toward evening. The 60s. Sun returns, temperatures mild in the 60s during the day on tuesday. Wednesday before potential rain. But i think temperatures will be up near 60 again. More seasonal into the weekend. Coldest air by saturday and its not that cold. I will show you on the coming up. Temperatures in the lower 50s across long island. 50 monticello. 61 sat toms river. 63 at morristown, new jersey. Lines. They are coming from the east northeast, north of a certain point. Southern parts of ocean county, a wind from a southerly component. Thats why you are mild but the rest of the region under the influence of the northeast independents. We are cooler than 4 hours ago this time last night. Futurecast showing overnight low clouds, fog, perhaps as muchy drizzle especially after midnight and tomorrow morning. Check out temperatures during the day tomorrow, lower to middle 60s. Have a couple of showers around the steady yeast waits until after need fall to nightfall to move in. There could be thunder. What wild wacky weather. Maybe a 24ur78. Behind it it clears out into the day on tuesday but mild. Friday into sunday the coldest air of the season moving in as a northwest wind develops as the jet stream dips to the south. Mostly cloudy, mild, 54. 63 tomorrow. Steady rain developing toward evening. Maybe a morning shower, spotty drizzle. Into tomorrow night, periods of rain. Maybe a thunderstorm in the evening then we clear it out after midnight, 55. Accuweather sevenday forecast, lots of sun, breezy, mild. Cooler. 54 wednesday. Rain at times on thursday. 59. That comes close to a record of 62 set in 2000 then back into the weekend, temperatures in sunday. Thats closer to normal but above normal for this time of the year. Thank you, jeff. When it comes to driving with Young Children in the car, you can never be too safe. Consumer reports is injuring parents to move their children out of their infant carrier and into a rear facing convertible seat at a younger age. Both types were recently put to the test. Eyewitness News ReporterShirleen Allicot has the results. Reporter for newborns like luke an infant carrier provides the best fit. Good level of safety and most convenient safety car seat option. New test results from Consumer Reports find for older babies turning one a rear facing convertible seat can provide for crash protection than an infant seat. Consumer reports crash testified both types using tested both types using one representing a 1yearold child. The dummys head hit the back of the 25 convertible seats. Children are technically too tall for an infant carrier seat when the head is one inch from the top of the carrier shell. Consumer reports new at vice goes further. We recommend that all children be moved to a rear facing convertible seat by the first birthday, even if they havent outgrown the infant tar year carrier. Along with crash tests, Consumer Reports evaluate each seat for ease of use and installation. Without proper installation, the safest seat cant fully protect your child in a crash. Top rating goes to keico next fit for 300 brittax for 265. You dont have to spend a lot to get a safe seat. The even flow sure for 100 the costco scenara next for 45 t. Shirleen allicot, channel 7 Eyewitness News. In some ways i miss those car seats. Safety concerns have lead amazon to stop selling the hot toy. They are removing hoverboards from the web site after several fires were linked to the devices pudding a fire at a house in chappaqua. Amazon sent out notification that they are pulling them pending a review. Nfl sunday. Laura behnke is up next with sports. Rob and sandra, week 14 in the National Football league. The playoff pressure is on and the jets, they are feeling it. This afternoon at the meadowlands, gangrene dealing with the pressure quite well with the help of the lowly titans of course. The giants fight for their in miami. Before we go to break a holiday greeting from a local member of the military from our area that wont make it home for the holidays. Hello, this is kym johnson with my husband john johnson. We are wanting to wish my mom and dad jim and sue lions and my sister tina benson, her husband dan and her children a very Merry Christmas and its the holidays. And of course, Everyone Wants to get online at once. To watch things. Buy things. Thats why its time to get fios. It has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. With speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. Jets have been on a roll. Laura behnke has a look at sports. Trying to keep a good thing going today. Jets stumbled with playoff hopes slipping away. Two wins later they are in the hunt for the two afc wild card spots. Today trying to keep it that way as they hosted the last place titans. Jets busy. Ryan fitzpatrick to eric decker. They lead 100 after one. Then another 16yard strike. Before the half, Brandon Marshall making the catch along the sidelines. Titans couldnt get anything going except in the wild cat. Marcus mariota hauls in the touchdown. That watts the end of the good news for the titans. Mariota sacked five times on the day. Jets are 5. Giants are on the way to miami today on the eve of their clash with the dolphins. Big blue in a threeway tie for first in the nfc east despite a threegame losing streak. I caught up with tom coughlin to get his thoughts. You talked ever since the bye the importance of playing in december. After two tough losses what is the message this week. We are still in it and we have to put it together and play the best football right now and then i believe that these games, these last three games have been one or two plays and it could have been a different story for us. But no crying over spilled milk. Move forward. When it happened that three i told the players, we cant look in the rearview mirror. We know we have to improve, each one of us individually have to take the things that need to be improved and improve them so the result can be different. 9 losses can can be tough but when you look at the nfc east, what kind of effect can that have on a team. If you look at the last four games, its a tough haul for each one of us. One game at a time. Take care of your own business. I have been saying that. We have to get it done. You talked about jay john pierre paul. He is playing better each week. What have you seen . How impressive. Last week he played his best. I think he will play better. It takes time to get used to this. He put it together last week. Played hard. Week. You told me finish games. Maybe this time is missing or needs to get over the hump . Part is doing it and having confidence because it happened at least four times at the very end of the game, the last drive of the game we had the lead or whatever and we lose the game. So,ing thats what we mean by finish. Somehow, some way put it together. Make the interception. Get the sack. Letter get the ball loose. Thanks, tom. Good luck this week. Thank you. We are just over 24 hours from the very important game for the giants. New york and miami in miami on monday night football 6789 you can see it on channel 7. Our live coverage begins at 8 00. This is one the giants cannot afford to lose. Rob and sandra . Looking forward to that. Cant wait. Monday night football right back here. Coming up at 5 00 a scandal in a Catholic Community here in the bronx. Allegations that he stole money from two churches to fund his boyfriend. Crowds gather in paris to honor the victims of the deadly terrorist attack one month ago a look at the top stories. A driver is in custody after far rockaway queens. Witnesses say the woman in Critical Condition pushed a child out of the way. A routine traffic stop turns wild on long island. Police say a driver rear ended a police car trying to pull over the car in west islip then crashed into a building. This record breaking warmth here in new york city. Many people spending the day outside soaking up the sun on a warm december sunday. Good evening, im rob powers in for joe torres. Im sandra bookman. A Catholic Priest steps down amid allegations of a sex scandal. He is accused of stealing 1 million from two churches then spending that money on another man. Now Cardinal Dolan is speaking out about the allegations. Kemberly richardson is in the throgs neck section of the bronx. Kemberly . Reporter not a hymn or a prayer but the reading of the thats what parishioners have been hearing. Father peter voluntarily stepped down. Cardinal dolan telling me he accepted the resignation, admired him for doing it as investigators try to sort out fact from fix. We are dealing with a lot of innuendo, rumor, gossip. What we have to deal with is the truth. Reporter after morning mass Timothy Dolan talked about what is tearing the parish april party. I am so disgusted because i have heard him over and over again say how we have to be more generous. For what . 230r his act . Reporter her us from strags felt by many. So as not to be a distraction, he abruptly resigned, days ago parishioners sued the priest for stealing money from st. Francis and his prior church. Cardinal dolan tells me he forwarded emails from the accuser to the bronx district attorney. They are lurid and terrible. When will i read them three months ago, it was she saying this is what im telling you. I have photographs. I have evidence and i said oh, im glad. We are looking for data. Please come in and give them to me and the police. She didnt. Reporter the archdiocese of new york named in the lawsuit is investigating all of this and says so far it has found no evidence of embezzlement. The District Attorneys Office tells Eyewitness News it has been tracking things and is waiting for the archdiocese to if its true, its sad. We have to pull together. Reporter a spokesperson for the archdiocese tells me geno evidence of embezzlement. Rather sloppy bookkeeping. It hopes to reach a resolution by the first of the year. Live in the bronx, kemberly richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. A funeral will be held tomorrow for a woman found murdered in her home in new jersey as Police Continue to search for her killer. Services for yolanda vega are set for tomorrow in rahway. Her body was found in her home last week. A Family Member saw a gunman jump out of a closet and run from the house. Authorities have not said how vega died. A long island man is facing charges of stealing from a church. Police say mark sprewell from apparently might cityville got into our lady of Lourdes Church using an unlocked door. They say he used a large rock and steal the money inside. He faces burglary and related charges. Today marks one month since the attacks in paris. Crowds gathered at a memorial outside the bat take theater to pay their respects to the 83 People Killed when three attackers burst in during a concert. 130 people died in the attacks on the venue at the soccer stadium, cave face and restaurants. An International Manhunt continues for one of the suspects. A bombing in a market killed 22 people and wounded 45 others in pakistan near the afghan border. The market was crowded with shoppers buying warm clothes for the winter. The explosion was caused by a Remote Control bomb. No one immediately c