Set back in 1998. Meanwhile it is a driving rain out here. Looks like the heaviest rain half hour. Thanks for the confirmation. He said, its raining. Sade, rob, back to you. Thank you lee. Get back inside and dry o. Were going to check with lee in a few minutes. Now we want to go to michelle from laguardia. Reporter a lot of delays. Nice to be dry inside but a two to two and a half hour delay here at la guard i cant. People are lined up all the way down, probably 10 lines. The lines are moving. A lot of people working those lines, but folks are in very good spirits. I have to say they expected with the weather and the fact this is a Holiday Travel day, one of the most busy of the year that they would see these delays. This is definitely the day as we look at the de par taurus departures get out of dodge. We wish you a Merry Christmas reporter these are the busiest days of the year for travel. Laguardia did not disappoint. Long lines were moving. Are you delayed . Going to raleigh . Yes. I dont know, the lady just worked some magic because i called Customer Service twice, there was nothing. Newark, jfk, and she just said i got you on a flight tonight at 5 00. Reporter no rest for the weary except for this little man who is totally . Iew. This is awesome. So wait a minute. Where are you guys headed . Going to north carolina. Reporter where . Durham, and then utah. Reporter taking a look at the departures board, yellow writing is bad. Red is terrible. That means your flight is canceled. Most of theres operating about an hour to two hours delay. Rule number one, dont be boring with your luggage, r two d two. Where you headed . Mississippi. Are you delayed any hope not. Slight delay, about an hour. Reporter how was your flight . It was totally delayed. There was fog, low visibility so an hour late leaving. Once you got on the plane, the laboratory needed repair, so that was another halfhour. Then we had to circle in the air because there was a we couldnt land once we got here. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year reporter trying to keep everybody in good spirits. One final note. If you are flying out expect to see a little bit more security and a little bit more caution taken as you go through security lines. Published reports indicating the tsa is doing the pat downs. If they think they need to they are doing those full body scans, so you may see a lot more of that this year, slowing down those security lines. Good luck, safe flight. Live at laguardia, michelle charlesworth, Eyewitness News. Remember you can get updates on the weather and traffic at our web site, abc7ny. Now we get to that runaway city bus. Happened on west end avenue and 96th street that bus colliding with one car setting off a chain reaction, Eyewitness News reporter jim dolan is on the scene with the latest. Jim. Reporter sade the bus had just pulled in where it is right now. It is still sitting over there. It had just pulled into that spot. The driver was done for the day. He got out of the bus and maybe he was a little eager to begin the holidays because he got off without putting the van, the bus, into park. It rolled all the way across west end avenue and started hitting cars right over here. The blue car was the first one to hit. Lets go to video we shot a short while ago. Long string of cars, each car ran into the next vehicle. The one behind it, until it hit a red vehicles and thats where it came to a halt. The driver of the blue car that was damaged the most was right across the street. Really, i have no idea what happened. Im upset. Its a holiday weekend. What am i going to do it . s the city. What can you do . You cant fight city hall. Reporter did they say they would pay for it or do you have to go through your insurance . Oh, no, they would pay for it, they said. Reporter so if none of those vehicles had been there, the first thing the bus would have hit would have been this oil taker which is sitting right in front of ps 75, and there were still a lot of students at that school when all this happened. But no students were hit, nobody in the intersection was hit, no accidents. It was pretty remarkable that nobody got hurt in this. Side, jim dolan, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Two new York Air National guard members killed in afghanistan are being remembered tonight by their base. They spoke about 45yearold Tech Sergeant joseph lemm who was also an nypd detective, and the Staff Sergeant killed in a suicide bombing monday along with four other service members. He was always one to lead the way, sergeant was a steadfast defender, always one to want to be in the mix. He was they ever one to want to sit back and watch things happen. A service was held at Bagram Air Force base. Their bodies are arriving in the u. S. Today. Flags are flying at halfstaff in new york today and tomorrow in their honor. New information about a headon area in Morris County one of them is out of the hospital. The other is expected to survive as well. They were on duty when their cruiser slammed into a truck at cory lane and mendham road. The driver of the truck was not hurt. A grand jury today deciding to indict the truckdriver in the crash that injured tracee morgan and killed one of the comedians friends. Kevin roper now facing first degree aggravated manslaughter, seconddegree vehicular homicide and third degree aggravated assault charges. Roper was driving a walmart truck when he crashed into the van carrying morgue tbarnd and his friends on the new jersey turnpike last year. All right, we are still anticipating a decision sometime from the n florida today on the onegame suspension of giants wide receiver Odell Beckham jmplet lets take a look at the only shot of the star today arriving in midtown. The giants head coach coming to beckhams defense earlier today. Eyewitness News Reporter rob nelson live outside nfl headquarters right now. Rob. Reporter good evening, rob. Rock star in the nfl known for incredible hands. At this hour his status with the league is in someone elses hands. It was this fullspeed helmet to helmet hit on sunday against the panthers that took Odell Beckham junior from one of the leagues most celebrated players to now one of its most vilified. It was one of three personal fouls the star wide receiver racked up during sundays heartbreaking loss to carolina in which he tussled with josh norman over and over again, the league ultimately suspending the star for the giants game this weekend. Ignoring the media beckham found himself in the leagues midtown office, a feeling that to depict this as Odell Beckham being wrong and the only one wrong is not right. Reporter beckham and other giants players along that the panthers taunted beckham with before the game, and according to some reports, there were gay slurs hurled at beckham as well. But there were factors involved, starting in pregame, which are well document, which indicate that there was an attempt to provoke him. Reporter today the league announced it was not suspending norman but instead fining the panthers player 26,000 for his role in sundays mess. Today teammates stood by beckham who in two seasons has established himself as one of the leagues most talented, exciting, and flamboyant players, but also one who is prone to on the field tantrums. Hes great. His enthusiasm for the game, i never seen it. He came here his rookie year last year. I knew he would be something special. Now if the suspension holds, beckham will give up 53,000. That of course is just a small fraction of his annual salary this year of just under 900,000. Has become it is worth noting certainly he is no angel on the field. This is actually the fourth time that he has been fined or suspended for incidents like this on the field. We will see what the nfl decides to do, possibly as early as tonight. Live in midtown, rob nelson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Rob, thank you. Stocks on wall street ex stanged winning streak today. Climbing oil prices helping. The dow rising, the nasdaq added 44 points and the s p 500 climbed 25 points. Two toddlers found alone wandering in a motel parking lot. We will tell where you Police Tracked down their mother. Were also learning new information about the suspect in the robbery in a long island mall. Police say there were warning signs. Plus one of the real housewives of new jersey leaves prison. And that clock is ti meet the moores were the moore family, and were always looking for ways to enjoy more. So we called Time Warner Cable and got even more than we expected. Call now to get more. More speed. 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The suspect, 21yearold guilty to robbery, assault, and gun charges. Police tonight saying there were signs of trouble before yesterday. Eyewitness News Reporter stacy sarge live outside in garden city with todays developments. Stacy. Reporter well, rob, there was a troubling Facebook Post with a gun, pills, and alcohol. Authorities say that should have been a red flag. Whats also clear, there was a hero in all of this, a life threatening struggle, actually, to stop the suspect. Reporter why did you rob the store . Reporter 21yearold oliver lee of douglas and queens said nothing today as he headed to court but his actions yesterday spoke volumes. As you can see in this exclusive video, confused workers and shoppers either shelter ised behind gated stores or ran out of the mall, believing there was an active shooter. Why . Well, cops tell us more than 400 of the 911 calls came in from the mall yesterday after people heard a gun shot. Say, was that lee used this handguns tried to steal an 18,000 rolex watch from a secure part of the torneau store. But a retired nypd officer working security with two others wouldnt let that happen. It resulted in a lifeand death struggle. The struggle started in the rear of the store and went out into the concourse of the mall. An employee of macies was shot when lees gun went off in the scuffle, but that employee is now recovering. No one answered at lees home here in queens today, but police say he was unemployed and that they found 10 oxycodone pills on him at the time of his arrest. They also confirm lee posted this photo of a gun, alcohol, and pills on his Facebook Page on sunday. A red flag, they say. If you see something that is not right or alarms you, shot of that and send it right through the crimestoppers app. Meanwhile they credit retired Sergeant Kenneth krupp here at the mall with not only stopping lee but preventing any more gunfire and injury. He had to grab that subjects gun with his strong hand over the top of the slide, and what resulted was the gun jamming after the first round was fired. Reporter as you heard in the story, more than 400 calls came in to 911. Police say thats nearly 50 times the normal number. So as you can imagine, an active shooter protocol went into effect. Meanwhile oliver lee is now being held on 750,000 bail. Live in garden city outside Roosevelt Field mall, stacey sager, channel 7 Eyewitness News. A mother in upstate new york under arrest accused of leaving her two Young Children in a motel room all alone. The two and threeyearold around tin rain in the parking lot in ellenville wearing only diapers. Police say a 28yearold left the children in her room when she left for work at 5 50 in the morning yesterday. They were by themselves six hours before someone spotted them outside. A father from the bronx arraigned today in the killing of his twomonthold so. Investigators say Jose Feliciano say he choked and suffocated the child when the baby boy wouldnt stop crying. Police say Surveillance Video shows fell feliciano carrying a bag. In minneapolis at the mall of america demonstrators blocked traffic. The group trying to draw black men at the hands of police. The mall was granted a restraining order against several members. It. So hashtag, when you dont listen to your own forecast. I posted this morning, here is what you should wear. What happened . Well, i had my umbrella and raincoat, my rain bats, no problem, ill be out there for three or four minutes. Thats all it takes, three or four minutes. You need to get that belie dryer going. Hashtag press only. We have what is again just a soak early evening. The rain has been coming down. New totals did come in. Almost half an inch in one hour so the skies have really opened up. If you couple that with the low visibility its really difficult to get around. A pair of 5s now, southeasterly wind at 7. Hopefully you can stay in your warm living room, wherever you are, stay dry for teaching hours. Were at 58 for your high. Thats only six degrees away from a record high. The six and make a run at that before midnight. Christmas outlook is toasty. 74 tomorrow, smashing a record. There can be a passing shower or storm. Most of the time it is dry. Hopefully brightening midday. On Christmas Day sun yields to clouds. 66 should break another record. New totals. Nearly. 6 in central park,. 4 belmar, lighter amounts over the island. You are picking up heavy rainfall. Were now at 63. All that mailed air continues to come up the coast. These are the lowest temperatures lucy from here on out. Visibility will below through the overnight and then improve tomorrow morning. It still could look a touch gloomy early. Heavy rain tonight which should start to lighten up after 9 00 or 10 00. By the way, theres also a little lightening of the rain even after 6 00 or 7 00. Tomorrow morning as fog. Look at the loaferring pad. 67. Were 72 by lunchtime. A little thinning of the clouds. Westchester, fairfield county. Its from arma to ryebrook. Then its getting lighter. When i go outside at 6 00 probably a little lighter but just south of Atlantic City there has been a couple of thunderstorms so thats just a couple of hours away. Thats yi think we will see a resurgence of the rainfall after 7 00, 7 30, and that could last until 9 00 or socht amazing storm in the eastern twothirds of the country. Lots of delays because of tornado watches, carolinas through the midwest, show in the upper midwest. For us, heres the current batch of rain. That moves north. Maybe a lull until 7 30. A resurgence until 9 00 or 10 00 then all that rain should move away. Gloomy tomorrow morning. If the clouds thin out we could get the record high of 75. Were forecasting 74. A little cloudiness on Christmas Day. Sunshine from the city, points north. Merry, merry mild. Rain goes to drizzle tonight, rising temperatures, 74 tomorrow, record warmth. Fog gives way to breaks. Shower or thunderstorm around isolated through the afternoon hours. Mostly cloudy and balmy tomorrow night at 59. Here is what were work on for 5 30. We will watch that threat for thunder. Record highs a possibility again over the weekend, and then flip to a wintry mix possibility early next week. Wild. The sevenday forecast, thats coming up in the next half hour. That just turned on a dime. Just ahead for us, nypd officers on special assignment making history overseas. Plus, a toddler trampled. See how a little boy gets caught in the middle of the getaway by a group of shoplifters. And drone danger on the slopes. One of the worlds best skiers almost taken out bia flying camera. Tonight were learning what the pilot did wrong in this close call. But first, a message from a member of the military from our area who cant be home for greetings from spain, Staff Sergeant richards. Happy holidays to my brother in ne Holiday Seasons just like football season. You got your big games. And regular games. Get it all at a great price. And the Holiday Season is won. Everything in one place. Holiday seasons just like football season. You got your big games. And regular games. Get it all at a great price. And the Holiday Season is won. Everything in one place. Unbelievable marcel herscher. Hes used to racing down mountains at death defying speeds but tuesday night the real danger. Just 10 seconds into his slalom run a drone coming out of nowhere crashing into the into parts, missed the 18year old by inches. Now, the champion skier continued his run as if nothing happened, ultimately losing the race but saying uld possibly get more common with some ski resorts adding areas called drone zones where for a fee of around 200, professionally operated drones will film skiers at every angle, producing the ultimate skiing selfie. And this isnt the first time a drone has caused serious drama at a sporting event. We have a moment here where were not entirely certain as to what it is that the stands. Look at the top left of the screen. In september during the u. S. Open a drone caught on tape flying into Armstrong Stadium crashing into the grandstands. Letting his dance with this a welcome home from prison a election with us a big bow. Tonight Theresa Giudice enjoying her freedom but with restrictions. She served a year in prison for bankruptcy fraud and conspiracy. Her release and home coming one of the most