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Youll get free installation, tv equipment and epix included. And now get a 300 reward card. A night of wild weather and its just ramping up. Strong wind knocking over trucks, knocking down trees and causing big problems on the good evening at 11 00. A lot happening right now because of the weather tonight. Right now part of the George Washington bridge is closed because a tractortrailer flipped over during the high winds. Crews are on the scene of a vacant house in the bronx that collapsed, trying to determine if weather played a role here. The building next door evacuated as a precaution. We have several reports on the weather tonight which is changing by the moment. We begin with lee goldberg. Just heard a big rumble of thunder, flash of lightning in the distance. Well be able to get this weather cast then run inside. Hudson valley and northeastern new jersey, a watch will go until 2 00 in the morning. The Weather Service has kept the tornado watch for parts of new jersey till 1 00 in the morning. Wind advisory as well. Lower Hudson Valley, connecticut and coastline until 4 a. M. The wind gusts have been over 50 Miles Per Hour in spots. The damage reports have been piling up. The most recent one in ridgewood, new jersey with roads closed because of trees and york city and western long island weve seen big gusts. Flood warnings up across new jersey. Slow moving squall line. Were going to push 2 inches across parts of new jersey. Were over an inch in many spots. Look at those winds howling out of the south at close to 50 Miles Per Hour. Those winds have pushed our temperatures in to the mid 60s in the Hudson Valley, 58 in new york city. Look at that radar. Lightning lighting up connecticut, westchester, all of new jersey and the Hudson Valley right now. Squall line moving in to new york city especially over staten within a minute or two its going to get much heavier here on the west side. Strong to severe storms through 2 a. M. Look for damaging winds and heavy flooding downpours. It will be quieter by the morning commute but ill warn you, definitely want to leave early because youll have roadways. Another flash of lightning just now to the north. A storm track, complete 7day accuweather forecast in just a few minutes. Mess outside and what a mess it is. Were going to start at the George Washington bridge as we look at a live picture, it is a mess. Right now the upper level is shut down. Thats because the winds picked up a tractortrailer and just dropped it in the opposite lanes on the upper level. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross with the chaos down there. Were here on west 179th street where you can see the onramp to the gw bridge remains closed at this hour as crews continue to clear this overturned tractortrailer near the center of the bridge. All upper level outbound lanes remain shut down and Law Enforcement sources are saying high winds are likely a factor in this truck tipping over. This all happened just before 10 00 this evening as the 18wheeler was traveling in the midspan of the bridge. Several pictures and videos of the overturned tractortrailer were quickly posted to social media as First Responders arrived on scene and began redirecting traffic. Its important to note with wind hour there was a tractortrailer ban on the bridge tonight. Just how this truck was able to bypass this van is still under investigation. It appears forceful winds flipped the truck from the eastbound to the westbound side. At this point the trailer appears empty but trues are dealing with the fuel spill. And back out here live, the upper level lanes that were showing you right now, you can see theyre completely backed up. Theres no indication at this time as to how long this is going to take to clear this mess in the center of the bridge. If youre jersey bound this evening, youre going to have to take the lower level in lincoln. Some alternatives. Its really a mess right now. Live on west 179th street, aj ross, channel 7 Eyewitness News. What a mess there. The weather also causing problems for commuter trains. Metro north saying there are delays right now in the harlem line. Thats because earlier a metro north train headed to poughkeepsie hit a tree that had fallen on the tracks. But able to get to irvington station where passengers got on another train. No injuries reported. The winds and wild weather are bringing trees down all over the tristate. Problems also in north brunswick. Thats where reporter carolina leid is. Right now route 27 is shut down. Let me show you why. This tree came crashing down across the street at omaha road. As were told, this is all because of the heavy winds they saw here in the area. As that massive tree ripped in half, it pulled down some power lines. Weve seen a number of crews working on this, d. O. T. As well as office of Emergency Management working to clean this up as quickly as possible. The road is shut down in both directions. If you can avoid this this area, do that. Sure drivers cannot go in this direction. Carolina leid, channel 7 Eyewitness News. The storm has knocked out power to thousands of people in new jersey. Pse g is reporting about 17,000 outages, most of them in the southern part of the state. All these storms also causing major problems at the airports. Laguardia is experiencing delays of 30 minutes. Kennedy has delays of frouv minutes and 45 minutes and some of the biggest in the area are newark where flights are theyed. Updates on any damage in the morning on commute problems. We begin with reaction to a stunning development, an alleged gang rape. The teenager who claims she was raped at gunpoint by five boys at a park in brooklyn recanting. And the new details weve learned tonight are shocking. Prosecutors now say she had sex with her father in the park. Einiger in the brownsville section. As distasteful and really hard to believe as all these new details are, there really is one bottom line that came out of the brooklyn das office tonight. Theres nothing this 18yearold woman did against her will in the park behind me. And as a result, those five teens accused of rape are now free. Reporter they were paraded in front of cameras as the face of a crime that made national news, but five teens all of the sudden in last month for a gang rape are now free after prosecutors determined the shocking crime never even happened. Abdullah green represents one of the boys. You can only imagine the trauma that would go along with a charge like this hanging over a young childs head. You cannot rape a young lady in our community and think youre going to get away with it. Reporter the pressure was intense as they demanded an arrest. The 18yearold alleged victim and her father told police they had been drinking together in this brownsville playground when the five teens showed up and at leave then raped the daughter as both recounted at the time to Eyewitness News. Put a gun in my face, tell me to run. And all of them had their way with her. I was just real scared. I didnt know what to do. I was in a panic mode. Reporter Police Released video of the teens from a nearby bodega and arrested them the next day. Thats when the case started to unravel. Da ken thompson said the Sexual Conduct that night was consensual between the woman and her father. Shes recounted her allegations of forcible sexual assault. That night the young womans father and the five young men engaged in conduct that was reprehensible and wrong, but because of the lack of evidence, criminal charges simply cannot be sustained. We wanted some results and we wanted it immediately and whomever is arrested they get their day in court and thats what our democracy is all about. The woman at the center of police say she is refusing to cooperate at this point in any kind of charges against her father, so hes unlikely to be charged. Tonight Eyewitness News did reach the woman involved in this case. She told us she is doing fine and trying to move on with her life. Live in the brownsville section of brooklyn, josh einiger, channel 7 Eyewitness News. A stunning courtroom admission for the driver charged with manslaughter in a crash on the new jersey turnpike. 36yearold scott hahn pleading not guilty but saying he was high on adderall and hadnt slept in more than 24 hours. His mercedes rearending another car, that triggered a Chain Reaction that killed a Popular High School teacher and his 5yearold daughter. Not guilty. That plea tonight from the brooklyn mother accused of leaving her 2yearold daughter home alone. Kalenah muldrow died alone as fire swept through her home monday night. 20yearold leila aquino returned home hours later. Aquino says she left her the babysitter said she no longer cared for the girl after a dispute over money. Now to another toddlers death. This one on staten island. And horrific new details tonight about what his babysitter allegedly did. 31yearold gloria fields pleading not guilty in court on staten island. Prosecutors say she tortured 16monthold Anthony Delgado after his mother left him with her for the weekend. Sexually abusing the baby and slamming his head in to the ground. Shes being held without bail. The federal government tonight strongly responding to an abc news interview with apple ce other tim cook. A Government Official telling abc news apple has pushed to have congress resolve whether apple should be forced to unlock the iphones of terrorists would take too much time. Cook talked to david muir about why his company is resisting the court order to unlock the San Bernardino terrorists phone. If we knew a way to get the information on the phone that we knew a way to do this that would not expose hundreds of millions of other peoples issues, we would obviously do it. Apple now expected to file its legal response to the judges order by friday. A curious twist tonight in the bitter partisan battle to fill a vacant seat on the supreme court. President obama reportedly considering a republican nominee. Brian sandoval, governor of nevada, is a federal judge who supports abortion rights. It may be the president s way of courting republican support. Most Senate Republicans are refusing to support any obama nominee. Now to vote 2016 and the republican men hoping to vest donald trump and become the partys nominee running out of time. Mr. Trump bathing in his victory in nevada and looking ahead to tomorrow nights debate in houston. Nearly 46 of the caucus votes last night. More than marco rubio and ted cruz combined. Trumps Third Straight victory heading in to super tuesday. An endorsement today from Senate Minority leader harry reid. Clinton is far ahead of Bernie Sanders in the polls leading up to the democratic primary in south carolina. A voluntary wrestling coach under arrest in rocklin county accused of having sex with an underaged boy. 18yearold Marcus Stroud has volunteered for wrestling programs in rocklin, westchester and bergen counties. Police say stroud met the alleged victim through a wrestling program and lured him in with social media. Investigators believe there may be other victims. A frightening encounter with a man carrying a machete. The violent and deadly ending to the scary scene when Police Officers were threatened. And a young girl fighting leukemia. How you can team up with the community to help save her life. And lee goldberg updating his forecast on the strong storms moving through our area right now. It is pouring outside our studios. More when we come i hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too what are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey i didnt know your home wifi dad, its Time Warner Cable. 300 megs. Crazyfast. Dad you can get wifi all over this place. Cool make your home as connected as possible. Get 50 meg internet with unlimited data for 39. 99 per month. And ask about free installation. Call now. Shot and killed by police. The terrifying ordeal caught on camera. You can see the man swinging the machete wildly just before police opened fire. They say the man ignored repeated orders to drop it. One officer was hit by the machete but was not seriously hurt. New jersey lawmaker proposing lowering the legal drinking age. Assemblyman Michael Patrick carroll says it should be age 18. The republican argues if an 18yearold american can serve his or her country in the military, they should be able to buy alcohol. The bill faces a big hurdle. Federal law cuts highway funding for any state with a drinking age under 21. She is like so many other people in the tristate, battling cancer. And it is taking a huge toll emotionally and financially on her family. But this battle with leukemia for bella bermudas is different because bella is just 5 years old. Tonight her battle uniting the new jersey. Heres carolina leid. Reporter a battle for bella in union city tonight. Hundreds gathered to raise money for bella, the 5yearold is leukemia. Its very heartbreaking. Its something that you never imagine can happen to you, especially a mother, you dont want to think about those up to of things. Reporter norma perez says her daughter was diagnosed with cancer last summer. The family has medical insurance, but extra costs are adding up. So neighbors touched by their story organized this coaches versus cops basketball fundraiser at the citys middle school. Were trying to help as much as we can from raffles, tshirts, anything we can basically put our hands on to help them out. Spunky. She has a great soul. She loves to dance, likes to sing. Shes always happy and thats inspiring. Everyone . Wow. Reporter its not just the financial support. Bellas mother says this emotional support, watching the game winning shot at the buzzer, puts a smile on bellas face and is key to her recovery. In union city, carolina leid, channel 7 Eyewitness News. A community united. We return to the weather now. A powerful storm continuing its deadly marched to. Three people died in virginia and across the midatlantic, tens of thousands of homes and businesses were without electricity. From louisiana, hit yesterday, a total of three deaths linked to the weather. Meteorologist lee goldberg talked about the watches and the warnings. They were indeed warnings for all of us. It was wild out there. Yeah, so powerful. That wind knocking down that tractortrailer, knocking down trees. And people only being able to hear about a lot of this on social media because their power morning with all the tree limbs knocked down tomorrow morning. Its going to be dangerous. Outside we go now. This was my position a little while ago. Its drenching downpours, torrential rain in new york city. Still got about another hour to go through the five boroughs and well be looking at connecticut and long island. Sort of a wide picture here and the position of that camera is actually right here outside our studios. So were at 57 degrees right now. We started the day raw and rainy. Its almost tropical downpours to end the day. By the way, between our first weather segment, the Severe Thunderstorm Warning was extended in to parts of somerset, middlesex counties. Includes northeast new jersey, five boroughs and Hudson Valley. Watch will go until 2 00 in the morning. The watch i can see expiring during the show because were seeing the storms move quickly out of the 64, wrightstown and 65 in poughkeepsie. Peak wind gusts, 52 Miles Per Hour in white plains right now. I think i saw one over 50 in wrightstown. The winds are getting lighter over western new jersey. Thats good news. Once the line moves through over the next couple hours, then it will start to back off. Ill add a shower to the 7 a. M. Forecast north and west. A few breaks but clouds dominate tomorrow. Still breezy, drop to the 40s. Even though we forecast lower 50s, dress for look at all this lightning. Its incredible at this hour how it keeps up. Lets look at the line from north to south. Very strong right over orange county. Highlands and over to cortland manner and newburg. You see the strong line, east orange Lightning Strikes near jersey city and over toward the bronx. You can see Lightning Strike right there over brooklyn as well and this part of the line near hillsborough and south going to tom river over the next half hour. This will go by by about 2 a. M. These showers could be north and west tomorrow morning. Watch the futurecast here. Again, midnight leaving new york city area, going to connecticut and western long island, quickly lifting away and diminishing toward morning, just a shower north and west in the start of the day right around 50 degrees during the afternoon, more clouds and sun. About 50. Chilly breeze. Feels like low to mid 40s. 51 to start. Couple sho