Evening and tomorrow it will feel like the teens and low 20s. The snowfall amounts are a coating to an inch. That goes until the late evening tonight. About a trace to a coating from the city southward right at the coast. North. We will talk about how cold it gets tomorrow next in the accuweather forecast. Back to you. Lets turn to jeff smith who is in lodi with a look at how crews in new jersey are preparing for the snow. Hey, jeff. Reporter hey, shirleen. Im looking at my accutrack weather alert app. 36 degrees. So, it is above freezing but as the snow showers come in the temperatures can fall to below freezing. That can create slick travel. The salt piles behind me are big. They havent been put to much use during the season so far. Earlier. You can see frontend loaders trucks for the vin you al disperse eventual dispersal and there is another weapon to keep the roads safe ahead of potential snow. With the falling temperatures it could get icy. Yesterday we applied brine to the streets. That is a saltwater solution. It helps prevent the snow and ice from adhearing to the surface. That gives you more time to keep the roads clear once the storm does start and then behind us you see a salt storage facility. We are loading up the trucks with salt. We will be ready to go. Once the precipitation falls we will keep the roads clear and safe for the motoring public. Reporter the d. O. T. Wanted to emphasize, even though we expect a small amount of snow it can create slick travel especially as the temperatures drop below freezing eventually. We will keep track through the afternoon on Eyewitness News at we will be chasing snow in the area, probably going north and west of where we are right now. Live in lodi, new jersey, jeff smith for channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you so much. Stay with Eyewitness News as the first flakes begin to fall. You can get the updated accuweather forecast at abc7ny. Shirleen . We are following some breaking news. Police say the 15 accused in a gang rape in brooklyn is in custody. The 17yearold was taken into custody about an hour ago. He was questioned and no charges have been immediately filed. The other suspects that range from 14 to 17 could appear in court today. They were caught on camera before the attack last thursday in brownsville. Police say they threatened a father and his daughter with gun. According to investigators, the teens told the father to leave and that is when they raped the daughter. Again police say all five new at noon, a bizarre and scary incident on long island. A naked man has been arrested after being discovered inside a doctors office. He is the man suspected of trying to take a baby from a woman in woodmere we told you about this morning even following her to a home. Eyewitness News Reporter lucy yang is in mineola with lucy . Reporter michelle, two bizarre and troubling incidents have been connected here in Nassau County. One involving an attempted baby snatching and the other involving a naked man found sleeping on a couch in a morning. I know, it sounds crazy. This morning a woman arrived at her office in hewlett to find a naked man sleeping on the police were called. Were connected. Around noontime yesterday a babysitter claims a homeless man approached her and said she was, quote, in the stroller. Hurried home with the 20month old toddler. The man then broke into her house demanding the deed dead baby. Police were called but by then he had run off. Detectives found Surveillance Video at a nearby pizza parlor that they believe shows the homeless man. Now they have arrested him and linked him with the two incidents. Nassau county police just held a News Conference that broke up a few minutes ago. Lets hear what they had to say. The sitter in this case did a phenomenal job. When she got to the residence, she locked the doors. When she first was encountered by the subject, she turned around and tried to get away as fast as she could. Reporter Nassau County police praising the actions of that babysittedder for keeping her head cool and doing the right thing. Nassau county Police Believe a homeless man found sleeping in a Therapist Office is the same man that tried to abduct the baby. He has been identified as 44 yearold craig miskowski. His last known address was in he has been taken to a hospital for observation. We will have more later tonight. Live in mineola, lucy yang, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Lucy, thank you. A suicide bomber affiliated with isis was behind a deadly explosion near a popular tourist site in turkey. At least 10 people are dead, nine germans, 15 more are injured. The suicide boomer was a bomber was a syrian national. He struck near the blue mosque. Over the past year, turkey isis. Police on long island are looking for the masked suspect that shot a gas station attendant during a robbery. It happened on new york avenue 10 00 last night. Investigators say the worker was pumping gas when a person in a ski mask came up demanding cash during the struggle the worker was shot in the leg. The suspect ran away. A morning mess on the b. Q. E. A tractor trailer flipped and dumped a load of garr bang all over the northbound lanes. It happened on the ramp from tillery street. Some of the trash fell off the expressway on to park avenue. Sanitation workers came in to clean it up. The truck driver suffered a minor injury. Tonight president obama gives his final state of the Union Address and the white house says it will be very different from others. Rather than a lauren dry list of proposals, it will be a speech about successes the last seven years. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has details from washington. Reporter president obama says he is optimistic going into this new year because of past successes and is hopeful about what is to come. The president of the united states. Reporter in his final year in office, president obama will deliver the last state of the Union Address to congress. Instead of trying to persuade the joint session to work with him in 2016 on a legislative to deliver a speech with a slightly different tone. Mr. Obama previews what he will say tonight. What i want to focus on in this state of the Union Address, not just the remarkable progress we have made. Not just what i want to get done in the year ahead but what we all need to do together in the years to come. Reporter expect to hear about the economys recovery. Seven years ago auto sales hit a 27 year low. Last year they hit an alltime high. Reporter the Affordable Care act. We have brought more than 17 million americans into the health care system. Policy. He is expected to touch on the gun violence epidemic and legalization of same sex marriage. It becomes a legacy speech in terms of defining what has been achieved. Reporter many highs to talk about but it may be a tough sell. 70 of americans say they believe the country is on the wrong track. The white house. The avalanche of negativity from the republican candidates for president. Reporter with that, the president s speech will try to frame a choice facing americans as they select the next president of the united states. A long list of guests will sit with First Lady Michelle Obama including a refugee from syria. But a chair in mrs. Obamas box will be left empty to honor victims of gun violence. Letter in washington, Stephanie Ramos, channel 7 Eyewitness News. You can watch the state of the Union Address here on channel 7 and the watch abc app. We will stream it live on abc7ny. Coverage begins at 9 00 p. M. 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The clouds thicken, lower and get darker. If you look to the right by the Brooklyn Bridge in here, you on the radar there are spots where there is snow showers coming in. You are void of any snowflake you look for it wherever they are. Temperature is 40 degrees. Not a lot of moisture to work with yet. The winds are southerly at 6 00 and gusting to 23. This points to a cold front and a storm system like a clip err system from the west. Yesterdays high 30. Normal 48. The we will be above it before the snow gets here. Its cold. It has been overnight. Now the winds have picked up. They picked up from the south. We have the snow mixing in this afternoon particularly long island, jersey shore and a coating of snow will be spotty around. It could make for spots where you have slippery roads. North port and massachusetts and hauppauge at 40 degrees. East hampton reporting sunshine and so is montauk, 41. The clouds from west to east. 43, 45 down the jersey shore. This is the precipitation. I took the pictures off this to show you where the snow and rain is. On the radar, its showing spots, probably not down to the ground. That is called virga, its not getting to the surface yet. I would garner that this gets to the surface in sussex or Warren County in about an hour. We are looking at 2 00 on the computer models to that starting. You see the temperatures dropping here once we get to sunset around 4 46. Tonight the cold air sweeps in. Spotty places will have roadways that will continue to see cold air creating black ice overnight and into tomorrow mornings commute and on sidewalks, too. The winds tomorrow afternoon are going to get in the 20 Miles Per Hour range and then check out the windchills for tomorrow as yes get to 8 00 in 17 montauk. One below here. During the day tomorrow, mid to uppertense tomorrow. Sunshine and clouds. Snow showers coming in mixing with rain at the coast. A coating to an inch north and west. Brisk and colder overnight. Really cold tomorrow. As you saw on the profiles, it will feel like 10 to 20 degrees tomorrow. Then we will see this blustery wind dying evening. We got clouds but warmer thursday, not as harsh. Clouding up on friday. I think as we go into this afternoon we still see a trace to a coating from the city south. North of i80 and 287 you are looking at what will be a coating to an inch. Then into tomorrow, well, thats when we see really cold windchills to start the day. Single digits and teens for tomorrow. Then saturday a rainy day, 48. So, on saturday, its really warm. What snow is around will get washed away. One inch high snowman you ever are in good shape. One inch . That is sad. Like this. Its better than nothing. A little snowman. Thank you, bill. A store clerk refuses to be caught on camera, the wild scene inside the store as he fights off a knife wielding suspect. A woman manages to give now to some of the stories caught on camera and caught our attention. We begin with a woman in new mexico that gave police the slip twice and managed to steal one of their cruisers. They had arrested her at a bank for a bounced check but somehow she got out of the kutches and jumped behind the wheel of the cruisers sparking a got out and jumped behind the wheel of the cruiser. Watch what one man stole from a pet store in portland, oregon. He grabbed a python. Yes, a python and stuffed it down the front of his pants then carefully walked out of the store. The Stores Manager later noticed the snake was gone and she said the man was lucky it wasnt the snakes feeding day. A man struck and killed by a car on Christmas Day. Details about the crash and the Driver Police need help tracking down. Custom officers made a bizarre discovery at j. F. K. What was hiding inside a bottle of alcohol. Eyewitness news is coming back. Our top stories, snow is in the forecast. Some parts of the area could see flurries in time for the afternoon commute. Meteorologist bill evans will have the details in the exclusive accuweather forecast. An arrest in a disturbing attempt to take a baby. The man approached the baby sitter and told her he needed to take the baby she was caring for. A suspect was taken into custody this morning after being found naked in a Therapist Office. A 5th person is in custody in connection with a gang rape that took place thursday night four other suspects are in custody. They could be arraigned today. Hello, im shirleen allicot. Im Michelle Charlesworth in for david novarro. Police on long island have a new clue in the search for a driver involved in a deadly hit and run. Investigators released video of the car they want to find. Emanuel dejesus cruz was struck Christmas Day in bayshore. Three Good Samaritans tried to help but he could not be saved. Eyewitness News Reporter stacey sager is in bayshore with details. Stacey . Reporter well, michelle, police out in Suffolk County are looking for your help on this one. This was a hit and run. It did happen in bayshore. It was at candle wood road and new jersey avenue and it happened on christmas around 5 00 p. M. Take a look at this picture. This is the man who watts killed in the hit and run, 33 yearold emanuel cruz. Finished accepting money to his three small children in el salvador. He takes a cab to his mothers place on candlewood road in bayshore for christmas dinner. You see his mother pleading nor help. We just got through speaking to her. There is Surveillance Video. In the video, he is seen after he gets out of the cab. He then crosses candlewood and thats when a dark fourdoor sedan strikes him and keeps going. Police are asking anyone with information to please come forward. We want to put the word out to body shops in the area. We believe there may be damage to the passenger front side of the vehicle after examining the video of the hit and run. We ask that the body shops keep an eye out for any vehicles th