Reporter bobby is the latest victim in what seems like a surge in knife attacks across the city. 471 stabbings or slashings so far this year, compared to 395 for the same period last year. Still, the Police Commissioner says crime is down. So my sense is, on these things, the horrific incidents and the isolation of it. Reporter the restaurant is ready to take up a collection for bobby, if he needs it. If you know him the way we know him, hes like everybodys son in the neighborhood. Reporter now, lets talk more about the suspect. This morning, we have seen Police OfficersWalking Around the neighborhood with a sheet of paper showing a very grainy image of the suspect they are looking for. He is said to be between 15 and 17 years old. Last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt carrying a gray or purple folder rather and a small gym bag. If you have any information on the police a call. Meanwhile, bobby called the restaurant today and told the general manager he hopes to be back to work by monday. Were live in greenwich village, dray clark, channel 7 eyewitness news. Thank you, dray. New at noon, Donald Trumps latest feud involves the leader of the Roman Catholic church. Pope francis this morning saying that trump is not acting like a christian. Those comments coming one week after the republican front runner criticized the pontiffs border visit and for playing politics. In the president ial campaign. Reporter pope francis returning to rome for mass had this to say about some of Donald Trumps comments. A person who thinks only about building walls wherever they may be and not about building bridges is not christian. The pope would not advise americans how to vote and said he wanted to give trump the benefit of the doubt. As you know, im christian. Reporter in appealing to evangelical voters, trump has been adamant about his christian lifestyle. While cruz and trump are battling over first and second place, a challenger is now emerging in marco rubio. The next president of the united states, marco rubio reporter as the extremely popular governor of South Carolina nikki haley gives her endorsement. We are so happy and grateful she is a part of our team. Nikki haley is a big deal race. Reporter though jeb bush was conciliatory in the remarks, her endorsement is a stunning blow. I think jeb bush folks are starting to make the plan for the long exit out of this race. Reporter lana zach, channel 7 eyewitness news. In another step toward normalizing relations, Prime Minister confirming he will make a historic visit to cuba next month. The president said in a tweet the cuban government that i will raise directly. America will always stand for human rights around the world. The visit to havana is set for march 21st and 22nd. The white house says the president will discuss human with cubas president. President obama will be the first sitting president to visit cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Five people, including three children were hurt as they scrambled to escape a burning home in new jersey. The fastmoving fire ripped through the house this morning on irving street in jersey city. Mallory hoff posted this photon twitter of firefighters at the scene. She has the latest details reporter flames gutted a home in jersey city just after 4 00 this morning. If i didnt get out of there i would have been burned alive. Reporter now a toddler is being treated for a burned arm around a woman with a burn on her face. One other child and two other were injured as well. They are all expected to be okay. Fire chief darren rivers says it could have been worse if one of the men sleeping inside hadnt woken up. For him to get up and discover this fire, he actually saved the lives of all of his family members. Reporter neighbor arlene also made a run for it. Jumped out of bed, put my boots on, grabbed my wallet, threw my coat on. Reporter you got out of there . And i got out. Reporter when fire crews arrived, they battled fast moving flames. One firefighter transmitted a may day call but reported he was out of the house, uninjured. May day, may day, second floor. Im out. Reporter the red cross is assisting the residents that cant go home. The cause of the fire is unclear. Mallory hoff, channel 7 eyewitness news. New at noon, police are looking for a missing teen mom and her daughter, 16yearold last seen sunday on valentines day. Investigators say they left their home in the Woodlawn Heights section of the bronx at 5 00 p. M. Nypd are hoping newly released Surveillance Video will help them track down a violent passenger. Watch as he gets on the bus and changes words with the driver, 69yearold Dennis Dunwell then punches him. The passenger gets off the bus then steps back inside and attacks denwell a second time. Police are still searching for the man who sexually assaulted a teenage boy inside of a bronx park. Take a look at this picture. Investigators say this man sexually assaulted a 15year old boy inside concrete plant park and it happened just before 8 00 at night on january 31st. Police hope grainy surveillance images will lead them to a predator. The suspect wrapped his arm walking home in sheepshead bay. When she managed to pull free, the man ran away. Hoping to turn the season around, the Brooklyn Nets announcing today a new general manager. Sean marks will join the team after spending five year with the san antonio spurs. Marks, a onetime knicks draft pick spent over a decade in the nba has a player. A reality tv star loses her battle with cancer. Up next, fellow celebrities react to the passing of mob wives star big ang. Plus, a roche goes toe to toe with a boxer and gets more than he bargained for. Im meteorologist bill evans. Looking at these temperatures 32, 34 degrees. Wind out there at 23 and 25 its a tad chilly. Weve got another chilly day moments ago, we heard reaction from donald trump to the comments by pope francis that hes not acting like a christian. Lets listen. The pope. The pope was in mexico, did you know that . He said negative things about me because the Mexican Government convinced him that trump is not a good guy because i want to have a strong border, i want to stop illegal immigration. He is referring to the popes border visit. Well hear more from donald trump coming up at 12 30. She had a larger than life personality and fan base that this afternoon, many are remembering the raspy voiced reality star known as big ang after her death this morning. Angela reola died after losing her battle with lung and brain cancer. The bar owner and reality tv star from Staten Island was just 55 years old. Other reality tv stars expressing their condolences. They tweeted so sorry to hear about big ang passing away. Such a beautiful person. Prayers for her and her family. Snooki posted this picture with this caption daste. Former Supreme CourtJustice Sandra day oconner is urging Prime Minister to be urged to nominate a replacement the partisan bickering is unnecessary. Steven briar asked the crowd at Yale Law School to pause for a moment of silence in honor of scalia. Justice scalia was a good friend and life force of the court. Its going to be a grayer place without him. A decent man whos made an enormous impression. Tomorrow, the public will be able to pay their respects to justice scalia. He will lie in repose at the Supreme Court. His funeral will be held saturday. Turkey is now blaming kurdish militant groups both in its own nation and syria for bombings that killed 28 people. Dozens more were injured. Theythe turkish government is further complicating the syrian conflict. Health officials reported another case of the zika virus cases in the triborough to 6. The fda has called for u. S. 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Thats our coldest wind blowing through the afternoon. Then well be seeing another chilly day tomorrow. Noontime it is it bright, blue. We see you new york water taxi. You cannot hide from us. All of the water taxies working back and forth from brooklyn over to the lower east side. You have a nice afternoon in progress, but when you see the frozen people here of the upper west side, everybodys dressed warmly. Lots of warm coats, gloves, and scarves and things. You need that for the afternoon. That wind is a little tough out there. Its been gusting as i showed you a moment ago up to 20 miles per hour. So the wind speeds are going to continue to increase and well also continue to see, you know, the sunshine doing very little to heat up this atmosphere naps because the winds and air mass are arctic in nature. So it is a dense air mass. You can see by the evidence of the barometer, strong high pressure. It gives us fair weather but its cold. Normal would be 42 this afternoon, and the sunset is around 5 44. That should be pretty. We got a sunny chill today and tomorrow. The mid50s. Well be tracking a storm next tuesday, tuesday night and wednesday that might bring us rain, snow, and well keep an eye on that. 32 in white plains. Teeterboro, 34 around no new work. 25 around monday sell low. With this wind blowing air out of the northwest, our coldest wind is arctic, cold, dense. These are the real feels here at noon. 26 around the park. 27 Staten Island and the 20s up to the north until you get to monticello. 23 around the connecticut coast. You see we have hardly a cloud in the sky here. You have to go all the way back to the great lakes and find some clouds. Theres some warm air off to our west, way off to the west. Well talk about it coming in for the weekend. So for the afternoon, temperatures should get to 35 degrees. This is clear skies. This is everything temperatures, cloud cover, precipitation. It will be in the 20s to start the day, and then by afternoon tomorrow, you see that were notice up here to the west of the hudson river valley, a few snow flurries. The temperature overnight starts rising. So you see tomorrow, saturday morning, the temperatures are around 40 to 42 long island and into the upper 30s. So we have a warm weather pattern coming for the weekend. Sunny and chilly this afternoon. Tonight, clear and cold. 24 around the five boroughs, long island, coastal connecticut. Sunshine and clouds tomorrow, clouds by afternoon and the temperatures go to get to near 40 degrees. Your accuweather sevenday forecast, 55 on saturday. Breezy and warmer and then sunday were at 54 degrees. As we go into next week, were 50 on monday. Tuesday night, it gets doen to 33. Wednesday weve got a mixture of rain and snow just to give you a headsup. You see the temperatures that are marginal, very warm. You need temperatures below of that to stick and will be frozen. Its just going to be a slop fest. You make it sound so attractive. Thats no good for us. The hogs are happy. As much as i want to go to the beach on saturday, 55, 50, it will be nice. The water is still 35. Yeah. Listen, were not done with the snow video because look at this. Lets get one aw. So cute. The panda lives at the toronto zoo. Loves to have a lot of fun in the sun. He shakes it off, comes back and tumbles again. Its like, look at how much fun this is. Thats whats breaking the internet. There somewhere. Somewhere. Do you remember how kanye said hes 53 million in debt . A boxer turns into a crime fighter. A pizza parlor brawl and a some of the stories that were caught on camera and caught our attention. A wouldbe robber got an unwanted trip to jail for valentines day after he tried to rob a pharmacy. Take a close look at the man on the left. That is david west who went to the wall greens to florida to take his girlfriend for lunch. Seconds later, anthony walked in, jumped on the counter demanded pain medicine. What he didnt know is west holds two state boxing titles. He immediately intervened. Four punches from west and he was down for the count and off to jail. A familyowned pizza joint in houston Surveillance Video will catch ruthless robbers who order food and jump the counter and attack back. The victims fight back throwing chairs at the crooks trying to keep the robbers there until cops arrived. The suspects got away, but the business hopes someone will recognize them in the video. To see this kind of thing in an old western movie. Tumble weeds have taken over a neighborhood in australia. Homeowners say they spent hours cleaning it up only for more tumble in which each breath of wind, yes, the native weeds name is harry panic. Locals say the tumble weed has been around for a couple of years but dry conditions are month,ing it worse this time of year, folks. Harry panic. They call tumble weeds harry panic. We call it dirty harry panic here. Its more for around these partsp. Yeah, how about making my day. A mysterious shrieking sound left some residents in a town in oregon seriously concerned. What the heck is it . The fire marshal in forest grove says he first learned of the strange noise after the recording was on a facebook page. Noticed it by themselves. The public works superintendent says very few people have heard the sound making it difficult to locate. I heard the noise. Its usually in the evening. It sounds like breaks to me, the cyclical screeching of you need to change your brakes. Still trying to figure it out. They say a train is an unlikely choice because the nearest tracks are seldomly used. Officials arent discounting the sound. They just arent sure how to use it. Next ahead, problem wells potholes. Drivers having to spend a lot of money. Plus a reward being offered after someone abandoned a cat area and the [ male announcer ] 20 minutes after you quit smoking your Blood Pressure decreases. After 2 days your chance of heart attack drops. And 1 year after you quit your risk of Heart Disease is cut in half. But right now. [ flatline ]. Youre a heart attack waiting to happen. Every cigarette makes you sick. We continue to follow breaking news in new jersey. News copter 7 over the scene of a construction accident. This is on troy hill road in hanover. A crane lost its load and some construction workers have been injured. Were also told that the Morris County office of Emergency Managements there and of course well keep you updated to get you new information. The nypd is looking for a teen that slashed a waiter in greenwich village. The waiter asked the teen to leave after police say he was soliciting people for money. P server is now in need of 120 stitches. Pope francis and donald trump. This morning, the pope said trump isnt acting like a christian for wanting to build a wall on the Mexican Border. Responded. If and when the vatican is attacked by isis, which as everyone knows is isis ultimate trophy, i can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that donald trump would have been president. The war of words started earlier this week when trump criticized the pope for visiting the Mexican Border in the first place. All new this half hour, combating potholes on the streets of long island. The town of hempstead deploying what it calls a s. W. A. T. Team to make repairs. This co