The number of knives went up 30 . And stun guns have went up more than 1000 . Reporter now, the department of education responded this morning by insisting quote there is absolutely zero tolerance for any weapons in schools. In fact, they said they work closely with the Police Department to ensure the safety of all school communities. Were live outside city hall this noon, im lucy yang for channel 7 Eyewitness News. Lead testing continuing in newark Public Schools today and more planned through the weekend. The district will examine every single tap at all 67 of its schools for possible contamination. Newark Public Schools is in the process of also testing students for possible lead poisoning. Eventually, around 17,000 children will have their blood checked. The city of newark says there is no lead contamination in its water supply. The count down to spring is on. It officially arrives on sunday, but it is going to feel meteorologist bill evans is timing out a major storm heading our way that apparently includes snow. Winter is going out kicking and screaming. You can see we have fair weather cumulus clouds, 55 degrees. Thats 5 degrees warmer than our normal average afternoon high, so its going to get a little warmer as we go into the afternoon. Wet snow mixed with rain developed sunday morning. Its going to be wet roads during the day on sunday, and probably look at a few inches of heavy wet snow on sunday, slowing down travel. Maybe even slowing down the runners in the Half Marathon sunday morning. Were looking at 55 in the park, 58 toward newark. 57 around tom river down to jersey shore. The colder air is to the north. Thats going to sweep in. A lot of sunshine, and a nice afternoon on the way. Come in and settle across the area tonight now, with that settling over us, that kind of sets the stage for a storm system coming up from our south. It hasnt really developed yet. But its getting together here down in the gulf of mexico. Then its going to kind of turn up the coast. And bring with it a large amount of moisture into the cold air that will be in place. Its not bitterly cold air, but its cold enough, so when would the snow start. Well see clouds around midnight. Spring officially begins at 12 30 00 a. M. Sunday, so once the clouds kind of overtame, here comes the snow into southern jersey by 6 00 a. M. Into the city by 8 00 and 9 00. And its going to be lasting through a good part of the day into sunday night. Eventually, its going to mix with sleet and rain to the south. Some of the totals actually will be a little bit higher off to the north, probably north and west chester, rockland, duchess here could be in the 6 plus, and we could see 3 these spots. We are going to be tweaking these numbers, particularly later on today with lee goldberg first at four. Well have more on that. Just sunday is going to be a messy day start very early on the beginning of spring. Were going to have snow. Well talk about that and the rest of the weekend forecast in just a moment. Back to you. Thanks. 60yearold Foster Parent will be in court in Suffolk County on charges of abusing the children under his care. Cesar gonzalez mugaburu is charged with 7 counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and one count of sexual misconduct. A man is in the hospital after a shooting inside a harlem barbershop. It happened late last night inside the wilton beauty salon at 140th and amsterdam. Police say a 52yearold man walked in and shot a 23year old man critically wounding him. Police quickly took the suspect and gunman into custody and found a weapon nearby. Five other customers and investigators believe they found the man accused of killing his roommate at a manhattan homeless shelter and he was found dead. 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An Evacuation Order remains for relentless rain has left streets looking like rivers. Once the roads are clear, if they are unsafe, residents will have a challenge getting back elsewhere in the region, hail was the issue, golf ball sized pieces left people mississippi. Damage or any injuries there, but really hard to see that. We got our own weather concern coming our way right now. My brother who is down south sent a picture of a truck in brookhaven, mississippi. Hit by hail. Its demolished. I cant believe, its really big. It was like a hunk of metal. A bunch of dents. Canned ham sized hail that hit the truck. We dont have anything like that coming our way. Youre going to be looking at snow coming on the start of on sunday. Afternoon here. It is windy though, theres some wind out there and a front approaching from the north, and were going to talk about that. Our camera. That is in brooklyn to wall street and bowling green. Times square. Just those fair weather cumulus i wanted to show you this one because its about 23 stories up and its bouncing around here in this wind, and the park was reporting really big wind gusts of 40 miles an hour. West wind at 20, gust to go 40 in the park. The temperature 55. The humidity very dry, and the high yesterday was 673. Normal is 50. So far our high today is 55. Later on. Around 7 00 this evening and the numbers are warming up nicely, pike county, is at 50, bridgeport connecticut. Look at the wind, right ahead of the front. These are sustained winds at 23 Miles Per Hour at jfk, and la guardia. Wind gusts at 40 in the park. 33 around jfk. Shore. West wind across here ahead of this front, and this front is connecticut, and of course we have been talking about the snow thats been coming. The system is going to get together and work its way up the coast, and not until saturday night. Spring begins officially at 12 30 00 a. M. Sunday morning. Thats the vernal equinox. The snow kind of gets going as ill show you, around sandy hook to staten island, about 6 00 a. M. , and it covers up the park, and long island. And heads up into the Hudson River Valley and coastal connecticut around 10 00 a. M. This kind of continues much of night. Its very heavy wet snow, its going to be all rain here southern monmouth county, ice will be mix instead with that, too, as we go along. Its going to be hard to measure the heavy wet snow. Somewhere in the neighborhood looks good. Lee goldberg will tweet this on first at four. 3 inches is not bad and with the storm kind of moving out northeast into the atlantic, theyll throw more snow back off to the north. Sun and clouds, breezy and cooler this afternoon. Were at 58 tonight. Its clear, brisk, and cold. 34 to our north and west. Then we have plenty of sun, a brisk and chillier day. 46 the high. The wind is going to feel like the 30s on saturday. So that kind of sets us up for the moisture that comes about in that low for sunday. So the spring start sunday, first full day is monday. Sunday, looking at the low trekking up the coast, and that can prove some snowfall amounts that were looking at, a good shot at least, 3 to 6 inches of snow. Were probably going to be looking at this cold weather, hanging around until tuesday, and then on wednesday, thats when we got the arrival of spring, 56 degrees, and look at thursday, it warms up to 68. So that will be nice. We just, you know, we have to take one more jab from mother nature. Sounds more like a hay maker. And we cant complain. But boy we do complain anyway. Oh, i was in the hallway. What do you mean its going to snow . Are you kidding me. You take it very personally. Look, im just the messenger. Good job. Lets talk a little basketball. Remember that excitement following stonybrooks first trip to the big dance. Its over. 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Treatment with xarelto was the right move for us. Caught on camera. Something you dont want to miss. Stop what youre doing, and take a look. A drone with a pack of dolphins. Looks like they wanted to have fun on the water this video coast. Its so cool when you see them getting together and having a ball. It shows the dolphins riding the waves next to the surfers. Enjoy it while you can. Meanwhile, another amazing picture trending out there, religious landmark getting an icy makeover from mother nature. This is on the mountains of tuscany, an iconic cross in italy covered in ice when a snowstorm hit the area. It looks like a sculpture the and this got more than 200,000 views. Amazing, what a sight. Those wacky, advertisements meant to draw attention to Car Dealerships are used at a ski port to scare off sea lions. The operators say they have tried everything from using an inf