Island, a few to the northwest, for the most part sprinkles overnight and cooler wind coming in. But the front stalls along the coast and this is the next low in line which is forming, jet Stream Energy there about to get infused into that storm and its not a classic noreaster in that its going to come up the coast. Then theres joaquin, impressive looking strengthening storm into today and you see how its more wobbling off to the southwest into the bahamas. This is not a storm thats headed to the u. S. Yet. That turn still 24 miles away if it happens. Category 1 storm, looking strong and probably going to strengthen. The huge window, that path window is still very large. The out to sea option still in play but less likely and you see how theres a possibility of a landfall. Whats most likely is this part of this window. Carolinas or the midatlantic leaving us with fringe effects but not the worst case. Thats not set in stone yet but thats what we are looking for at this point. New voice coming up at 5 00 new advisory coming up at 5 00. Coastal floodings and beach erosions are a concern and then a Hurricane Joaquin forecast is trending south. Lots to talk about. Thank you. We are going to head out to long island where Eyewitness News reporter stacey sager is tracking the preparations on long beach. Stacey. Reporter well, liz, its really the 12 punch they fear the most here in long beach, that first rainstorm and then the possibility, possibility of Hurricane Joaquin. Take a look behind me over here out on the sand whats already in place, its a berm threat 10 feet tall and its stretching eastwest here in long beach. We were here throughout the day when public works was piling on the sand, just as an added protective measure they are doing this. They also have these new valves on the bay side of the Barrier Island to better manage the tides and they have a brandnew stronger boardwalk with a 20 foot metal wave wall that sits below it. All of these things post Superstorm Sandy to protect area residents. What our public works are doing now in the next coming days are continuing to clear storm drains and do all of the Little Things that you can do before any sort of storm in the interim we would ask our residents, there are things they can do, number 1, clear your own storm drain as well. Reporter now, they also want residents to have the hotline numbers readily available for pseg. They want them to tie down loose items that might be outside their homes. Of course all these physical compared with the psychological preparations. People out here, you know, they have lived through Superstorm Sandy and we are going to have a lot more of the memories they have and what they are looking towards in the coming days coming up in another live report at 5 00. For now we are live in long beach, im stacey sager, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Stacey, thank you. As we learn more about the hurricane, you can track the latest from your phone, you can download the accutrack weather app in the app or google play store, just search abc7ny. Com. New information on a developing story in the bronx. One person is dead after coming in contact with the legionella bacteria. The Health Department says the Death Associated with the legionella cluster in the morris park section, 11 other patients are still hospitalized. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis in morris park with the latest. Reporter the city classifies this as a cluster, not an outbreak, but as you said, there is now one Death Associated with it, the mayor did come to this Community Today to meet with residents concerned about this cluster. Now, the number of cooling towers where ledge neil la where legionella has been detected is up to 15 at some locations. Some sites have more than one tower, locations that include three high schools and one hospital. This afternoon as we said, mayor de blasio and the City Health Commissioner came to a Community Center in morris park to meet with seniors. They are among the most at risk, to reassure them this cluster is more limited than the outbreak this summer in the south bronx and to remind residents to seek treatment if they experience any flulike symptoms. All 13 cases including the unidentified man who died had Underlying Health issues. In the meantime, the surge for the source continues. We still have to say that it might be multiple sources or it could be a single source. We dont know yet. The really good news is that we got sick after september 21st. Reporter so no new cases in the last nine days, and all of the affected towers are either cleaned or in the process of being cleaned. Coming up at 6 00, we will hear from the mayor as well as some of those residents concerned about this legionella cluster and we are live in morris park, marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Marcus, thank you. Police are questioning a livery cabdriver who lost control, hopped a curb in the bronx and then hit four small children and their mother. It happened in the east kingsbridge road area in fordham just before 8 00 this morning. Surveillance video shows the shocked look on the faces of people on the crowded street as that car came towards them. Witnesses say after the impact, they heard moaning and raced to help the victims. Look at me, miguel, wake up. Dont close your eyes, please. Tell me if you watching me, miguel, your little sister is going to be here soon. Youre not alone. God bless you. The most seriously injured is an 8yearold girl who suffered injuries to both of her legs and internal bleeding. Her 5yearold brother will chest trauma and injuries to his leg. Both of them and their 33year old mother are in stable condition. Two other boys who are 11 and 7 years old suffered minor injuries. And in new jersey an emotional goodbye happening right now for evan murray, the High School Quarterback who died suddenly after a game. A wake for murray underway and will continue until 9 00 tonight at the Faith Discovery Church in washington township. Hundreds are expected to attend and pay their respects to the Warren Hills High School senior. Murray took a hard hit during last friday nights game causing his spleen to rupture. I know my daughter has got a picture of him at football camp with my 6yearold grandson so its with dealing with my 6 yearold grandson dealing with that and my daughter asking questions is sort of scary. Will be private. Right now arson investigators are looking at a suspicious fire that destroyed a church on Staten Island overnight. Just after 2 00 this morning, the 3alarm fire roared through the house of Miracles Church on the West Brighton section causing it to collapse. 150 firefighters responded to the empty church which had gone unused for the past year. One firefighter suffered minor injuries while battling the flames. The structure is now considered a total loss. We have new information on the funding fight that had federal government. The senate voted in fair of a measure that will keep the government open at least until early december. House. Latest. Reporter with little fanfare the senate moved one step closer to averting a government shutdown. The eyes are yays are 78, the nays are 20. Reporter the measure would keep government funded through december 11th allowing negotiate a budget deal. The senate has now passed a continuing resolution the lights on, to keep Government Employees paid, to pay our military, to make sure our veterans get the benefits that they are entitled to. The bill hardly represents my preferred method for funding the government but its now the most viable way forward after democrats extreme actions. Reporter the future of the governments ability to pay its bills now hangs on the house. Several Tea Party Republicans had vowed to vote against any measure that didnt defund planned parenthood. The white house today urging congress to Work Across Party Lines to pass compromise legislation. There is a basic constitutional responsibility that congress has which is to pass a budget and thats what the members of congress were elected to do. Thats their basic responsibility and the American People are counting on them to get it done. Reporter the election of the new speaker of the house is going to take place next week. That person is going to be responsible for managing all of these factions in the republican party. In washington, lana zak, abc7 Eyewitness News. The zadroga act is just hours away from expiring. Lawmakers have not approved an permanent. The federal Health Benefits affect around 70,000 people. The original act only covered later extended. Some lawmakers say there is enough funding to keep assistance going for another year. Advocacy groups disagree and fear funding will run out sooner than that. We are following breaking news right now in the death of a newborn in the bronx. Thrown out of a seven story window allegedly by her mother. The Westchester County d. A. Is now reopening an investigation into the death of the womans son from seven years ago. Prosecutors say the 2 1 2 week old boy was discovered in the basement of jennifer berrys home back in 2008. A medical examiner ruled that he died from sudden infant death syndrome. 33yearold berry was charged yesterday with murder for allegedly throwing her baby daughter from the window of her boyfriends apartment in university heights. Police say she had told friends and family that she had miscarried. A thoughtless act, a driver on long island says he saw someone throw a rock that shattered his windshield. Now hes taking Eyewitness News inside those terrifying moments. Plus a private meeting with the pope. We are going to tell you what happened when the clerk jailed licenses sat down with baby i love that were spending the weekend together. Oh i know hey, why dont you turn off your phone and all your stuff. Good idea. Its off. Mom . Did you like want to do something . I am doing something. Leave slow downloads behind. Its good to be back. The 100 Fiber Optics Network gives you the Fastest Internet available for all your devices. It is 4 13 right now, look at traffic. Fdr drive near 111th street and you can see traffic heading south over on the right side, busy. At the hudson river, the holland tunnel outbound is 20 minutes and the lincoln inbound is 10 minutes. At the George Washington bridge lower level. Well, overseas russia began airstrikes in syria today targeting it says Islamic State militants. The Defense Ministry says jets hit vehicles and warehouses near the city of hahms that russia believed belong to the terrorist group. The u. S. Is questioning that assertion. The u. S. And russia are at odds over russias support of syrian president bashar alassad. Does appear that they were in areas where there probably were not isil forces. One Syrian Rebel Group says one of its leading officers was killed in the strikes. President obama assads office says the attacks came at its request. Today the palestinian flag was raised at the United Nations for the first time. More than 300 ministers, diplomats and well attended a ceremony in the u. N. s rose garden. Earlier this month palestinians got General Assembly approval for observer states to fly their flag at the u. N. The only other observer state the vatican also flies a flag at u. N. Headquarters. The controversial and defiant kentucky clerk, kim davis, met briefly and privately with pope francis during his historic visit here to the u. S. Davis spent several days in jail, you may recall, refusing to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. Her legal team says she and her husband met privately with the pope at the Vatican Embassy in washington, d. C. Last thursday. The session lasted about 10 minutes. The vatican essentially confirmed the meeting. Youre going to hear from kim davis about the visit and the gift she received coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 00. Lets return to the local weather story right now. So we made it past this first round. Right. And there are still so many moving parts. No question about it and i think a lot of people already have tunnel vision toward joaquin and the imminent threat of that. Obviously, you know, sandy comes to mind, you see some of these tracks of a left turn, thats not what we are forecasting at this time. You know, the cone certainly has us in it right now, thats not what we are forecasting. Go outside right now where we have what is a cloudy sky for the most part but a couple of thin spots in the clouds and what you notice is that warm, muggy, sticky wind, thats turning into a cooler wind, a little less humid and little more of a falllike pattern and now so long 80s. At least a better looking sky right now and a dry commute home for most. So we are at an even 70, the humidity still on the high side but dropping. North winds gusting to 17 and the pressure starting to rise a little bit and the high temperature, thats actually from maybe overnight and yesterday in the upper 70s. So 66 degrees kingston right now, poughkeepsie at 66, the cool air coming into the catskills, 70 in yonkers and its 67 in norwalk. On long island 67 and belmar is coming in at 70, 72 in west orange, new jersey so pretty good wind now for all locations. That means that the front is essentially through everywhere but montauk that has a southwest wind so just the cold front on the eastern end of long island ready to slip to our south. So really its all about a lot of cloud cover this evening on the cool side, 6 57, 60 at midnight, 50s tomorrow morning, and mainly cloudy through tomorrow with a cool breeze and nothing more than a sprinkle, maybe a brief shower or some drizzle around the area. You notice we have a couple spotty showers here, thats the cold front going through and a couple of sprinkles in the wake of that front. I dont think the main clearing line gets here, we just stay mainly cloudy. The front is going to hang up along the coast and rain that develops with an area of low pressure here is going to ride up that front. But if you notice with these where these arrows are, the heaviest rain going to be along north and west we are looking at lighter rainfall amounts when this gets cranked up on friday. Watch this longterm futurecast. You can see how the rain is offshore and we fast forward to thursday afternoon and see how that low develops, comes up the coast and during the day on friday its raining and there could probably be an inch of rain on the coast, maybe more to the south but north and west may be very little. Eventually the rain shifting back west on friday night, early saturday and lighter rain in the day on saturday and then start to track what will happen with joaquin. Right now an impressive looking storm, we are going to get the new update within about half an hour. Its still going into the central bahamas right now or tracking toward there. 85mileperhour winds. This is the most recent track from the Hurricane Center which will be updated again over the next 30 minutes. Its forecast to become a strong reporter 2 hurricane category 2 hurricane, winds around 125 Miles Per Hour. Thursday evening it will stitt still around the bahamas or take the turn and start heading toward the u. S. Main land. So its likely to be a category 3 hurricane, a major hurricane for a while, potential to go into the carolina, midatlantic coast, i know it looks like we are in the center of this cone right now but we are favoring this western side of the cone here, i hesitate to put the icons on here that makes it look like its coming into the tristate area which is still in that cone right now but if you look at the computer models, look how they are concentrated on the mid atlantic and the carolinas so thats the track we are favoring right now. Breezy and cooler tomorrow, 62 degrees, sort of in between systems and we get the rain coming back tomorrow night into friday. Cooler and damp, plenty of clouds tonight but nothing more than a sprinkle. The yankees will play. 55. 62 tomorrow, bit of rain, mainly along the coast later in the day. Much of the day is just mostly cloudy. You dont even need the umbrella most of the time but rain coming in later tonight especially along the coast. Coming up at 4 30, how far inland is that rain going to come and even if joaquin is to go into the midatlantic or carolinas, how much can we be spared of some of this heavy rain into the weekend. Have a little bit more insight in at 4 30 and because my weather is closing in at 5 00 during our show, might get the advisory from the Hurricane Center. We have new developments in a deadly crash involving Caitlyn Jenner, what prosecutors are saying today about potential criminal charges. Plus this. Reporter a rock tossed off Eyewitness News speaks with thats a big bull. I think thats old cyrus. 1800 pounds of do whatever the heck i want. Take the long way, huh . Thank you cyrus. Lease an mkc for 299 a month racer tony stewart announced he is retiring. He says next year will be his last year in the sprint cup final series. Its kind of a bittersweet day. I am excited about it but at the same time im, you know, sad about it as well. I love what i do with nascar and i love what i do, you know, as a driver. You may recall the last few