That could bring down some tree limbs. Theres the first downpour heading into Warren County. Blaise town get ready for a downpour and over to hope as well. The lightning with that particular storm has had a history of producing lightning. The strongest storms are headed towards allentown but eventually into southern warren over the next hour. Its pouring over northern westchester and rocklin into putnam and orange county. And showers have reached morris county, and those first showers, although not as heavy could move into new york city within a half hour or so. Theyre moving right along. Thats the complete line. The future scan shows you what the radar will look line over the next hour. See the first showers in new york city but the main line getting to i287 by 5 00 and probably approaching new york city 6 00, again, confirming with our futurecast, i287, long island, connecticut, central and southern new jersey between 6 30 and 8 00, and then offshore and things quiet down. Heres what you need to know. Rain and thunder threat goes until 9 00. Thats when it really completely clears the shoreline on the east end of long island. Watch for brief downpours and gusty limbs. These are moving so fast, maybe some quick ponding. After that clearing with a cool fall wind later on tonight, big changes for the upcoming weekend. More on that and were tracking storms throughout the evening here on Eyewitness News. Back to you rob and liz for now. Youve got it all lined up. Now we get to that dog attack, a pit bull goes after a little girl as she was getting on a school bus, and then it attacked its own. All of this happened in a residential area of bayonne. Anthony johnson spoke to her family and joins us with new details. Anthony. Reporter thats right. She arrived home around 2 00 this afternoon walking up the street. She really did keep to herself, a sweet innocent little girl attacked by a dog this morning while standing out on the street right next to her father. This is certainly a traumatic experience for her and for her entire family. This brave little 5yearold cuddling next to her family is recovering from a very vicious dog attack. Despina was heading to kindergarten this morning when she was mauled by a neighbors pit bull. Just coming through my house, not even 5 seconds i see the dog coming from the next houseflying to us. Trying to get my daughter. His daughters head has a huge gash which needed stitches. He was bitten as he tried to protect his daughter by covering her head. He feels the dogs owner was reckless. Why he left the door open. The door was open. But the owner of the dog did he told us he was sorry for the attack. Apparently the dogs real just passed away this week, and his roommate was taking care of the pit bull. When Police Arrived the owner was being attacked and asked for help, and thats when the officer fired one shot killing the pit bull who had gone after three people. There was no barking, no growling, so there was no indication that no one knew that the dog was going to charge. I think it just must have charged without any type of barking or any headsup that, you know, it was agitated. Reporter now there was a school bus coming down the block at the same time that bus driver stopped his bus, got off along with the bus matron and they started pounding on the dog to get it off the little girl. The girls father says shes very thankful that she came to the rescue. That is the latest live from bayonne new jersey, Anthony Johnson channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. New on Eyewitness News first at 4, con ed worker being hailed today as a hero after out a window in the bronx. The con ed worker was outside an Apartment Building in the mount eden section this morning. He heard a woman screaming. He looked up and saw a child about to fall from a second floor window. He put up a ladder, went up to the window, climbed up, saved him. Eyewitness News Reporter stacey sager spoke to the worker. We will hear from him tonight on Eyewitness News at 5. Right now a College Campus in texas is on lockdown after one person was killed and another injured at a Student Housing complex. This is all happening on the campus of Texas Southern university in houston. Police have not yet said whether the victims were students. This, however, is the second deadly shooting on a College Campus in less than 12 hours at Northern Arizona university. All this comes as president obama arrives in oregon to meet with the victims and families of last weeks deadly shooting at a Community College there. Bazi kanani has more. As president obama arrives white house says he will be solely focused on the traumatized survivors and grieving families he is there to meet privately. Those mourning the nine killed in last weeks massacre at a Community College but just hours before his trip. Multiple people possibly shot and an emergency call at another College Campus, one dead, three others wounded at a shooting overnight near a dorm at Northern Arizona university in flag staff. This is not going to be a normal day at nau. Our hearts are heavy. Police say the 18yearold gunman, a freshman who is now in custody opened fire as a fight escalated. Two separate student groups got into a confrontation. The confrontation turned physical. While president obama is not expected to discuss gun control in oregon, his staff is looking into whether he can use executive actions to expand background checks without waiting for a Republican Controlled Congress to act. Most republican president ial be on mental health. Today dr. Ben carson is defending his recent suggestion that part of the solution to guns. Do we need to have a mechanism in schools or other places where you can defend yourself . There . All. So far this year there have shootings. In Arizona Police have not yet said what led to the deadly fight. In washington, bazi kanani channel 7 Eyewitness News. Now we have an update to that dramatic abduction attempt and remarkable escape caught on camera in connecticut. Today police showing us the car the suspect the woman accused of trying to kidnap the 17yearold girl has talked to police. Investigators hope to make an arrest soon. Shes hired a lawyer and since stopped talking with investigators. Nba star Thabo Sefolosha says he has not decided whether to sue new york city after he was acquitted on misdemeanor charges this morning. A manhattan jury deliberated for less than an hour before delivering a not guilty verdict. The atlanta hawk player was accused of three charges including resisting arrest after his confrontation with police in april. Sefolosha suffered a season ending broken leg with officers investigating a stabbing at a nightclub in chelsea. It seems that republicans have chosen who they want to be the next speaker of the house. The problem you may not want to do it. Wisconsin congressman and former Vice President ial candidate paul ryan has repeatedly turned down the job, but since House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy unexpectedly withdrew from the race yesterday, all eyes are now on him. Paul is looking at its his decision. If he decides to do it hed be an amazing speaker. But hes got to decide on his own. Brian says he will spend the weekend thinking about whether to go for the job. John boehner says he will remain in his role as speaker until a replacement is chosen. In the long held battle for city superiority, new york and los angeles have fought on many fronts. They have hollywood boulevard. We have the much more impressive time square. They have traffic. We have subways that move millions and dont even get me started on in and out versus shake shack, but tonight city pride will rest on two teams and two of the leagues best pitchers. Laura behnke is live at dodgers stadium. We are hours away from the mets attempt at a National LeagueDivision Series game 1 victory. Hi laura. Hey rob. I will say though, in and out burger is pretty good. All right, do not let the quiet here at dodgers stadium fool you, not many people around right now thanks to this late start, but this place will be rocking in just a few hours. The mets of course would have preferred to start this mlds back home in flushing. At this point theyre excited to lit the field and get this Playoff Party started. Theyve already defied expectations by making it to the playoffs for the first time in nine years as nl east champs. Tonight they will try to do it again. I think were handling it great. Staying loose. Youve got to thank the vets who are helping us stay loose and having fun and realize its baseball. Theres nothing quite like playoff baseball. Its like an opening day like a Major League Debut wrapped up in one, just feeling and emotions you have. You get on the line, do the whole anthem and stuff, you know. After a while it gets a little cumbersome. You just want to play baseball. Once the game starts its baseball. While more than half the team will be making their playoff debut tonight against the dodgers theyve been prepared all season. Thats the beauty of playing in new york is that, you know, we deal with a lot of the media attention, a lot of the times, maybe not to this magnitude but its more so than most teams. Weve gone through as every team does, some ups and downs, highpoints and real low points and yet still tried to maintain the positive attitude in the clubhouse. Now when you think of playoff baseball, you think of crisp fall weather. Well, not here in l. A. The high today and for tomorrows game 2 is around 100 degrees, and let me tell you a dry heat is still pretty warm, but hey, this could actually help the mets. They keep trying to make this into just another game. Hey, it feels like july. This could be a regular season game. Im going to go find some water and ill see you again later at 5, for now were live with the mets at dodgers stadium. Im a little in and out too, i might say. Bring some home. Theres very little shade in dodgers stadium. Pretty but hot. All right laura, thank you. So when the mets do take the field at dodgers stadium tonight, it wont just be the teams pride on the line. A couple of house representatives were placing bets on their hometown teams. New yorks finest, l. A. s finest. I look forward to eating a little authentic west coast mexican. It will come but not after this game because youre going to owe me a meal. That is queens representative joe crowley whose district includes citi field and l. A theyre the chair and vice chair of the House Democratic caucus so the trash talking is friendly. Mostly. Mostly. Still to come on Eyewitness News first at 4, a 79yearold man beaten and rob. The whole violent encounter was caught on camera. It is time for a check on traffic this friday afternoon, lets take a live look at the bqe in brooklyn. This is right near kent avenue. Seems to be moving along fine. Crossings, the holland tunnel 20 minutes outbound. The lincoln tunnel 15 minutes in and outbound. And the George Washington bridgen inbound upper level 15 minutes. Folks in South Carolina are bracing for more rain tonight a week after a storm that caused historic flooding. Rain swollen rivers prompted new evacuations. Homeland security secretary got his first look at the devastation. Fema has more than 100 people on the ground to help residents and will add more if needed. Overseas now in the Israeli Palestinian conflict is leading to a violent and deadly attack there. Palestinian demonstrators are clashing with Israeli Forces throwing rocks and rolling burning tires at them. The israelis are fighting back and have killed five palestinians so far. Follows several stabbing attacks across israel this week, as a result additional security precautions are now being taken in jerusalems old city. Lets go to georgia now, a man there put himself at risk quick thinking heroics were all caught on camera. Billy houston at a gas station near atlanta, when a fire ball erupted engulfing a motorcycle and its rider in flames. Houston ran into that fire. He pulled the biker to safety, says he didnt have time to think of a strategy. He used his sweater to help put out the flames. The biker was airlifted to the hospital. Quick thinking huh. Very quick thinking. Lee is back with much more on the watches and warnings and the timing of this is just not great for the friday night commute home. Yeah, not the worst storms weve ever seen. But its going to hit during the commute. Its going to be nasty walking to your car or traveling around or getting to the train station is going to be difficult evening. We had that Severe Thunderstorm Warning that expired for Warren County at 4 15. We have the watch that goes for much of new jersey, that will go until 8 00 tonight. Heres another look at the George Washington bridge. The ceiling really lowering so theres delays at the area airports going forward. View, see if we can look downtown a little bit. Some brighter skies off to the south, how dramatic is that. Our temperatures have been pushing 80 degrees spots. Thats just a little too high for october with a fall cold front coming in. Pair 70s not so lucky right now. Its still 79 in morristown but rain closing in. Hackettstown rain cooled down to 68. In milford, parts of the poconos are working down to the middle 60s in pike county. 63 monticello right now and still in the upper 60s on long island, dry for now. Dew points have been in the 60s. We told you yesterday its going to feel more like late summer. We have a lot of moisture in the air. Thunderstorms 7 00, at that point the thunderstorms are starting to push east of new york city and the focus will be over connecticut, long island, and central and southern new jersey, and then partial clearing and a dry wind. We wake up to sunshine and its cool. 53 with a cool fall wind and 40s in the suburbs and barely 60 by noontime. Lets track these storms. Its a solid line. Goes all the way from new england back down into southern pennsylvania right now. There are the showers getting into bergen county. A little downpour right there, its headed from paterson and new milford into hackensack, bloomfield as well. This is racing eastward, could be in hoboken and new york city. By 4 30, 4 45. During this hour, well see some raindrops, the first in new york city. The heaviest is over northwest new jersey right now. Some lightning in eastern pennsylvania. The heaviest over northwest new jersey. Its also pouring over northern westchester up to bedford and heavy downpours in southern dutch excess put new mexico cant, along i84 not a pleasant ride. That goes back into orange county. Rain is getting lighter in the catskill. Heres the high revolution futurecast. Its doing a nice job and really focusing on these storms getting to i285 by 4 45 with the first raindrops in new york city by then, and then the heavier downpours getting into 5 45 lasting until 6 30 to 7 00 and then pushing to connecticut, long island and monmouth and ocean county during the 7 00 hour, and then the worst should push offshore by 8 00. Looks at temperatures behind the front, we go from near 80 to into the 50s. A dramatic drop. Make sure you definitely have it for later tonight and tomorrow. We could actually have 30s in our northern suburbs. We really are beautiful tomorrow. Earlier in the week we were concerned this front could get hung up. Blue skies, 65 degrees, breezy in the morning, and the breeze will back off during the afternoon. With the light wind tomorrow night thats why were north. Classic fall day on sunday. Upper 60s, 70 in a couple of spots with a few high clouds. Early showers and thunderstorms, that threat until 8 or 9 00, then becoming windy or breezy. Its already windy around the mid60s tomorrow and a real chill in the air tomorrow morning with a breeze. A nice fall afternoon, tomorrow night down to 49. 30s north and west. Coming up at 4 30, frost this weekend, will that possibly happen. Well get into that and if you have to cover some of the mums early on. Its not widespread. It looks so ominous and cold. Havent used that background in seven, eight months. Islanders mets. Its the mets collection. Part of mets nation tonight. Congratulations. Nicely done. Cocaine hidden in candy were going to show you how that was discovered. Plus weve got new details on the condition of that have french train hero whos stabbed in california. Up next, sandy kenon reviews one of the falls most talked about movies, the new bio pick steve jobs. And a quick programming reminder, this monday, 35,000 people will be on 5th avenue for columbus day. Channel 7 is your home for the columbus day parade. Michelle charlesworth and ken route 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 have you seen elijah . Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. Whole foods market is recalls cheeses because of a listeria scale the papyon organic rockford cheeses already ever were sold nationwide with the whole food labels on it. Routine fda sampling found the listeria bacteria. At this point there are no reports of anyone becoming sick from the cheese. It is a big day for the islanders they make history in brooklyn. The islanders play their first regular season game at their new home. They host the defending stanley cup champions Chicago Blackhawks at the Barclays Center 7 30 tonight. The team moved to brooklyn after 43 years they played at the nassau coliseum. He put computers in our homes and the internet in our pockets. No doubt