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Pastor since 2012 and to say parishioners dont like him is an understatement. Theres an online petition calling for his ouster and a website with a long list overgreens. Hes supposed to be the leader of this parish, hes supposed to be the shepherd. How can you do that. How can you put somebody here that has these terrible accusations. The lawsuit goes even further, alleging mcquellly used church fund to buy this house in brick new jersey and that the money has fueled a lavish lifestyle for the 53 yearold priest and his alleged boyfriend. Father mcquellly wasnt around today but the Office Manager at the rectory came to his defense. Whatever they say is up to them, its their choice to say whatever they choose to say. People who do not know facts can be ignorant. And the archdiocese says it has investigated many of these allegations and says if theres any wrongdoing they have found no proof of it. Well have much more on that in another live report coming up at 5 30. Eyewitness news. Thanks a lot. Weather. 60 degrees out there and it is exactly two weeks before christmas, and forget hot cocoa and sitting by the fire, it feels more like midoctober right now. Oh, yeah. Some people spent the day in the bronx botanical garden. Look at that, you do not see that here in december. No need for hats, scarves, heavy coats, even a sweatshirt, even the ice skating rink at bryant park had some spots that were melting in all this warm weather. We have two reports, Anthony Johnson checks in with skiers and golfers. Were going to start with meteorologist lee goldberg whos outside our studios on the upper west side. Hes wearing a suit. Last time this year i think you were wearing something much worse. Had the big rocky jacket on last year. Not this year. I mean i got a little extra layer as we go into the evening hours. Its fantastic out here. I missed midoctober. Its nice to be reunited. International. Pretty good moves. Lets look at Lower Manhattan where we have clouds. The clouds are starting to thin out, a lot of people walking by saying its going to rain. This is what happens. When the clouds come in it can little mild. Were going to go through that through the upcoming weekend. The high so far is 60. Normal high is 45. These normals. Last year it was 38 and we had a trace of snowfall. Upper 50s across the five boroughs outside the city generally in the mid50s. Look at the weekend outlook, 64 forecasting a record to be broken even though we have cloud cover. Heres the lowdown. You get 11 straight above normal days to start december. Were on pace for the warmest december, a third of the way through. 60s the next three days. Record highs on sunday, and even after we get some rain on cooldown midweek. Ill have more on that in a moment. Anthony johnson has been in hamburg new jersey where the effective mode of lift. Itst a golf cart. Anthony over to you. Coming. Ive got to tell you, ive been out here on the golf course. Ive seen some guys out there playing in sorts today. Its been a Beautiful Day out here on the golf course, some of the last golfers are now starting to come in. Hey guys how are you doing . How was it . I got to tell you lee, up the street just a few miles away from here at the ski courses they are still waiting for that snow to come but this is going to be absolutely a beautiful time to get outside, so folks make sure you do it because the weather is absolutely perfect. This nice weather so far this december has been good news on the golf course, places where you would normally have limited the temperatures are so mild golfers say this is glorious. And hamburg, warm weather is driving business during a time slowing down. Now just up the street 4 miles away at Mountain Creek in vernon, the ski slopes are still green because the nearly 60degree temperatures out here means no snow and snow making machines arent going to help when things arent so warm. They always love those winter seasons once we get around thanksgiving. This year theyre staying optimistic once they had a late start to winter last year and ended up with a Record Number of skiers hitting the slopes. No panic at all, were taking advantage of this weather as im sure everybody else is making sure we clean up and finish products. Christmas week holiday week is starts. Before that. Saturday and sunday amongst the four golf courses we have about a thousand rounds, which is great. This time of year, the period to play is a little bit more really from 8 00 to 1 00 is where your tee times are. Were pretty much filled up. Reporter and the golf director out here in Crystal Springs says theres only a few more slots for this weekend. Lee, im going to go get some putting green. Well see you a little bit later. Hey, lee dont be jealous. Live out in Crystal Springs, hey were going down the hill. Anthony johnson channel 7 Eyewitness News. Ill be there in 18 hours, not that im counting. I cannot wait. It is going to weekend for that, we will tell you about a cold blast in our future finally on the weather map, even though it may not last too long. More on that. Liz and i are going to finish out your foursome its you can caddy liz. Remember, you can get well get the accuweather just go to abc7ny or download our Eyewitness News weather app. We are following a developing story and another powerful new york politician has been convicted of corruption. Former state Senate Leader dean skelos and his son were found guilty in a bribery scheme that unraveled when investigators began recording their phone calls. The government says the elder skelos used his influence to strong arm businesses into doing business with his son. This is the second high ranking and high profile political conviction in the last two weeks. Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted offend bribery. Governor cuomo said the conviction should be a wakeup call for the state legislature. We have new information following the collapse of the facade of a building that rained bricks on to the upper east side. It happened at 1st avenue between east 62nd and east 64th. The street there remains closed since monday. The Buildings Department says it now hopes to have the street reopened by rush hour on monday morning. Officials say the bricks on the have to be taken down one by one. The last thing we wanted was another sheet the size of that bear spot to be coming down. When you have brick in that kind of precarious position you have to proceed very deliberately. Despite the concern, fortunately no one was hurt when the bricks fell from the highrise building. Were following other developing stories right now. This one is on long island where Suffolk County police are currently in gilgo beach right now where the first remains of a possible serial killer were Suffolk County police vowed to take a fresh look at the cold case and said the fbi is being asked to take part. Back on december 11th, 2010 the remains of 24yearold melissa discovered. Nine more victims were found in the days and months that followed. A judge denied bail to the former Suffolk County police chief two days after Police Arrested james burke. Handcuffed suspect and trying to cover it up. Burke who resigned in october has been held in protective custody since wednesday. Charges. One count of deprivation of civil rights and one count of conspiracy. 89 people including 15 people are homeless following a fast moving fire in the bronx. Flames tore through an entire row of homes on valentine avenue in the tremont section just before midnight. Residents watched as about 200 firefighters spent nearly three hours battling that fire. Im all right. Im lucky to be alive. Just heard a bunch of breaking glass, people yelling. I looked out my back window, everything was red. I stepped out into the hallway, it was full of smoke and there of the stairs. He said you need to get out. Three residents and six firefighters were hurt in the fire. All of them are expected to be okay. Were damaged by the flames will likely have to be demolished. New york city mayor de blasio undergoing outpatient surgery for a hernia. De blasio has cleared his schedule until sunday. He developed a hernia recently, and we will keep you posted on the mayors recovery. An fbi dive team is once again searching a lake in San Bernardino county california for evidence in last weeks mass shooting. Divers are said to be looking for a computer hard drive that syed farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik may have dumped in the lake after the shooting. Authorities believe the couple came to the lake soon after that shooting. Meanwhile a wake and funeral are being held today for two of the 14 shooting victims. A dismal end to the trading week on wall street as stocks plummeted more than 250 points. Energy and material stock prices slid amid growing concern about the strength of the global economy. In the meantime the between dow chemical and the Dupont Company negatively exacted both stocks. Heres a live look at the big board. The dow closed moments ago down 309 points. Ouch to close at 17265. Still to come on Eyewitness News first at four, santa con coming to town and the commissioner, the Police Commissioner has a very partly sunny message for all those revelers. Plus a Police Officer on long island caught on camera punching and kicking a man during a traffic stop cleared of all charges. Well tell you what happened when the verdict was read. And later a hospital slapped with a lawsuit by a mother who says her newborn baby was dropped by a nurse. 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A check of the delays at the hudson river crossings, not bad though. At the holland tunnel 10 minutes inbound, 15 minutes outbound. And at the lincoln tunnel thats worse. 40 minutes inbound, 10 minutes outbound and the great news is that there are no delays at this point at the George Washington bridge. You can be naughty, but you have to be nice. Those words today from Police Commissioner bill bratton ahead of this weekends annual santa con event. The annual march of people dressed in santa outfits will kick off tomorrow with revelers traveling from bars in brooklyn to ones in downtown manhattan. Police logged a total of two arrests and 85 summons for disorderly conduct, open alcohol containers and other offenses during santa con back in 2012 ask in 2013. Year, and police are hoping for the same this year. Were in trying times throughout the world and to have to expend more resources on an event like this at times its frustrating. We have an expectation that if youre going to participate this this event, if youre going to address up as santa claus you better behave or youll end up in jail. Some businesses in the east village have posted anti santaconsigns and metro north. Islamic and Community Leaders standing together against violent extremism. They gathered at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in paterson. They emphasized the importance of dialogue between people with different backgrounds. We are all americans regardless of our religions, ethnicities colors. The group called for unity. The meeting ended with a prayer. Massachusetts looking into whether operator error was boston. They say they have found several violations of safety past. The sixcar train carrying about 50 passengers traveled about 6 miles through four stations without stopping and withouts an operator. The 9 minute ride ended when workers cut power to the train. Officials say the operator had gotten out of a train at a station to deal with a signal issue when the train without him. I cant even imagine that happening but fortunately they got it to stop. Thankfully so. The driver was slightly injured. Good thing hes okay. Well lee is outside, beautiful weather out there doesnt look like what lee looked like last year. Hang on lee. Take a look alt this. Thats the lee we expect to see on this kind of a date here in december. You know, december 11th, lee. Even my hair was frosty apparently. I was going to say thats the hairs blowing. You got the scarf working. Hes got the full gloves, not the fingerless gloves. It was serious stuff there, liz. And now look. Hes got like a honey glow. Thats it. Thats kind. 38 degrees, last year on this day. A trace of snow. This year its not even a one hit wonder of 60 degrees. Yeah, you get your once or twice you hit 60 in december but five days in a row and were just getting started. Very mild out tonight. Heres a look looking down to Lower Manhattan. A couple of thin spots in the clouds. One thing over the weekend. Of course were portraying a mild nice weekend. Occasionally it is going to look a little gloomy, especially in the Morning Hours and the low clouds move in. The sun angle is very low. Were not counting on the sun this early to get these temperatures to the mid60s. Its all these mild breezes coming in. 59 degrees right now. The high today is 60. When you put that in perspective, the normal is 44 over 33, so were just nowhere near that. Were closer to these records 60 in point pleasant, 59 in old bridge new jersey right now. Upper 50s in the hudson valley, mid50s on the island across the sound. Partly to mostly cloudy. Through the overnight slowly dropping temperatures in the 50s. A launching pad in the low 50s tomorrow, clouds mixing with sunshine during the day and probably more clouds, especially later in the day as well. Notice we have this patch of cloudiness over us now and the clouds are thinning out as we approach sunset in a few minutes. It will be partly cloudy for a while this evening, and then more clouds will move in. Its kind of the nature of this warmup because a warm fronts approaching is that well have just sorts of waves and mid and high level clouds. No rain from them. That front is going to slide through sunday morning, and this is definitely key in terms of our record warmth forecast on sunday effort were not going to do it via a lot of sunshine. There will be a fair amount of clouds, especially early. Even with all those clouds look at whats going on to the south and west. Upper 60s, lower 70s. That record of 64 on sunday. Call it a mild mix of sun and clouds tomorrow, maybe more sun on saturday than sunday. 66 on sunday, and by the way, there is a very slight threat of a morning shower north of i 84 on sunday morning as that warm front tries to lift to our north. Partly cloudy and mild, theres some fog late tonight. Similar to what we had last night. 64 tomorrow, unseasonably warm with a mix of clouds and sun and tomorrow night mostly cloudy. Look at that low temperature. Thats actually 10 degrees above our normal daytime high. Thats for your nighttime temperatures. All right, what were working on for 4 30, the timing of the rain on monday. The whole day is by no means a washout. Well give you the timing on that, and in about a weeks time, we will talk about a cold blast. Are we going to spend a couple days in the 30s. Well tell you about in our accuweather forecast sevenday. Dave and liz back to you. Were due for cold blast. Not complaining. Thanks lee. It has happened again, another Something Interesting happened when this one was toppled. Were going to explain. A major blow to Fantasy Sports websites. Were going to tell you what is changing for gamblers in new york. Sandy says it is one of his favorite films of the entire year. 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