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WABC Eyewitness News First At 4 January 13, 2016

The house failed to show up in court this morning following complaints of excessive barking. One neighbor says they heard one dog parking and in distress so loud that it prevented her and her family from sleeping. The animals are labrador retrievers, rottweilers and a couple of cats. Four shelters have been called in to help remove and place the animals. Officials are calling this an extreme case of animal hoarding. The house is deplorable. Your rib a urine and feces everywhere. Animals took over the house. Its a hoarding case, could be mental illness. We need to get them out to no kill shelters. Reporter the man that lives in the house is identified as juan perez. So far we have not seen him out on the scene. He will face a number of charges because of the right down the street from where we are standing. All of the dogs brought out earlier today and they still continue to bring out are less than two years old. Anthony johnson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Anthony, thank you. Less than seven hours from now some lucky Powerball Ticket holder out there could be an instant billionaire. At this point the jackpot is 1. 5 billion shattering the previous record for an american lottery at 656 million. That is a megamillions jackpot in 2012. If there are no winners tonight, estimates for saturdays jackpot hit the 2 billion mark. Eyewitness News Reporter Michelle Charlesworth is at penn station from the states top selling store. Michelle . Reporter this is the top selling store and top winningest store in all of new we heard an amazing number. 32,000 tickets are being sold per minute. That is the latest. Look at the people. All the way down. There are five separate lines of people who are going home after a long day of work trying to find their one point 5 billion. Most people tell me they are buying 2, 4, 10 worth. Every person is having a lot of fun with this. What is going on here. Quick picks. Reporter how many did you buy . 20 worth. I bought 20 worth as well. Reporter the lines are longer even though there are five machines pumping out tickets. Carlton cards in penn station, they sell the most in the state and win the most. We have 31 people playing. Reporter you look trustworthy. I would put you in charge. We found out ten checks so we are winning. Reporter go phyllis. This guys name is june gates by. You made time to come to the busiest Lottery Ticket selling place. I like to win. I will be the winner. Reporter you are . What is your name . June gates by. Reporter what will you buy, convertible, house, mansion. A house, boat, mansion. Reporter number one decadent thing you would buy yourself if you won . If you dont have a plan, you need to get out of line. Give to charity. House on the water. Reporter you are my girlfriends. This store sells the most because more than half a Million People come through penn station every day. Am i talked to would never ever to work again. You know, i said people are having fun with this but look this is constant all day long. So many commute including me through penn station. A lot of people have pools, getting chummy with people at work, people that they never want to see again. We are live at the place selling the most tickets in penn station, Michelle Charlesworth, channel 7 Eyewitness News. World books downstairs. All right, michelle. Thank you. If you win, its been a pleasure working with you. If you feel you need a drum roll, a drummer is playing outside of numerous lottery retailers around the state like this one in midtown throughout tonight. Stay warm. You can catch the powerball drawing tonight before Eyewitness News at 11 00. We will also, good news, stream the powerball drawing on our web site, is abc7ny. Good luck to everyone. The jackpot continues to go up, wall street sank. Stocks snapped a twoday winning streak closing the day with major losses. Trading as Energy Stocks continued to fall. The market is struggling to recover after huge losses last week over the financial crisis in china. So, here right now is a live look at the big board. The dow dropped 364 points today to end at 16,151. Also you should know the s p 500 plunged enough today to be considered a correction. Something else tanked, the temperatures. Another day tf below freezing temperatures prompted new york city to step up the efforts to bring Homeless People out of the cold and into shelters. The city issued a code blue warning today. The question now, how long will the frigid temperatures last. Meteorologist lee goldberg is tracking it outside the studios. Lee . Cold night ahead. Slow improvement through the overnight into tomorrow. You will feel the difference tomorrow afternoon when there is less wind and not as harsh. Another night we have a biting a look downtown, not because of sun. We had ample sun but nothing but decoration. 28 degrees right now. Only the second day this winter where it failed to get to freezing during the daylight hours. Windchill around 19. We started with windchills near 10. Feels like 6 in windchills in the teens to around 20 into the evening hours. The winds were peaking near 40 Miles Per Hour earlier in the day. The wind gust is there but they are off the peak between 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. They will continue to diminish into the evening hours. We have no more wind advisories. That was canceled as i came outside for ulster and dutchess, supposed to last until 5 00. They dropped that early. This is wind speed futurecast. Look how they disappear into the evening hours. Good news there. Wind at 6 to 12 during the evening hours, enough to make it really chilly but we are off the peak winds. The forecast windchill overnight in the teens then level in the afternoon, 25 to 32. Now, as we make the warm up, one thing to draw your attention to, that is snow over the ohio valley. Do we have to worry about flakes tomorrow morning and slippery areas . We will address that in the sevenday forecast in a bit. Back to you for now. Lee, thank you. A neighbor is credited with saving residents from a fast moving fire in new jersey. Flames broke out overnight in a restaurant on the first floor of the building in irvington and quickly spread to the apartments above. Residents are thank full for their neighbors that they woke up banged on the doors to get them out in time. Thank god my cousin woke up and woke us up and told us about it. If it wasnt for him, i think i right now. One firefighter hurt his ice. Fire investigators are combing through the rubble to look for the cause. The 5th and final suspect in the gang rape of an 18year expected to be arraigned this afternoon. Bail for the other four suspects ranges from 10 to 50,000. All of them will be in court on friday. The defendants have not been identified by the victim or her father who was allegedly ordered to leave the park at gunpoint. Gun. The ten u. S. Navy sailors briefly detained in iran are in qatar after being freed earlier today. They were taken into custody when the boats drifted into iranian waters. How that happened is still being scrutinized. The white house is crediting Nuclear Negotiations with helping to keep the lines of negotiation open. Reporter first broadcast on iranian tv, this video released by the same shows the terror rei identifying moments the soldiers ten dured. Their hands up, firearms being inspected by the iranians. Today they are safe and back in american custody. I also want to thank the iranian authorities for their cooperation and Quick Response. The Quick Response came 24 hours after two small boats piloted by the sailors allegedly drifted into iranian waters. They were traveling from kuwait to bahrain when the iranians say the navigation on one of the boats failed resulting in an intrusion. These are always socials which, as everybody here knows situations which, as everybody knows, if not properly guided can get out of control. I am appreciative for the quick appropriate response. Reporter the navy saying there are no indications any of the ten were harmed while in custody. The quick resolution to diffuse what could have been an in days iran is expected to meet the terms of a nuclear deal created last summer with world powers in which 100 billion of sanctions could be lifted. We are following breaking news right now out of brooklyn. Two teenagers shot on pennsylvania avenue in east new york. One has died. The gunshots rang out about an hour ago. We are told an 18yearold was shot in the head and died at the hospital. A 17yearold was shot in the right shoulder. Police say three suspects were involved in the shooting. One was taken into custody and a gun was recovered. Still to come on first 4 00, since a mass shooting in paris, a restaurant that came under attack has reopened its doors. We will show you the moving response to the reopening. Plus, new york governor state of the state address meet the moores were the moore family, and were always looking for ways to enjoy more. So we called Time Warner Cable and got even more than we expected. Call now to get more. More speed. Like, 300 meg. More tv shows and movies on demand. More places to make more unlimited calls. Call now. For 89. 99 a month, youll get 100 meg ultra fast internet, hd channels included, and unlimited calling to international destinations. We find more good things every day more ways to watch more shows. On more wifi connected devices in our house. Time warner cable made switching easy with a one hour arrival window. They even made sure all of our connections were up and running before they left. 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Authorities say the avalanche hit the students and the its not clear how many of the students are missing but up to 60 rescue workers and a helicopter are searching the area. New at 4 00 a bar targeted in the attacks in paris reopened its doors. Customers retreated were treated to a glass of champagne. Many said it was important to be there to show that parisians will not give in to fear. Bouquets and notes were near the building. New york governor unveiling a 145 billion budget plan for the state of new york that includes a plan for paid family leave. We should have a paid leave program paid by employees who can get 12 weeks of pay. Well, at the state of the state address the democratic governor called for raising the minimum wage to 15, cutting Small Business taxes and not everybody in the statehouse was pleased with governor cuomos remarks. At one point assemblyman Charles Baron interrupted the governors speech. Okay. Okay. Okay. Assemblyman, let me finish then you will have your turn. Okay. Okay. Everybody sees you and everybody heard you. Have a seat, assemblyman. Well, the governor spoke about sandra lee his long time girlfriend and her fight against breast cancer. He proposed a 90 Million Program for the most aggressive the country. Political reporter dave evans was in albany for the speech and will have a report at 6 00. No one interrupting lee goldberg. He is outside with the forecast. Zipping up, pal. Are you turned on. My battery just went dead. Its the cold weather. I have batteries that you charge to heat up the jacket. Thats what we are referring to. It was nice for a while there. So, talk quickly so you can come back in. I will. Folks, this jacket was recalled by the way because apparently it overheats. I was willing to take the risk today. You cant actually get it any more. Maybe this is why. All right. So, it is cold out here. You need anything to keep you warm. The wind has settled down a bit. Its not whipping like it was a few hours ago. A little factor through the evening hours. Central park, the shadows are over the park. The sunset is getting later is a the approaches the 5 00 hour. You can see the snow showers over the ohio valley. We are watching those super close. They will go across i80. The air it is dry near us. Im concerned a few of those could hold together in the northwest suburbs, maybe make if you look at the futurecast, across pennsylvania, they fall apart in the mountains. It may be in the predawn areas, a few flurries or isolated snow shower that makes for one or two slick spots to the and west. Bill evans will watch that in the morning. After that clouds will break for sunshine. We should have a nice afternoon as temperatures warm to the mid to upper30s. It will feel nicer than today. The accuweather forecast is looking like this, diminishing wind tonight. Later the clouds will roll in again. It might be a late snow shower or flurry to the north and west. Down to 23 that could happen during the evening hours then level off if not bounce up later on tonight. We have the early flurry threat then clouds break for sun tomorrow. Not as cold in the afternoon hours. A high in the mid to upper 30s. Then tomorrow night, partly cloudy skies and above freezing. Today was the second day we stayed below freezing during the daylight hours. It promises a soggy start to the day hoping that it can leave the scene during the middle of the day. We will have the latest with the timing on that. Temperatures are marginal. If you look closely, snow in the poconos and catskills, maybe at the end of the storm. Listen, joe, there is another storm threat sunday into monday, another close call on the coast. You can see the theme of what is happening here as we go into the middle of january. The storm frequency is higher and the cold air, almost of it is available that we have to worry about rain threats and snow threats. We will have more in the second half hour. Come inside. Im worried your coat will short circuit. Dont joke like that. See you, lee. Thanks, lee. Well, a Bank Robbery Suspect takes on police on a cross county change on long island. Coming up, why they kept searching even after the suspects were caught. New jersey lawmakers are about to put the cards on the table when it comes to Atlantic Citys finances. A measure being floated would let the state take over the gambling resort town. If the bill is not approved, lawmakers want Atlantic City to the head of new jerseys state senate wants the city to stop seeking bailouts. The rams are going back west. The league approved the rams move back to los angeles where they played for 49 years. The announcement set off a celebration in l. A. Where fans have been waiting for two decades for pro football to return. The club moved to missouri in 1995. The teams owner said leaving st. Louis will be tough. Rams fans may have company. Another former la team, the San Diego Chargers are mulling over an option to move along with the rams. So the city could go from having no teams to possibly two teams. That would be big. Do you remember the first time you saw a movie or tv show in High Definition . Seemed like a heap in technology. Some say we are about to entertainment reporter sandy kenyon has the details. Reporter the 4 k picture is so stunning the technology is such a leap forward it has to be seen to be believed. What you will see is substantial difference in picture quality. It will knock your socks off. Reporter at manhattans sony store a home video revolution is in progress. You will have a much better picture in your own home compared to a movie theater. Reporter lee richmond is the goto guy for some of the biggest stars in show business who depend on him to keep the home theaters up to date. What you will get with this tv is a phenomenal range of colors, saturation and ultra crisp picture. Reporter all the more remarkable because the big screen is thin. As thin as an iphone. Reporter to match the bitter picture quality, better sound. A tweeter, midrange and sub woofer matches the High Resolution of the tv. From the tvs that cost around 3,000, the source material, what you are watching, must must be ultra High Definition. 4 k cameras are in stores and 4 k disks will be available soon. After that comes this. Sandy, inside this box is the Gold Standard for internet streaming of 4 k source material. Reporter not movies are being screened in 4 d but more will be available and the cost of the equipment will drop. There is no going back. Reporter sandy kenyon, Eyewitness News. Look at all of joes gray hairs. Im not sure we want that. We like the soft focus. You may have noticed sandy is not here today. Thats because he is in los angeles getting ready for the oscar nominations. From hollywood tomorrow after the Academy Award nominations are announced tomorrow morning. He will have a live discussion on abc7ny. You can catch the oscars sunday, february 28th on channel 7. Big night. A cross county pursuit. Coming up on Eyewitness News first at 4 00, the bank robbery, the suspects on the run. Police from two counties on their tail. A wild chase in long island that ended in spectacular fashion. General electric set to leave the town it called home for four decades. Where is the company headed. Delivering song thats life song thats life song thats life thats life. You diet. You exercise. And if you still need help lowering your blood sugar. This is jardiance. Along with diet and exercise, jardiance works around the clock to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. It

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