New jersey and the hudson valley, that thunderstorm will approaches 6 00hour. Well track that closely for you. By 8 00, everything is off shore and were drying out. There might be one lone shower prior to midnight and that moves away. Trend that starts tomorrow and heads into the weekend. Well turn our attention to energy and snow showers offer the Northern Plains the nuz western canada and a broad area of low pressure over the gulf of mexico. The two will come together and eventually, well look for storm formation along the east coast, probably off of the carolina coast. The question is, what is the storm track going to be. As of this afternoon, the storm is looking more likely and accumulating wet snow is looking more likely and were getting close to talking accumulations with this. Lets look at the headlines. Scattered gusty afternoon some will have a brief shower and heavy lightning. The cooling trend starts tomorrow and it looks like a snow storm is likely. Were putting predictions of the likely accumulations. You cant believe it with sun and 60 but we have storms and snow to talk about a few minutes away. Dave and liz, bang to you. Thanks a lot. Some parents on edge, newark as lead testing begins on thousands of students. First are being den on 2,000 Early Childhood students. This comes after officials revealed high levels of lead in the water at 30 schools but despite the tests and promises that fixes are being made, many parents are still very upset by all of this. New jersey reporter toni yates in newark now with this story. Toni . Reporter parents on edge, youre exactly right. 67 families signed up for the free lead testing for the children there. The citys Health Department came out to conduct those tests. The Health Department setup the they were read to in a quiet area while waiting for their return. Not a fun experience for the patients at Early ChildhoodLearning Center but it is something that had to be done. Berliner school is one of the 30 schools in the district that had to shut down the Drinking Water and bring in bottled water after the supply here tested positive for higher than acceptable levels of lead. Parents are concerned about how long their children may have been drinking the water. We thought everybody was okay using faucet wet and were putting it in our body ays. Youre getting your son tested . Yes. It doesnt just start with my babies or the babies before. In urban communities they tend to do whatever to us and then just say deal with it. But in this case, im not going to just dweel it if my child comes back with high levels. There will be serious repercussions. The Parent Teacher association and neighborhood association, theyre holding a lead situation. It will be 107 ivy street, that is the ivy hills school again tonight at 7 00. They expect a large crowd of parents. Were live in newark, toni yates, channel 7, Eyewitness News. Thank you. Meanwhile, worries over lead in the Public Housing system are the focus of a federal investigation. It is part of a probe by the manhattan u. S. Attorneys office. According to court documents, prosecutors are investigating complaints about unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Residents with high levels of lead in their blood are at the center of the investigation. Police on long island arrested a man in connection with a string of nail salon burglaries. 55yearold Francisco Lavoy broke into four nail salons since september stealing cash and a laptop. Investigators say he would bash in the doors, his method causing so little damage they wouldnt realize they had been wrgized. Businesses dont discover it right away, especially if they go in a back or side door. They might be there for a few hours first thing, if they open at 9 00 in the morning and not discover until the first customer comes in that the lock was punched out. Now Police Investigating whether lavoy is also responsible for other recent burglaries in the area. Governor cuomo this afternoon unveiled an extensive plan to help protect the public from the zika virus. Cuomo, along with officials announced a six point plan, it includes distributing larvacide and distributing a public campaign. We want to be prepared, we want to be ahead of it and we want to be taking aggressive action to make sure that were doing everything we can to combat the possible spread of the zika virus. Right now, there are around hundred confirmed zika cases across the United States. Now to the Saint Patricks and politicians to drums and dignitaries. It was a sea of green in the largest celebration of irish heritage. This year the parade had added significance. For the first time, organizers opened the parade to include gay pride groups and another first, mayor de blasio who skipped the parade in the past because that controversy, today joined the marchers. Today, everyone is celebrating together. The city is at peace and the city is unified and we all feel tremendous pride. For me. It is the first time as an adult that i will get to march representing the totality of who. The lgbt groups will begin marching in the next 30 minutes. As for the rest of the parade with more on the sights, soupdz and spectators we have sounds and spectators we have amy freeze joining us from the upper eastside. It has been so much fun. 200,000 marchers come past this point right here at 73rd on 5th avenue. What a day it has been with the sun and clouds, a the weather has been fickle but all of the fans waiting and watching, they say they felt quite l. Kids have the irish flow, we took them out of school and took the day off from work. It is a tradition, we come every year. Reporter irish new yorkers recognize George Mitchell chosen for peace talks in unfortunatern ireland in the Northern Ireland in the 90s. Irish heritage, all green on 5th avenue for 35 blocks up to 79th street. Theyre marching for the orange count. He is marching but soon he will be playing the bag pipes like his dad. Wow 200,000 spectators lined the route, theyre all looking for their favorite among 200,000 marchers. Now, in the 2255th year, many new yorkers made this a tradition. Peggy of york town has been making memories at the parade for 40 years. Our heritage, so we need to celebrate and be happy. Of course, everyone has their favorites from fdny to the nypd, including steven mcdonald. What was the best part of the parade today for you . The people who hold the flag. So much to see from bag pipes to beauty queens. So lucky clean up crew. And back live now, were sort of wrapping up the end of the parade. It is expected to end at 4 30 this afternoon, but i think we have a little more time left and plenty of crowd standing fwochl catch a glimpse of whoever they came out to see on this saint pat rieks day. Live, seven patricks day. Live, 75th avenue. Amy freeze. The rain in the area. New york may have the alarmest Saint Patricks day parade but there are plenty of people partying in dublin. This is what it looked like in the douglas entertainment quarter. Today is a National Holiday in ireland. Dublin is experiencing its biggest Saint Patricks day tourism boost in years. In fact, most hotels are booked solid for easter. I want to know how youre spending your Saint Patricks day. Send in your pictures to a. All right. There we go. Turning to other news. For the First Time Since 2004, the United States is accusing a group of committing genocide. Today secretary of state john kerry made that claim against isis. The announcement comes days after the house of representatives voted unanimously to condemn the islamic states atrocities against christians and other does not obligate the United States to take any additional action against isis militants. In my judgment, daesh is responsible for this. This marks the first time that the United States has declared a genocide since the ago. A republican leader refuse to back down in this partisan battle over president Obamas Supreme Court nomination. So far, only two Senate Republicans have agreed to even meet merrick garland, the president s pick to fill the evacuate yancy of the late justice antonin scalia. Most refuse to recognize his nomination claiming it should be the choice of the next president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says garland will never get a confirmation hearing. Meanwhile, the president ial candidates are focussing on the next round of primaries and republican frontrunner donald trump claim faez there is a claims if there is a broken republican convention, there may be rioting. Hillary clinton has a clear path to the nomination with Bernie Sanders needing to win virtually all remaining delegates before the convention. Checking wall street right now, another lucrative trading day extending a fourweek rally for the market. Energy and material stocks rose after the boost in the price of gold and silver and crude oil. Here is a the big board, the dow gained nearly 156 points to end the day at 174,881. A loaded gun found in a noise queens. How it was discovered and if hey, have you heard . Heard what . Before School Starts in september, all kids going into 7th and 12th grade have to get the meningococcal vaccine. It protects against diseases like meningitis. That can be serious, even deadly. Yeah, thats why they cant start School Without it. Something to share . giggling actually, yes talk to your health care provider. Even kids whove had one shot to. Hazmat crews are investigating the cause of a mysterious explosion at the national zoo. A worker reported he smelled chlorine, became concerned. Left the area and heard a loud bang. Fortunately, no people are animals were hurt by the blast. Close call in philadelphia. Part of a building under demolition collapsed on to a school bus. The bus driver had just dropped off students at the National Constitution center. The driver was stuck in traffic when the section of the building with debris. Hurt. Back in 2013, 6 people were killed when a building under demolition in philadelphia collapsed on a neighboring thrift store. Is set to go on the auction block. This would end two years of uncertainty surrounding the five star hotel which is off of central park. Ownership of the plaza changed countless times in the 100year end history. Billionaire brothers newton hold the property. It would be sold in a package deal with the dream Downtown Hotel in chelsea and the combined mortgages of the properties would com 500 million. The first direct mail shipment from the u. S. To cuba in 50 years contained a special letter. President obama wrote a message to the 76yearold woman who invited the president to her home in havana. She wrote to president obama on february 18th saying, quote there, are not many cubans as easier as i to meet you in person. He hopes interest have a cup of cuban coffee with her. The post office is now offering a full range of services from mail had to go through a third party nation like canada or mexico. The hugely popular broadway show hamilton may have stopped any changes to the 10 dollar bill. You might recall last summer, lots of talk about alexander hamilton, that he would be placed by a woman on the face of the 10 dollar bill. A twitter post from the author and star of the broadway musical, hamilton, said the secretary of the treasury assured him that hamilton would remain on the bill. A new and improved bill is scheduled to roll out in 2020. This is what the tweet says. I talked to the u. S. Treasury about this on monday. Secretary told me youre going to be very happy. Egetthejobdone. They just finished a performance out there with the cast. You need a punch of those to get into hamilton. You certainly do. Yes, you do. Lots and lots of them. You also need, i think, good advice is your app. The weather app. If you look right now, you might track of that, there is something coming our way. No doubt about it. If any alerts are coming through, you would find it on the app. Were showing the big billowing concludeds and were in a sweet spot where we have sunshine and a nice breeze and it is around 60. It was too warm for the over coat without temperatures spiking here. That could spark a few more showers. Lets go ahead. You see the threatening clouds around. Temperatures at the 4 00hour are at 60. The west wind is 18, gusting to 25. A little bit more wind with the storms today and the high today is in the low and middle 60s. We cooked off. Weve had a few showers near blarz town and it is 61 in morris town but most of us are around the comfortable 60degree mark. We will be a good, i would say 6 to 8 degrees cooler tomorrow with a gusty wind. A planner shows a shower, an isolated thunderstorm through the early evening hours partial mostly sunny tomorrow and it is a gusty day tomorrow. 46 by 7 00 a. M. 53 at noon. Well stop in the mid50s and with the gusty breezes it will feel cooler than that. The wind will definitely be noticeable during the day tomorrow. So there are the showers right now. You can see we have a fuel northern new jersey and some moving a few over northern new jersey and some moving into toms river and fork and river. This thunderstorm has weakened over Warren County but moving well. Showers and that is the threatening showers im over my shoulder, that is over toward alpine new jersey, a few showers over westchester there, is a downpour north of dan berry near brookfield. Watch out for the scattered showers through early evening. Temperatures are comfortable. Winds begin to diminish. Look how it chose a pretty good downpour at 6 00. It is not as widespread as yesterday but there are a couple and things quiet down later on tonight. During the day tomorrow, we go through this drill where it is sunny in the morning and the difference tomorrow doesnt feel as warm. Only low and middle 50s with a gusty wind and there might be a snow flake in the capital skills by the end of the day lets fast forward to saturday. Saturday is a nice quiet day but chilly and a storm will come out of the gulf of mefrn koechlt get help from the jet stream and it will strengthen by later sunday. You see the time stamp sunday, 8 00 a. M. Already some snow knocking on the door. Dont be surprised if snow arrived. The accumulating snow will happen later sunday and sunday night. The early thinking on this, while tl is too early with the uncertainty of the track to nail down specific snow bands, i would put the highest percentage in the 3 to 6inch totals right now but look how high the percentage is with the inches or more. It is higher than the 1 to 3. This looks like a significant spring snow event and accumulating snow. Surfaces during the day on sunday but sunday night. Roads can get snow covered. Evening shower or thunderstorm and partial clearing tonight, tomorrow, 56, windy and cool with sun and clouds and a passing shower in the afternoon but it is a gusty wind over 30 miles an hour. Here is what happens. We turn sharply colder tomorrow night. We go down to freezing. We havent seen these levels in quite awhile. The winds begin to diminish. Obviously well talk more about the evening storm system. Will it be snowy in time for the Half Marathon . We hope not but well look closely. Accumulation is likely. Well track the Thunder Showers through the afternoon. Although it is blue and sunny and breezy and beautiful. Maybe close to the 6 00hour, we have a brief shower here in new york city. Dave and liz, back to you now. Can you take it back . Can you just take it back . You knew how easy the ride was other than the blizzard. There would be one last. We could complain, but we wont. All right. Thank you. Thanks, lee. Video of a store clerk saving a baby. Grabbing the child in the knick. Lee may be talking about snow in the forecast, but im focussed on spring baseball. The mets officially announced that matt harvey will be the open the season april 3rd in kansas city. Meanwhile, a baseball star in chicago has abruptly retired after his team asked him to stop bringing his 14yearold son into the clubhouse almost every day. Adam la roge had been bringing his son on the road for years. He even had a locker next to his dad. The situation had become excessive and he asked him to dial it back a little. You can imagine there, is a lot of reaction to a s this. I dont care if youre a dad and you work at a bank or a newsroom or at the rock quarry. I dont care where it is. Every day is too much. It is a workplace. It is not a da. His move will cost 13 million in lost salary. Well, when it comes to beauty there, is no one standard. Beauty can be silly, loud, fearless, and strong. New photography exhibit. It is called strong is the pretty. Meant to empower women and girls to be 100 themselves. Hoping to lead that is the star from the show blackish, sandy ellis ross. The latest filming has finished in la and the sitcom has been renewed for another season. Tracy ellis ross was free to be here in the city this week. We met up with her in the meat packing distr near the exhibit of photographs featuring women just like her. This captures so much of who i am. Tracy ellis ross is the picture of strength at an exhibit which defines beauty as being yourself, 100 . And each image has a quote from those depicted. Sam is my 8th grandchild, the gift of sam has put me much more is. Parker is a return of sorts to tracys routes as a model. I personally chose to move out of modelling because i had such a voice and i dont mean a singing voice. I had things i wanted to say. In abcs blackish, she gets to say plenty of. We explore all different topics and pull them apart. That is what this campaign and project is about. The exhibit is part of the launch of a new cereal. It is a new easy and fit one for me. This message of recognizing and celebrating women in our fullness. Her mother is, of course, one of the most celebrated women of motown. It is no surprise that diana ross inspired her children to trust their instincts and know what your d