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WABC Eyewitness News First At 4 March 24, 2016

System from New York Stock Exchange to some of the worlds most powerful financial institutions. Many of them here in new york. One hacker was also able to take control of the bowman dam in rye brook new york. Although they were unable to open its doors because the dam was offline for maintenance. Although know actual harm resulted from that infiltration, the potential havoc that such a hack of american infrastructure could wreak is scary to think about. It happened in an 18 month period between 2011 and 2013. When the sites crashed, untold number of Bank Customers were unable to access their accounts. Hundred of thousands of americans were unable to access Bank Accounts online. The men have not been arrested, prosecutors say the case demonstrates the global reach of the hackers as well as the global reach of u. S. Law enforcement. No matter where they are, we will try to reach them. Work to hide their identity and their trade craft, we will find ways to pierce that shield and identify them. The fact is the hackers may never be arrested. Prosecutors admit that. But this case shows whats possible and how vulnerable we are. Whats being done to fix that coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00. Now to the terror investigation in belgium. Investigators are connecting the cots bring the brussels attacks and the ones in paris. A man who blew himself up in Brussels Airport is believed to be the bomb maker for the attacks in paris. And subway bomber rented a house in bell yum used by the attackers. Meanwhile, as the memorials grow in brussels, belgium lowered the Terror Threat level a touch. But they say another attack is still possible. Marcy gonzales is here with more on the investigation. Reporter brussels is still on edge this afternoon. A Shopping Mall there was evacuated. Because of a suspicious package. That scenes now cleared. There are still check points and extra security across the city as the search continues for at least two people believed to be involved in the attacks. Across belgium, a moment of silence for the 31 People Killed and 300 others injured in tuesdays terror attacks. I remember seeing an explosion. The whole time i was telling myself im going to make it. Im going to make it. The man hunt for those responsible now expanding. Police looking for one of the airport bombers and now searching for a suspect shown in surveillance images along with suicide bomber inside the subway station just before the attack. And new questions about an apparent failure of intelligence involving his brother, one of the terrorists to carry out the airport attack. Authorities admitting he was detained last year at the back to europe. Flagged by turkish authorities as a terrorist fighter but not by belgian officials. Police saying he left an apparent suicide note on a discarded laptop saying he was being in a rush no longer knowing what to do. And if he did not act immediately, he would be in a prison cell like him. Investigators believe it is a reference to saleh abdeslam. One of the suspects of the paris attacks captured just last week. While his attorney denies any connection, Police Believe saleh abdeslams arrest may have caused the terror cell to panic and accelerate plans. Police are looking into the possibility that this terror cell may have had other potential targets revealing today that the brothers used hidden cameras to secretly record one of belgiums top nuclear scientists. David . Thank you marcy. We invite you to stay with Eyewitness News and abc news throughout this terror investigation. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross will join us live from brussels coming up on former nypd officer peter who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of aki girlie today apologized to girlies domestic partner. He met with kimballinger to apologize in person. He was convicted of shooting girlie who was unarmed when he fired into a dark stair way in the ping houses in brooklyn. The brooklyn da is recommending he receive six months of house arrest and five years probation but no jail time. Girlies family calls thompsons decision absurd. Had the table been reversed aki girlie would be in prison. This minute. This second. This day. He was fired from the nypd after the verdict, he will be sentenced next month. A jet blue Flight Attendant accused of trying to smuggle 70 pounds of cocaine. Judge approved home confinement tsa Officials Say she was pulled over for random screening at lax on friday. They say she then dropped a bag full of cocaine, kicked off her airport barefoot. A plan for a new remodeled Port Authority bus terminal in manhattan took a step forward today the Port Authority board voted to replace existing terminals instead of building a new one in new jersey. The project could cost as much as 10 billion the terminal is part of the tenyear capitol plan. The port thyroid Port Authority board approved the redevelopment of the Central Terminal billion the cost has grown to 5. 3 billion. Now to vote 2016. You dont often hear the words sniveling coward on the campaign trail but this Years Campaign has proven to be like few others. Listen to republican ted cruz its not easy to tick me off. I dont get angry off but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids that will do it every time donald, youre a sniveling coward and leave heidi the hell alone. Donald does seem to have an issue with women. Donald doesnt like strong women. Strong women scare donald. The two have been in a back and forth twitter battle since a super pack for cruz released an ad with a photo of trumps wife from a gq shoot. Trump struck back saying he will quote spill the beans on cruzs wife, what that means is still not known. Turning to the democratics, Hillary Clinton is focused on security as she hits the campaign trail. She took part in a National Security round table in l. A. Fellow democratic Bernie Sanders appears later in washington state. It reveals Hillary Clinton with a healthy lead over donald trump. Regardless of party, if youre not all ready registered to vote and plan to vote in special election, your registration must be postmarked by tomorrow. He helped rebuild a devastated fdny in the years following the 9 11 terror attacks the department is mourning the death of former new York City Fire commissioner nicholas. He died today of cancer at the age of 83. He served as fire commissioner from 2002 to 2010 and lifted the Department Following the loss of 345 firefighters at the world trade center. Fdny commissioner daniel released a Statement Today saying in part quote the department is stronger today thanks to his leadership in the years following september 11th. He was truly a Public Servant without peer and we deeply mourn his loss. Just a short time ago, former about him. I knew he was hill for quite sometime. But i was upset. And disappointed. He was a personal friend for over 40 years. And he also was a very important part of my administration. Well he was a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and he served as deputy mayor and commissioner of investigation during four decades of serving new york city. Stocks on wall street ending the trading day relatively flat. Stocks waiverred between modest losses and gains most of the afternoon. Following the stretch of sustained gains oil prices dipped again as concerns over excess supplies returned. Heres a live look at the big board, the dow rising 13 points. Closing at 17,515. Coming up on Eyewitness News first at 4 00, well have details on a baby food recall you need to know about. Students exposed to tuberculosis at two local schools. Whos infected and what parents are being told. Fourth floor of a parking deck. Well tell you how the driver inside that car managed to survive. Im meteorologist lee goldberg. Some unwanted care conditioning courtesy of the atlantic ocean. Theres definitely a chill out here. But were going to warm up. And were not going to wait until tomorrow. Youll need your umbrellas in the sevenday forecast. Heres the next 7 on 7. Temperatures in the low 50s. A lot of clouds. I hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too what are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey come in, come in i didnt know your home wifi could stream so many devices at the same time. 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Like in rochester, and in buffalo, where medicine meets the future. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow today at business. Ny. Gov its 4 12. We have a live look at the long island expressway. The two eastbound lanes are blocked. You can see the traffic thats causing at the hudson river crossing, there are 35 minute delays at the outbound holland tunnel and 20 minute delays at the outbound lincoln. Things good at the George Washington bridge. The vessel that crashed and sank with three crew members on board has been raised from the bottom of the hudson river. The tug boat specialist is on the surface of the water after it was pulled up by a crane. It sank in the Early Morning darkness of march 12th. The body of Harry Hernandez had been trapped on the tug. Today being holy thursday. Religious. They found comfort in that too. That on holy thursday their the waters. The bodies of the crew members were recovered in they hope to recover the logbook and gps device. The Vice President laying into lawmakers who refuse to move forward on the president s pick for the supreme court. Merrick garland. Joe biden says the president fulfilled his constitutional nomination to present a nominee following the death of justice antonin skalia. He says republicans are wrong to say they wont consider him. Simply to turn your back before the president even names a nominee is not an option the constitution leaves open. And the Vice President went on to say that congress is acting dysfunctionally. Well startling video of a car tumbling off of a fourth floor parking deck and with the driver still inside, watch as the vehicle comes crashing down on to its roof. This happened in baltimore. The drivers okay. 23yearold lindsay cook claims when the vehicle suddenly accelerated, it crashed through the concrete barrier and then fell down as you can see on to the sidewalk below. Remarkably, she was not seriously hurt. Wow. You know, lee has been doing stories at the auto show. And a lot of it is based on safety and how these cars can handle the impacts. Theres an example. The fact that she was able to walk out of that is amazing. It looked like the planter broke the fall. But we looked at a car today that has gorilla glass on it like on your phone. They had a test that hail couldnt go through it. It was pretty incredible. Its on the new ford gte. Its one of the many things at the new york auto show. Youre going to be down there signing things. Yes we are. On saturday. Everybody come down and say hello. Dicks doing all the fun things. Of course. Lets look at the weather forecast. Cloudy and chilly all of a sudden. Convertible day yesterday. Now folks are rolling up the 50 isnt good enough any more. Thats normal for late march. A lot of cloud cover over central park. More low clouds to the east. We held on to the brightening longer than i thought we would. Temperatures havent done very well. Low and mid 50s. 53 after yesterdays 71. And thats still above normal. Record high of 76 back in 1988. You can see the wind direction. See how we now have a wind coming straight off the atlantic. Its 43 in montog. Not in the 60s any more. We were earlier but the cool ocean air has gone way inland unless youre in eastern pennsylvania where youre pretty warm. Otherwise youre about 20 degrees under yesterdays pace. There will be a lot of clouds around at 7 00. You dont need your umbrella this evening. But you will need your umbrella for the morning commute. There will be showers or drizzle or light rain. But look at the temperatures, theyre going up over night. The winds are shifting to the by midday, a front will come through, and i think there could be a rumble of thunder or a gusty down pour there. And then well try to clear it out after 2 00 or 3 00 in the afternoon. See the low clouds confined to monmouth, and eastern long island, now theyre going farther to the west with the ocean wend. The front is sitting to the south. It comes back over night. As it lifts north, it exposes us to the mild air in pennsylvania. Its near 80 in dc. 51 new york. And 38 in boston. How about that ride along i95. Looking at the system to the west, thats the system that brought the blizzard to the front range of the rockies. The snow is going into canada. Look at the rain near cincinnati and over the ohio valley. Theres down pours there. Im concerned a couple of those get to us late morning or lunch time tomorrow. With the that in mind, watch this future cast. The rain moves northward. Its scattered showers and light rain for the morning commute. Theres the potential down pour for your lunch. Lunch plans or any errands around midday. There maybe brief down pours and a rumble of thunder and a gusty wind. After that we should see the clouds break after 3 00 or 4 00 in the afternoon. Most mostly cloudy tonight. Temperatures go up into the over night. Rain develops at dawn. We end up near 57 toward morning. 69 degrees. Thats later in the day. Rain possible through midday. A rumble of thunder. It should be beautiful tomorrow like it did yesterday. 41. 30s in the suburbs. Up and down we go. Lets look at the weekend. Well look at the saturday map and Easter Sunday after 4 30. Well get the weekend off to a nice start. Im concerned that clouds come in brief sunday. Hopefully well keep the rain away. More on that at 4 30. During his homily holy thursday, pope francis blaming the deadly attacks in brussels he told the crowd at st. Peters pa silica that gods mercy restores everything. He watched the feed of twelve refugees from different faiths. Timothy dough lynn spent the day at the food pantry. The program feeds body and the soul. I love the workers say our goal is to make sure they teen have to come back. They come here in an emergency situation, we want to give them the basics, but we want to help them get back on their feet. This is holy thursday. The service that jesus taught us come alive. Tonight Cardinal Dolan will celebrate mass at Saint Patricks cathedral. Still to come, allegations of discrimination, well tell you why some people say their race stopped them from getting into the apartment they wanted. Imagine you come home to find your house demolished, and fios is not cable. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years our competitors have received a fewawards. But weve received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in Customer Satisfaction for the third year in a row. Now get superfast 100 meg internet tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month, online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. Hey what are you here for . You getting poked, prodded or pinched . . Uhhh yeah, colon cancer screening. Hey me too, second time. Its a piece of cake that sounds good right now. Its no big deal. Thats what everyone tells me. Today there is more than one way to screen for colon cancer and its easier than ever. If youre 50 or older talk with your Healthcare Provider and choose the best test for you if youre 50 or older your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. Get used to hearing shhh if you ride on more metro cars. Theyre adding more quiet cars to rush hour trains. Starting april 4th, two cars on every train will be designated quiet cars. If youre in a quiet car, youre expected to not talk on your cell phone and keep your headphones turned down. From trains to car, a few minutes ago we were talking International Auto show. Earlier today the car of the year was announced. You hear that lee . The winner is the mazda mx 5. Yeah. The prize was handed out today at the auto show. Automotive journalists picked the mazda over the mercedes and the audi. The mx 5 also took home the prize in the best car design category. Retractable hard top, so cool. You know too much all ready. Hes just been binging car information this week. We invite you to watch our auto show special in the fast lane saturday night at 7 00 here on channel 7. Lee will be hosting it which is why hes binging. And you can share your favorite rides from the auto show with us using the abc7ny. She brought us scandal, grays anatomy and how to get away with murder. And tonight shes adding a new its called the catch. And sandy kenyon spoke with the shows store. Tgit is the label abc gives to its dramas on thursday night. You knew that all ready. Thursday night is home of some of the most popular shows on the network. And the catch is h

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