Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News This Morning 20151207

Thank you. Im ken rosato. Monday, december 7th. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the workweek accuweather forecast. Well, we start out with really nice weather. There is fog around this morning. Patchy dense fog in places. Lets go down the beach, shall we. Calm way to ease into this monday. Good visibility at 45 degrees to start the day. We are looking at normal overnight lows about 36, 37. We are starting out warmer. 27 to kingston, poughkeepsie. 27 carmel in putnam county. 40 bridgeport. 29 around sparta and Sussex County. 28 in monticello. Cool numbers to start the day which today we will see the temperature climbing up above normal for this time of the year. Looking at 55 today. Normal high is 46. Nearly 10 warmer than normal. Weather then heather. Heather is looking at it for you. Mass transit is doing great new jersey transit, Long Island Railroad, metro north are doing fine. One and two trains we had track work completed. D trains are business passing 18th because of Fire Department activity that we were telling you about. Going into elizabeth, 1 and 9 south of mcclellan a water main break. Minor delays George Washington bridge. Construction at the lincoln and holland should be cleared by 5 00 a. M. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Lori, over to you. Growing anxiety over the threat of terrorism prompted a primetime speech by president obama to ease fears across the country. The president laid out his plans to take down isis and protect americans here and abroad. Dray clark is breaking down the big speech live from times square. Dray . Reporter good morning, lori. President obama knows terrorism at home and abroad is making americans nervous. Last night the president spoke outlining his plan to defeat country. Designed to kill innocent people. Reporter president obama said the San Bernardino and paris attacks show terrorism getting a new phase. In the first address from the oval office in five years, the president vowed the u. S. Will defeat isis and other militant groups. What we can do and must do kill. Reporter the president said he would not send the nation into another long war in iraq and syria. He warned it would be a powerful recruiting tool for isis and they must not create the notion that they are at war with islam. They are our coworkers, sports heros and our men and women in uniform willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that. Reporter how speaker paul to offer a comprehensive strategy for defeating isis and republican president ial candidate ted cruz said the president s policies are making america unsafe. In spite of that criticism, there is bipartisan support for closing the terror gap, a loophole that allows people on the no fly list to buy weapons. 2300 people on the terror watch list requested to buy weapons in the last decade. Over 2,000 of them, 91 got them. Reporter almost immediately after president obama concluded his remarks, criticism came in quickly from within his own party and from republicans. Among those harshly criticizing the president , long island congressman peter king. You will hear from him coming up at 5 00. Live in times square, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Dray, thank you. There is a new clue in the search for a serial arsonist in Police Released a picture of a person of interest, a man spotted near the scene of the latest suspicious fire on sunday. Eyewitness News Reporter kala rama is live in forest hills with the latest details. Reporter ken, good morning. Investigators may have their biggest lead yet because of vigilant residents. We took pictures of a man that they believe was acting suspiciously before the most recent fire was set. Take a look. Police want to talk to this man. They are calling him a person of interest in seven fires set starting in early november. He was spotted here in the neighborhood sometimes riding on the sidewalk roaming on his motorcycle, looking at the homes before saturdays fire. This home going up in flames belonged to a rabbi. He was set to move in with his six kids and wife in february. The first time not so bad, this is already now all my plans change. Reporter religious leaders met in forest hills to talk about their concerns over the seven arsons. All the homes under construction that went up in flames are jewish owned. This is not being called a hate crime, rather opposition to the new construction in an old neighborhood. Anxiety is growing and is so is the motivation to find whoever is setting the fires. The reward is up to 65,000 leading to an arrest and conviction to figure out who is setting the fires in forest hills h. Kala rama, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. A driver is now facing charges after a crash that left one person dead and two others hurt in brooklyn. This crash is a 22 pedestrian death since october. Police say marlin swell jumped 5 30 last night. Eyewitnesses say he was swerving to avoid hitting a bus. Instead he hit three people on the sidewalk. A customer ran in the store and said call 911. They said a lady was hit by a car that jumped the cash. I ran across the street and i sidewalk. We learned overnight that 30 yearold victoria nicodemas was was hurt. He is charged with driving without a license. Threealarm fire in brooklyn is causing a few headaches for subway riders. The fire gutted a threestory building in bensonhurst under the subway tracks. D is business passing 18 bypassing 18th avenue in both directions. Strap hang rays should expect delays. Transit Officials Say inspectors from the department a deli worker is back on the job days after fending off two would be robbers in the bronx. Police are studying Surveillance Video of the two men who entered the deli in baychester thursday night. They threatened a man with a gun. The gun away. The counter. The thieves went away empty handed. He is grateful he is alive. [ indiscernible ] the suspects covered their faces. Investigators say they may have left behind continuing per prints. A water main break is causing an overnight annoyance in Westchester County. This is new video in to the Eyewitness Newsroom. This is in pleasantville. Police found the break and surrounding sinkhole last night gas and water in the area are shut off. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. Here we go. We take a look at our camera from four times square looking south. A few clouds are around. A nice morning here that will be calm and quiet, ease into this monday. As we look from our camera in brooklyn, over to wall street, lower manhattan, to the battery, a good visibility with fair skies and a temperature around 45. Warmer than normal for this hour of the day. It might drop a couple more degrees. The wind profile is a west wind with high clouds. High pressure dominating the day. There is an area of rain that stays south. A coastal system that stays south. That may throw clouds on us. A dry week and temperatures warmer than normal. 50 by noontime. 53 later on this afternoon. Lots of sunshine later in the day and clouds tonight. We will talk about the rest of warm to 60 degrees. I saw her doing the holy gully when i said that earlier and thats what it looks like. Traveling across the tappan zee, if this is part of your world, not doing badly on the bridge itself. Take a look at dobbs ferry, as we go to a map. I can tell you River Parkway south of ashford avenue we have an accident. All lanes are closed down as a result of that. Mass transit is doing great. No major problems new jersey transit, Long Island Railroad. Subway status, 1 and 2 trains, track work completed. D trains are passing because of Fire Department activity. Then through elizabeth another water main break near mcclellan street cleaning rules are in effect today. Thank you, heather. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning. What a cemetery thief may have been doing with bodies. A baby buried alive. Who they have in custody this morning. Bear hunting season is back welcome back. An inch or two of rain expected in the miami area. It. It wont help people trying to dry out from a wet weekend or days leading up to the weekend. We are a weekend into the month. Miami has seen its third wettest december ever. As of saturday, the city had another 4 1 2 and miami will break a 110yearold mark for the month of december. It was amazing coming in to Fort Lauderdale airport on friday you could see areas of ponding everywhere. Like little lakes all over the place. Flooded after where. Like yes. Lets check in with meteorologist bill evans. Waiting for the gondolas to go by. There is wollman risk. The lights are on. Central park south. Nice morning with fair skies. There is no gondolas down columbus avenue. A day with nice weather to start out with. Mild overnight temperatures. 45 degrees. Normally 36, 37 in the city is normal and 25, 26 north and west. A dry humidity, light west wind. We continue to see the pressure falling and the high number yesterday 53. Normal 46. We will continue that same mild sun up at 7 06. Pretty sunrise and sunset to go with it. Mild today. Cooler clouds come in on tuesday. 60s by the weekend. Can you believe that. 60s by the weekend. Yeah, december. Letter december 7th. Very important day today. Smithtown 37. 39 around brookhaven. 40 babylon. There are cool spots with the skies clear and wind died off. 29 around and dover and sussex and warren county. Flow is out of the west. He with will get clouds off this wave and then this low down south. This will miss us south and east but it will throw back clouds. You will see on futurecast clouds will come in this evening. You see by the time we get to sunset, here are the clouds. Thats the system in the atlantic. That will miss us out there. By afternoon tomorrow, sunshine. Mild, 53. The low going by pools cooler we are at 46 to 48 degrees tomorrow and then we are looking at warmer weather the rest of the week. Patchy fog this morning, sunny and mild this afternoon. Tomorrow we start with clouds, breaks of sun in the afternoon, 48 degrees. Accuweather sevenday forecast, mild on wednesday, 56 thursday, 58 friday and then look at your weekend. 60 on saturday. 62 sunday. You know, its hard to snow at that temperature. So, we will look at some mild weather. Maybe not the cold and snow to put you in the holiday spirit but, you know, not extremely hot and not extremely cold either. So, its a nice week of weather. Also fun to see santa doing one of these. Break out the tshirt. Very cool. Lets check in with heather orourke. We will go over here to our sway status. You about the d train bypassing 18th avenue because of Fire Department activity. Street side fire is going on. So, the department of buildings asked that they bypass 18th at this point. Traveling into dobbs ferry, a big problem here. Sawmill River Parkway south of ashford avenue, multivehicle accident. All lanes are closed down through that spot. New jersey transit, Long Island Railroad, metro north on or close to schedule at this point. No reported problems there. Going into elizabeth heading south on one and nine near mcclelland, a water main break. Minor delay at the George Washington bridge. Clearing up construction at the lincoln and holland. Minor delays going through that spot. Harlem river drive going south, 155th street con ed repairs and northbound side at willets avenue bridge construction. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. Lori, over to you. Heather, thank you. Today the man accused of will be in court in what police are investigating as a terrorist incident. He was taken into custody saturday night. Eyewitnesses say the 29year old shouted, quote, this is for syria then he stabbed three people at a tube station. One man was seriously hurt yesterday. Police searched his london home. The attack happened days after british lawmakers approved an air strike against isis tar gets in syria. Police have accused a man in connecticut of stealing human remains. Police arrested 32yearold after police found the remains of five people inside his hartford apartment. Investigators say the bodies date back as far as 1904 and appear to have been stolen from a cemetery in massachusetts. He told police he is a priest who was going to use the remains for religious purposes. We see this rarely in i hope the person pays the price for this. Hartford investigators say they are working with police in massachusetts to make sure the remains get returned where they belong and if anyone else may have been involved. Also in connecticut, the driver who rammed into a hotel lobby is facing several charges this morning. A Toyota Corolla smashed into the claire january hotel and suites early sunday morning. One person working at the front desk was not hurt. Police say 39yearold cory merit fell asleep at the wheel. Investigators charged him with driving with a suspended license. Today we are expected to find out more details about the california mother charged with burying her newborn baby alive. The woman, whose name was not released was arrested in the los angeles area. The little girl was found the day after thanksgiving near a river bed in compton. Than 36 hours old. The child is said to be doing well. Authorities have said that she will be put up for adoption. New jerseys annual bear hunt begins today. This year comes with an expanded area. Bear hunting will be allowed for the six days in all or state wildlife officials added about 600 square miles of hunting in an attempt to manage a bear rising population. They estimate 3500 bears live north of 80 the region some call bear country. Some members of the Eyewitness News team had a very chilly day at the beach but for a good cause. Sports reporter laura behnke was joined by meteorologist amy freeze and several other colleagues in the polar plunge on staten island. The annual plunge raises funds for a great cause, special olympics. They are brave. They are brave. They raise a lot of money, too. They were like one of the top raising fundraising teams. Thats terrific. Did a great job. Good for you. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, one state that tried to block Syrian Refugees will be welcoming them this week. Details on where one of the families is resettling today. Ahead at 5 00 a. M. A s. W. A. T. Team called in after two new you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Im meteorologist bill evans. Today we have fair skies looking across brooklyn. 46 laguardia. 36 newark. A little wind out of the southwest. Humidity is dry. Nice ride today taking the ferry from staten island. We will have sunshine today. Mild day. We will get to about 53 today, normal is 46. At the bus stop kiddos, we are all back. Look, they are together. Even miss cookie. Had to take a break. Too much homework. Thats right. Letter good to have you back. Thank you. Lets go to the map. This is the place where its not good to be, on the sawmill River Parkway. Multivehicle accident. Up the road into purchase, 684 north near exit 2 an accident being cleared away. D trains bypassing 18th avenue because of Fire Department activity. Heading through elizabeth, 1 and 9 near mcclelland you have president Franklin Roosevelt declared it a date that will live in infamy. Japan bombed pearl harbor december 7, 1941 killing more than 2400 americans and damaging half the u. S. Navy pacific fleet. Congress declared war on japan marking the entry into world war ii. Survivors will be on hand tomorrow at the inprep pitted sea, air and space museum at a wreath laying ceremony. Today. Texas backed off for now and the syrians will land in dallas and houston. They will join relatives already settled in texas. 30 states said they will not accept any more refugees. A woman in texas is facing a frustrating challenge is not dead. The Social Security administration declared Barbara Klein smith dead last month. She discovered the mistake when she tried to open a credit account. Thin she got letters that her credit cards and checking accounts were closed. She was even blocked from checking her credit report. Its scary. I cant get money, we cant get milk, eggs and bread. No christmas for me. This type of mistake is rare and the agency is working to fix the problem. Imagine the person debating her, no, you are dead. We have had that story before. Just ahead on Eyewitness News, president obama addresses the nation about his plan to destroy isis. One local lawmaker. Every coconut has a dream. To come out of its shell. To show all the world its true, inner beauty. And then, in an ironic twist, get covered up by chocolate and almonds. Almond joy mounds. President obama vows to destroy isis in a primetime speech to the nation. We are live with the harsh new reaction from one local lawmaker. A community is on edge after seven arson attacks. Eyewitness news is live with the person that police want to question and what Community Leaders say about the dangerous pattern. Lets get a look outside. Is this december or september. Details on the mild temperatures you can expect this week. Good to be back. Thank you for joining us, im ken rosato. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and here is a guy that will tell us what is going on, the forecast. Grab a jacket and sweater. Temperatures have dropped another degree. Normally we would be around 36. 36 around long branch. 33 sayreville. Up to the north in the low to mid20s, close to normal for this time of year. Visibilities, a little dense fog. Poughkeepsie has a fivemile visibility. Dense fog advisory until 8 00 in western dutchess and eastern Ulster County at the river. Otherwise a few clouds around. We will look at a lot of sunshine as we go into what will be a Beautiful Day today. Temperature later on today 53 degrees. Way warmer than normal for this time. We have a big problem lets go to the maps and explain what is going on. Sawmill River Parkway south of ashford, multivehicle accident. You have all lanes closed down as a result. Avoid that area. In purchase you have an accident on 684 going north near exit 2. That accident being cleared away. D trains bypassing 18th because of Fire Department activity on the street side. They are asking to have that train bypassing that street as a result. 1 and 9 near mcclelland in elizabeth, we have a water main breaking taken care of. New jersey transit, Long Island Railroad and metro north. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect today. Thank you. Developing right now, police are working a new lead in the search for a serial arsonist in queens. There have been a total of seven suspicious fires in forest hills connected back to one person. Eyewitness News Reporter kala so far. Kala . Reporter lori, good morning to you. Investigators believe one man may behind the seven fires set in this neighborhood. Now thanks to vigilant residents, they may have the clearest lead yet. Take a look. Police want to talk to this man. They are calling him a person of interest in seven fires that were set starting in early november. He was spotted in the neighborhood sometimes riding his motorcycle on the sidewalk looking at homes just before the fire. The home going up in flames for the second time belonged to a rabbi. His neighbors were forced out of their home due to the damage and one neighbor was injured. We need to catch the guy doing this before people get hurt. Who knows. All these houses under construction are gone. Reporter religious leaders met in forest hills to talk all of the homes that went up in flames are jewish owned. This is not being called a hate crime but opposition to the construction in an old neighborhood. Anxiety is growing among the residents. With that is their motivation to find whoever did this. The reward to catch someone leading to an arrest and conviction has gone up to 65,000. Live in forest hills, queens, kala rama, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Kala, thank you. We are learning more about the investigation into the deadly stabbing of a man just trying to help another person in jersey city. Police arrested lopez on murder charges. Investigators say is he stabbed troy brandon saturday night when he came to the aide of someone being attacked. Lopez is being held on one Million Dollars bail. Four people are in custody after the hunt for two missing College Students becomes a police Say University of hospital this morning. S. W. A. T. Teams rescued them from a rochester home last night about 36 hours after they vanished. One had been shot but both are expected to be okay. Police say both students were targeted. There is no threat to the rest of the campus. President obama delivered a prime time address from the oval office telling the nation the threat from terrorism is real but we will overcome it. This following last weeks shootings in San Bernardino, california, that killed 14 people and wounded 21. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live in times square with a push to get guns out of the hands of terrorists. Reporter last night president obama reiterated his call on broader gun control in the u. S. Calling it a matter of national security. He is not likely to gain bipartisan support because many more than gun control to defeat terrorism. They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death. Reporter in his First Oval Office speech in five years, president obama says isis will be destroyed and in the course of 14 minutes, he sought to reassure the American People after the terrorist attack in paris and San Bernardino. Lets make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional. Lets not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear. Reporter what the president warned that terrorism must not make americans turn against muslims. If we were to succeed in defeat ing terrorism, we must enlist muslim communities as some of our strongest allies rather than push them away through suspicion and hate. Reporter local reaction to that from long island congressman peter king was harsh. He tweeted, coat, nothing about speech was a total failure of leadership and defense of a failed pole, no substance, no change. In his address, the president backed senator Chuck Schumers push to have another vote this week on ending the socalled terror gap, the loophole that allows questionable people on the no fly list to buy weapons. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terror suspect to buy a semiautomatic weapon. Security. Reporter following the president s remarks last night, mayor de blasio had this to say on gun control, quote, common sense tells us the past legislation that will make it illegal for individuals on the fbi watch list to buy guns and will require online background well. So, certainly again we expect congress will take up the issue you have individuals not being that will be an issue debated on the house floor this week. Live in times square, dray clark, channel news. Thank you. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the accuweather forecast. Here we go. We looked at fair skies from our camera here at 4 times square looking south past one world trade to staten island. Pretty view here. Down the beach we got a nice morning here. We will ease into this monday in a great way. Temperatures are warmer for this hour of date. Fair skies. West wind will come in and head out. You see that down there asbury park, west wind. Light west to southwest wind this morning and low pressure system to the south and this to our west kind of swing around and out. It will throw clouds over us this evening and tonight. 45 by 8 00. 10 00 47. 2 00 52 degrees. 53 this afternoon for the high tonight. Grab a jacket. Chilly in the suburbs. 53 this afternoon. I give it an a for excellent. I agree with you whole hardly. Lets go to a webcam. Traveling on 684 through bedford, not a bad ride at all. Over to the maps and traveling through dobbs ferry, sawmill River Parkway south near ashford avenue a multivehicle accident. All lanes are closed down. Purchase, 684 north at exit 2 an accident being cleared away. D trains bypass 18th avenue because of ongoing Fire Department activity. That Fire Department activity is on the street level. We have 1 and 9 in elizabeth. The water main break. Right lane is closed in the local lanes on the southbound side. Doing okay. Minor delays at the hudson river crossings. Today. Street cleaning rules are in ken, over to you. She barked it. We wont. Its 5 09. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, mayor de blasio has strong words for donald trump. President ial candidate for remarks he made at a jewish forum. I guess i never really gave much thought to the acidity in any foods. Never thought about the coffee i was drinking having acids. It could hurt your teeth. My dentist has told me your enamel is wearing away, and that sounded really scary to me, and i was like well can you fix it, can you paint it back on, and he explained that it was not something that grows back, its kind of a onetime shot and you have to care for it. He told me to use pronamel. Its gonna help protect the enamel in your teeth. It allows me to continue to drink my coffee and to eat healthier, and it was a real easy welcome back. Mayor de blasio is firing back at the leading republican president ial candidate. Here is what donald trump said at a Candidate Forum saturday. I believe the iran deal, we are negotiators like you folks. Renegotiate deals in this room. He didnt think trump was invoking stereotypes. Mayor de blasio said as with other shameful outbusts he had about ethnic groups they are nothing short of dangerous. We should demand from our president ial candidates a standard that in no way echos the voice of a George Wallace or george mccarthy. 9 11 First Responders are calling on congress to pass the zadroga act which provides medical coverage for First Responders and those that became ill after the 9 11 attacks. Congress allowed the program to expire. They said the act should be added to a bill that must pass by the end of the week before holidays. Holiday season. How can we celebrate if we are not taking care of the health care of our First Responders. I remember clearly when the head of the epa was telling people the air is safe to breathe, when the First Responders working here for three months and the air was not safe to breathe. Another rally is planned for today. Secretary of state john kerry heads to paris to talk about Climate Change this morning. He is rejoining negotiators trying to score a break through on a Climate Change agreement. These are the same talks that kerry and president obama attended last week. Kerry flew back to paris overnight. The agreement leaves too many key issues unresolved. Bill evans joins us with the forecast. Nice week ahead. We do. We have a mild week ahead. We have been talking about this. El nino year. Fdr to the upper east side, great visibility through the Chrysler Building. You can see to one world trade. A little fog in spots this morning. Otherwise fair skies. Watch out for foggy places on roadways and things. Humidity of 65 . Temperature 44. Pressure 30. 21 and steady. I was coming in on the l. I. E. Foggy patches around. Be on the lookout for that and up in rockland and Westchester County. 27 in monticello. 25 poughkeepsie. We are looking at a west wind this morning making for a very calm. Dense fog advisory is along the hudson river in dutchess and eastern Ulster County. Thats where we are seeing fog. There are spots where you run into patches like 27 or on the sunrise highway, montauk and down on the merritt parkway. Coming up. These two systems stay to our south. Unusually warm end of the weekend. Jet stream goes north. Classic High Pressure out here keeps the warm air surging over us. On futurecast, you will see clouds overus tonight. Rain offshore. Sunshine tomorrow afternoon. Beautiful weather after school. Temperature about 53. Clouds and sun. Mild. Get out and enjoy it. It will be beautiful. Tomorrow cooler. The low goes by, throws clouds over us. The next highpressure ridge will make it breezy and we warm up fast. Patchy fog, sunny and mild. Tonight probably clear skies for a time then the clouds get thrown over us for the system the accuweather forecast the next seven days, warming to 52 wednesday. 60 on saturday and 62 sunday. Booya. I dont know about you but i like that. Me too. I like the snow, being too. Dont get me wrong. I like the snow when its in vermont. Thats a good place to ski. Not down columbus avenue with you. I have done that in the past. You have done it all. Getting to work. Remember no taxis during the blizzard of 9596. I put on the skis and got to work. No signs of that happening here. Kind of boring. Lets check in with heather. Bill mentioned nothing out on long island. I decided to take a look at some cameras to see if we could get a foggy shot. This is what i found. Looks like Police Activity on this is the l. I. E. Eastbound side near maneto hill road. With the fog and Police Vehicles it may cause confusion. Everybody will want to slow down through that spot. D trains are bypassing 18th avenue. We have a closure in dobbs ferry, sawmill south near ashford multivehicle accident. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. Ken, lori, over to you. All right, thank you, heather. Still figured on Eyewitness News this morning still ahead on eyewitness scotland. 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You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. I have been to docile england. Its not. Here is what is going on this morning. Clear skies. Not bad weather. 40 from new city. Warmer than paramus. You have pockets with a little fog. Toms river 28. Little in the way of wind. Southwest wind light here. It will be a warm day today. Great ride if you are on the ferries styled. 13 Miles Per Hour wind. Pretty morning outside. You can see venus and the moon close together. Then you go back and forth from bridgeport to port jeff. Sunshine by noontime. Close to 50. 53 to 55 this afternoon. Nearly 10 warmer than normal. Commute. How is it going . We will talk about the if you normally take d trains they are business paying they are bypassing 18th avenue. Sawmill is closed because of a multivehicle accident being cleared away. 684 in purchase another accident being cleared away. 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Make your own christmas gifts. Make it three box office wins in a row for the hunger games bringing in 19 million over the weekend. Today is the first full day of hanukkah. Festival of lights began last night. The ceremony was to remember those killed in the tragic terror attack last week but the rabbi said the answer to darkness must always be light and unity. Coming up in our next half hour, a threealarm fire in brooklyn is causing a few hicks for subway riders. The delays strap hangars should expect this morning. Mastering irresistibly smooth. The lindor truffle. From the lindt master chocolatiers. A hard outer shell with a smooth center. Welcome to the best time of your day. Unwind. Experience. The melt. Only the lindor truffle. For the holidays, experience our meltinglysmooth lindor White Chocolate peppermint truffles. From the lindt master chocolatiers. Working on my feet all day gave me pain here. In my knees. But now, i step on this machine and get my number which matches my dr. Scholls custom fit orthotic inserts. Now i get immediate relief from my foot pain. My knee pain. President obama promises to beat isis in the wake of terror attacks in paris and california. Two people are injured after a car jumps a curb. More about the charges a driver is facing. Good morning, im ken rosato. Im lori stokes. Thanks for joining us. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. This morning we are watching a dense fog advisory in place for eastern ulster and western dutchess. There is patchy fog around in many spots. Be on the lookout. You will have low clouds this morning. A nice day with a lot of sunshine after this burns off at 9 00, 10 00 this morning. A temperature of 41 by 9 00. 55 this afternoon. Way mild for this time of year. How is it going . Im sorry . I was given the stretch. What were you doing, playing cards. Hanging out, talking about the d trains and how we still have problems. Lets go to the subway status and talk to you about the d trains. They are bypassing 18th avenue because of Fire Department activity. The Fire Department activity is on out street level. The department of buildings asked that they bypass the 18th station and that is the d trains. We had a big accident right here, sawmill River Parkway south at ashford. All lanes were closed down. That multivehicle accident has been cleared away. Going up over here to purchase, 684 northbound side near exit cleared away. Much more minor than the one in dobbs ferry. As you take the harlem river drive, the northbound side, the ramp to 127th street is closed down until 2017. This is long term con ed work. Drive. George washington bridge, lincoln, holland, minor delays. All that construction has been day. The toll hike at the Port Authority in case you pay by today. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect today. Lori, over to you. Thank you. President obama delivered a prime time address from the oval office outlining his plans to crush the threat of isis. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live in times square with a push to get guns out of the hands of terrorists. Ray . Reporter well, good morning. President obama knows terrorism at home and abroad is making americans nervous. The president spoke for about 14 minutes last night. He talked about gun control and laying out a 4 point plan on how to defeat terrorism and protect the country. This was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people. Reporter president obama paris attacks show terrorism swearing a new phase entering a new phase. The president vowed the united other militant groups. What we can do and must do is make it harder for them to kill. Reporter but the president said he would not send the iraq or syria. He warned such a war would be a powerful recruiting tool for isis and the nation must avoid creating the perception that the United States is at war with islam. Muslim americans are our friends and neighbors, our coworkers, sports heros, and, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan said the president failed to offer a comprehensive republican president ial president s policies are making america unsafe. In spite of that, there is bipartisan support to close the terror gap, a loophole that allows those on the no fly list to buy weapons. 2300 people on the no fly lift requested to buy weapons in the last decade. 91 got them. Reporter mayor de blasio had this to say on the issue of gun control saying common sense tells us to pass legislation that will make it illegal for individuals on the fbi watch list to buy guns and will require online background checks for gun purchases as well. Following the president s remarks last night, criticism came in swiftly among those criticizing the president s remarks. Long island congressman peter king. You will hear what he has to say in the next half hour. Dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Dray, thank you. Search for a serial arsonist in queens. Forest hills has seen a series of seven fires in homes under construction. All are being called suspicious. Investigators released a photo of a man that they want to question. Sources saying he was spotted in the neighborhood roaming around on his motorcycle before the latest fire. The first time not so bad, we fix it. This is now all my plans are changed. Reporter the man on the motorcycle may or may not be video. The video shows a man walking near other homes set on fire. There is a reward for information leading to an arrest. A driver is facing charges after a crash that left one person dead and two others hurt in brooklyn. This is the 22nd pedestrian death in new york city since the end police say marlin sue well eyewitnesses say he was swerving to avoid hitting a bus but hit three people on the sidewalk. A customer ran in the store and said call 911. They said a lady was hit by a car that jumped a curb. I ran across the street and i just saw her face down on the sidewalk. 30yearold victoria nicodemus was killed. Two others were hurt. Sewell is charged with driving without a license. Building department inspectors are on the scene of a fire in brooklyn causing subway problems. Pictures from the mta show how close the flames got to the elevated tracks. The fire broke out in bensonhurst. A deli worker is back on the job days after fending off two would be robbers in the bronx. Police are studying men that entered the deli in baychester thursday night. They threatened him with a gun and demanded money. He told them to leave and pushed the gun away. It went off firing a round into the counter. The thieves ran away empty handed. Investigators say they may have left behind finger prints. Commuters will begin their workday shelling out more cash to get around. Tolls at the George Washington bridge and lincoln tunnel and holland tunnel and goethals and Outerbridge Crossing have to pay more. Ezpass rates go up 75 cents and cash tolls jump a dollar. 10. 50 during off peak hours. 12. 50 during peak hours. Cash customers 15 at all times. Such bargain. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill with the forecast. On peak hours, sixty four fifty. I cross back and forth all the time. I make lots of donations to the Port Authority. Clear to partly cloudy skies. A fair sky as we look from our camera in astoria down the east river. Kind of calm, quiet and there is a boat making its way up the east river at this hour of the day. Temperature about 44 degrees. High clouds will come across today. They are sheared off by the upper level winds. Noontime temperature of 50 degrees. Normal high is 46. A very warm day. Dress warm a little on the chilly side. We are going to the maps. I want to update you on a couple of problems we are dealing with. One problem here is new, bronx River Parkway Westchester County center an accident. A car went off the roadway. Traveling on 684 north in purchase near exit 2 another accident being cleared. D trains bypassing because of Fire Department activity. We were talking about. This its on the street level but they want you to bypass 18th avenue. Today. Heather, thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, new from the Deadly Police shooting the new move by the Justice Department in the wake of the mcdonald. Every coconut has a dream. To come out of its shell. To show all the world its true, inner beauty. And then, in an ironic twist, get covered up by chocolate and almonds. Almond joy mounds. The Justice Department is expected to launch an investigation into the Chicago Police department amid protests following the shooting death of a teenager in 2014. Dashcam video released last month contradicts reports the 17yearold was threatening officers when he was shot 16 times. Sources say the probe will look of Excessive Force and civil rights abuse. A new probe of a Police Shooting of a 12yearold in cleveland. An expert hired by the family said tamir had no time to respond to orders and that rice was not reaching into his waistband. He was shot by officers responding to a report about a man with a gun. The 12yearold was holding a nonlethal pellet gun. The family of Chicago Bears quarterback jay cutler is hoping for the best as a relative is missing after more than a week. Michael cavallari, cutlers brotherinlaw has not been seen since the day after thanksgiving. He was captured on a insurgent insurgent camera. A car was abandoned near the utahcolorado border. Bill . This morning we have clear to partly cloudy skies and this morning the weather is brought to you by chrysler as we look across the Chrysler Building. I am so confused. We take a look at beautiful weather across the east river. This way from the Chrysler Building and we have a calm water here on the east river. There is roosevelt island, fdr, east side, nice visibility. Temperature 44 degrees. Humidity dry, winds are west at 6 and pressure steady at 31. Above the mark of fair weather 30. 00. Fair weather to start the day. Remember last week i talked about 1998 being a warm year, rots of records set and the warmest we have had since then. So, we are looking at 4 28 as the sunsets. That should be pretty along with mild today. 60s by this weekend. Thats right. 23 at westhampton because of the clear skies, sandy soil and where the instruments are located. 47 to the east end. 25 around poughkeepsie. 27 monticello. 29 up in Sussex County in beautiful dairy land. Temperatures and winds are warmer than normal with a southwest wind. The warm air makes fog. Dense fog advisory eastern ulster along the hudson river. Be careful driving there. Letter otherwise you may run into patchy fog around parts of the area from the warm air surging up. This goes out to sea and the two go out that way. That will make for Rainy Weather down south. Late week, look how mild it gets. Jet stream north p High Pressure slides eastward. We will have warm air from the south for the weekend. Now, today, a lot of sunshine. You will see as those lows pass us tonight and tomorrow then out to sea. Fair amount of sunshine. 53 after school. Chilly this morning. Grab a jacket or sweater. Mild weather today. As the low goes by, cooler weather in place. This ridge slides eastward making warm air the rest of the week. Today 53 after patchy fog. Letter tonight 37. Tomorrow morning clouds and breaks of sun, 48. That is still warmer than normal for this time of the year. Then off to the races. Everything warms up. Friday sunny breaks, 58 degrees. Saturday we are at 60 degrees then we are looking at that will be 62 sunday. Oh, my. The Polar Bear Club should have waited until this weekend. Right. Polar plunge. Thats awesome. You know who else is awesome, heather orourke. Thank you. Lets go over here and check the George Washington bridge inbound lower level no major problems. But you need to be in a car or have ezpass to do that. Over here, the upper level of the George Washington bridge. See how its slowing down. Lets go to the maps and i will describe why. The cross bronx east near jerome avenue an accident, tractor trailer involved. You have delays back to the George Washington bridge. D trains bypassing 18th avenue. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Ken, lori, over to you. Thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, u2 returned to the stage in paris dedicating its emotional performance to the People Killed in last months attack. Gorgeous, isnt he . vo a new york man spent 3. 2 million on a dead bat. I have such enormous respect for these creatures. Which is why i stuff them and hang them on the walls. vo youd make a way better rich person. Eyewitness News Reporter kala rama arrived on the scene in elmhurst. Kala . Reporter at least seven people have been hurt at this time. One seriously injured. Six have minor injuries. Let me show you the scene. Its active still. Flames just moments ago were shooting out of the house. Inside the at forecast where you can see two firemen trying to get inside cut their way through. There is fire burning inside. You can see the smoke billowing from the home. About an hour ago, 4 30 this morning. The fire has been burning and actually possibly spreading to a home in the back. I spoke to three people rescued out of the back of the home. They opened the door, woke up to popping sounds and felt intense heat. When they opened the door they saw flames in front of them and called 911. They tell us fire crews helped them get outside but they dont know the neighbors that well. They believe two people were inside the home. Fire crews say seven people were injured, one seriously hospital. Six people have minor injuries. We dont know a cause. They are working to put it out. Live in elmhurst queens, kala news. Thank you. U2 is showing solidarity to the people of music to the city of lights in attacks. Paris is a romantic city and the essence of romance is defiance and defiant joy we think is the mark of our band and rock and roll. U2 took the stanley and dedicated the performance to the 130 People Killed in the city last month. The concert comes after u2 can sild the performance set for the day after the massacre. Bono paid respects to the 14 People Killed last week in San Bernardino, california. Former president jimmy carter is making a remarkable recovery. He announced he is now cancer free. Carter, all 91 years of him, made the announcement yesterday Teaching Sunday School in georgia. He got a scan last week and doctors said there is no sign of brain cancer. Back in august, not that long small melanoma lesions on his brain. Fortunate. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, hundreds of National Guardsmen get a heros welcome. They were part of the largest deployment ever since the korean war. Meteorologist bill evans returns with our july sorry. With our december forecast. Its a nice one. Not. [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] coughing disrupts everyones life. Thats why so many people are turning to delsym for longer lasting cough relief. 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The George Washington bridge, upper level, look what you will encounter if thats the way you are going to go. This is because of a problem on the cross bronx. Eastbound cross bronx near jerome avenue. That involves a tractor trailer. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Lori, over to you. Thank you. Hundred of men and women who fought terror overseas are home for the holidays. Some are meeting brandnew family members for the first time. Nearly 500 airmen returning to the National Guard base in Northern Michigan after one of those airmen is exchanging military duties for dad by patrol with his new daughter. She came about two weeks after getting home. Nice of her to wait. We were not sure he would make it. She may have come early so, he made it in time. It was special to have him home. What a little button. The Welcome Back Party celebrated the National Guards 127th wing. 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