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 l