Away from weather and traffic. Thank you for joining us this early hour of the day. Right now, 50 degrees is the temperature. Thats way warm. Way warm above normal. 33 is where we should be for the hour of the day. Its 45. 43 in new jersey. 49 around bridgewater. So the normal temperature about 33 in the park to 23 up there to 20 in monticello. But a sunny, cooler day today. The high 5 2. Thats going to run about 10 degrees warmer than normal. Weve got a lot to talk about. Rain is on the way for tomorrow. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. Lets see whats happening. We will start off by telling you about 63rd street blocked after problems from last week. The ed koch 95th street bridge, ongoing maintenance into queens. And to the Brooklyn Bridge, watch for ongoing construction and lets go outside and ill show you the l. I. E. , westbound through 106. And eastbound, its construction. And to the other camera, the southbound van wyck really moving slowly here at kew gardens for ongoing construction. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect citywide. Back over to you. Thank you. Thank you. And we are following some breaking news out of new jersey right now. A big fire burned through two homes in jersey city. And this video just in from the scene. The fire started shortly after 3 00 a. M. Its now under control two. Families have been displaced but right now, there are no reports of injuries. Also developing this morning, the search is on for the driver of a stolen suv wanted for a deadly hitandrun crash on long island. We are live on the scene with an update. Good morning. Reporter lori, good morning to you. We have one man dead and another man on the run after plows into another driver and then takes off running. Suffolk county police say the 32yearold, the driver of this white 1995 honda civic was killed when he was hit by a 2008 chevy trailblazer. The trailblazer was barreling down the road before slamming into the honda civic. The driver then jumped out of the car and ran from the scene. The trailblazer was reported stolen back on december 8th. And heres who theyre looking for, the driver was described as a dark skin guys, about 20 years old, clean 57 with a slim build. If you know anything about the driver or that stolen trailblazer, call crime stopper, 800220tips. Were live, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. The nations terror alert today and the changes are designed to keep americans better informed in times the of calm and crisis. We are live in manhattan with more on this. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The current terror alert system is not being replaced, its just being tweaked according to the white house. This will be the third time that the system will be put in place and changed since september 11th. The first system used after 9 11 implemented that five color code system. And then in 2011, that was replaced with the National Threat advisory system which never really was used. And the details of the revised system wont be shared until later on today. But the secretary of Homeland Security jay johnson says the new alert system will lower the threshold when it comes to when and how the to inform the public about threats to the u. S. Heres more from president barack obama. Here at home, the department updating the alert system to help the American People stay vigilant and safe. And our extraordinary men and women in uniform continue to put their the lives on the line. In this campaign and around the world the to keep the rest of us safe. Reporter and it was just yesterday that an email threat led to a complete shut down of the Los Angeles PublicSchool System, the Second Largest School System in the country. It has now been determined that the email was nothing more than a hoax. The fbi director will be here this this morning at one police plaza to deliver a keynote address to the shield group. Following that address, he will be joined by Police Commissioner bill bratton. Theyll hold a News Conference and the topic of discussion will be terrorism. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. And speak of los angeles, today the los angeles School System will reopen after shutting down yesterday in the face of what turned out to be a bogus terror threat. Another day for the nations Largest School district. City officials decided not to close schools after receiving a similar threat. Some students and parents say they didnt even know the threat existed. Police investigated from the beginning saying that the alleged plot was not realistic. We cannot allow ourselves to raise levels of fear. Safety is my First Priority but we felt confident that it was the right thing to do. The threat to new york came in an email. Police commissioner bill bratton says that the language in the email did not lead the nypd to believe it was an authentic jihaddist threat. Newly released video shows two armed thieves hauling off a sack full of phones and cash from a tmobile store in manhattan on sunday afternoon. The thieves ordered employees and a customer into a back room where they loaded up with 40 apple and samsung phones and if you recognize these men, please call police. Overnight, Police Released this with tinted windows. Investigators say the driver of the car may have been involved bronx yesterday. Nearby cameras were rolling as bullets were fired. Police say the shooter wore a business suit. A shootout then erupted and the thief was able to steal 78,000. Its not known if the thief was shot. And also, classes are set to resume at a Long Island High School today a day after mysterious fumes forced the school to shut down. West Babylon High School evacuated just before noon yesterday after several people noticed a strong chemical odor. 35 people were taken to the hospital. Everybody is okay. Investigators are trying to pin point the source of those fumes. Before the iowa caucus turned into another show down between donald trump and the rest of the candidates on stage. Many of the candidates said they would be the best ones to punish isis following the paris and San Bernardino attacks. But trump complained that many of the cnn questions were designed to force a fight, getting other candidates to attack him. Jeb bush had the harshest words for trump calling him a chaos candidate who would be a chaos president. Youre a tough guy jeb. We need to have leader. Youre never going to be president of the United States by insulting. Im at 42 and youre at 3. So far, im doing better. Well, in a move to ease tensions with republican leader, trump pledged that he would not run as an independent and said he is totally committed to the republican party. A lifetime extension of the zadroga act to protect 9 11 become its a 57year extension, funded with more than 8 billion. Its included in the yearend tax and spending bill. And we expect it to be voted on as early as tomorrow. Under the agreement, the Victim Compensation fund will continue through 21 and the World Trade CenterHealth Program will be renewed until 2090. What they wanted. Yes. It is 4 39. Never more than 10 minutes away from weather and traffic. Well, we take a look from the roof camera. 59th street south toward 5th avenue. And soon the lights will be on there. Heres whats happening this morning as we look from the camera southward. We have a great visibility here, tall way down to the verrazanonarrows bridge. And you can see the light, thats sandyhook, new jersey. Look at the temperatures around 33. So even though its going to be cooler today, were minus that wind. And we have a few clouds this to the great lakes and we will talk about the front for tomorrow. 47 by 8 00. 48 at 10 00. 52 this afternoon. Thats going to be a lot cooler than yesterday. Yesterday in the afternoon, we were at 62. So were 10 degrees cooler but thats nearly 10 degrees warmer than normal for this time of the year. Heathers got the day off. Shes under the weather. Hows it going out there . Good morning everybody. We will start off by telling you about the subways right now. On the 1 and 2 uptown express only, 42 to 72nd, overnight work. And the uptown 2 on the 5 to 149th, because of track work as well. Metro north, lirr, new jersey transit, all on time. And george, lincoln and holland, construction being cleared. Bayonne bridge wrapping up construction. Goethals and the outer Bridge Crossings okay. 63rd closed because of that last week. And the ed koch 59th street bridge, construction. Lets go outside and show you the construction here on the fdr drive up through 70s. Still moving okay through the Construction Zone on the fdr. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect citywide. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much. 4 41. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a child abuse investigation leads investigators to a storage bin of all places in california. We will have detail on the disturbing discovery. And a day after deliberations and then a deadlock, jurors in the freddie gray trial are getting back to work. And a homeless man makes a secret home. This video shows how not to visit a friend whos locked up. Deputies say he smashed his car into the county jail yesterday morning and then drove his car into a razor wire fence surrounding the jail and got stuck when he tried to climb over it. He is now locked up with his friend. Thats sweet, theyre back together. Deputies say he was high at the time on some kind of synthetic drug. That explains it. That adds clarity. Glad that was in the story. Yes, important nuggets. Lets check in with bill evans. Motive. Yes. Thats one way to put it. An auto motive. We take a look down to one world trade. A great visibility here and right there. The power plant, we can see that. All this points to a nice morning. We just got clouds and a temperature of 50 degrees here. And now we have a great visibility all the way past the battery, past Lower Manhattan. 40 Miles Per Hour gust yesterday and now the pressure is at 30. That means a fair weather day. Normal high is 43 and low 32. So we should be right around 33 to 32 over the next couple hours but you saw were at 50. Suns up at 7 14. A gorgeous sunrise and sunset at 4 30. Nice today, rain comes in tomorrow. And its going to be december on saturday. And thats it. For the rest of december. 46 around northport. Were looking at 40 to 43 degrees, 50 in the park. 49 up to the north. A calm wind to a light wind this morning mostly out of the north. Thats not going to be the much of a factor today. However there, are clouds over us. Just very thin clouds. Those will go away. This front thats to the west will come in with some rain tomorrow. And on the futurecast, a lot of sun is shine today. See coming in off the ocean which gives us a sprinkle. And then the front approaching from the west on thursday. You see by 1 00, thats when the rain gets steady. Heavy through the evening commute into thursday night. And then we clear out thursday night. And were off to the races to a december weekend for a change. So temperatures by afternoon are around 50 degrees to 52. Thats about 10 degrees above normal. And then overnight tonight and tomorrow morning, we will have sprinkles. You will need the rain gear tomorrow morning and particular ring leader for tomorrow the evening and tomorrow night. But temperatures particularly for tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. Sunshine, light breeze today, 5 2. Tonight, mostly cloudy, a brief sprinkle and shower and 46. Tomorrow, cloudy and milder. Were near 60. Rain at times heavier in the afternoon and in the evening. Your accuweather sevenday forecast, the rain is going to be heavy tomorrow. Looking at about. 50 to an inch of rain around. And then this brisk and chilly weather for saturday and sunday. Feels like the 30s on saturday. Feels like the 30s on saturday. And then by tuesday, warm back up to near 60 on tuesday. So Christmas Day might be 65 degrees. Thought i would throw that out there. Whens the last time that happened, bill . Ill have to look it up, about seven or eight years a we had 70. Wasnt a record. But there have been some warm christmases here, every six or seven years with the el nio, this is one of those years. 65 on Christmas Day. Taking the boat out . Yeah. Im going to go scuba diving. Didnt see that. Some people would like to call doesnt feel like the holidays when its that warm. Doesnt bother me at all. I get that. But wait till next year. You will get it next year. Exactly. Lets check in with debbie. Yeah. We will take the warm weather for now. We start off by telling you about the subways. Overnight track work, 1 and 2, uptown express only with the track work. And 95th street, the incident clear. Uptown 2 on to 5 to 149 as well. And metro north, lirr, new jersey transit, on time. And george, lincoln and holland construction being cleared. Bayonne bridge just wrapping up construction. And goethals still okay. Brooklyn bridge, ongoing road work as well. And ill show you a look at the l. I. E. Eastbound to the cougar den, okay to the Construction Zone. And to the other camera, the southbound van wyck is moving slowly, practically at a stand still toward cougar dens but ongoing construction near hillside avenue. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect citywide. Back over to you. Thank you. Officials in baltimore are calling for calm whenever a first Police Officer on trial in the death of freddie gray. The judge in the trial of William Porter has ordered the jury to resume deliberations this morning. That came after jurors said they were deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict just a day after deliberations began. Porter is the first of six officers charged in the death of gray. A boyfriend and girlfriend are now the prime suspects in the deaths of two the children. Today an autopsy is set to be performed on a 6yearold boy and a 3yearold girl found in a storage unit in the Northern California town of redding. Reports say that the children are the niece and nephew of the suspects. She and her 17yearold boyfriend are already being held on 1 million bail each for allegedly abusing a 9year old girl. Her general condition was immediately recognized by our staff grave. Home which is nearly 300 miles south of where the childrens bodies were found. They say that the couple recently lived there but detectives have not said what if anything they found in the home. New details in a shooting at the famous waldorf astoria. After a six month investigation, two wedding guests have been formally charged. One faces charges including illegal weapons possession and evidence tampering. Police say his gun accidentally went off in his pocket back in june. Well the bullet actually grazed a womans head and shrapnel injured two other people. And his brother is charged with trying to cover up what happened. And amid a growing homeless problem here in new york, theres another shakeup in the citys Homeless Services program. De blasio announced yesterday that the current commissioner of Homeless ServicesGilbert Taylor is resigning and that the mayor wants to streamline and modernize homeless agencies to reduce the number of people. His boss quit in late summer frustrated over what she called the mayors inability to deal with the homeless problem. We recognize as the homelessness situation persists that we have to evaluate whether the current structures make sense and what kind of changes we can make to improve the agencies. The mayor ordered a operational review of all of the citys homeless programs. And police in virginia are trying to figure out how a homeless man kept his underground home under wraps and right under their noses. The 25yearold was arrested in fairfax for digging an under ground cave and turning it into his home. The cave was 15 feet deep with two small rooms. It was discovered in a wood area just behind the Fairfax Police station. 4 51. Coming up on eyewitness this morning, another dangerous laser tack on a plane as it closed in on a local airport. How investigators are responding this morning. An lirr train clips a truck on the tracks. Getting an update ahead at what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple veggie dish ever . The best simple dinner ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. Never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic here on Eyewitness News this morning. Good morning. Happy wednesday. Im bill evans. Temperatures around 49 around morristown. And seeing the temperatures that are a little cooler today than yesterday but still, these are running way above normal for this time of year. Normal would be around 33 degrees. The winds are light and out of the north as opposed to yesterday. We had 40 Miles Per Hour gusts. Next seven hour, 48 by 5 00 a. M. And then cool down, 8 00 about 45. And we start to warm back up into the afternoon. Back into the low 50s. So at the bus stop kiddos, looking at a chilly morning, dress warmly. Every seven minutes. Good morning everybody. On the 1 and 2 train, everything back on or close to schedule. The overnight maintenance cleared out of the way. Metro north, lirr, new jersey transit, ontime. And george, lincoln and the holland moving smoothly. And outside and ill show you the fdr drivethru the 70s. Moving okay through the Construction Zone. And to the other camera, southbound van wyck easing up into kew gar