This is what winter means this time of the year. It means 12. 12 degrees outside. The windchills are colder. 6 in hopatcong. Teaneck 12. Up to the north 12 around poughkeepsie. One in monticello. Lets add the wind to be piling on. This is how it feels. Three below zero. Five below in j. F. K. Two above in the park. 16 below in monticello. Hey, Christmas Eve it was 72 degrees. Winter, where is thigh sting thy sting. Heather is looking at the commute. That is winter stinks you mean. Lets head to the subway status. Signal problems. 1, 2, 3 in times square. Sick land and the 5 trains signal problems at dyre expect delays. Long Island Railroad was reporting signal problems now a track condition. A couple of late trains as a result. We will keep our eye on long Island Railroad this morning. New jersey transit, metro north doing okay. Cross bronx west near the sheraton an accident. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Ken, over to you. Heather, thank you. These frigid temperatures are quite the shock to the system. After such warm start to the winter, its especially she chilly for anyone stuck outside. One of those people is Kristin Thorne live in times square who knows how it feels outside. Tell us, kristin. Reporter good morning. Its awful. You can tell by the sound of my voice having a sore throat is at this hour you see a decent amount of people at times square but this morning its desolate. A lot of people are going to work, doing what they have to do but you heard bill mention we are talking single digit feeling temperatures. Very, very cold. As someone who is feeling under the weather today, make sure that you go out with all the gear that you need. Have your throat covered, head covered, everything. We have seen people out today and werent prepared, dont have gloves, scarves, anything and thought it wouldnt be bad. For people used to this type of weather, they say its cold. Im accuweather forecast costumed to this weather. I go to school upstate. Its cold. Reporter i have to tell you its like new years eve in times square this morning. I say that because all the confetti that got stuck on the place, in the air, the live truck, it feels festive out although rather cold. Kristin thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Hot tea and lemon, kristin. Get warm. Download the free accutrack weather alert app. Just as the bitter cold is hitting hardest, an executive order from andrew cuomo kicked in at midnight. We need more housing with support services and recently the mayor stepped up and made an unprecedented commitment for 15,000 Housing Support services. If the governor would do the same we would see a difference of what we are seeing on the streets. What mayor de blasio and governors Legal Authority to force people into shelters. We will get a live report in the next hour of Eyewitness News. Ken . Thank you, michelle. President obama will address the nation with his plan for gun vowel targeting the gun show loophole pledging anyone trying to buy a gun on the internet undergo a background check. Lana zak is live with the latest. Reporter in advance of todays president ial announcement, gun advocates are saying executive action is not the right thing to do. Gun sales are hitting new record highs. Join your membership with the National Rifle association. Get in for free. Reporter gun sales have been especially busy. Any time that the president gets up there and starts talking gun control, people will actually go and get guns. Reporter potential gun restrictions were a motivating all the gun laws and strict rules coming out. Then every day, every month there is a shooting. [ inaudible ]. Reporter update the background check system and close the gun show loophole [ [no audio]. Gun control advocates say its an important first step in keeping guns out of the hands of some of the people that shouldnt have them. Live in washington, lana zak, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. We will carry the president s announcement live on channel 7 and on our web site, abc News Coverage begins about 11 40 followed by Eyewitness News at noon. New on long island, two firefighters were hurt fighting the cold and the fire that happened in brentwood. It happened at a home on virgil drive. One of the firefighters had to be rescued. Several people were hurt after an out of control van slammed into a building in the bronx. It ended up partially inside a storage post. It happened around 9 00 last night. They are expected to recover. They should be fine. Investigators say it looks like the driver of the van was involved in a crash with another vehicle before he hit the building. We have new details this morning in the murder of a Fast Food Restaurant manager in the bronx. Take a look at this Surveillance Video of the man suspected in the stabbing death of adam garcia. Garcia was attacked outside of a mcdonalds yesterday morning. Detectives say the suspect who may be homeless followed garcia into the parking lot after a dispute. Garcia was the father of a young child. A brooklyn teenager is a waiting arraignment in the murder of her mother and mothers boyfriend. The bodies of destiny garcias mother and boyfriend were found a week after they were stabbed and shot. Investigators say garcia confessed claiming her mother physically abused her but there gave her saying she was acting in selfdefense. Police in Orange County are searching for suspects in the murder of a volunteer firefighter at a crowded party. The Silver Lake Fire Department says its offering a 10,000 reward for the murder of justin baits. He was stabbed to death trying to break up a party in pine bush. Up to 100 people were at the party. We know someone out there knows, saw, heard or has information regarding this case. We need you to come forward and speak with state reports. Police are asking anyone to come forward if they have photos or video from the party during which baits was killed. U. N. Security Council Condemned the reports on the in addition to saudi arab i cant, back rain and united emirates are cutting diplomatic ties with iran. Afghan special force troops killed the last of the gunmen that attacked the indian consulate in northern afghanistan. The gun battle raged for more than a day. The gunmen stormed the consulate but retreated into a nearby building. No claim of responsibility for the consulate attack. Cold. You are never more than seven minutes from weather and traffic and bill evans. All your gear. Cover up your eyeballs. Its cold. Winds are out of the north, northwest. You see the beautiful blue circle 7 meatball, 12 degrees. Its cold. This one feels bad had we not had a report high on Christmas Eve of 72 and record warm through the month of december. Its 12 and the windchills make wind out of the north. Even at 8 00 it will hang around 12 degrees to 18 by 10. 26 by noontime. The wind starts to die down at that point. The high to 30. That will feel a little better today. Its just today. You have to get through today. Keep your chin up, heather. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. Just one more day. Then we repeat it in a couple of weeks. Doom and gloom. One step at a fdr drive, construction there. Lets go to the maps, fdr southbound from the 100s to the 60s where you will find the construction set up. Subway status, 1, 2, 3 trains signal problems in times square where Kristin Thorne is hanging out this morning. We have j trains signal problems and the 5 trains signal problems at dyre. So, with the cold weather we may experience pretty tricky we have track condition long Island Railroad, Port Jefferson branch. New jersey transit, metro north doing okay. Cross bronx at the sheraton expressway an accident. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. Michelle, ken, over to you. All right. Thank you so much. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a grieving mom who could not save their daughter from her burning home receives comfort from the community. A messy scene on an Upper East Side sidewalk when a van slams into scaffolding. Customers get a slice of the action when two pizza chains declare war. Stay with apparently the engineers who designed the ford f150 have been burning the candle at all ends. Cuz check out their latest brainstorm pro trailer backup assist. Just turn this little knob on the dash its just one more bit of brilliance you cant get on any other truck. Freakish. This is the ford f150. And every other truck is history your heart loves omega3s. But theres a difference between the omega3s in fish oil unlike fish oil, megared is easily absorbed by your body. Which makes your heart, well, megahappy. Happier still, megared is proven to increase omega3 levels in 30 days. Megared. The difference is easy to absorb. One person was hurt when an scaffolding. The scaffolding fell down on one person suffered minor injuries. New video of a scary end to a slippery situation. This is portland, oregon or a suburb, troutdale. That is a jackknifed tractor trailer sitting close to an apartment complex. The driver lost control on ice and almost went through somebodys window. Nobody got hurt. That could have been worse. Look at that. Inches. Meteorologist bill evans joins us with the forecast. Here we go. A look from our camera on the roof. We are looking to midtown. No problem with cloud cover, skies and things, that stuff. You can see the stars out in the suburbs and you get away from the city lights, thats good. Its cold here. 59th street south down to midtown, cold morning. Here is our camera at 4 times square looking south. The verrazano narrows down to Staten Island. Jersey. A 23mile visibility and this cold arctic air mass, dry humidity. Look at the pressure 30. 48. That is strong High Pressure over us. Yesterdays high 36. Colder today. Normal high 38. We are close to normal temperatures. Yesterday is sort of how it feels this time of the year. We just havent felt like that this time of the year. We will have a pretty sunrise. The core of the cold is this morning. It will struggle to 30 today despite sunshine and less wind. Moderating temperatures tomorrow. It looks wet this weekend. Ten is the Miles Per Hour at teterboro. White plains 20 Miles Per Hour wind. 18 in the park and long island. 17, 14 down the shore. So, you know, thats tacking it on as far as the cold goes when you have that. 3 below at laguardia and poughkeepsie. 11 below white plains. 10 below monticello. The wind gusts have been 33 at j. F. K. 30 newark. 1 Miles Per Hour wind gusts at monticello and 25 down the shore. It will be a cold day today. The wind will be cranking this morning for the morning commute but will die down during the day d. We are looking at real during the day. We are looking at real feels. Zero in the park. 10 00 its in the Single Digits. By the time we get to the afternoon, the wind starts to die down. The temperature gets close to 30. We are in the 20s at noontime. The real feel about 25, 28. Then tomorrow morning by 9 00 we still have real feels in the 20s but it will warm to near 40. Blustery and cold, less wind. The real feel is zero to 10 this morning. 30 this afternoon. Clear and cold tonight. Low 23. Thats a couple warmer than normal for this time of year. Temperatures tomorrow morning starting out in the 20s as we go to wednesday. By the afternoon we bounce back. Friday we warm up to 47. It starts to get gray and then friday night we got showers but saturday we could hit 50 and there could be a few showers. So s you see, we will warm back up as we get into the weekend. The way it should be. But i will just throw this out there this morning for those of you up early and joining us, we like to give you something a little extra because you are up this early. I will tell you when the snow moment. Thats a tease. We have snow on the horizon. Heather, that is called a tease. I know they are making snow at mountain creek. That is good. At least its sticking. Thats where it should be. We can go out and throw a hot cup of coffee and make thats right. Its cold. Tell you what else is happening. We have an accident on the cross bronx westbound at the sheraton expressway. But the eastbound side is closed because of guardrail repairs. All the traffic is diverted at rosedale. I checked out the George Washington bridge. Its not affecting the George Washington bridge yet. But if this is going to stay closed a long time, the eastbound side of the cross bronx, this could be stacking things up to the George Washington bridge. We are going to take a look at the mass transit times. We have long Island RailroadPort Jefferson branch with a track condition. New jersey transit, metro north okay. Some subways are dealing with signal problems, 1, 2, 3, j and 5 trains. We have street cleaning rules are in effect today. Ken, over to you. Heather, thank you. People in a Connecticut Community are offering support for a mother unvrabel to save her young daughter from a fire. A church in bridgeport held a vigil for sincere pettway. Sinceres mother managed to get burning building sunday but when she and a neighbor went back for sincere, the heat was too intense. It meant a lot that everybody came out, the Community Came out to support her and her daughter to let her know she is a hero. She was unable to attend the vigil. She is undergoing treatment for smoke and burns. An all out war for pizza hut and papa johns. Pizza hut is offering a medium pizza with one topping for 5 if customers by another item for 5. Papa johns is offering customers that buy a large pizza at regular price a second pie for 50 cents. Good luck with your new years resolutions. New york states medical Marijuana Program will roll out this week more than a year and a half after the law was passed. With qualifying permission can get nonsmokable forms of medical marijuana. There will be an identification card through a state registry. It will come from a state regulated dispensary. The saying goes all roads lead to rome. Except when they are shut down because of excessive bird poop. Yum. Thats what good morning. Thats what has cleaning crews out in force in italys capitol, rome. The droppings cover the streets and cars and make getting around difficult. Its even gross and disgusting and nasty. Police shut down the streets and brought in heavy duty equipment to clean up the mess. When you have to bring in heavy duty equipment to clean up bird poop, you have a problem. They used to eat pigeons years ago. Maybe bring back that tradition. Bring in the cats. Ment. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, lets turn the page, trouble at a long vandals broke in and used the cars to cause plenty of damage. Also ahead, former giants patients across the country have spoken. They recently rated their Care Experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Fewer than 6 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Learn more at cancercenter. Com slash eastern. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Care that never quits. Appointments available now. Apparently the engineers who designed the ford f150 have been burning the candle at all ends. Pro trailer backup assist. Just turn this little knob on the dash and it helps steer your trailer exactly where you want it to go. Its just one more bit of brilliance you cant get on any other truck. Freakish. This is the ford f150. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Thank you for joining us. Im meteorologist bill evans. Good view looking down the beach at asbury park. We are looking at very nice temperatures. If you like cold weather, this is cold stuff. 12 around newark. 13 laguardia and jamaica bay. Winds out of the north at 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour this morning. The windchills are below zero. The temperature will rise to 21 by the time we get close to noon name, 24, 23 degrees, sunshine. The wind will die down later on today. Mother night is brutal so is the cross bronx expressway. This is true. Cross bronx expressway an accident westbound near the sheraton. Its the eastbound side that we are concerned about. All traffic is diverted at rosedale. Another accident on the new york state thruway south near exit 15a. Tappan zee speeds are down to 45 Miles Per Hour because of the wind. Port jeff dealing with delays and thats because of a track condition. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken, over to you. Thank you. A frantic search is underway for the vandals that turned a car dealership into a personal demolition derby. The damage was discovered in a jeep dealership at westbury. The vandals got into unlocked vehicles with the keys inside and drove around and crashed into cars. Damage 120 grand. A car salesman left on what he thought was a test drive but got shoved in the trunk of one of the cars. This happened at a damage dealership in houston. The salesmen took the suspects out on a test drive. One pulled out a handgun and forced him in the trunk. At a red light. He escaped using the emergency latch. Two suspects tried to get him back in the trunk. He got in a fight with them. Got the pistol away from a suspect and shot one. Officers tracked down the stolen car but the men had taken off. Just ahead on Eyewitness News this tuesday morning, the cold blast is hitting our area. Bundle up before you leave the door