Says he was roughed up and injured by Police Officers. We have an exclusive interview at the scene as an internal investigation gets under way. Good morning, im lori stokes. Im ken rosato. It is thursday, february 4th. You are never more than seven minutes away. Bill evans with the exclusive accuWeather Forecast. Good morning. We have an interesting Weather Forecast for you today because we have fog and very warm air outside. Its 58 degrees. Normal temperature at this hour should be 27. So were 31 degrees warmer. 54 to easthampton. So this warm air is creating fog. 7 mile visibility at white plains. Youll see in spots, look at thats sussism, even to summer set. A couple of sprinkles are along eastern long island. The temperature will drop. This morning, please take a close look at heathers hair. It looks extremely nice, doesnt it . Yeah, because bill did my hair this morning. [ laughter ] this is what 78 is looking like. You can see that here and see whats happening on long island, the l. I. E. So foggy and use caution. Lets go over to our maps. D and f trains, track work. Long island railroad, metro north are on or close to schedule. Take your time if you are heading out because of that fog. 4 32 and developing overnight, another possible subway attack. This time, the weapon is a needle. The Police Commissioner has a warning for subway riders. Dray . Reporter good morning. Police are looking for a man in his 40s that may be connected to the most recent subway attack at Seventh Avenue and 49th street in the heart of midtown. The victim, a 37yearold woman says she was going through the turn style last night around 7 00 when she felt a slight poke. She took a look at her right shoulder and saw a puncture wound. She went to the hospital and was told she may have been poked with a needle. Meanwhile, Police Released a sketch of this man who is accused of attacking a man who woke up to find a manned the man. He is wanted for another attack on the c train that happened on sunday night. After 10 stabbings and slashings so far, the nypd is increasing patrols and they are ordering you to wake up sleeping passengers because more than half involve passengers that are sleeping. Subways are not sleeping. I know a lot of people are tired and work hard, but our officers are going to be ininstructed to start waking people up. I think its good that the involved. I think its risky to wake someone up when they are sleeping, but its a lot safer. Im not too worried about it. I dont reporter in response to the commissioners plan to have officers wake up sleeping passengers, pba president pat lynch says it is an attempt to conceal the fact that the city does not have enough Police Officers, and he also says it is a band aid approach, not a were live in midtown, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Dray, thank you. Its 4 34. Mayor de blasio is unveiling new plans for a light rail connecting brooklyn and queens. Eyewitness News Reporter mallory hoff is live downtown. The new pictures of the east river streetcar. Good morning, mallory. Reporter lori, good morning. Were standing in one of the most congested areas in brooklyn. The mayor says his goal is to ease up transportation. The projected costs to do that, 2. 5 billion. I want you to take a look right now at these renderings. It shows where we are standing. This is what the proposed streetcar line would look like. Because the project would operate on city streets, its not expected to need state approval, meaning it would not require the blessing of and west and this would provide a north south. This connector would run from sunset park to astoria, queens. It would run along the east river connecting the subways, ferries, bus routes and city bike stations. The three cars would travel 12 miles per hour, a trip between there and brooklyn would take 27 minutes. From what we understand, the project will wrap up in 2024. The mayor will make his pitch tonight. Mallory hoff, channel 7 Eyewitness News. An eighth Grade Student from new jersey claims Undercover Police officers roughed him up for no reason and dislocated his shoulder. 14yearold Jamod Watkins was leaving a bodega when several cars with lights approached him. The teen says he ran because wees frightened. Moments later, the officers caught up to him. Ground, pulled my arm back. My arm popped, and then they picked me up and threw me on the car, put me in handcuffs. Watkins says the officers never identified themselves and never even showed a badge. He also says when he asked for medical attention, the officers left him in the middle of the street. Internal affairs is trying to determine if it was newark officers involved in the incident. Police are looking for a team of gun toting robbers who are targeting Cell Phone Stores in the bronx. In the past two weeks, they have hit two stores getting away with cash and phones. One store was on west tremont avenue and the other on white plains road. One case, they kicked the clerk in the face before leaving the store. If you have any information or you recognize them, call police. Brazils president says the zika virus has gone from a distant nightmare to a very real threat. To unite to combat the mosquito that transmits that virus. They are telling women who have given birth to babies with the birth defect we will do absolutely everything to protect you. Meanwhile, Forbes Magazine is calling for brazil to call off the 2016 Olympic Games in rio because the virus and pollution concerns could pose a problem for all of the people coming around the world. It is 4 38. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Lets look at our corner of town right here west 66th street and columbus avenue as we look across over towards juilliard and lincoln center. Got a nice morning out here. Its going to be a morning where we start with cloudy skies and fog. Notice that the fog is right at the tops of the buildings here. I would say thats about 300, 250 feet right there. So you wont have any great you cant even make out one world trade. The current temperature right now, 58 degrees. So we have this warm air surging up from the south and a couple of showers, too. Nassau county with sprinkles to the west with the fog. This would get out of the way this morning. Then this slug of moisture to the south comes up tonight. That creates some issues overnight for tomorrow, which well talk about. So the fog burns off and the temperature drops a little bit. Well hit our High Temperature right now at 58. It will be in the mid50s skies. Not a bad day, actually, when degrees. Weve got cloudy skies and rain coming for tonight and snow tomorrow morning. Well talk about that next. Weather and traffic every seven thats heather orourke. We have foggy conditions right near exit 36. That is a straight path. Then well flip it up to here going through the new york this is right near air mont road. I know you can see the cables in the middle of the shot. If you are headed to the tappan zee bridge, keep it slow give yourself a lot of extra time. Lets head over to our maps now. Subway status, d f trains. Then you have the 2 and 4 trains track work. Our street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Ken and lori, over to you. Heather, thank youp. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, wikileaks founder julian assad may be ready to face rape charges under one condition. And being known for being outspoken, but hear why this man wont have much to say when he stands before members of congress today. And an Eyewitness News exclusive. The little boy attacked by a raccoon is talking for the walk t [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] coughing disrupts everyones life. Thats why so many people are turning to delsym for longer lasting cough relief. Delsym has an advanced time release formula that helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. Thats three times longer than the leading cough liquid. All night. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. And on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today 4 42. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange now says hes willing to end three years of sanctuary in the ecuadorian embassy. He says he will turn himself in to British Police if a union Panel Investigating his case rules against him. They are looking into the claims that the past three years amounted to illegal detention. Assange has denied the rape allegations made by a woman in sweden. Stop what you are doing and look at the screen. An outofcontrol car was road and went down a driveway and hit a car. How do you get it off . Who do you call to get a car removed from the roof . I dont know. Lets check in to meteorologist bill. We look at midtown with clouds and weve got fog. Were going to be looking at a morning where we have some very warm air on top of us as well. Thats really whats creating the fog this morning. Temperature is 58 degrees, humidity high, winds are southwest. Even with the southwest wind, theres not much fog around the five boroughs. You see the ceilings are up there. You have the level of the clouds thats midway of the buildings on up. The pressure is falling to yesterdays high 59 degrees. It low 28. So were at 58 with 38 degrees warmer for this time of the year. So the rain is tapering off of the showers in long island. Clouds are clinging today. Well look at rain and snow for pardons of the area. Then colder and stormy next week. 56 around sayerville. 57 wrightstown. Numbers to the north 50 around monticello. 56 around poughkeepsie. Should be 27 here, 17 here, and 12 here. So its way warm with the southwest wind and warm air that is surging up. Visibility, as you see, 7 mile visibility at white plains airport. Always a tough spot with the fog, but darker shades is where the fog is really thick. Morristown reporting a. 3 of a mile visibility. You have a 2mile visibility at islip. So the visibility forecast as we go through the morning is we are to stay around a mile at morristown as we go through the morning commute. You see we really clear out as we go through the day. No airport delays are showing up anywhere with that fog, by the way. So today, we are looking at a few showers here in eastern morris county, Suffolk County. Bridgeport out toward new haven to groton. Behind that, weve got clear skies. Before that gets here, there is a slug of moisture that comes up tonight. Were looking at temperatures that start to drop. They are not dropping a whole lot. By the time we get to 4 00, were seeing 53, 54 degrees. Here comes this rain tonight. The rain hugs the coast. You see the temperatures are dropping, and then overnight, this is going to change to snow for the morning commute right at the coast. Right at the coast. So were looking at a trace to an inch of heavy, wet snow from the city could be 1 to 3 inches of very heavy, wet snow toward the east end. So we are looking at a few flakes tomorrow morning from the city east and jersey shore. Then tomorrow afternoon, the suns out, and we have a gorgeous weekend. Well have a lot of sunshine. Temperature is 46 on saturday. 48 and mostly sunny on sunday. Well look at the snow for tuesday. Well keep an eye on that. Will we talk about it in a negative way like maybe it wont happen . Im asking. No. [ laughter ] and he answered. No. Well talk about negative, positive, well talk about it in an informative way. Yes thats right. I got my answer, heather. There you go. Ive got your answer if you want to use the subways. D f trains track work at fourth street. New jersey transit, Long Island Railroad metro are running on Staten Island ferry is on time. We have a bus detour around 125th street because of ongoing construction they are doing there. P. A. T. H. Trains are doing just fine. We have a major problem on the garden state parkway by exit 69. A car went off the roadway so they are out there trying to get that car removed. The covered roadway is closed between the holland and new jersey tunnels. The inbound holland not doing too badly. Some construction is left over. Street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Ken, over to you. Former pharmaceutical ceo martin extra rellly is going before congress. He gained notoriety when he hiked the price of lifesaving drugs up by 5,000 will invoke his fifth amendment rights. One of the conditions of my engagement was that from hence forward, he does not speak to any member of the press at all until criminal charges are resolved. He says he would like to berate and insult congress but instead will not answer questions to avoid self incrimination. The number of exonerations in the u. S. Are at its highest point in u. S. History. A new report says 149 people falsely convicted of crimes were exonerated last year. New york had exonerations behind texas. The largest were homicides. The number has more than doubled in the last four years. Experts say it is due to increased concerns over false convictionsp. Plans to appeal a decision allow a drugsex case to go he to trial. A former Prosecutor Says he verbally promised cosby would not go through formal krim charges. And formal criminal charges. Steele used cosbys legal battles as leverage during his play political campaign. The campaign against planned parenthood in texas appears to have led to an increase in births among low income women. A study in the new england journal of medicine shows a significant increase in births from women that used to get Birth Control from women who no longer get state funding. That could be a sign of whats coming in other states that cut funding to planned parenthood. And hearing from a family recovering from an attack from a rabid raccoon. 6yearold aryan gavali was jumped by the raccoon biting and scratching him a little more than a week ago. Neighbor danny walls used a stick to kill the animal. Aryans family remains forever grateful that walls was walking by. He was like an angel, really. He helped me and helped aryan. Our whole family is frankful. Aryans family says he is recovering very well. His parents have created a go fund me page seeking donations to help with his medical bills. It is 4 51. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, a man is thrown from his truck during a wild police chase, but the crash doesnt stop him from trying to get away. Many patients and their doctors unfortunately are not aware of the options available to patients with bone cancer. Patients with bone cancer deserve a specialist too. The advantages of being treated at Cancer Treatment centers of america is that we have all the specialists under one roof to take care of every aspect of that patients cancer care. We want our patients to survive their cancer but we also want them to maintain independence you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic here on Eyewitness News this morning. We have cloudy skies and fog right at the tops of the buildings here. On the roof of midtown, temperatures are 58, 50 sussex. The showers will keep sliding eastward here, and these numbers are way warm around this hour of the day. We had a calm to a little light wind here this morning. So down the jersey shore is raining here in belmar. So we have a problem here with the camera, which is evident of the rain thats coming in here. The temperature drops into the low 50s by midday and into the afternoon. Then well be looking at whats going to be sunny breaks with temperatures in the low to mid 50s. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. Shes got some foggy shots. I do. So youll want to use caution and give yourself extra time. Here is the Southern State pathway. Lets go right over to our 2 and 4 trains track work at atlantic avenue. New jersey transit, Long Island Railroad, metro running on or close to schedule. Lori, over to you. 4 55. Newly released dash cam footage from april shows a man being thrown from a truck when he crashed during a police chase. The suspect led officers on a highspeed chase on a highway in idaho. Area the crash, the driver tried to get up to get away. Two citizens helped police take him down. They were honored yesterday for stepping in. Its 4 56. In todays health alert, a new requirement for college students, undergrads will track their health and fitness habits by wearing fitbits. Students who sign up for the physical education class will wear the devices to track their 150 minutes of exercise. Its 4 56. Mcdonald cease serving up literature with its happy meals. The fast food giant is putting childrens books into its kid sized offerings. Four will be offered, three valentines directions and the classic paddington. It is the start of a nonprofit reading is fundamental which has donated 100,000 books. The books are being offered february 15th. Police are investigating another possible subway based on the weapon. It may have been a needle. Police raid a local home in the hopes of putting a heroin ripping. They found something much more disturbing inside. Another round of rain and snow may move in tomorrow. Bill evans has the exclusive accuWeather Forecast. You might be waking up to dense fog depending on where you are. Channel 7 Eyewitness News is minutes. I do everything on the internet. But its kind of slow. 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