Breaking down all the big moments from hollywoods biggest nights. Im lori stokes. Im ken rosato. Its monday, february 29th, the one time in four years that it happens. Bill evans with the forecast. We will look at a nice start to the day. Showers are coming. Grab your umbrella. We will have a few showers by lunchtime. Temperature 50. A mild morning and mild day. 43 around great neck. 46 belmar. A chilly start to the day. We will look at temperatures warming up. Look about 10 00 there is showers through lunchtime then the sun breaks out again this afternoon. The temperature approaches 60 degrees. We will talk about a rainy wednesday in your accuweather forecast coming up. Heather orourke says the dont go on the parkway local lanes at exit 117. You dont want to go there. You cant because we have an accident being cleared from the spot. New jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north on or close to schedule. Three trains track work at 50th street completed. Expect residual delays. Minor delays George Washington bridge, lincoln and holland construction there. On to route 80 east the ramp to 280 an accident. Tractor trailer is carrying empty water bottles. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Lori, over to you. Thank you. Police released new video of a car that struck and killed a person in brooklyn and kept on going. It was kickly a deadly weekend for pedestrians. Three people were killed in five separate hit and runs. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live in park slop where the latest incident occurred. Dray . Reporter good morning, lori. Behind me you can see the sign from the nypd and crimestoppers asking for any information that responsible for the hit and run that happened early sunday also overnight, Police Release this Surveillance Video showing the driver running a red light and hitting the 41yearold victim as he crossed 5th avenue and ninth street riding his bicycle in park slope before 5 00 a. M. The victim later died at the hospital. This is one of five hit and run accidents that happened across the city within a span of four hours early sunday morning. In all, three people were killed and two injured in hit and run accidents that happened in brooklyn, the bronx, queens and manhattan. Now, two victims remain in Critical Condition this morning. They are a 30yearold man hit while crossing the street in soho and a 22yearold woman that was hit by a silver minivan crossing the street in south jamaica queens. All of this happening in the backdrop of the mayor continuing to push his Vision Zero Campaign which saw a 2015 but, of course, the mayor using situations like this as an example why drivers and pedestrians need to be careful. Police are looking for the suspects or drivers in all of these accidents. Live this morning in brooklyn, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, dray. Police took a driver into custody in connection with a hit and run crash that killed an off duty nypd officer. Authorities say the 25yearold Vincent Harrison got in an accident on the new jersey turnpike in elizabeth early sunday morning. Harrison pulled over and got out of his car when another driver hit him and took off. Investigators located the infinity involved in the crash. They are also questioning the driver. Harrison worked in the 100 precinct in queens. Firefighters battled a threealarm fire in newark. Flames spread to three residential buildings on runion street. One brave passerby pulled a man when i pulled him out of the kitchen, he said, no, my wife. But your wife was downstairs. You are the one she is the one that told me you were upstairs. I put him over my shoulder and dragged him out of the house. Amazingly no injuries were reported because of the mans heroic actions. Investigation. Parents of hundreds of students in manhattan are taking action today. They are outraged days after a school fire disrupted their childrens lives. Eyewitness News ReporterKristin Thorne is live in union square with the story. Reporter around 10 30 this morning, parents of the Success Academy union square will hold a rally outside the building to demand that mayor de blasio appoint the city is office of Emergency Management to take over whatever repairs need to be done to the building to get the campus back open again. It was last thursday when their panel in the basement of the 11 Story Building. No one was hurt. The building was evacuated and since then the schools 2,000 plus students have been reassigned to other School Buildings throughout the city. Parents, of course, are upset that this is interrupting their childrens studies and perhaps they feel that the city is not moving quickly to make repairs on the building because of the ongoing dispute between the Mayors Office and the operators of charter schools. Parents later on today will be demanding that city crews either pick uped pace, repairing what needs to be done to the building here or that the city at least tell parents and students and give them a timetable of when the building will be able to open again. Live in union square, Kristin Thorne, channel 7 eyewitness kristin, thank you. Hollywoods finest took to spotlight took the top prize winning best picture. Leonardo dicaprio got his just just do. Entertainment reporter sandy kenyon was there for all. Reporter well, im here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the white peoples choice awards. Reporter tough talk from chris rock and his jokes came at the expense of some of hollywoods most powerful people. Is hollywood racist . You are dam right. Reporter after the debate over the lack of diversity, the host of the show didnt disappoint. If they nominated hosts, i wouldnt get this job. Reporter the lack much diversity among this years acting nominees lead Jada Pinkett Smith to call for a boycott. She is mad her man will was its not fair that will was this good and didnt get nominated. Its also not fair that he was paid 20 million for wild wild west. Reporter the bashes didnt end there. Brbs barbs didnt end there. What was it about. Giving blacks a chance to win. Reporter when it came time to announce the winners, nothing would dampen it. Thank you so much, the academy, for this incredible recognition. Reporter among the men, the winner was not the favorite but mark rylant in ridge of spice. Thank y. Reporter brie larson went from a small room to big stage. Thank you moviegoers. The charm for leonardo decrap prei dont went home a winner. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for grand. Reporter that left only the top prize, which went to. Spotlight. If there ever was a perfectly calibrated ensemble, you are it. Thank you so much. Reporter my favorite film of last year won best picture. But this year at the oscars wont be remembered so much for who won or who was not mine nature but for who wasnt included. Reporting from oscars red carpet, im sandy kenyon, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, sandy. Good morning america is live in hollywood starting at 7 00 a. M. Then at 9 00 a. M. Live with kelly and michael broadcast from inside the dolby theater with the after oscars show. Called the best picture months in advance. Kenyon. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. We look from the camera at 4 times square looking south. A clear sky. You can see to Staten Island and sandy hook, new jersey, verrazano narrows bridge looking to a nice start to the day. Showers today that will be creeping in here about midday. If you got lunchtime plans, showers, morning commute will be fine. Quite mild. 50 to start the day. Clear skies. Back to the west you see the wave of rain, a front. Its raining in pittsburgh. In Central Jersey by 7 00. We will look at showers getting here around 10 00 in western jersey. The morning commute is fine. Take the umbrella. Noontime. A couple of showers, the sun breaks back out this afternoon and we get to near 60 degrees. We will talk about that in the accuweather forecast. Heather is looking at the commute. Problems on the garden state parkway. Behind me you can see the local lanes of the garden state parkway are stopped. This is not something that we normally see at 4 41 in the morning. The express lanes are doing fine. We will head to the maps and tell you where it is. Garden state parkway local lanes at exit 117 with that accident being cleared away. Again, if you are heading out the door and you want to go on the garden state parkway, stick with those express lanes instead. On or close to schedule new jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north. Subway service is on or close. Earlier track work at 50th has been completed. Minor delays George Washington bridge. Lincoln and holland construction there. We have to wait that out. Its not causing major problems. 208, the ramp to plaza road we have a water main break. That ramp is closed down as a result. 80 eastbound, the ramp to 280 we had an accident here. The accident has been cleared way. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect lori and ken, over to you. Heather, thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning metro Police Brutality after officers respond to a home in the bronx. The man says cops beat him. Found safe, a little girl abducted last week is heading back home with her parents. Where police found the 4year old and the latest on the suspect. President obama will award a navy seal. All across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. We came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. Oh shes impressed. Were catching up on movies and shows on demand just as fast as we can watch them. Twcs home wifi is so strong we can use all our devices at the same time. Come back today. Youll get 100 meg internet, tv, phone and more for 89. 99 a month. And now, get a 300 reward card. Welcome back. Happening today the nations highest military honor goes to a navy seal that helped rescue an american hostage from the taliban. He will receive the today at the white house. His team brought dr. Joseph out of afghanistan in 2012. Meyers doesnt consider himself a hero. He said his young daughter doesnt either. My daughter knows that im daddy. She loves me just for that. And if you talk to her one on one, she will tell you the five different nicknames she has for me. I dont think one of them includes hero. Something else. Chief buyers is the sixth navy seal to be awarded the Congressional Navy medal of honor. The first living member of the navy to receive the award since 1998. Special guy. Very special, yes. Lets check in with meteorologist bill evans joining us. We take a look at midtown manhattan. Clear skies. Looking like a good morning so far. We start out with a beautiful sunrise. You will need rain gear as you get going today. We will be seeing showers by midday. Asbury park southward, clear visibility down to the peer. There is the buoy. Everything is looking good. To start the day, clouds will increase into the morning commute. The current temperature has been riding around 50 degrees. Wind southeast at 6. Pressure falling 29. 66. That means High Pressure leaving. A front from the west gave us a breezy high yesterday of 60 degrees which is a nice day. Now at hopatcong, 35. 32 hanover. 42 into northern new jersey around passaic, bergen county. 40 white plains. 46 long island. These numbers are way warm for the overnight. A southerly to a southeast wind coming in with this moisture ahead of a frontal boundary. You see on the satellite and radar pictures, clear skies. Back to the west is this line of rain showers. That will be sliding eastward. That gets here around 10 00 in western new jersey. Temperatures will cool into the 40s. By 11 00, 10 00, 11 00 we have a line of showers west to east, through lunchtime and eastern long island from 1 00 to 3 00 then the sun breaks out into the afternoon. Temperatures will warm into the mid to upper50s before we cool down tonight. Next shot at rain will be wednesday morning, really tuesday night into wednesday morning and we will have showers for wednesday. Then we got colder air coming in behind that. Midday showers, breezy, mild. Sun breaks this afternoon. High temperature of 59. Clear to partly cloudy. Cooler tonight. 29 in the suburbs. Cooler tomorrow. Temperatures are above normal at 52 degrees. The sevenday forecast, rainy day wednesday. Colder air comes in for thursday. So, look snow showers possible on friday. Way, even though we had the 60 degree temperatures. Could be a shot of snow showers. It could slippery up the roads. Then 40s with sunshine coming up for the weekend. We had some blizzards in march. So, march is the lion. You just got to make our way through it. One day at a time. Yes. Thank you. Lets check in with heather orourke. Thats ugly. This is the garden state parkway. We dont see this this early in the morning. This is basically the local lanes. You can see the express lanes are moving. The local lanes are stopped. Lets go to the maps. Garden state parkway northbound side local lanes exit 117 we have an accident. The local lanes are closed. The express lanes are open. If you are heading out this morning, go with the express Subway Service on or close to schedule. Heading over here, route 208 northbound, the ramp to plaza road a water main break. Keep that in mind. 80 eastbound, the ramp to route 280, that accident has been cleared away. A tractor trailer carrying empty water bottles. In the bronx this accident investigation union, port avenue between sterling and mcgraw. Then on to the new york state thruway we have another accident in harriman south at exit 16. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Lori, over to you. Thank you. This morning we are hearing from a bronx man who has filed a federal lawsuit against the city claiming Police Brutality. Trojan hart says officers broke one of his Eye Associates while he was handcuffed. The incident started when Police Responded to his house after an alleged noise complaint. He was told to remove his hart said that is when things became physical. At some point i give in, i will take it off. They wouldnt allow it. By this time they are hitting me and taking it off. I physically felt the bone crack on my face. Immediately it bulged up. It was three dimensional. They had to take me to the hospital. The nypd is not commenting on the case. A pastor in ohio is killed inside his own church and this morning his brother is in Dayton Police say 70yearold William Schooler was shot in his office at st. Peters yesterday afternoon. The scene. They expect to charge him with the murder. Two communities are mourning the loss of a Virginia Police officer shot and killed the Police Department in officer ashley guide dones hometown in new hampshire. She was sworn in to the Prince William county Police Department friday. The next night the 2yearold was shot and killed responding to a Domestic Violence call. Her High School Principle says that guindons senior quote says live for something rather than die for nothing. The irony is a bit overwhelming. This is not right. Guindon served in the marine corps and joined the force a year ago. She took time off before being sworn in last week. The man accused of killing her police say killed his wife and injured two 0 other officers. The 4yearold montana girl abducted on friday will be back macy lilly was discovered on a native american reservation. A Sheriffs Office found her a few miles from where she was kidnapped. She is in good health. A suspect is in custody. Coming up on Eyewitness News this morning, shocking discovery. What one woman found inside a sealed box in a park in manhattan. Also ahead, g. O. P. Frontrunner donald trump is taking heat for what he didnt this is a vhs tape. Push that tape in and hit play. This is a flip phone. Have you seen these before . Its called a compact disc. Oh. Looks like were getting a facsimile. What year is it to you . Its old. Youd rather use Newer Technology . Definitely. Well, ive got something to show you. This is the 2016 chevy volt. It uses extended range electric technology. The prius hybrid uses Battery Technology developed 15 years ago. Chevy expects volt drivers to get over a thousand miles between fill ups. Its got every technology there is. Vice President Joe Biden is showing his support for new initiatives close to his heart. He toured the ucf f Mission Bay Campus with his wife over the weekend. Researchers are champion new research against cancer. Vice president bidens son beau died after battling brain cancer. It aims at providing funding for development of new ways to detect and treat cancer. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. You will get through the morning commute fine. These bands of showers keep sliding eastward with a front. Behind that it will be cooler. Arrival time in western forecast lincoln about 10 00 a. M. Sliding eastward across long island into the afternoon. These will come by quick and only like a few hours then they are gone and push through the area. Hoist we are looking at temperatures today that start out around in most cases, really warm for this hour