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WABC Eyewitness News This Morning March 18, 2016

Reporter problems right now on path train, bill. Well head right tot path trains and tell you whats happening. As you head newark to world trade, still seeing delays. Its all due to Police Department activity. Metro north, lirr running on or close. Subways on time. Lets take it over to the te conic northbound getting up towards peekskill hollow road in putnam county, an accident there. And problems continue on the fdr drive in the 50s with a collision back toward the 40s. The ed koch 59th street bridge starting to build into town because of the problems on the fdr drive. Heres a look at the southbound van wyck moving okay into kew gardens. And going over to our other camera, heres a look at the northbound van wyck. Thats moving slowly heading up towards hillside avenue. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. Back over to you, lori, ken. All right, debbie, thank you. Its 6 01. And this morning the nypd along with the fbi and secret service are investigating a suspicious package that was mailed to the son. The letter addressed to eric avenue south was deemed suspicious, but it was harmless. Eyewitness News Reporter mallory hoff is live outside the trump park east where police remain on the scene. Mallory. Reporter ken, good morning. Certainly a frightening situation last night. Now a cop car parked here throughout the morning, this as investigators try to get tot bottom of of what happened here. I do want you to take a look at what the seen looked like scene looked like last night. Multiple agencies responded to the white powder scare, Hazardous Materials parked into trump park east this. Is where eric trump lives. They also rushed to Donald Trumps home in trump tower and other family locations. Evidence taken from the building is now being analyzed. Its believed that powder was not dangerous. Eric trumps wife, lara opened the envelope from massachusetts and then powder spilled out. This comes as the hacking of donald trump has now become a federal case. The cyber Group Anonymous says it stole trumps personal information and then made it public. Tried to attack trump on stage in ohio. Republicans are denouncing trump for predicting riots will break out if a brokered convention denies him the nomination. Now, back out here live now, investigators trying to determine exactly what that white powdery substance is and who sent it. Live in m, mallory hoff, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, mallory, thank you. And police are urging the man accused in a deadly stabbing in manhattan to turn himself in. Wanted posters hang at harlem as Police Search for julio valasquez. Police say that he stabbed and killed a man at the 116th street subway station wednesday night, but valasquez daughter says he was just defending her. She says that the victim, 53 yearold Herbert Burgess stole a dollar from her and punched her twice in the face. I called my dad, and i was, like, dad, someone just robbed me. Can you please come . My son was probably scared daylights that my granddaughter was going to be another victim in the train. Thought in my sons head, hes going to hurt my baby well, the suspects daughter says burgess who spent 18 years in prison for murder threatened to stab her and there was no one around to help her. New details investigators believe they have found the body of a man who was accused of killing his roommate at a manhattan homeless shelter. Police ended the manhunt for 21 yearold Anthony White after finding a body floating in the hudson river. White is accused of stabbing his roommate to death in january at boulevard homeless shelter in harlem. The victim, 62yearold devon black was a former special ed teacher and librarian who was killed on his third night living at the shelter. 6 04. Police shoot and kill two Armed Robbery suspects. Investigators say they were among five armed men who burst into a houston, texas Furniture Store last night. Police say all four were being monitored by a Tactical Team looking into other robberies earlier in the two of the surviving suspect wrs wounded. Five officers fired their weapons, none of them was hurt. Governor john rowland will appeal his latest campaign fraud convictions this morning in manhattan in federal court. Rowland remains free on bail, but hes also facing a sentence of 2 1 2 years in prison. He was convicted of conspiring to hide payments for work he did for republican congressional candidates. Rowland resigned as governor in 2004 during a Corruption Scandal that sent him to prison for 10 months. Its 6 05. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Heres meteorologist bill evans and the accuweather forecast. Well, here we go. Its friday. Lets rise and shine, everybody, shall we . Lets look across the park. I believe those are newscopter 7 high above gotham this morning. Some of also the red eyes coming in in the overnight hours too, the airports there. But heres whats the airplanes too. As we look across the park, we have a clear sky and a wind thats mostly out of the west here. About 48 to start the day. Normal overnight low is 36. So we got clear skies, we got back here today were going to the great lakes. Come down. Its going to bring us colder air tonight and tomorrow. It might bring us a sprinkle, but were really looking at more or less that cold air kind of surging in. Before it gets here, we got a lot of sunshine, few clouds this afternoon, we hit 58. Not a big deal. It is going to get chilly tomorrow and some snow on sunday to talk about. Kiddos, for school today, i give it a b with bright sunshine, cool after school and 58 degrees. Weather then heather every seven minutes. Thats heather doing one heck of a Debbie Duhaime impression this morning. Reporter thats it. Amazing, right . Good morning, bill, good morning, everybody. Path trains back on or close to schedule, so newark to world trade everything back on or close. Police Department Activity cleared metro north, lirr running on or close. Subways on or close to schedule this morning. Watch for a slowdown on the taconic heading northbound in Putnam Valley with an accident up by peekskill hollow road. A collision. So expect delays back toward the 40s. Ed koch 59th street bridge starting to build heading into town. Heres a look at the southbound side of the van wyck moving slowly here getting down to our q. And lets go over to the other camera. Heres a look at the Southern State parkway westbound, building heading out toward eagle avenue in nassau county. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. Back to you, lori, ken. Debbie, thank you. 6 07. Last march we lost a dear friend an member of our Eyewitness News family. Lisa colagrossi. The 49yearold mom and wife died after suffering a brain aneurysm we think about her often and we know for so many of you who woke up to lisas reporting every morning, we know you think of her, you miss her, we also know you considered her family as well. Well, i recently went to her home in connecticut and sat down with her husband and her two boys, and we chatted about life without lisa. Reporter you feel your mom here, dont you . Oh, yeah, everyday. I know shes there watching over me. Reporter 15yearold Davis Crawford and 11yearold Evan Crawford are still trying to get used to life without their mom, Lisa Colagrossi. Usually when im feeling sad, i just usually sit down somewhere and pray to her, and i know that shes always listening to me. Reporter but last march they suddenly lost their mother when she suffered a brain aneurysm. Todd crawford, their father remembers the day he lost his wife. So when you all of a sudden get a call one day from a top neurosurgeon at one of the top hospitals in the country saying we have your wife, you know that your life has changed forever. Reporter and suddenly it was up to todd to look after the boys on his own. We didnt have as great of a appreciation for it as we certainly do now and how amazing she was and how much she shouldered and so efficient in how she just got things done. She just took it upon herself and done it. Reporter shortly after 9 00 this morning reporter lisa chose to work the boys after school, make dinner, help with homework and take the boys to hockey practice. Did she make it kind of seem easy to just juggle it all . I always thought that she just like being a parent was easy and you could just do anything you wanted. But now i see my dad doing it, i realize that its a lot of work, and you have to know how to multitask and you have to know how to do a lot of stuff. So your dads done a pretty good job, though, do you think . Yeah, a really good job. Amazing. Hes just stepped right in taking moms place. Hes pretty much the same multitasking, great attitude, doing so much work. Hes so hectic and hes just like her now doing everything that she did. Well, todd has turned his creating the Lisa Colagrossi foundation, a nonprofit has already been credited with saving eight lives. On and leaves a la i do everything on the internet. But its kind of slow. My friends said i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. man were out of 2 . I wonder what else could be better around here . man i heard that. Now get our best offer ever. Super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annualcontract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good . Fios can do that. Cable just cant. 6 12. Welcome back. A worker who fell more than 50 stories to his death in Downtown Los Angeles did not have clearance to go above the third floor of the skyscraper from which he fell. It happened yesterday afternoon at the Wilshire Grand Center which is supposed to be the tallest building in the west when its finished. The worker took off his hard hat before going to the 51st floor and not working with harness. It was just his second day on the job. New this morning, and he was a wild man as mayor of toronto, but rob ford is now in the hospital, stepping up his cancer treatment. And his family is asking for privacy. Ford gained noteriety three years ago when after months of denial he admitted using crack cocaine while in a drunken stoop or. Well, a year later and ford got his first cancer diagnosis. He a tumor removed, but new bladder just a few months ago. 6 14. New Jersey State Police want future travelers to cuba to be on the lookout for more than just cigars. See, he created a poster asking tourists to be on the lookout for fugitives who live on the island wanted by u. S. Law enforcement. One of those fugitives joanne chessamar who murdered a new jersey state trooper in 1973 and then escaped from prison. 6 14. Time to get a check on your accuweather forecast meteorologist bill evans outside our studios on the Upper West Side. Bill. Reporter feels good out here this morning. We got just a little bit of a little wind here thats coming in from the west kind of in between the buildings. Other than that a nice start to the day. Here we go. We look outside from our roof camera here across the park, and were looking looking at a morning where the sun is coming up really nice. Clear skies, west wind at 10. Yesterday it was 63. Normal is 50. Normally the temperature this hour of the day would be 36. Were into the upper 40s here this morning. So were going to be looking at a lot of clear skies, a lot of sunshine is going to be coming your way and temperatures are in the low and mid40s around the tristate area. Got a wind this morning out of sweater will do it for you. Should be just fine with a lot of sunshine today. Heres whats going on. We do have these clear skies all the way back to the great lakes. To our north is what we call a back door front where it comes down north south rather than most of our weather which comes from west to east. So that front will drive down through the area this afternoon and youll see the temperatures are going to be in the upper 50s today as opposed to the low 60s from yesterday on st. Patricks day. There might be a shower with that front. It doesnt look like theres going to be much with it, except that youll notice the colder air coming in tonight and for tomorrow. Tomorrow morning we start out in the low and mid30s where we should be for this time of the year. Thats going to feel cold because its been so warm. But heres the futurecast. Weve been talking about this spring snowstorm coming for as you mentioned. Well, here are the clouds that start to increase. Spring begins at 12 30 a. M. Sunday morning, and then as we start sunday, look at this, 6 00, 7 00 in the morning, just south of the city its a mix of snow, ice and rain. So now our latest computer guidance is showing that snow during the marathon, the Half Marathon that will be coming up starting at 8 00 on sunday. So doesnt matter what speed you run on sunday, looks like youre going to get rain and wet snow on you. Were looking at about 3 to 6 inches of that from the city northward, six inches plus you get above i84. Its a very heavy, wet snow, which means it will accumulate on grassy surfaces, car tops, that sort of thing. After school today, kiddoes, were going to be looking at a great day, 58 degrees, 56 degrees, very nice. Just a sprinkle possible this evening as this colder air comes out of the north. Were down to 44. Tomorrow we got sunshine on saturday. Its brisk and chilly right around 46 degrees. Here is your accuweather seven day forecast. We are going to be looking at that snow starting on sunday morning, lasting through the day, maybe ending on monday morning. Were going to be looking at whats going to be temperatures hey, good morning. [ dog barking ] come on you big dog. Were looking at whats going to be temperatures right around the 40s to start next week, rather chilly. And then were looking at normal temperatures in the middle of the week. [ dog barking ] i dont know. I just walked around and i feel like st. Patrick. You know, they follow me everywhere i go. Or st. Francis. Yeah. Because you have scene of the accident. Thats it. St. Patrick didnt need snacks. Here we go. We have whats a beautiful morning with girls, we got maximus, we got lulu and we also have sire here this morning too, theyre so sweet. Everybody asks what kind of dogs are they . Theyre samoas. Hungry samoas. Theyre like, you know, these dogs that are very popular here on the Upper West Side and maximus is the secretaryian of the breed. Look at her face in the bag heart. You guys have a great weekend. You too. Debbie has a check of the commute. Reporter boy, theyre hungry this morning. Good morning, lori, ken, bill. Good morning to everybody. Were going to go right up to john del gorno. Hes high above the fdr drive. Good morning, john. Reporter and good morning, debbie. You can see weve got some serious issues here on the fdr drive. This is northbound right at 53rd street. This looks to me to be a simple accident, but as you can see theyve got the entire roadway shut down. Thats a tow truck trying to get up to the accident scene. That silver pickup truck and another dark vehicle there off on the right side of the roadway. Like i said, this looked like a major accident, but all lanes are shut northbound. Youve got big delays, standstill delays going back under the united nations. They begin all the way back down in the 20s. Debbie. Reporter thanks a lot, john. Well also tell but a problem as you head over to the bronx River Parkway over in westchester county. Bronx River Parkway southbound right at the cross county an accident reported there. Heres a look at the inbound side of the lincoln tunnel. Starting to build here as you minutes in at the lincoln. Holland 10 minutes as well. Still moving okay at the George Washington bridge. New Jersey Transit moving okay. Path trains back on or close. Metro north, lirr on or close. Subways running on time. Another shot right now. This is the Southern State parkway westbound building avenue. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. Back over to you, ken, lori. All right, debbie, thank you. Repairs are under way to fix a massive hole in a mountain road. Right now the Northern California crater is 500 feet long and 300 feet deep. Its on a mountain highway thats partially collapsed after weeks of heavy rains caused by el nino. And guess what, its getting larger. Weve marked the road and we continue to monitor it, but we anticipate its going to end up at about 700 feet well, the hole sits in the middle of the only north south the only way around it is a 200 mile, fivehour long detour. Come on, duct tape. Some duct tape, fix that. Move out of the area. 6 20. And still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, millions of dollars in phoney apple products seized here in new york. Also a turn of fortune literally for a homeless man who hit the jackpot by doing allergies distracting you . When your symptoms start. Doctors recommend taking of your allergy season. Claritin provides powerful, nondrowsy 24 hour relief. 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