Defending her home turf this morning an Bernie Sanders is right on here heels. And lets get a look outside. Its a chilly start. But get ready for a Beautiful Day. We have a sneak peek at your weekend on this wednesday. Good morning, im lori stokes thanks for being with us, im Michelle Charlesworth in for ken rosato today. Today is wednesday, march 30th. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic an meteorologist bill evans. Did you say sneak peek at the weekend . Yes. Well, of course we do. Lets take a look outside this morning. Like you said, a chilly start to the day, grab the jackets and sweaters and coats all all that kind of stuff. 38 is right at our normal overnight low and hanover is the same, 21 teaneck, 26 poughkeepsie, 35 bridgeport, 36 on long island. Noontime right at 50 and this afternoon were going to get into the mid to upper 50s in a lot of spots with sunshine. But march is going out tomorrow. But like a pussycat. As april comes in, well talk about that as april comes in rather cold. Heather, hows it going out there . Reporter good morning, bill. Good morning, everybody. 1 trains with fast track repairs, no service between 96th street and dikeman street until 5 00 a. M. New Jersey Transit, rail rail, metro north doing just fine. Take ago look at the new jersey turnpike, the eastern spur north of exit 14 up into exit 17, you have it all closed down. So all that traffic is being diverted over to the western spur as a result. And, of course, that is because of construction. Now, if youre going into northbergen, tunalee avenue between 69th street and 54th street, you have that accident. All lanes closed down. Construction across the board, george, lincoln, holland, they do have minor delays. The outbound lower level two lanes closed underneath the apartments, that should be cleared by 5 00 a. M. Our street cleaning rules are in effect today. Lori, over to you heather, thank you. 4 32. And velling in brooklyn a five buildings, leaving many people homeless this morning. The blaze started orch the roof of on the roof of a building on catawba avenue and then is spread. The fdny tweeted crews tweeted this picture of crews getting the building under control. Darla miles is live in bushwick with reaction. Dar lap la. Reporter good morning, lori. The fdny is still here, so is the red cross, helping those displaced residents. I want to show you the scene right now. This fire completely ate through these five billings. Its just total destruction. You can see theres really not much left here. I also want you to take a look at the fire at its height when it went to six alarms last night. It was a real inferno. Look at this video. It started around 10 00 last night on dekalb avenue in bushwick, and it took about 200 firefighters to knock it down, five buildings have been destroyed, one church as well as a martial arts studio. Unclear how many people have been impacted, but many of them this morning are homeless, being transported to shelters in buses by the red cross. We lost everything, and were going to a shelter or to a hotel for now and then see what happens tomorrow. Right now we just have to roll with the punches i guess. We have nothing, so we have our family and thats it. Reporter again, this is a live look at those five buildings that burned out last night here in bushwick. The fdny still on scene checking for hot spots. The fire commissioner spoke last night. He said the fire cause is still under investigation. Wind was not a factor in this fire, rather the construction of the buildings which caused it to spread so quickly. Reporting live here in bushwick, darla miles rkz channel 7 Eyewitness News. Unbelievable pictures there, darla, thank you. In new jersey detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found on the we have learned 73yearold virginia wilsons body was discovered saturday by a worker on amity street in jersey city. Police say the woman victim had suffered multiple injuries. Well, new details now in a disturbing case of abuse and what investigators are calling a house of horrors for foster children on long island. Caesar gonzalez is charged with sexually abusing seven foster boys. Investigators say there could be many more victims. Suspect fostered some 140 boys in his home over a period of 20 years. Social worker Debbie Edwards tells Eyewitness News that she alerted authorities four years, but no one listened. But you didnt know they were being sexually abused . I had a feeling. I never felt professionally well, because edwards had confronted gonzalez marjou, she says he threatened to sue. He also complained to her bosses at the longwood district. The end result, edwards says she was prohibited from ever speaking again to the foster boys staying with gonzalez markabou. We are hearing from a livery cab driver beaten and robbed by three passengers in manhattan. Abdelah wagah says he picked up three passengers in the bronx. When they arrived at their destination in east harlem, two women and a man attack him. He punched my face. My nose was bleeding and [ inaudible ] punch me too. Every time i go home, i feel scared. Well, the suspects stole 200 as well. The new York State Federation of taxi drivers is offering a 500 reward for their capture. 4 36. And happening today the new discuss regulating activities in Public Places including new rules for costume characters. Transportation committee will hear testimony on a bill to define areas for commercial activities in the citys 49 pedestrian plazas, including times square. Businesses and unions will rally on the steps of city hall before this mornings hearing. No action will be taken on the bill today. Turning now to politics, the battle for new york is heating up. Democratic president ial frontrunner Hillary Clinton is holding a morning rally in harlem and rival Bernie Sanders will be campaigning in the bronx tomorrow. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco is live at the Apollo Theater with the very latest on this. Good morning to you, diana. Reporter good morning, michelle. Primary day is just three weeks away and the candidates are taking new york state very seriously with 291 democratic deg gats up for grabs. Hillary clinton has two events here over the next couple of days, the first coming later this morning at the Apollo Theater where she is hoping to york and win the nomination before the convention. Clinton to discuss her plans today to raise incomes for all communities, keep the country safe and bring it together after what she calls a very tense election season. Meanwhile, opponent Bernie Sanders will hold a rally in the south bronx tomorrow where he is expected to talk about getting big money out of politics, free tuition at public colleges and universities, Climate Change and universal healthcare. While sanders trails clinton, the race has tightened over the last couple of days. Clintons event will start here at the apollo at 11 30 this morning. Doors will open a few hours beforehand and then she will be in westchester tomorrow. Were live theater this morning in harlem. Im diana rocco, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, diana, thank you. And speaking at a wisconsin town hall for the republicans, all three president ial contenders backed away from their pledge to support the eventual nominee. Party officials got candidates to sign the pledge last clearly fed up with each other. Im not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my family. No, i dont anyway. You dont . No. Well see who it is. You wont promise to support the republican nominee . And he was essentially saying the same thing. I gotta see what happens. If the nominee is somebody who i think is really hurting the country and dwieldinging the country, i cant stand stand behind them. Trump says the wisconsin showdown could be his best chance to push cruz out of the race. Donald trump, in the meantime, stands by his Campaign Manager now charged battery of a reporter. Police say Cory Lewandowski grabbed Michelle Fields by the arm and yanked her backwards. Trump says lewandowski thought she had something in her hand, possibly a knife or a pen and thought that donald trump was in danger. 4 39. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with your accuweather forecast. Lets look from our camera here in astoria, looking south down the east river over to the left there, thats big alice the power plant, 59th street and ed koch bridge and right there which down is 1 world trade. So that lets us know weve got a great visibility here this. Heres the camera over the east river to wall street, looking really nice here and to the south street seaport. Overnight low is 39. Skies are clear, winds are calm. High pressure comes across today, making for some great weather. Eventually this stuff is going to come to us. Well talk about that this morning. First off a nice day. We start off with a temperature getting to about 39 by 9 00, noontime 50 degrees. Well get to 57 this afternoon with a little southerly wind, so that will feel great. All right. Lets play a little game, shall we . Thats heather orourke, best traffic person in town. Reporter okay. Im going to guess thats the Southern State parkway. Im going to guess thats the Grand Central parkway. Reporter keep going. Im going to guess that is this is the fdr drive. Fdr drive, as my son would say, i knew it. Fdr drive as you go ontot northbound side in the 70s, only the left lane is open and that is because of construction. Lets go over to our maps and talk to you about whats happening here with our subway status. 1 trains fast track, no service between 96th street and dikeman street. Thats until 5 00 a. M. New Jersey Transit, rail rail, Metro North Long Island Railroad and metro north doing just fine. Tonalee avenue closed because of an accident. Alternate sides in effect for today. Lori, michelle, over to you. Thank you. 4 41. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, as new yorkers we try to ignore them, but theyre bold, nasty and everywhere, and this rat decided to give a sleeping subway rider a rude awakening. Yikes a daring robbery caught on camera. A customer at a new york gas by a wouldbe robber. Hear how his brave actions may have save lives. And we want to hear from you, our viewers. Eyewitness news is holding a town hall meeting tonight. Itll be held at the yonkers 4 44. And the motive may have been marital tensions rather than terrorism, but the hijacking of an egyptian passenger flight is still raising serious security concerns. The hijacker claimed to be wearing a suicide vest which later proved to be false. But before he was taken into custody on the tarmac by accused hijacker had gotten the plane diverted from egypt to cyprus. The home of his exwife regardless of whether or not this is a real device, there have to be real concerns raised at this point about security there. Well, police say the accused hijacker is unstable and a court in cyprus has ordered him held for eight days while prosecutors build their case against him. In mississippi, a 20year old has pleaded guilty to federal charges of aiding terrorist, jalen young admits she tried to join isis and conspired with her boyfriend to provide support for isis. Federal agents arrested the couple last summer and he pleaded guilty earlier this month. The two face up to 20 years in prison when theyre sentenced. Its video that not only will make your skin crawl, it will definitely make you think twice about taking a nap on the subway. Thats a rat crawling on a man who was take ago nap on a 7 train early sunday morning. The big rodent got on board at hudson yards and then made a fellow passenger caught the stunning scene on video. Im getting ready to see where hes going with this rat and all of a sudden it gets near the person and im, like, oh, gosh shocking oh, my god you wanted to whisper to him something, like wake up. Oh, my heavens. The rat got off the train at times square. The person who served as a seat never knew what happened, but really youre gonna roll on that instead of helping the sleeping guy . Youre going to take out your phone and get pictures of it. He must have been in a deep sleep. Thats a person sit thrg. I dont know. I want that person watching out for me. Go like this, shoeshoe. Meteorologist bill evans. And he knew it was there. The rat was getting off in times square to be with the rest of the costumed characters. I was thinking the same thing, bill. Very nice. Its times square. Rat for the metro car. He jumped the turnstile, thats not acceptable. Heres whats going on, 59th street south, looking down towards midtown. A nice morning here. And its going to be a chilly start to the day. But, actually, temperatures are where they should be for this hour of the day. Heres asbury park as we look south here down the beach, down the main drag. Its looking good, we got a good visibility all the way south down toward point pleasant, new jersey. 38 degrees, dry humanity. A light west wind. Thats key. And the wind is going to go south today, so that will start to warm us up for tomorrow. Look at the barometer, 30. 31 even though it says f for falling. Its way up above normal which is 30. 00. So that means we have a nice fair day. Yesterdays high was 53. Normal is 55 now. Temperatures, of course, the averages are warming up. But were looking at, you know, temperatures today well above normal. Well, a couple of degrees above normal anyway. Well above normal tomorrow. Sun up at 6 42. Should be pretty. Here are your headlines, calm and cold by dawn. As the temperatures warm up, were going to warm up as we get toward the end of the week and kicking off april with some showers, maybe some snow, wet snow overnight friday into saturday. Well have to keep a look at that as we go into the weekend because its going fob rather chilly. So were looking at northport and massapequa at 36. Bridge hampton 39. 27 andover and 25 monticello. Those are the 20s we were talking yesterday. When the temperature drops off like that, its because we have a calm wind to a very light wind. We see singledigit wind speeds here and the clear sky. So the wind gusts from yesterday, etans neck and newark 53, jfk 52. That was some tough wind yesterday. Now we have some clear skies, gorgeous weather all the way back to the great lakes and today is going to be nice and mild, plenty of sunshine, 57. Tonight partly cloudy, low 45. Tomorrow its sunny, its warmer with some late clouds. Were at 69 degrees. So were looking at warmer weather for the last day of march. Rainy, breezy, warm weather for but were also looking at some very interesting weather as we go into monday for the yankees home opener. That day we could possibly see what will be some colder air. Look at that, 45 degrees on monday. Its going to be quite cold, and were going to be looking at some chilly numbers as we go into next week. Temperatures in the 40s for highs. Normal highs we were just showing you is about 55. So next week starts off rather chilly as we kick off april. Opening day for the yankees, yow. Dress warmly. I thats right. I told but that story about snow on opening day, right . The old stomach punch . That was good. Was that cohen . David cohen. I won an emmy for that and i deserved it. Yes, you did. No pain, no gain. Anybody slugs you, there you go. Lets check in with heather. Reporter a little bit of a painful thing here. This is the 1 train fast track, no service between 96th and dikeman streets and thats until 5 00 a. M. But the good news is that should be cleared away soon. Now, this is actually the gowanus expressway inbound at Fort Hamilton parkway, three lanes closed down. Long island railroad, metro north, new Jersey Transit doing just fine. Over to you heather, thanks. Police in philadelphia have caught four young boy hoss were caught on camera last week in a pro fannityfilled confrontation on a train. [ bleep ] well, the outbrurs was so foul that we cant outbours was so foul we cant let you hear it and the children were so young we cant show their faces. Police say the four boys are just 6 to 7 years old. One passenger who was attacked shotted video of them cursing, hitting and at least pointing and even spitting at a passenger and slapping a woman. Isnt is this isnt a case where at 6 00 in the morning, were going to be breaking down the door and the goal is to get them help. Now that the police have identified the boys, they have reached out to offer help, but up to this point they have not gotten any response. 4 50 right now. A mother in new jersey says a local Fast Food Restaurant served her family tainted chicken. Now the lodi Health Department is investigating waffle anarez brought home an eightpiece chicken combo last week from a popeyes chicken in lodi. Her children already started chowing down when they noticed what appeared to be news print on the chicken. My boys came and said, mom, did you eat that chicken on the table . I said dont eat it, theres a brand writing all over it. I said what do you mean. They give me the piece. I take a couple bites from it. They say look at it. When i looked at it, i was in shock. She says her family suffered stomachaches after the meal. We reached out to popeyes for comment, but we have not heard back. The Health Department would not comment yet. Young man literally fights for his life to get away from a man holding a knife to his throat. This is Surveillance Video from a Convenience Store in schenectady. A robber grabs 20yearold rob phelps from behind early sunday morning, and then the crook tells the clerk to hand over the stores money, all while waving the knife in phelps face. He said at that moment he decided to fight back. I wrestled him and i threw him against the shelves and i just kept i kept a stiff arm just to make sure that none of none of that knife was coming near me. Well, phelps and the store clerk eventually chase the robber out of the store. The man, hes still on the loose. Phelps says that he had to fight back because he had to sa