April 15th and you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Beginning with meteorologist bill evans and the accuweather forecast. Check out this sunrise. Sun is up in contactually 17 minutes exactly 17 minutes from right now. We are at dawn as we look from the roof camera across flushing bay and images there, thats the throggs neck, the whitestone bridge. Up in the sky, some high thin cirrus clouds. Beautiful morning here. 44 degrees and light north wind going to be a Beautiful Day. Its chilly around poughkeepsie caramel 30. And bridgeport 39 and 38 around islip. Today well have sunshine 45 by later on today. Little light northeast wind will make it just a little bit cooler at those coastal sections. We do the weather here every seven minutes. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. Debbie duhaime in for heather this morning. Hao it going . On the bronx right now as we head to the cross bronx eastbound, past castle hill avenue. Heading into the bruckner, accident blocking a lane watch over on the hutch at the hutchenson river drawbridge. Its in the up position. Thats temporarily blocked and also a problem on east tremont avenue by white plains road. An ongoing accident investigation there. Everything shut down. Subways on or close to schedule and heres a look at the belt parkway westbound. Starting to build here. George, lincoln and holland moving along smoothly. Lets go outside and i want to show you a look another route 80. 80 eastbound taking up some volume here as you head out to exit 42 in parsippany. The earlier problems on 78 westbound in watchung completely cleared out of the way and alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Back over to you, lori, ken . All right, debbie thank you. 6 02. Developing this morning, one person was killed a triple shooting in new jersey and the killer is still on the run. Shots rang out around 10 00 last night near taylor and hickory streets in orange. One person died at the scene. Two overs were wounded. 6 302. The president ial candidates have a huge weekend ahead with thive at the New York Primary just four days away. The campaign got a brutal jolt of energy from the shouts and accusations going back and forth in brooklyns democratic debate. Hillary clinton and bernie standers faced off sanders faced off and the attacks got personal. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live in east harlem. Reporter good morning lori and ken, it was a very busy night for the candidates on one side. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders engage in a heavy war brooklyn. Meanwhile, the republican candidates gathered in midtown all at the same event and for the most part, they were cordal to one another. But their presence provoked a big protest. President ial politics in midtown turned wild as new yorks Republican Party elite met for their annual gala. Protesters held the street outside and almost three dozen arrested while inside the grand hyatt, the three contenders with donald trump only taking aim at mayor de blasio. Its just a great city. Its a vibrant city an amazing city. We have to be careful. Our mayor has to be careful. Because he can blow it very quickly if he keeps going the way hes going. Not doing good. We better be careful. Mr. Mayor. Reporter debate moderators also had their hands full in brooklyn. If youre both screaming at each other, the viewers wont be able to hear either of you. Reporter it went on like that for two hours over israel, gun control, and clintons vote for the war in iraq. I dont believe that that is the kind of judgment we need to be the kind of president we need. President obama trusted my judgment enough to ask me to be secretary of state. For the united states. Reporter abc news political director rick klein says the two candidates left each other bloodied but nothing here is going to change sides in a big way. Another six weeks of harsh intense campaigning. Reporter meanwhile, the New York Post has made it official. The newspaper is endorsing donald trump. Saying in part he has the potential, the skills, the know how and the values to live up to his Campaign Slogan to make America Great again. Donald trump, john kasich and ted cruz will all be campaigning upstate this weekend. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders left for the vatican immediately after last nights debate. And Hillary Clinton is scheduled to make an appearance here in east harlem before going to california for a few fundraising events. Were live this morning in east harlem, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Dray thank you. New poll shows mayor bill de blasios Approval Rating is now at its lowest since he took office in january of 2014. Just 35 of new yorkers think the mayor is doing an excellent or good job. A majority of the voters 51 say the city is in the wrong the poll raises questions about the mayors vulnerability too a challenge in the next election. Happening today, in a manhattan federal judge releases a collection of documents on the dealings of Sheldon Silver the now convicted former assembly speaker. Silvers lawyers argued against the release but the judge is making the material public. Silver was convicted in november in a 5 million corruption trial. Theres a special election next tuesday to fill his assembly seat. Developing overseas, crews are searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck japan. Killing nine people and injuring hundreds more. The 6. 5 quake hit near thesy about 800 miles south of tokyo. The wide extent of the damage is clear with collapsed buildings and expressway crunched and buckled and entire rooftops rocked off the homes and about 44,000 people are in shelters and some 1600 soldiers have joined the relief effort. So far, there have been at least 116 aftershocks. Fire that has started. Lets get to john del giorno conviction. Hi attorneys asked for a retrial arguing one of the jurors shouldnt have been on the panel. He was convicted in february of in akai gurley in 2014. He faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced tuesday but could likely get probation. New this morning, federal health firms are reporting the officials are reporting the first case when the zika virus was transmitsed between same sex partners. After a trip toughens way la. Officials are now recommending straight and lgbt couples use condoms after traveling to region where is the zika outbreak is ongoing. Time is 6 09. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic, heres meteorologist bill evans and the exclusive weekend accuweather forecast. I love this shot looking from the camera at flushing bay out across the Long Island Sound and long island sun is coming up. Its going to be beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous those red hues in the morning. You know theres that added red sky in the morning sailor take warning. Not this time. It does come into play some. But as you see we have a great morning out there. Just a beautiful sunrise and these and sunsets to go with them. Through the weekend. Were looking at temperature of 43 degrees and clear skies and light northeast winds. Beautiful day. Were looking at clear skies through new england to canada and back. West. To the to the west, the great lakes. The big ridge of High Pressure will hang around all weekend long. 47 by 9 00 and 53 to 58 by the time we go to the lunch hour. And were looking at 63 this afternoon. A couple of degrees warmer than normal. For this time of the year. At the bus stop, kiddos, its a little crisp and cool this morning. 45 and a jacket and a sweater ought to do it for you. Then we have nice sunny weather there and its going on a beautiful to be a beautiful afternoon. The kids are all dressed for afterSchool Sports a nice start to the weekend. 63degrees. Well talk about that weekend and monday, Debbie Duhaime, the temperature might hit 80 degrees and parts of the area. I love it. Traffic center . Happening. Good morning to everybody. Go outside and i want to show you a look at 80. Light coming towards us as you get out through parsippany. Typical volume and reports of an accident on 78 westbound by 287 in jersey as well. Also to the maps and tell you whats happening in the bronx. Over on the cross bronx east, right past castle hill avenue into the bruckner interchange, accident still blocking a lane. Also east tremont avenue still blocked by white plains road. Thats an accident investigation and it may be a pedestrian accident there. And watch for delays as well on the hutch. Right at the Hutchinson River drawbridge. Its in the up position at this point and thats why traffic is really busy in that stretch. Subways running on or close to schedule. Earlier problems on the 5 and 2 completely cleared and heres the westbound belt still busy out by the kennedy airport. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Back over tow. Ken, lori . Thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, remembering the victims this morning. As we mark three years since the Boston Marathon bombings. The tribute ahead today. Plus, a new reason to monitor how much sleep your the missing shut eye could actually lead to dangerous behavior. And getting another check now on that fire that reignited in jersey city. John del giorno overhead will have much more when we come back. Maxx life in store and online. New jersey and are fire sparked yesterday in a vacant home in jersey city now rekind ld. Another check from john del giorno live in newscopter 7. John . More information on in as we reported earlier this is on forest street just off of ocean avenue in jersey city. This fire began last night at about 8 00 at night and it spread among five buildings down here. There were five buildings initially involved in this fire. Three of the buildings unoccupied. Two were occupied. They had declared this fire under control last anything. But as we last night. But as we pulled up this morning we saw huge flames once again out the second and third floors of two of the homes that were involved in the initial fire at 6 00. You can see now Jersey City Fire Department back on the scene. Weve got no word on injuries. We do know that they pulled out of the building because of an senior collapse and stay overhead and have more information as we get it. For now live over jersey city, john del giorno, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Its 6 15. The Boston Marathon bombings and the city is honoring the victims there. Today the governor of massachusetts and the mayor of boston will be joined by survivors and the families of the victims to lay a wreath at the marathon finish line. Thats where two Pressure Cooker bombs went off during the 2013 race killing three people and leaving more than 260 hurt. The city will hold a moment of silence at 2 49 this afternoon. The finish line is in place for mondos marathon. 3 mondays marathon. 30,000 runners will take part and they will not be alone. 500,000 people will line the streets of boston to cheer on the runners through all 26. 2 miles. Its 6 16. Time to get a check on the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist bill evans live outside the studios laughing and barking on the upper west side. Heres whats going on this morning, folks are walking their dogs, its clear skies and a beautiful morning. Its going to be a great day. Lets take a look outside. Beautiful sunrise this morning. Wow. Check that out. Nice job this morning gang. Have in progress here. You notice the sun is not all the way up. So the sun is not officially up yet. But its getting close. Heres whats going on this morning. We do have a beautiful morning in progress. The temperature 43 degrees. Humidity 74 . And winds are calm. So humidity is kind of low to moderate. Barometer way up there at 30. 41. Yesterdays high 62 and normal is 61. And were going to be lookinged a beautiful sunrise. At a beautiful sunrise. 6 16. Just about a minute away from and were looking at a beautiful sun is the at 7 37. Heres whats going on today. 40 at teterboro and 41 newark and look at that down the jersey shore, sandy soil and clear skies and a calm wind. That temperature really drops off there at monmouth and ocean county. You can see we have a clear sky and a calm wind up to the north as well. A light northeasterly wind during the day today. Weve got nothing tonsillitis radar pictures. We got to go way up above the Lake Superior to find anything that means were going to have ask probably our rainfall for this month even though we talk about april showers, all the time, probably going to be below normal for rainfall this month in the way the pattern is starting to set up. Being very dry. 38 by the time we get this morning down the shore is. But were looking at upper 30s to start the day tomorrow. Then were looking at sunshine and mid 60s tomorrow. And well be a little warmer starting off your day on sunday. After school today, kiddos, 63 degrees. Sunshine, great weather for afterschool. Hey if you were just thinking about taking the boat out, water temperatures are a tad chilly. That might be a wit of a rip bit of a rip at the beaches, the water is 47, 45 degrees but the waves will be about three to five, four to six out in the atlantic with that northeast wind coming in today. And tomorrow. So sunny and nice. 63. 44 tonight. Were looking at 30s in the suburbs and tomorrow, its a cool start and sunny and pleasant. High temperature for tomorrow. Weve got sunshine as we go into sunday. 70 excuse me. We got sunshine and 70 degrees on sunday. 76 on monday. And well have 80degree temperatures in some spots. Otherwise we cool down a little bit next week but temperatures even by thursday of next week are above normal and looking at primary tuesday the weather is going to be great for getting to the polls and voting on primary tuesday. So beautiful weather. Lets go rise and shine. Have a great weekend. All right. Thank you bill. He makes want to get out there. I know right . Wow. Hes all revved up. Debbie right now for a check on the commute. Good morning, good morning to you everybody. Were going to start off by showing you some pictures right now. Going outside and seeing whats happening here as we take a ride to the Staten Island expressway. Eastbound moving out out to bradley avenue. Remember the terrible accident there yesterday. Thats of course gone. Over to the map and tell you about the cross bronx east at castle hill avenue. An accident still being cleared over on east tremont avenue at castle hill avenue accident investigation. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Back over to you. Lori, ken . All right debbie thank you. A new Study Suggests a sleepy teen is a dangerous teen. Study released by the cdc says the teenagers who get less than seven hours of sleep tend to live a brittle lit more on the little bit more on the wild side. They are more like by to engage in risky behavior like text asking driving or drink asking driving texting and driving or drinking and driving. Too little sleep also ups the odds for teenage obesity. Depression and accidents. Well, the National Park service is offering a real welcome to spring. The Service Marking its centennial with free admission to all narcotic parks. True only National Parks, true only third of the National Parks have entrance fees but those that do have the biggest attractions like the grand january con. You can check the National Park complete list of parks by state. Nice. It is 6 20. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, more fallout from North Carolinas controversial bathroom law. The meeting today that could lead to change of venue for the nba allstar game scheduled in charlotte. Also ahead a break for your bank account. The help delta customers can Olay Regenerist renews from within. Plumping surface cells for a dramatic transformation without the need for fillers. Olay regenerist, olay. Ageless. And try the microsculpting cream you love now with lightweight spf 30. Introducing oikos crunch. 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You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. I want to see that. And bill . You scream at the phone . I do. No. Customer service, would you Like Customer Service no i just say agent. Like [ laughter ] not an option, here are your choices agent okay. So much for choices. There we go. We got beautiful sunshine for the day today. Its going to be absolutely gorgeous. Here we go. We take look at whats happening this morning. And it is as we start the day were going to have temperatures that are in the mid 40s today and were going to be looking at mostly mid 60s later on this afternoon and tomorrow. Look at