In the New York Primary. Hillary clinton, donald trump defended their home turf an theyre a little closer to clinching the partys nomination. The man under the mask revealed. A break in the case for the suspect who police call the ninja burglar wanted for terrorizing people in the tri state. And take a look outside. Get real ready for another sunny get ready for another spring day in the city. Thank you for joining us, im ken rosato. Halfway there. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Good morning, everybody. Were going to have clear skies, a great day, sunshine beautiful weather. Temperature right now 52 degrees which is nice and comfy for this hour of the day, warmer than normal. Were looking at 50 around teterboro and 52 around newark and laguardia is 53. Even the numbers up to the north, poughkeepsie is at 43 and 50 around bridgeport, long island, 46 down the jersey shore. Lunch and were going to hit 67 this afternoon. A little cooler than yesterday, but still warmer than normal and we have less wind than yesterday. Well, our sunny weather continues. Well talk about how long in the accuweather forecast. Shes been sneezing her head off. Reporter oh, my gosh, these allergies. All morning long. Reporter its terrible. Its the tree pollen out there. Well talk about that too this morning. Heather is looking at the commute. Reporter i think i do much better around palm trees thats true. Reporter g trains no trains between hoyt street and church avenue. Use the f or a train as your alternate. Long island railroad, new jersey transit, metro north, everything is running on or close to schedule. George Washington Bridge, coming inbound the lower level closed down, that is with construction. And then we have construction at the lincoln and holland as well. As you go outbound at the lincoln tunnel and youre coming around 495 going up that helix, youre going to find only the left lane open. That is because of construction as well. We do have street cleaning rules in effect for today. Lori, over to you. All right, heather, thank you. Empire state building lit up in blue and red overnight in honor of the primary winners. Frontrunners Hillary Clinton, donald trump won big, putting their campaigns back on track after recent losses. And the voters of new york have spoken, and were breaking down the results this morning for you. Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in her adopted home state, winning nearly 58 of the vote. Eyewitness News Reporter dray clark is live now outside clintons headquarters in downtown brooklyn. Dray. Reporter well, good morning, lori. Hillary clinton definitely defended her home turf well with a very decisive win. Meanwhile, for Bernie Sanders hes still in the running, but barely. New yorkers came through for Hillary Clinton in a big way, taking her one step closer to getting her partys nomination. New yorkers, youve always and ive always tried to have yours. Today, together we did it again and i am deeply, deeply grateful. Reporter Bernie Sanders was hoping for an upset win in the primary which could have changed the trajectory of the race. Sanders campaigned hard in new york, drawing crowds in the thousands, but in the end he suffered a doubledigit loss. Today we took secretary clinton on in her own state of new york and we lost. Reporter clinton supporters have now stepped up their calls for sanders to get out of the race. To stay in, they sairks would be destructive. Reporter Bernie Sanders flew back to vermont late last night in order to have talks with his staff sometime today an this break from the campaign trail comes as there is now a battle [ no audio ] live in brooklyn, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. All right, dray, thank you. Donald trump is in new york. The billionaire businessman snatched 60 of the vote. John kasich finished a distant second, followed by ted cruz. Were going to go back to lori in the meantime, in other news for you, new york citys comptroller is launching an investigation into the board of elections and their voters ran into problems at the polls. In brooklyn tens of thousands of new yorkers were purged from voter rolls and its not clear why. Some had been declared inactive, but werent given the vote. Board of elections says that others had been previously told they would not be able to vote in the primary. One side, in fact, staffer seemed unaware the republicans could vote in the primary. Time. Now, we have everything you need to know about new the results. Just go to our website, abc7ny. Happening today and the Staten IslandDistrict Attorney is expected to announce a big ninja burglar. Eyewitness News Reporter toni yates is live now in st. George us. Good morning, toni. Reporter good morning, lori. Police say 46yearold Robert Costanzo actually admitted pulling off several burglaries here on Staten Island between 2007 and 2008. This was after he was arrested for a burglary in connecticut where a woman was held at knifepoint before 75,000 worth of jewelry was taken from her safe. Now, costanzo is a level 3 sex offender, he was accused of a 1989 rape here on Staten Island, also a 1996 Sexual Battery in florida. Now, during this ninja burglary spree here on Staten Island, 19 homes have been hit. A few homeowners had even come face to face with a six foot tall man dressed head to toe in black. He was once stabbed by a victim, but he got away. One homeowner says she was threatened with none shots. The crimes were never officially solved, but after into custody for that 2014 connecticut burglary, together evidence. Eventually they say it tied him to the Staten Island. Now, d. A. Michael mcmahon will hold a press conference at 1 00 to announce the arrest. Costanzo will also be arraigned here. For now, live on Staten Island, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News thank you, toni. 4 36. Both sides are now appealing a judges decision after the sentencing of former nypd officer peter liang in the shooting death of akai gurley. Yesterday he was sentenced to five years of probation and Community Service after a judge reduced his manslaughter conviction, instead convicts him of criminally negligent homicide. Liang shot and killed akai gurley when he fired a shot in the stairwell of the pink houses in brooklyn. [ inaudible ] i apologize. Liang plans to appeal his conviction. The brooklyn d. A. Also plans to appeal the ruling after the judge reduced the conviction decided on by a jury. 4 37. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans. Bill. All right. Lets take a look outside from our camera here at 4 times square looking south, clear skies. Pretty morning here an nice and comfortable around the five boroughs. Its a little cool out in the suburbs north and west. Well talk about that this morning. And were looking at temperatures starting off here around midtown manhattan 52 degrees, really pretty morning, really comfortable. Normal overnight lows in the low and mid40s. We have clear skies, we got a beautiful day. Theres High Pressure sinking down out of canada right across us. Off to our west is warmer air. That is poised to come our way for tomorrow. Today its going to be 3 at 9 00, and then by afternoon were looking at 65 to about 67 every seven minutes. I know youve never done that, right . Reporter did you just say 3 degrees at 9 00 . I typed in the wrong temperature. Reporter thats going to be really coal. Just by 9 00. Then by 9 15 itll be okay . Yeah, jumping back up to 60 degrees. Reporter see . That works out fine in my world. If this is part of your world, the fdr drive on the northbound side up into the 90s, as you can see we do have some construction there. Southbound side is doing just fine, no major issues there. Lets go over to our maps, well talk to you about whats going on with our g trains. No trains between hoyt street and church avenue, so you can hop on the a or the f train, that is because, of course, track work. New jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north, theyre all running on or close to schedule, so no major issues as far as mass transit is we do have an issue with the George Washington bridge, lower construction. That should last until about 5 00 a. M. Away. And then we do have construction at the lincoln an the holland, especially coming inbound. But the inbound side of the that helix, you get to the top of the helix, youll find only the left lane open. This is because of construction. Again, this should be cleared away by at least 5 00 a. M. And thats normally when they start clearing away that construction at our hudson river crossings. Western spur of the turnpike has closures both directions, and that is causing everybody to be kicked on over to the eastern spur as well. But its not causing any major delays. And heres a look at the Grand Central parkway right in front of laguardia airport. Thats a very quiet ride. Street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Lori, ken, over to you heather, thank you. It is 4 40. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, the federal corruption investigation into Campaign Fundraising is now widening. Coming up Political Races investigators are now looking into. A simple arrest turns into a gun battle between officers and a suspect in brooklyn. Were going to tell you what trigger the violence. And ecigarette blows up in a queens womans pocket. This morning were hearing from her. 4 42 now. Welcome back. And new this morning, the federal investigation of mayor bill de blasios Campaign Fundraising has expanded. The New York Times is reporting prosecutors are now focused on the mayors efforts to raise money for democratic cans in and half a dozen state senate races in 2014. Grand jury subpoenas have been issued. Several of the Democratic Candidates have been questioned by the fbi and investigators from the manhattan District Attorneys office. Well, police shot and wounded a man after they say he pull out a gun in front of officers in downtown brooklyn. This happened at the farragut houses and police say when officers stopped a man for a woman, that mans friend pulled a gun from his waistband. Three officers opened fire, shooting him in the hand. Both men were arrested. 4 43. Two men charged in a notorious well, theyre set to appear in court today. The brawl was caught on camera Easter Sunday at the newport mall in jersey city. 22yearold kaseem charles, aka, easter bunny and 44year old quan Jimenez Guerrero are both charged with assault and disorderly conduct. Guerrero is accused of attacking the bunny after his child fell off his lap. Now to the deadly floods in texas and the death toll in houston has now risen to seven. Also seeing video of rescues from the rising waters. A group of people, young people had ventured into the water with a kayak and they ended up in trouble. Good samaritans ended up pulling them out. The flooding was caused by storms that dumped nearly a foot and a half of water in just 24 hours. Good god, look at that. Thats amazing. Learned lesson. Absolutely. 4 44. Meteorologist bill evans tells us all the time a foot of water is something you dont wade into and you dont drive into. Then you had some of the texan Football Players that wasnt nothing that they went to camp and worked out anywar zway. The mayor says dont drive your car down there. Never drive your car through that stuff. They get a lot of rain in the houston area, especially in this kind of setup and ill kind of explain that in just a moment in our accuweather forecast. A lot of people on social media asking whats going on down there . Why is that being caused . Ill explain that for you. Heres whats happening this morning, a temperature of 52 degrees as we look down the beach here at as dlp bury park. Look at the humidity, 34 . Yesterday afternoon the humidity dropped to 19 yesterday afternoon. Its not unusual, it does happen here, particularly this time of the year in the spring. You got a northwest wind, High Pressure comes in out of canada. Normal is 63 and 46 the low. So were starting out above that and this afternoon well be above our normal high. High brush fire threat is still an issue through this evening. Theres a fire warning threat for fairfield county. Its closer to normal today, around 67, 63 is our normal high. So were going to be closer to 70s back on tap for tomorrow. Some showers show up friday afternoon. So today and tomorrow, check out the air quality. Uv index of 7 today and tomorrow which is high, about an hour or maybe two gets you a sunburn, about an hour on fair skin with no sunscreen or sunblock. But maple, juniper, poplar, all those trees are blossoming now. Birch and oak are really going to explode in the next week or two. Next week birch just really comes out with these warm after that. So thats what you have, heather, the tree pollen. Or you could be bipoplar. I dont know. [ laughter ] fire weather warning for county. But, still, its dry. We just have a light wind today. And, of course, we have this frost issue this morning. Heres a frost advisory for putnam county, northern orange county. So we are looking at clear skies here. If you had a big wind today there, would be more of this area. But its still very dry and you want to be careful. That were keeping an eye on tomorrow. This afternoon the temperature gets to about 50 by 7 00. This afternoon about 65, 67 degrees. Tomorrow were going to start the day in the upper 40s to low 40s north and west. Still warm for the overnight hours. Tomorrow afternoon were going to get to 72. Notice from the west tomorrow clouds will start to increase tomorrow night, and then were dry for the morning commute on friday, but friday afternoon we could see a shower and a thunderstorm. Okay. The updated forecast is at 9 00 itll be 53 degrees, not 3 going to 55, just want to get that update out there. But i was on it first. Anybody who had that first, it was me. Athletics and yankees this evening, 7 05 game time, temperature about 59 degrees. Great baseball weather. Eight straight dry days today. Clouds increase and then friday that front comes in with showers. Plenty of sun, light breeze, 67. Tonight clear and moonlit, 40 in the suburbs, 47 in the five then weve got sunshine and clouds in the afternoon tomorrow, were at 72. Friday we have that little shot of a shower. There might be a popup thunderstorm in there. You have to allow that for springtime because the atmosphere is unstable, but friday night this pushes right through the area and the weekend looks great. Couple of clouds saturday morning, no biggy. Were looking at sunshine saturday, 66 with a nice little ocean air mass on sunday. You said birch is bad right now, right . Birch is coming out through next week, oak after that. My aler scwris says when birch is strong, thats when people think theyre allergic to carrots and get allergies with carrots when they eat carrots, thats when their allergens, or their reactions are the strongest because birch causes food cross reactions. Im going to post something on facebook thats very interesting. It causes reaction. So there you go. Ill post it on my Facebook Page please do that. Me . I say eat chocolate. Right. Who wants carrot when is you they both start with a c right . Lealts talk about whats starting lets start with the g trains, we have no trains between hoyt street and church avenue that. Is because of track work. So you want to use the a or the f trains instead. And that should be in place until about 5 00 a. M. New jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north, they are all running on or close to schedule. So if you are going out to catch a train, no worries there. Talking about this, this is the Grand Central parkway right in front of laguardia which you can see is moving just fine, no major issues there. Well talk about 27 northbound right near finnegans lane, this is in North Brunswick, we have this downed pole. So all lanes are closed down. And this has been there for a while now, but its the northbound side that is closed down. George Washington Bridge inbound lower level, that has been reopened, that earlier construction has been cleared away. A minor delay at the George Washington bridge coming inbound, some construction and at the lincoln and the holland as you come into the city, and then going outbound on 495 at have that construction also cleared away. Our street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Ken, over to you thank you so much, heather. 4 49. A queens woman suffers severe burns after an ecigarette blows up in her pocket. Katrina williams says that she was stopped inside her car in queens when she says the device simply exploded. It flew out of her pocket and onto the dashboard. Williams now releases on a cane to get around. Shes on a long road to recovery which includes surgery and skin grafts to repair the thirddegree burns. I just hope it doesnt happen to anybody else. At this time i just want to feel better wow the 24yearold is suing the manufacturer and the store that she bought the ecig from. Her Attorney Says there are very few warnings associated with that device. Well, former cuban leader fidel castro made a very rare appearance and some are calling it his farewell speech. Yesterday he told the Cuban Communist Party the congress in so many words that he will die soon. To continue his work when hes gone. The Party Congress did not welcome th