Im ken rosato. Wednesday august 17th. Thank you very much, good to be here. It just means a lot of people are on vacation. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Heres meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. Reporter thunderstorms overnight around the area. Now the temperature 79 degrees, warm for the overnight hours and we have a wind out of the southwest here. 81 hearing, 79 jfk. 80 around islip, the numbers are warm but the winds are out is a shower in northeast warren county. That will go by and then we have a lot of wind today out of the northwest, 10, 120 Miles Per Hour today, these are sustained winds. Temperatures today will be warm. Well be in the upper 80s but it will be a breezy day with low humidity. Flooding around from last nights thunderstorms. Heather is going to talk about that and problems on long island this morning. Those thunderstorms were scarery. Yes they were. Reporter lets check out happening here on 17. Both ways flooding in both directions, now it does not mean the road is closed down but it is closed down farther south near midland avenue. Long island railroad, Jersey Transit and metro north, all running on or close to schedule. The subways, a, d, l, m, have track work until 5 00 a. M. Construction George Washington bridge lincoln and holland, the lower level closed at the george. 60s we have construction. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken over to you. Thank you very much heather. Is that 432 67 89 flames erupt inside a home injuring three people, including a 5yearold. Children were being dropped out of windows in order to escape the burning little ferry home on washington street. Darla miles on the scene with new reaction. Good morning. Reporter good morning ken. The fire is out but i want to show you where firefighters are look at the front of the home. You can see where the first floor is completely gutted. The front of the house is pretty much charred. But i also want to point your attention to where the firefighters are standing right now, those two cars. There are some initial reports that fire from these vehicles may have kept this family trapped inside of the home. Now we also have cell phone video of this fire, where witnesses describe hearing explosions. This happened around 11 30 last night here on washington Avenue Little ferry. In fact a Police Lieutenant just happened to be driving by, heard the explosions. He says when he arrived here on the scene, there were children being lowered from the second floor to escape the flames. Reporter as i was passing this house, i heard a big pop, knew it was some type of explosion. Not sure if it came from the garage or the cars parked in the driveway and the whole is unconfirmed at this point how many family members live in this home but there could be up to six people injured. Ken as you mentioned there is a 5yearold being treated for burns at hackensack Medical Center. Two women are being treated for second and third degree burns and as you can see, the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Reporting live in little ferry, darla miles channel 7 Eyewitness News. Also developing this Morning Police are still on the scene in new jersey where the body of a missing was found buried in a backyard. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco is live in long branch with the latest on this investigation. Good morning. Reporter good morning. After missing for five months this is not the outcome rita juliuss family have been waiting for. Two people are under arrest. Who does live in this moment. Julius went missing on march 8th when a friend dropped her off at the long branch train station. She was found last night. Circumstances surrounding her disappearance and murder are unclear this morning but police did spend the night focusing their efforts on harris backyard. Harris and sweeney are now charged with first degree murder, desecration of human remains and tampering with physical evidence. Julius had just recovered from being shot eight times while sitting in a car in the front in november in linden, new jersey when she disappeared. Julius did leave behind two teenage children. An autopsy is scheduled later this morning. Police hope that will give them the cause of death here. Live in long branch, new jersey diana rocco channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you so much. Major break in a missing persons case in think in think in. Also Police Arrested two yearold rita julius who vanished last march. Her remains were found last night. 33yearold Jennifer Sweeney and 32yearold andre falls are charged with murder, desecration of human remains and tampering with physical evidence. Also developing this morning, a big Campaign Shake up for donald trump. We have learned that trump is bringing in Steven Bannon as his campaign ceo. Dealing with falling poll numbers and the shake up comes just 82 days before election days. More on this developing story ahead at 5 00 this morning. 4 36. This morning we are hearing from the bicyclist who was hit by the man who kill an imam in queens. A gun found in barrels home is a ballistic match used to killed the imam. Were murdered police say he hit david al sha mere. The driver yelled curses at him and he believes he was targeted. When i saw his face i realized this person is totally abnormal, he is totally lost his control. Reporter police have still motive behind more el actions. Hundreds showed up in howard beach last night to keep the attention on finds vetranos killer. Vetrano was strangled and sexually assaulted during an evening run. Many says they wont find peace until the killer is caught. If you have any idea or the reward has topped 245,000. Her parents are hoping that high amount will persuade witnesses to come forward. Developing out west a monstrous wildfire raging outside of los angeles forcing 80,000 people from their homes. The fire started as a small patch of flames in interest San Bernardino county but quickly exploded into a 28mile square blaze. Two firefighters were bottling the fire with battling the fire with flames shooting up to 100 feet high youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Beginning with bill evans and the accu weather forecast. Reporter good morning. Here we go. We take a look at manhattan from our camera here at 4 times square looking south. Good visibility here, it is bouncing around a little bit this morning. Heres our camera looking over you see it is kind of bouncing around here. That is our camera astoria looking toward the moon. Hazy, a few more clouds around. 79 degrees is warm for the overnight hours. There is a shower cutting up through northern Bergen County here across rockland. These are dying down and kind of going south with this front and more in the way of this breezy High Pressure ridge afternoon 86, 87 degrees. Probably hitting 7989 hitting 89. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Weather then heather. Reporter you can see the sag coast parkway near the Southern Coast parkway, traffic doing fine but a little bit of following out there. We have construction on route 17 and that construction is as you get into the area of lane is getting by at there point, actually they have a complete traffic halt at this time. Looks like hopefully they may be clearing up that construction. Lets go over it our maps. Route 17 north from century road into midland avenue all lanes are closed down. Route 17 both ways you have the flooding going on and mass transit is doing okay. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect for today. Tony, ken, over to you. Thank you heather. 4 40. 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The Police Marine bureau were called in. It is not clear what sparked the fires but thankfully no one was hurt. New yorks attorney general targeting Internet Sales in the fight against against the Company Legal herbal bud. Com. The Wisconsin Department of justice said it is not prepared to releasefully of the body camera video showing the Deadly Police involved shooting that sparked violent protest in milwaukee. 23yearold smith was shot and killed by Police Saturday night when investigators say he pointed a gun at officers. Wearing a body camera. Milwaukees mayor says he believes the video should be released but the Justice Department says it will not release the video until the investigation is complete. 4 44. A lesson on rats. The citys Health Department is educating new yorkers on row dents at a rat academy. The department, along with the office of councilman corey johnson, in the westville ladies and gentlemen last night. Experts were on hand to teach everybody has a role in pest control. What this funding has done, for us, is allow us to bring together elected officials and Community Boards and other agencies. The rat academies was free. 30 of the participants won a raffle for rodentresistant garbage cans. Rats got together to hold a human academy. Us. They came gave away human resistant garbage cans. Meteorologist bill evans joins us now with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Reporter bill you want one of those garbage cans . No. Lets look at midtown manhattan. A few clouds around as we look across. The 5th street area, fifth avenue. We have a few clouds streaming south and east here. Here on the Upper West Side streets are dr downpours of rain and lightning last night. Temperature 79 degrees, the humidity 77 . That will drop today with a wind out of the southwest that is going to go northwest. Yesterdays high was 87. Normal is 83 and since midnight a lung of an inch of rain. A quarter to a half inch of rain over much of the area. Now we have a big old breeze today that will make you feel comfortable. It will be less humid today and humidity. I shall explain. 77 at sunset park to garrison. 76 white plains. 81 toward bridgeport. There is a west wind now kind of turns to the west and west here, eventually north west today. Some of the gusts have been cranking up a little bit this morning. Toward white plains and monticello. Heres the front we are talking about sagging south and east, off the humidity, with the northwest wind the humidity drops. Boating today is a mess. Like a Dumpster Fire out there this morning. West winds, at 15 to 25 knots, that is about a 28 Miles Per Hour wind, gusts to 35 Miles Per Hour, so Small Craft Advisory in effect. Waves will die down during the day, small craft need to stay in port. The rip current risk is high swells at the beach. Warm, breezy, 89 feels good today. Tonight is cloudy, a couple of showers around central years jersey. Heres your jersey. Heres your accuweather forecast. The heat and humidity return for friday saturday and sunday but the weekend is dry, warm and humid. A front comes through on monday at tuesday. Sunny, 81, cooler than normal. Reporter what . Heather just passed out. I almost passed out are. Out. And the humidity is lower too. Almost like a forerunner of fall. No. Just a break in the heat. 81. After having 97 degrees, 81 is fall for me. Feels so good. Going to use mass transit at this point everything running on or close to schedule. 7 trains track work between 34th street and queensboro plaza. Same situation with your a, d, l, and m. Track work until 5 00 a. M. And looking at route 17, which is a mess. So as you go both ways near all lanes closing down on the northbound side, just fine at the George Washington bridge, lincoln and holland, but you will find construction at all three of our hudson river crossings. Inbound lower level George Washington bridge closed down at this point. Fdr drive both ways between the 90s and the 60s you have construction so all lanes are closed down both ways. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect for today. Ken over to you. Heather thank you. Police questioning a 19yearold College Student at florida. Austin har after after vagilia tacked michelle and john stevens outside their home. Both were stabbed and the suspect get this, bit stevenss face off. A neighbor jeff fisher ran over to help but was stabbed five time. When deputies arrived it took a taser, a k9 and several officers to stop the attack. Obviously we dont know what Mental Health issues that are going to have to be investigated here. Earlier in the night ha after stormed out of dinner with his parents. The teen may have been on hallucinogenic drugs. An investigation has been launched into video posted on social media showing an officer holding a woman up against a car. The twitter video was posted earlier this week and appears to show a black woman, will up against a patrol car. The Department Says it is investigating the incident internally, it did not give details on what led to the confrontation. The late gay rights activist and politician harvey milk is being honored. The uss milk was unveiled. He was an ensin. The tanker will be part of a new fleet being built in california. Harvey milk wa one of the first hopefully gay officials in california in 1977 and was assassinated a year later. Before running for office milk hid his Sexual Orientation in order toen list in the navy. Some people may go bananas because the popular yellow fruit could be extinct within the next three years. What . Bananas are under threat from a new and deadly fungus. Global banana yield by 40 , meaning it could kill all bananas within the next decade. I grow them at my house in florida. I will put a big glass jar around the tree to protect them. I cant imagine that. 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Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Beginning with meteorologist bill evans and the exclusive acu weather forecast. Reporter a big change today. First off we start off with a little visibility here, from as out of the southwest turning northwest during the day today. Temperatures are warm and there is a shower right now, cutting across morristown to new city in rockland county. These temperatures have been mostly in the upper 70s for nor 80. Today that shower goes away. Clouds break up, sun comes out, we get to 80 by 11 00, got a northwest wind today which will drop the humidity and make you feel more comfortable even though we hit 89 degrees. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Route 17 already. Reporter a look at route 17, a live picture. We still have construction barriers set upright over here. Well head over to our maps. 17 getting into midland avenue that construction, looks like they are starting to get that cleared away. We will keep our eye on that. 17 both ways, you have flooding ongoing, one lane is closed down both directions. Use long island railroad, Jersey Transit and metro north, fine. 7 trains track worth between 34th street jeans andboro plaza should be killed by 5 00 a. M. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect for today. Ken, over to you. Heather thank you very much. This morning we are getting a look at an adorable sea creature spotted off the coast of california. You have to dive nearly 3000 feet below the surface. The squid was spotted by oh my gosh. It looks like a cross between a squid and octopus. It looks like barney a little bit. The dinosaur, kind of. At least the head. Floured and deep fried i can picture that. I can see the Facebook Messages now. Ken rosato. We have breaking news in new jersey. A child and two women are injured after a fast moving f