Foalthr w vis. U nbrk. Yowaa ecofakouswchs artemasitastoet00egntne usv d onfoju 9. P mthnle. Blcat fethe ee ts ic lyioca get your umbrellas out. Weve got our eye on the storm that could bring heavy rain to the tristate area. Its not going to let up until well after your morning Christie Kristine is off. Lets get right to lonnie quinn. Here is the deal with the rain. Right now pretty quiet out there, were in a bit of a lull chick before the actual front. That is the front thats going to make its way through the area, not moving to east, theres a bit of that east, northeast component to it. We will be watching this, like around west virginia, moving in and primarily during your morning commute. Rain is likely out there as you are waking up, 50 degrees or so but the afternoon looks to be the better half of your day. Could see some sunshine that time, high temp about 58. Lets time it out with futurecast. Im going to do that later. Desk. Thank you. Right now, crews are still working to try to fully reopen 15th street between sixth and seventh avenues in midtown. Is now open only to pedestrians. The city says a water main leaked flooding basements and setting off a Chain Reaction with an underground steam pipe. People scrambled for cover fearing it was something worse. It was not. Nobody was hurt. Tonight the selfproclaimed red night red light robin hood has surrendered to the police. His family tells us he turned himself in after admitting to cbs2 that he vandalized dozens of red light cameras. Stephen ruth calls them dangerous and says they were installed to generate money for Suffolk County from traffic tickets. Last year, ruth was arrested for disabling cameras. He showed Carolyn Gusoff exclusively how he spent his weekend. I cut the cable wires making it useless. Reporter so you turned the camera off . Ive made it dysfunctional, just like the program. I dont know how many but somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30. No confirmation from Suffolk Police on whether ruth was arrested tonight. Transgender bathroom policy has passed in a new Jersey School district, the board heard from parents and students tonight, cbs2s Valerie Castro is live in hillsdale where their meeting just wrapped up. Valerie . Reporter maurice, the school board voted in the last 30 minutes to pass the new policy. There were lots of speakers on both sides. It was a very contentious debate and it also included transgender students. The new and improved policy will accommodate transgender students at pasqual hills and pasqual valley regional high to use the restrooms that a transgender student identifies with. Restrooms and changing areas already provide for individual privacy and the students will have to show that this is indeed their core identity. Some parents believe the issue was forced through and others were very happy about the vote. I dont think theres enough education to us, and as well as the people around to understand how to deal with this in the future. People from the community that were opposed to it, but glad to see the school is taking steps in the right direction. Reporter the school board made it a point to point out that there are always adult supervisors in locker room changing areas. Board also says any non transgender students who are uncomfortable with the new policy will be given the option to change in a more private location. Reporting live in hillsdale, Valerie Castro, cbs2 news. Thank you. Police are looking for a mugger who followed his victim through a door left unlocked before the sabbath. Surveillance video shows him entering an Apartment Building on president street in crown heights, he sneaked up behind a 24yearold on saturday night and wrapped his arm around her neck. The thief took the victims phone and a five dollar bill. Campaign 2016 now, at least two of Donald Trumps children cbs2s tony aiello live with more on that and the rest of the day on the campaign trail. Trumps daughter yvonne and son eric both missed the new york deadline to register as republicans, so they cant vote for trump on april 19. Granted he probably wont need their volts. A poll has trump in front here by 33 points. Donald trump talked winning to a huge crowd in albany. Were going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning to reporter the frontrunner also got in some whining about the weekends results in colorado. Its a rigged, disgusting, dirty system. Ted cruz won all 34 delegates, at local conventions in the Rocky Mountains state. It was front page news eight months ago when republicans there decided to Cancel Voting in a traditional president ial preference poll. Cruz organized his people in time but the trump camp seems to have been taken by surprise. Its a fix. Yelling and screaming. Ted cruz was in california where his campaign claims to have the jump on trump. He doesnt even have a Campaign Manager yet in california. Reporter on the democratic side its great to be back. Reporter Hillary Clinton was in Suffolk County promising to address the concerns of suburbanites. To deal with rising property taxes, congested transportation, overcrowded schools. Reporter the polls have her up an average of 14 points over Bernie Sanders. Who told a huge crowd in buffalo he hopes to pull off an empire state surprise. We can run a Winning National campaign without being dependent on wall street and the big money interests. [ cheering ] reporter john kasich will give a major speech tomorrow in new york city. Second to donald trump here in pennsylvania and in maryland. Maurice . Tony aiello in our newsroom, thank you. Mayor de blasio denies any wrongdoing but says he is no longer commenting on the federal corruption probe thats ongoing. Weve now learned federal prosecutors are looking at how the Mayors Campaign solicited donations. Last week Police Commissioner bratton stripped the guns and badges from four top nypd commanders. The u. S. Attorney is reportedly interested in the actions of former de Blasio Campaign treasurer ross offinger. I hold myself and my administration to the highest standard of integrity. Im not going to be speaking about this after today. There are also questions about hundreds of thousands of dollars in investments paid by Real Estate Developers to former nypd chief philip banks. His authority says the payments were illegal. A followup to a frightening scam, cbs2 first of june about last night, a westchester couple targeted by con artists who used social media to learn where they live cbs2s Brian Conybeare explains how to protect yourself. Im afraid someone is watching us. Reporter Carol Ann Martinez and her husband hector are shaken by the phone scam they got caught in thursday. How they knew all this information. Reporter the couple says it started with a call from a mystery man who said carol ann hit his nephew in the perfect parking lot. My sister was having major back surgery. Posted on facebook that she was okay. The surgery went fine. Reporter after the post, a con artist called hectors cell phone demanding money to pay for the victims medical expenses or they would keep beating carol ann who they claimed to kidnap. There was a woman screaming hysterically, hector, dont call the police. If you call the police, were going to hurt her more. I was like, im going to pay. Reporter hector discovered his wife was a safe and the target them. You have to be proactive in protecting yourself. Facebook is not going to do it for it. Instagram is not going to do it for you. Reporter most social media users are not aware of how much information they make public everyday. If you have your location setting on, they know what time you leave your house, where you stop for coffee, do you go to the gym . Reporter he recommends you turn off Location Services that automatically identify your location. Use privacy settings to limit who can see your content. Delay posting photos and videos that show where you are until you get home. And limit personal information on social media or you too could get conned. With all the information they had on us, they could do this to anybody. Reporter in the past 24 hours weve been contacted by five other victims targeted by similar scams. Police warn you should never give out personal information to strangers who call, email or contact you on social media and having a secret code word that only family members know will help you verify if it is really them if they are caught in a dangerous situation, maurice . Thank you. Institutes of health say the zika virus is much more destructive to fetal brains than first thought. Researchers have now linked zika to stillbirths, miscarriages, eye problems and other complications. Not only in the first trimester but throughout pregnancy. There are also reports of rare neurological problems in adults. Officials are asking congress for 1. 9 billion for Mosquito Control and to help develop vaccines and treatments. Still ahead at cbs2 news at 11 my kids were on the front lawn playing soccer. They came running in and said the plane crashed. From a Backyard Barbecue to a fiery crash, a long island family shares the heroic story. A wedding ring ripped from a dead womans finger but the surprise. laughing theres nothing like making their day. Except making sure their tomorrow is taken care of too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. New york. What makes it think bigger . Go bolder . Push for a living wage thats higher. For tuitionfree public college. Justice that works for all. For a middleclass that. Must. Be. Saved. You do. Values. Forged in new york. Brooklyn born. Native son. Were all in this together. Im Bernie Sanders the pilot and his passenger expected to make a full recovery having been pulled from last nights fiery plane crash on long island. 34yearold pilot Scott Clifford is in serious condition with broken ribs and legs, his passenger, michael rome, was treated for a concussion and bruised lung. The plane crashed in a residential area of bayport and quick thinking neighbors rushed in to save them. The wires were jumping around on the ground like they were life. Its a chance you take, but if we didnt take that chance, those guys would not have been able to get out of the plane. Thank god hes alive, thanks the plane appears it was reached trying to return when it crashed. A warning for transit light rail riders, be prepared to be recorded. Not just what you do, but what you say. Transit says its new Security System is designed to deter crime and unruly behavior. Signs are posted on the trains with technology, but some people say the recordings are a problem. Its a monumental invasion of privacy. So thats the real concern, that they dont have a warrant or any other legitimate reason to be recording these conversations. People making threats, people doing all kind types of criminal activity, plotting things. Its not really invasion of privacy because you are in a public place. So far the technology is on the river line and it is being installed on the hudson, bergen and newark light rail. New security video of what appears to be a despicable act a woman allegedly stealing a ring from a deceased victim in odessa, texas. Little did the suspect know the ring was fake. Police say its only worth 10 but the theft there involving a corpse is still a felony. New tonight, could knowing you are taking a placebo actually heal you . Research is showing it is possible, some patients may not need drugs. Dick brennan reports more patients are getting a prescription placebo. Reporter it looks like any ordinary pill. But it turns out it is fake medication that doctors confirmed can cure some of the most common medical conditions. I felt fantastic. Never felt better in my life. Reporter he worked for linda, she suffers from Irritable Bowel Syndrome which often strikes without notice. I felt horrible because i didnt have a life. I couldnt plan anything. Reporter when she saw an ad for a study she signed up. Reporter she was shocked when doctors told her she would be getting a placebo. We said you dont have to believe in it, just do it. Its a crazy idea. I was so disappointed. I went, a sugar pill, are you kidding . Thats not going to work. Reporter but it did. Her symptoms disappeared. I made plans, i went out, not have to worry about anything. Got my life back. Reporter in another study, migraine sufferers were told they were given a placebo and their pain level was reduced by 30 . Dr. Harris says there may be Something Else at work here. I believe theres a little part is that is saying, i wonder if this really is a placebo. Maybe shes just telling me that. There are physiological reasons that placebos can activate the same neurotransmitters as powerful drugs. The body has an internal pharmacy for conditions. Reporter there are limits to the placebo effect. Were not going to shrink a tumor with a placebo pill. Reporter but for some conditions it could fundamentally change the way patients are treated. Drugs for long periods, if a placebo was going to work, thats probably where you want to start. Reporter more studies on the placebo effect will begin at harvard later this spring. Dick brennan, cbs2 news. Pretty incredible video tonight of Severe Weather in texas, hail, like something out of a horror movie. [ hailing ] in wylie, texas, looks like something otherworldly trying to enter this house. Wylie texas near dallas, that is precipitation breaking windows and clanking against the blinds. The video was shot by a photographer in our sister station in the area at his own home. My goodness. Something was going on there. Lonnie, none of that coming our way. Nothing like that. I do see inclement weather moving in, bouts of heavy rain, dramatic stuff. Lets get right to it, checking in right now with the weather watchers and all around the metro area, temperatures are lowtomid 50s or so, i saw a little bit of rain have their lingering north of the area, let me see if we have any here with ed lynch in red hook, hes got clouds right now, 48 degrees. A couple showers out there, i will point them out to you in a moment. Heres what it looks like, out over the park, mostly cloudy, 55 degrees. Southerly wind at around eight. Southerly wind warmed up to 65 degrees today. Six about the average, what we expect to see this time of year, headlines looking like this for your morning commute, i think rain is going to be out there, not for everybody all at the same time, its a line thats going to move through the area. Western suburbs first and Eastern Suburbs last. It is a cold front so cooler air behind it especially during the morning and on wednesday and thursday, starting off in the 30s and plenty of you will ted hart, next week, a lot of 70s out there. Good stuff, right . How much rain are we looking at with this line . Looks like the biggest number on the board, 0. 75 or less. Confined to your morning commute, could make that kind of sloppy out there. Talk about northern suburbs having a little bit of a light shower right now, not a big deal. Not a huge player. The Bigger Picture show you where the bigger player is and it is this front and it is going to be moving through the area. Lets time it out for you with temperatures as well. 7 00 a. M. , the commute is underway in new york city, maybe a light little shower out there, more substantial rain and moderate showers off to the west. Okay . Thats 7 00 in the morning. Now 10 30, the front is over new york city. Wherever you see these oranges, thats where you could have heavy downpour embedded with this line as it moves through, 58 in the city at that hour, 3 00 p. M. Including east end of long island, everybody else now cooler air, 48 at 3 00 p. M. In monticello. Than the colder air sets up for wednesday morning. Everybody in the 30s and plenty of folks below the freezing mark. Thats the coldest run ive seen as a late. 34 in the city on wednesday morning. I dont think its going to be quite that cold that hey, well watch the numbers. 50s when you wake up to, rain is likely again. I think a better afternoon with some sunshine even coming back in times, 58 for the high, 56 on wednesday, then 60 on thursday, 61 friday. 65 saturday, do i hear 69 . I do, sir. 69 on sunday. 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