Warren and suspects county and Morris CountySussex County and Morris County. Its a light rain. Its indicative of where the front is. This cold front is going to come through the area, not with much rain. A little tonight, not too too much. Its going to stop this run of 70s. Today was the fourth 70degree day. Not tomorrow. Saturday afternoon, maxing out at lower to mid60s for a lot of folks. Sunday morning north of the area starting below freezing. Liberty starting off at 31 degrees. You have a few passing showers that come through tonight. As that front makes its way through the area, some clouds will start off your weekend. Clouds will break up, you will see brighter sky later on saturday. Certainly sunday will be the brighter of the two weekend days but sunday is going to be the chillier of the two weekend days. I just showed you some of you starting off below freezing on sunday. How warm will it get on sunday . Warm might not be the right word. Well talk about that later. But ill tell you the bryant so strange today. My colleague alice gainer is there live. [ pause ] reporter lonnie, you probably thought were you going to toss to me in this live shot here and that id be skating on the rink. Saved by the zamboni crews are currently out there now resurfacing the rink in between skating sessions. They are dealing with a lot of water and puddles melting ice out here at times this afternoon this rink looked like a swimming pool. The huge puddles and blue cones out marking them off but people just went on through. We saw people ice skating in shorts, tank tops, you in a name it watching the crews resurface the ice was also interesting. The zamboni was out as crews used brooms to push the water out. One working says this happened once last year too so its not completely unusual. In addition to the ice skating, the holiday shops were out and open also adding to the weather confusion. Its wet. Very wet. My 4yearold just fell. We are going to have to go buy a new outfit. Reporter if you fallen at all in the putles . No, i didnt. 75 degrees in bryant park and skating. You cant ask for anything else. I was telling them that i had to wear open toed shoes in this weather, its too warm. Im seeing people Walking Around in winter coats. You know . Put your shorts on. You cant do this much longer. Reporter have you ever been ice skating in a tank top before . No, no, no. Reporter i mean, can you believe this . Im out here into sleeveless dress. Its november its around 5 00 in the evening. This is unbelievable take a look one more time here at the rink where crews are really trying to push this water out of here. But that hasnt stopped the rink here. A lot of people have been out and about skating. You can see the folks over there waiting to go inside the rink. Despite these big puddles people dont seem to mind. Try not to fall because youll get soaked. Live at the skating rink at bryant park, alice gainer, cbs 2 news. A total disconnect, alice. Thank you so much. And, of course, you can get the forecast on the run anytime anywhere with the cbs new york weather app. It is free. Its at the itunes store. To a developing story in queens where an elderly woman was hit and killed by a charter bus. Residents in flushing say that there is too much traffic in this area and it is dangerous. Cbs 2s dick brennan reports. Flushing are usually jam packed. Its so congested over here zooming down. Reporter an 84yearold woman was trying to cross in the middle of the block struck by a skyliner bus outside the crosswalk near the intersection of casino boulevard. The driver didnt stop. Other drivers didnt realize a body was in the street. I stopped there, next to it, it looked very dangerous. And then i see that its a person. I couldnt believe that cars were actually trying to go over the body its incredible reporter nypd investigators say the skyliner bus was headed to foxwoods in connecticut. Police later impounded a bus there they believe struck the mayor de blasio says its been a very tough week in new york. Eight new yorkers lost in crashes. And its a reminder of why vision zero is here to begin with. Because the people were losing are grandparents, our parents, our children. Reporter at the scene today, many pedestrians say they are alarmed by what happened. But they admit jaywalking here is common. Look, look how they cross thats no good, either. They have to pay attention, you know . Look at the light is it easy for a car not to see you at night . 100 . This is one of the busiest streets in new york city. So its not uncommon for that to 45 for its not uncommon for that to happen. Reporter the driver hasnt been charged. Dick brennan, cbs 2 news. City leaders say this is the third pedestrian killed by a bus in new york city this week. It was mayor de blasio today like we have never seen him before he answered question after question at a News Conference even waiving off. Its by his press secretary to end it. It cbs 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer is live at city hall right now. Marcia. Reporter maurice, mayor de blasio did make a conscious effort to answer questions that had not been preapproved by his press shop. But whether this was a new policy or just for show is still unclear. I know you know this. I have a job to do much more important than, um, giving the answers to the questions is actually doing the work. Reporter it was a press conference really unlike any other at city hall. Mayor de blasio answered a record 27 socalled off topic questions and believe it or not, even thwarted an attempt by his press secretary karen hinton to end the session after just 17. Im going to waive off karen hinton for a few minutes here, yes, its happening, karen reporter but on the touchy topic of taking ontopic approved subjects, well, the mayor still likes that format why not . He can prepare for it. I think theres going to be times where we just believe that makes more sense. If you are going to have 15 or 20 questions on a very valid, you know, big policy area, we think thats what we should be focused on. Reporter the whole issue about the mayors transparency, the mayor answering off topic questions only about once a week kicked off when press secretary hinton told me a public bill signing was not an appropriate place to ask a question. Today. Reporter still, i tried. Mr. Mayor, will you answer a question . what about transparency mr. Mayor reporter although mayor de blasio did take all comers today, topics from quality of life, the homeless to the police contract, he seemed also to unveil a new strategy of town halls and radio shows. We have a job to be out to the people with a message. In many cases unfiltered. Reporter well, yes, the mayor did call on me. In fact, i do the to ask him two questions. But they were questions that our viewers have sent in. That part of the story coming up at 6 00. Reporting live at city hall, im Marcia Kramer, cbs 2 news. New information now. Russia has stopped all flights to egypt as investigators try to figure out why a russian jet crashed into the sinai peninsulas weekend. Guards searched luggage and passengers at Sharm Elsheikh airport. Security there is under scrutiny since the jet broke apart over egypt last week. As investigators look for traces of bomb material at the crash site, some travelers say perceived gaps in security could have made sneaking a bomb on board easy. Security here when we atrocious. Malevic go through any scanner. President obama says the United States is taking the bomb theory very seriously. The department of Homeland Security is expected to unveil enhanced screening for overseas flights headed to the u. S. All new york city jails are on lockdown tonight after two inmates allegedly tackled and slashed a correction officer. That injured guard was in court today as the suspects appeared before a judge. Cbs 2s tony aiello was there, too. [ sirens ] reporter a police wagon took two teenaged inmates back to rikers after their brief court appearance. The correction officer attacked Raymond Calderon was in the courtroom. You can see the 22 stitches on the left side of his face. This is how he looked after the brutal thursday afternoon attack. Investigators say 19yearold darnell green, who is jailed on a murder charge, put calderon in a head lock, then 18yearold William Whitfield jailed on an attempted murder charge allegedly slashed calderon with a sharp object. The lawyer for whitfield the alleged slasher told the judge his client didnt do it he says whitfield was in another part of the jail at the time of the attack and if being held down, he was in no position to identify whitfield as the slasher. The suspects are believed to be members of the bloods street gang. Rikers and all other city correction facilities were put on lockdown after the attack but word didnt reach many who tried to visit friday afternoon. [ nonenglish language ] says she called 311 and was told rikers was open for visits. 311 did not tell us that you could not visit our loved ones. They didnt tell us at the bus stop we couldnt visit. People had to pay cabs to come here. No work, no school to come here. Reporter the commissioner says the lockdown is in place during the search for the weapon used in the attack on officer calderon and other contraband. Tony aiello, cbs 2 news. One of those accused inmates already faces charges for violence behind bars. Darnell green allegedly threw an unknown liquid at a correction officer in march and also apparently punched another in the face back in august. Who helped two killers escape a maximum security facility in upstate new york will pay nearly 80,000 in restitution. Joyce mitchell appeared in court today in clinton county. She will pay the money for the damage two convicted murderers did by using hacksaw blades and other tools she provided to break out of the Clinton Correctional Facility back in june. Mitchell currently is serving 2. 5 to 7 years in prison for her role in the escape. Up next, a life saved thanks to a cartoon. For some reason he picked this up from spongebob and thank god he did because it came in handy. The lesson a special needs student learned that sent him jumping into action to save a classmate. And trapped in a winter wonderland. A thief targets a man who makes holiday displays and gets stuck in the middle of his crime. Plus, could it be a medical miracle . How a little girl who was given no chance of survival has beat cancer. And why president ial backtracking on one story he past. The beast was as long as the boat. For seven hours, we did battle. Until i said. You will not beat. Meeeeee greg. What should i do with your fish . Gary. Just put it in the cooler. If youre a fisherman, you tell tales. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. An autistic boy on Staten Island is being called a hero after he helped to save a classmates life as she was choking. Cbs 2s meg baker met the boy who says that he learned what to do from his favorite cartoon character. Reporter he is a hero who act quickly to help his friend. I saved her life got choked by apples so he got into that that choke at a cafeteria and i saved her life with the belly and the throat. Reporter this 7th grader performed the heimlich maneuver on his classmate. So thats a good friend. I wasnt sure what was going on. I realized she was checking on an apple. Brandon started doing the heimlich and it came out. Reporter williams jumped into action at Barnes Intermediate School with life saving skills he learned on tv. You watch spongebob every day. Thank god he did. Reporter he saved his buddy patrick in spongebob. He didnt know his son knew this. You have no idea what happens with these autistic kids. Its amazing what comes out of them. Reporter brandon nicknamed his parents marshmallow, big mac. He doesnt want awards or attention but we cant explain how proud we are of him. Im so proud of him really. With him, anything is possible. He might be saving my life someday. [ laughter ] reporter so brandon, what were you for halloween . Superman. Reporter and thats what be everyone is calling him today. On Staten Island, meg baker, cbs 2 news. Superhero. Something else that brandon makes him exceptional is he has a photographic memory. Good for him well, doctors in london call it a breakthrough treatment. A new experimental therapy appears to have cured a baby with leukemia. 1yearold Leila Richards is home with her sister. Just months after doctors told her parents she had no chance to survive. Leila was given experimental therapy only used in mice. It manipulates the bodys immune cells to target cancer cells. Scientists say its too early to tell whether other patients will respond the same way she did. It worked incredibly well for her. But that doesnt mean they are going to work for the next five or ten children that we treat and we need to do some proper studies. The doctors say the technology that helped her has enormous potential. Well, 7 years of debate over the Keystone Pipeline ended today as president obama rejected the proposal. The president said the pipeline would not serve the countrys best interests and position as a Global Leader in fighting climate change. The pipeline would have shipped more than 800,000 barrels a day of heavy crude oil from fields in canada to u. S. Gulf coast refineries. Supporters had hailed it as a way to create jobs and lower gas prices. This pipeline would neither be a Silver Bullet for the economy as was promised by some nor the express lane to climate disaster proper claimed by others. Republicans and supporters vowed to revive the proposal if they win the white house. All right. Well, it is november. And it is 72 degrees outside. Sure is. What a day. Lonnie quinn is here. We are looking at the end of this soon, right . I would say today is when youre going to put the cap on the 70degree readings but heres your look outside as of right now. At this hour, 5 18, its 72. If you go back to tuesday, you were 72 for a high temperature. Wednesday you were 70. Yesterday 71. Today you actually maxed out at 74 degrees. I mean, you should be having temperatures in the upper 50s for your highest temperatures of the day. Morning low the coldest temperature this ever got down to this day was 66 degrees. Still well above what should be your normal high of 57. Now we are seeing a few little showers now in northwest new jersey. I mean, okay, Sullivan County had a little bit of a shower, as well. This is not too much of anything but this is the cold front thats coming through the area. I want to give you a bigger perspective on the things. I want to show you the cloud cover. The front is that line of rain. The front will make its way through. So tomorrow, we are going to lower the temperatures. Its not going to be in the 70s. Its going to be 60s. Thats still above average but you will have leftover clouds for saturday. By sunday youre into this air mass. You have a lot of sunshine on monday but now you will tap into the cooler air behind this cold front. Now, its not going to be, you know, abnormally cold. But its going to be a little click or two below the average temperatures of temperature. So heres how it looks. For saturday cooler than today about 65 degrees. So youre going to basically 10 degrees depending where you are for your day on saturday. You have some added clouds out there especially for the first half of your day on saturday and then sunday a bright sunny day a crisp one with temperatures only getting up to about 55. Its going to be sort of a big change but 55 is only a couple of degrees off where we should be. Thats what im saying how this is more what were used to this weekend. Well have the extended forecast coming up. Instead of picking a instead of picking a fight, coaches are helping with picky eaters. How four of new yorks newest firefighters hope to inspire others. Right now dana tyler has a look at whats coming up at 6 00. Reporter quite a story tonight at 6 00. A south korean woman claims the american soldier she married left her debt ridden and returned to his real wife in Rockland County. Its not the first case of its kind. Lou young has more at 6 00. Here we are in our cbs 2 sports editing room. Editor john hess busy at work and Otis Livingston with something at 6 00. Some news about Daniel Murphy. The mets had until 5 00 to extend a qualifying offer. Did they or didnt . Whats a qualifying offer . See you then. Fi gesouptns wter eeyone,osast wi t fte iertanwii aiblfr 50o 0 gs pl y c uoayo voteids t5xst tn bl buthma rsotoetfi . rrad i cuom sisctn. Geouofheas g fs. Scott kelly and another astronaut went on another spacewalk at the International Space station this morning. They feel spend 6. 5 hours repairing the cool system. It is the second spacewalk in the past nine days. Campaign 2016, surgeon ben carson now says that the story about getting into west point is a lie. Cbs 2s weijia jang has more now from washington. Reporter he never sought admission to the academy even though he tells a different story in his autobiography and repeated since including in october with cbs news charlie rose. I was offered a full scholarship. Reporter the admission it was a lie came hours after ben carson attacked the media. Its a bunch of lies. Tea. Ing, you know, to stay that im lying about my history. Reporter on the campaign trail, carson talks about a time he tried to stab a friend. But the boys belt buckle saved him. Cnn wrote about the incident but cant find any evidence to support it. We talked to people who knew him when he was in elementary school. Junior high school. Neighbors. High school classmates. Carson says cnn couldnt find a victim because the name is fictitious. Carsons story about overcoming poverty to become a reputable neurosurgeon has resonated with voters. Polls with donald trump. Donald trump and carson are in a tie for the lead. Ted cruz and marco rubio have also made gains. Weijia jang, cbs 2 news. Hear more from ben carson sunday on face the nation on cbs. He will be the guest along gillibrand. A new threat against Quintin Tarantino. The Union Warning about a surprise coming his way. He couldnt get out. The tables are turned on a thief when he gets stuck in a factory. What he took from the winter wonderland. And look out below the watery ride that had