Seemingly pushing for forcible staffers clarified their ap intent watos not to involuntarily commit herwise competent individuals. No the governor maybe overstepped a bit. The homeless said if governor cuom wants to see the homeless off the streets, he should just match mayo deblasios housing cfor le mentalonly ill. Bringing people ienn off the street ierif we have more housing. The number ofed homeless is something beyond our control. Reporter the problem of homelessness is growing under deblasio but vexed all m yors in recent memory and also not new for the homeless he avoid shelters. The homeless also dont like the rules in shelters like curfews and sobriety requirements. And deblasio have opened smaller shelters in churchbased settings. Two recent conditions have slammed the conditions. They run around on the floor like as if at the disco. Has the state been doing its job if they have gotten to a places where, as you say, Homeless People dont want to come in . There is no doubt that if the shelter system is failing in any city, it is responsibility of the state. And im going to speak to that in the state of the state. State Officials Say they do inspect city shelters annually and monitor to make sure that violations are being corrected. Clearly, though, yru can see it sounds like Governor Cuomo has big plans to boost his versieht of new york city shelters. All this coming just a couple of weeks aftpe mayor bill deblasio ordered a shakeup of his Homeless Services agency forcing out his commissioner and ordering a top to bottom review. Sibila. Lr, melissa, lets talk more about the weather after the it finally feels like winter has arrived. Its hard to see, but there were actually even little snow flurries greeting brooklyn commuters this morning. Today a record 279 Straight Days at or above the freezing mark and we nl feel it tonight. Storm team 4 j ice huff is here to show us how cold it will be. We are feeling it already, sibila. Several fthe warm streaks since the late 90s with the latest one being at the top of the list. 279 days in a row where the temperature was at or above 32 grees. Mentioned. The extreme cold is here because of a shift in the jet stream. The upper level winds are now dipping south over our area where they werent before thentemperatures 10 degrees and lowereis filtering in through much of our area. The actual temperatures. The wind chills are colder. This is where well be tomorrow morning. Temperatures at 10 or below. Wind chills below zero in some cases. Now, it does start to retreat thats because the winds die down. These are what the temperatures feel like right now. 9 is what it feels like in central park. Feels like temperature near 20 degrees in some areas across new jersey. 15 below is the win chill in monticello and continues to get cold throughout the rest of the night. Theres a warm up coming. Ill let you know when that is going to happen in the forecast in just a few minutes. Thank you. Looking forward to that. Keep track of the cold weather. Select the yeather tab. Youll find the latest forecast, interactive radar and get Severe Weather alerts that affect your arntea. The cold may feel a little shocking after our unseasonably warm weather but many people are welcoming this winter chill. Yeah, chuck, and welcoming it, but still some are worried because it is so wild. So different. The farmers, landscapers and even the pinelands of south jersey need a cold, hard cold deadly pine beetle. Perhaps the strangest development so far this winter, the budding trees. Weve had a lot of strange things happening like people having their tulips beginning to pop and the other day i took a photograph of a cherry tree in bloom. Reporter that would be this cherry tree in january, in early winter. The closest t ing weve had to ice up until now other than northwest new jersey is diamond in jeweler display windows. For those who appreciate winter, we found many. There are advantages to this cold. You work better when its cold. You eat bet winand sleep better. I love cold weather. Reporter if we were to get a true blast, including snow, that would make some even happier. And i dont mean kids. I hope when winter comes, snow. Thatslaore money. As of ri t now reporter how do you make more money . Snow plowing jobs. Reporter still, the weather winter here last year to barren ski slopes last month. Many wondering just what is going on. That the temperature at the no wrth pole will be warmer than he re in norther new jersey for thvee next few days. Thats just not right. Whether or not this could be tied directly to Climate Change, nobody can say for sure. Except that scientists are saying that this isanhat Climate Change would look like. For the next couple of days, rafael says we do have another cold day or so of Colder Weather like this and then after that, goes away. Live in hackensack, brian thompson, new 4z new york. Brian, thank you. Well, family and friends rememberin ig a 3yearold girl killed in a fire in connecticut. A heartbroken family are holding tightly on her pictures at a vigil tonight. Her mother is still at the hospital recovering from her her little girl but could not. The fire and smoke in the overwhelming. She misses her. She really tried to save her. She tried to save them all. She thought she had her daughter, but she realized she didnt when it was over. One other adult and three other ch dren were saved. Firefighters found damage in the tchen of the home, but the cause and origin of this deadly fire have not been determined. A disturbing incident inside the long island public library. A man accused of groping an 8yearold girl with her mother ju. St steps away. That suspect was arraigned day. Greg cergol spoke with some of the witnesses. Reporter kids chatter a common sound at Huntington Library and sunday librarian heard an uncommon commotion putonctuated by an 8yearold girls scream. I was upset and shocked. I contacted security. Reporter he learned the rl had been pulled into a quiet words of police touched inappropriately. All as her mom was checking out books at the front desk. It all happened souickly and thats what is the scary part. Reporter this man is charged with the sex abuse. He was arrested, police say, as he fled the library. Ca i looked over and i was in the right place at the right time and i saw him. Reporter police say he is a homeless man living at a huntington shelter. Officials say he is not a registered sex offender. Its always difficult to explain conduct like this. Its shocking. Reporter especially shocking for parents like Steve Donovan who brings his son to the library all the time. Commentary on the way it is today. That you cant turn y r back for a second. Reporter with cameras in at least one Security Guard always on duty here, the Library Director expressed confidence that visitordonill be safe, but e did acknowledge that the library cant limit who comes inside. Even though its a good environment, you cant let your guard down. Parents, no matter where their kids are. Greg cergol, news 4 new york. Siw york mayor contiares to ake up the way the city is run. He announced today the city will bring an attorney to run its Police Internal affairs unit. Posts could be filled as soon as this week. The goal is to increase civilian oversight and department discipline. New yorks latest step in organizing its public safe agencies in hopes of making the city safer. More cops on the street and more cops out of the academy and bring fresh new blood into leadersh p to fight the crime and violence in our city. Reporter two weeks ago the mayor said that newarks Police Fire Emergency management and Homeland Security departments would be combined under the department of public safety. Coming up as news 4 at 6 00 continues, the crime that closed an entire school distring. What caused more than 3,000 students to miss school today in westchester county. Well tell you about a free for your dog. Ruce beck has big changes r big blue. After 12 years nd two super bowl titles tom coughlin is out. Well look back at some of his moments of glory later in sports. Just days after new york raised minimum wage to 9 cuomo continuing his push for an even bigger increase. He announced a plan today to gradually increase minimum wage 15 over the next few years. The move could raise pay for 28he,000 workers. He will ask the state change in the minimum wage for all new yorkers. You cant make it on a minimum wage job. You need two, three, four nimum wage jobs to actually make it. And thats not what the minimum wage was all about. Cuomos office says the increase will cost about 28 million when its fully enacted and will be paod by suny, the State University systemns pected to approve the plan in a meeting thismonth. Restaurant owners are still trying to adjust to the most recent boost in the minimum wage. Dozens of them have written to the governor asking him to hold off on raising the pay for servers and other tipped workers for the next five years. Those workers are getieng 7. 50 an hour before tips. Restaurant owners say the Industry Needs time to adapt to the new labor costs. Cuomo spokesperson says that the govern or would review their concerns. And new jerseys most populous county, bergen, got a new prosecutor today. The first person of the sikh religion. The office oft. Ewark a beforet he will serve as an acting prosecutor until heu can be confirmed by the senate. His specialty is in the econonic office. 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Gabe gutierrez landed an interview with his attorney. Filed paperwork to block couchs return to the u. S. Where he faces probation violation charges and some pretty angry texas lawmakers. Compelling story for sure. So, whats next in the case . W is the lawyer actually trying to keep him out of the u. S. . Wwell, the lawyer says hes going to meet with couchs client in mexico tomorrow and, a deportatmen disguise as an extradition. But family s in of the victims are outraged. Well hear from them when we see you at 6 30. A westchester School District was shut down today but not because of weather or bomb scare or threat. News 4 jen maxfield shows us what they did. Reporter mechanics here at the bus garage have been working frantically all day to get these repairs made so the students can get back to class tomorrow. Almost half of the districts fleet, close to 30 buses, were damaged in what police are caiclling an act of vandalism. Mechanics are repairing 16 bus windshields that were smashed inside the locked bus parking lot at somers high school. Broken glass is still scattered all over the hood. I think its disgraceful and awful and ijhope they catch who was forced to cancel classes for all 3,300 students leaving parents to manage an unscheduled dasty off. I thought it was sad and i couldnt believe that happened. And, also, happy that i had no school. We made a decision to close schools today because there were nontt enough safe vehicles to transport the kids to school. Reporter the damage to the buses is so extensive, just in this one corner of the parking lot alone. 13 mini buses have their tires slashed and in each case its the front drivers side tire. The buses werste locked, but somehow many f e extinguishers w onbod were removed or discharged. The damage to two dozen buses will total at least 20,000 accord g to state police. It is an active cri ime scene at this time. We are interviewing area residents and we are interviewing surveillance videos. Reporter state police are investigating but they have not fode any arrests. District officials tell us they are confident all the repairs could be made and the students will b tuesday. At somers high school, im nyn maxfield, news 4 new york. Now that the hesidays are over, it is time to take that Christmas Tree to the curb. New york city started its tree Cycling Program today. Trees collected by sanitation crews through the 15th of this month will be turned into mulch for parks and community gardens. Make sure to remove all the tree stands and the decorations before putting the trees out at curbside. Music loving dogsngnd the humans are headed to times square tonight for a unique concert experience. Unique, indeed. Lori anderson will hold the music for dogs concert tonight at 11 30 near the duffy square. Anderson will perform music at low dog friendly frequencies. The dog owners wl listen through is performance through sploecial headphones. I know what youre thinking right now, dogs can hear higher frequencies than humans. But the artists figure it would just drive them nuts so shes going for the low frequency. You know what i tod say about that, you know when the dogs turn their head. One of these. You may see a lot of that going on. They also wili be more comf table s. An the humans probably if they have a nice, thick coat out there. Youll need it tonight. Definitely some layers if youre going to be out and about. The first of the arctic w e coming through tonight. Heresye look outside right now. The air is crystal clear, though. Thats t great side of this air mass thats over us. But the temperatures are pretty brutal out there right now and, of course, since we had record november and december, it takes a lot of getting used to. 21 degrees feels like 9 right now in the city. The winds have been gusting all day. That, of course, the key to the cold. Whenever we have strong, gusty winds. Right now or at least earlier today we saw gusts between 25 d 35 miles an hour a quite strong and pretty brisk out there tonight. The temperatures have felt even colder than what they actually are. Tseon. Below zero north and west and things do quiet down by were back up above 40 degrees and that will continue for the rest of the week. So, mild air comes in thursday into friday and by the weekend, it could be touching 50 degrees, once again. Too long. 20 right now in Tompkins Cove actual degrees on the temperature. Winds are still gusting above 25 in many cases especially and we factor that in with the temperature. Feels like 5 above for you. D feels like 0 in white plains and danbury and 13 degrees is th wind chill in monticello. Thitis will continue into tomorrow morning. Few snow flurries well to the east of us tonight. A few in the area this morning. The arctic blast because of the change in the jet stream pattern and it h00 been well to our north over the last couple of months and now to our south and eyrhatling the cold even in some of the Southern States tonight. Windnohill values down to near the wind chills will be well below zero. That is what it will feel like there. Tomorrow, not quite as bad. Its still frigid. s still clear and sunny and the temperatures are cold but the winds will not be quite as strong. For tonight, down to 10 above in ryebrook. And reme erachaerit will feel ke will be about 10 degrees colder than these temper weaturho. It will feel like 6 above in the ciomty in th. Morning and well above zero north and west. 31 is the high tomorrow. It is a cold day. But we start to warm up a little bit by wednesday and the temperatures will continue to climb slowly. By the weekend with some rain showers and 50 saturday and sunday. Thank you. Hot. Yeah. Bruce beck is up next live fr m the practice facility in east rutherford. The giants season is over and so is the tenure of head coach tom coughlin. Coming up in sports, weve got the latest on the resignation of man who has led big blue since 2004. Black monday in the nfl strikes a local chord next on news 4 new its over. E tom coughlin era is oter as far as the new york football giants are concerned. The future hall of famer who coached big blue for 12 seasons and led them to two super bowl titles was under heavy pressure and resigned today after three consecutive losing seasons. The final game was yesterday. A 3530 setback to the eagles which ended a disappointing 610 season for the ball club. Several of his 11 grandchildren were at Metlife Stadium for a sendoff. Issued this statement today, it is in the best interest of the ganization that i step down as head coach. I strongly believe that time is right for me and my family. I think it has been evident these last 12 years how much pride i take in representinge this franchise. I am gratified and proud that we were able to deliver two more lombardi trophies. This morning before the news became official, i talke to several players in the lskr room. It was a somber locker room and i asked them to reflect back on their head coach, the second winningest coach in giants history. We definitely had not failed, failed him by not playing to the level that we could. Sad set of circumstances for it to be like this. Pretty sure well all eventually, you know. I love coach. I love coach coughlin and hes always going to be my coach. So, the decision is not really on me. In the meeting today, you know, thinking it could be the last ne with coach coughlin up there was tough. Finally, a few lasting images of the coughlin era. E 2007 nfc championship game in frigid green bay coughlins face a fire engine red. Super bowl xlii against the undefeated patriots. Michael strahan showing his unbridled affection for his coach after the upset victory. Per bowl xlvi in indianapolis, tom hoisting the vinceflombardi trophy for the second time. Tom represented us with class