Remember track the temperatures as they drop with our nbc 4 new york app. Click the weather tab for forecasts, interactive radar and alerts you need to know about. The verbal slugs fest in this years president ial election isnt just reserved for the candidates. Just about a half hour ago mitt romney joined the fray, eviscerating the gops frontrunner donald trump and urging republicans to choose another candidate, any candidate. News 4s tracy ie strahan with the punches thrown today. They were bruising punches. The former president ial candidate just finished speaking at the university of utah and he laid out his case for republicans not to nominate the gop frontrunner. Mitt romney didnt pull any punches in telling the audience if trump is elected, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future in his words are diminished and by attacking Donald Trumps stance on Foreign Policy his tax plan and demeanor gop candidate would be a better choice than trump. Mr. Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes. He creates scapegoats of muslims and mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the constitution to limit First Amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss. Heres what i know. Fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. Now donald trump went on the defense early on in the today show this morning during an over the phone interview he dismissed romney trying to rally republicans calling him a failed candidate. Ago for my endorsement, literally begged me, and hes a failed candidate. I mean frankly, i backed him and he failed. He was a horrible candidate, didnt know what he was doing. He disappeared in the last month before the election while in all fairness Barack Obamas doing all of the shows, jay leno, doing David Letterman all the time and this guy disappeared. He went away. He got killed in the he got decimated in the election. Now before all of this, this cover of time was released with the check marks calling donald trump a bully, showman, a party crasher, a demagog but they left the box open as him being the 45th president of the united states. On twitter donald trump said he would be getting on a plane right now. Were waiting to see his response to mitt romneys attacks once he lands. Tracie, thank you. The battle for the democratic president ial nomination is still going strong. Today Bernie Sanders was in lancing, michigan, this morning states primary next tuesday. After a fundraiser at radio city last night, a day Hillary Clinton has picked up an endorsement from united farm workers. The largest Farm Workers Union in the country. New at noon a teenager who raped a 16yearold girl on long island has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. 18yearold jose cornaho is one of three arrested for forcing the young woman into a wooded area near a brentwood golf course last year and raping her. The victims mother sent a statement to the court calling the defendant an animal who has no soul. He did apologize to the people he says he hurt. In brooklyn, police are releasing Surveillance Video of a vehicle they say was involved in a hitandrun accident that injured a Senior Citizen in a mort rised wheelchair. Police say the 70yearold victim was hit by the suv while crossing 85th street in bensonhurst yesterday. They say the driver nearly slammed into a teenage girl speeding away. Of hit and runs across the city. A man in the hospital after a stab Near Lincoln Center inside the parking garage near 56th and broadway. Police say two men were arguing when one of the men stabbed the other in the head with a screwdriver twice. The 28yearold victim was taken to the hospital and the other man arrested. New Jersey Transit officials are bracing for a possible strike. They just laid out their contingency plan for how to keep the commute going during a stoppage and sounds like no one will be happy. News 4 brian is in seacaucus with details. Reporter call it carmageddon if you will. Six out of every ten, six out of every ten, people who normally take the train will not be able to find a bus as an alternative. Now that being said, new Jersey Transit has selected five parking lots and garages from north to south, or central i muster yards if you will, park there, take the bus to ferries or path or if youre extremely lucky, a few of those busses will go straight to manhattan. But if the trains arent running, the warning is plan on doubling your commute time. One warning, automobile backups on interstate 78 as far back as 23 miles. Is. Get to know people at your train station, who get on the train with you, make friends with them and maybe you can carpool. Officials are saying they admit this is very dire. Make no mistake, our Contingency Service cannot replicate the railroad. We will not be able to provides the level of service or the capacity that our rail Service Currently provides to our customers. Were talking about backups that could be as long as 23 route 78 or 25 miles on the turnpike, or on route 3 and 495, 21 miles, extending in the area. Reporter now, if the trains are not running, if that strike does happen on the 13th, ferries and path will cross honor and path rush hours will be extended. But get this, this plan for extra busses is only for the morning commute and the evening commute out of manhattan. No reverse trips. Its from 6 00 in the morning until 10 00 in the morning and 4 00 in the afternoon until 8 00 in the evening. If you normally take the bus or the train, whatever, the train i should say, especially, into manhattan, in the midday, or if you take the train home at the end of the day, maybe youre a waiter at a restaurant, youre out of luck. You have to find another way to get in and out and theres up with other factor. Some 60,000 people a day use the trains just in new jersey. Say to go from elizabeth to theyre going to be looking for a local bus now. And filling up those busses. All of this, as new Jersey Transit is in talks today with its 11 unions representing just over 4,000 workers, down in washington, d. C. To try to reach a settlement, but as new Jersey Transit said this morning, it has to be fair, and affordable. Live in seacaucus brian thompson, news 4 new york. Pretty ominous there. Today after years of construction commuters will finally get a chance to step inside the ok cue was, the 4 billion transit hub at the world trade center. Commuters can begin entering at liberty and church streets at 3 00 this afternoon. The center will link path trains to the fulton Street Center and 11 subway lines, other entrances scheduled to open over the next few wears and more than few weeks and more than 75,000 square of retail space stores will open later this year. New at noon, the family of a murder victim bursts into tears him face a judge in t. Katherine creag was in white plains for the emotional day in court. Emotional is right. The mother, father, brothers of the victim all wept inside that courtroom and they just finished talking with reporters out here at the courthouse, all of them saying that they will be here every day for the trial. In fact, what youre about to see, so many of the supporters of the nolan family walking out of the courthouse. They had his picture on a necklace, around their necks. They say that they will be here, too, for the trial as well. About 40 of them gathered here at the courthouse. They also had tshirts with Michael Nolans photo on it, a top prospect for the oakland as. The 23yearold yonkers man was shot in the head and killed last september when he was outside of a Fast Food Restaurant. The alleged shooter 17yearold nashan hunter of the bronx pled guilty a short time ago and when he did, supporters of the nolan family gasped in the courtroom. In all their ages ranging from 17 to 23, charges against them ranging from assault to murder and the victims mother said this. This is not about them or their families. This is about my son michael and all of these people that were here today, that were his friends, his family, how many lives he affected. This is about michael. Reporter and investigators have said the suspects went after a group of people in retaliation after a drag race in that Michael Nolan was standing outside of a Fast Food Restaurant and investigators believe he was never the intended target. Reporting live in white plains, katherine creag, news 4 new york. Thank you. Coming up next, the new ruling that just came down in the Oscar Pistorius case and it may have been his last chance at freedom. And the one thing immediately noticeable about the astronaut who just returned after spending s police are searching for the gunman seen in the Surveillance Video they say he put a 91yearold woman in a chokehold in brooklyn. It happened yesterday as the victim was walking into a building in park slope. Officers say he pulled out a gun, demanded her money, before robbing another victim who accidentally walked in on the crime as it was happening. The gunman got away with hundreds of dollars. South africas highest court just denieds Oscar Pistorius the conviction. That means the former track star can be sentenced next month. Pistorius who killed his girlfriend in 2013 appealed claiming another court made a mistake when it overturned a manslaughter conviction and the minimum sentence in south africa is 15 years. Both sides in deflategate are taking their case to court. Dont expect to see the players in a fight over deflated goobs. Neither tom brady or Roger Goodell are expected to appear in federal court in lower manhattan. The nfl wants to reinstate the fourgame suspension that a lower court lifted against the new england quarterback. The judge is unlikely to make the decision for weeks or months. Astronaut scott kelly says hes happy to be home in texas after spending 340 days in space. He hugged his family when he arrived in houston overnight. Kelly was also greeted by the Vice President s wife, dr. Jill biden. She welcomed him home with beer and apple pie. Now kelly and his twin mark will be examined. Doctors will look for the effects of nearly a year in space. When i left here in february i dont know what day it was in february, yeah, i was 50. And now im 52. Noticed scott kelly came back two inches taller than his twin. That is the affect of weightlessness and gravity should compress him back to his former self. That explains it for us. Were flying into space. Were compressed. Todays money report, the ceo who just gave his employees a 14 million gift. And Morgan Brennan joins us from cnbcs Global Headquarters with that and a look at the good afternoon. Markets are modestly lower following two days of gains. Take a look at the dow down by a fraction of a point, almost 50 points today. The Business World is remembering oklahoma wild cater auby mcclendon who has been called one of the fathers of the u. S. Shale boon. The cofounder of chess peek energy dieing in a car crash yesterday, just a day after he was indicted on charges of conspiring to rig bids for oil and nat gas leases while his time as the head of the Natural Gas Drilling giant. He denied the antitrust charges. Vehicle accident was caused after he drove at high speed into a wall. It will take time to determine the details surrounding the crash and his death. No equity package for Linkedin Jeff Weiner this year. He is donating his estimated 14 employees. That move comes on the heels of a steep plunge in the stocks price last month when disappointing earnings for linkedin sent shares down over 40 in a single day. Now weiners not the first to do this. Twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey gave away 200 million in stock to employees last fall, but its certainly nice incentive to keep staffers happy. Absolutely. I like a nice incentive. Thanks a lot. All right. Were going to check the weather. Its chilly now, dave. Yeah. Its chilly. Chilly enough for snow. And were going to get a little bit of it but not too much at all. First we go outside where there are beautiful sunny skies right degrees. Clouds will be rolling in later on today, though. Lets take a look at the is satellite and radar picture as we look at whats up on the wall. Things nice right now, but it is what is coming in from the south and west that is going to bring us our chance of snow. In the short term story the skies. If you look up youre going to love it. Much. 29 degrees right now in gramsville at the intersection of route 42 and 55 in sullivan county. Afternoon. But it is cold and we have windy conditions knocking 10 to 15 degrees off a lot of temperatures around the area. At the freezing mark in poughkeepsie, 30 montauk, 27 monticello, 30 from sussex down to morristown, up by three in bridgewater and trenton and 34 long branch. All right. If you factor in the winds its what were talking about. Its in the teens in monticello, feeling like its 26 degrees in the city, feeling like its just montauk. Now this is where we should be this time of the year at 45 degrees. Today 38 and it feels like is not reflected in that number. The storm track for the snow, trending to the south and east, the good news for us. At all. Dry through this evening and we see flurries overnight into the morning where we could see a coating on the roads. The dangerous side. Watch that. But the change in the forecast which were now putting in, is a coating or less of accumulation throughout the entire viewing area. So that is a change which weve just put in the forecast right before this noon time hour. So, future temps and radar, well, we stay in the 30s as we head through the evening hours. The clouds come in. The snow begins to approach. Overnight and before too long, by tomorrow, all of it is out of the way again. Not doing much damage. Sevenday forecast. And put things together because i think as we head into next smile. All right. So over the weekend, we have cool conditions. Could see a little bit of a shower saturday into sunday morning. But then the warmup begins and look at this. Could we be close to 70 by wednesday . We stay in the 60s tuesday, wednesday, thursday. Maybe friday. Well find out. Well see you at 5 00 again tonight. Janice is here too and well update all the continues conditions for you. Sara and jackie with whats this is a party already. Right. Great to have you here. Stick around. We will do the show for you. Okay. Coming up in the show, the in tears. The pop star reveals what was going through her mind during her final American Idol performance. Such a moment. Are you looking for a good cocktail. We will take you inside three twists on old favorites. Plus, we got puppies here up for adoption. Youre not going to be able to stand the cuteness, that and more at 12 30. Wants to take them home already. Im in love with at least two or three of them. For sure. Happens every week. I cant wait. Thanks, ladies. If you love roller coasters, you may want to book a plane ticket to california. Six flags Magic Mountain park in valencia is getting ready to open a Virtual Reality roller coaster. 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He says the lack of sleep amounts to torture that could cause a heart attack or stroke. The u. S. Wants to try the drug king. I for murder, kidnapping and organized crime charges. Terrifying moments for a sheriff deputy dragged away by a suspects car. The deputy pulled over a car in new mexico, asked the driver to get out. When the driver refused the deputy reached in and tried to pull him out when the suspect hit the gas, sped off. The deputy managed to grab a flashlight and hit the driver on the head. He eventually did stop and surrendered. Were going to take a break. Have a tip for new yorks biggest iteam call 866news244 or email tips