You know, weve noticed it getting colder even in e the last couple of hours. When i got in the news van this morning, this wind wasnt here. Now were feeling the wind in downtown brooklyn. Behind me there are a few peek walking here outside the atlantic avenue station. But all of those people are wrapped up in as many layers as possible. And the mayor says folks should be doing that wearing as many layers as possible. We know hes having a press conference later this morning about this winter weather. We know hes issued a code blue to try to get homeless folks off the street. And you can see some people here are waving to me off camera trying to make the best of this weather. We did speak to some folks before the show started about what theyre doing as this cold weather sets in. I put on an extra layer of pants. I put on a hoodie, a sweatshirt. And im moving fast. I have on a lot of layers. Two gloves. And this hoodie. This is new york. Im used to it. I got thick skin. You know what i mean . Like, if you cant handle the heat get out of the kitchen. Reporter or if you cant handle the cold, get out of new york . Yeah, basically. Reporter well, there she said it. Not concerned about the weather at all and ready to embrace it. The mayor is holding a press conference at any moment to talk about what folks should do in this winter weather. For example, there has been more than 6,000 heat and hot water complaints just before this chill hit us. That number expected to grow. Im ray villeda, today in new york. Thank you so much. And of course you can track the cold with our news 4 new york app. Down load it in the app store. Its free. Tap the news 4 logo in the corner, select the weather tab. Then you can find interactive forecasts, find alerts, and a and warm during this ekends deep freeze. Royal caribbean passengers remain in limbo this hour as the coast guard assesses damage to the anthem of the seas. It is scheduled to sail out this afternoon. Royal caribbean assisted damage to the anthem was only cosmetic. But there is also damage to the propulsion system. In the last hour, crews began their final testing of the ship. Still no decision whether its safe to sail. The first are scheduled aboard at 10 30 this morning. A new jersey pastor is now facing some disturbing accusations. 68yearold vicitacio rivasvalle is accused of sexually assaulting two teenage girls when they were between the ages of 13 and 16. Congregation. Police arrested valle yesterday and he is facing charges including child endangerment. He is being held on 50,000 investigators need your help to find two people who robbed a woman in brooklyn. The man and woman in this video pushed a 60yearold woman to the ground and stole her purse. It happened last week in flatbush. And take a look at these surveillance photos. Investigators say this woman attacked a 70yearold cab driver in hells kitchen. The woman asked to be taken to times square but became upset when the driver turned on the meter. Thats when she allegedly beat the driver and then jumped out of the cab. An attack on a bus driver also caught on tape. You can see the man angrily punching the 62yearold driver. This attack happened on the v8 bus in east flatbush. The driver kept doing his job. He finished his route. He says he wasnt badly hurt. But police want to find that suspect anyway. Were learning that the suspect in that machete attack restaurant was known to the fbi. Agents say that Mohammed Barry expressed extremist views but was not under surveillance. The victims are all expected to recover. They are looking at this as a possible lone wolf terror attack. Decision 2016 and the gop president ial candidates, theyre going to square off in another debate tonight in south carolina. And things are getting ugly again between donald trump and ted cruz. Well, both candidates are campaigning for the evangelical vote. Trump is also threatening to sue the senator for not being a natural born citizen. And it didnt take long for cruz to fire back. Well, i will say theres more than a little irony in him calling anyone nasty. Given the amazing torrent of insults and vulgarities that and the gloves also off on the democratic side. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders sparring over loyalty to president obama. And the cost of sanders medicare for everybody proposal. Republican candidates donald trump, marco rubio, and john kasich will join chuck todd to recap the debate. Theyll be on meet the press sunday morning. Catch all of that here at 10 30 after today in new york. This morning pope francis begins his first full day of his fiveday visit to mexico. He arrived last night to an overwhelmed and excited crowd. He donned a sombrero there, blessed children, waved to the cheering crowds before he drove through the city in the famed pope mobile. The holy father stopped in cuba en route to mexico for a meeting with the leader of the Russian Orthodox church. A meeting like that hasnt happened in a thousand years. They are calling for Christian Unity between the two churches. And u. S. Officials are about to sign a deal that would allow commercial flights to cuba. Next week on tuesday, scheduled. Its been five decades since the last commercial passenger flight between the United States and that communist nation. Right now were going to head over to the office of Emergency Management in brooklyn where the mayor is giving an update on how the city is dealing with the cold weather conditions. Lets listen in. Deputy mayor richard buri, our commissioner joe esposito, fire commissioner dan nigro. We have from Housing Preservation and Development FirstDeputy Commissioner john shaknai. Chair of Housing Authority and michael kelly. Our Human ResourcesAdministration Commissioner steve banks, commissioner donna perato. And Deputy Commissioner timothy hogan. As you can see, all city working together to address this challenge. Now were headed into the coldest part of the forecast now. The coldest temperatures and windchills weve seen in the last 20 years. I want to emphasize to all new yorkers how serious this situation is and how much people should change their habits over the next 24 to 48 hours. This must be taken seriously. Its not business as usual. Again, some of the coldest temperatures and windchills weve seen in the last 20 years. Right now temperatures are at 19 degrees but when you add windchills, it feels like negative 2 right now here in new york city. Wind is a key factor here. Were expecting sustained winds of 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour. With gusts as high as 50 miles on top of the extreme cold, we have wind that will affect everyone whos outside. Not only in terms of making colder, but also making it hard to get around. Thats another good reason why everyone should stay indoors to the maximum extent possible. It says the warmer temperatures that we talked about yesterday have now passed. Everything were going to see in the next 24 hours will just get colder and colder. Again, right now it feels like negative 2, but it will get worse. Temperatures will continue to plummet today. And with windchill values, we expect the result to be a negative 25 degree reading overnight. So tonight going into sunday as low as negative 25 degrees. 25 below zero. In terms of what it will really feel like. So important to take it if for any reason you have to go out, go out for as little time as possible. Bundle up. Lots of layers. Do not have skin exposed. These are very tough conditions especially for people who are more vulnerable. Dangerous conditions for seniors, for infants, for people who have diseases and conditions that could already Compromise Health like cardiovascular situations and lung conditions. You want to be very careful. We also want to emphasize anyone under the influence of drugs or alcohol may not recognize just how dangerous these conditions are. People really need to look out for their friends and make sure people do not stay outside i these conditions. Wear extra clothing, do all the common sense things to protect yourself. National Weather Service has moved up its windchill advisory to 1 00 today. That will continue through noon as we know, sometimes the Weather Forecast changes, so we have to be ready for that cold to continue. Just because its right now advised to end at noon tomorrow doesnt mean thats what will happen. It may go longer. Certainly we know starting at 1 00 today and going through noon sunday at minimum, this windchill advisory is in effect. Temperatures on sunday will remain in the low to midteens. And we are not forecast to get above the freezing mark before midafternoon or Late Afternoon on monday. Now, an additional factor, were expecting some light snow on monday morning. Again, we watched the Weather Service. They change frequently because the weather changes. So were going to keep updating people regularly. At this moment were expecting only one or two inches of accumulation on monday. We do not expect more than that. At some point that will change into a wintry mix and then rain through the course of the day monday. But that, again, could change. Well keep you updated. We do expect some minor coastal flooding tuesday morning. But it should be less than what we experienced last week. So were going to keep you updated on that as well. All new york City Residents should be monitoring regularly to look for these changes and adjustments you have to make. Now, our code blue plan remains in effect. Weve been conducting intensive outreach all over the city. Encouraging anyone who is on the streets, living on our streets to come in the shelter. Last night our Homeless Outreach teams helped 62 people come in from the cold. In addition, 207 individuals walked in to our health and hospital facilities to escape the cold. So combined almost 270 people came in. Want to remind all new yorkers to please look out for your check in on your neighbors. Particularly our Senior Citizens or anyone with Health Problems or disabilities. Also, again, stay in touch with your friends, family. Make sure everyone knows about the precautions they should take. And another reminder, bring your pets inside. This is not a situation where pets should be outside for prolonged periods of time. If you do not have heat or hot water, call 311 immediately. Very important point. Weve really been trying to get this point across intensely. If you do not have heat or hot water, call 311 immediately. Want to give an update on our Housing Authority which has at this point, all residents have heat. The Housing Authority is prepared, weatherized and prepared all 2,000 boilers in our developments. We have 24hour Response Teams in place. Of our housing and preservation development. We have added 50 staff for duty this weekend. Now 150 are on duty to respond to heat and hot water complaints. Overnight we received 388 complaints. Although a number of those may be duplicates. People calling from the same building. But hpd is ready to respond to any and all complaints. Thats the basic update. I want to remind people, we have another challenge that comes in the cold weather which is people have a lack of heat in their home trying to improvise. They open up their stove. They use other types of informal sources to heat their home. That can be very dangerous. The better solution is to call us so we can get your heat restored or go some place with friends and family where the heat is working. Like fire and Carbon Monoxide poisoning. So we want to remind new yorkers, most fires occur in the winter months for this very reason. So please do not improvise when it comes to heat for your home. And make sure that your smoke detecters and Carbon Monoxide detecters are working. One other point, because of these extreme winds that were having, yesterday we ordered all of the cranes in the city, construction cranes to be secured and out of operation. That was accomplished late yesterday. So none of our construction cranes will be operational today given these winds. A couple of words in spanish before we take your questions. [ speaking spanish ] that a mayor bill de blasio stating what is obvious but bears repeating, for sure. Temperatures we have seen here in new york city in about 20 years. And people should take this cold seriously. Dress obviously in layers, no exposed skin, and please check on your neighbors, the homeless, and bring your pets indoors. This is not business as usual. And while not as visually stunning as a blizzard we saw a couple weeks ago, in many ways this weather situation poses many dangers to people out there. Obviously citizens who dont have a place to go. Calling for people to reach out to the city if you see homeless out there today. And on a personal note for my firefighter dad with fdny, he went to many fires over the years where people use the space heaters, gets too close to the blankets. Everyone trying to stay warm but you have to be careful. Well have more coming up on today in new york including our continuing coverage of this a walk along the brooklyn bridge. An unwise idea today. It is 21 degrees and the of this whole weather story thats taking shape. Yeah. Weve seen 21 degrees many times this winter so far. Its not that bad. But the winds are still beginning to pick up. Theyre going to get bad after lunchtime. Thats when things start to go downhill and the windchill becomes dangerous. Thats when the advisories and warnings go into effect at 1 00 today. That gives an idea its when its most dangerous to be outside. If you have to do lastminute preps and get food shopping done. You still have a relatively safe time to do that between now and 1 00 p. M. Although it goes downhill in a hurry especially once the sun goes down later tonight. Look at the freezing spray advisory. We dont normally see this. Areas along the immediate shore if you have vessels, even cars parked right along the water. When the waves break, they could freeze and accumulate causing a coating of ice to form. Watch out that for coastal spots. Showing the wind picking up throughout the day. Brutally cold, dangerously cold. And record low temperatures. It could be the coldest well show you that in just a minute. Heres a look at storm tracker. We have the showers were tracking. A brief snow squall with reduced visibility. Be careful and watch out for some slick spots. Also Suffolk County, youre seeing some snow. Just starting to get uncomfortable. Feels like zero in newburgh. Its going to get much worse than this hour by hour. Talking about breaking a record for valentines day, that arctic air settles over the region into tomorrow morning. Thats when the actual temperature is forecast to drop to 2 degrees above zero in central park. The record for a valentines day . 2 degrees. That was back in 1916. So were going for the coldest valentines day in a hundred years. Probably going to tie it, maybe we may even break it. You can see this is what it feels like around 5 00 today. Windchill values dropping below zero in the city and between 10 and 20 below north and west of town. This is dinner time. It starts to get very dangerous out there. In places like sullivan county. Even in danbury. Then the worst of it overnight tonight. This is 3 00 a. M. As youre waking up tomorrow morning, not much better. Winds still howling and we have windchills between 15 and 30 below out towards the hamptons as well and monticello. It does ease up by tomorrow lunchtime. And it finally gets warmer with windchills back above zero. And we coast from there. Starting sunday night, the winds are much lighter so it feels much better. Not as dangerous. We are tracking that wintry mix monday afternoon changing over to rain. And look at that temperature swing. From 2 overnight tonight to 50 by tuesday. Thats almost a 50degree temperature swing over the next few days. You want to stay up to date with the news 4 new york app. Scroll down and select the weather tab. See the latest forecast, use our weather video. The app is available on the app store right now. Over to you. Thank you. Something to bear in mind as you head out, whats comfortable now in terms of clothing will not tide you over throughout the day. Thank you very much, raph. Stay with us for continuing coverage of this cold. 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As they got bigger, they produced less fruit on it. Then we had cool weather in florida. You remember around christmastime, it was warmer here. Right. Cool weather in florida. What that did was it stopped the fruit from turning red. Now, floridas not the only producer. We have producers from different places. So mexico and california, too, very cold weather. Very cold weather. In 65 years in the produce all three, you know, sections got really bad weather. Supply and demand equals price. Thats what happened. But help is on the way. Because its getting better. The weather is getting better. So youre going to have it. Lets go. Lets talk quickly about them. When picking strawberries, what you see is what you get. Theyre always in clear containers. Turn them over. Make sure. A strawberry will never get riper once its picked. What we did today oh and another thing with strawberries. Once you get them home, dont do anything to them. Ready to use them. Just take th