Welcome to today in new york. Its february 28th. Weve got a leap year. So one more day left in the month. Im pat battle. Im gus rosendale. Its almost 40 degrees at 6 00 in the morning. If you havent made plans to be outside, Raphael Miranda is saying do it now. In for a treat. Almost 40 degrees now. Thats where weve been since yesterday afternoon. Temperatures remained stationary. Its dry and mostly clear skies in new york city, down the jersey shore. A bit of cloudiness in fairfield and westchester counties. Its 27 in fairfield. As you head closer to the city, its 37 in west port. 29 in shelton. 32 degrees as you start your day in redding. Not all that cold out there. Even in the distance, north and west of town, 27 in monticello. 34 in morristown. 34 degrees in long branch. As you plan your day, get outside this afternoon. Look at these temperatures. Back to the 50s by lunchtime. Todays high a toasty 58 degrees anutwere keeping it dry. A beautiful afternoon. A nice feel even at 6 00 p. M. 54 degrees. This is just the beginning. It stays mild for days. But theres also some rain. Well ex plap that coming up in your storm team 4 forecast. Pat and gus, over to u. Raphi, thank you. We begin with decision 2016. The results are in. Hillary clinton won the South Carolina democratic primary by a 3 to 1 margin over be nie sanders. Ar Steve Handelsman has the latest from columbia, South Carolina. Its Hillary Clinton by a landslide claiming South Carolina sets her up for the 12 state on super tuesday in three days. Were going to compete for every vote in every state. We are not taking anything and were not taking anyone for granted. State of vermont is he ahead in polls. I believe that not only can we win this democratic nominating process, but we can defeat trump. Trump towards super tuesday states. We got to win arkansas. Campaigning with Chris Christie. Get ready now, tennessee. The big fight is in texas where ted cruz takes his stand. Pick a side. And ill tell you this. When it comes to picking a side, ive picked a side and i stand against washing n and with the american people. On paper, cruz and marco rubio can still beat trump and their war is nuclear. A con artist will never get control of this party. I actually thought that ted cruz was a liar. But rubio is worse. Hillary clinton jumped in. We dont need to make America Great again. America never stopped being great. Dont build walls, she said. But win delegates is the mantra now of all these candidates, even though none of them can win enough on super tuesday to clinch their nomination. From columbia, South Carolina, Steve Handelsman, news 4 new york. Bernie sanders, john kasich and ted cruz will join chuck todd this morning on meet the press and also appearing governor Chris Christie to talk about his endorsement of donald trump. Catch meet thy press after our 10 00 newscast. Donald trump took time out from picking on the competition for the republican president ial notmination to target eric schneir man. Trump is being sued by him an relation to trump university. Trump made controversial comments about an hispanic judge working on one of the lawsuits. Michael george has details. I built a great business. Reporter at a speech in arkansas, donald trump accused a judge overseeing a Class Action Lawsuit against him of being i believe he happens to be spanish, which is fine. Hes hispanic, which is fine. And we havent asked for a recusal. Which we may do. We have a judge who is very hostile. Trumps comments come as hes under fire for trump university, an online real estate school. Some students claim they were misled and paid t ts of thousands of dollars for a substandard education. Trump university is now facing three lawsuits, including one by new York Attorney generic schneiderman who called the school a scam. Trump had choice words for him as well. D the attorney general, his name is eric schneiderman, not respected in new york, doing a terrible job, probably is not electable in new york. But who knows . Trump also implied the lawsuit against him is politically motivated. He responded saying i will not engage in a debate about ongoing litigation, but theres at members of the judiciary. Michael george, today in new york police in the bronx are searching for a suspect in a deadly hit and run. A driver hit a 36yearold man on webster avenue at the entrance of the cross bronx expressway. That driver took off from the scene. The pedestrian was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Right now, investigators are searching for a black suv. If you know anything about this, please call crimestoppers. Also this morning, mantoloking fire chief is recovering from a heart attack. Fire chief Larry Gillman was helping to put out a house fire. You can see it was a big fire. That fire tore through the 2 1 2 story home. Mantoloking spokeswoman says he collapsed while fighting the fire. He was revived and rushed to the hospital. Now were told hes awake and with his family. Hundreds of people said their final goodbyes to a father and daughter. People released balloons into the air outside the funeral home in honor of tim odonnell and his 5yearold daughter. He was a Popular High School teach earn and many students paid their respects. Its been very quiet. Everyone is very sad. 36yearold scott hahn has admitted that he was high on adderall when he rear ended odonnells car on monday forcing it into oncoming traffic on a new jersey turnpike. Hes facing manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges. Also in new jersey, the search is on for a gunman who shot and killed a store owner in front of his own business. Friends and family let flowers and balloons outside a coowner of the store, a 20yearold, watt shot to Death Outside the store around 9 00 friday night. He went by the nickname mali. They recently filmed a music video in that stor he was one of the best people you could know. Not any kind of gang banger or street guy, none of that stuff. He was a clown. He would always make you laugh. If you have any information on this shooting, please call police. Police in virginia are mourning the loss of a Rookie Police officer killed on the first day on the job. Officer ashley she was shot to death responding to a Domestic Violence call in Prince William county. Two other officers were wounded. Police say the suspect, a military serviceman killed his wife and ambushed police as they approached the home. He was taken into custody. Tensions are high in Salt Lake City after an officerinvolved shooting there. Two of their officers fired their Service Weapons while responding to the call of an assault victim is a 16yearold boy. There were reports of crowds but police havent released any more information nor the condition of the person who was shot. In california three people were stabbed involvingu he ku klux klan. They attacked clans man in the streets of anaheim. Police arrested three counter protesters seen stomping a klans man. A Kansas Community will try to heal together. A town hall meet for the survivors residents following a deadly shooting spree at a plant three. Police killed cedric yesterday leaders adopted a new phrase. Hesston strong. As that city tries to move forward. His exgirlfriend faces charges for giving him the weapons used in that attack. Still to come, its hollywoods biggest night. Lack of diversity overshadow the oscar awards. A preview coming up. When one woman received an email threatening to close her bank account, she said better get baquero. What you need to know to protect your personal information. A taste of spring coming later on today. Temperatures near 60 degrees in some spots. How long will the mild weather last . Well look at the storm team 4 sevenday forecast coming up. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in buffalo, where the largest solar gigafactory in the western hemisphere will soon energize the world. And in syracuse, where imagination is in production. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow clear skies and relatively warm temperatures. 38 degrees. Going to go up even more. Raphael miranda has that coming up. Get ready for hollywoods biggest night. Not all glitz and glamou not this year. Mark barger has the predictions. The anticipation for tonight is not just about the awards. Im looking forward to chris rocks monologue. I cant think of a better host rock will have the diversity issue squarely in his sights but keep it from dominating the event. You want it to be celebratory celebratory. It could be for alejandra inry teu. His film, the revenant has 11 nominations, including best picture. If the revenant wins, it will be the First Time Ever that one director directed backtoback best picture winners. The competition includes newspaper drama spot height and housing bubble dramedy. Thte big short. I dont know ho overwhelming the love is for the revenant. Y there are a lot of people that love the movie. But i dont know if everybody in the academy embraces it. It stars leonardo dicaprio. Best actor would be his first oscar. I think hes writing his speech right now. He should be. The feeling similar about bree larson for the room. Shes dominated the best actress field. Theres no other performance in that category this year thats a ringer like her character is. She portrayed it beautifully. Supporting actress, kate winslet and steve jobs in a tight race. It could go either way. Supporting actor is a lock it seems for sylvester stallone. He revisited his rocky persona. A lot think he should have won 30 years ago for playing rocky. Winning this time could be a knockout moment on a golden night. Mark barger, nbc news. Film 50 shades of grey won big last night but its nothing to brag about. It won the razzie award for worst film tying with superhero 50 shades took home five razzies. Theyre known to spoof sohe awards season. Darn, i didnt see that one either. Missed that one too. Raphael miranda is here with a look at the forecast. Its going to be nice outside if youre looking have your party outside. Beautiful in the 50s. You can hang out outside today. Gus is like, what, are you crazy . Its february. Second to last day of february. Talking about temperatures in the 60s to the west of here. Everyone gets that cabin fever. When we get a day like today, everyone flocks to the parks and hangs out. Its going to be a great day for that. 38 degrees, mostly clear skies right now. Let take a look at your weather headlines. Getting ready for the taste of spring today. We have a couple of showers to worry about tomorrow. Its mainly early and they should be quick and out of here. It does stay mild for days. Youll see that in the sevenday forecast. Storm tracker not tracking any rain or snow. Hudson valley. A wider view. Heres the weather maker. Weak area of low pressure moving through the west. This tracks to the east over the next day. It will arrive by tomorrow morning. Heres the first forecast. 38 degrees. On the cool side. Light jackets are needed. You lose the jackets later on today. By 10 00 back to the mid40s. Lot of sunshine, breezy and then this is when temperatures surge well into the 50s. 58 at 4 00. Temperatures peak and you can see its breezy through the evening. Its a mild breeze. Its comfortable. 52 degrees even at 7 00 tonight der mostly clear skies. Lets talk about that rain. It is on the way. You can see on future tracker. This is 9 00 this morning. No rain yet. Heading through into the afternoon, lots of sunshine. Its a Beautiful Day taking shape. 4 00 p. M. , no weather problems. During the oscars, jumping ahead to tomorrow morning, 7 00 a. M. On monday, your commute, starts out dry for most. Here come showers. Future tracker. Light showers moving through at 8 00, 9 00. They track towards new york city around 10 00, 11 00. After lunch, drying out quickly. In the afternoon, its dry in fact. Temperatures stay mild well into the 50s. Looking for a high of 58 degrees. Well above average for today. A mild breeze out of the southwest 5 to 15 miles an hour. Overnight tonight, theres your low temperature. Thgoats closer to the High Temperature this time of year. 45. Were watching out for some clouds towards morl. Ng time. Sevenday forecast shows 58 for today. Near 60 again tomorrow. Breezy with showers in the morning. Tuesday, 52 and dry. A little chance much significant rain tuesday night into wednesday. Temperatures stay in the 50s there. Weyo are tracking a chance for some snow. I know its weird to talk about that with the mild weather. Thats for friday. More on that in a few minutes you want to stay up to date with the news 4 app. Tap the logo in the corner, then you can see the latest forecast. Use our interactive radar and learn how to submit your own weather video. Its available in the app store right now. Pat and gus, over to you. Now to a warning in morning about an email that you might see in your inbox. She said better get baquero. Lynda baquero explains what to do if you get the same email. Marie spent a lot of time in her Port Washington home these days recovering from hip surgery. It was during this time that she came across a disturbing email about a bank account. I said oh, my god. Another low balance. Oh, my god. Ive come to the end of the line. Theyre going to close my account. Im not a good customer. This is the email bearing what looks like a chase logo. It says we regularly update all accounts. Were unable to update your online account and, therefore, we will be closing your accounts. Please take a few moments to update your account. Then theres a link. I see the link, its asking me for information like email, email password. My mothers maiden name, my Social Security number. I said this is too much information. So i responded to them. Too much information. I wi respo to chas directly. Before she had a chance to do that, she got another email again requesting the same information. Something just said dont do it. Iet closed it and then i went to the chase online and then i called chase. When i told them what happened, they said theyre phishing. Smart move. If you get an email like this with a link or an unsolicited phone call, its always best not to reply. Instead, contact the business directly. As a former victim of Identity Theft in a different case, marie wants to warn others this time and thats why she contacted us. I think thats channel 4 and Lynda Baquero can be that voice i contacted channel 4 stating what happened to me hoping it helps somebody else. Lynda baquero, weekend today in new york. Nd lynda tells us on the websit chase does post warnings about phishing emails and they say yeu should not reply to an email that threat tones close or suspend your account if you dont take immediate action or you can forward any suspicious emails to abuse chase. Com. To get in touch with our consumer investigative team, send an email to better get baquero nbcnewyork. Com. 1866news244. From this day forward, everyone whoeaches out to the team youre looking at there, our new consumer investigative center. Coming up on this sunday morning, the news 4 iteam reveals how easy it is for prisoners to smuggle cell phones into one of the large hes and for obvious reasons and clearla y you are not permitted to have a control phone ell phone in jail. A former rikers prisoner said it was easy to do it. Hes speaking only to the the story and his videos raise quigestions about how secure rikers really is. You are looking at a city jail cell from a point of view rarely seen. Inmates are not allowed to have phones. Theyre considered dangerous contraband. These cell phone videos were taken by a prisoner who said it was absurdly easy to walk this iphone 6 into Rikers Island. If it wasnt a phone and it was a weapon, it would have turned out worse. The former prisoner asked us not to reveal his identity. He has another criminal case and fears reprisal if he ends up back in jail. This video was taken in a holding cell outside court. He took this video, he says once he was transferred to rikers. He each points the lens at this corrections officer when he turns his back. Why are you speaking out about how easy it was to get this cell phone inside rikers . I want everybody, taxpayers were paying for them to do nothing. We september the nt the video to the Department Much corrections. They said they take the allegations seriously. A week after receiving the vi sdeos, d. O. C. Investigators could not confirm this is actually a Rikers Island holding cell. Court records confirm the prisoner was jailed at Rikers Island. When inmates have cell phones videos, theyre not using them to call mom on mothers day. The department of investigation commissioner mark peters says jails have made progress in detecting contraband with training. That he confiscated 21 more. Cell phone recoveries were down 13 ment. Would yhiou say a cell phone is just as dangerous as a weapon . A cell phone in one sense can be even more dangerous than a weapon because the cell phone allows you to communicate undetected. Get weapons in, can get drugs in, can get alcohol in. This is the ceo of berkeley ver tron ix, a new Jersey Company than sells cell phone detection systems. He does not supply city jails but hardware like this could help rid them i hid a phone on my person and this detector easily found it. The light shows the phone was stashed somewhere below my ankle and it was. The d. O. C. Owns several phone detectors. Theyre in the process of buying ten more. But its not clear how this cell phone slipped through. City Council MemberElizabeth Crowley chairs the committee overseeing Rikers Island. She says the videos demonstrate a failure by jail guards but also demonstrat