Wlcome to today in new kyork, its sundayhe 20th of march. Cl cosing in on the end of this month, 11 day left. Im pat battle. Im gus rosendale. Weve got to talk about the snow. Just in a few showers, we have a snow alert issued for all five boroughs. You may not need the shovel, though. This is something you expect in january and february. Certainly not on the first day of spring, unless youve been around a while and remember the blizzard of april, i think 1983. Checkey beckford has more on the preparations under way around the city. Od morning, check. Reporter good morning, pat. First day of spring, no way. Just when you thought it was okay to put away the winter clothes. Noyot so much. I dig in the back of my closet to put it away. Even though its not snowing or raining, it feels like it could. It is freezing out here. Thats why the department of sanitation, as you mentioned, issued a snow alert beginning at 10 00 this morning. Not because they expect this to means, but they do want to be able to prepare for anythdng that could happen. Any possibilities that could develop. A lot of that means loading salt spreaders, attachingoilows if needed. This year, the one district queens 7ularage is one of 59 garages where sanitation has the machines that can be prepped aound ready to go at a moment notice. Early response is crucial. There was a lot of frustration following the blizzard back in january that left roads in our area impassable for days. Again, this is not looking hing like that. Back out here live, the fallout though from this or lack thereof, in sose cases, for instance, the nyc Half Marathon still expected to go on as pe lanned. The macys flower show still beginning today. If y pre planning to go to coney island, you have to wait one more week. Theyve delayed their opening because of the snow coming. They were worried about that. Some of the fallout from the snow expected today. Queens today, Checkey Beckford, ews 4 new york. Thank you so much. As check ee mentioned, 20,000 runners will be warming up with a cool 13. 1mile run. In saw some of the road clofires already Getting Started this morning as the United AirlinesHalf Marathon winds its way through manhattan today. The firstewave of run runners starts this morning and end up in battery park. You can expect the road closures throughout the morning. For a closer look at the map, go to nbcnewyork. Com. So you know what areas to avoid that marathon proceeds today. Beer and blood is what some witnesses rememeer wboutof celebration in the bronx. One man was hurt after being stabbed. The attacker still on the loose. Ray villeda has more. After a sea of green left a st. Patricks day parade in i dont thinker, a fight spilled blood on to the street. With the red and blue police lights. It was so fast. They took off. They didnt catch them. Nthis tness only wanted to go by her first name, eileen. He came up and stabbed him right in the chest. The kid that did it had a black eye. Police say it happened in a residential part of Woodlawn Heights. The suspect police say stabbed the victim with a broken bottle. Ann eny di angelo came home to see this. Theres a lot of children in the neighborhood. The susdect is still on the loose. He was een running away from the scene in a greln hooded sweatshirt. I dont know what to make of it. Am ver surprised. Ray villeda, toh day in newh york. Pol tice are investigating an apparent murdersuicide after a discovery in a home. A couples 11yearold son called 911 and said that his parents wer officers found his mother, 36 years old, dead upstairs. A 44yearolf ather was found dead in the basement. Investigators say it appears he inslicted selfinflicted gunshot wound in the head. We are investigating this incident as addomestic violence case. Murdersuicide. The cause of death still being cor nfirmed. The medical examiner is on the scene. Pol e are still investigating what led up to that apparent murdersuicide. New video of a car into a house in freeport. Were making phone calls to get more information about this. The impact left a hole in the front of that home. Xltheres more damage near the porch. Noi t clear if anyone was hurt. We, l keep you updated. Were learning several planes had trouble landing due to strong winds in russia. The fly dubai airliner exp ded into a giant fireball after morning. All 62 people on board were killed. Investigators recovered both flight recorders and say before the crash, one plane diverted to another airport after three failed landing attempts. Happening thod, president obama and the first family makec an historic trip to cuba. Media outlets setting up for the first visit to that communist nation by the first sitting president in 88 years. President obama expected to address human rights issues. Many hope the trade embargo will be lifted and the naval base will be closed. Meanwhile, a zika virus waherning has been issued for cuba ahead of the president s visit. Travelers, particularly pregnant women, are warned they could, in fact, contract that virus in cuba. Its spread by specific mosquitoes. The centers for Disease Control added cuba to a travel note e just yesterday. Sanders hit the campaign irail in arizona yesterday. Just ahead of tuesdays critical primaries. Sanders focusing on Immigration Reform and Hillary Clinton took the day off. Her husband expected to campaign in arizona later today. On the republican side in tucson, violence erupts at yet another donald trump rally. The protester, brian sanders, was punched and kicked as he was being escorted out of building. Police handcuffed the attack f, charged him with assault. Sanders did not appear to be seriously injured spoke to nbc news. Donald trump is perfectly welcome to run for president. What hes not welcome to do is to suggest that anybody w opposes him should be violently attacked. That he should be handed the presidency otsmside of the rules of his own party. This is sounding like 1933 up in here. Earlier in the day, trump spoke to thousands in scottsdale. Protesters blocking the road their cars in the middle of the st sreet. Donald trump go away. Thousands marched on fifth avenue yesterday pfotesting the against minorities amongst other things. John kasich says he wont be anybodys running mate. He made the comments to chuck todd in an interview that will air later this morning on meet the press. You can see that following our 10 00 a. M. Broadcast. Lots more to come. A driver steals the cab of a tractortrailer and leads police on a crazy ride. Plus, parentstobe running to a major insurance snafu s they count down to delivery. What did they do . Better get baquero. Well tell you how our Consumer Team came to the rescue. Happy spring everyone. Were tracking snow on the way ill tell you whowoould seegup to 4 or more inches tomorrow morning coming up in the forecast. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, thtae economy is growing, with creative new bu ness incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastrucg. Re for a new generation attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Liodke in rochester, with worldlclass botox. D in buffaloe where medicine meets the future. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow it took dozens of prototyp. Hundreds of crash simulations. Thousands of hours of painstaking craftsmanship. And an infinite reserve of patience. R. To create a ve thicle that looks, drives and thinks like nothing else on the road. Thalnew glc. The suv the world s been waiting for. Lovely picture of the George Washington bridge early on a sunday morning. Degrees. Almost cold enough for snow. You mentioned that. It is cold this morning. Theres no snow right now. Its a wtiintry feel. You need to bundle up. There is snow headed our way depending where you live. Well look at that in a minute. Right now, grab the layers for this first morning of spring. Were off to a good start. Degrees, which isnt that cold. Still march, still supposed to be cold here. 34. Its been so abnormally mild over the past few weeks and months, really the whole winter, this is a below average start by just a bit. Runners for the halfmarenathon. Thats good news. Chilly. Ce they warm up, theyll be ne. Spring snow, a messy mix later on this afternoon and evening. Then snow should be winding down by tomorrow morning. It may affect your commute depending where you live. Lets take a look at advisories and warnings. You can see this is where were focusing our attention. Warning for Eastern Suffolk county, montauk, the hamptons. Thats where youll see the greatest impacts from the storm. Even across nassau and western Suffolk County. You have a winter w ther advisory in effect. Youllsee minor impacts by the morning. You can see who is left out of equation. New york city. Wechester, rock land. Minimal impacts from the orm. Were dry most of tho day today. Not much going on except for breezy and chilly conditions. It starts out pretty light at first. Accumulating snow, that happens overnight tonight. Once the sun goes down, heading again, snow winds down during or before the morning commute, depending where you are. As far as the totals, were lding steady. A coating to around 2 inches doom areas west of new yoritciay towards nassau county. Here in the city, i dont think well see much at all. 2 to 4 inches for Suffolk County. For the eastern end of Suffolk County, you can see 4 to 6 inches in some spots like the hamptons by tomorrow morning. You can see on Storm Tracker its quiet. As we jog to the south, an area of low pressure. Another low reforms later tonight passing south and East New York city. That will be our glancing blow in terms of the storm. Its 34 degrees. Temperatures coasting in the 30s throughout the morning. 40 by 4 00 p. M after 6 00, 7 00 m. , thats when you start to see light wintry mix breaking out. Heres future tracker. Dry at 12 00. Jumping ahead, 6 00 p. M. , we start to get that rain snow mix down the jersey shore. Not much going on in the city. By 11 00 p. M. , snow showers down the jersey shore and snow this is what it looks like for the early commute tomorrow rning. Snow showers in and around new york city, down the jersey sho d long island. Again, that snow will linger into your monday. Really dying down by 9 00 a. M. On monday morning. You canelee on your sevenday forecast, that mix develops later on today with a high of 40 degrees. By tomorrow, up to 48 degrees and 54 on tuesday. Back to the 60s by wednesday. Of course, we want to stay up to date with the news 4 new york app. Tap the logo in the corner, scroll down and select the weather tab. You can see the latest forecast. Us our interactiveadar and learn how to submit your own weather video. Its available in the app store right now. Gus, over to you. Then there were two. The second of two eaglets is hatching at the national boretum in washington, d. C. The baby bird pecking a hole in its shell. This happening yesterday. Its camera debut. Wthe first next toy he egg hatched friday. There they are. We have a live look at the nest right now. Mama bird monitoring conditions as you would magine a mama bird to do. Theyre the first bald eagles to nest in that area since 1947. Beautiful. A wild chase in new jersey involving police and a stolen semi truck ends with an arrest and an injured officer. Police say the truck was stolen mnear ridge wood and bigelow in newark. He made his way on to route 78. The tractortrailer cab crashed in pto swveral cars, including this one being towed away there. A witness described what happened. He pushed the police car up on the curb, hit burgundy van, a white car and another policey car. A person would have been in the street, he would have hit them and killed them. One officer was hospitalized a with minor injuries. Veral charges, including aggravated assault and resisting arrest. Weeks to go before the birey of her first child. A queens woman said better get baquero. The reason . A problem with her Health Insurance. Heres lynda. She say she was all paid up and current with her Health Insurance premiums, yet she got a call that her coverage was on hold. Soaneeinvestigated just in the nick of time. Allison and her husband john were over the moon to learn they would become parents and busy preparing for babys arrival. But allisons pregnancy has been difficult with constant episodes of nausea. It would be 30 times a day vomiting and like everything would trigger me. Light, the air conditioner, sound, smells. So about five weeks in, because it got to the point where i was vormiting blood. Emesis and gets iv treatments ery between the hospital bill and like the doctors bill, it ends up being 20,000 for one month. For recent treatments, her doctor says her Insurance Coverage stopped. Thene plan asked for allisons citizenship papers. Which is strange. When youre filling out the application, you indicate yes, im a u. S. Citizen, heres my soveal and tory can see that. S,es a naturalized citizen having come as an infant. She sent her documents and said there was still a lapse in coverage and was facing hefty medical bills until she said better get baquero. We contacted t new york state of health. You started getting calls from people apologizing saying we had everything, which we knew because we had done our due dir ligence. Racing against the delivery clock, we got to work quickly is now reinstated just days before a costly scheduled c gosection surgery. Im a teacher, my husband is in construc con. Thats more than our annual salaries combined. A we ceeckeddwith allison and baby is due any day. Were happy to report that this preooblem is solved. You should know that federal rules require marketplaces to dy their Due Diligence in questioning documents in certain situations. The new york state of health now does have that paperwork for allison and her coverage continues. In the newsroom, lynda baquero, news 4 new york. To get in touch with our coegnsumer investigative team, send an email to better get baquero or call us. Remember, from now on, everyone who reaches out, will get a sponse from the team at our new consumer investigative center. Lynda delivers, literally. York, the paris attack suspect talking. What he confessed to police about what was supposed to go down during that deadly siege. Not the horse side you expect. The scary ordeal that sent this rse through the air. F for this horse in arcadia, california, safe and sound this morning after h took a tumble down the side of a trail. Two helicopters were called in to airlift the animal out of a ravine. It was attached to a harness and blindfolded. This is some race. He was flown through the area, saonfely placed down on a ranch, eventually back on its feet and were told hes okay and no people were hurt. Remarkable, they had the harns to do this. Ride of a lifetime. Time for a check of sports and talking about the future of the knicks. More upsets in the ncaa tournament. Heres j n chandler. Good morning everybody. What is carmello anthonys hfuturey the answer was once im here to say. Now its i dont know. A t ord straight losing season. Knicks led by as many as 18 and in the third quarter. The wizards use a 140 run to take control. Despane 20 points from melo and another 20 from porzingis, the knicks crumble. Similar story for the nets. Down by 9 in the fourth. They had no answer for this man. Anthony tolliver. He didnt play in the first half, didnt let up in the seco d. Pouring in all of the 17 points in the final two frames. 115103 loss. Thats eight in ten games. On friday, a run of upsets turned the ncaa tournament on its head. Yesterday, uconns march magic ran out. The husky ran into kansas. The top overall seed winning 7361. Connecticuts yale stung baylor for a fird ever ncaa tournament win. On saturday, their time cam to an end. 48yearold built stony brook into an ncaa tournament. Former captain at onn for jim calhoun, pike he will comes endorse by the threetime former hea coach of the huskies. Stony brook turned in six 20w. N seasons under him. On the ice, all three locals suffered losses. Ruben tejada signed a deal with the cardinals. Four strikeouts including Kelly Johnson, nick swisher and Kelly Johnson again. He allowed one run in four innings. Concern fti jacoby ellsbury. He takes the pitch off his right ist. Coach girardi said you can see cheam marks on tre erret. Xrays come back negative. Yanks win 32. The madness continues at th villanova taking on iowa. Notre dame tries to end any cinderella run by stephen f. Austin. For today in new york, im john chandler. Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere are getting ready forea Close Encounter with two comets. The first comet on monday morning, the second comet early tuesday. It will be closer to earth than any other cor t in nea y 250 years. Were talk 2. 2 million miles for perspective sake. Can you imagine sliding between floors of the skyscraper . Yeah. In los angeles, you can soon take a glass slide between the 69th and 70th floor of the u. S. Bank tower. They put the slide on the side the building. When it opens, just an inch and a half of glass separates riders from a thousandfoot drop. Visitors will pay 8 for hat is. A mexico city Central Square became a giant outdoor chapel on saturday as thousands of couplese tied the knot in a mass wedding ceremony. More than 2,000 couples said their i dos all at the same me. Orprganizers also sprung for the skwedding cakes, champagne and a raffle. They gave out prize sz, including trips to resort and money to build a house. Thats nice. Or also happening today, a procession in Lower Manhattan to celebrate palm sunday. Hundreds expected to join the clergy of the wall street episcopal street. Ngthousands walked down broadwat waving palms a carrying banners. The procession marks the beginning of holy week leading to Easter Sunday next week. . Jerusalem, pilgrims celebrated palm sunday. It is, of course, the sunday before easter and the christiant calendar commemorating the en ta ans of jesus into jerusalem when palm branches were laid in on holy thursday and crucified good friday. Next on today in new york, were getting new information after a cab ran over a woman dragging her to her death. Plus, well have this. Reporter a snow alert on the first dde of spring. Im Checkey Beck