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WNBC Sunday Today In New York July 31, 2016

Gray out there in spots. We are tracking heavy rain moving out of Putnam County. Already the damage has been done. A flood advisory in effect for western Putnam County until 6 45 this morning. Weve seen heavy rain in the Hudson Valley. Heavy rain is the trend for today. You can see in the future forecast, 74 outside. Winds are calm out of the east long. Scattered storms through the morning and this afternoon. It wont be raining all day, when it does rain, it will rain heavily like yesterday. Its muggy and unsettled with temperatures in the 70s to low 80s. Well look at your tenday forecast and tell you when we finally dry out in a few. We are following breaking news out of austin, texas. Person dead and four others injured. The first shots fired about three hours ago. You can see that huge crowd of people gathering downtown. Austin police were originally calling this an active shooter situation but now say both scenes are secure. Well bring you the latest updates as they come in. Police reopened a stretch of the new jersey turnpike that was closed investigation. New Jersey State Police were chasing a driver who was armed and dangerous. When the car finally stopped, troopers found out that the driver apparently shot himself. The driver is a form Police Officer from rhode island who was suspected in the disappearance of his wife. A big cleanup is underway after storms lashed out in new jersey. Winds and rain brought down tree limbs in morristown. One branch punctured a car. No one was hurt. Live wires dangling over streets. This was the scene at the Princeton Junction train station. The rain coming down so fast, the stairwell and tunnel completely flooded. Heres rana novini with more. Reporter this is a pedestrian walkway thats obviously not very pedestrian friendly right now and believe it or not, this is a major improvement as many areas were flooded with heavy rains. Its crazy. Its a crazy amount of water. Reporter the water would be up to their necks if they tried to wade through. Princeton junction looks more like a loading dock than a train station. Its creating a big mess for the passengers. If you had a boat with a gondola and a guy with a hat, it would be very romantic going through there, but we dont have that. Reporter some stores flooded out. Nature trails looked more like rivers. Torrential rains, downpours like crazy. Sounds like nails on the roof. Reporter drivers in princeton had it rough. Rescue crews even tougher. Close to traffic. The water is just above my ankles right now, but some drivers learn the hard way, it doesnt take much to get stuck. Carl said they were just trying to get to the train station when this happened. We turn around and as im pressing on the gas pedal, the car stops and were in the middle of fourinch water, police cars were like, why did you go past that . And we were like, we dont know. Reporter all over new jersey, a wild weather saturday with a Silver Lining of rescues and no reported injuries. In princeton, rana novini news 4 new york. Track the weather all weekend with our nbc 4 new york app. Click the weather tab for the latest forecast, interactive radar and important weather alerts. It just takes a few seconds to download. New this morning, a traffic officer was injured at crime scene on long island. Suffolk county investigators say a 21yearold man was shot in while police were investigating that gunfire, a traffic officer was hit by a car. He was taken to the hospital with a leg injury. No charges have been filed. The shooting victim is recovering. There is a search this morning for a man who allegedly slashed another man in a bronx park. Police released this Surveillance Video of the suspect. He was involved in an argument with the victim. He slashed him on his arm and back before stealing his backpa w police are looking for a man who attacked a woman in greenwich village. This happened on 5th avenue near west 8th street. Not far from Washington Square park. The man walked up to a 20yearold woman, struck up a conversation and then things turned violent. He grabbed her and sexually assaulted her. She was able to fight him off. Federal investigators are a hot air balloon carrying 16 people caught fire and crashed. No one survived. Witnesses say the fire spread so fast there was no time to react. It wasnt like an explosion. It was kind of like a it just went up. The ntsb says victim specialist and weather expert also conduct an extensive investigation. In california a wildfire continues to race across the big sur coastline. Flames are forcing thousands of residents and visitors to run for it. That fire burned more than 52 square miles. At least 57 homes have been destroyed. 2,000 more are threatened. That fire just 15 contained. If you played powerball last night, chances are you did not win. The jackpot ticket was purchased in New Hampshire. Saying where in the state the ticket was purchased. Last nights jackpot worth 487 million. It was the eighth largest jackpot ever. The winning numbers were 32, 21, 17, 23, 11, powerball 5. Again, sold in New Hampshire. There you go. That says it all. Coming up on today in new york, some deals promise big money back in the mail. But what happens check never comes . Better get baquero. And trouble on the trail for donald trump after reports he got stuck in an elevator. And why netflix customers are bothered rather than binging this weekend. And it is a good weekend for binge watching. Rain a problem yesterday and today. We have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for parts of the region. Lets look at the brooklyn bridge, lots of clouds and some soggy coming up in your storm now to decision 2016. New details about attempts to hack into Hillary Clintons campaign networks. A source tells nbc news that the february fib today the campaign about the attempts in the spring, but the clinton team declined agents requests to look clinton and tim kaine hit the road in western pennsylvania to sell their plan for america. For residents in rural cambria county, its all about jobs. Clinton said she is listening. Were going to create jobs in pennsylvania and across america, especially in places that have been left out and left behind. Clinton picked up an endorsement from Dallas Mavericks owner mark cuban. Again for something he said on the campaign trail. His target this time the parents of a fallen american soldier who spoke at the Democratic National convention. Trump taking issue with the father telling a National Audience that trump sacrificed nothing and nothing in a speech. Trump said he sacrificed a lot in his business career. She was standing there. She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. Im cannot see my sons picture. Trumps latest controversy wasnt the only obstacle he had to overcome. His campaign confirms he was among ten people who had to be rescued from an elevator that got stuck in a Colorado Springs resort. A pocket version of the u. S. Constitution became a best seller. 1 on amazon. Happening today, or really not happening, the largest hot air Balloon Festival would resume today in new jersey but the weather forced them to cancel events yesterday. They say safety is always the top priority and the decision was made out of an abundance of caution. Some balloons offer rides, i dont know if go up in this weather. That unsettled weather still looms. Very foggy right now. Very heavy rain. Flooding a concern. We picked up over five inches of rain in some spots yesterday. A small section of new jersey, but you saw some of the flooding. We may see that again. Were on a flood watch in new york city and suburbs. Theres the gwb, no flooding around the city, but light rain you can see a little glisen from time to time. Heavy rain may return this afternoon. Lets see the flood area watches. This is new york city, northeast new jersey, all of these counties, bergen, hudson, essex, union, under a Flash Flood Watch until 11 00 tonight. That means conditions are ripe for flash flooding. Heavy rain at times. The ground also saturated from the rain weve seen. So any heavy rain that fal localized roads could get flooded. This is more a local variety. That could affect roadways. From the Hudson Valley through Nassau County under a Flash Flood Watch. We are seeing pockets of heavy rain, not around the city. Light rain around the five boroughs. North and south of town is where were focusing attention. We had flooding in Putnam County. Heavy rain has moved into duchess county. Poughkeepsie, new milford, morning. Down the jersey shore, not much better. This is ocean county, lacy, toms river, and Seaside Heights seeing the downpours. That could cause ponding on the roadways as well. All about the flash flooding concern on this sunday. Heavy rain and storms likely, just like yesterday. Most widespread this afternoon. So if youre not seeing rein right now, you probably will see heading back to work tomorrow. Temperatures are mild in the 70s, its muggy. 74 in greenwich, Fairfield County feeling warm. 72 in fairfield. 75 this hour in bridgeport. Temperatures in the upper 60s in newburgh, 64 in monticello. 75 in long branch. The mets taking on the rockies at 1 00. Maybe a few peeks of sunshine this is 12 00 today. We see spotty showers and storms picking up in intensity and coverage. This is a wet scenario around 3 00. Heavy downpours if you get the rain. Like yesterday, rainfall rates over 2 inches per hour. Not a great beach day. We may keep it drier east of town. Eastern suffolk county, you from new york city, westchester, jersey shore, the rain threat lingers into monday morning. Lets look at your exclusive tenday forecast. Still unsettled tomorrow. More showers and storms. High of 81. Tuesday, much better. One or two showers. 81. Losing that humidity and the rain by wednesday. The sun returns with a High Temperature of 84. Learn how to submit your own weather videos. The news 4 new york app for iphone is available in the app you. Thank you. A netflix outage left binge watchers stranded on a rainy saturday. Web users across the country saw a technical difficulties message when they logged in. Outages were reported as far away as switzerland and argentina. The service was back up and running for customers at a rebate can be a great incentive to buy something. It convinced a long island man to spend more at the hardware store. But when he filled out the rebate form and didnt get it, he said better get baquero. We had pans in rollers. We were just rolling this on the floor. Reporter this is where nicholas planned to use a new product hed purchased, an epoxy craft beer and sports bar called the north tap. The price of the five gallon pail was 167. We were entitled to a 40 rebate. Reporter nicholas bought the epoxy at home depot. He followed the procedure for getting the 40 rebate. Including making sure he bought the product within a specified time frame. It is dated september 4th. Their product rebate says must buy between september 3rd and september 7th. Reporter after sending in the form and the receipt, nick lat got a postcard s i sent it back again circling the date on the receipt. I showed them we followed the procedure. Showing them the date. Showing them the time. Got another postcard saying we didnt qualify. Reporter nicholas who has also been busy all these months as an ordained wedding officient reached out to us for help. I see lynda gets results. It was a matter of principal and its only 40, but its the principle of the thing. We asked home depot to look into this. Problem solved. They discovered when nicholas typed the receipt Number Online he was off by one digit and that number had a different purchase date. When he appealed his case, the Home Depot Rebate Center made the same mistake. Now home depot has sent him the 40 rebate and they added a 50 gift card for his inconvenience. Home depot tells us they are sorry for his trouble and appreciate the opportunity to make it right. Lynda baquero, news 4 new york. They more than mad r made it it right. To get in touch to the team, logon to nbcnewyork. Com gethelp or call us at 8666397244 to get help. Everybody who reaches out is going to get a response from our team at the consumer investigative center. Harry cicma has sunday morning sports coming up. And one part of the state is pump. Find out where gas is less than if you want to soar along the highest, longest and fastest zipline in north america, theres only one place to do it. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. . . Its all in the catskills. Only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Some scary moments on board an American Airlines flight. Flight attendants reported smoke in the cabin of the plane headed to toronto. This was moments before the plane landed yesterday. The plane made it to the ground safely. Nobody was hurt. Passengers were bussed to the terminal. Gas in the country. The price of a gallon of gas went down again in the garden state. It will cost you less than 2 on average for a gallon of unleaded gas in the garden state. The National Average is 2. 14 a gallon. Pretty cheap. I saw gas 1. 77 in new jersey yesterday. It is a summer to remember for a group of local children. They are learning to swim free of charge. Michael george tells us about the thats eightyearold unique looking at the camera. Shes about to swim for the first time. Unique is one of about 20 kids getting free swim lessons from experts. Ready, two, three, go. Reporter many of these kids live in Public Housing and come from lowincome backgrounds. Something as simple as a day at the pool is a luxury they never had before. Statistically if you dont learn between the ages of 8 and how to swim. Reporter Archie Lee Coates helped to start this program as part of his organization, loft pool. They have the lofty goal of creating a clean, chubb pool right on the east river. Its not just about swimming. Its being empowered to do anything that you didnt have the opportunity to do. Reporter its not an easy start. Some of the children have never been in the water before. Are you scared at all . Just a little bit. Reporter but it doesnt take long before the kids forget they were ever scarnd having fun. Unique is learning to swim alongside her sisters and watching from above their very proud grandmother. She never got the chance to learn to swim. Im very proud of them. Theyre doing wonderful. Theyre learning a lot. Reporter now vivian says her grandkids may teach her. Unique says shes ready. On the upper east side, michael that magic number, if kids dont learn between 8 and 10, they might never learn. Its time for a check of sports. Heres harry cicma. Well, what a special night in queens. Just six days after being inducted into the National Baseball hall of fame, mike piazza had his number retired by the mets. And it was a packed house. There was a chance of rain, but Mother Nature cooperated and the hall of famer was greeted with a standing ovation. Piazzas family and a few former mets teammates were on hand. Mike was drafted in the 62nd round back in 1988. He spent 16 years in the major leagues and is considered to be the greatest offensive catcher in baseball history. The 12time allstar earned ten silver slugger awards and hit 396 home runs. The most by any catcher. He also led the mets to a world series appearance in 2000. Piazzas number of 31 becomes with you. So, every time these guys are down and you need a little bit of inspiration, just give a little peek up there to old mikey and know that im back home watching you guys on tv, saying a lot of prayers, praying for the mets. And i just want you to know you have given me an honor that no man deserves and no player deserves. Congratulations to mike piazza. The Major League Baseball trade deadline is tomorrow. And there are possible moves between the mets and yankees. Saturday the mets announced that jose reyes is going on the disabled with a strained oblique. The rockies looking to stop a threegame losing streak. Up in the fourth. Not anymore. The tworun blast gives the rockies a 32 advantage. Next inning, two men on and he goes up the middle under the glove of cologne. Two runs score. Rockies up by three. Colorado holds on for the victory. Yoenis cespedes left the game with a sore right quad. The yankees are Still Deciding whether to sell at the trade deadline. They were taking on the last place race. Eighth inning, Nathan Eovaldi to deep left center. The rays lead 10. In the 3rd, yankees up one, its kirt crushing this pitch deep to left. And in the seventh. Tick beckham joins the party with this tworun blast to center. The yankees fall 63 the final. Its their Third Straight loss. They will try to avoid the sweep this afternoon. The third round of the pga championship was suspended due to yesterdays storms in new enjoy the rest of your sun. For today in new york, im harry cicma. Up next on today in new york, a new jersey grandmothers story of survival after days with no food or water, just her and her cat. And were keeping an eye on a flood threat on this sunday. Lets look outside at the hamilton bridge. 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