77 outside right now. It feels summery and sticky. Were back into the 80s. Not in the 90s for a change. A nice change there. A high of 83 degrees. There are more 90s on the way. Well look at that in the forecast. Heres emily west with more. Good morning everyone. Early problems on the f train. That has resumed. A lot of detours with the new york city buses. So keep that in mind if you are traveling out. Everything else looks pretty nice this morning for your commuter checklist. Morning ride is okay. Afternoon travel, there will be extra trains for the get away for labor day. Ill keep you updated on that later this morning. Alternate side meter rules in effect. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Emily, thank you very much. Happening today, two former new jersey daycare workers accused of trying to create a fight club for young children. Theyre going to face a judge. 28yearold chanese white, 22yearold erica kenny facing child abuse charges. Prosecutors say they encouraged children as young as 4 years old to fight at the Lightbridge Academy in cranford. They say they recorded the brawls on video and shared them on social media. Two pilots are in the hospital following a Small Plane Crash in bergen county. Theyre credited for quick thinking to prevent the situation from being much worse. That plane went down late yesterday in cresskill near a popular swim club and close to several sports fields. Its still sitting there this morning. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in cresskill. When you think about the fact there were fields nearby, a swimming pool. Its a summer day. It could have been awful. Reporter thats why theyre hailed as heroes this morning, darlene. We checked in on the condition of the two pilots. I spoke to a tour chief from inglewood hospital who is here at the scene. He told me they were in surgery overnight for injuries to their lower extremities. Things like broken bones while trying to land the cessna and avoiding a pool, a playground and a soccer field. Can we make an Emergency Landing . Reporter that was the radio transmission heard just before 5 00 on thursday. Its usually a sign to conducting patrols along the hudson river. After noticing engine issues, the pilot realized that landing along the tree lined soccer field was his only option. Thats why hes hailed as a hero by those who watched the tense moments unfold. It kind of turned and thats when i think it hit the train. Heroic thing i could do. Thats seeing the pilot avoid hitting people. I think he purposely did that. I give them a lot of credit. Reporter the ntsb is now taking over the investigation into exactly what happened. The plane is expected to be moved sometime today. Darlene, as you can see over my shoulder, its absolutely in pieces right now. Theres patrol from the Cresskill Police department keeping a watch on this. You can see, as well, this area, this soccer field has been roped off as the investigation continues. Back to you. Tracie strahan, thank you. Its 5 07. A first look at the man wanted for a random attack in queens. Police released this shot from a Security Camera from behind. But its the only glimpse of the suspect that we have at this point. They previously released a sketch of that person. They say he threw some sort of liquid in a womans face last month on long island in Long Island City causing serious burns. Five Rutgers UniversityFootball Players are now suspended in connection with an assault and a violent spree of Home Invasion robberies. Police say rohan peel, that dir barnwell, stevenson and andre boss were arrested this week. Four were allegedly involved in an unprovoked attack that left a student with a broken jaw. Police say that boz and several others pulled off at least three armed Home Invasion robberies in and around campus. They allegedly stole cash and marijuana. I think its kind of shocking that five Football Players do when they have a big rep in school. Very prestigious, like d1 football team. You wouldnt expect the athletes. They will miss the home opener tomorrow against norfolk state. Connecticut wildlife officials euthanized a bear that had a clo encounter with a hiker. The hiker posted video of the bear online. She was on a trail in burlington when the bear came up to her. Put her mouth on her leg. Wildlife experts say the bear had a history of aggression and was a danger to the public. A female bear in the area was also euthanized. The search is on for the crooks responsible for an unusual robbery in bronx. The video were about to show you broke into the area early wednesday morning. When they got inside, the men drilled a hole in the floor of the apartment, dropped down into a deli below it. They took baby formula, calling cards and undetermined amount of cash. Then they set a fire in basement to try to cover their tracks. Also in the bronx, getting a look at the man wanted for stabbing a person in a grocery store. Police say the man seen here stabbed the victim in the back of the head following a dispute. The victim taken to jacoby hospital but since been released. Just ahead, an important recall getting bigger. The popular food that could cause a choking hazard. American pharoah expected to get back on the track. It will be the final time. Storm team 4 already talking about our next chance for a heat wave. Weather and traffic on the 4s is ahead. Youre watching today in new york. Blinds to gos Summer Celebration sales so hot youre gonna need shades. Not those shades. These shades take a cool 2035 off all sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more. Shades on sale. Theres nothing cooler than that. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Cannonball blinds to gos Summer Celebration sale is going on now make a splash with new sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more, all at 2035 off its the hottest sale of the year. Just when you need to cool off most. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Its 5 13. Here are four things to know this morning. Breaking news in brooklyn. A Police Officer shot a suspect overnight. Theres a large crime scene set nup bushwick. A live report ahead in 15 minutes. A new york city teacher is facing charges. Police say he was operating a drone that crash landed in the middle of a match at the u. S. Open. What police are saying about this ahead in 15 minutes. Kraft is expanding the recall of cheese slices. Theyre recalling hundreds of thousands of slices because of concerns that the some of the plastic may stick to the slice and cause a choking hazard. For more information, head to nbcnewyork. Com. American pharoah will race again. The owner of the horse confirms it. Pharoah is going to run in the breeders cup. He tweeted the champ deserved another chance after saratoga. A lot of people want to see the final race or what will be of the horse that won the triple crown for the first time in more than 35 years. Incredible. Keep saying im going to retire and doesnt. Like michael jordan. 5 14. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Hey, raphi. Good morning, guys. An amazing summer. All the weekends of beautiful weather. Well do that again as we say goodbye to summer. Storm tracker, nice and quiet out there. More clouds than yesterday. Still muggy outside right now. Youll feel that sticky necessary in westchester county. 70 degrees armonk. Mid70s in ma mayor neng. Feeling the warmth and the humidity at this hour. Even well north and west of town, pretty mild with temperatures in the 60s at this hour. Future tracker, headed towards lunchtime, you start to see one or two showers popping up, especially to the west of new york city today. Thats where most of the action will be. Not everyone is going to see rain besides one or two of the storms is about it. Drying out for the evening. Mostly quiet here. A bit cooler than yesterday. Temperatures in the 80s today. The humidity drops off very nicely later on tonight into your saturday. This is a nice picture for saturday. Beautiful sunshine. Low humidity and temperatures comfortable into the 80s. That trend continues. The Weekend Getaway thing, region by region. Jersey shore look at all of this beautiful beach weather. 70s tomorrow. Near 80 on sunday and into the 08s on monday. No hurry to leave, thats for sure. Heading out east to the hamptons also montauk, just a fantastic stretch. Saturday through monday, temperatures on the rise day by day. Warm, perfect. Beach and barbecue weather. Heading to the catskills, youll find the warmest weather this weekend. Low 80s tomorrow. Little bit of humidity there by your labor day monday. It starts to get uncomfortable. Nothing too bad but you will notice a change as the humidity creeps back up along with the temperatures. 83. Cooler today. Lots of clouds out there. One or two showers possible. 65. Now it gets comfy. The humidity finally drops and you can see that beautiful stretch of weather through the holiday weekend. Look who is back. The 90s tuesday and wednesday as we look at the potential for another heat wave. Lets look at the commute. Emily west has a look at that. Hi raphi. Good morning on this friday. First off, new jersey, the turnpike. Couple of fires. One is a truck fire. Northbound on the turnpike in the truck lanes around 8a in the right lane and north around exit 9 in the car lanes. Left lane is blocked here by a vehicle fire as well. Staten island expressway really slow due to construction. First eastbound. Forest avenue to victory boulevard and westbound, bradley avenue to richmond avenue by victory. Youre going to find a slow go. That continues. A live look at the gowanus this morning. Its moving along without any problems. Pretty good ride through industry city. Not bad. A look at the Grand Central parkway. Right here the Nassau County line, everything stays moving along without any problems. The checklist for this morning, starting off on schedule and alternate side meter rules in effect. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thank you very much, emily. Now to decision 2016. Donald trump is making headlines again. This time vowing to pressure from the Republican Party. Tracie potts has more on why he had a change of heart. He sure did. Darlene. He said if i dont get this nomination and treated with respect, i may run as an independent, thirdparty candidate. Now hes decided not to. The party was concerned he would split the vote. I have signed the pledge. Donald trump is doing what the Republican Party wants, promising not to run against them as a thirdparty candidate. I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party and the conservative principles for which it stands. This guy is not a conservative. Trumps favorite target these days, jeb bush, listed third in the latest Monmouth University poll. Ben carson is a solid second behind trump who solidified his lead. ,carly fiorina expected to debate the frontrunners is taking aim at Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton clearly does not understand accountability. Clintons former chief of staff spent 9. 5 hours behind closed doors answering questions about benghazi. She was thorough and transparent. She answered the questions. The tragedy that happened in benghazi was about more than whats happening in this room. Its about the loss of individuals who were dear to the state department and dear to the country. The staffer who set up the private email server took the fifth. Now, today the committee is expecting to hear from the former deputy chief of staff when clinton was at the state department and we are going to hear from Hillary Clinton herself. Shes doing a sitdown interview, darlene with our own nbcs Andrea Mitchell. That should be interesting. Tough questions and maybe tough answers too. All right. Looking forward to it. Tracie potts in washington. Thank you. After donald trump held his News Conference at trump tower a scuffle broke out outside between trump employees and protesters. That fight began when the staffers tried to move the antitrump protesters. The demonstrators, some dressed as kkk members, wanted to draw attention to his call to deport undocumented immigrants. They say they were blocking the sidewalk. After the break, we see a lot of things in times square. Were going to guarantee youve never seen this. The story behind the Storm Trooper that showed off serious moves. Hey. Hey. Follow the today in new york team on facebook and twitter. Well be right back. Mmmm yoplait i am needing to tell you something about yogurt. There is now 25 less sugar in yoplait original. Poofs that sugar is gone so do i still love this yogurt . Yes because it still tastes good yoplait inbound lanes. 23 on this friday. New this morning, the force is strong with star wars fans in the city. Hundreds packed the toysrus. To get ahold of the star wars toys. From the new star wars movie. The force awakens. Weve got something youve never seen before. Storm troopers doing serious dancing. There it is. Its part of a global event called force friday. But the one that everyone is buzzing about. Called the droid. Its een in a movie trailer. Its a toy operated by a smartphone app. Raphi l ks greathere imt. Hey. There i go. Targeted walmart across the country. Also opened at midnight to sell the toys. You dont know thats the whole sttrm team 4 weather team. Janice, raphi, chris. You guys are good. We wont let you know who is who, though. We get it now. It happens in the Weather Center every friday morning. Break into that dance. Periscope it later today. Less hot today but seall muggy unfortunately much the i humidity is still there. Tropical feel weve been dealing with, its out there this morning. A you can see on Storm Tracker, very quiet, no rain to worry about just yet. Temperatures are down. The heat wave ends today. 83 the High Temperature. 81 in east chester with the cloud cover keeping the ittemperatures down. 82 garden city. Also adding to the cloud cover around 5. 50 miles per hour. Especially to west of n york city. Th ge good stuff happens tonight. Look at the temperatures. Down to the 60s in the city. Comfortable, low humidity. Maybe give the ac a little break. Especially in places like poughkeepsie and yorktown. Time to crack open the window. Fresh air in for a change. We keep that cool trend going for the start of Labor Day Weekend and it heats up day by day. Another look at the sevenday forecast and another potential heat wave coming our way. Another one on the way. Raphi, thank you. The trains are starting off okay. Your checklist, everything looks great. For your morning ride, no delays for the afternoon there will be exngtra trains for the labor day get away. Ill update you with those in a little biu. Also your ride looks pretty nice. Grand Central Parkway moving well. You are heading to the u. S. Open maybe right now youre getting out, it looks okay. Doesnt start for a little bit. Get there early. Why not . Just in case. Get a good seat. Its 5 25. A drone actually crashes. Weve been talking about that this morning at the u. S. Open. Well tell you who police say was controlling it. Plus a small plane goes down in new jersey this morning. The pilots there being hailed as heroes. Reporter im Katherine Creag live in brooklyn where bullets went flying in this neighborhood. A shootout between a suspect and two Police Officers. Well tell you what happened here in brooklyn. Ill have the latest breaking story coming up. If youre about to head out the door, take us with you. Keep watching today in new york. Download the news 4 new york app on your mobile device right now. Well be right back. Were following two breaking news stories. Police shot a suspect. This is video from overnight. Plus, an arrest after an unusual interruption in the middle of a match at the u. S. Open. A Small Plane Crashes near popular fields. Why the pilots are being praised for what they did. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everyone. Its friday morning. Its september 4th. Im darlene rodriguez. Im michael gargiulo. Chris is off. Storm team 4s Raphael Miranda is here with the forecast. Raphi, its interesting because its warm but not a heat wave today. No, the heat wave ends today, guys. No more 90s in the forecast. Its still sticky and muggy. Not a comfortable day. That comes tomorrow. The day planner, 77 degrees outside. Its humid and warm. Its a muggy start to your day. Look where temperatures top out today. In the low to mid80s. Thats it big difference to the forecast. Todays high 83 degrees. Then we get to the good stuff. The lower humidity and the comfortable weather as we head into the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Well look at that forecast coming in a few. Right now emily west is here with a look at the commute. Good morning everyone. New jersey turnpike, a couple vehicle fires. This one involving a truck on the turnpike northbound by exit 8a. Thats in the right lane and farther north in the left lane, a car fire in the car lanes south of exit 9. The roadwork clearing on the Staten Island expressway eastbound. Westbound from bradley avenue to richmond avenue. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Thank you very much. Breaking news in brooklyn. A person shot overnight by police. It began with a fight on madison street in bushwick. It ended when police opened fire on a suspect a couple of blocks away. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag was there with what police are telling us. Kat, good morning. Reporter dar leap, good morning. Residents tell us that it was loud. A shootout between a suspect and two Police Officers. We want to show you whats happening right now. A lot of flashing lights down there. Thats where crime scene units, investigators converged here on jefferson avenue and