To happen down the road. We start to see a breakdown in that. We get rain in here, i think, tomorrow. Could be a good soaking rain in parts of the area with heavier showers and Thunder Showers late in the day and tomorrow evening. Better half of the weekend is saturday. Could be more showers by the time we get to sunday. Weve had a great string of weekends, little rain on sunday wouldnt be that bad of a thing. Steamy right now. Heading back to the upper 80s by noontime. Well build in more clouds this afternoon. Up around 90 by 3 00. Thats the forecast high. Could be a spot shower or thunderstorm in some areas late this afternoon. Early trouble spots on the commute so far, lauren . Just two small bumps in the road. Nothing too major on the gowanus eastbound. Theres a disabled vehicle in the right lane. Heading up to the gowanus into the bqe, we have a disabled tractortrailer eastbound or inbound by atlantic avenue. Neither is causing big delays. One of the tubes is shut down at the battery tunnel. The other one is taking on twoway traffic. No major slowdowns because of it. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect today. The next update on the 4s. Thank you very much, lauren. The search is on for a man who tried to rob an Upper East Side deli. He ran away after his shotgun jammed. This is Surveillance Video of the stickup obtained by news 4. The shotgun wielding man entered the deli cafe on lexington yesterday morning. He screamed at workers and demanded money. Workers say as he was about to open fire, that shotgun jammed. He tried to shoot everybody. Said put your hands up, give me all the cash. Like a movie. Police did chase the robber out of the deli. The video shows him running. He ditches the shotgun. Police recovered that weapon and fortunately fortunately, nobody was hurt. Getting room to expand. Officials from the town of monroe voted to give the village 164 acres instead of the 500 acres it was seeking. Some residents at the Board Meeting last night said thats too much. They fear the expansion will pave the way for more large apartment buildings in the area and lead to more congestion. Residents of kir yas joel say they need it to accommodate the growing population. Governor cuomo back from puerto rico where hes pledged to help the commonwealth with huge money troubles. The governor toured the island on tuesday. Puerto rico is struggling with a 72 billion debt. Cuomo says he believes congress should give the island the power to seek bankruptcy. Hes also pressing lawmakers to increase Health Funding under the Affordable Care act. One of the advantages of new york is that it makes a lot of noise. New york is a media center. And what new york does often gets attention. The governor also promised to launch a 5 Million Campaign to promote tourism to puerto rico. In todays money report, all eyes on iphones and ipads waiting for todays announcement from apple. Everyone is wondering whether the new iphone 6s and splus models will be unveiled. A new 13inch model called the pro could be added at apple stores in november. Id kind of a wildcard. Thats an ipad pro. A big screen ipad maybe meant for business users. Something theyre working on. Were not sure if we have it this week but certainly a good chance. If you own an apple tv, there may be a new set top box. It could use the voice of siri and let you talk to your tv about what you want to see. Macys getting ready to close dozens of under performing stores. It closes stores every year. This time its 35 to 40, though, that will be shut down. Macys has not said which locations would be closed. They may get offered positions at other locations or severance packages. They have a total of 770 Stores Across 45 states. Today we could find out whether the salt warnings will be on the menu. New york citys board of health is expected to vote on a groundbreaking regulation. Any dish at a chain restaurant with more than a teaspoon worth of sodium would get a warning sim bobble on the menu. Too much salt leads to high blood pressure. You can see the warnings staristing december 1st. 5 09 now. Ahead, we have an Important Note for parents. A runaway inferno. Hear from passengers who rushed to escape april burning plane. Plus, there is some relief from the heat. May not feel it just yet. But it is there says chris. Weather and traffic on the 4s just ahead as we look at the belt parkway. Youre watching today in new york. My name is phil zietlow, and ive been an engineer on the Cheerios Team for 51 years. About five years ago, i found out that if my daughterinlaw, joyce, eats anything with gluten in it, she feels pretty darn terrible. So my team and i came up with a way to remove the grains that contain gluten, from the naturally gluten free oats that cheerios are made of. So now joyce and i can have cheerios together anytime we want. And if you love someone with celiac, or gluten sensitivity, you can too. Its 5 12. Here four things to know this morning. Its the first day of school in new york city. Its going to be a hot one. Chris will have the forecast in a moment on the 4s. Today in new yorks Lori Bordonaro has everything parents need to know, though, at 5 30. A wildfire burning in new jersey is 100 contained. We talked about this yesterday morning here on today in new york. The fire burned about 1,000 acres in burlg ington and ocean counties. It didnt threaten any homes. But the cause is under investigation. A recall to tell you about this morning. Ikea recalling crib mattresses because of a fire hazard. Customers can return them for a full refund. If you think you bought one, head to cpsc. Gov for the recall information. The lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy are still evident. More than a quarter billion dollars in federal money has been awarded to help we pair damage from the storm. The damage it did to the path system specifically. And the money will help protect against future storms. Chris, right now, the total opposite situation. Right. We need water. 5 13 right now. We were talking to tracie earlier, chris, about mahwah, the town putting this mandate into effect. The reservoirs in new jersey, its a different system. Theyre running way low. The new york city system not too bad actually. A little above normal north of the clowe ton reservoir. No rain of kwons consequence. Were hoping to see a change in the next two or three days. Another warm start. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Hottest inland. Low and mid90s there. Humidity runs even higher today, if you can imagine that. Its very heavy air mass ahead of the next cold front. Could be an isolated thunderstorm or two in the northwestern orthwestern suburbs. Pollen report, not a lot of change. Ragweed at a moderate level once again. 70s across long island. We go to the south shore, babylon, 73. 74 right now in the bay. 77 in the park. Some 60s northern half of new jersey. Thats above normal for this hour of the morning at this time of the year. Were protected by warm High Pressure at that. Keeping the clouds and the rain to the north of us. Watching a few showers drifting up from the south. Our main player is this one to the west. This is a cold front that will arrive with showers and thunderstorms during the day tomorrow. Some of those could get heavy as that system gets closer. This is the last hot one. Maybe an isolated storm, especially west of the city later this afternoon and early this evening. High temperature about 90 degrees. Cooler along the coastal areas. Couple of showers tonight, especially after midnight and thunderstorms. 73 the overnight low and tomorrow, look for on and off showers. The heaviest pushy think comes especially in the afternoon and evening. Heavy downpours could lead to local street flooding. Look for a High Temperature of 80 degrees. Then this moves eastward bound as we get towards the end of the week. Playing ball at the stadium tonight. Yanks had a tough one last night. Get back on track. Mostly cloudy, muggy, 83 degrees. A muggy night for a ball game indeed. Low 80s. We get out of the heat and humidity combined for friday and saturday looking pretty good with sunshine. By sunday, a few more showers move in with the next system. Temperatures actually in the 70s. Imagine that. Havent said that in a long time. In fact, 61 days. 90 today. 80 tomorrow. 78 on friday with early showers and some sun. First half of the weekend looks good and dry weather, nice monday and tuesday with temperatures in the low 80s. Lets find out about the commute so far. How is it treating us, lauren . We have some spots that are a little slow going now. Well take a live look at the connecticut turnpike. Northbound, you still have roadwork out there. This is north of the darien service plaza. This was jammed a few moments ago. You could see its easing out a bit and slowing down. Be prepared for that. Heading over to the George Washington bridge, a little bit of a slow dune down. The lower reopened. Youll need your ezpass until 6 00 a. M. Roadwork on the Jackie Robinson parkway. Westbound completely shut down between the kew gardens interchange and metropolitan avenue. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect today. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Lauren, thank you. Today an autopsy is planned on former new york giant tyler sash. He was found dead in his home in iowa. He played for the giants in 2012 winning a super bowl with the team. The giants cut him in 2013 after he suffered a concussion in a preseason game. Former teammates posted messages online calling it heartbreaking. Steve brown said he lost a brother. Sash was 27 years old. Investigation is under way after a planes engine caught fire just before takeoff in las vegas. It was British Airways flight 2276 filled with passengers that when the fire broke out look at that steam there, they were preparing to fly to london. Thats a tenhour flight and they spotted smoke and flames outside the plane. Within minutes, the emergency slides were deployed and the passengers were out on the tarmac. As soon as the crew heard passengers sayinhethere was a fire, there was no hesitation whom them whatsoever. The exit doors were open. They were literally in full swing. It was like clockwork for them. They got out 157 passengers and 13 crew members. 14 people had to be treated for minor injuries. The head of United Airlines is stepping down as a local investigation is under way. Uniteds ceo Jeffrey Smythe resigned on tuesday. Federal prosecutors are looking into his dealings with david sampson. Sampson was the Port Authority chairman who resigned during the George Washington bridge closure scandal. Hes accused of pressing united to fly a special route to South Carolina near his home. On the today show, part one of matt lauers interview with Caitlyn Jenner. She talks about the criticism she has faced and a certain halloween costume. When you hear there are mpanies that want to do cahtlyn jenner halloween costumes, are you in on the joke or do you think its offensive . Im in on the joke. I dont think its offensive. I know the community does. Theyve gotten a lot of criticism for doing it. I think its great. To be honest with you, i think its great. Couldnt have a better looking outfit. Jenner talks about her dating life and about that car crash in malibu that killed one person. To see more of matt lauers exclusive interview coming up today at 7 00 a. Mi a new study finds most parents dont feel guilty for using technology as a babysitter. The Online Survey of 1,000 u. S. Parents found 59 of parents okay with using smartphones, tablets and other devices to babysit children. 58 of moms and dads are concerned about the amount of time they spend on mobile devices. The study found 2 in 5 parents allow their children a whopping 2 to 3 hours of screen time per day. Dont want to go overboard. Its a constant battle in my home and your home. You try to limit it and give them some freedoms. Not hours andenours and hours. Allout war sometimes, right . Ahead, it was a critics favorites. But well tell you about the Award Winning broadway show thats going dark. Later at 5 30, Hillary Clinton sits down with ellen and reveals what she will call her husband if shes elected president. Follow the today in new york team on facebook and twitter. Well be right back. Yoplait. The smooth and creamy yogurt your whole family loves. Yoplait original with no artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavors, and no high fructose corn syrup. Live look there, broadway and times square. The broadway show includes share of creative deaths is about to suffer ayo long slow one itself. A gentlemens guide to love and murder will close on january 17th. Its one year removed from winning the tony for best musical. Its highly acclaimed. Its about a young man facing money troubles who finds hes ninth in line to inherit a fortune. He decides to eliminate all the heirs who come before him. Each character played by the same actor. Youll still be able to see it on a nngional tour before it closes. Maybe it will come back one day. It got great reviews. Yeah. Unfortunately, theyre going to close it in january. Too bad. I knhw. It happens a lot. At least it had a decent run. Thats true. Coming up on 5 24. This heat is having a really good run, stnt . It sure is. Yesterday was a big run. A high of 97 degrees. I dont think it gets ttehat hot today. Hot enough, around 90. Well have sunshine mixing with clouds. Bit of breeze out of the south. Coastal areas will be cooler today. Inland spots warmer. Theres about a 20 chance of an isolated thunderstorm late in the day or the evening hours. Better chance of a passing shower or thunder shower overnight. Especially after midnight with a low of 73. Tomorrows the day of transition. That will be the day well get heavier showers in here and start to knock the temperatures down. Nchaiout time. Sneak peek there coming up. There you go. Were all over it for you. Chris, we were telling you to stop talking. With the trains, all good news from th see. Everything is on or close to schedule as far as the major mmuter lines. Outside at t lincorn tunnel, yesterday, we had a rough commute. Today, soanaroegood. Well hope it stays that way. Ev inerythiag im moving nicely to the helix and the tolls. Geor a Washington Bridge and the tolls are a fine option at the moment. Thank you very much, luuren. Giants fans hoping to see Jason Pierrepaul n the field will have to wait. He came to the field since he lost a finger. Hes returned home to florida already. He reportedly hasnt signed the ants Contract Offer to him. He and the team disagree on how close he is to being able to play again. Its not clear when he will suit up. In baseball, mets pitcher matt harvey made his first start since all ts. He flap of getting close to his innings cap. He had seven earned runs. Four from that misplayed single thifat turned an inside the park home run by the nationals. However, the dts cond back and llin the eighth inning theres a homer to give the mets the lead. They win with an amazing comeback. 87 the final. Home run, very exciting. Still ahead, 5 25 now. Big celebration under way abroad. Its the milestone for qe 2. Queen elizabeth. Youre friends with her, obviously. Not what parents want to hear days into the school year. Where school buses may soon not be picking up students. Reporter im Lori Bordonaro in Staten Island where students are getting a warm welcome back to school as the temperatures soar once again. 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Right now, summer is over for new york city students. But it doesnt feel like that. A sweltering first day of school. Plus, a School Bus Strike looming. The meeting today that parents want to Pay Attention to. A sister act at the u. S. Open. Hear from the williams sister after their emotional match. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everyone. Its wednesday morning. It is september 9th. Im darlene rodriguez. Im michael gargiulo. Storm team 4s chris cimino here with the forecast. Kids getting ready to go back to school, a million of them, chris. Sweating it out again today. Not quite as hot as yesterday but still near 90. Starting out cooler, northwestern suburbs. Walpack down to 60. Sparta 72. Thats warm for this hour of the morning. City at 77. The warm spot at most of the island down the shore and through the hudson valley. Generally low and mid70 az early on. Look for clouds to build in with the sunshine going through time. An unt comfortable and team i day. 90 the forecast high. Could be a spot storm by the end of the day. The rest of the forecast just ahead. Lets find out about the commute from lauren. Thank, chris. Things look pretty good outside. The queensboro bridge, things are moving nicely in both directions. We have roadwork at the queens midtown tunnel today. But that just clearly. You should be in for a nice ride heading into manhattan or queens. We have delays on uptown a trains from track maintenance. Thats the only subway issue we have. Major commuter lines look goo