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WNBC Today In New York December 1, 2015

Little after 5 00 a. M. Let ads find out about the commute. Rolling along okay, lauren . Rolling along okay. The roads are slippery. We have road work on tonnelle avenue which shuts it down from county road to manhattan avenue. Thats until 6 00 a. M. Outside at the fdr drive road work has been wrapped up. Things moving along nicely out there. So the fdr drive or the west side highway, take your pick right now. We will have more weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. New this morning, a hit and run in queens. A car slamming into two people and then into a restaurant. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in Queens Village where this all happened. Tracie. Reporter michael, it seems like all of this happened pretty quickly and really just hours ago. Now this crown Fried Chicken where all of this happened has been boarded up. Police are still looking for the driver behind all of this. Show you video of that white infinity thats sticking out of this restaurant. It appears it turned from boulevard before 1 00 this morning. Police tell us that that driver struck two pedestrians that were walking by and then continued to veer into the restaurant. That driver fled. The pedestrian currently being treated with nonlife threatening injuries. Police tell me they have broken legs at long island Jewish Hospital. As for the driver of the car, we dont know where he is right now. Well show you video of crews that were boarding up this restaurant tirelessly and for a few hours not only trying to get a hold on it but make sure its still structurally sound. Police are still blocking off this area as the Investigation Continues and how all of this happened. The search for the driver continues. Back to you. Tracie, thank you very much. This morning were getting a look at the possible trigger man who shot a woman in the bronx. You see a man walking on boynton avenue. Shots are fired. You can see the man running from the van. Something into his pocket. A woman in the van was shot in the shoulder and a man was cult by flying glass. Havoc and people gathering in different places. There was a lot of running, you know . And people looking. Well, the video also shows a car speeding away from the scene. Police arent sure if the people in that car were involved in the shooting joompt Vice President joe biden is going to join bono at Carnegie Hall today for an event marking World Aids Day. Its marking those who died with aids and to support those living with t. Another one is planned a the the apollo theater. Its 5 03. Right now coming up on 5 04. Time for weather and traffic. Start with chris cimino. Good morning. Good morning. Dealing with a chilly start. A damp start. One of those days thats always going to feel damp even if its not raining much. There will be a mist in the air with the wind coming in off the water. It will be damp. Commute and the evening commute as well. Periods of rain and drizzle. Its a damp chill all day. Most of the day we spend in the 40s. May briefly touch on the 50s. East northeast breeze at 10 to 15. Live Storm Tracker 4 radar. Rain covering a good portion of the area. The rain is lighter, more like a drizzle. Thats the way it will play out throughout the day. Starting out at 45 in the city. Not a big climb. 47 at noon, 48 at 3 00. Forecasting near 50 with the rain on and off. Lets see, any issues coming up . I see something here. Problem . We have one accident out there on the roads in new jersey. The first of the morning, 80 westbound before exit 58, watch out for that in the right lane. Getting on the buses there are a few detours this morning, the bx 7, 10, 20, and bxm 18. Transit bee line so far so good. Alternate side of the Street Parking in effect. You need to move your cars. For a group of thieves wanted in dozens of crimes that span the city. Police say they set up skimming devices at dozens of atms. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is in flushing. Reporter good morning. Three suspects got away with 50,000 over a fourmonth period. They happened in different kinds of stores. Gas stations and bodegas. Police released the photos of three suspects that they are looking for, these three men used the skimming devices to steal money from innocent people. They obtained the debit card information and pin number of customers and withdraw money from their Bank Accounts in flushing and also bay side queens. Again, those three men got away with 50,000 in the past four months. 39 times in all between june and september of this year they struck. The nypd is also looking at 20 similar thefts from other similar suspects in the queens 23450us discovered that last year 16 reports of skimming happened. This year over the same time period the number has quadrupled to 63. Thats why investigators are trying to put the word out there, darlene. Investigators also suggesting to customers that they take a look at the atm machine that they use, see if something jigless where they insert their card. If something looks wrong, alert a person whos working at that store. Back to you, darlene. Cath rin creag, thank you. A jury found former new York Assembly speaker sill verl guilty. Six counts carry a sentence of 20 years each which means silver could likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. Under state law he has to immediately give up his assembly seat. One juror who asked to be dismissed on the first day of deliberations says it was a tough decision. I think that hes humble and other side that, you know, he feels as speaker of the house he was entitled to do the things that he did. Silver told reporters he was, quote, disappointed with the decision. A sentencing date has not yet been set. A connecticut bridgeport former mayor who was committed of corruption charges was reelected. He won the general election. Ganim spent seven years in federal prison after he was found guilty of corruption. The city of hoboken wants to get some bonds to repair the aging water system. The move comes after two water mains broke in less than two weeks. Mayor don zimmer said they applied for a 5 million loan to make upgrades. The main broke on monroe street and before thanksgiving they dealt with a major break on the south side. Suez water, formerly united, original dating back to 1870. Simply they do not have the dollars to in vest in a system to make a large enough dent. Until all the aging mains are replaced suez says residents can expect an average of two breaks a month and all the headaches that go along with them. In todays cnbc money report says cyber monday likes like it will be a record setter. Adobe says 3 billion worth of sales. Add that into money spent over the weekend. Total amount of online sales between thanksgiving day and monday, 11 billion. That figure is up 15 from last year. More and more americans ditching the old land line phone. Remember that . Some people dont even know what land line is. No. Report by the centers for disease control, believe it or not, finds 40 of allamericans only have a cell phone. Officials believe next year will be the tipping point. At that point the number of americans solely relying on their cell phones goes above 50 . I have a land line phone, as it were. Me, too. I dont know if i would do it the next house, the next move. I have a land line. I never answer it. People get upset when you dont answer the land line phone. Now they know. How come you dont pick up this phone . Too far. I cant find it. Answering machine. 5 09. Just ahead, when vision trains will hit the tracks in new york city. Strict rules for the man who jumped the white house fence where a judge says he is not allowed to go. Plus, a wet morning with more rain in the forecast. Weather and traffic on the 4s coming up. Its 5 12. Here are four things to know this morning. A hit and run overnight in queens. Two people and slammed into a chicken restaurant. Those people are being treated for broken legs. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is there and updates in 15 minutes. Sheldon silver convicted on seven counts of a corruption trial. Six counts carrying a sentence of 20 years each. He could spend the rest of his life behind bars. Under state law he had to immediately give up his assembly seats. New york is the first city to require the label for salts. The law technically takes place today. The city will not start fining restaurants that do not comply until march of next year. The mta once again taking riders back in time this Holiday Season. Do you remember this . Theyre going to roll out the vintage trains every sunday in december. Theyll run them along the m and second avenue. Its almost 5 14. When i was young i looked to the train as an adventure. Then it became a chore. When youre 4 its cool. Really kind of cool. All right. Speaking of cool, the temperatures were not cool the month of november. Starting the new month of december. A look back, we made it the warmest month in november recorded in central parks history with a 52. 7 degree average temperature. Precipitation, a dry month, too. A little bit over two inches below normal. Tied with 2001. The new month starting out, close to average. Damp. Umbrellas needed the next couple of days. Tree lighting, big night tomorrow night. Looks like its going to have a damp feel to it. Hopefully most of the heavy rain is gone by then. Could be some recity sid dual sprinkles gone by 9 00. Then it dries out for the rest of the week. 50 in howell and jackson. 52 in point pleasant. Off to the north we see temperatures low to mid 40s. Sussex 36. Upper 30s poughkeepsie, danbury. All of them above the freezing mark. The city 45. National Weather Service has put a freezing rain advisory in effect. A couple of pockets where it gets to or below freezing. Eastern duchess and western Ulster County and on north of that towards the Capital District of albany. Could be a period of freezing rain way north of us. The rest of us have to deal with this. Heres the warm front rain. More behind that. Then theres the cold front further to the west. A couple of days of unsettled weather. It may not be raining steadily or heavily, it will be raining from time to time. This is future cast temperatures. You can see generally staying in the 40s today. Barely making it to 50 by the end of the day. That. Overnight tonight, more rain. Temperatures not dropping off. Upper 40s tomorrow morning. Still raining around the area. Temperatures in the upper 40s to low to mid 50s. Central new jersey as the warm front pushes north. Notice 5 00 tomorrow, still raining. A little sign of a drying out to the west and were hoping that thats the area that gets over the city, particularly over 30 rock at about the time of the Tree Lighting. Rainfall totals averaging 1 2 inch to locally an inch or more. Speaking of the Tree Lighting, breaks down this way. It will be a damp day tomorrow. A little bit milder in the temperature department. Still raining at 3 00. 55 degrees. 6 00, showers, 54 degrees. By just around Tree Lighting time, hopefully tapering to sprinkles down around 50 degrees. After today and tomorrows unsettled wet weather. Dries out on thursday. 50. Friday, saturday, sunday, monday, all of those days will feature a good deal of sunshine. No major problems for the Tuesday Morning commute. Definitely wet roads. Like. The Staten Island expressway up by south avenue. Every picture will look like this. There. Very quiet. No delays into the tolls. Hudson River Crossing in bound or outbound. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. 5 17. President obama is in paris. This morning his focus shifts from the environment to terror. Nbcs tracie potts is in washington. Tracie, good morning. Reporter good morning. Were just getting information in waiting on his meeting with turkeys president this morning. They talked about terror. New overnight the white house announced more american businesses getting involved. Reporter new this morning the white house is announcing 73 more American Companies promising to go green reducing emissions by as much as half and converting to 100 renewable energy. This is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet. Last nights very public dinner between president obama and hollande emphasized the Twofold Mission dealing with Climate Change and defying terror. Theyre very different threats but theyre both very serious. We have to deal with this there are have been achievements here, a Big Clean Energy announcement by bill gates. Meetings with india and china. We agree its an urgent threat. A one on one with Vladimir Putin on syria. The urgency should be on reporter more on syria with turkeys president. The crowning achievement, a Global Climate deal has yet to be announced. The u. S. Is insisting it not be called a treaty so it doesnt have to be approved by congress. Still, 180 nations so far have said yes to reducing emissions. Problem is we dont know how, how much, when darlene theyll be working on it over the next two weeks. The president s leaving. Secretary kerry is leaving. The negotiators will stay in place to work out the details. Lots of work ahead. Tracie potts in washington. Thanks a lot, tracie. This morning the house Arms Committee will hold a hearing on the strategy for fighting isis. Defense secretary Ashton Carter and general Joseph Dunford are going to testify about the current strategy and its impact. The Connecticut College student who jumped over the white house fence has been released. Judge ordered joseph kaputo to live with his mother in stanford, connecticut, until the hell be monitored electronically. He will have an 8 00 curfew. He cannot go to washington, d. C. His lawyer says he scaled the white house fence as an act of civil disowe bead jeans 5 19. Still ahead, it is breathtaking. The plan for what would become the worlds tallest building. Dont forget, follow us on facebook and twitter and instagram, darlene4ny michaelg4ny. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Live view here of our Doppler Radar station. Believe it or not on top of the rock. Its 5 22 right now. If you have a fear of heights, because thats pretty high up. Yeah. Even with these drawings, this is a drawing that could make you uneasy. Saudi arabia announcing its secured funding to build the tallest building in the world called the jet up tower. It could be built by 2020. The tower actually has already build up to the 26th floor. Thats totally the beginning. Once complete it would reach a kilometer in the sky which is. 6 of a mile. You could put the empire state trade and it would still not be as tall as the tower. That would be ten stories. Shot over the clouds. Why . Because they can. Scary. Im not going up to the top of that. You wouldnt want to do that . Rchltsz no. All right. Ill look at your picture. Watch my pictures. Ill look at your pictures. 2020 right around the corner. Exactly. All right. Storm tracker 4 radar showing light rain in and around the area right now throughout the entire tristate. Thats the game plan. Periods of rain, drizzle. It stays damp and chilly. East northeast. 40s and 50s by the end of the day. More of the same tonight. Damp, drizzle, areas of fog, little light rain and a low temperature 47. We have a cold front tomorrow that brings more rain back this way and some of that could linger very close to the Tree Lighting time. In the next half hour im going for you. Hopefully the luck of the holiday will work. The luck of the elf. Yes. I wrote that book. Fabulous. Love t. One of my favorites. We have some construction on the roads. Well talk about tonnelle avenue. Shut down from county road to manhattan avenue. That will be out there until 6 00 a. M. If youre getting on the trains which would be a good idea because the roads are wet. All of them running without delays or service changes. Lauren, thanks so much. Ahead, an important consumer alert. Hackers are targeting the personal information, this time of children. Plus, Chris Christie and donald trump trading shots. What the candidates are saying about each other. Reporter and the search is on for a hitandrun driver this morning that struck two people and then went on into this restaurant. Im Tracie Strahan live in Queens Village with the details straight ahead. If youre heading out the door take us with you. Download the app on your mobile device right now. Well be right back. Music thunder clatter by wild cub most weekends only last a couple of days. Some last a lifetime. Hampton. We go together. Always get the lowest price, only when you book direct right now the search for a driver who went out of control and hit two people before slamming into a local restaurant. Plus, its a war of words. Squaring off over controversial comments. And a wet morning. That rain is sticking around threatening to make for a rainy Tree Lighting. Today in new york starts now. Check in with chris in a minute. Its tuesday, december 1st. Im darlene rodriguez. Im michael gargiulo. Storm team 4 chris cimino is here. It will be wet. Make me feel like the grinch. Not your fault. Trying to get that rain out of here. It will be a close call. The rain thats with us this morning will be with us on and off throughout the day tonight and tomorrow unfortunately, too. In and around the five boroughs, 45 in the city

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