Right now emily west is here with a look at your commute. I have a trouble spot too. New jersey, garden state parkway southbound just before exit 98, that is route 138, thats in the left lane. Easy. Visibility is low this morning. Letsake a live look at the gowanus. That ride is moving along okay. Not bad there. Heading up to the brooklyn bridge, you should be okay. More weather and tiaffic coming up on the 4s. Emily, thank you. We want to get to that breaking news in the bronx. These were the flames that were erupting from a f midnight. It quickly spread to several homes. It happened in the tremont section of the bronx. The scene itself is on valentine avenue. Its very active. Today in new yorks Lori Bordonaro is there. Those are just amazing pictures shaloing t w big this fire was at one point. Reporter good morning, michael. Were just waiting for an update from the fire chief. Hes expected to speak in just a i can tell you now that the flames are out. You can see firefighters still spraying water here on t is row of homes along valentine avenue. I want to actually show you what it looked like here just a little bit earlier. You can see flames were pouring ouset of these homes here. At least six of them damaged by fire. We re told sd eral of thh homes here are vacant, but at least n peop e lived in one of the homes. When we arrived here at about 3 30 this morning, there were a lot of residents wrapped in red cross blankets. Many of them have gone to find shelter now. One man told us he got a knock on 3 his door just before midnight, warstng him of the fire. It does appear everyone got out safely. We talked to a few people earlier. One who doesnt even live here, but she came to c ck on her niece. Heres what they told us. Just fire coming from the roof. Then the Fire Department trying to stop the house next to it reporter and still, as you can see, a very active scene here. Several injuries. Again, this was a sixalarm fire here. Still a lot of firefighters working on it. The fire chief e ected to come over here momentarily and g. I. Us an update as to what may have started this fire. Thheats the latest from here. Back to you. Lori, we look forward to getting that information. Thank you very much. E we have more breaking news now from central california. A medical helicopter has crashed in asremote field, killing all four people on board. Authorities say the victims include a nurse, a paramedic, and a patient. The helicopter was making a tenminute flight to a hospital in bakersfield when it went down. There was heavy rain and fog in the area at the time. But investigators havent yet determined if weather caused the crash. New this morning, police are asking for your help to find a man who tried to rape a woman in east harlem. Were going to show you some Surveillance Video of the suspect. Apartment building at east 133rd st treet last night wednesday, rather. He allegedly attacked a 60yearold woman, covering her mouth, pulling her dowi to the ground. Police say he tried to take off the womans pants and strangle hewr the woman is in stable condition. Shes being treated for cuts and bruises. Police say theyve arrested a man for an on provoked attack in williamsburg. The suspect is 39yearold angel velasquez. Hes accused of punching a 42yearold man in the back of the head. He allegedly yelle antiwhite statements during the attack. Its 5 04 right now. Time to check weather and traffic on the 4s. Raphael miranda in for chris. Good morning. Good morning to you. Another mild morning out there. Temperatures in the 50s. We have patchy dense fog were keeping an eye on this morning. Its getting worse, in fact. Well look at that in a minute. We have some record warmth heading our way this weekend. You want to make some outdoor plans. We have rain in the forecast for monday. Cool off a little bit. Heres a look at visibility right now. Weve been tracking that fog. Visibility in white plains also affected. Weemve been tracking long island, jersey shore, now Westchester County also getting in the mix. You can see not much better in places like the hamptons. Later on today, the sunshine does return and the fog burns off. A high tem rature ofow2 degrees. Even milder than yesterday. It gets even milder as we head to the weekend. ll take a look at that sevenday forecast in a few. Right now emily west is here with your morning commut friday morning ride on the trains, commuter rails al look great. We do not have any problems. Plus, it is a gridlock alert day. You might want to think about mass transit. No delays with the subways. The buses,e have quite a few detours. Everything else is moving along okay. And you have to get out there and move the car. Alternate side, meter rules in effect. Well have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Okay, emily. Thank you. Right now people on the Upper East Side are still looking up after a new warning about falling bricks. Now evacuated. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is on the Upper East Side. Kat . Reporter and darlene, we ve nt to show you the i ding, the original building where the bricks came falling from. Theres some netting around it on the 1st avenue side. The worry is that more bricks will come raining down. Now its affecting a neighboring building. In fact, tenants of an Apartment Building on east 63rd street had only a few hours to gather up some of their belongings. The hope is that they will be able to return sunday night, but the problem is the city is worried bricks will continue falling, damaging the nearby 16unit building and someone might get hurt. The Buildings Department has issued a vacate order in the original building from where bricks fell. Inspectors discovered cracks in the remaining facade. Now repair work is under way. Theyre going to mitigate the part that might collapse. Then theyll do a hand demo of thats a very timeconsuming, laborintensive issue we have to deal with. Reporter and Emergency Management explained its a balance between keeping people safe by trying to bring back to normal this neighborhood. The city h,pes to lift the reet closures by the monday morning rush. If repairs take long, those street closures will remain. As you know, theres so much traffic that gets backed up on 1st avenue. Back t you. All right. Therine creag on the Upper East Side. Thank you. Happening now, police are trying to determine if four young men arrested for robbery in central park are connected to other holdups that have happened in that area. Four suspects ranging in ave from 14 to 20 years old are accused of punching a 19yearold man near east 73rd street and east drive last night and stealing his phone. Police say the four people in custody could be responsible for atco least two other robberies. There have been a total of three robberies in or near central today, a jury resumes deliberations at the federal corruption trial of dean skelos and his son adam. They met for ne rly five hours yesterday. One the table, eight counts that include conspiracy, bribery, and extortion. Prosecutors accuse skelos of using vs new York State Senate leadership post to get his son noshow jobs. Happening today, Suffolk Countys former police chief james burke will learn whether hes going to be released on bail. He was arrested at his home wednesday on federal charges. Prosecutors alleging he assaulted a suspect who was in handcuffs then conspired to ver it pup up. And in nassau county, a verdict is expected today in the Police Brutality case. The officer faces Assault Charges in an incident caught on tape last year. Prosecutors alleging that he and his partner used excessive the driver, kyle howell, suffering facial fractures. The officer testified he thought howell could have been reaching for a weapon. Today divers will be back in lake looking for possible evidence from the San Bernardino an ssthre. The fbi wont say what theyre d lotking for, but its believed the shooters were there around the time of the killings. Yesterday the first of the 14 People Killed was laid to rest. E was an Environmental Health specialist, just 27 years old. 5 09 now. The San Bernardino massacre moving Connecticut Governor malloy to put new restrictions on gun sales. He says hell soon sign an executive order. It would call on police to check check the names of gun buyers to make sure theyre not on that federal nofly list. Until think two weeks ago, i was unaware tea people were allowed to buy weapons who were on these lists. Ansod i was horrified. A Gun Rights Group has called the white house also looking into ways to restrict gun sales. We have a live look now at capitol hill. Thats where lawmakers will scramble today to end the threat of a government shutdown. The house is expected to give final approval to a temporary spending measure. That would extend the budget deadline for five days. And it would give Congress Time to work out a longterm spending plan. That deal could include an extension of the zadroga act to help september 11th first responders. Yesterday House Speaker paul ryan said funding will be included in the next budget. Nypd commissioner bill bratton was in washington to pressure them to do the same. 5 10 right now. Ahead, the popular drink being recalled because it could have glass inside. E plus, the new numbers that show trouble at home for chris christie. Weather and traffic on the 4s as well. Why let someone else have all the fun . The sometimes haphazard, never boring fun. The why cant it smell like this all the time fun. The learning the virtue of sharing fun. Why let someone else have all the fun . Thats no fun. Its 5 13. Here are four things to know this morning. Breaking news in the bronx. A sixalarm fire that broke out on valentine avenue is now under control. Some new concerns now on the Upper East Side where bricks fell from a high rise earlier this week. Inspectors say more bricks could come down. For that reason they have e vaccine waited a building across the street. Sweet leaf tea is recalling about 1 1 2 million bottles because they could have glass fragments in them. Today in hoboken, its a celebration of frank sinatra. The annual birthday celebration. But this year is special for the hoboken native. Frank sinatra would have been 100 years old today. Good morning, everyone. We are tracking dense fog. In fact, a dense fog advisory has been expanded to include nassau county. Thats in effect until 8 00 there. In effect until 10 00 down the jersey shore. ve seen that fog locked into place. Give yourself extra time this morning and extra distance between you and the car in front of you. You can see on storm tracker, no rain. Just the fog and cloudiness. Also some mild temratures ouc there. 40s generally and even some 30s. Some cooler spots like jackson. No heavy jackets needed this morning. Its 48 in point pleasant. Temperatures will be in the low 50s in place likepl new york city. 52 in central park. Keep in mind the average High Temperature this time of year, its not even in the 50s. Its in the 40s. Were going to do much better than that as we head throughout the day today. And as we head into the weekend. Heres a look ahead now. 60s saturday, 60s sunday. Pumping in from the south roughout the weekend. Sunshine and clouds. We could hit a record high for your sunday. The record is 64. Were going to get very close to it. Thats all going to change monday and tuesday. You knew it wouldnt last forever. Monday is still mild, but a cold front approaches. Showers moving in monday. By tuesday, weu e finally back down to the 50s. Once that cold front comes through. Itll be breezy throughout your monday and tuesday. By tuesday, we should be dry. Even temperatures in the 50s. Still well above average for your tuesday. Heres a look at future tracker. You can soe around 1 00 today, nchtime is looking good. Sunshine and clouds. As the day goes on, it gets even sunnier hour by hour. After lunch, its a beautiful ternoon. Kind of like yesterday but just a little milder. For your evening commute, 6 00 p. M. Today, maybe doing a weekend getaway, its going to be beautiful all around the northeast. Great travel weather for that. No delays here around. 00. As we head i nto your saturday, also looking mighty fine. 8 00 a. M. , lots of sunshine to start the weekend. Tomorrow is bright and beautiful were keeping it dry right through saturday afternoon. For today, the record is 64 in central park. Were going to get close to that. Not going to hit it, i dont think. 62 is your high. A mild mix of sunshine and clouds. 49 overnight tonight. Thats a mild december night ahead. You can see in the sevenday forecast, 64. Thats when temperatures peak on sunday. That would tie the record. We may even break it. Showers move in on monday. Not a lot of heavy win there. S rain there. Were back closer to reality as head throughout next week. Leants see thow much reality were delyaling with on the roads right now. Emily west has a look at that. Were getting there. Starting to get busy on the roadways this morning. First off in staten island, a vehicle fire. West shore expressway southbound right at victory boulevard. This takes up wo lanes. Youre going to see the delays really begin to build. We have a fire truck here. We did see the flames at one point. Looks like hopefully that has been extinguishes, but it could does get out of the way this morning. And in new jersey on the garden state parkway, still this crash southbound just before exit 98. That is going to be in the left lane. Also, a little slowdown trying to get around it. Lets take a live look at the lincoln tunnel this morning around the helix. Not going to find any delays. The holland also a pretty good ride. And no wait at the George Washington bridge, as that earlier roadwork as cleared. Tappan zee bridge is moving along nice too. There was some roadwork around palisades parkway. Alnso this mornin dealing with a gridlock alert day. Mass transit might be the way to go. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Emily, thank you very much. 5 18 now. The race for the white house still being dominated by don d trumps comments about muslims. This morning we have some new poll numbers. Th oey show mixed opinions. Tracie potts is in washington with that. Tracie, its fascinating to see how these numbers somewhat r peop,e out there, michael, who thought donald trump would be off the radar by now, what were finding is that is clearly not the case. In fact, his numbers are growing. As signs declaring him a racist go up at Donald Trumps d. C. Hotel and rivals urge him to leave the party dont let the door hit y h in the butt. Reporter our new nbc news, wall street journal poll shows 77 of republicans like trumps style. People are saying, you know, ump is right. Reporter but more than half of americans think his plan to ban muslims is wrong. The frontrunning candidate for president is not a serious man. Reporter tru,p canceled his trip to israel among criticism. Most people are relieved hes reconsidered. Reporter a cbs New York Times poll gives trump 35 support, more than double ted cruz. Ultimately the decision is, who has the right judgment . Reporter but can he win . I believe the republican nominee is gng to be someone that can win the jeshl e election. I dont believe donald can. Reporter last night trump t a major police endorsement. Anybody killing a Police Officer, death penalty. Its going to happen. We cant let this go. Reporter donald trump gaining popularity with ideas most voters oppo anse. And thats the thing about donald trump. The polls are showing us that while people like the issues that hes bringing up and may even like his style, they dont always like his solutions. Darlene, michael . All right, tracie potts. Hillary clinton took a serious turn when she was asked about donald trump and the growing controversy. I have to say, seth, i no longer think hes funny. Yes. I will say i started feeling that. Well, that was Hillary Clintong on late night with seth meyers. She did add that trumps talk of banning muslims is dangerous, and she claims i would feed into the hands of isis. Morning for more on this new showdown between trump and ted cruz. Thats at 7 00 a. M. Of course, right after today in new york. Just north of the border, canadaas Prime Minister is distancing himself from trumps talk of banning muslim immigrants. Last night he prepareonto welcome a plane load of Syrian Refugees to torontos airport. He said canadians are opening their country a their hearts to those who are fleeing terror. M163 syrians are expected to arrive there tomorrow. Some new polls suggest that net. W Jersey Governor Chris Christie is losing support at home even as hes trying to win over voters in the president ial race. The poll from Rutgers UniversityEagleton Institute of politics shows the governorhas Approval Rating has dropped to an alltime low. According to the poll, just 33 of new jersey voters approve on his job performance. 62 say they disapprove. Its 5 21. Just ahead this morning, if your longer to get to theodoor, your not youre not alone. Andwrhe long journey that began overnight. Well tell you about that. Youre watching today in new 5 24, friday morning. Yeah, its friday. Yes, it is. What a friday it is. What a friday it is. Its going to be a great one. With these temperatures, everyone is in a good mood, unless you want snow. Then youre not in a good mood. The way. I see yo complaints. But we have major issues this morning in terms of fog. Look at the visibility. Near zero in white plains. Thats going to be a tricky commute. Also tracking visibilitna aroun a quarter of a mile in farmingdale. Frtch out for delays at airports. It is mild and dry. Not tracking any rain this morning. Look at these temperatures. Even milder than yesterday. Sunshine through the afternoon. Winds are light out of the southwest. O