Thats good newsoin and around the city. White plains jump from 289 9 to 31. Bridgeport above freezing. All of these areas north of the city should gradually go over to rain. Sussex where its 27, newburg, 27. Danbury, 28. Going to take longer as the cold air stays at the low levels of the atmosphere and creates sleet freezing rain. Green is rain, pink is th mixed precipitatdon, white is the snow. Masainly now about mixed precipitation, sleet and freezing rain. Most of it is north of 287. Heres the 287 line. Notice the rain line is pushing closer and closer to that over the 287 line in westchester county. 87 is probably the next cutoff from that point north basically icy and slippery. Frsom that point south going over the main range. Things will improve as we go through the morning commute as it starts to warm up. The mix ends as rain north and west. Morning hours and everybody dries out by this after gon. Rest of the forecast coming up a little bit. The first check on the morning commute, heres lauren. Thanks, chris. As you would imagine, we have quite a few problems on the road. Iabll start with the road closures. Route 15 is shut down southbound by weld done on road. East brunswick in the truck lane all lanes shut down southbound of exit 9 which is route 18. Can you head over to the car lanes. A bunch of other problems out there. These are the worst of it. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Multiple reports of crashes that weve been calling on overnight. This was in holbrook. Suv ended up on its side. Police investigating whether weather, slick roads played a factor. Further east snow coming down in farmingville. Look at this. It was enough to accumulate on top of cars. You may have to actually get out thntice scraper or the brush before you head out this morning. Its not just the roads in e roads are bad all over. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag traveled north. Shes in nyack this morning, kat. R oeporter were getting a bit of a break because it has been raeginxling anesd snowing for a while here in nyack. Now its a light precipitation. You can see whats accumulated in the parking lot of this gas station. Were right off of the through throughway. There is an icy accumulation on the ground. Its also on the roadways as well. You can see when some of the trucks pass by on the throughway that theyre splashing up snow and sleet that have accumulated. Driving up here we tell people to give yourself extra time to no kidding. On the palisades parkway around closter, we are going 25 miles an hour on the palisade. Visibility is terrible. Rain. Video. Weve seen half a dozen snow clouds and salt spreaders around here in nyack. Theyve got their work started last night and they are continuing. The workers are continuing throughout the morning today. Imagine driving from nyack all the way to queens. We just talked to one gentleman, michael, whos doing just that. Hes a good friend. Picking up his friend at kennedy airport. Youll hear from him coming up in the next half hour. He told us he was not prepared at all for this precipitation, for the slippery roads. He said hes een trying to take it slow. Youll hear from him coming up the next live report. Back to you, michael. Kat, thank you very much. Happening now. Its everywhere. New york city issuing i thts first alert for the winter. Eet peltedapedestrians. City has started plows and salt spreaders, got them ready just in case they are needed. Meanwhile, some new yorkers s o its about time. They want to see some snow and put that cold weather clothing to good use. Im with them. Really . Im in agreement. Minority but youll always get those. The hate mail will be coming sure. 4 34. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. On the floors. L hopefully not. It is slippery. More on the floor. Plenty of time. That was last night. You talk about there are snow lovers out there, people who like the winter weather. Also, most people dont. Last time when that sideways sleet was coming down, i didnt hear a lot of happy comments. 36 in murray hill, 37 in astoria indicating we are above the freezing mark. Long island, low 40s. Jersey shore in the mid 40s. Above freezing in bridgewater. White plains on north and west, this is the area aga myin where theres still that mixed precipitation of sleet, a little bit of freezing rain and in some cases wet snowflakes mixed in further north and west. Monticello, 23. Theyre not going anywhere in terms of changing over to rain. Heres future tracker. In sically its rain from the ty just to the north. 87 line, theres the other line to watch. Into rockland, west chester county, southern Putnam County until 8 00 a. M. Ol yster, duchess, you stay in the pink. A longer period of icy conditions up there means the problems will linger longest here. Things will get better in the next couple of hours the further north you go. It will take a little bit longer. Look at this, by 1 00 in the afternoon most of the showers have quit. First forecast, looking at a temperature of 37 in the city. Rain here. Rain by the suburbs. A shower or two by noon. By mid to Late Afternoon still some clouds, breezy, temperatures climbing back into the upper 40s to 50 degrees before the day is through. Le wots find out about the trouble spots. Already quite a few out there. That accident southbound closing route 15 has cleared. Otherwise a bunch of minor problems. On the rails, a lot of people are. We have a bunch of overnight major commuters lines are fine. If youre getting on t buses we do have a few detours for new york city, m 50, q 110, q 112, transit, 196, 197 and 317. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect today. Next weather and traffic update on the 4s. Remember you can always track the storm with the nbc 4 news app. Tap the logo in the corner and seoblect the weather tab. You can see the latest foreffst. In teractive radar, set the weather page caas your home screen. You can find the app in the apple store and on google play. Going to move to the latest on those deadly storms that are moving all across the country and in fact into our area right now. Missouris governor declaring a state of emergency after several inches of rain caused flooding. Ten people have died from the storms in just that state. Meanwhile, oklahoma, northern texas and new mexico are digging out from a blizzard. Four counties hit by at least nine tornadoes in texas have been declared disaster areas. Breaking nel. Comes Police Arrested two people suspected of plotting an attack scheduled for new years ev they said they had military style uniforms and isis propaganda. No weapons or explosives. Prosecutors say the arrests are not tied in any way to the paris terror attacks even though the arrests are taking place in belgium. A pair of suspects are wanted for a brutal beating of a brooklyn man. The nypd releasing this video of the suspects overnight. They walked up from behind on their victim on avenue m in midwood and began punching him in the head. Once on the ground they beat the 60yearold man. They took his wallet. He was able to get home and thatshere his wife called 911. They coul have killed him thank god he is alive, breathing, happy that this is over for him, but it was absolutely hes in shock. The victim did get nearly 80 stitches before being released from the hospital and right now at 4 38 today well get an update on whtys being done to make the new yearsca eve celebration a safe one. Looking live at times square. In two days this will be packed with revellers. Today mayor de e blasio and Police Commissioner bratton will tell us about their security updates. A couple of hours before that 1200 new members of the nypd will be sworn in. These officers are graduating from the Police Academy of course at abe time of heightened terror alerts all around the country. Highlighting that fact, Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson will be at todays ceremony. Today the nypd will pay their respects to one of their own killed by a suicide bomber. Joseph lemm will be returned. Today a wake will take plac in lemms hometown in west harrison. It will be a heros funeral at Saint Patricks cathedral. A new push to make hoverboards legal in new york city. Right now theyre considered motor vehicles. Jose peralta and hoverboard ngactivists are looking for efforts to legalize and reg ate th te efforts. Peharalta calls the citys fines a money grab. This is whats left of a smart balance hoverboard. A new jersey family said it blew up in their home. Kim whalen bought the hoverboard as a Christmas Gift for her 11yearold son but it burst into flames while it was charging. Luckily no one was hurt. Its 4 40. No threats to president obama but a lot of secret Service Agents went scrambling when a drone went flying near his motorcade. It happened in hawaii. He brought it down for a landing. The secret service says they feel this was an innocent encounter. Teen who avoided jail time by claiming he was too privileged to know better, he been found in mexico. Ethan couch and his mom taken into cus, dy hasterday. Authorities had been searching fop them for the past couple of weeks. Police believe he ran because of a video that shows the 18yearold at a party where alcohol was served and that is a possible violation of his probation. 4 41. Protesters expressing outrage over a grand jury decision not to prosecute two officers who shot and killed a boy in cleveland. In our area demonstrators gathered last night in Washington Square park. They marched to city hall. In cle land others protested peacefully. Theyre upset about the decision that came in the tamir rice case. Last year two officers fired on that 12yearold boy. He was holding a toy gun. A it is 4 41 right now. Straight ahead, coming under fire this morning. s a whole lot of money. What whole foods agreed to pay for overcharging customers in new york city. Pretty tough morning on the hroads. Weather and traffic straight ahead. Its 41 degrees. Du follow us on facebook and twitter. Michaelg4ny, darlene4ny. Kerry, whats your twitter . Back now on tuesday morning. 4 things to know. Orm teamto tracking our first real taste of winter this morning. Some snow, some sleet depends where you are. It is causing problems on the roads. Well have the latest in a moment on weather and traffic on the 4s. Today nypd officers will pay respects to one of their own killed by a suicide bomber in afghanistan. Joseph lemms wake is today and whole foods agreed to pay half a million to the city of new york. Thats after the city says they er charged for prepackaged foods. M today you can get the feel of the celebration without braving the crowds. Its the annual confetti test at 11 00 this morning. Confetti test today. That might be a tough one, but hopefully most of the showers will be out of here. Ottnrwise, the confetti sticks to everything. Looks like things will start to imt prove. Headlines that may focus as the slippery conditions north of the city where were seeing that mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain. The rain will taper by midday for most of us. A couple of leftover sprinkles and showers for the afternoon. Quiet f new years eve in terms of the weather. Right now you can see temperatures below the freezing mark, well below it. Franklins 28, high point 26. 31 parsippany. Califon is 34. South is mainly rain. The roads are wet. From that point north slippery spots, untreated roads could be dangerous and treacherous. 31 in white plains, 29 ughkpsie. The cold air is locked in. In the city its 37. Long island in the 40s. Jersey shore, upper 40s. Pretty brisk east to northeast wind. Making it feel like 22 degrees in brooklyn. The temperature in yonkers is 25. Feels like the teen in newburgh. 17 in danbury. Temperatures in the 40s. Feels closer to the freezing mark. Winter weather advisory stays in effect until at least 8 00 a. M. The further north you go especially from putnam, Orange County its later on into the afternoon hours because the cold air will be reluctant to park up there. A high tide this morning between about 9 00 and noon and this on shore flow continuing, we do have a Coastal Flood Advisory for portions of brooklyn, half of Nassau County as well. Be aware of that. Those areas that are prone to flood at times of high tide. Lot of rain, yes. Then theressthe icy mix. E cold air sitting over new england. The back edge of the rain making steady progress. I think things will look better by midday, if not sooner in some cases. You can see the rain is making progress and the warmer air making progress northward. The green line started out about here. Now to lo the southern end of west chester county, Fairfield County and connecticut. That will be the trend all through the morning. Rainfall totals potentially, wevell see the rain pick up in the next hour to two hours. So were talking about totals between 1 2 inch and maybe locally an inch in some spots. Slightly lighter further west you go. Icy north and west. Even air changes to rain and showers before ending. Drying out with a partly cloudy sky. 43 in the city. During the day tomorrow, mixed sky. Temperatures tomorrow afternoon back up to about 51 degrees. Again, as we look ahead to the holiday holiday, new years eve. Ball drop time 41. Will drop into the 30s later tonight. Nice start to the year. Partly cloud sky, temperature 44. Starts to feel more like winter although theres no big snows in the forecast. 42 the high on saturday. 41 sunday. 40 for monday all featuring a mix of clouds and sunshine. Lets see what lauren scala is aturing on the traffic report. Theres something going on, im sure. Mostly minor problems right now. Most of our problems in new jersey. Route 35 in Ocean Township were northbound by sunset township. Biggest problem on the road, the closure of the turnpike. Sodauthbound by exit 9, route 18. Nolirthbound lanes are open. Car lanes are open. You can get through this area. Over on route 1 and 9 heading northbound, tonnelle avenue, there is andaccident blocking a la there. Over on 80 we have two problems. Accident in the left lane. 80 westbound by exit 60, an cident in the right lane there. One more for you. If youre using the garden state parkway northbound by 163, paramus route 17, an accident inkethe left lane. Minor delays in both directions. Thats all the problems we have reported on the roads. Do take it easy as you head out the door. Well have your next weather and traffic update on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. 4 49. This morning a brooklyn man faces murder charges in the death of a woman in queens. 25yearold christopher sobers. Her body w found in the park on october 1ath. Investigators say she had slash wounds on her neck and stomach. They say she and sobers were acquaintances. For Police Looking for the brazen robber who held up the cab driver and his passenger in the bronx. This was sunday night. You can see the suspect opening the taxi drivers door right police say he showed a gun. Then he took the cabbies cash and cell phone. They say he stole the female passengers purse. Itre h p nearly 1,000 in it. A vigil was held in bridgeport to remember the teenage boy who was gunned down on christmas eve. Dozens gathered last night to the spot where louis cologne was killed last thursday. Among them the 14yearolds brother and mother. Michael majors said he was aiming at another man who was shooting at him. Bail. Meantime, bridgeports new yor is proposing a plan to fight crime in the city. Mayor joe gannon is calling for police to create a Violence Reduction task force to combat the nearly 50 increase in homicides this year. The plan will involve increasing police patrols, focusing on high crime areas. The mayor says he also wants to lyre 50 new Police Officers and 4 50. Turning to politics. On monday h lary cli uon will unleash what she calls her not so secret weapon. Husband bill will stump for her president ial campaign at two New Hampshire rallies. Hes joining the Campaign Just as donald trump is criticizing him. In a tweet trump referred to, bills, quote, terrible record of women abuse. Donald trump also firing some sharp criticism at his fellow republican contender, kris christie. Hes gaining some ground in New Hampshire. That is where hes running at a very strong second place to trump. That is of course going into februarys primary. Yesterday trump claimed that christies home state is dead last economically with nine downgrades to its bonds. You can hear from donald trump on the today show. He will address those recent mments about bill clinton. You can tuna in at 7 after today in new york. 4 51. The bullpen. Not without controversy. Aroldis chapman coming to the yanks. Last year the fourtime al star struck out 116 batters in 66 innings, however, hes under investig ion for an alleged domestic incident and m soon be fac ing a suspension. Well wait to see how all of this stuff shakes out. Theres a lot of ground to cover between now and opening day with lot of the subject matters that are still unresolved. Thats all for another day. According to reports, chapman allegedly choked his girlfriend and shoved her into a wall and then fired his gun eight times. At least two other times at least two other teams were interested in chapman. Ey backed away though after news of that incident did surface. 4 52. Still to come. Calm under pressure. Heres a 911 call from a boy scout who witnessed a bear attack. Plus, an alleged police impersonator. Well, he pulled over the wrong person in new jersey. 4 54 now. Theres something mlssing from the windmill restaurant in long branch, new jersey. The windmill is gone. It fell off the building after 9 00 last night. Nobody was hurt. Its unclear whether the wea er we were having, the strong winds are to blame. Hopefully theyll get the windmill up there. Ive been to the windmill. Yes. The morning, first taste of winter. For some folks were starting to see a little bit in terms of icy conditions out there. Not the kind of thing where you have to shovel or plow. The areas of yellow indicating where there ar bands of heavier rain. This is the worst of it f rom now until about 10 00 in the morning. Things should start to improve from west to east. Through the morning commute. Be careful. Roads untreated, over passes, tertiary roads a little slippery. Rain will taper off. All areas, upper 40s and low 50s atll the jersey shore. 30s in the suburbs. Looks like a relatively live quiet weather pattern will shape up as we finish off the year. Thank you. Lauren, a lot going on. Minor accidents out there on the roads. A couple of detours on the buses especially in new jersey because of the weather.