This is what we like. Happy friday. We have an accident on the roads. Just blocking one lane earlier. Earlier it was blocking two. This is at 116th street. The left lane is still shut down there. Delays are minor heading through the area. Outside, better news. The new jersey turnpike by Newark Liberty airport, in great shape as you head out the door. The next weather and traffic update on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. It was a dramatic scene inside a brook lip courtroom. A now former nypd officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed man. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is in East New York where the shooting happened. A shooting that the officer claimed in court was a terrible accident. Reporter he always maintained that, michael, that it was an accident. As for the verdict, residents, some of them here at the pink houses where that shooting happened, they expressed surprise. As you mentioned, michael, peter liang buried his face in his hands. The jury convicted him on manslaughter and official misconduct in the death of akai gurley. The shooting happened in november of 2014. On patrol with his partner in the pipg nk houses. He always said it was an accident. The bullet ricocheted and killed gurley who had no weapon on him. Jurors deliberated for 17 hours over three days. We heard from the District Attorney in brooklyn and also a juror. I have family and it was a very tough decision. Theres no message here. This has nothing to do with ferguson or Staten Island or baltimore or cleveland or any other place. This has to do with who are we here in brooklyn. What do we stand for. As for liang, he faces up to 15 years in prison. But his attorney want the charges dismissed or they will appeal. Sentencing is scheduled for april 14th. Back to you, michael. Thanks, kat. Mayor de blasio released a statement on that decision, saying the death of akai dpurly was a tragedy. The jury has spoken and we respect its decision. We hope the outcome brings closure to the gurley family. After this painful event. This morning, precautions are being taken across our area because of the bitter cold. As chris has been warning, its going to get worse. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in jersey city. Tracie, good morning. Darlene, the chilly morning to you, its a day when any exposed skin will let you know that Mother Nature is in control today. We were able to stop a couple of people first we want to tell you about plans in place throughout the area to make sure that everybody is warm. We have video of how people are trying to stay warm at the very least. There are going to be Warming Centers that wont be open just this weekend. But theyll open their doors a lot of municipalities are trying to be proactive in making are available. Those trying to beat the deep freeze are trying to visit Senior Centers and libraries. Homeless outreach is also in hudson and the tristate area. Theyre trying to make sure the homeless know that there are services in place to make sure theyre warm. One man we spoke to wasnt sure if that would be enough. Its getting cold. I dont know where they should go. I dont know if theres information for them. I just dont know the information thats going out. If theres centers that provide for them, that is where they should be headed. Going to get an assist to head to those centers in jersey city, darlene. There are going to be two locations where they transport people to centers throughout get things like showers or food throughout the weekend. A lot of people here, seeing a not a lot hf hats and governors just yet. People will realize its a day to bundle up. Back to you. Tracie, theyre about to get hit with the reality when they step out the door. Thats what it is. Tracie, thank you. Woont to check with chris cimino now. A lot of people are getting fooled, this is just the morning. This is for real now. This is not about style now. You want to dress to keep yourself safe. Today is the day where its not dangerous, dangerous. But you want to protect yourself. Tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night especially is when the cold could be dangerous. Were talking about exposure of minutes, 15 to 30 minute you could get frostbite. Thats what were worried about. Chilly nighttime newer is again. Maybe a snow squall overnight. Its dangerous cold through the weekend. Quick warmup next week ahead of the next storm. Meantime, looking at the feelslike temperatures and moving forward in time, this morning, its cold enough. 0 to 5 above. Into the teens overnight. By tomorrow morning, it will feel like 2. Then sub zero all day tomorrow. Tomorrow night, 10 below, 15 below. Some locations 20 to 25 depot below. The real focus is tomorrow night, sunday morning. Mostly clear now. 16 degrees. Well see temperatures back in the mid and upper 20s this afternoon as sun gives way to clouds. Well watch for the flurries later in the day and evening. What are we watching on the roads and rails, lauren . Smooth sailing. Thats what we like. All of the subway track work and delays wrapped up. On the major commuter lines, they all look good this morning. The buses as well. No unplanned detours at least. If youre getting on the ferries, Staten Island ferry, new york waterway doing fine. Seastreak has changes in effect today. Alternate side of the street abraham lincolns birthday. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thanks, lauren. New so far, wall street does not seem frightened by big stock losses overseas. The nikkei was down by 5 at one point. Market futures on wall street are running higher. Japans selloff is blamed on low price of oil and fears that the u. S. Economy may be slowing. Pope francis is on his way to cuba for the historic meeting with the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church. The pope left rome hours ago. Hes hoping to heal divisions that date back is 1,000 years. Mexico. The fbi is looking into whether a machete attack in ohio is a case of homegrown terror or assault. A man started swipg police later shot and killed the suspect had they say he lunged at the officer with the machete. Just got new information now about a deadly fire in queens. Firefighters now say it was 74yearold mario did he miss a who lost his life in that fire. The flames took over the home on Riverside Drive in white stone about midnight. The cause is still under investigation. This is a live picture from hillsborough township in new jersey. For the last 12 hours, firefighters have been out there in this cold trying to put out a warehouse fire. The flames are raging out of control over this nearly 500,000 square footwear house space. Officials say the building had outdated fire systems and the cold weather made the firefight difficult. We also just learned route 206 is reopened. Fire had the roadway shut down last night. Now to decision 2016 and the latest showdown between the democratic president ial candidate. Sanders win. Kerry barrett has the highlights. Good morning, darlene. Only two days after that primary. The democratic candidate facing off again in their second head to head debate. They debated a wide rapping of nge of topics without so much as a greeting for one another. Sanders said universal health care is a right, not a privilege. Clinton saying essentially pie in the sky and the country cant pay for it. What i believe is the United States in fact should join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people. The numbers dont add up. Many people will actually be worse off. South carolina is a little more diverse, a lot more than new hampshire. Immigration a hot button issue as well. Both agree that hard working immigrant families need to be protected in at least some examines at this. They agree on what need to be it get done. The nevada caucus coming up. The next primary on the same day in South Carolina. Kerry barrett in the newsroom, thank you. Bernie sanders picking up the support of eric garners daughter. Im behind anyone who will listen and speak up for us. I think we need to believe in a leader like Bernie Sanders. Erica garner appears in the new sander tv ad. Michael bloomberg is keeping quiet at least to us when we asked him if hes running for president and when hell decide for sure. Do something for the highlight. When he tells you, let me know. Bloombergs girlfriend diana taylor joking she doesnt even know. They were attending an event in chelsea last night. He told the Financial Times he will make a decision soon. Ahead, new findings released in connection with notorious cold cases. Plus, if you use uber, you may be getting money back. Repay millions. Also ahead, theres not enough layers out there to cold. Well have weather and traffic on the 4s as we look at the George Washington bridge there. Youre watching today in new moment in weather and traffic on the 4s. Former nypd officer, peter liang faces up to 15 years in prison for the killing of akai gurley. He was convicted last night. Nuna Baby Essentials is recalling nearly 6,000 high chairs because the arm bar can break. The company is offering a free fix. Hospital workers in new york are ordered to take new precautions to help prevent the spread of the flu. Health care workers who are not vaccinated have to wear masks. State Health Experts say the flu is widespread and its peaking now. 5 14. Time for weather and traffic together. Were deal the cold out there the colder air is on the way. Believe it or not. This is cold for you. Wait until we get there tomorrow night. Because of the threat of the strong wind and the really low temperatures. Leaving windchill advisories for the city, long island. This is through saturday afternoon, sunday morning. Theres a windchill warning through the north and west. Values 25 to 30 below zero to the north and west of the city. 15 to 25 below. 17 in astoria, 16 at floral park the low to mid teens in westhampton. Down to 2 there. 11 in sussex. 10 in newburgh. We wri bring in the wind, feels like 5. 4 in newark. You need to bundle up already out there today. 4 is the wind chill in newburgh. Feels like 3 at islip. Cold start and its not going to warm up very much. Feelslike temperatures, though, this is a main concern. We go forward to saturday evening. It will feel like 10 below. 15 below in danbury. 16 below in the windchill area by sunday morning. Nanette uet at well start the day on sunday between 15 and 20 below in the city, 20 to 25 dee below north and west. It gradually gets better. If you want to call it feeling like 0 and 1 degree better, thats when it will be sunday afternoon. Several layers, we talked about this yesterday. Keeping the fingers together keeps the heat together. On the car, check the tire pressure. When its this cold, tire pressure goes down. Let the faucets slowly drip. We dont want the pipes freezing. In addition, if youre outside and you in the a little change in color of your skin and fingers, get inside. An early sign of frostbite. Be careful, limit your time outside. Cloud build in today. Cold. Not brutally cold in the upper 20s. Heres the arctic express tonight. With it could be snow showers and squalls. Between 15 and0 in the afternoon. Again with a windchill, a good 15 to 25 below zero. By next week, monday, it gets better. 34 with increasing cloud. There may be a little bit of snow, wintry mix north and west, late monday night into tuesday. It goes over to mainly rain. Could be a soaking rain on tuesday. Back into the 40s and clearing on wednesday. Lauren scala, a little after 5 17. How is the commute moving along . Nicely. Well look around the area. Start with the gowanus expressway where things are moving nicely. Its pretty quiet. Once you get to the bqe, the brooklyn bridge, things are fine as well. The long island expressway and queens, you still have roadwork eastbound out there. Not causing any kind of issue this morning. Queens, overall, in great shape, van wyck expressway is also moving nicely. Heading over to 495, heres what way toward the lincoln tunnel. Smooth sailing here. New jersey in good shape. Overall, if you head out the door, you are in for a nice ride. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are suspended but meter rules apply. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thanks so much, lauren. Today we may learn new information about the gilgo beach murder. Autopsy results are expected to be released. They believe shannon an gilbert was the victim of a serial killer. The medical examiner, dr. Michael bodden performed the autopsy. A source find the findings disturbing. The medical Examiners Office will determine whether a skull found in queens park is that of a human. They were cleaning petersfield park in queens when the skull was found. They combed the area to collect evidence last night. The workers found the remains in a black garbage bag near a fence. Shout when they made that grisly finding. The money report, Morgan Stanley is agreeing to pay fines. New york states attorney general announced that deal yesterday. He sued the big wall street firm. He claimed Morgan Stanley underplayed the risk much mortgages issued in the years leading up to the countrys financial collapse. If you use an uber car up until last month, you could get money back. They agreed to pay 28 million to settle a class action lawsuit. They challenged the 1 safe rider fee. It was to support background checks on riders. But the checks were inadequate. Revving up its fleet. The company is going to launch four new suvs in the next four years. The automaker says millenials, baby boomers are driving it growth. Ford says both groups prefer suvs because they have bigger space and in some cases better fuel efficiency. The new vehicles will be added but theyre not planning to eliminate the current models. Just ahead, where the next hit show will debut before moving to broadway. Whole foods, theyre really trying to reach out to young people like myself. What shoppers could soon leave the stores with. For a while theyll have it. Welcome back. 5 22. You could be leaving whole foods with more than groceries. How about a new tattoo. The chain is preparing a new line of stores aimed at young shonners on a budget. Other businesses could be inside the stores, including fresh pressed juice stands to Record Stores to even tattoo parlors. The new whole foods 365 shops are expected to open later this year. Very cool. Maybe saturday night is will be really cold out if we can find one. Whole foods, get a tattoo. Did you say records . Its back. Record players. Actually. A tattoo, though . Anything you want to do to stay warm, figure it out. You need that this weekend. We have record cold potentially headed our way. The arctic air will arrive later tonight into tomorrow, into sunday morning. The sunday record low is 2 degrees back in 1916. Thats what were forecasting. Remember it well, right, michael . Yeah . You went out skating that day, though. For today, sunshine to start. Clouds increase late. 27. Thats not too bad today, actually. Tonight, watch out for a couple of snow showers. Even a snow squall possible overnight toward morning with the arctic air and april low of 17. We start in the teens tomorrow and drop through the day. As the wind picks up, its going to get dangerously cold. Well tell you about how dangerously cold in the next half hour. Cant talk about it too much when youre talking about that. The cold commute, lauren . But a nice commute. One new accident but the one before that cleared. For one there. If you are getting on the rails, heres your commuter checklist. Metronorth, lirr, nj transit, path and subways all running on their regular routes and schedules so far. Earlier this week, we told you disneys frozen appropriately enough was headed to broadway in 2018. But you can see it before then if you head out to denver. Denver will be the first to see frozen, the musical. Exact dates not set. But the debut will be august 2017. Thats a year from now. More than that. At the Denver Center for the performing arts. Get your tickets. 5 25. Coming up, how a lawmaker is turning to twitter to help student pay for college. Well tell you about an arrest about a worker at a daycare center. What a worker threw at toddlers there. Reporter plans to beat the deep freeze start today throughout the area. Im Tracie Strahan live in the arctic air on the way. And 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. This morning, reaction to now former nypd officer. How long he could spend behind bars for the killing of an up armed man. Plus, sticker shock. How much electric bills will be going up for a lot of people. You dont often hear the word painful from the weather department, but storm team 4 urging us to use caution this morning. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everyone. Friday morning, its february 12th. Im darlene rodriguez. Im Michael Gargiulo. Storm team 4s chris cimino is here with the forecast. Youre using that word pain fum, even put it on the weather map. Its 16 degrees right now. By sunday morning, that will feel like april walk in the park. Temperatures are close to zero and windchills at 15 to 25 below zero. 17 in astoria. 17 city island. Its plenty cold already out there. Stepping out into 10 degrees in newburgh. Westhampton in the pine barrens, down to 2 degrees. Lower teens across new jersey. With the windchill, it feels again, not a walk in the park. Central park feels like 5 with that windchill. 4 below zero in newburgh. Thats the coldest we could find right now. This is just the beginning. The core of the arctic air hasnt gotten here yet. When it does, increasing winds out of north and northwest. Windchills saturday night into sunday of about 15 to 20 below in and around the city. Maybe 10 to 15 below down the shore. 20, 25 below the further west you go. For today, start with sunshine. The cloud take over. Temperatures again in the mid and upper 20s. Tonight, well have to watch out for maybe snow showers and a brief squall. Well talk more about that and a warmup next week. Now lauren scala is here to talk about the commute. Thanks, chris. Two problems on the roads. Well head over to 95. Southbound after the hutch, you do have an accident shutting down two lanes. Delays build quickly through here. The hutch is a great alternate option to get around. You can get off before that and head sou