Exiting eastern long island pushing offshore. Another one to the north and west that will weaken on its approach and will swing through during the course of the morning commute. Wet and damp roads. Take along the umbrella. Youll need it up until 7 00 in u some locations and it will clear out. As the front drops through, it will bring in cooler air. Dont expect record setting temperatures today. 60 at noon is still nice. High this afternoon of 63 degrees withfo mix of clouds and nshine. Some damp roads. Lets see if there are early problems for the commute. We have track maintenance for half an hour longer. No service at the 6th avenue stations in manhattan. Im sure you know that by now. Theres free shuttle buses for you to get around. Overnight track work on 1, 3, 6, a, g and l lines. Lauren, thank you. New this morning, the search for a killer in brooklyn. It happened on Lincoln Place just hours after and blocks away from another shooting where someone opened fir a d hit two teenagers. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is in crown heights. Good morning. Reporter people have een coming up to u this morning in shock seeing all o f these Police Officers here. All of these flashing lights and Police Vehicles as wel zooming into the crime scene truck. Investigators have been trying to gather evidence in this area where a 22yearold man was shot in the head. Unknown where the bullet came from. Police tell us the victim was walking with two friends when out of nowhere there was a shot that dang through the air. The victim collapsed. Police are trying to figure out if he was targeted or was this a ndom shooting. It happened about 11 30 last night. Taking place hours after two teenagers were shot and w nded nearby. A block away around president s street. A scene of chaos as you can see parents worried about their children. Heres what one woman had to ssay. It brought tears to my eyes. You send your child to school to learn, not to get shot or killed or hurt. Reporter the Police Department tells us a 14yearold girl was sho in he leg and 18yearold boy shot in the ankle. Were told that they are spitalized and doing all rie t. At this point no arrest in that shooting and no arrest in this case where that 22yearold man, that young man, was shot and killed here on Lincoln Place but police still investigating. Back to you, darlene. Ec thanks so much. New this morning, a man faces an attempted murder charges for a subway pushing in queens. Hes accused of shoving a 17yearold girl into the path a 7 irain in corona. The girl survived because she wedged herself between the platform and the wheels of the train. Also new this morning, a i h in0olvind a speeding this suv wasnieportedly stolen before it crashed headon into a parked car parked car. At least three other cars along the street were hit as well. A prisoner managed to climb into the front and steal the police car. He was taken to the hospital with nonlife t eateningi injuries. Dein upstate new york, two young sisters missing for nearly ayo year are back home with their family and their alleged kidnapper is behind bars. 29yearold Amanda Helman is being held without bail. Shes a family acquaintance of the victims. Investigators say the girls were found in her homa ten miles away from binghamton where they ent missing last april. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Rain to deal with. Different morning. Temperatures are in the 50s. Not bouncing back to that record showers first band came through right here. That was just a couple hours ago dad then weve got the last band sitting up toward the north and west. Oncethhat pushes on through, were done and it probably will by about 7 00can most areas close to the city. What to expect today . Early showers, yes. Probably pre8 00 a. M. For most of us. If youre heading out a er that, you wont need the umbrella as the sun makes its nd return. Not as warm this afternoon. Still mild for march 11th standards, temperatures only in the low 60s well above normal only relative to the 80degree temperatplure we saw the past couple of days. Gusty northwest wind will make low 60s feel even chillier. Right now we cooled it down to. 56 with that rain. Sl0 ow bounceback this afternoon. Only 60 by noon. Th breeze kicks up as well with that partly sunny skies. Details on your weekend forecast coming up in a wit. Lets get the latest on the commute. The roads. We 2ll start with a disabled truck on western spur of the watch out for that. Well take a look outside at the cross bronx expressway where you see a bunch of taillights out there. Ror ad work is jamming the cs up. And altern ae side of the Street Parking rules are in effect so move your car. Moving now speaking of commuting to the new Jersey Transit strike threat. Today tbehe agency will begin bracing for a wblkend strike as both sides head back to the negotiating table now less than two days to reach a deal. Yesterday despite reporting a little bit of progress things turned tense. Tracie trahan is in newark where those talks are taking place. Reporter a negotiator tell us there will be two things they will focus on during todays talks. Language in a possible agreement and of course the numbers. With this being the last weekday commute before a possible strike, there are concerns that the agency may play hardball they negotiated into the night about a deal on thursday. Unionized workers received a notice of concern from new Jersey Transit telling them they would lose medical benefits, sick leave pay and other benefits as soon as they decided to go on strike and that they would also be suspended without an agreement. A Union Official says that notice represents harassment and showed that new Jersey Transit is unwilling to reach any sort of agreement. Thacat strike deadline is sunda at midnight. A lot of people kicking in contingency plans and trsosportation agencies around the region h e started up their alternatives. More on that in the next half hour. Stay with us and through the the weekend. Head to nbcnewyork. Com or download news 4 new york app for latest on these talks and how u can get along if this strike do bees in fact happen. In just a few hours, this years president ial politics former candidate dr. Ben carson will throw his support behind donald trump. Trump was critical of carson during the campaign but yesterday carson called the billionaire developer a thinking individual. The republicans held a diulfferent debate last night in ami. They discussed issues without verbal brawls and personal attacks. Even donald trump commented on it. Were all in this together. Were going to come up with solutions. Were going to find the answers to things and so far i cannot believe how civil its been up here. I will let donald speak f himself. There were some minor tussles over immigration and marco rubio attacked trumps argument that Social Security should stay as it. Rubio and john kasich are hoping for strong showings in tuesdays primaries in their home states, florida and ohio. Meanwhile, donald trump in msists that hes not urging people to go after protesters at his rallies. He said that lst night after North Carolina campaign event. A trump supporter sucker punching a demonstrator who was ing escorted t. Police did arrest the alleged attacker for assault. He spoke to inside edition. Knocking the hel l out of tlat big mouth. He deserved it. Next time we see him we might have to kill him. As soon as i turned, he hit me. It was an elbow but he hit me dead in my eye. Jones is accusing local to the day that a powerful earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami. A moment of silence was observed ate the fuk hima nuclear plant. It suffered a meltdown after the tidal wave overwhelmed it. Another ceremony was held in ftokyo. That disaster is believed to have killed 18,000 people. Some victims were never found. This afternoon nearly e you living formerafirst lady will be at Nancy Reagans funeral. Yesterday 1,500 people filed past mrs. Reagans coffeen ugh ffin in simi valley, california. Michelle obama will join the other president s wives for todays ceremony. Nancy gagan died sunday at the age of 94. You can watch coverage of the funeral today on nbcnewyork. Com. Th begins at 2 00 thi afternoon. Also today, texas is honoring v prictims of 2009 ft. Th hood terror attacks with purple hearts. In november of 2009, major hasan opened fire at ft. Hood. The army will also award the defense of Freedom Medal to nmilitary victims. Thats the civilian equivalent of the purple heart. Its 4 40. Just ahead, they could be in your freezer right now. Several popular products have been recalled. Plus an iteam exclusive. You complained and we whats causing the winding lines that are riving passengers crazyt one local airport. And rain arrived overnight. Storm team 4 is looking ahead to the weekend. Weather and traffic on the 4s is coming up. Its 4 43. Morning. Were down to less than two days until a possible new Jersey Transit strike on sunday at midnight. Talks resume today in newark. The agency says it will begin preparations for a strike but changes. Today new safety upgrades will be unveiled at the flushing main street long island station. They include new railings and nestle is recalling frozen meals. Customeri found pieces of glass in the meals. You can find more information on nbcnewyork. Com. Today irish pride will be on display in newark. The citys st. Patricks day taking place at 1 00 this afte. Noon. 4 44. The weather should be fine for the parade as we get rid of showers out there earlt on this morning. Thes sere moving through quickly and should be gone by Early Morning to mid morling in most locations. Cooling down today. Were etting away from the 70s and 80s over the last couple of days back into the 60k, which is still not too bad. Nice start to the weekend. Sunday clouds roll in and we could see showers. Looks like a soggy start to next week. A look back at yesterdays records. We promised and it delivered. Newark, 81. Set a new record. Central park, 79, set a new record. Bridgeport at 66 tied the record. Temperatures this rning still 50 to 55degree range for mid to upper hudson valley. A little bit of rain falling. You can see shading in blue is cooler air thats slowly pressing in our direction. Northwest wind will kick up and get brisk out there and breezy later this morning and this afternoon. First push of showers already moving offshore. The late ph of showers sitting up toward the poconos right now moving into northwest new jersey making steidy progress so we think this will be through the city probably by 6 00 a. M. Latest 6 30 and moving across long island and behind it clouds will break up for some sunshine. Bigger storm and a lot of smoisture still streaming in acveross the gulf coast where they do pu not need it. A lot of flooding problems. Some moisture moves in our diitrection later sunday night into monday futurentracker showslyhowers exit this moing. This is 8 00 a. M. Cloud line starting to clear to north and west and by afternoon were all in sunshine. Its a little bit cooler, yes,h but on the sunny side. Clear skies. Chilly overnight. Around 40 in the city. Tomorrow a day full of blue sky, su hine. Teitmperatures in pt the low to mid 60s. We could see lighter showers later on sunday afternoon move on through but the main push of rain holds off until overnight. This is g ng toward monday morning. You can see areas of yellow hind me starting to push in our direction during mond. Thats the soggy today. Low to mid 60s on average across the area. Again a few 50s to the north and west for highs. Thats still well above normal buvdt nowhere near where weve been. Tomorrow with sunshine. We spring forward and lose an hour of sleep but remember to change batteries in smoke detectors and Carbon Monoxide detectors. Showers sunday night. Rain, cool, damp monday. Look at wednesday. 68 and for the wearing of green right now, maybe an early shower and about 60 on st. Patricks day. Lets t overtto lauren scala for a look at the commute. Delays out there caused by construction. The George Washington bridge where you see lots of flashing lights as they clear that road work out there. Two lanes shut down on the inbound per level wrapping up at about 5 00 a. M. Head to the lincoln tunnel. Thats doing fine. On Grand Central parkway by laguardia airport, smooth sailing here. Wet roads. Other constr beuction y u should know about, covered rdway is closed again. This is ongoing in the mornings out between jersey avenue and affecting your commute to holland tunnel. Well have more weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. A warning for those that travel through newark airport. An iteam exclusive found the wait is extra long to get through security. You can see what workers and frequent flyers say is the new normal in recent weeks. The line stretching all of the way down to the ground level. A lot of people are obviously worried about missing their flights. Caused by increased air travel and newigorous screening rules. If they say that the security measures are being beefed up, they should give adequate notice to travelers so they arrived on time. Tsa Union Officials tell a different story. They say these long lines are caused by a cut in overtime and not enough staff. This morning on the today show, a look at Airport Security around the country and whether those long lin and long waits are about to get worse as the Summer Travel season approaches. Thats at 7 00 right after today in new york. In brooklyn, a 911 call about a Building Collapse turned out to be a false alarm. But o building had fallen. They did find an emotionally disturbed man who called for help. Turns out he was hurt while site. Hospital. An update to a story we first told but on today in new york. Police say evidence connects one ma gn to three different stabbings two of these stabbings happened wednesday night iN Prospect Park. A man was attacked last month on empire boulevard. The man faces aahate crime charge in that attack but at a News Conference yesterday, the victims m her questioned whether police have the right guy. Li they caught someone. They suspect him. Am i happy if he is the person . If he is the stabber, of course i am. Investigators assure they have arrested the right person. Right now theres a search for the suspect in another knife attack in brooklyn. This man slashed a woman N Prospect Park south. Witnesses say the man came from behind and cut her in the neck with a kitchen knife. Police say he left the knife and American Flag bandanna on the sidewalk. That woman is expected to survive. Say the driver accused of killing two teens when he hit them with his car was high on pcp. He tested positive for the drug. The two were killed whi e walking home from a friends house in union city. A third teen remains in the hospital. In connecticut a Stanford High School student alleges he was sexually assaulted by two classmates. The student allegation he was a tenth g der when he was locked in a bathroom, stripped of his pants and abused by a male and female student and the lawsuit accuses School Administrators of negligence. The Justice Department is de omanding a judge force apple to unlock a terrorist iphone. The fbi argues it cannot get Important Information from syed farooks phone. A hearing is scheduled on tuesday. The host of the popular tv show dog whisperer is under investigation for animal abuse. They saw him in this episode. One of his dogs appeared to attack a pig. Animal control officers went to his Southern California center. The natgeo channel says it shows that he changed that dogs vicious behavior. In new jersey, a 22year veteran Police Officer admitted to killing his wife in front of their yoaiung child. He pleaded guilty t manslaughter and child endangerment charges to avoid spending the rest ofthis life in prison. He shot and killed his wife after ramming her car off the road last year. Their 7yearold daughter was in the front seat. He will be sentenced in august. 4 51 right now. Christie mishandled millions of dollars handed out after hurricane sandy. What police say a truck drrsiver used to rig this license plate. Why a popular way to get around the water could be going away. Youre watching today in new welcome back. 4 ex54. Looking at the hamilton bridge looking lovely on this friday or maybe its because its friday. It wasnt a rough week with weather. It was good. Gry was complaining about haze so we brought in rain to wash it out. Nicer view later today. Temperatures will be cooler. Thats abgood 15 degrees plus oler than it was. Still well a ve normal. Wehare looking at sunshine again by the afternoon after morning clouds. Were expecting to see clouds give way to clear sky tonight. Its chilly. About 40 in the city. 30s in the suburbs and weekend forecast checking in with sunshine on saturday and couple owers later on sundaye still above normal just not as much above normal. ll take this. We mull take it. Thank you. We saw changes on the trains. Its that early hour where we ste ill have fastrack maintenance. D and f are running in manhattan. Free Shuttle Service for you to get around. That should be wrapped up any minute. Theres also overnight track work on 1, 3, 6, a, g and l. So far so good. Thank you. New york city is on pace to install more miles o protected bike lanes this year than in any other. Thget protected ones have regular barriers. Last yeal the city put down 12 miles of protected lanes. This year 15 miles are projected to be installed. New york water taxi may be forced to shutdown because of the new citywide ferry system due toabaunch next year. It expects the city to award the contract for citywide system to another ferry company. If that happens, new york water taxi says it wont be able to compete. A shutdown could happen as early as october. A yonkers truck driver accused of using a disappearing license