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WNBC Today In New York March 25, 2016

Taken up. A live look at the belt parkway. Hour. Doing well. Away. If you are taking the midtown tunnel this morning, keep in mind, the south tube is taking few moments. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Emily, thank you vefrp. Right now, were waiting to hear kerry. Secretary kerry arrived in brussels about an hour ago. Yesterday, he held talks with russians. The russians on fighting isis and improving the ceasefire that has taken place in syria. He plans to express formal condolences. Secretary kerry landed at the Brussels Airport. That airport is closed to the public until sunday. Amateur video captured the sound of small explosions in brussels overnight. They were heard during police raids. Police are not telling us what theyre saying seven people were taken into custody and were not going to find out until later today just why they were detained. Right now, though, they are two men believed to be on the run. Both said to be connected to tuesdays attack. Also this morning, French Police holding a man suspected of being dangerously close to carrying out another terror attack. His home raided last night. Just northwest of paris. Police are only describing him as a French National who was in the advanced stages of an assault. So far it is unclear whether hes linked to the brussels bombings. Stay with us for the developments on the terror investigation in brussels. If you download the nbc new york app for instant alerts. There is a search for a killer on Staten Island. He shot three people. Two of them a mother and son are dead. Tracie strahan is in mariner harbor where it happened. Tracie, a shocking turn of events. Reporter a lot of witnesses are saying the same this nearly 11 hours later and you can see over my shoulder, theres a Significant Police presence on roxbury street. Theyre blocking off access to the crime scene as the search continues for a shooter at this hour. Weve learned the identity of the mother and son killed here. They are 47yearold Adelle Rivera. She was shot once in the head. Her son, 21yearold Anthony Rivera was shot three times in the head. How both were rushed to Richmond University Medical Center where they were pronounced dead. A third victim, a 22yearold neighbor is in critical but stable condition according to police at this hour. Hes recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg. Witnesses report hearing multiple shots after 6 00 last night. But they have no idea why these victims were targeted. The kid, the family is good people. I dont understand why this would happen to them. Reporter now, this morning, police tell me the alleged gunman was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue theyre saying, he possibly fled in a darkcolored sedan. Possibly a honda or hyundai. So far thats the only description they have of whoever is behind this. Tracie, thank you. It is 5 03. A jetblue Flight Attendant accused of smuggling cocaine is expected in a brooklyn courtroom. Marcia gay reynolds could be released today. A judge granted her 500,000 bond. Despite the prosecutors concern she may be a flight risk. The former jamaican beauty queen was working with a coconspirator who may be trying to leave the country. According to the fbi, reynolds abandoned 70 pounds of cocaine in her luggage. For flight crews at Los Angeles International airport. That was friday. Her family says she might not have known the drugs were in her luggage. Wednesday night, she turned herself in to police at jfk after catching a flight from lax. 5 04 right now. Time for a check of weather and traffic on the 4s. As we said, people on the move this is a get away day. A lot of folks hitting the roads. They ran into showers. Take along an umbrella. Through the first half of the day, the temperatures are on the rise. Were at 50 now. Just to the south of us. Temperatures at 60 or better. Showers are going to spread across the area from west to east. Nothing particularly heavy expected. During the midday hours, we could see a gusty shower with the actual cold front that slides through. Kind of a misnomer to call it a cold front. It allows temperatures to climb into the 60s. That will change by tonight. It will get chillier. Radar. Into the upper Hudson Valley as well. Nothing heavy here. The yellow is showing up in the catskills and the poconos. Thats round one. The actual cold front will come through by 9 00 or so. Patchy fog and low clouds. 50ish into the mid and upper 50s. Mid 60s by noon. Showers should shut down by noon or 1 00. Rest of the weekend forecast coming up on the 4s. Heres emily west. How is the commute looking . If you plan to take the subways, no delays reported. Looks like a pretty good go. On the rails, everything is on schedule for this morning. Before 4 00 this afternoon, you will have extra trains. The buses, a lot of detours. New york city buses. Several lines. Not bad. New Jersey Transit, beeline and decamp. A look at the turnpike. Thats moving along fine near newark airport. No delays and alternate side is suspended. But you have to feed the meters. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Emily, thank you very much. 5 06 now. Police are searching for a man who shot and wounded a teenager in the bronx. Investigators released this Surveillance Video of the suspect theyre looking for. You can actually see him running down the street with a gun in his hand. He shot an 18yearold twice in the back about 5 00 yesterday on lafayette avenue and hunts point. The victim listed in stable also right now, the search is on for two men who police say posed as officers and then sexually assaulted a 67yearold woman. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is in chelsea where this happened. Kat . Reporter michael, what a horrifying ordeal for that victim. As you said, a 67yearold woman. She was in her car right here on west 16th street when two men inside of another vehicle told her to pull over. We want to show you video of the vehicle that police are looking for right now. It is a red camaro with a black soft top. Two men inside signalled to the 67yearold woman that she need today bring her car over to the side. They identified themselves as Police Officers. According to the nypd, the two men then took the victim to another location a few blocks away and that is where she was sexually assaulted. The men also stole money from her. 135. And a samsung tablet. The men were last seen going eastbound on west 16th street this. At this point, michael, police are trying to put together a better description of the suspects, but theyre described as being 510, 200 pounds. A heated meeting. The project would cost 4 billion to 5 billion. Many of the disconnected terminals would be replaced with one up to date big terminal. The plan would double the operating space for flights, however, the approval of this project came after another major project got the green light. That project, thats the newport Authority Bus terminal. Central bus terminal during the talks yesterday. It would be built on the west side of manhattan where the Current Port Authority is. Cost of that project could be 15 billion. Check that price. However, plans and the exact location for the new bus terminal have not been decided. Could give north jersey commuters a smoother ride into the city. This would be welcome. The agency moving forward with whats known as the bergen loop. Part of the gateway project. This would allow nj transit trains on the Pascack Valley and main bergen lines to go right into penn station. That would remove the need for transferring in secaucus or hoboken. Its 5 09. Mayor de blasio ordering city flags at halfstaff in honor of Nicholas Scoppetta. He served as mayor bloombergs fire commissioner. He died yesterday after a twoyear battle with cancer. He had a long record of Public Service that spanned four decades. His biggest challenge was rebuilding the fdny after september 11th. He was 83 years old. The world of comedy is remembering a groundbreaking comedian. Gary shandling has passed away. You did great. Robin williams, jeffrey tambour there. Shandling spoofed late night shows. The Larry Sanders show. Its rumored he was to be Johnny Carsons successor. Shandling died yesterday suddenly of a heart attack. He was just 66 years old. We have good friday observances already under way in the holy land. A little while ago, the faithful began walking the path believed to be taken by christ in jerusalem on his way to the crucifixion and its the wellknown live pictures from the holy land there. 5 10. Ahead, a surprising admission from netflix. Then a wild chase out west. Were going to tell you what this guy did when he came to a red light. Take a a look ahead to the weekend weather and traffic on the 4s. Its all coming up. Look at the statue of liberty and the verrazano bridge there. Youre watching today in new overnight, more raids in brussels. Police rounding up seven people. We wont find out why they were detained. It is believed that two men are connected to tuesday attacks. Meanwhile, an attack apparently prevent north dakota ed in paris. Another mans home was the man was in the advanced stages of an assault. Today is the deadline to participate in the primaries. That will be on april 19th. You can register online at your local board of elections. For parents and guardians, gerber is recalling organic second food pouches because the food could spoil. The issue impacts pouches with the pears, carrots and peas and those with carrots, apples and mangos. You can find more information on nbcnewyork. Com. It is 5 14 on this friday morning. Yesterday was damp and cool. The wind off the water all day. Today we warm it up. But the tradeoff is we have to get through a few showers, its warmer but damp, especially the first half. Then it turns sunny and seasonal tomorrow. Easter remains dry and cool. Temperatures again in the 50s. The weekend is looking good. Tree pollen, thats up there at a high level. Likely to stay there. Get very high the next couple of weeks as the trees are starting to bloom and the mold spore count at a low level. Storm tracker, relatively quiet nearby. A few light showers across northwest new jersey. On the approach, a lot of the showers are weakening. I dont anticipate anything too heavy through the morning commute. You may run into damp roads and wetness. Theres that first batch again. Theres a break in the action between this batch of lighter showers in here and then theres another line out to the west. Thats the actual cold front. Thats the one that could contain a brief heavier downpour and a brief gusty shower until noon or so. 52 in chelsea. 50 in city island. Notice were seeing 60s central new jersey, trenton 62. Down the shore, temperatures thats where the warm front is. Its making a move towards us. The temperatures will rise suddenly as the front pushes through. Future tracker, a few light showers north and west of us. We push through the city. Between 7 00 and 9 00, a couple of heavier showers. Then another line of showers at 1 00 in the afternoon. Thats the actual cold front. Again, hit and miss in terms of the heavier downpours. It looks like most of the activity slides to the south and east of us, the heavier stuff clears out. Setting the stage for a better day tomorrow. Lots of sunshine around. It will be cooler. Y its upper 60s to near 70 across the interior sections of new jersey. Cooler out east. Few upper 50s eastern long island again. Watch for the rounds of showers. A lighter round this morning. Maybe a heavier round midday today. Look what happens to the temperatures. Feeling like winter overnight into tomorrow morning. You need to bundle up. Low 30s north and west. A good rebound over the weekend. 56 saturday. 55 Easter Sunday. 58 with rain on monday. Next week. Up around 68 again come thursday. Lets see how the roads are rolling along. Better on the hutch. That is due to a tractortrailer on the parkway. They got it off. Not going to cause any problems. Roadwork on the fdr between 71st to 63rd. You get a couple lanes taken up there. You can see a little bit of backup here. Trying to get into that roadwork to 63rd. Thats going to be your southbound go dealing with the backup. Lets take a live look at the Alexander Hamilton bridge where you get a great ride. Heading to the george. Thats cleared in the east bronx. Right lane taken out on over to westchester avenue. The gowanus this morning. That looks like a nice ride too. Traveling through industry city. Should not find any delays so far. Got a pretty nice ride. The lincoln tunnel will be a good goto there. There is no wait there. The early roadwork is cleared. The hudson river crossings, looks like a nice ride. The commuter checklist, everything is running on alternate side is suspended but you do have to feed the meters. Well have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Emily, thank you very much. We want to get to decision 2016 because theres a lot going on. Tweets, threats and now talk of wives. The race for the president perhaps sinking lower this morning. Nbcs tracie potts is in washington with the latest. Just when you thought you saw it all, tracie. Exactly, michael. The question now comes up, is this going to hurt donald trump. Our nbc wall street journal poll shows 70 of women out there who are likely to vote in november have a negative view of trump and republican women, nearly half will not vote for him. Donald, youre a sniff he willing coward and leave hide a loan. Threatening to spill the beans on heidi cruz. Trump tweeted last night, i didnt start the fight. Claiming cruz knew about the ad featuring a racy photo of if democrats want to make sure that somebody like a donald trump does not get elected president , youre looking at the candidate who is going to beat him. Back in Washington State today, pushing hard for victories there in alaska and hawaii this weekend. With a new ad from hawaii representative the iraq vet who quit her leadership position to support him. What i saw in bernie was a heart of aloha. Hillary clintons focus on National Security and trump telling supporters his rhetoric against muslims could put america in jeopardy. Its not only often pen but dangerous. She talked about the trump cruz fight last night. Id love to see punches thrown. Wow. Not with you. I better be really careful. Be careful bernie doesnt ive never seen this at the president ial level. She also said that she is not taking for granted the polls said she could beat donald trump some by double digits in november. Showed that video of trump and cruz shaking hands. Remember early on in the campaign, people described him as having a bromance. Thats over now. Yeah. Way over. Tracie, thank you so much. 5 20 right now. Outrageous police chase caught on camera in arizona. More than 30 Police Officers pursued a hit and run suspect in a stolen white truck. This was outside of phoenix yesterday. At one point during the chase, the driver got out of the truck and then you see him there. He shoved and punched a motorcyclist in an attempt to steal his bike. The suspect got back in the truck when he couldnt get the motorcycle. I really didnt know what was going on until the Police Officer showed up. I thought i was being attacked. When the Police Officer showed up, it was apparent that it was originally thought. You see him getting back the pickup rolled over the interstate and police took that driver into custody. In this mornings cnbc money report, netflix admits theyve been responsible for lowering the quality of videos on mobile devices. According to the wall street journal, netflix has been doing it for five years. The company says it throttled back the quality to protect customers from hitting their data caps. Now netflix said its going to introduce a data saver feature for mobile apps coming up in may. 5 21. New concern about caffeine for pregnant women. Its a piglet on the run. What one woman used to coax this we built our factories here because of a huge natural resource. Not the land. The water. Or power sources. It s the people. American workers. They build worldclass products. And that builds communities. And a better future. For all of us. Because making something in america means so much, to so many. Weathertech. Its 5 246789 a major breakthrough in brussels. According to a senior u. S. Officials, two americans were killed in that attack. Theyre notifying the next of kin right now. At this point, there are four americans who are not seen since the attacks. Two of those now are presumed to be dead. We wont know which two of the four that are missing right now. Were trying to get more information on the story. Well provide information as soon as we get it in to us. Major development. Dead in that attack earlier this week in brussels at the airport and at a train station. More on that coming up. Right now, its 5 24. We want to check weather and traffic. Well start with chris. Whats happening, chris . Little transition going on. A warm front and thats going to make things a little active and changeable. Temperatures climb into the 60s this afternoon. The upper 60s. A few lighter showers this morning. Maybe a gusty shower or thunder shower through the midday hours. We start to get into sun. 69 degrees the expected high. A big drop tonight once we get on the other side of that cold front and that chillier air moves in, upper 30s. Lower 30s in the suburbs north and west. It sets the scene for the weekend. We get some sunshine tomorrow. Easter sunday starts sunny, maybe ends up with a few more clouds later in the day. Not bad. Temperatures both days generally in the mid50s. Dee cents Holiday Weekend coming up. Emily, whats happening . Eye few things on the roads. Those are cleared. 71st to 63rd. One to two lanes could be blocked as they try to clear that out of the way. Also, with the buses this morning, theres a lot of detours, new york city buses. Take a peek. Keep that in mind if you are headed out. Emily, thank you very much. We have Important Health news this morning for men and women who wants to have children. A new study links caffeine to miscarriage

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