People told us they lost everything, but its miraculous that no one was seriously hurt. More than 200 firefighters battled the blaze. It looked like the fire started in a garage behind one of the houses and spread quickly. We talked with people who were coughing from inhaling smoke, despite what they had gone through, they tell us theyre fortunate they survived. Im going to be okay. The material is nothing. The people they got saved, everybody is out. Reporter a couple of the houses, fire investigators have been able to go in and out of, darlene. Theres a couple here that they cant go into because its jus too dangerous for them. As far as the fire marshal goes, theyre trying to figure out what exactly caused this fire. But it looked like it started in a garage in one of the houses. Happening today, emotional testimony expected at the murder trial of a brooklyn teen charged today in new yorks Tracie Strahan has more. Reporter were expecting to hear from a firefighter and a fire marshal, but were also expecting to hear from the nypd officer who nearly lost her life in the fire that Authorities Say was set intentionally. Officer Rosa Rodriguez nearly lost her life two years ago in that fire on surf avenue in coney island. She was critically injured there, but was released from the ho thspital. Her partner, off er Dennis Guerrero also responded to the fire. Both of them taking the elevator to try to evacuate the building that was overcome by heavy smoke. Thats what happened to them they were unconscious when the doors opened. Guerrero died three days afterwards from his injuries. Int vestigators charged 16yearold Marcel Dockery with endangerment claiming he started the fire by setting a mattress on fire. His lawyers say he was coerced into the confession. Officer guerreros family has come to the court since the proceedings began last week. Back to you. The fight over an elevator has led to the death of a bronx man. A small homemade memorial stands outside the bronx building for 74yearold felix rodriguez. He was discovered yesterday morning in the elevator. He later died at the hospital. The two men were involved in an argument argument over use of the elevator. Parts of kansas was hit with large hail yesterday night along interstate i35. Some drivers took refuge underneath an overpass to wait this out. One mobile home was destroyed by the National Weather service is surveying that area later today. Coming up on 5 04, weather and traffic on the 4s. Always a big deal when y see so much hail, it makes everybody this is severe storm omason. Kind of typical for march, april, may, especially out in the midwest. Some of that system will impact our weather later tonight and tomorrow. Not today. We have a nice mild morning out there. 40s and 50s. We should see a mixed sky of sun and clouds for a few hours. Morees sun south, more clouds from the city north. In terms of temperatures not bad. 60s to around 70. Coastal areas you will be cooler. Inland spots could get to the low 70s. It gets unseat belt ttled overnight. A gray start to our monday. Temperatures in the low 50s to the mid 60s by noontime. Upper 60s by 3 00. Lets find out about the commute early on. That accident at the George Washington bridge, thats been cleared already. So roads are free and clear. Buses we do have two detours, the b 14 and the m66. Commuter lines and subways looking good. No reported delays or service changes. You do need to move your car today. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. More weather and traffic on the 4s. New fallout from an investigation of Campaign Fundraising at city hall. Two Community Activists are calling for mayor bill deblasio to step down. If you say we have a city at we are united, we are not. This city right now is torn apart. T if you feel and love new york city the way you say you do, would do right by new york city by stepping back. A board of elections memo obietained by the daily news accuses the Deblasio Administration of side stepping Campaign Fundraising laws to help democrats win the state senate. Mayor deblasio maintains his campaign followed the letter of the law. A with a tragic loss. A young boy hit and killed when he darted ut into the street. 4yearold Avery Lebranch was playing in front of his home in paterson yesterday afternoon. His family said he suddenly ran into the road and thats when he was hit by a passing car and killed. He was energetic. He liked spiderman. He enjoyed having fun, playing. He enjoyed playing sports. He ust celebrated his fourth birthday. Police say the driver was a 69yearold woman heading home from church. She stayed on the scene and has not been charged. A bronx mother will be sentenced for killing her Young Children four years ago. 32yearold Lisette Bamenga was found guilty in a nonjury trial. Prosecutors say he poisoned her son and daughter and drowned them in a bathtub before turning onne the gas. Flags flying at half staff in one new jersey township to celebrate one groundbreaking mayor. Lizette parker was the first africanamerican woman to become mayor in bergen county. Now teaneck is flying flags at half staff in her memory. She was 44 years old. A local hospital said parker was battling respiratory issues. Suffolk county plans to endorse a proposal to impose a fee to improve water in the district. Under the plan, officials expect a typical family of four to pay an extra 73 a year. New this morning, president obama should speak in any minute about the commitment to more troops to syria. Right now hes with german chancellor Angela Merkel at a trade show in hanover, germany. Thats where the president is expected to say that 250 special ops forces will be sent to help battle isis in syria the americas nato allies. Happening today, the brussels metro station attacked bay terrorist last month has just reopened. Commuters are moving through maalbeek station. Trtins are on a reduced schedule. Inside authorities have set up a wall of remembrance where payossengers can leave messages of hope. Today marks the first time the citys entire metro system has been up and running since a suicide bomber killed 16 people as part of coordinated attacks on belgiums capital. The c t of gas is climbing steadily. The National Average for a gallon of regular unleaded is 2. Th18. Its an 8 cent increase in the past two weeks and going back a biilt further since february its gone up 41 cents. The cheapest gas around here is in new jersey where the average is pushing 2, 1. 99. In connecticut, it is above the National Average at 2. 26. And in new york even highea at 2. 29. If you find yourself youre not alone. The vacation sites orbitz says 75 of people are traveling this summer. The top three locations are chicago, las vegas and los angeles. Orbitz says the cost of flying is down but any saving also likely go to paying for your room. Hotel rates are up 17 from last year. Las vegas in the summer, thats brave. A little hot, maybe . A little hot. Straight ahead, why everybody is talking about beyonces latest surprise for her fans. I know. My gosha and what some say shes revealing about her marriage. And changing the game. The new strategy on the president ial trail to beat donald trump. And of course weather and traffic coming up. Its 5 12. Here are four things to know this morning. Fire crews are checking for hot spots where a five alarm fire Cypress Hills, brooklyn. It burned parts of other buildings last night. As many as nine families are homeless. President ial candidates ted cruz and john kasich are teaming up to deny frontrunner donald trump. Well have a live report on that in just a few minutes. Cvs stores are recalling cases of tea due to a potential salmonella contamination. The brand is gold emblem organic spiced herbal tea. This is the first monday morning commute with no cash tolls on the tappan zee bridge. Drivers with ezpass will be billed as usual. The ose without will get a bill in the mail. The Thruway Authority made the switch this weekend to cashless tolls. 5 13, dealing with temperatures that are manageable. Talking about temperatures in the upper 40s and low 50s. A lot of cloud cover out there. The day will feature clouds but it ill be a dry day. No umbrellas needed today. Tonight showers and theyll be with us on and off through the day ilmorrow. A lot of ups and downs in the weather picture this week. Forecasting a high today of 69. That is above normal. More typical for the High Temperature of may 8th. So were closer to where we should be for this time of year. Normal high 165. Its another mild day. In terms of rainfall, still try. Thats been the trend since the beginning of march. About 5 1 2 inche below normal. Put a little bit of a depth in that with potentially getting up to an inch or so of rain with the next system. Temperature change in the last 24 hours, a lot of folks in the yellow and orange milder. The further north and west you go, its more significantly milder the city at about three degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. With cloud cover today, hardpressed to get into the 70s. We get close in the city. Inland spots may see the low 70s. 53 in chelsea. 51 in staten island. 40s from westhampton to money tauk. Poughkeepsie a bit on the mild side, 51 degrees. That frontal boundary to the north of us. A couple of light showers could skim the northern suburbs, more significant line of showers out west with that front. All of that activity has to work eastward over the next couple of days. For us, just dealing with the clouds from that system thats trying to flop down from the north. I think what will happen today, well see plenty of clouds around. Central and southern new jersey gets into more sun and probably into the 70s. Upper 60s in the city. Southfacing shorelines, east end, cooler in the lower 60s. Rain arrives overnight in showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures in the mid 50s. Tomorrow will be the umbrella day. Not all of the time. A couple rounds of showers and thunderstorms peppering the area. Temperatures back into the upper 60s. Cooling it down a bit for a couple days. Mets back home. 63 against the reds. Tonight should be the maybe a shower risk late if the game goes late. I think they get this one in without problems. Sevenday forecast, upper 60s, today is the dry day. Showers and storms overnight tonight. Back to dry tomorrow. Increasing clouds on wednesday, 66. Temperatures over the weekend, seasonable, upper to mid 60s. How is the commute . Things moving along nicely its still early, lets hope it stays this way. A live look at the van wyck expressway, things looking just fine by the k gardens interchange. You have road work before this area but not causing a delay just yet. Heading over to the gowanus, things moving along just fine up thdirough Industry City to the lower east river crossings. A nice ride here. Heading over to connecticut, the connecticut turnpike out in norwalk. Enjoy your ride while you can. Hopefully monday morning will be an easy commute. I know a lot of people are off from school this week. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect today. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Lets talk politics. New on the campaign trail, ted cruz and john kasich officially now teaming up to beat donald trump and as you might imagine trump has a bit to say about that. Tracie potts has been following reaction from overnight and is live from washington. Hi. Yeah. This is an interesting develop. Weve been watching ted cruz and john kasich announcing theyre teaming up, getting out of each others way in certain states to slow down trump. Horrible act of desperation donald trump called it overnight. His two rivals, ted cruz and john kasich coordinating to prevent trump from reaching the 1237 delegates he needs to win. Its a rigged system. Reporter in this new alliance cruz agrees to steer hoping john kasich can beat trump there. And just hours after this a vote for cruz or trump is a vote for Hillary Clinton. Reporter kasich cancels two events in indiana agreeing to concede the Hoosier State allowing cruz to take on trump there oneonone. How about we do a debate in the next ten days here in the state of indiana. I think indiana deserves a debate. Reporter late last night the Never Trump Movement announced theyre on board. But indiana already started voting. And all indications are turnout is high. Top republican donor charles koch says hes not happy with either choice. Is it possible another clinton could be better than another republican . Its possible. Reporter the Clinton Campaign tweets not interested to koch. She andrs are er niore sanders are in indiana clinton has a lim lead and shes headed there tomorrow. Happening today, four North Carolina lawmakers are expected to file a bill that would repeal the controversial house bill 2. Rallies for and against the law ar,e planned for today. House bill 2 requires transgender people to use the restroom equivalent to the gender on their birth certificate. Supporter also gather outside the state Capital Building in rally later today and there will be a sitin. Netflix leaving the downloading oom open. Right now users can only stream shows which uses a ton of data if youre not connected to wifi. Other competitors like amazon and youtube allows subscribers to download some of their shows. The companys ceo said it is something we should keep an open mind about. You say it like somebody who is aware of the data it takes up. Ding, ding, ding. For sure. Officials put an end to a mans yage across the ocean in a bubble. ll talk about how he may have broken the law. And catastrophe averted. The quick action by this helicopter pilot when he saw a car on the train tracks below him. Youre watching today in new york. Since 1961, Pearle Vision has been providing expert eye care. Eyes even easier. Right now, buy one pair of glasses, and get another pair free. This is genuine eye care in your neighborhood. This is Pearle Vision. T today s the day oh look creepy gloves for my feet. See when i was a kid there was a handle. And a face. This is nice. And does it come in a california king . Getting roid rage. Hemorrhoid. These are the worst, right . I m gonna buy them. Boom. I ll take them. Impulse buy. The blue cash everyday card with no annual fee. S all happening. Cash back on purchases. Here we go welcome back. 52 degrees out. Its monday morning. Itds 5 22. Well, beyonce did it again. Anitother surprise release. This time much, much more than just a song. On saturday night she debuted a new album called lemonade. In an hourlong presentation on hbo. I was glued. It was more like a movie. A real visual album it was emional. It appeared highly personal. The hbo special told what appears to the story of her marriage and relationship too husband jayz, talking about extramarital affairs. Jayz appears in the special as well in the video. The couple squashing all the rumors by making what seems like just about everything public. She never talks about her personal life. She always made it a point to say i dont talk about my personal life. This seemed so autobiographical from the beginning. You werent sure. Then hes in the movie. Kissing her feet pretty much. Right. It goes through her anger of being cheated on, and then forgiveness. It was really incredible. Very powerful. Very lighthearted movie. We were all sitting there, she threw her wedding ring. She took the baseball bat in the beginning to the car. That was in the beginning. You believe this is all true or were not sure . The twitter backlash is suggesting theres a specific target. Yeah. Rachel roy, the designer, put a post up on instagram, a comment that beyonce makes becky with the good hair. Good hair dont care. And beyonce fans went you know how that goes. Exactly. You missed it. You missed it. They lead such quiet lives. Amazing. Ou dont want the beehive on you, thats all i have to say about that. We have our weather picture this morning, thats quiet, nothing buzzing around out there. We will see a few breaks of sun is afternoon. Upper 60s to near. No rain during the day today. Tonight clouding over. Showers moving in mainly after midnight tonight. Mid 50s. Tomorrow unsettled and a couple changes this week. If you dont like the weather today, it will change to Something Else you might not liotke. Is it still smooth out there . Everything is moving along nicely. Seeing no issues on the trains, that includes major commuter lines and subways. A live look at the long island expressway out by exit 40, smooth sailing here. Less cars on the roads, i think because school is out for spring recess. Less people out there. Nice for the commute. All right. 5 25. A florida mans dream trip, you remember this . Just ran into a nightmare. He wanted to run run across the worlds okays in that giant to make the journey he stocked up with a life jacket, water, gps and even shark repellant. Unfortunately he failed to check with the ghost guard and they have ordered him to stop. Quick thinking may have prevented a tragedy in california. A suspected drunk drivers car stalled on some train tracks as a Freight Train approached. The crew of a Police Helicopter flew low enough for the train nductor to see and use their spotlight to signal him to stop the train. The conductor hit the brake. The train, by the way, stopped about 40 feet from that car. Y my goodness. In the right place at the right time. 5 26. How an argument over using an elevator may have fuelled a deadly attack in the bronx. And an employee is shot outside the deli where he works in yonkers. What police say led or may have led to the violence. And im Katherine Creag live in brooklyn, the scene of a devastating fire. Well tell you what fire investigators are focusing on and where the fire may have start. If youre heading out the door, take us with you. Download the news 4 app on your right now dozens are overnight to make sure a fire d