Mta says its going to cost 66 million more just so it can open up on time. I will publicly question that coming up in just a moment. Robert moses says he noticed that you say hospital. You soften t on hospital. Running gag this morning at my expense. It is a compliment even though Bernie Sanders said that we should why are we making fun of you . I said you sound like Peter Jennings jack gibson writes juliet huddy is so annoying. Hashtag snarky witch. That might be a bit extreme people. Jack your smile is cheesy. Wow. If hes going to insult me, ill insult him right back. Its actually whatever. Its a compliment. You sound like Peter Jennings and i told you from that day nothing to be ashamed of. Its not all right. Lets talk about the wintry mix juliet doesnt like that term either. I dont know it has a little bit of everything. Sleet, snow in it. Its a wintry mix thats coming up for u here at least in purple shaded counties. Thats where you e see minor accumulation but not only sleet but minor accumulation making for slick conditions. Mainly from 4 00 this amp until about 9 00 in the morning. But a coating of ice and snow up to an inch or so shouldnt be much more than that. Maybes in spots up to two inches anyhow not a big deal. Ray door and satellite i noticed parts of West Virginia parts of pennsylvania, that is trying to change over to that wintry mix already. Most of the rain down to the south now with cold air it is going to mix on you. 27 degrees in Williams Port pa. But the colder air is here. But its mainly willing tholed own for northern tear of the tristate region but the city, in the trough areas thats where it is going to be more rain than negative. But this wasnt strongest area of low pressure thats going to pull by and dont expect a lot of it regardless rain or wintry mix or snow whatever had the case is. It wont accumulate to a whole lot. This is more potent into texas to bring us a good amount of rain tomorrow. But in the city changes over to rain and high temp up to about 39 degrees tomorrow. Its rain through the day for just about everyone. It start off to the north as a wasnt remix still but changing to raism because warm earl temps coming in. 53 on thursday and then done with that precip. Okay now lets get you back to ines to check out where backups are. Flashing lights for a while. Back to you ines. In new jersey things are fine 278 and 80, good on l. I. E. And northern state. Cam whereas the commute this morning on gowanus heading to bqe here by the prospect traffic slowing down because theres a stall by atlantic avenue. And then bqe in queens that camera shot by the kosciuszko o bridge traffic moving slow eastbound heading towards l. I. E. Two lanes blocked with an accidenting on westbound side youre fine. Ben and juliet. Thank you very much. All right newly released data confirm what is many new yorkers feared more and her more dangerous to ride our subways. Major felonies skyrocketed compared to same time a year ago. Teresa priolo at union square for us with more details. Good morning. Hey, ben and juliet good everyone. Do you remember weeks, months ago theres a lot of talk about the subway slashing, the stabbing and fear that fear that people werent safe. Now theyre saying in some cases your perceived notion that crime might be on the rise is, in fact, reality. Im very worried. One of the slashings happened near my work stop. Im there all of the time so like i have to be concerned about everyone around me. If youre one of the many new yorkers fearful of get slashed or stabbed aboveground or below. The nypd says the number ofs do show a concerning up tick. According to the nypd crime data theres a 36 up tick in major felony courtroom reported underground this past january compared to january, 2015. Aboveground the data shows slashings and stabbings up 2. 20 over last year city wide. Most recent occurring this weekend. Surveillance video showing you this scene on Holland Avenue in the bronx. With the nypd says two men got out of a car and stabbed a 26yearold woman in the stomach and then theres this. Another slashing jerome avenue at a food truck where a customer wases slashed in the face. Police we have are targeting any area where we have a problem. Thats the bottom line this is what com stat is all about. When we see an area of concern theres or more police and focus on it. Tompleghts combat the spike in crime adding 2,000 beat cops and today it is rolling out come stat 2. 0 a data tool fable to all b cops to show where crimes are occurring and where their resources are need. This kind of information is currently only available on a weekly basis. Now it will be juptd in real time and be instaptly accessible. And one other thing to think about subway system voted to create a lift of chronic subway offend terse that commit sex crimes as well as thieves. These people are caught and case its way through our court system, they at least will be banned from using our subway system. One more thing ben and juliet, today at that 1 00 come stat announcement you better belief theyll be getting questions about their change in tune overt Crime Statistics so certainly well bring you the latest on that. Latest from union square. Sending things back to both of you. Teresa thank you very much. Right now, firefighters are working on Apartment Building fire in the bronx and there are several injuries. Broke out around 2 00 this morning on the top floor of this building. Thats on Andrews Avenue in the Morris Heights neighborhood. Two people were hurt, seriously. Oughts three have minor injuries. One firefighter also has minor the fire is now under control but its unclear as to how it started so thats under investigation. Donald trump seeing his lead widen when republicans in nevada hold their caucuses today. Robert moses is going to tell us. Good morning once again. Rntion good morning to you drump widely expected to win and win pretty easily tonight in nevada. Ted kriewgz and marco rubio are trying to establish themselves as viable alternatives to trump. They better do it quickly because the donald is steam rolling his way to this nomination. Its superquick, very easy just check the box next to donald j. Trump and youre tone. Trump encourages nevada caucus goers to support her dad. We need you nevada. Get out and caucus for my father and lets make America Great again. Widely expected to win tonight. Last night he hild a rally in las vegas a disruptive protesters had to be escorted out which got trump fired up. You know what they used to do with guys like that in a place like this, they would be carried punch him in the face. On a the eve of the caucus after he fired his communication director rick tyler for spreading a false story about mary koa rubio. Tyler tweeted a video of rubio speaking with a starve in a hotel lobby. Claiming that rubio said there were not many anxiouses in the bible when rubio said it had all of the answers. Even if it was true our campaign shouldnt have sent it. Tyler admits he posted it. Shouldnt have done it. I apologize to marco rubio. Trchg they pounceding video is latest in a string of dirty tricks. Disturbing pattern of stuff that campaign flat out just lying. Trump tweeted suggest marco rubio mocked bible and forced to fire his communications director. After tonight next key date to watch is saturday when in thes in South Carolina hold their primary and then comes super tuesday a week from today when had 12 states hold primaries. By the way, that could be when john kasich and ben carson have to drop out. Ben and juliet theres a new quinnipiac poll released at the 6 a. M. That shows donald trump would beat Ohio Governor john kasich in ohio 31 to 26 so the thought was that kasich would be able to win his home state. But this poll shows he cant do that even against trump thats why we say that he may not even make it to ohio on march had 15th. Well see you never know what happens. Shows what a strangle hold he has when hes beating these guys in their home turf. Ace in the whole, that come accomplished. So classy i love her. A wonderful girl. Apparently decent friends with Chelsea Clinton a post article about that couple of weeks ago. I can see that. She speaks perfectly much like you. Excellent. Rocket. Robert speaking of polls. Other political News New York reverse not ready for a possible president ial run by former mayor bloomberg. Favored a run according to the time warner poll. Hillary clinton beats Bernie Sanders, by 48 to 38 . 827 new york City Residents were sampled in that poll. Much more still to come here this morning. We have a wintry mix coming in to the area. Sleet, rain, snow. Call it a diction is not as clear. poor diction compared to ben. Wintry mix. Whatever. A little bit of it all coming our way. Starting off with snow and mix with sleet, rain, a little bit eve everything is rolling through parts of the tristate this smoasly rain. Anyhow your startoff temp is dry. 37 degrees with a cloudy sky out at central park. But showers will be developing any time after lunch and beyond. Yeah, gets risky but if you want to keep track of whats going on, a live interactive radar on the fox 5 weather app and Google Play Store. Doesnt cost you a thing and tell you exactly whats going on in your neighborhood. What is worse . Well be right back. The new caramel macchiato from dunkin donuts. 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A Seaworld Rescue Team saved a young humpback whale tangled in a fishing line off the Southern Coast it shall coast of southern california. Rescue teams had to use inflatable motor boat to look what they found it sunday a fishing line ran through the mouth and around its tail. Fluke. It said it was hog tied. It took two hours for them to cut the line in several places and eventually went away in freedom. A noise in the corner there. But theyre getting ready for a performance. Mike woods is here, 6 16, and it is a wintry mix. On the horizon sleet, snow, rain. A little bit of everything. What happened to just calling it snow, sleet, rain. It is it all together. A little bit shorter. Easier except for those who cant for whatever reason grasp that. Oh, snap. [laughter] you started it. Im going to finish it. Anyhow we have a wintry mix coming this way, rain, sleet, depends on whether it matters. Because in the city you get some of that but it is melting on contact so its not that bigs of a deal but up to the north and webcast it starts to stick a little bit. Gets minor accumulation and makes for slick spots anyhow a coat of sleet and snow with that mix changing over to all rain by tomorrow morning thats when we start to catch a break and we dont have slick spots going through the day tomorrow which well have rain. Somewhat heavy at times. Temps as it stands right now. 47 in central park. 37 in bridgeport and 28 in poughkeepsie. Only a few spots to the north and west are cold enough to e keep it as that wintery mix or snow in the area for the time being. But more warm air pulled in for now colder air is pulled up but more of the warm air pulled in with not the first but second area of low pressure coming through. Clouds are here and showers to the south and theyll continue to close in in the tristate. Rain but changing over to the wintry mix as it heads into pennsylvania. Not will helicopter to happen into our neck of the woods. So our temp up to 39 in the city. It starts off as a wintery mix in the city but it does up to the northwest. Changes to rain in the evening and rain through the day tomorrow and into thushz. That rain will be somewhat e heavy at times. Breezy but look how warm they are low it is lower 50s for couple of days and then upper 30s for you into the weekend. All right now lets bring in ines rosales and see what we have going on trying to roads and rails yep theres backups. Whats up . Problems mike ive got the wrong remote. Right now your commute this morning not bad. Rockland west chest per good crossing Tappan Zee Bridge fine traveling in new jersey. We have a problem on route 80 and teaneck. Look at hudson street local lanes are a mess this morning. Exit 67 after hudson street blocking one lane causing this slowdown in local lanes so express lane use that. Westbound side fine, and bqe working on an accident on kosk o koa kosciuszko bridge causing this slowdown. Traffic to williamsburg bridge westbound no problems. Ben and juliet. A tip led to capture of a man raping a woman on staten island. Maurice scott walked into an us a building on forest avenue on friday raped a 44 yeertd woman, robbed her of her cell phone and cash. Charmings are now pepping. University medical center. Students are accused of part. Fake baby bumps and held 40 ounce beers. The theme of the reported party perpetuated racial stereotypes that has no place in our community. Many gusted by the party they think it is a big misunderstanding. If you look at kevin in 2006 chain. Justin bieber dress like that for so long while out seasoning baby, baby on oh its just the style. Fairfield reads in part University Administration is working with students in diversity officers to investigate the incident. Because the investigation is still in the preliminary stages, with its unclear what disciplinary actions students who attended the party will face. That was adam levines back. Not connected to the fair Field University party. This started my day off so bad. I just want to watch this. A teenager attacked a food deliver rei man in harlem caught on camera. Youve got to listen to the adult cheer this dumb kid on. This video posted to youtube on sunday night but unclear when the incident took place. You can see this teenager push ing this poor guy who is trying to deliver food to wagner houses. Adults apparently are urging this teen to punch and rob worker. But hes carrying on, laughing, and rips a kid. Kicks him with food but even has it. But god knows hes cheering this one kid on what had they would have cone. Police say wasnt a 911 call so i guess but i hard to believe. The way things were after 911 where we came together as a country, not to mention the city. Lets get back. Lets get back to those moment where is we actually care about each other. Yes, please Second Avenue subway will cost us 66 million so it can open on time. Thats what the mta says goal to get the first section open by the end of this year with new stations at sending avenue and if 86 and 72nd street built by separate contractors. Line will then join existing lexington avenue station, the money is coming from the agencys contingency plan for the promote but that would lead the fund with 50 million for any unforeseen issues that pop up. I dont understand why contractors here are not penalized for not finishing their work on time. Heres the deadline if you dont why are we paying them to work faster . A lot of times when you have a contractor you want to go with the guy who will give you the best deal but the company that will give you most efficiency as well. All right. I dont like it. Still to come a tasty way to boost your brain power. I see chocolate. I leak this idea. 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