cefaan kim is live with details. >> reporter: this was a dragon boat racing team in the east river by the whitestone bridge. take a look at this river, the water is extremely choppy on a very windy day out here. now, there are competitive -- they are a competitive rowing team, 19 in them all and out here for a run this afternoon when just before 2:00 that boat suddenly capsized here by the college point yacht club. they were all wearing life jackets and they say they were only about 50 yards out from shore and that they probably could have swam back to land if they had to but they decided to stick together out there for safety reasons and that ended up being a smart decision because fdny rescue teams them out. >> everyone kept their cool and i think that's what kept us together, everyone keeping their cool, nobody panicked. >> was the water rough? >> a little rough. it wasn't that cold but cold enough that we were in there long enough that it was starting to get cold. >> big boats passing by and that wake, when it was coming

towards us as we were paddling and that was on the right side, i could see it, it started coming in to the boat. >> reporter: those dragon boat racers were out there for about two hours, launched by citi field, the whitestone bridge was the halfway point and they had just turned around to make their way back and one more thing. moments before their boat capsized, one of those teammates had proposed to his girlfriend. the boat sits at the bottom of the river, he saved that ring. spoiler alert, she said yes and, of course, now there is a happy ending here in more ways than one. we will tell you more about that proposal coming up at 6:00. in college point, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> what a story they have to tell. thanks, sa non -- cefaan. pope francis made his first big public appearance in cuba today. hundreds of thousands of people filled havana's revolution plaza where the pope celebrated mass.

-- fidel castro at the former cuban leader's home where the two shook hands and exchanged gifts during their half hour meeting. his message a simple one to both the faithful and the hopeful. >> jesus always comes with the logic of love. >> reporter: pope francis delivered mass and prayed with tens of thousands of cubans in havana this morning. he arrived at revolution plaza in his protective pope mobile stopping to greet the men, women and children who came in him. >> take care of the fragile ones and our families in our society and our people. >> reporter: in attendance at the mass, cuban president raul castro who recently said this pope has inspired him to consider joining the catholic church. >> thank you to, mr. president,

work of recognition reconciliation. >> reporter: the pontiff was a key player in the negotiations that led to the restoration of diplomatic ties between the u.s. and cuba. it's an example of the political influence wielded by this global religious leader. >> who will want to be great will serve the others, not to serve himself from the others. >> reporter: as the pope passed by the crowd, three people tried to seize the moment. they approached him with leaflets, threw them toward the pope and were instantly pounced on by security guards. here in our area, cuban americans reacted to the papal mass in their home land and the fact that pope francis met with foo delicacy throw -- fidel castro. >> i feel good the pope was in cuba and tried to do something good for the relationship between obama and government of cuba. i think that would be best for everybody. >> coming up at 6:00 here on

eyewitness news, we will have more details about the pope's meeting with fidel castro. back here in new york anticipation is growing ahead of the papal visit. today cardinal timothy dolan spoke about the pope, his message and what new yorkers can expect. eyewitness news reporter kemberly richardson is live at st. patrick's cathedral with that part of our coverage. kemberly. >> reporter: during morning mass here, timothy dolan reminded the extremely large crowds of how important the pope's visit is, after touching down at jfk, this is the first stop for pope francis arriving here at the cathedral at 7:00 thursday where he will lead evening prayer. now, during -- the archbishop of new york will be by the pope's side. this morning cardinal dolan spoke about the papal visit saying he fully expects the pope to talk about jesus and reaching out to the poor but admits he does it in such a fresh, simple, sincere way that people really pay attention.

now, thursday evening services by -- service is by invitation, 2400 people including priests, deacons and those who work closely with the church, also here governor cuomo and mayor de blasio. extraordinary unprecedented security measures have been put in place all over the city. it's something cardinal dolan spoke about today. >> from the beginning, i have been inspired by the dedication of the secret service and the new york city police department. >> wow, i mean they say we are at your service. we a sacred responsibility to protect this man as we do everybody in the city and we want to do it with extraordinary care but we also want to be sensitive to his desire to be as visible to as many people to allow as many people as possible to see him and it's going to work out okay. >> reporter: now, coming up on eyewitness news at 6:00, inside new york city's joint operation center with police commissioner bill bratton. he admits giving the -- given the papal visit, the u.n. general assembly and president

obama all happening here at the same time, it's the biggest security challenge ever for himself and for new york city, but he insists they are ready. we will have much more on this story coming up in the next hour. for now we are live on the east side, kemberly richardson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> kemberly, thank you. and remember, eyewitness news is your go-to source for everything on the pope's visit on air and online from his schedule to road closures and mass transit changes, it is all on our website, abc7ny.com/pope. coming up in our next half hour, we will look at exactly where the pope will be visiting here in the united states. breaking news in alabama, a suspect is charged with attempted murder after authorities say he shot a woman, an infant and a pastor inside a church. police arrested james mentor after a shooting at the oasis church in east selma today. the shooting followed a domestic dispute between mentor

and the woman and that race was not a factor. mentor is being held without bond at the dallas county jail. police caught a suspect in a hit-and-run in the bronx that may have been intentional. police arrested josue goggle overnight. they say he and a 26-year-old man got into a fight. investigators say goingo then ran -- gogo then ran the man over as he crossed union avenue yesterday. the victim was in critical condition at last check. and just a block away from that crash, police say the driver of the suv was distracted by the scene and hit a pregnant woman as she crossed the street. her enraged husband rushed the vehicle. police stepped in, wound up cuffing him. no word about whether he was charged. the woman went to the hospital with leg injuries. from the bronx to new jersey, a shooting outside of a newark laundromat turned deadly. the victim now identified as asawn chapman was shot and killed last night. the laundromat was open at the

time but no one else was hurt. police continue to search for that gunman. politics now, and the race for president and the republican candidates forced to answer questions about muslims in america. front runner donald trump made the rounds on the political talk shows. he spoke about why he did not correct a supporter who said the president was muslim and muslim citizens. >> it was very interesting because i got in hot water over not saying anything. the first time it's ever happened to me. there seems to be to a certain extent and this is not all, most are fabulous and i say that number 1., most are fabulous and i have friends that are muslims and, by the way, they say there is a problem with certain militants. >> trump also said he is surprised by polls that show carly fiorina gaining substantial ground since the republican debate last week. another candidate stirred up his own controversy about muslims. ben carson was questioned about islam and how it relates to the u.s. government. he was asked whether he

believes the religion is consistent with the constitution. >> no, i don't. i do not. i would not advocate that we put a muslim in charge of this nation. i absolutely would not agree with that. >> carson was also asked about whether he feels a muslim should be in congress. he says like anyone else, it would depend on the candidate's policies. hillary clinton says she will roll out a plan to control the cost of prescription drugs later this week. clinton says that the move will improve upon the president's healthcare law which she says is working well. we turn now to the migrant crisis overseas. use industry is work -- austria is working on settling thousands of new refugees, around 7000 people were expected to arrive from hungary. some will remain at a border town. hundreds of others are being sent to the city of saltzberg. secretary of state john kerry announced today the u.s. will

and 100,000 in 2017. greece's prime minister will stay in power. based on preliminary voting results from early in the national election there, the head of the conservative new democracy party conceded to the nation's prime minister and his left wing party. this was the third national election this year. greeks have been deciding about a massive bailout worth billions of dollars and which political party they want to lead the nation through austerity measures resulting from rescue loans. back here at home it is another big night of baseball in new york. the mets and yankees will play a rubber game and that will determine who is king of new york. with playoff implications on the line. eyewitness news sports anchor laura behnke is in the newsroom with the details. >> reporter: one mets win, one yankees win, all setting the stage for one big night in queens tonight. both new york baseball teams are eyeing the playoffs so this season the subway series is

more important than it's been in years. welcome back rivalry baseball with -- on friday it was the mets who used three home runs to power their way to a 5-1 victory over the yankees. luke cuss dude -- lucas -- runs as rookie pitcher steven matts improved to a perfect 4- 0, outpitching tanaka. >> that's when they come through and tonight our guys, again, got big hits. tonight. we had some chances early on and we come up with one, and that was it but we need to win games and we need to focus on ourselves, take care of business. >> reporter: but it was the yanks who certainly took care of business in game 2 with a 5- 0 shutout win yesterday. like the mets on friday, the yankees scored all five of their runs on home runs, a three run shot from carlos beltran in the 1st inning and then a two run bomb from brian mccann in the sixth. >> the results don't necessarily dictate.

i think it was those two mistakes right there and against a lineup like that, they are going to make me pay for it. >> every game is important for us. yesterday we approached with the meant of being able to go out and score a lot of runs and hopefully win a game. didn't happen yesterday. >> reporter: tonight it will be matt harvey making what could be his final start of the regular season facing yankees veteran cc sabbath ya -- sabathia. we will have much more on the subway series coming in sports along with highlights from the giants home opener. see you then. >> thank you. a night of deadly violence throughout new york city. coming up on eyewitness news, shootings, vicious stabbings and an all-out search for the suspects. also ahead, a terrified teen home alone when robbers break in. when she did to alert police without tipping off the

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it was a terrifying home invasion in utah. a teenager sick in bed when burglars came calling. the brave teen now speaking out about what she did next. worried they might hear her call, 911, she texted her mom for help who then notified the cops. abc's neal karlinsky has more. >> reporter: two suspects behind bars after a dramatic chase through the streets of sandy, utah. police pursuing a pair of

investigators say might -- who beliefs say might not have been caught except for a cool headed teenager. >> i heard someone knock at the door. >> reporter: it began inside this utah home. 15-year-old trinity home sick from school alone when she hears the terrifying sound of someone breaking in, realizing it's too late to run, she puts her phone on silent and sends a text message to her mother to call 911. >> i knew someone was trying to get in, so i started texting my mom. >> my daughter is home sick today and she just sent me a bunch of texts saying, mom, someone is in the house. i can hear them. they are right here. i can't talk on the phone. i'm freaking out. please send someone. >> reporter: trinity says she was afraid if she made any noise at all, even just a whisper, the men might hear and find her. >> they were so close to my room that i didn't want them to hear me. >> reporter: the 911 operator tells the mother to let police handle it, but she rushes home anyway, telling the dispatcher what she sees. >> opening the garage, he's opening the garage.

someone is opening the garage. he's backing into my garage. >> reporter: when police arrived, the suspects make a run for it. a dramatic chase begins when the suspects' car runs a red light and crashes into two other cars at an intersection. and the chase continues as the suspects run out of the car, fleeing from the scene and are eventually caught by police. neal karlinsky, abc news, los angeles. a dramatic scene in texas where four people were rescued from a burning boat. some friends were fishing off the coast of galveston when they noticed another boat engulfed in flames. they brought their boat close to the burning boat, then plucked a mother and child out of the water. another group of good samaritans pulled the father and another person out of the water. eventually the coast guard took everyone to safety. no one was hurt. >> good thing. it is time now for the accuweather forecast. meteorologist jeff smith joining us, a beautiful sunday,

you couldn't ask for a better day. >> three. >> you know where i want to be, citi field tonight for the subway series. low 70s for first pitch at 8:08 p.m. and laura will have much more on that coming up. we head outside right now, not a cloud in the sky looking off to the south toward the empire state building, you see clearly down toward one world trade center and down past there into lower parts of new york harbor. temperatures 76, humidity way down there at 33%, a front moved through last night and the wind shifted from a southwesterly direction yesterday, which was pumping in a little bit more humidity, to more of a northerly and northeasterly direction today, 10 gusting up to 20 miles per hour. it is breezy out there, but that's also ushered in a much drier air mass, the high on the day getting up to 79 after a morning low of 70. temperatures a full 5 degrees above average still even though it had a little butt of a -- bit of a fall feel with the lower humidity.

got down to 44 back in 1993. the sun going down at 6:57. speaking of some of these wind gusts out there, coming in at about 25 miles per hour this past hour, newark airport, 24 miles per hour at both jfk and also at white plains, coming in from the northerly direction, temperatures mainly in the middle and upper 70s around the five boroughs of new york city but fallen down to 64 in monticello, 74 at sussex, to upper 70s belmar down to toms river, pair of sevens on the island at both islip and montauk. the front moving offshore, you see the line of clouds from that continuing to move off to the south and east. one thing that looks like it's initially moving off to the east into the open waters of the atlantic is this area of low pressure but during the next couple of days might try to back into the coast and that's why i think by tuesday there might be a little bit more in the way of cloud cover around here. might end up being an overcast day, as a matter of fact. lows tonight in the meantime, getting down into the

new york city, even 40s not too far north and west, 47 in morristown, even low 40s places like suck san jose and -- sussex and monticello. tomorrow morning will be the coldest morning of the season so far. highs tomorrow only getting up to about 73 or so in the park. we will call it a mix of clouds and sun, more clouds coming in late in the day, the high getting up to 73, and then again as that area of low pressure tries to back in toward the coast, that makes for a mostly cloudy day on tuesday, highs in the mid-70s. accuweather forecast for tonight, we are mainly clear, down to about 58, it's intervals of clouds and sun tomorrow, 73, pretty close to the norm for this time of the year, mostly cloudy tomorrow night, we are down to 60, again, mainly cloudy on tuesday, 75 and then the first day of fall on wednesday, ironically gets even warmer. we are up to 80 both wednesday and thursday, clouds and sun for the pope on friday. should be really nice out there. 77. and then a chilly air mass comes in next week, only getting into the upper 60s by next saturday. >> looks good, though. >> pretty nice forecast, though.

we will take it. >> thank you, jeff. laura, very busy on a football sunday in the newsroom with a look at what's ahead in sports. >> heart breaking for the giants for the season opener

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turned from exciting to disastrous in a matter of minutes for the giants as they allowed the rival cowboys to hand them a heart breaking last second loss last week. that, though, was then. the chance for redemption just one week away. today we had big blue hosting the falcons. it was the visitors, though, who made the first move out of metlife. punching it in from 1 yard out. that would make it 7-0 atlanta. beckham, jr. a big reason why. 67 yards for the score. six receptions for 139 yards in the first half alone. after the break new york extending its lead, eli manning finding larry danell 10 yards. here come the falcons, after they cut the lead to three, de'von -- d'avonte freeman gets it to the goal.

going to do it, 24-20, the giants with another heart breaking loss. rex ryan may have switched teams in the afc east bust his goal remains -- but his goal remains the same, to unseat the patriots as champs. new england visited buffalo. the bills would strike first. tom brady found an answer. 8 yards, that tied the game. brady no troubles through the air today. tossing three touchdowns including this one to rob gronkowski, brady had 466 passing yards. the bills made it interesting with 19 points in the fourth, but 40-32 the patriots win a wild one. also this afternoon the browns and titans, johnny manziel making the start after he came in last week's game against the jets and he had another big play, hit benjamin for the 60-yard touchdown. benjamin had himself a pretty nice guy-- nice game.

28-14, cleveland gets its first win. in your early games today the cardinals topped the bears 48-23 and the bucs pull out the biggest upset of week 2 so far, orleans. the bengals hold on against the charges at -- chargers at home. the redskins scoring the upset at home over the rams, 24-10, while the steelers put a thrashing on the 49ers at home and the viking pick up their first win of the season, they beat the lions 26-16. as for the jets, it's a travel day for them as gang green heads to indianapolis where a prime time date on monday night football awaits tomorrow. the jets will look to improve 2- 0 while the colts are still in search of their first win. and you can catch all the game action tomorrow night over on picks '11, kickoff set for 8:30 as the jets and colts clash in week 2. the final subway series game of the regular season is so good, they had to save it for prime time. tonight the mets send matt harvey out to face the yankees, cc sabathia and the first two games this weekend are an

indication, anything could happen tonight. it's been a home run derby so far with the mets and yankees each doing their share to ensure that the series is tied heading into tonight. the mets will try to decrease their magic number while the yankees are trying to keep pace with the jays in the al east. they may have been the best team in the east in the regular season, but it was the liberty who were the victims of the upset in game 1 of the playoffs as they fell to the mystics in the eastern conference semifinals game one. a must win to stay alive. a third game in the three game series. susan rogers, that long three, she has 15 points off the bench. then tina charles taking over in the third. in the fourth it's essence carson, this is going to ice it, 86-68 your final so the decisive game 3 is set for tuesday at the garden. nothing quite like playoff -- or basketball, rather. we got baseball coming up. we will send it back to you. >> feels like layoffs in

baseball -- playoffs in baseball too. aftermath of a violent night in new york city. coming up on eyewitness news, deadly gun fire, stabbings and the police trying to track down the suspects. also ahead, two lawmakers are teaming up to transform a new york landmark into a new national park site. and a whole lot of drama.

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and a look right now at tonight's top stories. pope francis in havana right now attending evening vespers at a cultural center at the cuban capital. earlier in the day he celebrated mass in front of 300,000 people. we will have much more on the pope's plans here in the united states. that's coming up in just a couple of minutes. fdny rescue teams jumped into action after a dragon boat overturned this afternoon near the whitestone near the whitestone spilling nearly 20 people into the east river. the competitive rowing team was out for a run when the boat suddenly capsized by the college point yacht club. everyone was safely rescued. a shooting at a church in alabama has left three people wounded, authorities now have a suspect under arrest, charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting a woman, an infant and a pastor inside the oasis church in east selma. hello once again, everyone. i'm joe torres. >> and i'm shirleen allicot in

for sandra bookman. a surge of deadly violence throughout new york city, six people were killed and four more were wounded from gun fire, six others were hurt in stabbings. >> the blood shed began in brooklyn. that's why eyewitness news reporter mallory hoff is tonight. mallory. >> reporter: and, joe, investigators did take one person in for questioning but tonight they say they believe the killer is still on the run, meanwhile, they are combing through evidence here at the scene. investigators say the shooting happened around 2:00 in the morning. shots were fired in this walkway at the raymond ingersoll houses. a downtown brooklyn housing project just off myrtle avenue. investigators say a 43-year-old man and a 39-year-old man were both shot in the head. they were pronounced dead at the scene. the stomach. he died at methodist hospital. >> we have three people dead. >> reporter: community advocate tony herberg says people who live in the area believe the shooting was the result of a turf war involving drugs, cigarettes and illegal alcohol

being sold to people who live in nearby homeless shelters. >> it is in the best interest of our community that those who have seen anything or heard anything step forward so that we would be in a better position to get that gun and this individual off the street. and i want to say this to the shooter directly. if you are who i think you are, out of respect to your family, turn yourself in. >> reporter: and we are now learning the victims' names in this case. they are 39-year-old lacount simmons, 43-year-old calvin linkskills and 76-year-old herbert brown. people in this area tell us they are searching for answers. anyone with any information at all is asked to call police. live in downtown brooklyn, eyewitness news. >> thank you, mallory. a new push tonight for the manhattan bar where the gay rights movement began to be made into a national park site. senator kirsten gillibrand and

congressman gerald ladler dedicated the stonewall in as the first national park site honoring lgbt history. the tavern where protesters rioted against police that raided the inn back in 1969 rights. >> as we continue to share our work toward more just, more inclusive and fair nation, we have a responsibility to preserve and respect the hallowed sites that are bourne the progress that we may have so far. >> the lawmakers are making a formal request to president obama and they are encouraging everyone to sign an online petition. we want to return now to the pope's historic trip to cuba and the united states. already. this is brand-new video from just a few minutes ago as the pope made his way through the strips of havana on his way to pope francis can expect crowds like this when he arrives in the united states in a few days. when the pope arrives in

america on tuesday, he will become the fourth pontiff to set foot on u.s. soil. during his first stop in washington, pope francis will meet with president and mrs. obama and become the first pontiff to address a joint meeting of congress. >> being a leader of the senate i'm on the host committee that greets him when he walks onto the floor of congress. this will be unique because so many people want to see him and he's such a beloved figure. >> reporter: pope francis will also celebrate mass at the national shrine of the immaculate conception, the largest catholic church in america and declare junipero serra a saint. first catholic missions in california. the church credits him with bringing millions of catholics to the west coast. after three days in washington, the pope will spend about 40 hours in new york but that time period will be packed with speeches, masses and public appearances. >> new yorkers are grateful. they know people come because new yorkers have such a wonderful reputation, it's the

of the world as pope st. john ii called it. >> reporter: on thursday evening -- welcome into the -- on friday morning the pontiff will address the united nations, becoming the fourth pope to do so. his speech comes at a time when u.n. state members are debating global development and climate change. after the united nations pope francis will participate in a multireligious service at the september 11th memorial and then tour the 9/11 museum. >> we will be able to show the pope some of the artifacts that speak to faith and really speak important way. >> reporter: following the ground zero visit, pope francis will head to east harlem and our lady queen of angel school where he will meet with a special group of students. >> i'll be awestruck in the first five seconds but after i get over the shock i will probably tell him that he's a

i'm sure he's inspired tons of people, both believers and nonbelievers because he's accepting of everybody. >> reporter: the pope will then greet his largest crowd in new york during the motorcade through central park. authorities expect about 90,000 people to line the west side of the park and as we saw this morning in cuba, the popular leader of the worldwide catholic church is not afraid to step out of the pope mobile. all of those events lead up to a friday evening mass at madison square garden. pope francis will celebrate the service in english, spanish and latin in front of 20,000 people. the pope will sit in a special chair, handcrafted at a day laborer center in westchester county. >> my family is to happy and i am very proud of we are a day laborer and build this chair for pope francis. >> reporter: after spending the night on the upper east side, the pontiff will travel south to philadelphia.

will be there, see you in philadelphia. >> reporter: the pope recorded that message saturday. while in the city of brotherly love he will visit independence hall, a correctional facility and celebrate mass before a crowd of millions on ben franklin parkway for the world meeting of families. >> and one more note to tell you about. a brand-new abc news-washington post poll looked at american's industries on the catholic church -- american's views on the catholic church. 56% say the church is in touch with their views, up from 34% in march of 2013 when the francis papacy got underway. and coming up on eyewitness news, why the port authority is in hot water over a logo. also ahead, celebrating dedication. why so many people in connecticut are excited about a bridge.

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sold at one world observatory. the suit says the port authority violated its rights by using the world trade center trademark on the new logo for the lookout. plunging prices at the gas pumps in new jersey. aaa says that the average price on friday for a gallon of gas was only $2.04. that's down 7 cents from last week. some stations are even below two bucks in the garden state. we were paying more than $3 at this time last year. gas prices have been continuously dropping for more than three months. in connecticut a big celebration underway for the completion of a new bridge in new haven. thousands walked across the replacement pearl harbor memorial bridge on interstate 95 in new haven. they joined federal, state and local officials who dedicated one of the biggest public works projects ever in connecticut. the bridge is a key part of the 18 year, nearly $2 improvement program for i-95 in

the new haven harbor area. >> sure they are glad the bridge is finally complete. >> yes, a nice bridge it is. what a day to wrap up summer's last weekend. >> how about a live look outside. the sun is setting on a spectacular sunday, the last

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[ music ] strike up the band. a celebration of culture at the 46th annual african-american day parade in harlem today. this year's focus, the african- american business community and, sure, the party was held here in new york but people came from all over to take part in the event. marching bands from 12 different states. great day for a celebration. >> seriously.

people coming from all over the place to enjoy the nice weather here in new york. it is just incredible out here today and this nice streak is going to continue for much of the week. the only little fly in the ointment would be tuesday, more cloud cover around. but if we are just talking about more cloud as being the worst day of the forecast -- >> we will take it. >> -- we don't have a whole lot to complain about. moderate drought, we could use the rain. doesn't look like a rainy pattern, at least in the near term. we head outside right now and check out what's going on as we look over toward lower manhattan from brooklyn, talk breezy out there. the wind coming in from the northeast at 10, gusting up to 20 miles per hour. if you're heading out to citi field for the rubber game of the subway series, mets facing the yankees, of course, 72 degrees at 8:08 p.m. for first pitch, the north wind coming in at eight to 12 miles per hour. highs today, the only place that got up to 80 was newark, this was courtesy of a northerly wind today bringing

that we had yesterday. 72 right now middletown, 64 in monticello and many places not too far north and west of the city, actually get down into the 40s overnight tonight. you got a 77 right now west orange, 75 down the shore in belmar. we are watching a system offshore right now and this might try to back in toward the coast on tuesday and that can definitely spread some more cloud cover in here. i think any rain from that system would stay offshore. speaking of well offshore, we have tropical storm ida out here in the central atlantic ocean, 45-mile-per-hour winds. going to be moving so slowly that by friday it's only going to be in this position here and maybe intensifying up to a 50- mile-per-hour tropical storm so really not a big deal at this point. a cool start tomorrow as i was saying, some areas north and west getting down into the 40s, it's an onshore flow especially well south of our area and that will actually spread showers into parts of virginia and the carolinas but those showers should stay off to our south. we get the crowds from that onshore flow by tuesday.

morning, 58 in midtown, mainly clear, 40s well north and west by the time the kids get home from school or they are headed off to after-school activities. 73, intervals of clouds and sun, nice one out there and if you happen to be heading down to the beach, wind northeast 15 to 20, waves about three to 5 feet. choppy out there, the rip current risk is moderate to even high on the east end of long island. here's your accuweather forecast, nice one tomorrow, cooler, 73, mainly cloudy tuesday, we are talking temperatures in the mid-70s, back to sunshine on the first day of fall, by the way, on wednesday, 80, 80 on thursday when the pope arrives, 77 for all those big activities going on in the city on friday, 69 by saturday. so we do cool things off, a little bit below average for a change by early next weekend. right now we are on pace to have one of the warmest septembers on record in new york city. >> really? i'm not mad at that. >> not many people. >> thank you, jeff. that was great. >> excited for the pope. i think he made sure -- >> might want to hang out a little bit longer.

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>> sandy kenyon gives us a look at the season ahead. >> "dancing with the stars" is already back and more shows will return this week. shows like "scandal" and how how to "how to get away with murder." >> it was very important to show women as we really are, not as you want us to be, who we are. we got to start from there. >> tens of millions of tv viewers got to vote with their remote and say "yes" to strong women and to greater diversity in prime time. >> we made a commitment five years ago to say, let's reflect america. let's make a network that really reflects the voices and the faces of the american, the watchers. >> reporter: paul lee is the architect of a plan which is built on the foundation laid by shonda rhimes who broke new ground with "grey's anatomy," also back this season on thursday nights. >> we always knew our show looked like the worlds we

always very proud of that. >> reporter: it was shonda's second show that proved she was a catalyst for change. >> no matter your race, your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, there's a place for you in shonda land and if that's getting popular, amen. >> reporter: abc is looking to continue its winning way with new series like quantico about a diverse group of fbi recruits. >> grad school, all rolled into one. >> whether they are indian, latin, american, european, be able to look at my character and say, oh, i could be that. >> brianca chopra's series debuts one week from tonight. this show just before quantico on sunday nights here marks the

series as a very rich oil man. >> my character is not shy. he's not afraid to break a few eggs to make an omelet. >> reporter: with a title like blood and oil look for plenty of drama here but also there's a lot to make us laugh and on tuesday "fresh off the boat" gets a new lead-in. the muppets are in prime time decades. >> it's been a long, long road and that's typical when you're dating a pig. >> they are appeal is echoed in a wednesday comedy block with a focus on families. >> we pride ourselves on dealing with subject matters that are current and timely and in dealing with them head on and abc allows us to do that. >> ahead of abc entertainment likes to feature shows that are

are entertaining but nave and starting -- innovative. eyewitness news. good shows. coming up on eyewitness news at 6:00, anything but smooth sailing with a dragon boat capsizes on the east river tossing 19 people into the water. we will tell you about the man who was proposing as the boat overturned. and pope francis begins his visit overseas by making history, celebrating mass in

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