of course our coverage begins with eyewitness news reporter kemberly richardson. she is in midtown. >> reporter: a briefing wrapping up just a few minutes ago here. it was an all encompassing rundown of what to expect when pope francis arrives here in new york city on thursday. officials here at the mission of the holy sea spoke about the pope's visit to the united nations on friday. really what to expect in terms of the tone of his message. pope francis will be the fifth pope to visit the u. n., the fourth one to speak there. he will meet with a small group there first. the secretary general, his wife and a group of children. the pope will then address the staff, about 400 people before entering the general assembly around 10:00. now also this morning, we heard from archbishop timothy dolan. >> a couple of things. obviously there's a lot of last minute details. so today, tomorrow, i'm just

sure everything's okay. i got a couple of rehearsals myself from some of the masses, the vespers at st. patrick's cathedral, the prayer and the worship i want to make sure we got everything right. >> reporter: and of course the vespers thursday evening at st. pat's. dolan very excited about that to be side by side with pope francis addressing the crowd. again, mayor de blasio briefing reporters right now account a security as we get closer to the pope's arrival here in new york city on thursday we'll have much more beginning on eyewitness news first at 4. for now we're live in midtown eyewitness news. new york city not the only preparations. philadelphia already getting its streets ready for the pontiff's arrival. the city began towing parked cars last night. some people are so concerned about traffic they have chosen to move their vehicles to the suburbs until a pope leaves

mass this morning at a square in cuba. then this afternoon the pope will bless that city. at 4:40 he will board a flight to cuba's second largest city, santiago. he lands at 5:30. at 7:00 he will meet with bishops at a seminary there and at 7:45 he will then attend the shrine of our lady of charity. we invite you to stay with eyewitness news and abc news for coveragepope's visit. you can find the pope's schedule as well as information about road closures and mass transit changes on our website abc7ny.com/pope. now to the bronx where the search is on for the killer who shot a taxi driver in the head. mamadou berry was found dead inside his cab on beaumont avenue in the belmont section. he made a phone call moments before his death. eyewitness news reporter tim fleischer is live at the scene with the details on this. tim. >> reporter: such a tragedy. this vicious murder was

actually the eighth homicide from a very violent weekend. the car of that driver, the green car was pulled from this intersection a short time ago. here is the crime scene. the more interesting element as shirleen mentioned that the driver was on the phone before he was killed talking to his brother-in-law. >> i was on the phone with him, and he tell me the guy has gun. i said be careful. okay. he said okay. >> augustine was talking with 39-year-old mamadou berry who had just told his brother-in- law that his passenger had a gun. >> i call him back one time, second time, called him back five time and then i see something happen. >> police found mamadou berry's body slumped over the wheel of his green livery here where east 109th street intersects with beaumont avenue. he had been shot to death. his family, his wife and his sisters now come together to mourn his loss.

speak of a good hardworking man. >> he's the best husband everybody can ask for. he's the best brother everybody can ask for, the best son. he is the best in everything. >> such a tragedy. his family is mourning. at this point the driver has three children and he and his wife are expecting a fourth child. so far police have not made an arrest. reporting live in the belmont section, tim fleischer channel 7 eyewitness news. new at noon, a police officer in new jersey who was involved in a deadly wrong-way crash on staten island went before a judge to face charges. linden police officer pedro abad junior turned himself in this morning using crutches as precinct. anthony johnson live outside the courthouse with more. >> reporter: david, that horrible crash left two people the injured officer, they were also hurt in that crash.

but he was seriously injured like we said in the crash which took place back in march. finally he's recovered enough to come to court today. linden police officer pedro abad junior did take a few steps on crutches before being placed in a wheelchair and rolled into the precinct wearing a boot on his right foot which was injured in that horrific accident. abad was driving the wrong way on the staten island expressway when he slammed head on into a tractor-trailer. now he's been charged with several counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter, and dwi all part of a 43 count indictment. these serious charges all stem from the deaths of 28-year-old joseph rodriguez, linden police officer frank viggiano, and pat cud lack was seriously injured. abad pleaded not guilty to all the charges. according to reports abad was driving three times over the legal limit after he and friends left a staten island strip club.

his lawyer was asked if his client has any remorse. >> he's upset. i mean he's upset. he's as upset as you would expect somebody to be. he's upset. . >> reporter: abad was able to post a $25,000 bond. he also gave up his passport and his driver's license. the interesting thing about the driver's license abad had previously been charged with dwi in the past. of course those charges were apparently dropped, and they were dropped before this horrific accident took place back in march. that is the latest live from staten island, anthony johnson channel 7 eyewitness news. anthony thank you. a man is dead following an overnight fire on staten island. firefighters found the 54-year- old as they were battle flames at a home in the rose bank section. the cause is under investigation. no one else was hurt. the nypd's public case of

mistaken identity is the subject of a high profile private meeting. former tennis star james blake is sitting down with mayor de blasio and police commissioner bratton. an officer tackled blake thinking blake was a suspect in a fraud case. that officer is on modified duty. blake has said he should be fired. now to the race for president and shifting attitudes of voters. the latest poll on the republican side shows a drop of support for donald trump. with 24% of the vote. carly fiorina has been rising republican debate. she is now in the number 2 spot with 15% of the vote. ben carson is right behind her. another leading republican candidate is being criticized about muslims. the nation's largest muslim advocacy group is denouncing ben carson's comments that the islamic faith is inconsistent with the constitution and that he would not agree with a

muslim being elected president. on the democratic side, hillary clinton's lead is widening according to a new poll. it shows that among democrats she has 42%, but check out vice president joe biden. he has about 20% of the possible votes, and he hasn't even announced whether he's running. new reports say that top democratic fundraisers are circulating a letter urging biden to jump into the 2016 race. a man accused of a road rage attack with his 2-year-old son sitting in the car. explodes injuring several people. forecast. >> and governor cuomo's long- time partner sandra lee steps out for the first time since surgery. recovery. summer of 2015. the temperatures outside are pretty much where they should be this hour of the day around 70s today. we're going to be looking at

wind out there out of the east, northeast, 21 miles per hour. a couple of nice fall feeling days. fall is going to start and feel like summer.

ra el viento ah^ del three people were hurt in texas when a house on a quiet residential street suddenly exploded. the blast this morning destroyed one home and damaged nine others nearby. two of the victims were taken dallas. the third person was treated at look at that. there is no house left. that explosion. what an incredible image. the white house is thanking the government of oman for

two americans and other westerners held hostage in yemen. the two americans are now in oman. they were released by yemen's shiite huthe rebels, the civil war in yemen escalated in march as a saudi led u.s.-backed campaign. a law enforcement authority say bullet fragments have tied a 21-year-old landscaper to a string of shootings that struck phoenix. leslie allen merit. he claims he didn't have access pawnshop. officials say they have proof during four shootings. a pastor and church members in alabama are being hailed as heroes after a gunman opened fire during sunday services. police say 26-year-old james junior minter shot his girlfriend and their baby at

the oasis tabernacle in east selma yesterday. the church's pastor was shot when he tried to intervene. all three of them are in the hospital. minter was captured by police less than a mile away. he faces charges of attempted murder. hackers have made their way into apple's app store. a malicious program called x code ghost infiltrated 344 apps in the store. hackers tricked developers into using a counterfeit version of x co, the system that runs apple's ios and mac apps. apple released a statement it has removed defective apps from the store. tv chef sandra lee is opening up on her facebook page about her recovery following treatment for breast cancer. lee told her followers that with them she is going into autumn stronger, wiser and better. governor cuomo's girlfriend made her first public appearance last night at the emmy's looking stunning. next week lee will sit down for

an interview with good morning america's robin roberts. >> she looked fabulous. no question about it. >> she really did. beautiful. >> a fun day on the water comets to terrifying end for a family. their boat suddenly burst into flames. see what they did to make it out alive. >> and a ground breaking emmy night, see the triumphant return, and viola davis' unforgettable moment. >> let's take you to live cameras outside. take a good look and get ready to say good-bye to summer.

anna? abc7 and your tri-state ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. summer's almost done with us. i mean, still giving us nice days though to enjoy. >> what a great summer. >> every last bit of it. >> not over yet. this time of the year you get some great sunrise pictures. >> wow, holy moly. what an artistic shot. >> that's from bob arntz sent to evans weather on twitter. that is deal lake around deal new jersey. >> i want to go there. >> that's the real deal right now. >> shirley i could see you out there in some weighters with a fly rod. >> keep thinking. let us know if that happens. >> where am i going. let's take a look outside. i'm ready to go here. we take a look outside, skies with high thin cirrus clouds, a couple of cumulus clouds. where are you going, chuck, i

don't know where i'm going. going to the wall. this is where i live. as we look over here toward the east river we've got a couple of ferryboats working up and down. we've got a great day for it. a light wind that's been out of the northeast, but at times it's been gusting up to 22 miles an hour. humidity is dry, and the pressure is at 30.25, steadying the temperature 68. with the pressure that high we have a brand new high pressure ridge over us giving us that northeast wind and i'll explain how that's working. normal high is 73. we should hit that later on. sun is going to set at 6:56. just a little bit before 7:00, and we should have a pretty sunset too. send us your sunset pictures, and we'll put those up this evening. lee goldberg will have that at 4 and 5. feeling like fall for the end of summer, but it's going to feel like summer for the beginning of autumn on wednesday when temperatures get into maybe the low 80s. cloudiest day is tomorrow. there might be a sprinkle. looking at 68 this hour now around murray hill, 69 over

towards whitestone, 66 belmar, wrightstown, and 59 in the north. these are cool numbers with a little bit of cloud cover and a northeast wind. i guess the meter is broken here at newburgh. either that or your lawn furniture is going to be missing at 116 miles per hour. that's the automated guest. here we go, high pressure ridge and low really this wind comes in today and tomorrow out of the northeast. as we get to the first day of fall, this high pressure ridge kind of works alone. the low leaves and as the high slides toward the east we get warmer air with temperatures 5 normal. clouds and sun will be here this afternoon. clouds more likely to come right across eastern pennsylvania and new jersey and right on through the tri-state about. this kind of slides out into the atlantic. there might be a sprinkle with that. then this high pressure ridge firmly in control giving us great weather as we get into wednesday thursday and the beginning of fall. 73.

most of the time, a very comfortable 61. tomorrow cloudy and breezy. a few sprinkles could be around tomorrow, particularly from the city on east. then look at the first day of fall. it's going to feel like summer. it's going to be 80 degrees. you know, this is the month, september, october, where you kind of get those up and down periods. it's warm, it's cool. it's warm, it's cool. we're looking at 80 on thursday. we're looking at clouds and sun on friday. 76 on the weekend looks nice. mid-70s and mid-50s to low 50s. the roses that just started blooming in front of my house again, going to love that little stretch you just gave them there. >> nothing like frost on the roses. >> that is a beautiful image. >> yes, it is. >> thank you bill. >> all right. >> horror at the zoo. a zoo keeper and mom of two killed by a tiger. we'll tell you what the zoo has decided to do with the rare animal.

football fans brawling, a family's boat goes up in flames, and alleged diamond difficulties. just some of the stories that were caught on camera and caught our attention. we begin in california where a

rival football fan got into a knockdown drag out fight. dave amaro posted cell phone video of the melee on his facebook page. a witness claims some 49ers fans started insulting steelers fans inside a restaurant in downey when both groups met outside a massive brawl erupted. some bystanders stepped in and broke up that fight. a family in texas thought that there was a little smoke on their boat coming from oil burning in their engine. they did not realize that flames were actually consuming their boat. look at that. horrified onlookers rushed over to tell them what was happening. the family jumped into the water, good samaritans and other boats pulled them to safety. moments later that boat exploded and sunk. a pair of diamond thieves in ohio may have had a harder time than most. video shows one thief slashing his leg, kicking in the glass door of the store, even the get away went wrong.

the two ran down a stairwell that did not go to the garage where their car was parked. when the duo jumped on an elevator it took them to the garage. the doors would not open trapping them until police arrived. >> why do i feel like if bill and i turned to a life of crime that would be us. why do i feel that way. >> stick to your day jobs guys. >> yes, we should just go to work and mind our own business. >> a good lesson for all of us. thank you. >> a good deed means one man will spend the year in pizza heaven. he ordered a pizza and wings from dominoes, scarfed down the box. hours later he received a frantic text message and phone call from the delivery driver that who realized that instead of wing he had delivered a box. >> i made a facebook post and there's a long list of people arguing you should keep it. i wanted to keep it believe me

>> and that proved to be the honesty rewarded. the customer will now get free pizza for a year. repercussions. coming up on eyewitness news, a father facing serious charges for an attack on a long island highway. also the mother of the little girl known as baby doe faces a judge. how prosecutors say the girl was killed and what happened next. >> and a tragedy involving a plane crash. two freshmen from connecticut killed when their plane crashes in the woods. how their fellow students planned to remember them. eyewitness news is coming right back as we leave you with this great picture of the new york skyline. but first the live midday new york state lottery drawing.

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you're watching new york's number 1 news channel 7 eyewitness news at noon with david novarro, shirleen allicot and meteorologist bill evans. now eyewitness news continues. our top stories this afternoon, pope francis celebrated mass this morning in eastern cuba, a plaza was packed with thousands of people for the mass they waved flags pope mobile. in our area mayor de blasio says the pope is using his voice to get across a message of hope. >> he's calling for global economic justice, global

environmental justice. he's calling for the changes we need to protect our earth and to treat all people with compassion and dignity. >> the pope arrives at jfk on thursday, and we invite you to stay with eyewitness news and abc news for coverage of the pope's visit you can find the pope's schedule as well as information about road closures website abc7ny.com/pope. and hello again to all of you. i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm david novarro. a long island dad facing charges of attacking another driver during a road rage incident on the meadow brook state parkway. the man's 2-year-old child was in the car when the assault happened. >> long island reporter kristin thorne is at criminal court in hempstead. >> reporter: he went before judge a short time ago. he beat this victim to the point of unconsciousness. police say hinten forced this other driver on to the side of

the meadow brook state parkway yesterday afternoon and proceeded to run up to the window and beat the 27-year-old man in the head causing a fractured jaw, nose, and cheek. his family, hinton's family was in court this morning. according to court papers the victim told police he was driving north on the meadowbrook state parkway around old country road when he accidentally cut off hinton's car. hinton began to drive erratically and yelled at the victim he had a child in his car. he says hinton forced him off the road. the victim rolled down his window to apologize but he says hinton began to punch him in the face until he blacked out. hinton is being charged with assault in the second degree as well as endangering the welfare of a child again for allegedly having his 2-year-old son in the car when this all happened. bail. we are live in hempstead, i'm kristin thorne channel 7 >> thank you.

mother of the girl whose body was found inside a trash bag on a boston harbor island is being arraigned along with her boyfriend, and among those in court for the arraignment is the biological father of the baby doe. abc's marci gonzalez joins us now with more. >> a difficult day for him and other loved ones who were in that courtroom listening as prosecutors shared how they believe the little girl was killed and what happened next. >> the horrific details of little bella bond's death laid out today in court. an emotional outburst as bella's mother rachelle stood wincing behind a glass partition charged with accessory to murder after the fact. her boyfriend michael mccarthy stoic charged with first degree murder. the prosecutor claiming mccarthy punched bella in the stomach for being unruly at bedtime, then reportedly called the girl a demon saying it was

her time to die. >> when ms. bond looked at bella her head appeared to her to be swollen, and her face was gray. she knew her daughter was dead. >> prosecutors claimed the 2- year-old's body was put into a plastic bag and left in the family's refrigerator for days before bond and mccarthy dumped seaport. the girl's remains washed up in a massachusetts park in late june with investigators spending the three months since trying to identify baby doe. this computer generated image viewed more than 50 million times on the internet before finally prosecutors say a friend realized couple's claims that bella wasn't with them because she'd been taken by the department of children and families was a lie. >> ms. bond broke down crying and said i'll never see my daughter again. >> and bond has a long history with dcf and of drug and prostitution charges. she's now being held on a million dollars bail while the

judge would not set bail for mccarthy. david. thank you marci: a man from tennessee accused of climbing the brooklyn bridge illegally 21-year-old david carnuch snapped a selfie in july. he was extradited from his home in chattanooga last month for his attorney says they are two students in colgate university were killed when their plane crashed in a wooded area in rural upstate new york. their single engine plane went down in morrisville yesterday afternoon. the two freshmen were from ridgefield connecticut, cathryn depuy and ryan adams will be remembered this evening at a vigil on the colgate campus. the federal aviation administration is investigating the crash. a major update to the new jersey fire code takes effect today. it will not include the changes that firefighters and other

safety advocates recommended after january's massive fire in edgewater. that fire consumed much of the avalon apartment complex displacing more than a thousand residents. the new code ignores calls for new restrictions on the use of lightweight construction materials. those materials were blamed for allowing the fire to grow and spread quickly. in queens, 19 people are okay after finding themselves stranded in the east river. it happened yesterday when a competitive paddling team's boat capsized near the whitestone bridge everyone was wearing life jackets. they opted to wait for fdny rescue teams instead of swimming to shore. the sunken feeling put a damper on a marriage proposal somewhat went down. [ laughter ] >> it was really hard not to but i would have said yes anyway. i'm still more in shock about the ring than i am about going under. remember.

the river but the ring managed to stay afloat. a new app is now helping residents of city housing repairs. the nycha launched its free mobile app today. my nycha is designed to help residents make repairs, requests and provide alerts about outages. store or google play. an app. app like weather. >> yeah, by one particular person. we want to turn to meteorologist bill evans. he has the after school accuweather forecast. >> i can follow you around all afternoon if you'd like. give you updates constantly. >> 10 feet, remember what the judge said, 10 feet. >> was it just 10? >> we look up the hudson river bridge. we're at 68 degrees. nice and comfy with a northeast wind and after school it's going to feel get. 73 degrees, a mixture of clouds and sunshine.

some really pretty weather but kids and adults and everybody going down to the beach this afternoon, watch out for the rip current risk. it's going to be very high because of that northeast wind coming in at 20 miles per hour. we'll talk more about autumn which begins on wednesday. thank you. a deadly tiger attack inside a zoo. the endangered animal killed a keeper but there are calls to spare its life, what the zoo fate.

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a new zealand zoo makes a gut wrenching decision after an animal trainer is killed. when the zoo worker was killed by a tiger, euthanize it or not. in the end they decided not to euthanize it. it was likely the tiger felt she was a threat to a female tiger in the enclosure. the two appeared together in a tv feature a few years ago. >> the zoo is a family. they support each other and this is how it's going to stay. >> while the talking letter not be put -- tiger will not be put down, the zoo is deciding when he'll go back on display. a neighborhood is on edge after a black bear was spotted near homes. a resident spotted a picture after it scaled a fence between

a witness told the patch.com that the bear appeared to be about 175 pounds. he said it was going from backyard to backyard. the bear eventually headed back toward the woods. the yankees are kings of the new york baseball world as the bombers won the final two games of the subway series. didn't mean to be rubbing it in as a yankee fan. that's the way it is. carlos beltran, cc is a bath yan, sabathia, the victory tightens the race in time for the yankee's critical trip to toronto. the yankees two and a half games behind the blue jays. the from baseball to football, tonight will be todd bowl's first monday night football game as head coach of the jets. bowls and the jets are in indianapolis tonight to take on the colts new york took its

home opener last week against cleveland. they are hoping for their first 2 and 0 start since 2011. you can catch all the monday night football action between gang green and the colts on pix11. kickoff set for 8:30. a security breach ended a u2 concert before it started: fans streamed out of an arena in stockholm sweden. police spokesperson said the building was evacuated due to concerns about a weapon, something nobody wants to hear. fortunately nothing happened. the concert was rescheduled to tomorrow. a big night for stars of the small screen, coming up on eyewitness news, history made at the emmy awards as show. we have all the buzzworthy night. >> let's take you back outside, a beautiful picture. bill says it will feel like fall as we end the summer of

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about the emmy's today. you know, it was hot on the red carpet last night literally because it was hot out there, and fashionably. >> yeah, hollywood's a-listers tried to stay cool while looking smoking. as for the awards, the show featured a historic first, breakthrough winners and a triumphant return to the stage. eyewitness news entertainment report sandy kenyon joins us with the highlights. >> there are always a few snubs and surprises at the emmy's but last night fewer snubs than usual and more applause for those who won. it was really fun. the word historic comes to mind and that's no hype given who walked away winners. >> history was made and andy sandberg nailed the hosting. >> donald trump seems racist. what else. >> gaga looked gorgeous and jimmy kimmel ate a winner's name, but far more importantly. >> viola davis.

with murder is the first ever african-american ever to win lead drama actress. >> the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. >> it means a lot. something. it means in 27 years professionally i've put into this business means something. >> another first was the first emmy to an actor for playing a comedy. >> i'd like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community. >> and jon hamm finally won best dramatic actor for madmen's final season. >> it has been a terrible mistake. >> the end of the era late night with the recently departed jon stewart taking home a prize. >> to everybody on television i want to tell you, cling to it

>> the cable tv movie olive kit -- and so did veep with julia louis-dreyfus snagging best actress. and after that horrific car accident last year an emotional return for tracy morgan. >> i've started to feel like myself again, so which means a whole lot of you all women going to get pregnant at the after party. >> actually, it's so great to hear tracy morgan cracking jokes again because as he said last night it's been a long road back. the star suffered a traumatic brain injury more than a year ago. they put him in coma for eight days. backstage in the press room variety reports he had to actually sit down and became emotional when he described trying to recover enough to marry his fiancee. morgan saying he just wanted to walk her down the aisle without a cane. the two wed last month and dave and shirleen he was walking without a cane last night. >> wow. >> so many moments in that

tracy morgan, game of thrones. so many big fans of that. >> right here. >> we're like. >> great to see. >> one of the better emmy's i have seen in recent years. they gave us everything. it was awesome. >> thank you sandy. >> and the video package was absolutely stunning. i watched them all. i watched them all. >> sandberg did such a great job. he was funny. that was great. >> that was really good. let's take a look outside. we've got pretty weather here at noontime. last two days of summer and this is the way it looks as we look right through the ghost busters building across the jackie o'nasus reservoir. we are looking at 68 degrees. wind is northeast at 6 gusting at times to 22. the pressure's way up there above 30.00 which is our mark

of fair weather at 30.25. really nice. pike county pennsylvania, 62. o'pat congress 64, we're into the 60s. we'll get into the low 70s this afternoon. we'll see this wind continuing to come off the long island sound across the jersey shore at 15 miles per hour. the gusts have been 22 in the park, 26 laguardia: 18 around white plains. that's because of high pressure here and low pressure to the south. so we're kind of right in that little convergence area where of the northeast. 72, 73 this afternoon, some clouds tonight, probably a pretty cloudy day tomorrow as this wave of low pressure spins into the atlantic and this high begins to take over and slides eastward: wednesday we're looking at 80 degrees. that's how we're going to kick off fall, feeling very summer- like. clouds and sun this afternoon, 73. tonight is a great night to be out and about, even though it's cloudy. it's very comfortable. 61 around the five boroughs, 51 north and west.

and there might be a few sprinkles around. autumn begins on wednesday. autumnal equinox is at 4:21 in the morning. i expect you to be up at that hour shirr lean and david with a complete report. >> autumnal equinox. >> we've got an assignment david. are we up for this. >> i'll get your assignment. >> we'll do what we can. no problem. >> what we can. that's how we'll leave that. >> we'll be right back but first here's a look at what's coming up on the chew. >> today we've got amazing dishes that will get the whole family cooking like the easiest meatballs ever. with the star from mike and molly plus you'll definitely feel inspired when mario helps a young chef fulfill one of her bucket list dreams. are you guys ready?

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on eyewitness news. what are the top five zip codes where homes here in new york are selling the fastest. some of the areas may surprise you. 7 on your side with why this is a great time to buy or sell. plus this. >> i'm lauren glassberg, a spot all about facials many of the clients here use a subscription service. it worse for the business and it's smart -- it works for the business and it's smart for the skin. i'll explain coming up. >> and much more on eyewitness guys. >> sounds great. it's time for the feed, a look at the stories getting shared and liked on your social media pages. hey, look there's one, we begin with a jet setter dog, in this case the passenger was a very special dog, pita is a blind 4- year-old border collie that is the latest rescue dog to get the star treatment from the group called pilots and paws. the stray was in no condition to travel by ground transport from wyoming to its new owners

in colorado. thanks to a dog loving pilot who wants to remain anonymous, that dog arrived in style. >> can i be friends with that pup? i want to ride like that too. with halloween just around the corner, it's almost here already, one pumpkin could be touched into a jack o'lantern big enough to light an entire neighborhood. check this out. this is now the biggest pumpkin in north america. the colossal fruit weighed in at more than 2,000 pounds at the cedarburg wine harvest festival. >> going to need a bigger boat. >> the pumpkin owner shattered his old record for the second year in a row. >> it's the second year that guy did that. >> he's got the magic seeds. >> he does. >> since it is the feed and we're talking about food f it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, a tomato that looks like a duck. this came off the vine in michigan.

in her garden and called her husband over to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her. they have no plans to eat the tomato anytime soon. >> isn't it adorable. it's so cute. i wouldn't eat that. >> put it in the bathtub. >> is it real? >> don't believe it? come on. don't be a pessimist. >> exactly. >> thanks so much. you can tweet us anything when you think about the feed or any of the stuff you think should be in it. that's going to do it for this edition of eyewitness news. i'm david novarro.

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