mets took a two games to one advantage last night. 13 hits for 13 runs in a big 13-7 win after managing five runs and 10 hits combined in games one and two. the mets are now in the driver's seat. the last thing they want to do is give up control in this series which does make it a big deal to win tonight. it's the dodgers in a must-win situation and the mets have to beat kershaw for a second time. >> we're not overconfident by any stretch. we know we've got to do exactly what we did the other night ask make him work. when he makes a mistake we better put a good swing on it because you're not going to get a lot of them. >> you're hoping his stuff is good. he's been pretty good on the short rest we've had a couple times but stuff has been good on those days. >> the series would resume thursday in los angeles if the mets can't get the job done here tonight. but nobody in the ballpark is thinking that way right now, least of all the fans. let's get back outside the stadium now. aj ross is

>> mets fans are still riding that huge wave of momentum after last night's commanding victory and goes without saying they are expecting the tide to continue in their favor. closing out the series tonight would mean so much for this team, for fans, and they believe now is their time. >> reporter: it's been a thrilling series between two teams where there's clearly no love lost and it all comes down to tonight. >> i'm just really excited to see the mets in person in october. even though we on. regardless. york. >> reporter: mets fans were lined up hours before the first pitch, believe they'll be the x factor in what they hope will be an epic victory over the dodgers and sweet redemption for ruben tejada. >> i hate chase utley. i saw him get out of the car. mad. >> reporter: from lucky towels

blue and orange is expected to fill every seat in citifield while others will be in the standing room only section. cheering and willing on a team greatness this year. >> let's go, mets. >> let's go mets! woo! >> it was a historic sellout crowd, more than 44,000 fans last night and the same is expected for what will hopefully be a historic win tonight. rob, i'm a little jealous you have a better seat than me but i'm proximity. you. than me. we're right on the field. the mets' batting we're getting closer to game time. we'll have more from inside the rob powers, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> looking forward to it. after that game 3 win, mayor bill de blasio took to twitter for a little trash

talking, directing it toward l.a.'s mayor. he wrote hey, garcetti. this is what happens when the dodgers don't play dirty. ouch. we want to see how you are showing your mets pride as we head in to game 4. send us your pictures to our social pages using #abc7ny. breaking news in mahwah, new jersey. a tractor-trailer overturned. shannon sohn is above the accident in newscopter7. >> it happened shortly after 5:00 this afternoon on the ramp from northbound 287 and northbound 17 that takes you on to the southbound side of 287. you can see a fuel spill there as well. wreckers are starting to get on the scene. the bad news is they will have to shut down this ramp when they go to up right this guy and get him out of here. northbound side of 287 is coming in to your picture. you can see everybody stopping to rubber neck this accident. that's taking you back about a half mile in terms of delays but the real problem

is it has you stopped up on the spot where route 17 comes in to 287. that has you backed up for a good 2-mile jam up, getting back toward franklin avenue. bumper to bumper all because of rubber necking and unfortunately looks like this is going to be out here for a while. shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. we turn to rocklin county -- rockland county and a deadly accident in nyack. firefighters her. n.j. burkett is at the scene with the latest. >> the victim was the from the street it looks like your typical suburban house but inside authorities say it was a fire trap. four apartments for 14 people, and yes, some of them were children and no working smoke detectors in any of the rooms. >> there was a lot of smoke

coming out of the house. >> reporter: 10-year-old melissa said the smoke and the screams were frightening. she was up on the second floor waiting for her school bus when the fire broke out. >> they said to my aunt, let's get out of here because the house is on fire. >> reporter: she escaped with her aunt and uncle, her cousin and little sister. her mother told us in spanish she and her husband were already at work. just two of the four families living in the 1600 square foot single family home. >> i had 40, 50 people standing in the street. >> reporter: central nyack's fire chief was first on the scene but couldn't reach the victim, identified as the homeowner's 61-year-old wife. >> by the time we got here, we had an employee involved in it. the fire moves very, very quickly. >> reporter: this is a death trap.

authorities say it could have been far worse. the house was carved in to four apartments for 14 people. this was a child's windowless bedroom in the basement. marissa's mother said she paid $1500 a month for her two bedrooms. >> when you put people in harm's way and you recognize the risk then taking money on top of it, you're a criminal. >> reporter: wendy kroner saw the smoke from the road this morning and was the first to call 911. >> it's really sad. the kids were in that house and there were so many people in that house. it just bothers me. >> the red cross is working tonight with the families. the victim is identified as jarnel cower. her husband is being treated for smoke inhalation. i'm told he could face

cause of the fire but ongoing enforcement of illegal conversions is being stepped up tonight. n.j. burkett, channel 7 eyewitness news. a man stabbed several times on a city bus in a fight over a seat. it happened around 1:45 this afternoon on a bus in the stapleton section of staten island. police say two men got in to an argument over a seat. that's when one of the men began stabbing the other. the 24-year-old victim was stabbed several times in the hands and chest. he's in serious condition at the hospital. police arrested and are questioning a shooting outside a nightclub in manhattan. investigators say the man who had been thrown out of the club returned early monday morning. he fired in to the crowd, leaving at closing time, hitting three women, 23-year-old walikque faussett died.

a woman arrested for an abduction that ended with a teenager jumping out of a moving car will stay behind bars. towanna randall charged with unlawful restraint, sexual assault, reckless endangerment. randall told the investigator she was giving the teen a ride and noticed the 17-year-old stole money from a car. to politics now. the democrats take center stage in the race for president in their first debate. candidates will take the stage in just a few hours from now in las vegas. frontrunner hillary clinton will be joined by bernie sanders, martin o'malley, jim webb. there will be an extra podium nearby just in case vice president biden suddenly decides to show up. you can see the reactions tonight at 11:00. benjamin netanyahu

tonight after a string of brutal and deadly palestinian assaults against israeli civilians. three israelis have been killed in jerusalem today by a pair of palestinian men who began shooting and stabbing passengers. another attacker caught on camera running a car in to a bus stop and got out of the car and stabbed bystanders. the attacks are the latest in a month long wave of violence in that area. as we continue with eyewitness news at 6:00, a man charged in the beating death of a toddler faces a judge today. disturbing and heartbreaking details about the child's injury. >> an out of control dump truck crashes in to a dry cleaner's on long island. >> the clouds are rolling in. a couple showers as well. still comfortable, about 69 degrees. the radar in

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we are learning the sickening and heartbreaking details of the beating death of a 17-month-old on long island. the mother's boyfriend, lord pardo, now being held on $10 million cash bail. police are

calling him a monster. that is a direct quote. after revealing a long list of injuries that he was killed at the boyfriend's home in uniondale. here's sager. >> reporter: 26-year-old lord pardo said nothing to reporters as he headed to court today but a judge set his bail at $10 million, and authorities were quick to share their assessment. >> it's clear the defendant has no soul. he is truly a monster. because the autopsy report in this case is so disturbing. prosecutors say pardo murdered his girlfriend's 17-month old baby, mason robinson, while babysitting here at his house in union dale on sunday. the baby's marie, was working here at whole foods in jericho. according to the autopsy, little mason had fractured ribs and a fractured skull, a lacerated liver and diaphragm and massive internal bleeding.

work, she got a text from pardo saying her baby had stopped breathing because he fell off a bed. >> absolutely no intent to harm the baby. he has a baby of his own. this individual doesn't have any prior criminal record. >> we allege and we will ultimately prove that this was no accident. >> reporter: today a relative here in new cassel insists mason's mother is too devastated to say anything right now. >> she doesn't her and her son out. when she's ready to talk, she'll talk, but for now she doesn't want to talk. >> reporter: pardo also has his own three-week-old baby from another relationship, but now he'll remain behind bars charged with second degree murder. in mineola, stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. also on long island a chaotic scene as a runaway truck crashes in to a dry cleaning business. the truck smashed in

to the building on lincoln avenue in roslyn heights. the driver said he forgot to put the emergency brake on when he left the truck parked on a hilly street. one worker inside the shop was injured by flying glass. the building was also badly damaged. just ahead on eyewitness news, planning to do a lot of online shopping for the holidays? how you could save money if you have to make returns. >> lee returns with much more of your mets game time

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here in the u.s.? meanwhile, i know you're timing out a little bit of rain. >> not dodger blue or mets blue. i have gotten some feedback on social media that better not be dodger blue. outside we go where we had mets blue skies out there earlier. not anymore. now we have a lot of cloud cover coming in. a little sliver of sunshine in new york harbor and a couple showers 69 degrees. southwest wind at 10 and a high today a comfortable 72. the average high, 65. we're closer to that tomorrow. rainfall has been light. couple more showers through the early part of the evening. citifield, 70 degrees. white plains, 65 . newark at 70. jfk coming in at 70 degrees. most of our numbers in the upper 60s and lower 70s although monticello has cooled down to 59. pretty good breeze in flushing right now. doesn't feel good as last night. definitely need the jacket. right now winds mostly out of

there's a shower threat through the early evening then partial cooling. a little on the cool side. 40s north and west. breeze picks up during the day tomorrow and more clouds mix with sun tomorrow. overall a partly sunny day. while we've had a break in the showers and now they're playering -- flaring up over the front. they seem to be weakening as they get in new jersey. as they hold together there are about 60 miles. this from citifield and on that track. moving around 35 miles per hour. you're talking about 7:30 to 8:30, they're right in there if they could hold together. if you look at the futurecast, widely scattered showers, 8:00. things will move through with a quiet radar. this is a close-up futurecast on citifield again insisting on that one heavier shower, not far from flushing. i'd say it's about a 30% shot of seeing that shower hold together. 66 degrees. at worst a minor interruption then the game would go on.

best case scenario, falls apart and remains dry. one cold front comes through tonight. a second one will be on our doorstep tomorrow. sun will mix with clouds during the afternoon. still a very pleasant day at 68. thursday, although a couple degrees cooler, is even nicer. a lot of sunshine out there. less wind. looks great. couple fronts off to the north and west. that's our weather pattern right now. all these weather systems coming in. here's your accuweather forecast. brief shower early. then it's partly cloudy and a little breezy at times, 56. some 40s north and west. 68 tomorrow. more sun in the morning then clouds will mix in midday and afternoon. might be an isolated shower north and west. most of us breezy, a little bit cooler, tomorrow night only down to 50. your 7-day, great looking thursday. couple showers friday. not a washout. don't cancel outdoor plans. a stray shower saturday afternoon otherwise partly sunny and 58. chilly on sunday. 52 feeling like 40s. gusty breeze

and at night, first 30s since april in new york city. >> it will start to feel like october baseball then. speaking of october baseball, rob is at citifield with much more on tonight's game. >> are you ready to get this thing started again? mets and dodgers ready for another game in this division series. they're getting ready. we've

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smells like spaghetti with johnsonville italian sausage. my favorite. bad news. the johnsonville factory burned down brian. it's terrible. well if you can't serve tasty sausage why are we even a family? i may as well move out. well, if that's what yo... you're right. i'll stay. and tomorrow we're going to help johnsonville rebuild that factory. i'll take dinner in my room, with chocolate milk. make pasta tastier with johnsonville italian sausage. we don't make sausage. we make family. and sausage. rob, we can only imagine the feeling there has just got to be electric and we're still hours away from the game. >> right, just like yesterday, up two games to one in the series. the mets move on to the

series with one more win. that win could come tonight. met fans will tell you that win should come tonight. last night's pregame introductions, unforgettable. >> number 26, infielder chase utley. [ crowd booing ] and joining us in front of the new york mets dugout, number 11. infielder ruben tejada. [ cheers and applause ] >> it was the scene on this field less than 24 hours ago. those two players linked by the takeout slide. the mets can slide in to the next round with another win tonight. they won the game 13-7, nailed home runs. nail down the series before this night is through. >> those guys are in there right now and they're talking about different things and i think they're going to get themselves ready to play and come out excited. as far as me, i'm old. sense of urgency is

right now. i either get this done now, i don't have a lot of shots. >> for more 4, let's go outside the stadium and join laura behnke. >> ter ry collins expects the veterans will have this team loose and ready to play. >> reporter: last night was fun as the mets played and won the first postseason game in citifield history but tonight could be even better. the first series clinching win in history. >> we've got our work cut out for us. we know we've got to game plan and prepare. >> reporter: it won't be easy. three-time cy young award winner clayton kershaw returns on short rest. while he's 1-6 all time in the postseason, it means nothing tonight. >> we didn't have a ton of success against him then. if we

win it at home it will be great but we've got to take it one pitch at a time. >> reporter: the mets counter with a rookie as long island native steven matz makes his debut. >> we'll see if we can continue to grind out good at-bats. >> the mets don't have to win tonight in order to advance but they definitely want to. >> you're going up against kershaw, greinke again so you want to win this thing as quickly as possible. you definitely don't want to go back to l.a. >> steven matz may not have a lot of experience but he's no stranger to a big stage. a year ago he took a no-hitter in to the 8th inning as he led the bighamton mets to the title. live outside citifield, laura news. >> there is another playoff league. the cubs lead the cardinals right now in the 6th

finally from us, as mets fans wait for this game, we thought we would leave you with this, a reminder the last time the mets advanced to the national league championship series, 2006. the team they beat to get there, the los angeles dodgers. if history repeats itself, tonight could be the night. we'll have everything wrapped up for you tonight at 11:00. until then, live in citifield, rob powers, channel 7 eyewitness news. see what happens tonight. >> tonight could be the night. leers -- here's a look at what's coming up tonight at 11:00. the mysterious order of a taxi driver. wait till you hear who police say is guilty. >> the best season for babies. could when they are born impact their lifelong health? we'll have those stories and more starting tonight at 11:00. that's our news for now. thanks for joining us. i'm liz cho. world news tonight is next. eyewitness news returns at 11:00.