series. >> mad harvey retired the first dozens batters he faced in a strong performance, and daniel murphy and travis denard homered as the mets beat the field. >> we have team coverage of the mets as they get set for game 2. cefaan kim is with the fans. we begin with sports anchor rob powers in citi field. >> joe, sandra, inside a very cold citi field right now, and you are right, one down, three to go for these mets, and there's signs of life here at citi field now, a couple hours before game time. the mets have now just taken the field. they have the chance tonight to win another game and go up 2-0 in the series before they head to chicago. they earned that first win last night to get the jump on the cubs. you are right. it is all about power last night. matt harvey limited the cubs to four hits, struck out 9. the

offense came through with big hits too. big long hits. daniel murphy, d'arnaud. >> you've got to have leadership. you've got to have strong leadership, especially in the post season. there's going to be some bad nights and those veteran guys, athena how to help those young guys get through it. the energy the young players bring this time of year is priceless. when you bring young players here they're energizing. the veterans have taken these charter planes for ten years, seven years. >> isn't that great? first pitch just after 8:00. the mets try to extend their lead in this series. in just a few minutes, mets 1st base coach will join me. he knows a thing or two about winning championships. until then we are live at citi field, rob powers channel 7 eyewitness news. we'll see you right back here on the field in just a bit. >> thank you rob. even frigid weather can't stop mets fans from whipping

they want this team to achieve legendary status. eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is right outside citi field with the fans tonight. >> reporter: three hours before first pitch, and you can see fans have already started showing up at mcfadden's here at citi field. it will be another cold night for met's fans here at citi field. if this stadium had a roof on it, it would have provided some warmth. fans say the energy inside would have blown the lid off this thing anyway. after that dramatic win in game one, the mets are now three wins away from advancing to the world series. that moment is not lost on fans. that mets fever has their temperature rising. it's been 15 years since the mets last made an appearance in the world series, almost 30 since they won it. mets fans are fired up, and we found a bunch of fans who have now been to every met's post season home game this season.

>> this is what you do. you bleed orange and blue. you've got to support. >> it's been a lot of fun. it really has. as a matter of fact my son's a yankee fan. i went over to the yankee playoff game. it seems like they're used to winning over there. here even when you win you're kind of shocked. >> strong pitching beats good hitting. if syndergaard is really good on this game and shuts them down we have a good chance. >> reporter: back here live, you can see these mets fans amazins pull off another win tonight, i don't think any of these fans will care what the temperature is. we're here live at citi field, news. >> i think you're right, and remember channel 7 is your station for following the met's road to the world series. stay with us for complete coverage, and at abc7ny you can find photos of mets fans showing off their blue and orange pride. send us your pics via twitter

or facebook, and be sure to use the hashtag abc7ny. if fans and players thought it was chilly during game 1, wait until tonight. temperatures are dropping, and it feels more like mid-november than october. the forecast for first pitch calls for a temperature of only 45 degrees. that's without the windchill. people all across the new york metropolitan area felt the better chill today. look at people in rutherford new jersey, all bundled up as they walked around. lots of people on the west side to stay warm. let's get a check on the chilly meteorologist jeff smith. >> tonight will be the coldest night we've had since april the 1st. temperatures in the upper 40s right now in the park and at flushing. check this out, you go north and west you're only sitting at 36 degrees at monticello, and we have had reports at times during the afternoon of snowflakes falling, especially

we also got reports on long island of flurries. 44 is your windchills. wind still gusting upwards of 20 miles per hour. we have freeze warning in effect through tonight through monday at 10 a.m. for much of the tri-state region. the only exception being the five boroughs of new york city, southern parts of say coastal nassau county and coastal parts of new jersey. elsewhere this effectively will be ending the growing season. any type of potted plants you have outside you want to bring them outdoors. they will die in this type of weather. here's our radar picture right now showing these scattered sprinkles. many of these are not reaching the ground. you look on here, a little bit of white showing up, especially on the highest elevations. that means there's a little bit of snow falling in some of these locations. we have video from two different locations in the tri- state area: this here from stormville in dutchess county, some snow falling there, and next half hour we'll show you some video that we shot from the poconos we got from a

viewer in the poconos in pennsylvania. it's going to be a cold night coming up tonight. they've had several inches of snow, 8 inches of snow coming in off lake ontario. here's that nlcs game, two forecasts, 45 feeling more like the 30s. you've got to bundle up. we'll have that full accuweather forecast coming up later in the half hour. we'll see you then. a sad update to a story we've been closely following on eyewitness news. a 12-year-old girl on long island struck by a stray bullet has died. dejah joyner has pronounced dead at winthrop hospital in minneola last night. she got hit by a bullet while standing in her living room. >> wort that dejah had passed rattled this community. folks have been coming out and leaving balloons at this memorial. these are friends who knew her prognosis was not good but were

still hoping, praying the 12- year-old would pull through this. just a few hours ago, dejah's mom and dad keisha and damon joyner made their first appearance since their daughter's passing, clutching one of her stuffed animals, the couple walked out of their home the same place where friday night dejah was standing in her living room. a stray bullet pierced the front window striking the 7th grader in her head. today members of the church where she went held a prayer judge ill. sources tell eyewitness news detectives are looking at surveillance video that shows someone getting out of a car in front of dejah's home. a second fire and misses the intended target. it's not clear who the bullet was for but those who knew dejah say a brilliant light was dimmed. >> we pray with them, talk with them, they're in deep pain, crying without ceasing. they're broken.

only that, they are relatives. they are related to other members in my congregation, yes, so the pain is felt here. >> reporter: for the mayor of hempstead wayne hall is organizing what he calls an evening of outrage. he wants folks to come out tuesday night at 7 to express their frustration that once again a family is in mourning over a loved one shot and killed. a $75,000 reward is out there. also coming up at 6, you'll learn more about dejah. she was a girl scout, a ray of sunshine in this neighborhood. a little girl who was loved by so many people. for now we're live in hempstead, kemberly richardson channel 7 eyewitness news. new details police say they're now investigating the death of a woman in queens as a homicide. investigators say 28-year-old miriam velez's burned body was

detectives are looking for her boyfriend, carlos leon. she died hours before she was set to return to her native guatemala. overseas now, more violence in the mideast. one israeli has been killed and six others wounded in an attack israel. police say two attackers entered that station and began shooting and stabbing it is the latest in a month- long series of stabbings and other attacks that increased security measures have failed to halt, and it comes as bill de blasio makes his first visit city. jerusalem. >> his fourth visit here, his first since taking office, mare your de blasio arrives to a tensions and escalating violence. >> a painful moment here in israel. it's a moment when i'm certainly here in solidarity

at the same time we have to think of those who are trying to move things forward. >> determined to do his visit slightly differently than his predecessor he scheduled a sit down at the hand in hand school meeting both palestinian and israeli students. he considered a trip to the west bank, though, ultimately ruled that out due to security concerns. visiting the western wall twice during his weekend, he met with mayors of both jerusalem and tel aviv and last night visited a hospital treating those wounded in recent attacks. when you're under attack, we feel under attack too, and i'm honored to be here in that spirit of solidarity and a sense of common destiny. >> finishing out his visit meeting prime minister netanyahu and visiting the holocaust memorial, he called for the world to fight indifference and hatred, especially at what he called this painful moment. sandra, joe. >> thank you. secretary of state john kerry

israeli and palestinian leaders this week to discuss the surge in violence in the region there. mr. kerry says he will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in germany on thursday. he will then travel to jordan for talks with palestinian leader mahmoud abbas. the state department says the meeting will address the plan to end the recent waves of attacks and unrest in jerusalem and the west bank. mets magic is back but it is taking in a playoff game. it's going to cost you. coming up on eyewitness news, the skyrocketing price of tickets, why they've jumped so much. >> also taking steps to stamp out breast cancer. we'll show you how thousands of walkers from all across our area participated in the making

way back when, mayor laguardia and non-profits ghi and hip, now called emblemhealth,

made sure working new yorkers had quality, affordable healthcare. who's caring for you? emblemhealth: what care feels like... in the neighborhood. the morning chill didn't keep walkers in new york city and around the concerned from taking park in the american cancer society's making strides against breast cancer walk. eyewitness news anchor sade baderinwa and meteorologist amy freeze led teams in central park today uniting people with one common goal, stomping out breast cancer. >> anthony johnson walked with the teams this morning in newark. making strides is the largest

awareness events in the nation. eyewitness news stacey sager was at the walk in jones beach. >> talk to anyone in this crowd, and the first thing they'll tell you when you have breast cancer, time matters most. every bit of it. >> survivor five and a half years, i had ivc inflammatory breast cancer. >> 12 years this past february. >> i was diagnosed when i was 27. it was three months before my wedding. >> and so they take the time in this weekend's freezing cold weather to come here to jones beach, 65,000 of them for the american cancer society's making strides against breast cancer walk. many have already come through the struggle and are thriving. >> and i'm now 65 and retired, and i am living the life. >> others taking it day by day and doing more than many could do for the cause in a lifetime. >> i can't even believe it you

>> and how much have you raised this year. >> about 30,000 this year, $30,000. >> and it feels like family on a mission. >> we're the second largest funder of cancer research behind only the federal government. so your money is going towards research and services to help those in need. >> but the fight continues on so many fronts. >> i want to give a shoutout to all the caregivers out there because it is so -- >> never losing site of people like mike who lost his wife laurie only two months ago. >> i brought some ashes with me. i'm going to let them go today. we have friends, some of her girlfriends are here. it's, you know, it's been tough. it's been tough. >> a painful reminder of why they'll continue to come here year after year. at jones beach, i'm stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> looks like everybody was dressed for the weather this morning. it was a gorgeous day. a little bit chilly but gorgeous. >> sunshine. >> and some snowflakes. >> yes. >> in parts of the area.

>> just got a report from the national weather service that bridgeport set their daily snowfall record today. a trace of snow. they had a couple of flakes that came down. that had never happened on october the 18th before. >> i don't think they want it to happen again. >> i don't think they want it to happen this early again. we head outside, it's a cold evening out there. you're really going to bundle up if you're headed out to the met's game, that picture over towards central park and over towards midtown. 48 degrees. that wind is northwest at 8 gusting up to 20 miles per hour. the low humidity has made it so a lot of these rain and snow showers haven't actually made it all the way down to the ground, but in the higher elevations especially, it's been a different story. i showed you that video before from up in dutchess county, higher elevations getting snow flurries. pressure 30.29 and rising. we just eked out 50 degrees in the city after a 38, way, way below normal. 10 to 15 degrees below normal for this time of the year.

the sun going down in a little under an hour at 6:12. temperatures will tumble into the 20s north and west with a hard freeze, not only north and west though, also on the pine barrens of long island and just inland of the jersey shore, you're probably getting into the 20s as well. low to mid-30s tonight for new york city and the coast, so it won't be a hard freeze here, but a widespread frost in parts of the city, and then still cool tomorrow followed by a big turn around on tuesday. wait until you see the seven- day forecast. it's a big roller coaster ride on the upward side. 48 in newark right now, 48 at flushing right near citi field. you're 50 at jfk airport. 34, though, so near freezing already at monticello. you didn't really get out of the 30s in those areas well north and west of the city. there's that freeze warning that we have in effect on the radar showing a couple of showers above rain and/or snow, mainly in the form of some snowflakes up over parts of

lows tonight down into the 20s in widespread areas north and west of the city. highs tomorrow back up to about 52 or so. there will be a lot of sunshine. there will be a whole lot less wind. it will feel better. accuweather forecast for tonight, a chilly breeze this evening, and then the wind calms down. it will be cold with patchy clouds a low down to 36. still cool tomorrow, plenty of sun. the high getting up to 52. tomorrow night clear, not as cold. we're down to 47 in the 30s in the suburbs. here's your accuweather seven- day forecast, check this out. tuesday, warmer, 68. how about 71 for wednesday and thursday. the only shot at maybe getting a shower would be thursday afternoon, a weak front moves on by. behind that front it does turn cooler, more seasonal for friday and saturday. mid-60s again by next sunday. >> so there you have it. >> that's a turn around. >> big one. >> all right. thank you, jeff. >> coming up on eyewitness news, the nypd officer who

turned the tables on a would be robber who was brandishing a razor. >> also ahead a car rolls over and bursts into flames on the garden state parkway. >> and the key part of the mets

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game 2 of the nlcs. here is another live look out at citi field in queens. >> a mets 3rd base coach tim tuffle is a man who bridges the mets teams of yesterday with the team of today. the greenwich connecticut resident was the mets 2nd baseman when the team won the title in 1986. eyewitness news sports anchor rob powers just spoke with him. >> the mets returned to the scene of the win tonight, but to make the game 1 victory mean that much more they come back tonight against the cubs and try to get the win in game number 2, and for a look back at last night and a look back at the championship drive of 86 and this year, what could be this year, tim tuffle 1st base coach, first of all let's gauge the temperature in that room, the guys coming back after the game last night. >> i think they're very ready. it's sunday. it's football sunday and they're all watching football games and relaxed. really nothing's changed. i think the guys are confident

going to stay the course. >> does it remind you at all of what happened here in 86, the team that you were on? >> well, 86 we had such a big lead all yearlong. we didn't have that luxury this year. this year was a dog fight right to the end, but going into the playoffs it's the same thing. we were the underdogs against boston. i think they were the team to beat in the world series. i think when we went out to l. a. we were the underdogs there, so we had similarities in that respect. i think if we take this series here the emotions are very high for the world series. >> have you had a chance? i know you're working while we're enjoying the gauge but have you had a chance to sit back and enjoy this run that this team has been on? >> yeah. i mean, you know, i've got the best seat in the house. i get to watch all the action. this is actually a little less nerving than playing, you know, as a coach being a player, you know, you're thinking about all

the possibilities that could happen to you out in the field. 3rd base coach you do a lot of watching. i have some decisions to make, so i'm actually enjoying this a whole lot more, i think, than when i was playing. >> you called murph over to 3rd base in that dodgers series didn't you. >> we give him all the credit when he does things like that right and there's other times where it doesn't work out so well. murph is a heads-up player, he's a ballplayer. what a great moment. >> so close to game time, thanks for coming out and spending a few minutes with our viewers at home. tim tuffle, it's the mets, it's the cubs later on tonight here at citi field. >> he's got the best job. >> he does. >> we know about the matchup between the mets and the cubs, but how about new york versus chicago. >> well, it's the win did i city, chicago, of course, against the big apple, and we have to say the big apple is probably a better name. >> i agree with that. >> chicago's tallest building is the willis tower, which

rises 1451 feet. but new york's tallest building is 1 world trade center, and it's 1792 feet. >> chicago is famous for its deep dish style pizza pies, but new york is famous for thin crust slices, which you can fold and eat the way pizza was meant to be taken in. >> exactly. >> and folks in chicago like to heap condiments on top of their hot dogs but here in new york city it's just mustard and ketchup. i like just mustard. >> new york has that famous destination in brooklyn, in chicago it's the navy pier, not even close. >> chicago has michael jordan, a legend of course, but new york has the knicks. >> okay. so they get one. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> we'll have to give them that one. >> before you can take time out to head to the ball game, you might need to take out a loan.

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you're watching new york's number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news at 5 with joe torrez, sandra bookman, laura behnke and meteorologist jeff smith. now eyewitness news continues. >> here's a look at tonight's top stories, the mets and their

of the nlcs after beating the chicago cubs last night. matt harvey limited the cubs to four hits over 7 and 2/3 innings in the mets 4-2 win. >> here's a live look at citi field, jimmy kimmel will throw the ceremonial first pitch. chicago goes with cy young award candidate jake arrieta, the mets go with rookie noah syndergaard. game time temperature expected to be 45 degrees. >> good evening, i'm joe torrez. >> and i'm sandra bookman. mets mania is grabbing ahold of mets fans. the ticket prices have skyrocketed. lucy yang is outside of citi field with more on the playoff price hike. lucy. >> well, joe and sandra, if you don't have season tickets already, and you are subject to having to buy your playoff tickets on the internet or from scalpers, be prepared to pay dearly, but frankly fans told us today it is worth every penny to come out here and root for their home team.

>> mike licid and his 14-year- old shortstop jake got up at 4 a.m., hopped on a flight from north carolina just to catch a ball game. >> my son jake here has never seen the mets. i saw him in 86. >> you can take the family out of queens but you can't take the met out of this family. they spent $800 for two seats not to mention the plane tickets and other costs. this. >> greg shriver spent almost 500 dollars to give his 12-year- memory. >> the mets don't get to the playoffs that often. it will be the first time for playoff game. it was worth it. >> do you think $500 for two tickets is a lot? >> yes. i think it should be lower because we're sitting high up. >> let's go mets, let's go mets. >> with all the fever building over the mets, one point sure to give fans some stress in their wallets the soaring price of tickets. tickets are actually double the price in chicago.

>> there's a fair amount of traffic from folks in illinois. it's so much cheaper to see the games here in new york. it'd be cheaper to fly here for the weekend and see a game at citi field than it would be at wrigley field. >> you can afford to make it happen, why not see the mets. that's what it's all about. >> reporter: now standing room tickets right now are averaging about $150 a ticket. although one fellow who went by me a few minutes say he paid $200 for his standing room only ticket, and here is one piece of advice from seat geek, if you can wait until the very last minute, you just might be able to snag a deal. we're live outside citi field, i'm lucy yang for channel 7 eyewitness news. >> lucy thank you very much. one person is dead after a fiery crash on the garden state parkway. police say 26-year-old john muller lost control of his car this morning as he exited a toll plaza in paramus. that car struck a concrete median and flipped over and

erupted in flames. muller was pronounced dead at the scene. state police are investigating what caused him to lose control. new at 5:00, a group of motorcyclists gathered for a party in suffolk county, but police had different plans. they arrested 11 bikers at duffy's ale house in lindenhurst. officers seized eight guns, a variety of drugs in three vehicles. those arrested faced drugs and weapons charges. the bikers had gathered to relaunch long island's pagan motorcycle club. some fireworks in the race for president today. two of the biggest names in the republican field traded a tax on tv. plus, hillary clinton weighed in on and when he should decide to join the campaign. abc's devin dwyer reports from washington. >> overnight vice president biden left his political deliberations in delaware for a glitzy gala in new york city. >> it may be the greatest honor

i've ever received in my public life. >> biden accepting the human rights award as his decision on the 2016 campaign is imminent. the sticking point that lingering grief over the death of his son beau. >> to put one foot in front of the other as my son beau used to say keep moving forward. >> biden's been calling supporters to ready for a run. the president of the nation's largest firefighters union telling us he spoke personally with the vp on friday and got every indication he is running. the firefighters have backed biden in the past. >> i've got the firefighters. i'm going to win. >> and if chosen to not endorse hillary clinton for 2016, officials saying it's very likely they'll back biden if he gets in. the only running biden's been doing is to catch his grandkids on the athletic field. at his grandson's flag football game, there was biden cheering on the sidelines and playing with the family dog champ. meanwhile, hillary clinton campaigning in alabama unveiling a katy perry concert

in iowa next week that goes head to head with bernie sanders and his big bash, rocking the burn. >> the vice president's office tells us officially he has no plans to go to iowa this week or put on a rival concert. biden will be back here at the white house tomorrow for a conference on climate change. deadly chaos broke out at a zombie themed festival in florida. now police are searching for the shooter who opened fire on a crowd of costumed revelers in the street. 20-year-old expavius tieerer taylor was killed in the shooting at the zombiecon in fort myers just before midnight. four others suffered nonlife- threatening injuries. eyewitnesses and emergency responders described the panic and confusion at the scene. >> we started running because we saw a hoard of people running and we heard two really loud bangs. >> that many people, there was people taking cover, you know,

officers were running towards the shots, and that's when we located victims. >> authorities are reviewing surveillance videos from the area for images of the gunman. no motive or suspect has been identified. friends and relatives are saying their final good-byes to a young mother who was killed outside of a manhattan nightclub. funeral services started about an hour ago for walikque faussett until queens. the 24-year-old was shot near motivo nightclub in the flat iron neighborhood early monday. dalone jamison opened fire after getting kicked out of motivo. he is charged in a city police officer stopped an armed robbery on a brooklyn subway plat tomorrow. the nypd says a man with this razor said open your pockets as he walked towards officer daniel nervous in the j street station.

mervis who had pulled out his 24-year-old joshua muniz of brownsville. happening tomorrow, federal crews will begin the work of cleaning up the site of a connecticut. that fire happened in an abandoned factory in bridgeport over a year ago. officials say the environmental begin cleaning and decontaminating the area as part of a $4.2 million grant. we stay in connecticut. a deadly accident fall at yale university, a man working at yale central power plant fell from a ladder inside a smokestack yesterday. a university spokeswoman says the victim fell about 50 feet. it took rescuers an hour to cut through the side of the smokestack to rescue him. he was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead just a short time later. in suffolk county, police are trying to figure out how a

and a drugstore in central islip. islip avenue was closed when that truck rammed into the pharmacy last night. police are still looking for the driver who left the scene. an armed suspect is in custody after being shot by police in the parking lot of a pennsylvania wal-mart. eyewitnesses say the gunman was firing shots from a semiautomatic rifle in that afternoon. the gunfire. no one else was hurt. eyewitnesses ducked for cover and called police. >> i heard gunfire, and i came down and people were hiding behind their vehicles. >> like nine cop cars pulled up and someone started shooting, started ducking. they said nobody's getting hurt. >> the suspect is accused of firing shots a the responding officers. those officers returned fire and hit the man twice. he is said to be undergoing surgery. mexican authorities are searching the rugged mountains

he was flown in his home state after he escaped from prison in july. it captured the pilot who flew guzman into hiding on a small plane. a statement from mexico's security cabinet says guzman injured his leg and face while escaping mexican marines in the rugged terrain. opening statements begin tomorrow in the case against a man accused in the mob heist immortalized in the movie good vincent asaro was arrested last year after being accused of taking part in the $6 million robbery at kennedy airport. the now 80-year-old helped plan that heist in 1978. he's accused of spending most of the $750,000 that he got in the robbery at the racetrack. a new look at sleep medicine. coming up on eyewitness news there's a new drug for people suffering from insomnia. consumer reports put it is to the test.

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thousands of people hit the streets in manhattan for a good cause this morning. it is the 26th annual walk to park. organizers say the event will

people in new york city living with alzheimer's disease. for people with insomnia, there's a new prescription sleep drug. it's called belsomra, it acts on the brain a little differently than current medications like ambien. consumer reports took a closer look to see how well it works and how safe it is. here's anchor sade baderinwa. >> as many as 70 million americans are all too familiar with tossing and turning, constantly checking the time and waking up exhausted. susan hadara worries how her insomnia will effect her waking hours. >> i have to be careful i'm not crashing my car or walking into a wall. >> ahh sleep, and your doctor about belsomra. >> this tv ad promotes its new sleep medication and how it's different chemically from older medications. consumer reports worked with medical experts at dartmouth medical school to analyze the effectiveness and safety.

people who took 15 or 20- milligrams of belsomra got an average of about 16 minutes more sleep per night and fell asleep about 6 minutes faster compared to those who took a placebo. >> the studies show that the small improvements in sleep didn't necessarily translate into people feeling more refreshed. >> one of the most common side effects is next day drowsiness. that happened more than twice as often with people who were in the test group versus people who took applause bow. >> there were rare reports of hallucinations and temporary paralysis. >> since all prescription sleep medications can have serious side effects and offer only a limited before the we recommend trying other strategies first and avoiding drugs if at all possible. >> for people with occasional insomnia this can help, quit smoking, cutting back on calf fee and alcohol in the afternoon and evening and not watching tv or using a computer in bed.

for those with more persistent sleepiness working with a cognitive behavioral therapist has been found to help up to 80% of chronic insomnia sufferers. >> sade baderinwa channel 7 eyewitness news. >> new york officials are celebrating and promoting the state's free online job listings. the labor department says there now are more than 132,000 job listings on the jobs express website. that is a record high. that site sorts jobs by region and occupation allowing job seekers to narrow down searches. unemployment statewide was 5.1% in september. a new park takes route under the lower east side. >> coming up on eyewitness news an underground movement in new york city as the low line takes going green to a whole new level. >> and we have a wide swath of the tri-state area under a freeze warning right through tomorrow morning, also snowflakes in a couple locations north and west, but

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tu the dreamers who hope to transform an abandoned underground trolley terminal into a park are now testing their concept in manhattan. the low line lab just opened on the lower east side. rooftops solar panels and mirrors send sunlight down into the warehouse, much like what would happen in this future park. dozens of plant varieties are spread out across the essex street space. >> we're hoping to get tons of people in here, hopefully thousands of people will come and visit the lab, tell us what they think engage with science and technology, maybe learn a little something about how we can grow plants underground. potentially we can come up with more inspiring ideas.

it's open to the public on saturday and sunday afternoons intriguing idea. >> big experiment going on there. >> the good news is looks like those plants wouldn't be coming in right now. >> freeze last night. >> if you do have some plants outside off the deck or something you might want to tonight. if you can't do that, you might want to just cover it up. we have those freeze warnings in effect for much of the area tomorrow. we're going to head outside tomorrow, and this camera's been shaking around a little bit because that wind is still an issue here. the windchill over at citi field is about 41 degrees, and that's going to keep falling during the evening hours, and that's why you really have to bundle up out there if you're heading to that nlcs game 2. 48 degrees right now. sunny skies, that wind coming in from the northwest at 8 sustained, but gusting still up to 20 miles per hour, 48 at flushing queens, right near citi field.

you're 34, though at monticello, and we have had occasional snowflakes well north and west of the city, even a couple of snowflakes reported closer to the city on parts of long island into connecticut. right now. it feels like 38 in the bronx. there's that freeze warning in on monday. the radar picture showing a couple of very light sprinkles and showers moving across parts of the area, and these have been mixed with snowflakes north and west of the city, especially in parts of sullivan county, pennsylvania, western parts of orange county getting in on the act, but nothing compared to what they've had coming in off the great lakes, york. that's right on the shoreline from oswego. here's that forecast for the mets game tonight at 8:07, first pitch around 45 degrees. it will feel like the 30s. the only good news is the wind deeper into the night. lows tonight getting down into

if we're lucky we crack the 50- degree mark tomorrow. accuweather forecast, a chilly breeze in the evening, and then the wind calming down a little bit overnight. patchy clouds, 36 in the city, suburbs. 52 tomorrow, so still cool, a lot of sunshine, a lot less wind than we've had the past couple of days. it's a much warmer afternoon on we're talking upper 60s. so we go from way below average to well above average, especially by the middle part of the week. wednesday and thursday both 71 degrees. there could be a shower late through. cooler friday, saturday, and normal by sunday. >> we're living for hump day. >> okay. >> thank you, sir. >> all right. a comedian makes a victorious comeback following a tragic

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>> people are wondering, can this be. does he have 100% mental capacity, but the truth is i never did [ laughter ] >> paying tribute to the show that launched him to stardom and rushed by a group hug from his 30 rock costars including tina fey and alec baldwin. >> good god tracy. >> hello, it's me, astronaut jones. >> to a night filled with his most famous over the top characters. >> a heartfelt and hilarious comeback to the 46-year-old critically injured in a 2014 crash. >> there's a terrible accident. the car flipped. it's on its side. >> the collision with a speeding wal-mart tractor- trailer injured the star and two others and killing a fellow comedian. morgan spending five weeks in the hospital taking a long road to recovery. >> how are you doing tracy? >> hey, hey. >> you look good man. >> until you can be returned to your home, we are willing to help you.

in return we ask that you help us make contact and understand their strange ways. >> but it was on the stage that made him famous where morgan himself said it best. >> i'm black and better than ever. >> coming up on eyewitness news at 6, blue and orange is the new black, the next swing back into action tonight at citi field in the game 2 of the nlcs, live team coverage straight ahead. >> and developing now, police launch an investigation after they say a homeless man attacked a woman in a restroom at union square park.