>> whipping a rapist caught on camera shopping for a victim. three women attacked here in just three hours. tonight new york crops want to catch this guy before he rapes again. >> whipping winds in the midwest moving here right now and they're expected to arrive tomorrow. first tonight, breaking news. a teenage girl shot in the face and killed. the moments leading up to her

i'm bill ritter. cops right now questioning witnesses. this after the 16-year-old's body was found in the claremont section of the bronx. >> aj ross on the scene for us. >> it's a tragic story, just 16 years old when her entire life ahead of her. police have been here off this apartment off east 171st for several hours, trying to piece together just how this deadly shooting occurred. at this hour they're still collecting evidence and interviewing several eyewitnesss who were inside the home with the victim. >> reporter: a desperate 911 call brought police to the first floor of east 171st and college avenue after 6:00 this evening. when detectives arrived they found a 16-year-old girl dead inside, shot in the face. police quickly secured the scene, limiting access to the building as they collected evidence and talked with witnesses.

a young man was escorted from the building in handcuffs along with a woman who was placed in the back of a detective's car. investigators say there were several people inside the same apartment with the girl when the deadly shooting occurred. so far no gun has been recovered from the scene. we spoke with a neighbor who believes she may have seen the victim in passing and says she's now praying for the family. >> it's really sad. you send your kids to school and they don't come home. it's really sad. >> at this hour you can see police still here at the front door of this apartment at east 171st street. police confirmed this 16-year-old girl, she did not live here. she was just visiting. so far no arrests have been made in this case. live in the claremont section of the bronx, aj ross, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> we'll have the latest tomorrow beginning at 4:30. new york about to become

tonight provided by the real windy city. the 8-mile long chicago skyway bridge shut down tonight, just too dang windy. so what are we in store for? meteorologist lee goldberg tracking it all at the weather wall. >> waves on lake michigan big enough for surfing earlier. now our cameras starting to react to some of that wind picking up. we're at 58. we'll be dropping. temperatures not the problem. west wind sustain ed at 15. gusts off the north and west. just the beginning. we were able to avoid the heavy rains with this system. showers the last of them moving away we had a couple hours ago. it's a huge storm and we missed the heavy rain but we can't miss the impact of the big wind field. sampling those winds underneath that low we're gusting to near 40 miles per hour. that's in our future tomorrow afternoon. clearing and breezy tomorrow night. by dawn look for wind gusts around 25 miles per hour. because it's a lot drier

tomorrow morning it will feel a lot chillier. temperatures gusts to 40 miles per hour tomorrow expect travel delays and watch out for gusts this high. we'll have your full accuweather forecast in just a few minutes. new information, the rape of a woman on the lower east side. josh einiger posted video of the suspect on twitter. apparently this morning. the suspect now linked to other crimes within hours of the latest attack. josh einiger on the scene. cops say this suspect set out early this morning with one a woman. he tried in two different locations but failed then he arrived here at this building at the baruch houses where he was able to walk through that door which was supposed to be locked. once inside, he stalked his prey. >> reporter: a team of housing

this building in the baruch houses to fix the lock that's meant to keep intruders out. didn't work this morning. >> why did it have to happen now for them to fix the doors? >> reporter: police say this man had been trolling lower manhattan, hunting for a woman to rape. he followed a 33-year-old in to her james street apartment building and grabbed her but she fought him off. he then followed a 24-year-old woman in to her building but she screamed and he fled. an hour after that the baruch houses. he walked through the unlocked door and up the stairs, encountered a 40-year-old mother as she entered her apartment. pushed her in and raped her. >> she was always very polite. said good morning to you, how you doing. very calm person. >> reporter: nifep -- nicha takes the security seriously. security cameras here did work to give detectives the footage they need. >> look at this.

long time already and they haven't fixed it. >> reporter: it wasn't until after dark that they finally fixed the door. once broken again, it often takes weeks for the workers to return. >> i have two lauxz -- two locks in my house. you have to call before you get in my house. then it's like downstairs, it's like whoever. >> they should have fixed it a long time ago. why we have to wait? why we have to pay for other people's mistakes? >> the magnetic lock on that door and at least one other in the complex that also was broken are now working properly at this point. in the meantime police are hoping you'll take a very good look at that surveillance video. we're posting it on our website at abc7ny. if you recognize the suspect, cops are hoping you'll call them so they can get him off the street before he strikes again. josh einiger, channel 7 eyewitness news. breaking news out of syria, the isis militant known as

jihadi john reportedly killed in a u.s. air strike. officials tell abc news the masked terrorist who beheaded several western hostages and was in charge of propaganda for isis was hit by a drone in the city of rocka earlier tonight. the militant raised in london but traveled to syria to join isis in 2012. new at 11:00, how did new york city emts declare a woman dead but she wasn't? an investigation now underway in queens. emts and new york cops at the woman's apartment this morning in the richland hills section. the 32-year-old had shot herself in head. emts declared her dead. they left. an hour later police heard noises coming from her. surprise. she was alive. tonight she's in critical condition. we have new video. a drive-by shoot ing on a bicycle and it was caught on camera in the bronx. tonight the shooter is on the loose. police say the man rode past a 15-year-old boy. happened last week in the morrisania section. the boy was

not hit by any of the bullets. surveillance shows a suspect walking up to a car in stanford on sunday dousing it with some sort of accelerant, then lighting the vehicle on fire. the car erupts in a ball of flames and is gutted. police are searching for the man who was driving a light colored honda civic. a huge defeat tonight for federal prosecutors in new york. the mob boss who they spent decades investigating tonight acquitted of plotting the heist at jfk, one of the most notorious crimes in new york history and the plot for "good fellas." asaro now a free man. the jury believed he didn't plan the crime. >> if walls could talk, right? this used to be a bar called robert's lounge, a notorious mob headquarters for three decades and vincent asaro's favorite

watering hole. the feds believe the heist was planned right here in this bar by somebody but today a jury said it sure wasn't asaro. >> reporter: i'm free vincent asaro shouted today after a stunning not guilty verdict. >> i feel great and i like to thank the u.s. marshal service for treating me great. i can't say the same for the fbi. >> reporter: he was charged in the infamous 1978 lufthansa heist, the biggest robbery in history back then, and later the centerpiece in the hollywood movie "good fellas." >> the key to winning the case is our client is innocent of the charges. >> reporter: it took 35 years for federal prosecutors to

finally bring a racketeering case against asaro but a long line of turn coat mobsters who testified about asaro's alleged role in the robbery apparently was not enough to convince the jury and that left asaro making plans. >> have a good meal, see my family. >> he said he's been eating baloney sandwiches in jail for the last couple years. this is no longer a mob hangout. it's called georgetown kingston now but the owner tells me every once in a while a couple from the old crowd stop in and sit at the bar and talk about old times. reporting live from ozone park, jim dolan, channel 7 eyewitness news. a serial bus thief is expected to be arraigned overnight for the 30th time. darius mccullom is accused of stealing a greyhound bus from the port authority yesterday. he was arrested two hours later when police spotted the bus in park slope, brooklyn. mccullom

following convictions for hijacking a subway train and taking buses. putting people in midtown manhattan on lockdown. the building on 5th avenue lockdown for two hours this afternoon while mese searched for the man. this morning the man broke into a home on madison avenue. the suspect allegedly shoved her and ran away with stolen property. straight ahead on eyewitness news at 11:00, a former spokesman for the subway sandwich shops could be facing a long stint behind bars. exactly how long will he be locked up for? >> the cast of "how to get away with murder" spilling the beans. talking about what it's like to star in the show. >> tie down the patio furniture. whipping winds

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former subway pitchman jared fogle facing 12 and a half years in prison. prosecutors asking for the maximum sentence on fogle's child pornography and sex crime charges. fogle's attorney asked for five years, the minimum under the agreement. sentencing comes a week from today. another scandal for the secret service. a you -- a uniformed agent under arrest accused of sending obscene texts to someone he thought was a teenage girl. lee robert morris surrendered today. he sent obscene pictures and chatted online with undercover agents pretending to be a 14-year-old girl, sometimes on duty checking i.d.s at the white house. wreckage found today of a cargo ship that sank in bahamas during hurricane joaquin. they

haven't found el faro's black box data recorder. the u.s.-based ship went down with 33 crew members onboard after breaking down the path of the storm last month. the plot thickens once again on abc's wildly popular "how to get away with murder" and it just so happens the cast was here in new york at the paley center. the show's star, viola davis talking about the impact on her life. >> reporter: at the paley center where the best of tv is preserved, a sure sign of this show's importance. >> it means a lot because it means like i feel i'm apart of a bigger conversation which is what is the impact of television in the 21st century. >> reporter: viola davis led a burr aid of her fellow cast members to talk about how to get away with murder. >> it's just amazing. the fact that like cherish our show as much as we do and want to be able to bring it to audiences and discuss it more in depth. it's a phenomenal honor.

>> it's having the impact that we hoped it would and at this moment residents with a larger audience than i would have ever dreamed. >> reporter: 1 million new yorkers watch anna lee teach her law students each week. >> i keep having to pinch myself because i went to drama school here at nyu. i'm rolling deep with this cast that i love. >> reporter: the great star carrie grant once told me when the crowd stops noticing you, worrying. not much chance of that happening with this cast. from the paley center in midtown, sandra bookman, -- sandy kenyon channel 7 eyewitness news. >> you can see how to get away eyewitness news at 11:00. if you're one of those that have been yearning to see wish granted. mark zuckerberg tonight. abc news footage from

north korea. you can check out every angle of the scene. technology now available for pretty cool. >> you've done that, lee. [ laughter ] so we've got some whipping winds coming. >> bare trees by the end of saturday. those winds are by tomorrow morning, 25-mile-per-hour winds and 40-mile-per-hour gusts later in the afternoon. already you can see the cameras looking toward one world trade, already shaking a little bit. 58 degrees. west wind at 13 to 23. 61 the high today and with some humidity and a couple showers, it felt really mild this evening. it will not tomorrow morning even though we start the day 45 to 50. 55 the average. there are your sunrise and sunset times. 53, andover. we're ready to drop in to the upper 40s in the poconos. the cold front just went through an hour ago.

let's say 12 to 25 miles per hour tomorrow morning. fair amount of sunshine. there's definitely some cloudiness mixing in with the sun tomorrow. gusts to 30 by midday and certainly 35 to 40 during the afternoon. you've got your highs in the 55 to 59 or 60-degree range. doesn't feel as warm as today because the humidity is so much lower. one round of showers, we talked about the front that still had to come through and a couple showers impacted the area. they've now moved out. it's a massive storm. you can see how expansive it is and huge, wind snow on the backside of the storm so it's carrying pretty chilly air. it will be dropping over the next couple of days especially noticeable tomorrow night in to saturday. in the 30s to near freezing and wind chills that are dropping in to the teens and 20s. good news for us, this is a quick cold shot. only going to last through saturday then will start to recover after sunday morning. here's your futurecast. by tomorrow morning, sunshine, a few patchy clouds. more off to the north and west. 45 to 50.

remember the gust y wind makes it feel like low 40s. probably a high in the mid and upper 50s. more clouds mixing in and that gusty breeze. even a couple flurries could sneak in to the catskills tomorrow night. there are your winds during the afternoon. sustained winds with the numbers around 20 miles per hour. look at the red. near 40-mile-per-hour gusts a possibility. getting really gusty tomorrow. mid and upper 50s. reinforcing cold shot tomorrow night. only 50 feeling like 40s all day long. it will be chilly on saturday. here's your accuweather forecast. mostly clear at 7:00 in the morning. it's a high of 58. sunny to partly cloudy . very windy. sunglasses and overcoat. be careful in the area roadway especially on the overpasses and bridges. windy and chilly. 42. 30s in the suburbs. if you look at the 7-day, look at the wind chills saturday morning. upper 20s to lower 30s. must more

we bounce back in to the 60s next week. lots of sunshine. away from the coast on wednesday, 68 or 70 not even out of the question. bill evans will have an update in the morning. up next, a new transplant that could help women who can't conceive have babies. plus the

my honor tonight to mc the 20th anniversary gala for gilda's club. more than a million dollars raised tonight, money used to support people with cancer. the service is 100% free to those who otherwise cannot afford them. in tonight's health alert, a potentially groundbreaking new transplant procedure for women. the cleveland clinic expected to be the first hospital in the united states to transplant a uterus. transplants will be temporary. it will be removed after the mom has one or two babies. a well known lullaby has a line about a papa buying a baby a diamond ring.

hong kong billionaire to did that for his child. $48 million for the blue diamond. it's the world's most expensive diamond. he also got her a 16 karat pink diamond for $28.7 million. all together he spent about $77 million. >> doesn't mean he's spoiling her necessarily, does it? rob is up next with sports. >> wow. there comes a point where you're just showing off. the jets, the bills, the hype is on rex ryan's return to the meadowlands. a special thursday nighter in the nfl. his new team, who came ready to play? plus a tonight.

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the rex man returns to his home stomping grounds. close. it was kind of cool though. they brought out new uniforms, empire state building all gustied up. fans could hardly contain themselves. rex ryan is in town. here's the moment just after 6:00 tonight when ryan entered the stadium. last year he was the jets head coach fired after a four-win season, landed on his feet in buffalo. back in his old stomping grounds for the first time since. rex ryan returned, old team against his new team. game still in progress just barely. 22-17 bills 4th quarter. offense coming on strong in the 2nd half. both teams trying to sprint to the playoffs. they're going to fight the rest of the way. jets trying to get to 6-3. this has gone final now. bills win 22-17. jets had it on 4th and goal. couldn't get the extra points they needed. yikes. both the jets and the bills now chase the patriots in the standings. they're 8-0 and they come to town sunday. the giants

their work cut out for them. the giants tend to play well in new england in big games. this one may not be super bowl big, but big for big blue. >> you're going against a super bowl team. there's that excitement because you want to go out there and play well. we got an opportunity. hopefully we go out there and play well. let's get to a busy night on ice. two of the top teams in the nhl at the garden. rangers against the blues. rangers came in with a six-game winning streak. 8-0-2 in their last win. one of his 31 saves and he was playing with the lead. matt zuccarello, top shelf, 2-0 rangers. twice the blues made it a one-goal game. each time the rangers respond. ryan mcdonagh way up top. one team goes home happy. one, not so much. rangers win it 6-3. how about that ? that is seven straight wins now. devils on the road in chicago.

defending stanley cup champion blackhawks. chicago evens things up. 2:27 to play. that's a heck of a game. the devils win it 3-2 on the road. on the west coast we get the islanders and l.a. kings. brock nelson, 1st period goal. it's 1-1. that's where they stand early in l.a. some baseball now. the braves trade shortstop andrelton simmons to the angels for erick aybar and a couple prospects. mets checked in on simmons but the braves wanted matt harvey or jacob degrom which is why simmons is an angel tonight. brian mccann wins slugger award in pinstripes. 26 homers, 94 rbi. both career highs. last time he won a silver slugger was back in 2011. another yankee slugger, scott boshis back in the game. new hitting coach for the triple-a team.

part of that yankee run of the 90s. won three titles in the world series mvp in '98 as well. that game at the meadowlands. just after we started. >> you had them. the prognosticator had them winning 19-16. >> had they scored that

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