they stormed the lobby with guns and grenades just as guests at the radisson blu were dining on breakfast. many of those guests scattering when they heard the shooting. >> i left -- which is in a different side from the main entrance of the hotel. and i tried to get in from the back door of the swimming pool of the lobby to see what happened. when i opened the door, i saw on the floor bullets. >> reporter: abc reports six americans were evacuated from the hotel as heavily armed special forces reacted quickly and began a chaotic counteroffensive. troops filled the hallways searching for the terrorists floor by floor. the u.s. embassy in mali warned u.s. citizens there to stay home or shelter in place. many are now contacting family members and meanwhile. president obama reacted from kuala lumpur where he's attending the east asia summit. >> we're monitoring the summit. >> reporter: the luxury hotel has 190 rooms and features a spa, outdoor pool and ballroom.

world. but the attack was perceived by many in france as a new attack on french interest. the french president francois hollande has warned french citizens in sensitive countries to take all necessary precautions. the big unknown right now, just who's behind this attack, is it isis or the african militant group boko haram? so far, no one has claimed responsibility. however, in just the last few minutes, that has changed. and extremist group that split if al-qaeda two years ago has now claimed responsibility for the horrible attack. the group says it wants fighters freed from mali's prisons. now there's still a lot that we are learning about this hostage siege and don't forget stay with eyewitness news and abc news as we get new information we will pass it to you. >> the arrack tasing fear -- attack raising fears in paris as the death toll from last friday's attack rises to 130 after one of the victims sub coupled to wounds in the hospital.

overnight, more searchers throughout france and more weapons seized. abc's marci gonzalez has more right now from paris. >> reporter: yeah david, nearly 190 searches across france overnight. 17 people taken into custody. as we learn more about that massive raid here earlier this week. today investigators working to identify a third body found in the rubble of wednesday's raid. a suburb of paris, police targeted a hideout of the terror cell behind last week's deadly attacks. confirming the mastermind abdelhamid abaaoud was killed. and so was his cousin, a woman friends say drank and did drugs until a year ago when she was radicalized and joined isis. this video capturing the flames and debris bursting from the building as she detonated her suicide vest. >> the fact that isis now has

in europe's history tells us that isis is willing to break any norm of war, any threshold of war, in order to kill. >> reporter: french officials are still searching for two of the terrorists they believe carried out the massacre in paris and looking into how abaaoud a belgian national on terror watch lists was able to travel back and forth between syria and europe over the past year undetected. >> we may cross at those border points eu passport holders are not always checked very carefully. >> reporter: in response, european union ministers today agreed to increase checks and security at the borders. and one week after the terror attacks you can see people still gathering at memorials here and several vigils planned for the evening. marci gonzalez, eyewitness news. paris france. >> stay with us for the continuing investigation and we will update you on developments

and on our social media packages. >> yeah. and news in our area, an extraordinary espionage case that strained u.s. israeli relations for years. but this afternoon, convicted spy jonathan pollard has been released from prison. eyewitness news reporter stacey sager is live in lower manhattan with more for us. stacey? >> reporter: diana, jonathan pollard walked out here just a short time ago after serving 30 years as a convicted spy for israel. he was swarmed with cameras, swarmed with reporters and said very little. >> i'm sorry. i can't comment on anything today. >> reporter: pollard is now 61 years old and he was granted parole this summer after receiving a life sentence in 1987. pollard admitting he gave classified documents to israel when he was a civilian analyst for the u.s. navy. it has been one of the most extraordinary spy sagas

complicating relations for years. today the lawyers called the conditions of his parole unreasonable and unlawful and in fact, they have petitioned to court to have those conditions changed at this point. meanwhile, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is very supportive of pollard's release with this so say. >> as someone who raised this case before a success of u.s. president miss times, i long -- many time, i longed for this day. after three long and difficult decades jonathan is being released. i wish him on his first sabbath that he's going to spend with his family a lot of joy and a peace. >> reporter: now again, these conditions of pollard's parole. he is to remain in the united states for the next five years. something his lawyers are arguing against. he wants to move to israel right away. also he must wear an electronic monitoring device his lawyers also arguing against that. say. and chronic pain in his ankles.

also computer monitoring and his lawyers call that preposterous because pollard of course no longer has access to any classified unless. we're going to have a lot more later today on eyewitness news. for now, we're live outside federal court, in lower manhattan, i'm stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you stacey. the new at noon, the nypd looking for a motorcyclist who struck a pedestrian in queens then ran away from the accident scene on foot. now this happened near partsons boulevard and rose avenue in flushing just before 7:00 this morning. police say a motorcyclist slammed into a 77-year-old person crossing the street. the victim taken to the hospital in critical condition. court appearance today for the third man accused of killing a teacher in new jersey. police say ebenezer bird and two other men murdered 33-year- old janelle melton in 2009. investigators claim the suspects planned to burglarize an empty apartment but broke into her apartment by mistake

all three suspects are being held on $1.5 million bail. all new at noon a well- known dentist in manhattan arrested on child pornography and drug charges. eyewitness news reporter rob nelson is live for us in chelsea more on this. rob? >> reporter: well, good afternoon diana. this window wall gives a very clear look into in office though but what is not clear right now is the extent of the depravity that allegedly happened behind that window. now the dentist who has been arrested his name is john wolf. he was apprehended earlier today at his west village apartment along charles street. now a raid meanwhile though in his chelsea office lasted much of the morning. as fbi officials unloaded files and even luggage from his office. wolf is accused of providing -- providing dental services to a drug dealer in exchange for methamphetamines which he would use but also distribute. but even more frightening, he's accused od using his office to

some of which showed today hers being raped -- showed toddlers being raped by adult men. at this point they're concerned about other victims in the case and also investigating whether some underaged patients were videotaped here at the office along west 15th street. no one wanted to speak with us this morning. many of them seemed completely off-guard by this revolting kind of news. now his family is well-known and generally well respected. at least until this point. but this afternoon he will find himself in downtown brooklyn in federal court to be arraigned. reporting live in chelsea, rob nelson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you rob. new at noon, mayor de predecessor to celebrate a milestone in a program launched by mayor michael bloomberg two years ago. the goal of one million trees was set by the mayor michael bloomberg in 2007 to create a

praise -- de blasio praised his vision and legacy on the environment. >> this vision, it was part of a larger interpretation of how we think about our urban environment and how we protect our health and how we protect our environment for the long haul. and that was rooted in the ground-breaking plan nyc. >> well, the actual one millionth tree was planted in october. however the ceremony was postponed due to the shooting death of nypd randolph holder. mayor de blasio says he hopes to plant 100,000 trees during his administration. >> love it. love all the trees. got a warning about a salmonella outbreak that has made people in our area sick and we're also live with new developments involving a small plane crash in wes chester county. >> plus, parents fuming after a school used stickers to label special needs students. you'll hear the district's explanation. >> and i'm meteorologist bill evans here in the weather center, temperatures are warming up just a little bit above normal. 55 now around the park to

and newark is 57. 59 in jamaica keen queens, might -- queens, might actually get to 60 there this afternoon. got the northwest wind though. a great weather day tomorrow

well, demonstrators disrupted a city council meeting in minneapolis this morning and protested the police shooting of a young man over the weekend. several people were escorted from the meeting after they confronted lawmakers about the death of jamar clark. the 24-year-old fatally shot during a scuffle with police on sunday. some community members say clark was in handcuffs and not confrontational when he was shot. state and federal investigators are looking into the shooting. police out in indiana are questioning four people about

the murder of a pastor's pregnant wife. the men were rounded up in raids conducted at two locations in indianapolis overnight. detectives reportedly went back to look for clothing the suspected killer was seen wearing in surveillance photos. so far, no one is under arrest. a salmonella outbreak licked to imported cucumbers has sickened more than 100 people in the u.s. including several cases in our area. the cdc says more than 800 people have been sickened and four people killed after eating the tainted cucumbers from mexico. the outbreak affecting 38 states including new york and connecticut where a total of seven people have become ill. and andrew and williamson fresh produce and custom produce sales are recalling the cucumbers that may have been contaminated. the school superintendent in hartford, connecticut is apologizing for a training exercise that identified special needs students with stickers. administrators at the sam school say they placed green stickers on students with special needs yellow ones on

children still learning english. any child with special needs that also needed help learning english was given a blue sticker. >> the intention was actually the right intention to try to understand how we better meet the needs of our english language learners and students with special needs in our classrooms. was the way it played out was definitely wrong. >> the parents didn't like it. the superintendent says this was an isolated incident and that it will not happen again. it will piano man to the rescue. see what billy joel did to save two local schools in danger of closing. >> to catch a crook, how a family used a smart phone app to solve a crime. >> let's take a look outside right now and yes you're welcome. that's a beautiful picture. meteorologist bill evans -- i like to take a little of the credit but bill is going to

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we are back and we have breaking news regarding that hotel siege in mali. we are now getting reports that at least 15 people, 15 people, have died in that series of attacks. many people at that hotel held hostage. we understand that the siege is over at this point. this happened at the radisson blu hotel. a prominent hotel in the center of the capital city there. early this morning. again, 15 people dead.

we'll continue to update you as we get new information. very, very sad. yeah let's return to weather right now. -- turn to weather right now. a buff day out there and -- beautiful day out there right now and a beginning to a wonderful weekend. >> to only threat is a shower that might come before sunrise on sunday. the weekend looking really good and looking warmer as we go toward thanksgiving. so it will be just cool enough that it feels like thanksgiving. not harsh cold and makes it no fun either. here we go look at the east river from the camera here at brooklyn looking over the watch case building and the tug and coast guard cutter and you have the new york water taxi all kinds of stuff going on there today. the best part of that is there is a lot of anyone going on there too and -- sunshine going on there too and our temperatures are above normal for this time of the year. normal afternoon high is 53 and the pressure has been above 30.00 at 30.13. that's good. yesterday's rainfall an inch and a quarter and we have a

beautiful sunset coming up at around 4:34. so it's bright and breezy and it's gorgeous. it will be very nice to start the weekend. sunshine and nice tomorrow. and then just a sprinkle early sunday but then we have some cool sunday. we are looking ating and chilly monday. whitestone queens, 56. 46 around monticello. the numbers are all a little bit warmer than normal. we should be around 50 to 52 for the afternoon high. we have the northerly wind and that northwest wind here 9, 20 afternoon. sunshine back to the great lakes as this high slides eastward and winds will calm futurecasts, our computer guidance showing us sunshine on saturday and a great day tomorrow. clouds increase saturday night. here's the sprinkle prior to sunrise sunday here on the guidance, you can see 4:00 a.m. but then by the time the sun nice on sunday. and it gets out of the way and we'll have a nice day but then the cooler air does pour in for sunday night.

and we'll dive into the 40s this evening and tonight. tomorrow we're going to be looking at this high pressure ridge sliding eastward so we're pressure ridge with what's called the access where the winds will be calm. around 52. wednesday we jump to that. still good travel for the east coast as we go along. breezy this afternoon and normal. 30 in the suburbs tonight and 40 in the city. tomorrow, sunshine seasonal temperatures we kind of call that normal at 52. your accuweather seven day forecast, just that shower prior to sunrise son sunday. otherwise sunday sun and clouds at 52. and then kind of chilly on monday but look al the big travel day on wednesday. sunshine 50 and thanksgiving 56. >> holy cow. >> hallelujah. >> yeah. i'm telling you going to get that prefootball game in. >> yeah. >> did i hear you are frying your turkey this year? >> going to do two turkeys, both. >> fried and in the oven?

>> always have a backup plan. >> not setting the house on four or anything. >> they make the really safe ones now. >> you're going get us nervous now. don't even pull that out there. i'm moving forward. never forget that one. we have a quick programming note to bring to you folks. behind is scenes of broadway's biggest shows. broadway backstage fall preview airs tomorrow at 7:30 and -- macmacto share highlights from the hottest shows this season. i love this show every year. also hear from some of the biggest stars and you can watch the show tomorrow at 7:30 right here channel 7 and watch the abc7 app to catch up. >> i love judith light. a little boy in new york now hailed as a hero. what this brave 6-year-old did to help save his parents'

an eagle eyed neighbor tackles a thief, a smart phone app helps solve a crime. and hundreds of people rescued at sea. just some of the stories that were caught on camera and caught our attention. a man in washington who spotted something strange going on in his neighbor's trailer. and then took action. now it all started when bob bolt saw a pickup truck backing up to his neighbor's trailer yesterday.

surveillance cameras on the trailer captured what happened next. bob asked the drive every what was doing on. the next think you know the truck took off leaving the accomplice behand. he ran but bob had over plans and -- other plans and tackled him. bob's daughter grabbed his phone and called 911. in the end though both thieves got away. police are looking for them. also a thief who broke into a home in florida was caught red-handed. by a phone app. david nash says after two prior burglaries to his home he needed to do something. so he bought a digital camera connected to an app called canary. the app soon after alerted nash someone was in the home and then the camera captured clear images of the suspect's face and a tattoo on his neck. the pictures helping to lead to the arrest of the man. and finally, british forces rescued cruise ship passengers after a fire stalled the vessel. officials say the ship was adrift and in danger of running aground near the falkland

islands on wednesday. well, navy and air force crews responded and air lifting passengers from the deck to rescue boats. authorities say the mission was dangerous due to the rough seas and strong winds at the time. in the end, 347 people on board were safely transported from the ship. amazing. a young boy in upstate new york hailed a hero after he alerted his family to a very dangerous situation. avery moses was asleep at the family apartment in albany when he smelled smoke. he knew what to do. he woke up his parents and got everyone out of the building. the family may have been trapped in the building the not for his -- if not for his quick thinking the firefighters say. search crews find debris from a plane. what investigators are telling

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and we continue to follow breaking news. the hostage situation at a reassorted in mali is now -- resort in mali is now over and officials say at least 18 people are dead. extremists stormed the radisson blu hotel this morning and many of the 100 to 70 hostages were americans. a group that split from al- qaeda two years ago claiming responsibility for the attack. today marks one week since the terrorist attacks in paris and right now investigators are

working to identify a third body found in the rubble of the raid. the alleged ring leader and his cousin were killed in the raid. and convicted spy jonathan pollard has been released from prison. his release came nearly 30 years to the day after his arrest for providing large amounts of classified u.s. government information to israel. and hello again, i'm david novarro. >> and i'm diana williams in for scott comport and new details ability the -- shirleen allicot and new details about the search for a plane in westchester county. >> this morning crews found plane from what's believed to be a small plane. it was discovered at the titicus reservoir in north salem. the plane apparently trying to land at danbury airport in connecticut. >> eyewitness news reporter marcus solis is live in north salem with the new details. marcus? >> reporter: diana, dave, that plane disappeared from the radar at danbury airport around 4:30 yesterday. hampered by heavy rain and dense fog but this morning at

in the water. the search resumed tot first light -- at first light and by debris from the missing plane that emergency crews had been titicus reservoir. >> including at least one seat and wheels. this was a single engine >> reporter: the search began yesterday afternoon when a witness reported seeing the small plane go down in the area of the reservoir. the timeline coinciding with the alert from danbury airport that a single engine plane cleared to land there had lost contact with radar around 4:30. it was en route from mississippi. >> they were able to tell us the general vicinity in which they lost it and that led the police to come here last night and begin searching in the area. >> reporter: but last night's stormy weather hampered the search which was eventually postponed. this mortgage, dep, state police and fire department crews resumed the debris and

the 7 billion gang reservoir is -- reservoir accounts for about 5% of the city's drinking supply. dep officials stressing -- >> this does not in any way shape or form pose a threat to new york city's water supply. in fact, it would take the water from this reservoir eight months to reach new york city. >> reporter: at this hour, it's unclear the identity of the pilot and if anyone else was on board that plane. we do know that the plane is registered in connecticut and was heading back after returning back from mississippi. and we're live in north salem. marcus solis, channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you. new at noon, a school district on long island canceling field trips to new york city and washington, d.c. as a result of heightened security measures. the cancellations are outlined in the letter in the superintendent sent out the parents. the notice says the district will be postponing or canceling any trip for november and december. trips to either washington, d.c. or manhattan scheduled for this spring will be reevaluated. for the first time a new

jersey woman is speaking publicly about her encounter with a state trooper accused of driving drunk. video there last month shows on duty sergeant first class michael rodeside with a fellow officer. this is just after rodeside allegedly rear ended kim wilson in wall township. she had just spoken with rodeside and she says he was clearly drunk and says he also offered her cash in order to keep quiet about it. >> he goes i just bought my brother a house. he said i'll write you a check right now for cash. $1,000. and i said either you call this in or i'm calling it in. >> wow. sergeant rodeside told the responding officer his appearance was due to anesthesia from a recent surgery. the authorities say the sergeant's blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. today, the fdny is honoring a man who served the department

his death during the spite attacks -- september 11th first deputy commissioner william fee man held every rank career. he was killed on 9/11. the fdny is christening a new fire boat in his honor. he served the fdny for nearly 42 years. well, now to the latest on the syrian refugee bill head to the u.s. senate. and while minority leader reid will try to block it there, it wouldn't have gotten this far without some help from democrats in the house. democrats joined republicans to pass a bill that would suspend the syrian refugee program. the final tally routed in there being -- resulted there n there being enough votes in the house promised veto. story. passed. >> reporter: the bill says no syrian or iraqi refugees can come into the united states until high level u.s. official certifies that they are not a threat.

47 democrats joined republicans in voting yes. more than enough to override a presidential veto. >> and this is urgent. we cannot and should not wait to act. not when our national security is at stake. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry said there's no reason to fear syrian refugees. >> it's inappropriate for america of all countriesed in world, to panic and -- countries in the world, to panic and somehow turn our backs on our fundamental values. >> reporter: take a look at what voters say is their top issue for the 2016 campaign. more named isis than any other issue by far. terrorism is tied for second. soaking more fears, news that two syrian families including four young children showed up at a u.s. border crossing if texas seek -- in texas seeking asylum. that prompted this from donald trump via instagram. >> they're going to be pouring in, could be isis. >> reporter: fellow republican

compared screening refugees to protecting children from rabid dogs. >> if there's a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you probably not going to assume something good about that dog. and you're probably going to put your children out of the way. doesn't mean that you hate all by any stretch of the imagination. >> reporter: hillary clinton accused republicans of values. >> discriminating against muslims and slamming the door on every syrian refugee that is just not who we are. >> reporter: the president has a lot of work to do. not just to convince but the american people. in a recent poll, only 28% favored going forward with his united states 10,000 syrian refugees. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. now to meteorologist bill evans, he has your afterschool forecast. >> well, and look how beautiful it is for afterschool today. blue skies and sunshine. we got a few little winds that

are coming out of the northwest here and the temperature as we go into the afternoon just kind of goes from 56 to 55 degrees. down into the 40s tonight. going to be a great night tonight. grab the jacket and coat you need that this evening and the sweater but after school kiddos, 56. great for sports and great for friday night football. whatever you have going on outside nice place to be. the winds die down tonight. and talk about the rest of the weekend and thanksgiving week in your accuweather seven day forecast coming up in just a moment. back to you diana. david? all right bill thanks a lot. well shock and outrage over a photo surfacing on social media. a student wrapped in a confederate flag and wearing a kkk hat outside school. >> a long island school could be forced to close but superstar billy joel jumping in if you're approaching 65, now's the time to get your ducks in a row. to learn about medicare, and the options you have. you see, medicare doesn't cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so if 65 is around the corner, think about an

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all new at noon, one of long island's best known artists is stepping up to help future artists in the community. the school for arts and sciences in syosset won a reprieve from closing all thanks to billy joel. he wrote a letter to the school and their students, after the letter was read at a meeting last night. board members votes unanimously to take steps to raise enrollment and and more money. thousands of people. united healthcare says it may have to pull out of obama t obamacare exchanges next year and it blames low enrollment

the company says it will evaluate the viability of its services and determine next year if it can continue in 2017. >> oh. an oscar con hennedder is hit -- contender is hitting manhattan connection. >> cate blanchett stars in the movie. it's a lesbian affair back in the '50s and our sandy kenyon here with his review of "carol." >> a movie you might miss to try and explain why it's seeing. this one already earned an award for rooney mara back in the spring and there's plenty of buzz now for carol with an oscar. the trip back in time may be leisurely but worth taking. the lost city of new york in the 1950s is seen through the eyes of a young woman. a shop girl is what she'd have been called back then. as she allows herself to be seduced by a wealthy older woman.

>> reporter: the slow way rooney maraes character gets involved with the socialite played by cate blanchett is told in a series of tendser scenes. the drama is provided by carol's estranged husband who to put it mildly, does not approve of her lesbian lifestyle. >> i put nothing past women like you carol. >> you married a woman like me. >> reporter: he even goes as far as to harass one of his wife's former lovers. >> i love her. >> reporter: as he gets shunned by carol, kyle chandler's character decides use her lifestyle to get full custody of the couple's daughter. >> if he can't have me, i can't see my daughter. >> reporter: to get away from the drama the two women hit the reality inevitably intrudes. but a plot description is never going to do justice to the

the power of the acting and so much is told in silence. in a few glances. and that only the best film stars can pull off. circle. >> reporter: this film is a beautiful elegy. by that i mean a look back with a touch of sadness, poignant and filled with what the french call tristes. the mood is what i found captivating but it's a very worthy reminder of the time before gay rights when to be gay was to be breaking the law. coming up at 4:00, ill be reviewing the hunger games mocking jay part 2. stay tuned for that. that's a block busker, this isn't. but it punches powerfully. dave, diana. >> and a contender right. >> definitely for both stars and -- hopefully for the movie itself. one of my favorites. >> okay. >> thanks sandy. well, going through a breakup is tough. everybody know this is and it's

on social media that bring back memories. but now, now, facebook doing something about there. >> one parent couldn't leave

facebook has certainly changed the way that we share our lives with our friends and family. but things can sometimes get awkward after a breakup. all that though is about to change. abc's juju chang has the story. >> reporter: being bombarded on facebook by happy pictures, posts and news about a heart- breaking ex can just make it worse. >> i didn't want to see him. i just see things on my active feed and i don't want to see them. >> they pop up on my feed, it's pretty weird. >> reporter: but facebook is hoping to ease the pain. launching a new set of tools dubbed take a break. letting users wipe their romantic slate clean with just the push of a button. now, when you change your status from in a relationship to single, it will automatically give you an option to remove your exes from

your news feed. untag yourself from old photos and prevent your exes from seeing any of your updates. all without having to unfriend or block them. in a blog post, the social media giant bringing we hope these tools will help people end relationships on facebook with greater ease. comfort, and sense of control. for some, it's a long overdue feature for the site. which practically invented the relationship status. >> in the digital ages this like getting rid of the box of stuff or like holding some of the -- islanding some of the photos -- hiding some of the photos. >> reporter: even mark zuckerberg couldn't avoid his ex online. >> more than a billion people use facebook every day now and it's kind of ingrained in like how we communicate. >> reporter: many prepare for the upcoming holiday season, perhaps this tool can help x one person off the list. >> that is juju chang reporting. now facebook says this breakup

tool is now being tested on its mobile apps here in the u.s. and there could be more changes when the social media giant starts to get some more feedback on this. but -- sounds like a plan. it could work. >> it's really a sign of the thymes when you know -- we're all measuring our relationships on what the status says. >> your second grade breakup? >> i have to get over my love for my second grade -- yeah. and fortunately i didn't put that on facebook. >> it didn't exist then. >> yeah really. it wasn't an issue. i would have had to deal with it now. >> just sit on the breakup by e- mail. that's what my kids are doing nowadays. text and e-mail and breakup. you know. >> terrible. >> my daughter sarah goes -- just texts sarah is no longer around anymore. but -- i'm hike, where'd you go? how do you break up? sarah goes -- is not around anymore? >> that's how you do it. here's what's beginning on in the daytime. if you're around get outside for the afternoon because it's going to be really nice. here we go we take a look from our roof camera across through the "ghostbusters" building

across the softball fields and right looking up looking really nice up to the jackie onassis reservoir and a really pretty day and still some colors in the park and over to the east side of fifth avenue. flushing bay and we can see the airplanes take off and land at laguardia. 56 dregs and dry humidity and pressure at 30.13. that's a good sign of strong high pressure coming in and yesterday's high 64 even with all the rain yesterday. we had an inch and a quarter of rain in central park. 55 is our wild up the hudson river valley here from white plains to poughkeepsie. 57 to newark and 17 to 20-mile an hour winds though out of the northwest. this will continue for the afternoon and this will be rather windy. now this high pressure inch kind of slides eastward. in the middle of the high pressure ridge the winds are calm and skies are clear and it feels great. that's what tomorrow is going to feel like. the rainfall from yesterday, inch and a half up toward danbury and an 1.7 at white

the special place with all the rain. well now, our futurecast shows sunshine today and tomorrow. but sunday morning, prior to sunrise, a spritz a sprinkle from a front going by. looks like it goes by and it goes by at sunrise. so we'll have a lot of sun even on sunday into monday. one thing about sunday though is this kind of a reinforcing shot of cold air behind this low. so that will make it kind of brisk and chilly as we into go monday. -- go into monday. 40 in the city. seasonal temperatures tomorrow and normal at 52. spritz by early. and then 5 # with sunshine. tuesday. and then we go to 50 on and look at thanksgiving. 56 degrees. man that's going to be fun. to go to the parade this year. and all that. >> right, right. >> yep. >> going to be great. >> we'll take it. >> you had me at lollipop. >> you like that? i like those too. >> thank you bill. a homework assignment given to ninth grader at high school

in utah had her mom up in arms. >> yeah, annie langston was shocked when the daughter was asked to draw a propaganda poster for a terrorist organization in part of the assignment also had the 14-year- old going on the internet and looking up a way to recruit for isis. well, the mom decided her daughter wasn't going to do that assignment and then she took things a little further by writing a letter to the teacher and principal demanding an explanation. >> sat down particular teacher and that it has been taken care of. the assignments that i apparently have been already turned in that they have will be shredded. >> well, she says she doesn't want the teacher to be punished. she says the teacher made an honest mistake and for that reason, she will not ask for her daughter to be taken out of the class. but did want to raise awareness about how uncomfortable she was with it. >> yeah. yeah. we're going to be right back but first here's a look at "the chew." >> hey guys we're about to have an amazing all-star thanksgiving.

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oh, it is time for the feed. but no food. >> no. only for the mind. >> yes. food for the mind. because we begin with a picture posted on twitter and students and parents are outraged over this. this photo surfaced during a showing of student rather wearing a kkk hood. and a confederate flag. this is at azole outside of atlanta. georgia. -- a school outside of atlanta, georgia. students say two took the picture in the parking lot not thinking. they posted it on twitter and it spread and school admin questioning the students and of course they got if trouble. >> that story gets a trims down. this one is thumbs up. a random act of kindness all the buzz when a passenger spotted a barefoot homeless woman next to her. the good samaritan kay brown couldn't help but give her the shoes off her own feet. and then when another passenger saw that brown was left with only thin mismatched socks on

her neat on the subway car, he gave her a pair of thick gym socks to wear over them. just two angels ridding the subway and passing it forward. >> and kay brown wearing that's so cute. just -- my daughter would do that. thanks for doing it. that will do it for this edition of eyewitness news, i'm diana williams! and i'm david novarro. >> for bill evans and the rest of the eyewitness news team. make sure you're back this afternoon for eyewitness news first at 4:00 and have a great weekend everybody. >> yeah. >> i'm chris bosh. when i was sidelined with blood clots in my lung, it was serious. fortunately, my doctor had a game plan. treatment with xarelto . hey guys! hey, finally, somebody i can look up to... ...besides arnie. xarelto is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. xarelto is also proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. for people with afib currently well managed on warfarin, there's limited information on how xarelto and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. you know, i tried warfarin, but the blood testing and dietary restrictions...

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