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a scare for some new yorkers on the streets of brook lifnlt cops called to a scene, and when they get there, chaos. good evening at 11:00. i'm sade baderinwa.

when they got out of their car, they see a gun pointed right at them. and they fired back. >> a.j. ross at the scene as police try to figure out what really happened. a.j. >> reporter: sade, bill, investigators still after very large perimeter of this stretch of avenue b blocked off as they continue to search for a suspect and more clues. as i mentioned one suspect is in custody at this hour. unfortunately no officers or by standers were hurt especially considering this all happened just a block away from an elementary school. police say two narcotics officers were initially called here to east 92nd and avenue b around 6:00 p.m. on a report of shots fired. when the officers arrived and tried to exit their car one of two suspects allegedly pointed a gun at the pair prompting them to return fire. exactly how many shots were discharged is still investigation but fortunately neither officer was injured.

taken into custody but investigators say the other suspect with the gun fled the scene. for the past several hours teams have been aggressively searching this entire area for the remaining suspect in addition to collecting shell casings and other evidence. at this hour both officers were taken to methodist hospital for ten any ties -- tinnitus, which is a loud ringing in the ears. a.j. news. developing now several people hurt including firefighters and several folks out of their homes tonight thanks to staten island. tonight. josh. >> reporter: bill, all this just developed in the last couple of hours. fire started. you can see investigators are inside trying to get to the

the first flames we can show you video of as firefighters were just mopping up this scene. the first flames started in this vacant row home here around 8:30 this evening. firefighters were here in minutes as that blaze started to spread to the adjoining homes where residents were able to get out on their own as firefighters made quick work of the flames. at least four fdny members suffering minor injuries. in the two homes that were occupied people were able to get themselves to safety. in one case, a cat, the family pet, did not survive. the red cross is on the scene trying to help these two families who at least temporarily are homeless. multiple generations, people who grew up in these homes who fear they've lost it all. >> fires are devastating. this is why when we come out here as the red cross they're our priority. so because this is traumatic. i thank god that there were no

but the reality it's devastating. >> reporter: back live you are looking at a fire marshall inside peering through the front, what appears to be the living room of this house. the neighbor tells me this house has actually been vacant for about earlier today he spotted the front door ajar. he has now told investigators about this. they have not told us anything about what they believe would have been the cause or if this is a suspicious fire. the scene is fairly extensive on this block which is still closed. family members are working with the red cross to figure out where they will spend the night. live in the west brighton section of steant island, josh einiger, channel 7 eyewitness news. turning now to weather, keep your umbrellas close. the rain not letting up. meteorologist lee goldberg at the weather sphwhiew. sade it's been raining off and

still have another 24 hours to go. it's light rain. not seeing a lot of umbrellas as we're in a lull. 47 degrees, but trying to get milder. visibility is variable. it's lower down the shore. you may have some fog that slows you down tomorrow morning. rainfall amounts average about a third of an inch, as low as .15 in dan bur rather, as high as .9 in toms river. the radar has gone light as of late. patchy drizzle. this area here a little steadier, and then this is your heavier rain for the afternoon hours. watch the futurecast. a little bit more rain for the morning commute but most of it light. a couple of moderate pockets. then it is getting heavier. probably a lot more challenging for the evening commute. so here is what you need to know. a slow morning commute with light rain and fog. the steady rain is likely to develop midday, maybe first north and west, then across the entire area. the rain will taper tomorrow evening.

be near an inch. more on the rain timing and the blustery conditions behind the storm in a few minutes. bill. >> all right, lee. the power of an amber alert tonight saving a three- year-old girl. cops say her father stabbed her mother and then abducted the child. police flooded with calls by those seeing a getaway car leaving the bronx and crossing into new jersey. the girl's picture plastered on facebook. eyewitness news reporter jim dolan with the latest. >> reporter: for police this is the scariest kind of stop. they call at high-risk stop because so much could go wrong. a three-year-old baby in the backseat, the driver accused of a violent crime. he had so little to lose. but take a look at this. it does have a happy ending. just moments ago social service workers came here to bloomfield from the city to bring the baby, who is safe, back to family in the city.

a grizzly one. a 31-year-old mother stabbed repeatedly, her three-year-old daughter kidnapped. within minutes the chase was on. police issued an amber alert that showed up on phones throughout the area. and they released photos of both the girl, three-year-old rebecca valenzuela, and the suspect, her father, a 47-year- old. neighbors were stunned. >> they seem like great parents. they go to church every week. again, he works for the transit system. so it looks like they're a really upstanding citizens. >> reporter: it was new jersey state police who spotted the van on the garden state parkway. now they had to stop a man who clearly had very little to lose. >> he did stop the traffic before the incident was supposed to happen just in case it went wrong but thank god it didn't go wrong. everything went smooth. it was a high-risk stop, and thank god that he went willingly. he didn't put up a fate. >> reporter: or harm the

checked by police. >> ems has already checked her out. thank god for mcdonald's. i got her mcdonald's, she's sitting in my office, watching cartoons, couldn't be happier. who knows what she may or may knost seen. >> reporter: who knows what she saw today but she did spend the entire evening with troopers here. they all became good friends as you can tell. mr. valenzuela now has a lente legal process that will result in charges back in new york. the victim, the mother of the baby sirntion critical condition, but is expected to survive. of course, the little baby is doing fine also. reporting live from bloomfield, jim dolan, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> good to hear jim. police are searching for three sins a possible bias attack in queens. the victim was beaten, robbed, and sexually assaulted by three men shouting anti-gay slurs. it happened in jackson heights yesterday morning. police say the suspects chased a 23-year-old victim for

over the head with a pain and attacked him. he was hospitalized in serious conditions. a local councilman says he worries about the safety of the lgbt community in the area. >> although jackson heights is very tolerant and a good community, unfortunately we've had a number of attacks against lgbt people here in the past. new information about the transgender woman beaten in this same neighborhood sunday. police now say they are no longer investigating that attack as a hate crime but as a domestic assault. the 35-year-old victim is in critical condition. it. also new tonight a school bus in a deadly crash in new jersey. a volkswagen passat crashing into the bus carrying a high school swim team in southampton township. an eyewitness news tells us the passat was trying to pass another vehicle in a no- passing zone. two men in the vw were kid. eight students and one adult on the bus suffered non life threatening injuries.

police are searching for a driver who abandoned a car after crashing it into a store. the car crashed into a building in west brighton. the driver took off on foot after the crash. apartments above the store were evacuated for several hours. one resident who was home at the time described the crash. >> all i hear is like a boom, like the whole floor shake. and i was like, what happened? then i hear that screeching. i tell my mom, and my little brother, they all got scared. >> it's not clear if the driver was injured in the crash. residents above the store are back home. did the chicago police department mishandle their investigation into that racially charged deadly police shooting of a black teenager? tonight that city's top congress, a veteran of the newark and new york police department, fired, amid growing questions about this case. photos from inside a burger king obtained by abc news show an officer looking at

there are claims that officers deleted some of that video. today gary mccarthy was fired as police chief one week after dash cam video was made public. >> police officers are only as effective as if they are trusted by all chicagoans. whoever they are, wherever they live in the city. by reinvigorating our oversight we will continue to take the necessary steps to build trust between the police and the residents and communities they serve. >> the state attorney general is now asking the u.s. department of justice to investigate chicago's police department. the officer who shot the teen is now charged with murder. a driver attacked. still ahead, wild new video. a man who stopped for gas suddenly in a life-or-death struggle, and it's nasty, chilly, a raw december night, so when it's the holidays. which means a house full of people -- who all want to get online. so it's the perfect time for verizon fios. it has the fastest internet and wifi available.

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roof while he pursued a suspect. it is all caught on his body cam. police in utah say they were called because the suspect was loitering. one of the officers lost his balance and fell off a roof. the suspect was arrested. also caught on camera a fritteddenning carjacking at gunpoint. police are looking for six men who robbed a man while pumping gaines philadelphia. then they stole his car. one of the suspects pulled a gun on the victim and demanded money while the others went through his pockets. the gunman then drove off while the rest ran away. police later found the victim's vehicle abandoned on the streets in north philly j. a hit-and-run driver on the loose after striking two people waiting for a bins queens, the speeding driver losing control, hitting two men, then crashing into a restaurant in queens village. the driver leaving the crashed car and taking off on fat. the two victims were seriously survive.

tonight between politicians in new york and new jersey, this over the garden state's plan to put the statue of liberty on the corner that says new jersey. the new quarter coming out in 2017. now peter king says the statue is a new york landmark. >> they stole the jets, they stole trying to steal the statue of liberty. it's part of new york folklore. jersey can find something on their own, maybe a swamp. >> he was grinning, you could tell. bob menendez sending out this tweet saying lady liberty belongs to all americans. the truth is new york and new jersey have joint jurisdiction. >> we're all one family. remember not that long ago when manhattan's area code was 212 and nothing else? the borough in the city that never sleeps will in the not too distant future get its

because of a high demand for new personal and business numbers. 332 will become active in 2017 joining 2 12, 646, and 917. world aids day marked around the globe today with efforts to promote awareness that the epidemic so far from over. governor cuomo announced the state will dedicate another $20 0 million to its effort to try to end the epidemic in new york in five years. an annual christmas tree lighting celebration in the bronx that was canceled over security concerns is back on tonight. city councilman richy torrez who represents belmont said the tree lighting will happen december 12th. the event had been canceled due to security concerns over panhandlers in the area. >> glad it is back on. you be. so with all this rain how long is it going to last and

nice fall-like temperatures of november? >> sun shine back on thursday. some rain through tomorrow night, especially heavy tiefng hours but how about tomorrow morning? i want to present some new information. first of all the george washington bridge has had better nights. you can't see much of it. there's the fort lee side of the toll plaza. wind is out of the east- northeast. that is what you are going to run into tomorrow. the high today 5 1, still above average to start the month of december. november was the warmest november on record. a third of an inch in the park so far. there are your sunrise and sunset times on wednesday. have the umbrella handy tomorrow. we're in this lull of a break tomorrow night but the difference tomorrow it is milder with temperatures in the mid and upper 50s. blustery behind the storm on thursday and then a great first weekend of december. more in the seven-day. we're still feeling the chill in monticello. the hudson valley not getting into the milder air in the low

the park at 47, is lip 48. you can see why. winds coming from the south and east south of new york city and still draining in from the north, north of the city. but look at the planner. your winds shift tomorrow and that will warm things up. still feeling raw early, then a milder rain, also intensifying rain throughout the day, and winding down during the evening hours. we're in this quiet area but look at the live lightning over south central pennsylvania. so i think most of us just have light rain and drizzle tomorrow morning. might be a couple of heavier pockets. check in with bill evans before you leave the house tomorrow. definitely heavier rain down to the south with this cold front that will come through late in the day before it tapers off to showers. futurecast. many areas may just see light rain or nothing more than drizzle early on but there can be a couple of moderate pockets early, and then more widespread rains north and west by late morning, then everywhere during the

commute, thankfully winding down had a tapering off to showers after 9:00 or 10:00 tomorrow afternoon. mild at 57. the storm moves through, gusty winds come in on thursday, 50. feels like low and middle 40s. it will be a mix of sun and clouds. we're off to a dreary start tomorrow with rain and drizzle, 50 degrees. for tomorrow 57, mild, periods of rain, areas of fog as well. tomorrow night that will taper to shower and then wind down. seven-day forecast, look at thursday. that's future cast winds. wind gusts could be over 30, 35 miles per hour, sustained at 15 to 20, then things calm down. the weekend looks beautiful around 50 degrees and plenty of sunshine. next time for rain will be early next week. bill evans with an important update tomorrow morning. up next how a dad's diet could hurt his newborn's health. and look at this. out of nowhere, yes, the cop crashes into a deer.

could actually save others lives. let's check in with jimmy kimmel. >> hey sade, tonight a very special star studded show with bono, scarlett johansson, olivia wild, snoop dorks music

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exactly what you should do if a deer rinse front of your car. the deer flips over the hood, but manages to run away. the officer's reaction saved both their lives. applying the brakes and veering away in a controlled manner. a good lesson. laura behnke in for rob powers. agent frenzy. but the red sox bring in a big arm and a record deals. all the details. and the nets trying to go where they haven't gone so far

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seven-year deal worth $217 million. the average annual salary a mere $31 million. that's the most ever for a pitcher. the 30-year-old price led the american league with a 2.45 e.r.a. last season. 18-5 for detroit, then the blue 80s. he will be able to opt out after three years. closer to home they may not have won the world series but the mets still collected an award today. the general manager has been named executive of the year in his fifth season. the mets won 90 games and of course the national league pennant. two wins in a row in an 82- game season, it has to happen at some point. the mets hope. so tonight had the potential to be that night as they hosted the suns going tore back-to-back wins for the first time this season. brook lopez finished with 26 points. nets up two. suns making a charge late in the third. eric bledsoe dialing up the three-pointer.

in the fourth, shane with the acrobatic move. young the long jumper putting brooklyn up by seven. they hang on. 94 2k-rb9 is 1. the nets win their second trade. and the kobe bryant farewell tour has officially began. chucking up threes. three in the first quarter but then went on to finish 4 of 17 behind the arc, while the winless sixers had enough. 103-91. philly is winless no more. they face the knicks tomorrow. then tomorrow night the new york rivalry, islanders and devils.

kyle palmeri cutting that lead in half. 2-1. the avs win. there's a very happy group of dindz bronx tonight who now after brand-new gym to play in thanks to the garden of dreams. today carmelo anthony joined hendrick lundquist, james dolan, and a handful of others for a ribbon cutting ceremony to the refurbished gym. just a small way to give back. >> for me to see these kids smiling, i see them smiling, i smile. it goes both ways. i don't think they understand how much that really means to