at 4:00 and 5:00 but hat gone from monsoon to manageable here at 6:00 as we forecast earlier in the day we're going to have lighter rains until 7:00, 7:30, then it is going to get heavier. if you look outside we're at 56. the fog has lifted a little bit but really not enough to make a dent in some of the delays we eased. you can see that. around the northeast not as bad as the tristate area but still rough weather in the eastern two thirds of the country. big travel day. updated rainfall totals pushing an inch in newark. we've had half an inch an hour in spots over the past couple of hours. heavy rain from connecticut, putnam county, across the sound into suffolk county but lighter over new york city and the central and southern new jersey so maybe a break for an hour to 90 minutes but look at the thunderstorms on the jersey shore. more thunderstorms near baltimore and d.c., so that has to come in over the next

that's yi think you will see a resurgence that will take us until 10:00 with more drenching downpours, and finally tapering at 11:00 and midnight. rain heavy at times through 10, low visibility overnight but we are still on track part of this is associated with a warm front coming through. that all-time high of 75 back in 1998, that is in jeopardy. we will look at that. we'll look at a very up and down seven-day accuweather forecast with even a wintry mix in the forecast. that's all coming up. bill, liz, back to you. >> the roller coaster. now to that breaking news. you don't have to be a football fan to understand the importance of this story. the one-game suspension of odell beckham junior upheld tonight. beckham was appealing the action for his violent behavior sun dying gains an opponent. he will not play this sunday, crucial game for the team but a very big lesson. rob nelson is at nfl

bill. as you said it just became official just in the last few minutes. the one-game suspension for beckham has now officially been upheld meaning he will not play in this week yen's game, the critical game against the vikings. take a look at video. beckham said was taunted by the carolina panthers on sunday was suspended by the league for one dame after that heartbreaking loss to the panthers in which beckham over and over again tussled, sometimes violently with josh norman picking up three personal fouls for unnecessary roughness. the low point as we've all seen came with this helmet to helmet hit against norman who has also been fined $26,000 for his role in sunday's mess. today we have heard from both the league and beckham himself after this ruling came down. in a statement the nfl said, "this blind side block was particularly flagrant because beckham with a 10-yard running start had an unobstructed path to the opponent.

by any other player and the contact with the head/neck was avoidable. in his statement, beckham said this. sportsmanship and respect to the game are as important as blocking, running routes and catching the football. i dropped the ball on sportsmanship on sunday, end quote. according to the league beckham will be reinstated but he will miss this critical game against the vikings. we should also point out this is the fourth time in two years in the league that beckham either been fayneed or suspended for his on-the-field antics. for fans keeping their fingers crossed for the postseason certainly the suspension being upheld is the last bit of news they wanted to hear. live outside nfl headquarters in midtown rob nelson channel 7 eyewitness news. >> rob thank you. new at 6:00 two toddlers are found wandering in the parking lot of a motel. police say their mother was forced to leave them alone

eyewitness news reporter marcus solis is there tonight. >> reporter: liz, those kids let themselves out of the hotel room where the family has been living the last few months. it is unclear how long they were wandering in the parking lot in the rain but all told they were left unattended for over six hours. outside the motel room sits a stroller, evidence there were young children inside. but it was the presence of two toddlers outside in the parking lot that led arrest of their mother. it happened yesterday at the continental motel. another resident saw the children ages two and three unattended and dressed only in diapers. the good samaritan what doesn't want to be identified took action. >> i let an hour go by. i bathed them, clothed them, fed them. >> reporter: and she called state police who tracked down the mother. she was taken into custody. the 28-year-old told investigators she left for

>> she just said when she was leaving for work in the morning she left the two children inside the motel room, a little uncertain as to whether or not she actually locked the door or left the door unlocked. either way the children found their way outside of the room. >> reporter: did you see the kids here out in the parking lot with the diapers? >> i don't know. >> reporter: the owner of the motel had little to say other than she had been living there for a few months with her boyfriend and the two chirp. her profile on instagram states, being mother is the best privilege ever, a privilege on hold as the children who are in good condition have been placed into foster care. the good samaritan left in disbelief over the mother's actions. >> reporter: what did she say? >> i never even seen her. she never came back five hours later. >> reporter: and police investigating whether or not this was a pattern of behavior or one-time occurrence. the mother is charged with two counts vein dangering the

marcus solis, channel 7. some drivers on the upper west side are assessing the damage to their vehicles after a runaway mta bus caused a chain reaction accident. the mta says the driver failed to secure the city bus. it rolled backwards hitting one parked car causing to the bump into several others on west 96th street no. one was hurt butts not clear if the bus driver will be disciplined. the man charged in the attempted shooting at the mall you the days facing a judge as we learn new details about the heroic security gar, a retired cop would happened stop the robbery. the judge ordering 21-year-old oliver lee held on three- quarters of a million dollar bail. a 67-year-old man wounded when a bullet went off as a guard struggled with the. here's eyewitness news reporter stacey sager. >> reporter: authorities say he had hoped to steal an $18,000 rolex watch that he brought this handgun to

but the troubling danger signs for 21-year-old oliver lee actually surfaced on facebook days earlier with this picture posted of the same type of gun next to pills and alcohol. county officials say it's a classic example if you see something alarming on social media, say something. >> if you see something that is not right or alarms you, you could simply take a screen shot of that and sent right through the crimestoppers app. >> reporter: but police say what happened instead was that lee got into a life-or-death struggle for about a minute and a half here at the mall with a retired nypd officer working alongside two others here as they heroically captured lee. >> we have very brave security guard, and we want to make sure that he is fully acknowledged. kenneth krugg. we thank you. >> reporter: one of the other two guards suffered a broken

police say krugg was able to jam lee's gun. >> the mall had thousands of people. it was chaotic scene. by his swift actions only one person was injured. >> reporter: that injured man is a 67-year-old employee here at macy's. as for oliver lee he is charged with robbery, assault, and gun possession. outside the roosevelt field mall, stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. we turn now to more on the flooding from all this rain. eyewitness news reporter josh einiger is on the whitestone expressway. we are going to check in with him while he's riding in the passenger side of that car. josh. >> reporter: yeah, liz, we've been making our way east toward long island for the better part of the last two hours. i'm here with photojournalist todd pearce. let me show you the other side. this is the l.i.e.

this is a lot better than what we had a little while ago. let's show you video we shot on the white stone expressway in flushing, queens. the road was basically at a standstill. there was pretty bad flooding on both sides of the roadway, basically all across the road. we saw this one spin-out. ironically we had "walking in a winter wonderland" on the radio as we were driving through that. a huge travel night, very busy on the roads. not fun at all. but hopefully all these people are heading someplace fun for the holidays. we are live in nassau county on the l.i.e., josh einiger. >> a lot of folks waiting for christmas. as we continue with eyewitness news at 6:00 new

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. calls for action after a cyber hack of a dam in westchester. hackers from iran broke into the bowman avenue dam near ryebecause to see if they could access it two years ago. here's investigative reporter jim hoffer. >> reporter: what national security officials determined in 2013, that iranian cyber

control system of this dam, they madely told the white house. but no one thought to tell anyone in westchester county. >> i read about in the wall street journal two days ago which is unacceptable. >> reporter: an angry county executive today blamed homeland security for failure to communicate, saying that breakdown was as much of a wake did you know call as the -- a wake-up call. >> if this were important enough to alert the white house then why wasn't the county alerted as well? >> reporter: senator schumer came to the say it to call on the department of homeland security to do a complete investigation into how often critical infrastructure has been hacked. >> dams, highways, utilities, railroads, all are connected to the internet and are

>> reporter: while the iranian hackers broke into the computer system it was unable to take control of the floodgate because it was inoperable at the time. the question on many minds what were they up to. >> who is to say this wasn't just a dry run on a remote dam that in the future they might be testing to do something on a bigger scale? >> reporter: the department of homeland security reports that these cases of cyber spying on critical infrastructure here in the united states subpoena about 20% so far with about 300 cases reported. in ryebrook, jim hoffer, channel 7. just ahead, we have lee and these guys, the penguins showing off their holiday outfits. speaking of cute, not the penguins, lee returns with much more on the holiday

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just what you have never seen before, penguins dressed as santa. folks at the long island aquarium dressed the african penguins up. nobody really asked the penguins about this. the entire video is posted on our website, abc7ny. you can see why they're walking. just such an obvious way to get around. >> that's great. so for the folks who decided to wait at home and let the weather pass, it's

>> the heaviest torrential rain is, but there's a resurgence between 8:30 and 9:00 or 10:00. it's heavy in a couple of spots now like toms river. in new york city we've gone into a period where it's lighter rain but there's still a loot of pond pg on area roadways and by the shoulder. you have to be really careful and don't drive through standing water. it will recede. easterly wind at 7. very mild. temperatures rising overnight. average high 41. we're close to the record of 66. we will get closer by midnight as temperatures climb to the low 60s overnight. christmas outlook remains rather warm. 74 degrees. all-time record high 75. clouds, maybe a couple of thin spots, maybe an isolated thunderstorm. sun gives way to clouds on christmas day. another record high breaking the high from 1982. we're probably three-quarters

half an inch from islip over the bridgeport. it's pouring just south of point pleasant. 59 in islip, 56 in poughkeepsie. off and on heavy rain until 10:00 at night. it is more drizzle at midnight, then just fog. could be damp at 8:00 a.m. but look at the starting temperature tomorrow morning. 67. 8:00 a.m. on christmas eve. it should be around 35 degrees. up to 72 by lunchtime with thin spots in the clouds. now we have heavy rain leaving fairfield county and suffolk county. a downpour not too far from stamford over to banksville. you see heavy downpours right there and that's near toms river and stafford. that's going to good offshore and head towards the east end of long island so we're still in this lighter area for another hour. this is all coming north so that's why i think from 7:30 until 9:30 we will get into another heavy batch then it will get lighter. incredible storm in the

country with travel grid long. tornado watches along the carolinas, even snow on the northern side of the storm but we're not talking cold just yet. there's the resurgence in rain. when we sigh at 11:00 it should be mushing -- pushing north and east. rain tapers to drizzle. foggy and mild and rising to the 60s. 74 tomorrow. fog, maybe midday breaks but also an isolated thunderstorm. record warmth is a lock. it's the all-time record high that we might break. on the seven-day accuweather forecast, good news about christmas, the rain will hold off until tomorrow night. up to record wormt on sunday, dropping to 46 on monday and if rain comes in early enough tuesday morning a little wintry mix is not out of the

>> up and down like the stock market. >> thanks, lee. rob is up next with sports. >> timely the suspense over the suspension has kept fans waking. straight ahead, odell beckham junior's appeal. we finally have closure. we will get into it all holiday season's just like football season... you got your big games... ...and regular games. get it all at a great price... ...and the holiday season is won. everything in one place.

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no real shocker. >> can we get on to football? just play the games here. it was a waiting game for much of this day as odell beckham junior appealed. the end result the same. the giant all-pro receiver sits out sunday. beckham arrived at

for his hearing. it lasted under 90 minutes. he asked the league to overturn a one-game suspension handed out yesterday after his out of control actions sunday. reports were that beckham would argue he lost his cool because of threats from panther players along with possible homophobic barbs. but an hour ago his appeal was turned down sew will not play sunday in minnesota. on his twitter page beckham apologized writing sportsman ship and respect in the game are as important as running routes and blocking. i dropped the ball on spores manship sunday. earlier the coach defended his player. >> to beckham being wrong and the only one wrong is not right. it's not fair it's not justice. it's not the way it was. beckham certainly was wrong, and we said he was wrong from day one. but there were factors involved starting in pregame which are well document, which

attempt to provoke him. he was provoked. he was out of control. he was wrong. there's no doubt about it. there was two sides to this and not just one. the panthers josh norman flagged once for unsportsmanlike conduct incurred two fines for his part in sunday's mess. $8,681 for a blatant face mask, $17,363 for hits to beckham's head and neck. just over $26,000 in fines. no suspension. by the way both beckham and gordon named to the pro bowl yesterday. here's gordon on what's going down. >> i don't know, man, that's up to the league. i really don't know what's going on with that situation. like i said my focus pretty much is mainly and primarily on atlanta falcons. >> jets-patriots sunday, huge game for the jets. even if the jets win there's? guarantee of a playoff spot but heck jets want to take

make the end of season equations as simple as it condition. it starts with the pats. the jests been laying low, getting ready. >> we just got to play our ball game we can't get into whether they are going to run or pass. we've just got play our bail game. if they run, we've got to be ready. if they throw, have to be ready. the knicks take on the nets without carmelo anthony. former net guard now plays for dallas but last night he sprained his ham spring and might not be able to go against the nets. his relationship with the fans not always sunshine the nets traded him away. finally on a high note, florida men's basketball last night, zach on a walk-on, born without a left hand, but a heck of a player. last night against jacksonville zach hit a layup for his first career collegial points.

the smiles say it all. zach's face. >> look at that. >> they were all so happy for him. i keep saying josh gordon. i apologize. josh norman. sorry. >> usually you can end every sportscast with that story. >> i'll do it again tonight. speaking of which let's take a look at other stories. >> that story is worthy of a replay. tonight at 11:00 a major hotel klain the victim of hack. could your personal information be in the hands of criminals? plus just in time for the travel season new security screening procedures are coming to airports around the country. we're going to tell what you passengers could soon be required to do. those stories and more tonight at 11:00. bill, liz. >> something tells me it means more inconvenience. >> thank you sha day. thanks for watching. i'm bill ritter. >> i'm liz cho. world news tonight next. the 18 returns tonight at 11:00.