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>> we're going to begin tonight with governor cuomo stepping in to protect the homeless for winter from weather. governor cuomo is ordering homeless healthers to extend hours so that anyone without a home can remain indoors when temperatures fall below zero. below freezing i should say. >> the executive order calls for police departments and social service agencies to act as the mercury dropped below 3 2 degrees. but the executive order appears to be in conflict with the new york city mayor's approach to handling the homeless. we are in hells kitchen tonight with the lead story. >> reporter: well, joe and sandra, fixing the homeless problem is no easy fix. today, governor andrew cuomo announced all homeless men, women and children will now be forced into shelters when the weather freezes.

that mean i'm without my right to live? >> reporter: 39-year-old matthew has been living on the streets for two years now. he was recently beat and robbed of his guitar, his only valuable possession, still he doesn't want to be forced into a shelter, no matter how bad it gets. >> the shelters are loaded with bed bugs. it's a drug den. >> reporter: he might not have a choice. governor cuomo today signed an executive order forcing the homeless population into shelters when the temperature drops below freezing. >> it's about above and compassion and helping one another. and basic human decency. >> reporter: but is it also politics given the ongoing rift between the governor and mayor. de blasio was under growing fire. before the holiday, the mayor responded with a new plan to tear down homeless encampment, build more housing and reach

but it does not include forcing them off the streets. today the mayor issued this statement, to forcibly remove all homeless individuals in freezing weather will require him, the governor, to pass state law. this executive order adds no legal or financial resources to new york city's programs. >> my absolute freedom is the only thing that really matters. anything less than that is incarceration. >> reporter: this new executive order goes into effect on tuesday but it does not spell out how forced shelter is to be carried out. in the past, courts have not upheld such policies but we have a lot of winter to test this new executive order. channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. now to that tragic fire in connecticut. a 3-year-old died morning in a fire inside a condo in bridgeport.

we are in bridgeport this evening. >> reporter: sandra, she is here inside bridgeport hospital surrounded by family members who tell me she is devastated. her hands and feet were burned in this fire. she desperately tried to save her 3-year-old daughter but couldn't. the only thing on this young mother's mind tonight is her little angel. >> her mom was just telling me how she was just telling her yesterday how she was her best friend. so you know, the family loved her very much. >> reporter: memories the reverend is holding on to tonight, sweet stories about his second cousin. the 3-year-old was killed in a fire here in this condo this morning. just after 3:30, screams for help woke up many. her mother was outside, she was able to get two kids out but when she tried to go back for

>> she said i tried but she showed me her hands were burned. she said the doorknob was so hot. >> reporter: and a second man tried to get to her. >> because i have grandkids, that's the first thing that came to my mind, try to go up stairs and try to rescue her or something. but i just didn't do it. i didn't have the courage to do. >> reporter: officials say she and two other women were asleep on the top floor with all three kids. the fire started down stairs in the kitchen. it wasn't the flames but the smoke that proved deadly. when firefighter did find her, the little girl was curled up, her under crib in the front bedroom. >> the second floor was completely filled with smoke and the guys were in zero visibility but they searched around and found her by feel. >> reporter: robert hernandez also has a 3-year-old. >> we saw them take the little girl out of the window. it was horrific sight.

you know, it wasn't good. >> reporter: everybody told me that today. a second adult and two kids are in stable condition. and a third adult has been released. one final note, officials tell me the smoke alarms inside the condo, they were all disabled. they were not working. at this hour, they're still trying to pin point what caused this fire. for now we're live in bridgeport, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. from connecticut to bronx where another fire leaves one man dead and several others hurt. the fire started in the wakefield apartment of the man who died. neighbors say he was unable to walk and cried for help but it was too late. flames spread quickly and people were jumping from windows. the cause of the fire is under investigation but it does not appear to be, authorities say, suspicious. new york city's first homicide of 2016 appears to have taken place in queens on new year's day.

the body in her apartment just before 11:00 friday night. they say the 19-year-old was face down in bed and unresponsive. the medical examiner ruled her death a homicide after finding evidence of strangulation and blunt force head trauma. police say a suspect is getting a psychological evaluation at jamaica hospital. more fallout after saudi arabia carried out a mass execution that included a prominent clerk. the country says they are cutting all ties with iran. demonstrators ransacked the embassy in teheran and took to the streets to protest the executions. iran knee diplomatic personnel have been given 48 hour s to leave. both the jets and the giants lost their season finales today. the jets needed to the beat rex ryan and the bills in buffalo

their own but instead they collapsed, losing 22-17. and because the steelers also won, the jets were eliminated from the post-season after finishing with a 10-6 record. the jets play-off drought now reaches five years. in the final game of a lost season, the giants could not pull off a win for tom cough lynn who may have coach -- tom coughlin who may have coached his last game. but fans are speaking out. we are at metlife stadium tonight. >> reporter: well, as far as the play offs go, this game went absolutely nothing but from an emotional standpoint, this game and so much more because all signs are pointing to it being tom coughlin's final game. with the g-men eliminated from the post-season, this final

important for only one reason, it might have been the last game for head coach tom coughlin. >> we're all happy for him. we're meaning to go in late in the game and give him a standing ovation because that's what he deserves. >> thank you for everything you have done but it's time to go. you know, like bittersweet. thank you but peace. >> reporter: and bittersweet it is. after 12 seasons with the giants, at 69 years old, coughlin is the oldest coach in the nfl. and he did indeed get that standing ovation from fans at the end of the game. and perhaps a sign he knows he's coaching his last game, his entire family joining him at metlife. while a former player tweeting this, all the best to coach coughlin, thank you for everything. you turned a lot of boys into men which is his greatest accomplishment. fans now hoping that he will be allowed to write his own last chapter. >> thank you to tom for all the years you put up with us, winning our two super bowls.

have them let him go. >> reporter: now fans say if coach coughlin retire, he will be remembered as one of the greatest ever and of course for the two super bowl rings. reporting live, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. high school track and field athletes run the race of their lives. >> coming up, a mad dash to escape when the school bus erupts into flames. they are talking to us about their close call. and you wouldn't know it just looking at this number behind me but we are just hours away from the coldest air mass of patients across the country have spoken. they recently rated their care experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid services.

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a very close call for several high school agent lees in new jersey. >> they were forced toest -- high school athletes in new jersey. >> they were forced to escape their school bus when it burst into flames. >> reporter: sandra, joe, this is where that bus went up in flames. students tonight saying they feel so fortunate to have the observant coach that they do, cellphone video capturing just how devastating this situation could have been. this cellphone video shows a yellow school bus as it burst into flame, just moments earlier 32 students and the coach and a bus driver were onboard getting ready to make their way toy amorning track and field meet. the high school bulldogs noticed the coach motioning to them from outside of the bus. they did what he trained his team to do, run, fast.

to get the kids attention and got out and started returning them off. some kids ran that way and as i get the kids off the buses, you see the fire just start to go up the sides of the bus. >> reporter: the moment the kids were off? >> the moment they were off. >> reporter: after you get off the bus, you see what happened. >> i saw just, as soon as left the bus, across the street, i saw fire engulf the whole bus. >> reporter: you can see charred ground here tonight. it is still unclear exactly how this happened. after it did, the coach asked the students what they wanted to do, they said, coach, we still want to run in our meet today so that's exactly what they did. another bus came here, picked them up and off they went to essex county. live in newark, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. also in newark, a congregation from west orange is holding services tonight

investigators are trying to determine what sparked the fire at what used to be the old st. mark's church. the congregation which was using the building will worship at a small chapel on clinton avenue at 6:30 tonight. an arctic chill grips the tri-state area. >> coming up on eyewitness news, the cold snap is going to

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all right. we have been saying where's winter? well, it showed up, did it not? >> today wasn't bad but tomorrow it's going to be bad out there. it's going to feel very, very cold. you have to bundle up. tomorrow night it might get dangerously cold with wind chills below zero. a live look toward the empire state building, down to the lower manhattan, temperature right now 41. so not too cold. west wind coming in around 7 miles per hour. actually got up to 45 during the day after a morning low of 35. so temperatures were five to seven degrees above normal for this time of the year. by the way, 16 years ago, it was a balmy 64 degrees. we are expecting the opposite into tomorrow and tuesday. the coldest air mass of the season arriving first thing tomorrow morning from the high temperature early in the day the, right around 30 or 32 degrees and then temperatures drop off into the 20s during the afternoon. and with the wind, it will feel

tomorrow night, the coldest since march the 6th when we got down to 12 degrees in new york city. we're expecting temperatures to get to the mid-teens tomorrow night. and then bright but cold on tuesday with less wind out there. and then talking about moderating trends as we head into the middle and latter part of the week. 40 in newark. and 38 at white plains. and you head up into duchess county, 32 at monticello. upper 30s down the shore in toms river and long island. clouds just beginning to increase from the north. that's ahead of a strong arctic frontal boundary slicing through far upstate new york right now. and along the boundary, a couple snow showers and flurries. you can't completely rule out a flurry well north and west of the city overnight tonight and maybe in the city during the day tomorrow. we will track everything for. and i want to draw your attention to the temperatures. 7:00 in the morning, around 31. watch what happens during the day, even despite some sunshine, if anything the

falls, down to 26 by 6:00 p.m. and already by dinner time tomorrow evening into the teens north and west and then the bottom really falls out tomorrow night. and we are down to 18 by 7:00 tuesday morning. and down into the single digits in sussex and not much of a recover tuesday despite sunshine. and add the wind in, and this is families what it will feel like outside at dinner time tomorrow night, the mid-teens in the city and feeling like close to zero, not too far north and west of new york city, even below zero by early tuesday morning. forecast for tonight, partly cloudy, brisk and cold and down to 29. temperatures falling into the 20s during the afternoon. could be a flurry out there. noticeably colder and blustery. clear to partly cloudy and very cold tomorrow night and the coalest since early march. and down to about 14. and tuesday, only getting up to 30 despite sunshine. and then we're back up to 40 on wednesday.

stint with true arctic cold. mid-40s on thursday. and mainly cloudy on friday. and could be rain by day's end. and then friday night and saturday, clear out and highs in the mid-40s. so warm up enough just for plain ole rain by later in the week. we will have the update at 1 1:00. >> thank you. sports up next. blackmon is tomorrow in the nfl as the day after the reeling season ends. the jets and giants got the darkness started early. it was really a black sunday up in buffalo where the jets just needed one win to head to play- offs.

break out the golfs. >> i know, it's a tough day. seemed so simple, just win and you're in. but nothing is ever as simple as it seems especially with the high stakes. the jets just needed a win to secure a play-off spot but rex ryan and bill, well, you knew they would have something to say about it. all bills to start. taylor taking care of things himself. the quarterback, the 18-yard touchdown run and they lead 13- 0. the jets started chipping away. to marshall, he takes over the franchise record for touchdowns

trailing in the 3rd. to for the 21-yard score. both he and marshall topping 1,000-yards this season. picked in the end zone. and then in the final two minute, first it's lawson, grabbing the pick. and the jets get the ball back and then this happens, seals it. that's the bill's third interception of the quarter. the jets get upset by buffalo. the jets now need the steelers to lose to the browns. that was not going to happen. ben roethlisberger to brown, 17- yard, eight point lead and in the 4th, pittsburgh added to it. this time hooking up, 28-12. the steelers win ask that means they're in the play-offs and the jets are out. >> weren't able to pull it off. and it just, you know, my heart hurts so bad right now for all those guys in the locker room.

>> win together, lose together. don't really know what's going happen. and how our exit means tomorrow. nothing crazy happens today. and we just didn't play smart. with no post-season shot to play for, the giants smoke about the biggest element still in play today, pride. nobody wanted to gout go out with a loss. they hosted the eagles. philly were playing for pride too. first possession, this is his longest run of the entire season, 54-yard touchdown. 2nd quarter, trying to climb back in. the nine yard strike. it was a one-point game. and the giants were looking for the lead in the third. this should do it, airing out to randall. 45-yard score. 27-21 giants. the jubilation not lasting long. manning throwing again. tipped there into the hands who goes back 83-yards for pick six. it was that kind of day for the

the eagles add another late touchdown just for insurance. and matthews strikes. the giants fall and end the season 6-10 and now coughlin's future is on the line. >> frustration continues. everybody has got your questions prepared for what direction i'm going in. i'm not going to answer anything about that. the season just ended. there will be time for that. and get into that discussion. i don't think the players were distracted about all that was going on in the outside world. 2016 did not start well for the knicks who not only lost on new year's day but did it by scoring just eight points in the 4th, their lowest scoring quarter in franchise history. today they return home to host the hawks and there's only one player you needed to see. the steal there. and he was also dishing it out. finding williams for the alley- oop in the 2nd quarter and led by 10 at the half. and then, more.

in transition, kicked out, the three to go for the 15-point lead. and just this kind of day for new york. the rebound after bouncing off his head. and there's a follow then to bury the triple. and a season-high 37 points. 111-97, the knicks get the win. and the nets worst fears became reality today. jack is out for the season after tearing his acl in yesterday's win in boston. went down at the end of the 3rd in visible pain. he will have surgery soon. he will be missed. never want to see that. >> no, tough break for him. >> thank you. that is the news for now. thank you for joining us.

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