charlesworth is in nassau county but we begin with meteorologist jeff smith in for bill evans and bracing the elements on the upper west side. >> i can attest to the bright sunshine that we have out here doing absolutely nothing to help us in the temperature or the windchill department. check out the temperature. we are at about 23 degrees, 24 degrees. it went up one degree in the past hour. with the wind gusting up to 30 miles per hour all morning, that has driven windchills down into the single numbers. temperatures across the region, 20 sussex. 18 in monticello. you got mid-20s on the island and down the jersey shore. you take into account the wind and it feels like 11 degrees in new york city. it feels like it's below zero north and west of the city, up to monticello. there is a wind advisory effect for western ulster county through 7:00 this evening. winds could gust up to 50 miles per hour through the course of

the next seven hours looking like this. 20s. you notice the sustained winds hang out around 20 miles per hour. gusts over 30 miles per hour throughout the afternoon. and this regime will continue through early this evening before the wind gradually tappers off tonight. a cold bitterly cold windy afternoon. winds gusting past 30 miles per hour at times. that will send windchills, even though temperatures get in the upper 20s, it will feel like 10 during the course of the afternoon. then all eyes turn to late friday and into saturday. that's our first possibility of blockbuster winter storm. we will have many more details on the timing of that event in the full accuweather forecast a little later in the half hour. shirleen, david? >> jeff, thank you for that. our coverage continues now with eyewitness news reporter michelle charlesworth.

>> reporter: yeah. we are in rockville centre. everything jeff was saying is true. i am about to be blown over by the wind. it's cold. we stopped on the way out here on the upper east side to see how folks were dealing with this. more people on the streets. we wanted to make sure that we saw all of them. people are bundled up. when i asked how they are feeling or staying warm and describing this, they are calling it brick cold, rude it's extremely cold. that wind makes a difference. but it seems one of the best ways to stay warm is to laugh. >> i'm wearing a feather coat, fabulous, a heavy sweater, long sleeve polo, a scarf, silk underwear. >> i love it. >> reporter: the overshare. a man told me yesterday he was wearing his sister's warm tights. he was a construction guy. all toughness but he was warm. >> it doesn't matter.

>> reporter: what are you wearing to stay warm. >> i work. that's how i stay warm. >> reporter: move. >> you got to move in this weather. >> reporter: right? >> that's how i stay warm. >> we keep moving, keep working. when we get cold we go to the shanty and warm up 10 minutes then back outside. >> reporter: he got a space heater, coffee. >> yeah. we got the coffee truck over there. if the boss asks us what we are doing, we say we are staying warm. we don't stay warm we can't work. >> i like the way he is thing. the best idea is to stay outside as little as possible. keep moving. be mindful of your body. it's very, very cold out here. please, stay warm. we are live in rockville centre, michelle charlesworth, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> get inside the truck quickly. you can track the cold weather on the go with the accuweather forecast can you track alert app.

search wabc in the apple app or google play store. bomb threats in a number of schools in northern new jersey. the threat was made to nine different districts in bergen and passaic counties. nothing has been found and several of the schools have been cleared. but it has created a disruption. new jersey anthony johnson is in fair lawn with the details. >> reporter: we are starting to see many of the students return here to the classrooms in fair lawn but we are seeing a lot of parents picking up students saying they are taking them home for the rest of the day. but here in fair lawn, things are slowly starting to return to normal. but this all began around 9:00 this morning. that's when the calls started coming in shortly after classes started forcing hundreds of high school students in the cold.

some were includes serred together, bergenfield, teaneck, neighboring communities. fair lawn, garfield close to each other. the only community outside of bergen county targeted was clifton in passaic county. the schools had to be thoroughly checked before classes could resume. before 11:00 several schools declared the lock down and evacuations were over. school was resuming. at some points parents responded to reverse 911 calls to the threat. nothing has been found but the incidents of s.w.a.t. are becoming a growing problem in school districts around the country. they have the responsibility to take the threats seriously even if officials believe the calls are a prank. >> emotionally wise the kids need a break, good home, decompress. it's parents responsibility to discuss what happened. >> tough morning for a lot of

i wish the world were a kinder place. >> reporter: with these pranks, of course, they have to spend a lot of manpower hours. a lot of authorities, officials, fire department, police department have to respond to these type of things. they are very emotional for the students and the parents and cost taxpayers a lot of money. that is the latest from fair lawn. anthony johnson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> anthony, thank you. new at noon, police have just released new video of a man wanted in a random slashing attack. investigators say this is the man who slashed a social worker in the east village on saturday. anthony christopher smith needed 150 stitches to close the wound on his face. doctors had to do a nerve graft during eight hours of surgery. the supreme court says it will consider a legal challenge to president obama's executive actions on immigration. the president wanted to allow certain undocumented immigrants to apply to work in the u.s.

blocked implementation due to a challenge vestigators say the sergeant shot one es mof police officer joseph olivieri. he was killed as he crossed the long island expressway to reach

stairwell of a building he was patrolling. the bullet ricocheted off a wall killing gurley. a mother has pled guilty to criminally negative gant homicide in the death of her -- negligent homicide in the death of her daughter, lacy carr. westchester county prosecutors said the room was filled with alcohol and various drugs including morphine. the judge promised she would get five years probation when she is sentenced. the prosecution wanted jail time. new at noon, police in new jersey are looking for two men in an armed gas station robbery. we have surveillance photos. you can see the pair. investigators say one of them had a handgun when they went to the express fuel station in union last wednesday.

out of the register or from the office. they did steel cash and a cell phone from the clerk. as we continue on this busy tuesday, new video and a new call for help in the search for a man behind a hate crime in the bronx.

new at noon police on long island are looking for a suspect in armed robberies. the same man armed several small businesses in nassau

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t life in the fast lane. fellow musicians are sharing ientogave us. you can read more about frey being remembered and see a slide show of images throughout the years of his career right now at abc7ny. >> we have been playing the memory. good stuff. well, under fire. new york city's horse carriage deal drawing protest for people who say they will be out of a job because of it. >> inches away from disaster. a metal pole pierces the roof of a car. how could this happen. >> a live look outside. again, boy, it looks great. blue skies, sun is out.

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in the battle over who has the coldest commute, people who take the staten island ferry to work may win. whipping winds and frigid temperatures made the trek across the new york harbor brutal.

city after getting off the ferry was no easy task either. riders put on several layers of clothing to brace for the cold. >> it's cold. that's about it. went back inside and got another jacket to put it on. >> ridiculously cold. i can't breathe right. >> commuters say they are doing their best to get to the destination quickly to avoid being out in the cold for too long. >> it's hard enough to get up in the morning to get out there then you have to contend with this. >> we haven't built up enough of a stamina. how are you doing, jeff. >> i love the superlatives, it's ridiculous. so system great descriptions. between the buildings you can add 20 miles per hour to the wind speeds, especially down the hudson river.

>> yeah, it can be 40, 50 miles per hour winds between the buildings. that drives the windchill lower, lower than it is right now which is down about 11 degrees as you can see right now and buffeted by the wind. another camera getting buffeted is this one from astoria to midtown. occasionally you will see the camera shaking in the wind. 24 right now. the wind from the northwest at 16 gusting to 29 miles per hour. we did get down to 16 degrees this morning. one of the coldest mornings of the season. 25 on the island. 22 sussex. 18 degrees at monticello. look at the wind speeds. 43 miles per hour wind gust recently at monticello. so, even higher winds in the higher elevations north and west of the city. that is driving windchills down to sub-zero levels up in monticello, down to two below zero. ten on long island and islip. we have a wind advisory in

the higher elevations of the catskills through 7:00 p.m. p. i want zoom things way, way out to the west coast to illustrate that this is our storm that we are talking about from late friday to saturday this is what we think so far. friday snow overspreading the atlantic states richmond to d.c. up to philadelphia. by very late in the day on friday and perhaps until friday night to move into new york city. areas south and west of the city get the snowfall first then at this time spreads across the entire tri-state area and new england into the day on saturday. this is the impact that we are looking at. we know it will be an intense storm. we know it will be a large storm, a long duration storm. that means major travel delays, blowing and drifting snow.

wasn't enough, we have a full moon saturday. astronomic any tides are higher. there could be coastal flooding issues with the strong onshore flow. a multifaceted storm. on saturday. accuweather forecast for the 10 degrees. clear and cold tonight. wind s eall-important accuweather seven-day forecast. decent day thursday, mainly sunny, 34. mostly cloudy friday. or friday night. then that turns into a wind blown snowstorm as we head into 33 degrees. we try to clear things out gradually on sunday, 36. i mean, if this shifts by 100 miles in either direction from what we are projecting right

difference in the world. it can make the difference between a few inches and a mci_n largaa better idea of the accumulations ranges in the next 24 hours as the computer models gather the data as the storm finally made landfall on the west coast. we will send it back to you. >> anybody that has a snowblower, make sure it's ready to go. >> be prepared to be stuck for a day or two. >> thank you, jeff. frozen alive. meet the man found unconscious in a snowbank and feared dead.

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caught on camera, a bunch of dogs on the lamb. officers stopped a driver on a los angeles highway. she gets out of the car followed by at least six dogs. the pooch pursuit shut down the highway for at least a while. all of the dogs are okay we are told. no word on why officers were looking for the driver. from dogs to bears. in florida, a family of bears seem to have moved into a neighborhood. you can see a mama bear and her

cul-de-sac in the orlando area. parents are keeping the children inside. authorities are hoping the bears will leave on their own. of course we can only hope. >> that's right. twitter is back up and running following a brief outage that affected all over the world. people attempting to use it got a warning message that the network was over the capacity or internal error. service was interrupted for a few hours. it resumed around 6:00 but some have trouble with the search functions. big show of support for the victim of an attack in the white house. rivals take aim at donald trump.

the common core rollout was a disaster. parents knew it. teachers knew it. and now, governor cuomo's task force is doing what's right. state tests don't unfairly count against students. and test scores won't be used in teacher evaluations.

let's work together to support sensible and fair learning standards that help every child -- in every neighborhood -- succeed. our top stories this afternoon, police in new jersey investigating threats called in to nine different school districts this morning. it affected eight districts in bergen county and the clifton in passaic county. some schools went into lock down while others evacuated students into the cold. police cleared several schools and students have returned to class. >> new video of a suspect wanted in a random slashing in

police say this man attacked a social worker saturday. the victim needed 150 stitches on his face. >> bitter cold temperatures again today. the real feel will barely be above single digits. cities around the region issued cold alerts for today. hello, i'm david novarro. >> i'm shirleen allicot. let's get right back to meteorol sdoing a good job of warming things up. case in point, check out the temperature in central park. we are sitting at 24 degrees. it's sunny but with the wind northwest at 16 gusting to 29 miles per hour, it feels a lot colder. 25 right now in morristown. down to 18 or still 18 in monticello. mid-20s on the island. that doesn't tell the whole story. winds are gusting near 30 miles per hour in the park. upwards of 43 miles per hour in

letter pretty close to their, western ulster county under a wind advisory through 7:00 p.m. winds could gust up to 50 miles per hour in the higher elevations of the catskills. this sends windchills down to 11 degrees in the park. 2 below up to monticello. bitterly cold air persisting throughout the afternoon. winds gusting 30 miles per hour. it will feel like 10 much of the afternoon despite the sunshine. of course the major winter storm potential, it's a growing potential starting late friday through the day on saturday. many more details in the full forecast later in the half hour. david and shirleen, back to you. >> all right, jeff. dozens of seniors in upper manhattan spent part of the freezing night without any heat. a leak forced two boilers to shut down at the nycha building around 9:30 last night.

without heat or hot water. temporary heat was brought to the apartments. you can track the cold weather alert app. it's free to download. a community in the bronx came together in a show of support for the victim of an apparent hate at 9:00 this morning. very simple. to say hate will not be tolerated here. >> what do you want? justice. >> justice. >> reporter: a demand for justice, a rally for peace. the victim of what is believed to be a hate crime surrounded by community leaders on the same sidewalk where he was attacked friday. he spoke to us through a translator. >> i have pain all over my body.

>> reporter: it happened at 5:30, early evening in front of the elementary school ps 119 in the parkchester avenue of the bronx. the bangladeshi immigrant just picked up his 9-year-old niece from an after school program when two attackers yield the words -- yelled the words isis and muslim. >> what did you say niece about what she saw? >> she is in constant fear. >> reporter: community leaders are determined to see peace overcome hatred. >> we are in unison to demonstrate outrage. >> silence is acceptance. everyone should speak out against these atrocities so they will not continue. >> reporter: detectives say this newly released surveillance video shows two teens suspected in the attack. police are asking for help identifying them.

in the area as the search for the suspects continue. >> anyone responsible for this will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. you will be hunted down, captured and arrested. >> reporter: the surveillance video is grainy but it's what investigators have to work with right now. if you have any information about the two suspects in the video, call police immediately. in the parkchester section of the bronx, mallory hoff, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, mallory. a horse-drawn carriage driver speaking out over city happens new compromise. the deal between mayor de blasio and the union would cut the number of horses. it calls for a stable in central park so the horses wouldn't have to be in traffic. drivers say they won't leave the current stables on the west side until the new stable is finished. >> we have a mayor that wants to ban us. why should we truss mayor de business.

approve the deal. also new at noon, police in new jersey releasing a sketch as they search for a burglary suspect. they say a woman looking like this was found by carlstadt resident in his kitchen on new year's day. she left but then the resident saw her getting in his car before he scared her away. they suspect her in other burglaries in the area. police want your help finding a pair of bank skimmers. here are pictures of the suspects. they used devices to steal debit card information at a bank and cvs in manhattan. they then went to queens and took money out of the victim's accounts. they got away with nearly $8,000 since october. moving to the race for president, the presidential candidates are battling it out in the first primary states with iowa leading off voting in under two weeks. lana zak is live in washington with new developments among the

for conservative voters. >> reporter: yes, donald trump is promising a major endorsement, one that he hopes will bring conservatives to his side as he ducks it out -- dukes it out with ted cruz. conservatives are issuing a warning to donald trump. change your tone. >> there are a lot of conservatives that think he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. a traditional lifetime new yorker and that means something. >> reporter: after attacking ted cruz on his citizenship, the authenticity of his evangelical roots and the latest attack on his personality. >> he is a nasty guy, nobody likes him. >> reporter: the trump campaign may be heading conservatives advice. on monday bringing out the secret weapon, trump daughter who is eight months pregnant. >> i am so incredibly proud of my father. he will make america great again.

saying he doesn't do personal attacks but continues to pound hillary clinton for taking money from wall street banks. >> she has received $600,000 in one year as speaking fees from ers is in striking eye state. ted cruz and donald trump continue to be neck and neck. live from washington, lana zak for channel 7 eyewitness news. back to you, david and shirleen. an extremely close call. what caused this metal pole to slice through the roof of a car. >> a wonderful act of kindness

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go long. the new york housing has completed security upgrades on cameras. the housing authority working on a new security system that uses electronic keys and readers to control access to the building. the southbound lanes of the bronx river parkway or closed again so crews can repair the guardrail damaged in the 14-car pile up on icy roads sunday night. southbound traffic will be diverted between scarsdale road

the road is expected to fully open at 3:00 p.m. a hearing to determine whether the so-called affluenza teen violated probation has been postponed. the judge could have decided to transfer the case to adult court which would mean new stricter probation conditions but an attorney argued his mother, tonya, should have been notified about the court proceeding. ethan is being held in a jail in mexico. his mother has been charged with helping him flee to mexico. a professional tennis

allegations tennis pl of the people potentially involved in this. >> some players are saying they were offered money to throw a match but declined. tennis officials have denied ignoring or covering up . the driver lost control and trees. the light pole speared through the roof of a car through the it just missed the driver's head by a couple of inches. frayed nerves. the only two people hurt in all medics. close call in that case.

growing calls to boycott the oscars. the academy's president's response to the outcry. hollywood heavy very weights

we have new details. the national action network lead by reverend al sharpton is launching a campaign to boycott the cost scars. spike lee and actress jeida pink ket smith are boycotting the oscars this year. in a statement, academy president cheryl boone is heartbroken and frustrated by the lack of inclusion. >> the academy for a number of years now has been working really hard to bring about more inclusion and diversity in its

continuing to do that and we are going to make it happen. >> mayor de blasio weighed in on the controversy. in a tweet he said hollywood is fine with taking money from people of color and fine with ignoring their talent. the end of the tweet with the scars so white. turning to an incredible story of survival. a man found unconscious in a snowbank and thought to be frozen to death. even with the coroner called to the scene, doctors refused to give up. ken rosato introduces us to a man lucky to be alive. >> reporter: frozen nearly solid in a snowbank in pennsylvania is where justin smith's father found him nearly one year ago. >> i threw the car and ran to him. he was blue, lifeless, i checked for a pulse, heartbeat, nothing. >> i remember walking home in a storm.

waking up 30 days later with my family around him. >> reporter: the coroner was on the scene when he was found. but the doctor at the hospital didn't want to give up and would not pronounce him dead. >> initially they were almost questioning me like are you kidding me. >> we have low temperature it can preserve the brain and other organ functions. >> reporter: teams of nurses and staff did cpr on justin for two hours while his doctor approval to warm up the blood with a specialized machine. >> he held my hand that day and said i will throw everything i have including the kitchen sink at your son. >> we knew we needed a miracle. >> reporter: he was flown to another hospital in allentown. as he warmed up, his heart started and justin woke up amazed. >> i never heard of anything like this. amazing. i can't thank everyone enough. >> when you look at the science of what happened to justin, it

on earth could survive this. >> now justin is missing his tows and pinkies but he is back to school, back to golf and he miracle. >> this renewed the faith of >> reporter: ken rosato, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> i'm amazed his brain works after that time in that state. >> will to survive and will to save him. time for a check on that accuweather forecast. today. he is outside the studios on the upper west side. >> still a cold upper west side but a bright upper west side. it looks nice but the sunshine is deceptive and ineffective at warming things up. it's at 24 degrees. that is a cold location. lower manhattan to brooklyn, sunny skies. northwest wind gusting up to 29 miles per hour. i think we top out around 27 in the afternoon under the sunshine but the winds

gusting above 30 at times. that drives windchills quickly down to the lower teens and single digits, down close to zero north and west of the city up by monticello. here is the regime we are in right now. harsh winds, temperatures 10 to 20 degrees below average. as we head into tomorrow and thursday, temperatures get closer to average. i think they remain below normal for this time of the year. at least the wind will have calmed down by tomorrow afternoon. then we talk about the snowstorm potential. the timing on this looks like friday for much of the mid- atlantic. we are talkinshgton, d.c., virginia, west virginia, southeastern parts of pennsylvania, delaware, southern new jersey. by late friday into friday night we will get the first flakes in new york city. then it overspreads the entire region friday into the day on saturday up to new england as well. these are the factors that we are looking at. it will be a large storm.

also a long duration storm lasting the entire day on saturday. major travel delays expected, blowing and drifting snow and coastal flooding. just because the full moon will be with us tides will be higher than normal. you add an onshore flow and you can get washover at the coast. forecast for the afternoon, blustery. plenty of sun. 27 will feel like 10. clear and cold tonight. winds gradually diminish. 22. 37 tomorrow. not as harsh. sun giving way to clouds then back to more sunshine on thursday, 34. clouds quickly increase friday. i think we get snow by late in the day or friday night continuing right through the day on saturday. temperatures around freezing.

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it's time for the feed, stories that got a start on social media. we begin with a little boy that had his christmas gift stolen. but it's how the community

tristan from port henry got the go cart he hoped for from santa. after playing with it for a day, someone stole it off the family's porch as it was charging up. >> the next morning when we went to the porch, he bass saying car, car, looking for his car and it was gone. >> dad turned to facebook hoping someone may have spotted it. when the vice president of the port henry volunteer fire department read the post, he began a fund-raising effort to buy a new one. it was a huge success. he raised $1,000, enough to buy a new toy truck, helmet and a shed to keep it safe and locked away. >> he has to lock it away now because of the people in this world. >> the community stepped up. there is a young employee at a target in indiana inspiring people. he is teaching us an important lesson in patience. this is ishmael gilbert. he is helping out an elderly

her purchases. people waiting in line got so frustrated they stormed off as ishmael took his time to help her count each coin. sarah posted it to facebook saying i realize i hadn't been inconvenience at all. my daughter was witnessing kindness and patience. i realized that i too needed a refresher on this lesson. >> i love the little girl appearing over the counter. >> that will do it for this edition of eyewitness news.