only at your lincoln dealer. from fox 5 news this is the day early call. ti-hua: morning delays are expected on a long island railroad again. of freight train derailed. we have the latest on the rush hour commute. ben: a terrible attack, high school football field in new jersey, a player had his helmet rip off and the helmet is used to smash his face. juliet: the top republican presidential candidates face off tonight in a debate. and what happened to the rain. this will definitely be a

different style, cnn versus fox news, it will be more interactive. ben: a tough act to follow. we worked for fox the across-the-board we get high marks for how they handled the first debate, the big stage and a lot of people juggle, we will see what happens. juliet: policy from each candidate and now we will hear more of the fighting i think. ben: i am ben simmoneau. juliet: i am juliet huddy. juliet: i woke up and it is only wednesday. juliet: it is wednesday already. >> meteorologist: i am like you. it is clipping along for me. a little extra energy.

i went to take a nap at 1:30, woke up 4:30, straight through. i needed that. >> meteorologist: ben is like -- all right. here is what we have. it got warm again. 84 was your high temperature at central park, 83 in newark, 77 in monticello, temperatures were above normal by tended trees, but we certainly could use the rain fall but does not look like anything coming at us for quite awhile, 67 at central park, 61 in islip, 69 in montauk, 48 in monticello, almost a repeat of yesterday with mainly clear skies, a few clouds, anything that produces rain is not here. high pressure in control keeping

us nice and dry. even the humidity and dewpoint levels on the low side today so still pretty warm and comfortable, 82 by noon and a high of 87 later today. this will be the peak of the heat but comes down slowly over the next few days, high temperature in the 80s as we go into fra and drops a little more over the weekend, cloud expected sunday but got a big shot at green. let's bring in christina stoffo in for ines rosales. this is the day i am thinking things begin to pick up and we go back to school. christina: hopefully isn't ok morning but we know how that goes. we have some things going on, some early morning construction closing the jackie robinson by the interchange, we will keep you up-to-date. route 9 as the closure, bad accident happened here, downed

wire across the road so you won't get through, police detour you away from the area. something to keep in mind, route 9 will be closed until further notice. and bring you to the gwb which is moving well in town, no dna across c-span looking good, lincoln and holland in decent shape. if you are heading inbound, the triborough bridge looking like there's hardly any traffic at this point. send it back to you. ben: we could have some masses on the lirr. juliet: could be a slow ride for commuters. ben: teresa priolo has a look at the freight train derailment that could cause problems this morning. >> reporter: allow for extra padding in your morning commute if you rely on the long island railroad. it might be a while before this is cleaned up and service is fully restored. crews have been working through

the night to read braille this the rail freight train. they need to repair the track. >> i know it wasn't moving and i didn't think much about it. about ten minutes later it is still there and i realize it has gone off the track. >> reporter: the 16, locomotive is operated by new york and the atlantic railway but it runs on the lirr track. the last car of the train derailed in westbury west of hicksville after 1:00 and just in time for the afternoon rush. the car is blocking one of the two tracks shared by the trains on the port jefferson branch. >> slow down service, people get stuck, not where to go. >> reporter: for awhile service was shut down westbound and east bound service was running on a significant delay affecting writers who live anywhere to montauk. >> the train derailed.

>> what does that mean for you? >> i am going to wait here until i can get on a train and make it home. >> reporter: hopefully she did but for everybody else making your way into penn station to they don't be surprised if that rain is delayed. teresa priolo, "good day new york". juliet: we will check back in a bit. police have identified a person of interest in connection with the murders of two women in two hotels looking for 36-year-old joseph and claire. he was seen on surveillance video leaving both hotels and a fingerprint was found in one of the hotel rooms. the first victim was found july 23rd in the bushwick hotel in brooklyn make and strangled to death. the second victim was found sept. 8 in the manhattan broadway hotel. police said the conditions of both rooms bore similarities so witnesses told them dan clair met the women on the street and took them to the hotel's. ben: gunfire erupted leaving

four people wounded last night near urban turner boulevard and west kines 3. officers found evidence but no victims. a short time later they learned the four shooting victims had been taken to university hospital in private cars. one of those cars was hit by bullets. the victim's injuries are not life-threatening, no word what led to the shooting, no arrests have been made. juliet: police investigating a viciously dirty play on a high school football game. this was taken friday night. a player from lyndon high school wrestled an opposing player, swings his helmet to the opponent, bashes him in the head. the player was severely hurt but he did need ten stitches at the hospital. he put his arms up. the player was flagged for a foul but wasn't kicked out of the game with school officials have apologized. no charges have been filed. ben: the top 11 presidential

candidates will take part in their second debate. juliet: promising fireworks no doubt. carly fiorina did not make the cut for the first one but she will be there tonight taking on donald trump, chris christie and we another hopefuls. robert moses joins us from the newsroom with more on this. >> reporter: if you are political junkies like me you will get your fix. this debate last three hours. not a lot of sleep for me. what is at stake? plenty. donald trump can add to his lead, ben carson can narrow the gap and candidates like jeb bush and chris christie can pull up their sagging numbers. donald trump and his tonight's republican debate as the front runner but ben carson is nipping at his heels. a new york times cbs news poll shows trump has the support of 27% of republican voters up the modest three points from last month. carson is right behind with 23%, that is up 17 points since august.

carson's momentum stems from his strong performance at the gop debate last month in cleveland. trump spoke to yesterday aboard the uss iowa and said his united states would be a force to be reckoned with. >> we will make our military so big and so strong and so great. [cheers and applause] >> it will be so powerful that i don't think we will ever have to use it. nobody is going to mess with us. >> reporter: carson who is retired neurosurgeon is an outsider candidate. his surge at the polls comes as a surprise to some but not to him. >> i have seen the level of enthusiasm and the size of the crowds for quite some time. it hasn't been reported on but we have seen it so this is not very surprising. >> reporter: tonight's debate and the reagan library will be of far more intimate affair than the one last month at the quick and loans arena in cleveland

little in 400 people will be in the audience. from will occupy center stage. there will be a new face joining him, a hewlett-packard chief executive carly fiorina. >> this is a big opportunity for me to introduce myself to be almost 50% of the nation in republican primary voters who don't know my name or that are running for president so it is a big opportunity and a big platform. >> one of the moderators of the debate tonight is this man. radio talk-show host who tripped up donald trump on foreign policy questions recently on his radio show. trump called some gotcha questions. cheese said he would try to avoid such questions tonight. the debate begins promptly at 8:00 and i will be there. juliet: go back to before donald trump announced he was running. everybody was laughing at off. no way he is going to run and there is no way he would get the nomination.

at this rate depending on ben carson and we are still very early obviously. it is pretty crazy. >> a lot has changed. lot of people didn't think ronald reagan would win today could be the warmest day of the week. it is chili but skyrockets. ben: could we push 90 to date? mike woods as the forecast. governor cuomo coming up, and a rail tunnel under the hudson river.

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popping through the tristate region, we don't expect much, high pressure in control keeping us pretty much high and dry and not much expected to come was in the tristate region for a while. taking a look the future cast which will show a lot of nothing, nothing going from day into this afternoon into tomorrow morning, real quiet and a few clouds pop up here, more clouds started in towards the coast toward friday and more moisture working its way to the tristate but overall not a lot happening. here is what your temperature trend will look like the next 24 hours, we start at 66, anybody 11:00 a.m. a high-temperature 87 later today, drops to night to low of 67 which is what we have this morning at this point. pretty decent high-temperature not quite a record high, 92 degrees but close enough kennedy said in your high today, 86 tomorrow, 85 right, generally take temperatures down for the weekend, above normal

temperatures until we get to monday and tuesday of next week, it is back to normal again. headlines and dollars available on the myfoxny.com weather apps, apple itunes store, google play store, you can find it for free. let's bring in christina stoffo. it will be a big headache on long island. enemkpali christina: let's talk about the closure on the west bound jackie robinson and the ku garden center chain closed down for roadwork until further notice. route 9 both ways close, the bay avenue a bad accident involving downfall and wires across the highway, detour across that situation, something to keep in mind if you use route 9 in that area. bring you to the staten island expressway a lot shot by bradley, things looking good here, keep in mind westbound we have construction blocking two that. let's talk about the trains because we have this issue, lirr, 10 to 15 minute delays but

i imagine it will be more, yesterday's train derailment only one track in service from hicksville to westbury. expects cancellations and huge delays, allow yourself extra time and keep you up-to-date with what is going on as more information comes in this morning and alternate site in effect today. ben: an effort to get a new rail tunnel between new york and new jersey, governors cuomo and christie sent a letter to the president asking for money. they want the federal government to pay for half of the cost of the estimated $20 billion gateway project. >> the old neighborhood evaluation, 5050, split the costs, i think in this case it is more than fair but i don't believe the federal government will step up and do more than this. ben: the rest is split between new york, new jersey and the port authority. this will break the logjam

surrounding funding, delayed construction for decades. juliet: joining us live in studio is curtis sliwa, host of "the curtis and kuby show" and wabc. >> you are drop dead gorgeous this morning. i don't normally preys you, you are narcissistic and the barbie doll christine not wearing red. didn't she read the memo? that is making the angst. juliet: interesting that governor christie, governor cuomo are together especially when chris christie is such an adversarial and contentious relationship with our major. maybe our governor -- very interesting. >> the man who is 1%, time to swim back to seaside heights and have that double sausage and peppers and the fitting your mouth. you are a candidate of no consequence.

he is never in new jersey. routing to the dallas cowboys the other day with jerry jones where they won in the last 7 seconds. come home, come the shore. ben: chris christie has fallen from 3% in the polls to 1%, support gravitating obviously toward donald trump still 27%, ben carson 23%, marco rubio 6%, jeb bush 6%. here is the thing. and this point in 2007 the front runners were rudy giuliani and fred thompson. where are they today? >> they both flamed out. i was recruited giuliani campaign in florida. what happened? it was all fired in the belly, 9/11, 9/11, people were saying there's more to life than 9/11. at the start of this race, long way to go, it is a marathon. your young uncle, what is his name?

three hours, chill out. juliet: interesting to watch these people go at it. don't you ever disrupt. >> cnn smack down, they are doing what mtv does, two people, and -- juliet: why do so many people -- donald trump been so popular right now? >> you think that is that debate? sick people against one another? former colleague of mine who did the rope on donald trump, trump was like -- i have no idea what he is talking about. ben: they don't go head to head how do you pick one? >> you would ask those questions he asked from the and all of a sudden was spinning from? let him as the others, ask scott walker, you want to build a wall, a fence between the united states and canada keep your house to be is that? get into a dead don't expect these candidates to go at one another like attack dogs. that is what you do out in the

streets. that is what in seas do? hip hop degenerate rap on the stage? the reagan library? juliet: we won't see people from down. >> that is what cnn wants. and by the way what about chelsea, talking about her mother? newfound respect for her mother. her mother saying to her and her grandchild's the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round. what -- i would have jumped of that bus. ben: hillary clinton's lead in the latest poll shrank from 40 points to 20 points over bernie sanders nationally and 60% of democrats a joe biden should get in a race. >> they are going for the jewish guy from brooklyn who went to madison high school who looks like a grouchy guy. people despise, they hate hillary because she is such a

fate phony fraud. there is nothing genuine about the woman. now she reads everything, cute cards and teleprompters. she could be the host of a tv show with a teleprompter. he does not have an original thought in her body. didn't they paid chelsea clinton $600,000 as the income to broadcasting company to reduce teleprompter. juliet: good for her. ben: curtis sliwa, new to 3:00. juliet: if you can bear it. the giants j. pp. dari: to me to leave? juliet: please note. he tries to show the giants and fans that he is ready to go, duke is in.

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ben: we are back. duke: last night, a rod played with a bone in his knee. even more impressive.

a-rod going deep, 32 home run of the year. i didn't have him making the team in spring training. a-rod take sole possession of 21st play on the all-time hit list. i watch this, agreed veteran, ten pitch at bat by a rookie, 6 in the season giving them a 3-2 lead, 5-6 bird home run giving the yanks out of tampa back with 6 inning, that is done and that is a two run shot, rays goal of 43, winning 6-3 the final score, yanks remain three games behind division, toronto lost last night 3-2. simmons got the game-winning rbi in the ninth inning. days of last two story. mets and marlins at city field, mets coming in to this one, game tied at one in the fourth inning, miami, rbi single, one run scores, miami would add

another later in the inning. they break it open first, trips the rbi double and later justin board will build will run here. making it 6-1 marlon's. marlon's put up three in the inning and a rough night, mets fans worried about him, he has been struggling, miami, mets' winning streak snapped, the-1/2, this story gets more bizarre by the day, jason pierre paul's right hand worse than we thought and getting worse. reports say he is missing the tip of his thumb. can't believe he didn't sign the $16 million contract. jake peavy posted a video, working out, you cannot see his right hand clearly, remember he lost his right index finger in a fourth of july fireworks, espn

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