rich than any other game. from fox 5 news this is "good day early call". juliet: in queens, why does a person do this? the search is on the present lease a randomly cut the chinese exchange student as he walked to school in queens. he was wearing a surgical mask and gloves. ben: a call for calm in baltimore after a hung jury in the trial of an opposite charge of manslaughter in the death of freddie for sure. the situation and tense one. heather: the life of police officer rafael ramos and wenjian liu and broken speaks to fox 5 about how she wants his memory to live on. ben: carries a morning, i am ben simmoneau.

thanks for enjoining us, it is a little chilly can outside. >> meteorologist: yesterday was pretty nice. ben: i am not confident. two weeks now. >> meteorologist: coming down to the water. looks like that. good morning, everyone. is mild outside. it goes on. we have 53 degrees at central park, 48 in sussex, monticello, check out what is going on with the wind coming from the southeast at 7 miles per hour, 12 miles per hour wind in islip. you know what? it looks silvery, kind of cool, kind of yellow. we have some showers coming through the east end of long island into connecticut and

to harrison drizzle, some tiny bits of light rain we have coming through but bigger stuff is to the west making its weight room as time goes on, we are heading up to 574 high end the next five days more rain coming at us, 50 is your high tomorrow and 41 saturday and sunday. let's bring in ines. ines: hope you brought another shirt. ines: we have construction going on, the bridge closed in both directions, gobble very staten island down, closed for road work and putnam county, one lane closed slowing things down a bit south bound. let's take a look at your commute. fd are derived by 7 1st street traffic moving fine southbound no. down, construction southbound as usual as you approach 61st. the alexander hamilton bridge,

police activity, slowing everyone down towards the george washington bridge. eastbound side moving fine. as for the trains, running on or close to schedule. juliet: students walking to school probably understandably on edge. ben: police are now searching for a man in a surgical mask to cut a student as she was walking to school yesterday morning. robert moses is live in whitestone, queens where the attack occurred. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning. this was a really disturbing attack seemed to come out of nowhere. it was captured, the attacker was captured on surveillance camera mounted on his home near the intersection of thirteenth avenue and 147th street. police said the 16-year-old exchange student from china was walking to school near whitestone academy at 8:20 when

mask and surgical gloves came up to her from behind and cut her twice in the face with a box cutter. cops says he never uttered a word. the victims suffered wounds to her cheek as well as her throat, she was taken to long island jewish medical center, she is expected to be fine. this attack may all the more disturbing given that it seemed to come out of nowhere. >> him out of nowhere, very disturbing. she is an exchange student from china as been in the country tweet months. >> reporter: police say the suspect was wearing a hooded sweat shirt with black stripes on the sleeve, took off west on thirteenth avenue. you can't really make out his face from the surveillance images but police hope someone in this neighborhood will recognizing, see who he is and immediately called unleash

misrepresents the area of flushing says that there has been a spate of attacks targeting asians in this area, unclear if this and the man could be linked to any of those other attacks but we do know cops want him off the street as soon as possible because he is extremely dangerous. any information call police at 800-577-tips. blogging late stone, back to you. juliet: thanks very much. the family of free gray is speaking out after the mistrial of one of the officers charged in his death. william porter is one of six officers facing for gramm's debt reaction has been minimal, things remain call last night with just a handful of protesters. jurors were unable to reach a decision after three days of deliberations leading the judge to declare a mistrial.

a victory for either side, it is not. of bump on the road to justice and the road to justice -- >> remain calm, patient because we are confident there will be another trial with a different jury. we are calm, you should be calm too. >> reporter: gray was arrested for having an illegal switchblade and severed spinal cord injury while in police custody. he later died. date for the pre-trial is being decided later on. in the sunday marks one year since ron fellows and renton lou -- rafael ramos and wenjian liu were gunned down. talk about raising two sons on her own and how she is handling life without her husband. >> i wake up and still looking for him. and he is not there. i see old people walking

be us, we were supposed to grow old together, 23 years with the same person, i was 17 when we met. is not an easy thing. ben: ago 0 is to improve relations between the community and police. foundation will post its first fund-raising events on january 28th. ben: on his way, and they were killed in a shootout with police hours after that. they were buried in a muslim cemetery. ten people, members of the family and people who used to

ben: terrorists could strike at any moment any place. juliet: the fbi director and police commissioner, working together. good morning. >> reporter: this is that this on broad general information. isis inspired individuals, also a way to keep the public in the loop and according to the fbi when it comes to fighting terrorism you are one of the most effective tools. >> don't let these savages accomplish what they want to accomplish, they believe they can freak out in a way that damages us. >> reporter: strong message from the fbi. and james comey says law-enforcement need your help in exposing these. >> will hear about the

closest to them. it is unlikely to be an fbi agent, more likely to be a suffolk county, andy a officer, someone who knows the community. >> reporter: is becoming harder to track terrorists because they communicate through encrypted social media tool, the private messaging system is the we keep says san bernardino killers plan their attack. >> there intercepting with probable cause and court order. if we don't know about the person we have no predicating the that. >> reporter: tough talk and terrorism occurring the same day the department of homeland security revamped its alert system adding an additional level called the bullet in. the new system lets the public in a quicker easier fashion. johnson wasted no time issuing that first. and. >> reporter:

inspired individuals, encourage or inspired, public events or places. >> reporter: whatever the threat the nypd says, the terrorism unit strategic response group is prepared for any scenario. >> so we can act on it very quickly, that capacity. >> reporter: how will these bulletins be announced. according to homeland security web site the advisories on social media, twitter and facebook and dhs.gov. at the same time they are also going to distribute that information to us so we can pass it around to the public, and all different outlets and hopefully again this is something that will work and people use that information and give it to police. that is the latest from the news

juliet: still ahead on "good day early call" some temperatures, warming temperatures, rain is moving in. it will be 70 degrees in d.c. i heard. >> they will tell us what we already know. that sound. like nails on a chalkboard. but listen to this:

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>> meteorologist: we are ready to head out the door. we have a milder start to the day, a 51 in brentwood, same in stony brook, 53 central park, 45 in danbury, 47 in kerritown, see what is going on with radar and satellite, leash hours came through in the overnight hours, looks like the threat is out there. radar looks around, a little bit of light rain passed through this city. the main event back to the west of us. if you have anything out there is light rain, maybe even fog in the airy as the war front goes through.

let's look that the future cast to see how wet weekend and when that is happening, a round 4:00 it will be on top of us. i can:00 look like drier skies have come back to us but may not be completely clear, and snow to the northwest on future cast. cooler temperatures, light snow to the northwest. the drought conditions years since december first, 0.93 inches of rain is what we have seen, 12 inches below normal and for the year almost 11 inches of we are well behind for the year, that is the way we will end up unless we get a lot of rain in a short time, looks like that will be happening. lead to moderate stuff, high temperature 57 degrees, 50 your

low weekend is cool, don't forget the myfoxny.com weather apps at the apple itunes store and google play store has a live interactive radar which will show you where the rain is. let's bring in ines. pretty early right now. ines: we are off to a good start, your commute in queens traffic moving fine, red spots with construction set up. and eastbound west bound no problems, george washington bridge, construction and the upper level wrapped up, no delays for the upper or lower level. as far as lincoln and holland tunnel arkansas and no delays either. ben: more details in the metro north train crash, national

released dramatic photos in the collision between a train and suv, and the wreckage of the suv, the ntsb released hundreds of documents in the case including witness statements and police and fire reports. the suv driver died in the collision, dozens more were injured. juliet: where do you think, where it stands on air travel and air ports, being the best, not the best. ben: the worst. juliet: we are the worst, by jamie power and associates. ben: who run their course? juliet: fill that in. ben: the port authority. newark airport was named the worst of all large airports giving it low marks for security, baggage handling and food and retail options. ben: that is pretty much everything juliet: la guardia was second

nothing there, overcrowding, later canceled flights, that is the problem with la guardia. jfk is improving. ben: internal 4 and 5, the new or one pretty nice. juliet: who needs -- ben: if you forgot something you are going on a trip. saying a friend i was with needed a tie or something. juliet: and need the time when you're going on if it did you why is he said difficult. ben: this is the way it is. there are some pretty important things you need to know as you end up with an unwanted gift to. juliet: we send sharon crowley to figure this out, she has more on the rules of gifting.

giving, what is under your tree doesn't quite suits the naughty and even the nice may find themselves seeker the rejecting. >> reporter: have you ever read get a christmas present? >> yes i have. >> reporter: i can't tell? >> not the one that i gave you. >> reporter: a survey found 75% of americans think read shifting is socially acceptable and half of them admitted to doing it last christmas. >> i got a book. >> reporter: how did you know? >> i am not interested in science fiction and the press and i got it from, it was a real gift to. >> reporter: you forgive them? >> just what looked like they didn't want it and i got it. >> reporter: how do you feel about that? >> it was a sweater. i took it and wore it and it was the case. >> reporter: experts urged care when considering recycling that unwanted gifts.

>> you won't read gift in the same gifting circle. no chance of overlap the someone will recognize the give someone gave you as the give you are not giving them. >> reporter: don't forget to snoop on social media. avoid real gifting among mutual friends and never do this. >> make sure it is not sentimental. sending your grandmother knitted for you. >> be sure to take the labels and price tags off before you give it again next year. >> reporter: one more tip, do only good gifts. a love from the 90s or p js covering candy. sharon crowley, fox 5 news. >> reporter: the letter read?

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seen a change in his personality and he will always be in recovery but has the support of his team and his family. he is excited to get back on the mound, jets keep their playoff hopes alive as they get ready for dallas. in dallas saturday night. eli manning was named offensive player of the week for the second time this season with four touchdown passes in monday night's win against miami and the giants have some momentum going in to sunday's game against the carolina panthers. >> we finished the game. that is important. having done it sometimes, there have been a lot of close games, finishing the game strong with a great fourth quarter and net effect get the lead and hold on to read so that was good but it

situation, we will play a great football. >> reporter: the final game for team usa retiring at the age of 35 before the match against china and new orleans the team acknowledged her in an emotional three games ceremony, the leading all-time internationals were later received a standing ovation and in a symbolic gesture, the on band, handed it to carley ian lloyd. team usa lost to jack, one of the greatest soccer players of all time. >> i saw her in the locker room and i didn't see her there. >> played soccer entire life. of a sudden 35 years old. ben: you can often go on and have a great career in something else, still very young. juliet: and very white wealthy as well. thanks. ben: we are couple minutes from 5:00.

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