you can see on the map that the brooklyn queens connector would run from sunset park to astoria queens, running along the east city bike stations. the streetcars would travel -- [no audio ] >> reporter: you can see the close proximity of where this line would run. this could be a worthwhile solution. [no audio ] >> that was mallory hoff reporting. >>> 6:36 is our time. bill cosby's legal team plans to appeal the decision to allow a sexual case to go to trial. the judge rejected the former prosecutor who says he had a verbal agreement and denied the request to disqualify steele from the case. cosby returns to court next month. >>> two nations on the part of the travel ban. they have been added to the list travel. staffers who are or might become pregnant can opt out of travel to areas where zika is a concern on the airlines. >>> colombia's president will visit the white house and ask for more money to help colombia rebuild afterwards. president obama signaled he will ask congress for increased aid for colombia in his budget proposal next week. >>> 6:37. you are never more than seven min

it would stretch 16 miles from sunset park and go up toward astoria queens. it would be very close to the waterfront and cost about $2.5 billion. the group friends of the brooklyn-queens connector says the streetcar would pass by 6 ferry stops, 17 subway lines and 37 bus stops. but there's mixed reaction from subway riders and drivers. >> it would be fantastic. i remember it back in the '50s. my mom kbrood >> it's so hard to get around with the islands and bicycle lanes. now truckdrivers got to deal with trolleys? >> reporter: so from streetcars to solar energy, what you will also hear from the mayor, solar pams on 88 additional buildings in the city, including bellevue hospital, queens museum. a lot of schools, michael. a lot of people talking about that streetcar. if all is said and done and the proposal happens, you'd have construction beginning around 2019. then that streetcar rolling in 2024. back to you, michael. >> still a couple years before it would happen. kat, thanks very much. >>> happening right now, police are investigating reports of another sub

(cohen) i did a film in greece and in astoria queens about this terrific community of epirot musicianstime they have one of their celebrations-- it could be a wedding or it could be a feast day-- they have to have music. [tambourine, drums, and clarinet playing] you can't have that ritual unless you have that good music. and the best musicians are up there in the mountains of greece, and they'll fly into athens for that one festival. the issue of money isn't important-- that he's there. [music continues] you know, most places, when you want to get excited, you go faster, but somehow with the epirots, they go slower when they want to show how intense they are and expressions of agony and pain and ecstasy-- slow-moving, exotic things... it's crazy. and they dance, and they kind of outdo each other. and they lead each other around doing these slow, slow, slow things. it's very elegant. well, by the time you get involved in that, everybody's sweating and pouring on the energy and slowing down. they're no longer where they were when they came into the room. it's a different place, and i thi

that streetcar, j street it would go along the waterfront by dumbo and then up to astoria queens and awaiting to see what other people think about it as well. >> thank you, kat. >>> mayor de blasio also expected to announce new development plans for governor's island. the mayor wants mixed use facilities, including a cultural center. the development may be geared towards technology, education and business uses. >>> accused of fatally shooting a man could take the stand. its final witness, then the defense may call officer peter liang to testify. liang's partier ier ner was on the stand tuesday. >>> most of the roads flooded during the evening commute should be cleared for the morning drive. the southbound lanes of route 20 had to be shut down in paterson, new jersey last night. public crews work were wading up to 2 feet of water. the heavy rain and snowmelt filled roads in lodi with water and made it difficult for some drivers to see. >>> 4:34. time for weather and traffic on the 4s. chris, it was like steady and coming down yesterday. >> that's what we were concerned snowmelting. no

planning on bring it back and would be the brooklyn queens connector would stretch 6 miles from astoria queens all the way down to sunset park here in brooklyn. >> this ways the bqx would look lake and serve up 50,000 passengers per day making it one of thing biggest urban streetcar systems in the gnawings. >> this this, laming, is reflationary for new york city. the mayor saying it would create opportunity more access to jobs at developing industrial center look the brooklyn navy ideaar and address equality allowing those with live in long isolated neighborhoods that meets their needs. >> it will conheck the new light rail testimony to ten landings and 15 subway routes and 30 plus buslines hoo. the streetcar is set to have economic impact on the city. >> we project over 30 year as the growth impact of this light rail will be $25 billion. the cost of it all, $2.5 billion of which the mayor says it would be pa paid through bonds. >> that will create revenue that would not have been there otherwise to allow us to pay off the bonds that will allow us to build the system. to ride i it, it would co

just across new york city's east river, in the neighborhood of astoria queens, roommates, rob, and jill hanner, are settling into their apartment for the night. >> it's a calm, ordinary night and i'm in bed and i hear this really loud noise. it was like a gunshot. so i spring out of bed. i walk to the window. i want to see what's going on. i see fire. it was quite shocking to see a fire in what is essentially my backyard. and i immediately started knocking on jill's door and tell her to get up. >> i'm like, should i call 911? like, i don't know what to do. so i immediately got on the phone, called 911. >> that's when i grabbed my camera. >> there's a car fire, that -- a car fire that just -- in astoria. >> an suv has barreled into an empty lot just behind budon and hanner's apartment. >> this guy just drove his car right into this wood. i could tell that he was under some sort of influence of something. i couldn't get a read on what he was on, but i could tell that his mind was not all there. >> he's, like, taking the metal pieces and hitting the car and just totally fell over. >> from

this connector would run from sunset park to astoria, queens. it would run along the east river connecting the subways, ferries, bus routes and city bike stations. the three cars would travel 12 miles per hour, a trip between there and brooklyn would take 27 minutes. from what we understand, the project will wrap up in 2024. the mayor will make his pitch tonight. mallory hoff, channel 7 "eyewitness news." >>> an eighth grade student from new jersey claims undercover police officers roughed him up for no reason and dislocated his shoulder. 14-year-old jamod watkins was leaving a bodega when several cars with lights approached him. the teen says he ran because wees frightened. moments later, the officers caught up to him. ground, pulled my arm back. my arm popped, and then they picked me up and threw me on the car, put me in handcuffs. >> watkins says the officers never identified themselves and never even showed a badge. he also says when he asked for medical attention, the officers left him in the middle of the street. internal affairs is trying

queens connector. it would look something like this. the futuristic streetcar going through the 16 mile route connecting sunset park to astoria and queens. it was run above the ground fixed on public streets next to cars on the road. the cost to build billion . the mayor believes it would connect commuters to areas that don't have access . he released a statement saying, it's about equity and innovation. you are mapping out a brand-new transit in it together. it opens up real opportunity for the people. the bq ex would cruise around 11 miles per hour. a typical trip from long island to brooklyn would run 40 minutes. it will cost the same of a single ride metro car but it will be a while as construction won't start until 2019 after a lengthy study in a community approval process. service would be available until 2024. the bq ex would connect commuters to 15 subways and fairy landings. it's billion with a b? >> yes. in retrospect , a lot of officials say it's much cheaper than it would be to build an underground subway.it's all relative. >> police say they busted 18 members of a brooklyn street gang and left a trail of dead bodies. the da

futuristic streetcar line would cruise along a 16-mile route connecting sunset park brooklyn to astoria, queens. >> with it's a very novel idea, but, i mean, like, during the daytime, there's a lot of traffic here, you know, all the construction going on, so you have all the trucks and everybody going about. maybe if it was a wider street, definitely. but i don't know, i don't see it happening in this area. >> the cost to build? $2.5 billion in taxpayers' money. the mayor beliefs it would connect commuters to areas otherwise isolatedded from the subway. this is about equity and innovation. we are mapping brand new transit that will knit neighbor may noted together. the dqx will cruise at an average speed of 11 miles an hour. a trip would take about 40 minutes. it would be the same cost if a single ride metro car but making this reality is far off. construction would not start until 2019 after lengthy studies and a community approval process. until 2024. so the bqx would stop here on j street and would connect people to a lot of different subways, the a, the c as well as the f. those trains as w

take a look at temperatures around murray hill this morning. 39 degrees. 35 in city island, astoria, out in queens, 38 degrees. 32 in staten island. over in jersey city, we begin the morning at 37 degrees. in the picture, if you're looking for cooler temperatures, you're going to find them through the hudson valley and out west. orange, and rockland, sections d of jersey, you're in the 20s. morristown, 36. 46 in islip, 40 in montauk. school day forecast, well, as we start off the morning, first pe horiod, you're going to see 39 degrees. recess, 46 degrees. a couple of clouds in there but the sun is going to be the primary start today. 3:30, 47 degrees, after school, 45. again, partly cloudy conditions. a high today of 49 degrees. stick around, we'll discuss the in s a minute. lauren is standing by with traffic and transit. >> thanks. gopod morning. garden state parkway. some of the biggest accidents on the road. we have more local problems. on 27, we have it shut down in both directions out near franklin boulevard because of an accident with a traffic light. heading over to long island and north b

queens connector. it would run from astoria to sunset park. the goal is to boost business and jobs in the outer buroughs. >> it has the potential to improve and to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of new yorkers. and we're going to make it a reality. >> that streetcar line is estimated to cost about $2.5 million and is about 8 years away from cleegs if it gets approved and started. >>> and the project that he says would create tens of thousands of jobs and generate tens of thousands of billions of dollars in economic activity. >>> coming up, more on that breaking news in the bronx where two officers were shot. we'll have the latest on the conditions of the officers as investigators comb over the >>> and remember that six-year-old boy who was attacked and mauled by a rabid raccoon? the special honor he received tonight. i just ordered pizza. we're out of bud light. beer run? no. minibar delivery. sfx: doorbell beer's here! i heard you ordered bud light on minibar. uh...jb smoove?? i'll take that. order bud light now on minibardelivery.

a 16-mile above ground streetcar line that would connect brooklyn and queens including growing areas like dumbo, grown point, astoria city. >> it's the most futuristic thing new york has done in terms of public transportation in 50, 60 years. >> reporter: the price tag is an estimated $2.5 billion and the 12-mile-per-hour streetcar might take as long as 2024 to get up and running. pointing to rapid both in both boroughs, brooklyn leaders embrace this plan big time today. >> the jobs of today and tomorrow are not happening only in manhattan and this corridor has hundreds of thousands of jobs coming online every year. also help about 45,000 public housing residents including alexander coles who lives in red hook and says his neighborhood has felt trapped and detached for years because of a lack of easily accessible transit. >> i feel like growth is a big potential. that's what i like. i like to see my neighborhood and my people grow together. >> reporter: the project is not expected to need a green light from the state, but huge questions rain about the funding, the exact route, and the timeframe. city officials are h

laguardia around queens and astoria, feels like 27. 21 monticello, 26 you see this morning. i just want to check some visibilities because in some a 2 1/2-mile visibility and some of those flurries and a 4- mile visibility here around morristown, 2-mile visibility in islip. keep that in mind today be careful traveling because there could be some icy spots. and at the time of high tide, mid morning and early afternoon, a new moon with the as tro no, ma'amical high tide, we're on the down side of that. there'll be some flurries around today and breaks of sun. notice by the time we get to midday it's 36, 37 degrees, and some breaks of sunshine. flurries this evening. cold air starts to pour in tonight out of the northwest. you see this flow here of flurries and cold air and big wind coming for tomorrow. 39 after school, breaks of sunshine, a flurry or a sprinkle this morning. the weekend is bitter, 22 with some flurries saturday, 19 on sunday. a few flurries, cloudy skies, breaks of sun by afternoon, 40. tonight a snow shower, 24. here comes the cold air. it just slowly starts

this wind that makes the wind chills in the teens in some spots like 17 around astoria and on over toward flushing, queens and 19 coastal connecticut and long island. now we have this winter weather advisory that's for tonight until noon tomorrow for the snow that i was talking about coming. for the high tide cycle this morning, we still have a shot at what could be some flooding at the coastal sections, south shore long island, jersey shore. middlesex county thrown in there too. see the snow in the south? that's what's going to be around that snow that's in the ohio valley that. will wheel around some snow for tonight. there is that batch for today that could make for a coating. and then tonight another batch coming in. you see down there around the jersey shore particularly heavy to the south, that swings through, and then we're looking at temperatures tomorrow starting off in the low 20s once again. so we've got after school today 34 with some flurries, kids. so just kind of step lightly to the bus, don't run. but, you know, you want to stay warm is the key. tonight here's the snow that i'm talking abo

queens tunnel instead. that will work better for you. reporting live over astoria and i'm ed hughes, back to you in the studio. >> in today's money report, bad >> sue herrera has are join us with a look at that and a look at the markets. >> hi, guys. we're on the plus side for the dow jones industrials average. not bad, but we'll take it. the dow jones industrial average up 50 points at this hour and the nasdaq and the s&p are also positive. gopro swinging to a loss in the fourth quarter. that was a surprise for wall street. very weak sales and people on the street are wondering whether or not the -- kind of the wearable cameras have peaked because that's basically the only product they make. they're trying to innovate, but so far, wall street isn't buying it. the stock is down 10%. also dunkin brands, fourth quarter and the comparable same-store sales slipped and that is because mcdonald's all-day breakfast is really eating in, no pun intended to the bottom line so dunkin says it will have to revamp things a little bit and that was a surprise loss and dunkin is lo

queens commuters, the w train is coming back. the line would replace the q train and run between astoria in and lower manhattan. the mta says bringing back the w line would provide more choices currently use the m, q and r lines. >>> the connecticut dmv has been plagued by long wait times and registration mistakes since that upgrade went online last summer. >>> mayor de blasio has signed a bill giving a 32% pay hike to all new york city council members. those men and women will now make $150,000 a year. legislation limits the outside income council members can make. a $33,000 raise for the mayor himself is also included in this, but the mayor says he will not take it. >>> new jersey is a step closer to a significant increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour. the current minimum is 8.38 an hour. the initiative calls for raising the minimum wage to 10.10 and going to 15 after five years. idea and called it economically irresponsible. >>> executives toured the site of an old plant entertainment. >>> officials from statute cruises say without more enforcement it's only a matter of time before tragedy strikes. an

astoria where it would operate local service into manhattan. the line will effectively replace the q subway service in queens because the q will run on the second avenue subway line. >>> many families were on vacation this week with schools closed. and as travelers return home from central and parts of caribbean, some have zika virus concerns. on long island home to one of the nation's largest latino communities, zika testing is now available. cbs 2's carolyn gusoff spoke to those concerned about the virus. putting off plans to visit her native el salvador. >> keep safe for you and your baby. >> reporter: she has roots in central and south america where the zika virus has been linked to birth defects. as friends and family return from this busy travel week, they are bringing back with cases fever. >> a lot of people are returning from these trips with febrile illnesses or some sort of febrile illness while they are away and they are concerned it might be the zika virus. >> reporter: today nassau university medical center rolled out testing stations. on the front lines, emergency room doctors say they are flooded with inquiries from travelers re

queens so i think it's great. >> it would run along a 16-mile corridor from astoria to sunset park. primarily in a dedicated lane the city says would avoid conflict with general traffic and shave about 18 minutes off a commuter's typical week day trip compared to current options. neighborhoods have been booming with development but public transportation development has not caught up. the street card fare would be a single metro card. this is one proposal the mayor will discuss in tonight's state of the city address. would include a new option for paying for metered parking spots a cell phone app expected to roll out city wide by the end of this year. as for the street car option that is still several years down the road. we are told that construction work on it would not start until at least 2019 and i hope to get a little bit more information about where the $2.5 billion will be coming from later this morning. reporting live in dumbo andrea grymes cbs 2 news. >> thank you. >>> new jersey transit riders have a strike to worry about. they have set march 12 for a possible walk out. th

queens connector, or the bqx. it would run along a 16-mile corridor from the waterfront to sunset park astoria. construction would begin in 2019 and would cost $2.5 billion. i heard some people talking about it saying on the radio and they say oh, no, it's too slow. i need to get to where i need to get faster. >> they said it might be good for tourists. >> intriguing. see how it goes. 2.5 bill. >>> let's talk about the weather. lonnie quinn potentially forecasting snow. >> that's going to depend on dropping temperatures. 50 degrees or so throughout the area now except north and west where they have already begun the drop. right now as far as the weather watchers go, 50s and 40s. you got to go well up to the north and west where you can finally -- here's 38, charley hoffman out there -- 38 for you with cloudy skies and tony la ruffa says welcome back, maurice! >> you own my weather watchers! >> thank you to everyone. that's all i got. >> we know what tony is saying there. so let's get outside and show what you we see here. 50 degrees under a cloudy sky in manhattan. and around the area, the tri-

queens. the route would run along the water front from sun set park to astoria. comes with the price tag of $2.5 billion. >>> a new bike lane is coming to the upper west side this spring. approved a plan last night to create the lane between 72nd and 110th street. opponents say it will cause more traffic in the neighborhood. quick check of the weather. cloudy, high of 54. rain turning to wet snow, could get a slushy accumulation, but not much expected in the city. tomorrow leftover snow in the morning, breezy in the afternoon. >>> coming you want on the "today" show, susie rose stops meet the moore's! we're the moore family, and we're always looking for ways to enjoy more. so we called time warner cable and got even more than we expected. call now to get more. more speed. like, 300 meg. more tv shows and movies on demand. more places to make more unlimited calls. call now. for $89.99 a month, you'll get 100 meg ultra fast internet, hd channels included, and unlimited calling to international destinations. we find more good things every day! more ways to watch mor