i'm rob nelson. >> i'm michelle charlesworth. >> let's head to amy freeze weather. it's just not getting me going yet. >> it's not getting a lot of people in the holiday spirit. that's one thing. they're looking for the colder air. this will be a december to remember, you guys. temperatures trending above the average, not just warm, though, not just mild and comfortable but we're talking record breaking temperatures. we start this morning with skies that look really good across the area, and later on this afternoon we take these temperatures in the upper 50s already in central park, 57 for 64. now the record for this date is 68 degrees set back in 1931. coming up in just a few minutes, we will be talking about how we can potentially break the records going here over the weekend all the way through monday on the accuweather seven-day forecast. you'll be able to see that temperatures are trending 60 degrees or better. those details are straight ahead in just a few minutes you guys. get ready for a very mild shopping weekend because less than two weeks from christmas a

. >> eyewitness news reporter michelle charlesworth is at laguardia airport for us. we're going to begin our coverage this afternoon with meteorologist bill evans. he is tracking all of that fog and rain that could slow things down today. bill. >> it's almost like the worst you could possibly have. you got you got rain. the only worse could be like snow and rain mixed and ice and that sort of thing. umbrellas are out here on the upper west side. the rain is starting to develop and continuing to push up from the southwest to the north here and the temperature here at noontime is 56 degrees. we are going to be looking at this rain developing and continuing through the afternoon and starting to get, you know, heavier as we go along. 56 in cambria heights is our temperature now. these temperatures way warm, 20 degrees warmer than normal for this time of the year. look at white plains airport, zero visibility. 8/10 laguardia, 2-mile visibility jfk, a mile at newark, 2 miles at teterboro. this is kind of coming and going this visibility. in effect for this afternoon until

good morning, i'm ken rosato. >> i am michelle charlesworth in for lori stokes. it is tuesday december 1st. >> and you are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. meteorologist bill evans and the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> grab your rain gear, boots, raincoats, umbrella, all of that, you're going to need it today. the temperatures are not harsh but it is chilly enough. 45 degrees and rain. up to the north we have a freezing rain advisory, western ulster, eastern dutchess county northern connecticut. that's because. temperatures in those higher elevations cold enough for a little of that. off and on rain today, 48 by 9:00, 52 later on this afternoon, and more rain to come tomorrow. we'll talk about that in your accuweather seven-day forecast as well as a beautiful weekend ahead too. it's weather then heather every 7 minutes. you've been rather busy this morning. >> yes, and that's what happens when we have some raindrops. let's go right over to our maps and tell you what's happening at the tappan zee bridge. they do have the speeds at 45 t

i'm michelle charlesworth in for lori stokes. it is tuesday december 22nd. >> you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. here's bill with the accuweather forecast. >> well, you know, ken, hygiene [ laughter ] >> you know, you know. >> hi bill. >> here we go, we take a look outside this morning, ask well, there's 55, 56 degrees to start your day. that's way warm for this hour of the day. it is going to be that kind of week where we start winter feeling like spring. there's some showers to our north, big area of rain to our west. that's what will come in during the day today off and on. rain gets going 10:00 this morning and really lasts through the afternoon. heather's looking at your commute. weather then heather. >> let's take a look at a webcam and show you what's happening as you travel on to the fdr drive northbound side jam packed. you have two lanes closed down. an accident with police activity. we'll head to our maps now. i can tell you long island railroad, metro north doing okay. path trains, hoboken

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. >> i'm michelle charlesworth. we are going behind the scenes at elf the musical showing you all the stuff that happens to opens tomorrow. look at this ironing board. these are santa's helpers beards. plus we have an amazing jersey connection, family cwhat makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. >>> now new york's number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> it's 4:30. we want to go ahead and check in with shannon sohn once again. she's in news copter 7 where the sawmill river parkway still shut down at this hour after a police pursuit earlier today. shannon how's it looking? >> reporter: liz, unfortunately it is a disaster here. you're looking at the southbound closure on the sawmill river parkway that is in place right here at the cross county, you can see the volume on the sawmill itself. to the left that is pic

i'm rob nelson. >> i'm lauren glassberg, in for michelle charlesworth. welcome to the 7:00 hour of the eyewitness news sunday morning. i like how you put it, the last sunday of this year. >> it goes by fast, doesn't it? >> depends on the hour. any big plans for new year's eve? >> nice. >> that is what you do with a >> excellent point. what about you, jeff, any plans? >> watch the ball drop? >> i don't want to give away secrets but there is a spot in the park where you can see the fireworks and see the ball drop. there is a certain angle where you can see the ball drop. >> you found it. >> not that many people out there last year. but a lot of people watching right now. >> actually it will be warm enough to kind of do that thing. >> yeah, it will be mild. it will be -- weem we'll have temperatures in the -- we'll have temperatures in the 40s for the ball drop. another mild day out there. between now and then, record warmth and wintry weather, too. we start with the fog now. dense fog advisory until 10:00 a.m. area. in many spots the visibility has actuall

letter i'm michelle charlesworth. >> i'm rob nelson. thank >> up next "good morning america" followed by the 9:00 hour of eyewitness news. we have a expert on terrorism and radicalization. don't miss that.

michelle charlesworth, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> michelle, thank you. >>> from staten island to queens. police are looking for the hit and run driver who struck and killed a teenager. family members say he was hit the driver of a white toyota camry continued west. the 17-year-old died at the hospital ashore time later. ovidio jaremello lived with his mother and grandmother in east elmhurst. >>> we continue to follow breaking news. big delays for the commute home. the problem, route 46. the problem because of a truck that overturned earlier tonight. shannon sohn is over the scene in clifton, new jersey, in newscopter 7. shannon? >> reporter: it's a ribbon of headlights west on route 46. the overturned truck causing all of these problems here. it was all happening on the ramp to route 20 that essentially keeps you on route 46. we have tape that we can show you from a few minutes ago when this truck was overturned on that ramp shutting it down entirely from about a quarter to 4:00 this afternoon. terrible timing on this closure in time for the rush hour. we want to come back to live pictu

. >> i'm michelle charlesworth. saturday, december 5th. >> have fun at your family reunion today in jersey. >> it will be fun. >> toni yates will join us tomorrow. amy freeze is joining us for saturday weather. >> good morning to the both of you, comfortable. if you have something outdoors that need done -- holiday lights -- this will be the day to do it. long term of a rams, through the next seven days, temperatures will be above average. maybe one more weekend to sneak it by. you can say the weather looks like it will be okay next weekend. looking at the numbers, temperatures are rolling above average. 42 in central park. hardly a cloud in the sky. high thin clouds. overhead looks like a beauty. sunshine will allow the temperatures to crank. we started in the 20s for areas north and west. we are at the freezing point in white plains. winds will be lighter today out of the west and northwest. so, that should help the feel of the atmosphere as well. we have low 40s. high of 48 by noon. 52 is the forecast high. in a

i'm michelle charlesworth. >> i'm rob nelson. thank you for tuning in to eyewitness news saturday morning. a cold weekend but a warm christmas. that is going on. temperatures are dropping in our area after several days of unseasonally warm and beautiful temperatures. that is my opinion. some people like it cold. i got you. some parts of the tri-state area may be seeing flurries in fact later today. in lower manhattan, plain old cold. that means people are bundling up and they get out and about. get the sweater on the dog, grabbing a cup of coffee. the last weekend before christmas and it does finally feel like december out there. puffy coats. >> i love showing the folks in the neighborhood walking around. >> meteorologist amy freeze taking a look at the weather. >>> hi, good morning to the both of you. whether you are waiting for the cold or wish it were more melted, we have something for everyone in the forecast. we are running 12 above average this december. no question about it, this morning is different than we had as of late

. >> and i'm michelle charlesworth in for lori stokes. today's tuesday december 22nd. thanks for being with us. happy winter. >> you're never more than 7 bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> it is going to be a warm day. it's only going to get warmer from this point on. our temperature has been hanging around 56 degrees since 10:00 last night. that's pretty much where this temperature's going to be. it might get to 55 like it is in north port and massapequa. hauppauge is at 52, 57 at great neck and toward the eastern end it's 56. it should be at 30 in the park and 20 north and west. it is warm on this first day of winter. warm air is surging up from the south. that will be coming in this morning. we'll need your rain gear through the morning. you'll see on our planner we're looking at showers west of the city about 7:00, in the city about 10 and in the afternoon we'll have showers off and on at some point. very warm at 62 degrees. heather's already busy. got an overturned tractor- trailer rig on the bqe. happy tuesday morning to you. and to those who

good morning, i'm rob nelson. >> i'm michelle charlesworth. it is warm. it's 58 degrees. >> it's good though. >> we're knocking on 60. >> that's what i'm talking about. we've earned it after the past two winters. that's how i see it. >> that's called good vision, meteorologist amy freeze weighs in on all of this. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. it is unusual to have this mild of weather going through the mid to late part of december, but that's exactly what we have. it's not unheard of because there are records in the books that tell us when it's happened before, but certainly this stretch is something to talk about and remember over time. right now temperatures are in the upper 50s looking at central park and the official reporting station, we've got 58 degrees. that's well above the average number for the daytime high and

i'm michelle charlesworth in for lori stokes. today is tuesday december 1st. >> so nice to have you with us. >> good to be here. >> you are never more than 7 traffic. meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> we take a look outside from our live camera here in brooklyn. we're looking to the lower east side right around bowling green over toward south street seaport right around wall street. 45 degrees, 37 around kingston and poughkeepsie. those locations are right near the hudson river, so they're a little warmer. so what i've been watching here is the numbers in here in dutchess county and the numbers in here might actually be at freezing. there could be some freezing rain in there today. we'll keep an eye on that. 48 across long island, 52 belmar to wrightstown. freezing rain advisory for california. that's because of california -- that's where there could be some freezing rain particularly on up toward albany. off and on rain, 52 degrees by more rain tomorrow and a nice weekend to talk about coming u

good morning, i'm michelle charlesworth. >> i'm rob nelson. happy saturday. speaking of the cold, guess who is out there, amy freeze -- >> ho, ho, ho. >> this is what you get for temperatures. december is 12 above average so far. what do you get? we will see you outside with a windchill of 25. love it. >> it's colder. >> it's 48 hours of the actual feel of december then we are back to record warmth. it's the last saturday -- last before christmas. so, if you got to get out and about which a lot of people do scrambling because the weather is misleading that we are so close to the holidays, maybe you have been putting it off, no longer. today is the day. if you are going, layer up. 37 on the thermometer. doesn't sound that bad. the wake-up windchills feeling like 19 in white plains. same for islip. 19 in toms river. feels like 13 in monticello. lows this morning sub -- lows this morning freezing in some locations. ed therm seems like upper 30s, 40s not so bad. you get outside and feel the chill, you want to make sure certainly. hat. it's chilly. well, upstate n

michelle charlesworth will confirm. that delays across the northeast are better if you can get out or into the tristate area, delays at philadelphia, 110 minutes. these are about to get updated. this was last hour. a 10th of an inch in central park. i would imagine we got a third to half an inch in the last hour. it's pouring. look over parts of bergen, essex, over the five boroughs, westchester and fairfield getting blasted. 195. then there's another heavy batch near little lake harbor. a thunderstorm getting to cape may. this will have a resurgence of heavy rain. after we get through this batch by 7:00 we will have another resurgens between 8:00 and 10:00, then things will start to quiet down as we get an inch of rain it rain heavy at times through 9:00 or 10:00. street flooding and low visibility. still on track for the big 70- degree day tomorrow, maybe set back in 1998. meanwhile it is a driving rain out here. looks like the heaviest rain half hour. thanks for the confirmation. he said, it's raining. sade, rob, bac

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eyewitness news reporter michelle charlesworth has the story. >> reporter: the pitter patter of holiday shoppers grows louder di the day -- louder by the day. >> today was a big deal. >> it has been a rough year this year. >> reporter: tracy came to the grayson road walmart monday after a call from her mom. >> i started crying on the phone. i was actually going to have to >> reporter: she didn't have to and neither did anyone else. santa b saw to that. >> probably about 1:00 this afternoon i had an anonymous donor come in. >> reporter: he paid off what others were working to pay off. >> it was specifically the holiday layaway. >> your layaway was taken off paid off by a man. >> a lot of mixed reactions. i am happy. >> complete relief to customers breaking down and crying. >> i am crying now still. >> reporter: who can blame them. >> i had a rough week. that makes my week. >> reporter: it is safe to say it made a lot of people's weeks. the anonymous donor came into his own pocket and came up with $79,000. >> it was a big donation. >> i couldn't believe it. i still don't. >> reporter: men

i'm toni yates in for michelle charlesworth. >> i'm rob nelson. thanks for being with us for the 7:00 hour. postcard shot. >> wasn't it. >> so great. it has been a mild start to fall. >> not complaining. >> mother nature has been kind to us. >> and so has amy freeze. the first look at the sunday >> this is something to write home about, tell everybody, tell your friends. you came to new york city and it was in the 50s for the stretch of the weekend. absolutely gorgeous. lots of sunshine to start off the day, similar to yesterday where we ended up with 51 for the high. we are at 41 in central park. i think we could beat yesterday's temperatures because we are getting really warm readings coming up for the futurecast for the afternoon. despite the 24-hour temperature change, keeping the temperatures about where they were yesterday at the same time, that includes the subfreezing areas of white plains at 30 degrees. poughkeepsie, monticello and and dover, the 32-degree mark. islip 31 right now. everybody outside of the city starts cool. takes no time

i'm michelle charlesworth. topping headlines, police want to talk to the ex-boyfriend of a bronx woman who was found murdered overnight in norris park. 28-year-old toshan radigan was is found shot to death. her young son was home at the time. her exmay be driving a silver or gray honda odyssey minivan. >>> detectives in queens want to find the driver who crashed into a fried chicken restaurant. two men walking on springfield boulevard were injured when the car went off the road in queens village. the men are in the hospital. they are expected to recover. >>> governor cuomo speaks about world aids day at apollo theater. he plans to ask for state funding to support housing and health care programs for people the state already spends 2 1/2 billion each year to find the disease. 1.2million people die each year. >>> when we come bace' >>> let's get a check on the commute with heather. >> hello. let's talk about mass transit as we go over to our mass transit chart. i can tell you we do have into and out of grand cent

michelle charlesworth. saturday morning. >> things all good? [ laughter ] off so you are here to report more good news pretty much from the weather department? >> that's right. not quite record-breaking warmth today but still mild nonetheless. the past couple of days we had records shattered across much of the area. 72 on christmas eve. it was up in the mid-60s yesterday. today, going to be in the 50s. still well above average but it will feel in thably cooler out there. we look outside right now down toward the southern end of the park in midtown. mainly cloudy. there's going to be a lot of cloud cover out there today. it will be breezy at times. we have a wind coming in from the northeast off the cooler waters of the atlantic ocean so that will keep it cooler and kind of moist as well and there could be a touch of drizzle at times during the afternoon. as we zoom things out, there is a stationary front to the south. a little wave of low pressure over the tennessee valley moving over the area during the overnight hours of tonight and that can

. >> michelle charlesworth is at the hospital on staten island with the lead story tonight. michelle? >> reporter: i talked to the mother just a little while ago. she said her son is going in and out of consciousness. he is in a lot of pain at the burn center at staten island university. he has second and third degree burns. he was set on fire. he went into the wall and walled on the floor to put the fire out himself and to make

. >>> this is new york's number one news, channel 7 eyewitness news with michelle charlesworth and rob nelson and amy freeze with the exclusive accuweather forecast. now, eyewitness news this morning. >>> good morning, everybody, closing in on 9:00 a.m. bullets fly in new jersey. a 1-year-old child hit in the face while he sat in a parked car. eyewitness news is live at the hospital where that boy is now recovering. this morning the police are shooter. >>> breaking news out of new jersey, shooting in paterson. we'll tell you what we know at this hour. >>> the death toll continues to climb in texas as tornadoes tore through parts of that state ripping homes and businesses to pieces. we'll have the latest. you're looking at the rfk bridge which is a little more visible ago. thanks for joining us on sunday, >> indeed. the fog has burned off. yes. >> you can see clearly now and the rain is gone. good morning, everybody. thanks for being with us. i'm rob nelson. >> rob is hearing music. michelle. the makings for a nice day, meteorologist jeff smith with a first look at our morning's forecas

i'm michelle charlesworth in for shirleen allicot. >> i'm david novarro. hello again. as we told you earlier new york city officials received the investigators considered it a hoax and all schools here in the five boroughs remain open. >> eyewitness news reporter n. j. burkett is live outside the department of education headquarters right now. n. j., good afternoon. >> good afternoon michelle. outside the department of education where, yes, school officials are working quickly to reassure parents, teachers and students here in new york city that there is no credible threat, that there is therefore, absolutely nothing to worry about. the nypd as you know, michelle has extraordinary resources to track them down, and determine how much concern they ought to have ability them. this is an e-mail that originated overseas in frankfort germany and was directed at a number of municipalities we're told. it was a generalized threat, something that's been described as amateurish and most certainly a hoax. nypd apparently dismissed this very quickly. mayor discussed all of this a f

i'm michelle charlesworth. topping headlines right now, nypd detective joseph lemm was among the six american troops killed yesterday by a taliban suicide bomber in afghanistan. detective lemm was a 15-year veteran of the nypd working in the warrants division. he leaves behind two young children. bunting now hangs at the 5-0 lemm >>> let's get a check on the commute with heather o'rourke. >> let's go right over to our mass transit chart. we still have issues with our path trains and some signal problems. hoboken to 33rd you'll expect delays. then we have new jersey transit cross-honoring at newark penn station. hoboken, long island railroad metro north doing okay. signal problems at euclid avenue. uptown delays, two accidents on route 78 eastbound, one at exit 24. another one right near exit 26. merritt parkway north at exit 36 an accident there. 10 minutes inbound george washington bridge. the lincoln is 20. the holland is a 0 minute delay, and street cleaning rules -- is a 20 minute delay and street cleaning

good morning, i'm toni yates in for michelle charlesworth. >> i'm rob nelson. thanks for being with us. such a nice string of weather. november was mild. december off to a good start. we don't have anything to complain about. it's all good. we thank mother nature and amy freeze for the good weather. >> good morning. it may be good in the hood but we have fog in some places. midhudson valley. let's show you what is going on outside our own front door. we have haze around the manhattan area.

. >> i'm michelle charlesworth. good to have you with us. >>> crisp, cold, clear, nice morning. >> not a bad fall whatsoever. amy freeze, thank you for that. >> it's beautiful outside. weekend. the pattern that has been holds true through the second week of december. looking outside, lots of blue skies, plenty of sunshine. looks beautiful over the park right now. temperatures have been in the low 40s. we are at 42 right now officially. temperatures will continue to climb and we are above freezing. a lot of the spots started cold this morning. poughkeepsie is up to 34 right now. 36 for monticello. andover in the 20s and currently up to 33 degrees. december delay, the next three

. >> i'm lauren glassberg in for michelle charlesworth. welcome to eyewitness news sunday morning. to the end of the year, last weekend. >> the older you get the faster the time goes. that is so true. it was memorial day and now it is new year's. >> the temperature is like memorial day. >> that was christmas eve, wasn't it? memorial day. >> i like the warm stuff. >> it will be arm out there again today as soon as we get rid of the fog. it is start to go burn off a little bit. the last half hour we couldn't see the brooklyn bridge and now we can on the shot. we can see many of the buildings in lower manhattan are completely obscured. but the wind lynn crease the next several hours and will scour out the fog. and we're getting some clearing actually in the sky. some brightening over parts of ocean county, new jersey, where the temperatures are off to the races. visibility still kind of low out there but as soon as we get the out the fog and warm things up. the wind is coming from the southwest pumping that in warm air. there are a few peeks of sun, might be a shower late in the day,

. >> good morning, i'm michelle charlesworth. >> i'm rob nelson. thanks for tuning in for our 9:00 hour. >> happy weekend. let's talk about the weather. meteorologist amy freeze is breaking it down. >> good morning, guys, you got it right with the temperatures. cold but even snow up in the hudson valley reported by a few of the twitter followers this morning. this picture. she says some of the side roads were shut down because of the slick conditions. just a little dose of snow and will do just that.

michelle charlesworth, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> so uncomfortable. hiding under the desk. it hurts to watch what happened. >> obviously one of the most talked about stories on social media, tops our facebook page. what do you think? join us on the conversation. honest mistake, and some are suggesting maybe it was a publicity stunt. i doubt that. that's my two cents. some people feel that way. i have to watch, if i have to watch like this, i don't feel it was a publicity stunt. >> the tweet afterwards. page and social media, how they were responding in the trend. sadly, we have more to say on the topic. >> the ladies handled it well. >> and steve harvey walked off the stage. we can talk about this all afternoon. >> i love steve harvey. >>> still to come on eyewitness news first at 4:00, the fda lifts its ban on blood donations from gay men. but one thing they still will be required to do before they can roll up their sleeves. we will tell you. many people called him one of the most hated men in the world. and martin says he got hacked and see what was posted on his account.

i'm michelle charlesworth. topping headlines, one suspect has died, police are searching for another after a craigslist deal over a bmw turned deadly in queens. the off-duty officer met two men in springfield gardens. at some point one man pointed an air pistol at the officer and tried to rob him. the off-duty pulled his gun and shot and killed that man. the second suspect took off in the car. >>> new information this morning about a deadly head-on crash outside of the gates of st. john's university. car slammed into a city bus last night moments after leaving the campus. the 60-year-old man behind the wheel veered into eastbound traffic and hit that bus. the car's driver was killed. >>> more arrests have been made in the abduction of those two university of rochester students. the incident ended with a s.w.a.t. team storming a home near the a fifth and sixth person have been arrested and charged with kidnapping. still police have not released >>> let's get a check on the commute with heather o'rourke. >> let's