toni yates is on her way there. as soon as we establish a signal with her, we'll have an update. >> doesn't look like wind is much of a factor there? >> no. >> gad for -- good for them. >> yes. 40s. it's mainly clear, patchy clouds. beautiful, empire state building in the purple for the march of dimes. northeast wind at 5, high today, only 52. yesterday it was 67. we're much closer to average today, low 50s. there's the sunrise and sunset times. something new at 6:00 tonight, we've talked about the fact that we'll have a lot more clouds tomorrow. especially with low cloud increasing later in the day, wouldn't be sub priced if you have a couple of sprinkles later in the day tomorrow or tomorrow evening. you want to avoid that and have the umbrella. windy and warmer thursday. rain developing. heaviest in the afternoon. morning commute, the worst is drizzle and sprinkles. we've already dropped in the upper 30s in white plains, monticello. cloud cover is coming in. patchy clouds, 40s during the evening hour. kind of hol

in paramus, tony yates. eyewitness news. >>> now black friday wasn't just a day for shoppers in chicago it was a day for protesters who blocked store entrances. along the famed michigan avenue shopping district all to draw attention to the police killing of a black teenager. some retailers were forced to close. the march is the latest demonstration in chicago since tuesday. that is when officials released video of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald being shot 16 times by an officer who's charged with first degree murder. >>> as we continue on this friday night, a lone officer faces off with four armed robbers in new jersey. exclusive video tonight as the cop takes down those suspects. and video you just have to see. an out of control car narrowly misses a couple on the side of the road. >> and we have yet another exceptionally mild late november evening out there. temperatures still in the upper 50s in new york city. don't get too used to it. >>> now to an eyewitness news exclusive and a scary scene caught on store

toni yates. >>> thank you. riker's island still under guard after a guard was slashed by an inmate. darla miles is in the bronx with new details. >> reporter: for the first time we're learning a possible motive for the incident. sources tell eyewitness news this was about the inmates taking it to the prison guards after breaking up a fight wednesday night, and one of the inmates said in a recorded conversation they were going to violate the guard. a guard was slashed from his forehead to ear. sources say the 41-year-old testified to a grand jury friday afternoon in the thursday evening assault that will leave him permanently scarred. here he is leaving after the testimony. >> the incident. horrible, and i've reached out to the guard and look forward to speaking to him later today. >> reporter: the two teens accused of carrying out the assault left the bronx criminal courthouse in these department of corrections vans. according to the criminal complaint green placed both arms around the informant's neck and jeezed, then the other approach -- squeezed, then the other approached him. t

. >> toni yates at the scene tonight. >> pamela davis' family had been looking for her ever since she went missing on october 30th. they obviously suspected they did not have to go we're told their son went to the house where her body was found. he smelled that foul odor and he called police. >> reporter: this is the picture davis' family posted in the area offering a reward for information to help find her. police responded to 803 south 11th street around midnight last night after that call from davis' family. sources it tell us her body was bound, decomposing and can capitated in a garage. crews today removed two cars from the property and interviewed people at the house. an older couple and their tenant, a man who grew up in the area, tells us the tenant is a well known street mechanic who lived in the house for about 12 years but lived in newark all his life. in fact, joseph max said he was headed to see that tenant for him to work on that van until he saw all the police activity. >> he'd always been a mechanic. everybody know him so we always come by and let him do small things l

new jersey reporter toni yates is live with the details. toni. >> reporter: this cannot be happening, a water main break on thanksgiving. really? this happened at 5:00 this morning. as you can see united workers, the crews are busy on the street patching things up now. news copper 7 has the sky view for you. we're not talking about flooded roads with this break. the water was spewing underground and lots of it. about 70 customers are without water service until the repairs are made. this is one of those houses where the water main basement. the fire department came out with some pumps to take up like this. the homeowner told us she didn't even know that water was coming in until she got a friendly visit at the door. >> they told me that there had been a water main break and wanted to check any basement. the water was pouring in to the that was a rude awakening in the morning. >> reporter: now that break was in a 16 inch pipe but that pipe was also put in the ground way back in the 1930s. united water said they will be out here all afternoon

. >> eyewitness news reporter toni yates is live with more. toni. >> reporter: yes, indeed. you know, the monmouth county prosecutor's office said they never considered this a cold case, even after 6 years. they said they had to wait for the right tips to come in to solve the murder of this loving and very much loved young woman. >> this has been a nightmare and i have been through a lot of grief and trauma. there was times that i didn't think this day would come. god knew better. >> it's a pain that can never ease, 6 years after his wife, 33-year-old jonelle melton was found murdered inside her neptune city apartment today three men are charged. james fair, ebenezer byrd and gregory jean-baptiste all from asbury park. melton was not their intended target. >> what we learned is that someone had forcibly asked jonelle's apartment in neptune city and as we continued our investigation we learned that the offenders had intended to break into one choose the wrong one. once they encountered her they brutally murdered her. >> 6 years of tips led to these charges. all three men are

. >> new jersey reporter toni yates live in linden with the toni? >> reporter: yes, and we are starting with the best update possible. when you're talking about a tragedy like this. the doctors at university hospital in newark say that mother who was shot several times, she is going to live. now this was the scene last night 7:30 after the 41-year- old injured mother was able to drive two blocks away from the gunman and she crashed her toyota camry into the fence and a utility pole but her get away daughter's lives. linden police say the gunman approached the mother and the daughter outside of their home. >> they were leaving their house. they were going to a sporting event. and the mother got in the car and the daughter was getting into the passenger's side of the car when she observed a man approaching her. apparently words were exchanged between the man and the younger girl. and the mother became concerned and told the daughter to get in the car. once the daughter got in the car, and they were starting to pull out of the driveway, the man then dr

since we told you about this story at noon today two of those new jersey reporter toni yates is in freehold this afternoon with the toni. >> reporter: yes, in deed, liz. you know, even after 6 years melton's murder was never considered a cold case. investigators never gave up. they never stopped hunting down leads and today all of their hard work paid off. >> jonelle melton's husband, michael, her mother and her two sisters were with monmouth county officials when they announced three arrests in melton's murder. >> james fair made his first appearance on felony murder. his public defender entered a not guilty plea for him. next was gregory jean-baptiste facing the same charges. his attorney also entering not guilty for him. ebenezer byrd stands before the judge tomorrow. >> the prosecutors said the three broke into melton's neptune city apartment thinking it was someone else, their intended target. >> once they encountered her they brutally murdered her. they planned to burglarize a specific apartment but this was essentially a case of mistaken identity. >> we know this process is a long wa

toni yates is live in freehold with how detectives finally cracked the case. >> reporter: simply put, they never put this case down. it was never off their radar. they continued to shake the trees so to speak for all of the tips they needed to get this case resolved. >> rachel will be forever heartbroken over the murder of her baby sister. in september 2009 after jonelle melton didn't answer phone calls, texts, e-mails and didn't show up for her teaching job in red bank her husband michael went to her neptune city apartment. >> what he found tragedy is her >> 6 years later melton's husband and mother stand with investigators announcing the arrest. two of the defendants were in court three hours later, james byrd and jean-baptiste. >> this has been a lot of grief and trauma. >> the offenders intended to broke into one apartment but choose the wrong one, choose jonelle's. >> melton's close friend, toni gram, was one of the last loved ones to see her alive the night she was killed. >> she went to church, came to me house, we had dinner. she left the house at 9:30. little did i know that

new jersey reporter toni yates is >> we learned at that police press conference one of the women in the house was actually able to dial 911. she was on the first floor. her roommates, all three of them, were on the second floor. the entire night shift of the fair lawn police department raced to the scene to try to find all those women. >> last night was a tragedy because we lost two lives but i firmly believe if it wasn't for the actions of the officers behind me, the fire department, oem, rescue, ambulance, it could have been worse. >> reporter: this is video of the fire that raced through the two-story house. it's what police officers who were the first responders on the scene faced with lives on the line. >> i knocked on the door real quick and i pulled on the door handle to see if it was actually open. it was. and she was standing right in the living room. i pulled her out. i said you need to leave. >> reporter: officials say the fire began in a second floor bedroom. two of the women upstairs died in the fire. another climbed out of a window time officers were still searching as bes

toni yates is in madison with the details. >> reporter: you know, that accident happened november 19th right here on main street. that 4-year-old was actually with his baby-sitter and an older child. they were trying to cross the street when the 4-year-old was hit. we want to show you the pictures that were put on on social media. this is a white 2013 or 2014 subaru outback. it was 5:25 in the afternoon. it would have been dark and it was raining. one witness told police that the subaru driver was driving on the shoulder of the road for about a mile. >> what we are looking for is a 2013 to 2014 white subaru outback wagon. that's the information that we have now. >> reporter: nobody saw the driver or anything? give you anything at this point? >> no, we have no witnesses that saw the driver. >> reporter: now, the child is in critical condition at morristown medical center. police have these temporary traffic signs where the accident happened. they are asking for information to help solve this hit and run. again, that child it is in critical condition. we will have the latest later on eye

toni yates, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> new video in a story we brought you last week. an mta bus driver temporarily blinded behind the wheel by a laser. now police have received clear video of the man they are looking for. police say this passenger aimed a laser pointer at the rearview mirror last wednesday in the tree mont all the passengers got out including the man with the laser pointer. >>> in new jersey fire destroyed one house and damaged newscopter7 was over the scene as firefighters worked. the fire began in a vacant home and spread to homes on both sides. people lived in one of the neighboring homes but everyone managed to get out safely. >>> hoboken finally getting the upper hand on a broken water main. city officials say repairs are doing well. hoboken is getting water from another source and will keep it flowing through thanksgiving. streets affected by flooding are expected to reopen by saturday. repairs to the main itself are expected by the end of the weekend. >>> and still ahead on eyewitness news, new video showing a wild chase in new jersey as police

new jersey reporter toni yates is live in morristown with more on why the owners do this every year. >> it is an incredible way to salute the military. how about taking care of a chunk of a military family's wedding budget while this one bridle shop here in morristown has done that for hundreds of families. >> i would have never been able to get this gown otherwise. it's amazing. >> reporter: tears, they tried to hold them back but not the joy. >> is this your gown? >> this is my gown. [ laughter ] >> reporter: i do i do bridle boutique has a favorite day, veterans day, honoring vets. >> i was a medic in the navy but station would the marines. >> reporter: and the women marrying those who serve. >> my fianci is in the army. he was de ployed to afghanistan for 11 months. >> the first 100 brides to be get the gowns no charge. the owners proud to pamper those who serve and the wive who wait. >> it's a special time. they should feel special and they should have a gift for doing all they do. >> the i do i do staff making the day unforgettable. >> it's so pretty. >> i've never heard of any

for now we're live at newark liberty airport, toni yates, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> meanwhile a disturbing report about security at airport check points. the government accountability office federal watchdog group told a congressional committee that it found no solid proof that the tsa screening methods are effective. it said weapons that easily slipped through security and at every airport check the auditors found troubling problems with technology, strategy, and human error. >>> voters in bridgeport, connecticut elected a mayor who was convicted of corruption during a previous term more than a decade ago. joe ganim was released from he served the seven year sentence for offering city contracts in exchange for gifts including cash wine and home improvements. it seemed that voters instead remembered the previous term that started in 1991 and resulted in lower taxes. safer neighborhoods, and cleaner parks. ganim says one word sums up his win -- redemption. >> it's not -- a distant or -- philosophical or religious redemption. it's real. and it's human. >> governor malloy congratul

. >> tony yates is live with what it would cost you. this is specifically for the drivers because they are already charging airport access fees. the port authority here is saying they're very much aware of the option and it is not on the table. uber drivers, taxi drivers may understand a little bit but some are saying please, no more fees. >> it's not right. it's not going to be fair on us. >> it's unfortunate. i feel like we pay so much in fines and all those things and now we got to get charged to work. >> reporter: here's a what you would hear at any hearing proposing an access fee. >> this is new jersey. we're paid too much money for tolls. >> reporter: to pick up passengers. they've gotten very busy with for hire car services. they charge them $4 called an airport access fee. >> the riders pay enough money to leave newark airport that if they charge the $4 to even come onto the property, i think it's worth $4. >> reporter: the port authority says the airports are among a few that don't charge the fee that averages $2 to $4. it's no

for now we are live here in paterson, toni yates, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you. police in newark are investigating dead body found in a garage. the body was discovered inside the garage at 11th street and madison avenue. neighbors called police because of smell coming from the site. so far the person has not been identified. and an autopsy they hope will determine the exact cause of death. >>> a developing story to bring you now. a break in the biggest theft ever of customer data from a bank. federal prosecutors in new york say they will announce charges against three people responsible for the breach of data at jpmorgan. investigators say the two israeli citizens and one american citizen were part of schemes involving stocks and unlicensed money transfers. information about 83 million people and businesses were compromised. >>> well, former new york state assemblyman lopez has died at age of 74. the brooklyn native died at memorial sloan-kettering hospital last night. he was a powerful political figure in albany until a sexual harassment scandal involving two fe

eyewitness news reporter tony yates caught up with some of the crowds. aholic in the region is out and about. and in new jersey, the plaza is the best place for them. extended store hours for those who choose to operate on very little sleep this time of year. >> i've been out here since 4:00. i hit wal-mart, i got in there at 5:30. and now i'm ready to go home. >> reporter: yeah but all this walking and standing and standing in lines can do a number on you. >> there would be no black friday without the mall. this is like the stadium and bargain shopping. >> they had a really good sale. >> 50% off. >> the whole store. >> it's like $10 for a shirt. >> reporter: lake plaza opened at 6:00 and reopened this morning at 7:00. they're expecting a full house like this every day they're opened through the holidays. eyewitness news. >>> now black friday wasn't chicago it was a day for entrances. along the famed michigan avenue shopping district all to draw attention to the police killing of a black teenager. some retailers were forced to close. the march is the lat

for now we are live here in linden, toni yates, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> all right thanks. a battle in upstate new york. did referees discriminate against high school football players based on their race? we're going to tell what you parents are now demanding. >>> we're so spoiled rotten bill, we get the little cloud to make of it. that bill? those right? spoiled rotten? >> there you go. >> here we go from the afternoon. well, we do have clouds and we've got sun but the temperatures are a little warmer than yesterday. so it's a little milder. and as the water taxis working back and forth here from wall street back and forth to brooklyn. even on a day like today we have a few clouds and temperatures have warmed up nicely as we go into the afternoon. we're already above our normal average afternoon high which is 53 degrees for this time of the year, we're at 57 and the humidity is dry and a southeast wind at 9. the pressure falling a little bit. but that's because high pressure is sliding eastward and leaving and a cold front is approaching from the ohio valley but look at ho

new jersey reporter toni yates has the new details in the case in newark. >> reporter: yes david and liz, you can see all of the police activity of the house there behind me, now the essex county prosecutor is still very much early into this investigation. so we are going to be absolutely very cautious about the details. now, our sources are telling us that they've confirmed that the body discovered is 50-year-old pamela davis. this is a picture and information put out by her family when she went missing on october 30th. she lives on south 11th street. several doors down from house number 803 where her body was town. bound -- found. bound, decomposing and as you said decap pated. someone who grew up in the area told us that an older couple very well-known in the area lived in and owns that house but they let a man possibly the suspect in davis' death, live in an attic bedroom. no one has been charged in the case yet. lots of people are being questioned of course and all this unfolded this morning when a member of davis' family apparently went to 803 again looking for clues and smelle

. >> new jersey reporter toni yates has all the details. >> reporter: yes indeed you know the airports in our region are now bustling with all of the for hire car services, so many out there. as you said right now the port authority is just monitoring the situation the see if they need to impose those fees to help manage all of this. now newark liberty airport today, you've got uber drivers and regular cars and uber drivers who have limousine tags and from new york and regular car services and yellow cab. so many choices meannesses many cars -- means so many cars are sometimes sitting out curbside near or at the terminals waiting for a fare until of course port authority police roll up and make them move unless they are actively picking up or dropping off. the port authority says it is in the early stages of reviewing the add of charging -- idea of charging for hire rides an access fee from $2 to $4 to access the airport. most drivers we spoke to say it wouldn't be fair, a few they do understand the need because port authority police have more to monitor but a fee might bring more acce

toni yates. >>> thank you. debris from a missing small plane was discovered in a west chester county reservoir. it disappeared from radar. on board a husband and wife, they died from the plane crashed into the reservoir. tonight we spoke to the couple's grief sticken -- stricken son. marcus solis is on the scene. >> reporter: the search for the aircraft has been suspended due to darkness, but are will resume tomorrow. once it's raised to the surface they'll try and determine what just went wrong. >> i assume that everything was going along fine, only three minutes from the airport. >> reporter: he waited all day for answers and grim confirmation. his father and stepmother presumed dead after the couple's single engine plane went down in the reservoir in north salem. >> we talked about an emergency and what to do, but i don't think they had a chance. returning home from vacation in mississippi. the 1971 beach craft was cleared to land, but disappeared from radar. driving rain and dense fog hampered the search po

tony yates has a story. >> reporter: this cavern was created by the water main break. crews had to fix the broken line that was put in in the '30s. >> you know, we will probably have to replace a section of the pipe. >> reporter: early morning rounds were made to warn homeowners in the path of the water flow. >> we were called by police and said your water main broke. i thought it was my water main. then i came out and saw the field which when that fills up, we know there's trouble. >> reporter: two homes near the water main break were evacuated just in case there were problems with the gas line. overall this didn't seem to disrupt thanksgiving too much for some families. only two homes suffered basement flooding. here are a couple of neighbors other. >> it's a garden hose. the one faucet to the other and it back feeds into the house. you have to make sure that you shut off the main otherwise it would be pouring the back to where it's leaking. today. >> it's just a neighbor needing help. we were here to help out. >> did they come knocking or did you come offering. >> t

newschopper 7 remains over the area but right now toni yates is on the ground and joins us with a look at what's happening there. >> reporter: yes, indeed, diana. you can see there's so much activity on midland avenue. you can see they fine were able to hoist that car up out of the river. now, if you have seen the pictures from newscopter, you can see that it is a pretty steep lot down into the saddle river channel where that water was very low right now. now, this happened about 4:00. a woman at a nearby restaurant says a man was driving that car that you saw. that witness says the car came speeding through the parking lot just off midland avenue. it crashed through some lumber in the parking lot. then it went through a fence. it went air boesch and -- airborne and flipped over onto the rooftop in the river channel. rescuers got that one person out. there was no one else in the car. they've lifted the car out again. that person, that man was take on a local trauma center with non-life-threatening injuries. at this point, we don't know if it was a person who just hit the gas and didn't

new jersey reporter toni yates just sent us this video of a wedding dresses. members of the military. or to women who are serving themselves. story. >>> plus, shrinking spaces? wait until you see the tiny places that some people are living in now. shirleen allicot doing that story for us at 5:00. those stories and more beginning on eyewitness news first at 4:00, shirleen does it have you wanting to downsize? >> actually yeah. you'd be surprised. yeah, live more simplistically. i have to purge a lot of stuff. but like -- >> live living in your closet. >> i can't wait the see it. >>> well, time for the feed the stories that got their start on social media and are now getting shared and retweeted and pet lovers are sharing the story of a loyal dog that just refused to leave the side of a fellow dog hit by a car. we're not showing the dog that was killed by that car in texas. but the white shaggy dog that you see in the pictures is the sunt of many posts because of how it refused to leave the side of its fellow canine. just noble to look at the dog and when animal

for now here live in newark, toni yates, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> also in awe income a police officer -- newark a police officer opened fire on a suspected during an alemmed armed rob i. the officer interrupted a robbery at a gas station during the overnight hours. one suspect was hit in the chest and is hospitalized. another was arrested on the streets. the officer came. he didn't come because the robber was here. you know, he came to buy something. and finally, my one of my co- workers informed him that the robber was inside. >> the officer was taken to the hospital as a precaution. >>> we have just learned the identity of the man killed in a house explosion in new jersey. 24-year-old finny brown lived on the second floor of the home on magnolia avenue in elizabeth close to where the blast originated. more than a dozen others were hurt including an 11-year-old bill in critical condition. -- boy in critical condition. although the investigation is still ongoing. >> we're not really going to know until we get to the stove and the gas connections. if they were tampered with. or any oth

. >> that was toni yates working that mall. early sales numbers are not out yet, but the national retail federation estimates more than 99 million people shop on black friday. i guess that means shop in person and shopped online. >> indeed. mall, beautiful mall, freshly renovated. very nice. got there for the morning show yesterday, and what i came across is this, in november and december americans will spend $630 billion on holiday shopping in this month and next. >> it's something like 70% of what we spend on anything like gifts or whatever for the entire year. >> it's crazy. >> this month and next month. it's really five weeks. >> is it? that's how much we spend as a nation. that's insane to me. >> listen. jobs. keep it going. >>> coming up on eyewitness news saturday morning, demonstrators fill shopping districts in major cities not to shop, but to protest. the message this morning that they're trying to get out. >>> also ahead the surfing santa, why chris crinkle was catching waves instead of checking his list. >> i though

melissa: joining me now former white house deputy assistant steven yates and tony is back with us asis a "fox news poll." put it up. shows dr. carson trailing a lot. this is what donald trump was talking about, do you believe that? do you think that is forefront for the american people right now and responding to in these polls? >> i think there's been a very, very strong reaction, maybe a reality check given the developments in paris. i don't know how quickly those kinds of developments can translate into polls easily could be other factors there, but ask someone who's dedicated the last quarter century to national and foreign affairs, i care whether the next commander in chief has background experience and something to say at a time like this. melissa: yeah. tony, when we look at donald trump, he has something to say as steven would say, i don't know he has background experience in dealing with this. he was running an ad over the weekend was it or yesterday rolled out a new radio ad saying he would bomb the hell out of isis. does this make feel good about him as the commander in ch