and construction at the battery tunnel and manhattan bridge. the fog as you head to the new jersey turnpike, definitely keep the speed down. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect city-wide. back to you. >> thank you. >>> it's 4:32. funeral services will be held today for a new york city detective killed in afghanistan last week. joseph lemm was a sergeant on patrol with the national guard americans including another new york national guards man were killed by a taliban suicide bomber. we are live in manhattan. >> reporter: yeah, we're here at st. patrick's where the streets have barricades for blocks. they are expecting thousands the of mourners to come and pay their respects to nypd detective and air national guard sergeant joseph lemm. he was fondly known as superman by family and friends and his brothers in blue from the nypd and air national guard. yesterday hundreds of mourners paid their respects at st. anthony church in lemm's adopted hometown of west harrison. lemm and five other troops were killed last week in a suic

. >>> an update now on a murder mystery on a busy manhattan street in the middle of the day. the getaway driver in this surveillance video from 2012. brandon woodward a law student from los angeles was shot on west 58th street and seventh avenue. police say mckenzie owed woodward $160,000 for cocaine. mckenzie charged with second- degree murder. police are searching for the gunman. >>> new details tonight about the frantic seconds at the roosevelt field mall yesterday when an attempted robbery ended in gunfire. we now know more about the brave response of a retired nypd sergeant that led to an arrest. cbs 2's carolyn gusoff reports. >> reporter: robbery assault and weapons charges for oliver lee the 21-year-old accused of pulling a loaded gun in crowded roosevelt field mall and praise from nassau police response. >> think about a violent struggle for 90 seconds over live and death and that's what it was about. have been worse say police if not for this private security guard. retired nypd sergeant kenneth krug in the fight of his life to wrestle the gun from a robber in a mal

cruz was arrested for stealing jeans at a gap store in lower manhattan. nypd officers handcuffed him behind his back and placed him in a police cruiser, but somehow he got loose, kicked open the back door and then made a mad dash for the subway at the franklin street station. he kept on running down the cat walk and eventually disappeared inside a dark tunnel. the mta briefly shut down subway service as they desperately looked for hours trying to find the suspect. >> it's really unfortunate that the police can't hang on to people. you're in handcuffs all of a sudden, you know, you're in custody and you can get away. so it's a problem that police have to deal with. >> i don't think it makes me and, you know, it's an incident that happened, could happen. >> reporter: and that suspect, again, 20-year-old maxio cruz arrested this morning just after 1:30 in sunset park brooklyn. this is the sixth time since june that a suspect has escaped nypd custody. in recent months police commissioner bratton has said this is an embarrassment for the nypd and a complete fa

and manhattan 7 trains with delays. and alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect city-wide. and remember, be safe, don't text and drive. back to you. >> thank you. >>> happening today, hit-and- run drivers leaving devastation in their wake with the rash of incidents in recent week, the city council is looking to increase civil penalties. ilana gold is live from manhattan. >> reporter: some city leaders say criminal charges aren't enough and they want hit-and- run drivers to pay up. the fines could be thousands of dollars and the issue will go to a vote in just a few hours. today a new york city transportation committee could take a new step. it was just last week that the nypd spent hours onscene in queens investigating one of these crimes on northern boulevard that killed a 17-year- old. >> he was always the nicest person ever. you would see this kid all the time. >> reporter: the driver has not been found and police say they need to track down this man who passenger seat of the vehicle shortly after th

toys r us is searching for a new location in manhattan. goldberg. what's going to happen inside the ferris wheel? we don't know. it's going to be an old navy and gap store. we do know that. there were people out earlier. they're gone. because of the rain. >> some light rain is falling in the area. we also have problems with patchy dense fog. mainly inland. between the rain and the fog, it may slow down you getting home tonight. looking at the temperatures, it's not hard to see any skyline. usually we can see the east side pretty well. 46 degrees currently. we have the winds that are right now northeast. but they'll start to come out of the west. that's not going to help with the fog development. with we have this moisture at with that warmer air moving in, temperatures between 5 to 10 degrees warmer than they were yesterday at this time. that's going to keep warm moist air at the surface. that will help reduce the visibility and create more fog formation. less than a mile for poughkeepsie and less than three for morris town. this dense fog advisory

the average asking. manhattan manhattan. a $2,390 per square foot a month. shopper tell us they're going to miss toys r us. >> sorry to say it's more for the experience. i know that's probably what's hurting it. >> we definitely like to see it reopen somewhere else with the for riss wheel. >> retail rents are at highs in manhattan. asking rent for ground floor retail space is up 40% in the flat iron area. up nearly 30% on one part of 57th street compared to last year. not every hour is seeing higher than average asking rents. it is down 6% in some areas. it is hard to beat when it comes to exposure, especially for tourist. back to you. >> the rent is too damn high >> uber is celebrating its one billionth ride. >> trip one billion happened in london. they just reached the milestone. >> as for the 1 billionth rider, he gets free uber for a year. and an all expense paid trip to a city of his choice. >> one lucky player could start the new year with new money. >> tonight's drawing has a jackpot that's grown to $3 million. >> the jackpot exploding into nine figur

once the most powerful men in the state the manhattan u.s. attorney says in a statement today sheldon silver got justice and at long last so did the people of new york. governor cuomo echoing the sentiments saying there should and renewing his push for reform in albany. news 4 new york. >>> new tonight, the hunt is on for three identity thieves in queens. police say they installed debit card skimming devices at a gas stations and withdrew thousands of dollars from bank accounts. you can see their pictures there. they are connected to 40 incidents between june and september of this year. if you recognize those men, police want to hear from you. busy night for the nypd keeping up with a group of demonstrators reeking havoc in stores and hot spots across the city. checkey beckford has more on the message the group had. >> reporter: here at bryant park, people described seeing them marching through the winter village. soon they were chased by police. >> reporter: demonstrators with the group black lives matter chanted the name of a 28-year-old wo

. >>> we have 2 stories breaking right now, bricks come crashing down on the side of manhattan and a deadly head on crash in queens, car verses mta bus, a lot going on. good evening, 11:00, i am bill ritter. side, bricks crashing on the sidewalk near 56th and 4th avenue. >> jim dolan live with the breaking news on scene. >> reporter: take a look at this, this is what came crashing down, not a few of these, hundreds of these huge bricks came falling down from 35 floors in the air. hundreds of them, take a look at the field of debris over here and hundreds of these bricks fell down, most were pollverized when they landed but as you can see, a couple of them survived. what is remarkable here, what is almost amazing here is all of those bricks over all of that area covering 2 sidewalks and the street at 63rd and 1st avenue, nobody was hurt. i want to show you one picture we have of a taxi cab, john, i don't know if you can get that, where the window was broken. the windshield was broken of that car, but no people were actually hurt. so when all the bricks came down, obviously a lot of pe

several groups will gather in manhattan. in lower manhattan, kat? newtown remains fresh in people's hearts and minds. a big rally with a gun control group scheduled to happen in lower manhattan. we'll see a number of lawmakers similar to the gatherings we saw over the weekend in central park known as the orange walk. thousands of people gathered there. their goal to end gun violence. they gathered to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school tragedy. some talked about losing their loved one to gun violence as well. also related to this, new york senator charles schumer and governor cuomo demanded the federal government share classified watch list information on suspected terrorists, those who can't fly because they're on the terror watch list, to prevent them from legally buying guns. >> if the federal government won't move to close the terror gap, the states should. and the federal government should facilitate that in whatever way possible. not stand in the way. >> reporter: senator schumer called on the department

the manhattan d.a. says a patient here at lenox hill hospital had been dead fewer than two hours befisore the husban and wife team had already stolen the victim's identity and began making fraudulent purchases. >> it's really sad. you can't even brust the hospital. >> reporter: kyle and kris and krystle steed. prosecutors say isle kyle stole social security numbers and birthday dates. his wife krystle would use that info to call up the patient's bank, pretend tock account holder and gain control of their credit card. the couple then allegedly made $300,000 in fraudulent purchases from saks and other retailers over the phone. and they're accused of trying to steal one million more. >> the allegations are suggesting an elaborate scheme. >> reporter: prosecutor says the handbags costing $6,000 each. in additaln to sneakers and other goods. and investigators apparenhotly caught them red-handed. >> i was told that there was a search warrant executed at their home, and there was a significant number, amount o

an accident investigation in manhattan, 58th street between 2nd and 3rd avenues. and cross island parkway near northern boulevard, that's a disailed vehicle. laguardia, a 45 minute arrival delays. so if you're going to pick you. carrier. and we have street cleaning rules in effect plus it's a gridlock alert day. over to you. >> that you can. >>> breaking news. firefighters are back on the same street on staten island where a fast-moving fire night. just as the crews knocked that flames yet again. and we have the latest. good morning. you, ken. were able to get the fire under control and now they have been able to finally put it out. they are the hoses here but they'll spend the next few hours monitoring this house that again went on fire for the second time here. and let me tell you how it started the. first fire broke out last night around 9:00 inside a vacant home. and those flames quickly spread to the two homes next door. and from those two home, everyone made it out okay. that's the good news, however a pet cat died in the fire. the american red cross helping

we worked -- in manhattan. we worked together, jointly, and preventing terrorist attacks. then he became i process the deputy attorney general of the united states. when he sits there, he will not introduce himself. he will not have to wonder whether i understand all the acronyms he will be using in his briefing. when we said there, he will not have to wonder whether i know what he means by actionable intelligence. when we are sitting there and he is breathing me, he will never wonder whether i have his back to do everything that needs to be done to prevent another attack, because i've done it with him before, and i will do it again as president of the united states. [applause] gov. christie: while this is important, vital, absolutely and safetythe future and security of the american people, i suggest it is vital for the security and stability of the rest of the world as well. if you don't have a strong, resolute american president, who says that terror anywhere is unacceptable, that our allies around the world cannot count on fear. when i went israel in april 2012 as gove

an overnight low of 40 in midtown manhattan. lots of sunshine on sunday and monday. both days we'll see high temperatures in the mid-50s. then it's tuesday that we have our first chance for rain. not a lot of rain. but we could see this small storm system kind of graze us to the south and east. long island has a better chance of getting rain out of this one. high temperature on tuesday up to 50 degrees. 40 overnight tonight. clear skies, pleasant. we don't have a lot of wind either which is one of the reasons we'll see the fog in the suburbs. we'll rebound to a high of 56 degrees tomorrow, 10 degrees above your average high temperature. day planner, north and west, be cautious as you head out the door. then we'll rebound to a high in the low 50s. kickoff temperature 56 degrees, warmer than that as we head into the afternoon. seven-day forecast has our next chance for rain on tuesday, but not a lot of rain. we don't have any good soakers in our forecast for the next seven days, which of course is good news for travel. but we really do need the rain. we'll keep you pos

stick with the manhattan or williamsburg bridges for a smoother ride. and mass transit, everything is on or close to schedule. and alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect city-wide. and remember, be safe, don't text and drive. >> thank you. >>> today is world aids day. new york governor cuomo announced the new plan. governor cuomo called on federal governments to increase its nationwide contribution. willing be lit in red at dusk this afternoon. yesterday afternoon two actors joined the new york city city council to flip the switch at the building. >>> concern this morning over a potentially large fish die-off on long island's north shore. the entrance to the glencoe is teeming with fish dying. >> we could do more testing of the waters and understand the science better about what's happening and we can put into action keeping people accountable. >> the die-off followed similar incidents on the east end over the summer. >>> new information about the attack on children's toys. the breach may be bigger than first anticipated. the data incl

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nick at a park in williamsburg and headed to bars in lower manhattan. participants do not understand why santa con has such a bad wrap. all it's about is getting together with friends and having some fun. >> we've come here the last three years and have a great time every year. friends and get in the the spirit of christmas. >> we all sing along to christmas carols walking everywhere. it's a good time. >> if people conclude santa con, people in new york are antifun. >> antifun, oh yes. spirit is the operative word. organizers started planning with police more than a month ago. they got a permit to assemble in the park and sent out reminders about safety. maybe they made stride this is year like improving the city. some are are antisanta con. >> it takes a few bad apple, bad situations. looks like people really took care of one another, had a nice, clean time. that was that. >> didn't get caught. >> right. >>> coming up, 200 nations now officially adopted the first global pact to fight global what does it mean and what is next for all governments that ha

we are following breaking news out of manhattan. a man is caught after breaking out of police custody shedding his handcuffs and prompting late night man hunt. dray clark is live now in lower manhattan with the very latest. >> reporter: that 20-year-old suspect was caught in a group morning. he will eventually be brought back here to the 1st precinct in tribeca where he was initially arrested last night. the 20-year-old was arrested store in lower manhattan. nypd officers handcuffed him with his hands behind his back, placed him inside the police cruiser. somehow he got loose, kicked open the back door and ran to the subway at the franklin street station in west broadway and he kept on running down the cat walk and eventually disappearing into a tunnel. the mta briefly shut down subway service as they searched for the suspect. >> it's really unfortunate that the police can't hang on to people. you're in handcuffs. all of a sudden you're in custody. that's a problem police have to deal with. >> it's an incident that happened, that co

exclusive video shows a violent rant in a manhattan restaurant. what set him off. >> and ice skating in short sleeves. it's almost the start of winter, but we're seeing record temperatures. >> new evacuations on the upper east side, three days after falling bricks shut down roads, new areas are in danger of being hit. good evening, everyone, i'm maurice dubois. >> reporter: traci johnson is live on the upper east side tonight with the very latest. >> reporter: maurice and christine, work out here continues more than three days later, take a look behind me. the first avenue here is closed still. the department of buildings will open back up. they're worried more bricks may fall from this east 64th street building's facade after they rained down onto the street below here monday night. things have gone from bad to worse, as upper east side residents living at 346th east 63rd street next to the building with the crumbling facade were told by the department of buildings they had to get out over concerns that bricks could crash through their wood frame

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toys r us is searching for a new location in manhattan. its old store will soon be a gap and old navy. >>> you still have a few hours to buy a ticket or two for tonight's powerball drawing. jackpot now an estimated $300 million. it's almost enough to cash pay out you take home more than $184 million. you can watch the drawing on channel 7 right before eyewitness news at 11:00. we won the lottery a little bit with this weather for new year's eve i think. >> what a segway that was. >> i waited all afternoon . >>> a little rain tonight and then we dry out tomorrow. i want to know what's going to happen to the ferris wheel in toys r us. it's not a ferris wheel but a thing that goes around. >> a mini one. >> we'll find out and bring it to you at 11:00. >> if it's up for grabs -- >> maybe you can have it. >>> let's talk about the rain that's moving in. after 8:00 tonight it will be with us and then it scoots out of here in the pre-dawn hours. we have a little bit of fog. there's a dense fog advisory inland but it's patchy fog. only a few reporti

. >> but first a developing story, a wild scene outside a mcdonald's in manhattan. an employee and a customer both slashed by a man who right now is on the run. good evening everyone. it's 11:00. i'm bill ritter. >> and i'm sade baderinwa. >> all this unfolding inside the restaurant near and third avenue. eyewitness news reporter josh story. >> this investigation has been going on for a couple hours. you can see police inside this mcdonald's as they try to search for crews and fingerprints and video evidence. we'll show you video that we shot when we first arrived here more than an hour and a this started around 8:30 as a fight between two customers at this mcdonald's at 58th and third. a third man stepped in. that's the man police say was armed with a blade who proceeded to then attack the men who were fighting. an employee stepped in to try to break all of this up and was slashed. one of the two men who were fighting in the first place was also slashed. the man with the blade ran away and police are right now searching for him. the two slashing victims we're told

. >>> investigators are looking into the cause of a fire that manhattan. the fbi says the third floor of a parking garage in chelsea over the weekend. no one was hurt. >>> postal service says there was no mail in any of the trucks. >>> today marks three years since the massacre at sandy hook elementary school. this is the first time it falls on a school day. a moment of silence will be held and middle and high school principals in newtown will discuss the day's significance during remarks over public address systems. parents at lower grade schools will be offering talking points on how to discuss the shootings with their children. flags will fly at staff in honor of the 20 children and six adults who were killed three years ago. >>> a mother's group in manhattan commemorated the anniversary by calling for gun control. supporters marched through central park to end gun violence. participants say it's time for common sense solutions to >> it's too many mother's and fathers added to this club no one wants to be a part of, and it's time because i don't feel li

midtown manhattan is 90 minutes away on express long island rail railroad train. adam affected and get more living space comparatively low prices are some of the reasons real estate listing sites treaties he predicts jamaica will be the hottest neighborhood in 2016. justin rogers managing director at the greater jamaican development corporation says interest is rapidly growing. >> their 1900 new hotels going up in downtown and 2600 new apartments the combination of mixed income as well as luxury apartments. >> the median rental price in queens this year was 1750 and for sales it was just under 300,000 which is a big highlight reporter: island -- adam light felt helps compile the 2016 predictions. elected yearly changes in rent and sales prices increases in populations and listings in various neighborhoods. >> we are following how new yorkers are searching for the next home so what might be surprising as manhattan is not on our list for the topic which shows the extent to which buyers and renters are pushed out of the city. report of their prediction for number two

look at lower manhattan. the cloud cover down to 300 feet. so the low visibilities will be a concern. it is so warm outside we're at 64 degrees right now. an inch and a half in new york city. the record for the date is 1.6 inches from 1913. you can see the back ems approaching new york city. we've had thunderstorms over the east end over the past hour. now there's heavy rain over upper manhattan, bergen county, fort lee, over into rockland and westchester and fairfield county. futurescan showing that within an hour the back edge of moving into fairfield county and suffolk county. we're going from downpours to drizzle after midnight, and the street flooding will subside. good news for your morning travel but lingering low visibility will be a problem. we are obviously still on track for 70s being at 64 now. the record high is 63. there won't be much drama break that at midnight. the question is do we get that all-time december high of 75. we have a real shot. so we'll talk about the christmas eve and day forecast. we've got more record warmth

this happens in manhattan as well well. and they're very dramatic before and after. >> reporter: thomas curated the exhibit on housing at the museum, explaining steps taken in the '70s would shape our city by the '90s. housing policies can take zoning is a concept the mayor is expanding on and we see it in developments like this one in hunters point, long island city. it was in the 1990s development years that we learned how effective it could be and not just rely on rent controls, and public housing. the city boroughs went from these to this, a total success story. >> in the 1990s when many parts of the city were being rebuilt as low-rise housing for the low income tenants and for middle class, the city was really being knitted together. it was being repaired in a way that i think not everyone was aware of. but if you went to the outer boroughs, you could see that whole swaths of the city were being rebuilt effectively. >> with housing for regular new yorkers now, perhaps by no coincidence, the population grew during the '

so go online or call now. >>> protective netting is going up on manhattan's upper east side. a large chumping of the brick facade -- chunk of the brick facade came loose and fell. some of it 30 stories. fortunately no one was hurt. the building department says a the building's masonry. it cited the owner for failure to safeguard the site. >>> in manhattan, a case of road rage. new york cops are looking for the driver of a minivan that shot another driver and took off. it happened in a meat packing district about 4:00 this morning. detectives say a 27-year-old man pulled out of the spot when his car collided with a gray minivan. the drivers got in an argument and it escalated and the driver of the minivan shot the other guy twice. he is expected to survive. >>> nypd turning to the community for help as they try to catch a serial arsonist terrorizing a neighborhood in queens. police held a meeting in forest hills to give information and to ease fears there. seven homes in the area have been torched the past six weeks. police put out a video of a suspect seen walking near the sc

bottom line is worry sitting outside right now in new york city, midtown manhattan, not wearing a coat.

dray clark is live in lower manhattan with more on the story. good morning, dray. >> reporter: good morning. the current terror alert system is not being replaced but rather tweaked, this according to the white house. but this is the third time the terror alert system has been put into place since the september 11th attacks. the first system after 9/11 implemented the five color codes and then in 2011, that was replaced with the national threat advisory system which never really was put into good use. and the details of this revised system won't be shared until late they are morning. but the secretary of homeland security jay johnson says the new system lowers the so-called threshold in which officials can inform the public at-large when there's a threat of an attack against the u.s. meanwhile, president barack >> here at home, the department of homeland security is updating its alert system to help the american people stay vigilant and safe. and as always, our extraordinary men and women in uniform continue to put their lives on the line. in th

. >> coming up, trump moves across the river to manhattan and the new york real estate business will never be the same. >>> when i graduated from college, i went to work with my father, and he built housing in brooklyn and queens and it was dangerous stuff. you knock on the door and there would be bullet holes on the door, and i would say to the people, what are those holes? and he said, those are bullet holes for knocking on the door and collecting rent. >> as a kids from queens, manhattan was always the emerald city in the distance. a real beacon that drew him. >> in 1971, trump moved to his first apartment in manhattan, a studio in the upper east side. he was 24 years old and family and friends say he was enjoying himself. >> he always went to what he called the single bars and checked out the women. >> donald was a high flyer when it came to that. >> he joined some private clubs and that's where he rubbed shoulders with george steinbrenner and roy cone, the infamous lawyer and former mccarthy aide. >> wherever i hear that people are failing to act on fbi information about communi

this happened as the driver was getting off the manhattan bridge at about 9:00 last night. instead of turning, the driver crashed to the median, knocking down a sign and several trees before slamming into a police car right outside a police station. >> it's a busy intersection so happening is high. and i could have been just like walking and not 20 or 30 minutes after this happened. i should be more cautious now. >> the driver is suspect dwi. >>> police are released new footage of who men wanted of a stabbing in the east village. the surveillance images of police say they approached a 49- year-old man early saturday and stabbed him several times in the back. the victim was treated at the hospital and released. >>> an arrest has been made in the robbery and rape of a woman brooklyn. the 31-year-old is in custody this morning. police say he raped the woman on sunday night. police say he is the man seen in the video shortly after the attack. and he is also wanted for robbing another woman less than an hour after the rape. >>> jury deliberations are expected to start today in t

. >>> new video from the upper east side of manhattan where one of the feeder streets leading to the bridge closed because of falling bricks will not reopen before monday's rush high above the street crews are working around the clock to try to remove the remaining bricks one by one. first avenue between 61st and 64th closed since last monday. fortunately nobody was hurt. >>> new details on a dangerous and deadly fall on manhattan's east side. a woman was seriously injured when another woman jumped from a building near first avenue and 51st street and landed right on her. eyewitness news reporter a.j. ross joins us with more on what happened. a.j. >> reporter: people who live still cannot shake the disturbing images from their minds. according to police a woman who lived on the of this first avenue apartment jumped from her window and fell on top of another woman walking along the sidewalk, forever changing both their lives. >> i heard a man scream, and as soon as i turned -- >> reporter: it happened so fast. and before anyone could think or even react eyewitnesses say they were help

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looking at the manhattan skyline, little haze, air quality, no warning but definitely pollutants near the surface. windows open but close them a little bit during the night tonight. the east river is really calm, we have a light wind, the air is not getting mixed around either. 57 degrees right now, south wind at five, barometer on the rise and the high 60 degrees. here's the next seven hours as we slowly dip through the low 50s, a supercomfortable evening as we are now a third down in december and we are nowhere near these normals here. 45 degrees is the average, we are going there at night, still above that, area sunrise and sunset times, and records that's something we will be talking about as we go into the upcoming weekend. last year on this date, 1 inch of snow, a nor'easter passed by gave us 2 1/2 inches of rain, big winds and ended with a little hit of snowfall. instead it's 60s the next four days, record warmth likely and then rain returns on monday. that record is likely on sunday. i think that's going to be closer to 66. in the low 60s on bump up saturday's high. 51 co-mack

dozens of bricks rained down on the street below earlier this week in midtown manhattan. crews shut down first avenue snarling traffic near the 59th street bridge. people in the building next door had to evacuate. the city says it's moving as fast as it can to fix the problem. >> we evaluated whether we can put a crane there, and that was going to take longer than what we did now. >> it has to be right and it has to be the safety of the people and the safety of the workers. >> no one was hurt by the falling bricks. of faulty materials or design. >>> during the holidays, so many step up to try to make sure our soldiers overseas are not forgotten. but a store in brooklyn is also remembering another battle weary group on the front lines. cbs 2's dick brennan has the story. >> reporter: they take on some of the most perilous jobs in the world. dogs who sniff out danger, dive into trouble and even jump out of planes to keep the troops safe. but now folks half a world away have the backs of the dogs of war. >> we were looking for a cool idea for a holiday fundraiser and we felt

he was last seen leaving an upper manhattan nightclub around 5:00 a.m. november 4th. the cause of death has not been released. >>> well the passenger who flew through the front window of a bus in an accident near the lincoln tunnel is out of the hospital. the 68-year-old man is recovering from a broken shoulder and head injury. he was standing up on a private bus when he went flying through the windshield yesterday as it abruptly stopped at a traffic light. the driver of the bus insists that he was not speeding. >> how fast could i be going? i was just coming to -- i mean, i came to the stop so i wasn't going at any, you know, fast speed or anything like that. i just -- he was standing up and he went through the windshield. >> well the victim landed on the street. that bus makes regular round- trips between baltimore and new york. >>> 6:35. leaders in newark lead a rally against the rising violence in new jersey's largest city. there have been 103 murders in newark. the second time in three years that the number has reached triple digits. >>> 6: >>> 6:36 never more th

a lot of sunshine over manhattan and the boroughs. northwesterly winds will

we used the banjo app here, collecting pictures from all over manhattan. let's take a look at this first one we found here of these gals, really getting into the spirit. they've got their pose on here with their santa hats included. these guys, i believe the caption said, santa claus is coming to town. what do you think? they've got the full gear on, on their bikes. pretty cool, riding through. the grinch who stole christmas, complete with the hat and all, holding his candy cane in the middle of the huge crowds we saw all day. and one last shot here, you can see it's a video of this gal right here, she's dancing and hanging out, singing her christmas carols. just a really, really fun, fun day for everybody involved. thousands of those santas, though, they did start to sober up. hopefully they stayed out of trouble. after years of complaints about binge drinking and bad behavior, the nypd has enforced a very strict no-tolerance policy. and for the third year in a row, event organizers released their route to police in advance. assemble at brooklyn's mckaren

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the hotshot manhattan real estate. indicted on nine different counts. he faces something like 30 years in prison. >> three men i wanted for a shooting in brooklyn. 403 madison street. killed as a result. call the nypd crime stoppers. out in the pizza houses in. now as a self-proclaimed pizza enthusiast there pretty excited. >> very passe . >> first off the grocery store. delicious pizza, toppings command the most essential ingredient. >> open stuff from the grocery store. his flat okay to buy? >> i guess we aren't going to make any mistakes. >> family do what any mom loves. >> are going to come over to make the gingerbread house. >> okay. >> here is where the magic truly begins. they had to cook all of the pizzas. important to overcook the bates is a little bit so that they stand up better. easy to remember. >> they focused. >> look how pretty it is. >> now it is time for the construction to begin. we used cardboard to measure outlaws and siding. protest, let the pizza cool. the sliding. so after pain, heartbreak, pain, heartbreak, and a lot of patients

i want to send a holiday shoutout to my mother in new york, new york, manhattan. mom, merry christmas. happy new year. we work weends here. because it works for our patients. here, at cancer treatment centers of america in make appointments that fit their schedules, even on weekends. because we believe in being here when our patients need us, so they can keep living their busy lives. weekend appointments are now available here. >>> otis livingston is starting with news with the giants. >> you can never have too much super bowl experience. the guy with the ring and the blink in the clubhouse. giants undefeated panthers in town this sunday. big blue needs a win to stay and play-off race. a familiar face back in blue today. defensive tackle barry cofield after football after hip surgery and was unsigned for 14 weeks. he is no stranger to late season runs have been been on the giants super bowl xlii winning team. >> if you can't beat a team like this then you're not going to win in the play-offs. this is the type of talented team we are going to have to beat going for

at a new operation center in downtown manhattan, officers monitor thousands of camera feeds. on new year's eve, the room will be staffed with members of governmental and private agencies. last month, chief james o'neill gave us a tour. do you think people should feel safe? >> you know what? i'm not going to tell people not to be concerned but i'm going to tell them to feel safe. i don't think anyone does this work better than the nypd, along with our federal partners. pair paris and california terror attacks a fresh. the pattern this year is terror attacks on small, soft targets with focus on times square. what about the thousands of businesses outside this area? >> both to capabilities on the threat analysis beforehand, that side of it, as well as the capability to respond, very quickly. we believe we are as prepared as anybody can be. >> reporter: spectators coming to this area will all be searched. they are required to get to their places early and stay there. they will also not be allowed to bring in large bags, backpacks or alcohol. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >>> in

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a shooting in manhattan's meat packing district just over an hour ago. a fender bender escalated with one driver shooting the other driver in the arm and hip. that happened at west 4th street and ganzavort. police say the shooter was a bearded man driving a gray minivan. he sped off after the shooting leaving the victim on the street. that man is now in the hospital. police are still looking for >>> developing right now on the upper east side, streets are closed as crews work to secure a building after bricks came crashing down on to the street, and some say it was a miracle that no one was hurt seriously. it is a top story on our free news app. eyewitness news reporter dray clark is live on the scene. >> reporter: good morning lori, by some stroke of luck or mercy no one was injured last night. that's really amazing when you consider how many bricks hit the ground when that wall buckled around 10:00 last night. night. take a look here. here is a look at that wall that fell apart 35 stories up, and you can notice that 100- foot section of brick missing o

along with the possibility of terrorism, trish, in dubai you don't have manhattan-type building codes, fire codes, inspections depend on who you bribe, who you pay off. those buildings are built by wage slaves from bangladesh and nepal. could be an electrical fire, could be terrorism, we just have

i am at the manhattan condominium. i cannot see the sedona condominiums from my vantage point. i know the shooting happened to blocks down at the 9100 block of las vegas boulevard. we are still try to figure out if the shooting happened at the emerald suites or if it happened at another apartment complex. that is information that we are waiting for. we are right next to the metro police spokesperson who tell us -- who tells us, soon as he gets that information, he will relate that to us. michelle: this parameter has expanded a bit. we are try to nail down where this officer-involved shooting took place. we have also learned the officer is in stable condition. so that is encouraging news at this time. with that being said, let's go to sergio avila who is outside of unc. -- umc. sergio: i saw someone frantically running into the trauma unit here at unc. as a conversation continued, he calmed down a little bit. the officer seems to be in stable condition. you can see different agencies have gathered here. not only the metro officers as well as state troopers, but when any time som

there is the manhattan skyline. if you look closely you can see the empire state building in yellow and green. that's because elf the musical opened on broadway. the barometer on the fall and the high today, current, 55 degrees. over the next seven hours we will only inch to the low 50s. the key time, 6:00 a.m., a couple of showers could pass through the area. i think the window for that is 3:00 to 6:00 in the morning. the average high is 45. way above that. we will be looking at records for our temperatures over the weekend. so a touch of light rain or a passion shower is possible through early morning. some of us are going to miss that. near 60. few degrees of sick degrees. and then maybe record warmth by the time we get to sunday. rain is likely to return on monday. we will time that for you. a cooler wind will follow early next week. here's the weekend outlook, staying with the low and middle six. i may have to raise that forecasting a tie with that record high. we're running 22 degrees warmer than last night at

you can head into manhattan and also the williamsburg bridge and manhattan bridge are in great shape. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect today. >>> today the texas teen aernlg known for his affluenza defense in a drunk driving case will be back in the u.s. ethan couch was given probation after killing four people in that crash. the defense argued couch didn't understand right from wrong because of his parents' wealth. couch and his mom allegedly took off to mexico earlier this month. police arrested them there monday. marshals alerted mexican authorities to their location after they reportedly used one of their phones to order a pizza. >>> two new york city postal working facing charges, one for alledgedly trashing the mail, the other for stealing gift cards. daniel darby tossed mail he was supposed to distribute into he alledgedly claimed he was overwhelming by the amount of mail he had to deliver. investigators say he even opened some of it. >> someone's check they're waiting for, that could be someone's christmas gift, that could be something that they really