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New information has been released on the identity of the man killed in the fire at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

Police say the man who was killed, 67-year-old Todd Brassner, was an art collector and a friend of Andy Warhol.

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He was killed when a fire tore through his apartment on the 50th floor of Trump Tower Saturday, according to investigators.

Warhol made several references to spending time with Brassner in his diaries.

It's not yet clear what caused the fire, but fire officials say there were no sprinklers.

No members of the first family were in the building at the time of the fire.

New information has been released on the identity of the man killed in the fire at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman, your hyper local weather forecast heading throughout the rest of our Friday. We do have the rain showers moving in west to east through riverhead. You can see the rain showers through this evening. After daytime, highs in the fifties going out this evening. After sunset, temperatures are going to be in the forties. We'll have the on and off rain showers into the morning hours of your Saturday. So here's our storm system, rain showers overspreading Long Island as of now west to east of Long Island, Nassau County seeing some of those showers. So evening plans, they will be impacted by a little bit of wet weather going through this evening. You see around eight o'clock, everyone's raining and the threat of rain kind of tapers off into tomorrow morning. So the rest of the day it's cloudy with the showers developing west to east. It may be raining in your neighborhood right now. Already, 42 tonight, scattered showers. Sun goes down at around 425. Here's nine o'clock, looking at the wet weather from the east end to the west side of Long Island. Temperatures are in the forties. We get a little bit of a lull with some drizzle and some fog on Saturday. And then the second wave of rain comes in towards overnight hours of Saturday. Then watch what happens on Sunday. We'll start to see the wet weather moving in and some steady rain for Sunday afternoon. Here's what we have today. Highs are in the fifties, showers developing over Long Island forties tonight with scattered showers and again, mild weather over the weekend.

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Trump Tower fire victim was art collector, friend of Andy Warhol