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he was said to be live streaming on the platform. twitch when he opened fire. many of us no, this supermarket, this top supermarket on jefferson avenue very well. many of us have been in and out of this supermarket. our family members have been in and out of the supermarket. police say a retired buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard shot the gunman. but the shooter was unharmed due to the armor he was wearing. that retired police officer was also shot and killed. many of us know some of those. who are victims of this, her or her effect crime. so this is painful. this does hurt. it always hurts. this case is being investigated as a racially motivated hate crime as a law enforcement source confirmed to the gunman had a racial slur written on his weapon. this was pure evil. it was straight up racially motivated hate crime. from somebody outside of our community outside of the city of good neighbors. as the mayor said coming into our community. in
Lori stokes. We have a brandnew air mass in place. 74. 74 to start out right now. Drops down maybe another degree or to but 60 at hopatcong, blairstown, up to poe and kingston. 80 by noontime. Beautiful weather. Heather, i have great news in the weather department. I have okay news in the traffic department. My maps arent working at this time. That is bad news in the traffic department. Not good news for me. Lets go to a webcam. We will show you how things are looking traveling on the Staten Island expressway. You can see the construction is set up. That is right around richmond avenue. Now, this advertise the eastbound side of the Staten Island expressway. They did cancel a lot of that construction during the overnight. Thats because of what was going on with the truck accident yesterday on the new jersey turnpike which has completely been cleared away. Now, we are looking at the b. Q. E. Up the northbound side. This is your delay coming up to the Brooklyn Bridge. We do have our stree
And also the issue of synthetic marijuana. Its known as k2 and spice, and its creating a Public Health crisis. The homeless can buy it at bodega for 1 a packet. I thought i was having a heart attack. Reporter ma man ask this man asked us to hide his face, and he says the drug has a violent reaction, and you can see it here with the reaction from this naked man. Arresting the people becomes dangerous. The individuals on the drug are crazy. They have superhuman strength and are impervious to pain, and the normal takedowns will not work. Reporter the city released the latest Crime Statistics, and according to the numbers, overall crime is down by more than 10 , but homicides have gone up from last year, and thats something we asked mayor de blasio about. Reporter some people look at the statistics and some say the city is going downhill. What do you say . I would say look at the facts and stop the hysteria. Reporter ilana gold, cbs 2 news. Thank you, ilana. Time for traffic and weather on
James not the way of looking into the camera the roadway and far lot more wit than it was early this morning to hear the line of shower was retracting this morning were moving in this direction here pretty much from the bottle down to the Golden Gate Bridge Robin Winston 10 lesson wipers will be reminding you throughout the morning commute of the wiper on the had lied to us beyond that is a lot know the problems of the bay bridge toll plaza of watchers speed has a pretty good, you nine minutes from the may is rolled out to fremont street 20 minutes from to their it out to 237 act quick will tran on a particular a massive tree came crashing down the weather is likely to blame for the tree coming down to this and is hurting our partnership with abc seven we spoke with witnesses to say it felt like an earthquake j. R. Stone no one was hurt that is the extent of the damage and no broken glass and no structural issues because of the trees location is a city of berkeley trained many in the c