been released but one female officers remains here. reporting live in jersey city, darla miles, channel 7 eyewitness news. darla, thank you. calls for action tonight in brooklyn after a violent weekend that left three people shot and killed. president eric adams and several council members holding a rally outside burle hall this morning to launch a campaign against gun violence. they are calling for community and police cooperation after a wave of shootings over the last two days. they set up an open casket outside burle hall as a stark reminder of the cost of all this gun violence. when a bullet is discharged from a barrel of a gun, it does not discriminate. it would take the life of anything and anyone that it is. york cop. eyewitness news reporter kemberly richardson at today s rally will break down the antiviolence campaign coming up on eyewitness news at 6:00. in less than an hour, concerned community members will come together in the bronx to address the legionn
he s in critical condition and severely injured in this accident last night. reporter: cars and minivans scattered across the street with debris. they described the accident a scattered collision. he hit another car. that car hit another car. reporter: around 8:00 sunday night, investigators say the driver of the van was speeding down myrtle avenue in jersey city when it hit the silver car. police say the van spun out of control and pushed the car into a driveway. the car striking and critically injuring a jersey city police officer that was standing on the sidewalk. the chain reaction accident sent car parts raining all across the street, leafing 12 people hurt. i was leaving 12 people hurt. i was shocked! it was daylight! kids were outside riding their bikes. there was a group of kids playing football when the accident happened. get hit. they did not get hit. amen. reporter: the name of the released. as for the driver of the minivan, witnesses say he tried t
good morning, 6:00 a.m., sunday, august 9. i m diane macedo. i m andrea grymes. today s top stories are straight ahead but look who we have in the studio. john elliott in the house. welcome john. who is enjoying the treats? you got to be kidding, this is great. you guys both look lovely. i don t know how you do it every sunday morning. me, this is just luck, i just kind of throw this together. how about this? it is just sublime out there on your sunday. i know lamenting the absence of the rain we need but perfect timing for the second half of the weekend. got some plans outside? the weather will cooperate. it is delightful. 55 in monticello. 58 in sparta. 59 in summit. 65 in roslyn. 68 in the city. pretty skies overhead. another way to tell the tale. the vortex satellite and radar, there is the big low sitting and spinning kicking up the waves for the shore. but it is going to pave the way for a nice day for us. around 80 at lunch time in the city. your high today about
you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the forecast. hot day. day three of our hot wife. it started saturday. temperatures around 80 to start the day. normal high is about ten cooler than that. 78 canarsie. 75 cambria heights. 81 whitestone, staten island, down the jersey shore, from 78 to 72 degrees. 68 up to the north around poughkeepsie. so, we are looking at a hot day today. we will get into the mid-90s easily today. you tack on the humidity, it will feel like 100. that s right. be careful. we could get to 95, 96 degrees, break a record high. we will talk about that coming up. debbie duhaime is in for heather. we will start out telling you everything is back on track l.i.r.r. on the ronkonkoma branch after problems from yesterday. metro branch, waterbury branch ongoing construction in bridgeport. george, lincoln and holland moving okay. number 1 trains, no trains at 14th to south ferry. that is maintenan
new jersey, 97 at morristown, you get a little rain cooled or not rain cooled but cloud cooled 88 on the shore at belmar. the heat index values well into new jersey. we have an air quality alert in effect until 11:00 p.m. out there. if you have any type of heart or lung condition you would want to avoid any type of strenuous activity outdoors into the evening hours. these are the storms we have been talking about, one blew up right near the george washington bridge, affected inwood, parts of the bronx and then moved into parts of queens. that has since weakened. one little shower on the queens brooklyn border, couple of other showers north of and east of long branch in new jersey so again this first heatwave in central park since july of 2013, over two years ago, you re going to want to stay in air conditioned places if you can. if you can t, stay hydrated and avoid heavy exercise outside. a little bit of relief from the heat tomorrow but at the same time the humidity is