New yorks a very human place, so i hope they can somehow, you know, get a grip on this. The suspect fleeing the scene as exasperation with this season of the slashing spree mounts. Need more, you know, more surveillance, more police presence, you know, to be monitoring all of this. Somethings got to be done. The suspect here described as a male about 58, a black shirt and blue jeans. Live in Lower Manhattan, Steve Langford cbs2 news. New information, a woman who claims she was slashed in the face yesterday near broadway street in Lower Manhattan has recanted her story. Was a lie. The 20yearold woman says a man called her a terrorist and slashed her. The woman was selfinflicted. Shes at bellevue for a psychiatric evaluation. Lead found in newarks school buildings, 30 had tested positive for high lead levels. Janelle burrell has more from one of the latest schools affected. Many Newark School parents frustrated and baffled. How long have officials known lead was in the water and how long
Traffic and weather on the 2s. High levels of lead discovered in the water. The taps now turned off as officials call for help from the state and federal government. Janelle burrell live in newark with more this morning. Reporter hi chris and mary, most of the samples were actually taken from water sources from sinks and polices where you would wash your hands these test results showed that some of the Drinking Water sources, some of the water fountains at this Charter School came back with lead levels ten times above the acceptable limits. The testing took 324 water samples, a sample from every single water source in all eight nontraditional facilities within the Newark Public School district for this phase of testing. A quarter of those samples came back with elevated levels of led. 16 of them were from Drinking Water sources, 10 of those Drinking Water sources were the newark legacy Charter School. The epas acceptable level of lead and water is 15 parts per billion and some of the s
Bandaged up in the back of an ambulance. A Woman Tells Police shes the victim of another slashing in our city, this time on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight. Im kristine johnson. And im used to walk. Cbs2s sonia rincon is following the developing story, live in Lower Manhattan with Reporter Police are investigating a very disturbing allegation from a young woman who came running into this building on broadway just after 4 00 this afternoon with her face bleeding. This 20yearold is being treated for a small wound to her face according to police. She claims a stranger attacked her on broadway at the corner of wall street right in front of the historic trinity church. She reported that when he slashed her he made a statement to the effect that she was a terrorist, and he continued to flee northbound on broadway. Reporter nypd assistant chief William Aubrey says the young woman is of middle eastern descent. She called her dad when this happened and her sister called the police. Now theyre
Repeated target of Donald Trumps criticism. A preview of his sunday morning conversation. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Getting bigger right now. Big boom. Hail hitting the truck. My house is pretty much gone. Tornadoes tear through the south. There it is. We felt the shaking of the home. My god, this is real i nearly fainted when by saw this up here. Donald trump meeting with rnc Reince Priebus and they are blasting his views on national security. He is really unprepared to be commander in chief and leader of the free world. Hillary clinton losing her cool when confronted by an activist. I am so sick of the Sanders Campaign lying about this. President obama hosted a a shooting at a bus station in virginia. A state trooper shot dead. Two other people wounded. Quite a tragedy for all ever us. Players in the u. S. Womens soccer team filed a federal complaint about equal pay. Their pay is four times less than their male counterparts. Thi
The Kankakee River. We are here in wilmington. This is a solid sheet of ice. As a result some of the people who work around here have left. Theyve gone to stay with relatives. They know it can flood and fled quickly. Sometimes within a matter of minutes. Let me take you down to the river. The Kankakee River state park. About 10 mi. Outside of their. Were talking about the warner bridge. It has been closed since yesterday. Officials around that area say it is up to the bridge level. It is a safety concern because they could quickly go over. Lets put this all together. The people who live and work around here say it is unbelievable what a wretched winter we have had. For the folks around here we are talking ice and build up. They say they have never seen anything like it. Usually when you drive over the bridge the water is 20 ft. Below. It is pretty cool to see Something Like this. It will break free. Everything on the backside will flood. It is pretty dangerous. Heck of a winter. One th