Sprinting down the highway to help save a driver on fire. Tonight we talk to the out of towners who found themselves in the middle of an explosion on the new jersey turnpike and ran to a strangers rescue. Good evening. Im kristine johnson. Maurice has the night off. At this time last night the fiery crash had traffic cbs 2s jessica schnedier live in East Brunswick where crews are back on the scene tonight. That fiery scene left repair crews a lot of work out here near exit 9 on the turnpike. Tonight while one of the drivers, one of the tractortrailers, recovers at the hospital, the people who rushed to his rescue are sharing their incredible video. Reporter thats Jackie Wilson shouting and racing to truck driver dale miller whos running across the turnpike with his pants literally on fire. I was saying get his pants down. Which just caused a big stir back home. Theyre saying here she is yelling at a truck driver to get his pants down. Reporter wilson and her husband were visiting her b
Because of a trade embargo. Henna daniels, cbs 2 news. Well, facilities that have animals for 24 hours now have to be equipped with automatic fire sprinklers. The bill was passed to into law after several incidents of where they were trapped in burning buildings. One lawsuit cited the financial burden tennessee puts on business owners. The education commissioner say was the the city is working for options for schools who have no lowe testing rates. Geno smith is recover afghanistan having surgery on his broken jaw. Doctors at the local area hospital put plates and screws into his jaw. Ik enemkpali was released immediately. He was picked up by another teem. I apologize it should have never happened. I would have walked away from the situation. It was never my intention to hurt anybody. Reporter he also thanked nfl coach rex ryan for giving him a chance. The on the first series, the lions carved them up. Golden state is untouched for the first team of the jets defense. Genos replace zill
Temperatures. Similar in the low 90s. More humid and more clouds. Generally a mostly sunny day on tap and a hot one. The current temperatures, 76 in the city. 59 in monticello. 69 for yaphank and 68 in cranbury. Most of us in the 60s and 70s out there. As we look at the vortex satellite and radar we had a few showers making their way to the north of the city early this morning. They are starting to dissipate. The sprinkles, you may see a few more fall before all is said and done. By this afternoon, skies will be mostly sunny under an air quality alert. We have high levels of o shown in the atmosphere. 9 00 a. M. 79. Feeling like 82. By noon 86, mostly sunny. Feels like 88. At 3 00 this afternoon, we peak at 92 degrees. It will feel like 94. Skies will be mostly sunny. In the first forecast, the full heat wave of 2013. I will have details shortly. We begin with breaking news out of east harlem. Police are on the hunt for a man who escaped custody while still in handcuffs. Ilana gold joi
The twin turboprop was reportedly flying in bad weather. It is carrying 54 people, 49 passengers and five crew members. We will keep you updated on the story as we learn more. And we begin with breaking news in east harlem. The search is on for a man that escaped Police Custody still in handcuffs. Ilana gold joins us live from east harlem with more. Ilana . Reporter andrea, police say the suspect is 25yearold austin stevenson. They tell us he escaped from the 23rd precinct after he was arrested for trespassing. Here is his picture. Police released it moments ago. They want everyone to be on the look out for him. We wanted to show you video of police scouring the area by 102nd street and park avenue. They are going to a number of buildings trying to find the suspect but they havent had any luck. Here is what we know. The escape happened at 3 00 outside the 23rd precinct. They just took the suspect out of the patrol car. As they were walking him up to the building he got away and ran off
Monroe 64 is where you are starting off your day at 8 01 in one second. There we go. 8 01 exactly. Vortex satellite and radar, skies have cleared out after Early Morning showers. We are sitting pretty. A mostly sunny day with a slime chance of showers well north of the city. An air quality alert goes into effect at 11 00 a. M. Today. This is especially important for those of you who suffer from allergies for young kids and the elderly as well. Difficult to breath with the high heat and high levels of o soap. Here we go, to break down the day, 9 00 a. M. , 82. Thats what it feels like. By noon 86 feels like 88. Mostly sunny. Three this afternoon, 92 the high this afternoon. It will feel like 94. Skies are mostly sunny. This evening, it will start getting more humid. We will talk about what you can expect as we make our way into the workweek coming up in the full forecast. Vanessa, thank you. Breaking news this morning, indonesian airliner flying through bad weather is now missing. Trans