Reporter the new york closed. Its very, very difficult to get through that area. This summer friday has been aggravated by a dreadful accident 15 miles north. This morning, this is suffern new york this morning. A box truck carrying mattresses jumped the Center Divider and hit a tractor of exit 15b. The two occupants of the northbound box truck are dead. The driver of the southbound tractortrailer is hospitalized. Serious but stable condition. And traffic as a result all afternoon has been really slammed on the thruway, i87, route 17, route 202, the local roads in Rockland County and its just been really a mess. Its just starting to loosen up a little bit but its still very difficult. The monitors say its difficult in the immediate area. Police are questioning two other vehicles involved in the crash. Another truck headed northbound and a private vehicle. They are trying to find out what happened before the box truck jumped the median. But two people were killed. The tractortrailer dri
Tony aiell o is live on the scene at soho. The gunman apparently harbored a grudge against the federal government, sparking a Massive Police response to the Federal Building at varick and west houseton. Reporter a federal Security Officer who witnessed the killing of a colleague was escorted past the crime scene after the shocking end to a summer workweek. It happened just inside of this entrance on west houseton. The nypd says 68yearold Kevin Downing entered the building with several guns hidden in a bag, and he shot and killed idrssa camara and then shot and killed himself. Reporter he was fired several years ago. We are at the early stages of this investigation and are working to establish his motive for coming here , if he had a motive beyond the Security Guard and everything else. Camara was scheduled to complete his day at 4 00, but he agreed to stay on. Landlords in the nearby buildings warned of possible danger. We were told to say in the building. It was scary. It was terrifyi
Still unknown. Were at the very early stages of this investigation, are working who establish his motive for coming here, if he had an intended target beyond the Security Office what the motive was behind the crime. Detectives say Kevin Downing a former economist was fired from the federal bureau after labor statistics four years ago, cbs 2 learned troubling lawsuits and other documents show he thought he was fired for retaliation because he blew the whistle on alleged corruption and public waste. Ever express concerns or having problems . Never, really honestly. Real estate listings show downing bought the home in 1987 put it on the market several times over the years a home thats now the focus of a federal investigation. Downings neighbors say he got hit by a car about a year ago was out of work for at least six months. Some question if financial problems led to this, but investigators dont have answers. Live in fort lee new jersey, cbs 2 news. All right thanks, were learning more th
Your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. Bruised and bloody and elderly man targeted by violent thieves in his home. How new yorks strongest came to his aid. Inside the mind of a gunman and his feud with the government. The lawmaker who tried to help the man before he opened fire on a Federal Building. Plus we just heard the guns go the gun go off and he screamed, go. Here owes on a highspeed train heroes on a high speed train how americans prevented a massacre overseas. Im dick brennan. Cindy hsu is off. An innocent man is in the hospital and three suspects on the run after a Home Invasion this morning. Now two sanitation workers are speaking out about helping the victim. Cbs 2s mark morgan has the story new at 6 00. Reporter known only to his neighbors as tony, this 76 yearold man sat dazed and bloody at his home in queens following a terrifying Home Invasion shortly after 6 a. M. According to police one suspect used a ladder to climb into the second floor window of the vict
Always on. I was struggling with it. What am i going . Maybe hes 29. Bruise bud not broken. Tied up. His message to the robbers on the run and the sanitation who came to help. Im dick brennan. Cindy hsu is off tonight. Who would attack an elderly man in his own home . Earlier this morning, he was treated at the hospital, and he returned home to find many of his possessions were stolen. Dave carlin with the interview new at 11. Reporter hes home after spending most of the day at the hospital, and hes talking to cbs 2 about his ordeal. I didnt take no crap from nobody. Reporter when anthony puzzio was robbed and beaten, he did his best to fight back, but the Early Morning Home Invaders had the element of surprise. He hit me once here with the gun and then punched me. Reporter he woke up, never imagining a masked man with the gun would go through the trouble of getting a ladder up to the open second floor window. Wheres the money . Wheres the money . I got no money reporter the ordeal las