This afternoon. Toni yates joins us live from the scene. Toni. Reporter yes, indeed. You know, the demolition scheduled for tomorrow will probably have to be delayed with this accident happening. A few minutes ago we saw some of the demolition crews and Port Authority workers meeting at hangar 14. They are standing there. At one point they walked away, surveyed the building then walked back. Lets take a look at the video. Newscopter 7 was over head shortly before it collapsed. It was being prepared for full demolition when earlier something went wrong. There were nine workers inside the structure which part of it began to buckle. They all made it out but four of them suffered nonlife threatening injuries. We are told two of the people are listed as critical. Now crews are doubtful as i said that the hangar as it is now is safe to go back into. That has to be decided. This was a Maintenance Hangar that was closed after United Airlines reopened opened a brandnew hangar last year. So,ing this was going to be demolished, in the process of being demolished. Something went horribly wrong. They got out. Two are in Critical Condition being treated at Newark University hospital. Live at newark airport, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Now to a developing story in central new jersey. It started as a robbery in union and ended with a car crash in kenilworth. A tan colored lincoln apparently stolen plowed into several vehicles after the driver lost control. The driver went head first into the front window of a halloween city store. The suspect or suspects were taken into custody. On the east side a driver lost control of a car and plowed into a con ed work site injuring two workers. It happened on lexington near 82nd street. The driver that appeared to be foaming at the mouth side swiped a car then struck a con ed truck. Several workers dove out of the way. Two were hurt along with the driver. All new at 5 00 a local High School Football coach is under investigation for how he disciplined players on his team. He had them working in the heat and the turf got so hot that it left burns on some of the players hands. Tonight the coach is apologizing. This happened in stratford, connecticut. Marcus solis joins us now with how the students are responding. Marcus . Reporter and, diana, the School District will not say whether or not the coach has been suspended but he is not here with the team today at practice. This investigation started after a number of parents complained about injuries to their sons hand. Despite this, most of the players and the players parents are defending the coach. You did the drill . I did the drill. Reporter zack smith is a senior on the High School Football team and disputes the seriousness of an incident that lead to injuries like this, players with blisters and burns on the bottom of their hand. If he knew it would have happened he wouldnt have done it. Reporter he is the head coach tj cava her re. Red he ordered players to do april spider crawl with their hands behind their backs. Over a dozen players wound up with blisters and burns. One player tweed a picture of his hand. This child whose parent is not on the team is among those outraged. That kid should have walked off the field, called his mother to pick him up. Reporter he was not at practice. School officials wont say why calling any potential discipline a personnel issue. The superintendent of schools acknowledges she got complaints about the parents of two players. We do everything we can to keep our students safe. Sometimes when an adult has a judgment lapse we have to deal with that. Reporter still many parents side with the second year coach who apologized to his team yesterday. He is a family man. He believes in family. His extended family are those boys. He treats them with the utmost respect. Reporter the question remains whether or not em be allowed to coach the teams next game, a big rivalry game friday night. Marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, marcus. In manhattan, a smoke can i fire on the upper west smoky fire on the Upper West Side on west 66th street. It sent thick smoke throughout the highrise. That triggered panicked calls to 911. Firefighters quickly knocked down the fire. Only one person went to the hospital for observation. A new jersey man admits that he conspired with three other men to provide Material Support to the Islamic State group. Samuel topaz pled guilty today. He was arrested in fort lee in june. He is locked up without bail and faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced november 18th. An artifact from 9 11 is a part of the agency created in the aftermath of those attacks. Today an honor guard lead a solemn ceremony to the tsa office in union, new jersey. The 3foot long piece of steel was found in the world trade center. We will have special coverage of the 9 11 anniversary this friday. The coverage gets started at 8 25 in the morning. Back to school for a million new York City School students. Today marks the first full day of universal prek. Political reporter dave evans spoke one on one with the mayor about how he is changing the schools and what he wants from parents. Dave . Reporter the mayor talked a lot about his big universal pre k program. When he started two years ago, 19,004 year olds were involved. Today 65,000. Today he talked about a new push, a new target, to get some other folks involved with schools and that is parents. Reporter new York City Schools are rolling out a welcome mat for parents. The mayor is making it a priority. We value the role of parents. Parents are the first and last teachers of our children. Reporter the mayor ordered his School Officials to reach out to 400,000 parents by phone. They went door to door at the homes of city students and changed how teachers and parents communicate. So, what we said when we did the teacher contract is every teacher has to spend 40 minutes every week talking to parents, making them allies. Reporter today on the first day of school we saw lots of parents like anthony hurtado. He took the day off from work to be at ps 12 twice at noon and 2 00 when his kids got out of class. If you are around all the time, they show that they have the full support. Reporter if they feel support, if parents are involved, the theory is kids will do better in school. Makes an enormous difference. Children what are read to every night. Reporter it seems like a no brainer, asking parents to get more active. It wasnt always like this. In the previous administration, the bloomberg folks pushed parents out of schools. That violates all he had cash 23458 knowledge we have. If we want children to succeed we need parents involved. Reporter now a focus on homes, parents and a plea, get involved in your kids life. Even if you go on a field trip as a chaperone, being involved in any way possible. Nothing is too little. We need every parent system. Reporter there is another part to try to get parents more involved, community schools. City. Where the schools are not just a school but community center. They have doctors, dentists and other social services offered. 62 different schools across the city that will cost about 106 million over the next two years. Dave evans, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, dave. News. We are learning about a major james blake. He was handcuffed in midtown in a mixup involving the nypd. They mistook him for a credit indicate card fraud expert. We have rob powers following the late developments in the newsroom. Reporter james blake was on the way to the Tennis Center for the u. S. Open and was mistaken. He told the daily news he was slammed to the ground, handcuffed and detained by five officers. Nypd was investigating a credit card fraud case in midtown. Blake mistaken as somebody involved in the crime. Police say once his identity was confirmed he was released. Blake said he saw somebody in supports and a tshirt charging sidewalk. Blake quoted by the daily news said he would like an apology and some sort of action against the officers so they know this was just not okay. The nypd says its looking into exactly what did happen this afternoon. Diana . Amazing. Thanks, rob. A rally is upped way in the nations capitol to protest the nuclear iran deal. That is lead by donald trump and ted cruz outside the u. S. Capitol. Opponents disapproval will likely be fruitless. President obama secured enough votes in congress to head off a block of the accord. Called the president and other supporters of the deal quote, stupid. Investors from the ntsb are on their way to las vegas to try to figure out why a British Airways even again burst into engine burst into flames before take off. The crew evacuated the plane before the side of the plane was engulfed. Luckily no one was hurt. The head of baltimores Police Union Calling the citys 6. 4 million settlement with the family of freddie gray obscene. He was injured in Police Custody and it set off a series of protests. The mayor says the money isnt just the right thing to do financially but the best way for grays family and the community to get closure. Another down day for stokes following another dip in oil prices. Dow fell 239 points closing at 16,253. S p dropped 27 points. Con edison is paying millions to female workers. What woman said happened to her. We have that coming up. Also, new york city is shaking things up when it comes to salt warnings. Big change that you will notice on some menus. And a big security upgrade for a local school. 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This is information that doesnt change the food but provides people with information that they need to make healthy food selections. Consuming too much salt can lead to high Blood Pressure and cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in new york. Its a good thing because i actually suffer from high Blood Pressure. Its our choice. Knows what we are supposed to do. Reporter some critics blast the move saying its based on outdated health information. There is a cost of upgrading menus and comprehensive federal guidelines coming down the road. 2300 milligrams of salt is the recommended daily amount. The average daily consumption is roughly 3400 milligrams. Consider this the sizzling skillet fajitas with rice and shrimp atable piece atable bees. New york city of course has dealt with this issues before, calorie counts and transfats. We are the first city in the country to have salted related requirement. City Officials Say restaurants will get a grace period after december the 1st before they face a violation. Reporting from hamilton heights, rob nelson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. More breaking news. Take a look at route 287 in middlesex county. A jackknifed tractor trailer near exit 1. This is in edison. Three northbound lanes are blocked. You can see the blocked traffic in that area. There are big rubbernecking delays in the southbound lane as well. We will continue to keep you posted. Apple announced its new products today. The ipad pro measures 12. 9 inches diagonally. And new iphones, the 6k and 6 k plus have a high rear resolution camera. Take all the pictures you want. The apple tv comes with siri. You can talk to the tv. And if you are not planning on buying something new there is a new mobile operating system. You use siri a lot. I do. Believes talking to tur tv, wild. So much more to come. So, goes we got in other video from Staten Island of that flooding there. Here it is, lee. Oh, wow. Gosh. This gives perspective. This is near West Brighton. That is what an inch and a quarter of rain can do in 45 minutes. You think, wow, the ground can take a lot of rain now. We cant flood. Yes, you can when its at that rainfall rate. You are talking about an accident in edison. They have a great view of that thunderstorm. I wonder if there is rubbernecking looking at the dark sky. That is what it looked like in Staten Island. Thats what it could look like in any neighborhood across the area tomorrow. This has been a picture that we follow since first at 4 00. Black to the south from midtown to lower manhattan. At times the sun comes back. Now thunderstorms are reaching back to the southern tip of Staten Island, maybe near eltonville and middlesex county. We are at 80 down from a high of 90. Still above the average. There are the sunrise and sunset times. Last year mostly cloudy and cooler, 73. Long island we are cooling woodmere. Woodmere is close to showers a real steam bath. This advertise the highest humidity of the entire stretch. 92 poughkeepsie. Not raining there. Showers near belmar, 79. Really through the day tomorrow there can be an occasional thunderstorm. More spotty through lunchtime then more widespread during the afternoon tomorrow and heavy downpours for the evening commute. You can see why the thunderstorms form. See how the clouds are going from south to north here and see more southwest here to northeast. There is a convergence. That is helping to build the thunderstorms on a sea breeze front on the coast. We were targeting Staten Island, brooklyn and the south shore of Nassau County and a downpour near long beach. Now reaching back, the heaviest are under monmouth to has and holmdel over to sandy hook and port hancock. This is near howell and heading to neptune. A lot of lightning near jackson. Another downpour weakening but near toms river. This is the main course. Look at the showers and thunderstorms that arrive during the day tomorrow. 78. That will break the streak of 62 days at or above 80 degrees. We will get back to 80 friday. Partly cloudy, some spots nothing is going on, warm and sticky. Other spots a drone muching downpour. Showers and thunderstorms fill up the radar and the evening commute is probably the biggest concern. Pockets of heavy rain during the commute. 3 to 4 inches of rain. Is that out of the question . Will the rain saturday night go into sunday morning but linger through a good chunk of the day . We will address that coming up. Thank you, lee. Coming up, a baby fighting for her life. She was fed vodka by mistake. How did it happen. 9 popular dating app tinder is making changes. Introducing starbucks smallbatch cold brew coffee. In stores now. It took Serena Williams years to master the two handed backhand. But only one shot to master the chase mobile app. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master the way you bank. Yoplait. The smooth and creamy yogurt your whole family loves. Yoplait original with no artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavors, and no high fructose corn syrup. A lot of breaking news today. These are live pictures from phoenix. Firefighters are battling a major fire. We are told at this hour this is a building just south of downtown in an industrial area. You can just see how intense the flames are. Firefighters are on the scene. You can see the water coming down right now. Im not sure how many cruise are there at this moment. We are keeping an eye on this. This is an industrial area. This is getting bad here. Yeah. Im wondering what is in that tower there. That is a bad, bad fire in phoenix, arizona. We will keep monitoring this and bring you any new information as we get it. Absolutely. Another lesson on home construction. A local Family Learning the hard way when they paid a lot of money up front to get work done on their home. The work wasnt done and the house was left a mess. Nina pineda grabbed her tool belt to help fix the problem. Not just a mess, the house lifted in limbo when the contractor and customer got in a dispute the dispute the homeowner said left them hanging. Insurance since last spring their lives were suspended in midair. Gutted everything. We lost everything in the house. Reporter after sandy, they had to raise and renovate so they hired thomas carlavall econ trucks. Re