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WABC Eyewitness News December 10, 2015

People from boarding an airplane to and from the United States but theres nothing pre 10th them preventing them from buying a gun or an Assault Rifle until now in connecticut. We believe we have the power under executive order because what we are denying is a permit and its a permit process and theres an appeal in the permit process if youre denied. Reporter following the massacre at sandy hook, Governor Dannel Malloy pushed for stricter gun control laws. After last weeks mass shooting in San Bernardino, president obama called for a ban on sales to those on the no fly list. This is basic common sense, the American People get it. Reporter the nra was quick to react. In a statement saying the president knows full well that law abiding americans who pose no threat to National Security are mistakenly on the terror watch list, a secret government errors. A sentiment echoed by the owner of a new milford pistol range. It is a slippery slope and malloy, little by little they and their aim is obvious. They want to disarm the entire public. Reporter this announcement comes just days before the third anniversary of the shootings at sandy hook. Coming up we will hear from parents who lost children now part of sandy hook promise, a group that is committed to reforming gun laws, their reaction to this announcement coming up a little bit later. For now we are live in new milford, marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, marcus. New information tonight about the San Bernardino shooting massacre. Acquaintances of the killers syed farook and Tashfeen Malik, say they cannot find a place to bury them. The couple was killed in a shootout with police last week. Investigators now say they have found photos of the high school on farooks been a planned target for another attack. Meanwhile a funeral today for 27yearold yvette velasco. She is the first of the 14 San Bernardino victims to be buried. Vasco was expecting velasco badge recognizing her as a Health Inspector on the day she was killed. An entire community in queens banding together tonight to support the victim of a possible hate crime. The victim a muslim store owner. The suspect behind bars. Eyewitness News Reporter stacey sager is live in astoria tonight with the story. Stacey. Reporter the suspect in this case is now charged with misdemeanor assault, but Police Confirmed to me they are now investigating this as a possible hate crime. Now, earlier today this whole Community Came together in front of this mans store, Community Leaders are calling this a targeted attack because the owner of the store is muslim. I behind me so im so happy. Reporter clearly overwhelmed by this showing of support, muslim story owner sarker haque spoke in astoria. Falling down on the side and then he scream at and i scream whats going on, what are you doing here . Whats wrong with you . Then he said i kill muslims. Reporter i kill muslims the words his attacker allegedly says after the victim says the attacker looked at a newspaper cover in his shop with this photo of San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik on the cover. Haque still has a black eye and this community known for its diversity trying hard to work through its bruised spirits. This is his neighborhood. Reporter it was thanks to Good Samaritans that Police Caught haques attacker, now they are investigating it as a possible hate crime. Today muslim and Community Leaders urging others not to be afraid to speak out. Because if it gets much worse, then these people will have worse incidents on their hands than the ones we are dealing with right now. Reporter the pain so strong in a place in haque never thought he would live in fear. I was in this country since i was 4 years old. [ applause ] reporter clearly very emotional today. Mr. Haque says hes never seen Something Like this before, not in this community. Now, as for the suspect, police say his 55yearold peer he is 55yearold piro colvani. Authorities had believed him to be emotionally disturbed. Now investigators will have to sort out whether or not he snapped and committed a hate crime. Live in astoria, stacey sager, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Yet another poll shows president ial candidate donald trump with a big lead among the republican pack. Trump has the support of 35 of republican primary voters in a cbs News New York times poll he the poll was taken largely before trumps statement monday proposing to temporarily ban muslims from entering the country. Meanwhile, trump says he is postponing a trip to israel because he doesnt want to put israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bind. Yesterday netanyahu says he does not support trumps view on muslims. Prosecutors say the victim was stabbed nearly two dozen times. 19yearold dylan lintini was last week inside his apartment in west nyack. While in court, lintinis lawyers claim it was self defense saying their client was a victim of unwanted sexual advances. A man is under arrest tonight charged are robbing and raping a woman in brooklyn. Police say 31yearold raji wilson followed the victim into an elevator in a building in coney island on sunday night. They say wilson pulled out a the stairwell where he raped her and then stole her money and keys. He is also accused of robbing another woman less than an hour later. Traffic is flowing again on route 9 in new jersey tonight after a big security scare during the morning commute. New Jersey Transit bus was stopped when passengers reported a suspicious device on board. This happened about 8 30 this morning. Investigators say passengers thought a man holding an alarm clock was behaving strangely. The bus was evacuated. Police talked to the man and they determined there was no threat. Well, the family of a teenager struck and killed by a hitandrun driver in queens is pleading tonight for Traffic Safety improvements. New york state senator and relatives of gathered at northern and junctions in corona today. They say mayor de blasio needs to use resources from his Vision Zero Initiative on this dangerous intersection. We need to increase the streets in order to catch those cars that think they can hit someone and simply drive away and get away with it and what better location, mr. Mayor, than this location right here. Peralta also urged the driver who struck to surrender. That driver was in a black toyota camry. Construction workers carrying caskets through the streets of manhattan to draw attention to what they say are unsafe working conditions. Supporters rallied in Lower Manhattan today. They say there is a lack of meaningful Safety Training and equipment and standards in the nonunion construction sector. 16 construction workers have died on the job this year. Today new york citys top cop joined the battle for continued healthcare coverage for 9 11 workers. Commissioner bill bratton traveling to washington to ask congressional leaders to renew the zadroga act. Next year but the law expired last month. This country has an obligation, it has a debt to those who went toward the dispairnlg stayed in towards the danger and stayed in danger. No verdict tonight in the corruption trial of former new york state majority leader dean skelos. The long island republican is accused of strong arming businesses into giving his son adam 300,000 in fees. Closing arguments were held the last two days. Both skelos and his son have pleaded not guilty. Stocks on wall street snapping a costly threeday losing streak. Energy Companies Led todays rally after suffering big losses earlier in the trading week. This despite another drop in the price of crude oil. The dow rose 82 points, closing at 17,574, the nasdaq climbed 22 points and the s p 500 added four points. A lawsuit over a womans the woman crying for help from inside a locked bathroom. Coming up, what her family says happened that has them going after the Fast Food Restaurant chain in court. Plus, a subway operator attacked while clearing cars at the end of his shift. Who he says went after him. And a boy from new jersey gets severely ill overseas. His parents talked to us about their fight to bring him home. And im meteorologist lee goldberg. The docile december continues, temperatures running about 15 degrees above average. It was islip hitting a record of 61 pack in 2012. Last year on this date we had snow after a noreaster passed by. Its the holidays. And of course, Everyone Wants to get online at once. To watch things. Buy things. But slow internet makes it hard. Thats why its time to get fios. It has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. With speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. She died crying for help but help arrived far too late. A mother experiencing a seizure in a queens burger king bathroom that was locked. Tonight her family says the fast food workers inaction cost their mother her life and now they are suing. N. J. Burkett is in Jackson Heights. N. J. Reporter well, the family says that she was on the floor locked in the bathroom for at least 10 minutes and maybe longer. Thing to have a rest room door that locks from the inside, what you would expect. They say it is Something Else to have a door that cant be unlocked from the outside. That, they say, is an outrage. Died in that bathroom. She wanted to live like everybody else. God bless her soul. Reporter ricardo knox is heart broken, three months after the death of his girlfriend, shirley mccarthy. Miss mccarthy was in this burger king in Jackson Heights with her family when she apparently began to feel sick. She went into the rest room to compose herself, locked the door behind her and suffered a seizure. Sprawled out on the tile floor and unable to open the door, relatives say she pleaded for help. Did nothing and when the manager got involved, they say he couldnt find the key. The familys Attorney Says miss mccarthy was locked in the bathroom for several minutes before responding firefighters were able to break down the door. She was later declared brain dead. So quip a restaurant bathroom with a lock that cannot be opened from the outside and especially in emergency this is stupid and reporter lawyers say the lock has since been replaced. Ricardo knox who was there when it happened says its an outrage. Because if i would have got to the door when i heard her and i opened the door, she would have been standing here today. I couldnt open the door. Reporter the family now filing a wrongful death lawsuit against burger king. Tonight a spokesman for burger king expressed condolences so the family but declined to live tonight in Jackson Heights, queens, n. J. Burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, n. J. The search on in boston tonight for the person who tampered with a passenger train that took off without an operator. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker says someone who knew what they were doing did something to that train. It left the brain tree station at about 6 00 this morning. It drove past four stations before power to the third rail was cut off. The 50 passengers on board were not hurt. In chicago a group of medical students staged an Unusual Police protest today. A socalled diein. They laid on a downtown sidewalk today for 16 minutes, thats one minute for each of the times that a Police Officer fatally shot a black teenager last year. It was the latest in a string of protests since video of that shooting a shooting was released last month. More protests are planned for this evening. Some new york city workers are bringing glamour to a dirty job. Tysen has created san tysen has created a sanitation has created a calendar posing with the tools of their trade including trashcans and garage trucks. The Department Says its a fun way to show appreciation for the people who keep the clean. And you can see all of the photos from the calendar on our website, abc7ny. Com. Walking back to the garage last few nights, times out, one of the trucks always goes by on 66th street, guys are on the back of the truck saying keep it coming. They are so comfortable out there and they love it. Springtime in december. Its incredible. 15 degrees above average and not like its a one hit wonder. Outside tonight, supercomfortable, no real heavy coats on the west side and throughout the tristate area. The suburbs. We are at 57 degrees right now, a south wind at three and a high we can update did hit 60 degrees in new york city. The next seven hours slowly dropping to the low 50s with a comfortable night, great for evening walk. This weekends outlook, 62 saturday, 6 degrees from a record, i think we try or break the record on sunday. Both days feature cloudiness early and then sun and clouds the remainder of the day. Here are the numbers right now, long island in the low 50s right now across the sound in connecticut around 15, bridgeport, 50 white plains, 50 poughkeepsie. Newark at 53. Summit, new jersey around 51 or so, 52 belmar and 52 in wrightstown. Going through the evening hours, partly cloudy skies, turning mostly cloudy later on tonight but look at these numbers, around 50 to start the day tomorrow and that will us a run at 60 degrees during the afternoon. I think what will happen is it will be partly to mostly cloudy early and then just like today the clouds will tend to thin out during the day. Showers from early this morning that rolled through but came with a warm front. Theres that warm front now off to actually a couple warm fronts keep coming through that will take our temperatures up a level or two over the next few days. All the time. Over the next few days there will be a fair amount of cloudiness at times. The center of this storm headed towards hudson bay so it takes its cold into canada, doesnt come right at us and we remained on this, the mild side of the front where its in the 60s and even 70s in the mid atlantic so we can take a run at that over the weekend. Tomorrow is a mild mix of sun and clouds, few clouds in the morning give way to sunshine, 60 degrees, couple degrees warmer on saturday, theres another little warm front here, a few clouds streaming in especially in the western suburbs during the day. But a family forecast and even warmer on sunday. So partly to mostly cloudy overnight, patchy fog on the suburbs, 48. 60 tomorrow, the record 64, not too far from it, another very mild day and then tomorrow night partly to mostly cloudy and still mild, around 50 most of the night. Heres what we are working on for 5 30. Will we reach the 60s through monday . That would make it four Straight Days . Could we smash sundays record. Right now calling for a tie. Could even be higher than that and will the rain wait until monday after, our next rainfall, if that happens then we can have 60s on monday. Minutes, make sure you check out our accutrack weather app. Are in, which vehicles rank the best when it comes to safety. Plus the photo of cadets at the citadel that might get some of them suspended. And the holiday hustle and bustle can really throw a wrench into your sleep cycle so how do you get some restful zs during one of the most stressful times of the year . We will tell you. Im Lauren Glassberg at a bee teak that may boutique that may inspire you to shop your heart out because 100 of the net profits go to charity. We will take you shopping and show you how this started coming up. Heres a message from a member of our military who cant be home for the holidays. Hi, im specialist matthews president obama signed a new law today that overhauls the no child left behind educational act. The every Student Succeeds act shifts more Decision Making powers back to the states. This means the government wont mandate or give incentives to states to maintain the academic standards of common core and changes the way that poor performing schools are pushed meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama is pushing education too but in a different way. South side chicago, we all know we had to do overtime every night to make it tomorrow. And everyone can really make their dream true, hey, kid, listening in michigan that could be you. Wow. The rap video was produced by college humor. First lady using rhymes to Tell High School seniors why they should go to college. First lady rapping. A new boutique opened for business in morris county, new jersey, sells clothes, jewelry and handbags but what makes this store unique is it gives 100 of its profit to charity. Eyewitness news glassberg explains how it works and the motivation behind it. Reporter in the market for a handbag, a knack las or a necklace at or a hat in buy one at this new shop and you will be giving back in the process. A Great Holiday gift item. Reporter marisa opened in november and with each sale comes the promise of good work goes to charity. Its a way of giving back and honoring my husband. Reporter he was 57 when he was mur

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