Court where hahn was just arraigned. Prosecutors say during questions by investigators, scott hahn admitted he took 10 tablets and they were amphetamines. They say toxicology reports back that up. Because of the seriousness of the charges, he remains on 1 million bail. Hes right now still in custody. Reporter 36yearold scott hahn said nothing during his first appearance as prosecutors revealed why he is now facing two counts each of aggravated manslaughter and death by auto. The criminal complaint saying he was under the influence of drugs and was awake for more than 24 hours and still got behind the wheel. Impact was between 50 Miles Per Hour and 70 Miles Per Hour. Further, statement by the defendant that he had not slept since 1 p. M. Sunday, february reporter adderall is a drug commonly prescribed for adhd. Prosecutors say hahn had no prescription and no sleep since sunday means hahn had been up almost 26 hours when his 1998 mercedes slammed in to the back of 51yearold timothy odonnells chevy malibu. The impact pushed odonnells car in to oncoming traffic where it was hit again. The father of two and his 5yearold daughter bridgette died of their injuries. Saw the erratically westbound from the holland tunnel on to the new jersey turnpike, and then traveled across lanes alternately accelerating and decelerating, sideswiping a road barrier. Reporter scott hahn has a checkered driving history according to Motor Vehicle records. 28 license suspensions, mostly for not paying court costs. He has no duis or dwis. On a suspended license, his last suspension was in 2010. Youre entering a plea of not guilty. Yes, we entered a plea of not guilty. Entered pleas of not guilty on mr. Hahns behalf. Again, his attorney pleading not guilty on his behalf. If hes convicted of these charges, he could face up to 60 years in prison. For now were live here in jersey city, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. The weather today playing a role in those manhole explosions in new jersey. Take a look at this. This is video from elizabeth. A manhole cover goes flying in to the air. Eyewitness News ReporterMichelle Charlesworth is in elizabeth with the details. Utility crews are still out here working to make sure the streets here are safe but those Manhole Covers went 25 feet in the air and thank heaven nobody was hurt in any of this. It happened at elizabeth avenue and 7th street. It does not take much could be. Reporter watch the video. First there was fire, then smoke, then Manhole Covers started flying in to the air. Have you ever seen anything like that before . No, first time in my life. Reporter the Utility Company and Fire Department were out here after 10 a. M. Following reports of smoke and flames coming out of elizabeth avenue on 7th street. No one was hurt but after smoke and Carbon Monoxide started filling businesses and Carbon Monoxide meters started going off, 20 buildings were evacuated and closed. Carlos escobar works at the pizza place which is right between the two explosions. You closed for how long . About two hours maybe. We make some food for the firemen. One moment. With the flames coming out . Yeah. And you saw the manhole cover fly in the air. Yeah, the manhole, thats very high. Is that some crazy video or what . Thats actually the manhole cover that was flying through the air. Those things, they weigh 300 pounds. Situations is the man holes fill with Carbon Monoxide. They get to a level where its explosive and they actually explode and that is the propulsion that pushes the manhole up in the air. Reporter the fire chief confirms road salts used to keep roads safe in icy conditions causes corrosion below ground eating through electrical wires and causing these fires. Utility crews out here making sure these wires are replaced and everything is much safer from here on out. Youve seen these happen around the tristate. The businesses opened up about midafternoon. Were live in elizabeth, new jersey. Michelle charlesworth, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Three workers overcome by fumes from a liquid today at a construction site in manhattan. It happened on 8th and west 46th street in midtown. The victims were using the liquid in an unventilated room when they got sick. Transported to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition. Other workers were treated at the scene. This construction site for a new hotel has a history of violations. New information about a mother charged in the death of her daughter who died in a fire in brooklyn. The administration for Childrens Services opened a case against the woman last week. Police say leila aquino left her daughter home to work as an exotic dancer. She returned home three hours after the fire broke out. Her daughter kalenah was found under a bed. She said she left the child with the babysitter but the babysitter said she no longer looked after kalenah. This video youre about to see shows a helicopter slamming in to the water just 20 feet from shore. This happened last week. The ntsbs preliminary report says the pilot heard a loud bang and was heading to a grassy area to land but was trying to avoid some people who were there. A 16yearold passenger who was trapped under the water died on monday. Connecticut to determine if kennedy cousin Michael Skakel should get a new trial or go back to prison. Skakel attended a hearing even though a decision wasnt expected today. In 2002 he was convicted for the 1975 murder of his neighbor, martha moxley. That conviction was overturned in 2013 and prosecutors are trying to get it reinstated. Verizon center hit by a major outage this morning for about 90 minutes. A spokesperson says Verizon Center had intermittent data outages starting around 7 30 in the morning in parts of new york city as well as in westchester, rocklin, and putnam counties. Verizon center says a hardware failure is to blame. The Company Began restoring service about 9 a. M. Stocks on wall street regaining a bit of ground. Stocks began to recover after a rise in the price of u. S. Oil. The market was pulled down earlier in the day by declines in banks. Dow closed at 16,484. Nasdaq climbed 39. A babysitter charged with murdering a 16monthold boy. Tonight were learning new details about the horrific way the baby was allegedly treated before he died. Donald trump winning another primary and now gaining some political support. But tonight what the other candidates are doing to try and stop his momentum. And caught on camera, an im business and im very good at what i do and all that, and im also very, very political. When you can get zoning on the west side of manhattan. His experiences battling new york city politics. He just added nebraska to his growing list of caucus and primary wins. Hes also now getting political endorsements including one from an upstate new york congressman republican establishment. Eyewitness news political reporter dave evans with more on whos joining the trump bandwagon and more importantly, whos not. Marco rubio is actually winning the endorsement battle more than 140 senators, congressmen and governors are backing him but it doesnt seem to matter much. Its voters who are supporting trump. Hes in great shape despite worry by the republican establishment. Reporter donald trump last night claimed his third victory and looked ahead to this tuesday when 12 states will be voting. When he might just about wrap up this nomination. Ill tell you what were going to do. We get greedy, right . Now were going to get greedy for the united states. Were going to grab and grab and grab. Chalking up lots of endorsements as the alternative to trump. He came in second last night, a couple thousand votes ahead of ted cruz. We feel good about our show and we picked up a significant number of delegates. Reporter ted cruz is hoping a home win next week will make him more competitive with trump. The only campaign that has beaten donald trump, and the only campaign that can beat donald trump is this campaign. Reporter on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton picked up a big endorsement today from the senates democratic leader. I think the middle class would be better served by hillary. I think my work with her over the years has been something that ive looked upon with awe. Reporter Bernie Sanders said the nomination fight is a long one thats far from over. Were in this race to win it and i think were going to pull off one of the great political upsets. One of these new endorsements today for donald trump is congressman Chris Collins from the buffalo area. Trump said endorsements really dont matter from to him. It is the voters and hes certainly winning that battle. This super tuesday if trump does really well he can just about settle the republican nomination fight. Now to another political battle. This one over the next Supreme Court justice. The white house now vetting a republican governor as a potential nominee. Sandoval is a former federal judge who supports abortion rights. The nomination of this republican seen as many as an attempt to court the gop. President obama says he has a constitutional obligation to nominate a new justice. Our job is to fulfill our constitutional duties. I think it will be very difficult for mr. Mcconnell to explain how if the public concludes this person is very well qualified that the senate should stand in for political reasons. Meanwhile Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnells team with the white house. Meanwhile the Vice President is leading a u. S. Delegation to an annual economic summit in mexico. Hes heading there today. Mr. Biden is expected to visit with mexicos president. Widespread destruction and a rising death toll. More than two dozen tornados touched down. Nearly 100 homes in an rv park were damaged in oklahoma. Lee, you were talking about tornado watches earlier. Warnings only a couple hundred miles to our south in parts of maryland. Very dynamic system. I dont see widespread tornados here. Can get dangerous during the evening hours. Its pouring again in new york city. It feels so much it did earlier today with raw periods of rain. Now its almost like tropical downpours at times as we get this milder air thats starting to work in. Were getting a drenching now but really starting with the were 54 degrees right now. South wind, 10 to 22 which will be very gusty. Weve climbed up to 55 degrees at times. We have a shot at 60. Way above average. Tomorrow will be around 50, upper 40s. Tornado watches are out for Mercer County and the philly area. We have a slight risk for severe storms from Nassau County west, hudson valley, much of new jersey, and in to new york city. Look at that olbridge up to 61. 64 wrightstown. Remember yesterday we were struggling to get to the middle 30s. Still 39 in monticello. Northern westchester is already in the upper 50s. Talking about 50, 60 miles to the north and west. Its going to get stormy here during the evening hours, especially after 6 30, 7 00. A lot of wind, heavy rainfall, even thunderstorms with gusty damaging winds. Im putting wind gusts toward midnight around 45 Miles Per Hour. We get 50 or 60mileperhour wind gusts. That will wind down. Through midnight and 2 a. M. , things get better. By morning its limited sun. A lot of clouds around. There can be a couple breaks in the morning. We may start the day at 50 but lowering humidity, temperatures kind of flat lining, gusty breeze. Dress for low and middle 40s. It really wont feel as warm as 50. Meanwhile a downpour just moved over coney island. Its moving toward flat lands and moving through brooklyn in to parts of queens. Youve got steady rain. Thats why it was pouring on the west side. Its really bands of moderate showers. Now starting to see a heavier rainfall come through the philly area and in to southern new jersey. Thats associated with a lot of thunderstorms over the delmarva. Thats why you have tornado warnings. A huge squall line approaching dc right now. Well have to watch the observations out of there. Thats all converging on us as we go through the evening hours. Id think the worst is between 7 00 and midnight. Maybe around 10 00 could be the peak of the worst weather. Over the next hour or two, heavier rain over new jersey. Then its becoming more widespread after 7 00 or 8 00. See how we might see peak conditions with the strongest damaging winds around 10 00, 11 00. Then moving out between midnight and 2 a. M. Temperatures overnight will spike to around 60 then start to drop toward the morning hours. Heres your accuweather forecast. Its windy, its very mild overnight. Theres occasional heavy rain and even a rumble of thunderstorm with damaging winds, 52 degrees. For tomorrow, varying amounts of clouds and a little bit of sunshine. It will be windy. I can see a passing shower, especially north and west. During the afternoon it can be just about anywhere. Our highs should be in the low 50s early. Then well settle in to the upper 40s. Shower around in the evening. Then it is windy and much colder. We drop down to 32 degrees tomorrow night. So winter chill is definitely in the air. Heres what were working on for 5 30. Could we see some Power Outages overnight with downed tree limbs . Ill tell you the most likely could it feel like were in the 20s on friday . Real cold snap but then bouncing back to springlike weather over part of the weekend. Thats sounds good. Controversy at a local university over a party and its theme. Why the community is calling the party racially insensitive and what officials are doing to stop stereotyping. New jersey town can get free tuition to Rutgers University. Now you see it, now you dont. Thieves caught on camera stealing packages seconds after they were delivered. Find out the one very important thing the recipient did that ship all across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. Thats because weve been working hard to give you better service, and it shows. We came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. Oh shes impressed. Were catching up on movies and shows on demand just as fast as we can watch them. 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When we think about all the the many beatings we might have taken, the lives we can remember. God saw fit to allow us to be here at this hour. The congressional gold medal is the highest civilian honor given by congress. A mississippi jury awarded 72 million to the family of a woman who died of cancer in a lawsuit against johnson and johnson. The victim claimed using johnson and johnsons baby powder and other products containing talcum gave her ovarian cancer. The civil suit was part of a broader claim involving nearly 60 people. The spokesperson says the new jerseybased company is considering whether to appeal the verdict. The yankees decision to ban fans from using print at home ruben diaz, jr. Calling for them to reconsider. He said banning print at home tickets puts the burden on the fans. The organization and stubhub have agreed to continue talking about the issue. Thieves caught on camera stealing packages from the steps outside of a home. Its a risk for anyone who gets deliveries. For one woman it meant a lot until we stepped in. Nina pineda. Theyre called porch pirates. Thieves who trail behind delivery men then pounce and bounce, making off with precious packages. How do you protect yourself and how do you stop them . One victim was lucky enough to go to the videotape. Reporter this Surveillance Video shows how it takes seconds to do a package grab and go that netted these guys hundreds of stolen goods. Theyre out in 10 seconds. There it goes. Reporter holding in their 22yearold and her neighbors. Caleigh arrived to michigan arriving with just a couple suitcases. Her mom sent necessities in a care package. Comforter. I had blanket. Reporter all jammed in to a box weighing nearly 20 pounds and shipped out via ups. I remember when she first sent it, she said she had to sit on the box and tape it up. Reporter when her belongings went awol she surveillance cameras. After 4 00 in the afternoon the ups man comes in and drops off packages in the front hallway, visible to anyone looking through the glass front door. Less than a minute later these three guys come to the front door. One acts as a lookout. The other quickly jimmies open the lock. Seconds later, theyre in. One suspect stuffs a piece of someones mail in his coat. They do this all the time and walk out. Whats the total . 925. 28. They walked out with almost a reporter when she asked ups to reimburse her they were going to give you 100 . They said maybe. Reporter thats the most ups pays if theres no insurance. We found out caleigh had signed up for ups my choice which meant signature required for a package delivery. Reporter but that didnt happen. Once we pointed that out to ups, caleigh got a call. What did they say . Theyre going to reimburse me fully for everything. Reporter ups even hand delivered the check. This was lifechanging.