Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News At Noon 20160108 : vima

A deadly accident in Suffolk County is being blamed on black ice. Police say an s. U. V. Lost control and slammed into a Suffolk County transit bus on montauk hay just before 7 00 a. M. The s. U. V. Driver was pronounced dead on the scene. No passengers were on the bus. Southampton police say this was one of 17 accidents caused by black ice over an eighthour period. Speaking of the conditions, lets talk about the temperature and what could be a rainy weekend for us. We will continue to see the temperature rising from this point on. 45 around j. F. K. 42 teterboro. 43 around newark and 40 white plains. These numbers are warm, warmer than normal. Temperatures should be about 35, 36 degrees. Again there will be rain and a rain shower could get into cold air along i84, i80, 287, the thruway here. That may create icy conditions. This will be late tonight tomorrow. You see on the futurecast that i will show you, that will be coming in overnight from this batch of rain to the west. So, it gets colder air in the Higher Elevation and that might see ice there. Really sprinkles overnight. You will see starting around 2 00 a. M. , after midnight, 2 00 a. M. , scat skills, berkshires the sleet and rain mix. Much of saturday will be cloudy with a temperature around 50. However, saturday night into coming up. You will see at 8 00 on sunday, temperature in the mid50s. Probably upper 50s hiding 60 in the afternoon. Morning. We will talk about that next and then sunday night into return. A big pattern change. A pattern change. Very important phrase. We will talk about that next in the accuweather weekend forecast. Bill, thank you. New at noon, police are looking into whether a suspect that ambushed a Police Officer in a cruiser in philadelphia had been radicalized. Exclusive surveillance images show the moment when Edward Archer walked up to a police night. Police say archer fired 13 shots hitting the officer three officer hartnet shot back. He is in the hospital in stable unclear. We will have a report from philadelphia at noon. A firefighter was injured battling a raging house fire in nassau county. The flames broke out at a home in oceanside this morning. The fire was so intense that it melted some of the siding on the outside of the home. One firefighter was treated at the scene. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A fire ripped through a home in the flatbush section of brooklyn. This fire started in the basement. Officials say con ed and fdny investigators investigating the lower level of the building to try to determine what was the exact cause of the fire. It broke out about 6 30 this morning and quickly spread to the twostory structure. Everyone made it out safely and no firefighters were injured. Also in brooklyn, an s. U. V. Overturned in East Flatbush just before 7 00 a. M. Newscopter 7 was over the scene at ralph avenue and schneider where the vehicle ended up on its side. As you see, two em were hurt and taken to the hospital. Their two people were hurt and taken to the hospital. Two people on long island survived after the car got wedged under a semi trailer. The car lost control and 5th in bayshore about 5 20 a. M. Firefighters extracted the driver and passenger. Police say the man accused of slashing a woman in chelsea may have committed several similar attacks. Carry bases more Kari Bazemore has been linked to a similar attack last week. His family says he has a long history of mental illness. Since 1997. Bazemore is undergoing police custody. Crews in manhattan are working to fully restore Oxygen Service to a hospital after a man who fell from a roof damaged some equipment. Police say a man jumped from a building next to Roosevelt Hospital and landed on an oxygen tank or the wires of the oxygen tank about 2 00 this morning. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The impact of the fall severed the tanks line and disrupted the flow of oxygen to the building. The er. Oxygen tanks were distributed. A confrontation with an unruly passenger on a United Airlines flight lead to scary moments. It was forced to make an Emergency Landing in detroit after the woman attacked a Flight Attendant. Marci gonzales joins us with more. Reporter david, passengers nowhere. The woman, whose name has not been released yet started screaming then turned violent. Letter Police Questioning this woman after an in flight outburst last night that forced pilots to make an Emergency Landing. Do you need any other assistance besides police at the gate . Reporter the flight took off from new Yorks Laguardia airport after 7 00 p. M. Heading for chicago. 30 minutes in to the flight the passenger asked if she could get off the plane. When a Flight Attendant said she scratched her face. She went crazy and the tacked her and started scratching her face and ripped her necklace off. Reporter at one point she lar. Witnesses say she started attacking another woman and in. Grabbed her and pulled her to the ground and subdued her tying her up with seat belts and some guy used his neck tie to tie her wrist to her ankles. Pilots diverted to detroit where police were waiting. Reporter they handcuffed the woman, took her off the plane and into custody. The flight was then able to continue on to chicago. Reporting live, marci gonzales, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Scary stuff. Thank you, marci. After days of devastating losses, stocks on wall street are hoping to rebound following a positive jobs report. The government says employers added 292,000 jobs in december keeping the Unemployment Rate it signals the u. S. Economy may expand at a solid pace this year and buck global trends. Turmoil in the Chinese Market sent the dow plummeting moves of the week. Right now, its in the green. About 25 points up. We will see how it looks later on. The jackpot for saturdays power ball drawing has jumped again. It is now 800 million. Let me repeat that. 800 million. A hair away from a billion. The jackpot estimated at that number to be the highest lottery prize in u. S. History. Lottery Officials Say sales yesterday were double the previous record for a thursday and that it is possible the estimated jackpot could rise again before the drawing. A winner would have the option of being paid 496 million in cash. Remember, you can catch the power ball drawing tomorrow before Eyewitness News at 11 00. Gun control debate. The president coming face to face with people in favor and against more regulations. Why the commander in chief says he is fighting against a conspiracy. Special delivery. Hear from the new jersey state troopers who helped we stop arthritis pain, so you dont have to stop. Because you believe in go. Onward. Todays the day. Carpe diem. Tylenol 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. What you do with it is up to you. Federal authorities arrested two men in two states. A 23yearold iraqi citizen was taken into custody in california. He is accused of lying to authorities about traveling to syria to fight with terror gross profit. An unidentified man was arrested in houston, texas. The governor of texas says the age upstate an upstate new york man was in court accused of planning a attack on new years eve. Investigators say he planned to kill people at rochester bar on new years eve. His arrest prompted rochester to cancel the new years eve fireworks as a precaution. His next court date is february 11th. President obama using a televised forum to criticize the National Rifle association. He was the sole guest at cnns gun in america town hall meeting in fairfax, virginia. Two days ago he announced gun regulations. The president blamed the nra and similar groups spreading false rumors that the federal guns. There is a reason why the nra isnt here. They are down the street. Since this is the main reason debate. They havent come to the white house. White house even visited them. The nra did decline to attend the event calling it a Public Relations event coordinated by the white house. Cnn said it brought the forum together and regrets the nra turned them down. The government released more emails from hillary clinton. The state department put out another 3,000 pages of emails from clintons private account. This brings the department into compliance with a court order requiring regular releases. The department has released 2 of the emails clinton turned over after she left office. An investigation uncovers a case of money not well spent by federal officials. A review found an amtrak employee was paid more than 850,000 over the past 20 years to be a confidential informant. The problem is the information the worker provided was available for free. The money was paid by the drug neither the dea or amtrak has responded to the report. Donald trump campaigning in political enemy territory. Coming up on Eyewitness News, the g. O. P. Frontrunner holding a massive rally in Bernie Sanders backyard. Protestors made their voices heard as trump made attacks on bill and hillary clinton. State troopers making stop. Cam. A live look outside. Meteorologist bill evans is up youd be surprised how easy it is to get a good lowcost health plan you might even get help paying for it or call 18553555777 we are following breaking news right now in new jersey. Newscopter 7 is over an overturned tractor trailer in ridgefield park. You can see it from the chopper there. The truck overturned on the ramp from 46 to the new jersey turnpike. As the camera pushes in, there are delays on westbound 46 as crews try to clear up this mess. We will keep you updated on this breaking story. That is a tricky turn there. You can see that. So, here we go. We get a little warm up. It will warm up, it will rain and then its going to get really cold. Of the. Full circle. The last time we said this coldest of the season. Then we have a shot at frozen precipitation around parts of forecast. Here we go on the beautiful across to juilliard. If your bus is pulling up right now, you dont need. They are spying on you. Your chariot arrived. You cannot escape the cameras of Eyewitness News. We are looking at cool weather. Folks have the coats on. Its not harsh outside. Not a lot of gloves on. People are bundled up. Its in the low 40s. Not harsh. 41 degrees. Temperature at this hour would be about 35, 36. The humidity is dry. Winds are northeast at 10. Pressure is falling. Yesterdays high was 46. Normal is 38. So, we are all over that. I wanted to show you the record highs. We could tie a record high set in 1876 on sunday. So, we are going to have above average temperatures into the weekend. That will be it for a while. We have a pattern changing on. Clouds are collecting as you see outside. Tonight there could be drizzle and slick spots north and west. A six our soaking of rain sunday morning. 39 kingston and poughkeepsie. 40 carmel. 32 armonk. 39 northern jersey see. These numbers are warm for this our of the day by 5 00, 6 00, 7 00 5, 6, 7 degrees. We have a Winter Weather advisory. There could be frozen precipitation like rain mixed with sleet here in the Higher Elevations when the rain comes eastward. On the futurecast it shows it loses a lot of its punch. In the afternoon mid40s. Here comes the sprinkles. Notice even at 3 00 a. M. Its 41 in the park. Got to get way up there, above 84 for the frozen temperatures. Temperatures at the freezing mark. Then much of saturday we are around 50 with cloudy skies. Then here comes the rain for sunday. Really sunday morning, 8 00 it will be heavy coming in. Noontime. You see on the futurecast just that. The rain quite heavy coming in from the west. We will see really warm temperatures sunday, up to 60 degrees. Tonight down to 38. 30 in the suburbs. Rain. 50 tomorrow. Dry. In the morning, sunday, a stormy start to the day. It will be a lot of rain. Then monday a dramatic drop in temperatures. Feels like the 20s on monday. So, we will go from 60 to 20. I dont have to tell you what that is going to feel like. Not good. Cold fortunately the rain gets i know what you are thinking black ice. It will dry out before that. Thank you, bill. Growing calls for a pardon. The white house weighs in on the petition inspired by the documentary making a murder. Video. You got to we stop arthritis pain, so you dont have to stop. Because you believe in go. Onward. Todays the day. Carpe diem. Tylenol 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. Tylenol. Im only in my 60s. Ive got a nice long life ahead. Big plans. 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Breath, breathe. There you go. There you go. There we go. I love that. There we go. Sounds like they have done this before. Dashcam video shows the troopers delivering a baby girl monday morning right there on the shoulder of the garden township. Observed the babys head so i cleared the airway, i turned the babys head to the side and she had to continue pushing. Thats what we did, just gave her instructions and the baby it did. Both troopers assisted with cutting the umbilical cord beforehanding the baby over to mom. Delivered a baby before. Looks like their training did kick in. Also on camera, firefighters dive inside a garbage truck to rescue a man picked up by a dumpster. The homeless man was asleep inside the dumpster when he ended up in the back of the garbage truck in california. You can imagine how this could have ended. The truck made several stops before sanitation workers got out of a gate to access another dumpster and they heard yelling and pounding and they called in a rescue crew to get the guy out. The man was injured but he is expected to be okay. Finally an owl is an internet star after she photo bombed a Traffic Camera in canada. Look how majestic. The camera was rolling on highway 40 when a snowy owl swooped in and wanted the close up. Someone noticed the video online. Wildlife experts say the young female owl was probably planning on landing on the post did she look right into the camera. Strike a pose. Who . I see what you did there. Who . He did it again. Thank you, david. And coming up on Eyewitness News, a Police Officer ambushed wounded from a barrage of bullets. We are getting new information from the scene. Also, Donald Trumps massive rally. A big show of support but also scores of protestors and another round of fiery words from the republican front runner. 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Police say the man followed the victim home and pretended to be a neighbor. This deadly accident in Suffolk County is one of 17 crashes blamed on black ice over eight hours. Police say an s. U. V. Lost control and slammed into a Suffolk County transit bus on montauk highway. The s. U. V. Driver was pronounced dead on the scene. Unruly passenger forced a United Airlines flight from new york to chicago to make an Emergency Landing last night in detroit. The crew says the woman attacked passengers and a Flight Attendant. The female passenger was removed and remains in custody. Im david novarro. Im shirleen allicot. We begin with new details about a philadelphia Police Officer ambushed in his cruiser. There is an active search for the gunman. Abc news obtained images that show the man opening fire on a police car seriously injuring the officer inside. Kathryn scott from our sister stati