Are you doing okay . Im fine. Reporter the fishing vessel ran aground for unknown reasons perhaps because of the surf that continued to toss the boat even during the rescue. I think mechanical issues, they wound up losing power and being pushed up onto reporter the waters were so rough that a 25 foot rescue vessel capsized as it tried to make its way to the fishing boat. Board and made it back to shore safely after encountering 10 to 12 foot waves. You can see the surf is severe and the boat is being tossed around. Reporter it took less than an hour to get the fishermen back to safe ground. Now the next phase of the operation is to get their boat out as well after eight days at sea. An operation that might have to wait until high tide. At this point, were confident once the weather dies down well be able to pull this thing off the beach. To imagine that really what churned up the waters behind me was the big storm system that moved through last night including gusty winds that are continuing at this hour. I specifically asked why they couldnt get out and walk to the shore. They said when the boat got trapped it was 200 feet out to farther toward the shore by the again, proving how strong that storm system was and how brutal the storm was. Rob nelson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. It can get dangerous out there. So many residents are cleaning up from the storms with downed trees and knocked out power lines keeping utility crews busy throughout the day. There are problems across the tristate area. M j burkette is live with the latest. Reporter allwood avenue here, a residential side street. Lines down, poems down, lights out. This is not widespread across long island, more isolated and confined largely to the north shore of long island. There were a number of homes and businesses that lost power. The noise in the middle of the night was terrifying. The howling winds were like the soundtrack to a horror film like a disaster movie after a storm that caught many people off guard. The tree came to the top of my house and my daughters bedroom. Were grateful that shes okay. Of Power Outages are on the north shore of long island where there are the largest number of trees. We found trees resting on power lines and traffic lights at a key intersection knocked out. A total of 90,000 homes and businesses lost power, but utility crews scrambled through the night and into the morning, bringing more than 75 of them back online within a matter of hours. We woke up this morning to see a piece of fence blown out by my neighbor, and then my house had the basketball hoop down and that was it. This is the worst ive seen so far. Reporter the wind is still whipping at this hour. Some 12,500 homes and businesses are still without power. The utility is get most of the homes and businesses back online by the end of the day. We will continue to follow the power restoration effort in a full report is coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 00 tonight. Nj burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. The fierce winds tore down trees and power lines in West Chester County as well. School in bedford was closed because of the damage. Live power lines sparked as they hit the ground in elmsford overnight. Firefighters raced to put water on the wires. In nearby yonkers, a large tree came crashing down striking two cars that blocked the road. Fortunately, no one was hurt. In new jersey, a downed tree shut down route 27 near omaha road. It didnt get removed until this morning because high winds continued to be a problem through the night. Now that that storm is behind us, were bracing for a big drop in the temperature. Meteorologist bill evans is in the Weather Center with an update. Reporter the winds last night, some 70 mileperhour reports in West Chester County. Eastern long island. Were talking Tropical Storm and near Hurricane Force winds. Now the temperature has dropped to 49. We started the day at 61. So the temperature drops come around to the southeast, and now eventually southwest and then eventually northwest. So were looking at still sustained winds at 24 miles per this will continue near the gusts in the last few hours. 40 at new work. 40 at la guardia. 37 around jfk. These winds will hang around today and into tonight and a breezy day. The temperature is dropping. So look at these wind gusts. 52 Miles Per Hour at islip. South and southwest like that, it really holds that fishing vessel right into the sands. And have another commercial ship pull it out. Weve got flooding issue as long the pa tayeic and the mill scone river around to some spot wheres theres been isolated flooding. Theres still a few showers up the Hudson River Valley that is pushing off to the north. The temperatures will continue to drop. It will get bitterly cold. Well talk about the weekend in a moment. Shirleen, david, back to you. 11 vehicles including a charter bus crashed leaving several people hurt. Take a look at this video. Now we know what may have caused the accident in new jersey. Toni yates is in South Brunswick with the story. Reporter one thing police know is that this accident was not weatherrelated at all. Take a look at the cars behind me, crushed by that bus as drivers were sitting at the red light at route 130 and friendship road waiting for the light to turn green. Ten cars in all hit. Seven people injured. Three are seriously injured all take ton Robert Wood Johnson hospital. Police interviewed the driver of the coach bus. He says he was headed to Monroe Township to pick up a group of people, so no one was on the bus at the time of the crash except the driver. We spoke to captain james ryanp police department. There was a line of traffic stopped in the two lanes. The bus failed to stop. It struck ten vehicles sending some of the vehicles into nearby fields. Two of the people had to be extricated by the fire department. Three people were seriously injured and at another seven people injured. 11 people involved in the accident. The roadway was closed for an extensive period of time as we tried to clear up the accident scene. Reporter back live now at the garage where these cars and the bus are being held. Police this afternoon were going to shut down the intersection, again, to take they also expect to interview the driver again. Look at those cars. Some were pushed into the woods. One of those cars theres actually a tree branch that went through the roof of that car. Police tell us that those serious injuries, one person had his back broken. Another woman had her pelvis broken. Well continue to follow this story and bring you much more. 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Right now, thousands are without power in virginia, merrill, and d. C. Central maryland, and d. C. Central pennsylvania also suffered damage with 50 homes ripped apart. Amazingly, nothing in this area. Back home, nothing compared to that. We have 70 mileperhour yeah, we do. Tornadic activity. That is the same storm coming up through the ohio valley. Well still get wind from that. It will curve around and head toward toronto and into the canadian maritimes. Here at noon, we have the cloudy skies with a little wind out here. Its starting to get a little chilly now that the temperatures dropped into the 40s and the wind picks up. Well take a couple of looks at whats happening with folks on the west side. Were looking at camera 4 looking south. Heres the camera in astoria. The wind for the afternoon will still be going 20, 25 Miles Per Hour, and there will be gusts up to around 40. The humidity is drying out around 89 this morning. The winds are southwest. The gusts in the park are about 25 Miles Per Hour. You see that barometer . 29. 26 to 28. That is really low. The rainfall in the park, an inch and a half. We might see a little bit of sunset at 5 4 the temperatures have been dropping. Owe pack congress here pittsburgh hopatcong here at 60. Now the wind, which was south this morning has turned around southwest. Eventually, the wind will go northwest. Thatll usher in even colder air as the temperature is dropping. You can see to the north, these profiles back out to the west, more of that will drop down to the northwest this evening as our low pressure system which is up around buffalo to toronto going north. You see the wind gusts have even in the overnight hours across long island. Snow showers are back here to the west. Our low center is here around buffalo and toronto. Into canada. That will pull this cold air with it as it comes around. This will kind of just pull the northwest winds in here this evening. The temperature will drop like a rock tonight. Looking at the rainfall totals. 2. 25 inches of rain in northern new jersey. Thats where theres no Flooding Issues there. An inch and threequarters up towards white maxp. Get a snow shower or flurry because of this cold air crashing in and squeezing out by tomorrow afternoon, were in the upper 30s. With a northwest wind, it will feel like the 20s tomorrow. To start the day on saturday, 15 toward monticello. So windy and mild this afternoon. Spotty shower and temperature keeps dropping tonight to 24 in the suburbs. Blustery and colder with highs around 38. Youll see in the sevenday forecast, well be looking at whats going to be, you know, warmer weather as we get into the weekend. Well start warping on up toward warming on up toward monday and tuesday with temperatures near 60 degrees. 60 degrees . Yeah, check that out. You are trying to cram too much. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Enjoy. Well try. Thank you, bill. 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A shocking discovery involving allegations of sexting and its ties. Coming up, the latest into the probe involving one of long politicians. What police say they now know about the case. And fighting the flu, a nation. We have surprising information about this years flu vaccine. And what erin andrews father said in court that made the tv star break down. Eyewitness news is coming right back. First, the live midday new york top stories this afternoon. A coast guard vessel overturned while assisting a fishing boat that ran aground. This happened early this morning at the rockaway peninsula in queens. Coast guard crew members were able to swim safely to shore. The helicopter lifted the seven strappedded fishermen to safety. The big cleanup after the storm is under way with gusting winds knocking down trees, poles, and wires. There are more than 13,000 customers on long aisle without power. Bus slammed into nearly a dozen cars in new jersey. Several people hurt after this mornings wreck in South Brunswick opinion the driver said the brakes just did not work. We begin with a developing story in new jersey. The Prosecutors Office investigating a shooting in patterson at a 7eleven store. It happened in the mid am of the morning in front of witnesses. You can imagine how scary that must have been. Reporter you were pointing out this is an investigation that is in the very early stages at this point by the Prosecutors Office and also the patterson police. What we are hearing from witnesses who saw what had happened was there was a shooting that occurred outside of the 7eleven earlier in the morni