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WABC Eyewitness News At Noon August 18, 2016

Come off the plane. Reporter overnight jack congresser and gun that are bentz will continue the discussions about the incident on thursday. James feeing began is also communicating with authorities. Lochte is back in the u. S. , previously telling nbc news he had a gun to his head. The guy pulled out his gun, cocked it, put it to my forehead said get down and i was like i put my hands up i was like whate saying the gun was only pointed in his direction. A brilliant judge a brazilian judge questioning the demeanor of the three as telereturned. Reporter the u. S. Olympic Committee Says they have been released from Police Custody but are awaiting further discussions on the incident with brazilian authorities. Intentionally drowning his mother in their backyard pool in suffolk county. 23yearold Dennis Cullen was arrested last night two hours after his mothers body was found. Cullen has a history of Mental Health issues and his mother comes from a high ranking military family. Long island reporter kristen thorn is live in Central Islip where new information about the murder just came out in court. Reporter lauren the Dennis Cullen jr. Prosecutors say he said in a severalhour long videotape to police that he and his mother got into a fight about him not taking his psychiatric medication. They were in the pool at the time. He apparently says he put her in a headlock, dragged her from the shallow end of the pool into the deepened and drownedler. He then took her body out of the pool, put it near a shed. Car keys, took her car into the city to meet his sister and allegedly told her what he allegedly did. We are hearing from our sources that 23yearold Dennis Cullen jr. Was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia several years ago, and was released recently from a loss. He is being charged with Second Degree murder in his death of his mother, 63yearold elizabeth cullen. It happened at their home in Cold Spring Harbor yesterday afternoon. About 20 minutes this morning. Spoke to him for a couple of minutes. He is pretty calm. And as i indicated, he hasnt been convicted of anything, so he is not sorry at this point. He hasnt said im sorry. Reporter and weve also learned more about the victim here, elizabeth cullen, comes from a high ranking military family her brother, the former army chief of staff george casey. Her father, the late general a Helicopter Crash during vietnam. Cullen is being held on 8 million bail. We are live in Central Islip, kristen thorn channel 7 Eyewitness News. Long Island Railroad service is back up and running after a train fatally struck a person. For several hours three branches experienced delays because of the tragedy. Commuters riding the branches all forced to search for alternatives or simply wait for up and running. We had to jump on another bus and take another route to work. A little hectic, but well get there. Reporter residual delays continued through the morning. The mta says the person hit was not authorized to be on the tracks. Turning now to the latest in the death of an imam and his associate. Religious and city leaders on the steps of city hall asking with the story. Reporter people are mist identified. Those are the words of mayor de blasio speaking today for so many in the city who say they simply cannot comprehend these cold blooded murders. You know, there is no known connection to the alleged killer and the victims. Police say they have answered virtually every question in this case except one. Oscar moral has insisted he didnt do it. That he is not the man in the behind and executing two muslim men in broad daylight. The 55yearold imam, and his 64yearold assistant, each shot point blank in the back of the head. He is charged with multiple counts of murder but he is not charged with a hate crime. On the steps of city hall this morning, leading muslim clerics respected leaders are unknown, but many believe they are a byproduct of a growing antimuslim and antiimmigrant sentiment. Reporter relatives of the victims say there is no other conceivable motive. We want to know what is the reason for it and we want justice for it. Then we will be at peace. I hope this all comes to an end with the world a better pl insisted that the evidence is overwhelming. Crime scene investigators recovered the. 38 caliber revolver, what they believe is a smoking gun. A precise ballistics match to bullets recovered from the victim. People are mist identified are concerned. A huge task force was put together to find this still isnt clear. Reporter the mayor insisted the Police Department is determined to find the motive if there is a motive to be found. Of course, without a clear bias motive the suspect cannot be charged with a bias crime. s appeared here in criminal Court Moments ago, a routine Procedural Court appearance. Im told a formal indictment could come as early as tomorrow. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Nj, thank you. A sex offender has been arrested. 52yearold michael mann sexually assaulted a 27year old woman at knifepoint after she got off the j, train tuesday. After the attack, the suspect called police. Officers say he was slurring his words during the call. He asked police for a ride and told them he had a knife. When police arrived, they realized he matched the description of a rain suspect they were look of a rape he was convicted of raping a woman in brooklyn. Hillary clinton meeting with Law Enforcement leaders in new york city today. The meeting set to begin in 30 minutes. Clinton requested the meeting to talk about the challenges they face in policing. Meanwhile trump is blaming the Obama Administration for not doing enough to fight terrorism. The republican candidate predicts more terror attacks are in our future. Trump spoke out, he criticized president obama the way the u. S. Withdrew troops from iraq and for being politically correct. Trump called the withdrawal ridiculous and said it led directly to isis being formed where we have problems in this country. We are letting thousands and thousands of people come into our country. There is no paperwork, nobody knows what they are doing and they are coming in by the thousands. Yesterday trump met with his National Security team at his first classified briefing at the fbi headquarters in lower manhattan. Trump was scheduled to receive information on isis but was not briefed on covert action details. A warning about a string of disturbing encounters in new jersey. A driver coaxing children over to his car, ask then exposing himself and then exposing himself. The clues detectives have. A new twist in a twin tragedy. The woman, accused of killing her sister in hawaii is facing new ch new york. And new details of the Affordable Healthcare Act controversy surrounding aetna. The Company Responds to reports it threatened to drop out of obamacare. Im meteorologist bill evans in the weather center. The showers have left. The clouds are around. There will be sunshine. Temperatures here at noon time have been right around 79 degrees. We are going to be looking at temperatures increasing as we go into the afternoon. And i think we have to have some sunny breaks and a nice i know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable like the rest of the hood. Genius. Yeah, they offer tons of free hd channels. And you can record six shows at the same time. Entertainment nirvana wow. Nirvana. 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A man in dallas that left johnson had his weapons taken away from him during his deployment in afghanistan after he was accused of sexually harassing a female soldier in his unit. A grenade and prescription medicine belonging to another soldier were found in johnsons bag. Johnson was killed by police, as you know, during a standoff in dallas last month. New details on the controversy surrounding aetna. The company says poor financial results, not a government ruling against a proposed pull out of Affordable Healthcare Act health exchanges. Last month aetna told the Justice Department if its proposed merger with humana was blocked it would be forced to stop offering exchange plans. The department did block the merger. Earlier this week the company said it will stop offering coverage in 11 of the 15 states where it operated. Meanwhile new York Business executives say the Affordable Healthcare Act is killing jobs. The Federal Reserve bank of new and manufacturing executives in the tristate area. About 20 say they expect to cut jobs in response to provisions in the law. Right now crew in his california fighting to contain a monster wildfire consuming nearly 40 square miles, 60 miles from downtown los angeles. The San Bernardino blue cut fire threatening more than 34,000 homes and a major freeway. The flames are so fierce, firefighters just cant figure already been destroyed. Only 4 of that fire is considered contained, and the extreme heat and dry conditions, allowing it to spread fast. We have made the move from showers to clouds. Now we are headed toward a weekend warm up. Meteorologist bill evans has the st. Louissive accuweather forecast. Reporter exclusive accu weather forecast. Reporter new information on de blue cut de if youre approaching 65, nows the time to get your ducks in a row. To learn about medicare, and the options you have. 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At least 13 people have died and an estimated 40,000 homes damaged by floods. Those were bad floods. That was tough. That is awesome. That they are helping out. Yeah. Louisiana lafayette. Bring in the football team. Strong guys. So we have a little bit of rain and now, is that gone . It is kind of comfortable. It is cloudy, not picturesque perfect sunshine. Well see more in the way of sunshine and temperatures in the mid80s, so it is not oppressively hot. Not necessarily humid and our temperature at noon 7 degrees close to the normal that it should be for this hour of the day for this time of the year. Got a calm wind and humidity is kind of in the low range or you could say the low end of moderate here. 80 in garrison. 78 around sunset park and howard beach. Not much. It is a calm wind to a very light wind. Either nothing or some individual winds that are around, so we are looking at just some clouds that are kind of coming by from west to east. Look back to the west. A lot of sunshine now in western jersey. The hudson river valley. There are a few sprinkles in this air mass coming across to binghamton, mostly it is going to be sunshine and high sprinkles, north and west, into the mid80s, they go away at sunset. Tomorrow morning we start out in the 70s again and by afternoon we are looking at mid 80s again, showing up a possible sprinkle on the guidance but those chances are very low. Sunshine going into saturday. Boating forecast good for the afternoon. Winds are two feet. 79 in the sound, the rip current risk is low with that light wind out there. So clouds and sunshine. Passing shower possible, particularly north and west we are at 85. Is 67. 74 the five boroughs. 62, 63 north and west. A sunny, warm day tomorrow with a high of around 88 degrees. Heres your accuweather 7day forecast. Saturday the best day of the weekend. 87 warm and humid. A nice warm august summer day. Saturday into sunday a front is coming for sunday. A scattered shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. Eastern long island gets away without a shower during sunday. Look at next week. Low 80s, to 84 by wednesday but the humidity is very low and lows at night are you know, in the mid to upper 60s. So really nice weather on monday. If you want a break from this heat and humidity. I cannot wait. I think a lot of people are happy about that. Yeah i think so. It has been a hot summer. Thanks bill. A scare in the air. A passenger jet forced to turn around just after take off. The emergency landing. Cameras were rolling as a jet was forced to make an look at this video, you can see flames coming out of one of the engines on the left side of the plane. The airbus a3 30 was en route to the capital of qatar when it landed safely. Fortunately no one was hurt. A ship sank in the great lakes more than two centuries ago. An underwater explorer stumbled upon the washington in a deep dive. The ship went down powerful storm in 1803. When it was in use the ship was used to transport people and goods between western new york, pennsylvania and ontario. In a Close Encounter with two humpback whales, it was caught on camera the group was paddling through the water north of vancouver when they spotted the humpback and her calf. They didnt realize how close they were until they saw both jump out of the water. Up i actually said to the group guys back paddle, even though she wasnt close to us. When mama come up, it was apparent we needed to get back and get back fast. Back paddle faster. The leader of the adventure trip says the group followed the rules and stayed 100 meters away from the whales. But it is sometimes difficult for kayakers because whales are able to swim as you might guess much faster than a kayaker can probably tested their best they could paddle at that point. I think i would freeze. 100 of the time in a oneon one with a whale, even Michael Phelps might have trouble. Thanks david. At t and doing away with extra fees for going over your wireless data. But it is not exactly a free pass. Under new plans that Begin Next Week customers who go over their data plan limit will not of the month. It is part of an overhaul of prices by the wireless carrier. And new at noon, in the future, your uber may be missing something big. The driver. The Ride Share Service will test selfdriving cars on the streets of pittsburgh over the next several weeks but there will be a backup driver from the car to keep an eye on everything. A predator alert in new jersey. Police on the lookout after several children say a driver lured them to his ca and exposed himself. What Authorities Say to watch out for. Plus crimes against cab business. A pair of thieves teaming up to rob taxi drivers. And flooding fuss. Why local residents are upset about a new plan to protect fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. T 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. A Police Official is telling the Associated Press american swimmer ryan lochte fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in rio de janeiro. Surveillance video shows one of the swimmers breaking down a bathroom door at a gas station and then getting into a fight with a security guard. This comes after two american swimmers were pulled from a u. S. Bound flight and kept in say he intentionally drowned his mother in their backyard pool in suffolk county. 23yearold Dennis Cullen was arrested last night after his mothers body was found in Cold Spring Harbor. All new this half hour. A warning from police in two new jersey towns. Investigators have received several reports of a man exposing himself. Two cases in rose park and two more joining us live from linden with the latest. Stephen . Reporter a disturbing act. But adding to the concern is the frequency of these alleged incidents. Police say it has happened eight times since may, with six incidents occurring here within

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