Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News This Morning 20151104 :

Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News This Morning 20151104

Its 58 it might drop another degree or two. Normal overnight low is 45. So were way warmer than that. 41 kingston and poughkeepsie. 53 white plains and 51 bridgeport. 48 islip. Its kind of the cool spot as well as wrightstown at about 42. Well have sunshine today were going to get to 70 degrees one more time. Were going to do it again maybe a record high by friday and talk more about that in just a moment. But starting off already shes got problems on the Brooklyn Bridge. The bqe actually getting into the bridge and there was this earlier garbage truck fire, this is what it looked like a little while ago and you can see the Fire Department on the scene. And this garbage truck right here was on near and Fire Department there. Fire and Fire Department there. Looks as though all lanes are still closed down. Over to the web cams and i can show you the scene right now. Still out there trying to work on it. No longer fully angel you have had. They should be able to get this heres the bqe near union street going northbound. Well just pinpoint where this is for you. Its the bqe northeast getting into the Brooklyn Bridge, truck fire. The fire has been extinguished the truck is still on the scene. The Fire Department is still there. All lanes are closed down you can still see that we have that delay getting into that spot. Now the Brooklyn Bridge inbound is closed down until 6 00 a. M. With that overnight construction. Brooklyn bound traffic can use the manhattan bound lanes and that causes a bit of a backup on the fdr drive. Our street cleaning rules are back in effect. Can ken over to you. Developing this Morning Police are looking for clues if morning after a hatzolah worker was slashed in the back in brooklyn. Dray clark has an update from the overnight story. Weapon. Within the last half hour, the nypds crime scene unit wrapped up the investigation and the area behind me where the reopened. The 34yearold victim this morning is in stable condition now heres cell phone video from last night showing medics preparing to rush the victim to the hospital. At around 8 20 last night the victim who was a volunteer medic with the Crown Heights hatzolah was stabbed. That stabbing happening at Eastern Parkway and rogers avenue. The victim says his attacker approached him from behind and slashed his neck and never said a word before running away. Investigators searched the area for a weapon and also looking for that suspect who was possibly wearing a mask. Now this section of Crown Heights has a very high jewish population. So some are wondering for the victim was targeted because hes jewish. With this stabbings that are taking place in israel. We cannot be relaxed when you investigate something of this magnitude. If you determine if its a hate came and we news crime and we need to use all the video footage and everything we can to apprehend the person responsible. Reporter again, the 34year old victim is a volunteer medic and he was offduty at the time of the stabbing but he had his radio so he was able to call for help right away when that stabbing happened. Again, hes listed in stable condition this morning and recovery. Were live in Crown Heights, dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Its 4 34. Family and friends will say a today. One of the victims killed in crash. Yesterday mourners gathered at the scene of saturdays crash in morris park. Last night Wake Services were held for 24yearold Kristian Leka who pushed his sister out of the way of a car on friday. Show survived but leka, 10year old nyanna aquil and 64year old louis perez were also killed. The funeral will be held today in art dale. Followed by the burial in hawthorne. The wake for aquill and her grandfather louis perez is friday. November 6th at mcnut Lee Funeral Home in the bronx. It begins at 3 00 p. M. And then on saturday, Harvest Fields Community Church also in the bronx will hold Funeral Services at 10 00 a. M. Time is 4 35. And theres a wake today for first grader who choked on a sandwich while she was in school. Noah lisa etcahverrai died last friday. She died while eating lunch in brooklyn. Her wake is 3 00 p. M. To 9 00 p. M. Today at the ortiz funeral home in williamsburg. Police are looking for the man and woman who pulled off a string of burglaries in brooklyn. The duo targeting four businesses since late september. They were caught on Surveillance Video burglarizing the jimmy impress in bushwick. The express in bushwick. They loaded the loot into a push wagon and just took off. Now new this morning, the coast guard looking for the person who varnished from a kayak found off the eastern end of plum island in long island sound. The red kayak was spotted by another boater. It was carrying fishing rods and food but sadly there was no sign of the owner. The search is being handled by the coast guard units out of montauk and an Aviation Unit from cape cod. Manhattan has waited nearly a century for the Second Avenue subway line to be done. More patience though will be necessary after the mta announced that it will not be able to start digging phase two of the project until 2020. The agency will not be able to use a tunnel Boring Machine until at least then. Phase two stretches from 96th to 125th streets. One Business Owner told Eyewitness News that the delay he says all the construction makes it tough for him to survive even right now. We just holding on trying to but if its going to be delayed three more years . That is going to be really tough. The mta had some good news, phase one on target to be completed by the end of next year. The polls are closed and the voters have spoken. Results have been coming in overnight. On a heated race for District Attorney in Nassau County. In the end singus beat murray. Also on long island pa loan is kenning his job keeping his job. And it was a close fight for the next District Attorney of richmond. A county Democrat Michael mcman won over joan aluzzi. Mets manager Terry Collins did not get the victory in this years world series. However, he is set to receive the spoils. Collins the general manager Sandy Alderson will hold a final News Conference at city field this morning. Reports say they will announce new two year deal for the mets skipper. Collins led the club to its seasons and its first world series since the year 2000. Hes also in the running for the baseball writers manager of the year award. Time is 4 38 and you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Beginning with meteorologist bill evans and the accuweather seven day forecast. Lets take a look outside. We have ourselves a pretty morning and clear skies absolutely gorgeous today. Were going to be looking at a day where we see temperatures that will warm up again to near 70 degrees. It will be a Beautiful Day. This morning just a little jacket and sweater is all you need. And today were also going to be looking at temperatures today that will start out very warm for this hour of the day. Starting out at 58 degrees. And were looking at clear skies with a little bit of a wind out of the north and kind of out of the southeast but these are very light wind. Clear skies all the way back to the great lakes and another great day today with sunshine. 59 by 8 00 and noontime 68. [ laughter ] 70degree weather in november. Oh my gosh. Thats bondable. Guess well have to live with. That. Lets do forever. Right over here and look at a web cam and we still have some activity left over from the earlier truck fire but it looks like they are really working on getting it cleared away. I dont see the truck anymore but we still have some lanes closed down. In fact all lanes are closed down and we do have a delay going all the way back the union street as you go up into the Brooklyn Bridge. So lets go over to the maps i can tell you that the bqe northeast at the Brooklyn Bridge garbage truck fire extinguished but all lanes are closed downment Brooklyn Bridge inbound closed until 6 00 a. M. Outbound traffic will use the manhattan bound lanes. E trains suspended between Jamaica Center and briarwood. Three trains suspended between new lox avenue and 148th street because of track work. New Jersey Transit, long Island Railroad, metro youre are running on or close to schedule. However the inbound George Washington bridge lower level has been reopened. So has the new jersey turnpikes newark bay extension west. From the holland tunnel to 14th see that construction cleared. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect for today. Lori and ken over to you. Heather thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, a bombshell in the case of an Illinois Police lieutenant found shot to death. What investigators now say what really happened. Also a new study revealing parents who let their teens drink under their watch really need to think twice about that. Plus, its bennys birthday and hes in a gift giving mood. Hear the freebie he has for 4 43. Welcome back, take a look at arkansas, this parachute is attached to a plane that made a crash landing near a high school. And the aerocraft was carrying three people including former walmart ceo bill simon, the plane went down after the oil system failed. Simon managed to release the planes spar chute. Everyone on parachute. Everyone on board suffered minor injuries, without that parachute it could have been lot worse clearly. A woman whose truck was also hit by the falling plane is okay this morning. Meteorologist bill evans joining us with this accuweather forecast. Springlike. Really springlike. Oh. Very. And were looking at some very warm temperatures its on cram midtown. Camera in midtown. Great visibility here from fifth avenue and 59th street south. Heres another view from our camera at four times square. Were looking south all the way past one world trade. Great visibility and clear skies and beautiful morning. 58 degrees. Thats our normal average afternoon high temperature. The humidity is dry. The winds are northwest. Still have this strong ridge of High Pressure over us. Well, temperatures are in the mid and upper 50s around the five boroughs to 51 bridgeport and 41 poughkeepsie. Normally we would be about 45 here. And 35 out there. But its way warm this morning with a calm to a little light wind today. Out of the south and southeast and some spots a little northeasterly wind. But its all quiet. Its all clear. All the way back to the great lakes. Actually what might surge up our way is some of this stuff down here by tomorrow night. Its just more warm air. That could surge up and over us and give us a sprinkle tomorrow morning. In the futurecast, clouds tomorrow. Today sunshine. The guidance is showing a sprinkle popping up tomorrow. Out of the south. And as this warm air surging up tomorrow, and there might be a sprinkle overnight into friday. And then friday, you can see the cool front is coming through on friday. So well warm to 74 ahead of that. May tie or break a record high. And then cooler air brings us back down to earth and reality still springlike today. Were at 70 degrees and as High Pressure ridge kind of slides south and east. And this warmer air comes up clouds collect tomorrow. Just a sprinkle. I mean were not looking at more than a tenth as we get into tomorrow evening. So its unseasonably warm at 70. Again today. Yesterday was 72. And tonight 56 in the five boroughs. To about 46 in the suburbs north and west. Now, thursday we get that sprinkle late in the day. Friday we get sunshine. 74. Could be a sprinkle you know as the front comes through late in the day friday. And then look at saturday its 63. And then its 57 on sunday. Were looking at some absolute gorgeous weather as we go into the weekend. Its just more falllike. You know more real deal weather but look tuesday of next week. Were back into the low 60s. Whats that about . Cant wait until we get back to the normal mid 70s. See . Its not really normal. But you know, the thing about it is, its nice. It is so nice. Its just lets just take it. I dont want to even really talk about it. I dont want to mess it up. Just is. Just is. Uhhuh. Enjoy it. You know what else is nice . Heather orourke. Yes, thank you very much ken i really appreciate that. But you know what is knottiness . When all laned are closed down on the bqe at 4 46 in the morning. Theyre moving this camera around but basically what theyre trying to find out is have they opened the lanes or not yet . They have not opened the lanes yet and where is this . This is on the bqe. And we still have this activity going on. So it looks like they have a big mess that they need to clean up and thats why its taken a while to open it up. But check out the delay from converse street into the area of the Brooklyn Bridge. And ill tell you where this is. Brooklyn bridge northeast. Fire extinguished and all lanes closed down and you have delays at least back to the brooklyn battery tunnel until you get to this spot. Brooklyn bound or outbound traffic will use manhattan bound trains. Jamaica center and briarwood and three trains suspended between new lox and 148th street. Mass transit, new Jersey Transit, long Island Railroad, metronorth are doing just fine. Some construction left over at the hudson river crossings. But we do have minor delays and the good news is the George Washington bridge inbound lower level has been fully reopened. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Lori over to you. All right heather thank you. Its 4 47. A heartbreaking gun violence story out of chicago and a fourth grader gunned down near his grandmothers home. Police are now trying to figure out if he was targeted. 9yearold thai tytyshawn lee was killed on monday. An argument was taking place when gunshots rang out. Lee was shot several times in his head and back. Thats not an accident you know. Thats not a stray bullet. Thats like an execution. Anything that happened, please come forward. [ inaudible ] do this to my bay bay. Police say its unclear if this was a targeted incident or tragic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Community groups now offering a 20,000 reward for information heeding to an arrest. Leading to an arrest. New details in the shooting death of a Police Lieutenant in illinois. Investigators are expected to reveal today that this was a suicide. 52yearold Charles Joseph gliniewicz radioed that he was chasing three men on foot. They found his body 50 yards from his squad car. New Research Shows parents who think supervising a teens alcohol use will help their child should think again. A study of 50,000 adolescents in 20 countries finds that those who use alcohol and or drugs at home were more likely those include the need to have a drink or use drugs first thing in the morning. And author of the report points out drug and alcohol use by adolescents can make them predisposed to addiction. It is Sean Diddy Combs birthday but the man born 46 years ago is the one handing out the gifts. Combs is releasing free music in what he calls a sonic motion picture. A mix tape called mmm or mmm will be available at 7 00 this morning. Combs says that he used to make just music but now he says he really makes fashion. Does it all. Well, theres just one week left to visit the second germiest tourist attraction in the world. Seattles famous gum wall. At the pike place market. Is going to be scrubbed down for the first time in 20 years. The wall has been stuck with an but the gum is starting to eat away at the wall. So its going to be steamed off. After that, tourists get a fresh clean surface to begin a new gum wall. Of course the home of young would be the place to have gunnening would be the place to have the gum wall. How proto, nice. Tell ahead on Eyewitness News, the new picture police want you to see as they hunt down the violent thief. Also ahead at 5 00, voters in ohio took their opinions about pot to the polls. The major blow to the states attempt to legalize marijuana. For the girl scout meeting. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . at stop shop, prices are down. Savings are up. You cant see both at the same time. Your trihonda dealers remind you to put down your device this price cant be right. Thats the right price its that low. What other things on this list cant be right . Seriously . At stop shop, prices are down. Savings are up. My stop shop. And new this morning, police need your help catching a crook whose victim gets around in a wheelchair. The detectives say that the man in the surveillance picture is 58yearold jose aguilar. Police say aguilar knocked his victim out of his wheelchair and then stole his wallet inside a bronx Apartment Building on monday night. The man is expected to be okay. Helped

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