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WCBS CBS 2 News At 5 January 14, 2016

She was also a student in columbias general studies program. Her Rockland County neighbor couldnt believe the news. Shes always been a caring and giving person. So i could see her doing what she was doing. Reporter he says flanagans son was following in her footsteps and was with her on the volunteer trip. Patrick is very bright, studious young man and yeah, he was going to columbia and, um, i know she is going to be missed. We felt the hit because here we are one big unit one big hospital together and we all a family so one our soldiers go down we feel it. Reporter the third victim Olivia Erhardt of cincinnati was a 20yearold sophomore at columbia a science major and writer for the studentrun magazine. Now, im told that students are planning to meet on campus tonight around 7 00 to remember danielle moffson. I also spoke to her parents this morning who were on the way to honduras to bring their daughter home. Cbs 2 news. Thank you. Now to some breaking news in the alleged gangrape of an 18yearold girl in a brooklyn park. Four of the five teen suspects are out of jail tonight. The brooklyn d. A. s office says they were release the because they had not been indicted yet. The law requires formal charges to be filed by tomorrow or they had to be let go. The d. A. Does still have six months to indict. One of the suspects remains in jail though for an unrelated assault charge. All five are facing adult charges in connection with last thursdays alleged gang rape in brownsville. Attendance is down and Hand Sanitizer is at high demand in a Queens School after an outbreak of stomach flu from a common virus. Cbs 2s tony aiello reports. Reporter dismissal was less hectic than usual thursday at ps 12 in woodside, queens. Almost 20 of students, 200 early due it a stomach flu outbreak. Are a lot of children getting sick today . Um, yes. Reporter this child asked her mother to pick her up early due to a stomach ache. The city believes the norovirus may be to blame although investigators testing surfaces in the school havent yet found it. I hope you feel better. Me, too. Reporter students went home with a norovirus fact sheet from the department of health. These native american artists gave a presentation at the school and saw lots of dispensers of Hand Sanitizer. The teachers assured us they had sanitized and we believe them. They propped all the doors open so you wouldnt have to turn the knob to come in or anything. They told me that because thats where you get the sickness all of that. Reporter karen says kids were told not to touch door handles or other surfaces where the virus may live. The city doesnt believe all are sick. They think many of them stayed school. Are not feeling well they should stay home. We want to help them get better and we want to get a handle on this. Reporter the mayor says the school will get extra cleaning tonight and over the weekend hoping to stem the outbreak. In woodside, queens, tony aiello, cbs 2 news. Northern row virus symptoms including norovirus symptoms including nausea and vomiting. The school is open despite the outbreak. A note on a bathroom stall prompted wall wick middle and middle school in new jersey to go on lockdown. It said today is the day i have a gun january 14, 2016. Parents received an alert about the lockdown on their phones but were told not to come to school to Waldwick Middle School and high school. I got the call, dropped the phone, cried and ran down here. Its uncontrollable emotion. You just want them to be safe. Its upsetting because, you know, the other parents out here we all want to go inside and just grab our kids you know, but, you know, we cant and were understandably frightened. Reporter everyone at the school was okay. So far, there are no arrests. A developing story now. Isis says its responsible for the attacks that rocked the capital of indonesia today. Two civilians were killed 20 others injured. An explosion from a suicide bomb the other side a starbucks in central jakarta. The police chief says as people ran from the scene two other attackers opened fire and two suicide bombers blew themselves up nearby. Police found unexploded bombs at the scene later. Starbucks has closed its coffee shops in indonesia. In the bronx, part of a giant crane fell off a barge and night harlem river this afternoon. No one was hurt. The contractor weeks marine had been working on repairs to the Roberto Clemente state park in morris heights. No word on the cause of the collapse. Jetblue is working to after a temporary power outage caused delays and some cancellations. The airline says that a maintenance operation disrupted power at a Verizon Data Center this afternoon. Jetblues network and website were down for about an hour affecting checkin and airport counter and gate systems. The airline says that the outage is not a Cyber Security issue. Its not something l train subway riders want to hear. The mta will have to shut down the most critical part of the line that carries passengers under the east river. Its still a couple of years away but the tunnel could be shut down entirely for more than a year. Cbs 2s sonia rincon has details on what con a commuter on what could be a commuter nightmare. Reporter it is a lifeline for williamsburg around bushwick and carries 225,000 people a day into manhattan. What happens when its out . It will crush the neighborhood if they shut down the train. Reporter riders, like this it noting its one of the biggest perks for living in the neighbor. He would consider moving. Its better to say more on the same in another neighborhood where i can get to work in 20 minutes instead of an hour and a half. Reporter theres no way around closing it it after damage from hurricane sandy. Its a big challenge getting them on the m train and increased capacity on the m train would be an obvious way to get more people to go north to queens to change. Reporter riders in williamsburg wonder if think you will have to bike, ferry or spend twice as long on other lines. J is long, l is straight into the middle of new york to take the four, five or six. I think it will be chaos. Reporter how much time are we talking . Probably add about 25, 30 minutes for me. Like a extra hour and a half. Reporter the Straphangers Campaign is urging riders not to panic and wait for a plan with Community Input which the mta is promising. We want to work with all the stakeholders, community groups, elected officials to talk about solutions for this. Reporter shutting down the tunnel entirely is just one option. The mta could close it nights and weekends or just one tube at a time. There are two. But that would just prolong the length of the work and could make the commute in the meantime even long other. In williamsburg, sonia rincon, cbs 2 news. Relief on wall street today in the form of a rally. All the indices way up. The dow posted a gain of 227 points. Earlier in the day, it had been up a whopping 330. The nasdaq closed up nearly 89 points. The s p rose 31. The move higher was led to beat up Oil Stocks Like exxon and chevron. Three lucky people will share the Worlds Largest Lottery Jackpot of 1. 6 billion. The winners have yet to come forward. Thats not stopping crowds cbs 2s Edward Lawrence is in chino hills, california, where one of the three Winning Tickets was sold. [ chanting ] reporter there was no stopping the celebration of the dream come true. Whoo reporter this 7eleven in chino hills where luck beat out nearly impossible odds including the store owner who got a Million Dollars for selling one of the winning powerball tickets. Its so great. Reporter California Lottery sold 386 million worth of powerball tickets. Reporter inside, customers are hoping the store will bring them luck for the next powerball drawing. I bought ticket, maybe its a lucky one. Want to get in on the action. Reporter the powerball winner in chino hills, california, overcame astronomical odds, one in 292 million, to win the world record jackpot. That person will split the winning 1. 6 billion with two other winners in tennessee and florida. Was sold at this Melbourne Beach grocery store. Betsy miller didnt hit it. But she is a little richer. I won 100. So going to spend 2 on a ticket today. Reporter the third was sold in ten city near memphis. Each winner will bank nearly 529 million before taxes t Edward Lawrence, cbs news, chino hills, california. Not a bad payday. Even if you didnt win the jackpot, second prize is nothing to sneeze at. Were talking a Million Dollars. There were 73 second place winners of the Million Dollars around the country including at this bethpage long island store. Employees and customers were thrilled to hear the store sold one of the Winning Tickets. Im so happy. [ laughter ] yeah . Im very happy. Im glad someone in this area won. But its not me. All the guys at work we all chimed in. Locations include for arguments sake if you win a million are you like, oh, my god i was so close or if you win a million oh, my god this is great . I would be happy but then youre like, one off then whats the chances of you actually getting i know. Crazy. Good luck to everybody and congratulations to the winners that get the million. Up next, think Tyrannosaurus Rex is the king of th dinosaurs . Coming up, meet this titan owe sauer. The push to keep your phone out of your hands even at red lights. And at first hurricane of 2016 forms over the atlantic. What makes this storm so unusual. Lonnie. Talking about that coming up. We are also going to talk about the cold air in place right now. Not going to be so cold tomorrow but get the umbrellas ready. Coming up. With creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. And on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today at business. Ny. Gov ye pasm,ue wt . Maiea owanweehanginlilelo bie mh iusboht hme thntnefa eugfo erne the largest dinosaur known to man has planned its feet in manhattan. Now 100 million years later its ready for a closeup. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch has a first look at the creature. Reporter its too big to fit in one huge room. Its 122 feet long. 46 feet high. Bigger than me. Scary. And i thought it would collapse and break the room [ laughter ] reporter this is titanosaur. Not its official name. Well know that in about a month but its the largest dinosaur unearthed by man. This man, diego pohl a paleontologist from argentina. Unbelievable. Reporter in 2012 a rancher said he found bones on his land in patagonia. The quarry had over 200 bones of six giant dinosaurs. Reporter all similar in size to this cast of the now on display at the American Museum of natural history. Dinosaurs grow fast. Reporter this is an actual fossil from the find. Its the femur or thigh bone. Its as large as a living room couch and Scientists Use it to dinosaur. They believe it weighed 70 tons. The same as 10 elephants. Students from ps 87 in manhattan ogled in awe of the herbivore. He looks like he would be like a plant eater. I thought it would be a little smaller. Reporter and shared their thoughts on what scientists should ultimately name it. Maybe something bigger. Reporter no matter what they decide, this find is truly tremendous. From the American Museum of natural history, Vanessa Murdoch, cbs 2 news. The permanent exhibit opens to the public tomorrow. I love how they were able to make its neck duck under into the next room. Very clever. Big dinosaur. [ laughter ] all eyes are on hollywood today for the announcement of the this years oscar nominations. One movie led the pack and there were a few notable absences. Heres Jill Nicolini jim. Im afraid to die. Reporter revenant leads with 12 nominations including best picture. But says the 19th century drama have what it takes to win oscar gold. Its a threeway race, spotlight, revenant and martian. I want mad max to win its awesome and gutssty but i think spotlight will take it. They knew and they let it happen. Reporter spotlight has 6 nominations including mark ruffalo for best actor. I think Leonardo Dicaprio is the frontrunner the matt damon is a competitor and Eddie Redmayne from the danish reporter best actress davis says its a race between first time nominee brie larson in room and Cate Blanchett in carol but its supporting actress that has the strongest competition. Ronan and Cate Blanchett and general inof i have lawrence. The lack of diversity in the nominations between creed and straight out of compton a lot of black actors and movies were snubbed. Reporter two films left out include carol and straight out of compton. Star wars the biggest grossing movie of all time in the United States did not get a best picture nomination. It got five other nominations in technical categories. Reporter other snubs for the best director category include ridley scott for the martian and three Time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg on the upper east side, Jill Nicolini, cbs 2 news. The Academy Awards is on february 28. Alan rickman probably best known for playing memorable villains in movies his co stars and fans are remembering his legacy after his death today. He too was exceedingly arrogant rickman brought a dark charm and silky voice to roles including professor snape in the harry potter series. He died of cancer in a london hospital. He first gained fame playing the evil mastermind in die hard in 1988. Harry potter actor Daniel Radcliffe wrote he was a great actor. Rickman was 69. There is a rare january hurricane in the atlantic ocean. The first one to form in the month of january since 1938. Far out in the atlantic about 400 miles south of portugals azores island. Hurricane warnings for the islands alex packing 85mile anhour winds and will hit the azores tomorrow morning. Lets get to lonnie quinn with the forecast here at home. That learn will move to the a. And azores. Look how small the cone is. The we watch it for the shipping lanes. The last time we had a hurricane in the atlantic basin, you talk about 1938. Everyone remembers 2006 because us it was active. December 30th in 2005 we started with a Tropical Storm and it stayed with us until but it was in the new millennium time period. Vortex satellite and radar, quiet cloud cover. Friday looking good sunshine 48. Friday night thats when i want you to have an umbrella ready to go low 41. Well talk more about how much rain will make its way into the area a little later. Back to you guys. Coming up next, searching for a mystery man. What he left in a duffel bag on this doorstep has animal lovers offering a 5,000 reward. A special place in history. Good evening. Im dana tyler in the newsroom. Hazel sanchez as a feel good story about this woman. S this the woman they call granny. She is 102 which makes her the oldest living and working teacher in america right now. And the funny thing is, most people start their careers in their 20s. She started her career as a teacher at 80. Still at it at 102. Thank you. Back to you. Who needs a history book when you have her . Protecting the legacy of our world war ii veterans. Long island to preserve and commemorate their place in aviation history. Jennifer mclogan reports. This is my mother margaret. Gilman was her married day. She was a wasp in world war ii. Reporter she was a service pilot, playing a major role in our war effort. She was a tow target pilot. She would tow the target men would practice artillery on. Reporter the center of innovation during wartime long island was filled with aerospace factories and research grumman Fairchild Republic sikorsky. I proudly painted the 810 for Fairchild Republic. We on long island built this jb2 buzz bomb for the invasion of japan. I was proud to be part of the grumman team. The team that put the lunar module on the moon. Reporter now its hoped these historic accomplishments already treasured will be saved. Delegation is backing a bill directing the government to sites. Mitchell field, roosevelt field, the hempstead plains, bethpage, farmingdale, where historic firsts took place. A huge field largely forgotten on nassau boulevard in garden city was where the first u. S. Air mail flight launched bound for nearby mineola. The distance between the two villages just a couple of miles did not give the pilot enough time to land. So the first u. S. Air mail was thoroughly dropped from this plane on the roof of the mineola post office. The new goal, preserve these Cherished Memories and the lands they once occupied. Future generations learning from the greatest generation. From the cradle of Aviation Museum in garden city, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. New york politicians on both sides of the aisle say they back the National Aviation bill. So much history on so many it and you dont even think of it. It good to be reminded. Profound. Drop the mail. Coming down olaf laugh. Coming up next, we saw a lot of drivers doing it today. Texting at red lights. Now theres a push to make that illegal. Well explain. Also First Responders in pain and uncovered. The new medical conditions helped on 9 11. Look, the wolf was huffing and puffing. Like

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