Live outside paisley park in chanhassen, minnesota, jennifer mayerle, cbs 2 news. President obama called him, quote, one of the most gifted and prolific musician of our time. Cbs 2s Jill Nicolini looks back at the career of a music legend. [ music ] reporter singersongwriter and musician prince was born with the name prince Rogers Nelson on june 7, 1958, in minneapolis, minnesota. He is considered to be one of the best selling artists of all time. Ultimately, all music is or can be inspirational. And thats why its so important to let your gift be guided by something more clear. [ music ] reporter at an early age he developed a passion for music. In his late teens he recorded a few songs in his cousins band before being signed to Warner Brothers record where he released his debut album in 1978. He played just like david bowie did with images. Reporter his next three albums including 19 99 were controversial because of their sexual nature which was his trademark. Then in 1984, he made his film debut in purple rain, where he won an oscar for his music and released an album with the same title, which helped him score his first two out of seven grammys. He has a total of 30 nominations. The album was a huge success and songs like lets go crazy and when doves cry made it to number one on the billboard carpets. Prince later changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993 and for the next year he was reached to by many as the artist formerly known as prince. [ purple rain ] reporter in 2007 he played the super bowl. Still, one of the most talked about performances. One of the interesting did keep his private life so shrouded, were talk about an artist as he became a bigger star refused to grant interviews. Reporter he was linked to many celebrity like madonna and kim basinger. A week ago prince held his final concert in atlanta after canceling performances at the fox theatre the week before. Prince was 57. In 2004 he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. Last week he had the flu of hads plane made an Emergency Landing in illinois. He was hospitalized. Reps confirmed he was battling the illness for weeks. He was truly a legend and, of course, will be missed. Thank you. The world is taking to death. You can share your thoughts on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cbsnewyork. Part of it is the abruptness of it all. It was owe shocking. The sound track of our lives, really. It was so shocking. The 80s. Generational. Just suddenly like that. He was Still Producing music the past four years i think he came out with four albums. Prolific. And what about all the unpublished music that leaves behind. And the musician that he was. On his first five albums he performed many of the, um, instruments on on those first albums that that eventually he just produced. He was his own producer. Always did. Always did. Shocking, truly shocking. The death of prince. Yup. All right. We are going to move on to other news. A new jersey couple was trapped in their vehicle today after it flipped on a neighborhood street. Reports from rahway, that section of road has a track record of Serious Problems. Reporter an couple trapped in their car in rahway just before noon as seen from chopper 2. Weather conditions at the time perfect. The speed limit here just 25 miles an hour. All of a sudden i just hear this big boom like a bomb exploded. Reporter Emergency Personnel rescued the couple and despite the ominous appearance of this wreck they are soon treated and released from a local hospital. But for those who live along here, a renewed sense of dread. This is far from the first time its happened here. And the homeowners have the pictures to prove it. I dont know what to say. Reporter lenny says his home has become a crash pad for drivers who cant seem to handle the curve. We probably have eight accidents or better here. Reporter a year ago, this five years ago, this crash. 7 years ago, thisserrant driver. Its a danger zone. If we come here we have to have lights to put out the garbage out, put lights on, put a safety vest on. Reporter nextdoor neighbor arriving on scene at the latest crash recalls the car that smashed into his property in january. Someone ran off the road. Not again. Reporter barbara says its coming to the point where they have trouble sleeping at night. They speed. Its a raceway and they lose control. Reporter the latest crash on a bright sunny day cant help prompt thoughts that might be time to move. In new jersey, steve langford, cbs 2 news. New information tonight in the search for a burglar suspected in more than a dozen police say they found the man who did it. 23yearold la tise eady was charged with burglary and trying to steal a safe. He also hit at least two t mobile stores getting money and cell phones according to police. We have burglaries in cell stores in nassau county. They recovered about 5,000 worth of stolen items at eddy as home. A fastmoving brush fire left a trail of destruction on long island. The flames damaged or destroyed five homes in lindenhurst yesterday. Chopper 2 was over the scene. It burned for hours in a nature preserve. Cbs 2s Jennifer Mclogan is live now in the community that was also hit hard by superstorm sandy. Reporter the homes here in worst shape, one, two and three, are owned by sandy survivors and recently buschs house just next to this that firefighters managed to save. Weather we last saw keith busch he was overwhelmed with worry. His neighbors called him at work, his street was on fire, house melting, two cats inside. You thought at that point your house was gone . Yes. I thought it would be gone and my cats. Look at this. Just like 25 feet away. Yeah. Yeah. Um, i think this house blocked most of what could have happened. Reporter fire destroyed only the siding. Cats lexi and zero saved. Its incredible. Reporter two doors down 35 yearold Sarah Aldridge surveyed the damage of her rebuilt and eldvated home just repaired from sandy now once again condemned. This time by the fire that collapsed her roof leaving walls of charred kindling. I was supposed to move back in, in two weeks. Reporter they just rehabbed their homes across the street. Now you have this mess. Its just part of life. You have to keep going. Reporter these pictures show the house where the fire started. Investigators say an link electrical short in a wall mounted airconditioner is to blame. A mother and child ran for their lives. Now they have nothing left. Windy and dry conditions today, a concern for firefighters. Dousing the brush to protect the properties, pets, wildlife and ralphs egg laying hens. I was in the Fire Department for years and even inside outside never seen smoke like that in my life. You couldnt see in front of your hand. So i was worried about the chickens. Reporter and the wind continues to whip, thus the hat. Local legislators tell us they will do everything in their power to help these victims, first slammed by sandy, now burnedout by the wildfires. Live on the copiague, lindenhurst border, jennifer parts of times square will soon be off limits to costume wearing characters and other performers. Mayor de blasio signed a bill today that bans them from blocking pedestrians and the traffic free parts of the scare and restricts them to certain areas. The new rules follow a growing list of complaints about aggressive panhandling and harassment. The City Council Approved it. Tonight mayor de blasio on the hot seat. The probe into his fundraising operations expands to include the group that aggressively lobbied him to ban horse carriages. Cbs 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer with the latest on the new york city corruption scandal. Reporter mayor de blasio with constituents outside a south Bronx Healthcare Center then spending 1 minute and 57 seconds answering questions about a decision by u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney cyrus vance to expand the probe of his fundraising operation to include the big bucks donors who pushed him to ban horse carriages. Legal and appropriate. I have said many times we held ourselves throughout and hold ourselves to a very high reporter sources say that a flurry of subpoenas have been issued as part of whats been described as the preliminary stages of a wide ranging probe into various mayor. Probers reportedly trying to determine whether state election laws were circumvented and whether promises were made in exchange for donations. Well fully cooperate with the investigation. Reporter the probe includes big real estate donors and ross oninger nearly two weeks ago but it is now progressed from a trot to a gallop with a disclosure that the actions of the antihorse Carriage Group are now under the microscope. The activists have donated generously to de blasio and he has reportedly met with them office. I wonder what happened when you met with steve and wendy at city hall . Did you say to them . The broad discussions always about how we achieve the changes in my platform in a we wanted to do to get horse cam, off the street of the city. Reporter did you ever talk to them about raising money for you . At city hall i talked to them about how to get horse carriages off the streets of the city, period. Reporter they have donated big money to de blasio including 100,000 to his Nonprofit Campaign for one new york which the mayor shut down when it came under scrutiny from Good Government groups. A spokesman for my class says they have not been contacted by probers but they will cooperate in they are asked. This is going to go on for quite a while. Thank you. This one is a report that has some joggers looking over their shoulders. Up next, the new clues in the search for a man police say attacked a runner in the park. Donald trump and ted cruz break out into a war of words over twitter. The back and forth over dropping out. Talk about unexpected roommates. Moved in on a manhattan fire escape. Are you ready to get your grill on . Coming up, we speak to Good Housekeeping about how to clean your grill and also about the best tools to use. And it is another Beautiful Day outside. In fact, nine Straight Days without any rain. Will we get the rain . After the break. [ grinding metal ] whoa, that doesnt look good. No, not you. Ordinary fuels can clog your engine with dirt. Its like lugging this around. Its dragging down your fuel economy. 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Reporter police say it happened 5 15 wednesday morning as the woman was running. He grabbed her threw her down and attempted to rape her at knifepoint. The woman got away and so did her attacker but hopefully, not for long. Neighborhoods just outside of Prospect Park, nypd put up flyers like this one showing a detailed sketch on who they believe is the attacker. Police also released this Surveillance Video showing a man walking alone outside the park. More images of who they are looking for. Id like to catch him. Reporter we showed a copy of a sketch to some neighbors. All had a similar reaction. Hopefully its going to bring them closer to finding and catching him. Maybe find out someone that knows him or someone in the neighborhood maybe recognizes the photo. Hope he gets caught. Put away for a long time. Reporter police say the the struggle and was taken to the hospital. She is now recovering at home. Raegan medgie, cbs 2 news. Campaign 2016. And donald trump and ted cruz taunting each other again on twitter. Trump again by tweeting this. Senator ted cruz has been mathematically eliminated from the race. He said kasich should get out for same reason. I think both should get out cruz retorted, donald, you will be mathematically eliminated on june 7th should everyone drop out and forfeit to hillary. The two candidates were also in a match of sorts over laws about public restrooms. You leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. Donald on television this morning said gosh, he thought that men should be able to go into the girls bathroom. Have we gone stark raving nuts . John kasich has said he does not approve of north carolinas bathroom law. Turning to the democrats now. Both Hillary Clinton and crisscrossing the northeast ahead of next tuesdays primaries. Clinton spent part of her day in hartford where she attended a Panel Discussion on gun violence. Meantime sanders held rallies in scranton and reading pennsylvania. I will use every, single minute of every day if im so fortunate enough to be your president looking for ways that we can save lives, that we can change the gun culture. The most serious of all of the Serious Problems is we dont honestly discuss the Serious Problems that we have. In addition to connecticut an pennsylvania, voters in delaware, maryland and rhode island will get their say next week. Celebrations stretched across britain and around the world today as Queen Elizabeth ii marked her 90th birthday. The queen lit a birthday torch outside wins son castle. [ chuckling ] the first of more than 1,000 beacons that will light up as the monarch earlier, her majesty received a warm welcome accepting flowers, gifts and birthday cheers from royal fans around the world. Prime minister David Cameron led the tribute amongst britains parliament. The queen has shown us all that we can confidently embrace the future without compromising the things that are important. Longest reigning monarch. In a recent poll 70 of the British Public said they would continue to embrace her for as long as she chooses to reign. She wears it especially well. 90 years old. She is still out and about. She drives. She rides horses. Its amazing. Nothing she cant do. No. Gorgeous day there in england. Gorgeous around here, too. Lonnie quinn, a little cooler but hey, why not . I have to tell you. Its been a pretty, pretty, pretty day. The fire risk that we have had, you know, for a couple of days in a row has been allowed to expire. We are just below the threshold so you still have to be careful with a flame out there. Thats that pretty picture we 71 degrees, sunny so a couple of clicks warmer than yesterday you were in the upper 60s. Today 71. Inland some of the mid site of like 74 around edison. A little cooler the closer you are and the more ocean influence you have. 57 for the hamptons. Babylon 61. Above. The vortex satellite and radar, still looking fine but you remember yesterday when we were chatting we get more cloud coming through they are going to thicken up later and if you look to the west thats where we see some rain. I just think this has a lot of work to do to overwhelm our atmosphere to have that i rainfall down to the surface. Not going to happen tonight. Could be a few showers out there tonight around 59 degrees. Rain inland about 3 p. M. Tomorrow. You will see sunshine tomorrow. It will be warm, as well. We talk more about the extended forecast coming up. Up next, he saved lives before but never in other countries. The email that had a new to save a woman he had never even met. Also a home away from home. 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