Awaiting autopsy test results before arriving at an official cause of death. Were in bronxville, westchester county, lou young, cbs 2 news. Thomas was a sophomore. He transferred to loyola after his family moved out of the Bronxville School district last year. A veteran policeman on long island is arrested accused of sexually abusing a woman and allegedly using his Police Shield to make unwelcome advances. Cbs 2s Carolyn Gusoff reports from Nassau County where prosecutors call this a rare incident that tarnishes the badge. Reporter Police Officer louis arsilla on the wrong side of handcuffs a veteran of the nypd and accused of abusing his authority inside this hempstead restaurant. He came here when he is drunk to bother the people. Reporter workers say the offduty cop struck up a conversation with a Woman Holding a baby in diapers. Prosecutors say he quipped he could ticket her then followed her to this parking lot with into her car and groped her as she fought him off. He used his shield as entree to this woman and then put her in a position in a vulnerable position in her own vehicle in front of her own children where she was sexually assaulted. Reporter the married father of five gave the woman his name and foreign number. She called 911 and phone number. She called 911. His union is sticking by him confident that the officer will be vindicated calling the timing troubling. A june incident with an indictment five days before an election. Madeline a long time prosecutor made acting d. A. After her predecessor was elected to congress is in a heated battle with the town of hempstead supervisor kate murray district attorney. It is most troubling that these actions would be taken the only person who exploited anyone in this case is that Police Officer when he exploited this woman. Court date was delayed to accommodate the defense after a monthlong investigation. The officer faces sexual abuse, official misconduct and child endangerment charges all misdemeanors but if convicted he could be stripped of his badge. In long island, Carolyn Gusoff, cbs 2 news. Hempstead Village Police say the officer has been reassigned to modified duty with no interaction with the public while this case is ongoing. Breaking news in queens. A British Airways crew reporting spotting a drone while approaching jfk airport. The crew says they saw the Unmanned Aircraft about five miles northeast of jfk about 2,000 feet up in the air. This happened about an hour ago 5 00 tonight. The faa has notified the nypd so that they can find who was operating the drone. New information tonight on officer accused of a deadly drunk driving crash in march. The defense attorney for pedro abad says his client may have been drugged. At a hearing today he asked for access to abads blood samples so it contested for ghb. Abad and three other linden Police Officers had been at a strip club on Staten Island before the march crash abad driving the wrong way down the expressway killing two of the officers. Police in the bronx searching for a suspect accused of attempting to rape an 8yearold girl. Surveillance video captures the suspect in mount hope saturday. Police say the suspect approached the child from behind as she was going into her building. He restrained her and assaulted her. The girl started screaming. He ran off. She was treated at the hospital. A new Jersey School bus driver caught on camera using a cell phone while driving. A student on the bus recorded the female driver taking a photo of a stuffed animal state parkway on tuesday. Later she is seen texting and looking into her phone. The student from the Academy CharterHigh School School in lake como sent a text to her mother saying she feared the bus would get into a crash. The school says the substitute driver has since been fired. A College Basketball coach in westchester facing prison forged grades. 42yearold tyrone is accused of doctoring transcripts for players at Westchester Community college stow they could get into fouryear schools. Prosecutors say he submitted nine formed transcripts between the spring of 2012 and the fall of last year. Some of the fake documents delivered by hand, others fax or mailed. If convicted, he face up to 7 years in prison. A greatgrandmother on long island has a warning for others after she has been the victim of a robbery. She is 88 years old. Her name is angela treemer. And she says the thieves home in east farmingdale, pretending to be new neighbors. One distracted her while the other stole her jewelry. She had me charmed. I said i have something on the stove. I have to take it off the stove. Or it will burn. She yells, ill do it and thats when i came in the house and i saw him run out and he took a whole lifetime of gold. My mothers wedding ring. Oh. Police say the duo may be response for a similar crime spree reported across the county in october and they are asking for the publics help. A new jersey man accused of operating a mobile meth lab. Investigators say 34yearold Christopher Poole was mixing meth in the front seat of his car. He was arrested yesterday during a routine traffic stop near route 46 in wayne. Police say they noticed something suspicious. They called hazmat teams, a bomb squad and drug they knock on the windows and obviously fumes started coming out of whatever he was mixings. They withdrew him from the vehicle and the car filled up with smoke. And then they middle it, too. It smelled like ammonia. Christopher poole faces several drug charges because of the arrest last night. Today marks three years since Superstorm Sandy hit. And now all this time later theres still a question that lingers. Are we safer . Cbs 2s dick brennan here with a look at life after sandy and whats being done to protect the tristate area, its shores, its people. Dick . Reporter theres a lot to protect. The boardwalks and the beaches have largely been restored. Subway shafts will be sealed when necessary but many homes were never repaired and theres a nagging sense about what happens when we get hit again . When the storm came ashore it breezy point raging flames tunnels turned into rivers. That water is now spilling over into the brooklynbattery tunnel. Reporter and lives were lost in a rage of nature. Three years later we are still rebuilding. The city says some 60 of the people in the program are getting financial help. Dan is the director of the Mayors Office of recovery and resiliency. He says the city has been hardening coastlines. We put in place 2 million cubic yards of sand on our beaches, 10 miles of dunes and bulkheads upgraded. Reporter the boardwalks have come back largely, like this one in belmar. But rockaways is still being rebuilt. Sandys floods wreaked havoc on subways. The mta build a new seawall to protect the a train to the rockaways and work continues and another station. Station and at the same time, we are working to harden stations. Reporter amtraks tunnels still need major renovation. Nj transit will elevate trains at the hoboken railyard on Staten Island hardest hit of all the boroughs, the city is restoring 68 acres of wetlands. Sandy forced hospital evacuations. Fema has now given more than 2 billion for hospitals to relocate generators and build floodwalls. The night sandy rolled in i was standing right here in the battery and i saw something i dont think i could have ever imagined in manhattan. Reporter this is supposed to be an evacuation zone and this is the best advertisement for an evacuation zone. Look at this water. That guys car, you can see it in the back thats not coming out for a while. A few blocks away floodwaters poured into the battery tunnel. The mate has plans to seal the tunnel when necessary but the question remains, are we ready mayors panel on climate change. Weeks before sandy he predicted what a huge storm surge could to do the city. He now says with stronger storms and rising water, billions more must be spent. We cant grasp what this means. This may happen over and over again. What more can be done. Reporter thats the question. Jacob insists we have to rethink everything, spend billions more money, raise things up in some cases retreat from the shore. But, you know, lets be fair. The feds and city spent a lot already and realistically what can you do . You cant withdraw from Lower Manhattan and places like that. So this is an ongoing debate. And people have different opinions. Theres a lot of emotion involved as well and still you think three years, wow. Still theres so much. Everybody says, you know, you always are finding the last youre always fighting some people are saying we have to think about what else could happen. Thank you. This halloween when your children head out to trick or treat, be warned they could be tricked. You know better [ indiscernible ] not to talk to strangers. Next the social experiment that these moms say should be a wakeup call for parents. And stranger plans. An update on governor cuomos attempt to sell marked up world series tickets. Records with the mild air in place today, more sunshine tomorrow. That doesnt mean temperatures are going up. Ill talk about how chilly it will be in just a bit. Coming up on the cbs evening news, a jet catches fire in florida. Scott pelley will have that and more tonight. Scott. Reporter dana, it was a dramatic few minutes as the aircraft, the boeing 766 headed to south america burst know flames. 100 passengers were evacuated at least one of them is seriously injured. Well have that story and the news at 6 30. A lesson to help keep trick or treaters safe this halloween. Theres a video with brooklyn mothers and children exposing how Vulnerable Children can dave carlin showing us how quickly a fun night can go wrong. [ mother screaming ] reporter a chilling online video features kids and parents from brooklyn. [ children screaming ] reporter scaring up an answering to this question. How safe are your children this halloween . Reporter he set up this social experiment with parental permission. Tell kids to stay safe while trick or treating in groups. Just come in real quick. Reporter the kids disobey and this mother is shocked. You went into the house . You dont even know these people reporter the second scenario even scarier. You guys wants stickers . Reporter down into the basements they go wheres the candy . There is no candy. Theres no candy at all. [children screaming ] its scary to think that kids would definitely go into a strangers house without knowing them. Thats creepy. Halloween safety is vital. Reporter this clinical who were tested in the video [ screaming ] reporter are probably traumatized. The doctor says he doesnt approve of the methods used to get that video. He does like its message. I think you could use it as a jumping off point. You sit down as parents and you talk to your kids and you say, you really have to be careful. Everyone is a good guy in these kids eyes but thats not real life. Not everyone is good. They want to go by themselves, but they are not allowed to yet. Trick or treat reporter trick or treaters need adult supervision. And the hard and fast rule that you never go inside. In yonkers, dave carlin, cbs 2 news. An update on governor cuomos plan to raise money for election offering mets tickets for 5,500 each. The tickets included a 90 minute pregame reception with the governor in a luxury box. Governor cuomos Campaign Says more Tickets Available for fans given the overwhelming demand. Lets check in with lonnie quinn as the world series moves to new york over the weekend. We need nice weather for that and, of course, for our marathon runners and trick or treaters. We will talk about all those events. The game, the trick or treaters. Marathon forecast. I have you all covered. Lets begin though with our weather watchers as of right now. Okay, we have those temperatures in the 60s but i wanted to point out river head, 63 degrees as of right now. Everybody mild even if you go out by far east by the water steve beal reporting that reading in riverhead. New york city 70s today. Right now the city comes in with a goodlooking sky. There are some clouds. Partly sunny 66 degrees as of right now. Central park high was 73. You also hit 73 in islip and bridgeport. Establishing records there. The hot spot was newark. Newark, new jersey was 75 degrees today. The 73 in central park thats the typical high in central park for september 21. September 21, its one of the last ones but its officially lets move forward though talk picked up yesterday. It helped. One to two inches some folks two inches. But we still have a deficit. So we are still, you know, 7. 3 below where we need to be in the rain bucket and yesterdays rain really fell on a nice manner in the sense it didnt come like one or two hours. It came through the entire day. The ground would recoup, suck up more rain, a break, more rain. It helped the water table but we need more. Right now the skies are fine. This rain you see up around the breaks that rain you see up around the great lakes, theres going to be a lag before we tap into the colder air. This trough is going to pass through, as well. Rain goes north of the area but thats when we really catch the colder air that will set up. On this anniversary of check in on the tropics. Nothing out there. But at the coast of africa, we keep an eye on west of the cape verdes islands, theres an area of interest. Thats all it is right now. We keep an eye on it. Even the National Hurricane center is saying very low chance for development. We keep an eye on it. So for tonight mostly clear, cooler, 45 degrees. For tomorrow night game 3 citi field 51 degrees. Its cool to start this game and those temperatures will drop as you go through the game but the skies look fine. 8 07 first pitch. Across the board numbers like this. 59 on friday will be followed by a 57degree reading on halloween saturday. Then go to bed saturday night you have to fall back with the clocks. Clocks go back, slight chance for a shower on your marathon, slight 20, maybe 30 chance at best. But temperatures will max out in the lower 60s. Thank you, lonnie. Guess who is back from kansas city with whats ahead in sports tonight. Otis. Dana, thanks a lot. Down but not out. Thats the mantra for the mets as they try to get back into the world series. Nights game 2 loss and look ahead to game 3. Syndergaard on the hill at citi fiel team starts practice today. Coach called to see how i was doing. I blew out my knee last year. Just as College Football programs began calling me. I didnt realize id get hooked on the pain pills the doctor gave me. I never thought my life could change so fast. For now at least, football and college are going to have to wait. Theres no place like home with Otis Livingston here and for the mets being back home for these next games. We hope so. Its time to turn the series around. They could. No one wants to be down 02 in the world series but i saw a confident bunch in the clubhouse after the two losses in games one and two the mets struck first but they didnt strike last. Jacob degrom had to work his way in and out of trouble into the fifth. He couldnt avoid the kc bats. They hit him up for four runs on five hits and a walk and his night was done. Johnny cueto was just Getting Started kept the mets bats silent for the night. Gave up just two hits and going the distance and putting the mets in an 02 hole. We thought the mets had the advantage in the Pitch Department coming into the series with matt harvey. Degrom was ambushed. A lot of good hitters. It was one pitch away from getting out of there giving up one run but didnt make that pitch. Still got to win four. So, you know, were going back home. We like playing there. Hopefully we win three there. We win because we like our starting pitching. When they struggle we are going to struggle. Thats whats happening. The royals did what they had to do and win their games at home. Now its the mets turn with three straight at citi field starting tomorrow night. Steve overmyer reports hope is hopefully where the wins are. Reporter its been a magical run. But it just got real. We are down but not out. We fought back so many times this year that there is just another challenge that we have to meet and so far we have met them all. We did a nice job that got us here treating every game like an Elimination Game and this is no different. Reporter their stats at home are among the best in baseball. In the past month, the mets are top five in runs and home runs. Back to playing in front of the best fans all day and im sure the field will be electric and it will be less energy and give us a great chance to win. Reporter it takes a lot of grit to come back but over the past month its something the mets did more than any other team in baseball. You have come from behind late in the game sometimes and it gets good pitching. Sometimes dont ever think you can do it but when you have done it against good pitching, hey, look, you stay confident. That confidence can be dangerous. They are looking for a little more magic, all they have to do is look in their own franchises past. At city fields, steve overmyer, cbs 2 news. He is talking about when they lost the first two games of the 86 world series at home and came back to win in seven games over the boston red sox. Well, that didnt take long for miami to reel in its latest marlins. Just 7 days after he and the dodgers agreed to part ways, sources say Don Mattingly has been hired to be the next manager of the team. Donny baseball left the dodgers after five seasons in l. A. Which included three Straight National league west titles franchise history. But he couldnt leave the team with a high payroll, the Promised Land im talking about the world series. He goes from 270 million payroll to just 69 million. So he is going to be clipping coupons. Dont forget. Dolphins and patriots thursday night football. Right here on cbs 2. T