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WCBS CBS 2 News At 6 February 24, 2016

Issued an order to secure all cranes. New restrictions went into effect earlier this month after a crane collapsed in tribeca killing a pedestrian. Cranes are now required to go into safety mode when winds are forecast to hit 20 Miles Per Hour. Thats a manhole cover just exploding in elizabeth. The force propelled the metal cover several feet into the air missing people and cars on elizabeth avenue and 7th street. Firefighters called to the scene this morning as street salt set underground wires on fire. We have a serious potential due to the Manhole Covers that were lifting off. Its looking like flames they come, the flames maybe about maybe 6foot high and they start to smoke. A lot of smoke. Carbon monoxide was also detected forcing the ventilation of nearby basements. Restore power on the block. Now to breaking news. The st. George Ferry Terminal for the Staten Island ferry is shut down right now because of a suspicious package. Nypd is on the scene investigating. For the time being all Outbound Service is suspended. Ferries will continue to depart whitehall with passengers exiting on the lower level at st. George. Well, police in Nassau County are once again eyeing the socalled hot dog hooker. She pleaded guilty to sell more than just hot dogs from her stand. Now neighbors say she is offering lunch with a lap dance from her front lawn. Cbs 2s Carolyn Gusoff has the story from east rockaway. If i was a belly dancer, would you put me behind bars . Reporter even in the rain, cathy scalia lounges around in her front yard clinging toy alarge pillow offering a home. She says its no different than strip clubs. Lunch with a lap dance. No sex and says she just takes donations. Four years ago the 49yearold mother of four boys earned her notorious nickname after pleading guilty to offering sex to undercover officers from a hot dog stand that was shut down. She is an absolute disgrace to our community. Its more a matter of Mental Illness i think than anything else. Reporter neighbors have long complained now outraged their children can read her sexy sign as she lays outside for hours usually barely dressed. We have young impressionable children in this neighborhood. We cant have a woman like this flashing herself and posting signs like this in a residential area. This isnt a sign. This is a pillow. Look. Reporter despite her claims of innocence, Nassau Police say they have issued a warning to her not to post any signs offering illegal services anywhere on her property the. Nassau police say they have stepped up patrols in east called hot dog hooker is running an illegal adult cabaret from inside her home. Were going to change the name. The hot dog hooker to change it to the hot dog honey. Reporter new name or not hempstead Officials Say they are monitoring the Police Investigation of neighbors complaints. In east rockaway, long island, Carolyn Gusoff, cbs 2 news. She served five days in jail in 2012 on the prostitution charges. Some new video of a suspect wanted for the slashing of a hasidic man in crown heights, brooklyn. Security cameras captured the suspect running from the scene this month. Now, the video also caught the chilling image of the bloodied knife in the suspects hand. Police say the attack was unprovoked and they are investigating this as a bias religion. Theres a proposal on the table to change the drinking age in new jersey. Its the idea of a longtime lawmaker who says 21 just new at 6 00 now cbs 2s elise plan. Reporter turning 18 could one day be cause for a toast in new jersey. An assemblyman introduced a bill to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. When you are 18 years old and capable of carrying a weapon in defense with your married with no ones permission, capable of buying a hour, the idea that youre somehow incapable of whether to buy a sixpack is silly. Reporter at this ale house patrons were in support. I would agree with that. Reporter why . Drinking age was 18 for us. So you know, if you can serve your country, absolutely. Reporter but people who work here disagree about allowing 18yearolds to drink legally. I think its a bad idea. I dont think they are mature enough honestly to like they dont understand the consequences behind to know what they are doing. You can always have it then you dont try to get that fake drink, you know, when youre not of age. Reporter opponents also point out that a lower drinking age would cost new jersey millions this is federal funding. Under the National Minimum drinking age act states with drinking ages under 21 get an automatic reduction in highway funds. Some people say thats reason enough to reject carrolls bill including this liquor store owner. So far we have been good to have people drinking at 21. The maturity of a person goes at 21. So that would be a better idea than moving down to 18. Reporter the next stop for assemblyman carrolls bill is to committee but it could be years before this bill ever becomes law. In new jersey, elise finch, cbs 2 news. It turns out it was new jerseys late u. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg who sponsored the legislation to raise the drinking age to 21 way back in 1984. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie makes his first public appearance since he ended his president ial bid. The governor attended the Street Elementary School in newark. We did want to ask governor christie questions about the issues facing new jersey but he took no questions. Our cameras caught his vehicle driving away. We later contacted his office and asked when the governor plans to take questions from the media. His office said that he will be on the radio monday but no date is set for future news conferences. Harlem congressman Charles Rangel is retiring. He will step down at the end of the year after spending 46 years on capitol hill. The 85yearold served 23 terms in the house of representatives. Rangel is Founding Member of the Congressional Black Caucus and was also the first black member of congress to lead the ways and means committee. He said that he wants to leave office at the same time as president obama. A brooklyn woman is accused of leaving her home alone in an apartment that went up in flames. Leila aquino is charged with after her 2yearold daughter Kalenah Muldrow was found dead tuesday alone huddled under her bed in the burnedout home. Theshe admitted to leaving the child alone in the apartment with the tv on after claiming she was with a babysitter. Police are looking for a bold burglar who is scaling fire escapes to break into apartments in queens. Two of the victims. Reporter police say this is the man they are looking for in connection with a string of apartment burglaries in rego park queens. This person knows the suspect broke into his apartment on saunders avenue because the grocery bag and loot the man is carrying in this Surveillance Video belongs to him. He took two computers, some of my girlfriends cameras and unreplaceable jewelry. Reporter tedesco wasnt home on the afternoon of february 8 when police say the escape up to the third floor forcing open tedescos bathroom window. Everything was ransacked. Reporter chris says he knows the feeling. He is among three tenants in tedescos Apartment Building allegedly burglarized by in same man. Police say on new years eve afternoon, the burglar climbed this fire escape broke into wus kitchen window and stole his wifes jewelry. Turn around look at her dresser, and her entire dresser was just rummaged through. My wife just panicked. She started freaking out. It was like oh, my gosh then we realized somebody had been in the house. Reporter Police Believe the same suspect is responsible for at least five breakins here in the rego park area and he is pretty brazen breaking into most of the apartments during Daylight Hours it was definitely very violating, you know, definitely we still live with a heightened sense of awareness. Reporter and they now have new windows locks and alarms to make sure they are not victimized again. In rego park, queens, hazel police do have evidence that could directly link the suspect to one of those burglaries. The victim says that the burglar left his hat at the crime scene. A 40year fight is back in court. Should kennedy cousin Michael Skakels conviction be reinstated . The Connecticut Supreme Court is deciding. And a new employee perk for some Companies Pay you to live closer to work. How they will benefit, too. The National Weather service is now bumped up our chance for Severe Weather tonight. Forecast. Coming up next on the cbs evening news, Severe Weather ravaging the south. Scott pelley here now with a look ahead. Scott. Reporter great to be with you. As lonnie was just mentioning, big storms in the south and in the east now tornadoes have were going to take you right into the heart of the storm and also tell you what to country. Well have that and the rest the cbs evening news. Ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. And im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms. No growthpromoting antibiotics, Connecticut Supreme Court is considering whether to reinstate the murder conviction of kennedy cousin Michael Skakel. He got into an evening after a Court Hearing in hartford his conviction in the murder of a neighbor Martha Moxley was overturned. He was released on bail. The evidence pointed to skakels brother thomas, according to the defense attorney. But prosecutors say Michael Skakel killed Martha Moxley. There are Companies Paying employees to work closer to work. Would you take the money and move . Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch reports new at 6 00. Reporter commuting into new york city takes on average more than 6 hours a week total. This person traveling from trenton daily consumes a lot more time than that. Maybe hour and 20 minutes. Reporter thats one way. Says he would much rather spend less time on the rails. You think you would work more if you had to commute less . Um, yeah. Yeah. I wont be as tired. Reporter Many Companies know thats the truth and are offering incentives for their employees to move closer to work. This person says offering money to move is a winwin for employers. They are getting more time out of you and its a Great Company because it looks generous. At a park, an Investment Management company with an office here in new york city offers monthly housing stipends to its employees. 300 a month if you in new york live 15 minutes from the office. Or if you live 30 minutes or under, we offer 150. Reporter dr. Jacqueline of north well health said she would advise her patients to take the money and move if it works for them. If it allows them time to pursue other activities and lowers their overall stress level which has so many other health implications. Reporter she emphasizes reducing sedentary time means healthier living. We know that things like your risk of colon cancer goes up with increased sedentary lifestyle. Jamie says she is keep her community for now. Reporter any amount of money would make you move . Absolutely. Reporter how much . Probably double my salary. Reporter money to get you Vanessa Murdoch, cbs 2 news. Most companies who offer incentives in the tristate area do so on an annual basis five to 10,000 up front. Close is good but not too close. There needs to be a buffer. Its going to start getting tricky outside. I think some of these storms are going to be potentially on the super strong side. Let me show you whats going on. The temperatures are bumping up. We are 55 right now in new york city. I have some 62degree readings out there. Jackson, new jersey, wind speed gusts to 14. Thats nothing. These winds are going to be picking up for everybody where well see heavy winds or whether youre inland. Everybodys winds ramp up overnight. Its 55 degrees as of right now. 55 your highest temperature of the day. You hit that at 4 00 4 00. At 3 00 you were 45 degrees. Theres a burst of warm air. Thats what we look at when we talk about the possibility for Severe Weather to kick in for us. Right now rainfall out there today and it was all rain but maybe a quarter inch on the low side thats montauk about an inch around bridgeport,. 98. New york city. 9 almost an inch right there. We are going to see more rain. Temperatures will be staying mild right overnight. The strong Storm Chances will be starting to develop as this line gets closer to the area. Its getting closer now. Heaviest after 7 p. M. 6 17 right now very windy during your nighttime hours. 40mileperhour gusts, 50 mileperhour gusts could be stronger than 50 Miles Per Hour gusts that why we have that high wind advisory along the coastline. Street flooding a possibility and limbs could get knocked down and they could affect Power Outages out there. Shows us where this heavy line is now. Its around the philadelphia area. Look, some of this may be affecting more of our western suburbs. But if you look at the big picture, theres a huge line behind it. Now, granted its not the thickest, okay. Kind of a skinny line but it is just racing through the atmosphere right now. That line right will is moving at over 50 Miles Per Hour. Its going to be getting here. We have because of these two working in conjunction with each other, we have tornado watches or warnings that extend from our area all the way down into South Carolina and in our area we are going to continue to watch. Ill watch this like a hawk. Im going to watch for this red shaded area to get pushed further to the north. Right now its not in the game plan. But if that happens, i will be the first to let you know. Again its as far north as Mercer County currently ill let you know if they decide to issue it closer to the city. Bigger picture going to show you a big storm. Its over 1,000 miles. Well over 1,000 miles wide with the center down around the tennessee valley. Heres how we see things good gusts 50 Miles Per Hour around 7 30 for some folks out there. 30 to 40 early thursday morning to thursday afternoon. 25 to 30mileperhour winds on thursday still, you know, windy gusty day out there. Not as strong as the winds overnight. Tomorrows High Temperature 54 degrees. Friday the cold air sets up. Plenty of you starting off below freezing. 39 in the city. For the weekend sunday warmer. Same amount of sunshine but just instead of 40 degrees on saturday, youre 50 on sunday. All right. Thank you. Big day at yank spring training. The full team reported to work. Otis livingston live in tampa looking ahead to sports tonight. Hey, otis. The yankee infielders looking forward to working with the law firm of betances, miller and chapman. Could Yoenis Cespedes top yesterdays arrival and exit at mets camp . Wheels for the slugger. Listen up new york. Theres a new drug out there. And its trying to destroy our generation. Its called synthetics. So, some guy thought it might be a good idea to spray poison on some herbs, and then sell it to you. No, its not marijuana. It goes by names like k2, spice, rocks. Causes hallucinations, rapid heartbeat. Vomiting, seizures. And it can kill you the first time you smoke it. We gotta have each others backs. 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Plenty of rain as the position players officially reported to duty, a rod showed up at 8 22, later taking his physical, taking some bt and taking the day off from speaking to us. He will talk to us tomorrow. The back end of the bullpen combination of miller, della betances and Aroldis Chapman will look better than ever. The players are looking forward to playing behind them. He may not need to bring my glove out there for the last few innings they will strike out so many guys but it will be fun. We need to get some leads. If we get leads going into the 7th inning i have a good feeling well shut the game down. Forward to playing defense behind the last three guys in t bullpen . Its amazing to see what they have been doi

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