When without saying a word those officers pounced. Just rushed. Reporter the former tennis star shaken and furious. 35yearold james blake says he was tackled and pinned to the ground by nypd officers outside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on east 42nd street wednesday morning, taken down in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Reporter have you had any conversation with him at all with the cops yet . Not yet. Reporter the harvard educated tennis player, once ranked fourth in the world was waiting outside of the midtown hotel for a car when the Police Lieutenant rushed towards him. He says at one time he was held down by five plainclothessed officers. It was when a detective nearby recognized blake and identified him and the officers let him go. Police commissioner bill bratton says blakes account is disturbing. One of the officers now placed on modified duty. Just the nature of what he described is not what we do. Its not what were supposed to do. Reporter bratton says the officers were from the grand larceny unit, working on a sting at the hyatt where suspects were accused of ordering for phones and paying for them with stolen credit cards. Detectives were back at the Hotel Wednesday night where several aspiring tennis pros couldnt believe how blake was treated. Hes the best player out there. Hes, like, a grand slam champion. Reporter what do you think about the fact this happened to him today . Thats a disgrace, really. Reporter blake says what he wants now is simple. Reporter what would you like to hear . An apology. Reporter now, police say they did make two legitimate arrests here yesterday. They say they have been talking with witnesses and will be going over Surveillance Video outside of the hotel as part of the investigation. Reporting live this morning in midtown, janelle burl, cbs 2 news. Thank you. Time for traffic and weather on the 2s. Lets get over to john. Good morning, chris, hi, mary. Good morning, everybody. Scanning the skies over my shoulder, weve got some soggy streets around the area, flood advisory for parts of the area advisory for parts of the area as well. Its rain and fog for the city, so having an impact on visibility and 73 degrees, winds out of the west. This is all rolling in from the west, but its a slow mover, so well see another round this afternoon. So you can see through Staten Island through parts of queens, into brooklyn and more of Nassau County, still parts of union, hudson county, i drove through a lot of that, so did alex. I mean, it was nasty this morning. You can expand that. Morning. A low in the middle part a lull in the middle part of the day and i think a more significant round this afternoon. Youre looking at 79 right around 80 for a high today. Itll feel a little warmer with those doiments, definitely some soggy spots. Watch out for some flooding in and around the city. So you know what that means, you need to leave a little extra time, take the rain gear too. Now to back me up, im sure, a buffet of woas, heres alex. Reporter already, john. As you make your way in harrison, we do have an accident blocking the lane on the new england thruway northbound between merrimac avenue and playland parkway. No delays but use the hedge as an alternate if you choose to there. Lets move to construction, two lanes blocked in both directions on the fdr drive between 61st and 79th street. If you choose to take the west side highway, its a much smoother ride for you. To the George Washington bridge, inbound lower level is close for construction. No delays at any of the hudson River Crossing tolls, though. As you can clearly see, limited visibility as you cross the span. Slick spots as john mentioned, so do be careful. Alternate in effect city wide. Remember, be safe, dont text a drive, mary, back to you. Alex, thank you. It looks like a movie set but thats a green cab that went into flames. The Fire Department says they got a call just after midnight saying the car was on fire under the pearl and the manhattan bridge. Luckily nobody was hurt. Yesterdays rain causing damage in Staten Island. Streetsstreets were flooded there. Drivers stranded and some cars were under water. Many of these areas still recovering from Superstorm Sandy. The south beach section was one of the hardest hit areas. Cbss Valerie Castro reports. Every time it rains it becomes like a nightmare. Reporter johns home has flooded again. It was still in disrepair from Superstorm Sandy when the water made its way in wednesday afternoon. The house along with four of his classic cars took the brunt of the flooding on dodi avenue in the south beach section of Staten Island. 10 minutes is what flooded the whole block out and this is every time we get a a storm here, this is what happens. Reporter in this cell phone video you can see one unlucky driver found himself waiting on the roof of his own car when it stalled out in the newlyformed river. Those nearby could only watch and wait for help. I had mixed emotions. I was, like, is he okay, like, how is he going to get out . Reporter john and his neighbors sate catch basins on the street arent doing enough and theyre not alone. Several people posting video to social media showing flooding and Rushing Water in their neighborhoods. Back on dodi avenue, the water eventually subsided, but residents like janeen valentineo says theyve had enough. Every time we get a little bit of a bad rain, you cant go to work, you cant do anything. Youre stuck in your house. Residents say they have made repeated calls to ask the city to fix the problem. The department of Environmental Protection would not tell us if there are any plan in the works on that street. A man is accused of sneaking onto an empty plane in newark. They say he got on the tarmac and entered a United Airlines jet that was parked at the gate. At some point the suspect set off an alarm. Authorities are not releasing the mans identity. They are sweeping the plane for any other suspicious items. The hangar that collapsed at Newark Airport will be torn down today. Four workers were hurt yesterday afternoon, two of them seriously. They were prepping the old United Airlines hangar for demolition when something went wrong and the building gave way. We just heard a big boom, everybody came outside and started screaming a building collapsed. So search and rescue, police started evacuating the area, blocking off the streets. The section nearest to the runway fell completely to the ground. The hangar was not in use. New developments this morning in the shooting of a top aide to governor perdue. Police have release to Governor Cuomo. They believe hes 19 or 20 years old and was wearing a jamaican flag around his neck. An attorney for the Governors Office was shot in the head early monday morning in crown heights. Police say he was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle of two rival gangs. He remains in condition at kings county hospital. A crime spree in new jersey ends up with a stolen car smashed into a store. Along the way six people were hurt, including the top Law Enforcement officer in union county. Police say quadre frazier was staying at the hotel when he got into a fight with a woman yesterday afternoon and fired a shot at her. They said he then pistol whipped the Hotel Manager in the parking lot and carjacked a womans car at gunpoint. Created some serious havoc in this area in the matter of an hour. Police say frazier hit several cars before crashing into a jeep and then into a store window. One of the victims is acting prosecutor grace park, said to be shaken but not seriously injured. Tomorrow will mark the 14th anniversary of 9 11 with memorial events here in new york city and around the country. Today in shanksville, pennsylvania, Visitors Center will be dedicated and open to the public at the united flight 93 national memorial. Passengers aboard flight 93 fought back against hijackers. Theyre credited with keeping the plane being flown into either the white house or the u. S. Capitol. The plane instead crashed into an open field, killing all 44 people on board. We will have live coverage of the september 11th remembrances tomorrow beginning at 8 25 a. M. Happening today Governor Cuomo will call for a statewide 15 minimum wage. There are several reports that when he unveils his proposal he will be joined by Vice President joe biden. Cuomo has previously supported 15 an hour for fast food workers, but rejected mayor de blasios call for a citywide minimum of 13 an hour. Well have much more on this story coming up in our next half hour. Happening today fashionistas from around the globe are converging on manhattan to kick off new York Fashion Week after a fiveyear run, the biannual event has moved away from lincoln center. This year the venues will be the sclt at the money han station in midtown, the studios in the meat packing district and the sky light clarks and scare in soho. Crowds will gather not only to watch the latest names in fashion, but stars expected to take the front seat. A record catch. Wait until you see the giant fish that was reeled in. Plus this. Its going to be a struggle for many of these people and were going to fight to get them every dime back how brooklyn Insurance Agent accused of scamming millions of dollars from those who have been saving up their whole lives. And Apple Unveils its newest products, including a writing tool that could break the bank. Johnny. Hey, want to make sure that you stay dry and safe today. Were celebrating the rain, but yet were dealing with some soakers out there which will definitely slow you down. Big drop in the numbers. Weekend woas . Split decision time. Traffic and weather coming up on the 2s. 4 cho 42. Welcome back to cbs 2 news this morning. Lets get right over to traffic and weather on the 2s. Heres john. Well, ill tell you what, we are dealing with some wet weather conditions out there. A lot of folks, though, a lot of the weather watchers, theyre loving the rain because we i tell you what, desperately needed this rain. 75 for the south shore. We have 76 here, brian bartow, yeah, and obviously, he is hoping for more rain today. He didnt get much yesterday, but Staten Island, parts of brooklyn, other parts of Nassau County just too much rain. Look at these numbers, though, comfortable 70s. Thats nice. Nice big change, a lot cooler. Danielle in Greenwood Lake also celebrating the rain. Numbers for you today, theyre going to be actually, a lot of us wont see 80. Its been a long time since that has happened. In the city were dealing with some fog, though, and some rain pushing through to the east. 73 degrees, winds out of the west at seven, relative humidity at 90 . A few more numbers for you, cool spot 64 in monticello, 69 in sparta, 75 in greenwich, 76 in the hamptons, 72 in belmar. These numbers compared to yesterday, you know, on average its about the same. Youre not going to see the big warmup, though, today because of the cloud cover and the on againoffagain showers. A flood advisory until 6 00 a. M. For flooding in parts of north jersey, into the city, into the bronx and into Nassau County as well. Rain yesterday just kind of exacerbating that situation. Some heavy rain right now through parts of Staten Island, central brooklyn into queens and into more of Nassau County. This holds together, south shore, youre going to see that, fire island as well. Expand the view. Still some rain in through parts of passaic and bergen county. Then a break. Whats going to happen, though, is youll see this cell erupt later and into the 9 00 hour youre dealing with the potential for another round of heavy rain in the city. So watch the kind of scattered nature of this. Youll be dry north and west and then things will fill in between 6 00 and 9 00. 10 00 this morning could be dealing with just torrential rain in through parts of the bronx and into Fairfield County as well. So just be mindful of that. You cant be driving through it if you dont know how deep it is because this is the kind of rain in poor drainage areas that will cause problems. Then this afternoon, oh, boy, after school, early commute, look at this heavy rain that starts to fill in. So the potential is there for more widespread flooding through the commute into the 7 00 hour. You can see that into more of putnam, dutchess and Westchester County as well. Tomorrow morning, you know, we start to wrap things up, mindful of the services around the area, and then we have a better day in the afternoon. Then saturday its the reverse, it starts to cloud up. So by saturday afternoon you have a chance of a shower, and its looking a little bit more likely for some showers for the race for the cure, wearing pink today to get you ready for that. Just make sure you have the rain gear then. You definitely need it today. Busy, stormy, potential for more flooding, break friday afternoon, saturday morning, and then a few more showers and cooler still on your sunday. So, yeah, a busy me, busy alex, right . Reporter thats how it goes, john, traffic and weather together. If you are traveling here in the bronx, a jackknifed truck now has at least one lane blocked on the northbound side of the bruckner. Its at westchester avenue. Delays back to country club road and a little farther north of here in harrison, a block between merrimac avenue and playland parkway. No delays. You can use the hutchinson as an alternate for both of these alerts if youre traveling through the area. A live look at construction which has two lanes blocked in both directions on the fdr drive between 61th street and 79th street. Weve seen an ebbing and flowing of delays through the area. If you choose to take the west side highway, thats a smoother ride. Alternate in effect city wide. Be safe, dont text and drive. Mary, back to you. Alex, thank you. If youre just waking up, heres a quick look at stories making new this morning. Secretary of secretary says john kerry will increase the number of refugees were taking in from africa. He says its expected to be increased next year to 75,000. Congress began a series of hearings on planned parenthood, thats after secretly recorded videos show a group of officials discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses. Texas Officials Say a second person has died from a salmonella outbreak, possibly linked to tainted cucumbers sold by a san diego company. In mid august a 99yearold san diego woman also died of salmonella. On our money watch this morning, stock futures are higher today after more losses on wall street yesterday. Now, the declines were led by Energy Stocks as the price of crude oil fell sharply. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 239 points, the nasdaq composite dropped 55, the s p 500 lost 27. Now, turns out the rumors were largely true as apple revealed a lineup of improved hightech products yesterday. The companys ceo tim cook showed off the new ipad pro, a bigger and faster tablet computer. It uses an optional styleus called the apple pen, a portable keyboard and 3d touch, all new ways of entering data. This is the most advanced ipad weve made by a longshot. I think this is apples way to attract new users for the ipad. The ipad has declined in sales for the past six quarters in a row. Other improved products include apple tv which now responds to siri voice commands and two iphone models, models 6s and 6s plus. A bay ridge Insurance Agent is accused of stealing more than 2 million from victims in their 70s, 80s and 90s. Alex gainer tells us why hes being charged with a hate crime. Reporter 69yearold paul simineshy is led into the courtroom for arraignment in handcuffs. The Insurance Agent is accused of scamming 13 victims, one as old as 94 as out of a total of 2. 5 million collectively and for that hes charged with a hate crime. Its a hate crime because this defendant targeted a group of individuals based on their age. Reporter the Staten Island man, a married father of four and fwrfer of six operated grandfather of six, operated Simmons Planning Group and agency in brooklyn after stinlts as a teacher and limo driver. Police say he was born in italy and would speak italian to italian it immigrant clients, developing longterm relationships. One of the ways Thompson Says simmeneshy would dupe clients is by recommending they surrender their Life Insurance policies and invest the money with him. But instead of investing it, he deposited it into his account. Some of that cash allegedly used to buy a girlfriend an apartment. Its even alleged that he stole from a childhood friend in the hospital. Is he sorry, is he remorseful . Listen, most of the people involveed in this indictment are people that paul knows very well. He never intended to hurt anyone and if he had any money, anyone who had anything coming to him, you could be sure they would get it back. Reporter its a lot of money. It sure is. Figures way, way you know, we cant figure that out. Reporter the but the d. A. Is vowing to figure it out and give it back. You work all your life to earn a life savings to live your retirement in peace, but to have that money defrauded, stolen from you, its gonna be a struggle for many of these people and were gonna fight to get them every dime back. Reporter at one point the judge angry at the prosecution and the defense were talking over him, sent t