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WABC Eyewitness News First At 4 June 22, 2024

City penn station. We will keep you posted on that story. Absolutely. Now to breaking developments in the legionnaires outbreak. A new Health Department order was issued. Anyone who owns or controls a building with a cooling tower is required to test and disinfect their cooling tower. We have just learned that the death toll is now up to 10. The number of cases is at 100. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis is in the melrose section of the bronx with the latest update on the story. Marcus . Reporter dare and shirleen, the number of cases has slowed. Only three new cases but two of them fatalities. To make sure that the outbreak is under control, a new Health Department order regarding those cooling towers which are at the heart of this outbreak. Building owners will be required to test the cooling systems within 14 days and failure to comply will be considered a misdemeanor. The mayor announcing the numbers r number of cases in the the number of cases in the bronx has hit triple digits, 100 and ten fatal. The state Health Commissioner was in the bronx with ruben diaz touring complex concourse plaza. The state has been doing the lab testing for the city and will now provide the testing for free for building owners, testing that is now mandatory. The order instructs the owners or managers to test and disinfect their cooling tower within the next 14 days. Failure to the commissioners order is a misdemeanor. We are doing this out of an abundance of caution. Everyone understands that the outbreak has been limited to one community in our city. And the mayor emphasizing that most buildings in the city dont have cooling towers. They feel they have the outbreak under control. This is a significant changing forward. Much more at 5 00. Live in the melrose section of the bronx, marcus solis, channel 7 eyewitness news. Thank you, marcus. You can find extended coverage on legionnaires disease on our web site at abc7ny. We want to sent it back out to shannon sohn. She has an update on the breaking story, the track fire at New York Penn station. We have just repositioned ourselves. Newark changed the arrival pattern so we can get to the east side of the newark penn station. You can see the Fire Department activity on the tracks. This is just outside of the station. If you look closely, right over here, you can see there is still smoke billowing out through the area, not a tremendous amount but enough smoke that they are going to have to remain with Service Suspended through the area. You can see the scorch marks up and down the platform. And the Fire Department is working on the situation. We will bring the shot out to give you an idea where this is in relation to New York Penn station. That is it at the top of the screen. That is where the track fire was. That is why service is suspended both the north jersey coastline going into New York Penn station from newark penn station. At the time that we heard about the story, there were flames visible. Its just smoke. They will get an upper hand but they have to do some repairs before they can reopen the tracks. Recording live over newark penn station, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. We know you will keep us updated. Thank you. First at 4 00 exclusive video shows an arson fire raging at a brooklyn restaurant. This is what strictly vegetarian on church avenue in flatbush looked like early on july 23rd. Police say a suspect walked up to the building and intentionally through a device outside of it. Luckily the upper floors of the building were empty. Surveillance video captured the man walking away and sparking the blaze. So far police have no motive and have made no arrests. Frightening moments in the bronx as a manhole cover blows off, smashes through the bottom of an mta bus and injuries a passenger. It happened to a bx 11th bus near 170th street and inwood avenue. The manhole weighed as much as 100 pounds and hit a female passenger. She was not seriously hurt. We are following developing news out of manhattan about a contract deal reached with new york citys Fire Department. Mayor de blasio is expected to announce any moment that the city has settled a long standing dispute with the Uniformed Firefighters Association over disability pen sons. An agreement has been reached to withdraw a lawsuit filed by the Firefighters Union against City Council Speaker Mark Viverito over the pension benefits. All right, the search for a missing swimmer in the waters off sandy hook, new jersey, is being called a recovery mission. We have newscopter 7 above the rescuers searching for the 25yearold man who witnesses say was struggling in the waves last night. Darla miles is live at sandy hook beach with the update. Reporter we just got word that part of the search was suspended for the day. The helicopter searches and dive teams are done. The park virus will continue the foot patrols on the beach. They got started early this morning at 8 00 this morning. Unfortunately, there is still no sign of that missing swimmer. When we got out of our van, we saw a helicopter. It was really low to the ground. We were wondering what was going on. Helicopters and dive teams, the backdrop for a beautiful beach day in sandy hook. This massive recovery effort hard to avoid as well as questions from little beachgoers like these. How can the police get him back to his home. Reporter three rescue boats all prepared to recover a missing swimmer thursday. A 25yearold man went under wednesday evening around 7 30 at beach b in an unprotected area, where there is no lifeguard on duty. At this point we dont know swimming. Reporter the Monmouth County Sheriffs Office leading the operation in part using a sonar to take pictures of the ocean floor. It has been tweeting out updates all day. The Shallow Water at beach b is only 3 feet deep but quickly drops off to 50 feet. A beach like this is like you have to understand the ocean. Yourself. Reporter this is a live picture of beach d of the Gateway National recreation center. The search today has only affected beach b. The other beaches are open all day. The only people on beach b today other than those rescuers was the family of that missing 25yearold swimmer waiting and hoping that they would pull him out. Reporting live in sandy hook, darla miles, channel 7 eyewitness news. Darla, thank you. The 11th person convicted in a road rage attack on the west side highway is about to learn his fate. Robert sims is in court at this hour to be sentenced for his role in the attack on Alex Committee i dont know leon in 20 alexian leon. He stood trial along with wojciech braszczok. Braszczok was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday. New information about the shooting following a hiphop concert at the pnc center in new jersey. Karon powell has been charged and arrested. Investigators say he was captured in east orange about 30 miles from the concert venue. Police say he fired multiple shots monday night. Two men, ages 23 and 24 were critically injured. Powell is being held on 750,000 bail. Pse g long island is racing to restore power to customers that have been without it since a destructive storm earlier this week. There are about 2300 still without electricity. More than 1900 customers dont have power. Service has been restored to 96 of the home affected. Pse g long island said a majority of the outages should be repaired later today. In cliffside park, new jersey, all water and gas service is expected to be back soon. A train collapsed on a road there and caused a water main break. Crews moved the 600,000pound piece of equipment off the main. They are now repairing the damage. The Water Service is coming back. A boil advisory will be in effect for the next day or two. Coast guard and Suffolk County crews sprang into action rescuing five people from the waters off long island. Boaters reported a fire aboard the 27foot boat in Great South Bay around 9 30 last night. They abandoned ship near robert moses causeway. Rescuers pulled them from the water before 10 00 p. M. A salvage crew towed the boat to a marina and no one was hurt. Police on long island are investigating what caused a tractor trailer driver to lose control of his truck and flip over on the l. I. E. This morning. The truck overturned near melville about 6 00 backing up traffic for miles during the morning commute. All westbound lanes were closed in the area for about two hours until the vehicle was removed. There were no serious injuries. Now to the race for president. In just a few hours, the first Republican Debate and it is a crowded one. The top ten gop candidates will take the stage in cleveland. Among them, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and donald trump who said he did not even rehearse. There was a lot of buzz over controversial comments he made. Now after big leads over other g. O. P. Candidates in recent polls, the Republican Party is taking him seriously. I think that donald trump tapped into something where people are tired of the veneer and plasticized politics that we get. People gravitate to that. Physical he continues to do well, we will see where it goes. Reporter the g. O. P. Field is crowded. So, not everyone is debating in cleveland tonight. The seven can dads that are not participating will take part in a Forum Earlier in the evening. Stocks on wall street sliding once again amid the release of more disappointing corporate earnings reports. Investors were discouraged in a drop of oil prices and looking ahead to the monthly jobs report due tomorrow. Here is a live look at the big board. The dow has dropped about 120 points closing at 17,419. Was it a case of air rage . A passenger caught on camera throwing punches on a plane. What set him off. Lets take a live look at newscopter 7 at the track fire at newark penn station. Crews are still on the scene. There are obviously Service Interruptions because of this. Of course we will keep you upda we continue to follow breaking news. The commute home, a fire on the tracks near penn station. Shannon sohn is live with updated information. Shannon . Reporter things are changing here. You can see the firefighters are still trying to get water on the fire. It happened at the end of the platform just off newarks penn station. For a while we had all Service Suspended between newark penn station and New York Penn station. That has changed. North jersey coastline, northeast corridor or raritan valley lines they are running trains. They are down this one track. We can show you, you see them soaking water on this. You got the foam from the fire extinguisher as well as fire extinguishers on the screen. You see a train coming through. We have a lot of debris on the platform as well and expect 45 minute delays on the three lines between newark and New York Penn station. Hopefully that will improve soon. Reporting live over penn station in newark, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. Shannon, thanks a lot. We have details just in about the man accused in yesterdays attack at a tennessee movie theater. Police said the 29yearold had propane and lighter fluid and may have wanted to set off an explosive. He was shot by police after he unleashed pepper spray and attacked a man with a hatchet. A passenger became irate on a United Airlines flight in chicago when he was asked to turn off his cell phone. Officials say he refused, got up and walked to the front of the plane. Thats when he suddenly turned and punched a passenger who apparently said something to him. Chicago Police Officers boarded the plane, which was parked at the gate. He was wrestled to the ground after he struck one of the cops and is facing multiple charges. Rapper busta rhymes got out of jail early this morning after being arrested in a manhattan gym. His real name is trevor smith junior. He posted this picture after getting out. He is facing Assault Charges after police say he attacked an employee at the steel gym. Police say he threw a protein drink container at the man who was not seriously hurt. New video of the wayward dolphin swimming in the south river in old bridge, new jersey. Newscopter 7 saw it surface a couple of times this morning. People are gathered on a nearby bridge delighted by seeing it. Officials with the Marine Mammal stranding center are monitoring the dolphin. They believe its healthy and will eventually swim back out to the ocean on its own. We call it away ward dolphin but it may have decided to come checking out the sights. And a Beautiful Day it was to watch wails, dolphins. The calendar is off. Its not due in town until the 29dth of november. Thats when they play the jets. I have no idea why he is swimming around new jersey. Exactly. I am so ready for football but not football weather. We have summer weather out here. Nice and warm. Not too humid. Lets go to the weather maps and check out a pretty afternoon. I want to get your signal to you. A couple of showers on southern new jersey, jersey shore. Beautiful in the bronx for the final game of yankees red sox and maybe a light jacket north and west because the humidity is low and we are dropping into the 60s. Notice a lot of high cloudiness. We advertise that, more of a milky sky. The pressure is on the fall. High 82 degrees. Thats where we are right now. We will spend the afternoon and evening hours in the 70s. 85 old bridge. Hudson valley 79 in north salem. 72 in monticello. Planner for the evening hours, sun and high clouds. Clouds will be on the increase. We go mostly cloudy for a time tonight with a couple of showers south of new york city. As we go to morning, the clouds are retreating to the ocean. We just have sun and high clouds. It turns out to be a nice friday. There are the high clouds. Look at the showers starting to approach from harrisburg to philadelphia. They are connected to a strong low over the middle of the country. Its running into a lot of dry air. Maybe a sprinkle or light shower survives in central or southern new jersey. You can see the swirling low. That will exist far enough offshore that it has minimal impact on the weather. I am concerned about rough surf. Is the raining to be close to the coast . I dont think so. I think we will have a dry weekend other than the shower threat tonight. There will be high clouds around and stubborn in monmouth and ocean county. There are twopieces to the coastal system. They are safely south and east saturday leaving us with a Beautiful Day. That system over ohio could give us a couple of patchy clouds sunday afternoon north and west. Overall we will slip in another nice august weekend. Partly to mostly cloudy skies tonight. Might see a shower over southern new jersey, down to 69. Tomorrow its 82. A mix of clouds and sun more high clouds. You will favor more shine in our northern suburbs, northern jersey, hudson valley, connecticut. More cloudiness down the shore. In between and long island you are just seeing partly sunny skies on average, 82. Tomorrow night partly cloudy skies and 67 degrees. At 4 30, its thursday. We get the weekend get away. We will check it out from mountain top to seashore. The Hurricane Center gave an update. They typically do this in early august. They gave an update to the may atlantic hurricane forecast. Where they are headed with that when i come inside. Thank you, lee. Bounty hunters made a big mistake raiding a home in search of a fugitive. Wait until you hear who really lives there. Plus, a scare on stage for taylor swift. We will show you what happened and her reaction. The stars of abc gather in los angeles to promote the new Fall Schedule described as smart with heart. Im sandra ok a bounty hunting here looking for a fugitive ended behind bars. A group of Bounty Hunters acting on a facebook tip surrounded a house in mesa, arizona, a man wanted on narcotics charges. The fugitive africanamerican, 300 pounds, 63 inches tall. The man in the home, 510 and white and worse the chief of the Phoenix Police department. One of the Bounty Hunters was arrested after police say he refused to leave the property. One of the individuals that remained there into jail was still refusing to leave the home, demanding that he identify himself even though he clearly didnt match the description of the individual they were looking for which was a very heavy set larger black male. The Bounty Hunter has been charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. Authorities are looking into the socalled tip. Unbelievable. It has been a mission to showcase the diversity in this country with shows like blackish and fresh off the boat. In the upcoming fall season, the work is looking to keep that up. Sandy kenyon returned from los angeles where he hung out with the biggest stars including kerry washington. Broadcast and Cable Networks get a day or two to introduce the stars and programs around the world. The only one of the four networks to gain viewers was abc which made for a festive gathering. Right here in the middle. Reporter the middle of summer proved to be the perfect time to promote the new fall shows at a meeting of the tv critics association. Is that an enjoyable experience. Its fun, its fun. Reporter having a hit like blackish to talk about surely makes it more fun. And what is not to love when so many abc shows are finding an audience. I am so proud to be part of a network that is opening a lot of doors for diversity. The guy opening the doors is this man. We ma

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