Driver of the school bus was noticeably upset and said the brakes rang out. Several children ranging from 10 to 16 were taken to area hospitals with a variety of injuries, cuts, whiplash and some broken bones. The kits were scarred. I said it will be fine, it will be fine. Some kids asked what are the name of the street. They are texting their moms, calling parents. Reporter the children were on their way to Mount Carmel Guild academy and three of the children have special needs. Police say an investigation is pending to determine the official cause of the crash and they are looking into the drivers claims of brake failure. We are still investigating the vehicle and it will be checked out for mechanical problems. Reporter coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 00 i will tell you about some of the challenges First Responders face when they were trying to get the kids off the mangled bus. Live in newark, a. J. Ross, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, a. J. Also in new jersey, police are investigating how a driver lost control of his church van and crashed into a restaurant. This happened in jersey city about 1 30 this afternoon. The van that did not have any passengers on board crashed through the outer wall of the restaurant. The restaurant was open at the time but no serious injuries were reported. Police questioned the driver at the scene. You about. This is in queens. A pedestrian was critically injured when he was hit by an mta bus. The 40yearold driver was hit by a q 66 bus on prince street in flushing. The bus driver was questioned at the scene. No charges have been filed. What started as a regular card game with friends turned into a Murder Investigation in orange county. 67yearold man was shot by someone else trying to rob him. It happened in newburgh. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis is live at the scene with the details. Marcus . Reporter and, dave, this is initially where the card game was set up. When it got dark it moved across the street outside the laundromat where there are lights. A few hours later, the poker game ended in gunfire and death. The bullet holes marked by police tape tell part of the story as does the makeshift memorial complete with a deck of cards and dollar bills and a picture of the victim pointing to money in his pocket. Last night samuel stubs was shot and killed playing cards. He was a fixture in newburgh, known for his flashing sense of style as his love of shooting dice or playing poker. Dressed well, sharp guy, very friendly. He would help you out. Brings the tables out, play cards, doesnt bother nobody. Reporter the shooting took place about 1 30 this morning outside of a laundromat on courtney avenue. Robbery was the apparent motive. Two other men were shot and they are expected to survive. Sammy was too good to go like that. Never bothered anyone, no one. Reporter no arrests in the case. This is the 7th shooting in the last couple of weeks and the fourth this year in newburgh. We will have more on the frustration from residents about the violence later on in a live report. Marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, marcus. Well, we are following a developing story. Just a few minutes ago, ik who punched geno smith spoke out for the First Time Since the fight. I apologized to the jets organization, the fans, the teammates and coaches. I apologize for what happened i. Never should have happened. I should have walked away from the situation. It was a never my intentions to hurt anybody. That Football Player apologizing to smith for breaking his jaw and as a result smith will miss six to ten weeks. After being released by the jets, he was picked up but the rival buffalo bills, rex ryans new team. Big decision by connecticut Supreme Court. The justices overturning the Death Penalty ruling it unconstitutional. This case affects 11 men or death row including Joshua Komisarjevsky and steven hayes. They were sentenced to death for killing a mother and her two daughters in a Home Invasion in 2007. Governor malloy, who is against Capital Punishment released a statement that reads in part today is a somber day. Our focus should not be on the 11 men on death row but with those victims and those surviving family members. My thoughts and prayers are with them during what must be a difficult day. The battle against legionnaires made its way back to city hall today. City Council Voted to require inspections and testing on cooling towers, a breeding ground for the illness. Part of a joint regulation effort between the city and state. Fines and possible prison times for people who dont properly maintain the towers. Mayor de blasio thanked the Health Care Workers on the front lines of the outbreak at Lincoln Hospital today. They were in the core of this outbreak. This was the go to medical facility and the folks that work here serve with tremendous distinction. The recent outbreak linked to contaminated towers resulted in 119 cases. 12 people died. The last known case back from august 3rd. Diana . New Jersey Transit and department of transportation officials laying out their plans as they get ready for pope francis visit to new york and philadelphia next month. Officials say they expect two Million People will flood into the area for papal events and church services. Its estimated 250,000 cars and 10,000 charter buses will be on roadways. Get this, the jets and giants, they are playing the weekend of september 25th and the u. N. General assembly will be in session. Police commissioner bratton weighed in on security. Safe to say probably never been equaled in the sense of 160 the same time as the pope. As he is leaving the president is coming in. Bill bratton said he will discuss possible subway and street closures in the next few weeks. New Jersey Transit is asking anyone who does not need to travel to consider a stay cation during this period of time. School will be canceled in philadelphia during the papal visit. If you want to know more about the popes visit, check out the schedule, look at our special section at our web site, abc7ny pope. Overseas a violent attack. Isis is claiming responsibility for a deadly bomb attack in baghdad that killed more than 60 people. The blast went off at a crowded market as their weekend shopping. Stephanie ramos has the latest. Reporter plums of smoke billowing over torched vehicles. Food inside of crates inside the shell of a bad dad market. Iraqis reeling from a bomb that ripped through this neighborhood. The injured rushed to the hospital. Nearly 70 People Killed by the blast in one of the deadliest attacks on the iraqis capitol in years. The Islamic StateGroup Claims Responsibility and voice more at vows more attacks. We have a middle east shrouded in instability with the rise of isil. Reporter chief of staff said isis is a problem in the middle east. The u. S. Will deal with it for years to come. He shared his disappointment about how things turned out in the country. I believe a couple of years ago, 2010, 11, it was in a place in the right direction. As it turned out they werent prepared to handle that. Because of iraqs instability, isis has been able to flourish in both iraq and syria. That problem, he says, needs to be resolved by the countries in the region. We could go in there with a certain amount of American Force and defeat. The problem is we will be back where we are today six months later. Reporter what about g. O. P. Frontrunner Donald Trumps suggestion that the u. S. Bomb iraqi oil fields. The general disagreed saying he learned about the limits of military power. Stephanie ramos, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Two days of turmoil in the asian markets helped stocks in the u. S. Post modest gains. Chinese currency fell by a little bit. This is squealing fears that chinas economy is slowing down. Lets take a live look at the dow. Its up 5 points. Closed a little right at 17,408. Well, they were supposed to be helping teens get summer jobs. Investigators say workers at a nonprofit were actually profiting themselves all while the teens went unpaid. Wait until you hear how the scam was uncovered. How far does a public official have to go to prove that a tax i can river is perfectly safe. What colorados river did coming up. Meteorologist amy freeze in the accuweather forecast. Its absolutely gorgeous outside. Temperatures are in the low 80s. Practically worry free weather to close out the evening. Tomorrow hotter temperatures. The roads on this thursday check. Heavy traffic on the westbound Grand Central parkway in queens. You know what, the mets game just let out. Apparently its crowded but a lot of happy met fans. They won 123. I think they are back in first place. Maybe they dont mind being stuck in traffic. Hudson river crossings, one lane is blocked on the outbound upper level of the George Washington bridge. That will cause problems. 30minute delays outbound lincoln tunnel and holland tunnel. Big scare inside a packed nightclub in minnesota after part of the ceiling gave way. More than 700 people were inside first avenue in minneapolis last night when a section of the ceiling collapsed. It rained dust and debris on the crowd. Three people suffered nonlife threatening injuries. First avenue is best known as the venue where prince recorded three songs for his album purple rain. We have been showing you the toxic waste flowing through a river in colorado. Today the goff for sent what he hopes will be a powerful message to residents that the water is safe. Governor take a tablet to clean it up and drank the water. Thats what i said. He drank it. Nearly 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater poured in when a dam brook. This water, the metals are at preincident event. You dont drink its perfectly fine for rafting. He dropped purification water in but diana, the back woods man said it takes time. I hope it worked quickly. Its a big owe for all of us. Rowan county clerk tim davis turned away two gay couples. Davis has not issued licenses to any couples since the Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage bans were unconstitutional in june. Yesterday a federal judge ordered her to resume issuing licenses. An Appeals Court in colorado ruling that it is discrimination for a baker to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple. Jack phillips declined to take the cake order of the gay couple because he said it violated his christian beliefs. His Attorney Says they are considering appealing pealing to the Supreme Court. You think you love your pet . Well, a man in upstate new york took on bear to save his dog. Eric spinner told rescuers he was on walk with his dog in strafford when a bear suddenly attacked his small dog. What did he do . He struggled to get the bear off his dog, picked up a stick, hit the bear and it worked. Spinner and the dog were hurt a little bit but they are expected to be okay. Wildlife officials are looking for the bear. Before we get to the weather and meteorologist amy freeze, we want to show you an incredible picture taken in the area of tucson, arizona. Awesome. That is awesome. Mccowan captured. Its a rainbow and lightning. Lightning trigger. Lightning. A lightning trigger. You attach it to the camera and when it senses lightning, it goes off faster than human reflexes. He called it a shout of a lifetime. We agree. Probably framed with the rainbow and it went off because of the trigger of the lightning. Do you have one of these . I dont. I have the go oldfashioned iphone. Those work, too. Can you take that with this . I dont know about that. He did it well. I saw on his Facebook Page that he has already been mentioned in the Washington Post and a couple of other spots. Add wabc to your list. Good for him when you capture Something Like that on your camera. We have sunshine and good weather here. We had a few rainbows yesterday from the spotty rain. Pure sunshine this afternoon. Gorgeous. You cant get weather this good in august without paying for it. So, the bill is up the bill is due. We will have some changes coming our way in the form of hotter temperatures and we are going to have some changes in the form of humidity increasing. Be ready for that. Looking down to Lower Manhattan and the battery, beautiful skies. A few fair weather puffy cumulus clouds decorating the sky. Northwest winds at 6 miles per hour. Todays highs were on the money. Low 80s is what we were expecting. Up to 85 in newark. Slightly cooler than yesterday. 79 sussex and a cool 73 in monticello. Influence of the northerly winds kept the atmosphere cool and dry. Tomorrow we get the temperatures increasing. So, we could be very close to 90 in a lot of spots. Just behind a temperature increase will be an increase in humidity. Association the rest of this evening beautiful. Winds are light. Still getting a westerly influence and a lot in a lot of spots. As the sun goes down, the 70s. After 10 00 we start the dive full to 60 degrees or below. Profile. They are expecting to go into overnight lows. Perfect. By tomorrow we have climbing temperatures. A lot of sunshine. Beautiful conditions. Then by saturday it gets a little uncomfortable. Dew points up, humidity increasing and we feel the change and sort of a more familiar feel for august, dont forget the heat and humidity. That will take us through the weekend. The nice weather that we had comes to a halt if you will. You have to find a way to stay cool over the weekend. We are storm free. That is the good news. Even into saturday night a few showers to the north. Not a big deal. So, 68 is how we will call it tonight in the city. 60s in the suburbs. There could be outlying spots in the 50s. By tomorrow, we are back in the upper 80s. Above average for this time of year a few degrees and warmer conditions. The humidity wont be high tomorrow but it definitely will be warmer. The increase in the mugginess is coming saturday. Steamy hot on sunday with a shower or thunderstorm late and monday if we hit three days of 90 that would be the First Official heat wave of the season. We havent had the heat wave officially then tuesday hot with storms before we break the wave of heat. Upper 80s down the stretch. From this day out 87 or warmer. This summer doesnt want us forget about it. Remember the winter . You wont forget that. What was that men in black where they held the thing up. Completely forgot. See you in a bit. Joy ride in a stolen car is not new but the driver in this case is 11 years old. How Police Spotted him behind the wheel. You may have seen this in your social media feeds. Today sesame street brought to you by the so, i needed to deposit a check. I was about to head to the bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. Like really rain. [clap of thunder] i did not want to go out. [clap of thunder] but then i was like duh, just use your phone. Mobiledeposittechnothingy to the rescue. Im rayna. And i bank human at td bank. Today marks the second day of negotiations in the Tom Brady Deflategate scandal. Lawyers met with a manhattan judge. The attorneys met separately as they are trying to resolve bradys four game suspension and Million Dollar fine. The discussions laced lasted about four hours. The judge still hasnt made a decision. Another hearing is expected next week. Hbo has a new addition to its line up. Sesame street right there with all the other stuff that you can catch on hbo. The next five seasons will first be available on hbo before airing on pbs. As part of the deal, Sesame Workshop can produce double the content of previous seasons. The new episodes will air as early as this fall. After nine months they will appear on pbs. Some may find the partnership surprising but sesame street game of throness parody, which is different from the game of throness that you catch on hbo which has violence and curse words, a lot of things you wont see on the sesame street hbo. A little foreshadowing there. I think so. Speaking of puppets, the broadway show hand to god has been getting big laughs since its day bee. Like book of mormon it has a raunchy tone. Sandy kenyon sat down with the star. Reporter i can understand why people love it. Hand of god is a play with something to say and wild and crazy fun, hilarious and serious. It features pup pits manipulated by actors in a coming of age story about christians in texas. It captured tony award voters. Meet tyrone and jason. Two parts played by one person named stephen boyle. Playing two characters simultaneously is the most difficult thing i have been asked to do. The puppet says what the kid cannot. Each of us has a due at inside of ourselves. The side that wants to be good then the side that wants to rebell against that and really wants to be bad. Oh, yeah, look me in the eyes. Reporter the two sides are at war which makes for a funny and at times very raunchy show. This will stack up to any movie, television, anything you have seen. People lose their minds laughing. Reporter it packs a punch in more ways than one which is sometimes. I broke this finger on stage during a matinee. I actually sprained about four other fingers. I just came from getting my elbow x rayed. Its a physical show. A lot going on. Reporter a graduate of the juilliard school, he was a stand up comic before he found fame and a tony nomination in hand to god. Talent, training and timing all come together for him here. Anything that i do after vacation. Reporter i understand why. My wife and i went to see it thinking it would be like a lesson or lecture, one of those plays good for or educational. Nothing could be further from the truth. Its a lot of fun. It needs an expla