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The phone that he was giving up. There was a threeminute incounter i would say. They said they loved each other and at that point mr. Tyree said he was going to surrender, his words, to come out. Reporter but just before noon six hours after the standoff began, he came out shooting. It appears given the way the man chose to die that what happened here may have been a matter of death by cop. Steve langford, cbs 2 news. Garland tyree has a long criminal history. According to investigators, he has 18 prior arrests and had been in and out of prison. He had been on probation since last summer. A newspaper clip he posted on instagram shows he was arrested in the 1990s for the shooting death of a neighborhood rival but was convicted on a lesser charge. And that firefighter injured in the shooting is recovering at Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island. Thats where cbs 2s Christine Sloan joins us live. Christine. Reporter thats right. The lieutenant firefighter is here at this hospital listed in stable condition. This is the first time in 21 years that a new york city firefighter has been shot in the line of duty. Both the mayor and commissioner at Richmond University Medical Center visit fire lieutenant jim hayes shot by the suspect, who barricaded himself in the home on Staten Island. The mayor calling hayes a hero. Lieutenant hayes very, very impressive guy. Cool, calm, collected, making light of his injuries, thank god thank god his injuries were as limited as they are and thats extraordinary given the situation he was in. Reporter the 31year veteran of the department with ainge come. His injuries not life threatening. Both bullets exiting his body. The commissioner says the father of two surrounded by his family is in pain but his spirits are high. He came very close to not being with us and, um, seeing his family. He is very happy. Reporter Authorities Say when firefighters arrived at the scene, they had no reason to believe the man inside was armed and dangerous. So lieutenant hayes rushed in as fellow firefighters stood at the door. Smoke was building up. Lieutenant made a decision to go in and fight this fire and find this person who was possibly unconscious. Lieutenant in crawling in and looking for the fire and looking for a possible victim was suddenly shot twice. He was able to turn around, go past the door where the perpetrator was hiding in the bathroom. More shots were fired that missed the lieutenant. He made his way to the entrance to the apartment. His members got him out to the street. Reporter hayes not just a hero here but also during the attacks on september 11th. How much pride does he take in his job . He loves it. When 9 11 happened, he had just became a fire lieutenant. I used to see him every day. Reporter the mayor calling all of the firefighters heroes. Now, the lieutenant comes from a family of firefighters. Three of his brothers with the department. We are live in the West Brighton section of Staten Island. Christine sloan, cbs2 news. As we continue to follow this developing story, coming up at 6 00, fallout from mayor de blasio over his actions during the standoff. Where was he . Why didnt he show up at the crime scene . Traffic a mess in Hells Kitchen. A manhole explosion happened earlier today. Cbs 2s dave carlin is live with the story. Reporter ninth avenue a mess here. Let me tell you about the coned crews in this truck right now. They are in there waiting it out because they cant get down into the manhole. Its still hot and smoking down there and they have the water going in to try to cool it off. Very heated right now over here traffic and the drivers not happy at all on this friday commute because it has been bad here on ninth avenue in Hells Kitchen but also all over manhattan as a result of this blast that began around 11 30. I heard just boom the cover came off. Reporter chopper 2 over ninth and 45th where an underground explosion sent a manhole cover flying. Witnesses estimate it shot some 15 feet in the air landed on a fire hydrant. No one was hurt. Theres one with the lid on still smoking a little bit and one with the lid off. We were just right over there and we heard a huge explosion. And we all just screamed and ran out the juice bar. We thought everybody blew up behind us. Reporter more than 10 blocks of ninth avenue closed for the start of the friday evening commute. Now open again but the jam is intense. [ music ] [ beeping ] trying to get to jersey right now. Um, dont think its going to happen for like another two hours. So im feeling pretty not okay. Reporter coned workers say the likely explanation, underground cables overheated sparked and blew possibly taxed by the extra energy demands on a hot day. One lane of ninth avenue here closed from 45th down to 42nd. Coned crews saying this repair job will go well into the night. Live in Hells Kitchen, dave carlin, cbs 2 news. What a mess over there. And things are slowly returning to normal in northwestern new jersey. Route 80 finally moving again after the back end of a truck separated from its cab. Right now we are going up to chopper 2 with joe biermann trailer accident. Joe what can you tell us and where are you . Reporter well, were in elmwood park another rush hour to nowhere. This time its a tractor trailer out of he will westbound route 80 up on to the divider. The divider stopped him from crossing the barrier. Major delays in both directions. This accident has been here since about 3 00. Your alternates for this delay would be route 46 route 80 is bumpertobumper for 40 miles in both directions of the parkway. Joe biermann, cbs 2 news. Once again, things slowly returning to normal in northwestern new jersey. Route 80 finally moving again after the back end of a truck separated over there from its cab. It landed on supports above new Jersey Transit Railroad Tracks. Cbs 2s tony aiello joins us live in Roxbury Township with the latest on this one. Reporter i went down on those Railroad Tracks looked up and got a good view of that dump truck hopper 20 feet above. I got to tell you i have never seen anything quite like it. Drivers were stuck on i80 for hours. Trains were stopped and buses used to replace them after this mornings accident which also sent three people to the hospital. Talk about a close call the rear part of a dump truck the hopper toppled on to the girders of an i80 overpass. Down below, new Jersey Transit Railroad Tracks, 20 feet below the 15,000 pounds of danger precariously perched above. We heard the huge crash noise. And then you just hear the horn honking nonstop. Reporter this woman was working nearby when the truck and this ford suv collided in the eastbound lanes of interstate 80. This picture posted on social media shows the suv upside down on the road. Marlin medrano heard the suv driver panicking. You hear the lady screaming like, oh, my gosh, like screaming like basically in terror saying help me, someone help me reporter nj transit stopped Train Service between Mount Arlington and hackettstown while workers with powdermill towing examined the truck hopper from a cherry picker trying to determine how to remove it. The back of the dump truck was empty. But big chunks of the cab went tumbling down alongside the Railroad Tracks. This piece of the hood and even what looked like the trucks ezpass. There were lane closures eastbound and gawkers delays westbound for more than 6 hours. Eventually workers attached cables to the hopper and lifted it off the girders using whats known as the rotator arm on a heavy duty tow truck. The dump truck driver, the driver of the ford suv and a young passenger in the ford all tank to local hospitals with nonlifethreatening injuries. Live in Roxbury Township, next, Morris County, tony aiello, cbs 2 news. A major step towards normalized relations between the u. S. And cuba today when the u. S. Reopened its embassy in havana. But despite the new policies, real differences remain. We have a live report from reporter dick, i know that this is something that a lot of people in the cuban American Communities in new york and new jersey never thought they would see. Maybe never wanted to see. But like it or not, the stars and stripes are flying high above the u. S. Embassy in havana. A castro may still be in power but theres no denying, some things actually do change. The raising of the flag at the embassy in havana a sign of diplomacy at work and its clear both the u. S. And cuba are working hard at the process of normalizing relations. Its also clue the two countries still have major differences. Total lifting of embargos and the return of the land taken illegally at guantanomo and reparation for human and economic damages. Reporter secretary of state john kerry says this is a process and that opening mutual embassies is a crucial step. The normalization of relations is not a favor that we do one nation to the other. Its something that we do together because both of our citizens we have determined have the ability to be able to benefit from the relationship. [ applause ] reporter at this mornings ceremony, the same three marines who took down the u. S. Flag 54 years ago presented it to a new generation to raise it. New beginnings, fresh hope. Jose marte once said that everything that divides men is a sin against humanity. Clearly, the events of the past, the harsh words, the provocative and retaliatory actions, the human tragedies, all have been a source of deep division that has diminished our common humanity. Reporter and after todays official events, dick, secretary kerry met with cuban dissidents and took an hour stroll around Little Havana a little handtohand diplomacy. Coming up, hope amid the heartbreak a miraculous rescue caught on camera. He survived a massive explosion and then spent 32 hours buried in the rubble. A firefighter saved more than a day after a tragedy. Plus i woke up and felt like the house had cracked. An earthquake in new jersey people woken up in the middle of the night by some unusual sights and sounds. Towed and taken for a ride. Cbs 2 gets action after a driver complained about an expensive bill that wasnt her fault. Too much skin or beautiful at 57 . The new sharon stone photos that have lots of people talking and looking. Lonnie. Okay. Um, well what we are talking about today is a nice looking day out there today. [ laughter ] its friday. Its all about the weekend. Will this nice weather carry on . Well talk about that in just a bit. It took Serena Williams years to master the two handed backhand. But only one shot to master the chase mobile app. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master the way you bank. In brooklyn in 1907, four courageous ladies saw the despair of the poor, old, and sick and founded what would become mjhs. Today mjhs provides quality home care, rehabilitation and skilled nursing, and advanced hospice and Palliative Care for adults and children, but the values of the brooklyn ladies still guide us. Mjhs. Caring every minute, every day. A dire warning tonight from the head of the city correction union. Fix the jails, mr. Mayor, or people will die of. It charges a cbs 2 expose a safety hazards in jails and prisons. Cbs 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer investigates. People will definitely die from either smoke inhalation and or burns or trapped in. Reporter the Corrections Union president knows whats going on at city jails as well anyone. And he says a report obtained exclusively by cbs 2 on the lack of fire alarms and Fire Suppression systems at city jails may be just the tip of the iceberg. The newest facility that they built is the rose singer wing to it. The fire apparatus equipment is not working. If a fire alarm system went off right now in the housing area, there would be no way of Sprinkler System dousing that fire. Reporter among the things found in the report to a federal monitor at the north infirmary on rikers newsroom russ life safety issues not being addressed. At the cross center on rikers, the recommendation that special smoke detection be provided in every cell was ignored. Manhattan Detention Center an inoperative system to keep smoke out of stairwells. 30,000 people could be in danger. He lays the blame on mayor de blasio. The mayor has to get involved because he is responsible for the safety and wellbeing of the people of the city of new york. And correction officers are not second class citizens to anyone. Reporter as for a response, a de blasio spokesman said the city added 157 million as to the budget of the department of corrections doc for life safety fixes. Meaningful reform takes time, she said, and doc is working closely with fdny to remedy these longstanding concerns. And further improve fire safety within the jails city hall has to be responsible to ensure that the commissioner of the agency and his underlings are doing what they are supposed to do. Reporter the report says that the department has dragged its feet so long, it could take 11 years until the year 2026 to fix everything. But Norman Seabrook says he thinks it will take a decade longer. Alice and dick . Thank you. A small earthquake in Central New Jersey shook some people awake early this morning. Officials located the center of the quake in the town of bernardsville but people in neighboring morris and somerset counties felt it. Cbs 2s Andrea Grymes has more. In the middle of the night, what was that . Reporter the couple had no idea at first an earthquake woke them up hitting their town of bernardsville, new jersey. We thought the bed was going to go through the house. Reporter the u. S. Geological survey confirms a small 2. 7 magnitude quake struck just about 2 miles north around 3 30 a. M. It was just kind of like a thunderclap more of a rumble. I woke up, the windows were shaking. As we were having coffee, i said i think i felt something. I slept through it. I woke up and i felt like the house was cracked in the night. That felt like an earthquake. Reporter authorities here in Somerset County and in neighboring Morris County say several residents called police to report rumbling. Officials say no one was injured. There was no reports of damage. But an hour later we had a transformer fire. But we dont know if that was related to the earthquake or not. Reporter jersey Central Power and light says the issue knocked out power to about 40 customers this morning. As for the earthquake, local barber art liardi is glad it wasnt worse. I checked my house, i woke everybody up. Everything was fine. Reporter although rare, earthquakes in the area are not uncommon. Back in 2010. Reporting in bernardsville, 2 news. More information on that you know what, when you think about an earthquake in this country you think about the San Andreas Fault out west but here in our area, small earthquakes are common. Im talking smaller than today. Most of them just cant be felt because our area actually rests right on a fault line. You take a look at where the earthquake hit today right there in bernardisville. The Bigger Picture will show you its the ramapo fault line that runs through bernardsville. It runs through like a tributary into the east coast fault line. You dont get big ones in this area but they happen regularly. Tomorrow hot and humid. For the most part you have a goodlooking day. It will get hot. First 90degree day. Could be a string of them. More coming up. [ music ] coming up, long dramatic and now expensive. New information about the 23 day manhunt for two escaped prisoners, shocking estimates on how much money was spent. Plus in this neighborhood, all waterways lead to long island sound. Now Westchester County and four municipalities have been sued for dumping sewage later check this out. A new view of the city that could top the empire state building. But would you want to stand on a deck thousands of feet off the ground. I dont know. Tonight on cbs 2 news at 6 00, a man accused of treating over 100 patients and he is not even a doctor. See the Evidence Police say they found in his home. Now to a cbs 2 exclusive. A Bloomfield New Jersey womans car was stolen and then things got worse. Police found a car and then they wanted them to pay to get it back. We went demanding answers and we got action. She finally got the car back. Unfortunately she is having to tow it to her house because the guys who stole it nearly a workingrd. Im getting my car back. Whoever stole it, the ignition isnt working. Reporter she is happy to be off the hook for hundreds. Her car was stolen on july 16 and found the next day but nobody told her. So it sat there for weeks in a pound until she finally was told to pick it up as long as she paid 800 in storage fees. She turned to us. No one is willing to help me. Reporter so we went demanding answers. The essex county sheriff said it was the Bloomfield Police departments fault. Bloomfield said they werent notified the car was found but everyone agreed a mistake was made. It turns out, bloomfield councilman joe lopez was watching the story on cbs 2 and he was outraged. I thought it was an injustice. I thought it wasnt her fault. Reporter lopez got the fees reduced to just 200 and then raised the rest. Im going to put a portion in myself. And i spoke i told several friends about this. And they said that they were willing to contribute the rest. Reporter and when the tow compa