Those are the cold hard facts. Steve langford cbs 2 news. Thank you. New at noon the stunning fall out in court today james burke pleaded guilty to charges. He assaulted a man and tried to cover it up. Janelle burrell is live with more. We are accustomonned to seeing james burke in his police chief uniform. Today he appeared in court in khaki prison scrubs withdrawing his not guilty plea taking this plea deal from prosecutors admitting to not only beating investigators. A tumbling fall from grace from a highest Ranking Police officer to a federal prisoner. James burke pled guilty telling the judge today in part i willfully used unreasonable forced slapped and hit the individual causing bodily injury. Burke in public back in december when f. B. I. Agents first arrested him. His attorney denying the allegations. Today the 51yearold admitting to violating Christopher Loebs civil rights by beating him and forcing people to cover it up. He met with the Police Department to agree on ways to
She was the happiest baby. What happened was so careless and cruel. Police plead with the public, please keep your eyes out if you know of any idea who may have done this, please contact them. Live in west new york, new jersey, michelle charlesworth, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Another pedestrian killed even though Good Samaritans rushed to her aid. Police say a livery cab was turning on to east 36th street in marie hill when the driver hit 77yearold carol dauplaise. She later died at the hospital. We tried to get her out. That was the only way to get her out. How many others . About 10 of us. The driver did stay at the scene. At this point no charges have been filed. New information in a hitandrun that killed an off duty nypd officer. Cops have found the car and identified the driver that harrison on the new jersey turnpike on sunday. Eyewitness News Reporter n. J. Burkett is in Valley Stream where harrison lived. Thats right. In the officers neighborhood here in Valley Stream, long is
Funeral personally out of his own pocket. The mother works in a nail salon. He actually knows her, the mayor. The father also works very hard. He works in a factory. There is a memorial that has been growing at the site of the hitandrun crash at 62nd and van buren. Thats in West New York. If you see, whether it could be a woman or a man, if youre there watching, please, show yourself. If you have a heart, something that is pumping in your body, show yourself. Its not fair. You just took a life of an angel. I actually knew the mother. She used to work in a nail salon. Mexican family. And were going to cover all the costs. West new york. Were treating this like a dignitary because its a tragedy. Girl. Smile comes to my face. That was her. She was the happiest baby. She says sheyla, she can only describe her as just being a beautiful, loving little 7yearold girl, so full of fun parents. More on this tahoe that police are looking for. Theyre describing it as a new tahoe with temporary plat
With sunrise on the way. Sun up at 6 30. 51 riverdale. Sunset park and ridgewood 47. 32 poughkeepsie. 31 sussex. Today sunshine and clouds. Cloudy by 10 00, 11 00. Showers roll in at 11 00 to noontime. Sunshine returning this afternoon r. Temperatures in the upper 50s. We will talk about that and rain for wednesday in the accuweather forecast. Its weather and traffic every seven minutes. She has been busy all morning long. There are the flashing lights. Busy monday morning. Accident in the process of being cleared away. This is the l. I. E. Look at the delay beyond this accident scene. You can see everybody is crawling into that spot. Where is that spot . Lets go to the maps and i will tell you, l. I. E. West near exit 32. 4 and 5 trains signal problems at 86th street. F trains track work between 21st and 71st avenues. Bronx River Parkway south near the zoo an accident. All lanes are subject to closure. We have alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Ken, over to you.
Gave their reactions. We heard a boom. We thought it was a car accident. When we tried to get close they told us to get out of the way. Translator we were asked to stay indoors all the time it was going on. The police were worried there might be another shooter. Reporter overnight, the police lowered the threat level suggesting that tensions may have be lowered somewhat, but that is not case. The incident schaerbeek, one of the airport bombers was najim laachraoui. His brother has now spoken to the media. Why did you stop contact with him . Because he was in syria. Did you try to get ahold of him . He was in syria. It was difficult to get hold of him. There were no more contacts. While the hunt for those involved in the attacks goes on elsewhere the third and last day of National Mourning has been observed. The u. S. Secretary of state paid his respect to the victims at the ceremony at the airport, zaventem airport. We all declared, je suis. Owneis parisi parisien. Now we declare, je s