Whereabouts during this mornings standoff. Aides confirm the mayor spent about an hour and a half at the gym while the nypd negotiators tried to coax tyree to surrender. A spokeswoman insists he spent much of that time getting updates from the scene. According to the daily news, the Sergeants Benevolent Association president criticized the mayors decision to workout and says he is once again saddened by a lack of leadership by city hall. The mayor says he didnt have much to say about it. We are briefing you all on a very serious situation, and thats just not a serious question. The union that represents lieutenant hayes did not wish to comment on the sba president s criticism or on mayor de blasios actions themselves. Our coverage continues on nbcnewyork. Com. There you can watch some of the first video from the scene as this standoff unfolded. Going to switch gears now, and just when we were getting comfortable. It looks like another heatwave is moving into the tristate area. Things a
From the jersey shore. New here at 5 30, news 4s Ted Greenberg shows what authorities are doing to save lives. Reporter vacationers, commuters, truckers. They are in more than 16,000 vehicles that use ocean countys route 539 every day. I avoid it as much as i can. Reporter a remote twolane highway through the pinelands that has a dangerous reputation. You can just be driving, doing the speed limit, and somebody is in your lane coming the other di ction, trying to pass. Reporter the 38mile road has been the scene of 11 deadly crashes in just over twoandahalf years. Unsafe passing has been creating a lot of issues out here lately. Sean is on the lookout for aggressive drivers and those going faster than 55. As part of a monthlong Enforcement Campaign using marked and unmarked vehicles that began saturday, organized by the ocean county prosecutors office. When we start drilling down on it, the numbers were staggering. Reporter route 539 has been the scene of more than 400 nonfatal crashes
View when police pulled him over for driving without his head lights on. Police say sanchez was also driving without a license. His children are ages 6, 3, and 1, all in the car with him and all three picked up by a family member. In new jersey, one man dead, shot and k led by police. Investigators say he was armed, and ignored orders from officers to drop his gun. The scene unfolded late sunday night on cherrywood circle in brick township when Police Responded to a 911 call. Tonight news 4s marc santia has new information. We come down, see all these policemen, just running. And you hear, like them hey, stlop. Like you hear them. Reporter the chaos, the screams, the police. Carol gomez has never seen anything like it in her brick township neighborhood before. Its brick town. Its a small town. I grew up here. And its just unusual to have this kind of commotion. Reporter it all started last night. Neighbors say there was a party at this home near burnt tavern road. A man called 911 sayi
Polls, defended the need for a public news conference. He also declined to take questions about other subjects. Yeah, no. Reporter a new poll out today shows christie barely registering with South Carolina republicans. Hes down near the bottom of the pack of 17 candidates with just 2 . Some political pundits are predicting that christie could drop out of the race by the end of the month, but he may be waiting to see if he makes the cut for the next gop debate. Donald trump is stirring up things again with fox news host megyn kelly. Trump welcomed kelly back to the air after vacation by tweeting he liked her show better when she wasnt on it. Fox news head fired back, demanding an apology from the republican frontrunner. He says trumps latest attack is unacceptable. The buzz about a biden bid is building. A senior democratic source tells cnn president obama has given the Vice President his blessing to go for it, if he wants to. It is fueling debate over who the president would back in a
New at 5 30, new apologies from a long island man tonight arrested for tampering with red light cameras. You save our taxpayers, you save innocent people a lot of money. Police busted 42yearold steven ruth after he posted videos online, apparently showing him in the act. News 4s Sheldon Dutes got his side of the story. Sheldon. Reporter and shiba, steven ruth felt that people and drivers at intersections like this one were being unfairly ticketed by red light cameras, even though they were stopped. So he posted a video online, showing everybody how he used an he can extended pole to move and tamper with cameras like this one. Steven ruth is getting used to his new nickname. The red light robin hood. Reporter where are they calling you that . Im assuming, its fighting for a good cause. This is the government taking advantage and its going to stop. Reporter Police Arrested ruth after he posted this video online. It shows him using a pole to move a red light camera away from an intersecti