This thing started about 7 30 tonight. Take a look down the street. Its still going strong right now at 11 00 at night. A Building Full of lumber and chemicals. Theyve surrounded it now but it is still going and it was one big blaze. Reporter it was enormous. A churning, devouring fire that danced and weaved its way around the rooftops and defied an ocean of water dumped on it by firefighters. How hot was it . Tim was on the 7 train. You could feel the heat coming in to queens. I was on the train. I called my fianci. You could feel the heat of the fire . When you were passing by here it was blazing pretty good. It was actually a really, really big fire. And its really a lot of smoke. Reporter nobody inside was smoke but some firefighters were. It appears to have started inside a millwork plant so there was lots of lumber and there were plenty of chemicals inside. Amounts of lacquers, thinners, paint in there that definitely contributed to it. It was a really bad smell. They asked me to get out of here. Reporter mike was at work at his body shop when police told him to get out. Leave the gates open and cross the street. I told him i have 20 cars in there, you know . 20 cars, can i move them out . Hes like no, just leave it. Reporter like a lot of people, he watched the fire spread. Got me nervous. Nervous. Nervous because of the fumes . 20 cars in there. And theyre still there. This is the Fire Department bus. They think this is going to go through the night. Theyre bussing firefighters in so they can bring them in. Still not under control at 11 00 at night, and it will be a while before it is. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries. Reporting live from sunnyside, jim dolan, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Deadly knife attack in london and theyre not ruling out terrorism as a possible motive. Police say one person was killed, 5 others hurt during the stabbing spree in Londons Russell Square close to the british museum. One suspect is under arrest. Were learning more about a woman from queens attacked and murdered while out for a jog. Tonight hundreds of people came to a vigil for karina vetrano. The question of who and why is still a mystery. That has the community on edge. As this vigil was going on tonight, Police Worked throughout the neighborhood posting these fliers, hoping to get some tips that will lead them to karinas killer. Friends say it was hard to miss 30yearold karina vetrano. Her striking looks obvious to strangers but friends say her out. Really smart girl. She was very well spoken, very witty person. Fun person to be around. Reporter Albert Fuentes first met her in preschool. They shared hugs at a vigil at the restaurant where she worked. All trying to cope with this devastating loss. Its a terrible tragedy. I dont know what else to say. Its frightening because i go bike riding every day. To the vetranos. My heart goes out to the neighborhood. Because we are howard beach. Reporter investigators say vetrano was strangled and possibly sexually assaulted. She went for a jog tuesday evening around 5 00. Her father became worried two hours later when she didnt return to their howard beach home. So he quickly called police. Karinas body was found that night along a path at Spring Creek Park about 14 blocks away in our own backyard, our neighborhood. The neighborhood is tight. And the whole community is going to come together right now. Karina would normally run with her father, but that night he could not. He was not feeling well. Several people in the neighborhood were asking why she ran alone in that area. Other neighbors pointed out its something that many people do because they believed that it was safe there. Reporting live i Eyewitness News. New at 11 00, a suspect shot by police during a home burglary in queens has his night in court. Police say a woman monitoring a nanny cam from her office noticed felix perez in her home in maspeth monday and called 911. During a struggle with police, perez was shot in the groin. Cell phone video shows him running away but Police Caught up with him. Tonight in court his attorney claims the shooting was whos unarmed. You just dont. Theres other ways of doing it. You dont shoot somebody in the groin. Reporter perez was released from the hospital earlier today. An arrest tonight in a shooting that injured a 4yearold bystander. Yonkers police say 19yearold floyd bruce opened fire on Willow Street on july 16th. A bullet hit a 4yearold girl in her leg as she walked to the store with her mother. Police say bruce was also involved in an unrelated armed for accuweather. Im meteorologist lee goldberg. Hurricane earl just a few hours away from making landfall on the coast of belize. Heres the latest advisory and the new stats on the storm. Winds coming in at 45 miles per hour. Details on the track. Our weather couldnt be quieter. Out the door tomorrow morning, sunshine. 67. Maybe patchy fog and some in the suburbs. Smooth sailing till the start of the weekend. Ill time the storms out for 7 minutes away. New information, a search for a suspect through the sewers of newark called off tonight. Police on the hunt for a suspect who ran from police and jumped in the Passaic River, then swam in to a storm drain. Eyewitness News ReporterTim Fleischer has new details on this bizarre chase. Reporter an allout search by police on the Passaic River and on land on harrison and neighboring newark as seen from newscopter7. They were looking for a man who had run from polic three helicopters, i feel like i was in miami vice literally. Reporter dimitri merced, pumping gas, was watching the search efforts. Police tell Eyewitness News the man in a car was stopped by police on the harrison side of the river. He fled and took off running across the Bridge Street bridge. Suddenly they say he jumped in to the Passaic River to avoid capture. He then was holding on to a support on the under side of the bridge. Do you think he jumped in the river, this bad river . Hey, man, its dirty jersey. Survive. It is what it is. They couldnt find him anywhere . They couldnt find him. Reporter as Newark Police and fire put a boat in to water, the man jumped back in to the river and was seen swimming to a large storm drain on the bank and walked inside. Newscopter7 capturing this video as equipment was sent in to Manhole Covers in hopes of finding the suspect. The search was suspended but will resume tomorrow. However, police say with high tide this could turn from a search to a recovery effort. Reporting from harrison, Tim Fleischer, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Caught on camera, a driver crashing in to a home in new jersey today. The homeowner says just minutes later the driver backed out and drove off before police could arrive. Two cars parked outside the home were also hit and damaged. As the Republican Party controversial comments and decision not to support paul ryans race for congress outright, new poll numbers paint a campaign heading in the wrong direction. A fox news poll Shows Hillary clinton leading trump by 10 points. Tonight trump campaigned in florida, trying to get his campaign back on message after the string of controversies. Its clear hes trying now to get past the ugly public feud hes been in with the gold star parents of a mli killed in iraq. Just a little while ago i met with the gold star families. I met with six families. Just like incredible people. And a gentleman handed me a check. He said, you know, mr. Trump, this is for your campaign. And i said you dont have to do that. He goes, i do. After the latest trump controversies, several prominent republicans including republican vote for hillary clinton. Hillary clinton took her president ial campaign to colorado tonight. She led a large rally in Commerce City and took advantage of trumps recent troubles, once again claiming hes unfit to lead the country. Anyone who spends his time insulting our military, demeaning the service of soldiers. Insulting gold star families. This is not someone who understands the honor, the duty of serving america. Clinton toured a tie factory in denver where she slammed trump for outsourcing jobs overseas for his own ties. New details about the 4 million cash payment flown to iran. Around the same time it released four imprisoned americans. A source tells abc news the payment but it was reportedly overruled by the state department. White house spokesman josh earnest today rejected claims the payment last january was a ransom, saying the u. S. Was returning irans own money deposited before the 1979 revolution. As officials in miami work to contain the first outbreak of zika in the continental u. S. , a new Clinical Trial getting underway for a vaccine. The National Institutes of health launching the trial a month ahead l be tested in 80 volunteers in maryland and georgia. Right now there are no effective vaccines or treatments for the mosquitoborn virus. New video tonight from onboard a plane moments after a crash landing. Tonight the possible cause of every patient gets their own care manager. The care manager coordinates all of the patients appointments, scans, chemotherapy. New video tonight of the panic inside a jumbo jet seconds before a massive explosion ripped it apart. Cell phone video shows how passengers scramble to escape the emirates airplane seconds after it skidded down the runway. Dubai International Airport and broke off a wing. Just after the evacuation, a huge ball of flames erupted from the plane. A re in that explosion. The cause still under investigation but aviation Officials Say the landing gear may not have been deployed properly. New tonight, the u. S. Supreme court ruling that a school can block a transgender teen from using the boys bathroom when classes begin next month. In a 53 decision, the justices put on hold a Lower Court Ruling that ordered a school board in virginia to allow gavin grim to use the bathroom matching his gender identity. Ask the Supreme Court to further intervene in the case. A muslim woman says she was kicked out of a store because she refused to remove the veil over her face. Sarah safi recorded video of her exchange with a clerk at a Family Dollar store in gary, indiana. The manager tells safi she has to remove her muslim veil or get out. This is what happened when safi explained it was a religious garment. This is a high crime area and we get robbed a lot. I told her this country is a country of freedom of religion and freedom of speech and i have a right to wear whatever i want. Safi now wants the store to apologize. The company has not responded to a request for comment. Its back in business. Governor cuomo signing a new law legalizing daily Fantasy Sports in new york state. The measure calls the popular definition resolves a central argument in a lawsuit brought by the state against draftkings and fanduel, the two top Fantasy Sports companies. Some great examples of tomorrows leaders honored tonight at the boys and girls club of America Youth of year. Wabcs president and general manager dave davis was a judge for the event. The winners were lewis and skinner. Wabc is a proud sponsor of the youth of the year program. 7th annual life ride tonight. The 11day motorcycle ride through major cities raises funds for hiv and aides research. Tonight they donated 150,000 to help in the quest for a cure. The company has supported hiv causes since the 80s. Tonight a special honor for tony bennett. And red, the colors of the Italian American flags in honor of the singers 90th birthday. Earlier tonight the lights on the skyscraper danced along to the music of the legendary singer. They hosted a party for the native new yorker that included celebrities like lady gaga, Stevie Wonder and regis philbin. We look at our wind flow right now, i want to address the fire in sunnyside, queens. Might want to close the windows in astoria. Maybe over the side, a light easterly flow may take the smoke and go in to the east side of manhattan. Empire state building in pinstripes. 70 degrees right now. Southeast wind at 5. Barometer on the rise. High pressure is dominating our weather the next couple days. Closer to the normal high of 84 by the weekend. There are your sunrise and sunset times for a beautiful thursday. A little patchy fog in the northern suburbs tomorrow morning. Perfect pair of days on the way. A bit more humid on friday but still very nice. In to a little trouble over the weekend especially on saturday. Thunderstorms coming in from late morning and midafternoon. More specific timing in a moment. 86 to 88. And then sunday looks like a beautiful day. Mostly sunny. 84. Nice and cool again. Comfortably cool in our northern suburbs. Well see upper 50s north and west in places like newburg, poughkeepsie, white plains. Patchy fog. Same thing in danbury. Even parts of the east end of new jersey, patchy fog tomorrow morning. After that comfortably cool start, sunsh force during the afternoon. Only thing keeping us around the 80degree mark is we have a wind off the ocean which is around 75 degrees. Inland numbers can get in the low to mid 80s. Satellite is crystal clear. A weak cool front off to the north. Big High Pressure for us then its this front well time for the upcoming weekend. Meanwhile, lets visit the track of hurricane earl. You can see how close it is to the coast of belize. Only 40 miles offshore. Heres a closeup look of the about 15. It will move inland. I think rain is the biggest problem with this. 6 to 12 inches locally. Flash flooding and mudslides. Then the storm will weaken as it moves across southern mexico. For us, pictureperfect tomorrow. Here comes the frontal for saturday. Ill give you that timing in the 7day. Patchy fog in the suburbs. 81 in the afternoon. Humidity is nice a mainly clear tomorrow night. Beautiful day in the low 80s next couple of days. On saturday, a little unusual. Youre not talking about a late day thunderstorm. This is going to start late morning. I think a window of 11 00 to 4 00, anywhere in the three to fivehour time period, you can have a brief thunderstorm move through. Late day and early evening looks okay to me. Maybe the east end takes till 5 00 or 6 00 to clear out. Sunday is gorgeous. Next week, low to mid 80s. No extreme heat. Great, great august weather tomorrow morning. Health alert tonight for women. Does menopause increase the risk of Heart Disease . The new research tonight. Plus, is the battery level of your cell phone leaking personal information . But first, lets check in with jimmy kimmel. Thanks, david. Hello, new york. Tonight hugh grant, nicky glazer, music from Miranda Lambert and Brittany Spears broke in my bedroom in the i know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable like the rest of the hood. Genius. Yeah, they offer tons of free hd channels. And you can record six shows at the same time. Looks like youre all hooked up. Games about to start. Lets do it. Were watching here . Oh yeah. Ohh. How about you and i go watch my favorite show . Make your move to Time Warner Cable. Tv, 100 meg internet and phone. In tonights health alert, the potential risks women face during the onset of menopause. New Research Shows the severity of risk factors for Heart Disease, diabetes and stroke, may increase more rapidly in the years leading up to menopause. The study found the risk factors include high Blood Pressure and be more pronounced in African American women. There are many warnings about prying eyes tracking your Online Activity but is someone tracking the status of your battery charge, and is it compromising your privacy . Princeton University Researchers crawled the top websites and found a small number are tracking how much charge is on your devices battery. That information could then be paired with other data such as target ads to you. What better place for a summertime Film Festival than the beach . The fifth annual international Film Festival kicked off today on long island. Participants arrived on the red carpet. Now through friday, visitors can catch an International Slate of more than 40 films. For the first time theyll all be shown at the local theater that had to be extensively repaired after superstorm sandy. If you cant go to the movies or the beach, we got baseball. Not just baseball, some heated emotions on the baseball diamond. 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Explore now at kalahariresorts. Com im really enjoying this subway series. After tonight. Youd like it to just end now. One more game tomorrow. Im not sure if it will be as exciting as this one. Two games down. Two more to go. Tonight the subway series opted for a change of scenery. Queens to the bronx. The mets invading the stadium tonight. It started well for the visitors. Very first batter of the game, Curtis Granderson going deep off chad green for the early lead which started a trend because offense was not hard to come by. Dd gregorius the rbi double. 32 yankees. Then theres mark teixeira. He hadnt hit a homer from the right side of the plate all season till now. 63 yankees. The mound. Hits teixeira. The benches would clear. No fighting though. Tex would take his base. Matz would be out of the game. Teixeira still jawing. Robles would leave the game, still yapping at teixeira. 95. The yanks now up 21 on the series. I was literally just standing there. After three or four pitches i noticed he was staring at me and saying stuff. It dawned on me im ins just by breathing. I thought mark overreacted. Thats just my take on it. The series got fun. The injury hits keep on coming for the mets who will now send Yoenis Cespedes to the disabled list after he aggravated his quad. His final atbat tonight. The team wanting him to rest now so he can be fully healthy down the stretch. One week from friday the giants open their preseason slate. The hope remains Odell Beckham, jr. Will be on the field, at least as long as the other direction. Beckham did miss his second straight practice but there he is doing work on the side. Hes improving after he was cleated in the leg during a drill sunday. The team knew he would be sore but so far hes steadily improved. Running and cutting. Well evaluate him each day. As jets Training Camp began, the biggest question was whether or not Ryan Fitzpatrick would be there. Once he signed the question turned to what is up with his hair . Today no more. This is what gang g quarterback looked like yesterday. Today a much more streamlined fit. However, the beard is still going strong. The qb did not speak today but word on the street, he lost a bet. The Opening Ceremony of the summer olympics still two days away but the games are already underway in rio with the United StatesWomens National soccer team trying to pick up where it left off. New zealand tonight. Tobin heath, nice pass to carli lloyd. Finishing with the header for the 10 u. S. Lead. 46th minute. Bit more. Alex morgan delivers. 20. Thats where it ends. The u. S. Starting off with a win. Way to go. Nice start. Thats the news for now. Im david novarro. Im sade baderinwa. Jimmy kimmel is next. Eyewitness news returns tomorrow at 4 30 with ken and lori. For all of us here, have a great night and well see you dicky from hollywood its . Jimmy kimmel live . tonight, hugh grant, comedian nikki glaser, britney spears, and music from Miranda Lambert with cleto and the cletones. And now, not so fast heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] . Jimmy very nice. Hi, im jimmy. Im the host of the show. Thanks for watchinging. Thanks to all of you for coming