Investigation. They have not yet determined if this is a crime. But they say its a very active investigation. People could have died here. In ronkonkoma, long island, carolyn gusoff, cbs 2 news. No one was injured. But the house is now uninhabitable. An update tonight about the slashing attack caught on camera in chelsea. Police say the suspect is under arrest and now the victim is speaking out as her alleged attacker sits in jail. Cbs 2s dave carlin live at the 13th precinct in Gramercy Park. Dave. Reporter inside this precinct stationhouse the suspect is being put in line ups for other potential victims. While that was happening we were talking to the victim in the chelsea case. Apparently he had 32 owe peninsula before this. 32. Reporter in pain, with her face stitched, 24yearold Amanda Morris says she is angry the man police say attacked her 41yearold career criminal Kari Bazemore has a rap sheet with dozens of in trouble with the law for allegedly attacking others before she encountered a stranger with a razor. Her attack is on this Surveillance Video from 23rd street and chelsea Early Morning wednesday. At first the attacker walked ahead of her then hanging back until they were side by side. In a flash he slashed her and ran. As you wash you on this video, what goes through your mind . Its scary. My logic was if i look at the ground and i mind my own business that he will leave me alone, too. But but no. Reporter police say a man who recognized bazemore from the video saw him near st. Patricks cathedral and flagged down a mounted Police Officer and base more was arrested. Bazemore is also suspected of punching a woman on west 12th street and sixth avenue in a random attack on december 30th. Morris is determined to face her alleged attacker in court. I still havent seen his face. So i dont think its really going to sink in until i do see his face. And you shared what your injuries look like, and youre telling people about what happened to you, whats your message . I guess be an inspiration for people who do get hurt that you can get past it and you can be okay and i apparently wont even have scars if they heal properly so ill be fine. Reporter take a look right now at this big crush of media. It is because we are told bazemore very soon will be transferred downtown to face a judge. Live in Gramercy Park, dave carlin, cbs 2 news. All right. Well have those later on cbs 2 news. The bronx father accused of killing his pregnant daughter appeared in court today. 61yearold William Caruth faced a judge for murder and manslaughter charges. He was arrested yesterday after police found the body of his daughter andrea in the basement crawl space of the home they shared. Lang and blunt impact to the head. She was 4. 5 months pregnant. Say father and daughter argued over mon sources say father and daughter may have argued over money. Another rough day on wall street stocks way down. Cheap oil and worries over chinas slowing economy sent investors into a panic. The dow jones down nearly 400. Thats down 5 since the start of the year. The nasdaq lost 146. The s p closed 47 points lower. Governor cuomo continues his march to redevelop an rebuild huge swaths of new york. He announced a 1 billion plan to expand the Javits Center with five times as many meetings rooms as now. Cbs 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer with more. Reporter on the 7th day god rested but in the week leading up to his annual state of the state speech Governor Cuomo didnt. Megaproject a huge expansion of the Javits Convention center. We will have the most Aggressive Development program in the history of the state of new york. Reporter the overhaul scheduled to started this year will add one million square feet to the convention center. It will be onethird larger giving it five times more meeting rooms and the largest ballroom in the northeast. Plus a bigger garage so trucks making deliveries wont have to park on the city streets. Because of its size and lack of facilities the javits loses about 15 major conventions a year. And unlike the car show and the boat show where people come for the day and go home these are conventions where people stay for days and spend a lot of money. Its estimated that this expansion will increase hotel nights by 200,000. Reporter that could mean an extra 400 million in Economic Activity from people not only staying in hotels but going to broadway shows, eating in restaurants and shopping. 4,000 more jobs will be reporter but the javits expansion is just one of the many, many projects cuomo announced in the last few days. A new penn station, expansion of the long island rail road, preventing toll increases on the thruway and the Tappan Zee Bridge until 2020 in addition to new airports at jfk and laguardia. How will the state pay for it all . Thats the big question everyone is asking. On javits alone, cuomo said it happen on javits own land. We dont have to go out and acquire any property. The approximate cost is 1 billion. It will be financed by javits and the Empire State Development corporation. Reporter in some of the other projects, cuomo has announced like penn station, a private Public Partnership will be formed. That means that the state will pony up some of the money. I, the taxpayers. Theres a lot going on. Thank you. It is now legal to buy medical marijuana in new york state. Eight dispensaries opened today including two in our area. The grand Opening Celebration was held outside columbia care. This is on east 14th street. The first medical Marijuana Dispensary in new york city. The other one another one, rather, called virio health opened in white plains. Patients of course not able to smoke the drug. It will be available in capsules, liquids and vaporizers and it can only be obtained after a doctor gives a certification to the patient. Tonight president obama will hold a town hall meeting to discuss gun violence in the united states. Closer to home, we are getting a rare look at the nypds extraordinary efforts to get guns off city streets. Cbs 2s alice gainer with a look inside at how they will investigate. Detective is firing into reporter welcome to whats known as the tank room inside the nypds Forensics Lab in queens. This tank is so that we can discharge a weapon and get that bullet out of the gun for evidence. It will travel through the water and eventually drop to the bottom of the tank. Reporter then recovered and it is compared with the markings on the bullet to a database of crimes and test for fingerprints. Its all part of a lengthy process to rid the city of illegal guns that starts on the streets with nightly patrols. Our main goal every day is to make a gun arrest. Reporter the nypds elite Anticrime Team allows a camera to interview them in their undercover car. At the start of your day, you dont know what youre going to encounter that night. Reporter the officers say they have seen and confiscated it all. We have recovered from two shot derringers to all different types of revolvers, semiautomatic firearms held together by duct tape. Reporter then its back to many as 9,000 firearms were examined last year alone. It has that antique look to it. Reporter leading to more than 3,000 arrests. Its a narrow dichotomy. We want to do a good job and make gun arrests and we want to go home safely in one piece. Reporter which the officers admit is not always easy. Alice gainer, cbs 2 news. There are 50 officers in the nypds anticrime unit devoted to getting illegal guns off the streets. Next at 6 00, a wild crash on the gowanus expressway. A driver trapped under a car after a Chain Reaction crash causes this mess. How did he get out alive . Trash bags piled up across an entire city block. The Sanitation Department nowhere in sight. So why will residents be forced to pay a fine . And later in sports, mets great mike piazza speaks out for the first time about his Baseball Hall of fame induction. Lonnie . It was a nice day out there today. We maxed out in the 40s. As of now i see 40s and 30s and 20s out there. Temperatures will drop here im telling you, the story will be about the temperature that we hit on sunday. Get ready for that. Its coming up. Thank you. Coming up on the cbs evening news with scott pelley the u. S. Government releasing new dietary guidelines. Scott pelley had have that tonight. Reporter dana, every once in a while, the federal government revises its guidelines on what we should and shouldnt eat. There are new guidelines now on meat and eggs and sugar and salt. And dr. John lapook will have it all for us coming right up on the cbs evening news at 6 30. We work weekends here. Because it works for our patients. Here, at Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia, we give our patients the freedom to make appointments that fit their schedules, even on weekends. Because we believe in being here when our their busy lives. Weekend appointments are now available here. Learn more at cancercenter. Com eastern. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. And on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today traffic nightmare on i95 this morning. A tractortrailer overturning in lawrence township, new jersey. You can the mess three out of four lanes shut down near exit 6. New Jersey State Police releasing these photos from the scene showing huge piles of metal debris scattered across the interstate. The driver suffered only minor injuries. No word on what caused it and all lanes tonight are reopened. A difficult rescue after a Chain Reaction crash caused a major backup on the gowanus expressway in brooklyn. Chopper 2 was over the scene in bay ridge this morning. Take a look at the red car nearly completely crushed. The driver, though, somehow survived. It took firefighters about 45 they used the jaws of life. The driver and two other people, the driving waving there to say thank you and hes okay, they were treated and released from the hospital. Bags of recyclables are taking over some city sidewalks and residents say they are disgusted they call it unsanitary and unsafe. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch reporting on new yorks newest trash troubles. Frankly its disgusting and its attracting rats. Reporter bags filled with bundled cardboard and plastic resigning abilities line the sidewalks on the upper west side. I have never seen anything like it. Reporter for more than a week now these piles have been, well, piling up and out. Here about 75 of the sidewalk is blocked. Pedestrians and their canine companions are getting the squeeze. In spot, the piles are as tall as me. Reporter its like a magic act. Watch new yorkers disappear before your eyes. I think its horrible reporter and unfortunately, watch as some elderly have trouble navigating the tight spaces. Everybody is complaining. Of the Block Association on 76th street wants to know why recycling wasnt picked up sooner. He says it should have been picked up monday the First Business day after new years. There are about 65 of the buildings on the west side are brownstones and they simply cant hold more than 4 to 5 days of recyclable garbage especially a week after christmas. Reporter we asked the sanitation commissioner why the wait. Anytime you have a double holiday its very challenging. Normally we collect on the second holiday but not the first. Reporter she says this year they did things a little differently and collected just after christmas on the 28th and the 29 there. Nine days ago. And adds, the Holiday Schedule was highly publicized. We put out press releases. We were trying to get much better at social media. But clearly the message didnt get out to everyone. Reporter she assures us these piles will all be picked up as scheduled tomorrow. So if you havent already added your stuff to these stacks, do so tonight. From the upper west side, the sanitation commissioner also saying there are additional trucks out to help with the postholiday pickups. Colder, dozens of frozen sea turtles have turned up on the shores of long island. The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research says it has been able to revive about 13 of what they call cold stunned turtles. Another 25 sea turtles died from hypothermia including four discovered this morning on the sound. The foundation says if you find a turtle thats been stunned by the cold, contact Animal Rescue workers and let them do the work. Dont touch it. Lets check with lonnie quinn about the cold and a little bit of a warmup already. Theres going to be a big warmup coming in. It started yesterday. But today actually felt pretty okay outside. The numbers all around the area youre not finding anything crazy low out there. You know, upper 30s, some 40s out there. 37 coming in down around brick township in Manchester Tom smith recorded that reading for us. He is showing the clouds making their way into the area. They sort of floated in from the shore today. Ill show you that in just a second, as well. But right now thats what i want to show you. Looking out over our city, there are some clouds out there. Some patches of clearing. What you had was a beautiful start to your day then more clouds have made their what. I think its going to be a similar setup tomorrow. More clouds as you progress during your day on friday. 45 right now the temperature reading. Youre warmer read having of the day was 46 at 4 00 p. M. 46, 8 degrees above average. This is what dana was hinting at. Not so bad out there. A little above average. Kind of like that. Well, i have been hinting at sundays real warmup. Sunday is the day where you could possibly tie a record maybe some folks could break the record for new york city, the record on sunday is 60. Im forecasting 58. That record goes back to 1876. We have a shot at running at that this weekend. The normal high for the second week of spring is 58. Well, my headlines, well address precipitation chances as well as temperatures and even the possibility for some snow out there. Precipitation chance starts to kick in late tomorrow night. And its with us right through, say, the first half of your day on sunday. Some could see some snow out there. Ill show you who and when just a bit but its really mostly rain. Come on, im talking temperatures making a run at 60 . Its not a snowstorm. We are looking at most of the rain on sunday. Vortex satellite and radar quiet with some of the clouds sort of floating in from an offshore system thats not coming onshore. We will watch this rain in the midsection of the country. Bigger portions go north and south and we get clipped by this lighter activity in the middle so a little light rain on saturday. The bigger precipitation chances on sunday. Thats all that rain that made its way through southern california. Big flooding concerns out there. The flooding situations and the mud slide concerns. That will move in for a soaker on sunday so take a peek at how the computer models are picking up on everything. Friday starts off okay then the clouds roll in at 6 30 p. M. Then you watch some precipitation light precipitation possible late friday night into early saturday. And again, north and west, thats the spot where you could see frozen precip and snow but big soaker comes any think on the first part of your day sunday maybe late saturday into early sunday. 58 degrees sunday. That warmth is all tied in with that little burst of warmth ahead of a cold front because once that cold front goes through the winds will shift and then pick up in intensity blustery monday 40, tuesday 36, wednesday and thursday 35. So cold air comes back he went in with the athletics. He is going out as a met. Otis livingston here now with whats ahead in sports. Otis . Yeah, dana. Its been an incredible journey for mike piazza to cooperstown. The lowest ever draft pick to get the call to the hall. He is going in with a guy who was destined to get there. It was in ken griffey, juniors blood line. I am his sunshine. I am his advocate. So i asked about adding oncedaily namenda xr to his Current Treatment for moderate to severe alzheimers. It works differently. When added to another alzheimers treatment, it may improve overall function and cognition. And may slow the worsening of symptoms for a while. Vo namenda xr doesnt change how the disease progresses. It shouldnt be taken by anyone allergic to memantine, or whos had a bad reaction to namenda xr or its ingredients. Before starting treatment, tell their doctor if they have, or ever had, a seizure disorder, difficulty passing urine, liver, kidney or bladder problems, and about medications theyre taking. Certain medications, changes in diet, or medical conditions may affect the amount of namenda xr in the body and may increase side effects. The most common side effects are headache, diarrhea, and dizziness. Hes always been my everything. Now i am giving back. Ask their doctor about oncedaily namenda xr this just in. This is our first look at the man arrested for allegedly slashing a woman walking to work in chelsea early yesterday morning. Police say Kari Bazemore is a arrests. The 41yearold now on his way from the Police Precinct in Gramercy Park to night court charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Otis livingston in sports. I misspoke earlier. He went out as an a, mike piazza, but he is going in the hall of fame as a met. So many great memories here in new york and ill take you back to one in a second. The first overall pick and the 1,390th pick. On this day they are equal. Ken griffey, junior and mike piazza elected into the national Baseball Hall of fame induction ceremonies taking place july 24. Piazza is the lowest ever draft pick to get the call to the hall. In fact 62nd round beating the odds and then beating baseball better than any catcher in history with 427 career homers, 396 as a catcher. He hit it 10 days after the dodgers its no surprise he is going in as a met. Some way, shape or form. Became a new york met and truly have a special relationship here with the fans of the mets. I feel like the fans here truly brought me into their family and every time i have come back, i have been so incredibly honored from the response and unfortunately, we do have to choose one and for me, its just like i always sort of enjoyed reconnecting here in new york. 62nd round. From a guy overcoming the odds to another who seemed destined from birth, ken griffey, junior the son of a successful big leaguer, he fulfilled those expectations. 13 time Allstar League mvp, 630 career home runs but dont think he didnt have to go out and earn it from the start. When i got drafted it was okay, youre number one pick. So what . You still got to the go out there and play like everybody else. We are not going to treat you any different than anyone else. Hall of Fame Press Conference alderson. The 68yearold manager looks good. Sandy says its not true that the mets are not spending money. Our payroll at the end of 86million. I would suspected, you know, this year well end up at 115 or so or maybe higher than that, 120. Thats a 35 million increase in just two years. So the idea that were not investing in the team i think is really misplaced. And finally tonight back to beginnings to the hall of fame. A lots changed since he was in the minors in 1988. You couldnt even get a hot shower. And always used to say good,. Comfortable. I want you to work to get to the big leagues. Now you go to the minor league stadiums. Its great. You have baby changing rooms in the clubhouse how things have changed. He made 850 a month when he back after this. 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Here you go, one, two, three, push. The story of how these troopers helped deliver a baby girl on the garden state parkway. All tonight at 11. We heard the counting and then we heard the word push oh, my goodness. Dragon boat racing follows the story of one couple in the 1930s whose love for each love of music. The story also recounts how one of the most famous cantonese music compositions came to be. The kurtajit goes tonight through sunday. We thank you for joining us here at 6 00. Next on the cbs evening news with scott pelley, a look at the unprecedented steps one state is taking to tackle the prescription pill epidemic. Have a great night