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Police on an update on the truck driver. For now we are live here in linen linden, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Lets get an update from shannon sohn from high above in newscopter 7. Weve done the tour around from the north, south, east, no matter how you try and get around this new jersey turnpike closure its a nice mate nightmare. That is the southbound delay into interstate 10. What you are finding is all of this traffic is backed up getting right into interchange 10 and this is what the problem really is right here, we can show you with sky rider 7 once you get off the 10 you have an option to take to the northbound side, you can get onto the outer roadway, it is just the inner roadway that is closed down but that is where that inner roadway merges in right here and it is causing nightmare traffic. It is a little bit better than it was before but we are going to show you the reason for that. This right here coming into the center of your picture is woodbridge avenue, nice local street and it is packed with traffic and that is what all of your alternates are doing right now. It is a nightmare trying to get around this and you can expect to add hours to your commute this evening. Reporting live over the turnpike shannon sohn, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thats a look at the impact around the crash scene. Debbie duhaime has spent the afternoon looking at ways to get around the accident and she is in the newsroom. Major problem because of this accident, this is the Staten Island expressway, look at this volume, this is westbound trying to get out toward the goethals bridge. 440 southbound to get to the outer bridge crossing to get down near the new jersey turnpike. That way cannot go to the gothfuls bridge goethals bridge. A lot of alternate volume of course on 1 and 9 in both directions. Another look through elizabeth at 109, so very messy this afternoon. Over on the new jersey turnpike again the car and truck lanes remain closed southbound as you head from 13 down through 12 as we go over to the maps right now, and keep in mind as you head over to the northbound side, everything is going to be closed as well in the car lanes as you head 12 out through 13 as well so keep an eye on that for you. And youre still seeing volume on the garden state parkway. Back over to you at the desk, diana. Thank you, debbie. Another breaking story in new jersey, firefighters still on the scene of that six alarm fire at an apartment complex in ocean township. The flames now under control but the damage losses still being determined. Eyewitness News Reporter a. J. Ross just arriving on the scene moments ago. A. J. Reporter firefighters have been battling this blaze for nearly four hours and counting and as you mentioned, it was at one point labeled a six alarm fire because of the backup that was called in. You can see its now under control but it was a vicious blaze that sent two Police Officers to the hospital with more than a dozen firefighters treated for heat exhaustion. Take a look at this amazing video shot earlier this afternoon, im told the blaze started around 1 15 near a south exterior and then quickly spread up and into the units. Initial reports claim the flames began to smolder from foliage along the perimeter of the property, possibly a mulch fire. The Police Officers on scene desperately ran door to door to get people out and they were taken to a nearby hospital and treated for smoke inhalation. One was released a short time ago and 12 units total were completely destroyed in this blaze, displacing several dozen families. Todays heat was another huge challenge with 15 firefighters being treated for heat exhaustion. Another firefighter was also transported for a minor facial injury and a fire marshal is on scene right now waiting for the all clear but again heat is presenting problems. Its been very dry, been very hot summer. Im sure that contributed. We believe that the fire origin was on the exterior of the building, either mulch or the trees and quickly worked up and worked into the building. Reporter now, you can see theres still some smoke rising from these units and firefighters will be out here for at least a couple more hours checking for hot spots insuring this area is secure. I spoke with a pio a short time ago. He calls this the biggest fire this area has had in his 30 year tenure. We will have much more with some of residents coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00. A. J. Ross, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Breaking news in manhattan where a vehicle somehow ended up on a sidewalk and hit someone. This happened on east 50th street and park avenue. We are told the victim was taken to before hospital and is listed in serious condition. We have a crew at the scene gathering more information from police. Also breaking now, an out ofcontrol car slammed into the front of a shop right store in palisades park, new jersey. It appears the driver may have been backing up and then went forward hitting two parked cars and then the front doors of the store. Some people were cut by shards of glass but the injuries are said to not be serious. The driver will also be okay. Right now thousands of people still without electricity on long island after a powerful storm moved through that area last night. The storm knocked down trees, powerlines, caused a whole lot of damage. The last time we checked with pse g, more than 27,000 customers still did not have power and they may have to go without that power for several days. We have drone cam 7 high above some of the damage. This is setauket and you can see the power of that storm and how it knocked over that tree in the yard boy, still a mess. Eyewitness News Reporter stacey sager live in setauket with more for us. Stacey. Reporter hi, diana, we are on christian avenue here in setauket and we got trees and debris everywhere. This is really what people are dealing with over here and over here you can see one of the here. If youre an optimist like me, you realize just how bad things could have been. Take a look at those pictures again from drone cam 7. You might see the extent of it. Anytime youre dealing with 70 plusmileanhour winds, trees, big ones, big oak trees are going to come down and what we have seen all throughout this area is trees down blocking roads, trees down on houses, but fortunately no one was injured or killed. Reporter a loss of power but no loss of life. Giant trees like this one either snapped off or sledded shredded to bits in a matter of seconds this morning. All of a sudden the doors are open and then my son is down there, he says, dad, you should see whats going on. Reporter all along the northern communities of brookhaven. Essentially from setauket to wading river the entire north shore of the town of brooklynhaven was impacted. Reporter marsha settles walked up on this unpleasant surprise as she returned to her home this afternoon from a cruise. Like welcome home. Yeah, exactly. Hopefully its just gutter and siding and it will be okay. God is good. It will be fine. Reporter just talk to the folks here at the bethel a m church ame church up the block, they say this must be divine intervention. Not a life lost and thats not man. Thats god. Reporter meanwhile, approximately 27,000 here in Suffolk County continue to sweat it out with no power, stony brook beverage, one of several businesses, still open in the dark trying to preserve every bit of coolness thats left. Old school today. Old school today, keep it simple, lots of cold beer and soda, plenty of ice and we will all get through it together. Reporter as they grapple with a situation likely to continue for days. And we are back here live now along christian avenue where you can see the house across the street, same thing, debris all through the front yard, trees are down, this is basically everywhere, we talked to pse g late this afternoon. They say some people may be without power until friday, until friday. So the weather is very hot, check on your elderly neighbors, they do say Critical Care centers, their power has all been restored. By the way, this is all affecting the lirr, the Port Jefferson line, obviously when youre dealing with trees down on the railroad tracks, youre going to have problems moving equipment and moving trains during this rushhour. For now we are live in setauket, im stacey sager, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Feel for folks there. Thank you. Meteorologist lee goldberg warned us the storms were coming. Lee, you watched them move through overnight . So dangerous when the storms have timing like this, and you see it a handful of times each summer when you have a dramatic rise in humidity overnight. Its almost a dew point front where things spike. That really fires up thunderstorms, this was between 2 00 and 7 00 in the morning and even a smaller window from about 4 00 to 6 00 a. M. When the storms exploded over manhattan and over the five boroughs and then on the north shore of long island is where they peaked in strength. Look at that lightning there, and you heard it was setauket over to wading river and at times the winds gusted to 90 miles an hour with Straight Line winds, the rainfall amounts one to 2 inches northern new jersey, new york city and the shore. Storm hour wind crystal brook, 50 miles an hour tree limbs start coming down and then damage from hauppauge and 2inch hale in mt. Sinai. Through the afternoon hours, the severe thunderstorm watch over Dutchess County was cancelled so now the Severe Weather threat really moving away from the area. We are just about in the clear, all of the activity has really been to our north, a couple of light cells over sullivan, ulster and dutchess. We will have to watch the east end of long island and the jersey shore for the next hour or two. Another couple of hours before we can just say okay, no more cells are going to form along the coast. Watch that and your sevenday forecast is just a few minutes ago. Back to you for now. Thank you. New details on the legionnaires outbreak, new cases connected today and the urgent steps being taken to stop the spread. Also is this a case of Excessive Force playing out in this cell phone video . A lawsuit filed and the offensive slurs this man says nypd officers called him. And billy joel ready to close the nassau coliseum. 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It has been decontaminated, also four other cooling towers on the top of four other fairly modern buildings here in this part of the city. Now, earlier today, city officials put out this graph showing the growth of legionnaires disease in the south bronx, it goes up, up, up until about july 30th. That is the high point, the most cases that we have seen and then you can see a dropoff over the last few days. I think we are going to be grappling with all of this until sometime around august 14th. The mayor today sought to calm peoples fears about an outbreak of legionnaires in the south bronx. They have isolated the bacteria in five cooling hours on the tops of buildings including here at Lincoln Hospital and they have all been cleaned with bleach. Also the big message here, you cant catch legionnaires from somebody who already has it. Most importantly and thank god it is not contagious disease, in other words, cannot be passed from person to person. Reporter the bacteria comes from cooling towers and mist thats released into the atmosphere, Drinking Water is completely safe and, again, its not spread person to person. This is not the time to let an older member of your family say i dont want to go to the doctor. Today city officials asked for the publics help if someone is older in the south bronx and has a cough, ache or flulike symptom, go to a hospital. Legionnaires disease is very treatable. Its curable. With antibiotics that are readily available. Still around Lincoln Hospital a lot of people are worried. Do you feel safe right now coming to this part of the bronx . No, i actually came here and i was like, i got to go to lincoln today so i was just like, you know, i dont feel safe. I didnt even want to come here today. I was a little like, should i go there or go somewhere else . And now city officials are also riding a new law mandating the licensing and inspection of all tower cooling units in the city. There wasnt an identified pattern that suggested these cooling towers were a problem. Now we have a pattern. So thats why we need legislation immediately. So the city council is going to be taking up this new law here in just the next few days. It wont outbreak but hopefully it will prevent future outbreaks of this disease. Now, we want to reiterate, the atmosphere around this hospital, also the other four units that had these cooling hours, we believe it is safe and that is because they have decontaminated with bleach and some other products these cooling towers and it sounds as if they were safe now. But they are looking at some other locations in the south bronx. Also the incubation period for legionnaires disease is 10 days so we might be dealing with this for another week so so. For now reporting live in the south bronx, dave evans, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, dave. A lot of people anxious about this. We have an entire section dedicated to the legionnaires outbreak at abc ny. We have answers to common questions along with stories on the victims. All of this available on our home page. Heart breaking testimony today during the sentencing phase of the trial of james holmes, the colorado theater gunman. Grieving relatives of the 12 People Killed in the massacre testified about losing their loved ones. The same jurors who found holmes guilty on all counts including murder must now decide whether he gets life without patrol or a leith parole or a lethal injection. There was a severe storm warning but it didnt stop a circus operator from going on with his show and now two people are dead. 60mileperhour winds collapsed a circus tent in New Hampshire on monday, minutes before that collapse the National Weather service issued a severe storm warning for that area, a father and daughter were killed and more than 30 others were hospitalized. Its certainly something that is very disastrous not only to the local community and the families that are involved, but when you look at it from the standpoint of a child and the childs father that lost their life, the family was being disrupted forever. Yes it has been. Officials are still investigating but do not expect any charges to be filed. More storms there right now, right, lee . Yeah, severe thunderstorms. You figure, ill wake up the next damage and they will show damage from other places. When its happening to you you have to seek shelter and Pay Attention to the warnings. We will be in the all clear side from these storms tonight. Now, drone cam 7 is actually doing a version of a storm survey. Now, you saw stacey sager out in setauket and when we have damage from a storm, you look at how that damage is oriented around the area. You know, do you see a circular damage pattern or is it more like, you know, big giant foot just stomped on the area and everything is in one direction and youre seeing trees in the same direction here indicating more Straight Line wind damage and we heard from meteorologist jeff smith earlier and he said they reported 70 to 90mileper hour winds, Straight Line winds so these are very quick moving storms, incredible, and thats why they brought those trees down and to bring big trees down like that, you know you have to have over 60mileper hour winds. Similar to what you would do in an aerial storm survey. Back now to central park with patchy clouds over the meadow, it looks beautiful, we are in good shape. Its 87, the humidity is lowering and the wind is gusty, the pressure on the fall and the high today 89. We will check with the Weather Service right after this to see if we touch that 90degree mark. 4 10 of an inch of downfall. Sunset tonight at 8 09. 84 in the state last year, partly sunny skies, there are your records and normals, running 5 degrees above average. East rutherford at 92. Newark again goes into the 90s eight Straight Days to an eight day heatwave over parts of new jersey. Gets lost in this because the humidity has gone up and down through this. 90 in poughkeepsie so still very warm out there, if theres going to be a thunderstorm in the early evening hours, it would be the east end of long island, maybe even the jersey shore, sullivan, ulster dutchess a couple of cells through the early evening. Partly cloudy to mainly clear, lot of sunshine tomorrow, nice breezes, a few patchy clouds, mid and upper 80s, the pick of the week. There are the big storms right there over new england, southern New Hampshire okay but right along the mass turnpike and to the new york thruway we are seeing thunderstorms here. But so far quiet in the northern suburbs. One little cell just south of he elmira here. Humidity on the east end, watch that for the next hour on two and the same thing we will watch with a front offshore have to watch out on Southern Ocean county here to see if a cell doesnt form during the evening hours. Futurecast isnt giving up on that right now, but certainly after 8 00 or 9 00 we are in good shape there. Meanwhile, High Pressure should build in tomorrow, give us a great day, even thursday looks fine, just some clouds are going to be increasing, its this broad area of low pressure that we are watch the storm track and some good news today is that this storm track is trending farther south, may allow us to salvage part of friday and saturday. Less humid tomorrow at 87 degrees, really Beautiful Day and a nice day on thursday as well, high clouds are fanning into the area and theres that rain threat to the south that we are looking for, possibly for friday and early saturday. Isolated thunderstorm early, partly cloudy to clear, lowering humidity 73, we are up to 87 tomorrow, its breezy, warm, the humidity so low it will feel great, mostly clear and comfortable tomorrow night, some 50s in some suburbs north and west. Heres what we are working on for 5 30, will the storm plan to stay south on friday, maybe rain over central and southern new jersey, on saturday morning do we have to deal with any rain on the east end . Then will it be a named storm off the carolina coast, something brewing there. Your sevenday accuweather forecast in our next half hour. Thank you, lee. Coming up, what a judge told a mother she has to do after her arrest for leaving a child in a hot car while she went to the gym. Also need help finding parking . The newest way to get value lei Valet Parking. And turn your old clothes in your closet into cold, hard cash. Tips on how to make the most money ahead. 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More than a dozen firefighters treated for heat exhaustion and two Police Officers sent to the hospital. And drone cam 7 checking out the damage from severe storms that moved through long island early this morning. Huge trees knocked down in setauket and thousands of people right now still without power. Approximate and good evening again and good evening again, im diana williams. Im sade baderinwa. Our top story this half hour, a lawsuit against the nypd by a man who says Excessive Force left him bruised, bloodied and with broken bones, part of it caught on camera and its what the Man Says Police yelled during the arrest thats also upsetting. Eyewitness News Reporter Kemberly Richardson is at the courthouse in downtown brooklyn with more for us. Kemberly. Reporter the 25 million federal lawsuit now on file here. Lewis falcone says he had no idea his neighbor was using his cell phone to record all this. Tonight internal affairs promising to hand over the names of all of the officers involved. Today mayor de blasio expressed his deep concern over this case stressing neither he or commissioner bratton will tolerate any kind of prejudice in the force. Look at it and im disturbed. Im disturbed as a person, as a gay man,. Reporter he still cringes watching this cell phone video, thats him surrounded by four nypd officers who allegedly beat the 30yearold in a just filed lawsuit lewis maintains the group used Excessive Force as he drifted in and out of consciousness at one point he says an officer yelled a gay slur. I had mud all over my face and blood and blood gushing from my nose and my mouth. At that point i tried to get some, you know, clear my airway, spit some mud out and thats when the officer said dont get it on you he probably has aids. Reporter he says his brother scott came home drunk, that the two had a heated verbal argument. Scott left, their mother called 911. By now louis was back in bed when officers showed up telling him they were responding to a noise complaint, they asked him to step outside. He asked why and tells me without warning the officers dragged him to the ground and the blows started coming. At one point you hear louis tell his mother thats her in the doorway to call 911. He insists he was not resisting and at just 55, 150 pounds was no match for the officers. I was just like whatever is going to happen is going to happen and i like gave up. Reporter louis woke up in the hospital, among other things, a broken nose. This afternoon his attorney met with internal affairs who says it will hand over the officers names next week. Points out in the end louis was never arrested or charged with anything. Really they belong in jail. I think losing their jobs is the tip of the iceberg. Reporter now, Police Maintain when they first showed up at this house, they determined falcone had been punched in the face. He was acting irrational and spit in one officers space. Thats something he adamantly denies. Tomorrow he will meet with the civilian Complaint Review board. For now we are live in downtown brooklyn, Kemberly Richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. The first gay couple married at west point was attacked at a soho bodega. Take a good look at this photo. Police are looking for this man. They say he yelled gay slurs and punched one of the men in the faces but then the punches went the other way. The attacker ran away covered in his own blood. Still according to the nypd, attacks against gay people are down 20 this year. In new jersey, Montclair Police are looking for a man who attacked a woman in a park. Police just released this sketch of the suspect. They say the man attacked the 41yearold woman inside the swan park in july. A woman suffered nonlife threatening injuries. The mother from connecticut accused of leaving her child in a hot car cannot be left alone with her baby. She faced a judge today who made the ruling, then she dashed out of court in norwalk. Investigators say that she left her 4monthold in her suv while she went to the gym for an hour last month. Then the child was still reportedly left alone for another half hour. If her husband is not around she needs some other type of supervision with the child as the case moves forward. She also has to undergo a Mental Health evaluation. And we are just days away from seeing the top candidates take the stage in thursdays g. O. P. Debate in cleveland. And some of them got a little warmup in New Hampshire but the elephants in the race elephant in the race was not in the room. Reporter just ahead of thursdays debate all but three of the 17 republican president ial contenders gathered in New Hampshire for the voters first forum. Every person is participated who is participating in this debate is far better than any of the democrats running. Reporter but the elephant not in the room, donald trump, telling he had skipped the event since hes not likely to get the papers endorsement. Those who did take part seem to agree on a range of topics, repeal obamacare, cut federal continues from planned parenthood, in this case the iran nuclear deal. We need to get our allies in the middle east engaged in a major way. Reporter unlike a debate, each candidate took a turn answering questions from a moderator and quickly rotated out of the hot seat. Many of them hitting obama and Hillary Clinton hard. Whether its Hillary Clinton or joe biden, im a fresh face. We made it through jimmy carter, we will make it through barack obama. When bill says i didnt have sex with that woman, he did and what she tells us, trust me, youve got all the emails that you need, we havent even scratched the surface. Reporter trump who is leading the race is scheduled to be in cleveland for that first president ial debate. The 10 candidates who ranked the highest in a collection of National Polls will make it to the debate stage. If theres a tie, we may see an 11th podium. In washington, stephanie ramos, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Disturbing video has a lot of people talking. A little boy handcuffed in the classroom tonight. Wait until you see who did this. And its a growing industry, getting rid of your old clothes for cash. We have tips from the experts on how to get the hows it progressing with the prisoner . Hell tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. As you were. Where were we . 13 serving 14 service if your boss stops by, you act like youre working. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. A sheriff from kentucky caught on camera handcuffing an 8yearold student in class, that sheriff now facing a federal lawsuit. You can do what we have asked you to or suffer the consequences. That hurts. The sheriff handcuffed the 3rd grader because he was disrupting the class and you heard that 3rd grader not happy there. The boys parents says he has adhd. The video was released monday by the American Civil Liberties union and part of a federal lawsuit against the sheriff. New information about the doctor from pennsylvania who is accused of killing a lion in a restricted area in zimbabwe in april. In a statement an attorney for dr. Jan sesky says his client was in home in pittsburgh treating cancer patients. Dr. Sesky however did participate in a lawful hunt in july. His Attorney Says all information and paperwork required by law has been given to officials in zimbabwe. He came under fire after another doctor shot and killed cecil the lion. Meanwhile two u. S. Airlines are now refusing to transport animal trophies for big game hunters. Delta airlines which has the most flights to africa said it will not ship lion, leopards, elephants, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies. 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The new york governor new yorkers goff new York Governor Andrew Cuomo with the birth announcement. Congratulations, they delivered a baby early this morning. First baby born at the World Trade Center since 9 11. A birth announcement by the governor, thats pretty cool. Not many people can say that. 2yearold brother already has something for show and tell. Yeah, right. Nice beginning to the school year. We survived last night. Yeah, that was rough and furious. The damage we have been showing you through Eyewitness News this evening. Another report at 6 00 from meteorologist jeff smith showing some of the damage over long island. Blue sky and patchy clouds and the biggest thick you have notice this afternoon probably is the wind. Gusty out there. The west wind gusting over 20 miles an hour but it is a drier wind and thats helping us squelch any thunder activity this afternoon, a lot of this been happening on to our north. A few patchy clouds around and mainly clear and partly cloudy skies toward morning, a low of about 72 or 73, red sox are in town to play the yankees at the stadium, great night for baseball, 81 degrees, no more rain threat in the bronx, just mostly clear skies. So it will be nice overnight with just a few patchy clouds into the day tomorrow, nice breeze, low humidity, should feel great. Going to be a dry day and really the pick of the week. Weve had thunderstorms that have formed along i90, warnings with these cells, tornado warnings over massachusetts and for us a couple of cells that have been across the fringes of ulster, suddenly vann and duchess counties but we have been fire, shower near east end of long island but that didnt materialize into anything and still watching through the evening hours. Look what this futurecast does. A front still shooting sitting offshore and a little humidity on the jersey shore and on the east end of long island and still could be a couple of cells in the early evening hours that may brush or glance the coast so we will watch that closely. Most areas should be fine with really nice evening and then tomorrow sun and patchy clouds and a really nice day, the futurecast showing a couple of specs of showers, we are going to be dry across the area. I dont think we are going to spark any storms tomorrow. Westerly wind about 20 to 20, boaters two to 4foot chop, at least the rip current risk from high to moderate. Water temperatures in the mid and upper 70s. Air quality back to good tomorrow but with the low humidities and the gusty breezes, the grass pollen flying around. Longterm futurecast because im sure youve been hearing about this late week rain threat. Look at whats happening with this storm threat, see all the rain right here coming out of the middle of the country, instead of coming right at us, it looks like a lot of this rain wants to dip to our south. Now, this particular model may be pushing it too far south, i can see how central and southern new jersey gets into rain but our northern suburbs may stay dry into friday and that may leave the scene in time for the weekend with early rain along the coast. New information, that looked like its good trend there if youre looking at your outdoor trends friday and saturday. 87 tomorrow, the pick of the week, clouds on the increase on thursday but still a nice day, rain especially south of new york city on friday, a lot of area could stay dry, clouds and a shower could exit early on saturday and the bulk of the weekend looking fine. That would make it 22 in august and also the extreme heat going away. Now we are going to go into more cooler pattern. Thank you. 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Reporter they staked out their pots in the parking lot where in just a few hours the lights will go out but on hempstead turnpike. Sad to see it go. An iconic building. Been here for a long time. Candidacy the coliseum itself thats moving out to be renovated and rebuilt by the people behind brooklyns Barkley Center and nothing other than a piano man himself will help say goodbye to an arena thats been here for 40 years [ music ] reporter when word got out billy joel will play the coliseums last concert, tickets sold in five minutes more than 50 to long islanders. Joel may be the islands biggest big shots, hes one of them and his die hard fans are keeping the faith. What is long island about . Its about small communities, my father was in the service, my grandfather was in the service. They lived in lefttown and levittown and he was able to capture my familys history and thats endless because we always have it. Its written down. Reporter these guys are not going to get tired of singing billy joel songs anytime soon. Theres still a couple of hours to go before the concert begins. This is going to be the 32nd time billy joel played the nassau coliseum. They hope when the arena opens in 2016, hope to be the first performer there. Josh einiger, channel 7 Eyewitness News. I love it. They are having a good time out there. You join in, josh, have fun. Reporter im going to. Thats a concert i want to see. Much more ahead, including video of a sinkhole as it happened on a brooklyn street. Eyewitness news at 6 00 starts right now. This is new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News with bill ritter and liz cho, rob powers with sports, and lee goldberg with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Now Eyewitness News at 6 00. The Violent Storm has passed but the damage remains, tens of thousands of people without power tonight and many will not have power restored until at least friday, we are told. But first, a fiery crash on the new jersey turnpike a truck slams into an overpass, a powerline is damaged and one of the countrys busiest roadways is brought to a stand still for hours. Good evening, everyone, it is 6 00, im bill ritter. Liz off tonight. And what a mess on the turnpike. That truck somehow hitting part of the overpass southbound at exit 12 in linden, the truck caught fire, there was damage to powerlines running under the bridge. Not clear if that helped fuel the flames, however. The driver in the truck, in the truck for hours and police within the hour confirming that he died. Traffic backed up for hours as well both south and northbound, so bad, as you can see, some people got out of their cars and tried to pass the time. The evening commute now backed up significantly. New jersey reporter toni yates at the scene with the latest. Toni. Reporter yes, indeed, bill, that truck burst into flames most likely on impact, rescuers would not have been able to get to that driver and, again, state police confirming that one death as workers continue to repair the damage, lines of utility wires as you can see that need to be rehung or replaced