Today i die opened in reply to a friend, they kicked in a door and it popped off. This is not the way we want these kinds of negotiations to end. Reporter early friday morning around 5 45 u. S. Marshals attempted to serve tyree a warrant for a probation violation. When they gained entry, they were confronted with a heavy smoke condition fdny firefighters were met with gunfire, police say four shots. Guy is shooting. Reporter two bullets strike 53yearold lieutenant james hayes of engine 158 in the leg. He is being treated for nonlife threatening injuries. This could have been a tragic day for the new York City Fire department but thankfully lufthansa hayes is lieutenant hayes is recovering with his family. Reporter tyree barricaded himself in the basement armed with an assault rifle. Hostage negotiations began a dialogue. A family friend tried to speak to tyree. I text him. If i could get in and talk to him, he would listen to me. Reporter they brought in his mother. Shortly after he left his apartment and into the barrage of gunfire. Mr. Tyree fell back toward the house. He went down with a tactical medic to check on his condition but he was expired at that Reporter Police say in the aftermath of that they were able to recover three handguns ammunition. They believe that this man was it ended. Reporting live in staten 7 Eyewitness News. We are following more breaking news. Newscopter 7 is over a jackknifed tractor trailer on route 80. The tractor trailer was heading westbound when it hit the guardrail near exit 60. The cab of the truck went through the guardrail. You can see its on the shoulder of the eastbound side. Right now two westbound lanes are shut down. As we take a live look from the ground, you can see the massive delays on route 80. Eastbound lanes are subject to closure. We will keep you posted. A lot of accidents this afternoon. Another accident at the rfk triboro bridge. Flus news was over the scene a short while ago. You can see the picture. The charter bus had 36 people on board. It hit the island between the toll lanes. 16 people were taken to local hospitals. We are told that all of the injuries are nonlife threatening. There are residual delays on the manhattan side of the bridge heading into queens. Expect trouble if you are heading that way. And because we have a lot of breaking news today, beware that we have the breaking news alerts wherever you are. Sign up for those alerts and you can get the latest sent to your phone. Yet, one more accident to talk about in new jersey. A dump truck dangling off the side of an overpass in morris county. It happened on interstate 80. Newscopter 7 was first over the scene to report this t. Eyewitness news was the first on the ground with the story as well. Eyewitness News Reporter darla darla. Reporter that accident happened about 100 yards behind me beyond the trees. The driver of the dump truck is injury. Investigators are trying to determine how he crashed into a woman and child. I cant get her scream out of my head. Reporter those screams presumably came from a woman and child riding in this now flattened ford edge. I was hearing the lady screaming oh, my gosh. And i just really wanted to help her and you hear an infant crying. Reporter from newscopter 7, you can see where the hopper of a dump truck toppled on steel roxbury. New Jersey State Police are trying to determine who hit who first, the dump truck or the ford. I was in the office on my construction sound. Almost like a bomb went off. I saw dust 100 feet in the air for about 100 yards. Reporter under the overpass you can see how the hopper dangled near the new jersey tracks. Some debris fell below but it was removed. Reporter we thought they were doing Road Construction with dynamite. A loud explosion and then the dust. Thats when we saw police, cars, trucks. Reporter now, the mother and child were taken to st. Clair for observation. No fault has been determined in this accident. Reporting live, darla miles, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, darla. Also in new jersey, no damage, no injuries but a big scare for people in the central part of the state when they felt a small earthquake. The u. S. Geological survey said the 2. 7 magnitude quake hit about 3 40 a. M. It was centered roughly two miles north of bernardsville in somerset county. It hit on a branch of the ramapo fault. Police dispatchers trying to figure out what happened. Felt the whole house shake. I didnt know if it was an explosion or earthquake. Residents are hearing an explosion. Many feel the house shaking. Very concerned. The last earthquake in new jersey had a magnitude of 1. 9 in 2014. Police in newark are looking for the gunman that shot a woman several times. The victim was getting out of a car on riverside avenue when bullets started flying. The 37yearold woman from brooklyn were with friends that were not hit. They flagged down help. The woman is in the hospital in david . Historic day. The stars and stripes are flying above the u. S. Embassy in cuba. U. S. Armed forces raised old glory over the newly reopened embassy in havana as the same marines who lowered it 54 years ago looked on. The ceremony marks a big change in our relationship with cuba 90 miles to our south. Secretary of state john kerry was on hand to make it official. This advertise truly a memorable occasion. A day for pushing aside old barriers and exploring new possibilities. All of this comes after president obama took cuba off the official list of countries sponsoring terrorism. He then resumed diplomatic relations. Many believe its about time t. Others not happy about the change. President obama rewarded the castro regime for oppressive tactics and persistent patient opposition to american interests. Today we are having secretary of kerry do a victory dance in cuba. Its heartbreaking to see lack leadership. There are no plans for kerry to meet with raul castro. The u. S. Restrictions to the country but not completely lifted them. Only for academic, cultural, sports or religious reasons are allowed for now. David, there is speculation that former Vice President al gore may run for president but he put a stop to it. After the hanging chad fiasco, gore said through a spokesperson that he is not exploring a campaign run. A short while ago, euro zone nations approved a deal to keep greece from defaulting on its debt. It was approved after lawmakers passed a painful package of reforms and spending cuts. The bailout is heavy on austerity measures. It will prevent their financial euro. The market suffered big losses earlier in the week but regained the footing during the last few days of trading. Board. Points. Now to the legionnaires outbreak in new york city. Health officials are taking to the streets to talk to people about legionnaires. Office of Emergency Management brought a mobile unit to the south bronx near the center of the outbreak that killed 12 people and sickened 122. Health professionals answers questions and symptoms to the outbreak. We have a doctor, rn from a volunteer program. A Great Program run by the department of health. We have a Public Affairs person from the department of health as well that can answer peoples real questions from a technical side of thing. People certainly had a lot of concerns. City Officials Say the outbreak is under control. There were no new cases of legionnaires since august 3rd. What many commuters fear, platform. In this case it could have been samaritan. How he stepped in and put a stop to a would be rapist. Survival. Details on the rescue that took place nearly 30 hours after this violent blast in china. City. I will have the forecast coming up. Route 80, you see it there, jackknifed tractor trailer blocking lanes in elmwood park. 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The lanes will be shut down at 9 00 p. M. Tonight and they will remain closed until the repair work is complete. Going to need a lot of patients on the roads tonight. Incredible survival story from the rubble in chinas explosion. 32 hours after the blast a firefighter was pulled from the wreckage. The 19yearold was pulled from the debris at dawn. He was treated for face, chest and foot injuries. He told state television that he was knocked to the ground after an initial explosion and he simply doesnt remember what happened next. 21 people died in the blast. Police say they seized 4 million worth of cocaine at the port of baltimore. That translates into about 147 pounds of the drug. Two gym bags were found with brakes of cocaine inside a shipping container from brazil on august 4th. It was discovered after an inspection using Imaging Equipment showed something strange in a shipment of lumber. This advertise the largest cocaine seizure since 310 pounds from a container in ecuador in 2007. Kelly rutherford is speaking out about her bitter child custody battle. The manhattan judge ordered her to send the children back to their father in monaco. In an exclusive interview on good morning america, she said the accusation that she kidnapped her children is wrong. She told her ex she had concerns about returning them to him without knowing what they would be coming back to the u. S. He didnt demand them back. New york sent them back. We had to start of be up for them. I was happy the way it ended up happening. They didnt have to sit in the courtroom and watch it happen ordeal with the media or anything. Rutherford is frustrated because courts in new york and california claim not to have jurisdiction in her case. New addition for first daughter jenna bush and her husband. People. Com released photos of their second daughter born yesterday in new york. The name was inspired by her grandfather george h w. Bush. She called him poppy as a child. Her other daughter Margaret Laura named after her grandmother. This is billy joels baby della rose. She is the 66yearolds first child with roderick. She was born wednesday. 66, i dont know if i personally want to get started all over again with a baby but god bless them. You never know. I love babies. What are you saying you never know. What are you saying. No. Guess what i saw today. Who did you see . I was on the riverside and come running at me full speed jason holder our producer here. New dad. I was expecting you to say some big celebrities. Wait for it. Jason holder. It was a celebrity. We highfived and kept going. It was great. Billy joel, jason holder. Same thing. Crazy world. The weather is so nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Its fantastic. Really nice during the day. The heat is starting to climb. I can feel 86, 87 on the upper west side. It feels warm. Checking the temperatures all afternoon and looking at the dew points. Combination of the two. The heat we can take. When the humidity comes into play, that is what makes it uncomfortable. 90 in newark for the high. They hit that number. Then everybody else in the mid to upper80s. Tomorrow we get our chance at 90 then a streak over the weekend into early next week. Right now we have 88 in poughkeepsie. 89 in newark. They fell off a degree. Dew points in the 50s. Mid60s in the northern suburbs. Newburgh 66. 61 morristown. That puts us in the scale of starting to feel the humidity. Sticky, uncomfortable. In the coming days, it will become oppressive. Yesterday dew points in the 50s it felt so good. Radar and satellite pictures, storm free. If you are making that escape, to the catskills or the jersey shore, any of the beaches or going over to citi field, mets play at 7 10, great night to be out and about. Temperatures are climbing today and tomorrow is our chance at 90 with the increase in humidity. You will start to feel it. This is the beginning of check on your neighbors. Have plans to stay cool, monitor the airconditioning, that kind of stuff. By late friday we could get a quick shower to the north pardon me. Late saturday we could get a quick shower to the north. Then sunday the more widespread chance after 5 00. Those showers are out of here in no time at all and it will make it more steamy. Not really a front that clears out the atmosphere. If you are doing any beaching and boating, sea and sand forecast, west wind 7 to 5 miles per hour. Water temperature topping off at 77 degrees. Rip current risk low but a reminder to check in with the lifeguard on the beach you close to stay safe in the water. 72 in the city. 60s in the suburbs. 90 tomorrow. This is look at that. Sunday 92. A steam bath monday. 92 again. Then tuesday hot with thunderstorms. Forecasting 92 that day. Maybe bringing down the temperatures to 88 wednesday. Thursday 86 and friday 89. The entire stretch here, the next seven days we have a shot at 90 pretty much every day somewhere in the area and we have not had an official heat wave in new york city. Three consecutive days of 90 or better. We are getting a real shot at the hot weather that will be sticking around if you know what i mean. Yeah. That will be the big yuck. Is that eddy our famous director behind you. No, i think he is upstairs working. Okay, thank you. See you in a bit. Thanks, amy. A warning for parents about a popular app. Teenagers love it. It could be an avenue for predators. A man fights a bear and wins. You have to hear who says it was right by his side helping out. Coming up next, one of rap musics most iconic groups heads to the big screen. Nwa like you have never seen them. Sandy reviews straight out in brooklyn in 1907, four courageous ladies saw the despair of the poor, old, and sick and founded what would become mjhs. Today mjhs provides quality home care, rehabilitation and skilled nursing, and advanced hospice and Palliative Care for adults and children, but the values of the brooklyn ladies still guide us. Mjhs. Caring every minute, every day. First at 4 00 authorities in one state are urging parents to delate an app from childrens phone. The app called kick has been involved in far too many child extortion cases. Children can get unsolicited messages on the app. Suspects have persuaded children to send them inappropriate photos in the past but the makers of the app say they have safety features that let users block, filter and report inappropriate behavior. One of the nbas leading scorers but lebron james is offering a huge assist creating scholarships for children in his own town to attend school. He is teaming up with the university of akron to give scholarships to children that complete i promise campaign. 2300 kids will benefit. Lebrons total assist comes to just a little more than 87 million bucks. Thats a lot of money. He is helping out. Lets turn to music. When it comes to rap, many believe this band put the west coast on the map. They pioneered gansta rap genre. Actors are stepping in to fill the rolls of some of the biggest names in hiphop like dr. Dre and ice cube. Sandy kenyon is here with his review of straight compton. Reporter working in l. A. During the late 1980s i became aware of a new form of hiphop which came to be called gangster rap and reported one of the First National stories for cnn. I had the privilege of hearing firsthand from nwa how the rappers saw themselves as reporters. Our art is a reflection of our reality. Reporter the music they made made history 30 years ago. I am proud to say i was there to watch it happen and pleased to tell you that a new movie captures that period just about perfectly. The real super stars portrayed by actors were more charismatic. The beats were as mean as the streets when the members of nba came out of compton, california, to take the country by storm in the 1980s. People are squared of you guys. You have a unique voice. Reporter the best of their raps cannot be repeated on tv language. What caused virus see was the hostility to the police. Given what happened in ferguson, elsewhere since, a drama from decades ago never seemed more timely. You cannot come down here and harass my clients because of what they look like. Reporter the late rapper easy e was a drug dealer that financed a group that contained super stars dr. Dre and ice cube played in the movie by his real son. Oshea jackson junior is just as good as everyone else which is to say very good indeed. Nwa came to represent what was called west coast rap and started rivalry with east coast rap that grew violent embody by suge knight. The movie sounds like it might be too long at two hours and a half but it did hold my interest. My friend tracy bagley agrees. She is the senior producer of the show here and now. She calls straight out compton powerful adding she appreciated the humor, the love and the strong bond between the gangster rappers of nwa. Real life so often is more powerful than anything else. Dr. Dre, they have him listed at making 700 million. What a story from compton to that. It. You dont trust me, diana. We do but you got to love tracy. Saved by a stranger, coming up, a woman is attacked in a subway train. The Unlikely Hero that came to her rescue its 4 30. New this half hour, busted. A man accused of posing as a clinical kai colo gift and psychologist and medical doctor. A warning about do it yourself braces. Dont. That is very dangerous. You may think you are saving money but the results can be catastrophic. And attacked by a bear right outside his home. Its unreal. I mean, there he was. He was right on top of me. One mans survival story and how his tiny dog helped him fend off the beast. Our top story this half hour, a man makes a daring attempt to rape a woman in the middle of the day on board a subway train in brooklyn. Fortunately a Good Samaritan jumped in and saved her. Rob nelson caught up with the hero of the day. Slope, rob . Imagine. A man trying to rape a woman in the middle of the day on a subway platform. The situation could have gotten a lot worse until the Good Samaritan sprang into action. Anything. Something. You see Something Like that, you are supposed to help. When the doors to the 3 train opened at the bergen street stop wednesday in park slope, Maurice Osborne heard a womans screams. When you are on a train, you hear commotion. She was screaming for like 15 to 20 seconds. Officials say the suspect, was attempting to rape the woman after first fondling himself and approaching her inside the subwayss last car. He tried to get out at the bergen avenue station at 11 30, platform. The suspect on top of the victim and maurice one car overcame to the 28yearold womans defense. Punched him, hit him a couple of times. Reporter face, head, stomach. Face. Reporter not only did he rough up the suspect, he dragged him by the shirt two blocks a way to the local precinct where the would be rapist was booked on multiple charges. I picked him up and took him to the police station. She was following crying. She thanked me. Reporter we talked to maurices beaming mother. He has always been a helpful person. I am proud of him. Reporter you sound like a proud mama. He got a. 22. Look out. Reporter muir reasons remains humble but admits that it was a disturbing scene. That he would do that right there, right there on the platform and not care, it was shocking. Reporter shocking for sure. Now, the suspect is facing multiple charges including sexual assault. He will be back in court in a few days. As for maurice, he was hurt during the incident. I suffered a gash above his eye when he heat butted the suspect. At 5 30, what makes it more impressive what he did. Reporting from park slope, rob nelson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. He claimed to be a medical doctor diagnosing and treating patients and prescribing antidepressants. Donald arlee edwards was indicted for allegedly masquerading as a clinical doctor for three years. Esran the phony practice out of a basement apartment providing Mental Health services to at least 100 patients. The search for two convicts that escaped from an upstate new york prison was a costly manhunt. According to parole records obtained by abc news, the state police and Corrections Department paid about 23 million in over time costs during the three week search. About 1100 officers scoured Northern New York for richard matt and david sweat after they broke out of the clinton correct ton shall facility june 6th. Matt was fatally shot june 27th. Sweatt was captured two days later. Governor cuomo signed legislation banning powdered freeze dried alcohol. It comes in packets intended to be mixed with water and create alcoholic drinks. It can be easily used by minors and abused by adults. A former player with the Brooklyn Nets is in trouble over fake money. Police say tyshawn taylor, thats him wearing number 10 for the university of kansas, used counterfeit money order to get thousands in cash from a Grocery Store in hoboken. The owners filed a complaint after learning the order was fake. Last week taylor turned himself in and arrested. He played sparringly for the nets after getting drafted in 2012. There are new developments lion. The hunter in minnesota, dentist dr. Walter palmer is still in hiding. Ryan smith got an inside look at the park where cecil lived. Reporter in zimbabwe we arrived where cecil called home. He was famous. Reporter wrong his followers, a lion researcher who fitted cecil with a special collar in 2008. Tracking his every move until the day dr. Walter palmer shot cecil dead july 1st. Palmers guide faces criminal charges and there are calls for his extradition. He believed the kill was entirely legal but he showed us why he doubts the story. They knew what they were coming for. Reporter adding the lion collar he was using to track cecil could suggest a cover up. We get the impression someone is trying to fool us, moving it around so it looks like the lion is alive. Reporter palmer and his guide saying they didnt know they killed a famous lion. In a Court Hearing they admit when they discovered he was wearing a tracking collar but claims they removed the device, left it in a tree and contacted authorities. Weeks. In miss hometown, chad wagner defended his longtime friend. The type of guy that would back. Reporter fellow hunters say they know the backlash palmer is facing. She became the subject of antihunting scorn and Death Threats after this photo of her posing next to a slain giraffe went viral. I will kill you and cut your head off. What happened at the preserve since the outrage oversee sills death . Ryan smith is in our studio. You are just back from zimbabwe, two days ago. Two days ago. Reporter what has happened . What kind of changes have happened. Over this. They have put a ban in certain areas, especially the area where cecil was killed. That is critical because the park where cecil lived, you cant hop lines there. There is a Railroad Track that separates the place where you cant hunt cecil and the place where the hunters believe they could. So, you walk one step and that lion is in huntable territory. Reporter what is the park doing to keep the animals from being lured to be fair game. I asked them. Why dont you put up a fence. This park is about the size of connecticut. You would have to have an enormous fence. These are animals living freely, not in captivity. Their natural instinct is to roam. The park officials dont want a situation where animals slowly feel closed in. I have to talk about the newsroom debate over the name. You are going with cecil. Thats the name they used over there and in europe and we americanizeed it. In the middle of the interview, he stopped me and said why are you calling him cecil. Its cecil. It depends. I honor what the people who work with him every day. Be loved lion and it has galvanized so many people. The pride of that country. In so many ways they are angry. They want Walter Palmer to come back and face charges. Thank you for making time. You have much more on 2020. You can see the full story, hunter and hunted tonight at 10 00 followed by Eyewitness News at 11 00 and if you are aware from tv you can watch it on the abc app. Face to phrase with a 200 pound bear. One mans ream life encounter with a wild beast. You may think you are saving money. The warning about do it yourself braces. Do we have to warn you about do it yourself braces . Be ok. So everyone is saying hey, youve gotta get fios. but why . Why fios . Well, fios is a 100 percent Fiber Optics Network to the home, so you can get 100 out of all your devices. And access to the Fastest Internet and in home wifi available from any provider. With big capacity too, so everyone in the house can be online all at once. Only fios has 500 meg download speeds, with equal upload speeds. So you can upload your favorite videos up to 5x faster than cable. And with the fios mobile app, you can view your entertainment at home, or on the go. But the main reason to get fios . 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They say all you need are elastic rubber bands. Doctors say the result can be catastrophic. You can move teeth with elastic hair bands. You have no control over that movement. And you can actually damage the teeth, the sporting bone structures underneath and it can result in loss of teeth. The consequences are so alarming, the American Association of are though donetists issued a warning about misusing elastic rubber bands. Something to keep in mind. You heard of yolo. You only live once. Now you only pope once. How the pontiff inspired a brewery in new jersey. What happens whether children take over as prep trauma unit 5. Whatve we got . Bp 64 40 sterilize sites. Multiple foreign objects in the body. Tweezers. buzz buzz if youre the guy from the operation game, you get operated on. Its what you do. buzz if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. A brewery in new jersey is releasing a limited edition beer to commemorate pope francis beer in september. Cape may is brewing 500 gallons of the pope inspired beer. Its called yopo or you only pope once. The pale ale will only be available on draft at the jersey shore brewery tasting room and watering holes in philly and new jersey beginning on the popes arrival, september 21st. A young Small Business owner in california set up a Lemonade Stand in boulder. The 9yearold thought he could make more money there than on the street. The bugged entrepreneur Digital Currency bitcoin. He has a web site where he shares what he learned. He has a bitcoin, web site. He is not all business. He did use some of the profits to buy a lego death star. You have to have one of those. You got to have one. There are some essentials in life. Your kids seated up a Lemonade Stand. On the streets of new york city its more complex. You could be arrested. Not as simple as your own front yard. This time of year the kids are popping up all over the neighborhood with their stands and i got ice water for you. My favorite and i love you guys are the ones that are on the harlan hill in central park and they are not a Lemonade Stand. They are bottle of water for a buck. But i want to marry them as i come up. You would pay a lot more than a buck sometimes. Really a Beautiful Day out there. Speaking of the park, a lot of people are enjoying it today. Its getting hot. Upper 80s is what we had as far as the official high temperature. We will at the humidity in as we get into the weekend. Hopefully you have plans to stay cool. Any runs will be done early in the morning so you dont battle with the heat and humidity. We are at 88 poughkeepsie. 89 newark. Both of those spots flirting with the 90degree mark. Even at sunset it will be warm. The low humidity will be with us just, early part of today and then replaced by high humidity and the possibility of this heat wave coming in. Temperatures were the main story today climbing into the upper 80s. After sunset, they will crash into the low to mid60s. In the city 72. But the suburbs get cool. Tomorrow, lots of sunshine for the head start. Heat returning by the afternoon and a lot of humidity coming up from the south. This is typical august pattern for us as the bermuda high sets up just offshore and we get a lot of moisture coming up from the south and it gets down right sticky by tomorrow afternoon and we are putting up with the heat and humidity right through really tuesday into wednesday of next week. We could potentially get our first heat wave of the season. Chance of showers sunday between 4 00 and 8 00, quick movers and easy to tray. 72 in the city. Suburbs in the 60s. Here is the accuweather seven day forecast. First day of 90 tomorrow. Then it continues sunday, monday, tuesday and stretching into wednesday, thursday and friday. We are right near the upper 80 90degree mark. This will be the time of year if we get a heat wave it would be right now. You do need those plans, of course, how to stay cool, where to go, check on your friends and neighbors. Take care of the pets. The routine. We had some 90s already but this could be quite a stretch. Good to remind people. Absolutely. Thanks, amy. David . They say music tells a lot about you. Here is what is trending on this friday. President obama sharing what is on his spotify list. That is trending. Favorites on his music, you will 2350eu7bd beyonce, al green and bob dylan. Talk about he can check particular taste. Sharon stone is looking fabulous at 57. The actress posed nude for Harpers Bazaar and what is sexy these days but it is the frank discussion she suffered in 2000 and how close she came to losing her life. Dying dog got wish to play in the snow and that story is trending. People that run an artificial snowmaking park in england helped the owner of the st. Bernard have an awesome day romping in the snow before she had to be put down because she has terminal bone cancer. The owner says the day was just amazing. Very sweet. Very sweet. A cat still hanging in there doing well is trending. The Guinness World record confirmed corduroy is the oldest living cat. He turned 26 years old. Apparently that is very old. His owner is from the u. S. And they have been buddies since ashley was just 7 years old. She is a full grown woman right now. The foo fighters prove they are among the coolest bands ever. They pulled a fan up on the stage to rock to russias they were playing this, tom sawyer in front of the audience in canada and the man did it. [ music ] dreams do come true. Finally the people of funny or die came up with kids version of the go op debate. Yes, its funny. Senator, i will tell you how president obama. You gave him a big hug. You are having a hard time tonight. Thats how the debate sounded to a lot of people. Check out the trend online at abc7ny, send us your trend ideas. I love it. I notice they are missing a woman in the mix. Yeah. A story of survival. Next, how one man escaped a bear attack outside his home. The dog had to fend off the beast. As we have been telling you all afternoon, there is a lot of traffic tieups out there right now. There are 60minute delays at the outbound lincoln tunnel. 45 minutes on the inbound side. There are hourlong delays at the outbound holland tunnel. Have john is just two weeks away from walking down the aisle with emily. Didnt see that one comin. Now were groomsmen. Were just 475 short miles away from. Shenanigans. Its not going to get too crazy. Might get a little weird. You have places to go. Let us worry about getting you there. Bp gasoline with invigorate. Fuel the journey. Ava and i needed a little vacay. But we needed to watch our spending. Meaning i needed to watch nikki. Shes the spender. Im the saver. So, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track. For both of us. She was just browsing. We gotta go. Im ava. Im nikki. And we bank human at td bank. What . A 67yearold man is recovering after fighting off a bear in california. The man says the bear actually jumped right on top of him and bit him. Even his dog, a Yorkshire Terrier jumped in to help. Reporter in a brutal fight for his life. Larry survived an attack from a black bear. He ripped me here open in my face. And i punched him. I tried to hit him again and he latched onto my arm. Reporter kicking and screaming, the former marine was able to force the bear off. His dog benji nipped at the animal giving them time to get away. Experts say extreme heat and dry conditions are forcing bears close tore people in search of food. This bear in a garage later made its way inside a Southern California kitchen wednesday while a family of five was home. Authorities helped guide him out. And another sighting in yellow stone just one week after a grizzly and her cubs killed 63 yearold lance crosby. That bear was captured and euthanized. If you encounter a bear in the wild, hold your ground, standstill, wave your arms. Reporter that is what he did before driving himself to the hospital. That bear was eating his garbage which brings up a good point. Bears can smell food three to five miles away. They suggest putting trash in bear proof containers and not leaving food in your car. Brandy hitt, channel 7 Eyewitness News. There is still more news ahead including manhole fires in new york city. Eyewitness news at 5 00 starting now. This is channel 7 Eyewitness News with Diana Williams and Sade Baderinwa and lee goldberg with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Now, Eyewitness News at 5 00. A standoff in Staten Island end ins a barrage of bullets. It all began with a man wanted for a probation violation shooting a veteran firefighter. Tonight, the suspect is dead and that fireman is recovering from two gunshot wounds. Good evening, im Sade Baderinwa. And im Diana Williams. We will have more on those stories in a moment. Right now, we have breaking news. There is is a mess of traffic out there. Crews are at the scene of a manhole fire in Hells Kitchen. That is not good news for drivers headed to the lincoln tunnel. Josh einiger is there. Reporter let me show you what the going on. This is 45th and 9th. You can see a crew attending to a manhole that exploded a little while ago. We have video. Look at the impact it had. Four stories up. That is actually five stories up. Something, whether it was the blast, or a actual piece of debris shattered that window which came crashing down to the ground. Lets show you the video somebody posted on youtube of this very scary moment. Moment. You can see the panic in peoples experience as they were out there basically watching that manhole after it started smoking at first. It attracted their attention. They walked right up to it and boom, that lick of flames that came shooting out. Fortunately, no one was hurt in this experience. Knocked down on the ground and also up in the office where the window shattered and the falling glass didnt affect anybody down on the ground either so very, very lucky to say the least. If we come back to a live look