Eyewitness news copter you see just how big a scene this was and is still this afternoon. Traffic southbound has been diverted to route 17. They will be at this for quite some time today trying to figure out exactly what happened. All the details of what happened, and right now just trying to notify next of kin and straighten out exactly to get traffic flowing once again. Dolan channel 7 Eyewitness News. As we find out more breaking information we will update you on air and online at abc7ny. Three workers remain hospitalized with serious burns suffered in a massive explosion as they worked on a gas line at a high school in the bronx. Damage and tore a gaping hole in the side of the building as you can see from this tweet from marcus solis. He is joining us right now with the very latest. Its devastation, pure devastation. I have no idea. As a longtime teacher of Digital Electronics he had to come see for himself. These photos give you a sense of the force of the blast a gas fueled explosion that blew out windows in their frames and sent bricks and debris flying on to the streets below. Being here in person as a teacher and someone who worked in that building, its pure devastation. Its like it remind me of that. The explosion happened after eight last night at the kennedy campus. The former jfk high school is divided into seven schools with over 4,000 students. In june work began to update science labs on the sixth floor of the 8 story building. Crews contacted by the School Construction authority, three workers were injured, one of them critically. Now engineers are trying to building. For now the campus is closed. Yeah, i was shocked. I came here today. I didnt know it was going to affect practice but like it did. So i guess i got to go home now and break the news to my mom. As far as the start of the school year, the chancellor says she expects classes to im confident that no student will be in the school unless its totally safe and that if they cant go into that billion they will be relocated to another building. The reality is school will start on time. Reporter the exact cause of the explosion remains under investigation. Hospital. The 36yearold remains in Critical Condition with burns over 50 of his body. The other two workers burned less severely. Survive. Were live in the bronx, marcus news. Thank you marcus. A fast moving storm causing all sorts of problems across the tristate area. We have video from news copter 7 over the Northern State parkway at exit 35 in jericho. The road closed due to flooding but has now since been reopened. An Eyewitness News viewer tweeted these pictures from beach 90th street. A mess but the flooding has receded as well. At the jersey shore flash flooding on route 35 and Point Pleasant beach made things tricky for drivers. Flash flooding washed out roads in nasa county as well. This was the scene on east park avenue in long beach, and the Long Island Railroad operating on or close to schedule meteorologist bill evans will have the weekend accuweather forecast in just a bit. Shirleen. No word if the weather it was blame for an out of control car that slammed into the house on North Amityville long island. No one inside the house was hurt. The cars driver and a passenger were able to walk away from that crash, but were taken to the hospital as precaution. Charges are pending against a husband involved in a bizarre accident in brooklyn that left his wife dead. Police say 29yearold danielle the night out drinking. Danielle got into the backseat fight. When the car made a turn, the tumbled out. She wound up hitting her head on the ground and died. Also in Brooklyn Police are trying to catch a sexual predator. The man in this video. Ed for an attempted rape in brooklyn. The attack happened in borough park monday morning. The man grabbed a woman near church and 14th avenues and shoved her to the ground. Police say he ran off when the woman fought back. Meanwhile police in queens searching for the suspect accused of scratching and biting a woman on a manhattan bound f train. Investigators say the woman in this picture lashed out violently after another subway rider asked her to move her bag. The suspect in this picture took off when the train stopped at the 21st street queens bridge station. High School Football player on long island in Critical Condition after suffering heat stroke during a team practice. Nicholas visco became sick during practice at river Head High School on monday. Officials say visco suffered liver and kidney failure and remains on dialysis at stony brook hospital. The temperature on monday was 86 with a heat index of 92. Coaches say the team was practicing under a modified heat alert. A heat alert is not mandatory at the school until a heat index reaches 95. Investigators in los angeles say an electric generator triggered an explosion and fire in the basement of a highrise downtown. More than 150 firefighters responded to the blast in the 19 Story Office Building around 10 15 last night. Officials say the Sprinkler System kept the flames from spreading, and the building was mostly empty at the time. Two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Depositions continue to rise between north and tensions continue to rise between north and south korea. Kim jong un claimed his troops were in a state of war. Battles. This follows the nations rounds back. The pentagon is investigating after the Ashley Madison data breach revealed hundreds of federal workers used Government Networks to access the cheating website. Two u. S. Attorneys, a member of the white house support staff, a government hacker and a Justice Department investigator list. It also says some members of the military visited the site. A big change is on the campaign trail for the republican front runner. Up next donald trump about to hold a massive pep rally. Why there is a last minute change of venue. And the surfing savior doing a lot more than hanging 10. Now hes being hailed as a hero after a rip current rescue. Im meteorologist bill evans here in the weather center. Good afternoon everybody. Showers and thunderstorms still linger on eastern long island and coastal connecticut. Temperatures around 79 to 80. Northeast wind. That has shut the humidity down. Were going to talk about that, the rest of the we want to update that breaking news we brought you at the top of the hour, a deadly multivehicle collision on the new york state thruway. News copter 7 is over the scene in suffern rocklin county. We have just learned a second person has been extricated and taken to Good Samaritan hospital. Were going to keep you updated on this breaking story. In the race for president the friday nightlights are set to shine on donald trump. Thats expected to be the Biggest Campaign rally of the race has now been moved to a football stadium. Bazi kanani live in washington with more on this. Reporter good morning, david. Republican strategists just cant agree on the best way to compete with donald trump. While some candidates are befriending or ignoring him, others including jeb bush believe it is time for a more direct challenge. Donald trump says tonight will be his biggest rally ever, the dominant front runner expected to repeat his calls for stern Immigration Reform in mobile alabamas pledging to end birthright citizenship and launch a mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. Were going to get them out so fast and so quick s its going to be tough, its not going to be like will you come with us please. The celebrity candidate is keeping immigration front and center in the republican race dividing the field over policy and use of language around the issue. There should be a little more focus on solving the problems rather than just kind of coming in like a tidal wave and saying things that are outrageous. The former republican front runner jeb bush is now taking direct aim at trump saying his proposals are unreasonable and insensitive. Analysts believe trumps talk could hurt the gop with hispanic voters, and while jeb bush has called trumps words vitriolic both men are facing questions about their use of the term anchor baby. Excuse me, ill use the word anchor babies. I dont regret it. You dont regret it. No, do you have a better term . Bush indicated he may not use the term again. Two years ago he chaired a Hispanic Outreach Group that asked conservatives to avoid using the term. Thank you. Congressional democrats are voicing more concerns about the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Some are saying the Clinton Campaign has not adequately explained the review and disclosure process. Clinton is also taking heat for using humor when asked about the server that contained the e mails during a recent appearance in nevada. A poll shows she still has a clear lead over her competitors on the democratic ticket but the gap is narrowing. You can stay with Eyewitness News and abc news for the latest in the race for president. You can also find updates around the clock at abc7ny. a surfer rushed to the aid of a teenage girl and her friend after the pair got caught in a rip current. He says he was taking advantage of high waves when he noticed two teens in distress. Even though a red flag indicating hazardous water conditions was out, dozens of people were in the water, and the teens were far from shore and struggling to stay afloat. A kid ran up to me and told me that there was somebody drowning. I didnt think anybody was going to be able to reach him. He ditched the board and just swam. He reached one of the girls about 800 feet out and brought her to shore. Another man rescued her 13year old friend. One girl is in the hospital in stable condition. The other one is resting at home. Incredible. What a hero. Yes, he is. Coming up, a patient making a disturbing claim that she was raped by an fdny emt. The investigators jim hoffer with an exclusive report. Breaking barrier, two female Army Officers making history by graduating from Army Ranger School. What it took to make it through. Plus, right out of goldilocks, this one just right, family of bears makes a splash in a backyard in new jersey. 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Switch to Time Warner Cable today. And now, for a limited time, you could get a 300 reward card. Call today. Ur they took my floaty. Yeah, i was very upset. They took my floaty. [ laughter ] shirleen, you want to tell us the story about this one. Id love for you guys to tell the story. Apparently it took your floaty. The kids werent amused but a mama bear and her cubs were having the time of their lives playing in a rock away township new jersey backyard pool. The video was posted on youtube. The cubs got a kick out of the kick boards. The family called animal control once the bears started to have a little too much fun and became destructive with that floaty and other pool items. I like that basically when they called 911, you got bears in your backyard, we cant do anything about that. You think were going to get them to leave. Theres a bunch of bears. Tough it out lady. And they were wondering where the dad was of course. You could hear him in the background saying im looking for the picnic basket. You couldnt resist could you . We all know thats not true. The dad was one town over playing golf. Take a look at whats going on. That sounds accurate. Thats a little more accurate. Heres whats happening this afternoon. We have these alto cirrus clouds. It has turned out really nice as we look from our camera in brooklyn to manhattan. There goes the new york water taxi, all the water taxis are going back and forth, and folks are moving around here at noontime. Its really nice because the humidities are less right now. Thats really dropped off, and these are alto cirrus clouds and alto cumulus on the back side of a front that has been pushing through, and now were looking at a humidity of 48 , temperatures 79 degrees, and the pressure has been rising. All that points to a nice afternoon, and you know the other part thats nice is this, the wind is out of the northeast, not a southerly wind pumping up the moisture. That lets us know that a cold front has pushed right through and out across long island and out into the atlantic. Now a normal high is 82. Were going to be around that for the afternoon, about 85. This morning the rain that came by dumped 3 10 of an inch in the park, a couple inches shorter rainfall. The sunsets at 7 46, and it should be quite pretty. It will be warm tomorrow, still very low humidity even though itd probably get to 86. Now clouds, a few will come in on sunday, and youll just have to tune in with jeff is amy this weekend because theres a system out of the atlantic might back in clouds or a shower and it could miss us all together. Either way saturday the best day of the weekend. 79 around riverdale, whitestone 77. Cambria heights 79. These temperatures are in great shape because the wind look at the wind pattern here, right out of the north and northeast coming to the park. This feels good. This shuts down the humidity. As the front keeps sliding eastward theres a couple showers running up the front Suffolk County long island here. This is really from, you know, about brook haven and upton and eastton here, out across river head and all the way out to montauk. High pressure builds in for the west giving us great weather tonight and tomorrow. Heres the rain for this morning. An inch and three quarters around toms river. That was the flooding there, an inch and a quarter here towards sussex, there were some other local spots. Now our futurecast does show the front pushing through. We clear out tonight, a lot of sunshine tomorrow. Then we kind of start to see some clouds backing in here on sunday. Were going to talk more about that in my next weather forecast. Well highlight sunday just a little bit more. Sun and clouds today, low humidity. Still might be a linger shower eastern connecticut. If youre headed towards the hamptons you might run into a sprinkle. Comfortable tonight with low humidity. Sunny and nice tomorrow, saturday is just perfect no matter where you are. 83 a mixture of sun and clouds and a passing shower. Youll be out east right . Im going to be east and then easterly and then northeast and way east. Thats right. Had his grand voyage. Yes, ask nantucket, marthas vineyard. You have to document it on your facebook page. British isles. Our producers are like we dont the to hear anymore thats enough of that. An extraordinary shark tale, a young girl bitten, how she saved not only herself but her fr kayakers to the rescue a. Man trying to paddle away from a storm, puppies trapped in a pipe, just some of the stories that were caught on camera and caught our attention. We begin with kayakers in wisconsin who gained the trust of a full grown buck by speaking its language. The group was on Lake Superior when they saw the buck stuck in a sea cave. When they realized it, couldnt get free on its own they decided to help. One of the women made deer calls. Each time she did the buck looked at her. Eventually the buck seemed relaxed enough that the kayakers could give it a few nudges. The buck wiggled free and began to swim beside the kayakers. And a faster than lightning kayaker in florida. He was on the water when he realized a storm was coming blind him fast. The go pro camera recorded walasek, racing to get back to shore. He kept his cool and got back to dry land. A sump pump is safe after spending a a pup is safe. Police believe the puppy fell down an open Drainage Pipe in the lawn outside the home and was stuck there for 11 hours, but that adorable pup got out safely. That is the awe moment of the day. Thanks a lot. History being made right now in georgia, the first ever women to complete the Army Ranger School graduating, but those history makers are youre watching new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 Eyewitness News at noon with david novarro, Shirleen Allicot and meteorologist bill evans. Now Eyewitness News continues. We continue to follow breaking news. At least one person is dead after multiple vehicles including a tractortrailer crashed on the new york state thruway in suffern. These are live pictures from news copter 7. You can see the scene is still very much active. A preliminary investigation revealed that one of the vehicles traveling northbound crossed over into southbound traffic causing the collision. Right now there are big delays in both directions near exit 14. New York City Schools chancellor says she expects fall classes to start on time at the jfk Kennedy School campus in the bronx. This is where a gas explosion took out a chunk of the building. Right now that building is closed. Three workers were injured. One is in Critical Condition. An overnight storm prompted flooding across the tristate area this morning at the jersey shore. Route 35 in Point Pleasant was completely under water. Flash flooding washed out roads in Nassau County as well. And hello again, im Shirleen Allicot. Im david novarro, and new at 12 30. She called for help, what a woman in the middle of a medical emergency instead says she was victimized by the very people who were supposed to come to her aid. She says she was unable to scream but she knew she had just become the victim of a Sexual Assault. Investigative reporter jim hoffer is here with the exclusive details. Jim. The allegation of Sexual Assault by an fdny emt is being taken seriously. The department of investigation confirming late this morning to us that they are assisting the nypd in trying to determine the validity of a patients claim that she was raped. Hes supposed to help people that are sick. She requested we not identify her. This brooklyn mother says she felt compelled to tell her story so it doesnt happen to anyone else. You dont do that. Thats been weighing heavy on my mind ever since it happened. Ever since it happened. Weve confirmed that the emt in question and his partner have been taken off the street and placed on restrictive duty pending the outcome of an investigative probe. She claims last saturday the fdny emt crew responded to her bedstuy apartment after her family called 911 when she started having a partial seizure. When one of the two medics stepped out of the back of the ambulance, she alleges the other medic sexually assaulted her. As soon as that man closed the door, he pulls my blouse up some. Then he takes his hand, takes his right hand and put his hand down in my panties and stuck his finger in my private area. I saw everything he did. I heard him when he name twice. You were well aware of what was going on. I was well aware of what was going on. The woman has a history of what is medically referred to as simple or partial seizures where one does not lose consciousness. They can be fully aware of whats going on but theyre unable to speak. Weve been told that police are looking at surveillance tape to see if it can shed any light on whether she was ever alone with one of the emts and if so for how long. Now coming up in the 5 00 newscast, we will hear more of the interview from the alleged victim. Back to you. Thank you. New at noon, democratic new york congressman in the largest jewish district in the country has announced his support for the iran nuclear deal. This makes Gerald Nadler the states only jewish member of agreement. Nadler says the move comes from thoroughly analyzing the deal and getting perspective from both sides. He released a statement saying in part although we know that iran will remain a major menace to the region and the world, even without Nuclear Weapons a Nuclear Armed iran would represent an unacceptable threat to the united states, israel and global security. A moral gridlock and delays dmv. It has gotten so bad that the offices will stop taking walk ins this afternoon. The dmv announced that after 2 00 only customers with appointments will be seen. This is all because of a computer upgrade. The offices could not do registration transactions for a week. When everything was up and running tuesday, lines were hours long. Cutting off walk ins will allow employees to leave at a reasonable hour. Amtrak is releasing some of its plans for transporting people to and from the massive events surrounding the popes visit in september. Many of the big changes focus on the philadelphia leg of the popes visit. From friday september 25th to monday september 28th, reservations will be required on all asela northeast regional and keystone trains. Amtrak will be adding extra trains for that saturday and sunday. The demand is expected to be so great that amtrak is saying it will use some equipment from its partners and will suspend any maintenance activities. People in the new york city area can expect to see extra coaches on some trains. And you can read much more about Public Transit as well as districts and road closures on our website abc7ny. Com hope. We are getting a better look at the fire that caused major delays in the new york city subway system yesterday. 4 and 5 trains were suspended between manhattan and brooklyn during the evening commute. Thats after a transformer fire caused problems with the signal power inside the tube connecting the two boroughs. Crews hooked up temporary generators to restore service. President obama just declaring a state of emergency in washington state. This in response to the wildfires there. Meanwhile reinforcements are coming from near and far to help crews battle this massive wildfires that have popped up. More than 70 firefighting experts from as far away as australia and new zealand are heading to the u. S. To help with the more than 100 fires raging across the parched landscape, and for the first time ever, state officials in washington are calling for civilian volunteers to assist exhausted crews. Meanwhile the families of three firefighters killed in a fire in the state are speaking out about their loss. Thats an interesting legacy. I would trade it in a heartbeat if we could have him here with us. He was the center of our lives. Were going to miss him more than anything in the whole world. Their loved one and the others were killed when they crashed their vehicle and were overtaken by the flames in Central Washington on wednesday. Today history in the making as two female Army Officers including one from our area become the first woman to ever graduate from the army rangers school. Elizabeth her has more on what those history makers are saying about their accomplishment. They are the best of the best from the armys premier Ranger School and graduating today along side 94 new male rangers are First Lieutenant shay haver and kristen griest. Its awesome to be part of the history of Ranger School. Haver is a 25yearold star athlete and an attack helicopter pilot. Griest is a west point alumna, a competitive Cross Country runner from connecticut and a military police officer. Knowing that you have to uphold that legacy every day, you cant really have an offday. You cant be tired. You need to go the extra mile. The two trailblazers completed the punishing 9 week course by powering through mountains, swamps and rivers carrying 50 pounds of gear enduring all the same standards as the men. I was thinking really of future generations of women that i would like them to have that opportunity. At each event we succeeded in we kind of were winning hearts and minds as we went. Making history they say was not their focus and their determination not only earned them the right to wear the Army Ranger Tab but the respect of their male counter parts. For now women cannot serve as rangers just yet. That decision and which combat roles women will be taking on are expected to be made by the end of this year. Im elizabeth her for channel 7 Eyewitness News. Congratulations to those women. My niece wants to be the first navy s. E. A. L. Its that kind of thing, you can do it now. Those women are going to inspire a lot of change. Absolutely. We want to turn now to meteorologist bill evans. He has the afternoon accuweather forecast. Theres a couple of showers shirleen and david coming up around islip across fire island right there and another north of bridgeport thats pushed on into fairfield and new haven county. This will continue out here on the eastern end. The rest of the area seeing a lot of sunshine. Weve got a southerly wind, 5, 10 miles an hour now thats going to go northerly. A moderate risk of rip currents, going to be great particularly tomorrow. Humidity. Tomorrow is a fantastic day. Well be at 86 degrees. However, this front kind of stalls out here, and next were going to talk about that as to what we can expect on sunday. Shirleen. Thanks bill. Cancer treatment. Well tell you about the study thats raising doubts over early intervention. She was attacked by a shark. Instead of running for safety, this girl went back into im caridee. Ive had moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis most of my life. But that hasnt stopped me from modeling. My doctor told me about stelara it helps keep my skin clearer. 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Ask your doctor about stelara. E being held without bail for a vicious assault on a mexican immigrant that they reportedly said was inspired by Donald Trumps views on immigration. Scott and steve leader hit a 58 yearold victim on wednesday morning with a metal pipe. They punched him, and the police say they urinated on him. Investigators say during the attack the men said donald trump is right and all these illegals need to be deported but the victim has legal documentation. A new study is raising questions about the effectiveness of early Breast Cancer interventions. As many as 60,000 women each year are diagnosed with stage zero Breast Cancer, a precursor to what could be a deadly tumor. A study published this week in the journal oncology reports that only about 3 percent of women with the precancerous cells die from Breast Cancer. The Research Suggests aggressive treatments like a mastectomy and radiation may not be necessary at this stage. A shark encounters arent unheard of but usually the victim gets out of the water and as far away as possible from that water. In this next story the victim went back in to save a friend, and that victim just ten years old. Story. This morning this 10year only alive but smiling. Caylee zarmac was enjoying an afternoon at the shore in Jacksonville Beach florida on wednesday when a reportedly 3 foot long shark took a bite out of the 10yearolds leg as she was exiting the surf. She could see the fin flailing around. She turned and yelled to her friend get out of the water. Its a shark. Local station wjxt visiting her in the hospital and talking with her dad dave who recounted her harrowing experience. Caylee even plunging back in the depths of danger to help another young friend still in the water. She walked herself out of the ocean and she realized that the 6yearold was still in the water so she turned around and went back and got the 6year old and took her out of the water. Sorry, its emotional. The 10yearold rushed to the hospital with several large lacerations. She had about 90 stitches. This morning caylees still recovering in the hospital, but her dad hopeful shell be back in the water just as soon as shes able. Im just so proud of her. And just so thankful that shes doing so well. Reena ninan abc news new york. What a hero. Incredible kid. Oh, my goodness. Unbelievable. Great beaches, wonderful parks, whats the best thing about new jersey. Garden state residents weigh in next. Plus backlash after spotify unveils a new Privacy Policy, why industry watches say they want too much of your data. And jealous of all those other fabulous vacations youre seeing on your facebook feed, what you can do right now look how beautiful it is. Honey, we need to talk. We do . I took the trash out. I know and thank you so much for that. I think we should get a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. Right now . 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Jobs can be stressful, dating can be stressful but could social media be stressing you out too . A new article in the New York Times suggests that scanning scenic snaps and vivacious vids of taylor swifts squad, pics of j. Lo or seeing serene shots from your own family, friends or coworkers could be bringing you some summer blues. As you browse these pictures of other peoples lives, that leads people to feel more envy or jealousy, and its those feelings in turn that lead you to feel worse over time. Its called fomo, fear of missing out. While the terms been around for a while, the article now suggests fomo could actually be worse in the summer than the rest of the year. Some Research Even suggesting that scrolling through your social media feeds can enhance envy, and that even while youre looking at something seemingly relaxing like a setting sun in a tropical paradise it could actually make you feel worse. When you constantly compare your own life to other peoples lives, if everyone elses life looks fantastic, youre going to feel bad. And while facebook and instagram can be helpful for keeping in touch with a far away friend its also important to get up and do things irl,aka in real life. Its really important to strike a balance between how frequently were engaging with these online social networks. So what should you do if seeing your pop star turns you into a green eyed monster. The more you interact with other people directly, the better you feel. Abc news los angeles. I feel like fo many, o creates a shaking condition, did you see that poor guy in the graphic. He was shaking a lot. Its a terrible thing. I suffer from fomol. What is that . Fear of missing lunch. Can we get through this quickly then . Hes going to be hangry real soon. Lets take a look up the hudson river. We have a, you know, high clouds, sunshine, looking good here as we look toward the Jackie Onassis reservoir in the park and right up good old columbus avenue. 48 is the humidity. 79 degrees is the temperature. 72 here in massapequa to north port. Up the Hudson River Valley, 77 and 82 over towards newark. These numbers are great, especially with a northerly wind coming right down the hudson river here and out across long island. Still a couple of areas of clouds and a few showers in western Suffolk County here right around brook haven headed towards the l. I. E. If youre traveling eastward today youre going to run into that. But you see the rest of the area, this High Pressure ridge is building in. What i was talking about with our computer models for sunday, you notice on saturday the guidance is showing sunshine, but theres a front thats going to be stalled up out here in the atlantic and so sunday you see at noontime, if youre at the connecticut coast or out here on the eastern long island river head, and the twin forks, the wine country, you get a shower kind of thrown back in here or some cloud cover. At least thats what the guidance is showing for sunday with this front that is out here. Some of those clouds might make their way back here to the Hudson River Valley and there might be a sprinkle or a passing shower, thats why thats in the forecast. Today and tomorrow some great weather. 85 today, this High Pressure ridge slides on south and east. Its dry tomorrow with 86 degrees. Partly cloudy tonight, a great night. Theres a gorgeous night to be out and about tonight. Were at 70. Sunny and nice tomorrow, 86. Sunday is just the day we get a few more clouds, a little more humidity. There could be a passing shower. I think the farther north and west you go, you run into none of that, and then next week weve got more good old summertime weather. Was that 2 minutes in. Exactly. Fantastic. Ive made the order for it is called we day, and its a National Celebration of the young people who make a difference in their local communities. Tonight on abc several of them will be featured in a prime time special, and that includes alley del monte a 16yearold from connecticut. Ali started a movement called be brave after she was bullied in school. Be brave is my movement, which is i really believe the way you can end bullying is be brave which is standing up for yourself, standing up for the people who are being bullied and standing up to the bullies. No matter what you go through, no matter how hopeless it seems, and how alone you feel, youre not alone. It will always get better. You have to be brave and keep going. In addition to storys like alis the broadcast will feature a starstudded lineup. It starts at 8 on channel 7. You can catch it on the watch abc app. An unusual slithering discovery was made in the heart of times square. Members of the nypd confiscated a boa constrictor. Police have not said exactly where they found it. That thing looks slithery indeed. A snake in time square. I wish i had time to tell a joke that must go with that one. We dont have that time. So that ends our addition of