Right now, route 22 is closed both directions. Tracee carrasco just arrived on the scene and joins us live. Reporter we did just arrive here and route 22 behind me is shut down in both directions. Take a look. You can see that silver car down the way submerged until the water and just a little ways past that other cars trapped in the water here. You can see several inches here about 3 to 4 inches of rain fell around 2 00 that storm cell moving in through union county. As you said, several businesses people and their homes were flooded throughout the county here. Now, we do have gene marino from cranford, new jersey passing through the area. What was it like driving through . You could hardly see in front of you it was coming down so hard. One of those typical summer thunderstorms. As we came down route 22, more and more flooding, an area prone to it coming down from the mountains. And we were going to pull off at this last exit to go down the local roads because flooding is even just as bad further down on route 22. We pull off at this exit and it was already flooded with the cops blocking it off. So i knew we couldnt go much further so we figured we could come here, stop at the diner and if we got stuck we would have dinner and wait it out until the water recedes which its starting to do. Reporter did you see other drivers in cars getting stuck in the water . No one was getting stuck. But the water was getting very, very high. So its just a matter of time before somebody was going to get stuck. These cars were probably no more than 2 or 3 minutes behind us after we came through. So this car right behind you . Right. Yes, they were. Have you ever seen anything like this before . This area floods pretty often when we have storms like this, of course. And i have seen heavy flooding over the years. This is probably one of the worst. Thank you very much. Now, several people stranded looking for ways to get home. As you set up route 22 in both directions is shut down. Well bring you much more as this situation progresses. Live tonight in Scotch Plains, new jersey, tracee carrasco, cbs 2 news. The storms are out there but not in the places where we had all of that rain. Now, we had all that rain and, say, union county, new jersey. Right now the bigger storms are out right on the western fringe of the state of new jersey in Warren County a little up into Sussex County as well but it was around union county and look at check this out, okay, right here, this is 1 00, 2 00 in the afternoon. Watch how this cell doesnt move. Lightning dissipated and heavy rain continued for three hours. You got a lot of rain three to four inches. All funnels like the man was saying down into the town and just floods it right out. Right now the only Flood Warning we have is for a Little Corner of somerset county. Looking to tonight, it is going to calm down for the wet weather thats out there. Its muggy. 74 degrees. The next seven days in a bit. Child pornography sex with minors. 14 crick tips in all. Fogles shocking admission revealed in a plea agreement made public today. We also learned today that some of the crimes took place in the city in the plaza hotel in november 2012 and in the ritz in 2013. Cbs 2s dave carlin has been combing through this plea agreement where there are 14 victims. He is live at the plaza in midtown with the details. Dave. Reporter two sex crimes outlined in this document happened in new York City Hotels including the plaza. Jared fogle free for now with an electronic monitoring device. He expects to go to prison. He will do his time. Reporter he will be sentenced from 5 to 12 years in prison on charges he had sex with minors and received child pornography. Fogle admitted he repeatedly traveled from new york from indiana to new york to engage in commercial with child victims. Reporter the plea agreement says he went to new york city to engage in commercial sexual acts with minors under 18 staying at the plaza hotel in november 2012 with a 17yearold girl. And he offered her other money to get other victims, the younger the better. Then they met again months later at the ritz. He admits getting porn from his friend and executive director of his Foundation Russell taylor. Investigators say girls and boys were secretly filmed with cameras concealed in clock radios in taylors homes. Taylor was arrested and the investigation led fbi agent to raid fogles home in zions vial indiana. He became a celebrity while in college. He went from 425 pounds to 180 on a diet of subway sandwiches and exercises and starred in 300 tv commercials. He is worth more than 1 million. Part of the plea agreement is that he will pay 100,000 to each of his 14 victims. His wife katie is seeking a divorce. In a statement, she said foggile is on house arrest with the gps monitoring. Fogle must register as a sex offender and his next court date is not scheduled yet. Live in midtown, dave carlin, cbs 2 news. After fogles court appearance, subway said on twitter fogles actions are inexcusable and do not represent our brands values. We had already ended our relationship with jared. A fire in paterson, new jersey, ripping through several row homes leaving 31 people homeless. Cbs 2s Christine Sloan has more now from the scene. Reporter firefighters battling this fire and one down the street. They say the fire spread quickly because of the wooden structures of the row homes. The girl came downstairs saying get out. Get out, the house is on fire. Reporter grabbing her grandchildren and rushing out of her home in paterson, new jersey, just minutes before a fire engulfed it. I want to die. I want them to die. What what what any normal person think when the house is on fire. Reporter cell phone video capturing the chaos firefighters on roofs battling the fire that started inside 177 godwin avenue and quickly spread to four other row homes. More than 30 people now homeless. I dont know. I dont know. Im just sitting here waiting the find out to make an assessment to see how bad the first floor is to see what i can take with me. Reporter a couple of streets over the second fire lighting up two abandoned homes. A half dozen firefighters hurt. They range from couple of million degrees i know. We had at least three or four heat exhaustion. Reporter no official cause on the fire. There was a rumor going around by the people who live there that perhaps a kid playing with matches may have started this fire. Yeah. I dont have any of that information at this point. Obviously, all these incidents will be investigated fully. Reporter several blocks in the city remain closed as firefighters continue to battle both blazes. In new jersey, sloan cbs 2 news. And fire Officials Say the two abandoned homes that caught fire at the separate location on rosa parks boulevard will be torn down. New at 6 00 now, sweltering school buses carrying disabled students leads to a lawsuit against new york Citys Department of education. Parents and the public advocate filed a suit after repeated complaints to the department of education and school Bus Companies. Cbs 2s Jessica Schneider has more from parents who say that their children are in danger. Reporter Katherine Simone is fed up. It is so hot and theyre not even allowed to have water on the bus. Enough is enough. Reporter her son is 10, autistic and in school all summer. He is just one of 27,000 disabled students who ride these buses throughout the summer, many of them without airconditioning. When you got off the bus his shirt was drenched, his face was red, he was sweaty and he was having trouble breathing. Reporter buses without air conditioning are breaking the law. According to new york city code, any bus transporting a child with a disability to and from a school in the city shall be airconditioned when the ambient outside temperature exceeds 70 degrees fahrenheit. City law imposes fines on Bus Companies that dont comply but the city isnt imposing them. A lawsuit was then filed against the department of education to get action. Part of this is mechanical. Part of this is unfortunately turning a blind eye. Reporter these are the school buses those disabled students have to ride in 12 months a year even at the height of summer. Parents say they have done their own readings and the temperatures in here can get up to 91 sweltering degrees. The department of education says 86 of its buses do have ac and are working to get all of them in compliance. No kid should have to call 911 because their school bus is too hot. Reporter this 15yearold made the call last summer when she was about to overheat. This year, her bus got ac, but she says many of her classmates arent as fortunate. In lower manhattan, Jessica Schneider, cbs 2 news. The department of education stresses that its standard is every child whose individual Education Plan requires air conditioning must receive it and it will correct any problems parents bring to their attention. Millions of dollars up for grabs. Hundreds of workers with unpaid wages. Are you one of them . Plus a long island woman recognized for her bravery earning new york states highest military honor. Tom brady ordered back to court. New information in the deflategate saga. And coming up on the cbs evening news, a surprise out of the sky. Charlie rose in for scott pelley tonight. Hi, charlie. Reporter hi, kristine. Coming up, danger in the skies. How did a piece of a jetliner fall off midflight . And well tell you which piece of the plane came off and its strange landing spot. Thats ahead on the cbs evening news. Police in brooklyn say suspects are targeting older men for their gold chains. Cbs 2s Hazel Sanchez tells us how the attacks have an entire backs. Reporter were here on the coney island boardwalk where a lot of retirees like to exercise, socialize and relax. But now a lot of them have put up their guard after a number of rideby robberies. This Surveillance Video just released by police shows a man in his 20s wearing a White T Shirt approaching a 63year old man from behind and snatching the gold chain from his neck. The attack happened august 13th on west 30th street between mermaid and surf avenues in coney island. Twice my husband was [ indiscernible ] big one [ indiscernible ] maybe 15, 16 years old. Reporter those attacks are why this 76yearold says she is cautious walking on the boardwalk where Police Believe the same man seen in this surveillance image robbed two other men of their gold. Police say the jewelry robberies happened during the daylight on the boardwalk and nearby streets between west fifth and west 33rd street. The suspect targets men in their 60s, 70s and 80s, approaching and or fleeing from his victims on a bike. Some locals say more frequent Police Patrols are needed on the west side of the boardwalk where the robberies are happening. You dont see no cops. So i think whoever doing this know what he doing. Target people who cant do anything. Thats when the police steps in. Reporter police say they have extra summer detail in the area. Theres 50 plus cops assigned just directly right to the boardwalk. And then all our personnel besides that, that we have they all have our wanted flyers. Reporter some locals believe there are more victims who havent come forward. They are hoping police catch the robber before he strikes again. In coney island, Hazel Sanchez, cbs2 news. New york city wants to find more than 1,000 workers who are owed millions of dollars. Controller Scott Stringer says the city has 3. 7 million in unclaimed wage settlements. Workers are owed an average of 3,500 each. The Controllers Office sets wage and benefit rates for cityfunded projects and tracks workers who are owed payments. Lets get a look at our forecast. We ended that heat wave yesterday. Lonnie quinn has been monitoring new jersey rain storms. Looks better for just about everybody out there. But boy, our fourhour time period came down in buckets for a select few. Westchester reporting the temperatures around the area westchester reporting temperatures around the area, upper 70s, 80s for some folks. We didnt find 90 degrees not in new york city today. So kristine was right. The heat wave ended yesterday with that 90. What i see right now in new york city is the sky thats mostly cloudy. Temperatures come in 80 degrees as of right now. Headlines look like this. We have definitely had some storms popping up. They have been isolated only for a few of you out there. Some you have havent seen anything. If you are on the eastern side of the hudson, nothing. The western side of the hudson thats where the activity has been and one of those cells just didnt budge. It just sat and salt and rained and poured for hours. Take a look at your rainfall estimates from doppler and our vortex system here. Youre going to notice that light green color anywhere from half inch to an inch. A select few of you out there. Watch this. Wait until you see the color that pops up. Not only is it the blue which shows you 2 inches or more its that purple color which is 3 to 4 inches of rain right around Scotch Plains and westfield. If you take a look now, around that area its quiet. Whatever was out there is gone. I dont see any big heavy storms in the area except right along our western border. Theres Warren County and thats where we see some storms out there now. They are all pushing up to the north. As the sun sets i dont think they will be a big player in the nighttime forecast. Your day tomorrow will be more organized as you get into the latter portion of your day. I think in the morning youre okay. And then youre going to see some things popping up especially late. You have a low pressure system that gives you a better view right high, low pressure system north of our area near canada with minneapolis and you see a cold front associated with the low moving into the area. And yup, i think some of those storms could end up being heavy. How it tracks out as far as the futurecast makes it look like not too much during the morning hours. 6 30 a. M. , you actually see some sun. It starts off okay tomorrow morning. Thursday afternoon, still hasnt materialized yet because this front has a long way to travel. Again be we talk about it not being a real fast mover . Well, watch this. This is thursday at 7 p. M. Front still off to our west. Now you get to friday say Early Morning 6 30 it moved into the area. Thats 6 30 in the morning. Watch at new york city like around 11 30. Watch how this doesnt move from then until 4 30 in the afternoon. If that happens you could have flooding problems again. The numbers across my board. 83. Primarily its tomorrow night into friday where some of those storms could be heavy as the front comes through. 81 on friday. Saturday 83. Sunday 82. I cant keep the rain out of the forecast. But im not convinced that the weekend is a washout yet. But i have a rain chance for saturday and sunday. All right, thank you. An Army Reservist who survived a tour in middle east to face danger at home was recognized today with new york states highest military honor. Marlena watson joined the National Guard at 17 and served for a year in afghanistan. At facing fire as a medic, the last thing she expected was to hear gunfire upon returning to her home in syracuse. Last november, two young teens collapsed on her lawn in the middle of the night victims of a driveby shooting. One was shot in the back. A lot of people are standing around. I told one person, i used a sock to stop the bleeding. I told a guy to come over, hold pressure. She did this while the shooter lingered in a nearby suv. Watson was awarded the medal of valor for an act of bravery. Otis livingston is next with sports. Afternoon game for the yankees . They were going for the sweep in the breaks. They played the twins. Not sure greg bird is giving the yankees more than they expected but he gave them what they needed. In the fourth, that is gone. Thats his first career home run. Goes into the second deck. 20 yankees. Eovaldi perfect for 5. 33. A big blow two out tworun single courtesy of joe mauer. The kid wasnt done. Bird does it again another two run jack. That puts the yankees in front for good worthy of the first curtain call. Maybe we should call it a bird call. Eovaldi gets the 13th victory. Syndergaard starts tonight for the mets against the orioles in baltimore. A judge ordered nfl commissioner Roger Goodell and tom brady to appear in court on august 31 if they havent reached a settlement for the fourgame suspension for deflategate. He said dont hold him to a september 4 decision. The last time we had an eli manning said burning up the headlines he won super bowl xlvi after saying he was indeed an elite quarterback. Now the nfl network is reporting entering the final year of his contract he wants to be the highest paid player in the nfl. We know eli. He is awful, right . He says that report is inaccurate. The first he heard about it was from his upset father archie on tuesday. Never been said, never come out of my mouth, never you know, agent has never [ indiscernible ] i dont know where the reports are coming from. Meanwhile the jets verified what a source said last night in be. No smiths absent. They were adding journeyman matt flynn to the mention. He signed a oneyear contract today. Will presumably insurance for ryan fitzpatrick. Dont forget tune into our halfhour pregame show ready for takeoff friday night at 7 00. Well have my oneonone interviews with head coach todd bowles and wide receiver eric derek and gm mike mike maccgagnan. A lot hang on thursday. A lot going on. Pace yourself. Get some oxygen. Thank you. Well be right back. Closed captioning on cbs 2 news is brought to you by since 1961, Pearle Vision has provided the neighborhood with expert eye care. That was dr. Stanley pearles vision and we still proudly carry on his legacy. Today, doctors like Lisa Hamilton perform eye exams that can help detect diabetes. Because we care for you. And your eyes. This is genuine eye care, in your neighborhood. This is Pearle Vision. Coming up later on cbs 2 news at 11 tonight, is this acceptable on the road . New video shows a postal worker who appears to be texting behind the wheel. Now cbs 2 is demanding answers from the Postal Service about their distracted driver. Plus, is your home affecting your Mental Health . How simple changes can make you happier. Those stories and more at 11. Next on the cbs evening news, danger in the skies. How did a piece of a jetliner fall off midflight . Thank you for joining us tonight. Have a good evening. Captions by caption colorado
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