Are slowing down, the Manufacturing Sector in this Country Contracting a little bit. To the wall street journals Jillian Melchior who follows this very closely. Our own susan li as well. Susan, one thing surprised folks with the china data, this was not something to be expected and were seeing more and more data like that, less ominous than thought. Now stronger than thought. Reflation as well in the month of august. I love to remind people that china is no longer just a manufacturing hub. Services like here in the u. S. Account for more than 50 of the economy now. So it is not cheap factory floors. If you go to shanghai, beautiful skyscrapers, really fast train this is very positive, especially for an economy that saw the weakest growth in 2years. Neil one of the reasons why the futures was up. Hang seng was up 4 . It owed itself as well to the talk that they will meet some of the protesters demands. Well get into that in a second. Couldnt you flip it around, say Better Things look fo
Critical police report. The das office questioned the conduct of a former trial prosecutor who left in june after a personal dispute with the da himself, kent thompson. The prosecutor denied any wrongdoing in an exclusive interview with me. I turned over every single document i had. Be clear, sarah. I handled this case the same way ive handled every case in 29 years. The mistakes are major. It is showing that someone else actually did this c than me. Reporter and martin has always maintained his innocence. He will be back here in court on september 7th. It is possible that the District Attorneys Office could decide to retry him, but highly unlikely under the circumstances. Live from downtown brooklyn, sarah wallace. News 4 new york. Thank you, sarah. President obama is cutting more than 200 sentences short for federal inmates. It is the largest batch of 214 prisoners, including 8 from our area, will serve less time. Some of those prisoners had been sentenced to life. The white house sa
Island and new haven and new london. That is for higher snowfall amounts. Coastal flooding, warnings from north shore, long island and westchester and on the jersey shore. Until 10 00 tonight. This is for the second high tide cycle. We will be seeing another round of this flooding later on this evening and tonight around the second high tide cycle. If you take the hudson river down the jersey shore and go east that is pretty much where the snow is going to stay. Sitting here along 684 this is 287 it is a long 95, to merritt parkway. Some fair amount of snow falling. The next storm to affect us tomorrow is back here in the ohio valley. We will talk about that. For the afternoon, we will see be off and on snow from the line of the hudson river to the city and east. Then we start to see a little bit of this break overnight. The west starts to come. At 8 00 tomorrow not tomorrow morning, temperatures around freezing and another round of that. Here are the high tide times. Point lookout, 7
Are hearing from the family of another woman who hasnt been seen or heard from since the blast. Eyewitness News Reporter Kemberly Richardson joins us now. Reporter sandra, Francesca Figueroa is a mother of 3 but hasnt been seen or heard from since an explosion ripped through this building. Look at this, this heavy equipment here, this equipment was used to rip down what was left of the building where the explosion happened, and a second building that was right next door. Francescas sister tells Eyewitness News one second she was on the phone with francesca, the next she was gone. She didnt deserve to die this way. She was a fighter, a real hard worker. Right now shes torn between two agonizing worlds, her entire family is, her sister francesca has not been seen or heard from since yesterday afternoon around 1 when the building francesca was moving out of blew up. This Surveillance Video shows the second a huge explosion rocked the structure. Just before this, the women were talking on
We get to 60 going into the early afternoon. Going for high of 62 degrees. Well talk 70s returning the first full week of october. Amy thank you so much. We are following breaking news on Staten Island. Police are on the scene after a double murder. There seems to be a mystery right now. Police have identified the victims as 27yearold terrell ford. Brothers. They were shot near targe street and vanderbilt avenue before 3 00. The victims were taken to different hospitals where they both died. Breaking right now on long island, police are investigating an incident at a bar in suffolk county. Video of the scene shows investigators outside of the overnight. Eyewitnesses say a fight started inside the bar, spilled on to the street. Details of the incident are not known right now. We do know there is still quite a Large Police Presence at that scene. Were also following more breaking news this morning. This one in queens where police are looking for the driver in a deadly hit and run. This h