Because everybody was casually walking out. Everyone was shocked, not so much panicking but i was one of the few that got out quickly. Reporter now, for a while, police were detouring traffic around the mall which caused backups on route 40. At this hour, traffic is back to flowing normal as it would normally during this time. Live in hackensack this evening, a. J. Ross, channel 7 eyewitness news. Thank you. And now to the weather. If you have been outside even for a second today you may be wondering are we actually approaching winter or coming back into consumer. People across the tristate area are out and about enjoying the record warmth in december at the boardwalk in coney island. This is Lincoln Center on the upper west side. The high temps got people asking what happened to winter. Meteorologist jeff smith has the first look at the accuweather forecast. Just to put it in perspective, todays high that is typical of a High Temperature on april 30th or early october. We are talking
That will just give you an idea of the trouble their facing. You can see the men, when the men pointed the laser at the Police Chopper the screen goes dark, the cameras was blinded as were the pilots. Imagine if youre driving a car at night in a very dark area and somebody were to take a very bright flashlight and shine it in your eye for a second. Its going to take a long time to maintain that car. A laser does the same thing. Reporter but the pilot is only asked to report incidents like this. And thats just what they did. Youre going to get caught. The beauty about a laser is it tells us exactly where its coming from. So you know keep doing it and you are going to get caught. Reporter deputies tracked down 25yearold Gary Bennington and his younger both now face charges for pointing that laser at the aircraft. Reporter the faa is reporting in 2014 alone there were more than 3,800 laser incidents reported to date none have resulted in an accident. The pilot i spoke with this afternoon
On average, 13 inches l along the i85 corridor, from a trace to a dusting south of i85. In the southern upstate, not a whole lot of snow or sleet or rain. Of course, north of i85 in the northern upstate, anywhere from 37 plus inches of snow. In the mountains, 715 less inches of snow. This could be a record for the most snow from this snowstorm, not just in our area but up and down the eastern seaboard. Amounts. I called jeff at the National Weather service, take a look at this. This is Mount Mitchell. Six thousand 684 feet at the top. Look at this. When the snowstorm came in, 11 inches from early thursday morning until friday. This is unofficial. They will continue to look over e data. Fourday one inches from friday until saturday in the morthen from saturday morning to sunday morning, a total of 57 inches of snow fell on top of Mount Mitchell. That would shatter the record from 1993. Unbelievable. This is unofficial, though. The top of Mount Mitchell in north carolina. 57 inches of sn
Confirming they took down an armed man it happened in front of the fountains around 7 10. Officers were responding responding to a call of a man reportedly waving a gun and pointing it at people. When they arrived, they told the man to put down his weapon he didnt. Thats when they exchanged gunfire with the suspect eventually taking him into custody. We do have video. On the strip metro says a on the strip metro says a juvenile was grazed by a bullet during the shooting. An adult had an entry point to his clothing, but did not sustain any injuries. Fortunately no major injuries were reported a section of the strip between flamingo road and paris was closed down overnight. But has since re opened officers say the sy something see something concept has becuase people who saw the man with the gun, called police. The man, police say shot a metro officer late last year has plead 38 year old teag on attempted murder charges plea wednesday in the december 17th shooting of sedminik. Sedminik w
I met a veteran who has been out two years and 10 disability but the point is he cant get his paperwork from dod. What are we doing . We have asked this question for years. Its a great question. I have to say secretary hagel and i are totally aligned that we want to have a seamless handoff from the department of defense to the va. Thats why we have instituted programs like cap while the person is on active duty and allison can talk about that. Congressman brown some good news to report on this front though it didnt obviously help that particular veteran two years ago we are engaged now in the mandatory program for all of our servicemembers including National Guard and reserve for which there are now nearly a million who qualify for benefits that did not previously. Another thing that is starting literally right now is the mandatory separation health assessment. The choice to the veteran told a session is if you are going to make a claim to be a for anything that va will do a complete s