An accuweather alert. Another round of snow coming down tonight. More is on the way along with added concerns about flooding first we have two breaking stories. Body found in the street in new jersey. Good evening at 11 00. A murder mystery and right now police are on the scene. Eyewitness News Reporter carolina leid is in newark with the breaking news. We just got here on the scene about 5 minutes ago and as were pulling up we saw the Police Investigators pulling the body away. There are Police Officers who are just now walking down the street but theyre just behind me. That body was found between two homes here on south 20th street. The bodies found a little over an hour ago. Who found it . We do not know and the circumstances behind why that body was left here still under investigation. But police are calling this a suspicious death. Theyre gathering the evidence they need. As you can see the road is closed off and we have multiple Police Vehicles here on the scene. All of these off
And up to 45 minutes or departures. Council speaker Melissa Markviverito gave her state of the city address today and the proposals about criminal justice is already causing controversy. Dick brennan has the story, speech an reaction. Reporter thats right. The speech targets criminal justice reform. The speaker wants to shrink the size of the rikers population and is pointing a new commission to track the entire criminal justice system. Today, im announcing a new independent commission chaired by jonathan lippman. Reporter the City Council Speaker wants what she calls fairer penalties for low level quality of life offenses and warrants. Spending the night in jail on a 10yearold warrant for being in the park after dark senseless. Reporter markviverito proposes to create a system to clear some of the 1. 5 million summons for those who spent years or decades out of the idea has the support of brooklyn d. A. Ken thompson. But warrant amnesty is getting fierce opposition from the police. Pb
Cbs 2s Steve Langford spoke with witnesses in elizabeth. Reporter with brutal force a manhole cover propelled skyward by a powerful explosion in this Business District wednesday in elizabeth. Underground electrical wires once again proving to be an incendiary mix with salt and rain and snow sparking one blast after the other here mid morning near elizabeth avenue and 7th street. Its looking like flames they come, the flames maybe about 6foot high and the smoke. A lot of smoke. Reporter the first came in at 10 10 a. M. After this manhole exploded, just as fire units were pulling up this manhole cover blasted into the air i stepped out of the vehicle and a manhole probably 20, 25 feet away shot right up in the air. It was a massive explosion. Reporter First Responders cleared people way quickly and evacuated some 20 buildings because of the real danger of getting killed by one of these. The Manhole Covers that were lifting off. Reporter whats more, Carbon Monoxide was detected forcing th
High tide expected around 9 the this morning with waves expected to be two to four feet higher than usual so preparing for low to moderate flooding here today and that was the case across our area yesterday. In areas luke Broad Channel queens when cars flooded out peoples basements flooding as well. On long island not as bad but quite a bit of ponding and some communities still rebuilding from superstorm sandy. It pushed in and all we could do was watch from the window. We needed help for a long time but it needs to get done as soon as possible. This cant happen every single time theres a major storm. People here on the jersey shore are hoping that what people in queens experienced yesterday wont be the situation for them here today. We are told that this is a high tides are a bit higher than usual. High tide here expected around 8 or 9. People hoping it wont be too bad. Reporting live from sea bright new jersey 4 32. It from there. Lets follow up on that and show you the advisories al
Live from studio 46 this is cbs2 news at 6. Right now two Police Officers shot in the line of duty. A suspect also shot and accused of setting off the violence. Plus, a show of support. Why thousands of people are really league behind a Police Officer convicted of a crime. A victory for Hillary Clinton. The democratic candidate pulled out a win in nevada. Good evening. Two Police Officers are recovering tonight after a we just received this photo of one of the officers saved by his bullet proof vest. Cbs2s Steve Langford is live on the scene in bedsty. Steve. Reporter it was lying a war zone here in bedsty earlier this morning, according to one witness. But what is not yet clear is who shot two new york city cops here this morning. A barrage of bullets in bedsty 3 20 saturday morning. Two new york city Police Officers shot and wounded after cops confronted a suspect in this car near quincy street and malcom x boulevard after a report of a shot fired. As they approached the suspect, he