Lovely on this august 16. Good morning. Im rob nelson. And im michelle charlesworth. We just learned an indonesian airliner has lost contract with air Traffic Control. There are 49 passengers and five crew members on board the twin turbo prop plane. It last contact a little more than half an hour after taking off from the capital. It was over land and within the same province. Getting erie, these missing planes. We dont know the full story yet. Well monitor that throughout the morning. Another bizarre situation that we will have an eye on for you. With that a quick look at weather with miss freeze. The hot stuff continues. We were steamy yesterday and the sunshine. You had to seek out the shade to stay cool. Hot temperatures again today. Accuweather bumping up the high temperatures to close out the weekend. And starting with a real steam bath on monday. Temperatures in the middle to upper 90s. It really means were actually flirting with records here with the record being in the upper 9
Another person has been taken to the hospital. I want to get right to it and show you the incredible video. You can see here this small plane still on the rr tracks. A lot of Emergency Response here right now. It appears that this small plane went down maybe around 7 30, 8 00 this morning. Again were here in beth page it does appear it took out some of the Railroad Crossing signals as it came down. Whoever was flying this plane maybe tried to aim it here. Obviously there are houses all just right next to where the plane went down. Im hearing from my sources at least one person is dead. Another has been taken to the hospital. Nassau county executive is here on the scene. We spoke with him just a short time ago. Heres what he had to safety. Looks like a small plane tried to land here and clipped some of the Railroad Infrastructure and broke up. Reporter i want to show you the wreckage of the Small Plane Crash. A lot of Emergency Responders here right now trying to deal with cleaning this
The twin turboprop was reportedly flying in bad weather. It is carrying 54 people, 49 passengers and five crew members. We will keep you updated on the story as we learn more. And we begin with breaking news in east harlem. The search is on for a man that escaped Police Custody still in handcuffs. Ilana gold joins us live from east harlem with more. Ilana . Reporter andrea, police say the suspect is 25yearold austin stevenson. They tell us he escaped from the 23rd precinct after he was arrested for trespassing. Here is his picture. Police released it moments ago. They want everyone to be on the look out for him. We wanted to show you video of police scouring the area by 102nd street and park avenue. They are going to a number of buildings trying to find the suspect but they havent had any luck. Here is what we know. The escape happened at 3 00 outside the 23rd precinct. They just took the suspect out of the patrol car. As they were walking him up to the building he got away and ran off
Monroe 64 is where you are starting off your day at 8 01 in one second. There we go. 8 01 exactly. Vortex satellite and radar, skies have cleared out after Early Morning showers. We are sitting pretty. A mostly sunny day with a slime chance of showers well north of the city. An air quality alert goes into effect at 11 00 a. M. Today. This is especially important for those of you who suffer from allergies for young kids and the elderly as well. Difficult to breath with the high heat and high levels of o soap. Here we go, to break down the day, 9 00 a. M. , 82. Thats what it feels like. By noon 86 feels like 88. Mostly sunny. Three this afternoon, 92 the high this afternoon. It will feel like 94. Skies are mostly sunny. This evening, it will start getting more humid. We will talk about what you can expect as we make our way into the workweek coming up in the full forecast. Vanessa, thank you. Breaking news this morning, indonesian airliner flying through bad weather is now missing. Trans
Ntsb, said that the plane was at about 6500 feet, had the pilot radioed air Traffic Control told them he was having engage problems engine problems and needed to return to West Hampton Beach airport, the plane lost altitude hitting lirr post at oyster bay road crossing on Hicksville Bethpage border. I did not realize what was going on, my coworker saw the plane upside down going ast the windy, he ran, he said that plane is going down call 911. Reporter the plane burst into flames, firefighters quickly responded. The pilot did not survive the crash, but the passenger, identified as Carl Giordano did and rushed to a local hospital some a small plane tried to land west of the road here clipped some of the Railroad Truck infrastructure. Reporter the ntsb said that pilot made the distress call at 7 47 in morning but by then it was too late, it covered the lirr Railroad Tracks and interrupted service, it was lucky no more lives were lost. There was no train at that point but the crossing was