Dari we appreciate that. Steve the mayor taking flak for his absence during the standoff. Dari particularly because he was working out at a gym in park slope, brooklyn. Dan bowens is live on Staten Island to tell us how the mayor has responded to all this criticism. Reporter this all unfolded on Destiny Court in Staten Island on the other side of that large black nypd vehicle. Officers out here still collecting evidence. You can see the yellow evidence markers, likely many of the shell casings that were fired during the shootout. While the shootout and standoff unfolded, mayor de blasio as you mentioned was at a gym working out according to his aides for 80 minutes, the mayor refusing to answer questions about this as he briefed the public on what happened here according to the nypd. The suspect set off a smoke bomb when police tried to enter his apartment earlier this morning. Thats when lieutenant james hayes entered the residence and was shot in the left calf and buttocks. The suspe
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
A public airport in farmingdale. Eyewitness News Reporter n. J. Burkett is live in bethpage n. J. Reporter outside the crash scene you can see they are working to repair damaged crossing gates and damaged track. The goal tonight is to have a morning. But this crash was devastating. Service has been suspended all tonight. The pilot was killed in the flaming wreckage of his single engine plane moments after investigators say he tried to make an Emergency Landing on South Oyster Bay road. Instead, the plane missed the street and crashed in the middle of the main line of the long island railroad. But the desperate maneuver saved his passenger pulled to safety by an eyewitness to the crash. My coworker saw a plane the plane upside down. He said that plane is going down. At that point he ran out. He said call 911. By the time i got out here, i saw him pulling out the passenger. According to the faa, the plane was a four seater beach craft be 35. According to flight aware, registered to a cha
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
Increasing the next several days, eventually a storm system will interact with that humidity and that could mean some heavy downpours later on in the week. We will detail that in your full accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Liz. Jeff, thank you. Following breaking news right now, two children seriously hurt after they were hit by a vehicle. This happened in new rochelle a short time ago. Police say the children were walking behind an Apartment Building when the accident happened. They are listed in serious condition at a local hospital. The crash is now under investigation. And another breaking story, this one in nearby larchmont, firefighters are at the scene of a huge fire that broke out this afternoon. Fast moving flames destroyed the salt shed inside a facility that is owned and operated by the state thruway authority. Newscopter 7 happened to be in the area and reached the fire soon after it broke out and before firefighters had even arrived. Fire is now being brought under