New tonight the nypd wants help finding a person who rob a elderly person in the bronx. It happened at the king disbridge section. He comes from behind, grabs him around the neck and throws him to the ground. Police say the suspect stole about 200 from the victim and fled. Anyone with information is asked to call crime stoppers. Developing story on long island. Crews are scrambling tonight to get things back on track for the morning rush wh aater the Freight Train derailment. Turning the evening commute in to chaos. News 4 is live in hickssville with the latest on the emergency repairs. Gus . Those repairs continue at this hour. The cause of the derailment unknown. We are getting a better idea what the morning commute will look like. The evening rush is over, but the repair rush continues. Heavy machinery, still trying to right this freight car on a stretch of track linking thousands of passengers to work and home. I dont really get upset. Maybe because im on my way home. If i was on m
In santiago. He boards a plane. He leaves cuba and he heads to washington, d. C. Reporting live from havana, Darlene Rodriguez. Today in new york. Michael, back to you. Well see you again at 6 00. We look forward to that. Thanks again. 5 04. Today we expect to learn more specifics about how the popes visit will disrupt traffic around the city. Barricades are up. Theyve been up for a while. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag on the Upper East Side. Thats where the pope will be staying. Kat . For two nights down the street on east 72nd. More concrete barriers. Were seek parking restrictions. For example, these no parking signs have been placed. They dont allow parking starting overnight until saturday, 8 00 in the evening during the popes visit drivers should expect dozens of street closures on the Upper East Side, Lower Manhattan, mid town, east and west side. Bus lines will be rerouted like the m 72 and m 15. Taking the sunday ways might be the best. The postal service, ups, other Deli
People, some of these items as a lot of sodium. Dari more thing to the guilt did the debt about this i am ben simmoneau. Theresa i am teresa priolo, 5 00 on the dot on the first day of december. At the december. I wish it was september. Ben december has its high points like the holiday season. Mike woods. It feels like december out there. Chilly, rainy, it will warm up a little bit. Meteorologist not a lot. Were stock on a ross cited you will with wet weather coming through. Lets let the sky guardian 3d, showers making their way through new jersey into the lower Hudson Valley into the mid Hudson Valley as well and notice there are pink shaded out here indicating you could have wintery mix but looks like it would be freezing rain over a highest elevations up to the advisor in part of the tristate other than that just kind of a cold rain we are dealing with for the majority of the tristate and the will be around for a while, 45 degrees at central park, now we have 43 in newark, 41 in bri
Right now Westbound Service on the huntington, Port Jefferson and ronkonkoma branches is suspended. Trains will not make westbound stops until 8 00 p. M. Eastbound, there are still delays and cancellations. Service on the Port Jefferson and ronkonkoma lines are restored and buses are linking the mineola and hicksville stations. Majority of kids in new york city Public Schools are still struggling to read by the time they reach the third grade. Today the mayor unveiled a series of education initiatives. His ten year plan includes 81 million to make Computer Science a requirement, a 7 a million annual commitment to high re reading specialists, and he aims to boost Graduation Rates from 68 to 80 over the next decade. Andrew siff has more. Reporter yeah, chuck, thats pretty ambitious agenda. He did successfully get universal prek and now hes raising the bar and promising to improve reading this particular at some of the citys most struggling schools. Equity and swlens excellence is what de
Tragedy . Because of avontes law, most city schools are supposed to get door alarm s s by september. We did digging to find out how many schools actually had the alarms installed. Last week i went down to the School Reporter time has done little to dull vanessas anger at the way her son died. Avonte oquendo wandered away from his classroom and ran out of an unmonitored door that had been left open. Months later, the boys remains were found in the water 11 miles away. Very angry still. Very angry. But hopeful. Reporter fonteyn remembers her son through pictures and by looking at the security video that captured her sons last moments. Thats my last glimpse of my child, my last look. Its hurtful. Avontes legacy . The system learned from his mistakes. They have to put in force some happens again. Reporter they have been cries for change. City Council Passed avontes law which mandated door alarms like this at more than 1,400 schools. The department of education would only tell news 4 that w