Good evening, everyone, im sandra bookman. And im rob powers, joe torres is off tonight. The beach in queens packed today with families trying to escape the heat. The incident leaving the people shaken. You can see crowds of people gathered on the beaches rescuers tried to find that little boy. Now identified as 5yearold ezekiel gray. His body was pulled out of the Eyewitness News reporter a. J. A. J. . Reporter sandra, rob, one minute he was on the beach, the next he was gone. And tonight, family members and witnesses are mourning the tragic loss of 5yearold ezekiel gray. Who was found lifeless in the water here at the park just hours ago. Helicopters. Ambulance, fire department. I knew something terrible happened. Reporter witnesses say there was little to no warning before helicopters and First Responders suddenly swarmed the beach here at Jacob Riis Park saturday afternoon searching for 5yearold gray. Beachgoers say the boy was with family when he somehow managed to slip away. Like
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
Yesterday you saw the nikkei ended that 16 session winning streak this morning stocks are closed higher the nikkei was up by 32 points to 21,739. Hang seng down by a third. The shanghai was up by a third of a percentage point. The early trading in europe, things are in the green across the board. Gains for germany, france and london up by a third stocks in italy and spain also higher treasury yields, check this out, yields at 2. 43 . Crude oil prices which have been above 50 comfortably for quite some time are now up about 8 cents. 52. 26. Here are the big stories were watching new comments out this morning from the saudi crown prince. He says the aramco ipo will take place next year and valuation of the company could top 2 trillion the crown prince said saudi arabia is working with all Oil Producers to rebalance the global oil market. On the wall street agenda, weekly jobless claims out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern, followed by september pending home sales at 10 00 a. M. In europe, we are go
Kindergarten student in southeast washington. Today the school sent letters home informing parents that grief counsellors will be available for any students who need help dealing with his death. How will you help your children cope with this news . Im going to talk to them. I havent talked to them about it. And ask them their feelings. I told them they can come to me if they have any questions or they just want to grieve, cry, anything. Reporter today we found party hats on the ground by a picnic table where the family came yesterday for a cookout. It was a party to celebrate xavier luckeys 6th birthday. He was such a good boy. He was so full of life. He was always excited, full of joy. He was a happy little boy. It was just such a tragedy that it happened on his birthday. I heard a boom and i heard a holler. Reporter Shannon Smith said she saw xavier hit by while crossing the road. There were other kids that crossed before him. He thought that maybe he could make it. He was only 6. Th