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
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
Temperatures. Similar in the low 90s. More humid and more clouds. Generally a mostly sunny day on tap and a hot one. The current temperatures, 76 in the city. 59 in monticello. 69 for yaphank and 68 in cranbury. Most of us in the 60s and 70s out there. As we look at the vortex satellite and radar we had a few showers making their way to the north of the city early this morning. They are starting to dissipate. The sprinkles, you may see a few more fall before all is said and done. By this afternoon, skies will be mostly sunny under an air quality alert. We have high levels of o shown in the atmosphere. 9 00 a. M. 79. Feeling like 82. By noon 86, mostly sunny. Feels like 88. At 3 00 this afternoon, we peak at 92 degrees. It will feel like 94. Skies will be mostly sunny. In the first forecast, the full heat wave of 2013. I will have details shortly. We begin with breaking news out of east harlem. Police are on the hunt for a man who escaped custody while still in handcuffs. Ilana gold joi
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