Jagged edges of the tree that remain. And you have to imagine its as large as the rest of the trees here. Thats all of that portion of the tree trunk that came crashing down into an area where there were chairs, umbrellas, people were sitting, packed here in the section of brian park on this Labor Day Weekend. We want to take you to video of what it looked like moments after the tree came down. One person was actually pinned to the ground by a portion of that tree. Ex we saw one person being taken away by ambulance, being taken away on a stretcher, and witnesses describe a chaotic scene of people running away, screaming. Some people running toward the scene to figure out what had happened. They say at one point i sounded so loud, some of them thought it may have been an explosion. We saw a woman pinned under this chair, with that branch literally on top of her. I was looking to see if she was bleeding. I didnt see any blood, but the surprise made us just realize, you never know how for
This is the hottest day yet. Storm team 4 meteorologist janice huff is here to answer the question we all want to know. Is relief finally in sight . Oh, the end of the heat wave is very near, sibila, but still pretty warm out there. These were todays high temperatures. Yes, this is the hottest so far of the heat wave. Day 5 for the city, 93 this afternoon in midtown. White plains at 92. 91 in morristown. Lots of 90s on the map. But out to islip, and 92 in poughkeepsie. Right now, the temperatures are close to the highs today. Youre at 92 in new york city. But islip and some areas on the youre in the 80s right now. But look to the north and west. Weve got 70s and low 80s from buffalo to williamsport to binghamton. And up towards michigan, the temperatures are in the upper 60s right now. Through. Its putting a few showers, isolated thunderstorm to the area this evening. But overall, its the cooler well go through those and talk about the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Back
Months by pope francis and the world meeting of families. Now including not one but two parades featuring the pontiff. The first parade which will take the holy father from eakins oval to and around city hall will be prior to the start of the festival of families on saturday, september 26th. Reporter second parade happens just before pope francis gives mass on the ben franklin parkway september 27th. Organizers also announced 30,000 tickets for key papal events including 10,000 to see the pope at Independence Hall. Another 10,000 for festivities on saturday 9 26 and a final 10,000 tickets to see the papal parkway mass. They will be first come first serve. Everyone wants to see the pope and we totally, totally get that. Reporter many people we talk with arent sure these changes will make things any easier. We live so close to Independence Hall i thought wed be able to be close enough to see him. Now that theres tickets i dont know whats going to happen. Reporter modifications come after
And i would suggest that a year from now, the notion that we would reverse this policy that is allowed more americans to travel to cuba and to help cuban people have access to more technology more capital more values and more contact with americans will seem as absurd as reversing the changes that were made with cuban American Travel a couple of years ago. So again, i applaud you for what youre doing and look forward to working with the administration as this policy unfolds. Thank you, senator menendez. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me ask you when a cubanamerican sends or visits their relatives in cuba and give them a lit money, the only place really to buy something is the dollar store isnt is that true . If you want to get something . I believe certainly theres theres more in those stores to buy. By the way, who owns the Dollar Stores . They are state run. Okay. The government. And so if i want to send a remittance to my relative in cuba, the cuban government takes a slice, right . T
Dozens of sites across the country because they can use these real dollars to help scale them up. So those are the types of things we think are important, scaling takes on a couple different forms. Some people think about scale were going to take this model and mcdonalds it and were going to be in a million places, but sometimes scale is taking a model and sharing it, saying heres what works you take it and you run with it, the last thing i would say, though and this is interesting in the case of bam. Everybody loves bam the president loves bam, i love bam, we funded them. But theyre really before smart growth. After the president visited with those young people. Theyre getting dozens of calls a day from all over the world, bring bam here. And bam smartly said we need to sure up our model first make sure chicago is secure the funding is coming in, sometimes when you get famous people think youre set and stop writing checks. They had to focus on their first market. Now several years in,