In and around forest hills may have been deliberately set. Janelle burrell is live in forest hills with more this morning. Reporter well, chris and mary, police are looking into a half dozen fires this morning including the one that burned down this construction site on 66th avenue. Theyre trying to see if they were all started by an axel rant and they are try axel rant and they are trying to determine who is responsible. Cellphone video showing the towering flames shooting from the construction site tuesday. The location where police say they have video of a man going into the building right before the fire erupts. Its the latest of six fires since october 20th that police say may have been deliberately set. Including in that investigation, this fire on 112th street and also a home under construction. People nearby say it looked like a massive fire ball. It we want up really quickly and it started to hitting other buildings. So it was horrendous. Like never seen Something Like this in
As he awaits his sentencing. Just disappointed. Reporter disappointment and few words from a defeated Sheldon Silver. A fall from power, a stunning fall from one of the most influential positions in albany. And now 71yearold faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in jail. I believe after we file the legal challenge, we will have a different result. Reporter the stonefaced silver promising an appeal after a jury found him guilty on all seven counts. Four could wants of Honest Services fraud and two counts of extortion and one count of money laundererring. Prosecutors alleging that he used his power accepting bribes and kick backs of nearly 4 million as part of a corruption scheme. The u. S. Attorney saying after mondays verdict, today Sheldon Silver got justice and at long but his Attorney Says theres reason for the verdict to be overturned. We will be filing challenges in the District Court and we will continue the legal fight. Reporter now Governor Cuomo will have to c
Nypd custody while enroute here to the first precinct. The escaped prisoner is back in custody this morning. Police say the accused shoplifter was picked up overnight after escaping from this nypd squad car just after 7 30 last night. The manhunt shut down Subway Service near franklin street and west broadway, turning off power to the the 1, 2 and 3 trains to search for the suspect they thought may be hiding in an underground tunnel. The suspect was arrested for allegedly steal, handcuffed by police who were driving him to the Police Station when he jumped out of the backseat and ran off. Last seen running into the subway station. Get a little nervous these days. Its like you never know what the deal is. Reporter this case is the sixth prisoner to have slipped out of nypd custody since june. Among them one suspect caught from detectives outn harlem. There was also detectives in harlem. One got away in the also in east harlem, one ran out of custody in manhattan hospital. And in october
Bandaged arm after wrestling the the gunman to the ground, foiling his attempt to rob a Jewelry Store during the height of the Christmas Shopping rush. I heard the shot near me. And i saw everybody trampling each other, running toward the parking lot. Reporter the alleged shooter seen here in handcuffs now facing multiple charges, accused of walking into the store in the mall announcing that he was going to rob the place. Thats when police say the Security Guard stepped in as he wrestled the gunman to the ground, the gun went off, striking a mall employee in the shoulder. We didnt know what was going on and we stayed in the back and the manager locked the door. Reporter panicked shoppers ran for cover. Some guy came running down the escalator and like, there was a shooting and everyone started running to the back of the severe as the Security Guard struggled to get hold of the gunman, an offduty nypd detain him, preventing the shooter from harming anyone else. Security person and detec
We will have a live report from one of the winning locations in the next half hour. Now a developing story. Tragedy strikes Columbia University after an accident in central america. Three columbian students have been killed. Janelle burrell is live with more this morning. Janelle . Reporter three of the female students will not be returning back here to campus when classes resume here next week. The three women were on this medical mission in honduras when they were on their bus, on their way back to the airport to return home and it crashed. The overturned bus, mangled, its windows shattered after falling more than 250 feet down a ravine, crashing with a group of medical volunteers inside. Olivia, a 20yearold sophomore, daniella, a 21year old junior at barnard college, the all Womens College that is old abigail, a Nurse Practitioner, also a student with the general studies program, all killed from the impact. The group had been volunteering for several days with doctors and pharmacist