Hall, or even near the art museum. That will have no vehicles whatsoever. If your car is parked anywhere inside this black line, you will get towed. At todays press conference, mayor nutter said businesses will be impacted, deliveries of food and supplies might be disrupted during the weekend, but we have learned that some taxi cabs will be able to operate within center city. Will there be challenges, yes. There will be some inconvenience, yes. There will be disruption in your life, depending on where you live and all those kind of things, yes, yes, yes on down the line. But come on. This is a moment for us to shine and to be excited and to be as supportive and demonstrate a level of civic pride. Reporter the mayor says that this world meeting of families conference has so far exceeded all other past conferences in terms of the number of people that have been registering so they are still expecting about 1. 5 Million People to come into the city. But what we got out of todays conferenc
Do they have enough money . They certainly have enough money. Theres hundreds of millions of dollars in their capital budget. Reporter they say failure to do the fixes will result in tragedy. The controller says that 2245 personal injury claims are filed last year against department of correction a 37 increase. This is a situation thats gone on far too long and we have to be mindful not just that this puts a financial pressure on the city, but it also has a Human Element which is you dont want to put people in harms way. Reporter late today a department of correction spokesman said the agency, quote, has robust Fire Evacuation procedures in place and commissioner ponte is committed to ensuring that staff and inmates alike are not a risk. The department has taken significant steps with fdny to address the concerns. It can take 11 years until 2026 to fix everything. The agency does admit to having over 100 million in the budget for fire safety. It says it has installed you in a large sys
Brynn gingras. One of them a tourist who liked to take pictures of american Yellow School busses. So he was snapping away when he caught the images of that tractor Trailer Crash and the family jumped in to save the life of one of the drivers. This video captured feet from where the truck rolled over and burst into flames on the new jersey turnpike. Explosions could be heard on the recording and then at one point you see people running toward the truck driver, his pant leg on fire. When you are the first person there and you see a man running up the road on fire you have to help. Maybe its the aussie in us, but australians have always done that. If someone needs help everyone jumps in and helps and none of us thought for a second. Just, you have to help a man on fire. The three australian family member, Jackie Wilson, her husband anthony and brother simon were driving back from washington, d. C. , when they saw the two trucks collide and then burst into flames. Within ten seconds the wh
And its the saddest thing to see, you know, grass growing up through concrete. A few hours ago, the Parks Department told us the hickman playground, the one we showed you with all of those cracked blacktops, essentially, that is a park that is scheduled for a full renovation starting next week. And city hall stresses 35 parks in lowincome neighborhoods have been renovated in just the last year. But during his mayoral campaign, bill de blasio supported a more ambitious plan to force the private operators of central park, the highline, and other welloff parks to contribute 20 of their budgets to help fix up parks in poor areas. City hall is no longer expressing support for that idea. Back to you. Thank you very much, chris. And remember, if you have something you think the news 4 iteam should look into, call us at 1866news 244. This is new tonight, an update to a heartbreaking story we first brought you on tuesday. Police in patterson say theyve arrested the driver who hit and killed a t
It was so big and so hot, the heat. And it was so close to us. It was like diehard. Seriously. The bruce willis movie. And then just flames. It was like something out of a movie. Reporter but it turned very real once they saw the truck driver running, flames shooting up his pant leg. The australian family rushed to help. As they could hear small explosions coming from the scene. He was holding my hands and he was obviously in shock. And he was just saying, i had nowhere to go. Reporter the 61yearold driver escaped with nonlifethreatening burns, in part thanks to these Good Samaritan tourists, who stopped and helped. And now have a big story to tell back home to their kids. Theyve been messaging us, saying, what are you doing, mom and dad . Youre supposed to be safe. Come home reporter certainly a story there. Well, that driver is alive, but sadly he is in bad shape. He told me that he has a number of surgeries ahead of him. Hes not sure how many and he also says he doubts he will ever