6 00 eastern time about 30 minutes from now on espn. And the winner tonight, california or texas, will face warwick, rhode island in another elimination game. That will do it for our coverage here on our abc stations. For jaymee sire and kyle peterson, once again, the final score rhode island 8, oregon nothing. Please stay tuned to espn for the japan curacao game at 6 00 eastern time, and well see you states bracket. Next, its your local programming. Saying so long, im karl ravech from williamsport. One news, channel 7 a witness news with joe torres and jeff smith with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Now Eyewitness News at 5 00. Breaking news in the death of a 9yearold girl in queens. Now the stepmother is in custody charged with her murder. A power outage causes traffic trouble and more in the bronx. Hundreds are still without more than a thousand. Im joe torres. And im Sandra Bookman. First we will get to the breaking news in queens. An hour ago, Police Charged a woman in connect
Last night in a bathtub. She moved from india to queens three months ago. Mallory hoff is in queens with our lead story. Mallory. Reporter sandra, joe, that is exactly right. This little girl, this 9year old, moved to this country three months ago to live with her father and stepmother. The goal here was for this child to have a better life. From one member of this family that he knew something was wrong when it came to the relationship between the child and her stepmother. 55yearold Shamdai Arjun is now charged with murder. Police say she is responsible for the death of her 9yearold stepdaughter ashdeep kaur. The stepmother did whatever she wanted. She told me she sometimes beat yes. Reporter a relative of the father said he had spoken to her about the relationship with her stepmother. He knew something was wrong. She always came to our house, you know, and told me that the stepmom not really care for her. She beat her up sometimes. Reporter in this photo, kaur is seen standing with h
We are near 70 degrees in philadelphia middle 60s down the shore. Lower 60s in the lehigh valley. We will look closer at our suburbs, cooler in mount holly at 63 degrees right now. We are at 63 in quakertown. Sixtyfour in willow grove. Storm scan three is showing us trend over last couple of days, High Pressure in control nice clear skies, conditions and notice disturbed weather off to the west moving into western pennsylvania and that is in association with the slow moving cold front that will arrive on our doorstep as we head into the day tomorrow but getting you out the door early on a thursday morning no problems weatherwise, just a ton of sunshine up to 76 degrees by 9 00 oclock hour and maybe hitting the pool instead of the office . Lucky, mostly sunny, high of 89 degrees, warm and more humid as we head in the second half of the day but will this humidity stick around as we head into our upcoming weekend. We will talk about that and check of the tropics in your full forecast in a
83 degrees, mostly sunny and bit more humid with a high of 89. I focus on the weekend ahead, meisha and will have details plus a check of the tropics in a few minutes. Hard not to look ahead to sat take or even friday, thank you so much. Looking outside, look at that a busy morning in the world of travel. It was yesterday as well, started off early and lingered off in the morning. We will see what end up happening. We will see activity here. But what we are looking at boulevard headlights in the southbound direction approaching the schuylkill i would say starting to heat up here. This isnt affecting you too much and could give you a gaper delay over next half an hour or so but i would venture a guess that squad car will be out of the way. This is gorgeous shot, taillights in the eastbound direction past king of prussia, brake lights going off there but look at that purple and that pink, absolutely gorgeous for those waking up early grabbing your first cup of coffee with us. Eastbound d
30th and west 33rd street between avenue a and avenue c. Its going to be a rough commute this afternoon. Live, shan finance sohn, eyewitness shannon sohn, reporting. Anthony, what can you tell us . Reporter police putting up yellow tape to keep people away. Victim right between the two ambulances that you see right out here on jf kennedy boulevard has it was described, the incident taking place around 2 15 this afternoon. We understand once again the victim is a 43yearold man killed after being struck by a pickup truck right here in bay on. The victim was getting into the suv when he was struck by the pickup truck which kept traveling northbound on kennedy boulevard before the parked car and ended up on the sidewalk. The 43yearold victim has been pronounced dead on the scene. This entire area around jfk boulevard, we can tell you theres no traffic on the box that parallel jfk boulevard. A lot of traffic and a lot of people off the block. Pedestrian are standing along the side. Obviousl