It seemed like the storm had blown by and all we had was winds. Then a little bit of rain and lightning and thunder. Reporter for one family in massapequa, the noise in the middle of the night was terrifying. The tree crashing through the roof and into a young girls bedroom. The branch came right through the top and above her. Were just glad shes okay. Everything else can be fixed. Reporter the howling winds horror film. The damage in some places like a disaster movie after a storm that caught many people off guard. By morning, we found trees resting on power lines, traffic lights at key intersections knocked down, and a sign of just how strong the winds really were, along that a total of 90,000 homes and businesses lost power, but utility crews scrambled through the night and into the morning, bringing more than 80 of them back online within a matter of hours. Woke up this morning to see a piece of fence blown out by my neighbor. Then my house had the basketball hoop down, and that wa
Five residents have been displaced. The can you see cause of the fire remains under investigation. A former new york governor drought e brought down by a sex scandal. Elliot spitzer is accused of attacking a woman in a hotel. The former governor may have another scandal on his hands working to determine if those allegations are true. Crime scene investigators parked across the street from the hotel sunday night after allegations from a woman in her 20s that former new york her. The woman claims she and he had been friends for two years. The alleged altercation began saturday night because she was planning to return to her the woman claims the verbal argument turned violent with him pushing her and putting his hands around her neck. A spokesperson issuing a brief statement saying there is no truth to the allegation. In 2008 he resigned as governor after being involved in a proses fusion scandal. The woman in had i most recent case was taken to the hospital after attempting to cut meriwe
avo take a break from the expected. Play Jackpot Party or any of the new scratchoff games from the new york lottery. Right now new information on a story you first saw on cbs 2. One of the women wrapped up in a sexting scandal with a nassau executive is telling her side of the story. Falling temperatures this weekend. Rain and snow for the workweek. People frozen and frustrated with the record breaking cold. Today we shivered through the we are starting to see problems. A frozen pipe burst in midtown sending water down the front of a store. In new jersey, crews battled fire and ice when a home went up in flames this afternoon. Street signs and parked cars were covered in ice. We have Team Coverage of the extreme cold beginning with meteorologist he liz finch in the we elyse finch in the weather center. Check out the record lows. 6 below in bridgeport. One below in central park. Zero in islip. Zero in newark. Tied a record j. F. K. Laguardia you tied a record with one degree. This was i
Across the tristate area. Im glad its over. Reporter well, she is glad its over but we know theres still much cleanup to be done. Now, pseg long island tells us at the height of the storm, more than 85,000 customers were without power as of last check just over 7,000 remaining without power this evening. And those power problems today did result in some School Closings nearby. Were live from great neck, long island, with the mobile weather lab, vanessa murdoch, cbs 2 news. The storm knocked down trees all over new jersey, as well. Cleanup began this morning in essex fells. Trees took down power lines overnight and large branches blocked some roads and in new milford more trouble when a giant tree snapped and crashed on a deck and part of a home. The homeowner says it sounded like the sky was falling. In queens the storm ripped off chunks of a building that crashed into the street and on parked cars below. The debris came from the verizon building on Broadway Police say 6 cars were dama
Forever home. Should live from the cbs Broadcast Center in new york city this is cbs2 news at 11. Right now assault spitzer. The former governor under investigation for what a woman says happened at the plaza hotel. Frozen and frustrated. As the thermometer reaches a painful and dangerous low. More Winter Weather on the way. A woman is making shocking allegations against Eliot Spitzer. Years ever a prostitution scandal forced him to resign as governor. Reporter the nypd is trying to determine what did or did not between Eliot Spitzer and an unidentified woman. A visable Police Presence outside the Historic Plaza Hotel sunday night, including a crime scene unit van across the street 24 hours after an unidentified woman accused former new york governor Eliot Spitzer of assault. Police sources tell cbs2 news the woman claims a verbal altercations turned physical inside one of the rooms. When the woman says spitzer pushed her and put his hands around her neck. Sources say the woman was tak