Commonwealths 72 billion debt. Despite this legislative action, puerto rico was not able to honor all of its debt obligations has defaulted now for a fourth time. Many critics of the bill say it still wont be enough to save the island. And here to talk more about this this morning, lydia valencia, c. E. O. And president of the Puerto Rican Congress of new jersey, and franklyn p . Rez from the National Puerto rican agenda. Promesa. . Le gusto o no . Its its necessary its far from perfect. Its very far from perfect. Yes, i think well all agree on that. I think that that is something that we can all agree on. What are the, in a nutshell, some of the issues that you have with it immediately, off the top of your head . I dont have so much of a problem with an oversight board. Yes. I do have a problem when its a control board. Okay. And, also, the fact that it doesnt have any guarantees that i think that that would play a very large role in its implementation. Franklyn, same question. I am t
Reading about 77 degrees now, but its going to feel a lot hotter as the day progresses. People here in the city bracing for another day of intense heat. Offensively hot. It offenders my sensibilities that it is this hot. I feel like im walking in a hot bath, an unpleasant hot bath. The humidity and heat index potentially dangerous. Its very draining and its hard to breathe. Which is why staying hydrated is crucial. We keep refilling our bottles every 10 minutes. We rest every 30 minutes or so. Thursday the weather system brought heavy rain to parts of our area, lightning setting off this fire in new jersey, a bolt hitting electrical wires. Center when a crane struck and cracked this window. As the hot weather continues into the weekend, officials are urging residents to do their best to conserve and limit use of high energy appliances. Lets just say the air is on. I just dont have the lights on. Reporter officials also urging you to check in on your neighbors to make sure they are okay
Officers still here on scene. Accident investigators are here on scene as well. The southbound lanes of adams, clayton and powell between 139th and 140th are closed as they conduct their investigation and try to piece together just what led to this collision here. But again, two officers now in the hospital. Two people in custody. As we get more details, youll be the first to know. Im aj ross, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, aj. [indiscernible] news copter 7 over the scene. Shannon, what can you tell us . Reporter you can show you the damage from above. You can see its the right panel on the Police Cruiser that took the brunt of the damage which hit the back of the car which sent it into a parked car. As aj mentioned, you have closures in this lane. Its powell boulevard thats shut down. If youre heading in the middle of your screen, you can get through. Police put in a secondary closure further back at 141st street. Everyone being detoured. Its going to effect you if youre on a c
This time in central new jersey. Hillsboro high school placed on modified lockdown. Now, we got newscopter 7 over the scene there are police cars, police k 9s at the scene in a parking lot and school buses are lined up in case the students are released earlier. But at this point we still could not know why the we still do not know why the school in in lockdown. We have crews on the way to the scene and, of course, well update you as soon as we have any more information. More breaking news, a judge in brooklyn found a new York City Police officer guilty of assault for stomping on a mans head during an arrest. Officer joel edouard faces up to a year in jail for the misdemeanor charge when he is sentenced in jail. Cell phone video captured the incident back in 2014. It shows officer edouard stomping on jamedical cuffys head while he was handcuffed on the ground. The brooklyn District Attorney released a statement saying this Police Officer stomped on the head of a suspect while he lay on
In on 40 miles an hour. We have even had higher gusts overnight, so the windchills are those teens, 20s and below freezing readings that im talking about. This is what you have to Pay Attention to for tonight, and even into tomorrow to bundle up. High Wind Warnings at 2 00 will expire. That will mean that the winds settle down, but not necessarily all of the strong weather is out of here. Theres another surge of energy coming in tonight which will produce showers, snow to the north, and rain south and east. More accumulations for places like sullivan, duchess, through mid Hudson Valley. A couple inches of snow, again, accumulating tonight into tomorrow morning. That will make for a sloppy, slushy commute. Minutes. Not to mention all the things that happened last night, rob, because we actually had showers, thunderstorms, Severe Weather come through in pockets new jersey. Thank you very much. Of course the weather as you can tell is the big story. To batter parts of the tristate. Heres