Southeast, the gulf coast as well. This is all sliding in our direction through the day today. Were just in this lighter area of rain. Drizzle, light showers through the morning commute. Steadier showers by noontime. Temperatures climb but the wind increases. Wind advisory, well talk about that and how much rain we can expect on the 4s. Lets get the first check on this damp wednesday commute. Lauren . Roads are certainly wet out there. No accidents to report on at the moment. But we have fastrack maintenance on the 4, 5, 6. No trains between Grand Central and atlantic avenue. Service has been ending early each night. We have overnight track work on eight other subway lines. We expect delays and service changes. The next update on the 4s. Lauren, thank. A a mother arrested facing charges in the death of her 2yearold daughter when a fire broke out in their home. Uyvesant with what police told us. Reporter some collapsing in tears at the sight of the fire. The childs mother is here at the
A 34yearold woman got on the m101 bus. She was smoking a cigarette. The bus operator asked her to put it out or get off the bus. She refused. Concerned for his passengers safety, the driver stepped off the bus to transfer them to another bus when the woman got behind the wheel and took off. Thats crazy. Thats crazy. Crazy. I never seen like that in my life. Reporter a Union Spokesman for the bus drivers twu local 100 tells fox 5 news the bus driver ran up and tried to reach through the window to turn off the bus, but the suspect was holding the window down. I done see people fight the bus. Thats crazy. Reporter she continued the normal route, driving north on third avenue. The Surveillance Video captured from next evolution martial arts shows the bus passing by. She was acting as if she was going to pick up passengers. Luckily the bus behind her was able to block her in. Manages to reach in and hit the hydraulic system to stop the bus. She endangered lives, probably could have killed s
Victim of crime than elsewhere in new york state. We have a gun violence problem in america. Reporter congressman mall low malone the communitys got to get involved to help us catch these individuals and prevent incidents like this in the future. Reporter several residents cars were also hit in the shooting spree. Again, the 11yearold girl is recovering. Shes expected to return to midding mid middle school later this week. Police have not made any arrests. If you enjoy the warm start to the workweek, dont get too used to it. More wintery weather is heading our way, which could make for a were looking at a little bit of everything, some snow and some rain. Mainly rain because were going to see a changeover tomorrow afternoon. Regardless, youre going to see a mess of the evening commute tomorrow. The storm system is moving across the Southern States tonight with all rain from new orleans to jackson up towards atlanta and raleigh, north carolina. It will eventually make its way into our d
Every morning. There were three more overnight. In the bronx, a victim had lacerations to the face after being attacked by two men near east 139th street. The m train around 11 00 p. M. , a fight over 50 cents led to one man grabbing a knife and the victim stabbed with what police are calling a puncture wound. Peter moreno was a captain in the nypd and spent the majority of his 30year career in the bronx. The difference between a puncture and slash and cut is classified the same way when it comes to the law. Reporter he says ending policies like stop and frisk are whats led us to this uptick in knife attacks. When Police Officers stop interacting with potential bad guys, stop getting out of the cars and putting their hands on people, you see an uptick in crime. Reporter as of sunday night, 567 stabbings and slashings are occurred this year, almost 100 more than in the same time last year. An increase of 21 percent. To blame the media yesterday. Shootings and murders are them. When was
Squall line but several other areas of Severe Weather will be and how it will impact you. Well go area by area in a little while and have your full forecast as well. That same system that dave just showed you is responsible for five deaths and dozens of injuries all across the south. Two of those deaths happened within the last three hours in waiver ly wave waverly, virginia. Down south, though, the cleanup begins. First light revealed the utter devastation from a powerful storm system sweeping across the southeast, spawning tornados from louisiana to florida. Hardest hit, a Mobile Home Park in louisiana where 150 trailers were reduced to rubble. It was probably the worst area that that tornado could have hit. To the east in pensacola, neighborhood took a direct hit. We barely made it to the bottom floor. Then we started hearing things ripping apart. Were fortunate to be alive. More than a dozen tornadoed reported across the region, destroying homes, over turning semitrucks and ripping