Delta, making no evasive maneuvers. They warn a larger drone could be ever bit as devastating as the bird strikes that brought down the plane in the hudson river. The captain who set that plane down saving the passengers spoke to face the nation sunday about how cheap Affordable Technology in the wrong hands is becoming a real menace. Allows people to do stupid, wreckless Dangerous Things with abandon. The aviation and legal authorities have raised the penalties for doing these things, unfortunately, the essential element thats still missing is the certainty of prosecution because its been difficult to catch them in the act. Yes, hard to find these folks the faa and the Port Authority police are doing what they can do pinpoint the folks who were flying those drones close to the airport. Keep in mind it is already illegal to operate any kind of aircraft without twoway communication near an airport. But some people are suggesting we up the penalties for drone use near the airport, possib
Highcrime neighborhoods. That mass shooting outside of brooklyn house party has some people calling for police to do more in the 75th precinct. The iteam took a look at the numbers and found that cops are actually taking far fewer guns off the street than they used to, and that is renewing the debate over stop and frisk. The iteams Chris Glorioso is in brooklyn with the details. Reporter sibilia, two years ago, a federal judge said the nypds stop and Frisk Program was unconstitutional, and under commissioner bratton, stops have fallen off a cliff. But after the bloodshed this weekend here in East New York, some neighbors are calling for more stops, not fewer. Stop and frisk. I mean, theres more shootings, theres more killing. Reporter East New Yorks Francisca Hillman has become a reluctant supporter of stop and frisk. She says shes noticed as officers stopped fewer people, violence has gone up around the pink houses where she works with senior citizens. Do you think that they ought to
Head out there. Im ken rosato. Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the forecast. Showers and thunderstorms are coming in the area from the city eastward through rockland, Westchester County across brooklyn and queens. On the l. I. E. , 49495, oyster bay, smithtown. That will continue across the area. Here is another look from our accutrack radar. You can see the lightning strikes that are there. They decreased. They are across brooklyn and queens this morning heading eastward. We will have that a couple of hours. Then we look at a hot day today. The high will get to about 90 later on. Real feel 95. A spotty thunderstorm this afternoon. Heather is looking at the commute. Any flooded roadways . Nothing just yet. Take it easy if you are out driving around. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about a couple of incidents. Belt parkway, eastbound at irrelevant sten two lanes are cheesed. B. Q. E. Northb
Day of 09 plus got up to 09 plus got up to 91 in newark and temperatures tailed off a little bit in and around new york city and especially around coastal areas with a wind off the water and also north of the city with a couple of showers and thunderstorms providing a little bit of relief but 93 right now in morristown and 90 sussex. Still very warm if not downright hot just heres the High Resolution futurecast and to the evening and any thunderstorm activity should tend to weaken as we lose that daytime heating. So the heat wave is going to be winding down. But if anything, the humidity will actually be on its way up over the next several days. And eventually that will lead to some more widespread thunderstorm activity. Well have much more on that coming up in your full accuweather forecast a little bit later in the half hour. Liz david back over to you. Thanks lot. Now to the developing story involving Rosie Odonnell. The actress comedienne says her 17yearold daughter Chelsea Odonnel
Hes a volunteer medic with the forest hills volunteer ambulance core. And pj was one of the first on the scene. I know you werent on duty at the time, but you heard the radio call. I heard the call for a multiple vehicle. When you got here what did you see. As i pulled up, the Fire Department was pulling up behind as well as the police department. There was the occupant driver of the bus stuck behind the wheel. He was bleeding but he was alive. When you saw the extent of the damage and you saw the extent of the injury, what did you think of that . First when i pulled up. I thought there must have been six people dead. And fortunately nobody sustained major from what you saw no major injuries. No major injuries. Just the driver. Reporter as we know in these type of situations they have to be careful when they take people out of the wreckage, you know how that is. Strap people to back boards. You cant be sure how seriously injured people are until they get xrays and go through mris. The