, good morning im lori stokes. Thank you for joining us. Im ken rosato. It is monday october 19th. You are never more than 7 traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with forecast. Good morning ken, have you back. Thats over. Its chilly and its cold outside the city. White plains 28, freezing at teterboro at 32. Up to poughkeepsie and kingston, sussex, newburgh all in the 20s. 30 at belmar, 31 bridgeport and you know what that means, frost on the ground. Weve got a freeze warning until 10 00 this morning. Going to be a cold morning. Dress warmly. Youve got this wind out of the northwest making it chilly as well. Were going to talk about a big warmup in your accuweather sevenday forecast. Heathers looking at your commute. My weekend was great. Lets go over our mass transit chart. No problems here metro north, new haven line ongoing track work. You have the 4 and 6 trains running express only getting into the Brooklyn Bridge until 5 a. M. This is the fdr drive right in the 70s. Looks like traff
Shell be more cautious now and not leave her child in the car. Maybe its a wakeup call to a lot of people who might be watching. Yeah, its actually a wakeup call because you never know these days. People are crazy. The girls mother could not be reached for comment late this afternoon. The childs aunt identified as gayle solomon lives with the family. She was arraigned and released without bail. This crime is a misdemeanor under new york state law. Police describe the car thief as a middle aged man in his 50s. Theyre also seeking two other men who witnesses say jumped in to the car minutes after it was stolen. Anybody with information is urged tonight to call the Suffolk County police. Live tonight in central islip, long island, n. J. Burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Also on long island, youngsters getting a real life lesson on deadly gun violence. One of their classmates killed today at Hempstead Middle School staff joyner, the 7th grader died after a bullet came through her window
The fire started around 1 00 this morning. Again, this group of stores in mount vernon. Those stores include a deli, a laundromat and a pizza place. 40 firefighters now on scene from pelham and yonkers as well. The fire chief tells me each of these businesses have a separate roof. The fire essentially is hiding itself. It keeps jumping in between the separate roofs. They have to tear apart the separate roofs and try to get in there. Thankfully no firefighters have been injured, but that building that collapsed, it collapsed again about an hour into the fire starting, which firefighters tell me is very quick. That really surprised them. Thats rather quickly for a building to collapse . Extremely quickly. Upon arrival, again, we had a tremendous smoke pushing out, intense heat in the basement and it ran right across the roof into the other stores. Reporter thankfully, again, no one has been injured. No firefighters have been injured either, which is also good news. So you can see and par
Crawling through some of northern new jersey, the best part. This halloween season. Mother of freaking god. Bill you are chasing a story abouta story about a National Healthcare firm that is on hot water friend had that specifically says no haitians. Reactions are pouring in about that advertisement. Interim healthcare said it had no idea. According to a Statement Released by the companys president calling the advertisement unacceptable. Four days after the at 1st surfaced. A pennysaver newspaper immediately set off an online firestorm with officials in the community demanding answers. It gives the community at large an opportunity to galvanize and come together and show the world you cannot mistreat without repercussions. The Haitian Community is not alone in his demands. Something local officials have been urging four. Among those officials, Democratic State senator who is with us in studio on skype. What do you find most appalling . What exactly do you want to see done . An investig
Drones are pecked to to be the hot holiday gift this season. The new rules for drones would require most of them to be registered with the government. And the faa wants to get the law in place as soon as posable. Jen lahmers is here. Jen . Reporter how you popular drones have become and thing frightening store is where heard about drones coming too close to commercial jets and a crashing into public spaces. The faa has been trying here. This his the feds first step to regulating what has become a massive industry. This is a large drone. Reporter jonathan is fascinated by aerial view and built a career now, he wants to try it using drones. When the drones started coming out, said, i got to check this out because, for me, a drone is essentially, a hurry picker on steroids. Reporter by the end of the crear, countless other Drone Operators flying in u. S. Air space may have to reg for the drones with the government according to a new proposal by the faap and dep of transportation. Registra