And weather on the 2s in just a moment. First a brooklyn neighborhood on high alert, police say the man in this Surveillance Video tried to grab a girl as she was walking to school. Valley castro reports from east new york. Coveredded up by a black hooded rain jacket the suspect in tuesdays attempted child abduction casually walks down the street in this Surveillance Video. Police say he eventually caught up to an 11yearold girl walking to school with 12year old brother near elton street thats when police say he made his move. Man just ran behind. Witnesses noticed the commotion. She was screaming and hollering. Try to snatch a girl and she pull away and he can you want running. Police say as the man grabbed the girl, he exposed himself to her. My little girl is traumatized, her father said to me in spanish, he was emotional face while explaining the moment hed received a phone call thinking she had been killed. Those near by say the little girl was terrified after the incident. She lo
Reporter police have since arrested 51yearold Yakubu Abdulazeez who was allegedly caught in the lounge. This mom questions how long these alleged acts were going on and if there could have been other victims. If he did it to her, half the kids cant even talk. They dont have a voice. He took away her innocence. He took away her trust in people. That was wrong of you. And you will pay for this. Abdulazeez has no prior arrests. Hes set to appear before a judge tonight. Aj ross, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Just heart wrenching. Thank you, aj. An arrest tonight in connection with a destructive fire in new jersey. Three adjacent businesses were destroyed in the fire in keyport last friday. 28yearold andrew meyer is working without a permit. He was doing roof work on one of the buildings before the fire started. A raging fire ripped through a home overnight in Suffolk County. The fire broke out in a house on west smith street and North Amityville just before 1 a. M. By the time firefighters ar
Setawket harbor. Reporter i can tell you brought now the family is gathered here, helping each other deal with this heartbreaking news while planning a funeral. For nearly two months this family has been waiting, hoping, praying. Today they were given the news they feared the most. The body was found. Three people were rescued by police. But he could not be found. After weeks of searching, family says news of todays discovery brings painful closure. Im sure that hes dead. Before, i doubt it or i want to reality. Reporter ntsb preliminary indications show there washno trace of fuel on the plane, but it could take up to a year before they know an official crash cause. Stop just a minute and listen to this statistic. A new repfit suggests 78 of all traffic tickets and summons in bloomfield, new jersey are issued to minority drivers. Sarah wallace is at the Police Department with this exclusive reaction. Reporter the Police Director here declined to go on camera, but he did issue a very st
When without saying a word those officers pounced. Just rushed. Reporter the former tennis star shaken and furious. 35yearold james blake says he was tackled and pinned to the ground by nypd officers outside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on east 42nd street wednesday morning, taken down in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Reporter have you had any conversation with him at all with the cops yet . Not yet. Reporter the harvard educated tennis player, once ranked fourth in the world was waiting outside of the midtown hotel for a car when the Police Lieutenant rushed towards him. He says at one time he was held down by five plainclothessed officers. It was when a detective nearby recognized blake and identified him and the officers let him go. Police commissioner bill bratton says blakes account is disturbing. One of the officers now placed on modified duty. Just the nature of what he described is not what we do. Its not what were supposed to do. Reporter bratton says the officers were fr
Ask for more democracy, but protest sites in hong kong could soon be cleared. There are reports that the Islamic State of the iraq and levant group have killed 13 13 syrian men. These killings took place in raqqa and syria. The victims had all been kidnapped earlier this month. Isil says they were killed for collaborating with the syrian regime. These killings follow the release of new video that was posted on line appearing to show the beheading of another group of isil hostages and these include at least 12 syrian soldiers and the american aid worker peter kassig. 26yearold kassig was captured last year whilst in syria on a mission to help refugees. He convert today islam and also uses the name abdul. We can go live now to the United States and washington, d. C. , and talk to our correspondent there, kimberly how connection. The white how was quite quick to react to this video that was circulate on this internet. Reporter indeed, we know president obama was briefed bice had i Nationa