And 15,000 flights across the country have been canceled. Ines ferre has the latest in new york city. Reporter thousands of new yorkers today are without power and the southern part of manhattan is virtually shut down. Reporter a storm surge nearly 14 feet high pushed ashore flooding hundreds of miles of coastline from virginia to massachusetts. Its the most flooding i have seen in all the years i have lived here. Reporter floodwater and high winds have knocked out power to millions of people. We are seeing a large number of fires caused by downed wires and electrical problems relating to outages. Reporter more than 200 firefighters are still battling a blaze in an evacuation in queens. More than 50 homes have already been destroyed. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. And Power Outages prompted a Mass Evacuation from nyu hospital when a backup generator failed. Dozens of ambulances lined up to evacuate more than 200 patients throughout the Early Morning hours and extra
Thanks. Good morning, everyone. It is friday, you made it, folks, november 16. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now 6 01. Get ready for a wet weekend. The rain is moving in. Its already here and i think its going to be around for a while. Lets check in with lawrence and find out how much, how long and when its all going away. Reporter yeah, guys. The storm door opened up. I think it couldnt be worse as far as the timing is concerned for all the computers today on the way to work today we have a heavy band of rainfall about to make its way onshore. You can see that on our high def Doppler Radar right now. Look at that the yellows and oranges just off the coastline. We are going to get pounded this morning right when everybody is coming to work and you know what . Right when they are going home tonight. I think a heavier band moves onshore maybe even embedded thunderstorms. Right now we have some showers continuing along the peninsula. And that will be the case throughout the
Vehicle in the 7eleven parking lot on south kylie boulevard when he was approached by two men who were in the middle of a Violent Crime spree. Heres one of those suspects. 26yearold Jonathan Wilbanks. Police caught him after a series of robberies. A police chase, a shooting that injured an officer, hit a carjacking that left a man dead. These a map that shows the path of that crime spree. They committed four robberies on friday starting at just after 7 30 when they robbed a Little Caesars on story road at gunpoint, then police say they moved on to a gas station on east capital and a jackin thebox on curtner avenue and a spa on bird avenue. Less than two hours later they arrived at the 7eleven and shot and killed 22yearold rory parkpettiford from san jose while attempting to carjack him. Police spotted the vehicle on highway 101 and chased it through town. The suspects got out and opened fire on the officers. At about 9 00 i heard a not continuous gunshots but maybe a little one after a
One more look at that sinkhole, it is going to take quite a while to come up with a solution. They need to come up with a permanent plan and at this point the road is going to have to be replaced. In lafayette, Elissa Harrington, cbs 5. Thank you. Another sinkhole opened up yesterday. This one in the Santa Cruz Mountains on vine hill road near the summit and highway 17. Its big as well one entire lane is gone and the remainder of the road is in jeopardy because theres nothing underneath supporting the pavement now. Its not clear how long that road will stay closed. One north bay school is closed today because of damage from the storm. Cbs 5 reporter cate caugiran is in fairfax where crews will be clearing out flooding. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Yeah, there will be no school for White Hill Middle School students today. You can take a look at this video we shot earlier this morning. This weekends Stormy Weather prompted School Leaders to make this decision last night. Accordin
About an hour and a half later. And then workers told me it was an old pipe about 6 pipe and again normal wear and tear but it will be affecting this neighborhood, about 10 to 50 homes between york and cutter streets and they are not sure when they will be able to restore water to the area. But what they are doing right now is they are trying to drain that sinkhole. Basically they vacuumed down in there trying to drain all the water. They say its tricky because they have to get in at an angle. Once they drain the water there, they say that they are going to cut off that section of old pipe and try to replace it. Back out live, you can see theres a lot of work that needs to be done the workers have been here since midnight trying to contain this area but again, they were able to isolate it to just this block. If you are in the area, 10 to 15 homes between york and cutter streets have no water. But well get more updates and a timeline when they can contain this later on throughout the mo