The bad news is this twoalarm fire thats burning at 209 east 156th street is far from being under control. Well show you what the scene looks like. The Fire Department just got a fourth tower ladder up and in operation. There are stores on the bottom, apartment buildings on floors of the building. East 156th street shut down with Fire Department activity between brant concourse and brant avenue and sherman avenue shut down between east 156th and east 166th street. Well keep you updated on the latest. Reporting live over the concourse village section of the bronx, shannon sohn, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Turning now to the race for president. Both democratic contenders tallying their support for labor unions today. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders made appearances in our area and theyre not done yet. Political reporter dave evans in Greenwich Village where sanders supporters gathered for a large concert this evening. This evening at 7 00, a couple blocks south of me in washington this
That snow will be winding down late morning in to the midday. Theyre looking at basically a trace to maybe an inch or two, best chance for higher accumulations, totals will be south and east of new york city. Monmouth, middlesex, and ocean counties. A light at the end of the tunnel, a big time spring warmth coming up next week. Pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears when a man with a gun choked and robbed a 92yearold woman. When a Good Samaritan stepped in to help, he robbed that person too. N. J. Burkett live from park slope, brooklyn with more on a heartless mugger. Heartless is the word. And tonight that suspect is believed to be the same man who attacked and robbed the 71yearold woman here in brooklyn three weeks ago. That robbery, like this latest one, happened in the middle of the afternoon. Of course im afraid. Is 92 years old and shes terrified tonight. Detectives say she was walking home from her local library in the middle of the day and had no idea she was being followed by a 250
Her car, she was treated and released before noon today. Were live in jersey city today, michelle charlesworth, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Also in new jersey tonight, weve just learned the names of the three family members who died in a house fire. 7yearold nae ann may. 51yearold maurice may also have died. Several extended family members shared that home. At least eight people were inside. The family members want to know why their loved ones could not be saved. Me and my husband tried to go in there. You had one officer seen that. He came and got us like no, you cant go in there. You cant go in there. Thats our family yourell not what youre re going to go in and get a e on su ca minutes after a receiving the 911 call. Confident firefightersthiding they could. Receiving reports tonight of the water of the deadly tug boat crash near the tappan bridge. The heroics after the 90foot boat hit a barge, Kemberly Richardson with that part of the coverage. Shes near the scene of the accident. P
Bombings at the airport and train station may have been carried out by the same isis terror cell that attacked paris last november. Heres the very latest. Two of the terrorists were brothers with criminal backgrounds and authorities in turkey tonight confirmed they had captured one of the brothers near the Syrian Border last year then deported him back to brussels and warned Belgian Police that he was a terrorist. One brother died in the suicide bombing at the airport. Hes in the middle of the picture. The other died at the train weve just learned that the terrorist on the far left of the photo, taken at the Brussels Airport, has been identified as Najim Laachraoui. The man on the right remains on the loose. 31 people dead. 300 now injured. More than 60 of them in intensive care. The state Department Says it knows about a dozen u. S. Citizens who were hurt in the explosions. Family and friends are desperately searching and people right there. A woman and her brother who live they were
This time in central new jersey. Hillsboro high school placed on modified lockdown. Now, we got newscopter 7 over the scene there are police cars, police k 9s at the scene in a parking lot and school buses are lined up in case the students are released earlier. But at this point we still could not know why the we still do not know why the school in in lockdown. We have crews on the way to the scene and, of course, well update you as soon as we have any more information. More breaking news, a judge in brooklyn found a new York City Police officer guilty of assault for stomping on a mans head during an arrest. Officer joel edouard faces up to a year in jail for the misdemeanor charge when he is sentenced in jail. Cell phone video captured the incident back in 2014. It shows officer edouard stomping on jamedical cuffys head while he was handcuffed on the ground. The brooklyn District Attorney released a statement saying this Police Officer stomped on the head of a suspect while he lay on