That coveted triple crown. We have tips before your head out to the park. Good morning, everybody. Youre looking live at lower manhattan. Its gleaming in the sun. Thank you for joining us on this sunday, august 2nd. Summer is moving along. Here we are. Not too fast. Slow down. This is the dog days of summer but with sunrises like that you cant complain. Im tony yates in for michelle charlesworth. Im rob nelson. Good to have you back. Thank you , dear. Michelle is waking up along the beach. Were all jealous of you, michelle. Enjoy this weekend and next weekend off. Going to work with you again. Certainly. You know who is in the house with us this morning. Miss freeze. Right, a my. Looking out over the east another temperatures starting were a stormfree end to the weekend as well. Lows this morning starting cool in monticello in the 50s. Everybody else 60s and 70s over night. Newark had 69, satellite and radar picture, it looks really nice across the area. Wall to wall sunshine as you wa
71 islip to bridgeport. 63 poughkeepsie. 75 around central park. We will get to 79 by 9 00. 90 this afternoon with the humidity it will feel like the mid90s. Hot and humid august dog days. Those are coming to an end thursday. We will talk about that in the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up in a moment. How are you doing. Im doing all right. We have an issue with the two trains. We have mechanical problems. Thats downtown near grand concourse you will find the 2 by the 5 line as a result. Long island railroad, new Jersey Transit doing fine. Metro north waterbury branch, ongoing work in bridgeport. No major problems at the hudson river crossings. Minor delays across the board. 78 to the westbound side near exit 3, tractor trailer fire extinguished. Crews are out there now trying to clean up the debris from the tractor trailer fire. One lane is open. Then we have 51st, 52nd. Street cleaning rules are in effect. We begin with the developing story out of new jersey. A new Jersey Polic
He tried to go inside of the store. He started a fight with the owner. And he hit some girl. Police say the 30yearold was driving the mini van that rear ended a parked nissan bouncing into people on the sidewalk which includes three Jersey City Police officers and also a row of cars. He says the mini van came from that direction and someone said you. Julian paulino stopped the driver from going into his corner store and stopped him the sidewalk. He then walked down the street to check on the injured officer. He says when i left the Police Officer had a broken leg. She was nervous and crying. Is that his red mini van . No. Natalie heard the crash a few minutes later she saw her 30 yearold cousin being arrested a few blocks away. At the time she didnt know the two incidents were related. Car. I dont know about him being in at all. Now, jersey city has not released the names of the three officers who were injured nor have they provided an update on the female officer who remained here at
They are expected to be okay. Started. No arrests have been made. Live in East New York this morning, ilana gold, cbs 2 news. Thank you. To a developing story now. A massive search for the killer of a Police Officer is underway morning. Police say 33yearold officer shawn bolton was conducting a multiple times. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. This is just a reminder of how dangerous this job is. You are talking about from what we know now routine traffic stop that results in an officer losing his life. Bolton is the third memphis officer to be fatally shot since july of 2011. Nearly 40,000 verizon workers will stay on the job without a new contract. The Union Representing workers from massachusetts to virginia threatened to strike if they didnt reach an agreement over benefits by midnight. Instead, negotiations will continue. The unions want to keep verse from slashing jobs, eliminating the 401 k match but the wireless carrier says the proposals are out of touch with todays
Feels like 79. Noon 83, feels like 85 and mostly sunny. By 3 00, 88 will feel like 87 because there will be a breeze then helping to make it feel cooler. Skies will be mostly sunny. Coming up, we will talk an increase in humidity and opportunity for storms as we make our way into the workweek. Vanessa, thank you. Now to breaking news. Nearly a dozen people are hurt after gunfire erupted at a party in brooklyn. Cbs 2s ilana gold joins us more with more on the story from East New York, ilana. Reporter a total of nine people were shot on stanley avenue by crescent street. Police have been out here all morning. We have seen them talking to witnesses and they are going door to door to get more information on who fired the gunshots. This is what we know. Police say a fight broke out in a backyard at 2 00 this morning. Thats when a group of men opened fire during a house party. Nine people were shot. The victims are men and women, ages 19 to 38. Bullets hit them in the arms, leg and neck. Inj