Know, anywhere. Reporter protus is facing several charges tonight, including hate crime. Several dozen east Orange Police officers called out sick to work today. Was it a Mysterious Illness or Something Else . Reporter remember, were talking about east Orange Police officers, yet were here in bloomfield in front of a Doctors Office. Thats because more than 20 officers who were scheduled to be at work today are here at this Doctors Office getting a doctors note after calling out sick. The apartment is filled with many of their personal vehicles. One of the officers inside the Doctors Office says that hes a delegate for the police union. He told me more than 80 Police Officers in all have called out sick between last night and today. And the reason, because of officers and the city. Now, this Police Officer who didnt want to go on camera for fear of backlash, told us hes been with the Police Department for 15 years, but says officers havent had a contract for three years and are not bein
Reporter good morning, pat and gus. Take a look behind me. Youll see a heavy Police Presence is here at the hospital and we expect the Police Commissioner to arrive at any moment. In fact, he may have gotten here with an suv and lots of detail behind it. Theyre keeping folks away from the emergency room. We know two officers were shot. One appears to have been shot in the back, the other in the torso. Both expected to be okay. Now youre looking at the scene. It happened around 3 30 this morning. You can see a large group of investigators and officers on the scene. Several police cars there. What we know is that two officers were shot in a shootout, one in the back and one in a the torso. Both are expected to be okay. The suspect has also been shot. Hes at another hospital and hes in stable condition. As to what led to this shooting, were still trying to figure out the details. Here at kings county. You can see officers are keeping folks away from the emergency room as two officers are
Low to mid30s by noontime. The clouds take over. Forecasting a high. Still below normal the 38 degrees. Well talk about the weekend in a bit. Lets talk commute early on a friday morning. Good morning, chris. Lets talk about the subways. Track maintenance. E and f trains running express. In addition to that, we have fastrack maintenance on the 4, 5, and 6. No trains between Grand Central and atlantic avenue. This should be wrapped up at 5 00 a. M. The 2,n and r are the way to go. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Its going to be an emotional scene in a manhattan courtroom. Its sentencing day for a man who struck and killed a little girl on the Upper West Side. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in Lower Manhattan with that. Reporter ariel russos family members are expected to give an impact statement in a few hours against the man who is accused of killing her in the years old at the time she was struck and killed. She have walking with her mother and grandmother when she was hit by
We are on the cusp of that rainfall beginning. Bill and liz, back to you for now. Lee is on four times a night on Eyewitness News but if youre not near a television, you can still track the storm by downloading our free accutrack weather alert app. New at 6 00, the mother of a young man who died in Police Custody in new jersey tonight filing a suit claiming cops and workers at the Middlesex County jail caused the death of 27 yearold david yurbey, a neck fracture is what killed him but a mom claims her son had a history of Mental Health issues and she says officers treated that as a crime. Darla miles has the story. Reporter well, liz, the mom says she did not know her son died with a broken neck until five months after she buried him and that was only after the Middlesex County Prosecutors Office conducted an internal investigation and declined to prosecute. That investigation includes video of his final hours. When they placed him in a chair and they were saying to him, relax, relax a
The potential there is for thursday afternoon and night into the day on friday. Then the third threat, that comes from interaction with Tropical Storm what keen. Big differences with the storm track forecast today. Winds of 45 miles an hour and Tropical Storm. But look at the new storm track. Captured and hovering afford the atlantic for several days look at that sunday 8 00 a. M. Time frame. Yesterday the track forecast had that very close to new york city at that time frame. Now its staying offshore and suggesting it recurves there and still have a pipeline to some of its moisture. Meaning it can still rain. So widespread heavy rain and thunder is going to develop after midnight. Were going to have a big range across the area. Could be a half inch or less across parts of long island and jersey shore but after two or three inches north and west of new york city, those are the most vulnerable areas for some flooding in the northern west suburbs and connecticut and lower Hudson Valley.