Adding on a couple of degrees today. Not too breezy. A nice spring feel out there. Just a white layer as you head out the door. Well look at the sevenday forecast in a few. Lauren scala has a look at thursday. Its thursday. Friday eve. I like to call it. The belt parkway, we have a disabled vehicle westbound by erskine street in the right lane. Heading over to new jersey, an accident on truck routes 1 and 9 southbound by dore eem us avenue. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Thanks, lauren. 4 31 right now. Police are questioning a mother in the bronx after her two young girls die in a fire. This happened in the butler houses. Tracie strahan is in the morrisania section with how it all happened. Reporter such a tough story that mother has been questioned here at the 42nd precinct house behind me. The two little girls dead just hours ago from that fire that was started when they were left home alone. Smoke was billowing from that apartment on webster avenue around 6 30 last night.
Can see there is some Train Service here. We are going to try to show you a shot of that train if we can wait for this 39 to go by this train to go by because obviously crews are working to get this train removed as quickly as possible. There used to be some fence removed. There used to be a fence there. They removed that so they can get some of the debris out. Again, they hope to have that crane in here as soon as possible, have the train removed by midnight so by morning everything should be back to normal. If you want to make sure that everything will be back to normal by the morning, make sure to check our website, app. We are live in westbury, im kristin thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Fingers crossed they do. Kristin, thank you. Eyewitness news has learned mayor de blasio will unveil a major new Education Initiative tomorrow. It includes everything from improving reading skills of Elementary School children to offering more College Level classes in high schools. The mayor spok
As always were online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page it happened in a flash. New video tonight of an out of control car jumping the curb. He flips over and then kills an innocent man who was just walking down the street. Good evening at 11 00. Im bill ritter. And im sade baderinwa. The victim never even saw it coming. The grizzly scene unfolding in flatbush, brooklyn tonight. Lucy yang is there with new details. As you can see behind me, the car has now been righted and is waiting to be towed. Weve obtained dramatic video tonight. This as accident investigators try to determine exactly what went wrong to cause a driver to lose control and a pedestrian, a 50yearold man, to lose his life. Boom, like an explosion. Reporter these surveillance videos from various angles show the horrible accident. You see a man innocently talking on his phone. Seconds later a car, airborne, crashes in to him, lands upside down on the sidewalk. A few feet behind him this woman survives and seconds later
That same level here at rig writing by. Letter these fans are starved. Reporter jacob decome takes the ball. Now comes the fun part. I think we have a lot of confidence in this game. We matched up well against two great pitchers. And we got a chance to take a 3 0 lead. Reporter well, the cubs are taking batting practice. Next up are the mets. First pitch still about three hours away. That is going on inside Wrigley Field. Anthony johnson is outside the ballpark with more on the mets fans here in chicago. Anthony . Reporter laura, the first thing we have to say is its a beautiful afternoon in chicago. Quite different than what we saw over the weekend in new york city. I am standing basically in a sea of blue. So many blue jerseys between the cubs and a few mets fans and lo and behold there is a mets fan right there wearing a jacob degrom shirt. These mets fans are here to have fun. Right in the middle of cub central in the midst of cub mania are cool, confident mets fans gearing up for
Mets in chicago to face the cubs. Two wins away from the world series. Lead by Daniel Murphy they are at Wrigley Field. They are eager to get the game started. The lack of success in the friendly confines is well documented but they made a habit of proving people wrong. Degrom on the hill. They have been swinging the bats well for a while. They will take their chances in chicagos home park. Back in their place and warmer, so are we. We have power, too. You look at our power numbers from august 1st on, we are dangerous. Yeah, you are. Getting closer to game 3 mets move along and the fans are on for the ride. Anthony johnson is at Wrigley Field for the game but more importantly, he is there for the fans that cant be there, right, anthony . Reporter absolutely. Some mets fans made the trek out here to chicago looking at Wrigley Field we can tell you the place is buzzing. All the bars and restaurants, fans are gathered. There is one new york met who is making money tonight. He is a met but