Are you doing okay . Im fine. Reporter the fishing vessel ran aground for unknown reasons perhaps because of the surf that continued to toss the boat even during the rescue. I think mechanical issues, they wound up losing power and being pushed up onto reporter the waters were so rough that a 25 foot rescue vessel capsized as it tried to make its way to the fishing boat. Board and made it back to shore safely after encountering 10 to 12 foot waves. You can see the surf is severe and the boat is being tossed around. Reporter it took less than an hour to get the fishermen back to safe ground. Now the next phase of the operation is to get their boat out as well after eight days at sea. An operation that might have to wait until high tide. At this point, were confident once the weather dies down well be able to pull this thing off the beach. To imagine that really what churned up the waters behind me was the big storm system that moved through last night including gusty winds that are cont
Power line then on a car. Stacey sager talked to the woman inside that car. She continues our coverage. That woman was panic stricken but thanks to Nassau County police and her own common sense, shes going to be just fine. A very large tree came crashing down on to a power line. You can see behind me here Nassau County police are still on the scene. So is pseg because that tree is still sitting on the power line and thats not all it hit. As you can see from these pictures taken earlier today it landed right on top of the womans car. She was behind the wheel of the white car at the time. She wanted to get right out but became terrified because of all the live wires. Thats when officers stepped in to help. There were a few live wires not little sparks. A flame went up. My initial reaction is they were already here when that happened. I was trying to get out. I just panicked. Id be nervous too if i was in the car. That didnt matter to us. We just wanted to get her out of the car. Is this
Well talk about when it will warm up again. David, shirleen, back to you. Bill, thank you. As the temperature drops, remember you can get the accuweather forecast at your fingertips. Download our free accutrap alert app. Accutrack alert app. The manslaughter trial of a new York City Police officer accused of fatally sooting an unarmed man resumed today. Yesterday, jurors asked to handle the gun used by the officer. He claims wees startled by a noise and fired one shot in a dark stair well in a brooklyn york. Killed. Years in prison. Now to the search for the man police say killed his girlfriend and two of her children on Staten Island. Another young girl survived. Exclusive video shows 23year old Michael Sykes before the stabbing spree. The hospital in the West Brighton section. Darla . Reporter well, that 2year old is still recovering here at Richmond University medical center. She is in critical but stable condition as the family is mourning the loss of almost two generations and nyp
Flames are going, and smoke traveling for miles and miles. Thats the latest, toni yates, Eyewitness News back to you guys. Thank you, well stay on top of that story. Turning now to the tactic blast headed arctic blast headed our way, coming this weekend well see dangerously cold wind chills of minus 20 or worse. We could be breaking a record, not a record anyone wants to break, wind chill watches issued, and meteorologist lee goldberg has the hard cold facilities outside the facts outside the studios. Reporter a piece of the north pole wants to relocate to the tristate area over the next several days in two stages. One today and a much more severe step down over the weekend. Outside were at 23 right now, then a gusty wind and feel like readings in the teen, thats one of high wind chills across the area. Looking at single ding nits for most digits for most. The wind chill watch was valley and new jersey, and it feels like 0 in white plains right now. 11belmar and 8 in newark. The winds
We have details on how the frightening scene unfolded. Hillary clinton and donald trump are riding high after big victories last night. Well have highlights. And this morning were learning more about our big story yesterday morning, that wild shooting that sent two anticrime officers to the hospital. We have the latest this morning on how violence started. Good morning, everybody. A nice look at lower manhattan. Its so crisp outside. Its beautiful, on this sunday, february 21st. So nice getting ready for work, walked outside, no gloves, no scarf. Just a light jacket. Its all good. Not bad at all. Happy sunday, im rob nelson. Im michelle charlesworth. Meteorologist amy freeze, you did not disappoint. Yesterday was so beautiful. We hit 61 degrees as we expected. We hit 61 right before 4 00. And its been mild overnight. Degrees, and then well keep our temperatures steady in the low to mid50s throughout the afternoon for the city. Colder air is moving in quickly. While we have 51 degrees a