Highway now. You can see it is at a crawl. The accident has been cleared but again delays in both directions. Diana. A former High School Pitching standout in Critical Condition right now after he was gunned down in the parking lot of a burger king in yonkers. The 23yearold once a draft pick, possibly an innocent victim. Now police are searching for the gunman with only a vague description of a car to go on. Eyewitness News Reporter Tim Fleischer is live in yonkers with more for us. Tim. Reporter and the investigation is widening. Tonight Yonkers Police are also telling me they are digging deep into social media to try to find the shooter. Yonkers police now say the shooting that left a 23year old promising baseball player critically wounded stemmed from a dispute between two groups of people on wednesday night. We believe it was associated with some type of drag racing that occurred in that area. We were told by witnesses pointed a gun out the window and fired five or six shots in tha
And it was really late. Then had to spend 25 minutes on a bus or so. Now i will be late for meetings so im trying to figure out what to do next. Reporter overnight rail workers removed the derailed freight care and spent the next 16 hours struggling repair the damage. It would not come soon enough to save the evening rush hour. Our track guys have been at it for many hours and they got a good look at the damage. I was told it was in excess of a thousand feet of track damaged, significantly damaged, third rail, regular rail, ties, all of that. Reporter with one of the two tracks out of service, the railroad canceled Westbound Service on the ronkonkoma and port jeff branches at 3 00 p. M. To make way for eastbound trains. The priority, to get commuters out of new york city. Most seemed resigned to the inconvenience. Sometimes things break and you got to adapt to it and do the best you can. How do you think they are doing the best they can . I think they are doing a good job. You can alwa
Shirts. For the fans, this has been great for the mets fans. Really great for mets business. Mets fans are clocking flocking to times square, buying merchandise from the shelves faster than workers can stack them. This is what fans do when their team pulls out another miracle. I was here last night around dodgers. I was one of the first ones to buy it. Attend i came here to get the postseason shirt. They are out of everything that is more than medium. Reporter there was a line outside modell store. Sales are bringing in brisk business. As soon as the game was over, we had it on this table right behind me. And we sold about half of our units. And then this morning we sold the rest of the units at about 8 15. Reporter the mets store on 42nd street was buzzing. Still on an emotional high. After last nights nailbiter in los angeles, the mets prevailed but the fans frayed nerves are just now coming down. Last night i was on pins and needles. One batter struck out, it was unbelievable. I hug
I am standing on top one these dunes, 8 to 10 feet high on the jersey shore. Many towns have down exactly the same thing. This is to protect against beach erosion as many towns prepare for the doubling whammy of rain and high winds. There is already a significant amount of street flooding on the bayside of seaside heights. That was the result of last nights rainstorm. Here homes are still being raised because of the damage when the water was so high and Superstorm Sandy. This time residents are getting prepared. Right now taking anything that is loose or from the property and putting it inside. I am making sure there is no debris that gets on my neighbors or become flying objects. Reporter the town is prepared to use military equipment to evacuate if necessary. Electric generators are on standby. A mobile command center is ready in case the police and fire sandbags are also available for residents to help with any potential flooding. These precautions began right after Labor Day Weeken
If by chance youre headed to that area, you can keep an eye on the traffic with your ipad or tablet and at abc7ny. Com. Lets go to another breaking news story right now. An attempted abduction in bridgeport, connecticut. Weve just received video of the car and teenager tumbling out. Sandra bookman is in the news room with late breaking details. On monday morning at about 7 15, police in bridgeport responded to a call as you said about an attempted abduction. All of this happened near the corner of boston avenue and palisades avenue. A 17yearold girl told police she was walking to school when she was approached by someone in a gray toyota. The female driver lured that girl in to the vehicle and the girl says she was assaulted. Take a look at the video that police released. At one point that 17yearold can be seen jumping out of the car as it was traveling along boston avenue. Heres what we know about the suspect. She is described as a hispanic female in her 40s with black hair and freckl