Dari we appreciate that. Steve the mayor taking flak for his absence during the standoff. Dari particularly because he was working out at a gym in park slope, brooklyn. Dan bowens is live on Staten Island to tell us how the mayor has responded to all this criticism. Reporter this all unfolded on Destiny Court in Staten Island on the other side of that large black nypd vehicle. Officers out here still collecting evidence. You can see the yellow evidence markers, likely many of the shell casings that were fired during the shootout. While the shootout and standoff unfolded, mayor de blasio as you mentioned was at a gym working out according to his aides for 80 minutes, the mayor refusing to answer questions about this as he briefed the public on what happened here according to the nypd. The suspect set off a smoke bomb when police tried to enter his apartment earlier this morning. Thats when lieutenant james hayes entered the residence and was shot in the left calf and buttocks. The suspe
And swallowed a car. The main broke on 1st street between clinton and willow. Eyewitness News Reporter Lauren Glassberg is there. The jackhammering has subsided at least for now. The digging continues right at the corner of willow and 1st. Digging continues and thats happening all the way up the block as well. Further up the block, thats where that car lit really sank in to the street. This happened before sun up this morning. The water on 1st street between willow and clinton still off as crews worked to fix the water main here and then theyll be working to fix the actual street. I pull up, roads closed, and theres a car just popping out of the sidewalk and theres the entire street flooded. Reporter this is how 1st street looked earlier this morning. A water main break pumping water out and a car drowning in a massive sinkhole. About 6 a. M. The car alarm in the apartment right up there. So looked outside, saw the street was flooded. Only took a few seconds to figure out it was my car
Its 4 00 a. M. Right now on this monday morning, march 21st. Im michael gargiulo. Thats because its snowing outside. Im Kerry Barrett in for darlene. Were on early because of this blast of Winter Weather. Storm team 4 chris cimino looking at whats happening with our forecast and the snow coming down, chris. Spring, isnt it great . A sloppy wet snow out there. Roads are staying primarily wet. Weve had steadier bands of snow across coastal new jersey and portions of long island, too. On the radar, a lot of dry air in here. Not anticipating as much snow even across long island. The areas tf brighter white, occasionally its heavier in the city. Bigger flakes right now. Overall, the system is shutting down in the philadelphia area already. Its pivoting to the st, northeast. I would say for the morning commute, were going to see the snow stop across the northwestern suburbs probably by 6 ea00 a. M. , in the city, 7 00 a. M. The latest and takes a we have Winter Weather advisories for Suffolk
Minutes away from weather and traffic. You can call it december 4th if you want to, weather wise its not going to feel like it. We have some very mild weather, a nice start to your weekend. 44 degrees right now. We should be in the mid30s, upper 30s around the five boroughs to the 20s north and west. 37 monticello, 35 armond, 36 norwalk. These numbers are mild. Were off to a very night start to the weekend. Well have sunshine, 50 to 52 degrees later on this afternoon. Going to be great. Going to get warmer. Were going to be in the mid 50s by sunday. That has had Heather Orourke dancing around the maple all morning long. I put a new ribbon on the maple. I dont know if you noticed. Lets go over to our mass transit chart. Everything is doing fine if you want to use new Jersey Transit, long island railroad. We do have construction George Washington bridge, lincoln and and thats the George Washington bridge. The upper level has two lanes closed in both directions. Not causing major problems
Was a confrontation in a parking lot on campus between two groups of students about 1 20 this morning. It escalated to violence and Authorities Say freshman steven jones pulled out a handgun, shooting and killing one student and injuring three others. The parking lot at the campus in flagstaff, arizona, is just outside housing for many of the campus sorority fraternities. This is like the safest place, you know. To think Something Like this would happen to people that, you know, are really a big part of our community, it breaks my heart. Reporter this seniors Sorority Sisters textd and said they were on lockdown in their rooms after hearing the gunfire. They were so terrified. To not be able to help them and be there is hard to accept. Reporter they were on lockdown at Texas Southern university in houston after a shooting there. Police say one person is dead, another wounded. It happened at a student apartment complex on the edge of campus. Authorities are saying tonight that two peopl