Baseball diamond. Checkey beckford is live at the airport where the feds are investigating. Reporter rob, it seems the drone was in the air over the airport for quite some time. First, a jet blue pilot reported seeing it around 2 30. More than two hours later, the delta flight came within 100 feet of one. This was delta flight 407, safely parked at the gate at kennedy airport. Just minutes before, a very close call. A mile back, there was a drone flying just under the southside of this abandoned airport here. Reporter an unmanned drone, dangerously close to a flight about a land. What altitude would you say that was . Probably a hundred feet below us. Reporter normal required separation is 1,000 feet. Concerned, the tower told other pilots to be on alert. The one ahead of you reported a drone over there. A drone over there. Its extremely dangerous to the aircraft. Reporter john would know. Hes an airplane technician at kennedy. A drone so close to a plane could spell disaster. Ingestio
Been released but one female officers remains here. Reporting live in jersey city, darla miles, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Darla, thank you. Calls for action tonight in brooklyn after a violent weekend that left three people shot and killed. President eric adams and several Council Members holding a rally outside burle hall this morning to launch a campaign against gun violence. They are calling for community and Police Cooperation after a wave of shootings over the last two days. They set up an open casket outside burle hall as a stark reminder of the cost of all this gun violence. When a bullet is discharged from a barrel of a gun, it does not discriminate. It would take the life of anything and anyone that it is. York cop. Eyewitness News Reporter Kemberly Richardson at todays rally will break down the Antiviolence Campaign coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00. In less than an hour, concerned Community Members will come together in the bronx to address the legionnaires outbreak that
We have a developing story on long island. Two swimmers caught in a dangerous rip tide. See the dramatic search and rescue. But first, a growing health scare in the bronx. The legionnaires disease spread to more people and more buildings and growing more deadly. Good evening. Im diane macedo in for cindy hsu. The number of legionnaires cases has jumped in the last 24 hours. 65 people are infected from the disease, up from 57 cases last night. The death toll has risen from three to four and test results show five buildings are now affected. Cbs 2 news dave carlin tells us how investigators are trying to stop the outbreak. Reporter bronx residents worried and they want answers after new cases and new locations including this verizon office building. Scary. I have a little one that i have to worry about. And got to take precaution. I didnt know it was so close to home. Reporter the Health Department confirmed a fourth death from an outbreak of legionnaires disease in the south bronx. 65 c
Feels like 79. Noon 83, feels like 85 and mostly sunny. By 3 00, 88 will feel like 87 because there will be a breeze then helping to make it feel cooler. Skies will be mostly sunny. Coming up, we will talk an increase in humidity and opportunity for storms as we make our way into the workweek. Vanessa, thank you. Now to breaking news. Nearly a dozen people are hurt after gunfire erupted at a party in brooklyn. Cbs 2s ilana gold joins us more with more on the story from East New York, ilana. Reporter a total of nine people were shot on stanley avenue by crescent street. Police have been out here all morning. We have seen them talking to witnesses and they are going door to door to get more information on who fired the gunshots. This is what we know. Police say a fight broke out in a backyard at 2 00 this morning. Thats when a group of men opened fire during a house party. Nine people were shot. The victims are men and women, ages 19 to 38. Bullets hit them in the arms, leg and neck. Inj
Latest on the busy stretch of i95 backed up following a fiery crash. Will it be back to normal by the morning commute . We have breaking news. Plus, no getting back to normal for thousands of families on long island hit by storms. Theyre told tonight they could be spending days in the dark. Good evening. Im sade baderinwa. Some of the people could be without power till friday. The towns of smithtown and suffolk county. Eyewitness News Reporter josh einiger. You talk about people getting their power back, folks who live in this neighborhood just want to go down their street and access their homes right now. You can see this is the corner of christian avenue and triangle drive. Several trees, maybe a dozen trees are down that have knocked downpour lines making this treacherous and completely impassible. This is another street where several dozen people live in this direction. People just want to be able to get down their street but it looks 24 hours after this storm like it just passed t