Democratic primary debate for the 14th Congressional District, which covers part of queens in the bronx. As you can see on the map, this stretches several neighborhoods including Jackson Heights and was story. The seat is currently held by alexandria a convio cortez we also invite some of the leading candidates challenging her to this debate. Tonight were joined by Michelle Caruso cabrera and Community Leader and activists badrun khan. You can see the full debate on nyone. Com we are taping this on thursday, june 4. Now on to the opening statement. This was determined by a random drawing. Michelle Caruso Cabrera will go first. Good evening. Good evening. These are troubling times for the country. We need to come together as we grapple with the murder of george floyd and the impact it has had. We need unity. The choice the voters face could not be more clear. I am about unity and my opponent is about divisiveness and polarization. She was the only democrat to vote against 75 million for
Newscopter 7 is over the newark penn station area where firefighters doused the flames. All lines are back up and running but many are delayed we are told up to 45 minutes. Firefighters put out the small fire quickly. Its not clear what on the tracks was burning. Its long been a long leveled criticism. New york city has largely ignored those with Mental Health problems. Tonight a groundbreaking campaign by city hall that will affect tens of thousands of people including homeless people. Mayor de blasio now pouring millions of dollars in to try to tackle the problem. Here is stacey sager. Reporter 10 30 this morning on east 125th and lex where an emotionally disturbed homeless man is restrained by police. They wait for medical help. Ask anyone in east harlem, he is one of many that the homeless situation has exploded here in recent weeks largely because of k 2, a synthetic marijuana causing some to lash out. This woman, a recovering addict herself explaining the problem. They dont want
Point it appears that incident is totally unrelated to what happened inside that home on 66th street. As soon as we get more information, well bring it to you. For now were live in maspeth, Kemberly Richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. We have new information about an incident on a plane that landed this afternoon at laguardia airport. Delta Airlines Says a tire on a flight from tampa deflated upon landing just before 3 p. M. The boei the runway without incident, then continued to the terminal where customers disembarked normally. None of the 110 passengers or five crew members onboard was injured. After a very wet weekend, weve got some more showers headed our way but nothing like what we just experienced this past weekend. Meteorologist lee goldberg is here now with a check on the accuweather forecast. No question. We have a few showers that are trying to get in to the area. But we do not have any flooding imminent. We do have a flood watch thats of northern new jersey. But the sev
And thunderstorms. Unsettled weather is moving in for the weekend. Lets take a look. Here are our temperatures. 74 degrees in central park. 63 for monticello. 69 in somerville, new jersey. Dew points in the 60s across the board. Close to 70s in some locations. When we approach 70 we consider that to be sticky typically entopic county right now. Poised to move in to new jersey. Heres your hour by hour forecast. We are expecting a High Temperature today, about 84 degrees. When you factor in the humidity, it will feel more like 89 degrees. We have lots of clouds. We are expecting some showers and thunderstorms. Ill have more about that coming up in your full forecast. For now ill send it back to you. Thank you. Police say a man on a in the way. Investigators say hes burglarized several apartments in midtown. Cbs 2s ali boaman joins us live. Reporter the man carried out jewelry and computers. Authorities are releasing surveillance photos. Take a look at the man authorities are searching fo
Rest of the snow still backing in to parts of the area with light snows but the heaviest definitely by the boards at this point. We have to allow for the western edge through the evening hours then things should be quiet. Scattered snow showers, nothing more than some coatings. I think by tomorrow evening and tomorrow night we may have additional accumulations. Yes, youll be seeing occasional snow and snow showers tomorrow night but not a lot of accumulation. Expect thick snow at times. Thats all the way through tomorrow night. Moderate coastal flooding a concern during high tide this evening. Its a snowy week that ends with fierce chill. Well have on that in the 7day forecast. More on the timing and accumulation as well in just a few minutes. Snowy roads in connecticut where a stretch of i95 is reopen after a serious bus crash. Heres what we know right now about the crash. At least 30 people were injured but are not lifethreatening. The bus owner is based in flushing, queens. This is