It was not an earthquake but a a sonic boom. They were conducting routine test flights including activities that may have resulted in sonic booms felt from brigantine to toms river. The whole house started shaking and the dog started barking. It was a big boom, we were eating and we didnt think anything of it, i thought it was a fighter jet coming by. Reporter now join base mcguire, dix had no flights schedule and no art illry missions today. Thank you christie. A Camden County Police Officer will undergo surgery after an accident today and action news viewer sent us a video after the car struck a florist shop at 11 30 this morning. The officers wife told action news he crashed while trying to avoid another driver. A 25yearold woman is dead following a fire in cherry hill this morning. Firefighters were call to the home on the 100 block of sheffield road at 10 00. Crews rescued the woman but she died later at the hospital. Three firefighters suffered minor burns, investigators say the
Were. They were sonic booms, and they really shook things up today. Thursday night, and the big story on action news tonight is the u. S. Navy making super sonic waves off the del marva peninsula. This map shows the designated areas where two fighter jets, an f35c and a f18, conducted routine test flights today, and today those tests, attracted a lot of attention. Action News Reporter Christie Lleto was live in hammington, new jersey where residents are still talking about being rattled by the booms tonight, christie . Reporter that is right, jim. Some said it felt like an earthquake, others didnt know what to make of the tremors that came from two fighter jets down in maryland. It wasnt an earthquake but sonic boom that Barbara Jones felt in her Egg Harbor City home. There are tremors from seismic blasts over ocean. Reporter reports early thursday afternoon caused by what a Navy Spokeswoman a says were f35 and f18 fighter jets from a Naval Air Station in maryland. They were conducting
Have been so much worse and it would have happened just as quickly and we would have just as helpless to stop it. Reporter commissioner bratton talked about keeping career criminals out of the subway. The suspect in this case has been arrested 29 times. We live in our own little go. We have to do what we have to do, no choice. Reporter now the suspect in this case 55yearold randy evans is homeless. He is charged with assault and disorderly conduct. He was taken to a hospital for a Mental Health evaluation. And the victim was also taken to a hospital to be checked out for pain in her chest and knees from the fall and she tells us she is recovering from the ordeal with her family. Live outside penn station, sonia rincon, cbs 2 news. Now to that other case we mentioned a straphanger says that she was jabbed with a needle. It happened last night at the 49th street and Seventh Avenue station. Was going to catch the r train when she was bumped by another passenger. And then she felt a sharp
Are you satisfied . No. Im not going to see that because we heard that before. Reporter we went in the subways in Lower Manhattan with nypd chief of transit joseph fox who insists Police Presence is boosted. Frankly im not sure how someone could ride the trains every day and not see a police officer. Reporter they say the number one thing really needed is more officers down here. Live in Lower Manhattan, dave carlin, cbs 2 news. Our eye is on the storm tonight and snow is on the way. Lonnie quinn in the Weather Center to let us know when and where it will hit. Lonnie. Crazy to imagine, you know, today you have temperatures above 50. Some rain out there right now along the jersey shore also on the east end of long island. This is the same front that came through yesterday. Now its in reverse moving back through the area at the same time that cold air filtering in. Now, the cold air the timing of it looks to be anywhere from, say, midnight to 4 a. M. Its 39 degrees in monticello. Its lik
Sporting ernts coming up plus you could see the difference in the second half. It was not football anymore. It was a struggle for life. Lashing out a team for his teams performance. Details in about 45 minutes time. The search for the missing airasia passenger plane has been called off for the night. The plane was caring 162 people when it went miss okay sunday morning. It left indian e i cant at 5 20s local time en route to sing a pour. It lost contact with air Traffic Controllers 45 minutes after takeoff after the pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather. Veronka pedrosa reports. Reporter from the air and at sea, an intense search for missing flight airasia qz 8501. The airbus a320 was carrying 162 passengers and crew to singapore. 42 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft lost communications with air traffic control. I hope for a milk and may god save them all . I should have been with them. I cancelled two weeks ago as i had something to do. I had two friends on board with f