Natalie coal has died at the age of 65. How her family is remembering her life and music. Plus, a dangerous stunt. How a driverless car ended up plunging down a flight of stairs. And in the tech world, top innovations you should look for in the year ahead. Good afternoon. I am netanyahu. A new years eve i am natalie. Investigators say 20year old justin sates was stabbed at a party in pine bush. We have more details now with marcus solis. Right now it is a little hard. It is too hard right now. Reporter a mother mourning the death of her son, justin spates who was killed during what should have been a night of celebration. At a house party in pine bush, the 20yearold there with 80 to 120 kids attending. The party was attended by current and former Pine Bush High School students. Some time during the evening some outsiders showed up at the party and they were at the party for a while. Then the altercation took place. Reporter he granted with honors two years ago from Pine Bush High Schoo
Taken to the hospital. Two other residents suffered minor injuries. At this point firefighters have deemed this suspicious. They say its very unusual for a fire to start in a stairwell thats why theyve deemed it suspicious. Reporter thank you, now to the elevator tragedy a 25year old man killed while attending a new Years Eve Party in manhattan. He was with his friend in an elevator when he got stuck in a third floor of a building on broom street. Tim fleisher is live with the latest developments. Reporter this is where that tragedy occurred. The elevator in question has been shut down and taken out of service. Also inspectors are looking at it but at the same time the residents here are still trying to understand how this tragedy could have happened. 25years old. Reporter zion halcomb like other residents are left stunned that a malfunctioning elevator led to the unexpected and tragic death of 25yearold Stephen Hewitt brown who had come here last night to attend a new Years Eve Party.
Face was almost completely covered. Police tape now among the Christmas Decorations on quiet streets of white stone queens. Its a shock that this happened. Reporter people in this tight knit neighborhood hoping for a break as police hunt for this man. Home security video capturing the alleged attacker as he runs up behind the 16yearold girl walking alone to school around 8 30 wednesday morning. He turns her around and then slashes her across the face and throat. Slashed in her face twice. Once from ear to her throat, to the middle of the throat and another part of the face as well. Reporter the suspect who appears to have been wearing a hood sweatshirt, surgical mask and gloves runs away. The girl an Exchange Student from china then runs off as well, confused and bleeding from the wounds. The attack happened on 147th street between 19 avenue and the cross island Parkway Service road, a block from teens home. I got grandkids. We dont let them out on the street on the block. They dont go
Up the workday with snow and rain aok freezing presip coming down through the evening hour prps well have your full forecast in a little while. Now back to both of you at the desk. You can track the snow with our nbc 4 new york app. Tap the logo in the corner. Select the weather tab. Youll find the latest forecast in the radar and get any alerts th patou need to know. Now to breaking news, we have learned that Police Arrested the fi h suspect accused in a gang rape at a brooklyn playground. All five suspects are teenagers. Just 14 to 17 years old. Tracy strahan has new information this afternoon, tracie. Reporter well rob, they wouldnt tell me where hes being held, but over the phone, Police Confirmed that that 17yearold suspect was taken sbool kus dill just about an into custody about an hour ago. He along with the other fours wi tll be charged as adults. The other four facing a judge in we saw video showing all five of these teenagers connected in the gang rape of an 18yearold girl.
Mean in general we do, idea logically we know who the enemy is, but in order to get the soft targets that are set of youve got to be specific here, i dont think you can just you know blankly idea logically say that these are bad people, youve got to identify them. We need better intel to do that, better intelligence weve got to get inside of these things. Just this week late this week, we Heard High School a new york, upstate new York Pine Bush High School where they were told to recite the pledge of allegiance in arabic. Maybe thats causing some of the problems. Absolutely thats part of the problem. Lone wolf attacks are difficult to prevent, but begin the amount of threats that have been made, western the thousands of westerners that have chosen to join the ranks of isis we need to be more vigilant than ever. But it isnt just these lone wolf attackers, the fight is is a brord and what we need is more commitment, a stronger commitment and stronger resolve from the president obama to r