In a moment, but first, breaking news. A slashing on a bronx subway train. It happened early this morning during an attempted robbery. It comes as felony assaults are on the rise. Magdalena doris is live. Reporter this latest slashing marks 900 attacks this year, and police in mont haven are searching for the suspect. Reporter a man was approached by two people who tried to rob him. He resisted, and he was slashed. This is the lastest in a number the number is going up, and thats the latest addition we are putting into the it. Im confident that it will go down. Reporter they are adding more Police Patrols overnight near bars and nightclubs and tracking different statistics. Last friday brought two more slashings, one at penn station and another at the a. Train station in manhattan. The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. Magdalena doris. Time for traffic and weather on the 2s. How about that cold out there . Its brutal. As promised it will be a chilly way to st
The ambassador ended up playing purple rain and delirious before their meeting. We put together a list of his music. Tonight we have prince, the life and death of an icon. Watch that here at 10 00. Storms are brewing in the tristate area and you need to be ready in the hours ahead. Janice huff is tracking where and when. Theyre few and far between, but theyre starting to build now. To the north of the city, parts of Rockland County and parts of Orange County right now. Were seeing a couple thundershowers popping up near lateen late laten latentown and putnam valley. You might see a heavy down pour, hail with this as the storms develop. There is a lot more back to the west. That front is still going to take some time to come through. Its moving past the great lakes and the ohio valley, but its still far to the west. Its going to take through the night and into early tomorrow morning before were completely done with the showers. Take an umbrella if youre going out, keep an eye to the sky
Well, its going to be your gear. And later today well have a couple of showers that are around. Temperature this morning, we start off this friday morning, were looking at temperatures right around 50 degrees, and were looking at whats going to be these winds that are out of the northwest today, making it feel much cooler. 39 around hanover, 43 montclair, teaneck, looking at normally the temperature is about 35 in the city, about 25 north and west, so it is a little warmer, but the temperature is going to keep dropping this morning, and then later on this afternoon, were going to be into the mid to upper 50s and with the wind its going to feel chilly, so dress warmly. There could be a shower late in the day too. Well talk about that and a spring snowstorm for sunday evening. All that in your accuweather forecast in just a moment. Heather has got friday off. Debbie duhaime is in the Traffic Center looking at the commute for you. Reporter well start on the subways telling you whats happe
Here in this country, the wealthiest nation on earth, we are still working to protect our union. Reporter president barack obama addressing the u. N. World leer summit leader summit over the weekend. And also scheduled to talk, russian president. In a year interview, charlie rose spoke with the controversial leader asking him about this strategy in syria, who sent troops and weapons to the country. Enforcement that could be used to attack rebel forces supported by the u. S. There is no other help to the syrian government. Reporter with the many heads of state traveling throughout the city for various events, that means large mulder cades motorcades will be navigating as well. And firefighters battle a roger fire at a nursery in green bugler viewers sent us this picture of firefighters on thescene. It took 50 firefighters from several department four hours to get that fire under control. No word on what caused the fire. Time is 4 32. And here is john elliott. With traffic and weather. S
Struck the woman left her in the busy intersection for dead. Other drivers at fist not even realizing at first not even realizing what was this the street. Was in the street. Reporter it looked very dangerous. Reporter she was the first to call and look for help after driving up to the remains around 8 30 last night. Police believe the woman who had no id on her had been hit by a private bus earlier in the night and the bus driver just kept going. I couldnt believe that cars were actually trying to go over the body. Its incredible. Reporter investigators on the scene for hours trying to retrace the womans final steps struck her. No human being deserves such a horrible, horrible, horrible death. Reporter and Police Telling us that the woman was in very bad condition by the time that they are hoping that nypd cameras in this vicinity will give them some clues as to the driver that struck the woman here last night. Reporting live this morning from flushing, queen, janelle burrell, cbs 2 n