Head out there. Im ken rosato. Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the forecast. Showers and thunderstorms are coming in the area from the city eastward through rockland, Westchester County across brooklyn and queens. On the l. I. E. , 49495, oyster bay, smithtown. That will continue across the area. Here is another look from our accutrack radar. You can see the lightning strikes that are there. They decreased. They are across brooklyn and queens this morning heading eastward. We will have that a couple of hours. Then we look at a hot day today. The high will get to about 90 later on. Real feel 95. A spotty thunderstorm this afternoon. Heather is looking at the commute. Any flooded roadways . Nothing just yet. Take it easy if you are out driving around. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about a couple of incidents. Belt parkway, eastbound at irrelevant sten two lanes are cheesed. B. Q. E. Northb
Because of a trade embargo. Henna daniels, cbs 2 news. Well, facilities that have animals for 24 hours now have to be equipped with automatic fire sprinklers. The bill was passed to into law after several incidents of where they were trapped in burning buildings. One lawsuit cited the financial burden tennessee puts on business owners. The education commissioner say was the the city is working for options for schools who have no lowe testing rates. Geno smith is recover afghanistan having surgery on his broken jaw. Doctors at the local area hospital put plates and screws into his jaw. Ik enemkpali was released immediately. He was picked up by another teem. I apologize it should have never happened. I would have walked away from the situation. It was never my intention to hurt anybody. Reporter he also thanked nfl coach rex ryan for giving him a chance. The on the first series, the lions carved them up. Golden state is untouched for the first team of the jets defense. Genos replace zill
Janelle burrell is life in new is live in newdorf to explain. Reporter two have been working together, and one of the incidents happened here with the two men approaching a woman. They stole her purse. The first incident was sunday, july 12th around 2 00 that morning. The suspects approached two men in their 20s walking up to the corner store. It was in a chevy malibu. They identified themselves as police, flashed guns, and searched them they stole 300 from them, and then they drove off. Later that night, the two approached a woman and stole her purse, and they said a Good Samaritan tried to step in and help, and thats when the second suspect tried to be a Good Samaritan himself, interfering, allowing both men to get away. Then they robbed a teenager. Police are looking for the sketch of the man we showed you earlier. All we know is the two men got away in the heavy mal boot. Anyone with any information, youre urged to contact the nymd. Janelle burrell, cbs 2 news. Thank you. A man who
John. Michelle, the breaking news is that bob corker, the senator from tennessee, republican who chairs the Foreign Relations committee, has told the Washington Post he has withdrawn from consideration as Donald Trumps running mate. It underscores the question hanging over trumps running mate process, which is who exactly can he entice to run with him. Can he get given how controversial his reputation is, can he get a young rising star in republican politics, or does he got to pick somebody like newt gingrich, the former house speaker, chris christie, the governor of new jersey, who doesnt have much of an electoral future given controversies that have weighed them down. Bob corker is somebody who has been rising within the senate and in republican politics. He says the job of being the Vice President ial candidate is more political than he wants. That hes more of a policy guy. Not comfortable being the attack dog in the campaign. So he has taken himself out. Weve still got some others,
Discourage bad guys from taking over the areas. Reporter things so bad at Washington Square park that the nypd was forced to send in a special squad of cops today following reports that the drug dealing had gotten out of hand. At bryant park theres no horsing around when it comes to security. Bryant park has its own private Security Force walking the paths 24 7. Meanwhile, it was interesting to watch what happened when nypd did arrive at Washington Square park today. These all d fled. While the moms with kids were happy, others were not. Keith said he is a quote, retired drug dealer. For what reason why they coming here messing with people . Like i say i got two women that got raped in here messing with people on small time drug dealers . They got to be out of their minds reporter the people reportedly selling their drugs selling their drugs say thrill return once the heat is off. Marcia kramer, cbs 2 news. The nypd reported that during the first three months of this year, washington e