Abcnews. Com and on our facebook page. A frightening flight. A passenger plane on approach to new york flies right through a storm and is rocked and hit by lightning. We have exclusive pictures of describe the close call. It was bad. I thought we got hit by a missile. Eyewitness News Reporter n. J. Burkett is at Kennedy Airport where the plane finally landed. 55 passengers, four crew members, all with the same reaction. Omg. Yes, their jet was on final approach to laguardia, when it was struck by lightning and forced to make an Emergency Landing here. I never had this kind of experience. Its the first time for me. Reporter passengers were still shaking long after flight 4233 was safely on the ground at jfk. With the storm clouds still menacing in the distance. Pretty terrifying, not going to lie. Reporter the call sign brickyard 3233 was in route taking them in to a storm. Reporter but moments later out of nowhere. Reporter passengers saw something they may never forget. Wow, never exp
Breaking news on manhattans east side. A pane of glass fell from a hotel hitting a person on the sidewalk. Valerie castro has more. Reporter maurice, we are here on 51st just east of lexington and the sidewalk below from where that glass fell is actually still closed right now. Its across the street. You can see where that section of glass fell from, its about 25 to 30 feet off the ground. Within the last hour, a worker was sweeping up the broken glass from the sidewalk. We know one person was hurt as they walked by and the glass fell. This happened around 3 30 this afternoon. Witnesses say the person was transported to the hospital with a cut on his face. They say it was a slash across the nose. They were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The Fire Department responded and called for the department of buildings to investigate exactly how that piece of glass worked its way loose. Back out here live, you can see the glass is not part of a functioning window. Again, one person wa
Today, a nice recovery after this chilly start. Full day of sunshine anticipated. Low 50s at noon. Well check out the sevenday forecast in a little bit. Shes got her eye on the wednesday morning commute. How is it looking . On the gowanus, a closure around ft. Hamilton parkway. You will be diverted around exit 18 and then try to get around this accident. Woodbridge, new jersey, dealing with an earlier accident. Cleaning up the crash from a downed pole and wires. King georges post road. The cross bronx, roadwork between the sheraton expressway to third avenue. You can see the traffic coming towards us is not going anywhere fast. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Emily, thanks very much. People in brooklyn are wait to go see whats left after this raging fire that ripped through five buildings that erupted last night and burned into this morning. This is the scene on dekalb avenue in bushwick. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is there. Kat . Michael, its heartbreaking to hear from peo
Some warmer weather is also on the way over the next few days. Well look at the seven hp day forecast in a few. Lauren scala is here with a look at your commute now. Hey, raphael. Good morning everyone. On the subways, delays on downtown 2 trains. We have fastrack maintenance on the 2 also. No 2 trains wean 3rd avenue and 149th and 96th street. In the meantime, more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Thanks, lauren. In less than two hours, verizon workers are planning to walk off the job. The unions and erizon have not agreed on a new contract. Leaving your service hanging in the balance. Tracie strahan is live with the backup plans being made. Tracie. Reporter no activity out here so far. Olthat could certainly change. The phrase echoed by thousands of verizon workers. I am ready to strike fl theyve been without a contract since august. After months of unsuc ssful off the job in the next 90 minutes. The two unions representing nearly 40,000 workers are accusing verizon of corpor
Ted lieu who is calling for a Justice Department probe of exxon as well as 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben who just got arrested for temporarily closing a local exxon gas station in a oneman protest, holding a sign reading, this pump temporarily closed because exxonmobil lied about climate. And remember this stunning announcement . So, mr. Zuckerberg, what role are you playing in all of this . Will the be a check offered at some point . Yeah, i have committed to starting the start of Education Foundation. The first project will be 100 million challenge grant. 100 million . Amy where has all the money gone . Five years ago, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated 100 million to fix the schools of newark, new jersey. Tens of millions have been spent on hiring outside consultants and expanding Charter Schools, but what about the children in one of americas poorest cities . We will speak to Dale Russakoff author of, the prize whos in charge of americas schools . All that and more, coming