Face that she was conscious and breathing. All of this happened just beyond the bridge line behind me at a place where birds, hang gliders, paragliders all fly free. Reporter it should have been a perfect day to take flight at the county park. Blue skies, light wind. But where the wind sock marks that 600foot launch that something went wrong for a 27 yearold paraglider shortly after she launched. For whatever reason think hard and right and slam back to the middle side. Reporter about 100 feet in the air when she hit trouble. The winds would switch and Mother Nature threw that curve ball. Reporter robert booth says he saw the tail end of the accident, which he called a fluke. The paraglider basically popped up in to the sky so the pilot was launched prematurely and not prepared for be the situation. He slammed just above the ridge. The emergency crews from the county fire and parks were all responding. A helicopter ready to hoist the victim if needed, but rescuers were able to hike her
This. But first, with some background, heres Eyewitness News reporter rob nelson. Its a move that would impact about 400,000 residents in about 180,000 apartments throughout new york city a national ban on indoor smoking in Public Housing across the country. If thats what they need to do to keep everybody healthy, from getting cancer and all that other stuff, thats understandable. Federal Officials Say the move would not only cut back on the impact of Secondhand Smoke, but would also lower buildingmaintenance costs and reduce the risk of fires. Still, critics say its just another example of government overreach. Its a benefit in one way. But its an intrusion in your personal life and your privacy. Smoking is already prohibited in the hallways and lobbies of publichousing buildings in the city. But this latest move would be a step further, leaving some to wonder about how to possibly enforce it across the citys more than 300 publichousing complexes. In a statement, the or nycha, said. I
In effect for this afternoon until 6 00 here, morris county, sussex, hunterdon, monmouth, ocean. As you see that fog is just kind of all over the place and reducing visibilities in a lot of spots. The rain im talking about is coming up from the southwest. It will be pushing here. See this big batch to the south. That really gets going this evening through the evening commute. Rainfall amounts so far, theres been a trace in the park, not much. We are going to be looking at record High Temperatures tomorrow, and we possibly could have a record High Temperature on Christmas Day. Well talk about that too in your accuweather forecast coming up in just a moment. Back to you. Thank you. As bill mentioned, the fog is having a real impact on the airports in our area. Eyewitness News Reporter Michelle Charlesworth is at laguardia air and continues our coverage. A lot of folks behind you michelle. Oh, yeah. Thanks liz. Bill was talking about its fog by out here. Theres drizzle. And unfortunately
Weve got a dense fog advisory in effect for the area this morning. We were talking about this yesterday, that it would be quite the foggy morning and weve got it right now. Temperatures are really warm, 55 degrees. We should be at 30. Its 45 kingston, 44 around carmel. 44 bridgeport, 47 islip. All these numbers way warm. Here is the problem. A tenth of a mile visibility at jfk. White Plains Airport 3 10, 8 10 teterboro and 3 10 newburgh, poughkeepsie and zero belmont. Then weve got rain on the way. We have this dense fog advisory until 10 00. Rain is down to our south. That rain gets here around 11 00 today. We have a rainy afternoon with an inch of rain. Weve got a mess on our hands. Heather and i are in big trouble. Lets go over to our mass transit chart, talk about whats going on with your path trains. New Jersey Transit Long Island Railroad, theyre running on close to schedule. Were also going to take a look and see whats happening with your basement Subway Service is running on or
11 . I know of two banks that have a combined Cyber Security of 1. 2 billion. Dhs is about 900,000,000, 75 of what two banks are spending by themselves. Cybercrime costs are nations and have chilly dollars a year. If were successfully prosecuting maybe 1 of cyber criminals. We need to spend more. Two, government needs to act with greater urgency. It took congress two years sorry six years to pass a sharing bill. In 2009 we present to congress with detailed recommendation on Cyber Security. In 2011, the house gop task force embrace the recommendations but four years after the house report, we still have not seen any substantial work on the top recommendation of that report or the executive orders. For example, the gao task report, and and the executive order all call for the creation of a menu of incentives. Yet aside from the informations sharonville, the president has not proposed, congress has not introduced, a single set of strategy bill. Last month it was reported that 12 of 15 sec