Job interview. My mother called me and she said the house is on fire, me and the kids are outside, pjs and no shoes, its gone. Thats all she kept telling me, its gone. The issue here is these buildings are built closely together. Once again gets going its hot and they spread quickly. Theyre older wood frame structures that spread quickly. Reporter right now at this point they are still as i said trying to put out some hot spots. While this fire was going on a few blocks away two abandon homes went up in flames. We spoke to the fire chief about having to fight all those fires. More on that coming up at 5 00. Toni yates, channel 7, Eyewitness News. Thank you. We are going to turn to the disturbing charges against jared fogle. The pitchman for subway will plead guilty to charges of having sex with minors and child pornography. Hes best known for dropping 200 pounds on subway. He will spend 12 to 5. 5 years behind bars. Darla miles is live. Darla. Reporter thats right. Fogle is accused of
The flames and are putting out hot spots. Toni yates joins us with the developing details. Toni . Reporter sade, diana, one woman we saw was crying her eyes out as she was talking on the phone to someone about the fire that either heavily damaged her apartment or completely destroyed it. It did not take long for the fire that started in one house to spread causing huge damage. We got an initial call at 12 505, record structure 12 55 for a structure. We have a total of five structures burning from 175 to 179. Reporter five homes igniting, 31 people displaced. She lives in the house where the fire started. She wasnt home but she got a frantic call from her mother. The house is on fire. Me and the kids are outside, p. J. s, no shoes. Its gone. She kept telling me its gone. I was coming home and i saw the smoke and everything. It was like is it my house. I see that it was four houses that caught on fire. Reporter firefighters are looking into the cause including talk at the scene that a ch
Where you get the significant flooding over union county. High resolution futurecast shows encouraging signs. As we lose the daytime heating, we lose a lot of the fuel in the atmosphere for the storms and i think everything will weaken as we approach sunset. The problem is as we head to later in the week, especially friday, there could be a much more widespread potential downpour and flooding situation in the tristate area. We will talk about that in the full forecast coming up. See you then. We will turn to the folks trying to clean up from the storms. Nina pineda is in scotch plains. She continues our coverage. Reporter liz, we are talking flooded basements, ruined cars. I will show you how the force of this water behaved here on route 22 eastbound. Look at that. That is the pavement just buck ltd under the force of this day buckled under the force of this deluge. They are talking 3 to 4 inches they thought an hour. It came down the hill and actually up the highway and took the stree
Outside the plaza hotel in midtown with new information. Dave. Reporter kristine and dick, this is a man with enough wealth and influence to stay at the plaza where he committed crimes. Jared fogle left the indianapolis courthouse wearing a monitoring bracelet and facing five to 12 years in prison. His plea deal is on charges he paid for sex with minors and received child pornography. His defense attorney spoke to reporters. Jared fogle expects to go to prison. He will do his time. Reporter the plea agreement outlines his trips to new york city to engage in commercial sex with minors under 18. Victims include a 17yearold girl who prosecutors say joined him at the Manhattan Plaza hotel in november 2012. The documents state the girl was paid for sex and later fogle offered her extra money to provide him with access to minors as young as 14. Several months later prosecutors say he again paid the same girl for sex acts this time at the ritzcarlton hotel. This is about using wealth, status
Right now, route 22 is closed both directions. Tracee carrasco just arrived on the scene and joins us live. Reporter we did just arrive here and route 22 behind me is shut down in both directions. Take a look. You can see that silver car down the way submerged until the water and just a little ways past that other cars trapped in the water here. You can see several inches here about 3 to 4 inches of rain fell around 2 00 that storm cell moving in through union county. As you said, several businesses people and their homes were flooded throughout the county here. Now, we do have gene marino from cranford, new jersey passing through the area. What was it like driving through . You could hardly see in front of you it was coming down so hard. One of those typical summer thunderstorms. As we came down route 22, more and more flooding, an area prone to it coming down from the mountains. And we were going to pull off at this last exit to go down the local roads because flooding is even just a