They tried to scam the federal Flood Insurance program. Greg cergol has the details. Reporter behind me is a sandy damaged home that has yet to be rebuilt. Its obvious that the scars from this storm remain raw for some almost four years later, and one long beach resident told me today what this Engineering Firm and its former employee are accused of doing really adds insult to injury to every sandy victim. Today on charges that he and his former employer highrise engineering ripped off sandy victims. They altered engineering reports that were done on sandy damaged homes, and those altered documents resulted in smaller payouts from the national Flood Insurance program. Now the attorney general doesnt say how many sandy victims were entered not guilty pleas to that 50count indictment. Sandy victims say all of this caused unnecessary financial hardships and may have prevented some families from actually rebuilding their homes. When we were in the worst of trouble, the Insurance Companies
Reporter it is still quite an active scene here on 66th street. The resident is down the street talking to police and to some of her neighbors right now. She is fine. That suspect is expected to be okay. She was shot in the groin area and taken to elm hurst hospital. The 38yearold suspect has an extensive burglary record. News 4 new york. Were going to turn now to our weather. The flooding still causing problems for people in parts of new jersey. Roadways still washed out and it appears were not out of the woods just yet. Possibly more flash flooding tonight. Janice huff is here. Shes got more on exactly what we can expect. We still have that same air mass with the tropical downpours from the weekend. We can still see the same possibilities in terms of flash flooding. Tonight through or after rockland counties and the Hudson Valley through northern new jersey into northeastern pennsylvania, Central New Jersey counties as well all the way down to monmouth the flash flooding potential wi
The latest efforts to contain the outbreak. Its frightening. Now its homegrown not just in the caribbean and mexico. Im talking about miami. They have discovered ten more people who have been infected by local mosquitos with the zika virus. Florida governor rick scott says the new zika cases brings the total in the state to 14. The new cases are clustered in the Sam Community just outside of downtown miami. Weve tested 2300 individuals around the state and that one Geographic Area we have tested about 200 individuals. Thats how we found the additional cases. Reporter the 10 new cases are homegrown. That means people were infected by mosquitos in miami. At the request of the governor, the cdc is sending an Emergency Response team to florida. A warning to pregnant women. Avoid travel to this area and pregnant women who live or work in this area and their partners to make every effort to avoid mosquito bites and to prevent sexual transmission of zika. Reporter the cdc is advising women wh
A policeinvolved shooting in queens. A burglary suspect with a long wrap sheet is shot after a long confrontation a Police Officer. This is the wild scene that unfolded this afternoon in maspeth, queens. Theom intruder on the nanny cam while she was at work. Lidia curanaj is live now. Lidia . Reporter that is the best word to describe how this scene was this of why noon. There were dozens of police cars, i would say maybe even unhundreds of Police Officers . What a difference a few hours make. Now we have yellow crime scene tape and a Police Officer and a suspect in video, search for a barring ry inside around her home. A gunshot and screams echo throughout the maspeth, queens, neighborhood as the suspect runs out of the front door. After gaining entry to the apartment, one officer encountered a male suspect in the rear room. A struggle ensued, which one shot was discarded or discharmed by the officers or the service weapon. This is a close quarters. Reporter police say she was at work
Everybody waiting to see what happens. 8 30 a. M. S p futures down by less than a point. The nasdaq up by 1. 5. Yesterday you saw the nasdaq close down by basically it was flat. It was down 0. 9 points or something. It was flat. Dow and nasdaq did manage to eke out gains. Check out what happens overnight in asia. The nikkei looks like it was flat lining as well. Up 3. 5 . Shanghai comp and hang sang both a little bit higher. In europe, youll see thing are relatively positive if evfor th major averaging at least. Dax up slightly. And lets take a look at crude oil. This was the wbig story yesterday. Major pull back for crude oil prices. We have had people who have told us this week that crude was going to come down because of seasonality issues. We did see numbers this week. That has put pressure on wti. Now to the weather. Hermine has downgraded to a Tropical Storm, but not before becoming the first hurricane to make land fall in florida since 2005. The storm brought 80mileperhour winds