That snow will be winding down late morning in to the midday. Theyre looking at basically a trace to maybe an inch or two, best chance for higher accumulations, totals will be south and east of new york city. Monmouth, middlesex, and ocean counties. A light at the end of the tunnel, a big time spring warmth coming up next week. Pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears when a man with a gun choked and robbed a 92yearold woman. When a Good Samaritan stepped in to help, he robbed that person too. N. J. Burkett live from park slope, brooklyn with more on a heartless mugger. Heartless is the word. And tonight that suspect is believed to be the same man who attacked and robbed the 71yearold woman here in brooklyn three weeks ago. That robbery, like this latest one, happened in the middle of the afternoon. Of course im afraid. Is 92 years old and shes terrified tonight. Detectives say she was walking home from her local library in the middle of the day and had no idea she was being followed by a 250
He died at the hands of the little boy who he raped. Reporter fredricks niece i can only image and dream of what kind of man he would be if he didnt endure this horrific abuse. Reporter prosecution and defense both acknowledging the damage done to the child which boiled over decades later after the jersey sandusky child abuse story broke. This was a vulnerable human being. He was a walking tragedy. Reporter his broke into his home and stabbed him more than 30 times. Since then, numerous other men have come forward alleging they were abused too. He faced up to 10 years in prison but for a judge weighed he said, everything. Certainly the sentence that way honor the trauma that the 8 yearold young boy suffered. Reporter now because he has already served 3. 5 year, he will likely only have to serve a year and a half or less. And he says he desperately wants therapy which he is not getting in prison right now. At 5 00, we talk to his mother and his sister about him being one step closer to
Jonathan, we just saw 15 cases so far. Are there more to come . Investigations are continuing. There has been a lot of talk about the three men in a room culture in albany and two of those leaders, silver and now skelos, both will soon be in prison. Skelos and silver convicted within less than a months time. And as for the third man, governor cuomo, were told the feds have nothing to suggest any wrongdoing by the governor. The federal criminal focus remains on legislative abuses. Federal and state investigators are looking into ongoing possible corruption by several other legislators and there is a separate investigation into some Major Development contracts in the buffalo, new york area. But the silver and skelos cases are the biggest ones that were on the radar and these convictions likely will have a bit of a chilling affect. Well see how long it might last and whether any real reforms get pushed through. Powerful men in albany convicted of corruption. And the governor said more mus
Right now emily west is here with a look at your commute. I have a trouble spot too. New jersey, garden state parkway southbound just before exit 98, that is route 138, thats in the left lane. Easy. Visibility is low this morning. Letsake a live look at the gowanus. That ride is moving along okay. Not bad there. Heading up to the brooklyn bridge, you should be okay. More weather and tiaffic coming up on the 4s. Emily, thank you. We want to get to that breaking news in the bronx. These were the flames that were erupting from a f midnight. It quickly spread to several homes. It happened in the tremont section of the bronx. The scene itself is on valentine avenue. Its very active. Today in new yorks Lori Bordonaro is there. Those are just amazing pictures shaloing t w big this fire was at one point. Reporter good morning, michael. Were just waiting for an update from the fire chief. Hes expected to speak in just a i can tell you now that the flames are out. You can see firefighters still
Ened. Well oem is telling me hopefully monday morning. Its caused me headache for drghivers and some that live here here. For some they cant go home until then. People rolled suitcases up 64 street away from their home. Away from what is now a nstruction zone. We saw a couple of bricks fall yesterday, two or three. But that got them thinking reporter three days of hundreds of icks came raining down on t this eastside street, building officials discoffered that more bricks were in danger of falling. Its where this man is the super. Everybody is out. 16 people. We saw the windows being boarded up and we saw a couple of people packing up to leave. Reporter the red cross is here to help those who had nowhere to go. So what work needs to be done . Officials describe a big job and not an easy one. Part that we think may have to collapse and then theyll do a hand demo of all of those bricks. Sohats a timeconsuming labor intensive issue that we have to al with. Reporter in the meantime, street