Adding on a couple of degrees today. Not too breezy. A nice spring feel out there. Just a white layer as you head out the door. Well look at the sevenday forecast in a few. Lauren scala has a look at thursday. Its thursday. Friday eve. I like to call it. The belt parkway, we have a disabled vehicle westbound by erskine street in the right lane. Heading over to new jersey, an accident on truck routes 1 and 9 southbound by dore eem us avenue. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Thanks, lauren. 4 31 right now. Police are questioning a mother in the bronx after her two young girls die in a fire. This happened in the butler houses. Tracie strahan is in the morrisania section with how it all happened. Reporter such a tough story that mother has been questioned here at the 42nd precinct house behind me. The two little girls dead just hours ago from that fire that was started when they were left home alone. Smoke was billowing from that apartment on webster avenue around 6 30 last night.
Were going to start with the plane crash on long island. It is the third one in Suffolk County in as many months. It is amazing that the two men on board survived this and nobody on the ground was hurt. The piper had just taken off from the Bay Port Aerodrome when it went down on the street. Reporter the wreckage is still there on that residential street behind my. Thats third avenue. You can see the firefighters are still on scene tonight, combing over what is left over. And yes, miraculous is exactly what the Police Commissioner called it tonight. Part of the reason the men were rescued so quickly, local emts live in the neighborhood and rushed out of their homes to pull those men from the plane. The mangled plane lies flipped upside down, an ash and mess inside this residential block tonight. It is the crash sceneareft behind after investigators say fell from the sky this evening. I was looking out the win die, he stalled and he came down. The pole twisted around, landed and went on
South. Hail the size of tennis balls. The potential for stronger storms today. Here in the northeast, the longawaited spring weather may finally be on the way. And augusta implosion. Oh, my goodness. This is unbelievable. Defending champ Jordan Spieth squanders a fiveshot lead to lose the masters in one of the most epic meltdowns in history. Today, monday, april 11th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Willie is in for matt. Watching that live yesterday, i think i chewed off half of my hand. It was hard to watch. Matt is probably out today recovering from watching that. Jordan spieth, arguably one of the best players in the world. The biggest meltdown on one of the biggest stages in the world. Hes a young player and will be back and recover from this. Well walk through exactly what happened. He had a great tournament until the back nine
At all. Again, in the process of that, well see some delays there probably for the next 15 minutes or so. No openings on the palmyra rah. The walts okay and the bens okay. The construction work out in philly has just clear. Kelly drive between Art Museum Circle and suddenly drive had flaggers out there directing traffic around the milling work they were doing on the roads. Thats nice and clear. Theyll be good to go. Heres route 205. You can see all lanes moving along. Southbound drive time, 42 on the freeway. Its only a 23minute trip. No increase there. Speeds way into the 60s. Right now in philadelphias Port Richmond Neighborhood Police are trying to find the person responsible for the deadly hitandrun. Katy zachry is outside. Some key discoveries should be made within the next hour. Tell us about that. Thats right, tracy. I just spoke with police. They say sometime after 6 00 a. M. Police planned to search the suspects vehicle. They do have it in their possession and they also hope t
And, saved by fitbit. A popular gadget, a fitness tracker. How it helped emergency room doctors save one mans life. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. And we begin with that breaking news, a murder charge in the shooting death of a football star. Will smith, shot and killed, and his wife shot as well. Tonight, the man that rearended smiths car is facing a murder charge. Heres eva pilgrim. With details and the emotional reaction. Reporter tonight, a football star killed, leaving a city and fans across the country in shock. Former new orleans saint defensive end will smith, shot and killed over what appears to be a case of road rage. Smiths wifes crying out as paramedics carried her away, shot in the leg. Former teammate pierre thomas, described as a witness by police, seen clearly upset leaving the scene. The shooters on the scene. We have one gun recovered on scene. Reporter tonight, Cardell Hayes charged with Second Degree murder. Police say his hummer