With 23 fake credit cards in their car. After watching this video lawmakers called for the doubling of penalties for hit andrun fatal crashes. There was alcohol involved and they know that they want to escape and allow that time to wear off. Reporter the Suffolk County executive calls this a textbook case that cries out for change. Even four hours after sharpe allegedly fled Officials Say they were still able to calculate his blood alcohol level at the time of the crash at. 12. Thats well above the legal limit. Reporting live from the Suffolk County district attorneys office, in hauppauge, long island, carolyn gusoff, cbs 2 news. So disturbing. Thank you, carolyn. A big heist in Nassau County. Five suspects broke through a wall and vault to snatch 1. 8 million. But an eagle eyed officer foiled the getaway. Dave carlin reports from hicksville. Reporter three men with flashlights seen in this Surveillance Video in the parking lot for Loomis Armored incorporated in hicksville are leaving
Happened over the last several months and to a few months ago to last month to last week, to yesterday, this is indeed a pandemic in process. Reporter the cdc says the infections occurred at two separate workplaces in early july. Governor rick scott says that doctors offices, Visitors Centers and different local department of Health Offices will be receiving zika prevention kits for di good job dealing with it. But Congress Needs to approve more funding. Thank you. These cases of zika raising serious questions, new Health Questions around the country. Dr. Max gomez joins to us answer questions. So a lot of mosquitos out there. How do people know whether or not they have even been infected . Most people have been bitten and infected, and they wont mild symptoms usually. The most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint, muscle pain, pink eye, and a headache. These symptoms usually last a few days to a week. Now, infected people are rarely sick enough to go the to hospital and almost never
For everyone through the nighttime hours. So no changes over the next five days. Its going to be hot and humid. Theres that storm chance every day the next five days. More coming up. Despite the humidity, plenty of people braved this blistering heat today. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch live on the Upper West Side with more on how its going. Vanessa . Reporter well, dana, we are right now feeling el storms so nearby. You heard lonnie talk about rumbles of thunder. Well, look up. We have a storm cloud due site of us so we are not getting rained on but we are certainly hearing the thunder out here. Not a lot of sunshine at this point in time but that was not the case earlier today. The sun blared and burned up the blacktop. Heat index soared above 100. New yorkers we spoke to didnt excessive heat offensively hot. It offends my sensibilities that it is this hot it feels very muggy. Its very humid. Uncomfortable too hot for summer reporter why . Tell me why. Because in the wintertime, its freezing
If we track the leading edge of this storm, it is being pushed off to the east sort of northeast and again, this is just one. Another one to the north, couple others popping up, as well. But by 6 30 to edison. It could be in new york city by 7 30. Look at the feelslike temperatures. It feels like 100 in new york city. Feels like 104 in white plains. 75 feelslike temperature in monticello h air there. Tomorrow no changes. 94 feels like 110. So excessive heat warnings for everybody right through the entire weekend. Ill talk about when this could break later. But right now its all yours. So much going on. Thank you, lonnie, for those explanations. Electric power is a concern when the temperatures get this high. Governor cuomo is directing state agencies to conserve energy. He is also directing state parks to extend the hours at swimming facilities. And cooling centers from new york city to long island and Bergen County are open. Careful. Cbs 2s Christine Sloan live in far rockaway, queens
Across the tristate area. Im glad its over. Reporter well, she is glad its over but we know theres still much cleanup to be done. Now, pseg long island tells us at the height of the storm, more than 85,000 customers were without power as of last check just over 7,000 remaining without power this evening. And those power problems today did result in some School Closings nearby. Were live from great neck, long island, with the mobile weather lab, vanessa murdoch, cbs 2 news. The storm knocked down trees all over new jersey, as well. Cleanup began this morning in essex fells. Trees took down power lines overnight and large branches blocked some roads and in new milford more trouble when a giant tree snapped and crashed on a deck and part of a home. The homeowner says it sounded like the sky was falling. In queens the storm ripped off chunks of a building that crashed into the street and on parked cars below. The debris came from the verizon building on Broadway Police say 6 cars were dama