Live on fifth avenue in union square, meg baker, cbs 2news. Meg, thank you. In the bronx, six firefighters hurt while fighting a fire in the inwell section. The fire started around 8 30 this morning. Chopper 2 over the scene, seeing flames and thick gray smoke. It took 145 firefighters to bring this one under control. The six hurt had minor injuries. Well, stocks are in the middle of a rally today after yesterdays sharp drop. Right now, the dow looks good, up over 300 right now, in positive territory. But many investors are still concerned. Cbs 2 goes outside the Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan with more. Janelle . Reporter when you talk with people with 401 k s, especially those close to retirement, rattled by the selloff. We spoke with a number of traders on their way into the Stock Exchange this morning. A the lot of them said they were confident the market would bounce back and they are pleased an encouraged by what they have seen so far. Its coming back today. Reporter some inve
The nasdaq also closed in the red down 19. The s p lost 25. Todays losses may not seem that bad on their own. But they do come on the heels of that 588point drop for the dow yesterday and, um, lets see here, they mark a lot of 1700 points in the last four trading days. Experts say for the near future, expect volatility. People need to bear in mind that were entering a pretty volatile seasonal period for the markets, september october. The current turmoil can be traced to china where the economy is slowing and the government devalued its currency. Subway train operators are worried about their safety. Cbs 2s dick brennan talked to at 5 00. I was dazed for a second. Im like wow, he just hit me. Reporter this train operator never saw it coming. Saturday night in the essex street station a passenger pushed in his cab door on his j train and then unloaded on him. They opened the door. Face. Anything. Do . He punched me. Three passengers tried to also. Reporter it was one of three incidents
Helicopters and dive teams converge on the Sandy Hook Channel after reports of a sinking fishing boat. Good evening. Im kristine johnson. And im maurice debois. The coast guard with the new Jersey State Police and nypd and fdny searched the sandy hook peninsula for 2 hours. Dave carlin with the latest on the story. Reporter maurice and kristine, the exact location of the fishing vessel remains a mystery despite the long hours of searching with the highest tech equipment. Divers went into the channel as the rescue teams searched from above. The search began at 4 30, p. M. A the sighting of a sinking shrimp. The captain of another boat said he clearly saw the vessel going under. Theres been a search underway. All are searching. Reporter rescuers arrived only to find small clues on the surface. A life ring, and this cooler. Before sunset, we saw an oil slick that could have been from a boat in distress. Divers finished for the night, and then the search relied on side scan sonar. Ryan and
A little more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. For early august this is pretty refreshing. 50s in some of the distant places. Our visibility down to close to [ inaudible ] some locally patchy dense fog. So north and west of the city mainly that should be burning satellite radar showing nothing much across the area. A lot of High Pressure in control which means nice weather through today, tomorrow, and even in to friday. 67 in the park. 59 at morristown. Down to 57 at monticello. By noon time, 77. 78 by 4 00 in the afternoon. I think somewhere in the early part of the afternoon we hit the 80degree mark back down to 75 by 7 p. M. Well talk the accuweather 7day forecast. Eventually we do heat things up right now were going to send it over to Heather Orourke. Looks like mass transit is doing okay. New Jersey Transit just finding l trains, m trains. You do have that track work. Thats going to be in place till 5 a. M. The ramp to the major degan, theres this overturned vehicle t
This picture, by the way. That lirr online performance. It is a real pain in the neck. It went down south and hit that nasty storm a couple of weeks ago. They ran into trouble again. More rough waters. Again. Oh, my goodness, what is going on with that ship. Anthem of the seas on a bit of a slump lately. Everyone talking about that the great big tv show last night. We have the hottest show in town. The people in that, very, very we are basically seven or eight rows back. This young man, anthony ray most, from our area, has made it big time. He plays king. He was really so funny. Where is the star of the show . This guy made the whole show happen. He wrote it. There was some controversy little bit. We apologize to everyone that i am sorry. I did not know we were offending you. You have the business in the new york post. Quite frankly, it you heard our feelings. Now that ive seen your show, i never want to see you hurt. Saturday. [laughter] totally brilliant diet. Totally brilliant cast.