Constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and its the senates constitutional right to act as a check on a president , and withhold its consent. Merrick garland is best known for coordinating the response in the prosecution of Timothy Mcveigh in the Oklahoma City bombing. Its going to be interesting to see had you republicans respond to this choice. They are vowing to fight they will not even take up this nomination of garland, during this, an election year. Stay tuned. More breaking news. Sources are telling Eyewitness News that there have been indictments in a deadly limo crash last year on long island. The limo driver along with the alleged drunk driver who hit n. J. Burkett broke this story and reporter outside the Suffolk County d. A. s office. A News Conference is expected to begin at 12 45 this afternoon. But yes, the chauffeur in that horrific limo case has been indicted. The charges against both men could not immediately be confirmed, because the indictments hav
Breaking news. A raging fire in a threestory building. That fire now at three alarms, the flames lighting up the sky. This is in bushwick, brooklyn. You can see it on dekalb avenue. Josh einiger just arrived on the scene. He has the breaking details. Breaking right now, its now up to four alarms here on dekalb avenue between knickerbocker and wilson. The wind is a huge factor here. Its been windy all day. This of course is fueling or helping this fire spread from townhouse to townhouse here on dekalb avenue. You see a flame there in the were basically up wind but if we widen out, look to the left a little bit down the block, you can see how people have been evacuated from this block and being kept off of this seed as the Fire Department struggles to get ahead of happening here on this block. As we come back in and you can see these firefighters heading now in to the scene here, this fire still out of control right here on dekalb avenue. Weve heard reports of at least one and possibly a
For snow to stick. If we get more snow at night, then we raise totals. We get our cold s night tonight since early march 20s and 30s. Coldest night tonight since early march 20s and 30s. The wet snow will arrive sometime tomorrow morning. The wet snow will be steadier in the afternoon, wet roads during the day, may be slippery in the evening hours, 1 to 3 inches late saturday night into early sunday morning. The storm is taking a while to strengthen onshore. Maybe it catches parts of our Eastern Suburbs with higher totals. Well have the show band map and more in a few minutes. Now to that alleged foster home of horrors on long island, a foster dad now charged with sexually abusing boys who lived there accused of victimizing been a Foster Parent since 1996, up to 140 boys and tonight prosecutors want to know if more boys have been abused. Eyewitness News Reporter stacey sager is in the Suffolk County hamlet of ridge tonight. Reporter accusations lingered here for years and years, yet th
The driver was issued a summons for failure to yield to pedestrians. The fourth person got knocked down and jumped back up on his feet. He said he didnt even go to the hospital. Coming up at 6 00, hell tell you what he says saved his life. Cefaan kim, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Now breaking news in new jersey where a Police Cruiser has crashed in to a car during a motorcycle chase that spanned three towns. Eyewitness News Reporter carolina leid is live in hackensack with more. This is a very serious accident. Let me give you a live look of what were seeing here in hackensack. That Police Vehicle was involved in an accident with a civilian vehicle. That silver mazda. As you can see police have this whole area surrounded. Theyve shut down the road. Lets start from the beginning. Paramus police were in pursuit, in a low speed pursuit of a motorcyclist. Say they lost that motorcycle. From there, Hackensack Police picked up on a low speed pursuit with that same motorcycle. It was here on su
System from New York Stock Exchange to some of the worlds most powerful financial institutions. Many of them here in new york. One hacker was also able to take control of the bowman dam in rye brook new york. Although they were unable to open its doors because the dam was offline for maintenance. Although know actual harm resulted from that infiltration, the potential havoc that such a hack of american infrastructure could wreak is scary to think about. It happened in an 18 month period between 2011 and 2013. When the sites crashed, untold number of Bank Customers were unable to access their accounts. Hundred of thousands of americans were unable to access Bank Accounts online. The men have not been arrested, prosecutors say the case demonstrates the global reach of the hackers as well as the global reach of u. S. Law enforcement. No matter where they are, we will try to reach them. Work to hide their identity and their trade craft, we will find ways to pierce that shield and identify