See the newborn in the onesie, so its kind of hard. Police tell me the babys mother 21yearold rasheeda center. The dad and four other family members were in the Apartment Building around 4 this morning. The 102nd precinct. Officers manned the door outside this Apartment Building, another remainder of what happened. The sentiment in this neighborhood, people are in disbelief. Theyre even disgusted. Neighbors wonder how with six people inside this home no one could have stopped what happened. Were live in queens, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. We have new information on a wrongway crash on the sawmill parkway. One of the drivers have been charged with dwi. Police say the 22yearold woman was drunk when she drove her car head on into traffic hitting another vehicle in chappaqua. The driver of that other vehicle is in critical condition. At this hour. The unidentified woman who was charged was not seriously hurt. The accident closed the lanes near grant avenue for several hours. New i
The family, the mother and the two children, they are still in the hospital, two firefighters were also injured, rescuing that family. One was cut on the wrist, the other one had problems with his knee after that rescue. Of course at this point still no cause on how this fire started. For now we are live, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Police in queens are questioning a mother after her infant son was apparently thrown out of a fourth floor window. The baby was found in the concrete courtyard of an Apartment Building in richmond hill. The child, father, two other adults and two children were in the apartment at the time. Sources say they initially denied the baby even lived there. The 21yearold mother was taken to the hospital for observation. A rude wakeup call for some drivers in new jersey. Nearly two dozen people came outside only to discover their tires slashed in the middle of the night. Now police want to track down who was behind the frustrating and costly crime. It all
Plus, big news from Kensington Palace this morning. Prince william and kate are expecting their third child. Why this means we wont be seeing as much of the duchess in the months ahead. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Any threat to the United States or our allies will be met with a massive military response, both effective and overwhelming. Certain warnings after north Koreas Nuclear test. The north claimed this he tested a Hydrogen Bomb. People need to cut off north korea economically. This is unacceptable. Texans continue picking up the pieces after Hurricane Harvey. Mandatory evacuation orders are still under way in houston. This event is one we have to all sit down and hit the reset button on and figure out how we collectively improve. Hurricane irma is heading into the northern caribbean. Possibility of a florida landfall or carolina landfall. The california governor declaring a state of emergency as crews battle the largest fire e
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Talk about the drivers of this. Who are the two senators, what are they interested in. The republican senators working on this plan are built cassidy and lindsey graham. Lindsey graham and him started working on this plan earlier this summer. Looking they were working to overhaul Affordable Care act in july and started coming up with this pla plan. They officially rolled out there updated legislation last week. This girl would take the funding to help people afford insurance and outofpocket payments and medicaidge expansion, put it all into a general fund. Thats what were looking at. Talk a little bit about why they think the blockwa grant system is the way to go. You give the state money. This would be a really big change in terms of how healthcare is funded, going from federal government, state government, the senators are saying federalism is the way to go, give people the chance to really decide whats going on in healthcare or that sort of how theyre looking at the. You talk about