Accused of Sexual Assault but never convicted. Nick giovanni has the story. Reporter he was one of people magazines most eligible bachelors. Former prosecutor gary zerola obscured his face from the camera as he was arraigned on alltoofamiliar charges of rape. The former District Attorney turned criminal defense attorney faced assault charges. Eight years ag arrested on multiple charges but was acquitted. Today, he was charged with two counts of rape on november 10. The accuser was not identified but is said to be someone that zerola knows. The other big story, planes, trains, automobiles, no matter how you are traveling, things are packed. This is a nice view. Expect the worst between 3 00 and 6 00. So hey, what you are looking at now may be as bad as it gets. At 6 02, perfect. [laughter] this is a look at the traffic maps. You can see a pretty amount of red out there, but for most of the traffic cameras, not as bad as yesterday. It was a very busy day at logan airport. Mass dot estima
And a racist scandal. The chief is facing scrutiny of his own. Congressman is receiving a statement defending downing and hes live at the Oakland Police Department Headquarters to explain. Will. Reporter mark, she actually sent out that statement at 1 this morning so this was obviously very heavy for her that she felt compelled enough to issue a statement in the overnight hours. Lets show you the picture of the man who we are talking about. Assistant acting chief, name is david downy, more than a year ago, in a meeting with high ranking officials, he used the words Water Cannons and protest torrs. It came up on the issue with how they should handle them. A statement by liby shaft a few hours ago. Several participants expressed the concern of gas which is a less lethal Law Enforcement tool. Deputy chief shared his concern that if a tool such as pepper stray was taken away, the department could be left with methods that no modern Day Department would consider and reference use of such an
Fast and furious. This is video sent to us by a viewer. Its video of a parking lot in plains bureau new jersey. Matthew gavon says he cant leave the station because of the flash flooding, heavy downpours causing problem. 22,000 customers are without problem in Morris County new jersey and 1,000 customers have no power in somerset county. Lets get an update from meteorologist jeff smith. O particular is the western part of Middlesex County and new jersey, a tremendous amount of rain. We have a flash flood until 8 30 this evening. Floods cover new jersey and flood advisories along the i80 corridor. Theres another batch of rain setting up there. The heaviest rain is south and west the same area. Its showing a movementment its a thunderstorm that stalled over meddle section area. It had one to 2 inches of rain. Flash flooding in plains bureau and flooding in the old bridge area. A report of 4. 8 inches of rain in plains bureau. Could be approached a half foot of rain in cording to our rada
Back here this wednesday night. Now new yorks number one news. 16 people are dead after a hot air balloon crashes and catches fire. New details from the scene as the investigation gets underway. First, torrential downpours in new jersey turns streets into rivers and scrambling for safety. Good evening. The rain was widespread today. New jersey was hit the hardest. We will have more in just a moment. First the showers continuing at this hour and we might get more tomorrow. Meteorologist jeff smith has been tracking it all evening. New information hot off the presses here from the National Weather service. Flood warning now for southeastern Hunterdon County in new jersey. We are talking about the of Middlesex County, southern parts of somerset and mercer counties through 2 15 in the morning. Some of the rivers in those areas include the millstone river and Lawrence Brook rising and probably going above flood stage as we head through the night. Also, a flood advisory in effect for much of
You can see that. Farther to the west there are thunderstorms that are trying to develop by the great lakes and later this afternoon theres a possibility it makes it to us. 76 in philadelphia. 76 in millville. 74 in cape may. Upper 60s in allentown and 73 in trenton. Dewpoints in the north its not too bad. Allentown, 63. Trenton a little bit more humid. All the places you see the dewpoints in the 70s including philadelphia thats along the lines what we consider oppressive humidity similar to what we had for a good portion of last week. Once the sun gets ablazing it will feel humid today. 87 by 10 00 a. M. Noon, 92. It will be hot 95. Heat index upper 90s and could hit 100. Theres a chance of thunderstorms out in places like allentown and reading in particular. Karen chaka fattah storm karen, if a storm comes toward philadelphia you want to take cover. Reporter all right, dave, lets talk about the regional rails. We have five new trains septa is leasing, warminster line media elwyn line