Some benefits to all this heat. Nothing like a cool breeze on a hot day, even the seagulls on city island know where to go to get their feathers ruffled. For others, relief is spelled san d, in this case orchard beach, the trick to getting a jump on a 90degree plus day, get there early. We opened the beach this morning reporter first ones . Yeah, we was the first ones here. You get a better spot and look for all the crowds. Reporter in this kind of summer swelter, hitting the market before the sun is too high is also a smart idea, as is eating and drinking to beat the heat. I get lettuce, radish rad dish radish and all that stuff. The heat is not all bad. All that cheap Fresh Produce just one of the pluses of the dog days of summer. We have more time to be outside and to exercise and to socialize with people and that sunlight builds strong bones and also decreases the chances of people who have mood problems during the winter months. Reporter yeah, we know about that seasonal effective
75 canarsie. 75 oakwood, urban areas of new jersey. All those numbers are 10 warmer than normal for this time of the year. We have a humid lunch today. Heather, i will buy you lunch. It will be humid. A humid lunch. There we go. Never heard of it. Hummus. I love that. Lets go to the mass transit map. We have a couple of problems to talk to you about with new Jersey Transit. This was just brought in. We have the Pascack Valley line suspended because of an accident in westwood. Gladstone was suspended between gladstone and summit. Service was restored but you have 30minute delays. They will cross honor tickets as a result of that. 1 train suspended between rector and south ferry because of signal problems. Heading to 22 eastbound, westfield into New Providence, only the shoulder is open because of flooding from the accident. Cross bronx expressway, as you travel westbound into the Alexander Hamilton bridge, that is an accident. Continuing west bound going to the George Washington bridge,
Out what time the driver started driving on the tracks. Police still have not released the name of the victim only saying that he was in his late 80s. Police also say that they will look at Surveillance Video along the tracks trying to figure out if he made a wrong turn this morning and driving down the tracks or sat there for some time. Live in new jersey, kala rama, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, kala. Also new at noon, a woman was killed after being struck by an mta bus in midtown. Police say the 69yearold was crossing 57th street between broadway and 8th avenue when she was hit. Officials say she was not in a crosswalk at the time. The woman died a short time later at new york presbyterian hospital. No word if there were passengers on the bus at the time of the crash. For the first time we are hearing from former president jimmy carter after his cancer diagnosis. The 39th president opening up at a News Conference saying there are small cancer spots on his brain. Marci gonzal
People told us they lost everything, but its miraculous that no one was seriously hurt. More than 200 firefighters battled the blaze. It looked like the fire started in a garage behind one of the houses and spread quickly. We talked with people who were coughing from inhaling smoke, despite what they had gone through, they tell us theyre fortunate they survived. Im going to be okay. The material is nothing. The people they got saved, everybody is out. Reporter a couple of the houses, fire investigators have been able to go in and out of, darlene. Theres a couple here that they cant go into because its jus too dangerous for them. As far as the fire marshal goes, theyre trying to figure out what exactly caused this fire. But it looked like it started in a garage in one of the houses. Happening today, emotional testimony expected at the murder trial of a brooklyn teen charged today in new yorks Tracie Strahan has more. Reporter were expecting to hear from a firefighter and a fire marshal,
Case, which attracted widespread attention, there are no winners. Dave carlin, cbs 2 news. Now to some new information in the belgium terror attacks. Authorities announced this afternoon the suicide bomber on the left of your screen there who died at the Brussels Airport was the suspected bombmaker in the paris attacks turkish investigators meanwhile say they caught the bomber on the right near the Syrian Border last summer but they sent him back to the netherlands with a warning about his terrorist ties. As the investigation continues, the search is under way in brussels for two siblings with ties to new york. Sasha and alexander were reportedly on the phone with their mother yesterday. She says she heard an explosion and the phone went dead. The brother and sister have family in the netherlands but have been living and working here in the city. In the wake of the attacks, there is renewed debate over an old controversy. The only way to protect new yorkers in this age of encrypted pho