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
Leaving two people dead. Elliot county city cars went down main street. People had to form a human chain to rescue a driver strapped in his car. Rushing water carved a ditch into the street. One official says every structure on main street was damaged. Were going to turn to the latest on the deadly balloon crash in texas. New video shows the heart of texas hot air balloon 7 00 saturday morning. It crashed over farm land about 45 minutes later near a row of high tension power lines. The ntsb says weather conditions at the time will be one focus of its investigation. Cloud cover, the visibility, and the winds, but well be looking at the temperature to see if the temperature e the density altitude may have identifying the identity of the bodies are a long process. Theyre confirming 16 people were killed. A scary situation is playing out for the nypd. Someone has been taunting officers. Apparently using a lost or stolen police radio. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross is live in midtown with
Today. Brayton came with his chief oneal. The top uniformed off ers. Brayton is the best face in policing and he has run Police Departments in boston, los angeles and twice now in new york. He took over a department in transition reducing stop and frisk while continuing a dramatic record low crime level in the city. Today, brayton wouldnt say what hes going to time. Im leaving with reluctance. I wish i had more time chronologically to stay around three or 4 years to work on issues. I dont have that type of time. Missing you every single day, but this friendship, this deep, deep connection will continue. I want to thank you for all youve done for the people of new york city. And today, brayton says hes spent the last 31 months in Office Putting to the a team that can take over for him once he does resign. Will take place on september 16th. Well see you at 5 00. Live at city hall, dave, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, dave. Lets go over to tim fletcher who has more on oneal. Report
Close to 7 00. Same thing to bridge forth where this line will be moving through the area for the next couple of hours. Probably east by about 8 30 to 9 00. So what you need to know is the line of showers and thunderstorms through 9 00, expect the brief heavy downpours and some gusty winds and in that particular storm, maybe some damaging winds. And after that our attention will turn to a big arctic outbreak in april and that will be coming tomorrow night into sunday and again with their prospect of damaging winds, high wind watch out for much of the area already for tomorrow night into sunday. A lot to storm track in the accu weather forecast. All right, well see you then, thank you. We will turn to the slashing in new york city. The man was slashed in the stairwell of the busy intersection that happened at 34th street. A. J. . Reporter liz r, police are blocking off the entrance as panhandlers who reportedly stabbed a man in the stairwell there. There still remains a heavy Police Pre
I cant explain. It looked like war. Its unbelievable. Its unbelievable. Its really hard. Im a firefighter. I have almost 45 years of service. Its the first time ive seen something so terrible. As paramedics and the wounded moved out police and the military moved in. Federal investigators quickly released a photo of the suspected airport bombers while isis claimed responsibility for yet another attack in a european capital. The first one was not so big of an explosion but one second later it was big. Really big. We all stand together with our ally, belgium on this dark day. Investigators say the bombers intended not three separate explosions but four. Authorities found another bomb police raided a home where investigators found an isis flag, chemicals and a bomb loaded with nails. Reporter included in those injuries, a military family and well be getting much more over night. Live in brussels, a. J. Ross, channel 7, Eyewitness News. Thank you. The nypd jumping into action moment s after