One month, three attacks. The mta is on edge after must multiple bus driver because behind the wheel. The most recent victim is talking to cbs2. Im kristine johnson. Im maurice dubois. Valerie castro joins us live with the developing story live in the belmont section of the bronx tonight. Valerie . Reporter maurice, this most recent incident happened along southern boulevard in the bronx. The victim says the violence was completely unprovoked and he says its not the first time hes been attacked while driving a bus. Punched my head. Reporter dennis done well has been a bus driver for the last 13 years. At least twice hes been attacked behind the wheel. The most recent assault, a violent beating. He says he was parked along the bronx 19 bus route on southern boulevard when someone approached the door. The person who steps onto the bus appears to Say Something before reaching over the partition. Walking, says something to me about, dont do that again. I said, what did you say . He started
Trees toppled, heavy rains close roads and tonight, hundreds of homes are still in the dark because of a storm system that worked its way along the entire east coast. Good evening, im maurice dubois. Cbs2 news Valerie Castro has more on the damage after the storm, live in yonkers where roads just reopened. Valerie . Reporter southbound lanes of the bronx River Parkway are now open, but stretches of the parkway were closed for hours today, so crews could deal with flooded streets and in fact, northbound portions are still shut down, just north of the springbrook parkway, the messageboard alerting drivers to the issues that lay ahead, the weather caused all kinds of problems around the tristate area. The tree basically on top of our house. Came home to this in englewood, new jersey and realized he had a big problem to deal with. Branches and debris all over the place. Thankfully no one was inside when it happened. Reporter his ninemonthold sons room was left a mess. Its messed up, the ce
Station on court street at 8 00. He is identified as 46year old david french. Sources say he was arrested more than 20 years ago for hitting a woman on the subway. Then a few times since then for minor nonviolent offenses. He has been homeless for years and in and out of hospitals for mental illness. Women say theres not much you can do except be aware of your surroundings. I feel like they should have, like, you know, people like in here so they, like, check around who is, like, coming in. I would like to see more of a Police Presence in the subway. Fares went up and people are getting hurt on the subway. Its not good. Reporter other riders like kelsey weeks have noticed more police and are grateful. About 3 a. M. And the Police Actually came on the train to make sure that i was okay since i was alone. So i thought that was pretty cool. Reporter we did reach out to the victim of this scary incident. She said she wanted to put it all behind her and didnt want the suspect is charged wit
Isolated severe thunderstorm. That would speak to the potential 60mile an hour winds and again youre still looking at an additional 2 inches of rain. So we could see some lingering Flooding Issues tomorrow morning. Going to be a busy afternoon. Well talk about that and cooler weather to wrap up the week, right now right back to mary. The storm is it already affecting air travel in new york and new jersey, a live look at Newark Liberty airport where arrival delays are up to an hour and a half. Departures are delayed by up to 2 1 2 hours. Kennedy and laguardia are experiencing similar delays. What was she thinking . A brooklyn mother is now facing charges after her 2yearold daughter died in a house fire. Investigators say the child may have been left alone. We have more live on this tragedy at noon. Reporter firefighters did not know that little kalenah was stuck inside of that home. No one was there to tell them. Police say her mother left her party. Charged with endangering the welfare
Breaking news tonight, severe storms slammed the south. Deadly tornadoes rip up homes and businesses and the threat isnt over. Plus tracking snow, wind and rain in the tristate area this week. Good evening. Im kristine johnson. Im maurice dubois. First, lonnie quinn keeping an eye on the storm here in the weather center, getting ready for round two. Still catching a little bit of round one out there. Take a look right now at current radar picture, youve got a little bit of pink, shows you where the sleet is, dutchess county, Litchfield County as well. A snowflake around kingston, a light little rain shower, also the jersey shore. But everything very light. We want to get the word out a much bigger system moving into our area. That is 1000 miles across. Its going to make its way into our area tomorrow. Whats interesting is this has had a lot of volatile activity associated with it. Youve got to remember, its february. A hardcore winter months. February is not a hardcore tornado month, y