They tried to scam the federal Flood Insurance program. Greg cergol has the details. Reporter behind me is a sandy damaged home that has yet to be rebuilt. Its obvious that the scars from this storm remain raw for some almost four years later, and one long beach resident told me today what this Engineering Firm and its former employee are accused of doing really adds insult to injury to every sandy victim. Today on charges that he and his former employer highrise engineering ripped off sandy victims. They altered engineering reports that were done on sandy damaged homes, and those altered documents resulted in smaller payouts from the national Flood Insurance program. Now the attorney general doesnt say how many sandy victims were entered not guilty pleas to that 50count indictment. Sandy victims say all of this caused unnecessary financial hardships and may have prevented some families from actually rebuilding their homes. When we were in the worst of trouble, the Insurance Companies
Declared. Tragedy in texas. Photos taken moments before the debtliest hot air balloon crash in history. More on the 16 people who lost their lives and how it happened. Olympic athletes and fans arriving in rio. Preparations in full swing. Will the city be ready to host its most famous party ever. Find out, today, august 1st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, countdown to rio with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a monday morning. The 2016 Olympic Games almost at hand. Copacabana beach. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Take a look at that. Copacabana is beautiful on a perfect day and by the way, lets get something straight off the bat. In the United States, some people say Rio De Janeiro. Here they call it Rio De Janeiro. Tomato, tomato. Its freaking beautiful. You win the battle of backdrops this morning. May
Especially during the evening commute. Youre driving home, if you see flood waters do not try to drive through them. You cant tell how deep it is. I always say turn around, dont drown because you can have just 2 feet of water, it can wash away a car or a truck and a lot of people have a false sense of security in vehicles but 60 percent of flood deaths occurring with people in vehicles. Ill talk more about the scattered downpours on the way and when we clear out coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Brian. You just never know how deep it is. Cecily thank you. With storms in the forecast check the weather any time at 6abc. Com weather. Storm tracker6 live radar gives you realtime views of whats coming your way and dont forget to check in with our team of meteorologists on twitter and facebook for updates as well. Brand new at 4 oclock we have learned a fiveyearold boy from lansdowne is dead because of severe weather. Steve vin little was struck by lightning and killed while on vac
Deadliest hot air balloon accident in u. S. History. The newlyweds on board posting photos just moments before the crash. Now investigators on the scene recovering cameras and phones asking for the publics help. And beauty queen backlash. Miss teen usa under fire moments after she is crowned twitter posts emerge where she used racial slurs. Why the pageant says they will stick by her. We do say good morning, america. Hope everyone had a great weekend, a very busy weekend for you, george. Your interview with donald trump making headlines. Trump battling with the family of a fallen u. S. Soldier and those comments he made to you about russias president. We covered a lot of ground. Well hear from the khan family as well and a new poll out showing Hillary Clinton getting a convention bounce. Cbs news has her up seven points over donald trump, 39. They were tied before the democratic convention. Well have more on that coming up but first those deadly floods. Marylands governor has glared a
Which is good ns because it is just pouring right now right along i80, lake harmony right now heading towards mount pocono. Also some lightning strikes and there is more on the way and the problem is that some areas the ground is already saturated from this week. You can see the areas circle including near baltimore where they had that deadly flooding near lancaster, near trenton, near lakehurst. We had three to 6 inches of rain so any additional rain in a short period of time could cause some flash flooding so the National Weather service has extended that Flash Flood Watch really all our northern suburbs until 6 oclock tomorrow morning could get one to 2 inches of rain very quickly in less than an hour and you really have to take flash flooding very seriously. It happens in an instant in a flash thats why its called that. Do not drive through flooded areas. You cant see how deep that water is and it only takes about 2 feet of water to just carry away a van or an suv or a truck and 60