Inside a burning building. What may have sparked the flames. A christmastime wave of Severe Weather as a tornado touches down in alabama. We have an update on injuries as cleanup gets underway. Good morning, everybody. Taking a look at a live shot at Lower Manhattan on another mild december morning. It is saturday, december 26th, the day after christmas. Thank you for tuning in and being with us. Look who is with me. Good morning. Good morning. I hope michelle is a sleep right now. And that the kids are not waking up early to play with whatever gifts they got. Yeah. Thanks for being here. And amy is also off this weekend and enjoying time with the family so jeff smith was kind enough to step in and has weather that we have. Yeah. Two days of recordbreaking warmth. Were not going to have that today. Were going to skip a day of recordbreaking warmth and then back tomorrow. Today closer to reality but 10 degrees above average for this time of year. The stationary front off to the south, w
Craigslist. Fernandez is in custody of the Suffolk County police. Im told. Were going to have much more from the victims coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00 were live sayville long island, n. J. Burkett channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, nj. New commissioner William Bratton suspending two nypd officers after a prisoner escaped under their watch. It caused a massive search that shut down part of the subway system. Shoplifting suspect barry toon silently slipped out of his handcuffs in tribeca last night and told officers he felt ill. They pulled over he ran away, disappearing into a subway tunnel. Police found him six hours brooklyn. Excisioner bratton says the two commissioner bratton said jobs. They have had their guns and badges removed and they are totally off the streets. They will go back for a retraining before they get back. Their commands, and needless to say this will impact their future careers in the department dramatically. The commissioner not happy. This was the sixth
Three boy scouts to show them a cave hes been before. When he entered the gave a black bear grabbed his foot and dragged him into the cave. He curled into fetal. We have a helicopter above them. All of us are going to go for those kids. Reporter three scouts called 911 and started a fire to smoke the bear out of the cave and signal their location to emergency responders. They are amazing kids. Sometimes we dont give our kids enough credit. Has amusing. Reporter ann shannon came to visit. Her son was in the same troop but not on this excursion. She describes him as adventurous and good with the kids. He shows them fun and adventurous things and teaching them outdoor skills. Im sure thats what he was reporter last November Rutger student died after a bear attack in west millford. This situation could have been different. Survival to tell and those three kids to thank. Outside new jersey channel 7 thank you very much. New at noon 15 children were taken to the hospital in new jersey after
Set back in 1998. Meanwhile it is a driving rain out here. Looks like the heaviest rain half hour. Thanks for the confirmation. He said, its raining. Sade, rob, back to you. Thank you lee. Get back inside and dry o. Were going to check with lee in a few minutes. Now we want to go to michelle from laguardia. Reporter a lot of delays. Nice to be dry inside but a two to two and a half hour delay here at la guard i cant. People are lined up all the way down, probably 10 lines. The lines are moving. A lot of people working those lines, but folks are in very good spirits. I have to say they expected with the weather and the fact this is a Holiday Travel day, one of the most busy of the year that they would see these delays. This is definitely the day as we look at the de par taurus departures get out of dodge. We wish you a Merry Christmas reporter these are the busiest days of the year for travel. Laguardia did not disappoint. Long lines were moving. Are you delayed . Going to raleigh . Yes
I will show you video right now, we got with him early this morning where we showed him he ran over to his neighbors house and the house, the video, it is completely on fire. He said he began banging on the windows the dogs to rescue his neighbor dominic. He has Cerebral Palsy and a seizure disorder. Chris realized he was probably sleeping. After all it was 2 30 in the morning sunday and so he grabbed a ladder and climbed up to the second story bedroom and started banging on the window. I started pounding on the window. Dominic, get up, get up, your house is on fire. And he finally wakes up. Your house is on fire. You got to get out of here. We pull him out of the window. Down to the ground. Reporter and they were able to get him to an ambulance. And he was carried away. He will be just fine. Chris says on top of all of this, he was told that there may be a female tenant stuck in so he also ran down there. Thankfully, she was not at home at the time. Chris went to the hospital with smo