We are live in yaphank, im kristin thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Following breaking news right now. Newscopter 7 is over an overturned truck on the northbound new jersey turnpike in secaucus. This is on the eastern spur near exit 16e, the toll plaza there. President quite sure yet on traffic situations that are happening. We are going to continue to monitor the situation. Newscopter 7 is pulling out. Not looking very good. Bringing you any information as soon as new information as soon as we get it. Also following developing news, also happening in new jersey, seven workers have been injured when a scaffolding came crashing down 35 feet. It happened at Apartment Building at the brookdale apartment complex in hackensack. Two of the victims are in Critical Condition tonight at Hackensack University medical center, five are now in serious condition. Now to those tough new gun control laws in connecticut. Governor dan malloy saying you will issue an executive order with a s
The teens and tried to catch them but they got away. Today inside the park most of the people we talked to hadnt heard about the robberies. The upest west side, people talk all the time and its nothing i heard of. Reporter her suggestion, maybe the nypd should post signs in the park letting people know when theres a serious safety concern any time day or night. A community alert, that would be nice to have. Reporter after monday nights robbery, police did recover some items belongings to the suspects including a belonging to the suspect including a ski mask. They are hoping to lift a fingerprint that could lead to the suspects. Route 19 now open in both directions in new jersey after a bomb scare on a bus forced authorities to shut down traffic in the area. The new Jersey Transit bus was stopped when passengers reported a suspicious device aboard about 8 30 this morning. An alarm clock and behaving strangely triggered the concern. The clock was safe. We are following a developing story
Had he seen the maintenance records. There were some tragic missteps here. Reporter investigate or mark peters followed the policy of only following up on 10 to 15 of inspection reports. Nearly 2,500 buildings had reported unsafe facades. The commissioner calls that dob response inadequate. If any of these people had done what they were supposed to do, we might have had a different outcome. Reporter outside of the planade, home to many seniors and assisted living programs if that is the case, thats tragedy. They were disgusted when they learned about the inspectors arrest. Its appalling and i dont know how they sleep at night. We were actually stunned that such a horrible, horrible thing happened. The dob, the city did improve and uncovered ways the city can more rapidly remedy the most dangerous situations, improve practices and hopefully prevent similar tragedies. The Building Owner today declined comment. The building inspector, if convicted on charges of falsifying that report, fac
Needed immediate access to pay a bill. If that doesnt work she would repeatedly place calls until she reached a service rep who would do it, according to the documents. After taking over the accounts she placed phone orders for more than 300,000 in fraudulent highend purchases like designer bags. She also attempted to make more than 1 million on purchases at saks fifth avenue. This is crystals public defender. I was told there was a search warrant executed at their home and that there was a significant number of amount of merchandise found highend merchandise. Reporter among the charges the couple is facing, grand larceny and identity theft. The hospital says these thefts involved paper records. They also say kyle steed began working here in 2011. They suspended him without pay back in april and he was subsequently fired. Lenox hill hospital says they are working to notify patients who were affected by this. They are also working to strengthen their security protocols. Live on the uppe
Took off on foot with money, phone and shoes. No word yet on who the victim is but we did see a man without shoes getting into the back of a police car. Investigators say one of the suspects was wearing brown timberland boots and one was wearing a black north face jacket. Now coincidentally there have been three other muggings nearby in and around central park since monday night at west 95th street and west drive, west 91st street near the reservoir and east 86th street. These all happened late at night and into the overnight hours. Police at this point do not believe that this Armed Robbery from this morning is connected but still, people we spoke with last night say all of this has left them on edge. My mom used to always send me every article any time anything would happen here being like please stop walking through the park at night but will you stop . Yeah, i think i probably will. I usually dont walk through the park at night for reasons and again, police are searching for two ma