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Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News 20160815

Thats when he allegedly rammed the Police Vehicle before being taken in to custody last night. Hes being questioned in the double murder. We do not know if it was a hate crime but this was not an act of compassion or an act of love. Police have not labeled this a hate crime. Investigators do not have a motive. Charges have not been filed against the man being questioned here. Meanwhile Community Leaders are be increased from 10,000 to 50,000. Reporting at the 107th precinct, cefaan kim, channel 7 Eyewitness News. A family tragedy on long island. Police say a retired nypd officer shot and critically injured his two sons before killing himself. This happened last night at the familys home in bell port. Police say 61yearold irvin noak got in to an argument with relatives during a party. His two adult sons intervened. Thats when police say noak took turned the gun on himself. Neighbors were stunned by the sudden violence. There was no commotion. It looked like a peaceful event. Everybody was interacting very nicely. There was nice music going on. Noaks son, 31yearold irwin and 22yearold aaron are in critical condition. New details on the boater who was reported missing on long island this weekend. The body of 48yearold andrew weiss was recovered from the water this mor the great south bay. He was reported missing saturday when his boat was recovered. Police say there is evidence his boat was involved in some type of accident. He left the beach friday night headed for lindenhurst but never arrived. An industrial accident has claimed the life of a Norfolk Southern railroad worker. Initial reports are that the cable of a crane snapped while it was hoisting a freight container and that the worker been released yet. New information tonight about what sparked a scare that shut down jfk airport. It turns out celebrations for usain bolts olympic win were mistaken for gunfire last night. Today passengers were back at jfk airport picking up luggage after their flights were canceled. Eyewitness News Reporter lucy yang is there now. What does the olympics have to do with jfk airport . Apparently everything last night as this airport was left tie knots. It appears a mistake over a gold medal celebration may have led to reports of shots fired which eventually grounded all flights. Terrifying. Reporter it now appears the fastest man in the world may have crippled one of the busiest airports in the world. Police came in and we all got our hands up. Reporter waves of panic and terror spread throughout jfk came in of shots fired at terminals 8 and 1. Eventually the whole airport would be shut down, flights grounded as a Massive Police presence took over the terminals. The fbi and nypd joining forces with the Port Authority police. No evidence of shots fired on all the video of the area. Reporter the simple answer, no. There were no shell casings found, no victims reported. Do we have the original ear witnesses to these shots fired . The nightmare scenario, abc confirms it now appears to have been a terrible mistake from a glorious moment. Usain bolt had just won his race. Fans at the airport celebrated wildly. Authorities confirmed thats when the calls came in which then morphed in to shots fired. The confusion and fear spread from there as groups of travelers running from what now appears to be a nonexistent threat. Around. People were pushing each other and crashing each other. Stay away from the windows and sit on the floors. Thats what they told us to do. Reporter as Law Enforcement lets out a big head shaking exhale, now comes the fun part. Reuniting hundreds of pieces of luggage with owners who fled the airport last night. To be clear, officials do not believe there were any shots fired. Their thinking is a caller did what we are all encouraged to do possible problem. Final thought here, many frustrated travelers complained to us last night about the lack of communication but at the same time they also expressed gratitude for the Police Response which was swift and commanding. Were live at jfk airport tonight, lucy yang, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Family and friends gathered today to remember a teenager who committed suicide. His family says he killed held for 13yearold Daniel Fitzpatrick in west brighton, staten island. Daniel was found familys home last thursday. They say he was relentlessly bullied at holy angel academy. The Brooklyn Diocese denies allegations that daniels complaints of bullying were ignored. The wake is underway for a google employee murdered about 40 miles west of boston. 27yearold Vanessa Marcotte near her familys home in central massachusetts. She was visiting her family and was killed while out on a jog. Investigators have received hundreds of tips in the case but so far have not made any arrests. Six people rescued after they got trapped by a fast moving fire in Westchester County. Three adults and three children were stuck on the 5th floor of the building this morning. The fire broke out on the third floor and spread from there. But those six people had to use fire escapes. The First Companies here found heavy fire. Fire did extend to 4 and 5 which is one of the scenarios we try to avoid. Then it can spread horizontally. That fire very challenging for firefighters. The red cross is offering assistance to over 50 people. A heat advisory effect. Is relief finally in sight . Lets hope so. Meteorologist jeff smith is in for lee goldberg and is here with the accuweather forecast. The heat, i cant even speak, jeff. Especially over the weekend. It was so outrageously hot out there. We got a little bit of relief today. Weve taken the edge off a bit. Temperature got up to 91 in central park compared to middle and upper 90s over the weekend and the dew points and the humidity has fallen just a bit. Right now fallen down to about 89 in the park. 80s on the jersey shore and parts of long island. Heat advisory in effect till 8 p. M. Then another one is in Effect Tomorrow from noon through 10 p. M. That also includes central and southern parts of new jersey. Tomorrow i do not expect temperatures to get up to the 90degree mark but the humidity will be high again. That will drive the heat index values in to the mid 90s. Thunderstorms along the leading edge of the really muggy air mass. Well have to watch those as they approach us later on tonight. Then during the day tomorrow the Storms Prediction Center has put us in a slight risk of severe thunderstorms. Well detail the timing and intensity of those in your full accuweather forecast coming up. Did you know that cockroaches in new york are more likely to fly in this intense heat . Darla miles checks out why coming up in about 15 minutes. To fight terror. Hillary clinton joined for the first time by Vice President joe biden who called trump unqualified. Our political reporter dave evans is here with todays developments. New york city has about 3 million immigrants. If they came in under Donald Trumps plan, theyd also face what he calls extreme vetting, an ideological test about their views from everything from the constitution to whether gay people should be allowed to married. Will make america safer. Reporter in ohio today, donald trump outlined how hed fight terrorism. He didnt call the president and Hillary Clinton the founders of isis today but he did blame them for creating a more dangerous middle east. The rise of isis is the direct result of policy decisions made by president obama and secretary of state clinton. Reporter saying the fight like syrian refugees. Trump says if theyre antisemitic or antigay, for example, they dont get visas. I call it extreme vetting. I call it extreme vetting. Our country has enough problems. We dont need more and these are problems like weve never had before. Reporter trump says his immigration policy would prevent incidents like the Orlando Attack in june dead. Before trump spoke, Hillary Clinton campaigned in joe bidens hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. She promised on her watch no american Ground Troops would ever fight isis. Clinton ridiculed trumps antiterrorism plan saying it lacks specifics. Sometimes he says he wont tell anyone what hell do because he wants to keep his plan. Reporter biden slammed trump as unfit and too dangerous to have Americas Nuclear codes. Happened to the president and i had to make a decision, he is not qualified to know the code. He cant be trusted. Donald trump today also said clinton lacks the judgment and temperature to be president. He says clinton lacks the mental to take on isis. Well have more at 6 00. A rental scam left them on the streets, when a couple showed up to move in to their new home, they got quite the surprise and theyre not the only ones to fall for it. Meanwhile, dramatic rescues in louisiana where deadly flooding has forced thousands to flee their homes but tonight there is some good news. And new information about whats happened to the egyptian olympic tis b. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were no vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about all the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing like. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Another legal setback for comedian bill cosby. Today a federal Appeals Court rejected cosbys attempt to reseal his deposition testimony about extramarital affairs, prescription sedatives and payments to women. The judge ruled the documents are now a matter of public knowledge. Cosbys legal team hoped to keep the documents out of the sex assault case against the comedian as well as numerous him of sex abuse. Brooklyn born character actor fivish finkle has died. He was in fiddler on the roof to boston public and picket fences. His family said he suffered heart problems. He was 93 years old. The weather is improving tonight in louisiana where historic flooding has prompted major evacuations. 20,000 people forced to leave continued their work today. Abcs Elizabeth Hur has the latest. Reporter with helicopters in the air and high water vehicles on the ground, rescuers are working around the clock and residents are escaping with a bag or boxing hand. Since saturday, tens of thousands have been pulled to safety. Dog rescued just in time. Shelters now home for so many with louisiana in a state of emergency. It was pretty scary because we didnt know how high the waters were going to rise. Its like my subdivision was in a bowl. Everything around us was flooding. Reporter in some areas 2 feet of rain fell in less than two days, the governor calling this historic. This is an unprecedented south louisiana. It has presented tremendous challenges to everyone. With entire neighborhoods still underwater, some residents are just grateful to be alive and vow to rebuild again. Start all over again. Authorities remain on high alert with water still rising. They say the situation is very dangerous but they say theyre residents to stay patient. The Washington Monument has reopened after it was shut down for more than a day because of elevator problems. The monument was closed early saturday night and all day yesterday. The park service says the closure was a result of a tripped breaker that was caused by a voltage drop of incoming power to the monument. The monument was actually closed for a week in july also because of elevator problems. We have jeff smith back with us in for lee goldberg. At this point. Fanning isnt enough. [ laughter ] what do you do . It isnt as bad as the weekend at least. Were slowly receding this heat wave in baby steps. That heat advisory goes in to effect again tomorrow. Tomorrow the heat wave doesnt actually continue. I dont think temperatures get up to 90plus here in the city but the humidity will make it feel like its still in the mid 90s. We head outside right now. Mainly clear skies over new northerly wind has helped to decrease our dew points, decrease our humidity. Just enough so that it feels a bit better than it did over the weekend. The high on the day did get up to 91. Yes, we did continue that heat wave for a fifth consecutive day. 83 is the normal high to put it in perspective. 97 the record high for this date in the very hot summer of 1988. Sun setting at 7 53. Heres your headlines. Heat advisory till 8 p. M. This evening. Then again tomorrow from noon to avoid strenuous activity outdoors during those hottest times of the day. Not as bad as the excessive heat warnings we had over the weekend. Thunderstorms will develop during the day tomorrow. Those could be on the heavy and gusty side. Maybe very heavy downpours, could be strong damaging winds and a couple of those that do develop. Dew points and humidity drop a little bit again on wednesday behind that front. 90 right now in teeter borough. 91 at laguardia. 87 in islip island thanks to a sea breeze at montauk, 84. Near 90 at poughkeepsie. 88. 79 in monticello. Look at the dew points. They have fallen down to 61 in monticello. Dew point, a very good measure of the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. They were in the upper 70s to around 80 over the weekend. Now theyre in the middle 60s in central park so were kind of in the uncomfortable category instead of the oppressive to just outrageous category that we had over the weekend. Much out there. Just some fair weather clouds north and west of the city. But along the boundary where the humidity does increase late tonight in to tomorrow, there are some thunderstorms over central pennsylvania. Well have to watch the radars by later on tonight and our High Resolution futurecast is showing this as well. Maybe one or two of these make it in to the viewing area especially south of new york city, maybe around midnight to 2 00 in the morning. Early tomorrow morning, check this out already at 6 a. M. , the potentially over long island and connecticut and well have to watch areas west of the city pretty early in the day, were talking mid to late morning maybe for storms refiring. Lows tonight getting down to 77 in the meantime in the park, could be a shower or thunderstorm late much of the area probably remains dry. Highs tomorrow getting up to 88 or so but feeling more like 95 and thats why we still do have the heat advisory in effect noon to 10 p. M. Tomorrow. Could be a shower or thunderstorm at any point during is in the afternoon. Accuweather forecast for tonight, partly cloudy, warm and sticky. Were down to 77. Well have to watch the radars late for maybe a spotty shower or storm. Very warm and humid tomorrow. A few showers and storms around. Some of those could be on the strong to severe side. Were muggy tomorrow night. Could be an early shower or storm. We tend to clear things out down to 76. Heres what were working on for 5 30. How severe could these storms get tomorrow . Could be rotation left in a few of them. Completely dry late week . Is there any real relief in sight where you can open up your windows and forget about the air conditioner . Well tell you when that may or may not happen coming up in your accuweather 7day forecast next half hour. The sibling battle over reverend Martin Luther king, jr. s traveling bible appears to be over. Kings three surviving children have agreed on a settlement. The medal is to be turned over daughter bernice refused to surrender the items after her brothers voted to sell them in 2014 because the estate needed money. Horrible case of animal cruelty. Coming up, what someone is captured on camera doing with a dog. Plus, its so hot outside, cockroaches are flying. Were going to look at why the intense heat has them taking flight. And it was supposed to be a wild neon colored fun run. For more than 5,000 people. Then suddenly the race was canceled. If youre approaching 65, nows the time to get your ducks in a row. To learn about medicare, and the options you have. You see, medicare doesnt cover everything only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. By unitedhealthcare insurance company. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, they help cover some of what medicare doesnt pay. And could save you in outofpocket medical costs. So dont wait. Call to request your free decision guide. And gather the information now to help you choose a plan later. These types of plans let you pick any doctor or hospital that takes medicare patients. And theres a range of plans to choose from, depending on you needs and your budget. Because the time to think about tomorrow. Is today. All new at 5 00, as if the heat isnt enough. Turns out heat makes cockroaches in new york city more likely to fly. Eyewitness News Reporter darla miles posted today on snapchat heat and cockroaches are not a good mix. Reporter if you dont like bugs, look away. Now. Which cockroach is most commonly found flying in new york city and whats the species . The american cockroach is the more commonly found flying. Reporter the american cockroach. Theyre generally unwelcome dead or alive. No one wants to see them flying straight at their face. Might not be going at you directly but just flying in your direction and just in the way. Sorkin, an entomologist, explains how the heat and humidity causes cockroaches to come up for the sewers and subways at night and take flight. They really do fly a lot more when its hot like this . Theres more activity when theres more heat. Yeah. Running, flying, fluttering. Reporter but to the average person who is not scientific at all, theres only one thing you can say about flying cockroaches. Ick. Flying roaches has even b hashtag for sightings and reactions. Much o

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