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going to do what is right and just to this guy. >> if they don't overturn this, there is something wrong with this system. there is something wrong. and should be a public outrage that people like him are out there, doing their thing, and racing around on the streets, drinking, whatever they are doing, and it is wrong. >> reporter: and once again, those family members of those five teens very upset today. the judge at the arraignment did say it is likely that glow will lose his youthful offender status. by the time he is sentenced by the judge in the first case. that takes place may 20th. cops also mincing no words when it comes to corey glow. we are going to have a lot more on that coming up in another live report at 6:00. for now we are live outside the nassau county jail. channel 7 eyewitness news. also on long island, an indictment handed up this afternoon against two drivers steven romero, who was driving the red truck and carlos piano, the driver of the limo, were charged in connection with this crash. four women died. aj burkett this morning broke the story this morning and is in suffolk county now with more details. >> reporter: the suffolk county courthouse islip, long island where both drivers pleaded guilty. the driver of the limo the chauffeur, charged with neglect, negligent homicide and assault. and steven romero the driver of the suv that struck the limo charged with dwi. the crash killed four young women and left four others seriously injured. the limo driver prosecutors say, made a wreckless careless u-turn in the middle of the speedway where the speed limit is 55. all the more reckless, dave, because his view of oncoming suv waiting to make a turn in front of him. so he simply could not see the red suv until it was too late. romeo was driving drunk, but investigators hearsay even if he were sober, -- here, say even if he were sober he could not have avoided the crash. the crash was entirely the fault of the limo driver. >> pena failed to take any precautions whatsoever or to take any action to make sure he could safely enter the westbound travel lanes. and he continued to make his u- turn. there is no evidence that we have gathered that demonstrates that he ever came even to a stop. >> we intend on challenging these charges and fighting on behalf of mr. pena, because it is our belief the lines here between civil liability and >> reporter: and we have just received these photos from inside the courtroom as both drivers were arraigned this afternoon. again both pleaded not guilty, both are free on bail tonight. this happened in july of last year on long island. we'll have much more on the investigation, including reaction from one of the families coming up on eyewitness news at 5:00 tonight. jay burkett, channel 7 eyewitness news. opening statements were held today in the case of a mother from new jersey, on trial for the death of her son 25 years ago. michelle led ski is charged with murder. his partial remains were discovered in 1992 in an industrial complex in edison. timothy's clothing and blanket were displayed. >> a healthy 5-year-old little boy doesn't end up in a creek they were last reported missing. >> she didn't intend to kill timmy. she intended that he graduate and wear this graduation gown. >> prosecutors said today she killed her son as a way to deal with if i nash problems. timothy was last seen at a carnival. tomorrow 2,000 toddlers will be tested for lead. officials sent out the flyers to parents whose children go to early learning centers. the state department of health and the epa says 17 now students in the city's public schools will soon be tested. but that is little comfort to many parents and the newark mayor, especially since the mayor says the lead problem arose when the state was in control of newark schools. >> this is the first year we found out in city hall that there was actually a problem with lead in the schools. it is going to be in the water and everything. >> people are still scared. >> the mayor says bottled water needs to be only a short-term solution. he said state funding is needed to repair the aging infrastructure in the city schools of the parents are planning a rally tonight at newark city hall. police say the mother, charged with daughter in brooklyn admitted drowning the toddler. lynn lee told an officer she put her daughter melody fang, in a container filled with water after she wet herself. she confessed she pushed the toddler's head under the water and held it there for a period of time. fang was found unconscious in lee's home in sunset park on sunday. the, the president's words as he nominated mark garland. he is currently a chief judge of appeals in washington. he led the oklahoma city bombing and the euna bomber, and the un bomber case as well. >> reporter: the white house says judge garland was absolutely the first choice. >> today i am nominating chief judge garland to join the supreme court. >> reporter: as promised, the president announces his supreme court pick. an emotional moment for 63-year- old federal appellate judge garland, his family nearby as he accepts the honor. >> it is also the greatest gift i have ever received, except the birth of our daughters, jessie and becky. >> reporter: president obama pointed out garland has a long history of bipartisan support. he called on the senate to hold hearings and a vote, instead of tying the nomination to election year politics. >> to go down that path would be wrong. it would be a betrayal of our best traditions. >> reporter: but republican leaders are standing firm in should decide the idealogical balance of the court when they elect the next president. >> it is a president's constitutional right to nominate the supreme court justice and it is the senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. >> reporter: democrats are pushing back. hoping the choice of a judge, considered a moderate, will convince republicans to rethink their position. >> i hope president obama's nomination of an exceptionally qualified nominee will persuade senate republicans to change >> reporter: even some of the republicans who supported garland in the past say this time will be different and some are saying he won't be confirmed so they won't even bother to meet with him. we are going to turn now to the race for the president and donald trump and hillary clinton have the lion's share of delegates. clinton has more than 1500 delegates and it may soon be mathematically impossible for bernie sanders to get the 2383 for the nomination. on the republican side, trump increased his lead over ted cruz. john kasich's victory in ohio kept him in the race. but the only way he could win now is by a brokered convention. today in midtown the brady campaign against gun violence organized a so-called die-in protest at trump tower. 40 or 50 protesters laid on the sidewalk under white sheets you may recall donald trump said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose voters. a republican debate scheduled for monday has been canceled. family and friends said their goodbye at funerals today for two of the people killed in a tugboat accident on the hudson river. 63-year-old paul aimen and timothy conklin were on the tug. recovery teams hope to lift the sunken craft. the body of a third victim, 56- year-old harry hernandez is believed to still be inside the wreckage. police are looking for the armed robbers who targeted a hotel on manhattan's upper west side. the robbers pistol whipped three victims at the roadway inn, and demanded the combination to the safe. when they did not get it they stole the workers's cell phones the pair ran off into central park. a police say a dispute in a washington heights pool hall ended with five people either stabbed or slashed. three men, two women were attacked this morning at amsterdam avenue and west 133rd street. the site is known to host illegal gambling. victims' injuries are not life- threatening injuries. broad gains today for stocks on wall street after word the federal reserve will leave interest rates unchanged for awhile. investors were also encouraged to hear the fed plans to eventually raise rates at a more gradual pace. there is a live look at the big board. the dow rose to 17325. some homeowners are feeling the heat from aggressive real estate agents. now leaders are taking action and i'm meteorologist lee goldberg. sunshine now it feels great, but we are watching storms that have developed over eastern pennsylvania. check it out on radar. they are approaching the poconos. watch out for heavier showers. let's take a look at the roads on this wednesday evening. right now things are not looking too bad on the garden state parkway near exit 148, exit 138, our camera isn't there but trust me, two lanes are blocked in the northbound lanes down there. at the hudson river crossings 15 palestinian delays at the outbound lincoln and holland tunnels of the no delays at the george washington bridge. north korea's highest court sentenced a visiting american to 15 years in prison with hard labor. otto womble was con investigated and sentenced in a one hour -- convicted and sentenced in a one hour trial. the pro prosecutor said he stole a banner from his hotel. he won fessed and said he took it for a college on long island on lockdown turned outside to be over a "star wars" toy. students and staff were told shelter in place this morning while police investigated a report of someone assembling a well it turned out it was actually a toy light sabre. after a half hour staff and students were given the all clear. citywide ferry service to new york is about to get a lot more convenient and even a bit cheaper. mayor de blasio announced horn blower cruise and his events will be taking over the new expanded ferry service. it takes over the east river ferry service and will add new routes starting next summer. the city expects ferry fare price to drop from the current $4 to $2.75. >> we believe in one new york, a city for everyone and a city we all can live in. and this citywide ferry service will hasten the day. the ferry expansion will include new land go ahead in astoria, sunset park, bay ridge and the rockaways. great day to be out on the water. meteorologist lee goldberg is out there with the exclusive accu-weather forecast. keeping track of things aren't you? >> reporter: storms we are looking at this afternoon and one last gasp of winter here. first of albright sunshine right now and our temperatures are doing well. we have been in the 60s. a look at central park right there and our temperature right now is working at 62. humidity at 48%. a south wind about 7 and the pressure is on the fall. the high today 64 degrees so doing well when our average is right around 50. nice to see our normal temperature normal high at 50 degrees right now. look at the numbers in the hudson valley. away from some of the ocean winds, kingston 70 degrees, feeling great out there. upper 50s in place like nor walk and bridgeport. same thing on long island with the wind coming off the 45- degree ocean water. starting to move close to western new jersey. they will be here before 5:00. it should be brief, but the first part of the evening i would have your umbrella, just for a brief shower. a couple of those cannot just be light, by midnight the showers are moving away clouds start to break up. st. patrick's day looking nice. partly to mostly sunny early and more clouds as the day wears on and a passing shower in the afternoon. look how, all of a sudden, it turned into almost a squall line there with a front trying to move through parts of eastern pennsylvania. into the poconos and catskills a few thunderstorms. we'll have to see if these hold together. because of the weiss wind they will weaken but there could be a heavier shower. this is all an extension of what looks like a big spider spinning over parts of the great lakes. one leg is coming through today and another leg will come watch the futurecast here. notice how the showers are moving eastward. still indicating a heavy line over the hudson valley. looking at the radar, that could be more 6:00 than 7:00. that will shift eastward during the evening, things will quiet down later. tomorrow we start the day nice in the upper 40s, not too far from our normal highs. once again, with another piece of energy there might be just a passing shower in the afternoon. hey bring the umbrella, but it is going to be a brief shower we are not talking about steady rain for a long period of time. tomorrow evening things will dry out, but then we'll start to turn cooler late week. a few showers during the evening, and a couple of showers could be heavy. watch out for downpour west maybe with a lightning strike or thunder. 46 degrees. tomorrow highs in the low 60s. a very mild st. patrick's day. this is nice. sun, more clouds midday and afternoon. also the breeze will be picking up. i can see how it starts to gust tomorrow night, partly cloudy, and a pair of 4s. so david, what is coming up at 4:30. friday is a transition day. it is going to turn brisk and cooler and showers move in from midday on. then cold air is coming in, and the timing may not be good. there is a storm that may develop along the coast for the first day of spring on sunday, and that may mean not only rain but wet snow. we'll have the latest on that potential coming up. all of a sudden the forecast getting busier as we head toward the end of spring. guys back to you. are we wrong to assume the sunday thing might be ramping up ever so slightly? >> that is safe to say. there is definitely more evidence the coastal storm is closer. we are a ways away from talk about potential accumulation or anything. but is there definitely a good chance of wet snow late sunday and sunday night? sure. but i'll have more on that in the next half hour. it is where legendary now a famous recording studio in manhattan is being forced to president obama made his pick for the ncaa tournament today, hoping he nails the >> i think the jayhawks in a squeaker, get past unc. >> look how he said it. there you have it. president obama picking the kansas jayhawks to win it all this year. >> don't expect kansas fans to be too excited about this pick, because the president hasn't correctly predicted the national champion since his first year in office. but he gave it a slot. look at this video showing the barclay center being transformed to host. there will be four games this friday and two more on sunday. well it used to be the hub of new york city's art culture. the magic shop in soho, where artists like david bowie, cold play, they have all recorded there. it is now going to close its doors, the neighborhood just too expensive. >> end of an era for many. reporter sandy kennian here with the story. a few hours the final note will sound at one of the city's legendary recording studios. for almost three decades the magic shop lived up to its name. but now it has fallen victim to changes in soho. >> reporter: in the place where david bowie recorded his final album, a wall is here that represents about a third of the records i have made in the magic shop. counting crows, nora jones. >> reporter: he fought alongside owner steve rose. the plaques on the wall are a >> this was on cold play's viva vida. so you get a very bright sound i put thumb tacks on the >> it is fitting the last record to be made at the magic musicians who call themselves. >> it is strange to think this might be a random store, a store like the one which replaced the legendary rock club. >> the neighborhood has been completely transformed and not really in a good way. >> reporter: which is why he must now close his magic shop. >> they landmark buildings yes, they landmark streets, but they don't really landmark cultural places. >> more the pity for our city. because now, one more piece of lift is being lost -- of history is being lost. >> reporter: the final bit of the final note is going to sound. last rites, rock n roll style. the party at the studio begins at noon on friday and lasts well into saturday morning. >> and on and on. >> those walls must have some stories to tell. >> indeed. >> thanks sandy. so residents being bullied into selling their homes. coming up, outrage against realtors. the message behind these signs that are popping up all over one town in new jersey. the push to make st. patrick's day a new holiday. plus big fun headed our way. channel 7 is your home for the united airlines nyc half marathon and we introduce you to some of the faces you'll see on race day. >> hi, i'm peter from new york roadrunners. >> and i'm michael. >> we are excited to welcome half. see you on race in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state, with creative new business incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastructure for a new generation attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. like in rochester, with world-class botox. and in buffalo, where medicine meets the future. let us help grow your company's tomorrow - today - at business.ny.gov your daughter wants to stay organic. your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. you want to stay free from artificial preservatives. and your debit card wants to stay on a diet. fill your cart with small victories like stop & shop's nature's promise brand. great prices on over 800 items. our top story this half hour. residents in a town in new jersey taking action against aggressive realtors. >> the neighbors of toms river say some realtors are using bold and aggressive tactics. some are responding with signs that say don't sell. reporter tony yates has more. >> reporter: yes, liz and dave, toms river's mayor, its law department, township clerk, they have been getting hundreds of complaints and they say this has been going on since 2015. real estate agents are going to neighborhoods saying they need to hurry up and sell and move, because their neighborhood is about to change. toms river took action to stop this. >> people say my house isn't for sale, i don't want to sell it, and they would badger them to say we want to buy it. of houses here and right now we can offer you a nice price but later, when you don't want to live here, you won't get such a good price. >> reporter: toms river officials identified two zones of neighborhoods in the north dover section of town where homeowners said they were being hammered by real estate agents, mostly hassidic jewish agents. laura anderson told us. >> the realtors started coming around and they started you know, state that go to sell, you're not going to want to live here, all of that. then they you know, pretty much convinced two of our neighbors to put up right away. >> reporter: a february 23rd town hall meeting was so packed, the mayor said hundreds had to be turned away. complaints galore. >> in my opinion, what we have going on right now is an invasion, and nothing less. by enforcing a 2002 no-knock law that was already on the books for the zones most targeted by solicitor. hundreds, maybe thousands of homeowners have posted no-knock stickers on their doors. a violation is a more than $1200 fine. >> reporter: and also, coming up this friday, homeowners are going to have one more layer of protection against real estate solicitor with a new ordinance passed here in toms river. that part of the story coming up at 5:30. and also more complaints. we are live outside town hall in toms river. well a controversial vote scheduled in newark may result in the establishment of a civilian review board for police complaints in the city. the vote on such a step comes off a justice department investigation into newark police. the probe found lack of oversight. as a result the mayor recommended establishing the board. if it passes the officers' to stop it. the claim the civilian subpoena power could violate the states constitution. new york city police are warning residents in the bronx to be on the alert after a spree of robbery. police released surveillance video of the suspects. they are searching for a bike riding robber who was struck four times in the sound view section in the past few weeks. he claims he has a gun and takes people's cell phones. detectives are also searching for an armed man who robbed a metro pc s store monday. he stole 8 cell phones and took $4000 from the store's register. on long island a former doctor has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for illegally prescribing nearly 21,000 oxycodone pills. eric jacobson was one of several physicians prosecuted after a pharmacy robbery that left four dead. jacobson admitted prescribing prescriptions to the attacker in those killings. a desperate plea tonight connecticut woman the subject of a three decades-old cold case. april grass was last seen in april 1995. she and her boyfriend james aaron who went by the name purple got into a dispute at anthony's bar. grass went across the street to use the pay phone and was forced into a car by aaron. >> he came out, grabbed her, put her in his blue cadillac. drove off with her and that is the last she was ever seen. >> i want to find her. i want to lay her to rest. i want him prosecuted. it is not a who done it. we need the proof. >> reporter: the police department posted information about the case on its facebook page hoping to generate leads. aaron was convicted of kid napping her and served five and a half years in prison. women may soon be able to buy tampons and other feminine linda rose helped pass the bill. more than 10 million women of child-bearing age live in new york and pay tax on feminine hygiene products. that allows new york to take in $14 million a year. right now 10 states do not tax the products. new york students may soon have a new reason to celebrate st. patrick's day. today a bill passed the senate that makes the day a holiday. it was the result of parents expressing disappointment in the past about parent teacher conferences on the irish holiday. the bill still has more obstacles before becoming a law. could you be a victim of a modern day bank robber? coming up on eyewitness news, a new identity theft warning. the people on the inside who time for our weekly segment tell me the truth, where we answer your health and medical >> dr. richard besser joins us. we love having you. we are going to start our first question has to do with allergy season which is starting. a lot of people with itchy eyes and runny noses. >> i have always heard you clear your sinuses. but i was told the other day they can cause really bad infections. >> can i just say i love it. i'm like the ambassador. >> i'm scared of it. >> it clears out my sinuses. >> it is disgusting of what happens and where it goes and doing it correctly. >> it is a terrific question for that. i have to say i'm becoming a convert. the more i read about them. >> welcome to the club. >> i still haven't used one. >> what the heck? >> that is a picture of it is a little pitcher with a spout. you put salt water in one side of your nostril and it drains out the other side. here's the thing. there have been several case reports of a severe brain infection from this when people have used it with plain tap water. make sure you clean it out before you use it with distilled water. mix the salt water or celine with distilled -- with saline, and/or just buy it. it can really open up and wash it out. >> there are other products out there that are similar. >> exactly. >> nasal irrigatetors. >> my wife is like i'm going to clean the heck out of it. >> no i throw it out. >> you use it once? >> can i ask a ridiculous question? >> yeah. you are pouring in can go anywhere else? >> it can go back in your throat. you want to tilt your head on the side. if you tilt your head back it can drain down your throat. but it can't go upstairs. >> thank you for not laughing at me for asking that question. >> that is a good question. let's go to the next one posted on twitter. can a child out grow adhd? what a great question. >> it is a great question. here's the thing. it can happen. but most children are not going to out grow adhd. the symptoms of it what you see may change. as they get older there may be less hyperactivity but you are going to see risk taking, impulsivity there. you want your child to understand how to structure theiren violent, when they need medications and what you will find is there are many careers where having that kind of personality, where you don't like to do the same thing all the time, where you have that so it is a matter of getting them there and understanding how to structure their life. >> they understand when they need it and when they feel the need they need to either take their medication or what it is going to take for them to really focus. >> but it is a process to get there. >> and it is a long process. >> that's right. >> i think we ate up all the time. >> thanks rich. >> if you have a health and medical question you don't want to did your doctor, we've got the guy. he will answer any question. just post it, send it via video twitter instagram facebook using the hashtag tell me the truth. we have a special video on next time. >> just a tease. >> looking forward to it thanks rich. still to come, fugitives, a manhunt and a big pay off. a man down on his luck gets a big reward forgiving police a and a mac attack. a homeless man in california who alerted police to the whereabouts of two fugitives is getting a nice reward. matthew chapman will receive part of $100,000. he spotted the two escaped prison inmates back in january after recognizing a van police >> things were all steamed up, heavy, heavy condensation, i thought to myself there is two people in that van. >> reporter: also two target employees and the man whose van was allegedly stolen by the escapees will split a different $50,000 themselves. >> great to see. you always wondered if they were paid out on those things. >> exactly. thunderstorms out there right now? >> yeah they flared up over eastern pennsylvania. there is some lightning out there and heavy downpours. so as nice as it is now, make sure you have your umbrella. i don't want this to surprise you. it is closing in on new york city, probably around the 6:00 hour. latest 7:00. you can see how skies are looking a little more threatening as we look down the hudson. you can see 1 world trade and parts of new jersey. we are starting to see more cloud cover come in. 62 right now. sunshine gives way to clouds and a south wind at 7. i put wanted to give you a halftime report for march, which is now about 8 degrees above average. after we go through a stretch of a couple of above normal days we'll go below normal into the weekend and early next week. the cruster of thunderstorms seem to be holding together in parts of western new jersey right now. ner blairs town and mercer county. close to the 6:00 hour in the hudson valley. you see bridgewater right here at 5:16 oh less than an hour to get into central new jersey. brief heavy downpours and lightning. watch out for that. meanwhile you see on this particular computer model how it is showing thunderstorms through the early evening hours and things will quiet down by 11:00 or midnight with a couple of showers. here's your st. patrick's parade planner. picking up and the clouds will be increasing at times. a passing shower, not a washout by any means. so watch this futurecast again, timing these showers and this is depicting some of the heavier showers in new york city by 7:00. they are already here they could be close to new york city by the 6:00 hour. by the time we see eyewitness news at 11:00, things are starting to quiet down. more clouds gather during the day and there can be a passing shower especially in the afternoon hours. by friday morning, we start out with sunshine, that day will also feature more clouds in the afternoon, a passing shower. a colder wind and only in the low 50s that day, feeling like 40. so here comes the cool air on friday with an afternoon shower. look at the low friday night, 29 degrees. saturday is the okay day of the weekend at 44, and sunday is the day, first day of spring, 12:30 in the morning. should get in dry, maybe isolated finishers get a little wet and rain can mix with late snow late in the day. the closer we get to spring the more wintry it looks david and liz. >> okay. all right. >> doesn't want to let go yet. here's what's trading on this wednesday. instagram making a change to make its app a much more personalized experience for you. instead of having posts based on when they were posted the social media site is testing out doing it by what seems to interest you the most. it is testing out monitoring your interactions, and puts those at the top of your feed. if that sounds familiar it is. the same system instagram's parent company facebook uses. so they have got a test to run on that. get ready for more mariah carey than you have ever wanted. the pop star will be a part of it will follow the singer as she begins her sweet fantasy tour and plans her wedding to billionaire james packer. new york-based photographer is going to new heights. he went to more than 150 of manhattan's tallest skyscrapers and captured some very dizzying shots of models on the edge literally. the series is called beauty and nyc. >> oh my gosh it literally makes you dizzy looking at that. >> mission accomplished. the navigation app ways just added a new feature liz that will let you plan your trip in advance. it allows users to enter important appointment in the app and will monitor route conditions and check what normally happens on the routes to leave. charts. >> it is owned by google, by the way. over this demonstration of what happens when you pour molten hot copper on to a big mac. you would think it would disintegrate anything it touches. instead nothing, zilch. this would happen to any hamburger. what is known as the laden frost effect. when you get the copper 200 degrees over its melting point it will stop the copper from actually sticking to the surface. don't try that at home. that is the big mac? that is the big mac? >> excellent discussion dave. i wouldn't want that to get lost. >> this was an episode of myth busters, so it has been done many times. check out the trend. >> i can't imagine mcdonalds is all that happy with that. >> probably not. that is why we point out it would happen on anything. >> it will not stop the >> what is it like a 9-pack of chicken mcnuggets? is trending right now. >> little spring. shaking things up a little bit. >> we love it. >> all right. we are moving on. and still to come, modern day bank robberies. coming up on eyewitness news, in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state, the economy is growing, 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(car horn honking) a chainsaw? no, no, all we really need is a tow truck. geico's emergency roadside service is there for you. ri there's a new warning about identity thieves. >> the bad guys have a new trick up their sleeve. they can rob your bank account with a simple phone call. shirleen allicot explains. >> reporter: you're listening authorities say the caller is really a thief using stolen bank account information. >> i'd like to order some checks. >> reporter: ordering checks so he can get money from a stranger's account. the thief got the stolen information from a bank teller. >> what transactions did you want to go over, sir? >> reporter: it's not just one account. he calls to access several. >> i'd like to know how much i have in my accounts, please. >> reporter: you have $14,327.13. >> the bank tellers have access to very confidential data. >> reporter: the district attorney says bad tellers are often part of larger identity theft rings. >> they're selling that to individuals on the outside who will then take that information, turn it in to credit cards or checks. >> reporter: he says he has seen an alarming increase in these crimes, even estimating that he prosecutes a case once a month. >> i think we should all worried. that doesn't mean we should all panic. want us to show her face because she's still a victim. she claims her identity keeps on getting stolen. >> nobody knew this was happening. >> reporter: she said thousands of dollars from her account were stolen weeks before the biggest day of her life. >> we had been working for about a year to save up a lot of cash to pay for our entire wedding, and it was gone. >> reporter: she said she had no idea that a bank teller had stolen her identity, along with 28 other customers, until she received a letter from her bank. chase told her this. a former employee may have accessed your account information without authorization and gave it to someone outside of chase. chase says as soon as we discovered this, we immediately called the authorities, fired the employee, and reimbursed the customers. we are sorry and angry this happened. shirleen allicot, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> that's very scary. still more news ahead. >> eyewitness news at 5:00 outrage tonight over a man tasered in new jersey. were police justified or did they go too far? >> new developments in the limo crash that killed four people in long island. two drivers facing charges. >> an accuweather alert. thunderstorms moving in to the area right now. good evening. i'm sade baderinwa. >> i'm diana williams. we begin with the changing weather. meteorologist lee goldberg is tracking the storms. >> these just flared up over the last hour and a half and i just got this report that rolled in from eastern pennsylvania. the storms actually producing penny-sized hail over there. skies are getting more threatening over parts of new jersey. these aren't severe storms but they have heavy downpours. the clusters are definitely holding together as they now move in to western new jersey. let's look at the ones moving in to parts of western new jersey, not too far from mercer county. over bridge water, next half hour to 45 minutes. thunderstorm with a lot of lightning. not too far from liberty in sullivan county as well. let's time these for you. approaching new york city probably by the 6:00 hour. they're moving east at 45. in parts of the hudson valley before 6:00. another look at a future scan radar confirming it's going to approach new york city, go through the hudson valley and jersey shore right around 6:00. after that for parts of long island. we don't have any watches or warnings with these but be ready for a brief heavy downpour, lightning, and maybe small hail. our other big story, criminal charges in the limo crash on long island. >> four young women were killed last july. tonight the driver of their limousine as well as an accused drunk driver both being charged. >> n.j. burkett first broke the story today. he's live in central islip with more information. >> one investigator i spoke with today described this as a couldn't see, he was turning in to oncoming traffic because his view was blocked. but he turned anyway and four young women were killed. >> reporter: carlos pino left the courthouse this afternoon and said nothing. prosecutors say he has no one to blame but himself for the horrific limousine crash in long island wine country last summer. >> the person who was criminally response for this crash is carlos pino. and carlos pino alone. >> reporter: prosecutors say pino drove his limousine directly in to the path of an suv because he simply could not seen oncoming traffic. his view was blocked by another suv, making the turn directly in front of him, and the limo was struck broadside. >> pino failed to take any precautions whatsoever, or any action to make sure he could safely enter the westbound travel lanes, and he continued to make his u-turn.

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