Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News This Morning 20160404 :

Transcripts For WABC Eyewitness News This Morning 20160404

Killed in an overnight crash. We are learning the other driver has been charged. Ak can you weather alert in an accuweather aler. We are going to see snow. Snow. Snow. Good good morning. Today is monday april 4th. Never more than 10 minutes away from weather and traffic. It is cold. Freeze warning in effect. A Winter Weather advisory. Rain on the way. Temperature 36 now in the five bureaus. The temperature dropping. New bush it is snowing. Winter weather advisory posted there. Freeze warning in affect. Southern west chester throughout eastern burrgon, urban areas long island, central southern jersey. Here is the snow we are talking about, along i84. Seeing the snow coming in light snow in western county. 6 00 a. M. , might be snow and rain mixed in the city. This is going to be about 13 inches above i80 and above i 287. A cold raw rainy day. Raining at 1 05 for the first pitch at the stadium. Yankees home owner. Something going on. We have this fast track repair, there is no service on the between franklin and flat bush with the on going track work. 4th avenue brooklyn closed of falling debris. The springburg northbound, near the bronx parkway accident has been cleared. Two breaking stories now, Newark Airport, a fire filled terminal b with suffocating smoke. You can see the red glow flames in the background. Reporter good morning, you can see the emergency vehicles outside terminal b at the airport. The fire that broke out in delta section has been placed under control. The Port Authority tells us they expect the rest of the terminal which handles International Flights will operate as normal this morning. Firefighters responded to a report of a fire in a storage room at around 1 00 this morning, and smoke quickly filled the terminal. They put that fire out but were after some how the fire reignited. This time firefighters had to take down the section of a ceiling to actually reach the flames and the fire at one point reached two alarms before it was placed under control. The fire happened during off peak hours so it was not affecting passengers at the time. The terminal here has been evacuated until the smoke clears out and firefighters can be certain that this time the fire is completely out. We are seeing some normal activity here at terminal b, see the emergency vehicles here doing housekeeping, if you will, to make sure the smoke gets out of the way and the fire has been extinguished. Drake clark, channel 7, eye witness news. Brooklyn, a 5 alarm fire is burning through a commercial building. Avenue in prospect garden, garden. Reporter good morning, firefighters still working to get a handle on that fires a you mentioned. It reached 5 alarms and started at 11 00 in what appears to be a warehouse that holds some kind of bakery. The Fire Department had to fight the flames from overhead. Several blocks of neighborhood are closed this morning while firefighters continue to fight the flames from above, the fire started inside the warehouse on the 600 block of parkside avenue. The flames became so intense, they pulled everybody out of the building. This was a difficult fir to fight, several of the adjoining buildings spanned most of the block including a church next door. The pastor and parishioners have been able to get in. It has smoke and water damage this morning. They were able to save an it took an effort. Here is what the chief had to say about that. We fought the fire inside the building. We were driven out of the building. The fire eventually spread throughout the entire building, 5th alarm right now, 50 units, 2550 firefighters. Reporter one firefighter did suffer minor injuries to his back, the fire is still working, firefighters still working on that to contain that. It reached five alarms at its height. They are working on knocking it down. There is a School Across the street that may present challenges to kids trying to get to school on parkside avenue in brooklyn this morning. A husband and wife are dead killed when a car collided with another car on long island. A horrendous crash, the driver of the second car is charged with dui. And ocean avenue. The second driver, now treated for injuries at Stony Brook University hospital. Police identify the victims as william and joann keer. Hilary clinton joins Governor Cuomo at a victory rally for 15 minimum wage. The state passed a plan gradually to raise the minimum wage to 15 in new york city, over the next two years, for the rest of the state by 2021. Cuomo will sign in to law and celebrate new yorks plan for paid family leave. The affects of the weekends windy weather felt in the town of elizabeth, greer avenue remains closed because of a swaying church steeple. The situation started after the metal bracings in the building snapped due to the winds. Construction crews will dismantle the dome piece by piece. There were similar scenes manhattan, the winds rocked a crane 16 stories if the sky. It happened at an under eastside building. Everything is back to normal. In the bronx authorities believe winds are behind a partial building collapse. The facade fell off a 3story building. Brooklyn, another partial collapse at 14th avenue and 14th street. Its going to rain, expect a packed house in the bronx for the yankees home owner. 50,000 people are pack yankee for the 114th opening day in the teams history. It is a rematch of last octobers wild card playoff loss against houston which ended the season. Pregame ceremonies begin at 12 30. Game time today is 1 05 and the weather is going to be dicey. Down, great to see baseball. Its a good sign. Speaking of bill, never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Cloudy skies, 36 there our bureaus. Good visibility to arizona and narrows bridge in the distance sandy hook new jersey. That will come crashing down this morning. Down the beach, 36 degrees, wind thats out of the southwest, ahead of this snow showers that are falling in susex county, orange, sullivan, that will keep driving southward. Rain to the west around 10 00 or 11 00, and building around lunchtime and early afternoon. It will be 43 degrees with rain by 9 00. Everybody is in to the rain today. Raining at 1 00. Temperature 50 degrees, i dont know if they play the home owner today. But all afternoon, and in to the evening commute. Looking at this mornings snow, rainy and chilly, 51 degrees. Weather and traffic every 7 minutes. A little bit of activity here, this is elizabeth, new jersey, i will explain what going on as we head to our maps. Routes 1 and 9, south of elizabeth avenue. Here is Newark Airport, south of elizabeth, a downed pole and downed wires. That was the activity i was showing you. No service between franklin and flat brook. Brooklyn, 4th avenue closed both ways between 16th and 14th streets because of falling debris. We are looking at the spring brook parkway north, route 287, another incident, that is being cleared away. We heard of a stall on the springburg parkway. That stall is on the southbound side. Pulaski skyway outbound, setting up a new construction pattern beginning today. Our street cleaning rules are in effect for today. Still ahead, a teacher is temporarily out of the classroom after shocking remarks made to a Muslim Student in front of the entire class. Hear what is teacher is accused of saying. Frightening moments for a woman whose car plunged down a cliff. What happened moments before the fall that saved her life. Strong winds sent a restaurant sign flying in to a car with a driver inside. What happened next is nothing stay with us. Alright guys. I want to show you some cutting edge technology. This is a vhs tape. Push that tape in and hit play. This is a flip phone. Have you seen these before . Its called a compact disc. Oh. Looks like were getting a facsimile. What year is it to you . Its old. Youd rather use Newer Technology . Definitely. Well, ive got something to show you. It uses extended range electric technology. The prius hybrid uses Battery Technology developed 15 years ago. Chevy expects volt drivers to get over a thousand miles between fill ups. Its got every technology there is. Passengers are going through security tents before they can enter a temporary departures hall. There are new calls for the federal government to work faster to test explosive detectors. Bombers used tapd in brussels. Investigators found more after the attacks. The mixture of chemicals used in the paris attacks. Senator Charles Schumer says the department of Homeland Security needs to fast track testing on the tatp detector. What are we waiting for. I want it to be done now. Implement it as long as it they will field test tatp desk. A driver in the hospital in canada, the woman behind the wheel of the car was able to jump out just moments before it crashed over the edge of a cliff at a popular tourist spot in knew fin new finland. Its not clear what caused her to lose control of the car. She is in the hospital with serious injuries. A driver walked away with cuts and bruises when this powerful winds sent a brick and concrete sign on to his car in indiana. The chipotle sign crashed through the roof and wind shelled windshield as the driver was getting out. He walked in to a store and called for help. Winds did that. I was at store yesterday in new jersey, watching the sign of the store next door, the sign was doing this. Was it brick, though . And concrete . Steel, a big steel sign. Bill evan with the accuweather forecast. We dont have the wind thats died down. Clear to partly cloudy skies. Looking south through midtown. A good visibility for now. You need the gear to keep you warm and rain and snow are on the way. Down the beach, as berry park, point pleasant. A temperature of 36 degrees. Dry humidity, southeast wind, the pressure is falling. That points to what is going to be unstable day today with rain and the temperatures are cold enough for snow this morning. 43 the high yesterday. Normal is 57. We will be seeing Colder Weather coming in this evening and for tonight, we are looking at snow, changing to rain in to the morning commute. Before it does, a coating to an inch north of the city, and then 13 north and west of i 84. Duchess, putnam, orange county, rain from the city, coastal connecticut, long island and might start from the bronx, southward with snow, as we get to 7 or 8 00. Its going to change to rain. A rainy day, ugly day. 34 north port. Temperatures dropping. Winds coming in southeast, that will continue to make it damp and cool as the winds come over the waters of the atlantic, 45 degrees. Wind gusts yesterday 64 miles per hour, jfk. Tropical storm forced winds. Mid 50s yesterday. The gusts white plains, newark, jfk. Heavy wet snow duchess, sullivan and olester county, looking at the freeze warning. Another freeze warning tonight. Freeze wantings are good when they are letting you know like yesterday in advance where you can bring in the plants, make sure the pets are indoors. They will be freezing, not nom snow showers are here north of i287. Getting in here to west chester, rockland county, duchess, putnam, fairfield, this will drop on south this morning, right down to the bronx, right to northern, maybe the north shore long island. The rain to the west slides in through the day. See by the time we get to 7 00, snow in Fairfield County to the bronx, see thats the line, just south of that the temperatures 40 degrees. That will mix with rain. We get everybody changing over to rain during the day. See by the time we get to the afternoon, you got to go above 84 for there to be snow towards albany. At 12 00, 1 00, 2 00, 51 and rain, rain through the afternoon, that means rain during baseball. That will be lasting in to this evening. Morning snow around. Mixing with and changing to rain, chilly day 51. Tonight clearing, blustery and colder. 20 in the suburbs. Thursday warming to 60. We could have a shower and a thunderstorm. Temperatures look to be below normal for the end of the week in to the weekend. Got to have all your gear on this monday morning. Mother nature. You have somebody to warn you, who is nice. Be glad you have somebody to warn you who is a nice guy. You are warned. Thats right. The 5 t 9th street bridge, lower level in to manhattan, an accident, the accident is cleared away, we have the one trains with track work. No service between franklin and flat bush. 287 southbound, thats closed street cleaning rules are in effect. A texas family calling for religious sensitivity training for an entire school after a 12 yearold honor student was called alter al called a terrorist by a teacher. It was while they were walking the soccer movie bend it like beckham. I was laughing at the movie and the teacher said i wouldnt be laughing if i was you. I said why. She said because we all think you are a terrorist. The boy who was born in texas says his class turned on him after that making fun of him and saying he had a bomb. The school suspended the teacher. We are hearing from the family of a man shot by police after she drew a pellet gun at the u. S. Capitol. Larry dawson is in the hospital facing prom the area after he interrupted a house session screaming im a prophet of god. His sister said it has nothing to do with religion. He is a good father and great grandfather. He was committed to a Mental Hospital a decade ago after sending a letter to an under age girl claiming to be her god chosen husband. He is facing 55 years in jail after this latest incident at the capitol. A former player is suing nypd after he says he was unfairly arrested. There was a stabbing at a chelsey club a year ago. They claim he was metaling with the crime scene. They charged the charges against him. He is seeking 25 million in damages. Put on your finings time to look at an art gallery this exhibition sits on a sunken air force missile tracking ship, 100 feet below the surface of the florida keys. The art in the under water galleries moipted in stainless steel mounted in stainless steel frames and silicone. It debut under the sea 5 years ago. They added this years ago. New details about the man that caused a scare in times square over the weekend. Police in queens are looking for the attack their beat a man unconscious and robbed him. Alright guys. I want to show you some cutting edge technology. This is a vhs tape. Push that tape in and hit play. This is a flip phone. Have you seen these before . 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There is snow showers in a lot of spots, coming across here to the north shore of long island, the snow showers are sliding south and east here, this is 84 here. As you go along 84, you get southward, 287, this is 80 here. This is going to be cutting across here, probably getting on down to the bronx this morning. Thats something we will keep we are seeing the snow showers from newburg, south, 13 inches of wet snow possible until 7 00. Weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. Here is the ed couch queensboro bridge. The upper level is doing just fine. Lets head over to our maps. The 59th street bridge, we have the accident, mass transit not doing too badly. Street cleaning rules in effect for today. A stack of summons happenedded to the man whose abandoned truck led to the chaos in times square. Officers found the box truck empty and running near 7th avenue and 46th street in the middle of everything and discovered two gas cans and the truck. Police cleared the plaza before determining the vehicle was not a threat. No criminal charges have been filed. Following two breaking stories now, firefighters are working to get control of a massive fire that destroyed a business and damaged a church. We are live at the scene. Live at Newark Airport, Early Morning electrical fire led to evacuations in Delta Airlines terminal b, an update on what passengers can expect. Seeing spring snow in parts of the tr vo you were born. You live in westchester. You live in the hudson valley. You live in the bronx. Youre more than one person. Youre many people. Youre a community. You know what you want when it comes to medical care. Without having to travel for it. You have it in montefiore. With a history of firsts were nationally recognized for medical excellence, and with our Albert Einstein college of medicine, academic and research excellence. 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Look to the north, 33 new city, 36 i dont thinkers. 34 anover, 20s north of that. The snow will be falling. See the wind south and southeast. Duchess, olester and orange the freeze warning will continue. Like winter conditions outside with the temperatures and the heavy wet snow to the north. See

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