Off the street because they will have six or ten or 12 incidents before they are apprehended. I had my earbuds on. I wasnt listening. I was playing on my phone. Reporter Anthony Smith was distracted when he was attacked. Personal Security Experts say that was his devastating mistake. The most important thing is to be aware of your surroundings. You have to watch whats happening around you. I didnt see nothing. I dont stare at people. Reporter 71yearold Carmen Rivera said she didnt make eye contact with her attacker before he slashed her face. But the expert says thats a must in protecting yourself. You want to know what this person looks like. You want to put a little scare into them also that they are thinking this person is looking me over now and maybe this person isnt the victim that im going to pick and move on to someone else. Reporter and our security expert said if you are attacked, fight back scream bring attention to yourself. You need all the eyes that you can get to identify your attacker so police can make an arrest. Thank you, hazel. Now to a developing story in queens where were getting our first look at the us is in a suspect in a shooting. This man is accused of shoot it would go women after a far of shooting two women at a far rockaway apartment this morning. The 51yearold victim was shot in the hand. She is in stable condition. The 36yearold victim shot in the torso for under inside an apartment. She died at the scene. A helicopter crashlanded happened today in a residential neighborhood on long island. The Flight Instructor and his student pilot out for a lesson, first lesson they survived. Cbs 2s Carolyn Gusoff reports. Reporter Surveillance Video captures the moment of impact a helicopter downed in the middle of a lindenhurst intersection. Laura saint angelo heard sputtering and could see the propellers actually stopped. I saw the mans face in fear. Reporter air Traffic Controllers knew there was trouble from this may day transmission southwest of Republic Airport in farmingdale. May day may day may day engine failure. Are you able to make it to the field . Negative. Reporter neighbors found the chopper on its side amazed the pilot, 26yearold joseph lombardo, a Flight Instructor and his 27yearold chinese student, had no injuries. He is so grateful this man for his instructor saving his life. Reporter academy of aviation out of republic says the experienced instructor was returning from a twohour lesson at the controls. His student out for his first lesson. Mechanical problems shut the engine down but the pilot now hailed as a hero for managing to find the one place where no one would get hurt. Im just so grateful that he is alive. Both of them. Kids around, no cars around. Reporter the chopper is totaled but no one was injured. In lindenhurst, long island, Carolyn Gusoff, cbs 2 news. [ pause ] the citys Buildings Department issued a stop work order at a construction site in manhattan after a worker was seriously injured. Authorities say the worker fell from the fifth floor to the basement of a building on west 17th street in chelsea this morning. He was taken to a hospital, is in serious condition tonight. After a preliminary investigation, inspectors determined the injured worker was not using proper safety protection equipment. After the storm melting snow is blamed for an underground explosion in lower manhattan. Sparks and smoke spewed off an Electrical Equipment blew up at around 9 30 this morning in lower manhattan. The blast was Strong Enough to send heavy metal plates flying into the air narrowly missing stroller and a man walking by. Goofs really nervous. The he was really nervous. The snow blew up 30 feet and blew up a car. Melting snow and salt underground may have caused the explosion. Over 400 manhole incidents have been reported since the storm. And four days after the historic snowstorm and its still tough going for computers especially those forced to navigate around snow covered bus stops in new jersey. Cbs 2s elise finch is live in clifton with more on what pedestrians are still facing. Elise. Reporter we are live on main avenue near bride well place in clifton and you can see that this bus stop itself the landing has been cleared very nicely. So has the access point where people would step on or off the bus. The problem is that there are no pathways cleared to this point from either side. So people either have to walk in the street or through the snow. Stops in northern new jersey is still a dangerous trek. Actually crossed over from there and walked through the snow. A little hassle. Reporter tuesday night cbs 2 highlighted the scary path from the new Jersey Transit bus stop off route 3. Today that walkway was cleared. Others along busy roads like this highland bus stop on route 4 east in paramus still requires people to walk through deep snow or out in the street close to speeding cars. I usually walk around here and its kind of more risky for me getting hit by a car now. Reporter a spokesman for the paramus shade tree and Parks Commission says they, quote, provide a path to cross the access ramps on certain island bus stops shelters which may not have a paved walkway. But he goes on to say that some pathways are the responsibility of businesses since the bus stops are on their property or because they rented space at the bus stop to advertise. Some riders say they dont care who is supposed to shovel and plow. Its bad enough that the bus stops are along the highway. But now its covered in snow. Its ridiculous. I think by now they should have a system set up where this should be done. Reporter now, this is an interesting situation because underneath this snow we are told that there isnt a sidewalk. Its a grassy surface and based on the conversations i had today there is no protocol in place to clear a path on a grassy surface. No one is really required to do it. Still, the conversations i have had today with people in different municipalities they say if your bus stop is still snow covered the best thing you can do is report it. Thats how they know where to focus their resources. Live in new jersey, elise finch, cbs 2 news. The mountains of trash on new york city streets will start to disappear tomorrow. The department of sanitation says City Residents starting tonight can put their trash out and recyclables out on the curb according to the normal schedule but with ongoing snow removal efforts there may be some delays in the trash pickup. While the snowstorm and the big mess left behind have people, theres a woman on on the blizzard as the unforgettable day that she get a Second Chance at life. Cbs 2s cindy hsu has the story. It was like a miracle. She said we have a kidney for you, i almost fell off the reporter 65yearold melanie had been waiting a transplant. During the blizzard, she got the call from her doctor who had found a perfect match. You had no idea when you went to bed friday night that we were going to have a no. Call you in the middle of a blizzard with a kidney. Reporter at first emergency crews told her there was no way an ambulance could make it through the whiteout conditions to bring her nearly 20 miles from her home in bohemia, new york to Stony Brook University hospital but a paramedic was determined to make it happened. Once he arrived at her home he shoveled through two feet of snow to get to her door and the nightmare kind when they hit the roads. We maneuvered around cars that were stuck all over the place and cars spinning out in front of us. My fear was that somebody was going to crash into us or we were going to get stuck and that was going to delay you getting here. And i wanted to make sure you were going to get the organ you needed. Reporter amato knows how life changing a kidney transplant can be. His brother received transplant a decade ago. I thank god its working. I thought there was going to be complications. Thank god everything is going smoothed. I think the realizization is when i said to you one persons tragedy is another persons miracle. Reporter and this will be their memory of the blizzard of 2016. Cindy hsu, cbs 2 news. The kidney came from a braindead patient in south carolina. Melanie says she hopes more people will sign up to be organ donors. Coming up next, attacked by a raccoon on the way to school. A little boy in the hospital tonight with bites and scratches. You will hear from the Good Samaritan who saved him. The dog bites, its unadoptable but a local Animal Shelter is fighting hard to keep it and others i like to alive. Stick around, we have the story. And weatherwise its been all about the snow melt. Well check in on where we are now in central park on snow depth but its also about the possibility of a Storm Brewing out there. Is it going to happen or not . Well check in on that in just a bit. Coming up on the cbs evening News Donald Trump dropping out of the next debate. Scott pelley with that and more. Dana, it is a showdown with fox news and donald trump if its a publicity stunt, its certainly working. Well have that and also more of our investigation into one of the leading charities for wounded veterans and how they are actually spending their money. All that just ahead on the cbs evening news at 6 30. Thank you, scott. Well see you then. Later here at 6 00, eli manning has two super bowl rings. Peyton manning. Patients across the country have spoken. They recently rated their Care Experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Fewer than 6 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Learn more at cancercenter. Com slash eastern. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Care that never quits. A 6yearold boy walking to school with his mom is recovering tonight after being raccoon. The routine walk turned horrific in elmwood park. The childs mother sent us this photo from the hospital showing the little boys injuries. To the man who helped save him. Reporter all quiet as he shot video of the scene. But this morning, around 8 40, screams for help could be heard through elmwood village. Multiple 911 calls came in. Theres a woman screaming please call 911. Attacked by something. Reporter a little boy just 6yearold was walking to school with his mother when a recan jumped on him and scratched his face. Danny walls was going to work had he he heard the screams. He jumped out of his car to help. I see his claw into the kids face and biting the kids face. Reporter he grabbed his painting pole and started beating it. I killed the raccoon, the kid jumped up screaming. He was crying. Reporter walls wife also heard the screams and called police. All i saw was a man with a stick hitting, hitting and i was like, oh, my god a man is hitting a woman and a kid. Reporter but as she got closer she realized it was her husband. Then when i noticed he was the raccoon, so im very proud of him. Reporter danny walls says once the chaos of the moment settled, the little boys mother seemed grateful for his actions. We did speak to the mother briefly and she says her son is recovering here at Hackensack University medical center. As for the raccoon, its in the hands of Bergen County animal control and rabies results are expected on friday. From hackensack, new jersey, vanessa murdoch, cbs 2 news. The police is working with the school to people parents informed about the case. Nobody wants them but a local Animal Shelter is going through extraordinary lengths to keep problem dogs alive. Even when they have been proven impossible to adopt. Cbs 2s lou young with the story in stamford, connecticut. Reporter death row dogs get a possible reprieve, a 6 yearold shih tzu named riley is on the unadoptable list at the city Animal Shelter in stamford. Riley does not care for people. But he is fine around other dogs. Of five dogs eligible for a new program. The chihuahua named paulie is another. He will bite you. Reporter they are a tangle of fear, food and guarding aggression possibly headed for an upstate new york sanctuary for dogs unfit to be pets. For instance, this dog likes his toys too much. Tennis ball. Reporter last year this Animal Shelter didnt put a single dog down for behavioral reasons. They did, however, send several to animal sanctuaries at the cost of 5,000 each. Thats for a lifetime of care. That gets expensive so now the city is setting up a charity so animal lovers can pay for the program. Its called leash on life. This would just be happening as donations. Somebody saying donations because they like to see the animals saved thats easier than saying we are never going to kill any animals. We dont want to euthanize these animals. We do our best to be sure we can do what we can for them. Reporter at 5,000, if it sounds like a lot some say it a dog can live up to 15 years. So that money can go very quickly. So youre worried about the care for the dog in the long term. Yes. Reporter stamfords previous animal control officer Lori Hollywood was arrested and fired for allegedly doctoring the record of problem dogs and adopting them out. The city is now working with an outfit to keep them alive without putting humans in reach of those teeth. In stamford, lou young, cbs 2 news. Riley does not want to curl up on your lap or your couch. He is just interested in being with pore dogs. Lonnie quinn now, joining us. And you had a little bit there of i wouldnt call it a tease because a tease often means its going to be something good. Natavia lowerynah nahnahnah possibility of snow thursday into friday we have been watching every day around here. I have good news. Thats your picture outside s there are a few clouds out there. You were warm today hitting 47 for a high. 40 was your low so new york city never got below freezing. A few of you did outside the city but tonight it will be colder so tonight you go back to that problem with some black ice in spots. So the snow melt status because we were so warm today, again we talk about the maximum snow depth that we had on saturday. 11 p. M. It was 26. 8 inches. Ha ha ha the bane of my existence. Yesterday at 5 p. M. Started the newscast yesterday to 17. Now we go down another 8 we are down now to 9 in central park. By the weekend with some big warm air coming in here youre going to start seeing patches of green grass. I saw some shots from you guys lost a lot of your snowpack. Youre waking up to much colder air tomorrow morning. If you are going over a bridge or over an overpass, on your drive tomorrow, they are going to freeze tomorrow thats where you will find the slippery spots. That idea of thursday snow, like a thursday snowstorm, we are going to trade that in. For now just the chance for some flurries on friday not too much of anything. Temperature for the month of february right now they had put out their outlook it looks like our area would be running above normal. It doesnt mean you cant get a cold snap. You can get a big storm. I think february will be above average overall. Vortex satellite and radar looks good right now. A few flurries north of our area. Bigger picture shows you these two systems. Now, if they were to merge in our area that would be big storm. But it doesnt look like right now does not look like now thats going to happen because what we see is this system going out to sea. And it goes out to sea before the Second System can actually make its way in so we are only by the system to our north. Doesnt look like too much of anything. Every model is saying it would be less than an inch for anybody in the area. Im going on the high side of any one model that i looked at. So youre 39 degrees on thursday. 40 on friday. A few flurries mixed in here or there. Saturday youre 40. Sunday youre looking at 46. So theres the warmup right there. Monday youre 47. Tuesday 45. 46 on wednesday. That little i just figured it out. Thats the groundhog. Right. Thank you. Chances are he may call for an early spring despite another loss some knicks are talking big. Otis has that. Who thinks the knicks are playoff teams . One player does. He doesnt mine telling everybody. Andly bro has more super bowl rings than big brother. Is eli manning rooting for well hear from eli himself. Every Auto Insurance policy has a number. But not every Insurance Company understands the life behind it. Those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an Auto Insurance quote and Otis Livingston is here with a done deal for the mets. We have yo back. Yoenis cespedes is back. I get it. Said he couldnt deny the pull to come back and finish what he and the mets started last season a world series run that physical yesterday cespedes officially back in the fold looking for that elusive ring in 2016. Mets coo jeff wilpon said in a Conference Call today the big outcry to resign him played a part to do so. They know he was a big part of the run last season carrying the mets for about two months after getting traded from detroit. How about this . A big time player who could have gotten a longer term deal somewhere else decides he wants to make his home in queens. The fact that a player of this magnitude wanted to be a new york met and wanted to be here, we are a destination now where players wants to be. Its the biggest estimate and obviously, the fans coming out to see him and supporting us and also, the players on this field have something to do were it, as well. All right. The rarest of the rare nights. All the low proteins are off. Kristaps porzingis named to the world team for the rising weekends. Tough loss at home last night blew an 11th point lead to the Oklahoma City thunder done in by the dynamic duo durant with 44 points including the game tying shot to send the game to overtime. His running mate Russell Westbrook went for 30. The knicks loves 128122 without Carmelo Anthony who had knee soreness. Another player said he thinks they are going to the post season. We dont make the playoffs this year, we belong in the playoffs. And im just saying that because of our consistency. We have to give that consistent evident. Panther linebacker thomas davis underwent surgery on monday had a plate put in his broken arm said he is going to play in super bowl 50 next sunday. Local guy who knows a Little Something about super bowls eli manning two for two in the biggest of games. Patriots both times but who is counting. After 19 seasons battling injuries and criticism Peyton Manning is playing in super bowl 50. When you get with season 19 and deal with injuries it would be a good way to go out. Just because of that possibility, i hope that he can win this game and if he decides to hang it up, go out on top. Elis big brother will try to win a second title in his fourth try. Cam newton will attempt to win in his first appearance. Catch all the action next sunday, february 7, beginning at 6 30 right here on cbs 2 and ill be doing some live reports beginning next thursday night for super bowl 50. Back after this. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms. No growthpromoting antibiotics, just honest, simple turkey. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. Next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today coming up on cbs 2 news at 11 00, im Kristine Johnson in the newsroom and we are in the middle of winter but its not stopping people from getting freezing facials or wearing clothes to work to keep them cold all in the name of beauty. Freezing yourself fabulous tonight at 11. Thanks, kristine. Up next on the cbs evening news with scott pelley, new cases of zika virus confirmed in the u. S. 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