falling on the floor. >> reporter: the fire raged for several hours, spanning out on both sides, damaging four other houses. the heat from the flames blistered siding on homes across the street. arson investigators now report the fire was started by children playing with matches, an accident. a costly one for children and adults alike. >> you lose your whole entire life here. th forbid. we have nine children that live in that home. >> reporter: the building department has issued a vacate order for the three houses most heavy damaged. some of the displaced families cannot go home again. patrick hopes his family can return in a few weeks. >> it is all totally turned upside down. glass all over the place, water. damaged. everything is water logged. >> reporter: the fire department has an education and intervention program for children 12 and under who engage in fire play and set fires. these children will have to attend that. while no one was killed, 21 people were injured. most of them were firemen. the destruction you see right here is a cautionary tale for csx railroad place have joined the investigation into a railroad accident. a teen was hit by a freight train yesterday afternoon. he was in cardiac arrest when first responders arrived at the scene. investigators are still piecing together the details of what led up to that accident. an arrest in california for a high-end jewelry heist in manhattan last year. christopher mulligan was one of robbed a store on madison avenue. the suspects smashed the display case and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rolex watches. one was arrested in stockton, california. another was arrested. the third still on the run. norwalk police arrested 26-year-old joshua lucas earlier this week. security tipped them off to a shipment of one and a half pounds of mdma. lucas signed for the packages and was arrested. he had equipment like, quote, a drug factory. more than a dozen new york firefighters are heading to the west coast to help fight the devastating wildfires there. 20 employees and volunteers from the state's department of environmental conservation will spend two weeks on the job in california. the blue cut fire continues to loss in san bernardino county, but crews can't get a complete tally because many of the areas are still smoldering and they just can't get to them. in the race for president, there is more shuffling at the top of the trump organization. today trump's campaign chairman paul manafort resigned. the announcement came days after trump brought in two outsiders into the campaign. trump was in louisiana today visiting residents das trump toured damaged homes of what's being called the state's worst disaster since hurricane katrina. >> they need a lot of help. what's happened here is incredible. nobody understands how bad it is. it is really incredible. i'm just here to help. >> president obama will be visit louisiana on tuesday. he'll be criticized for continuing his vacation on martha's vineyard. hillary clinton is also in husband's 70th birthday. she has several fundraisers planned for the weekend. there's more trouble surrounding her use of private e-mail servers when she was secretary of state. a federal judge just ruled that hillary clinton must answer written questions from a conservative watchdog group suing her over that private e-mail server. a teacher fired from her job at a local school says it is a clear cut case of overgrown weeds, bugs, and rats. the chance for transformation. there's a lot of stormy weather back to the west and we're going to get some of it later this weekend. i'll have all the details in your forecast coming up next. lester holt has a look at what he's working on for 6:30. >> a newly identified zika infection zone in florida pregnant women. we'll have details on that. ryan lochte's apology over his false robbery story, does it close the case? 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they'll do a quick and fast job. >> the backyards have hundreds of residents here in the community. >> reporter: a town supervisor says the change is like night and day. until today, you couldn't even walk through here. >> you couldn't walk through here. you might be able to high boots on, but you wouldn't want to. >> it is just a shame. it really is a shame in this kind of weather and stuff people who border this can't really enjoy their properties and backyard. >> reporter: overall, neighbors say they are cautiously optimistic they'll never see that eyesore again. the lirr says for the most part it is done with all the clean up work here. they will be back to maintain it. neighbors say you can bet they'll be making sure that happens. news 4 new york. a woman is suing a catholic high school in new jersey claiming she was fired because she's married to a woman. kate was the dean of guidance paramus catholic high school. attorneys for the church say she was fired not because she's a lesbian, but because she wasn't against the catholic faith by having a same-sex marriage. the promise to cut her student debt costs. >> better get baquero for the red flags of this latest scam. cars, si an increase in noise complaints in the city. which spots are seeing the most? 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>> it's very noisy. i think the city is getting so crowded at this point. there is so much traffic. >> reporter: while many new yorkers would think midtown would be the noisiest part of the city, but the area that had the most noise complaints so far is in a spot far from here. in harlem, the hamilton heights section. >> i noisier than any other place in new york. >> reporter: while heather is a bit surprised, she remembers seeing police here just a month ago. >> a police officer was here and she was knocking on doors. she asked me if there were any noise complaints. she had gotten a lot of requests to investigate. >> reporter: here's a look at the top zip codes for noise complaints. hamilton heights number one for 2016. list last year. do you feel like this is one of the noisiest spots? >> most of the people who live here, they're from the dominican republic. our culture is different. >> reporter: most everyone i talked to said for new yorkers, all the noise just fades into the background. >> it's kind of weird if there wasn't any noise. i would be >> reporter: natalie pasquarella, news 4 new york. >> that does it for us. thank you for watching. now at 6:00, deadly crash. the latest in the investigation on how two new jersey transit buses crashed into each other. the producer just charged with tricking people into investing in a fake broadway show. 25 years ago today, the crown heights riot struck the "news 4 new york at 6:00" starts now. good evening, i'm chuck scarborough. >> and i'm natalie pasquarella. two people are dead this evening, 16 injured. two new jersey transit buses collided. >> it happened this morning at 6:00. an empty bus traveling at high speed t-boned another bus filled with passengers. the impact nearly split it in half, leaving people trapped in the twisted metal. investigators are trying to figure out whyt still fighting for their lives. >> reporter: chuck, this crash involved two veteran bus drivers, one of whom was already on his route here along broad street. the other just left the iron bound garage and was traveling down raymond boulevard at speeds of which witnesses say over 50 miles an hour. >> reporter: was it a medical one? >> he flew by me like he was driving on the highway. >> reporter: just after 6:00 a.m., the number 59 bus t-boned the number 13 as it ran northbound on broad street with 17 passengers on board. they all went to the hospital with a variety of injuries. the driver later released. one passenger later died. >> there are many witnesses, much evidence to be looked at, so at this moment we'll not speculate as to the cause >> reporter: the impact sent bus into the air. it landed on its side. this cell phone taken by a passenger shows the chaos and confusion inside. >> people were screaming, crying, getting up off the bus. >> reporter: new jersey transit officials say both drivers have clean records. >> it strikes at the heart of our top priority, which is safety. >> reporter: it shattered the post-dawn quiet of this busy new

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