Dug brinkley tell me about ann brinkley your mother. She meant everything to me, died a few years back of a massive heart attack and she told me she was oldschool czechoslovakian she would say, youre going to miss me when im dead, and im like a lot of kids like yeah, okay, and boy have i missed her, just a hole in my life because she was a real believer in education. She grew up very poor in new jersey, i mean dirt poor, and she worked at a Howard Johnsons waiting tables and got money to then go to clarians teachers college, today clarian State College in western pennsylvania and wanted, had gotten into carnegie but didnt have the money to go, at any rate, became a teacher and was a deeply driven person and kind of had an immigrants view of a love of america and that her kids were going to go anywhere so my whole life growing up was my mom telling me you could be president some day, go eat with the queen of england so always pushing manners and politeness, taught literature but her gre
job interview. my mother called me and she said the house is on fire, me and the kids are outside, pj s and no shoes, it s gone. that s all she kept telling me, it s gone. the issue here is these buildings are built closely together. once again gets going it s hot and they spread quickly. they re older wood frame structures that spread quickly. reporter: right now at this point they are still as i said trying to put out some hot spots. while this fire was going on a few blocks away two abandon homes went up in flames. we spoke to the fire chief about having to fight all those fires. more on that coming up at 5:00. toni yates, channel 7, eyewitness news. thank you. we are going to turn to the disturbing charges against jared fogle. the pitchman for subway will plead guilty to charges of having sex with minors and child pornography. he s best known for dropping 200 pounds on subway. he will spend 12 to 5.5 years behind bars. darla miles is live. darla. reporter: that
throughout the newscast and the nbc10 news app. the heat and humidity not taking a day off. 83 degrees already. if you re heading out the door soon, you might want to take that umbrella with you as well. nbc10 s first alert chief meteorologist galenn hurricane schwartz is here with the forecast. not a lot of places to get relief from the heat. this is one of them at the shore, cape may. very nice, comfortable day there. now, it was relatively comfortable over the weekend because the humidity was down. the humidity really started to come up on monday. yesterday, 92 degrees. today, very close to the 90-degree mark. we could extend the heat wave one more day. it s 84 degrees in philadelphia right now. 82 in allentown and reading. the feels-like temperature getting into the 90s already at dover. 92 degrees. it s very humid out there. way more humid than it s been at any other time during this heat wave. so, as we go through the afternoon, it s going to continue to be very
call 1-800-341-9716. drivers trapped with water up to the windows, property damaged, people stuck at work, and a freak storm causes flash flooding in new jersey, and tonight, traffic is still affected. good evening. i m kristine johnson. maurice is off tonight, and cbs 2 s tracee carrasco is following this developing story, and she is live in scotchplains, where the cleanup is now underway. tracee? what do you have? reporter: kristine, westbound traffic opened up a little bit ago, but eastbound, it s still shut down. behind me, you can see the crews are still cleaning up that side of the highway. a few hours ago, this whole area that i am standing in was completely under water, and many say the afternoon s flash flooding caught them offguard. it came and went this afternoon, and it left cars stranded in the streets, areas completely flooded out. i have never seen anything like this before. reporter: there s the aftermath of an afternoon storm that set over union count
also northbound are stopping at the atlantic center. a long island history teacher has pleaded not guilty to raping a child under the age of 13. lionel harvey dodged our cameras as he left court today. the former uniondale high schoolteacher was arrested earlier this year. according to court documents, harvey sexually abused the child multiple times. mr. harvey denies the allegations. he maintains his innocence and looks forward to proving his innocence at trial. the spokesperson for the uniondale school district confirmed that harvey is no longer employed there. the child was not a student at the school where harvey taught. an orange county woman who takes care of children is now facing charges that she failed to protect them from abuse. 47-year-old kesha perry runs a day care out of her home and she failed to alert authorities when she learned four children were being abused. those victims are ages 4 to 11. perry now faces eight counts of child endangerment and is d