girlfriend lives, to execute a federal probation warrant but he had his own plans. upon making entry into the apartment, we had a smoke- filled situation. saying he was in the basement and allegedly started a fire inside. when firefighters got to the scene, police say he pulled out a gun and began shooting firing about 12 rounds. two of the bullets striking a 50-year-old lieutenant. maria is his neighbor, one of several residents police have evacuated. she heard the fire department, heard the shots, which was two shots then she approaching. less than two hours after those initial shots this post on the facebook page were in through his account quote today i die. afraid of that. concerned friends now at the scene including this woman who relatives identify as his girlfriend, inconsolable. earlier seen leaving with investigators, investigators lieutenant is in stable condition. it is our hope that this can be resolved you know, peacefly. they are looking to try to c
thank you. time for traffic and weather. let s get over to john slattery on this morning. good morning, chris and mary. it s all about the heat today. it s the heat and humidity and a heat wave. and again, we could have a record tie or breaker. we have clear skies, winds variable at 3, relative humidity 55%. that can change later today. you can see nice and quiet in our area. there is a front on the way, ushers in some chance for stormy weather. mostly the summer sizzler. 95 would tie the record for the day. look at the real feel numbers, they ll be higher around the area, the south shore and the south wind, there s variety in the air. this would be it, a heat wave. we ll talk more in a bit though. any traffic troubles early, alex denis? we do have an accident on the left lane on the new york state freeway southbound. it s at exit 15. no major delays being reported. a live look to one of our hundreds of cameras showing you the george washington bridge, easy pass until 6:
now we can officially say as you heard john say, it is now a heat wave that is new this summer, but 90 degree heat and rising humidity, well, that s not new at all. a dangerous combination of heat and humidity is forecasted once again. being in a three piece suit is a little rough for me, but going to the beach would be perfect. i really hate it. why? i don t like the summer. we ve already had 9 days where temperatures were above 90 degrees. we didn t get thee of those 90 degree days in a row we couldn t call them a heat wave. in fact the last official heat wave in new york city was in july of 2013. but people we spoke to say they don t mind battling through another one. i ll go to the beach if it is really, really hot and miserable i d like to sneak inside and try to find something i had to do i didn t want to do when it was nice like this and do it inside air- conditioning. winter took a long time to go away, i like the heat and hoping it lasts into septembe
right now at 11. bracing for impact. hurricane irma has become the most powerful storm ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. the category five hurricane is getting closer to islands in the caribbean. leaders warn the damage could be cat strask. it s unclear if the storm will make a direct impact on the united states. the preparations are well under way. president trump declared emergencies in florida, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. tourists have been ordered to evacuate. and the sporting eventing have been relocated. the field in pittsburg could host sunday s game between tampa and miami. the weather team got an update on irma s path. let s go to tammie souza. i wish i could say it s changed and will move out to sea. that s not the case. it s on a steady path to the west. you can see it s about 50 miles just to the east. it is still on a collision course just to the north of the u.s. virgin islands. look at the well defined eye. bigger than almost all of the ward
acknowledging the worst in the tragic case of a missing team. it s wednesday night and this is the first day of tragedy in mercer county. dann cuellar is live at roblin roebling. the boys decided to go for a swim but there were flash winds and things went wrong. describing the nightmare scene the minute them jumped bo thinto the water at the park. he and three friends got caught up in a current. we tried to grab him. the current was so strong and took him from my hand. he was going down, coming up gasping for air. he saw marty being swept away by the current, gasping for air as he bobbed up and down. he didn t know how to swim. he shouldn t have gone in. jarred s mom rush today the scene after her boyfriend heard a teenager had gone missing. i assumed it was jarred. he can swim but could he keep above water. he was safe with jame s mom. mercy for one mother, agony for another as search teams continued to search for the young man. neighbors conveying the unthin