One more transit note. After two days of major delays and cancellations on the long island railroad, service is back up and running. Service is running on the l. I. R. R. They repaired all switches and rails after tuesdays Freight Train derailment near hicksville. That is one piece of good news on a rough afternoon. We will keep you posted on all of this. The other story we are following, new reaction to a hard hit in a High School Football game. Cameras caught a student appearing to take the helmet off an opponent then hitting that player over the head with it. Police are investigating the incident. The student was kicked off the team, suspended after the school said the hit was flagrant and dangerous. The boys family has an entirely different take. New jersey reporter Anthony Johnson has all the details from linden. Reporter this story has a whole lot of twists and turns. One thing that we learned, when this game was being played this linden high school, there were a lot of racial ov
Getting in an accident with another vehicle. This all happening near the millwood yorktown border. We are told there are no life threatening injuries in the crash and as we take a live look now at the area, the southbound lanes we are told are closed and only one northbound lane is getting by. You can see traffic is very slow and that scene is still very much there. We will keep you posted on this breaking story. New at noon, we are hearing from the family of a livery cab driver killed on his first night on rafael beras was stabbed just after 1 00 this morning. Now the search is on for his killer. Eyewitness News Reporter rob nelson is in brooklyn with the new details. Rob . Reporter well, dave, as you said, police at this hour are searching for the person that may have stabbed this livery cab driver to death early this morning. We dont have much information at this hour. As you can imagine, his family news. My mother is in shock right now. Reporter the victims brother heartbroken desc
Police say this group of five all members of a fraternity played a role in the hazing death of Baruch College freshman michael deng. I wont talk about the facts. We take them seriously. Reporter Police Maintain the group lied to investigators, destroyed and concealed evidence inside the home the poconos two years ago. Thats when deng was allegedly subjected to a brutal hazing ritual which included severe blows called spears. Authorities say the 19yearold while blindfolded and wearing a backpack filled with 30 pounds of sand was beaten so badly he passed out. The cep jects carried evening subjects carried deng back into the house and plotted how to cover things up. Thethey reached out to meng. They recovered deleted text speering. I pray to god he is going to be alive and they cannot know. Entered a plea of not guilty. They were looking forward to court. Does your client receive a phone call from the frat brothers that morning . Not answer. Now 37 members of the frat he wont lead now fa
With the exclusive accuweather forecast. Happy friday everyone. Temperatures this morning are starting off very comfortable 70 degrees, low humidity, a lot of sunshine. 57 around poughkeepsie, 70 around the park, 61 around monmouth in ocean county down towards toms river 64. Were looking at 84 to 87 later on today. Really warm for this time of year. The transition day is coming on sunday this weekend. Well talk about your weekend forecast coming up in just a moment. Its weather then heather every 7 minutes. Im happy to say Long Island Railroad is running on or close to schedule. I can tell you not only is long island running on or close to schedule, so is metro north and new Jersey Transit doing fine. All lines on new Jersey Transit doing fine. A trains no service between l trains suspended between lorimer street and myrtle avenue. Signal problems at morrison avenue. You can expect some delays. Grand Central Parkway eastbound east of the q garden interchange you have an accident in the
The reaction and the punishment are way too harsh. He is really apoll itic for this. He didnt mean it. He said it was a accident. He is really apologetic for this. He said his hand got stuck in the helmet. I believe my child. Reporter she was at the game when her son Fritz Moncion tangled with a player from the Immaculata High School and hit him with the helmet. The internet reaction was ugly and personal. He is very hurt. Like hes crying. He is really upse. This young man cams from decent stock, good stock. He is being raised properly, with no school problems. Reporter the immaculata player, number 73, had spirit moncion in the midsection with his helmet on an earlier player. And it was a lot of, um, racial stuff being said. Reporter including they an allegation that drew swift pushback from the Linden School superintendent. This is the first time im hearing anything about this incident being possibly racially motivated. That has not come up in our investigation. It has not come up in