Around buffalo and down to erie and pittsburgh, we will have a line of thunderstorms coming through this afternoon, and so, until then, we will get breaks of sun, and 54 by 7 00, 65 at noon, and a gusty thunderstorm that could produce cloud to ground lightning, possibility of hail, too. Heavy downpours of rain, and we will talk about that next. Its weather and then heather every 7 minutes. Our Subway Service is running on or close to schedule. Thats one thing we have not been busy about. All other mass transit seems to be doing okay but the Hudson Bergen lightrail. I got a tweet from someone saying yesterday was a mess. Bqe, not a mess headed to the northbound side. The Brooklyn Bridge is doing just fine, and theres no major problems for our other east river crossings, and the bqe, southbound into the hugh kerry, brooklyn battery tunnel. We have the accident cleared away. Effect for today. Developing right now, police are at Grand Central terminal, investigations after a man was cut wi
Man his 40s, and Sacred Heart University there was also told to be careful. No sea of blue in the brooklyn courtroom for a nypd Police Officer caught on video in a notorious case. I dont understand what this is about. He had no weapons. Reporter july 2023, 2014, a man resisting as police attempted to handcuff him on suspicion of marijuana. An officer walked away as other officers take over but the officer returns and appears to stomp on the suspects head. The vof now on trial in brooklyn charged with assault. Prosecutors are calling this blind and untrollable anger as the officer allegedly stomped on the mans skull. No Police Officer could possibly believe that act to be necessary the prosecution said but the officers defense attorney tells the court should smoke and drink weed in public and resist arrest, adding that civilians are not entitled to resist arrest. The man who videoed it said that the other Police Officers appeared just as shocked. They tried to stop the officer in from c
Lucy yang for channel 7 Eyewitness News. Now to a developing story involving another man at the center of the de blasio fundraising investigation. Hes the former owner of a restaurant in harlem charged with running a 12 million ponzi scheme and is about to appear in court after his extradition. Peralta is accused of running the ponzi scheme out of the hudson river cafe. Prosecutors say he fleeced wholesale business. Two of his victims who donated money to de blasios campaign are linked to some of the nypd officials who are now under investigation for corruption. A developing story. President ial candidate donald trump will be called to testify at a trial involving his trump university. A superior court judge called for the trial after all sides failed to resolve the case at a hearing. Trump university is accused of being a sham forprofit college that defrauded thousands of students. New information about the white house lockdown we first told you about at 4 00. A Law Enforcement source
Thats the latest here from 59th. Im joe torres channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you joe, and this cold weather of course creating a lot of problems in our area. In the laurelton section of queens a water main break created icy conditions sending cars sliding down merrick boulevard. In East New York brooklyn, firefighters had to deal with the bitter cold temperatures while fighting a fire on fountain avenue. Two people suffered minor injuries. Two reports tonight, political reporter David Novarro has more on what the city did to help Homeless People overnight. We begin with meteorologist lee goldberg who is outside our studios, our cold studios outside. Lee take it away. Nowhere near as bad as last night. I mean its still really cold but the wind has shut down so youre probably not going to shiver as much. The winds are almost calm at this point. Theyre making snow in northwest new jersey, at mountain creek. Start thinking about skiing now. Coldest morning since february 24th. We hit 11
Nice to see you guys, good morning, everybody. Taking a day and warming it up. Numbers around 12, 11, 10. Now 26. Its cold. We are minus the wind. 17 white plains to 7 monticello. These numbers are cold. Toms river 5. We have a calm wind. When you have a calm wind the temperature drops more than when you have wind blowing and the friction going. A light west wind, thats it. The windchills are not that bad. We are looking at 26 in the park. 18 to 11 down the shore. Monticello has a calm wind. Its 7 there. Looking at 34 by noontime to 40 this afternoon. Going to feel a lot better. It gets warmer as we head to the end of the week. We will talk about that next. Heather is here. How does it feel this morning. Better than yesterday of course. Lets go to the subway status. Condition at Queensboro Plaza and 5th avenue. Expect Service Changes. Long Island Railroad, new jersey transit, metro north orlando close to schedule. Minor delays are on or close to schedule. Van wyck southbound near Jacki