And im mary calvi. Well have traffic and weather on the 2s in a moment. First mourning a music icon from fans to fellow musicians. Tributes have been pouring in for grammy Award Winning pop star prince who died yesterday at the age of 57. He was found unresponsive in an elevator. We have Team Coverage on princes death including how fans in new york and around the world are sell britting his celebrating his life. Theres still no word on the cause of the Legendary Musicians death. Were learning more about the initial phone calls from medical assistance. Lets begin with jennifer merrily. Person down not breathing. Moments later police and paramedics arrived at the scene and found the 57yearold singer unresponsive in an elevator. They tried performing cpr but the grammy and oscar winner was pronounced dead. Prince had been battling illness forcing him to cancel two shows this month. He felt well enough to perform last thursday at atlantas fox theater but on the flight home princes plane wa
And a while ago we spoke to someone about the struggle this neighborhood has gone through. Its another strike or whatever you want to call it. You own five houses on this block. Whats going through your mind . Got to do it again, fix them up. Same thing. Just keep going. One of the houses that burned was being rebuilt from sandy. Yes, the party has two weeks to go and they would have been moved in again. Theyre not going to move in for quite a while now. Got to start all over. She was over at our house before and just unbearable. Shes in tears. Frustrating. Right there you get a sense of what these folks are going through. Its a neighborhood known as american venice. They struggled after superstorm sandy. Youre looking at east Santa Barbara road. Because of these winds residents tell us the winds were swirling. People were hosing down the roofs of their homes was everyone was concerned about their homes and you heard that gentleman, what he said. One of the homes that burned, these fol
Entire house to sandy and just today my final inspection from the town of lindenhurst, babylon town hall, the inspector was there to give me my final okay on the house, which he did. When i got here, that inspector was here fighting this fire. He had said to me, the house on the left is totally gone and it looked intact. He said the walls inside are all on fire. Were back here live where you can see down the road the firefighter in the bucket still putting water on this fire. It was really just a rough go. The dry weather and wind definitely not helping and of course a lot of people very nervous. They were hosing down the roofs of their homes. They know what it feels like to lose a home. Earlier today we talked to someone who had five homes, he owned five homes on this block. You can just imagine how nervous these people were but the fire is now under control. Only one person hospitalized inhalation. There was a family inside that first home that burned. Mother, father, and child, they
More than a shell left. And the flames are still raging there on the left. This picture was taken just a short time earlier. At that point one giant ball of fire filled the house. Another picture shows the fire eating through the roof of a neighboring home. Whats the current fire danger . Lonnie quinn has the answer from the weather center. The wind is the problem. Plus the super dry conditions that we have now. The best fire break you can get often times, you know, firemen will dig a trench for the fire break. A canal is the best fire break you can imagine and yet the embers were still able to be blown from one side of the other and spread the fire. As of now you look at manhattan its just sunny overhead but it is bone dry. Look at the conditions outside. 68 degrees. Thats your thermometer reading. This is the key. Right there. Your dew point is 8. What a dew point means simply thats the temperature that you have to cool this air mass. 68 degrees. You have to cool it down to to produc