Another robbery in central park. This morning, police are looking for a man accused in the violent attack. Cbs 2ilana gold joins us live from the park with an update. Ilana . Andrea and diane, police say the victim is a 53yearold man. He was walking here on the upper west side. When the suspect asked him for money. And then he strangled him and stole everything he had. The nypd just released a sketch of this suspect. They say he is responsible for a violent robbery in central park, in the rammable section by 72nd street and west drive. It happened at 10 00 thursday night. It is terrible. And it is frightening. Police say he approached a 53yearold man walking by. He said he was hungry and needed money. But when the man told him no and walked away, the suspect followed, and then put him in a choke hold until he passed out. The victim woke up 30 minutes later and his wallet and backpack filled with cash, jewelry and keys were gone. It is very concerning. This is our park. We should be fre
The winds are going to be big factor. Whitestone 54, 52 long island, 50 around bridgeport, 50 around white plains and up the Hudson River Valley. Flood advisory for this wind thats coming in out of the east, southeast at 25, 35 miles an hour, so a flood advisory for the afternoon, coastal sections, western long island sound, jersey shore. Here are the showers kind of scattered around monmouth and ocean county. They keep developing through the day, and the showers become heaviest this afternoon with the wind. Wind swept rain, it will be heavy for the afternoon and into the evening commute. Weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. Heather says shes got some great advice for you. I do. You want to use mass transit this morning so when youre leaving work this afternoon you event wont have to deal with the rain and flooding. In roxbury we have an accident, should be cleared shortly. 17 both ways between century road and midland avenue, that earlier construction is clearing. Subway stat
Im ken rosato. It is wednesday october 28th. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with your exclusive accuweather forecast. Good morning, and as lori said we are watching the rain heading your way this morning. Here is the current temperature. Its a nice mild 55 degrees. We should be around 40 to 42. Its really warm, very humid. Temperatures around 48 around hopatcong. Were looking at 42 to start out around poughkeepsie, kingston. Were looking at a Coastal Flood Advisory until 2 00 this afternoon. This is because of the wind is piling in the water to the coastal sections. Heres the rain down to our south and west. Thats going to get up into the area around 7 00 to 8 00, and then this afternoon its very heavy wind swept rain. That will be after lunchtime. We could see flooding, wind swept rains around the area. Transit and all that kind of stuff. Thats why we have the best there is, Heather Orourke, whats going on out there. Thank you s
News copter 7 was also overhead capturing the mess, snarling traffic for several blocks and evacuating multiple buildings in the area. Luckily no one was injured. Fire Officials Say it took so many hours to get things under control because of all that water aboveground. Unfortunately the Flooding Condition was such that dep had a difficult time finding the exact gate valves to shut down, to isolate the problem area. Now buildings nearby had water restored by this afternoon. In the meantime subway and bus service was also disrupted for many hours today. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 5, well tell you who city Officials Say will have to pay for all of this mess. In elmhurst cefaan kim. 17 schools, elementary through high school in fairfield connecticut were locked down earlier today after receiving several threats. Students were dismissed early after all School Activities were also canceled tonight. So far the threats have been unfounded. Eyewitness News Reporter Tim Fleischer in fairfi