degrees and extend that heatwave to day number 4, temperatures have now tailed back to the lower and middle 80s along coastal areas. air quality still not that good, though, and we do have an air quality alert through 11:00 p.m. so you want to avoid heavy exertion outdoors. the radar was showing some pretty big storms up into the mid hudson valley but those have since weakened and that trend will continue as we approach sunset and we lose that maximum heating of the day. speaking of maximum heating, these are your maximum temperatures that we got up to today, 90 in the park, 91 at newark, so not quite approaching record levels like we had yesterday but still continuing the heatwave nonetheless, but it really is winding down and nowhere i think is going to get up to 90 during the day tomorrow in the tri-state area. 83 in the park, 83 at laguardia, 87 at newark. still a pair of eights at sussex and morristown, upper 70s, though, on the island with that southerly wind really bringing in some cooler air off the atlantic ocean. what i'm concerned about, though, is even though we lose the heatwave, humidity if anything is going to be

increasing the next several days, eventually a storm system will interact with that humidity and that could mean some heavy downpours later on in the week. we will detail that in your full accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. liz. >> jeff, thank you. following breaking news right now, two children seriously hurt after they were hit by a vehicle. this happened in new rochelle a short time ago. police say the children were walking behind an apartment building when the accident happened. they are listed in serious condition at a local hospital. the crash is now under investigation. and another breaking story, this one in nearby larchmont, firefighters are at the scene of a huge fire that broke out this afternoon. fast moving flames destroyed the salt shed inside a facility that is owned and operated by the state thruway authority. newscopter 7 happened to be in the area and reached the fire soon after it broke out and before firefighters had even arrived. fire is now being brought under control, thankfully, no injuries have been reported at this time. we are following one more breaking news story on long

island. a man is facing animal cruelty charges tonight. investigators say they found more than two dozen animals living in unsanitary and unsafe conditions. eyewitness news reporter stacey sager live on the scene a short time ago and joins us now with the very latest. stacey. >> reporter: hi, liz. we are getting a look at some of those conditions right now. we are talking about a private home here on jericho turnpike but got a farm out back and you can see some of the conditions in the front of the home, there's lumber and trash strewn all over. if you look over to the side here, you see a cage with two goats in it. you can see the goats appear to be okay in the cage but investigators pulled a number of animals out of here earlier. here are some pictures of some of the animals that were removed earlier today. we want to show you, you could clearly see the ribs showing in some of the donkeys and the horses and you could see that some of them were in very unsafe conditions, there were some animals that even had injuries, some animals with

open wounds, prosecutors say there was a foul odor, there was water with algae in it and trash strewn we took these pictures from newscopter 7 a little earlier today. 25 animals removed, horses, boats, coveragies, dogs -- donkeys, dogs, sheep, rabbits and even geese. here is a picture -- [ audio difficulty ] >> reporter: michael dombeck is the owner of this property. he's facing at least 25 counts of animal cruelty. the nassau county district attorney is expected to hold a briefing in a short while about this. but once again, we are talking about a private home here on jericho turnpike with what is a farm out back and at least 25 animals today removed from this farm. we are live in old westbury, i'm stacey sager, channel 7. >> stacey thank you. also on long island tonight we are learning much more about the pilot who was killed over the weekend when his small plane crashed in hicksville.

his family says the pilot, joseph milo was a well known restaurant owner the west hampton beach. tonight there are questions about what air traffic controllers told him when he was desperately trying to make an emergency landing. long island reporter kristin thorne is in west hampton beach tonight with the latest. kristin. >> reporter: liz, i spoke with joseph milo's wife and she says the last thing she wants to think about are the last few seconds of her husband's life but she says she knows in her heart that he did everything he could to spare the lives of people on the ground. joseph milo was the type of person that everyone loved because he cared about everyone he came across. >> he was a great community person and the whole family was that way, so it's a real loss to the community. >> reporter: the 59-year-old was flying his plane from west hampton beach to new jersey sunday morning when around bethpage he reported to air traffic control that he was

experiencing difficulty maintaining altitude. the controller at laguardia airport responded. >> there's a strip right about your 12:00 in 3 miles, the bethpage strip right there and again farmdale is about 10:00 and 6:00. >> reporter: however, there hasn't been a landing strip in bethpage for years. the controller continued to advise milo. >> closed airport, i just know there is a runway there about 11:00 and about a mile and a half now. >> reporter: minutes later, milo's plane came down on the lirr tracks at south oyster bay road. he died but his passenger survived. milo owned joe's american grill for more than 30 years. he was a chef there too but always made time to come out and talk with his customers. i spoke with his wife today. she didn't want to appear on camera but told me i have lost my soulmate, my everything, my best friend. i lost everything that day. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the ntsb tells us they will review the communication that

milo had with air traffic control but that is standard in any investigation like this. they say they should have their initial report out in the next five days. we are live in west hampton beach, i'm kristin thorne, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> kristin, thank you. no bail tonight for a woman accused of stabbing her elderly mother to death on long island. nassau county police say 56- year-old susan grossman kerner went to her mother's house on terrell avenue in oceanside yesterday. the two women got into an argument that's when police say she stabbed her 79-year-old mother to death. police say a knife was recovered at the scene. and fear is mounting tonight in a neighborhood in brooklyn where a man raped a woman and knocked out two of her teeth. tonight he remains on the loose. police say the man in this surveillance video approached the 52-year-old victim near bedford and putnam avenues in bed-stuy. he then took her to a basement stairwell a few blocks away and assaulted her. help tonight for train

passengers in new jersey who have been forced to endure a summer of extreme and repeated delays. today governor cuomo and -- governor christie and new jersey's two u.s. senators met with transportation secretary anthony fox to discuss building a new tunnel under the hudson river. however, the expected price tag, $14 billion, so who is going to pay for it all? new jersey reporter anthony johnson is in newark tonight anthony. >> reporter: well, this was a high powered meeting taking place, liz, to talk about that tunnel but one key player and a final resolution was not here. >> we put out a statement and you can all read the statement. >> reporter: governor christie didn't share any specifics regarding the talks about the gateway double project but made a point to -- tunnel project but made a point to say he did show up at the meeting. the gathering inside senator cory booker's office involved the u.s. transportation secretary, the governor, top railroad officials and senator bob menendez. this face-to-face sitdown drew

the attention of new york city mayor bill de blasio who says the tunnel project is critical. >> this is something in the long-term interest of the region and the nation. remember, the economy of our metropolitan area is one of the strongest in the entire nation and it has to keep growing and this is one of the ways we can do it. >> reporter: those involved in today's meeting issued this joint statement saying, the state of new jersey supports the gateway project and committed to developing a framework with the federal government to begin it. paying for the project may be a major road block. >> if the tunnel were to start today, the new tunnels, we are still going to experience the problems for the next dozen years so an 80% federal grant makes all the sense in the world for these two states to jump on this opportunity. >> reporter: while the talks are happening, the suffering for commuters is growing, there was more trouble on the tracks yesterday causing long delays, delays which have become common since the week of july 20th. >> i would say there's a delay probably 30% of the time so i actually leave either my house

an hour to an hour and a half earlier if i really have to be somewhere. >> it's about -- >> reporter: governor cuomo issued this reaction to today's meeting, saying a strongly support the construction of the new hudson river tunnel and a federal grant package that makes the project viable is an essential for -- is an essential first step. and while governor cuomo is encouraged by today's meeting, he was not here. his office said earlier he was invited. at newark's penn station, anthony johnson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> anthony, thank you. as we continue with eyewitness news at 6:00 on this tuesday, we are going to have the very latest on the search for entertainer rosy's donnell's -- rosie o'donnell's teenaged daughter who disappeared a week ago. what a mess today. dmvs across connecticut, hundreds of people forced to wait in this extreme heat for hours.

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we also want them to maintain independence and quality of life is so important. so, i needed to deposit a check. i was about to head to the bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. like really rain. [clap of thunder] i did not want to go out. [clap of thunder] but then i was like duh, just use your phone.

mobile-deposit-techno-thingy to the rescue. i'm rayna. and i bank human at td bank. we return to our breaking news as two children who have been struck by a car in new rochelle, shannon sohn is above the scene in newscopter 7 with the very latest. shannon. >> reporter: and, liz, you can see that investigators still continue to look at this car after it struck two children at the driveway at 230 drake avenue which is a long driveway that leads to the back of an apartment complex. the two kids are now both in serious condition, one taken to jacoby medical center in the bronx, the other to montefiore in new rochelle.

we are told that the parents are on the scene and cooperating with authorities and they are still trying to figure out exactly what caused this horrific accident to happen. reporting live over new rochelle, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. entertainer rosie o'donnell is reaching out to fans and to police to help finding her missing teenaged daughter. 17-year-old chelsea o'donnell was last seen leaving her family's home in south nyack seven days ago. she was with her dog, brown and black terrier named bear. police say they are treating the case as a runaway situation and do not believe that chelsea's life is in any danger. owe dental says her daughter lives with mental illness but has stopped taking her medication and could be medical -- could need medical attention. massive lines today at dmvs across connecticut. some folks waited in line for hours in this extreme heat. the agency reopened for the first time in a week after conducting some computer upgrades. the governor is giving drivers

extra time to renew their licenses. here's eyewitness news reporter marcus solis. >> enjoy your five, six, seven hour wait. have fun. >> reporter: dan rob didn't mean to be the bearer of bad news. he just wanted to warn others online outside of the department of motor vehicles. >> 15 minutes to get in the door but from there you sit and sit. going through about 10 numbers an hour. >> reporter: which meant a waiting game for the hundreds who flocked to the office in norwalk today, standing in a line that stretched out the door, a scene that was played out at branch offices throughout the state. >> it's extremely slow. i mean, they have been stuck on the same number for -- i timed it actually, one number they were stuck on for 20 minutes. >> you sitting there and saying oh, there's only five more in front of me so it's going to be soon and it's not really that soon. >> reporter: the reason, today marked the first day offices reopened after being partially shut down for a week while the state upgraded its computer systems, ironically making it easier for drivers to conduct transportation online and thus -- transactions online and thus avoid a trip in person. officials predicted the first

day back would be a rough one. >> we ask the public to please, please be patient as we have seen the lines are out here, but we are steadily working to address all those customers and take care of them as they come in. >> reporter: still there was a different kind of gridlock for drivers, some waiting six or seven hours, their verdict? >> i don't know what more can be said but this is a fiasco. >> reporter: the deadline for licenses and registrations set to expire this week has been pushed back until october. state officials hoping the kinks will be worked out of the system by then. in norwalk, marcus solis, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> certainly hope so. just ahead on eyewitness news, all the video games make children more aggressive in real life? there's a new study that is out. we will take a closer look. and meteorologist jeff smith in for lee goldberg returns with much more on this heatwave. day 4 and when we will see some

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leads to increased aggression, that is the finding tonight from the american psychological association's task force that investigated the effects of video games. the task force also says there's not enough research to say whether video games actually increase criminal behavior. folks might be getting testy out there with the oppressive weather. >> especially on social media. a person or two has complained about the heat and humidity but come february i'll refer them back to that complaint and -- >> exactly. >> -- won't have anything else to say. but temperatures are going to be falling a little bit during the next couple of days. the problem is humidity is going to more than make up for it tomorrow into thursday. it's just going to be downright tropical out there. here's a live look over towards central park, 84 degrees, the wind coming in from the south around 15 miles per hour. that actually helped to cool us off significantly from our earlier high of 90, but 90 degrees makes our fourth consecutive day of the 90 plus

heat so it's a good old- fashioned heatwave around here. 94 the record back in 2002 and we received under 1/3 inch of rainfall early this morning. if you were up around 6:00 a.m. it was coming down pretty hard. and that's the problem in this type of an air mass, these showers and thunderstorms can pop up anywhere, anytime because it is so humid out there. the heatwave coming to an end but the humidity will hold on and even increase tomorrow into thursday. any thunderstorm that we get over the next couple of days will be very spotty but if you do get one, it can contain some heavier downpours and then they become more numerous by thursday night into friday as a front stalls over the region. could be some heavy downpours with that. 88 right now in sussex and morristown, 81 down the shore at belmar and toms river, upper 70s on the island with that wind coming in off the cool waters of the atlantic. the dew points are straddling between uncomfortable and oppressive but they will be squarely within the oppressive category tomorrow and thursday so even though again as those temperatures drop down closer to normal, we will be getting humidity going way above normal. the radar picture right now, it was showing some storms over

the mid hudson valley, those have since weakened, a plume of moisture off to our west that will continue gradually moving off to the east. that's why our humidity increases. there's a system here circulating off of the east coast and this is going to be a factor in our weather later on in the week because as this bigger storm approaches from the midwest, this system here will cause it to kind of stall out right over the tri-state region on friday and even into the weekend. in the meantime, we are watching the tropics, we have tropical storm danny out here, way out in the eastern atlantic ocean, even five days from now on sunday as it increases to hurricane intensity, it's still going to be well east of the lesser antilles so we have many, many days, if not a couple of weeks to watch that one. not as hot tomorrow, 84, still could be a spotty shower or storm in the afternoon, and then on thursday sun to start and then clouds increase, some storms late in the day west of the city, much more likely, though, everywhere thursday night into friday. accuweather forecast for tonight, a thunderstorm in a couple of spots early this evening, especially north. we are down to 75, still very humid tomorrow, 84, even though

it's not quite as hot, partly cloudy, muggy tomorrow night, we are down to 74, storms come in thursday night, lasting into friday with that front hanging around over the weekend, won't be a washout saturday and sunday but there's that chance of getting a shower or thunderstorm each day. i think if we have washout type of downpours it will be during the day on friday. >> we will move on from complaining about the heat and the weather to the rain part. >> yes, i'm sure we will. rob is up with sports. >> not a 90 on that thing. we will have the latest from nfl training camps. the giants and jets get ready for preseason games this week. also have an update on the young yankee pitcher who took a

baseball off his face it is going to be a sizzler tonight at the stadium. >> beautiful night for baseball.

cc intangt i can't and -- sabathia and mike pelfrey in the bronx. bases loaded grounder to a five man infield that brought home the run. 8-7 the yanks in 10 minutes -- in 10 innings. this is tough to watch. you can look away here for a few seconds. the yankee pitcher brian mitchell is going to take a batted ball to the face. mitchell is a 24-year-old rookie making his third year start. nunez was the batter. mitchell suffered a strong nasal fracture, went on the seven day concussion list today, went to the hospital but back at the stadium at the end of the day. yankees hope week makes a stop in richfield kentucky at the prospector theater. seventh year doing this theater is more than just

a place to watch a movie. it's staffed primarily by people with disabilities. gives people a job, a purpose really. members of the yankees stopped by today to talk about the importance of teamwork, had lunch and a good time. >> life is about to me about relationships, love and hope and this is an environment that has been created and it's just wonderful to see. mets, orioles tonight in baltimore. lost three state. had the day off yesterday. bobby parnell goes to the disabled list. struggles over the weekend. parnell hits the del, the team hits baltimore to try to get back on track. nfl preseason hits the meadowlands friday night. the jets host the falcons. training camp resuming this afternoon in the sweltering florham park heat. no geno smith but if gm says

today they are likely to look for another veteran qb with smith out of four games with the broken jaw. >> positive things both on and off the field in terms of how he approached everything. this is an unfortunate incident that arose. at the end of the day we are going to try to move forward. the nfl network reporting eli manning has his sights sit on becoming the -- giants d gave up 429 yards, 291st downs to the bengals in preseason game number 1. >> i'm hoping in this next go- around this will be -- it will be think fast and go. i told them don't worry about making mistakes. tom brady in new york today for deflategate meetings but word settlement talks aren't going all that well with the nfl. finally, controversy at little league softball world series, a team from washington accused from trying to avoid a

team from iowa in the semifinals, some people say intentionally lost a game. even the accusation infuriated folks so washington was forced to play iowa today in a tie breaker to see which would advance and iowa won 3-2 so washington goes home, the tournament forced the game after being told some teams did not play with the effort and spirit that it wanted to see. worked out the way it should have. >> yes. we do have a story, an update on a story that we want to tell you about. rosie o'donnell just tweeted out on her official account that her daughter, her missing 17-year-old daughter chelsea has been found and that she is safe. we are continuing to get more details on this story and have the very latest coming up tonight at 11:00. and that is our news for now. we will have much more on rosie rosie o'donnell's story on eyewitness news at 11:00. world news with david muir is coming up next. have a good night.