tv Eyewitness News ABC February 9, 2016 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
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>> lee goldberg is tracking the storm and the sub-zero temperatures in the weather center. >> yes, already some light snow developing, and you can even tell on the camera, midtown, clear as a bell, but looking toward one world trade, and already the visibility is down a little as snow showers continue to develop. the temperatures at 33, so numbers continue to fall, and we'll be below freezing overnight, and slippery conditions could develop. below freezing north and east, thankfully nothing falling there, but there is some snow across parts of central and southern new jersey. winter weather advisory overnight into the morning hours tomorrow. the warnings are west of philadelphia where they could get two to five inches of snow fall. we could get a few inches across parts of area. we'll talk about that in a moment. it's parts of middlesex county with coastal flood warnings, we have to watch that through
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long island, new york city, and western end of long island sound have warning. snow right there toward union beach and staten island and the snow showers trying to get into new york city right now, but steadier over somerset county and ocean as well. more down to the south for the overnight hours. it's steadiest in the early evening over central new jersey birks 5:00 a.m. to the north, and steadier from the city south and east toward daybreak and moving out by the late morning. so snow this evening. the steadiest overnight. look for a coating to a couple of inches for most, but there can be two inches or more in central new jersey and long island. the big take away, slippery roads for the morning commute. back to you for now. thank you. for some folks in the tristate tonight it's clean up team again. another day of flooding.
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waters making it difficult or impossible to walk or drive many streets. water rushing into some homes, but a few hours late terror attack tide receding, and -- tide receding, and the pumping system gets things back to normal. homeowners used to dealing with flooding on a semiregular basis, but claim it's gotten worse after the loss of the marshes. in long island a huge puddle blocking the street outside an elementary school in island park. water reaching the undercarriage of cars and covering part of the sidewalk. a short distance away flooding outside the long island railroad station. we'll turn now to the other news of the night, learning more about a medical information involving rap artist dmx, found unconscious and without a pulse last night at a hotel parking lot in yonkers.
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because of a bad asthma attack, but first responders gave dmx, his real name earl simmons, narcan, a drug widely used to treat drug overdoses. we spoke to his former wife, and consist >> reporter: i spoke to her about an hour ago, and she just left their home to go see him at the hospital so that his kids could see their dad. here's what we have gotten from police. first responders helped rapper dmx come back to life, sadly, after he was found lifeless in a yonkers hotel parking lot. why he was there, she tells me she doesn't know just yet. she had a very quick conversation with him on the phone and then rushed to the hospital. he was found not breathing and
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the first responsibilitiers began chest compressions, and gave the 45-year-old oxygen. he then started breathing on his own. >> he's good, everything is good. he's recovering good. just told me he was happy to be alive, and everything was going good, feeling good. he said it was an asthma attack. a lot of people said it was drug related, but i don't think so. >> reporter: and his ex-wife tells me again that this was asthma-related. he's had there issue for years. according to the family. she's spoken with him, and he's doing just fine right now. reporting live, carolina leid, channel 7. thank you, jury deliberations underway in the trial of a new york cop who killed an unarmed innocent man in a darkened stairwell in
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prosecutors say it was a crime. >> reporter: the officer is criminally negligent homicide, tense. after a blistering summation by the prosecution. >> we're all here today because this man sitting right there pulled a gun out of his holster, and pointed it to where gurley was standing, and recklessly pulled the trigger. >> reporter: the vet an prosecutor towered -- vet an over the prosecutor towered over the jurors painting the officer as a coward who fired into a darkened stairwell after he heard a noise. >> he had a gun in one hand and flashlight in the other, and instead of pointing a flashlight at the noise, he
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pulled the trigger and shot gurley. the bullet hit off the wall, ripped through his heart and his liver. >> reporter: gurley was struck by the ricochet with a bullet through the heart, but the defense attorney says he had reason to draw his weapon, and fired the gun by mistake. >> suddenly, there's a loud noise, and he turns to the left and the gun goes off j. like that. a slight move from the outside of the trigger frame to the actual gun going off, your finger missouri, the slightest -- movement, the slightest flinch and the gun goes off. ask yourself what evidence did you hear that he burst into the stairwell with his finger on the trigger? nobody said that. >> reporter: but the prosecutor insisted that's wrong. >> the guns don't just fire. he pulled the triggerment he
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he pulled this trigger. this trigger. we know he pulled this trigger and shot and killed him because he said so. >> reporter: the jury got the case at 4:00, they left for the evening at 5:00, set to resume deliberations tomorrow. channel 7 news. and polls closing in new hampshire in less than two hour, no one will win their parties presidential nomination tonight, but a bad showing there could mean the end of a campaign. no republican has won the nomination in the past 40 years while losing both iowa and new hampshire. dave evans at trump headquarters in manchester with the coverage tonight. david? >> reporter: bill, right now the vet service is inside doing a sweep, so all of these folks, trump supporters are outside along with us, but we'll be
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secret service gives us the okay. as you mentioned, new hampshire awfully important in the election year t first state to hold a primary this election year, and you don't necessarily have to win to be pretty successful. remember, president obama finished second in 2007, and bill clinton was dubbed the come back kid mere in 1991 -- here in 1992. it's election day finally, and candidates squeezed in the last few hand shakes hoping to persuade the still undecides. donald trump is way out in fronted in polling, same thing for sanders. so second might be good enough. >> second place finish would do a lot for me here. yeah, i mean second place finishes have made presidents. >> reporter: donald trump is making news again last night for repeating a vulgarity from a supporter.
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surprises anyone. he doesn't handle losing well. >> reporter: we expect a record set on turn out today, that might help hillary clinton. she's simply trying to keep off a land slide by sanders. >> we'll keep working literally until the last vote is cast. >> reporter: a few new yorkers even came here to campaign for sandsers. >> he needs us, and i think it's important to show the campaign is really important. >> hillary clinton is always like i'm your champion i'm your this and that. >> reporter: clinton supporters say maybe new hampshire is lost, but not the election. >> i'm a firm hillary clinton voter. >> reporter: how do you think she'll do today? >> um, truthfully i don't think she's going to win, but i think she'll do better than most expect. >> reporter: if the polling is correct and trump and sanders
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bloomberg to jump in. >> i think he's a democrat. i'm not leaning towards him. i like him, he did a great job with new york city though. >> reporter: and again, the polls close here in new hampshire in a couple of hour, should know the results by about 10:00 o'clock. dave evans, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> >. by the way stay with us as the results come in. a complete wrap up at 11:00 and all evening on our website, and world news is from new hampshire, right after eyewitness news at 6:00. and as we continue with eyewitness news at 6:00 on this tuesday night, a damaged cruise ship hit by hurricane force winds heads back to new jersey, the captain finally speaks out about where in the world he sailed right into the storm. and quarterback cam newton
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they're now 15 hours away from coming back to new jersey. >> reporter: 100 miles per hour winds, and 40-foot wave, the anthem of the seas was in the middle of a raging storm. >> the ship was rock back and forth, and tipping side to side. >> reporter: passengers captured wild scenes on cell phones with flying furniture and shattering glass as the ship moves off the carolina coast. they were asked to stay in cabin, but some passengers questioned the captain. >> i'm really concerned about the captain's judgment in this situation. i really resent the fact he put our lives at risk taking us into a storm that was predicted. >> reporter: it was predicted four days in advance, an alert was issued four days in advance where the ship was to sail. that has one lawmaker now
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transportation investigation. >> so that we can prevent these kind of accidents. >> reporter: he had -- many say they've neverrerred weather like this before. royal caribbean apologized to passenger, and said while the weather was unpleasant, the ship was seaworthy at all times. we thank the captain and crew for guiding the ship back to better weather. and now back to its home port. tim fleischer. >> wow, what a story. coming up, lee goldberg, for all those people that said what happened to the mild winter. where's the mild winter now? he's got more snow, again, in the forecast.
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bleh! >> a new meteorologist term. >> we have a long way to go. you're going to get a lot of that. all right, outside tonight, we have cloudy sky overs manhattan, and as we look downtown at visibility, i said to you there's snow over ocean county. 33 degree, 66 percent, the northeast wind around 5. the barometer on the rise, the high today. 36. through the evening hour, the first place we'll see slippery roads i think will be around mommouth and ocean county. steady band of snow approaching. even light snow showers will
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could be delays tomorrow morning. light snows developing in the evening hours, steady snows overnight. winding down after the morning commute, but still a snow shower or rain shower possible tomorrow afternoon. half an inch to an inch an hour snow rates, but it seems to be weakening, and moving into parts of western ocean county. meanwhile light snow to princess bay to south beach and coney island. steadier over central new jersey, this is the area we'll watch, the heavy band north and east and philadelphia right now. not a classic set up. you have a low way offshore, another to the west, and a link by the front towing in all the moisture. what happens later tonight, another low tomorrows off the coast, that could tend to pull the moisture more south and east, and focus heavier snows late in the game, tomorrow
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that's how the forecast is based, so the next several hours is about central new jersey from let's say midnight to maybe 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning. still scattered snow showers everywhere else, and then new york city south and east into the morning commute, and then pulling offshore by late morning, so we're looking at a light snow fall. a coating to a couple of inches, but we could exceed two inches in some spots. central new jersey could be a hot spot, and then as storm leaves over the east end of long island, 6:00 or 7 tim till in the morning. -- 7:00 in the morning. snow to flurries, breaks of sun tomorrow, and increasing wind about 40, and tomorrow night we start to get colder. 26, wind chills in the teens, but nothing compared to late week. below freezing thursday and friday, around 30 isn't terrible though. morning.
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winds down to 3 at night. wind chills at 10 to 20 below, and not getting other it of teens on -- out of the teens on sunday, so indoor days over the wednesday. bitterly cold. >> thanks lee. >> rob's next with sports. >> >. a lot to talk about today. plenty of football. the broncos love a parade, cam
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lots of football, but first on interesting retirement. >> marty gets his piece of the rock. >> yes, marty's number 30 will be raised joining the other two as the only devils to be so honored. the all time celebration of the great continues. yesterday the devils unveiled a statue of him, and tonight retired.
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emotional, but i've been here for a few days, and just seeing the fans and team and everybody warranted the event -- around the event, it's pretty cool. >> real cool. football now. cam newton facing the music he shied away from after the super bowl. he didn't want to talk then, but plenty of people talked aibility him, and -- about him, and no apologies today. >> >. i'm on record as saying i'm a sore loser. who likes to lose? show me a good loser and i'll show you a loser. >> and in denver today was the celebration parade. look at all those people. basketball tonight at the garden. the knicks and wizards. the interim coach taking over more if i canner. the knicks -- for fisher.
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have to say. i always have an open door. if you're saying the same things i'm saying i don't really need you on my staff. and flores among the mets already in florida. he hit only 300 the final to towered months of the season -- two months of the season. >> they make you feel like you're at home, the fan, and it's a -- fans, and it's a good feeling, and makes you hungry. >> and tom coughlin, life after the giants has started. >> reporter: he's no longer the coach of the giants, but he's still committed to the giants community. >> the idea we can be there to help and serve, that's what it's all about. >> reporter: today they visited st. josephs hospital where
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>> he has good kicking ability. >> i've been sitting around a little feeling sorry for myself, and then something like this, you know, we're all blessed. we're all blessed, and let's hope some of the blessings will be shared with these families. >> reporter: it's moments like these so important to him, and he has no intentions of giving up work in the community. as for football, let's not call it retirement. >> try this word: transitioning. into what i don't know, but i'm not retiring. >> reporter: he says his coaching days are behind him, but he has other options. >> i need to know what the roll is, so if it can be defined and something i can do and help with, it's a consideration. >> reporter: laura behnke, channel 7. >> >. you're reminded of two things there, he's a football
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>> and he know's thing or two about coaching. >> >. a thing or two about a thing or two. >> i think he wants to coach. >> and he tried out for other teams. >> he spoke to them. thanks rob. >> for what's coming up tonight on eyewitness news at 11:00, here's a preview. tonight an unusual burglary caught on camera. the thief went through a ceiling and made a real mess. the damage left behind, plus meal kits delivered right to your home. they save time, but do they save money? >> thank you, all that coming up tonight at 11:00. big night for new hampshire comp. all over it all night on air and on our website. thanks for watching. >> world news tonight is up next.
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