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you back here this wednesday night. . now, new york's number one news. channel 7 eyewitness news. right now, breaking on long island, flames rose high above the community, one house was destroyed three damaged, many firefighters from around the area responded. authorities have reported no injuries there. >> another breaking story tonight, this one in queens. >> two men in a drive-by shooting, police say they were standing on the corner of linden boulevard and 218th street, one man was hit in the leg the other in the chest, both taken to jamaica hospital. >> a teenager punched and beaten racial slurs. the hero that came to the aide. police are looking to suspects

the victim's father says the teenager won't rest until the men are caught. >> eyewitness news reporter is in astoria with this disturbing story. >> sandra, it was a neighbor here who stepped in as three men were attacking a young man carrying a bat, hurling racial slurs they posted this victim up against their gate, thought it was horseplay and became obvious these were not his friends and this was not a game. >> pushed him up there that's when they went on the pipe. >> ron garcia described an attack 19-year-old neighbor being chased by man wielding a bat and pipe, yelling isis. the victim across assailants

>> saw him talking to me, i made a move. i thought twice, like, let me assess the situation and they ran, they did me the favor. this is video of the suspects released by police, happened on 10th street by 33rd road in broad daylight around 1:30 in the afternoon, ranging in height from 5' 6" to 5' 9". you can see one of them pulling the pipe out from his pants ready to inflict harm. >> i saw the lump on his head, i know he is a good kid, didn't even deserve the lump on his head. he is kind of traumatized the guy punching and another guy running with a bat and metal pipe screaming out racist words and stuff towards him. >> the victim's father calling those men hoodlums with nothing better to do calling his neighbor a hero because if it were not for garcia, says his

hospitalized or worse. it happened so fast he was walking faster away and people were running behind him. they caught him real quick and thank god the neighbor, give credit to my neighbor. >> i'm just an innocent bystander at the right place at the right time. and a queens native and if you're on my block i don't care what block, i would take care of you just like if you walked into my home. by the way garcia might have been the perfect situation like this, trouble and not a bit of conflict. garcia works as a security guard. reporting life in astoria, channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you. a fast-moving fire in the bronx sends 12 people to the hospital, four firefighters flames broke out in the first floor of a house on university avenue in kings bridge. one person in the house is listed in critical condition, 7 others in stable, those firefighters were all treated

of the fire is still under investigation. we had some great weather today, but a big change is in store for tomorrow. expect lots of rain meteorologist jeff smith tracking it for us here now with the details, jeff. we do need the rain of course, happened on a sunday, warmer air trying to move into the region instead of waltzing in here, moves up causing rainfall during much of the day tomorrow, we're tracking the rain right now located off to our west over central parts of pennsylvania, the leading edge not quite hitting the ground with some dryer air in place, but it will be hitting the ground by tomorrow, we'll track it for you rainfall start time is 3:00, pocono, around 6 or 7, near daybreak around new york city, the hudson valley down the jersey shore, takes until 9:00 or so to start on the east end of long island. barely recovering we're lucky if we get into the low 50s it

entire day tomorrow just a raw, nasty day. and we're getting into pattern where we have several opportunities of rainfall, much needed rainfall we'll talk about that in your full accuweather forecast coming up. joe. thank you. a heartbreaking story out of east texas where severe weather brought deadly flash flooding in the town of palestine, 5 members of one family died. a woman and four of her great grandchildren, ages 6, 7, 8, and 9. the water rose so quickly they swept away trying to escape. their bodies found a short distance from their home. video of the nypd coming to the stranded kayaker drifted two miles offshore, kayak sinking that is okay today thanks to the fast acting rescue team. they are sharing rather their

is eyewitness news reporter mallory. >> these divers are preparing to enter the water from a helicopter above, nypd aviation unit responded to a 911 call about about a man sinking into a kayak. >> as we were able to get closer we saw it was the kayaker and the boat was submerged. >> after spotting the 33-year- old the divers were able to make contact with the fishermen in distress. >> definitely had a look of a little bit of panic and absolutely exhausted. >> they were able to help him on the harbor unit boat. >> he was shaken and thankful we picked him up. he hooked a sizable fish and focused on reeling it in when he began to drift due to moderate currents and four to six footswells. >> he had a pfd on, a flotation device, he was all right that's

another day to go fishing. >> rescue crews say the kayakers decision to wear a life jacket while out on the water put him in a much better position we're told the kayaker is doing just fine tonight. channel 7 eyewitness news. a fiery water rescue in suffolk county this morning a man and a woman forced a jump into the water after their boat caught fire in the canal. they swam to shore neither was injured the boat drifted hit some docks, slightly damaged several fire departments help extinguish that fire, the cause is still under investigation. police arrested two men from connecticuit for climbing the brooklyn bridge, found them sitting on the beams of the manhattan bound said, they had been drinking and wanting to watch the sun rise. >> a fight over a subway turns bloody, two men got into an argument on a number 4 train

the train pulls into the 125th street station the fight spilled out on the platform and stabbed another. both were taken to the hospital, police arrested both men. governor andrew cuomo's investigation the u.s. attorney's office wants to know if improper bidding was involved with technology to buffalo. a federal probe is also looking into whether some of the people were being paid by companies that wanted to be part of that. and former prosecutor to do an internal investigation. father daniel, a peace activist, died at the age of 94. passed away today at a health care center here in new york city, he became a household name in 1968 when he led the first draft card burning protest against the war in

also an award winningpoet at the university. a car crashes in jersey bursts into flames four people pulled out alive, witnesses describe the wild scene. president obama takes aim at the primary candidates with jokes, from the correspondence dinner. after days in the

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detectives want to talk to this man about that attack around 7:30. say the man walked up behind a 15-year-old girl at white plains road and east 217th street, the suspect put his hand on the girl's neck and choked her before running off. >> the next big contest for the presidential candidates just days away. ted cruz's wife heidi and running mate carley fiorina appeared in indiana voters there go to the polls on tuesday, the candidate himself was in california where he addressed the state gop convention in his remarks, cruz trump. >> you need someone with good judgment that is sober and stable and level headed and not likely to make rash and hot- headed decisions not likely to explode the twitter storm. john kasich campaigned in california, donald trump did

the day off from the campaign trail, bill and chelsea clinton both appeared at events on behalf of hillary clinton. >> stay with eyewitness news and abc news throughout the primary season be sure to tune in to this week with george stephanopoulos tomorrow at 10 a.m. right here on channel 7. bernie sanders wasn't out campaigning because he was at the white house correspondents dinner, the presidentialcampaign was brought up. >> saying donald years meeting with leaders from around the world, ms. sweden, ms. argentina. >> well beside donald trump the president and his last dinner also made fun of republicans,

central served as host. >> senator bernie sanders, senator, you never come to these things. he usually goes to the white house correspondent early bird dinner. has a serious side the scholarships it raises to help funds with students this evening and washington post reporter was recognized he of course spent 18 months in an iran prison before being released in january. new questions about the future of prince's estate, another heir comes forward as we see video from emergency landing days before his death. a woman blind for 21 years can suddenly see again how is it possible? plus, rain will wash out

ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. happening tomorrow, thousands of cyclists will hit the streets of new york city for the 39th annual 5 burough bike tour, a reminder no bags except for the small ones attached to bikes, the 40-mile route takes cyclists from lower manhattan up to the bronx then into queens and brooklyn and finally over the bridge into staten island. and they are likely to be cycling tomorrow in the rain?

it is just going to be nasty out there. temperatures not even getting up to 50 in some areas staying in the 40s all day, rain, varying intensity, sometimes coming down hard not a nice day shaping up we head outside and take a look towards midtown, 50 degrees the wind coming from the south around 8, it was a beautiful afternoon it got up to 65 today after a morning low of 47 and that makes it just shy of normal for this time of the year, the record high 91 back in 1942, get back to 40 back in 1955. 52 at newark, cooler on the island, we're talking 47 islip, 45 at montauk on the east end, many places just staying in the 40s during the day tomorrow. low to mid-50s up and down the hudson river valley. clouds are really beginning to move in that wall of cloud moving in from the west right now, continue to lower and

rain just starting to move into say allentown west of this, west of scranton, that will make progress off towards the east over night tonight into the day tomorrow. we need the rain, we're not even a third of normal rain since march the first, you can repeat some of these numbers up and down the east coast, generally less than half of what we should have for the spring so far. here is our future cast over night tonight, here come the clouds and here comes that rain fall by 8:00 in the morning it is raining in the five buroughs of new york city, much of new jersey may take until 9 or 10 to move on the eastern end of long island, during the afternoon it is nasty out there, 8 p.m., right after the sun goes down we have moderate to heavy rain in around the city western long island down the jersey shore, that initial batch moves offshore tomorrow night so we get a little bit of a break from the heavier rainfall then early monday morning to mid-morning we'll have to watch another little disturbance circulating across

be a shower or a thunder shower around 10 a.m. monday then we break out into some sunshine monday afternoon that can get temperatures back into the upper 60s a nice recovery and another rainmaker comes in for monday night at early tuesday morning. accuweather forecast for tonight increasing clouds a little bit of rain from dawn to west to east, 47, it is 47 at 7:00. raining in the city probably not quite yet on long island, though, brisk and cold rain much of the day tomorrow, if we're lucky, 51 just raw and nasty out there. occasional rain and drizzle tomorrow night, we're down to about 48, again on monday, a few showers potentially during the morning then we try to break out into sunshine in the afternoon, that gets the high all the way back up to 69, but then another batch of rain moves in late monday night lasting into early tuesday morning we might get a few breaks of sunshine tuesday afternoon, 64, mainly cloudy wednesday, we'll have to watch

early next weekend there could be a coastal storm and that could mean more significant rainfall by later on in the week. we'll need it and get it this week. looks like our problems, thanks, jeff. laura up next with sports. one month into the mets are in offensive, the amazing strife to make it 8 wins in the row while the pain, it continued for the yankees in boston tonight, and if this isn't rock bottom, well it is pretty darn close. plus the islanders took one on the road in the play off series, tampa no it's intelligent enough to warn of danger from virtually anywhere. it's been smashed and driven. it's perceptive enough to detect other vehicles on the road. it's been shaken and pummeled. it's innovative enough to brake by itself, park itself and help you steer. it's been in the rain...

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this time a solo home run, also homers 6-5 the mets have won 11 of their last 12. with as well as the season has started for the mets, it's gone the opposite way, there we go, for the yankees head into may in last place in the al, could it get worse? with another loss to the rivals continuing with the red sox in boston, unfortunately for the yankees, that's a bloop double, david ortiz, follows it up with another today, 49th career homer against the yankees. jackie junior had himself a night. two rbi trippings 8-0. yankees lose fourth in a row now 8 and 14 on the season, it is their worse start since 1991. one win to open up a play off

that, two wins and a chance to take control, that's the ultimate goal it was within reach. the islanders go up 2-0 in the lightning on game two in tampa, it was the bolts who came out, tyler johnson, lightning goals in the first period, had an answer before intermission, cutting 2-1. tampa gets that lead back in the second with the advantage, and jones with an empty nether, the lightning tie this series up. they are going to make pushes and how we handle that momentum and find a way to grab it back part of the play off series, no question. >> be hard to play against, we have to keep fighting. when you are losing you have to make sure they feel it over there, keep building, we expect a long series here. we have much more ahead in sports when bereturn the three day extravaganza, the final days for the jets and the

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they wrapped up with 4 through 7, the team did not select an offensive or defensive lineman. clemson linebacker while in the fifth round, paul perkins with ucla. and adams tight end from south carolina, the giants pleased with their three day effort. i think we did a nice job not having any knee jerk reactions trusting the board and trusting the work that everyone puts into it that put a ton of work into it. the coaches evaluate a lot of players and put all the input out on the board and just trust the process. >> as for the jets, there is another beckham in town inviting odell beckham junior's cousin to attend next week's mini camp. >> justin in round four, and in south carolina, in the next round followed by hunter,

>> you know, it is not a very easy process, when you pick players, we feel we made our team better and good about the players, we'll see how it plays going forward. mr. irrelevant, the final pick in the draft each year, complicated they own the selection but then they traded it to tennessee with selected southern quarterback. mr. irrelevant jersey, it had already been for the broncos and the little titans helmet despite an exciting season opening win, not gone well for new york city football who entered on a winless streak. and vancouver looking, a pair of goals in this one just 6 minutes apart the second right

first home win a rough start at yankee stadium. two games remain tomorrow in the nba play offs one right here on channel 7, and tipping off at 1 followed by the others the warriors and trail blazers and as the spurs won tonight, probably not happening tomorrow in that. a fiery crash in new jersey leaves four people injured tonight witnesses describe the wild scene plus what might have caused that accident. a suspect stealing $400,000 in tax refund.

. a look at to the's top stories, a huge fire on long island one home in fair harbor has been destroyed three others were damaged no reported injuries no word on what started that. police in queens want to find three suspects attacked a teenager and yelled racial slurs happened in astoria, they punched the 19-year-old called him an arab and yelled isis. rescuing a man stranded off the coast of cooney island, the man's kayak started to sink two miles offshore, drivers went into the water and got it out,

topping our news this half hour, a wild crash in new jersey a car engulfed in flames. emergency workers arrived just in time, pulled all four people out alive tonight investigators are trying to figure out what caused the crash. >> eyewitness news reporter a.j. ross has this story from cliffton. >> i was sleeping and awoke by the sound it was just like a loud crash it is one time and in a second. >> the imimpact sent a chilling echo to the neighborhood and then they flickered back on dazed ancon confused all on this stretch. a car suddenly lost control on a curve around 3:30,veered off the road shortly before it caught on fire.

men in the front and two young girls in the back ages 19-24. >> i heard somebody like screaming, she was yelling, call the police, call the police! >> it was chilling that was what it was, really chilling went right threw my. they quickly pulled all four to safety and three rushed to saint joseph's medical center while a the hospital, and praying for those involved to pull through. >> i prayed hard, i prayed hard for whatever it was, if it was an accident everybody would be okay. >> the speed limit along color road is 30 miles per hour and several people who live near by saying this stretch of road used to be known for drag races all though there have not been any recent reported incidents. in cliffton, channel 7 eyewitness news. new at 11:00, police hope someone will recognize the

a robbery in brooklyn. video shows that suspect hiding his face at a gas station. detectives say he had a fake gun and demanded money, the man got away with $1,000 in cash, video shows him driving away in a silver ford expedition. no one was hurt. a former postal worker pleaded guilty to stealing $400,000 worth of income tax refunds. admits grabbing 72 checks along his route back in 2014, then turned them over, he says to an unnamed person in exchange for $50. champagne faces 15 years in prison per each check stolen when he sentenced. at least a dozen people are dead following a building collapse in kenya the six story

in heavy rain, a chaotic scene emerged as rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble. at least 134 people were hurt, the government now says the building did not have an occupancy permit, police ordered the owner to come in for questioning. >> in iraq, a security breach in the center of baghdad as protesters got through security and stormed the parliament building the move by demonstrators came after months of sit-ins after the so-called green zone where governmentbuildings are located. saying the situation is under control. authorities reported no deaths or injuries. new questions surrounding the mystery of prince's death and the future of his fortune, there is word of another potential heir. this has investigators focused on the possibility that an over dose may have contributed to his death. nbc has details. >> reporter: new information tonight about who stands to

million estate. prince's sister seen her greeting fans filed court documents acknowledging that the superstar has heirs whose identities and addresses need to be determined in addition to prince's six siblings sources say there is now a seventh potential heir, a teenage grandniece, she is the granddaughter of another one of prince's half brothers who died years ago. this as we are seeing new images of prince's health scare days before he died. >> they want you to go to the west end of the north ramp. multiple emergency vehicles meeting prince's plane on the tarmac when it made that emergency landing in moline illinois. law enforcement reporting if a doctor was on the plane and whether a doctor prescribed drugs in recent weeks. abc news learning they executed a search warrant at a local walgreens, saying prescription medication was found on prince and in his home after he died no official word on the cause.

>> some of prince's family are expected in court on monday as they move forward settling his estate if the superstar turned out to have a child, that child would inherit the entire estate. right now, always the tappan zee bridge is open repair work finished early. you can see traffic moving smoothly right now, this is a live look at the bridge, three of four northbound lanes have been scheduled for work-related to the new bridge, that work was finished well ahead of schedule, and the closure tonight, not necessary. >> a hiccup for new jersey transit as the members of one union voted not to ratify a proposed contract. they did not disclose the vote tally, union officials say they will now have to resume negotiations new jersey transit wouldn't comment saying it had

notification. 8 unions ratified their deals while the two other unions voted today. a teenage girl killed at a carnival, thrown from a ride, questions about how this happened. >> $30,000 worth of damage to a car but it wasn't caused by a wreck, we'll tell you how a rodent is to blame.

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the accident in texas killed one girl another seriously hurt. police say they were thrown from a spinning ride called the sizzler last night. a third terrified girl manages to hold on to the safety bar, police are investigating the operators of the ride all three victims went to the same high school, they were the only people on the ride when the accident happened. to an incredible survival story, a mother and daughter safe tonight rescuers in new zealand came to their aide, the pair from north carolina took a wrong turn on a hike and were lost for days. they rashenned food and build a signal to help teams find them. here is acb. >> this is the urgent plea for help leading to a rescue, carolyn visiting her daughter as she studies abroad in new zealand heading off for a hike

disoriented with no way out of the rugged wilderness. they rashenned their resources and huddled together for warmth spelling out help with rocks andsticks that sign spotted by rescuers. >> there were two different signs and also a big arrow in the riverbed pointing to their location, gone through a lot of effort to make sure that their attention would be grabbed. it is the latest in the string of survival stories, these men stranded on a remote island using palm leaves to spell out help, this mother and daughter recovering in a new zealand hospital tonight. understandably, now just dehydrated and exhausted. >> thankfully help came just in time. mary bruce, abc news, washington. $30,000 in damage to an suv, not from an accident but from a rodant.

vehicle and found more damage spread around but just couldn't figure out the problem. then a rat jumped out. >> i was a little startled but i wanted to catch him i was out running across the shop. >> i go looking underneath my hood on my new vehicle once a there. >> mechanics say that rat first started chewing soy based wire insulation moved onto anything else it could chew. a blind woman can see again and even her doctor says it is a miracle, mary yan was in a car accident 20 years ago, it affected her spine and she lost her site days later. fast forward to 2016, franko fell at her south florida home and needed surgery when she wakes up, she can see again! >> in the mornings, i get up and i look out here and the sun is coming through the trees and

it is so wonderful to see. >> can i see you? >> interesting twist, before losing her site franco she was colorblind, after regaining her site she can see colored vividly. a woman's purse stolen from her shopping cart. >> the purse returned 14 years later, where it was found and

. so we can blame you when our nose is pressed to the window, looking out at the bad weather tomorrow, what is your twitter handle again? jeffsmithabc7, i will respond to any criticism about tomorrow's weather. there will be criticisms about a few opportunities during the next week of getting rainfall but again we need the rain and have several chances of that. we head outside right now, we look at the southern end of the park, 58 degrees, cheer skies for now, high clouds starting to move in wind coming from the south at 8 miles per hour, a rainy sunday out there, warmer air trying to make a run at us, instead of moving in here and warming us up, moves up and over the cool dome of air that rising in the atmosphere causes rainfall, eventually we do get into some of this warmer stuff

still have that shot of get ago few showers even on monday. right now 50 in the park, 54 still at poughkeepsie. and north western new jersey. there is a little bit of rain approaching the delaware water gap. dry enough air at the surface, where this initial rain is not quite reaching the ground, usually there is a lot of water where they came from over the ohio valley all heading in our direction. by parts of the poconos daybreaks in new york city down the jersey shore. right up the hudson valley. it may take until 9 a.m. nor that rainfall to get all the way on to the east end of long island. lows tonight in the meantime getting down to 47 in the park, lower 40s in suburbs of those lowering and thickening clouds, rain developing by dawn then just a rainy breezy day

we'll get up to 51 chances are stays in the 40s on the day with that rain coming down not so hard at other times just some drizzle so it is going to be kind of nasty out there. for tomorrow, this is the one thing that the rain can help out with if you're an allergy sufferer, pollen is down to low to moderate during the day tomorrow been so high lately a lot of sneezes, oak birds and maple are still the main culprits uv will be low with all the cloud cover around. accuweather forecast, increasing clouds, rain developing from west to east, down to 47, 47 is your temperature at 7:00, cloudy, it is rainy, at least here in new york city, might not have reached long island by that point but it will by mid- morning. during the day brisk and cold, raw and nasty, occasional rain and drizzle. down to about 58, here is your accuweather seven day forecast,

morning we try to clear out in a few breaks of sunshine near 70. another shot at rain coming in monday night early tuesday morning 64 we try to clear out a little bit tuesday afternoon, cloud up again on wednesday and later on to the week we'll have to watch coastal storm with that maybe even more significant rain for thursday, friday, and even into the first part of next weekend, kind of unsettled out there, andy freeze as all the details starting tomorrow at 6 a.m. april showers means may flowers or something like that. >> something along those lines. finally tonight, a bizarre reunion story of sorts a woman in new hampshire had their purse stolen in 2002. like most people, she assumed it was gone for until recently, she got a call saying the purse had been found. 14 years later, here is the interesting part, wasn't empty. >> when lisa got word police in seabrook recovered her pocketbook she was a bit confused.

don't because it is in the kitchen. and then it did cross my mind, i said well i did have a purse stolen in seabrook. stopping by to pick it up, she couldn't believe her eyes. >> when i walked in and the cop walked up with this bag i was stunned. >> the same leather purse stolen in 2002, right before christmas from a shopping cart as lisa loaded presents into her car for a family in need. >> literally everything is like a time capsule everything is the same with the exception of the large amount of cash. >> i happen to see in there, and there was a lady's purse. >> an associate at market basket found it in a trash bin in the parking lot and turned it in. lisa's wallet and credit cards, mail, bills, checkbook, work id and old cell phone and a pager, everything intact. >> $4 in cash that they missed. >> $4.

>> leaving lisa with morequestions than answers. >> i would love to know where it was, there was a lot of little things to go right for it to get back to me. some reason for it, i'm not sure what it is. >> if that bag could talk, a lot of story it would have to tell. sounds like it's been sitting in one spot for a long time. that's going to do it for us, thanks for staying up.

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