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costars. the "fast and furious" stars are known for high-speed chases. >> vision hundreds, right? >> that's right. >> and action-packed drama. but for dwayne "the rock" johnson, the real drama seems to be behind the scenes. the "fast 8" actor furious with some of his male costars, taking to instagram calling them candy -- you fill the posts going viral with more than 3 million views. "the rock" didn't stop there. this time around he's promising a very authentic performance. when you watch this movie next april and it seems like i'm not acting in some of these scenes and my blood is legit boiling, you're right." >> smell what "the rock" is cooking! >> apparently he's cooking beef.
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is elected. plus , a mom at a park pushing a stroller with her kids inside in staten island, she is talking to us about why she is afraid to show her face. new information about a vicious fire that burned through several homes in the bronx, investigators say it started with children playing with fire on a stovetop and we have learned three of the four new york firefighters heard are in critical condition. >> eyewitness news reporter aj roth is in the wakefield session of the bronx. >> reporter: it has been a physically emotional and draining day for the firefighters who battled this blaze earlier this morning, kids playing on a stove, three of the firefighters remain in critical condition after they risked their lives to save dozens of others. >> fast spreading hot fire on a
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flames from the roof, 11 year veteran patrick morello suddenly became overwhelmed with heatstroke in the middle of this four alarm plays. is quickly consumed several blaze -- homes around the home tuesday. >> the fire was very hot, the firefighter came down off of the roof and collapsed right in the front of our medics. so, our medics were able to treat him immediately and saved his life. >> reporter: joseph brady, another 17 year vet on the front lines suffered a heart attack and was rushed to jacobi hospital along with lieutenant joseph martorell who had >> the conditions the firefighters work under are extremely difficult and extremely life-threatening. but they do a good job. today, it caught up with us. >> reporter: while driving from queens to help other units, sean o'rourke, a 14 year vet severely injured his arm in an accident near westchester place . >> i saw his arm and his
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things but it was a tough day for the fire department. >> reporter: as doctors continue to tend to the three remaining firefighters in critical condition, investigators believe the intense blaze that took hours to put out was sparked by kids playing with a stove. >> they were trying to get the grandmother out, and then the grandma, she's sick, and they were trying to get her out and fell down the stairs. >> they were breaking the front of the house when i came, the front of the windows and bars. >> reporter: 170 firefighters and ems responded to this blaze early this afternoon and tonight, the red cross is live in the wakefield section of the bronx, aj ross, channel 7 eyewitness news. another developing story, a dozen people were treated for alcohol poisoning at the jones beach amphitheater. it happened when fans were tailgating for the high road to her with snoop dogg. ambulances were on hand to take some people away, state police were also there confiscating
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dumping it out. friday night, 42 people were hurt when around and collapsed at a tour stop in camden. also on long island, an out- of-control car driven by a 92- year-old woman slams into a bus stop, three people were hurt. we have exclusive video shot moments after the crash. it happened about 5:15 on union turnpike right in front of the lake success shopping center, a new hyde park. say the driver became disoriented. one eyewitness says she had pulled into her parking spot when it happened. the second i parked, i turned off my car, i saw the car just flew into the bus stop. right away i turned off my car, i run over to the people. two guys were all bloodied and panicking. i called 911 for them right away. >> tonight the driver and three pedestrians she had are being treated for minor injuries. no charges are expected. now to and eyewitness news exclusive, a recent spike in crime in local parks has new
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robbed in broad daylight in staten island while pushing her two young children in a stroller. tonight, she talks exclusively to us about her frightening experience. she's life in the castleton corner section of staten island. >> reporter: sade, we are up to three different incidences in the park, an elderly man, a track team, and now this mother walking with her two boys who of course were frightened by this incident. now, many people in the area are wondering, are these three >> as long as nothing happened to my children i did not care, they could take anything. >> reporter: this mother of two is afraid to reveal her identity because she's worried the teenagers who robbed her might come looking for her. monday afternoon she was walking in clovis like park with her 2 and 3-year-old sons in their stroller. she did not realize someone was watching their every move. >> i felt someone come up behind me and put something on my back. the gentleman on the left told me to give everything i've got.
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had on her, $20 in her pocket. she did not have her wallet so they demanded her watch. it happened along the wooded path between the ice-skating rink and stonehouse restaurant. she is telling her story tonight as a warning to others. >> i was worried about my kids because what happens if i did not have anything else to give them? they would hurt me in front of them. i fear for mothers in front of their kids. these guys that are doing it don't have fear. >> reporter: this mom of course telling me that this was but also sad, because those two little boys love coming to the park. but after what happened, of course, she is having everything come back here. reporting live on staten island, carolina leid, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. a vigil tonight for vanessa marcotte, the google employee from new york city found
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tonight, remembering the 27- year-old who is visiting her mom in the town of princeton when she went out for a sunday job. police received hundreds of tips in the case. while they don't think the motor is connected, does while they don't believe the murder is connected to that murder in last week, they believe there are similarities. >> nothing has been ruled out with regards to the investigation of whether or not it may be involved. again, we are fairly early in the investigation. we have to let all of the facts play out. >> one reason this is a big deal in princeton, there has not been a murder there in 30 years. meanwhile tonight, new flyers posted in queens, upping the reward to catch the killer of katrina votrano to $20,000, the 30-year-old murdered as we mentioned earlier during a jog at spring creek park in howard beach last week. the nypd met with area residents last night to ease concerns.
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now to vote 2016, did donald trump urge gunowners to take things into their own hands? if hillary clinton is elected president. or was it a call for opponents to help trump defeat clinton? different interpretations tonight of what trump said but even many republicans are saying the way the trump pointed was unwise, a bizarre day in what was a bizarre campaign. eyewitness news reporter jim dolan has the latest. >> reporter: donald trump said something today some saw as incendiary. he said something some saw as shocking. and, his campaign issued disclaimers again. hillary clinton remains a vulnerable opponent donald trump keeps losing ground as supporters worry most not about a clinton surge but about his own quite undisciplined mouth. >> she wants to take your guns away? >> reporter: donald trump spent most of the day in north carolina trying to win over gun owners when the successful new york businessman again seemed to set his own campaign on fire. >> hillary wants to abolish,
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-- if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although, the second amendment, people, maybe there is, i don't know. >> reporter: the statement is so shocking, look at the reaction of his own supporters. some saw his worth as a call to violence. >> if someone else had have said that outside of the hall he would be in the back of a police wagon with the secret service questioning him. >> reporter: the hillary clinton campgn seeking to be president of the united states should not suggest violence in any way but the trump campaign says he was just saying gun owners have political clout in washington, and they should use it. it is called the power of unification, the statement said. second amendment people have an amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. but even before today's rhetorical misstep, a group of prominent republicans wrote an
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most reckless president in american history. republican senator susan collins of maine says she won't vote for him. mr. trump does not seem to care. >> you know, these politicians don't know me, they don't understand me. >> reporter: l late tonight, he wrote on twitter, media desperate to distract from clinton's anti-second amendment a stands. i said, pro-second amendment citizens must organize and get out the vote to save our some of course did not hear it that way, but, mr. trump supporters are not accustomed to parsing his words to carefully. the question the next 90 days will answer is, are there enough of them to win an election? bill. >> thank you. clinton meanwhile facing her own controversy today because of the man over her left shoulder in the circle. at a rally last night in florida, he is the father of the orlando nightclub terrorist killer. no one knows how he got so close to mrs. clinton, the campaign says he was not
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clinton disavowed sadik mateen. she showed her support for chair debbie wasserman shorts. -- debbie wasserman schultz. donald trump initially refused to endorse ryan and then publicly praised his challenger. ryan virtually beating, kneeling, this sets him up for a 10th term in congress. and this is his first reelection win since becoming speaker last fall. meteorologist here with the forecast, really good-looking night, we've got the empire state building all the way down to one world trade, but clouds are starting to collect, 77 degrees as the temperature. i think we stay near this point until the early morning hours where we could drop off into the low 70s, maybe upper 60s in the suburbs, but, the clouds
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a lot of it making into the upper 80s, almost 90 degrees were inland new jersey. not only are we seeing changes with clouds coming in, muggier, but we've got rain returning to the forecast. computer models are giving us almost an inch of rainfall in the next 24 hours, some showers and thunderstorms that evolved could be soakers that come in. here is the lookout for the planning forecast with temperatures pretty uniform, temperatur off just before dawn and temperatures pushing in the low to mid-80s. while these temperatures will be a bit cooler than what we saw today, humidity will make up for it and it's going to be a rather hot, uncomfortable through the end of the weekend. or thunderstorm threats, i'll have those details in the accuweather 7-day forecast coming up. a driver lucky to be alive after a tree falls onto his truck in the bronx. it happened in the pollen parkway in the morris park section. rescuers pulling the driver out
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the parks department investigating why the tree fell. a wild scene in the bronx after a suspect grabs a police officer's gun and opens fire killing an innocent man. video from the scene captures backup units around him in bedford park. it started when police were flagged down to a corner deli for an unruly customer. while being escorted out, the suspect, 30-year-old efron guzman, snatched the gun, and started firing, killing a 49- year-old man. he was shot and wounded by police. right now,ha and still to come on eyewitness news, a hospital care -- scare. two babies die for mysterious bacteria. also, new information on what you sent children flying from a ferris wheel.
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in tennessee. one of the children suffering brain damage, she is the youngest victim, just six years old. her 10-year-old sister and 16- year-old friend are in stable condition. the car they were in got hooked on another car, turning them nearly upside down and throwing them to the ground. >> for the safety of all fairgoers, all rides, at the admission -- at the amusement company are closed and will inspections are completed. >> reporter: there also inspecting reports to see if the ride the girls were in was rocking when it fell. another amusement park accident, this one deli, and tomorrow, the world's tallest water slide will reopen four days after a 10-year-old boy fell off the ride. the slide at a waterpark in kansas city shut down since
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riders weight and height restrictions. >> two babies die from the mysterious bacteria, and tonight, one hospitals nicu unit award ordered closed until authorities figure out what happened. three infants in the neo-native intensive care unit at prince george's hospital center in maryland tested positive for a potential deadly bacteria. two of the babies died. a handful of other babies in the unit are being transferred. four more people in florida have been diagnosed with the zika virus contracted through mosquito bites. there are now 21 patients in who have gotten the virus without traveling overseas. governor rick scott is calling on congress to reconvene and vote on the vega funding bill which does on the zika virus funding bill which has been installed. they set aside money in funding to buy the mosquito borne disease. speaking of mosquitoes, spring to try to combat the zika virus and vice president of new york city's five boroughs. city health officials spring pesticides from trucks and
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the specific spring is targeting mosquitoes that carry the west nile virus which have been found in several neighborhoods in brooklyn and queens. these mosquitoes by the way do not carry the zika virus. gorgeous today but we do have rain tomorrow. we have any freeze goldberg. >> the changes will already be underway, you will get additional cloud cover, muggy conditions start to develop, and then we have thunderstorm threats in play for tomorrow. 77 in central park, hour, temperature on the rise, daytime high of 87 degrees. 76 in oakwood, same for sunset park, 77 garrison, richwood, 78 degrees, howard beach also 78. on the island, 75 montauk, 73 across the sound. 83 degrees bridgeport, one of the hottest spots holding onto the heat of the day. same for poughkeepsie but as the clouds come down, they cool
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i don't think we go much below 70 degrees in most locations, we could have a few 60s for overnight lows but really, that's as cool as it gets. becoming cloudy right now, that's the change with moisture coming from the south. a muggy start tomorrow and muggy for the next several days. there was also a thunderstorm risk through the weekend, some tonight, just the beginning of the clouds starting to build in. we could see a spotty shower overnight but not much more, it would happen into midnight, a lot closer to 4, 5 a.m. during the day tomorrow, high- pressure out of here, no protection anymore. it's humid with storms around, and that is the pattern that takes us through the weekend. a big dose of heat coming in late thursday into friday. this is going to be very uncomfortable. feels like temperatures in the triple digits. playing this out on futurecast, when do we expect rain
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in the early northwest, spotty showers and thunderstorms early afternoon. the showers that they both could create drenching downpours, keep an eye to the sky if you have outdoor plans. temperatures will be a little bit cooler but the humidity will make up for the heat so still a comfortable thursday, showers off and on during the afternoon again. the threat can't be nailed down to one specific spot, instead we call it widely scattered showers and thunderstorms through thursday evening. if you are heading to the beach or doing boating tomorrow, be to 15 knots, to feed waves, temperatures going to be 73 to 79 degrees depending on which one you check, but some real warm waters out there. moderate risk of rip currents out there as well. tonight, the spotty storm is into the early morning hours. overnight it happens, 73 could be the low and tomorrow, temperatures right back up to 85. without -- showers and thunderstorms are back, heat is back from a masked with humidity right down the stretch
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92 friday, had to kick the temperature up to 94 degrees. the feels like temperatures could be worse on friday but certainly, the heat is around on saturday. also, heavy showers and thunderstorms expected saturday into sunday. it's not going to let up. once we start tomorrow, it's on. once we start tomorrow, it's on. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. n download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. and right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just $69.99 per month online. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good.
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delta airlines is one passengers flights will not be back to normal at least until sometime tomorrow. delta canceled another 535 flights today, this as the airline continues to rebook thousands of passengers after canceling flights yesterday. customers are warned to check the status of their flights on their website or app. into knights health alert,
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so maybe the rose-colored glasses of this retirement of alex rodriguez starting to be taken off a little bit. strike the alex rodriguez farewell tour got underway tonight as they opened the there was just one problem, a- rod was not in the starting lineup, he respects trent a decision. he was helping out the grounds crew. brian mccann delivered in the third, that made it 2-0, dustin pedroia had himself a pretty nice night for boston, making it 4-2, they get three runs in the frame, the yankees trailed during the end of the night but made things interesting, mark texieria, that would be go-
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friend that has got to be thinking, i could have at least done that. despite uneven results over the last month, the mets entered one game and have after the final wild-card spot with their next nine games against the two worst teams in the national league west. time to take a move as they return home, steven matz on the mound, give up one solo home run, make it two. paul goldschmidt going along, 2- 1, diamondbacks. not too pleased with and his glove apparently to blame, but, in the bottom of the frame, neil walker could not be the hero in the game, two run for the lead, could the bullpen hoard -- hold it? in short, no. the two run score, arizona back on top where they would stay, 5-
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two days away, the jets got good news at training camp before practice began. mohammed wilkerson activated off of the physically unable to perform list, he took part in his first practice at camp, at this point, trying to get better. >> trying to do some position drills with the team, just taking it slowly. very excited to be with the group doing position drills. keep taking it one day at a time and hopefully i will be out there with the team. >> while the giants got a scare today in the meadowlands, victor cruz left practice early tonight, but the team is calling a little bit early. they will not be leaving fans but, he is aware. >> i've got to listen to my body, make sure i'm going about this the right way because i don't want to ignore something and have another major setback. >> another huge night in rio. michael phelps won the 200 meter butterfly for his 20th career limbic goal, and right after that got his 21st. as the four by 200 freestyle also one, katie ledecky, one
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crown. we have good news and bad, first, the good, the women's gymnastics team dominated the team final winning the second straight olympic team final for the first time in u.s. history but an upset on the court. serena williams is out after she was upset in the third round by ukraine. the 20th-ranked player in the
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