chaos and pandemonium, eyewitness news uncovers troubling new security gaps in the response to a false shots fired call at jfk airport. >> we begin with breaking news. two u.s. olympic swimmers late tonight yanked off a plane home from rio by brazilian cops who apparently really want to know what happened the night they and ryan lochte claim they were robbed at gunpoint.

news. >> u.s. olympic swimmers jack conger and gunnar bentz were pulled off of flights that would have brought them home to the u.s. this evening by authorities in rio de janeiro. the swimmers along with champion ryan lochte are under investigation for a report they made to brazilian authorities that alleged they were robbed at gunpoint after partying early sunday morning in rio. tonight outrage in brazil after police cast doubt on the swimmers' story. >> reporter: at the center of it all is u.s. olympic swimmer winner in the olympics, and the belief of many in brazil that he lied to police in rio about being robbed at gunpoint as he was returning to the olympic village with three teammates. >> the guy pulled out his gun. he talked it. put it to my forehead and said get down. and i was like -- i put my hands up. i was like whatever. >> reporter: it is just that cavalier attitude the judge talked about and the fact that video evidence shows him returning much later than he told police that has police

badges and took their money and wallets but not their cell phones. earlier today a judge in brazil issued a warrant to have the swimmers' rooms searched and their passports confiscated on suspicion of filing a false sworn statement to police. lochte posted from the bar the men were at earlier in the night. the judge in the case wanted to know why the men looked so unphased in these images supposedly taken aft robbed at gunpoint. the u.s. olympic committee so far, as confused as anyone. >> i couldn't possibly comment on that. >> reporter: the u.s. state department saying moments ago they were now involved and offering assistance. ryan lochte is already back in the united states. conger and bentz will have to stay until this matter is revolved. a fourth swimmer, james feagan is still in brazil. lochte's attorney said the

this case. the crime of filing a false report in rio could be punished by up to six months in jail. security gaps in the response to sunday's active shooter scare at jfk airport. the port authority police now under scrutiny and our josh einiger live at jfk with unsettling news of how the cops the thousands of cameras that are online here at the airport, you would think that police at the click of a mouse would be able to see the thief from any one of them but the union that represents the cops tell us that isn't true. here at terminal 8, when they arrived to the first report of an active shooter, they didn't have a full picture of what was going on until they went in to the building and went in to the security room there. then when another report came in

of pure pandemonium. >> reporter: sunday night's spectacle at jfk is scary enough to see on video, much less to experience in person. >> terrifying. i think it was the worst night of my life. >> reporter: but the union representing the port authority cops said they were doing exactly what cops are trained to do. it's the panic, the rumors, the uncertainty. that's what's raising questions now. people ran through security doors on to the tarmac. pulled the emergency chute on this 747. now a flood of officials are asking the question so many passengers had for days. >> once it was known that it was a false alarm they could have made an announcement about it to calm the people down. >> reporter: you'd think so but eyewitness news has learned it isn't that easy because each terminal has its own system. port authority cops can't make a simple announcement from their main dispatch center.

closed circuit camera feeds without physically responding to the terminal's security room costing time and manpower and potential safety. union chief telling eyewitness news his cops, quote, entered the terminal with no information as to the potential location of a shooter. police officers, he added, were forced to enter blind. fortunately because of a shift change he said there were more cops than usual, around 80. the nypd fled at the airport with hundreds more. >> as you would know, we invested a huge amount of money our social media outreach capabilities for just this type of event. >> but the nypd isn't in charge of the airports. the port authority s. they sent only one preliminary tweet 30 minutes in. after that, nothing. >> i want a full review of what happened and i'm putting together a multiagency team of state officials who will then

we make it better. >> american airlines, which operates terminal 8, told me they cooperated fully with the port authority and they had full access to all the cameras here and to the pa system. you heard governor cuomo talk ing about this. he and new jersey governor chris christie share the ultimate responsibility for the port authority and they want a review for its part. the agency conductor said he's conducting an after action revi einiger, channel 7 eyewitness news. a developing story, and a murder mystery tonight on long island. a woman nenshzally drowned in the pool of her home. this is in cold spring harbor. they're having a briefing tonight at 11:30. we're told cops got a call to check on her welfare this afternoon. anything new from the press briefing, we'll have it on air or on our website, abc7ny. police in the bronx right

cop. investigators say the man approached the officer in crotona park east, yanked a gold chain off his neck and took off. the officer suffering lacerations to his neck but otherwise we're told he's all right. we're told a shot was fired but no one was hurt. a viral sensation after publically shaming a man she claims was fondling himself on the train. >> i'm going to get up out this you get off the [ bleep ] train. >> she to him all right. deanna carter is heard in an r rated rant sitting across from him on the train, she claims he was fondling himself underneath his backpack. the young man humiliated by carter's screams left the train at the next stop. >> what made me focus more on him when i heard the little girl sitting across from me say, mommy, what is he doing?

motion, i said oh, no, we are not doing this on the train. so i closed out my kindle app and i opened up the camera on my phone and i just let it rip. >> and this new video tonight from another woman who claims the same man with a backpack committed a lewd act on the subway in front of her earlier this year. you can see the entire uncensored video of carter's subway interaction with the man at abc7ny. we do warn you the language is graphic and it is appropriate for everyone. in new jersey a second person has died tonight from a vicious house fire. police in little ferry say a grandmother has died. she was burned over 90% of her body. earlier today we learned a 5-year-old girl had died. police officer on patrol heard a pop and found the home in flames. some residents jumped or dropped from windows in the three-story multi-family house.

planned news conference tomorrow over the assassination of an imam and his friend in queens. tomorrow's news conference will be held at city hall though prosecutors say the motive of the murder is unclear, many muslims believe the men were targeted. >> we wanted to make sure the perpetrator is brought to justice and the full force of the law is applied to him. we wanted to make sure this is >> oscar morel is being held without bail on first degree murder charges. police say a gun found in his home is a ballistic match to the weapon used to commit the murders outside of a mosque in ozone park saturday. two people charged with the murder of a woman who vanished in new jersey tonight now linked to a separate shooting of the same victim earlier this year. andre harris and jennifer sweeney arraigned this afternoon, charged with

at the train station before she disappeared in march. her body found last night, buried in the backyard of a home in long branch, a home owned by harris. >> i just want to know why. it reason. you've got to have a reason why. >> now we know. there was a glimmer of hope for a while. but now we know. >> harris is sweeney also charged with attempted murder and her child back in november. i'm meteorologist jeff smith in for lee goldberg. a pretty nice evening out there so far but changes are on the way overnight. 80 degrees in new york city. getting a couple degrees above average for this time of year. why got up to 85. 90 at toms river. in terms of the changes i was talking about, we have showers on the way overnight tonight in to early tomorrow morning. we'll check it out for you on the high resolution futurecast, especially new york city points

by 2:00 in the morning. for the morning commute i think there will be a few showers around, especially south of the city. temperatures around 73 at 7:00 in the morning. eventually we clear things out. eventually the humidity makes a return. we'll talk about that in your full accuweather forecast coming up. a wildfire out in southern california tonight burning with an intensity even veteran firefighters say they have never seen before. the fire ignited yesterday in san bernardino and continues to burn out of control tonight forcing already charring nearly 50 square miles. not clear yet at this point how many homes have been damaged or destroyed. here in new york with new jersey governor chris christie by his side, donald trump tonight receiving his first national intelligence briefing. this as he shakes up his campaign by demoting his top advisor. trump invited the media in to what was build as his national security round table.

he spent two hours getting briefed on national security. and today's developments coming just hours after trump announced a seismic shift in his campaign. trump is bringing in breitbart news chairman steven bannon as campaign ceo and promoting pollster kelly ann conway to campaign manager. trump campaign chair paul maniford under scrutiny for his russia backed groups in ukraine will maintain his role. hillary is telling voters not to be fooled by trump's efforts to revamp his campaign. clinton campaigning in the key battleground state of ohio today. she told a crowd of supporters in cleveland, quote, there is no new donald trump. that is it. during her stop in cleveland, clinton had a brief and private meeting with paul mccartney before his concert there. tenants blacklisted and they have no idea they're being

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tonight a dirty little secret about landlords and how they can use a widely circulated blacklist to try to deny prospective tenants to apartments in new york city. it comes for housing cases but they say it's incomplete information. now calls to regulate this blacklist. >> real estate agents will say to me, you know, we really like

you. >> reporter: margot thought she could easily get an apartment because of her solid credit score. she had no idea a dispute with her landlord put her on what many call the blacklist. they list people who have been sued by landlords. but some argue it doesn't tell the whole story. >> ceilings were open. i had gas line cut with gas leaking in to my apartment. then i never had gas functioning until i was out of there. and i finally went in to a stipulation to give up the safety. >> reporter: miller's experience shows up as an eviction. despite the fact that she says she settled with her landlord. >> a lot of people end up in housing court whereas a tenant they're in the right. sometimes you with held rent because the conditions were horrible. sometimes you had to take your landlord to court, but then you end up on this blacklist where you can't rent another apartment.

would regulate the industry by giving consumers a chance to dispute inaccurate and incomplete reports. >> what this legislation would change is that they have to tell you the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth about whether or not you won the case, what happened, who was involved, so that landlords can actually make a better decision. >> reporter: miller says she fought this for three long years. she's staying in temporary housing. all she wants is for landlords to get all the information they need to make a fair decision. in hamilton heights, carolin channel 7 eyewitness news. new at 11:00, remembering a cold case murder two years later. community members joined friends and family members of the two murder victims at the scene of the crime in manhattan. 21-year-old kenny jimenez and 29-year-old francisco mercedes were shot and killed outside a deli on 151st and broadway in hamilton heights. police said someone got out of a car, opened fire, and drove

the light that we're shining on the crime, somebody will call anonymously or we can get somebody to come to the cops or even to us. >> family members say they were encouraged by the turn-out tonight. they hope to increase the reward money for someone who helped solve the crime. we had a nice breeze, lower humidity. pretty nice wednesday out there. temperatures right now around 80 degrees, humidity at 56%. overnight. clouds are increasing. there will be a couple showers developing after midnight. the high only getting up to 85. for a change, only a couple degrees above normal. 95 was the record set on this date one year ago in 2015. 6:08 a.m. is your sunrise time. a few showers overnight in to tomorrow morning especially from new york city and points south. when you get up and commute to work in the morning, do expect some raindrops to be falling. doesn't look like a big deal at this point. humidity does increase again as we head in to the weekend,

e thunder threat will increase late sunday and in to monday. then some real relief from the humidity, one of the best nicest air masses of the entire summer moving in by late monday, tuesday, and wednesday. as a matter of fact, this front might be so quick that the shower activity could be gone by daybreak on monday morning. right now, 73 at morristown. 79, belmar. 77 on the island at islip. you're seeing radar returns showing up over northern parts of new jersey. there could be a couple sprinkles already starting west york city. very heavy activity moving through the nation's capitol in to delaware bay. the whole front will move through the tri-state area. that's why we have the risk of showers early tomorrow night and tomorrow morning. tropical storm fiona nearly developed. 45-mile-per-hour tropical storm. doesn't have much promise for development. it should stay out over the open waters of the atlantic.

couple showers moving in. we try to clear out during the afternoon. temperatures in the low 80s. still could be a spotty passing shower with instability. then next week a big change in the air mass. here's your accuweather forecast. that shower late. 73, showers in the area. during the day we break out in to a little bit of a sunshine. 83. could be a passing shower during the afternoon. tomorrow night we're mainly pretty comfy in some of the suburbs. here's your accuweather 7-day forecast. back to hot friday. 88. becomes very humid over the weekend. 87 and 84 respectively. could be showers and storms in here late sunday, sunday night in to very early monday morning. even monday afternoon the humidity starts lowering. tuesday and wednesday look gorgeous. 81 and 84. bill evans has much more. >> at least the weekend is looking good. >> doesn't look bad, just muggy.

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distracted the driver, the second man reached in and stole the cash. the driver was punched when he tried to stop them. this is one of six taxi robberies they're suspected of pulling off since last month. the retail giant target planning to spend $20 million expanding its stores' bathroom options over threats of a boycott over transgender rights. the company said it has heard its policy allowing transgender guests to use the bathroom of their choice. it's considering a new option, creating private toilet single stalls. customers who go over their data plan limit will not be charged the $15 fee. that's good news. here's the bad news. their internet speed will drop for the rest of the month. at&t is restructuring its data plans and the prices. laura behnke up next with sports.

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we're talking baseball but also the mets. >> the mets were preparing to face the diamondbacks tonight. no structural damage was found in wheeler's elbow but he'll be shut down for two wakes which puts a doubt chance of a return. jon niese making his first start since july 10th.

inning. ricky weeks sending out the two-run home run. the very next batter also with the home run as the d-backs go back-to-back for the 3-1 lead. bullpen fairing no better. weeks again, second home run. this time a three-run shot off eric goeddel. next stop for the yankees, the west coast as they began a six-game road trip friday. first a chance to make up ground in the division while getting another good look future. yankees and jays in a rubber game. as for the future, wouldn't be a game without a baby bomber moment. gary sanchez, two homers last night. one more that made it 3-1. cc sabathia struck out 12 including josh donaldson here. manager john gibbons not happy with that. the two would exchange heated words. then we go back to the game in the 5th. chase headley, back throw here.

the jays would make them pay. same inning, bj upton going deep for the three-run home run. first pitcher to strike out 12 and still allow seven runs. 7-4 yankees fall. giants return to practice in the meadowland. cruz was expected to rejoin practice, at least to some extent today. instead he did his own work on the side as he deals with the lingering groin issue. cruz is obviously not as far al but they want to make it clear he's improving every day and has not suffered another set back. >> i want to go out there and play and go out there and prove that i can play, that i can still play at a high level. that i can still play this game. and go from there. how about this, big blue will be without its kicker to open the new season. nfl announcing josh brown has been suspended for one game without pay for violating the league's player conduct policy.

on the track in rio tonight, united states sweep in the women's 100 meter hurdles. brianna rollins taking the first track gold. ali and caslen, second and third. the first sweep in this event by any country ever. on the court today, u.s. men's basketball team entering the win or go home stage and they're moving on after beating argentina in the quarterfinals. that's now 22 straight olympic

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don't know what the conversation is like in your home tonight, but the conversation in our little home at work, we're talking about what's happening in the u.s. olympics and the controversy over the robbery, did it happen, not happen? lots of news to come tomorrow. that's it for us for now. thanks for watching. i'm bill ritter. >> and i'm sade baderinwa.

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