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here's cefaan kim. >> i don't know. i'm terrified. that's the bad thing. >> for pati this was not the way he thought his day would start out. of seven parked cars on coney island in brooklyn that got banged up over night. this cell phone video and pictures showing his suv on top of another parked around. >> police say around 2:30 an out of control truck avenue r. the driver fled the scene. >> maybe he was drunk. i don't know. i don't have any words to say to him. >> this surveillance video showing the white tow truck carrying another vehicle slammed into the parks cars and then taking off. >> the impact so powerful it tore down this school crossing sign and ripped up the sidewalk. >> boom, real loud. like a bomb. it was like a movie. i didn't think it was real. i still think it's a movie. is it a movie? >> yotivich said it was a terrifying sound that woke her up. this is her red ford. you can see the mange led suv pinned next to her car. >> it sounded like a bomb went off. it was horrible. i thought i was in a dream when i woke up i w
here's cefaan kim. >> i don't know. i'm terrified. that's the bad thing. >> for pati this was not the way he thought his day would start out. of seven parked cars on coney island in brooklyn that got banged up over night. this cell phone video and pictures showing his suv on top of another parked around. >> police say around 2:30 an out of control truck avenue r. the driver fled the scene. >> maybe he was drunk. i don't know. i don't have any words to say to him....
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eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is there with the story. >> this isn't just any chinese restaurant. these are not just any chinese restaurant workers. those that know them say they're part of the community and as news of the tragedy begins to spread, an overwhelming sense of sadness could be felt here. >> it's devastating. it's actually devastating. >> reporter: toni-ann ludica overcome with sadness after learning two restaurant employees were killed in a horrific accident. it was around 10:30 when it happened on i-287, just five minutes from the restaurant. >> workers are very conscientious, very hard workers. they're always like waving to the children. they're very nice to the parents. parents all go and eat there. so they're just super, super, super nice people. >> reporter: ludica says workers took that van to and from work every day. the sign posted on the front door of the restaurant reads restaurant closed due to an unexpected emergency and will reopen. we apologize for the inconvenience. but what happened here was so much more than an inconvenience. it started when a 34-yea
eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is there with the story. >> this isn't just any chinese restaurant. these are not just any chinese restaurant workers. those that know them say they're part of the community and as news of the tragedy begins to spread, an overwhelming sense of sadness could be felt here. >> it's devastating. it's actually devastating. >> reporter: toni-ann ludica overcome with sadness after learning two restaurant employees were killed in a horrific...
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eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is there tonight with our lead story. >> to give you an idea of the impact of the collision, take a look at the white suv sitting on this side of pennsylvania according to the sister of the woman whose suv that is, she says the crash forced that vehicle to jump the median and facing oncoming traffic. if you look way over there you can see the suv's tire flying from the police say it happened a little after 7:00 tonight here in east new york by stanley avenue. according to cops, a woman was struck by a car as she was getting in to her vehicle. police say the driver tried to flee the scene. he hit six other cars in the process, slamming in to them, investigators say then that suspect got out of his car and tried to take off on foot but he did not get very far. he was arrested not too far from here. scene. >> he hit the lady then hit her from the side, then knocked her over the divider and caused the get away. >> reporter: witnesses also say that suspect as he was trying to get away on foot attempted to car jack several other vehicles cops arrested him b
eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is there tonight with our lead story. >> to give you an idea of the impact of the collision, take a look at the white suv sitting on this side of pennsylvania according to the sister of the woman whose suv that is, she says the crash forced that vehicle to jump the median and facing oncoming traffic. if you look way over there you can see the suv's tire flying from the police say it happened a little after 7:00 tonight here in east new york by stanley...
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. >> eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim tweeting out breaking news updates on the story all night. he's at the scene with new details. >> take a look at this toyota here that's landed in to the pole. police are about to tow it. it appears most of the shots in the passenger side of the car and on the opposite side of the street, looks like that car may have drove through that fence there. actually started about four blocks away. >> the victims trying to escape drove several blocks before crashing in to this light pole on east henry and bowery streets. gunshots striking the passenger's side door and windshield. back on middlesex streets, a dozen markers in the street as investigators comb for clues. it happened about 7:15 tonight. it appears police have one witness. from where we were standing, we can hear police describing the sound of gunshots and we can see that man re-enacting the shooting for investigators. >> the two women were taken to university hospital in newark in unknown condition at this time. police say they were both shot multiple times. there had been no arrests made
. >> eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim tweeting out breaking news updates on the story all night. he's at the scene with new details. >> take a look at this toyota here that's landed in to the pole. police are about to tow it. it appears most of the shots in the passenger side of the car and on the opposite side of the street, looks like that car may have drove through that fence there. actually started about four blocks away. >> the victims trying to escape drove several...
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reporting live at metlife, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> the owner of a french restaurant in union county says she is worried about her brother. he lives in paris near one of the attack sites but she hasn't heard from him in days. kemberly richardson is in cranford tonight. >> marie fuller rarely comes here to the cafe sundays but weekend. her brother john lives in paris less than a mile from that concert hall where a gunman killed at least 89 people. the was thursday. >> reporter: the sound of french tv fills the small cafe in cranford, new jersey where counts the hours. >> i worry every minute. i worry for him. >> reporter: you see, marie is from france. her entire family is there. it's her younger brother john who she's worried about most. >> i call him friday night when i see the tv. i call him, no answer. i call saturday, no answer. today i call, no answer. >> reporter: she's been calling the 45-year-old because he told her he was planning to go to the concert hall friday evening. john, who loves music, lives less than a mile from the venue. he really seemed intereste
reporting live at metlife, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> the owner of a french restaurant in union county says she is worried about her brother. he lives in paris near one of the attack sites but she hasn't heard from him in days. kemberly richardson is in cranford tonight. >> marie fuller rarely comes here to the cafe sundays but weekend. her brother john lives in paris less than a mile from that concert hall where a gunman killed at least 89 people. the was...
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eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim has the story from dix hills. >> reporter: this is not the type of thing neighbors here are used to hearing about and many of them in the upscale neighborhood are a little bit happened here last night. of this home here on melrose road, you can see a bullet hole in the glass which is then partially shattered and being other side. around 9:00 last night a man knocked on the door and when someone answered the suspect fired a shot and then took off. the victim is a virginia resident who was visiting the homeowners when this happened. he was shot once in the chest and rushed to huntington hospital where he is listed in critical condition. the biggest question of all of course is what was the motive which we still don't know. and even though it doesn't appear to be a random attack, it has rattled some residents here: neighbors here say when they saw the police activity last night. they knew something was wrong but this was not what they expected. >> it's bizarre. really blows my mind. i have no idea what it could be you know. and it scares me a little bit
eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim has the story from dix hills. >> reporter: this is not the type of thing neighbors here are used to hearing about and many of them in the upscale neighborhood are a little bit happened here last night. of this home here on melrose road, you can see a bullet hole in the glass which is then partially shattered and being other side. around 9:00 last night a man knocked on the door and when someone answered the suspect fired a shot and then took off. the...
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reporting live, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. behind bars tonight after police say he posed as a cab driver and attacked a woman. prosecutors say 22-year-old adil raja pretended to be a car service driver and offered that woman a ride in patchogue. about 4:00 yesterday morning. when the woman was inside the car, he allegedly threatened her with a bb gun and then sexually assaulted her. she was able to get away and call police who arrested him a short time later. and now investigators are trying to determine if there are other victims. >> it's a disturbing incident. we think it's an isolated incident at this time but we are asking the public if anyone else was a victim of a similar incident to just give us a call. >> he was arraigned on first degree rape charges and his attorney says he denies the allegations. and says his client will fight the charges. >>> police are hoping surveillance video will lead to the arrest of a man who robbed a business in the bronx. security cameras recorded the suspect going behind the counter of a la
reporting live, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. behind bars tonight after police say he posed as a cab driver and attacked a woman. prosecutors say 22-year-old adil raja pretended to be a car service driver and offered that woman a ride in patchogue. about 4:00 yesterday morning. when the woman was inside the car, he allegedly threatened her with a bb gun and then sexually assaulted her. she was able to get away and call police who arrested him a short time later. and...
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reporting live, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you very much. as memorials grow in paris french authorities are pushing to identify an attacker who died. french national police tweeted out this photo. police say he was one of three attackers outside the national stadium. meanwhile, neighboring belgium is staying on lockdown through at least tomorrow because of a quote serious and imminent threat. the prime minister there says the nation fears an attack similar to the one in paris. that involved several attackers and locations. schools and universities will be closed and the city's subway system is shut down. the manhunt is also growing in belgium for escaped paris killer salah abdeslam. authorities say he fled to belgium they believe, following the attacks in paris. >>> as investigators in europe work to prevent more terror attacks there, security is a states. hundreds of emergency responders converged on the subway station in manhattan this morning. all as part of an emergency drill designed to deal with a paris-like terrorist attack. eyewitnes
reporting live, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you very much. as memorials grow in paris french authorities are pushing to identify an attacker who died. french national police tweeted out this photo. police say he was one of three attackers outside the national stadium. meanwhile, neighboring belgium is staying on lockdown through at least tomorrow because of a quote serious and imminent threat. the prime minister there says the nation fears an attack similar to the...
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eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim at the scene with the latest. >> just hours from now, so many of us will be gathering with family to remember all that we're thankful for. for this family, they'll be gathering for a different reason. in this case a tragedy bringing them together after a mother and a wife was mta bus steps from her home. >> i don't know what to say. i'm just shocked and feel sorry for the family. >> reporter: friends say every time they saw her she always had a smile on her face. a sweet woman who they say was kind and friendly. just before 5 p.m. police say that woman was struck and killed by this mta bus in midwood, brooklyn. we obtained this surveillance video too graphic for tv. appearing to try to beat the bus across the street but tragically she does not make it in time. dragged several dozen feet after being area hospital where she later died. the driver's side headlight on the bus showing the force of the impact. these men say they're family friends and neighbors worried about how often they say they see speeding on this stretch of ocean avenue. >> if you s
eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim at the scene with the latest. >> just hours from now, so many of us will be gathering with family to remember all that we're thankful for. for this family, they'll be gathering for a different reason. in this case a tragedy bringing them together after a mother and a wife was mta bus steps from her home. >> i don't know what to say. i'm just shocked and feel sorry for the family. >> reporter: friends say every time they saw her she always...
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cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> now to post holiday shopping. not everyone gets as pumped up about staying up late to go out shopping for items that will most assuredly be in month. it seems to be about the challenge as well. this is toys r us in times square. in bohemia, this is kmart. aj ross she's in downtown brooklyn. >> as you mentioned, food comas couldn't stop hardcore shoppers from cashing in on black friday deals tonight. they say these waits. you mentioned from square to brooklyn, big retailers have been doing all they can to get people through even at this hour it seems like it worked. >> he's going to be the man who picks what he wants. >> reporter: tis the season for giving and perhaps getting a little something for yourself. with enticing door busters and limited time offers, black friday shoppers had plenty of options to choose from. >> all the way from scotland. >> do you got a budget? >> not at all. >> so you're buying for me today? no budget? >> grab what you like. no problem. >> reporter: in the heart of times square, families
cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> now to post holiday shopping. not everyone gets as pumped up about staying up late to go out shopping for items that will most assuredly be in month. it seems to be about the challenge as well. this is toys r us in times square. in bohemia, this is kmart. aj ross she's in downtown brooklyn. >> as you mentioned, food comas couldn't stop hardcore shoppers from cashing in on black friday deals tonight. they say these waits. you mentioned...
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cefaan kim is in coney island with the details. of cefaan. >> reporter: that out of control truck first struck that minivan and struck every car up to the light pole. if you look at the damage this is anything up to. >> it sounded like a bomb. like a bomb went off . it was horrible. dream. when i woke up in the it was scary. >> describing the terrifying sounds in the middle of the night. she was one of seven car their vehicles looking like >> this cell phone video and pictures showing an suv being pushed on top of another parked car. around 2:30 a truck slammed into multiple cars before taking off. this is the road ford. you can see the mangled suv pinned next to her car. this surveillance video captured the tail end of the crash and a white tow truck carrying another vehicle on the flat bed fleeing the scene. >> the impact knocking down this school crossing sign. >> it was boom. real loud. it was like a movie. i still think it's a movie. >> neighbors say based on the destruction the speeding truck left behind if it had struck a per
cefaan kim is in coney island with the details. of cefaan. >> reporter: that out of control truck first struck that minivan and struck every car up to the light pole. if you look at the damage this is anything up to. >> it sounded like a bomb. like a bomb went off . it was horrible. dream. when i woke up in the it was scary. >> describing the terrifying sounds in the middle of the night. she was one of seven car their vehicles looking like >> this cell phone video and...
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. >> eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim has the story. >> to me she meant a lot. she's an amazing lady. every time she used to see me she was always telling me good things. she wanted me to do better for myself. >> reporter: to vargas, she was like a mother. 88-year-old louisa rosario struck and killed while crossing the street early sunday morning on the upper west side just steps from her home. in fact residents here say many consider her family, always there for you in times of need. >> everybody's grandmother, everybody's mother. if you ain't got a mother, that's your mom. if you're crying, you can cry with her. >> reporter: rosario was struck by a cab as she was crossing 109th here on columbus avenue. a candlelight vigil grows in her memory where the 88-year-old lost her life. sunday night the family stopped by to pay their respects. too distraught to speak with us on camera. elvin garcia had just seen her laughing and joking hours before she lost her life. >> if you needed a plate of food, she had a plate of food for you. >> reporter: the driver was arrested
. >> eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim has the story. >> to me she meant a lot. she's an amazing lady. every time she used to see me she was always telling me good things. she wanted me to do better for myself. >> reporter: to vargas, she was like a mother. 88-year-old louisa rosario struck and killed while crossing the street early sunday morning on the upper west side just steps from her home. in fact residents here say many consider her family, always there for you in...
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cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you. and now to a developing story. we are just learning about on the lower east side. a woman bum rushed by a stranger in her own apartment then sexually assaulted. eyewitness news reporter josh einiger on this scene. josh? >> reporter: and sade we're here at the baruch how wases off the fdr drive where -- houses off the fdr drive. a very disturbing bit of news for anyone who lives in this sprawling housing project. this happened at around 9:00 this morning, we can show you video of the houses, at 9:00 this morning police sources tell eyewitness news a man pushed his way into the apartment of a 40 clear worm. she by the way has at least one child who was not home at the time. police sources say that man then sexually assaulted the victim. grabbed her cell phone and then fled. i spoke to one man who lived on the same floor as the victim who told me -- he said that massive police response just half this happened -- after this happened and he blames night shift for pailing to main tan -- failing to maintain the doors to t
cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you. and now to a developing story. we are just learning about on the lower east side. a woman bum rushed by a stranger in her own apartment then sexually assaulted. eyewitness news reporter josh einiger on this scene. josh? >> reporter: and sade we're here at the baruch how wases off the fdr drive where -- houses off the fdr drive. a very disturbing bit of news for anyone who lives in this sprawling housing project. this happened...
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eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim tweeted out this photo from the scene. he joins us live this with the very latest -- there with the very latest. >> reporter: well, shirleen, it wasn't an accident or was it something else? that's what investigators are trying to figure out after they found the 16-year-old girl fatally shot in the head at @ apartment yesterday. -- the apartment yesterday. and now police are looking for the owner of that gun. >> it was vertical and -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: investigators in the bronx combing for clues. the nypd strategic response group searching the area and interviewing personal witnesses -- potential witnesses. at the bronx apartment where 16- year-old girl was fatally shot yesterday. this is the man police have interest. 42-year-old dale weston. police believe he owns the gun that led to the death of the teen and it appears he left the scene with that gun. cops say he, several others and the victim were inside a fourth floor apartment at east 171st street when somehow that teen was shot. >> hi ma'am how you doing? we
eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim tweeted out this photo from the scene. he joins us live this with the very latest -- there with the very latest. >> reporter: well, shirleen, it wasn't an accident or was it something else? that's what investigators are trying to figure out after they found the 16-year-old girl fatally shot in the head at @ apartment yesterday. -- the apartment yesterday. and now police are looking for the owner of that gun. >> it was vertical and -- [ inaudible ]...
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reporting live in basking ridge, new jersey, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> a major shakeup today in the athletic department at rutgers university. both the athletic director and the head football coach out. eyewitness news sports anchor laura behnke >> with the college football regular season ending yesterday, you could call this black sunday in the ncaa. but for rutgers it hit more than just the head football coach. as you said both kyle flood and julie herman have both been relieved of their duties. flood had a 27-24 record since he took over the head coaching duties in 2012 but he's coming off a tumultuous season that saw arrests of several players and a suspension himself after he e-mailed a professor about one of the player's grades. herman has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons since the moment she took over in 2013. releasing a statement this afternoon, saying this is a change for the university names patrick hobbes as the scarlet knights' new athletic director. lucy yang will have much more on the story as it continues to develop. all that on eyewitness
reporting live in basking ridge, new jersey, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> a major shakeup today in the athletic department at rutgers university. both the athletic director and the head football coach out. eyewitness news sports anchor laura behnke >> with the college football regular season ending yesterday, you could call this black sunday in the ncaa. but for rutgers it hit more than just the head football coach. as you said both kyle flood and julie herman have...
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>> reporter: now, luck ily no one was injured in this incident but police are still looking for cefaan kim, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> quite a scene there. thank you. >>> more stunning details revealed in the case of a disgraced illinois police officer who killed himself. investigators say the lieutenant used his experience to stage his own suicide as a shooting. >> it was the last call for help that had investigators scrambling. now authorities say that call and what happened immediately after wards was carefully staged. >> gliniewicz committed the ultimate betrayal to the citizens he served and the >> investigators say for 7 years lieutenant gliniewicz stole and laundered money from his youth program to pay for personal trips, his gym moips -- memberships and adult websites. >> gliniewicz radioed in saying he was pursuing three men. >> send everybody in you can. the officer is down sglchlsz -- is down. >> today one of those described in gliniewicz's last call. >> i had nothing to do with it and i told them that. >> is relieved to hear the truth is finally out. >> abc news learned tha
>> reporter: now, luck ily no one was injured in this incident but police are still looking for cefaan kim, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> quite a scene there. thank you. >>> more stunning details revealed in the case of a disgraced illinois police officer who killed himself. investigators say the lieutenant used his experience to stage his own suicide as a shooting. >> it was the last call for help that had investigators scrambling. now authorities say that call and...
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and a 68-year-old man run last night in ozone park, queens, eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is on the upper west side. >> reporter: well, sandra, 88- year-old louie s rosario was known around here as everyone's grandmother. they saw her every day and she recall always had a smile on her face. the employees after this store -- at this store say they had just seen her hours before she was struck and killed by that cab. it apted at that intersection -- happened at that intersection over there. the building there is where she used to live. there's now a growing memorial at the back of the building. she was crossing west 109th street here at columbus avenue around 12:30 in the morning. when she was struck as the cab was making a right turn. now police say she was in the crosswalk when it happened. friends say they last saw her around 6:30 last night and they were laughing and joking and time they'd see her. >> a good woman. everybody knows in the whole community. i'm talking about everybody. black, hispanics, caucasian, everybody. >> reporter: how? everybody. she comes here in the morn
and a 68-year-old man run last night in ozone park, queens, eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is on the upper west side. >> reporter: well, sandra, 88- year-old louie s rosario was known around here as everyone's grandmother. they saw her every day and she recall always had a smile on her face. the employees after this store -- at this store say they had just seen her hours before she was struck and killed by that cab. it apted at that intersection -- happened at that intersection over...