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i'm david novarro in for joe torres. >> i'm sandra bookman. they say there is no crying in baseball but this video could change your mind. the takeout slide that now has l.a. dodgers 2nd baseman chase utley under league review. utley is facing possible disciplinary action as mets fans refuse to let this controversial play slide. >> it's so hard to see. the collision breaking ruben tejada's leg. we're bringing you team coverage tonight. mallory hoff live with fan reaction. got to begin with rob powers who's got the latest on the investigation. >> the mets say they knew this was going to be a tough series but nobody could have nor did they want to dream up a scenario like the one they saw last night in loss angeles. the mets lost a playoff game and their shortstop, and seemingly everybody east of l.a. county is upset about it. ruben tejada was steamrolled by utley. the impact, the resulting flip and the hard landing, fractured tejada's right fibula. major league baseball now reviewing this play to see if any rules were broken along with tejada's

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. >> i'm david novarro in for ken rosato. it is a great friday october 16th. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with meteorologist bill evans. >> nice to have you with us david and lori and everybody heather, good morning, and thank you for joining us. it's 56 degrees. very comfortable, 60 at smithtown, babylon, oyster bay, long island looking good. 52 in poughkeepsie. 48 around wrightstown. temperatures are warmer than at 8:00 it should be 50. 62 at noontime. 67 this afternoon before the blast comes in of cold air. we're going to talk about that for the weekend coming up, what that means to baseball and your weekend. all that in your accuweather seven-day forecast. weather then heather every 7 minutes. happy friday to you. >> happy friday to you. we're going right over to our mass transit chart and tell you if you use mass transit you should be happy. long island railroad, new jersey transit on or close. metro north for the most part no major problems to report. our subways are doing okay. we do have some construction ther

i'm david novarro in for bill. >> that man arrested in uniondale. josh einiger is in mineola with the breaking news. >> this is the building where the suspect is spending the night in a cell, facing a charge of second degree murder. let's show you the mugshot of 26-year-old lord pardo. he is allegedly the boyfriend of the victim's mother. the victim identified as 19 month old mason robinson. according to a source close to the investigation, pardo had been watching the little boy yesterday two days ago for the mother of the baby as she was at work. at some his girlfriend and said that mason had developed difficulty breathing. the mother asked pardo to drive mason to her. by the time he arrived at her location, the boy was either in very bad shape or possibly had already passed away. they then rushed him to siasset hospital, the nearest hospital where they were at that point where doctors toddler's life. it wasn't till today during an autopsy that the medical examiner discovered significant damage to the child's internal organs, damage that could be c

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and hello again, i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm david novarro. as officer holder is laid to rest today, we are learning more about the suspect, tyrone howard and the gun police say that was used in the shooting. >> eyewitness news reporter n. j. burkett is live outside the church in queens where the funeral for officer holder will be held. n. j. >> reporter: and that's right, shirleen, the wind and the rain have now swept in here as the first of thousands of officers service. merrick boulevard is now shut down in both directions. as they do begin to arrive we are learning more about the history, the background of the officer holder. scuba teams as you remember recovered the weapon from the harlem river on sunday, and ballistics checks now indicate the gun was sold legally at a gun shop in south carolina in from the personal car of a south carolina state trooper three years later. how it allegedly ended up in the hands of tyrone howard is not clear, but investigators say what is clear is gun, the stolen gun made its way to new york city and was us

i'm david novarro. >> and i'm shirleen allicot. we begin this half hour with the death of a young long island. >> dejah joyner's classmates returned to school for the first time since her death. the 12-year-old died over the weekend when a stray bullet killed her. this afternoon grief counselors are there to help students through the day. eyewitness news reporter kemberly richardson in hempstead with more. >> reporter: as you can imagine, a really tough day for everyone here at hempstead middle school. dejah was a 7th grader. she was at school on friday like all of her friends, went home for the weekend. no one imagined the 12-year-old of course this is all very upsetting and confusing to these kids. one way they're working through their pain expressing their loss is with messages to dejah. the kids are working on a huge pink banner. a beautiful memorial to an incredible little girl who was a girl scout. she loved to dance, she loved to sing. the district has mobilized its crisis intervention team to meet and talk with students not

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hello again i'm david novarro. >> i'm shirleen allicot. we want to get right to meteorologist bill evans with an update on hurricane joaquin and its path. >> reporter: one thing for certain you don't see this very often. a flood watch that goes through saturday evening at 6:00 for long island sound. the fibers of new york city and down the new jersey shore. there's a flood warning in effect in atlanta county atlantic city until 6:00 a.m. because rain is coming up. the high tide with the northeast wind, that is going to keep that wind producing waves at the shore and a possibility for flooding of the high tide. rain is coming up from the south in the next system that will affect us, the big batch of moisture coming up the coast. and that will produce another amount of rain, an inch or so go in to friday and that wind swept rain. latest in joaquin, 125 miles per hour, sustained winds. the storm is massive in size and continuing to go a little bit to the southwest. it will start turning to the north as a category four storm. then had starts w

>> i'm david novarro in for joe torres. it's the play everyone's talking about, coming during last night's national league division series game in los angeles. the dodgers' chase utley making a hard slide in to 2nd and colliding with ruben tejada, breaking his right leg. >> it's a bad break, no pun intended, on the road to the world series. rob powers joins us now with the latest. >> joe torre is major league baseball's chief baseball officer. he's got a heck of a job in front of him. torre says he's reviewing the mets-dodgers game, more specifically the play that leaves the mets without their player. he broke up something already. he broke tejada's right leg. utley was called out. so he never touched the base. the problem is neither did tejada so utley is called safe adding insult to would score what would prove to be the winning run. series tied 1-1 and headed to queens tomorrow. terry collins spoke at citifield. >> i lost a pretty big player. i lost a pretty big piece of the puzzle. i'm not very happy about it. i'm not g

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eyewitness news reporter david novarro has details. >> reporter: shopping for food has a lot of people feeling like they're coming up short these days. used to be a pint of ice cream got you 16 ounces. these ice cream sandwiches used to be packed 12 in a box. now you get 10 for the same price. >> it's called downsizing. people feel duped by the practice. >> reporter: as a reporter for consumer reports, todd marks is a shopping expert who fights for the little guy. >> companies often blame downsizing on rising labor and ingredient cost but it's a way for them to raise prices too without being noticed. >> reporter: take juice, for example. expecting to find a half gallon? some store brands still contain the traditional 64 ounces but many of the big brands are only 59. these three jars of peanut butter appear to be the same size but they range from 18 ounces down to 16, a difference of roughly two servings. even laundry detergents have shrunk. this all liquid is 50 ounces. while this lookalike bottle of all free clear is 46.5 ounces which means two fewer loads. how about two extra large h

hello, i'm david novarro. >> i'm shirleen allicot. all new this half hour, millions of unclaimed money up for grabs and some of it may be yours. >> we just learned $106 million is owed to people in parts of westchester county. now lawmakers trying to get the word out so people can claim what is rightfully theirs. tim fleischer live in yonkers with what you need to know. tell us more. >> and david and shirleen, certainly it's going to be found money for just about anybody who goes and checks. now until 1:00 this afternoon, you can stop here at the yonkers library and they'll check for you. better yet why not do it at home and do it online. >> you do have money and i've already claimed it for you. >> running a check of just his name, freddy scott is now a little richer. >> that's good. i got some eggs in the basket. [ laughter ] >> from 11 different communities along the western edge of westchester county alone, there is a total of $106,073,924 in unclaimed funds, money forgotten in old bank accounts, insurance claims, money that most p

i'm david novarro. >> and i'm shirleen allicot. all new this half hour, the new york city health department focusing on the health of new yorkers in all five boroughs. >> yeah n a news conference this morning, the department released its first of five reports on health in the boroughs. brooklyn was first on the list. eyewitness news reporter stacey sager is in downtown brooklyn stacy. >> reporter: yeah, dave, this is really the start of a city wide look at community health. 18 different communities here in brooklyn at the start of this study, and the city's health commissioner along with brooklyn's borough president just got through explaining the details. now they say this is really the first time in nearly a decade that community health has been looked at in this way, so these studies were long overdue. here are the factors that they assessed in communities around the city. now they looked at obesity, childhood, emergency room visits due to asthma, infant mortality, housing, air quality, and the number of supermarkets per square

hello again, i'm shirleen allicot. >> and i'm lori stokes in for david novarro. new details about a 19-month- old boy who died in nassau county. >> the coroner in the case calling if a homicide, and the mother's boyfriend, lord pardo who was also arrested appeared in court a little while ago. police also just wrapped up a news conference. eyewitness news reporter stacey sager is live in minneola with the very latest for us. >> reporter: police just got finished talking to reporters, and this man has now paroled before a judge who set his bail at $10 million because the details of this case are extremely disturbing. police have now charged 26-year- degree murder after the death of his girlfriend's toddler. the toddler was actually 17 months old. it happened sunday in uniondale. pardo was watching the baby while his mom was at work. he had done this nearly ten times over the past few months. he calls the baby's mother telling her the baby fell off the bed but then went down for a nap and was no longer breathing. mason robinson died a short time later. pardo's defen

hello again, i'm shirley acevedo. >> and i'm ken rosato in for david novarro. we begin this half hour with the arrest of a sexual predator in the bronx. >> police say greg boyden lured young boys into a park and assaulted them, and overnight we learned of another alleged victim. the incidents happened in the edenwald section. here is eyewitness news reporter rob nelson. >> i'm excited. i'm relieved. i just thank god. >> it was a pretty normal start to the day outside several edenwald schools this morning, with one exception, an undeniable sense of relief. >> i live in the neighborhood. it's a good neighborhood. we don't need people like that to be walking around hurting the kids and all of that stuff. >> polices announced the arrest of 37-year-old greg boyden who lives in the bronx and now faces a long list of charges including sexual abuse, forcible touching and public lewdness. >> i'm glad they did catch this gentleman. not a gentleman, he's a monster actually. >> he's accused in four separate incidents with teenage boys ranging in ages from 12 to 15, most of

. >>> you're watching new york's number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news at noon with david novarro, shirleen allicot and meteorologist bill evans. now eyewitness news continues. >>> our top stories this afternoon, the murder of an nypd officer, the memorial in east harlem for officer randolph holder continues to grow. this morning the family of officer wenjian liu who was killed last december left this message saying, please stand strong. the suspect, tyrone howard, is charged with murder. >>> hillary clinton currently getting grilled with questions on capitol hill. the democratic presidential candidate testifying in front of a house committee about benghazi attacks. democrats claim this is a smear campaign, republicans deny that. this is the eighth committee review of the benghazi attack. >>> and mets fans are on cloud nine this afternoon. the team is headed to the world series for the first time since 2000. they beat the cubs last night sweeping the series. right now they are flying home and will arrive at citi field this afternoon and we can't wait to see them. >>> hello again, i

david novarro with the suspect's criminal background. we'll begin with josh einiger at the precinct in harlem. >> this is the psa station house where officer holder reported every day for work for the last five years. it's this station house that's become a shrine in his memory. an in front of the psa station house. in just a few minutes, starting at the scene where he died, a march will begin. that's a few blocks away from here. a march that will end up right here at psa 5. as they memorialize an officer gone far too soon. >> reporter: barely a day later and the blurry haze of last night's chaos is coming in to chilling focus. as new york's finest started to mourn for their fourth brother cop murdered in the line of duty in less than a year -- >> i do know someone like this shouldn't have been on the streets. >> reporter: the mayor expressed anger at the alleged cop killer investigators say caused such pain. last night just after dark the mayhem started in moments. >> hispanic male, black coat, firing. >> reporter: two police officers f

funeral scheduled to start at 3:00, it will be anchored by liz and david novarro. buried in his native guyana. >>> on this tuesday night, the top cop in suffolk county already the focus of a federal investigation suddenly resigns late this afternoon. >> a new poll has not so good news for one donald trump as he lost his frontrunner status in the republican race for president. >> a reminder, we want to see your pictures showing us your mets pride. i...love new york. these grapes are squishy. i...need a shove. can someone help me? i...love new york. yes, that's a real bear. i...won a trip. that is so exciting. (announcer vo) play the i love new york scratch-off from the new york lottery. you could win trips to exciting >>> he's under federal investigation but tonight the chief of the suffolk county police department insists that has nothing to do with the sudden resignation. >> chief james burke said he resigned for personal and family specific. he didn't announce it. >> latest. >> shortly after that we heard from the suffolk county police commissioner that indeed ch

and good morning, i'm lori >> and i'm david novarro in for ken rosato. today is friday, october 16th. yay, we made it. >> yes. >> you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. meteorologist bill evans here with the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> happy friday, david nice to have you with us this morning. we're looking at a cool morning, 56 degrees. it's still a little warmer than normal for this hour of the day. the temperature going to drop down to 54, 53. whitestone, sunset park, cambria heights, 52. towards staten island, 47 poughkeepsie, 58 bridgeport. a nice start to the day. there might be a sprinkle to the north. i'll show you the radar in a moment. 67 this afternoon. and then booyah, it's brisk and chilly for the weekend. we'll talk about that next. heather o'rourke is here looking at your community this morning. >>> we have some ems activity causing some problems with our 6 train. we'll head to our maps. it's a police investigation you have the f and the g trains, mechanical problems at smith and 9th streets. track work on m

. >> i'm david novarro. >>> we begin with new details about the attempted rape of an -year-old girl. >> police say this man, seen on surveillance video, tried to sexually assault the girl in broad daylight in the bronx. she screamed and the man took off. eyewitness news reporter steph fan kim has this -- cefaan kim has this disturbing story. >> reporter: parents are not allowing young kids to walk around alone. cops say a man on saturday attacked a girl from behind entering this building. according to investigators, this is the man who attempted to rape her. the surveillance video was taken from a local business nearby and released by the nypd. police say he covered the her but he ran away after she started screaming. he is described as roughly 5'9", 165 pounds with light skin complex. he was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, ripped jeans and gray sneakers. what has residents more on edge is there are two schools by this building, an elementary school next door and middle school across the street. we spoke to a neighbor whose window faces the building entrance. he heard the little gi

. >> i'm david novarro. >>> we begin with mayor de blasio's trip top israel. >> he will fly out later tonight. there are safety concerns because of the violent attacks in the country. the latest was yesterday. protestors are starting to gather outside the united nations. that is where eyewitness news reporter stacey sager is live this afternoon. stacey? >> reporter: well, shirleen, we are outside israel's mission to the united nations on the east side where a rally is set to get going. it's a rally demanding an end to the uptick in violence, the stabbings and car rammings that they say are random, especially this week. it has been the worst surge of months. within the past month, eight israelis killed in palestinian attacks, most stabbings. 31 palestinians have been killed by israeli fire. attackers. the others killed in clashes israeli troops. beyond the troubling numbers, there are questions about whether rhetoric and social media are insiting the violence. israel is cracking down with security measures. here at home, new york city's mayor is getting set to make a trip to israel tom

i'm david novarro. topping our headlines at this hour, the mets heading back to new york today winners, and getting a chance to move on to the next round on the road to the world series. it was a nail biter of a game, but when the dust settled, they emerged victorious over the l. a. dodgers 3-2. it was a win or go home game. the mets play the cubs tomorrow night at citi field. stay with eyewitness news and abc7 new york for continuing coverage of the met's road to the world series. >>> crews responded to a small fire at a newark airport. news copter 7 was overhead. the fire broke out in a restaurant in terminal c near gate 91. no one was hurt. flight operations were not affected. there's more breaking news in newark where police have found a 4-year-old boy wandering the streets. officers found him walking alone at central avenue and south 12th street. the child is now in university hospital being checked out. police say they have not been able to find the boy's parents. >>> when we come back, w >>> welc

hello again, i'm david novarro. >> and i'm shirleen allicot. we begin this half hour with that teen in connecticut scared for her life jumping out of a car. >> yeah, investigators say the 17-year-old was abducted by a woman and released this video of the teen escaping from the moving car. now this happened monday in bridgeport. now police are trying to find the woman. eyewitness news reporter tim fleischer live in bridgeport with the very latest. tim? >> reporter: and this is where the bridgeport police are hoping the public might be able to help. they're looking for this female driver who tried to -- who old teenager. think that her car might very well be the best clue. the scariest moment for a 17- year-old girl came when she can be seen rolling from the passenger's side of this car out onto the pavement. the sudden move police say is as she tries to escape a female driver in her 40s who tried to abduct her. >> maybe if it was a man tries to get her in the car she wouldn't go in the first place but seeing that it's a woman, it's just strange

. >> president obama wrapping up nearly an hour in the state -- >>> good afternoon, i'm david novarro. >> and i'm liz cho. this is eyewitness news first at 4:00. you have been watching an abc special report, president obama speaking about everything from the economy to syria to yesterday's shooting in oregon, we are going to have much more on what the president has to say on eyewitness news at 5:00, but we are also going to talk about this nor'easterlike weather that our area has been dealing with and several communities along the jersey shore dealt with some street flooding today. this was the scene in -- more of the same in sea bright. >> in parkerton in ocean county, firefighters had to be called in to rescue drivers who got stranded in high waters. we are going to begin with meteorologist lee goldberg, who is tracking it all for us. lee. >> the wind is kicking out here, the rain is hitting peak intensity, it's hazy, murky and foggy and cold. feels like it's in the mid-40s with this gusty wind. visibility way down in central park right now, we've got steady rainfall, be ponding on

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i'm amy freeze, david novarro will be along with us and special guest spike lee the grand marshal of this year's tcs new york city marathon when we come back. >> we will be there shortly amy. hey let's take another live look outside. what can runners expect marathon sunday, that's why we've got meteorologist lee how do you stay on top of your health? ahh... ahh... ahh... cigna customers have plan choices and tools to take control. so they're more engaged, with fewer high health risks and lower medical costs. take control of your health . >>> wow, we're just 45 minutes away from the opening ceremony marathon. >> i cannot wait. thousands of people gathering in central park right now near the finish line where the runners will cross on sunday. i'm going to head over in a couple of minutes. we've got amy freeze there now with a little bit of a preview. you got everything all set up for us there? >> reporter: pretty much. david, you talk about everybody crossing the finish line. that's one of the most magical things here about the tcs new york city marathon is everybody starts in the same

. >> i'm david novarro in for sade. we have new information from citifield and we'll bring you that in a moment. right now we have breaking news in the bronx. >> one person has been killed, another half dozen injured out of an out of control truck hit them on east 138th street. eyewitness news reporter jim dolan has just arrived at the scene and is there now with the latest. >> it's a tragic scene. let's get right to the scene, right over here. you see this truck coming off bruckner boulevard, slammed in to the scaffolding there and struck the building at 138th street. it killed one person. six others were injured. there were a lot of people out on the street at this hour. a little before 4:00 this afternoon, a lot of people out on the street who saw this some who were hit by that truck and injured. many witnesses say the truck was swerving to avoid a black suv that had cut in to its lane and that's what caused the driver to lose control. the 30s, works nearby. there are friends and relatives of hers at the scene. some

you'll be able to see that special here on wabc, shirleen allicot, david novarro will be along for that. >> tcs new york city marathon, rocking it. >> good weekend to live in the best city in america. things going on. >> straight ahead on eyewitness news on this saturday morning, the mets are going to try to even up the world series game count tonight in game 4. eyewitness news sports anchor night's game against th geico motorcycle, for the girl scout meeting... okay. for the soccer team... for the girl scout meeting... how many meetings are you having?! at stop&shop, prices are down. savings are up. which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. >>> the mets will try to tie up the world series tonight against the royals. >> time now for all of the morning sports headlines. here's laura behnke. >>> good morning everyone. there are no actual must win games unless elimination is on the line. but last for the mets it was about as close as it gets. no team has ever overcome a 3 games to none deficit to win become the first as the mets returned home to face the royals at the first world series