live in hauppauge long island, n.j. burkett, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> new at noon, a robbery suspect that escaped from police in newark is back behind bars. officers arrested michael majet at his home this morning. he was arrested yesterday on robbery and weapons charges. he told officers he was injured and was taken to the hospital for examination. that's where officials say he got away from officers guarding him. >>> in new jersey, police need the public's help identifying two people wanted for robbery. surveillance video shows them taking a woman's pocketbook at the food town supermarket august 20th. the woman's credit cards were used shortly afterwards. investigators know the two women were driving a large black s.u.v. >>> a young firefighter in new jersey is free on bail after being charged with calling in more than a dozen false alarms himself. 18-year-old justin tran joined the volunteer unit this summer. investigators say the fake calls began last month. as for a motive -- >> when he was inte

. >> long island reporter kristin thorne in hauppauge with the story. >> reporter: dave and diana, we spoke with thomas demin here at his attorney's office. he says after he took this video he was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice and resisting arrest. he says over the last year he's had to deal with police following him and harassing him. thomas demin says he was on way his to work when he saw police arresting one of his friends so he pulled out his cell phone and started recording. >> i wasn't there to expose anybody or to make anybody look bad. i was there because these cops are being violent with him. >> reporter: demin says both times officers told him to back up, he did. >> back up, back up. >> i'm videotaping. i'm just videotaping. >> reporter: demin says the last time the officer told him to leave, he put his phone in his pocket and walked away. >> the way police officers jumped him on the back, threw him down to the floor and cuffed him, cuffed him and they arrested him charging him with obstruction of justice. >> reporter: demin says while he was on the ground

tonight, down to 74 in the city and 71 in hauppauge and 68 in white brook. ranging from the upper 60s to low 70s. as far as the seven-day forecast, check it out. the problems and significant problems begin tonight with strong showers, and tomorrow morning could be a sloppy commute and heavy rains through the day, as well. but saturday and sunday look better. we keep the chance of showers in and again, visually we put it in sunday, but we'll keep the possibility of a pop-up on saturday, but monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, back to typical weather for this time of august. that's a look at the weather picture, folks. we'll keep an eye on danny tonight, tomorrow and through the weekend. we'll send it back to you. >> saturday looks even better than it was projected for yesterday. a-plus. >>> "new york live" is up next at 12:30. >> here's jacqui and janice. >> coming up at 12:30, wood hat borough is home of the bestburger? we'll reveal the surprising results. >> we loved him on veep and american ultra. puppy, they're so cute and they're up for adoption so don

hauppauge here and around 74 as wells as east hampton. comfortable numbers out there in the coastal section. 74 belmar. 70 to the north. you will the southerly wind out of the gulf wrapped around the bermuda high into the atlantic, that keeps pumping up the moisture around new york state, connecticut, long island. the front, talking about friday, it is back here around chicago. it's moving slowly. it will take about 48 hours to get here. a thunderstorm could pop up this afternoon north and west, maybe another on thursday but you see here comes the front. so, with the front sliding eastward, these showers and thunderstorms come in friday, friday morning, friday afternoon into friday evening. so, travel plans, 11:00 on friday night, everybody will be trying to get to the hamptons or over from connecticut on the ferry, back and forth, new london, fishers island, that will be a problem friday evening. a moderate risk of rip currents at the beaches. jersey shore a low rip current risk. not as hot, humid. 86 with 90. tonight we are down around

north port and massapequa, 64, hauppauge 66, what a great morning. it seems that although the thursday is the new get away day and friday everybody's out here on the jersey shore, coastal connecticut or long island already towards the east end. the weather is great. clouds are sliding south and east. ridge of high pressure will giver us great weather coming up for the weekend. the boating forecast and east northeast wind up to some 20 knot gusts later today. you're looking at a 5, 10 out of the northeast this morning. a moderate risk of rip currents at the beaches. new york city beaches, jersey shore. this low is going out into the atlantic. another one will spin up the front with that. lows, their air mass moves counterclockwise. you'll have a right angle land mass. that water has no place to go. you'll have the swells at the beaches. as the low goes out great weather for the weekend the catskills 78, 79 degrees, low humidities. >>> this is perfect weather, 78, 77 in the hamptons, morning clouds, sunshine later on. partly cloudy, comfy weather tonig

hauppauge at 66 degrees, and down the shore it will be a beautiful day if you're lucky enough to head off in that direction. sussex, monticello, poughkeepsie, all starting in the low 50s for the overnight lows, and now pushing near 70 degrees, and it's a quick warmup across the area. we are at 52 for monticello and sussex. it's been a quick temperature climb, and beautiful looking day, and high pressure is edging in from the west, and this front will stall out here to the east, and that's the rain we had yesterday, and it's not giving up any time soon. it will affect the second half of the weekend, and while today is great, headed into sunday, there's more clouds and spotty passing showers especially east. we will talk about that in the upcoming forecast. planning the rest of this day, it's a beautiful one. high of 86 in the city, and we will talk more about the changes for the second half of weekend in the accuweather forecast in a few minutes, michelle? >> thank you, amy. >>> federal investigators spent last night going through the home of the accused gunman at the federal building

hauppauge 86. 88 down the shore here. 95 the real feel in brooklyn now and that's because we have this west to a southwest wind to a southerly wind in parts. so, that will dry the humidity and drive up the temperature. the bermuda high is out here. rotating around that is the hot air coming up. that makes the air quality unhealthy, particularly for the young and elderly. if you want the walk or jog in, wait until a few more hours until sunset this evening. it will be pot and huh -- hot and humid. to the west showers and thunderstorms get here on thursday. there could be pop ups around 3:00, 4:00. tomorrow afternoon and to the west, notice thursday night into friday, as we see this front sliding eastward, there could be a shower along the front into the morning commute on friday. still steamy this afternoon. 91. tomorrow we will be around 84. it's warm and humid. still have the humidity. with the humidity it will feel like 90 tomorrow. tonight is a nice night. if you like the warm and sticky stuff, this is your night. quite warm, clear skies, 78. tomorrow not as hot. humid. clouds and s

hauppauge 81. if you are making the joint out east, coming from the connecticut coast, down the jersey shore, beautiful weather with low humidities and up to the catskills it won't be that humid either. more of a west wind which is dry across southeastern new york state and northern jersey. this boundary will slide south and our futurecast shows a couple of those sprinkles getting all the way up above i- 84 here to dutchess, putnam, ulster county here this afternoon. a scattered thunderstorm may pop up there. that is a long way to come from buffalo. tomorrow afternoon, there is the threat at least in the computer guidance of a scattered thunderstorm north and west away from the beach area. so,ing the boating and the beach, it looks really good. rip currents will be low. looking at waves of two feet going to about four feet. wind west to southwest this evening. 87 today. tomorrow sunshine. we are looking around 90 degrees across the entire area. the region should get to 90 and stay at 90 all weekend

hauppauge 84. great neck up to 80 degrees. down the shore 77 for belmar. inland new jersey almost 80 for newark. monticello, overnight low of 59. they're already up to 70 degrees. it's going to be a quick climb. a reminder that dew points once they get 65 to 70 degrees, look here on the map. whenever area you're closest to, they're at a 70-degree dew point. we put that on the scale. that brings us to oppressive so already feeling uncomfortable and very sticky out there with the dew points so close to the actual air temperatures. radar and satellite picture does show high pressure in control. so the entire east coast looking good. hardly a cloud around here. to get any shade really is going to be another hot one and temperatures for northwest new jersey could be in the low 90s as early as 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon giving us a hot evening ahead as well. so this air mass coming up from the south, very tropical. hot temperatures along with high humidity. 94 will be the high today. then tomorrow we go into the 96- degree range. that puts us above the record f

reporting live from the suffolk county district attorney's office, in hauppauge, long island, carolyn gusoff, cbs 2 news. >> so disturbing. thank you, carolyn. >>> a big heist in nassau county. five suspects broke through a wall and vault to snatch $1.8 million. but an eagle eyed officer foiled the getaway. dave carlin reports from hicksville. >> reporter: three men with flashlights seen in this surveillance video in the parking lot for loomis armored incorporated in hicksville are leaving the scene of a massive heist the kind that inspires hollywood blockbusters. it was around 10:30 p.m. on august 16 when police say these three suspects and up to two more in a getaway vehicle stole $1.8 million from the vault inside this fortified armored car company office which is ringed with more than a dozen security cameras. >> millions, wow, big surprise. >> reporter: the man who manages a manufacturing business across the street said never imagined the vault inside loomis, inc., was so loaded. with an estimated $20 million inside. this exterior wall is freshly patched to cover the hole where t

we're at north port at 75, and massapequa 75, hauppauge is 77. this is good stuff. this is late may, early june type stuff, and we'll see, you know, the temperature getting into the mid-80s. it certainly won't feel like it because we have a northeast wind coming in to an east wind. in this situation with the water temperatures 75, 74, 77 degrees out here in the atlantic, that really feels nice outside. so high pressure in this bubble is all the way back here to the great lakes. this slides eastward around the base of that there's going to be a low pressure system. it does go into the atlantic. it could create some swells, rough surf at the beaches. the surfers love that out there toward montauk and heather hills where they like to surf. if you kept swim don't go in the water above your knee. we're going to have this northeast to east wind that builds up to 20 knot wind gusts in the atlantic from those lows going by and the rip current risk is going to be moderate. new york city beaches and down the jersey shore. there's the low we're talking about. the air mass and

storm hour wind crystal brook, 50 miles an hour tree limbs start coming down and then damage from hauppauge and 2-inch hale in mt. sinai. through the afternoon hours, the severe thunderstorm watch over dutchess county was cancelled so now the severe weather threat really moving away from the area. we are just about in the clear, all of the activity has really been to our north, a couple of light cells over sullivan, ulster and dutchess. we will have to watch the east end of long island and the jersey shore for the next hour or two. another couple of hours before we can just say okay, no more cells are going to form along the coast. watch that and your seven-day forecast is just a few minutes ago. back to you for now. >> thank you. >>> new details on the legionnaire's outbreak, new cases connected today and the urgent steps being taken to stop the spread. >>> also is this a case of excessive force playing out in this cell phone video? a lawsuit filed and the offensive slurs this man says nypd officers called him. >>> and billy joel ready to close the nassau coliseum. we are with fans who hav

hauppauge 72, and 70 for great neck. temperatures in the 70s down the shore already. we've got mid-60s in the northern higher elevations, so north and west of the city when we started in the 50s, quickly climbing there. here's what you can expect, just a fantastic first week of august. definitely a beach day today. near 90 with low humidity, chance of a stray storm around this afternoon, but these are going to be so isolated, few and far between. you'll see it on the futurecast. it becomes more humid starting on monday, but that's only temporary. it looks like by wednesday and thursday things return to the low humidity. upstate storm, that's all i can get. albany has got a few showers moving through, that's it. everybody else looking good. so we look at this wider view here, you see there's no weather for quite a stretch, a lot of blue skies. however, in the futurecast, it does show this afternoon some spotty showers showing up. and sometimes when the atmosphere is just a little unstable, we could squeeze out a few rain drops, and i suspect this is what's going to hap

haze in some spots, but that's even burning off right now. 81 in east hampton currently, 79 for hauppauge, massapequa has 76, 82 for great neck and down the shore we have temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s to start off this day. it's going to be a fantastic beach day. on the accutrack, closest storm we could find this morning crossed over albany and has moved eastward into new england. everybody else looking good. high pressure is in control and we're looking for just few and far between storms throughout the day today. in fact, if we get anything more than a quick spotty shower, it will be very surprising. we're just not expecting too much out of this, but we can't rule it out. sunday is looking pretty perfect. i'll have details on that coming up in the accuweather seven-day forecast. but for this day, you can plan for temperatures in the upper afternoon. i'll have details on what we can expect in the week ahead as rob. >> all right, amy, thank you very much. >>> well, a water main break last night in brooklyn is still causing some big problems for drivers this morning. right now a

hauppauge 62, 59 towards east hampton 71 newark and 55 to 65 monticello to poughkeepsie. a 10-degree spread. a calm wind this morning to a southerly wind around. it's going to feel great across the area. today a lot of sunshine, clear skies, there are those showers back to our west. this band of right here, this band of right here, that starts to march eastward and that gives us the rain tomorrow. simply you'll see on our futurecast this afternoon one or two showers pop up in here around morris county west of the hudson river valley, even maybe dutchess county in here and by tomorrow, 6 a.m., 7 a.m., we've got heavy rain tomorrow into the afternoon, into the evening. there could be a leftover shower as we go into wednesday. we've got a beautiful day today. we're looking at sunshine. we're looking at cloudy skies coming in tonight. we're looking at the showers and thunderstorms starting after midnight. showers and thunderstorms will be heavy tomorrow morning and then again in the afternoon. there might be a leftover shower on wednesday. the rest of the week is looking good

it will be across long island out to nassau, suffolk county, 63 north port to massapequa to hauppauge and the east end 69 from east hampton to montauk. 63 belmar. look at toms river 55. so is and dover in northern new jersey to poughkeepsie where it's 55 and around kingston. this afternoon we get to 83. that's cooler than normal. dry with a northwest wind. absolutely gorgeous. now, we will look at the weekend weather forecast coming up next. hang on. heather is looking at the commute. weather then heather. >>> on routes 1 and 9 closed down between tonnele circle and construction. cliffside park, this map is blocking that but anderson is closed at lot ton with the ongoing water main break. new jersey transit doing fine. bridge work in bridgeport. traveling on to the staten island east south avenue to victory boulevard, two lanes are closed down. shortly. we have alternate side of the street parking rules in effect. mass transit is doing okay. lori, over to you. >> heather, thank you. >>> we are following a developing story in new jersey. the search is on for a missing swimmer. nypd avi

hauppauge 70. out to east hampton, 74. 66 down did the jersey shore. low 60s to the north. we have the winds out of the southwest once again. that is great for the jersey shore. that is a land breeze. on the south facing shores, fire island, the beaches across long island to the eastern end, that creates big rip currents around. check with the lifeguards, some of the beaches, out to the eastern end, out to the hamptons they have no lifeguards. you will see the relationship. you will see the water where you see the white capping in spots. that is the rip current going on. sound shore, northshore just fine. uv up decks an 8. lots of sunshine. southwest wind. a front to the west. on the futurecast you will see that front saying south and east but it's in the dry air. it loses the bun punch. overnight -- punch. overnight there could be a scattered shower and tomorrow night. except tomorrow night a front comes through with cooler drier air for the end of the week. boating forecast, small craft advisory in effect. that's because the waves go 2 to 4 to 3 to 5 late in the day. wind

the temperatures owning long island, massachusetts. 73 hauppauge. 80 great neck. the humidity is more than it was this time yesterday. it's higher across the area. air quality warning, heat and humidity will make the air quality bad from midday to afternoon. showers dissipating across bergen to westchester county. now we will get hot and we are going to be quite humid. fourth date of the -- fourth day of the heat wave will feel like 95 to 100. >> we head to the maps. the george washington bridge is moving across the span not a problem at all as you head to the inbound side. however, getting into the tolls it will be about 30 minutes, lincoln tunnel is 40 minutes. holland tunnel is a 20-minute delay. then we have routes 1 and 9 north at the charlotte circle a disabled truck being cleared away. it's still out there. then we had earlier flooding on route 80 near squirrel wood road. street cleaning rules are in effect. ken, back to you. >> thank you, heather. >>> anthony fox mets with new jersey governor chris christie and the garden state's u.s. senators to discuss t