ida siegal reports. >> the great south bay was quiet this evening. the urgency was gone. they found the body of 48-year-old andrew weiss. >> i was on my boat when the helicopters came down here looking for him. >> police say he was headed to the anchorage yacht club in lindenhurst saturday. he never made it. they found his boat not far from the club yesterday. initially they couldn't find him. they found his body near the harbor. it's unclear what exactly happened, his dingy was damaged. and it appears to have been in an accident. >> nowadays, people think they're strict about drinking maybe somebody didn't see him. >> i turned myself if i was there. >> you're convinced he was hit by another boater? >> yes. >> warren kessler saw detectives eyeing the security camera for potential information. this man who identified himself as john. said the boat traffic on saturday evening was heavy, and the water was rough. it would have been easy for a larger motorboat to ram into a small dingy, ci >> they have small boats, that guy didn't even see him. >> ida siegal, news 4 new york.

ida siegal is in midtown with more on the efforts to keep new yorkers safe. ida? >> reporter: natalie, the governor first and foremost was quick to point out that no one has actually gotten zika from a mosquito here in new york and the subways are safe, but there's no guarantee things will stay that way. so today the governor himself to demonstrate what they're doing about it. >> the zika virus we've said all along should be taken seriously. >> reporter: governor cuomo down on the subway tracks with cameras rolling, inspecting pools of standing water, the kind of water mosquitos love. >> mosquitos. >> reporter: this morning, they put larvicide pellets at a station. >> we're redoubling our efforts to make sure drains are clear. >> reporter: still folks we spoke with are nervous. >> we have a lot of worries about that, especially since it's reached florida now. aedes aegypti, doesn't live in new york. it does live in the southern part of the u.s. that's why miami has seen its first cases of local infection, but that doesn't mean we're in the clear. the governor anno

reporting live from the grand central station, ida siegal. news 4 new york. >>> in the race for the white house today, president obama fired off his strongest attack against donald trump to date, calling the republican candidate unfit to run the country. >> the fact that he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge europe, in the middle east, in asia means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job. >> the president also questioned why republican leaders continue to endorse trump while at the same time they denounce some of his controversy comments. trump is facing major backlash for criticizing a muslim american family whose son died inq the republican nominee has not apologized and did not address that issue at an event today in ashburn, virginia. instead he slammed the outcome of the clinton e-mail investigation and the fact she won't face charges for using a private server for government business. >> everybody thought, oh, wow, she's guilty. however, not what she got away with was a disgrace honestly. a disgrace to our country, but we have

ida siegal, news 4 new york. >> such a disturbing story. thank you very much. also at 4:00, another disturbing story out of new jersey, someone booby-trapping a hiking trail in a park in wayne. screws and nails sticking out of the dirt this happening at high mountain park. >> reporter: high mountain park preserve is a huge property that spans 1,200 acres in three different towns. the university of union paterson. police were telling us earlier today and describing them to us. let's show you the rest of the pictures. this piece of board with more than a dozen screws in it under leaves and other debris. there was a piece of barbed wire strung across the trail between two trees. it was a height where whoever ran into it might have cut their face or throat. they found a rope in a similar position. then a thick broken bottle that was placed what they believe was geostrategically next to a rock, and they say all this happened between june 23rd, the last one all by the same person who finally came in and told police. >> they were disguised with debris on top of them.

ida siegal, news 4 new york. >>> coming up, hundreds of layoffs. unpaid furlows and a huge increase in traffic tickets. all part of paterson's budget plan. >>> what we have uncovered and a officer under investigation for fios is not cable. we're wired differently, which means we can fix things differently. i know it's in. it's in, but it's not working. i'm sending you a link to the my fios app that going to let me see what you're seeing. really? yes, mr. mcenroe... see that cord? just plug it into the connector on the right. so you can clearly see what's in and what's out? oh absolutely. i like that. tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. only from fios. >>> in new jersey, lawmakers in the city of paterson are weighing a budget plan that includes hundreds of layoffs. officers to issue an extra 30,000 traffic tickets per year. that's about 80 a day in an effort to generate $3 million in new annual revenue. city council will discuss this budget at its meeting tonight. >> it's not about layoffs. it's not about sto

. >> ida siegal is at the scene of this heinous crime in howard beach. >> reporter: sibila and david, detectives are still combing through the marshland behind me. this is called the spring creek u.s. federal parkland. there is a path. it is for bikers and joggers. police say it is where carina often went running and it is also where her body was discovered. in the weed-filled marsh off the belt parkway, police conducting a grid search, looking for any evidence that could lead them to 30-year-old carina vetrano. still no solid leads. >> right now, we're investigating anybody who used this park. there's a lot of digital evidence and home video. >> reporter: vetrano was an avid jogger. she was going for a run around 5:00 yesterday afternoon. her father begged her not to go alone, but she went anyway. when she didn't come home a couple hours later, her dad called the police and they went first they found her cell phone and then around 11:00 last night they found her body facedown. >> the father went into the woods and then found the body with our detectives right after him. >> it's horri

ida siegal, news 4 new york. >>> thank you. want to update you on the breaking news in new jersey which is affecting the evening commute. a tractor trailer fire in the southbound lane of i-287. what's the latest? >> reporter: this mangled mess barely resembles a truck. this has been out here two hours this is 287 southbound at exit 58 for route 202 in oakland. happened just before 4:00. the tractor trailer lost control, hit the bridge abutment and burst into flames. luckily the driver managed to escape without injury. we can show you heavily machinery has been brought in. they are removing the contents competely closed down. you see northbound with a five mile delay. looking at heavy delays from exit 66 down towards this point on 287. we'll be out here for the next two to three hours as they clean up this mess. >>> police still haven't found the man who jumped in the passaic rivero harrison after a traffic stop. he climbed into a storm drain. no one has seen him come back out. police are searching for the man. he might have got

reporting live from howard beach, ida siegal. news 4 new york. area and we found rapes and sex crimes are going up in the 106th precinct. there were seven rapes last year from january through july. there were also seven other misdemeanor sex crimes. in the same amount of time this year, there were eight rapes and 18 other sex crimes. murders in that area are also double what they were last year. rapes and other sex crimes are up roughly 10%. >>> new at 5:00, a guilty plea prospect from yonkers. garth o'neill pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the murder of michael nolan. nolan was shot in a drive-by shooting last september. three other men were arrested in his murder. all are awaiting sentencing. >>> new information tonight on the latest american charged with trying to help isis. police officer. investigators scouring the home after a washington, d.c. metro transit police officer, the first to face federal terrorism charges. jonathan dienst has been working the case all afternoon and he now joins us from the newsro

reporting live from howard beach, ida siegal. news 4 new york. >> thank you. >>> we move now to yet another tragic story. this one on long island. a man with autism ran off from dead a short time later in a backyard pool. police say the man jumped a fence to get into the pool. greg cergol joins us now with more. greg? >> reporter: yeah, natalie. nassau police have yet to identify the 22-year-old drowning victim, but they do say that his death was noncriminal in nature. he was one of ten young autistic adults who were living at that group home in plan dome, a group home during time on the playground yesterday, police say the young man jumped over a six-foot fence and ended up in a swimming pool in a neighbor's yard. several group home staff members ran around the block and pulled the young man from that pool. they administered cpr, but he died a short time later. the executive director calls this incident a tragedy, and she says there were more than the required staff on hand to ensure yesterday. >> the staff is really trying to c

ida siegal, new york. the campaign trail after donald trump suggested during a rally today that second amendment activists could go after hillary clinton if she tried on roll back gun rights. take a listen. >> if she gets on pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is. >> clinton campaign called that a candidate should not suggest violence in any way. >> he said gun rights activists should not vote for clinton. earlier today, hillary clinton urged congress to reconvene and pass emergency zika funding. clinton made the comments at a health care in miami where 21 nontravel cases of the virus have caused a lot of concern. a vice presidential candidate has said that he would return to washington for a vote on zika funding. >> a trump statue vandalized replaced. this got a lot of attention when it happened over the weekend. jen has new details. >> reporter: the artist is putting if finishing touches on the 16-foot tee. it was raised earlier today. this is act