from manhassett, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. >> what a beautiful boy. and dominic will enjoy his week. >>> shaken awake. a small earthquake rumbled in central new jersey early this morning. the u.s. >> he launch survey confirms a -- the u.s. geological survey confirms a 2.7 quake struck a.m. it caused no damage but the sound and movement woke people >> like a thunderclap rumble woke up because the windows were shaking. >> i woke up and felt like the house cracked in the night. >> the last earthquake in new jersey was 1.9 east of trenton last december. forecast. >> is the great looking friday going to come into the weekend? you have to get it into the weekend. it looks like mother nature is going to cooperate. the picture is a good one. nice looking sky. degrees. today you were close to 90. i think the 90-degree mark we hit it tomorrow. it's a beach weekend with slight chance of showers. warm water at the shore. sea temperatures from 74 up to 80 degrees down around portions of the jersey shore. that's a mild water for us out there. so what will the skies

port jefferson, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. >> that's frustrating. the storm also leaving behind major damage in setauket. toppled trees scattered everywhere. many fell on to homes causing extensive damage as well. homeowners let us inside, showing us a branch, how it punctured the living room ceilingism >> my parents had lived here for close to 60 years and my mom said she'd never seen anything this bad. i'm just thankful we're all safe and alive. >> the trees also took downpour lines, leaving much of the area in this part of setauket without electricity tonight. >>> the nypd sounding the alarm they homeless. makes people irrational, impervious to pain, and is very dangerous. cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer reports on what police weaponized marijuana. >> it's disturbing video. a naked home less man blocking a vehicle under the influence of a resurgent drug synthetic marijuana, also known as k2 and spice. police commissioner william bratton calls it weaponized marijuana. the man is howling and irrational. the commissioner says it's the new fav

cbs2's jennifer mclogan was there and she returned today. the lessons learned since the disaster. >>> dick and kristine, tonight here's what we are working on in the cbs2 news room. tonight at six more on the bus crash in regal park that left six people hurt and a lot of damage. we will update you on the road closures caused by the accident. >>> also, how secure is your parking garage? a thief caught on camera stealing keys and cars from a local garage. see how thieves got one car out in just minutes. those stories and more tonight at 6:00. >>> deaths from heart disease have gone down dramatically over the last few decades. >> but a new study suggests when it comes to young women, that's not necessarily the case. dr. gomez joins us with more. >> reporter: they have been going down despite increasing diabetes and obesity. some experts say it's due to widespread use of cholesterol lowering drugs called statins. new research shows deaths from hard disease have declined in people over 65. 55. especially women. >> the next step is trying to under

cbs2's jennifer mclogan reports from rocky point. >> reporter: he lay in a recover from a potentially fatal bacterial infection. he was hospitalized for six days and had to undergo emergency surgery. the rocky point high wrestler was one of five teammates to contract mrsa last season. and now his family is suing. >> from our investigation the rocky point school did not service or maintain the way for years. in fact, there is information that they didn't flip the mats to clean them on the other side for seven years. >> reporter: the lucias allege negligence. a file you're to adequately sanitize equipment. the mats they claim provided a breeding ground for mrsa. the school community is talking. >> they have been asking us to vigilant about the mrsa cases going around the schools. >> mats at wrestling? my grandson is a wrestler in rocky point. so you worry about that. >> reporter: the rocky point website contains information on spread. good hygiene, self-skin checks, get to a doctor. the staff infection is resistant to many common antibiotics. they say the school waited too long and alle

jennifer mcloaiza -- mclogan with the story from hicksville. >> reporter: the pilot with engine trouble crashed less than a half mile away. the 59-year-old pilot was killed when his small plane slammed into long island railroad tracks in hicksville, near south oyster bay road. audio of the conversation was recorded by a website tracking aviation activity. >> take it down. >> it's at 10:00, and it's at 5 miles, beth page, if you want to try that one. i just know there's a runway there, 11:00 and a mile and a half. >> reporter: radio contact was then lost. it's unclear if the controller gave the directions based on personal knowledge or federal aviation records. >> we are confused on trying to get the facts ourselves to feel peace, and if i-misguide -- if he was misguided, it was tragic for all of us. >> reporter: the pilot said he could not restart his engines and unable to see the bethpage strip. it was closed in 1990 and now a mix of light industry and residential homes. >> the pilot should have up-to- date maps and the control consider advise on wind direction and things like that. >>

cbs 2's jennifer mclogan reports. >> reporter: this is what we have seen repeated over and over in the path of the storm. there will be no enjoyment anytime soon for the family and their backyard patio or their swimming pool now filled with their maple tree. >> this is worse than hurricane sandy. we lost six trees up there that are about 200 years old. and it's a mess. >> reporter: he and his family still feel trapped on quaker path in stony brook amid toppled trees and dangling wires. his neighbors are moving with caution. pets, too, as homeowners prepare for another day without power. >> murphy's law my generator broke yesterday so i went and got a new one. once you get out of this neighborhood, there's gas and stuff. >> reporter: but getting out is not easy. north shore roads in suffolk county are still littered with massive trees wrapped around electric lines pulling down poles. first responders directing traffic. jams a mile long through winding two-lane streets. >> if there was an emergency it would be big trouble. >> my kids are like the end of the world is happening. >> reporte

from wading river, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. >> the farm, by the way, did suffer similar blows in superstorm sandy. grants and loans were not forthcoming. >>> well, police are looking for a man who put on a halloween mask and robbed a laundromat in the bronx last night. security video from the laundry on laconia avenue shows a suspect with a gun. then he is seen with an employee grabbing money from the register. police say he took off with $246 and escaped in a gray jeep liberty suv. >>> a major blow for president obama's iran nuclear deal. senator charles schumer has come out against it. but the white house isn't taking it lying down and may be behind an attempt to injure new york's senior center. cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer explains. >> reporter: senator chuck schumer's decision to oppose president obama's controversial nuclear deal with iran winning praise from jewish groups. >> we welcome it. we think it's a very important statement. senator schumer is a leader in the senate. >> reporter: but the decision infuriated the white house, which according to sources is not

cbs 2's jennifer mclogan reports live from port jefferson. >> reporter: good evening, this is what we have seen repeated over and over in the path of the storm. there will be no enjoyment anytime soon for this family on their backyard patio and swimming pool now filled with a maple tree. >> this is worse than sandy. six trees were lost about 200 years old. it's a mess. >> reporter: he and his family still feel trapped on quaker path in stony brook amid toppled trees and wires. his neighbors are moving with caution as homeowners prepared for another day without power. >> murphy's law my generator broke yesterday so i got a new one. that's the good news. once you get out of this neighborhood there's gas and stuff. >> reporter: getting out is not easy. north shore roads in suffolk county are littered with massive trees. wrapped around lines pulling down poles. traffic jams are miles long. >> if there was an emergency it would be big trouble. >> reporter: the storm cut a 50-mile s.w.a.t. from smithtown to southold. >> my kids thought it was the end of the world. >> reporter: the town supe

as jennifer mclogan from our sister station in insuring reports, the the woman didn't think she would survive. >> i cannot express in words how thankful i am for everyone who saved my life from the fire fighters to the police officers, to the scene, to the doctors, to the paramedics, that without them i wouldn't be here and i didn't think i would be here. >> the outcome could have been tragic, no one knew the great neighbors massive 5,000-pound oak tree was difficult seized and as stephanie epstein slept it collapsed, slamming with such force the epstein's house rock, roof collapse, trunk enveloping her in her bed. >> it sounded as if a bomb hit the house. hearing her screaming for help and dad, get this tree off me. first instinct toys slap your face, to wake up in this dream. wake up. >> reporter: stephanie was trapped unable to breathing nothing to shock. volunteer paramedic lives across the street and came running to help save stephanie 's life. first and foremost we were worried about compartment syndrome but we were worried about the tree. >> i did not think i was going to make

jennifer mclogan has more. >> reporter: the students from long island high schools were recruited by a local nonprofit to work concessions at jones beach theater and citi field among other venues. and promised to be paid $9 an hour a investigators. >> somebody has to know about this operation that they are not paying me. >> reporter: these resent graduates of two high schools telomere their classmates up to 100 victims never got a nickel working all last summer and the summer before. >> we didn't get paid -- they are still figuring it out. >> reporter: they learned of the scam and contacted the nassau district attorney. an investigation led to addresses of a man from brightwaters accused of running a sham fund and alleged accomplice owens of wyandanch. mr. owens did you steal from the schoolchildren? >> in freeport alone, if students were owed more than $25,000 in compensation. these defendants are nothing more than scammers and thieves. hiding behind a charity that they created for no other purpose than their own self inrichment. >> reporter: the men are accused of falsely represent

from westhampton, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. >> now, this preliminary ntsb report does indicate the air traffic controller discussed a number of landing options with the pilot including laguardia, farmingdale, islip, westchester, bethpage and nearby parkway. about the accused gunman in the attempted terror attack on a french train. authorities say the suspect watched a jihadi video on his phone moments before pulling out an assault rifle. we are learning also about the fourth american who helped to stop last week's attack mark mugalian, a virginian who lives in pennsylvania. he is in intensive care -- who lives in paris. he is in intensive care being treated for a gunshot wound. he was the first one to wrestle the ak-47 from the suspected gunman. >> he noticed somebody going into a bathroom with a case. he looked suspicious and watched the guy. when he came out saw he had the gun. >> the man got shot in the struggle. moogalian got should go schott in the struggle. spencer stone stuck his finger in the wound to stop the bleeding. >>> new jersey governor and presidential candidate chr

cbs 2's jennifer mclogan reports from port jefferson station. >> i don't want to get electrocuted. and i don't want to come home to god forbid one of my kids being electrocuted. >> reporter: elizabeth, a u.s. postal worker and mother of two, says the summer has been a jolt for her and her daughters home from college. >> without the gloves on and we touch this, we get an electrical shock that would just like back us up like oh, my gosh. >> reporter: come right through your whole system? >> yeah. my daughter got an electrical shock that lasted three hours. >> reporter: they called in an electrician who told the family their condo was not properly grounded to their utility's wiring. >> he said, and your cable's electrified. >> reporter: pse&g made a housecall. >> i did get the runaround. they insisted it was inside the house. had nothing to do with them. >> reporter: meantime, the family donned rubber souled sandals and thick rubber gloves before showering worrying about shock and fire. neighbors volunteered their bathrooms. >> yes. she offered me -- >> that's a good neighbor, you kno

jennifer mclogan has the exclusive story from manhasset. 3-year-old dominic mchallic couldn't perform the simplest of tasks. like singing. without bursting into uncontrollable anxious laughter. >> he could have six, seven a day. >> six or seven seizures a day? >> the reason he is having a seizure, a lesion in the brain and a and it is a peculiar form of epilepsy that has him break into fits of laster. >> they live in slovakia where the outlook of a cure is grim. and their only child was laughing and passing out and getting worse and they were led to america where they contacted surgeons who recently operated on this child. >> dr. harold rekay of north shore lij is a world renowned expert in treating the rare condition. >> it is a remarkable story. this is not just a problem for the child. it is a family problem. >> you can see on his eyes, it is not a natural laugh. it wasn't a happy laugh, that's all. no. >> dominic's ground breaking surgery using light energy, a laser probe and heating and zapping the tiny lesion birth defect without destroying memory, vision, emotion, hunger or thi

cbs 2's jennifer mclogan follows the debate from brentwood. >> how old are you? >> say it. >> 4. >> 4. >> okay. and are you each other's best friends? >> yes. >> yeah. >> reporter: lucas and logan seem like they are joined at the hip. the identical twins from brentwood do everything together. next month, both will begin pre-k. >> shepherd's gate. >> and you'll be? [ indiscernible ] >> southwest? >> reporter: logan will be at southwest in bay shore the morning program. but lucas was picked in a lottery for the coveted all day prekindergarten slot at shepherd's gate in brentwood. >> very frustrated and sometimes angry with the school district that they're -- that one child is going to get a better education, a better start to their education. i don't feel that it's right that they separate my twins. >> reporter: the family alums of the brentwood district asked officials to reconsider. >> they don't have to be in the same classroom. we would like them to be in the same program in the same school. >> reporter: the twins' parents worry about ramifications. >> lucas wi

from west hampton beach, jennifer mclogan, cbs2 news. >>> this just in. thesix of the seven teenagers have been given probation and 50 hours of community service. they will not have to register as sex offenders. a seventh teenager is awaiting trial in family court. the players were charged with sexually assaulting and hazing four teammates inside a high school locker room. cancel the team's football season. >>> a prisoner, a young woman, still on the loose tonight after escaping from the nypd. police say tiffany neumann slipped out of her handcuffs it. more on the search for her on the matt. >> reporter: dana, this is an embarrassment for the nypd after yet another suspect escapes while in custody. this woman was arrested while trying to steal clothes from the west side. while in custody, she managed to slip past an officer and get away. this incident drawing the fury and anger of the police commissioner. >> police across the city are searching for 23-year-old tiffany neumann. a possible citing in central park turned out to be a false alarm. police went t

from bethpage, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2news. >>> a call to action today to crack down on synthetic marijuana. brooklyn's borough president says it's destroying lives. >> reporter: della ellis told her story in brooklyn borough hall today, one of a powerful addiction to k2 that started with what seemed like innocent fun. >> i was introduced to k2 with some friends. we bought it from the store for $5. it was fun at first. then it became a habit. from weekends to everyday use. >> reporter: brooklyn borough president eric adams says ellis is far from alone. >> a new york city saw a 220% increase in emergency room visits related to synthetic drugs. >> reporter: adams says part of the problem is the label synthetic marijuana. >> people sometimes smoke it in the belief that it's marijuana only to find out that it's not marijuana. >> some of the impacts of using this drug is that heavy sedation, increased heart rate, hallucination, paranoia, anxiety, vomiting, high blood pressure, seizure, loss of consciousness, and violence. >> at what point did you realize you were in trouble and you couldn't keep

cbs2's jennifer mclogan has the story from holbrooke. >> reporter: birthday girl bella, four years old. she and her brother and parents are celebrating by moving into their first home. queens to holbrooke. >> the mover broke it and i'm sad. >> reporter: the dream move did not go well. bella's belllini bed is splintered. dresser scratched and gouged. >> they never wrapped the cribs or mattresses. >> reporter: the family says joy turned to sorrow. >> i took it out and heard more crunching and then another and then another. i just burst into tears. >> reporter: what was wrapped appeared cracked and crushed. >> my franciscan bowl. >> reporter: washing machine electronics shorted. you paid to have everything taken apart and put together? >> yes. that was part of the contract. >> reporter: did you have a rapport with the movers at all? >> when they got there they seeped great. >> reporter: they bought the men breakfast and had lunch delivered. when the movers appeared behind schedule. >> guys, who is going to fix the refrigerator? you have to put the doors on. they started arguing amongst th

from port jefferson, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. >>> time is 7:13. it's sunny out there. >> vanessa says we may have a heat wave. explain yourself. >> it's not my fault. yes, we think today we stay in the upper 80s. monday through thursday, the forecast has us in the low 90s. four days street and we only need three to make it a heat wave. let's take you live outside and show huh the sunny picture. we have blue skies but quite a haze over the city this morning. it's 72 degrees. we have southwest winds at 5 miles per hour. the headlines, a little more humid today. you will notice it when you step outside. slight chance for a passing storm mainly north and west of the city today. a hot week ahead. highs in the low 90s for at least, we think, four days. today we get close. yesterday 87. 6 degrees above the norm p. today 89, feeling more like 92, 93 degrees. then tomorrow with highs in the low 90s feels like the mid-90s. something to keep in mind as you make your plans, the last couple of days before a lot of kids go back to school. as we look at the 80-d

cbs2's jennifer mclogan reports from port jefferson station. >> i don't want to get electro cuted and i don't want to come home to god forbid one of my kids being electrocuted. >> reporter: elizabeth says the summer has been a jolt for her and her daughters home from college. >> without the gloves on, and we touch this? we get an electrical shock. that would just like back us up like oh my god. >> come right through the whole system? >> yeah. my daughter got an electrical shock that lasted three hours. >> reporter: they called in an electrician who told them their condo was not properly grounded to their utility's wiring. >> he said and your cables electrified. >> reporter: they made a house call. >> i did get the runaround. they -- insisted it was inside the house. had nothing to do with them. >> reporter: meantime the family donned rubber soled sandals and thick rubber gloves before showering. worried about the dangers of ungrounded wiring causing shock or even fire. neighbors volunteered their bathrooms. >> yes, she offered me? got to be good neighbors you know. >> reporter: the co

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