for years you can find this lifeguard at jones beach state park. but not a smore, the, the state banned lester more modest jammer swimsuit and now this lifeguard is pushing back. >> a jammers are like biking shorts. it's at a certain age you donopl want to wear speedo anymore. it's just, eat when you have a six pack in your in your twenties, you you look decent in the speedo. after certain point iyths just not the appropriate attire. >> it in 2007 lester was turned recay turned out they banned the r swiyeuit and requires alld the lifeguards to wear speedo's, briefs her boxers and makes it easier for lifeguards to swim the speed test. but lester doesnopl agreed. >> they said will the jammer are fast, they were faster than other seatke i there's no evidence, no data wha morifeguvr anywhere in the world that that was true. yoe pcan take the tesgle iyths y on long island. and once again long island happens to emeonloy 90% of the lifeguar lik over 50. so it was completely aimed at the older guys. there is no question about it. >> lester's case was initi

and he told me the 16 officers assigned to jones beach park concert that he shows an example is being understaffed area. >> ultimately falls on the office of state parks. they need to hire sufficient police officers to do the job. this was a skype interview last there was a bit of a sideshow peer check out some of this video outside the event. there might have been a few drinks of all. in a statement park police told us long for and has a zero-tolerance policy for underage drinking in new york state and our state parks 375 arrests were made at the august night concert at nikon theater at jones beach. some folks may have drank or smoked too much may surprise you. what caught a lot of people off guard was there was just 16 part police working the event. >> it should be one police officer for every three or 400 patrons. in this particular case this concert was 10,000 people just using that ratio would have required 35 police officers. reporter: was told the police were operating with 50% of the seriously injured. there were nine people taken to the hospital with alcohol related issues last night. reporting at jones beach zachary kiesch "fox 5 news.

governor cuomo has extended the hours at new york's state parks and beaches through the weekend to give people some relief from the heat on long island jones sunken meadows and state parks will stay open until 8 p.m. sprinklers will be added to gant try plaza state park in queens and east river state park in brooklyn. fdr state park in westchester will stay open until 6:30 tonight. and 7:30 on the weekend. >>> also, overheating was this manhole in manhattan. smoke rising from an underground fire on east 31st between fifth and madison beneath the car. no word on the cause of the bronx tonight as yankees fans head to the stadium. big crowd expected for the final game in pinstripes of alex rodriguez. >> otis livingston reports. >> it's been a roller coaster ride for 12 years. there was flow middle ground with him. people always had an opinion about him. here's a-rod walking into the press conference. he will be the designated hitter and bat third. one place you won't see rodriguez is third base. alex until the field doesn't give the team the opportunity to win games. it's been a roller coaster ride since 2004. two mvps, a world champions and

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