of a man in connection with his wife's unsolved murder from nearly six years ago. 33-year-old joseph jones was hauled away in cuffs last night charged with murders his wife nicole tessa. she disappeared back in 2010. her body was found four days later in a wooded area not far many neighbors today told us they were not surprised by this ar mrest. >> kind of expected. >> it's not fair to say that i'm surprised but there seems to be rumors that there were issues within the household. >> joseph jones is due in court on monday. >>> coming up here on news 4 new york, a young girl calls 911 over a wardrobe problem. see how this was resolved, coming up. >>> and are you ready for a taste of spring next week? erica has the forecast you're >>> jose diaz-bchl allart is joining us for what is up on " nightly news." >> police say there could be critical evidence held in also, wild horses being trained by inmates now helping to, well, find people at the border. >>> and going for a run. one father's simple and effective way at helping his autistic son deal with the world. it's an incredible story you'll s

her husband is in handcuffs, joseph jones notice charged with killing -- now charged with killing 32-year-old nicole tessa. >> josh einiger has the breaking details tonight. >> reporter: i interviewed jones back in late 2010. he was practically bawling over the loss of his wife, but it turns out police have suspected him all along. just 20 minutes ago they led him to jail. >> joseph, how does it feel after all this time? >> reporter: joseph jones said nothing when he was led to jail tonight accused of murdering his wife half a decade ago. back then he couldn't stop talking. >> i could barely sleep and >> reporter: the body of nicole tessa sewed up about a football field away from -- showed up about a football field away from the home she shared with jones and their son. jones seemingly beside himself with grief when it took him two days to report her missing. >> i'm so sad right now i don't even know how to explain it. a caring, loving mother who tried to do everything she could for her children and the family and everything. >> reporter: when investigators took jones in for questioni

>> reporter: joseph jones said tonight accused of murdering his wife half a decade ago. back then he couldn't stop talking. >> i could barely sleep and every time i try to eat i get sick. >> reporter: the body of nicole tessa sewed up about a football field away from -- showed up about a football field away from the home she shared with jones and their son. jones seemingly beside himself with grief when it took him two days to report her missing. >> i'm so sad right now i don't even know how to explain it. a caring, loving mother who tried to do everything she could for her children and the family and everything. >> reporter: when investigators took jones in for questioning back then, he told them he and tessa had been arguing over drugs. he left in a huff and returned to find her gone having left their son with a family member. the neighbors said the couple >> they're arguing and he leaves and she leaves and she wind up dead, doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: detectives say there isn't necessarily new evidence in this case so much as a new way of looking at the old e

prosecutors charged joseph jones with the murder of his wife nicole tessa. police believe the killing was over pain pills. >> reporter: led handcuffed into court, joseph jones after 5 years he and being charged with strangling his wife. >> i think anybody who sits around for 5 years and thinks they get away with murder. >> reporter: police and prosecutors are revealing a murder for his wife and mother nicole tessa. >> in the one year period in 2010 nicole tessa had been prescribed 5,000 oxycodone pills. the argument was over the fact he stole the pills from her and selling them. >> reporter: prosecutors claim witnesses heard an argument on the driveway. and watched as nicole tessa walked towards the woods followed by her husband. she was never again seen alive. >> nicole tessa had been trangled and beaten to death and -- strangled and beaten to death and buried in a shallow grave. >> reporter: the family could

joseph jones was arrested, charged with second degree murder. he was taken in by homicide detectives. a much different image than years ago when he told reports about the missing wife. >> they're saying nothing. they're questioning my friends, family, people all over the i don't know what's going on. i just want to know something, anything. >> reporter: police have not said what led to jones' arrest. he's due in court on monday in riverhead. i'm ray villeda, today in new york. >> thank you. >>> happening today, unions are talks between both sides ended without a deal. they will meet again monday to come to terms on a new contract. a strike deadline has been set for next sunday. in the meantime, a thousand people are expected to join this morning at the new jersey transit station in support of the workers union. >>> also new this morning, police suspect this man in at least two bank robberies in queens. yesterday police say he robbed the astoria bank on 30th avenue. last month they say the same, suspect demanded money from a teller at a chase ban

joseph jones says she innocent -- he is innocent. >>> former new york mayor michael bloomberg decided against a third party run for president but not for a lack of desire. he slammed the door shut. cbs 2's tony aiello is live with more on this. >> reporter: he posted his decision on his website. the calendar forced his hand. it was do or die with deadlines coming up. michael bloomberg criticizeload candidate for offer -- criticized all candidates. he writes while he felt he could win a number of state but he saw no path. he believes his candidacy would have made it easier for donald trump to win. michael bloomberg has been on trump for years. lincoln appealed to our better angels, trump appeals to our worse impulses. he criticized ted cruz saying his view on immigration -- after floating a trial balloon with talk of spending a billion dollars of his own fortune michael bloomberg will not enter the race for the white house. tony aiello, cbs 2 news. >> thank you. >>> plea deal for a connecticut teenager who killed the classmate who rejected him. christopher plaskon plead no contestane c

joseph jones appeared in court today. police say jones beat and strangled his wife in december of 2010. he reported her missing and a few days later her body was found in a wooded area. >>> the deaths of two teenagers and the critical injury of another in north bergen have prompted a number of calls for tougher enforcement of traffic laws. people are trying to make the deaths stop. pleas. >> reporter: kennedy boulevard is a county road that cuts through several towns here. police know that many use it as a speed way. but now 4 investigates has found that that is about to get a lot riskier. hudson county lawmen recognize they have to do something, as debris from the car that jumped the curb here saturday night suggests just how fast it was going. 74 miles an hour in an 25. it killed two friend, noel both 17. this picture of a memorial locker. eric patterson of jersey city has been charged with two counts ath by vehicle. little kids are dying. >> reporter: that was seven year old shaila who was killed by a hit-and-run drive

joseph jones was arrested last night in suffolk county. his wife, nicole tessa was found dead near their home in patchogue in at the time, jones told police he and his 31-year-old wife got into an argument about drugs, and he left in a huff. when he returned, she was gone. "eyewitness news" spoke to him at the time as police searched for his wife's killer. >>> all right, moving on to will all of the turmoil and what some are calling a brewing civil war in the gop and the candidates for president, will all of that impact a handful of primaries and caucuses set for today, or will it spark more voter interest across the country? voters in four states, kansas, kentucky, maine, and nebraska, are preparing to caucus today. meantime, a fifth state, louisiana, will hold its primary. the republican party still reeling after a raucous, even raunchy debate that involvely devolved into a lot more name calling and mudslinging just a few nights back. meanwhile, donald trump, still a front-runner,pulling out of his appearance today at the conservative con

. >> reporter: from the sidewalk earlier this evening, joseph jones pointed out the homes of his early years. four family apartments in the blumberg complex, a childhood of north philly memories, gone at 7:15 tomorrow morning. >> north philly without blumberg projects is like harlem, new york, without harlem. l.a. without compton. it's going to hurt. >> it's like a piece of history. it's a part of me that's being blown up. >> reporter: these towers first opened in 1967, a symbol of opportunity. by last fall, every resident had been relocated out. >> it's been a long, long, long, long journey getting here. >> reporter: philadelphia housing authority president calvin jeremiah says the towers became magnets for crime and an icon of public housing stigma. the authority imploded another high-rise, the queen lane apartments, in 2014. part of its citywide plan to add more of these low-rise town house units. >> we want to create communities where families can thrive, where children can be out playing. >> reporter: during tomorrow's implosion, residents in the dust zone should keep windows clos

. >> reporter: led handcuffed into riverhead court, joseph jones appeared, i think everybody who sits around for five years thinks they get away with murder. >>> for the first time police and prosecutors are working with a motive for the wife and murder of nicole tessa. >> in the period in 2010, ms. tessa prescribed 5,000 oxycodone pills. >> what did the argument entail? >> it was over the fact he had stolen the pills and selling them. >>> prosecutors claim witnesses heard a heated argument on the drive way and watched as nicole walked towards the woods followed by her husband. she was never again seen alive. >> ms. tessa had been strangled a shallow grave by mr. jones. >>> if they have that kind of evidence, somebody accused of murder walk around for all these years when they could have put him in jail? >> the family could barely contain their emotions. >> as he spoke things didn't add up, he is a pathological lier. >>> we spoke with jones, while posting fliers across suffolk county. >> what do you think happened to your wife? >> i don't know. i don't have a clue. please, i love you,

. >> well, that was joseph jones oback in 2010 after his wife nicole tessa disappeared. last night jones was in handcuffs accused of killing her. nicole's body was found in a wooded area near the family home days after he spoke to the media. police are not saying what led them to suspect jones or why he was finally arrested. >>> unions will rally in woodbridge today as they try to resolve a possible strike. representatives from the railroad andnaorkep- unions have been unable to come to terms on a new contract. they'll try again on monday. the strike deadline has been set for next weekend. weekend, got some good weather but we've got to get through this weekend first. >> a bit of a wintry feel for now. you do need to bune up. the day gets better as it goes on. still a bit below average. we're tracking light snow tomorrow morning. and the' temperatures start to climb day by day. sunday up to 46 degrees. lots of sun by the afternoon. monday you notice the spring feel near 60 degrees. 70. rain on thursday. >> can't wait. thank you. we're coming back in 30 minutes with anothe

. >> that was joseph jones back in wife nicole tessa disappeared. this isehim late last night. ey hauled off to jail in handcuffs accused of killing nicole. jones who's now 33 years old reported her missing in 2010. thexen four days later police found her body i a wooded area. monday. >>> we have exclusive video this morning of a brazen heist of a long island cell phone store. yo you can see it over here. the burglar busting in. what he's using there is a blowtorch. michael george has the otory. >> reporter: watch this burglar tear thr igh a cell phone store like he's on a shopping spree ripping ipads and iphones from their displays. >> i've never seen anybody try to break in with such aggression. >> reporter: the store owner told us this is the most persistent thief he's ever seen. he was able to break in after hours of work and an elaborate plan. the burglar knew nabody would spot him in this alley. he worked on this door with a blowtorch to no luck. >> one hour of work and a blowtorch and he still couldn't get through. >> still couldn't. double p

joseph jones was arrested last night in suffolk county. his wife was found dead near 2010. at the time, he told police he and his 31-year-old wife had got noon some kind of argument about drugs and he left the house in a huff. gone. "eyewitness news" spoke to him at the time as police searched for the killer. >>> today a candlelight vigil will be held to remember a college student in brooklyn who died in a possible fraternity hazing in a college upstate. friends and family of bradley doyle will march from his nearby park where they will release balloons. he played basketball at buffalo state and died last month. cops ruled his death suspicious. toxicology results have not yet been released. >>> also today, a memorial service will be held in texas where a former nypd officer was killed in the line of duty. he was shot in a gun battle with a suspect near dallas. on sunday, a memorial will be held in manhattan in his honor. >>> nypd commissioner bill bratton is mourning the loss of his father. the family says william e. bratton died peacefully in massachusetts. he was the year

joseph jones was hauled away in cuffs late friday. his wife disappeared in 2010 in her body was later found in a wooded area not far from the couple's home. many neighbors were not surprised by jones' arrest. >> kind of expected. >> there seem to have been issues or rumor had it there were issues within the household. >> joseph jones is due in court on monday. >>> a father and daughter lucky to be alive this morning. >> survived a crash landing in a small plane thanks to a unique feature on that craft. they were flying from the university of rhode island to the ublic airport in farmingdale. the engine died over happen hawg and the plane went down. >> louis and his daughter were 2,000 feet in the air when they lost power and then he pulled the parachute on the plane. the plane landed outside of an office building and father and daughter were able to walk away. >> we got very lucky. plane is what saved those two individuals' lives. >> the suffolk county police commissioner says it's the first time he's seen a plane with a parachute. it'

. >> joseph jones was seen crying in 2010 as police pulled his wife's body out of the woods near their home. and now the 33-year-old has been charged with second degree murder in her death. it's not clear what new clues led to his arrest. he will be arraigned monday in >>> an update on the new jersey transit strike talks. transit officials and union reps wrapped up meetings in washington, d.c. yesterday to try to avoid the system-wide rail strike. reps are trying to negotiate new contracts for more than 4,000 workers who they say have been without a contract since 201 1 . the two sides will meet for another session monday in new jersey. the strike deadline is set for next sunday. more than 100,000 riders would be affected. >>> and now let's head over to vanessa murdock for a check on the forecast. >> very chilly right now. we are in the 20s and low 30s. clear skies will give way to cloudy skies later on and snow showers overnight. this afternoon, 42, feels like 40. tonight, mainly cloudy, snow showers pushing in. tomorrow morning, more snow and then clearing by afternoon and 46. >> all

michael jones, a board certified cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon and founder of lexington plastic surgeons, i devoted my entire career to making people happy by changing the way they look on joseph sardano: we recognize doct jones as being one of the most formidable physicians in the country, who recognizes the problem and really knows how to treat the problem. when we met dr. jones and talk to him for such a long period we understood what his g gls and objectives were. and it's clearly to help people eradicate themselves of these keloids. aside from being a leading cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon who has been featured on television and in magazines as the go to doctor on m`any medical issues, you also happen to be my husband, and i get a chance to see the amazing work you do on a daily basis. and how much you truly have change lives. dr. jones: thank you cathleen, as the founder and director of lexington plasticurgeons, i have treated thousands of patients- from celebrities to anyone who has wanted to enhance or correct something on their body. a large percentage of our patients over the years have been people who suffer from keloids, and they come to us desperately seeking

he would still be locked up on a no-bond status if jones had not gone to the reynolds bond review and recanted the story of the assault. judges joseph wright setted bond at $20,000. prosecutors didn't object and he was released. >> this is a worst case scenario. >> lydia's 2-year-old grandson murdered by his mother's boyfriend three years ago. now she speaks out against domestic violence and say women like jones must find the courage to get away from the abusive men. >> think aou you have to think about you and the child. that comes first. before any type of other relationship. >> the state attorney alsobrooks leading the charge against domestic violence seconds the comments that you heard from lydia polk. she can't tell women to break up with somebody but if they feel in danger she says the system will protect them. the woman is out there now and she females in danger call 911. there is also a resource number 211 any woman can call to be directed to resources. brad bell, abc7 news. leon: there is another case of the possible domestic violence that ended with the victim's teenage son shooting to death the man they say was beating hi

jones caused a 3 yard dash car crash on grodin wrote eue gallie blvd. last night i meant to call. one driver is expected to recover and police a joseph breath test showed he was twice the legal limit and now he's in the brevard county jail. >>> a number of republican candidates for president may be shrinking and doctor ben carson says he will not attend tonight's debate because he sees no passport into the nomination. in central florida, supporters of donald trump claimed they had been physically attacked. this woman was standing on doctor phillips blvd. yesterday holding a sign with someone hit her with a cup of ice coffee. the low left a wealth and she's worried about the violence. >> when i see hillary clinton's supporters waving their signs and i think they are nuts but i do not think . >> the orange county sheriff's office is investigating that incident and another reported attack from earlier this week. >>> donald trump will hold a campaign rally at ucf on saturday that will attract thousands of supporters. demonstrations promised to get kyle clark says she is expecting nearly 500 protesters to join her. >> they want to show th