steve langford on the jersey shore. we begin with john elliott. >> we want to show you what's going on right now. we have some light rain through the city into parts of nassau county. another batch to the north and west. you have some light rain in sullivan and dutchess county. that front will usher in a few more showers and then it stalls so it's a pathway for off-and- on showers for your thursday and friday. then our attention will shift to joaquin. joaquin. new numbers for you. now at 80 miles an hour. it's a category 1 storm. between the models that we are going to see a strengthening storm. could be a category 3 storm early saturday off the coast of the carolinas. and then more model agreement that it is heading more to the west. we will talk specifics and have the spaghetti models with the various paths coming up and what potential impact this storm could have on us a little later in the show along with your seven-day. right now back to chris. >> john, thanks. >>> parts of jersey hit hard by hurricane sandy are do

we have steve langford live on the scene. >> reporter: yes. 10:30 last night and and a italian sports car smashed into the remains of these two businesses. we don't know what happened but we have a very good idea of the destruction here. the 2010 maserati caught on surveillance video, sparks flying as it heads straight toward the bagel shop and chicken store. it does not appear to slow down. the destruction of the business reveals the devastating impact, as well. >> that guy came from there, okay? he came, missed that tree, came over that curb and crashed into this building and ripped this whole thing down. >> reporter: the driver of the car, 40-year-old michael bedetti is being treated for non life-threatening injuries and the businesses here are out of commission for the foreseeable future. customers say they always worry about this stretch of road. >> the cars go very fast here and the school kids are here getting bagels. >> reporter: the maserati did not hit customers since the businesses were closed at the time but both businesses here have taken a serious hit. the maserati such

cbs 2's steve langford is live in flatbush with the latest on the story. steve, good afternoon. >> reporter: this garbage truck has been stuck here badly in the pavement here in this strip mall parking lot since the wee hours of this morning. and officials are here trying to figure out what to do before moving the truck. this parking lot is built above a freight train line and there are strong suggestions from at least one of the business owners affected by this situation that this garbage truck should never have been here. >> as far as i know, you know, we have limitations on which trucks are supposed to be here and which ones aren't supposed to. >> and this one? >> and this one, i do not think was supposed to be here. >> reporter: we called five star carting to get their comment. they said they have no comment and hung up the phone. engineers from the dob, the mta, and atlantic rail are here trying to figure out what to do, how to get this truck out of here safely, in what is clearly a precarious situation in flatbush. steve langford, cbs 2news. >> steve

more on the river rescue with steve langford. >> it happened so fast. a wave came and flipped us into the water. >> reporter: 19 members of the dragon boat team suddenly overboard off college point, their vessel overpowered by waves and wind. >> i saw bodies in the water. >> the rescue effort came fast. all were rushing to save them. >> the water temperature is cooler than usual, so it ever you can get hypothermia much faster. >> reporter: the boat itself sank to the bottom. minutes before the boat went down, someone on board just took the plunge. >> reporter: franklin chu just asked his girlfriend, vickie paddled to the white stone bridge. >> the proposal went off without a hitch. it was just making it back to the the dock. >> chu still rattled after it was a bigger splash than he planned on, putting the ring back in the zipper pouch. >> i'm glad i listened to him and didn't put it in the dry bag. it would be at the bottom of the river now. >> we have had good times and bad times just like the currents. surviving this, we will survive anything else. >>

him and didn't put it in the dry bag because that's at the bottom of the wear. >> reporter: steve langford, cbs 2 news. >>> ben carson says no one of liz limb faith should be elected president and said the faith should only matter when it's not consistent with the u.s. constitution. >> i would not agree with putting a muslim in park of our nation, i absolutely did not knee with that. donald trump took a question obama is a buzz limb. he said it's not his job to correct everyone. >>> donald frump has 24% down from 52. he had 15% earlier this month. ben carson slipping to thinker following by rubio and bush. >>> here's a quick recap of last night. ''game of thrones" won for bill satire, and john hamm got the best actor emmy, and viola won was not just who took home the golden staffy. the surprise aferocious tracee morgan. how social media is going wild over amy schumer amy polar. >>> a warning for apple users. traveling flu the holiday cans can get pricey. find out in our area where a black bear was spotted this time. >> uh-oh. it's chilly outside for your back door this morning. a crisp coo

cbs 2news' steve langford with the latest. >> she punched me. >> reporter: the day that this 10-year-old breezed into this father's deli in the proxon this scooter and occurred thejug first of one customer. caught on video from multiple angles. the woman irate. >> she told me to say please. i said, it is none of her business. >> reporter: the video shows the woman in the white top initially being held back by a companion before quickly getting right in the 10-year- old boy's face. >> she curls -- cursed at me. i backed away and ran. >> you cannot hear what they are saying. but the woman chased the boy down the aisle and smacked him. and letter she -- later she punched the child in the in -- nose. >> how would you feel? >> the boy's father returned and is glad that the woman was gone. >> they held me back. >> video of the boy nursing a bloody nose, an image his father is unable to erase from his mind. >> it was a guy, i would have crushed her bones. >> relatives of the woman lives around here, it is not their problem, they want him to take it up with her. steve langford, cbs 2news this mo

steve langford reports. >> reporter: miss jordan, we can hear somebody in there. can we talk to you for a minute? the occupants of this townhouse in the mariners harbor section of staten island not opening up for us or the landlord whose rental property now for sale is a mess in more ways than one. >> she is not returning my phone calls or emails. we have many people interested in buying the property but she is uncooperative. >> reporter: miss jordan are you a squader? the landlord says you're not paying rent. are you a squatter? >> reporter: also getting city her public rent assistance to lives here for free. somebody else. can you explain this, miss jordan? the new york city housing authority, which is responsible for section 8 housing, says it is investigating this case. in such instances when a resident is found to be occupying an apartment when a transfer has been enacted and unwilling to leave, nycha may take a number of actions including moving to suspend section 8." in the meantime, the landlord is exasperated by the tenor of the dealings with the city. >>

live at south ferry station, steve langford, cbs 2 news. >> a lot of people changing their plans. thank you, steve. >>> the nypd has arrested a man in connection with the death of a staten island woman. police charging 36-year-old joseph danclair with second- degree murder. chrissy bevelaqua was killed inside the manhattan broadway hotel in midtown last tuesday. investigators say that danclair may have spent time with another woman found dead in a bushwick hotel in july. murder charges in that case are expected later tonight. >>> yonkers police say an overnight shooting that left a local sports hero in extremely critical condition was not a random crime. 23-year-old michael nolan was shot in the head and the arm at the burger king parking lot on central avenue overnight. investigators believe the shooting stems from an argument over a drag race. as police search for the gunman, nolan's family struggles to coach. >> he is not doing good. me and my wife do the to make decisions. sorry. -- got to make decisions. sorry. [ crying ] >> we are searching video along central park avenue by

steve langford, cbs 2 news. >> city sources tell cbs 2, quote, if you are walking around naked, you are subject to enforcement. but if your body is painted, that falls under the guise of entertainment, artistic expression and first amendment rights. >>> dramatic video of of a gas station attendant dragged by a car and as the pictures clearly show this was no accident. cbs 2's christine sloan with the details tonight from middletown, new jersey. >> reporter: back working in the same spot where he was dragged across the parking lot of this 76 gas station in middletown, new jersey. take a look at the video again. it happens after he is done pumping gas. he goes up to the driver to get paid. then the driver grabs him by the apron filled with $1,500 in cash, pulls him along the pavement until the apron tears and singh crashes to the ground. are you feeling okay? >> okay. thank god. >> reporter: singh able to get up despite the pan. his injuries minor just cuts and bumps on his knees, bruises on his hands. >> seim so glad you're okay. -- i'm so glad you're okay. it must have been so scary for

we sent steve langford to report. >> reporter: no passengers the dreaded morning greeting for manhattan-bound commuters at jamaica station, woodside and beyond today a4:50 we lost powered at the herald interlock. that meant no signals and switches on the approach to manhattan. a recipe for lirr gridlock. at penn station that wait dragged on as commuters from long island arrived in the city late and in a bad mood. >> didn't give you an opportunity to get off at jamaica. it was frustrating. >> reporter: getting off and taking the subway from jamaica station was anything but a picnic. get used to it as long as they don't get the funds to modernize. >> the fact that we're not maintaining our systems as aggressively as we should inputting money into our systems is a great concern to transportation. who is relying on transportation in the new york everyone. >> when the signals go down that if you had human beings doing a relay, you can go tracks -- >> when the system goes down, you have to have people to find out what was the cause of that. there are many causes and people have to look at many thin

live at noon, let's gets to cbs 2 steve langford. he is at penn station. live with the very latest. steve? >> here is the headline from penn station. your afternoon rail commute home to long island, it is still up in the air. after a power outage in queens this morning that made things a mess coming here to penn station. let's take a look. >> it stinks. >> a succinct spot-on summation of this morning's commute between jamaica to penn station and woodside to penn. >> i have been here for two hours already. >> jamaica and woodside, the end of the line for so many weary long island commuters this morning. herded into the subway stations below in a chaotic crush. new york city transit cross honored lirr tickets such as they. could even the mta sounded miserable about the power outage in queens that turned off the signals, stopping trains from the island, into the city, delaying commuters for hours. >> obviously, this is not the way you want to run a railroad. >> reporter: head spokesman for the mta, declaring this summer a wakeup call for funding rail travel in america. >> this illustra

. >> senator langford. >> admiral, thanks for being here and your leadership and your work. we've had multiple conversations and i appreciate what you bring to this. anxio answer this for me, what else can the nsa do to help other agencies with cyberdeficiencies? what assets can the nsa brick to bear to help on this? i think you end up coming to clean up the mess as much as you end up trying to defend. how do we get proactive on this? >> what i'd like to do -- and, again, nsa will be part of a broader team. what i'd like to do is be proactive and get ahead of this problem set. >> currently the agencies have responsibility to be able to take on and make sure that their systems are all protected and there doesn't seem to be a lot of accountability in the structure. there are people advising agencies but what can be done proactively? >> i'd be interested in, for example, can we build a framework where someone from outside the organization is doing an independent assessment as an example. i can -- within the dod, largely under u.s. cybercommand authority, but i also do this with

the langford carpet company created three carpets for the pope, one for the airport and the others for rectory, cathedral of st. peter and paul. the employees that worked on this couldn't have been more excited. >> well, everybody is extremely excited by the whole idea. the fact that you can go home and tell your family you made something that not just for the pope that the pope actually walked on. >> this is amazing. listen to this. the red runner for the airport used more than 100 miles of yarn and consist of more than 1 million individually woven loops. that's quality right there. >> that's a true labor of love, isn't it? >> it is. let's face it here, everyone looking to get a little closer to the pope. one couple won't have to try too hard. >> john and kathleen mccarthy will be greeting pope francis during his visit to the basilica. why they were chosen for this special honor. >> we had an apartment down on 4th avenue which cost $46 a month. >> it's easy to see why john and kathy mccarthy have been married 52 years. >> we got married about nine months after i graduated from nursing

steve langford, cbs 2 news. >>> the police union is defending an nypd officer's actions in the mistaken identity arrest of former tennis star james blake. surveillance video shows the officer taking down blake outside a midtown hotel. in an open letter, the pba's president says those who are calling for the officer's firing have never faced the dangers that officers routinely do. quote, in the unfortunate case of former tennis pro, james blake, there certainly can be mitigating circumstances. no one will know for sure until there is a full and complete investigation. >>> now to the west along the utah-arizona border where flash floods have killed at least nine people. raging waters swept away two vehicles but several women and children were rescued from this stalled car. search crews cleared roads today and heavy equipment was brought in to remove a car that had been swept two miles down stream in arizona. most of the people in the area are members of a polygamous religious sect, once led by warren jeffs. four people are still missing. officials say a wall of water blocked the only way

cbs 2's steve langford has more now on the storm preps up and down the jersey shore. >> reporter: belmar, new jersey, is a town that does not believe in taking any chances should a storm named joaquin come crashing in. from the bulldozers creating sand berms on the beach to the pumping of lake como here. >> by lowering this lake we help mitigate against flooding into all the homes that surround it. so we have hundreds of families that are right now scared. >> reporter: belmar mayor matt doherty says the people are haunted by the ghosts of sandy. >> we have learned a lot of lessons from sandy and we have a lot of resources now we never had before. >> so pray for the people of belmar, too,. >> reporter: a preventive ditch being dug on the beach in asbury park. in in longin sea bright, new jersey, this is tiny center street which as you can see if joaquin comes in, it's going to hit hard. >> we just bought the house a year ago from an owner who got hit by sandy. >> reporter: jake knows what necessary for and is glued these days to the weather forecast. >> definitely listen to every minute o

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to move beyond the cleanup in aisle nine scenario, to how it -- it goes to my summons to senator langford, how do we get ahead of this problem and start talking to organizations to take steps to make sure they account get, not they're already in. how do you get them out? >> are you engaged in the process with the 19 agencies -- >> not with every agency in the federal government, no. >> why not? >> under the current construct dhs has the. responsibility over the.gov domain. have to be asked. >> so it's on an agency-by-agency basis that dhs asks you? to -- and if they were to ask you to deal with all of the.gov weeds you have the resources to --ize my first comment would be we have to prioritize. i'm expended to spend all of the dot-mill, and that same capacity is also going to work on the dot-gov, my first comment would be, we have to prioritize. what's the most essential things we need to protect. >> as in all things we have to prioritize, but i think it would behoove dhs to make such a request. thank you for your frank assessment of what would happen if theirs a government shutdown. and

i agree with what senator langford just sad. they have antiques right now. they're allowing us to trade. there's a good reason for that. it shortens the time for them to develop enough fissile material to have a nuclear weapon. thanks, iran is to delay inspectors. this is important because we allow them to enrich. don't miss that. what we've done this allowed them to dictate the inspection protocol. i've never seen a deal where that was allowed. this to me is unconscionable. the fact that his secret deals is important but the fact we allow them with no u.s. participation and the iaea, we take samples under the protocol of his action. this ideas are unconscionable. i would never in business sign a deal wherever they go document does not expose. how in the world. i understand side agreements on normal operating procedure between the iaea and the countries they are in. this is different. this is a public global deal dealing with a country like iran and we need to see that. i can imagine how anybody would approve the deal and explain to their constituents how th

in the mariners harbor section of staten island, steve langford, cbs 2 news. >>> the landlord has been trying to sell the property for a year now to pay for college for his children. >>> 4:49, coming up a nationwide irs scam hits close to home. some victims may be getting their money back. >> and weather and traffic on stay with us. tt0w!tx#h_!!el@-@zl tt0w!tx#h_!!ed@-fx( tt0w!tx#h_%!)8h-&&t tt0w!tx#h_%!kzh-;i( tt0w!tx#h_%!n-h-n $ tt0w!tx#h_%!0ph-pg< tt0w!tx#h_%!s"h-@5\ tt0w!tx#h_%!ueh-cw, tt0w!tx#h_%!7hh-_ux every cup has a story. dunkin' k-cup packs in my life -- we're a good fit. a single serving for myself, it's pretty special. it is like having a dunkin' store in my home which is what i've always dreamed of. bring home delicious dunkin' k-cup packs today. your coffee, your dunkin'. >>> good morning. time now 4:51. a live look outside. will the beautiful weather continue? john will tell us. for now a bulldog is back with its owner after an incredible save by an air pilot. 7-year-old simba was on the plane when the pilot saw there was a problem with the cargo area, and the pilot div