cbs 2's jennifer mclogan reports from north merrick. >> any parent i think, um, who has even lost their child at a shopping mall, um, and had that five-minutes of complete fear understands what we feel, but we feel it every day. >> reporter: the mcdonough family of north merrick is blessed with two sons extremely high iqs and autistic. the boys douglas age 10 and donovan 8 have repeatedly wandered away. they bolted doors locked windows set alarms. backyard is enclosed and locked but the boys broke the screens and escaped. >> it's very hurtful to have people look at you as if you're a bad parent or you abuse or neglect your children because of a disabilities that you can't control. >> reporter: now donovan and douglas are among the first to be outfitted with gps tracking devices which they wear at >> so if i click on it, it's going to show me where he is. and this radius is the safe zone. >> reporter: the audio monitoring is turned off to protect the privacy of teachers and other students. emails and texts note a location change. >> it lets me know, he arrived at school shortly thereafte

. >>> a victim her dad bound and gagged in her bedroom in merrick. she may have known her killer. stefan kim is at police headquarters tonight with the latest. stefan. >> reporter: liz, police right now are not saying a whole lot when it comes to this investigation. what they are saying, there were no signs of forced entry and this does not >> we're going to explore every possibility that this person responsible may have been granted entry into the house, this person may have had a key or known to the victim. >> with no signs of forced entry it's unlikely this was a random attack. 48-year-old susan goldthar found dead in her home. she was bound and found lying in her bed in her bedroom. the medical examiner determined the cause of death is affixuation. >> no history of calls at the house, no current burglary or robbery problem in that area of merrick. >> police say goldthar was living in the detached cottage nanny. cops say the last time her father spoke to her was her parents invited her out for dinner and she declined and the following day her far went to employees at the deli a

it happened in merrick. and in mineola, a news conference was just held, and sheldon, what do we know? >> well, we were told that there were indications that the woman's body was bound, but they would not go into detail of how. what they are saying is that they are looking into the possibility that perhaps she knew the suspect. >> reporter: yellow police tape block ed blocked the entrance to suzanne goldfarb's home. this afternoon the de e detectives continued to the search for clues. >> reporter: police say that she declined to have dinner with her parents tuesday nishgts and her dad stopped by to check on her last night and that is when he found the gruesome discovery. >> it was in and upstairs bedroom and lying on the bed unresponsive. >> reporter: an autopsy reveal ed she died of asphyxiation, and this has stunned the neighborhood. >> and a couple of times i have heard that people get robbed, but not like this, man. killing someone. oh, i don't foe about it. >> they have to find out who did this. it has

couple of sprinkles over the merrick and i-95. a few that left the tea conic, a -- taconic, damp and slippery there. but one more bands of showers over eastern p. a.. moving through between let's say 7:00 and 9:00, and they'll lee the scene. after that, our focus will turn to the other side of this storm. a lot of wind here gusts 45 to 50 miles an hour. pennsylvania. so for us, it looks like this. one more band of rain is going to move through this evening probably a little rain for tailgaters and maybe the first tonight. clearing and breezy overnight. you'll wake up to breezes about 25 miles per hour and then they'll crank during the day gusting to near 40 miles an hour. so there could be some tree limbs that are knocked down and certainly will slow traffic at the airports and on the roadways just want to be careful there. and the wind will continue into part of the weekend. lot colder at least briefly in the accuweather seven day forecast, that's coming up in a few minutes. bill liz back to you for now. >>> all right lee thank y

officials in merrick calls her death suspicious. they have not released her identity or said how she died. >>> we begin this half hour with a big break in a murder case. police have arrested three men for killing a teacher in neptune city, new jersey. 33-year-old jonelle melton was a teacher at red bank middle school. >> she was found dead in her apartment back in 2009. recently investigators offered a reward in the case and now three men are in custody. >> eyewitness news reporter toni yates is live with more. toni. >> reporter: yes, indeed. you know, the monmouth county prosecutor's office said they never considered this a cold case, even after 6 years. they said they had to wait for the right tips to come in to solve the murder of this loving and very much loved young woman. >> this has been a nightmare and i have been through a lot of grief and trauma. there was times that i didn't think this day would come. god knew better. >> it's a pain that can never ease, 6 years after his wife, 33-year-old jonelle melton was found murdered

lemonis: do we have merrick brand dog food with grain? lisa: we don't. example of lisa's self-righteousness getting in the way of them being a profitable business. they need to carry products that meet everybody's needs. if it falls within the brand promise, they need to carry what the customers want, not what they want, and i'm gonna push this thing all the way to the wall. going forward, any product that meets the bentley's food promise should be available. so, like, when somebody says, "i want grain-filled," as opposed to grain-free, you're gonna be a powerhouse. you got to carry everything. giovanni: i think we'll lose a lot of credibility with a lot of the customers on why they trust us. lemonis: let the customer decide what they want. giovanni: and then we have no niche. i'm sorry. lemonis: the niche is products that meet this food promise. giovanni: i'm not gonna agree with it. lemonis: so, then don't have a brand promise, 'cause it doesn't mean anything. -giovanni: i think it does. -lemonis: then, if it does, then if somebody complies with it, wh

it's 41 in north merrick. it's only 37 right now in new berg and poughkeepsie 43 in central park. nothing going on in the immediate metro area. the clouds and the showers have as we widen out the view you can see the next approaching storm system is very discountered. two separate kind of areas of the low pressure at the surface they want to hook up with each other as they get closer to us. you'll see it here on future tracker. still in the clear on monday. just a few clouds but then during the overnight hours as those systems come together they start to bring us more rain and by the tuesday morning commute most of us will see some light showers. it gets a little bit more intense as we head into the tuesday evening commute and then it could linger on wednesday morning. you see it starting to break up here on future tracker. we can't rule out the showers holding together on wednesday. overnight tonight it's going to get chilly. 36 downtown and it's going to be 29 degrees. so a hard freeze in some of your outlying suburbs and also as we head up into the cat skills we'll see temperat

marine corps corporal kevin vaughn got the keys to his new house in merrick. >> it doesn't seem real. it is too good to be true, but it is and i love it. >> reporter: it has been a long journey for vaughn. during his second tour of duty in 2011, his armored vehicle struck an explosive device. he suffered back and arm injuries and spent 15 months in walter read military hospital. his new house was designed and built with all of this in mind by the non-profit building homes for heroes. the long island-based organization builds houses that accommodates the physical challenges facing many veterans. >> there so much technology in this house and it is going to be so easy for me to get around. >> reporter: the non-profit's founder, joined family, friends and neighbors for the celebration along with donors and volunteers who made the project possible, all proud to give back to the young man whose courage and sacrifice inspired so many. >> for us to come together in the country is a beautiful thing. >> vaughn is grateful for the new beginning in his new home. >> thank you for helping me out an

. >> reporter: she says tough times require a merrick to be its best. best. -- she says, tough times requires america to be its best. >> we cannot legitimize hateful acts. >> reporter: the syrian american council is pressing the governor to meet they refugee family that was just admitted to the states a week ago. they insist if he gets to know them it may change his mind. back to you. >> given the spotlight on refugees in america one recipient of the presidential medal of freedom today stood out. the middle is the highest to civilian honor. today the president awarded 17 of them. we have the story of an attorney who fought for civil rights in the 1940s and how it has echoed today. >> reporter: his moment at the white house came last, after the names of barbara streisand and james taylor. he would not have minded, he has spent his life waiting for the country to see things his way. >> despite what japanese americans adored, suspicion, hostility, he never stopped believing in the promise of his country. he never stopped fighting for equality and justice f

but the accident on the merrick near exit 31 that's been cleared. you can still see wave little bit of a delay as you head into that spot. we have alternate side of the street parking rules in effect for today. lori and ken over to you. change the way we keep track of planes in the sky. >> abc's kendis gibson and reena ninan have this morning's business headlines. >> reporter: hey there, in today's tech bites a new way of keeping track of the world's airliners. >> the system's creation was motivated we the disappearance of -- by the disappearance of the flight last year of malaysia flight 370. >>> the first reviews are in for apple's supersized ipad pro. "usa today's" ed baig calls it a terrific solution for those who draw or sketch. but it may not be a laptop replacement. >>> the "wall street journal's" joanna stern says it does some things far better than the competition but it's not ready to be your main computer yet. >>> and researchers say facebook may be stealing your joy. >> new study found quitting facebook will probably make you happier. re

. >> reporter: in the heart of nassau county at some of its busiest crossroads, sunrise highway, merrick road, now every, single car passing through this central corridor is scanned for criminal activity. [ beep ] >> suspected or revoked registration. >> reporter: freeport unveiling 27 mounted license plate readers. now encircling the perimeter at nearly every entrance referencing with state, federal and dmv databases. alerts for warrants, stolen cars, suspected getaway cars. they all sound at a new command center 24/7, patrol offenders. >> suspended or revoked >> stolen plates, stolen insurance. >> reporter: freeport mayor robert kennedy says he was inspired by lower manhattan's so-called ring of steel. he says operation safe streets costing $600,000 is a cost- effective turning point for suburban policing. >> if you were to put a police officer at every intersection to watch for criminals who are entering or departing, it would be very expensive. >> reporter: police now have eyes on up to 2,000 cars per minute averaging 155,000 cars per day. >> today alone we have had over 50 hits in t

. >>> nassau county police searched for evidence today after a merrick woman was murdered in her home. investigators say the parents of suzanne goldfarb found their daughter's body last night. she had been tied up in her bed. goldfarb rented a cottage behind a house on smith street. the medical examiner says the cause of the death was asphyxiation. police say there were no signs of a break-in. they suspect she may have known her killer. >>> an easton family is coming forward tonight with word that daughter, allegedly abused at the hands of daycare workers in southampton. jennifer mclogan reports. >> how could they, you know -- what right do they have -- [ crying ] >> they were supposed to be like a third parent like that's what daycare is. >> reporter: caroline and john stella of bridgehampton thought bruises on their 21-month-old daughter emerald were the result of innocent toddler falls. until they received a phone call from an aide at their child's daycare they say changed their lives. >> just halfway through her telling me about it i just had to get off the phone with her. i could

north merrick, 45 degrees. down the shore, mid-40s. this is 10 to 20 degrees colder then it was at this time yesterday. a chilly start. a reminder that we are in november. back to normal with those numbers. near the freezing point for some areas. most in the mid-30s north and west. clear skies today. no worries for rain. the forecast looks like this. grab the shades. afternoon. a high of 58 degrees. coming up, some changes for the work week ahead. a good start on monday. i will tell you what to expect for veterans day on wednesday. >> thank you so much. >>> a long island man accused of luring a woman into his car pretending to be a cab driver. then raping her will face a judge this morning. precinct story. >> reporter: this is where 22-year-old adil raja is being held. as you mentioned, police say he pretended to be a cab driver. when a woman got into his car, he allegedly pointed a bb gun at her and then sexually assaulted her. police say adil raja pulled up to a 22-year-old woman walking on main street in patchogue around 4:00 yester

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the 48-year-old was discovered bound in her bed in her home on smith street in merrick. >> stefan kim is in nassau county with the details. stefan. >> reporter: nassau county detectives do not believe this was a random attack. there were no signs of forced entry where she was found bound. now, she was discovered by her father lying in her own bed in her last night. the medical examiner has determined her cause of death is asphyxiation. police would not detail what if anything was found around her neck. cops say she was living in this rear cottage for 5 years and worked as a nanny. at this point investigators do not robbery. >> we're going to explore every possibility that this person responsible may have been granted entry into the house and may have had a key and possibly this person is known to our victim. >> reporter: now, police say the last time her father spoke to her was around 8:00 p.m. on tuesday night. her parents invited her out for dinner and she declined. the following day her father went to check up on her and made that gruesome discovery. stefan kim, channel 7, eyewitne

tucked behind this two-story house on a busy merrick corner, the 48-year-old rented her neighbor in the main house says goldfarb's parents worried after she turned down a dinner invitation, came to her home wednesday night and made the devastating discovery. >> it kills me and they found her. mother and father found her tied up and strangled. >> reporter: nassau police now combing for evidence at 250 smith street where they found no signs of a break-in, windows closed, doors locked. >> the likelihood of a random attack is less under these conditions. we are exploring every scenario and we understand that the community has concern. >> reporter: police only revealing she was found in bed had been tied up. and the cause of death asphyxiation. neighbors can't understand a random act of violence in and out of sight backyard rental. >> you don't know there's a cottage unless you know. because if you walk down there you don't see it. >> reporter: goldfarb was a well liked regular at a deli across the street. picked up her dinner every day. >> she was sweet. she would ask you how was your day?

george merrick plays our son. they're all so good actors. for mrs. wilson, his new play. and david saint is our director, my third time working with him. it's a good time in the theatre. i met a woman last night, her third time. she came for the third time. she keeps bringing her girlfriends. dari: it's got to be energizing working before a broadway audience right there. >> it is. i love hearing them. i can hear them in the speaker in my dressing room. you hear them laughing. they're getting ready for a good time. it's exciting. we're anticipating going out and telling our story. they're anticipating us coming out and telling our story. steve: have you had any crazy incidents with cell phones, anything like that? >> i don't do anything about it except feel upset about it. steve: this is the time of year people associate with you because of st. jude's hospital, the great work the hospital does. it was founded by your father. >> yes. this is our big thanks and giving campaign where we ask people to give thanks for the healthy kids in your life and give to those who are not.

48-year-old wast discovered by her father in the upstairs bedroom of her home on smith street in merrick. her parents had gone to that home after she missed a scheduled dinner with them. police say she was tied up. they believe she was strangled. they say there's no signs of a break-in. the doors were locked. police say a random attack seems to be unlikely. >> we're going to explore every ssibility that this erson responsible may have been granted entry into the house. >> if you have any information on this case, you are asked to give police a call. >>> right now, the general nager of the yankees is sleping on a sidewalk to raise awareness about homelessness. it comes at a time when the topic is already on the minds of many new yorkers. katherine creag is on the west side. kat, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, darlene. this is a significant event to raise millions of dollars to help young homeless people. what you see here, this is just a few of the people who are gathered here under the covenant house sign. there are so many oth people down the block as well. they have be

kevin vaughn was presented with a key to a beautiful new house in north merrick yesterday all thanks to the nonprofit group build homes for heroes. vaughn was given the two-story cape cod style home mortgage free. >> four years ago a huge door closed for me when i was injured, but now today four years later, this brand new beautiful house, a thousand doors just opened for him. >> one of his legs had to be amputated after the armored car he was riding in was bombed. >> his smile just lit up his face in that. >>> take a look at this incredible video out of eastern mississippi. a large sinkhole has swallowed more than a dozen vehicles outside of an i hop restaurant. it happened in meridian about 100 miles east of jackson. police say about 15 vehicles fell into the 50-foot wide hole last night. officials say no one has been hurt. >> lucky for that. >> absolutely. >>> time to check in with vanessa murdock and your weather forecast. it was a little cooler outside today when i went outside. >> i wore my winter coat in this morning. this afternoon more of a light jacket but nonetheless big c

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kevin vaughn was presented with a key to a beautiful new house in north merrick yesterday. thanks to the nonprofit group building homes for heroes, vaughn was given that two-story cape cod style home mortgage free. >> four years ago a huge door closed for me when i was injured. but now today four years later this brand new beautiful house, a thousand doors just opened for me. >> one of vaughn's legs had to be amputated after an armored car he was riding in was bombed. the house will allow him to spend time with family and friends stress free. >> he totally deserves that. >>> celebrating a breakfast staple. one town is loading it all up with bacon. we'll check out the sweet and savory treats at this festival coming up. >> i want to go. for drivers. the night pair they found in a restaurant -- nightmare they found in a restaurant porking lot next -- parking lot next. say pancakes. not going to pull me in, diane. but we do have rain in the extended forecast that we need to talk about. details coming up. remember, rain or shine you can have the forecast any time at the cbs new

published works by the merrick and who was asked february.death in up next, china and south korea and. are they setting aside the differences and collaborating economically? we get the details of this historic meeting. rich: breaking news from beijing. the people's bank of china strengthens the yuan by fixing it at 0.54%. let's look at hong kong and how did in the free market. we have disfigure overnight joint more weakness for manufacturing in china. hong kong teachers are down by 1.2%. futures are down by 1.2%. pure the big events this week across asia-pacific. rba will be cutting interest rates tomorrow. this is the race that stops the nation. only 11 of 28 economists we spoke to our bidding on glenn stevens cutting rates below 1.2%. wednesday, the most anticipated debut in tokyo in years. they will begin raising up to $12 billion from the three-pronged ipo. they're kind of persuade households to invest in huge savings. we are expecting results him was a from honda. ow talked about green energy and they are betting on hydrogen for the interview she -- for the energy future. hanoi's

hampton. 40 around brookhaven and 43 smith town and babylon. 40 around newark and north here above the merrick parkway. 48 to monticello. so some normal numbers but chill little numbers this morning hundred -- chilly numbers this morning and then you tack on the wind. look at the wind at laguardia. 14 jfk. out around montauk 10-mile an hour winds. 21 gusts from the park to white plains and you can see that some of the gusts around 22 miles an hour from montauk and down the jersey shore. we have clear skies and a northeast wind nice bubble of high pressure here in the northeast. to the west is this storm system, it's a big low creating the snow and that tornadic activity you saw that tornado on the ground in kansas. this will all push eastward and gets to us on thursday. but tornadic activity. what we're looking at today is this bubble of high making it cool here in the northeast but eventually you'll see big warmth starts to return tomorrow into the upper 50s and ahead of this front we'll see the temperatures into the 60s by thursday. our futurecast shows sunshine today. clouds increase on wed

let's go over to the maps and we have an accident on the merrick parkway southbound near exit 31. our street cleaning rules are in effect. ken over to you. >>> all right thank you very much heather. 5:56. tonight the prodigal former head coach of the jets returns to the place he called home for six years. rex ryan leads the bills into metlife stadium for the match- up with his old club. he insists he hasn't had game circled on his calendar. the jets let ryan go in december after his fourth straight nonwinning season. he's an even 4-4 with buffalo. >>> disney chairman and ceo bob eiger is ready for some football. he's joining the battle to return the national football league to los angeles. eiger signed on to oversee the construction of a new stadium there for the san diego chargers and oakland raiders. it's a $1.7 billion project. disney owns espn which pays the nfl about $1.9 billion a year to air its monday night games. >> i got the right guy to do it. >>> it's 5:56 and we have two breaking stories, an off-duty postal worker has been shot by somebody posing as a police officer.

suzanne goldfarb was bound and gagged when her father discovered her wednesday in her home in merrick. the 48-year-old woman died from asphyxiation. she turned down an invitation from her parents for dinner tuesday night. her father checked on her the next morning. police say there are no signs of forced entry. >>> it is 5:43 and take a look at the mess left behind by two tornadoes that hit the atlanta area this week. the storms brought down two goalposts there on a high school football field and unfortunately now -- fortunately now nobody got hurt. crews still repairing powerlines brought down by the twisters. >> pretty powerful how they tore up the field. >>> nothing like that around here. except for some wind and -- a little chilly. bill evans joins us now with the accuweather forecast. >> doesn't matter who you are. goalposts are sacred on football fields doesn't matter if it's a tornado you are not allowed to knock down the goalposts. here's what's going on. we take a look from the chrysler building across the east river here. roosevelt island out to flushing a great visibility h

. >> superintendant of new york merrick school said in a statement we would not put up any roadblocks to a device designed to ensure a student's safety. >>> in new haven, thieves are not the only ones taking items out of unlocked cars. they say this is their way of teaching residents the importance of locking their car doors. there's been a spike in thefts in the area. police are hoping this will send a message to hide the valuables ann lock your car. we're unable to hear that person's reaction there. th ke officers rwianll notify the car owner. they'll tell them to pick up their items at the police station. we should point out under connecticut law it is legal for officers to take items that are in plain sight out of unlocked vehicles. >>> this morning a family-owned farm in bergen county has closed up shop to make way for a supermarket. depiero's farm sold fresh produce to families for 90 years. it closed its d rs last night. they ran the farm for four generations, but the expense of running the business got to be too much. the depiero's sold 28 acres of their land to developers who

and now there's a new book out by a woman on george merrick, one of the founders of miami, and carl gables name is parks. and she's a remarkable historian. so there is quite a library of books about miami that suits everyone's taste as well. >> host: well, this is the first time we've moved our set out here to the main intersection -- >> guest: and you can feel the humidity of miami. >> host: you can feel the humidity of miami right now, but what do you think of the location? what do you think of the backdrop? >> guest: i think this is perfect. i think to have you among the people who are coming here is a marvelous addition to what you've done. and i think the authors have appreciated it as well. because they're seen, they know that people will then see them on c-span later on, or they can turn their -- they can go to -- you're on c-span.com. >> host: dot-org as well. everything today and yesterday at the miami book fair is already available on our web site, c-span.org. mitch kaplan, thank you. as always, we appreciate your hosting us concern. >> guest: and if peggy's listening, we can rea

my name is merrick carey. we appreciate everybody taking time from their schedules today.have a great roster of speakers. we appreciate them being so willing to help us out. this is part of our series of on forums on capitol hill on defense acquisition reform. it's become a very important, focused, and intense effort in recent months, thanks to the ndaa and other developments out there. we're glad to have such a great group of speakers and such a good audience. if you don't mind, please turn your cellphones on to silence for the remainder of the forum. please keep your side conversations to a minimum, that would be most helpful. we're going to do a series of back-to-back ten-minute speeches from our subject matter experts. our goal to get you a lot of very good information quickly on this subject. i think you'll like to forum, if you haven't been to one of ours before. we'll just go boom, boom, boom, right through the speeches with a lot of great information. first speaker today is phil jasper from rockwell collins. also an executive officer of the company. he has multi-de

my name is merrick carey. we appreciate everybody taking time from their schedules today.s become a very important, focused, and intense effort in recent months thanks to the ndaa and other developments out there. we're glad to have such a great group of speakers and such a good audience. if you don't mind, please turn your cellphones on silent for the remainder of the forum. please keep your side conversations to a minimum, that would be most helpful. we're going to do a series of back to back speeches from our experts. i think you'll like to forum, if you haven't been to one of ours before. we'll just go boom, boom, boom, through the speeches. phil jasper from rockwell collins. he has multi-decade experience in bomber, helicopter, and other important aviation programs. we are glad to have you here and look forward to your remarks. >> thanks, mac, for the introduction, although the multi-decade part, i'm not sure, makes me feel a little bit old. thanks for the privilege of being a part of this event. i'm here because i believe defense acquisition reform is ultimately all