n. j. burkett. >> the funeral for officer holder will begin at 3:00 this afternoon. we will air the service live on tv at abc7ny.com and the watch abc app. due to the funeral, general hospital will air later tonight. you can watch it in its entirety at 1:05 a.m. >>> as the service for officer holder gets underway, heavy rain moving in. you just saw n. j.'s live shot. there was some rain down. there this could end up being flooding in some areas. we have a live look now from our camera overlooking asbury park. you can see how much rain is on the lens. this is new video in, tidal flooding swamped hudson avenue about an hour ago. meteorologist bill evans in the weather center with the accuweather forecast. >> david, that's the evidence of an east, southeast wind that has been coming in, and pree port is one of those areas that floods when you have high tide, this coastal flood advisory until 2:00 this afternoon. the temperatures are mild, we're at 59 degrees. you know, 60 is our normal high this time

n. j. burkett at the church in jamaica queens where a wake is underway. >> reporter: outside the greater allen a.m.e church where the doors opened about three hours ago, and people have been arriving to pay their condolences to pay their respects to the family. i want to get to the live pictures so you can see this long line of dignitaries and others. it stretches for blocks, and among those dignitaries and fellow officers there were others, many others dave who didn't know the officer but came to pay their respects nonetheless. >> merrick boulevard went silent as an nypd honor guard escorted the white harass bearing officer randolph holder's coffin. a third generation police officer and a five-year veteran of the force murdered in the line of duty one week ago tonight. >> it feels like a family member just been swiped away, like a family loss. >> by mid-morning hundreds of mourners stood on a line that stretched for more than three blocks. pat cabel did not know the officer but was here to pay her

n. j. burkett channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you n. j. >>> turning to the intense fire that destroyed several homes and businesses in westchester county. firefighters remain on the scene nearly 11 hours after flames began to burn through a row of buildings in mount vernon. eyewitness news reporter tim fleischer live at the scene. >> reporter: at this noon hour, you can see behind me here a lot of this rubble is still smoldering. they've been pouring water on the hot spots the better part of the day. that deli you see, sal's deli, it was very popular. it has been destroyed along with four other businesses. >> it didn't take long fire officials say for this blaze to quickly engulf the small strip of stores here on grammarton avenue in mount vernon. >> we had tremendous smoke pushing out, intense heat in the basement and it ran across the roof into the other stores. >> there was a three-story apartment structure above the stores. residents safely escaped but lost everything. >> in under one hour the building fully collapsed, the residentia

n. j. burkett channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> another developing story in new jersey where a 3-year-old boy who was reported missing has been found dead in the woods near his home. police say the boy's body was discovered in a wooded area off south park drive in hadden township in camden county. the boy's body was found about 9:00 this morning. he had been reported missing just three hours earlier. right now the circumstances unclear. an autopsy will be performed. >>> overseas, there has been another round of deadly attacks in israel. more than a dozen injured. police say palestinian attackers stabbed and shot israelis on a bus in jerusalem. near at almost the same time, other attackers rammed a car bystanders. three israelis and two of the attackers were killed. two more people were stabbed in another attack in the central israeli city. israel's prime minister says his government is working on a series of aggressive steps in response to the attacks. >>> a man from long island is arrested after poli

n. j. burkett channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you. authorities in brooklyn say they've busted a gun smuggling ring that was bringing weapons from states with lax gun laws to the streets of new york city. eight people are charged with the scheme. they allegedly brought more than 100 guns to be illegally resold in brooklyn. any of those weapons were sold to an undercover police officer including several assault rifles. >> this can shoot through a bullet proof vest or an apartment door. the ring leader sold a number of these guns through our undercover officer. can you imagine what would happen if those guns or any of criminals. >> the prosecutors say the suspects use inexpensive china town buses to transport the weapons over state lines. >>> a passenger was arrested at kennedy airport in queens after carrying contained liquid cocaine. the guatemalan man arrived on a flight from mexico city on october 5th with what appeared to be bottles of oil. when agents opened them they noticed an unusual chemical odor. the liquid tested positive for

n. j. burkett live in east harlem. >> reporter: >> reporter: that's right. that news conference dave was talking about expected to start any minute now. but we are 20 blocks from the shooting scene, 120th street, and that's the fdr drive blind me -- behind me. the highway is still shut down now more than 16 hours after the shooting. we're talking about a crime scene that stretches for more than 20 blocks. now officers saluted the housing officer who was killed here, randolph holder, as his body was taken from harlem hospital in the middle of the night. he's a five-year veteran of the force as we've been reporting, psa5. he did not survive the gunshot wound to his head, a man who chased the gunman for 20 blocks along the fdr last night trying to protect the community that he served. psa5 here in east harlem, the unit that patrols the housing developments in this area. the alleged gunman was cornered by other officers who found him with a bullet wound in his leg. he was just released from the hospital. eyewitness news has now learned to face a series of charge

n. j. burkett who's in east harlem with new >> that's right. on the fdr drive here at the shooting scene, and you know, tonight police officials are furious over this, not only was their suspect a fugitive in a gang-related shooting here back in september, he was also able to avoid prison after an earlier drug sweep when a judge put him into a diversion program for drugged oners. >> his whole life has been about an escalation of crime , criminal activity indicating what we allege occurred on we were seeking him for, was the september 1st shooting. >> the city's police commissioner was visibly angry. he described tyrone howard as a violent 30-year-old career criminal who had no business on the streets of east harlem. >> he would have been the last person in new york city i would have wanted to see in the diversion program. he has shown no propensity with the number of arrests over a period of time of changing his ways. >> detectives say howard was running from a shootout with bicycle. when he came face-to-face with plain clothes officers along t