eyewitness news reporter nina pineda is in crown heights brooklyn. >> five buddies go out fishing. only three come back. you can imagine what a shock this is for the families involved. we spoke to the captain of the boat. he said they were in front of the weather, that he was navigating the boat just fine. it actually just turned back to the marina when things quickly and tragically went wrong. >> and i was worried when he left because i know how the weather was. it was raining. it was getting cold too. >> holding their 1-year-old baby girl isabella, jessica meija says her husband richard called her several times to reassure her everything was okay before the boat he was fishing from capsized. >> and he told me that they were about to get ready to come back. he told me everything was fine. >> meija drowned in the jamaica bay along with one of his best friends joel ortiz. they had been fishing with three other men on this 24-foot boat when the boat's owner says another boat's wake, not the worsening weather caused his to flip over. >> they saw us, why they don't go slowly. that is t

. >> nina pineda shows us your best bets next. >> i'm david novarro. at 6:00 an interesting poll. new york city voters let us know if they think mayor de blasio deserves a stunning term. a stunning claim in the case of a police officer drunk driving fatal wrong way crash. does this $20 family fill up meal have eight pieces of original recipe chicken? yes. [ding] two large mashed potatoes and gravy? yes. [ding] and are you the real colonel sanders? yes... [buzzing] >>> we are approaching the holiday shopping season. november is full of good deals. important to know what to buy and when to buy it. nina pineda is here with the best bets. >> reporter: sade, black friday is more of a season with competition pulling prices low by the time you can say trick or treat which means by this weekend you will see deals leaking out of stores and yes some are out there online already. this $60,000 screen and projector is out of most of our holiday shopping budgets. >> maybe donald trump. >> reporter: but fear not this month is bound to bring you deals, steals you won't see any other time of the y

the nina pineda, the santa maria. >> thank you bill. >> that's actually an old joke, right? the nina pineda yes it is. >> i want to tell you what's happening at the throgs neck bridge if that's the bridge you usually take you have an accident being cleared away. you may want to head to the whitestone bridged in. we also have the l.i.e. west at 108th street. an accident still being cleared away. delays coming into the kew gardens interchange. as a result some pretty heavy delays. hue kari, brooklyn battery tunnel. there's a stall going inbound. subway status e and f trains, 1 train signal problems at south ferry. r trains signal problems at prospect avenue. long island railroad, new jersey transit doing okay, and you heard shannon sohn say new jersey turnpike southbound western spur getting into exit 16w that overturned vehicle. street cleaning rules are suspended. lori and shirleen, over to you. >> thank you heather. it is 6:18, and still ahead on eyewitness news this morning, travel trouble. if you have a flight on southwest airlines today at newark or laguardia you want to

nina pineda, channel 7 eyewitness news. 's back kudos to the parks department. >> absolutely. >>> nor'easter like whether and hurricane watching. >>> eyewitness news at 6:00 starts right now. >>> a nation in mourning tonight over another mass shooting. politicians on both sides of the aisle offering some things, but divided on what, if anything, should happen next. >>> we managed to dodge hurricane joaquin, but no way the tri-state area stop this coastal storm that is drenching us. some parts getting hit hard right now. strong winds, very heavy rain. good evening to you. i'm liz cho. >> i'm bill ritter. we're getting walloped by mother nature. here is the scene in wildwood, new jersey. they flash flood watch in effect for much of the state. >>> emergency equipped is in place. bulldozers on stat -- staten island island, the erosion and title flooding, the city is standing on a bit. case in point, mayor de blasio is in washington right now. >> we have several reporters covering the storm hitting us right now. stacey sager onl

nina pineda with a warning. >> reporter: it's like the definition of stress. a wedding venue closing its doors, leaving brides and grooms out in the cold, some just hours before their walked down the aisle. invitations, check. shoes, check. catherine kirschner and her fiance robert thought they had the perfect venue. the water's edge, with this million dollar view of manhattan from long island city. >> reporter: my fiance's family is from pennsylvania. we were excited to have them come to york for our wedding and to be able to really have any new york experience. >> reporter: they made two down payments, nearly half of the total to pay for their halloween wedding. today, less than 24 hours before the wedding, the wedding hall shuttered, just a sign >> at first i felt sick because it was true. it was closed. >> reporter: catherine sensed trouble at waters edge in early september. that's when the news broke the restaurant's owner was indicted by federal authorities on 13 counts including alleged bribery and fraudulent collecting, nearly 1 million in federal aid

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. >>> we do lots of stories about how nina pineda and 7 on your side get money back for people who are ripped off. >> tonight nina gets back something different. hot water for families who have very little of anything. >> families shelter in brooklyn without hot water for a week until 7 on your side got involved. >> dealing with sick kids is no picnic. they say they had nowhere else to go and no one to turn to for help. >> reporter: at just 10 months, ariana flores is one of the littlest residents and her mom is sick with worry. the asthmatic baby is going to get sick. >> we're all asthmatic in the house so we all caught a cold. >> reporter: all four of her older kids caught colds when the building's boiler broke last week. >> i kept on complaining every day, they keep telling us the next day, the next day. >> the showers were cold. >> reporter: down the hall another mom says she's had it with only freezing water for her family. >> i have to sit there and boil enough water for all of them to take a bath. >> what? are you kidding me? you've got to respect people. >> reporter: dianne web

a would still be on the hook if they hadn't called nina pineda to get 7 on your side. a lot. hepatitis c flareup for dad, this big bill they couldn't resolve was not only eating away at their soul, it was damaging to couples credit. the stress of the data they are fighting has gone on for a year. >> it was frustrating. it was hurtful. >> the last time the were changing, donna and martin were fighting for his life. >> my liver had gone through cirrhosis. >> he contracted hepatitis c 20 years ago from a transfusion while suffering from an ulcer. the new treatment offered by new york medical college was a chance to finally stop silent disease's progression. >> hoping there was something new with minimal side effects. >> the regimen was a huge success but then came the bill. putting the patient on the hook for more than 2500. >> insurance coverage said i wasn't liable. the hospital said i am. >> their insurance had preapproved the therapy. but despite their calls, and angry e-mails from the doctor's office, to the hospital, the bills kept coming. >> another example of how they ar

. >> when a woman discovered the ring, she called 7 on your side's nina pineda. >> when the finder first found it, she checked with the police about the ring. we went to clerk office. with only a wedding date and not full names on the ring they couldn't help with us the search. we're hoping you can watch these clues and help. >> i just happened to glance. something was >> reporter: it superstorm sandy. circle. i leaned over to pick it up and it's a gold ring. >> reporter: angela spotted the parking lot. the ring is a wedding band bearing four initials, from mf to the we've blurred those letters out because only the true letter we hopes claim the ring will know what they are. >> i read the inscription, it was so heartwarming. the year was 10-29-55. god. >> reporter: she thinks the wedding band fell off the finger of the person who proudly wore the symbol of love for more than 55 years. >> maybe he took off his glove and he dropped it. >> reporter: angela put up the parking lot. >> i left my phone number. no one ever called me. >> reporter: next shewent to the police. >> they said you have

that's when they reached out to nina pineda for help. >> these empty nesters got stuck in a new nest with no kitchen. they ordered the cabinets last october from a company in business for 50 years. while fighting it out for a refund found the kitchen company was in plenty of hot water. >> it's like being slapped in the face. when someone says i took your money and you can't do anything about it. >> reporter: bill is talk about this kitchen remodeler he says gutted their bank account. last year the couple downsized but kitchen so they paid toraloe a $7500 down payment for new >> took your money. >> but never ordered your cabinets. >> reporter: bill said he found that out after months of excuses from the kitchen source, blaming delays on the manufacturer. he called the manufacturer directly and says he was told they never got a cent of the deposit that he paid the toraloes. >> that was my money. they did nothing but bank it and use it. >> reporter: nine months later he got $2,000 back but then his refund payments abruptly stopped. the tax man beat us to it. behind on taxes, employees w

the woman was getting nowhere until she got nina pineda and 7 on her side. >> the young mom was grateful her daughter wasn't in and she was lucky she wasn't hurt worse. a plainfield police officer blew a stop sign sending both drivers to the hospital. when it came time to get compensated for her total vehicles, she was left stranded. >> you are coming north. >> yes and the police car came this way. did they stop. >> no, skipped the stop sign and hit me. she is still traumatized. she had the right away at this intersection. >> all i saw was the car on top of me. i didn't see it coming. >> reporter: the police car had no lights flashing, no, sir run, no warning. she wound up getting knocked into the passenger seat. >> i don't know when i jumped up if i hit the sterling wheel or dashboard. >> reporter: the 13-year-old car was totaled. >> my mechanic said the repairs were like 5500. >> reporter: money this young mom raising a daughter on her own didn't have. the claim she filed against the city of plainfield went unanswered by their insurance company. >> i left messages. nobody would call me

nina pineda. >> the last time 7 on your side asked the new york city parks department for help they moved an abandoned boat for us. that boat was causing a hazard in sheepshead bay and they towed it away days after we sent them an sos. when we got calls about a busted backstop, parks was the agency. we threw a fastball to fix it. >> reporter: students throwing the ball outside ps 161 in avoid the mangled metal covering the southeast corner of the field. >> it needed to be removed immediately. >> reporter: principal price said the eyesore collapsed over the summer and she struck out trying to get the broken backstop out of there. >> no one wants to be reported for something that happened because of negligence of something that could happen to a child. that's my bottom line. these are my kids. >> reporter: the parks department immediately responded by putting safety barricades up but parents and teachers say they keep getting knocked down. >> our biggest concern is these sharp points. i think a kid tumbling on to that, i have this terrible image by them getting impaled. >> this is crazy bec

. >> that's when residents sent a letter marked urgent to nina pineda and 7 on your side. >> this is housing for disabled vets, senior citizens and families in crisis who were once homeless. when we told that to the national postal service, it delivered right away. >> i'm not talking to you until you tell me who called. >> i'm trying to help you. >> reporter: the owner of the apartment complex where tenants declared their mail is a mess didn't want to hear the message we were delivering. >> you have to take some steps the post master said to transition the building in to clust er boxes. >> your mail is here on the table? and anyone can pick it up? >> yeah. >> reporter: their landlord used to have office workers sort the mail for the 23 units in the transitional housing village which is listed as a not-for-profit charity but the office hasn't been staffed. as a result, mail left on a table. an i.d. thief's dream. the post office stopped delivering it. residents want cluster mailboxes similar to these but the post master told us the building is listed as a business which as a rule does

. >> that's when the family turned to nina pineda and got 7 on their side. >> a seaside heights slapped a vacate order on this property nine days before the rental was scheduled. when the kids got down there after prom, the police said they couldn't step foot inside. >> never in a million years did i think that was going to happen. >> reporter: she says her daughter jess and 17 other seniors showed up for prom weekend and found this place. >> ordered to vacate. >> reporter: shuttered by the town, the vacation rental was deemed unsafe. >> orange signs saying you can't go in. so she's crying, then i'm crying. >> reporter: the group of graduates had pooled their money for months to afford the $4500 price tag to stay in the house three nights last may. the mom says the rental agent said they had an emergency. >> there was a flood in the house and that the kids couldn't get in there. out the water. >> reporter: with no place to say, sue wound up footing the hotel. >> i said what are you guys going to do? >> reporter: she said the rental agent promised a refund right away, but -- >> i tried c

. >> last year you were dressed up as the nina pineda, one of those. >> debbie, how are things looking out there? >> is sunrise highway still a mess. >> we always enjoy that columbus day parade. it's always fun. and good morning guys. lets go mets and let's see what's happening right now over on sunrise highway as we go to the maps. sunrise highway westbound at the wantagh, an accident with a downed telephone pole. all lanes remain closed there. still heavy bruckner southbound heading into the bronx river parkway with road work. construction just being cleared. the van wyck moving into kew gardens, let's go outside. i want to show you the inbound gowanus. bumper-to-bumper traffic here. alternate side parking rules are in effect. back to you ken, lori. >>> thank you. still ahead on eyewitness news this morning. the growing pothole problem on long island. >> and could new jersey transit stop train service at the end of the year. officials from the transportation system are threatening to do just that if lawmakers don't extend a key your dealers thank you for helping protect our children.

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who live there tried to get rid of it, but when they kept running into roadblocks they turned to nina pineda and 7 on your side. >> yolanda glanced out her picture two weeks ago and got a look at this. >> there it was, and i was really concerned that it would damage the bulkhead. >> an old boat abandoned, bobbing around and banging into her property. for half a month they've been trying to get the barnacle covered oil leaking eyesore out of there. >> you called the borough president, the council people, you called 9-1-1. >> 311. >> the city. i made so many calls and no one seemed to know what to do. >> when she caught neighborhood kids playing on board the boat yolanda tried to get it towed herself but couldn't afford the $10,000 boat fee. >> what worried you? >> that they could slip or hurt themselves. >> she called us. we couldn't find any markings so we contacted the u.s. coast guard. a crew investigated that day. they couldn't find the owners either and weren't allowed to tow it. >> anybody decides to dessert a boat on your property it's your responsibility. >> what concerned us most was