it happened in the suffolk county hamlet of north babylon. kristin thorne is there for us tonight. >> really just a team effort here. at one point they all decided they were trying to use a garden hose to try to put out the fire and they realized that wasnt going other be enough. >> you could see the flames coming out like that. away, chris cocuzza, a former voluntary firefighter ran toward the flames. they tore through his neighbor's house on sunrise highway in north babylon early yesterday morning. his neighbor, dominick gennaro, was fast asleep. joseph was driving home he and cocuzza teamed up. >> i said get me a ladder. i think he's in his bedroom right now. we run upstairs and i start pounding on the window, dominick, get up. your house is on fire. >> i put him on my shoulders. >> reporter: he carried gennaro to an ambulance which had just arrived. gennaro has cerebral palsy and suffers from seizures. >> being under the medication, i guess i didn't hear. i have two smoke alarms and they were working. >> reporter: you never know how you'r

by the time firefighters arrived on the scene in north babylon, the flames had spread from one home on sunrise highway to another right next door. a car parked in the driveway also went up in flames. one person at that scene was treated for smoke inhalation. >>> a deadly fire in brooklyn prompted the fdny to hand out free smoke detectors in east flatbush again today. members of the fire department joined brooklyn borough president eric adam. a licensed electrician was on hand to demonstrate the proper use of electrical extension cords. a power strip is blamed on a fire in east flatbush yesterday that killed an elderly couple. >>> president obama landed in france moments ago. he's in pair frs -- in paris for the u.n. climate conference. the president wrote, the u.s. has shown it's possible to make environmental gains while creating jobs and expanding the economy. he says the goal in paris is a long-term framework for more global reductions with each nation setting targets that >>> meanwhile in paris earlier today, violent clashes erupted between police and climate change activists who r

a little bit of a range in temperature from low 40s in north babylon. go along the north coast, northport is 51. milder there. milder yet in the city at 52. then it drops to the 30s through most of the northern half of new jersey. 40s and 30s across the hudson valley. danbury at freezing mark. we're starting out with a clear sky. a quick climb into the 60s by noon. 63 the expected high this afternoon. notice all those sun symbols. a very nice afternoon. emily west in for lauren this morning. >> still these crashes in new jersey. first one in elizabeth on route 1-9 southbound at 439. couple lanes blocked. there's also road work heading into new jersey. that's causing a slow down. clifton, 21 northbound, another crash there. new timetables in effect for lirr. more weather and traffic coming up. >> emily, thank you very much. >>> and now to the terror attacks in paris. there's been several new developments overnight on the investigation. just learning now that investigators have identified two more of the attackers. kerry barrett is in the newsroom with tha

we're live in north babylon, i'm criscuolo kristen thorn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, kristen. >>> new at noon, police have relevanted a man accused of killing a decorated new york city firefighter. 52-year-old conrad zippa will afternoon. and prosecutors say he killed retired fdny lieutenant richard duty last week. the victim found in his home, on long beach island with blunt cut throat. he was a 29-year veteran of the department. >>> nasty head-on crash in rockland county. an and unbelievably the driver an suv slammed into a bus on route 45 in ramapo this morning. fortunately no drivers and the driver only had minor injuries. the suv driver not only survived the crash but got out and took off. police fear that the person may have been injured and are actively searching for that person. >>> jury selection resumed this morning in the corruption trial of former new york assembly speaker shell don silver. today a juror asked the judge if he could quit deliberations because of an unspecified conflict of interest. it is the second time in a week a juror has sought to get off the p

the fire started around 2:30 this afternoon in the 900 block of sunrise highway of north babylon. when firefighters arrived on the scene, the flames had already spread to a house next door. the car parked in a driveway, that too went up in flames. one person was treated for smoke inhalation. prompted the fdny to hand out smoke detectors in flatbush today. they joined eric adams, a licensed electrician was on hand to demonstrate the proper use of electrical extension investigators blame a power strip for starting a fire in east flatbush yesterday that killed an elderly couple. >> we do not want the holiday seasons of life to be replace would the lights of emergency vehicles responding to a fire. three out of five deaths in home fires is due to the absence of smoke alarms. >> investigators say the couple killed in yesterday's fire did not have working smoke detectors in their home. >>> the suspect in that deadly shootout at a colorado planned parenthood clinic is scheduled to have his first court appearance monday afternoon. this as new information reveals shooter to target that cli

firefighters at the scene at north babylon. gutted by fire just before 2:30 a.m. this morning. the flames also spread to a car and a home next door. one person is being treated for smoke inhalation. >>> the prosecutor in the tamir rice case has released enhance video of the moments before and after the 12-year- old little boy was shot and killed by a police officer. the surveillance video is sequenced and enhanced, frame by frame. but it does not appear to show whether or not tamir rice -- as police have maintained, was indeed reaching into his waistband for the pellet gun when a patrol man shot him less than two seconds after getting out of his police car. in recent weeks, several experts have weighed in on the case. they have released conflicting reports on whether the fatal shooting was justified or not. a grand jury must decide whether to charge the officer involved. >>> police know exactly who they are looking for after a man's phone was stolen on the subway. the suspect was a big help. he got his picture into investigator's hands. this selfie was uploaded to the victim's

live in north babylon. kristen thorn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you kristen. we're following breaking news in lower manhattan. we just learned that there's a verdict in the corruption trial of former new york assembly speaker sheldon silver. prosecutors say silver collected nearly $4 million in fees in exchange for official favors to realestate developers and others. he sent a note to the judge saying he could no longer serve interest. break. the judge told the juror that the law protected him from retaliation and advised him to return to deliberations he did and once again a verdict has been reached. as soon as we know what it is, we'll let you know. >>> the nypd is investigating a brutal attack on a person as a possible hate crime. it happened early sunday morning as the victim was walking into a building on 93rd street in jackson heights the 35-year-old man who dresses as a woman was struck in the head and the face. thrown the the ground and then slammed to a curve. the victim is in critical condition today. there are no suspects. >>> it's not clear yet wha

the home in north babylon was gutted by fire overnight. the flames spread to a car and a home next door. right now it is still unclear if anyone has been her. >>> today fdny officials will be speaking about fire safety in brooklyn after two people were killed in a house fire. flames broke out 5:30 a.m. yesterday morning inside of a home on east 49 street. seventy-one-year-old lord kinard and his wife octavia were unable to escape. neighbors tried to get the couple out that they could not >> there were no smoke detectors in the home. several other people were hurt in the fire. investigators say it was started by a faulty extension cord on the first floor of the home. this morning, the fire officials will hold a very important safety demonstration on the corner of east 49 street and church avenue in east flatbush. they will also be handing out free smoke detectors. so important to have those. >>> the prosecutor and the rice case has released enhanced video of the moments he for an after the 12-year-old boy was shot and killed by a police off

similar hold-ups have been reported in other stores in north lindenhurst, best babylon, and deer park. >>> guns stolen from a massachusetts armory just turned up in a bronx trash can. the fbi says army reservist james walker morales broke into the army, armory rather in wooster last week swiping 16 military rifles and guns. three of the weapons have now been recovered, all thanks to a homeless man. police say he was rummaging through bottles and cans near yankees stadium and found a rifle and two handguns in a trash bag. he turned them in. island awaiting extradition. >>> coming up next here at noon, the worst bottlenecks in the nation. and no surprise, some new york commutes made that list. we'll tell you if yours cracked the top ten. that's next. >>> on the busiest day of the year, coming up, the mad rush to get this produce to your thanksgiving table. >>> well, everybody wants to know, what's the commute going to be like as we head off to grandmas and what's thanksgiving going to be like too? we're going to have your answers i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big

you were born in brazil but u grew up on long island pl north babylon went to stony brook. what's this championship mean for you, and mean to bring it back? all of my family were there. it was an honor for cosmo, to play in front of my family. it was huge. >> the cosmos have a rich history when i came out there last year you and i talked about this payle. to win this title as a cosmo what's it mean? >> world famous players and our team is not short of that either with raul to be able to win a championship and send them out on a high. they're champions their own life so them was a terrific save in that l game. >> we captured that image. image was captured. we're going to show it to you. you reach out and grab the ball bulls last year. who is the best team in the knock new york area? >> probably new york cosmos. we have highlightses last couple of years. huge with the championship but open cup win against the red bull in new york city we're delft big time for us. you have a fan base and used to be in yankees stadium but how important is it to get that stadium to build that fa

in time for the weekend. 41 west 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.

babylon at 41. we'll go into one of the five boroughs. brooklyn at 49 degrees. 44 at jfk. havsesome fog and mist rolling into all three area airports. temperatures much cooler to the north and the west. but everyone is going to warm up rather nicely into the upper 50s to low 60s as we head through the rest of the day with plenty of sunshine. right now, this dense fog advisory with us until 9:00 this morning. if you don't have to go out right now, just give it a little while. have breakfast at home. why? well, we have a quarter-mile visibility in places like danbury, south hills mall in poughkeepsie at a quarter mile. farmingdale, three-quarters of a mis.le. quarter of a mile in morristown. as you head to short hills and so many of the malls around that area, quarter-mile in bridgeport as well. so we see clouds and fog this morning. a little bit of mist as well. then we're going to clear out rather nicely through the day. we see a little bit of rain roll through tomorrow morning. then another dose potentially tomoonow late afternoon, early evening. for today, mostly sunny, southwest winds 5 to)10. 63 degrees in the city. tonight, down to 49. still on the mild side. as we