hundreds of people rallied outside of passaic city hall tonight. they want tougher discipline for a city police officer accused of uttering racist comments at a facebook video that's getting a lot of attention in this community. >> we're here to provide for our families and we're not leaving. >> reporter: jasmine and her boyfriend say they were on the porch with their friend when an officer approached them, allegedly used foul language and made threats about calling immigration. that's when they hit record on the phone. >> i'm going to knock on the door and add your mom and dads i.d. and your cousins and i am going to have immigration pick you in the border at pueblo or wherever you came from and all of 0 the hard work to come to america you [ bleep ] up. >> they said they were going to call immigration on his family, to unlock his phone. they don't have a reason to do that to us. we know our rights. >> will i see that mile when i drag your mom and dad back to the border. >> it is not clear what led to to the february encounter. while the officer h

in new jersey, some passaic residents are demanding ana officer be fired afterife allegedly made racist remarks that were capturedpob video. >> i'm going to knock ondthee door and check your mom and oudad'a i.d. and all your [ n ap ] cousins. i'm going to have immigration pick everybody up so they can cross back to the [ bleep ] border. >> jasmine vidal and her boyfriend say they were sitting on their porch withha friend in february when the officer approached them and began making threats. they then recorded and posted that video on facebook. last nights hundreds of people rallied outside passaic city hall, calling for tough disciplinary action against that officer. >> they were telling him they were going to call immigration hisow family, to unlock his phone. they don't have reason to do that to us. we know our rights. >> the mayor of passaic is asking for calm and restraint while the city investigates. >>> a former nypd officer now admitting to randomly firing shots at a car after a night of drinking. bran con cronin pleaded guilty to attempted murder charges. he says he downed ten a

passaic police arresting him and an alleged 25-year-old supplier. inside the teen's room, authorities say they found $110,000 in cash hidden in socks and coat pockets. >> the business was quite lucrative. >> reporter: the public housing safety director says the cash seized from the teen more than they got from 70 suspects arrested in a sweep. they moved in because his apartment is next to a playground and a thousand feet from a school. >> he was selling to other kids unfortunately in the community. not just kids but two adults as well. >> reporter: all part of a drug crackdown in passaic's six public housing complexes using 168 cameras to make residents >> it was pretty bad because you see them but you're not thinking that's what they're doing. >> reporter: authorities say because of all the cameras and their crackdown on drugs since 2013, they've reduced crime and their public housing complexes by about 90%. in passaic, new jersey, christine sloan, cbs 2 news. >> the adult suspect is being held on $150,000 bail. the teenager is charged with drug di

some passaic residents demanding an officer be fired after he allegedly made racist remarks that were captured on video. >> i'm going to knock on the door and check your mom and [ bleep ] cousins. i'm going to have immigration pick everybody up so they can border. >> jasmine vidal and her boyfriend say they were sitting on the porch when this officer approached them and began making threats. so they started recording the whole thing. last night hundreds of people rallied outside of passaic city hall calling for tough disciplinary action against that officer. >> they were telling him they were going to call immigration on his family, to unlock his phone. they don't have reason to do that to us. we know our rights. >> the mayor of passaic is asking for calm and restraint while the city investigates. >>> a former nypd officer has now admitted to randomly firing shots at a car after a night of drinking drinking. he pleaded guilty to attempted murder charges. he says he downed ten alcoholic beverages while off duty and opened fire on pellham street. one man was seriously injured. he's expe

rain across bergen, passaic and union county. a few light showers across the hudson valley right now. nothing heavy. all this rain is really -- has really been going to the north but now a front coming from the lake going to deflect it toward our area. it waits until after midnight for some of the heavier rain to come in and the heaviest during the morning commute likely to be from the city on north and west and then there's still another round. this is why sort of include one more resurgence of rainfall into the midday, early afternoon with the actual cold front and maybe the heaviest rain of the day over long island is later in the day. then looking forward, we have got this disturbance over the middle of the country that will scoop up some gulf moisture and give us our second wave of rain. that's later thursday into friday and then joaquin, that was what will really depend on the weekend rainfall -- it will determine the weekend rainfall. right now the new track keeps it over the atlantic but strengthens it into a hurricane an

according to the record, the victim was a 65-year-old man from passaic county. state health department officials tell the paper he died last saturday. two new jersey residents died from the virus in 2013. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news this morning," the nypd announces a plan to crack down on the city's homeless population while offering help to those in need. >> we are tracking two big events happening today ahead of pope francis' visit to the united states. how you can snag tickets to be see the pontiff in central park. you're a parent. i'm a colonel. we're both busy people. so pick up my new hand prepared $20 family fill up meal. eight pieces of original recipe chicken, two large mashed potatoes and gravy, a large coleslaw, and 4 biscuits. i'll get back to ya. (door squeaking) it's finger lickin' good. >>> the nypd is cracking down on the homeless across the city but with new tactics. it's clearing out homeless encampments but offering help and shelter. the city has 55,000 to 60,000 adults and children in its shelters. it has three to four thousand peopl

you can see the wet weather in parts of passaic county to the north and sullivan and ulster county. we would like to see more rain. we are desperately in need of it. the deficit for the year is over 7 inches. a passing shower north and east and then the clouds break. then, there you go, for the as we usher in fall. thursday and friday look relatively quiet with temperatures a little above normal. >> beautiful. beautiful weather. >> very nice. thank you, john. >>> when we come back, the perfect desk for up anyone office! tt2watx# g4 p bt@q((, tt2watx# g4 p "a@q8$h tt2watx# g4 p bm@q3/d tt4watx# g4 r dztq f=0 tt4watx# g4 r entq 69p tt4watx# g4 r gzt& />( tt4watx# g4 r hnt& ?0d tt4watx# g4 r iztq uy< tt4watx# g4 r jntq g)\ tt4watx# g4 r alaska. finally. the search for brown bears begins. denali highway. low on gas. pit stop. fill up. double points. yep, that's cold. tired. day 2. coffee. eggs. double points. beautiful. majestic... nothing. where are you, bear? warm. warmer. warmer. yes. wherever the journey takes you, carry american express gold. it's more than a card. >> comin

passaic county, rockland, putnam, orange county, northwestern new jersey and sussex and warren county, and all this moisture off to the south. there is a nice little break. hopefully that coincides to the morning commute. here's what you need to know. overnight. some downpours. i think the heaviest is from late morning through mid evening, say 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. flooding possible on streets. a few areas could pick up several inches of rainfall in a short period of time. we'll detail the most likely locations in a few minutes. bill, sade, back to you. >>> the rain falling at some times so fast it was too much to properly drain. you don't have to be an engineer to figure out what would follow. flooding. the worst of it on staten island. a.j. >> reporter: hours ago this entire stretch of road was impassable with nearly a dozen cars below water. at one point the water was a foot and a half. it's since receded, and now officials are on scene but this was a devastating sight for neighbors who say they've been begging city officials to make upgrades to the drainage system for years. withou

two weeks ago a 65-year-old man from passaic county also died of the virus. these are the first since 2013. >> happening today the philadelphia v.a. medical center will host a town hall to get feedback from veterans and the public. it's scheduled for this evening at post 371 in gibbsboro, the v.a. wants opinions on health care benefits and burial policies. officials will hold a claims clinic to address veterans concerns. >> there is a chance for local veterans to get back to work. more than 40 of the largest companies are gathering for a job fair. it's part of the philly veterans jobs initiative. penn mutual life is looking to add qualified vaet rans to the hired veterans back from the civil war and they really helped create the fabric of our culture in our company. >> the job fair will take place on the "uss new jersey" tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. if you are interested you have to preregister for this and you can find a link to do that at nbc10.com. >>> you know, on north broad street. >> tomorrow a new era for the devine lorraine hotel. a develope

police custody, and this time in new jersey. 33-year-old james mckinen was awaiting transfer to the passaic county jail this morning when he got away. he was detained on a charge of making threats. he had just been released from prison in may after serving four years for robbery. >>> long island railroad commuters, we should also tell you, also in new jersey, that is, police believe a fire may have been set to cover up a murder-suicide. >>> firefighters found the bodies of two children and their parents inside of the burning home in long branch. each had been shot, and investigators said linden beharey killed his sons, his girlfriend, and then set the fire before turning the gun on himself. >> i saw the fire by the door, and then i called my dad, and we both ran out to see what was going on. we tried to break the windows on the bottom. >> a neighbor says the couple had been arguing, and friends say morris was threatening to leave and take the children. >>> now to the long island commuters who are hoping temporary fixes will prevent a mess like this morning. power problems outside of the eas

bergen, passaic, down into essex. it's official, joaquin is a hurricane it could impact us sunday into monday. chris? >> john, thank you so much. >>> a raging fire has struck a church until the west brighton section overnight. the origin has been deemed suspicious. the building had been empty for a year. one firefighter did suffer a minor injury. >>> the deed scare in the bronx. seven cooling towers in morris park have tested positive for the legionnaires' bacteria. all towers had been cleaned this summer after the outbreak that kill 2nd down people. it's not uncommon for the bacteria to reappear. nine people remain hospitalized out of the 10 that were sickened. >>> 17-year-old evan murray played for warren hills regional high school in washington township, and he walked off the field after getting hit friday night, and he died from a lacerated spleen. his funeral will be tomorrow. i'm chris wragge. we are back in 25 minutes and cbs this morning is back after tt0w!tx#h_!!%4@-j] tt0w!tx#h_!!el@-@zl tt0w!tx#h_!!ed@-fx(

a couple of sprinkles in passaic county and up around orange, sullivan ulster across the hudson river and breaks in here, too where the sun is coming through. this will continue for the afternoon. to the west, dry air filters in tonight. at the bus stop 74, cloudy, breezy, nice for sports. no rain. atlantic up to 20 miles per hour. 25 in some places. it's rough out there. rip current risk is high at the beaches. still looking at 74 this afternoon, close to normal. tomorrow as more of the high slides eastward it dries things out and you a come arriving with summer weather this weekend. this weekend waves in the atlantic and rough surf if you want to head to the beach. we have clouds and sun for the afternoon. cool breeze. 74. clearing, comfortable tonight. 50s in the suburbs. 60 the five boroughs. tomorrow sunny, warmer on the first day of autumn. 80 degrees. how about that. the humidities are low. the so, it will feel nice. the wind will continue to switch around and eventually to the southwest. so,ing that will keep us warm on thursday. a high of 80. then as the high slides off, we g

the department of health officials say a 65-year-old man died from the mosquito born illness in passaic county last saturday. the victim was one of seven cases of west nile reported in new jersey this year. most people infected with the virus don't develop symptoms. those over 60 years of age are at greater risk. >>> a bipartisan group of new york lawmakers made an impassioned plea this morning asking congress not to let the james a zadroga health and compensation act expire next month. it will cost to keep the programs covered. it provides compensation to thousands of first responders and survivors of the terror attacks. >>> 35,000 public school students in newark are heading back to school for the first time since a new superintendent took over. last year hundreds of students staged protests calling for the ouster of cami anderson. the new superintendent christopher cerf is correct high marks. he announced every district teacher gets $100 to spend on supplies and price pals receive 750 for needs not in their budgets. the money coming from facebook founder mark zuckerberg five years ag

taking mass transit, metro north passaic branch is temporarily suspended. new jersey transit trains are on time. we have long island railroad doing fine. 6 trains signal problems at castle hill and saint lawrence. 2 and 5 switching problems at 241st street. q trains signal problems at the brighton beach. george washington bridge is minor. lincoln tunnel and 495 past the route 3 new jersey turnpike merge an accident. the holland tunnel has a 20 management delay -- 20-minute delay. then 280 east exit 14 and exit 87 an accident and flooding. take it easy if you are out driving this morning. mass transit is definitely the >> or work from home if you can. >> that would be nice. >> it couldn't get any worse. is the president in town? >> no, but u.n. general assembly is in town. >> have your rain gear through the weekend. 75 right now. that will be the 7:00 temperature. warm, humid, showers off to the south and westment rain to the front comes in this afternoon and tonight. it's still an off and on rainy day. temperature 76 way warm. cooler tonight. cool air pours

passaic branch doing okay. signal problems on the 6 trains and 7 trains. 2 and 5 trains switching problems at 231st street. q trains at brighton beach. an accident on the belt parkway east near pennsylvania avenue. that accident is being worked on. >>> arson investigators are looking at a suspicious church fire that erupted during the night on staten island. the fire in west brighton went to three alarms. it roared through a large but empty church which has gone unused the past year. 150 firefighters were called to the scene. the church is a total loss. one firefighter suffered a minor injury. crews are investigating a fire that burned through an apartment building in the bronx. it started on the 5th floor of the building at the grand concourse in the melrose section about 4:30 then through the roof. the building was evacuated. no reports of any injuries. >>> legionnaires cluster is growing in the northeast bronx. the number of confirmed cases in morris park is up to 10 after three were added yesterday. all of

passaic, essex, bergen, and middlesex counties. many yards are dry, parched, and drown. >> it's so hot at night, everything evaporates. i'm trying to keep my bushes alive at this point. >> some homeowners are being asked to conserve water. >>> geno smith says he will not press charges over the locker room punch that left him with a broken jaw. his teammate reportedly took a swing at him, and he needed screws and metal plates in his jaw. >>> john hamm and his girlfriend are calling it quits. they said with great sadness they are separating after 18 years and said they would continue to be supportive of each other in every way possible. the statement was first on the website of people magazine. >>> the dawn of a new late night television here. >> this is the new home for the late show with stephen colbert, but before he makes his day bow, he showed us his hidden talents. z, y, x, w, t, -- >> reporter: a man of many talents being able to say the alphabet backwards, one of the things you didn't know. >> tonight's winning numbers, 7, 9,

another reenforcing blast of heavy rain through sussex, the hills of passaic, and more coverage into dutchess county, and look at that. a good steady rain into suffolk and around the hamptons out to montauk. that's the heaviest rain. another blast of showers this afternoon. models are not as bullish. that will help you out after getting home from work. it's messy to start this morning. the longer you can wait the better off you will be. 75 your high today, and the numbers will restreet into the afternoon. i know you can't retreatment you have to go. here's alex denis to help out. >> maybe in a boat in areas, we have flooding. in queens, making your way southbound, it's blocking the southbound lane past northern boulevard, due to ponding and also what is being reported as a mud slide in the area. we are following this alert closely, and also the right and left lanes are blocked 96th to 79th street, and also flooding reported as you make your way southbound, and also in alpine, new jersey a fallen tree has one lane blocked here at exit 4. something else that may affect your ride. remem

health officials say a 65-year- old man died from the illness in passaic county last saturday. the victim was one of seven cases of west nile reported in new jersey this year. >> most people infected with the virus do not develop symptoms. officials say those over 60 years of age are at greater risk. >>> new york could become the 5th state to ban smoking in all hotel and motel rooms. several national chains ban smoking in all the locations. a bill being considered by new york lawmakers would take the ban statewide. new york prohibits smoking in most public places. >>> neighbors in florida are on edge as an all out search to find a deadly king cobra snake goes door to door. a king cobra similar to this florida. the owner of the highly venomous serpent has a permit to keep it as a pet. the community. king cobra's are relatively shy when dealing with humans but one bite is powerful enough to kill an elephant. people are warned to stay clear of it if they come across it. give a head's up so the proper snack wrangler can come in and do the job. >> but they are shy. >>> still to come

has escaped police custody in new jersey. 33-year-old james mckinnon was awaiting transfer to the passaic county jail this morning when he got away. he was being detained on a charge of threats. there were no weapons or threats involved in his escape. he was just released from prison in may after serving more than 4 years for robbery. >>> a vigil is planned tonight for the illinois police officer who was shot and killed yesterday. police in the town of fox lake going door to door looking for information to try to track down the three men accused of shooting joseph gliniewicz. investigators are collecting security video from homes and businesses in the area. a memorial for the officer who was affectionately known as g.i. joe is growing. three suspects are still at large. >>> a baltimore judge refused to dismiss charges against six police officers charged in connection with the death of a 25-year-old black man. but as cbs 2's weijia jang reports, police are still on guard in case protestors lash out [ screaming ] >> we want justice now! >> reporter: a small but passionate group of demonstra

right now heavy downpours around morris county, passaic county. look at the heavy rain over the virginias into the carolinas. that's going to start to bend toward the tri-state area later on this evening into tomorrow morning. that will be wave number 1. then thursday afternoon or night into friday wave number 2, moisture from the gulf of mexico and then the wild card over the weekend is the interaction with tropical storm joaquin, maybe hurricane joaquin that stays over the atlantic but it has strengthened as of the 5:00 advisory. the new track still keeps it offshore as a category 1 hurricane, though. yesterday it looked like that track was headed toward the tri- state area. that still means we will have a connection to some of the tropical moisture over the weekend. here's what you need to know. you've got widespread heavier rain developing later tonight so be careful with your travel late tonight into tomorrow morning. as little as 1/2" over long island, parts of jersey shore, eastern connecticut but as much

still some rain in through parts of passaic and bergen county. then a break. what's going to happen, though, is you'll see this cell erupt later and into the 9:00 hour you're dealing with the potential for another round of heavy rain in the city. so watch the kind of scattered nature of this. you'll be dry north and west and then things will fill in between 6:00 and 9:00. 10:00 this morning could be dealing with just torrential rain in through parts of the bronx and into fairfield county as well. so just be mindful of that. you can't be driving through it if you don't know how deep it is because this is the kind of rain in poor drainage areas that will cause problems. then this afternoon, oh, boy, after school, early commute, look at this heavy rain that starts to fill in. so the potential is there for more widespread flooding through the commute into the 7:00 hour. you can see that into more of putnam, dutchess and westchester county as well. tomorrow morning, you know, we start to wrap things up, mindful of the services around the area, and then we have a be

the victim was a 65-year-old man from passaic county. state health department officials say he died last saturday. two new jersey residents died in 2013. >>> a military training mission nearly ends in trading in colorado. two soldiers were hurt after an army blackhawk helicopter made a hard landing outside of denver. four soldiers were on board. investigators are trying to determine what went wrong during the flight. >>> it's 5:43. let's check in with meteorologist amy freeze and the accuweather forecast. >> we start with the time's square camera. a little bit of the haze in president atmosphere. we have patchy fog, reduced the visibility in spots like the jersey shore and parts of long island. islip less than a half mile visibility. fog early on. muggy temperatures and there is an air quality action alert. what that means there is issues with pollution at the surface. bad air quality if you are sensitive to that. we are all sensitive to it but there are some groups that are especially sensitive. islip down to a quarter mile visibility.

light to moderate rain for the city up into westchester, parts of rockland, passaic, essex and union. farther to the south, monmouth and ocean county, another batch of some showers. but then there will be a break. the front is still well to the west. so we see another round of showers and thunderstorms pushing through this afternoon. so after-school pickup could be wet as well. tomorrow we see rain in the morning early. then it's getting better. saturday kind of the opposite. it starts okay, but we see some showers saturday into sunday. >> john, thank you. >>> we're become with another local update in about -- we're become with another local update in about 25 minutes. "cbs this morning" returns in just a moment. caring about the things that make each of our clients unique... ...that's what makes riverspring health unique. >>> welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour, a magical moment for the nfl. see how special golden footballs are carrying the league through a half century of super bowl history. the game's biggest names are taking the celebration old school. >>>

out there on the roads. on truck route 1-9 on the passaic river drawbridge. heavy delaysnghere. on tce yru get to the holland tunnel, a eekeinute delay to the lls. i just got word that downtown 2 trains are now running on their regular route. no longer running express. we still have delops on jamaica 179th street bound f trains. lestt's talk about major commuter lines. lays on the hoboken to 33rd and world trade center lines due to switching problems. alternate side of the street parking rules in effect today. >>> it is 6:36. happening today, a new jersey police officer accused in a deadly wrong-way crash is expected to turn himself in. katherine creag joining us from staten island. that's where he'll be facing these charges. >> reporter: yes, indeed. that police officer from linden, new jersey, indicted by a grak nd ekjury earnier this month. we expect to see him here at this police station. matter of hours. pedroabad, 27 years old, is accused of being behind the wheel and causing the deadly head-on crash that killed two of his friends. he's scheduled to have a meeting or some

the passaic is running through there. the goose! get out of the way! >>> tis the season. we are going to start seeing warm summer-like temperatures starting today, and then taking flight into the rest of the week, nice and bright, and then more humid, and now in so many ways, it feels like summer. now it sure is pretty. clear skies, and winds out of the west at 6, and we are talking about the variety out of the north and west. the low 50s, and some folks in the 40s, big ridge of high pressure, and basically getting the day off, and there will not be as much wind today. the building ridge of high pressure brought in the northwest wind, and now it's a west wind and southwest wind, and that's why we will see the the warming trend. look at these, bright skies hour. a few more clouds wednesday into thursday, and there's a little more humidity as well, and i don't think it's going to be sufficient to ring any moisture out of the clouds. we will be high and dry. 84 and warmer today, and the northwest wind giving away to the southwest wind, and it's comfortable tonight. 66, and a

variety around the area, cool 40s sullivan and ulster and orange and parts of sussex and passaic into putnam and dutchess as well. high pressure though still the driving force of our weather. that's why we're going to drive those numbers up into up ever 70s can low -- upper 70s and low 80s again today. 81 in the city. it's a real autumn winner on this first full day of fall. 6:33 in the morning, how we doing road-wise? >>> john i'm actually happy to say overall it's a pretty smooth ride out there. but in preparation of the pope's arrival later today. the cross streets from 48th to 55th are just one lane. the cross streets as well as fifth avenue will close at 10:00 this morning and will remain that way until 9:00 tonight. mass transit is your best option. alternate side of the street parking will be suspended today because of eid al-adha, but you still have to pay the meters. and remember be safe, don't text and drive. and if you go to the airport, so far everything is reported as on or close to schedule at -- chris? >>> all right alex thank you. well security measures are in place ac

things are getting done up in passaic and we can reveal the results in the not too distant future. >> cool. >> if you want to help build fun places for children in need he had to crowdrise.com/matt crowdrise.com/matt & savannah. >> coming up next, hilaria baldwin is here to get your kids to eat veggies and love them, but, first, this is "today" on >>> all right. we're back here. on "today food" a no fail veggie pasta. life-style expert hilaria baldwin is here with a kid-tested dish that will have them asking for more. putting you to the test. ddlers here ready to tastd and i wanted you to know that mill mae has not tested anything. her friend is crying, too. >> all right, girls. >> it's all right, sweetie. >> do you want to help cook. >> do you want to help me cook? >> okay. girls. >> oh, okay. hiller yeah, i think the girls are going to get really into this, but, first, we'll have tell us what this is because i need to get my 1-year-old to eat veggies and it's hard. >> one of the most important things is blending, blending, blending, blending. this is a great recipe, kids love pasta.