there has been an update on the search for the killer of the jogger in queens. new york police are releasing that catch of a man they want to talk to. she was killed while she was out for a run. police are not calling this man a suspect. they do say he was seen on the ed: a woman is telling her story of survival. she has severe injuries and is still recovering from them. the story you will see only on five tonight. reporter: you look at that video and it is incredible anyone survived. this woman has painful injuries. >> when you look at those reporter: she can't believe she survived. >> the left side of my body was crushed. reporter: she was taking photos when the chopper she was in crashed to the ground. she has no memory of the plunge from the sky but she knows the pilots saved her life. >> 10 feet one direction we would have been in the water. he managed to somehow get that helicopter the metal. two weeks later she understood how fortunate she was. >> i smashed my elbow and broke my other arm. broke my neck. reporter: the crash crushed her finger and her pelvis. despi

katrina went on her regular run in queens new york. 10:50 her body was found in a beach near a woodeda. and august 7th. vanessa from new york city goes for a run visiting her mother in the city of princeton, massachusetts. 4:00 that afternoon police searched for her. that night vanessa's body was found a half mile in a wooded area her body was partially burned. joining me now on the phone is former detective rod wheeler. rod, what we described to our viewers, you think there could be a connection? >> it is always possible. and one of the important elements that you want to look at here is the amount of area between princeton, massachusetts and queens, new york. that is a 200 mile stretch. the question is would somebody commit a crime in queens and then drive up to massachusetts or vice versa. there is a five day difference between the two murders and it is possible that somebody can to that. and the other element that mention is the fact that dna was found on the body of the woman who was found in queens. i am talking about den din that did not belong to her. and police were able to g

a man was shot and killed and another man wounded in queens, new york this afternoon. lone gunman after leaving a mosque. there's no evidence that the two men were targeted because of their faith. >>> relations between the us and cuba may be fine, but things are still pretty chilly. while celebrating his birthday today fidel castro lashed out at president obama taking issue at him for not apologizing to the japanese people in his may speech, and also criticized him saying quote we don't need the empire to give us anything. >>> the actor who played the droid r2d2 in six star wars films, kenny baker, has died at age 81. he was three feet eight inches tall. he suffered from a long illness. he helped luke fight against darth vader empire. break? >> big rains along the south central gulf coast, over a thousand people rescued in historic flooding in south louisiana. now that storm system is headed our way. it's arrival and effect on >>> numerous areas in louisiana under a curfew until of a.m. after residents -- 6:00 a.m. after residents deal with record flooding. just look a

women who were out jogging and were attacked including one in june in northboro and another in queens, new york, last week. the district attorney said investigators are not ruling anything out. they are looking into every possibility but at this point they are very much focused here in princeton, massachusetts.

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women who were out jogging and were attacked including one in june in northboro and another in queens, new york, last week. the district attorney said investigators are not ruling anything out. they are looking into every possibility but at this point they are very much focused here in princeton, massachusetts. >>> the tip line number is (508)453-7589 and you can call in anonymously. we've put the number on the website. and we'll be updating as soon as we get new information. >>> and breaking on the campaign trail. >> donald trump under scrutiny. >> some believe that he suggested that hillary clinton could be assassinated for her pick of supreme court judges if elected >> hillary wants to semi-ly abolish the second amendment. and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people -- may be there is, i don't know. >> the clinton campaign is responding with this. this is simple. what trump is saying is dangerous. a person seeking to be the president of the united states anyway, unquote. >> shortly after the trump campaign said it's

new york city and worked for google. she was up mother for the weekend. many are left wondering if there is a connection to the queens, new york jogger that was killed just days before marcotte. 30-year-old karina vetrano was found in the woods. investigators say karina was strangled and sexually assaulted. >> i certainly do not think that this is a serial killer who killed in princeton and new york state. but i do think it's possible that this was a copycat murder. marcotte's body could be released as early as storm that way they can move on with funeral arrangements. police call the hot line and you can remain anonymous. live in princeton, mar mall -- malini basu, fox 25 news. >> if you know anything or saw something brooks station road call this number remember you do not have to leave your name. a 20-year-old is undergoing a mental evaluation after he scaled trump tower in midtown man man. the man used those suction cups there and straps to climb to the 21st floor before police finally pulled motive according to police he wanted to climb to the top of the tower and get a face-to-face with donald trump. he could f

son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the family's home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. so his son discovered a box filled with 400-odd negatives, 300-odd lantern slides, and almost 200 paper prints and delivered them to alexander land, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of -- from the negatives making beautiful, modern prints from the negatives and working with a curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called "battle with islam" named for one of riis' books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis' writings established riis as an important photograph and that's how he entered the history of photography. so, my problem at the museum of the city of new york as a curator in the 1980s was, we don't have prints to show because those almost 200 image prints about half of which were not by riis at all and the rest of which were in very poor -- most were in poor condition and not exhibitable at all. so working with the museum staff, we applied

for now, here's the latest here in queens, new york. >> we will turn to the weather. afternoon storms did cause issues for island. this was happening in huntington. >> here's another video from huntington. you can see water pouring out of the manhole and drivers plowing right through inches of water. showers and sunshine. we want to go over to erica grove for more on tonight and tomorrow. >> looks like the worst is over throughout the tri-state area. as we look at radar, nothing going on. clouds lingering, butt rain has gone away. we will look at flash flooding and this report came in at about 12:30 and later where we had a very substantial cell of rain and look at the area that was covered by at least three inches of rain. everywhere got at least three inches. about 3.1 near oyster bay and 3.7 inches here. here's what we are looking at for tonight. temperatures in the mid 70s and warm and muggy because of the rain and more rain on t for a sunday. tracking it with future tracker coming up in the ten-day forecast. >> you can track the storms in the area with the nbc 4

and come back and they settle first in brooklyn and then in richmond hill up in queens, new york, and have a family. so a lot of jacob riis' motivation in life is that everyone should have a healthy, safe and happy family like he does. and he writes a lot about families and the welfare of children in particular. and he often would tell his audiences, there's no difference between these children or yours and mine. that's the wife elizabeth in the middle and the five children. there were some other children that died young. >> so next we are going to talk about what looks like a strange assemblage of equipment, things we're not used to seeing this days but this is photographic equipment very similar to what riis would have used on his raiding parties that barbara described earlier. then what we have here is actually a camera which is a detective cram. so this was sort of a stealth camera. it could be used without a tripod. it could be held by the strap on the side. so it gave the photographer some mobility. and the other thing that was an innovation and sort of allowed for a lot of mobi

. >>> today a funeral will be held for two men gunned down in broad daylight in queens, new york over the weekend. you're looking at surveillance video of that shooting. been determined. the council on american islamic relations will announce later today a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. >>> time now 5:14. look at the flames. this is just one of several businesses scorched by the so- called clayton fire in lake county, california. some 4,000 people were forced to leave their homes. at least 10 houses are completely destroyed. right now, the fire is only 10% contained and continues to move into it's unclear what sparked the fire. >>> 8 is on your side this morning getting you schooled. school is back in session and that means many of us will be sharing the roads with school buses. we sent our traffic anchor leslee lacey out to get schooled on the rules of the road and how to avoid getting an expensive ticket. >> reporter: it's that time of year to hit the books and the pavement. with more traffic on the road, safety becomes a big concern as kids head back to school

. >>> a five-alarm fire lit up the night sky in queens new york, flames broke out inside of a woodworkingactory and devoured the building, the factory was destroyed. >>> police in new york are searching for a killer after a jogger's body was found hours after she went missing. she was found on a path she often ran with her father. lindsay davis has the story. >> reporter: new york police are on the hunt for a killer. >> there is evidence of strangulation. >> a vigil for katrina, who went for a jog and never came home. concerns her father called police and went out looking for her on a path they often ran together. >> you can imagine his angst we found her facedown in the ground and immediately called ems. >> she was found facedown blocks from her home. you can see here here in a small movie she made. she wrote about jogging. i wonder if right now at this age and time in my life, if by some freak accident i died what would happen. and then this happened. her father a retired firefighters could not make the run and asked her not to go alone. >> she was a sweetheart and lit up the room when

. >>> a developing story in queens new york. a man and his assistant were shot to death as they walked home from a mosque. witnesses say the gunman shot both men in the head and ran off . no word on what led to the shooting. >>> in san francisco this 100- pound tree branch came crashing down on a mother who was watching her two daughters play. it happened at the playground and washington square park. emily turner found out the fine -- emily turner found out what the city is doing to make the city state -- safe. >>reporter: the playground is back open which for some is worrisome. kathy and her triplets spent sunday on the playground because they did not know what happened. >> if i was an adult from a critical condition am a limb, what would've happened to a child. >> it fell from 50 feet up cracking her skull as she watched her 5-year-old and 9- year-old daughters play. she had surgery last night and remains in critical condition. the condition of the tree is in question. >> the tree has good moisture content and the wood is very

. >> we have an in queens. new york police just releasing the sketch of a man. they want to talk to the person who resembles this. the 30-year-old was killed while out for a run earlier this month. the police are not calling the man in the sketch a suspect but they say he was seen on the pathway by utility worker. dna has found no match. a $35,000 award is being offered for any tips leading to an ferry. 10 people were hurt if all. new york city police pulled several from the water. the pilot of the ferry was taking the usual route. he saw the kayakers out of the corner of his eye and he couldn't stop in time. no charges have been filed so far. >> a dozen people are recovering after an emergency landing in ireland. the london-bound plane was on its way from texas when it took the unexpected turn. >> a sigh of relief from t on this united airlines flight after making an unplanned but safe landing in ireland. >> at this time, no control problems whatsoever. >> the flight originated in houston. boeing 767, it was supposed a flight to london, but several hundred mile

ibram kendi is a native son of jamaica, queens, new york, where he lived until he moved to virginia. he went to the florida and them for the undergraduate, and got his doctorate, from temple university. he is now a professor at the university of florida. ibram kendi will give the background under the history of racism in america. professor d. watkins put together a number of essays, living and dying while black in america. the book chronicles his life story in many ways, talks about the things he grew up with and the things he witnessed but professor d. watkins is able to

. >>> not in my backyard part 2 on display in queens. new york city wants to turn a hotel in to a shelter for homeless residents. some residents angry. tonight protesting, so many homeless families in new york city and if they aren't sheltered in presidential neighborhoods, then where? josh einiger with the story in maspeth for us. city says the dye has been cast here, that in a month and a half this will begin the transition from hotel to homeless shelter. people who live here in maspeth say they're not about to go without a fight. >> reporter: they are organized and determined. tonight this tight knit middle class neighborhood vowed to derail a city plan to house the homeless at this holiday inn. >> we don't want the homeless shelter because of the safety of schools. one located directly around the corner from this facility. >> now we know why they raised our taxes. >> mayor de blasio needed money to run this homeless shelter. >> reporter: last week an angry crowd shouted down the city's human resources commissioner as he tried to explain the p

karina vetrano was killed in queens, new york. >> we understand there are some similarities. nothing has been ruled out. >> reporter: in princeton tonight, loved ones and supporters gathering for a run in marcotte's honor. investigators in marcotte's case now following up on the nearly 600 tips they've received so far. tom? >> adrienne, thank you. >>> back to rio now where the historymaking olympic run continues for the world's greatest gymnast. we have a spoiler alert for you. simone biles with a record third gold medal today. the first american woman to win on the vault. and tonight on the track, where usain bolt will try to defend his crown as the world's fastest man. and take a look at the medal count. team usa continuing a dominant run in rio. here is abc's t.j. holmes. >> reporter: simone biles shattering records tonight. that gold in the vault makes her the first u.s. female gymnast to win three gold medals at a single olympics. my "gma" colleague amy robach talked with biles and her expectations. >> that's a lot of pressure when people expect you to win gold and then

open gets under way in queen, new york?s for our sunday highlights let's go to espn. >>> good morning, america. welcome in to "sportscenter" s.m.a.r.t. i'm lisa kerney. he is kevin connors. we bring you baseball. we have a party atop east. >> can you believe there are five weeks left in the regular season and that race is tightening up in the wild card, a lot of teams bunching up. josh donaldson getting busy on sunday. not one, not two, but three home runs, 31st, 32nd and 33rd of the season for him, 3 for 4. first ever four rbi day and the blue jays win, 9-6. >>> home runs on the rise this season for this guy, mark trumbo. most he ever had in a season is 34. 40th on sunday. his league leading 40th home run. >>> little league world series championship game, top six. new york up 2-1. ryan harlost pitching a complete game, endwell, new york, winning the little legal world series championship game, 2-1. the u.s. winning for the first time in five years, new york, job there in williamsport. >> congratulations to them. the u.s. t

queens. they are urging people to jog in pairs and pay attention to their surroundings. linsey davis, abc news, queens, new york. >>> for the first time we're hearing from the mother of twin girls who died in their father's hot car. police say aceh north was drunk when he left his 15-month-old daughters in the car. the mother says it was the first time she left the girls alone with the dad. overprotective after losing another daughter in 2014. >> i was the one day i left, i just want to tell them i'm sorry. >> entertainer tyler perry is offering to pay for the twins' funeral. >>> a pair of robbers hoping to make off with some easy money clearly picked the wrong target in houston. the men tried to hold up a convenience store. but when they demanded cash and pulled out a gun, the clerk whipped out her own gun and opened fire. the stunned robbers scampered away. the clerk isn't sure if the men we do know she's okay. >>> surveillance video from kentucky shows what can happen when you play with fire. two men were trying to set fire to a barber shop and hair salon but the second molotov cocktail splattered one of the

but they're hoping he could provide them with clues on who killed a jogger on august 2nd in queens, new york. corrina was sexual assaulted and strangled fatally while going for a run. police say they have developed a dna profile for a possible match yet. meanwhile, her family has raised more than $200,000 dollars in hopes of fiefnedding the killer. >>> just days after the murder in queens, 27-year-old vanessa marcotte was killed in princeton. jonathan hall was just mentioning that case. she was also going for a run when she was attacked. police are still searching for a suspect in that case and asking the public for any tips on who this killer could be. >>> an apartment building in allston goes up in flames, 11 people are now without a place to live after this fire just to through a building on street early this morning. of course, this is the time of year that a lot of students are moving into the area. investigators believe it was an electrical fire, but also say this property had some other problems. 7's john cocoa live in allston to explain. john. >> well, we're told the biggest problem

new york woman last week. disappeared while jogging in queens, new york. her father had been found her hours later, badly beaten and sexually assaulted. both women were out jogging when they died. both lived in new york city and both were roughly the same age and even looked alike. right now there's no evidence the cases are connected. >> sara: happening right now delta warning passengers there could be hundreds of flight cancellations today. this is related to yesterday's powe computer systems to fail around the world. right now three morning flights from logan are already canceled, two to atlanta and one to laguardia. we will keep an eye on any other changes. passengers left stranded yesterday receiving refunds or 200-dollar travel vouchers. delta tweeted out the last few hours people affected by cancellations today will also get those vouchers. the airline doesn't know what caused the power failure or why the computer system was not able tweeting out picture of water main break in andover. huge puddle bubbling in the area and it will be impacted for seve

. >>> in new york, her father found his daughter strangled body after she disappeared during an evening jog. the 30-year-old woman went jogging alone last night near her home in queens, new york. her father went out with detectives to show them her normal path first they found her cell phone then her body detectives believe she was sexually assaulted. >> right now there's evidence of strangulation. her father says he usually runs the path with her but decided to stay in last night because his back was hurting. >> confrontation at a taco bell caught on camera is getting a lot of shares on social media today. >> this is the cell phone video. it shows a kids verbally attacking a worker. that worker has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder which led to the verbal abuse. >> people shouldn't be treated that way. >> after the couple posted the video on facebook the who thanks them for sticking up for her son. >>> new at 11:00, bones found in canada can be from a shipwreck. mass grave for the victims was created in the area and analysis of the remains could teach researchers about how the dead were buried, their state of health, and possibly even their identities. >>> a rar

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>> the search is on for gunman who shot and killed a mom and a member of his congregation in queens, new york, police say they were shot as they were leaving their mosque, this afternoon. the motivation behind the violence is still unknown at this point, but many from the surrounding community who attend the mosque are calling this a hate crime. >> we feel really insecure and unsafe in a moment like this. it is really threatening to us, and threatening to our future, threatening to the neighborhood. we are looking for the justice. >> police say there is nothing to indicate that the two men were targeted because of their fate. >>> and, chaos erupts at a mall in north carolina after shoppers thought they heard gunfire. >> dozens scrambled to leave the crabtree valley mall in north caroline this afternoon, police say investigators are still trying to determine whether there was indeed a shooting. so far, they've not found any shell casings or any wounded people, and no one is in custody. >>> a woman reaching for a can of soda that she dropped into the water nearly had her hand bitten off by an a