rana novini, today in new york. >> thank you. >>> also new this morning, we're getting our first look at surveillance video of a deadly shooting in the bronx. there you can see a car drive by a crowd of people. someone inside the car opens fire and the crowd dodging for cover. two people were hit. one of them died from injuries. if you have any information in this case, call crime stoppers. us -- confess to a killing. 32-year-old marcus bellamy was taken in for questioning. police say bellamy has been charged now with murder. we're told they're continuing their investigation. the name of the victim, 27 years old, has not yet been released. >>> happening today. if you see a large amount of first responders near port newark, do not be me noon. expect road closures during that time. >>> and also in new jersey this morning, investigators still probing a crash that mangled two commuter buses, claimed lives, and left passengers fighting for their lives. two people died. 17 were hurt when a bus t-boned another bus at a busy intersection. ray villeda has the latest from newark. >> reporter: o

. >> today in new york's rana novini joins us live from the scene. >> reporter: investigators have been here overnight all morning here inside the home behind me. relatives called 911 after they say she didn't come out of a locked bathroom for hours. investigators are now questioning a person of interest in her death. relatives tell us the girl is 9-year-old ashdeep kaur. investigators say there were no obvious signs of trauma and her cause of death has not been released yesterday. the girl's father collapsed outside last night after ashdeep was found dead. he was taken away by ambulance for observation. she is considered a person of interest. relatives say she didn't want to go home. they feared something like this would happen. >> i know that she's going to do it. because she always beat her up. i see her scratches on the arms. yeah. because when she hold her hard and she beat her, you know. >> reporter: the stepmother does not face charges at this point. she is being questioned as a person ashdeep's death has not been ruled a homicide. we have to wait on the autopsy report to figure

rana novini has m this tragedy unfolded. >> reporter: a backyard party that went horribly wrong. >> i'm still shaking from it. my family was here. >> reporter: police say the family gathering took an unexpected turn when the 61-year-old retired cop went in to get a gun. he shot two of his sons before he turned the gun on himself. >> i told them to lock the doors. close the windows. >> reporter: her kids called her in a panic. my daughter said she heard a gunshot. she said, mom, i think it's right across the street from us. >> reporter: the two sons are in critical condition. their father dead. outside the home, a family friend here to pick up the pieces of the party. >> i talked to the dad. the dad was happy yesterday. everybody just seemed happy. >> reporter: wilson says looking back to when he set up the tent he never now only hope he sees the brothers recover. >> it's upsetting, very. hate to see something like this happen. >> reporter: there were other family members inside the house at the time of the shooting, but no one else was hurt. the officer was appointed to the nypd in 1982

> tonight, family and friends are gathering to say good-bye to a bronx deli worker killed while rana novini in the concourse section with the gathering there tonight. >> reporter: sibila, friends, family, community activists are all here for a funeral that is just getting under way. people have been posting these signs around the islamic center that says justice for wally. his son was granted a visa to attend his father's funeral while his body will be taken back to he was shot and kill on august 9th. a man, guzman, grabbed an officer's gun from the holster and shot wally, killing him. activists are concerned about the nypd's use of those holsters. >> they were new models, which are safer for the police officers and for the public because it is more difficult to snatch a gun from the new models. they're not being used. new ones? that would be in the public interest. >> reporter: the nypd issued a statement to us saying it got a new safer holster in 2014 and so far about 8,000 officers have been trained to use that holster. they say they're working to train more officers on that holster. the

as rana novini explains, the zombie property is coming back to life. >> reporter: an eyesore may be an understatement. people are fed up. >> we can't enjoy our backyard. my daughter gets bit. there are so many rodents. we have to constantly hire an exterminator. something should be done about it. >> reporter: that something happened today. orange trucks filled the two-mile stretch of zombie property in levett town. neighbors like james says for years they were plagued with rats and barely a peep from the lirr about the abandoned property. this is the biggest change you've seen? they'll do a quick and fast job. >> the backyards have hundreds of residents here in the community. >> reporter: a town supervisor says the change is like night and day. until today, you couldn't even walk through here. >> you couldn't walk through here. you might be able to high boots on, but you wouldn't want to. >> it is just a shame. it really is a shame in this kind of weather and stuff people who border this can't really enjoy their properties and backyard. >> reporter: overall, neighbors say they are caut

reporting live in harlem, rana novini. >> we have another suggestion. those centers located in all five boroughs will be open through sunday with extended hours. people are urged to take advantage of these centers. to find the cooling center nearest you, head to our website, nbcnewyork.com. we'll give you the latest heat advisories, the storm threats, along with tips an how to stay cool. >>> the nypd is looking for a man who brutally attaced 74-year-old man in the bronx. a man followed his elderly victim upstairs in his apartment building so he could attack and rob him. wale aliyu is live with more. wale? >> reporter: police say this is the guy who pushed a 74-year-old man down a flight of stairs before trying to rob him. we have the video. pretends to be on his phone. watch as he then turns around, shoving 74-year-old geronimo down a flight of stairs. speaking spanish, he tells me it is very strange. i don't know him. i have never met him. he already had trouble walking and now that's even tougher. he hit me, he says, a few times. you can see here he k

rana novini joins us with the details. >> reporter: that victim very well liked and well respected in the community. everyone knew her. she always played dominos. tonight flowers, candles even domino pieces left where she was sitting and took a bullet not meant for her. playing dominos every single doing, sitting outside the charles young playground on lenox avenue when a stray bullet hit her in the neck. >> wonderful mother, fabulous sister. helped me a whole lot. >> reporter: her brother, just learning the news, describes odessa as a loving mother, grandmother and wife. >> everybody know miss odessa. she the best. come on. why do you that? >> reporter: so many in the community shocked at the senseless kill ing respects by flowers and candles. >> just shocked. >> reporter: one of the signs left at scene saying "enough is enough." police are still on the hunt for that shooter tonight. we've seen extra patrols in this area. there was another shooting last night and they believe it may have been tied to this one. shooting more than a dozen people at a connecticut house party. one of the

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