: a former danvers high school student overwhelmed by an act of kindness paying tribute to coleen ritter. >> it's great feeling. >> reporter: people in danvers paying it forward to honor the teacher killed two years ago today. >> she effected people in a way she was amazing, she didn't realize she was aaffecting them so she would be overwhelmed by it. >> reporter: her close friend came up with kindness for coleen so people could carry on ritzer's generous spirit. >> i wanted to make this day a little better. us. >> reporter: it gained momentum in danvers and towns nearby. kerry burnett surprised her daughter's pre-school teachers with baked goods. >> thought that it would be great way to teach a lesson about paying it forward and about kindness. >> reporter: danvers firefighters received bagels students. >> the night shift that was just ended appreciated it. >> reporter: one high school teacher allowed her students to skip a question on the mid term exact using sticker. ritter's family said they're overwhelmed which all of the acts of kindness and we're proud coleen continues to inspire

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good evening at 11:00, i'm bill ritter. >> i'm sade baderinwa. we're in for some heavy rain. the aftermath of patricia affecting huge swaths of the country and there's been flooding. this is in louisiana. >> lee goldberg timing it all out for us. he's at the weather wall. >> you hit the nail on the head. part of its dna is hurricane patricia. you can see this satellite and radar which goes back to sunday, compound fragments of patricia and expanding as moisture runs up the east two 3rds of the country. rainfall to harrisburg. closer to new jersey about 5 a.m. about daybreak, new york city, western long island, midmorning eastern long island, and eastern fairfield county. slight change since 6:00 tonight, this little kink in the timing because i think earlier rainfall could shoot in to the hudson valley in going to be a 1 to 2 and a half inch rainfall. closer to the inch along the immediate coach. 1 to 1 and a half inches for most. closing in on the 2-inch amounts especially north and west of new york city near the hudson valley. coastal flood advisories. that's going to be mi

bill ritter. tests going under way right now to figure out which drugs in odom's system. the nba tweeting, our thoughts and prayers are with a dear member of the nba family, lamar odom. >> new details about what exactly happened in that brothel. aj ross here with the latest. >> odom no stranger to adversity, he's overcome countless challenges in life. tonight friends and colleagues in the sports world i spoke with are hoping that same fighting spirit will help him pull through. >> lamar is a great basketball player and everyone knows that. >> reporter: a young basketball prodigy from queens whose talent took him around the world and back, now at a crossroads after being found unresponsive in a nevada brothel. >> he's got blood coming out of his nose, white stuff coming out of his mouth. can't get him to wake up. >> reporter: desperate 911 calls to police revealed the former nba star had been there for days and workers claim odom had been using cocaine and a spokesman for the love ranch confirmed odom was staying in their best vip suite with two prostitutes and reportedly

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. >> i'm bill ritter. three stories break ing right now. first that car slamming in to a restaurant in rockville centre on long island. josh einiger with breaking details. >> let me show you right now. a car came barreling in to monahan's restaurant at the height of the dinnertime rush. people who might otherwise be hanging out by the window instead crowded around tvs inside the restaurant watching the mets and none of them were hurt. >> reporter: it happened in the blink of an eye, this red sedan buried itself deep in the front of monahan's, an irish pub loaded with mets fans watching the game. owner niall gunn watched it all happen in front of him. >> he hit the gas. crazy. >> it sounded like a huge thunder, like a huge clap of thunder. >> reporter: the driver, a man in his 50s, mistaken the gas for the brake and plowed in front of the bar. amazingly no one was sitting at the window at the time. >> his car seemed pretty good when it got pulled out, very little damage to it. by the luck of the irish, i don't know. tough day at the office h

. >> i'm bill ritter. night and it could be an ugly morning commute. gusts battering construction sites. the wind making it hard to hold even an umbrella when it was pouring rain in morningside heights. >> meteorologist lee goldberg is at the weather wall. >> tracking autumn thunderstorms at 11:00 tonight. just calmed down outside our studios. torrential rain a few minutes ago. we're at 68 degrees right now. really mild as the cold front approaches. flood advisory just out for northeast new jersey, parts of rocklin and orange county just after 1:00 in the morning. over an inch in new york city. pushing 2 inches. somerville nearly 2 inches. lighter amounts on the island but you have heavy rain approaching. winds whistling out of the southeast at 30 miles per hour. they'll back off by dawn but still several hours of gusty wind driven rains. there was a thunderstorm near edison, new jersey. went to patterson and wyckoff and a piece of it got in to manhattan over harlem. parts of yonkers going in to the bronx. that's going in to rocklin county as well. thi

i'm sade baderinwa >> and i'm bill ritter. police tried to keep the former officer away from her, but all that for naught. >> eyewitness news reporter aj ross there with the breaking details. >> blindsided and viciously attacked inside her own driveway tonight, this quiet midland park community is shocked and mourning the sudden loss of susan barzell, a loving mother and teacher. her life was taken by her boyfriend who hours ago tried to take his own life by train. >> reporter: this peaceful bergen county suburb was turned on end thursday afternoon when a 911 call brought police here to susan barzell's midland park home. a loving mother and teacher, police say she was violently attacked by her estranged boyfriend, arthur lomando, an officer who she filed a restraining order again. >> he attacked her with a very large machete type of knife, striking her several times. >> reporter: prosecutors say the couple met online and had been dating for three years, until barzell recently fired a restraining order against lomondo october 5

i'm bill ritter . >> and i'm sade baderinwa. the gunfire ringing out during the height of rush hour. >> the shooting at the busy intersection of dekalb and flatbush avenues. jim dolan is there with the developing story. >> classes were letting out it eschool across the street. there were scores of people out there when the gunfire started. witnesses say at first down the street then it came down here to the dekalb avenue subway stop. before it was done, two people were shot. now a 17-year-old is dead and police say the gunman is still out there. >> reporter: police rushed to the crowded intersection of flatbush and dekalb. a deafening barrage that left shell casings scattered around the crowded sidewalk and bullet holes in cars. one of the guns used was found a few blocks police had to comfort the shaken eyewitnesss who saw two teenagers shot in front of them. >> i was walking across the street. kids were arguing and the kids started shooting at him and shot him in the head. i ran back once they started shooting. >> how are we s

>> funny you should ask me that. [ laughter ] no, i went to -- in kindergarten, we had john ritter as a room parent. >> seth: okay. [ light laughter ] this wasn't just a high school crossroads. it starts at a really -- >> oh, yeah. it started in kindererrten. i remember, yoyoknow, they have those little t ty tables, i mean they're probably like e y high. seth: yeah. >> with little tiny chairs. john ritter sat next to me doing construction paper projects. [ laughter ] and i -- my mind was blown, because i think "three's company" was in syndication at that point, and it was on every single day. and it was like, "oh!" >> seth: so how old are you that you're blown away by someone in "three's company?" because it -- [ laughter ] by the size of the table and the chair i'm trying to justify that with the sort of adult content of the show "three's company." >> it all went over my head, i'm sure. >> seth: gotcha. >> yeah, yeah.h. but -- >> seth: i guess if you're little, the part of "three's company" you would l le would be john ritter. >> jack tripper. yeah, exactltl yeah, because he's all th

i'm bill ritter, in for diana williams. so, what do you think about tipping? then the sometimes not-so-subtle game between you and the waiter or waitress serving you because that's their job, but also knowing -- you and the server -- that if you like the service, you might very well leave a very healthy tip, and if you don't like the service, you definitely will not leave a healthy tip. maybe no tip at all. now one of the best-known restaurant executives in the world -- certainly in new york city -- is saying, "let's stop that game" and saying goodbye to all that -- goodbye to tipping. danny meyer is the c.e.o. of the union square hospitality group gramercy tavern, union square cafe, blue smoke, 11 other restaurants. the end of tipping might very well mean less money for servers, maybe, but more money for other restaurant workers. so why is he doing this? we thought we'd ask the man himself this morning. danny meyer joins us. and welcome, danny. >> thanks, bill. >> full disclosure -- we've been pals for a long time -- upwards of two decades. but that said -- >

but -- little, the part of "three's company" you would love would be john ritter. >> jack tripper. yeah, exactly, yeah, because he's all the physical comedy. i think universal, kind of. >> seth: i watched that show. that show was -- i think we're close enough to the same age to know that show was on all of the time. i'm older, so i understood the subtleties of "three's company." [ laughter ] whereas you just enjoyed the physical -- >> they're always listening at the kitchen door. they're like, "what's going on?" >> seth: as a child -- >> jack is getting a vasectomy. i remember being like, "what are they talking about?" [ laughter ] "jack's getting a vasectomy!" that was one episode. >> seth: it does -- if you watch as a kid, it gives you a false sense of how much you can hear when you do this. [ laughter ] >> yes. first of all. and second of all, everyone who listens at the door goes like -- like, low, medium, high. [ laughter ] like, everybody's all, like, stacked up. >> seth: that's right. i forgot about that. and also you know if you're listening at a door it's only a matter of

i'm bill ritter, in for diana williams. we're gonna talk to dr. farley in a moment, but before we do, and as a prelude, the first-ever report on health of new yorkers by zip codes. this big revelation -- your health and your life-span have a lot to do with the neighborhood where you live. move over, income inequality. make room, as well, for health inequality. here's "eyewitness news" reporter stacey sager. >> with nearly 40% of the residents here living below the poverty level, it's not terribly surprising that new york city's health department ranks brownsville the most unhealthy community in brooklyn. question is, will the city's new study make a difference? >> all of this is something that we can change. >> but talk to people in this community and you get one message loud and clear -- we are what we eat, and healthier food is expensive. >> i just spent $400, and i don't even see on what. >> $400? >> yes. >> in these two wagons? >> that's it. >> my sugar is going through the roof, and my blood pressure's going through the roof. if you go into s

i'm bill ritter, in for diana williams. this morning we begin with the n.y.p.d. and the change in policy this past week on the reporting of the use of force. any time a cop uses force, he or she has to now report it. it's all part of a balancing act by commissioner bill bratton as he pushes to keep crime rates low while addressing community concerns. and the monkey on his back -- the watchful eye of an inspector general. here's political reporter dave evans. >> the report is not in reaction to the takedown of tennis star james blake, but it serves as a good example of what sometimes happens in the department -- that not all police violence is properly recorded. the inspector general released a report faulting the department for not better tracking use of police force. >> our reaction, as in this report, is that it is absolutely unacceptable... that there is not a central mechanism for tracking and reporting use of force. >> curbing the use of police force is a huge issue in police departments across the country. the inspector general praised how los angeles and s

i'm bill ritter. >> i'm liz cho. matt harvey for game 1 in the best of seven series. >> world series logos for the first time ever at this ballpark painted on the field for game 3 friday night. singing the

i'm bill ritter. >> we'll begin with breaking news out of the bronx. >> gunfire. a pursuit. then a car crash. right now three people under arrest and an >> josh einiger with the lead story tonight. >> it's a sprawling scene over several blocks in the south bronx but started with police being at the right place at the right time. the alleged gunmen were not about to go down without a fight. they fled police several blocks, coming down this hill here. they flew down this hill and 167th street and inner veil right in to that intersection. that station wagon is the car the suspects were driving. on the flatbed to your right, that's the car that the victim was driving. a man in his 70s who was minding his own business driving along when that suspect vehicle just t-boned him out of the blue. we'll show you video from newscopter7 as police were establishing a crime scene in the last couple hours. in this case started at 3rd avenue in the south bronx where police say the suspects fired at least two shots at a known -- at someone they intended to hit but did not. they then saw two po

. >> i'm bill ritter. new at 6:00, we're following breaking news. a woman hit by a headstone in a cemetery in queens. a bizarre accident. >> parents in a school district in westchester county stunned after a music teacher in an with having and join the millions who have already switched. we switched. and now, we're streaming netflix. who knew time warner cable's internet was so fast! mom switched. and now, we can watch our favorite shows together, on demand. i switched. so i can connect to the internet just about anywhere with my free twc wifi hotspots. join the millions who switched to time warner cable. for $89.99 a month, you'll get 100meg internet, and hundreds of hd channels. you'll also get unlimited calling to the us, mexico canada, china, and now india. call today. i switched. now i have a free app that lets me watch tv whenever i have the time. for $89.99 a month you'll get tv, internet and phone. and if you call now, there's no risk, no contract, no catch, no kidding. i switched to time warner cable and knew exactly when they were coming.

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by the time you wake up tomorrow morning here the overnight lows tomorrow morning cure satellite ritterte radio --radar it is bringing low clouds as you can see for the morning hours and then in the afternoon some high clouds in place east bay shoreline and the south bass still went to get a lot of sunshine clear skies for the valley up in the valley lots of clouds this is what will be like for the rest of the evening and until early morning saturday you see it becomes widespread the low clouds across east bay shoreline the warming trend will continue as we get closer to the '90s towards the end of the week we're dealing with mid-80s for inland valley locations and antioch gets 84 with 78 out in oakland and san francisco should be at 73 here's your seven day forecast and it should be a great weekend we're going to be warning things out--warming things >> pam :they could be heard roaring over the bay area today. the blue angels are gearing up for fleek week. -- fleet week they were out practicing their routines in the sky today. in preparation for this weekend. kron four's grant lodes br

. >> i'm bill ritter. we have been updating this break news throughout the evening. the suspect was also shot tin leg. that officer shot at east 120* street and fdr drive. cops also investigating a scene of some sort at east 102nd street and the fdr. >> newscopter 7 over the fdr now. it is shut down in both directions from 120th to 125th street. n.j. burkett tweeting out the scene from the ground. heavy police presence. >> we have three reports and newscopter 7 over the scene. we begin with new jersey at the scene of the shooting with the latest. new jersey. >> reporter: and that's right, bill, the officer is in critical condition at this hour. i'm told he is in surgery with the bullet wound in the head. the fdr drive as you can see behind me is now shut down in both directions north and south, bill. it has been shut down for more than two hours. the circumstances of the shooting are still not clear at this hour. witnesses describe hearing several shot. motorists describe the frantic scene as the officer was rushed to the hospital. the nypd officer i'm told was respo

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. >> and i'm bill ritter. the man's run from cops coming to a police trying to piece it all together. also there for us, eyewitness news reporter josh einiger. >> detectives arrived here with an arrest warrant and tons of backup but in the left hand apartment of that unassuming duplex behind me their suspect was not about to go quietly. prosecutors say he lunged at officers with a knife and wound up with a bullet in the gut. >> reporter: tonight police swarmed over the modest duplex home in hackensack after the violent and deadly confrontation with the accused killer of a 4-year-old boy and his mother. this woman's mother lives right across the street. >> she just heard a gunshot then she saw somebody getting rushed out. >> reporter: authorities say it was hose santos-alvarez. 4-year-old christopher were found strangled. hudson county prosecutors identified santos-alvarez, an estranged boyfriend, as the suspect. the manhunt led more than 20 officers to this house where they cornered santos-alvarez in a back ro

at 11:00, i'm bill ritter. >> i'm sade baderinwa. at rutgers university in new brisket -- in new brunswick. >> lucy yang is with the developing story. lucy? >> bill and sade, real blood weekend here at rutgers university. it was a knife attack at tonight. university police report two were taken to the hospital for injuries. it's believed one of those two was the attacker. one eyewitness, a freshman, told us there were two men in a conversation which turned he did, escalated into fighting and then a knife was pulled and the student was stabbed. she said it all unfolded right in front of her and in the screaming, she called 911. >> i sitting on a couch. seemed pretty casual. all of a sudden, they got up and started yelling at each other. it was like, a big, like, fighting match. started getting physical. and then, yeah -- like, a knife fight. >> reporter: now, many students are dressed up right now heading to parties. clearly, the stabbing earlier tonight has not dampened the overall mood to celebrate on campus, but again, there was a

good evening; everybody, i'm bill ritter. >> and i'm sade bederinwa. coastal communities building up sand dunes. the mta preparing for the worst. just in case that hurricane heads here. of course, that's just one of many possibilities. >> lee goldberg tracking all the scenarios for us, he's at the weather wall. >> lots of challenges to start october. first of all, it's about cooler temperatures and a gusty wind coming in tonight as the weather pattern begins to change. we're down to 63. a north wind gusting at 17. responding to the idea we'll have an on shore wind. coastal wind advisories go through the weekend with moderate coastal flooding a possibility. also a high wind watch as we get into the weekend for the jersey shore. the worse case, wind gusts over 50 miles per hour. not much rain. the cold front went through. more rain will ride along that front. that takes until friday. even though we get rain along the coast. you can trace moisture all the way back into joaquin, which is strengthening. now a category 3 hurricane with winds of 115 miles per

i'm bill ritter. >> i'm liz cho. world news withurricane patricia >>> tonight, the breaking news. the monster hurricane hitting right now. the category five storm. wind gusts more than 200 miles per hour. the most powerful storm ever recorded in the western hemisphere. americans trapped. airports closing. and parts of the u.s. bracing for a double >> and the major shift tonight for donald trump. the key state where he's no longer leading. >>> and the school scandal, the outrage over these mug shots. what families say these young >>> and the drug price, suddenly spiked by 400%. the competitor, selling it for $1. >>> good evening, we begin tonight with this monster hurricane, already historic in strength. hurricane patricia on a collision course with mexico. and combining with storms already hitting the u.s. right now. this is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hemisphere. and several airports already shut down. the track, on its way to texas before it's done. many in mexico being rushed out. matt gutman is in mexico leading us off. >> reporter: bracing for catastr

. >> i'm bill ritter. it started when one car blew through a red light. it happened in the richmond hills section of queens. >> josh einiger is there with details. >> reporter: we're talking about a two-year-old girl, her mom and her awrnghts minding their own business here at the bus stop waiting for their bus to come when all of a sudden in that intersection police say one car ran a red light and slammed into a second car, then jumped the curb and plowed into that family. tonight highly trained investigators inspected the cars involved in this collision that sent this white suv hurdling onto the sidewalk to the very spot where a family of three, including a toddler, happened to be waiting for a bus. and then came the screams of an older family member who tried to shove the little girl out of the way. >> people here heard her screaming. she saved the baby's life. >> i seen a little girl under the car, and rate after that, the other woman hit the wall of the building and stopped. you could see the tire marks on her stomach. >> reporter: paramedics rushed

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. >> on bill ritter. september seems like a long time ago. it is raw out there tonight. whipping winds, heavy rains as high tide rolls in. people on the shore could be real -- in for a real mess. >> the water department tweeting out this video. crews clearing out catch basin for what's to come. lee goldberg is at the weather wall. >> a lot of beach is week will be lost this week. as we enter high tide over the next couple hours, a few hours on the sound right now. we expect moderate to major coastal flooding especially across southern ocean county toward atlantic city, coastal flood warnings for new jersey. the sound, long island, south shore, new jersey, we have high wind watches along the coast. winds gusting over 80 miles an hour hour. it's a chile, raw night. it is damp, we've had an inch at new york city, 2.5 inches over the last four days. over an inch and a half along the coast. the rain continues to be lighter inland. wind gusts going to 40 along the coast. pc the heavy rainfall over monmouth and ocean. but we're losing the lows going more blues, indication the r

i'm bill ritter. >> and i'm sade baderinwa. -- developments tonight in the shooting. tyrone howard arraigned a short time ago in criminal court. >> new yorkers lighting candles and laying a wreath at the site of the shooting. >> we have several reports tonight on the new information. we begin with eyewitness news reporter josh einiger outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. >> i've never seen night court so jam packed with people, much less police officers. every square inch of that courtroom loaded with blue and with members of officer holder's family. let's show you video from inside arraignment court as the suspect had his first appearance in court. tyrone howard facing a charge of first degree murder in the death of officer holder late last night in harlem, in upper manhattan. his lawyer told the judge because of injuries he had sustained, the gunshot of the pain, he's feeling chest pains. that led to snickering from the crowd of police officers and did not stop the judge from remanding the suspect, holding him without bail in this case. here's what pba preside

i'm bill ritter. >> and i'm sade baderinwa. the pilots of a boeing 777 spotting the drone as he came in for a landing. eyewitness news reporter josh einiger at the airport with the developing story. >> even if you have a permit to fly, the federal government prohibits you from flying it over 400 feet off the ground. in this case the altitude was 2,000 feet and smack in the middle of one of the busiest flight paths. >> reporter: the boeing jet came way too close to someone's flying toy. if you listen to the fast talking jargon of air traffic control, you'll hear the crew of british airways 177 from london operating with the handle speed bird telling them about a strange sighting over floral park, long island. >> about 300 feet above us i'm pretty sure it was a drone. >> okay, thank you. >> a very strange looking balloon. >> reporter: the faa says this was no balloon, hovering between 1800 and 2200 feet above the ground. the unmanned drone was flying above approaching jet liners. >> 177, do you have any other description other th

teamwork. [ laughter ] >> you might want to check out our partner bill ritter's post from the magic kingdom. he's really enjoying every moment of it. it's so magical. [ laughter ] >>> beautiful weather out there this evening. we have blue skies and a beautiful sunset on new york harbor right now. really pretty. it's around 6:21. only thing wrong with that, just a little too early. but it is very pretty. we're at 68. nice and comfortable. wind isn't too strong. it's out of the south around 6 miles per hour. we hit 77. that's going to be our warmest day for a wild. 12 degrees above average and of course no rainfall today. can't have any rain today without any clouds. we'll have some overnight. there are your sunrise and sunset times. here are the weather headlines. amazing for the mets tonight at citifield. some showers will develop late, primarily for eastern long island. not out of the question a couple of them sneak through the jersey store. we're still in the 70s tomorrow despite more clouds and sun and also a couple rounds of showers especially from midday on. fine fall weather midweek,

: he was not in court friday is accused of rap raping and killing his high school teacher colleen ritter back in 2013. as of thursday the 16-year-old's trial is now on hold while he spends 20 days at a worcester re recovery hospital for observation after a sigh cogs saw him banking his head on the of his cell wednesday. the prosecution wants their own expert to see chisolm because they believe it's a proactive move . >>> it allows for one or more place any time of the proceeding and in particular talk about having as muchings in as possible. understanding that such things should be given a thorough review . >> anchor: the request left in the hands of judge david lowey who waived fairness of the action . >>> it allowed the commonwealth to have an independent expert. why shouldn't the defendant have an independent expert. if convicted chisolm firsts life in prison. live in salem, john cuoco, 7 news . >> anchor: an mbta station coming under tire this morning. it all happened during rush hour. police say two groups started fighting there when one person pulled out a gun. no within was hurt .