shannon sohn is live over the accident in newscopter 7. shannon? >> reporter: this will be a prolonged operation. they will bring in a heavy duty tow truck to get out the truck portion of this cement truck. then they have to bring in a flatbed to get out the drama then sanitation will have to come in to clean up the cement all over the roadway. right now all lanes are shut down on the southbound side of the bruckner as well as the exit ramp to east 138th street. look at the delays. it's back to the sheraton to the cross bruckner itself. delay back to the bruckner interchange. reporting live over the bronx, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> what a mess. what a mess for those poor people. thank you, shannon. >> good morning, i'm ken rosato. >> i'm lori stokes. it's tuesday, september 1st. you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist jeff smith. hey, jeff. >> we got up to 90 on sunday. 91 yesterday. let's go for 92 today. third consecutive 90-degree day. that means we will make the heat wave official.

shannon sohn is in newscopter 7 with much more. shannon? >> reporter: we heard everything unfold because we were working in laguardia's airspace when the plane suffered the emergency. they were seven miles north of spuyten duyvil. they called in saying they needed to declare an emergency and tried to make it to teterboro with an engine sputtering. minutes after that, they declared that the engine shut down. as a member of an air crew, you are always looking for somewhere to land in case something goes wrong. they tried to make it to teterboro. when the engine quilt they realized they couldn't make it. in an airplane you can glide for a while. it looks to us that they tried to find the best spot they could find. as we bring this out, you can see a fudge field. there were people on some of the fields but not the one that they landed. this is where they put it down. unfortunately they landed into the trees but a good job overall. reporting live over cresskill, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> remarkable job indeed. quite a story. sh

newscopter 7 is showing these pictures, thank you shannon sohn. you have a major delay across the verrazano bridge. exiting at 92nd you cannot do that. you can access the belt parkway. however, check out the delays as shannon pans out. delays across the span on to the staten island expressway. what a mess we have. now, in addition to that, as we head to our maps, i can tell you off the bridge you are not out of the woods. b.q.e. north near hamilton avenue we have an accident there. traveling to the deegan, southbound side near yankee stadium, that is an accident being cleared away. we have alternate side of the street parking rules in effect. ken and lori, over to you. >> thank you. >>> less than a day after its release and apple users are having problems with the new operating system. >> reena ninan and kendis gibson report. >> in techbytes,ing bad start. >> millions of users got failure messages trying to download the new operating system after it was released yesterday. no comment from apple but most users then were able to get the update and t

reporting live over union square, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, shannon. >>> all new at 5:00, mayor de blasio defending his crime stats today and fending off a new critic, new jersey governor chris christie. both men appearing on national tv with different views on new york city's crime rate. eyewitness news political reporter dave evans with the mayor's latest feud. >> reporter: as you know, republicans across the county made mayor de blasio a target because he is a liberal democrat. but his team is fighting back with newly released figures from the police department. for the mayor, incoming fire from all sides. he and his wife were talking about homelessness and the city's crackdown and new york's low crime rate. >> we had the safest summer in over 20 years. we had last year the lowest number of murders in 50 years. >> reporter: but the next guest, a familiar face, went ballistic on the mayor. >> i am stunned as are most people who live in this area that this is the safest summer in new york. no one else beliefs that except for the two people just on your se

reporting live over cresskill, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> shannon, i know you said you are unclear about the victim's possibly inside the plane, are you seeing any other activity closer underneath those trees, possibly pulling someone out? can you zoom in to that shot? >> they are making quick work of this. the emergency crews here got here almost immediately. you can see the fire department is around the plane. we are not quite sure how bad the damage is to the cab of the plane itself. it looks like they are looking around the plane to determine the safety of the situation and how they will extricate anyone from the plane. no one has gotten out yet. that is not to say that no one will get out. >> shannon, you mentioned, we could see that huge area. if you go back wide a clear path for the plane to just sort of come in. but, of course, then it clipped by the trees there. >> you got to understand also that when an engine quits in an airplane like this. it appears to be a cessna, hard to plaque out. when an engine quits and you are in forward momentum, you have glide time

let's get the latest from shannon sohn in newscopter 7. shannon? >> reporter: yeah, shirleen, there were moments where we were holding our breath. we were working in laguardia's airspace when we heard this plane call in saying it was having engine troubles about seven miles north of city ten duyvil in the bronx -- spuyten duyvil in the bronx. they requested to make it to teterboro. they cut across new jersey. it was in cresskill when they determined they could not make it, the engine failed. they alerted the tower then went radio silent. this is where we found the plane. it appears to be a cessna. you can see emergency crews working around it. it came to rest in some trees just off the cresskill swim club at the intersection of third and magnolia. we will bring the shot out to give you perspective on where [000:59:57;00]

shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> shannon, thanks a lot. >> lirr riders should expect delays on the ride home. 1/3 of rush-hour trains have been cancelled. >>> comedian jon stewart is taking the cause of the 9/11 first responders to lawmakers in d.c. the former "daily show" host was on capitol hill to boost support for continued healthcare for emergency crews who became sick with the terror attacks. on the way to a meeting today stewart spotted senator deb fischer who is not supporting the bill. he ran after the republican lawmaker, gave her a copy of the bill and then introduced her to a real chair -- wheelchair bound first responders. >> know how to support people now it's your turn. you can be a hero. you can do it. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> good to see you. >> thank you. >> well, the original hsu act expired at the end of the month. stewart is pushing for the law to become permanent. >> they look you directly in the eye and say gosh, absolutely, these men and women are heroes and then you walk out of the room and it's forgotten and the real key is going to be h

shannon sohn is in newscopter 7 and over the scene with the latest. shannon. >> reporter: you can see the trains here are stopped at the best they are stopped moving slowly past us, at the worst cancelled but these are the signal problems west of jamaica station. you can see the train starting to creep forward. because of this you can expect 30 minute delays both ways on lirr, new york city transit is cross honoring but only at the atrium heading westbound towards penn station from sutton boulevard and again delays systemwide. reporting live from the lirr, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> now to the pontiff's visit. the pope trying to spread his message of caring for the environment and caring for each other but for millions of people the logistics of this visit could dramatically alter their daily routines. >> tonight we will spell it out for you. and the best advice, plan ahead and be ready.

shannon sohn is lye in newscopter 7 -- shannon sohn is live in newscopter 7 with an update. the front of that car looks completely totaled, shannon. >> reporter: yeah, it almost looks as if that car completely drove underneath that special needs bus. all of this happening at the intersection of woodhaven boulevard and 81st road. you can see clearly the damage to this vehicle. what we know at this point is that there were eight injuries in all involved in this accident. you can see they are working to get some of the special needs patients off of that bus but clearly the brunt of the damage done to that passenger vehicle. what you need to know as you travel through this area is really no detour is set up but woodhaven boulevard completely shut down in both directions. your northbound delay is going to take you back to jamaica avenue and we are going to bring you along the southbound side to give you an idea of how bad this is because it's stopped dead back to st. john's cemetery. you can see volume spilling onto that as well. 88th road gets you around this as best you can but

we got shannon sohn live in newscopter 7 over the scene right now. shannon? >> diana, you can see this tractor trailer completely wedged under the elevated subway tracks that run on jerome avenue just south of east 213th street. we are hearing this happened about 4:30 this afternoon. tractor trailer even caught fire. first they are going to have to figure out though get them out of here, second if there is any structural damage to the tracks above. what this means for your service, only the 4 line runs here. it is almost at the end of the line. they had to suspend at burnside. it affects 7 stops up to the end of line at woodlawn. the mta is recommending that you take the bus service, even the bx 10, 28 or 32 to get around this. but it does not look like this will be any better in time for the rest of the evening commute. reporting live over the bronx, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, san no. >>> another big -- shannon. >>> another big story, yogi berra being remembered for what he did on the baseball field but his colorful and generous l