. >> i'm shirleen allicot. the first time tonight, only to eyewitness news. we have the exclusive story. >> reporter: the department of buildings has issued another stop work order following this death. the department explains that they are issued before including a stop-work order for the scaffolding here. the victim's family asking and wondering if this could have been prevented. >> reporter: he was finishing up the work day on thursday afternoon here at this construction site. the close childhood friends said that the 27-year-old was headed for his westchester county home when he was hit and killed by a wood plank that fell from a scaffold near hudson and leroy street. >> reporter: when officers arrived they found him unconscious with severe neck and back injuries. he was pronounced dead. spokesperson says that the construction accident happened while scaffolding was being dismantled at the luxury condo development. that mato was wearing a hard hat when he was hit. >> it is sad to find out that something happened like that. i'll never see him again. >> rep

i'm shirleen allicot in for sade baderinwa. >> and i'm bill ritter. the young mom just 25 years old, killed along with her dog as a car jumped the curb. her young son was also at tonight's vigil. >> eyewitness news reporter jim horrific story. >> barbara caton lost control of her vehicle at the most unimageable place on union boulevard. she struck and killed a 25-year-old mother who had had just dropped her son off at the school bus. >> reporter: skye brunetti's son helped people write notes to his mom and left them at a makeshift memorial that grows where she died, a wrenching moment in a day of unending grief. >> she was a saint. she really was. if anybody knows her, she's a saint. >> reporter: friends lit candles tonight and held each other. they cried with one another after a day when so much was lost in seconds. >> she would have been there for all of us. >> reporter: just look at the scene where it all happened today. 25-year-old skye brunetti had school bus this morning when this car jumped the curb on union boulevard, slammed through a utility

. >>> good evening at 11:00 i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm bill ritter. eyewitness news reporter carolina? >> reporter: bill and shirleen, right now they are working to get this business back up and running again in the next few weeks. according to the business owner he says all of a sudden he was here, it was busy, and he heard somebody yell the word car. then all of a sudden people started jumping out of the way. this suv smashed through the prestige barbershop on long island sending two people to the hospital with minor injuries. this would have been a lot worse. >> he just stuck his head out of the window and said everyone move i can't stop the car. >> you see a car that was not speeding, but driving towards the window and then slammed through it and kept driving. i heard the guy saying and yelled that the brakes are not stopping. >> reporter: we don't know why the brakes failed to work. it happened just before 5:00 on friday afternoon at this strip mall near jackson avenue. witnesses say that people were and leg injuries. >> we grabbed some alcohol bo

. >> i'm shirleen allicot. bill is off. shirleen and david. this resident capturing the cloud-to-cloud lightning that branched off there sparking these storms. the temperatures near 80 in many spots especially inland. cooler along the coast. right now we're mainly cloudy, still around 70 degrees 159 1:00. so it has been comfortable with the storm reports across new jersey nearly one-inch hail over hanover with the gusty winds here as well. radar is quieting down over the next radar or two. unfortunately the front isn't getting far enough. we have rain coming through tomorrow morning. but this is the storm that they are watching that it does not look as impressive right now, carrying the serious arctic air that will come around this time tonight and tomorrow night and along with it the howling winds. high wind watches are up late tomorrow night into the first part of sunday where the winds could gust over 60 miles an hour. so here is what you'll need to know with the other round of rain tomorrow morning and a little better in the afternoon. dam

i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm david novarro. bill and sade are off. the attack happened as the woman was walking on broadway near rector street. josh einiger in lower manhattan with new details from police. >> right in front of trinity church where police are standing guard where a woman says she was attacked by a man with a blade. she says she went south on broadway toward the school she attends and that's where she called 911. but at the height of the afternoon rush in the financial district, police still have not found one person who says they saw her. >> reporter: hours after the search for clues was still underway. investigators scouring for evidence, for video, for witnesses, but so far nothing. >> we'd like to ask the public for their help. >> reporter: a 20-year-old woman reported a random attack, slashed by a stranger. >> she reported walking northbound on broadway an unknown male grabbed her by the arm, turned her and slashed her on the left side of her face. when he slashed her he made a statement to the effect that she was a terrorist and

. >> and i'm shirleen allicot in for sade baderinwa. the federal investigation by the u.s. attorney's office and the fbi now widening and where it might end, that's the big question. >> eyewitness news reporter jim dolan at city hall with our lead story. >> the mayor found himself in the uncomfortable position tonight of fending off questions about two brooklyn businessmen who contributed heavily to his campaign in 2013 and who are now under investigation for their ties to four nypd commanders. about doing things in a legal and appropriate manner. we're very, very careful about disclosing the support we get. >> reporter: some of that support came from these two men, jeremy reichburg on the left and jonah on the right, a pair of brooklyn businessmen now under investigation amid allegations of pay-offs to police and possibly others. >> i met them around the time of the general election, had not known them previously, had spent very little time with them in the last year. >> reporter: investigators are combing through the mayor's 2013 campaign records to see how money was soli

i'm bill ritter. >> i'm shirleen allicot. jimmy kimmel is next. eyewitness news returns tomorrow with ken and lori. night. >>> and now abc's "jimmy kimmel live." >> dicky: from hollywood it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- chris hemsworth, from "broad city" abbi jacobson

. >> and i'm shirleen allicot in for sade baderinwa. 10 people were hurt including three firefighters, but those two children passing away. it started tonight in the clearmont section. >> carolina leid on the scene with the latest on those little kids who have died. carolina. >> we just confirmed that information about 30 seconds ago that the two children died. they were taken to the hospital in critical condition but we just learned that they died from their injuries. as you can see right now, there are police officers and fire investigators inside their information they need to figure out what exactly went wrong. >> i got a couple kicks at the door, after that, i couldn't breathe. >> reporter: devon jackson and his friend could hear people, some young children begging to be rescued from the blaze. the third floor of 1368 webster avenue was so dark they couldn't see and couldn't breathe. >> i went upstairs to go see if there was anybody in the hallway or anybody who needed help. we heard kids crying but it was so black, we couldn't breathe. >> reporter: firefighters rescued two young

i'm shirleen allicot. >> and i'm diana williams in for david novarro. new, a protest planned for this afternoon. outside of pet pups. a pet store in paramas. >>> and animal lovers were upset, after the pet store owners was accused of keeping injured puppies in a van outside the store. but the owner claims the puppies were injured when the >> they are live outside that store in paramis. toni? >> reporter: yes, and at this point, as we speak, there are no charges filed as we speak. the prosecutor's office is still investigating. now, we want to show you the pictures that police took of the puppies that were housed in that van. this was sunday night. two patrol officers heard the 67 dogs whining inside the van. they opened the door and found the dogs. they say there was a strong smell of urine and feces. several were housed, two to four to a cage. they also said the van was about 35 degrees inside. there was a space heater that was not working. the dogs were taken to ordel animal hospital to be checked out. a spokesman said four of the dogs had to be quara

shirleen allicot with that story. >> reporter: lizzy meyers waves and smiles, hoping to catch pope francis's things -- pope francis's attention as he drives by. >> we're awe struck. not just the meeting with the pope. >> he blessed elizabeth's eyes. he asked that we pray for him and said he'll be praying for us. >> reporter: it's a meeting this 5-year-old will treasure more than ever perhaps when she understands the gravity of the blessing. >> there will come a time when we have to tell her. i dread that day. right now we don't feel it's i think it will hold her back. >> reporter: lizzy doesn't know it yet but she's slowly going blind because of a rare genetic disorder. >> because we're catholic and also because of lizzy's interest in art and big things. >> reporter: lizzy wanted to meet the pope. so with a visual bucket list on hand, the meyers flew to rome, hoping for a miracle. once their story made the news, they say their prayers were answered. >> what pope francis has done for her, if there's any chance for a miracle, it would be there. >> reporter: shirleen allicot, channel 7 eyewitne

>> reporter: shirleen allicot, channel 7 eyewitness news. for the countless syrian refugees struggling to find a place to live. the olympic torch made a symbolic stop at a united nations run refugee camp in athens, greece. the torch was carried by a syrian refugee. the man dedicated his time with the torch to all refugees in desperate need of homes. >>> all new at 5:00, a police officer in new jersey speaking out for the first time about an incredible rescue. the dramatic video on our facebook page. he stopped a man from jumping off a bridge and tonight he tells us what happened. >> plus, a mom in connecticut suspected of being drunk arrested and it's who turned her in that will likely surprise you. >> and senior citizens struggling to make ends meet. the group that's helping them all across new york families are coming back to time warner cable. join them, and switch right now. we have trucks standing by, and we can install as early as today. we came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. oh she's impressed. we're cat

shirleen allicot has some of their strategies. >> i definitely feel like i have an aesthetic to my page. >> reporter: his instagram is filled with celebrities dawning couture. >> people know that it's really about fashion for me. >> reporter: what was a hobby for likes became javon rosario's ticket to insta fame. everything changed for the struggling artist from queens once he started drawing his muse, kim kardashian. >> someone told me that kim was following me and i couldn't believe it. i'm like, no way. why would kim be following me? then one day she reposted my work on instagram. >> reporter: and his followers shot up. jumping from 3,000 to nearly 300,000, setting his career in to motion. kim even hired him to do art for her website. >> when she called me i dropped everything. meet the mogul and her rapper husband, kanye west. their seal of approval spawning even more opportunities. but influencers of social media aren't just of the human variety. >> this is renee charles nyc. >> reporter: he's the sassy, a little bratty, and fashionable french bulldog more than 60,000 people have c

. >> i'm shirleen allicot in for sade baderinwa. call it the battle of brooklyn. facing off at the brooklyn naval yard with bernie sanders and hillary clinton aggressive and pulling no punches. meanwhile the republicans at a black tie gala in manhattan with protesters and arrests outside. beginning with dave evans at the democratic debate in brooklyn. >> i think this debate and tuesday night's vote, they're so important. of nine last primaries, bernie sanders has won eight of them. if he's able to pull off an upset in hillary clinton's adoptive home state, that could possibly change everything. >> if you're both screaming at each other, the viewers won't be able to hear either of you. >> reporter: this feisty debate was interesting from the get-go. bernie sanders hit first. questioning not hillary clinton's qualifications, but her judgment. >> but i do question her judgment. i question her judgment which voted for the war in iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country. >> reporter: clinton has spent the last 10 days blasting sanders for q

eyewitness news anchor shirleen allicot is here with more on what the democratic front runner had to say. >> she's going to breakthrough that glass ceiling it's going to be a hard fought hillary clinton is locked in a tight primary with bernie sanders in wisconsin and doesn't have the same huge edge she had over him here in new york just a few months ago. she told eyewitness news today before a campaign stop in east new york her credentials speak for themselves. >> clinton who is facing a tough fight ahead in the new york primary april 19th took the chance to remind voters of the work she's done while senator. >> we did a lot of great work across the state, you know, here in the city recovering make sure that our first responders, our construction workers, others were given the health care they needed after their exposure on the pile. >> clinton has shown some frustration with her democratic opponent, bernie sanders. the tension evident saturday as the campaigns bickered over scheduling a possible debate before the new york contest. clinton says of the possible gma debate that she'll

. >> and i'm shirleen allicot in for sade baderinwa. we begin with the loss of an icon. prince. he was a multitalented musical genius emerging from minneapolis mesmerizing distinctive sound, a mix of funk, r&b and rock. the purple one burned up the charts with classics like 1999, purple rain, little red corvette, and the lust -- list goes on and on. prince died suddenly at his home in minneapolis today. >> we have team coverage of the death of prince. carolina leid is with fans at the apollo theater in harlem. but first we have our entertainment reporter sandy kenyon with a look back. >> prince was found unresponsive in an elevator at his home near minneapolis this morning. according to the local sheriff there, medical personnel tried to revive the 57-year-old entertainer but he was pronounced dead shortly after 10 a.m. his death is now under investigation. he'd been hospitalized last friday, you may recall, but his death still came as a shock. the mourning now a good indication of how lasting his impact. entered the rock and roll hall of fame a quarter of a century after his fi

. >> i'm diana williams in for shirleen allicot. >>> police in queens are investigating a pair of brutal robberies including one in which the attackers beat the victim with a rock. >> police are looking for three people behind the apparently random attacks. rob nelson has the latest on >> reporter: dave, we are on the block where the second attack took place a few days ago, april 17th. this is a spring of particularly vicious and violent attacks. police are asking for the public's help to find the three suspects. letter it was about 11:30 at night on 77th street when one of the three suspects approached a 32-year-old man from behind. they hit him in the face with a rock and once the victim fell, all three suspects began to kick and punch him in his face and body and eventually took his cell phone and wallet. the victim suffered serious injuries to his face and was taken to jamaica hospital in critical but stable condition. in the first incident, just a day earlier, on the 16th. three suspects attacked a 25- year-old man from behind beating him and taking his cell phone and wallet as well

>>> that's the news for now, i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm bill ritter. thanks for watching. eyewitness news begins tomorrow morning at 6:00. for all of us here, have a great night, a wonderful weekend. be -- live"! >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight, the cast of "captain anthony mackie. sebastian stan. and paul rudd. plus music from white denim. with cleto and the cletones. and now, look -- here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you for watching. thank you for coming. welcome to hollywood. very nice. we're glad to be back. we were away on vacation last week. and you know i'll tell you something, it's a funny thing. an almost 2-year-old child on a flight with a stopover it seems like a good idea. then you get on the plane and all of a sudden it doesn't seem like vacation at all. it seems more like you're being punished for having unprotected sex. i did have a good week. you know what the best part of the vacation was? not having to check donald trump's twitter every hour of the day. [ cheers and applause ] a nice vacation. a lot

i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm david novarro. eyewitness news returns tomorrow morning. for all of us here, have a great night. >>> and now abc's jimmy kimmel live. >> dicky: from hollywood - it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- harrison ford, elizabeth olsen, and music from cam. with cleto and the cletones. here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hi, everybody. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks to all of you for coming. very nice. winter is over. spring is here. can you feel it? do you feel that springiness that a new season brings? it's almost like, hey, it's almost like your heart is bopping around on a pair of skechers shapeups, right? tonight to welcome spring the way it should be welcomed we have a special treat. our first annual baby animal parade. let's bring out the animals! named jolly. jolly rolling around in her own vehicle. hello, jolly. how you doing, jolly? this is donald the duck. hello, donald. yeah, that's right, donald. look at him go. oh, a baby goat. this is a baby goat. her name is tubby. bye, tubby.

i'm shirleen allicot. >> and i'm bill ritter. thanks for watching. jimmy kimmel is next. eyewitness news returns tomorrow morning at 4:30. for all of us here, have a great night and we'll see you tomorrow. >>> dicky: from hollywood it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- the cast of "captain america: civil war," don cheadle, paul bettany, and emily vancamp, plus music from mayer hawthorne, with cleto and the cletones. and now -- oh, no -- here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks for coming. thanks for everything. you've joined us on what is a bittersweet night here in los angeles. after 20 years, kobe bryant tonight played his final game in he suited up for the lakers for the very last time. kobe's officially retired from basketball. the rest of the team retired in november. [ laughter ] now kobe bryant is going to. for some reason all day today and yesterday too, everyone kept asking me if i was going to the game. and i said no. people are like, uh. like i was a loser. i could have gone, i mea

. >> i'm sandra bookman in for shirleen allicot. >>> all new this half hour, a battle over affordable housing in brooklyn. >> vocal protests underway right now over a measure demonstrators say could force thousands of new yorkers out of their homes. >> eyewitness reporter joe torres live in east new york with the story. >> this protest, this rally came to an end just a few minutes ago. we're at the corner of halsey street and knickerbocker. they went back up halsey to where their protest started two blocks away at wyckoff. ended their rally right here. it was all strategic, in front of the council member's office, he represents this area of east new york. the protesters are upset with the mayor's affordable housing plan and specifically the rezoning that's scheduled to take place in this area and they want the council member to vote against that plan. let's show you the video how this rally and protest ended with acts of civil disobedience on the sidewalk here in east new york. it was organized, nothing went out of control. the police knew about it. there are about 100 protesters in t

. >> and i'm shirleen allicot. jimmy kimmel is next. eyewitness news returns tomorrow at 4:30 a.m. with ken rosato and lori stokes. now for all of us here, have a great night. >>> and now abc's "jimmy kimmel live." >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- bill murray -- from "the jungle book," neel sethi -- "this week in unnecessary censorship" -- and music from twenty88 with cleto and the cletones. patience, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hi, everybody. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching. thanks for coming. glad you're with us. we're excited. this is an exciting night. the beautiful and brilliant bill murray is here with us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] we're very lucky to have him here. bill as legend has it, bill murray is harder to find than a woman in l.a. who's not wearing yoga pants at trader joe's. bill's here to promote "the plays mowgli, he's 12 years old, neel sethi is here with us. and music from twenty88 consisting of big sean and janay ike co. it's april fools' day moments from now. i have a fun tr

shirleen allicot here with the latest. >> we're at the home stretch of primary season and cruz and kasich are choosing to lose states. it sounds like a rusky move and a very critical time, and late today some sides of the new partnership is not all that strong but they thunk joining -- they think joining forces is exactly what will stop donald trump. >> reporter: dividing the vote kasich agreeing to bow out of indiana while cruz steps out of new mexico. >> if you collude in the stock market they put you in jail but in politics, because it's a rigged system, because it's a corrupt enterprise, in politics you're allowed to collude. >> reporter: the strategy could block trump from gaining the 1237 delegates necessary to claim the gop nomination. >> i don't see this as any big deal other than the fact that i'm not going to spend resources in indiana. he's not going to spend them in other places. so what? >> i think that's allocation of resources that makes a lot of sense and it's devoted to the principal of beating hillary clinton in november. >> reporter: both trump and hillary clinton are e

. >> i'm shirleen allicot. jimmy kimmel is next. eyewitness news returns tomorrow with ken and lori. night. >>> and now abc's "jimmy kimmel live." >> dicky: from hollywood it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- chris hemsworth, from "broad city" abbi jacobson censorship," and music from anderson paak featuring schoolboy q, with cleto and the cletones -- and now, i've said enough -- here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks for coming. welcome to los angeles. the entertainment capital of the world. you know, we get very caught up in movies and awards shows and all that kind of stuff here in city as excited about a single performance as we were last night for a long time. anyone catch kobe's last game? [ cheers and applause ] yeah. the golden state warriors may have set a record for most wins in a soap but kobe bryant pulled one last rabbit out of his hat, 60 points in his farewell game, the most points scored by any player all season long. lakers beat the

i'm shirleen allicot. >> and i'm bill ritter. the victim, just 14 years old, but developmentally like a 4-year-old. what happened to her at school, simply too grotesque to say in the newscast. >> he was caught in the act by a witness. aj ross talking exclusively with the girl's mother. she is at the bronx criminal courthouse in the melrose section and she's got more. >> this is a little girl who had to face challenge after challenge since birth, and in exclusively this afternoon, she worries this incident may have scarred her for life. now that staff member is set to appear here in bronx criminal court today and what he's vile. >> i cry for her every day. >> reporter: it was a heartbreaking phone call that left this coney island mother helplessness and rage. >> how could you do that? child? >> reporter: on the other end of the phone was an administrator from the christopher school in the bronx, explaining her 14-year-old daughter was allegedly molested by a staff member. the school provides 24-hour care to children with disabilit

and i'm lori stokes in for shirleen allicot. >> and yeah, i'm david novarro. good afternoon we're going begin with more problems for disgraced former speaker sheldon silver. investigators say he gave preferential treatment to two women whom he had extramarital affairs with. >> eyewitness news reporter n.j. burkett is in the newsroom with details for us. n. j.? >> reporter: that's right, the documents were unsealed this morning and we don't know who the women are. but one was a lobbyist and the other was put on the state payroll. prosecutors say what they had in common was a romantic relationship with the corrupt speaker of the new york state assembly. there was yet another side to sheldon silver. what prosecutors describe as another level of corruption. in the life of the former assembly speaker. two extramarital affairs. the women are not identified in any of the court documents. but jane doe number one allegedly lobbied silver quote on a regular basis on behalf of client who had business before and obtained certain clients in part because of her access. jane

. >> and i'm shirleen allicot. diana williams and sade baderinwa are off. all of that stemming from a and it's still causing disruptions in the area right now. >> we're talking 58th street between 6th and 7th avenue. it's all closed as it has been for hours. kemberly richardson is there with the latest. >> witnesses tell me roughly three and a half hours before all of this, there were red flags that there was a problem. take a look at 58th street again between 6th and 7th avenues. it's still a mess. tonight roughly 350 customers and 14 buildings do not have water. as officials with the department of environmental protection try and pinpoint exactly what happened. >> i never go and get nothing while i'm on the job. they stopped, let me go get a coffee real quick. >> reporter: it's a good thing jonathan did. seconds later, this happened in the exact spot where he had been sitting in a cement truck. cell phone video captured the

i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm bill ritter. thanks for watching. jimmy kimmel is next. eyewitness news returns tomorrow morning at 4:30 with ken and lori. have a great night and we'll see you tomorrow. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- benedict cumberbatch. from "marvel's agents of katie couric. and music from deftones. with cleto and the cletones. and now, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks for coming. [ cheers and applause ] it's very kind. i'm glad you could join us on this beautiful night in southern california. this is night two of marvel week here. last night the cast of "captain tonight benedict cumberbatch will present the world premiere for the new movie dr. strange. and from "agents of shield" agent coulson clark gregg is with us. then tomorrow night we have team iron man and chris hemsworth, who plays thor, will be here on thursday. it will be thors-day on thursday. it's quite a week. [ laughter ] it's like a marvel-themed bar mitzvah. and i'm

. >>> hello again, i'm shirleen allicot. >> i'm dave novarro. we begin with a commuter alert that will surely be a headache for drivers. construction on the new tappen zee bridge will force lane closures tonight from westchester county into rockland. >> three of four northbound lanes will close an the construction will last most of eyewitness news reporter marcus solis is live in south nyack with the commuter alert. marcus. >>reporter: shirleen, dave, the new york state thruway authority has been trying to alert the public for a couple of weeks about this now. and there was a chance that this project was going to be postponed because of rain. but the decision was made this morning that the project will go ahead as planned. there's one lane closed today, but this weekend it'll be a different story on the tappen zee bridge. three lanes will be closed for construction. the new york state thruway authority is warning of heavy delays and urging motorists to avoid the bridge all together. the closures are tied to the construction of the new tappen zee

. >> i'm shirleen allicot. diana is off. we'll have those stories beginning with a develop story. a murder at a homeless shelter in midtown manhattan. >> authorities made the discovery. eyewitness news reporter josh einiger is there live for us right now with details. josh? here on 30th street. the nypd crime scene unit has been parked here for a couple of hours inside the building the old bellevue hospital that is now a men's homeless shelter here in the city. we can show you video of the crime scene activity that has been going on over the last couple of hours. a man in his 60s, i'm sorry, a 56-year-old man, a resident here at this homeless shelter that was found dead in a room that he shared with two others at this shelter around 4:00 this afternoon. investigators say that it was a very bloody scene. right now they are going through that scene to search for evidence. the homeless human resource administration, which runs the homeless shelter say that they are very concerned about security and the network of homeless shelters all throughout the five burros. here is what the hra