the hardest hit are smithtown, brookhaven and setauket. offices will be open at quorum and riverhead at 8:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. they have charging stations for your phone, water and ice. kala rama, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> new video from police this morning of three suspects wanted for a home invasion robbery in the bronx. the men were reported by a lobby surveillance camera in riverdale. they were up to their apartment of the 68-year-old woman. the young health aid answered the door and was locked in a close set. if you identify the men, give police a call. >>> in queens, police want your help in finding this man in connection with an attack on a woman in elmhurst. the suspect put a sharp object to a woman's neck as she tried to get in her home. she ran off when the woman screamed. she was treated for a cut to the neck. >>> as you heard from heather, the new jersey turnpike is open following a fiery and deadly crash. all lanes reopened around 10:00 last night, nearly 12 hours after a dump truck hit an

this broke out in the middle of the knight in smithtown. news 4 spoke with neighbors who jumped into action. >> reporter: thick clouds of smoke and heavy flames shot through the roof and windows of a family's home here just after 2:00 a.m. >> occupants, three in the house, they were extra kated from the house, i think, by a neighbor, and sussex county police department. >> a birthday celebration to your neighbor's home ruined, it's a terrible thing, but, again, right place at the right time. >> reporter: keith williams, a 23-year-old college student who saw the flames, called 911, and ran towards danger to help. >> they said, oh, my mom's in there. i pulled her out. >> in a situation like this, if there were not neighbors around or the police here, it would have been very difficult inside. >> reporter: sussex county police say three people were taken to the hospital, some treated for smoke inhalation, and one person had serious burns. byow morning, crews had already started demolishing that was left of the home. >> an older couple and grand

among the towns hardest hit, smithtown, southold and brookhaven. this morning power crews are teaming up to get the situation resolved. >> eyewitness news reporter kala rama is on the scene. she is live in east setauket. kala? >> reporter: shirleen, as the sun comes up, crews will get a better idea of what they are dealing with here. we have seen them working around the clock, even in the dark trying to add to this pile, cleaning up what they can from the roadways to get round 2 of clean up. let me show you what the problem is. we have seen a lot of downed trees here. we have seen a lot of trees tangled in power lines. some split in half. now, the people in this area are complaining that there is not enough utility crews working on getting the power back. the storm hit around 5:00 yesterday morning with straight line winds up to 80 miles per hour. since then, pse&g long island said they had about 500 to 600 crews on the roads but now they are getting help from con ed crews. about 50 of them rolled in and started work. these customers at last check

developing over eastern parts of dut chess county, fairfield county, this downpour showed intensity near smithtown, not moving too much. there could be a quick downpour in those areas north of the l.i.e. in the next few hours. a couple more showers can through. low-level clouds moving in from the atlantic ocean, whereas this to east. the normal direction that most weather systems move. we're watching this cold front over the great lakes. this will push out this ocean moisture during the day tomorrow. we'll start with a shower or two afternoon. futurecast overnight, could be a shower in spots, a brief shower in spots right through the night. maybe even into tomorrow morning, especially east of new york city. then things clear out as we head into the afternoon. this front will move in during the day on tuesday and with that there could be a shower or thunderstorm at any point. beach and boating weather, waves around four feet, water temperatures in the lower and middle 70s. here is your accuweather forecast, cloudy, brief shower in spots tonight. down to 71. it is a morning shower in the area otherw

suffolk county near smithtown, rolling northeast at 45 miles an hour producing winds up to 60 miles an hour as well as heavy rain and large hail out there at the same time but active morning out there and again there is the one warning you can see right now, not much longer, another 20 minutes or so. long island sound at new york harbor waters also under a special marine warning meaning severe storm is moving through those locations but be aware you have strong storms making their way through. it gets quieter for a little while but more action to the southwest meaning we are not in the clear yet for a while. temperatures are all over the place because those storms come room and knock it enters down quite a bit in a short period so it is officially 69 degrees, it was at 76 but dropped to 69 when the rain came through big time. 77 in bridgeport, check out the dewpoint numbers. when you see temperatures above 70 you know there is moisture in the air, part of the problem out there this morning, a thunderstorm is come in, perfect fuel and punches up those storms and not or two. 88 by midday

a kayaker discovered the 25- pound alligator snapping turtle on sunday in smithtown. yeah. it was found in the river. look at that. the spca says the species is not native to long island h. the reap tile was apparently endangered and is capable of biting off fingers and toes. it is being taken to an ecology center. >> other than that it's adorable. >> warm and fuzzy, cuddle right up to it. >> who would have that as a pet. >>> when we come back, lee goldberg with his nice patients across the country have spoken. they recently rated their care experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid. just seven percent received five stars. among them were four hospitals that are part of cancer treatment centers of america. learn more at cancercenter.com. cancer treatment centers of america. care that never quits. appointments available now. >>> too early to talk about erika and whether or not it will affect our area. >> yes, i mean, i think it's indirect, whether it's moisture up the coast or keeps us hot and humid. concern

between smithtown and dix hills on long island heading toward the l.i.e. don't be surprised if you see rain drops on the windshield there, also north of i-78 parts of warren county, new jersey. still steamy out there tomorrow, not quite as hot, though. the high getting up to 91. tomorrow's record high is 94, set back in 2002, not expecting to reach that. 84 still could be a couple of thunderstorms in the afternoon. the accuweather forecast for tonight maybe a stray thunderstorm early and then just quite warm and sticky with patchy clouds, a low getting down to 78. sunny to partly cloudy, hot, humid tomorrow, a spotty afternoon thunderstorm mainly north and west of the city but can't rule one out anywhere, 91, spotty storm early tomorrow morning and then patchy clouds, warm and humid, we are down to 75. again we are talking later in the week, maybe some bigger thunderstorms thursday night. after that, it's a more significant air mass change if you want some relief from this heat and humidity and next half hour i'm going to follow my own conditioned environm

greenlawn to deer park, it will be in smithtown probably in the next 15 minutes or so. this is moving off to the east-northeast. a pretty decent clip at 30 miles an hour. upper new york, you're not out of it yet, danbury and east. the bigger picture reveals a few more isolated showers. isolated storms quiets down most of the day. a nicer day tomorrow. and then rain and wind likely by the end of the week with cooler temperatures by friday, too. it's cooled off to 69 degrees in hoboken and long island, around 80 degrees. you can see upper 60s where the rain is falling across long island. it hasn't dropped yet but it will once the rain falls. notice this afternoon, most of us will have a spot shower or storm north and west of the city. that's the best chance of that. tomorrow looks like a pretty good day. sun and acloud clouds mixed. as we get towards friday, you're going to seat moisture creeping in from the south and west. that looks like a steadier rain as we work our way into friday. upper 80s to 90 this afternoon. clouds will give way for sunshine. watch for the showe

tonight, 62 in scarsdale and smithtown. comfortable, a north wind at 5 to 10 miles an hour. you'll be in the 50s, 62 in long branch, 40s up around liberty. millbrook at 53, 66 in sag harbor. high temperatures tomorrow. 80s, for the most part, 81 in port gervis. denville, you're in the upper 70s to near 80 for the afternoon. here's your shore cast for tomorrow. looks good no matter where you go. down the seabright and long beach island. temperatures right around 80 degrees. ocean waves, 2 to 3 feet. the sound, about a foot. winds out of the north. then turning around to the southwest. water temperatures still pretty water. very high uv index. we've got straight sunshine for tomorrow. maybe a cloud or two in the morning. a low risk for rip current. it's going to be a nice day. 7-day forecast shows the temperatures creeping up and it's going to feel humid and pretty uncomfortable as we head toward tuesday. maybe one or two storms on tuesday, first day of september. and then still around 90 into the low 90s wednesday and thursday of next week. a little bit of a heat wave coming

so it stops at smithtown due to branches and wires down on the tracks. if that condition is resolved the trains will resume to port jefferson. i'll be back here on eyewitness news at 6:00 for now live in shoreham, i'm meteorologist jeff smith for channel 7 eyewitness news. >> okay thank you jeff. >>> meteorologist lee goldberg is in the weather center with the latest on the storm, lee? >> all right it was a really classic situation. a lot of times in the middle of the night if you see a spike in humidity, it results in some pretty feisty thunderstorms. this was from about 2:00 in the morning until about 7:00 in the morning. but if you look at it even smaller window take it from 4:00 in the morning to 6:00, when the storms just blew up over parts of new york city, and then especially over the north shore of long island, this is right where jeff was. if you look at stobbing it all the way to wading river and look at the lightning display there and the big time winds. the rainfall by doppler radar estimate showing us the path here one to two inches of rain

the towns of smithtown and suffolk county. eyewitness news reporter josh einiger. >> you talk about people getting their power back, folks who live in this neighborhood just want to go down their street and access their homes right now. you can see this is the corner of christian avenue and triangle drive. several trees, maybe a dozen trees are down that have knocked downpour lines making this treacherous and completely impassible. this is another street where several dozen people live in this direction. people just want to be able to get down their street but it looks 24 hours after this storm like it just passed through 10 minutes ago. >> this tree is on another tree that's on a transformer line. >> reporter: the only way for kim and mark brando to get to and from home is to navigate a dangerous path of twisted branches and hopefully dormant power lines. otherwise they're still waiting for power crews to render it all safe. >> we assumed they'd send a lot of people out because it was so or other storms that we've had. >> rep

authorities on long island say a father and son found it this weekend in a stream in smithtown. it wasn't supposed to be there. the creatures are from the south near texas and florida. the suffolk county spca thinks someone illegally kept this as a pet and then abandoned it. >>> well, the cleanup's underway now after a fast-moving fire tore through three homes in new jersey. cell phone video shows flames engulfing a house on east 2nd street in plainfield. quickly spread next door, firefighters say the two-alarm fire erupted around 2:00 this morning. more than 50 firefighters rushed to the scene. the cause is still under investigation. >>> and getting up close and personal with the falls of patterson. after two years of construction, the park opens tomorrow. you'll see a new dog walk there. several of those, as a matter of fact. landscape walking pads and a wall that was rebuilt. improvements cost nearly $2 million with the state and county footing the bill. >>> ten years ago today, hurricane katrina was bearing down on new orleans. when news 4 at 6:00 returns, we'll take you to

. >> reporter: he says they captured the 25-pound turtle in the smithtown stream. a popular spot for kayaks and canoes. >> people don't expect to see it here. >> reporter: that's because it's a non-native species belongs in the deep south. how long it lived here no one knows but they are confident someone had it for a pet and abandoned it. >> stick to your furry animals dogs and cats. >> reporter: and abandoning a pet is illegal but it seems to be happening a lot lately. an alligator recommended the streets of inwood in july. >> over the last four or five years it's probably jumped up 6075% of what we have seen in the past. >> reporter: the new york state department of environmental conservation says there's reasons why. >> there are more people who think these things are neat to have because no one else has them. >> reporter: and people let this go like someone did with this alligator snapping turtle. thankfully he now has a permanent home. its neighbors other exotics like emily here is a asian bearcat. she doesn't make a good pet. and she can't be released into t

restored between smithtown and huntington. improvements. delays and service changes on the 4, 5, 6, dmplt and parkway, accidents. and messes down the henry back to you. >>> a check of weather. kploud cloudy, isolated shower to the north and west. 81, the high. tomorrow, sunny, warm, low humidity. high of 86. thursday, high of 82. >>> coming up on the "today" show, fitness tips to help you get rid of that belly fat. stay tuned. >>> back now at 8:30 on tuesday morning. the fourth day of august, 2015. nice morning here in new york after some storms rolled through overnight. >> and just ahead, we are in for a treat. charlie is here and going to perform his new hit "marvin gay." >> plus, we're used to seeing jason segel making us laugh, he's taking a serious turn in the new role. we're lucky enough to catch up with him. >> also in the house today is matthew mcconaughey's brother. you'll meet him once and never forget hip. him and his buddy butch made real money and now they want to help invest in your next big idea. we have a new show. they'll t

there are your sunrise and sunset times. 79 smithtown and across to babylon same thing, pair of sevens in west hampton, a few high clouds in east hampton. 80 in danbury and 80 in hempstead right now. away from the easterly ocean breeze, 84 degrees in poughkeepsie, 79 newark and 80 in wrightstown. mostly clear during the overnight, a few patchy clouds, start the day mostly sunny tomorrow, a few high clouds connecticut and long island. you see the first area of cloud cover just brushing the twin forks right now, that's one low right here but there's a second one, it's actually right down here off the carolina coast and that's going to follow a similar track, sort of in between the two tomorrow so mostly sunny and with this one, a few patchy clouds, high clouds will probably brush the coast as we go into sunday but the good news is, the way the jet orientation is, it's just shooting these storms off to our north and east by a few hundred miles, makes all the difference, not within its wing span. so the storms are safely south and east tomorrow but 85 degrees. as we go into sunday, few mor

on the l.i.e., 49495, oyster bay, smithtown. that will continue across the area. here is another look from our accutrack radar. you can see the lightning strikes that are there. they decreased. they are across brooklyn and queens this morning heading eastward. we will have that a couple of hours. then we look at a hot day today. the high will get to about 90 later on. real feel 95. a spotty thunderstorm this afternoon. heather is looking at the commute. any flooded roadways? >> nothing just yet. take it easy if you are out driving around. let's go to the maps. we will talk about a couple of incidents. belt parkway, eastbound at irrelevant sten two lanes are cheesed. b.q.e. northbound the ramp to the brooklyn bridge is closed with construction. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect. >>> breaking news this morning in brooklyn where the gun violence continues. five people have been shot outside an apartment building in red hook. it happened on dwight street before 11:00. the victims, three women and two men are between 19 and 22 years old. one of t

port jefferson hourly between smithtown and huntington. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect. ken, over to you. >> heather, that is the news for now. coming up on "good morning america," a secret trick to save big when you shop online. what the web sites won't tell you about. shopping secrets revealed next on gma. 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 co

from smithtown to southold. >> my kids thought it was the end of the world. >> reporter: the town supervisor called pse&g to the carpet late yesterday complaining response was slow of the now he sees thousands of crew members on the job. in its defense pse&g said it had 87,000 out at the storm's heighted. 82% restored this morning. >> we stayed at a local hotel. >> reporter: the mann family of setauket counting their blessings. uprooted trees buried in the deck sticking to their skylights. >> i hope we get our power back soon. i don't know, i have my doubts. >> reporter: above us you clearly see the sheared treetops from the dangerous winds. now power here until tomorrow night with a warning from the health commissioner, do not eat any foods that have thawed in your refrigerator or freezer. live in a powerless section of port jefferson, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. >> thank you. >>> victims should be on the lookout for price gouging. the new york attorney general says it is against the through excessively raise prices for essential goods and services after a major event sorry watch out for

police say they found a 25-pound alligator snapping turtle near a boat landing in smithtown. the reptile is not native to the area and may have been kept as a pet illegally. we see this time and time again. they have the jaw power to bite off your toes. people are being warned to stay far away if you run into one of those creatures. alison: patients at one long island hospital about to learn more about the doctors who treat them. the north shore lij system will be the first hospital to post doctor ratings. lidia curanaj has the story. >> nowadays everything can be rated, from our dining experiences to hotel stays and even our physicians. north shore lij health system is the first hospital in the metropolitan area to begin posting online ratings of its doctors. dr. potters is the chairman of the medical group at lij. >> we've assured that the ratings that are posted under the north shore lij medical group are those of patients who actually saw their physicians. and not only that. each fashion has to have a minimum of 30 ratings. and that means that there's validity to the data

health officials are urging the parks department to suspend activities in sladdenburg county park in smithtown during the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. and three birds have tested positive for the virus in suffolk county. and no humans have tested positive for west nile in suffolk county this year. >>> happening today, family and friends gather in georgia to say goodbye to bobbi kristina brown. family members have closely guarded the details but several reports indicate the funeral will take place in a methodist church in alf retia north of atlanta. the daughter of whitney houston and bobby brown died in hospice care last weekend at the age of 22. six months ago, she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her home. she is expected to be buried in a westfield new jersey hotel next to her mother whitney. >>> family members of late al qaeda leader osama bin laden were killed in a private jet crash and they have not been identified but the bin laden family had a major construction family in saudi arabia and disowned the al qaeda leader prior to the 911 terror attacks. >>> we know who will operat

temperature this hour at 6:00 a.m., 69 degrees, clear skies, northwest wind, 66 around oyster bay to smithtown. 58 and 53 when you get to the eastern end of long island out to the hamptons. 69 montauk. 51 to 61 across much of the area. nice day. sunshine. 78 by noontime. 83 later on this afternoon. >> did you say long island? >> i did. let's go to a webcam. look closely at this webcam. problems. look at this over here. this is a tractor trailer. tractor trailer overturned on the l.i.e. this is the westbound side of the leigh near 49 which is route 110. overturned track completely on its side. police on the scene. barely any lanes getting through. van wyck south at the belt parkway an accident. l.i.e. west at queens boulevard b.q.e. going south or west on the kosciuszko bridge a disabled vehicle. b.q.e. northbound, eastbound, the ramp to the brooklyn bridge is just about reopened. the staten island expressway echt south avenue into victory boulevard, two lanes are closed down. shortly. routes 1 and 9 between ton nilly and liberty avenue, it has been cleared away. alternate side of the street pa

. >> the chief says they captured the turt until the smithtown stream, a popular spot to walk barefoot launching kayaks and canoes. >> it belongs in the deep south. it is nonnative. how long it lived here, no one knows for sure but he is confident that someone had it for a pet and then abandoned it. >> stick to furry animals and abandoning it. >> abandoning a pet is illegal. and it seems to be happening a lot lately. it hard to forget this picture, an alligator roaming the streets of inwood inall. >> over the last four or five years, it is probably jumped up 60, 75% of what we have seen in the past. >> lieutenant tom dedonski with the new york state vent of environmental conservation says there are a few reasons why. >> more and more people think they are unique to have because no one else has them. >> and people are afraid of getting caught so they let them go, with the alligator snapping turtle. and thankfully he has a permanent home. the ecology site. >> on october 10, the suffolk day. if you have an illegal pet you can surrender it at the ecology site. no questions asked. >> never

that let's you know right away we are off to a hot start. 72 smithtown. babylon 74. brookhaven, long island 72 as jersey. 66 poughkeepsie and and dover. a hot day today. temperature quickly by lunchtime gets to 90. then this afternoon, 95. you tack on the humidity, looking at near 100 around the area. we will talk more about that as we look at everybody just going to be hot tomorrow as well. record high is possible. heat wave is in progress. all that to talk about. heather. >> we have a couple of problems out here this morning already. we will show you a picture of into brooklyn. all lanes closed, overturned car. you can see the emergency activity t. brooklyn bridge into brooklyn, all lanes closed with an overturned car. more volume on the fdr drive. fdr northbound heavy through the 70s a collision blocking two lanes. heading to the maps, fdr north in the 70s an accident blocking two lanes. and it's busy on the l.i.e. west into the van wyck with an accident still being cleared. taking a ride over to the northbound new york state thruway, exit 16 in harriman, a stalle

smithtown 74. that's where our temperatures are. monticello the cool spot at 63. winds are out of the south here. that really pumps up the moisture, makes it humid. clashes with this front coming from the west where it's less humid and this air starts to filter in later in the day on wednesday. flash flood watch in effect here. that means flash flooding in that the rain comes down fast and hard, instantly creates flooding. there it is a flood advisory for the western part of new jersey through the day today. at any point we could get flooding. the heaviest rain is really catskills west of the hudson river valley and down south this keeps push into the city about 6:00 and starts to get heavier through the morning commute. futurecast will show that. our computer model is showing heavy rain into the hudson river valley down into the city from rockland, westchester, putnam, monmouth and ocean. 8:00 still heavy. heavy downpours of rain. notice how it intensifies here. upper level support. the sun helps by 10:00. by noontime we start to get a break to the west. the heav

smithtown to huntington and ronkonkoma make all local stops for ronkonkoma and deer park through gamey. a. >>> now over to john -- through jamaica. >> now over to john elliott. >> reporter: variable winds at 6. southwest wind later today, and you can see the light rain out of monmouth and ocean county clearing out. the severe thunderstorm is getting off the tv screen, and it was the wind. the 70-mile an hour wind affiliated with the storm. today is a repeat day. like yesterday, we will be around 90. notice the drop in the temperatures, and also less humidity. today, northwest wind, and it's drier wednesday into thursday, and the change will come with the arrival of a front, and then the area of low pressure on friday, and it looks like it's trending to the north. rain in the forecast, and we could see the soaking rain out of this some models 2-4 inches of rain, and notice, it's friday into star, but that's the next very busy period. good luck with the cleanup today. >> i'm chris wragge. we are back with another local update in 25 minutes. cbs this morning will return after this. [sound

the hardest hit was smithtown and setauket. brookhaven township has gone all out to clear the debris but officials and homeowners say pse&g is slow to respond. >>> this man is busy as a cat burglar. he struck six times in midtown and hell's kitchen. july 25th he was caught on camera trying to sneak into a building at 10th avenue and 57th street. a woman spotted him and he was scared off. he got away with jewelry, electronics and clothing. >> it's sentencing day for the detective involved in the biker attack on the west side highway. he is accused of smashing the rear window. the detective faces up to seven years manage prison for second- degree assault, riot, coercion and criminal mischief. when we come >>> we check the commute with heather. >> a slew of accidents in new jersey. route 80 on to the westbound side near exit 66 there is an accident. another one by 58. then on to 21 northbound by exit 5 another crash being cleared away. i understand there is fire department activity as well. new jersey turnpike truck lanes north ne