. >>> eyewitness news reporter stacy sager is live in dicks hills with that story. stacy? >> reporter: well, shirleen, we're talking about two people now dead. one of them is the suspect. the other is an innocent driver. the dead have yet to be identified by police. but the obvious question here is was this police pursuit the wrong way here on the northern state parkway justified? will have to answer that question as this investigation continues. it was at 2:40 this morning here on the northern state parkway between exits 41 and 42, the wrong-way collision turned deadly for two one of them heading eastbound, the other heading westbound in the eastbound lanes. in annex tremely brief news conference, suffolk county police took no questions today, but they did say this all began when police stopped a female driver someplace in central islip for suspicion of dwi and having a stolen vehicle. >> the suspect refused to comply. she got into, into the driver's seat of that vehicle and fled from the scene. when fleeing from are the scene, she almost struck the police officer at the

live in patchogue, i'm stacy sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> now to new information in an explosion that killed two people and took down a building. tonight the plot thickens. >> investigators now believe that the blast may not have been an accident and they're looking into one of the victims phone records and the large debt that she had accumulated. eyewitness news investigative reporter jim hoffer is here with details. >> reporter: initially investigators thought this was similar to the gas explosion in the east village seven months ago. now instead of an accidental leak they're focusing on a possible intentional explosion. surveillance video of the brooklyn blast is perhaps the first big clue this wasn't a typical explosion. the video shows a simultaneous blast and fire ball blowing out the second floor of an apartment. compare that to the deadly gas leak explosion in the east village last march where there's a huge blast but initially no fire ball. minutes later a gas-filled building is a burning inferno. in saturday's blast there's the initial fire ball but few

eyewitness news reporter stacey sager is in the town of freeport. stacy? >> reporter: it's a soaking rain and a stiff wind out here right now now. making it kind of raw, but good news is the street flooding, people are so accustomed to, has subsided for now. residence around here know all too well that if the storm picks up later, this block in particular known as south ocean avenue, could live up to its name. >> it's hard. it's hard. we love it here. >> reporter: hard to love a day like this with pounding rain and puddles growing with the tide. freeport residents who have sandy in the back of their minds feeling like they dodged a bullet this time time, nevertheless -- >> nervous. nervous to say the least. we've been through it. it's just a nor'easter. we don't know what it is. we're just hoping that, i think around midnight is high tide again. we've got to get our cars out >> reporter: just east of here at robert moses beach, public officials gathered today, also fully aware things could've been much worse. but fire island remains a very big concern, pos

eyewitness news reporter stacey sager is in downtown brooklyn stacy. >> reporter: yeah, dave, this is really the start of a city wide look at community health. 18 different communities here in brooklyn at the start of this study, and the city's health commissioner along with brooklyn's borough president just got through explaining the details. now they say this is really the first time in nearly a decade that community health has been looked at in this way, so these studies were long overdue. here are the factors that they assessed in communities around the city. now they looked at obesity, childhood, emergency room visits due to asthma, infant mortality, housing, air quality, and the number of supermarkets per square foot. the community that fared the worst was brownsville where life expectancy is 11 years less than it is in the financial district. now that is the best community for health city wide. now the question is really can residents or can the city create change. >> bad health is as contagious as a cold. you could independently be healthy as an individual but if you are livin

stacy. >> thank you. it is such an honor to be here. we're going to be coming to you live throughout the morning. we are live at jones beach, field 5, i'm stacey sager channel 7 eyewitness news. >> stacy and stacy great job, thumbs up there on long island. back here at central park, come on over here beautiful lady. dr. martha sullivan from ajc. so great to see you. >> thank you. >> such an important sponsorship you guys have provided. you're heroes to many people in your field but also in leading the example. what are you looking forward to today with your team and the participants coming out that you know personally. >> this is a wonderful day for hac, this is what we do. we have about 40,000 staff across the city and we are every day helping our neighbors, our families, our friends, and we want to get the word out that early screening and detection makes a difference, that our facilities are available for women to come in and get screened. it makes a very huge difference in survival rate. there's hhc facilities in every neighborhood. we see people regardless of their ability to pay. we have a number one rated health insurance plan metro plus that

stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you stacy. right now as we said, authority shut down the middletown tunnel. let's go to shannon sohn in news copter 7 over the scene. >> reporter: yeah, and you can see the ambulances now moving east along the l.i.e., and they're pretty much taking over that left lane. i think we have pictures that we can show you from a few minutes ago that when it left the medical examiner's office on the east side and went through the queens midtown tunnel, there was a line of blue, officers saluting the ambulance as it passed through. you need to know as you come through this area, they are traveling east on the l.i.e. we are being told that they are going to go to the eastbound grand central and then down the van wyck. at any point if you are trying to get on any of those roadways as this motorcade comes through, they are likely to shut it down. they completely shut down the queens midtown tunnel in both directions and we've been watching them shut down entrance ramps to the l.i.e. so they can get a clear s

. >> it happened last night where stacey sager is right now with the rest of the story. stacy? >> reporter: here's what we know about the suspects in this case. one of them, 22-year-old kaye sean smith was on parole for a gun violation. the other two were picked up this morning right here in the neighborhood. the real question is why did they start shooting and did they know they were shooting at cops? what we now know is that three officers were in this unmarked vehicle for a reason last night. >> two weeks ago, there was a triple homicide in that development. we're still actively investigating that case. >> reporter: it wasn't long before the bullets were flying here on park and north portland in fort greene. police say the lieutenant and two officers in plain clothes came around this block when suddenly one suspect, kayshon smith, carrying this handgun, fired at least seven times. >> returned fire at mr. smith, striking him in the leg. additionally, when that was happening we had another and arrested. we believe four rounds from a 10-millimeter gun, but we do not have it in

you know, now we want to check in with stacey sager who's on long island in jones beach, and stacy, i know it's like -- it's like a big party here, what is it like where you are? >> reporter: it is amazing here sade, you know, in terms of numbers, the jones beach walk is just fantastic. they get about 65,000 walkers here, which is just phenomenal, and these people come out in the cold and they come out with heart, and it's really like being with family. i'm a survivor for 17 years now. i had breast cancer when i was only 30 years old, so i feel right at home in this crowd. joining me right now is another survivor, pam cart ledge. >> hi, how are you? >> you had breast cancer ten years ago right? >> how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling great. >> why do you come out here? >> i come out here because american cancer was here when i needed it. when i was the first on my block to get breast cancer and i had no one to talk to. >> they try to match you up with someone in the same situation, same age, same cancer, there's different types of breast cancer, and you are someone to talk to, someone