as a result, he spent his first 30 days at suffolk county in segregation. but now he's on his way to general population where he will have more privileges and time outside his cell. >> today i'm getting out of the hole. i'm going go play with the big kids in the big box now. i'm pretty excited. when you go to a new unit, you don't know who's on that unit or whatever. could be a lot of small time units. so i'll see what's going on. 30 days since i got to put a pair of sneakers on. my new unit. see what's going to happen. >> 2-4, open. >> daniel esdale has spent the last four months living and working in the jail's infirmary hoping good behavior would convince jail officials to overlook his history of fighting and grant him a transfer to general population. >> he actually got to a point where he had a detail in medical where he served food to the other inmates and cleaned the unit, so he came a lot farther than we ever anticipated him coming. >> esdale did finally get a transfer, but definitely not the one he wanted. he's back in the box. >> i'm in segregatio

but when certain bostonians take territorial pride a little too far, they could wind up in the suffolkounty jail. >> there are approximately 180 or so street gangs within boston. just neighborhood street gangs. they're all comprised of a couple of blocks, sometimes a project, sometimes an entire neighborhood, certainly. in almost every case, every group has some sort of serious feud with at least four to five other groups within the city of boston. >> and over the past 10 years, the structure of those gangs has changed and that's had a serious impact on the jail. >> such as it was, there was a bit of a code about what you did and what you didn't do. and that seems to have gone by the wayside, and what that translates into is some of this wild west mentality and sort of shooting for any slight, real or imagined. >> that's just how it is. bank robber robs banks, a nurse helps patients, gang members shoot each other. >> back to the [ bleep ]. >> 22-year-old delshaun bloodworth says he spent much of the last ten years as a member of one of boston's local street gangs. >> i got old there. i

in suffolk county, didn't have much of anything. radar estimates confirmed by the ground reports of 3 to 4 inches of rain, and cluster of flooding reports over north western suffolk and the north fork of long island today. as sandra was saying, things have quieted down mass in waiting for an organized system to move in for the day tomorrow, especially late in the afternoon into tomorrow evening, and during the daytime light hours, maybe a spotty shower or storm, but by 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening, we could be talking about more widespread and stronger activity, and maybe downpours moving into the area. behind that, an even bigger change we will talk about in your full accuweather forecast coming up. sandra? >> jeff, thank you. power has been restored to the customers who lost electricity. con ed said tree branches brought down power lines, and the outage affected 1200 customers in and around pelham gardens. >>> bloodshed on a day that should have been full of happiness in turkey. a bomb goes off at a wedding. 94 people were injured

majority of suffolk county inmates are between 17 and 25 years old.hony peppe is an anomaly. >> the system does not discriminate from young to old or middle age or senior citizens. if you do something bad in boston, you're coming to here or maybe you're going to state prison. >> he's an old-timer. he's a hardened criminal, been in and out of institutions his whole life. he's one of those guys, he doesn't really bother anybody. he does his time, knows how to do time. >> peppe is currently serving a two-year sentence for the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm. >> i call him the don because of the way he walks around and he walks around like he owns the unit or thinks he owns the unit. >> part of peppe's swagger is due in part to his skill at gaming strategy. in jail, the stakes can be for canteen, phone calls, or something more creative. for william allen, losing means sweating. >> you're down 77 pushups so far what would you like to play for? >> another 20. >> okay. your first move. >> we play for pushups on demand. i can c

in suffolk county moving smoothly. going over to our other camera, a look at the grand central parkway, at this point by laguardia. you will see construction. approaching the bqe. long island railroad, jersey transit and metro north all are our close. service changes on the 1, 2, 3 and 5 with overnight track work. george lincoln and holland construction wrapping up. traffic light at the hudson river crossings. the new jersey turnpike the ramp ongoing construction and alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect for today. back over to you michelle, ken. have been a factor in a crash that killed five people and injured several more on the long island expressway. among the victims a former aide to governor cuomo. diana rocco is live at stonybrook medical center with the story. diana? >> reporter: ken as you mentioned, police are still investigating what caused this horrific crash that has now claimed the life of five people. the youngest died late last night .10-year-old christopher pinellas was on his way to

located just outside downtown is a key landmark in that battle, the suffolk county jail. >> the jaila maximum security facility, it holds anyone who is arrested and held on a bail they can't make. that could be someone charged with shoplifting and it is very frequently someone charged with homicide. >> unlike prison where all inmates have been convicted and sentenced, most jail inmates have only been charged with crimes and are innocent until proven guilty. suffolk county has an average daily population of 700 such detainees, along with nearly 2,000 other inmates who have been convicted and are serving short sentences. >> we're the largest sheriff's department in the northeast. so we're moving a lot of people in and out of here and trying to do a lot with them in the relatively short period of time we have them. the people who get that job done every single day, do a remarkable job. >> in some units, a lone officer supervises inmates, like a beat cop on the streets, it allows him to build rapport and actually has been proven to reduce fighting. >> i'll talk to you later. >> but in ja

a suffolk county man is facing murder charges in his own mother's death. police say he drownedler in their backyard pool in the quiet hamlet of cold spring harbor. eyewitness news reporter diana rocco is live with what police are saying about this crime. diana? >> reporter: ken it is a crime that is hard to imagine. it has certainly rattled this quiet long community this morning. police are saying a beloved mother is dead, killed at the hands of her own son. and this morning, 23-year-old dennis cullen jr. is in police custody hours after 63-year-old elizabeth cullen was found on the family property yesterday afternoon. the victim comes, we've learned, from a military father were generals. cullen was intentionally drowned in the backyard pool. when police arrived they found her body in the backyard near the pool house. cullen's son was not home at the time but it does appear he contacted a family member to confess the crime. he returned last night immediately arrested. >> police received a call about a possible intentional drowning and found the deceased, l

very light stuff moving through suffolk county. for most of us it's a dry start, but it may not stay that way. and humidity really jumped up. temperatures still in the mid-70s. up to 76 in central park. winds are light and will shift to the south.

according to their wedding web site, they were set to be suffolk county executive released a statement honoring martella, his communications director. the hundreds of people scott has worked with over the years... governor cuomo said he was up for any challenge, deeply respected for a strong work eitheric, candor and fighting spirit. long island is a better place overnight, an 81-year-old died of his injuries. he was one of four people inside think blue car crushed during the crash. his wife is in critical condition. magdalena doris, cbs 2 news. >> all three cars have been impounded by the county police to determine what condition they were in before the crash. >>> it's now 4:32. let's get you to traffic and weather on the 2s. nice to see you, john. >> welcome back, mary. welcome to you on this monday morning. got very comfortable weather to look forward to today. changes under way courtesy of the shifting wind, more of a northwest wind. it's going to be refreshing tonight. quiet in the city now, except for the party on 10th avenue. that was a lot of fun this morning. clearing the heav

but a lot of suffolk county in a severe drought. it will be interesting to see what happens when that map gets updated. that happens every thursday. every thursday the u.s. drought monitor comes out. showers that developed over the north shore of long island. it was a converge of two sea breezes from the atlantic and long island sound, can converging air rises and that causes your showers and thunderstorms to develop. much bigger area of showers off to our west right now over the ohio valley. that will be moving in tomorrow evening. it's not inconceivable that we get a shower or storm overnight tonight. it would be scattered. during the day tomorrow, maybe and then tomorrow afternoon is when the main chill comes in from the west. could be strong storms with that and heavy downpours. monday, not even getting out of the 70s and low humidity to boot. mostly cloudy tonight. warm and humid. we're down to about 75. it's humid with cloud and sun tomorrow. a spotty thunderstorm. 84. that becomes more widespread from west to east tomorrow ev

we had an inch of rain over suffolk. you can see over the next hour, it's 195 and the east end of long island. things are quieting down in the evening hours. if you're headed out, early thunderstorms. partly cloudy to clear for the rest of us. humid early. we will dry out late. much more comfortable in just a you for now. >> thank you, r., lee. >>> an emotional day for a community in queens as they said good-bye to a young woman murdered while out on a run. they remember katrina as a woman who loved life. as they play tribute, they are desperate for police to track down her killer. diana rocco is in howard beach this evening. diana. family remembered karina in services early today, they described her as a bright light with an energy and presence that would fill a room. they are remembering her life and police are searching for whoever is responsible for her death. >> everyone is going to be thinking of her and, you know, it's -- it's -- it's just sad. >> reporter: the church bells toll as the casket of the 30- friends re

suffolk county police say just after 7 a.m. today, a man walking on pulaski road near broadway discovered a dead body of a man in the woods near the baseball fields. his body covered with significant cuts and slashes. able to say how long he had been there. today the park that's usually filled with children and family was closed for the homicide squad's investigation. >> that man flagged down a passing motorist who called 9-1- 1. the second precinct patrol officers responded. they contacted the homicide squad. they were on the scene. it's a very active scene. >> reporter: the body has been transported to the medical examiner to determine the cause of death, but information to give them a call. from green lawn long island ali bauman cbs2 news. >>> thank you. we're following breaking news in queens tonight. police just arrested the stepmother of a little girl who was found dead yesterday. 9-year-old ashdeep kaur was found neighborhood and bruised in the bathtub of her richmond hill apartment. we're told her stepmother, 55- year-o

. >>> an investigation underway on long island after a grizzly find in suffolk county. a man riding his bike in the woods near express drive north found a human skull yesterday. he called police who say the remains have been there for an extended period and have yet to be positively identified. the suffolk county medical autopsy to determine the cause of death. >>> police have released the name of the second victim in the deadly engine transit bus collision. forty-nine-year-old jesy garcia of newark was one of the passengers taken to university hospital right after the crash friday. she died several hours later. a friend of the family describes her as a hard-working woman who was very devoted to family. >> she was a good mother. but she was a phenomenal grandmother. and anyone that knew her anyone that knew her, knew that she was absolutely crazy about her grandkids. >> one of the two bus drivers involved died at the scene. more than a dozen passengers still recovering. investigators are also still trying to determine what caused the accident. >>> police are urging food

we value their contributions to boston and suffolk county and condemn any violence perpetrated against them because of their my findings today are based solely on the facts that were known to the officers involved on june 2nd, 2015 and massachusetts law. those of you was in law enforcement working in a time of unprecedented scrutiny when it comes to the use of lethal force by police. but whatever might be said of over cities across the country, we in b scrutiny and we meet it with a policy of transparency that few, if any, can match. so those conclude my remarks, if you have any questions of me or special agent shaw, commissioner evans, you may ask them at this time. [ inaudible question] why did this investigation take more than with a year to complete? this is something that we've been striving to do better at, frankly, byron, for a long time. but also a small office in many respects. i entrusted six or seven of my top prosecutors to work on these cases, in addition to their work on this case, they also are dealing with hundreds of other important matters. so we apologize to the fami

>> so, in suffolk county, what we have is cota's in two resource centers. the county executive, steve bellone -- he established the resource centers where you have department of labor, department of social services. cota also has a case manager who's a former cota member, dorothy henderson, own sober home, right? so she meets with them. she does a corporate plan, which is a written plan for your life, 'cause one thing i discovered -- young guys on the corner, even older guys -- they want to think of themselves as businessmen, so all the language of cota is business language. you're a corporation. you have a board of advisers. and that's the language we use. and so you do this 45-day plan. the first day, the first moment, you do that 45-day plan. and then we have these weekly to do. >> yeah, and how you're gonna make that plan work for you. >> exactly. >> one of the things i read that was really interesting -- and, honestly, whether you're cota or not, you should give it some thought -- the people that you listen to, the five people that you listen to, talk

. >>> but, first, a suffolk county woman drowns in a say it was no accident. >> her 23-year-old son is now under arrest. cbs 2's ali bauman has more live from lloyd harbor this morning. ali. >>reporter: well, it's a quiet million dollar neighborhood on long island, but it was just in this back yard that police found one mother dead and now the main suspect her son. take a look. you can see 23-year-old dennis collins charged with second- degree mur after police found his mother dead, believed to be intentionally drowned in her own back yard pool. hill road at 4:00 p.m. yesterday and foup the body of its resident, 63-year-old elizabeth cullen outside. the suffolk county homicide department was called in to investigate and less than two hours later police arrest elizabeth's son, dennis. >> when we were processing the scene, again, we arrived approximately 4:15 p.m. while we were processing the scene, that's when he returned to the scene and we placed him unarrest meal and approximately 5:50 p.m. it was his own indication that he resisted arrest. >>reporter: dennis cullen spent the night i

. >> reporter: suffolk county district attorney says he was inspired by isis and posed an imminent threat to law enforcement and a serious threat to the officers who approached him that day. >> the evidence gathered and analyzed during the course of reasonable doubt that mr. rahim was armed with a large military style knife and posed a threat of death or serious bodily injury to the task force officers. >> reporter: the fatal shooting was justified according to suffolk county district attorney dan conley. he'll not be seeks charges against the boston police officer and fbi agent who shot the man ng self-defense. >> reporter: new surveillance video shows rahim in a cvs. his isis inspired plan to behead someone in new york city changes to a plan to kill law enforcement. the task force approached him as he walked to a bus stop, fearing an imminent attack on police. they saw the 13-inch knife and

the victims, an 81-year-old man and family of three from hempstead, and suffolk county executive steve ballon's communications director scott martela. he reflected on the loss of his colleague. >> he had such a respect for people and he was so committed to helping people and he really did that in his unfortunately too brief life. he touched so many lives. other people are recovering in the hospital tonight including a 3-year-old girl. her mother was killed in the crash. >>> three major fires in two weeks, all of them started by children. new at 5:00, one father is bringing the message to kids all on his own. eyewitness news reporter mallory hoff live in queens village. >> as we know, kids are curious fire can spread. the fdny says this home behind me is a very good example of exactly what can happen when kids play with fire. >> reporter: three devastating august fires could have been prevented according to fire commissioner daniel nigro. >> all caused by children playing with matchesr playing with fire. >> reporter: a dad who's friends with one of the families that lost their home tell

in suffolk, and f 3 in danbury. we have a little rain but it's moving offshore. your day planner does not include an umbrella. you do need the shades. take a look at all the sunshine today. temperatures warming back up to the low to mid-80s. it's breezy especially during the afternoon. we're loving that lower humidity. >> i don't like the humidityut as far as the roads go, things are pretty cool. we have one closure. croaten lake road at route 129 is shut down because of a downed treat. otherwise the roads look good. and as far as the rails go, they're on schedule. as far as your major commuter lines and subways. alternate side parking is in effect. we'll have your update on the 4s. >>> the nypd searching for a investigators say she was hit and killed by a bullet that was not meant for her. "today in new york's" traie strahan has more. >> reporter: a bullet actually pierced her neck. today police say they're still trying to piece together information about the shooting. she was an innocent bystander. all this happened satur n lenox. authorities say odessa sims wa

a suffolk county exemployee was involved in the crash. there were 11 people total traveling in the three cars three adults pronounced dead at the scene. investigators say eight people were taken to area hospitals including a 2-year-old and a 9- year-old. most significantly injured were taken to stony brook trauma center. a car traveling eastbound crossed over the grass divider, went airborne plowing into two cars that were headed westbound. they say there's a dip in the grass median there that may have contributed to this car going airborne. is car that crossed the median may have been traveling at a high rate of speed. >> the two vehicles that are traveling westbound probably didn't see the vehicle even the vehicle was crossing the roadway. there's no opportunity for them to negotiate out of the accident. >> we received five victims from this horrific accident. as a group they sustained significant and severe injuries. >> we always hope for the best. the most optimum care possible. >> reporter: and the head of trauma here telling me he g

live in suffolk county, mallory hall. >>> the search is on for a fire while walking through a park. stephan kim is in harlem. >> reporter: she was loved by so many in harlen. the 61-year-old's husband had just been with her before she was killed and now the loss leaving a gaping hole in his heart as he comes to grips with what happened. a lot of people in the world, the innocent one. >> reporter: basil and odessa sims had been married for years. >> every time i open the door the phone starts to ring. they told me that she get shot. >> reporter: it was around 11:45 when basil kissed odessa to their apartment. little did he know that would be the last time he kissed her. a bullet went right through sims neck killing her. this man says he was sitting near her when it happened. >> i saw him as he was running. came from behind shooting at another fellow. she went down. >> reporter: odessa sims was not just anyone here in harlem. beloved by the community. they say she was like a mother to everyone. >> i'm 50 years old i knew her since i was like 13, 14 years old. cooked for people. fed pe

. >> anchor: the suffolk county district attorney's office released details of the investigation. tim caputo with the breaking details. tim. >> reporter: initially there were a lot of questions from people why 5 police officers armed with hand guns would need to open fire with a man with a knife in his hand. they feared for their safety and the safety of others. after an extensive investigation the suffolk county district attorney said law enforcement officers were justified. >> mr. rahim continued to advance the officers. responded by saying you drop yours. why don't you shoot him. >> reporter: agents tapped his phone and said he was going to new york to kill someone. >> mr. rahim abandoned the plan to travel to new york city and officers here in boston. >> reporter: rahim was carrying a 13 inch knife that morning. and police approached him in a parking lot. >> an eyewitness described this approach as casual rather than confrontational. >> reporter: rahim kept advancing. rahim's family has been briefed about the investigation. the attorney believes police overstepped their author

. >> reporter: suffolk county police are invette gating initial reports the subaru was speeding. the w four people and a honda with three people. >> we believe speed might have been a factor of the vehicle that crossed bound eastbound over. for whatever reason that vehicle lost control, went into the grassy median and went airborne into the westbound lanes. >> reporter: one factor that seems to be off the table is weather. >> that's what makes it more tragic because the driving conditions this morning were superb. it was a sunday morning. this really caught a lot of hour, the suffolk county police department released the names of those who lost their lives in this terrible crash. 26-year-old carmelo pinales, his sister, patricia of westbury, and scott martella, the communication executive for steve bellone and before that he worked for new york governor andrew cuomo. the governor and county executive bellone called him dedicated, hard working, beloved. a tragedy felt by all, especially out here on long island. so many tragic components to this story as the facts begin to roll in.

nassau county as well and western suffolk. the only places not under warning are sullivan and western ulster county, you're under excessive heat warning. off to a good start. temperaturewise, 84 degrees. we have lots of sunshine. now, this is what we can expect for today. temperatures back into the 90s just after noon. feels like 107. scattered storms possible throughout the afternoon. a big story is how bad and how hot it will feel. we'll tell you when we see relief coming up. >>> from extended pool hours to cooling centers, city officials want to you stay safe in this extreme heat. >> greg cergol joining us from bryant park. out before the worst of the heat arrives. everywhere you look, you see people dabbing their brows or with shirts literally sticking to their bodies. more than uncomfortable, this heat can actually be dangerous. that's why the city says it will keep more than 500 cooling centers in all five boroughs open all weekend long. you can call 311 or go to our website, nbcnewyork.com, to if you have air condition,

temperatures are mild in suffolk county. this is western suffolk county here. 69 degrees in north port. near 70 west islip. east setauket. 69 degrees for you as you start your day in sayville. it's still dry but some showers may clip suffolk county. everyone nooeds the umbrellas handy one more day. you can see on the radar been getting hard rain this morning moving towards easton and westin and murray. the storms had a history of producing lightning and heavy downpours. they could still do that. lauren, opening and closings down. it's open, which is consistent with a landing maneuver. >> ntsb officials say they -- after the accident. be applying for federal disaster relief. the flash flooding being called a 1 in 1,000 year event. it's believed about half the businesses destroyed did not have flood insurance. there's no official tally on the cleanup cost. that's because they're trying to assess the damage. two people did die saturday night in the storm. a month's worth of rain came down in just hours. >>> a california driver

the national weather service says it is the first one in suffolk county since 2012. the tornado snapped several trees and left branches strewn across the roads. >> severe thunderstorms across eastern suffolk county produced plenty of alignment. the stunning 15-second video shows about 15 strikes in east hampton. so fast, they're hard to count. lightning is blamed for catching several homes on fire including his neighbor. it was under construction. now it is just charred lumber. thunderstorms left some local roads flooding. a surprise for residents who expect the rain but just not so much all at once. >> that i know there has been a chance because of the heat and the humidity. so we've been waiting for these thunderstorms to happen. i didn't realize it would be such downpour. >> even though they're not used seeing people leaded the warnings no, one was hurt. news4 new york. >> a tornado ripped through north haven. >> and another tornado sent people running for cover in connecticut. an ef-0 tornado with winds up to 70 miles an hour struck north haven and it moved acros

. >> well, suffolk d.a. dan connely announced today that the fatal police shooting of a roslindale terror suspect w i fact justified and that no charges will be filed against the boston police officer and the fbi agent who shot him. here's some video of rahim leaving the cvs store in roslindale. police say the cord was hanging to tie a 13 inch military style knife to his leg. rahim changed his plans and announced he was going to san jose boston and attack police officers. d.a. says on the morning of june 2nd, the police and fbi working together in the joint terrorism task force tried to arrest rahim when he was go about to get on the bus carrying the large knife. they say that rahim not only ignored officers' orders to drop the knife but advanced on the officers with the knife drawn so a boston police officer and fbi agent shot and killed him. >> mr. rahim continued to advance on the officers, refused to drop his weapon and responded by saying "you drop yours" and contract why don't you shoot me." mr. rahim

we're live in the suffolk county courthouse, ali bauman, cbs 2 news. >> ali, thank you. >>> breaking news this noon in the ryan lochte investigation. robbed at gunpoint appear to be false. according to a brazilian police official. cbs 2's meg baker is following the latest developments live in the newsroom. meg. >>reporter: andrea, new details just revealed, a brazilian official investigating the olympians' claims says that the swimmers broke down a bathroom door at a gas station, a security guard did approach them. he confronted them. the official says the guard was armed with a pistol, but he never took that pistol out or ai airport where jack conger and gunnar bentz were pulled off their u.s.-bound plane and briefly detained. after a brazilian judge ordered their passports seized, saying there is little evidence to support the story that four members of the men's swim team, including ryan locte and jimmy feigen were robbed at gunpoint in rio. >> they pulled us over, they pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get claimed thieves posing as police officers pulled guns

the suffolk county executive. tomorrow services for two others. police are looking into whether carmelo was speeding with the car crossing the center grass median and going airborne into cars going the other direction. he was killed with his sister and son. >>> a type a personality unless there is a letter that comes before a. a contribute from called him a cops cop. hundreds of officers saluting as the casket was carried into st. patrick's cathedral in midtown this morning. >> marks the end of anker investigator. we swear in a new police commissioner of a different generation. i will be moving on. timoney passed. >> timoney died at 68 from lunching cancer. he was a member of the nypd for more than 27 years. >>> well, you this. that pledge and that quote from president obama to the people of flood ravaged baton rouge, louisiana. the president toured a battered neighborhood going door to door offering sympathy to residents as they took a break from the vast cleanup. the flooding resulted from a storm that dumped 2 feet of rain in two days and has b

suffolk county several beaches in suffolk county are today closed now. they include gold star battalion, copague harbor. bacteria levels in the water are not safe. there are certain places on the jersey shore that are not safe. ten in ocean county have the parks are closed, both on the sound and on lakes. silver sand state park in milford and wharton brook state park all closed today. public health officials in all three states will continue to test the levels until they come back clean. >>> a new study says that many nail salon workers specifically in new york city are failing to protect themselves and their customers by not wearing required safety gloves. ac salon employees are failing to wear gloves. between october and december of 2015, researchers observed 562 workers at 149 randomly selected salons across the city. nearly 3/4 of the workers who provided services did not wear safety gloves. >>> now to an i-team update. first a series of i-team investigations raised questions about governor cuomo's signature >> now some lawmakers are calling for chan

take a look at the scene earlier today in suffolk county. trucks, cars and even a police squad car sloshing through the streets. the flash floods quickly made the roads hard to drive through. we have team coverage of the weather. jeff has the latest on the forecast. but we begin with stephen kim and an update on power problems in the bronx. stephen. >> reporter: joe, it's been traffic light is still out. police are still here directing traffic. and crews are still down the block working as quickly as they can. this is the intersection of east chester road in the bronx. the businesses all on that side of the street are without power. there is good news, power is slowly coming back in some places. at the peak of this outage, customers were without power. now only 430 customers are without power. we found several homes without electricity since 2:30 this afternoon, including a senior center that we spotted residents sitting outside, saying it was too hot to be indoors. about an hour ago or so we saw crews arrive and many residents got their pow

very light stuff moving through suffolk county. for most of us it's a dry start, but it may not stay that way. and humidity really jumped up. temperatures still in the mid-70s. up to 76 in central park. winds are light and will shift to the south. scattered storms throughout the day. the 85 will feel more like 95. and it gets worse over the next few days. we'll take a look at your ten day coming up. right now lauren scala is here with the commute. >> i'll enjoy that i have better news than weather for once. not too too many problems on the roads. there is an accident route 3 and 17. and then north at grand central parkway, also an accident here. delays are a little worse, but again not too bad and we'll have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. >>> police are on the scene of a shooting in jersey city. three hurt and two may be young students. tracie strahan is at the scene. >> reporter: we're working to confirm reports with the hudson county prosecutor's office that before midnight. i'll show you video of the police activi

suffolk county residents being told swimming is off limits in lake wrong rock. ronkokoma. who will clean it up? jennifer mclogan reports. >> hard to believe this was a resort area at one time >> reporter: he walked the shoreline of lake ronkokoma, long island's largest and trash, beer bottles, needles, nails, even old railroad ties. emotional with memories. >> smelling the hot dogs cooking at the little concessions and what not and people coming in the evening >> reporter: they came by horse and buggy. then trains and model ts, a playground of the wealthy during the roaring 20s and beyond. 3949 pavilions 39 pavilions, gracious hotels >> instead of all these birds, there were people. and every day at the the staff would sweep the whole beach >> reporter: jo clings to her old cabana key and prays for a return to the glory years. how long have you been waiting for action here? >> oh, years. years and years >> reporter: the improvement society is "demanding answers"." who is responsible to clear remains of the historic bookstore that burned or horrible blight that remains on t

sarah smith among dozens of restaurant patrons who received free hepatitis "a" vaccinations from suffolk health services where doctors are standing by. did it make you nervous? >> a little bit. but you know, once you read up on it, you realize it's not that dangerous. >> the health commissioner reports that an assistant bartender helped garnish drinks for hundreds of customers in late july. she later became sick with symptoms for hepatitis "a," and tested positive. >> it's not hepatitis "b" and "c." this is a self-limited acute illness. people recover from it and they are immune from further infections. and it generally is a mild illness. >> reporter: his health team inspected the restaurant and given the "all clear." no other staff got sick and so far no patrons. the disease is spread hand to from getting sick, we have to give the immunoglobulin vaccine within two weeks of the last exposure. >> reporter: notifications are going out for those who were there july 29 and 30. hepatitis "a" vaccines can prevent or lessen the severity of the flu-like symptoms. >> they reached out quickly so t

bomb scene, the front ends torn off car after car on main street in centreport last night but suffolk police say the damage was actually caused by 53-year-old local mark camenzuli driving under the influence. one of the victims was celebrating her 30th birthday inside the restaurant with relatives but now danielle is using a rental car as she tries to get her damaged bmw f >> reporter: he is a divorced father of three who had been living just a block west of the accident scene at a motel. the victim's boyfriend says he kept trying to drive away but couldn't because of major damage to his own vehicle. >> he obviously was drunk and, um, just panicking. trying to escape. hitting another car, trying to pull out, hitting another car. backing up. >> reporter: two people until police arrived even as stunned patrons assessed the damage. >> my mother's car is totaled. her whole entire side front end is shot. >> reporter: in court today, he pleaded not guilty to the dwi charges. despite the violent collisions, amazingly, nobody was hurt. >> you can fix the damage to a car. you can't always fix

what's in the water after chemicals were found in water wells in suffolk county. all of them located near an airport and families with private drinking wells may be at risk. cbs 2's jennifer mclogan reports from westhampton. >> reporter: water worries continue for some families in westhampton and westhampton beach. those who live at homes that rely on private water wells are being warned to drink bottled water and to have their well water supply tested right away. concerned of contamination to please call. >> i called up the water department and said, what's this thing about the water? >> reporter: pete lives in the zone south of airport and east to the quogue border. 100 families are at risk. >> there's not a need for panic. that health advisory is set with a large cushion of protection. >> reporter: the environmental protection agency doing three areas near the air national guard runways discovered low level contamination of the chemicals per floro octane acid and sulfonate, foam used by firefighters. >> it is used to fight certain kinds of fires and that's what

. >> reporter: suffolk county d.a. dan conley says the use of deadly force was justified. however, the family thinks otherwise. >> it is crystal clear to us that he felt he was not free to leave. >> reporter: but the d.a. says police used deadly force only after they ordered rahim to drop a he had bought to kill. >> specifically targeting an individual in new york city for beheading at the instruction of a known isil militant. >> reporter: rahim had been under surveillance for months in a federal investigation. then on june 2nd, 2015, investigators listened to a phone call. >> in which mr. rahim abandoned the plan to travel to new york city and instead planned to attack police >> reporter: investigators were ordered to stop him. shortly after 7:00 he headed for the bus stop and that's when police attempted to detain him. but instead they say he pulled out that knife. they had the duty to stop him before he could act. >> reporter: the family maintains police had no right to arrest rahim. along with their attorney they plan to review more than 700 pages of documents before d

also killed in the accident, 29- year-old scott martella, communications director for the suffolk county executive was a former aide to governor andrew cuomo and engaged to be married next spring. >> it is one of the great, great tragedies. and there are no words for it. >> reporter: his high school sweetheart survived the accident, the three people were christopher pinellas. cbs 2 obtained cell phone video taken inside the car, minutes before the crash, showing a happy family heading to a waterpark to celebrate the boy's birthday. relatives wonder if these construction pumps on the expressway caused carmelo panella to lose control of the car. but, police point out he may have been speeding, as fast as 100 miles an hour. back at the synagogue, friends cannot accept the tragedy that has left such an empty space >> this was a needless death. >> reporter: six deaths, so many more life shattered, and countless people asking why. still here at the hospital recovering from their injuries tonight, that husband and wife who were in the car, both are expected to make a full recovery and for frien

in suffolk county this afternoon drivers tried to streets. meteorologist elise finch is tracking more rain for tomorrow. >> yeah. tomorrow is actually going to be more significant more widespread rain event than what we sauteed. take a look. over the past 4 hours i mean, the bulk -- 24 hours, the bulk of rain focused on long island and where we saw in many locations three to four inches of rain. that rain fanned off into parts of connecticut, the lower hudson valley and into new jersey, but certainly the bull's eye today was long island. a little different story calmed down pretty significantly. but it is off to the west that we're expecting the next batch. so what we have is a cold front and we have a lot of activity out in advance of that front so showers and thunderstorms are going to push across the entire tri- state area as we head into the day tomorrow. as far as tonight is concerned, just some isolated showers and, of course, it stays humid, 74 degrees. i'll have more coming up in your full forecast. >> thank you. >>> a bomb set off du

. >> and vandals go on the attack in suffolk county overnight. we have new video of the damage left behind. accuweather forecast. we're timing out the next round of storms and the extreme heat right around the corner. dog days of summer not over just yet. good morning, everybody, i'm rob nelson. >> i'm lori stokes. thanks for starting your morning with us, it's wednesday, august 10. you are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans. >> we have warm temperatures to start your day today on this wednesday. 77 and 78-degree temperatures up the hudson river valley. and that's over the next few days, actually. that will a couple showers in suffolk county, more today, a popup shower and thunderstorm by noontime, this afternoon, winds are southerly, picking up the moisture. 90-degree weather starts tomorrow. real feels 100 to 105. there's a lot of unauthorized activity going on. >> it's lazy day. read the signs. we have this accident. we have news copter 7 up above and john is showing us some pictures of this. this is the oth

. >> yes, the tornado touched down for suffolk county. we also have a lot of damage in the area because of lightning as 84 degrees. the storm reports that came in were first of the ef-0. north of new suffolk road and east of sunset avenue, west of blossom boulevard. we also had a lightning strike in amganst that set a house on fire. another house struck by lightning as well. a real potent storm that came through. thousands of strikes of lightning. with it tonight things a lot calmer. we have showers and storms coming out of central look how they're weakening as they push in. certainly it's happening up close as well. we get a look at the spotty showers and storms that have come in. those have really lost their strength and through. speaking of steam, it's another hot one tomorrow. an advisory for the boroughs. goes till saturday at 8 p.m. the heat index tomorrow will be in the low to mid 90s, even pushing the upper 90s for toms river but that's just getting started. by friday we'll have triple-digit heat index readings across the area. f

we have a tornado warning in east suffolk county. earlier tonight that definitely produced a lot of rain in a short amount o here's a look at the accuweather 7-day forecast. 90 tomorrow. more humid than today. feeling like 100 on friday. 92 degrees. then on saturday it's a high of 94. still triple-digit feels-like temperatures. sunday extremely steamy and 91. we don't cool it off till the middle of next week. >> what a day of news, night of news in new york city. new york police officers risking their lives and saving the life trump tower in midtown. that's it for us. we'll be back at 11:00. right now, world news with david muir >>> tonight, breaking news. tense moments on the campaign trail. the secret service rushes the stage at a hillary clinton rally. as donald trump tonight stands by his words aimed at, quote, second amendment people, that they could do something. and late today, this image. a man climbing trump tower. police watching. >>> also tonight, the police officer who discharged a live killing a wife, a retired librarian

. >> there is growing frustration among beach goers and business owners in suffolk county because of federally protected birds. >> the county officials are going too far, shutting down beaches to protect the birds. in fact, business owners near smith point county park complain most beaches have been closed most of the sum. >> that has dramatically cut into their reporter kristin thorne. >> reporter: craig burke hart owns smith point bait and tackle in shirley. it has been family owned since 1952 but he is in danger of losing the business. >> i'm going to lose it to this, this fight that i can't win. >> reporter: it's all because of this bird the piping clover. it's an endangered species and has been nesting like every year at the park. the beach is usually closed a month or two every summer for more than two months with no end in sight. it's taking a major toll on nearby businesses which rely on people who go to fish, surf and play at the beach. >> i'm not saying the bird has to be gone. but i don't believe my business has to be gone. my kids shouldn't have to suffer. >> reporter: bu

and cbs 2 jennifer mclogan reporting from suffolk county. >> they half staff at the acreage yacht club on the great south bay and the destination never reached by member boater andrew weiss, 48, an avid outdoorsman and great alternate. >> his 13-foot white and gray dingy washed up on the shores, sunday morning, empty and crumpled. and he had left gillgo beach 5:30 p.m. saturday with a life jacket on board. heading alone to meet friends he never showed. >> helicopters, out in the great south bay. coast guard. >> an urgent maritime alert went out and search began. spanning two days and multiple rescue agencies who pulled his body ashore from copague harbor monday morning. in huntingzon his tearful parents wanted to say thank you to first responders. >> we are in deep sadn shared with his girlfriend, another of weiss's boats visible on list drive way. and neighbors describing him as popular and outgoing. >> very sad. i have known him for a while now. >> i didn't even think about foul play. i figured it was an accident on the water. >> suffolk county police and the coast guard are asking a

suffolk county, a couple sprinkles near bridge port and nor walk. the more thunderstorms that are really heavy, the western part of the state that are off to the north. so we'll be keeping an eye on this soupy air mass and shower or thunderstorm can't be ruled out. this afternoon features that as we put our guidance into those. you see 1:00, here's a shower or two. shore, planning on going to the beach, watch out for a shower or thunderstorm. you may have to come in for a little while and then go back out. a couple up the hudson river valley and maybe a few for the first part of tonight, then we are off to the races with really hot weather. 85 today. warm and humid. a shower or thunderstorm. tonight, warm and humid with a spotty storm, 73. and tomorrow, it's hot and to be a real feel of 105 as we go to friday and saturday and you can't rule out a popup thunderstorm. i know that seven-day looks ominous. all that lightning and rain. you get heat and humidity. some clouds and it's hot and humid and a threat of a popup thunderstorm late in the day. that

uncovers allegations of special treatment and promotion, tied to political donations, at the suffolk county sheriff's department. coming up, hear details from former employees and the yikes. >> elizabeth: two men buried in the wrong plots in rhode island, but only one family want to fix the mistake. 65-year-old lewis chadwick died in october, buried in 87-year-old raymond murray's he was buried in chadwick's plot so now a town wants the judge to decide whether they should be dug up and moved. murray's family is in favor of the move and the chadwicks say it's unnecessary. >> the reporter: the. >> the message to me was, you know, if you want to move up fast and quick, you donate. >> mark: tonight, former employees of sheriff's office are going on the record with fox 25 investigates, describing a pay to play culture at the suff department. those former employees and some current ones contacted investigative reporter eric rasmussen. >> elizabeth: they say there's pressure on officers to donate to sheriff steve tomkins' campaign. >>> they told us donating can give an officer a leg up on p

most recently working as a communications director for suffolk county executive. >> he had such respect and he was so committed to helping in his unfortunately too brief life. >> reporter: he worked for governor andrew cuomo for several years. the governor spoke this morning about his dedication to public service i don't he worked for me for a number of years. this was a real cxfing -l beautiful young man. he loved public service. he loves helping people. >> he was one of five killed in yesterday's horrific accident on the l.i.e. in mannerville. are investigating whether 26-year- old carmelo pinellas was speeding when he lost control of his car and went airborne, striking two cars in the other direction. pinellas, his cousin patricia and his 10-year-old son, christopher were all killed. patricia's 3-year-old daughter was also injured, but is expected to survive. >>> also killed in the crash, 81-year-old edelson. shelby thorough was just released from the hospital. khedezia been childhood sweethearts and were set to mary in april. kristen thorn channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> the hunt is

a live report from suffolk county, coming up. >>> the real life dangers of playing with fire. what kids need to learn about the message today. >>> and he is not done the now infamous robbery tale. >>> let's see what is happening on the fdr drive. moving slowly here down through the 60s. expect delays. is that a marvels start this morning temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s across the entire area. a high of 80 degrees today. we'll repeat it for tomorrow. ? ? ? award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. >>> a weekend of violence across new york city. overnight a deadly shooting in palestinian. >>> just a day after a grandmother was shot and killed by a stray bullet in harlem. the community is now calling for peace. >>> new video of president obama touching down in washington overnight as he gets back to work. responding to critics over his response to the flooding in ken rosato. >> and i'm michelle charles in for lori stokes. >>> it is monday, august 22nd. >> you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. beginning

. >>> and new this half hour, a wild scene in suffolk county. two strike that incidents that into a home on chestnut in farmingville. they left shortly before 3:30:00 a.m. police are also investigating a barricaded situation on parnet court that might be related. the barricaded subjects at the home surrender to police 7:00 this morning. a child was removed from the home as well. >>> to business. new jersey suffering significant spoke damage after two hover boards erupted in in the megausa hover board store in garfield. the batteries on two hover boards were charging on top of a desk when they exploded. firefighters were able to put the fire out quickly. >>> we are looking at a suspect inside a sexual attack. this is 42-year-old asusion of mount carmel church last sunday. she fought him off and got away. if you have any information on where he might be, you are asked to call crime stoppers. >>> a teen is under arrest for a shooting that injured a 14- year-old girl. floyd bruce opened fire on willow bruce on july 16. the bullet hit the young girl