katherine reilly calls arlene duper a few hours later in teaneck.he's getting up, it's a sunday morning. she's making the bed. she slept late. she was out the night before at a party at the synagogue, and she gets the same call. and she, you know, i think there's a part of us when bad news, we sometimes going to kind of a numbness. and then she hangs up the phone and it gets or. she starts screaming. -- it hits her. i felt i need to capture that as best i could get because so often will we forget, i can we reduce these acts of terrorism to just a story, a sort of bodies and we don't realize that our families at home, in homes all over the place him who take these phone calls and then have to figure out okay, now what do i do? my son or daughter or husband or wife is killed, now what? >> it's from the moment of those phone calls on that this, i call it a political process. it was a quest for some form of justice that became entangled deeply in politics, and your book goes into the in great detail and we don't want, we don't have the time to go over e

katherine riley calls arlene duker a few hours later in teaneck. arlenees getting up.'s a sunday morning. making the bed. she has slept late. she was out the night before at a party at her synagogue, and she gets the same call, and she -- i think there's a part of us that -- at bad news we go into kind of a numbness, and then she hangs up the phone and it hilts here. sarah has been killed and she starts screaming, and that was their first reactions. i felt i needed to really capture that as best i could because so often what we forget, again, we reduce these acts of terrorism to just a number story, story of bodies and we don't realize that there are families at home in homes all over the place, who take these phone calls and then have to figure out, okay, now what do i do? my son or daughter, husband, wife, someone has been killed. now what? >> host: and the reason i wanted to to re-create that it's from the moment of the phone calls on that this dish call it's political process -- a quest for some form of justice. >> guest: sure. >> host: that became entangled deepfu

the following day, timothy left their teaneck new jersey home and never returned. six months later, on may 29th, this year, police discovered his body in the hudson river. timothy had jumped from the george washington bridge. his death was ruled a suicide. >> i spent six months following his disappearance, talking to his friends talking to his family learning who he was, i got intimately connected to the story and understanding who he is. >> david khan is a sophomore at u penn school of business. he covered the story for the student newspaper. >> at what point did it come into focus for you? >> a lot of it came when he was found dead, i actively reconciled that to determining he was going to be found alive, i want to meet this guy, he sounds like a lot of fun, now he died by suicide, what made him make that decision, what is the school doing about it, why does this keep lapping? >> reporter: the mystery of what happened to timothy inspired this 19-year-old to look to his fellow students and his university and ask how did this tragedy occur? >> what do you think it

if you have information about the crash, please call teaneck police. >>> and two people are dead affidavit after a rollover crash in plainfield, new jersey. it happened on east second avenue and emerson a the two men inside the car died at the scene. their names have not yet been released. investigators believe speed was a factor in the crash. >>> spirit airlines is doing safety checks after a scary situation at laguardia forced passengers to evacuate before they had a chance to leave the smoke poured out of a jet yesterday morning as passengers lauderdale. 230 passengers were told to get off the plain as crews worked to figure out what was causing all of that smoke. >> they said everybody, please, leave the plane. we have to evacuate and panic ensued and everybody rushed for the door. they said leave your bag there. people were panicking and running for the door and eventually everybody got out. >> spirit airlines did release a statement saying the smoke came from an auxilliary power unit that provides power to the plane when it is on the ground. once the unit sparked it shut itself off a

. >> michael marin is president in teaneck. although he believes they don't have a right to charge higher, he believes 17,000 might be excessive. bayonne hospital to charge $17,000 for five or six stitches? >> no. no. i'm not an advocate of that at all. >> reporter: of that $17,000 bill, ryan eggerton is now responsible for paying just over $1,000. united health care pays for the rest. a spokeswoman did not address the case specifically, but did say out of network hospitals should be charging rates that are consistent with other facilities in the community rather than using emergencies as an opportunity to bill patients excessive amounts. >> people shouldn't be forced to choose between a medical emergency and a financial one. >> reporter: the parent company of bayonne medical center, carepoint health, says it does not use collection agencies to go after patients, and in about 77% of its business last year, patient-hospital encounters are those that have out of network insurers, but that number is going up. another hospital in j

in the bergen county town of teaneck. police are still looking for the vehicle that hit a man. >>> a dramatic rescue. firefighters risking their lives to save a teenage girl. firefighters in yonkers seeing black smoke pour out of an apartment about 10, and a 16- window. two firefighters crawling past the flames to reach the rear bedroom she was in. >> got back to the bedroom, she was still hanging out of the window at that point. i grabbed her, threw my mask on her and dragged her out of the apartment. brought her down to the lobby, and another unit was down there to give her medical attention. >> he saved her life. he suffered a cut to his hand. inhalation. investigators believe the fire was caused by a lit candle. >>> another developing story tonight. a tornado touching down in sitting down to christmas dinner. the powerful twister sending the united states of many homes spilling out in the street. crews are searching the damaged trapped. >>> a very different weather picture here. we can remember covering christmases pa

>> palisades parkway near teaneck, new jersey. pay attention. >> i wanted to bring you into the consideration but monoon it. s there's definitely pooling so be careful but no snow to speak of, ben. >> 100 so miles north snow. but christina has a ton of accidents across the region. areas be carful. >> wrnght weather advisory. one of new york finalist killed while serving in afghanistan will be remembered at a wake todays. detective joseph lemm's body arrived home last night. has family, beautiful family a very emotional yesterday. >> a little boy too. salaries for american workers expected to climb in 2016 according to a variety of wage and salary statistics from the feds. but we know about statistics. >> we do. spice girls reunion is one in the works, one of the spice girls gave away in an interview -- >> aj i saw an interview with with him recently, had said that they were talking to the spice girls about a reunion leak a joint tour which would be -- >> i would be waiting in line there. but you know what i mean. yeah. that would

he is a councilmember in teaneck. he was a mayor, the first mayor who is muslim, i think in the history -- no? sorry, buddy. really know the guy. i just met them before. no, i'm kidding. he's my body. buddy.s my here is someone i actually know. great guy. i know them both. he is a member of congress in his fourth full term and the -- he iste of indiana work to protect the rights of americans from all walks of life. he is an advocate for everyone. been luckycates have to have congressman carson. ever since the dreadful peter king hearings -- do you guys remember that, five years ago? which painted the muslim american committee with a broad congressman carson has spoken out on the issue. he convened a briefing with members of congress this year with representative judy chu and keith ellison about anti-muslim bigotry and white is important. it's a pleasure to introduce a anti-muslim bigotry and why it is important. it's a pleasure to introduce a great guy. congressman andre carson. [applause] carson: thank you, dean, for

normal average afternoon high temperature is 44. 36 around hanover, hackettstown is 43, teaneck and over towards ten fly 46. we're going to be 20 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year. low 60s today, and it only gets warmer. some record warmth. it's weather then heather every 7 minutes. you look like you're ready to go. >> i'm ready to go home and enjoy the weekend. first i'll do this. let's go over to our mass transit chart. it looks like new jersey transit, metro north, long island railroad doing just fine. subway service is on or close to schedule. we also have an accident on the northbound side near exit 98. that accident being cleared. construction being cleared at the george washington bridge. inbound upper level construction clearing from underneath the apartments but boy do we have a delay getting across the span. alternate side of the street parking rules in effect, and don't forget it is a gridlock alert day today. shirleen over to you. >>> back to our breaking news out of the bronx, a huge fire destroyed a row of homes overnight. two firefighters were also hurt. rob

it happened last night in the bergen county town of teaneck. the man now in the hospital. we do not yet know his condition. police are still looking for the vehicle that hit him. >>> a dramatic rescue in westchester county. firefighters risked their lives to save a teenaged girl trapped in a burning building. firefighters in yonkers jumped into action as black smoke poured out of an apartment yesterday with a 16-year-old girl hanging out the window. two firefighters crawled past the flames to reach the rear bedroom that she was in. >> got back to the bedroom, she was still hanging out of the window at that point. i grabbed her, threw my mask on her, and dragged her out of the apartment past the main body of fire again and brought her down to the lobby and another unit was down there to give her medical attention. >> he got a cut on his hand, both he and the girl were also treated for smoke inhalation. investigators believe the fire with the flames spreading to a sofa and the christmas tree. >>> thousands of catholics attending mass at the tri- state's best known cathedral.