it was sandy's. and dna testing confirmed that sandy licked the envelope to seal it. now that sandy claimed the incident was an attack, investigators reviewed hospital medical records and discovered that the attending physician doubted a horse had done that damage. >> they were semi-circular in nature and there were a number of them, and they put lacerations in her head, which she had to staple shut. and he said it just didn't look like any horse kick injury i'd ever seen. >> dr. john hulsing was in the duysts' barn shortly after the incident. he, too, noticed inconsistencies. >> i went in that stall and i couldn't find any blood on the wall where this reportedly happened. it was all outside of the stall in the walk-in area. >> david duyst was confronted with the letter and denied that the incident was anything other than an accident. but he did make a confession. he admitted he was having an affair with his secretary, linda ryan, and that sandy had found out about it. david also gave police a voice mail sandy left on his office phone. he said it proved she was suicid

this is primarily due to hurricane sandy. they also implemented multilayer reviews at the distribution center to identify and prevent improper payments as well as performance rating factors for reducing improper payments were included in performance evaluations of all staff. the improper payment rate continues to exceed the 10% rate. hence, we consider this an ongoing challenge. in closing, we acknowledge the challenges that the office of disaster assistance faces in providing loans to disaster prone -- disaster survivors. we will continue to emphasize these programs as a priority in her office. thank you for the opportunity to participate today. sen. vitter: thank you very much, and next is tee rowe. president rowe: thank you very much, chairman, and i appreciate very much being here. the american sbdc has centers nationwide, so when a disaster hits, we are there. we are there because it is our neighborhood, it is our clients, it is our community. in every case, in particular with katrina, we have learned an awful lot. mary

this is primarily due to hurricane sandy. they also implemented multilayer reviews at the distribution center to identify and prevent improper payments as well as performance rating factors for reducing improper payments were included in performance evaluations of all staff. the improper payment rate continues to exceed the 10% rate. hence, we consider this an ongoing challenge. in closing, we acknowledge the challenges that the office of disaster assistance faces in providing loans to disaster prone -- disaster survivors. emphasizentinue to priority inms as a her office. thank you for the opportunity to participate today. sen. vitter: thank you very much, and next is tee rowe. president rowe: thank you very much, chairman, and i appreciate very much being here. centersican sbdc has nationwide, so when a disaster hits, we are there. we are there because it is our neighborhood, it is our clients, it is our community. in every case, in particular with katrina, we have learned an awful lot. mary wilkinson, who is our past direct

he's now urging sandy victims to reopen their flood claims. so fema can determine if they were indeed underpaid. 144,000 homeowners in new york and new jersey are eligible, but so far, only about 12,000 have applied. >> i really want to move on with my life. >> reporter: linda al per won't reopen her claim in part she says because of a lack of trust in fema that isn't unique in long beach. >> the feeling is i'm going to resubmit and they're going to deny me again and if they do give me something, i'm going to pay for it later. >> reporter: still marie refuses to give up. if only to remind everyone, sandy is far from a memory. >> there are still people suffering. it is not all back to normal. >> reporter: the deadline to apply to reopen your fema claims is september 15th. sandy victims here in long beach say today's fema apology will only mean something if something is actually done to right the wrongs that have kept so many out of their homes for so long. we're in long beach tonight. greg cergol, news 4 new york. >> greg, thank you. >>> federa

jamie: superstorm sandy thrashing the jersey shore in october 2012. three years later salty's ice cream parlor, a 50-year-old icon owned by brick and britta remains out of commission. >> it has been hard for us to look out the window and see little kid who run up the block and get here in real life. >> in the spring at 2013, they are pinning their hopes on 1200 comics that he inherited from his father. and he discovered them in his attic after the storm. >> they don't expect to get nearly enough to fix everything, but they hope for enough to tide them over. jamie: they open online bidding for his comic books on his website. >> we start them at 1 dollar star prices with no reserve. >> they sell over a thousand comic books. and lots of them go for 10 or 20 or $30. some of them go for a lot more. $850. a marvel mistry sells for more than 1200. and batman number three is 2000. and finally, the superman clobbering hitler gets $3000. >> how to brick and trans transt you? >> we were able to update by about three to 4%. >> over all they got $300,000. >> to th

[applause] >> sandy, thank you very, very much. i doubt there is a person here who does not know or know of cokie roberts, our keynote speaker. she comes into our homes via npr and tv. we read her books, we see her in the halls of congress and in the congressional press office. we value her astute observations of congress and the legislative process. she is also known to us because of family ties to congress. her father was elected to congress when she was a cobbler. he served here for 28 years. he was a member of this committee until he was elected house majority leader. and her mother, lindy, was a member of congress for 18 years. in addition, she has been an outstanding member of the board of trustees of the u.s. capital historical society for many years. and we are very grateful for her service on the committee. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome cokie roberts. [applause] ms. roberts: thank you. i think he said it. i can just go home. you have a lot of power, do it. excellent message. but really, it is likely to be with you.

for paul and sandy, we have a gift for them. we appreciate your efforts and thank you for your contribution to this evening. we appreciate the leadership of this committee. thank you all for being here. our program has ended. god bless. enjoy your evening. have one of the people take the centerpieces home with you. thank you. this concludes our program.

the sandy hook channel is 35 feet deep and 800 feet wide. despite using boats and helicopters and side sonar, authorities have found nothing substantial. the vessel usually docks in new jersey but as we said a moment ago, there was no distress call coming from that boat yesterday and no one has been reported missing. later on this monk, morning, we expect teams to arrive at this coast guard station to relaunch the effort to find the missing boat. live in sandy hook, dray clark, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, dray. check at this hour, a shooting inside a military base in southern afghanistan leaving two nato service members dead. two men wearing afghan security forces opened fire on a vehicle. the shooting appears to be the latest so-called insider attack to target foreign troops or contractors in that country. >>> the search is on for three robbery suspects that broke in a brooklyn apartment and used duct tape to tie up the family inside which included a 13-year- old girl. police released this video of take a look. investigators sa

that's the latest live from sandy hook, new jersey. anthony johnson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> we will cheek in with you again shortly. >>> police in queens issued a ticket to the driver who may have caused a casino bus to crash into a building. the driver of a toyota received a summons for making an improper turn yesterday afternoon. the driver turned right from the far left lane cutting in front of the bus in rego park. six people were injured when the bus jumped the curb and slammed into a building. bystanders rushed to help the victims and the driver inside the bus. >> with the pressure, i thought he wouldn't be able to breathe. he was able to open his eyes. when i asked him he did that a few times. >> the bus driver is expected to survive his injuries. it's unclear when people will be allowed back in their homes and offices. >>> a maid in new jersey is accused of creeping out hundreds of pieces of jewelry from a client. she faces burglary and theft charges. police say they recovered five boxes of jewelry. she and her daughter

in sandy hook, new jersey. news 4 new york. >>> after a hopeful start, the dow jones industrial average suffered another day of losses. the dow jumped more than 300 points in early trading but ended the day down more than 200 points. the nasdaq and s&p 500 also ended the day down. china's economic slowdown is effecting markets worldwide. china's main index tumbled more than 7.5%. >>> an update on a report of a boat in distress just north of sandy hook. >>> new york city is in decline and the blame sits squarely on mayor de blasio. that. >>> a new ruling to legal sports betting at the state's casinos. >>> i think you'll like this forecast that i have for the next several days. also, the latest on tropical storm erica coming up next. >>> we continue to follow that breaking news on that air and sea search off the sandy hook peninsula in new jersey. the coast guard and the nypd and fdny harbor boats are looking for a missing 40-foot fishing boat that may have sunk 90 minutes ago. they brought in sonar and radar. th

most recently with sandy, we also continued to learn from the sandy experience. we took a step back after both katrina and after sandy and gus tav. we've now implemented a three-step process to simplify the process to make it easier for the disaster survivor to understand what we're doing. we also take advantage of credit scoring opportunities on how we can approve individuals, homeowners and businesses with higher credit scores and put them through the system faster. we recently updated our standard operating procedure, took a back to basics approach. we always take a look at what works works, what doesn't work, and how we can approve going forward. thank you. >> great. thanks very much mr. rivera. gerilee bennett. >> thank you very much for the invitation to be here today. as mr. rivera said fema is please to be able to participate in this roundtable with our partners the sba, and the red cross, who we've been working very closely with since katrina and throughout the years in support of many disasters such as hurricane sandy hurricane isaac in louisiana, hit b

the search began at beach b in sandy hook. officials were searching the waters off sandy hook. divers were still in the water. he was swimming with his family a few hours earlier when he suddenly went under. beachgoers saw people in the water struggling. they alerted authorities. that lead to an all out search that included officials from multiple agencies combing the water in search of any sign of the missing man. this beach, beach b does not have a life guard. that did not help in the situation. other beaches have a life guard but are typically off duty around 6:00 p.m., 90 minutes before this happened. several off duty lifeguards helped with the search in addition to monmouth won county initials and fdny and nypd as well. again, the search is expected to continue about 90 minutes from now, when the sun is up at 6:00 a.m. but at this point it's looking more like a recovery mission instead of a rescue. reporting live in sandy hook, rob nelson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> rob, thank you. >>> right now problems remain after massive construction crane collapsed in new jersey. s

the mta had to reopen the old station here at south ferry when sandy destroyed the new station here. the storm brought hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to the station alone. the mayor wants the city in general and this neighborhood specifically to be better prepared when the next storm hit. >> i saw with my own eyes what this community went through. >> reporter: part of the devastation sandy inflicted on lower manhattan, the storm flooded the brooklyn battery tunnel and sent water cascading into the south ferry subway station. >> so much of what is important to the cities in lower manhattan. it all has to be protected. >> reporter: the city is taking a step towards doing that. the mayor announced a $100 million commitment in city money to direct terms which are essentially man-made hills and deployable flood walls with the director of the mayor's office of recovery and resiliency explained what those deployable systems might look like. >> and types we are exploring, some are free installed in the ground, you just have to put in place, of all that is temporary in nature. >> r

sandy is married to pamela cole and has four children. he's been described as a leading architect of trade policy that embraces globalization while protecting jobs for american workers. his tenacity and striving for a level playing field in international trade is legendary. and it is memorialized by a universal joint hanging on a plaque in his office. it's the same joint he carried to japan to protest unfair tax bayerie barriers. the cost was much more expensive here than it was there. sandy and his brother carl had the unusual experience of serving together in congress for 32 years. sandy in the house and carl in the senate. at one time both were committee chairman. sandy the chairman of the house ways and means while carl was chairman of the senate armed services committee and not since 1881 held such powerful positions in congress. sandy recently announced he's going to run again for his 18th term next year. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ranking member sandy levin. [ applause ] >> i don't know how you heard about that universal

>> sandy hook school. i think there's somebody shooting in here, in sandy hook school. down the hallway... >> narrator: 11 years later. >> they're still around me. there's still shooting. >> narrator: 154 rounds from a bushmaster semi-automatic rifle. (rapid gunfire) >> newtown 9-1-1. what's the location of your emergency? >> narrator: it was friday morning, december 14. >> sandy hook elementary school. i believe there's shooting at the front-- it's still happening! >> okay. do you see anything or hear anything more? >> narrator: it lasted less than six minutes. >> i keep hearing shooting-- i keep hearing popping. >> narrator: this time it was six- and seven-year-olds. >> please hurry. please hurry! we smell fire from the gunshots. you guys come into my room now. get in here. >> okay, well... >> there's still shooting going on. please. >> i need, i need assistance here immediately. >> ah, i still hear him shooting. >> narrator: 20 children and six adults were shot dead. >> okay, get everyone you can going down there-- all right. let me... >> narrator: outside it was cha

. >> what they're getting for the first time since superstorm sandy. that's coming up. >>> coming up tonight on "nbc nightly news," a worrisome report has surfaced about air traffic controllers, sleep deprivation and how work schedules may be affecting their performance. >>> the toxic spill in colorado affects other states and is bigger than thought. >>> and jeff rossen visits a hackers' convention to see just how vulnerable we are to cyber interference. we'll see you tonight. >>> one year after the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri, governor andrew cuomo took part in a round table discussion today. the focus, police brutality. this comes after an executive order by cuomo directing the attorney general's office to investigate and potentially prosecute cases involving killings by police or the deaths of civilians in police custody. cuomo says justice should be blind, and this special unit will focus on fair results. >> it doesn't matter who you are, who you work for, color of your skin, how much money you have. justice is blind. and

. >> this is with regard to hurricane sandy. when i saw the picture of seaside heights new jersey i saw the rollercoaster in the ocean but they also showed the surrounding rides and the rollercoaster still intact. do you have an explanation as to how that happened? >> that's just where the tide ended up in part of it washed out into the ocean. unfortunately it was in the wrong place at the wrong time. over here i guess. oh there's a second microphone. >> thank you. as you were describing things it was a very vivid imagery so i'm thinking, do you think some of what you have written and explored could transfer into a film version? >> it's funny i've had a number of people have read the book say it reads like a movie. if somebody wanted to produce it i wouldn't be against that. i think it would be a compelling story. the gentleman right there. >> hi. actually taking back -- piggybacking off of the film question i always wanted to ask you mad and the other crew got involved with sharknado? >> sharknado is produced by our sister comp

handles disbursement of sandy recovery money? >> we could go on all day about the many lessons we have learned. that first one is to ensure the grantees are doing real homeowner rehab programs, that homeowners are not left to their own devices to try to manage their recovery. because when we get cdbg disaster funding it is because the scale of the disaster has been so large. it is too much to ask all homeowners to manage their own contractors and dealing with the process. that is one of the most critical points for us. earl: one of the most critical lessons learned is the lesson of preparation. i think katrina, rita, ike, gustav, the oil spill, and other dusters -- disasters have taught us to be prepared, has taught grantees to share information they would not have shared if not for those events before. it has taught us as a department to reach out to those grantees and encourage them to share across state lines, across boundaries. one of the jewels that came out of the golf course recovery -- gulf coast recovery is you have crea

it's beach d in sandy hook. it was closed for the first time in 17 years. it found unsafe levels of bacteria in the water. however, just a few hundred yards down the shore, the beach was packed. the water is safe there, but there's still people worried. >> i'm a little nervous now to go in the water. >> they're very good tests, they know what they're doing. if one beach is closed but the other is open, we go along with the tests. >> officials say the testing found all the other sandy hook beaches are safe. the group, clean ocean action, says the beaches are cleaner but are calling for more frequent and better testing. >>> receives just 5 years old, about to start kindergarten and a little girl has died of meningitis. she complained of an ear infection two years ago but then needed emergency surgery and was in a coma when she died on friday. her mother says she was vaccinated against meningitis, but the vaccine was not effective against the strain that killed her. >>> it is 4:49. yonkers stepping up efforts to combat legionnaires' disease. they're inspecting

superstorm sandy left parts of lower manhattan under water. mayor de blasio announced a plan today to make sure that doesn't happen again. it includes berms and deployable floodwalls to protect against storm surge. the mayor believes the city's investment will lead to further funding for protection from the federal government >>> a presidential visit to new orleans 10 years after hurricane katrina. president obama toured one neighborhood. this saturday will be 10 years since the storm struck the city destroying homes and killing 2,000 people. now townhomes line streets that were under water. >> what you're seeing here is an example of the incredible federal, state, local partnerships that have helped revitalize this community. >> a new $14 billion levee system is also up and running including a massive water pumping station, 200 floodgates and a 3-mile-long floodwall. >>> if one home isn't enough for you how about 4? up next in "living large" we go to an 80-acre connecticut compound with horses where your guests can have their own cottage with

. >> the ship went down in the sandy hook channel. no sign of the crew on board. this morning the search resumes for possible survivors. >> surveillance video captured a salvage attack on a teenager. the victim stabbed repeatedly. police need your help identify the suspect. good morning, i'm ken rosato. >> i'm michelle charlesworth in for lori stokes. >> meteorologist jeff smith is in for bill with the accuweather forecast. >> the beautiful weather that we have been advertising all week, it's here right now. temperatures in the low 70s. we had a dramatic drop in the humidity overnight. 64 now in morristown. down to 54 at sussex and monticello. there goes the front offshore along with the showers and thunderstorms well offshore. dew points, measuring the amount of moisture in the atmosphere have fallen between the pleasant and invigorating category. there you go. here is the day planner. 69 at 8:00 in the morning. sunshine from start to finish. 84 by 4:00 in the afternoon. somebody pleasant and invigorating, we send it to debbie duhaime with a look at the commute.

sandy, do you want to start off? >> sure. again, there has been some really interesting work done over -- on this, better language and better words and defining the way that we -- that we talk to each other about these kinds of issues. but it's limited. and i think coming out of the conference, and we've had a lot of dialogue about this coming out of conference yesterday, i think it is clear that we need to spend some time looking at expanded kinds of language that works for everyone and that is not polarizing in and of itself. we all respect and i'm sure jonathan mann who was just an extraordinary visionary in our field, but understanding that we have to -- our language has to change as time changes. we're not still -- we have to keep moving on and finding common language as more partners come to the table. i think it is something we need to invest in and we really -- and a conversation i would love to have with colleagues going forward. and for us in pepfar and for others. because again if the partnerships are going to work

as soon a sandy happened, i started collaborating with a participatory documentary project called sandy storyline in new york, because we recognize there was a real value to comparing and contrasting these stories and cleaning the lessons learned. because there is an allergy to connecting the dots in this country, to a certain extent. that led to a real exceptionalism, new orleans exceptionalism. this happened over there, those crazy people who live below the sea level, and could never happen to us. then it happens in the heart of global capitalism, essentially, it becomes a different conversation. so a lot the work we have been doing is really looking at how we not keep reinventing the wheel, acting like these are sui generis events that happen, and how are communities being impacted? who is regarding how, and at what pace? we are on two different sides of the same thing. looking in new orleans. we also used to work in the state of louisiana post-katrina. one thing we were able to do is take the recovery lesson here that we have all learned and really bring it to other communities. one

sandy is considered the second costliest storm in history. in parts of manhattan, 14 feet of water. 7 subway lines shut down. today the mayor helped put together go bags with flashlights and batteries and announced the city will spend $100 million on a new effort building berms and temporary flood walls to hold back the east river. >> for people in this community it's vivid what it means that there is still a threat out there. and we don't take it lightly. >> reporter: we don't know what the berms and flood walls will look like but the city is spending the extra hundred million in hopes of attracting more federal money to protect lives and some of the most expensive real estate. >> it could happen again. we are in a red zone. it's a hill that goes down. i am on the top. these other buildings back here get flooded. >> reporter: do you worry about it lapping again? >> yeah. >> reporter: the mayor's announcement comes on the tenth anniversary of katrina and a couple of months from the third anniversary of sandy. >> we learned some painful lesson

they will not be running between brooklyn and manhattan because of sandy-related work. the storm surge damaged the tunnel and crews will be working through the weekend to make much-needed repairs. because of that scheduled work, we want to show you how riders will be impacted. any riders who use the subway stations at high street, fulton street, chambers, canal and spring street will have to plan an alternate route. a and c trains, kerry, will be running on the f lines. at j street in down down brooklyn to west fourth and manhattan. we have a fum ll list to help you plan your travel at nbcnewyork.com. >>> have to get used to it. thank you. >>> an emergency room will be available on long beach, long island for the first time since hurricane sandy. the department of health gave the facility the final approval late wednesday night. it's scheduled to open monday at 9:00 a.m. the city was without an emergency department since 2012 when the medical center flooded during sandy. >>> 4:40 now. the end of an era for late night tv. a star studded goodbye to jon stewart. >>> local

handles disbursement of sandy recovery money? >> we could go on all day about the many lessons we have learned. that first one is to ensure the grantees are doing real homeowner rehab programs, that homeowners are not left to their own devices to try to manage their recovery. because when we get cdbg disaster funding it is because the scale of the disaster has been so large. it is too much to ask all homeowners to manage their own contractors and dealing with the process. that is one of the most critical points for us. earl: one of the most critical lessons learned is the lesson of preparation. i think katrina, rita, ike, gustav, the oil spill, and other dusters -- disasters have taught us to be prepared, has taught grantees to share information they would not have shared if not for those events before. it has taught us as a department to reach out to those grantees and encourage them to share across state lines, across boundaries. one of the jewels that came out of the golf course recovery -- gulf coast recovery is you have crea

this building was destroyed by hurricane sandy. >> it was sad after sandy. when i came down here, there was nothing. the library was gone. >> reporter: lauren relies on her library as a place to get lost in a good book. so this reopening is another step in the reawakening of rockaway beach. >> i'm so happy. i'm so glad. this couldn't have come at a better time. >> reporter: compared to the trailer they spent the last three years operating out of, this is a brand-new beautiful space, this library. when isaac saw the new books, he grabbed every "game of thrones" he could find. >> i have already got three books. >> that's the beauty of having the library open now to you. you can get all this. >> for free. >> reporter: a new adult learning center. this new look on an old familiar friend cost $3.6 million. paid for by donations, city and state money, and insurance money. >> a big step to help our community build back what we lost. >> reporter: in rockaway beach, news 4 new york. >>> at least they escaped the heat inside that high library. >> this should be the la

people say, if sandy hook couldn't deliver change, nothing will. i disagree. what do you say, barbara? >> the -- >> i absolutely agree with that. you think that how could that many children be killed and nothing happen, for it to be ignored. but what we have to do is, there are people out there whose minds we will never change. they are the people that are unimportant in this fight. the people who are important in this fight are the silent majority who feel the way we do that some kind of gun control measures are necessary. >> the ougauthor of that letters the mother of a 6-year-old who died at sandy hook. so, miss hockley, you're clearly still grieving the death of your little boy. back to school, seeing the buses, how were you able to reach so deep inside to write this open letter to the parkers? >> well, first of all, i really want to say thank you for sharing that letter with them because i had no idea how to it because i can see alison's face and transpose that with that of my son and i don't -- i have nightmares about his last moments regularly. i don't

sandy was a big disaster. certainly, if you go through any disaster, it's catastrophic for you, but regular systems worked for that scale of a disaster. >> okay. anybody else? >> well, i just echo what russ said that any disaster is big for you. at an sbdc level the playbook doesn't necessarily change center by center in a localized disaster. where it becomes a problem is when you do get the larger disasters and you need the extended resources for the extended recovery. you know, at sbdc, you can absorb it on a localized level understanding that you're going to have to do that much extra work with the businesses that have been affected in your area as they recover. but when you run into something like sandy where, i think, sba had, what, 600,000 applications or 400,000-plus is what we had in katrina sbdcs are literally working with hundreds of thousands of businesses in helping them with long-term recovery? and at the same time, while a year or two later, everybody thinks, oh, the disaster is over that was the

the vessel was last seen near duke: which is right in the sandy hook channel. no word of any distress call before the boat sank and authorities have not said how many people were on board. no overnight updates from state police or the coast guard. the search is set to resume later on this morning. the sinking of this boat. juliet: reports of subway assault going to dramatically, union square, prospect park station's top the list. ben: teresa priolo -- >> reporter: at 5:30, given the kinds of people here right now, if you come 3 you have people making their way to and from work at this early hour. you have transient making their way and homeless people sleeping on the benches so you get all kinds of people from all walks of life. that is essentials in new york city and union square but the cops are telling us this is an unsafe place. and up 24%, crimes that would cause some sort of serious bodily injury. these are crimes that may use a weapon or dangerous object and the face, something that would be more akin to a punch that breaks a job. they are telling us the

janelle burrell, cbs 2 news. >>> the search will resume for a missing fishing boat off the sandy hook channel. >> coast guard members and police will go back to the water after finding debris last night, ilana gold with more. >> reporter: the coast guard had to call off the search last night, and the crews will be back on the water with the high tech equip. -- equipment. they will be trying to find the missing boat. >> reporter: rescue hospitallers teams were scanning above as crews were in the water. the search began around 4:30 in the afternoon when the captain of another boat reported seeing a vessel sinking. chopper 2 informs possession as the search ramped up. >> there's been a massive search underway, boat, helicopters for the coast guard and nypd aviation, new jersey state police, all searching. >> reporter: before sunset, they found floating oil, and after dark, the divers finished for the night, and they focused on the sonar that can see object in the water that the eye alone cannot. screen his fishing buddies watched -- ryan and his fishing buddies watch the the search go do

how many sandy hooks? how many people -- how many alisons are going to -- is this going to happen to before we stop it? >> and you heard andy parker mention newtown and sandy hook. nicole hockley's son was killed in the sandy hook elementary school shooting. 26 young students and teachers, they were killed. 20 of those killed were children. nicole is here with us now. she's also the managing director of the sandy hook promise. nicole, thank you so much for joining us. i'm sure it really hurts hearing this father, hearing this fiance, this boyfriend say similar things that you have said after the massacre at sandy hook. on a very personal level, he says -- they say they want to fight. they want to be crusaders. on a very personal level you have been fighting this for years now. what does the road ahead look like for them? >> the road ahead is really hard. this is one of the hardest fights going on in america right now, what is reasonable gun legislation and how are we going to deal with mental health and we

. >>> for the first time since hurricane sandy, some long island residents finally have access to round the clock emergency care. the new emergency center in long beach opened just a few hours ago. that community has gone without one for nearly three years now. news 4's andrew siff is live this afternoon. andrew. >> rob, pretty incredible, if you think about it. we're talking about the fall of 2012. the hospital in this community devastated by floodwaters, shut down, never reopened. here we are in the summer of 2015 and finally something long beach residents ave been calling for over and over, an emergency department is now here. >> dizzy. >> reporter: retired long beach resident patricia nearly fainted this morning so she called for an ambulance and felt so relieved. that the new er in her community opened today. what does it mean to you there's now an er right in long beach instead of you having to ride in an ambulance miles away? >> it's the most wonderful thing they do. and everybody in long beach is thrilled with it. >> reporter: for the first time since superstorm sandy, inundated

. >>> it's 4:54, it's been almost three years since superstorm sandy. some victims still have not returned to their homes. some say insurance claims were underpaid. yesterday the man in charge of fema's program met with homeowners. and we have the story from long beach. >> we all as a community deserve more than the way we've been treated. >> reporter: marie pulled no punches as he opened her door to fema and the family just returned to their sandy-damaged home last week. nearly three years after the storm. it took so long, basil says because fema underpaid her storm damage claim. >> we should have got this right the first time and too many instances we did not. >> reporter: he issued an apology to a city where up to 500 sandy families have yet to return home. he's now urging sandy victims to reopen their flood claims so fema can determine if they were indeed underpaid. 144,000 homeowners in new york and new jersey are eligible. but so far, only about 12,000 have applied. >> i really want to move on with my life. >> reporter: linda won't reopen her clai

people say, if sandy hook couldn't deliver change, nothing will. i disagree. what do you say, barbara? >> and -- >> i absolutely agree with that. you think that, how could that many children be killed and nothing happen? for it to be ignored. what we have to do is, there are people out there whose minds we will never change. they are the people that are unimportant in this fight. the people who are important to this fight are the silent majority who feel the way we do, that some kind of gun control measures are necessary. >> even the nra, the majority of nra membership supports reasonable closing of loopholes and making it harder for, you know, mentally disturbed people to get guns. as mark kelly mentioned, and i know this, you know. this is not a sprint. it's a marathon. but i'm in it for the long haul. we're in it for the long haul. >> bonded by unthinkable tragedy, you just heard the parents of alison parker respond to that open letter from nicole, who lost her 6-year-old, dillon, in the sandy hook shooting. next, you'll hear from nicole herself. no matter

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that is latest live from sandy hook this morning. ben and juliet back to you. >> robert moses thanks very much. 6:05 investors on wall street are hoping stocks here follow the trend in asia. >> a rocky star asian stocks up, though, following decision to cut a key interest rate to stabilize financial markets. the dow has gone down now 6 days in a row. points. yesterday the dow lost 2085 points. up for most of the day and then tanked towards the end. but this morning u.s. futures are indicating a higher open. let's hope it sticks this time around. becoming more dangerous to ride the subway. >> number of assaults in the subway system skyrocketed it in the past year. teresa priolo has numbers for us she's in union square. good morning. >> hey, good morning ben and juliet good morning everyone. let me show you around union square a little bit. you can see what we're dealing with at this early hour. all types of people here. you know one of the place where is you'll see people exercising, coming and going from work, of course, you have the

sandy: good question. going back all the way to my janet days with my bond fund -- fund, days with my bond we have long cleared -- steered clear of paper and chemical and auto retailers, largely because of the balance sheet at the top of the cycle. i have a risk that i end up with an overleveraged balance sheet at the top of the cycle. we stay away from those sectors. olivia: where are you looking right now as it stands with sector forces? sandy: we have long look at something doing his own thing, the funeral services, movie theaters, cable sector, health care. historically we have been focused on gaming, although not as much in the last recent years. but generally, sectors that can weather the storm and not be dependent on the leverage to frankly, can manage that leverage because they have predictable cash flow streams and the economy does not interrupt those. olivia: a final question on rate, currently rates have a big impact on your strategy near zero. if that changes, how do you change your strategy? r

there is the buoy check in sandy hook. southeast wind 15 gusting to 18. the front isn't through here so it is kicking between 20 to 30 miles per hour along the coast. through the evening hours, any shower threat is moving east. drier air comes in. talking about comfortable dew points, close to 60. in new york city, that is around 8:00, 9:00. it waiting all night long to get to eastern long island, feeling the comfort tomorrow. speaking of boating, west- northwest winds tomorrow will be light. water temperatures are nice. rip current risk back to low. central day forecast, a cake walk. low to middle 80s with low humidity. no rain threat. maybe until we get to late saturday or sunday a spot storm around as the humidity comes back. nice last weekend of august. we will update that at 6:00. >> thanks, lee. >>> running and cycling could tend to be individual exercises. a new trend brings community and support into the workout. >> we introduce you to two new classes and help people get fit faster. here is lauren glassberg. >> reporter: jump on a bike and you are

she was killed in the sandy hook massacre. community leaders voted to name the school in honor of the 27- year-old in honor of dedication of her students. >>> one of the americans credited with stopping a terror attack in france is back in the u.s. army national guards man alek skarlatos was vacationing with his friends after a in afghanistan when they saw the gunman on the train last friday. they were able to disarm the suspect and detain him until police arrived. today, alek skarlatos shared his heroic tale on good morning america. >> i immediately recognized what was happening and i just thought there is just no way. there is no way this is happening right now. we just acted and i didn't have another conscious thought for the next two minutes. >> boy, pretty amazing. the oregon national guards man says he is touched by the outpouring of support that he has received since the incident. >> well deserved. >>> well, ashley madison ceo stepping down. what is next for the scandal plagued company? plus, an uber driver charged with

a very large staging area here at the parking lot at beach b at the sandy hook national seashore. but the urgent action continues out there on the beach. in fact, as we speak, divers are going back into the water. into the atlantic ocean in the dark to search for this missing swimmer. we will show you video as the search hit its most intense moments. aviation support and the nypd, divers and boats came over from new york city. search rescue apparatus rush here as well. this happened around 7:30 p.m. this evening. officials say a 25-year-old man was swimming off of beach b here at sandy hook with this family when he went under. new numbers came back to the beach and called 911. and at the search that underway in earnest. it has now been several hours. officials say it is unlikely someone would be able to survive for this along with the currents the way they are. this is a beach without a lifeguard. even during the day. other beaches around here that dew have lifeguards, those lifeguards go home at 6:00. so at 7:30 p.m., there was nobody here -- no trained lifeguard here to help in

coast guard searching for a boat that might have sunk near sandy hook. joe biermann live in chopper 2 over the scene. joe. >>> reporter: dana, this all started with a witness reporting to the coast guard that a 40-foot fishing boat sunk just north of sandy hook. this is actually the lower new york bay. there's a massive search under way. boats, helicopters from the coast guard, nypd aviation, new jersey state police, all searching to put divers in the water. there has been some limited debris spotted. but like a life ring and a water cooler, nothing that ties it to a missing boat north of sandy hook. it's all prompted by one telephone call. you can see the amount of emergency equipment that has responded to the lower new york bay to possibly locate a missing boat. live in chopper 2, cbs 2 news. >>> a groundbreaking ruling that changes of future of custody battles in new york. a judge in westchester is allowing a father to use his wife's facebook profile as a weapon. it will prove he says she was out of state while she was supposed to be raising their 4-

sandy kenyon joins us with his review. sandy? >> reporter. >> reporter: if you wondered why they get paid so much money, there are few performers that can hold your attention on screen for a couple of hours. i was reminded of that looking at this poster and sitting through the man from uncle. the two lead actors fall so far short of that goal. henry is by any definition a very handsome man. but that doesn't make him a movie star. stardom requires that special something extra, what the french called [foreign language]. >> i'm not good on this subtly thing. >> reporter: whatever the x factor might be that draws our attention to stars, this british actor doesn't have it and nor does army hammer. >> terrible spy, cowboy. >> reporter: hammer is an american actor playing a russian spy forced to work with a usa agent at the height of the cold war when the two sides were often at odds. >> recently discovered an international criminal organization with an atom bomb. >> we have no choice but to work together on this. >> reporter: wondered

reporting live in sandy hook, darla miles, channel 7 eyewitness news. darla, thank you. >>> the 11th person convicted in a road rage attack on the west side highway is about to learn his fate. robert sims is in court at this hour to be sentenced for his role in the attack on alex committee i don't know leon in 20 -- alexian leon. he stood trial along with wojciech braszczok. braszczok was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday. >>> new information about the shooting following a hip-hop concert at the pnc center in new jersey. karon powell has been charged and arrested. investigators say he was captured in east orange about 30 miles from the concert venue. police say he fired multiple shots monday night. two men, ages 23 and 24 were critically injured. powell is being held on $750,000 bail. >>> pse&g long island is racing to restore power to customers that have been without it since a destructive storm earlier this week. there are about 2300 still without electricity. more than 1900 customers don't have power. service has been restored to 96% of the

it sounds very quickly in the waters off sandy hook. tom anderson had been fishing for three or four years. he had been taking out a commercial fishing dock called the delft -- beauford dock. people remembered him as a good guy. >> he was so nice and so friendly. nothing bothered him. like one of those happy-go-lucky type guys. >> tom's story is similar to a lot of the people in the close-knit fishing community. they are facing hard economic times and it was getting harder to make a living off of fishing. this is something common use to supplement his income after he retired. the people there say it's hard for everyone. >> all these boats we are seeing here should be out fishing. nobody is out fishing. >> it was founded 50 feet of water near sandy hook prayed the army corps of engineers was salvaged about and take it up from water sometime soon so we can get an idea of what causes maritime tragedy. >> how easy it easy is it to call for distress? >> if you were on the radio -- it echoes and tells you where you are. i don't think he had o

just a mile and a half off the sandy hook coast. reports are that a 40-foot fishing trawler sank in about tuesday afternoon. 4:30. without being able to confirm that, authorities don't know how many people may have actually been on board that boat or who owns the boat and where it came from. two young fishermen that we talked to say they actually saw it sink. >> we saw a boat come in from the right side of us come to the left and we saw it going down. wasn't looking too good. >> reporter: now, this is a picture from the monmouth county sheriff's department. they tweeted it yesterday. this is possible debris. it was found in that search field that they were looking at yesterday. again, that is where they're going to continue later this morning. they're using every possible technology they have, michael. sonar, divers. just trying to confirm if a boat lives lost. >> we heard from the two young men who said they saw a boat in distress. they don't even know -- the authorities must not be able to tell if that boat is the one they're look

missin swimmer out of sandy hook. manmouth county sheriff's office confirm a fianerman found the morning. the victim was from red bank. he was 25 years old. he went missing wednesday night b. >>> now we have the latest on the legionnaires' outbreak in the bronx. the death toll standing at 10. the number of people getting sick is fowingp. the cdc is meeting with c y and it health ofess als. the city has ordered all buildings with cooling towers to disinfect them within the next two weeks. new york facing its first lawsuit over the outbreak. brynn gingras. >> reporter: this is the first time cdc officials have been here on the ground getting filled in on this legionnaires' outbreak. within the next half an hour or so we should also be filled in on exactly what they're their conversations entailed. right now, the state is saying it will foot the bill for towers. and a spokesperson for governor cuomo told me heah officials from other areas around the state will be conferencing in on this meeting to learn how to combat any

it sounds very quiuickly in the waters off sandy hook. tom anderson had been fishing for three or four years. he had been taking out a commercial fishing dock called the delft -- beauford dock. people remembered him as a good guy. >> he was so nice and so friendly. nothing bothered him. like one of those happy-go-lucky type guys. >> tom's story is similar to a lot of the people in the close-knit fishing community. they are facing hard economic times and it was getting harder to make a living off of fishing. this is something common use to supplement his income after he retired. the people there say it's hard for everyone. >> all these boats we are seeing here should be out fishing. nobody is out fishing. >> it was founded 50 feet of water near sandy hook prayed the army corps of engineers was salvaged about and take it up from water sometime soon so we can get an idea of what causes maritime tragedy. >> how easy it easy is it to call for distress? >> if you were on the radio -- it echoes and tells you where you are. i don't think he had o

robert: a 25-year-old man went missing in sandy hook in new jersey yesterday. rescued crews suspended their search at 9:00 last night. that search expected to resume later today. juliet: a big night for republicans, final preparations in cleveland. it is the first big debate of the 2016 presidential race, 17 gop hopefuls taking part in two separate debate on fox news. carly fiorina calls the first one happy hour debate. it could be interesting to see what happens. heading in, she will join us in the next hour but we will handle bear right now. juliet: i want to reserve the bronx. robert: top pitching prospect lewis making a major league debut against the red sox, top of the second. a la han grow --alejandro wall for a double, 1-0 red sox. top of a fourth day minorities, leading off against him. their egos, solo home run deep into right field, 2 havens your red sox. he was solid in his debut, no complaints from yankees fans they send this performance, those were the only hits he surrendered when walking none, striking out five. those two striking out seven. this