Eyewitness News Extra Time: Pilot dies in helicopter crash, Adams calls for federal help with migrant crisis, COVID-19 cases rise [Video]

On Thursday’s edition of Eyewitness News ‘Extra Time’ we continue to follow the latest developments on the helicopter crash that killed one person in South Brunswick.

Around 3:45 p.m. a two-seater helicopter crashed into Carnegie Lake in New Jersey. Only the pilot was in the aircraft at the time of the crash. The pilot has not been identified at this time.

Eyewitness News Reporter Jim Dolan was live at the scene where investigators continued combing through the wreckage left in the water. The cause of the crash is under investigation by the NTSB.

Here are the other top headlines from Thursday’s show:

Idalia has now moved off the North Carolina coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. Duke Energy says that power has been restored to 95% of its customers, but many are still without power. ABC’s Ike Ejiochi reports on the latest of Idalia’s destructive path.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is calling on the federal government to …