money to run new york city now on the table. $82.2 billion. that's the mayor's proposed budget for the next fiscal year. only four states in the country with bigger budgets. key items, $160 million to close the health and hospitals gap. that's counting on state and federal funding to help out. what if they don't do that? $21 million for snow removal equipment for small streets in new york city. remember the mess in queens in the blizzard? and $70 million for the new nypd precinct. sandra bookman taking a closer look at the proposed budget at city hall. >> mayor de blasio today described the budget as an example of disciplined spending in that it takes in to account the city's current economic situation and also meets the needs of its people. up communities all over the five boroughs. >> reporter: that declaration this afternoon from mayor bill de blasio as he laid out his new executive budget proposal promising the good news is substantial. >> we'll be investing $70 million to build a new police precinct in southeast queens. >> residents in th

new york city comptroller scott stringer vowed to audit the new york city board of elections. we'll have more on the new york primary after headlines. in brooklyn, a judge has sentenced former nypd officer peter liang to serve no jail time for killing unarmed african american father akai gurley. in 2014, nypd officer peter liang shot 28-year-old gurley in the darkened stairwell of a brooklyn housing project. gurley was walking down the stairs with his girlfriend because the elevator was broken. following the shooting, officer liang first texted his union representative before making a radio call for help. as gurley lay dying. liang had faced up to 15 years in prison on second-degree murder charges. but on tuesday, judge danny chun sentenced him to serve only five years probation and 800 hours of community service. judge chun also made the rare decision to reduce officer liang's verdict from manslaughter charges to the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. following the announcement, akai gurley's aunt, hecicicirtencia petersen, spoke out. >> this is not justice. this

can you explain to me why a candidate would ignore in new york city a population of 700,000 in new york city alone. >> well, this is the first i'm hearing of that invitation, but you know senator sanders grow up in a rent controlled apartment. he's been a staunch advocate for affordable housing. hopefully he'll be able to make the time to do that. >> why wouldn't hillary clinton do that. by the way, for the record, we asked both campaigns today has your candidate ever visited a public housing project as a senator or as a presidential candidate. neither campaign answered the question. >> i would be surprised if hillary hadn't visited a public housing project. >> me too. the people involved in public housing here in new york, they don't have any record or memory of senator clinton visiting a public housing project. that's not confirmed, but it's a pretty amazingly thin public record. >> just having been in the position of senator clinton and senator sanders, when you get a call from the news media on the day of and you have a schedule and the primary is five days away. >> they got letters

i'm steve kornacki, at our msnbc headquarters here in new york city. sitting not too far away from two separate stop trump protests one is right in manhattan, in new york city, the other out on long island. we have reporters are in the field ready to cover the latest. all of this, of course, ahead of the new york primary next tuesday, the next big test for the republican fold. good news for trump today as well. prosecutors in florida say that they will not press charges against campaign manager corey lewandowski. remember that lewandowski was arrested last month, charged with simple battery, after allegedly grabbing reporter michelle fields at a campaign event. meantime, nearly 30,000 people turned out for a rally in a park in new york city last night. this was in the democratic race but the reality for bernie sanders, who was the star of that big rally here in new york city, reality for him is very simple at this point. he has five days left now before the new york primary to make up a double digit gap in this state. if he can't do that, his chances o

these are all of the congressional districts that are in new york city or that touch new york city. let me just tell you what we're seeing right now. this right here, this is staten island. the 11th district is staten island, the little bit of brooklyn here. this looked like it was going to be trump country. boy, it really is. two-thirds of the vote is coming in here so far. donald trump is running at 82% on staten island. remember we said if you clear 50%, you get all three. it looks like from the 11th trump's going to get all three. here's where it starts to get interesting. this is manhattan here. you see a bunch of districts that are in or touched manhattan. the key is the vote that's come in from manhattan, it's not by congressional district, we can't yet break it down that way. the vote that's coming in from the borough of manhattan, there's more than one-quarter in. get this, john kasich is leading. 46% to 43% right now in manhattan. we don't know which district exactly. there's a little bit of a lag in terms of getting the actual congressional district vote. remember we show

coming up next, we dive into the weeds of new york city with a retail politician, new york city councilwoman helen rosenthal, when "upclose" continues. welcome aboard my starship. ahoy, mateys! it's full of things i love... like me brave crew... and my fellow space adventures and free of things i don't. like aliens. it's full of stuff we pirates need. no artificial flavors, and it's gluten-free. excelsior! eat up, me hearties! keep it down! i'm exploring the galaxy. >> welcome back to "upclose." we talk a lot about politics on this program. many of the issues are national or statewide or local issues, which in the case of new york city is by definition larger than many states, as we saw in our interview with the schools chancellor just now. this morning we get really local. the retail politics of being a new york city councilwoman -- or the politically correct and gender-neutral term, city council member. city council member helen rosenthal, who represents the 6th district of the council -- that's our abc studios on the upper west side of manhattan. i asked her about embracing the job of a c

new york is so much more than just new york city. "on the record's" griff jenkins is live in buffalo new york getting thedt pulse of the voters there griff? >> that's right, greta. we are at the anchor barn icon here in buffalo. it's the birthplace of buffalo chicken wings. some 52 years ago. in this part of the country is the most conservative anywhere in the state. trump and clinton leading the polls respectively. but we went to our own polling place today to find out how people were voting. take a look. >> today i voted for donald trump. the reason being is i think is he bringing some fresh ideas and i think a step away from the status quo might be just what we need. >> i voted for bernie sanders. i believe he has the right vision. but my vote also was to go against the democratic party because i don't believe we have a vote. >> i voted for hillary clinton. i have been a hillary clinton voter for a number of years. >> the issue that i choose her most for is that her relation toward african-americans. i feel that she has always bee

of new york city. it's been the target for years, plagued with problems such as radioactive water leaks, power failures in the reactor core and more. many have called for its closure. when reached for comment about the 30th anniversary of chernobyl, a spokesman for entergy said the emergency plans added nuclear accidents, aside from being exceeding rare and almost always with no public health impact, as we have seen with fukushima and three mile island, are slowly developing. chernobyl was and still is the world's worst nuclear disaster. the big steel structure being built, if all goes according to plan, it will slide into place late next year over the top of the damaged reactor. steve: so haunting seeing the images from chernobyl. crazy it's been three decades. dari: this is crazy, too. a long island peacock has flown the coop. steve: where it was last started and the treat they're hoping will be used to lure him back. dari: and a local artist who its signature styl steve: exxon loses an honor it's he

high clouds increasing west of new york city. parts of pennsylvania, up state new york. that's going to be arking through the area. they'll be a couple of showers around. here's our future cast overnight tonight, you see by 7:00 in the morning, so after midnight between midnight and 7:00 in the morning, some showers between north and west of new york city. rain showers, i might add because temperatures are going to be above freezing everywhere. during the day tomorrow, just maybe a spotty shower north and west. we could see a break or two of sunshine, and that propel temperatures up to near of 0 south -- near 60 north and west. as their moisture grabbed from the gulf of moisture, they'll be a good amount of rainfall. right around sunrise, heavy rain entering western parts of new jersey and over spreading the entire region into the morning and mid-day hours on tuesday. here's your accu weather forecast. shower in spots towards dawn. a better new york city. 41, it does become breezy out there. a shower in a few places. 58 degrees. the best shot of showers during the day to

clinton will be campaigning tomorrow in new york city. on friday she'll head to buffalo and rochester. she then plans on returning to the city for events on saturday, possibly sunday. today she was campaigning in pennsylvania. ahead of that state's primary on april 26th. >>> her opponent bernie sanders pennsylvania, holding an event tonight in philadelphia. he's got more stops scheduled in that city tomorrow. friday the brooklyn native will travel here to new york city. he'll appear on the view which appears here on channel 7. we invite you to stay with eyewitness news and abc news as new york becomes, for the first time since 1976, relevant to the presidential primary elections. candidates visiting here now like never before, even taking out local political ads for the first time in memory. get it all at abc7ny. >>> new at 11:00, a teenager in stable condition tonight after being stabbed at a subway station in brooklyn. police say the victim was stabbed in the torso at the mezzanine in bed-stuy. it's not clear what the motive was. there

a little leftover new york city. an awesome wind gust map because you can see the front and wind gust over 30 miles-an-hour near the stronger storms. here's what you need to know storms south after the next few hours ask a brief heavy downpours and gusty small hail, and it turns cooler tonight. guys, the threat for new york city points north and west is over the next hour, and we'll skip to long island and new jersey. accu weather in a few minutes. liz and dave. >> it got dark out there. >> thanks, lee. >>> we have more from a local home where they firsthand coming up at 4:30. >>> a scare on campus. a connecticut university taking steps to protect students after an assault was reported in the area. fairfield university urging its students to stick together as it investigates the sexual assault of a student on the way to the library. reporter aj ross live in fairfield with more. >>reporter: david, this is a small university of a couple of thousand students. students received text and e-mails about last night's assault

north and east of new york city. after 2:00 p.m., it's much less wi dy from new york city south. winds down in the 20s to 30 miles per hour. even around 6:00, hampton bays, dealing with winds over 30 miles per hour. it's going to take a little while longer for everything to lm down for you. storm tracker shows one last snow squall there across suffolk county. that could impact driving, but overall, the snow really diminishing a tot over the past few hours. that's one storm pulling away. here's our nextretorm moving in toni t and tomorrow bringing us another round o snow and rain as well. we're talking about snow, we've also got cold i whoaces. windchills in the single digits in the hudson valley after the 70s and 80s the past couple of days. 16 it feels like in white plains. you had to head outside, ou need the layers, hats, gloves and scarves in full effect. we have freeze warnings in effect for portions of the suburbs. take the plants inside. temperatures will drop below freezing in many suburbs. doyksfternoondon future tracker. at least we're rain andw snow-free through the ev

mostly sunny skies north of new york city. central and southern new jersey, highs in the low and middle 60s during the day. for the next couple of hours we'll have to watch out near 195 for showers and storms that will roll through monmouth and ocean and middlesex. by the time we get past 9:00, 9:15, i think things are moving offshore. tomorrow a cool start. definitely a little bit more cloudiness off to the south. south of i-78. while it's perfectly sunny in the hudson valley and connecticut. through the afternoon, cool, more clouds to the south. more sun to the north. definitely a cooler spring day. air quality is moderate. uv index at a 7. pollen count is high. here's your 7-day accuweather forecast. tomorrow is the best bet despite clouds to the south. thursday is looking rainier over parts of new jersey and that could reach in to new york city. you'll need your umbrella especially thursday afternoon. friday there are a few showers around. still kind of a cool cloudy day. saturday is the better half of the weekend. clouds

in and out of traffic in new york city. the illegal activity raising concerns for other drivers. we'll take a closer look at how the nypd plans to combat this problem. probably never heard of. is cuba running out of beer? the relationship between the u.s. and cuba putting a strain on that island nation's watering holes. told you you probably never heard of or thought about that as an issue. those stories and much more tonight on eyewitness news at 11:00. that's it for us for now. thanks for watching. i'm bill ritter. world news tonight with david muir is next. for all of us here, have a great night. see you back here at 11:00. >>> tonight, trump's tirade. donald trump now calling the nomination process rigged and corrupt. sending out this video, somebody burning up their registration. and ivanka trump revealing she did not register as a republican. she cannot vote in the primary.

new york city firefighter michael wilson donated his bone marrow to the new york blood center and his marrow was given to amy to save her life. today they met face to face for the very first time. >> once you see them face to face and realize, whoa, this happened, i actually did help her get through her illness. >> reporter: amy suffered from leukemia. now she is healthy and has a strong bond with firefighter wilson and his wife. >> it's really made us family. we share several. >> reporter: frederick also met the recipient of his bone marrow, a 35-year-old from kentucky. jonathan had a blood disease. firefighter perdue's gift of life is a gift to jonathan and his two young children. >> i know my expression may not be what people may expect, but like i said, it is a deep feel that he does give me the opportunity to see my kids grow up. >> i didn't think about getting any notoriety for it or anything like that. just like being on the job with the fire department. i don't do it to get notoriety. i want to help somebody. >> reporter: there are more members who donate bone marrow and stem

is he new york city. is he as new york as scaffolding, cat calls and stepping in some sun bathed liquid you can't identify. >> all right. so you are predicting a big night -- >> -- it has to be a big night. has to be a blow-out. >> you are a trump supporter, mcguirk. >> tonight is the beginning of his march to victory. he has had a few stumbles. the insufferable ted cruz won a few voterless victories, of course. between now and june 7th, which is california and new jersey, it's going to be like sherman's march to the sea. >> wow. >> anything in the way gets trampled. >> indiana though that's an interesting state. >> still up in the polls, that's right. but he has got the atlantic states next week. indiana following. >> both predicting and again woe believe we will have a call at 9:00 on the republican race. >> i already know. he won. i talked to a psychic on sixth avenue. he told me that trump wins by 35 and then he stole my watch. >> good. democratic side? >> yes. >> hillary or who is going to win. >> hi

rthat's a commitment new york city has made. r we had veterans who said, "i didn't know i p can take advantage of that," or, "who do i call?" r or, "someone called me, but i don't know p where i'm supposed to go." pso, we've got to do a lot better pathway out of shelter, por for folks on the street, the kind of engagement we're doing p through our homestat initiative, very constant, p heavy engagement to convince them to get off the street, rand to give a different kind of life a chance. p chuck: very quickly, melissa did the story some time ago pabout a little girl, little boy who were in the homeless system, p they were trapped in there, and they had just a terrible rtime getting to school, took them hours to p get back and forth to school. p what are you doing to try to improve the lives of children p who are caught in the system? rbill: well, i give melissa credit because, p as a result of those reports, we've looked at the situation p and we realized, even though it was an expense, p it was a worthy expense to invest in sch

in hell's kitchen, lucy yang, >>> a new round of common core testing begins tomorrow in new york city. the tests revamped and while critics remain, some of the controversy apparently is now gone. why? chancellor of the new york city schools telling us about the big changes. >> there are less questions. there's more sitting time. there's no time testing which means that if students want take longer, they can. also we sent teachers to albany and not only from the city but from around the state to help review the test. we don't have anymore mandatory holdover based on kids' results. >> the english and math assessment tests have been shortened. both will be given over the next three days. >>> still no deal in sight to rescue atlantic city from financial ruin as a government shutdown looms. governor christie wants them to take over the finances. he directed his educational commissioner to sue the city to keep it from making a payroll payment on friday. its school district $34 million. atlantic city's government is scheduled to shut down later this week. >>> now to an arrest tonight in the

at 11:00 a new jersey transit train broke down as its made its way into new york city. one passenger in the disabled train sent us this picture as she waited for about 90 minutes a rescue train pushed the broken train in penn about 450 people were on board the morris and essex line train no injuries were reported. >>> from elizabeth new jersey new video of a fire burning through two homes, the fire broke out in an unoccupied house around 4 p.m., the flames spread to a neighboring house but everyone got out safely. firefighters brought the flames under control at 7:00 no one was hurt. front in the bronx injured two people that car smashed into the bronx uptown seafood market at white plains road in wakefield around 4:00 this afternoon. eyewitnesses say two cars hit each other in the intersection and one ended up in the restaurant. >> the lady sealed like she panicked when the car hit her that's probably what happens. they couldn't keep control of the wheel anymore. definitely more people could have been hurt. >> both drivers did remain at the scene, a police investigatio

it is expensive to live in new york city. the reason is so many people want to live here. >> reporter: the assistant managing editor of crains new york says new york would place higher if the authors adjusted their criteria to include convenience. >> it costs 8,000 a year to own a car. you don't have to own a car in new york. you can travel anywhere you want on the subway or bus for about $1,200 a year. that discrepancy is never accounted for in the rankings. our city and are quick to tell you what you can do with your no. 96. if you had to convince somebody on why it should be higher, what would you say? >> the mets are going to win the world series. >> if people were nicer. >> reporter: it may go up higher? >> maybe a little. >> reporter: antwan lewis, fox 5 news. >>> thank you very much. joining us to talk more about this survey is anna miller, "u.s. news & world report". your company did this. you just heard. everybody loves -- we love this city. you just moved here. you love it, too. it's a great place. i was shocked lik

. >> hinojosa: new york city. and in, you would say, what, a traditional chinese family, relatively traditional? >> yeah, with a mom and dad. my parents came over in the 1970s as part of the... you know, the open door act that sort of let more educated immigrants in, and a lot more people from asia. and then they came here, and they had three little babies, bump, bump, bump, that's me, my sister, and my brother. >> hinojosa: by the way, j, f, k. >> it's true. my name is jennifer, my sister's name is frances, and my brother's name is kenneth. and if you take our initials, it spells jfk, which my parents like to say is the airport that they landed at when they came to america. >> hinojosa: when you were growing up, did you have this kind of constant critical perspective of, "what is the food that i'm eating as a chinese firstborn in this country," versus, "what is the food that's being eaten in my upper west side new york city neighborhood," and kind of this... or were you just like, "you know what? i'm a new yorker

i am in denver, colorado with nermeen shaikh in new york. we're on a 100-city tour. we will be at boulder, theater tonight. on friday night, we will be at colorado college in colorado springs. but right now we are turning to michigan. nermeen: we turn now to michigan where the first criminal charges have been filed in the ongoing flint water contamination crisis that exposed nearly 100,000 residents to high levels of lead. two state employees have been charged with misleading the u.s. government about the problem. michigan department of environmental quality employees stephen busch and michael prysby. meanwhile, a flint employee, michael glasgow, is charged with altering water test results. on wednesday, michigan attorney general bill schuette announced the charges, saying there are more to come. >> these employees of the department of environmental quality had a duty. they had a duty to protect the health of families and citizens of flint. they failed. they failed to discharge their duties. they failed. they failed in their responsibilities to protect the health and

there are certain areas outside of new york city where new york city is not viewed particularly well. and ted cruz lobbed that missile at donald trump in that debate. this was about the city. however, it was completely predictable what the reaction was going to be and ted cruz has been here two days seekingment is from people in this city and it's hard to say, well, actually, i was just commenting on the way the politicians have abused new york. most new yorkers didn't hear it that way. he served a softball to donald trump both in that debate and one trump used at his rally last night which is new york suffered enormously september 11th, 2001, and we saw the grit and determination of new york come back from that. you'll hear that over and over. not just from trump but hillary clinton, too. >> and tara, what about the tri-state. represent the tri-state here. there's also a primary in new jersey coming up and connecticut. i imagine that they may look and see what's happening here, too. >> as a proud jersey girl, i think it was a huge mistake by cruz to double down on the new york values

and various new york city liberal politicians. of course he will come up in change of messaging. we remind people what he has done. deirdre: what he has done, as donald trump said, h, listen when i was in business, i.e., not a professional politician i wrote checks to both sides of the aiaisle, that's what bows bh men try to do. >> let's be real. donald trump is trying to reinvent himself principled conserve it to put conservative ideas into action. no one who so conservative will write big check to new york city and new york state politicians in new york city and bankroll the "gang of eight" in washington, d.c. donald trump has been liberal politician, not politician but liberal in new york city. that part of his explanation why he is so far to the left on have it roof issues. he since tried to reinvent himself. he tried to rat generous financial support for democratic politicians all along. we'll hold him in account. while new yorkers arsuffering on high taxes an job killing regulalations put into effect by liberal politicians i

when republicans win mayoral elections in new york city, it's because of staten island. and so our msnbc national correspondent joy reid has been talking to some staten island republicans this morning. what are they telling you? >> all right, good morning, steve. i'm here in mike's unicorn diner in staten island. as you said, this is considered the most republican borough. you're a stat guy. more than 280,000 registered voters in staten island. only 45% democrat, 29% republican. it's not a majority republican part of new york city, but just by way of comparison, brooklyn, queens, manhattan, 70% to 78% democratic. it will be interesting to see if some of the reagan democrats do what the trump kids didn't do and reregistered as republicans to vote. i will tell you despite the statistics, this is definitely trump country. we talked to a few of these voters that are trump voters for and against on the staten island ferry this morning. >> i do have friends of all political persuasions, but i tend to lean towards like-minded friends and family. and from what i understand, dona

trim it printed and sanders to be in new york city. clinton new york city. quintanilla. al sharpton national love work annual convention. sanders in the afternoon will hold a rally at washington square park with celebrity site tim robbins and spike lee. back to you, lauren and nicole. lauren: m. shapiro, thank you. nicole: expectations are low because all the market turmoil in the first quarter. global growth fears and a slump in commodity prices as well. earnings and revenue are expected to fall. to post profit of $1.26 and share and revenue of $23.4 billion. among the things to watch prison break expected to increase reserves for potential energy losses. trading revenue expected to fall 17% from one year ago. lauren: some of the country's biggest banks could see living wills or plans to wind down operations without the help of public money should another crisis occur. those plans rejected by regulators as soon as this week at "the wall street journal" reporting half of the eight u.s. banks considered systemically important are expected to hear plans are flawed. the ban

barges in the mosque of new york city and attacks. tonight he's under arrest, but not before he was chased out by the angry worshipers. one of the men he attacked is still in the hospital. good evening it's 6:00, i'm bill ritter. >> i'm liz cho. the surveillance tape would capture most of the chaos at that mosque in queens. it happened so quickly that folks inside reacted by chasing the attacker. >> the cops say that it is still high taking off his clothes. that's when he was caught. >> reporter: kristin thorne with our lead story tonight. >> reporter: no doubt that this alleged rampage was drug induced, but doesn't constitute a hate crime. those with the jamaica muslim center say that they believe this man did attack them >> a stranger came inside and wanted to show the proof. >> reporter: this video shows what happens with the centers, trying to get him to calm down. >> suddenly he started punching, kicking our brothers. >> reporter: the 26-year-old was hay on drugs during the incident. several of the members ended up in the hospita

leadership in new york city. when you look at the reign under governor pataki, under mayor giuliani, under mayor bloomberg, even though he left us halfway along the way, you could see a much better city, a safer city, a city where charter schools flourish across new york, and a place where people felt safe. look around, new yorkers. do you feel safe with the number of slashings and murders? >> but for one reason or another, that hasn't translated into more latinos casting ballots on a republican side. >> the reason for that is -- and i'm telling you, joe, you want to talk a little later, but it's the national message. we have to make sure that latinos feel welcomed in our party, and right now we have a problem that we have to address. >> all right. we'll talk strategy, then, when we come back about how you go about doing that. and if you have a republican front-runner that's getting in the way of that -- >> i think -- >> well, hold tight, because we're gonna go to commercial break, and we'll hit that when we come

rainfall is actually underperformed in new york city. we had heavier amounts over parts of long island, connecticut, and the hudson valley. there are your sunrise and and about .15 of an inch of rainfall. wind advisory there in to the early evening hours. numbers approaching 60 in lakehurst and wrightstown yet it's in the 40s in monticello right now. there's your gusty breezes coming out of the south. you can see where the wind shift, where the arrows change color. front right here as that swings through in the overnight. that will shut off. we can have a scattered shower, even rumble of thunder, first part of the night. by midnight, mostly cloudy skies. by morning, clouds, little sun. stray shower first part of the day in to the early afternoon. then i think clouds will be prevalent through the middle of the day will try to break during the afternoon. the mets game may start out mostly cloudy, then go partly cloudy. they play and it's dry. heavy rain moving away from the east end. away from the hudson valley. couple sprinkles maybe from

understand the strength of new york city, and what's working in new york city, they haven't done their home work. >> your relationship with the new york police department by all accounts has changed since that moment and that had to be painful personally to you. >> look i differentiate unions from the rank and file of all the now almost 36,000 cops by the way. i'm pretty proud we're adding 2,000 more cops on the beat by the end of this year, but there's 36,000 people who protect us every day. they all have a range of viewpoints a lot of them live in the city. people with different backgrounds they have different viewpoints, unions, never surprises me when they take a particular view towards their boss. but in the end, yes, a lot has happened since then and i think one thing that's become clear to a lot of people any nypd is we're investing in them. new vests to protect them. better training and new technology like shot spotter so we can help keep communities and officers safe. think there's a universal understanding of, we want -- one of the best things i did for the men and women of t

you're about 60 degrees in new york city. that's 4:00. i think high temperature will be reached probably around 2:00 or 3:00 so tack on 2 degrees to any of these readings here but with an east wind coming in off the water look at the jersey shore. lower 50s. 50 on the nose for west hampton. now we get to sunday morning. it's 50 degrees in new york city on sunday morning. not all that crazy, right? it stays 50 all day. you may go up 1 degree by 3 p.m. now you factor in the wind off damp day on sunday. vortex satellite and radar, yup, there are the showers out there. nothing severe. they are not going to be severe. they are going to push out. we watch this for sunday. showers out there into the nighttime hours. for saturday morning sun and cloud mix. more sunshine east. clouds west, clouds north. then into your day on sunday we talk about wet weather arriving at 9 a.m. you will have rain chances throughout the day. then we bring up the extended forecast. >> chance of rain monday through friday. >> what's the bright side? >> saturday. >> the

. >> while new york city is the safest large city in america, and crime has been going down, one of the reasons that crime is going down is because the police do make a lot of arrests, and everybody who gets arrested and who doesn't get bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple, and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island, a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of laguardia airport. connected to the mainland by a narrow two-lane bridge, the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> -- is coming through here if they come from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they are tired. they're dirty. they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> get between 80, 90 admission a day. around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> what size do you

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york city, half the vote in this entire state comes out of new york city, more than 60% if you take rhode island and west chester. in the polls, bernie sanders stands to get blown out in new york city right now. are we seeing a tighter margin coming out of new york city than we're expecting. >> does bernie know what we're expecting? >> yes. we've seen polls that show him upstate bigger geographically a lot smaller population-wise is where he's doing well. if he gets this into single digits in new york city, it could be interesting. a lot of people look back a couple years ago, andrew cuomo was in the primary and geographically his opponent did well. what saved co-me was new york city and lost a lot of the rest of the state. >> do you know which numbers come in first? does new york report fairly quickly? >> i'm not sure of the numbers. we will have exit polls at 5:00 and exit polls are skewed towards new york city. when you get the democratic numbers early, be careful. >> thank you very much. >> see you all night tonight. >> in your tie. >> that's right. >> up next, you have been man

>> kristen welker for us in new york city today. kristen, thanks. >>> as the democrats duke it out for the delegates here in new york, hillary clinton has been reminding people that when you look at the votes, she actually has more in the race than either party. news analysis by nbc finds that in fact even though she has 2.3 million votes on senator sanders, she has a job ahead of her. it's not as easy as touting you may have more than 2 million votes over your competitor. >> there's maps, there's debates. i put out an article today looking at this analysis. here's how hillary clinton put it. she likes to point out, even as you and welker were pointing out, she says she's leading in the votes no matter who you compare her to. take a listen. >> donald trump hates it whenever i say it, but i've gotten more votes than anybody running for president. [ cheers and applause ] >> i've gotten 9 million votes, a million more than he's gotten. [ cheers and applause ] >> and 2.5 million more than senator sanders. >> we all know it is a chase fo

as we keep pointing out and it is so crucial to say, new york city does not define new york state. when we take a look at upstate new york, for example, we find a much different situation on the ground. kate snow is joining us now live from the village of flag creek, where she's been speaking with voters who are struggling to find decent paying jobs. kate, what have they been telling you? what is the biggest hurdle at this point? >> reporter: hey, erica. thank you for mentioning upstate new york. this is the real new york state. this is the mill pond that feeds into an apple cider mill. it is a great place. they're doing very well. they're prosperous, but as you say, part of the story up here is when you drive around and you get out of this little town and drive out, you see a lot of poverty. you see a lot of rundown homes and rundown businesses. there's been a lot of flight of population out of this area in central new york. the poverty rate here is about 19% in this county. that's way above the national average. last night we drove over to another county. the poverty rate there i

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york city and every other place in the country. >> back in new york city. trump devoted more attention than ever to hillary clinton. >> if hillary clinton were a man i don't think she would get 5% of the vote. the only thing she has got going is the woman's card. the beautiful thing is women don't like her. okay. >> reporter: on the democratic side, hillary clinton all but assured she'll become her party's nominee. winning four out of five states on tuesday. but senator bernie sanders insist he's will stay in the race. eight years ago, clinton was the democrat who didn't want to drop out. nancy cordes shows the us how the 2016 primary race compares to 2008. >> whether you support senator sanders or you support me, there is much more that unites us than divides us. >> reporter: hillary clinton is familiar with the long process of uniting a fractured party. in 2008, her fight against then senator barack obama also got a bit nasty. >> well, i am here. he's not. >> i can't tell who i am running against some times. >> shame on you, barack obama. >> by the middle

since 2008, there have been five crane collapses in new york city, many of them deadly. a total of ten people have been killed. tonight we're getting the behind the scenes look at how the city makes sure they are safe. >> reporter: the building department said they did do those spot check inspections today but they didn't have to issue any violations. department as they inspected a crane. we wanted to know what they look for during an inspection and how that prevents accidents. >> i'm here to check your license. >> reporter: the i-team got an exclusive look at what a crane inspection entails. we're looking at a crawler crane at hudson yards. >> we check to make sure they stop in the certain position they're supposed to stop. we check the rotation of his cab. we check the counter weights. >> reporter: mayor de blasio called for all cranes to be inspected after the deadly crane collapse in tribeca. there are 29 of them operating city wide but nearly 400 of them registered. generally cranes are supposed to be inspected annually. any time a crane is recon figured or figure t

he's not going to imagine being new york city -- going to a man sion in new york city, but is put on one of these hell ships. he somehow escapes and get back to american lines. it is suspected that smith may have provided money for his escape. jack fights through the war in all the key battles. guilford courthouse in the south. the marylanders, their story comes full circle. there are several regiments that eventually face cornwallis. the man that nearly annihilated them at brooklyn and yorktown. stuart fights through the south and is close friends with william washington. he is paroled and meets his wife in charleston. the war is over, and it stuart and washington are tending william washington's wedding. it's here that jack is riding towards the wedding and falls off his horse and breaks his neck. the man that only lives once is killed in a tragic accident. last person i will briefly talk about -- the book is not only about rich men that are white, it is an integrated unit. freewere african-americans. one of my great characters is private thomas carty, a forgotten hero of the revol

new york city was at the forefront. we see changes in the civil rights movement, in women's changing. it's a really -- ernie: a lot of people don't realize that. you mentioned civil rights and talked about women. elaborate on that. >> there was a national guard unit, primarily african-americans. it was re-formed as the 369th regimen. a lot of guys from harlem. the army was segregated. this is an all black unit. and they ended up serving under france officers. they were heroic. a lot of them won the awards, great reputation. when they come home, there's a wonderful parade for them. ernie: great parade for them. >> they ended up being the leaders of the civil rights movement in the united states at an early stage. ernie: a lot of history starting with world war i. tell me about some of the events we can look forward to. >> we're going to have workshops for teachers that reinvigorate the teaching of world war i. we hope to have concerts. was james reese. he introduced jazz to paris. people weren't happy during world war i.

there can be a spot shower toward sunrise, especially north of new york city. most of us will be dry. there's a thunder threat tomorrow. it's not a washout. don't cancel the outdoor plans. later in the day we get, the better chance for showers. saturday, clouds are going to linger. i think sunday is a sunny and cooler day. a little concerned at the clearing on saturday is a little on the slow side. so you look at the planner for tomorrow, you look for clouds and some sunshine when you wake up. there can be that stray shower. we're starting out at 61. a warm breeze coming in. increasing clouds. and then the shower or thunderstorms scattered during you'll still need your umbrella and just a couple heavy downpours. nothing severe by any means. kind of setting the table for everything that's happening tomorrow. so our cool canadian high is now a warm bermuda high. now the showers are coming in. these are reaching the ground near erie, pennsylvania. a tomorrow morning. then you see the showers and thunderstorms working through indiana. our dry spell ends tomorrow af

♪ i'm jamie colby, and, today, i'm in rockland county, new york, an hour north of new york city. i am meeting a viewer who wrote me about her strange inheritance and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her father's harrowing past. >> my name is miriam friedman morris. my father, david friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, "tagebuch fuer miriam friedman." as i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. >> miriam, i'm jamie. >> hi. welcome. >> miriam wrote us an e-mail that said... it was so impassioned, i had to meet her. my goodness. look at all of this. i feel like i'm in fine-art gallery or a museum. tell me about your parents. >> my parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. >> in her mind's eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her father's past. he doesn't tell her all that much. she knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. but she's in the dark about the full scope o

riders can voice their concerns to the president of new york city transit. the meeting will take place at 6:30 on the sunny side services committee. >>> in the next half an hour a father and son in the right place at the right time to save a life. >>> also this morning, the honor of a pet store chain the disturbing discovery outside one of his stores. >>> let it go >> no, we won't let it go! why james corden was only with jennifer hudson. london bridge is falling down. >> falling down, falling down london bridge is falling down >> that's right a nursery rhyme never sounded so good last night. james cordon said he wanted to save money for his network by singing free songs. cover done did the same thing with josh grobin last year, and heck, he brought it back with mrs. hudson. >> london bridge was sexy all of a sudden. >> now is it back in we have to pay royalties? >> good point, don't sing it, john! >>> brutal it's cold. dress for. cold all day. >> old mcdonald had a scarf. that's for sure. >> reporter: we have one accident on the roads to tell everybody abou

that's a suburb of new york city. and we're going to be watching for when the other hometown candidate, republican donald trump, casts his ballot in new york city some time today. now polls are going to stay open until 9:00 eastern time tonight. that's one of the later closing times you'll see in this country. there's a lot on the line in both races. new york one of the biggest prizes left in each party. let's take a look at the stakes today in new york. over at the big board, let's begin on the democratic side. you see how the delegate race stands. take a look at this column. it's a little complicated. these are the delegates given out in the primary and caucuses. the sanders campaign believes if they can catch hillary here then the superdelegates will have no choice but to flip their allegiances. bernie sanders comes in today down 240 to hillary clinton in this category. it's more like 210 because there are outstanding delegates from the state of washington that haven't been counted. if the polls are right in new yo

. >> new york city central park on the eve of the new york primary. no better place to test voters' knowledge of the candidates. >> ready to play trivia? >> who is this? >> armed with an ipad full of photos with the candidates on both sides, we were impressed at first. >> who is this? >> ted cruz. >> you both knew it. >> we didn't hear a lot of love for ted cruz. >> you know anything about him? >> i know a lot of things about him that i don't like. >> but everyone recognized him. except this woman.