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

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

north and east of new york city we may stay dry. this waveee -- wavy front is snaking over the area. i'm hoping this will move away on saturday and give us a nice day. we're not talking about big rains but later in the evening especially nassau, south and west and central and southern new jersey, we could have showers. here's your accuweather forecast. patchy frost in the suburbs. 59 through the day tomorrow. another cool day. clouds dominate in the afternoon. late rain especially south and west of new york city. and rain and drizzle coming in tomorrow night. big question over the weekend, will rain stay away sunday afternoon? changes in the weekend forecast. we'll have that at 5:30. >> stay away. >>> the world's biggest hamburger chain is trying a new recipe to bring back lost business. mcdonald's is getting rid of the artificial preservatives in a new chicken mcnugget recipe. the company has been testing the recipe in stores in washington. it admits its lost customers so it's trying to make the core menu better. >>> she's accused

starting to see snow around new york city. you can seet n the weather headlines, we're dealing with the rain/snow combination. winter trying to make a comeback. more rain to deal with midweek. a stormy pattern over the next couple of days. of course, everyone wants to know what's the forecast for baseball. ittw's not great. for the astros taking on the yanks, home opener. cool and showery. not a lot of heavy rain who wants rain when there's baseball. hopefully the rain will happen. temperatures in the 30s in westchester county. these will be the trouble spots. anywhere where the temperature is below freezing. forcing light snow, icy conditions north into the hudson lley in the city. even though we have snow moving in, temperatures are mild. roads wet and not too slippery. that's good news. the first forecast shows lots of clouds, 38 degrees in the city. temperatures rising through the morning. many of us blll sme a changeover if w e have snow. 52 by 3:00. umbrellas needed for the evening commute as well. showers around 6:00 p.

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

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

jose. >> kristen welker in new york city, thank you very much. i want to go to another new york city borough, alex seitz-wald is following bill clinton in queens. alex, has bill clinton been finally able to put to rest the dest-up he had with black lives matters protesters last week? >> i'm not sure he has. every time he talks about this issue, he tends to make news. the democratic party has moved a lot since he was president, especially on criminal justice issues. i think he's a little torn between wanting to defend his legacy, especially the 1994 crime bill, and campaign for his wife in 2016 in the democratic party it is today. as you can see behind me, he's still a big draw. let me tell you about where we are. we're in the heart of the chinatown in flushings, queens. this congressional district is the number one asian congressional district in new york. also the larnest foreign-born congressional in new york and one of the largest in the country. you can expect to hear bill clinton doing some donald trump bashing on immigration reform, and mak

they recalibrate, now the biggest snowstorm in new york city lift. it felt like it during the storm. >>> now in terms of lower totals and rainfall, it is about these forecast models as we go through tomorrow morning, just taking sort of an average, very light rainfall amounts. a few places will see even less than that. a few hundredths. there have been sprinkles but it is dry across the span right now. 53. south wind 12 miles per hour, the pressure holding steady and the lie we told you 59. the average high is 66. no rainfall in the rain bucket just yet and there are your sunrise and sunset time. rain and drizzle moving through during the evening hours. tomorrow it is dry much of the the day and at flight 50-50 weekend. rain much of the day on sunday our only hope is after 4:00 or 5:00 the rain is moving out. 50 sunset park right now. 49. we have had light rain in oakwood, that is why it is cooler here. light drizzle getting into parts of brooke lynn, queens. 52 in white plains right now. -- brooklyn, queens. 52 in white plains right now. across the

the key to new york city is new york city comes in first. that's the biggest area, her strongest area. bernie sanders, a lot stronger in the upstate, in the rural areas, in the southern tier. i don't know with 40% left if he can get it down to single digits. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much. >> eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winner of "washington post" is with us. there's that expression, staying too long at the fair. >> yeah? >> and after this very good result for the clinton campaign tonight, people who make a living at this are going to start asking about a, as chuck todd puts it, how does bernie sanders land the plane. >> right. and that's a question at of people will be asking, i think, beginning tomorrow, if they haven't answered already. you know, with donald trump's huge win tonight, we just should not underestimate how good a night this looks for hillary clinton. it answers a lot of questions. imagine, had things been otherwise, imagine if it were a narrow clinton lead at this point, or we still couldn't call the race, or it

york city. at one point, who hasn't stopped for a pretzel or a hotdog with the works? but what seems like a modest way to make a living can also be an expensive one. push cart food vendors in midtown are governed by the new york city department of consumer affairs. they say profits can vary greatly. on average, how much does the cart make a day? >> sometimes good, maybe for the for the good business, 250, 350. >> reporter: the vendors you see in new york city parks are department. they must bid in order to get a prime location and the price is steep. the carts at the edge of central park pay the most, in many cases between 200 and $300,000 a year. the only people who seem to be catching a break are disabled veterans who don't have to pay the city. their fees are waived under a new york state law. this iraq vet says despite it all, he's still not getting rich from selling hotdogs on the street. >> it's a hard business. we do make a profit, but not terrific profit that you might think. >> reporter

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

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

i have nott to you, built any buildings in new york city. but i have spent my entire life fighting to defend the constitution and the bill of rights. [applause] evening at ahis time of crisis for our nation. we are bankrupting our country. our constitutional rights are under assault each and every day, and america has receded from leadership in the world. i am here today with a word of hope and encouragement. i want to tell you, something incredible is happening all across the country, new york, and this nation. people are waking up. election this next will be about three critical issues. jobs, freedom, and security. let's talk for a minute about jobs. today, we have the lowest percentage of americans working since 1977, people are hurting. median wages have stagnated for over a decade. moms, we have single three part-time jobs, who have had their hours 29 hours aduced to week, because obamacare kicks in at 30 hours a week. we have truck drivers, steelworkers, plumbers, mechanics, machinists, union members, who are seeing wages stagnate year

for all coastal locations including new york city. planning your day, 28 right now, mostly cloudy skies as we're redding through the rest of the day it stays breezy. we will have lots of sunshine, so it looks nice, just didn't feel like. these temperatures in the 30s feels more like 20s. so dress for 20s as you're stepping outside. here's a look at future tracker. looking good. sunshine, lots of that to go around today. for your evening commute, it's nice and dry. starts out sunny, cold, then temperatures gradually moderating throughout date. there's a look at the seven-day forecast. 47 tomorrow, so that feels better. and we are expecting the clouds to build. that's going to be a showery and stormy day. look at the high of 59 degrees. but getting colder as we head towards the weekend. let's see how the commute is going. nice and quiet, lauren scala. >> things are nice and quiet. we have reports of an overturned vehicle in the eastbound service road of the cross bronx on the parkway. that's being cleared out. though you're seeing that

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

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

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

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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

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

right now in new york city, overdose deaths. it's the biggest source of accidental deaths here in new york city. the death rate went up by about 10% and the biggest increase is in the age group 15 to 24. ernie: that's so painful, isn't it? when you think about families and young people, this is awful. >> it's just tragic. it's tragic for the young people. it's tragic for their parents, for their friends, for their loved ones. and the problem is that to the extent drug use continues, it just expands. ernie: you have said it. you've said it. warning people that there are drugs in your own home. this is what you have to watch for, the center of your own house. it starts there. >> absolutely. what we find is that most young people begin their drug use with a medicine cabinet. maybe they go into their parents' medicine cabinet, take out the leftover percocet or maybe their friends come over and hit the medicine cabinet. they're spread out in the streets. what we really need to do is to limit the access of people to these medications.

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

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

jim dolan, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> another gun found on the campus of a new york city public school, this time it's a loaded gun. tonight three young boys are under arrest. the third time in the past three weeks a gun has been found in a school occupied by teenagers. it happened this time at the robert f kennedy school in manhattan's upper east side. josh einiger near the scene with the latest. >> police at the 19th precinct have been interrogating the students for hours. any minute now we're expecting they'll drive them out of here as they begin the lengthy legal battle. after allegedly smuggling a loaded .22 in to a school full of kids. >> reporter: tonight police spent hours questioning the three young students, one just 13 years old. what were they doing with a loaded gun in school? >> i didn't expect at this age in the middle of school day. >> that's really scary. too many guns around. >> reporter: parents picking up their kids couldn't believe their ears. it was just after lunchtime at robert f. kennedy school. cops say a 13-year-old boy threatened a female student with a .22

in fact the clouds may try to thin out east of new york city. but once we get to the commute, that is when rain starts to become more widespread, especially into your friday evening. that is when we have a steadier period of rainfall. the mets aren't playing tonight but tomorrow when the giants are playing at citi field i think there is going to be rain in the area. maybe very light to start but steady, it will be a close call whether they can sneak that game in. watch the futurecast here, we drizzle. then tomorrow during the day, again rain, much of the time. not much is going on. it is cool, we are only in the 50s, but look how the rain starts to expand and move into the area. have your umbrella. air qualitifully good. pollen count knocked down to a moderate if not low level by night fall. so on saturday, that is the i think the rain will have departed the area during the morning hours. we are going to be stuck in a lot of the cloud cover over parts of new jersey. that is the way it stands right now. david and liz a 50-50 weekend. i think we w

york city and off load obligations on new york city. >> reporter: as for the hospitals, the mayor said none of them will close but they will have additional uses. there will be no layoffs but cuts for a contradiction. they must approve the plan by june. an investigation into the mayor's fundraising practices is demanding more action. they are looking into whether the mayor improperly funneled contributions as a power play to take over the senate. mayor deblasio said he has done nothing wrong but senator terrance murphy. s all -- murphy. s all the staffers put on lead. >> like i said in 2014, this was a shakedown by mayor deblasio on business owners in new york city. >> a lot of very good people are having their names dragged through the mud over the last few weeks. that's not right. that's not fair. >> murphy has proposed a bill calling for stiffer penalties for those who break election laws. >>> to campaign 2016 and the race to the white house and five states including connecticut are holding primaries today. in hartford to cast their vote. polls close at 8:00 tonight. and more than 5

tonight centered on new york city. ted cruz talking to eyewitness news as he and john kasich try to woo voters from new yorker donald trump. >> first tonight, two armed robbers ambush an elderly man in new jersey attacking him in his home. good evening at 11:00, i'm bill ritter. >> i'm sade baderinwa. those suspects took money and even food. tonight they're still on the run. >> the victim, 71-year-old luis >> the first time the man knocked on lewis rosario's door, he looked through the door but ignored them. they knocked again. >> the second time, wow -- >> they pushed you in the second time. >> yeah, that's what happened. the guy, he's younger than me. >> reporter: wearing a mask, the man threw rosario to the ground. >> that guy, he take out a knife and put it here. >> reporter: a woman who was with the man who pushed in the door sprayed rosario in the face with something. the two started looting through the apartment, including the kitchen, filling a bag with food and whatever valuables they could find. they took his

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

but you weren't with him just in the city. people think of new york as just new york city. it's not. does it play the same outside of the city? >> not at all. his defense sort of falls on deaf ears here in new york city and down state new york as they call it upstate. but up there i was with him outside of albany. he had a pretty large rally, a lot of people came. the line was kind of snaked outside this big high school gym and i asked so many people whether or not they were offended by the new york values slur and really almost to a person they said, no, i get it, we're upstaters. we don't have the same values as the people in new york city. so that's the kind of consistency he's trying to appeal to anyway. i don't think he expects to get a lot of votes here in manhattan. he's not out glad handing in the columbus circle. it's not his scene. >> people in new york see new york city and then the rest of it. >> you're a new yorker. you know how it goes. >> and then the rest of the country. thank you. always a pleasure, dana bash. >> thank you. >> up next, frank bruni weighs an

. >> a been in new york city, way long line at the theater and supermarket. why is it big in a racist to say that it is not fair, get to the end of the line. >> tony mentioned that just because he is latino, he would vote for hillary. democrats have been doing a deplorable job. >> we are told incredulously wire we not supporting the democrats? that's like asking the chickens why they are voting for colonel sanders. >> this year more than any other. what story do you believe. that is why trump has registered with a lot of people. he started speaks to problems that people have been yelling about and no one seems to be doing anything about. is going to divide. >> more of a silent majority. 25 percent of the hispanic vote. >> tony is not the only one. always speak on camera because of repercussions. the bigger issue is not the attack on minorities. they are losing track in this country. people are afraid to say, i support this person. ♪ >> a houston drivers, the window of his car. >> got a get out. >> that's them right there. yeah. comes over, rushing water. th

what we see in new york city as of right now similar shots of sunny skies. you will see wispy high cloud out there. 69 degrees. current high temperature was 73. 10 degrees above average of 63. not as warm as yesterday. 82. we have had fire concerns all day. the fire concern continues right into the neat time hours until 8 p.m. we go to the mid-60s tomorrow. rain chance returns at week's end. let's talk about the fire warning out there. red flag warning for basically the entire area. until 8 p.m. no wet weather, maybe up around the cape or so. we had a shower over staten island? no, it was the smoke plume over the fire in jersey city. here's what we find in wet weather. late thursday into friday your day wednesday won't be affected by high pressure. here comes some added clouds that make their push in thursday with rain into friday in the afternoon. wherever you see yellow that's moderate showers even heavy downpours not ruled out. friday mostly pleasant. the only hiccup is late thursday into friday. clouds, not perfect saturday but good. tomorrow 47 colder n

legislation that makes streets safer in new york city. state senator jose peralta says the new laws will reduce traffic fatalities. they'll be joined by the founder of make queens safer. it tracks the progress of the vision zero plan of mayor de blasio. >>> an nba player is now suing the city and several police officers. the atlanta hawks self-lows a accused of ignoring orders after a fight broke out. in october. now he accuses officers of using -- he missed all of last year's playoffs. >>> country music stars are mourning the loss of one of their own. meryl haggard. >> i'm proud to be an oak i from muskogee. >> that was his number one hit in 1969. another song called mama tried reflected his early life of crime and time in prison. he created the bakersfield sound in country music. he died yesterday on his 79th birthday after a battle with pneumonia. >>> still to come, pretty special visitor today direct from the white house for some students. >>> is there something called eating too healthy. michael and i wouldn't know. a healthy eating

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.

both candidates talked about what they can do for new york city residents. when it comes to affordable housing, income equality and higher wages for workers. >> this campaign is sending a message to corporate america. you cannot have it all. >> that's why i've said we're going to continue to make improvements. i am so proud at what's happening here in the bronx. but it can be even better if we work together. if you have a president in the white house who actually knows where co-op city is. >> bernie sanders is scheduled to be with the reverend al sharpton and the national action network today. darlene, we're waiting to find out the schedule from mrs. clinton. a little bit loud already at the brooklyn navy yard. an ambulance passing by us here. darlene, a lot of people can go the audience. security, they expect a lot of people around here, hundreds of people gathering here along the outskirts of the brooklyn navy yard supporting clinton and sanders. >> katherine creag, thank you. >>> meanwhile in long island tonight, donald trump may face protesters outside o

the museum of the city of new york posted this hour-long event. it is now my great pleasure to introduce our speakers. they have four bios in our program. an intellectual and cultural historian, whose many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a nation among nations. atis professor of history new york university. david reid is editor of "sex, death and god and l.a." his essays, articles, reviews and interviews have appeared in vanity fair, the paris review, the new york times, the washington post, los angeles times book review and various anthologies. what you please join me in welcoming david reid to a speak about his book and and then be joined by professor bender. [applause] mr. reid: thank you, lily. it's a pleasure and honor to be here in connection with this distinguished series. this is a memorable occasion for me because it is my first powerpoint presentation. [laughter] so bear with me. i might be the only person in america who does not have experienced in this medium. i will start clicking -- got the microphone adjus

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

here in new york city, what he meant by new york values. this morning, the new york daily news, front page, is pretty harsh. take the train, ted. what does the campaign say, though, in all seriousness, what do they say about this, this strain of thought that he won't be able to win over new yorkers? >> here is what ted cruz himself will say, kate. people in new york who are conservative understand what ted cruz is trying to say, what he talks about these new york values. cruz says explicitly he is talking about liberal democratic values. that's actually part of his reworked stump speech. using people like bill de blasio as foils here in new york, and the crowds that are going to his events, like somebody yelled out, heckled cuomo, made a joke off of it. but here is the issue. when you go to places like schenectady, where we were, you talk to folks. what are new york values. does ted cruz understand new york values. the answer you get, he doesn't get the new york values. he is from texas. he doesn't know what they are. it's a tough sell, two

from fox business headquarters in new york city, the new "wall street week." >> welcome to "wall street week," i'm anthony scaramucci. gary: i'm gary kaminsky. with the market clawing back and then some. two of the handlists from the original wall street week. chairman and ceo mario gabelli and liz saunders. mario, what your outlook? >> the corporate economy will do well in the united states. >> dead is 14.3 trial. jobs are plentiful. wages are rising. but i think the consumer sector is okay. more importantly, we as a country consume 20 million barrels of oil. the price is down $50. somebody is saving $1 billion a day and that is working its way through the system slowly. i'm optimistic about the u.s. economy. europe will do bert in 2017, and i think that will help a lot of corporate profits and unfold in the second half of this year. gary: for viewer, what happens in january. why was there such a fear of recession and why did it have such an impact on the markets? >> you go back to the fall of 2015. the impact on energy, mining and the american industrial infrastructure and the fact it

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

new york city. okay? right around bridgewater right warning in effect for hunterdon county and for portions of mercer county, as well. the storms are making their push off to the east. looks like they would get to city about 8 p.m. we'll keep an eye on that. they were moving quickly. maybe earlier than that. just know that they are out there off to the west of our area, west of new york city, that is. unsettle saturday. chance of rain. strong winds will be kicking in saturday night. those strong winds, it's even more so sunday with the big winds. they are going to bring in cold temperatures. it feel really cold waking up early sunday morning. some of could you see some snow. believe it or not the models are starting to pump out some snow accumulations anywhere north of the city possibility some folks maybe even a little more than that. not a huge storm but just the fact that we are into april and we're talk about the possibility for a coating or more. vortex satellite and radar, here's the front making it

stuart: those who live in new york city and can't stand the bugs. i want to move on to the university of missouri which has been the scene of several race related protest the past year. trillion, that school is now in real trouble. >> i think for dorm so close. they see fund-raising way down. they see enrollment significantly down. this is really damage the brand. it's no surprise. who wants to send their kids to a university where the student if they are the educators. that's not how you get an education. stuart: enrollment is down 5%. they've got a budget deficit of $32 million. what is this about those protesters who demanded the open-air save space? would you want to generate something? >> this is my favorite. about 7000 pages of mehsud

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

both democrats in the race held rallies in new york city today. hillary clinton spoke in westchester county. bernie sanders gathered support at a big rally in the bronx. before that rally political reporter dave evans sat down with the candidate. >> reporter: on a wave of momentum, bernie sanders brought his message to the bronx tonight, calling for a revolution, a campaign against the establishment. >> this is a campaign of the people, by the people, and for the people. shows hillary clinton with a comfortable 12-point lead in new york. that vote takes place in almost three weeks, plenty of sanders says, to catch up. >> if we win here in new york, we are going to make it to the white house. >> reporter: earlier today we talked one-on-one with sanders and he blasted hillary clinton, calling her vote for the war in iraq a terrible foreign policy decision and he blames her for the rise of isis in places like libya. >> hillary clinton and i look at the world differently in terms of foreign policy. >> was she a good secretary of state? >> in some resp

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. the afternoon and in to tomorrow evening. 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 after nine day

it's moving over new york city possibly with some downpours, thunder, lightning and hail as well. we're still tracking the storms. we'll let you know about the changes for the weekend with the cold and the snow coming up in just a few minutes. >>> we continue to follow where police are searching for a slasher. police say a man was slashed in the back at the zrans entrance of the downtown 1 train. police are looking for a man and a woman who may have been involved. there isn't much of a description now, but investigators say this may have had something to do with panhandling. >>> the interview with ten active nypd officer who is s who claim they are pressured by supervisors to meet quotas for arrests and summons. >> tonight a lieutenant is talking to sarah wallace about those allegations. >> a number of additional officers have actually reached out to us. by the way, the nypd officer's union did a survey recently. thousands of members responded and 89% said they believe there are still quotas. the police department flatly are expected to do their jobs. an nypd lieutenant saw the in