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watched some of the steady snow come in, pretty decent after 9:00 or 10:00 o'clock, making it into new york city, a flare up even in the hudson valley, and this is the difference since 4:00 o'clock, a resurgence of some of the snow towards the morning mute. so snow is redeveloping this evening, the steadiest overnight. a coating to two inches in most spots, but higher amounts in central new jersey and long island. i'll explain in the main weather. slick roads for the morning commute is what you need to know, but for the most part just the slick roads like this morning. more coming up in a few minutes. >> okay, slick roads and a lot of water. that looks like a river there. take a look, some cars, no match for the high water on chandler street, but many drivers were willing to take
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parts of jersey shore also submerged in water. toni yates has more. >> reporter: yes, you know it actually turned out to be a pretty decent winter this afternoon after the flooding subsided, but there is a high tide tonight with some more chances of street flooding overnight. two over the top high tides back to back flooded streets along this low lying pocket, but after a few short hours, the roads go back to normal with the punching system. -- pumping system. the flooding. >> i knew about it, but didn't day. >> reporter: people that live here know what to expect, moving cars early, many own waders, and have homes raises that a little mud in the garage clean up is all that awaits. joe's house is still among the
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he's waiting for his federal grant to come through to get it done. >> i knew moving in here the town flooded, so it's a risk you're willing to take to live here a stones throw from the river and ocean, so you just kind of grin and bear it. >> reporter: well, this time joe's house didn't flood, but with it constantly being a headache for him, he really needs the federal grant to come through, but he's not going to leave for something like that. toni yates. all right close call for the rapper dmx, he's home tonight recovering after being found unconscious without a pulse in a motel parking lot in yonkers. he has a history of problems, his number of arrests about matching his number of hit songs. shirleen allicot is live in yonkers tonight. >> reporter: you said it, this was definitely a close call for the troubled rapper.
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parking lot right here on the upper level of the ramada. if not for the officers that quickly arrived to the scene, this would be a video different story. he was found without a poms about 6:00 in the -- pulse about 6:00 in the evening yesterday. officers immediately began performing cpr, his pulse returning minutes later. he had consumed some sort of substance before falling to the ground. the officers then gave him narcan, an antedote for drug overdoses. the hotel says the rapper was staying there for a few nights. >> >. i don't know much about him and i know he's staying
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i saw the car and the ambulance and within a few minutes they left from our premises. >> reporter: now dmx as we mentioned has had countless run ins with the law, arrested several time, actually served time, one of the charges was drug possessions, but his attorney says it was not drug, it was an asthma attack that caused him to collapse, and he's been released and is in shirleen allicot. thank you. a teen now in police custody for knocking out a stranger on 18-year-old christian gonzalez turned himself in after police punch. a witness news reporter darla miles live in patterson with why he's not being charged as an adult. >> reporter: well, christian
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this assault, so police had to charge him accordedly, but a prosecutor -- accordingly, but a prosecutor can always ask to change it at a later date. the smirk is gone, and the silly playful mood as well. no sign of enthusiasm as gonzalez venderred to patter sen -- surrendered to patterson police after knocking out a man in his 50s out cold. >> i wouldn't characterize doing that as a game. i don't think the client was entertaining anything in terms as a game. >> reporter: the attorney doesn't deny that's his client being encouraged to throw the first punch, but he says his mental health history could be a possible factor. >> he's been diagnosed and
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>> reporter: it happened back in december on rosa parks boulevard, but it wasn't until the video popped up on the internet last week the investigators were really able to work the case. basically you had the assault back in december, and then the video emerged. >> that's right. >> reporter: gonzalez was 17 when the video was recorded, so he's charged with second degree aggravated assault and endangererring an elderly person as a juvenile. >> it doesn't matter if you're a juvenile or adult, if you commit such a crime, you should plan on having what happened here today happen to you. >> reporter: now, gonzalez and the 16-year-old who shot that video are both being held at the essex county detention center for gonzalez will be arraigned here in patterson tomorrow. darla miles. thank you.
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the fate of a new york city officer, charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of a man, claiming the shooting was reckless and he shot and killed him while patrolling a housing project. he fired the single shot after he was startled. new details about the crash of a bus headed from new york city to a casino in connecticut. the police report was released today, saying the driver was merging on to i-95, apparently lost control in the snow yesterday. the bus struck a metal beam on the right shoulder and rolled. then calls came in to 911. >> madison 911 what's the address of your emergency. >> yes, ma'am, we have a bus rollover on the 95, and somebody inside is hurt.
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>> yes, ma'am, i think i see them. >> four passengers are in critical condition, but none of the injuries are considered life threatening. other passengers are expected to head home today. politics now, and the 319 polling locations in new hampshire will be closing in the next few hour, and soon we'll have the results of the first primary in the race for president. some predict a record turn out in a state where 44 percent of voters are independent. dave evans is live in manchester for us with more. >> reporter: looking at the latest polling in new hampshire, on the republican side, donald trump is way out in front. sanders is way in front on the democratic side, so now the question is who's going to be second place for donald trump for the republicans, and the viable alternative to him in the election. on the democratic side the question is how bad is hillary
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small? they're expecting record turn out here in the granite state, and hillary clinton was up undecided voters. >> i'll just keep doing, keep showing folks they can count on me, and we can make real progress together. >> reporter: the problem for clinton has been sanders. he's from vermont, and his left of center message is wildly popular. >> he'll hopefully make changes to help out those of us in the middle. >> reporter: even a lot of clinton supporters say she's probably lost new hampshire. do you think she can close the gap? >> i think so. maybe not here in new hampshire, but overall in the whole country. >> reporter: on the republican side, donald trump is the front runner, but polling predicted he'd win iowa last week, and he didn't. >> right from the beginning, i've been the highest in the polls. but the polls don't mean anything if we don't get up, don't get out, don't vote. >> reporter: marco rubio
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performance saturday night said the media's made too much of his misstep. >> voters in new hampshire are serious about that, understand what's at stake, it's not a theater, it's a feature of america. >> reporter: yet many voters are troubled by rubio. >> he's missed a lot of votes in the senate, and that swayed me away from him. >> reporter: do you think he's ready to be president? >> no, absolutely not. >> reporter: christie has hammered rubio this week. he knows new hampshire could make or break his campaign. >> what would a second place finish do for you here? >> second place finishes have made presidents. >> reporter: and there's been a lot of speculation about bloomberg jumping into the race, a lot of people say it depends on how badly hillary clinton does, but he may have to wait until after nevada and
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expected to do much better in those states. in manchester, new hampshire, dave evans. >> thank you, eye witness news will bring you the results tonight. president obama is proposing a $4.1 trillion spending man. among other things it calls for 955 billion dollars in deficit reduction from reducing tax benefit for high income households, that would have to be approved by the republican controlled congress. and stocks losing a bit more ground today. energy stocks hit another slump. the dow fell the nasdaq lost 14, and the 500 dropped one point. still ahead, one of the hundred cars part of a huge
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>> i was driving by, and i thought that missing a tire or wheel? >> reporter: oddly it was just a week ago that someone took all four-wheels after his neighbors car. >> we have cameras on all side, i think that's what many people will do now, and try to actually park in the garage, not the streets. >> reporter: police say since september 1st there have been 117 tire and rim larcenies, 26 happening in just the last month. >> >. the subjects loosen the lug nuts earlier in the night, then return later in the night to take the tires and rims. >> reporter: the thefts usually happen between 11:00 at night and 4:00 in the morning. on the black market wheels go for at least $300 a pop. >> people just have security cameras, trying to catch the thief. >> reporter: to avoid falling prey to the thief, make sure
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night. if you can install surveillance camera, also purchase wheel locks if you can, and if you have a garage and can fit your car in it, use it. >> we're asking for the public's help, if they see anything suspicious report to it 911 or crime stoppers. >> reporter: police are not sure if the thefts are committed by the same group of people, but one thing they have in common, is they seem to do this when there's wind and rainstorms, a lot of noise outside, so as the next round of snow comes in, they're warning people again to take proper precautions. kristin thorne. streets were packed in new orleans for fat tuesday, the crowd going wild for the parade. chilly temperatures couldn't keep thousands of people away from bourbon street, but the elaborate float, coassume,
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bands and more will be a distant memory by tonight, it ends at midnight, lent starts tomorrow. >> oh, yeah, lirr. apparently they had signal problems. >> bad news for commuters is what's happening overnight into tomorrow morning. you know what the light snow fall did this morning. we could do that again tomorrow morning. now visibility is going down a little looking to the south, light snow into new jersey and snow flakes in staten island, nothing heavy, and the temperatures are above freeze, but the snow showers are expanding across the area. high today in the mid-30s. four degrees below average. last year on this date we had a trace of snow fall, and it was 29. look for periods of snow developing through the evening hour, steadier overnight, and going into the morning commute,
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of sun and gusty winds tomorrow during the day. the snow showers try to make it into new jersey and then fall apart, and a few flurries in staten island. no big concerns for the evening commute. but maybe the garden state parkway gets a little damp, near long beach. it's not the classic set up. you have a low offshore, another one right here. they're link bid this front -- linked by this front, and it's dragging the snow to the north. there's another low former here between the other two, and as that moves off to the north and east, that may enhance the snow st. paul over -- it will snow fall over long island. it will storms over central new
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11:00 to 4:00 in the morning, the northern suburbs should get the most accumulation, and after that the focus shifts morning commute, so i think we're looking at a coating to an inch or two in most spot, and the best end of seeing the higher end of the range is parts of central new jersey right here, and as the low intensifies offshore, maybe a couple or three inches over eastern long island, and by the way, some of the steadier snow could actually occur after 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning, so early departures could save you headaches after that. so periods of snow, accumulating a coating to an inch or two, slick morning commute. snow goes to flurries, breaks of sun tomorrow, and increasing wind, and partly cloudy, very cold tomorrow night, 26, wind chills in the teens. here's what we're working on for 5:30, along with the timing
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tomorrow be the last shot at 40 until next week? and record dangerous cold coming up over the weekend. that's all coming up in the next half hour. back to you for now. okay. thank you. the super bowl champions and their city celebrating victory. the denver broncos started with a morning concert. the parade featured players, official, and family members, followed by a big rally. boy, that's a big rally. meanwhile the carolina panthers quarterback cam newton is defending how he acted after the game. >> i mean, i've been on record to say i'm a sore loser. who looks to lose? show me a good loser and i'll show you a loser. loof talk. he walked out -- lath of talk. he walked out -- a lot of talk, h. walked out on a post-game
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all new at 5:00 o'clock, a restaurant in lower manhattan is open again, the carnegie deli reopened. it's been closed since last april after there was a diverted gas line discovered. the unemployment rate among military veterans is higher than the national average, and vets now finding work can be a challenge. tonight a company that exclusively hires vets. the found were says their skills are -- founder says their skills are well suited.
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list skills most companies can't relate to. but there's a new company that's banking on those skill, and believes they can translate to the corporate world. >> well, i was serving in the marines as a motor vehicle operator. >> reporter: he drove the vehicles through southern afghanistan and iraq. >> >. transporting weapon, ammo, food, he have equipment. >> reporter: but -- heavy equipment. >> reporter: but now he's driving movers and shakers around the city for a start up company called cap star. >> it's not just a job, it's an opportunity. >> reporter: it launched in london a few years ago with the reference. the launch pad reference comes as casey's experience as a black hawk pilot. she decided to head up cap
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not all veterans have such an easy time of finding work after serving, and cap star hopes to make it easier. >> the better we do the more people we can hire, the management team grow, and people can move up within the own company structure, or the person in the backseat sees them, and want themes on their team. >> reporter: they offer an elegant service, not a commodity like taxi or uber. >> when you have an ex-soldier showing up to drive you know uniform perfect. >> reporter: she was medically discharged at 24. until cap star this vet struggled finding a job, but now he's looking to the future. >> one day i can be in the book seat instead of -- backseat instead of the one driving it. >> they currently have a fleet
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offer security as well as chauffeurs. i love that. up next on exclusive interview with dmx's ex-wife. what she just told us the rapper said to her about what happened in the motel parking lot. from a car? the dog left traumatized. here from the woman that helped rescue him. plus two people arrested for trying to sneak weapons on
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responders at a hotel. >> now an exclusive interview, we're hearing from his wife, and here's more. >> reporter: i just spoke with her about 20 minutes ago, and she told me she was leaving the family's home to go to the hospital in yonkers to go see him with his children. here's what we have got from yonkers police. first spotters helped bring dmx back to life after he was found lifeless in the yonkers hotel parking lot. he was found not breathing, and did not have a pulse at the ramada inn. they began chest compressions and gave 45-year-old earl simmons, that's his legal name, oxygen and air, and then started breathing on his own. >> he told me he was happy to
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he said it was an asthma attack. i don't think it was drugs. he has a long history of asthma. he said he had a bad cold for about a week, and said, you know, i guess not getting it treated resulted with chest pains, and next thing he knowest he was on the floor -- knows he was on the floor, and then the hospital. >> reporter: and the rapper's ex-wife again says it was not drug related. she spoke to him directly, and he said it was an asthma attack, and he's doing just fine right now in the hospital. carolina leid. thank you. new details about a five-month old puppy thrown from a moving car. >> so disturbing. detectives say it's clear the puppy has been abuse, and now he's even more terrified.
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that helped rescue him. >> reporter: yes, we have two pieces of good news to report tonight. first, that puppy, a five month old mixed breed puppy, suffered no apparent physical injuries from being thrown from the car. the second piece of good news, her rescuers may have already found a permanent home for the puppy, even as they look for those that tossed it away. it's difficult to understand why anyone would want to harm this adorable five-month old puppy nicknamed bandit by those that rescued her after she was thrown from a moving car last weekend. >> we're fed up as all animal people are with this total disregard for life people show. >> reporter: they're offering a 5,000-dollar reward for information leading to the
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it happened saturday evening about 7:45. >> my sister called me right away. >> reporter: her sister saw the puppy tossed from a passing dark sedan. the frightening animal huddled from a neighbor's stoop. >> i gave it food but it wasn't very friendly because it was scared. >> reporter: the next day, a detective successly got the pup on a leash, and took her to a local vet to be checked out. >> she's very, very fearful and apprehensive. when people approach her she rough puppy life. >> somebody knows who owned this pup, somebody knows who the owner is, and hopefully they're going to call us and hopefully we can get justice for the dog. >> reporter: now tonight the only description we have of the vehicle that they are looking for in this case is that it's a two-door dark sedan with tinted windows.
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puppy or the description of that car or saw something on saturday evening at 7:45 year in uniondale is asked to all the aspca. thank you. the musical director at a church in the bronx is charged tonight with having sex with a teenage girl, allegedly inside the church. police say the man had an on going relationship with the 16- year-old. investigators believe some of the their encounters took place at the baptist church. it's the church where his father was the pastor for more than 30 years. people in the church are stunned by the arrest. >> he's a very quiet man, most of the time to himself, and around his family. >> he's a blessing, yeah, he's a blessing. he's a good man.
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december for allegedly having sex with the same teen at his home. an online ad claims he was a private piano teacher. and black boxes from a deadly train crash are being reviewed. dozens are injured, and several killed in germany. the trains were going around a curve, and the operators couldn't see each other until it was too late. gun violence claiming the life of a young woman hit by a stray bullet. the 25-year-old was shot in the head while she was sitting in his car in chicago on friday. she had recently moved to the city from california to take a new job. her father had warned her not to move to chicago. he was on the phone with her minutes before she was shot.
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know where she was, and kept saying her head hurt, her head hurt. i wish i had known what was going on so i could have told her i love her one more time. >> oh, so sad. her detect is one of at least -- death is one of the at least 17 murders in the first eight days of february. they're on pace to triple the homicides in all of february of last year, and there are no suspects in the shooting right now. a hard warming story -- heartwarming story in new jersey about a teen athlete and a good deed, he gave his first place medal to a fellow swimmer. spark finished second last month in the conference championships. not only did the other play win, he actually broke a 14- year-old meet record in the event, but he was disqualified
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>> it would make sense if the cap would make me faster, but it wasn't, it was just a wrong logo. >> he beat me because he trained harder than me, the cap didn't enhance his performance. >> what a good man. the appeal to get the cap violation original owners turned was rejected -- overturned was rejected, but sparks made the move to give him the trophy. and a new york dad's hilarious note blaming the boss for his daughter's tardiness is coming up, plus a scare landing at the last second, and the reunion between a little boy and the cop that saved him from choking. looking more like a snow sky to the south closing in on new jersey as you see low reviesibility and less -- less visibility, and formation of the clouds, and then there's a little area of steady snow
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pe >> i want to see this. this is a real scare for passengers on a fright to london. wobble a bit there. like wobble a lot. during landing, they were not doing so good, the the pilot said let's do that again. he did another go around and managed to land the plane safely. the problem was hurricane force winds, but the plane did eventually land. wow. well authorities at l a guardia stopped two people from flying with hidden weapons. one had a blade in a hidden
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shoe, and an 18-year-old girl had a razor blade tucked behind the band of her cap. they had tickets for the same flight to miami. this year's oscar winners won't need to read a long list of names, they're able to select a list of names to be selected in a scroll that will run under them while speak, and they hope they have time to instead make a more memorable speech. we'll see how that works. work the oscars sunday february 28th right here. and a father in up state new york wrote quite an honest excuse note to explain his daughter's tardiness. he wrote his daughter was at a bruce springsteen concert. the whole family were. both his daughters are big fans.
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>> a new york woman's fit bit helped her discover she was pregnant. her husband first thought it was broken because she was getting high heart rate readings. he thought it was a sensor problem causing it her rate to be up 110 beats a minute. he posted it on reddit, and one using wrote back she could be pregnant, and he wrote back a
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expecting their first baby in october. >> that's great! >> i bet a lot of women are checking their fit bits right now. >> what's going on here! >> am i going to see snow when i wake up? >> yes i think so. >> a lot? >> will it be cold? >> i'll answer those questions all night long. slippery for the morning commute, already snow in new jersey. outside cloudy skies. there's a couple of snow flakes over staten island. few reaching lower manhattan. it's lying. temperatures above freezing -- light. temperatures above freezing. as the evening goes on things will get slippery. mid to low 30s through the evening hours, snow showers at 11:00 o'clock, driven by the computer model, i think it could be earlier than that. a couple hours earlier through the evening. for tomorrow, snow early will
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for sun at times. winds pick up. there could still be a snow or rain shower in the afternoon as numbers climb to the upper 30 toss around 40. the steadiest snow now in new jersey, back to neptune. not surprised if over nassau county. ocean county as well, and then this batch here, to philadelphia, that's going to work into western new jersey over the next hour or so. so we'll deal with this batch the first part of night. the appetizer. this is the man turban responsible for the steadier -- main disturbance responsible for the steadier snow, and we'll get the heavier amounts
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central new jersey and long island. i think from maybe 11:00 tonight to 4:00 in the morning is the best chance to get snow. this futurecast is only showing scattered snow showers, i think it's a little more widespread than that. with that in mind not a big snow fall for sure. spots. one over central new jersey, the other over the east end of long island with three inch amounts other you are with heavier snow bands, but these are the likely area to guest the most snow. thursday we didn't reach freezing, no flurries. same thing friday, sub- freezing, saturday the brutal chill. 20 degrees below average. 3 at night. the one thing you don't see are a 30 or 40-mile an hour wind saturday into saturday evening, so wind chills for saturday
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for the feel-like readings, so dangerous cold. we won't moderate until next tuesday. >> i'm cold already. >> can it really gate cold? >> >. it can. hopefully that's it though. >> >. okay thanks. if you've ever been in the subway you know there's a lot of different smells down will. >> >. yeah, and now one woman want toss give you a better option. all tough do is scratch and sniff. >> reporter: it will this scratch and sniff campaign was originally rolled out at three subway station, including yawn i don't know scare. a lot of foot -- union square. a lot of foot traffic, and even more to smell, and don't underestimate the power of your nose. it's 2.8 million times more sensitive than your ear, so
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go downstairs. >> the subway tends to be a little dirty. >> and stink can i. >> reporter: millions of people do ride the rails each day, but what if even for a brief second you smelled. >> laughter, voir dire -- lavender, vanilla. >> that would make taking the subway more enjoyable. >> reporter: angela kim is determined to do that, and send a message for the subway to clean up their act. she's in the process of putting up homemade scratch and sniff posters inside. each tab dabbed with a different oil. >> that smells good actually. >> reporter: better than the station. >> yes, much better than the station. >> reporter: angela's a student at the school of visual arts, this was part of a class assignment, looking at space and sensory.
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something, smell something else. a clever play off of this common stolen. >> >. if everyone takes all five you'll still read it and think. >> reporter: she's on to something. smell, as in the roses, as the most detail of all five sense, it's linked to memory, and greatly effects emotion. very good, very bad. so expect to see more of these t many admit a breath of fresh air. >> thank you, that's brilliant! absolutely brilliant! >> reporter: i agree. and check this out, some research shows that when people are exposed to bad odors act more aggressively. angela plans to expand the campaign, and encourages you to scratch and sniff.
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i'm thinking cotton candy, strawberry and more. >> that works for me. >> chocolate. hot chocolate maybe? great idea. well, a police officer in new jersey saves a choking boy. >> see the sweet reunion as the family says thank you to their hero. >> reporter: and new at 6:00 o'clock, was a police shooting an accident or a crime. the jury is deliberating in the it will trial of a new york cop. and why did the royal caribbean cruise ship captain steer a giant vessel right into
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worth more than a quarter, before one little boy -- but for one little boy this almost cost him his life, and tonight a police officer is hailed for coming to his rescue. big hugs today between five- year-old david samuel, and the officer that saved his life. >> the policeman helped you? >> yes! >> say thank you policeman! >> reporter: sashed night david found a -- saturday night david found a quarter in his room and put it in his mouth, then couldn't get it out. >> >. were you scared? >> yes. >> how about grand pa? >> grand pa was if id. >> reporter: the grain -- terrified. >> reporter: the grandparented immediately called 911 and the officer showed up. >> he started to go limp, so i leaned him on my knee and i
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>> as we saw him throwing up the quarter we thanked jesus. >> reporter: he was awarded with a junior badge today and coloring book while the family gave him a card, a basket of candy, and their eternal gratitude. >> it's a blessing. i'm really thankful for him seven-daying my son. >> reporter: the grandparents told me they were about to drive him to the hospital themselves, but that would have taken ten minutes, ten minutes they didn't have. why in the world would a cruise ship captain steer his boat right into a storm? >> we're hearing from him for
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eyewitness news at 6:00 starts right now. eyewitness news at 6:00 starts now. the rapper dmx call this is close to dying, resuscitated by first responders, and tonight we hear from his ex-wife. if it was just an asthma attack, why did they give him a drug overdose medication? and was it manslaughter or just a tragic accident? jurors deliberating on the fate of a new york cop that admitted he panicked. i'm bill ritter. >> i'm liz cho, but first we begin with a winter storm headed our way. >> snow showers developing now, we could get several inches in some areas, and followed by brutally cold weather,
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