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>> but new york's most important primary years was not without problems. >> the incompetence of the board of elections puts a cloud over these results. >> cbs2's complete campaign coverage starts right now. good evening. i'm maurice dubois. >> and i'm kristine johnson. big night for the front- runners, let's get right to the results, 85% of precincts reporting shown donald trump with a broad win tonight and 60% of the republican vote, he's followed by john kasich, ted cruz in third place, notice ben carson still on the ballot, because he withdrew from the race too late for his name to be removed. the delegates he receives will not count towards his suspended campaign. >> democratic race a bit closer. 85% of the precinct reporting. hillary clinton 57%. they declared winner. bernie sanders at 43%. cbs2 has team coverage on tonight's primary, we begin with marcia kramer outside donald trump's headquarters. marsha? >> reporter: good evening,
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donald trump claimed a huge victory and he is well on his way to winning most of the state's 95 delegates. but trump wants to win them all. whether he does or not is going to still take a little bit longer for them to compute. >> i can think of nowhere that i would rather have this victory. >> reporter: a jubilant donald trump accompanied by his wife and family talking about his the home state win and his determination to prevail and win the republican presidential nomination. he says he will have the most delegates and that republican party who boz have no right to deny him the nomination if -- even if he doesn't exactly get the 1237 votes needed. >> nobody should claim victory unless they get those delegates with voters and voting. >> reporter: except in manhattan where john kasich led most of the night, trump's win in new york was bid in broad. men and women, college grads,
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those looking for a candidate >> trump! [ chanting ] >> reporter: opponents say he's not presidential material. >> when you have the skyhigh you. >> the people in state after state have made it clear. they cry out for a new path. this is the year of the outsider. i'm an outsider. >> reporter: trump says he's going to take his campaign all the way to cleveland and the convention. exit polls tonight show that new yorkers support him. amazingly, seven out of 10 republican new yorkers say that even if you don't get a majority of the vote, if you get the most votes, you should be the nominee. reporting live outside trump tower in midtown manhattan, marcia kramer, cbs2 news. >> thank you. now to the democrats, hillary clinton shattered bernie sanders winds could tonight. >> tony aiello live in clinton headquarters in midtown where the candidates spoke just a few minutes ago. tony?
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mixture of excitement and relief here at the sheraton new york, mayor de blasio said that new york did something wonderful for america tonight. governor cuomo said, new york delivered for hillary clinton and hillary clinton pointed out she has won in every region of the country but said this victory is particularly sweet. >> let's hear it for new york. >> reporter: new york does it again, boosting hillary clinton with a big win on primary night. >> today, you proved once again there's no place like home. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: her margin over senator sanders looks to be enough to put a recent rough patch behind her when she lost seven of eight contests since march 22. >> new yorkers, you've always had my back. [ cheering ] and i've always
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[ cheering ] today, together, we did it again and i am deeply, deeply grateful. [ cheering ] >> reporter: for his part, sanders is already moving on, in pennsylvania tonight, one of several northeast states voting next week. he says despite the loss in new york, he is steadily gaining on clinton. >> credit voters know that in virtually every national matchup , general election poll, we beat donald trump by wider numbers than she does. [ cheering ] >> reporter: mrs. clinton also got in a little bit of a poke at the republican front-runner pointing out she's the only candidate in either party who has won 10 million votes during this primary process. she also offered an olive leaf -- an olive branch to the supporters of senator sanders saying quote, there is more than -- more that unites us than divides us.
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live at sheraton new york in midtown, tony aiello, cbs2 news. >> thank you. a steep increase today in the number of reports of problems at polling stations around the city. >> the city comptroller lashed out at the board of elections that tonight, come accusations, it's much ado about nothing. cbs2's valerie castro is here now with more on that. valerie? >> reporter: problems were reported as early as this morning when some voters arrived at their polling locations to find them closed or their names are not even listed. city comptroller scott stringer has called for an audit of today's vote, he cited several issues including 125,000 people removed from voter rolls. 60,000 people sent voting notices but without the primary date and countless voters were told they were in the wrong place. the city board of elections executive director michael ryan disagreed and said most of the problems were anecdotal, he says they were on par with past elections, he also adds this election has much more media
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>> either it was a relatively minor problem that was resolved, or it was a problem that didn't exist in the first place, and on top of that, there was quite a bit of lack of understanding of the part of the voters with respect to new york's closed primary system. >> the incompetence of the board of elections puts a cloud over these results. and it's time that we clean up this mess. >> reporter: stringer is asking people who had voting problems to contact his office. kristine and maurice? >> thank you. here's where the delegate count stands as of right now. for the democrats , let's take a look at that graphic, here is, with 86% of the precincts reporting, hillary clinton, 104 delegates. bernie sanders stance right now with 85 delegates. >> on the republican side, donald trump holding 84 delegates, to two for john kasich and zero we are
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cbs2's dick brennan in our newsroom now with where the candidates go from here. >> reporter: maurice and kristine, the size of the victories for trump and clinton will affect how many delegates they get. each district towards them , democrats are proportional, republicans in some cases are winner take all. i spoke to the moderator of cbs face the nation john dickerson about what happens in next in the race. trump's support was brought and across the board, since his loss in wisconsin he's overhauled his campaign and tonight once again was blasting the gop primary process. >> it's a crooked system. it's a system that's rigged. >> reporter: trump's immediate strategy is to win as many as possible. when the counting is done and all of the congressional districts, top strategists predict he will take 88 to 92 delegates and recently he's been on his best behavior. >> he's always said that he's going to pick it, always said he can be more presidential but it's only until the loss in
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change the management at the top of his organization and now also the way he's behaving, he is much more restrained than he was in the past. so we'll see if he sticks with it. >> reporter: on the democratic side, hillary clinton is trying to win so many of the 247 democratic delegates up for grabs that going forward, the math just wouldn't make sense for bernie sanders. sanders says he'll fight all the way to the convention, but the question, just how hard will he push if it turns out he has no shot at the nomination? >> depends first on the size of hillary clinton's victory. does she win so many delegates that it reemphasizes the fact that she has an insurmountable mathematica lead, pledged delegates and certainly with the addition of the superdelegates, does that change the tenor of the race? >> reporter: more northeastern states voting next week. including pennsylvania, connecticut, rhode island, delaware and maryland and they should favor both trump and clinton. in the newsroom, dick brennan, cbs2 news.
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not the only vote up for grabs tonight. >> voters on long island take part in a special election, this is a vote that could create a power shift in albany. right now we're awaiting results from the nassau county election where freshman democratic assembly been todd kaminsky is up against republican attorney chris mcgrath, this is for the state senate seat formerly held by republican majority leader dean skelos, right now, both candidates are claiming victory but it is still too close to call and to early in that election. voters in lower manhattan have chosen a replacement for disgraced former assembly speaker sheldon silver. >> alice cancel, the projected winner beating back a strong challenge by neil, she ran on the working family party ballot -- yuh-line niou. next, chaos outside of court. >> let us breathe.
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a turkey sandwich. i feel betrayed. i feel disgusted. >> anger and a cry for justice outside a brooklyn courtroom, following a judge's ruling, nypd officer peter liang will not go to prison for killing an unarmed man. cbs2's lou young reports on the emotional reaction to the judge's decision. >> reporter: outrage and tears on the streets of brooklyn following the surprise reduced
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former cop convicted of killing an unarmed man. >> justice was not served. but don't worry, what goes around comes around. sooner or later, peter liang, if not him in his lifetime, someone in his family is going to feel our pain. >> reporter: peter liang offered an apology to the family of akai gurley in court that shot in a darkened stairwell, his gun in his hand when there was no threat, a startled response that ended an innocent man's life. >> i apologize [ indiscernible ] i wish i could undo what happened. >> reporter: he was talking to melissa butler who was with gurley and tried to form cpr. she spoke in court over her loss but outside was overwhelmed with grief and disciplined as gurley's on spoke. >> this young lady here was with him when he took his last breath. how on earth can you guys say it's okay to murder and not be held accountable? >> reporter: the judge said it
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manslaughter and reduced the conviction to criminally negligent homicide. >> that was not an intentional act. this was an act of criminal negligence. and as such, i find that incarceration is not necessary. >> reporter: the sentence is five years probation and 800 hours of community service. a positive development for the former cop supporters who felt he had been scapegoated for other police misconduct. >> it is absolutely good news. but most of the people in the community still think that he should not have been indicted. >> reporter: in the hours after the sentencing, no sign of peter liang in his brooklyn neighborhood. the d.a. had originally suggested home confinement as part of the sentence but the judge went completely with community service, 800 hours could be completed in as little as five months. we're in bensonhurst, lou young, cbs2 news. nypd says a man was shot by police in downtown brooklyn
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police say four plainclothes officers came across a wanted man on second street and as they approached him, another man standing next to him pulled a gun from his waistband and then pointed it at officers. shots were fired and the suspect with the gun was hit on the hand. he took off, the nypd released this surveillance video showing the suspect entering a building on nassau while fleeing. >> there was a small pursuit into 237 nassau. after a short investigation, the mail was apprehended. >> the wanted man officers originally stopped was also arrested. the suspect's gun has not yet been recovered. more police officers and a brooklyn precinct under investigation in the nypd's gun licensing scandal. alex shaya lichtenstein was arrested yesterday accused of bribing police to get gun permits, the 44-year-old reportedly got 150 permits and
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66th precinct. the retired nypd detective says it is going to be tough tracking down all those illegally permitted guns. >> the correct way to do this is go back for the last 10 years and see who has been getting permits, if they should have been or not. unfortunately this is going to be a huge undertaking but you've got to do it. >> lichtenstein is out of jail on $500,000 bond. and while the nypd's internal affairs bureau plans to process. new tonight after nearly a decade, an arrest in staten island's ninja burglar crime spree, the suspect was wanted for nearly two dozen home robberies between 2007 and 2008. the alleged burglar got his nickname for the clothes he wore during these crimes. accused of making off with thousands of dollars in cash and valuables. a school bus driver on long island is under arrest tonight accused of selling heroin. authorities say the 26-year-old
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buyer after hours, near to high schools. maldane pleaded not guilty to charges that included criminal sale of a controlled substance, he is now currently out on bail. new at 11, police search for the suspect who attacked, robbed and held an elderly woman hostage in the bronx. police say the 84-year-old was followed into her apartment building after returning from church yesterday. when she tried to enter her apartment, the suspect grabbed her, still at least $200 and held at knife point for two and a half hours. the victim's son says his mom is still shaken by the whole thing. >> she put the key in the latch, you could -- he charged her and knocked her over, choked her. he finally was convinced there was no money left, my mother exhausted everything, she asked sandwich. >> after he took the sandwich, the suspect took off with a bottle of liquor. the victim has some bruising to
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police in new jersey are looking for bands of pickpockets working the grocery store aisles. cbs2's ali bauman has the exclusive security video of the thieves in the act. >> reporter: they scour the aisles looking for that next swipe like on april 1 in this paramus shoprite you can see a big bucket dressed in black walking away with an elderly shopper's wallet while she tells police his partner had been distracting her with smalltalk. four days later, a man and woman dressed in black strolled through that same-store, police believe in search of an unsuspecting victim and once they find her, alert their partner dressed in blue here to come in. he pretends to shop for nearly 10 minutes before the aisle is clear enough to strike. and he almost gets away with snatching a wallet from the person but a security guard catches him and he takes off. >> we're always focusing on groups that come through here but unfortunately the pattern isn't always the same. >> reporter: detectives do not think these crews are connected
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big, busy crowds are easy targets. >> that's normally what the target, people that are distracted, people that have other things going on. cell phone ringing. >> reporter: police say the easiest way to avoid falling victim to one of these schemes is not to leave your purse in here but to hold onto it. >> i never do. usually i wear a shoulder bag. today, you caught me. >> reporter: if you've been to the supermarket lately, you know pocketbooks sitting in cards are a pretty common site. >> people always tell me i leave my purse right to the cart and they tell me not to do that. >> reporter: police want to change habits, they also advise using a bag with a zipper to make it harder for predators to reach him. in paramus, allie bauman, cbs2 news. new jersey transit service is back on schedule after brushfires caused delays for several hours earlier, one fire in secaucus burned close to railroad tracks, drivers on the turnpike could see the flames spreading through that dry brush. the fire burned out about 100
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other side of the river. >> lonnie quinn is here now. the weather has been maybe a little too good. we need some rain. we could use some rain, not over the next 24 hours, going to be part of the forecast so we'll get into everything, first we check out the weather watchers and what they are serving up. and let's go to my home state of connecticut, who is there? stand lives there, 60 degrees right now, what does stand have to say? better today as it was cooler yesterday, too hot, too soon. yesterday 82, i think you remember me talking about this, the average reading what we typically pick up at the end of june, almost into july is when you typically see 82. let's embrace our springtime, let's not wish it away, just one of the greatest seasons, so many people love the spring, it's like a state of mind. pitcher outside, clear sky overhead, 59 degrees, take a peek at the high temp, 73. so nine degrees cooler than yesterday but still a good 10 clicks warmer than we typically get this time of year at 63. headlines look like this, the
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today, still with us tonight, now, the red flag warning has been allowed to expire but we still see some dust out there, still a very dry air mass, so look, you still have to be concerned with any kind of open flame. near-normal temperatures for tomorrow, which showed you our cities would be normal, mid 60s tomorrow, but again 82 to 73, down to 65 tomorrow. i'll show you how that trend is going to stop because we will be back to the 70s by the week's and but that's when we will get some rain in this area, that's what maurice was talking about, we do need someone weather and we're not going to see it tonight, nice and clear out there, bigger picture is go to show you know problems for your day on wednesday, we're going to watch these systems making a trek in our direction. i don't even think thursday is going to bring weather. your day on thursday will be fine. high-pressure in control, by the time you get thursday, starts to edge offshore a little bit. a few more clouds in by the time you get into your afternoon hours on thursday, what weather maybe a few leading raindrops, late thursday night after 10:00 p.m.
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someone weather by the time you get to your day on friday. again, this is a cold front, so you get that surge of warm air for friday. some models are pumping out 80 degree readings for friday. i'm going to go upper 70s, but that's not an impossibility. planning on mostly pleasant week, the one hiccup is going to be late friday, or late thursday and friday, i just showed you what weather out there, the clouds are rolling as well. rebound pretty nicely for saturday, 66 tomorrow, abundant sunshine by the afternoon but again, sort of carbon -- carving degrees for three days now, 82 down to 73. down to 66 but then we go back up to 74 on thursday. and thursday looks pretty good during the daytime hours and then you will see more clouds, could be a late-night show, better chance for rain on friday at 77. saturday, 69, some of those clouds are going to linger for saturday, 67 on sunday. so not a bad weekend at all. maybe not quite as stellar as what you had last week in but this is a pretty good weekend for this time of your. >> you bet.
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tomorrow, machines attorney general will announce the first criminal charges connected to the flint water crisis. associated press is reporting charges will be filed against state environmental officials and a water treatment plant supervisor, flint's water system has been contaminated with lead for nearly a year and a half. springtime means ice cream trucks are back on city streets. but one of them is getting a cold shoulder from neighbors. cbs2's ilana gold shows us why. >> >> reporter: this ice cream truck has drawn plenty of attention in tribeca. and it's not for the treats. >> i thought i was losing my mind. >> reporter: the familiar theme blasted most of saturday and sunday night until 11:00. one of them recorded from their apartment on the 16th floor. others tell us they heard it windows shut. how long was this truck? >> well, i'm almost on the top
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outside. >> reporter: families claim this was going on for a half- hour at a time. that's a violation of the new york city code because ice cream trucks are not allowed to play music while parked. >> i think this is ridiculous. >> probably going to wake up kids in the neighborhood and be hard to put them back to sleep. they hear it so loudly. >> reporter: many of the people say they want to know what they can do to get the storms to stop. we took this question to the city. the city says call 311 when you hear the music or report it to the website, nyc.gov. there's actually a section called noise from an ice cream truck. give the time, location and truck description so inspectors can be dispatched and possibly issue a ticket. so far this year, 279 complaints have been made across the city. last year? 1760. have you ever heard an ice cream truck that loud? >> never. >> reporter: even though this loud truck has not been a disruption to every family here, -- >> it didn't bother me. i love the music. >> reporter: those who can't bear to hear it for another
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hoping to get this music turned down. in tribeca, ilana gold, cbs2 news. >> well, a new jersey art dealer is facing thousands of dollars in fines and possibly 90 days in jail. for displaying a painting of a woman's backside. here is the image. at the center of the debate now inglewood gallery owner laura board is shoot -- suing the city saying lawmakers interfered with her right to free speech. when they tried to force her to take the painting out of the storefront window. city leaders claimed borghi is breaking a city ordinance to prevent nudity to be displayed within public view. borghi disagrees. >> i felt violated. why am i being subject to this, for me, insanity? >> inglewood leaders have not answered our calls for comment despite repeated attempts. let's get over to otis livingston. >> the mets say thank you very much for the brotherly love. another beat down in philly and
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it away. welcome back, everyone. the rangers certainly got an emotional shot in the arm with ryan mcdonagh somehow in the lineup, seeing his first action in two weeks but they would need some other kind of shots to beat the penguins tonight, there he was, captain providing a little inspiration and leadership, pick this one up with no score in the second, penguins on the power play, here comes rick nash, shorthanded, top corner of the net, 1-0 lead. final minute of the second, rangers are shorthanded again, this time in burns, sidney crosby at the doorstep, 1-1 it's the penguins who break the tie after two rangers collided, right there. yeah, matt cullen skates into henrik lundqvist.
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series lead. >> it's disappointing to come home after a really strong performance in pittsburgh. but it is the first of four. they've always been good on the road. we have to respect that and like i said, come back with a really strong performance from 21 guys in the next game. >> right now to the yankees, michael pineda has had an ounce even start the season, six runs in his first game but won. then didn't pitch well, just two runs in his second start but lost. as john sterling with say, you can't reject baseball solve -- baseball, susan. a-rod came to the game with only one hit, on the year with second with rbi single in the first, yankees up 1-0. tied at one in the fifth, starlin castro doubled to left. i know it's early but castro is batting almost 30 points higher than his average. brett gardner stopped at third but your scored to give the yankees the lead. pineda, another solid start, two runs over six innings. gardner trying his best in the
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glove. daniel valencia gets triple, he would later score to tie it at two. same score in the 11th. past the diving gregorius to drive in the winning run, 3-2 80s. met staying hot in philadelphia. how hot? michael conforto starting it off with a two run jack in the first, that's one. yoenis cespedes gets involved with a three-run shot in the third, that's two. neil walker, the jack of a solo variety, that's the third of the night for the mets. lucas duda getting in on the act, two straight nights with a home run for him, that's four. neil walker is not done yet, for the night. and finally, curtis granderson joins the act, six home runs for the mets on the night. 11-1 the final. tomorrow. >> the nailbiter. >> don't spend it all in one place. thanks, otis. >> let's update you on the story we told you about earlier this month, escaped while being
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slaughterhouse, has a new home now in upstate new york. this determined animal is settling in at farm sanctuary in watkins glen, already making some new friends apparently. his daring run to freedom caught the attention of several animal advocates. including jon stewart, who briefly took care of frank at his farm in new jersey. >> all is well. >> happily ever after. >> thanks for joining us tonight. >> coming up next, "the late show with stephen colbert". >> his guests, kevin spacey and paul ryan. good night. >> stephen: hi. stephen colbert here. yesterday, the band pearl jam announced they were cancelling their show in north carolina to protest that state's controversial new law curbing l.g.b.t. right.
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