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>> now on "chasing news." >> in zimbabwe park he has been identified as the same man that took the lion down. c this is the return to the ugly american. seen it this man's life is going to be rude and he's one of thousands that have been the same thing. >> this is why we can't have nice things. somebody packed up the christopher columbus monument and spray painted his face black and signed the number 13. who did it is the question. it's hard to say that a lot of mysteries. >> your traditional artist his
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campus huge chunks of wood and the pieces of tree and logs. his paintbrush is however our chainsaws. you think people would be wary of stealing from a man who uses a chainsaw for a living but on friday that's exactly what happened. >> the new york daily news in minnesota dentist dr. walter palmer the most hated man in america for gunning down not just a lion with a protected lion. what have you got? >> cecil is a prize land in zimbabwe's national park and is being studied by a gps tracker by oxford university. a dentist for minnesota by the name of walter james palmer paid $55,000 for the hunt has been identified as the man who took the same client down in a cruel manner. cecil was lured right tying a dead animal to the car they were tracking a man and shot with an arrow. cecil was wounded and tracked for 40 hours until he was
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ultimately shot dead with a rifle. after that he was scanned and. this is such a big issue an assemblyman in new jersey is doing everything he can to curb the senseless killings and 10 uses is proposing a bill that would ban transporting of game trophies of endangered animals and threatened animals to airports run by the port authority of new jersey and new york. for more we had assemblyman tim eustis here via skype. can you tell us about your bill and what you hope it will do? >> the bill hopefully will stop the transit of these trophy parts or the animals from other countries into the u.s.. the point is it's unnecessary to spend $55000 to kill an old 13 years old an old old lion. these practices are barbaric. >> this has been going on for decades. there is poaching of elephants going on constantly. why does this man have to be the
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poster child for bad african hunters? >> you are not allowed to kill lions in kenya. the people we worked with have a long history of killing lions to protect themselves and to prove their manhood and they're not killing lions. this is an embarrassment. this is the return to the ugly american. >> this was a protected reserve. this line should not even hunted and that is why they lured him off of the reserve to do this ugly killing and that's why the other people with him the trackers are facing criminal charges. >> what i want to do is although we can solve. if all states there's no reason we shouldn't stand up and say again we don't want to be the ugly american and at some point you have to say enough is enough. >> the one animal he has taken down when he is taken down dozens. he cannot find in 2008 for doing it in minnesota. >> he crossed the line.
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>> i'm not disagreeing with you. or i'm saying is this man's life is going to be ruined when he is one of thousands of people hooked who have done the same thing and that's wrong. high-speed chase. what have you got? >> police are searching for man who broke to 25 year woman outside of her upper east side appointment -- apartment two weeks ago. the suspect approached on east 89th in new york avenue grabbed her inappropriately and went on his way. he fled towards new york avenue and police are describing him as between the ages of 25 and 35 between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 11 inches. he was last seen wearing a yankee cap blue shirt and blue jeans. anyone with information should call. >> seen on surveillance taking a bite from the university science department building. they saw a person with a key card and you see them breaking a chain and taking the bike and leaving. no details released on what kind of bike that was but if you
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recognize either one of these boys please contact the columbia public police. >> for lifetime in the balance in the suffolk county town early sunday morning as three teens were turning him from a party knocked on the wrong door. an off duty state trooper ended up answering with gunfire. i went up here to check out the neighborhood whispering along called the sack with nice beautiful well spaced apartment homes where the shipper lived. no one would talk to mean a neighborhood in the police are keeping guard on the trooper's home. from talking to the families along with the attorney general's office investigating this with their shooting response team we piece the story together. here's what happened according to the attorney general's office. three teens were looking for a friend's house on the street. when they stopped here by accident area knocking on the door front and back they awoke
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the sleeping trooper who confronted them and there was a verbal altercation according to the attorney general. when they fled the house he pursued them with his personal weapon. they fled in the car down the street which happens to be a cul-de-sac. when they came back here that is when the shots rang out. >> this is in a parents worst nightmare. ask lindsey baker whose son was the driver of the car. >> i was frantic. i do know is going on and if my son and her had the car and he was out he was due to be back soon but at the time he was until i couldn't get to him. >> and you understand why a person whether trooper or not would be alarmed by someone knocking on the door at 1:30 in the morning? >> i understand that's totally unacceptable and i would be alarmed too. >> right now in c. baker just
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want answers. >> great job alex and thank you for that but think about it there's an attorney general investigation on this. what do you make of this? >> knock knock, everything you would be knock knock shoot shoot teenagers 18 or 19 years old young adults running away and shooting your personal weapon towards them. >> do think that was a misunderstanding? sibile's kids were the one who called the police. the trooper called them as well but the kids thought something was going on. >> the trooper is also a cop and he set home with his family and these kids have no business knocking on doors. he responded he didn't kill anybody. how do you know he didn't think it was a burglar? how do you know they wouldn't hurt his family?
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if he wanted to kill them he would have. you just let yourself use trained. he he shouldn't have to fire his gun when their kids running away. >> generally speaking if you're trying to rob a house you don't knock on the door first. maybe they have their work cut out for them for sure. >> ronica cleary here chasing governor christie across the state and beyond. a recent monmouth university poll created by patrick murray looks at likely new hampshire republican primary voters. they found 24% would support donald trump 12% jeb was in 4% chris christie. a recent event in new hampshire governor christie was asked about the poll. he not only took jabs at the poll but also behind the poll. >> you should know by now that a poll is -- just look at patrick
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murray. is funded by a former liberal owner of the asbury park press. there are polls and there are polls. >> i'm sure -- i am here at monmouth university where i got to speak to patrick murray and get his reaction. >> our job is to be the voice of the public and we do it well. sometimes both sides of the aisle unhappy with what we have pointed out. >> what do you think? was a poll fair? woodmere thoughts and for updates chasing down the governor follow me on twitter @chasing ronica. >> and went to bridgeton and cumberland county new jersey to meet with renowned brian act monster ackley. act monster isn't your traditional -- huge chunks of wood and pieces of wood and logs his paintbrushes however our
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chainsaws. i walked around his property to check out some of his amazing work. >> this is your average bear made with a chainsaw. >> you think people would be wary of stealing from a man who uses a chainsaw for a living but on friday that's exactly what happened. all of his chainsaws were stolen and of his work shed. he told me what happened. >> took the sledgehammer. my sledgehammer. >> his sledgehammer? >> off come the locks and then they go. and then you snippet here and that entire wall the generator and toolbox grinders.
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>> the silver lining is that the story went viral. the community rallied around him and started coming to his house donating money and even chainsaws they had their house and he could continue to do his work to he was blown away by the response. and he is not a people person. >> i heart was small and now it's three sizes too big. it has restored my faith in humanity and there are good people out there and they need to be recognized for being good people. >> completely free hand on a rock piece of wood and with this chainsaw he was making art right in front of us. stylish and safe. stylish and safe.
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i don't think i -- so that was good. it was an interesting tool to create art with but it felt manly to say the least. >> how is that? >> good for first time. is commissioned by parks and recreation department along the eastern seaboard and going to demonstrate for people. he's paid to demonstrate. he will be gone for 10 days. he has tools now from the money in the tools donated. >> i'm not surprised the committee came out to help. it's cool when you have an artist in your midst doing something unusual. people want to help a guy at this who is doing something cool. >> chainsaw carver. >> amateur chainsaw carver. never let me do that again. >> the new christopher columbus american heritage club base.
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1300-meter run before crossing the finish line. he amassed a roaring crowd finishes the race. he falls over and keeps going. [applause] >> people are a mess. this is why we can't have nice things. somebody tagged the new christopher columbus at the american heritage club. they spray-painted the explorers face black and signed up with the number 13. >> i get it, you are mad. why were we not here when the guy did it? >> i'm telling you as good as gold i didn't do it and i wouldn't do it.
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>> john as it took a couple of years to raise $18,000 it cost. >> that this whole thing up. before i talked to john about this nastiness the better thing to do would to get a sandwich and sit down over food and talk about this with a couple of gentlemen. where are my manners? >> i talked to mrs. chiarella. she says. >> lack of respect for anyone. they have no respect for anything these days. >> you should have told me. i would have calmed my hair and put some makeup on. >> sandwich in hand i headed back to the italian-american club to see what could be salvaged.
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>> we are going to try to remove it. if you can be removed will have to make some kind of a mixture that can be painted on. >> who did it is the question and the police say they are working on it but despite the black face they can't say for sure that vandalism is racially motivated and what about the 13? could it be a faction of the ms-13 gang said to be active in trenton? is hard to say but a lot of mystery and none is in custody. >> the thing is a white face paint it is inherently incendiary. when we talk about the history of new jersey guesstimated the garden state? we are talking about columnists and talking about people talking about slaves who made new jersey garden state is but they are not acknowledge. there's a lot of history when it comes to new jersey. >> i can agree with some of that but that doesn't get us any closer to who did it or why.
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they don't have a suspect and they're not sure of the motivation. >> are they taking it seriously? >> of course they there are but they don't have an answer yet rated one persons livable space may be another person's art but spray-painting a statue with black face though you may call it a political statement is cheap vandalism. >> it was done in an italian-american place. >> they called the police and they're letting the police do their job. >> diaspora hand in her hand in marriage and she turned him down. this man along with four others had thrown acid all over her.
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us? >> that's a positive ring not a negative thing. >> forget about the grumpy cat, earl the grumpy proper -- puppy is the cutest pug lie of ever seen. i need to monetize the durability moment but something tells me with 13,000 followers on facebook earle has a better social media page than i do. great job are you. >> that's a good girl. >> on vacation, i had your job now. allison you are chasing the hero of the week. not only is she overcome struggles but she is thriving. >> almost 10 years ago monica had her world turned upside down when she became the victim of an acid attack at the time she was 19 and studying at the institute of fashion technology in india.
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a longtime suitor had asked for her hand in marriage however monica was doing what she wanted getting her education in pursuing a career in fashion they had. >> i was 19 years old and he wanted to marry him and leave anything behind. >> as a result she turned it down. as she was driving one day this man along with four others like her car down and two of those five men had thrown acid all over her. >> how on earth one could imagine that someone could do that. >> doctors were sure she would survive. her torso and face were completely destroyed and she needed lifesaving constructive surgery. her mother covered her mirrors to prevent her from psychological damage that could occur. after 46 surgeries in 10 years
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the nonprofit make love not scars helped to raise money so she could comes united states and finish what she started to. >> anger is something that i don't want to waste energy on. right now my energy is -- which i have done. >> she is beginning her second second year of second year of persons with design in new york city where she is stunning fashion marketing. her dream is to become a fashion designer with another base in india so she can help girls at home. she and her brother rounded the mahendra singh foundation named after her father who had recently passed. some nongovernment organization that provides a too active attack victims as well as other women. >> if something happens to anyone that is the medicine of their life gave. >> what happened to the man that did this to her? >> demand that planted a wet able to prove that he had any relation. the two men that are sickly through the acid were prior convicts that they were easy to try and present. >> we are in a sticky area in
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countries such as india and afghanistan and pakistan were the men are becoming enterprising and having a voice for the first time. it seems like it happens often when the simple no -- >> it's not one person or two people at about 1500 a year that are attacked with acid. >> she made the right decision turning down the person who did this to her. >> my favorite day of the week check out the combo shaking up nyc. >> ♪ >> this is a fox 29 news update. >> hi, everyone, i'm fox 29's chief meteorologist, scott williams. rain it has moved out. sunshine is moving in. it's going to stay hot for your friday but not as humid. we're looking at temperatures by 8 o'clock 80 degrees.
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