now on chasing news. >> melissa messier public knowledge that her high school. when it came time for graduation there is a great changing policy. >> their changing grades behind our back. >> the greedy administrators money is not working. >> some residents want to change this town's name. >> we don't want to change it. >> what the hell is a booty? >> i'm losing my mind. >> kinky boots is a smashing success, that my lady boots down. the men who wear the kinky boots.

>> were chasing the story at a high school where one student who wanted to fail, didn't. >> this student melissa mejia publicly acknowledged that she wanted to fail a class and that there was a grade changing scandal at her high school. it has shaken up the entire new york city education system. she publicly knowledged in an article she wrote for the post that she wanted to fail high school. she did fail one class but it went came time for graduation she passed the class. the teacher admitted she was pressured to pass her, so i went to bryant high school in long island, i talked to peter meyer who was a teacher there and the president of the former parent association.

they told me it starts with the governor and goes down to the chancellor, superintendent and then the principal start pressuring teachers using various tactics. >> our principal would chase down teachers to improve the graduation rate, their their changing grades behind our back and it's just a tragedy. >> in 2013, he reported to the superiors and they retaliated against him. >> i came into the school and i said i was i was going to the main office and they had me sit in for six hours and 15 minutes. basically doing nothing at one point they gave me 5000 sheets of of paper and told me to stack them in stacks of five, ten, 15 and 20. >> the former association president is outraged because

he's been warned about this for several years. >> the fbi and attorney general's office should step in and find out why this epidemic has been continuing. >> so they can thank melissa for highlighting this issue. >> it's one thing to push these kids to graduate with her not prepared, less than half of these kids graduate college so it serves no good purpose except for these greedy administrators who want to get state funds which is in the millions of dollars. >> they're not getting it for themselves they're getting it through the schools, i don't know if you call it greedy or not. >> the issue happens when they start in first grade and second grade and they're not learning the things that there need to learn and they're getting passed on. >> the whole thing is so broken you have people making six figures income it's why parents are upset and they are to be. >> check out this video you can

see him. through a window, please say he stole money, jewelry, and electronics from five apartments in manhattan he almost went into the six but when the owner looked out the window she saw this guy hanging out on the fire escape. if you have information you can reported to crimestoppers. >> boudin what synonym name bill, hey it's hank i'm hadnot two boudin township where some people want to change the town's name. i can't imagine why when your tiles name is moots in.

>> hey hank where you from? from luton. >> okay there's actually a group i'll be at a small one that's trying to change the 148 of the township but as bill and charlie say just leave it be. >> that's where were coming from, that's why it says moon township forever. we don't want to have a name change were proud of the name were proud of the people and there's absolutely no reason to change it. >> i reached on the phone to the man behind the name change but he didn't really talk about the proposal. >> i am not ready to give any statement at this time. >> i don't know we needed to authorize them but it said to be an effort of rebranding the town and pumping up property values.

another town in the country robbinsville, changed its name from washington township seven years ago the mayor said it's good. >> yeah i think it's good we now have our own brand in our own identity. you look at some of the other towns in the county and they have a decrease in property value while we have seen an increase of 15%. >> it was washington township, boudin is only one of two, he says your name as your identity. some part of who you are why should the town be any different. >> it's on president. >> by the end of the day it's

not likely to happen anyway. the petitioners have two weeks to get hundreds of signatures just to get a proposal in front of voters. the township council says it's unanimous against any name change. it's not likely to happen. >> at woodland park used to be wes patterson, so there, they spent years as west paterson trying to separate from patterson. high crime, tough area. that made maybe a little sense but now you have boudin in boone township there almost identical, it's a quaint little downtown,. >> and the township is much more rule. >> i have one question for you what the hell hack is a boudin? >> that's a great question. >> sale four times and it becomes the type of meditation. >> i'm losing my mind. >> here at governor andrew

sandra lee was rushed to the hospital late last night. allegedly having complications for her double vasectomy. new york news is saying that she's having complications from a fluid buildup it's hard to understand what she's going through without talking to an expert. >> more and more working, there going to surgery and taking some time we off they're working around their schedule and still going to their meetings. >> one important thing he noted was in a perfect world that we would love it if surgeries did not have complications but in these cases of breast cancer surgery, that's really, really the case. we'll keep you updated on how she's doing right here and chasing us. >> there is a campaign fundraiser for chris christie on

tuesday night. mary pat and reduced her husband and said they raised over $1.3 million for the campaign. christie spoke about three things, his past, how he is running for president, everyone was buzzing about the debate. just before the fundraiser started everyone was talking about christie made the top ten for that debate spot. >> [applause]. >> so we now have the republican strategist with us to give us some insight on this debate. >> how was he received in your perception among other republicans about people who make the difference in this

primary? >> number one donald trump a second up all the oxygen right now, i think that that bubble will burst, people will find out that trump was for that horrendous supreme court decision in kilo that was going to take away private property and give it to other folks for economic development. he was pro-choice, he gave money to nancy pelosi and harry reid. if as. if as people find out more about his opposition, i believe he will fall. >> does that help christie or bush? >> it's not binary. here's what chris christie needs to do he needs to reintroduce himself to the voters of america he needs to show that he is for something i will accomplish things. >> i want to ask you about what we can expect for thursday night? the debate has been a succession

of trying to conserve to the appeal to the conservative base. >> a good one-liner can take the attention the next day this is a marathon not a sprint. people will do more to disqualify themselves tomorrow night then to qualify themselves. >> grab a beer and watch the show. >> thank you,. >> there's information coming out about the brutal killing of georgina beidler, they came to her home 11 separate times. >> my grandson saw him

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we are never moving to the suburbs. we are never getting one of those (minivan). we are never having another kid. i'm pregnant. i am never letting go. for all the nevers in life state farm is there. >> more american than that. >> here's a video of of jimmy fallon going over the pros and cons of the geo p debate taking place on thursday. >> pro, republican voters will be formally introduced. >> then he moves on to joke about our opener chris christie. >> pro he promises to keep his debate balance, can't that's why they're putting chris christie on one part of the stage and everyone else on the other.

>> you are chase and sad tragic story about a young woman who was killed by her husband, that have young kids and it was entirely preventable. more more information keeps coming out about the brutal killing of 32-year-old georgina niekro. as you may remember she drop kids off at daycare came home to his sleeping wife and then bludgeoned her to death. >> he failed to run and is now in custody, he's been formally charged with her murder and is being held on $700,000 bail. the two bail. the two years leading up to her killing, police officers were called to the home 11 separate times. these calls were for harassment arguments, and domestic violence. what is violence. what is it too much? when you state authorities step in. i spoke to her mother days after her daughter was killed and asked about what she knew.

>> the first time i think even the family realized he was a controlling person, was when he visited us in chicago and my grandson saw him punch her in the stomach. >> can these be prevented and no one else step in to get involved? we should talk to jeffrey gardenia about why it's so hard to get away before the worst occurs. >> we see and domestic violence, especially situations where the man is the assailants on the other partner, the woman tends to develop a woman's battered syndrome. they feel absolutely helpless or hopeless to be able to get out of the situation. >> there's two sides to this it's domestic abuse and

violence, you've covered a lot of the sad heart wrenching stories in tragedy, but that's just one side. sometimes domestic violence goes on when nobody knows about it. in this case everyone knows about it. >> according to the national coalition of domestic abuse one in three women every year are exposed to domestic violence by an intimate partner. >> that's actually part of the problem if that number is still so big they are comparing something that may be very minor and small to a man who went after her with a knife that she need to be treated for. >> network and contemplating minor with what's acceptable. >> someone with someone who is verbally abuses is still abusive but there's a difference between that and someone who goes after his wife with a knife.

>> the first punch, the first abuses wrong, flat out. >> here's the question they're not going to start pulling kids and husbands and wives out of homes because something that happens on the scale way at the beginning. there's something that happens before that. by the time the time you get to a man attacking a woman with an knife it's time to do something. that's that's what i mean by scale. >> kinky boots is a smashing success, it's 16 tony awards and i went inside to get a behind-the-scenes look. >> so demand where the kinky boots? >> yes it's men dressed in drag wearing the kinky boots. >> a a a music: "thunder clatter" by wild cub ♪ ♪

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>> hey how about that. >> just when you thought the lip pumping, jenner trend was over, now from the jersey shore had lip injections and took to instagram and twitter and took a photo, she also posted a photo with doctor saying tried my first lip pumping and going back for more,. >> guys we all love awesome videos, the new movie with a there's a viral video with nassau county fire service accounting. next we make a human torch,. >> i'm assuming it's in a controlled environment. >> yeah they do training.

>> i don't even a hot open this. >> kinky boots is a smashing success, it's 1616 tony awards and i headed inside to get a behind-the-scenes look. >> i'm going in the dressing room where there all the weeks where the for the mental where it's really incredible. tons of colors, wow, wow what an amazing dressing room. spit back there that's where i'm at the dance captain,. >> that i look look kind of crazy i have skinny jeans on top and kinky boots deep. >> egg kinky boot has a high heel, it goes up pretty far and their glitzy and glamorous and fabulous. >> they the stories basically there are two men.

>> will begin with making a range of shoes for a range of men. >> and they basically collaborate together to sell kinky boots because there is a huge market for them, for men. they revive a new area. men who wear these it's men who are dressed in drake who wear these, it's a hot mess. >> we sell blouses and bras everything a regular lady would need, we need as well. >> it definitely takes a certain amount of posture and footwork, and placement in your body, you know where your hips are.

>> 5678. >> then i asked nathan to show me one of the routines of the show. >> is affirming, supportive song, song, the word say if you struggle to stand will lend a helping hand, it's a wonderful uplifting song. >> i would love to see a show sometime i bet it's a lot of fun, i have to say when i see summoning kinky boots they seem a little out of place. i think it's fun for the musical but i don't know how much i would would wear kinky boots on a daily basis. >> don't go there. >> did i give you an alter ego? >> know it's just me.

you say there's 50 shades of heels so. >> nice work. >> the bill cosby controversy continues. ♪ >> this is a fox 29 news update. >> hi everyone i'm fox 29's chief meteorologist scott williams. wednesday we made it to 89 degrees. so the heat wave it's over. for your thursday look for sunshine, giving way to clouds. a high of 86 degrees. on the news at 4:00 a.m. new timing about the system that will move in thursday night into friday. who will see the most rain? sue has you covered starting at 4:00 a.m. ♪ oh, no.

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