now on tracy news. >> association encouraging members to put up on social media pictures of the decline of the city, mainly homelessness. >> they don't view it as a person but a problem. >> it's an infringement on the privacy of these people who have are at the rock-bottom part of their life. >> staten island lawyer is looking to reinstate the ancient case he calls caught totally absurd. >> not go to trial by combat.

>> fatality by the police department captured by thomas, he was arrested for resisting arrest. >> so were chasing a story in new york about problem that has gotten as bad as it's been in 20 years, homelessness. >> that's right bill so bad that sergeant e-mailed members on monday encouraging them and their family members and friends to put up on social media pictures of what they are calling the decline of the city, mainly homelessness. put up pictures they did. a flickr account went viral and crazy with pictures of homeless all over the city. so i came here in midtown new york where i spoke to bobby watts was the executive

director, the people who are's speaking for the homeless who can't speak for themselves. >> this initiative raises awareness and determination to implement strategies and programs that we know are successful. >> today awareness is all the rage, people dumped ice on their head. >> people know it's a big problem they don't nest really want to see it, when they do and their faces like this they get something called passion fatigue may need their overwhelmed by the side of this that they can't possibly help. >> i want to focus on and i hope people when they see a homeless person on the street that they see this as not only a person but a problem that needs our help and anna country as rich as ours that's the problem not just the homeless person is not the problem.

>> we saw people slipping on pizza boxes on greenwich village. this has asked really helped, this guys trying to get him off the street, when you take these photos i think think in a way you say it's an in frenchman on the privacy of these people who have hit rock bottom part of their life. i think it's important to create awareness, people need to recognize homelessness exist, but maybe like preston maybe he didn't want his story expose. >> is there any sense that this is just a little backlash against palacios, like friends of the cops and were sick of it, we want to highlight what the city looks like now. >> not according to people like bobby watts who said the blood zero took on a big problem under his administration and it's actually going down, although it's a huge problem is been a huge problem. >> high-speed chains. >> check out this video and

bricktown and route 88 and jackson bowl of boulevard. a black jeep wrangler and an acura were mouthing out to each other when they met at an intersection and got into an altercation. a 39-year-old 39-year-old white male was stabbed three times and the assailants run off in the acura if you recognize any of these three individuals please contact us. >> please are looking for a man whose used razor blades at dunkin' donuts on two separate occasions. make in a way of cash from the register anyone who can identify this man, this man, late 20s, 5-foot 9 inches black hair, muscular build, ray-ban sunglasses please contact crimestoppers.

>> diana your chasing a story about a lawyer who wants to settle a dispute a child by combat. >> forget the evidence and bring in the armor and its real-life games of thrown people and it could be coming to a new york courtroom. >> this is what i do all day long. >> meet staten island lawyer who is looking to reinstate the ancient rule of combat a federal case he calls totally absurd. >> as absurd as it may sound we may have court sanctioned to dueling is not as absurd and still has more legal bearing. >> it's a dispute from two years ago when representatives on the losing side between two investment firms disappeared following a judgment never paying a $560,000 order by the court. the investment firm is now going after him alleging that he's the one hiding the

clients money. >> were outside the law so i thought to myself, why not go to trial by comment. based on the game of thrones and i did some legal research and found that try by combat is really technically still on the books. >> that was like plan b. >> so while it remains legal under the u.s. constitution parliament blocked the attempt in 1774. i wanted to see what type of combat it went, at a match began be between a bowtie wearing lawyer myself. >> totally distractcted by my winning. >> so he's doing this to highlight the fact that the. >> right you meet absurdity with absurdity. >> men recognize laws that were on the books before the united states became a nation when we

are still a british colony, that doesn't necessarily mean it's automatically on the books and that he can do this because maybe in the 200 some years since we passed laws they could be like assault the. >> i think it's funny that he's treating ridiculousness with ridiculousness. it's absurd, what i think it's so funny is that i'm reading this article that he would settle for the case. >> he's hoping that the judge will just throughout the case, the sabin going on for two years now and nothing else's work. ♪ this is my life song double mocha rachel pines fight song

has been plain all over the radio and inspiring people across the country. i chase the story to the children specialized hospital in new new brunswick where children and staff were making their own music video to their song putting on their fight faces and showing people how strong they are. >> are you looking at the camera question mark. >> this is why you're going to be president. >> this is why i had the honor of speaking to one of the stars, her name is eva. she has a whole lot of personality. >> eva, is seven years old i asked her how she felt about the video. >> i was proud of myself. >> eva has been through a tough journey, and april they found out she had a benign tumor and her mother knew something was not quite right when she noticed her daughters hand was shaking. >> she stopped tying her shoes,

she stopped eating dessert she could hold the plate. >> it took us two surgeries in one week to get this tumor completely removed. she has had to learn how to eat, talk, talk, walk all over again. she has come a long way in a short time a check this out, it's it's during the making of this video that she took her first step so it's a very inspiring song. >> it's a great story it's anything that can inspire kids in this type of situation, and inspires me. the song is just the pits but what the kids did with it rocks. >> is so sad to think that organizations like make-a-wish that help kids like this but so often it goes forgotten when you're not experiencing it yourself. it's nice to see social media campaigns that

raise awareness. >> by civilly watching and sharing the video, taken your best biface selfie with # biface. were going to keep this movement going so come together, were going to take us selfie with our best biface and posted on my for the kids. >> i'll do it. >> you have to put on your fight face guys. ♪ this is my fight song double mocha. >> if you can get away with making an arrest from administration and misdemeanor in new york state i look at this video.

>> another day in the life of the chase. >> we report the news because when it comes down to it, it's not just about the story,

>> hey what are you doing question mark. >> this woman one and 18 millie

jury verdict against wall street boss for bullying amongst many other things, she just wrote personal accounts of her in cosmopolitan magazine. she says she will be haunted by the rest of her life and feel forever paranoid with the expenses she encountered. she is considering a name change for how she feel as are damaged for life. >> governor is also a celebrity shaft in her own right. she's been very public against her fight against breast cancer. she has taken to facebook to say that she is going back under the knife under an altercation with a double mastectomy she had in may. she was rushed to the hospital which she discovered she had an infection and so she compared

her situation to a tennis match saying the ball is in her court and she needs to give it a backhand so please keep sandra and her family in your thoughts. >> we have a shocking video for you of alleged please brutality. >> backup i'm just videotaping. >> the incident was captured by thomas dement's, it's been reported that he was being arrested for obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest. his attorney said his client was in fact arrested dead for filming the incident. he's now suing the police department for false arrest. we have joe in the studio via skype. he read is a retired detective

sergeant. is it actually possible to commit a crime by filming an arrest question mark. >> get in the way of making it a rest, is a misdemeanor in new york state and he will be arrested for it. >> you need to backup. >> what you think about how this is being characterized, i look at this and i think i think that the people who are involved with a cop are the aggressors, i can clearly see the guy in blue rushed to the cop and not come over it looks like the cop used a lot of restraint here. >> i look at the video and i don't see anything wrong with the cop. if you look into what the one guy said that they're definitely the aggressors and i think the cop did a great job holding back, maybe the videotape had something to do with it. >> when citizens film please action it actually does help,.

>> it but it's epidemic now always sees these fight videos and it turns into mass hysteria. the aclu turned into an app but you specifically tape please encounter and it automatically uploads it to the aclu website. >> the problem is it's making the cop has a ten and it's going to cost the cop's life. >> what were any of the other people charged with. >> looking at here, the allegation by the man who built the arrest, i don't don't know the background on the of arrest on the other people. but i do know this man was arrested unfairly for filming the arrest. there is interaction between him and the officer and he does involve himself. >> you're getting arrested right

now. >> i didn't do anything. >> is going to be a tough decision on this in the near future it will outline when and how people can record it. this guy is actually talking to the cops and the suspects in this case too. i think they have a good case against him. >> heading to the bronx that's inside 4720 it is a. i don't know you want to touch that. >> go with caution.

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the challenge on saturday, i'm going to nominate my friend hank from chasing news and i have to take it up, thank god it's not december nothing like cold cold ice bucket challenge so guys you must not take up the challenge as well. congrats. >> another version of the crib is here this time i headed to the bronx and went inside 4720 bruckner avenue bruckner avenue and i can tell you it is a castle. a castle in the bronx, it is the exact replica of the castle in croatia. you feel like you're back in medieval times as soon as you walk into. right there is called the confessional when you walk in. >> i think that's what were

gonna go up. >> so the realtor started showing me around the house, first the living room all we could talk about was a huge fireplace, the wood beans and bookshelves in the with talked about the windows. >> okay that's a hope castle thing. >> at the thing. >> that we went into the kitchen i was totally redone and modern, it's a very different feel from the rest of the room and the tour it which is the circular part of the outside of the castle. had lookout windows which i thought were so adorable. >> they are adorable, i think they're adorable. >> now to the second floor, first stop. >> where was this done? >> okay now to the second floor

first stored the master's quarters. oh my gosh! that is so cool you would think that would be in the frontnt dor not the master bedroom. it's two closets, high ceilings, great view of the garden, actually you can see a perfect shot of carly simon's house where she grew up. >> wow. >> on the second play there's three more bedrooms a and across the hall from the masters. >> it looks like this place needs work. >> okay we turned around and head downstairs and that's when we went into the basement also known as the dungeon. when you go into the garage you see these two huge amazing wooden doors with original handles on them all you're not kidding. >> i don't think you one touch that. >> look at this old-fashioned

lock. >> how much. >> 3.55 million. >> what i mean that is way over. >> i do have to say is much as i know it's a castle and a lot of money, every single thing of inside that house is brand-new. >> would. >> would you live there. >> 1000%. [laughter] >> i can't believe it works is so cool. >> ♪ >> this is a fox 29 news update. >> hi, everyone, i'm fox 29's chief meteorologist, scott williams. after a lot of rainfall during the day on tuesday get ready for a wonderful wednesday. talking low humidity. pretty comfortable conditions, 74 degrees at 9 o'clock. by 1:00, 82, expect a high temperature right around

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