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>> now, on "chasing news" -- >> as the political climate heats up, so does the jersey climate, and resident at the trump plaza jersey city have no pool to help maintain their pool. >> the pool's closed. >> it's closed? >> do the residents think it's on purpose, trump is like, i'm really pissed at the residents of this place. >> could the blood that was found at the scene belong to either -- >> is this the dna, does it belong to somebody else or the actual suspects? >> haunting, beautiful, strange is seven trail ya, the old abandoned route 61. it's littered with color. >> there's so much history on this one vetch of road. stretch of road. >> i can't believe ten people still live there. >> this guy told me it never stopped being a great place to
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live. >> tara, there's an apartment building in jersey city. there's a pool, it's not open. probably donald trump's fault. what have you got? >> hey, hey, hey. bill, it's summer, so let's cool it off on the political talk here, and let's talk about things people really want to talk about, pool parties. am i right? well, hang on a second. jersey city, there's a pool that's closed at a trump place? back to politics. as the political climate heats up, so does the jersey climate, and residents at the trump plaza jersey city have no pool to help maintain their cool. residents of the luxury tower were informed this week that the seventh floor outdoor pool is closed through may of 2017 with one bedrooms going for around three grand, tenants are a bit testy. on their web site it says that this building boasts superior amenities.
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i met up with the editor of metropolis, an insider on the trump pool pity party. he says people are coming to him with a proposition. you said people are coming to you and propositioning your building. >> that's right, absolutely. so my pool is awesome. i have the greatest pool ever, and i'm right down the street. so what i have been getting are people that live in this building sending me messages asking if they can use my pool for $500 for the summer. so i basically have become a swim club. >> we tried to check out the pool actually, we were turned away by the doorman who recognizes the amenity irony but was quick, actually, to point out that trump has other things to worry about. >> the pool's closed. >> it's closed? >> yeah, it's closed because they're repairing it. >> they're repairing it? did trump come by and check it out? >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> fun fact. if donald trump wins the presidency, this pool will still be dry for the first couple of months of his term.
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>> how can you be president of the united states when you can't put water in a hole? >> do the residents think it's on purpose? trump is like i'm really pis, ed at the residents, i'll show you. >> yeah, absolutely, they think it's at the top of his priority list. >> the maintenance guy, what are they expecting? i don't get it. >> yeah. i think, basically, they're selling the building as this amazing building with this amazing pool that overlooks the city, and it's the summer, and all of a sudden they closed it this past week. so that's a total bummer. unfortunately, these things happen, and there's not much you can do about it. >> they can also get a pipe wrench and go to the fire hydrant on the street and just open it. >> also the hudson river is great for swimming these days. >> if you want to hate trump, you've got another excuse. blame him for this pool. >> and just in one more irony actually, trump just did a press conference today, and he said, i'm paraphrasing, but he said i'm great at fixing things. [laughter] >> make america great again. >> one pool at a time.
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>> thanks. one pool at a time. [laughter] ♪ ♪ >> high-speed chase. >> jersey city cop sean connors is both an officer and a gentleman. he made prom dreams come ru for autistic student samantha wadley, made a wonderful, memorable night that she's never going to forget. hats off to you, officer connors, and congratulations, samantha. have a great prom. >> smoldering house, two bleeding bodies and a possible missing weapon. as if there weren't already enough unanswered questions about the deaths of john and joyce sheridan, we have another big one. could some of the blood contain genetic material that belonged to neither john, nor joyce? cases like this are all in a day's work for a police captain in the taiwan before he immigrated to the u.s. over 40 years ago, helped make forensic science something that every
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police department has to do. >> basically, use logic to analyze all the scientific results, try to see what is possible, what's just not possible. >> dr. lee was brought in to consult on the sheridan case alongside michael baden who did the autopsy on john sheridan back in september of 2014. dr. lee did say the investigators at the state police crime lab did a thorough job, but their findings were inconsistent with the event chul theory of the case, a murder/suicide n a couple of areas. maybe the most glaring is what's known as foreign dna, dna that could not be from either john or joyce sheridan. >> that becomes very important. is this the dna that belongs to somebody else, or is actual suspects? >> so i had to ask him, how could it have got there? >> of course, the fingernail, that become a very crucial question. buzz a finger nail -- because a fingernail, all these finger
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nails have dna. where'd that come from? have to have personal contact. >> but these are blood samples, bill, and part of the really bloody scene that was in the sheridans' bedroom, you have to realize that sometimes in stabbing homicides, the person who's doing the stabbing will slip with the slickness of the blood on the handle and the blade and accidentally cut themselves which is why a lot of individuals who commit stabbing homicides have wounds. there's no indication of who might be the contributor of this possible foreign dna. dr. lee also explained to me how he was able to determine none of the blood evidence belonged to any of the sheridans' four sons. >> y chromosome only come from lineage, male, not female. female have two chromosome, both xx. male is xy. so we ask them to do only male dna. and the male dna the result y chromosome dna is different than the family members. >> dr. lee has been compared to scherr hock holmes more than --
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sherlock holmes more than once, solving a seemingly uncrackable case with expertise and logic. so what happens next? the governor got rid of the prosecutor. >> right. >> what happens? >> first, we don't know if they have or have not run the dna. dr. lee made his represent early last year -- his recommendation early last year. dr. lee said they didn't contact him. and secondly, at least with the genetic material that's on the knife, it is possible that someone else simply used the knife in the house previously. there are other explanations for this dna. but like you said, if you can't rule it out, you've got to look at it further. that's what we're going to do, and that's what we hope the authorities are going to do if the case gets reopened. >> hank? you took a walk through centralia. >> what a walk it was, spadea. this is the old roadway into town, dude. ♪ ♪ >> look at this. i think you and i are the only
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ones that haven't written our names down here. it's littered with color, spadea, the old abandoned route 61 from ashland to centralia, tagged by spray cans and countless visitors with messages from the profane to the sublime. ♪ ♪ >> the quad runner is not a bad place to play. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. >> some of the artwork -- >> yeah. >> see a lot of people up here all the time. >> that's cool. yeah. >> we usually just pass through just to check it out. >> a lot of people are just passing through. see, it's abandoned. it has been since the mid 980s. my son henry and i went up to the old coal mining town to explore. he kept trying out old spray cans that he found. >> there's no way to teach him not to write graffiti.
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bill, long story short, the coal mine be underneath the town caught fire in the mid 1960s and oned for years -- burned for years, rupturing roads like route 61, making the town unlivable to the point where the state finally had to step in. >> valentine's day, 1981. actually fell in above the fire. his cousin pulled him out. and that was kind of a kick in the pants to people, hey, there's some dangerous here. >> the sate had most of the houses demolished. only a couple of them are left. >> the municipal building is still there, the old fire truck collecting dust in the garage, a bumper sticker in the window of the old police station that says, quote: keep centralia on the map. somebody's coming by mowing the lawn. probably state, county.
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so the municipal hall flag flies at half staff perhaps in mourning of itself. the town that once had a thousand people now has less than ten, but it's not as though it's empty. you can count on a steady flow of people, bill, for who an abandoned town and a buckled highway that's now a public art project holds a certain level of fascination. what does it mean? what does it say to you? >> i don't know, i think it's really interesting that everybody transformed the burning highway into their own -- >> new beginning, you know? >> -- into their own -- >> everyone's making a memory here. >> yeah. >> they're probably all going to come back in 30 years -- >> whoa, it's still there. [laughter] >> and i did talk to one of the very few people who still lives there. he wouldn't go on camera, but he told me the worst part of watching his town dissolve was seeing friends who swore they'd never leave eventually wind up
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taking state buyouts. haunting, beautiful, strange is centralia, bill. i don't know if -- it's weird, i don't know if the people want people to go up there or not, but people do. alex, you've been there, i believe. >> i was. i was there about ten years ago when the fire was still burning, and you could see the steam and the smoke coming out of the ground. the cool thing is you get the post-apocalyptic landscape without the actual apock limbs, which is nice. >> that's a good point. >> never heard of it. it's an amazing story. i love it. >> worth visiting. >> joe hornet loves donald trump. >> i've wanted mr. trump to run for the presidency more than a decade ago. >> joe's had to deal with people stealing flags off his flag poles -- >> [inaudible] >> yeah, i put it back up. >> your 12th banner? >> this is number 12.
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>> making bacon pancakes. pop icon justin bieber has caught on to our favorite craze, bacon pancakes. he posted this video to his instagram page, and he even took it a little bit further by remixing it with empire state of mind by jay-z. >> making bacon pancakes -- ♪ muck.
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>> i don't think justin's had bacon pancakes yet, but we have, and i can tell him they're incredible. >> so today we want to wish my grandmother a happy 92nd birthday -- >> whoa! >> she was born in 1924, so that was the year calvin coolidge was president, first year of the macy's day parade, and ellis island actually closes as an immigration point to the united states, so happy birthday, grandma, from "chasing news" and your many, many, many grandchildren. >> it's amazing what you guys can do with editing. >> yeah, it's a fact. >> see? another vote for donald trump. see, another one. another thumbs up. >> joe loves donald trump. crystal clear fact that anyone who drives past his west long branch home. >> i mean, i've wanted mr. trump to run for the presidency more than a decade ago. i think i sent him an e-mail sometime back, he probably never opened it. [laughter] during that time i wanted him to run for the presidency, and when he announced last year, i
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couldn't have been more happy. >> now, joe's love of trump isn't shared by everyone. some can't stand him, so joe's had to deal with people stealing flags off his flag poles, even off his front porch like this woman did early thursday morning. >> all right. so what banner is this we're putting back up? this is your 12th banner? >> this is number 12. [laughter] >> number 12. why are you laughing? >> it's got that new banner smell to it, joe. >> it does. it just came out of the freshly-wrapped package. >> beautiful, beautiful flag. >> disappearing flag and signs aren't the only trouble joe's had in connection to his support for trump, oh, no. back in march police ticketed joe for his display using an ordinance that prohibits political signage more than 30 days from an election. joe won that battle when a judge dismissed the case thanks in no small part to the aclu. >> well, the first amendment definitely won that day, and i
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was very happy that the first amendment won. so it was a great day more everybody in west long branch. >> now, these cars going by, they honk and they wave at joe like this guy. most of them in vast support of the display. >> it's still up? >> yeah. i put it right back up. >> this guy, richie stephens, came all the way from ocean port just to meet joe. >> the message he's trying to get out to the people. >> and what is that? >> that, you know, finally america needs to stand up and, you know, be heard. >> i don't know whether it was evelyn beatrice hall or voltaire who said i disagree with what you're saying, but i'd fight to the death for your right to say it. i don't care whether your vote is for hillary clinton or trump, you can fly flags for gus hall of lyndon larouche. in my book, that's your right as an american citizen. but where's the line? with civic ordinances, with laundries plays, i know that theft is still illegal, but you tell me. it's up at twitter @chasinghan,
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we're the --@chasinghank. >> amazing work by this 19-year-old girl who's a makeup artist, and she's all self-taught. she can recreate characters and images through makeup of tim burton's creepy characters. she posts these on instagram, she's got 10,000 followers. each look takes her two hours to the complete, and she says she was inspired by drag queens on youtube. >> the gas tax, it's coming in new jersey. there was a senate hearing on thursday, and my friend, jennifer beck -- who's a state senator who is fighting the gas tax -- had an exchange with one of the co-sponsors. you've got to listen to this. he is so mad at her for not agreeing with him that he starts shouting and yelling at her. >> florida -- >> you have publicly criticized -- >> and hard decisions. >> senator beck, senator beck --
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>> you're not willing to make them -- you called me out. >> [inaudible] >> it is probably the toughest club to get into in new york city. you have to know a password. from the dave matthews band playing here. >> you never know, like, where the music is going to go from night tonight. night to night. ♪ ♪ >> everyone knows that chick-fil-a is closed on sundays, except for last sunday. welcome back. >> bill, new jersey's -- [inaudible] is dead, following a plea deal. following a plea deal on -- as
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part of a [bleep] [bleep] [laughter] >> stop, it's going to go in, and your mom's going to yell at you. >> okay. [laughter]
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>> coming up next, imagine a world without seeing color. and then seeing it for the first
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time. >> oh, my god.
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♪ ♪ ♪ >> it's not uncommon for an animal to take a younger animal in as a surrogate mother when they've lost their own mom. well, in brazil a puppy's mom had died, and the cat stepped in to breast-feed. it's somewhat comical because the puppy is just as big as the cat -- >> do we need to blur this at all? >> pretty graphic. >> this is -- [laughter] >> really, guys? >> if you live in new york, there are certain things that will just ruin your day. missing the subway, for example. take a look at this video that gotham put out that shows the utter disappointment on people's faces when the doors close in front of them. >> so resigned. >> some of them try to pry it
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open. they have success like this guy, others not so much. i know the worst part was having to stand there in the heat. >> it is probably the toughest club to get boo in new york city. into in new york city. you have to know a password. luckily, tonight you're with me. so this is the 125. it's not just any club, it's a speakeasy, it's a recording studio, it's a concert venue, and it's a pop-up shop. tonight the crystal garden. now, you probably know him best from the dave matthews band. tonight his band is playing here. ♪ ♪ >> it's been great. i mean, we just basically get out there and have fun every night, you know? it's like we never play the same set, you know? it's just like we try to mix up the music. and it's like to you never know, like, where the music is going to go from night tonight. >> crystal garden is his latest creation, and these are some of the guys setting up.
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[laughter] i get the behind the scenes right here. this is awesome. >> crystal garden's a band that i put together ab about a year ago -- about a year ago. i wanted to create this rock band, a really good rock band. ♪ ♪ >> and it just had, like, just that energy, that youthful energy just like sort of, you know, borrowed from the great music of the past, you know? and just continue on tradition of, like, rock and jam bands. >> but what does this mean for dmb fans? i ask the question everybody's wondering. i've got to ask because fans have been asking me, what is going on next year? 2017, there's no dates for touring for dave matthews band. >> i think everybody's going to probably do individual projects, you know? i mean, it's the first time that we've had, like, an entire year to actually, you know, do stuff.
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i'm going to be, like, you know, working with crystal garden, i'm going to be probably playing music, you know? i put together an all-star band and go out and play music. but we'll be back in 2018, so i'm looking forward to it. >> you came with me at an exclusive look at one of the hottest new venues in new york city. for more, tweet me @chasing item is tamara to get more details and behind the scenes pictures. >> hey, guys, it's chestnut. i'm behind the scenes at nj115, bill spadea's radio show. vip think brand is here -- vinnie brand is here, owner of stress factory. >> one of the funniest guys you'll ever see. >> there's huge piles of bacon. that's pretty much all i'm thinking about. >> good bacon. bad for you. that's the way it works. >> do you ever look at a rubik's cube and go, huh, you know what
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they should do? poor molten -- pour molten copper all over it. just behold the molten awesomeness of 1,984-degree-fahrenheit molten copper surrounding it, lighting it on fire. >> one in every twelve men suffer from being color blind which either takes away all color from their vision or changes and distorts the colors that they see. well, two brothers named jimmy and jace have always been color blind. >> say it loud. >> wait, what color's this? >> orange. >> what's the top one? >> top one is origin too. >> and their parents found these glasses that would actually make them see colors as we all do. so they ordered them, and then they took a video of the boys seeing different colors for the first time. >> close your eyes, then open them. look at the towel and dad.
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[laughter] >> [inaudible] >> it's very powerful, very emotional, and it's just quite the amazing video. so technology is blowing people away, it really is. >> two blind brothers in new york city started a fashion line with the goal of curing blindness. >> doing that by pledging 100% of our proceeds to medical research. >> they invited me to be their third blind brother for the day. >> oh, man. >> sorry, guys. >> oh, no. you're just talking to a plant. >> on the next "chasing news." ♪
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