>> now on chasing news. >> of blackface santa claus, it's the newly elected pba local 105 executive five executive vice president, michael gallagher. it is the top story. the reason for his black girlfriend at the time did not have a girlfriend with it. it's stereotypical and offensive. >> talk about the gas tax. >> will be taking a deep dive into budget the way that your money is being spent on, is there enough to be cut out without raising your taxes? and it has taken over all to embrace furry standups. >> there's a lot of people rolling in right now.

some report that there are a lot of sex going on. is any of that true? picture of blackface gangster santa claus. it is the newly elected pba local one oh five executive vice president, michael gallagher. it is the top story. i spoke with the writer, david foster he said that he got this picture from an anonymous source as a tip after he published an article about apparently there been rigged elections among the union. he said right now there's a lot of racial tension with the pba local one oh five. -- 105. because leadership was primarily african-american and now it's white. so i asked foster peak and prone to gallagher about the picture and he says this man is not apologetic. was taken at a halloween party five years ago. >> he doesn't see any issue in dressing as a black gangster santa claus, he told me that his

reasoning was that his black girlfriend at the time did not have a problem with it, no one had a problem with it dressed as that. he actually won first place. gallagher works at a business out jersey. he makes 85 grant per year. those expect that the story will blow up. i had to ask, have you had any traction already? >> the aclu sent some tweets, no, no, no regarding the comments about him difficult saying that he was dating a black girl. got a letter from a pba one oh five -- 105 ordering gallagher to step down as executive vice president number three of the pba local 105. the president issued the statement, the issue with mike gallagher is old and i have spoken with mike. i know his work record and i can tell you that it is stellar and

his history and conduct are devoid of any similar complaints or issues and i know he has no racist bone in his body. this takes us back to a very, very negative part in our nation's history. being african-american it is never okay to dress up in blackface. it is stereotypical, derogatory, and offensive. the guided something that to me as completely idiotic. clearly offensive, but it sounds like the bigger issue here is that there is a contentious wrinkling going on inside the pba. this the pba. this is low hanging fruit. >> dressing up in blackface shows a lack of judgment that you do not want for person and a high-ranking member of your organization. why not just come out say hey, that was me five years ago, i apologize. i don't want to offend anybody and i do take my job as a union leader very seriously. just apologize. >> but at what point does acting in an offensive way on your private time impact your ability

to do your job? to me it seems like to separate off issues. >> is a corrections officers. a lot of time inmates, you have a big population that are african-americans. i would question how he is going to treat some of these inmates. >> the reality is that job is so brutal, if you know the these correction officers the idea of them letting us dean and an offensive way, i'm sure that the least offensive thing some of these guys are doing when they're blowing off steam. it's the world we live in. >> high-speed chase. >> is a sad day for north jersey is family friends say their final goodbyes to the artist to meet so many of those welcome signs throughout the county. matthew mcgrath was killed in a hit-and-run accident last week. thursday night at a memorial people spoke to who this man was, they're asking where did this to please come for, give them some closure. we'll have more on what mcgrath meant to his community on tuesday. >> take a look at this video that has gone viral about mom telling her son that he is now

cancer free. >> you are cancer free, you don't have cancer anymore. then who is from oklahoma was diagnosed with 3b acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2013. now he three years later she delivered the good news that she's good to go. his first question was she wanted he wanted to go to camp and. >> toys to go to camp? >> i'm standing in front of new hope baptist church with a funeral service for chris, 4-year-old boy who was shot in the head and asked only killed by his 5-year-old brother is being held. family members and friends have been printed to the church behind me, many wearing shirts with captain america on it as well as a picture of chris. i spoke to his aunt's.

>> he loved superhero. >> i spoke with maia that his cousin and they love to play basketball together. >> i bet you are better. to play basketball? you know what he wanted to do and he grew up, what did he want to do? >> she showed me -- sorry one more time. >> take a minute, you're okay. >> the little girl when she said that just killed me. she showed me the shirt that she made up her and chris on it and her mother was also wearing a button that said chris chris on it. i asked asked is that what you call him. and she said yes he's our little chris chris. the family came out and spoke with us around along with the reverend and thank everybody for the support and the church donated the space for the service. there is a community activist and a motorcycle group that came in they'll be carrying the casket away to the final

resting place. one person was missing and that was the boys mother. because she still in custody she is not able to attend the service. she had her own private service this morning before the service began. she is charged with endangering the welfare of a child as well as a weapons violation. her case is not being seen in front of a grand jury. >> sometime cases like this there's a mix of emotions among people, there's confusion and horror that goes into something like this. is there more than just this incredible sadness and loss of this young boy? is there anything in regard to the mom who is charged with having some part in letting this happen? >> one activist who came said we need to put aside some of the things being said about the mother because she loved her children and this was an accident. she never met this to happen and we need to stand behind family.

and put the family first. right now at the moment most people i put aside how it happened and look at the fact that it is a tragedy. >> i can see this is really affecting you in a way but i have not seen before when you have been doing stories like this. why is it affecting you so much? what are you thinking? >> i chase a lot of gun violence in jersey city and new york, i have never really seen the outpouring that i have seen here. a family members of children who are here. the fact that it was a five-year-old boy, boy, his brother who accidentally did this. it tears me up to think about how one accident can destroy a family and a community. >> today's the day to celebrate the life he's touching now and more the life he could've touched. >> do your research and get your facts straight because if you do not it could be lead to this. >> i people walking up to me and saying i'm sorry, for what. >> francis is tearing up as she spoke to me outside her home in the bronx. she described the false accusation that her daughter is missing and also possibly linked to prostitution ring. >> my daughter has been exposed

for something that she has nothing to do. >> there are two incorrect accusations that have now gone viral. emily's face along with more than a dozen others are plastered alongside reports from major news organizations in new york on thursday. the councilman andy, cited these girls as it missing and also fears of a prostitution ring. >> that is why we started the initiative of having and creating safe zones in the 12 districts. >> something was odd, there is really no family members at this or the one held the day before. i also spent all morning trying to reach out to them. i had a very a very hard time finding information about them on social media. so i asked the councilman this? >> has anyone come forward and said this is my daughter was gone missing? >> as of the last 24 hours, no. but the news did report after people saw their faces on there,

they reported that she sought two girls have returned, one girl has returned back home. >> i also reached out to the nypd to get information and look what they wrote back. there's a list of the 14 girls nine of whom have located next to their names. one that says there's no missing recent report. four girls are missing. that is leading parents outrage saying things like this. >> what are you going to do to fix it? whatever is responsible for this you're going to have a lawsuit that they don't know what hit them. emily went missing in april, four, four days later her mother found her. she also notified nypd. so i asked the councilman on the phone earlier this morning, what happened? how did this go so wrong and he actually admitted that when it came to this case he felt badly for emily but he also defended what he did. he said said this is starting a conversation about

human trafficking and prosecution rings and girls are going missing in the bronx. but i said said to him you put minors on, allow them to be broadcasting your not supposed to ever show photos of minors without parental consent. he said he didn't answer early group that that he thinks there's a bigger issue. >> so kids are still missing. >> it seems like his intention may be right but it didn't seem to go so well. >> governor christie was forced to sign a budget without a gas tax he then retaliated shutting down transportation trust fund project on saturday and what's this hullabaloo about the gas tax and the position for him to be trump's vp. watch on watch on my nines new on sunday. >> i ate as little as possible, counting calories, weighed myself all of the time. it was all-consuming. >> eating disorders are becoming

more more prevalent in athletes. it takes a c

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on the legislators in trenton, the gas taxes done. now it was going to be 23 cents per gallon. and all of you driving how many miles you drive every day chasing stories would've had an enormous impact. there is a midnight deal on monday, governor, governor christie in the state assembly in trenton got together and they forge this tax deal on a napkin and passed it in the middle of the night. the state senate, and when not to say they have a backbone but at least they back down in the face of public pressure. the gas taxes gone for now. here here is the issue, they said the transportation trust fund which is a fun to fix the roads and bridges was underfunded and running out of money so they needed a new tax. we thought about that and said i will bet there is money and that 35 and a half half billion dollar budget that the state of new jersey has. the governor decided after issuing an executive order to cancel the road construction projects. he jetted off to italy. we want to check in now with alex. he has been doing yeoman's work

through this 35 billion-dollar budget to find out is there enough in the budget that could because out without the extra projects so that the transportation trust fund could be funded without raising your taxes. what did you find? >> you find? >> you say happy independence day, i say merry christmas. it is christmas in july every july at the new jersey state legislature. these are called christmas tree items, denims, denims to the budget that the leadership puts on to make various legislators have become a few hundred grand here, a few million here. we are going through all of them in the budget, the waste, the poor, the stuff your money is being spent on while governor christie is issuing line item vetoes for $3 million for children's breakfast in schools. we'll be looking looking into this and giving you more next week. >> today's gas tax independence day, it marks only the beginning as the governor juts off on a vacation to italy. he leaves behind an executive order that freezes all transportation trust fund construction projects except for the emergency one.

he freezes more than $55 million in what some call christmas tree projects or pork projects. while governor, when you get back how about instead of freezing those pork projects why don't you cut them altogether and you can take that money and put that into the transportation trust fund and start fixing the roads in new jersey without raising taxes. >> i ate as little as possible. counting calories, wayne myself all of the time. it was all consuming. >> that's a yoga constructor telling me about her struggle with anorexia. >> anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorders are becoming more and more prevalent in athletes. in a study of division i

athletes, over one third of the athletes reported attitudes and symptoms placing them at risk for anorexia. so i talked to eating disorder expert at the center in ridgewood who told me about the signs of an anorexic athlete. >> so it could be redistricting, or binging, binging and purging, particularly purging, particularly athletes you see a lot of going to training and training for hours and hours and not nourishing themselves appropriately for. >> eating disorder expert says they are seeing more and more patients obsessed with exercise stemming from athletic interventions. >> it means a lot of bodybuilding coming in more recently, we have seen swimmers, dancers, we have seen runners, all sorts of different sports. >> i spoke with a former patient of the center and we talked

about exercising to the point where it becomes abusive to your body. >> i think if you are an athlete it is easier to exercise as a form of abuse because it looks like you're practicing for your sport. it's kind how you know to keep your body in shape, that's what you do. people with other type of eating disorders don't have that so they just restrict what they eat. >> there is a fine line between someone who is overdoing it and pushing to get to the next level of athleticism. versus someone who is a true disorder who have a body image problems. >> it's important to note that an eating disorder is a mental health issue. they have to help the person mentally because it is not anyone who says i think the skinny model, it takes a certain mentality, certain trigger that makes him a go a go to that extreme. >> thanks jessica. >> they have taken over to to pittsburgh this weekend.

>> so this is the thing. >> there are a lot of people rolling in right now. >> some report in the past have described this event as a lot o

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>> diana. >> asked. >> so this is the thing, this convention. >> i have to say think they are all a little underdressed right now because if you want to fit into the store you're going to have to look like this. for this, and even this. they have taken over attracting thousands of people from around the world to pittsburgh this weekend. all to embrace for he -- so to learn more about it i caught up with some new jersey ferries who are very excited. >> you are all going to answer con. >> are you excited? >> very excited. it's a wonderful. >> so they fill me on on what it is all about.

free is a type of animal that has human characteristic like mickey mouse was a mouse i can walk and talk. as you can see they play big role role here, for us spending big bucks look like their inner furball. we also looked at fairies in pittsburgh to get an idea of what this event is like. >> there's a lot of people rolling in right now. the lines are starting to get long. >> i am from delaware and i came appear because it's the biggest one and there's all these crazy costumes. >> hi dougie, your cute. >> lastly i want to add that there have been reports that this is almost like a sex fest that takes over. >> well that's what i'm getting this because i did ask one of the guys i spoke to what his reaction was. i have to ask you,

some some e reports in the past have described this event as a lot of sex going on, is that that true? is any of that true? >> it is not a sexual based community. there's going to be a dark side to everything, there's always there's always going to be bad rumors that are going to spread. it's a charitable group and an art based community where we like to have fun and it's a playful thing. >> i think it is kind of nice to be honest with you. >> i got nothing to say. >> i sort of understand. there's something to be said for being in an area where everyone gets your inside jokes and references. so the fact that everybody gets together, dressed up like animals and have a good time. it's weird. >> the fox five tresa has the line and reason, they cause and

consequence of limes disease. there's testing controversy, personal struggle, and she was even misdiagnosed. one of the people in the special is allie hilfiger who is the daughter of designer tommy hill finger. here to tell us more streets in studio via skype. >> hi everybody. >> this impact the chasing news family directly. several folks have been diagnosed with lyme. how bad is it and why's it so difficult to get information about it? the headlines are all about zika and other things. >> just to give you statistics to draw the you can decide for yourself, tree hundred 29,000 people thousand people diagnosed each and every year, that breaks down to 25,000 per thousand per month, 844 per day, 32 per hour. that is exactly why we are tackling it. when when we start to hear the stories of people

who felt they were ignored, people who felt they were turned away from doctors, we decided we needed to dig her heels sun. >> what about celebrities? sometimes the only way people pay attention as if someone famous that they see all the time were going to concert and then they find out they have it. >> you can be really sick with line but not really, you can look like alec baldwin, like avril lavigne, you look fantastic but yet you're fighting a life altering a life altering illness. >> tresa thank you we appreciate everything you're doing when does it air? is going to air tomorrow and on the 17th at 530. everything is listed on our youtube and website as well. >> thanks. >> fireworks on the fourth.

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