oh, my gosh! >> a shark has literally jumped onboard a fishing boat off the coast of long island, new york. and it got stuck there. you can see the shark trying to wiggle free. the can't cut the line. >> she deserved to get free. >> after an epic struggle like that, we agree. >> deborah: and that is "inside edition" for today. thank you so mu >> a 926-pound mako shark. >> not everybody is happy about it. >> they have been threatened. >> this is our business, this is what we do. i don't need to be called curse word. >> #credible part of the ecosystem. >> i think it's misinformation. >> they are going to be enjoying mako stake for months. >> your freaking out about something you have nothing to do with.

>> what a hypocrite. >> they are bunch of incompetent fools and a to be fired. >> all of my daughter's birth pictures were in that third-floor. >> maybe you're right. >> a picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say. in this case, this preacher is worth 1000 internet social media comments. this is one of the largest sharks ever pulled in. a group of guys pulled in this mako shark and they are going to be enjoying mako stake for months. not everybody is happy about it. they have been threatened, subject to some of the most tremendous tweets and facebook posts that you can imagine. here to break it out first, diana. >> that's right, 926-pound mako shark from a new jersey fishing crew out in this beauty over the weekend. captain dave, along with his cocaptain hooked this 12 foot-long shark during an overnight fishing trip.

customers on board took the fish home with them and i heard they had a nice meal after that. as for the shark teeth, one fishman is keeping that as a souvenir. >> this is actually the bottom job that sticks out. >> that is crazy. >> it's very bloodied to be honest with you. but others don't find this event so awesome. as the discovery channel quite it. they are hearing shark week. >> what you say those who call you a murderer? >> we did murder a shark, that upsets them, i apologize. this is our business. this is what we do. >> take a look at some of these comments as you pointed out earlier a people who are annoyed. >> pastors, thumbs down, pieces of -- do you wanna scroll

through them all? >> i will listen to any reasonable conversation. but, i do not need to be called curse words. people do not have to tell me that some of my extremities are very small. it has gotten to that. >> the captain tells me he is done with his 15 minutes of fame. i had one more question. >> does this change anything? >> absolutely not. >> i want to bring in our panel to weigh in on this. we are joined by heather from shark research institute. jeff tittle from the sierra club. and via skype we have ashley from peter. welcome. welcome to chasing news. i think it is outrageous and absurd to say that we have endangered this apex predator. where are all of the sharks coming from? nobody can tell me how many sharks we started with. so, i think it is misinformation and fear tactics to get people

this top enjoying delicious mako stake in shark fin. >> it is actually science. a recent study that was published in the scientific journal told us that since 1950 fishing has reduce the population of most large fish species by over 90%. >> let me stop you there. how do you know that? if i don't know where i started, how can i judge the percentage that i have reduced it by? >> we night and not know where we start at the beginning of time. >> like last year, sharks were there? >> again, studies have shown that we have reduce populations l over 90% since the 50s. ooking at a depleted ocean. >> shark fin soup legal in new jersey? >> it is legal to serve in restaurants. were working towards legislation

and on the assembly being reviewed to ban distribution, trade, and sale and even possession of shark fins. >> what you say? are we murders? people who wear leather belts and eat fish and eat venison, cows, pigs, i love pork. >> it is killing. the fact whether you're talking a shark, pig, or cow, these are sensitive, intelligent animals that feel pain just like cats, dogs, and human. >> how do you know sharks even feel pain? how do we know? i want to show you this video. give me your gut reaction. this video is that they found the guys who did it, they are dragging the shark. three guys, we don't of their fishing or just trying to torture the shark but something like this goes viral and they don't know. again, that's what i want to

ask, they are smiling because when you hunting you take down a big game it's an accomplishment. >> no. look, were not an animal rights group. we support hunting with regulations within reason. we support fishing within regulation recent. when you are dragging a shark it is like shooting the leg off a dear and let it it walk around with three legs. it is torture. >> it's not a fishing tactic to. >> do you agree? the fishing tactic that have learnt about is the either club at the fish to death on the deck for they should them with a shotgun. was this more humane to drag it behind about? >> it's all disgusting. it takes a very small person to enjoy traumatizing, hurting and killing animals were minding their own business and their own habitat. this is like somebody coming into your home and beating you up and killing you. >> the point is we are losing the species at an alarming rate.

we used have shrimp off a new jersey, we don't have it anymore, we've over fish them. >> nature is resilient and changes. in martha's vineyard they went 100 years since they we had oysters in the pond. now because of a couple of storms and opened up the bay area they now have oysters. mother nature is the ultimate apex predator. >> except when man screws it up which happens time after time. >> thank you. i appreciate being with me. let's do it again. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ double mocha. >> an update on the story from last week. pedro hernandez, 16-year-old who is charged with shooting into a crowd and injuring one. since in his comfort to say that he did not in fact shoot but he's still sitting a rikers

island with 250,000-dollar bail. he just got his ba is out a awaa trial. were not sure what's gonna happen to the full ride scholarship he is being offered. we will see what happens during the trial. >> crisis in mahwah, somebody is putting up signs on the polls. >> on tuesday i give you the story of a rob. a thin white polo affixed to electricals. they denote an area of the area that is permissible for hasidic jews to enter. i found two at arabs lives there that seem to be dismantled. i do not think anything of it. it turns up those arabs are part of a larger group of arabs that have been dismantled and are part of an ongoing please

investigation in the area. they think it has to do with a hate crime. >> we had a report of at least for being damaged. it appeared that whoever did it try to rip them down and take them off the telephone pole. >> there's a petition online demanding the electric company remove all and revoke permission for future installation. some of the comments on the petition speak to the desire to protect the neighborhood and education system from his citic jewish community. i can read some of them to you. my was very diverse, we don't discriminate which is why we think it is okay to come here. there are exceptions to every rule. this, people are known for entering a community and taken it over for their own a vantage. then overtaken a lovely community and turning it into a rundown, dirty, bad place to live. another set i feel violated as one declared there's property is theirs. a third, on searcy considering putting the house on the market before it's too late. >> i want to bring in jim, host of "new jersey now" and friend of jason's. you sent us pictures that you took and explain this, this is a

small pipe. walk me through it. >> it is a thin white strip that goes up on the pole. it connects to a wiry you cannot see at the top and that wire is supposed to theoretical and little boundary line that defines where you can do certain things and can't on the sabbath. as you see a set pictures and us up the street from where i am. >> they're not connected though, is symbolic. the wire doesn't touch anything else. it's interfering with the utility pole. >> no. they are on the utility poles, not separate polls. the utilities are allowed by law to put them up there or let the community do it at their expense. >> on the other side, why can't they paint a marker? >> it does not work that way. in hebrew, arabic means a doorway. in each of three sides. the pvc pole excess of three

sides of the door and the wire access the top. >> amazing the things people fight over. >> a few weeks ago florida police officer responded to a call about an alligator 70s front door. so, he called the florida fish and wildlife and set i have a gator here. he said nobody can be there for at least 30 minutes. as you can imagine that cost a problem. the officer did not want to shoot the alligator killing it, so instead he wrangled it. with a garden hose. he did wrangle the alligator successfully. this partisan on camera. he was able to get it into the back of his cop car and release it in a canal. he learned his skill from a local alligator rescue. >> a group of local residents are trying to keep a starbucks location from opening on the corner of state marks plate

>> the creepy clowns are back. on tuesday, 31-year-old man was arrested in maine after residents saw him walking around wearing a mask and holding a machete. he was heavily intoxicated and

the machete was duct taped onto his arm. please say his arm was amputated. he was charged with criminal threatening. >> take a look at these everyday objects that have been turned into our. in bulgaria, an artist is attaching googly eyes to things like poles, drains, and trees. where there's an opening to make a look like they're smiling. they are calling it i bombing. a street artist is behind these photos. >> these guys are trying to rob a jewelry store and the man with the sledgehammer had one job. he tried and tried to use a sledgehammer to break the glass. he failed miserably. the jewelry wholesaler but this on the facebook page on monday. i'm sure the coding on the glass prevented it from breaking the best money they ever spent. >> bryant, he you chases in

question. can you really ever have enough starbucks? >> i love a good anti- starbucks argument. i'm not crazy about their coffee and the whole the intake, gandhi, nonsense really irks me. so, my curiosity was peaked recently when i saw this happening in the east village in manhattan. a not another starbucks rally. i never heard of an anti- starbucks protest before. this has nothing to do with the coffee, a group of local residents are trying to keep a starbucks location from opening on the corner of state marks place and avenue way. the east village you think funky. it is a by small businesses, small shops and coffee shops. starbucks could be the last off for a lot of smaller independent run businesses. these villages special because of the unique, small shops and that is why people live here and people come here to open new businesses.

a national chain sex money out, creates a level of homogenization that looks at diversity. >> they want the area rezoned in a way that prohibits chain. >> the kids play in the park, it's the kind of neighbors that people want. >> people live in west village for the weekend, they -- >> aaron cook opened up the caée on avenue a about eight months ago. you can hear the jackhammer for the new starbucks in his brand-new sparkling café. he says if he loses 5% of his income he would be in trouble. >> there's 15 starbucks location just between 14th street and housing.

>> this starbucks at second avenue ninth street is only a couple of blocks away from where they're building a new one. so close that i was confused when i was walking here thinking i had gotten here already and they had already built it. it is a little ridiculous. >> i love starbucks, i am there every day, the more the merrier. i just think of the local businesses could afford the rent that's what it comes to. affording the rent. starbucks only came in because they could afford was being offered. >> the locals have a say, don't go, go to the small businesses if that's what you want. >> he's not afraid of losing the locals, what is a tourism and people walking around and they see that starbucks emblem and they go right to it. >> that too, but first i have to -- you to have a point. the starbucks app and you can pulled up on your phone. you don't even have to look for where your coffee is.

>> i think you need a better sign, better web presence. >> the market creates efficiency. that's just the way it is. people at their service. >> is not the east village i hung out in. >> your jason a story, a story about homeless veterans. it's not exactly way think and the kindness of strangers. >> it's a story we covered on the show. u.s. military veterans are turning stateside when our country needed the most only to be forgotten when our veterans needed it upon return. a couple in jackson, new jersey open their doors. as they put it, 70 had to. where are we? >> and jackson new jersey,. >> mike and julie live in a for home. they have an adjacent home on the same property. that properties were getting lighthouse was born. three years ago julie stumbled upon a straight homeless female veterans. >> we were sitting out by the fire pit when i said we have our

apartment open, why can't we help one of our female veterans. why can we open up our apartment to one of them. so that's were started. >> mike, businessmen worked with his wife to remodel their home completely in open their doors. >> instead of a person of darkness were gonna shed some light. i'm not blaming the government. we just decided there is a need and we are going to step in and do we have to do. as far as the funding, we sacrifice. i work a lot of hours. she works, i work, we both were car. we sacrifice. >> now, marie is the very first resident of the getting lighthouse in jackson. she lived there for three weeks. her story was phenomenal. >> i seek out for the two veteran organizations and either would help me. i was left home is. i was left in a parking the with

nowhere to go. >> according to winter warriors, at any giving night over 50000 veterans of the street. >> jays here. thank you for being here. you are a contributor to insider and jay. >> the wittiest colonists. >> that is how i will introduce you. we appreciate you being guest chaser today. how badly has our government failed that you see issues like this popping up all over the state. whether it's addiction to homeless vets. there is so much we need for people to step up and give of themselves. the government has completely failed. >> the government has completely failed. i was getting a little emotional with the story. maybe i'm close to that threshold of tears because of the political state we are in. everybody is fighting all of the time. what moved me is that they did not point fingers. they did something.

we can all do that. >> to play devils advocate on the other side, what about the people that might say, are they really qualified to help people in the state? what about people who are trained in mental health issues to actually administer therapy. >> that would be the best case scenario. sometimes you just have to triage. if they stood around to wait for the perfect person to address the problem, nobody would address it. there's so much blame to go around. both sides, both parties. they were not interested in getting caught up with that. they just wanted to fix it. >> thank you. >> the governor chose not to attend his lieutenant governor campaign event. i asked governor christie about reports that the lieutenant governor is having trouble raising funds. >> i don't know if any o

>> it is hard. it is hard to raise money. it is a lot of work. >> the governor chose not to attend his lieutena

>> sibile, your jason governor christie. as the old saying go, as friends

like him, who needs enemies. >> i chased governor christie on thursday morning to the agent h appliance center. he was there to talk about the transportation trust fund, patting himself on the back, praising himself or signing the gas tax increase. he was willing to talk about other issues into praise president trumps. >> nobody has to wonder what this guy's thinking. if he's thinking it, his tweeting it. >> when it comes to president trump, and jeff sessions, chris christie was asked if he wanted to replace and. >> there's no opening for attorney general. >> governor christie signed into law to build see that actually promote transgender people's rights in new jersey. >> actions because of the words. he saw what i did on two bills on transgender issues. i supported both of those bills i don't have anything more to say than that. >> was most pertinent was not

what he was able where he was standing. he chose not to attend his lieutenant governor kim's campaign event where she was announcing her running mate. i ask you christie about reports that the lieutenant governor is having trouble raising funds. >> i don't know if any is true not, what see when she files a report. it's hard. it's hard to raise money. it's a lot of work. you have to convince people that you're worth investing. >> are you going to help her? >> i am no longer the leader of the party. if i'm asked for help i'll give it. i've not been asked for help. >> it's like the guy cannot get out of his own way and everybody else's. he either thought he was helping her hurt her on purpose to have this open invitation to go to the governors association where he served as head of that for a term. all of a sudden now you have kim in this rough spot of standing with christie at the wrong time and then coming back here in trying to distance. that trip was a does disaster for her. >> says he i know them greater

fundraising but he is that as an excuse to say it's hard work. and she needs to do it herself. >> have a big announcement and christie called a press conference and he's done this before when he she has big events. they steal his thunder. >> the follow-up question to will you make calls is how many calls will you make to not help her. how many of those calls did you make? >> another great night of chasing news. thanks for watching. the work week is almost over. we will see you on friday. >> you know where. >> it is not where you what you hear the news every night. >> it was complete disaster for the whole northeast can order.

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