cool showing off his skills on the hydro jet. look at him grooving. suddenly, oh, no! not so cool after all. ♪ [ music ] >> ouch. that's inside edition for today, i'm >> former mayor was in his doctor a of last week, high found out city health care screw up that left some of newark's more than 2000 retirees without medical coverage. >> this is what happens when the government gets involved in health care. >> we is to stop playing politics, could that people are dieing. >> welcome to chasing news, we have a story about government health care. when government gets involved, bad things happen, people get lost in the shuffle, one of those people that lost their healthcare by some bureaucratic

mistake was the former mayor of newark, sharp james, how does they guy who was convicted of public corruption, how does he qualify for that health care. to bring us more, alex. >> he has been one of newark's move famous, and colorful residents for decade, but that did not make former mayor james immune to a health care screw up. former mayor james was in his doctor's office last week, he found out about it. >> i said, maybe. i did something wrong, i went to the desk, i said i have been sitting here three hours, i said am i next, she said no, you have no medical coverage, really? we checked. >> what? >> newark switched providers to state health benefit plan, after a dispute, who the broker would be, the paperwork was sent in

late that meant retirees did not have enough time to sign up with the state, if they got their applications at all, some of the addresses were wrong. these people are without a health plan new the new roster is filled in. >> i am learning, we do not have healthcare. you need healthcare. you make up one morning and you go to a prescription, then you learn you don't have it, this is an ongoing problem. >> the city made a mistake, and said, they are all working to fix it. former mayor james, said no one is immune from flame blame in t, that includes his open son who on city council. >> people who are terminaly ill, sick, who need healthcare. >> thank you alex. >> bringing in our panel, joined by diana blast, welcome back.

brian donohue and bob bianki, why is a convicted mayor, what is he doing get retiree healthcare. >> the government is paying for it and i guess as the saying goes, always easy to spend other people's money, until you run out of it. this is best example of what happens when government gets involved. >> is that a fair assessment. my guess is at least 1997 served the city, they did their job, this is what they were promised. >> i disagree this is a system of government involved in is a mess of a hodgepodge system that we have, private insurers and government, and middle man, the broker. >> i would argue if we had a single payer plan, and everyone was in, there would be no broker. >> stop, you socialists solutions -- healthcare is so

important. think about this, you heard ha he said, that to me is government-run that is venezuela-style health care. >> well, i am going to shock you, i am moving toward a single paipayer system, we have to stop playing politics, people are dying, and we have to come on a regular, this -- resolution, this was a screw up, there are so many moving pieces to healthcare. >> how about addressing costs, and idea that former mayor, booker, stopping prescription drugs, how about the fact that government blocked people from able to too buy healthcare from other states, this is driving up stocks. this does nothing to address the cost, capitalism works. >> why did they pull out from

blue c cross blue shield from te get go? >> last point, convicted mayor goes to jail. should get state retirement healthcare? >> as a prosecutor, when someone committed an act of official misconduct, if we gave them a plea bargain they would lose their benefits. >> i would say when james was mayor. the streets of ne newark were plowed. >> governor christie, spending more time out of state than in he takes a vacation to europe. what happens? the commission he was appointed to head meets would him. >> thank you very much secretary price for your work. to address the crisis of open roaopioid, we'll get it taken care of as

well as it could be. >> president of united states spending 17 days in new jersey while white house, is being renovated, and he'll an health n service secretary, were in bridgewater announcing new direction of this administration on opioid abuse, they are not taking chris christie's direction or advisor recommendation, i see it as a snub of the governor. this guy could not get a job if he were weighing them, it is an embarrassment, a disgrace, and no surprise that it happened while governor was out the sta state. we're back with our panel, what to you think? does he have any credibility as opioid guy. >> he does, i am sorry this happened the way it did, essentially being said, we'll put a guy in charge of ask for

recommendations we're not going to follow them because we're going to a law and order approach, to addiction. us pro prosecutors we know you cannot treat people through a law and order approach. i wish he -- >> come on, it was a stupid recommendation. >> stupid too street it as a health issue. that is pretty. the concensus now, opioid epidemic is not something we can jail our way out of. >> he wanted to call the state of emergency, that is where the governmenter overreached. >> i don't think there is worse idea to put more federal funds but at same time christie missed deadlines. >> what did the guy embarrassed that this happened in his state, he is thehe governor. he is in europe. >> such a bad snub or

intentional. christie said, if you come out and dismiss all my recommendations, i don't want to be here. >> president trump does nothing by accident. this had to be on purpose. >> if it is, it is a shame. this is a serious health concern, i agree with you, we can use law enforcement in some area, christie should have been involved. people are suffering people are dying, this is a health issue. we'll look back at 50 years. >> people of new jersey have him about 15% approval rating, it seems that everything this this governor touches goes south, bad, only getting worse, i hope he says i stays in europe, he wy come back and make things worse, what do you think? tweet me. >> a look at some headlines, north korea threatened a missile strike on guam. just hours after president trump made a promise of his own in response to images showing north

korea producing missile-ready nuclear weapons. >> they will be met with fire and fury. >> national ocean antic agency updating forecast for 2017 atlantic hurricane season, 60% chance of above normal. >> predicting 14 to 19 named storms and two to five mayor jor hurricane -- major hurricanes. >> research found that rate of alcohol use and abuse ros 10 ro. >> that is a look at some of the headline we're chases. >> a wonderful weather day today, sunshine, in 80s, we have more pleasant weather coming up with changes in time are weekend, i'll talk about that coming up.

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>> engineer at google, gets fired for circulating a memo 10 stages long talking about there is not discrimination necessarily or sexism in the workplace when it comes to men and women who choose to be engineers, it is natural, men have a better aptitude, toward being an engineer than women do, there are several studies that back that up.

they have talked about the number of women, percentages who choose to get into engineering, fields, overwhelming 3 favors men, in and some cases 9 percenf engineering jobs and majors are chosen by men overwhelm. diana. you are a woman is this sexist thing to say if toas test scores show. >> i would say it is sexist to say women are not capable of something just because of their gender, i would say everything he presented here in his argument is antiquated and boring, has he heard of marissa meyer from yahoo! >> he said, let me ask you,ry really says, look, sexism exists but just because there is a more men than women does not mean

that is sexism. >> i see a father of two daughters, people stereo typing, and pushing from get go, from little young ages. we have been conditioning generations. that it shows up in test scores. >> is that true? when i was a kid they did tests with toys, they gave boys dolls and girls trucks, they naturally reversed. went back to their natural roles. boys got rough with trucks. >> this is garbage science and studies. as a prosecutor with more female aarkansas-- crosprosecutors thi. >> if 90% of students take a major in certain engineering

fields, are men over, women. >> i would say women are choosing careers on whether they can raise a family or not, many companies are making it friendlier for women to have families and work. they are seeing how well the jobs pay. >> is it sexism if a woman wants something more on-lines of social justice than math and engineering. >> i agree, we made it easier and acombatte accommodated womeo wanted to raise family, they came in droves because of the benefits, and to do good work for society, if the engineering companies and firms will allow women on rise up, then -- >> google feeds them, google does more than their employees than almost any company out there. this is a choice, i have not heard one report of someone

saying, i wanted to be an engineer at google but they are not hiring women. >> they are saying a lot of training programs are based on male. >> because there are more men that are doing the job than woman? >> are they hiring women. >> i find it amazing that conservatives are so involved in trying too dig tate yo dictate a private company runs himself. that is ironic. >> would have you fired him? >> i think he. >> it was an opinion. >> he no longer presents a legal liability tie for company, if a woman does not get a job along the line. >> that is a guy who got fired. >> two different messages, we want to bring women in and there are a lot of minorities, not because they are not competent they are not open to them. >> i think we're making excuses for choice, women choose a certain lifetime, that is what leading to so-called meth of a gender gap, mi minorities choosi

don't see any roadblocks, put up, a company like google is as progressive as any company out there, they should reinstate the guy give him his job back. >> controversy in new york over scaffolding, when you are in new york, you go to a meeting it is raining, scaffolding provides shelter, and also represents clean windows. beautiful city of new york. third thing is scaffolding i see jobs, someone is building somebody, someone is employed. not everyone is happy about scaf scaffolding. >> there is scaffolding in new york city almost old enough to vote this building in har larl . >> how many years has it been

here. >> 17. >> she works at a salon, they have been struggling too remain clients many people don't know it is there and as a result, of scaffolding there is a build up of trash and crowds, they smoke, they drink, and leave more trash. why is it still there? department of buildings said it cannot come down until the owner of that building does the repairs, department can find the owners $1,000 a month. >> i reached out to owners, i have not heard back. >> there is scaffolding in network networnewyork city thatd enough to vote, across the street from my office, i don't know if it will ever go down. >> legislation that would require construction be done in 6 months and scaffolding be taken down.

critics say it is hard to come up with money to fix them within 6 months. >> a real sense, what is city going to do, i don't think that passes, there is no way with all development in new york you would grind construction projects to a halt if they thought they had to get it done in 6 months, and the paperwork problem, how long for right permits. >> you are right, legislation is struggling too get support right now, so, all they can do is really, just leave the scaffolding up and find the building owners, but they are not paying the fine. >> bob, i look at this, i say. wait, you blame the scaffolding for people less and trash -- homeless and trash, how about blaming mayor who let the city run away from where it was, when mayor guliani took it back. >> i think that mayor needs to do something, the city is getting. we see the dirt, trash all of the time, that is building up.

i understand those. >> that is not scaffolding fallg fault. >> it provides haven, you see it, you are trying to squeeze your way through, there is trash, and people are smoking. >> i hear homeless problem, crime, littering, this is a failure of leade leadership add administrationive level. >> here is a roo look at headli. >> home in queens where president trump lived from birth to able age 4 can be renned on airbnb for $725 a night. it can fit opportunit up to 25 . >> >> justice department took president trump's campaign promise to crackdown on illegal immigration seriously, ordered over 57,000 to leave in first

half of the year, un31% from 2016. >> trump administration credited an increase in judges at boredder and pris an. >> this result in quicker detorting a. deporting. >> i am new jersey 101.5 chief meteorologist dan with a look at our weather forecast. we chased some nice sunshine today, beautiful high temperatures in 80s, let's do it again, we find ourselves in a pleasant piece of the atmosphere. mostly clear skies, temperatures should fall to comfortable lower 60s. thursday we'll have extra louds ou-- clouds, partly sunny. highs in 80s to 85. that changes are ahead, not going to stay perfect. as we move to friday, clouds continue to increase, mostly cloudy. there could be a shower at some point friday, models have been

zig-zagging as to whether or not we'll see rain drops, you might want to carry an umbrella just in case, not a guarantee, i think it will be an okay day with temperatures in upper 70s. i am meteorologist dan farrow. >> president trump vacations in his golf club in bed min -- new jersey. >> do you know where i can get a good spray tan. >> excellent. >> president trump is

vacationing here in new jersey, as "boston globe" calls it, the lapd oland of spay tan. >> he

>> president trump is vacationing at his golf club in bid minister, new jersey, or as "boston globe" calls it the land of spray tans, globe called trip

a fresh version of trump's delight at thumbing his nose at country cosmopolitan class. what? i have not spend a lot of time in bed -- but i thought that is where they hung out. maybe the boas bostonians know g that i don't know. i went and found what it was known for horses. >> international, that is a qualifier for the olympics in tokyo. >> wow. >> serious competition here. >> yes. >> do you know where i can get a good spray tan. >> i do not, i am sorry. >> we're not in the land of spray tans. >> we are not. >> after you finish a

competition like this, did you celebrate with a good stra spra. >> she has good color already. >> no spray tans for you or the horse. >> no but she does yesterday a greenish tent. >> so much going on in a small space. people go -- snooky. snooky. she is from poughkeepsie. >> i was driving by office of former governor thomas cain. what are chances he is actually here? >> spray tan? >> spray tan? >> i have never seen, a spray tan? >> you -- new jersey is not known for that. >> maybe massachusetts. they don't have good weather there. like we do. >> how did spending your vacation here. >> if you can't live here, that is all you can do.

but, no. this is a great place to be. >> president ever come here. >> he has not been here yet, but i would welcome him, and ivanka, any of them, people come here, they want to look naturally tan, have you that natural tan, we can do more. >> i do not live in massachusetts. >> excellent. hit the other side. 1, 2, 3. don't breathe in. great. don't breathe in, perfect. >> i think i look pretty good. happy now, boston? >> have a great night. if you saw something you saw, agree with or disagree, chime in. we'll see you tomorrow

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