>> two weeks ago before new jersey voters go though polls to peck the next governor, even democrats are surprised just how close this race has gotten over the past couple of weeks. we'll check in with one of the candidates, are you a little bit surprised this race this is close? >> no, not at all. not all. >> and a war of words between the white house and a congresswoman in florida over the phone call that president trump has been making to gold star families and families of fallen veterans. >> the dogs can brk at the moon but it doesn't become an issue until the moon barks

back. bill: race itch in a high school. it is a war of texts. some kids are protesting. some are in a lot of trouble. of course, your weather, beautiful weekend, enjoy it. because it is going to get ugly next week. i am bill spadea, this is "chasing news." bill: the race for new jersey's governor is heating up. two weeks to go before voters go though polls to pick a successor to governor chris christie. many are saying this race is way tighter than they expected. an article that came out today that talked about how even democrats are shocked given the overwellle k administration number that's the race has go in this tight. ashley johnson checks win the full story. >> one of the last weekends before the election. both the calm paps are settling plugging away t. the race for governor is becoming evening toker with diehard democrats giving a second thoughting to the current

governor. stev wrote an machine piece why he has the momentum right now. >> right now, i think the narrative that is out there, that is going against murphy is that people are afraid t that he is going to tax us. >> meanwhile, we reached out to murphy and were given less than an hour notice that he had a campaign event with congressman done al cain at 11:00! a testimony the come from the heels murphy big rally with obama thursday. obama spoke a lot about the division we have seen in the country. >> some of the poll tk we see now, we thought we put that to bed. i mean, that is looking foo years back. >> the public has leading guadagno among voters who made up their mind. the columnist conducted his own polls.

>> i asked which one? i have a good sense of community with my social media presence out there, and again, it came back overwhelmingly in favor of law tenant governor. >> another swing for guadagno, her mannerisms and tones for new jersey, a lot feel that murphies not down-to-earth and not as relatable. i am ashley johnson reporting for chasing news. bill: thank you, ashley. all right. i want to bring in one of the candidates vying the next governor. the current lieutenant governor in new jersey. kim gaug dag know. welcome back. how are you. kim, in all honesty, no take point, nothing partisan. are you a little bit surprised give in the state of affairs in new jersey this race this is close? >> no, not at all. not at all. i said it during the primary. said id again when i won. have been saying it all summer long. when people realize that murphy is going to raise

everyone's taxes by millions of dollars over time, um, they realize, they cannot afford to live here any more. i called murphy. specifically, he sent a text. this is now at least the third maybe fourth attempt to have him come on and answer the question. i have a simple question and they continued to push back excuse after execution cues, can't do it today. can't do it tomorrow. i don't know. we'll ton give. the opportunity, but the question is. the question i wanted to ask you. you asked several times. what is it as far as now driving democrat has the undecided because we're seeing that the undecide numbers are up in the 20's. well, think it is two things. first he promised to raise taxes and the most taxed people in the country. they cannot afford to pi anticipate more in tax and realizing it is not just millionaires. it is a tax on everyone, no matter who they are, what they do. the other piece is the sanctuary state. new jersey is not a sanctuary

state. it will threaten law enforce. and it will take away resources from the federal government. why would anyone vote for anybody who was running? >> the other day, during the debate, your debate with murphy. he attacked your numbers saying you know the numbers are made up. wham do you say to that? >> i don't know. we put them on the web site. i have yet to see any contradiction of those numbers. he uses the numbers himself. so all right. kim, thanks. always good ta take to you. >> thanks, bill. bill: have a great weekend. all right. let's bring in the a-plus panel to break this down. andre, good see. thank fou bore being being here. >> you a columnist and an attorney and you lean slightly though left. jennette hoffman is here. political strategist. let me start with you. you have been a republican strategist for a long time. i brought that point up because during the debate,

kim says he is using the same numbers. what am i missing? >> murphies not a great candidate because he doesn't know how to a tk late his own policies. kim guadagno is adding up everything and by huge amount and $70 billion in the proposals and kim guadagno essaying, look, if you elect me, i willow are the property taxes or i will not run. >> let me ask you. he get it why they don't want to con the show. won't come on here. as the race tightens, democrats and republican is a degreing. why not get throughout and refute some of this? >> i think the first thing is, i don't think the raisin gel deg gites. one republican poll that said it was nine points but the race probably like 14-15 points as you get closer to election day. the margin does get a little slimmer. he think kim guadagno needs to be accurate with her plan as well. her tax proposal raises taxes

like chris christie's proposal has raised tax consecutively. because it has raised taxes for the last four years as well. last time, in my. think a candidate ran fullout on raising taxes with walter mondale. it didn't work out so well. how is it work in a state that ranked 50 and the state that has the highest taxes in the entire country and running a campaign seeing i got to raise taxes. the reason why, bill, the average voter is not voting on policies or taxes or answer thing else. the arching voter is voting on personality and right now, when we have donald trump in the white house, most of the voters are just voting against that. >> uninformed and dumb? not that they are uninformed or dumb. think think are a lot of factors that go into choosing a candidate. only one of them. if that is true. how do both translate. >> i was going to say. i think on personality and on policy kim gaug dag know is

that which ahead. he is so awkward. kim is down-to-earth, successful and has a grasp on issues that people care about. property taxes ap ap affordability has been them berwyn every statewide pole. two weeks ago,. >> definitely. i am a going to kim. >> all right. we'll see. >> just to be clear. i have asked the campaign repeatedly and you know, he has every excuse in the book. we'll see. >> thanks, bill. bill: controversy has erupted and a war of words over phone calls that president trump made to family members of fallen soldiers, it started with congresswoman frederica wilson from florida after she leaked words of a phone call that she said president trump side the wid dev green beret killed in action in africa. now, the white how's chief of staff john kelly former marine corps general held a press conference to address thing that's the congresswoman had said. here is what he had to say.

>> it it ups me a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. absolutley stuns me. and i thought, at least, that bass sacred. >> not letting this go. congresswoman frederica wilson came back at the chief of staff again bringing up the whole idea of what the president said and in her words saying it was insensitive and inappropriate. he is not backing down. >> let me tell you what my mother told me. when i was little, she said the dog can bark at the machine all night long, but it doesn't become an issue until the moon barks back. and then, it continues, another widow of a soldier killed back in april in afghanistan. they leased a red yo which was recording of the phone call president trump made to her saying that the president was appropriate and sensitive and the call had impact.

>> just amazing, amazing guy. >> oh. >> a great hero. well, thank you. president trump those words are kind f. all right. let's break it down with the a mus panel. former prosecutor, mob, thank you. just to start, it seems to me, frederica wilson has politicized the death of this green beret, and the word that's the president used, we have heard used in john kelly stated, his son died, overand over again, when you say something they knew what they were getting into. you are honoring them and saying they are hero. what did you say? >> i dis's degree the premise of the question. she did not spark this.

sh was started based upon a report ear question about what happened to those four soldiers. president trump with all due respect turned that into how no other president does it look he does it which started a firestorm. >> so you have got, bob just said, bus the president discussed former presidents, this congresswoman had a right to take words out of context and create firestorm over the deaded about dave green beret. des gusting. i don't foe. i haven't heard the tape. if she, that i is problematic. if she dy, she had every right to speak up for friend she's thought were mistreated and the fact that the trump administration is taking this and just beating it to death over and over and over. they are the ones that are plit sizing it. all she did was bring up something that bothered mere what do you say, andre? i know you don't have anything nice say about president trump but hard to criticize a man who lost his own son. no one is going to mack you

come out there and talk about your dead son? >> well, the sequence of events is accurate. was right. the president did politicize it first. representative wilson, actually, came back this morning and said she didn't want it to be about her. why was sergeant johnson separated from the crew? was was there faulty intelligence we didn't know isis was on the ground in africa? why was the vehicle unarmed? >> to be fair, the questions have not been answered. we only have speculation and rumor. we're now, in all of the tweets today, through this week, it seems to me, we have gone way bee cron the pone call and now questioning the president's poll sane the action of the military. we got to leave it there. ♪ coming up, not only new york city mayor bill deblass saysyee red sox fan but now he hates amazon land that are 50,000 jobs hanging in the balance. what is wrong with him? dan czarlow will have the great weekend forecast, coming up. >> a beautiful weekend of weather.

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bill: the giant on-line retaller am zon looking for the headquarters to put somewhere in the united states. new york city one of them

however mayor bill doe blass sy yo decided not much favor. amazon could hurt small retailers so the question is is pay yore standing in the way of 50,000 potential jobs in the new york let's bring in our a plus panel to break this down. we got bobby and can i, former morris county prosecutor. always good you have here, bob, thank you. a columnists for law news! com and an attorney and a political strategist. andre, i will start with you. you a democrat. why does mayor doe blass sy yo hate amazon? >> don't know if he hates am zn. new york city is one of the most diverse economies in the world. so the attraction and the lar is already there. what he did last night in tellers of saying doesn't want amazon there was an interesting take and looks like someone may be seeking higher office once the second term is over. >> could this go down as one of the dumbest rite call things we have heard a

oltition sna that is saying something bus amazon is not a threat to have a world headquarters to local retailers and shop fuss hire 50,000 people. the retail shopses are going to expand. everybody has access on the internet. >> i done know if it is. because i think that words of support for small businesses resonate with people. i come from a background of many small business owners in a get what he is saying. i also think it is difficult to hate amazon but easy for him to say, hey, don't forget. >> this is unsettling trend among leading democratic polls not only now you have de blasio but murphy basically mack it impossible for amazon to come to nobodies if they lit lir have to build the right rail to come here. >> floor we po. >> here go. >> why? >> we're connecting de blasio. i agree with you. it is ridiculous because it providing economic engine to connect that to murphy now is completely different. murphy was saying he wants to make sure that new jersey

gets something en addition to those jobs ap the ferb ate as much as he can to the economic engine of knox. >> andre, in terms of this. in a real sense, are talking about 50,000 jobs. would you think that everybody would be jipping over themselves to get these jobs and talking about working class and middle class families and they don't care as well and as well or whatever office they want to run for. isn't sit just about jobs and the guys leaders doing everything possible to get the jobs sign in well, he wants to take a look at the tax credit that's the first thing and lass come poe the of driving housing stock up. the 50,000 numbers is a number on paper. we don't know how many jobs will be transferred from see al. has the first thing. the number is not entirely ac crit and increase the component of gentrification and fashion it for the last ten years. don't you think desperate for something like this inthey are solving a crime problem. they are almost there to me it sounds like they are doing everything they can to push back. not the time to push back but

the time to pull them in. it sounds lake good plan. on that level, i agree with you. it soup likes good thing. but poll tegses cannot just say, oh, it sounds good then not look to any of the fall out. not looking to what it mean is so think it is smart to may be hesitant on the things. andre, were you surprised. >> i mean out in left field. he is doing a great job honestly. corey booker is certainly the left and left a mess for him to clean up. then you had booker and chris christie i pane, opposite ends of the political spectrum all coming together saying that is good deal. we worked it out. it is a multibillion-dollar net fen. it could have happened in morning. >> right. now if you look at the model in see al, you well see there has been a housing problem there. gent trification problem and the wealth gap has increased significant lynn seattle. newark doesn't want to face

the same pron. >> all right. you know what? if he raises the minimum wage they are not cocoming here anyway. won't matter. let's check in with dan czar reand your weather. >> happy weekend. dan zarrow her to take about the forecast. he weekend looks great. end klaesing clouds from saturday afternoon onward but temperatures will remain pleasant and will remain dry until the change-over date which still looks to be ons day. so for tonight, dollars skies. comfortably cool temperatures. youer 46 tee lower 50's. perfect viewing conditions for the meteor shower which peaks hover weekend and 15 to 30 meteors an hour expected just look up especially before dawn. saturday we'll start with sunshine. but clouds will start to build dark in the afternoon. high temperatures back to the low to mid 70's. lower 70's ron dayne. think it is a mostly cloudy day but still quite pleasant. monday looks good, too. skies open the sky. monday could be the warmest day. mid to upper 0's maybe even

80 degrees and the changes come on tuesday. brisk wind picks up and we see periods of rain. this model image suggests the heaviest rain moves in actually tuesday evening and this is around 8:00 p.m. with bands of heavy rain and embedded thunderstorms sweep through. along with the way rain,an inch sore. gusty winds then we cooldown doo so by thursday or friday, no more 70's or 80's. highs will be close to 60 degrees and feeling more like fall. have yourself a great weekend. be sure that follow me on facebook and twit another latest forecast update. am meteorologist dan zarrow. >> the race for governor is heating up. most people are aware that there are two major candidates battlingette out for governor. who is going to replace murphy. what some don't know, there are other pears throughout. one of those parties running the green party and joined now by seth. seth, thanks for peg here. the very for ry lisa who is

running for lieutenant governor. how are you, bill. bill: welcome back good to he sue lisa. welcome back, seth. two major debates. one between the candidate of lieutenant governor. neither of you have been end either. why snoot we have been at debate. yelling outside and frank hi, think people heard more. >> they came out of the building than they heard inside of the building because we were with a, a megaphone letting folks know what the policies were. how would that translate in terms of both? i mean, i don't know if you are being included in the polls. >> almost all the polls dip include us. only one. how did you do we dot like one prern. yeah. was just this month when we had that poll. there's many, many polls. >> are you knocking on doors? we're knocking on concerns that streets. we're at the train station. he were in jersey city last week. we were at a house party. >> let me start with taxes. you are having debate at the federal level on health care and going to im affect state. mine go up every year.

i am sure yours are going up every year. on what side are you son in what we are asking for is to bam demonstration project for the federal f. to try out medicaid for all. we believe we can pay for it with the money that am coin from the feds as well as the 6% now, on employers and 2% new employee tax all of that money together will be enough money to pay for the health care needs the state of new jersey. >> right. what that would mean is right now, when you pay your property taxes. 2% of the property tax is going to pay for the unregulated private health insurance plans of your teachers athens workers if we strengthen that. all 565 pounds will see dramatic decrease in the property taxes. all right. guys got to lab it there. god he sue both. >> thank you. bill: coming up, racism at local high school. text mess a.m.s back and forth. student firsts are protesting. come on innocent can we all get along.

bill: controversy at a glauster county high school. there are all kinds of teps. people gathering. very racist text exchanges. hank has the story. hank? reporter: sure, bill. am starting to get the impression it everywhere because we had our fill of these kind of stories over the past couple of weeks. yesterday was the gloucester county. as you can say, some racist text got spread around to the point where they got to the people that they are talking in pack. i got sent those texts and went to the school yesterday and found anywhere from 75 to 125 kids sitting in the lobby of the high school and black and white. a good cross section. when i went inside. they took though a side room, the conference room with the prens approximately's office and sat doub with the cycle ap superintendent and the four young leaders of this movement and everybody aired out the grovance.

i will tell you i covered the high school before and i believe it will be the school but getting back to the beginningp these things are popping up everywhere. happened yesterday. and a fight on wednesday in the hallways as a result of the text. i said in the beginning. when you are talking take n woru are dealing with inappropriate stuff. do they know really where it is coming from. it is be trying to start trouble on percents. is it isolated? >> well, i am not up the impression that epp one was trying to start trouble it is not isolated by the kids i talked to and the leadership of this silent protests and the superintendent told me yesterday that the kids traced back to have had been dealt consequence and was reported and other news stories they were givep ten days and i have not confirmed that. it sounds about right.

>> ness that, hank. it has been a busy week here on chasing news. thank you for inviting me. i hope

happening tonight, growing tensions some areas school districts acts of racism sparking serious schools concerns. thanks for joining us tonight at washington township hoy school students are trying to put their worries aside. and come together for homecomi homecoming. that's where we find fox 29's joanne pileggi with more on the story. joanne. >> reporter: they did put their concerns aside, and homecoming night here at washington township high in south jersey is one for the history books. there were no problems. there