bill: earlier on wednesday, a judge threw owl the lion share of charge against senator bob menendez and will the department of justice pursue the fraud charms still on the table? a lot of questions to come as to the future of new jersey's senior senator. new jersey is taking on the trump administration as phil murphy decides to join in lawsuit to protect undon'ted im grabs from deportation. how far will they go?

>> we have come so far from the new jersey motel room, which is among your first memories of america. >> my situationingfies the situation that many in my state. >> and violence in new rochelle as parents up in arms. more than 1,000 parents showed up at a town hall meeting to express their fear and shock and anger. i am bill spadea, this is "chasing news." ♪ ♪ ♪ bill: we have a chasing alert tonight. senator bob men nez dez who was facing a corruption trial after a mistrial last month the department of justice said we were thinking about going in and retrying the case; however, the judge in the case of the mistrial, today, threw out the lion share of the charges. major charges of corruption and brook ry, gone. the judge says you don't have a case. now some of the charges do still

stand but the senator and his attorney claiming a huge victory today to break this down for us. i am joined by political consultant welcome back. is the attorney for bob menendez correct saying that victory, we told you the senator was innocent all along. >> well, the attorney for bob mep nen dez is advocate for bob menendez, period. it is true. there is a glimmer of hope for bob menendez's legal defense here. hover i would not be popping the bolts just yet. he faces three counts of bribery, chancer of fraud, failing to disclose documents and come with 20 years in prison so these are serious charms and looks like the just is department is going to pursue another trial which is bad news who is in the re-election. bill: how badly does it hurt them we have seen it time and

again. politician will push through. do you next senator cory booker to do what he did during the first trial to put his arm around him and say don't wor, i bob, we're with you? >> well, it looks look the democrats in new jersey are behind bob menendez who are now. i say for now, his approval rating has tanked over the past couple of months when he was on trial the last time. he dropped 20 points in approval rating now the most unpopular united states senator in the entire country. so colleagues are sticking by him now, who knows for how zoning. bill: all right. the deadline to announce he is running for rere-election il will be coming you. >> i think he doesn't run, bill. bill: all right. we'll hold you to that prediction. we'll see. think he reasons and becomes early favorite to win. >> wow. we'll see. thanks, bill. bill: thank you. new jersey taking on the trump administration over illegal immigration as governor phil

murphy following through with the campaign promise to have the backs of illegal undammed al le gep in in new jersey joying the lawsuit. how far will they go indo they really have a case? ashley johnson has the story. ashley? >> knox governor phil murphy and attorney general announced wednesday, the state was showing a federal lawsuit to protect dreamers. this comes as the president blasted senate minority leader chuck schumer. over the deferred action for child had rifles a program. the fat battle over daca continues in the capitol hill and a huge reason for the government shutdown. >> understand that mitch mcconuntil's intention to take up daca coupled with the president's position. i feared that we are going to be back here in the same place in three weeks. >> this came as in new jersey

was sworn in as the first dreamer to the new jersey bar association. the graduate dime the state from india when he was five. >> my situationingfies she they situation that many dreamers face, where you know, might be shy to come out and speak in that situation. withs they realize they are not, people are ready to stand up for you, more and more will come out. eventually we have this before we need it. >> murphy will establish office of immigrant protection and defense and did not say if new jersey would take steps to become a sanctuary state. in trenton, i am ashley johnson, reporting for "chasing news." bill: thank you, ashley. all right. let's bring in the a-plus panel. a trial attorney is here. ged sue, missy. thanks for boeing here. here from the muslim community, always god he sue. thanks for peg here . also, a trial attorney. attorneys outnumber everybody else today. let's start with you.

this is almost fake outrage over something that doesn't exist. the governor amadou new jersey. both sides, both the administration and the democrats in congress agreed we don't want to deport 800 thousand people. certainly not 22,000. we have until march 5th to figure this out. what this is other than a politician? >> well, i think it is bringing up points we need to review the am gration laws. if anything he is bringing that to the forefront and something we need to consider to stop creating band-aids to start finding dissolutions. >> you got actual lawmakers at the federal level that need to have a serious negotiation about this. how is it helpful you got a governor now? it reminds move the waste of time when you had 20 some odd stating the obama administration. >> or the legal perspective t. these cases are probably, probably don't have merit. the reason is you have to find a real legal issue. a real legal issue what w what is going on. so the question is. does a lawsuit like this kick

everybody into ger and get a b partisan immigration plan together where we figured this out instead of the temporary solution. why don't we know what the rules are. would that help understand. >> i understand. we didn't med the shutdown. you didn't need chuck schumer. you had the president coming out mops ago saying i will not do what the predecessor did because that is what are saying congress needs to act. so i say you get out of the way. climbing the water. >> well,mill for my is not in the way. the lawsuit has filed. he is in a way putting the money his mouth is. getting onboard. i a degree. the lawsuit is who knows what kind of per rite it has. very often we see litigation felling things forward in a way that nothing else can because itgation has timelines and deadlines and money miss teaks. bill: disgraceful pandering playing the race card, acting like this is brown skin versus

white skin. to me. he is putting done the race card. anyone who wants to have a meaningful conversation about immigration is a racist. >> well, instead of playing games in the 2020 primary. bill: rutgers university home to high tuitions even for in-state commuting students and home of some of the highest paid in new jersey and the president bob who has come under fire in the past for several things happening on the university's campus gave the opening speech for the start of the new desester ands with asked about tuition ap whether there was chance it was going to go down this year and the president of the united states basically said not a chance. as a matter of fact he used the opportunity with the opening see mester to take a shot at the new governormill if you are my saying if he had asked only 25% of the campaign promise he could bankrupt the say it of new jersey. joining me now is mark who is on

the rutgers campus. did he address the fa spa sings. we talked about this in regards to rutgers and i have written about this over the past few months that they take about their budget and about 4.524 billion% of that according to the rutgers website comes from state taxpayers more than $1 billion. >> that is correct. but now, governor murphy in the same way he talked about commitment to education during the campaign still wants to get rutgers more. >> well, i commend the governor for his oh cuss on keeping ohio affordable. in terms of what you pay versus the outcome or the ordinance. we want to keep it that way. bill: now did he address the employees' salaries they talked about all of this huge impact and this wind fall of $50 million just a drop in the bucket to $4.5 million

bucket. >> governor murphy just got in office. he is in the early start of the 100 days. in many ways trying to figure out the nuts and bolts. bill: ok, thanks. appreciate. >> thanks. bill: all right. let's bring back the a plus panel. rutgers drives me crazy. i will start with you. education is important. it is critical. i think we're doing a disservice to the working and middle class families in the state. .5 billion budget. the highest paid in the state working for cut rutgers they want more. >> of course, we need to have education that allows for all students in new jersey to have a fair shot at it. if we continue to make it something they cannot afford what are we going to do long term for the students? bill: listen, what if we line item fee sree tow out $1 billion and naut money, paid for governor murphy's campaign promise of free community

college tu mission. >> where are you going to get the money from? in that that is what it is. some sort of audit on the money they have as being spent. i would like to see the school look at how it uses the money that is coming out of student's wallet and out of federal students loan and say how it is boeing used. s out of control as in many higher ed institution and would like to see that, i would like to see the mind set of fru gllity being applied through audit. >> maybe it is time to cut the football program and put it back in. >> we'll see. all right. ok. all right. bill: don't go anywhere. coming up on "chasing news." new york city mayor bill deblass sy yes getting involved in the opioid addiction fight now telling everyone he is going to sue the pharmaceutical companies to troy recover what he says $500 million in costs to footing the crisis in manhattan. dan: i am meteorologist dan

zero. our weather forecast is quiet. hour about the weekend. another big warm-up on the way. we will talk about how warm it gets and discuss the next potential storm system. the forecast is coming up.

bill: welcome back to "chasing news." i am bill spadea. we got a lot more for you tonight including your weather. it feels look it warmed up and

it is almost like spring-like but cold weather is coming. but first, let's talk about new york city mayor bill de blasio taking on big pharma. he has did he see youd to have the city sue the pharmaceutical companies because he wants to recover the $500 million in costs he says it cost new york fighting the opioid addiction crisis. allison gormly has the full story. allison, what do you got for us. >> new york city mayor bill deblass sy yo-yo announced new york city filed a lawsuit against multiple companies. accoring a press release the aim is to hold prescription opioid manufacturers and distribute accountable for their part in the city's ongoing deadly epidemic. the suit which named companies like johnson and jon and pharmaseeks to over a half billion dollars for future costs the city will n'dour combat this epidemic. >> who is getting away with bloody murder right now?

it is a big approval rating suit call company. that is what is going on. the people who created the crisis are getting away with it. >> the release states that morning know, died in 2016 from opioid overdoses than homicides and car accidents combined. we spoke to glen regan who is a mother of recovering addict and co-founder of a relapse prevention program called lud and clear about the lawsuit. >> they should be held account whether it is giving money to the cities in order to pay for the law enforcement efforts that have been made, the treatment. the funerals. i mean, people are unable to even pay for their children's funeral. >> they sent a statement us to saying they vigorously denied the allegations and look forward to the opportunity to prevent our defense. i am allison gorm my reporting for "chasing news." bill: thank you, allison. let's bring packback the a plus

panel here. i will start with you. you have been involved in opioid cases as am attorney. it seems to me that the lawsuit goes nowhere. it is a lot of political posturing. what do you my well, look, as far as i am concerned. i handled these cases. it doesn't go nowhere. it will be litigated but what lawyers look to is big tobacco. tobacco users, it is fixed with correct use of the product where as opioids, if you use it correctly, there is no issue. this it he is the misuse of the product, so that is why the lawsuits are not going to be successful at the end of the day. >> there is a bigger picture here. it seems like our culture today every time something goes wrong, we look to blame one? we go back to health care. what are doctors doing. what is happening in terms of the pain management? where are we watt the relationship with the patients? are they sitting down to take the time to access and andly pain or sem ply providing

prescriptions that does nothing to benefit? >> , it is always somebodies' fault and now big pharmaand he this is he will run for president? the lawsuits have been brought about because people have looked at the action of big farm m and said you are wrong. this medication being overprescribed and leading done the line to massive epidemics. bill: from a medical perspective. do you think this is being abused by the doctor as someone getting away or someone looking to tooned the right direction. >> a lot of times it is people trying find the right doctor. pain optionment suffered from this. we h have police outside of the offices. the pain management doctor's offices watching prescription. ok. check out headlines we are chasing for you tonight. president trump says he would love to testify under oath with special counsel robert mueller in the investigation into ties between the presidential calm pin and rush that. he has a tendency to just sort

offully off the cuff and say crazy stuff or wild stuff or combative stuff and, that must terrify donald trump's lawyers. >> the president says the interview could hap pin two or three weeks. >> larry nas are the former usa knicks has been sentenced to 40 to 165 years in prison for sex olly assaulting athletes in his care more than 150 women and girls said in court that he abused them. u think that somehow you are rig, you are a doctor, you are entitled. you don't have to listen. i wouldn't sen my dogs to you, sir. police have identified release photos of two suspects in penn station sunday that in in injured two to poe people. 4:40 p.m. sunday near broadway. police are looking for 30-year-old described as six feet tall, black locks and 29-year-old 6'3" and 170-pounds with short black hair and last

seen wearing a red cap, calm plo plaged jacket and blue jeans t. that is a look at the headlines we're chasing today. bill: all right. let's check win dan zarrow. i know you may have joined the warm keither. cold is coming back. dan? meteorologist: it is going to feel like late january. normal lowing now in lower 20's. normal highs around 40 degrees and that is almost where we end up on thursday. maybe a a little bit chillier in the mornings and any little breeze will push the wind chill to the teens as you start your day. you may have to dig out the winter coat and bun damelogical bit. by thursday afternoon, we see highs in the upper 30's to around 40 degrees. the next pattern change comes from the weekend and going to feel like spring again. feeling like march. milder air moves in. we see most highs bum top the 50's but does come at a cost. the form of thicker clouds and some rain showers the best

chance for raindrops now look to be saturday night through midday sunday and again, showers and light and all rain nothing win think time around thans to the warm-up. let's put number on the forecast for you. overnight tonight, throm tors and thermometers will dip to the lower 20's but again any little breeze pushing windchills to the teens and just a few clouds overhead during the day thursday. highs in the mid to upper 30's and may hit 40 degrees and hopefully the wind will die down and see sunshine throughout the day. friday, staying seasonable s. highs around 40 with mostly to partly sunny skies then once again we move though weekend with warm-ups. 50's and clouds and a little bit of rain activity and cool john again for early next week. i am meteorologist dan zero. bill: stay with me through the break. a lot more show coming up. the story about violence in the high school at new rochelle. three students stabbed in a period of eight days and parents a outraged. they want to have answers.

>> drugs, alcohol, a lot of folks are homeless because of bad choices. >> you made bad choices. >> this has been back and forth. no mat are how you see it. what is youren? we got your point of view covered. it is a big deal for some. "chasing news" with bill spadea

bill: violence in new rochelle. in eight days, three high school students stabbed. parents, the mayor, administrators, everywhere wince looking for a solution. there was a meeting the other night with parents and the school administrator and the mayor talking about everything from metal detectors to more cops to an app to anonymously report bullying. i am joined now buy a student at ionia college who has petition started and has more than 500 signatures already to not only ask the school administration fors to step down but to take immediate action. brendan, let me ask you. why did you get involved? >> well, at first, which is very upset about the first incident which lead to the death. then, from there, the continual incidents really unspired me to ac. bill: all right. at the meeting, 1,000 plus

parents showed up. how safe do you think people feel now? >> i would say, for the most part, some of the kiddings probably do. some probably don't. it depends on which side of this you are on. you know? you can say you feel comfortable. you feel not, in my opinion, three incidents in eight days, i wouldn't feel comfortable. no i a lot of people don't know. a lot of preans are on it. bill: what this is goal? and do you really want these school administrators to all step tune? my goal with this eventually is to create awareness and to allow the parents and community members to really hold the leaders accountable. for some of the implementation of rules they don't follow completely or lack there of. ok. thank you, appreciate your time tonight. let's bring back the a plus panel. let me start with you. this seems to me, you know metal detectors we hear about this. the app. i don't see how that could possibly help.

>> yeah. it is interesting concept. especially when you are talking about anonymous reports so what does that mean for the schools and their obligations to investigate these situations and to take corrective action. it seems to leave that loop unclosed and could be potentially problematic on the like side. bill: with very lost our way in the culture i can go back to high school. think parents and teachers are far more involved agriefsly and feels lock the tail is wagging the dog and the kids can claim all kinds of rights i don't know how they have and the school almost seems powerless. well, think we really need to look at issue of not just how to prevent this but to look at it from the home. you need to look at it to see what are the parents dog stop bullying in any type of violence? what are you tanging to school m what is happening in it starts with parents before it starts with school. bill: what about the tapers, though? what about empowering teachers. teachers give the kids little

snacks. get back in line. what is wrong with that? >> that is a little extreme. that is something we don't with president see happen in our schools. we don't want to see teachers becoming parents. we don't want to see any type of violence but we want to have a safety in place and it is having more liaison or police presence will be the solution to create peace. let's go there. >> a little bit more discipline, though. that would not be a bad thing. thans a lot from "chasing news" tonight. as always a lot of convo versionial subjebs come up we debate around. maybe you got opinion. if you do, i am sure i do. tweet me at bill spadea and don't forget to tune in tomorrow morning. 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. on new jersey 101.5 from my morning show and you see you tomorrow night on "chasing news."

>> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11:00. it is the 11:00 o'clock hour. we begin with breaking news. a shooting in the heart of center city. i'm thomas drayton. let's get right to it. it happened just before 9:00 o'clock tonight around 16th and chestnut. our brad sattin on the scene. what's going on here, brad. >> reporter: thomas, we can tell you only about 35 minutes ago they actually opened up the street here on walnut. we are at 16th and walnut here behind me is an apple store. this is actually where things ended up tonight after 24-year-old man from south philadelphia had been shot in the wrist. he want to this location here where he flagged a police officer and then was rushed to the hospital. as you see here just a couple officers remaining. take you to the earlier scene the incident started three blocks away