. >> reporter: sources say norman seabrook, the long time correction union president is also under investigation. all have denied any wrongdoing. >> ben bathman, lawyer for phil banks, said nothing in his client's bank accounts can be tied to any wrongdoing whatsoever. to recap, four nypd commanders have been reassigned. two of those commanders have been stripped of their guns and badges. and this investigation is not over tonight. live tonight in borough park, brooklyn, n.j. burkett, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> there's a search tonight for a hit-and-run driver in queens. a car slammed in to a 45-year-old man who was crossing the street at 21st in astoria. the driver never stopped. eyewitness news reporter cefaan >> detectives say they do have video showing this car moving at, quote, warp speed down the street last night. speeding is an issue residents say they're all too familiar with. what they're shocked about, a man was left here to die after being mowed down. >> reporter: detectives in astoria combing for clues, looking for the cold hearted driver who sped off. >> should have stopped and

. >> i will tell you, you can seabrook has a jacket on because it is cold. we have gloves on. it is gonna way every time it comes back people cheer. >> he is taking bets how long it will take me to put my coat on. >> exactly. >> it is packed out here. crowd getting riled up, ready for things to get kicked off. they have signs of their own they have made. there is streamers. first i thought it was toilet paper flying through the hair, but it is streamers. >> it is twice as many people as before if you can believe it is this crazy. you can hear them, they are excited, everybody has their v's up. >> something is cooking. we can smell food. we don't know where it is coming from but there is something good being cooked out there, somewhere in this park. things are going well. we can see, i can see down market street toward 15th, 16th, down near the bank there, and it is all pack. both sidewalks are pretty much, you know, five or six people deep. so this area right around dilworth park near stage has been cordond off but right on the outskirts is where crowds are building up. if you

norman seabrook is also receiving quick perl quotes. providing private police exports and crowd control. >> the detective says the grand jury was interested in whether or not he had ever fixed a ticket for these two businessmen. this may all circle back. two years ago, the fbi began looking into him and whether or not he lined his own pocket while running the correction officers union. >> thanks a lot. turkeys all over the place. >> there is a meeting and place. 20 a or homes to the public. way to scare away the turkeys. some of them have cars and people. one of them even flew through a kitchen window. >> there was mud flying everywhere. water everywhere. >> i never heard of a turkey doing that. rosanna: traumatized by that movie. >> they are not allowed to touch the birds. only the state has the authority to do that. >> a little latitude. so. rosanna was hanging with, i call them robert de niro. they are friends. >> i got a chance to sit down the two people involved with the tribeca film festival. bringing business back to the tribeca

. >> reporter: norman seabrook president of the union that represents the correction officers but notwed him the ballard video. >> who's responsible? >> the supervisor. >> what about your officers? >> the officers follow instruction of the supervisors. >> reporter: in another incident captured on surveillance video, inmate jose bautista tried to hang himself. arrested on dope mostic charges awaiting trial. he couldn't post the $250 bail. when he jumped up suddenly, officers beat him so severely he suffered a perforated bowel and needed emergency surgery according to case records. bautista's case was one of 129 serious injuries over an 11-month period documented in a revealing report by the new york city department of health and mental hygiene. that was intended for internal use only, but 60 minutes managed to get a copy. the report found 77% of the injuries involved mentally ill inmates and their injuries were severe enough off to require care beyond the capacity of jail medical doctors. >> could take a third of the 77% and say that okay it was the inmates who was just being violent a

. 20 officers are installed including the deputy specter -- and former chief of the nypd, norman seabrook is also reportedly involved. the probe centers around these officers and others proceeding quid pro quo in exchange for providing private police escorts and crowd control at his citic weddings and other favors. the detective's lawyer told the daily news this is particularly interested in whether this cop fixed tickets for these two businessmen. nypd rules allow officers to pick up outside work as long as they are not performing them in uniform and not on the city's time. ben: we will see what happens, thank you very much. lawyers for former nypd officer peter liang won a new trial. ben: one of the doors failed to disclose their father had been convicted of manslaughter for the brooklyn the's office said peter liang received a fair trial and we will respond to this motion in court. he was convicted of manslaughter in february for the accidental shooting that killed girly in the brooklyn stairwell in 2014. he is expected to be sentenced next week. ben: city council will vote on a bill t

retired chief of department phil banks and the head of the city correction officer's union norman seabrook. the nypd and fbi looking into those relationships to determine whether favors or other considerations were offered in exchange for trips, gifts or cash. today the commissioner transferred deputy chief david clone and deputy chief eric rodriguez. two others were transferred and then stripped of their guns and badges. deputy chief michael harrington and deputy inspector james grant. all, through their attorneys, have denied any wrongdoing. the commissioner explained the shake up at a news briefing this afternoon. >> at this point in time we have enough information we that i made today to modify and transfer senior members of the department. >> reporter: police officials took pains today to say that the conduct they are investigating is not believed to be systemic or widespread. but of course this case is not over. we are going to have much more on the investigation and the actions the commissioner took today coming up on eyewitness news at 6:00 tonight. jay burkett channel 7 eyewitness

former chief of the department phillip banks and corrections union president norman seabrook. it's unclear if the mayor is being implicated in my wrongdoing but the question now is how wide will this investigation go? in midtown, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. they've arrested a teenager armed with dangerous weapon. officers seized a fully loaded handgun and 79 bullets from a 13-year-old who arrived by bus from virginia. police got a tip and met his bus at the port authority bus terminal. now the boy told police that he wanted the gun for protection and he's now in juvenile detention. >>> a man suspected in 16 armed robberies across two boroughs is now in police custody. the detectives say 30-year-old august-watkins robbed 14 stores in queens and two if brooklyn. they spanned only 11 days. police say? each one he told workers he had a gun and grabbed run and ran off. >>> trouble tonight for three off-duty new york city firefighters after a bar brawl near citi field. police arrested the firefighters last night after a fight broke out at mcfadden's restaurant and saloon

corruption involving a city union leader and police sources tell cbs 2 an investigation began with nora seabrooks, saying he invested pension money that led to wiretaps andrecorded conversations, marsha claimer asked commissioner bratton about the matter. >> does it trouble you there is an investigation? >> the nature of the business that always results unfortunately in the investigations we'll just have to see where the investigation goes. >>> a detective in the 66th precinct has been put on desk duty and several members of the 19th precinct have been questioned. >>> a city council committee control of costume characters and other panhandlers giving them to power to designate plazas and painted ladies to specific zones. >>> it is cold out there. >> the wind chills are down this hour in the city it is very pretty, nice skies but at 32 with a calm wind. around the area, wind chills in the 20s and low 30s so cool out the door. it won't be as windy as it was yesterday, 49 feels better but look at that still almost 10 degrees below normal sunsets at 7:26. it is breezy in the afternoon, not the winds

. >>> charlie rangel pulling -- seabrook build taxpayers $177 for a bagel and soda and was convictedur money into a shady non-profit. thanks to help from his friend he'll spend the last year of a five-year sentence at a curby facility in pennsylvania. >>> sorry, hillary, she's just not into you. the actress susan sarandon a former diehard clinton supporter announced her decision to cut ties with the clintons. last night she said she'd take donald trump over the clintons. >> i had to break up with her. >> such a beautiful couple. what did >> i'm more afraid of hillary clinton's war room and walkishness than i am of building the wall. >> she said she's a bernie sanders supporter. >>> patty davis says it's no laughing matter will ferrell playing her father ronald reagan. in an open letter she said this quote, i watched as fear invaded my father's eyes this man who was never afraid of anything i heard his voice tremble as he stood in the living room and said "i don't know where i am." those are your headlines. i'll be back in a little bit. >> thank you very much. >>> it's pizza like you'