mayor bill de blasio says the crane was being lowered into winds when it fell. part of that process includes diverting pedestrians and traffic from the area. (bill de blasio/new york) "the fact is this is a very very sad incident, we've york) "the fact is this is a very very sad incident, we've lost a life, but if you go out there on the street as i did, and see what happened here, thank god it was not worse." more than 130- emergency workers rushed to the scene at worth street and west broadway friday morning. (bill de blasio/new york) "this is an area that normally would have had a lot of people around it, rush hour in the morning, lower manhattan." there's no official cause for the happened while new a winter weather now utility crews are going building to building looking for gas leaks. the mayor says don't expect the and running for a (bill de blasio/new york) "this area is going to be cut off, largely cut off for make every effort people" cranes have been a secured position. i'm andrew spencer reporting. n-y-p-d, the victim's name is david wiches, a 38-yea

. >> mayor de blasio's deal over fell through after the teamsters withdraw their support. >> reporter: andrew siff is live. andrew? >> reporter: pat and david, the teamsters have gathered here to, announce their opposition to the deal that was supposed to be voted through tomorrow, but it all collapsed when, as you indicated the teamsters pulled their support, the framework had been to pull the horses off the streets and to build a new stable in central park over the next couple of years. just a few minutes ago mayor de blasio came out and talked to us about what happened. >> you all know my views on this issue. same views i've had and same views i talked about in the election. we'll find a way forward on this issue. obviously, disappointed that the vote won't happen tomorrow, but we'll find a way forward. >> the mayor did not indicate specifically what the way forward might be. as you may have heard over the last couple of weeks, what this the number of horse and dangers in the city and move all of the drivers eventually to a yet to be built stable in central park. despite the contro

he'll discuss the figures today at a news conference with mayor de blasio. homicides and shootings were way down over january 2015. felonies jumped to a figure that includes recent subway slashingsp. >> paying for parking could be as easy as tapping an app. the mayor says it will be in effect by the end of the year. >> ridership increases on both the long island railroad and metro-north. they are the nation's two largest commuter rail systems. the long island railroad had 1949 and set an all-time record. >>> let's head over to alex for a final check of the roads. >> heavy delays on the van wyck and back to jfk airport. local lanes from the garden state parkway at exit 123 are causing heavy delays that stretch back past exit 120. for several miles here towards the scene, stick with the expressway as you can see it's a much smoother ride. alternate side is be safe. death text and drive. >>> it's going to be on again/off again rains of wet weather taking up and some in the area soon. then a bit of a break before more will fill in this after nan. the heavier rai

bill de blasio/new york mayor: "the fact is this is a very very sad incident, we've lost a life, but if you go out there on the street as i did, and see what happened here, thank god it was not worse." more than 130- emergency workers rushed to the scene at worth street and west broadway friday morning. bill de blasio/new york mayor: "this is an area that normally would have had a lot of people around it, rush hour in the morning, lower manhattan." there's no official cause for the collapse yet, but it happened while new york city was under a winter weather advisory. building looking for gas leaks. the mayor says don't expect the area to be back up and running for a few days. bill de blasio/new york mayor: "this area is going to be cut off, largely cut off for several days we'll make every effort to accommodate people" in the meantime, all cranes have been ordered to be put in a secured position. i'm andrew spencer reporting. a u-n panel is ruling that-- wiki-leaks founder julian assange, is being "arbitrarily detained". assange has been at the ecuadorian embassy in london since 2010

dari: mayor de blasio's plan to overall city horse carriage industry has hit a roadblock. canceling tomorrow's vote tomorrow, the blow delivered by teamsters union that represents carriage drivers announcing it cannot support the current bill it did you not provide a viable future for their industry. >> we'll find a way forward on this issue, disappointed that the vote will not happen tomorrow. >> i think it has been talked about or for a very long time, and several different itrations, i think it is wise to move on at-this-point. dari: horse carriages will be free on rome. steve: democratic presidential candidates faced off in new hampshire tonight. all eyes on hillary clinton and bernie sanders. >> every major country on earth, whether it is the u.k., or france or canada, has managed to provide health care to all people, as a right, and they are spending significantly less per capita on held healthcare than we are. steve: hillary clinton said this to that. >> i want to build on the progress we made, go from 90% coverage to 100% coverage, i don't want to rip away the secu

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mayor de blasio urging everyone to take precaution out there. >> reporter: i can tell you the cold is biting already. it just takes a few minutes for and the wind is starting to pick up as well. the fountain here at bryant park behind me, water is flowing still even though icicles are forming around it. it's about to get much, much worse. it's so cold it's tough to find words to describe it. >> to say it's freezing -- it's numbing. >> we knew it was going to be cold but weust how cold. >> reporter: new yorkers are already enduring windchills near zero. it's going to be a particularly tough night for shane duffy and sullivan. they plan to sleep outside tonight to raise awareness for the homeless. >> we're pretty committed to this. it's unfortunate that the timing is what it is. >> now they're headed to the salvation army to try and find warmer clothes. your brain starts slowing down. >> reporter: mayor de blasio and city emergency managers are putting the warning out to new yorkers, stay inside tonight. >> i want to remind all new yorkers to please look out for your neighbors, check in

his mother is a former aide to mayor de blasio's wife. prosecutors say the 19-year-old stabbed a 16-year-old after confrontation over money. the evidence will show that they also shared a business together. the evidence showed and does show that they were drug dealers. >> he was jumped, attacked and probably saves his life by taking the actions he did. >> he's being held on $500,000 bail. four other suspects were also arrested. they face robbery charges and are being held on $750,000 bail. >>> an update on the fire on staten island where five firefighters were hurt. the cause of this was electrical. the blaze started in the basement of a house on sinclair avenue in huguenot. probationary firefighter -- fell through the for the and into the fire and suffered 2nd degree and 3rd degree burns. everyone who lived in the home did get out safely. >>> new information on the occurred one-year ago tomorrow. the husband of ellen brody is suing for interception. five passengers on the train also died in the crash. brody was the mother of three, prepa

that is until mayor bill de blasio saw our vision investigation and ordered a change. >> you never had a school bus until now? >> until now. without the bus i have to get the kids up at about 5:20. asleep in class. >> reporter: one daughter is shy. >> there's substantial numbers of members working. >> reporter: some parents in shelters are still waiting for their school buses, like this public schoolteacher who we're calling claudia. she did not wish to be identified, because she doesn't want her students to know she's homeless. >> they would be shocked. i'm a single mother of three children. i make just under $50,000. the deal, we provide metro cards but we do not provide busing for my 7-year-old. >> reporter: they're far away from their brooklyn motel for the homeless. >> i use two trains and one bus. it's long and it's cold. >> i start work at 7:00 in the morning. he starts at 8:00. where is he supposed to stay for >> reporter: the i team spoke to shelter staff, all say the doe has been scrambling for a month to reroute buses as mayor de blasio ordered following the i-team story. ev

bill de blasio/new york "the fact is this is a very very sad incident, we've lost a life, but if you go out there on the street as i did, and see what happened here, thank god it was not worse." more than 130- emergency workers rushed to the scene at worth street and west broadway friday morning. bill de blasio/new york "this is an area that normally would have had a lot of people around it, rush hour in the morning, lower manhattan." there's no official cause for the collapse yet, but it happened while new york city was under a winter weather advisory. now utility crews are going building to building looking for gas leaks. the mayor says don't expect the area to be back up and running for a few days. bill de blasio/new york "this area is going to be cut off, largely cut off for several days we'll make every effort to accommodate people" in the meantime, all cranes have been ordered to be put in a secured position. i'm andrew spencer reporting. 4shot adlib 4shot today: mostly sunny. nice. neighborhood is already starting the celebration. it's the 20th year for the festivites in mains

the son of a former top staffer in the de blasio administration is facing manslaughter charge s s. >> the son of rachel nordlinger, she onces sherleen mccrea. this is all about a drug deal charged with killing a man in front of the edgewater apartment he shares with his mother. >> it shows they were drug dealers. specifically, the evidence shows that sl worked for him. >> the initials are short hand for the victim, sabian lou ellen of new york. sabian drove down to edgewater with four others. upset nordlinger who owed him money. >> there was clearly no attempt to kill anyone, but it seems like an attempt to get people that were looking to kill him off of him. >> he's had problems with the law before. he was aconvicted of assaulting a 15-year-old girl last year. robbery charges in this case. as for her son, he's upset. look, this is a 19-year-old kid and he's terrified, he' s completely terrified, he's scared. >> there's no word from the prosecutor on who it was in nordlinger's apartment. his attorney says they will accept no plea deal. he will go to trial with his client to prove his

mayor de blasio said he will be contacting president obama himself in the days to come. news4 new york. >> thank you. >>> and governor cuomo says he families, today pish ushing for paid family leave and a minimum wage hike saying they should be basic rights. we have that story. >> reporter: he called it a fight for fairness amongst a big crowd here in harlem. he wants 12 weeks of paid leave and a hike in the minimum wage. before governor cuomo could even finish, one group came out saying this is something that could hurt businesses in the state of new york. going to show you video now of the applause that governor cuomo came out to. he was cheered by local civic groups. now, they endorse that proposal for 12 weeks of paid job leave that will allow workers to care relatives. the governor went onto use himself as an example, saying the final weeks he spent with his own father last year were important. decent level. >> decent life is, you don't drive a cadillac, but you don't walk either. a decent lifestyle, a middle classworking family's life. >> i heard about family leave

. >>> we've just learned explosive new information about the troubled son of a former top de blasio aide. he is charged with manslaughter for stabbing and killing a teenager. we just stepped out of the courtroom in new jersey where prosecutors say there is more to it than simple self-defense. >> reporter: indeed. noerdlinger is the 19-year-old son of rachel noerdlinger. she was the chief of staff up until about year or so ago. what we found out today confirmed what we first reported last night. the state saying, yes, this was a drug deal gone bad. that noerdlinger had a preexisting relationship with the victim, a 16-year-old from spring valley, who was according to the state working for noerdlinger has a drug dealer. that he called on the way down noerdlinger was aware of this, that he was armed with a knife when they came there. they got into an argument. this all according to the state. and that noerdlinger then stabbed his victim with a knife 7 inches into his leg. his defense attorney says this is all about self-defense. >> he was jumped. he was attacked. he probably saved his own li

. >> justice city hall clearing mayor de blasio approved plans to remove the pay hike. live outside gracy mansion with more details. good morning. >> this bill submitted before president's day weekend. so some may be thinking mayor wanted to get it unnoticed with not a lot of attention but had said that is not the case. that the fact is he believe it is that the city council and himself are dure if a pretty hefty pay increase. mayor bill de blasio put it on record, he plans to give city council members big staff raise. mayor filed a last minute notice into the city record on friday that says he will sign the bill into law that guarantees pay hike. they have to give the public five calendar days notice before the change. here's the break down, members of the counsel will get a 32% pay hike bumping annual salary from 112,000 to more than 148,000. the mayor's commission recommended pay increase. it also bans them from having any other outside jobs making them full-time employees. keep in mind counsel members haven't had a raise in a decade. mayor salary goes up from 225,00

. >>> mayor de blasio's deal to overhaul the city's horse carriage business has fallen apart tonight. the teamsters union backed out of the planned to so the city council scrapped a vote in the deal which was scheduled for tomorrow. the teamsters which represent the carriage drivers says the union is not confident the bill provides a viable future for it the industry. >> there's a lot of people who believe it does not make sense to have horse carriages on the streets and having them in a park was a good idea. and we need to have an open public debate. >> the mayor's proposal would have been carriage horses limited to central park. the mayor says he'll keep working on a compromise. >>> now to the race for president and the two men who came in second place in this week's iowa caucuses. according to new polls, now in first place in their respected races. let's look at it. from the democrats, a 22% lead for bernie sanders over hillary clinton. new hampshire, the most sanders friendly state outside of his home state of vermont and has nearly one out of two voters as independent. that's san

today mayor de blasio is policies to prevent whatever mistakes occurred from happening again. including new crawler crane restrictions that require cranes to go into safety mode when high winds are forecast. more sidewalk pedestrian protection and community notification when a crane is being secured. and the creation of a crane safety task force. >> i just hope that the precautions that are put in now will -- nothing like this will happen again. >> we are going to make sure that the people of new york city are safe during the construction boom. and if we have to take strong measures to put limits on construction, we will do so. there's no building that is worth a person's life. >> reporter: a 38-year-old david wicks of the upper west side was killed in the collapse. his grieving widow in the hat and sunglasses was among hundreds who gathered for his funeral on sunday morning. mayor de blasio said it was fortunate that there weren't more casualties and that the city had strict crane laws but over the weekend, he made new safety policies for today. we will find out why he made t

de blasio in iowa. what do you make of that? >> he has a lot of making up to do with the clinton team. that's why he's knocking on doors. that's got to explain it. >> we should have said i'm with her on meet the press and he wouldn't there. he'd be in new york having a hoagie. >> in the cold iowa winter. ernie: democrats, who's going to take this? >> i think clinton, it's tight, the "des moines register", the best poll we have has sanders within three points of clinton. i think because clinton is so well organized, she'll probably pull it out. side. ernie: surprises? what do you think? >> i think if there's going to be a surprise, it might be with ted cruz and rubio finish as opposed to trump. everyone thinks trump will win. i believe organizations matter in primaries, especially in caucuses on february 1st in iowa where it's freezing cold. people have a blizzard coming. cruz has a strong organization. so does rubio. trump, celebrity, everybody knows his name, people may or may not like him, no organization on the ground in we'l

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of the city's 51 city council members are going to be fatter but along with the raises, mayor de blasio approved a number of reforms that good government groups have sought. the jobs will be full time, limits on outside income and the stipends for chairing committees have been ended at least for now. >> people of new york city have a right to expect that their public servants are always putting them first. >> reporter: so with the stroke of several pens, mayor de blasio signed into law a series of bills that simultaneously give members of the new york city council a big pay raise from $112,000 a year to $148,500 a year but requires them to work full time, no outside income of note, and to give up the chairing committees. >> these are reforms talked about for decades. i think it's to make our city government stronger and better for decades to come. >> reporter: some criticized the move because the council voted itself raises for their current terms and the raises are retroactive to january 1. >> look, it's no secret that it is awkward, uhm, that elected officials are the ones who have to

. >>> mayor de blasio comes face- problem. he spent his morning helping with the homeless count. ilana gold helps us with what they found. >> three volunteers one of the coldest mornings of the year so far on the streets of new york city tracking the homeless temperatures. volunteer? >> it's a problem that's going to continue to grow if we don't continue to address it. >> mayor de blasio addressing it too. pictures show him as he canvassed the homeless hub m midtown on west 31st street. he recorded 23 people in an hour. the temperature 28 degrees. >> it's deeply troubling but not surprising. >> his effort comes after heavy criticism for how he addressed the city's homeless crisis. homeless sprawled across the streets at tour gist fountain and living at the airport. de blasio is the first new york city mayor to go on this yearly federally mandated homeless count giving him a better sense of the issue and how to solve it. >> there are several thousand peoples on the streets and that's a huge problem. >> they encountered a problem plaguing the city. they tried to help a homeless per

(bill de blasio/new york) "the fact is this is a very very sad incident, we've lost a life, but if you go out there on the street as i did, and see what happened here, thank god it was not worse." more than 130-emergency workers rushed to the scene at worth street and west broadway friday morning. (bill de blasio/new york) "this is an area that normally would have had a lot of people around it, rush hour in the morning, lower manhattan." there's no official cause for the collapse yet, but it happened while new york city was under a winter weather advisory. now utility crews are going building to building looking for gas leaks. the mayor says don't expect the area to be back up and running for a few days. (bill de blasio/new york) "this area is going to be cut off, largely cut off for several days we'll make every effort to accommodate people" in the meantime, all cranes have been ordered to be put in a secured position. i'm andrew spencer reporting. .> according to the n-y-p-d, the a 38- year-old form new york. two others are being treated for injuries, police say they remain in stable

record of finding these people. >> reporter: mayor de blasio says it's only a matter of time for the driver of this nissan altima. people running red lights. >> i think the general issue is people don't slow down. they're too much in a rush and fast as i can. >> reporter: the nypd actively searching for the person who blew through the intersection of 9th street and 5th avenue as well as the drivers in four other weekend hit-and-runs. bronx. >> it's very, very sad what's happened the last few days. my heart goes out to the families. it's disgusting that anyone would kill another human being or hurt another human being and drive off. >> reporter: a total of three people have died. not just the 41-year-old brooklyn but also a 48-year-old uber driver and 63-year-old jose contrares of the bronx. know who did this, why, why they left. and if it was an accident, then just face it, you know? >> we're going to do everything we can to keep strengthening vision zero. vision zero has brought us a lower speed limit. it's brought us a lot more enforcement by the nypd of speeding and failing to yie

why is de blasio doing this now? and a warning from a local prosecutor about using plastic to pay for your gas at the pump. >>> a young girl in orange county is recovering tonight bullet outside her home. >> she had just gotten out of a cab with her mother when the gunfire erupted. those bullets meant for someone else. but one struck the 11-year-old girl. >> eyewitness news reporter joe torres talked to her family. he's in newburg tonight for us. >> newburg police working so hard to try and track down whoever it was who opened fire on a city street friday night. that stray bullet hitting an 11-year-old girl. we're told she's going to be okay. it was her brother who today told us his sister's actions probably saved her mom from serious injury. >> reporter: the 11-year-old victim and her mother walked in to their newburg home this afternoon anxious to put the shooting behind them. they opened the same front door that bears the hole of a bullet that grazed the young victim's hip. >> for me it makes me angry but for my m

. >> reporter: bill de blasio arrived at the hospital just a short time later. >> another example of what our officers confront every single day keeping us safe, not only in the streets but in the stairwells and the horrible -- and the hallways of public housing developers. >> reporter: both officers were wearing their bulletproof vests. now, the officer's family for one of them are here right now. the other family is on their way. we don't know the identities of nor do we know the identity of the suspect. live from the melrose section, tracee carrasco, cbs2 news. >> thank you. >>> let's take you live to the scene of the shooting. >> brian conybeare is a live on the grounds where witnesses describe what they saw and they heard. brian? >> reporter: guys, this is a very active crime scene here at the melrose houses. it happened in number 320, the second building in behind me as you heard, between the sixth and seventh floors. police officers flooded this neighborhood and there are still choppers circling above. the chaotic scene unfolded on 156th street near cortland avenue in the melr

. >> reporter: what you will also hear from mayor de blasio, adding solar energy. he wants to push the project to have solar panels on 88 buildings across the city, including bellevue hospital, the queens museum, schools as well, darlene. but a lot of people talking about what would be here. that streetcar, j street it would go along the waterfront by dumbo and then up to astoria queens and awaiting to see what other people think about it as well. >> thank you, kat. >>> mayor de blasio also expected to announce new development plans for governor's island. the mayor wants mixed use facilities, including a cultural center. the development may be geared towards technology, education and business uses. >>> accused of fatally shooting a man could take the stand. its final witness, then the defense may call officer peter liang to testify. liang's partier ier ner was on the stand tuesday. >>> most of the roads flooded during the evening commute should be cleared for the morning drive. the southbound lanes of route 20 had to be shut down in paterson, new jersey last night.

new york city mayor bill de blasio, thank you so much.fun out there. >> thanks, jake. >>> joining me now, jeff weaver, the campaign manager for the sanders campaign. thanks for being here. >> happy to be here, jake. >> are you surprised that bill de blasio, this national spokesman for progressive causes who has made income inequality and combatting it one of his major issues isn't supporting sanders? >> it is a little surprising. clearly senator sanders is the person who's been talking about this issue most consistently for years and years as the vice president pointed out not too long ago. if income inequality is your top issue, bernie sanders is the obvious choice. >> we reported earlier that the magic number for the sanders campaign that you're looking for is 170,000 caucus goers. if you get above that number, you'll feel like you're having a pretty good night because bernie does so much better with the first-time voter caucus goers than hillary clinton does. is that accurate, do you think, 170,000? >> well, without giving a precise nu

at 7:00, mayor de blasio will give his state of the city address. a number of new proposals. he wants to change new york city's waterfront. you're looking at artist renderings of what he hopes will be something called the box. that's a brooklyn, queens connector. it is a 16 mile long rail line above ground. the rails would be embedded in the roadway so cars would be going alongside. the whole effort of the street car would be something like they have the trolley system in san francisco would be an effort to ease congestion. you would be able to use your metro card to ride it. we talked with new yorkers to try to find out what they >> i think it would be beneficial. it's something that would definitely be a plus, especially since, you know, if you look around, you see transportation is an issue, i think, in the city. >> i think it could help. there's a lot of trains in new york, especially the g, which runs between queens and brooklyn, that are very congested. >> it would be great. it would be helpful for the community. it will make it easier for a lot of people, especially to

(bill de blasio/new york) "this is an area that normally would have had a lot of people around it, rush hour in the morning, lower manhattan." there's no oicial cause for the collapse yet, but it happened while new york city was under a winter weatheradvisory. now utility crews are going building to building looking for gas leaks. the mayor says don't expect the area to be back up and running for a few days. (bill de blasio/new york) "this area is going to be cut off, largely cut off for several days we'll make every effort to accommodate people" in the meantime, all cranes have been ordered to be put in a secured position. still trying to figure out how damaging its diesel emissions scandal will be for investors. the german automaker said today (friday) it's pushing back its annual earnings report, which had been expected march 10th. it said a new reporting date will be announced as soon as possible. the company is also pushing back its annual shareholder meeting, which was scheduled for april 21st. volkswagen has admitted to installing software in some of its diesel- powered cars that

(bill de blasio/new york) "the incident, we've lost a life, but if you go out there on the street as i did, and see what happened here, thank god it was not worse." more than 130-emergency workers rushed to the scene at worth street and west broadway friday morning. (bill de blasio/new york) "this is an area that normally would have had a lot of people around it, rush hour in the morning, lower manhattan." there's no official cause for the collapse yet, but it happened while new york city was under a winter weather advisory. now utility crews are going building to building looking for gas leaks. the mayor says don't expect the area to be back up and running for a few days. (bill de blasio/new york) "this area is going to be cut off, largely cut off for several days we'll make every effort to accommodate people" in the meantime, all cranes have been ordered to be put in a secured position. i'm andrew spencer reporting. .> according to the n-y-p-d, the vcitim's name is david wiches, a 38- year-old form new york. two others are being treated remain in stable condition wisconsin authorit

. >> mayor de blasio is warning everyone to stay indoors. >> go out for as little time as possible. bundle up. lots of layers. do not have skin exposed. >> reporter: but this extreme cold can cause problems indoors too. burst pipes and emergency calls to plumbers, so make sure you let warm water trip in the faucets. open cabinet doors. and keep your thermostat set to the same temperature day and night. and here's a live look at bryant park. the fountain is frozen over in these frigid temperatures. it is so important to check on the elderrerly and people with health conditions. they're at highest risk. ewe want to keep a close eye on live in bryant park, ilana gold. >> hurry back into the car. stay warm. >>> the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia has prompted an intense battle. >> as tributes continue to pour in for one of the court's leading conservatives the focus is quickly shifting to the high court's future. dave carlin reports. >> reporter: supreme court justice antonin scalia is remembered for his brilliant legal mind and into rant personality. he was born to italia

mayor bill de blasio part of that process includes diverting pedestrians and traffic from the area. (bill de blasio/new york) "the fact is this is a very very sad incident, we've lost a life, but if you go out there on the street as i did, and see what happened here, thank god it was not worse." more than 130-emergency workers rushed to west broadway friday morning. (bill de blasio/new york) "this is an area that normally would have had a lot of people around it, rush hour in the morning, lower manhattan." there's no official cause for the collapse yet, but it happened while new york city was under a winter weather advisory. now utility crews are going york city was under a winter weather advisory. now utility crews are going building to building looking for gas leaks. the mayor says don't expect the area to be back up and running the mayor says don't expect the largely cut off for several position. i'm andrew spencer reporting. .> according to the n-y-p-d, the vcitim's name is david wiches, a 38- year-old form new york. two others are being treated for injuries, police say they rem

. >> reporter: russo's death blasio's safety initiative. with credit for time served franklin reyes could be up for parole in a year and a half. they remembered their first born who they called fearless. >> he's going to face the consequences of his decisions. >> reporter: in court the judge told the weeping parents, the bright light you spoke about still shines on from bo. above. >>> police need your help identifying a man in new jersey. take a good look at this photo. authorities believe he may have stolen packages in patterson. if you recognize this man, police would like to hear from you. >>> police are looking for a man they say attacked an mta worker in queens, punching the victim valentine's day morning. police say the suspect smashed the wick tim's victim's radio before running away. >>> tomorrow is another big day in the race for the white house, a democratic caucus in nevada as the republicans face off in south carolina's primary. >> the trail was hot in south carolina today for republicans on the eve of the primary. trump's lead

we're gonna talk to her about mayor de blasio's vision zero plan. it is saving lives. but can you really bring traffic deaths down to zero? that's next. i've been a turkey farmer my whole life... and i raise turkey for shady brook farms . we don't use growth-promoting antibiotics, that's just the way things should be done. that's important to me. my name is glenn, and i'm an independent turkey farmer. (female announcer) shady brook farms . no growth-promoting antibiotics, >> welcome back to "upclose." vision this -- zero traffic deaths in new york city. the mayor's vision zero plan is one day to reduce traffic deaths to zero. long way to go, of course. but look at the numbers. 231 traffic deaths last year. that compares to 297 in 2013. that's the year before mayor de blasio started his vision zero program. that means 66 fewer deaths. those traffic deaths include 134 pedestrian fatalities last year. that's down 27% over that two-year period. just this week, mayor de blasio putting more money into vision zero. $115 million in new capital funds. we put it in traffic safet

at the time of the shooting, new york mayor bill the blasio -- bill de blasio was giving a state of new york speech. we will bring you new information as soon as we get it in the newsroom. jonathan elias. back to you. alison: jon, thank you. 7 on your side with a health alert. fast-moving developments about zika virus. are three confirmed cases in the district, and florida's governor is expanding its state of emergency as 12 cases are confirmed there. the threat of the vilest has people changing their travel plans come even scrapping vacation plans -- the threat of the virus has people changing their travel plans. even scrapping vacation plans. jay korff has more. , as some health experts they look at this issue going down the road, from a macro perspective, there could be 4 million people impacted by zika, this mosquito-borne illness, in the next year. a local virginia woman had a choice a couple weeks ago of whether to go to colorado for a trip. she is pregnant. or whether to go down south to mexico. at the time, zika was not on everyone's radar screen. they went to colorado. since sh

mayor de blasio plans to unveil details at the state of the city address. the app will even give you money back for the time you don't use, as well as remind you that your time is expiring. that should all be up and running by the end of next year. >>> liking that. 6:44 on this wednesday morning. closer to getting out the door. get the umbrella ready. may not need it immediately. you will by this afternoon. the rain will pick up in intensity. it's dry in the plaza right now. 46 degrees the current temperature. wind isn't too bad. day. it's variable at 5. that's going to change. we could see gusts over 30 or 40 miles per hour towards the evening. weather headlines, rainy and windy through the day. both of those things ramp up through time. clearing up tomorrow after morning clouds and pleasant for the weekend. temperatures in the 40s. we're above normal today. despite the heavy rain, normal high is 49. 20 degrees warmer this afternoon. into the up every 50s we go. we could get into the low 60s. hunter ton, somerset, middlesex, monmouth county, there's a floo

so mayor de blasio thinks it may be because of their surroundings. the mayor intends to tidy up the city. >> reporter: on a day when mother nature is doing a lot of the washing, new york city is stepping up its efforts to do power washing. one spray at a time, this brooklyn crew is washing away graffiti and they're doing it in a borough that leads the city in graffiti complaints. even though 311 calls about graffiti dropped in 2015 compared to 2014, 48% of all graffiti gripes came from brooklyn, more than manhattan and queens combined. >> graffiti per se you can't call it a major crime but it really is upsetting to people in neighborhoods. it makes they will m feel the quality of life is not as good. >> reporter: the mayor wants to spend another $4.2 million power washing sidewalks and graffiti and adding shifts to tackle over flowing trash cans like this. >> if it's not given a lot of attention it gets messy. >> cleaning up will send a message that there is less disorder. >> reporter: the city's economic development corporation which handles the cle

last year, mayor de blasio says the slashings are up 20%. as he mentioned in the piece, there are going to be more nypd officers on the streets. 23,000 additional officers and they're saying -- 2000 additional officers and they will be on the streets to deter slashings like this. i'll have much more on eyewitness news at five. in the williams bridge section of the bronx, darla miles catch avenue. >>> one of the two n -- darla miles, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> one of the two suspects is in critical condition and facing attempted murder charges. 8 officers converged on the suspect's vehicle early saturday morning after police say he pointed a gun at the officer. munoz is a career criminal with 15 prior arrests in new york city and eleven in chicago. >>> the search for a missing airplane passenger has turned hopes of finding gerson negran diminished. three other passenger survived the emergency landing. kristin thorne live in the wood haven section of queens with the story. kristen. >> reporter: dave, wady perez lives in wood haven queens a

. >> reporter: schumer will be joined by mayor de blasio and the city's police and fire commissioners later this morning, calling on the white house to reconsider the proposal for 2017. they say the urban area security initiative helps cities prepare for terror attacks with training for police and firefighters. it also helps fund extra patrols at area transit hubs and waterways. they say the money is needed to ensure the same level of security is maintained. >> the president in general and we're here to tell the bureaucrats in washington who picked up the machete and made this cut, it shall not stand. go back to the drawing board. >> reporter: now, congress will likely vote on this proposal sometime in april. as for the meeting with the mayor and other city leaders, that's scheduled to take place here at police headquarters later this morning. reporting live, janelle burrell, cbs 2 news. >> thank you, janelle. >>> 5:02. now to traffic and weather on the 2s. john? >> thank you, mary. hi, everybody. yesterday, challenging, difficult. today, you get to catch a break. it's cooler today an

bill de blasio is saying it's the safest it is ever been. many people are watching "good day early call" and they will think a slasher is going to come out of the crevice in run. liz: what would you do? curtis: have a visual presence. the cameras will identify felons giving the system over and over. a day short. they keep insisting it safe. they don't ride the subway! ben: there is 6 million subway riders per day. there is a couple thousand transit cops. how would they possibly protect them? curtis: by protecting them and walking up and down the trains. when was last time you saw them walking up and down the train?ben: it's been a long time. on the train platform but not in the train. curtis: that's aggressive policing. now they are dealing with the problems of slashing. all the sexual assault yours are bothering the women and then there's people who coming through to solute chocolate , yo-yo, batteries. all of those people have to be thrown off. if you don't have a cop going up and down, they won't do it so they sit there like a gold statio

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a 20 or $25 million stable inside central park has been scrapped and all of this at a politically blasio, just hours before his state of the city address. still on the issue of trying to get horses off the streets of new york, the mayor says he still believes there is a path forward. talk about putting the cart before the horse. >> the details never got worked out. i mean, you cannot cut this industry in half in december and expect it to survive until the stables are built. >> reporter: horse and carriage drivers gathered at city hall today to protest an imminent deal, moving all horses to central park. but the agreement which would have cut the number of licenses and also retrickett stricted petty cabs fell apart. >> they want to reduce the horses. i'll be out of a job. >> reporter: then mayor de blasio arrived at city hall with the protesters looking on. after 15 minutes the mayor emerged from his suv. >> obviously disappointed that the vote won't happen tomorrow but we're going to find a way >> reporter: the deal fell apart when the teamsters backed out. >> we had a good faith agreeme

. >> reporter: many believe vertical patrols are essential to public safety including mayor de blasio. necessary as part of keeping our public housing residents safe. >> reporter: today the mayor defended the practice saying all officers now receive more training than they did in the past. new officers are now assigned two at a time to work with one field training officer. senior police officer that has a lot of years on the job to walk officers. where are they coming from? we have a young job. nypd. >> reporter: during the trial, liang and e his partner said they did not administer cpr because they weren't really sure how to do it. current officers said they remember being given the questions before the cpr exam. they say once they were certified they never had to be recertified. >>> well, the death of shannon gilbert has never been ruled a homicide. change that and tie her death to a serial killer who left ten bodies on a long island beach near where shannon's body was found. >> reporter: late last year the new brass here at the suffolk police department actually called in the fbi t

at a news conference today mayor de blasio urged parents to sign their young children up for the city's universal prek program. the deadly is march 4th. parents shouldn't wait and there are enough seats available for every four-year-old in the city. >> we started earlier than ever with the application process to give parents maximum choice, to give parents maximum security of knowing as soon as possible where their child will be going. >> mayor de blasio said parents can sign up by visiting one of 12 welcoming centers across the city. you can also call 311. >>> a queens lawmaker wants st. patrick's day to be a school holiday in communities with significant irish population. the bill follows an announcement that some parent-teacher conferences are going to be held on the holiday. >>> when it comes to fighting crime, one local mayor isn't leaving it all to police. and beyond when he saw a crook in action. >>> plus the top gop contenders in the race for president. does anyone have what it takes to derail donald trump? >>> dave price is here with the forecast. >> guys, nothing lasts forever

the mayor says he will continue to work towards a compromise. >>> later this evening, mayor de blasio will deliver his state of the city address with a focus on what is being called the new york of tomorrow. it will include free wi-fi, more graffiti clean-up, and a streetcar that will take people from queens to brooklyn. "eyewitness news" reporter rob nelson is in green point with the details. rob? >> reporter: good afternoon. who in new york does not enjoy a view of the water? this is exactly the kind of view of the east river that thousands of folks in brooklyn and queens could get if the most ambitious planned outlined by the mayor tonight becomes reality. the mayor is breaking with tradition tonight hoping for a bigger audience by shifting his speech to the evening as opposed to the afternoon. whatever the audience does, though, the new yorkers will ideas and new -- laundry list of big ideas. development on governor's island, improved street cleaning, countdown clocks at bus stops and even allowing residents to pay for parking meters using their cell phones. the most ambitious ide

. >> we're going to interrupt to listen to mayor de blasio now. >> all new yorkers need to recognize we're going to be facing really an normal conditions, very dangerous conditions and everyone needs to adjust their approach given what we're facing here. i want to thank all of my colleagues who have joined me. i'll acknowledge them in a moment. let me do this first and also say we'll take any questions on the weather situation up front before we move onto the construction safety issues. temperatures will continue to drop tonight with low -- lows in morning. windchill, the windchill values will take us as low as 5 below zero from tonight through saturday morning. then temperatures and windchills will continue to drop. they'll go even lower throughout the day tomorrow, saturday. and the coldest weather will be tomorrow night, saturday night into sunday morning, we're expecting the very coldest weather. the national weather service has issued a windchill advisory in effect from 4:00 p.m. tomorrow saturday through noon on sunday. temperatures will plummet to around zero. with the windchi

. >> mayor de blasio says to expect gridlock in the tribeca area until monday. this is where the crane actually fell. think of this area as a grid. let me give you all of these disruptions. if you are traveling canal street to the north, broadway to the east, taking to the south near chambers or hudson street to the west in and around this area intersections that are close so within this grid spontaneous detours throughout the day and weekend. traveling to the holland tunnel inbound traffic forced to exit northbound avoid traveling south of canal street currently closed around the accident scene. bus changes as well. expect detours on the m5, m20, 22, 27 and 28 bus lines for you. and chambers street in both directions. 2 and 3 bypassing as well. this list has been posted on our facebook page so feel free to go there and check out the information. back over to you. >> alex denis this is a live look at the scene. at least one person is dead two others in serious condition. we'll have much more on the story throughout the newscast and all of the traffic and transit

mayor de blasio warned residents coastal flooding is a risk right he advised neighbors to prepare a bag of splice and necessities in case the. need to leave their homes. when we saw this area across the boulevard yesterday morning, cars were submerged. many of the vehicles were damaged. residents told us it took them by surprise how high the water came up and how quickly. cars will have to be towed away. a ne hbor told us she and her husband two of these cars. another family owns these cars. all of these cars, they're a total loss. >> there's water on both sides so you really don't have that much place to go? >> reporter: right, exactly. you can imagine, the water was so high. that's the thing, the resident, they feel like if they had any warning, at least they could have moved their cars. they said it just came out of the blue, all that water. >>> right now, residents on the jersey shore they're bracing as well for more coastal flooding. avoid any flooded streets. families that were ruined by last year's nor'easter are now sitting in water. unfortunately, it could bring more rising wat

mayor de blasio today getting a bit testy when i pointed out that in other cases of tragic deaths during his term that were known to acs, he has been willing to discuss the details. >> melissa, you know a lot about the investigative process. when we have clear information, if i think something is wrong i don't hesitate to say it. i don't have the facts yet. >> the mayor is promising a rigorous investigation of the agency's handling. defending acs. the mother layla aquino charged with endangering the welfare of her daughter was in foster care when she was a teen. as for the fire that tragically killed her little girl while she was reportedly out partying, i have learned at this point there's no evidence it was intentionally set nor do investigators believe it was accidentally caused by can kalina, a toddler left home alone at 2 years old. >>> a financial crisis in new jersey could lead to a shut down. the mayor is preparing for municipal government shut down after the city council vote to reject the 2016 budget. hours before homeowners protested an impedding tax increase. if no budget is

mayor de blasio unveiled new safety restrictions on crane operations in the city. plan. crews continue to fix two water in breaks and gas leaks by the force of the crash. and all of the victims have been released from the hospital. >> reporter: i'm actually on west broadway. crews are still working into the ni tghto make repairs. though the crane has been removed. as for the investigation, the mayor said today we all want answers, but that will take time. west broadway and worth still blocked off tonight as crews work to repair water main breaks caused by the crane collapse. e crane is gone, butfitreets arofe still closed, and the neighborhood is looking forward to normalcy once again. he no cars get that street wide open again and have egular busines as usual. >> reporter: some area buildings still don't have water or gas. one school was evacuated because a fear of gas leak. >> the lower floors are shut down. for a lot of people, it's a problem. >> reporter: today the mayor said it could be another few weeks before we know what ca ed th crane to come crashing down. work