station's dick brennan is -- cbs2's dick brennan is on the _2p&c% tarmac or near the tarmac with a oo hole bunch of excited people too. dick? >> reporter: that's right kristine and maurice, it's very loud here so bear with me. but we're just a few feet away from where the pontiff will be pulling up. he's going to be pulling up right here on the tarmac. it's right next to the helicopters [which will whisk him away to new york city shortly thereafter and you can see these mobile steps that are going to move out to v pontiff. he's g=going to come down and .#eq!he's going to greet about now in the meantime, cardinal dolan is here. and bishop of the brooklyn diocese is here. he's going to be greeting pontiff and in addition there'll be fiv9svery lucky students of the brooklyn die series, as you can imagine. they are very excited. what would it be like to be among the first to 8#fpersonally greet pope francis face-to-face oo in new york? >> on p,a scale of 1 to 10 it's ywga 10. >> reporter: she _moand t* kids wil3(usoon be able to tell you. the five kids from the schools in the diocese of b

cbs 2's dick brennan joins us live from outside governor cuomo's office on the east side. dick? >> reporter: dana, the governors are saying let's make a deal. they say new york, new jersey and the port authority will pay half of the new hudson river tunnel. the question is, does this offer seal a deal. tunnel. the question for years has been how do you pay for the tunnel. >> governor cuomo and governor christie say they have the answer. split the $20 billion cost of a new hudson river down the middle with the federal government. >> reporter: we will be responsible for paying half of the costs. >> the 106-year-old tunnel is in dial need of replacement. commuters of nj transit and amtrak faced unending delays and it could only get worse. >> right now we are down to two tubes. one is almost certainly going to have to come off line within no later than the next 20 years. that would mean catastrophe. only a quarter of the trains could get through. >> reporter: talks to end the financial log jam have gone nowhere. i asked the governor if it will make a difference. >> coming halfway, d

cbs 2's dick brennan reports. >> it's really hard. we miss her. >> reporter: they have bravely faced the pain that no parent should endure, the loss of their 16-year-old daughter emily who was killed last year in a boating accident. >> she was a bright light and we still feel her spirit like she's definitely a part of our lives still. >> reporter: emily was tubing in the waters off greenwich point park last summer the propeller of their tow boat operated by a 16-year-old struck and killed emily and seriously injured another the accident inspired the family to fight for the passage of emily's law. the bill signed today by governor dannel malloy raises the minimum age to tow in connecticut from 13 to 16 and requires a towing safety course be completed before a safety boating certificate can be issued. >> when i read about emily's accident, her passing, it was moving. but i could not have imagined in that early coverage of what your strength would bring out of that tragic event. >> reporter: the family has started a foundation in emily's

bensonhurst talked to our dick brennan right after that life-changing encounter and dick met up with julia again today and a lot has happened since then. >> a lot has happened in just a few days. julia was suddenly paralyzed four months ago. speculation was it was lyme disease but nothing conclusive. her family thought perhaps pope francis could bring them a miracle. now five days after being blessed they're hoping they may be closer to a diagnosis. >> reporter: at st. bernadette's in dyker heights, brooklyn, a 7th grader named julia bruzzese has lost the use of her legs but she hasn't lost her faith. >> i thank god for giving me my family and for their help. i ask god every day to get closer and closer to a good recovery. >> reporter: we met julia thursday after she was blessed by pope francis after he saw her on the tarmac at kennedy airport. >> if you could say anything to him right now, what would it be? >> thank you, holy father, you made me so happy. thank you. >> and now you're hoping for your miracle? >> yes. >> reporter: her paralysis had baffled doctors. symptoms only point

in huntington, dick brennan, cbs 2 news. >> congratulations, eli, with that sunny disposition. we need that a lot of it. let's check in with lonnie quinn. he is keeping an eye on this storm developing and watching its track. >> great story. >> an important piece of the puzzle, our ground now getting saturated. around the area, anywhere from .35 so half inch around brunswick and then almost 4 inches around harriman state park about 3 "around a lot of rain and more on the way. we talked about three different storms. this is the first one of the there's another one on the way. right now it's cloudy out there. 69 degrees. your high temperature was 79 around lunchtime. two hours later 68. winds? visited the cold front has moved through and -- winds have shifted and the cold front has moved through. we got what we got out of the first system. it's raining in maine. the second system has stalled. that's why it went from being a blue line a little triangle now it's blue red blue red. that's how i show you where the front has stalled. and this system will ride right along it getting clo

cbs 2's dick brennan has the exclusive. >> reporter: throughout new york thousands of developmentally disabled students work in sheltered workshops. many live in large residences. but order of the federal government, both the workshops and the residences must close within the next five years. >> they can't go home. they need to be supported. they require around the clock nursing care. ruling. 62-year-old tom tomicello to tears. >> i want to stay open. i really do want it to stay open. i don't want to sit at home. >> reporter: advocates for the divided. some argue that sheltered workshops take advantage of the disadvantaged because employers can pay them below the minimum wage. >> fighting for a systems that pays pennies an hour further the misconception that individuals with disabilities are unprowable and undeserving of a minimum wage. >> she says her 57-year-old daughter susie feels safe in the sheltered workshops. >> she is not worried about how much money she makes. she goes there because she loves to work. >> reporter: as for the smaller group homes, robert barta feels his uncle

today she shares with dick brennan what she believes is the beginning of a papal miracle. good evening. i'm dana tyler. we have those stories coming up for you. >>> but we're going to start with the weather. the tri-state area looking at a one-two punch from mother nature, possibly even a third. in belmar we have pictures in, crews getting ready on the beach. the mayor tweeting this picture showing bulldozers piling the sand at the more narrow beaches. lonnie

let's get back to dick brennan. dick? good afternoon. >> reporter: yeah, good afternoon. you can see they're all waving and waving coming the front of me. just to give you an idea what the lines are like, having a lot of fun folks here. there you go. you have yours. everybody wants to be on tv. the line is coming all the way down central park west. we're at about 62nd. then loops down when you get to about the trump building and comes all the way back up. now the good news for all these people right now is that they are moving. the ones who are no longer moving is this crew over here but something tells me you're excited to be here right? that was easy. [ cheering and applause ] how excited are you to be here? >> very excited hi! >> reporter: that's pretty excited. i want to see pope today? >> yeah. >> reporter: what would you toy to him? -- say to him? >> hi. >> hi. >> reporter: all right, back to you because we understand the pope arrives backed a the residence. -- back at the residence, dick thank you so much. there it is. the fiat arriving at the home away from rome.

cbs 2's dick brennan gives us the details. >> reporter: when pope francis speaks at the u.n. he will address issues of economic development and the refugee crisis and speak in spanish. >> why spanish? >> half of catholics speak spanish. >> reporter: i spoke with the apostolic nuncio who says while the message isn't new, the style is. what is different about pope francis? >> the perception of people has changed. i believe it is a very good thing. this is the perception that he wants people to have. [ laughter ] >> of the church. >> reporter: a better perception of? >> yeah. >> reporter: it appears catholics in america definitely sense a change if not in teaching or doctrine then in tone. >> we have seen many papal visits and the tone is clearly changed in the sense that everybody considers this pope francis to be a reformer. >> reporter: the pope intends to visit central park. the question right now, what are the plans? the answer? nobody knows for sure. >> we will know probably hopefully as soon as possible because they are talking about walling and having tickets which i don

cbs 2's dick brennan has more on the long and winding road to the auction block. [ music ] >> reporter: if the beetles are the sound track of your life how would you like to own a piece of the greatest rock and roll band ever? welcome to a memorabilia collection like no other. >> it's great. it's like a beatles museum. >> you can't pass up anything beatles so we had to check it out. >> it captures their career. >> reporter: the expert gave us a tour of the items that will be auctioned here at the ukranian institute on east 79th street saturday. there is the first contract they ever signed. and there are the records, remember the 45? p is. i love you is that the a side or b side for us old-timers? >> it's the b side of the first single love me do which is the song that really starts the story for most fans. they don't know about my bonnie. >> they don't know about a side, b side or vinyl. >> reporter: there is the artwork. >> these original productions from yellow submarine. >> in our yellow submarine >> reporter: and the guitars. >> this is a vintage 95 bass made famous by paul mccartn

dick brennan tells us how colbert gets it just right. >> reporter: when it comes to being host of the late show, stephen colbert definitely fits the bill. there's a lot of things you need to have to be a late night talk show host. you gotta have the right moves [ cheers ] [music] you have got to have your own unique voice everybody's talking about sully, sully >> reporter: you have to jump right into the interview. hut, hut, hut! catch my feet! >> reporter: you have to have a cool band leader. >> i like this guy! >> hi, i'm john bantise! [music] >> reporter: and stephen first crossed paths with john last summer when he was a guest on the colbert report. the new orleans musician, educator, and humanitarian didn't seem to know he was face- to-face with a fellow improviser. >> improvisation is forever. i don't know what i'm going to you might. >> oh! >> ha! [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> reporter: but in the end they hit all the right notes. well what's mine is mine. [music] and what's yours is yours. [music] and together we're doing the show. [music] >> stephen colbert and john batiste wi

the commissioner says the report cbs2's dick brennan explains. >> reporter: the report in the daily news says police have put a laser like issue on the homeless issue and they are tracking it the way it does violent crime using the come stat or computer tracking system. the report says some cops have taken to calling it bum stat. but commissioner bratton says much of the report is not true. >> we have not comp stated anything having to do with homelessness. certainly, shootings, murders, and other crime that we track very closely and comp stat have not taken a back seat as was inferred in that story to never will. >> reporter: the commissioner did acknowledge that he probably has discussed the homeless issue on occasion. it's a quality of life issue. the department says it's mapping homeless encampments but not individual homeless people. they are supposed to monitor conditions and give notice when they deteriorate. >> there has been extraordinary coordination between the nypd, the department of homeland security services, department of profit agencies that work at the community level to

have been releapsed late tonight from her private server when she was secretary of state, and dick brennan has the story. >> reporter: the 7,000 pages released include some 150 e- mails that have been censored because they contain information that is now deemed classified, and the state department says redacted information was classified in preparation for the public release and was not at that level when clinton sent or received the e-mails, but the blacked out information will surely prompt additional questions about her handling of government secrets while secretary of state. >> i can only run my campaign. >> reporter: a new poll from the des moines register shows support has shrunk from 57% to 37%, and bernie sanders now at 30%, and joe biden with 14% race. >>> ben carson has pulled even at 23% with donald trump, and trump has continued his attack style this weekend going after clinton her chief aide huma abedin. >> huma abedin is getting classified secrets, married to anthony weiner, who's a perv -- [ laughter ] -- he is! >> do you think there is even a 5% chance she's not telling ant

. >> and i'm dick brennan. kristine johnson and maurice debois are off. >>> we have the exclusive story from the bronx. >> reporter: it took seven people to lift this car off a man stuck underneath it. witnesses said the 69-year-old victim was drug down the bronx street, his clothes tattered and ripped. orlando was one of the good samaritans who rushed to the car but couldn't lift it on his own, and he yelled for others to help. he says he thought the man underneath the the tire was dead, but somehow he survived. cell phone video shows the paramedics putting a neck brace on the victim who police have not identified. investigators said he's in critical but stable condition. >> reporter: he was walking in this crosswalk in westchester, and the car drug him a quarter of a mile down the block. >> reporter: it was around 11:00 friday morning, but instead of stopping, the driver kept boing. >> akhmed runs a food cart on the corner and saw the whole thing. >> it was outside, and the car took it. >> reporter: the drive

colbert, and the new host is getting ready to sit down with a diverse roster of guests, and as dick brennan tells us, he's not afraid to tackle the tough questions. >>> stephen colbert can handle a tough interview. >> battle ready? battle tested. i can tell you that. we are locked and loaded, ready to hump it over the wire. you want to talk about a battle met fore, i will go toe-to-toe with you. >> reporter: it looks like a planet, atmosphere, and it has a heart, unlike you. [ laughter ] ment. >> reporter: or answering them. >> i think occasionally i have to prove i know my ab cs. >> backwards. >> what? >> can you do it backwards? z, y, x, w, u, v, t, c, b, a. >> wow 123-4689. >> reporter: stephen is always ready for a challenge. he does his homework. >> you need to think 10 years down the line, am i going to have a retirement account? >> i'm so confused right now. >> reporter: he's ready to rumble. >> we should all tumble. >> all right, i'll tumble. [music] [ cheers ] >> reporter: i said rumble! he's going toe-to-toe with one of his first guests before they meet face-to-face. jeb bush star

dick brennan explains. >> no one should have to be way. and because of that we are one step closer. >> reporter: the self- described survivor helped lead the fight for a tougher law on sexual violence on campus. by talking about the problem and making people aware of their rights this progress will become more than just a sheet of paper. it will become permanent. she helped craft a tough law that expands the definition of consent to colleges and universities. >> it's not about did the woman say no before she was attacked, it's whether or not the woman said yes. and that's what affirmative yes means. >> reporter: the law also contains a new state police sexual assault unit and guarantees the victim the right to report any incident to campus police or local law enforcement. the idea that colleges can sweep sexual assault under the rug. >> new york state police and all of our law enforcement partners are committed to investigating every reported campus sexual assault early. we won't tolerate police agencies or campus security who don't take i

dick brennan spoke to julia >> reporter: how come you're in the wheelchair? i understand you're fighting a tough fight, right? >> i have been undiagnosed for 4 months with a clinical diagnose of lime disease, but we don't know yet. >> reporter: you're confined to the wheelchair? >> yes. >> reporter: you lost your ability to walk? >> yes. >> reporter: why did you come here? >> i came here to meet the pope because i believe in a miracle. >> reporter: you believe in a miracle, and then you saw him, what was it like? >> it was the most precious moment of my life. i have to thank sister joan from st. bernadette school. they made this happen for me. >> reporter: were you able to hear him say anything? >> reporter: he touchedy? -- touched you? did you say anything? >> bless me father. >> reporter: he nodded and smiled? >> yes. >> reporter: if you could say anything to him right now, what would it be? >> thank you, holy father, you made many so happy! thank you! >> reporter: and now you're hoping for your miracle? >> yes, i'm hoping, and i believe. i believe! >> repo

. >> in the meantime, we want to check in with dick brennan, also along the route today. dick was able to cover pope francis' arrival yesterday at jfk. right now he's near central, pa. dick? >> we're just outside central park at 61st by the trump building. people have been lining up here. let's show you the good news and the bad news. the good news, all the way over here, if you can spin over here, just about 10, 15 minutes ago, this was filled with people. the end of the line has been reached. here is a little bit of the bad news. that's the length of the line, if we can take a look all the way down. it goes blocks and blocks. these people have been a lot of fun. they have been very patient. now they are just hoping they are almost there. is that right? are you there yet? >> how long has the line been? >> three hours. three and a half. >> almost four, almost four. >> that's right. we've been out here about five hours. >> we love him, we are here! [ overlapping speakers ] >> reporter: are you excited to see the pope? >> i'm excited. >> i can't wait! >> reporter: this is th

. >> reporter: cbs 2's dick brennan was there, and afterwards he spoke to a 12- year-old girl was who blessed by pope francis. >> thank you, holy father, you made me so incredibly happy. >> reporter: there were also laughs when he was give an doll of himself. >> reporter: from there he hop odd -- he hopped on a helicopter that took him to his waiting black fiat. the cbs 2 team, me included, tracked francis making husband way to midtown. a lot of flags waving, and cheering, and he's coming right by us this is the moment people have been waiting for. there he goes. >> that was awesome. i could physically see the pope out in the open. >> i'm shaking. can you believe it? >> reporter: i spoke to people from all over the world. argentina, and the u.s. from georgia, people who came here just to see the pope. they will follow him around for the rest of his day in the city. from midtown, tracee carrasco, cbs 2 news. >>> next up evening prayers at st. patrick's cathedral where the pontiff blessed the newly renovated search, and tonight he's resting, and jessica schneider will continue our live

cbs2's dick brennan has this exclusive story. >> reporter: through new york, thousands developmentally disabled students work in sheltered workshops. many live in large residences. but by order of the federal government, both the work close within the next five years. >> they can't go home. they need to be supported and they require around the clock nursing care. >> reporter: social service providers say the mandate was prompted by a supreme court ruling that sheltered workshops and larger residences for the developmentally disabled amounts to segregating them from the wider population. a notion that brings 62-year- old tommy john surgery tom tomasello to tears. >> reporter: advocates are divided. some say that sheltered workshops take advantage of the disabled because employers pay them below the minimum wage. fighting for a system which pays pennies an hour furthers the misconception that individuals with disabilities are up employable and undeserving of a minimum wage. daughter feels safe in the sheltered workshops. >> she is not so much worried about how much money she makes show.

cbs 2's dick brennan has more on the francis effect. >> reporter: from a 15-story mural in midtown to a vatican city made out of legos, the pope is even showing up on pizza boxes. every trip he takes pope francis has been met by adoring masses of the faithful. his first trip to the u.s. promises the same. >> we are big fans. our parish is very fond of his social justice programs. >> pope francis presents a positive image for the catholic church. >> i like the openness that he brings to the church. >> reporter: it seems new york loves pope francis. a poll found that 75% of new yorkers whether catholic or not give the pope a thumbs-up according to the pew research center. these are numbers not seen since pope john paul ii in 2005. >> we have needed for a while a renewed image a renewed face of the church and pope francis is >> reporter: but after the pope made some recent controversial statements regarding climate change and capitalism, a gallup poll found he was losing popularity especially among political conservatives. >> he is going to try to stimulate our thinking so that we can cr

. >> dick brennan is live outside kirsten gillibrand's office with more. >> senator gillibrand is opposed to a congressional disapproval of the iran nuclear deal. many of these people say they don't like the deal and they want that deal disapproved by congress. they're all gathering here. many people will be gathering in the next half hour. we're expected to hear from a number of speakers including joe lieberman. they believe the deal will pave the way for iran to get the bomb. congress will vote later this week. the president wants enough senate votes to guarantee his veto can't be over ridden. >> it's going to get worse if this deal goes through. this must not go through under any circumstances. if anybody votes for this deal, they must resign. >> there's no doubt they want to wipe israel off the face of the map. why would you want to deal with people like that? >> even though they continue to say this even after we form this agreement, quote/unquote, we still are going to go through with this deal which puts our country at threat, israel at threat, this has been an ongoing progress by

cbs2's dick brennan with more. it would eliminate or phase out tax deductions which means it's a tax hike for some of the wealthy. there are large cuts. the idea being that they had lead to strong growth in the economy. trump, meantime, is criticized by marco rubio for running what he calls a freak show. >> this is my wheelhouse. that's what i do well. the economy is what i do well. >> reporter: according to donald trump, there is no better tax plan than donald trump's. he says his tax plan is a tax reduction for almost everyone, especially for middle and low-income households. >> we are lowering taxes, simplifying, and getting rid of deconcussions des that are object salute. >> reporter: he says single people making less than $25,000 a year and married couples making less than $50,000 will pay no taxes. the individual tax rate at the 25% and the corporate tax rate gets cut from 35% to just 15%. some conservatives like that. >> if you have strong growth, then without raising taxes you can afford more things. if the

. >> welcome back, i am dick brennan. new details on mayor de blasio problem. >> it comes after former mayor giuliani criticized the way he is dealing with it. >> i think he is delusional. >> reporter: that's mayor bill de blasio's response to former mayor rudy giuliani's op-ed in the sunday post where he took a shot at the mayor's handling of the homeless problem. he said the so-called progressive view that people have a right to live on the sidewalk is not only legal ly devoid of any merit but is inmew main, indecent and dangerous. >> if you think about what rudy giuliani did as mayor, homelessness went up about 40% on his watch. >> reporter: labor day weekend it's impossible to ignore the homeless spread out on the sidewalks and even in the wishing well in central park where this man is picking up change. >> where do you stay? >> i sleep on the subway. to the shelter? >> because it's dangerous. i got robbed there once and i never go there again. >> reporter: we brought this up to mayor de blasio and he says the city is

. >> reporter: i'm in dick brennan's office now. he is working on a story about governor cuomo's new plan to fight sexual violence on college campuses in new york. dick? >> yeah. sort of writing as we go here. the idea is the governor says he doesn't want these college campuses sweeping sexual assaults under the rug. he says it's a crime, we have treat it that way. the law is going to be tougher and help women on campus hopefully stave off what the governor is calling an epidemic. >> he calls it enough is enough. >> enough is enough. >> that story tonight at 6:00. thank you, dick. i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most of my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara helps me be in season. stelara may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections. some serious infections require hospitalization. before starting stelara your doctor should test for tubercu

i'm dick brennan. maurice and kristine are off today. we begin this half-hour with breaking news. a small plane crashed in cresskill new jersey just a short time ago. rescue crews freed a person from the wreckage and took it to an ambulance. more now on the crash. joe biermann is live over the scene in chopper 2. >> reporter: we have some information for you. the united states coast guard does confirm this aircraft, which is a 1978 cessna 172, was occupied by two people associated with the coast guard auxilliary reserve like a volunteer organization. they were coming south in the hudson river. we are up on laguardia channel. we heard them call laguardia airport asked for priority handling. initially he said the pilot said he had a roughen gin then moments later he radio laguardia and said he had a complete engine failure and wanted priority clearance to teterboro airport never made teterboro, landed here at the cresskill swim club right by the soccer field. two people on board as you saw earlier. we saw one. them being taken out into the ambulance. the ntsb and the faa all the off