to move into east new york? r bill: also a great, great question. rthe affordable housing plan for east new york, p and there will be a vote very soon on this rezoning, pis conforming to the community. r the idea is we know what the income, rtypical income level is. r we are planning a lot of affordable housing r for that income level. rand this will be brand new affordable housing, p so we're adding a resource that doesn't exist. p but at the same time, we're preserving in place affordable phousing for many residents of east new york in the apartments pthey're in now, with a guarantee income going to rent. p and further, we're applying more legal aid and more legal p services than ever before in this city's history to stop p illegal evictions, to stop harassment of tenants in r neighborhoods like east new york. rchuck: but i think the question was there, p are you going to allow people from outside that neighborhood rto come in and take those affordable houses, por are you going to confine it to the neighborhood

it happy near elton street and pittcan avenue in east new york. eyewitness news reporter diana rocco is live now with the video police want you to see. diana. >>reporter: and, lori, good morning. pairments in this neighborhood are not going to feel safe for their children until this man is caught. in fact, his sign rs up all over this east new york neighborhood. that little girl was just walking to school in this neighborhood yesterday morning when her brother when that man exposed himself and grabbed her, but she put up the fight of her life. it all happened here just after 8:00 in the morning, and that may very well have saved her life because the man, the man you see in this video got spooked and ran away. this was surveillance video released by police of the man they are now looking for. just after 8:00 that 11-year- old girl was on this street corner with her 12-year-old brother walking to school, right here rat pitkin avenue. that time of the morning when they were approached by the man who exposed himself, grab the little girl by the arm and

that's the latest from east new york. joe torres, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> turning now to the homelessness crisis in the city. mayor de blasio says the city is succeeding in his administration's promise to improve conditions, call noncluster homeless shelters. in a report released today, the shelter repair squad, that's what they're called, cut outstanding building code violations at noncluster shelters by 44% since january. the total number of priority same time period. the mayor also says the city will continue to push to end its use of cluster shelters. >>> police are investigating curb in east islip, killing a young mother. skye brunetti's little boy helped write notes to his mother at a makeshift memorial where she has died. >> she was a saint. she really was. if anybody knows her, she was a saint. not one bad thing. >> investigators say brunetti had her pet dog. both were killed instantly. the driver of the car who hit her, barbara catoni is hospitalized. so far no charges have been filed. >>> a suffolk county

dramatic surveillance video shows the confrontation inside the store in east new york. police are now looking at two eyewitness news reporter darla miles is in east new york with all the details. >> reporter: dave, it's really you have this 35-year-old store owner who had a gunpointed in his face. he looked down the barrel of that gun, then grabbed it, got shot, and is already back at work. >> just seeing who has taken the money. >> reporter: the first instinct may not always be correct. when the two men tried to take his money, he wasn't letting it happen. >> that's not my time. time. >> reporter: the 35-year-old is already back to work after getting shot in the hip and grazed in the right hand. two men walked into the grocery store in east new york and tried to rob it. one of the men had a gun. syed wrestled with the gunman and got shot in the process. shot. i opened the window. >> reporter: the two suspects wounded store owner chased them out of the store. >> my other son, was across street, him and his friend. so they want to chase him. but his brother told him, the

new york city officer's drunken range. today that former cop learned his fate. >> a rally ends in an arrest in east new york. why they say the city's plan for affordable housing could actually push people out of their homes. >> a warning for job seekers. some scammers are targeting you online with an offer of employment. good afternoon, i'm david novarro. >> i'm lori stokes in for liz cho. more on those stories in just a minute. >>> we're going to start with breaking news. a fire burning in the concourse. >> shannon sohn in newscopter7. >> the fire started just after 3:30 this afternoon. smoke continues to pour out of this six-story building. firefighters have clearly vented the roof which is doing its job to get some of this fire dissipated. you can see in between these alleyways, you can see smoke continues to pour out of that building. at this point we have no word of any injuries. the bad news is this two-alarm fire that's burning at 209 east 156th street is far from being under control. we'll show you what the scene looks like. the fire department just got a fourth tower ladder up and in operation. ther

we're live in east new york york. >>> big questions tonight after a shocking acquisition. a man approached him and asked if he could have sex with his we're learning that the tourist just finished talking to police. >> reporter: yes, the tourist finished up his second interview and he's headed back to california. just a short time ago, police were on the bridge. they were going through this area. they were also told investigators also looking at surveillance cameras at the entrances and exits to the park, this as a child could be in imminent danger. the bow bridge is one of the most rognized landmarks in worried and wonder is it really safe here? >> reporter: this situation all started with another tourist who was visiting the park from the san diego area. police forces tell me the ok place with the 11-year-old by the man's side. the tourist refused and then called police. >> bow bridge is nationally famous. who wouldn't want be propositioned on top of it? >> reporter: he's been visiting central park for three years. the new yorker remembers what this area used to be like.

we're live in east new york tonight, news4 new york. >>> we have a warning about car the nation. this may sound like a routine crime but police say this may be the work of a gang. news4's brian thompson spoke with one victim who was shaken up tonight. >> reporter: it's the gang that might be involved in this, said to be hundreds of members who operate in parking lots all up and down the east coast. pa ram mispolice are telling me that it tuesday afternoon in thisli patrolling. >> reporter: police have seen this particularly before. a facebook page exists tracking the gang claiming it operates from coast to coast and across the state line fromburg land to rockland police departments have posted facebook warnings. five cars hit last sunday. >> we came back the next day because we said she weren't going to let this stop us. >> reporter: lori was with her around the lake when the smash and grab happened. nore muee alert. >> we're looking around a lot more. often we're engrossed in conversa a in sight of your windows, in your car, better yet, put it in the trunk. i'm brian thomas, new

this happened near pip kin avenue in east new york today. news 4 spoke with the child's father who explained what allegedly happened next. >> reporter: it's a parent's worst fear. their child attacked by a stranger. police say this man exposed himself to an 11-year-old girl. tonight we talked to the child's father who says his little girl is now afraid to walk to school. >> an emotional father says he feared the worst, racing from his east new york home in just his boxers after getting a call from his son that his little sister had been attacked and almost sexually abused. the father speaking to us in spanish, doesn't want his face shown to protect his daughter's identity. he says the 11-year-old is traumatized after police say grabbed the girl by the arm and exposed himself. >> the man just grabbed the daylight. what she was seeing. she was sitting in front of this morning. she saw the girl walking to school with her brother before the man swooped in, latching on to the child. >> reporter: lifted her up? >> yeah, he was trying to run away wi

diana rocco is live in east new york. >> reporter: the victim's his son is going to be okay. after taking that bull that bullet, he was able to chase the robbers and see which way they went. it happened before closing last night. surveillance video shows the entire thing, you can see the store owner struggling with one of the robber whose has a gun pointed in his face. this happened after 11 inside the grocery store on new lots avenue. one man empties the drawer and the other one keeps the gun on the owner. the owner puts up a struggle and the shots were fired. the robbers got away with cash and cigarettes. the 35 year old store owner was hit in the happened and the hip and still able -- hand and the hip and able to run out of the store after the suspects that fled on foot and got in to a black honda driving away. the owner's father says he was shots. >> we heard the shots. i was worried about my son. my other son, he was across the street, him and his friend. they wanted to chase them. >> reporter: the owner's father said he told his son, next time give him the money, it was

dramatic surveillance video shows the confrontation inside a deli in east new york. and tonight we're hearing from the victim. eyewitness news reporter darla >> reporter: that should have been an indication right off the bat that this cash grab wouldn't come without any hiccups. >> with the gun he pointed to my head. snoop saeed was sitting behind the counter in his deli in east new york sunday night when two men came in to his store, one armed with a gun. >> he got my hand and he moved me back. and one of his friends, he came around and started taking the money and he moved me back over there and told me sit down. because he was scared i'm going to do something to him. >> reporter: the gunman's instinct was right. the struggle for the firearm plays out in the store surveillance video. >> i was mad because our blood is hot. it's not like somebody can take something. if he was asking me better, i was going to give it to him. >> the fight didn't stop there. after the gunman ran out of the store with the cash, saeed, him. >> i had a can of soda. i tried to scare him. and

killed near a subway station in east new york. that suspect is still on the run right now. >> it happened at the pennsylvania avenue stop at penn and ibonia. lori bord nar onaro is there now. what do we know so far? >> reporter: i just talked to a witness who tells me she saw that shooter pull out his gun and shoot the victim from behind at least three times in the head. right now, you can see a lot of police out here. this happened on pennsylvania avenue, near lavonia below the subway station a short time ago, 10:30 this morning. the victim's family was here earlier, hugging and crying. at this point, police have not released much information about the victim except that he's a 41-year-old man. they say he was shot in the back in the head. he died at the hospital. there are at least five shell casings we can see here on the sidewalk, a lot of detectives out here as well as they search for that gunman. we just spoke to a woman who when she saw the shooter pull out the gun, fire, and take off. >> going to the store. i saw the guy w

live in east new york, steve langford cbs2 news. >>> police say they are zeroing in on a suspect who was seen carrying a gun at suni purchase college. we have exclusive interviews that spurred a temporary campus lockdown. >> classes are back in session here. some students looking over their shoulders after reports of an armed man on campus. >> at the end of the day the guy cannot be in all the places at the same time, but it's still scary. >> reporter: last night police flooded the college looking for the suspect. >> reporter: you can see a man running away. no word if that is the person alleged to have the gun or bystander. >> reporter: once they were notified, they were told to stay indoors, that the library here was on lockdown. as campus local and state >> i heard over the loud speaker that everyone needs to get in their rooms that it is not a drill to stay indoors because they said that there was an armed gunman on campus. >> reporter: no shots were ever fired that they believe that the man that ran through the wooded area behind the dorms. as they investigated, check points at

live in east new york. that little girl was walking by this quarter bodega yesterday with a man approached her and grabbed her. that's when she put up the fight of her life to that is what likely saved her. they are looking for that predator and sides are up all neighborhood. you have just released a surveillance video of the man who is believed to be in his 20s. you could see him walking on the street. the 11-year-old little girl was walking to school with her 12-year-old other. they have a boat to flee busy time of the morning. that's when police say the man approached the little girl. that little girl started fighting back and they say they don't feel their children are safe until the there caught. the man is described as in his 20s. about 6 feet tall. under 90 pounds. anyone with information is asked developing right now police are investigating a deadly shooting in new york. one of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene. it happened a block away from the gas station where the cart came to a rest.

a woman is pistol-whipped this afternoon in east new york, brooklyn. >> now police are trying to find the men responsible. cbs 2's alice gainer is live in east new york with the developments. >> reporter: montauk avenue here is taped off and police are positioned outside of this woman's apartment. afternoon. police say a 43-year-old woman identified by her cousin as sam was taking out the trash her and took off. police believe the motive possibly was robbery but it's unclear what, if anything, they took. her cousin says she felt jewelry. >> she is a good women. she helps out the community. everybody knows her like she is known for selling jewelry so they must have thought it was real because it looked real and that's the reason they did it. >> reporter: the woman was taken to brookdale hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. again, police are still looking for the two men responsible. live tonight in east new york, alice gainer, cbs 2 news. >>> a health alert for college students a mumps outbreak has people concerned at a school in connecticut. >> reporter: sacred heart university

housing plans are based owen a median family income of about $45,000 to $65,000. >> nobody from east new york making $45,000 or $65,000. that means it's affordable for who? it's affordable for middle class. we're not in the position. protesters ended their two-block march in front of the east new york office of city councilman rafael espinal. they want him to vote against the mayor's plan when it comes before the council next week. well, mission accomplished. >> i will vote no the way the plan currently stands. we have to remember there's a lot of moving pieces to this. there has to be a jobs plan, community infrastructure plan, and has to be a housing plan. >> reporter: mr. espinal told us his city council colleagues often follow the leads and wishes of the council member whose district is most affected by the proposal before them, meaning if nothing changes in the mayor's plan, he doesn't think it will pass. at city hall, joe torres, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> donald trump stirring up controversy once again. this time at an event on long island and it involves an immigrant who was beate

this is in the east new york section of brooklyn. it's close to the pennsylvania avenue 3 train station, as you can see, a train station that construction. it happened at 10:31 this morning >>> the victim was taken to brookdale hospital where he was pronounced dead. earlier i spoke with a dad who says he has growing concerns about walking his son to school in this area. >> as a dad, i feel for him. a lot of fear, a lot of just nervousness and tension because i don't know whether or not bringing him to school -- you know, if this is something he's going to encounter. i try my best to shield him from a lot of the realities that go on. >>reporter: and right now investigators walking around this area, trying to gauge if anyone may have any piece of information that might help them find the person that they are looking for. live in east new york, mallory hoff, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, mallory. this time in central new jersey. hillsboro high school placed on modified lockdown. now, we got newscopter 7 over the scene there a

clouds are mixing in with sun and more breaks east of new york city. tomorrow night clouding up, rain towards dawn or the five burro bike war on sunday where it will be wet and very different and be very careful to take part there, march rather than may, still unsettled with a couple of showers. tuesday is the best bet and it will be unsettled next week. they will time the rain for the rest of the weekend. >> we heard that by the way. is >> i didn't mind. [ laughter ] >>> coming up next, the new test for the zika virus that could be available in a matter of days. ba da ba ba ba >>> the house and the senate in recess for a week. the money wanted asap to prepare for summer when mosquitoes is expected to spread the virus in the u.s. >>> the federal government is taking some actions, approving the first commercial zika test. a small network of the cdc approved labs could run the zika test. quest diagnostics developed the test, available by as early as next week. with more testing capacity, doctors and patient wills get results more quickly. house to the to

clouds are mixing in with sun and more breaks east of new york city. tomorrow night clouding up, rain towards dawn or the five burro bike war on sunday where it will be wet and very different and be very careful to take part there, march rather than may, still unsettled with a couple of showers. tuesday is the best bet and it will be unsettled next week. they will time the rain for the rest of the weekend. >> we heard that by the way. it was. >> you didn't mind did you? is >> i didn't mind. [ laughter ] >>> coming up next, the new test for the zika virus that could be available in a matter >>> plus, boom, the royal at stop & shop, shoppers are discovering low prices by the thousands, plus a thousand more that just dropped. all these low prices! what are you trying to do, get me to feed the whole neighborhood? no. just trying to save you a whole lot of "bread." [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags, thousands of low prices. >>> the house and the senate in recess for a week. the money wanted asap to prepare for summer when mosquitoes is expected to spread

we're live in east new york, lori bordonaro, news 4 new york. >>> happening now, police want your help to find a large group of men who viciously beat a man outside of a brooklyn bar. police say about ten men used their fists, belt buckles, a barstool to hit a 26-year-old man. surveillance video and it is pretty clear caught that attack in front of a restaurant in myrtle avenue in bushwick. that victim is in critical condition at elmhurst hospital. >>> the nypd investigating another brutal assault in the bronx. they say the man in these fairly clear photo used a metal garbage the trio took off with the victim's wallet. he's in stable condition at lincoln hospital. >>> happening now, an explosion on a bus in jerusalem has injured at least ten people. and look at this picture, authorities say the bus thankfully was empty at the time. it appears that the wounded were on board a neighboring bus that caught fire after this blast. the cause of that explosion, we're not sure now, that remains unclear. >>> also in turkey, we have just learned rocket fire near the syrian border has killed four

reporting live in east new york tim fleischer channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> a 17-year-old homeless man has been charged tonight. police say that she was picked up by and taken into the homeless shelter instead of jail. the next day the body of the 18- year-old was found in that creek. the mother thanked police today and offered some advice. >> please tell them to take and to go home and hug your children. not once, but twice. >> reporter: police say that some of his things including their backpack were found in their position. >>> snapping a three-day losing today. the price per barrel is nearly back at the $4 mark. they climbed 35 points. nasdaq out by two and ending in five points. >>> when your championship was back when ronald reagan was president, well, row are entitled to celebrate hardy. that's what they did today big time lining the streets downtown philadelphia. the school band and the cheerleaders, all of them showered with the blue and white confetti as the wildcats won the ncaa tournament on monday night as you saw it here rob powers had that last shot. just am

. >>> a store clerk in east new york brooklyn proved he is willing to do anything to protect his stores. he was shot in the hip fighting off two men. >> reporter: two thugs, one would gun, come barreling into this east new york deli at 11:07 p.m. sunday night. the clerk immediately tried to grab the weapon, fails, and is held by the gunman while the other suspect runs around to score some cash. less than a minute later the clerk makes another grab for the gun and fails again. once and the clerk takes a bullet to the hip. >> i am the one who got the shot. >> reporter: ten hours later he is back on the job at his family owned store on new lots avenue at bradford after a quick trip to the hospital and few hours' sleep. >> look at the smile on your face. >> reporter: it is no laughing matter to most but this 35 year old immigrant from yemen doesn't know the meaning of surrender. >> i am fine, working. >> glad you are okay. take it easy. >> reporter: some neighbors literally embraced him. >> he did the right thing by fighting back. >> he was right to fight back if he could. >> reporter: othe

he was convicted for shooting and killing akai gurley in east new york. the d.a. recommended probation but no prison time, saying the shooting was a tragic accident. the brooklyn borough president said the meeting will not affect the sentence. >> we don't have any impact on the decision that the judge is going to make and we don't want to do that. decision based on the information that he has before him. steve: liz dahlem is going to have more on what they hope to accomplish with the meeting coming up on the news at 6:00. >> a new veterans treatment court has opened in manhattan. the court will deal with drug addicted veterans convicted of felony. it will address homelessness and unemployment. there are 26 courts around the state, including the bronx, brooklyn and queens. dari: mayor de blasio and hillary clinton made what some are calling an awkward attempt at racial humor saturday night at the inner circle show. hillary clinton in the skit thanked the mayor for endorsing her, but said it took him long enough, a reference to his chronic lateness. >> sorry, hillar

in east new york brooklyn, police say the suspect exposed himself to the girl, touched and grabbed her. it happened around 8:30 in the morning yesterday at elton street and pitkin aven was so upset. if it was my daughter, i'm glad the police caught him before guy, he touched my sister. i see a crowd of people. the father just runs out of the street. >> reporter: we're told the dad raidn out of his home as fast as he could. witnesses tell us the back and the attacker ran away. many feel relief. >> it's better to get simebody off the street like that. >> reporter: and we are told that that little girl is doing all right. given what has happened to her, but she is still a little bit frightened about walking to school. her dad says he's going to walk with her and her brother. as for the suspect, charges are pending, david. the police department not yet releasing his name. >> reporting live for us. >>> in today's money report, people apparently not spending as much money this spring. let's check in with bill griffith. >> hi, david. pretty good rally right now. the dow up 150 points or there

. >>> politics now with new york's presidential primary more than two weeks away, hillary clinton was campaigning at an east new york church this morning. her lied in the ead in the polls is shrinking. we interviewed her today about deigfending her home turf. >> reporter: have you had to lower your expectations here in ne >> no. >> reporter: if hillary clinton is nervous about bernie sanders eating into her home s thtate lead she's not letting on. >> reporter: at least not today. >> grace and peace. >> reporter: she made headlines when they said hillary would take the high road, campaigning like aisenat while bernie would campaign more like a brooklynite. sporting new york attitude, getting in the face of a new york act vest. >> i am so sick of the sanders campaign lying about me. >> reporter: new yorkers aren't really usedito seeing you lose your temper, your cool. you're usually very collected. >> mm-hm. >> reporter: bernie sanders seemed to b getting under your skin last week. is that because you had hoped to have the nominatn more locked up by now? >> no, it was one of his supporters, just deliberately

dari: east new york is the first of 15 neighborhoods up for rezoning. the full city council will vote on the plan later this month. threats made against at least 21 schools in northern new jersey this morning, including some that were on spring break. students waited outside for an hour and a half before the all clear was given to return to their classrooms. nothing was found and no arrests have been made. dari: actress megan fox and her husband, brian austin green, are expecting their third child, but that is not stopping fox from going through a divorce. steve: tmz joins us now to explain why divorced or not, she's going to wind up paying in the end. >> yeah. this is going to end up costing her a little bit, but i think she wants to be all right with it. we broke the story last summer. she filed for divorce. but then lo and behold, we've seen them out together a lot. we thought they were co-parenting. turns out not long after she filed for the divorce, one of those times they were hanging out, something more happened. because she got pregnant. megan wa

new york just a few months ago. she told eyewitness news today before a campaign stop in east new york her credentials speak for themselves. >> clinton who is facing a tough fight ahead in the new york primary april 19th took the chance to remind voters of the work she's done while senator. >> we did a lot of great work across the state, you know, here in the city recovering make sure that our first responders, our construction workers, others were given the health care they needed after their exposure on the pile. >> clinton has shown some frustration with her democratic opponent, bernie sanders. the tension evident saturday as the campaigns bickered over scheduling a possible debate before the new york contest. clinton says of the possible gma debate that she'll be there. sanders who is stumping hard in wisconsin for tuesday's primary stomping. >> if you look the the those democratic debates many observers have noted they're often scheduled on days when the viewer turnout without not be particularly high. i would hope that she would agree with me, let's do it at a mutually convenient time. >> recent polls shows clinton

"today in new york's" katherine creag is in east new york with the story. kat? >> reporter: darlene, we talked with a worker at a deli who ran out of the store when he heard the girl's cries. he knows the child and her brother but doesn't know this man. the man in this wanted poster. according to police, they want to talk with him. we want to show you video from one of the homes out here. surveillmece video of the spectacular. lice accuse that man ofs exposing himself to an 11-year-old girl and also grabbing her. to witnesses, it appeared he was ready to take off with her. she screamed and she fought back. this happened around 8:30 in the morning at elton and pit kin avenue. the little girl and her 12-year-old brother were walking to school. eventually, the attacker ran away and people in the area began running toward the girl, including that deli worker who spd oke to us. >> it was like, the guy he touched m sister . see a crowd of people. the father runs out in the stre,t. >> he mentioned the dad of the children, the father was in his boxers, we're told runnin

programming note, coming up tomorrow morning on news 4 new york -- >> you ask the questions, we take them straight to the mayor. >> mr. mayor, i live in east new york and my concern is will the affordable housing pla that you plan on bringing to eastern new york. >> mayor bill de blasio on housing and everything from the recent spike in slashings in the city to education as well. >> hear what the mayor had to the mayor" tomorrow morning at 10:00 here on news 4 new york. looking forward to checking that out. >> 64 degrees and we've turned the corner. >> that's a great way to describe it because we have a stretch of warm dry weather in the forecast so this is not a temporary thing. it will get milder tomorrow, 70 degrees, 76 monday. keeping it dry till tuesday and even then just a few showers and that front knocks our temperatures down to the 60s. so above average for the entire week, looking good. monday. [ laughter ] >> hey! >> i feel it coming on. that's it for us, "nightly news" is coming up next. >> see you tonight at 11:00. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." jose diaz-balart. >> good evening.

. >> i will never be able to see >> in 2014 in the pink houses in east new york, peter liang fired a shot that killed an unarmed akai gurley. he turned and apologized to the family. >> i apologize to -- [inaudible] happened. >> reporter: the conviction stomped on a rare and raw racial nerve which watched officers go unindicted while a chinese american was the first to be indicted in 10 years yet never had a confrontation with the victim. they felt he was an easy scapegoat to feed to the black lives matter movement. his lawyer emphasized the difference between liang and police brutality cases. >> peter liang is not them. violation of someone's rights. >> reporter: the district attorney's office saying liang becomes a convicted felon. he's no longer a police officer, never will be. they are unhappy about the reduction of that conviction. the family says this is a tragic accident, that they maintain that nothing criminal happened here. both sides unhappy. both sides will file an appeal for the judge's decision announced today. arthur chi'en, fox 5 news. ernie: thank you very much. famil

it all happened at the corner f pitkin and elton in east new york. thrais whole s ituation as made parents feel nervous. he will get taken to school by me or his father. if no we will take a taxi. >> i never felt safe anyway, but that's really, that's too close to home. >> police had origi ally called noalw they're calling it attempted sex abuse. they have not made an arrest in this case, which is making parents feel so nervous. heet's described as wearing a red hat and black hoodie and jeans. jen maxwell, news 4 new york. >>> you may see this in your mailbox. claiming nypd officers aren't being paid enough. >> reporter: this is part o an ongoing battle over police officer pay, today the pba orkicked it up a notch, implying that race plays a role. >> few dispute that nypd officers deserve to make more money. the pba tried to drive that point home with this racially the top photo showing whi officers in the a 0s reads, when cops looked like this they were the highest paid in the country. cut to the bottom photo now with black officers and an asian off

. >>> a store clerk in east new york brooklyn was back on the job today hours after he was shot during an armed robbery. the struggle was caught on one searches for cash while the other points a weapon at syeed. he made two attempts to grab the gun. the suspect fired once hitting him in the hip. >> he was going to shoot me and i moved fast so he shot me here. >> police are still searching for the robbers. >>> broadway's hamilton and creator won the year's pulitzer prize for drama. the hip hop musical is about life and times of founding father alexander hamilton and has played to sold outperform manslaughter since last august. it is described as a landmark musical who stories contemporary and irresistible. >> this isn't the only honor for the creator and star. >> he is also being recognized for paving the way for young girls in washington heights. >> immigrants, we get the job done. >> reporter: soaring voices of display in honor of two special people, miranda, the multi talented star and creator of hamilton and his father, a long time leader in the public and private sector and communi

police say he approached an 11-year-old girl on a street in east new york and grabbed her arm while exposing himself. she screamed and he ran away. >>> a hearing set tomorrow in brooklyn over the manslaughter conviction of former new york city cop peter liang. the hearing will explore claims that a juror in liang's trial did not inform the court about his father's criminal history his attorneys are asking for a retrial. liang was convicted of accidentally shooting unarmed victim akai gurley in brooklyn. he faces up to 15 years in prison when he's sentenced on thursday. >>> now to vote 2016. an important legal ruling for ted cruz, a judge in new jersey ruling senator cruz is indeed a natural born citizen and can in fact appear on new jersey's presidential ballot. cruz faced challenges because he was born in canada but a judge ruled the child of a father or mother who is a citizen is him or herself a natural born citizen. cruz, by the way, did not hold an event today but the other candidates certainly campaigned around new york. eyewitness news reporter josh einiger in the newsroom with the la

in fact the clouds may try to thin out east of new york city. but once we get to the commute, that is when rain starts to become more widespread, especially into your friday evening. that is when we have a steadier period of rainfall. the mets aren't playing tonight but tomorrow when the giants are playing at citi field i think there is going to be rain in the area. maybe very light to start but steady, it will be a close call whether they can sneak that game in. watch the futurecast here, we drizzle. then tomorrow during the day, again rain, much of the time. not much is going on. it is cool, we are only in the 50s, but look how the rain starts to expand and move into the area. have your umbrella. air qualitifully good. pollen count knocked down to a moderate if not low level by night fall. so on saturday, that is the i think the rain will have departed the area during the morning hours. we are going to be stuck in a lot of the cloud cover over parts of new jersey. that is the way it stands right now. david and liz a 50-50 weekend. i think we w

saeed was behind the register at his store in east new york, staring down the barrel of a gun. one of the suspects came to grab the cash, saeed grabbed the gun. he was shot but able to chase one of the suspects. a $2500 reward being offered to help catch the two robbers. >>> a woman is recovering tonight after she was hit in the head by falling trucks debris in midtown manhattan. newscopter7 was over the scene this afternoon. hospital. her injuries are not considered to be life-threatening. >>> as we continue at eyewitness news at 6:00 for this monday night, the death toll rising tonight in the earthquake. >> new york city steps up in the battle of zika virus, this as the weather warms up. so does the mosquito breeding season. >> warmest day of the week and a dry day. first time we hit 80 degrees in central park this season but we've already dropped seven from the high and some places are really cooling off quickly. we'll tell you about a changing accuweather forecast and fire at stop & shop, shoppers are discovering low prices by the thousands, plus a thousand more that just d

>>> today, hillary clinton's campaign rolls through new york, first in manhattan and upstate in albany. she made a surprise visit at a church in east new york. the primary takes two weeks from tomorrow, april 19th. hillary clinton toldumelissa russo in a one-on-one interview, she's focusing a lot of resources right here. >> well, one step at a time. i'm definitely focused on the pr uimary because i don't want to keeanyone anyplace for granted. >>>er bernie sanders, could take a chunk of the new york vote.wibernie sanders' campaign in wisconsin, that state's crucial primary takes place tomorrow. also republican john kasich will be on long island. he'll hold a town hall in hempstead and the paramount concert hall in huntingdon. under attack from rivals this his call on the ohio governor to drop out. ted cruz launched tv ads hitting hard against kasich in wisconsin. >>> happening today, new jersey lawmakers are taking a closer look at the aging wtter system. lawmakers are letting lead found in the water. -- infrastructure and if there's a threat of lead contamination from ancient pipes. >>> teterboro airport, despite an outcry from th

killed by then nypd officer peter liang when he fired into a dark stairwell in the pink houses in east new york. a bullet ricochetted off the wall and struck gurley, killing him. liang was convicted back in february and emotions peaked after the district attorney released a four-page letter suggesting no prison time for former officer liang. justice will be best served if mr. liang is sentenced to five years of probation with the condition that he spend six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring and performs 500 hours of community service. some of gurley's family members rallied after this suggestion was made, but the decision is now in the judge's hands. he will decide if liang will go to prison or walk free. i spoke to the nypd a little while ago. a spokesperson there told me situation. they have not assigned a detail to this area just yet, but they're ready to move officers if need be. a person from the d.a.'s office told me the sentencing is scheduled to come down sometime after 10:00 thursday morning. be sure to keep an eye on that. we're live in downtown brooklyn. back over

. >>> hundreds of east new york residents protested outside city council and arrests were made. they're demanding he vote no on a zoning plan for the area unless it includes affordable housing. without changes, they believe it will leave thousands homeless. >>> and thousands of verizon workers walked off the job today after contract talks failed. the workers say verizon wants to freeze pensions, make layoffs easier and rely on contract workers. they're saying they're prepared for a long fight. >> we have to brace ourselves for any impact this causes, and there's going to be more game plans along the way. once we get a fair contract, we'll be back at work. for now, we've got to take what it is. we have to fight. christina: fight they will. verizon says it has trained thousands of non-union employees i'm not going to strike about the forecast. very nice, audrey. >> a lot of people are excited about the change we're seeing across the tri-state area. christina: is it going to last? >> let's start with today. it was chilly in the shade. that's because numbers were a little below aver

it happened on montauk avenue in east new york. in the head with a gun in the lobby of her apartment building. victim is in stable condition tonight at the hospital. >>> a videotaped confession expected to be played in court tomorrow in the trial of a teenager charged with killing a new york city cop in an arson. dockery is accused of setting a mattress on fire that caused the death of officer dennis guerra. surveillance video shows guerra as his partner, rosa rodriguez, in an elevator in a coney island apartment building. rodriguez describing being choked by thick smoke when the elevator doors opened. >>> now to vote 2016. and a bizarre endorsement for donald trump from former basketball coach bobby knight who says trump, quoting now, isn't afraid to drop the bomb. trump tonight at a rally in southern california speaking at the orange county fairgrounds in costa mesa. outside sheriff's deputies on horseback forming a barrier between trump supporters and trump protesters. meanwhile ted cruz defending words from former house speaker

near elton in east new york when police say he made his move. >> the man ran behind and snatched her. >> witnessed notice the commotion. >> she was screaming and kicking. >> tried to snatch the girl, holding her, she pulled away. you know what i am saying? he kept running. >> as the man grabbed the girl >> my little girl is traumatized, her father said in spanish, he was emotional and didn't want to show his face while explaining the moment he received a phone call thinking she had been killed. >> [ speaking in foreign language ] [crying] >> those nearby say the little girl was terrified after the incident. >> looked like she was really hurt, really scared, you know, really shooken up. >> police posted fliers of the wanted man all around the neighborhood. worried residents wondered if the man is someone they have seen before. >> [ speaking in foreign language ] . >> her father says the message to parents, evefen you have to miss ag-- even if you have to miss an hour to work, take your kid to school. >> i hope he stays away from little girls in the neighborhood. >> reporter: police say

i live in east new york. we need housing over there. at 9 p.m. tonight. it could be their most heated confrontation yet. 247 democratic delegates up for grabs on tuesday. reporting live in fort greene, brooklyn, at the brooklyn navy yards, brian conybeare, cbs 2 news. >>> new york's hard charging u.s. attorney steps up to the plate for a swing at another corruption case. preet bharara says a rockland county town supervisor cooked the books to finance a baseball stadium most residents didn't even want. cbs 2's tony aiello reports. >> reporter: a town proposal to build this minor league ballpark struck out with ramapo voters in 2010. 70% voted no. long-time town have you ever christopher st. lawrence built it anyway and in the process, the supervisor may have broken the law. >> whether you run a corporation or you lead a town, you are not allowed to cook the books. plain and simple. >> reporter: the u.s. attorney used charts to illustrate claiming st. lawrence and his head of development aaron to make it seem like the town had money in its general fund and

. >>> police in brooklyn now searching for a man they say in east new york. happened when the girl was on her way to school this morning. police say a man grabbed her arm and exposed himself. when the girl screamed, the suspect ran off. >>> we're hearing tonight exclusively from the mother of a disabled teenager whom police say was molested by a staff member at her school. the victim is just 14 years old but has the mental capacity of a 4-year-old. the victim lives at the christopher school. someone walked in on the staff member, 51-year-old yakubu abdulazeez molesting her this week. the victim's mother spoke to aj ross. >> when she be in the bed sleeping, he comes in the room, he touches her every night. that's really, really wrong and that's what hurt me the most, she probably trusted him. >> abdulazeez charged with having sexual contact with a minor and sexual abuse. repair the water system in the area. 58th street between 6th and 7th avenues also shut down. a water main broke yesterday. that spilled water on to a steam pipe. repair work slow going because

this is happening in east new york in the bronx. >> reporter: these ten are among the group calling the nypd 12 suing their own department ban on quotas and singling out black and hispanic cops for more severe punishment if they fail to rack up target numbers. >> they'll transfer you, they will try and give you a bad evaluation, which they do. >> they'll break up your partners, put you on dangerous assignments. >> you want to do your job and you want to help the community, but because you're not harassing people, you're being punished. >> because you've got that pressure going on you constantly. you have to bring in this number and now you're to go out and harass, like felicia said, the community. >> reporter: officials say they are responding to conditions in communities and the only push is to reduce crime. >> police department mayor says crime is down. crime is down in new york. safest big city. >> so why are they pushing for numbers so hard? >> more black and hispanic people as police officers? you're not going to get them, because we're arresting them. we're giving them records. fo

these men carried a large laundry bag to the vim department store in east new york. he began stuffing that back with they tried to stop them. but they got away. you are asked to call police with information. >>> the civilian complaint review board has -- richard emery stepped down after allegations were made about making sexist remarks to two women. he called them a derogatory word during an argument and retaliated against them for complaining. >> send a loud and clear message to other women in the workplace who may be undergoing harassment. >> emery didn't directly respond to the lawsuit but in his res egg ig nation letter, he said it's created distractions. >> trying to sort the two different accounts of what led up to a former nfl star's murder. the suspect who shot will smith once in the chest several times in the back on saturday night in new orleans, despite surveillance video, a family attorney says smith's mercedes did not hit the hummer driven by the murder suspect, cardell hayes. >> believing they didn't hit the hummer and seeing no damage whatsoever, they

katherine creag is live in east new york. kat, you can say, there's going to be a greater police presence there. >> reporter: absolutely, michael. as you mentioned, the flyers, they're already hanging. extra police patrols are expected to take place in this neighborhood. frightening for so many people. that image that you see there of the suspect. he's accused of exposing himself to an 11-year-old girl and not only that, he also grabbed her. to witnesses it appeared he was ready to take off with her. this happened around 8:30 in the morning yesterday at the corner of elton street and pit kin avenue in brooklyn. that little girl and her 12-year-old brother were walking to school. the building only a few blocks away. the witnesses told us the girl screamed and she fought back and it was a good thing, they said, because the attacker let her go. also, michael, the dad of the take time off from work and start walking his children to school. a lot of kids and the ages of of the brother and sister, 11 and , the dad emotional. he wan

men after a woman was pistol- whipped this afternoon in east new york, brooklyn. it happened just before 1:30. nypd says the 43-year-old woman identified by her cousin as "sam" was taking out the trash when two men came up to her, taking off after hitting her with the gun. police believe it was a robbery but it's unclear if they got anything. her cousin says she sells costume jewelry but cannot understand why she would be a target. >> she is a really good woman, right? like she help out the community like she's all around like everybody knows her like she's known for selling jewelry so they must have thought that it was real julie because it looked real and that's the reason why they did it. >> she was taken to brookdale hospital with nonlife- threatening injuries. >>> traffic can slow your commute to a crawl. but a new plan could give you an edge and put you in the fast lane. cbs 2's hazel sanchez is live at the midtown tunnel in >> reporter: we're on the l.i.e. heading towards the midtown tunnel. traffic is smooth. but if it wasn't, boy, would an express lane co

, over the years, we've seen so many young people from crown heights, from bedford-stuyvesant, east new york, flatbush, all over the borough come into our program and just go into the world and be amazing citizens, college world, and just be leaders wherever they go. so, definitely, i know what it can do. there are four pillars you talk about with brooklyn united, some of the things that you're able to do and teach them in their lives. talk to me about those four pillars. >> well, one of the main areas that we try to work hard on is academics. young people come to us after school, and truthfully, they just need some assistance with their homework, some encouragement, really. you know, i think that homework serves as an excellent study tool and a good gauge for us to know how the young man and young lady's doing. so, academic support and academic encouragement is one of our major pieces. secondly, we have our mentorship piece, mentorship/character development, where it's just a reminder of some of the things that they may see that's not really the norm. and our opportunity to kind of, either,

back to you. >> thank you. >>> a bakery in the east village is feeding new york's appetite for the presidential race. cupcake market on east 7th street just opened on saturday. it's already got a best- seller. giant cookies decorated to donald trump and hillary clinton. the owner says each cookie is hard work handpainted with royal icing. the store made 75 cookies on opening day and by the next morning, they were sold out. >> they all had been selling equally because there are a lot of hillary lovers a lot of bernie sanders lovers and a lot of people are either trump lovers or him the cookie monster. >> so politically correct. >> i know. >> they are selling equally well no favorites. each cookie costs $8.50. >> works of art. interesting. >>> coming up next, he is not your ordinary theater critic. >> we first did a story on thomas ellington 11 years ago. he was just in kindergarten. well, now tom is 18 years old. and wait until you meet him again. he will blow you away. >> plus, get ready to spend more time at the airport. (laughing) there's nothing like making their day. except making sure thei

new york city at this point. surveillance video, dna, and up anything in the search for patrick alfred. alfred went missing in 2010 from his east new york foster home. now the nypd and a company called bbdo advertising are hoping mannequins will help find the boy. it is a life sized sculpture of what alfred would look like today. >> it's been six years. a lot of people don't remember. it's not that they don't but people forget. so we need to get the attention of people that are just, you know, passing by. >> time has passed. alfred would now be 12 years old. they are hoping other stores will spanser mannequins. >>> new details on a fuel spill in the hudson river as the sheen came from. they worked to contain it but the plume was pretty much unstoppable opinion the area is being monitored for the environmental impact opinion officials say perhaps it came from a vessel that then simly took off. >>> now we turn to the investigation of the death into musician prince. we're learning over the past three careers, four calls for emergency assistance were call to his seem. the after the home. they are awaiting results of the toxicology