>> harlem day is actually what harlem week began as. harlem week began in 1974 as a one-day event, which was harlem day. over the years, that grew to a couple of days and a weekend and a week, and now we're up to a month plus of activities that only in harlem can you have a monthlong week, so it's still harlem week, but, you know, it is a month of activities, and we are on august 21st with harlem day. >> i always laugh. every year, i ask the same question. i'm like, "but it's not harlem week! it's like harlem month!" >> right. yeah. everybody says that, so now we're just -- you know, we spent so much time calling it harlem week, and if we call it harlem month, then it might stretch that much further, so we say, "let's keep it at harlem week so we rein ourselves in." >> and harlem week really was started to, you know, highlight the culture of the community. >> it really was started to highlight the culture, because, did not have the best of reputations. >> yeah. >> it was tough times all over new york city, but harlem in particular. you

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the harlem renaissance, aged world war i through the great depression, was born in harlem, usa. it was a social movement and explosion of culture and arts, drawing black writers, musicians and scholars to the city street. now, a growing hub of diversity and gentrification, residents are concerned, wondering which parts of new york's black cultural the go will survive. shayna seymour took a tour with abc news ron claiborne. yna: ask one dozen new yorkers about their favorite parks and you get one dozen answers. ron claiborne favors morningside park in harlem. the park sits outside the gates to columbia university, where he went to grad school. ron: i lived here because as a student, we had been told very seriously do not go into morningside park day or night. it is dangerous and it was. shayna: morningside park rn different. well kept up, you do full, quite. the people are from harlem or up in morningside heights. it is quiet, tranquil and peaceful. shayna: he reserves that enthusiasm for harlem. >> the new harlem is more diverse, exciting, places to eat, safer, jazz clubs and it

. >> guess who is back in harlem. >> every change comes stru stru. >> harlem is on the rise ♪ >> sergioreat shot for selfies right now. >> you were married. >> do we look like a married couple? kind of gross i'm sorry. >> what? >> not just a place. >> new york city b, city, it isa state of mind. >> hank i'm your back porch man. you know what i'm saying right? no, not that, i have your back >> on tuesday an article came out written by press about how antwalieutenant governor is breg away from chris christie, i asked are you done with the governor. >> it has been my role to be his lieutenant issue lieutenant governor to make my position known quietly behind closed doors. >> check out this crazy close circuit television futtage from a passenger bus in china. they spring into action when their driver collapses and dies at the wheel, 6 passengers got up, pulled him out of the seat, and stop the bus before it hit any pedestrians or oncoming cars, a great job by the people on the bus. >> we have seen street performers in our travelers, but not like this, joseph gordon levitt in the l.a. subway

in harlem turned deadly. police are investigating multiple shootings in just a few hours. >> at least one person is dead. magdalena doris joins us live from harlem with the latest. >> reporter: sources say the woman who was killed was in her 60s, and innocent bystander that fell victim to the violence in harlem overnight. now police are looking for at least three gunmen. and the crime sces police are investigating three separate shootings. overnight officers monitored the scene at 139th street police using cups and bottles to mark bullet casings surrounding a parked car. nobody was hurt at this scene. two blocks away on 142, two men were shot in the leg. that was at 1:45 a.m. this morning. police say a 24-year-old was a second victim arrived at the hospital on his own a short time later. two hours earlier at 1:44, a 61- year-old woman was shot in the neck and killed. but sources say the victim sims, was an innocent bystander gun down on the corner of -- at 11:45 p.m. saturday night. police do not believe any

we're live in harlem. i'm kristin thorne, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> also right now, a mystery in suffolk county. human remains were found in a wooded area near the long island expressway yesterday. his mountain bike near express drive north in ronkonkoma. they believe the remains were there for quite some time. anyone with information call crime stoppers at 800220-tips. >>> investigators say a pickup truck rear ended a sedan on the hudson bay extension. the crash. three other cars were also involved and two other people were hurt. police say they do not expect to file any criminal charges. >>> police are investigating after a texas a&m university student died inside of a fraternity house. the 19-year-old was found unresponsive at the sigma new house yesterday morning. investigators believe he died of an overdose of an unknown controlled substance. the fraternity says it will assist in the investigation. >>> stiffer penalties now in place for assaulting workers at subway train and bus stations in new y

she was pronounced dead at harlem hospital. this happened around 144th 144th street and lenox avenue. her husband tells me that he had been playing with her and her friends. he went back to the apartment two blocks away to get something. he was on his way back to meet her when he got a call to his >> i keep telling her, you can't be out this time of night. she should not have been there. >> reporter: so witnesses tell us that a man ran out from this car or from behind a car, i should say, on lenox avenue and started firing shots. you can see police focusing on this car here that they have tagged and marked off with crime scene tape. unclear if that's the car this her when this happened and said a man in dark clothing ran out from behind a parked car and just started shooting. police have not released a description of the person they are looking for in this incident. live in harlem, i'm kristin thorne, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> awful story. kristen, thank you. >>> new jersey state police say a child died in a multi-vehicle a

here in harlem five stories up no ac. harlem apartment, victor sanchez says it gets unbearable. >> i wouldn't be surprised if it hit 97, 98 degrees. >> reporter: he can only dream of cooling off inside. >> air-conditioning is expensive to buy and expensive to run. >> reporter: he is among 10% of new yorkers that don't have air-conditioning. now he is part of a ground breaking study to find out just how bad that is. >> you just click it in and you there. >> reporter: partners are teaming up with groups like we act for environmental justice for the harlem heat project. they're placing heat sensors like these in apartments like victor's. >> we know that twice as many people in harlem go to the emergency room for heat-related stress, and we know that we have a very vulnerable population. >> reporter: take a look at results from a week in july. the oscillating orange line shows the outside heat index. that's heat plus humidity. floor apartment with no ac. look at this point on july 15th. outside it felt like the 70s, but insid

. >> guess who is back in harlem. >> every change comes struggle. >> harlem is on the rise ? ? >> sergio a great shot for selfies right >> you were married. >> do we look like a married couple? kind of gross i'm sorry. >> what? >> not just a place. >> new york city, city, it is a state of mind. >> hank i'm your back porch man. you know what i'm saying right? fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. and right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just $69.99 per month online. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. only fios can. at the the lincoln summer invitation sales event, from the moment you take your foot off the brake, the brake stays engaged and you stay put. taking the legwork out of stop and go traffic. and even hills. that's the more human side of engineering. this is the lincoln summer invitation, hurry in now to your dealer for

then a group from harlem will head to havana from the 18th 18th-25th of harlem havana. harlem will be going to havana during february during black history month. havana is coming to harlem to teach each other's cultures so we're we're going to be dealing with music, dance, culinary, fashion and art. >> celebrating culture and two amazing cities. in harlem, with "fox five news". >> alison: spending the summer spinning. >> steve: the camp transforming young talented to skilled djs. >> steve: tried to make happy meals healthier by swapping out doing up? (whispering) mom said i could have a midnight snack. well, i say it's late, and you need to go to bed. why? because i am the boss. you're not the boss, mom's the boss. well, technically, we are co-bosses. technically, mom's the boss. mmmm. shhh. the family favorite. yoplait. let's feed him to the sharks! squuuuack, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! and take all of his gold! and take all of his gold! ya! and hide it from the crew! ya...? squuuuack, they're all morons anyway! i never said that. they all smell bad too. no! yo

it's harlem. >> harlem is a deep rooted in history in music and dance.better place to do it, it's going to be amazing. >> sergio, we are back at marcus garvey park in harlem. this time i challenge you to shake what your mama gave you. we are taking a dance class. i hope you have your tights ready, it's going to be a blast. >> first things i am not am not wearing tights. i have one dance move and it works in every song you just have to modify. >> can you just expand your repertoire? she actually has an entire following. i'm not even sure, were only doing a small little dance class. so this is what is known as 2016 at 16 at the theater in harlem. we have music. of course we have dance. >> we are in for a special treat. we get to learn what is known as calvin our graffiti with dance instructor extraordinaire, calvin -- calvin this is a mixture of things so that everyone gets what they like. >> will have one move. >> signal ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm here to inspire the neighborhood and community to dance and use it as exercise, therapy, and arts. >> most impressive

the other period, of course, would be the harlem renaissance. >> hinojosa: mm-hmm. >> the harlem renaissancehich was a time of... well, it's the... historian david levering lewis puts it, "it was civil rights through art." black people had the idea-- which was a not very efficacious idea, but they had an idea-- that they could change the image of the race vis-à-vis white people who doubted our ancestor's intellectual integrity and intellectual capacities by creating great literature and art. so there was this big revolution of writing and it was called the harlem renaissance, but it led to renaissances throughout the caribbean and even in africa. you know, the négritude movement, which was started by a martinican, aimé césaire, and léopold senghor, who went on to become the first president of senegal, they were students at the sorbonne. they heard about the harlem renaissance and they created the négritude movement starting in 1934. and langston hughes, probably the most googled and sited poet in the american cannon, translated works of these black american writers into spanish and french...

a 61-year-old killed in harlem overnight. we're live as police investigate three different long island. a seat -- a teenager seriously injured walking home. >>> pretty decent cloudy start to the day. a stormy ending coming our way. good morning. coming up on 7:30 a.m. sunday, august 21. i'm andrea grymes. >> i'm cindy hsu. the top stories are straight ahead. first elise finch has the latest on the forecast. >> it was looking like a better morning an hour ago. interesting morning. we did have sunshine. a beautiful sunrise. now we are seeing more and more clouds. soon the clouds will be followed by rain. rainout temperature wise, 68 degrees in monticello. and 72 in montauk. seventy-seven for central park. the dew point, pretty high. upper 60s and low 70s. it is definitely muggy out there. high. but with the dew point, it will feel close to 90 degrees in the warmest locations. looking at the vortex satellite and radar, some shower activity across the tri-state area now. looking at pennsylvania, you can see what is coming our way

. >> freestyle set tone as sergio and i continue our quest in harlem, this time heart beat 125th street. >> look at this. you have matching heads. >> still a huge hip-hop present there. which is known for, but richard was selling his music on the side of the street, we're asking the big word. >> going out to every harlem resident. this is known for urban music. biggest -- right now next to america apparel. for us like okay. i want to dress white or i want to dress black. >> to get an idea of harlem back in the day, i sat down with congressman charlie rangel. >> harlem that i had when i first went to congress was so many -- buildings with rats, roaches, crime of the high, everyone knew somebody that got mugged. >> overtime rangel said crime has come down, that brought in more developers in the area. >> what did not go up for us was jobs, and salaries. >> you do want to keep the economy going, and you want people to move into the area but you want people who have known harlem for what it is to stay, the area needs subsidies. >> people that are building they want money. so, we have to stru

for now zachary kiesch, live in harlem. christina: thank you. antwan: a tragic accident on high on hits close to home are three people killed and 8 others injured in a crash, suffolk count police say 9:30 this morning, a subaru outback going east hit t median, airborne. investigators are trying to figure out what happened. christina: one of the men killed in the crash was a former aide to governor cuomo, he expressed hhis condolences. antwan: turkish officials say that the suicide bomber who attack a kurdish wedding years old. turkish news reports say that the bride and groom were injured. but not critically. early indicationi suggest that isis was behind this attack. christina: on the road to the white house, donald trump's third campaign manager hit the sunday talk show circuit. antwan: kellyann conway talking about a variety of issues, saying not decided whether to support t --undocumented immigrants in the u.s. >> he does not know -- he just this week look at what he talked about, he is bringing the case to communities of color in michigan,

stephan kim is in harlem. >> reporter: she was loved by so many in harlen. the 61-year-old's husband had just been with her before she was killed and now the loss leaving a gaping hole in his heart as he comes to grips with what happened. a lot of people in the world, the innocent one. >> reporter: basil and odessa sims had been married for years. >> every time i open the door the phone starts to ring. they told me that she get shot. >> reporter: it was around 11:45 when basil kissed odessa to their apartment. little did he know that would be the last time he kissed her. a bullet went right through sims neck killing her. this man says he was sitting near her when it happened. >> i saw him as he was running. came from behind shooting at another fellow. she went down. >> reporter: odessa sims was not just anyone here in harlem. beloved by the community. they say she was like a mother to everyone. >> i'm 50 years old i knew her since i was like 13, 14 years old. cooked for people. fed people. >> everything, everything. >> reporter: the love for sims. >> odess a

metro north, hudson and harlem, dealing with service changes today. they will be offering bus service and all because of the sandy resilience project. teen choice awards took a somber tone last night. jessica alba joined by teen whose have lost loved ones to gun violence took the stage to offer peace, each teen produced themselves before the actress told the audience about oh family membered killed in sandy hook, san bernardino dino -- they asked to spread the message and use e stop the violence. >>> yankees and mets will put wild card quests on hold for the battle for new york bragging rights. the series shifts to yankee stadium. logan is slated to take the mound for the mets. cc for the yanks. >>> parts of new jersey still drying out today, even with the half a billion dollars, waiting game in a small town with the winning power ball ticket in when you've been making delicious natural cheese for over 100 years like kraft has, you learn a lot about how people cook. i wish i had like four different mexican cheeses but in one super melty cheese. it doe

>> in harlem -- so the business was confiscated early. >> in harlem. >> in 1940. that was in amsterdam. then in harlem temporary he found a job as a pants presser in a small jewish dry cleaning place, a little basement. so i tell you to compare, so my father was a spoiled man, he had a doctorate in economics, he was being sent to the united states to do an internship here for two years. he came back, he got a corner office from his father and he kind of ran the business. really spoiled man. then he became a pants presser. so i couldn't ask him questions for many, many years because my parents didn't want to talk about the war. so just before he passed away, about 17 years ago, i said, how did that make you feel? because i heard from my friend selma that he had been doing that. he said actually i went to work singing and he had to walk five miles because his bicycle was confiscated and jews were not allowed to use public transportation. i came back singing. he said i was happy because everything is relative. and you have to feed your family. so i made some money ev

that mosca seven in harlem plays a huge role in supporting the black community throughout harlem. >> peace be unto you. mohammed mosque will always play a role, are people still act you freedom, true justice, ensure equality. >> the minister says the first step for blacks in achieving freedom is to become a financial powerhouse. >> the role of the mosque is an employment center. an employment center for truth but an employment center for the business activity of life. we have 95 or 97, 98% employment here. we don't believe in a welfare program. we believe in people being industrial. >> take that step further and what he is really saying is that blacks need to build a black economy. >> we need to separator economics. like separating our economics is ike with the chinese do with chinatown. that separate economics. >> do you agree with what he said? >> i agree agree with a little bit of what he said. you really do need economic power as a group. where i grew up in philly, the orthodox jewish community, they do not go outside their community usually in support other businesses. they make

>> new york and harlem in the grand housing projects for the first nine years of my life then we move further uptown. >> host: what was your childhood like? [laughter] >> it was great though it wasn't great. it was tough. i was raised with father died and i was very young and was raised by the mother and sister isn't taught me to read and it up going to a school outside of my neighborhood so i had this interesting mixed life growing in spent time in harlem and in part of the time with more cosmopolitan intellectually vested school so there is a little bit of of bifurcation id your to the '80s was tarred with the violence we were not well off. but in some ways that is where reading became an important part of my life to find people live in literature was life changing for me as the young person and then expanding now to. natalie doing work that i recognized that is familiar to me but literally did the work in the harlem which made me rethink maya and experience if your marginalized in the ghetto that was also into place at the center of some other great cultural movements. >> host: are

it something you >> i'm from harlem. it's a dream to come home and open a school. i had that vision. i knew i was able to achieve to the heights i was able to achieve because i start d out and had a very good education. i think we just take it for granted and also we are not dealing with the issues that we are not properly educating our children in the city. instead of complaining about it, i wanted to do something. i opened up my own school. i'm going to lead by example >> you opened up the school, the vmas the other night. >> yeah. the school is called capital prep harlem. >> 6th and 7th now. >> overall goal is 12? >> to 12 and i want to expand the schools into different cities and countries. >> you open up the vmas the other night. first of all, did drake get his moonman? you have it. >> i was about to go out they he got it. i left it there for him. you know it was confusing for the person not to be there. but we handled it well. >> traffic. >> you have a helicopter available. you're the man of new york. >> i have a c

she was a mother, grandmother, wife, and longtime harlem resident. that's coming up in a live report at 6:30. >>> senator chuck schumer would like the department of homeland security to investigate a airport. it's been a week. since unfounded reports of gunfire sent them running for cover on the tarmac and inside term nams schumer says a lack of responsibility only made this situation worse. >> we need them all to put their heads together, cooperate, figure out what went wrong, and come up with a plan. so what happened last sunday will never happen again. >> senator schumer also cited a iteam, blind spots that are out of view of security at airports. >> raphael miranda's day and whatever is left of summer vacation really counts now, raphy. >> it sure does. even though it's cool, it will get hotter, we're not done with the heat or summer be i any means but we're enjoying a little break in the heat and humidity. temperatures down to the 50s. we haven't seen 60s in over two weeks. it's been so incredibly warm. 66 down the shore in long branch. mostly cl

i'm george brown, 7 news. >> jadiann: sean diddy combs opening up a new harlem." he made sure to give advice for the first day of class. it will be hard to top the first day of school getting to hang out briefly with sean diddy combs. >> i love new york, i love harlem. it's great to do something for the community. >> reporter: the school was combs' idea. six years ago he approached steve perry about opening it. >> i said good luck with should do it together. >> reporter: they spend several years trying to make it happen. combs donated money to the project and they obtained licensing and state funding. combs' involvement was reveal. he welcomed the first students. >> you can have a dream to be a doctor, a rapper, engineer, after you have the dream you have to actually open your eyes and handle the reality of what it's going to take for you to preppary harl 'em is the only new charter school. the kids got in with a lottery giving to those living nearby. >> listen to your teachers, do your homework, study, support each oh, be leaders, be leaders that is what the scho

police say a 24-year-old was taken to harlem hospital in stable condition. a second victim arrived at the lenox avenue, a 61-year-old woman was shot in the neck and killed. sources say the victim, odessa sims, was an innocent bystander , gunned down on the corner at 11:45 p.m. saturday night. family members and friends say odessa sims was a mother figure to this entire community. and that when people realize she was the victim, the community will be in morning. they are out here searching the streets search for her killer and two a friend of the family describes her as a hard-working woman who was very devoted to family. >> she was a phenomenal grandmother. grandkids. >> one of the two bus drivers involved died at the scene. or then a dozen passengers are recovering. investigators are trying to determine what caused the accident. >>> police are urging food delivery workers to be on alert in brooklyn after a series of violent robberies. investigators released these images of the suspects. they set up to four men have been targeting the workers since last mont

but when we told riders in harlem tonight that this was the knife-wielding thief police were looking for, a man wearing an mta uniform shirt? they were that much more like i said. >> reporter: police say it's unclear whether this man standing near the metro card machine at the 125th street stop for the acbd lines is actually an mta employee or someone just wearing the shirt. but they say he walked up behind a 55-year-old passenger just before 4:00 in the morning last tuesday, held a knife to the man's neck, and stole his backpack. >> there's not a lot of cops there, and it's kind of an just not thinking about anything elsement you're focused on getting to where you're going. so now to have to think about, you know, being safe there as well is just another added thing. >> reporter: though the attack happened in the early morning hours, folks here say it's evidence that you have to always keep your eyes open and never assume someone is harmless just because they're wearing what appears to be a uniform. >> you know, you're in the subway and you're used to sometimes random craziness, but

>> guest: in harlem at the harlem village academy. i just left that job, which is so sad. but he came to visit and worked with my eighth graders x he rocked their world, essentially. [laughter] they could not recover for the rest of the day of after mr. alexander left. so he came and visited with them, and they just were in awe of, first of all be, that he could recite so much poetry from, you know, on command. and they just fell in love with him because they loved his book. i mean, i was constantly, constantly putting his book into the hands of my students x. they would devour it in 4 hours and be -- in 24 hours and be like, where's the next one? they were thirsty. they wanted to see themselves, and they just wanted a good story. >> guest: thank you. >> guest: you're welcome. [laughter] >> host: kwame alexander, how did you become a writer? >> guest: how did i become a writer? so it started with my parents. my parents were my first librarians and teachers. >> host: besides reading the encyclopedias, what else? >> guest: i can't believe that. >> guest: yeah. so that's the

it's the only new charter school opening in harlem this year. the school currently has about 180 students. it plans to expand to 700 students up to the 12th grade. coming up...mission on the homefront.the fight one wisconsin military member is involved in even after returning from overseas.and -- favre in honor of the gunslinger, russ feingold: i'm russ feingold and i approve this message. narratlisten to senator johnson on student loans: ron johnson: it's just kinda free money, young people don't really, necessarily understand finance. narrator: what senator johnson doesn't understand is, more than 800,000 wisconsinites have student loans. federal student loans and keep interest rates high. johnson: it's just kinda free money... narrator: with senator johnson, opportunity for middle class kids would disappear. ron johnson's not for students. not for wisconsin. tomorrow legendary gunslinger brett favre will have a new exhibit at the packers hall of fame.the exhibit honors favre's time with the team and recognizes his most memorable 297 consecuti

on a street in harlem. >> right. so, um, but if you put that against what was before, which was not talking at all, i think it's a measured improvement. as you say, it's definitely qualified, but as opposed to not talking at all... i mean, again, for me, i've just learned so much about white people, because i now have to write... you know, that's a large part of my audience. and they write back, and they tell you about their world and they tell you about their little individual tics. you know, i'm a kid from west baltimore. i grew up around, you around, in 95% black environments all my life up through college. i don't know white people on an intimate level. but you learn, you know, if you want to know, if you truly... if you're open for that. there's just so much to hear out th you know, you grew up in this place in west baltimore, and you have spoken about the fact that, you know, when you were growing up, it was at the height of the crack epidemic... >> right. >> hinojosa: it wasn't exactly the wire, but it was clo

. >>> the search is still on tonight for whoever shot and killed a grandmother at a harlem playground. she was playing dominos with friends saturday night when she was shot in the neck. police believe it was a stray bullet and that sims was not the target. the 61-year-old was a long time harlem resident and she was well known in the neighborhood. >>> family and friends gathered tonight to say good-bye to a bronx deli wally was shot and killed on august 9th after warning another store about an unruly customer. surveillance video shows officers arriving to detain that customer. that's when the man identified as guzman grabbed an officer's gun from the holster and shot wally. >>> many long islanders will tell you service can come to a today governor cuomo came to town to check on the progress. lori bordonaro is in farmingdale to explain. >> reporter: david, as the governor mentioned, today the long island railroad was built to accommodate 35,000 commuters. today nearly 3 million depend on the trains. he said it is time to make up for lost decades. a retired matt teacher hops the train to

kerry: still to come, a new church of scientology is opening its doors in harlem. dari: dan bowens with an dari: as we told you, police commissioner bill bratton has resigned. he will be leaving next month to enter the private sector. bratton has been police commissioner since 2014. kerry: in those 2-1/2 years, bratton made a lasting mark with the nypd. dari: as stacey delikat shows us, his achievements did not come without controversy. >> we will never forget or fail to honor the achievements of bill bratton. >> reporter: bill bratton is wrapping up a 45 year career that began as a beat cop in boston and ends as the helm of the nation's large blasio's police commissioner in what was his second go round as the top cop. >> i'll stick up for my officers when they're right. >> in '94, he was appointed commissioner by mayor rudy giuliani. he was credited with significant crime reduction and implemented the broken windows policing strategy and introduced the com stat system of tracking crime through data. this is the president of the new york city crime commission. >> t

. >>> just a day after a grandmother was shot and killed by a stray bullet in harlem. the community is now calling for peace. >>> new video of president obama touching down in washington overnight as he gets back to work. responding to critics over his response to the flooding in ken rosato. >> and i'm michelle charles in for lori stokes. >>> it is monday, august 22nd. >> you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. beginning with meteorologist amy freeze in for bill evans. >> reporter: pretty much an average august weekend. middle to upper 80s, a few thunderstorms thrown in there. this monday is anything but average. amazing outside. the sun warming up the picture by sunshine, absolutely good looking day. 69 degrees turns into 80 later this afternoon. no showers, we are rain-free today and tomorrow. sunset park currently at 70 degrees. 71 for you, same for howard beach, riverdale at 69. same for montauk and bridgeport. jersey shore, belmar, 66 waking up monticello, calm weather, of forecast. here's your forecast for today, planning out the midday. 7

i'm wale aliyu in east harlem with the troubles families are >>> what's in store for a messy stretch of land owned by the long island railroad? that story in the minutes ahead. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20 oz. cup of coffee, ber optics. and right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just $69.99 per month online. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. >>> residents in an east harlem apartment building are fuming. and it is causing huge problems. >> this started as a tip from one of our viewers. wale aliyu went to the jefferson houses to get to the bottom of what's going on. >> reporter: residents at jefferson houses started calling meals on wheels tuesday after con edison cut gas off to hundreds of families. signs around the complex blame the problem on gas main leaks. >> a leak in the pipe. just got really difficult and a fix will take time. >> no gas. >> reporter: as you can s

and when i came into office in harlem, there was no national chain there. no business that was a national business would be in harlem because it was too dangerous or bedford stiverson. now there are plenty there because we made them safe. we improved education there, we started charter schools, and then mike bloomberg expanded charter schools quite dramatically, although the present mayor has tried to put a stop on it these are the things we have to do. here's the way i. >> can that be done on the federal level by a president? you look at these numbers, mr. mayor, it is true, with the exception of the republicans in new york, i will give that you one, you look at these cities they have literally been run by democrats and some 65 or before. >> there are things you can do. first of all, the president can advocate for strongly for vouchers for choice and for charter schools and go up against and fight the battle against the national education association and all the education bureaucrats. it's a tragedy that i hate to get personal but it was true of me, too. m

. >>> police want to find whoever shot and killed a grandmother as she sat in her harlem playground. she was there saturday night when she was shot in the neck. police believe it was a bullet and that sims was not the target. the 61-year-old was a long time harlem resident and pretty well known in the neighborhood. >>> happening right now, a search for a teen mother and her baby who disappeared on long island. we're talking about 16-year-old tiffany ortiz and her 10-month-old baby. they were last seen friday afternoon in roosevelt. they were headed to the grand concourse in the bronx, but they never returned home. >>> jerry sandusky was back in a courtroom today. he was fighting to overturn his sex abuse convictions. his attorneys say there were various errors in his trial. sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of 45 counts of >>> when school begins, transgender students might not be allowed to use the restroom of their choice. a federal judge in texas has just blocked rules that would force public schools to allow children to use the bathroom of

monday, combs attended the grand opening of the capital preparatory harlem school.ombs helped fund and organize the school along with steve p charter school opening in harlem this year. the school currently has about 180 students in 6th and 7th grades. it plans to expand to 700 students up to the 12th grade. kidd o'shea in the now.. why did taylor swift miss the vma's on sunday? was it because she wasn't asked to perform? or she wasn't nominated for any big awards? nope it was because taylor had jury duty bright and early monday morning, in nashville. taylor was seen all over social media taking pictures with her fellow prospective jurors deciding someone's fate - she was excused from service. a tidal wave of support for frank ocean's new album, blonde. he just nabbed his first number one album. blonde debuted on nabbed his first number one album. blonde debuted on top of the billboard 200 album chart with a big first week - the third biggest sales week of the year so far, behind drake's views and beyonce's lemonade. and it had the second biggest streaming week - pe

reverend green leads the congregation of 1500 members and is an activist in the black community in harlem. he said diblasio took advantage of the black vote to get elected. in his out eyes he has done nothing to help lacks. his biggest point of contention is the number of minority and women owned businesses. >> he thinks black people are stupid. he boasts about raising the numbers to 6,100,000. you .1 million. you have $18.3 billion going out and your posting about 6.1 million. >> he says next time around he is willing to consider a republican candidate, hopefully there will be a democrat that steps up to the plate. but no matter what he will not be showing any support for mayor bill diblasio. he hopes the black community follows him along. >> if. >> if you are our friend you're going to pull our friendship. you are going to address this issue beyond stop and frisk. stop and frisk, pk universal pk, are not dealing two issues that are problematic in the black community. our biggest issue - mac. >> this will not be the last time you hear from the reverend, doctor johnny green. he also has a

max rodriguez, founder of the harlem book fair, and this is the fourth of our discussions. following this presentation by our author, we will, of course, have the tea here which is a online video book discussion program. and we have the presentation of the annual wheatley book awards. so we hope that you'll stay. i have the honor of presenting mr. eddie glaud conscientious who -- glaude who is the author of a new book titled "democracy in black: how race still enslaves the american soul." i'm going to come to that in a second. eddie glaude is a professor at princeton university teaching in the religion department and department of african-american studies. he writes for "time" magazine and "democracy now." this book i have read, it intrigues me. it's very thought-provoking, very provocative, and the title itself says that. it's actually quite off-putting, how race still enslaves the american soul. how many ideas do we have in that title, the idea of race, the idea of enslavement, the idea of the american soul. i find that very interesting because we're never really able to

mobile2 braved pockmarked east 119th street in east harlem. crumbling east 156th street in concourse village in the bronx, 80th in jackson heights queens and west 51st street midtown ending up here in lower manhattan. let's look down this way. >> yes. >> reporter: where the commissioner tried to explain messy broad street, snaked with wide strips of patched material from recent utility work. >> we know people get frustrated when they see at a certain point we will come back and resurface and a certain point we'll come back and reconstruct this street. >> reporter: would you say that this is acceptable? >> look, i would say i wish this road were in better condition. >> reporter: and so do drivers. >> the roads here in new york city, they're horrible! >> i lived here over 40 years bad as it is now. >> reporter: trottenberg says the department of transportation repaved 1300 lane miles last year and will fix about the same amount in 2016. so why do road problems seem worse to some? she says the answer is literally earth shaking. [ jackhammer ] >>

, -- body was discovered in harlem. robert prior was found yesterday in his apartment on west 135th street. his face and body. medical examiner will determine the cause of death. >>> flood watch remains in effect for new jersey this morning. streets in patterson look like rivers last night. severe flooding swept through, the force of the water carried garbage and debris. trapping some drivers inside cars. >>> people in lynhurst saw much of the same thing last night, strong winds and pounding rain caused severe flooding in several areas. >>> you are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with amy freeze in for bill. >> reviewing those dramatic photos from yesterday and the video that was sent in via social media, several inches of rain in a short amount of time, saturday and sunday, 4-6 inches of rain creating flash flooding situations. this morning, the clouds are temperatures goes we will get to maybe 80 before all is said and done. the watches posted, a flash flood watch for north central ne

. >>> i love my community and love harlem and it's great to come back and do something for the community. >> you recognize that guy? hip hop mogul, sean diddy combs, he was there for the first day of classes at his brand new charter school in harlem. the lucky kids that were chosen were ecstatic they got to meet the star behind the school. right now there are 180 students and plan to accommodate more students in the future. i'm hall of famer jerry west and my life is basketball. but that doesn't stop my afib from leaving me at a higher risk of stroke. that'd be devastating. i took warfarin for over 15 years until i learned more about once-daily xarelto... a latest generation blood thinner. then i made the switch. xarelto® significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. it has similar effectiveness to warfarin. warfarin interferes with vitamin k and at least six blood clotting factors. xarelto® is selective targeting one critical factor of your body's natural clotting function. for people with afib currently well managed on warfarin, there

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robert moses is live in harlem with more. good morning, robert. reporter: good morning, greg an rr in the killing of that 61-year-old woman, odessa sims. i want to show you the memorial on the edge of the colonel charles young playground where the shooting took place. she was a bee of lloyd member of the community. she was married nearly 40 years. her husband called her the best person in the world. she loved to cook and play the lottery. she lived a short distance away, two blocks from the shooting scene. appears sims was in the wrong saturday evening. she was sitting outside with her friends when she was shot in the neck. the shooting may have been the result of a dispute between two people in this area. sims was rushed to harlem hospital but she could not be saved. she died from her injuries. she live ad couple blocks away on 142nd street. the community gathered yesterday to call for an end to the violence. >> we must take a stand and and speak up and stop killing each other. >> something is wrong when we have to in our own community fear sitti