brought the idea to mayor bloomberg that we should try something bigger. >> sreenivasan: in 2009, janette sadikkhan proposed closing broadway to cars from 42nd street to 47th street and turning it into a quarter-mile- long pedestrian plaza. >> and it started just with some traffic cones and some beach chairs, and it's really become a model for other cities to try things out. you can reimagine them, test it, measure it. >> sreenivasan: the permanent redesign cost $27 million, and the city measured the changing traffic flow through times square using g.p.s. devices in 13,000 taxis. >> it was much safer for both pedestrians and motorists. the traffic worked just fine. and it became an economic blockbuster. it became one of the top ten retail locations on the planet. >> sreenivasan: in her book "streetfight," sadik-khan argues, the nation needs to shift the focus of city streets away from cars. >> our streets, for so many years, have been used to move cars as quickly as possible from point a to point b. and people have even forgotten that there are other uses for the streets-- whether to walk

he next called this woman, janette. the woman who came forward immediately following the guilty verdict and the reason he was ultimately granted a new trial. >> she said she was driving past the foley house right around the time dar had been murdered. >> as i approached this white car come racing out forward and if i hadn't braked, i would have hit him. >> she said she got a good look at the driver. >> it was a young 18 to 20-year-old kid. real black hair and his face was real white and he was clenching the wheel just like this. and i thought he's crazy, he's going to kill somebody. >> why didn't you call the police. >> i didn't because i was afraid. >> but when janette moor learned about tom foley's guilty verdict, she said she could no longer keep her silence. god forgive me and i truly mean that in my heart that i didn't come forward sooner. if i hadn't been so darn scared. >> what followed was a succession of other witnesses each claiming they too saw m mystery cars on or leaving the farm right around the time of th

. >> survivor janette mccoy said shy wat she watched in horror as the gunman shot her friend five timeso many emotions from anger to frustration to sorrow. for me, it's the people who were in their bleeding to death. the question of why, why am i here? and why they're not. it plays in my head every day. >> fortunately, both mccoy and her friend who was shot, angel calone survived. calone is behind me at the regional health center recovering. he was shot five times. three times in the leg and then later after the gunman came back, he was shot again in the hand and the hip, simply terrifying. >>> all right, breaking news this morning not far from here. a 2-year-old pulled from the beach into the water by an alligator. that boy still missing. we have new details up next. wanna drink more water? with sodastream you turn plain water into sparkling water in seconds. and because it's so delicious, you'll drink 43% more water every day. sodastream. love your water. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking right now, an alligator attacks a 2-year-old boy, a 2-year-old boy from nebraska, drags

. -- janett yelling's yellen's comments. the philippines has come online.f the stocks we are watching in particular. citigroup raising its short-term iron ore outlook. shanghai prices are up. real estate is higher by 4/10 of 1%. just having a look at that. the 10th of 1%. his interest rate decision. record lows of 1.75%. rishaad: shanghai shares are up after falling on monday. the consternation of markets. it's not just the day-to-day volatility is causing concern. it is also the deeper trading activity. how these stocks are hitting the economy. >> a little bit of both. the stock market is having some impact on the economy. it is not have as big an impact on the real economy as we feared. happening is a slowdown in companies going public. brokerage trading houses and the like. a decent cushion for growth. there's no doubt having impact on the margins for sure. financial services is a big gamut here. how does that work. does that help the overall economy? >> is more than just doctrine. the wider services sector. the commodities bubble and asset bubbles. we h