. >> reporter: hundreds of books at the olc school and little harbor academy in jersey city ended up floating in floodwaters. a story repeated across new jersey, new york and connecticut. hundreds of thousands of books lost with no guarantee they would be replaced. so children's book publisher, scholastic, stepped in. >> we know there is nothing better to build resilience in difficult times than a great story. >> reporter: scholastic will donate 1 million books to schools and libraries that apply for help online. 400,000 have already been picked up. >> clifford. favorite. >> reporter: so many of the losses from sandy are painfully obvious. homes destroyed. lives displaced. memories lost. other losses are less obvious. a sense of security. the familiarity of a classroom. and you probably wouldn't think about the impact on kids of losing books until you see their reaction when they have them again. >> oh, my god. >> oh! >> this is the best day ever. >> reporter: and it's not just the students. >> feels like it's christmas morning for teachers. because it's our dream come true to have so

injuries after an escalator packed with people suddenly kicked into reverse at a rail station in jersey cityey, yesterday. the escalator was going up and it stopped and went backwards. people were piling up at the bottom of the escalators and others tried to jump over to escape the pile and authorities say the station was damaged during super storm sandy in october. >> an investigation is underway into why a tanker ship scraped the bay bridge. next, what we are lending about the shipping accident. a man guiding the tanker has been checked out before. >> a handful of traffic trouble spots is turning your morning here you go little man. [ humming ] [ babbling ] the cheerios bandit got you again? [ both laugh ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios ...and now... you! [ giggles ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios >> live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc7 news. >> good morning. it is tuesday. thanks for joining us. i am kristen sze. >> i am eric thomas. time to check on the weather forecast. we have a familiar face. >> good morning, leigh. >> good morning to you. live doppler 7 hd showing you will

phone camera caught the screams and shouts as commuters scrambled to safety at a subway station in jersey cityay. officials say five people were injured. the station was damaged during superstorm sandy. train officials will consider whether that played a role in the malfunction. >>> a murder mystery in chicago after a man wins the lottery. in june 46-year-old urooz khan won $425,000 in a scratch ticket. the winding amount was issued july 18, but he turned up dead on july 20. at first the death was ruled natural. then a relative told officials he was murdered. tests showed he died of cyanide poisoning. so far there are no suspects. >>> the war on cancer is now in its fifth decade, and a new report says fewer americans are dying from the disease. for men the decrease in deaths fell almost 2% a year from 2005 to 2009. for women, 1.5%. we look at what needs to be done to get those numbers even lower. >> reporter: the small drop in the death rate for some cancers is not good enough for dr. david agus of the usc cancer center. >> i don't want to put sour grapes on things, but to me it is not a reaso

commuters got a shock in jersey city when their escalator suddenly started going in reverse.ee the quick thinking workers sought shelter on the divider. several people were taken to local hospitals. no one seriously injured. but what a way to start your week. and if you see something for our "instant index," be sure to tweet it to me, @dianesawyer. i'll be there. >>> and coming up here, the football showdown. josh elliott takes you on the wild ride onight. tonight. ringing ] [ female announcer ] if you have rheumatoid arthritis, can you start the day the way you want? can orencia help? [ woman ] i wanted to get up when i was ready, not my joints. [ female announcer ] could your "i want" become "i can"? talk to your doctor. orencia reduces many ra symptoms like pain, morning stiffness and progression of joint damage. it's helped new ra patients and those not helped enough by other treatments. do not take orencia with another biologic medicine for ra due to an increased risk of serious infection. serious side effects can occur including fatal infections. cases of lymphoma and l

a malfunctioning escalator in jersey city. inexplicably changes directions mid route. it caused panic momentary chaos here. people were trying to fight it. many people surprisingly were trying to still walk up the escalator instead of going with it. others tried to jump off of it. it also caused a huge pileup at the bottom of the escalator. this thing 80 feet off the ground. this is amazing what happened here. take a listen to some of the riders explain what they saw and what happened here yesterday. >> it was like going on a free fall but with people on it everyone yelling everyone started looking worried. >> i jumped on to the side the gap between the two escalators. i was stuck there for a minute. people were siding past me. i could see people piling up at the bottom. >> port authority is investigating whether or not this was caused by super storm sandy because this entire station was inundated with water. they have shut down that escalator. people are going to come here today. they have to take the stairs all 128 of them. tuesday commute off on the right foot. >> t

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malfunction happened monday at a commuter rail station this is jersey city, new jersey.ple were hurt. the escalators here have been shut down while transit officials try to figure out what went wrong. superstorm sandy is believed to be the cause of a number of problems at this particular station. >>> and in mason, ohio, junior high school students got an unexpected lesson in wildlife 101. >> it jumped up and through this window, back to here, and as it slid, the body hit the edge of my desk on this side. so it completely missed me. >> it is this, a ten-point buck crashed through a window, while a teacher and two students were in that classroom. they managed to keep the animal in the room until it could be sedated and removed from the school. we're told a deer expert suspects the buck saw his repleks in treflection in the ww and thought it was a rival. now this. ♪ where are we now where are we now ♪ >>> yes, music fans. after a ten-year hiatus, david bowie releases new music. but, first, if you think your job is stressful, and i know a lot of you do, it might not be so ba

. >>> commuters at a jersey city rail station will be taking the stairs to catch the train this morning because of what happened during yesterday morning's commute. a jam packed up escalator suddenly started going down, that sparked a stampede and sent panicked riders jumping to safety. at least five people needed medical treatment. thankfully no one was seriously injured. not a great way to start the workweek. man. >>> and on capitol hill, the stage is set for a tough fight. now that president obama has nominated former republican senator chuck hagel to be the next secretary of defense. hagel, who has been accused of being hostile to israel and soft on iran, have come out swinging, telling a nebraska newspaper there is not a shred of evidence he's anti-israeli. and president obama says he's the right man with the right background for the job. >> he would be the first person of enlisted rank to serve as secretary of defense. one of the few secretaries who have been wounded in war. and the first vietnam veteran to lead the department. >> he received two purple hearts and president obama

there will never be a shortage of number52 jerseys in the city. >> jennifer franciotti has more on what ray lewis has meant to baltimore. >> he is only 37 years old and there's much more for ray lewis to do. there has been speculation for what will be next. there is only one ray lewis. wrist sadness and shocked -- there is sadness and shock. and amazing football career. number 52 jersey is the biggest seller in franchise history. his star power is not going away anytime soon. "ray lewis powerhouse." >> it will be interesting to see what happens next for ray. what is he going to do? he is a great speaker. he is done this after some hard times a while back. that is a credit to him. >> he is also an amazing motivator. players say this is extra motivation to win on sunday against the colts. coming up, we will hear from some fans. do you think this will give them longer to do his stance on sunday? -- to do his dance? >> that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think his announcement will motivate the ravens to a strong run in the playoffs? you can share your response on

commuters were riding the escalator up in the jersey city station when suddenly they weren't. malfunction sent a stampede of people down the moving staircase. five people suffered cuts, scrapes and bruises in all that crazy confusion. >> that just looks awful. can you imagine being on that escalator? >> no, and little kids. if you have little kids on there. >>> so it was billed as dynasty versus destiny, but in the end, man, it was just a blowout. we're talking alabama's dominant display in front of the entire nation. it happened last night. we'll tell you all about it coming up. woman: we're helping joplin, missouri, come back from devastating tornado. man: and now we're helping the east coast recover from hurricane sandy. we're a leading global insurance company, based right here in america. we've repaid every dollar america lent us. everything, plus a profit of more than $22 billion. for the american people. thank you, america. helping people recover and rebuild -- that's what we do. now let's bring on tomorrow. >>> so at the end of the day, irish eyes were not smiling. not

commuters riding the escalator at the jersey city station, when suddenly they weren't at all. it sent a stampede of people down the moving staircase, people clear didn't know what to do, five people suffered cuts, scrapes and bruises in the confusion. >> that's weird. i wonder what happened. >> some kind of malfunction. >> people try to fight their way up, just go down and take a better escalator. >> one person trips, you get a clog of people. >>> ahead this morning on "starting point," many say notre dame didn't stand a chance against alabama. i was not one of those many. the host of "mike & mike" in the morning join us. they disagree with that. >>> and a monster of the deep filmed alive and in its natural habitat. new images of a giant squid, the thing is massive. christine, what's in business news? >> nothing that cool. it's -- it's disgusting and ugly, the u.s. will hit debt crisis sooner than thought. [ male announcer ] where do you turn for legal matters? at legalzoom, we've created a better place to handle your legal needs. maybe you have questions about incorporating a

getting hold from school or work, much of new jersey, philadelphia, new york city areas, just fine. it's getting there as we'll deal with the problems this morning. then after this, we just have a really springlike severe weather setup. we could be dealing with tornadoes over the next 48 hours. >> wow. my goodness. >> we'll talk about that later. >> all right. thanks, bill. >>> ahead on this monday morning, relief for migraine sufferers. >>> the pentagon puts cybersecurity front and center. >>> as the 49ers arrive in new orleans, there's a white house petition to make super bowl monday a national holiday. could it and should it happen? "early today" returns in a few minutes. >>> welcome back. here are stories making news this morning. the senate is expected to approve more than $50 billion in aid for victims of hurricane sandy which hit the northeast over three months ago. >>> the pentagon is about to expand its cyber-security force five-fold to meet increasing threats against the nation's computer networks. the expansion would add 4,000 people to a unit that only has 900 employees

. >> commuters or riding the escalator up at the news thursdanew jersey city path station would telldown the malfunction to the stampede of people doing the moving--down moving staircase no one was seriously injured. >> a wedding party hot air balloon trip ended with an unexpected hard landing in the southern california man backyard. >> says he was inside the house watching tv when of a sudden it got very dark quickly. >> when he looked out the window there something covering half of this house. >> a hot air balloon basket carrying 13 people crashed into his chain-link fence bordering his house and his neighbors. >> we look up and we see this huge balloon coming up over the rising. i hit the ground it hit my neighbor's fence and it crashed. >> the bride and groom had just gotten married and that blue were among the people inside. >> no one was seriously injured. >> former president george h. w. bush is continuing to recover from bronchitis and related publications and a houston hospital. >> a spokesmen for bush says there is no typabltimetable on when is expected to be released from

. >> axelrod: finally tonight, with 90 murders record in their city last year, the people of newark new jerseyre all too familiar with the toll of gun violence. now the city is trying a new approach to get guns off the streets, with an unexpected surprise this week. here is john bentley. >> reporter: this is just a fracktion of the guns that came off the streets. newark's police director sam demaio is convinced that the more guns he can round up, the lower crime will be. >> the gun violence is the number one thing we're battling every day. >> reporter: last year the newark police collected more than 850 guns, second highest amount they ever brought in. once they got the guns off the street they had another problem: what to do with all of them? >> i had to create something that people who will never walk these streets could identify with. >> reporter: that's where jewelry designer jessica mindich stepped in. she is transforming the guns and shell casings into bracelets made from melted-down weapons. >> i was going to repurpose them into something that was beautiful, hopefully that would connect

i represent camden, new jersey. a city of 80,000 have had 70 homicides this year. we see our neighbors die in shopping malls, movie theaters, college campuses and horrifically 31 days ago an elementary school. we are bonded together by one common conviction and that is our belief that is not inevitable. we can make choices to stop this from happening again. we believe that consistent with good medical practice, we can improve our mental health system so those who are tortured can get help. we believe that consist went good law enforcement practices we can make our campuses and schools safe in a responsible way. and yes, we believe consist wept the second amendment to the constitution of the united states and consistent with the common sense of the american people, we can pass a law that makes it so that no one can own a gun that can fire 30 bullets in 30 seconds. no one who is already proven they are a risk to society will have the opportunity to buy any gun at all. we look forward to the perspective of the witnesses on these pressing questions. i thank our colleag

i am calling from jersey city.emind people that the remind us about is up to us to work together and change the policies. we need to make sure we got to change what we're going to do. i will be calling harry reid's office tomorrow to ask and to change the filibuster rule. we have to make the move. i agree. i understand ipoem. -- the poem. it was beautiful. >> you are on. welcome. caller: i just want to comment that i find it very revealing that secretary clinton is trying to avoid the benghazi scandal and had on new glasses but not answered one question about how many americans were killed in benghazi. host: i am so incredibly happy right now and so grateful for all that obama has laid out for his second term. we are following tweets. you are welcome to join the conversation. >> i really was and pressed by the whole inauguration. i was able to watch the first one. probably early this morning. i thought it was really professional. the politicians, i wish they would get together like that when it is time to change lo

city. they point to the success of new york campaign that helped clean up manhattan in the 1970s. south jersey'sy has rich culture to highlight. >> visit the city, have a terrific steak and think about walt whitman and his poetry, the things he saw in camden are relevant today. >> reporter: to say something nice billboard was slated to be up for a month but it was supported by local businesses for january, as well. the mayor's campaign won't work overnight but will have a lasting positive impact. >> it begins to help by overcoming despair and fear and again bringing back a sense of hope for people who believe. >> reporter: statistics tell a different story. violent crimes were up significantly in 2012. year ended with a total of 67 homicides. a new record. 42% of the population living below the poverty line and 23 of its 26 schools receiving failing grades. some residents say say something nice about camden campaign is much needed. >> you take a look around, they are definitely redeveloping. there is a lot of positive people that really want things, despite the bad publicity, with the murder rat

jersey. i know new york city has had snow flurries too. that shouldn't be any problem for the roads. as far as what's going to be happening next, this is the last mild day today. it's a beautiful day through much of the country. temperatures in the 50s. even where it snowed yesterday, getting into the 40s. minneapolis northwards, this is your last warm day. this blue and white and purpole and extreme whites up here, all this frigid air is going to make a dive at us. it will be just north of the border on saturday. it makes the dive on sunday. monday and tuesday it's over the great lakes and into areas of northern new england. we have to be prepared for the coldest air of the season in many areas. we're including chicago in that, detroit, all the way to minneapolis. look at chicago. we go from 40s on saturday to sunday, monday, tuesday, temperatures struggling to get to 20 degrees. the bottom line is this is what you expect in winter a couple times. this will be exceptionally cold. minneapolis, they're expecting the coldest air in four years. this is a serious blast of arctic air. >>

jerseys. >> reporter: the city needs to dust off its marketing tools. the banners that adorn downtown don't promote the sharks. but they're here and ready to drop the puck. again, city coffers took a hit. how much? they're still doing the math. live at the shark tank, i'm damian trujillo. >>> a common practice in the restaurant industry is tip pooling where servers and bartenders share the gratuity they receive. casinos can now force their dealers to also share. the dealers have filed a class action lawsuit in 2006 regarding the arrangement. a judge dismissed the lawsuit and concluded it had a legal right to enforce the tipping policy. the appeals court agreed. >>> tonight the wine will list is lacking. the mrumd horse restaurant was ransacked by thieves with expensive tastes. they took off with extremely high-priced bottles of wine. the owner in saratoga discovered the missing bottle after seeing a broken window in his restaurant. he told investigators it was just a few weeks to go through the cellar's inventory to find out how much was stolen. the win

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. >> inknow dating new york city, new jersey was hit especially hard. >> the rollercoaster was in the ocean. >> the economy of 2012 took us on a ride from big bets gone wrong. >> jpmorgan chase lost $6 billion in two weeks. >> the stock has been disappointing. >> of course, there was a presidential race taking shape. >> mitt romney clenched the nomination. >> amitt romney's troubles were recorded by a videotape. >> but president obama helped his opponent by an unforgettable debate performance. >> barack obama has been re-elected. >> the gun control debate invigorated in the wake of several deadly mass shootings one in a temple in wisconsin and the other during a midnight movie in colorado. >> i kept thinking i'm not going to die in here. >> but nothing rocked the country more than the shooting death of 20 children and faculty in newtown connecticut. >> i love you all very much and it is going to be ok, because i thought that was the last thing they would ever hear. >> for us who remain let us find the strength to care on. >> trayvon martin became a household name. >> are you following

these republicans and they're trying to raise money they raise millions of dollars in new york city and new jersey they think they're going to christie around the country raising millions of dollars for them i'm saying anyone from new york new jersey who contributes one penny to the republican gresham campaign committee which of the head examined i would not give one penny to these people based on what they did to us last night now michael representative king went as far as to insinuate that he will begin voting independently if a solution is not reached and assume so now we have these republicans that are attacking their own party i mean do you think that as you're kind of just mentioning the republican party is experiencing a fundamental shift. well that was some good long island talk from the from peter king i don't know if it's a fundamental shift i think in peter king's case he's a savvy guy he knows his constituents and he knows who he's speaking to even when he's doing some really ugly things like his is muslim american baiting which is really been the main focus of his recent congressional

we'll see snow moving across parts of new jersey and new york city and a lot of areas impacted by sandy. the snow totals will be an inch to two inches around dc. so for the most part not a huge snow but any snow -- >> you mentioned it's going to warm up. >> a little bit. today we have another very cold one, and then the temps here over the next couple of days. you can see a slight improvement. right now we see the wind chills anywhere from single digits to end to degrees for a lot of people. today's temps into the teens and lower 20s. tomorrow, mid-to-upper 20s back in here. it's an improvement. sunday, back into the 30s for almost everybody. so, it improves. monday, tuesday, shep, we're going to see two days of 40s and 50s in this area before the cold comes back again thursday or . so. >> shepard: 75 andy in ft. lauderdale. >> don't say that. >> shepard: i want to go. the obama administration may be headed to the supreme court after a legal setback for the president today. a federal appeals court ruled that president obama violated the constitution when he sidestepped the united states

the ferry was traveling from new jersey to new york city's pier 11.is morning when the crash happened. >> i was actually sleeping. i -- all of a sudden, we just hit, boom. and people were catapulting forward. it was a big bang and it was just all of a sudden my face was in the seat in front of me. it happened so fast. >> we still don't know yet what caused that ferry to slam into the dock. paramedics treated, they say, dozens of people this morning. >> the nature of the injuries are basically the two critical patients are head injuries, one was taken to cornell and the other one to beakman. 20 some odd other patients were long boarded for spinal immobilization and the others were walking wounded taken to various hospitals. >> one passenger on board this morning's ferry joins me now on the phone from new york. chris, i just have to ask about you, i read you told one of our producers the crash cleaned your clock a little bit. you okay? >> yeah, i'm fine now. it definitely was one way to start the day, that's for sure. >> what did it feel like? what was

sandy made landfall in south jersey in late october flooding beach communities, submerging highways and washing iconic boardwalks into the ocean. new york city's downtown skyline fell dark. in breezy point, queens, homes went up in flames. areas of long island, staten island filled with debris. sandy claimed 100 lives and changed the landscape of the jersey shore. and just a week later another blow when the area was blanketed by snow, sleet and rain from a nor' easter. according to fema, vicious heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes and severe storms will cost this more than $100 billion in repair costs. in new york, janice dean, fox news. >> and janice tells us that 2013 will start off pretty quietly, at least weather wise for most people. a bit of rain in the south. light snow in the ohio valley and across the rockies. otherwise dry and chilly in most areas. >>> continuing to follow one of our top stories, doctors are treating secretary of state hillary clinton for a blood clot. the clot is in a dangerous location. it is between her brain and her skull. so just how serious is this, and what is her prognosis for the future? dr. lee from lsu healt

jersey. >> finally, baltimore, charmed city, what's the charming spot there?ederal hill. if you want to head over to baltimore -- a great night to do it, if there is a championship, if we win, then folks will be gathering in the streets. you can imagine. could you head down there. great place to -- they are going on give the money from the cover charge to charity which is nice. $10 to get in. >> i call one thing now that i say, if we win. rooting for the ravens? >> i mean -- if they win. no. i'm a redskins fan. >> i know that. are you taking the ravens n. >> i think we should. this area should get behind our local team, for sure. >> all right. >> see you sunday raving about baltimore. yeah, i'm going for ravens as well. why not? for more ideas on your weekend, logs do to nbcwashington.com. or the going out guide on washingtonpost.com. >>> we have breaking news for you right now. parts of laurel in howard county are being evacuated. an executive order was signed to evacuate homes and businesses from main street north to the patuxent river. this is due to the re

you'll see the line through new jersey, it's heading right over top of new york city and up into connecticut and the hudson valley. this is that enhanced line here as it moves to the north. and this is just a huge system, and we're going to continue to see the winds cranking for the next 24 to 48 hours over the eastern seaboard. winds are pretty light, but boston, wind gusts of 49, hartford, 41. the windchill in roland, north dakota is minus 49. i know they canceled some schools in this region. mean us in 30 to 40 all across the region today. the southeast, i know you had the tornadoes today in north georgia. also tennessee, today's day of cleanup with sunshine. still it will be windy but dry. that's a look at your national forecast. now, here's a look outside your window. >>> boston, massachusetts today, very warm, rainy this morning then it will be windy. the cold front will go through. the rains will stop but the rains will continue. that's the bottom line for all of new england. very difficult at the airports as you'd expect. a lot of people flying just across the country talking about h

city. >> the stadium is in new jersey but they will be in new york city. they will. not hotels in northern new jersey. so they will bugs them over. >> an interesting pick. >> it is but it could be icy cold. >> there is a reason. bill seriously. do you think that could impact the game? >> absolutely. >> but it's football. >> yeah. i get it. it is football, but there is a reason -- i think they have held it in norse and miami because you go and get decent weather. detroit, indianapolis. they don't like it to be a mess bill what happens to the big apple? >> as everyone knows, new york % is the big apple and 12 months from now, it will be the big pigskin as well. bill i think he is trying a little too hard. a little too hard. yeah. >> not for everybody. bill bill that's right. he has banned the sale of sixteen-ounce drinks in new york. what is he going to ban for the super bowl? >> he will ban something. >> you watch. he will ban hot dogs or something like that. they are unhealthy. they are hi in sodium. nanny bloomberg. we have lots to talk about today and lots of help t

one study of handgun attacks in jersey city during the 1990s estimated that incidents involving more shots fired accounted for between four and five percent of the total gunshot victims in the sample. so using that as a very tentative guide that's high enough to suggest that eliminating or greatly reducing grime -- criming with these magazine could reduce smaller shootings likely something less than 5%. we should note that effects of the magnitude could be hard measure in any very definitive way. the noneless could have known trivial notable benefits for society. at current level of gun violation achieving a 1% reduction and fatal and noncriminal shootings would prevent 650 shootings annually and consider further the cost associated with those shootings. the lifetime medical cost of the assault-related shooting average about 29,000 and some estimates suggest that the full societal cost of each shooting could be as high as $1 million. that's when you consider the million cost and -- medical cost and criminal justice and wide array of tangible and intangible private costs. considering

cities every day. i represent camden, new jersey, a city of 80,000 people, had 70 homicides last year. we have seen our neighbors die in shopping malls and movie theaters, college campuses, and horrifically, 31 days ago, an elementary school. we are bonded together in this room today by one common conviction and that is our belief that this is not inevitable. we can make choices to stop this from happening again. we believe that consistent with good medical practice we can improve our mental health system so that people who are demonized and tortured can get help. we believe that consistent with good law enforcement practice we can make our schools and our campuses and our public places safe in a responsible way. and, yes, we believe that consistent with the second amendment to the constitution of the united states and consistent with the common sense of the american people, that we can pass a law that makes it so that no one can own a gun that can fire 30 bullets in 30 seconds. and that no one who has already proven they are a risk to soinl will have opportunity to buy any gun at all.

this could have a bigger impact on new york city, connecticut, long island, new jersey, than irene did last year. >> reporter: as sandy moved north, it merged with a winter storm, creating a superstorm, double the size of a normal hurricane. >> the one part storm that was already on land was combining with the hurricane that was offshore. as they combined, it was almost one plus one equals two and a half. >> reporter: many in sandy's path evacuated. nick camerada did not. >> at about 6:00, the tide should be way out. i walked down the block, and i started seeing water coming on to cedar grove, and i started yelling and banging on doors for everybody to get out of their houses, because this is going to be a storm of disastrous magnitude. >> i was, as a scientist, fascinated, but as a citizen of this city, as time went on, i started to feel more and more actual fear. >> reporter: in new york, as the eye of the storm approached, wind gusts reached 75 miles per hour, and the flood waters outside nick camerada's house were rising, fast. >> try to move the car up the street a little bit, i a

jersey. these are live pictures from the scene of a bus crash in the city of old bridge, new jersey. according to early reports, two buses smashed into one another on route 9. a school bus and a passenger bus. you see all the chaos down below. the passenger bus appears to have a tree through the roof. it doesn't appear there were any students on the school bus though. we'll be monitoring this story and bring you any updates as we get them. quite a situation in new jersey right now. >>> yesterday, we told you about the life and death struggle after a man discovered a burglar inside his apartment. it turns out there's a lot more to the story. investigators now tell us these four people were behind a scheme as to scare the man. one of their partners in crime was stabbed to death by the man inside. investigators say charmaine taijeron was having an extramarital affair and wanted to frighten her husband into moving out of their apartment they shared on east leeland lane. >> she plotted a burglary with her current boyfriend in an effort to scare him and persuade him into actually leaving t

it caused billions of dollars of damages in the densely populated regions of new york city and new jersey and connecticut where it hit most directly. although the u.s. senate acted last month on sandy relief, it has taken john boehner's republican-controlled house 78 days since the storm to pass this bill responding to the storm. in the end, on the republican side, it ended up being a grudging vote for sandy relief. republicans voted against sandy relief by a 3-1 margin. the bill was only able to pass because a minority of republicans joined with democrats to get it done in the house. even though the senate already passed its version of hurricane sandy relief last year, last month, the senate bill has to be redone because it took the house so long to get their side of it done. the senate is expected to get their side done again shortly. and then the president says he will sign the measure into law. >>> and tonight, in further breaking news, as slow as house republicans were to act in response to hurricane sandy, tonight's other major news is about how fast new york state was able to move

>> it was five degrees in new york city, today, newark, new jersey, got to 64.t is a 59-degree swing because of where you were in the jet stream. when the jet stream comes down like this, all the cold air in the north from canada keeps coming. but if the jet stream turns like this all the warm air coming up. that is what happened in the past couple of days, come on up to the northeast. >> all right, chad, i appreciate that. our thoughts are with all the people and the storms. >> a judge has ruled against a change of venue in the rape trial that has sparked protests and divided an ohio town. pictures s and divided an ohio town. picturess of the alleged victim a 16-year-old girl, surfaced on social media and led to the arrests. the trial will be open to the public, and both defendants are minors. >>> and u.s. officials say an israeli jet struck a convoy believed to be moving in to hezbollah. syria disputed the account, saying that israel targeted a research facility near damascus. >>> and massachusetts governor deval patrick, naming william mo cowan. and coming to

cory booker is the mayor of newark, new jersey, whose city had a problem with gun and crime problem. ideas. he says take a look at background checks. >> alisyn: as they apply to mental health. >> eric: number two, strictly go after the mental health issues in a city and number three, gun trafficking. people aren't really talking about that. but he said let's make gun trafficking a major federal offense and have the feds really crack down on pragmatic ideas. not a bad kind of -- user friendly. >> alisyn: obviously the people who own gun, the people who are gun enthusiast,ment nra are exactly who the vice president should be talking about because they are immersed in the culture and know what loopholes, if any, could be closed. i'm sure they know what safety precautions they would prefer. so there was apparently a little bit of common ground burke the gun rights advocates left feeling that they didn't really have a big meeting of the minds with the vice president. here is what they had to say. >> essentially the meeting was unproductive. i think that most of us had very low expectation