and redoing them every day is a huge advantage. >> reporter: on riverside drive katherine van. >> i can totally see it in an art gallery going for thousands. >> that's what's making news in america this morning. >> stick around for "good morning america" later on today. have a great tuesday. . >>> this is new york's number one news. channel 7 eyewitness news. with lori stokes and ken rosato. heather o'rourke with traffic and bill evans with the exclusive accuweather traffic. now eyewitness news this morning. >>> breaking at 4:30 a deadly stabbing on the upper east side, we have new video now

reporter katherine van of our reno station has the details. >> reporter: along the tricky river on riverside tracks just to look at the most curious formations. >> how did the rocks get that way? >> this is fantastic. >> rocks turned into birds, man's best friend. and people enjoying their day by the river. more than a dozen of them blended into nature. the man behind the formations -- >> i stack rocks. some rocks will give you inspiration. >> reporter: for decades hobo cyrus as he calls himself spends hours every day looking for the right rock to fit his collection. >> i decided to do what i like to do rather than what i probably should do. >> reporter: and every day he puts a smile on someone's face which is more gratifying than any job he says he could have. >> apparently i have a knack for making people smile and feel good with this artwork, so in return, that makes me feel good. i mean, who wouldn't want to be around a bunch of happy people all day? >> reporter: while he spends hours stacking rocks every morning to put on his hobo art walk, every night he takes them apart and stars the

. >> reporter: on riverside drive katherine van. >> i can totally see it in an art gallery going for thousands. >> that's what's making news in america this morning. >> stick around for "good morning america" later on today. have a great tuesday. . >>> this is new york's number one news. channel 7 eyewitness news. with lori stokes and ken rosato. heather o'rourke with traffic and bill evans with the exclusive accuweather traffic. now eyewitness news this morning. >>> breaking at 4:30 a deadly stabbing on the upper east side, we have new video now hunt down the killer. >>> questions this morning about a brazen bank heist if brooklyn, no pictures no alarms sounded but plenty of cash is gone. details how they pulled it off. >>> the gloves are off! and the race for the white house after a billion dollar settlement. >>> good morning i'm lori stokes. >>> i'm ken rosato, it is tuesday, april 12th you are never more than seven minutes away from traffic. >>> grab the umbrella, you are going need that we'll have showers rain showers good 'ol springtime rain, the rain will continue through the

let's talk to van jones and mary katherine, a conservative blogger and also christine quinn, a hillarylinton supporter and former city council speaker here in the city of new york. mary katherine, let's start with you, the republican race, this big announcement coming from ted cruz at 4:00 p.m., could it be a running mate pick? is this just what the cruz campaign needs or is it a sign of desperation or is it both? >> it's a little bit of both, what the teds cruz campaign had to have today. i'm not sure -- it could be a vp pick. i'm not sure it has to be. what has happened, he's already sort of winning the day because we're talking about it maybe being a vp pick and that's what he wanted to do. it's the sort of thing the media congratulates trump for after he has a loss in wisconsin, changing the subject the next day. whether that translates into more success at the ballot box is another question. >> let's talk about the democratic side though and the big win for hillary clinton last night. after last night, do you think she can finally say she's shaken off bernie sanders? >> well, from

van around 1:00 yesterday and discovered michael yam was missing. anyone with information on where he could be is asked to contact police immediately. back to you. >> thank you. now to katherine creag with new developments in the mayor deblasio fund-raising investigation. >> darlene and might chael, the mayor has said he has done nothing wrong and followed the law. some of the mayor's closest and most trusteded aides have been subpoenaed. sub investigators are looking into possible fund-raising violations that took place two years ago when the mayor's team tried to help upstate democrats regain control of the senate. the mayor himself has not been back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> new this morning, police are trying to track down the person wo who shot and killed a man in the bronx. it happened on marion avenue in fordham after 4:00 this morning. the 25-year-old victim shot in the face. the gunman may have been wearing a black mask. >>> police are searching for a brooklyn mother who vanished after she went out for chinese food. 21-year-old destiny dawson has been missing for a week. police say she stepped out of her apartment last wednesday in bedford-stuyvesant but ne