then we head to kearney where we have construction. that has one leg blocked in both directions that. is on wittpenn bridge. no major delays. and then in queens we have an accident, this one is blocking one lane on the westbound l.i.e., and that is at wood expressway. dekalb avenue remains closed between bushwick and woodward avenues due to cleanup from that big fire on wednesday. alternate side parking is in effect city wide. >>> thank you. just ahead of today's deadline, agreement. >> it includes a big hike in the minimum wage following a protests in the city. andrea grymes joins us live from midtown with details. and mary. this won't happen immediately. it will happen gradually over the next several years. new york state's minimum wage will go up from $9 an hour to $15 an hour. many business owners are concerned but the governor believes this will help stimulate the economy since workers will be spending that extra money. >> late last night the new york state legislature and governor cuomo reached a deal on the state budget with jus

dealing with two big brush fires in kearney and seacaucus, so big they were causing delays on the train service. the troubles are making this a top story at abc 7 ny. nj burkett is live with the latest. nj? >> reporter: shirleen, it's still smoldering, 150 acres of the meadowlands, scorched. but the lasting impact is on the evening rush hour, and i want to show you what we are talking about. firefighters needed to get up and on the tracks, so rail service was shut down on the new jersey transit and amtrak service has been restored. but there are delays of 30-45 minutes. >> oh, that's flames. >> reporter: the flames inched turnpike as the fire roared across the jersey meadowland that could be seen from office towers in manhattan. it took firefighter professor seacaucus and surrounding communities 2 hours to get the fire under control. a stiff wind fanned the flames scorching 150 acres of the meadowlands that will smolder into the night. >> firefighters will be out here for hours putting out the hot spots. >> reporter: flare ups are a possibility? >> flare ups will be a possibility throug

the man got into an argument with a woman over a seat on a bus they'd just gotten off at kearney and gary streets. the man suffered a heart attack and died. >>> wet roads may have cost a driver his life in oakland. the car flipped over and the man was ejected. he died at the scene this. accident caused more trouble along the off ramp. >> vehicles were stopped and people were looking around. when they were looking around, they weren't paying attention and they crashed into each other. >> there were no major injuries in the second accident. >>> two men who allegedly threatened to kill a dave and buster's security guard are behind bars. during a search of their car, police found cocaine, a 9- millimeter resolver and a knife. contreras is facing drug charges. >>> a man calls using the name edward or jeffrey johnson claiming to the a police officer. then the caller i.d. resembles the police non- emergency line. the scammer tries to blackmail the victims over alleged nude photos. they warn people if you get such a call to call the police. >>> a texas teacher caught on camera repeatedly sla

the man was 75 years old and it happened on a muni bus at kearney and gary streets. officers say this was on thursday. he went into cardiac arrest and died after getting into an argument with a woman over a bus seat. police have launched a suspicious death investigation into the case. >>> a family is outraged after their son's killer was released from prison today. they say a political favor is to blame. marianne favro is in the newsroom. >> it's true, former governor arnold schwarzenegger is a close friend of former state assembly speaker fabian nunez. the family says that friendship led to their son's killer getting out of prison after serving less than half of their original sentence. in 2008, fabien nunez stabbed to death santos after a party at the san diego university. today, with good behavior, esteban nunez walked out of prison after serving less than six years. he'll return to live with his family in sacramento county. today we visited his mom and she doesn't forgive him for killing her son and considers his early release an absolute injustice. >> well, i fe

yeah to answer any questions to the sf funding and recently returned on a pedestrian scramble on kearney and craig with the interests in the community so, yeah i'm excited and saw it turned on the scramble and two other sgshgsz to the north with leading pedestrian integrals and pedestrian improvements i wanted to recognize my colleagues greg in the municipal transportation agency and is important to give her and other communities members for pushing for the immediate pedestrian improvements a team member yeah here to answer questions we're looking to kickoff the larger corridor project soon through the planning and design effort and the intent to do similar low cost quick implementation pedestrian improvements and other mode improvements and in the corridor on montgomery street and working to get a goes to assist us with outreach and once we have that wrapped up over the next few weeks we'll be scheduling our first public hearings open with a listening section about what the community wants this is a brief overview we don't have anything to share other than the scramble we enjoyed it any

yeah to answer any questions to the sf funding and recently returned on a pedestrian scramble on kearney and craig with the interests in the community so, yeah i'm excited and saw it turned on the scramble and two other sgshgsz to the north with leading pedestrian integrals and pedestrian improvements i wanted to recognize my colleagues greg in the municipal transportation agency and is important to give her and other communities members for pushing for the immediate pedestrian improvements a team member yeah here to answer questions we're looking to kickoff the larger corridor project soon through the planning and design effort and the intent to do similar low cost quick implementation pedestrian improvements and other mode improvements and in the corridor on montgomery street and working to get a goes to assist us with outreach and once we have that wrapped up over the next few weeks we'll be scheduling our first public hearings open with a listening section about what the community wants this is a brief overview we don't have anything to share other than the scramble we enjoyed it any

this is kearney, hudson county. smoke from the fire was so thick you could see that, my goodness. several penn station bound new jersey transit trains had to divert to hoboken no reports of injuries. chief meteorologist scott williams brush fires are a concern right now, right? >> it really is lucy all because of the dry weather pattern we've been seeing. i mean the weather has been nice but it's a little bit of a trade off. take a look what's happening right now. we have a back door front that's brought cooler temperatures. dry air still in place along with debris. we have red flag warning in effect until 8:00 o'clock for the entire area. so basically what that means we're dealing with low relative humidity values take look right now the humidity in philadelphia only 17%. mild temperatures. 71 degrees and look at that wind out of the north northwest at 22 miles per hour. take another look at the humidity values across the area. only 23% in trenton. 21% in reading. 24% right now in wilmington and we have those winds right now gusting over 20 miles per hour with the tender dry cond

yeah to answer any questions to the sf funding and recently returned on a pedestrian scramble on kearney and craig with the interests in the community so, yeah i'm excited and saw it turned on the scramble and two other sgshgsz to the north with leading pedestrian integrals and pedestrian improvements i wanted to recognize my colleagues greg in the municipal transportation agency and is important to give her and other communities members for pushing for the immediate pedestrian improvements a team member yeah here to answer questions we're looking to kickoff the larger corridor project soon through the planning and design effort and the intent to do similar low cost quick implementation pedestrian improvements and other mode improvements and in the corridor on montgomery street and working to get a goes to assist us with outreach and once we have that wrapped up over the next few weeks we'll be scheduling our first public hearings open with a listening section about what the community wants this is a brief overview we don't have anything to share other than the scramble we enjoyed it any

yeah to answer any questions to the sf funding and recently returned on a pedestrian scramble on kearney and craig with the interests in the community so, yeah i'm excited and saw it turned on the scramble and two other sgshgsz to the north with leading pedestrian integrals and pedestrian improvements i wanted to recognize my colleagues greg in the municipal transportation agency and is important to give her and other communities members for pushing for the immediate pedestrian improvements a team member yeah here to answer questions we're looking to kickoff the larger corridor project soon through the planning and design effort and the intent to do similar low cost quick implementation pedestrian improvements and other mode improvements and in the corridor on montgomery street and working to get a goes to assist us with outreach and once we have that wrapped up over the next few weeks we'll be scheduling our first public hearings open with a listening section about what the community wants this is a brief overview we don't have anything to share other than the scramble we enjoyed it any

this man has been a dominant offensive player that it almost reminds you of the way stephan kearney is playing in the n.b.a. that there's a joyful nature to the way he plays and he's so fun to watch. when he shoots, everybody thinks it's going in, including the defense. >> rose: and the second game, syracuse? yeah, i think it's a gamey the north carolina is the dominant team here. i think north carolina is the best team. they have four interior players nobody else can match with their size and skill, they're scoring inside and starting to shoot the ball bert. that's been an issue for carolina over the season is perimeter shooting. their defense has been at the highest level over the maybe ey defended at a high level. of i think syracuse are very reliant on making three-point shots to win. the games where syracuse has lost has not been their defense that has let them down. they may not be as good defensively as in some years past but they're really good defensively. if they make shots and rebound, that's going to be a key point. their ability to make shots and their ability to rebound a

mike kearney the bank of england represents all of written, england, scotland, brussels.sents frankfurt. humility is in order. the certitude of the second rate. this is bloomberg "surveillance." live from our world headquarters in new york on april 14, i am tom keene. with me is francine lacqua in london. london.er-esque the beauty of the city that never sleeps. did not invent that line. we're watching interest rates, the boe, emerging currencies after the surprise move from singapore. tom: we're watching my 201 k implode. i went from a cash fund into the triple leverage short fund six weeks ago, and i got smoked. back again on a bull market trend. let's get to the trend of the bloomberg first word news. >> happening now, russian president vladimir putin is holding his marathon calling tv show. these are live pictures from moscow. thatent putin says russia's economy will grow next year. they use the event to burnish his image as a strong leader. at of the show, russia's sent more than one million questions to putin. partyng of ukraine, the spokesman has been approved as t

yeah to answer any questions to the sf funding and recently returned on a pedestrian scramble on kearneyg with the interests in the community so, yeah i'm excited and saw it turned on the scramble and two other sgshgsz to the north with leading pedestrian integrals and pedestrian improvements i wanted to recognize my colleagues greg in the municipal transportation agency and is important to give her and other communities members for pushing for the immediate pedestrian improvements a team member yeah here to answer questions we're looking to kickoff the larger corridor project soon through the planning and design effort and the intent to do similar low cost quick implementation pedestrian improvements and other mode improvements and in the corridor on montgomery street and working to get a goes to assist us with outreach and once we have that wrapped up over the next few weeks we'll be scheduling our first public hearings open with a listening section about what the community wants this is a brief overview we don't have anything to share other than the scramble we enjoyed it any question

so, here's the big red zone from about kearney, nebraska, through waco, texas. watches in effect. st. louis. that was not a tornado event. the tornado event is in the two big red boxes here, from carney, grand island, through wichita, oklahoma city, down to altos. there is the first set of storms that rolled through st. louis an hour ago. now we are just beginning to see the first line of storms pop up west of i-35. rosa flores looking at some storms. big gray clouds on her live shot. they will be chasing all day long into parts of wichita, i-35. this is what radar will look like in three hours, brooke. amazing event, will go from nothing to tornadoes and hail on the ground everywhere. and this is going to be an event that goes through evening hours into kansas city, back into dallas, significant weather all in those cities, we'll be here watching andern whatting for you, whether live or twitter. also cutting in when we need to during special event, obviously tonight, super tuesday number 4. >> thank you so much. >>> next -- prince's sister filed official court documents claiming

street lodging h district, the south end district, and townsend district and two additions to the kearney market sutter district. the remaining 26 properties were determined ineligible for listing on the register nor assigned a status code. the recommendations for article 10 and 11 designations were included in your packets. that information has always been posted as part of the area plan. however for today they're only to be considered as future recommendations. the issue before the commission today is adoption of the context statement and the survey findings. later in the area as the area plan moves forward for adoption staff will bring the eir and article changes back to you for discussion. i did have one last note which we discussed about the one submitted for 633 folsom. staff had previously determined that building was a 3cs with arg's report we have changed the findings to a 6c making it not a resource. this concludes my presentation. i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. commissioner pearlman. >> yeah, i have one question about the flower market building. >> yes. >> th

a bridge connects jersey city to kearney and newark. it is closed from 2:00 in the afternoon to sunday morning. a few ramps will be open, route 139 for trucks southbound. >>> still to come, the city says living on the streets has dropped rapidly. >> advocates for the city's homeless are not believing it. >>> reckless riding like this puts everyone in danger. why we could soon see more of this on the street. >>> up to the minute, the minute you're. it' s like lugging this around... it' s dragging down your fuel economy. [ breaking glass ] but over time, using new and improved bp gasoline with invigorate helps clean up that dirt, like hundreds of scrubbing brushes. [ scrubbing bristles ] so that means a cleaner engine, which helps you get more miles per tank. i' ll be here if you need me. new bp gasoline with invigorate... . >>> is the homeless crisis in new york getting better or worse? that depends on who you asked. people living on the streets has taken a big drop. but advocates for the homeless says the study is a big drop. the reason