the salvage company will begin trying to raise the boat as early as today and the tug boat >>> mary de blasio took their funding fight for the war on terror to washington, d.c. today. de blasio testified before the house committee to cut their security initiative in half. and the federal program provides money for anti-terror technology and law enforcement. >> you want to see them help employee the people that keeps them safe like the intelligent specialist that monitor incoming information all day, every day. and u our new 500 plus officer critical response command is a full-time counterterror force. >> the mary told them that since 9/11 they stopped 20 terror plots. four of them within the past two years. >> reporter: they are trying to confirm the identity of the citizen that defected from isis in iraq showing up out of nowhere, carrying a u.s. driver's license when taken into custody. elizabeth palmer reports. shows the young man being questioned by fighters. >> the kurds say he simply appeared out of the desert unarmed. and he wanted to surrender. the man wasn't carrying a passport, but

mary calvi. thanks for joining us. >>> our top story, reducing violence at the city's homeless shelters. >> mayor de blasio will unveil a plan today to overhaul security at the shelters. janelle burrell has more now live in east harlem this morning. hi, janelle. >> reporter: hi there, chris and mary. we're outside the boulevard shelter here in east harlem. back in january, a man was actually murdered inside of this shelter as he slept. the mayor hopes that by investing more in the city's shelter system in terms of difference in terms of preventing violence. . immediately after the murder of devin black inside of the boulevard shelter back in january, there was a visible presence of nypd officers and security on patrol. the former teacher nearly decapitated by another man in the shelter. >> it lets us know that they're concerned with our well being. >> reporter: from murdered and assaults to the couldn't occasion of dangerous weapons, like these, recovered from five brooklyn shelters in just one day. mayor de blasio has now ordered the nypd to oversee safety measures in the shelters. among the changes, the nypd will be

de blasio who will march with the >>> and 7:27. let's get a check of the forecast with meteorologist john elliott. >> and thank you, mary. the temperatures for the parade are great. you're looking at the upper 50s, low 60s and that is comfortable but a little unsettled. 48 in the city right now and we have readings in the 30s for the east end elsewhere and the mid- to upper 40s. 64, 14 degrees above normal. the anticipateed high. sun sets at 7:05 and we're quiet right now. there is moisture aloft. few passing afternoon showers. even during the course of the parade late. you can see a passing shower and another round tomorrow before the cold air takes over for the weekend. mary? >> thank you. >>> we're back with another just a moment. >>> and then there is john kasich who won his home state of ohio last night. although if you were to judge just from the amount of confetti that came down at his victory speech, you would think he was the millionth customer at a supermarket. >> he isgathering up confetti. >> there he is. the only one who could possibly stop donald trump, the governor -- and he is gone! and he's gone. >> i th