he is leaving with his wife mary pat and his taken a lot of heat for this decision. he says it's not his job to be directly involved with negotiations but however , he will remain in contact while away. >> it is a state agency. of going to be affected by this. he says he will be back before the plan strikes. the 11 unions are asking for an 18% raise . to present a board sided with union but new jersey says it will cost usd183 million by 2018 and it forces another strike. >> is a tough call. no one wants a fair hike but the union are asking 2 1/2%. they are not asking for huge figures. >> donald trump and hillary clinton are looking to increase their delegate leads. i almost said deflate gate. [laughter] juliet: michael bloomberg says he will not enter the race for president but he did have a campaign commercial . robert moses will talk about this with us in his room with the latest. curtis: 339 delegates are up for grabs. why and 89 of them on the democratic side and 150 on the republican side. michigan is the biggest prize of all. this is no doubt an important day f

mary pat looks beautiful. still does. big fan of hers, by the way. bad governance and bad politics. he was just gone for how many days last year. it is a tuesday night. can't you wait for the weekend. rosanna: maybe he wants to take her somewhere nice. maybe he feels like he owes it to her because he's been campaigning and she has been holding down the fort. greg: what about a long weekend. be involved in the negotiations. he could be anywhere on the phone. greg: it is about symbolism. leadership. it is about being there. providing leadership. mikey, what do you think? mike: i knew that was coming. if you are in the governor's shoes, what do you think you would do? >> i would be on vacation celebrating. you have to growth of wood you can. mike: here is what we have out there. 47 degrees. that is your average high temperature for today. we are on the way back up. 49 degrees in central park. forty-nine in affiliate. 49 degrees in williamsport. we do have some birdies out there, too. we have a few were clouds. if that door cold front dropping into that area. it is going to bring us a f

full-time for donald trump campaigning but he will be away next weeks that is when he and his wife mary pat are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> this has been an extraordinary day on the presidential campaign trail. mitt romney went on television hoping to persuade republicans not to vote for donald trump. here is what i know, donald trump is a phoney, a fraud. >> romney mocked trump's expertise in the economy and foreign policy and his personality. >> think of his greed and showing off and absurd third grade theatrics. >> he says cruz, or kasich or rubio would be preferable to trump. and trump hark ened back to four years ago. >> i backed mitt romney, i backed him, you can see how loyal he is, he was begging for my endorsement. i could have said mitt drop to your knees and he would have dropped to his knees. >> and mitt romney -- world news tonight will have more on the romney-trump showdown after "action news" at 6:00. >>> mayor kenney laid out a $4 billion spending plan to city council. at the center of the plan ken

and after i made that decision with mary pat last thursday to endorse him, i went out on the road on friday and saturday with him. to announce and reinforce that endorsement. and then i went out on super tuesday with him to emphasize that endorsement. i got back to the state yesterday. i'm going to be in the state for the rest of the week and through the weekend. i have no current plans to go back out on the road with him again. but i will at some point, i'm sure, do so. the only plans i have to go away is to finally take a few days off. and march 8th, next tuesday, is my 30th wedding anniversary. it might be a good moment for me to take my wife away and remind her why she might want to stay with me for a few more years after having put in 30 already. so mary pat and i will be going away on tuesday for a couple of days to relax and then i'll be back in the state after that. so, listen, everybody. we have a lot of work to do. and i'm engaged in all of the things we talked about. making sure a great budget gets passed and gets passed by the constitutional deadline on june 30th. making

. >>> mary pat and i will be going away on tuesday for a couple days to relax. i'll be back in the state after that. >> new jersey governor chris christie told us last week that him and his wife are going away for his 30th anniversary. the rail unions have thorred a strike for early sunday if no deal is reached. the strike would impact more than 100,000 riders, including many in our area who use the trenton and hamilton stations. the strike would affect the atlantic city line that goes between ac and philadelphia. christie says there is really no need for him to be around to deal with the strike talks. >> it's not the job of the governor to negotiate this personally. it is the job of the governor to set down parameters for the negotiation which are executed by the professionals. >> new jersey transit put together a contingency plan which relies heavily on bus transportation. >>> maria sharapova fails a doping test. nike said they were sadden and srped by the news. switch watch brand says it's dealing with the tennis star will not be renewed. sharapova said she f

so did mary pat. what else? >> chris christie's people say that he was not there. he was in florida with his anniversary and wife. former yankee paul o'neill was that this event. donald trump said, you are supporting me. i think that paul o'neill gave him the thumbs up. >> no civil rights charges will be filed. >> you fired because he thought mr. graham was reaching for a gun. u.s. attorneys said there was insufficient evidence. mr. graham's family very upset >> i think that we are all criminals. we should not be judged by the color of our skin. >> a $3.9 million settlement in the city. the grand jury was given improper instructions on the charge. a second grand jury charged to indict him. right now, nothing. he could lose his job. we will see what happens. greg: missing for about a day. >> kelly rivera. we had no idea where she was. talking about her on the air. >> she skipped school and took a cab into the city on her own. police at this point not telling us why she came into the city. we are happy that the young 10-year-old kelly is back with her mom. >> did you

mary pat and i will be going away on tuesday for a couple days to relax. in the state after that. we have a lot of work to do. i am engaged in all the things we talk about. getting passed by the constitutional deadline on june 30. fighting against those amendments that i believe will avoid the tax increase on new jersey. dealing with the infrastructure problems. making sure that the legislature does their job. they want revenue, we will make sure that they come from -- neil: new jersey governor chris christie responding. tension has drifted elsewhere. he is still looking to the budget. blogged by both that say they are just not going to pick up the matter. a problem with president obama. it comes in the face of one newspaper after another. saying he is looking a little too politically correct. urging that he step down. only the final blow. any shred of ability. a few weeks ago, impossible to believe that christie is destroying the president. super tuesday show. even he can barely stomach. he looked like he had been taken hostage. >> i have no idea why. fig

mary's county, lower pat of the chesapeake bay. it's a moving trend but as the drier air comes in, it comes in with an incredibly powerful northwesterly wind. by 5:00, normally, i show you the highs today. now, i'm showing you the 5:00 this afternoon temperatures, between now and then, temperatures, downward they will go. by 5:00, temperatures only in the upper 30s and low 40s, melissa mollet, temperatu layer up. it ain't cold now but it will be later. >> right now, we still have this crash, really the only thing happening at this point. westbound 198, just after 95 there after schweitzer lane and laurel. that right lane is the only one getting by that accident. i do think it's going to be out fairly soon. 66 just fine. 95 okay in just the past couple of minutes has moved that off of 95 so still hanging over branch avenue there prince george's county. 66 and 234, inbound/outbound, that's where we had that nasty crash yesterday at 8:00 a.m. with that overturned vehicle. belt wael at central avenue moving along just fine. >>> back to

he and his wife mary pat will be celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. all of this despite the prospect of 4,000 rail workers going on strike. the governor says he will be monitoring these negotiations. he will be back by the end of the week, well before the strike deadline. he continues to maintain that it's not his role to intervene in those transit talks. >> it's not the job of the governor to negotiate this personally. it is the job of the governor to set out parameters for negotiation which are executed by the professionals. >> reporter: governor christie broke down between both sides. the rail unions are asking for a 2.5% pay increase and increases in employee healthcare contributions. they say that's their final offer. you will remember, new jersey transit offered up their contingency plan that would be buss in north and central new jersey, but they say it will only accommodate 38% of the riders. a lot of people nervous about this and feeling the governor should stay in the state until everything goes down. >> tracie strahan, thank you. >>> data s

i asked you all on facebook do you think mary should be allowed to keep pat said while he doesn't consider a gator a good pet, mary should be able to keep him since she's raised rambo for so long the gator probably wouldn't survive in the wild. on the other end, marty says no way because you can never 100 percent guarantee the animal won't hurt someone. we're talking about a spring holiday that may this year. you've probably spotted the easter decorations lining the store aisles. it's just a week away from sunday. according to a survey by the national retail federation -- americans are expected to spend 17-point-three billion dollars this easter. that's roughly 146 bucks -- per person. and it's the highest amount allocated for easter since the survey started 13 years ago. so where's all this money going? according to the survey -- most of that money goes to food. easter clothes comes in at number two. gifts and candy are out the list. companies have taken notice of the increased easter spending. you can expect to find spring sales -- and of course easter specific ads -- to encourage you to

mary anne marsh for the democrats. pat griffin for the republicans. super tuesday, now hours away and they are predicting this could be the highest voter turnout in the history of massachusetts historic! tell me why. >> everyone has been pokessed to donald trump here through new hampshire. this is the boston media market which builds in to new sham sir. they have seen all the commercials that ran up to the new shir primary. they know everybody else in this thing. they are angry. tomorrow, you can see about to be about having it. proving the voice. having the voice heard. also checking the wayne if you need to. >> secretary of state galvin said more than 16,300 democrats have shed their party affiliation and become independent voters since jan. 1, while nearly 3,500 more shifted to the mass gop ahead of tomorrow's "super tuesday" presidential primary. is that the trump factor? >> yeah, this is the coalition that elects in massachusetts. donald trump is replicating that. people moving the independence voting. >> no, buy which il will say, if it continue

. >> born ann marie duke in 1946 pat c duke started acting in just grade school. >> look terrific jimmyal acclaim as a teenager playing helen keller alongside ann bancroft in the miracle worker. >> winner is patty duke. >> shedemy award for the role at just 16 years old. at the time youngest actor ever to win an oscar. young actress making her way to the stage with to make perhaps the shortest acceptance speech ever. >> thank you. >>reporter: only a year later getting her own tv series the patty duke show. playing two identical but different cousin cousins. >> nominated for emmy at goalen globe with dual role. >> justúh a year after the seris wrap patty duke depart from the sweet heart image with the role of troubled young hollywood actress in valley of the doll. >> oh, yes. yes yes. i'm a big star. >>reporter: she would break barrier later in life, too. revealing she privately battled bipolar disorder and depressio depression. she spoke out to help people suffering from mental illness when so few people did. her son tonight hosting this photograph in his mother's arms writing simply i

so mary pat and i are going to be going away on tuesday for a couple days to relax and i will be backaged in all the things we talked about. making sure a great budget gets passed and gets passed by the constitutional deadline on june 30th. making sure we fight against this constitutional amendment that i believe will foist a $3 billion tax increase on the people of new jersey. dealing with the infrastructure problem but making sure that the legislature does their job. they want revenue, that's what they said they wanted. let them come forward with a proposal. all revenue proposals must come from the state assembly constitutionally. i haven't heard one proposal from them yet. they want to put a bill on my df desk i will consider it. as i said all along, it's got to represent tax fairness to the people of new jersey. i'm not going to do this on the backs of the taxpayers of this state. and we need to stop the games with judicial nomination process. the fact is there are three republicans, two democrats and one independent on the court. that's indisputable no matter how many times the s

number ten, mary lincoln lived for seven years as an ex-pat in europe. in october of 1868, mary and tad went to europe to escape public pressures and close public scrutiny they experienced following the death of abraham lincoln. it was a burden to be the family of a martyred president. usually the 19th century press was pretty respectful of women. many papers took off their gloves were mary was concerned. some historians have argued with mary's action as first lady she invited the vicious assaults on her character and her femininity that she had brought it on herself, but i don't agree with them. in fact, i think the press was pretty unfair, albeit mostly a partisan press. a new york publication published a story and cartoon absolutely lampooning mary's efforts to sell her dresses at a new york store to raise money for her retirement to illinois. the paper attacked mary, accusing her of being a common peddler and of lacking grace and self-respect. they viewed this sordid affair as -- according to the paper, it would have been disrespectful to those promin

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mary bruce reporting. the battle over the north carolina governor seat could be the most expensive country. this is after pat mccrory and primaries. the two campaigns have already raised more than $13 million combined with cooper raising the most so far. >>> experts expect the race to be tight. >>> this week a judge could decide if lawmakers have to redraw congressional district lines again in the state. they said to expect a decision soon. right now district 12 is mostly mecklenburg county but after another challenge, the lines could change. could confuse voters during the june 7th primary. >>> residents can voice their concerns about a retail development. the project would include an academy sports store, costco and six other businesses. some neighbors signed a petition against its worrying their home values will suffer. >>> town officials are expected to vote on that project tomorrow. >>> we told you last week a pastor is opposed to the shopping center because there would be a full-scale gun shop at that store and just yard ag way from a church. it would violate against big box stores. >>> pope francis ma

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pat on the back. >>> a homeowner claims someone was looking out for her when a storm hit her. in corpus christi a tree nearly missed hit as virgin mary statute. the homeowner is working to have that tree removed. >>> one of the areas most popular annual events wrapped up at macdill air force base, the tampa bay air fest. event organizers tell us nearly 30 planes were parked for tours and 15 showed off for spectators. a highlight, a performance by the thunder birds and their f-16s. the event so popular the base was at the crowd capacity and had to stop accepting guests. >>> it's the second day of starting to show. the famed cherry trees are starting to bloom. they were like little fireworks on full display, adding cover to an over cast day there. as bright as the blooms were not all have bloomed. the national service is expecting the peak bloom to be later this week. >>> leigh, it doesn't feel like the first day of spring around here. >> it certainly does not. if anything we have reagree ed gone -- we have gone back to a january day. it's gusty and you need a jacket this morning. 50 degrees at 8:00 a.m. not really warming up much. bre

but when she maris michael b jordan sony fillments might be no you can't take the six month off. just point of realistic concern right there. >> how long is pat this leave? the same asthma turn at this if. >> i don't think paternity is as long. >> no. >> in some instances lucky to get two weeksment like companies, by and large, they think that they're doing great thing for a dad if they give them two weeks off. what's interesting, some companies, this is kind of cool, they will offer paternity anywhere within the first calendar year of the baby. i think that's what fox does. because i think one of our male photographers, the wife was on leave for like eight weeks, and now he's going to take a month off. >> i got you. jen, thanks a lot. so yesterday, i know this is chris jenner, was going to be on ellen degeneres, you know, i turned it off. >> oh, mike? >> but luckily we have tape. >> true. >> talk about the o. j. trial, everyone talking about it now because of the series, the people versus o.j. simpson, and she says, also in the show, i mean. >> welshing she was a friend of nicole brown's. >> she says, yes, and she said when talking about nic