newyork is trying to mimic what the catholic chair tis have done to help the homeless. you can watch our full project home report tonight on the kpix5 news art 11:00. >>> still ahead, snow, flash flooding and frigid temperatures. the weather affecting millions of the americans right now. the theme is the spirit of america. first lady melania trump showcases this year's white house christmas decor. and don't forget we're streaming now on cbsn bay area. you can find us on 11alive.com, the cbs news app or your favorite platt form. he could've just been the middle class kid who made good. but mike bloomberg became the guy who did good. after building a business that created thousands of jobs he took charge of a ci reing from 9/11 a three-term mayor who helped bring it back from the ashes bringing jobs and thousands of affordable housing units with it. after witnessing the terrible toll of gun violence... he helped create a movement to protect families across america. and stood up to the coal lobby and this administration to protect this planet from climate change. and now,

newyork's governor is calling for harsher penalties. >> concord police asking for help finding these two suspects in a snatching. they approached a woman and a friend inside a ice-cream store asking for money last week. then grabbed the woman's cell phone. a woman chased after them, but lost them. a massachusetts security camera captures a truck barreling backwards into a car wash and crushed afford focus with a woman in the passenger seat. she amazingly survived. the truckdriver was okay and blamed the floor mat for pressing down on the excel ray for. >> some lucky folks in turkey narrowly avoiding injury when a free-falls right on them in istanbul during strong winds there. you can see the tree crushed a parked car. >>> a major milestone for tesla over the weekend. they delivered the first benedict model s's. they will produce 1,000 cars a week outside the united states. the accomplishment comes as their stock hits new record highs. let's look at the stock market. the dow is down about 160 points. >> they are testing the star of the new year's eve show at times square. they are mak

a scholarship for academic merit at the coolidge foundation so it's like a specialized school in newyork with a rhodes scholarship . it's really about academic merit and its quite serious competition we only have four scholarships a year because they're veryexpensive. it's a full ride to college . and we already ashave 15,000 kids who have registered to apply for four scholarships this year. what do those kids want? they want the money. they want independence from their parents rhythm they want to not have to fill out the fafsa a lot of them also like the idea of doing things on your own. so i think it's important for all of us to send signals to young people that you will be rewarded for enterprise, for trying, for doing things on your own area and currently our system doesn't particularly do that. it's more a reward system about how you can figure out about what you can get from the point of view of a 17-year-old so i think it's quite easy to change the political culture if you focus on 16 to 20-year-olds and show them what's in it for them and also play to their natural wisdom which t

newyork's governor has ordered the hate crime's task force to investigate last night's violence. he was arrested 30 miles from the stabbingsteen in harlem. so far his identity has not been released. >> families and loved ones will gather to honor three teens killed in a christmas day crash. they died when the car hay were in slammed into a tree and a power pole in bless san peloton. . two others are recovering. they do not believe alcohol played a role in the crash. tonight's vigil is scheduled for 5:00. >> the laptop thefts are getting worse. as we near the end of 2019 the number of thefts have exceeded last year's total. the hot spots for laptop thefts and ways to prevent it. >> reporter: and run. quick, brazen and scary. in all these cases the thieves walk around first looking for the easiest targets. then it happens. berkeley police they responded to 80 for the first 11 months of this year, a big increase compared to last yearnt in all of 2018, 60 at cafe's. police said the most popular target for thieves, cafe' strata. hit up at least seven times this year. most of the seati

i grew up inthe 80s and 90s , a totally different experience for haitians living in newyork . it was tough. i didn't learn to read untili was in third grade . i always felt like the outsider and i talked about that in detail in my book. and you know, one of the things that i want to make sure i did in the book was to tell and immigrants story because the last three years has been such ugliness, such anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies, clearly as we just talked about so i want almost correct the record. and tell a story of hope from sadness of some achievement and what does it mean to be in this country? i think another thing i wanted to make really clear is that immigrants, we feel very patriotic. this is our home. this is our country and we are a fabric of america, part of fabric. >> what you see in america through the eyes of haiti? is there a haitianness inform your experience in that home witha haitian family, mom and dad . what was the first time you came to american culture to say there's a difference ? >> just from the moment go. i was teased at school. it was made ve

. >> i'm making that representation on behalf of the city of newyork . >> i want to be careful for you and for society, you're not representing that they shot somebody with a gun. you're not going to prosecute them for that. >> correct. >> you're just not going to prosecute them for any violation. >> repealed revisions of the law. if there were other potential, loaded guns, that's different but the repealed provisions of the old law we will not prosecute anyone for. >> i guess my question and some of the others went beyond the prosecution, my question is whether they be prejudiced in any way with respect to qualifying for a premises license under the new law. with the fact and violation of prior law you be used against them ? >> it would not and there's no prior reason to think there are such violations. if we refer back to the complaint as i noted before, the licenses have been renewed twice at least since that complaint was filed. >> do you have a way, i take these licensing decisions are made by the office and new york police department. you have a way of communicating to that offic