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nonkou >>> if you live here in new york city, last night you may have seen a bright blue light illuminating the sky over queens caused an electrical ark, basically really bright lightning that lasted several minutes. no one was injured but thousands did lose power. >>> when we come back, an $11 million gift from an unexpected source. the east bay. what this helicopter hit that forced it to make an >>> a midair collision over the east bay. what this helicopter hit that forced it to make an emergency landing. >>> plus, the college football championship comes to levi's stadium. the outrageous thing these fans are doing to win tickets. all coming up next. >>> finally tonight, alan newman was known as thrifty to put it mildly. the social worker from washington state was single, didn't have kids. his friends say he used to shop for clothes at the grocery store and patch his shoes with duct tape. he was a saver. he died earlier this year and it turns out alan had put away $11 million and left all of it to charities, a pediatric care center, a foster care organization, among many others. a nice way to close in this se

. >> un estudiante en una escuela en queens new york se recupera del ataque de navaja. >> visitaron ade la secundaria. esta mañana hospitalizado. su madre nos cuenta como sucedió el crimen. >> mi hijo me dice que me miraba como si algo iba a pasar, cuando se dio cuenta de se estaba lanzando, pensó que se estaba defendiendo cuando se cuenta que estaba cortado. >> el sospechoso es un joven de 15 años, estudiante de noveno grado que el día de ayer se entregó las autoridades y enfrenta cargos por ataque y posesión de un arma. el joven fue atacado por una navaja para portar cajas por un y siente que ocurrió en el plantel semanas antes. >> otro muchacho no empujo, mi hijo le pide disculpas. >> obligaron a que la secundaria por seguridad. la escuela no cuenta con detectores de metal, y se espera que se implementen mejores medidas de seguridad antes de que suyo regrese a clases. >> que caso tan terrible. >> la gente está perdiendo la razón. >> hablemos de las temperaturas. >> bastante frías, vemos la ausencia de neblina, tenemos lluvia en camino, hablaremos como esto afectará sus planes de fi

to give you an example, in our first branch in queens, new york, we will generate close to $2 millionf profit from that branch after 10 years. now that money is not going to shareholders. it is going back into the program, into fueling more entrepreneurs, helping us with our harlem branch, so the cycle of the profits is a positive thing, but we have a sustainable model, a sustainable economic model, and that makes it scalable. david: you mentioned it is women and their families. going back to bangladesh -- why andrea: women are disproportionately affected. if i go back to bangladesh in the early days, before he started the program, if you were a woman and went to the bank to get a loan, they would say, come back with your husband. women were absolutely not given loans, so you had half of the population not participating at all in the economy, and as an economist, his deep belief was there was no way for this country, which was at that time one of the poorest countries on earth ever to move up and fulfill it sustainable the following goals if half the population was excluded, so the th

i live in queens new york. and i don't come every year but i started coming here when i was two years old so i basically grew up here i've been coming with my older brother chris but my older brother having experience just it's hard you know he doesn't really go outside during the day it's hard to i can go out with people during the nighttime because either people have school or work so well you know he's either inside all the time or you know they just pull for walks so when he comes here just he's able to do whatever he wants to do you know he has something to do he's occupied you know he has friends. on the next hour right here. you know we didn't. like get. to move back. to the building a. good. i'm. right back where we were living. as a picture of my brother nine when we were young on our first serious camp. at this i think the camp fire i used to be attached to him very clean and stuff. baby me my brother every once the family here going up with each other i mean a lot of people a family the city of memph

"the new york times" reports the daughters of a queens, new york, podiatrist say their late father diagnosedonald trump with bone spurs in his heels to help him avoid the vietnam war draft. dr. larry braunstein's daughters say their father often told the story of helping mr. trump as a favor to his father, fred trump. dr. braunstein died in 2007. during the presidential campaign, mr. trump said he couldn't remember who signed off on his medical deferment. the "times" did not find documentation to corroborate the family's account, and the white house had no response. >>> "the washington post" reports ruth bader ginsburg was discharged from a new york hospital and is now home recuperating. the 85-year-old supreme court justice had surgery last week to remove two cancerous growths on her left lung. doctors say there's no evidence of any remaining cancer. the supreme court will next hear cases on january 7th. >>> and "usa today" says an oregon man is the first person to cross antarctica alone without any help. he's 33-year-old colin o'bdy, and 930ile 54 he traveled on skis towing all that gear b

one of the most striking, in 2011, you chose to live in a very prominent neighbourhood in queens, new yorkside a group of illegal immigrants who are eking out a living in new york, and you had the same income as them, you had the same lifestyle as them and you lived, i think, for months like that. but wasn't that, ultimately, a stunt? because you could opt out of that lifestyle at any point. i am really struggling to see as an artist, what was the genuine, authentic merit of doing that? absolutely. i do understand where you are coming from, and of course privilege means being able to leave the situation at any point. people who have no privilege, the people who can't take — leave a place when they want, they are in the hands of others. so of course, as an artist, i have the privilege to move around the world, but what i want to do with my art is for people to have empathy with others, to feel how other people feel, to understand where other people come from. do you think you persuade people, do you think you change minds with your art? that is what i would like, but i don't know. that's no

new york. >> at least 12 people were injured, including seven firefighters. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: the fire broke out in a storefront in queens, new york aroundive alarms, engulfing the block. firefighters fighting flames on the roof attempting to pry open a front door when suddenly -- a powerful explosion engulfing multiple firefighters in clouds of smoke, sending them scrambling for safety. watch again. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: the blast injuring seven firefighters and five civilians. >> we're suspecting a backdraft type of situation, a smoke explosion which caused the structure to collapse. >> reporter: the result, six businesses, many of them decades old, gutted. >> i couldn't breathe. i had to go. >> major fire here going on, guys. >> reporter: one witness says he saw three firefighters on the ground after they were blown out of a basement. six families from a neighboring building had to be evacuated. now displaced from their homes just before christmas. still no word on the cause just yet. as far as injuries, they're all said to be minor with the exception of one civilian who was seriously injured with fractures but is expected to su

. >> reporter: a transformer exploded at a con edison power plant in queens, new york, causing laguardia, one of the nation's bustiest to lose power. >> come >> reporter: terrified travelers scrambled to safety. authorities say no one was hurt in the explosion, and the airport is now back up and running but travel for much of the country remains at a standstill as a powerful winter storm stretching from canada to the gulf coast dumps heavy rain and blinding snow. in st. paul, minnesota, people are looking for the public's health as a semi sideswiped a trooper's squad car pulled over on the side of the road. fortunately no one was injured. in kansas a state of emergency. a 150-mile stretch of interstate 70 shut down in both directions. >> these are probably three-foot drifts. >> reporter: in mississippi, this tree falling on top of a home causing the power to go out. the family believes lightning is to blame. in new orleans, the storm causing transformers to explode. >> that's crazy. >> reporter: in austin, texas, flash flooding. julie butler had to be rescued after her car got pushed a q

. >> reporter: the fire broke out in a storefront in queens, new york, around 2:15 a.m., quickly growing to five alarms, engulfing the block. firefighters fighting flames on the roof, attempting to pry open a front door when suddenly -- a powerful explosion, engulfing multiple firefighters in clouds of smoke, sending them scrambling for safety. watch again. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: the blast injuring seven firefighters and five civilians. >> we're suspecting a backdraft type of situation. a smoke explosion which caused the structure to collapse. >> reporter: the result, six bu old, gutted tonight. >> i was outside and i couldn't breathe, i had to go. >> major fire here going on, guys. >> reporter: one witness says he saw three firefighters on the ground after they were blown out of a basement. six families from a neighboring building had to be evacuated, now displaced from their homes just before christmas. >> all right, so, let's get to linsey davis, live from the scene of that fire in queens. and linsey, still no word on a cause of this fire? >> reporter: that's right, david. still

he was a former boy scout leader from queens, new york, grew up there in new york city and became a regular army officer and served with the ninth infantry. in his mission, was to build a readout. his company and another company had the mission to build a readout to the right of the fifth marines. during this action. and they were able to build this readout along the road which is what you are seeing here. a readout is a small fortification generally enclosed that would have been able to hold a number of defenders. very small kind of fort. it was more or less a defensive position. and as such, he was on the morning of june 9, 1918, he was out if front of their position and a german artillery shell landed near him and he was killed. and with his materials, what we have is a lithograph that was done by the federal government for every soldier that was killed in action, to listen to their family as a way to commemorate. there you see lady columbia anointing a u.s. army soldier. we also have on display the original letter that was sent of the ninth infantry to his parents informing them and off

a remarkable report in the "new york times" with details of one of the ways donald trump dodged vietnam, bone spurs, which kept him from being drafted a podiatrist in queens, new york who rented his office from trump's said, made the diagnosis as a courtesy to the elder mr. trump. joining me now, congressman roe khanna. you're on the oversight committee for armed services, the president making his first trip to troops in a combat zone today where he reiterated the idea that troops could go into syria from iraq in need be in the future and that erdogan has things covered as far as syria goes. what do you think? >> well, i obviously don't agree with those details. but any conversation needs to start with this basic fact. the war in syria was illegal under u.s. law and under international law. now, democrats, many of us criticized president trump when he had the syria strikes, a few months ago. we have to be consistent. we have to be principled and say that the withdrawal is compliant with our law and necessary. the way he went about that withdrawal was not right. we should have pressured erdogan to have some agreement not to invade syria and protect the kur

i would like to say merry christmas to my familyst d my friends in queens, new york.tomlinson deployed in qatar. family andh my friends aan happy holidays, especially my daughter samantha and my grandson benjamin and henry. i love you all, see you soon. >> happy holidays from here at airfield. >> to all the families around the world and all the other troops around the world, this is for you. >> happy holidays! >> greeting from afghanistan. we want to wish all our friends and family back home at joint base san antonio happy holidays! >> everyone back home, 158 infantry, kabul, afghanistan. we want to wish you a merry christmas and happy new year! i >> sean: we will have more of the special christmas edition of "hannity" when we come back. ♪ . ♪ test . my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly

president trump's visit came as "the new york times" reported that a podiatrist in queens, new york, helped donald trump avoid the vietnam war in 1968 as a favor to trump's father, the real estate magnate fred trump. the foot dr., larry braunstein, died in 2007, but his daughters told "the new york times" their father often recounted how he helped donald trump get one of this five draft deferments with a diagnosis of bone spurs. in return, dr. braunstein was reportedly given direct access to his landlord, fred trump, who helped braunstein quickly repair any problems with the building he rented from the trump family. the federal government has entered a sixth day of a partial shutdown with no resolution in sight as president trump continues demand for billions of dollars in new funding for an expanded wall on the u.s.-mexico border. this is trump responding to a reporter during his trip to iraq on wednesday. pres. trump: whatever it takes. we are going to have a wall. we're going to have safety. we need safety from our country. we have terrorists coming in through the southern border.

tech giants that are investing in the u.s., amazon already announced it will open a new hq in queens, new yorkjust last week that they will open a billion dollars campus in austin, texas. melissa? >> all right, hillary, thank you so much for that. so that is good economic news on a day when we've had a tough market day. you see businesses investing, right, like google, building a new headquarters, but at the time we see today the dow down more than 500 points >> it is all those glass half full and half empty arguments. the larger point we made at the beginning of the show, it depends on what the trigger is, with the computer algorithms in control of the big swings in the market, all you need is some sort of a trigger where the algorithm is written to react that trigger. today it may have been the oil price drop. >> i covered energy for a long time. i know there are so many that are built at least part of the equation is built on the relationship between stocks and oil because a lot of people feel like oil, it's an alternative investment but also a predictor of economic growth to come, whatever

nellie's professor of urban studies at queens college in new york and also plays a commentator and see brian logan hi guys thank you for your time today andre you first yet we had the prime minister voicing kids that don't get involved in this you need to be going back to school now you can get the point discipline and all the you know don't don't bunk off school etc but heck it's their future lives decades down the road that could be affected by climate change except for do you think they did the right thing or if they overstepped the mark and just upset their teachers. i think absolutely did the right thing what the prime minister said i believe it really speaks to a different paradigms and understand what education is floor like you mentioned yourself some people you education has just been about discipline and following orders and deferment to authority but others happen to be your education is about personal development about understanding your society and about being engaged socially and politically in the world that you inhabit so i think it's fantastic and really inspiring to s

. ♪ i'm taking the throne, i'm going to be the queen of new york ♪ >> reporter: reimagined for a modern the damsels in distress of kongs past. what's it mean to you to be the first african-american woman to play this iconic role that historically has always been a white woman? >> i feel like it means progress, because i think for a long time, if someone was supposed to be beautiful on stage, they had to be blonde or they had to be fair skinned and i think we're now in a place where beauty is so many things, and i get to be unapologetically myself and unapologetically black on stage and that's something i do not take lightly. ♪ never ask permission, don't trample on ann's ambition ♪ >> reporter: there's also relevance, it seems to me in this play, to the me too movement. that you're not a damsel in distress. >> it's strong. this girl grew up on the farm. she always had to work for herself. so she doesn't even know how to let a man save her. which is shocking for all the men in the play. she's like, i don't need you and actually i don't know how to need you. >> reporter: you sing, you act

new york. >> cntainly consolidates queens as the great economic capital consolidates new york city as a great international tech hub. >> new york's long island city enabled gets half the prize, a nod to a strong tech workforce. the other half to northern virginia, a strong workforce as well and a strategic location wedged between reagan national airport and the pentagon. >> it is a performance-basedac incentivege we put on the table. the return on our investment will be very good. >> and a consolation prize to nashville, tennessee for strong economy. it will get 5,000 employee operations center. >> this is the largest jobs announcement in thery of the state ofennessee. and 5,000 jobs that will average i think i'm se to sa 150,000 in salary. said it now they can't take it back. >> amazon gave no official explanation for the split desion but in the end no one city in north america could provide everything the company wanted. most important,il 50,000 d workers in one place. the move also allows the company which made 1 billion in revenue last year to make the most of government subsidies. 1.5 bi

this is not just from the dakotas arkansas to new york city or washington. is the distance from queensu did that. where abbyet back to joseph can move forward like you did? raising one of the most interesting points from a policy perspective. it is underappreciated. one of the things our work showed is there are differences in educational attainment but also industrial composition. the success back to of new york city over the last 10 years, people like to point to the enormous growth in high-tech jobs, in jobs and high-level medical research and so on. the fastest job growth in the city of new york has been at the lower end of the wage scale. mike bloomberg, when he was mayor, took over a few weeks after 9/11 and he recognize there were people in our city who were being left behind. there was an analysis done in terms of how could jobs be created, opportunities created for people in those categories. we have seen growth in things had 63urist trade, we million tourists which means demand for hotels and restaurants. we have seen growth in people coming from the new york metro area into

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news of his first visit to a war zone coming as the daughters of a queens doctor, new york foot doctorheir late father diagnosed donald trump with bone spurs so he could avoid the vietnam war. they say he did it as a favor to trump's father, fred trump, a powerful real estate developer at the time. here to discuss, michael d'antonio, the author of the truth about trump. very interesting story. michael d'antonio, thank you so much for joining us. do you believe this story about a podiatrist diagnosiing trump with bone spurs in 1968 to avoid the draft? >> i absolutely do believe it. you know, the clincher for me was the reference to it being a favor. so the trumps forever have dealt in favors. you do something for me, i do something for you. and these daughters of this podiatrist talked about how forevermore, he was able to call up and maybe talk about the rent not going up so quickly and get a repair made here and an adjustment made there. and fred trump was good to people who were good to him. and i'm not even sure actually that the president knows the truth about this. this is the odd

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check it out a transformer exploded in queens, new york it lit up the night sky turning it a bright blueulsating light could be seen around the city it was a blast at a con edison plant that caused power outages. fortunately no one was injured that was my initial thought. it looked like -- >> aliens? >> independence day. people were saying on twitter this is a real-life will smith sort of thing. but that's what it was transformer fire con edison is investigating the cause of the electrical fire >> i say aliens because the nypd and bill deblasio had to tweet out, no, it wasn't aliens. >> thank heavens for social media. >> right >> that was not so great >> there you go. sequels rarely are >> i still went to see it and enjoyed it >> in the theater? >> yeah. >> first one was epic. >> pretty good. >>> coming up, we'll talked about the political impact on the markets. we'll talk about the biggest political issues for your money in the new year. that's next. as we head to break, a look at the s&p 500 winners and losers [leaf blower] you should be mad at leaf blowers. [beep] you should be mad yo

a bizarre bright blue light lit up the sky in new york city last night. people from queens to new jersey could see that super natural shade of blue. a local power company blamed the light on an electrical flash. it was at a power substation in queens. >> the light, everything is different. >> i saw just yellow sparks in the sky. it looked like blue fire. it was a really weird blue color too. i was like aliens are here. >> causing disruption for some arriving flights yesterday. the power has been restored but the blue sky had social media buzzing last night. >> tommy lee jones show up? will smith? >> no word on that. >>> mrs. claus is hanging around the area. you can make >>> all right. mike joins me once again. >> this week's pet is from the spca. meet mrs. claus. she is an american pit bull mix that is guaranteed to make you laugh. they have really enjoyed having her around. she is jolly and has a gentle soul. she is also very energetic. call the number on your 510-569-0702. the adoption fee is waived. >> that's perfect. i hope she finds her forever home. >> me too. >>> we

take a look at this light that lit up the sky in new york city last night. people from queens to new jersey could see this very super natural shade of blue. in a brand-new statement out an morning, a lal power jt yellow sparks in t loads li. the sky. it looked like blue fire. >> it was insane. it was a real weird color of blue too. i thought, the aliens are here. >> it caused disruption for arriving flights yesterday. it does look bizarre. the power has sense been restored. but the blue sky had social media buzzing last night with a lot of people saying it looked like an alien invasion. >>> happening today, chief bill scott will announce a statewide pilot program to crackdown on repeat offenders. >>> drivers with more than one dui will have to install an ignition interlock device and keep it for two years. you cannot turn on the engine until you blow through a device to prove you did not have alcohol in your system. it goes into effect january 1st. >>> this morning san jose's police chief is standing by officers after they shot and killed a 24-year-old woman after a high-speed

news. >> vern glenn will have much more on tonight's game coming up in sports. >>> electric emergency at an energy facility in queens sprayed blue light across the new york city skyline and spawned a flurry of social media reactions. con edison says it's investigating a possible transformer explosion at one of its facilities. it happened just after 9:00 p.m., caused many folks to lose power. people took to social media to post photos like these, the brilliant blue green light that illuminated the city, as for what caused that wild side, energy officials had this to say. >> it could have been it caused an arcing, a flash of power so to speak. and that might have been what caused that large light and colors. >> it was freaky like independence day the movie, look up and a weird blue color that you haven't seen lighting up the clouds and the sky. >> the fire department says the incident is under control and no injuries have been reported. >>> a mushroom grower could face tens of millions of dollars in fines for illegal dumping. a lawsuit from the santa clara district attorney claims monterey mushrooms pumped wastewater containing manure and toxic levels of ammoni

a wave of bright blue light flashing across the new york city's thielen -- new york the's skyline in queenss from manhattan after a fire in a substation. the sky prompted commentary on social media. a spokesperson for the mayor tweeted, reassuring residents the light was not alien. global news 24 hours a day and at tic toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm viviana hurtado. yourine: this is what markets are doing, it has been a volatile week. saying thisple are is because of christmas and there is not much volume. we need to take stock of the week that was. rallying, asian stocks finished mix. ed. traders are struggling to make sense of this. i am looking at yen leading gains against the dollar. it did look like it was going to be a bad day for stocks after the session wednesday. equities rebounded yesterday, finishing in the green. stocks have had a punishing december, the biggest fall in nearly a decade. joining us now is andrew. what is going on in the markets today? andrew: today is interesting. day in at a third up row? yester

queens. they sprayed blue light across the new york city skyline. con edison said it's evaluating a possible explosion. this happened just after 9:00 p.m. yesterday and caused many to lose power. immediately people took to social media to post pictures like these, these eerie blue green lights. >> it could have been since its with an electrical fire, that it caused an arcing a splash of power. that might have been what caused that large light and colors. >> this was like independence day. just look up and weird blue color. >> the fire department said the incident is under chrome and no injuries are reported but how scarying, right? looking up into the sky and not knowing what's going on. >> that arcing of the energy. >> yeah. >> they kind of got an early new year's eve fireworks show. >> that's not a good one. >> we're worried about our new year's eve fireworks show. we don't have to worry. >> got to worry about living in the bay area. >> we will' have clear skies across the bay area and i'll have the forecast coming up in a few minutes. here's a lo

kate rogers reports from long island city, new york. >> ronnieis opened h restaurant the indian canteen in long island city queens some three months ago. shortly after amazon announced it was splitting its second headquarters between two cities. long island city, new crystal city, virginia. with a recently signed ten year lees hopeful tomorrow lure in new customer of the amazon employee base walking distance. >> we find it intimidating that there is the big box retailer giant to come in. the way to look is not through fear but as a sense ofland building a tliefgt community. >> the queens economic development kwormg women's azmodan with open arms. but acknowledges challenges for housing and transportation. >> i think we have to be very careful with amazon. because question could structure issues, husbanding issues. >> this water front is a proposed location for hq 2 but not eveone is thrilled that amaze isn't coming toow t the new york city council hilled meetingsed today on amazon while lawmakers and residents ralli against the choice. some local entrepreneurs are frustrated top lexi beach opened her astoria book

news junkie by any stretch. >> host: first job? >> guest: my first journalism job. >> host: about the mall. >> guest: it was for the queen's chronicle. what is horrible about new york is you can live in new york but you have to take so many jobs before you can actually work in new york so i had to work in greenwich and abu dhabi and dc. it takes a long time to work as a journalist in new york. >> host: your career path, networking, trying to make things happen, people just call? how did it come together? >> guest: i would go to journalismjobs.com. the main thing you have to have is a car. journalist salary, you do not pay for your car. we drive around queens or whatever, and there was a moment, the old journalism path. i did the community board meeting in the middle of the night and is gone. and an internship at the village voice in the middle of that path and lane barrett who died on trump's inauguration, he wrote a book about trump. a great journalism -- >> the first book. and it is a tough decision. >> guest: tough decision? know. not a tough decision. i was lucky because the story itself was a crazy story. i was in the paper a lot. harpercollins came to me and

if there's a trump doctrine, it comes from queens and brooklyn and new york and the mob families that control that city. >> it's an important point. i would only echo it by saying it comes from the movie depiction of how those things work and not always the reality. >> if the remember banks will shut you out, you have to get your money from somewhere that could be russia, istanbul, somewhere in queens. >> i feel you on that. jason, then you have the other side of this story which is trump could do what he wants but we're witnessing the beginning of a pelosi washington. it's running different than the way it was under paul ryan. here is nancy pelosi standing up to donald trump setting the predicate for what we see tonight which is a problem for trump and the republicans. >> the president is doing everything that he can to shut the government down. have to ask the question, why does he not believe in governance? does he not care about the american people? doesn't he know that the economy is uncertain? hasn't he followed the stock market that he likes to brag about. >> jason. >> that was

howie: why the "new york times" blew it on a piece on donald trump's medical exam shun in vietnam. howie: a front page "new york times" story charging that a queensonald trump an exemption from the vietnam war because of bone spurs. no paper evidence has been found to corroborate the events. one daughter said the implication from her father was that trump didn't have bone spurs. but i don't know. both daughters say they are democrats who don't like the president. trump like thousands of other affluent kids in that era may have used the doctor to get an exemption. but there is no evidence to prove that. the "new yorker" has devoted many thousands of words that the show's editing and its producer mark burnett enabled the president to run. the language portrays his animosity towards trump quote, his chief legacy is to have cast a serially bankrupt carnival barker in the role of the man who might plausibly become the leader of the free world. at the times square ball drop, the committee to protect journalists will honor press freedom in this year of. that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz." happy new year. this is the last show of 2018. check out m

. >>> an electrical explosion at a con-ed plant in queens lit up the new york city skyline and social media. >> i was thinking it's the end of the world. >> some sort of ufo or something. >> reporter: no one was hurt in the scare. >> who would rush to judgment? >> reporter: kevin spacey posted a bizarre youtube video appearing to act in his "house of cards" character. he's facing a felony sexual assault charge. >> the 18-year-old said the actor bought him drinks and grabbed him inappropriately. spacey has not commented publicly. his rep said spacey was seeking treatment after allegations of sexual misconduct. >> reporter: a community reeling a week after this caught on camera moment when a high school refereeing referee gave 16-year-old andrew johnson an ultimatum minutes before his match -- cut the dreadlocks or forfeit. >> no way should he have been degraded like that. >> reporter: new jersey sports officials and the state attorney general's office say they have opened a civil rights investigation, benches maloney in the meantime. he has not responded to our requests for comment. >>

the skies of new york city lit up with the eerie blue glow at the power plant in queens. a spokesperson telling cnn a substation experienced a brief electrical fire after a couple of transformers tripped offline. it did not seem routine to folks seeing it. >> holy [ bleep ]. oh, my god. >> that was the view miles away from manhattan. this was the view miles away in manhattan. the light visible as far as new jersey. the unearthly effect enhanced by the low cloud ceiling. the explosion is powerful enough to shake buildings and windows. there were power outages which shutdown laguardia in queens. no flights took off for an hour. the airport switched to a back-up generator and resumed operation at 10:20 p.m. >>> above the skies in new york, the storm system we have been tracking all week. a messy day in store for the great lakes. and the eastern states. just like in the midwest and south yesterday, two deaths have been reported. in louisiana, a 58-year-old woman died after a tree fell on her camper trailer. another person died in kansas in a crash on i-70 in blizzard conditio