. >> get arrested in the big apple, and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island, a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of laguardia airport. connected to the mainland by a narrow two-lane bridge, the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> -- is coming through here if they come from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they are tired. they're dirty. they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> get between 80, 90 admissions a day. around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> what size do you wear? >> 8 1/2. >> guess what? 10 is going to be your lucky number. these are air giulianis. you can have them, my brother. >> never stops. the city never sleeps. >> while cell inspections are routine at all the jails and prisons profiled on "lockup," th

bell is on rikers island in new york awaiting extradition back to montgomery county.om roussey, abc 7 news. leon: thank you, tom. a scramble on the hill, republicans pushing and rushing to fill a surprise leadership void. first house speaker boehner announced he is living, then the front runner for his job, kevin mccarthy, bowed out of the race. tonight, word that wisconsin representative paul ryan will throw his ring into the hat. no word on when a vote will take place. the white house has a new look tonight. the iconic home turned pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month. according to the american cancer society, more than 39,000 u.s. women are expected to die of breast cancer this year. all women to perform self exams and schedule mammograms. still ahead -- emotional new testimony in the trial of an accused serial killer. with the victims husband told jurors. plus, going on the record. bill cosby interviewed about sexual assault accusations. and bad news about pumpkins. this year's harvest falling way short. we live in a pick choose, choose, choose. but at be

what do you get for that experience in rikers island? you get a good citizen at the end, someone who is trained to do something and be valuable, anything that is positive in terms of society as a whole? the only guarantees 70% of those young men in particular will be back in jail within 180 days. we have a fundamental problem with use in this country and we cannot ignore it. anyone who is running for president and dozen have as part of their strategy what to do with these, that will cost us $1 billion the year annually. an anchor on middle-class development. one of the things that happens all the time is people say it is simple, this is simple, fix education and that will fix it. fix education. end of conversation. i am going to take the other side of that. just how good does that teacher have to be? imagine the city of dallas. dallas has got 1,000,002 people and growing. when the school bell rang today and the students walked out the door of their school, the number of people in the city of dallas, that is how many kids walked out of sc

tyrone howard appeared in bronx criminal court on charges from an arrest on rikers island. authorities say he was caught holding 33 bags of crack cocaine in may of 2013. the grand jury indicted howard on first-degree murder murder and robbery charges in the shooting death of detective randolph holder. >>> an arrest in the hit-and- run accident involving an off duty nypd detective in queens. police say ellen rivera moya into custody. they say she hit the detective with her s.u.v. as he crossed 80th street in glendale last night. the detective spend the night in the hospital but is expected to recover. >>> a hempstead police officer arrested and charged with sexually abusing a woman in front of her two children. police say lewis arcila was off duty when woman. he had his police shield clipped to his waist. prosecutors allege he sexually assaulted the woman as his 3- daughters watched. >>> now we go to the mets. they may be down but they are not out. right now the team is back here in new york. they are practicing at citi field. last night as you know the mets lost game 2. gam

at rikers island jail, a bakery churns out nearly 90,000 loaves of bread per week while teaching inmates how to bake. in many of the prisons profiled on "lockup," inmates have opportunities to learn skills that can help them find work on the outside. but all too many spend their time honing skills more suitable to mayhem and murder. >> i stabbed an inmate 12 times. over some dope in front of the chow hall. >> i took a knife and i stabbed him with it three or four times, until he was dead. then i butchered him with it. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the concrete. it ain't got to be sharp. just has to have a point. put your hand on it, do what you need to do. >> "lockup" crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. >> in every prison we film in, there's always a shank museum, a place where the authorities display all the weapons that are confiscated by staff. ♪ homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plastic. i mean, they're truly ingenious. but they're deadly, as well. >> at california's san quentin state prison, we

at the, vent was hot 97 host, and fox 5 news reporter lisa evers, who was moderating the panel riker island reform. reporting for "fox 5 news." christina: some members spent part of the weekend there. antwan: there is dari right there. christina: beautiful, and alison. antwan: and lotty works at her hunter station. christina: and mike woods, a great event. antwan: audrey you were there did you have fun? >> i did it was bigger than i expected it was a great turn out. a lot of people love our fox booth, the character of from empire. >> a great turn out. >> it was. christina: did you expwee any shows you remember working? antwan: we had a great day for everyone to turn out. >> it was, sunshine, it was a chilly day, you had to bundle up we'll start the workweek just the same. we're below average with the highs, as i showed you. we have readings about 10 to 20 degrees below where we should be this time of year, central park a high of 50 at 12:30 this afternoon, normally we should be in low 60s, we'll slowly climb up to that, and be above average as we get to middle part of the week, right now a

drugs while in east harlem but in 2013 he pleaded guilty to dealing drugs while he was inside rikers island. some of his past arrests include 2009, assault, first degree with a loaded gun. 2011, felony drug dealings, 2012, public lewdness for allegedly trying to attack a woman in an elevator with his panhandles down. september, 2014, drug charges. then one month later, october 2014, that felony drug gang wrongup where he got sent to a diversion program instead of prison. out on the street again last month he's wants for pursuing a drug dealer. last night his drug rivalings tried to shoot him, he fired back and fled the scene. as police moved in, he allegedly shot and killed officer holder. >> all that and he was supposed to go into drug diversion instead of jail. certainly some questions for the judge. what is the d.a. saying? >> the d.a. is saying they objected. they wanted him to face the maximum prison time for the latest case in which he pleaded guilty and the d.a. released a statement a short time ago, i am deeply angered and sadden fwid senseless murder of police officer holder. this

he was sent to rikers island. he spent three years there without a trial.no trial, never convicted. two years he spent in solitary confinement. guards,eaten by gangs, and tried to commit suicide. he was released but could never get over the experience. never convicted. he was convicted by -- accused by someone who is in the country illegally. he committed suicide a few months ago. that is not the country i believe in. that is not the kind of country i want to represent. i do not want to represent a country that cannot obey the bill of rights, that is putting young people in jail for nonviolent crimes, sometimes without a trial. none of you would have been left in jail. your parents would have figured out a way, but this was a cooler from theblack kid bronx. i want to be a different party than we have been in the past. i want to defend everybody -- rich, pool were, black, white. says, io be the one who defend the second amendment. but i want to have the greater passion to defend the sixth amendment, justice for all, no matter where you came from. thank you f

he was sent to new york's rikers island jail to await trial. for his father, ronny drayton, it was a nightmare. >> you would stand right here and look across? >> yes, i would. >> what would you ask for? what was your hope? >> just to give me my baby back. simple as that, you know? >> neither donovan nor his father had any idea how long the wait would be. >> i looked outside my window and i see the triborough bridge. and i just started crying. i was like, damn. would i ever drive across that bridge again? will i ever go across that bridge again? it's like whew, i called my father and i was like damn dad, like the view i have is so nice. but am i going to be in that view like any time soon? you know what i'm saying? >> and what did i say? >> you said "of course you will be, man". >> you know you have this thing, you see law & order on tv you know they have the trial, he has a section, they go to court, they do this and that's it. >> it happens nothing like the movies now. >> no, no, no, no, no, no. they don't, they don't... >> what's the biggest

authorities arrested correction officer charles bracy for allegedly smuggling a weapon into the jail on rikers island. you can see from this picture here, investigators say that weapon contained a small saw and a razor. he now faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. >> moving to memphis this morning. the killing of a police officer may have stemmed from a disagreement between the officer and a neighbor. this alleged gunman was washing his car when he got into an we're told the time the officer was off duty. right now no words that he was targeted because of his job. >>> and in texas, a man is in critical condition this morning after a shooting outside the home of the dallas cowboys. arlington, texas, police say a fight erupted between two men in a parking lot outside at&t stadium. one man was shot, taken to the hospital. the suspected gunman was arrested. the shooting came about an hour and a half after the cowboys lost to the patriots. >>> right now southwest airlines is trying to fix a glitch causing delays for many people. southwest agents had to check in a lot of their passengers by hand.

it is rikers island, rosanna. rosanna: i have gone there to interview people. greg: i would love to go. rosanna: it is a little scary, i would say. a lot of security. you have to go over a bridge. an article in the newspaper. when they call home to stay in touch with their family, they rip them off. they have adjusted that at a federal level. a bit more reasonable. almost as tough as having a relative in prison. you have to go all the way up state for some of these places. rosanna: 7:30 a.m. in the morning. greg: how about that hope that visited the jail. rosanna: i was exhausted with his schedule. when is he going to take a break. it was fun while he was in town. it seems like such a long time ago. mike: it looks pretty good weatherwise. we have more rain coming into town. sunshine out there early on. the clouds will be thickening up. rain will be here tomorrow. good morning, everyone. it is tuesday. 41 degrees. town, 43. forty-one, which port did a lot of high clouds. 6 degrees cooler than it was 24 hours ago. 4 degrees cooler and monticello. a cooler start t

tyrone howard is accused of selling drugs while he was behind bars on rikers island last year. he is due back in court on those charges on november 24th. >>> meanwhile, thousands of officers came to queens to pay their last respects to their fallen colleague. those officers filled the greater allen ame church in jamaica and the streets outside, all the for officer randolph holder's funeral yesterday. during the service, commissioner bratton choked up as he announced officer holder was going to be promoted. >> i posthumously promote officer randolph holder, him shield 9657. >> postmouse promotion to detective, and his body was flown to guyana, where he'll be laid to rest. >>> 4:27 right now. at the height of the world series a major sports betting website is now in the crosshairs of law enforcement. 17 people were indicted. the queens d.a. says they're connected with a 365action.com. among those charged, the site's alleged own er er, someone in california. >>> 4:39 now. today, congressman paul ryan expected to get the gavel as speaker of the house. a confirmation vote is expecte

a rikers island corrections officer is facing charges this morning. investigators say he entered the jail carrying a razor-edge tool. commissioner mark peters of the city's department of investigations says the 47-year- old charles bracey concealed the tool in a paper sleeve wrapped in electrical tape. it was found as bracey arrived for his shift on saturday. investigators say it is the seventh arrest of a correction employee in the past five weeks and more arrests are expected. some are accused of contributing to violence among inmates. >>> 5:38. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with bill evans. >> let's look outside. it's a pretty morning. this is our camera at 4 times square. a beautiful sunrise coming your way. in about an hour for now we'll be at dawn seeing a beautiful sunrise. we're looking at 57 right now. clear skies, a southwest wind. clear skies are all the way back to the great lakes and down south. a couple of systems are coming our way. one is this cold front in the great lakes at lake superior and

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credit-card bail-authorization form and better coordinating the bus schedule from courthouses to rikers island to give defendants more time to post the bail. all very complicated. all too many people know about these problems too intimately. there's also a push in new york state to change the bail system statewide. joining us this morning is state senator michael gianaris, a democrat from queens who has just introduced this new legislation. us. >> thank you. >> so, tell me what this bill is all about. >> well, it's important to remember where bail has come from. my bill would actually eliminate bail in new york state. we'd be the first state in the nation to do away with it entirely. and when you look at the history of bail and where it's come from, one realizes that we don't really need it anymore. it doesn't serve the purpose that it's intended to. >> which was, originally, to make sure people get their behinds into court when they're scheduled to. >> right, exactly. in other words, you could pay for your freedom, or you could sit in jail and wait if you don't have the money to do it. >> and

he faces charges stemming from an arrest on rikers island in 2014. he was caught holding 33 small bags of crack cocaine. jury on charges of first-degree murder and robbery in the shooting death of officer randolph holder. >>> police in new jersey bust what they call a mobile meth lab. officers noticed something was wrong in a car parked in the ramada inn on route 46 in wayne. when they went to check it out, they saw the suspect, christopher gary pull mixing chemicals. he didn't notice them as the vehicle filled with a white cloud of fumes. officer in jamaica hospital, the victim of a hit and run driver in glendale, queens. the off-duty officer was hit in the crosswalk at cooper avenue night. he may have been hit by a toyota s.u.v. accident. doctors say the officer's injuries are not life threatening. >>> three years ago today corms slammed into the tri-state area, caused billions of dollars in damage. today some communities are fight to get more help from the government. eyewitness news reporter toni yates is live in union beach where the lieutenant

he went to rikers island. he spent two years in solitary confinement. the was beaten gangs, guards. the old billy tried to commit suicide. he was finally released, he can never get over the experience of present. he was accused of a crime by someone who is not in the country legally, they fled back to mexico. but he finally did commit suicide a few months ago. and when i think about that, i think about -- that is of the country i believe in. that is not the country i want to represent. i do not want to represent a country that cannot obey the bill of rights. including people, young people in jail for nonviolent crimes. sometimes without a trial, letting them linger there. none of you would be left in jail, your parents would've found a way to get you out. but this is a poor black kid from the bronx who was kept there without a bond, a body could not. i want to be the party, be different than we were in the past. i want to be someone who says i want to defend everybody, rich, poor, black, white. i want to defend everybody and defend the entire bill of rights. i want to be the one who

more trouble at rikers island. the alarming discovery that has one guard facing charges. >> my baby sister is in such critical condition, please come forward. >> a new jersey family pleading for help to find whoever is responsible for a hit and run crash that has a college student fighting for her life. >>> an nypd cruiser involved in an accident. >> what a mess here. there was originally an accident on the left side of the screen. that was a minor three-car accident heading into the bronx. on the other side of the roadway, queens bound we had a major accident involving a tbta police car. they pulled him off the guardrail. look at the back end damage to that vehicle that civilian vehicle who hit him has similar damage on the front end of the vehicle. only the right lane gets through as you head in to queens and this is a mess in either direction taking it over to the whitestone bridge gets you around this without a problem. shannon sohn channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you shannon. new this morning, buildings i

tyrone howard appeared in bronx criminal court on charges stemming from an arrest on rikers island in may of 2013. he was caught holding 23 small bags of crack cocaine. a grand jury indicted howard on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the shooting death of officer randolph holder. >>> well, it may be hard to believe but it was three years ago today that superstorm sandy marched through our area bringing death and destruction with it. the rockaways, breezy point, belle harbor some of the hardest hit neighborhoods. in breezy point 355 homes were destroyed by flooding or firement since then almost 300 of the homes have been rebuilt. meteorologist amy freeze has more on the long road to recovery after sandy. amy 146789 david, listening to those stats, 350 homes destroyed, 300 have been rebuilt, seems like they have made a lot of progress. but there were more than 1,000 homes beyond that that still needed work or needed to be elevated. those homes are waiting for repairs. some of the homeowners are frustrated. today we got a unique perspective in breezy point from a man that built

credit card bail authorization form and better coordinating the bus schedule from courthouses to rikers island to give defendants more time to post their bail. >>> rapper flavor flav pleaded guilty today on long island from criminal charges from a 2014 traffic stop. the 55-year-old whose real name is william jonathan drayton admitted to charges of aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle. he was arrested in hempstead while rushing to his mother's funeral in january 2014. the judge sentenced flavor flav to time served and ordered him to pay $3500 in court fees. >>> well, if you've ever known someone who said that they read playboy for only the articles, maybe you're one of those people yourself, you can quit rolling your eyes now because it actually may be true. the magazine that made naked models close to mainstream, says it will no longer feature naked women in the magazines. abc's chris conley has the details. >> starting in 2016, playboy says the women it features will be naked no longer. wait. what? after 62 years of sexy center folds and unclothed celebrities starting in the 1950s, th

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>> the bad guys got run out of town or run into rikers island real fast.ot done that. >> taking illegal guns off the street. the numbers are going up. someone shot every 2.8 hours. >> 11 people killed in chicago in september than i believe americans -- well, i know, in afghanistan. the violence in chicago is worse than do you kabul. >> president obama has the gull to go out and yell about gun control when the last time he mentioned the chicago problem, do you know when it was? do you? do you know when it was? 2013. two years ago. two years ago. >> and mayor emanuel is not doing anything either. >> mayor emanuel? are you kidding me? >> that's what i'm saying. >> are you kidding me? >> that's what i'm saying. >> stand up irish guy. he should put the national guard on the street. >> why do we go to the legislature and legislate? you have got to legislate this. >> wiehl, wiehl, wiehl. >> this is what is wrong with you and your liberal ilk. you don't legislate anything. you tell the cops. >> you legislate ledge. arrests up 20% this year. >> you continue living

he went to rikers island. he spent two years in solitary confinement. the was beaten gangs, guards. the old billy tried to commit suicide. he was finally released, he can never get over the experience of present. he was accused of a crime by someone who is not in the country legally, they fled back to mexico. but he finally did commit suicide a few months ago. and when i think about that, i think about -- that is of the country i believe in. that is not the country i want to represent. i do not want to represent a country that cannot obey the bill of rights. including people, young people in jail for nonviolent crimes. sometimes without a trial, letting them linger there. none of you would be left in jail, your parents would've found a way to get you out. but this is a poor black kid from the bronx who was kept there without a bond, a body could not. i want to be the party, be different than we were in the past. i want to be someone who says i want to defend everybody, rich, poor, black, white. i want to defend everybody and defend the entire bill of rights. i want to be the one who

there was an article in "the new york times" on rikers island people with serious mental illness geth new charges from a minor offense became elevated put in solitary confinement you should never do that to someone with mental illness that with a person with mental illness the same crime the person will serve the term four times longer that is the shame of the system would agencies to anyone to address it and waste money on bribing reporters to tell my stories it is the shameful story what we need to do instead of saying you have to criminalize it before you get help horsey will kill yourself why deal with them a stage for? we need to save lives them be more compassionate. >> is there a local or state program to get in at the ground level? >> i mentioned the response program that is targeted science evidence based the traumatic stress network at adolescents or adults that have been traumatized one of the reports from the gao said they don't follow through or have standards or have reports that come out this is into the it is gao seven recasts the director how would you score yourself

there was an article in "the new york times" on rikers island people with serious mental illness getn fights with new charges from a minor offense became elevated put in solitary confinement you should never do that to someone with mental illness that with a person with mental illness the same crime the person will serve the term four times longer that is the shame of the system would agencies to anyone to address it and waste money on bribing reporters to tell my stories it is the shameful story what we need to do instead of saying you have to criminalize it before you get help horsey will kill yourself why deal with them a stage for? we need to save lives them be more compassionate. >> is there a local or state program to get in at the ground level? >> i mentioned the response program that is targeted science evidence based the traumatic stress network at adolescents or adults that have been traumatized one of the reports from the gao said they don't follow through or have standards or have reports that come out this is into the it is gao seven recasts the director how would you sc

there was an during article in the "new york times" about rikers island. what starts out as a minor offense become elevated. they're tased and put in solitary confinement. you should never do that to someone with mental illness or other people, too. but what happens is a person with mental illness for the same crime will tend to serve a prison sentence four times longer than a person without mental illness and it is part of what is the shame of our system when we have agencies that don't want to address serious mental illness and want to waste money on siring you this and bribes reporters. this shameful, and what we need to do is instead of saying we have to criminalize mental elness before you get heavily or say you are going to kill yourself, why deal at things at stage four. we need to save lives, save money, being more come. -- compassionat instays of innorring, injuries there is a program that is -- >> the response -- very targeted, science-based, evidence based. the national child and adolescent traumatic stress network looking at high-risk groups of

authorities arrested corrections officer charles bracy for allegedly smuggling a weapon into the jail on rikers island. we're told that weapon contained a small saw and a razor. he faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. >>> two separate reports say a cleveland police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy. both were released over the weekend, one from a retired fbi agent, the other written by a prosecutor in denver. they conclude the officer timothy lowman acted reasonably under the law when he shot the 12-year-old last november. rice was waving what turned out to be a pellet gun. rice's family is disputing those reports. >>> in memphis this morning, the killing of a police officer may have stemmed from a disagreement between that officer and one of his neighbors. station there, this alleged gunman was washing his car when he got into an arkt with the officer and shot him. we're told the officer was off duty at the time. right now there's no word that he was targeted because of his job. >>> and in texas, a man is in critical condition this morning after a shooting ou

there was an article in the "new new york times" at rikers island and found that many people had seriousmental illness they get fights with prison guards and other inmates. they had new charges on them. what started off as a minor offense became an elevated offense. they will get tased. you should never do that with people with mental illness. those are terrible things, you should never do that with someone with mental illness. for the same crime, tend to serve as a prison sentence four times longer that be a person without mental illness. and it is part of what is the shame of our system. when we have agencies that don't want to address serious mental illness who want to waste on on silly thing and bribing reporters that tell nice stories about them. this is a shameful story of what's happening here. what we need to do with those folks, instead of saying we have to criminalize mental illness before you get help, or say you're going to kill yourself or someone else before you get help. why are we dealing with stage four? we need to be dealing with things at an earlier stage. saving lives

in riker's island for example they have 115 land you in solitary and you don't even know what they are. so if you're fighting obviously that is serious if there's violence but there is violence but if you talk to an officer you write something people consider to be offensive and politically. you get a couple of months in the wisconsin system 360 which is a year year and people continue to misbehave while the bigger in solitary and they add on time so we have people in this country that are in solitary for a year or decades. some 30, 40 years by themselves. the thing of solitary confinement is to use all of these unusual words the general public doesn't really know about, administrator, segregation, all of these euphemisms for solitary confinement. basically what they mean is that someone is in a cell for at least 23 hours a day and when they are released they are released for exercise or shower by themselves and often it's controlled by technology and distance, so corrections officers really don't have to have any contact with the inmate into the conditions you have a generally small s

there was an article a couple months ago at riker's island ended up many people with serious mental illswould get into fights with prison guards, inmates. what started as a minor offense got elevated. they were put in solitary confinement. those are terrible things. you should never do that to someone with mental illness or quite frankly other people. a person with mental illness for the same crime will tend to serve a prison sentence of four times longer than a person without mental illness. it's part of what it' is ashamef our system with agencies who don't want to address that the illness. this is a shameful story of what's happening and what we need to do with those folks instead of saying we have to criminalize mental illness before you get help or yet get help or you have to say get help or you have to say you will kill yourself or someone else to get help from wikipedia with stage four? we need to be dealing things at an earlier stage. >> is there a local program, state program you have seen works very effectively and getting into the ground level so it doesn't get -- >> i mention