when what else were you able to get into rikers island? >> i was able to bring two joints with me and a lighter. >> two joints and a lighter. marijuana? >> yeah, marijuana joints. >> we asked new york's office of court administration if court security officers should have discovered the phone and any other contraband. we were told that court officers typically conduct a pat down search after the defendant is sentenced but they leave the more thorough searching to prison guard. we were told last week that jail guards did a sweep and they found another contraband phone. back to you. >> thank you. >>> the now the other story you would like new york's biggest i-team to check out. call us. >>> we got hit with the one two are we out of the woods? >> pretty much for the big storm system. the wind are gusty now but they aren't the dangerous winds we saw from last night. be on the look out if you're driving. especially on overpasses. it's pretty brisk out there. we have to layer up tonight and tomorrow. the cold air is back. here is a look from the

bailed out comes to us. >> 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 the 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. >> we patrol the meanest precincts in america. when our officers go to work, every day they know that everyone they run into is going to be a criminal. every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> -- is coming through here, if they're coming from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they're 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. >> we get between 80 to 90 admissions a day, around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 356 days a year. >> what size you wear? >> 8 1/2. >> guess what, 10 is your lucky number. these are air giulianis. y

investigators could not confirm this is actually a riker's island holding cell. court records confirm the prisoner was jailed at riker's island. >> when inmates have cell phones with them, they're not for the most part using it to call mom >> reporter: department of correction says they have new training and protocols. last year, jail guards confiscated 21% more contraband than the year before. but cell phone recoveries were down 13%. would you say a cell phone is just as dangerous as a weapon? >> a cell phone in one sense can be even more dangerous than a weapon, because a cell phone allows you to communicate undedetected. >> contraband cell phones can get drugs in, weapons, alcohol in. >> reporter: this is ceo of a new jersey company that sells cell phone detection systems. he does not supply city jails, but he says this can help find them. i hid one and this detector found it. it showed the phone was stashed somewhere below my actionical. the d.o.c. owns several made by another another company, but it's not clear how this one slipped through. city council memb

>> the way he got hurt on rikers island from the corrections officers. it's not fair. >> reporter: but the corrections union said did we advocate to get the same review process pending the outcome of the legal process when they've been accused of a crime? damn right we did. and the administration rightly agreed with us. light on alleged misconduct at the ierks -team uncovered abusive strip searches performed on visitors. this week the city council speaker proposed closing rikers. and today the governor again weighed in, arguing 85% of the jail's population hasn't been convicted of a crime. >> and they're in rikers island suffering dangerous conditions, zil civil rights abuses. and they haven't even been victimed. convicted. >> reporter: sources tell us that prosecutors plan to call lightfoot as a witness to testify against the correction officers. the trial could begin next week. >>> and new at 6:00, monmouth have solved a 50-year-old murder. the victim was a high school senior discovered beaten to death and sexual assaultly assaulted in 1965. investigat

>> the way he got hurt on rikers island from the corrections officers. it's not fair. >> reporter: but the corrections union said did we advocate to get the same review process pending the outcome of the legal process when they've been accused of a crime? damn right we did. and the administration rightly agreed with us.

. >>> and new at 5:00, an operation to smuggle k2 into rikers island. and a city correction officer is accused of playing a big role in this. ray? >> drug sniffing dogs made the discovery at shift change on rikers island. according to prosecutors he tried to sneak in synthetic marijuana, commonly called k2. more than 60 grams of k2 was found wrapped in black tape that's not all authorities found. a search of his home turned up 126 grams of k 2 and a package of tobacco. he had been at rikers island as a corrections officer since october of 2014. he's now suspended, charged with bribery and promoting prison contraband among other charges. if convicted, the 25-year-old could be locked up for up to seven years himself. >>> a nasty accident on 59th street on the bridge today. chopper 4 got these pictures of a cab pushed up against the outer wall of the bridge there. that's on the upper level of the bridge. we're told that one person is in serious but stable condition at cornell medical center. no word on what caused this accident. >>> in new jersey a chillin

now, it's rikers island. here with the government will say. >> ted cruz is during donald trump to sue him. you will hear what the candidate has to say today. >> another big story. apple fighting the feds and refusing to crack the code. if you open any iphone up to hackers, the officials want the company to take action. the latest battle over protection versus privacy. >> good morning. >> think you for being with us. >> this is 5:30 a.m. and we appreciate waking up with us. >> february 18. thursday morning and we are headed towards the weekend. last weekend we came up a little bit short. >> i kind of liked it. we just stayed inside. >> mtv and hanging out. >> this is part of the year where you are trying to get a little bit restless. you want to get outside back into the gym . ben: you finally recovered . my bad friends are taking advantage of it with a bad arm. carrie: i don't know what you're talking about. ben: i don't know what you're talking about . mike: it's true. ben simmoneau. let's look at the temper

investigators could not confirm this is actually a riker's island holding cell. court records confirm the prisoner was jailed at riker's island. >> when inmates have cell phones videos, they're not using them to call mom on mother's day. >> the department of investigation commissioner mark peters says jails have made progress in detecting contraband with training. that he confiscated 21% more. cell phone recoveries were down 13%ment. >> would yhiou say a cell phone is just as dangerous as a weapon? >> a cell phone in one sense can be even more dangerous than a weapon because the cell phone allows you to communicate undetected. get weapons in, can get drugs in, can get alcohol in. >> this is the ceo of berkeley ver tron ix, a new jersey company than sells cell phone detection systems. he does not supply city jails but hardware like this could help rid them -- i hid a phone on my person and this detector easily found it. >> the light shows the phone was stashed somewhere below my ankle and it was. >> the d.o.c. owns several phone detectors. they're in the process o

he's behind bars on rikers island for allegedly stealing a greyhound bus. we covered his first arrest for taking a subway train three decades ago when he was 15. >> he was finally ly ly arrested. he agreed to sit down with sarah wallace for his first-ever tv interview. some are calling him a menace to society. others say he's a misunderstood man with a mental disorder. the fact is his come pulsion cannot be put into a convenient category. he may just be one of a kind. so what to do about darrius? most of us look at riding the subway as a cramped, noisy necessity. but for 50-year-old darrius, it's an addictive high and riding isn't enough. what goes through your mind when you get behind the controls or the wheel? >> what goes through my mind is the enjoyment, the thrill, the satisfaction. to know how to do it and do it better than other people. >> darrius has done it since he was a kid. he spoke to me in his first tv interview ever from rikers island, where he's been unable charge for allegedly helping himself to ran empty greyhound bus in hoboken and ending

on rikers island, you know, we had a cot. it was a thin piece of got like you know the metal frame end. i suffer from back pains now. the kids are coming here at 4 o'clock in the morning, trying to either wake me up or join in the bed with me. >> arlene credits children of promise with helping her and her girls adjust. she's determined to help others deal with prison trauma of their own, encouraging them to stay positive, and communicate with their kids on a daily basis. >> my mummy was craig. >> reporter: armani and her younger sister had to absorb big lessons. >> but they were tears of what? >> joy. >> those are the tears we cry now, right. >> that's what my mum taught me. >> it's not bad to cry. >> no. i'm just trying to say you are human. break it in the pan. >> arlene is determined to teacher girls to be independent. >> it's a lesson she's learning and is humbled by the opportunity for the family to get it right. >> i always wanted to walk without being handcuffed to someone. without wearing a jump suit or a co telling m

he spoke to me in his first tv interview ever from rikers island, where he's been unable to make bail on his l test charge, that would be for allegedly helping himself to an empty greyhound bus in hoboken and ending up in brooklyn. why don't you just stop? >> i have that problem. i don't know how to stop. i want to know how to stop. i just feel compelled, like i'm drawn in, and i don't know how to fight that feeling on my own. >> reporter: that feeling has caused him to be arrested 30 times in 35 years. every time he gets out of prison, security alerts are posted in mass transits hubs. nabbed after driving an in-service e subway train. >> a 15-year-old queens boy -- >> reporter: but he acknowledges at was not the first time. doing it since i was 12. >> reporter: that year h was st bed by a fellow student at school. the subway became a safe haven. transit workers took him in and arted giving him their shifts. >> they trusted me. they know i knew the system, the layout. they neede time off. they needed to get things done. i've been available. >> reporter: he's been diagnosed with as bur

it crashed into rikers island. twenty fatalities. story. the prisoners on rikers island came to the rescue. did the plane crash right into the jail? the aircraft was now gaining altitude without any visibility. 1500 feet on first impact. shortly after the crash. running to the crash in order to help survivors. thirty were released. granting the consensus to seven men. 1957. the weather was bad. there at rikers island. rosanna: the sun is coming out. it is going to be mild. >> i did see that headline. last year being the hottest year ever. it is not supposed to be like this. it is weird. rosanna: there are others that believe it has to do with weather and cycle patterns. >> what do you mean? >> probably a little bit of both, to be honest with you. there is an actual cycle. temperature fluctuations. do except enjoy it. carbon footprint. i will do less hairspray. mike: oh really. [laughter] mike: we made it up to 56 as a high yesterday. the average high is only 39 degrees. way above normal. we will be well above normal for the majority of the

that we get the right type of prosecutions and, more importantly, that investigations happen in rikers island to get to the bottom of the violence. >> and why is this so important to you? >> rikers? >> mm-hmm. >> well, you know, it's public safety. it's all about the members of the community being safe, even those that are incarcerated. i mean, those people are there because they're accused of crime. they shouldn't be sentenced before their sentence, so having them there that long or having them go there, awaiting trial, and being abused and hurt or them causing problems for people that work there is not in the public interest, so, therefore, safe. >> i think also on your list is the conviction review board. >> yes. >> what is it that you feel like you need to tweak there? >> well, there's no real in the bronx district attorney's office right now. now that i am there, there will be. and i think you can't be a 21st-century prosecutor without being able to know that the work that you have done will withstand any type of review. so, it's something that i look forward to. i'm doing a lot of hirin

through dna evidence all five were cleared after someone else's dna match the same spent time at rikers islandson with reyes, convicted murderer serial rapist. not only was she is serving time for his crime was left with a scar in a fight over a tv channel. >> he stood at the scar. >> while. >> so you still after all these years. so it's really going over my head. still here. still maintaining innocence. while. >> not met reyes in prison to this day off i would never have been exonerated. >> more of the best friend and your best friend. >> a total stranger. >> and the only reason, was fighting. >> never able to identify the attacker. ever want to meet her? do you feel that point. >> to feel bad about what happened? >> $41 million from the city. >> my mansion is my state of mind. >> iasked if he still believes the city is racist. >> the police of the biggest gang members out here. >> ain't no order. >> now praises the mayor. butbut he believes that is why the cops turn their back a little more than a year ago. >> mayor deblasio made history. bill: what is interesting that of context, look back

a third of that the result of fights inside rikers island. and a jump on attacks on cops trying to make arrests. but it's the blip in subway slashings that continue to make headlines, ten stabbings and slashings this year up from just four last year, most the result of arguments or fights. but some riders are worried. police adding officers and patrols below ground. the chief of transit last week took a ride with us to offer reassurance, stressing there are trains that carry 6 million people. and most of those crimes are theft of smart phones while riders are sleeping. >> a lot of people are tired. they work very hard. our officers are going to be instructed to start waking people up. if you're sleeping you make yourself a very easy victim. >> reporter: the trains now getting added patrols to try to stop the slight increase in crime from getting any worse. as for the record low of crime numbers we're just one month into the year but the nypd says it's focusing on gangs and known repeat offenders still on the streets to try to drive the number

. >>> the future of rikers island will be the focus of a town hall meeting in harlem tonight. reverend al sharpton hosting the gathering. governor cuomo says rikers should be replaced with a modern >>> a brooklyn family has hired a prominent buffalo attorney to investigate the death of their son, a death that might have been caused by a hazing. bradley was a student athlete at buffalo state. he died last thursday. police are looking into whether an incident at the alpha phi alpha fraternity house might have led to the death. >>> central hudson gas and electric says there is a scam going around. the scammers use a recording from central hudson's own automated phone system saying your balance is past due and your utilities will be cut off unless you pay immediately. if you get this call, you should call its real customer service line to report it. >>> time is running out for early prepay applications. at a news conference today mayor de blasio urged parents to sign their young children up for the city's universal prek program. the deadly is march 4th. parents shouldn't wait and

. >>> how secure is rikers island jail? tonight a prisoner speaks to the news 4 iteam about how easy it was to smuggle drugs and an in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. like in buffalo, where the largest solar gigafactory in the western hemisphere will soon energize the world. and in syracuse, where imagination is in production. let us help grow your company's tomorrow - listen up new york. there's a new drug out there. and it's trying to destroy our generation. it's called synthetics. . . some herbs, and then sell it to you. no, it's not marijuana. it goes by names like k2, spice, rocks. causes hallucinations, rapid heart-beat. vomiting, seizures. and it can kill you the first time you smoke it. we gotta have each other's backs. this is our future. and the future of new york is saying no to synthetics! go to oasas.ny.gov, or call or >>> have a

. >>> mayor de blasio dismissed the talk of closing riker's island. yesterday, the mayor called it noble but too expensive and a logistical nightmare. that puts him at odds with governor cuomo. they want to close the troubled complex. the mayor says that would cost billions of dollars. for mexico's migrants when he celebrate across the u.s. border. the pontiff will perform the service at the juarez fair ground. nearby in texas it will be simulcast in sun bowl stadium. >> yesterday the pope had an awkward moment. he was merely toppled. the pope gave them a loud scolding. >>> all right. happening now, from the heavy rain and the strong winds that pushed through the area, the storm of parking lights like this near citi field flooded. in the bronx, also covered with water. some cars were left stranded. fortunately, it appears that most of the major flooding has subsided this morning. >>> heavy rain wasn't the only thing falling from the sky. a news vehicle from our sister station in connecticut was hit by a sheet of ice that flew off of a box truck. conne

. >> reporter: now gerdes is mentoring at rikers island enrolled at columbia university, and wants to open halfway houses for women. kayla's life changed here when she ran over the doctor. now her goal to dedicate her life to public health in a mission to help others. from hempstead, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. >> and jennifer reached out to the family of dr. rebecca twine. they told her it will take a lifetime of service to begin to fill the shoes of their deceased mother and they hope kayla gerdes has the commitment and compassion for that. >> very powerful. >> yes. headline seen around the world. talking about someone around here described as a cannibal cop. an nypd officer accused but now cleared of attempting to kill and cook women including his wife. cbs 2's alice gainer sat down with gilberto valle and has a preview of tonight's exclusive interview. >> something i lived with since i mean puberty, you know, i was aroused, you know, tv shows, movies, a woman in bondage that's what aroused me. >> so why escalate? three years ago his secret was exposed to the world. >> there are

. >>> a canine dog sniffed out k-2 drugs at riker's island. the dog found it hidden on a correction officer. he tried to sneak over 60 grams of synthetic marijuana in his socks. drug sniffing dog picked up the scent at the gate of the jail. they found more at the man's house. they took the money they allege to deliver the drugs. >>> just ahead, the candidate who became emotional on the campaign trail. >>> a parking problem. we'll tell you who could be left without a spot. >>> storm team 4 tracking a the latest snow totals ahead in ather and traffic on the 4s. wur e. you're watching "today in new york." it. i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. yeah...but what about mike? it works on his cough too. cough! it works on his cough too. mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs for 12 hours. let's end this. i did everything i could to make her party perfect. almost everything. you know, 1 in 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, rid-x helps break down waste. avoid a septic disaster with >>> welcome back. 4:

riker's island is a problem. it's a big problem. riker's island was built in the 1930s. it has maoreople out that i was designed tholed, and it's a dangero, dangerous place. it's dangerous for the correction officials. it's dangerous for the inmates. rikers not like a state prison at riker's not everyone has if been found guilty of anything. people there that is awaiting trial. it is a bad situation. i believe part of it is too big, it's too old and doesn't have any of the new technology and designs that we would use if we were building a jail or a prison in the state of the capacity. now people say well, it's where wutd you put a new one, and it's hard to site and politics are difficult. i understand that. but that shouldn't be the reason we shy rose that. if we shy away from autoof the big problems, it's over for us in new york and we never shy away from problems we're rebuilding laguardia awrpt. a new tappan zee bridge. we're rebuilding penn station and the pavings. toed a mutt it and go forward. >> as we wrap up i want to bring it back to housing a look at your house

an airplane crashed into rikers island. on the way to florida, bad weather. the pilot lost spatial orientation and crashed into that is next door to la guardia. there were 20 fatale sis and dozens of injuries. the inmates there, the inmates rescued many of the passengers. rosanna: wow. greg: let's see, after wards 57 inmates, 30 were released and others reducing the sentence. i like that, prisoners, everybody is a person, i think everybody. that is wide it happened 59 years ago today next door to la guardia. about. rods roz hopefully the people that were there then are still not there now. i hope they have had an alternativeover since then. morning with you. greg: the you see mayor deblasio, tell him we said hey. he's in iowa right now looking for people to be impressed by him. rosanna: join in on the conversation with us. go to our facebook pages, we are going live there. have a good day, new york. fresh step extreme lightweight litter isn't just light. it's also the best lightweight for eliminating odors. amazing, right? for superior odor elimination try fr

. >>> riker's island corrections officer may trade her badge for she's accused of sneaking marijuana into the jail and giving it to an inmate she was allegedly sleeping with. prosecutors found the drugs at her home. indian point nuclear plant. senator charles schumer urging them to investigate after water con tame natted by a radioactive isotope called tritium leaked into the groundwater. the contamination is contained and there's no risk to the public. but senator schumer says it's a wake-up call. >> this is radioactive stuff. there's no excuse for pumps breaking down. what can be done to make sure this doesn't happen again? we dodged a bullet this time. >> nrc says a faulty water pump caused that leak. schumer says part of the investigation should be determined why that pump failed. students are off today for the lunar new year. it's the first time the school closed for the holiday. they added the holiday saying it's an important day for asian americans. the year of the monkey begins today. >>> also happening today, many students in park ridge, new jersey, will spend the day at hom

city's notorious rikers island hanging in the balance as it is the focus of a town hall meeting tonight. some lawmakers have discussed closing the city's primary jail. it has been a target of a number of investigations. in 2014, the manhattan u.s. attorney's office cited them for the use of excessive force against inmates. >>> we want to turn to bill evans for a nice monday forecast forecast. >> very nice. we have sunshine. hardly any clouds. forty-seven, 48 degrees. forty-eight down the shore. these numbers are warmer than we had a calm wind. looking at some really the next several hours, temperatures in the upper 40s. maybe some spots hitting 50. looking at what is going to be a lot of sunshine after school. so the kids can be outside. and enjoy 49 degrees. we will talk about some rain, sleet and snow. coming up in the accuweather forecast in a moment. don't go away. >>> now to a nightmare hoax that has a lot of parents paying attention. a mom from connecticut is speaking out after a photo announcing her baby's birth was stolen and plastered online with a fake story leading to brutal

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 stabbed him with it three or four times until he was dead. and 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, it's just got to have a point. put your handle on it and do what you need to do. >> "lockup" crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. >> every prison we film in, there's always a shank museum, a place where the authorities display all of the weapons that are confiscated by staff. homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plastic. they're truly ingenious but deadly as well. >> at california's san quentin state prison, we saw how s

. >> reporter: the judge said he would remain in custody on rikers island. the district attorney's office says because of the nature of this crime, it is a top priority he is due back in court on tuesday. life on staten island, mallory hoff, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> growing and now deadly tensions between the israelis and palestinians. a palestinian teenager was shot and killed by an israeli officer after he ran at check point guards near bethlehem with a knife. two other teenagers were shot and killed hours earlier after one of them opened fire no soldiers were hurt. >>> meanwhile, a major step in the peace process in syria. president obama today called russian president vladimir putin. now according to the kremlin, both leaders expressed support for the cease fair in syria. -- fire in syria. the kremlin said putin stressed the need to build a solid working relationship between the defense ministries of both the u.s. and russia to fight terrorism. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry is pushing for reforms in albania. kerry stopped in t

i worked for the new york city department of corrections on rikers island for 25 years, steve.good folks working there. steve: well, that's pretty good. let's go get some money. let's play "feud." give me stephanie. give me whitney. ladies, top 6 answers on the board. here we go. name something a child does to convince his parents he's too sick for school. whitney. whitney: holds his stomach. steve: holds his stomach.

sued or disciplined for making >>> new york governor and ewe cuomo is backing a plan to shut down rikers island and replace it with a modern jail. dated and dangerous for guards and inmates. city council speaker melissa recently announced that a commission will look into a solution. the push for changes comes after reports of dozens of deaths at the site. the reports raising questions about supervision, medical care, and suicide prevention at rikers. >>> a restaurant where patients were attacked by a man yielding a machete reopened. police shot and killed the man, when he walked into the crowded restaurant and attacked people. some of the victims remain in the hospital. yesterday the restaurant reopened. food is being served in carryout containers and donations are being accepted. the money is going toward business costs and the victims. >>> a norovirus confirmed as the cause of a stomach virus that sickened 200 students at a college. classes resumed after they were canceled on thursday afternoon and friday. symptoms, including vomiting and stomach pain on tuesday night. the school says it has

. >> reporter: martin horn who was in charge of the nation's largest jail system in rikers island under mayor bloomberg says prisons are a 19th century invention, vulnerable to 21st century technology. >> not only by its capacity to deliver contraband but to know what the perimeter security configuration looks like san jose it -- look >> reporter: it started a near riot. drone smuggling attempts have also been reported in prisons in oklahoma, south carolina, and maryland. the new york state department of correction has no real policy for dealing with this new threat. >> you can imagine a situation where a drone with the capacity to fire a weapon, a weaponized drone, would fly right up to the window of the guard tower and fire in to it. >> reporter: it's not far-fetched. just last year a connecticut teen was arrested for converting his drone in to a flying weapon. >> it's a very serious problem that should not be underestimated. >> reporter: new york, connecticut, new jersey have no prisons. does. get caught flying a drone, you'll be fined $5,000. if you have an issue, a problem you need

. >>> also happening today, and there is a town hall meeting focused on the future of rikers island. some lawmakers have discussed closing the city's main jail complex, rikers has been the targets of a number of investigations in 2014 in the manhattan u.s. attorney's office, cited rikers guards for the use of excessive force against inmates. >>> 6:06. the race for president is kicking into high gear. for republicans, tomorrow's caucuses in nevada seem like a chance for donald trump to throw sand in the face of his competition. trump leads by 26 points, still riding high from saturday when south carolina. victory, ted cruz says the victory, ted cruz says the south carolina race was really a tie for him and marco rubio. cruz says he was only 1,000 votes behind the florida senator. either way, the fight is to see who can get a strong second place to trump tomorrow. >>> and hillary clinton is running a new ad narrated by morgan freeman. the ad is focused on the black lives matter rallies. both clinton and bernie sanders are looking beyond south carolina to the super tuesday states. clint

. >>> mayor de blasio is focusing on fixing rikers island instead of closing the prison. yesterday, governor cuomo said rikers is dangerous and dated. he suggested it should be replaced. the city council speaker echoed the governor, but yesterday, de blasio said it would be too expensive and take too long. he wants to remedy rikers. >>> a connecticut mother and her two children are recovering after a brutal attack by the children's father. police say responding officers had no choice but to shoot and kill the man. lou young reports now from fairfield. >> reporter: the house on mountain laurel road faces a brook side park in this leafy connecticut suburb. a 13-year-old girl called 911 we need help, she said. this is where the andrews lived with three children. police arrived to find the father and husband outside the home with a knife. >> the father was told to stop. he kept on advancing with something in his hand. wouldn't comply with the officer or listen. he kept coming, kept coming. the officer had no option but to use deadly force. >> reporter: neighbors on all sides

democracynow.org. , protesters gathered at new york city hall tuesday to call for shutting down the rikers island jail complex. the rally came after new york city mayor bill de blasio dismissed the idea of shutting down rikers as impractical. among those who attended was akeem browder, whose brother, kalief browder, spent three years at rikers without charge after he was accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. he maintained his innocence and requested a trial. after enduring abuses, including a beating by gardens -- guards and nearly 800 days in solitary confinement, browder was finally released when the charges were dismissed. last yeahe committed suicide at the age of 22. his brother spoke out tuesday. >> my name is akeem browder. i'm here with a campaign to shut down rikers along with other coalitions to demand justice for khalifa browder, to see that writers island is shut down from the torturous state that it is to nothing. we don't want to reform. we don't want to build new jails. we want our voices heard. if everyone compare attention to the facts of what happened with kaleif brow

. >> let's talk about rikers island. promoting prison contraband this morning. authorities say she was planning to smuggle marijuana to an inmate. she was arrested over the weekend. did not have any drugs on her at the time. trying to accuse him of bringing a law that says it is basically impossible for an inmate to have a conceptual relationship with a corrections officer. >> more fallout from that debate saturday night. rosanna: the new york times that that donald trump had a very strong showing. >> a give-and-take between chris christie and marco rubio. >> they had to shame you into going back. >> you talk about how great america is at the end of it. >> they expect to to get the schools open. they expect you to rebuild their stay. >> oh, boy. very rehearsed. >> watch, he will say the same thing. it was weird. bret baier. what did you think? >> good morning. people in new hampshire were digesting that debate. this is the union later today. rubio on defenses today. i went to a pub yesterday for chris christie. he quoted mike tyson. he said everybody has a plan

ask district attorney vance about the tape his office has from the telephones at rikers island where a prisoner is describing to his colleagues on the street how important it is that it get ios8 to avoid scrutiny from law enforcement. >> rose: take a look. this is the bill bratton quote in which an inmate says that encryption is a gift from god. here it is. >> if our phones are running on the io8 software, they can't open my phone, the inmate said. that might be another gift from god. well, i would advocate apple and google should not be in the business of giving gifts from god. >> rose: i want to make sure i haven't left this idea. clearly, if there is access to this phone, you want access to all those phones that you think are crucial in a criminal proceeding? >> absolutely right. and what we are asking for is what i think the fourth amendment permits us under the constitution to do. we can't conduct unreasonable searches and seizures. that's what the constitutional law says. when we go to a judge we ask to get evidence out of a phone we believe to have evidence and the judge issue

and rikers island in the way they handle it out there it is like the middle ages.d people who are in detention and. updated to direct attention to that as well and now he will focus on in belvedere very quick. >> you are talking about what to be done within the law. we have gone into washington's anniversary with a civil disobedience actions to try and pay attention to this matter church -- this matter. >> it is very few people unfortunately and i imagine that the al said at classic in simple to fight the case that we shouldn't fight he knows about this. we certainly appreciate that on his behalf. >> i would argue far too few do. then they say can be close that? >> i have a question for carol. do you have any sense of what it might look like? the california able at guantanamo, what might that look like if move to the mainland? >> so it is the prison the reporters are not allowed to go. we were told it is the secret of how much to build it. the men who were held in disappeared between 2002 isn't 2006 it is the prison within the prison at guantanamo maximum-security

a town hall meeting takes place this evening, concerning rikers island. some lawmakers discussed closing the facility entirely. it's been the targets of a number of investigations. in 2014, the manhattan u.s. attorney's office cited rikers for the use of excessive force against inmates. >>> 5:17 now. stale head in eyewitness news this morning, pope francis addresses the death penalty and the move he hopes catholic >>> and one of the leading hoverboard sellers in the country is telling users to >>> 5:20. and pope francis is calling for a one-year moratorium on the death penalty. he's proposing that catholic leaders suspend the practice during the holy year of mercy. that runs through november. the pontiff was also throwing today that he hopes will help bring an end to capital punishment. >>> 5:20. no way the nfl's super bowl could have been closer than the super bowl of stock car racing. this year's daytona 500, look at this, decided by 4 inches. that's crazy. the car closest to us on the screen belongs to day hamlin. his toyota edge out the closest compet

. >>> in an interview yesterday, governor cuomo said that riker's island is dangerous and dated and it should be replaced by a more modern and safe jail. there was a group formeds to study the closing of the prison. the mayor added he is not afraid of the challenge to remedy rikers. johnny? >>> you look overhead and the skies will brighten. cloudy and 37. that will likely change with more sun. and it's cool out there. with the wind we have some wind chills in the 20s. above normal, nothing like the warmth that we saw yesterday. it won't be as windy. it won't be as wet. it won't be as wild. the wind chills will hover in the 30s and air temperatures in the 30s tomorrow. chris? >>> john, thank you. in 25 minutes. >>> good morning. it is wednesday, february 17th, 2016. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is more real news ahead, including apple's new privacy battles against the u.s. government. defense secretary ash carter tells charlie how defense companies with increase security without compromising integrity. first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> the tech giant

rikers island is under scrutiny for the way they handled prisoners. i saw a lot there.ages. it speaks to me when you say it is our process. people are in detention for months on end. it is because it's small stakes issues. somebody needs to direct attention to that as well. karen: this is what eric holder, on some levels, is going to talk about now that he is out of office. who knows? maybe someone else will. one more very quick question. >> i teach here. in the peace and justice program. you have been talking about what can be done within the law. i belong to a group called witness against torture. for the last 11 years, we have gone to washington every january 11 and done civil disobedience actions. we have gone outside of the law to try and bring attention to this matter. i would like to know, has anybody noticed? >> very few people, unfortunately. it is a shame. what you do is great. >> there are people that notice. the people that notice are the men detained in guantÁnamo, because we tell them. i mentioned a classic example of the president not doing everything he

. >>> mayor de blasio says the recent talk of closing riker's island is noble but unrealistic. he said it would cost billions of dollars that the city doesn't have. problems at the troubled jail complex should be fixed. city council speaker melissa -- and governor cuomo agreed that closing riker's would solve problems. >>> a consumer alert. whole foods is recalling a brand much cheese because of potentially deadly listeria concerns. the specialty cheese is peck rinne owe aged cheese and walnut leaves. only one store in new york sold it on houston street on the it poses a serious threat to children, elderly and pregnant women. we have more information on the recalled product on nbcnewyork.com. >>> it's 5:04. time for a check much weather and traffic on the 4s. it's not just that things are calm, but the temperatures seem to be where they're supposed to be. >> much more comfortable, certainly. turned the corner. tuesday snow and ice, yesterday soaking, flooding rains if not over 50 miles per hour winds. damaging winds at that. today, clouds lingering. a chilly start and a few sno

who police say was trying to sneak this into riker's island. "today in new york" starts now. >>> 5:00 a.m. on this friday. it's february 5th. i'm michael gargiulo. >>> i'm darlene rodriguez. storm team 4's chris cimino here with the forecast. good morning. >> good morning, guys. temperature keeps dropping because the snow continues to fall and the atmosphere is cooling down now. that will allow more and more of a chance of accumulating snow in the area. i think we're hitting that point from now in central new jersey up through 7:00 or 8:00. heavier bands of snow pushing in our direction. you can see the brighter white showing up in here. that's heading into portions union, essex county. eventually sliding towards the county as well. al o seeing the brighter white in suffolk county before all is said and done. temperatures still flirting with being above the feezing mark. 33 in the city. at freezing in white plains. still freezing across a good portion of new jersey and the hudson valley. probably get below freezing in the next couple of hours.

rikers island is under scrutiny for the way they handled prisoners. i saw a lot there.t was like the middle ages. it speaks to me when you say it is our process. people are in detention for months on end. it is because it's small stakes issues. some of he needs to direct attention to that as well. karen: this is what eric holder, on some levels, is going to talk about now that he is out of office. who knows? maybe someone else will. one more very quick question. >> i teach here. in the peace and justice program. you have been talking about what can be done within the law. i belong to a group called witness against torture. for the last 11 years, we have gone to washington every january 11 and done civil disobedience actions. we have gone outside of the law to try and bring attention to this matter. i would like to know, has anybody noticed? >> very few people, unfortunately. it is a shame. what you do is great. >> there are people that notice. the people that notice are the men detained in guantanamo, because we tell them. i mentioned a classic example of the president

gun violence and incarceration in riker's island >> yes. >> the surveys are coming out saying the south bronx is an issue when it comes to incarceration. high rates there. how do you plan to tackle that? >> my job really is to just make sure that i prote the community. by doing that, i just make sure that i bring forth the best prosecution possible and that jury, that they serve the time that they should serve. but at the same time, it's not just about arresting c people. it's also about putting resources into the community so that it's safe and that it's not a inplace where criminals feel that they can have their way with society and destroy the neighborhood. you know, you do the prosecution as well as bring resources into the community. have a great community affairs unit that goes out into the community and talk about all the programs that we have to make sure that the bronx is safe. >> obviously, you've made history with this post. soti.what is your message to the young african-american women who feel like this ay be a boys club when it comes to the law and law enforcement. yorou ha

you're speaking about the way we go about, i've worked in the prisons in the city, new york city, rikers islandrutiny the way they handle prisoners and i saw a lot there. it was like the middle ages. it sort of speaks to me when you say it's our process, people are in detention for months on end and years and just because another reason. it's small stakes issues and it's like somebody needs to direct attention to that as well. >> remember, this is what eric holder, on some level, says he's going to talk about, that he's going to focus on now that he's out of office. who knows, maybe someone else will. one more very quick question. >> i'm chris brandt. i teach here in the peace progr program. i blng to witness against torture, we have, for the past 11 years, gone to washington every an verniversary, ever jan 11th, and done civil disebeadance acts, we've gone outside the law to try to bring attention to the matter. what i'd like to know, has anybody noticed? >> very few people, unfortunately. it's a shame. what you do is great. >> yes, there are people who notice. the men who detained in guantana