>> reporter: rockland county executive assistant d.a.hard moran was on the case from the beginning. >> ira actually got in the car with the informant. >> how are you? >> and started talking about how he wanted his wife killed. >> the lesser you two know, the better. >> right, i agree. >> it was a game changer. >> reporter: wasn't that enough to arrest him right then and there? >> no money had been exchanged. in new york you do need an overt act. and we had some stuff, but we did not want to jump the gun on this. >> how are you? >> reporter: so they arranged another meeting, hoping ira would show again. he didn't. but something big happened. kelly finally handed over money for the hit. >> so how much are we talking right now? >> two. >> reporter: a $2,000 deposit. >> nice doing business with you. >> nothing until we give you the go-ahead. he said just be on stand-by. >> reporter: as detectives waited for ira and kelly to give the go-ahead, this melodrama took a new turn. kelly added two new targets. >> kelly shows up to one of the meeting

♪ ♪ i'm jamie colby, and, today, i'm in rockland county, new york, an hour north of new york city.m meeting a viewer who wrote me about her strange inheritance and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her father's harrowing past. >> my name is miriam friedman morris. my father, david friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, "tagebuch fuer miriam friedman." as i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. >> miriam, i'm jamie. >> hi. welcome. >> miriam wrote us an e-mail that said... it was so impassioned, i had to meet her. my goodness. look at all of this. i feel like i'm in fine-art gallery or a museum. tell me about your parents. >> my parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. >> in her mind's eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her father's past. he doesn't tell her all that much. she knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. but she's in the dark about the full scope of hi

a $15 minimum wage in my district where it's extremely expensive to live in westchester and rockland counties, even a $15 wage would not be enough to cover the cost of rent, mortgage, food, transportation, you name it. i think we shootly need to be pushing to include a $15 minimum wage in the package and it's something that can pass through reconciliation and it's something the american people urgently need. economists say this is something that would grow the economy. contrary to what you hear in republican talking points that are not interested in helping the american people but rather furthering the wealth and inequality we see. >> i want to talk about debt forgiveness for student loans. president biden called for $10 trillion in forgiveness, and you and a group of your representative colleagues want biden to use executive action and not congressional action to wipe out $50,000 in federal loans. tell me about this. >> it's called the higher education act, it's a statute that allowed the president of the united states to forgive loans, and that's precisely what we have to do. we are facing

suddenly, and in the dead of night, ice was set to deport rockland county's beloved paul pierrilus to where he has never been." monday's deportations to haiti came after ice had just suspended deportation flights to haiti on friday following pressure from immigrant justice advocates, including our guest guerline jozef, co-founder and executivdirector of the haitian bridge alliance, an immigrant support group. she is joining us from orange county, california, not far from the border. welcome to democracy now! can you explain what st happened? how does a two-month-old, a number of babies and overall more than 70 people, get reported to haiti after the moratorium of biden's is put into effect? is i going rogue or is this part of a biden-harris plan? >> thank you for having us. we're all in disbelief of what we are witneing right now i the united states to see how we contin to witns the se for conan -- draconian, inhumane process that president trump left behind. yesterday, there were 200 deportation flights to hai. the first one caring abo 72 people. out of those 72 people included 22 ch

she fled the jim crow south, southern virginia, to come to rockland county where thankfully the community embraced of them, and she sacrificed so much after raising her own children to help raise me. she has instilled in me so many values that i hold dear, like kindness and civic mindedness. >> to that idea of civic mindedness, a law career is your background. talk about that. >> i am really fortunate to have transcended those humble beginnings that i describe to you through a quality public education to make it to stanford university and harvard law school. i had the great fortune of working in the obama justice department and working on criminal justice reform for an attorney general who actually cared about the rule of law and social justice. i worked in private practice for a number of years where in my spare time i spent hundreds of hours pro bono investigating claims of employment discrimination and working to help families get money that they were defrauded of during the financial crisis, and more recently, i've been a lawyer for westchester county, and now i get to bring those ski

i want to share a story of a young lawyer who came to the village in rockland county, new york to desegregate our schools. like many places, the hillburn school. and it hadal school for children of color without a play grouped or indoor plumbing. that was the brooks school but our elders did not see accept this. they organized and with the help of a young attorney and nmp arch arch crmp p legal defense fund they sued the district. . . . they helped lay the groundwork for board v. education. and who was this young lawyer who came to the village of hilber? the man who would later become our nation's first supreme supreme court justice who was black, thurgood marshall. i am moved by the story because it shows how black history creates black futures. have the courage and resistance of the black leaders of years past are the reason a poor black kid from rockland county now stands in this special chamber as a united states congress member representing that same school district today. i yield back. ms. jackson lee: a powerful statement. obviously a lawyer's lawyer to bring to our attention the great

this morning is looks like a christmas 40 watts is the quarterback for rockland high school's varsity football team in placer countye to play today was the first day in officially there will be a season in 2021. suicide going to my friends and couple in an official announcement california public health officials loosened the rules for eu sports allowing counties where covid-19 case rates are at or below 14 people per 100,000. >>to play outdoor sports like baseball. high contact outdoor sports like football and rugby can also resume. >>only all coaches and players, 13 years and older get tested once a week. >>every game's a blessing or just little bit. >>during a virtual press conference today let them play california and the golden state coaches association applauded the move by state leaders want to thank avenue. some. i want to thank jim to do. because it would have been just as easy to not listen to us. he has to listen to us. and they chose a higher house meanwhile richey's mother tina wants says he believes the new guidelines allow student athletes to be safe competing all show that it can be done safely so as

county. san francisco, a police are investigating a shooting and a previous shelter-in-place has been cleared the investigation is happening on campbell and tucker avenues between delta and rockland streets. >>that's in the visitation valley neighborhood now police say the shelter-in-place that was earlier that has since been cleared. they say officers are clearing the scene right now police have not said what led up to the shooting or if anyone has been injured. we have reached out to the police department for more information but have not yet heard back right. let's switch gears talk about the weather in our 4 zone forecast chief near meteorologist lawrence karnow standing by with a look ahead. you guys a little abry 0 parts the bay area today, couple clouds. >>still floating overhead, although those clouds going to diminish throughout the night tonight and we'll clear things out and that means we're headed for a cold night. so those temperatures right down at the freezing mark i think the north bay valleys but. overhead today high pressure trying to build and you see some low clouds roll over the top of that ridge, but we're staying dry for now that's what it will be throughou