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and sheltered a good law you gotta sleep with one eye open and one out close i was in a shelter in one town and a guy like right next to me in town are able to jump in a no stop go live in shelters is no good that's why you see a lot of homeless people in the street they feel safe here. and pay somebody to let you stay at night it's true that way you know you say ah so you. know. and i know that's not much but i know you only got one life so i'm going to happen it's going to happen anyway and i just prayed to the lord i don't. i just keep my head up every day. i've got another shot. you. can see that i'll be here in time yeah and that's. when i grew up here in new york in the fifty's and sixty's since there were three soup kitchens in new york down the bowery and one in brooklyn today there are twelve hundred and over a hundred camp trees and other emergency food programs that's how the need has grown when they first started this soup kitchen in nineteen eighty one or two or three depending on who you ask and it was an epidemic almost just in the eighty's you couldn't walk down the str

and sheltered to get god you gotta sleep with one eye open and one out close i was in a shelter in one town and a gal like right next to me being john a rabid dog jumped in a no stop. in shelters is no good that's why you see a lot of homeless people on the street to feel safe. in c.d.o. you know to make a few i'll die here and pay somebody to let you stay and made it seem that way you know you say i see by about myself you know. i know it's not that much but i know you only got one life so i'm going to happen it's going to happen anyway and i just created a lot of don't. i just keep my head up and every day long i got another shot. instead of a file you put your entire yeah and that's. when i grew up here in new york in the fifty's and sixty's for instance there were three soup kitchens in new york down the bowery and one in brooklyn today there are twelve hundred and over eight hundred camp trees and other emergency food programs that's how the need has grown when they first started this soup kitchen in nineteen eighty one or two or three depending on who you ask and it was an epidem

to help those shelters in need. >>> well, he has struck again.ysterious big tipper who leaves the phrase "tips for jesus" hit another san francisco restaurant tonight. >> ken, all the waitress will say about him is that he's tall, dark and hand some and that he actually left the restaurant before she realized how magnanimous his tip was. >> here against the wall on the right. >> hillary says she waited on him at roka's back corner table. his bill $147, his tip $3,000. >> he told me that he paid for the table next to him. efs actually at the table telling them that he had paid for their meal, and i peripherally opened up the credit card holder, looked down at it, and my jaw just dropped. they said, "did he take good care of you?" and i said, "uh-huh." first, i think that he doesn't know how to use a decimal point and that it was actually $30, and then i looked closer, and vertigo, you know, "oh my god, oh my god." >> at the top, he wrote, "tips for jesus." this is a phenomenon waiters and waitresses across the country are experiencing. a generous

every night shelters take in 55,000.hat number include 22,000 children suffering most in extreme weather. >> children can't go to school or get a lot of meals which are provided at the schools. that starts to put pressure on a family's budget. >> a parallel decline in housing and low-income wages has been blamed for the increase in homelessness. eviction, overcrowding are factors. >> the new mayor has been in the job for a week. he's making policy changes which one group says will have an immediate impact on thousands of homeless people. >> bill de blasio reinstated the code blue policy, a law guaranteeing shelter to anyone. whenever the temperature drops below freezing. centres are open 24 hours. people can drop in at any time, bypassing the normal registration process. the number of vans that searched the streets for the homeless increased. >> i ask the people of new york city, if you see a homeless person in distress, someone that needs help, call 311. >> there's 2.5 months of winter. chilly conditions last longer, an

>> once we become full, we will try to work with the shelter hotline to see if we can find them shelter someplace out. not a night for people to be sleeping outside. we are back in front of the martin luther king library. the city is under a hypothermia alert. the city normally operates about seven nighttime shelters, but because of the hypothermia alert , they have opened an additional nine shelters in the city, mainly involvingng recchurches m for anyone to get out of this cold weather. reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news . >> thanks. montgomery county reporter kevin lewis continues our live team coverage. he is in there would, maryland. marine, --d and crews havemaureen, been working for seven hours. in cbs had to cancel classes, granting 150,000 kids their third snow day of the new year. a bitter cold day. >> i am shoveling this beautiful snow. i love it. they spent the afternoon fixing the driveway. it is normally the day for garbage pickup. but due to this serious morning wreck -- a technician slammed into the back of a 60,000 poun s salt truck. miraculo

we're expanding our shelter for helping the lgbt folks and we've expanded our everyday connect. clearly our work is not finished. we've been talking about universal health care building on a world-class city and this our way to success. we're going to make sure that san francisco is a home for >> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in th

there are a number of folks who are still shelters in place.nd so they're going through our s.w.a.t. team, tactical teams, with our regional partners from a number of other counties and the state police, from the state of maryland. so it is still an active crime scene, and they're still securing the mall, and the mall will be closed for the rest of the day and night. >> okay. and then from some of the images we've been watching. we've been able to see small groups of people will be escorted out, walking single file through the parking lots. we're told from our reporter there on the ground they're loaded on to shuttle buses and taken to another location. how long will people's vehicles be there in, you know, on the mall property? and is this, you know, fairly customary in your view that people will be removed from the property and need to find their way home through other means? >> if you can imagine a crime scene with thousands of potential witnesses. that's really what's happening here. it's such a large facility, and everyone in there as they

as far as the situation right now, there are still people sheltering in place.ocal police chief said unfortunately people are learning what to do in these situations. they knew to shelter in police, put a barricade around them and remain as quiet as possible until the threat passed. police officers are now going through this mall store to store, finding people who had responsibly sheltered in place, telling them it is safe to come and escorting them out of the building. they are conducting some interviews. there are still many people inside of this mall. we spoke to one person in the mall with his little daughter. he heard three shots. first he thought it was firecrackers. he grab his daughter and ran into the hallway. now the evacuations are going on right now. the mall is closed obviously until further notice. police will update us again at 4:00. >> during the news conference with the chief of police, there were a couple of questions posed which proved to be revealing. one was did any law enforcement engage the shooter? did law enforcement fire the weapons? th

many towns opening shelters to help folks. bisi onile-ere joins us live from detroit where the city is seeing record-low records. it's good to see that you have sense and you're staying warm. is anyone coming up with new or creative ideas to stay warm in these conditions outside of doing what you're doing? >> well, tony, i can tell you it's 2 below zero but it feels colder than that. as you mentioned i'm inside. i'm inside one of many of the warming centers here in the city of detroit. you see people behind me and to my left. they're about to get ready to have dinner served. people are finding ways to get warm, yes. people are dressing in layers, but most importantly they're taking the best advice, they're staying inside. joining me now is the president of the detroit rescue mission. when temperatures get this cold we haven't seen temperatures like this in metro detroit in years. how do you handle the influx this time of year. >> we open up the doors 24 hours, and we put in chairs and accommodate the people. so if we exceed th

why did you not go to a shelter? -- in a park. marquellus, why didn't you go to a shelter? >> a lot of shelters are not fit for youth. it's like the shelters that they do have is fit for older people, is like when older people get kicked out of their houses or can't pay their bills. they are not fit for youth. >> when you say it's not fit for youth, is it a place you don't feel safe? >> at all. you have to worry about your elders that you are supposed to be able to trust stealing from you, trying to take off your clothes while you are there in the middle of your sleep. you have to wake up every five minutes. you got to be around addicts. it's not fit for youth. it's not something any youth should have to sit back and see. >> on top of the fact that you're homeless, away from your family, then you also have to worry about being the victim of crime. it sounds horrible. crime comes and goes. there's certain things in life you learn the hard way. >> it shouldn't have to be that way. it shouldn't have to be that way. how do you find a safe place. >> roam around. >> so in a given

shelter and food. coming from them right now ironically ironically i'm worth more to the city of new york he told me. personally. they make money. they make money. they get paid. ok sure. i mean so you make me sitting one when you think you know as you get locked up for you. actually in defense of america if you have an address you can get supplemental security income or you can get a broker but will fake people they don't like to give you a room and then you simply just if you're supposedly able bodied men they will give you welfare but they want you to work a few hours a day do something but if you're disabled then you're entitled to supplemental security income which is about like eight hundred dollars a month plus food stamps plus medicaid but you have to have an address in order to receive a check it doesn't have to be your own lease whether you can say you're living with somebody you are living with a friend or how do you get it rest if you're homeless. because they. think they did a bunch. right

in fairfax county, hank silfverberg, wusa9. >> plenty of area shelters are extending hours because of forecast and many counties use libraries and community centers as warming centers. the district also has a hypothermia hotline set up for homeless people who may not have any place to go. if you see someone you think needs help, make this call, 1- 800-535-7252. >>> a 21st birthday party turned ugly over the weekend in damascus. three police officers were assaulted. two partygoers got tased and the parents who hosted the whole thing now face some very serious charges. >> reporter: i'm andrea mccarren in damascus, maryland, where bust of an underage drinking party turned violent. neighbor profiles revealed the mages family in happier times, smiling parents and their star athlete son, but charging documents reveal a wild weekend after the family threw a 21st birthday party for son nicholas. tipped off from a text from a pizza delivery man police were outnumbered by partygoers. the father, an accountant, was visibly intoxicated and slurring his speech. officers say he became belligerent a

and they're grateful to have shelter from the cold. in the situation, oftentimes many of them are closed now, and they have their doors closed. but because of the situation outside, they are keeping their doors here open 24 hours a day at least until the temperature turns for the better. >> 24 hours a day. and have doctors scene any weather related injuries? what have they seen? >> they have. a made a couple of calls out to hospitals. there have been deaths in the past weeks because of the storms that have come through. they have seen people come in with frostbite, as well as people outside, shoveling, and all of a sudden, they had chest pains, the potential for a heart attack, so yes, they're seeing injuries as the weather gets colder >> and the centers like the one you're at are literally saving lives. thank you so much. from detroit to new york now. the travelers in and out of the city have been battling the affects of the deep freeze. live tonight, the transportation problems caused by the cold. jonathan. >> yeah, richelle. rochell

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in this cold overnight, many new york city shelters are working overtime, including one shelter justteps away from time square here that helps young people find a warm bed and get off of the cold streets. and for many of these kids their wish for the new year is for a new hope for a new life. >> if you really knew me, then you would know that i'm a daddy's girl. >> reporter: she loved her father, he died when she was 16 years old, and she took it so hard she had to leave her home in the bronx. >> i would be on the streets from time to time. in the subway, sleeping in restaurants. and i would wonder where i would sleep after i got out of school. >> reporter: she found a shelter for homeless youths between 18 and 21. >> i can go to work and come home to a bed, to a shower, to food, so i was really excited that i could actually calm down and think about what is my next step in life. >> reporter: she hopes that next step comes in the new year. >> to save enough money so i can move on. >> reporter: hector shares the same wish, he came to the covenant house when he did not have a place to

as you mentioned people did shelter in place right away.e have spoken to a number of people inside the mall i talked to one woman who heard thee shots. another heard eight to ten shots, but as soon as all of these people heard shots they immediately ran in to stores, to shelter in place. some obviously are still inside. talked to a couple there for an hour. but they're methodically letting people out of the mall and taking them on buses to other locations, fred, but that is still ongoing. we're supposed to have another press conference at about 4:00 this afternoon when we should get nmore details. the police chief wasn't ready to give more details because the investigation is still going on, obviously. >> okay. erin, just to explain to viewers. there is a great delay between our communication. there's nothing wrong with your television set at home, but earlier, the police chief talked about the fact that he can't release the gender, even the names or identity of the bodies, but he said they are most certain that it appears to have been just

homeless shelters. he was also the longer senior serving the center. people will mark their time as before or after the appearance of lionel. we spent a lot of time this year talking about the need for housing here in san francisco. lionel always reminded me that improving housing that we house seniors with dignity should be a top priority for all of us. lionel passed away before he had a chance to move to a bigger space from the hotel he lived in . he in fact lived in one of our neighborhood hotels and part of a garden they were able to initiate this last year. lionel was not only a lover of music but a cooker and entertainer. and reminded us that seniors were not interacting and his wish was to bring other seniors to socialize. he was the only senior that granted from the chef program. a 6-month program that includes classroom instruction, hands-on kitchen training for institutional restaurant setting and job placement and coaching and we have a small business around the corner pink bake ry that utili

a lot of people were still sheltering in place. saturday morning. >> this is our first time and i want to draw our viewers' eyes to the screen now. these pictures are fresh in to fox news. this is our first time with ken aldman, howard county executive on the phone now, getting a real feel for what was going on behind the lines if you will that have been drawn, keeping everybody else out while they work the scene, you're there in that command vehicle, what were people saying as they were coming out, ken? >> incredibly scary moment. i mean i have two daughters, 12 and 8, and we're at the columbia mall all the time. this is a terribly scary incident. but we are an incredibly safe community. unfortunately, we're not immune to the kind of gun violence that we see throughout this country. but this was a very chaotic scene. i mean you reported there was one shop where the shooting took place. this store is on the second level of the mall and it's very close to the food court. so if you can picture your local mall, wherever you are in the

shelter capacity is available it will be expedited for anyone in need. if anyone is in danger, anyone will intervenes. >> checked in on a few of the shelters to see how they are preparing for the storm. >> on a normal night, thousands of people sleep on the streets of new york. >> i just can't sit back and wait for the city to do anything for me, i already know the situation i am in. >> as new york bases for temperatures high winds and heavy snow, the city anden no profit organizations are scrambled to provide shelter for the homeless. according the the coalition for the homeless, 60,000 people have no place to stay on a given night in new york. the fastest growing segment of the homeless population is children. >> there will be at least 22,000 children who will sleep in shelters about 10,000 homeless families. in the system today, every day anywhere from 100 to 150 families show up at the -- intake center at the new york city path center, seeking shelter. so it is a problem that's been growing over the last several years and certainly is not diminishing

and i had to have shelter. and i had to find a place to stay. >> reporter: harriet has been homeless for several years now. so she knows around this time, she can't sleep outside any longer. >> i'm trying to keep away from hypothermia. >> reporter: so she and other women throughout d.c. called the hypothermia hoot line in effect on nights like tonight, when the temperature is below freezing. a van picks them up and brings them here to the new covenant church in southeast. >> when you come in here, you get a bed, two blankets. you get to keep your one suitcase under the bed. >> reporter: it's an all women's shelter so our cameras weren't allowed inside. 7:00 a.m., this church is a 0 necessary safe and warm place for homeless women. >> it means a lot. i just moved here about a month and a half ago from montgomery county, maryland, so i'm trying to start a new life over in d.c. >> reporter: now, right now that shelter is already getting pretty full. we were in there just a few minutes ago, and there's about 20 wom

cutting funding and expanding shelters. the mayor says expanding shelters keeps the homeless off the streets. >> at the same time rents are rising to an average of $3,000 a month. >> most low income and homeless people can't afrt to rent in the city, and subsidised housing like this doesn't have enough openings. >> the soup kitchen at the holy apostles shirt serves 3,000 a day. >> college students come out. they can't find a club. a lot of people are unemployed. people in between jobs. people struggling. >> many of them are homeless or on the verge of being homeless, like sharon scott, a mother of five. the mayor and president has to do something. this must come to an end. danielle agrees and says without more help from city hall, her family will be stuck in a shelter. >> people look at us like we won't do anything, but i do, it's a lie. i keep working. with the minimum wage, and no housing, how is it possible. >> bill de blasio, who campaigned as an anti-michael bloomberg pop u last, promised to help the pure. comjanuary t

emergency shelter services are adding additional shelters to keep up with the demand.irector says the people donated canned food to help the additional homeless. >> we have to help one another out in this time of need. we're all human. everybody needs help. it's unthinkable that somebody has to suffer. some people always need a helping hand. >> the weather is specked to hit indianapolis -- they are expecting as low as 15 below zero. >>> barbara bush was released from the hospital today. she spent the last week being treated for pneumonia. a family spokesperson says she's doing well. they are the longest married presidential first couple and are celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary on monday. >>> we have some record-warm temperatures on the way and record dry weather, as well. here is a live few of the bay bridge on this beautiful saturday evening. we'll see temperatures in the inland valleys dropping into the upper 20s tonight and look for highs in the mid-60s tomorrow with lots of sunshine. the satellite view shows a lack of cloud cover over the state. there's a

the congregation has provided shelter to homeless. these protocols mean that every vacant shelter bed is available after 8:00 p.m. without a reservation. both the homeless outreach teams and the san francisco police department through over night wellness checks and we increase transportation to and from shelters. mayor edwin m. lee: really we really appreciate their partnership. while giving and volunteering should be at the forefront of all of our thoughts on a year round basis, it's especially important for each of us to put others first during this holiday season. so during the season of giving, i encourage not only our city residents, our businesses and our visitors, but also you, supervisors, our city department heads and staff and those joining us here today in the audience to don't whatever you can to organizations that are so important to our city's social safety net and those organizations that serve our homeless, veterans and our most in need during the holidays and throughout the year. thank you and let's go to your questio

. >>> and animal shelters are having trouble finding new homes for black dogs.and what they're doing to help. >>> could a traffic jam put an end to the presidential hopes of new jersey governor chris christie? the governor faced tough questions about his involvement and we have the latest. >> reporter: new jersey governor's marathon apology for the george washington bridge closing may be a watershed moment in his political career. >> americans are forgiving people. >> reporter: but the republican's talk will be weighed against the evidence. thousands of documents shed light on a days long traffic nightmare orchestrated by his top aides as police cal pay back. >> it's strange credibility that they didn't look at those documents and say we ought to let him know about it. >> reporter: christie fired his chief of staff and adviser. >> i take him at his word. there's just a lot of stuff out there, though. >> reporter: but without a smoking gun implicating the governor, the national democrats have been hesitant to pile on. >> this is still early, and the people of new

we're right across the street from the emergency shelter here in arlington county. they're preparing to take on extra people during the bitter cold. now, tonight we ask people, what are you doing to prepare for this cold weather? some say that they're stocking up. others say, what can you do? and one woman told me tonight she's just going to pray. walking on ice caked sidewalks can be tricky. parking lots are sheets of ice in some areas, too. motorists looking out for slick spots and black ice. >> just drive slow, be safe. you will be all right. >> it's going to get worse. we're about to be blasted with the coldest weather in two decades. you ready for this kind of cold? >> i'm absolutely ready. i'm going to stay home. >> that sounds like a good plan. >> yeah, exactly. that's what everybody should do. >> reporter: some are getting ready to hunker down. temperatures are expected to plummet to the single digits monday night into tuesday. >> stock up with goodies to get home and bundle up and lots of water, wine, bread, you know, just stuff that you can stay warm and c

of course 7:00 is when most of the shelters open. so if you are going to stay out on the street, there is a warm place to find some shelter and get out of the cold. of course we know that the hypothermia hotline is also in effect. we know there are -- the shelter hotline buss that will drive around and pick people up to try to get them out of the cold. it is an absolute right for folks to get inside of a warm place. we know it's d.c. law that we have to provide a warm place for these folks when hypothermia is a serious risk. of course certainly we know during the polar vortex and during this kind of snow event and the blustery temperatures we're having this morning, this certainly is a great service they are providing for these folks. back to you. >> delia, thank you. >>> checking wusa9.com website, most of the universities are trying to open at least later today, but as far as the school jurisdictions for elementary and secondary, many of them, most of them are closed today. here are some of the larger districts. d.c. is closed, vir

the school had everyone shelter in place. the police have a person in custody and no word if that person is connected. they cleared out the building while the area is searched. a spokesperson said no one could be immediately reached for details including whether or not anyone was wounded. we don't have confirmation of that either. watching that purdue university breaking news on hq. a major winter storm impacting millions was you right now. triple threat and heavy snow and artic air and we say hello to you at home and at work. i am bill hemmer. >> and i am alisyn camerota. the delivery men are trying to make deliveries in the snow. schools are closing and travel is disrupted and at last check more than 2600 flights were cancelled and this storm is just getting started. meteorologist janice dean is in the fox weather center. howÑi is it looking. >> it feels like groundhog day. we are talking about the winter storms and the artic plunge and we are going to continue for the next 18 hours. and this is the beginning of the storm.

or the ones living in shelters. but i think that the story that i want to share the most as quickly as i can is maria story. thanksgiving just happened and her family was in an sro. and they had no kitchen to have their thanksgiving dinner. and thank god for organizations that provided a space for all of the families to come and share thanksgiving together. but it made me think about my own family and my children and my four and how many times i rush after work after teaching all day and stressing about what i am going to cook for dinner in my kitchen. and they have none. i think about the programs that we have in our school about healthy meals and about how we are always telling the children what they should eat and what do we tell the familis that have no kitchens and they are the lucky ones or that at least have a roof over their head and i hope that we take advantage of this opportunity to provide our families, with a home, with a kitchen, with a place that they can work to provide the healthier meals. and so, i

they said yes, ma'am, please seek shelter. and i did hear the helicopter land on the -- i assume on the roof. >> and everyone was scared. it with was chaotic at the time. and people running by the score, and people ducking down on the floor and in the candy store. but we just kind of took control and said, come on guys and got never the back room. >> it was just crazy and one of those things that you see it on tv, but you never expect to go through it. >> there are a number of times of people getting out of their armored vehicles and the s.w.a.t. team coming in. >> and people were going store to store to tell people to get out and now everybody left and not all of the stores closed the doors, and so they were looking in each and every store trying to find the guy, i guess. a lot of the kids were crying and a mothers were holding on to them and shaking and not knowing what is going on. >> and now, zumies, the store where it occurred has released a statement expressing condolences to those who died and are injured today and they

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homeless shelters are filled past capacity tonight. at the new home of central union mission on massachusetts avenue in northwest, they're giving thanks for the space that allows extra mattresses to be set up in the event of a hypothermia emergency. >> in the homeless population, you have a group number that almost refuse to come in. this cold is making folks want to come in. >> reporter: the mission is funded entirely by private donors. pastor james lewis says the new location which began operations just before thanksgiving is already filled and 50 extra men are likely to stay here tonight because of the cold. >> we can accommodate up to 190. normally, we look to hold, carry 160. >> reporter: for those who can't or won't go to a shelter, the district has set up warming buses throughout the city. each metrobus has a portable rest room nearby. city officials tell us there are also overflow warming shelters set up at the banneker, kennedy, and columbia heights recreation centers. live in northwest washington, jackie bensen, news4. >>> fe

many stayed and sheltered. our swat team was assisted at the federal, state and local level, spend pretty much from the time we spent last brief until half an hour ago going through the store, making sure there were no more victims and that there were no more shooters. and getting the people in place, getting them out. going through a process of those - identifying those people, who may have witnessed the shooting. so those people that witnessed the shooting, we are having further interviews and talking with them by our vettors. again, a lot of things going on since 11:15. we are doing our best to answer as many of your questions as quickly as we can. again, still flue ent, still evolving and dynamic. please stay tuned in the twitter account and we'll continue to provide you updates. i'll take a few questions and i need to deal with a couple of things. >> reporter: i wonder if a surveillance video showed an altercation before the shooting. >> that's what our investigators are looking at. we had safety concerns

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