you know, and/know you're protective of syracuse. that's nice but the atmosphere on college campuses today on a kale of one to ten, one being the most pro free speech and ten being the least, where do you rate it? >> i'll give it an 8. but i'm shooting from the hip. another one of these myths is the myth that is prevalent not just on the su campuses but other campuses that all educated, intelligence, good people think the same on certain issues. and that myth -- >> we're going to have you on radio tomorrow. great point as always. stay with us. .. >>before we go, let's take a look at a tweet before we go let's look at a tweet we received during the show, this is a slap in the face of the millions of illegal immigrants like myself who went through the process and waited years to have the honor to be us citizens. shannon bream has congressman matt gates, all the intrigue on capitol hill and rod rosenstein, take it away. >> this is a fox news alert, breaking news from texas, a brand-new legal showdown over daca. plus new reaction to fox'

i know you're protective of syracu syracuse. that's nice. but the atmosphere on college campuses today on a scale of 1 to 10 for pro free speech and least pro free speech, where do you rate it? >> i give it an 8. but i'm shooting from the hip. i don't really know anymore. all educated intelligent good people think pretty much the same on certain key issues where the correct answer is obvious. and obviously that's a myth. >> great point. i'm going to have you on radio tomorrow. great point as always. stay with us. >>before we go, let's take a look at a tweet we received during the show. john tweets, "this is a slap in the face to all of the millions of legal immigrants like myself who entered the process, paid and waited years to have the honor to be u.s. citizens." i second that motion. a great point. shannon is up next. and rob rosenstein. shannon, take it away. >> we're going to talk the i word, impeachment tonight. there's a showdown over daca. plus, new reaction tonight to fox's exclusive senate primary debate in west virginia. that is a

i am forever grateful to syracuse university for that opportunity. many would not have been willing to take that risk. after law school i worked for the attorney general. we represented any state run hospitals. if you're familiar with the suny system, this was a suny hospital. we did all the contracting and insurance kinds of efforts. so that's what i did for 13 years and then decided i was going to run for congress. i spent 13 years being an advocate at the hospital and went into congress. and despite all you hear about members of congress and the functionality of congress, most in congress want to try to do the right thing. they are advocates for the people and the constituents who live in their districts. that's what i did for one term and in 2013 i was not reelected. president obama through mitch mcconnell's office called me up and said do you want to be a commissioner at the product safety commission? and i said, i'm not right sure what that is. i assumed and took on the role and that's where i first met bob adler who sent me a kind e-mail welco

>> i have to say this isn't really about syracuse university.syracuse university and the good people there who are doing what they assume and feel is right. this is really about ideas, not specific institutions or individuals. it's about the ideas of free speech and reason versus some dangerous and rational myths that have swept the campuses around the country. i don't know whether i was really fired or quit. we might say that the university and i reached a mutual agreement that the beliefs and values of the university are no longer the beliefs and values -- go >> laura: hold on. you don't know if -- that's cute. you don't know if you quit or you were fired. was there some kind of release they made you sign? >> no. >> laura: they didn't. >> when i sent that email i concluded it with if my position on this is so objectionable as to render me disqualified from further service to our students, then put me on the list as don't use anymore and the email came back yes indeed. >> laura: you were fired. don't be obtuse. you were fired because you wrote

and he was loving it. >> reporter: leading to a crime that would horrify the community. >> syracuse isd a great community but, it's a small community. this ripped the soul out of us for a long time. >> reporter: in a remarkable video deposition conducted after the crime, renz with an ankle bracelet next to him, matter of factly admitted how he gained the freedom to commit his crimes. >> did there come a point in time when you were able to take the bracelet off? >> yes. >> reporter: the model he was wearing is marketed as tamper resistant, but renz said, in part, he learned how to get it off because the probation officers let him watch as they put it on. >> instead of telling him, you know, turn your head or put a paper bag over his face or something. >> reporter: district attorney william fitzpatrick would later prosecute renz for the crimes he committed. >> they were treating this guy as if he had been picked up for shoplifting a box of donuts. >> how many times in total would you say that you took the bracelet off from the time you first took it off until march 14th of 2013? >> i can

you know, and i know you're protective of syracuse. that's nice.he atmosphere on college campuses today on a scale of one to ten, one being pro free speak and ten being the least, where do you rate it? >> i give it an 8 but i'm shooting from the hip because i haven't thought about that number before. another myth is the myth that is prevalent on campuses that i've been to that all educated, intelligence good people think pretty much the same on certain key issues where the correct answer is obvious and that's a myth. >> laura: we'll be right back with final thoughts. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. .. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blo

this morning i'm thinking of one veteran, larry riley, sr., of syracuse, new york. he was known to us by his naval rank chief riley. chief riley served on the u.s.s. frankie evans along with his son who carried his name larry riley, jr. the frankie evans sunk tragically in a training accident just outside the combat zone during the vietnam war killing 74. chief riley survived the accident. larry, jr., did not. because the department of defense did not consider the frank e. evans disaster a wartime casualty, it was a short distance outside the combat zone, you will not find larry wylie jr. as name on the black wall a few miles from here. none of the names of the 74 sailors who died that day grace the vietnam memorial. chief riley spent much of his energies in the years since the war trying to right that law to get his son and his son's fellowshipmates who perished in that tragedy their rightful place in our nation's history. chief riley, i regret to inform everyone, passed away earlier this week. we who knew chief riley remember him fondly. we send our condolences to

i know in the syracuse airport, once we got a kiosk there, we went from a small percentage on pre-check to more than 50% of the travelers on pre-check. i also like to hear both your takes on pre-check as a form of what you just mentioned mr. russell. managed inclusion, which we made emphatically clear last congress. that shouldn't be taking place any more, and it's still taking place at tsa. it concerns me back then about managed inclusion was that they are not, it's not risk-based security. it's just moving people through. that's what the genesis of this hearing is today, to have a discussion about are you ready for the crush coming this summer? but as a backdrop to that, i don't want it to be an overreliance on managed inclusion-type practices which we are going to end by law. that's the only way we're going to be able to stop doing it. we'll give you a time limit in the bill we pass, that after this time, no more of this stuff, we can't have it, it's a security thing in our mind. with that being as a backdrop, i would like to hear about that and i would like to hear about your intera

before joining the state department nine months ago, he was a professor at syracuse university where he taught administrative law. constitutional law, counter tearism law. before syracuse, he had exclusive government experience as well, including his deputy secretary for policy at the department of homeland security. and in the office of legal policy at the u.s. department of justice. he is with us for just under an hour. after he speaks, we'll have limited time for questions and discussion. if you have a question, please jot down on one of the index cards that's available in the back your question. precision is key. and my colleagues will be collecting the cards at the end of each of the rows and we'll do our best to have the questions addressed in the time we have remaining. with that, thank you and please join me in welcoming ambassador sales. [ applause ] >> well, thanks very much, eric, for that kind introduction and thank you for the invitation to be here for you at the hudson institu institute. as eric mentioned, i'm a recovering academic so it's a pleasure for me to be here a

he was a professor at syracuse university where he taught administrative law, constitutional law, national security law, and counterterrorism law. before syracuse he had extensive governmental experience as well including department of homeland security and in the office of legal policy at the u.s. department of justice. he is with us for just under one hour. after he speaks, we will have limited time for questions and discussions. if you have a question, please jot down on an index card your question, available in the back. concision is key. we will do our best to have your questions addressed in the time we have remaining. please join me in welcoming ambassador sales. [applause] >> thank you for the invitation to be here with you at the hudson institution. i am a recovering academic so it is a real pleasure for me to be here in the think tank world, to dip my toes back in these waters. i'm here to talk about countering violent extremism, a critical counterterrorism tool. we had a vital moment, a turning point in our fight against terrorism. we make extraordinary progress against isis in

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country, there are many polls i win, radio and television polls from new bedford massachusetts to syracuse new york, i have won, the other polls that you are talking about show that we have doubled our strength since april of last year. we are just now getting into the campaign. if you follow me around the country, you would see we are having larnger clouds than the candidates for the two other existing marriage parties. witness our trip to ohio yesterday, we had larger crowds than those that came out to witness the arrival for candidates for the democratic party. we can win the election, that's the purpose of running, not to spoil anything other than to spoil the chances of the republican and democratic party, neither of them are giving the american people a choice. >> governor, you just said you thought you could win, indicate the states where you think you are going to win. >> i think that we are going to win every one of the southern and border states. missouri, oklahoma and the free state of maryland. we have an excellent chance in pennsylvania, new jersey, wisconsin, california, new

this show in syracuse how fashion is also cultural history take again vivienne westwood designs which referenced everything from broken rico elements with neck ruffs hoop skirts and crinoline and so was art inspired by fashion or was it the other way round you stepped in want of fans i would say that the fashion world tends to be unbelievably hungry for new ideas and draws a lot of inspiration from a lot of this is the i've off the business model it's noir if there's nothing new if there's no subculture they reexamined the past again of the rock the romans. but it's a two way street in the early twentieth century artists such as the italian futurists and some you know branched out into designing clothes themselves. so we also wanted to find out how documents fashion reflect an even idealized society it up in india years. into the one nine hundred eighty s. photographers like limp back so modeling fashion as a form of performance art the clothes weren't just about looking pretty anymore it expressed a mood and that. these days artists take a more critical approach to fashion. this inst

this morning, thunderstorms out by buffalo to syracuse. those should not be severe. lightning with them. so that's still dangerous. then by 3:00 p.m., the main line begins to form over state college, central pennsylvania, back up to binghamton. it appears the new york city area, hartford around 6:00 p.m. is when the line will rush on through. for i-95 in general, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., then it will clear providence and the cape by about 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. this eastern. keep that in mind for your travel plans. major delays during the evening rush hour. th's a look at theat b if we do be later on this afternoon towards evening. >>> we are cooling it down at least with these storms, but the wet weather lingers for a while. >> all right, bill. thank you. >>> the boston red sox, they have themselves quite a jam session in the dugout before their game against the oakland a's. check this out. ♪ >> red sox pitcher rodriguez on the drums. brock huddle. hanley ramirez in the dreads. probably no encore performance, though. the red sox lost, 6-5. >> honoring america's law e

rotondo has lived in his parents' syracuse area home without paying rent since he was 21.laims he needs six months to move. >>> a man driving down the highway outside tacoma, washington, tells police that he saw something black fly directly into the front of his car. he looked closely there, and it turns out there was a handgun lodged in the man's front bumper. police believe the gun was used in a shooting earlier that afternoon and someone tossed it out of their car window on the highway trying to get rid of it. >> lucky it didn't go through his windshield. >> yeah. >>> and the houston rockets honored the victims of the texas high school shooting at last night's playoff game. the sante fe high school choir sang the national anthem before the rockets faced off with the warriors and hundreds of the school's seniors attended that game for free as well. >> and they got a good game to watch out of it. houston hit a clutch three-pointer with just over a minute to play. they hung on for a 98-94 win. the rockets can wrap up a trip to the nba finals tomorrow night. >> j.j. watt an

truly distinguished career, starting out as a nurse in 1972, and 20-plus years later, graduated from syracuse law school -- are you ready for this question mark -- while raising six children, and believe me, she raised -- and i think you now have 70 grandchildren. am i correct about that? as a lawyer, she served as an assistant new york state attorney general on behalf of upstate medical diversity for 13 years before running for and winning a seat in the u.s. house of representatives from new york's 25th district. she joined the commission in 2070 aboutn february she was voted in unanimously as the acting chair by her fellow commissioners. on july 24 last year, president trump nominated anne-marie to be permanent chair and to receive a seven-year term as commissioner. anne-marie has been my esteemed friend -- esteemed colleague and good friend for the past five years. not withe to say this, standing the fact that she and i almost never vote the same way when it comes to product safety issues. the votes,er most of we look at each other and we scratch our heads and say, how can somebody i like

criminal convictions have fall know and according to the syracuse university and meanwhile, public confidence in the agencies withering. and a recent report shows president is cut down. and we are learning that the department of justice and the fbi as well may have deleted text messages between bureau officials peter strzok and lisa page. that according to the inspe inspector's stream. and it once served on the russia investigation. and all turn over it congress last week. the columbia law professor worked as a fbi employee for a year and a half and during that same period he appeared in the national media to defend the handling of the email case. guiliani took aimality comey today and delivering this blunt a systemment. >> i think he is a liar. mccabe will tell you he lied. >> it was proven he lied three times under oath. and also refused to clear and say that the president was not a target when in fact he had done that to hillary clinton and botched the investigation. no one thinks that the handling was not disgraceful. and how he is put up as a model is dismaying. >> lou: my first guest. j

according to the transactional records access clearing house or trac at syracuse university, through march 2018, there were 692,298 cases pending at the immigration courts. is this an accurate reflection of the immigration court's dockets? >> we don't typically comment on third-party data views, but that numbers in the ballpark. low 690s right now. >> in addition to the low 690s, there are also cases that are administratively closed. could you explain that. >> administrative closure was designed fb a temporary move to remove a case from the pending docket while something else was going on. it first came about in cases where individuals were being granted temporary protected status or some other sort of temporary status. then once that status is resolved or terminated or it ends, and the case is recalendared and then it continues. it's been expanded in different directions over the years. the judges were given more latitude in how they use it starting in 2012. with that expansion, it's caused an increase in the number of cases that are administratively closed. they're technically pend

sharply, declining 11% over the past five years according to justice department data obtained by syracuseniversity. meanwhile, public confidence in the agency is withering. a recent pbs poll shows public support has gone down from 71 to 61% in just two months. why is trust eroding? we're learning today the department of justice and perhaps the fbi as well may have deleted text messages between bureau officials peter strzok and lisa page, that according to republican sources who have spoken with members of the inspector general's team. this latest batch of text messages between the two officials who once served on the russia investigation have come under scrutiny for exchanging anti-trump and other politically-charged texts and all turned over to congress last week. also today according to the documents exclusively reviewed by fox news, the columbia law professor that fbi director comey then used to help leak at least one memo to the media worked as an fbi special government employee for at least a year and a half. and during that same period, he was appearing in the national media to defe

starting out as a nurse in 1972, and then 20-plus years later, graduating from syracuse law school. are you ready for this? while raising six children. and believe me, she raised them. [ applause ] and i think you now have 17 grandchildren, am i correct about that? as a lawyer, she served as an assistant new york state attorney general on behalf of upstate medical university for 13 years before running for and winning a seat in the u.s. house of representatives from new york's 25th congressional district. she joined the commission in 2013, and i note in february 2017 she was voted in unanimously as acting chair of the agency by her fellow commissioners. and on july 24th last year, president trump nominated ann marie to be permanent chair and to receive a seven-year term as commissioner. ann marie has been my esteemed friend -- excuse me, esteemed colleague and good friend for the past five years. and i have to say this. notwithstanding the fact that she and i almost never vote the same way when it comes to product safety issues. in fact, i think after most of the votes, we look at e

saturday morning you're waking up to rain, providence, back to new york state, also to syracuse.hen as we go through saturday afternoon that boundary slips to the south a little bit we get some severe thunderstorms. watch out pittsburgh, state college and also areas of northern ohio and another rain for chicago. it's round after round. it's not going to rain all weekend but we'll see periods of rain. then as we go through sunday, drizzly weather. northern ohio should have come weather. it's the same areas, guys, all weekend long. while the southern half of the country is just going to be baking in the country. 91 in new orleans and it's going to be that hot all weekend long. not the best for yours, so -- >> i'm heading overseas. >> you are not talking to you. >> i'm just saying. >> the jets make history on the road last night in nashville while out in the bronx two juggernauts square enough next in sports. products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from

this is just a few sprinkles now from rochester to syracuse.ay's forecast and there's not a lot bad on this t. we could have an afternoon thunderstorm on miami. the humidity starts going up in florida. gorgeous on the east coast. perfect lunch weather today. notice boston at 58, one of the coolest spots in the country. middle of the country is great and all of the warmth continues in the west. we're much above normal now. april was well below and we've dialed it up. today we'll top out at 102 in phoenix. omaha looking good. oklahoma city, feels a little early for that. 91 already and some f of it tri to sneak to the east and philadelphia we get into the upper 70s toward the end of this week. the oes coast doesn't get hot but it's comfortable for everybody. >> still ahead, what oil prices may be signaling about president's decision on the iran nuclear deal. and the other stories driving your business day ahead. i'm about to start the nature's bounty hair, skin and nails challenge. so my future self will thank me. thank you. i become a model? yes

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. >> buffalo to syracuse, to rochester and that line dies out over southern new england but here comeshe main event, 3:00 p.m. heading into the cat skills. and then as we go towards the evening rush hour those storms blow thr plow through baltimore and so from philly to new york, that's at 6:00 p.m. showing over in new york city. so anywhere between 4:00 to 7:00 is the best chance of the strong ers storms. boston right around 6:00 p.m. for the targeting of the strongest storms and everything dies out and the front hangs up a little bit. just showers to the south. we're watching some of that heavy rain in florida. no development took place with that tropical wave. just a lot of rain and then that moisture sneaks up the coast during the day. 91 in d.c. today. you don't cool off until those thunderstorms right around 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow we stillinger with the showers and storms on the east coast and it looks very soggy because that tropical little system we had in the gulf is going to come straight up the eastern sea board. it looks like a very wet period. flooding will be a problem in

. >> data collected by syracuse university shows a wide gap in the granting of asylum requests from court to court throughout the country. >> there is something going on that is very, very troubling. >> reporter: karen, director at the center for gender and refugee studies at uc hastings' school of law in san francisco has studied this inconsistency for years. >> there are gross disparities on the grants of asylum on judges within individual courts but then across courts. >> reporter: every year, los angeles and san francisco courts consistently rank in the top 15 in granting asylum, along with phoenix, philadelphia, san antonio, new york and boston. here in atlanta, georgia, for the last three years, this court has had one of the lowest rates of granting asylum in the country. averaging 22%,@'s immigration courts joined charlotte, dallas and houston with the courts with the lowest asylum grants. >> what do you think is going on? >> i think there are a number of factors that contribute to these disparities. they have to do with both the selection process for the individual judges and what

one went to georgetown, yale, and syracuse law school and penn. graduatedr went to with honors from penn state. i borrowed everything i could with my house, the value of my house going up, then working 30 hours a week during school, one parking cars that georgetown an electricer in company. $141,000 ined with debt, 121,000 in debt, and $103,000 in debt. they paid it off. you wonder why people say 54% of the american people think college is not working for their kids? go back to the state university you graduated from. figure how you make it. does anyone talk about these people anymore? did you hear any of it in the last campaign? you have two kids and a mortgage payment and a car payment, no retirement savings. you cannot make it. the problem is not just that, it is not just salaries as i said. it is the soaring cost of education, the cost of childcare, mortgages, empty retirement accounts. and no pension. for significant numbers. to look to their kids for help. instead of helping their kids. i have an economist who works with me, i think i drive

an awful lot of pride that i see, especially when i go through syracuse and the airports. i get to know the people. the level of professionalism is pretty substantial, so you should all be congratulated for that. they're trying to find a needle in a haystack every minute of every day. like i tell my scheduler, you only notice what's going on if you do something wrong as a scheduler. and it's the same thing with the front lines there. i mean, you won't know unless they're doing something wrong unless a tragedy strikes, and that's a pretty stressful situation for them, but they do a wonderful job and should be commended for that. so, thank you very much. thank you both for your professionalism today and i hope you stick around for the second panel. we'll take a brief adjournment. thank you very much. >> thank you, chairman. >> thank you. >>> okay, we're back on the record. i'd like to welcome our second panel today for today's hearing. our first witness is ms. lorraine howerton with the u.s. travel association. in this position, she is responsible to advance u.s. travel's le

as we go through 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00 the storm raise from buffalo to rochester to syracuse to pittsburghcollege and they'll be another line of storms that looks out ahead of it that will develop in the appalachians. so not everyone's going to get rained out on their friday night but a few areas getting an isolated strong storm or two. today's forecast, we're nice in the southeast, very wet and stormy this morning especially in areas right around dallas and the weekend outlook, we're watching rain, unfortunately, tennessee does not look great on saturday right through west virginia, virginia, even d.c. does not look great and we go from 92 degrees in new york city to 65 and cloudy with drizzly on sunday. so we're going up and down like this. >> i was just saying i feel like this has been the most extreme weather pattern from record lows to record highs. >> nice like stretch of 70 degrees and sunny would be nice. >> that would be great. >> san diego. >> yeah. >>> so this is pretty terrifying. authorities in hawaii have ordered mandatory evacuations in the wake of earthquakes and volcanic e

according to the transactional records access clearinghouse, at syracuse university, through march 2018, there were 692,000 cases pending at the immigration courts. is this accurate, --? >> we do not typically comment on third-party data views. that is ballpark. last time we looked it was in the low 690s. >> in addition, there are also cases that are administratively closed. explain that? >> temporarily moved -- removed from the docket while something else was going on. it first came about primarily in cases where individuals work granted protective status, or some other sort of temporary status. once it was resolved or terminated, it is recalibrated and continues. it expands in different directions over the years, judges are given in -- more latitude. with that expansion, it has caused an increase. they are still technically pending but they are not active on the docket. at the court level, there are roughly 330,000. >> so, those cases, that are administratively closed, is that included in the low 690s or is that in addition? >> that is the number of active cases. they are currently on

according to the transitional records clearinghouse at syracuse university through march much 2018 there were 692,298 cases pending at the immigration court. is that an accurate reflection of the dockets? >> we don't comment on third party data views. it's in the ballpark. it's in the low 690's right now. >> now, in addition to that low 690's, there are also cases that are administratively closed. could you explain administrative closure to us? >> sure, administrative closure was designed to be a temporary move to remove the case from the active pending docket while something else was going on. it first came about when individuals were granted temporary protected status or temporary status and once that's resolved or terminated and ends, then the case is recalendared and continues. and it's sort of been expanded in different directions over the years and the judges were given more latitude how they use it starting in 2012. with that expansion it's caused an increase in the number of cases that are administratively closed. they're technically pending on the docket, they're just not active

. >> according to the records, the transitional records clearinghouse at syracuse university through march, there was over 690,000 cases pending in immigration courts. is it a reflection of the docket? >> we do not typically comment on third-party data used, but that number is in the ballpark. i think the last time we looked at was the low 690's right now. >> in addition to that low six -- low 690's, there are also cases that are administratively closed. could you explain administrative closure to us? >> sure, it was designed to be a temporary move to remove the case from the active pending docket while something else was going on. it first came about primarily in cases where individuals were given protective status, or other sort of temporary status, then once that status was resolved or was terminated, the case continued. so it has expanded in different directions over the years. the judges were given more latitude in how they use it, starting in 2012. with that expansion we saw an increase in a number of cases that are administratively closed. they are technically pending on the d

country, there are many polls i win, radio and television polls from new bedford massachusetts to syracuse new york, i have won, the other polls that you are talking about show that we have doubled our strength since april of last year. we are just now getting into the campaign. if you follow me around the country, you would see we are having larnger clouds than the candidates for the two other existing marriage parties. witness our trip to ohio yesterday, we had larger crowds than those that came out to witness the arrival for candidates for the democratic party. we can win the election, that's the purpose of running, not to spoil anything other than to spoil the chances of the republican and democratic party, neither of them are giving the american people a choice. >> governor, you just said you thought you could win, indicate the states where you think you are going to win. >> i think that we are going to win every one of the southern and border states. missouri, oklahoma and the free state of maryland. we have an excellent chance in pennsylvania, new jersey, wisconsin, california, new

we have considered legislation authored by representative john capco, who was a prosecutor at syracuse, going after drug kingpins there before he came to congress. he calls it the stop importation and trafficking of synthetic analogs or sitsa act. it would give law the tools they need to help get illicit synthetic drugs off our streets without compromising important public health and research protections. we know there's no one answer. there's no silver bullet as they say. but i can tell you that combatting the opioid crisis is my and the committee's top priority. we're working to better understand the numerous angles to this growing public health threat and how we can act to stem this tide. and to help all of us here today understand these threats. i get to introduce this panel, javier pena, steve murphy and aaron graham, familiar faces to anybody if a watches certain shows on certain channels like netflix. you know javier and steve mostly by their reputation of their work as as it was portrayed on the tv show, "narcos." you don't know their colleague aaron graham in the middle. thoug

>> syracuse, vermont, new hampshire, going into maine, chilly for us in new york and philadelphia.nks to kendis. >> stop! shut -- just -- we're taking care of this for you, paul. >> no, no. >> he told you about it. >> pop him in the back of his bald head. >> this has not hit kendis vicariously. thanks for nothing, paul. >> thank you, paul. >> thanks. that's the last time i open my mouth to him. hey. well, thanks. you enjoyed that way too much. >> i really did. >>> next to another -- to another strange sight -- to -- >> more bad weather? >> a strange sight in toronto. police and commuters were -- whoa. first dumped by this -- a car dangling from a bridge. >> some people thought it's a movie shoot. police say there were no permits for any filming in the area. they now say it was likely a prank. >> they cut the car down. police are looking into who is responsible. they could face charges. >> that's an elaborate prank. >> good job. >>> coming up, the teen defending her choice in prom dress after a major backlash from some online, calling the chinese-inspired design cultural appropriati

then from pittsburgh, syracuse and d.c. that's thursday and friday.re rain hitting us saturday and sunday. get out your boats. diane, kendis? >> i think we're going to need a bigger boat there, paul. >> and boots and an umbrella. >>> a delta flight was diverted to oklahoma because of an unruly passenger. a witness tells abc news the passenger stood up in the middle of the flight and started singing out loud. and when a flight attendant tried to get his attention, he ripped off his headphones and said touch me again and you'll regret it. >> so he wasn't a very good singer, is that the problem? >> most of the passengers thought he was doing great, but randy jackson was like you're not doing it for me. southwest flight had to make an emergency landing just 30 miles away after a pilot smelled mostly cloudy. turns out a passenger lit up a cigarette in the bathroom. that passenger was turned over to law enforcement. >>> and now to the ukraine. it involves a journalist thought to have been killed. >> but he's not dead, and he proved it by appearing at a news