. >> i'm alan colmes wabc talk radio. >> in 1987, he moved to wnbc in new york, a short-lived move asnounced his radio division was closing its doors, giving the final sign off on the great of you nbc. >> i'm alan colmes, thank you, god bless you, for the last time, this is 66 wnbc. >> in 1996, he parlayed his successful radio career into a television career. >> the economy is doing well, if it ain't broke, you don't have to fix it. >> teaming up with me to launch hannity and colmes. when the show ended it was by far the number one show and it's time slot and cable news and consistently one of the top rated shows on cable. as the banter sometimes grew a bit contentious, the mic. >> you are lying! alan would always use that great sense of humor to combat some of the stuff critics but >> i think it was great. >> off the air, he found love. >> i've been calling him honey since newt gingrich prayed >> into thousand three he married dr. elise crowley a professor of public policy at rutgers university and another major milestone just four months later, his debut nonfiction book red, white,

wabc checked it out. >> reporter: opera music plays for the horses, dogs are walked.cozy cages and all animals are fed gourmet food. >> waiting for our international flight. we can buy coffee, a newspaper, get a massage. >> reporter: animals can't do that. here is their first class lounge, the arc a brist service designed to calm them. >> pre and post flight care for the animals. >> reporter: dogs and cats cost 125 for up to six hours before or after a flight. for $75 extra, they will throw in grooming. > this is messina who is a sweetie, 7 years old. for horses, the four to six-hour an stay runs about $350. do you like the pave votty? do you like the opera? you like it? that plays all the time. >> the opera keeps the horses calm. that makes them know that they're going to be well cared for. >> reporter: a usda veterinarian is also on hand for any last minute shots. >> another necessary feature for certificates. if you're traveling internationally, there's a variety of vaccinations and treatments that animals needed to have. >> reporter: in the off chance an animal is

his big break in radio was in 1984 with a prime time slot on new york-based wabc. >> i'm alan colmesdio. >> in 1987, he moved to wnbc inm new york, a short-lived move asm wnbc announced his radio division was closing its doors, alan giving the final sign off on the great wnbc. >> i'm alan colmes, thank you, god bless you, for the last time, this is 66 wnbc. t >> in 1996, he parlayed his successful radio career into a television career. >> the economy is doing well, if it ain't broke, you don't have to fix it. >> teaming up with me to launch hannity and colmes. >> i'm going to wonder if more people agree with me or you as a show goes on. >> when the show ended, it was by far the number one show and it's time spot on cable news, and consistently one of the top rated shows on cable. as the banter sometimes grew a bit contentious >> you are lying! >> alan would always use that great sense of humor to combat some of the stuff critics but >> i think it was great. >> off the air, he found love. >> i've been calling him honey since newt gingrich. >> in june 2003, he married dr. joslyn elise

new york city times square take a look at some breaking news coming to us from our sister station wabc one hand it may seem a little quiet but in that area which will be packed with people shortly, there is a diner that is dealing with a three-alarm fire. it's 5:45 just the time when that people start stepping in for bacon and eggs and a cup of coffee. firefighters responded around 5:00 this morning. the fire appears to have started in the ductwork. it has spread to a neighboring building but they've managed to put it out. no injuries were reported which is great because that's where our friend robin roberts and others are getting ready for "gma." >>> new on "action news," surveillance video just made public shows a minivan flying a gas station mini mart in new york city at a mobile gas station in the bronx on sunday afternoon. the minivan just narrowly missed a customer. police say the man only suffered minor injuries and there's no word on what caused the driver to crash into the store in the first place. police are not saying yet if she's going to face any charges. >>> and hundreds

. >> wabc's jeff smith has details. >> reporter: we may have gotten closer to the discovery of extraterrestrialmers has found seven earth-sized planets orbiting trappist-1. >> these seven planets are all about the size of earth, about the same mass so probably rocky like earth. >> reporter: here's the important part. three of those are at a distance from that star where temperatures would support liquid water. a prerequisite for life. >> water has a lot of interesting unique properties that make it very well suited for life here, obviously it's the foundations of life here on this planet as we know it. you can imagine other solvents for life, things like liquid ammonia or liquid ethane but water really works very well especially with carbon which is what we're made of. >> reporter: because they're relatively nearby on a cosmic scale space telescopes may be able to detect life-affirming gases. >> they're launching the james webb telescope, about $9 billion to build. that's going to be able to look at these planets as they cross the face of the star and sniff out molecules in their atmospheres lo

he was also, of course, a longtime radio host with wabc and wnbc, he was an author, he even was a stand-upian. it was my pleasure to get to know him, and i enjoyed our frequent impromptu hallway conversations. i i can tell you right now, he was a real good guy, a real happy person. blessings to his family. alan was 66 years old. we'll be right back. charles: well, the cpac convention kicking off today, and president trump will address the annual conference of conservatives tomorrow. vice president pence is going to get the crowd all fired up in just a little bit, later on tonight. meanwhile, some of the president's top deputies took to the stage earlier today in a show of unity, even if they differed on some things like the media. roll tape. >> i think there's hope that it's going to change. we sit here every day, and the president pumps out all this work, and the executive orders, and punching through the promises that he made to the american people, so we're hoping that the media would catch up immediately. >> the reasons reince and i are good partners, we can disagree. it's going to get

thriving radio career, his big break in radio was in 1984 with the drive time slot on new york based wabc>> that's traffic. >> in 1987 allen moved to wnbc in new york, it announced its raido division was closing its doors. allen giving the final sign-off on the great wnbc. >> thank you, god bless you. for the last time this is 66wnbc. >> in 1996 he had a television career. >> the economy is doing well. >> teaming up with me to launch hannity and colmes. when the show ended hannity and colmes was the number one show in its time slot on cable news and one of the top-rated shows on cable. as the banter sometimes grew a bit contentious. >> because you are lying. >> you are lying here. >> alan would use that great sense of humor to combat some of his tough critics, but off the air alan found love. >> i haven't called a guest honey since newt gingrich. >> in june 2003 she married jocelyne crowley a professor at rutgers university and another milestone four months later his debut non-fiction view red, white and liberal. never one to back down to controversy his hard hitting interview style made