coming up next, we dive into the weeds of new york city with a retail politician, new york city councilwoman helen rosenthal, when "upclose" continues. welcome aboard my starship. ahoy, mateys! it's full of things i love... like me brave crew... and my fellow space adventures and free of things i don't. like aliens. it's full of stuff we pirates need. no artificial flavors, and it's gluten-free. excelsior! eat up, me hearties! keep it down! i'm exploring the galaxy. >> welcome back to "upclose." we talk a lot about politics on this program. many of the issues are national or statewide or local issues, which in the case of new york city is by definition larger than many states, as we saw in our interview with the schools chancellor just now. this morning we get really local. the retail politics of being a new york city councilwoman -- or the politically correct and gender-neutral term, city council member. city council member helen rosenthal, who represents the 6th district of the council -- that's our abc studios on the upper west side of manhattan. i asked her about embracing the job of a c

i'm thinking about new york city in particular. but obviously for new york because it's a chance for them to have to speak to people who have shown that some things work. we've shown emigration works in the city for example. the national debate is raging but in this city, we've shown immigration is a strength. income inequality is now the core of the national debate. what are we doing about it? it's all on hillary clinton's platform. raise taxes on the wealthy to fund the kind of initiatives the country nodes. the invest -- needs. the investments and roads and transit. higher wages and benefits. not just the minimum wage which i think is absolutely crucial. also allowing that family to of each other is. the investments in the future of the country. it was very gratifying during the debate to hear hillary clinton talk about pre-k. but i believe hillary clinton is the kind of person who can get pre- country. if we're going compete in the world the kids need an early strong education. every child in the country should get quality full

. >>> also, there is a hidden city inside new york city, a hidden city with a population bigger than the entire state of vermont and not one presidential candidate has visited the hidden city, even though they have all been invited to. tonight you'll come with me on a visit to that hidden city that most new yorkers see every day, but never enter. but first in a fight over the rules never, and i mean never, bet on the guy who doesn't know the rules. >> you may have noticed donald is very unhappy. >> it's a rigged system folks. >> it's clearly not. >> the true art of the deal donald is knowing what the deal is. >> any time the people vote against donald, he screams the voters are stealing the election. >> but you can't let the bosses take it away. >> you're exchanging tweets with him. you're tweeting, he's tweeting. >> i honestly don't take it all that personally. >> please join us at the adult table with kasich. >> give it to me. >> it's been a bit of a roller coaster. >> wow! >> ugly currents that lurk just below the surface of our politics have burst into the open. >> she's the most

new york city comptroller scott stringer vowed to audit the new york city board of elections. we'll have more on the new york primary after headlines. in brooklyn, a judge has sentenced former nypd officer peter liang to serve no jail time for killing unarmed african american father akai gurley. in 2014, nypd officer peter liang shot 28-year-old gurley in the darkened stairwell of a brooklyn housing project. gurley was walking down the stairs with his girlfriend because the elevator was broken. following the shooting, officer liang first texted his union representative before making a radio call for help. as gurley lay dying. liang had faced up to 15 years in prison on second-degree murder charges. but on tuesday, judge danny chun sentenced him to serve only five years probation and 800 hours of community service. judge chun also made the rare decision to reduce officer liang's verdict from manslaughter charges to the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. following the announcement, akai gurley's aunt, hecicicirtencia petersen, spoke out. >> this is not justice. this

$21 million for snow removal equipment for small streets in new york city. remember the mess in queens in the blizzard? and $70 million for the new nypd precinct. sandra bookman taking a closer look at the proposed budget at city hall. >> mayor de blasio today described the budget as an example of disciplined spending in that it takes in to account the city's current economic situation and also meets the needs of its people. up communities all over the five boroughs. >> reporter: that declaration this afternoon from mayor bill de blasio as he laid out his new executive budget proposal promising the good news is substantial. >> we'll be investing $70 million to build a new police precinct in southeast queens. >> residents in that area have long complained that the 105th precinct in queens village is simply too far to effectively cover neighborhoods like laurels and springfield gardens, brookvale and rosedale. >> it will change response times and allow for more cops to be patrolling the streets in both parts of the 13. >> reporter: the district manager for comm

north and east of new york city. after 2:00 p.m., it's much less wi dy from new york city south. winds down in the 20s to 30 miles per hour. even around 6:00, hampton bays, dealing with winds over 30 miles per hour. it's going to take a little while longer for everything to lm down for you. storm tracker shows one last snow squall there across suffolk county. that could impact driving, but overall, the snow really diminishing a tot over the past few hours. that's one storm pulling away. here's our nextretorm moving in toni t and tomorrow bringing us another round o snow and rain as well. we're talking about snow, we've also got cold i whoaces. windchills in the single digits in the hudson valley after the 70s and 80s the past couple of days. 16 it feels like in white plains. you had to head outside, ou need the layers, hats, gloves and scarves in full effect. we have freeze warnings in effect for portions of the suburbs. take the plants inside. temperatures will drop below freezing in many suburbs. doyksfternoondon future tracker. at least we're rain andw snow-free through the ev

mostly sunny skies north of new york city. central and southern new jersey, highs in the low and middle 60s during the day. for the next couple of hours we'll have to watch out near 195 for showers and storms that will roll through monmouth and ocean and middlesex. by the time we get past 9:00, 9:15, i think things are moving offshore. tomorrow a cool start. definitely a little bit more cloudiness off to the south. south of i-78. while it's perfectly sunny in the hudson valley and connecticut. through the afternoon, cool, more clouds to the south. more sun to the north. definitely a cooler spring day. air quality is moderate. uv index at a 7. pollen count is high. here's your 7-day accuweather forecast. tomorrow is the best bet despite clouds to the south. thursday is looking rainier over parts of new jersey and that could reach in to new york city. you'll need your umbrella especially thursday afternoon. friday there are a few showers around. still kind of a cool cloudy day. saturday is the better half of the weekend. clouds

these are all of the congressional districts that are in new york city or that touch new york city. let me just tell you what we're seeing right now. this right here, this is staten island. the 11th district is staten island, the little bit of brooklyn here. this looked like it was going to be trump country. boy, it really is. two-thirds of the vote is coming in here so far. donald trump is running at 82% on staten island. remember we said if you clear 50%, you get all three. it looks like from the 11th trump's going to get all three. here's where it starts to get interesting. this is manhattan here. you see a bunch of districts that are in or touched manhattan. the key is the vote that's come in from manhattan, it's not by congressional district, we can't yet break it down that way. the vote that's coming in from the borough of manhattan, there's more than one-quarter in. get this, john kasich is leading. 46% to 43% right now in manhattan. we don't know which district exactly. there's a little bit of a lag in terms of getting the actual congressional district vote. remember we show

a little leftover new york city. an awesome wind gust map because you can see the front and wind gust over 30 miles-an-hour near the stronger storms. here's what you need to know storms south after the next few hours ask a brief heavy downpours and gusty small hail, and it turns cooler tonight. guys, the threat for new york city points north and west is over the next hour, and we'll skip to long island and new jersey. accu weather in a few minutes. liz and dave. >> it got dark out there. >> thanks, lee. >>> we have more from a local home where they firsthand coming up at 4:30. >>> a scare on campus. a connecticut university taking steps to protect students after an assault was reported in the area. fairfield university urging its students to stick together as it investigates the sexual assault of a student on the way to the library. reporter aj ross live in fairfield with more. >>reporter: david, this is a small university of a couple of thousand students. students received text and e-mails about last night's assault

the plane used more fuel than expected because of strong headwinds. >>> tomorrow the full new york city council is expected to vote easier to control those costume characters and painted women in town square. the transportation committee today passed the legislation which would give the d.o.t. control over all the city's pedestrian plazas. that could include limiting where the performers are allowed to pose for pictures or collect tips. >>> a charter school in newark getting a special visitor. mrs. obama will join students thursday afternoon. this to work in the school's rooftop garden. phillips academy created the eco spaces education program. helps students connect with healthy foods and learning how it's grown and how it nourishes their young bodies. good for them. >>> we're going to need the umbrellas. we're going to need the rain boots, rain jacket. >> you're going to get the rain along with it. it was one week ago tonight that we were forecasting 80 degrees for your thursday forecast. at least we're forecasting temperatures to get closer to 60 but it will be wet. end of central pa

. >>> strong winds are expected over night, could cause some damage to the in new york city, the buildings department has told property owners to secure their sites in anticipation of high winds. >>> utility workers personnel and equipment in the event of power line damage. this system also will bring rain and snow. yep, snow. our meteorologist is here with the details, jeff. >>> potentially damaging winds only a couple hours away we lasting through 2 p.m. on sunday until 6 p.m. on eastern parts of long island. first of all on the radar, thunderstorms of rockland and west chester counties getting thunderstorms over fair field county connecticuit. it's this squall line here moving into eastern parts of pennsylvania moving off to the east at 60 to 70 miles per hour in with this line a heavy downpour and potentially some damaging wind gusts about an hour and 30 minutes away from new york city right around 12:30 to 1 a.m. as it moved on through washington d.c. they had a 66 miles per hour wind gust at dallas international airport north and west of washington d.c. this means business as it move

north and east of new york city we may stay dry. this waveee -- wavy front is snaking over the area. i'm hoping this will move away on saturday and give us a nice day. we're not talking about big rains but later in the evening especially nassau, south and west and central and southern new jersey, we could have showers. here's your accuweather forecast. patchy frost in the suburbs. 59 through the day tomorrow. another cool day. clouds dominate in the afternoon. late rain especially south and west of new york city. and rain and drizzle coming in tomorrow night. big question over the weekend, will rain stay away sunday afternoon? changes in the weekend forecast. we'll have that at 5:30. >> stay away. >>> the world's biggest hamburger chain is trying a new recipe to bring back lost business. mcdonald's is getting rid of the artificial preservatives in a new chicken mcnugget recipe. the company has been testing the recipe in stores in washington. it admits its lost customers so it's trying to make the core menu better. >>> she's accused

. >> hinojosa: new york city. and in, you would say, what, a traditional chinese family, relatively traditional? >> yeah, with a mom and dad. my parents came over in the 1970s as part of the... you know, the open door act that sort of let more educated immigrants in, and a lot more people from asia. and then they came here, and they had three little babies, bump, bump, bump, that's me, my sister, and my brother. >> hinojosa: by the way, j, f, k. >> it's true. my name is jennifer, my sister's name is frances, and my brother's name is kenneth. and if you take our initials, it spells jfk, which my parents like to say is the airport that they landed at when they came to america. >> hinojosa: when you were growing up, did you have this kind of constant critical perspective of, "what is the food that i'm eating as a chinese firstborn in this country," versus, "what is the food that's being eaten in my upper west side new york city neighborhood," and kind of this... or were you just like, "you know what? i'm a new yorker

and showers are falling in new york city. this is where we have to watch out. hopefully the roadways are treated nicely for this event. by 1:00, showers continue into the city. moving into the north end of the hudson valley. many of the spots seeing snow now, will turn over to rain. 6:00 for your evening commute. a shower in the city. it's all gone by testimony we're looking much better but told colder tomorrow as well. the winds picking back up. feels like winter even though there's sunshine. you can see the seven-day forecast. 52 today, 42 tomorrow. wednesday is the best day of the week. mosley dry. rain informs in at night. a high near 60 degrees for 50 with rain. >>> emily west has the traffic for us. >> a lot of delays north of the city. several accidents, first off in queens on the van wyck northbound. this is around hillside avenue. that's exit 6. right lane is blocked. but delays stretch back toward the belt parkway this morning. let's take a live look at the belt parkway. you can see that wb round by jfk it's really slow. i saw flashing lights drive-by.

rthat's a commitment new york city has made. r we had veterans who said, "i didn't know i p can take advantage of that," or, "who do i call?" r or, "someone called me, but i don't know p where i'm supposed to go." pso, we've got to do a lot better pathway out of shelter, por for folks on the street, the kind of engagement we're doing p through our homestat initiative, very constant, p heavy engagement to convince them to get off the street, rand to give a different kind of life a chance. p chuck: very quickly, melissa did the story some time ago pabout a little girl, little boy who were in the homeless system, p they were trapped in there, and they had just a terrible rtime getting to school, took them hours to p get back and forth to school. p what are you doing to try to improve the lives of children p who are caught in the system? rbill: well, i give melissa credit because, p as a result of those reports, we've looked at the situation p and we realized, even though it was an expense, p it was a worthy expense to invest in sch

massively popular music festival took place back in 1969, on a dairy farm two hours north of new york cityt is part of new york's hotly contested 19th congressional district. they give out delegates by congressional district. remember that on tuesday. msnbc's tony dokoupil joins me from bethel. what are you finding out? piece of history you're next to. >> reporter: that's right. you know, steve, every candidate would like to capture the energy from 1960s but the moment bernie sanders is doing the best job of. you saw the concert, thousands watching, thousands watching at home thought that looks like something i remember from the '60s, woodstock, which happened here in the field where i'm standing, where the concession was, down the hill is where jimmy hendrik played the famous star-spangled banner. two guys original woodstock attendees. >> how are you doing? >> you ran the lights. >> you came in from new jersey. >> that's me. >> what's the on finished business of woodstock? >> thinking about it, coming up with an answer we haven't reached any type of equality in the country. i think it's g

in fact the clouds may try to thin out east of new york city. but once we get to the commute, that is when rain starts to become more widespread, especially into your friday evening. that is when we have a steadier period of rainfall. the mets aren't playing tonight but tomorrow when the giants are playing at citi field i think there is going to be rain in the area. maybe very light to start but steady, it will be a close call whether they can sneak that game in. watch the futurecast here, we drizzle. then tomorrow during the day, again rain, much of the time. not much is going on. it is cool, we are only in the 50s, but look how the rain starts to expand and move into the area. have your umbrella. air qualitifully good. pollen count knocked down to a moderate if not low level by night fall. so on saturday, that is the i think the rain will have departed the area during the morning hours. we are going to be stuck in a lot of the cloud cover over parts of new jersey. that is the way it stands right now. david and liz a 50-50 weekend. i think we w

unfortunately in new york city, this is nothing new. we have long accepted the board of elections' incompetence. >> reporter: the board of elections says that brooklyn fell behind in 6 months to a year in kgw up with with the voter rolls. >> if they believe it was the utilization of the agency's funds to audit the board of elections, we will fully cooperate as we have done with other comptroller audit that is may not have received so much attention. >> reporter: workers came keys that would observe cabinets containing the ballots. so voters gave up. >> it was bad. >> reporter: what is your biggest concern when you see the crowd out front? >> that we want them to vote. all votes count. >> reporter: and a short time ago, mayor bill deblasio issued a statement saying he supports the audit saying that the voting rolls in brooklyn, quote, contain numerous errors including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the building list and that the errors indicate that additional major reforms will be needed for the board of elect

. >> and we're also moments away from john kasich about to take the stage here in new york city to deliver a major speech. it's a policy speech comparing his to the other republican candidates. our political team standing by from washington to across the state of new york. covering all the campaigns. let me start with nbc's jacob rascon in upstate new york where trump will be later today. jacob, good morning. you've got trump against the party. who's going to come out on top on this one? >> hey, jose. hope you'll bear with us. we're on a phone here as the secret service is about to do their sweep inside the trump rally. so trump versus the establishment, it's almost the same story it's been for ten months. you have this outsider who has been saying i'm going to win, i'm deg to win. and he's been winning, but now you have wisconsin and colorado. and trump now is saying, it's all rigged. it fits, though, into his argument that he is against the establishment. but at the same time, you have him behind the scenes trying to do outreach in washington, d.c. trying to have, for example, his new co

two nights ago we took you on a tour of the city within the city of new york, the public housing thatme to more people in this city than the entire population of vermont or the city of boston. political campaigns in new york city like to do photo ops in pizza delawa piz pizza delawareis and schools, but never in public housing. presidents and u.s. senators have more power over public housing than mayors do, but in her eight years as new york's junior senator hillary clinton never visited a public housing project and i'm sure that is true of most united states senators in this country. public housing is the hidden city within every city, the ignored city until today. >> residents are forced to live with mold, with leaking roofs, with broken elevators. that is not acceptable in new york or america. >> hillary clinton brought presidential campaign cameras to public housing today. on wednesday night on this program when the candidate had still not responded to the invitation to visit public housing, charlene, a public housing resident said this is what she wanted to ask those candidates.

and new york city, 60, and tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m., the city at 44, and there is the run at freezing for liberty, 34, and near 50 for bellemare and the rest of ocean county. the vortex satellite and radar, were on this line developing over the next 5 to 6 hours. let's watch in and tune in later but right now, the focus more from say, missouri into illinois because this, this is a really terrible looking storm. i am fearful to see what comes out of it. you have one giant hook echo. when you see a storm line shaped like this, that's 200 miles of the storm line and 25 miles thick. if you are in the path of that, that's going to rumble over your house. big hail and tornadic activity a possibility. tomorrow, a cold start and 64 the high temp, sunny skys, and then thursday, a rain pans and 59 and fried, 63 and nice weather leading into the weekend, 63 on saturday and 65 on sunday and i believe sunday more clouds primarily late in the day and sets us up for a >> it will be up and down for the temperatures. >> lonnie, thank you. >>> a long island bakery has recalled packages of cookies sold

tonight centered on new york city. ted cruz talking to eyewitness news as he and john kasich try to woo voters from new yorker donald trump. >> first tonight, two armed robbers ambush an elderly man in new jersey attacking him in his home. good evening at 11:00, i'm bill ritter. >> i'm sade baderinwa. those suspects took money and even food. tonight they're still on the run. >> the victim, 71-year-old luis >> the first time the man knocked on lewis rosario's door, he looked through the door but ignored them. they knocked again. >> the second time, wow -- >> they pushed you in the second time. >> yeah, that's what happened. the guy, he's younger than me. >> reporter: wearing a mask, the man threw rosario to the ground. >> that guy, he take out a knife and put it here. >> reporter: a woman who was with the man who pushed in the door sprayed rosario in the face with something. the two started looting through the apartment, including the kitchen, filling a bag with food and whatever valuables they could find. they took his

they recalibrate, now the biggest snowstorm in new york city lift. it felt like it during the storm. >>> now in terms of lower totals and rainfall, it is about these forecast models as we go through tomorrow morning, just taking sort of an average, very light rainfall amounts. a few places will see even less than that. a few hundredths. there have been sprinkles but it is dry across the span right now. 53. south wind 12 miles per hour, the pressure holding steady and the lie we told you 59. the average high is 66. no rainfall in the rain bucket just yet and there are your sunrise and sunset time. rain and drizzle moving through during the evening hours. tomorrow it is dry much of the the day and at flight 50-50 weekend. rain much of the day on sunday our only hope is after 4:00 or 5:00 the rain is moving out. 50 sunset park right now. 49. we have had light rain in oakwood, that is why it is cooler here. light drizzle getting into parts of brooke lynn, queens. 52 in white plains right now. -- brooklyn, queens. 52 in white plains right now. across the

senator cruz for that comment on new york values. >> everyone understands that the values in new york city focus around mononey and the media. >> i saw something no place earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely, than new york. ♪ deirdre: so, you probably know, new york values are american values. if cruz is going to move forward, what does he have to do? >> welell, first i'm very gratified to see that donald trump has moved away from attacking senator cruz's wife and moved back to attacking senator cruz directly. i suppose that is improvement and strategic shift from the disasterous decision that donald trump made to attack family members but in terms of, in terms of, obviously donald trump is hiding behind 9/11 and that terrible tragedy to the extent he can change the subject matter away from his deep financial pport for liberal democratic politicians in new york city and in new york state who have supported raising taxes supported job killing regulation and like. donald trump doesn't want to talk about big checks he has written to new york state democratic party and vari

it set up across new york city. that's about what i was expecting yesterday when we stopped around 60, 62, 63. we stopped at 60 in the park. but central south jersey, middle 80s today. and just to the north into the hudson valley, only in the low 50s. so 60 for the high. 51 the low. and i don't know if you were woken up early this morning when thunderstorms came crashing through. boy, i tell you, it was really, really loud. it was shaking the house in my neighborhood. we still have a couple of those moving through the area. mostly the threat is going to be extending towards central new jersey southward. we'll see all of the sun tomorrow. 52 now. the rain has just about ended. wind northeast. pressure is on the rise. that's pushed the temperature back into the lower 50s. guardian. you can see the cluster of storms that came through. they're off to the south and east. there's showers along the nassau-suffolk county line. the biggest storms offshore. a couple are forming off to the west. this one north of trenton is li

not just here in new york city. big surprises tonight? rossroads of the world as you say new york and also potential turning point in the race, both frontrunners call this state home. right? hillary clinton and donald trump. both come in with losing streaks. and they need to turn that around. if this is going to be a contest, this is a place that they can essentially end it, in terms of someone catching them. donald trump gets himself back on track with a big win. gets himself in a position to take a majority of delegates. hillary clinton can all but end bernie sanders bid. big stakes going on right here in new york. >> jackie, is it just to win and do they have to win big? and what is winning big and what's a loss for them? >> they are going to say a win is a win. trump wants to win all the bananas. he wants to win all the delegates here. it's looking good for donald trump. he has got to crest 50% not only statewide but in each of the congressional districts. it's looking gadd. now for hillary clinton it's a little bit different. she is p

it is expensive to live in new york city. the reason is so many people want to live here. >> reporter: the assistant managing editor of crains new york says new york would place higher if the authors adjusted their criteria to include convenience. >> it costs 8,000 a year to own a car. you don't have to own a car in new york. you can travel anywhere you want on the subway or bus for about $1,200 a year. that discrepancy is never accounted for in the rankings. our city and are quick to tell you what you can do with your no. 96. if you had to convince somebody on why it should be higher, what would you say? >> the mets are going to win the world series. >> if people were nicer. >> reporter: it may go up higher? >> maybe a little. >> reporter: antwan lewis, fox 5 news. >>> thank you very much. joining us to talk more about this survey is anna miller, "u.s. news & world report". your company did this. you just heard. everybody loves -- we love this city. you just moved here. you love it, too. it's a great place. i was shocked like

new york city was at the forefront. we see changes in the civil rights movement, in women's changing. it's a really -- ernie: a lot of people don't realize that. you mentioned civil rights and talked about women. elaborate on that. >> there was a national guard unit, primarily african-americans. it was re-formed as the 369th regimen. a lot of guys from harlem. the army was segregated. this is an all black unit. and they ended up serving under france officers. they were heroic. a lot of them won the awards, great reputation. when they come home, there's a wonderful parade for them. ernie: great parade for them. >> they ended up being the leaders of the civil rights movement in the united states at an early stage. ernie: a lot of history starting with world war i. tell me about some of the events we can look forward to. >> we're going to have workshops for teachers that reinvigorate the teaching of world war i. we hope to have concerts. was james reese. he introduced jazz to paris. people weren't happy during world war i.

the key to new york city is new york city comes in first. that's the biggest area, her strongest area. bernie sanders, a lot stronger in the upstate, in the rural areas, in the southern tier. i don't know with 40% left if he can get it down to single digits. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much. >> eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winner of "washington post" is with us. there's that expression, staying too long at the fair. >> yeah? >> and after this very good result for the clinton campaign tonight, people who make a living at this are going to start asking about a, as chuck todd puts it, how does bernie sanders land the plane. >> right. and that's a question at of people will be asking, i think, beginning tomorrow, if they haven't answered already. you know, with donald trump's huge win tonight, we just should not underestimate how good a night this looks for hillary clinton. it answers a lot of questions. imagine, had things been otherwise, imagine if it were a narrow clinton lead at this point, or we still couldn't call the race, or it

high clouds increasing west of new york city. parts of pennsylvania, up state new york. that's going to be arking through the area. they'll be a couple of showers around. here's our future cast overnight tonight, you see by 7:00 in the morning, so after midnight between midnight and 7:00 in the morning, some showers between north and west of new york city. rain showers, i might add because temperatures are going to be above freezing everywhere. during the day tomorrow, just maybe a spotty shower north and west. we could see a break or two of sunshine, and that propel temperatures up to near of 0 south -- near 60 north and west. as their moisture grabbed from the gulf of moisture, they'll be a good amount of rainfall. right around sunrise, heavy rain entering western parts of new jersey and over spreading the entire region into the morning and mid-day hours on tuesday. here's your accu weather forecast. shower in spots towards dawn. a better new york city. 41, it does become breezy out there. a shower in a few places. 58 degrees. the best shot of showers during the day to

we'll be right back after the break. >> new york city is the greatest, most exciting, vibrant city on the planet. you never know that if you watch local news. it's predictable. you don't know what you'll get, a fire, a car accident, a crime story. >> we're doing stories that are things that people talk about when they go to the water cooler at work and stuff people talk about throughout the day and you >> we're spending time on stories you won't get anywhere else. when something big happens, you'll get it from us and not in a way you get it from everybody else. >> one of the problems of people working news, we produce shows for ourselves. we should produce newscasts for the community. i would like our air to reflect the city. alison morris, incredible credibility in the business world. she's an amazing story teller. we need to see faces like that and not just anchor man, anchor woman type of newscast. ernie: russ is here. the islanders continue to roll. russ: you know, ernie, everybody was talking the other day. they were asking the head coach coach -- they won last night 5-3. they ha

clinton will be campaigning tomorrow in new york city. on friday she'll head to buffalo and rochester. she then plans on returning to the city for events on saturday, possibly sunday. today she was campaigning in pennsylvania. ahead of that state's primary on april 26th. >>> her opponent bernie sanders pennsylvania, holding an event tonight in philadelphia. he's got more stops scheduled in that city tomorrow. friday the brooklyn native will travel here to new york city. he'll appear on the view which appears here on channel 7. we invite you to stay with eyewitness news and abc news as new york becomes, for the first time since 1976, relevant to the presidential primary elections. candidates visiting here now like never before, even taking out local political ads for the first time in memory. get it all at abc7ny. >>> new at 11:00, a teenager in stable condition tonight after being stabbed at a subway station in brooklyn. police say the victim was stabbed in the torso at the mezzanine in bed-stuy. it's not clear what the motive was. there

and new york city north, a lot of sunshine in place. so here's some of the sunshine i'm talking about, look at that really pretty out there, and then another picture here, where clouds, more in place south of new york city but we see right now, in new york city, skies are mostly clear, 54 degrees, high temp was 62. 62 is three degrees cooler than we typically get this time of year, morning low, 46. below the average of 48. chilly tomorrow morning, frost warnings out there for the areas northwest of new york city. and also the east end of suffolk county from midnight tonight until 9:00 in the morning. some cold air setting up, now early this morning, about 46 degrees. tomorrow morning similar, 45. some sun to start off your day, but seeing more clouds as you get into the day and rain chance within the clouds, yes there is. will there be bigs -- will they be big storms? no. thursday and friday, both base have a wet weather chance. here's the reason, this front yesterday was north of our area. it moved into the area first clipping the east

for me, the journey for washington's immortals began about 6 years ago, when i was in new york city and the commanding , third battalion, first platoon or first battalion, was in new york as a liaison officer for the council on foreign relations. he asked me what i wanted to do that day. said, i'd like to go to take you to a battlefield tour of brooklyn. -- i have why maintained my friendships with all the marines i was with in the battle of falluja in 2004. it provided a lasting memory for me. i went house to house with these marine rifle platoons great and recorded their story, and i saw some of the worst combat in iraq, where i literally pulled a moline who had half his face taken off by a bullet out of a firefight -- these are lasting memories that allowed me to write this book, but it created a bond of friendship that has lasted a lifetime for me. when he asked me what i wanted to do, i wanted to take him to the battle of brooklyn. the battle of brooklyn is the largest battle of the american revolution. interestingly enough, it begins in a watermelon patch. it was outside of greenw

you can see the clouds from our top of the rock camera starting to spread over new york city. it's going to be raining in the city within a half hour. those storms are moving very fast right now. it's cloudy and 77 in the city. in long island it's much much cooler with that fog. evening spotty storms for the urs. then we get that high impact wind event. the winds come howling through there could be damage from those and power outages. and then cold, snowy conditions north of the city, especially over the hudson valley by sunday morning. we've got a little bit of everything going on. let's start with the thunderstorms. there's the line stretching from western connecticut all the way down into southeastern pennsylvania. this cell here over hunterdon county was a severe thunderstorm. it could still have damage winds. that's what this arrow indicates here. watch out in plainfield, westfield, livingston and elizabeth. the storm is heading in your direction. also a cell towards east orn stretch orange stretching up towards patterson. you're in the path. between now and about 6 :50 th

york value comments. but you weren't with him just in the city. people think of new york as just new york city.t. does it play the same outside of the city? >> not at all. his defense sort of falls on deaf ears here in new york city and down state new york as they call it upstate. but up there i was with him outside of albany. he had a pretty large rally, a lot of people came. the line was kind of snaked outside this big high school gym and i asked so many people whether or not they were offended by the new york values slur and really almost to a person they said, no, i get it, we're upstaters. we don't have the same values as the people in new york city. so that's the kind of consistency he's trying to appeal to anyway. i don't think he expects to get a lot of votes here in manhattan. he's not out glad handing in the columbus circle. it's not his scene. >> people in new york see new york city and then the rest of it. >> you're a new yorker. you know how it goes. >> and then the rest of the country. thank you. always a pleasure, dana bash. >> thank you. >> up next, frank bruni weighs and in don

tour, but not one in new york city. coming up on eyewitness news at 5:30, we'll tell you about how this is not the first time that a cow has broken loose from this jamaican slaughter house. for now, live, lauren glassberg. >> we've covered a few stories. >>> two people needed to be rescued from a home fully engulfed in flame in rock land police. officers arrived at the home and saw the second floor deck covered in flames. firefighters managed to rescue those people unharmed. the cause of the investigation. but it does not appear to be suspicious. >>> the fight for hire minimum wage getting a nation's most labor friendly states. here in new york, governor cuomo reached a deal to raise the base rage to $15 an hour. in california's governor also set to sign a new bill passed yesterday raising the minimum wage as well. >>reporter: first california, now new york. after months of protests, both state legislatures came to an agreement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. >> aye 26. 10 nos. >> the minimum will raise to $15

i talked about new york values, and the question you asked ted cruz when he was down here in new york city. this morning, the new york daily news, front page, is pretty harsh. take the train, ted. what does the campaign say, though, in all seriousness, what do they say about this, this strain of thought that he won't be able to win over new yorkers? >> here is what ted cruz himself will say, kate. people in new york who are conservative understand what ted cruz is trying to say, what he talks about these new york values. cruz says explicitly he is talking about liberal democratic values. that's actually part of his reworked stump speech. using people like bill de blasio as foils here in new york, and the crowds that are going to his events, like somebody yelled out, heckled cuomo, made a joke off of it. but here is the issue. when you go to places like schenectady, where we were, you talk to folks. what are new york values. does ted cruz understand new york values. the answer you get, he doesn't get the new york values. he is from texas. he doesn't know what they are. it's a tough sell, tw

stuart: those who live in new york city and can't stand the bugs. i want to move on to the university of missouri which has been the scene of several race related protest the past year. trillion, that school is now in real trouble. >> i think for dorm so close. they see fund-raising way down. they see enrollment significantly down. this is really damage the brand. it's no surprise. who wants to send their kids to a university where the student if they are the educators. that's not how you get an education. stuart: enrollment is down 5%. they've got a budget deficit of $32 million. what is this about those protesters who demanded the open-air save space? would you want to generate something? >> this is my favorite. about 7000 pages of mehsud

look at that morning low. 26 degrees in new york city. you're well below the mark in both the high and the low category. my headlines look like this. you want to know when it's going to end? the mild air will be here for thursday. but it comes with some unsettled weather. rain is likely at times on thursday. it's like a one-day reprieve because by friday, the temperatures drop 10 degrees again and we go back to the cold stuff. vortex satellite and radar pretty picture right there. bigger picture will show you, what is at bay? there's a high pressure system giving us all this nice clear air and this high pressure system has its clockwise rotation around it so because of where the high is located now, it's that northerly wind that you're catching. all right? the mild side of this high is on the back side of it. this is where you start catching that southerly wind. well, you're not going to get into that southerly wind until thursday and that's also when you get into the thicker cloud cover and also rain chance so let's time that out for you

and for me, it was something that kind of resonated. activist in new york city. i did a lot of work for social justice with organizations like the national congress for puerto rican rights and el puente. so, for me, i take that compliment kind of like not lightly but very much of a big responsibility... >> sure. >> ...because as a latino, as a puerto rican, i'm very much given this opportunity to represent my people, my community, and i don't take it very lightly. so, every opportunity i have, i do it responsibly and i do it with as much authenticity and integrity as i can when i do that. >> has groot and this adventure opened new doors for you? >> actually, it has. i'll be going to puerto rico in december for the aguada con comic fest. they actually invited me to come down there this december, which is fantastic, 'cause, you know, when you actually get to go home and you're received kind of like in this manner, it's kind of like, "wow!" it's mind-blowing. so, i'm helping them out. i have a lot of contacts with a lot of other puerto rican artists, and i'm invitin

that's a suburb of new york city.nd we're going to be watching for when the other hometown candidate, republican donald trump, casts his ballot in new york city some time today. now polls are going to stay open until 9:00 eastern time tonight. that's one of the later closing times you'll see in this country. there's a lot on the line in both races. new york one of the biggest prizes left in each party. let's take a look at the stakes today in new york. over at the big board, let's begin on the democratic side. you see how the delegate race stands. take a look at this column. it's a little complicated. these are the delegates given out in the primary and caucuses. the sanders campaign believes if they can catch hillary here then the superdelegates will have no choice but to flip their allegiances. bernie sanders comes in today down 240 to hillary clinton in this category. it's more like 210 because there are outstanding delegates from the state of washington that haven't been counted. if the polls are right in new york

more arrests are possible. >>> now to elevator danger in new york city. a new report revealing the city knew about faulty equipment before a deadly accident in the mo onx. >> it appears to be part of a much bigger problem. news 4's andrew sinf reports from boston road plaza in the aller ton section with new video of the types of malfunctions that could put lives at risk. >> instead of a smooth ride -- >> going up andov down. then it gets stuck in between the floors. >> for people who rely on elevators as a lifeline in new york city public housing have en frustrated. >> that one is not working. when that one is working and this one don't. >> take a look at t is exclusive video obtained by 4 investigates. the closed circuit camera shows the doors still open at boston road plaza in the bronx. about an hour later that december day, 84-year-old got ju trappehi tumowlgd bld over and died. >> i'm crying because he was a nice guy. >> others still sha n three months iater. >> after another man broke hisy kle getting stuck in another drifting elevator. >> those inci

if he gets this into single digits in new york city, it could be interesting. of people look back a couple years ago, andrew cuomo was in the primary and geographically his opponent did well. what saved co-me was new york city and lost a lot of the rest of the state. >> do you know which numbers come in first? does new york report fairly quickly? >> i'm not sure of the numbers. we will have exit polls at 5:00 and exit polls are skewed towards new york city. when you get the democratic numbers early, be careful. >> thank you very much. >> see you all night tonight. >> in your tie. >> that's right. >> up next, you have been mandated to wear a tie. >> whose tie is it? >> who told you to wear it? >> is it? what's that? >> who made you wear it? >> it was my idea. >> the administration. >> the administration. >>> coming up next, oscar film winning producer and clinton supporter, harvey weinstein joins the conversation. harvey will be here when we come back. pain, so you don't have to stop. because you believe in go. onward. today's the day. carpe diem. tylenol® 8hr a

for all coastal locations including new york city. planning your day, 28 right now, mostly cloudy skies as we're redding through the rest of the day it stays breezy. we will have lots of sunshine, so it looks nice, just didn't feel like. these temperatures in the 30s feels more like 20s. so dress for 20s as you're stepping outside. here's a look at future tracker. looking good. sunshine, lots of that to go around today. for your evening commute, it's nice and dry. starts out sunny, cold, then temperatures gradually moderating throughout date. there's a look at the seven-day forecast. 47 tomorrow, so that feels better. and we are expecting the clouds to build. that's going to be a showery and stormy day. look at the high of 59 degrees. but getting colder as we head towards the weekend. let's see how the commute is going. nice and quiet, lauren scala. >> things are nice and quiet. we have reports of an overturned vehicle in the eastbound service road of the cross bronx on the parkway. that's being cleared out. though you're seeing that

i don't think there's any doubt he would love to be mayor of new york city. if he had the opportunity would challenge de blasio. he might reconsider if he felt he could win. >> reporter: fox 5 reached out to diaz. his team had no comment. seek re-election for city comptroller. should be interested. steve: thank you, liz. breaking news from new jersey. joe beerman over the scene of what appears to be an oil sheen in the hudson river. >> i'd call it an oil splic -- slick on the hudson river north of the george washington bridge. the u.s. coast guard is in route up here to try and figure out where this oil slick is coming from. one of the key indicators is there's a marina up here that it might be coming from. but it's a fairly big oil slick on the jersey side, runs from two miles north of the bridge down to about the gw. you can see it mixing with the water. they'll have to test the samples of the water, go back and test the fuel in the marina and see the big mystery. dari: thank you. the current governor of new jersey and former one teamed up today. chris chris