in new york city. >> live from new york, it's saturday night! >> reporter: any night of the week in the city, one can find more men and women performing comedy than any other city in the country. for that, two comedians tell us we can thank or blame not the size of new york's metro area, the sense of humor of the populous or the local market for funny jokes, but instead, the new york city subway system. >> it's so easy to pack a huge amount of people and get around the city. be at a 7:00 show, an 8:30 and others. >> these comedians advise comedians wanting to be on television or movies, to move to los angeles. >> there's more acting. >> you can't have a comic doing five spots a night because they'd be stuck in traffic. >> reporter: for those beginning careers or looking to maximize performances in a night or performing standup, new york is the comedy capital of the english speaking world. >> you can get the greatest range of audiences. >> new york, you can get on stage five to 10 times a night. >> reporter: we met these two on one of the stages

new york new york 8.4 million people call the city home. >> it's snowing hard in central park and 20 in midtown and snowfall one to two feet and saying we could have snow hour. >> the coldest winter in 81 years and coincides with a grim reality. more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s. floors. >> it's really difficult once you find ways to just get through day-to-day from finding clothing to finding shelter to finding where you will eat. >> today it's hectic because of the snow outside and not a places for us to sleep now and everybody is kind of coming in. >> in just a decade the number of people living in new york's homeless shelters has nearly doubled and reaching 60,000 a night last year. it's a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any city. >> what we see today, the homeless that we see, the exodus from this city, families doubling, tripling up, the rent sky rocketing, this has been a crisis that has been cooking for 20 years. >> why are so many in new york homeless? this week fault lines looks at the forces that are displacing thousands

in the story of the new york times, neuman suggested the new york ear directness and the willingness to argue may endear her to strangers or voters. >> i love what i am doing. i love my business. i built a great company. >> we are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. >> camille opped not to discuss how a new york accent may sr. the campaigns of donald trum or bernie sanders but on for the thought anded a hit med may help her to charm the customers. >> i think they feel home my with it. it is comforting. >> with you postally regulars flock to the garden force the square pizza, the sausage then pork chops and the ice on which a mool's grandfather founded this sta establishment 76 years ago in whatever accent sold the most ice cream. >> fill the holes in. >> in bensonhurst, matt king, "fox 5 news." >> and i mean, look that. born ny is brooklyn. done ailed queens. >> yeah. >> and they are are both, you know. >> they are both new yorkers shake it. >> but like they do. they respond to it. you mow what i mean? it is larger than life. love. >> i and part of that studies the abi

new york. the we talked to senator grassley about the locker case. >> let's go through few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people. in fact, the story of the baker whose cave gives rise to an era that defined the supreme court for the next 34 years. let me introduce you to our guests. randy barnett is at georgetown university. he is the author of a book restoring the lost constitution of congressional liberty and he is argued in court. her other guests actually read the book on lochner. his home base is texas state university. in telling people it should be interested in this, when to explain why? symbolcase has become a it was made into a political symbol by teddy roosevelt when he ran for president in 1912. it was a symbol of how roosevelt claimed the court had overreached and overstepped its bounds and blocks legislation from being enacted. ever since then it has been a because itlashpoint was made one in a presi

. >>> right now on news 4 new york, all hell broke loose. words from a scared passenger aboard a train that went off the tracks today. that train bound for d.c., but skenl wld to scheduled to sfaup right here in new york city. right now we know the national transportation safety. >> when five of the train's cars careened off the tracks after it hit a rockslide in north field. that's just ten miles north of the state capital. vermont's governor said it doesn't look like any way to avoid the crash. >> one person onboard headed to new jersey snapped this picture from inside the train. one of the cars down an embankment. jack is in northfield tonight where he spoke with shaken up passengers. >> the passengers who didn't need medical treatment were brought here to the campus of norwich university. they were picked up on coach buses and now on their way to continue their journeys and all have very harrowing stories to tell. jean thompson was on the amtrak vermonter and took these photos after it struck a rock slide in northfield, vermont, en route

york welcome to new york it's been waiting for you welcome to new york say, it's a new soundtrack i could dance to this beat beat forever more the lights are so bright but they never blind me me when we first dropped our bags on apartment floors took our broken hearts put them in a drawer everybody here was someone else before and you can want who you want boys and boys and girls and girls so welcome to new york it's been waiting for you welcome to new york welcome to new york it's been waiting for you welcome to new york welcome to new york it's a new soundtrack i could dance to this beat beat forever more the lights are so bright but me me like any great love it keeps you guessing like any real love it's ever changing like any true love it drives you crazy but you wanna change anything anything [ cheers and applause ] * >>> this is "nightline." >> tonight, defying the odds. born without most of his brain, now baby jackson is a year old medical miss mystery. his parents open up about their story and the backlash they faced for their difficult decision. >>> monica the medium. she sa

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>> i live in new york city. my daughter is in school in the new york city area. in fact, my son is getting ready to graduate from columbia university, and he did his senior year of high school in new york. and i'm a major property owner in new york, as well. >> finally, one thing -- you do not like the description of you as one of the wealthiest black americans in the country. why not? >> well, because i think in itself that's almost a divisive statement. look, i think i understand the thinking here, is that african-americans have had to struggle, but the reality is, is i'm a businessperson. i want to be judged as a businessperson. just like if i were mayor of new york city, i would want to be judged as mayor of all of new york city. >> your campaign gonna be the "peebles" choice? >> good idea. >> i'm just wondering. >> very good idea. i like that. >> well, good luck to you. we hope to have mayor de blasio on the show to talk about some of the criticisms, and we wish you good luck. we hope to see you again. >> great. thank you, bill. >> don peebles, thank you ver

all the divides in america, all the divides in new york. you can see within a few feet of where we are standing. >> the apartments around here, if i found a job, if i went to work, what am i going to do. i can't afford these. >> down the street we found al-williams, a 46-year-old still engineer living in a city future. >> there's a metro card. ward. >> reporter: williams moved here in 2012 for greater opportunities and a better life. unemployment rates for white americans are down to pre recession levels. but job numbers for backs and hispanics are not. >> with so many vying for the same jobs, just like in housing. so many people vowing for the same one-bed room apartment, the studio apart. it's almost impossible. >> it's not impossible for new york's wealthiest. many people with money come with their second, third, fourth, fifth home. there's great culture, finance. because the prices are high, low income people can't afford to live here. >> we started on wall street, went to the upper east side. came to harlem on the sunday. what does it

you want to stay up to date with the news 4 new york app. tap the news 4 logo in the corner, scroll down, select the weather tab. you can see the latest forecasts, interactive radar, and how to submit your own weather video. the news 4 new york app for iphone is available in the app store right now. >>> well, look at this. people waking up in staten island saying, wait a minute, how did i get to australia? that's buster the kangaroo. he actually lives upstate new york and was visiting the city with his owner, but he hopped out, checking out the island. there he is hopping around the travis neighborhood. his owner and police wrangled him. we're told he's a legal pet. his owner won't face any charges. >> buster in the city. somewhere there's a children's book to be made of this situation. >> yeah, he's cute, isn't he? >> he is cute. and legal upstate. glad buster's okay. >> definitely. some stuff could have happened to buster. >>> coming up on "today in new york," we're going to introduce you to wednesday's child. >>> plus, an inside look at a

♪ new york new york ♪ >> peace and love, brooklyn. we love you, new york city! after many months of traveling the world... ...jack was longing for something familiar. home. he was welcomed with grandma's southern-style chicken. at that moment, jack knew what to do. share it with the world. southern-style breaded all-white meat chicken on a gourmet signature bun. the homestyle ranch chicken club. >> jimmy: my name is bobby. just kidding. my name isn't bobby, it's jimmy. ♪ ♪ you never know what you're going to get in a bet ♪ >> have you been working out? >> i'm so into you. >> jimmy: that's why they call me mr. fun. "jimmy kimmel live" "jimmy kimmel live" week night on abc. >>> thanks to tracy morgan, thanks to brooklynettes, and apologize to matt damon, we ran out of time. "nightline" is next, but first, once again from the big jay z tidal x show at barclays center, the song is called "chains." nas, bee bee bourelli, and usher! >> 25-year-old male is fatally injured. let's update our viewers here in the united states and around w

new york city is going to do well as well. lightest amounts, maybe parts of the jersey shore where an inch is probably the high end, maybe even we get an inch and a quarter on the jersey shore. you see the heaviest rain. we're going to get a lull after we go through the 6:00 hour. that may last till 9-ish or so. the heaviest rain of the entire event, they start to occur during the overnight period. while the rain is moving away, because we'll have be ponding and areas for the overnight commute. then things improve. with the gusty winds coming on tide, the next high tide cycle going around midnight that we have to be concerned about. a point look out near 9:00. really between 830 and 9:30. there's the hev --heaviest rain from danbury and monroe. over to cortland manner and ossining, over to connecticut near new canen. that extends to port jeff on the island. heavy rain near ramsey and heavier pockets near passaic and northern morris. there's the break in get lighter. it will still be blowing around. there's the next batch comin

they have added a new york section. they have added a section my wife likes to read when i come home from work. the names i used to read in "the times" are going over there. why the difference? >> we're holding off for three questions. >> jack mckenzie, i used to work for some of you. i thought i would hear in the course of this discussion some kind of emotional commitment to the print paper other than the kind of business this and that. i desperately want to keep the printed paper. now i'd like to be assured that the digital paper on the screen at home will look like it does now like a newspaper on the web so that the model is the paper. the paper that we started with. >> i'd like to know why "the new york times" signed an agreement with a right winger to promote his book and i'd like to know why amy chosack, another right-winger, covers hillary clinton. i thought "the new york times" is supposed to be fair and balanced. >> actually, that's fox news. but we get the question. >> can i start with that one? that's not acc

(announcer vo) play the i love new york scratch-off from the new york lottery. you could win trips to exciting new york destinations or up to ernie: well, there's a new muppet moving to sesame street, julia. she's a preschooler with autism. she will join elmo and the gang in books and on new apps. it is trying to reduce the stigma of autism with sesame street and autism, see amazing in all children. >> julia is a four-year-old with autism and she's part of our narrated storybook in our resources. and she shares with her differences and her similarities with her sesame street friends elmo and abbey. ernie: sesame street and autism has been in the works for three children stronger, smarter, kinder, and we are all for that. >> we've talked about theatre, museums and dance. tonight we're taking it to the streets for the performers that you see every day as you get around the city. antwan lewis shows us more about how this is a wonderful thing, far beyond opening up a guitar case and playing. >> reporter: new york city has many places to showcase talent. one of the m

some popular new i'm michael douglas, and new york is my home. there's no place like it in the world. and there's no time to see it like the fall. take metro north to take in the beautiful fall foliage from high above the hudson. swing a club at one of america's greatest courses... see spectacular sights underground... ...or thrilling sights above it. there's so many incredible ways to experience the fun of fall in new york state. plan your trip at iloveny.com. >>> an upstate couple is charged with beating their 19-year-old son to death inside a church. the victim's brother is also in the hospital. four other church members are facing assault charges. abc's marci gonzalez has more on what happened. >> a disturbing case inside this secretive new york church where police say a teen was beaten to death by his own parents. bruce and deborah leonard charged with manslaughter after police say their 19-year-old son lucas was brought to a hospital monday with injuries so severe, doctors at first thought he'd been shot. the teen pronounced dead, the s.w.a

>>> now on news 4 new york remembering a neighbor lost at sea. tonight we're learning more about a brooklyn man missing after his cargo ship sunk during hurricane joaquin. >> mitchell was one of four crew members aboard the el faro, one of several with ties to new york. new at 5:30, mark spoke to those who knew the 26-year-old. >> reporter: this brooklyn neighborhood is grieving. they learned this morning that the quiet young man who lived on the second floor of this apartment building was lost at sea. >> i really fel it. >> reporter: stefan clutches his smartphone reading a message cents from mitchell's girlfriend. he can't believe the 26-year-old is gone. >> it mitt me like a bomb hits you. >> reporter: mitchell and his girlfriend moved into this apartment a couple of years ago. stefan is the building super. >> very quiet people. by themselves. that's all. you see them go to the grocery, go to the laundry together. >> reporter: mitchell was one of 33 crew members aboard the el faro the doomed cargo ship that was lost at sea during hurricane joa

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headquarters in new york. thanks for joining us. i'm meg oliver in for anne-marie green. >>> after a router problem shut it down for over an hour last night. the glitch led to long delays for international passengers. problems were reported in new york, boston, los angeles, atlanta, dallas/ft. worth and other points of entry. don champion is at new york's kennedy airport. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, meg. this is the computer system that checked airline passengers against terrorism watch lists. the outage lasted about 90 minutes and created headaches and long delays at several airports. >> i never thought anything like thousands of travelers. there were long waits on customs lines for passengers entering the u.s. and for those checking in for international flights. >> the people up there were people that couldn't walk. it was crazy. crazy. people in wheelchair that were, like, crying, waiting there for hours. >> reporter: during the computer breakdown, the customs and border protection agency

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my first time in new york city. i'm thinking, this is the best thing ever. [ laughter ] i'm telling my parents, no. i want to go see elmo, but that's not the truth. >> it's not about elmo? yes. >> seth: how do you do this? 'cause this is -- this is sort of almost like a first amendment issue with -- for these performers? >> it very much is. >> seth: how do you approach this issue? >> so, we got the costume characters, the elmos and the others, we have the painted women, we have dvd sellers, we have all sorts of folks in times square, who unfortunately are making it a less positive environment, but they also do have first amendment rights. what do you do about it? we think they're all businesses. they are. i mean, people are selling a product. so, we're gonna regulate them. we're gonna -- they have to have a permit. they have to do like anybody else who has a business. and we think that will help us to create a little more balance in the situation. i'm always going to respect constitutional rights, but at the same ti

that is approaching new york city within the hour. the line has the heaviest storms near philadelphia. this feature cast shows what the line will look like within an hour. the heaviest rain could be salt and east of new york city by 6:30 p.m. the entire event waits until 8:00 tonight to leave. these are storms from connecticut to western long island and just departing brooklyn it maclean's. it should be leaving the east end of long island. here is what you need to know. rain will last until about 8:00 p.m. downpours then, clearing with a cool wind. don't forget the heavier jacket for later tonight. back to you for now. >>> we are hearing from the worker who saved a baby from falling out of a window. the girl was close to falling from the ledge on the second floor. we have more on how the child managed to get out on the ledge. >> reporter: clearly a lot of people are grateful that he saved this little girl. a mechanic for con edison was called with a team for a reported gas leak when suddenly -- >> right here on the second floor. >> re

the new york mets are back. within the past hour, mets manager terry collins talked about the first two losses in the world series. it may not team wants but they are not losing hope. rob powers is in the newsroom. >> reporter: first order of business to get home. up next getting back in the world series. they come back to citi field for games 3, 4 and 5. they chose to forgo the formal workout in favor of rest. a scheduled off day. noah got his work in. royals chose not to have a formal workout either. next game is the next chance to get something going. a 14 inning loss in game one and 16 in game 2. syndergaard pitches game 3. learn from the games in kc, move past, win one game and get on the board. let the royals know they are in a series. >> we are down but not out. we fought back so many times this is another challenge that we have to meet and so far we have met them all. >> same game, just a little louder, different atmosphere. travis is still sitting 60 feet 6 inches away. you have to execute every pitch.

any new york mets fans here? [ cheers and applause ] last night the mets took a commanding 2-0 lead in the series, they jumped on top of the cubs largely thanks to a very strong and perhaps unforgettable pitching [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that really hurt my back. i threw out the first pitch. that was all i threw because my agent didn't want my pitch count to go above 1. fy threw out the first pitch and the mets win the world series, do i get a world series ring? i feel like i should. [ cheers and applause ] that really was a dream come true. i wish i worked on my facial expression when i was throwing the ball. some of my friends sent me pictures. this is what i call pitch face i think they call it. it's not just me. there's bill murray's pitch face at a cubs game. this is jerry seinfeld in the zone. cubs fan mr. t. looks like he's halfway through the word "fool." representing the mets, former jets coach rex ryan. the bottom half of his body is being consumed by an alligator while they took t

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live from east harlem, sarah wallace, news 4, new york. >> sarah, thank you. s>>> just one station has the surveillance. you see him racing east on 120th street in a desperate attempt to get away from the police. news 4's marc santia is live with more video from that chase. marc? >> reporter: chuck, this all started with a fight, a gunfight between two gangs at 102nd. that's when police say howard ran up here to 106th. he stole a bicycle here and started pedaling north. first avenue and 120th street 4 investigates canvassing of east harlem. watch the bottom of your screen. an unmarked police car makes a hard right and speeds toward the east river. seconds later a man believed to be tyrone howard seen at the top of your screen, quickly pedalling the stolen bicycle on east 120th. he's traveling toward the water. seconds later unmarked police cars flood the area in full pursuit. >> i seen helicopters, motorcycles. it was crazy. >> working at the corner store, yasser naji stunned. >> it could have been me, you know, it could have been one of my customers, family members, it could have been

in new york. thanks for joining us. i'm meg oliver in for anne-marie green. >>> parts of the eastern u.s. got an early taste of went. fries warnings answers watches, as well as frost advisories are in effect this morning from northern mississippi into northern massachusetts. the colder temperatures are in the mid-atlantic and the northeast. on sunday, people in northern michigan saw their first snow of the season but the wintry scenes won't last long. highs today in michigan will hit 60 degrees. >>> up next on "cbs this morning," we will track the fall freeze and get your full weather forecast. >>> a major commercial highway in southern california will stay closed for at least several more days after major mudslides. state route 58 is still covered in mud that is six feet deep in some are areas. it's about 100 miles north of los angeles. last week, a 30-minute downpour turned the highway into a mud pit, trapping 300 people in their cars. >>> at least 60% of the hidden pine fire is contained this m

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but, new york is new york. let's change those numbers >> sounds good to me. thank you. >>> around here, fans gathered in queens to show support for the series. valerie castro is live. >> reporter: where outside in queens where you can see there are lots of fans decked in their best orange and blue, very excited to cheer on this team that they have been waiting to see for so long in the world series. and, while otis is in kansas city with the team, the fans are here, you can hear them cheering on the team, queens was decked out with orange and blue, balloons and banners, hundreds of people turned out today in their mets best to show their love for the team that has worked so far to get so far this season. many still say they can't believe the team is actually in the world series but they hope they bring home the championship while they are playing at citi field. >> when it back on saturday night back at citi field. >> following these guys since the 60s. i'm an old timer. i'm feeling nervous. >> we are going to win this year. this is the year she was born. hope

the church is located in new hartford in upstate new york, about 250 miles north of new york city. two of those in custody are the boys' parents. isana diaz reports. >> reporter: 65-year-old bruce leonard and his 59-year-old wife debra are charged with manslaughter after police say they beat their 19-year-old son lucas to death. >> we are not alleging they intended to kill their son but alleging they tried to seriously hurt their son and, ultimately, he died from those injuries. >> reporter: the new hartford police chief says lucas and his 17-year-old brother christopher were brutally attacked inside the world of life christian church sanctuary after sunday evening services. investigators say church members counseling session. >> both brothers were continually subjected to physical punishment over the course of several hours in the hopes that each would confess the prior sins and ask for forgiveness. >> reporter: the police complainat says lucas suffered injuries to the thigh and other areas of his body. he stopped breathing and taken to the hospital later. later, police stormed th

. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. thanks for joining us. i'm anne-marie green. >>> paul ryan's message to fellow house republicans was to the highway -- meet my conditions and i'll run for speaker, otherwise, find another candidate. this morning, the gop caucus is considering his terms. ryan is a reluctant candidate but finally agreed to run if he is backed by all factions of the party. brook silva-braga is in new york with the latest. >> reporter: the republicans have been desperate to find someone to replace john boehner. kevin mccarthy of california abruptly dropped his bid to be speaker when can became clear some republicans wouldn't support him but finding anyone with broad gop support has been difficult, at least until last night. it's not a job he wanted, but wisconsin congressman paul ryan now says he is willing to run for speaker of the house. vacuum left by outgoing speaker john boehner. >> i came to the conclusion this is a dire moment. not just for congress and the republican party but for our our country

since 1992, he has hosted the new york times close-up, a series on new york. of severaluthor thes including the story of rosenberg case. only in new york. books taking aim at our city. the history of new york in 100 and one objects. hughes and pfizer it -- he is an advisor to the committee. please join me in welcoming sam roberts. mr. roberts: thank you for coming and for our panel to participating. this is less a debate than a conversation. --she pointed out, that this the challenge is to look at the race through the rich history. the history of hamilton on broadway, we don't care about history. we are consumed with the present. universitya professor likes to say, history is for losers. he looks at places where it is celebrated. places like jamestown and plymouth. their past wallow in because nothing much happened of their next. no offense, as he points out, but jamestown would have sank into the mud. cameirst written reference after they landed. i have been covering new york for 50 years. he says something else that maybe i took for granted. in new york.s if

>>> right now on news 4 new york, bear sighinging. crowds gather in a popular new jersey park to watch the wild beast just chilling in a tree. bear sightings are becoming alarming common in parts of our area. >> dozens of people watched as this bear scaled that tree in morristown which is where brynn gingras is right now. pretty to see but quite dangerous it can be. >> reporter: yeah, definitely a lot of people around here, rob. but you know what? it actually was a little dangerous. police wanted people to back up. but it ended okay. nobody got hurt in this incident. but this is the tree behind me that that bear was sort of chilling out, as natalie said, napping for a while here. it was really here for about four hours on the morristown green creating quite a lot of commotion. we had pictures flooding into our newsroom. look at those. town officials got a call about the bear hanging out in a different tree than the one i just showed you around 11:00 this morning. then that 247 pound black bear decided to relocate, walking across the g

york. >> yeah, well, this was new to me. you know, i was a professor before i became commissioner of health to be sort of behind the scenes, in the corridors where big, important decisions were made. and i think people need to understand that this is sort of the battleground on which health is fought these days. >> mm-hmm. >> you know, people, when they think about the battles over health, they're thinking over obamacare. but, really, the battles over health today are battles with the tobacco industry, or battles with the soda companies. those are the things that have the greatest impact on our health over the long term. >> just a few seconds left. tell me what you're doing now. your group is called public good projects. what is that? >> it's a new nonprofit organization of people with expertise in mass media and in marketing who want to use the power of the airwaves, of the mass media, to try to change the trajectory of health in this country. so, people here are probably familiar with the anti-smoking ads we had on televis

live at citi field, i'm bruce beck, news 4 new york. rob and natalie, back to you. >> thank you so much. we cannot wait to get things started here. go to michael george who's been talking to the pumped up fans. >> natalie, right now fans are arriving behind me. the excitement is out of control. more than a typical nlcs and part of the reason for that is mets fans have been hoping and praying for this moment for nearly a decade. >> let's go mets! >> reporter: after a long wait, mets fans are finally getting their day. many told us they have been waiting for this moment for years. >> it is surreal. nine years of waiting and finally here. >> this is our time to shine as a community of mets fans. >> reporter: outside of citi field fans are starting to gather and tailgating has already begun. the mets amazing run has brought new energy to fan a's who haven't had much to cheer about for a while. >> hopefully tonight, hopefully we bring it. >> i have my sweatshirt, my my matt harvey t-shirt. hat, gloves. we're all set. >> he can't remember the

the news continues at 6:00. >> live from studio 3c in rockefeller center, this is news 4 new york. >> now at 6:00, no patients. a local health care accompany under fire. >> it's full of rats. i can't describe how many rats are back there. >> rats running wild complaints at an all time high in new york city but is the problem really getting worse? >> the i team exposed this mom begging for money with her baby. now she skipped court and skipped town. >> we begin with that penny saver add singling out a specific minority group. it's as you can see says no hagss. tonight the accompany is under fire and apologizing. >> we are joined live with the story. >> reporter: we'll get to that in a minute. this is distributed across new york every single week. next week in rockland county readers are not only going to get the classified in coupons, they're going to get something else, an apology. turn to the back page of the penny center and you'll see a

a live look here from new york city. a beautiful look actually at the sun just sinking below the horizon here as we look over toward new york harbor. temperature right now 47. that wind coming in from the northwest at 9 gusting up to 21 miles an hour. the wind is still brisk, and it will continue that way through the evening. the high on the day eked up to the 50-degree mark, way below average. 10 to 15 degrees below average this time of the year. the sun just setting at 6:12. here we go, temperatures tumbling into the 20s, and most of the suburbs tonight with a hard freeze. it's low to mid-30s for new york city and the coast where we could actually see conditions, but there could be some frost on vegetation in the five boroughs of new york city. still cool tomorrow, but a big turn around starting on tuesday, and we're talking temperatures in the low 70s by the middle part of the week. 45 right now in teterboro, most importantly, 47 in flushing right near citi field where we have windchills down around 40 with that wind

new york state parks are a gift. plan your vacation at iloveny.com. >>> we have new information tonight about plans to change the look of times square. >> from taxing those costume characters to designated areas for street entertainers. details on how it could all shake out. >> we're hearing a lot of mixed emotions out here, mixed feelings about the situation. one man actually giving out these fake tickets. it says public space call for free speech. he's actually handing these out to people he says aren't having enough fun in times square. he says this ticket. disagree. >> reporter: the spectacle that is times square complete with costumed characters, painted women, tourists with selfie sticks, and new yorkers making their way to work may be about to change. mayor de blasio's times square task force has unveiled its final improvements. they include special zones designated for costumed characters and painted women. taxing costumed characters as businesses. and short-term measures to improve congestion and traffic flo

amy: i always wanted to move to new york since i was 12 and came to new york on my middle school trip. texas was the best option to go to college but i always had an eye to move to new york. no job,to new york with just some clips from a newspaper. i came here three months before 9/11. brian: what were those early months like and what kind of a job as you have? amy: it was really hard. i don't know what was harder, trying to find an apartment or find a job? it was really difficult because no one wanted a roommate if you didn't have a job. i got a job at conde nast. you move me a rover, around from different magazines doing temporary work. then i got a job as an editorial assistant at "house and garden" magazine. ue" and allh "vog these fancy fashion magazines. i felt out of place. i had never paid more than $30 for a pair of jeans. now i got a job at "the wall street journal." brian: how? amy: a friend of mine at conde nast had been at "the wall out ofjournal" and was town and put me up for the job. brian: you are a reporter and you can write. amy: when i was at "the journal", i was t

york about by new yorkers about new york, has been written by people who come from the extremely flavorful new york places in this city that are so marked by the inventiveness of those who have less in material terms and therefore make more out of what they have. there is the scene in my book in which i describe walking with the lifelong friend, leonard, and the way he walks the streets of this city which is throughout the boroughs, his feet are flat on the ground and he knows every single borough and he always reminded me of post-world war ii italian movies in which you had working class rome scenes so often, the world of people who own the streets by walking them and knowing them and therefore transforming them, making them in your own image and having that imprint. i am not in the working class anymore and i don't know working class neighborhoods. people always say the city is finished, it is all over but what do i know, what do we know? it is being replicated, the bronx, don't know about brooklyn, in the bronx, queens called all over the place. we are waiting for those books, i am wait

going -- i'm going to be at the parade for the nets many new york -- mets in new york. >> reporter: the met' big win last night triered a buying bonanza. folks leaned up to buy jerseys and t-shirts and hats. they want it all. and certainly we're going to see a lot of that merchandise sales spike now that we know the mets are returning to the world series. game one of course is next week, we're still waiting to will it be the toronto blue jays or the kansas city royals? they're still having their own battle going on. i think augmenting is -- a game six here but we have a place that's ready for us in the world series and no doubt the young talented and unbelievable amazing team can go and win it all and bring home a world series to new york. we're live at citi field morning, dray clark, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >> and now we want to get a check on the accuweather forecast and the morning commute. over to bill evans. >> well, we got a gorgeous morning outside. look at this sunrise. that's our camera at fort lee, new jersey looking across the hudson river. and all the way ou

york including all the bakeries in new york city -- >> yeah, and focused on new york city. that might be another reason that this would have been unusual. i don't know. i wish i would have looked into joseph lockner more when i did the book. one thing i did say was he was probably surprised to find himself in court with criminals on the day that he was indicted for the thing he was indicted for the law. i think he was a hard-headed man. i think it was a test case as his great grandson says. i don't think it was set up. this was another case earlier called in re jacobs. and it involved tobacco manufacturing, done if the slums, usually in the home of people living in the tenement houses -- >> cigar -- >> that's what it was called. it was done in the slums. sometimes the whole family working on it. sometimes they had a hired hand living in the same tobacco they were working on. interestingly enough, jacobs, the fellow charged with a law prohibiting that, had two rooms. unusual. but the more unusual thing was that he was represented by william ebhart, at that time called prince

live from east harlem, sarah wallace, new 4 new york. as you just heard sarah mention, the criminal is a career criminal with a long rap ssset. the 30-year-old has 16 prior felony arrests in new york. most for drug dealing. he's been in and out of prison. he had active words out for his arrest. most recently he was being sought as a suspect in a shooting of a ronal drug dealer. >> how does a major drug dealer who's been arrested 16 times since the age of 13 get sent to a drug diversion program instead of prison. th 's the question on everybody's mind including commissioner police chief bratton. melissa? >> sibila, actually it's a three-way finger-pointing fight right now. price say if only the judge or the d.a. had asked, they would havehstated the obvious, that the suspect was part of a violent drug gang and simply had to be in prison. the d.a.'s office said they knew that and asked for prison time, but the judge just didn't listen. the court says the judge put the suspect into drug diversion because he qualified under the law. >> the p

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you want to stay up to date with the news 4 new york app. tap the news 4 logo in the corner, scroll down and select the weather tab to see the latest forecasts and how to >>> and right now on "today in new york," an i-team exclusive. we go behind bars to speak to s convicted murderer who may have gottenouhe break of a lifetime. a new witness claims the wrong man is in prison. >> this is linked to a retired detective detective who has been at the center of several overturned convictions. this is 34-year-old nelson cruz. he's serving a life sentence for a 1998 murder in east new york. the i-teams sarah wallace shows us what she's uncovered. >> reporter: 34-year-old nelson cruz has now spent more than half of his life in prison. he was 16 when he says he willingly went to the 75th prezingt pre precinct to answer questions. uz told me his life changed when a detech tive walked into the room. >> he tried to get a confession out of me at the precinct. when i refused to sign it he crumpled the paper and slapped me in my face with it, said, sign the

4 new york. >>> and that will do it. thank you so much for watching. stay with us as the news continues at 6:00. >>> police use a cellphone to track down a convicted trail rapist on parole. >>> and de blasio makes a trip to israel and plans to meet with israeli and palestinian children. >>> and do you find those little tvs in the back of taxicabs annoy annoying annoying? some could be disappearing. >>> and we begin with the arrest of a rapist. i'd today see >> reporter: most people who have smartphones have the find my phone app. well, police say so did one of the victims in this case. whand they found the phone, they also found a convicted rapist right at the intersection behind me here. and now they think that same man raped another woman after getting out of prison. the 36-year-old is back behind bars tonight, the registered sex offender released from prison just a few months ago for raining an 8-year-old girl is charged with attack again. >> it's very jerry. i live here with my two

plus, a passenger plane the news starts in seconds. >>> live from the cbs broadcast center in new york city this is cbs2 at 11. >>> right now where is the police intensifying their search for a gun used to kill one of their own and it could affect your drive. >>> less testing more learning. president obama's call for overhaul of classrooms. >>> and the championship chase shifts to kansas city. i am jessica schneider in tonight for cindy hsu. fly series. we are now three days away from game one against the royals and cbs2's steve overmyer begins mound first. >> that is the big story with the mets right now. it has been airdrome season. contenders. the mets are flying out tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. citi field. we found out the mets' ace matt harvey about start game one of the world series. in 12 innings this post-season, he has six strikeouts and two he wants the ball because he likes to rise to the occasion. >> i called them in today, with the rotations. and i said, i said are you ready for it? and he looked at me and he said, damn right. so -- and i told him, listen, there might be