alison: good evening. i'm alison morris. ernie is off tonight. we begin with politics and more upl upl dan bowens has more on what's going on today. >> reporter: we're talking about paul manafort. his resignation is not unexpected after big changes to the campaign earlier this week. it came hours after a new scathing report from the associated press. that report showed the now former trump advisor has ties to the ukraine and a pro-russian government that may be deeper than initially suspected. controversial campaign chairman paul manafort is out, handing in his resignation to donald trump after reports of secret documents showing man fort received more than 12 million dollars, money intended to influence u.s. policy decisions from the ousted pro-russian government in ukraine. >> i think my father didn't want to be distracted by whatever things paul was dealing with. >> reporter: he took over the campaign in june, tasked with helping the gop nominee pivot toward the general election. personality, which took a toll on his numbers. the new york bill

i'm alison morris. ernie is off tonight. the big story tonight, once again, centers around the presidential campaign and donald trump. more outrageous statements that have party leaders distancing themselves. in fact, just a short time ago, he said this: >> it was hillary clinton that she should get an award from them as the founder of isis. that's what it was. alison: that comment instantly media, riling up both sides. while the rhetoric energizes his base, republican leaders push him to focus on core issues important to the party. joe joins us with a look at how or if the gop can come out of this campaign intact. wow, joe. >> reporter: it's been an unprecedented stretch of campaign politics with donald trump wading into controversy after controversy, creating this self-inflicted damage to his it begs the question how can the candidate who received more votes than any republican in history be tearing his party apart? >> donald trump standing his ground among one of the toughest stretches in his campaign. >> i always wanted

alison: good evening. i'm alison morris. ernie is off tonight. we're going to start with a developing story that's been unfolding in queens for a few hours. a police-involved shooting. two people now in the hospital. let's get out to >> reporter: we're here on 66th street and borgen avenue. this happened around 2:00 this afternoon but it's a very active scene behind me. the man you mentioned that was shot, police tell us he was attempting to burglarize a home. let me show you the scene. this is only part of the scene. the scene actually spans several blocks. i spoke to an eyewitness who captured part of the incident on let's look at the video. it was shot by a neighbor who lives across the street through his window. in the cell phone video, a woman is seen leaving with her dog in her arms. the suspect, who was burglarizing the home, runs out and you hear gunshots. another neighbor told me that the woman seen in the video called 911 while she was at work because she saw via her home security camera a nanny cam a burglar near her child's bedroom. w

alison: good evening. i'm alison morris. ernie is off tonight. a new leader taking over the nypd. today commissioner bill bratton announced he's leaving next month and handing things over to o'neill. lisa evers joins us live from lower manhattan. >> reporter: well, commissioner bratton has said on a number of occasions he did not expect to stay in that position past mayor de blasio's first term. but today's announcement that he's stepping down in septemer caught almost everyone by surprise. by the time media and staff packed the blue room, we knew what they were there. the official announcement that commissioner bratton was stepping down, a decision made nearly a mon happen in september. >> one thing doesn't get talked enough about bill bratton is his heart because he builds these extraordinary teams because people know. they see how much he believes, how much he cares. >> there is no reason i'm leaving at this time. i'm leaving with reluctance. i wish i had more time to stay around for three or four years to work on the issues that will take that long to straighten out. wearing t

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alison morris is joining us to talk more about this. the prices are up. california is a bit of a unique situation. >> reporter: they have a funky thing going on there. if you want to feel better about living in new york, go to san francisco and see what they're paying there. they're seeing a housing bubble that's unique because of the that's a little bit of an extreme. we're not so far behind them in new york. but we are seeing more people buying homes and more interest in buying homes because mortgage rates are so low. ernie: historically low. is this a good time? >> they've been great. they've been near zero. we saw a hike in december but it was just a quarter point. they're moving up but slowly. so you're still in a good affordable range if you're looking -- ernie: this is a good time to do something. they're talking about the rates going up, but there's a window of opportunity. >> reporter: rates are probably going up. if you've been thinking about taking out a mortgage, might not be a bad time to get preapproved. you should remember the rates are not

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alison morris is here to show us how snap dogs are different than the others. people are freaked out about the conditions of the carts. >> they have reason to. it smells so good. i've been dying for two minutes. keith's family started delivering cheese by horse drawn wagon in manhattan in 1896. it is really no surprise he would get involved in the cart business. what is surprising is what some of the other hotdog carts are franks. in a sea of hotdogs, in the middle of times square, keith is on a mission. >> i wanted to elevate every component of the new york city hotdog experience, you know, one hotdog at a time. >> reporter: after working a new york city hotdog cart, he was pretty grossed out by what were being passed off as hotdogs, so he started sna >> they're made with 100 percent premium beef. we smoke them in a smoke house. every hotdog has the name snap dog and the word beef on the side so there's no more mystery. >> reporter: while others promise beef, there's no way to tell. he went to pamplona, spain, to find these temporary casings that write the wor