bernie sanders was also in midtown, meeting with striking verizon workers. tonight he'll attend a concert and rally in long island. >> donald trump meeting with members of the national diversity coalition for trump. today he attends a rally in buffalo. ted cruz now in maryland. as for john kasich, also in maryland, after making stops in upstate new york including syracuse. >>> we have two reports tonight. sandra bookman is in midtown begin with josh einiger where sanders is holding his last big new york event. >> good evening. it's one of the most breathtaking views in the whole city and tonight it will be the backdrop for bernie sanders in the next hour or two in a sunset rally. his last major rally before the polls open and the workers finally have their say. >> reporter: in the shadow of glossy high rises that signal the white hot real estate market, bernie sanders has chosen this spot for his closing arguments for new yorkers. for those waiting in the heat, it's a message long overdue. >> i think it's in a perfect spot because it speaks in the dichotomy

diana rocco is tracking the gop race in midtown. we begin, though, with eyewitness news reporter dray clark. he's live in chappaqua where hillary clinton will be voting this morning. dray, good morning. >>reporter: good morning, ken. we're expecting secretary clinton to be casting her vote around 7:30 this morning at a school just down the road from where we are. she is going into this primary ahead in the polls, but her gained momentum in recent days, making this race neck and neck. >> you are that revolution [ cheers ] >>reporter: bernie sanders fighting down to the wire for the big turnout he wants. the revolution he says america needs. >> democracy is not about super pacs. >>reporter: thousands packed the queens riverfront to hear sanders denounce the top 1% and hillary clinton's ties to wall street. they cheered his promise to fight on. when people stand together with a vision, with determination, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. [ cheers ] >> cheers to victory. >>reporter: hillary clinton's finale for the new york p

. >> reporter: looking confident this morning n another casual st roll through midtown, the sand everies team warned the pundits not to undewestimate brooklyn born bernie's performance here. he made a reference to the independent voters who cannot vote. he tends to fair better in states where independents can participate. they are talking about the voting problems that were reported throughout new yora today, calling them a disgrace and shameful. perhaps, planningo make it a bigger issue. if he loses here in new york oa now, for a look at the republican side of this race, let's go over to my colleague,d andrew siff, live in midtown at trump tower. how is it going? >> reporter: melissa, there's quite a scene out here, nypd, secret service, barricades outside z the same trump tower where ten months ago, donald trump entered the presidential race in an area at a time when pendople dirmissed it as a strump. today, he voted for himself on the day the new yor primary matters. cast his ballot at central synagogue, blocko away from his own office. today, released an ad answering critics and supp

a republican gala in midtown, interrupted by protesters. and right now all the presidential candidates are in new york city and passions have been running high. ink him i'm maurice dubois. christie is off. we have team coverage, we have mark -- we have marcia kramer in midtown but we begin with brawny can -- brian conybeare with democrats. >> reporter: 247's delegates in the new york primary on tuesday. bernie sanders wants to pull an update -- upset, hillary clinton wants to stop his momentum. both were aggressive and outspoken much like new york city itself. hillary clinton and bernie sanders shake hands and came out swinging at the brooklyn navy yard starting with the role of wall street money in the campaign. >> do we really feel confident about a candidate saying that she's going to bring change in america, when she is so dependent on big money interests? i don't think so. is designed to raise questions when there is no evidence or support. >> what started as a civil campaign among friendly rivals turned nasty as the race tightened. sa

we'll start in midtown. clinton will be here at 9:00 or 9:30 for what she hopes will be a victory celebration. months ago, none of us thought it would be unsettled here on april 19th but we are here. this morning where she has voted for years, a homecoming for hillary clinton and her husband after watching others vote if other primaries, and she has a chance to vote at home. >> i love new york and it's been a joy to be here all over the state and i hope everyone votes. >> reporter: this primary is tougher for clinton than anyone thought. this is her adopted home state but bernie sanders has made inroads but still, this first- time voter is with hillary. >> i think we need more women i think she knows what she is doing. >> reporter: established politicians like the governor and mayor pulled out all the stops for clinton and may be glad that the primary is almost over. >> this community is very good to us. it's just wonderful. it's a great day, a beautiful day. >> reporter: and bernie sanders really needs the

. >> donald trump voted at central synagogue in midtown. he hopes to win big here in his home state after a recent string of losses to ted cruz. >> reporter: hillary clinton wants to win big. new york is home. and the former secretary of state also represented new york in the u.s. senate for eight years. blow. easy. close one. hillary clinton got a warm reception walking into this elementary school in chappaqua to cast her vote for the new york primary. >> it feels great. and i am so excited about both campaigning here in new york, voting here in new york. her. >> this community has been very good to us. see. it's just wonderful. a beautiful day. >> reporter: for two weeks clinton campaigned heavily around new york city and across state hoping to land a big win tonight and clowe down the momentum against bernie sanders who has won seven of the eight least contests. sanders is planning to fight down to the wire. this morning in midtown manhattan, he shook hands with reporters. 291 delegates are up for grabs. both sanders and clinton are hopi

when it comes to the gop, you better believe all eyes will be here in midtown on the grand hyatt. they are hosting the gop gala and it will feature donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich there. they are all expected to attend as been mentioned earlier they will arrive developed by donald trump. they might be joined there is a small potential that they will be joined by tens of thousands of protesters from 30 different groups mostly antitrust . it's something we are used to here. it might not be our values but sometimes the way business is done here. speaking of new york values ted cruz attempted to clarify them. >> listen, when i talk about new york values what i'm talking about is the liberal democrat who had been hurting the people of new york over and over again i am talking about people at bill de blasio one of the first acts he did was go up to harlem and try to shut down charter schools that were educating low income african-americans and hispanics because he was with the teachers unions. >> cruises fighting for every last vote since lead. the boxer knocks down his girlfrien

we're live tonight in midtown, channel 7, eyewitness news. >>> big night there sandra thank you. to the results of two special elections in new york, voters choosing replacements for state corruption. votes are slowly coming in from nassau county, the republican is currently leading on long island's ninth district race to replace dean a republican and has been elected in lower manhattan to replace sheldon silver, a democrat. >>> all sorts of voting investigation and even an over haul. the biggest problem, 126,000 registered voters some how expunged from the rolls, how many actually were prevented from voting? here is rob nelson. i don't trust this election right now, i don't trust the outcome. >> annie and her daughter kayla both registered republicans recorded this exchange with workers who apparently didn't even know that both democrats and republicans were allowed to vote today. >> it is strictly the democrat primary today, just democrats? >> i have no idea. >> this is just a snapshot of the pit balls that city officials say plague today's election. scott stringer says he will

heading towards the midtown tunnel. traffic is smooth. but if it wasn't, boy, would an express lane come in handy. that's what an assemblyman is suggesting but the convenience comes with a price. when you're in a hurry bumper- to-bumper traffic is last thing you want. lila says she deals with it every weekday as she commutes to lower manhattan. >> it makes me want to smash my head on the steering wheel. >> reporter: new york assemblyman david of queens has an idea to shorten her travel time express lanes on already tolled bridges and tunnels like the midtown tunnel and throgs neck bridge. drivers could pay extra to travel in fast lanes and avoid congestion. >> say right now they are 7.50 to go over the -- through the midtown tunnel or over the triborough bridge. maybe we could reduce that to five or $6 and have that people can pay more to have that fast service. >> reporter: you like that idea? >> i like it. i do. >> reporter: would you be willing to pay to go through an express lane? >> it's better. >> reporter: weprin made the suggestio

live in midtown with the story. >>> a little later on this morning hillary clinton will be making an appearance at this office building to participate in a discussion on pay equality. sanders is asking clinton for transparency. wants her to release documents that clinton has considered private. >> in albany, cheers as bernie sanders announced the news goldman sax will pay $5 billion for deceptive mortgage practices. said it was time for hillary clinton to come clean and release transcripts of the private speeches she gave for $600,000. >> secretary clinton says, well, she is prepared to release the transcripts if other people do the same. i am prepared to release all of the transcripts for all of the speeches that i've given to wall street not very hard, no speeches, no transcripts. >> no response from clinton but she jabbed again at the 74-year- old's ability to deal with the media and serve as president. about his core issue namely dealing with the banks. >> the latest poll shows donald trump with a 33 point lead ahead of the primary. ted cruz no a distant third and speaking in san

beautiful morning in midtown manhattan. here's the view from right around four times square we call that. that's the address. times square looking south here all the way down to one world trade and the receiver s know bridge. it's a beautiful morning. 45 degrees going to be a great this is actually the animation of satellite radar and -- then pictures from the satellite and from the radar pined and not much going on. we have a big old ridge of high pressure going to give us a lot of sunshine particularly as 47 hits about 9:00 and 58 at 1:00 and 63 this afternoon. above normal for this time of the year. we're going to talk about it getting to 70 this weekend next in your accuweather forecast. debbie duhaime you're been doing a greatall week long. what's going on out there this morning? >>> a couple of problems already. good morning bill. good morning over then. well, let's go right to 78. 78 heading westbound get out to exit 40 into war an. it's an accident and a fuel spill. two lanes are blocked there. george, lincoln and h

he's live in midtown with more own what's going on. good evening to you. >> reporter: these republican candidates have invaded our parks and coffee shops for the last three weeks. now donald trump is the only republican candidate left in the state. if the polls hold true, it won't be a matter of if donald trump wins the primary, but by how much. while ted cruz and john kasich have moved on to pennsylvania, frontrunner donald trump cast his vote in the 2016 election this morning. >> it's a great honor for new york. new york is a special place. >> reporter: stopping by his polling place, the central synagogue in midtown after 10:00 a.m., he told reporters his vote was an easy choice. >> we have amazing support that i'm honored and putting in the vote was something terrific. >> reporter: the new york native calling in to fox & friends reflecting on how much things have changed. >> who would have known i'm in this good position. when i first started, people said he's doing this for fun. he's having a good time. then all of a sudden we're i

that is the plaza hotel and midtown manhattan all looking good here this morning. we look from our camera here toward times square, all the way out toward sandy hook. great visibility this morning. the temperature 45 degrees, it will drop down to 42 this morning. that is normal for this time of year. a few clouds to our west, but this is great isn't it? high pressure across the great we are going to get to 60. weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. what is going on this morning? >> reporter: a couple of problems. we'll go outside and get out toward haynes avenue in newark. moving along smoothly. as we go to the maps. an accident blocking one lane there. also heading to 287, 287 northbound exit 12 in franklin township an accident involving a pedestrian. watch for an investigation. service changes on the 2, 3, 4 and 6. taking a ride to the westbound belt a stalled car to watch out for. grand central okay out toward the rfk. 59th street bridge and the battery tunnel construction. george construction wrapping up. lincoln construction wrapping holland moving smoo

hillary clinton cast her ballot in chappaqua and donald trump voted in midtown today. we are starting to hear about polling problems at certain locations. we have reporters with the campaigns tonight. dave evans is at clinton's headquarters in times square. sandra bookman is at trump tower in midtown. and josh is where bernie sanders is tonight. updates through the evening. a complete wrap-up coming up on eyewitness news at 11. >> this half hour the search is on for a thief who stole thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and money from a home in new jersey. >> some of that money was collected on behalf after youth soccer team. the thief was caught on surveillance camera. michelle charles has the story. >> reporter: just a shame here. nothing more wholesome than youth soccer. there is also nothing more than house broken in. almost $20,000 of jewry and cash was taken including $900 earmarked for a local youth soccer team. the money was supposed to pay for referees during games. the surveillance video shows the suspect walking towards the house. in the end police say he t

sanders had upfinished f inish -- unfinished business in midtown. sand -- sanders with one last >> we are afraid she is going to be disappointed. we are feeling very good. >> reporter: hillary clinton is heavily favored to win tonight. sanders has put her in the rear view mirror and moving on. >> next tuesday, let us see pennsylvania having the largest voter turn out in the history of their primaries and see the great state of pennsylvania lead the country into the political revolution. >> reporter: at penn state university, hundreds of college students waited in the hot sun for hours to camp a -- catch a glimpse. senator from new york. >> i feel like his ideals are something that the city should understand but he is not >> reporter: you think he will still move forward? >> yeah, all the way to the white house. >> reporter: back live at penn state rec center where the event doesn't start until 7:00, but it's very full at this point, we spoke with students who say they are coming to terms with the concept that he may not get the nomination. we'll tel

sandra bookman is in midtown

not to worry about any freezing conditions in midtown. but once again, north and west you will see that. in ocean grove, 39, you'll need your coats and jakts ckets. chilly north and west in the 63 on friday and we keep going up. 64 saturday. here come the 70s for sunday and monday. still a pretty decent forecast all the way to wednesday. >>> the tribeca film festival kicks off tonight. we're giving you a peek at what you can see. >> the tribeca film festival is back and so is story scapes. >> it really is a hugely expensive program. it includes everything from virtual reality to interactive installations. it's a space to hold all the new kind of story telling that are emerging. >> reporter: visitors can come and lose themselves in teen unique interactive experiences covering an array of topics. it allows festival goers to be transported to imaginary worlds. put people actually physically in the space or at least give them the illusion of being in the space with these animals. >> we build a replica rhino crate to give the viewers a sense o

that's the only solace there. 3 36 degrees in midtown, a mixture of rain and snow for the city. as you head north and west, all snow, but it is going tw be a very wet snow, and it's not ing to stick around very long. that high temperature getting up to 50 degrees on monday. that's going to melt off most of the snow and transition to rain. most of us will see a complete changeover to rain as we head into the midday hours. it stays cold though, cold for tht.is time of year, all the way to thursday, but on thursday, a high of 60 degrees accompanied by rain and thunderstorms. i'm sorry to say, we just don't have a single enjoyable day in the entire forecast. wednesday if you do want to get out and about. back to you. >> we'll look forward to the following weem. >>> police in full pursuit of a suspect, even stopping traffic. this is on the bay bridge in san francisco. several officers doggedly tried to stop this suspect. they hauled this little y in. they're trying to find his owner. if nobody comes forward, he will be put up for adoption. but that is a long s n for a little guy like

hundreds of workers walkedded line in midtown. >> it is sad we're forced to be out here. >> the main purpose is fighting corporate greed. this company makes $1.8 billion profit a month they won't trickle it down to the people who built the company. >> joined land line and cable workers now on strike from they say the company wants to gut job security protections require technicians to work away from home for as long as 2 months and move positions out of the country. they want to offshore work to mexico and the philippines this is the united states what are we doing here? >> this is greatly exaggerated. >> bob says the financial package they offer is actually greater than what they negotiated three years ago. i think this issue of greed is a good tag line, but i think we need to negotiate with reality and try to keep our entire employee base well compensated and well rewarded that's what we're trying to do. >> union leaders say the strike mainly involves technicians who work on connecting phone lines to home verizon is apologizing to customers saying it is working to make any disrupti

meteorologist bill evans. >> here's our camera looking at midtown manhattan. looking pretty good here, looking southward all the way down to 1 world tray. temperature is 50 degrees. we're looking at temperatures that are going to be starting around 49, 50, maybe a degree or two warmer than normal. but we're going to be having a cool day today with cloudy skies, a few sprinkles are up to the north and there's rain around this low. that will dive in and through the area, give us rain tonight. so much of your day today is just cloudy. you need the jacket, wind breaker, that kind of thing. temperature 58 later on this afternoon and we'll have some showers starting around sunset. you need your rain gear tonight. we'll talk more about that. we'll talk about your weekend coming up next too. weather and traffic together every seven minutes. heather has got some troubles on the roadways. >>reporter: this is construction on the l.i.e. in suffolk county. you can see that the construction vehicle is backing up at this point. this is right near commack road, so you may exp

a 16-year-old slashed in the chest in midtown. it happened around 3:30 this afternoon near the corner of 31st and fifth avenue. witnesses say the incident started as a disagreement between the teen and some street vendors. it escalated until one of the workers pulled out a knife. was a person on the floor with another woman holding the wound to his chest where he got stabbed. she was just hoping that he would be all right. >> police are searching for the vendor who slashed that 16-year-old. the young victim was taken to bellevue hospital and is expected to be okay. >>> a judge postponed sentencing for nypd officer peter liang after questions came up about one of the jurors who convicted him. the juror is accused by the defense of lying and failing to disclose his own father has been convicted of manslaughter. the brooklyn d.a. has recommended no prison time despite the guilty verdict. >>> to decision 2016 now, several of the candidates are campaigning across the state. >> donald trump is planning an event in long island tomorrow.

. >> reporter: secretary of state hillary clinton will have her own rally in midtown manhattan. people we talked with tell us that the climate of campaigning in this year's presidential election has been filled with so much negativity from both the democrats and republicans it sours them. >> i decided not to vote. just because i don't think it is >> it is not nice. not good for the country. >> reporter: chalk it up to sidewalk art to be neutral steps away from where bernie sanders takes the stage, this message supports him and hillary clinton. and, again, a security sweep is under way here at the site of the sanders rally. think about it. it is noon and it is not happening until 7:00 p.m. but there are so many people expected to be here tonight. as for mrs. clinton, she did give a radio interview on power 105.1 earlier this morning, courting voters and, rob, she has the midtown rally that we mentioned in manhattan at 2:00 p.m. back to you, rob. >> very busy around here. thank you. >>> the republicans also taking advantage of these last hours before tomorrow's primary. you're loo

eyewitness news reporter is live in midtown with the latest attacks from both side. truly has become for all of the candidates involved hillary clinton is trying to maintain her momentum and lead, she'll be part of a panel discussion office in midtown manhattan,, wants her to release documents related to goldman sachs documents clinton considers private. >> in albany, cheers as bernie sanders announced the news goldman sachs will pay $5 billion for deceptive mortgage practices, he said it was time for hillary clinton to come clean and release transcripts of the private speeches at goldman for $600,000. >> secretary clinton says, well, she is prepared to release the transcripts if other people do the same. i am prepared to release all of the transcripts for all of the speeches that i've given to wall street not very hard no speeches, no transcripts. >> no response from clinton but jabbed again at the 74-year- old's ability to deal with the >> she has had trouble answeringquestions about his core issue namely dealing with the banks. >> shows donald trump with a 33 poin

that's the latest from midtown, melissa russo, news4, new york. >>> most polling places will open early and stay open late tomorrow. westchester, rockland, orange, in the morning to 9:00 at night. in all other places, they won't open until noon but will remain open until 9:00 at night. keep an eye on n brks b nbcnewyork.com for constant updates. >>> in midtown, a woman injured by falling debris. checky bradford on the scene. what can you tell us now? >> reporter: it's not something you want to happen anywhere, but especially here on the 34th street. take a look behind me. you can see the area here behind me, the levi store has been cordoned off. that's because the fdny says around 4:00 p.m., just about an hour ago, a woman walking by the store was struck by falling construction debris from up above. you can actually see some of the bloody napkins that she applied to her head right in front of she was taken to belleview hospital in serious, but we're told stable, condition at this point. take a look over here and you can see some police officers are still in the area kind of keeping peop

few clouds tonight. 57 in midtown. 40s to lower 50s north and west. tomorrow, beautiful after morning clouds. lots of sun. breezy afternoon. 72 for the high tomorrow. and there's the seven day bright and sunny. a freshing start, in the 40s. 64 in the afternoon. 69 thursday, looks good, lots of sun. showers for friday, breezy, and most of the temperature in the lower 70s. weekend right now looking okay. 66 on saturday. 62, cooler on sunday. should feature a good amount of sunshine. another front sunday night. monday, back to sunshine. stopping into the upper 50s. ernie: we have a nice stretch going on. nick: something to enjoy. coming up next, you'll probably noticed cursing seems to be more common these days. the science behind using bad language suggests it's not always a bad thing. we'll look at what it says about people coming up next. >> and we hope you'll join us tomorrow for in-depth coverage of the new york primary. it's getting lots of attention. can anyone pull off a big enough win to begin to wrap things up? we'll talk about it tomorrow at 6

we're down to about 38 in midtown. 7:00 in the morning, sunny but chilly out there. a light north breeze at 6 to 12. you don't feel it because temperatures in the upper 30s will make it feel like close to 30s. mostly sunny tomorrow. high getting up to partly cloudy tomorrow night down to about 42 or so, colder in the suburbs. here's your accuweather 7-day forecast. sun and clouds on thursday. 58. again going up by a few degrees each day. 61 by friday. a nice one on saturday. saturday you'll notice a pretty big difference between the coast and inland. could be in the upper 50s along the shores and inland could be up near 70 during the day saturday. i think most areas get up in to the 70s on sunday. we've actually raised that temperature on monday. maybe a shower late monday, more likely during the day on tuesday but even with that shower, temperatures only cooling off to about 68. bill evans has much more starting tomorrow morning. >> i feel the sniffles coming on from next monday. >>> new research tonight about how to keep the common cold away. we'll tell you what yo

eyewitness news reporter diana rocco is live in midtown with a look at the gop race. diana, good morning. >>reporter: and, ken, good morning to you. donald trump is expected here at city synagogue a little later this morning to cast his vote. it's a big day for the trump campaign because he is hoping to sweep all of new york's delegates to propel him onto the nomination over rival ted cruz. but it is going to be tough. he needs to top 50% statewide and in some congressional districts around new york city it could be difficult to get voters to turn out at that level. he was in buffalo last night where he talked about new york values, but mistakenly called 9/11 7/11. that is just the latest misspeak from this candidate who has drawn a firestorm of criticism. his campaign also suffered a setback last night with the resignation of his field manager. right now polls are showing trump with a double-digit lead york at 53%. >> we're gonna show ted cruz who hates new york, hates new york. when you look at that debate and you see the way he talked about us and new york values,

she's keynote a breakfast event in midtown for the eagle academy foundation. it's a network of six public schools in the city formed to help african-american boys to graduate and attend college. clinton a long time supporter. >>> bernie sanders held rallies he has downsized his staff after losing four out of five primaries to hillary clinton on tuesday. we'll also have an update on facebook, twitter and at cbsnewyork.com. >>> a scare for passengers boarding a united airlines flight from newark to nebraska. the plane made an emergency landing in cleveland after the pilot reported engine trouble. no one was hurt. the faa is investigating. >>> 9 minutes after the hour right now, coming up, how the mayor responded to questions about the corruption scandal at city hall plus this. >> some people were crying because we had taken a whole test and we had to basically throw away all the answers. >> students giving a parcc exam only to find out they had taken the wrong test. neutrogena cosmetics. powders, concealers and foundations in new shades with vitamins and antioxi

cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer is live at trump tower in midtown with more. marcia. >> reporter: kristine, we are on fifth avenue outside trump tower where the donald trump mystique is attracting all kinds of people. there are his supporters and the tourists like these people there are plenty of cops. but when he voted earlier today, he seemed pretty awed by it all. >> it's a proud moment. it's a great moment. and who would have thought? >> reporter: by all accounts donald trump has thought about running for president for years. but after casting his vote for himself naturally, he talked about his motives. >> we're a country with tremendous problems. and we are going to make america great again. >> reporter: trump is over the 50% mark in all new york polls. but he needs a majority of voters in each of the state's 27 congressional districts to win all 95 delegates here. trump has 755 delegates now and he needs 1,237 to wrap up the nomination without a floor fight. ted cruz, who had no appearances today is breathing down his back and has won the last four conte

live in midtown with forecast. lonnie? >> reporter: i'll tell you, kj, it's a cold night out here. stationed right along fifth avenue and 59th right by the apple store which by the way i've got to tell you is a great place to go warm up because they are open 24 hours. i want to show you this, the fountain in the plaza is still operating and yet we have a freeze warning that goes into effect tonight, a hard freeze is possible. it would take something bigger is to freeze that fountain. but possibility, lo and behold right there, coolest vehicle in the world, my mobile weather lab is parked -- we are facing the wrong way. 37 degrees, all compliments of the equipment on the top of the vehicle and take a look at what the other readings are around the area, right now it is 20 degrees in the hamptons, 25 monticello, new york city at 37 which is what i'm picking up right here outside the park. future temps, 6:00 a.m. new york city at 29 degrees. liberty, monticello at 17. bellmore, 31. everyone below the freezing mark. thus we have the freeze warning. again if your area is not shaded in, t

morning. >>> several people have already showed up here in midtown getting ready for the protest and walk off the job at 6:00 these unions say they are about 40,000 workers getting ready to strike between massachusetts and virginia. >> it looks like history will repeat itself like here in 2011, verizon workers say they are getting ready to go on strike this morning. the company and the two unions representing the employees have failed to reach a new contract agreement. the communications workers of america says quote, wants to -- require technicians to work away from home for as long as two months. union leaders say a strike technicians who work on connecting telephone lines to homes. they add customers using land lines not hooked up to verizon fiber optic cables. >> any customers like brookhaven, south hampton, east hampton, they are the ones most vulnerable. >>> telling its customers it is ready for a strike having trained thousands of nonunion workers to do everything from making repairs on poles to working call centers. as for the contract negotiations, the company says quote, ou

latest from midtown. back to both of you until studio. >> teresa priolo along 5th avenue thanks very much. here's all of things in you need to know for voting this morning. >> polls are now open in new york city. nassau, suffolk, westchester, rockland. orange, putnam and erie countieses. all open at 12 moon and they close at 9 p.m. all of them. new york primaries are closed. that means you have to be a registered democrat to vote in the democratic primary or a registered republican to vote in the republican primary. however, voters of any party or no affiliation in four legislative districts can vote in special races to fill vacant seats they are in lower manhattan, brooklyn, staten island, and nassau county. do you approve? >> those pretty, you know, hotly and a dean skelos had in long island. >> much more still to come including connection with the corruption probe. >> auld drink is watching forecast and hazy skies this morning. >> closes this morning but sun will break through and that will warm us nic

of course police searching now happened right here in midtown. reporting live over midtown, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> four staffers at homes for juvenile delinquents in brooklyn have been charged with lying about bed checks. the charges stem from a department of investigation probe launched after three teens broke out of a facility and raped a woman. they soon discovered staffers at two different facilities routinely lied about whether they were checking on teens in the overnight hours. boys town says the allegations, if true, fail to meet its core mission and it has taken steps to ensure they don't happen in the future. >>> the so-called affluenza teen will spend two years in jail now. ethan couch appeared in adult court for the first time today. the teen was originally given 10 years probation for killing four people in a drunken driving incident in 2013. video showed him at a party with alcohol. today a judge told couch he would consecutively serve 180 days for each count of intoxication and manslaughter. >>> the governor of

the temperature is 48 in midtown. it's chilly out there. we did have some appreciable rain across the area, but not enough to really knock down our deficit significantly. still running between four and five inches below in it the rainfall. close to a half inch in ka caldwell. not a lot, but anything is helpful. for long island, .43 in islip. to the north and west of the city, anywhere from a third of an inch to just under a half inch from bridgeport to monticello. we still need a lot more. we will get more coming up later in the week. it dries out. the coastline, you may keep the clouds most of the day tomorrow. it's beautiful everywhere else. then thursday into friday, more steady rain possible. especially thursday night into early friday morning. that's welcome rain. it does dry out for the weekend though. temperatures will be in the 60s and it's going to be mild with sunshine. show you today's high temperatures. 50s north of the city. 80s sweat of the city. the warm front sitting right on top. it was 60 in midtown today. right now, every

we're going to take a look at the queens midtown tunnel. one tube is shut for construction until 5:30. the other two taking traffic in both directions. we head to brooklyn and take a look at the gowanus expressway. verrazano bridge up to the bqe. alternate side parking is in effect today city wide. >>> thank you so much. the metropolitan opera says conductor james levine will retire at the end of the season. he will turn 73 in june. he's been increasingly affected by parkson's disease. >>> rutger's university says it's thrilled president obama will give this year's commencement speech. it's the first time a sitting president has given the commencement speech at the school. president obama will speak may 15th at high points solutions stadium in piscataway. >>> mayor bill de blasio hits an all time low. >> first we're taking a look at the movies hitting theaters this weekend. and one of them has a fresh face to a popular sequel. stay with us. it's called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. most new wealth flows to the top 1%. it's a s

midtown tunnel, queens midtown tunnel, the north tube closed. south tube taking on two-way traffic. that goes for another hour this morning. in new jersey, still roadwork here on route 7 both ways between charlotte circle, fish house road where it takes up a lane. the covered roadway, you'll find this closed between jersey avenue to tonnelle avenue. that wraps up around 6:00 this morning. alternate side meter rules in effect. more weather and traffic on the 4s. >> emily, thank you very much. >>> we're learning more about the water tainted by lead at newark public schools. 324 samples were taken from eight schools earlier this morning. 76 of the samples showed elevated levels of lead. levels that excited the epa's acceptable standards. some water samples with elevated lead levels. actual drinking water. madison elementary had ten water samples with too much lead. four at alexander, an ex. boylan childhood center. burnett street school had one sample with high lead. they're waiting for other results in the district. >>> a manhole explosion did a serious number on a car in brooklyn. a

take another look at this, the latest from midtown, back to you in the studio. kerry: thank you. time now 6:36. a 19-year-old man is charged with murder accused of stabbing a man on every side. ben: we told you about this yesterday, happened overnight. that is the accused stabber. police say rodriguez was walking with his girlfriend late last night near e. 94th st. and third avenue when they were confronted and he is in the hospital where he later died. kerry: the man accused of damaging red light cameras has been arrested again. stephen root who has been called the red light robin hood broke 18 cameras this past weekend by cutting wires in some cases. he was arrested accused of turning the cameras to the sky. the $30 fee on top of the $50 fine breaks state law, suffolk took in $25 million in revenue and fees from the cameras last year. officials say the cameras are there for safety. ben: we all know cameras make money, suffolk county officials are not fooling anybody. the bottom line, $30 fee is 60% of the cost of the fine. is that excessive? in new york, you get a red light no

we're live in midtown, i'm diana rocco, channel 7 eyewitness news >> diana, thank you. >>> and from midtown to brooklyn, we continue our coverage by the hillary clinton campaign headquarters with eyewitness news reporter dray clark. dray, good morning. >>reporter: good morning, ken. hillary clinton told a very excited crowd last night that the race for the democratic nomination is in the home stretch and victory is now in sight. clinton had a very decisive win last night. clinton wanted to win big because new york is home -- her adopted home and a loss would have been very embarrassing and meanwhile, bernie sanders, a brooklyn, new york native had very high hopes that he would be able to deliver an upset to clinton. sanders, as you guys know, drew very large crowds to his rallies, and he was even able to close the point gap in the polls, but in the end he suffered a double-digit defeat to clinton. >> the race for the democratic nomination is in the home stretch and victory is in sight. >> we lost tonight. week. we think we're going to do well, an we have a path toward victory which we are g

you are looking at a picture over there at the hyatt hotel in midtown, manhattan. and it's big republican gala where they pay a lot of money to eat food that you would not eat for free. now we have speeches. trump is up first to try to find him. no, that's not true. he is there. is he going to come out. we will take his speech. supposed to be about 12, 15 minutes. then after trump john kasich is going to talk and ted cruz. that's going to bleed on over and we will go in and out. we are nimble here. we have a lot of analysis on the program because there are two new polls tonight to tell you about. first we have dana peri4j4(p&c@ who is force to do sit here for an entire hour because if i falter she has to take other. >> then we have john roberts. is he inside the gala. is he not allow to do eat because he didn't pay any money so he can't get any food. we have rick leventhal, he is outside the gala. there is rick. is he with the protesters. now, watters is also there. but no one knows where watters is. this absolutely true. we sent jesse watters down there and we don

you are looking at a picture over there at the hyatt hotel in midtown, manhattan. and it's big republican gala where they pay a lot of money to eat food that you would not eat for free. now we have speeches. trump is up first to try to find him. no, that's not true. he is there. is he going to come out. we will take his speech. supposed to be about 12, 15 minutes. then after trump john kasich is going to talk and ted cruz. that's going to bleed on over and we will go in and out. we are nimble here. we have a lot of analysis on the program because there are two new polls tonight to tell you about. first we have dana peri4j4(p&c@ who is force to do sit here for an entire hour because if i falter she has to take other. >> then we have john roberts. is he inside the gala. is he not allow to do eat because he didn't pay any money so he can't get any food. we have rick leventhal, he is outside the gala. there is rick. is he with the protesters. now, watters is also there. but no one knows where watters is. this absolutely true. we sent jesse watters down there and we don

teresa is joining us live from midtown . teresa, good morning. >> good morning. it's an inconvenient mistake but the crowd went easy in western new york. we'll get to that in just a second. i believe that it's okay it comes to cruise and i seem to have turned his attention to when new york and trying to slow the trump delegate support . >> think you, everyone. make america great again. >> in a 24 hour leading up , donald trump was joined by a diverse group of trump towers. they organized by the former contestant, amoroso. he shuffled off to buffalo where he was introduced by. >> ryan. >> as the greatest people i've ever seen in action. >> is an embarrassing? yes. 50% of voters support him and only 21% supporting john kasich with 18% supporting cruise. kasich is hoping to capitalize on his late surge . >> 20% of the people in the country have no opinion of me because they don't know me. my name has come up but people still haven't decided. >> cruz spent his day between the big apple in the next big contest , marilyn. 95 delegates are up for grabs here. the way it

reporting live outside trump tower in midtown manhattan, marcia kramer, cbs2 news. >> thank you. >>> now to the democrats, hillary clinton shattered bernie sanders winds could tonight. >> tony aiello live in clinton headquarters in midtown where the candidates spoke just a few minutes ago. tony? mixture of excitement and relief here at the sheraton new york, mayor de blasio said that new york did something wonderful for america tonight. governor cuomo said, new york delivered for hillary clinton and hillary clinton pointed out she has won in every region of the country but said this victory is particularly sweet. >> let's hear it for new york. >> reporter: new york does it again, boosting hillary clinton with a big win on primary night. >> today, you proved once again there's no place like home. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: her margin over senator sanders looks to be enough to put a recent rough patch behind her when she lost seven of eight contests since march 22. >> new yorkers, you've always had my back. [ cheering ] and i've always [ cheering ] today, together, we did it

here's a look outside right now from our camera in astoria, midtown. today what a beauty. 75 in the park and got up to 78 at poughkeepsie and northwestern new jersey at sussex. 73 in newark and middle 60s over central long island and the upper 50s on the east end because of the cooling influence of the atlantic ocean waters. other than that it's a beautiful day. 59 newark right now and 50 at jfk and the upper 40s at white plains. big range in temperature across the area right now. even have some 30s sprinkled in here between montauk and islip, which are in the 40s. 37 down the shore at tom's river. still sitting at 59 at monticello and the higher up enough to cause those areas to remain milder overnight. when you get the calm winds and clear skies it clears off and you could get scattered areas of frost overnight. frost advisory lasting until 8:00 a.m. monday. if you have plants or flowers you may want to bring them in overnight. high pressure in firm control. denver, colorado, received over a foot of snow yesterday and the day before with this system

that's what happened with virginia's new midtown tunnel in a 58-year agreement. a coalition led by sweden-based skanska and australian financier macquarie formed a consortium called "elizabeth river crossings." in addition to building the new tunnel, e.r.c. would refurbish the old midtown tunnel-- the one with all that traffic-- fix another tunnel in norfolk, and extend a nearby expressway that connects the tunnels. according to the builders, the budget is just over $2 billion. virginia issued 638 million in bonds, and paid another 421 million in state funds. the federal department of transportation loaned $441 million. skanska and macquarie invested about $200 million. the rest, about $300 million, would come from tolls. richard cavallaro is president of skanska u.s.a. >> the question would be, can the state have afforded to build the project without collecting tolls based on their own budget? and the answer is no. so that's the real rub. it's not so much the process. it's how they're recouping the payment. and that exists if it was triple-p or not. >> reporter:

reporting live in midtown, andrea grymes cbs2 news. >>> thank you. police in butler new jersey opened fire on a man after they say he pointed a gun at them. it happened last night outside a home on west bellevue avenue near boonton avenue. witnesses say the 23-year-old who allegedly pointed the gun has a history of breaking into homes. >> i went to high school with him. he was a good kid growing up, and then he had some run-ins with the law, and i guess he just went downhill. >> the accused gunman was shot several times. no word on his condition. no comment from the butler police department. >>> a virginia state trooper has died after being shot at a bus station. police say the suspect had a brief conversation with 37-year- old trooper chad dermyer before shooting him several times at close range. it happened yesterday afternoon at a greyhound station in richmond. two other troopers on the scene returned fire killing the suspect. two women at the station were also hurt but are expected to be okay. >>> new information on a woman's claim that she was s

democratic presidential >>> a live look now at midtown from news copter 7. they say it will be the biggest day of global strikes and protests ever. good morning i'm ken rosato. >> and i'm lori stokes. thanks for starting your morning with us. it is thursday april 14th. you are never more than 7 minutes away from traffic and weather. >> puts the glare right into our camera at fort lee. 45 in the park, 41 east hampton. 25 toms river. clear skies, calm wind, the heating from the day is heating the and a. right at our normal averages for this time of the year. warmer than normal as we go into the weekend. 70s this weekend. what's going on out there? >> reporter: subways running on or close to schedule. clear to subways running on time no problems to report with new jersey transit, or metro north. george washington bridge 15, lincoln busy here on 45 east. l.i.e. westbound building right past wood haven boulevard with a collision. 78 eastbound is busy exit 24 an accident going out to our other camera here's the web cam over 287. keep in mind exit 12 in franklin to

let's take a live look outside at the queens midtown tunnel. one tube is shut for construction until 5:30 this morning. the other tube, though, is taking traffic in both directions, as you can see, looking good. a live look at the tappen zee bridge. and we're moving well into rockland and westchester counties this morning. no delays on the new york state thruway as well. so some good news there to start your day. alternate side parking is in effect today citywide. chris and mary, over to you >> kyla, thanks so much. >>> in spoorts this morning problem and a blow tot rangers. >> here's otis livingston with your cbs 2 morning sports update. >> good morning, everyone. coming up tonight the islanders at the panthers game, one of their playoff series. yankees try to take 2-3 in toronto. scary moment, blumquist takes an arrant stick under his mask. about a minute and a half later patrick scores to give the pen as lead they would not relinquish. they win game one 5-2. so-so outing for michael peneda against toronto. six innings, five hint hits, three

. >>> easy commute in midtown could be messy. two lanes of 6th avenue remains close after the water main street. 6th avenue is closed to cars. crews from the department of environmental protection repairing the water system in the area. a water main water onto a steamed pipe and that caused steam that could be rising several feet into the area. >>> another water main break-in new jersey. news copter 7 was over livingston. the water main broke on eisenhower parkway leaving that road covered in mud. no businesses or homes impacted, but there could be delays. >>> police are looking for a man who attempted to rape a man. police want to question this man. they say early yesterday morning, a man dragged a 47-year-old woman from behind and pulled down her pants near webb avenue and aims place. investigators say the man ran off after the victim screamed and punched him. the suspect is described as being in his mid-20s and last seen wearing a black do-rag and black and red jacket. >>> police arrested two stony brooks basketball players on