Agreement, lift the threat of a strike off of the heads of our customers and move on. Reporter a former negotiator for the railroad tells us he also expects a resolution because the alternative would be so disruptive. This should be settled and it probably will be settled because a strike the risk of a strike far outweighs the benefits of whatever can come out of a future negotiations after a strike. Reporter who do you blame situation . The governor. Reporter he says that from his insider perspective that the reserve fund for nj transit shrank from 350 million to 34 million under Chris Christies watch. The deal he says that is in the works likely will be expensive because of the retroactive pay because they havent had a contract in recent years and he says it also will be expensive because it will have to be paid for without the reserve fund. He predicts fare increases. Live in newark, lou young, cbs 2 news. In the event of a strike, commuters heading to penn station will need a plan. Cbs 2s emily smith is live there with your contingency commute. Emily. Reporter kristine, if the strike happens monday mornings commute will not be easy. But there are other ways to get across that river. Whether you drive, ride a bus or take a train, nj transit officials are warning all commuters that a potential strike by the rail union will have a severe impact on our roads. And commuters are bracing for the potential reality of no available trains. A contingency plan in place includes increased bus service as well as path, light rail and ferry service. A key component of the plan is using strategically located park rides. Reporter the locations will be hamilton station, pnc art center, metropark station, Metlife Stadium, and ramsey route 17 station. Parking at these locations added service will run inbound 6 a. M. To 10 a. M. And outbound 4 p. M. To 8 p. M. All tickets will be honored. Ticket machines have already been installed at the park and rides like these at Metlife Stadium so riders without monthly tickets can buy tickets. Keep in mind this contingency plan will only be able to carry 38 of new yorkbound new Jersey Transit riders. Thats only 40,000 people. Far short of the 105,000 people who take trains daily. This will probably add 10,000 vehicles to the roads. And if you do drive into work if there is a strike that day, officials are asking people to carpool. They say that would be a one hour train ride could be a threehour car ride with all that additional traffic. Live from penn station, emily smith, cbs 2 news. Stay with us for continuing coverage all weekend as we count down to the strike deadline. A Long Island Beach as an Emergency Landing strip. The singleengine plane landed at Sunken Meadow state park this morning. Minutes after taking off from failed. So the pilot with a student on board taking a first lesson sand. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch talked with the veteran pilot. Reporter has this ever happened to you before . No. Im flying 5 years and this is the first time 35 years and happened. He did what he had to do landing it safely on the beach. No one was injured. The student pilot plans to try again tomorrow. As for the plane it will have to be dismantled and moved. No strikes at the airlines but you would be forgiven for thinking that there was some kind of work stoppage at newark this morning. The lines to get through security at terminal c were enough to make you want to drive to your destination. Cbs 2s Steve Langford has the video. Reporter that sinking they face security lines like this painfully clear this morning at Newark Airport a maddening shuffle toward the tsa checkpoint at terminal c the line snaking down halls and upstairs far out of sight of the security area leaving hundreds wondering if they will even make their flights. The security lines are terrible. They always are. Reporter the tsa recommends travelers arrive at the airport at least two hours two hours. I get people coming through screaming at me on social media and the like just so frustrated about this particular airport. Reporter on capitol hill this week, a u. S. Senators plea to the head of Homeland Security to reduce lines that look like something out of the soviet union in the 1970s. Cant we do something it alleviate this outrageous problem that rightfully is angering people at the Newark Airport . One of the things you can say to your constituents, senator, is, you know, join tsa precheck for the shorter reporter tsa precheck an expedited Security Screening Program available for a fee may or may not be the answer to these mind numbing lines. Its been a long time since i have done that because i definitely use the precheck. Reporter the tsa tells cbs 2, quote, the recent increases are caused by the rapid growth in travel volume combined with a ee nude emphasis on rigorous screening following testing that showed unacceptable results. Tsa is understaffed. Reporter hurry up and wait at Newark Airport, Steve Langford, cbs 2 news. Our call to United Airlines which operates most of the flights out of terminal c at newark was not returned. Nypd needs some help in finding two men accused of stealing cigarettes, cigars, lottery tickets and cash from a Staten Island grocery store. The two were seen on video on located on richmond terrace. Police say they entered through a cellar door and took off with 5,300 in goods and cash. Remove cash from an atm inside the store but failed and damaged the machine. A postal worker who pretended she was too scared to leave her home wont be able to set food there for six month. Maria of the bronx is going to jail for fraudulently collecting 200,000 in worker compensation. She claimed to get panic attacks when she went outdoors but police say she took cruises to alaska and canada. She also completed a 10 month nursing program. This story touched us all. On Christmas Day in 2011, madonna badgers children and parents were all killed in a fire. Now she tells cbs 2s mary calvi how her daughters memory is inspiring her to change how the world views women. Reporter its the most devastating tragedy a mother can imagine. For madonna badger everyone she loved was gone in an instant. When i became a mom, that was it. I mean, that was the number reporter in 2011, fire ravaged her home in stamford, connecticut. Her three little girls 9, 7 yearold twins were trapped the divorced mother tried but couldnt save her children. Her parents also died in the fire that Christmas Day. I wanted to die. Reporter she even contemplated the unthinkable. I was afraid of killing myself because i thought, oh, my god, i wont see them. I cant imagine it was an easy journey for you. No one knew what to do with me. Reporter she was put into four different psychiatric hospitals until her roommate from college came for her. It was like breaking out of jail. And, um, you know, it was i was like just like i remember calling her on the phone saying i cant do this anymore. I cannot be here. I cannot be amongst strangers trying to therapyize me. Reporter she says the daughters she lost will always be with her. You know . They may not be here with me on this earthly plane but they are here with me and so, you know, i talk to them, i pray to them, i pray with them. I you know, look through their pictures and remember and cry and move on to the next day. Reporter today, madonna badger runs a successful Advertising Firm on fifth avenue. Im here and im going to do something positive with the time that im here. Reporter and she is. With a new movement thats gone viral. She is calling on the Advertising Industry as a whole to stop using images that objectify women. If my little girls were here, um, i would be mortified at what they were seeing. Its about a human change. Its about saying, im not okay with this anymore. I know theres a better way. I know theres a smarter way. Thats what were really asking for. Madonna badger has such an inner strength that comes she says what keeps her going is the belief that one day, she will see her little girls again. Each day she is using her time and experience to make a difference. Mary calvi, cbs 2 news. If you would like to know more about the campaign, women, not objects, go to our website, cbsnewyork. Com. As we continue here at 6 00 a bizarre accident on a busy highway. A tire flies across the roadway slamming into the roof of a car. Where did this come from . A High School Production of a hit Broadway Musical the producers surrounded in controversy. Is it censorship or Political Correctness . Reporter well, its been a really nice end to the workweek. But this day isnt all about cooling down. Cooler than our record temperatures earlier in the week. Things get even cooler tonight. Ill have the details coming up in your full forecast. Okay, elise. At whats ahead on the evening news at 6 30. Reporter hey, great to be with you, maurice and kristine. It was an interesting day for donald trump today. He picked up a major endorsement. And also, picked up some major protests at his rallies. Describing the protestors as the people who are trying to destroy our country. Well have all the latest political news and the rest of the world news coming right up on the cbs evening news at 6 30. Well see you then. And life after sandy. Billy crystal reaching out to help his hometown rebuild after the superstorm. Where should you start when youre told you have cancer . Start with a specialist. Start where youll find advanced technology, precision Treatment Options and truly compassionate care. Start here with a team of experts who treat only cancer. Its not one thing we do. Its the only thing we do. Start at Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. The evolution of cancer care is here. Learn more at cancercenter. Com e experts terrifying accident on the Grand Central parkway. A tire flies off an suv crosses over the guardrail and smashes into the windshield of an oncoming car. This happened around 2 00 this afternoon. The accident caused stop and go traffic during the evening commute. The drive inside the struck car was taken to the hospital in cardiac arrest. The condition unknown. The show must go on tonight in Rockland County but a High School Version of the producers will be missing something. The swastikas have been cut from the satirical musical about hitler. Cbs 2s tony aiello. Reporter if someone scrawled a swastika on a desk at Tappan Zee High School it would be treated as a which explains why this stage will be devoid of swastikas when high school presents the mel brooks musical the the call made by superintendent bob pritchard. There is no context in a Public High School where a a a swastika is is appropriate. Reporter the controversy erupted as these things so often do on social media. After someone posted a picture of swastikas on this stage on their facebook page. [ music ] reporter this 2009 video from Ardsley High School gives you an idea of what was planned. Swastikas on nazi flags and arm band during springtime for hitler, the satirical show within a show that ridicules the german mad man. A handful of parents found the swastikas offensive and complained. After checking out the stage, the superintendent agreed. The optics, the visual, the was was very to me was very disturbing. Um, i i considered it to be an obscenity just like any obscenity. Some of the performers seen here at rehearsal feel the production has been unfairly censored. Its the talk of the town. Its sat tire. , you know, its not supposed to be taken seriously. Its satire. Reporter are you offended by the swastikas in the show as a jew . No. I personally think mel brooks would be very honored that the controversy is going on but i think he would be disappointed in the censorship. Reporter but the district decided a symbol of hate is out of place on a high school stage. In Rockland County, tony aiello, cbs 2 news. The superintendent says he consulted with several rabbis and the rockland holocaust study center before deciding to cut swastikas from the show. Elise finch is in for lonnie quinn tonight. He has our exclusive forecast the mobile weather lab. The sun is setting and it looks like its getting chillier, too, elise. Reporter it really s were here at Columbus Circle with our trusty mobile weather lab and, of course, the instruments on top of the current temperatures. The back where it officially well, in this spot, we are at 60. 1 degrees. The official temperature for central park is 59. Partly cloudy skies, 59 degrees, northwest wind at 17 miles per hour. So you may have needed a jacket all day. You may need a coat tonight. Saturday okay. Sunday clouds. The high afternoon temperature 63. The official high on the day degrees. That is around midnight. But it will now officially go down as the high for the day that puts us a full 20 degrees above where we should be. As you look at the temperature trend not quite as big a drop from yesterday as today. But still, not in record category. Take a look at current temperatures, we have a cool 46 degrees in liberty, 47 for montauk but 50s for 58 for fairfield and babylon. 59 for linden and central park. 61 toms river. Your vortex satellite and radar showing just a few high, thin clouds out there right now. The Bigger Picture shows the area of High Pressure keeping things dry for us and, of course, the area of low pressure thats been wreaking havoc in louisiana. That area of low pressure and the moisture associated with it will be here in a weakened system. Tonight things chilly. Right now, they already are quite chilly and windy. You will definitely need a jacket tonight maybe a coat later tonight. As we head into tomorrow, its looking like a really good day. Tons of sunshine. Later in the day we have a chance to see some rain. So for tonight, mostly clear skies. But chilly 42 degrees thats in the city. 30s as we head into the suburbs. Above the freezing mark tonight. Its going to be chilly. Weekend looking good. 62 for saturday. 60 for sunday. We are doing the countdown to spring for nine days and take a look heres your sevenday forecast the weekend looks good. But expect some rain to start the workweek. We are live in Columbus Circle with the mobile weather lab and with that ill send it back to you. Billy crystal is auctioning mementos to help his long island hometown that was battered by superstorm sandy. The actor and comedian grew up in long beach. The city was one of the worst hit community when sandy tore through. He is selling dozens of items to help with the rebuilding. I just moved out of my office of 23 years into a new space and i have all kinds of really great stuff that im personalizing and there are magazine covers, and interesting things, like this is the prototype of the first poster for 700 sundays and im signing everything. Theres also sport baseballs and basketballs. You can place bids on ebay until sunday. Love him. All right. Otis is up next with sports. He has a preview. Its a fantastic finish for the huskies and the nfl carousel spun through florham park. Which former rookie of the year met with the jets and could signal the departure of Ryan Fitzpatrick . It took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. These little guys . They represent blood cells. 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Side effects with pradaxa can include indigestion, stomach pain, upset or burning. Dont just go with the flow. Go with pradaxa, the only blood thinner that lowers your risk of stroke better than warfarin and has a specific reversal treatment. The mets news, Otis Livingston here. Henry mejia not done yet. Theres a twist to the lifetime ban from baseball. He is not going out without a fight alleging in a Bizarre Press Conference today that Major League Baseball rigged the positive results. Thats right. He says his second and third positive tests never happened he alleges that Major League Player wanted information on another player they were investigating and he said no and they drummed up the positive test that resulted in the lifetime ban. He said he was a victim of a conspiracy and the Players Union should have done more so according to his attorney they suspension and through his reasons. He is a person with feelings, with values, and only [ indiscernible ] for support [ indiscernible ] Major League Baseball quickly responded with a statement denying all of his claims as well as stating and in the meantime, the mets continue on without mejia one of the key guys in the bullpen within antonio ba started doe had no relief. The nationals scored twice as the mets lose 95. Yankees orioles in tampa. Masahiro tanaka looks as good as new slated to be the opening day starter struck out the first two batters and three innings of one hit baseball. Ellsbury continued his hot yankees win 71. Orioles havent won a game this spring. Theres more intrigue into the Ryan Fitzpatrick situation with the jets two sides said to be far apart on a deal and today Robert Griffin iii who was recently released by the redskins was in florham park visiting with the jets. Remember this guy mark sanchez . He is now a maine super bowl champion Denver Broncos a member of the super bowl champion Denver Broncos. Peyton manning retired and Brock Osweiler signed with houston. Something incredible is taking place in march. The end of the third overtime Kevin Johnson knocked down the triple with. 8 second left. They start celebrating. Adams says no banks it in from 3 quarter court. That maybe the shot that kept their ncaa hopes alive they win 10497 in four it aint over until its over. By the way, surprise you didnt show the button. I was oh. Disappointed. Eagles disappointed more thank you. Well be right back. Ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms. No growthpromoting antibiotics, dont forget to follow us on facebook and like our page. You can find us at facebook. Com cbsnewyork. Coming up tonight on cbs 2 news at 11 00, building a better password. Why rutgers researchers say goods like this are much safer than the security most people are currently using. Plus, you or your loved one could be making a deadly mistake when you get in the car. The law in new york that could give passengers a false sense of security. Its coming up at 11 00. Please join us at 9 00 on tv 10 55. The cbs evening news with scott pelley is next. Have a great to night and great weekend, too. Comments captioncolorado. Com pelley a gentler trump at the debate, but more violence at his rallies. I think there are two Donald Trumps. Pelley and they dont agree with each other. I dont think there are two Donald Trumps. I think theres one donald trump. Pelley also tonight, rising waters put thousands of homes at risk. Mourners celebrate nancy reagan and an undying love. Oh, my dear our love is here to stay. 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