This was an act of criminal negligence. As such, i find that incarceration is not necessary. Reporter the conviction was reduced to criminally negligence homicide. Liang got five years probation at 800 hours of community service. Roughly five months worth. His supporters insist he never should have been charged but were generally pleased. Do you feel the irony here that two demonstrations here, both of them from opposite sides, both of them with demanding justice . Both of them. They are opposite sides of each other. Reporter did you get justice today . Yes. Va ken Thompson Says he will appeal the judges decision to reduce that conviction. The charge after criminally negligence homicide at which point the judge would have to revisit the sentence he pronounced today. Has a look at what were working on for cbs 2 news at 6 00. Cbs 2 news. Now to campaign 2016. Its primary day in new york. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton didnt have any trouble caster their votes near their homes today and we have Live Team Coverage tomorrow. Tony aiello with the democrats and Marcia Kramer with the republican. Steve langford has been talking to frustrated voters. Reporter amid widespread reports of people having trouble voting today, the city controller wants to know why is it alleged that 125,000 people removed from the voter rolls . Why did 60,000 voters get notices that didnt have the proper primary date on them . Why have people been told they were voting in the wrong place . Finally were some polling places locked . Gentleman theres no other agency like the board of elections in the world or in the United States where politicians from both parties come together and run it likes its a back hall political club. We are going to have huge turnout in november and they know how they will handle a general election. Reporter a statement late this afternoon from mayor de blasio saying in part, quote, we support the comptrollers audit and urge its completion well in advance of the june election so corrective action can be taken. These errors today indicate that additional major reforms will be needed to the board of elections and in the state law governing it. Also late today attorney general snyderman reporting his officer received a high number of complaints about problems voting today. Steve langford, cbs 2 news. Now to the candidates. Republican frontrunner donald trump is hoping to win big here in his hometown. 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. Its a proud moment. Its 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. Were 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 states 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 contests. But he wont get delegates in new york. John kasich is another story. He campaigned aggressively here and is hoping to win at least a dozen delegates. Its all about accumulating delegates going into the convention because now were actually going to go to a competitive convention. Reporter the candidates are now all going to move on to other states. Next tuesday, there are votes in connecticut, pennsylvania, delaware and maryland. And i should point out that the polls have donald trump leading in all four states. Live outside trump tower, im Marcia Kramer, cbs 2 news. Thank you. Now lets switch over to tony aiello who is covering the democrats live at clinton Election Night headquarters in midtown. Tony. Reporter tonight secretary clinton is looking to recover from a bit of a rough patch. Bernie sanders has won 7 of the last 8 democratic nominating contests. The vermont senator making a very strong effort here in new york and dramatically cutting into Hillary Clintons lead in the polls. She was up by 40 points a few month ago. The brooklynborn vermont senator made a last pitch for new york support during a walk through midtown with his wife. He has already turned his focus to pennsylvania which votes next week. In erie he railed against corporate greed. The greed of wall street and large multinational corporations has basically said, we have no responsibility to the average worker. Reporter secretary clinton started her day voting for herself in westchester county. Then a quick trip to dc for a speech to construction trades unions. Heres my promise to you. If im fortunate enough to become your president , organized labor will always have a champion in the white house. [ applause and cheers ] reporter so a hardfought contest in 2016 but democrats dont seem too bitter. Exit polling asked, has the campaign energized or divided you party . 68 of new york democrats said it has energized the party. Cbs 2 news. We are just getting exit poll information. Cbs news reports the most important issue among both democrats and republicans is the economy. 64 of those polled also want the next president to come from outside politics. Do stay with cbs 2 and cbsnewyork. Com for continuing coverage throughout the evening. Also, tune in tonight at 11 00 for live coverage of the result. Other news tonight now. Brush fires in new jersey causing problems with the commute tonight. The thick smoke was visible for miles this afternoon. Drivers on the turnpike saw the fire burning in secaucus. Firefighters were able to keep the flames from spreading to buildings but about 100 acres were scorched and because of the fire there are still delays on nj transit and amtrak for 30 minutes. Lonnie quinn will have details on the continued fire danger coming up. The growing new york city Corruption Scandal begs a scary question, where are the the streets due to this alleged bribe be scandal . Dave carlin reports. Reporter getting the legal right to carry a gun in new york city if youre not a cop is exceedingly rare and only a few thousand are granted every year. Mostly to Business Owners dealing in cash. Jewelers an celebrities which is why its such a shocker 44 yearold Alex Lichtenstein is charged with bribing nypd officials to get gun permits for people. We need to get the guns off the streets. There needs to be reform. Reporter lichtenstein allegedly breaked he paid out 6,000 rick perry mitt and did it when 150 times. But where are all the illegally permitted guns now . Unfortunately were not going to know. Reporter at least not in the short term says this retired nypd detective. Go back for 10 years to see who got permits illegally. Reporter investigators allegedly handled the permits. Police say every license they touched will be reviewed and background checks done. Will they be able to get all the guns back . We wanted nypds chief of Department James oneil to answer that when we found him at the scene of an unrelated drug sting. Gun corruption probe, anything were not talking about anything except we are concentrating on this now. Reporter so no official comment on this case that only came to life after lichtenstein who tried to bribe an honest officer who took it to internal affairs. Reporter he allegedly sold a license to a criminal. The toptobottom review is early and more arrests will expected. Dave carlin, cbs 2 news. Lichenstein is out of jail on bond of half million dollars. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in prison. Is it offensive or art . New jersey town that could extend a gallery owner to prison. Neighbors want a cone of silence from this Ice Cream Truck, not sweets. Coming up on the cbs evening news, secret service lapses at the white house. Spell is live with more. Reporter its an amazing federal investigation that we have on the broadcast tonight. It says that the secret Service Senators protect the white house are plagued by fatigue, understaffing and under funding. Well have more on that and the rest of the world news coming right up on the cbs evening news at 6 30. If youre told you have cancer, explore your Treatment Options with specialists who treat only cancer. Every stage. Every day. Learn more at cancercenter. Com experts i think we shouldve taken a left at the river. Tarzan know where tarzan go tarzan does not know where tarzan go. Hey, excuse me, do you know where the waterfall is . Waterfall . No, me tarzan, king of jungle. Why dont you want to just ask somebody . If youre a couple, you fight over directions. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Oh ohhhhh its what you do. Ohhhhhh do you have to do that right in my ear . You live life your way. We can help you retire your way, too. Is it art or inappropriate . A new jersey art dealer faces thousands of dollars in fines and possibly jail time after displaying an image of a womans back side and refusing to take it down. Cbs 2s meg baker has the controversy now from englewood. Reporter they have been here in englewood, new jersey, for more than nine years. The gallery is now suing the city saying it interfered with First Amendment rights of freedom of speech. I felt violated and why am i being subject to this insanity . Reporter back in january she said a Code Enforcement painting down. She refused. We blurred the artwork by tom dash. Its artwork. Artwork is its a statement. Art is painting history. Reporter the officer issued a violation with fines of 1,250 per day and the threat of up to 90 days in jail it was originally displayed in this window behind me at the gallery off palisade avenue. If you walk through this gallery or you walk through the museum in the city or in europe, any museum, youre going to find nudity. Reporter the ordinance which was enact in 1992 states no they are defending an archaic statute thats aimed at the content of free speech. Reporter those in town didnt mind it. I didnt think there was instagram girls are showing their butts all the time. Reporter gorghi has other nude depiction in the gallery by artists. In new jersey, meg baker, cbs 2 news. No comment from englewood leaders despite repeated attempts. Theres a Community Meeting where a councilman proposed a modification of the law. Spring weather means Ice Cream Trucks are on the streets but one of them is getting a Cold Shoulder in its neighborhood. Cbs 2s ilana gold shows us why why. Reporter this Ice Cream Truck is drawing attention in tribeca and harrison. I thought i was losing my mind. Reporter the theme blasted most of saturday and sunday nights until 11 00 and one recorded it from their apartment on the 16th floor and others heard it 32 stories up with closed windows. How loud was this truck . Top floor of the building and it he felt like it was right outside. [ music ] reporter families say it was going on for a halfhour at a time and thats a violation of the new york city code because Ice Cream Trucks are not allowed to play music while parked. Its ridiculous probably going to wake up people in the neighborhood and hard to put kids back to sleep because its so loud. Reporter neighbors say they want to know what they can do to get this noise to stop. So we took this question to the city. The city says, call 311 when you hear the music or report it to the website nyc. Gov. Theres a section called, noise from an Ice Cream Truck. Give the time, location and truck description so inspectors can be dispatched and issue a ticket. So far this year, 279 complaints have been made last year, 1760. Have you ever heard an Ice Cream Truck that loud . Never. Never. Reporter and even though this loud truck hasnt been a disruption to every family here it didnt bother me. I love the ice cream music. Reporter those who cant bear to hear it for another night now plan to speak up hoping to get this music turned down. In tribeca, ilana gold, cbs 2 news. The city says the penalty for a first offense is up to 1,000. Now, i understand what the parents are saying. My kids dont. Thats great. Thats the best sound they have heard all day. Have you ever tried to distract them from the sound . The kids . Theyre not having t [ laughter ] theyre not having it. I tried in vain. A whole block in vain lets go back i used to start singing and dancing to try to distract them. Very popular songs, da, da, da, da [ laughter ] it never worked nope. [ laughter ] it is a sign of the nice weather and we have the nice weather in place. Lets check in with the weather watchers to see the sort of temperatures they are reporting around the area. 60s and 70s. The pictures must have been more clouds in the area. Bruce captures it perfect. This is your sunset in northport. Looks nice out there. What we see in new york city as of right now similar shots of sunny skies. You will see wispy high cloud out there. 69 degrees. Current High Temperature was 73. 10 degrees above average of 63. Not as warm as yesterday. 82. We have had fire concerns all day. The fire concern continues right into the neat time hours until 8 p. M. We go to the mid60s tomorrow. Rain chance returns at weeks end. Lets talk about the fire warning out there. Red flag warning for basically the entire area. Until 8 p. M. No wet weather, maybe up around the cape or so. We had a shower over Staten Island . No, it was the smoke plume over the fire in jersey city. Heres what we find in wet weather. Late thursday into friday your day wednesday wont be affected by high pressure. Here comes some added clouds that make their push in thursday with rain into friday in the afternoon. Wherever you see yellow thats moderate showers even heavy downpours not ruled out. Friday mostly pleasant. The only hiccup is late thursday into friday. Clouds, not perfect saturday but good. Tomorrow 47 colder north of the city. Extended forecast showers friday and saturday. 67 on sunday. Otis livingston joins us with a look ahead at sports. Will they ride the arm of brian instead of ryan next season . An important visitor to jets camp. And game 3, either way the pivotal matchup. The garden will be electric. Home ice advantage thats what you fight for the ranger winning in pittsburgh. Game 3 tonight. Captain Ryan Mcdonough doubtful with a hand injury. They won saturday to tie the game at one game apiece. The experience never gets old for the players. The building is just so electric. I got goosebumps thinking about it now and how long the place is going to be tonight and we are going to need the home ice vac tonight. Its a great feeling. Every time you go out there its goosebumps. Youre excited and nervous. You just want to go out there and try to win. Win at home is the best feeling especially for us. As for the penguins they are still without Marcandre Fleury who remains side lied with concussion. No word but its like jeff zakoff will be in goal. A familiar face will be tonight. Carl haglin has played a lot of games at the garden but this is his first as a visitor. Im not going to think about it too much. I played so much playoff games here before so its but at the end of the day im just trying to help our team win. After winning in overtime on sunday the islanders dont play until tomorrow night against the panthers. With the jets and Ryan Fitzpatrick ways apart on a contract former houston texan quarterback brian hoyer paid a visit today. He had a chance to sign with the jets last off season but opted for houston which cleared the way for fitzpatrick to have a career season. Jacob degrom will return to the rotation sunday in atlanta. And that rotation doing very well right now. Noah syndergaard pitching well. David wright with two homers last night, 22 in his career there. Most by a visiting player. The mets beat the phillies 5 2. Game 2 of the series tonight. Reminder to owe all fans dont touch a fare ball it could cost you a girlfriend. Last nights giants diamondbacks game crawford a double down the line. A fan picks it up. He knows he is in trouble. And next to him the girl that he brought to the game she cant believe what he did. And when they leave she doesnt even want to be seen with him. [ laughter ] embarrassing escorted out. Oh. Wow. Oh. Night started so well. Picked her up had flowers well be right back. Coming up at 11 00 tonight an elderly woman held hostage after church. How she got creative to get the criminal to leave. Also he escaped from a trunk headed for a queens slaughterhouse. Tonight, frank the bull had somewhere else to go and he is enjoying new freedom. And we have less than three hours until the polls close in new york. Were live with complete Campaign Coverage and primary results later at 11 00. Now if you want to sing the you have to knock it out of the park. The mets found a performer who did just that. [ music ] that is parsippany, new jersey, melody lieberman. Melody was the winner of the mets talent contest. The musical theater performer will sing the National Anthem at the subway series against the yankees at citi field on august 2. Break a leg. Up next on the cbs evening news with scott pelley, Team Coverage of the latest on tonights new york primaries. Thank you for joining us. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com pelley big primary, new yorkers go to the polls and these two vote for themselves. It feels great. Its a proud moment. Its a great moment. Pelley also tonight, security lapses by the secret service. I mean, its really unacceptable that somebody wearing crocs who already had a foot problem could make his way all the way in past security into the white house
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