School and tried to get them to pcoee with him. Reporter police are investigating this disturbing crime. The 11yearold and 12yearold brother and siste th were walking to school this morning when a man approached them and exposed himself and tried to grab the girl. The man grabbed the s ter and tried to pull off her pants. Thankfully the brother and sister screamed as loudly as they could, and the man ran away. It all happened at the corner f pitkin and elton in east new york. Thrais whole s ituation as made parents feel nervous. He will get taken to school by me or his father. If no we will take a taxi. I never felt safe anyway, but thats really, thats too close to home. Police had origi ally called noalw theyre calling it attempted sex abuse. They have not made an arrest in this case, which is making parents feel so nervous. Heets described as wearing a red hat and black hoodie and jeans. Jen maxwell, news 4 new york. You may see this in your mailbox. Claiming nypd officers arent being paid enough. Reporter this is part o an ongoing battle over Police Officer pay, today the pba orkicked it up a notch, implying that race plays a role. Few dispute that nypd officers deserve to make more money. The pba tried to drive that point home with this racially the top photo showing whi officers in the a 0s reads, when cops looked like this they were the highest paid in the country. Cut to the bottom photo now with black officers and an asian officer. Now that they look like this, we are among the lowest paid officers in the country. The flyer was sent out to 35,000 homes in what the pba is calling progressive neighborhoods like park slope. The mayor says that income inequality is a problem. But he needs to look at the injustice thats happening in his own police department. Right now, we cant afford to live im many othe communities we patrolling. I would not be offended by it, and i would think there may be some truth to it. Our door has lways been open and continues to be open to the pba to negotiate a long Term Contract as weve done with nearly the entire city workforce tong date. Nypd officers make more than four investigates tabutated starting salaries in our area. Nypd officers start at more than 60,000 per year. Which is more than cops in clarks town, New Brunswick and suffolk counties. We could go all day on the economics. Clearly we need the best police, particularly in these times. Whatever that costs, it costs. Reporter i asked the pba today hew they came to the conclusion that nypd officers were among the worst paid. That was based on average hourly pay over the last 20 years. He also said they took into account cost of living. Reporting live from park slope, ida siegal, news 4 new york. New at 5 00, take a look at this security video. This man tried to rape a woman yesterday in the bronx. Followed the 47yearold victim along web avenue, grabbed her from behind and pulled down she fought back and ran. Ended up running off. A long island Dance Teacher accused of raping a 14yearold rl will be arraigned on friday. He was supposed to appear in court today. A judge postponed it. He began a sexual relationship with the teen last year while he took lessons with him in bayshore. Police say she told a Family Member about the affair, who then alerted authorities. To decision 2016. April 19th, one week from today. New york voters will weighin on the president ial race, and the candidates are using every minute to try to get your attention. David ushery is here with details. Reporter all but one ndidate on the new york trail today. In midtown today, Hillary Clinton was talking equal pay i have lived through all of this, i feel like its something that is long over due, but i know weve just got to keep moving forward, and use every to ol at our disposal. Hanng in the air, the history that would be made if she was elected president. In upstate new york, bernie nders argued, clinton represents oliticy as usual. One of the key differences between secretary clinton and myself is how we raise money for our campaigns. Sabders is pushing the case, if he could win in new york, he could taked whole thing. An uphill battle given the maris poll that has clinton leading. On the republican side, john kasich talked about two paths facing voters. Will we turn our backs on the ideals of america that have seen us through more than two centuries . Oro are we going to reaffirm that america is in ronald reag ts words, this last best hope for another headline today, paul ryan declaring he will not be drafted to run at a contested convention. Let me speak to the delegates on this, if no candidate has a majority in the first ballot. I believe that you should only choose from a person who is actually participated in the primary. Count me out. Donald trumps been making the argument if he has the most delegates it should be him. He just started a rally in rome upstate new york. Well have more on this at 11 00. We reported how two of Donald Trumps children missed a deadline to register as a republican. Tomorrow is the deadline t wo change Party Affiliation for the primary. May 17th, the Voter Registration deadline. The i team gets action on a problem plaguing Small Businesses across the country. Back in october, we first told you that a manhattan based company that leases credit card equipment was accused of ripping our report got a lot of attention. Now the attorney general is getting involved. Sara wallace is here with an update to her story. The Attorney Generals Office filed this lawsuit this afternoon, it alleges northern leasing systems lied to Small Business owners all over the country. In some cases, forging signatures and then engaging in harassing and fraudulent collection practices. A representative from the company did not get back to crus. Who can count to ten . Me . Let me hear you. She leased credit card processing equipment from northern leasing and ran into problems. This is the one that never worked. This stopped working. When the equipment didnt work right, she stopped paying on a 48 month lease. The result her credit was wrecked. The company which said she had an iron clad contract sued her in civil court in manhattan. Suing northern leasing and its connected companies. How would you characterize the operation . I think its a massive scam. Leases were procured by misrepresentation of fraud. They lied to kwon assumerswhhat they can cancel their leases at any time. They overcharged enormously. Many of the defendants are thout of state. The firm and its entities filed amore than 30,000 collection actions between 2010 and 2015. Re sulting in more than 19,000 default judgments. Most of the people, 96 liv d elsewhere, in california, texas, florida, they didnt have the means to come to new york. And they didnt have the means to hire an attorney. Its believed the firm has collected millions of dollars from momandpop Business Owners in just the last 10 years. Northern leasing is being sued by a private attorney in federal the firm has denied all alelegations. Sibila . Do you have a story the i team should check t . Mail us at tips nbcnewyork. Com. A revelation in a deadly stabbing on the Upper East Side. Police make an arrest. Were learning what started that altercation. A bank heist in brooklyn had us asking questions about your money. What do you do if your uninsured items or cash were stolen from a safe deposit box. We have the answer. Janice is here with a bulous forecast. Before we get too excited about the warmer temperatures, theres a cooldown tonight. Im going to talk about the freeze warning in effect. 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Verizon says its trying to manage growing health care costs. There are thousands of none Union Employees on stand by to fill in if theres a strike. Remember this from last night. Thieves cut a hole into the ceiling of a blooklyn bank. Got into the vault and made off with niarly 300,000. It happened in borough park. E search is still on for the robbheers. We were wondering, what if your cash and valuable items were in those boxes. Reporter they do not cover cash stored in a safe deposit box, and they dont cover the value of any items stored inside a safe deposit box. Thats where a ryder on your Homeowners Insurance policy can come into play. To cover against loss or damage up to a certain amount. Safe for that will matter is co nmpletely protected from theft, flood, loss. If you keep original copies of birth certificates in a safe deposit box, be sure to make a copy or store that separately. Another idea is to keep a digital image of those Important Documents on a secure website or server to protect yourself. On the steps of city hall today. An olympic Gold Medalist joined in for equal pay for women. The u. S. Womens soccer team is threatening to boycott this years summer olympics over the current wage discrimination complaint they have. Theyre making as little as 40 of what male soccer players earn. U. S. Women earn only 79 cents for every dollar men earn for doing the same job. President obama blasted congress legislation. Congress needs to pass the paycheck fairness act to put sensible rules in place and make sure that employees dont face retaliation by their employers. This is not a partisan issue. Deb fisher of nebraska said its ludicrous to say republicans dont care about equal pay. Adding that is a value we all share. At city hall today. Two groups announced theyre launching a national ad campaign. Hundreds of Government Employees in connecticut are getting pink swlips today. The state is dealing with a 900 million budget deficit. Layoff notices started going out yesterday. As many as 4,000 state employees could be out of a job by the time all the cuts are made. Governor malloy will revise the entire deficit. Just behind you i see sunshine and blue skies. Turned out to be a fantastic day after a rainy, gloomy start to the day. Were on our way up in the Temperature Department and dry weather too for the next several days. Tonight we have a freeze warning north and west. Temperatures dropping down below 32. The growing season is beginning. And thats what the issue is, forecast is for sun. Were focused on the sunshine across the board. And temperatures will slowly climb out of these freezing conditions and into above normal temperatures this week. Here comes the dry air behind that. Can you see clear skies west of the city. Rainfall today across long island. Generally a quarter of an inch to a half inch today. Central park with 2 10 of an inch, just under a quarter of an inch at laguardia. For areas north and west, we saw a third of an inch in poughkeepsie. 42 in monticello. Moderate amounts of rain for today. Temperatures once the sun broke out this afternoon, right around 60 in most locations. Tonight we drop down to below freezing into northern and central new jersey. The freeze warning is in effect through 8 00 in the morning. Heres why, tracking temperatures by 9 00 tonight. Youre already down to near freezing up around monticello. Most other temperatures will be in the 40s. Overnight, it gets colder. Newton, danbury at 28. The city at 34. Well stay anove for the most part. 8 00 in the morning, its still cold. You need to protect plants if you set them out already. Mid to upper 50s to right around 60 degrees. Cool 40s on the east end of long island. W, iosinear 60 across interior new jersey. A cool wind coming in, that windydirection will change later on this week, when we start to warm up. Mets fans tonight at city field. Dress for the cool breeze, temperatures will be in the 50s. It will feel more like the 40s toward the end of the game. Its going to be a beautiful sun set tonight. Clear skies for the rest of the overnight. Thursday into friday. Low humidity. Temperatures slowly rising. The weekend, here we go. Up into the low to mid70s, away from the shore, youll be very warm this weekend. 39 degrees tonight. The freeze is north and west of the city. Wint wi coats in the mornin . Youll be able to shed those by the afternoon. The sea breeze will come along the shore areas, youll get a sea breeze, youll be a little cooler tomorrow. Nice and sunny across the board. City starts out cool, its you should stay in the 50s the rest of the day. Close to 60 for our High Temperature in central park tomorrow. We hit 60 on thursday. Go above that on friday. Mid60 frz on saturday. Sunday is the time we see the 7 os, that continues into monday. Nothing but sunshine. Da sove price will come up in a few minutes to tell you why youre going to need your shades. Thats our forecast. Back to you. Janice, thank you. Were just five days away from our First Edition of ask the mayor, news 4 takes your questions straight to mayor de blasio. We want to hear from you. Email your questions to us. Well see you on ask the mayor this sunday ai 10 00 a. M. An amazing story that shows you the love one dog has for her owners. Fergie swam nine miles between coral gables and biscayne bay looking for her owners ferg eikas separation anxiety, so when her owner a couple hours, fergie ran to the beganwigine he deadly shooting of a former nfl star, the new questions its raising about that road rage incident. David is here with a look at whats coming up at 5 30. There are risks when it comes to buying online for big ticket items. History a hiphop lesson all in one. The new York City School students who get to see hamilton for 10. But get so much more than a field trip to broadway many well explain at 5 30. Getting a taxi is getting a lot easier in one local city. One familiar thing you have to do now to catch in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business the lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastructure for a nad ge aneration attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in rochester, with worldclass botox. And in buffalo, where medicine meets the f cure. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow the death of will smith, the beginning of eye car chase that led to his fatal shooting. A vehicle that looks like smiths mercedes suv bumping a hummer saturday night. As he pulls over, the silver suv takes off and the hummer follows. Nutes later, shots rang out two blocks away. Hayes Defense Attorneys say this video helpswa pro. Hth client was not the aggressor. I believe that when the new orleans employment reveals everything theyve learned you all will have a different impression of the case than that which has been created thus far. Proctor high is preparing a special ceremony in his hometown. Richard doyle is charged practicing veterinary medicine without a license. He tortured and wounded a puppy, while trying to drain a sift from a dogs elbow. He performed surgery on a dogs eyelid, that dog hadnto be euthanized. A former saved by the bell star is out of jail. Dustin diamond who played screech was released from a wisconsin jail yesterday. He was convicted in a bar stabbing. He said he was defending his fiancee, he was released 30 days early while working as a custodern during his sentence. David guest has died. He was a former husband of liza minnelli. Invest gitters are not sure how he died, they do not consider it suspicious. David gest was 62 years old. Killers darkest secrets are in to stay that way. A man stabbed to death on the sidewalk in a neighborhood that youd probably never except. Im rob schmidt on the Upper East Side whether or not Violent Crime is on the rise in one of the citys safest neighborhood. Is there a penalty for being asian on college applications. Its more difficult to get into college. Some believe affirmative action benefits white people right now, stabbed to death on the Upper East Side. A quiet block turned into a murder scene. Now a teenaged suspect is charged in the case. A love triangle may have led to the bloodshed. News 4s rob schmidt outside the 19th precinct house with new information. What have you learned . Reporter this is changing fast. Were awaiting gustavo rodrigez to be walked out of the precinct. Hes been charged with Second Degree murder. This is a shocking crime in this neighborhood. A killing with a knife about 1 00 in the morning