The number one intent is safety. Reporter Rick Chandler said most of the 7,000 sidewalk sheds are mandated by law to protect safety. Take a look at the commissioners own building. Why do you have a sidewalk shed in front of the department of building . This building has some facade issues. Reporter but 4 investigates learned that they launched their first city wide inspection of the sidewalk sheds in eight years. We went along as the inspectors hit the streets on taye one making sure the pedestrian protectors arent also crumbling and crime magnets. Either fix it or take it down. It makes like a hangout spot. Reporter six months ago the mayor ordered hundreds of sheds taken down by the repairs to the building have been finished. 4 investigates found complaints from new yorkers about these 2,000 complaints last year with nearly 600 violations found. So late today this team of inspectors did what else . Made sure the scaffolding at their own building was up to code. Now not surprisingly this sidewalk shed out in front of the department of buildings passes inspection. Many others do not. What the punishment is typically a fine for the landlord. The problem is that the landlord refuses to pay or continues not to repair the building so the shed stays up for months or years. Its an ongoing problem but the city is trying this new crackdown as a way of making sure these are safe and the ones where the repairs have been made come down. Siff, news4 new york. In the bronx a judge denied bail today for the bay chester man accused of killing his pregnant daughter. 61yearold William Ka Ruth was arraigned today. The body of his daughter was closet in his apartment. Police say he she owned the house and the apartment and apparently he was not paying his rent. The murder weapon appeared to be a hammer. I cant believe that he would do this to his own daughter. I mostly think of her, what it must have felt like to be so abused. William ka ruth is expected back in court next week. In Connecticut Police are looking for a car thief who drove off with a 69yearold blind woman inside. The driver left the car running while he ran in the store and left his wifes grandmother in the car. That aegs when the thief hopped in. The victim was found safe a short time later. The car has not been found. In Orange County this evening, a wake is being held for a volunteer firefighter stabbed to death on new years day. According to investigators, trying to break up a fight at a party when someone attacked him. Tonights wake is in middletown new york. His funeral is tomorrow morning. Today the american citizen accuse of helping plan attacks is facing new charges. He pled guilty to conspire to murder u. S. Nationals with, and bomb a government facility in 2009. Thats the same year he allegedly helped a terror cell that plotted an attack on the subway system. Next court date is february 18th. To decision 2016. The Clinton Campaign comes to connecticut next week. Bill clinton will stump for his wife on tuesday. And today the republican front runner donald trump continued to attack the clintons for the indecember in indisskregss. I just think its time for us to have grownup solutions for complex problems rather than appealing to people that you know its not going to happen. I mean the idea that donald trump would say were going to build a wall and excois going to pay for it. Just let that settle in. Bush is looking at boosting his poll position in New Hampshire and has another busy day tomorrow with three events planned. A Nassau County lawmaker speaking out about cuts in the nice bus system in the country. County ledge later says bus riders would not be left in the cold because of the cuts. Shes sent a letter to the county exec asking that the kouts be put off until after a wouldbe robber messed with the wrong granny. How she put him in the hospital. New information on how 17 salt miners got trapped 800 feet under ground. This was in upstate new york. And dave price is here with your winter forecast. Weve got big changes ahead. Rain is on the way and we may have icy kons to deal be before the weekend gets started. Well tell you about it in a couple of minutes. Lester holt has a look at what hes working on for 6 30. Ahead ror us, we look at the stock markets worrysome fall and look at why chinas hard times could affect our economy and potentially your money. Also tonight if we are what we eat, this is a very sweet nation. Well tell you what is now on and what is left off of the new eating guidelines. And 100 crashes and counting since 2008. Well take you to the bridge thats called the can opener and show you the video that explains tonight 17 salt miners are safe and sound above ground after spending nearly 10 hours stuck hundreds of feet below the surface. They were trapped in an elevator at the kei you ga mine in lansing new york. It processes millions of tons of road salt for cities across the northeast. Got stuck. Slhtowly but surely they emerged, two and three at a time. 17 salt miners south of syracuse, new york. Their elevator shuddered to a stop about 800 feet below the surface trapping them for nearly 10 hours. We werent all happy until the last one got off the elevator. First responders jumped into action in the Early Morning hours finding and positioning a crane which allows rescuers to descend the elevator shaft and reached the trapped miners. They had fresh air but were cold. They huddled together, did what they could do to keep each other warm. Rescuers passed down blankets and hand warmers before sending down a basket. The first ones to emerge waited until the last man had been rescued thats when we all stand and look at each other and say, this is a win. Were all going home, were all safe. There was no incident. Mine says it appears that a steel beam broke bringing the elevator to a screeching halt. Governor cuomo has ordered an investigation. Some wild video to show you. Shows an attempted smash and grab robery, crashing a stolen white pickup truck into a gas station. They could not lift the safe filled with cash so they took off empty handed. Police there say they found the truck abandoned nearby. This is the second time in less than a month that the station has been targeted. A popular scam making rounds online. Better get baquero for the suspicious email. Time warner cable customers, passwords and email addresses could have been stolen. Up next the warning from the company and why the company says meet the moores were the moore family, and were always looking for ways to enjoy more. So we called Time Warner Cable and got even more than we expected. Call now to get more. More speed. Like, 300 meg. More tv shows and movies on demand. More places to make more unlimited calls. Call now. 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Police say he targeted her outside her New Hampshire home. But he whipped out a handgun and fired off a round. The brave grandma who didnt want to be identified said hes not sorry for pulling the trigger. He was trying to come at me. The ground. If i didnt have that weapon, god knows where i would be i could be dead. Weapon. The man was hit in the chest and survived. Facing robbery charges due in court next month. Dont mess with her. Over to dave price. More above average temperatures in store for us but were going to see a couple of things happen. Clouds are rolling in tomorrow. The possibility of icing and mixed precip especially in the valleys and Higher Elevations the to the north and west of the city and heavy rain in store on sunday. A real soaker. Temperatures right now, 45 degrees, mid40s in the city, 35 around the freezing mark in monticello, 44 in trenton, 39 in long branch. Highs today irjing close to 50 in islip and mid40s to low 40s everywhere else. Now this is what weve enjoyed, the nice little corridor of sunshine for us. But things are going to change. Clouds and precip moving in and were going to get sandwiched. So what can we expect . As we head friday into saturday, first the clouds thicken through the day tomorrow, drizzle begins to roll through. And where we see the temperatures right around the freezing mark, thats where it could get icy tomorrow night. Well watch that. Sunday heavy rain, gusty winds one upward of 30 miles an hour. Upwards of an inch of rain could fall. The good news is most of it is out of the way by the time late sunday afternoon rolls through. Tomorrow night we cloud up. Around midnight we see the icy catskills, to the far north and west and stay there through the overnight. By 6 00 saturday we see a mostly dry day. But then into sunday, all of the rain begins to roll through, upwards of an inch. Lets look at your forecast right now and move ahead seven days. This is what were expecting. Were going to see clouds roll in. The windy, messy rainy sunday, but temperature to 55 degrees. Then we cool off but stay dry for monday and tuesday with some snow showers a possibility on wednesday. Well track it for you straight through the weekend. A consumer alert tonight for Time Warner Cable customers. The company says up to 320,000 customer email and passwords may have been leaked. Theres no sign that their system was hacked. The day ta may have been taken earlier. Time warner cable working with the fbi and has notified customers who may be affected. You may have bought your kids for the holidays. Zu lily is recalling hundreds of these pajamas because they dont meet the u. S. Safety for flameability. The pjs have stripes and comes in different colors. They were sold in november and december. We have a warning tonight about a new type of scam email you might be seeing. It has origins in china. To explain how it works, better get baquero. As you know where the large marketplace in china, many people are trying to seize opportunities to do Business Online there including getting a dot name for their website. Be ware before you lose money. Stephanie richmonds passion is helping veterans, including her relatives. Thats why she started a Nonprofit Group called stand beside them. Spouses and caregivers with free coaching. Its life coaching, career coaching, Small Business coaching, health and wellness coaching, any kind of coaching that they need. She says she went to Great Lengths to properly register her website do main and became concerned when she got this email. It looked official saying he was with an internet Registration Company in china. The email warned about a company trying to register a site in china with the same name as her nonprofit. The only way to protect myself is to register before they do. I would have to register and pay a fee to protect myself. Stephanie immediately became suspicious. I googled chinese do main scam and it came right up. If you would like to register a do maine in china, experts a reputable company. Stephanie contacted news4 to help warn others about this potential scam. If you see something is not grammatical grammatical, i think that should get you a little concerned too. But dont give any money until you check and see if its a scam. Because there are a lot of scams and theyre coming from all over. Shes absolutely right. If you do respond to the email and are given prices for registering your domain in china, those tends to be much higher. Stephanie stopped paying attention to the email and she didnt receive any charges or any price quotes. And the best advice, as she says, ignore the email or it could cost you. Shiba, back to you. Coming up next here on news4 new york, risky bet on Atlantic Citys future. Why new casinos could be a blessing and a curse. Of the nypd on a proposed settlement reached with the nypd in two lawsuits brought after muslims were targeted for surveillance. Were going to show you what the department agreed to. And on long island, an investigation into a suspicious fire that burned two cars and a home. The man who lives there thinks it was no accident and the investigators think he might be right. Those stories all new tonight for some Atlantic City a but its fate rests in the hands of new jersey lawmakers. Today they tackled an issue that could hold the key to acs future. Can the city thrive again with new casinos in the garden state . Ted greenberg breaks down the facts tonight. Like when i have vacations off we come here. Reporter but bob of bloomfield says north jersey casinos would be a lot closer to home rather than making the trip to Atlantic City. It would be nice. Just a stones throw away from where i am as opposed to driving two hours or an hour and a half. Reporter he was in the seaside resort on the same day that the public hearings for being held on rival plans that would ask the voters if two casinos should be allowed in the northern end of the state. We can certainly try it, absolutely. We would try it to see if we liked it. I would go there because its reporter before the Voters Decide to change the state constitution, the lawmakers must agree on a single plan to put on the ballot. Theyve been unable to find Common Ground op certain issues, including the amount of tax revenue generate bid north jersey casinos that should be sent back to Atlantic City to make up for the expected losses in competition. Right now 50 of Atlantic CityCustomer Base comes from central and north jersey, as well as new york. Reporter a 1998 tourism study showed at that time 31 of Atlantic City visitors came from within new jersey, 23 from new york and 25 from pennsylvania. But in 2013, while new jersey visitors increased and new york remained stable, pennsylvania vit visitors had fallen to 19 , a casualty experts say of gaming halls becoming legal in that the casinos in north jersey would devastate Atlantic City. Reporter but some say they wouldnt abandon ac entirely. We like it here because of the water. We like the board wauk. Reporter in the meantime, the senate and assembly are set to vote on monday on their own version of the plan president. At this point theres no sign of a deal. That will do it for us. Thank you for watching. Stay right here. The news continues at 6 00. Now at 6 00, the nypd selts lawsuits over its muslim surveillance programs. What the department agreed to do. Its just i dont know why somebody would do this to somebody. A long island man thinks his home was intentionally set on fire and investigators believe me may be right. Will a longer school day help literacy rates rise . Im chuck scarborough. And im so ibila vargas. Lawsuit was settled today. News4s Checkey Beckford has the details and the reaction tonight. Reporter worshippers at mosques like this Islamic Cultural Center behind me say they feel vindicated they can pray out worrying about being spied on in their hone mosque. Its a win for all americans. This is, i think, a win not just to muslims but to the city and also for our country. We know that our constitution guarantees the right of everybody to worship and to practice the religion that they believe in. Reporter this man with the