Gusty winds downed poles and trees. On long island overnight winds toppled down a tree right on top of a car and the rain dropped more than two inches, causing roadways to flood. Right here in the city people struggled with their umbrellas as 30 to 40 mile per hour gust of winds barreled down. We have Team Coverage. Meteorologist Vanessa Murdoch, chris teen sloan is in new jersey and allana gold is in new jersey. Late start with allana. It is going to be a cold, windy and wet day out there. Take a look at whats stationary front off our coast, but we have a big moisture feed, in part because of Hurricane Joaquin. It is still lashing out at the bahamas. It is a category 3 storm. Thankfully it has started moving off to the northeast. Track. By this morning moving through the weekend, were going to maintain category 3 status as it approaches bermuda. Bermuda now under the hurricane watch. They are likely going to get category 2 storm, as it is to the west of bermuda, but they are on the wr
Greg any way, folks, a couple of things. Hello, how is it going. First stop, times square. The nudist uproar. Rosanna it could be a happy solution. The city council is looking at zoning. We are talked to the iz bes, hotels and restaurants and they are up to the idea of trying out zones, zones for people that want to walk freely without being a akoused by the ladies, and at the same time express themselves in their zone. Greg the solution is worse than the problem, the problem is hyped up, quite frankly. Rosanna i dont think you have been there when it is crowded and difficult to move around. Greg look, you are right. Do i catch a broadway show, only when i have to. They have not interrupted by way to the show. Rosanna you have to weigh in properly going to the destination. Greg i saw the carol king thing and got to theatre unobstructed. Rosanna maybe that is something that maybe you and i could do go 7 00 at night and see. For the people working there, i have a friend working there and
Who ended up on the ground after being hit so many times. And he wants to know why that coach, marcus cruz, did nothing about it. After looking at the video, you can see that he looks like he was actually participating in the fight. Reporter the fight happened two weeks ago at is 53 in far rockaway. It wasnt until the video surfaced on facebook that jones understood the severe ity of what happened. He told me the coach said, let them fight. The department of education said cruz was not an employee, just someone who over saw the after school program. And he was removed from that position. Not enough, says joness lawyer who is demanding an investigation into the criminality of this incident. Has a responsibilityobligated to vet all those who work with children. Reporter in the meantime, 12yearold jones is now at a different school. Im live here in downtown brooklyn. New tonight, a former nypd officer accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death before jufring jufr ing jumping in front of
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. White House Press Secretary sean spicer just wrapped up his press briefing where he spoke more indepth about President Trumps decision to withdraw federal protection for transgender students. Cnns sara murray is at the white house for us. Sara, spicer was pressed on whether this decision was in any way a civil rights issue. Reporter thats right, jake. Its a question that the white House Press Secretary repeatedly dodged. He was asked if this issue allowing transgender students to choose whichever bathroom they feel most comfortable in is a civil rights issue. He repeatedly refused to answer that question saying its a states rights issue. He was also asked what the president s personal belief is on this. Remember the president said Caitlyn Jenner would be free to use whichever bathroom in trump tower. Spicer said the president has been clear on that but he did not elaborate on what that means. And, sara, earlier today there
These are bad policies that will hurt people. We begin today with the house investigation into Trump Campaign ties to russia. Now stalled indefinitely. Hearings and meetings cancelled while intelligence chairman devin nunes is defying calls to step aside. But in the senate, something to keep an eye on today because they are forging ahead. The chair and vice chair, republican and democrat of the Intelligence Committee set to brief the press. Ive got a great team with me to break it all down. I want to start with kasie hunt. So, kasie, lets start with all of this on the house side first. How do they get this investigation back on track . Well, chris, its still not 100 how they are going to do that. Theres still a lot of rancor, partisan anger between a chairman and vice chairman ranking member, excuse me, who had previously gotten along pretty well. Have known each other for a long time. But what happened with this new information that devin nunes brought to the table has really sparked