Politics, the daily life, the challenges relating to the gaza strip. This event is the latest in meis george and Rhonda Salem Family Foundation series. Mr. George salem will be with us soon, i suppose. We are not relatives, although were both salems, but were distant cousins, perhaps. This event today is being live streamed from our web site, and i think also cspan3 is covering it as well. Itll also be available later as a video or a podcast from our web site as well. Because its being recorded and just for, you know, general decorum, please put your phones on silent. That are available at the front desk where you signed in. Were looking today at the critical political and humanitarian situation in gaza. A lot going on in and around the gaza issue. Tensions between the Palestinian Authority and in the movement itself shifts in the gulf involving saudi, uae, possibly impacting the situation in gaza. Gaza has been under a blockade for almost a decade now. Things have recently gotten wors
For the biggest stupidity such as a history of moving violations. The feds seized files including records of a man who in 2013 was approved for and obtained a license to carry a firearm at all times. Prior to his application the man had been arrested for forgery, received approximately ten moving violations, received three vehicle related summons and had been the subject of at least four Domestic Violence complaints including one in which he was accused of threatening to kill someone. He is being charged with one count of bribery and one count of conspiracy which carries a maximum of ten years in jail. The big question is if this is the end or the beginning of the probe. I will have that part of the story coming up tonight at 6 00. I am marcia kramer, cbs 2 news. Thank you. We are following breaking news in mid town. Bricks fell from a building hitting someone on the sidewalk. Reporter this is 34th scene on the west bound side of 34th near 5th avenue. About 4 00 apparently some debris
And a while ago we spoke to someone about the struggle this neighborhood has gone through. Its another strike or whatever you want to call it. You own five houses on this block. Whats going through your mind . Got to do it again, fix them up. Same thing. Just keep going. One of the houses that burned was being rebuilt from sandy. Yes, the party has two weeks to go and they would have been moved in again. Theyre not going to move in for quite a while now. Got to start all over. She was over at our house before and just unbearable. Shes in tears. Frustrating. Right there you get a sense of what these folks are going through. Its a neighborhood known as american venice. They struggled after superstorm sandy. Youre looking at east Santa Barbara road. Because of these winds residents tell us the winds were swirling. People were hosing down the roofs of their homes was everyone was concerned about their homes and you heard that gentleman, what he said. One of the homes that burned, these fol
Clinton prevailed beating Bernie Sanders by nearly 300,000 votes. The victory, though, did include some controversy at the polls. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is at the board of elections in Lower Manhattan. A lot of questio anns beiig asked about what happened to the voter roles. Theyve been described as chaos. Voter irregularities. Some local lawmakers vowed they will launch a probe into the elections board to figure out what went wrong. It resulted in thousands of people not being able to vote. R the candidates, Hillary Clinton in particular, the New York Primary resulted in a big victory. She took 5 8 of the vote. Address for Bernie Sanders, his day day started out fine eno h with a rally in pennsylvhia. The pennsylvania primary is en he received information about voter irregularities at places, especially brooklyn. And he said this. I must say im really concerned about the conduct of the voting process in new york state. I hope that that process will change in the future. Un
Entire house to sandy and just today my final inspection from the town of lindenhurst, babylon town hall, the inspector was there to give me my final okay on the house, which he did. When i got here, that inspector was here fighting this fire. He had said to me, the house on the left is totally gone and it looked intact. He said the walls inside are all on fire. Were back here live where you can see down the road the firefighter in the bucket still putting water on this fire. It was really just a rough go. The dry weather and wind definitely not helping and of course a lot of people very nervous. They were hosing down the roofs of their homes. They know what it feels like to lose a home. Earlier today we talked to someone who had five homes, he owned five homes on this block. You can just imagine how nervous these people were but the fire is now under control. Only one person hospitalized inhalation. There was a family inside that first home that burned. Mother, father, and child, they