Lisa evers has the story from part paterson tonight. A syrian refugee family just moved in. As they get settled, the debate over the syrian refugee crisis continues to grow. This is one of the shopping areas that could become familiar to the family of seven that is being resettled here by church world service, an International Interfaith organization. The syrian refugee family is being welcomed into the Community Says this immigration and refugee director. Were a communitybased organization. We resettle people with the assistance of local churches. Those church folk will be the first ones to tell you that they do want refugees to come here and those from syria included. Reporter in the aftermath of paris terror attacks carried out by Syrian Refugees, governor christie opposes the resettlement in new jersey. He says rather than address concerns expressed by governors of both parties and the director of the fbi, the federal persist with its plan to increase the number of new refugees at
Commissioner of Homeless Services under giuliani and bloomberg said de blasioss homestat program might work. Right now, the present system is not working. Recent statistics show that the outreach teams made 333 contacts but only four placements. The Police Commissioner says that other changes to the laws are being considered. They are looking at proposals of other large cities like los angeles before it draws up a wish list. He says it will be difficult because they have to pass constitutional muster. Thank you. Part of the problem says the commissioner is many homeless dont want help. So what to do next in cbs 2s Andrea Grymes got an exclusive look at how outreach teams try to show the homeless a better way one person at a time. Reporter its well after 11 p. M. But for this Homeless Outreach team, work is just beginning. With the sound of rumbling trains in the background and the sight of a man with numerous bags who appears homeless, not everyone always is, team members make their mo
Of the people affected in our area. I am carry drew in for juliet today. Ben i am ben simmoneau. January. We are already ready to leave january behind. Do you like the snow . Some of our biggest blizzards that have an in february and march. I dont want to jinx it. I made a prediction two winters ago and i have to tell you it feels like i just dont see eating that cold again. It will be in the 50s next week. I dont see a big storm in the near future. It means that winter is almost over. We are definitely on the upswing. Next week we will find out from the expert on. We start out with relatively temperatures at this hour. 340 out at newark and 37 is the current reading in central park. We keep in mind that the average high for this time of year is at 990. We are already close to that at this early hour. Temperatures are above average is afternoon. Area wide, we are milder than we were yesterday. Well stay above average for the next few days. Windsor, across most locations but they will p
The hard line each side is taking after a major shift in power. Detroits financial future to be decided today. The return of the polar vortex, how a typhoon that missed asia this week is going to plunge temperatures across the u. S. Good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. Im del walters. Im erica pitzi. There is new controversy this morning over the events leading to the death of osama bin laden. A navy seal claims he is the one who took the fatal shot that ended osama bin ladens life and is not the first member of that elite unit to do so, speaking out about that secret operation. This is a story thats causing some outrage in the secretive wing of the military. It is a secretive wing, so we know a little more, but we dont know a lot more. Thats the honest answer, but the person speaking out now, robert james oneill, former navy seal is coming forward, spoke to the newspaper after his identity was revealed by a website run by former special on ops. The only thing clear is he was a
Put in place to assure peoples privacy and to make sure that government is not abusing these powers, and on the other hand there are times when Law Enforcement and those of us whose job it is to protect the public are not thinking about those problems because we are trying to track and prevent the a particular terrorist event from happening. It is useful to have civil libertarians and others tapping us on the shoulder in the midst of this process and reminding us that there are values at stake as well and we welcome that kind of debate. The technologies are evolving in ways that potentially make this trickier. If we get into a situation which the technologies do not allow us at all to track somebody that we are confident is a terrorist, if we find evidence of a terrorist plot somewhere in the middle east that traces directly back to london or new york, we have specific information, we are confident that this individual or this network is about to activate a plot, and despite knowing th