180 million to nearly half that. The loss of this funding would be quite crippling. Its not just important. Its an absolute necessity. Reporter the mayor says cuts would make new york vulnerable to terrorists. They want to take us down and we need every tool to protect ourselves. Reporter the funding is needed for radiation detectors, and extra patrols at major transportation hubs. Many commuters say the Law Enforcement presence is a must. Were a target. Its a target. Newyork, you know, is a target. So, you know, the cut is disturbing. If any money should be invested it should be in that. Look at what happened at 9 11. Schumer is pledging to cut the funding restored. Reporter schumer reached out to officials within the and they say the cuts are justified because theres leftover money from last years budget. Schumer says that the budget will likely be voted on in committee sometime this spring and they have until october to get the funding restored. Janelle burrell, cbs 2 news. Apple is
Trees toppled, heavy rains close roads and tonight, hundreds of homes are still in the dark because of a storm system that worked its way along the entire east coast. Good evening, im maurice dubois. Cbs2 news Valerie Castro has more on the damage after the storm, live in yonkers where roads just reopened. Valerie . Reporter southbound lanes of the bronx River Parkway are now open, but stretches of the parkway were closed for hours today, so crews could deal with flooded streets and in fact, northbound portions are still shut down, just north of the springbrook parkway, the messageboard alerting drivers to the issues that lay ahead, the weather caused all kinds of problems around the tristate area. The tree basically on top of our house. Came home to this in englewood, new jersey and realized he had a big problem to deal with. Branches and debris all over the place. Thankfully no one was inside when it happened. Reporter his ninemonthold sons room was left a mess. Its messed up, the ce
Anny h everywhere your since some areas of scattered showers this morning if youre in San Francisco right now north beach the marina looking at my ring sauce a little enteron in marin county also looking into conditions for parts of the East Richmond and berkeley just moments ago now they have moved out with track and illiterate shower activity you did a very light out their it is not going to be a live look at the bay bridge anticipated a few more showers possible. Anny h they show some showers protest of the to the 5 00 hour a little more widespread that will continue at 7 00 pockets of showers across the bay including potentially hayward was such a decrease by 3 00 as the cancer headed home from school and including the east bay and also approaching the peninsula in the south bank what condition by 1 00 pretty much everyone including san jose and for the afternoon and the site thursday it will be a fairly what that and an illiterate when the as well temperatures dreadnought or a bit
More for server and falling near the san mateo bridge, i decide as a matter of fact we have haywood and cities into my brain. James here is a quick look at the forecast and i will leave you with this still looking at a chance of showers will have the chance to dropping by the lunch hour. Robin w lot to slow traffic on 92 it is packed right now thanks to a stall was about at the high ride bridge cruiser on the web look at the folks stuck in the backup was about the west of the toll plaza and is just creeping along it is jammed, got hit with some stretches of land out 88880 is prepared from to 38 in san leandro and the drive times where track in the east of a commute is crawling as usual on south 242 south 680 leven, a walnut creek Pleasant Hill is one to be off and on into our market will pick up for by the time you reach danville youre looking at 34 minutes to different, to denver for the south 680 ride. Reporter potential heavy drizzle july drizzle here is a symbol of the rest of the
Today. Tonight a staggering death toll in egypt after violent clashes erupt outside a soccer game. The stampede and fighting happened between fans and police. 40 were killed dozens injured. The riot happened in east cairo. Rob matheson has the details. Groups of fans tried to get into the stadium, coming to watch a premier league game between zamalek, and empi. Some did not have tickets. Police tried to stop them with barricades when this didnt working they fired tear gas. Some accused the police of using violence to pacify the crowd. The police denied this. It appears in the confusion a stampede occurred and me died. We need to look at how it was handled tonight. The way the police dealt with the violence and how egyptian blood has become cheap and fans killed easily over a football match. Egypt is no stranger to football violence. In 2012, 74 died in port said during an alahly and almasry match. 21 were sentenced to death because of the violence. The big question is what lessons can