Bernie sander has a 9point lead over Hillary Clinton. Sanders holding aurally in madison at any moment. Despite the numbers, clinton focusing on new york. The senator holding efnlt in event in wisconsin. On wall street, markets heading for new highs, the dow jones up 100 points. By the way, we are less an hour to the closing bell. Im Ashley Webster for liz claman. Lets begin the countdown. Its the countdown. S p 500. The dow up 156 points at one point today. Has come a bit. We will take it. While the markets seem to be having some spring fever volatility or the socalled fear index hitting lowest level since october. Things calming down a little bit. Oil settling at 38. 39. Snapping longest losing streak since january. Metlife nearly up 5 all of defeating the government and reversing of the labeling of it being too big to fail that comes with alls of regulations, other insurers on the move. Met life, prudential, all moving higher. But we begin with fox Business Team coverage of the batt
Finally tonight if youre a prince fan, this has been a difficult day. A reminder that the words of dr. Suess who said dont just cry because its over. Smile because it happened. And prince made it happen. Well leave you tonight with song, that memorable scene in purple rain. Good night, america. I never meant to cause you any sorrow i never meant to cause you any pain i only wanted to one time to i only wanted to see you dont let dust and allergies get between you and lifes beautiful moments. With flonase allergy relief, they wont. When we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by over producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. Most allergy pills only control one substance. Flonase controls six. And six is greater than one. Flonase outperforms the 1 nondrowsy allergy pill. So you can seize those moments, wherever you find them. Flonase. Paying tribute tonight to a music superstar and life force. Crowds gathering around our area from brooklyn to harlem to remember
This week in new york paying tribute tonight to a music superstar and life force. Crowds gathering around our area from brooklyn to harlem to remember prince. Plenty of tributes but also an unsettling question tonight. What happened to him . How did a man just 57 years old suddenly die . Prince aptly named because for so many he was indeed like music royalty. So many new yorkers, including performers tonight, immediately reacting to his death. A van carrying princes body tonight left his estate in minnesota. Tonight his cause of death remains very much a mystery. But princes staff says he was seen by a doctor yesterday for an undisclosed illness he had been suffering from. Brooklyn in front of spike lees film company, they were jamming until about an hour ago. Right now the Party Still Going on in harlem at the Apollo Theater where prince performed Eyewitness News reporter carolina leid is there tonight. This party has not stopped since early this afternoon. People still remain here to
15 yards of, you know a gun going off right here. Reporter alan shows us just how close a barrage of bullets came to hitting his home on the 200 block of north simpson in west philadelphia. He says he was asleep in his second floor bedroom. My wake up call was five shots. Reporter just before 9 30 last night, chalk circles mark where police found shell casings on his sidewalk. Carmella howl lives right across the street is is beyond scared. Last night was devastating to hear that many gunshots that close my heart was at the time petrified for me and my grandchildren. Reporter eight shots in all were fired a minute or so later, a 14yearold was found shot in the back on north 60th near 59. Not quite sure how he got there. We do have interviews friends of his quickly in the area. They found him lying there semi conscious state. Reporter police are trying to determine if the teen was possibly hit in the gunfire on north simpson. For him to run that distance in the condition he was in we do
We are on the cusp of that rainfall beginning. Bill and liz, back to you for now. Lee is on four times a night on Eyewitness News but if youre not near a television, you can still track the storm by downloading our free accutrack weather alert app. New at 6 00, the mother of a young man who died in Police Custody in new jersey tonight filing a suit claiming cops and workers at the Middlesex County jail caused the death of 27 yearold david yurbey, a neck fracture is what killed him but a mom claims her son had a history of Mental Health issues and she says officers treated that as a crime. Darla miles has the story. Reporter well, liz, the mom says she did not know her son died with a broken neck until five months after she buried him and that was only after the Middlesex County Prosecutors Office conducted an internal investigation and declined to prosecute. That investigation includes video of his final hours. When they placed him in a chair and they were saying to him, relax, relax a