Affordable housing for everyone. Now, some latino advocates think the mayors speech marks significant progress on some key issues affecting latinos, but they also feel there is some room for improvement. Here to highlight some of those issues, daniel altschuler, director of research and Civic Engagement at make the road new york, and natalia aristizabal, the lead organizer at make the road new york. Good to have you both. Let me get your general overall impressions of the mayors state of the city address, daniel you first and then well break it down into specifics. On an overall scheme, in terms of how it relates to latinos and the direction theyre going, what do you think . I think weve seen some really substantial progress on a number of key issues, including workers rights, some portions immigrantintegration initiatives. On the other hand, theres some room for concern on issues Affordable Housing. Okay. Well get to those in a second. Overall thoughts . Very similar to what daniel ju
Im bill ritter. A wild start to the president ial primary season and a wild start to the mosquito season in latin, central, and south america and the caribbean. Were gonna begin this morning by talking to u. S. Senator Charles Schumer of new york on a wide range of issues why Hillary Clinton is having a tough challenge for the democratic president ial nomination, to the angry electorate. But i started by asking the senator about the zika virus. He is now calling for a zika czar. So how is the government doing in trying to stop this virus . Well, the good news is we have a window of about three, four months before these mosquitoes that bear zika come here, but we have to move quickly. And there are two things we have to do. We have to go to these countries and prevent the mosquito from coming here. Were pretty good at that. Theres no yellow fever or malaria, which are carried by mosquitoes, here in america. Mosquito eradication has to be done early and strongly, and you need to cooperat
Developing right now, two men shot, one of them killed. Now an active search for the gunman on the run. But first, from one extreme to another. It was about to snow tonight and now new worries. Ice and heavy rain. We have several reports tonight. We begin with meteorologist lee goldberg at the weather wall. The coldest air in more than 20 years wasnt just going to step aside without a fight. Thats whats happening tonight. We have the icing continuing. Thankfully new york city, heavy rain, washing away about an inch, inch and a half of snow. Were still 2 degrees above the freezing mark. Observe snowfall a little bit more in south shore of nassau county, 1 to 3 inches from the city north and west. Now our concern, freezing rain advisory, interior new jersey goes till 2 00 in the morning. Winter weather advisories for the far northern suburbs. Flood concerns with a gusty southeast wind coming in tomorrow. Heavy rain in new york city. Its heavy over lower westchester. Long island as well.
An accident involving multiple vehicles. Shannon sohn is above it all. What a mess this is. It all happened about 3 30 this afternoon. Were looking down at the toll plaza at 14 c. You can see that one car there right out of the toll plaza on the westbound side of the roadway. If you look behind it, you can see the skid marks where he tried to stop but you can also see the severe front end damage after he rear ended a vehicle. A fuel spill there as well. What it appears is that that vehicle that he rear ended finally ending up in the eastbound lanes where he had a head on collision with a accident here. We know that two adults and one child all taken to jersey city condition. If you travel through this area, you need to know this is going investigation. The cars coming at you from your left, thats the eastbound side of the roadway. Traffic not too bad there. But if youre coming out of the holland tunnel, this is what you have in store for you. If you can take it to 109 its certainly goi
Washington with the details. Reporter good evening. Investigators believe eight of the 17 burglaries happened here in Port Washington. Now they say they have the man they have been looking for. Look at this mugshot now. This is 31yearold [ non english language ] he is a server at an upscale manhattan restaurant. He lives on bay parkway in brooklyn. He is now charged with 17 counts of burglary. He is a us citizen originally from the country of georgia. He is accused of stealing jewelry, purses and 30,000. He was initially arrested on february 20 charged with three counts of burglary then after investigators obtained a search warrant to obtain his apartment finding stolen items that connect him to 14 more cases. Today he was arraigned on the additional counts of burglary. This defendant has been charged with 17 counts of a c felony for each charge. He entered through a rear door or window. The most probably vulnerable part of your homes. We urge all residents to secure their property. Re