Money. Reporter this isnt sitting well with the new York Taxi Alliance who were protesting outside uber. Once again uber looks to make their wall street profits off drivers. Its shameful that the politics here in new york state prefer to protect our 64 billion company uber instead of the citizens of new york city. Reporter taxi drivers are accusing uber of destroying the taxi industry and leaving its drivers in poverty. Uber will look to starve uber drivers just so they can basically starve taxi drivers. Reporter the taxi industry doesnt like it. They dont like competition. Now theyre competing for drivers. Drivers are the real customers. Drivers are leaving in droves. Hundreds are coming to uber. Workers alliance is asking uber to reinstate its fares and calling on the city council to step in and regulate the industry. Back to you. Ernie let me ask you, uber has cut prices before. When was that . That was back in july of 2014. Ernie thank you so much for that report. All right. Heres
Announcer its 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news at 10 00 p. M. Steve back to work. A surprise strike appears to be over tonight. The workers walked off the job at terminals in new york and new jersey, shutting down the largest complex on the east coast. Full operations have been restored, dan bowens has more with the latest. Reporter a longshoreman literally just pulled into the parking lot and said that we are back to work. This is described as a strike that came out of nowhere. It started earlier this morning. There was an emergency meeting with all parties involved which ended in a deadlock. It went before a moderator and this walkout was unauthorized. The strike shut down terminals at the busiest seaport on east coast, is finally over. Only a few hours after it started. And arbitrator as a result said that they urge their members to return to work. And earlier in the day nearly four thousand members of the International Longshoremens associat
She was a 20yearold sophomore at the time. By phone, her mother spoke to our fox affiliate in indiana. Not knowing and not having her is devastating. Know. Its hard to live with every day. Reporter the fbi, along with cadaver dogs and forensic anthropologists are searching the home that once belonged to justin wagers. The convicted sex offender lived at the property before he was arrested in august for indecent exposure and reportedly may be linked to three missing person cases, including lauren spierer. Through his attorney, he said he has no knowledge of her or any other missing person. In downtown scarsdale, there wasnt a window that didnt have a missing lauren poster or banner for years. She was well known in the area and loved. College student jordan riddle, scarsdale boutique lauren works is, says the case influences her. I never go anywhere without someone near me and let my parents know where i am. Reporter there isnt a person in town who hasnt hoped for some resolution, includ
And it will take several hours before it reaches the poconos tomorrow morning. If youre north and west of the city, in the morning youll start to see some light snow developing in patchy spots. Etch in the city you may see a few flakes fly. This will continue on and off through about 3 00 in the afternoon, but no significant accumulating at all. Maybe a dusting on sidewalks, otherwise, just falling from the sky from time to time with temperatures well above freezing tomorrow. But what about the weekend . Your storm team 4 forecast coming up in just a bit. Back to the debate right now. Of course it opened the questions about the elephant not in the room obviously referring to noshow dth. It we break it all down for some of the standout moments. As the republican front runner tried to steal the spotlight, a big question tonight. Would they be able to keep the attention on the issues and not donald trump . Im a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fatd and ugly. And then youre a t
To know this man is off the streets. A hit and run crash sent a woman to the hospital. The woman was trying to hail a cab in williamsburg when she was hit by a speeding vehicle. A gray bmw was spotted leaving the scene on the bqe. If you have any information in this case, call crime stoppers. A funeral is planned today for a young new jersey family who died in a tragic Carbon Monoxide accident last week. The family was overcome by Carbon Monoxide inside the car. The father was digging the car out of snow but did not know the tail pipe was covered. The funeral takes place in about an hour in new jersey. A woman was murdered in a quiet new jersey town and police this morning that community is in shock. Police in north arlington, new jersey, were making a welfare check at the River View Apartments and inside an apartment they found the body of 45yearold luisa pleger. Officials say she may have been dead for at least a day. Her husband eric pleger was also custody. Hes charged with first d