Outreach teams to monitor the homeless. Political reporter dave evans is at city hall. Reporter every night there are 50,000 men, women and children living in new york city shelters. The mayor is not talking so much about them but the 3 to 4,000 people that live on the street and panhandle. The experts say there are probably more than that but they praised the mayor for finally addressing the problem. The homeless situation in new york has gone from bad to worse this year. In the last few weeks police dismantled about 30 homeless encampments. He is spending millions on Homeless Housing with on Site Social Services and he is doing something about the street homeless and aggressive panhandling. I want to underscore the point that we are going to go at this problem with everything we got and when we hear a report of someone in distress, someone in need we will go there compassionately, but we will not tolerate any form of illegal activity. Reporter today at a breakfast, the mayor announce
Good evening. The race for 2016 and the big showdown tonight. The stakes could not be higher for the republican candidates who are trying to compete with donald trump. 11 candidates taking the stage. Trump will be front and center. Our reporter with him. Did he hint about a new strategy . While just miles from that stage, another voice. Vice president joe biden, taking on trump, calling part of trumps message, quote, sick. Abcs tom llamas with the Vice President s words, and with trump himself on whats to come tonight. Reporter how is your debate prep going . I think very good. Reporter the battle to dethrone the reigning king of the hill, as donald trump, in a new interview, reveals hes looking for his softer side. Well, its a tough question, because you hate to say what your weaknesses are, but i think it could tone it down a little bit. When somebody hits you, hit a little bit less hard. All right tonight, trump expected to take a lot of hits. The super pac supporting jeb bush offer
Most charged today with numerous counts of securities fraud and previous lawsuits filed against him. He has denied any wrong doing. He was arrested at 6 a. M. And will appear in federal court in brooklyn. The u. S. Attorney and the fbi and the s. E. C. Set to explain the charges at the brooklyn u. S. Attorneys office at a press conference thats about to get under way in a short bit. Again, shkreli set to be rained on the charges this afternoon in federal court. See if he and his lawyer make bail and if they talk to the press afterwards. Im jonathan dienst, back to you. Thanks for those late details. Turn now to the weather, we are in for a good soaking, storm team 4 dave price here with more. All beginning right now, we are tracking the storm neighborhood by neighborhood, hour by hour. The system just beginning to push on through into the metropolitan area and there are areas were we see some heavier downpours, as we look at union city right now. And stretch back to newark airport, whe
Sparks were flying inside the broad and grange pharmacy early monday morning as a crew of sophisticated burglars with power tools tried to force open safe and drug cases. Very good at what theyre doing. Theyre getting into bank atms along with pharmacies now. Reporter it turns Police Believe this could be the same crew that was breaking into atms earlier this summer using power tools to cut open atm cash boxes. They got away with over 160 grand in cash. They get out quickly. Make quick entries into the places as their in the places they know exactly what to go for want to get. Atm jobs obviously theyre taking money. Reporter they arrived at the pharmacy break in Wearing Masks and hoodies. They had a get away driver in a highend jeep grand cher row row the same 65,000 jeep driven by the atm bandits in southwest philadelphia back in june. Its a gray srt8. Not many out in circulation. Not many in the city. Reporter detectives say there may be six suspects in this crew with interchangeable
Than the people of this country. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump Former Florida Governor jeb bush butted heads almost immediately during tonights second gop debate on cnn. You got Hillary Clinton to go to your wedding. Maybe it works for Hillary Clinton. I was a businessman. I got along with everyone. That was my job to get along with everybody. More energy tonight prayed i like that. Sharon 11 candidates for the white house took the podium at the Ronald Reagan president ial california. The candidates debated International Policies dealing with syria and russian president Vladimir Putin as well as the iran nuclear deal. Im going to vote against the agreement because i dont think theyre significant leverage but it doesnt mean i will look at the agreement and cut it up without looking to see if iran is complying. Sharon ben carson is their closest to trump. His style was tempered. Im concerned about the direction of this country the divisiveness thats going on, the fiscal irresponsib