Set in. If you were a Cherry Blossom youd be frozen by now. Absolutely. Reporter many of the blossoms had hit what is called the puffy white stage. Those petals are already wilting and turning brown. How is it pretty of like this. Reporter temperatures dropped below 24 degrees for a more than five hour stretch overnight. That has the backer service predicting damage to 90 of the blossoms. And we still have two more icy nights to go. It is very sad. You can see they were trying to bloom and then its just not going to happen. Reporter now the horticulturists have been taking cuttings from some of the trees that have been slower to develop like this one. Theyre going to take those branches inside, see if they can force them to bloom and then some time in the next 24 to 48 hours well know blossoms, these slower developing blossoms have been protected inside their kind of woody buds. Live at the tidal basin, bruce leshan, wusa9. Breaking our hearts, bruce. All right. More than three quarter
Pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation. He is expected to be sentenced to 51 months in prison, according to the plea deal with the u. S. Attorney. Burk was accused of assaulting a handcuffed suspect, who allegedly stole a duffel bag from his suv and tried to cover it up. He resigned in october. Also developing right now in new jersey, schools in bergin county have gotten the all clear after a series of bomb threats. High schools in five towns got the threatening phone calls. New jersey reporter toni yates has the latest. Reporter bergin field got the all clear. Students filed back into the building to resume the school day. Threats were made against at least five Bergen County schools. In the morning, going to first period, there was a bomb threat. Then we had to leave. We had to go to church across the street or, like, down the road. Yeah. Reporter you guys have been through this before, havent you . Yeah, a lot, actually. Reporter the sheriffs investigation of the threats with th
Reporter Kimberly Richardson attended the rally. Reporter sanders joked with the crowd of several hundred who gathered here on the coney island boardwalk. The brooklyn native says hes eaten half the hot dogs that nathans produced. After his event, he sat down and had a hot to go and talked with sauerkraut. He pointed out how different he is from clinton who is in new york city campaigns. Sanders say they have different views on foreign policies. Were nine days away from the important New York Primary where 291 delegates are up for grabs. Each used todays events once again as an opportunity to persuade voters to join their camps. In this primary, were establishment. But what i have learned through this campaign, when theres a high voter turn out and we have seen high voter turn outs in wisconsin and many other states, when that happens we win. And then i want to be a good partner for our teachers and educator who are doing the job of preparing our youngsters. Were going to make College
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Run. That kept driving. Police tracked down the driver and arrested him shortly after the accident that take place at sea girt in far rockaway. Cefaan kim is live at the scene with details. Reporter sandra and rob, eyewitnesses say the 21year old woman was crossing here at beach 19th street. She had the walk sign when a car came barreling down seagirt to beat the red light and sped off. I am happy she pushed the girl away. If not, it would have been over for the both of them. Reporter witnesses in far rockaway describe a horrific seen. It was before 1 00 p. M. When they say the driver of this white mustang came barreling down seagirt boulevard at 50 miles per hour. According to witnesses, the 21 a little girl and had the right ofway when the mustang slacked into her but not before the victim pushed the child out of harms way. Believes i was shocked. I was in awe. When you see that, you see a person do Something Like that, like somebody has no mercy and they dont care for life. Reporter