Step as the group out at nbc marched under its own banner. This year there will be an official gay irish contingent. What does the Catholic Church think of this . The cardinal has been a supporter. The cardinal welcomed us to his residence. And that to me was a very significant move. Mayor de blasio thanked Cardinal Dolan and pope francis, known for asking who is he to judge gay people. People have felt his message and thats one of the reasons were here today. Ers were asked so now were additional gay groups be able to join . Their response was essentially that reaching this agreement on this emotional identity based subject has been hard enough. Through this years parade. Remember, you can watch the nbc 4 new york starting at 11 00 a. M. On thursday march 17th. Now a newer st. Patricks day controversy is simmering. Some of the citys Irish American teachers are upset the department of education scheduled parentteacher conferences after school hours on st. Patricks day. Working late mea
Tragedy on the hudson. A search called off for two crewmen missing after their tugboat crashes and sinks. Plus hes safe. A 7yearold boy snatched allegedly by his father found tonight in new york 50 miles from home. Boiling point. Another night another round of protests at a donald trump rally as tensions soar in an already chaotic republican race. Good evening. We thank you for joining us tonight. Im Natalie Natalie pasquerilla. A tugboat slammed into a construction barge. Right now two crew members are still missing, one is dead. The coast guard and Westchester Police have suspended their search for the night. They expect to resume in the morning. News 4s Michael George is in terry town with the new developments. Reporter tonight police dive us theyve called off their search for two missing tugboat workers presumed dead. Meanwhile theres still plenty of Unanswered Questions about how this accident happened. A dangerous recovery mission. Dive teams tried to reach a sunken tugboat at th
Miriah turner has more. It is sunday, march 13. This is news 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning, welcome to news 5 today. Miriah turner has been kind enough to fill in for jennifer schack, who has been doing the nights this weekend. City cam five, gray with moisture on the horizon. Slight variations in gray, accompanied by some water. [laughter] miriah sounds about right. I think that you summed it up perfectly yesterday. We had to set the clocks forward, we lose an hour of sleep and we have rain in the morning that makes it hard to get up. Jonathan good sleeping weather. They didn t get the memo. Know . Miriah today is a two cups of coffee kind of day. Or two cups of decaf is the way that i would go. Springlike conditions today in this week. Not really a washout. Yesterday we had some sprinkles and today we had some rough some wine instead of rain. It is wet, but not a washout. Same trend heading into this week. Seems like there is a lot of green on th
Nationwide. Battle lines being drawn here in ohio. Democrats and republicans are fighting for those votes in the buckeye state. Both Democratic Candidates speaking during a dinner tonight in columbus trying to sway the undecided. We begin our Team Coverage now live in columbus. Plenty of big names there. You Better Believe it, mike. It is very quiet in this room right now. But just a few hours ago, more than 3,000 people were here, all coming out to support their particular candidate. Of course the battle lines were drawn inside this room as well. Hillary supporters and bernie supporters. But this was a toetotoe match the Old Fashioned way. The legacy message tonight for ohio democrats is unity. The american people, working people, young people want in to the political process. I spent my career fighting to even the odds for people who have had those odds stacked against them. Ohio Democratic Leaders said they want supporters of both secretary clinton and senator sanders to feel like t
Dad she feels at home. Im very proud of him. Its horrible that hes not here, but im proud of him. I spoke to Westchester Police today. They say theyre still investigating with the coast guard and the ntsb to figure out what went wrong. That investigation could still take months. The family of a connecticut attorney is suing the local Police Department over his death. Investigators ruled that he committed suicide two years ago. But his family and the naacp say that he was shot in the back of the head, which is one reason why theyre questioning that ruling. He was also found in a wrecked car. The family says that police in the town of redding rushed to judgment because he is black. Reddings police chief says that he cannot comment on pending litigation. The nypd wants to find the driver who hit and killed a pedestrian in queens and kept going. It happened last night in police say the driver struck a 45yearold man and left him in the street to die. That driver was in a dark toyota that ha