Hearing aid if he misbehaved. I dont want to be put away where i used to be in before. Reporter now this alleged victim says hes cooperate ing with suffolk prosecutors. They want to know if there are other victims among the 140 foster kids who lived here over 20 years. Prosecutors also want to know why agencies in new york city and long island kept sending foster kids here. Why put these kids in the foster care if the man is acting weird . That should tell you something doesnt feel right. Reporter now he pleaded not guilty to sex abuse charges on friday. His lawyer didnt return our call for comment today. The man we spoke to told me he left this house in ridge at the age of 21, choosing to live on the streets as a homeless man rather than face the abuses he claims he endured inside. In ridge tonight. Have been following since 5 00. Six people hurt when an mta bus crashed at the fdr right at the start of rush hour. Reporter this happened around 4 12 in the afternoon. You can see even right now the bus continues to be wedged on that concrete barrier under the fdr. This is the access road that runs underneath the fdr to allow traffic to get into midtown. I can tell you that at this point the fdny has told us there were six injury ies injuries, none of them life threatening. Mostly bumps and bruises. One of the passengers hit the seat in front of him and then began to experience chest pain. As a precaution he was taken off the bus on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. So now the question, how could this accident have happened . We spoke with some of the passengers as they made their way off basically to find a new heres what they had to say. You dont get a sense he was texting or anything . I couldnt tell you. I was told that he was reaching for a water bottle. He was very remorseful. He was very upset. Ift i felt bad for him too, you know. Reporter now the nypd is in charge of investigating the cause of this accident. We are told the driver was one of the people that experienced some bumps and bruises, some minor injuries in this accident. Were told he was not taken to the hospital. Also you can see the inspectors there with nyc transit. The department of transportation for the city will also be called out here, tasked with determining whether that support pillar there is structurally sound after being hit by this vehicle. And there is an industrial wrecker on the scene that is going to try to work to try to drag it off that barrier. To be closed to traffic. Thrris is a real headache of a day here under the fdr. But the good news, six injuries, none of them life threatening. Overseas now, History Today in cuba. President obama ended nearly 90 years of silence between cuba and the u. S. He sat down for talks with cuban president raoul castro. President obama declared it a new day in relations between the United States and the island nation. You know, for more than half a century, the sight of a u. S. President here in havana would but this is a new day. Between our two countries. Tonight president obama is set to attend a state dinner. Tomorrow he will address the cuban people during a speech on state run television. President obamas visit has divided cuban American Communities here in the United States. We sent pat battle to see what a local Cuban Community in new jersey thinks of todays event. Reporter rob, they call union any havana on the hudson. There are more cubans living here than anywhere else in the country outside of the state of florida. There are mixed reactions here to the impact that the president s visit may have. Nonetheless all eyes and ears are trained on their native country. They listened to it by way of modern technology or chatted about it over an Old School Game ofen dominos. President obamas historic visit to their native cuba was very much on the minds of the people i believe this is a magnificent step. This is the courage to let the people have press freely. Reporter 120,000 fled cuba in 1980 when fidel castro allowed them to leave during an economic crisis. Many of them settled here where their culture has flourished. I couldnt have the business over there. So i have it here. Thats what i came here, because i dont have any freedom there. Reporter some hope obamas visit signals the u. S. Embargo may some day be lifted. The visit of president obama takes the leader of the free world and embraces the one communist dictatorship in all of latin america. Reporter with travel restrictions lifting, many are planning to go home. For others theres no turning back. In the meantime i wont step foot there. From the grave and pull on my feet. Thats the truth. Reporter others will go home with conditions. Id love to go, he says, but let it be a free country where everyone has freedom of speech. Im getting too old. I want to see cuba free. Reporter one organization strongly opposed to any relations with cuba, the new Jersey State Police have long sought the return of joanne who was convicted of killing a state trooper here in 1972, sought asylum in cuba and has lived there ever since. The new Jersey State Police warning tourists planning to visit cuba to be on the look out for terrorists. A tug boat that crashed and sank in the hudson river will be raised from the riverbed later this week. The coast guard says that crews will raise the boat thursday officials hope to recover the body of the third crew member kills in the crash earlier this month near the tappan zee bridge. Divers have not been able to retrieve the body of Harry Hernandez from the mangled wreck. Are patterson taxpayers being ripped off. Two workers step forward and say yes. Workers are billing a lot of over time all while doing private jobs or even no work at all. Claimed made by two workers who tell us the alleged over time issues could go all the way back to the mayors office. Each worker contacted us separately, each of them unaware of the other. Do you consider it stealing . Absolutely. Im quite sure its not what the reporter this city worker says after seeing our story last week that shows patterson City Employees doing work at the mayors house, it was time to speak out. Hes getting work done for free. Why pay when you have city workers that will do it for free . In the sense of free, i mean you dont have to pay them outofpocket. Reporter a second worker reached out to us too. He says a truck like this might show up to do removal for the mayor, but for parade duty, snow removal, some supervisors and workers simply dont show up for work, but still bill taxpayers its an ongoing thing. And theres the allegation that dpw supervisors assign on duty city workers to do private side Construction Projects instead of trakof taking care of the it was last week the iteam showed you tapes like this where city workers helped with odd jobs around the home of mare yor jose torres. A second worker also billed over time that day. But the city has not yet released a time sheet detailing the exact hours he worked. The mayor denies taxpayers ever paid for private work at his home or when city trucks and workers were seen outside a construction site which was planned to be a beer Distribution Site for his nephew. At no time no City Employee on taxpayers dollar or on over time that was your question have done any work. We spoke with some employees several said they did some of this work for free as a favor or that sometimes the mayor paid them in cash. These workers, fearing retaliation, asked for their identity ies to be hidden. You know this . All these allegations expected to be debated publicly for the first time tomorrow night. Thats when the City Council First time since the iteam broke this story. Coming up as news 4 at 6 00 continues, questions about the rash of slashings and stabbings in the city this year interrupted a Police Budget meeting. What commissioner bratton has to say. And solving a smelly mystery. What is making the l train station smell so bad that its making people sick. The mta confirms that a a smell thats been sickening riders at a subway station in brooklyn. The complaints have increased since february. Many describing the smell as a strong smell of human sewage. Can you imagine . The mta says the department of Environmental Protection working to fix this problem. The nations top two daily Fantasy Sports websites have agreed to stop operating in new york state through the end of baseball season. Sport the Companies Argue their contests are games of skill, not chance. This is a decisive and important victory for the rule of law in new york state. No company or individual, no matter how powerful or well state lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow the sites to operate without ambiguity. Travel back in time tens of millions of years. Lester holt is joining us now from havana cuba. Hi lester. Its een an extraordinary day here. President s castro and obama met. They engaged in a colorful give and take with reporters, barely masking their differences. Also well tell you how to get an affordable loan based not so much on your Credit History but commission erbil er bill bratton appeared for the nypds annual preliminary budget hearing. Council members asked about the rash of slashing and stabbing incidents in new york city and asked what the commissioner was doing to stop them. Slashings, stabbings, cuttings, what are the terminology, what well in fact be doing this year is in fact putting more precision on the definitions that we use to describe these cases that were investigating. Reporter a slashing spike on streets, subways and housing is making for nervous new yorkers. Now the Police Commissioner promises to sharpen the nypds approach, slicing these incidents into categories and dicing the data. Its what commissioner bill bratton did decades ago with shootings, tracking them as a much lower than we experienced back in the 90s and even a few years ago. But as other crime has gone there. Reporter as of today the number of slashings is up 20 since last year with a total of 151 more incident this is year. The nypd says most of that increase is being driven by a large number of cases in the bronx and in public housing, with incidents the commissioner describes as emotion driven, examples of domestic violence, not random acts. We have not identified patents, if you will, the idea that one person is out there doing multiple. Reporter commissioner bratton said one of the only reasons new yorkers are extra focused on the up tick in slashings is because other major crime is down in new york city. But hes also very savvy about the role that Public Perception plays in politics and policing. Fears and promised another strategy announcement for tomorrow on this very subject. After yesterdays snow, it really turned out to be a nice day today. Thankfully. Not bad at all. Well, you know what, the snow for the most part is gone. Now we have windy conditions. Things are a little on the brisk side, brisk and which he willy chilly evening ahead of us. Rain and thunder on friday and in the middle, everyone, its going to be real nice. Look at that, 55 degrees tomorrow, all the way up to 70 as we head to wednesday. Then things get a little bit cooler toward the end of the week and the weekend looks like its on the chilly side. Well get to the easter forecast in a moment. 46 in jersey city, same in staten island. Were pretty much in the low to mid 40s depending on where you look at that cool number in monticello at 36 degrees. And 45 in west hampton. Winds are kicking up today. 24 Miles Per Hour, the current speed. Theyre coming out of the northwest in white plains and 21 Miles Per Hour in newburgh. Gusts up to 32 in the last hour at white plains and newburgh. 35 in west hampton. As you are flying into the area or taking off tonight, could be a little bit bumpy. Todays highs got up to the half century mark in the city and mid 40s as you headed out to the island. Sunset today at 7 10, 42 with a chill in the air. Tonight well get down to about 34 degrees. A winterlike feel. Tomorrow morning starts off on the cool side. 55. Those brisk winds out there. As we head through the weekend, looks likes easter is dry. Here is your forecast over the next seven days. Again, a real warm up as we head to wednesday. Could go warmer than that in the flow. Were going to continue to watch bruce is coming up with the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3. 500 hospitals. T fewer than 6 received 5 stars. R among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. But weve received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in Customer Satisfaction for the third year in a row. Only fios has the Fastest Internet on the most awarded network. Now get superfast 100 meg internet tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month, online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. The mets opened the regular season 13 days from now in kansas city. Jacob degrom and the mets faced the marlins. Degrom dazzled the crowd in port st. Lucie. He lowered his spring era to 0. 90. Meanwhile david wright played in back to back games for the first time all spring. He went 0 for 3, but said the spring is starting to feel normal. Thats good. The mets lost to the marlins 21. What a scene today in cuba as the Tampa Bay Rays hit the field in havana in advance of their historic game versus the Cuban National team tomorrow. The rays are the First Major League team to play in cuba since the orioles in 1999. The first weekend of the ncaa tournament is in the books. Last night texas a m trailed northern iowa. They pulled off a remarkable victory, tying the game and its the largest deficit ever over come in the final minute to win in College Basketball history. Not to be out done, bronson on the ice tonight, the rangers host the panthers at the garden. The islanders welcome the penguins to barclays center. The devils goalie made his first nhl career start last night. On the side of his helmet hes got a picture of seinfeld character david putty who was a huge fan on the show. The actor you cant make this stuff great win and a little sidebar there to go with it. Putty was happy for him. Got to support the team. Thats the voice. Coming up next on nightly news, banking on your potential, the new way people are scoring loans and slashing their bills. Breaking news tonight. History in cuba. The american and cube anne president side by side. An angry raul castro challenged over human rights raising president obamas arm in an awkward embrace. Trumps secret meeting with Top Republicans as Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren go on the atta against him. Airport bust. 60 pounds of cocaine found hidden in carryones after a screeners. Investigators are looking for. Hitting back. Serena williams