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Transcripts For WNYW FOX 5 News At 5 20160418

Donald trump is favored to win tomorrow. He will be in buffalo tonight. With so much at stake, ted cruz and john kasich are trying to figure out how to win some delegates and keep trump from sweeping new york. Thank you, everybody. Make America Great again. Reporter republican frontrunner donald trump met with supporters at trump tower in midtown. The group called the National Diversity coalition for trump is led by a former contestant on trumps tv show the apprentice. We stand strong with donald trump. If you look around, you see the overwhelming support from women. We have muslims, sikhs, africanamericans, latinos, all in this room. We have to combat the narrative that people have said that donald trump doesnt have a diverse amount of support. Reporter trump is far ahead in the polls for the new york republican primary. Hes hoping to win by a wide margin. Senator ted cruz is campaigning cruz held a rally at the American Legion post 22. Disbll all across 9 country, republicans recognizes nominating donald trump hands topic the election. Reporter john kasich is trying to sway voters in syracuse today. He took questions from voters and discussed how strengthening the schools will help business. Heres the thing. We might be losing oreo cookies, but were building plants that create cookies for computers. I mean, you cant hang on to everything. Some things are going to leave because they dont fit anymore. The question is are we preparing people for the jobs that are come 95 delegates are up for grabs on the republican side of the trump is hoping a strong victory will help him send off a possible contested convention. Steve going to be close. Thank you. Dari what can you say about today . Impossible to come inside. Steve we saw the 80s today. Nick, amazing. Nick what a great stretch of weather its been. Today topping it off with the 80degree weather you were talking about. 81 at sussex. Upper 70s for the hudson valley. And most of long island and connecticut getting into the middle 70s. A little cooler along the immediate coast. 70 from montauk. Were still looking at nice weather. Current temperatures are holding in that high 70s to 80 degree range. 79 poughkeepsie. And just a little cooler at montauk. Down to 56. One thing as the air is dry and theres nothing on fox 5 sky guardian, we have to be concerned about the potential for brush fire with this low humidity. Tomorrow, same kind of deal. Wont be as warm. Weather as a front up to the north will drop down with a few clouds and it drops us tomorrow. It creates breezy conditions. Take a look at our futurecast. It turns sunny as the rest of the day moves along with a gusty breeze and well be in the 70s tomorrow and nice weather will week. 57 in the city tonight. 40s and 50s north and west. Morning. 60s at lunchtime. Steve very nice. Thank you. Israeli police calling an explosion on a bus in jerusalem this morning a definite terror attack. 21 people were injured. Two seriously. The blast comes amid a wave of palestinian attacks on israelis. Police have not said if there was a suicide bomber on the bus or if the explosive was planted in a car alongside the bus. No group has claimed responsibility. Dari rescuers in ecuador after saturdays massive earthquake. Lisa evers is live now in core corona queens. Reporter this mostly ecuadorian street is home to food trucks and other businesses and families and theres growing concern about the earthquakes devastation. Saturdays massive 7. 8 magnitude earthquake caused major damage along Ecuadors Pacific coast. More than 350 are dead and more than 2500 injured. With the military activated and rescue workers arriving from around the world, the urgent concern is for the missing. There are signs of life in the rubble. Reporter throughout the communities of queens, fear and frustration are mounting because theres no way to communicate with family members and friends. This food truck worker heartbroken man who doesnt know what he may have lost. He said they cant do nothing. Theyre scared for the family in ecuador. They cant do anything. They know the situation is bad. They cant just call to see how they are. Reporter at this restaurant, diners are supporting each other through this difficult time. Theyre taking notice. Our customers, our people that are here, they have families that are there. They said we need to help them. Most of them, they have no place to stay. Reporter theyre holding a fundraiser may 1st all day long. For 30, you can eat and drink. Theyre donating the proceeds from that. Theyre not taking any money. Donating everything to the people in ecuador. Many individuals here are trying to do what they can to try to ease what must be terrible pain in that country. Evers. Back to you. Dari usa arrived in southern japan today to help victims earthquakes. The pair of military jets carrying food, water and other supplies landed at the airport. The aid is going to some of the hardest hit areas where roads have been cut off by landslides. 42 people were killed in the quakes. Another thousand injured and homes. Steve with mosquito season upon us, the city is rolling out a plan to protect new yorkers from the zika virus. Dari Lidia Curanaj shows us how Health Officials are trying to stop that from spreading. Reporter part of the plan involves putting up posters like this all over the city. Officials say the zika crisis is emerging, evolving, and they want new york city to be prepared for it. We are announcing today a threeyear plan that will cover reporter mayor de blasio announced a 21 Million Dollar plan. The virus is in 34 countries and can cause devastating birth defects like microcephaly. We want to emphasize that we do not see a scenario in this city or this country where therell be a widespread outbreak. That doesnt stop us from wanting to address more limited problems. Reporter the plan involves reducing the number of mosquitos, detecting the presence of the disease and educating the public on precautions like mosquito repellent. It prepares us for the unlikely but possible scenario that we might see local transmission from our own mosquitos here. Reporter thats because the aedes mosquito carries it. One is found in our area and could carry zika. It would bite a new yorker where they acquired the zika infection. That mosquito might acquire the virus and bite someone else and give them the virus. Reporter zika is a concern for jennifer, who lives on the upper west side. Already my son has gotten multiple bites and were only in april. Reporter while there are no cases of anyone being infected with zika in the u. S. , theres always the fear that could change. Change. I was kind of glad that zika virus appeared because now maybe the city will take it more seriously that this is a serious problem. Reporter there are 40 confirmed cases of the zika virus in new york city. All of those people contracted the virus overseas. Six of those 40 people are pregnant women. Its unclear how theyre doing. Thats the latest from the Public Health lab. Im Lidia Curanaj, fox 5 news. Dari the u. S. Is sending more Ash Carter Says 200 additional Ground Troops will be stationed in the country this year. The new forces will mostly be special opps forces used to advise iraqi forces closer to the front lines. Carter says the u. S. Will provide financial and several apache helicopters to the region. Steve the saudis threatening to pull 750 billion from the u. S. Economy if Congress Passes legislation allowing them to be sued for the september 11th attacks. This as the Obama Administration decides whether to declassify 28 pages of sealed documents from the 9 11 commissions investigation. Some believe theres evidence in those documents that the saudi government helped provide Financial Aid to the terrorists. Linda schmidt will have more at 6 00. Dari 30,000 runners took part in the 120th running of the boston marathon. Security was extra tight after the bombings near the finish line three years ago that left three dead and hundreds injured. Runners, but in the end it was ethiopias first sweep ever. The mens race was won in two hours 12 minutes and 45 seconds. And the womens race in two hours, 29 minutes and 19 seconds. Steve two hours 12 minutes. Takes me that long to get psyched up to run two miles. The dow closed up 18,000 for the First Time Since july. The index a few hundred points shy from the all time high record set last may. Talk about a big change since the beginning of the year when january when it plunged to 15,000 because of concerns over the crash in oil prices and chinas economic slowdown. A long island woman became an unlikely animal savior. I knew nothing about this. Dari and now she has four donk key donk donk donkeys. He says we should punish women who have abortions. There has to be some form of punishment. That mexicans who come to america are rapists. Theyre rapists. And that we should ban muslims from coming here at all. Total and complete shut down. Donald trump says we can solve americas problems by turning against each other. Its wrong and it goes against everything new york and america stand for. With so much at stake, shes the one tough enough to stop trump. Hillary clinton. Im Hillary Clinton and i i solemnly swear that my kfc 20 fill up will fill your family of four up, with eight pieces of delicious original recipe chicken and sides. Its a meal thats freshly prepared every day. Court adjourned steve beasts of burden are getting much needed tlc dari Jodi Goldberg shows us how some animal lovers on long island are saving donkeys. Reporter if you had asked would have a donkey as a pet, shed tell you i knew nothing about the species. Species. Reporter her group of friends shared a love for horses. Debbie miller wondered how different than a donkey be . Theyre loving and affection affectionate. It was like a flash. I said the acronym is perfect. They started the group five years ago after they heard about miniature donkeys going to auction. The donkey is not going to france for lunch. I am having a sweet, sweet little friend. Reporter they serve an important purpose. They make trips to nursing homes, veterans hospitals and children and adults. They bring a smile to everyone, whether its the riding or the nursing home. Its amazing the connection they have with people. Reporter they dress up on fourth of july and each kiss santa. I dont have 20 send them to college. Its a good thing. It strengthens friendships while saving donkeys. Jodi goldberg, fox 5 news. Steve the legs are so little. Dari an adorable pair of male foxes with big ears debuted at brooklyns Prospect Park zoo. Theyre native to northern africa. Theyre the worlds smallest species of fox, weighing less than four pounds, but their ears can grow up to six inches long. Theyre the first of their kind to be featured in an exhibit at the zoo. Steve everybody was out today. We had the first real felt nick it did. Ago. We were pushing 80. Steve that feels like a long time ago. Nick the official high today was 82. 20 degrees above average. 51 the low this morning. Well probably stop in the mid and upper 50s for lows in a lot of the area. A mild night is coming up. Record high was 96. Way off from that. That was in 1976. It was cold, 100 years early. 25 on this day, but no cold air is coming our way. Im sure youre happy to hear that. 77 now. Clouds in the sky. The air is dry. With a gusty breeze, the fire risk is on the elevated area. Its going to return tomorrow. Nothing on fox 5 sky guardian. Got a couple more dry days up in the forecast as you look at that. Right now nothing were looking at of concern. We want to review the highs for the day. Upper 70s jersey shore. Valley. Mid 70s islip up to bridgeport. It has cooled on the eastern half of long island, into the 50s and 60s. 74 is still the current temperature at bridgeport. 77 in the city. 81 sussex and allentown, 82. One of the reasons for the warm air, the southsouthwest wind at hour. It will stay out of the south the early part of tonight and a weak front will drop down with some clouds and shift the wind to the northwest. Well get breezy as we head into tomorrow afternoon. Here comes some of the clouds. These are the high clouds streaking down from the north. There are showers on the other side of the banner. Theres a week weak storm center. We will have some of the clouds. This system, this is going to be the threat of showers. Thats not until late thursday, particularly into friday. Your day planner tomorrow, a bit of cloud cover with sun to start. 50s through 9 00 a. M. We jump back into the middle 60s for lunchtime. It is 72 tomorrow with a breeze northwest gusting 20, 25 miles an hour which keeps the fire danger on the elevated side. Theres the futurecast. By mid to late morning were back into lots of sun. Beautiful wednesday. Our average high should be 62. Well be in the middle 60s on wednesday with lots of sunshine. The system is way off to the west. Thursday should be a nice day. Few clouds tonight. 57 in midtown. 40s to lower 50s off to the north and west. Sun and clouds tomorrow. Most of the clouds in the morning and breezy through the day. 72 the high for tomorrow. Again, 10 above average. There are the 60s on wednesday. Should be a delightful day. Sun and clouds on thursday, particularly in the afternoon. 69. We will jump into the lower 70s. Right now the weekend is looking good. A cooldown but nice. 66 saturday. 62 sunday. And a little step back into the upper 50s on monday. Steve thats phenomenal. Nick nobody is complaining. Steve crazy its april. Seems like were getting more spring. We had the cooldown. Nick right on track where we should be. Steve broadways hottest show can add pulitzer to the growing list of awards. Hamilton is the 9th musical to take home the drama prize joining South Pacific and rent. The life of Alexander Hamilton has gone a grammy and a spot on the build board billboard charts. Dari amber herd will have to pay the price for sneaking her pups into australia. Steve tmz will show us the apology she and husband johnny dari thats a legend. Plus how faith helped jennifer holiday find her true calling in even when the deck is stacked, a new yorker will find a way to break up big banks, create millions of jobs, and rebuild america. Some say it cant be done again. But another native son of new york is ready bernie. Rebuild the middle class, make wall street banks pay their fair share, give every child a chance. New york its our time again to build a future to believe in. Sanders im Bernie Sanders dari there will be a veryy special headliner at the mcdonalds gospel fest. An actress and singer whose starring role on broadway clanged her life. Steve simone boyce with more on how god and gospel music influenced jennifer holiday. A legend will be gracing the stage, the singing star jennifer holiday. Holiday took home a tony for her role as effie in the production of dream girls. This song from the musical, and im telling you im not going, won her a grammy award when she released it as a single. It was singing in the church where she was discovered when she was a teenager. I was born and reared in the gospel church. So gospel is my roots. God has been very important to holiday. My relationship with god has been a great sense of strength and support for me over the years. I would have to say that i would not have been able to make it through a lot, if it had not been for god. Reporter the theme of this years mcdonalds gospel fest is honor thy mother. She says along with god, her mothers love has been key to her success. Through my entire life, i always felt that regardless of whether i sang or not or was famous or not, that i could always turn to her, and that it didnt matter to her whether i had a hit record or was in a hit show. She just loved jennifer. Reporter her fans love jennifer holiday. Holiday says her songs offer hope, something thats deeply personal to her. I have multiple sclerosis. I have been blind twice and unable to walk. So i think that my music always just leaves them with hope, no matter whether its a love song or a gospel song or a broadway show tune, that they feel a way they can identify with my Life Reporter while holiday has had ups and downs, she always believed in her gift. Thats something she encourages singers to follow. You have to fight for yourself and believe in yourself and constantly say yes to you. Reporter a hopeful message from a transcendent star. Reporter simone boyce, fox 5 news. Dari oh, boy. What a gift. You can catch jennifer holiday at mcdonalds gospel fest you can find ticket info for the big show on our web site, fox5ny. Com. Steve actress amber herd pleads guilty to sneaking her dogs into australia. Dari tmz will show us the bizarre apology she and johnny depp made. Steve and the man being accused of bribing top nypd brass in court. Well go live there. Every Auto Insurance policy has a number. Understands the life behind it. Those who have served our nation. Have earned the very best service in return. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. American workers know how to fight back and rebuild an economy. So does she. We need jobs that provide dignity and a bright future. New penalties to stop companies from moving profits and jobs overseas. For businesses that create manufacturing jobs, a new tax credit. And lets invest in clean energy jobs, with 500 million solar panels installed by the end of her first term. A real plan to create new jobs and industries of the future. Hillary clinton. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. At stop shop, shoppers are discovering low prices by the thousands, plus a thousand more that just dropped. All these low prices what are you trying to do, whole neighborhood . No. Just trying to save you a whole lot of bread. [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags, thousands of low prices. Steve new charges in connection with the growing nypd corruption probe. Dari arthur chien is live outside federal court in Lower Manhattan to tell us whos been arrested and the alleged role in police payoffs. Reporter this investigation obviously getting bigger and bigger. Just now federal prosecutors detailed a case against a man from brooklyn they said was a conduit for gun carrying permits, charges 25,000 to get one of the license. The man at the center is a 44yearo

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