Keep us posted if there is indeed an active search. Darla miles in midtown manhattan york. Now to the wild scene in new jersey youll only see right here. A man sleeping in his car sudden ly targeted by robbers but he refused to become a victim. This could be troubling to watch. Using his car as a weapon, the victim goes on the attack and he wins. It all went down yesterday in a parking lot in paterson. Aj ross getting the video today. Shes live in paterson with the Eyewitness News exclusive. This is some of the debris left over from the crazy exchange. The victim pegged as an easy target. The man asleep in his car. Youll only see on Eyewitness News, he not only fought back, he chased those guys across the street and taught them a lesson in the school of hard knocks theyll never forget. Reporter a botched robbery paterson early monday morning when three suspects ambushed a man who fell asleep in his van in this Grocery Store parking lot. The trio first approached his vehicle with hammer
The bad news is this twoalarm fire thats burning at 209 east 156th street is far from being under control. Well show you what the scene looks like. The Fire Department just got a fourth tower ladder up and in operation. There are stores on the bottom, apartment buildings on floors of the building. East 156th street shut down with Fire Department activity between brant concourse and brant avenue and sherman avenue shut down between east 156th and east 166th street. Well keep you updated on the latest. Reporting live over the concourse village section of the bronx, shannon sohn, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Turning now to the race for president. Both democratic contenders tallying their support for labor unions today. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders made appearances in our area and theyre not done yet. Political reporter dave evans in Greenwich Village where sanders supporters gathered for a large concert this evening. This evening at 7 00, a couple blocks south of me in washington this
They should expect nothing in return. Reporter u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara who has put a long list of corruption politicians in jail including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority leader dean skelos is making it clear he will continue looking for public corruption in albany and the city, the mayor and the governor. Executive offices in government are far from immune from a creeping show me money culture thats been pervading new york for some time now. Putting crooked politicians in prison may be necessary but it will never be sufficient. Reporter de blasios lawyer didnt return calls. He said he is the mayors appointee to the Lincoln Center board and also the mayors fund to advance new york. Its chair first Lady Chirlane mccray and sources say that the feds are continuing to question high ranking members of the nypd. Head of patrol from manhattan north is reassigned to administrative duty pending further review. Investigators are reportedly asking whether capul took a pa
Faith in their police force. Lets just get real about the facts. There are some individuals who may have made a mistake. They will suffer those consequences. But the entire police force deserves respect for the extraordinary job they are doing. The probe centers on two businessmen with ties to mayor de blasio and his campaign and also former chief of department phillip banks. Thank you. Much more at 6 00. Much more. Thank you. Developing now in brooklyn. A special hearing could change the fate of a former nypd officer convicted of killing an unarmed man. A juror is accused of hiding Key Information during jury selection. Cbs 2s dick brennan is live in downtown brooklyn with the late details. Dick. Reporter the hearing was to decide were to throw out the conviction of officer peter liang. He was convicted of shooting the defense says a juror lied while being chosen saying that nobody in his family had been accused of a crime but later the juror told a newspaper that his father went to p
Bridge where things are moving nicely here. No issues north of the city. If youre headed out the door, you should be fine. On the subways, we have delays out there on downtown 2 trains. Otherwise, overnight track work, fastrack is wrapped up. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. Tens of thousands of workers going to walk off the job fter a bitter dispute. More on the strike. Michael, it proe ses to indeed. Theyre going to walk off the job in an iour. They promise to rally here on 36th street. Corporate verizon is ved i for a strike as well. Theyre having a plan in place. Verizon says their dedication is to the customers. Official claims, they say they havent heard from Union Leaders and willing to submit to mediation or even extend a strike deadline. Ey say thats why they training nonunion employees to replace those planning to walk off the job and necessity plan to plug those employees into several different departments. Nearly 40,000 verizon workers