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this big revelation your health and your life-span have a lot to do with the neighborhood where you live. move over, income inequality. make room, as well, for health inequality. here s eyewitness news reporter stacey sager. with nearly 40% of the residents here living below the poverty level, it s not terribly surprising that new york city s health department ranks brownsville the most unhealthy community in brooklyn. question is, will the city s new study make a difference? all of this is something that we can change. but talk to people in this community and you get one message loud and clear we are what we eat, and healthier food is expensive. i just spent $400, and i don t even see on what. $400? yes. in these two wagons? that s it. my sugar is going through the roof, and my blood pressure s going through the roof. if you go into stores, most of their food is processed. there are many other factors the city looked at, everything from air qu ....
reporter stacey sager. south street here on the lower east side one of many places across the boroughs where additional police are now out on the streets more than 1,700 of them working more than 12,000 hours, a crackdown on bad drivers. and given the number of pedestrian fatalities in new york city in recent weeks, enforcement is badly needed. it has been horrific more than a dozen pedestrians now killed since halloween, three at once here in the bronx, among them a 10-year-old girl and her grandfather. and here on the upper west side last sunday, 88-year-old luisa rosario was killed by a taxi driver so tired, he didn t notice her in the crosswalk. today luisa s grandson just hoping the new initiative can make a difference. help us, you know, prevent prevent these tragedies from occurring in such a unique and wonderful city that we all live and work in. initiative here in flushing, jaywalkers are now being warned, then cited, if they don t follow the rules, ....
sobering reflection about guns. syed farook, along with his wife, tashfeen malik, walked in to a meeting and holiday party for his co-workers and then just started shooting. they fired 75 shots. they also left behind several pipe bombs bundled together with a remote-control car. fortunately, that bomb didn t go off. they also had another dozen pipe bombs at the house they were staying at and thousands of rounds of ammunition they could have used to carry out even more attacks. take a listen to the first officer to arrive at this horrific shooting scene. we wanted to get in there and we wanted to stop any further innocent people from being being injured and possibly killed. as we entered into the conference room, the situation was surreal. it was something that i don t think, again, we prepare for and they try to an active shooter we talk about sensory overload. they just try to throw everything at you to prepare you for dealing with that what hearing, what you ....
stands for, and, more importantly, it s not what this country stands for. nonetheless, mr. trump continues to lead in the polls for the republican nomination for president. and if the republicans should somehow sour on him, he has now raised the possibility of a third-party run. good morning, everyone. i m bill ritter, in for diana. yes, radical muslims are spreading terror and violence in many quarters of the world, but is banning all muslims from coming here the answer? most americans says it is not it is not what this country stands for. today we dive deep on this issue. we re gonna have a discussion with a moderate muslim activist and organizer, get her point of view. but, first, mr. trump, who was on our campus this week the most controversial week of his most controversial candidacy. the way donald trump takes criticism apparently is by digging in his heels, even deeper. this week, in our studio, trump refusing to back down even an inch on his controversial ....
school on staten island. several football players have been disciplined but now parents say innocent children are being unfairly targeted. cbs 2 s hazel sanchez is here with more on the controversy. hazel. reporter: at least two students at susan wagner high school say they were hazed boo players at summer football camp. four-team members are suspended, the entire football program suspended indefinitely. but parents of other players say that s not fair. and they are fighting to get their kids back on the field. we re not saying to stop the version not at all. we want the investigation to continue. we are not saying to stop the investigation, not at all. let the innocent ones back on the field. reporter: she is the mother of a varsity football player at wagner high school on staten island. she says her senior son was at the upstate training camp where the alleged hazing took place. if my son had anything to do with it i want to know, i m the first to say. it s up ....