It is a real big unit. It is windy today. Reporter doug falcon a contractor not connected to the site, heard the emergency call come in on his radio and rushed to the scene. From news copter 7, you can see First Responders frantically working. Osha confirmed that one worker was killed and another injured. The Morris CountyProsecutors Office is in the early stages of an investigation into the cause. They have not released the identity of the workers. I lift air conditioning units all of the time. It is very dangerous. It is a lot of weight. Reporter the workers, especially the one who was killed worked for industrial process and equipment there out of sussex. The company had no comment when we contacted them this afternoon. Tim fleischer, channel 7 news. A driver is under arrest after police say she hit an officer with her car while trying to avoid getting a ticket in manhattan. Investigators say the drive wears double parked and being suddenly took off and hit the two officers. Other officers who happened to be nearby pulled her over. Two other people were also taken into custody. Both officers were hurt but are expected to be okay. Well, it is expected to be a watershed moment for u. S. cuba relations. Next month, president obama will visit cuba making the first time a sitting u. S. President has done so in close to nine decades. At the top of the president s agenda, human rights issues. The president says today on twitter, we still have differents with the cuban government that i will raise directly. Abcs Elizabeth Hur is here now with more. Elizabeth . Reporter thats right, liz. President obama first made it official on twitter saying that the purpose of the trip is to show that while significant progress has been made since normalizing relations with cuba, more needs to be done. This is the first president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge. Reporter it is the first for a sitting president since 1928 and the first trip to cuba for president obama since he made history shaking hands with raul castro and restoring diplomatic ties with the cuban government in december 2015. Given the choice between going in december when frankly it would be a vacation down to cuba or going now trying to get some business done, we believe that the time is right to go. Reporter this trip, the main event among several huge u. S. cuba events in the works, including a Major League Baseball preseason game and big entertainers lake beyonce, elton john, and the Rolling Stones negotiating concerts. President obama tweeting in part, hes traveling to cuba to advance our progress and efforts that can improve the lives of the cuban people. His decision, disappointing for gop president ial contenders senators ted cruz and marco rubio on cnn. Theres no choice in cuba. My whole problem, i want the relationship between the us and cuba to change, but it has to be recipro cal. His visit represents a step forward in improvement of united states. Reporter so yes, the president is headed to cuba, but as it stands now, Congress Holds the power to fully restore ties between the two nations and the u. S. Trade embargo remains in place. David, liz . All right, elizabeth. Thank you. We turn now to that slashing attack. A man was slashed in the face during a dispute outside of a store on lafayette street in soho. The slasher is still on the loose this afternoon. Kemberly richardson is in soho with some of the exclusive details. Kim . Reporter well, liz, witnesses tell me this all went down in a matter of seconds. First, let me show you whats happening behind me. Have been waiting online since last night. Theyve been waiting to get into a clothing booth that sells tshirts and sneakers called supreme. Its really popular with the skateboarding crowd. In fact, the victim, take a look this is a picture after the slashing. That 21yearold man was inside the shop. Witnesses tell me he had finished and come outside onto lafayette street. It was just after 2 00 this afternoon. The suspect, apparently approached, and tried to rob the victim, take his bags. The victim refused and the suspect pulled out something and cut the victim. The young man grabbed his face. The suspect took off on foot. Sources tell Eyewitness News he was wearing a ski mask. He ran up on him and said give me your stuff. He didnt want to give him his clothing, so the guy slashed him and ran. He didnt even take the item that the guy got from the store. Reporter was it a big cut some. It was a big cut as wide as it was open, bleeding a lot. Reporter this is video of the victim right after the slashing. He was taken 0 New York Hospital downtown. Wear told he does not have lifethreatening injuries. Back here live at this Clothing Store thats on lafayette just south of houseton street. Today they were debuting the string summer line. They tell us this is always a big event and that crowds gather out here. For now, were live in soho, Kemberly Richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. There was another slashing late last night. A restaurant worker was cut in front of customers in manhattan. The worker escorted him out but the teen came back a few minutes later and slashed the worker before running away. Hospital where he received 120 stitches to close up that cut on his face. He has battled fellow republican candidates. Now it seems the latest war of words is with the leader of the catholic church. [speaking Foreign Language ] he says a person who only thinks about building walls and not bridges is not christian. If and when the vatican is attacked by isis, isis ultimate trophy, can i promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed for a religious leader to disgraceful. Im proud to be a christian. Reporter he said he had no pontiff. This afternoon, trumps social media tweet pointed out that the walls that surrounded it are there and in an attempt to paint the pope as a hypocrite. Liz . Trump, meanwhile, is enjoying a big lead in polls ahead of saturdays primary. The weekend caucus in nevada could be close running neck and neck in nevada. Today, the former secretary of state showed a recent Campaign Event in las vegas where she promises a crying girl that she the latina vote is important in nevada. Both sanders and clinton have events later tonight there, and we invite to you stay with Eyewitness News and abc news throughout the weekend. Well have complete coverage of the republican primary and Democratic Caucus on saturday. Stocks on wall street snapping a lucrative winning streak. Stocks fell slightly after two trading days with sizable gains. Walmart reported disappointing results and cut its sales projections. Here is a live look at the big board. The dow dropped 40 points closing at 16,413. Still to come on Eyewitness News first at 4 00, sounding the alarm. The department of transportation says some of the nations major bridges are structurally deficient including one of the most traveled bridges here in our area. And remembering a reality store. Next, youll hear from people on Staten Island on the passing of big ang. Wow, what a beautiful afternoon. Just outside of the studios. A chilly sunshine is how well finish the day. Weve got one more day just like this, and then the heat is on or off, i guess. You can turn the heat off, it will be that warm. The winds are still gusting about 15 to 20 miles per hour. Well lose some of that wind going into tomorrow afternoon, and well see the temperatures coming up from where they are right now. We had highs near 35 in the its 4 12 and time to check the roads. Long island expressway in queens. Traffic is going very well in one direction, stop and go heading west. Checking the hudson river crossings, the outbound Holland Tunnel about 5 to 10 minutes. Things are looking good overall in the lincoln tunnel and George Washington bridge. An honor for a group of heroic boys scouts who helped save their scout master from a bear. [ applause ] that big round of applause is from michael and brothers frankie and vincent. Their scout leader chris watched as the American Legion auxiliary presented the boys with their youth hero award. The boys quick thinking helped save the scout master two months ago when the bear attacked him in a cave in rockaway township. Chris who is also michaels father says he is recovering but has paralysis in his arms and numbness in his face. The legion also honored the familys dog, who stood his ground as the bear attacked. It, new york citys pay phones are getting a hightech makeover. Mayor de blasio unveiled link nyc replacing the pay phones few people use anymore anyway. The stations have a touch screen computer for accessing the internet, free nationwide calling and onetouch access to 911 operators. Most people will just use the free wifi, they expect. This is part of a bigger effort to maximize broadband access. It takes on many different forms, what were doing with libraries, what were doing in public housing. They are going to pay for it by having advertising object kiosks. Right now, a dozen kiosks are up and running on third avenue. 500 should be operational across all five boroughs by the end of july. Eventually, more than 7500 will go up around the city. Family members are remembering a woman with a larger than life personality. Ang died this morning from the reality show mob wives died at a hospital in brooklyn after losing her battle with lung and brain cancer. The reality tv star, friends say, remained in good spirits and kept her sense of humor while fighting her cancer. Her personality, the sweetness that she had with everybody, especially children and her family, you know, was very nice. Theres no words to explain how good of a person she is. A small memorial sits outside of the bar in Staten Island where she used to work and remained a regular. She was just 55 years old. The countdown to baseball season officially on. Both the mets and yankees reported to spring training. I love that sound. They officially reported to tampa today with a few new faces and a couple of old ones. The First Official day was yesterday. Most of the players are in port st. Lucie. They are coming off of the best season just falling short of weve got you covered as spring training begins. Rob powers with the mets. Theyll have full reports coming up later on Eyewitness News. Were jealous of them down there. Very jealous. Amy, would i have bet that the sun they are feeling is not the ineffective sun that we are feeling. Reporter thats right. Do you think they need an extra reporter . Im available. Ill hold the cords or the microphones, whatever. We do have plenty of sunshine around here today. If you are standing in it, it felt less painful than being in the shade because the wind was just very sharp, and again, the windchill factor starting off in the Single Digits and low teens this morning felt very cold. We still have the wind out on the upper west side. It feels pretty nice. Here is a look at the official numbers. Northwest winds are at 10 to 21 and ended up with a high of 31 degrees. Quickly temperatures are falling back into the mid30s. Right now. 34 for Staten Island and feels like 23 for both and sussex. Feels like 27 in newark. 24hour temperature change just three to five degrees colder. Definitely you can feel the difference and bundling up is a real good idea. Because weve got one more day of chilly sunshine, the weekend outlook does push the numbers into the 50s. Thats well above average by almost 15 degrees. Then theres a winter storm coming next week. Will it be rain or snow . Thats still the question. A messy mix is our best bet. On the accutrack, we see winds coming directly out of the north for parts of the hudson valley. Still have a northwesterly track to the wind. It is cold when you face the wind. The windchill factor will remain for this evening. By tomorrow, the wind sort of let up. There is a calmness to the atmosphere tomorrow that should as the winds pull back, well see the temperatures approaching 40 degrees tomorrow afternoon. So that will be the improvement in what we feel. Central park falling into the 20s tonight. We just took the number down to the overnight lows going for 22 degrees. Heres the windchill factor going into late tonight. See how it improves . By tomorrow morning, were expecting the low 20s and a windchill factor only a few degrees aof that. More evidence that the winds lessen for us. Lets talk about the futurecast here. Things are calm as far as storms go for the next couple of days. However, look at this bundle of energy that sneaks in late tomorrow night. This is friday into saturday just before the warm front arrives. It can produce some light snow for the northern counties. Not a big deal worthy of a mention just because weve got that coming in. Then the temperatures soaring to 50 degrees. Thats the one little wrinkle before we get the numbers up. We call it 39 with the spotty shower late mainly to the north heres the sevenday forecast, saturday breezy and mild. A Little Spring fling on sunday. I think that the winds could make it feel colder on saturday by a few degrees even though the thermometer reading is still in the mid50s. Mild on monday with 50 degrees, turning cloudy on tuesday and tuesday into wednesday is when the winter storm approaches. How much cold air can we get around here . Thats the big question . Ladies, come on over real quick and say hello. Live on camera you are. These beauties came right on tour. They were all over the makeup room. Did you have fun . Yeah. Reporter what did you learn about the news, anything exciting . I learned that it takes um, you have to calculate all of the math to get to weather. Reporter i love it. You calculate the math and science to get the weather. Listening in the weather department. Very bright young ladies. For stopping by. Right now. Amy always being the mom that she is. Reporter see you later. Back inside in a few minutes, you guys. Thanks, amy. Two monkeys made their debut in those are teeny monkeys. They are furry and cute. Thats not the zoo today, i dont believe. Apparently the monkeys are in bolivia and like to live in trees. They are active during the day. The pros expect zoo and queens zoo are celebrating with special activities this month. Very cool. Pope francis surprise something with his comments on contraceptives. The pontiffs appearing to condone the youth in some cases. Well explain what prompted the unusual stance. Between work and family. The stanley cup champions made a special visit to the white house today. President obama. The team is his hometown team. It was the teams third stanley cup in six years. The success rate that had the president thinking. Tribute to the head of the scouting who just told me that he could help me pick my Supreme Court justice. [ laughter ] the team also gave the president , who has a home in chicago, his own blackhawks jersey. Long before it was popular to see folks getting famous from reality show, the new talent was at the apollo discovering new talent and during black history month, we spent time at the apollo. Sandy . Reporter liz, one contestant traveled 12 hours on a bus from South Carolina for another trip that was just a subway ride from brooklyn. Another came from coke yo where the apollo is known as the all had a common goal to perform at the apollo. Reporter youd better be good or you will be gone. 10yearold eyanna little has a plan to prevail. What will do you to quiet the nerves . I am going to close my eyes and count to three. Reporter that seemed to work just fine. Reporter the audience loved the fourth grader and responded in kind. Not everyone is so lucky. The Apollo Theater amateur night is known to be brutally honest. They will be like that forever. The audience is the show. Thats the joyous part. They get to say whether somebody is good, great, ugly, indifferent. Reporter stars who have been discovered here since 1934, and for the artists of tomorrow, todays stars like grammy winner Chrisette Michelle mentor with a message. Your art is your life. Tonight is just a stepping stone for your destiny. [music] to come from brooklyn to harlem, to give honor and do appreciation to the value of the institution that is the apollo, it means everything to me. Reporter touch the tree of hope for good luck. Take a leap of faith and tonight perhaps a new star will be born. [music] reporter mr. Reid told me he chose to perform sam cookes civil rights anthem from 1964 in honor of black history month. Walk into the Apollo Theater, and you can feel so much history. A sold out crowd making new memories last night. Spring auditions for amateur night are march 10th. Dave, liz, take a trip. Ive been there. Such a historic site. Breadch that is considered structurally deficient. And the pope adjusts his stance on contraceptives. When he says they are now acceptable to use. And Comedian Bill Cosby is firing back today. All across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. Thats because weve been working hard to give you better service, and it shows. We came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. Oh shes impressed. Were catching up on movies and shows on demand just as fast as we can watch them. 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New this half hour, the pope today making waves when asked about the use of contraceptives in a crisis that the pope is suggesting it might be permissible to use Birth Control in an effort to prevent the transmission of the zika virus. Dr. Richard besser here, rich, thanks so much for joining us. How much of an impact will this make . I think it is a really important move. One of the things you are hearing from some of the countries there is that women should put off having bakeys while the zika crisis is at its height. Some say delay it for two years. Until today, that meant for couples who are catholic, they are being told to abstain during that period. So now the pope is making it much more realistic and becomes can you get contraceptives to parts where its needed. There are many parts of latin america there arent easy access to contraceptives. So talking contraceptives and abortion. Lesser of two evils. Here, the church does not support contraceptives but dont want women having babies severely damage so using the lesser of two evils, he was comfortable saying it. That could make a big difference, especially in south america. For now, weve been watching as brazil was the epicenter. Im hearing the Health Organization saying it may be moving to a new organization. Yeah. The world Health Organization saying that colombia may be the next country that sees a big wave like they are seeing in brazil. One of the things people were pointing so is why are all of the babies in brazil . The reason is thats where it hit first. At rival didnt happen in colombia until the fall so they are expecting in june that thats when deliveries could the numbers could be very high for that country. What you see with these kinds of outbreaks is the series of outbreaks. Its not the same everywhere. It starts in brazil and moves across the region. That hammers home theres just so much more that we need to know about the zika virus and how it affects women and the transmission of the virus and the microcephaly. Im glad the studies are moving forward. Thanks, richard. A startling report found the Brooklyn Bridge remains one of the nations structurally deficient bridges. The verrazano narrows bridge is also on the list and had more and those convicted are eligible to collect hefty pensions. These two successfully filing for monthly checks after being found guilty on federal charges. The an yall state pension is a whopping 95,000. As for mr. Silver, hes collecting about 79,000 a year. Governor cuomo was pushing for legislation to strip pensions from any elected officials. Suffolk county spca is hoping a reward would help them track down a person who abandoned a cat and kittens on long island. The travel care whyer was spotted yesterday. On it. The cat is being fostered and will be placed up for adoption. There is a 2,000 reward for information that leads to an case. New jersey voters could decide whether to allow two new casinos later this year. They would be built in the close to new york city. A referendum is going through the state legislature and calls for a vote in november. Sites havent been announced. They are meant to attract gamblers being lost to other states and people returning home from atlanta city. Manhattan isnt the only borough that is the site of soaring new skyscrapers. Two developers submitted plans manhattan. It would be almost twice as tall as anything near it on dekalb avenue. The plan calls for the building to house stores and nearly 500 rental apartments. Bill cosby is firing back at the accuser in his recent criminal case. The troubled comedian filed a breach of contract lawsuit he is demanding she repay a sex abuse settlement that he paid her after she cooperated with police last year. The suit claims the settlement banned her from voluntarily discussing the case with Law Enforcement, adding she no longer has a civic duty to cooperate because she lives in canada. Her mother and lawyer are also named in the lawsuit. The lawyer has declined to comment. We abc exclusive. Were hearing from the teen accused of posing as a doctor. He talked gutman but the teen didnt like the line of questioning and heres what happened. Reporter are you in a lot of trouble . It seems like youve spoken to a lawyer who prepared you to talk to the media and the police as well. I dont know where you are hearing this information from, but it is inaccurate. Im sorry, im going to have to cut this interview short. Interview short. That was it. The 18yearold never with tonight med school but earlier in the interview, he said he shadowed doctors. You can watch more of the interview on our web site at abc7ny. Com. The yankees are taking a stand against the secondary ticket market and banning printed tickets. It is a few blow for those if places like stub hub. Fans will have to use old School Ticket stubs or buy a mobile ticket through the yankees partner Ticket Exchange. The problem there, Ticket Exchange doesnt allow tickets to be resold for less than face value. Drivers in one Rockland County town got an extra 15 minutes of free time on the street in the downtown area. Nyack officials announced free 15minute parking. The mayor posted a video on youtube showing how it works. The free 15 initiative allows downtown or to grab takeout. The authorities devised the plan after meeting with business owners. A lot of people who shop in the area love this idea. Yep, yep, yep. Coming up next, manhattans d. A. Has harsh words for google and apple and how he says the tech giants are standing in the way of fighting crime. A robber gets an unexpected surprise inside of a store. And she is known for the hit how to cell phone rings where are you . Well the squirrels are back in the attic. Mom . Your dad wont call an exterminator. Can i call you back, mom . He says its personal this time. If youre a mom, you call at the worst time. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Where are you . Its very loud there. I do everything on the internet. But its kind of slow. My friends say i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. Were out of 2 i wonder what else could be better around here . I heard that. Switching to Better Internet is now easier than ever. Only fios has the Fastest Internet available, with uploads up to 5x faster than cable. Get 100 meg upload and download speeds plus tv and phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. A man who tried to rob a pharmacy may need medical help stepped in. David west was having lunch with his girlfriend when a masked man went in demanding pain medicine. What he didnt know, west holds four state boxing titles. Four punches and the suspect was down for the count and robbery. She is one of hollywoods most powerful women. Honda rimes recently revealed a she was burped out and one of her kids helped her find the passion to work again. Reporter shes the mastermind behind some of tvs biggest shows. Greys anatomy, scandal, how to get away with murder. Zschau shonda rimes is revealing a real life strug until a new ted talk. You have what most people would call a dream job. I make a great deal of television. I work a lot, very hard, and i love it. Reporter rimes calls that passion for her job, the hum. The hum is music. Its light and air. When you have a hum like that, you cant help but strive for greatness. Reporter but that hum, that spark just plain stopped. Something so many women face in their lives. The hum in the engine died. I stopped loving work. I couldnt restart the engine. Are you . Reporter how did she recharge her batteries . Answer. When a toddler inexplicably refers to everyone as honey as if she is a sippy cup. Then she asked me a question. She said, mama, you want to play . Im just about to say no when i realized my southern waitress didnt call me honey. When did that happen . Here, shes changing right before my eyes. She said do you want to play . I said yes. Reporter she said learning to say yes at that moment likely saved her life and career. By spending more time playing than working, she found her hum again. My 2 and 4yearold only ever want to play with me for about 15 minutes or so before they think to themselves they want to do something else. Minutes uninterrupted time on my worst day. It doesnt have to be your kids. Find what makes you feel good. I said yes to less work and more play. That was abcs Rebecca Jarvis reporting. Thursday nights are shondarhimes night. Love her philosophy. Up next, the passport photos to beat all other passport photos. A big blunder. A School District forced to say a school is apologizing for what it calls an embarrassing mistake. An email that it said to parents that mocks socalled whiners. Staff members sent out an e mail with an attachment called the hurt feelings report. Structured like a bullying report it includes explanations like im a wimp, im a cry baby, and i want my mommy. The school incidentally really has an antibullying committee and online form that allows incidents to be reported anonymously. Who were they really sending it to, each other . Right. Exactly. Whatever. Im sorry, i cracked a smile. It was inappropriate from an awe authoritative source. Its freezing outside today. It is. I tried to play it up in the sunshine, which is does feel better in the bright sun. But if you were to say to buildings, its like run for it. The winds are making it feel really cold. Shadows long over the park right now. Temperatures in the mid to upper 30s. It feels like 27 right now. Thats the combination of the lower temperatures and higher winds. The winds are strong. 15 to 25 miles per hour. Some of the boroughs have less speeds. The gusts have been slightly higher than this about 25 to 38 miles per hour. If the winds could lessen up tomorrow, well see improperliment in how it feels improvement in how it feels the temperatures are up, the winds are down. Windchills with the 22 degree windchills. The windchill is what it feels like on the bare skin. If you can get covered up to make sure you have the layers going, the windchills wont feel as fierce as they can when you are i like the wide shot. When you are out there without any protection on. So chilly sunshine again tomorrow. The weekend outlook takes us into the 50s, even the mid50s at some point. Then the winter storm were watching for next week right now is a tricky one. Looks like it could be a tricky rain snow mix. We dont have any storms to worry about. Northerly wind is all weve got showing up. The streamers ill astronauting the winds illustrating the winds that are cold at times and significantly bringing in a windchill that will continue to make it feel colder for the rest of the evening. So bundle up as you are headed out. Now, the next chance for any sort of storm that comes in here actually comes late on friday. That are relatively mild tomorrow. Maybe taking a few degrees off of the actual temperature. So then were done with the winds and its good heading into the weekend. This one little wrinkle here in the forecast friday night into early saturday morning. Watch how this mainly is a system well to the north. One little piece tries to scoot in here with a little dose of snow. Its worthy of a mention friday into early saturday. The futurecast is presenting out precipitation for that. Well watch and see what happens. All in all, its not too big of a day. All in all, 14 in the suburbs. Temperatures do go into the upper 30s. Will we see the numbers maybing it into the mid50s . I think well be pushing on saturday 55 to 57 degrees. Then the spring fling mid60s the chance for the next winter storm is tuesday into wednesday. Right now, just focus on the weekend and enjoy those. Totally heres whats trending. Kanye west allegedly recorded an embarrassing audio he has ranting about lastminute changes to his set and saying he is 50 more influential than any human being dead or alive including the apostle paul. Im glad he said 50 . Thats really being humble. That could be humble. Maybe thats the way to look at this. As you can imagine, social media is having a field day with the recording. Meanwhile, a go fund me account has been set up after he the fund has already collected over 4,000. Whos donating . Wait, wait, wait. Maybe west just needs a second job. The Philadelphia Police want to help. They tweeted out this kanye west tweet and said he could be debt free by 3123 just right around the corner. Lets talk about prince. Only prince could cause a social media stir with his passport photo. How did he get such good lighting . Hes got the blue steel look and he looks perfect. His hair is perfect. Hes 57 . Can you believe it . What . He looks great. He needed to update his passport photo and were all a little better for it. The star of the galaxy has actor kurt russell joining the cast. No word on who he with a play the role of chris bretts dad. The movie is due out in 2017. Timely, who could forget queens big hit Bohemian Rhapsody . The song came out in 1957 but a little girl is reinventing it with her version. Enjoy. [music] she nails it. Aw. Dad wants to sing with her, and shes like, no, no, no. Let me. [music] no my moment that little happy place right now. Love it. Very cool. Coming up next on Eyewitness News, Manhattan District Attorney says apple and google are operating like the wild west. Well tell you why he claims the companies are hindering crimefighting. And heres a quick check of the delays at the hudson river crossings. 20 minutes at the outbound outbound Holland Tunne in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. And on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today at business. Ny. Gov [ male announcer ] 20 minutes after you quit smoking your Blood Pressure decreases. After 2 days your chance of heart attack drops. And 1 year after you quit your risk of Heart Disease is cut in half. But right now. [ flatline ]. Youre a heart attack waiting to happen. Every cigarette makes you sick. Quit smoking today. Theres new developments this afternoon. The ongoing battle with apple, the tech giant, and Law Enforcement agencies across the country. Here manhattans District Attorney revealing there are at least 175 cases that cannot be solved because of the phones being locked. They include murder and sex assaults. Eyewitness News Reporter cefaan kim has the story. This was the phone used by one of his associates in that case. Despite having a court audit, we cannot access this iphone 5 with the technology. Reporter William Bratton stalling a case against the suspects who allegedly shot two nypd officers in the bronx earlier this month. Apple is fighting a judges order directing the company to create new software that will allow the federal government to break through encryption and unlock the phone of syed farook. They say that refusal is not only hurting helping fight terrorism. 175 phones currently holding up cases because theyre encrypted. From sex trafficking, homicides, identity theft, they say theyre real crimes with real victims. This has become the wild west in technology. Apple and google are their own sheriffs. There are no rules. Reporter calling it the first warrantproof consumer product, its pulling no punches with silicon valley, saying google and apple are contacting like teenagers. This has reignited the debate dangerous overreach because there would be no guarantee its impact would be limited to in crimes. Apple says its concern is cyber crimes. In Supreme Court. News. There is still more news ahead. Begins right now. Two slashings hours and blocks apart. Police release this image of the teenage suspect wanted for slashing a waiter across the face in greenwich village. Were on the scene right now of another slashing, this one in soho during an attempted robbery. This is an exclusive picture of the victim moments after the attack. Eyewitness News ReporterKemberly Richardson live in soho with the latest. Take a look right here across the street. This is a boutique named supreme. Its debuting its springsummer collection right now. Thats why the victim was here. And may also be what drew the suspect here. Just came up on his face and theres a lot of blood. Reporter in this exclusive picture you see the 21yearold victim there applying pressure to the right side of his face. Witnesses say blood was pouring out of a wound that was about the width of a finger. I saw there was like blood dripping down his face. I was like what happened . From the corner of his nose to almost his ear, his face was slashed. Reporter this latest slashing went down here on lafayette street south of housten just after 2 00 this afternoon. Large crowds have been gathering here since last night. Theyre all ready to get in to supreme, a sneaker and tshirt boutique popular among the skateboard crowd. Debut of the springsummer line. The victim was done shopping and out Front Holding his bags. Thats when the suspect approached. Sources tell eyes news he sources tell Eyewitness News he was wearing a ski mask. He didnt want to give him his clothing. The guy slashed him and ran. He didnt even get to take the item the guy got from the store. Reporter witnesses say the suspect took off on foot. Police saturated the area and began looking for the suspect. The victim was taken to New York Hospital downtown with nonlifethreatening injuries. For someone else to come over here with a weapon and try to hurt someone else over a tshirt or some clothing is absolutely ridiculous. Back here live, what youre looking at is one of two surveillance cameras that are posted on the outside of this boutique. Hopefully police will be able to get video from those cameras. At this hour the suspect is still at large