Transcripts For WTXF Chasing News 20171118

Well break it down four. I am bill spadea. This is chase newings. Another town. Another crisis. We brought you this story of lakewood. Now this is a lawsuit in as the school board dominated eight out of nine members who are Orthodox Jews where their kids go largely to private schools and they are being sued saying the atlarge system of electing these guys is disenfranchising black and latino families who make up most of the be blick school students. Ashley johnson has the full story. Ashley . Reporter the new york Civil Liberties yun has filed a lawsuit in east ramapo, new york, challenging the method for eling members of the board of education. The majority of the school board are Orthodox Jewish parents whose children attend private schools. The method to the ability to elect candidates of their choice. The new york stiff Civil Liberties union says the board favors private education versus public. In 2014, 200 teachers were utthe district. The suit says the cuts lead to a precipitous decline in school equality. The lack of resources. Books, textbooks, for example. You know, can you not expect a child to be able to learn if, you know, their materials in which they are using to learn are not readily available. Blacks and tinos make up 96 of the Public Schools once the cuts started, we would have help. There were times when bathrooms were out of toilet tissue. There were mouse drippings ul over the place. The he were toes have an opportunity to fully review the documents however, your viewership know they determined by the state legislature. He am Ashley Johnson for chasing news. We are joined by frank the district chief of staff. Good to hear from you, frank. Lisa, the top commentator. All right. All right. You got a lot of things. Yes. Bill caruso, good to you have, a lawyer, political strategist. Lisa, we start with you. Is it racist in her renly if you have atlarge voting disvig. If everybody votes the whole town, they certainly, they are going to be pushed out. What do you smay i do say that could be very problematic. It could be seen as racist. A town like that where most of the voters in the black and at larger block the children dont go to the Public Schools so they dont have a stake in the claim and make sure they control that. That system. So i think that is very, you know, you know, democratic. It is way more pressured response. Look. It is racist. That is it . What do you think, bill . I would say to you. This has to be looked at differently. First of all the laws are set at the state level. You know, it is not a local problem. I say you want to build a beggar ten here. It is not just about race. It is about social economics and there are populations within those city limits that are not being represented whether they are plaque, brown, white. They all have social economic reasons, a lack of rep accept tation. You got to look through this. Couldnt you argue, though. Any statewide election across the country could be viewed in much of the same way. Look at the representatives in certain areas, where you got a higher concentration of one ethic group over the other. You look at urban centers that have been hurting. The majority, minority, there are folks who are often time represented of the population. Yet, we dont hear anyone saying that. Why is it . Go i head. Well, they said urban centers. Well, a lot. Urban centers. Not everything is an issue. It is racist there are places in new jersey. There is segregation. You talked about that either a couple of shows ago and you and ahad a conversation about race. We talked about the word urban. It is code. We are talking about the lawsuit with banana republic. The young woman where the man ber said she was urban. The word has meaning, righting . Think it fess back to what i said. It is not just about race. When you look at social economics. I sti folks the white guy in the trailer doesnt look as prev limbinged as same issues he will have to deal with or she has to deal with. We have talking about this in a larger sense president . You build a bigger tep and more power. Why . Why . The white go for, the white mayor, he still sees it. Lisa, let hem make the point. That mentality keeps people trapped in this perennial spot where they can not get out. God bless you. Crews of a life cruise of a lifetime turned into a floating nightmare when the cruise ship broke down t. A. And young son stuck, no which to get home. Running low on medicine. Allison, be what do you got for us. Reporter while being stranded in barbados sounds rake great problem to have. Its a been a nightmare for families. They left new york on halloween for their 11day caribbean krause and enjoying most of the trip million they fun out the boat had issue with the propeller. We were on cruise. We found out it broke down. Most of the passengers were flown off the island they could not because of her medical condition. Norwegian cruise lines put them up in thoughs. They wouldnt be able to get a refill on the medication. Her son eric has severe allergies. They didnt handle the situation well. They knew it was going to extended time to us to be in barbados. Let someone knowing away to get that medication. She was table get her family medication. Other passengers were not as for nate. Karen of long island said she was not able to get her medication for her. S. Very difficult. To say the least, a week in advance, i was without my. S. Metcation. Report the cruise lines apologized and said they secured ap provides come plementary common medication or those guest who required ideational dessage. After 20 days of being at sea. The group is en route back in new york and pecked to arrive tuesday. Norwegian cruise lines offered 20 on the future cruises. I am allison reporting for chasing news. Thank you, allison. All right. Lets bring in the a plus panel to break this down. The chris line did exactly what they were supposed to do, fly people home. Helped them get to where they were going to do go. It is it their responsibility . What do you think . Absolutely. Why . I have been in the act situations from years back when which is on the dolphin cruise line. They cracked at the first port and wanted to ny us out. We could not get out much . Many of the people couldnt ni pause they had blot clothes so not everyone cannot ply. They cannot fly. They are obligated to get them out of there by whatever means the customer needs. I do the cruise ships say if you cant ni, you cant come on our ship. Would that protect them . I feel bad another family. There is arbitration agrem. You in your life away with the deck ket. I look at it differently, though. They got to the destination. They were offered a means of transfor back because of the condition, i have been in a place where i have been strapped buy air lynn. The arlene put me on another carriers airline and sent m me home. You wonder how many cruise ships are going to bar bay des on a regular basis. Why can they not be dropped on somebody elses cruise ship and be sent back home. If they are sold out, where do you make sention. Who eats that cost . Well, file look i understand. What . We aze. We agree. But at the same time, but at the seam time, the woman and her son, you are in a difficult situation. You make the best of it or not. You know, you take a few extra days. Hope think employer is understanding about it and comes home to have a job. Enjoy the few days. Why . Why is everyone elses problem always the problem of the company, the cruise ship, the airlines. At some point, you know . If i have a medical issue, i pane, at what point do you have to, you know, be response. Well, pay the money. Number two, you cannot say fly out. I took a ship for a reason. I dont want to fly. It is called a boat. The way got me there is the way you bring me back. You got me there on a boat. I am not getting. Thans, guys. All right. Lets cheek win the headlines we are chasing four tonight. A fivealarm fire tore through a sixstory building flown day. More than 200 firefighters fought the blaze which break out on the top floor around 3 00 p. M. At least two firefighters suffered noni love threatening in railroads while fighting the fire. Reverend Jesse Jackson announcing a letter to supporters he is has been doing knowed with parkinsons disease. In the letter admits he was diagnosed in 2016 and his father has dom the sail disease. Reverend jackson said wee use the dying me sis as a signal to change the i love still to and dedicate himself to physical therapy. The 5yearold is a proud recipient of a new york prosthetic han which he bt for free. The gift was made possible poe the organization en be a length the future which connegged perez to a school of science and Technology Student who descend and printed on 3d printer. Eye can pick up stuff. I can also clap. What i like about it is it works. En be a listening the future is a network to bring pros stets to those with need it. That is a look at some of the headlines were chasing today. We have a lot more show coming up tonight. How about this . A rutgers whiching coach fired after parents ladies and gentlemenned that she was struck using abusive language. Cant make it up. We have the whole story. Meteorologist dan zero will have the weekend forecast. Wind, col, rain. Yeah. Bill, this weekend weather is going to go down hill fast as the next cold front delivers the next blast of chilly air. I will break done the typeline of when the rain arrives than the cold and winds that is in the forecast coming up. Bill welcome back to chasing news. I am bill spadea. We have a lot more show for you. A diving coach fired over what parents are saying abuse of language student. Wait until you hear this story. First, senator bob menendez walked out of court yesterday with a hung jury. A dismissed case t. The gentlemen is will they try. Again m what are the prosecutors going to do . Here is what interesting. Senator menendez not wasting any time. He is ac leg ache guy running for reelection. He has ren dorsment of the governor elect bill murphy and doubling down in his press conference after he walked out of court basically sending out a warning to his political enemies . All right. Lets bring in our a plus panel to break down. Frank is here. Good have him here. Thanks. Good to see you guys t. All right. None thes. Bill caruso. We start with you. Are a democratic strammist am a lawyer. Yep. Bill for getting the finaller points of the case. I dont think many people are surprised that the jury could not dom a verdict. But as a democrat be where, this is troubling. You gat senator who is acting like nothing happened. Nothing happened. First of all. Ation question in the court of Public Opinion now of where bob men mendez is going to be. He has a lot of time on the clock develop that. I am not surprised. They will give a benefit of the doubt now. I dont know what the prosecution is going to do. They will go back and go back to court like w fit e the have a good track record here. Is it another case of the let, powerful, they get i way with whatever they got away with. It is loom like nothing to see here. You got to ask me that. Absolutely. I actually jump ship and left democrat. A green party candidate. Will go back to entertain. You wont go back to democrat. Why . Why not . I dont believe they are doing any telephoning for the people who vote for them. I am ok having another trouble that is messy. I think at this time is going to let that unfold. Does it concern you. Now on oh the side. Here you have got what would be a golden opportunity in most states across the country not so much in new jersey, either. One republican who could give him close to a run for the many of in the voter registration, et cetera. Well, fewer republicans throughout the state could that could give him a run for the money. Testimony against hen mendez and any Opposition Research and the guy would have a blast for the commercials and against bob menendez. This guys dripping with corruption. It is not fair. If you look at it. Is another thing all the testimony ends up in a hung jr. Rain you know, although it is not acquittal. I yun stearn that. If they dont try. Gain. Are innocent until they prove you are not. Right. They are still charging. There are still things did he that were there. Right. You have research. You are going to see the jurors, too. They are rigsal reasonable people that are in every man and woman. That is going to come out. You smell like a rat. All right. We got to leave it there. Wait until youer that story. You at remember Ge University swimming and diving coach fired losing her job after a parent alleges she was verbally abusive to the swimmers. And now, you cannot make this stuff you have. We did a story about a coach that was tough on the kids. Answerway, our sports by, george has the full story. Reporter yes,s the the latest black eye for Rutgers University when it comes to the coaches they hir and makeup of their Athletic Department and the latest chapter firing of head swimming and diving coach hartin on thursday. Now according to the sergeant of nj. Com. Martin was left go due reports of shaming athletes about a of because of their weight, use of abuse of lan gag, ruling training sessions and demanding that some of those ath lees stop using medications described by doctors for fine and other issues. Rutger east Athletic Director de ed a special martin was let go and these chaps are serious, serious stuff. Now this is not the first problem rutgers has had in the last four years. Lets go back to the head coach. Everybody is talking about him now. The basketball coach. Well, he was let go when the video tape emerged showing the verbally abusive treatment of players since then rutgers dealt well the hire and subsequent firing in 2016 and Athletic Director rudy her machine and was hired in the wake of the controversy the former head coach of football fired after ncaa charges that he saw a special academic treatment far player that he and the staff were mej gent reporting disdin prosecutor aactions and positive drug tests so its the latest black eye for Rutgers University and a school that claimed this type of coaching bow i have aier was going to stop after mike rice was let go. For chasing fews, bill, also get a it back to you. Bill all right. Than, george. I want to bring in dan zarrow. He has the Weather Forecast for this weekend. Dan, a little wind. A little rain. What is it going to be like . Dan yeah, bill, our weather really takes a trip down hill over the weekend as we approach the thanksgiving week in adds the nect cold front sweeps through. This is a busy up with. It is all coming in three phases. Phase within is weather. Winds die down tonight and about he we see a decen start to your saturday. As the day guess on. Rain will move in from late saturday into early sunday. Then, along comes the cold and the fierce wind. This is now a pleasanted own the weekend getting a bit went try out there. Well put numbers on the forecast. Overnight lows in the 30s. The wind has died down. That is a good thing p. M. We see a few clouds overhead. Then, in general, a way why it start to saturday. Then, as things cloud up overhead. Then, we see showers move in. Probably in afternoon hours maybe a little bit earlier. Wind wills be rite. Temperatures will be mild. Mid to uppers it may feel a touch human continue the air during the day, too. Late saturday night into earl ry sunday. Listening comes the cold ron. One round of rain early sunday then a fierce wind gusting over 40 Miles Per Hour will pick up and this wind will carry in the colder air so temperature on sunday will actually drop. We start the dy in the 50s. But by sunday afternoon. We will only see 40s on thermometers again with the within try conditions. By on day, the cold side. In the noider 40s then plenty of shoon with those chilly temperatures. I am meter ole hologist dan zarrow. Thanks, dan. All right. We got a lot more showing coming. Stay tuned for the break. We talk back the Christopher Columbus statute in new york city. It is it in jeopardy as the mayor Advisory Council has their first meeting today. Bill new york city has convened an Advisory Board to look a the statutes and the monument and the makers to decide which should stay and go. Among those, Christopher Co lum dus. Should he stay or go well they had the first opportunity as the public got together in queens point day the first of a sr. Res of meetings that will take pub input to weigh in on the issue. Well, on this return with they were split 5050 as whether or not Christopher Columbus statute should stay. Lets bring the a plus panel to break it down. Frank luna, good you have back. Lisa, always good see you time thanks. Bill caruso. Will start with you. I think there was at least a conversation when talk about the confed rate sy and the statute. I think it should have been left agone loan. That is one shall sure. Then Christopher Columbus gets lumped in. What do you think . If Christopher Columbus discovered america. I discovered newark in 1964 when i arrived a the hospital. I am glad, no, am not mad at Christopher Columbus. He doesnt deserve the monument. I am glad they brought this commission together and they had Harry Belafonte on. He he is activists many years a. He is going to be in strinmental in voting against the monument. When i hear Christopher Columbus in the debate. It was way more important than that. It was bringing western civilization to america. I celebrate western civilization and expanding day so i think on that, he taught stay up. Number one wits, this is bill dealso sy yo. I have to wonder where is it . At what point do we say bill clinton doesnt have a statute . Well, it comes down wherever his is. Jimmy carter was hot the best president. At what, where is in the of it . Well, we have different chapters in our history we can acknowledge, move on from, just learn from. Learn from the good and the bad. Learn it from. Crist mer columbus brought disease, he murdered people, he raped people. He didnt bring civilization. I am going to direct you to my twitter page that i have where it in a lot about this. I have done a lot of studies. I have read the book. He he is the only great hero but there is no disputing that western civilization 1 00 got here and started with Christopher Columbus. You agree that. It started with america. Well, there was more importantly. Raped americans. He reaped them of the lan. Dont you think it is time to we focus on the problems that new yorkers really have. Homeless on the sun subways. Petty crimes showing up. Homeless. And it doesnt work. It is ugly. Are you back to defend de blasio. Come on. Come on. I dop even watch want to touch the subway there much . Look at him on the news. The situation is here. Ok. Were dealing with this now. So if we are going to deal with it. I would much weather deal with it with the commission populated in some fashion. All right. I dont know ta agree going after every thing. I do. I think are bigger problems affecting the contrin area wes got to look at. If were going to deal with. I would rather deal with think it way. I would be happy about that. All right. Guys. We got to leave it there. We got to leave it there. We got to leave thrill. Maybe the issues that a lot of us have to is let the Council Members talk about this. Let elected representatives talk about it. Not people pined by the mayor. Come on. Come on. All right. All right. Boy, you are not going to have in. We can go for an hour. Love it. All right, thank for being here. Good he sue. Thanks. Another story about a coach being verbally abusive to the layers. You know what this one, today, we talked about the rutgers swim coach. The language used, talking about the kids and about taking diet pills et cetera. Look. First of all. These are College Students we are talking about. If you cannot handle a tough coach making fun of you and trying to push you to your limit then how on earth are you going to handle the job hardhat the trials and triblition tribulations the adversity you have to overcome and deal with when youette get ten real world. The time we step back as society and realize can we please stop cod ling everyone. Toughen up a little beth. You know what . It is a tough world out there. Be lucky you got a coach with l to take the time to be tough on you. I think rutgers made a terrible mistake firing this coach and i il will till something. Islamabad not only for that coach but it is bad for the students that think it is ok to complain they got kneelings outer. Come on. Toughen up. It is real life. All right. Than for watching chase newings tonight and all week. It is always a pleasure. Bring you the news and lail bit of entererererer live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11 00. A massive inferno torches a west chester Senior Living facility inside more than 150 elderly residents and staff and tonight investigators are still trying to figure out if everyone did make it out safely. Thanks for joining us. Im dawn timmeney. That fire was so intense, almost 24 hours later, its still